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U.s. Market: german carmakers still on the upswing

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u.s. market: german carmakers still on the upswing

"In the current year, the speed of the US market will be reduced somewhat, but north america remains on course for growth." While sales in europe have been stalling, the u.S. Market has been allowed to stay in the auind. The german association of the automotive industry (VDA) expects sales to grow from 14.4 million vehicles last year to more than 15 million this year – and that german brands will benefit more than average from this growth.

"In view of the model offensive that our member companies are showing in detroit, there is every reason to believe that we will continue to grow for the eighth year in a row," said wissmann. "It's the german manufacturers who are leading the way here in detroit in terms of premium and efficiency."

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Tiktok chief resigns after a few months

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Tiktok chief resigns after a few months

Tiktok boss kevin mayer throws in the towel after just a few months at the popular video app, which has come under political pressure from the weiben house.

The most recent development has led to the chief post having a different meaning than was planned when mayer was appointed, tiktok said. Software giant microsoft is currently negotiating a deal to buy tiktok’s business in the u.S. And several other countries.

School

Anthony ebner is the best english reader

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Anthony ebner is the best english reader

Anthony ebner from mainleus middle school was the winner of the english reading competition, which has been offered since 2009 and was held on tuesday afternoon at the district level at the hand-edelmann school. Second place went to sude acan, who had a home game in her school, so to speak. The organization was in the hands of english department advisor gabriele pfauntsch, who together with principal sabrina petzold and the two middle school teachers susanne muller-huhs and christine baumann also formed the jury.

Four male and one female student from the district’s secondary schools took part in the english reading competition. The winner gets to play on 2. May participate in the upper franconian competition in the government in upper franconia. The winner will go to munich, where the best english reader from all of bavaria will be determined.

Leaders

Spengler wins heat race at nurburgring

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Spengler wins heat race at nurburgring

At temperatures of 33 degrees in the air and 47 degrees on the asphalt, the canadian won the sixth round of the DTM season on sunday and shortened the gap to overall leader gary paffet to 20 points. "It was a dream day today," said spengler after the second win of the season for DTM returnee BMW after a 20-year break. "My car was sensational, I felt so comfortable."

Because paffet in the mercedes-benz only finished sixth after 49 laps, spengler moved up to second place in the overall standings. Second in the eifel was audi driver edoardo mortara, defending champion martin tomczyk from rosenheim moved up from fifth on the grid to third in his BMW. "That was a sensational race. Bruno on top and a second BMW in the top three. What more could you want?", said tomczyk. "I never expected in my wildest dreams that we would win two out of six races this season," said BMW motorsport director jens marquardt.

Corona

Brussel wants to end chaos at corona travel restrictions

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Brussel wants to end chaos at corona travel restrictions

The national go-it-alones with corona-related travel restrictions should soon come to an end according to the will of the EU commission. The brussels authorities announced to present in the next days a concrete proposal for a better coordination of the falling mabnahmen.

Part of the vote could be to develop common criteria for assessing the corona risk situation. In addition, there are plans to standardize the rules for travel to risk areas. Up to now, for example, there have been very different testing and quarantine requirements for people returning to the country.

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Employment agency: that’s why more and more people have a part-time job

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employment agency: that's why more and more people have a part-time job

According to employment statistics from the federal employment agency, in december 2016 a total of almost 2.7 million employees were working part-time in marginal jobs.

More than half of employed part-time workers take a mini-job in addition to full-time employment. In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of part-time workers, says researcher enzo weber from the institute for labor market and occupational research (IAB): "since the hartz reforms, the number has more than doubled, weber told the german press agency. In 2003, only 1.2 million people had a part-time mini-job.

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Beiersdorf ceo heidenreich leaves after successful tenure

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Beiersdorf CEO Heidenreich leaves after successful tenure

The head of the beiersdorf nivea group, stefan F. Heidenreich, will leave the company at the end of next year at the latest.

He had reached an amicable agreement with the supervisory board not to extend his contract, which had run until then, the company announced in hamburg. If the supervisory board appoints a successor, he will step down from office at an earlier date. The news was not well received on the stock market. The dax group’s shares lost 4.9 percent by the afternoon.

Finance

The curious wager of the fechheim pastor

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The curious wager of the fechheim pastor

A campaign by the "fundraising team" at the community festival made a huge impact for the renovation of the michaelskirche which will start soon. Fur "wetten, dass" pastor ulrike schmidt-rothmund climbs onto the scales. In the current issue of the parish newsletter, she had made a bet with the members of the church community that she would not succeed in paying them off with donated small change.

The church barn was well filled and many onlookers were there when the pastor stepped on the scales. Because the visitors to the festival had once again thrown in a lot of small change, the coarse glass jar was almost full of coins. It weighed 55 kilograms – as much as the "real weight" by ulrike schmidt-rothmund, which was weighed again on the stage. The interest was no surprise: after all, the pastor had announced that if she lost the bet, she would get into her wedding dress again and dance on the stage with her husband. There the applause was naturally rough, when the result was announced. There was even more jubilation when the since 11. August church-going couple dances the "danube waltz presented by straub. The bride, as announced, in her wedding dress.

Music

In neufang, young and young-at-heart sang music at the action day

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In neufang, young and young-at-heart sang music at the action day

The local kindergarten was a guest at the senior citizens’ group neufang. Together, the "music in bavaria" day of action was a success celebrated. There was singing, dancing and playing that it was a real joy.

For many years, there has been a close relationship between the catholic daycare center st. Laurentius neufang and the local senior citizens’ group an intimate friendship. The joint meetings are guaranteed to be fun and entertaining.

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Munnerstadt: a dirty present for the building yard

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The employees of the city's building yard are used to a lot when it comes to mull. Over the holiday season, the head of the building yard, stefan sluzar, had another particularly disgusting treat. At the parking lot "oberes tor unknown persons have disposed of household garbage in coarse quantities.

Andreas simon has reported the mull to the city. He regularly passes by the parking lot and finds that the garbage baskets there are often stuffed with waste that really belongs in a garbage can. But what he has now discovered makes him shake his head. "This is not normal", he says.