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But "star wars – the old republic" had already cracked this mark one week after its launch last december.

The free offer is to come in the fall, announced electronic arts in the night to wednesday. Playing with all the features in the "star wars" universe still costs 14.99 dollars a month. The decision to dramatically expand free access confirms the trend that expensive subscriptions for online games are a hard sell in a competitive market. For example, the building block company lego first had to make its "lego universe" game, which was also developed with great care, free of charge – and then discontinued it altogether.

The growing number of biogas plants has no effect on grain prices, either in bamberger land or in general. "There is no connection with the price increases this year", says the head of the bamberg office for food, agriculture and forestry, andreas knorr. If there were even the slightest signs of this, the politicians would come up with something. "We are not going to let people starve to death." The reasons for the price increase this year were due to weather-related incursions in various parts of the world. It remains to be seen how the price on the world market will develop in the coming weeks and months as a result of speculation.

Knorr relegates it to the realm of fable that a growing world population would lead to a shortage of grain and thus to price increases. "When other countries and continents were farming according to eu standards, we still had considerable production reserves", according to the head of the department. He is not referring to plantation farming, but to farming principles such as crop rotation or the cultivation of catch crops. "Despite a growing world population, I am not worried about a development of shortages", according to the head of the department.

Dark clouds chase across the sky above bamberg. Even though there was a lot of noise this afternoon, the young union members did not want to be dissuaded from a quick banner action. In rough letters it says "solidarity always works" at the transparent DGB youth.

Only a few people are on the road. This year has probably been the most 1. May for many years. No demo with loudspeaker trucks and hundreds of participants. No sea of union flags. Corona has a firm grip on labor day.

The political national trend always plays a role in local elections, says member of the bundestag manuela rottmann. The district council candidate from B’90/die grunen/burger fur umwelt therefore reckons she has a good chance of being elected at district level. She believes that the best result to date of around 20 percent, achieved in 2008 by district council candidate norbert schmahling for B’90/die grunen/odp, can be topped. “We will get more than 20 percent this time.”

It’s “exciting to see”, how the people in the region judge the policies of the incumbent, whether they confirm them through their vote or formulate new needs of their own, the 47-year-old says. The fact that there is a kind of new spirit not only within the party, but also among the burgers, can be seen from the fact that there are numerous people in the district who have suddenly felt like joining the grunen. Recently there are lists of candidates of B’90/die grunen for the local elections in bad bruckenau, munnerstadt, bad bocklet and mabbach. “It would have been possible to do even more, but we have reached the limits of our capacity in terms of preparations.” The fact that B’90/die grunen is in the ascendancy in the district is also proven by the number of members, says rottmann. While there were 45 members in 2017, there are now over 90. “And we’ll break the 100 mark, too.”

After the galapremiere to the stucco "der zerbrochene krug" (the broken jug) in july the world of the faust-festival seems to be still in order. Mayor wolfgang beiergroblein finds nothing but praise at this point ("our festivals are simply great") – and tourism boss kerstin low also joins in the hymn of praise. But barely three months later, the tables have turned completely. A new concept is presented, the name is changed to rosenberg festival – and the contract with the director daniel leistner, who helped to bring the faust festival to life 20 years ago, is not extended.

Leistner is accused of not being open to new ideas. While the current director sees the future of the faust festival as a folk theater, the city of kronach is aiming for a more professional direction. In the end, only two city councillors see the future of the faust festival in the hands of leistner. The overwhelming majority is against it, so the curtain falls on leistner at the faust festival.

Last friday, motorists and homeowners noticed more police units than usual in bad bruckenau and surrounding communities. The bad bruckenau police station was visited by a group of 34 police officers. The police report states that the wurzburg riot police provided support for the task force.
The four additional units, supervised by officers from the local inspection department, were deployed on the one hand to monitor road traffic, and on the other hand for a rough prevention check to protect against burglary.

Wild danger spot explained

In the morning, a half-group carried out a speed check on state road 2289 near wildflecken. The result is quite remarkable. Drivers largely complied with the regulations. Only three drivers had to be warned for exceeding the speed limit. However, the officers also stopped drivers who were traveling only slightly faster than the speed limit. Since this stretch of road is heavily affected by accidents involving wild animals, the drivers of the vehicles were informed about this dangerous spot. Particularly in the case of wild animals crossing the road, one or two accidents can be prevented by driving defensively and, above all, more slowly. If a collision is unavoidable, the risk of injury and damage is far lower at slower speeds.

At the kindergarten party and an information evening, the focus was on the proper use of a life-saving defibrillator. Lothar metz, the organizer, and city council members bernhard schlereth and klaus bollwein (both CSU) have long wanted to install a defibrillator in their district. Through a crowdfunding initiative with the VR-bank bad kissingen this is now finally to be realized. In principle, the aim is to collect donations to finance the AED defibrillator (automated external defibrillator). The VR-bank adds another 10 euro to every donation of at least 10 euro.

This idea also met with great interest from the local clubs and the two city councilors who, together with metz, initiated the fundraising campaign. The responsible persons have a good 80 days to collect the necessary donations, which in the case of poppenroth means a sum of 4650 euros. There is no risk for the donors, because if there are not enough donations for the project by the 30th of the year, the orga-team will find a solution.If donations are received by june, the bank will return them to the sender. Metz and his supporters are convinced that it will work and that a technical lifesaver will be installed at the fire station in the district of poppenroth from the summer onwards. "If only one life was saved, then the whole effort was worth it", the orga-team finds.

Already noticed? Candidate nominations in the closest family circle. As with the CSU, which last cured the applicant for the allegedly gigantic fubstapfen of the bundestag deputy michael glos behind closed doors. The blacks are not the only ones who fear the gaze of the public over their party-political shoulders.

Let’s look back: district council election. Grune and odp nominate rafiq iqbal as opponent of district administrator tamara bischof. The cure plays in various back rooms. Only later, when everything is actually long eaten, the public is allowed to watch. Blob not to allow media. Who knows what the public. Interesting side note: the kitzingen odp has been fighting for years against the – more often than not unnecessary or even illegal – non-public decisions in the kitzingen city council.

Fourteen saints – no sooner does a pilgrimage year come to an end than the planning for the coming year begins. That is why on the saturday before the 1. On the eve of the first advent, around 200 pilgrimage leaders from all over france were invited to a solemn service in the basilica.
The entrance was accompanied by a loud chorus of "fourteen holy patron saints" through the well-filled house of worship the pilgrims sang at the top of their voices. The festive thanksgiving service was celebrated by guardian pater heribert arens and pilgrim chaplain monsignor wolfgang witzgall. Father heribert thanked the pilgrimage leaders for their great efforts during the preparation and implementation of the pilgrimage.
In his sermon, the guardian presented the motto "be islands of mercy in the sea of indifference" in the foreground. These are words of pope franciscus. After the service, all the pilgrimage leaders gathered in the "viktor von scheffel hall of the diozesan house for the conference. More than 150 pilgrimage dates from april to november of the coming year were discussed. Father christoph had compiled all the pilgrimage dates for the basilica and the diozesan house and projected them on the screen using a beamer. This made it easy to match up the different groups of pilgrims.
Bernhard schwebinger, press spokesman for the bishopric of wurzburg, presented the pilgrimage leaders with a quartet game about the places of pilgrimage in lower franconia. Playfully the diocese wants to make its pilgrimage sites more prominent. For this purpose, information on a selection of churches was compiled in a quartet of 32 cards. The card game developed by the media house of the wurzburg diocese was well received. Lower franconia is germany's region with the most places of pilgrimage.
Monsignor witzgall pointed out a training course to become a pilgrimage leader. This will take place on 19./20. February in gobweinstein and on 12. March in burgwindheim took place. In addition to theoretical impulses, the focus is above all on practice.
In the last six years, since 2009, the archdiocese has extensively renovated the diozesanhaus. Many of those who regularly stay here have experienced the change from the "old" to the "new" to the "new diozesanhaus experienced, according to the director of the educational houses of the archdiocese of bamberg in vierzehnheiligen, raimund hummer. "The investments were urgently necessary, not only to modernize the guest rooms, but above all to bring the building services, the kitchen, the heating, the entire technology to a contemporary level", hummer noted. As guests, the pilgrims now have three categories: rooms with shower/WC, rooms with washbasin and floor shower/WC, and additional rooms on the top floor. If necessary, folding beds can be set up to accommodate more than 400 pilgrims during ascension day week, he added.

For the first time in a long time, germany made progress on climate protection in 2018. Greenhouse gas emissions fell by more than four percent, according to a forecast by the federal environment agency.

However, this was also due to the effects of the mild winter and the super summer. Less coal, oil and gas burned. In addition, electricity generation from renewable energies such as wind and solar power plants continued to rise.