sentence: the fact is, e-sport has long been a credible industry, a lucrative business - big stars, millions of fans and huge tournaments, complete with big salaries.

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even the top Bundesliga clubs have recognised this, and are getting more and more involved in this area.


sentence: VfL Wolfsburg took the lead in 2015, followed later by FC Schalke 04, and most recently by VfB Stuttgart, who founded an e-sport department in the middle of July and signed two pros for the computer game FIFA 17.

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"by doing this, we hope to get completely new, young target groups fired up about the VfB," says board member Jochen Röttgermann.


sentence: he is sure "that countless more clubs are getting on board this train."

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sentence: the world football association, FIFA, is organising the first "Interactive Club World Cup" this coming weekend in London, which will see gamers from different clubs compete against each other.

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alongside Schalke and Wolfsburg, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and PSV Eindhoven have qualified, to give some examples.


Robin Dutt also sees great potential in e-sport.


sentence: the ex-coach of Bayer Leverkusen and Werder Bremen is now consulting an agency for virtual footballers.

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sentence: "real football has to deal in particular with the 14-30 year olds, so that the young people still go to the stadium in the future," says the 52-year-old.

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sentence: and: the clubs are trying to conquer all possible markets, above all the Asian ones.

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sentence: with prominent e-sportspeople under contract, it would be possible to be present online in these markets vastly more often than the mere once a year the national team gets sent to Asia.

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what exactly is it about?


sentence: in e-sport, computer games like "League Of Legends," "DotA 2," "Counterstrike" or even the football simulator FIFA are battled out on a competitive level.


sentence: just like in the regular sport, leagues have long been established, in which the pros compete against one another.

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sentence: and for the 2022 Asian Games, e-sport is already part of the official programme.

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but is it even a real sport?


for many people, this notion certainly takes some getting used to.


sentence: Ingo Froböse also grappled with this question for a long time.

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sentence: for the professor at the German Sports University of Cologne, e-sport is a sport, because it is competitive and features many biological and physical reactions that one also finds in classic sport - for example, a raised heart rate, stress responses, hormonal changes.

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sentence: in addition, it requires cognitive capabilities, technical and tactical understanding and an ability to react quickly.

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sentence: professional gamers ought to train not only on the console, but also their bodies, and should pay attention to their diet.

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sentence: "a fit player is a good player."

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sentence: Froböse sees problems too though: "doping is becoming more and more of an issue."

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sentence: for online games it is difficult to implement testing, and the scene is lacking the structures of the classic sport.

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sentence: the scientist positively stresses the highly integrative effect of e-sport.

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sentence: the players travel internationally, it is like a big global family, and there are no intercultural barriers.

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sentence: a study from consultancy firm Deloitte and the Federal Association of Interactive Entertainment Software (Biu) predicts rapid growth for the e-sport.

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sentence: in 2016, it turned over 50 million euros in Germany, many through advertising, sponsorship and big tournaments.

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sentence: in three years, the turnover should total 130 million.

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sentence: compared to the almost 2.4 billion euros of the football Bundesliga that is admittedly scant.

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sentence: however, the e-sport is "no longer far off other established sports like handball, basketball or ice hockey," write the Deloitte consultants.

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sentence: many countries internationally are already further ahead.

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sentence: big markets are Asia and the USA, where ex-basketball player Shaquille O'Neal and baseball star Alex Rodriguez are involved in the US team NRG eSports.

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sentence: Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher is investing in the e-sport bookmaker Unikrn.

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in Europe too, quite a bit is happening.


sentence: e-sport has been introduced to the curriculum in a Norwegian school, says Froböse.

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sentence: in the Netherlands and in France, the top division football clubs are now committed to setting up an e-sport department, according to Dutt.

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"compared with the rest of Europe, Germany is lagging behind," declares VfB board member, Röttgermann.


simply to slide back into nostalgia and romanticise the old days is no longer enough these days.


sentence: it's about preserving the tradition of the club while at the same time aligning the business with the modern market.

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sentence: "we are living in a digitalised world," says Dutt as well.

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sentence: "so you can't cling on to the idea that only in football, everything stays as it always was."


sentence: farewell poisoned eggs! the egg alternative for cooking and baking

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sentence: by now, almost every Federal State has been affected by the scandal concerning poison-contaminated eggs.

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sentence: Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord have reacted and withdrawn all eggs from sale across the whole of Germany.


sentence: only eggs that are proven not to contain Fipronil are to be stacked onto shelves.


sentence: Michelle Carter sentenced for texts urging suicide of Conrad Roy

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sentence: a Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to two and a half years for encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide through texts and phone calls.

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sentence: Michelle Carter, now 20, will serve 15 months of her term behind bars and five years of probation.

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sentence: Carter was convicted in June of the involuntary manslaughter of Conrad Roy, who took his own life on 13 July 2014.

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sentence: Mr Roy's father told Thursday's hearing: "my family is heartbroken.

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sentence: my son was my best friend. "

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sentence: Carter was allowed to remain free pending an appeal.

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sentence: she had faced a maximum sentence of 20 years, but her legal team argued that both she and Mr Roy suffered from mental illness.

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sentence: dressed in red trousers and a cream blouse, Carter stood tearfully with hands clasped and eyes cast down as she was sentenced.

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sentence: "her actions killed Conrad Roy," the prosecutor told the court.

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sentence: "she ended his life to better her own.

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sentence: she has not accepted responsibility, "she said.

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sentence: "she has shown no remorse."

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sentence: but Carter's lawyer said it was a "horrible circumstance that she completely regrets."

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sentence: however, Judge Lawrence Moniz said he did not find that her "age or level of maturity or even her mental illness have any significant impact on her actions."

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sentence: a prosecutor read a statement from Mr Roy's mother, Lynn Roy, saying there was "not one day I do not mourn the loss of my beloved son.

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sentence: I want him to be proud of me and how I am handling everything - I am trying to be there for his sisters in all of my pain we will carry with us for eternity, "it said.

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sentence: Mr Roy's sister, Camdyn Roy, testified that she was "haunted" by the realisation that she would never attend her brother's wedding or be an aunt to his children.

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sentence: "not having that one person I've been with every day since birth is a pain I'll always keep with me for the rest of my life," she said.

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sentence: the case appears to set a legal precedent, as there is no Massachusetts law that criminalises telling a person to commit suicide.

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sentence: Carter was 17 when Mr Roy was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in a vehicle in 2014.

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sentence: the case drew national attention after Carter's text messages revealed she had encouraged him to end his life.

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sentence: "hang yourself, jump off a building, stab yourself I don't know there's a lot of ways," she said in several messages sent in the two weeks before his death while he was on holiday with his family.

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sentence: in the moments before his suicide, she wrote: "you need to do it, Conrad" and "All you have to do is turn the generator on and you will be free and happy."


sentence: judge Moniz said Carter sought attention through Mr Roy's death, ordering that she not be allowed to profit from the case through any press.

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sentence: the case has divided legal opinion.

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sentence: among the few to defend Carter was Amanda Knox, who was convicted of murdering her British roommate in Italy in 2007 before she was cleared two years ago.

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sentence: Ms Knox, 30, published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times saying: "Michelle Carter deserves sympathy and help, not prison."

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Joshua kimmich: learning from FC Bayern's new mini lahm


sentence: it is no coincidence that Joshua kimmich was allowed to take to the field as captain at the Audi Cup.

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sentence: FC Bayern thinks the Confederations Cup winner is capable of a big season - a bit of extra motivation doesn't hurt.

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sentence: something was different there at his place in the dressing room; Joshua kimmich noticed that immediately, even if the extra piece of kit was very, very small.

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sentence: but since on the second day of the Audi Cup there was of course no Philipp lahm anywhere to be seen, and no Manuel Neuer either, he simply put the band he'd been allocated on his arm.

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sentence: "the coach didn't announce it," explained the Confederations Cup winner later, after his first outing as Bayern captain.

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sure, the debut could have gone better than the 0: 2 against SSC Napoli.


sentence: but kimmich could also interpret the signal from the coach as follows.

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sentence: out of the C team of youth players, debutants and pros just back from the holidays, it was not the eight-years-older Arturo Vidal that was chosen as captain, but him.

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indeed, it is those that one thinks capable, those who one wants to keep happy that one likes to give treats to the most.


sentence: and anyone chosen to take on the mantel of lahm can do only too well with a little bit of extra motivation.


sentence: kimmich confirmed: "that is what one wants as a player: to take on responsibility."

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sentence: the 22-year-old darted over the field like a mini lahm on Wednesday.

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sentence: right back, that's his position now; the white armband cast its habitual spell.

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and in general, kimmich looked in this starting formation like one who is best able to take to the helm.


sentence: he gave instructions, attempted to steer the out-of-practice troop.

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he had an eye for the bigger picture while many others were busied with themselves.


sentence: Vidal to cover up his lack of fitness (didn't really work); Renato SANCHES to live up to his performances of the Asia trip (worked, but to a limited extent); and Sebastian Rudy and Niklas Süle to not make a negative impression on their first outings in the Bayern jersey.

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that worked out quite well though.


Süle took to the field alongside kimmich, Rudy in front of the defence - both performed excellently.


the renowned Napoli attack often made heavy weather of it, and on top of that, Süle made a couple of successful attempts as the game developed.


sentence: his team mate, Rudy, admitted that the result "was not what we had hoped for."

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but he too showed a decent performance on his debut.


sentence: shifting play, changing pace: "that's the style I was brought in for."

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sentence: just how unused to new arrivals this Bayern world is could be seen after the match.

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sentence: Rudy, for example, gave not one or two, but as many as six or seven interviews in the tunnels.

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kimmich took his leave after a few crisp remarks in support of his new team mates.


sentence: there was an interesting sentence to be heard from Süle there: "I've already noticed what went wrong here.

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sentence: at Bayern, you just have to win every game. "

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he doesn't have to teach the newbies that anymore though.


sentence: Alaba motivates the ÖFB women

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sentence: David Alaba believes our ÖFB women will be successful


sentence: Austria's most famous footballer spoke up shortly before the game and wished the ÖFB women all the best.

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sentence: the Bayern legionnaire is, after all, practically a club mate of the ÖFB captain Schnaderbeck, and cheers our ladies on.

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the tweet from the Austrian Footballer of the Year and Champions League winner was intended to give a special injection of motivation.


sentence: our ladies could perhaps also do with a bit of that famous Bayern luck.

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sentence: companies happy with Rhineland-Palatinate minister: industry praises Wissing's speed

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sentence: the relationship between the state and local industry often proved irreconcilable when Evaline Lemke (The Greens) was still Rhineland Palatinate's Economic Affairs Minister.

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sentence: this is evident after more than a year of the new Economic Affairs Minister, Volker Wissing (FDP) being in office.

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sentence: chambers and companies from the region are responding to a TV enquiry by speaking of a change in economic policy - and at the same time rebuke the old minister.

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sentence: Frank natus, chairman of the association of Trier companies Vereinigung Trierer Unternehmen (VTU) says: "Wissing is addressing the wishes of the industry, all of which Lemke blocked."

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sentence: natus considers the biggest U-turn to be in infrastructure policy: linking the A1 motorway between Kelber and Adenau is now right at the top of the state's list of priorities.

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sentence: the Ministry hopes that planning procedures will be in place this year already, and the construction rights should hold until 2021.


sentence: the Trier western bypass also plays a role in the state's plans, being in the priority need category of The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan.

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sentence: the goal is to put the stretch into service in December 2020, says ministry spokesperson Cornelia Holtmann.

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sentence: natus sees in this a roadmap for supporting regional, but internationally competitive, companies.


sentence: the Trier Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) is striving, as spurred on by Wissing, to achieve a Rhineland-Palatinate label for wine, in order to increase sales in supermarkets and stop the trend of the last ten years of sagging German wine exports.

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sentence: in addition, Wissing is said to have a sympathetic ear for people who want to found their own company, the IHK applauded.

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sentence: the Trier Chamber of Trades sees an additional incentive for young trainees in the new master bonus, says manager Matthias Schwalbach.

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sentence: a prize of 1000 euros is envisaged for passing the master craftsman examination, and 2500 euros if graduates become self-employed within ten years of their master craftsman training.


sentence: the state's list of homework assignments remains long though.

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sentence: facts have to presented quickly for the road construction planned, and at the same time the state is lacking the necessary human resources, says Jan Glockauer, Managing Director of the Trier IHK.

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sentence: of the 56 new engineers that Wissing wants to employ at the Federal State Office for Mobility, only 29 posts have been filled thus far.

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sentence: the IHK is pressing for more contracts to be awarded to external offices.

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sentence: Deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary faction Christian Baldauf points to calculations from the Court of Auditors: in 2017 and 2018, the state is investing more than 20 million euros less on maintaining federal state roads than recommended.

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sentence: Frank natus is also still expecting the state to put forward a policy as to how it wants to remedy the lack of skilled workers in the region.

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sentence: also sobering is the expansion of broadband in the state up until now.


sentence: in 2016, in an IHK survey, local companies had evaluated the mains supply with a mark of only 3.4.

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they complained about sluggish internet connections and outages.


sentence: ex-Minister of Economic Affairs Eveline Lemke, on the other hand, is currently out of politics and is still sitting on the supervisory board of wind energy company Pro Wind.

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sentence: Lemke left the Green party in April in order to become president of a private university in Karlsruhe - from where, after four months, she has already bid a retreat due to disagreements.

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Audi to Modify Up to 850,000 Diesel Vehicles as Carmakers Face Backlash


sentence: a day before Audi's announcement, BMW said it would offer to upgrade the software in more than 350,000 vehicles.

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sentence: the BMW chairman said the company believed "there are more intelligent options than driving restrictions," referring to the European cities - including Munich, where BMW is based - that have considered banning or restricting diesel vehicles.

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sentence: Daimler announced on Tuesday that it would modify three million Mercedes vehicles in Europe to reduce their diesel emissions.


sentence: none of the companies described the moves as recalls.


sentence: European carmakers have heavily promoted the use of diesel vehicles in Europe and the United States to help meet rules on carbon dioxide emissions.

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sentence: but the nitrogen oxides that diesel engines emit are considered carcinogens, and can cause asthma.

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sentence: the cost to automotive companies of installing equipment to neutralize the fumes emitted by diesel vehicles is also increasing, making it difficult to keep the price of the cars competitive.

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sentence: as German automakers face scrutiny, the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel has also been accused of coddling the powerful car companies and of ignoring signs of the problem.

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sentence: the companies are trying to avoid repeating the mistakes of Volkswagen, which covered up its use of so-called defeat devices that could adjust emissions to comply with regulations when a car was being tested, but ease back in normal driving conditions.

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sentence: several Volkswagen executives have been charged in the United States, and others are under investigation on both sides of the Atlantic.

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sentence: last month, the former head of thermodynamics at Audi's engine development department was arrested in Germany.

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sentence: the former manager, Zaccheo Giovanni Pamio, is Italian, and therefore is not protected from extradition and could face trial in the United States.

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sentence: early this year, Audi was swept up into a German criminal investigation involving Volkswagen after the authorities accused Audi of installing a system to evade emissions rules in Europe, broadening an inquiry that had focused on the United States.

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sentence: the inclusion of Audi in the investigation could weigh heavily on Volkswagen: the luxury carmaker accounts for a disproportionate share of Volkswagen's profit.

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sentence: the raft on the Isar had this message on Saturday

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sentence: the city wants to protect the Isar.

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sentence: so that visitors to Isar play their part, a raft travelled through Munich on Saturday morning with a special message.

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sentence: anyone drawn to the Isar again on Saturday will see a large raft there, between Flaucher and the Reichenbach bridge.


sentence: an no normal raft that is, with Isar tourists.

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rather, the building department wants to get a message across.


sentence: there is a large information banner to be seen on the raft.


it depicts a mountain of rubbish.


sentence: the prelude to a publicity campaign that wants to call upon visitors to Isar.


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sentence: Mordillo was for a while one of the most-published cartoonists; his figures' bulbous noses are his trade mark.

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sentence: even at 85, the Argentinian still draws and is working on a film.

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sentence: his message: laughing, "Because there's too much sorrow in the world."


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sentence: following posts in Lima, New York and Paris, at the end of the 60s he finally got his breakthrough: when his cartoons were published in "Paris Match" and then in the "Stern" as well, and other leading magazines around the world.

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sentence: his figures are speaking for the first time in the 3D film, which should hit cinema screens in 2019.


"I don't know exactly what they are going to say; it is odd for me," says Mordillo.


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therefore he is focussing rather on the TV series, which, like his original drawings, is being produced without words.


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sentence: it has become a symbol of Provence in southern France, but there is a warning that it's under threat from climate change.

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and a lot is at stake.


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sentence: so we have fewer parts with essential oil. "

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sentence: solutions being looked at include better water distribution and slowing down evaporation from the soil, but also spraying the plants with a protective mix of clay and water and developing varieties more resistant to dry conditions.

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the small town of Geisa in the Thuringian Rhön Mountains is today celebrating its 1200-year anniversary.


the highlight of the festivities will be this Saturday and Sunday, with a Medieval festival.


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sentence: a journalist's murder underscores growing threat in Mexico

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sentence: the staff of the weekly newspaper Riodoce normally meets on Wednesdays to review their plans for coverage of the most recent mayhem wrought in Sinaloa state by organized crime, corrupt officials and ceaseless drug wars.

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sentence: but on this day, in the shadow of their own tragedy, they've come together to talk about security.

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sentence: it's important to change their routines, they are told.

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sentence: two senior journalists discuss what feels safer: to take their children with them to the office, which was the target of a grenade attack in 2009, or to leave them at home.

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sentence: security experts have written three words on a blackboard at the front of the room: adversaries, neutrals, allies.

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sentence: they ask the reporters to suggest names for each column - no proof is needed, perceptions and gut feelings are enough.

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sentence: there are drug-traffickers, politicians, businesspeople, journalists suspected of being on the payroll of the government or the cartels, a catalog of villains who make the job of covering Mexico's chaos perilous.

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sentence: there is no respite from the violence, and as bodies pile up across the country, more and more of them are journalists: at least 25 since President Enrique Pena Nieto took office in December 2012, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists; 589 under federal protection after attacks and threats; and so far this year, at least seven dead in seven states.

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among the latest is their editor and inspiration, Riodoce co-founder Javier Valdez Cardenas.


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sentence: his absence is felt deeply, although his presence is everywhere - a large photo of Valdez displaying his middle finger, with the word "Justice," hangs on the facade of the Riodoce building; two reporters on their 30s, Aaron Ibarra and Miriam Ramirez, wear T-shirts that display his smiling, bespectacled face or his trademark Panama hat.

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sentence: the workshop takes place less than two months after his death; the reporters discuss their shared trauma, their nightmares, insomnia, paranoia.

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sentence: although a special federal prosecutor's office was established in 2010 to handle the journalists' cases, it has only prosecuted two, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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sentence: as with most of the thousands of murders tied to drug trafficking and organized crime each year, the killers of journalists are rarely brought to justice.

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sentence: at Riodoce, they persist in covering the violence of Sinaloa, though they are heartbroken, though the terrain is more treacherous now.

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sentence: without information on the killers, without justice, the meeting to discuss security, says Ibarra, is of little use.

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"as long as we don't know why, you distrust everyone."


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sentence: he managed to drive just a couple blocks before his red Toyota Corolla was stopped by two men; he was forced out of his car and shot 12 times, presumably for the name of the paper - which translates as Twelfth River.

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sentence: the gunman drove away in his car and crashed it nearby.


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sentence: since Guzman's arrest last year and extradition to the United States in January, Sinaloa has been one of the country's bloodiest battlegrounds as rival factions fight to fill the vacuum.

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sentence: never mind that someone or several people are shot dead in the street every day in Sinaloa, or that the cemetery is filled with ornate, two-story mausoleums for drug kings, larger than many homes for the living.

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sentence: forget for a minute that a state of "calm" is when just one cartel is in control of the coastal state with its valuable ports and drug-trafficking routes to the United States.

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sentence: despite that, and the fact that Valdez was intimately aware of the perils of his work, Ismail Bojorquez, 60, a co-founder and director of Riodoce, is wracked with guilt for failing to protect his friend.

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he believes two errors contributed to the killing.


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sentence: the second mistake was not forcing Valdez to leave the country for his own safety after the seizure of another newspaper that carried the same story.

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sentence: Valdez was a legend in Mexico and abroad, and his killing is seen as a milestone in Mexican violence against journalists.

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sentence: he was a veteran reporter for noroeste in 2003 when he joined five colleagues in creating Riodoce, selling $50 shares.


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sentence: eight years after Riodoce was founded, it won the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot award for coverage in Latin America.

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sentence: that same year, Valdez won the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists for his courage in pursuing the Mexican drug story wherever it led.

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he freely acknowledged that he was frightened.


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sentence: drug trafficking in Sinaloa "is a way of life," he said last October, in an interview with Rompeviento TV.

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sentence: "you have to assume the task that falls to you as a journalist - either that or you play dumb.

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I don't want to be asked, 'What were you doing in the face of so much death... why didn't you say what was going on?' "


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sentence: now, they ask: was his love of routine his downfall?

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sentence: his death also has forced them to question their own assumptions about how best to do their jobs and stay alive.

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sentence: "they don't like it if you mess with their women, their children, their clean businesses, their clandestine airstrips" used to move drugs.

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sentence: "those things were off-limits," said Bojorquez.

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trusting one's instincts.


if it smells wrong, stay away.


sentence: the trouble, said Riodoce editor Andres Villarreal, is that "smell is a sense that can be fooled... and then the thing with Javier happened."

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sentence: the old rules, he and others say, no longer apply in Sinaloa - just as they don't in Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Guerrero and other states that are home to a toxic mix of lucrative smuggling routes, weak institutions and corrupt government officials.

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the landscape constantly shifts.


sentence: in the room where Riodoce staff met for security training, suddenly no cellphones were allowed; days before, it was revealed that spyware sold exclusively to governments had been used to monitor journalists and activists in Mexico.

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sentence: they were assigned by the state government to guard Riodoce's offices, housed in a four-story building in a middle-class neighborhood of Culiacan.

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sentence: half-jokingly, some of the reporters wondered whether these officers are among the 50 percent of cops whom the governor himself has said are not trustworthy.

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sentence: it has been months since the reporters have gone into the mountainous countryside, where the drug gangs are in de facto control.

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sentence: for this week's edition Riodoce was looking at three main stories.

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sentence: there was the killing of former boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez's brother in Sinaloa.

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sentence: they also had an expose on government spending concentrated in the governor's hometown.


sentence: and there was a group kidnapping in one of Culiacan's most expensive restaurants, a block from the prosecutor's office.

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sentence: there was no official word on who was abducted or how it happened, so caution set in when it came time to write what everyone in the city knows: that the restaurant is a favorite of both drug traffickers and authorities.

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sentence: a reporter learned from public records that the restaurant was registered under the name of a politician belonging to the ruling Institutional Revolution Party, or PRI, which dominated all levels of politics for nearly all of the last century.

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sentence: recently several PRI governors have been accused of corruption in high-profile cases.

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sentence: Villarreal asked the reporter to write about prior incidents in that locale, including one in which a son of "El chapo" Guzman escaped a military raid.

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sentence: just months before, readers would have looked to Valdez's column for the best-sourced information about the kidnapping.

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"before, we would have already known what happened," said Villarreal, 46, nicknamed "El flaco" for his slender build.


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sentence: Valdez's office has been repurposed as a storage room for signs and stickers protesting journalist killings, as staff have become something they never expected to be: activists on behalf of the press.

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sentence: reporter Miriam Ramirez grabbed a few of the signs and headed out the next morning for a demonstration at the local prosecutor's office over yet another journalist.

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sentence: Salvador Adame disappeared in the western state of Michoacan three days after Valdez was killed.

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sentence: a burned body has been discovered and officials say it is his, based on DNA tests.

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sentence: nationwide, journalists have become more vocal, scrawling "SOS Press" on sidewalks and buildings in organized protests.

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sentence: Valdez had repeatedly said that journalists in Mexico are "surrounded" by organized crime, complicit government officials and an indifferent society.

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sentence: in his last book, "Narco-journalism," he wrote that reporters are being killed not just by drug gangs but on the order of politicians and security forces in cahoots with organized crime.

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sentence: the media watchdog group articulo 19 attributed more than half of attacks on journalists last year to police and public officials.

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"in Mexico you die because they want to shut you up," Ramirez said.


sentence: clearly, the murders have a chilling effect.

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sentence: no one forgets the death six years ago of blogger Maria Elizabeth Macias in the northern border state of Tamaulipas.

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sentence: her body was found along with a note purportedly signed by the Zetas cartel: "here I am because of my reports."

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sentence: a computer keyboard and headphones lay next to her severed head.

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sentence: some outlets have opted to close, such as the newspaper El Norte, in the northern border state of Chihuahua, after the killing of correspondent Miroslava Breach in March.

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others keep going, as El Manana of Nuevo Laredo did following the killing of its director in 2004.


in 2010, Diario de Ciudad Juarez addressed the drug cartels publicly with a front-page editorial titled, "What do you want from us?"


sentence: some journalists have fled their home states or even the country.

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it's a wrenching decision.


sentence: it's hard to find work in exile, and they still scan the streets, looking for danger.

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sentence: and sometimes, they are hunted down, as apparently was photographer Ruben Espinosa, who was murdered in 2015 along with four women in a Mexico City apartment three months after fleeing Veracruz.

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sentence: for those who stay behind and continue the work, it's a daily dance of high-risk decisions.

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sentence: Ibarra - who once wanted to be a poet - admits that covering the drug trade scares him.

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sentence: "Mexico is going to hell, and that's why I became a reporter," he said.

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sentence: at midnight on a recent Friday, with the latest issue already put to bed, Riodoce editors sat on the sidewalk outside the office, drinking beer, when all at once, their phones began to buzz.

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a series of shootouts involving gang rivals and security forces near the beach resort city of Mazatlan had left 19 confirmed dead.


sentence: the war continued to escalate, as was promised by a series of cartel messages discovered in the area.

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sentence: from the curb, via cellphone, they put the news up on Riodoce's website.

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sentence: the front page would have to be changed the next day.

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sentence: sirens wailed nearby - another shootout in the area.

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Bojorquez glanced over at the police officers standing guard to see if they were alert.


if they were at all afraid, they didn't show it.


sentence: beneath the massive portrait of their newspaper's fallen founder, his middle finger displayed for all of Sinaloa to see, the staff of Riodoce was following in his footsteps.

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sentence: "how can you even think of closing," Bojorquez said, "when the same day Javier was killed the intern asked me to send her out to report on the street?"

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sentence: dinosaur used camouflage to evade its enemies

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sentence: at first glance, it looks like a statue albeit a terrifying one.

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sentence: now researchers have revealed the first findings from the incredible rhino-sized creature found by a Canadian miner were so well preserved experts have described it as' the Mona Lisa of dinosaurs'.

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sentence: it was so well preserved, they were even able to determine the colour of its scaly skin was a reddish brown - and say it had something of a 'troubled past'.

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sentence: the report in the journal Current Biology described it as' the best-preserved armored dinosaur ever found, and one of the best dinosaur specimens in the world. '

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sentence: the fossil is a newfound species of nodosaur, which lived midway through the Cretaceous period, between 110 million and 112 million years ago.

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sentence: it's incredible well preserved state has stunned researchers, who describe it as' truly remarkable'


sentence: the armoured plant-eater is the best preserved fossil of its kind ever found, according to reports in National Geographic.

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it was found by Shawn Funk, when he was digging at the Suncor Millenium Mine near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada, on March 21, 2011.


he hit something which seemed out of place from the surrounding rock, and decided to take a closer look.


the fossil he uncovered was sent to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.


sentence: they spent the next six years working on uncovering the beast within the 2,500-pound (1,100 kg) lump of earth.

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sentence: after all that hard work, the finished result is now ready to be unveiled.

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sentence: 'If you just squint your eyes a bit, you could almost believe it was sleeping, 'said lead author Caleb Brown, a scientist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum where the creature is on display.

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sentence: 'it will go down in science history as one of the most beautiful and best preserved dinosaur specimens - the Mona Lisa of dinosaurs. '

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sentence: by studying its skin, researchers found that this plant-eater, though covered in armor and resembling a walking tank, likely faced a significant threat from meat-eating dinosaurs.

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sentence: the heavily armoured dinosaur used red and white camouflage to hide from predators, and employed a shielding technique known as counter-shading, which is also used by many modern-day animals.

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sentence: this would have allowed it to better blend into its surroundings and evade its enemies, experts say, suggesting it was preyed on by larger dinosaurs.

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sentence: the 110-million-year-old creature, part of the nodosaur family, first hit headlines in May and is now on view at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

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sentence: researchers have now studied and named the beast Borealopelta markmitchelli after museum technician Mark Mitchell, one of a team who spent more than 7,000 hours painstakingly uncovering it.

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sentence: the amazing preservation of the specimen made it possible for Dr Mitchell and an international team of scientists to document the pattern and shape of scales and armour across its body.

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sentence: they discovered countershading, a common method of defence in the animal kingdom, which means the top of the creature was darker than its underside.

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sentence: although countershading is common, the findings come as surprise because Borealopelta's size far exceeds that of countershaded animals alive today.

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sentence: it suggests the dinosaur was hunted by enough pressure meat-eating dinosaurs that evolution favoured concealment over confrontation as a means of survival.

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sentence: but most contemporary animals that have countershading -- think deer, zebras or armadillos -- are much smaller and more vulnerable as prey, signaling that this nodosaur faced a real struggle to survive.

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sentence: 'Strong predation on a massive, heavily-armored dinosaur illustrates just how dangerous the dinosaur predators of the Cretaceous must have been, 'said Brown.

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sentence: chemical analysis of organic compounds in its scales also reveal that the dinosaur's skin would have been reddish brown.

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sentence: scientists are continuing to study the animal for clues about its life, including its preserved gut contents to find out what it ate for its last meal.

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sentence: they believe that when the dinosaur died, it fell into a river and was swept out to sea, where it sank on its back to the ocean floor.

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sentence: at that time, Alberta was as warm as south Florida is today, and rivers and oceans likely spread far further inland than they do now.

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sentence: 'This nodosaur is truly remarkable in that it is completely covered in preserved scaly skin, yet is also preserved in three dimensions, retaining the original shape of the animal, 'said Brown.

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sentence: 'the result is that the animal looks almost the same today as it did back in the Early Cretaceous.

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sentence: you don't need to use much imagination to reconstruct it; if you just squint your eyes a bit, you could almost believe it was sleeping. '

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sentence: the Cretaceous was a time when giant theropods, meat-eating dinosaurs that stood on two legs, roamed the Earth.

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sentence: although the king of them all, Tyrannosaurus rex, lived millions of years after Borealopelta, the armoured dinosaur may have been hunted by some of its formidable ancestors.

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sentence: they include Acrocanthosaurus, a 38ft (11.5m) long monster weighing six tonnes.

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sentence: the scientists, whose latest findings appear in the journal Current Biology, believe Borealopelta was washed out to sea after it died and mummified in mud.

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the creature was found by Shawn Funk, when he was digging at the Millenium Mine near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada, on March 21, 2011.


sentence: according to the museum, it is the best preserved armoured dinosaur in the world, including skin and armour, and is complete from the snout to hips.

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sentence: the creatures were around 18 feet (five metres) long on average, and weighted up to 3,000 pounds (1,300 kg).

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sentence: it featured two 20-inch-long spikes which protruded from its shoulders.

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sentence: the researchers believe that the this armored plant-eater lumbered through what is now western Canada, until a flooded river swept it into open sea.

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sentence: but the dinosaur's undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail.

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sentence: the fossilised remains of this particular specimen are so well preserved that remnants of skin still cover bumpy armour plates along the dinosaur's skull.


sentence: as Michael Greshko wrote for National Geographic, such level of preservation 'is a rare as winning the lottery.

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the more I look at it, the more mind-boggling it becomes.


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sentence: its right forefoot lies by its side, its five digits splayed upward.

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sentence: I can count the scales on its sole. '

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in the storm: pile-up on the A8: four injured


sentence: serious accident on Thursday evening on the A8: just shy of 30 vehicles were caught up in a mass collision.

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there are numerous people injured, kilometre-long queues - and rubberneckers.


sentence: on the motorway between Stuttgart and Munich (A8), around 20 people were injured late on Thursday afternoon in a mass collision.

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sentence: according to initial police information, just shy of 30 vehicles, among which were probably also lorries, had crashed into each other during a storm at around 5pm between the Adelzhausen and Odelzhausen junctions (in the rural district of Aichach-Friedberg).

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sentence: no information is initially available about the precise number of injured people.

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there are mild to moderate injuries, said a police spokesperson.


there was a big squad of rescue vehicles at the scene of the accident.


sentence: the A8 was completely closed in the direction of Munich.

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sentence: a roughly 10-km long tailback formed in the direction travelling towards Munich.

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sentence: as an AZ journalist reports, there were massive disruptions in the opposite lane as well - due to numerous rubberneckers.

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sentence: the fire brigade noted down the registration numbers of the drivers, who are now expecting severe penalties.

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sentence: shortly after 6.45pm, there was then a second accident on the A8, this time between Augsburg and Dasing.


sentence: a collision between a car transporter and a passenger car had occurred.

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a rescue helicopter was underway to the scene of the accident.


sentence: Deutsche Bahn: company trials "comfort check-in"

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sentence: it is a moment that practically everyone has experienced at one time or another: without expecting it, you're sitting in the train asleep.

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sentence: or one is buried deep in one's work and has just had a genius idea.

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and then: bang.


sentence: the conductor comes and rudely awakens you, or tears the passenger from the midst of his workflow.

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ticket inspection.


but the days of being interrupted will soon be over.


Deutsche Bahn is currently trialling conductorless ticket inspection.


sentence: one simply uses one's mobile to confirm that one has taken one's seat, thereby validating the ticket.

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sentence: trial operations are currently running on two lines.

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"if the service is well-received, we'll extend it.


sentence: it will then probably be available at the beginning of next year on many additional long-distance lines across Germany, "said a spokesperson for the railway.

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sentence: the railway is calling this conductorless ticket validation "Comfort Check-in."


in order to use it, however, a few conditions must be met: you need a smartphone or a tablet.


sentence: and you have to have booked an online ticket - which most passengers do already anyway.

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in addition, you have to have bought it over the Railway's app, the DB Navigator, which is the most convenient way to book a ticket in any case.


and lastly, you need a seat reservation.


sentence: for "Comfort Check-in" works like this: you get on board the train and call up your ticket in "My Tickets."


the trial customers will then see a button for electronic validation.


sentence: the train attendants receive a notification on their mobile device saying that passenger X is onboard the train and has occupied booked seat Y.

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sentence: if the train attendant comes to seat Y during ticket inspection, he knows that there is a passenger there with an already validated online ticket.

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so you can carry on sleeping, working, doing nothing.


sentence: the "Check-in" has two advantages: one for customers, and one for the railway - which, in turn, should benefit passengers.

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"anyone who wants to travel in a relaxed fashion, without having his / her ticket inspected by our on-train staff, simply checks in him / herself in the DB Navigator.


sentence: this allows passengers to personalise their journey time in the train, "says Michael Peterson, Director of Marketing at DB Fernverkehr.


sentence: a second plus: "and our employees will have more time than they currently do to see to the needs of individual customers."

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sentence: anyone who travels by train a lot knows that, alongside delays and missing your train, ticket inspection is one of the biggest annoyances.

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for often you yourself, or, in any case, one of your fellow passengers, doesn't have all the documentation on them that one needs to validate an online ticket.


sentence: either the credit card is missing, or the ID card, or some other document that one needs to show.

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sentence: the result is endless discussions between the train attendant and passenger, which leads to a bad atmosphere in the compartment or wider area and delays in one's own ticket getting checked, and ultimately it takes away the conductor's time to see to other matters.

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sentence: only a small number of trial customers can use the new service as of yet.

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sentence: and only on the connections ICE 915, between Dortmund and Stuttgart, and ICE 912, between Stuttgart and Essen.

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sentence: other train numbers on the same line have not yet been enabled.

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sentence: how one activist came to learn the answer to the question: 'whose Streets?'

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sentence: on Aug. 9, 2014, Brittany Ferrell was shaken to her core.

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sentence: just a day after arriving in New York City on a trip, the St. Louis native sat on the bed of an Airbnb she was renting, scrolling through Facebook on her phone.

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sentence: she stumbled upon a post from someone from high school.

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sentence: "the police just killed an 18 year old kid and he's still laying in the street," it read.

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sentence: confused, noticing no one else on her feed had posted the information, she closed Facebook and opened Twitter.

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sentence: a user with the handle @ TheePharoah was being constantly retweeted onto her timeline.

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sentence: the St. Louis-area rapper was live-tweeting the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.

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sentence: he posted a picture of Brown's lifeless body stretched out in the street, where it would stay for four hours.

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"this is wild," Ferrell thought to herself.


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sentence: she put down her phone only to return later that evening to tweets about people gathering on Canfield Drive.

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sentence: there were photos of police tape and people yelling, and of a guy claiming to be Brown's father holding a sign that read, "Ferguson police just killed my unarmed son!"

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sentence: in another video, a different cop, she said, cocked his rifle and screamed, "I'll kill all you... animals."

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"'this is not usual,'" Ferrell recalled saying.


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sentence: in that moment I felt chills.

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I was angry and crying. "


sentence: she booked a return flight and went home the next day.

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sentence: after landing at 11 p.m., she picked up her 6-year-old daughter from her dad's house and decided the two of them would head to Ferguson the next morning.

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sentence: what happened, to Ferrell and to Ferguson in the following almost three years is the subject of a new documentary, "Whose Streets?," in theaters Aug. 11.

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sentence: it's a tale of survival and protest, love and loss, strength and resilience from the vantage point of the people who live in the community and packed the streets demanding answers.

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sentence: as Ferrell drove to Ferguson with her daughter, who was wearing a floral dress and matching crown, the two revisited a conversation they'd had countless times before that morning "about the black experience and black condition."

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"you remember how I taught you about when black people had to fight for what they believed in?" she recalled saying.


sentence: "we're going to Ferguson right now because the police killed an 18-year-old boy and it wasn't right.

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I couldn't not take her, "Ferrell said later.


sentence: "this happening today is a culmination of... that has happened in the past.

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she needs to know it and see it and be raised in it.


sentence: she needs to be well developed in the area of not just activism and organizing but knowing the different layers of the black experience and the black condition and what we must do to get free, to free ourselves.

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sentence: even if I'm fortunate enough to provide her an experience where she doesn't personally experience blatant racism, she is no different than the next black woman-child.

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I feel like I would be doing her a disservice to shield her from that. "


sentence: the first stop when they arrived in Ferguson was on South Florissant Road, a site across from the police department that became a campground of sorts as the activists awaited word of Officer Darren Wilson's eventual non-indictment.

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sentence: there Ferrell and her daughter linked up with a local business owner who was making sack lunches.

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they prepared bags and helped pass them out to protesters.


sentence: slowly, a new type of activism began to take shape for Ferrell.

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sentence: "my activism completely transformed after Aug. 9," she said, noting that while an undergrad at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she was president of the Minority Student Nurses Assn. and focused on food justice and health disparities in black communities.

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sentence: "I had no experience in organizing.


it all just came. "


sentence: weeks later, Ferrell met Sabaah Folayan, one of the film's co-directors, during an evening demonstration.

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Folayan said she and her director of photography Lucas Alvarado-Farrar "just wanted to document" what was happening.


sentence: a question came to Ferrell's mind: "do you want to document or are you trying to find a story that you can exploit?"

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sentence: that skepticism was informed by countless instances of people - often white - coming into a community to profit off its pain and resilience.

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sentence: as Folayan explained in a recent interview, "We had heard that people who are born and raised in Ferguson were not having their voices centered, and we wanted to do it differently."

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sentence: Folayan had already linked up with co-director Damon Davis, an area artist known for his activism around death row inmates.

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sentence: his involvement endeared Ferrell to the project, along with six other locals the "Whose Streets?" team followed in the years after Brown's shooting.

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sentence: "this documentary is not somebody speaking for us or speaking to us, it's us speaking," Davis said.

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sentence: "that was the main thing for me, how these people will be represented, because that's how I will be represented."

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sentence: while the goal wasn't to focus on Ferrell's experience - in an effort to show that the movement is "not about a messiah leader but a community coming together," Folayan said - she proved to be the most open of the film's participants.

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sentence: as a result, "Whose Streets?" documents surprisingly personal aspects of Ferrell's life, like falling in love and marrying her wife.

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sentence: "I felt like I was naked," said Ferrell, laughing about the first time she saw the finished product.

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sentence: "but I understood that with doing this work and humanizing black folks, there has to be a level of vulnerability."

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sentence: moreover, Ferrell's story reiterates and re-centers the role of black queer women in the broader Black Lives Matter movement.

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sentence: two of the movement's three founders - who coined # BlackLivesMatter on social media in the aftermath of the 2012 killing of black teen Trayvon Martin - identify as queer.

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sentence: "black queer women in leadership has sustained the movement overall," said Ferrell, "and that's because we're constantly at battle on multiple fronts.

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sentence: black queer women have to bear the brunt of it all. "


sentence: Folayan agreed noting that "the movement is really upheld by black women and a lot of queer black women."


sentence: she insists, however, that "this is not some affirmative action type of thing" where Ferrell was chosen as the film's heart because of her identities.

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sentence: "she was the person who was galvanizing this energy," she said.

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sentence: "it's not a coincidence though she was on the front lines, because living life at those intersections as a black queer woman, you have so much on the line.

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sentence: you can feel her energy through the screen. "

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sentence: meanwhile, back in Ferguson, the news cameras are long gone but fraught racial ties between the community and police persist.

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sentence: Ferrell is on probation for 2 ½ more years for blocking a highway during a demonstration.

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sentence: she describes the socio-political atmosphere of the area she calls home simply: "a mess."

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sentence: still, she clings to a chant she's committed to memory since taking to Ferguson's streets a full three years ago.

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sentence: "it is our duty to fight for our freedom.

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sentence: it is our duty to win.


we must love and support each other.


we have nothing to lose but our chains. "


sentence: from "dream" to "megalomania": TV readers discuss the Bit Galerie

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sentence: the Bit Galerie is moving people although it is still far from being built.

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sentence: but the idea of a shopping centre at the south end of the pedestrian zone has been splitting the population into those for and against since its first presentation in 2009.

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there is barely anyone left indifferent to the matter.


sentence: the topic is also being discussed on our Facebook page, "Volksfreund Bitburg."

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sentence: whereas some say of the Bit Galerie, "That would be a dream" (Anja Becker) or, "That would be really fantastic" (Nicole Schausten), from the other side we hear, "No-one needs that" (Siggi Betzen) or, put quite bluntly: "megalomania!" (Lars Scholz).

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sentence: whilst those in favour count on the gallery drawing more customers into the town, which would benefit the other businesses as well, opponents fear that the pedestrian zone will then be haemorrhaged.

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sentence: in addition: the gallery is being planned for exactly the plot where the covered farmers' market is, where 13 direct sellers offer their products.

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sentence: when construction begins, that will be the end of that.

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sentence: the Galerie creators want to integrate a covered market into the new building - and, indeed, towards Beda Platz, with the possibility of sitting outside.

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sentence: Simone Zimmer: "we have been shopping almost weekly in the covered market for years now.

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sentence: principally our eggs, but also, always with great pleasure, the delicious cakes of our rural women.

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sentence: we have also discovered the butcher's for ourselves.

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sentence: we hope that also while the Galerie is being built, but above all after, there will be the chance to maintain this offering.

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sentence: that's what they have in other cities too.

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the small covered market in Frankfurt, in particular, is interesting. "


sentence: Gerd Densing: "whether direct sellers settle in a covered market in the gallery depends on the level of the rent.

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sentence: but that is not exactly likely to be low for the new project. "

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Eva Kilic: "why a shopping palace in Bitburg?


sentence: whether clothing, shoes, drug stores or supermarkets: I find it unnecessary.

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sentence: there are plenty of those in our city already.

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sentence: one sees, though, how many shop premises stand empty here - some for months and years.

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sentence: however, since there is not even a regular weekly market here, it is all the more important that we at least get to keep the covered market.

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for after all, the goods on offer there are fresh, are largely offered directly by the producer, and are good value to boot.


sentence: as you see, shop premises in shopping centres are only rented by big companies, because the rents there are often not tenable for retail traders.

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shame - there are hardly any specialist shops left any more and those that are still around will then probably also disappear. "


Wolf Fandel: "a shopping centre with a covered market doesn't match up for me.


and the Galerie doesn't suit Bitburg.


in particular: where should the covered market go while construction is ongoing?


sentence: the old Edeka would be the solution - even in the long term, if the Bit Galerie does actually arrive eventually.

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sentence: or is the spectre of the Bit Galerie managing even ahead of time to drive all businesses out of Bitburg? "

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George Marquet: "it simply will not work.


and a shopping centre that stands empty - no-one needs that either.


sentence: in my opinion, it would be better to support a proper farmers' market, instead of this Galerie.

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but there is no space left for a covered market thanks to the crazily large number - as I see it - of pointless construction projects in Bitburg


if the covered market is destroyed, then another piece of culture will disappear. "


sentence: a Becoming resemblance: artist creates portraits using Chelsea Manning's DNA

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sentence: in the center of the room at New York's Fridman Gallery are multiple faces - white, black and brown, each bearing an almost imperceptible resemblance to one another - suspended on wires from the ceiling.

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the 30 portraits were created by the artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg from cheek swabs and hair clippings sent to her by Chelsea Manning.