sentence: as well as Matic, fellow new signings Victor Lindelof and Romelu Lukaku also started the game at the Aviva Stadium as Mourinho started to shape his starting XI for the start of the season.

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sentence: the Independent revealed this week that Mourinho still wanted another three signings but he insisted that the club had already done a "fantastic job" of delivering three of his four priority signings.

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sentence: "to get three out of four I thank the club for that," he added.


"I will be happier if they get me four of four but they did a great effort for me."


sentence: Boeing "paints" Dreamliner in the sky

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sentence: the US aeroplane manufacturer Boeing has painted the silhouette of a Dreamliner in the sky.


sentence: the pilots departed from Seattle in the US state of Washington, but the outline began in Marquette in the US state of Michigan and drew the shape of a Dreamliner over the USA - that's thousands of kilometres.

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sentence: the campaign lasted 18 hours and one minute.

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sentence: the shape of a Dreamliner could be seen on radar screens.

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sentence: the whole thing was an endurance test for new engines.

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sentence: Boeing hat already carried out such a promotion before.

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sentence: the number "787" was painted in the sky, along with the Boeing logo.

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sentence: new low blow for Martin Schulz - Hanover, we have a problem

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sentence: how the wind changes: when Sigmar Gabriel was still SPD leader, Social Democratic Prime Ministers always looked, with a certain alarm, to Berlin before elections.

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no disturbances from party headquarters, no opposing winds from the state - that was the campaigners' biggest wish.


sentence: since Martin Schulz has been leading the party, that has fundamentally changed.

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sentence: since then, employees from the Willy-Brandt house have been observing the events in the SPD-governed state capitals with growing horror.

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sentence: what Schulz has got from there since the beginning of the year, you couldn't even begin to describe as an opposing wind.

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those were low blows.


and one after the other at that.


sentence: after the surprising end to the red-green majority in Lower Saxony, the federal CDU sees a general sign of a move away from coalitions of SPD and Greens.

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"this once again shows that Red-Green simply can't govern reliably," said CDU General Secretary Peter Tauber to Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND).


sentence: the surprise resignation of a Green representative plunged the government of Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) into a stark crisis.

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sentence: five months ahead of the state elections, his red-green coalition thus lost their one-vote majority over the opposition made up of CDU and FDP.

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the national head of the Greens, Michael Kellner, has called on defecting Green representative in Lower Saxony Elke Twesten to give up her seat.


the cross-over to the CDU represents a clear distortion of the voters' will.


Elke Twesten must immediately give up her seat, "said national head and campaign leader for the Greens to RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND).


"it just can't be true," sighed an SPD campaigner, when the bad news reached party headquarters on Friday afternoon.


Stephan Weil, SPD Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, is left without a governing majority after the cross-over of Green representative Elke Twesten to the CDU.


sentence: it is the present crisis in a long line of big and small disasters in SPD state associations.


and no-one knows what is coming next.


sentence: the misery began with the unexpectedly decisive defeat in the Saarland election in March.

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sentence: a black eye, no more, his comrades contented themselves at the time.

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after the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia, everything was going to be different.


and it was too - in fact, everything was significantly worse.


sentence: the defeat in Kiel brought the SPD into a tailspin, and the Düsseldorf washout bowled the party clean over.


sentence: their peers then picked themselves up again in the weeks afterwards, with some effort.

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sentence: then, just as they had regained new faith, came the G-20 summit in Hamburg.

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and with that came the next low blow.


sentence: Mayor Olaf Scholz, the last strong SPD regional leader, lost his halo that weekend because he was sitting in the Elbe Philharmonic hall while his city was burning.

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and because in the crisis talks afterwards, he pretty much did everything wrong that you can do wrong.


sentence: since then, Scholz has been fighting for his political survival.

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and now Stephan Weil too.


sentence: thanks to the VW emissions scandal and his role on the supervisory board, the Lower Saxony Prime Minister had already been facing criticism for some time.

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lousy poll results added to that.


sentence: despite that, or perhaps precisely because of that, Weil has been attempting ever more strongly in the last few weeks to make a mark in the federal government.


sentence: the former mayor of Hanover's attempts to build up his power in Berlin have not gone unnoticed by peers in Martin Schulz's entourage.

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sentence: they used to let him do as he liked, since they expected Weil to be a stabilising force for the party.

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sentence: now, just the opposite may happen.

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in actual fact, Weil is not to blame for the Lower Saxony Greens' party-internal strife.


and Schulz is certainly not.


for the time being, therefore, their peers are taking pains to keep their ranks closed.


sentence: their anger is directed towards the Greens, and above all, at the defecting parliamentarian Twesten.

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sentence: "it is unacceptable and harmful to democracy how Ms Twesten places her own career interests above the interests of all others," says Matthias Miersch, head of the left wing in the SPD parliamentary group, to RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND).

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sentence: Ms Twesten was voted into parliament not for her person, as a direct candidate, but on a Lower Saxony Green Party ticket, continued the Lower Saxony member of parliament.

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the logical conclusion would be for her to give up her seat.


sentence: Thomas Oppermann, head of the SPD parliamentary group, deplored the "undemocratic manoeuvre."


sentence: "the will of the voters four years ago was clear: the people made Stephan Weil Prime Minister," said Oppermann, who as frontrunner is leading the Lower Saxony SPD into the Bundestag elections, to the RND.

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"now the personal career notions of a future CDU representative is distorting the electoral result," continued Oppermann.


he called for light to be shed on the circumstances surrounding the matter.


I want to know whether there was anything more there, or if additional commitments were made to the Lower Saxony CDU.


grant money for Town Centre III


sentence: anyone who wants to renovate their outdated house will soon be able to get support from the state.

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sentence: Mayor Albert Schindler and three representatives for STEG urban development provided information about this on Wednesday in Empfingen.

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sentence: at the beginning of the information session, Schindler once more cast a glimpse back to what has been the case so far.

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since 1991, there have been regeneration areas in Empfingen.


sentence: back then, in regeneration area I, from 1991 to 2004, the state of Baden Württemberg still took on two thirds of the grant amount.

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from 2005 to 2016, in regeneration area II, the subsidy still lay at 60 per cent.


for Schindler, the refurbishments up until this point have been a "successful project" - it is ultimately important to support interior development too, and not only develop new construction areas.


on 4th April, word was received from Karlsruhe regional council that there will be a regeneration area III.


sentence: the grant amount is 833,333 euros, of which, 500,000 euros is to come from the federal state, the rest, from the municipality of Emfingen.

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how does a regeneration area come about?


sentence: one will investigate, explains Schindler further, where the "truly old" houses are.

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sentence: what also comes into play, however, is whether there is even any interest to renovate in the planned area at all.

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if necessary, the area boundaries can also then be shifted again.


STEG was represented on Wednesday evening by Martin Keller, Gaby Pietzschmann and Sarah Gotzel.


sentence: Keller presented the content of the government and federal state "Soziale Stadt" programme, within whose scope the refurbishments would then be implemented.

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sentence: the core of the programme is the revitalisation of town centres, the improvement of living and working conditions and preservation and expansion of infrastructure.

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the measures would be implemented on a property-specific, that is, per-premises, basis.


the regeneration area would then ultimately be laid down as statute.


the appropriation period for the subsidies has been running from 1st January 2017 and will continue to do so until 30th April 2026.


sentence: first, however, stocktaking will be carried out until September of this year, as part of which, those with a stake in the regeneration area will receive a survey to fill out.

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sentence: the resolution should preferably follow in November or December, so that refurbishments can be begun next year.


sentence: Pietzschmann then explained that every community must carry out the aforementioned preliminary studies.

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sentence: it's about assessing the shortcomings in the urban design and deciding what will be renovated and to what extent.

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a renovation comment will then be recorded in the land registry for each premises.


Pietzschmann will come to Empfingen again himself and get an idea of the location, he promised.


sentence: Gotzel stressed that the participation of those involved is an essential factor for the project's success.

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sentence: that is why there will be surveys, which will be sent to citizens by post in the coming weeks and can be filled out until the end of the summer holidays.

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sentence: the yellow survey is the "building and property survey," which is about, among other things, the structural condition and the intentions for refurbishment.

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sentence: in the grey survey, the "budget and housing survey," information can be provided on the size, breakdown and residents of a living space.

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sentence: the blue "business survey" is only filled out if business premises operate in the building.


sentence: it should be noted, however, Gotzel pointed out, that a filled-out survey is not at the same time an application for grant money.

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what is more, new building initiatives are not eligible for funding.


Schindler also stressed that funding would be allocated on a "first-come, first-served" basis - the early bird gets the worm.


it is not possible to "reserve" grant money for later.


sentence: to conclude, photos of the "Town Centre II" project were shown, to "sell" the idea of refurbishment to those present.

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sentence: British inventor microchips himself to get into house and car with a wave of hand

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sentence: a British inventor has become the first in the country to be fitted with a microchip so he can open his front door, access his office and even start his car with just a wave of his hand.

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sentence: Steven Northam, 33, had the tiny chip implanted between his thumb and finger and is now offering the service to businesses and individuals who want to simplify their life with technology through his company BioTeq.

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sentence: he has teamed up with Dr Geoff Watson, a consultant anesthetist at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, Hants, to ensure the implant procedure is carried out to a medical standard.

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sentence: the technology is similar to a microchip implanted for cats and dogs, and takes just 30 seconds.

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sentence: Mr Northam's company will also alter locks on houses and cars so they are compatible with the chip, for a cost of £300 each lock.

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sentence: the married father of one now has technology fitted to both his home and his BMW Z4, which starts when his hand is on the wheel.

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sentence: white House Prop Cost Taxpayers Thousands

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sentence: the White House's decision to fly a Marine helicopter to the South Lawn for an event highlighting American manufacturing last month cost taxpayers as much as $24,000, according to military records released to TIME.

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the green-and-white Sikorsky VH-3D, known as Marine One when the President is aboard, was the centerpiece of the July 17 event at the White House showcasing American construction programs.


sentence: President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and senior White House officials toured manufacturing products from all 50 states.

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sentence: the Connecticut-made helicopter was displayed alongside a yacht from Maine, a fire truck from Wisconsin, and a forklift from Mississippi.

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sentence: the White House Military Office requested the helicopter's presence in a fragmentary order, or FRAGO, barely 36 hours before the helicopter landed on the South Lawn for the "unusual" event, according to the records of Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1), the unit responsible for operating the helicopter.

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sentence: "I just wanted you to make sure you were aware because it's such an unusual high visibility event," the commander of HMX-1 emailed his superior, the Marine Deputy Commandant for Aviation, the day before the event.

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sentence: the message indicated the helicopter would arrive on the South Lawn at approximately 7 a.m. on July 17 for the 3 p.m. event, and remain until the lawn was cleared between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. that evening.

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sentence: the note adds that should the departure from the White House be delayed, a second aircrew would be needed for the return flight due to duty-hour restrictions.

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sentence: the original flight crew was with the helicopter during the event, while unit security personnel remained with the aircraft while it was the ground.

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it was not clear from records provided to TIME whether a second flight crew was ultimately required.


sentence: the Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from using government property for political purposes.

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sentence: records indicate that HMX-1 inquired about whether the event might violate the provision.

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sentence: "one question we asked was if it was a violation of the Hatch Act and were informed it was not," the commander wrote.

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"sounds like you are locked," the Deputy Commandant replied.


the "Made in America" event was designated an official event by the White House, and would not have been covered by the Hatch Act.


sentence: but even official events have political overtones.

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sentence: at the event, the President made a push for healthcare reform efforts then underway in the Senate and touted efforts to rein in government regulations.

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sentence: using the aircraft known as Marine One or Air Force One for politically advantageous purposes is hardly a new phenomenon.

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sentence: Presidents are required to use them for travel.

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sentence: but requisitioning their use solely for a photo-op is unusual.

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sentence: Trump drew scrutiny in February when the presidential airplane taxied to the backdrop of his first campaign rally in Melbourne, Fla., and his Twitter account is flush with messages complaining about his predecessor's use of the presidential aircraft.

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sentence: "the White House is thrilled with the 'Made In America' showcase that featured products from all 50 states that are made by American workers with American materials," said White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters.

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sentence: HMX-1 crews frequently perform training flights around the Washington area and at the South Lawn to practice depositing the President of the United States at the White House with inches of precision.

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sentence: when Trump was at the G-20 summit in Germany in early July, HMX-1 conducted 58 practice landings at the White House.

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sentence: the flight for the Made in America event counted toward the aircrew's training requirement for the month, an official said.

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sentence: unit helicopters also flew an additional 11 hours that day for "non-presidential support missions."

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the White House said taxpayers did not pick up the burden for any of the other props featured at the event.


sentence: a spokesperson for Sikorsky said the company was not involved in arranging for the helicopter to be displayed on the South Lawn.

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sentence: HMX-1 doesn't maintain budgetary records for presidential flights, and determining the precise cost incurred by the event is difficult.

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but according to Department of Defense hourly rates for fiscal year 2017, the DoD reimbursement rate for the VH-3D is $24,380 per flight hour.


sentence: unit records record the aircraft flight time as 30 minutes each way from its home base at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico in Virginia.

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sentence: the White House argues the true cost of operating the helicopter is well below that rate.

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sentence: "to place a cost to taxpayers based on the reimbursement rate estimates is highly misleading," Walters said.

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sentence: "these rate estimates include personnel, maintenance and many other sunk costs that are included in annual appropriations."

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sentence: according to a 2015 RAND study, DoD reimbursement rates do not include the cost of personnel, but do account for fuel, maintenance, and contracting costs.

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sentence: at the time, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended the use of the helicopter for the event.

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sentence: "the idea is to showcase this week things that are made in America," Spicer said.

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sentence: "and I know Sikorsky and the state of Connecticut are very proud of the fact that they contribute to our national security, that there are, I assume, hundreds if not thousands of people whose job depends on that.

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sentence: and I think, like most Americans, we're all proud of the helicopter and other military equipment that so many Americans worked tirelessly to do.

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so, of course, it's appropriate to highlight that. "


sentence: it wasn't clear whether Trump interacted with the helicopter as he toured the South Lawn for the event, but he did step into the driver's seat of a fire truck.

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sentence: inside the White House, Trump addressed Sikorsky representatives, joking with the media about his own fleet of company products.

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"I know Sikorsky very well," the President said, "I have three of them."


TC BW Neuss faces tricky task


front runner of the second tennis Bundesliga is competing at third-in-table Suchsdorfer SV.


TC Blau-Weiss Neuss is competing tomorrow in Kiel, from 11am, at third-in-table Suchsdorfer SV.


sentence: despite still flawless results after five matches, the front runner of the second tennis Bundesliga is maintaining a sense of reality.

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sentence: team boss Marius Zay has respect for the opponent at any rate.

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sentence: "this is a compact team that always plays in very similar formation.

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sentence: in the back positions, in particular, I find the team very good. "

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sentence: it is above all the imports from the high north that bring class and stability to Suchsdorfer SV.

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"their Danes and Finns can even point to Davis Cup appearances.


and they are also strong in doubles, "says Zay, referring to Harri Heliovaara (Finnland), Andre Göransson (Sweden), Sören and Esben Olesen, Martin Pedersen, and Andreas Bjerrehus (all Denmark).


"it will be difficult for us, as always.


sentence: you need a good dose of luck as well. "

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sentence: the Neuss team for the trip to the high north is practically set.


Maxime Janvier could give his debut for Blau-Weiß.


sentence: if the Frenchman, currently still active in the challenger tournament in Italian Biella, does not make it to the Bundesliga match, then Zdenek Kolar (Czech), who is playing in the tournament in Liberec in the Czech Republic, will be called into action for the first time this season.

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sentence: the as yet undefeated Chilean Hans Podlipnik-Castillo was still hitting balls with Belarusian Andrei Vasilevski at the ATP tournament in Kitzbühel yesterday.

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he should also be there in Kiel though, just like Botic Van de Zandschulp, Niels Lootsma (both Netherlands) and the Belgian Julien Cagnina.


sentence: after his two victories last Sunday against the Club an der Alster, Máté Valkusz could also move back into the team.

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if that's not enough for the 18-year-old from Hungary, who in January 2016 was still number one in the junior world rankings, someone from the coaching staff around Marius Zay will fill out the squad.


how America can harm OMV


sentence: Donald Trump didn't exactly look happy on Wednesday evening as he placed his signature under a bill that would see sanctions against Russia strengthened.

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sentence: "in its haste to pass this legislation," Congress packed in some "unconstitutional provisions," he griped.

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sentence: the reaction from Moscow, too, was as sharp as expected, and even Brussels seethed at the US motion.

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sentence: after all, the bill plans to penalise European companies that help Russians build gas pipelines into the EU.

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sentence: ever since, investors in Austria's OMV, which together with other European companies has co-financed the construction of Russian Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 2, have been accordingdly perturbed.

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the threat is enormous.


sentence: nevertheless, it is too early to gauge the consequences, according to the official statement from the Oil group.

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sentence: in reality, Donald Trump would still have to put the sanctions into being himself through an executive order.


sentence: he has twelve weapons to choose from here.

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"the press" has set out to see what the group could fight off and what could really do it harm.


sentence: narcos season 3 trailer: with Pablo Escobar gone, the Cali Cartel take centre stage in Netflix's hit series

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sentence: despite season two of narcos revealing Pablo Escobar's killer, Netflix's series is far from over.


sentence: season three and four have already been confirmed by the streaming service, the former receiving its first trailer, teasing the show's upcoming villains.

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sentence: with season three, the DEA has turned their attention towards the richest drug trafficking organisation in the world: the Cali Cartel.

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sentence: led by four powerful godfathers, they operate "like a Fortune 500 company" just with more government bribes and violent actions.

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sentence: Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (Damian Alcazar) is the cartel's leader, Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela (Francisco Denis) being the brains, Pacho Herrera (Alberto Ammann) running the Mexican connection, and Chepe Santacruz Londono (Pepe Rapazote) based in New York.

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sentence: the newly released trailer sees Pedro Pascal return as Javier Peña, the character enlisting American and Colombian law enforcement to help with the war on drugs.

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sentence: other new actors include Matias Varela, Michael Stahl-David, Matt Whelan, Miguel Angel Silvestre, Kerry Bishe, and Arturo Castro.

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sentence: season three of narcos will debut 1 September.


sentence: roll back in time: the city employs 46 kitchen assistants

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sentence: the city is once more organising the nursery lunch itself.


sentence: with designated contact persons for the children and place in the team.

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sentence: the clock is being turned back in the city's nurseries.

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sentence: on the 1st September, the city of Krefeld is once more taking the catering in the city's nurseries (Kitas) into its own hands.


for Sonja Pommeranz, deputy head of the youth welfare services department, this is good news: "we were all delighted."


sentence: the cooking is still done off premises: a caterer takes care of this task and delivers freshly cooked, chilled food.

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sentence: the city operates 46 nurseries in the district of Krefeld; in 44 of these, the children get a warm meal at midday.

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sentence: in the last nursery year, 2800 children sat at the tables in each case, and demand is growing steadily.

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sentence: "by now, it is not only children who are cared for 45 hours a week that eat in the Kita at lunchtime," explains Pommeranz.


sentence: "the service is also available for the 35-hour care option, when children stay until 2pm."

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sentence: 46 part-time staff are on kitchen duty on 1st September: they warm up the delivered meals, supplement them with salad, crudités and fruit, put the meals into individual portions, hand out the food, clear up, wash up and clean the kitchen.

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"the workers are assigned to a fixed Kita," says Pommeranz.


sentence: the size - there are two-group and seven-group establishments - dictates the number of hours worked.

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"the kitchen assistants now firmly belong in the Kita team," says Pommeranz contentedly.


"that way they are much more closely involved, and it is easier for the nursery head to put educational concepts in place."


because it's about this too: a healthy diet and cooking lessons.


sentence: "the children should help prepare the food."


sentence: directly linking the kitchen staff to the team makes sense then.


sentence: for the children too.


"they have a known staff member in the Kita, someone who is familiar to them, and not people who are continuously changing."


sentence: this continuity is important for the children.


sentence: the cleaning of the nursery rooms - up until now also a task for the kitchen staff - will in future be taken care of by special cleaning personnel.

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sentence: this option - the separation of cleaning and the kitchen service - not only improves the quality of the kitchen's output, but also has the appeal of having turned out to be the most economical option for the city when comparing costs between in-house and outsourcing, said the press office.

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and that is despite 46 new part-time staff being employed.


sentence: "but these hours don't have nearly so much impact for around 750 people in the education sector," says Sonja Pommeranz.

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sentence: Afghan democracy depends on political role for women, U.N. says

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sentence: elections can only be representative if all members of society, including women, play a role, the head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

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sentence: Nicholas Haysom, acting head of the U.N. Assistance Mission said hundreds of women are running in provincial council elections, three women are running for vice president and more than 30 percent of the newly-registered voters are women.

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sentence: "the role of women cannot be overstated," he said in a statement Wednesday.


sentence: elections can only be truly representative and credible when women fully participate and are included in all parts of the electoral process.

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sentence: Afghan provincial council and presidential elections take place April 5.


sentence: the Taliban has issued threats against an election process that coincides with the transition of international combat operations to an advisory role.

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sentence: this year's elections mark the first time power is handed peacefully from one democratically elected government to the next.

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sentence: Haysom said a strong role for women will add to Afghanistan's democratic success.

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sentence: the Afghan Independent Election Commission reports 1.2 million women are registered out of 3.6 million total registered voters.

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walking tour to mark gymnastics club anniversary


sentence: to mark 110 years in existence, Kaiseringen Gymnastics Club is inviting people on a small walking tour, followed by coffee and cake.

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the walk starts on Sunday 9th July at 1pm in Frohnstetten, by the water reservoir in Amerikastraße.


sentence: from there, it is travelling to the airfield, to the Natter interceptor and over Waldhof farm, then back to the water reservoir.

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sentence: the walk will last about an hour and a half.

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sentence: afterwards there will be coffee, cakes, cold drinks, Viennese sausages and cheese rolls.

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sentence: for anyone who needs a lift from Kaiseringen to Frohnstetten, the meeting point is in Kaiseringen, at the school.

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sentence: men attempt to mug 13-year-old girl

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sentence: two young men, aged 19 and 23, are said to have attempted to rob a 13-year-old girl on Thursday.


sentence: according to information from police, the men approached the 13-year-old girl, who was staying with friends on Kolpingstraße, at around 2.55pm, because they wanted to use the girl's mobile to make a phone call.

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sentence: the 13-year-old refused their request and carried on walking with her friends.


sentence: one of the perpetrators then attempted to snatch the mobile and the girl's necklace, but was unsuccessful.

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the duo then fled without their loot.


sentence: both young men were later arrested by the police.


investigations are underway.


sentence: GMB concern over investment at McVitie's Glasgow factory

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sentence: a union is seeking reassurance from managers at biscuit maker McVitie's over its long-term commitment to production at its factory in Glasgow.

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sentence: GMB Scotland said the company had been silent over the future of investment at the Tollcross site.

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sentence: more than 500 people work at the plant, which produces Hobnobs and Rich Tea biscuits, among other products.

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sentence: McVitie's owner Pladis said it had invested more than £5m at the site in the last few years.

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it added employees and union representatives "will be the first to know" if there were any changes to its operations.


sentence: in a letter to the company's site manager, GMB Scotland called on McVitie's to "address concerns that funding is not being brought forward for the modernisation of production lines."

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sentence: GMB senior organiser Drew Duffy, said: "the fact that we cannot get clarity from the general site manager over the business needs and investment plan for the future of Tollcross is deeply concerning our members.

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sentence: generations of families have worked here and the workforce is highly concentrated in the local community and the greater Glasgow area, a crucial pillar of decent employment in an area of high unemployment and social deprivation.

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sentence: so, from the perspective of jobs, pay and prosperity, and against the backdrop of Brexit, rising cost of living and chronic manufacturing decline, the east end of Glasgow desperately needs a thriving manufacturing presence at McVitie's. "

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sentence: a spokeswoman for Pladis said: "the site manager at Tollcross received a letter from GMB Scotland only yesterday and the company will be responding directly as we value ongoing engagement with employees and union representatives.

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sentence: we had a regular meeting with employees and GMB representatives at Tollcross two months ago at which a number of issues were discussed openly.

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sentence: we discussed with employees then that like all companies operating in an extremely competitive and uncertain economic climate, we review our operations on an ongoing basis - and that applies across our all our businesses and sites - in order to remain competitive.

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sentence: she added: "in recent years, we have invested over £5m in our Tollcross site, notably on production lines and operational improvements.

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sentence: we fully recognise the heritage of Tollcross as a manufacturing site and should there be any changes to our operations at the site, employees and their union representatives will be the first to know. "

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sentence: did PSG warn Barcelona about move for Neymar three years ago?


sentence: la Liga side may rue their interest in Marco Verratti

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sentence: Paris Saint-Germain will not let up in their pursuit of Neymar after lodging a £189m offer to trigger his release clause, but did they warn Barcelona of the world-record raid three years ago?

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sentence: the sensational approach has lit up the summer transfer window, with the Ligue 1 club ready to break the world transfer record by more than double the previous mark, which saw Paul Pogba return to Manchester United last season for £89m.

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sentence: once completed, the move will see Neymar become the world's most expensive player and also the highest-paid professional sportsman in the world, with PSG offering wages of over £500,000-a-week after tax.

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sentence: Barcelona are known to be furious with the manner of the approach and the way that Neymar has forced his way out, despite a source close to the Catalans' board insisting that the club have always done their best to look after him since his arrival from Santos in 2013.

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sentence: but was the football world warned of this prospect three years ago by the PSG president?

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sentence: when Manchester City expressed an interest in signing Blaise Matuidi in 2014, Nasser Al-Khelaifi had a stern warning for any club looking to sign one of PSG's best players.

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sentence: "I am not worried because they know that if they touch one of our players, then we will be in opposition to them, we'll contact their players," Al-Khelaifi said.

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sentence: "we respect all clubs.

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sentence: but if they try to sign one of our players, they'll face consequences. "

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sentence: Barcelona appear to have crossed this line, with the Spanish club expressing an interesting in PSG midfielder Marco Verratti earlier this summer.

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sentence: PSG made it clear that they would not allow the Italy international to leave under any circumstances, and Barcelona could well be feeling the repercussions of that interest by losing one of their prize assets in Neymar.

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scooter knocked over and damaged


sentence: in the night from Friday to Saturday, an unknown perpetrator deliberately knocked over a scooter parked in the Königsfelder Straße outside residence number 30, thus causing material damage of over 200 euros to the fairing of the vehicle.

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sentence: Schramberg police, telephone 07422 / 27 01-0, are appealing for leads.

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sentence: police are seeking witnesses in relation to an accident on the B 215 between Stolzenau and Leese

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sentence: because a car was coming towards him in his lane, the driver of a VW Touran had to swerve and grazed the crash barrier.

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sentence: on Thursday evening, at around 7.55pm, the 34-year-old from Rehburg-Loccum was en route in his VW on the B215 coming from Stolzenau in the direction of Leese.

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sentence: in the region of the Stolzenau bypass, a passenger car came towards him in his lane, so he had to swerve to the right.

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sentence: in doing so, the Touran driver grazed the crash barrier.


the car suffered material damage.


sentence: the driver of the oncoming car, a Mercedes Benz, had overtaken a lorry and continued his journey without concerning himself with the traffic accident.

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sentence: according to information provided by the victim of the accident, it may well be that the Mercedes driver had not noticed the accident at all.


sentence: the police are now appealing for witnesses of the incident as well as the driver of the vehicle that caused the accident to get in touch with Stolzenau Police Station via the telephone number 05761 / 92060.

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sentence: interview: "Domspatzen report exonerates Pope brother Georg Ratzinger"

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sentence: the Regensburger Domspatzen report on cases of abuse exonerates Pope brother Georg Ratzinger.


sentence: that is what author and historian Michael Hesemann says.

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the final report on the abuse scandal at the Regensburger Domspatzen is still causing debate.


sentence: after its publication, Christian Weisnder, spokesman for the reform movement "We are Church," explained to the German press agency that he was expecting an apology from the former Bishop of Regensburg and current Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller as well as the cathedral's Master of Music, Georg Ratzinger, the 93-year-old brother of the emeritus Pope Benedikt XVI.

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it would be of great service to the reputation of the Catholic Church if Müller and Ratzinger were to express their deep regret over their own failures or their false assessments of events back then.


sentence: the Vatican paper "Osservatore Romano," on the other hand, criticised the fact that the coverage was measuring violence at the Domspatzen using "double standards."

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sentence: with respect to the assaults in Regensburg, no-one doubts that these were "disgraceful and shameful acts" that must be punished and prevented in future; however, what was striking was the "level of media manipulation," according to the author Lucetta Scaraffia, historian and member of the Italian National Bioethics Committee.

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sentence: "the habit of denoting the Catholic Church as the source of all evil is now a part of our everyday experience and sets up public opinion for considering that as normal," writes Scaraffia.

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sentence: Princess Gloria of Thurn and Taxis also said in an interview with Bavarian Radio that "people love to let loose on the Church, and it is an easy target."


sentence: she also pointed out that in her youth "beatings were a totally normal educational tool for dealing with cheeky children, of which I was one."

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sentence: she thought it unfair to apply current standards to previous decades, because the world has changed.

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sentence: in connection with the reports on the cases of abuse, Pope brother Georg Ratzinger cropped up a lot.

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sentence: absolutely unfair, says author and historian Michael Hesemann, who together with Ratzinger compiled the commemorative volume "My Brother, the Pope" (translated into 12 languages).

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sentence: "I have to come to the defence of Georg Ratzinger," says Hesemann, for in his assessment, the result of the final report "has nothing to do with him."

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sentence: what exactly is in the 440-page report that lawyer Ulrich Weber, commissioned by the Diocese of Regensburg, has produced?

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sentence: in total, 547 members of the Regensburger Domspatzen were "highly likely" the victims of assaults between 1945 and the early 1990s, and 67 Domspatzen were sexually abused.

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sentence: the final report said of Georg Ratzinger, who was working in Regensburg from 1964 to 1994, that "in summary, it can be determined that forms of corporal and physical violence were used by the cathedral's Master of Music R. in many cases."

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sentence: when he was highly emotional, in particular, the punishment for the students could be a lot more severe.

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sentence: despite this, it is apparent that, in contrast to numerous others of the accused, many victims treasured the general humaneness of R. and therefore, in numerous cases, even associate him with positive memories, despite the violence. "

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sentence: Hesemann explains in the interview why, in his opinion, the final report on the abuse scandal at the Regensburger Domspatzen exonerates Georg Ratzinger.

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sentence: for Mr Hesemann, the 440-page report on the "incidents of the use of violence against wards at the Regensburger Domspatzen" paints a contradictory picture of the cathedral's Master of Music, Georg Ratzinger.

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sentence: on the one hand, many students stress his "humaneness."


on the other hand, he also comes across as a choleric type and perfectionist, who would often turn to violence if one of the Domspatzen didn't give a top musical performance.


how do you judge this final report as his biography?


sentence: Michael Hesemann: if one makes the effort and reads the entire 440-page-long report from start to finish, one actually has to ask what the name of Georg Ratzinger is doing in there at all.

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sentence: eight pages are devoted to him, all in one go, and he is clearly exculpated from every suspicion of complicity or connivance in the terrible cases of sexual abuse.

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the extreme acts of violence at the pre-school also occurred outside his sphere of activity.


at best, one can accuse him of having found out too late or not having taken the first indications seriously enough.


sentence: the Domspatzen secondary school, where he was active, was perceived by practically all of those asked as - to quote - "salvation," "heaven" and a "better world."

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sentence: so, the vast majority of his students gave Georg Ratzinger a quite glowing testimonial, describing him as "warm-hearted," "beloved," "sincere," "competent" and "understanding," as an extremely good-natured teacher who regularly provide the boys with cakes, biscuits and sweets and was "always mobbed by clusters of children."

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sentence: only a minority complained about his perfectionism and his high emotionality, which from time to time also led to outbursts of anger.

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sentence: the fact that during the course of this he not only banged chairs and threw his bunch of keys to the floor, but even handed out slaps around the face and pulled on the hair or ears of all-too-impudent boys is something that he himself already admitted years ago, that he deeply regrets and apologises for.

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sentence: in his defence, however, it must also be said that such methods of education in that questionable period between the 1960s and 1970s were wide-spread amongst parents as well as teachers.

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sentence: do you remember such castigation methods?

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I'm thinking of those of us who were born before 1968, of course.


sentence: I too experienced that, in a secular school, too, a state Gymnasium.

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sentence: compared to what this report is actually about, namely, appalling sexual abuse and acts of extreme violence at preschool, these are of course mere trifles.

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sentence: so one cannot help but ask whether the fact that lots of media are bearing down on him in particular does not have more to do with his fame and his role as the brother of Benedikt XVI.

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indeed, lots of people are still slaving away assiduously on the Bavarian Pope who have never understood him.


sentence: but the truth is: the report exonerates Georg Ratzinger in every way!

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sentence: in the media, there was a lot reported on the subject of abuse at the Regensburger Domspatzen in connection with the report.

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is Georg Ratzinger also being accused in the final report of some kind of involvement or complicity in respect of sexual abuse?


Michael Hesemann: quite clearly not.


sentence: not a single one of the 67 victims of sexual assaults claims to have confided in the cathedral's Master of Music.

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sentence: not once were the parents brought in the loop.


sentence: "I never dared talk about it with my father or my mother," said one of those affected, as a representative for the others, "It was always very embarrassing for me."

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sentence: but the real problem when it comes to throwing light on sexual abuse was and is that the majority of victims stay silent out of shame.

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sentence: if they don't even confide in parents and siblings, then they for sure are not going to to a choir leader, who after all had been a professional colleague, as it were, of the perpetrators.

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sentence: how do the Domspatzen schoolboys judge Ratzinger's role in respect of the cases of abuse?

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sentence: Michael Hesemann: one pupil asked put it this way: "regarding sexual abuse... I see... no case where he of all people (Georg Ratzinger) had had early enough knowledge and could have stopped the perpetrators in question.

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sentence: I also think... it is quite absurd to assume that... boys opened up more emphatically or clearly or even sooner to him, of all people, than to their parents, the heads of their boarding houses, mentors etc.

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sentence: that one would speak with him about sex... - unthinkable. "

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sentence: so, the report comes to the quite clear conclusion: "that affected pupils and / or those around them confided in him beforehand could not be confirmed within the scope of the investigation."

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as far as sexual abuse is concerned, Georg Ratzinger has therefore been absolved of any complicity.


therefore, he can also not be accused of not having stopped it or reported it.


sentence: there is therefore also no reason to bring his good name into association with this despicable crime, as unfortunately happened in some cases.

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in the media, one read a lot about "extreme acts of violence" at the Regensburger Domspatzen.


sentence: the former cathedral Master of Music, Georg Ratzinger, is accused in the report of "turning a blind eye."


does he have to live with this accusation then?


sentence: Michael Hesemann: that is indeed the big problem, that in the coverage, everything was mixed up and confounded into a huge melange of sexual abuse and acts of extreme violence and somewhere, in the middle of that, was Georg Ratzinger.

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sentence: but precisely that, in turn, is an abuse of the report.


sentence: that is to say, there is a clean separation there: between the preschool and the secondary school of the Domspatzen, between sexual abuse and acts of violence as well as, shall we say, other accusations.

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sentence: what is more, the report handles cases from the period since 1945, that is, from four decades, as well, when Georg Ratzinger was not choir leader of the Domspatzen.

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sentence: the whole hideous educational theory of spanking, the cases where boys were downright bullied and maltreated by sadistic teachers, and from which they suffered terribly, all of these took place in the preschool in Etterzhausen and Pielenhofen, where really scandalous conditions must have prevailed.

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sentence: yet the cathedral's Master of Music Georg Ratzinger had nothing to do with these, for he first set eyes on the boys when they were already at the Domspatzen secondary school.


sentence: there, as the vast majority of witnesses stress, the topic of the "preschool" was taboo.

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sentence: one was only happy to have got away from it and enjoyed the much better treatment and the conditions that were even "paradisiacal" for many.

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what was different at the Domspatzen secondary school then?


sentence: Michael Hesemann: discipline still ruled there, sure, but there was no sadistic violence.

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sentence: and that applies to Georg Ratzinger likewise, in relation to whom the report concludes that "many victims treasured the general humaneness of R. and therefore, in numerous cases, even associate him with positive memories, despite the violence."

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so, at best, there remains the accusation of having turned a blind eye.


sentence: yet despite all the efforts, the report could only define two periods in which he was given reports about the conditions at the preschool.

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sentence: the first time in 1970 / 71, when he was just beginning to establish himself and did not want to hear about the practices in a school where he did not even work and for which he was not responsible (according to the witness), and then next only in around 1993.

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sentence: did Georg Ratzinger systematically close his ears to the conditions?

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sentence: Michael Hesemann: no, for already in 1989 he wrote a letter to the director of the Domspatzen secondary school, which was even reproduced in the report.

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sentence: in that, he pointed this out, "that in the preschool corporal punishment is still practised."


sentence: even when facing the risk of negative press releases he recommended urgent intervention.

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sentence: that was naturally at a time when there was legal clarity that corporal punishment had long been banned in Bavaria too.

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before that, it was taking place in a legal grey zone, as every one of us well knows.


so it was also difficult for him to assess where those affected were perhaps exaggerating or dramatising and where the permissible limits had really been overstepped.


but one cannot say that he always turned a blind eye.


that is simply not true.


sentence: it was first in 1980 that corporal punishment in schools was officially abolished in Bavaria as well.

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sentence: Princess Gloria of Thurn and Taxis indeed asserts that it is unfair to apply today's educational standards to that earlier time.

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what is your opinion on this?


sentence: Michael Hesemann: we historians talk here about "the pitfall of anachronism," that is, the danger of evaluating the past according to today's moral standards.

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the Princess is quite right here.


sentence: but this of course does not apply to sexual abuse, which was despicable at all times, and also not to that which was perpetrated in the preschool in terms of vile acts and violence against innocent children; that of course goes far beyond what was accepted back then.

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that is all absolutely terrible and I am glad that it is finally being looked into.


but at the same time I have to come to the defence of Georg Ratzinger, for all that has nothing to do with him.


sentence: his means of disciplining and punishing, that is, slapping around the face and pulling the hair and ears, was widespread in the 1970s.

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when corporal punishment was then banned, he complied strictly with that too.


sentence: what image of his time in Regensburg did Georg Ratzinger reflect then in his conversations with you for the book "My Brother, the Pope"?

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sentence: did the subject of corporal punishment ever come up?

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sentence: Michael Hesemann: look, the book is about the life of his brother Joseph, that is Pope Benedikt XVI., told from his perspective, so the Domspatzen played only a subsidiary role.

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nevertheless, I do not at all conceal that he ran a strict regime there.


sentence: but this too has to be said: without this perfectionism, without this demand for absolute discipline, it would hardly have been possible for him to forge from the Regensburger Domspatzen - up until that point famous rather on a national level - a world-class institution, a cultural ambassador for Europe and its musical tradition, that twice a-piece went on tour to the USA (1983 and 1987) and to Japan (1988 and 1991).

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sentence: not with biscuits and sweets alone does one all at once turn insubordinate boys into great singers, and face every success, regardless of the area, but rather, with continuous discipline, passion and self-conquest.

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sentence: what kind of impression did you get of Georg Ratzinger the man then in those conversations for your book?


sentence: Michael Hesemann: through the work on the book and beyond that, I got to know Georg Ratzinger really very well, and my experience of him was always as a wonderful, humorous, totally benevolent, deeply devout and good-hearted man, who one cannot imagine would be capable of even hurting a fly.

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sentence: I regularly hear how many former Domspatzen still today keep in regular contact with him, 23 years after his retirement, visit him, read to him - he is almost blind - and treat him like a member of their family.

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sentence: those who up until today still do not forgive him for once being too strict with them are therefore in the minority.

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sentence: most Domspatzen are today grateful to him for enriching their lives and bringing them nearer to the world of music.

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sentence: and for always being a good, fatherly teacher - a strict father, sure, that may well be - but also a loving person, to be respected, whom they still look up to today and downright worship.

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and please, once more, just to be clear: all that he is accused of are methods of education, that back then were order of the day.


sentence: we can be glad that we have long overcome this time.

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sentence: but it is highly unjust to make a media scapegoat out of a man just because he is prominent and has an even more prominent brother.

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sentence: the evil intention behind that is all too obvious.

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sentence: for the report that was just published exonerates him.

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sentence: now one would ask for the decency to finally leave in peace a 93-year-old man who has rendered great service and without whom probably no-one outside Bavaria and perhaps even Germany would know of the Regensburger Domspatzen

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