Show Breaking News BarCloseLocal NewsAvery Everett Matthew Craig BERGHEIM Joe and Donna Agruso have stayed together side by side After doctors removed a sarcoma from his leg he depends on his motorized wheelchair and an electric chair lift ‘what are we going to do?‘” Donna Agruso said Donna called 911 and the Bergheim Volunteer Fire Department answered their team lifted Joe Agruso in and out of bed until they could find a temporary fix helped find a manual chair lift that Joe and Donna Agruso could borrow in the meantime “We like to say we’re problem solvers,” Hawkins said Two other members found a way to fix their electric chair “They touched our hearts over and over and over and over.” sent a letter to the department after learning how they helped her parents She organizes their care and helps fill in as a caregiver “There are not enough words to fully express the depth of my gratitude and appreciation for all you have done for my beautiful parents and our family over the years,” part of the letter from Angela reads “Your commitment to serving Bergheim is nothing short of heroic You’ve not only helped my parents time and time again but you’ve done so with a grace and generosity that has left a lasting impression on our hearts.” Angela said she wouldn’t be where she is today without her parents She said they’re blessed to call the Bergheim Volunteer Fire Department part of their family and we are beyond grateful for the love and protection you’ve extended to two of the most important people in my life,” her letter read To help support the Bergheim Volunteer Fire Department, click here Copyright 2025 by KSAT - All rights reserved Email Newsletters KSAT RSS Feeds Contests and Rules Contact Us KSAT Internships Careers at KSAT Closed Captioning / Audio Description Public File Current EEO Report Terms of Use Privacy Policy Do Not Sell My Info FCC Applications Copyright © 2025 KSAT.com is managed by Graham Digital and published by Graham Media Group Microsoft is to build two data centers near Cologne as part of a major German investment program Microsoft first announced plans to invest €3.2 billion ($3.44bn) to double its AI infrastructure and cloud computing capacity in Germany back in February As well as the expansion of Microsoft's cloud region in Frankfurt the announcement noted newly planned infrastructure in North Rhine-Westphalia The company is developing data centers in Bergheim and Bedburg two towns to the west of Cologne in the Rhein-Erft district The company is to build two data centers; one on a 20-hectare site at the INKA: terra nova industrial park in Bergheim and another on an 18-hectare site at the new BEB61 industrial estate in Bedburg A filing with the Green Building Information Gateway suggests the Bergheim facility will total 270,605 sq ft Construction is set to start this year and the sites are set to go live in 2026 Microsoft had reportedly been in discussions with local officials for two years prior to February’s announcement "The establishment of a hyperscale data center campus from Microsoft is an absolute game changer for our city through a team effort from our three cities we are bringing a completely new technology infrastructure to our region that simply did not exist here before The cloud is at home in these data centers a technology that we all - whether companies or the health care system - rely on every day," said Bedburg Mayor Sascha Solbach BUND, the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation, is opposing the developments saying the facilities should be built on existing industrial sites rather than newly created industrial land More than 20,000 have signed the group’s petition against the projects Microsoft announced plans to launch cloud regions in Germany in 2018 with the Germany West Central Azure region becoming widely available in early 2021 The company also has the Germany North Azure region though this is listed as "not supported," and is paired with the West Central region Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia Enter your email to get the latest updates about the upcoming fairs & events! 2024 at 2:08 PMEarlier this month in Bergheim a Good Samaritan happened upon a little kitten in distress She’d been found all alone on a remote country road — seemingly the victim of abandonment But there was more to this cat than met her rescuer’s eye Facebook/Tierheim BergheimAfter taking the kitten home the Good Samaritan noticed that she was more feisty and less affectionate than your average cat To make sure that nothing was wrong with her, the kitten was taken in to the Bergheim Animal Shelter for an examination the kitten’s personality proved to be feisty indeed: “Staff [at the shelter] immediately recognized that this was not an ordinary domestic kitten,” a spokesperson for the Retscheider Hof wildlife center told The Dodo “The specific characteristics and behavior indicated that they were dealing with a wild cat That prompted the animal shelter staff to contact us immediately.” The kitten was actually a young European wildcat — a protected species native to the region Seeing how similar in appearance these wildcats are to domestic cats it’s hard to fault the Good Samaritan for the case of mistaken identity: Getty Images/Picture by Tambako the JaguarAfter the truth was uncovered the kitten was transferred to the care of the Retscheider Hof where she’s being raised in the company of another wildcat kitten like her until both are old enough to be released “We are currently working hard to give both animals the support and care they need,” the wildlife center spokesperson said “We do our best to make their stay as comfortable as possible Every progress they make is followed here with great enthusiasm and hope.” Facebook/Retscheider HofSome young wild animals can be easily mistaken for young pets leading to needless “rescues.” Where there may be some uncertainty staff at Retscheider Hof encourage would-be Good Samaritans to bear in mind potential mistaken identities “A case like this one reminds us of how important it is to look closely and proceed with caution.” Endecke die langjährige Geschichte der FK Austria Entdecke die größten Legenden der FK Austria Wien Offene Stellenausschreibungen beim FK Austria Wien wann wo und wie du deine Karten für Auswärtsspiele organisieren kannst Hier findest du die aktuellen Termine für geführte Touren & kannst direkt dein Ticket dafür buchen Ein anstrengendes Spiel macht durstig – wir garantieren für eine ausreichende Flüssigkeitszufuhr Glanzvoller Abend im Kreise der violetten Familie Du willst beim nächsten Austria Soccer Camp dabei sein Erlebe ein Heimspiel der Frauen hautnah in der Generali-Arena Hier geht es direkt auf die neue und eigens konzipierte Business-Website FC Red Bull Salzburg are taking the next step in women's football our club will be represented in the Austrian top flight – the ADMIRAL Women's Bundesliga – for the first time Having started in women's football in 2023/24 with the formation of an U16 team as well as an U20 team the following season we are taking our third step in the third year of the women's football division From next season there will be an agreement between FC Bergheim and our Red Bulls which will see the club perform under the name of FC Red Bull Salzburg Women and be managed by us The two clubs will continue to co-operate at the new level We will continue to focus heavily on developing our many talents The more women we can inspire to play football the greater the positive impact on the quality of the players and women's football on the whole Our young players have developed already so much in a short time that several of them have already played regularly in the Bundesliga team of FC Bergheim this season We have now set the aim of establishing these talents even better there which has led us to discussing with our co-operation partner FC Bergheim and deciding now is the time for the next step We are pleased that the co-operation with our partner is to be further developed and that FC Red Bull Salzburg will take an even more important role in our partnership We will take the next steps into the future together we have quietly and carefully taken one step after another for FC Red Bull Salzburg in women's football and we will take that to a new level in the summer Our aim has been and remains creating a platform for talented young women to develop their ability and realise their dreams We want to further strengthen women's football in our region and play a positive role in developing the sport our Red Bulls will have the following three women's teams: Texas - 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Every print subscription comes with full digital access CIRCLE OF DEATH  A circular pit excavated in France (left) contains the remains of eight people probably killed in a violent attack around 6,000 years ago Seven severed left arms lay at the bottom of the pit A diagram of the pit discoveries denotes bones of each individual in different colors CIRCLE OF DEATH  A circular pit excavated in France (left) contains the remains of eight people probably killed in a violent attack around 6,000 years ago By Bruce Bower A gruesome discovery in eastern France casts new light on violent conflicts that took lives — and sometimes just limbs — around 6,000 years ago Excavations of a 2-meter-deep circular pit in Bergheim revealed seven human skeletons plus a skull section from an infant strewn atop the remains of seven human arms say anthropologist Fanny Chenal of Antea Archéologie in Habsheim probably in a raid or other violent encounter the researchers report in the December Antiquity Their bodies were piled in a pit that already contained a collection of left arms hacked off by axes or other sharp implements Scattered hand bones at the bottom of the pit suggest that hands from the severed limbs had been deliberately cut into pieces We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday By subscribing, you agree to our Terms & Privacy Policy.  You must be 13 or older to sign up For full digital access, consider a $2.99 per month subscription All the Bergheim skeletons have both their arms except for a man with skull damage caused by violent blows They have been unable to determine whether that arm ended up in the pit Chenal’s group doesn’t know whether attackers targeted victims’ left arms for a particular reason The arms could have been taken as war trophies Radiocarbon dating of two bones indicates that individuals in the Bergheim pit lived roughly 6,000 years ago during what’s known as the Neolithic period one of the many ways of disposing of the dead in farming communities throughout Central and Western Europe was in circular pits The Bergheim pit provides the first evidence that people killed and mutilated in raids or battles were sometimes buried in circular pits an anthropologist at the University of Bordeaux in France Bergheim’s brutalized victims spice up attempts to make sense of Neolithic circular pits Many researchers regard these pits as remnants of storage silos that were put to other uses possibly as receptacles for the bodies of people deemed unworthy of formal burials Others argue that a large proportion of pits were dug as graves for high-ranking individuals whose servants or relatives were killed to accompany them slaves might have been killed and put in pits as displays of wealth or as sacrifices to gods Of 60 circular pits excavated in Bergheim in 2012 in advance of a construction project The researchers found skeletons or isolated bones of at least one to five individuals in each of 13 pits The final pit contained the bodies and limbs described in the new paper Joints of severed arms and skeletons in that pit were well-preserved indicating that all had been placed there at or around the same time with a minimum amount of jostling disturbance The pit also contained remains of a piece of jewelry made with a mussel’s valve a fragment of a pig’s jaw and two hare skeletons The skeleton of a woman who had been put in the pit later lay on top of a sediment layer encasing those finds Neither that woman nor human remains in the other Bergheim pits showed signs of violent death or limb loss Questions or comments on this article? 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A farewell to arms: a deposit of human limbs and bodies at Bergheim, France, c. 4000 BC Bruce Bower has written about the behavioral sciences for Science News since 1984 A member of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation stands in front of a Round House used for rituals and meetings A DNA study initiated and directed by Picuris officials now supports their oral histories describing more than 1,000-year-old ancestral ties to ancient Chaco Canyon society Communal hunting of horses in Europe 300,000 years ago required sophisticated planning and coordination The Arabian Desert is today a vast and barren landscapes But humid periods over the last 8 million years may have brought ephemeral rivers and grasslands to the region The ancient cave site of Latnija on the island of Malta contains evidence of hunter-gatherer seafaring prowess from the Stone Age A pair of Bronze Age cymbals unearthed in southeastern Arabia including this one shown during excavations point to long-distance sharing of ritual and musical traditions around 4,000 years ago found at a 60,000- to 50,000-year-old Chinese site closely resemble implements made by European and western Asian Neandertals These oddly expressive figurines from the ancient Maya world were probably puppets for ritual scenes — and perhaps used for portraying people long dead A researcher examines edge damage on a 1.5-million-year-old bone tool found in Africa part of the oldest known set of such implements Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest news of science our mission remains the same: to empower people to evaluate the news and the world around them It is published by the Society for Science a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education (EIN 53-0196483) enter your e-mail address for full access to the Science News archives and digital editions An ancient pit filled with severed human arms hands and fingers has been unearthed in France The nearly 6,000-year-old pit was found near the village of Bergheim "The discovery of Bergheim is the witness of a very violent event which took place at a specific time," said study co-author Fanny Chenal an archaeologist at the University of Strasbourg in France "Its unique and extraordinary nature does not allow or help us to better understand the daily life of these people." Like many of Europe's archaeological treasures An archaeological surveying company was overseeing excavations in advance of property development in Bergheim when they uncovered a 5-acre (2 hectares) area pockmarked with ancient pits called silos about 5 feet (1.5 meters) in diameter and 6.5 feet (2 m) deep was filled almost completely with human bones.  Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox The oldest deposit, dating to about 5,335 years ago, contained at least seven severed upper limbs, including severed and dismembered hands One of the seven limbs came from a child between 12 and 16 years old All of the bones show cut or amputation marks Soon after discarding the severed limbs in the pit someone had tossed the bodies of seven other people into the pit Those bodies included two adults and four children including one tiny infant not more than a year old The remains at the bottom of the pit belonged to a middle-aged man who had his arm cut off including a head wound that likely killed him Long after the bottom layers of boneshad settled over time someone put the body of a woman into the pit this body showed no signs of violence or trauma The pits differ dramatically from the surrounding pits which contain bodies with little sign of violence "Judicial sentence and war are the two main hypotheses for explaining the amputations," Chenal told Live Science in an email While the team can't formally exclude the idea that Neolithic people were meting out a brutal form of justice similar finds and historical data suggest war is a likelier explanation The people who met such violent deaths were likely farmers who also herded animals and lived in villages archaeologists painted a picture of Neolithic life as idyllic and egalitarian "Neolithic societies are stratified societies and 'war' (armed conflicts) were probably very common," Chenal said. "Furthermore, we have other clear evidence of violence for the time when the limbs and bodies were deposited." the extraordinarily gruesome find is fairly unique and no other pits from the time show such levels of extreme violence there's no way to know whether such ultraviolence was an isolated incident Tia GhoseSocial Links NavigationManaging EditorTia is the managing editor and was previously a senior writer for Live Science Her work has appeared in Scientific American She holds a master's degree in bioengineering from the University of Washington a graduate certificate in science writing from UC Santa Cruz and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin Tia was part of a team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that published the Empty Cradles series on preterm births including the 2012 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism Ancient Egyptians drew the Milky Way on coffins and tombs 18th-century monk's anus was stuffed with wood chips and fabric to mummify him Science news this week: International blackouts and 'T We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. 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SearchBrowseServicesOpen researchInstitution LoginSearchMenu links the deposition of human remains within circular pits was widespread throughout Central and Western Europe Attempts at forming explanatory models for this practice have proven difficult due to the highly variable nature of these deposits Recent excavations at Bergheim in Alsace have revealed a particularly unusual variant of this phenomenon featuring a number of amputated upper limbs The evidence from this site challenges the simplicity of existing interpretations and demands a more critical focus on the archaeological evidence for acts of systematic violence during this period Minimum number of individuals (MNI) and quantification of human corpses anatomical parts and isolated bones in Late Neolithic pits containing human bones from Bergheim Plan of the Late Neolithic settlement area at Bergheim; inset shows location on the overall excavation map; coloured features represent Late Neolithic circular pits with red indicating those containing human remains and blue for those without; the red star indicates the location of pit 157 Overhead view of the left upper limbs deposit on the bottom of pit 157: a) the main heap at the centre of the pit; b) close-up in situ view; c) plan of all remains with bones of the same colour identified as belonging to the same individual A large number of the remains display evidence of modification others to the cutting up of the arms and hands (see below) General view of pit 157 (a); and plan of the complete or almost complete bodies (b) The lowest individual (number 7), a male between 30 and 59 years of age (Schmitt Reference Schmitt2005) is distinguished by having had his left upper limb amputated through the arm He also bears several marks of violent blows which probably correspond to his death (see below) None of the bones from the other six bodies display any modification we were unable to determine whether any of the amputated limbs in the underlying deposit belonged to individual 7 Attempts at establishing a link between his proximal humerus and one of the six mature distal portions of the same element were inconclusive as were attempts at pairing the bones of his right upper limb with those of the amputated left upper limbs: we could attest neither an association nor a complete exclusion The minimum number of individuals (MNI) for the lower part of the pit can therefore be set at 14 at least another 6 left upper limbs—because we cannot exclude the possibility that one of the upper limbs belongs to individual number 7—and a cranial fragment of a very young infant The upper limbs and complete individuals were either deposited simultaneously or over a very short time frame They all are strictly in contact and labile joints have been preserved which would have been disturbed if there had been any substantial lag in deposition (unless there was special treatment prior to discard) but they affected the individuals in different ways depending on their stratigraphical location Those situated at the top of the pit are the most severely disturbed with bones displaced horizontally in the space external to the body Those situated in the middle zone are only moderately disturbed and those at the bottom have hardly moved at all This vertical gradient of disturbance can be explained by the piling up of the bodies Spaces form during the decomposition of a corpse into which the bones of overlying bodies may fall The higher the bodies are placed on the pile the greater the disturbances caused by this process this mechanism cannot account for the entirety of horizontal bone displacements among the uppermost individuals leading us to believe that the pit was not filled in immediately after the bodies were deposited but rather remained open long enough for at least partial decomposition to have been possible This theory is supported by the presence of a naturally deposited sedimentary layer 0.1m deep that covers the remains Above this sedimentary layer, an eighth body, that of an adult female, was introduced within the pit, also in a haphazard position (Figure 3 The excellent preservation of the connections corroborates the fact that compaction of the underlying levels had already taken place by the time this corpse was deposited and that it decomposed in a filled space and was hence covered immediately by the final fill of the pit No modifications have been observed on the bones of this final skeleton nor indeed on any of the human remains from the other pits at Bergheim Examples of fresh bone fractures on left humeral shafts (scale-bar = 50mm) Examples of chop marks on left humeral shafts (scale-bar = 10mm; black bar = 5mm) Cut marks on a left humeral shaft (scale-bar = 5mm) Examples of fresh bone fractures on the left forearm bones (scale-bar = 50mm) a third left metacarpal (b) and a left-hand middle phalanx (c) (scale-bars = 5mm) Examples of fresh bone fractures on left metacarpals (left) and hand phalanges (right) (scale-bar = 10mm) Impact points on the neurocranium of individual number 7 (1–5): a) right lateral; b) anterior; c) left lateral; d) posterosuperior; e) superior; f) h–j) endocranial details; and g) exocranial detail (scale-bars = 10mm) Fragment of a left rib of individual number 7 showing peeling (1) and a cut mark (2) (scale-bars = 5mm) Green bone fracture of the left humeral shaft of individual number 7 corresponding to the amputation of the arm (scale-bar = 20mm) and furthermore that the pits were dug specifically for this purpose In the absence of supporting evidence for either case it is unclear which proposition is more probable of the two What do we learn from pit 157 in particular? Above all, its contents show clear evidence of armed violence. First, the archaeologically simultaneous death of seven individuals (individual number 1 is excluded from this account), assumed by their simultaneous burial, is not expected within a natural mortality profile (Boulestin Reference Boulestin2008) excluding the possibility of starvation or an epidemic individual number 7 exhibits indisputable signs of violent blows to the head which are probably related to his execution the amputation of the left upper limbs displays features testifying to particularly violent acts rather than surgical practice These amputations present the strongest evidence to support our interpretation of violence and make the most significant contribution to the debate they can fall only into one of two categories: judicial (intra-group violence) or war-like (inter-group armed violence) the amputation of various body parts has been used as a form of criminal punishment by many societies only the extremities of the limbs were amputated but that may not always have been the case the hypothesis of judicial violence cannot be refuted by the exclusive presence of left arms or their number given that they may be the result of a particular rite of collective punishment or by the coexistence of amputation and killing as the condemned individuals may have been tortured beforehand or as part of their execution Neither the fact that limbs underwent additional treatments—such as the cutting and disjointing of the hands—nor that they were put in a seemingly organised deposit rather than simply discarded as with waste seem a probable result of criminal sanctions ‘How Outina's men treated the slain of the enemy’: scene showing the amputation of limbs to be taken as trophies (engraving 15 after an original drawing by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues in Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provincia Gallis acciderunt [1591]) The sacrifice model is even less compatible with the hypotheses of mutilation and torture it remains problematical to integrate pit 157 within a general interpretative model for circular pit deposits Pit 157 represents clear evidence of what was probably an act of inter-group armed violence although the true nature of these practices remains difficult to understand has ever been recorded for the Late Neolithic As part of a wider phenomenon of circular pit deposits it should not be excluded a priori from broader interpretative models unusual cases such as this are arguably the most important for evaluating existing interpretations none of the three current models—accompanying the dead the destruction of prestige goods or sacrifice—satisfactorily accommodate the Bergheim data and a reliable and complete model for explaining circular pit deposits is yet to emerge - 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adjustments that were to bear fruit it was Weilharter who headed in a cross from Dominique Bruinenberg (47‘) followed shortly afterwards by the Dutchwoman herself (54’) Schiechtl headed dangerously towards the Bergheim goal (62') but the long overdue opening goal would not come Cynthia Adamu and Anna Schorn came on as two more quick players to overcome the deep and well-positioned defence of the visitors Then came the Violets' best chance: Batarilo appeared alone in front of goalkeeper Popetschnig who defused the shot and a few seconds later also deflected Bruinenberg's second attempt over the crossbar (74') The Violets threw everything forward in the final stages refused to give up and almost had to settle for a draw because in stoppage time a ball that was once again blocked bounced ideally at Lea Mauly's feet - and this time her shot found its way into the goal (90+2') as she had done a fortnight ago in the home match against Neulengbach Triendl (Schneeberger 46') - Bruinenberg - Ziletkina (Batarilo 46') Yellow cards: Kenesei (90+1'); Maliha (27') HILL COUNTRY - 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This is where the lion’s share of the country’s nearly 30,000 wind turbines are sited a combined force equal to the power generation of about 10 nuclear reactors Where Germany’s northernmost tip abuts Denmark soaring turbines crowd the horizon as far as the eye can see And many more are coming as Germany strives to go carbon neutral by 2050 German consumers have seen their electricity bills soar since 2000 in part because of the renewable energy surcharge the German government’s Climate Protection Program 2050 “The goals set in the climate program aren’t nearly ambitious enough,” says Benno Hain of the Federal Environment Agency referring to its vague aim of reducing emissions by 80 to 95 percent compared to 1990 levels Germany must shoot for a 95 percent reduction and nothing less which means new big-picture scenarios and greater rigor in implementing them of the renewable energy utility EWS Schönau argues that Germany is sorely in need of a new energy transition master plan “It’s not even clear whether this Energiewende will continue to be one driven from below by communities and citizens as it has so far or whether the big utilities will be given a special role even though they don’t deserve it,” she says referring to their decades-long opposition to renewable energy The major studies – even those conducted with involvement from Germany industry — concur that Germany can hit its 2030 targets if it changes course these pilot studies can inject new ideas into Germany’s energy policy debates green organizations and parties — including Greenpeace and the German Greens and the Left Party — are calling for a more rapid expansion of renewable energies a quicker legislated end to coal generation and the full-scale revamping of Germany’s transportation sector As subsidies wane, market forces are now driving the growth of renewables. Read more The energy generation capacity lost by removing coal and nuclear power from the supply would be made up for primarily by renewables argues Greenpeace — above all offshore wind which is still in its early stages in Germany While the massive rollout of offshore wind power – more than 12 times the current fleet of 1,170 turbines — is the central plank of Greenpeace’s strategy it also calls for a tripling of onshore wind generation and five times the solar photovoltaic capacity Greenpeace acknowledges that renewables would probably have to be aided by natural gas-fired generation by reducing demand: dramatic energy efficiency measures could slash demand for electricity by 18 percent and for heat by 46 percent This turnaround is nowhere more evident than in the pilot study of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) Germany’s largest and most powerful industrial lobby organization In close collaboration with German businesses BDI has modeled several Energiewende scenarios that are unapologetically pro-business and pro-industry yet support the broader goals of the energy transition underscores that unless there’s a multilateral international consensus about targets Germany should shoot for reducing emissions by only 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 when factoring in savings accrued by dropping fossil fuels from the supply Germany could reach that target at an additional cost of 240 billion euros while reducing emissions by a full 95 percent would cost the country 500 billion euros This BDI scenario relies strongly on energy efficiency especially in the housing and building sectors where the chemical industry has much to gain from retrofitting older buildings and providing new buildings with state-of-the-art insulation It calls for doubling the rate of retrofitting housing and urges requirements that all new homes essentially be highly energy-efficient “passive houses.” A third approach to fixing the Energiewende combines a rigorous reduction of emissions (95 percent by 2050) with solutions that appeal to German business The research institute DENA favors a rollout of sun- and wind-based renewables but also advocates for a broader mix of technologies that includes a high volume of synthetic fuels Both the DENA and BDI scenarios also depend on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the transition’s final phase when energy intensive industries will have to be decarbonized “We ran our modeling through several times,” explains Christoph Jugel head of DENA’s energy systems analysis unit “And even using other technologies we couldn’t manage to eliminate the last 16 million tons of CO2 left without CCS.” But Jugel notes that the different scenarios don’t factor in technological breakthroughs that can In the drive to cut emissions, Germany confronts its car culture. Read more Stephanos says the studies show that Germany will need anywhere from four to seven times as much wind and solar power as it has now “All of the studies mention about 5 to 10 million electric cars by 2030,” notes Stephanos or biofuels are the best way to decarbonize transportation It’s astonishing how much more Germany has to do.” Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based writer whose work has appeared in the The Nation, Foreign Policy, New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Atlantic and elsewhere. He has authored several books on European affairs, most recently Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall and the Birth of the New Berlin. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. More about Paul Hockenos → Never miss an article. Subscribe to the E360 Newsletter → France - The eleventh edition of Bergheim’s city festival “Summer in the City” was once again full of music thousands of music enthusiasts could enjoy the free music performed by bands of all conceivable styles Following the motto “1 evening - 6 stages” the festival transforms the city into the biggest stage in the area which can then perform on the audience stage RCF was present to sound out the complete festival on all stages spreading the whole city Using the new TTL 4-A system for the first time even a German premiere was part of the party Summer in the city’s main attraction and the largest stage was the Centre Stage TSL Production used 16 HDL 30-A modules as main PA six TT 25 SMA and a TTS 15-A as sub-monitor Further stages in the city area were the World Music Stage with two TTL 6-A and two SUB 8006-AS as well as four NX12 SMA The New Vibes Stage was equipped with two TTL4-A four SUB 9004-AS and two TT 22-A were used as monitor wedges The unplugged stage was equipped with two TT 10-A two TTS 15-A and two TT 22-A as monitor wedges As technical service provider TSL Production was once again responsible for the event They take care of “Summer in the City” right from the start with this year’s event being the eleventh edition enthuses about the versatility the RCF-systems offer: “With over 75 modules and used all over the city the RCF systems once again proved their versatility when handling all the stages with different sizes and many different music styles We could manage the entire event and all six stages only with sound equipment from RCF This is not only beneficial in terms of logistics but also offers enormous advantages during live operation.” it is “1 evening - 6 stages” again and the whole city of Bergheim celebrates the biggest music party of the year © 1999 - 2025 ET Press Ltd News Stories This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The Austria national team have appointed former FC Bergheim boss Alexander Schriebl as their new head coach Schriebl — who achieved his UEFA Pro Licence in 2021 — started his managerial career in the men’s regional league at SV Seekirchen He then made his move to the ADMIRAL Women’s Bundesliga and FC Bergheim in January 2024 Schriebl featured in 96 games for SV Austria Salzburg and SC Austria Lustenau the midfielder participated in the UEFA Cup in 2003/04 Scheiebl takes over the Austria role from former player Irene Fuhrmann who left via mutual agreement at the end of 2024 Fuhrmann helped the side qualify for their second consecutive EUROs “Being a team leader of the women’s national team is a great privilege and I would first like to thank FC Bergheim and FC Red Bull Salzburg as well as Peter Schöttel for this opportunity I am looking forward to the upcoming challenges with a team that has achieved a lot in the past and has a strong character,” Schriebl said Sporting director Peter Schöttel added: “Now is a good time for us to set new impetus from the outside for the women’s national team With Alexander Schriebl we have found a team leader who recently contributed to a successful development in Bergheim in a short time We are convinced that with the way he sees football he will provide a significant impulse for the further development of the women’s national team.” Schriebl’s first match in charge will consist of a UEFA Women’s Nations League home game against Scotland on 21st February A-League Women: What’s happened in Round 12 Laura Müller makes history as F1’s first female race engineer with Haas Show Breaking News BarCloseLocal NewsMary Claire Patton just a 40-minute drive from downtown San Antonio have resumed at Pur Isolabs as the new crop grows Tours start in the greenhouse and end in the field, Pur Isolabs spokesperson Meggan Roundtree previously told KSAT Guests can expect to kick off the tour with a bottle of CBD-infused water or lemonade “Our team educates guests on everything hemp from obtaining the hemp seeds to the end of harvest It’s definitely a sensory tour where you can see Pur Isolabs offers hemp CBD products made from plants grown on-site and offers tours Monday through Friday at 11 a.m The cost for a tour is $10 per person but that fee can be applied to any in-store purchase Special group rates are also available for large parties and tours are expected to continue until it’s time to harvest in November “When the 2018 Farm Bill passed and it became legal to grow hemp in Texas we wanted to take the opportunity to grow and use it as an educational tool so that others could see and touch the plant while learning about it,” said Roundtree For anyone wondering about the legality of a hemp farm while hemp and marijuana are both in the cannabis family “Any plant with a level of under 0.3% is designated as hemp and legal in most states Plants with levels over this 0.3% (generally 5% to 35%) are classified as marijuana,” Roundtree said The 2018 Texas Farm Bill legalized the commercial production of hemp and authorized states to submit plans to administer hemp programs, according to TexasAgriculture.gov. Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1325 into law on June 10 and inspection of industrial hemp crops and products in Texas More recently, the Texas Compassionate Use Program, the state’s medical cannabis program, has expanded and starting Sept. 1 will allow people with PTSD and all stages of cancer to use low-THC cannabis. Pur Isolabs is located at 46 North FM 3351 in Bergheim. To book your tour, click here Copyright 2020 by KSAT - All rights reserved a village of approximately 2,000 inhabitants in the south of Alsace has seen record numbers of tourists since it was crowned France’s 2022 ‘favourite village’ on June 29 It is the fourth Alsacian village to win the Village Préféré des Français competition - but locals are divided about what it could mean for its future citing examples of other recent winners nearby and how they had had to adapt to cope with the newfound fame Other locals are more confident and believe the village will be able to keep its identity Read more: France’s favourite village announced… but it now fears the crowds inhabitants and business owners for their views “I have never seen anything like it,” said mayor Elisabeth Schneider referring to the throngs of tourists visiting the day following the win Nearly all of the people interviewed said the same Tourists had in fact started coming after the village was first nominated in March Read more: Photos: 14 villages vie to be French favourite: which gets your vote? Bergheim’s tourism office has recorded as many visitors as the tourism offices of nearby tourist hotspots Ribeauvillé (Haut-Rhin) and Riquewihr (Haut-Rhin) and has changed its opening hours to cope with the demand The mairie is now reviewing whether to bring in parking fees to cover the rising costs of maintaining flowers and other spending needed to keep the village attractive and appealing Bergheim was issued with a ‘Les plus beaux villages de France’ label by the organisation of the same name in June “Everything is coming off very nicely so far,” said Ms Schneider but will they consume more?” said Amandine Freypurger the owner of local spa-resort l’Eclos des vignes and the restaurant La cuisine d’Amandine adding that she has not seen any increase in reservations yet who grew up in Bergheim and whose father has lived all his life there raised fears that the new influx of visitors would only be people who wandered around rather than spending money in local shops and restaurants She said this had happened with past winners around the region disagreed and said he had four clients visit his house to buy his coffee despite not having any local advertising who settled in Bergheim over six years ago and whose mother had lived in the village all her life said the visitors had found him via Google hotel and bakery owners could not gauge the increase in clients as most were on holiday and will only reopen between July 15 and July 18 Ms Schneider said several people had been disappointed about the arrival of tourists because it upset the usual quietness of the village but was optimistic that the phenomenon will eventually subside “Our convivial and family-friendly business does not fit with the tourists I have seen,” said one business owner who declined to give an identity The forecasted weekend traffic jams along the village’s main road could be a source of complaints from locals in the coming months and Ms Freyburger reported unprecedented traffic yesterday (July 10) “I did not expect the victory would tear our cosiness from us,” said Ms Freypurger she and Mr Kientzler were more confident that Bergheim would keep its identity in the long run and not follow its surrounding villages Mr Kientzler made particular reference to the atmosphere in Bergheim in which businesses often remain within the same family The jewel the marvelling tourist finds without seeing it on the map,” said Ms Freypurger Ms Freypurger said the locals were very “strict” when it comes to businesses cherry picking business owners and not being afraid to say when a firm does not fit with the village’s atmosphere She said that La cuisine d’Amandine’s menu was based on her grandmother’s dishes and had got rid of other more sophisticated meals since locals voiced complaints that they were not regional enough It is the fourth Alsacian village after Eguisheim (2013) Kaysersberg (2017) and Hunspach (2020) to claim the title making Alsace the region to have been the most successful in the history of the show’s 11 editions Have you voted for your favourite French market yet? Why Strasbourg’s cathedral is one of France’s greatest treasures Recent power cut in Spain and Portugal is warning to holidaymakers to ensure they are prepared for worst-case scenario The resort is set to remain open to the public and not only to professionals Storms from the weekend will persist across some areas But salmon farmers will not be able to rely on the natural level of oxygen in water to meet demand from the fish Effective solutions for oxygen will be a decisive factor in the profitable operation of the cages research manager for oxygen diffuser supplier Oxivision Bergheim has written a series of articles for the magazine Norsk Fiskeoppdrett (Norwegian Fish Farming) a sister publication of Fish Farming Expert the first of which looks at the oxygen needs in closed cages “Closed cages have a number of advantages compared to traditional open cage farming,” says Bergheim “Closed systems eliminate or greatly reduce lice problems increase safety against escaping fish and makes it possible to collect and utilise particulate waste construction of closed systems requires larger investments which however can be overcome by more efficient utilisation of the cage volume; first and foremost by maintaining higher fish density than in open cages.” He points out that in order to maintain high production and good fish welfare in practice all oxygen consumed in closed cages must be added “All such operations make use of a system for oxygen dosage often through a diffuser network placed inside the cage,” says the scientist “The water pumped from depth into the cage normally contains high oxygen levels For maximising the fish’s growth potential oxygen levels in the cages should not be below 60 - 70% of saturation not for long periods at temperatures above 12 - 14°C.” The requirement for relatively high fish density in the cages cannot be compensated by pumping more water so the water exchange in relation to the fish biomass should be kept at a modest level “A normal water consumption in closed cages with normally high density of post-smolt and larger fish usually is around 0.2 - 0.4 l/kg/min (litres per kilo of fish per minute) the fish then consume between 5 and 10 mg oxygen per litre of new water,” he says it is the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the water which will determine the level of production the water supply cannot be too low - a recommended lower limit is around 0.2 l/kg/min.” He points out that experience indicates that oxygen consumption is around 300 - 400g per day per kg of fish produced “Assuming effective control of the oxygen dosage and utilisation throughout the production cycle the approximate need for extra supply at the farm is around 0.5 kg oxygen per kg of fish produced.” He gives an example where the oxygen demand in a closed cage of 5,000m³ 200 tonnes of fish) is about 500 kg at high water temperature the efficiency of the oxygen diffuser system is an important factor for the profitability in closed cages,” says Bergheim “This requires both high efficiency of the diffusers optimal addition strategy and accurate measurement of the oxygen level in the water.” Bergheim has been research manager for Norwegian company Oxyvision and its subsidiary Bio Marine since 2018 He is a former senior researcher and adviser in aquaculture at Rogaland Research/IRIS 1985 - 2018 with water quality and environmental technology in aquaculture as expert fields He has long experience in developing closed farming systems including R&D for Akvafuture in Brønnøysund Editor Magazine & Web: Gareth Moore Chief Editor: Pål Mugaas Jensen Publisher Oceanspace Media AS:Gustav Erik Blaalid Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.