White Rose of Yorkshire
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02.06.2022 ARD from 11-35. a.m - 2.00 p.m.
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03-06.06.2022 Summer Festival Stuttgarter Schloßplatz
https://www.swr.de/sommerfestival/stuttgart/index.html
04.06.2022 Hymns & Pimms 5.00 p.m
Celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at St. Catherine’s Church
https://stcatherines-stuttgart.de/
From June to August there are weekly eveining events from 05.00-10.00 p.m. in Bad Cannstatt, Stammheim, Untertürkheim and Vaihingen.
Bahnhof Untertürkheim Thursdays 02.06.2022/ 09.06.2022/ 23.06.2022/ 30.06.2022
Kirchplatz Stammheim Wednesdays 15.06.2022/ 22.06.2022/ 29.06.2022
Marktplatz Bad Cannstatt Fridays 03.06.2022/ 10.06.2022/ 17.06.2022/ 24.06.2022
Rathausplatz Vaihingen Saturdays 04.06.2022 /11.06.2022/ 18.06.2022
25.06.2022 Whisky Tasting at the Irish pub in Vaihingen
25-26 Kessel Festival Cannstatter Wasen
Concert Preview
14.07.022 Bob Geldorf Bürgerplatz Leonberg
https://leonpalooza.de/#programm
Winterbach Zelt Spektakel 2022
19.07.2022 Alan Parsons Live Project
20.07.2022 James Blunt
21.07.2022 Rag’N’Bone Man
22.10.2022 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
22.10.2022 Ten Years After
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28.05.2022 7.00 p.m. Rose Garden Centre Stuttgarter Straße 115 70734 Fellbach
Saturday Evening Dancing and Music
Take the U1 to Fellbach and get out at Höhenstrasse
https://www.fellbacher-schnittrosen.de/termine/rosenparty/
29.05.2022 11.00 a.m.- 07.00 p.m. Open Day at the Rose Garden Centre
Fellbacher Schnittrosen
Stuttgarter Straße 115
70734 Fellbach
Take the U1 to Fellbach and get out at Höhenstraße
https://www.fellbacher-schnittrosen.de/termine/tag-der-offenen-tuer/
Concert Preview
14.07.022 Bob Geldorf Bürgerplatz Leonberg
https://leonpalooza.de/#programm
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22.05.2022 Sunday Shopping in Fellbach from 01.00-6.00 p.m. The U1 will take you directly to the town centre. Get off at the last stop.
22.05.2022 Highland Games in Asperg Location: Bürgergarten from 11.00 a.m-6.00 p.m.
Take the S5 to Bietigheim-Bissingen
26-29.05.2022 Knights Of Old Tournament and Market . Location: Staufer Park in Göppingen
https://www.stauferspektakel.de/
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This hasn‘t just made me laugh today, I have been laughing all week. The libel case between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney has me in stiches.
To cut a long story short, Coleen Rooney noticed that someone had been passing on private information to the press. She planted some false information on her Instagram account and decided it could only be Rebekah Vardy and made her assumption public. Rebekah Vardy then sued Coleen Rooney. During the court proceedings, Rebekah Vardy stated that other people such as her agent had access to her private Instagram account. The judge ordered that the mobile phone from her agent should be examined, the agent informed the court that it had accidentally fallen into the North Sea on a boat trip.
Here is the latest gem. ROFL.
„As Vardy took the stand, Mr Sherborne accused the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy of leaking another story based on a photo on her private Instagram account.
While the mum-of-two denied the claims, Mr Sherborne then spoke of the absence of the WhatsApp messages.
The jury heard how her agent’s mobile phone accidentally fell overboard from a boat into the water shortly after a judge had ordered for it to be examined ahead of the trial.
He said the missing messages were “lying at the bottom of the North Sea in Davy Jones’s locker”.
It was at this point that Vardy asked: “Who is Davy Jones?” to which the judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, replied: “It just means at the bottom of the sea.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/rebekah-vardy-baffled-davy-jones-26946673
The whole story.
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01-08.05 2002 Frühlingsfest Cannstatter Wasen
03-08.05.2002 Trick Film Festival www.itfs.de
03.05.2022 09.00 a.m. Bikes that have been found and not reclaimed will be auctioned off. Payment by cash only.
Fundbüro
Hauptstätter Straße 66
70178 Stuttgart
0711 21689494
E‐Mail: fundsachenstelle@stuttgart.de
15.05.2022 5.00 p.m. Churches in Stuttgart invite you to make a picnic in Schlossgarten an Eckensee
21.05.2022 06.00 p.m.-1.00 a.m. Open night at museums and art galleries. www.lange-nacht.de
25-29.05 2022 Katholiken Tag in Stuttgart www.katholikentag.de
27.05.2022 Abend Markt Marktplatz Bad Cannstatt.
27-28.05.2022 Udo Lindenberg Schleyer Halle
Concert Preview
Winterbach Zelt Spektakel 2022
19.07.2022 Alan Parsons Live Project
20.07.2022 James Blunt
21.07.2022 Rag’N’Bone Man
22.10.2022 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
22.10.2022 Ten Years After
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Germany is not a poor country but a lot of the inhabitants here are. I travel to work by underground and every day I see people dressed in normal clothes ,looking for empty bottles in the litter bins. The food bank organisation , The Tafel is not run by the goverment, it is run by volunteers who do a tremendous good job. Unfortunately, the number of people dependent on them is increasing all the time.
"Jochen Brühl fordert die Bundesregierung auf, konkrete und schnelle Hilfe für armutsbetroffene Menschen zu leisten, um die Nachfrage bei den Tafeln langfristig zu senken. „Ehrenamtsorganisationen können nicht das auffangen, was seit Jahren schief läuft in unserem Land. Der Staat darf sich nicht auf der Arbeit unserer 60.000 Helferinnen und Helfer ausruhen“. Die Idee der Tafeln ist es, Menschen zu helfen, die kurzfristig in Not geraten sind. Viele Menschen sind allerdings inzwischen auf sie angewiesen, weil sich Armut in Deutschland so stark verfestigt hat."
"Die Armut in Deutschland wächst. Betroffen sind vor allem kranke und alte Menschen, Niedriglöhner und Arbeitslose, kinderreiche Familien und Alleinerziehende. Besonders kritisch sehen Sozialverbände die Armutsquote bei Kindern, die mit 19,7 Prozent deutlich über dem Durchschnitt der Bevölkerung liegt."
www.planet-wissen.de/gesellschaft/wirtschaft/armut_in_deutschland
https://www.planet-wissen.de/gesellschaft/wirtschaft/armut_in_deutschland/index.html
On another note, I think the German earnings related sate pension scheme is crazy. People who work in low-pay sector jobs or are unemployed, cannot possibly recieve a state pension to live on. Over the years, each goverment has reduced the amount of money people will receive for their state pension and said everyone should pay into a private pension scheme to make ends meet when they retire. How on earth are they supposed to do this if they rely on organisations like the Tafel during their working life?
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21-24.04.2022 Car Exhibition Retro Classics Stuttgart
https://www.retro-classics.de/en/exhibitors
22-24.04.2022 Music and Wein in Bad Cannstatt
https://musikundwein-badcannstatt.de/
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Events in April 2022
02.04.2022 Feuerbacher Nacht
16.04-08.05.2022 Stuttgarter Frühlingsfest
Due to Corona, it will be on a smaller scale this year. There will be rides and food stalls but no beer tents.
Trams 1 and 2 will take you directly to the fairground.
https://www.stuttgarter-fruehlingsfest.de/de/home/
30.04.2022 St. Catherine’s Book Sale and cream teas from 11.00 a.m.-04.00 p.m.
St. Catherine's Church
Katharinenplatz 5
70182 Stuttgart
Buses 42 and 43 stop nearby.
For all model train fans. A minature Stuttgart complete with the old railway station is situated opposite the railway station in the former Media Markt building.
Das Stellwerk S hat in den MiniaturWelten Stuttgart eine neue Heimat gefunden! Arnulf-Klett-Platz 1-3, 70173 Stuttgart
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President Selenkyi was interviewed by the Economist and this is what he said.
„Die Deutschen würden „manchmal“ helfen, so der ukrainische Präsident weiter. Als besonders tatkräftig nimmt er die deutschen Politiker offenbar nicht wahr: Diese würden „versuchen, sich an die Situation anzupassen, während sie sich entwickelt“. Und zudem würden sie schauen, „wie sich die Situation auf ihr eigenes Land auswirkt“.
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat Deutschland vorgeworfen, den Ukraine-Krieg aus einer kühlen, ökonomischen Perspektive zu betrachten und zudem bei allen Hilfen mehr auf die Auswirkungen im eigenen Land bedacht zu sein.
Allerdings machte Selenskyj den Briten Komplimente. Diese würden voll und ganz hinter der Ukraine stehen. „Großbritannien ist an unserer Seite. Es führt keinen Balanceakt aus.“
I personally find it very strange that there is absolutely no criticism of Angela Merkel and the CDU regarding the Ukrainen crisis, Nord stream 1 and 2 to give but one example.
There is a lot of truth in the old saying " Never put all your eggs in one basket"
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Tears are streaming down my face after reading your posts. Life isn't always fair, people who bring sunshine into our world often have their lifes cut short.
Wishing you strength and comfort for the days ahead. You are one of the good people Metall.
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I can remember a coal man with a horse too. Are there coal mines in Chicago?
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It was the same with the little bottles of milk we had to drink at school, stone cold in the winter and luke warm in the summer.
@Robinson: Thanks for posting the video of Benny Hill, absolutely hilarious.
" And he looked up in pained surprise As the concrete hardened crust Of a stale pork pie caught him in the eye And Ernie bit the dust" Brilliant.
@Metall: I've learned something new on this Forum again. I didn't know you had a milk man in the U.S. I thought it was a British thing.
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Do you remember your milk man?
I read an article in a German newspaper today about the return of the milk man in England, which brought back happy childhood memories.
Our milk man Mr Jackson, also delivered potatoes and joghurt in later years. We always ordered silver top milk but our neighbours orderd gold top milk which had a cream topping. The birds seemed to like the gold top milk because they would often peck open the bottle tops .
https://www.msn.com/de-de/finanzen/top-stories/briten-erfreut-%C3%BCber-r%C3%BCckkehr-des-milchmanns/ar-AATM4it?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U5313 -
Many years ago, a man was employed to keep the car park clean and collect and return the shopping trolleys to the supermarket entrance. then somebody came up with the idea of the chips and another unskilled job was gone. Same thing happend with the toilet lady or man when the toilets were cleaned automatically.
At my local Morrisions in the UK, the shopping trollys are situated outside the supermarket and are hosed down every evening. I have never seen anybody clean a supermarket trolley here and hate to think how many germs can be found on it.
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The British Goverment has published the following document, 108 pages long explaining the benefits of Brexit.
"This policy document sets out how the UK is capitalising on the benefits of Brexit and how the government will use its new freedoms to transform the UK into the best regulated economy in the world."
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Enjoy your last days in the sunshine and have a good flight to Hamburg.
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4 hours ago, SZJX said:I started a second employment in November 2019, with a monthly pay below 450 Euros, and I don't have any other second employments. I'm now doing my tax declarations, and I have just realized that all this time, the employer actually classified the job under Steuerklasse 6 instead of Minijob! If this goes unchanged, I'll not only not get the full pay, but I'll have to pay a huge amount of Nachzahlung (> 1500 Euros) to the Finanzamt, due to Steuerklasse 6 being taxed really harshly.
There is something wrong here or information is missing. Are you self-employed in your first job or do you work for a company? It is the employers responsibility to deduct taxes etc. from a salary. Perhaps your salary from employer 2 was below the tax-free personal allowance. Why do you think you will have a Nachzahlung to pay?
You have been working for employer number 2 for almost two years and you neve noticed anything?
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Books, Bakes, Bazaar and Boutique.
St Catherine’s church is holding an open-house event on Saturday, 23.10.2021 from 11.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m.
https://stcatherines-stuttgart.de/outreach/fundraising/
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The Feuerbacher Kirbe is a big open air market with lots of things to buy and eat. In past years, before Corona you could eat fish & chips there too.
Sunday shopping on 12.09.2021 as of 1.00 p.m.
feuerbach.de - Die besten Seiten von Feuerbach - veranstaltungspage
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There is an organisation called VDK, they can help with disputes with the Krankenkasse or Renteversicherung. You have to be a member for them to help you.
They have offices all over Germany.
https://www.vdk.de/hamburg/pages/mitglied_im_vdk_hamburg_werden/3806/mitglied_werden
https://www.vdk.de/hamburg/pages/rat_hilfe_rechtsberatung/82633/kosten
https://www.vdk.de/hamburg/pages/63985/Rente
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1 hour ago, Wlosty said:Situation: my wife is working for a company on a temporary contract. There is a conflict about current working conditions and she is thinking whether to push the employer further. They can terminate the contract practically without a reason and that's fine. We are worried about her reputation when she will be looking for another employment. (reputation is supposedly very important in her industry)
A temporary contract is a contract and has a notice period.
If your wife has worked for up to 6 months at her present company she will be given a simple document which states something like Mrs x worked from .. until .. as a ..at our company.
German references contain a lot of information, date of birth, length of employment, position, duties and reason for the contract being terminated. As everything of importance is mentioned in the reference there is no need for a future employer to contact a past employer. There are no background checks between past and future employers in Germany and it is illegal (Datenschutz) for a future employer to contact a past employer and ask for information but this may be difficult to prove.
If the period of employment was longer than 6 months your wife will be given a reference which will state why the employment ended, lack of work, in mutal agreement etc. If it states, the contract was teminated on….and no reason is given, this makes a very negative impression on a future employer.
Employers have a legal obligation to give a reference and this must be shown when applying for all future jobs. Your wife could ask to end the contract in mutual agreement which means she agrees to her contract being terminated. On the downside, this will mean that she will not receive any unemployment benefit for the first few months and has to contact her health insurance company about her contributions during this period of time. The Agentur für Arbeit can give her more information. Your wife will also have to have a good reason to explain at future interviews why she agreed to her contract being terminated if she didn't have another job to go to.
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The Bundesgerichtshof decided in April that banks who have charged their customers for having an account must refund the fees. This could be backdated to January 2018.
Apparently when banks sent their customers notice of a change, usually an increase in bank fees, they said „if you don’t complain you agree to the new bank fees.“ The Bundesgerichtshof stated that customers should have actively had the possibility to agree to the said changes, like signing a document etc.
One bank said that people who want a refund will then have to pay 7,50 € a month as of October in bank fees. People who do not apply for a refund will pay 5,00 € a month for having an account. This amount will not be increased until Autumn 2024. Some banks have informed their customers that their account will be closed if they apply to have the money refunded. The Verbruacherzentrale in Baden-Württemberg is considering taking legal action against the banks.
Has anyone here actually had a refund from their bank?
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I also watched Die Ernährungs Docs, it is amazing how many illnesses can be cured or mindered through what you eat.
Some health insurance companies have an Ernährungsberater? You could ask there.
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Festivities and parade to honour Her Majesty The Queen.
in International affairs
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Party at the Palace: The Queen meets Paddington Bear for jubilee celebrations
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-61692278
Sunday, 05.06.2022
02.15 p.m. WDR Der Jahrhundertbesuch die Königin in Deutschland
03.00 p.m. Arte Die Queen und ihre Premiers
05.00 p.m. Phoenix Die Windsors privat
06.00 p.m. ZDF Elizabeth II Ihr Leben für die Krone.
07.15. p.m. ZDF Paraden, Pomp und Platinparty
07.15 p.m. Phoenix Diana, der Tag am dem die Welt trauerte
07.30 p.m. ARD 70 Jahre in Diensten der Monarchie
08.15 p.m. Phoenix London Stadt der Superlative Von Römern und Wikingern.
11.30. p.m. ZDF Die Windsors Elizabeth II- Ihre ersten Jahre