In the administration of president donald trump, there is new swirl around the post of U.S. Intelligence coordinator. Trump announced on thursday evening that the current director of the counterterrorism center, joseph maguire, would take over as acting director on 15 june. August will take over.

Shortly before, he had announced that deputy intelligence coordinator sue gordon would resign from her post. Media reports and a letter from gordon to trump suggested she is not leaving voluntarily.

The appointment of an executive coordinator had become necessary because the previous incumbent, dan coats, had resigned on 15. August departure. He has had several substantive disagreements with trump in the past. Several democrats pointed to a rule that had required gordon, as coats’ deputy, to take over the post on an acting basis. But according to a report in the "new york times," the weibe house wanted to prevent this from happening.

The washington post wrote that trump had reservations because he never had a close relationship with gordon. CNN reported that some in the administration had doubted that the longtime CIA operative could display the kind of political loyalty that trump values. The republican has long had a difficult relationship with the intelligence community. In the past week, the president had publicly praised gordon.

But a handwritten note from gordon on her resignation letter to trump suggested that it was not her decision to leave. The move was an "act of respect and patriotism, not preference," she wrote there. "They should have their team."

The director of intelligence has the task of coordinating the various intelligence agencies of the u.S. Coats had held the top job since march 2017. He has since had several public disagreements with trump. In january, for example, the intelligence coordinator stated that he did not believe iran was currently working on nuclear weapons. The president disagreed and accused the services of cluelessness.

Trump had originally tapped republican congressman john ratcliffe, who is considered a loyal follower of the president, to replace coats. Ratcliffe, however, decided to withdraw from the nomination process in light of "unfair" media reports, trump wrote on twitter recently.

Among democrats, gordon’s withdrawal was met with incomprehension. Representative adam schiff said coats’ and gordon’s departures represent "a devastating loss" for the intelligence community and its employees.

Trump praised gordon on thursday night. He has great respect for her, he wrote on twitter. He also praised the new executive intelligence coordinator maguires. Whose career with the military had been long and distinguished. "I have no doubt he will do a great job!", added trump.

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Hanjo von wietersheim is an emergency chaplain of the first hour in the district of kitzingen. 61-year-old iphofener is a church councilor and state church representative for emergency chaplaincy in the evangelical lutheran church in bavaria, as well as spokesman for the psychosocial emergency care (PSNV) working group in the district of kitzingen. He witnessed the drama surrounding the accidental death of kitzingen fire department commander markus ungerer up close and personal.

Question: was the accidental death of kitzingen fire department commander markus ungerer your most difficult case as an emergency chaplain to date??

Hanjo von wietersheim: . Today, psychosocial emergency care – PSNV for short – is so well positioned in the district of kitzingen that the burden is shared among many shoulders. Together with our incident commander, a team was on the scene of the accident to support the fire, police and ambulance services. This team also organized the blessing after the deceased was rescued from the accident vehicle. Another team, together with the police, went to the victims’ homes and looked after them during the first few hours. I was at the kitzingen fire department house and accompanied the firefighters there. A few days after the accident, we had a debriefing with fire and rescue service personnel. A total of twelve PSNV staff members were involved in this operation.

In this case, many firefighters were affected. Was there a special strategy?

Wietersheim: the rescue workers essentially help themselves. They can rely on each other and talk to one another. Our task is to accompany them, to provide encouragement for helpful actions and to offer structured language within a safe framework. The PSNV staff are specially trained for this purpose.

What changes in the helpers after such a drama??

Wietersheim: the emergency services – including PSNV – mourn the loss of markus ungerer. He was a reliable and important partner in many joint operations. For many firefighters, he was a longtime good friend. As the on-scene commander, he was always responsible for our safety as well. His death makes it clear to us that every car ride can end fatally. Often a little inattention or a slight shift of the helm is enough. Each of us will have driven more carefully and more slowly in the days following markus’ death than we did previously.

His death affects us because it also makes us aware of our own vulnerability and mortality. And for our members, it becomes clear that every operation involves risks. Markus’s death also brings the emergency services together. We realize that we can care for each other, that we can help each other, that we depend on each other. So markus’ death will help all of us to do our work together in the rescue organizations even more carefully.

When do they reach their limits?

Wietersheim: it’s very different. Depending on how well I am or what has already happened, I can bear more on one day and less on another day.

How to keep your distance?

Wietersheimas an emergency psychologist, you always have to find the right balance between concern and distance. I always have to keep an eye on the situation and look at it from the outside. At the same time, i have to make it clear to those affected that i am with them, that i perceive their distress or suffering, and that i can endure it together with them. If I’m only distant, I can’t accompany anyone humanely. If I get too deeply involved in the suffering of others, I can’t help them. It is extremely important that I limit my task in the field to one area. So: just the incident command, or just the care of those affected, or just the support of the responders.

Does an emergency chaplain ever need help??

Wietersheim: of course, the PSNV’s own emergency crews need help too. Despite all the training and organizational help, it can happen at any time that one of us is overburdened and needs personal assistance. We have made provisions for this.

Has your view of death changed with your work??

Wietersheim: because of my origins in a military family and my earlier jobs as a police officer and as a rescue assistant, i have always had a very close relationship with death. It is part of my life. And of course, as a pastor, I am confronted with death again and again. For me it is important, despite the many deaths, despite the possible and actual catastrophes and despite the suffering of many people, to also see the joyful and beautiful sides of our lives. It involves celebrating with others, enjoying the love and affection of my wife and family, and being grateful every day for all that I have been given and all that I can do for others.

What qualities are needed to be an emergency chaplain??

Hanjo von wietersheim: keeping calm even in stressful situations. Being able to bear the fact that sometimes there is nothing you can do, but be with the person who is suffering. To accept one’s own strengths, weaknesses and limitations and – if possible – to call for further help in good time.

How long have you been an emergency chaplain – and how many assignments have you had since then??

WietersheimI’ve been an emergency chaplain for 28 years – I can’t keep up with the number of missions I’ve been on.

How does a mission normally work??

Wietersheima mission for us always starts with the decision of a leader or the integrated control center that psychosocial emergency care is needed at the scene. Emergency counseling is a part of this. As a rule, there is always a team, that is, at least two collaborators. In the event of an emergency, we look after the victims or accompany the emergency services of the rescue organizations.

How do you help concretely?

Wietersheim: our main activity is the personal presence. We endure the situation together with the people concerned. Sometimes we can help by explaining why the rescue organizations are doing what they are doing or by referring the victims to further help. We help the victims to inform helpful people from their family or circle of acquaintances and thus to build up their own social network.
The emergency workers with a church background naturally know church rituals. They pray together with the victims or bless the deceased. The accompaniment of rescue workers after stressful situations is completely different. Emergency responders react differently to accidents, and our staff must undergo special training to accompany them. A special feature of the PSNV team in the district of kitzingen is that we have a relatively large number of women in our ranks. Of course, this is especially good for the care of affected women.

How often and in which cases do you come into action??

Wietersheim: last year, the PSNV in the district of kitzingen had 74 missions. Most of these were internal, such as delivering the news of a death together with the police or caring for the bereaved after a sudden death. However, we are also frequently alerted in the event of traffic accidents or after a suicide.

How many emergency chaplains are there in the district of kitzingen??

We currently have 26 staff members. 13 are full-time or volunteer church workers, the others come from the various rescue organizations. We work together across organizations and on an equal footing with each other.

How did you become an emergency chaplain??

Wietersheim: before i became a pastor, i was a police officer and a paramedic and since i became a pastor, i have been a volunteer firefighter. In the case of firefighting operations, the question quickly arose as to who would take care of the victims or the surviving dependents. Since there were no corresponding structures at that time, I developed the emergency chaplaincy together with a colleague almost 30 years ago, and later also the chaplaincy for deployed forces.

The official funeral service for the late kitzingen fire chief markus ungerer will take place on monday, 14. The funeral will take place in the evangelical town church in kitzingen at 2 p.M. On january, with the burial taking place in the immediate family circle.

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Why has our construction area not yet been cleared?? Why did the snow plow close my driveway?? Why can’t the snowplow driver pay attention and half covers my freshly cleared sidewalk again??

Anyone who has to listen to questions and accusations like these, even though he’s already up at four in the morning and is still driving his truck through hochstadt’s construction areas in the afternoon with an oversized blade, needs strong nerves.

The 17 workmen from hochstadt’s building yard, who were roused from their beds at four o’clock on tuesday night. Thank goodness they don’t always need these nerves. "As a rule, people are happy when the winter road clearance service arrives", says the head of the depot, herbert sucker "but there are always exceptions".

It is not possible for the winter road clearance service in hochstadt to keep the snow away from all driveways. Somewhere the weibe pracht has to go. It becomes problematic in narrow residential streets and cul-de-sacs. There, the snowplow often cannot even turn around.

And then there are the residents who park their cars and don’t think about the fact that the snowplow might have to go through early in the morning. For those who still complain about uncleared roads, the snowplow drivers recommend getting behind the wheel of one of these vehicles and driving it through the city streets.

Public works director sucker advises burghers to pay attention to weather forecasts, especially in winter, and to keep roads mostly clear when snow or slippery roads are announced.

The city’s winter road clearance service is trying to work through its schedule as quickly as possible. The hochstadt employees don’t have to worry about federal, state and county roads. Their area of operation is the residential and development roads in the building areas and suburbs of the city. Plus the fub and cycle paths, which are cleared by a mini tractor and two fub crews.

There is a list of priorities for daily operations. At the top of the list are the routes to the hospital and to the BRK rescue station, revealed the head of the building department. This will be followed by the schwedenschanze bus station and all steeper stretches of road in the city area. Only after that is cleared in the flat residential areas.

Only pure salt is used as a gritting agent in hochstadt. With grit and sand, the sand was much coarser and the disadvantages outweighed the benefits, says the yard manager. So grit had to be collected again and specially treated. Some of it has also been spooled down the sewer system into the clearing system, where it can cause damage to snails, for example.

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It’s a small crime story. With good and bad. But drawing the line between good and bose is not easy in this case. Michael kohler is at any rate only coincidentally at the scene of the action on this mild march sunday, as he will later stress. It is a kind of blob witness that provides relevant information. In fact, it is the decisive clue that helps to clarify the facts of the case. The one who brings the case to light in the first place.

"It was almost fraud," says kohler – and now, he complains, the "victim is being stylized as the perpetrator. Well, he himself is not directly the "victim," but someone else has suffered: SV kleinochsenfurt. But since kohler sees himself as an advocate for the clubs in his function as head of the playing group at the bavarian fubball association, he is sure that he has served the just cause.

Kohler is on 4. March this year heib on fubball. After three months, the winter break comes to an end this weekend on the fubball fields of lower franconia. And like many others, he is drawn to the open air. He explains why he came to butthard of all places: "it was the closest I could get to watching a soccer game on that sunday."From his home in kirchheim, it is less than ten kilometers on the main road, and so he decides to go to the district league match between SV butthard and table leaders kickers wurzburg II.

Kohler arrives at the pitch a few minutes early, just in time to witness the end of the pre-match between butthard II and SV kleinochsenfurt (2:1). A young man he spots there in the crowd with others looks familiar to kohler, even though he hasn’t seen him at the sports field "for months". He is one of the youngsters who play in a junior team in which butthard players also play. Kohler holds a position as trainer in this JFG.

Kohler is surprised when he sees his protege. He wants to know what he is doing here. He was just playing along, he gets the answer. How could something like this happen, kohler thinks to himself, since the player’s passport is in his care at home?. He gets suspicious and goes into the referee’s booth to check the score sheet. The youth is not noted on it. Behind the number 12 is instead another name. Now it becomes clear to kohler: something is wrong here. During halftime of the district league match, he confronts SV butthard’s match director, klaus seubert, with his investigations. Seubert plays it cool. "Go ahead!"He replies when kohler tells him he will report the case to the district sports court.

On the way home, kohler receives a call on his cell phone. The young man who was playing under a false name has obviously come to his senses. He asks kohler to refrain from pressing charges. But it is too late. At the sports field, he says, he was still trying to "build bridges" for the club’s officials. With some goodwill, it might have been possible to straighten out the matter.

Now it’s an official offense, and kohler has no choice but to report it to the sports court – otherwise he might be tried himself. At home, he realizes that the player is only seventeen years old and belongs to the younger U19 age group. So even under his real name he was not allowed to play in an active team as a rule. This strengthens kohler in his intention to bring the case before the district sports court.

On 29. March, the three-headed chamber chaired by klaus ullrich pronounces its verdict: SV butthard is stripped of the victory it won against kleinochsenfurt (2:1) and six further points; supervisor andre K., who is said to have given the green light for the use of the player at the time, must leave his post at the club until april 2013; the player himself gets off with a lighter punishment: the seventeen-year-old, victim and perpetrator alike, is sentenced to 5 months in prison. May suspended.

However, this is not the end of the matter. The association wants to appeal against the ruling, as klaus seubert explains on request. "Nine points deducted, that’s heavy," he says. Otherwise, he would prefer not to say anything at all, so as not to influence the pending proceedings. Seubert then says quite a lot, not about the matter itself, but about michael kohler, whom he accuses of a troubled relationship with SV butthard. "He wants to give us one. He wants his kirchheimers to stand in front of butthard. It is well known that he has us on the latte. That is completely boses blood."

In this specific case, kohler is accused by butthard of having learned of the intended use of the underage player a day in advance and still letting the club walk into the open. In fact, the young man had announced his plan on the internet page of the social network "facebook", kohler also freely admits to have known about it. But he wants the whole thing to be a joke, a "laughing stock". "The passport is with me. It can’t be," he thought.

The next day he realizes what can be in fubball. For some in butthard kohler is now the bose – he doesn’t want to and can’t understand that. "I didn’t make the mistake," he says. A culprit has been found, but the story will not end happily.

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