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The group compulsion in the cell phone

The group compulsion in the cell phone

But there’s one thing that can be quite annoying about the glowing green speech bubble on the display, and that’s the chat groups that the messenger offers.

Of course, a group message function like this is very practical for many people, because you can get on the nerves of several recipients at the same time – whether they like it or not. Above all, the whatsapp groups always appear in the same garb: one of them sets them up, either as an obligatory family chat or as a kindergarten group in which concerned mothers ask whether the offspring of other families also have gastrointestinal problems – or which jacket is best suited for an excursion. Not missing, of course, the "what-do-we-do on the weekend?"-group, in which you never agree anyway.

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Man burns old wood in wallenfels – fire gets out of control

On his own property on a slope in the selzach valley in wallenfels, an elderly man burned old lumber thursday afternoon. As a breeze moved through the valley from time to time, the fire got out of control and covered a flat of about 100 square meters.

The rapid intervention of the wallenfels volunteer fire department prevented the fire from spreading to the high forest and the other slope overgrown with brush. Since the site was not easy to reach with the tanker trucks, the firefighters laid pipes from the surface hydrant in order to have enough firewater available.

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Apple’s iphone 5 at a glance

Apple's iphone 5 at a glance

The iphone 5 got a coarser touchscreen for the first time. It now has a screen diagonal of 4 inches (10.16 cm) instead of the previous 3.5 inches (8.9 cm). As a result, a number of app icons fit more on the display.

Instead of the usual wide plug for connection to other devices, the new iphones will have a smaller connector. But apple will offer an adapter. The camera retains the previous resolution of 8 megapixels, but was renewed from scratch. The iphone now has a function for taking panoramic pictures.

School

The door is opened to the joy of play

The door is opened to the joy of play

What can this be: about ten elementary school students and two adults stand in a circle, each holding a two-meter-long string attached to a small ring in the middle of the circle? With the help of the string, they want to move a red ball placed on the ring from one table to another as quickly as possible, even if there are several "obstacles" to overcome.
"Group transport", is the answer. With such an extremely amusing group transport, the following events were held early on thursday morning at the "rudolf winkler house" in berlin the seventh "habberg game days open. Mayor thomas stadelmann and district administrator wilhelm schneider were in the middle of the action instead of just being there mingled with the pupils of 3b of the neighboring elementary school. With success: thanks to full concentration, the team task was mastered confidently without the ball falling to the ground.

120 girls and boys

class teacher victoria doll wasn't the only one who enjoyed the unusual lessons in the huge classroom, in addition to the 3b class, three other elementary school classes and kindergarten groups from zeil and eltmann had a great time – a total of 120 girls and boys. The 25-year-old trainee praised the action as a "good change". Once only play from spab is also something very special.
For district administrator schneider, the play days are still a great thing. "We can tell by the response: schools and families alike are still very happy to take advantage of the wide range of activities on offer." his wish would be "to sit together like we used to and play together as a family". Of course, the district invests a lot of money in this event, which lasts several days and is free of charge for the visitors, not only because of the games themselves, which have so far cost an estimated 18,000 euros to purchase. But the "kostenauand" is worthwhile in any case. All the more so when it is so well received."
Meanwhile, mayor thomas stadelmann took the time to pay a private visit to the games days. "I have a grandson myself. We still play the simple games like 'don't argue'", he said. But the selection of new things is huge.
He is right: the visitors were allowed to enjoy themselves in the "rudolf winkler house" to classics like "kniffel and "monopoly as well as looking forward to novelties like "king domino (game of the year) "icecool (children's game of the year) and the connoisseur's game of the year "exit".
Continuing the nearly 32,000-piece "double-retrospect" game-giant puzzle. Seven of eight bags, each containing 4,000 pieces, have already been completed since the premiere in ebern (2014), konigsberg (2015), habfurt (2016) and most recently ebelsbach. In zeil, the puzzle is now to be finished.
"So you can see that we are really offering something again", says frank kupfer-mauder from the main organizer kreisjugendring (KJR) in the hope of numerous visitors. He and the 35-strong team of volunteers, including KJR board members led by chairman daniel fischer, are to be congratulated.

Leaders

Herder theater group invites you on a joyride through life

Herder theater group invites you on a joyride through life

On the right edge of the stage there is a female screen on which a black and white photo is projected, of women on vespas from the 1950s. On the stage there are three chairs with side mirrors, ready for the "joyride" of schoolgirls jannika madl, anne-sophie meixner (both Q12) and stephanie treske (Q11). On their scooters they keep an eye out for men. But unfortunately the first two guys they choose are not looking for women…

The male-female relationship

Rules

Trade rejects 2g regulation

trade rejects 2g regulation

The trade in germany rejects a possible access to shafts only for vaccinated and genesis.

"Introducing 2G nationwide and across the board in retail would be completely unacceptable and would miss the mark," stefan genth, chief executive of the german retail association (HDE), told the deutsche presse-agentur. Hygiene concepts, mandatory masks and distance rules ensure that the retail trade is not a source of infection despite many millions of customer contacts per day.

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See and be seen

See and be seen

Age-related eye diseases increase as life expectancy rises and often have a negative impact on the mobility and social satisfaction of the people concerned. Studies estimate that around 1.2 million people with visual impairments or blindness live in germany, half of whom are over 70 years old. Early prevention is therefore very important and is directed at the various disciplines and partners in the healthcare sector.

With the "seeing in old age" project the blind institute foundation and the lowvision foundation want to test for the first time how high the proportion of visually impaired people in senior citizens' facilities is and how they can be supported by comprehensive vision care. Cooperation partners are the caritasverband fur die diozese wurzburg, the universitatsaugenklinik wurzburg, the bayerischer blinden- und sehbehindertenbund e. V. As well as the johann wilhelm klein academy gmbh.

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How to block out the main

Already a slightly queasy feeling to be standing seven meters below the level of the main river. On the chapped concrete floor in the shadow of the weir gate at the schweinfurt barrage. The water here is usually brown. The weir gate flussauarts should hold. It has been going on for over 50 years.
The water masses from below hold up a barrier that looks a bit like an oversized engineering construction kit: six panels of two steel plates each, mounted on A-shaped riders that are in turn anchored in the concrete floor.
The experts call the barrier an "inspection lock. The plates protrude into the drained space, they tower above the people by far, and behind the plates the main river stands four meters high. In a few places it seeps through, especially on the sides where the steel meets the concrete. But what goes in, two pumps immediately take out again.

Capable of handling 19 barrages

The schweinfurt waterways and shipping authority (WSA) is responsible for 19 barrages. "A barrage consists of a sluice, a weir, a hydroelectric power plant and a dam", it says on the homepage of the office. The locks are drained and inspected once a year, the weirs every six years. The principle is quickly explained: the main is blocked off above and below the weir, the water is pumped out, and the 30-meter-wide weir gate is dry and can be inspected and, if necessary, repaired or improved. The execution is a little more complex. "You couldn't build the plates with millimeter precision, then it wouldn't be possible to mount them", says helko frohner, deputy head of the WSA schweinfurt. The assembly is quite difficult as it is. The riders must be erected and anchored while the water is still in the river bed. This is only possible with a diver, who instructs the crane by radio, which hands him the riders, so to speak.

School

Bad bruckenau’s head of the building yard, jochen krug, goes into partial retirement

Bad bruckenau's head of the building yard, jochen krug, goes into partial retirement

The words with which the city bid farewell to the long-serving head of the building yard, jochen krug, were heartfelt as he entered his partial retirement phase. "You were an institution, said mayor brigitte meyerdierks (CSU). "I could also call you at night or on the weekend, you were always there", she emphasized krug's commitment, which went far beyond what he had to do according to his employment contract.

Commitment to the fire department
Krug had been in the service of the city since 1988, and had been in charge of the building yard since november 1992. Meyerdierks found it particularly enriching that krug, who was the commander of the bad bruckenau volunteer fire department from 1989 to 2008, was committed to the town in two ways at once. "Cooperation between the building yard and the fire department has always been a given."

Finance

Quelle heiress wants 1.9 billion euros back

Quelle heiress wants 1.9 billion euros back

As the higher regional court of poland announced on tuesday, the case involves 1.2 billion euros in damages from the bank sal. Oppenheim and the former management of the bank. The remaining 700 million euros are divided among eleven other lawsuits, as a court spokeswoman explained.

The total of twelve lawsuits filed by schickedanz are directed against sal. Oppenheim, its former financial advisor josef esch, and other parties involved. The lawsuit has so far only been announced; initially, schickedanz had asked the higher regional court to appoint a court of competent jurisdiction.