Helga siebert does amusement with the queen

Helga siebert does amusement with the queen

The queen is "not amused. Their train was late. "As is always the case with the railroads", she adds when she arrives in bad staffelstein on thursday afternoon from hamburg.

The queen is a cabaret artist in her civilian profession and calls herself helga siebert. The hanseatic singer makes her annual guest appearance in bad staffelstein with the last performance of her german tour ("derniere"). So also this year, in the year of her 30. Stage jubilee and the 15. Anniversary of their constantly updated cabaret program "ultimo, with which she regularly performs in hamburg on an old fire ship and in the culture palace.

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Expert opinion on the floor decides on multipurpose hall

The council held a very lively debate on the construction of a multi-purpose hall for the municipal building yard in schneckenlohe at the first meeting after the summer break. It was decided not to put the cart before the horse and not to award any contracts until a soil survey had provided information about the condition of the site. There was also a discussion about the coarseness of the construction, whether it was necessary at all.

While mayor knut morgenroth (SPD) wanted to get the ball rolling right away this evening, some of the members of the committee expressed a completely different opinion. Gerhard sub (village community): "is it really necessary to build a completely new hall, or can we also use a barn or something similar to store the building yard equipment??" this question was already asked two years ago, gave the mayor the answer and said: "the topic is now so long through the council ghosts. We have already discussed that this does not make sense. We have to rebuild and it is time to finally make a decision."

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When pumuckl came from neustadt

When pumuckl came from neustadt

Our secret motto back then was: "first we make children happy, then we make children happy", 82-year-old gerhard limmer smiles at the opening of the "mechanical toys in neustadt" exhibition in the foyer of the neustadt town hall. Limmer must know this, because at that time unpaid toys came out of his toy factory that made children's hearts beat faster.
"In the late 1950s, we produced figurines for easter and christmas from papier-mâché castings, but also for sale at folk festivals and other occasions", recalled the former factory owner. Already in the early 60s, the company switched to a new rubber casting compound made of latex.

Always again the pumuckl
That's when the first dancing animals came into being. "Neustadt was the ideal town for toy manufacturers back then. There was almost everything you needed in a single store", says limmer and adds: "we had cardboard box manufacturers, the massemuhle, the brush-jakob, the drugstore mauer for chemicals and paints, the company doms produced hair and many more." the first participation in the nurnberg toy fair in 1964 was a great success. A particular highlight of his company was a doll that looked like one from 1900, made of porcelain, but now unbreakable. Dancing animals have been well received, including the dancing babies and, above all, pumuckl.
And it is precisely to this that the exhibition has a separate showcase dedicated. In it, a pumuckl sleeps in his pumuckl-bed, an advent calendar with pumuckl can be admired, the pumuckl together with the then popular ice cream confection in a gift box and last but not least the pumuckl together with his master eder as hand puppets. "We later visited gustl bayrhammer with our son in munich. It was a unique experience for all of us", remembers limmer. The collectors and stamp enthusiasts of neustadt have put together some 30 display panels on the subject for this exhibition.

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Researchers weigh super heavy black holes

researchers weigh super heavy black holes

They used the method to measure the gigantic black hole in the galaxy with the catalog number NGC 4526: it has the impressive mass of around half a billion suns. The astronomers used the motion of molecular gas, in this case carbon monoxide (CO), swirling around the black hole as a "scale". From the motion of the gas clouds the gravity of the black hole can be determined and from that again its mass.

Astronomers have previously weighed black holes in a similar way, by measuring the motion of stars or ionized gas in the vicinity of the black hole. However, this only works for certain types of galaxies. By observing molecular gas, on the other hand, many more types of galaxies should be accessible.

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“Better to walk than to ghost”: is the digital world changing the way we die??

"Better to walk than to ghost": is the digital world changing the way we die??

Everything in life has its limits. Death is such a. It's no longer news that even in my generation, the so-called digital natives, a large part of life takes place on the web. But the fact that our digital me should remain even after our demise is going too far for me.

There are companies that specialize in digital life after death. Start-ups such as luka from the usa are already using intelligent software to create a virtual reganger with which the bereaved can stay in touch. It should even be possible to chat in real time.

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24 Chocolate foals

24 chocolate foals

The young stallion seemed a bit nervous when he had to trot along beside his mother and look as good as possible together with her.

He's only four months old, he doesn't have a name yet, and as befits a slightly nervous foal, he's done a few little things: sometimes he's faster, sometimes slower than the mare (who's on the bridle), sometimes the bleeds in the brightly colored flower puffs are subjected to a taste test and compared with grass, then again the young stallion is pure lamb and shows himself from his chocolate side.

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Forchheim district: 20 women firefighters lend a hand here

forchheim district: 20 women firefighters lend a hand here

For many decades, the fire department was classically regarded as a man's woman. That is slowly but surely changing. Because more and more women are interested in the activity. 20 women are now active in langensendelbach. For 20 years, she has supported her male colleagues on missions. "In january 1999", we founded a women's team with 20 women, all of whom are still active today," says district fire chief and commander willibald hofmann. The women made sure that the proportion of women in the langensendelbach fire department is now 20 percent." before there were no active women firefighters in langensendelbach, female commandant hofmann.

The "girlish" thing take off

You have to put the "girlish in the corner", if you want to be accepted as a woman in the fire department, says claudia muller. "You have to show that you want to do it and that you are highly motivated", adds andrea wagner "because we are no puppets, we stay relaxed, we are ambitious, we know what we are doing, we get down and dirty without crying." andrea wagner remembers the time when she decided to join the fire department: "at first i wanted to take a look at it all, but that has now turned into 20 years. I appreciate the community in the fire department, but I still get limelight fever and get excited when the siren goes off." women complete training as firefighters together. In 2011 they successfully passed the bronze performance test. In 2012, the women's team in the highest group achieved the red-gold performance badge. This has allowed them to participate in missions.

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Coalition passes childcare allowance

Coalition passes childcare allowance

The coalition wants to pay parents who organize the care of their infants themselves and do not use a state-required daycare center or nanny, from january 2013, a care allowance of initially 100 euros per month. From 2014, the amount for two- and three-year-old children is to be increased to 150 euros.

The coalition factions want to introduce the law, which is also controversial internally, as early as 29 august 2013. June in the bundestag to be finalized. This is the last session before the summer recess. Further disputes are expected in the bundestag and bundesrat.

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Venezuela: bloodbath after prison mutiny

Venezuela: bloodbath after prison mutiny

Several media reported unanimously that 54 people died and more than 80 were injured in the detention center in uribana (state of lara). Vice-president nicolas maduro spoke of a "tragic mix-up" and announced an investigation. The militars wanted to search the prison to confiscate smuggled-in weapons and to end power struggles between rival gangs.

The deployment of the soldiers began on friday at 07.00 o'clock in the morning. According to the minister, iris varela, the action was taken in response to information about disputes between gangs. "Due to violent incidents in the prison of uribana, a search became necessary to completely disarm the inmates of the detention center," it said in a statement. When the national guard began the operation, it was attacked by the leaders of the gangs.

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