Electronic books conquer the rhon

electronic books conquer the rhon

There will be no more fluttering. Only wiping is done. Heike kettemer takes the small, handy device out of its holder and moves her finger over the surface. The cover of a book appears. A few swipes away is the recipe for a summer cocktail. "It looks just like a real book", says the library director of wildflecken. More than 2200 titles are available for selection here.

It is possible thanks to the "emu" association. This abbreviation stands for elektronische medien unterfranken (electronic media in lower franconia). Eight libraries (bergrheinfeld, grafenrheinfeld, hammelburg, karlstadt, marktheidenfeld, niederwerrn, veitshochheim and wildflecken) have joined forces and share a virtual media stock. Every user has access to it – from his home computer.

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Ray of hope for the schonsteinhohle

ray of hope for the schonsteinhohle

Whoever wants to enter the paradise hall has to endure darkness and confinement. And must be prepared to crawl in the mud. Despite these difficulties, thousands of people make their way through the halls and crevices of the schonstein cave every year. But conservationists are resisting commercial exploitation. Heinz wurzer (DAV), for example. For decades, he and his wife maria have been exploring the geological underworld throughout europe. There could have been an ideal world of the hollow in french-speaking switzerland, says the 56-year-old, "if only marketing had finally been abandoned."

Abused schonsteinhohle

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World championship title for clever student team

When angry birds sit on slingshots and seconds later are fired at green, swinish opponents, is "angrybirds"-time. Since 2009, the computer game has been conquering the screens of smartphones, tablets and pcs in its different variations.

While the fan community in germany is anticipating the release of the movie "angry birds 2 on 19. The bamberg student team "bambirds" has been looking forward to september has already successfully shot down its birds and pigs respectively. At the 8. AI-birds world championship, which was held in august as part of the most prestigious conference on artificial intelligence, the international joint conferences on artificial intelligence, took place in macao/china.

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Entitlement to a private parking space?

The council rejected the request of two families for a change in the parking facilities and the establishment of a 30 km zone in friedrichstrabe. The council agreed to point out that the municipality is not responsible for creating parking spaces for individual residents. A factual argumentation for the speed reduction was not to be taken from the request, nevertheless the concerned persons declared their impression of the speed as "70 to 75 hour kilometers: schnellstraben-character". The addition that the municipal council "simply had to decide logically for themselves and not (had to) support decisions that had been made in advance", caused a rude awakening in the committee.

With regard to the parking situation, michael heusinger pointed out that a truck was frequently parked on the grass verge near the intersection in the southeastern part of the town without permission. He asked mayor gerhard ellner to provide a remedy in this case.

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Assange defends penetrating donation campaign

Assange defends penetrating donation campaign

The loosely organized hacker collective anonymous also broke away from wikileaks last week via twitter message. One loser was the donation campaign, in which published documents were covered up with a banner. It could only be hidden again with a donation or a message on twitter or facebook.

"We know this is annoying. It’s also supposed to be annoying," assange justified himself. "Wikileaks faces unprecedented costs given its involvement in twelve lawsuits around the world" and the organization’s accounts have been blocked for nearly two years, he said. Anonymous must now choose between role as online gang or movement of solidarity.

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Seven years in prison for gunman from munich rampage

Seven years in prison for gunman from munich rampage

The regional court of munich I sentenced the seller of the gun used in the rampage of 2016 to seven years in prison. On friday, the judges found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter in nine cases and illegal arms trafficking.

The 33-year-old philipp K. From marburg had sold the gun to the juvenile tater, who on 22. July 2016 at munich’s olympia-einkaufszentrum (OEZ) nine people and then himself shot dead. For the first time, an illegal firearms dealer is being held responsible for selling a firearm for an act in which he himself was not involved.

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Experts warn against dangerous toys

Experts warn against dangerous toys

Plasticizers, toxins, small parts: at the start of the pre-christmas season, environmental and consumer protection experts warn against dangerous children's toys.

"The most problematic toys are those made of plastic," said tatiana santos of the european environment bureau (EEB) in brussel on thursday. Especially from china came a lot of toys with harmful chemicals. Meps expect the new EU commission to act quickly.

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New atrium takes shape

New atrium takes shape

For many visitors to bamberg, the view of the atrium is one of their first impressions after getting off the train. Those who already live here, however, could only shake their heads for years over the almost empty mammoth building in a prominent location. That changed eleven months ago. With the plans for the "new atrium the hope for a revival of the giant real estate came back.

After years of standstill, the new owner, the eyemaxx group, had created a "wonderful ray of hope in the railroad station sky," and not just for the mayor of the city of andreas stark (SPD) shown. Architect matthias bornhofen presented some surprising changes for the 60-million-euro project at an early stage. The building is to be slimmed down by 14 meters by removing one of the connecting grids. Green oases are to be created on the then much wider sidewalk. Bornhofen also wants to "remove the storied structures and make the building more open".

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Traffic chaos in kulmbach: and this threatens until october

The closure of theodor-heuss-alle causes a huge traffic jam at the schauer-intersection."I'm about to burst my collar", "this is a catastrophe." These are the still quotable remarks of the car drivers, who were on the way from melkendorf in the direction of kulmbach on the two past days and stood in a giant traffic jam.

"It took me 50 minutes"

In rush hour traffic, car after car lined up – and that all the way to the herzog nursery, which is 2.5 kilometers away from the traffic lights at the schauer junction. "It took me 50 minutes to get there from melkendorf", said tina wiesenmuller from thurnau, who stood in the column and was annoyed like the other traffic participants.

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