Category: School

"Haubi, come here, hop, quick in front of the garden house. We have a photo session!" The obedient feathered fowl listens to the word – and suddenly hen haubi sits on the shot of his wife. Petra neumann from altenkunstadt does not style herself as the "mother teresa of animal welfare", but when she starts to talk fervently about her own and other people's animals, then you realize immediately: here you are really sitting opposite someone with a heart for animals.

A garden like a zoo
Their idyllic, 1000-square-meter estate resembles a small zoo: rabbits hop through the garden, fish swim in the pond, cats prowl around, canaries and cockatiels chirp and trumpet. "But wild animals also feel at home here", we have newts, blindworms and lizards in our pond and on the meadows, you can often hear a woodpecker in the trees, and a kingfisher visits our small pond from time to time", says the woman from altenkunstadt." As proof another inhabitant of the air circles over her garden. "A heron", neumann explains, pointing her index finger upward.

100 years ago, the sisters of st. Francis in fourteen saints found land as the basis for their existence and a mission to serve pilgrims and retreatants. "We have every reason to thank god for this 100-year presence here at this place of pilgrimage", emphasized superior general sister regina prols at a thanksgiving service on sunday in the basilica. During the pontifical mass with archbishop ludwig schick, seven sisters celebrated their 50th anniversary of profession.

From a small beginning in existentially difficult times, a network has developed into the wider world. "In this hour we are gathered to thank god, to ask god and also to be sent anew with impulses", said the superior general.

Laughing, watching, trying things out for yourself – twelve-year-old adella sums it up like this: "you learn more here in a few hours than you do at school in a week." She and her friends of the same age explain why: "here you can move so much", says nicole, evgenia adds: "in school you have to sit still", and sabina is sure: "if you could move more in school, you would learn better." Here, that is in the circus tent of the children and youth circus luna (langendorf). It currently stands on the land behind the city music school. Inside and outside, circus director peter bethauser and his team have the full attention of a good 30 girls and boys from the kliegl middle school. Everyone is eager to learn, wants to join in on friday, 12. April. Then at 6 p.M. They presented the "history of circus" on. The whole story from 1807 until today", says bethauser.

Artists in fast forward
Public. In front of an audience. It takes artists. They are being "trained" at the moment in a fast pass. If everything works out – and it will – it will be a success for the participants. And success is good for you.
The unusual project came about as a result of cooperation between the circus, the kliegl middle school, its association, the city and its youth work, and the district office, which provided the space for the tent. "Teachers and principal harald botsch were totally open right away.", says bethauser. He spontaneously contacted the school after discovering that the federal ministry of education had launched a program under the motto "culture makes you strong" circus project e with children made possible. For over 15 years, his circus luna has been providing circus projects for children and young people on behalf of youth welfare offices, municipalities, schools and associations. The special thing about this school project: it goes directly to the social hotspot. "There are the houses where many of the children live", says bethauser, pointing to the former american settlement within sight. This circus project is the start. In the fall, the children will continue their training at school, and then for two more years with regular training sessions. Next week it's the turn of the sinnberg elementary school students.

For maxim nitsche, mathematics is simply already. A wonderful world where everything is logical and makes sense. "That has a certain elegance in an increasingly complex world", he says. Maxim nitsche is 22 years old. His fascination with numbers, formulas and solutions has just made him and his brother raphael (21) multi-millionaires. The berlin brothers sold their math app to chegg, a listed u.S. Learning company, for 12.5 million euros. And what comes now?

Three million downloads

Maxim nitsche presents himself as if the immensely increased volume of his account fascinates him less than the youngest download balance of their app "math 42". Since the sale was finalized in mid-october, the deal of the young math lovers has made headlines and thus free advertising. "Three million downloads, especially in germany, the u.S., russia and china", says nitsche. "This is an overwhelming feeling." He is not only interested in ringing cash registers. Until now, it cost about two euros a month to use the app for students. Soon it will be free, say the inventors. That was entirely in their interest.

Finding a stem cell donor is not so easy. Maybe it is a little bit because of the description of the process of collecting these stem cells. The one possibility seems to be contractual, in which the necessary amount of stem cells is taken from the flowing blood, a process comparable to dialysis. And then there is the way of taking bone marrow from the iliac crest. But this requires two days in the clinic and a collection under general anesthesia. And that seems to be more of a deterrent.
Gert model from herzogenaurach finds fear unnecessary. He has already donated cells himself and he knows that it is not so bad. "It takes just over four hours and then everything is done." He has the variant "bloodwash" get. Well over 80 percent receive this treatment in order to obtain the stem cells. Whereby the so-called "stanzen", the collection from the spinal cord is also rather unspectacular, but more time-consuming.

It is so easy to donate

Everything before that was basically quite simple. "The typing takes place either through a blood sample or the swab from the mouth." But already at this point it should be clear that the project is "no pellet", emphasizes model. Then it can happen that nothing happens. That you are not a donor for the current request (in this case for jakob), at first. But since the data is then stored by the german bone marrow donor registry (DKMS), the data may later become relevant.
Model, who was typed in 1999, donated his stem cells 13 years later. "You will receive a letter stating that you are a suitable donor. Then it's off to the family doctor, who checks you again and only then is an appointment made at the hospital." There is also another routine examination to check the state of health. "The only thing you will have to do is to get injections." These are similar to thrombosis injections, which are supposed to stimulate the release of stem cells into the blood. "And if someone has problems with injecting, then I'm happy to come along", explains model laughing. "This is really the lesser part, when you know that you can save a life with your donation.
A good feeling that makes you forget the four hours in the hospital. There, a blood wash filters the desired material out of the blood. A good feeling that makes you forget that you might be "dulling" the hospital a little left with possible mild flu symptoms or back pain as a side effect of the injections.