Giant hogweed: this is how poisonous the plants are on the riverbanks in the kronach district

"Simply cutting it off doesn't help, otherwise it will quickly sprout again", says engelbert singhartinger from the lower nature conservation authority at the kronach district office. The expert talks about the giant hogweed, which is currently pushing its way out of the ground, especially along the steinach river, but also along rodach or hablach, and which people should be wary of because of its toxicity.

One blood – 10000 seeds

"One blood has 10,000 seeds", says singhartinger about the rapidly multiplying plant, which grows up to 3.5 meters in height and can cause severe burns.

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Bitkom: digital sector is job engine

Bitkom: digital sector is job engine

The digital industry in germany is on course for growth. "We are in the longest growth phase since the federal republic of germany was founded," said achim berg, president of the digital association bitkom, in berlin.

According to the association's forecasts, the market for IT products, telecommunications and consumer electronics will grow by 1.5 percent this year to 168.5 billion euros – "despite trade conflicts and brexit". According to the report, sales rose by 2 percent in 2018 to 166 billion euros.

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Tight and noisy: working at the limit

Tight and noisy: working at the limit

February 2020: this is the perspective that the mayor and the marktsteft city council can give the kindergarten team, at least for an interim draw to expand the precarious space situation in the containers. A complete structural solution, which, as was made clear at the council meeting in michelfeld on monday evening, could take three to four years to complete.

It has been almost four years since containers were set up on the square opposite the kindergarten in order to solve the space problems in the kindergarten in marktstetten. This emergency situation continues to this day and will probably continue for some time – because the situation is complicated. After the demands for a solution were quite vehement in the castle meetings a few weeks ago (we reported), the council now invited kindergarten director anke gernert and some members of her team to the council meeting to hear the situation first hand.

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The quake

The other day, it was around 11 p.M. And I was lying in my bed reading, there was a slight wobbling of my sleeping pole. This made me wonder, because at this time of the day it is very rare to see semi-trucks or armored trucks passing under my window. A subway hardly passes under my house, as far as I know. In a case like this, you might consider that what you have just read could have shaken you up. Or was I even trembling with emotion? Or was the slight tremor now even a stroke, one of the silent kind?? After feeling my forehead, I was able to rule out an attack of fever, and to be on the safe side, I checked to see if I was not alone in bed. Maybe I was involved in something and it was shaking, but no, I found that I was actually alone and no one was messing with me.

Because I live in a rented house, I now had the idea that the shaking could have been caused by the neighbors below me. Maybe there was a party or at least an orgy in their booths. But I could listen as much as I wanted, it was quiet in the house. That’s why I turned back to myself, and since I didn’t like the idea of having my own stroke, I took a look under the covers to see if there was a reason for the wobbling. But there everything was as usual, there were only the empty yogurt cups, the waffle iron, the challenge cup, durant’s cultural history of mankind (volume 12) and my tennis hit.

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