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NFL pro Carl Nassib makes homosexuality public – sport

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It is debatable whether it should really be news in 2021 when someone announces they are gay or lesbian. But on Tuesday night, shortly after midnight German time, US media such as CNN Washington Post, New York Times and NBC News breaking news on their readers’ phones for precisely such a reason. It is probably the overall circumstances that make the outing of Carl Nassib a reportable item at this time as well.

Nassib had recently posted a video on Instagram in which he – casually in a dark blue shirt and surrounded by green trees – was the first active football professional from the NFL to admit to being gay. “What’s up, guys, I just wanted to take a minute and say I’m gay. I’ve wanted to do this for a while and I’m finally comfortable getting rid of it,” says the defensive end of the Las Vegas Raiders audibly relaxed.

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“Hey, I’m gay” – first active US football professional comes out
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The 28-year-old thanks him for the support of his family and friends, through whom he recently felt it was possible to “say publicly and proudly that I am gay”.

This moment has tormented him for the past 15 years. Nassib reports that he has received support from the NFL, his coaches and teammates. He was immediately greeted with “the greatest respect and acceptance”. He doesn’t take the step because he wants attention. In June, the so-called Pride Month, organizations and representatives of the LGBTQ community worldwide raise awareness of ongoing discrimination. “I just think representation and visibility are so important,” says Nassib. And he adds that he hopes steps like his will no longer be necessary in the future.

Nassib is entering his sixth season in the NFL and was two years for the Cleveland Browns and Tamba Bay Buccaneers before joining the Raiders in summer 2020. The next season starts in September.

Nassib received a heart from his team for his video, in which he also announced a donation of 100,000 US dollars to the Trevor Project. The organization runs a telephone counseling service for young LGBTQ people. The football league tweeted after the statement: “The NFL family is proud of you Carl”.

Congratulations from Jason Collins

In 2013, basketball player Jason Collins was the first active professional athlete in the four major US sports leagues for basketball, football, baseball and ice hockey to publicly acknowledge his homosexuality. Collins congratulated Nassib on Twitter, said that he was proud of him and that he was looking forward to seeing him play soon.

Football player Michael Sam admitted his homosexuality in 2014 before he was recruited as a potential junior employee by the St. Louis Rams. However, Sam was removed from the list after the training camp and never participated in a regular game of the NFL. Some players like Jeff Rohrer, who appeared as linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys, only came out as gay after the end of their professional career.

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Soccer – Munich – AfD Vice: Munich is planning “left-green agitprop against Hungary” – Bavaria

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Berlin (AP) – Deputy AfD leader Beatrix von Storch is outraged by the city of Munich’s plan to illuminate the EM stadium in rainbow colors this Wednesday – as a symbol of tolerance and sexual and gender diversity. The Mayor of Munich Dieter Reiter (SPD) wanted to use the last preliminary round match of the German national soccer team against Hungary “for left-green agitprop against Hungary”, she criticized on Monday in Berlin.

“The planned lighting of the arena in the colors of the gay rainbow is directed against Hungary’s freely and democratically elected government,” said von Storch. Using sport for political propaganda has a bad tradition in Germany, she continued. The plan not only violates the regulations of the European Football Union UEFA, “but is also extremely undemocratic”.

The background to the planned protest is a new Hungarian law which restricts the information rights of young people with regard to homosexuality and transsexuality and which was only approved by the local parliament last Tuesday. The law is a particular concern of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

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District of Ebersberg: High schools still have space – Ebersberg

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The grammar schools would be overrun, it was said a few weeks ago in the Munich district section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. No official information is yet available for the district of Ebersberg, but the rectors of the grammar schools in the district cannot confirm this trend.

Nicole Storz, head of the grammar school in Grafing, has even fewer students for the coming school year than for the previous year: she had 146 registrations for the school year 2021/2022, while in the previous year there were even 153 registrations, according to Storz. But she is satisfied with this number. “The more fifth graders there are, the bigger the budget has to be.” From the 146 registrations so far, there will probably be five fifth classes in Grafing, according to Storz.

The same applies to the Kirchseeon grammar school, here too there will probably be five fifth grades. Around 135 pupils have registered so far, according to Stefan Mühlfenzl, a member of the school management team. “We also assumed this figure, which is what our municipal catchment area provides,” says Mühlfenzl.

Registrations in Markt Schwaben and Vaterstetten are slightly higher. 197 students, divided into seven classes, are Peter Popp, headmaster of the Franz-Marc-Gymnasium in Markt Schwaben, according to the coming school year. Popp also expected a registration rate of “around 200 people”.

The Vaterstettener Humboldt Gymnasium leads the ranking among the Ebersberger Gymnasien with 205 registrations for the school year 2021/2022. Headmaster Rüdiger Modell joins his colleagues in office, saying that he, too, was expecting this number. He will divide the fifth graders into seven classes.

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Weather – Offenbach am Main – Severe weather expected in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland – Panorama

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Weather – Offenbach am Main:Storms expected in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland

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Lightning strikes. Photo: Thomas Rensinghoff / dpa / symbol image (Photo: dpa)

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Offenbach (dpa / lrs) – A thunderstorm over France spreads to Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. Especially from Saturday evening, the German Weather Service speaks of an increased risk of storms in the federal states as a result of thunderstorms with heavy rain, hail and heavy squalls, as the DWD announced on Saturday. The gusts can reach speeds of more than 100 kilometers per hour and the hail a grain size of around three centimeters.

On Saturday there is also a strong heat load with temperature maxima of 31 to 34 degrees. There is also a high risk of forest fires in larger parts of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.

According to the forecast, showers and thunderstorms can also occur on Sunday night. Heavy or hurricane-like gusts as well as large hail are not excluded. The lowest values ​​are between 20 and 17 degrees.

On Sunday, people also have to be prepared for storms. In the course of the day, sometimes strong thunderstorms approach from the southwest. The temperatures in the afternoon are 28 to 32 degrees, in the Eifel around 25 degrees.

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Weather – Offenbach am Main – thunderstorms replace hot days: warning of forest fires – panorama

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Weather – Offenbach am Main:Thunderstorms replace hot days: warning of forest fires

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Lightning strikes. Photo: Thomas Rensinghoff / dpa / symbol image (Photo: dpa)

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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – Cooling off in North Rhine-Westphalia: After the hot days, the first storms in the country with thunderstorms and heavy rain that last for days are announced in the night on Sunday. Heavy rain showers and hurricane-like gusts can also be expected on Monday and Tuesday, as the German Weather Service announced. Then the temperatures will drop below 30 degrees for the first time in days and the nights will be cooler.

According to a spokeswoman for the German Weather Service in Essen, the thunderstorms are approaching from the southwest over the Eifel at the weekend. Hail with a grain size of up to three centimeters is possible. The southern half of the country is likely to be the focus of the storm on Sunday.

The beginning of the week is changeable and often wet. Heavy thunderstorms with rain fall all over the country. In the middle of the week there is flat precipitation and temperatures, at the weekend it can be around 30 degrees again.

Due to the general drought, the German Weather Service warns of a high risk of forest fires in larger parts of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Senate – Berlin – union calls for smaller classes for Berlin schools – politics

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Berlin (dpa / bb) – The classes in Berlin’s schools must, according to the conviction of the Union for Education and Science (GEW), become smaller. In the future, upper limits should be set in a collective agreement on health protection, demanded representatives of the Berlin GEW on Monday. The trade unionists refer to a GEW survey of more than 2000 Berlin teachers from January. “Large learning groups” were mentioned as a stress factor in everyday school life before a lack of staff, poor technical equipment or noise. A reduction in the size of the classes brings the greatest relief and is a prerequisite for better health protection.

The GEW asked Education Senator Sandra Scheeres and Finance Senator Matthias Kollatz (both SPD) in a letter on Monday to start negotiations on a “health protection collective agreement”. Berlin’s GEW chairman Tom Erdmann said the experience during the corona pandemic had confirmed the practical advantages of smaller classes. From the perspective of the GEW, they enable more individual support and better relationship work.

Udo Mertens, responsible for collective bargaining policy at the GEW, said that regulating the class size in a collective agreement would be new nationwide and a paradigm shift. So far, the Senate has determined how many students the teachers have to teach. However, trade unions would also have the option of regulating work relief in collective agreements for salaried teachers as a preventive measure. The GEW is now waiting for a response from the finance senator. “After the summer holidays at the latest, we’ll see how the answer turned out.”

Erdmann admitted that downsizing the classes would be an expensive educational policy measure. School head associations had only sounded the alarm at the beginning of last week and pointed out that there were already too few teachers in Berlin and that schools were finding it increasingly difficult to fill vacancies. Smaller study groups without more staff, however, seems unrealistic. The GEW argues that many teachers also work part-time because of the high workload. Better working conditions could be a reason to work more.

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Education – digital school report is getting closer – education

by archyw

Düsseldorf (dpa) – Blockchain technology, hash value and cryptographic number chain: What sounds like technical jargon for IT freaks to laypeople could soon make digital school reports possible across Germany.

A test run in North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin and Rhineland-Palatinate will start this summer. Govdigital – an association of public IT service providers – and Bundesdruckerei are currently working with Saxony-Anhalt to develop a new system for creating digital certificates. NRW even wants to issue them to the first high school graduates as early as the end of June, according to the local school ministry.

Paper certificates impractical for applications

All federal states are included, says Eric Stange, who is responsible for the project at Bundesdruckerei. “So far we have only had positive feedback, the interest is great.” The digital variant is “simple, forgery-proof and compliant with data protection regulations”. Paper certificates are proving to be more and more impractical, especially for graduates, because applications for study or apprenticeship positions are now largely online, as the expert emphasizes. When scanning, the quality suffers. The risk of manipulation is great with paper certificates. There are even tutorials on YouTube with instructions on how to forge music.

According to the Federal Online Access Act (OZG), all state services are to be made available to citizens digitally by the end of 2022. In the area of ​​education – Saxony-Anhalt was named here as the leading OZG actor – this also includes digital school certificates. A minimal version has already proven that the thing works technically, says Stange. In order to roll out the system for the whole of Germany, the application will now be tested in three “particularly pro-active” countries.

By the end of 2022, all other federal states could also start up on a trial basis, and real operations should then run from 2023. But there is no compulsion. Will the paper certificate soon die out? Expert Stange and the NRW Ministry of Education do not see that. Pupils could continue to receive it ceremoniously in the auditorium and present it in black and white.

Send the certificate file by email

What would be omitted would be unnecessary running, you could save time, effort and money, says the Bundesdruckerei with a view to the diplomas in particular. Example Abi: For applications, students have to have copies certified by the office, sent by post to the universities or companies, where they are then checked. The future, according to the project partners: a PDF certificate file in which another machine-readable XML file is embedded. The digital certificate, secured and encrypted, could be downloaded from an online platform by schoolchildren – they have data sovereignty – and sent by e-mail, for example. The addressee checks in fractions of a second whether the document is genuine.

So if a pupil applies to study physics, the university quickly clarifies the authenticity of their certificate. At the same time, the system on campus automatically reads the relevant Abitur grades for math and physics. “The notes then no longer have to be transferred manually,” explains Stange. The first step is to get diplomas. Little by little, the younger generation should also get on with it, he says. If a third grader moves to another federal state because of a family move, a few clicks would be enough to transfer the grades.

The first universities are already accepting digital versions

NRW is currently making progress: more than a hundred schools in the Cologne-Aachen area are offered to take part in a test, reports the ministry. You will receive a software prototype that will be integrated into the management system that has been used up to now. Before the start of the holidays on July 5, the first digital Abitur certificates can be issued, with a certificate of authenticity and secured by a “cryptographic chain of numbers”. Some universities made it possible to enroll this summer. “Experience from the field test should also flow into the transnational working group.” Digital certificates could improve processes, says school minister Yvonne Gebauer (FDP).

Do all teachers now have to attend an IT crash course? There is no training required, assure govdigital and Bundesdruckerei. The handling is easy: the schools enter the certificate data in their familiar system, transmit it via a new interface to the Bundesdruckerei, where the digital certificate is created, secured and sent back to the school – all in compliance with data protection regulations.

In addition to their paper certificate, the students receive a digital version in PDF format. A checksum – in technical jargon “hash value” – is unchangeably stored and secured in a blockchain as a string of numbers and a quasi digital fingerprint. Bundesdruckerei assures us that no other data is stored with it other than the checksum. “After the download, the certificate is only with the students.”

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Weather – Offenbach am Main – Severe weather in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland – Panorama

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Offenbach (dpa / lrs) – The muggy heat is likely to be followed by storms. A thunderstorm that moves from France via Belgium to the North Sea will spread to Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland on Sunday night, the German Weather Service (DWD) forecast in Offenbach on Saturday. As a result of Tief Ulfert, the air will be forced to rise over a large area, said a meteorologist.

As a result of this “impulse”, thunderstorms could develop over France and form a larger complex. “This will later probably reach the west and northwest of Germany or at least graze. Then more heavy rain, hail and especially heavy gusts of wind can be expected,” it said.

According to the forecast, Sunday begins in the far north with a shower-like, sometimes thunderstorm rain. During the day, strong thunderstorms are expected to come in from the southwest. Local storms with gusts of wind, heavy rain and hail are likely. Temperatures are expected to be around 28 to 32 degrees in the afternoon, and around 25 degrees in the Eifel.

In the night of Monday it can still showers and thunderstorms, but in the second half of the night there is usually no precipitation. The temperatures drop to 18 to 15 degrees.

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Weather – Offenbach am Main – Cooling off at the weekend in Saxony – Panorama

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Weather – Offenbach am Main:Cooling off at the weekend in Saxony

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The sun only comes out for a short time from behind a dark blanket of clouds. Photo: Jens Kalaene / dpa-Zentralbild / ZB / Symbolbild (Photo: dpa)

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Leipzig (dpa / sn) – Rain brings cooling to Saxony at the weekend. With initially summer maximum temperatures of 29 degrees, there are still isolated local showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain on Friday, as the German Weather Service (DWD) announced on Friday morning. In the mountains, temperatures are between 19 and 25 degrees.

A dense cloud cover in the sky will continue to cause showers on Saturday, which will last especially in the Ore Mountains. The temperatures are only between 21 and 24 degrees, in the mountains up to 21 degrees. According to the DWD meteorologists, there will be last local showers on Sunday before the sky loosens to the north and west. After that it remains largely dry. Temperatures peak at 21 degrees, in the mountains around 18 degrees.

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Weather – Offenbach am Main – Tief Ulfert brings storms to Hesse – Panorama

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Offenbach (dpa / lhe) – According to the German Weather Service (DWD), storms can follow the humid heat in Hesse. Not only very warm to hot, but also increasingly humid air masses from Africa and the Mediterranean area pour into Germany, as a DWD meteorologist announced. Severe thunderstorms can develop in this energetic air.

“It gets exciting in the late evening and on Sunday night.” Because deep Ulfert moves from France via Belgium and Holland to the North Sea and generates an “uplift”. The air is thus forced to rise over a large area. This could create a larger thunderstorm complex that would reach or at least graze the west and northwest of Germany. “Then you have to reckon with heavy heavy rain, hail and especially heavy gusts of wind more frequently.”

The showers and thunderstorms begin in Hesse on Sunday night. Thunderstorms can occur due to heavy rain and heavy gusts of wind or hurricane-like gusts and hail. The lowest values ​​are between 20 and 17 degrees.

Sunday begins with a shower-like, partly thunderstorm rain, otherwise bright to cloudy and dry. In the course of the day, sometimes strong thunderstorms approach from the southwest. There may be local storms with gusts of wind, heavy rain and hail. The temperatures in the afternoon are 29 to 33 degrees, in the higher mountains around 27 degrees.

On Monday night, the showers or thunderstorms move north, sometimes as heavy rain. The temperatures cool down to 18 to 14 degrees.

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