Should i separate?

If you are faced with this question, make sure you are doing everything you can to live well with your decision in hindsight. Therefore a thorough preparation of your decision is necessary. At best, you will find a common and benevolent process with your partner¹. Because no matter how the decision turns out later: This other person is important for you. She may even have shaped your life intensively for a long time and also if her possibly. If you go your separate ways, the value of the connection remains. Everything the other person has meant to you, what they have given you, what they have taught you… All of that is part of your identity and you shouldn’t rush to cut a connection that is such an important part of your history without a serious effort.

An important question when separation is on the horizon:

Would you both like to seriously consider whether – and under what conditions – you want to continue your relationship??
It involves a willingness and openness to ask oneself and the other person serious questions and to seek truly adequate answers. For this step you need to actively turn to each other.

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After learning is before learning

After the final apprenticeship examination, immediately start further training? What sounds like never-ending stress for some is an interesting option for others. The decisive factor is primarily your own motivation – as well as your financial situation.

Done! The final apprenticeship examination has been passed and you can finally devote yourself to something other than cramming. Meeting up with friends after work, going to the gym – or going back to school after all? Should you start training right after graduation??

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Homag cares: 4.000 euros for school children in tanzania

Homag supports the expansion of the St. Justines School in Kidatu, thus helping to ensure a good school education for 200 children and orphans.

After Ligna 2017, the proceeds from Hoamg demonstration parts again went to an organization in urgent need of help. With the HOMAG Cares initiative, the company is doing good in several places at once: unusual and practical demonstration parts find their place in the homes of trade fair visitors around the globe – at the same time, the proceeds benefit people who are facing challenges and urgently need the money.

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How to turn shit into gold

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Ralf, you are also conducting research at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg on the question of the extent to which supposedly problematic waste such as urine and feces could be used today to build humus. Do we produce the alternatives for artificial fertilizers in our own bodies every day??

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Inhumanly efficient terror

The Alter Schlachthof memorial in Dusseldorf

"What makes the anti-Semitism of the Third Reich something completely new and unique is threefold. Once: the epidemic flares up, and more blazing than ever, at a time when it seems to belong to the past as an actual epidemic long ago and forever. I mean it like this: before 1933, there were still anti-Semitic outbreaks here and there, just as there were occasional cases of cholera and plague in European harbors; but just as it was certain, or believed to be certain, that the city-destroying epidemics of the Middle Ages would no longer occur in the cultural world, so it seemed quite impossible that there would once again be deprivations of rights and persecutions of Jews of the medieval kind. The second uniqueness besides the monstrous anachronism is that this anachronism by no means comes in the garb of the past, but in the highest modernity, not as a popular uprising, as a frenzy and spontaneous mass murder (although in the beginning spontaneity was still pretended), no, in the highest organizational and technical perfection; because whoever today remembers the murder of the Jews in retrospect, thinks of the gas chambers of Auschwitz. The third and essential novelty, however, consists in basing the hatred of Jews on the idea of race." (Viktor Klemperer, LTI – Notebook of a Philologist, 1946, quoted from the revised 26 published by Reclam. Edition 2016)

What ended in Auschwitz, in Sobibor or in Majdanek, in Riga and in Babij Jar, began in middle-class German towns. It began with deportations visible to all inhabitants of German cities, and many were actively involved. It happened in places, some of which can be visited today as places of commemoration and remembrance.

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Chapter 5 simple trellis shapes

The waning interest in espalier fruit growing in the 20. Jh. probably also had its reason in the fact that the trellis forms, according to the fashion, were more and more playful and connected with a too high maintenance effort. The literature named and drew for instance a snake trellis with 3 circles on top of each other, circular palmette in 3 tiers, composite hoop trellis with straight and circular axes, spiral trellis with 4 string trees etc., all tree forms that required almost daily supervision. This was simply too much.
After the 1. and 2. After World War II, rational production of fruits and vegetables was initially more important for survival, and there was neither time nor inclination for "gimmicks" with shaped fruits.
Thanks to the participation of old and newly founded garden clubs in the 1970s and their professional consultations, fresh interest was aroused again, in which the newly organized allotment garden system also played a considerable role. Now the gardens were significantly smaller than before and people returned to the space-saving forms of cultivation with high-quality fruit. Weak-growing rootstocks and new, more robust cultivars without alternance (alternating high and low yields each year) made the simple trellis forms interesting again, even though they required comparatively more maintenance than conventional round crowns.
Today, only those forms are advocated which are easy to grow and which do not impose too great a constraint on natural growth. The playful trellis forms of the 19. The trees of the twentieth century certainly look decorative in the patterns, but in practice they require almost daily attention and also considerable knowledge and skills for correct upbringing. If interest in it wanes for even a year, such intricate forms very soon go wild and are then almost impossible to undo.

Trellis forms

Were first planted along the walls of palace parks, but later they also found their way into the gardens of the common people.

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Why do my tomatoes not turn red? What you can do now

Tomatoes, which by the way belong to the berries, taste best in summer. During the ripening process, red varieties usually turn from an initial green to a juicy red color. The red color is thought to protect against extreme sunlight, signal full ripeness, and at the same time attract animals. But sometimes the fruits just do not want to turn red. This can have different causes, but can usually be remedied with a few small tricks.

Causes

From planting the seedling to the fully ripe fruit takes about eight to nine weeks. Reddening is the last stage of tomato development before harvest and usually lasts only a few days. For various reasons, however, this last step may be delayed or even omitted altogether.

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About bladder cancer

After patients have been treated for superficial bladder cancer, they must have regular follow-up examinations in order to detect any recurrence that may occur.

Risk factors and warning signs for bladder cancer

Although the cause of bladder cancer is unknown, it is associated with tobacco use and exposure to certain chemicals.

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