Die böse Überraschung kam kurz vor den Winterferien: „Im Schuljahr 2018/19 schulen wir letztmalig Erstklässler ein“, heißt es in einem Brief, den die Eltern der angesehenen Zehlendorfer Pestalozzi-Schule von ihrer Rektorin bekamen. Bildungsverwaltung und Schulamt hätten entschieden, dass das Förderzentrum für Schüler mit Lernbehinderung sowie die Grundschule „auslaufen“ solle. Sie selbst werde nach den Ferien…

FA Cup: Tottenham 2-0 Newport County highlightsTottenham Hotspur cruised into the fifth round of the FA Cup with a comfortable 2-0 victory over League Two side Newport County at Wembley. Spurs needed a late Harry Kane goal to rescue a 1-1 draw in the first meeting, but never looked in danger in the replay once…

Updated February 08, 2018 12:40:07 Video: Malcolm Turnbull told the Parliament he wanted to « do justice » to survivors (ABC News) Related Story: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, by the numbers Related Story: A compensation scheme for abuse victims was supposed to be running by now. Why isn’t it? Malcolm Turnbull will…

– Here we are today, Christine. Here’s the story. Josh McDaniels has been Bill Belichick’s right-hand man, his most trusted assistant, and the Colts were going to pry him away. And then yesterday Bob Kraft and the Patriots flipped him. Now, it’s interesting. It’s ironic. Maybe it’s coincidental. Today is the day in America– it’s…

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Tesla Inc. moderated what had been a red-hot pace of cash burn as Elon Musk made slow progress building more Model 3 sedans and took deposits for new electric semi trucks and sports cars. A closely watched figure indicating how much money the company is using up — negative free cash flow — was the…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Senators Schumer and McConnell arrived at Congress together to announce the deal US budget hawks have labelled a plan to hike defence and domestic spending by hundreds of billions of dollars as a debt-ballooning « monstrosity ». In a rare show of bipartisanship, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic counterpart Chuck…

This is a huge milestone for SpaceX. The question now is: What’s next? There were a lot of expectations pinned on this rocket, if not this specific launch. It would have been disappointing (rather than catastrophic) if the rocket had failed; SpaceX could have attempted another Falcon Heavy launch in another few months, assuming the…

Hamburg – Flau­schi­ges Wel­pen-Fell, treu­er Hun­de­blick: „Willy” mach­te seine Fa­mi­lie ein­fach glück­lich. Jetzt ist er aus­ge­büxt – und für die Han­sens aus Groß­h­ans­dorf (Metropolregion Hamburg) ist nichts mehr wie vor­her. FA­MI­LI­EN-DRA­MA UM EINEN VER­MISS­TEN HUND. Als der Ber­ner Sen­nen­hund (5 Mo­na­te) Sonn­tag beim Spa­zier­gang we­g­lief, nahm das Un­glück sei­nen tra­gi­schen Lauf: Herr­chen Tho­mas Han­sen (58)…

I recently helped repair the card reader for the Computer History Museum’s vintage IBM 1401 mainframe. In the process, I learned a lot about the archaic but interesting electromechanical systems used in the card reader. Most of the card reader is mechanical, with belts, gears, and clutches controlling the movement of cards through the mechanism.…