Reaktionen zum Tod von Linkin-Park-Sänger

„Linkin Park“-Frontmann Chester Bennington hat sich in seinem Haus bei Los Angeles das Leben genommen. Auf Twitter und Facebook äußern sich Freunde und Fans zum Tod des Sängers.
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„Die Abstimmung im Team passt noch nicht“

Nach der Pleite im Testspiel gegen Holstein Kiel wartet auf den HSV in der Vorbereitung noch viel Arbeit. Auch die Transferbemühungen stocken. Sportchef Todt äußerte sich jedoch zur Zukunft von Aaron Hunt.
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Mutter verschleppt vier Kinder nach Syrien - drei Jahre Haft

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Go Update Your iPhone Or iPad Right Now

If you use WiFi on your iPhone or iPad, and you probably do, you’ll want to head to the Updates section as soon as you can to update its software before you start your weekend. There are a number of security patches, the most important of which fixes a flaw in the WiFi chip that can let someone standing near you execute code on your phone.

Since most of us prefer not to have our phones taken over by hackers, it’s a good idea to install Apple’s latest security update as soon as you’re on a fast, reliable, and private WiFi connection. If you won’t be home for a while, a stopgap fix would be to turn off your device’s WiFi when you’re out in public.

Updating the software, if you’ve never done it, isn’t scary. (Make sure to back your phone or tablet up to a computer or to iCloud before doing this.)

• Go to the “Settings” app on your phone’s home screen, and tap on that.

• Scroll down to “General,” and tap on that.

• Finally, tap on the “Software Update” option.

Google patched the same flaw, which the discoverer calls Broadpwn, for affected Android devices at the beginning of July, so Android users can feel suitably smug.

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

Winkel Colorburst Toys Recalled Because They May Crumble, Seem Edible To Babies

The Winkel Colorburst is an adorable and colorful teething toy. “Colorful loops made from soft, pliable plastic are easy to grasp and hold,” its manufacturer, Manhattan Toy, says on its website. Yet on some of the colorbursts, the plastic loops may become brittle and break, and the infant may try to eat these pieces, because that’s how infants roll.

There were around 14,400 of the toys sold in the United States and 1,000 in Canada, and they’ve all been recalled. The company asks that customers stop using the toys immediately and either return them to the store where they were purchased, or call Manhattan Toy at 800-541-1345. They retail for around $15, and owners will receive a refund.

Lot codes that have been recalled are:

206880 DH
206880 EH
206880 HH
206871 EH

You can find the lot code on the stripey cube in the middle of the toy, and also on the hang tag and the box if it hasn’t been opened yet.

by Laura Northrup via Consumerist

BlueLine Grid and Cisco Leverage Spark to Enhance Mobile Collaboration

Matt Melton, Director of Sales for BlueLine Grid, talks about his solutions integration with Spark and how its revolutionizing location-based services.
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You Still Can’t Fire Up An E-Cigarette On Your Flight

If you were hoping to fire up that electronic cigarette on your next flight, you better think again: The use of e-cigarettes is still prohibited on commercial flights, an appeals court ruled Friday. 

A Washington, D.C. appeals court ruled [PDF] 2-1 to uphold the Department of Transportation’s 2016 rule banning the use of electronic cigarettes on all commercial and charter flights to, from, or within the United States.

The Ban

The DOT finalized rules that prohibit e-cigarette use on flights in March 2016. While the agency believed that its previous regulations banning smoking on flights were sufficiently broad to include e-cigarettes, it revised the rules to explicitly define “smoking.”

“The Department took this action to eliminate any confusion over whether its ban includes electronic cigarettes,” the agency said in a statement at the time.

The finalized rule treats electronic cigarettes, pipes, cigars, and other devices the same as tobacco cigarettes, which are also banned from use on U.S. flights.

“This final rule is important because it protects airline passengers from unwanted exposure to aerosol fumes that occur when electronic cigarettes are used onboard airplanes,” then Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement. “The Department took a practical approach to eliminate any confusion between tobacco cigarettes and e-cigarettes by applying the same restrictions to both.”

Fighting The Ban

The DOT’s rule quickly came under fire, as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives filed a lawsuit challenging it, alleging that the agency had no authority to issue such a ban.

The organizations, along with an e-cigarette user, argued that the DOT improperly banned the use of e-cigarettes under a decades-old the anti-smoking statute because “e-cigarettes do not burn (or even contain) tobacco, much less produce smoke.”

In 1987, Congress declared it unlawful “to smoke” on scheduled passenger flights under two hours, and since 2000, the statutory smoking prohibition has extended to all scheduled passenger flights for travel within, to, and from the United States.

According to the suit, the DOT’s ban on e-cigarettes was a violation of the plain language in the statute, with the groups contending that e-cigarettes create a vapor, not smoke.

The Ruling

Today, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against a lawsuit, upholding the DOT’s bank.

In a 2-1 ruling, the appeals court ruled that the term smoking, as defined by decades-old statutes, does indeed cover more modern electronic devices.

While the organizations argued that “smoking” requires lighting or burning and does not encompass the heating that occurs with e-cigarettes, the court found that statutory text does not support that position.

The judges found that nowhere in the state is “smoke” or “smoking” defined.

Judge Douglas Ginsberg disagreed with the majority ruling, noting that the other judges were taking a broad interpretation of the term “smoking,” noting that when the statue was created the term was unambiguous.

“I cannot accept the Court’s ahistorical reinterpretation of a purportedly ambiguous statutory term that was well-understood when enacted in 1987,” Ginsberg wrote in his dissent.

Not Over Yet

Sam Kazman, CEI general counsel, said in a statement Friday that the organization is considering whether to appeal the ruling.

“Today’s court ruling creates a dangerous new rule for interpreting the law. It allows the commonly-understood language of Congress’s 30-year old no-smoking statute to be stretched into a ban on e-cigarettes—even though e-cigarettes involve no combustion and produce no smoke,” Kazman said.

Consumerist has reached out to the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives and the DOT for comment on the ruling. We’ll update this post if we hear back.

by Ashlee Kieler via Consumerist

A World Powered by AI: Lenovo Tech World 2017

A world powered by AI, a vision for an intelligent and caring future: this was #LenovoTechWorld
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Dave Reinsel Discusses Data Age 2025 IDC Study

Dave Reinsel, Sr. Vice President, IDC discusses with Seagate the impact of the recent white paper, Data Age 2025, sponsored by Seagate, which predicts global datasphere growth - a swell to 163 zettabytes (ZB) by 2025. Dave, a panelist at the Data Age 2025 event in San Francisco, also discussed how this immense amount of data will enable new discoveries in areas such as science, medicine, energy, transportation and more along with the implications for businesses and how companies can adapt. More information: http://dataage2025.com Follow Dave on Twitter @DavesBytes
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Brooks Moore Discusses Data Age 2025 IDC Study

Brooks Moore, TV Producer and Narrator, discusses with Seagate the impact of the recent white paper, Data Age 2025, sponsored by Seagate, which predicts the global datasphere growth - a swell to 163 zettabytes (ZB) by 2025. Brooks, a panelist at the Data Age 2025 event in San Francisco, also discussed how this immense amount of data has impacted the entertainment and film industry. More information: http://dataage2025.com Follow Brooks on Twitter @Brookstmoore
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So einfach und schnell gibt es Geld für Flugausfälle

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Sean Spicer bestätigt seinen Rücktritt als Trumps Pressesprecher

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Petry macht Wahlkampf mit wenige Wochen altem Baby

Ein AfD-Wahlplakat zeigt Frauke Petry mit ihrem neugeborenen Sohn Ferdinand im Arm, dazu der Slogan: „Und was ist Ihr Grund für Deutschland zu kämpfen?“. Damit will sich die AfD-Politikerin gegen Kanzlerin Merkel positionieren
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Ich bin 20 und soll fürs Alter vorsorgen? Echt jetzt?

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Polizei bestraft Gaffer an Unfallstelle – die reagieren empört

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Grüne Negativ-Botschaften gegen den Zeitgeist

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Brighton behauptet sich stolz als „London by the Sea“

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Vor der Kritik kommt die politische Gesinnung

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Kommunen sollen Förderschulen erhalten

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Chester Bennington ist tot

Ein Gerichtsmediziner des Los Angeles County teilte mit, beim Tod des Linkin Park-Frontmanns gehe man derzeit von Selbstmord aus. Chester Bennington wurde 41 Jahre alt.
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Diese Persönlichkeiten sind 2017 gestorben

Linkin-Park-Sänger Chester Bennington, Helmut Kohl, Gunter Gabriel, Roger Moore: Nach einem besonders traurigen Jahr 2016 sind auch 2017 schon viele große Persönlichkeiten gestorben. Ein Rückblick mit Nachrufen.
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Klubs buhlen um Max Kruse – er selbst schweigt

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Golf-Profi grüßt alle Welt mit einer Postkarten-Hose

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Dieser Toyota Yaris ist die Straßenversion eines Rallye-Autos

Nie wieder langweilig: GRMN klingt sperrig, kennzeichnet aber die Straßenversion von Toyotas Auto aus der Rallye-WM. Mit dem Motor des Lotus Elise und abgestimmt von den „Meisters of Nürburgring“.
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Klopp über den Poker um Naby Keita - "Wo, in Vegas?"

66 Millionen Pfund soll der FC Liverpool für RB Leipzigs Naby Keita geboten haben. Das will ein englischer Journalist wissen. Liverpools Trainer Jürgen Klopp kann dem nicht ganz folgen und scherzt.
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Auf zwei Risiken müssen Anleger jetzt achten

Die weltweit starke Industrieproduktion sorgt für Hochstimmung an den Börsen. Um neun Zukäufe wächst deswegen unser Musterportfolio, der Aktienanteil steigt auf 69 Prozent. Risiken drohen von den Notenbanken und einem kleinen arabischen Land.
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„Das Zimmer bewegte sich von links nach rechts“

Mitten in der Nacht wurde sie aus dem Schlaf gerissen: Sabrina Ege erlebte auf Kos das Erdbeben aus nächster Nähe. Ihre Familie verbrachte die Nacht vorm Hotel – und war erstaunt, wie ruhig die Menschen waren.
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„Was für eine Sch... machst du da?“

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Palmer polarisiert auf Facebook zu Asylbewerbern

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312.000 Euro pro Woche sind Mesut Özil nicht genug

Seit Wochen verhandelt Mesut Özil mit Arsenal London über einen neuen Vertrag. Der Weltmeister fordert angeblich 20 Millionen Euro pro Jahr. Im Vertragspoker hat der Mittelfeldspieler aber keine guten Karten.
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U.S. Banning All Travel To North Korea Because Getting Arrested There Can Be Very Dangerous

If you were planning to visit North Korea sometime in the near future, you’ll probably need to cancel that hotel reservation in Pyongyang: The U.S. State Department has issued a ban on travel to the country, citing concerns that American could be in danger while there.

Safety Concerns

On Friday, the Department announced that Secretary Rex Tillerson has authorized a “Geographical Travel Restriction” regarding North Korea.

“Due to mounting concerns over the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea’s system of law enforcement, the Secretary has authorized a Geographical Travel Restriction on all U.S. citizen nationals’ use of a passport to travel in, through, or to North Korea,” the department said in its full statement.

Previously, the state department had warned U.S. citizens against visiting North Korea, noting a “serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea’s system of law enforcement.”

And because the U.S. doesn’t maintain any diplomatic or consular relations with North Korea, if you were to get into trouble, the government doesn’t have any way to provide help like it would through the normal consular channels available to U.S. citizens.

The department intends to publish an official notice in the Federal Register next week, with the restriction going into effect 30 days afterward.

The news follows the death of an American college student who was medically evacuated in a coma from North Korea last month. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in March 2016, after being accused of stealing a propaganda poster while he was touring the country. It’s unclear how he was injured.

Some Travel Exceptions

Once the ban is in place, most passports will be invalid for travling to North Korea. However, there are some people who will still be able to get a special validation in order to travel in the country, including for “humanitarian or other purposes.”

.@statedeptspox: US citizens seeking to travel to #NorthKorea for humanitarian or other purposes may apply for a special validation passport

— Department of State (@StateDept) July 21, 2017

It’s unclear what those other purposes may be; we’ve reached out to the Department for details and will update this post if we hear back.

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This Maytag dryer handles monstrous loads

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Legendary Pokemon arrive in Pokemon Go - with a catch

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Bike Share in Shanghai: Simple & Smart

Ran across GPS-located bikes that unlock with a QR code & can be left at any destination. #Shanghai #LenovoTechWorld
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Lyft Wants To End Car Ownership — This Is How They Want To Do It

It’s no secret that Lyft has its sights set on a country without individual car ownership — with the company’s co-founder calling it a “$9,000 ball and chain” that people have to drag along in their daily lives — but now the ride-hailing service is elaborating further on how exactly it can accomplish that goal.

Luc Vincent, Lyft’s VP of engineering, writes in a Medium post that in order for Lyft to usher in a “transportation revolution” — one that he says will improve our communities and quality of life — the company has to build an “ecosystem of trust” that offers rides both with drivers as well as rides from self-driving vehicles.

Humans will surely stick around, but it’s worth noting that Lyft co-founder and president John Zimmer has said in the past that the company expects that the majority of its rides will be in self-driving cars within five years.

The next step

To that end, Lyft is opening its own self-driving division called the Level 5 Engineering Center in a new facility in Palo Alto.

The new group will work on developing a new, open self-driving system in order to build on its already-existin open self-driving platform.

“Lyft’s self-driving vehicles will operate on that network, alongside vehicles introduced by Lyft partners,” Vincent writes. “In the years ahead, we will continue to bring the world’s leading automotive and technology companies onto this single platform to serve a nationwide passenger network.”

The company already has 10 percent of its engineers working on developing self-driving technology, and will be adding more to the new team.

Wh Lyft thinks it can make all its dreams come true

So what sets Lyft apart from all the other self-driving efforts out there? Vincent says the company believes Lyft is in the best position to build technology in collaboration with partners “in a way that makes it possible to roll out self-driving cars at scale in the fastest, safest, most efficient way.”

Here are some of his reasons:

• Lyft has “significant scale,” allowing to rapidly train its self-driving system. With more than a million rides completed on the network every day, adding up to tens of millions of miles daily, Lyft can use the data it collects to understand the world better, thus helping it deliver “a better experience for our passengers and drivers alike.”

• Everything is on an open platform, which won’t just work in Lyft’s favor, but will accelerate its partners’ efforts as well.

“They’ll be able to tap into our wealth of data and experience to create the best self-driving experience, Vincent writes. “All of this can happen much more quickly because we’re working together to create the transportation ecosystem that will define our future.”

Why get rid of individual car ownership in the first place?

You might be thinking, “But I like having my own car. What’s your beef, Lyft?”

Safety: Echoing past statements on a future without individual car ownership, Vincent cites a study that says widespread adoption of self-driving cars will lead to a 90 percent reduction in accidents.

Pollution: Fewer cars on the road comes down to less pollution and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, Vincent notes.

Quality of life: Lyft also wants future where we have less traffic clogging our streets, allowing us to “devote less of our space to roads, concrete, and parking lots — and more to parks, playgrounds, homes and local businesses.”

“It’s a future, in short, where we build our communities and our world around people, not cars,” Vincent says.

Okay, but will people really stop buying cars?

Lyft isn’t alone in trying to replace your car with a service: Waymo started offering self-driving car rides to the public in April, with CEO John Krafcik saying the company expects a lot of demand.

“We want as many people as possible to experience our technology, and we want to bring self-driving cars to more communities sooner,” he said at the time.

In June, he told The Wall Street Journal that the company would love to replace the family car with such a service.

“We’re really experimenting here with how far our users can go in terms of using a service like this one to replace their own personal transportation,” he said.

Others also believe that individual ownership will fall by the wayside eventually.

“By 2022, 2023, the majority of transportation in urban cities with temperate weather will be on demand, shared and likely autonomous,” Aarjav Trivedi, chief executive of Ridecell, a San Francisco company that provides the back-end software for car sharing, told the WSJ.

But while various reports in the press claim that car ownership will soon be a thing of the past, partly because millennials just aren’t interested in buying new vehicles anymore, The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System looked into the demographics of new vehicle purchases and found that that might not be the whole story.

The fed’s analysis concluded that despite a downturn in interest during the Great Recession, younger people do not have less of an appetite for car ownership.

“While part of the rise in average age does reflect a decline since 2007 in the rate at which young buyers purchase new vehicles, the aging of the Baby Boomers and a drop in the purchasing rate among 35 to 50 year olds appear to be the most important factors,” the fed noted.

However, that analysis didn’t take into account what effect autonomous fleets of vehicles might have.

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist

AB InBev Jumps Into Energy Drink, Juice Market With Purchase Of Hiball

In recent years, Anheuser-Busch InBev has been padding its portfolio by purchasing craft brewer after craft brewer, but the beverage giant’s latest merger is a bit different — it doesn’t include alcohol. 

AB InBev announced this week that it would purchase California-based energy drink company Hiball, carving out yet another notch in its non-alcoholic belt.

The deal, for which financial terms were not released, will bring Hiball’s line of organic energy drinks, and sparkling energy waters, as well as Alta Palla drinks under the AB InBev umbrella.

Hiball’s beverages, which use organic ingredients, could help AB InBev appeal to the health-conscious consumers.

Likewise, with AB InBev’s wholesale network, HiBalll and Alta Palla will be able to expand the drinks’ availability.

This isn’t the first time AB InBev has branched out from its alcohol background. The company previously partnered with Starbucks on bottled Teavana tea drinks.

by Ashlee Kieler via Consumerist

Ford To Try To Avoid Recall Of 2.5M Vehicles With Takata Airbags

Last week, federal regulators revealed that millions of additional Ford, Nissan, and Mazda vehicles would be recalled for containing Takata airbag inflators that could explode violently despite containing a chemical meant to lessen the risk of the shrapnel-shooting ruptures. But Ford is looking to avoid another costly recall. 

Reuters reports that Ford will petition the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to avoid the recall of nearly 2.5 million vehicles tied to the recent recall.

Ford’s petition seeks to continue testing and analyzing the inflators included in model year 2007 to 2011 Ranger, 2006 to 2012 Fusion and Lincoln MKZ, 2006 to 2011 Mercury Milan, and 2007 to 2010 Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX.

A rep for NHTSA tells Reuters that the petition will seek an exemption on the grounds that Ford believes the issue is inconsequential.

Under NHTSA’s rules, carmakers have 30 days to submit petitions to recalls. Once a petition is filed, the agency will accept public comment prior to making a decision.

The Recall

Last week’s recall, which came in addition to the 42 million inflators Takata previously recalled, was necessitated after Takata determined that certain driver frontal airbag inflators that use calcium sulfate as a desiccant may rupture due to propellant degradation as a result to exposure to humidity.

The inflators, which were either originally used in the vehicles or used as replacements after a crash, differ from Takata’s previous recalls because they contain calcium sulfate, a chemical meant to be a drying agent.

Takata noted [PDF] that while it was unaware of any ruptured inflators that use a desiccant in vehicles on the road or in lab testing, analysis of the inflators showed a pattern of propellant density reduction over time.

In other words, the chemical can break down over time, becoming less effective in preventing violent airbag inflator ruptures that have been linked to at least 12 deaths in the U.S.

Affected Vehicles

In addition to the Ford vehicles potentially covered by the recent recall, Nissan and Mazda have revealed which of their vehicle models are affected by the recall.

In Nissan’s case, the carmaker says the recall covers about 627,000 model year 2007 to 2012 Versa vehicles with Takata driver side airbag inflators.

In a filing with NHTSA [PDF], Nissan said testing of nearly 900 inflators found no ruptures. However, one exhibited “elevated internal pressure.”

“Upon consultation with NHTSA and out of abundance of caution, Nissan decided to conduct a safety recall on the subject vehicles to address the potential defect identified by Takata,” the recall notice states.

Mazda says that 6,000 of its B-Series pickup trucks are affected by the new recall.

However, a rep for NHTSA tells Reuters that the carmaker will also petition to avoid the recall.

by Ashlee Kieler via Consumerist

NIO Electric Car Start-up Partners with Lenovo

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BlueLine Grid and Cisco Enable Multi-Platform Collaboration

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More Android Disk Space Tips - DIY in 5 Ep 61

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daystAR All-In-One AR Headset

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Auf Amazons Bestsellerliste fehlte neulich Platz 6. Der Titel wurde wohl getilgt. Wer recherchiert, stellt fest: Es handelt sich um das Buch „Finis Germania“, das rechtes Gedankengut enthält.
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SMS an Hanaa: „Wir schlachten dich wie einen Esel“

Mit 15 wurde Hanaa S. zwangsverheiratet, mit 34 befreite sich die Kurdin von ihrem prügelnden Ehemann. Zwei Jahre nach ihrem Verschwinden in Wuppertal wurde jetzt vermutlich ihre Leiche gefunden.
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Seit Mama weg ist

Die Frau unseres Autors ist nach langer Krankheit gestorben. Jetzt ist er alleinerziehend und damit als Mann eine gesellschaftliche Ausnahme – was der Vater von Vincent, 4, oft zu spüren bekommt.
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