"If Lena smiles, I'm so happy"

Dusseldorf - This is not about to give life more days - but the days more life ...
Can accurately express what is happening in Düsseldorf Kinderhospiz Regenbogenland not describe.
The colorful building at the Torfbruchstraße in Gerresheim is a home for terminally ill children and their families.
To give these children living and dying with dignity, has a dedicated group together and formed a support.
CEO Leo Icks (71) for EXPRESS: "The concept of the House provides that the affected children find their parents and siblings for a few days or weeks of recovery from everyday life. Maximum we can accommodate eight children, of whom we care, where appropriate, around the clock. "
16 specially trained nurses are available for the children. One of them, Jacqueline Lorber (is 24), as part of their training just a guest student in the rainbow country.
Meanwhile, they found working in the hospice: "A job that gives me an awful lot!" One of her patients) is Lena (four years old. The girl is severely disabled, lebenslimitiert, totally dependent on the help of the nurse.
"If I manage to coax Lena once a day, a smile, I'm incredibly happy." And just as able to do this? "Lena is very excited when I read to her. As a reaction, and sometimes she smiles when he comes ... "
 The Rainbow Country is 95 percent funded by donations. A Pflegetag costs around 600 euros. The fund pays 79 euros. Leo Icks: "Without donations running to us, therefore, of course, nothing at all.
For this reason, we are incredibly happy that Astrid Elbers, wife of OB Dirk Elbers, the patron of the rainbow country has taken over. "
Who else wants to know more about the children's hospice, or who wish to donate can go on the internet:-regenbogenland.de children's hospice

Prison sentence for stalker

Bonn - Stalkerin Monica E. (48, name changed): The district court ordered the bank employees on Donnertag for adjustment to 14 months on probation.
For years, E. Heue has its 70-year-old ex-lover with telephone terror and its neighborhood plagued with abusive letters covered. For the first time the stalker yesterday admitted: "I've made it as automatic."
In the visiting room of the women's prison she has confessed everything to her husband Wednesday. Yes, she had her ex-lover for four years covered in very violent stalking.
The fact that Monica a hot sex affair with married man was that the husband already knew. On Thursday, it also followed the confession in the courtroom.
So far, Monica E. had used every trick to deny the affair. Nevertheless, she had locked the official judge for re-offending in prison - until now E. came free.
The confession of the stalker from Bonn-Pützchen: "It was a mill, from which I no longer came out, a self-propelling. I could not help it. "And:" I wanted to meet him and so angry. Everything was in the pamphlets, was fictitious. "The Deserted smeared her own car, then slide it to the ex-lover in the shoes.
Even on holiday in Croatia had the ex-lover and his wife have no rest. There, too, Monica E. denigrated the man as a child molester. The fare can be had Bonn in the Croatian police, a seven hour interrogation about themselves.
Prosecuting Attorney Claudia Trauzettel: "The wife is affected by the stalking very bad." Plaintiff's lawyer, Robert Schallenberg: "This stalking case because of its intensity falls out of line."
Monica E. said it would pay 12,500 euros to pain and suffering. It must also make psychotherapy.

Oil breakdown: ICE paralyze rail

Cologne - An ICE 3 operated by Deutsche Bahn has to stop amSamstagabend lost on the open road between Cologne and Leverkusen around 200Liter oil and had to.
As a Deutsche Bahn spokesman told amSonntag could, the 127 passengers for a half hour wait in a Ersatzzug change. The route had to be closed to rundsechs hours to clean the tracks to. The ICEwird because of the loss of transformer oil now in the train depot in Kölnuntersucht.
   The train driver did not notice the loss of oil through an ad in seinemFahrstand said railway spokesman. There had been a question of biodegradable oil. For the passengers had never existed Zeitpunkteine danger.
The cause of the "very rare incident," the spokesman istnach information not previously known. Because derStreckensperrung led to delays in rail traffic.
   On 9 July 2008 was a German Intercity Express train both exit from the Cologne Central Station derailed. Blame wareine broken wheel axle. The approximately 250 passengers arrived with demSchrecken them. Previously, the ICE was on dieHochgeschwindigkeitsstrecke will come from Frankfurt, which drove up zu300 kilometers per hour.

Layla: The rocking Cinderella

Cologne - "Always on the ball and never give up!" This sentence is for Layla Milou anything else than just a slogan saying. No, she lives it.
I, the X-struck scout Danilo, the 21-year-old. Full of energy she rocks by the punk-rock scene. After two years of hard work is now her album "The Pink Parade" on the shelves.
From rousing punk-pop song to the stylish Balade - Layla is a rocking Cinderella. A tour is planned for autumn 2010, work on the second album in full swing. "It is chronological, but more grown up. But the recognition value will remain."
By Castingshows Layla holds nothing. Withdraw hochpuschen and is not Jugner for the power lady. Because they prefer places emphasis on the most important. "Man should grow in his music and fight for it. From very small to very large." To compete, they loose it says: "It is good for business, awakens the ambition in one and I see all this positive," said the 21-year-old.

Son (28) mother's throat cut by

Kerpen - Peter Geisler (63) sits crying in front of a photo album and look at pictures.
They show his wife who lovingly holds her baby in her arms. 28 years ago was. Now she is dead - killed by the son.
1969 married his barber Master Peter Geisler Anne Marie. In 1970 he opened his salon. When the little quay 1981 saw the world, seemed perfectly happy. Peter Geisler: "We had four employees. We went really well. Kai was a very dear child. "
Kai received his secondary school, but he did not get an apprenticeship. "Suddenly, he drank more often. He did not go to work, we pulled him through, "said the father.
In 2002, the young man experienced the separation of his parents, but they remained married on. Kai lived with his mother in the Beisselstraße. Increasingly, she had bruises. "She then always lied that she had hurt himself," said Peter Odle softly.
He knew the truth: His son freaked out in a frenzy, violated the mother's Carnival, for example so badly that she was 14 days in the hospital. "My wife had forgiven him, because Kai made a withdrawal in Zülpich."
But Kai has relapsed. Tuesday evening he phoned his mother, who was staying out of fear more and more often at the home of his father. "He said she should come home."
Unsuspecting Anne Marie (was 61) to her son. He waited for her. There was a dispute over money. Kai Geisler took a knife in a drunken stupor - and cut his mother's throat. He wandered through the house, then finally called the police at around 0.35 clock and said: "I killed my mother."
Kai Geisler was tried for manslaughter in the U Haft.Unfassbar: From the death of his wife told Peter Geisler after eight hours from a neighbor - because the detectives had not notified him. The incident is now being investigated polizeiintern.

Giant Crash longest Desch

Cologne - Big air at the "Longest Desch vun Kölle": On 19-20. September is the road to miles of Severin counter.
Calculated at 30 Anniversary, there's trouble with the New City Project organizers, who wants to refresh the fete, but reaps huge protests. Reason: complaints about high Außenstandmieten.
"The audacity, the killing off our business," said Athanasios Liomis the Apollo Grill. "For my two-yard barbecue I've always paid 350 euros, 595 euros this year."
Six and a half months after the city archive of collapse, many dealers are fighting the Severinstraße still with the consequences: the endless construction site outside the door, lack of clientele. "Now we are also ripped off yet," says Rico Banderras (Schmitz took over the Long and opened Rico's Saloon).
"In the first contract, we should both stores - three times each six-meter booth - to pay $ 1500. We were in front of the saloon caipirinha, offering beer and pork, in the long Schmitz soup and beer. Was banned. Sold and serviced according to the contract must be from within. But the tables and benches are still cost us $ 500. "
Also Reza Mrehravar kiosk owner complains: "I can not even sell drinks grilling outside. Now I do not even notice. "Beverage distributors Dieter Borghoff said:" It's like on the bazaar: everyone pays different rates. They should be like last year. We paid for our ten-meter-counter always 720 euros. Suddenly it's 1500th The interest group Severinstraße IGS had runtergehandelt City Project in 1000, but we do not get too clean. We are starting to tell. "
 Hans Flock, director of City Project Event GmbH explains: "We were hired to improve the quality of the event - away from the trestle table level. The plan provides that anyone can sell outside his shop, as he usually offers in there, that the stage show will be improved and we set up tents uniform. That costs. "
Tables and chairs cost 34 euros per meter. But who out there offering food and drink, pays much more, because that indeed it could also provide more revenue. Flock: "If people do not want the new concept, okay. Then next time we are not just partners. "

Breast poster provides noise in the CDU

Berlin - Next Giant vortices around the breasts poster of Angela Merkel and CDU politician Vera Lengsfeld!
While the Chancellor is silent, run high in the CDU, the waves. Vera Lengsfeld (CDU) defends himself: "This is not sex, but humor."
The Chancellor and the CDU politician Lengsfeld (57, ex-rights activist in the GDR) - deep decollete can see they are currently at 750 electoral posters in Berlin-Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg.
 Vera Lengsfeld helped herself with a photograph of the Chancellor from a visit to the opera in Oslo. She says: "It was a deliberate provocation." To conclude with the image of the local CDU as "old-man beer belly-party." But the Breast posters suitable for a campaign?
Maria Böhmer, chairwoman of the Women's Union, to the Express: "This is pure grandstanding. I put on content and not on such profiling experiments. When I saw the poster, I thought that we have not yet needed. I hope that the desired effect of the attention will quickly fizzle out. "
 Unions also Group Vice Wolfgang Bosbach is not enthusiastic. The CDU politician to EXPRESS: "That one time in the campaign also needs to take chances, I think is right. Nothing speaks against a clever idea. But if it's the absolutely necessary? "
He is safe, "Angela Merkel and the CDU Germany would certainly not come out with a win at neckline. The Chancellor would be advised to be very good if they would just turn the page. "
 Vera Lengsfeld (2005 she retired from the Bundestag, will now be more than one direct reingewählt) understands the excitement at all.
For EXPRESS she says: "I now had almost 20,000 visitors to my web page. Many posters have been stolen, and one offered me by e-mail, even $ 200 for it. That shows me that my action has arrived. "
A little queasy but it was already, as soon after the action, an employee of Thomas de Mazière, the head of the Chancellery, called. Then she thought: "Now off you go."
But instead of a curtain lecture she heard an apology - that could come from de Mazière scheduling reasons, unfortunately, not on its next reading.
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