Fighters Podolski has a heart for children

Cologne - a pop star. Fighters. Scorer. Even if the trial went into the pants, when Lukas Podolski was 1:3 in Koblenz, that he is the champion jersey in the FC.
He grabbed the ball in the penalty - and showed, after the shot went awry, character. Times frustrated, he shot off a ball, when he a little too late.
He unselfishly passed to Derek Boateng, instead of shooting itself. Then Poldi was still his goal, but refrained from any joy, because previously in his team.
"The tests are unimportant. We are on the right track. The first half we struggled, we have shown, however, good football, "Podolski said afterward. "We have a hard season ahead of us. In three weeks we have to be ready. "
Spake and went outside, where hundreds of screaming teenagers waiting for their idol. He took time for the fans, said busy signing autographs. Just like on Tuesday after practice when a kindergarten group eagerly awaiting the signature of the Prince.
"Man, that's great," enthused Tim Little on the autograph of cute prince. Perhaps he will even converted, because actually the little indeed loves Schalke ...
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Alert: Hospitals will run out of blood

Dusseldorf - A nightmare: you will be admitted to the hospital - and the doctors and nurses lack the life-blood!
Yet this vision of horror is not reality, but it threatens us all, if they will not soon be more blood donors. The NRW Ministry of Health sounded the alarm bell.
Minister Karl-Josef Laumann recommends urgent action: "In our country every day 3000 blood donations needed - but only three percent of the population donate blood. This is clearly not enough! "According to the German Red Cross (DRC) should hospitals because of lack of blood supply is already moving operations.
"The problem: Many regular donors drop out by reaching the age of 68 years, or health reasons. On the other hand can not be won yet younger in the same way as blood donors, "said the minister.
This assessment is confirmed by the spokesman for the Red Cross blood donation service in the West in Ratingen, Heinz Kapschak: "The situation is really dramatic! We need for the administrative districts of Cologne and Dusseldorf in 1200 units of blood each day - but have since May, on average only 800 per day. This means: We do not have day 30 to 40 percent in order to deliver the claimed requirements. "
Kapschak fears that the situation will soon be even more threatening: "In the second week of January we are threatened with a real" donor hole "- then start the clinics after the new year to operate again. In the first three months of the year, there is a huge demand! "
Also in Düsseldorf surgery clinics will already have been postponed due to lack of blood to confirm - that was, however, none of the hospitals surveyed by the EXPRESS spokesman. "Bottlenecks" vacate the Spokesman one course.

Swap Sissi against Housewives

Dusseldorf - The first day after Christmas - traditionally the day are exchanged in the unloved gifts. So also on Thursday.
Report to the CEO with the big department stores in Düsseldorf that the trend is decreasing. The trend is for a shopping voucher. Since anyone can bestow itself.
Melis Dag student circled with a Sissi DVD by the Hi-Fi department: "My grandma meant well, but unfortunately not to my taste." They opted for a box set of Desperate Housewives, exchanged one against Sissi .
 Anna Moroz stood patiently in the long line on the ground floor of the Galeria Kaufhof an der Kö. Above the right arm with a light blue sweater and left a gray. "I have a light blue. I now take the gray. "
A further fund Ulrich link with a pair of waiting slippers in his hand. "I've given my daughter, but they do not fit. Unfortunately, they are also not in the correct size. "The Düsseldorf, submitted his purchasing document and got back his unhesitatingly 6.50 euros.
"We exchange but also without, at the Bon," said Udo Hochkeppel, department manager at C & A on the Schadowstraße. "Even when we are strong again this year been exchanged. Above all, the embarrassment of solutions, such as socks, ties and lingerie. Experience shows that men in exchange restrained than women. "
Sweaters and sleepwear were clearly the favorites in the exchange. A trend which Christoph Sattler (Karstadt) and Günther knee (Galeria Kaufhof) unanimously confirmed.

28-year-old's dismembered Saufkumpel

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Berlin - a dreadful confession on the phone has Mario Z. (28) killed a man who dismembered the corpse and buried in a thicket.
A short time later, he calls for the Berlin police and described the incredible crimes - ice cold and calmly.
"Good evening, I've killed before not too long ago a man!" Says Mario R. at the policemen. Officials stops listening to the breath.
Calmly inform the 28-year-old with the officials that he had cut the corpse after the murder, put the pieces on the freight station Wilmersdorf. Immediately, the investigators rush to the station. You can find a male torso, without arms, without legs, without heads - packed in a bag.
During the subsequent search of available housing in the fine Schöneberg Polizis th in the freezer by Mario Z. arms and legs of the victim. The head is gone, this Z has not yet declared.
First, the difficulties investigators, the victim of the perverse butcher to have identified at all. But in the course of the investigation is clear: There will be a drunkard from the environment around the Zoo Station.
He is said to have been with Mario Z. Zech on tour before he brutally murdered and dismembered.

"In German stadiums will be refereed much too fast"

Leave Moenchengladbach - "Rear running the ball forward you can dribble!"
Borussia Big Boss Hans Meyer on Friday gave instructions to the vocal nerves battle against Energie Cottbus.
"The water is up to our necks. Nerve pressure is right there. Leave two or three points that would take me deep in the marrow, "Meyer admits. "I'm not writing every single player asked if he can not sleep. But in such a situation it makes it stop before any player, from the head that it is exhausting. "
Gladbach coach is aware of the enormous importance of the duel. "Games against immediate rivals decide by the first league. If you lose at home and in Cottbus, opens up one of the competitors is a deep hole, "Meyer said. "For the nerves of its own, it would be good if you keep the distance to one of four contractors or ausbaust." With a 'trinity' Gladbach could remove five points from the table bottom.
"In German stadiums will be refereed much too fast. I have surrendered myself to the fallacy that in Gladbach not as fast as happens elsewhere "is, to Meyer. "90 percent of our viewers are absolutely for us and survive even a bad phase in the game. But there are ten percent, the bleat and scream very quickly. Unfortunately, fans, whose hearts are totally beats for the club, infected by them. "
Meyer urges patience "to overcome oneself and also provide a gap for additional support and stand right behind the troops, is much easier than at any time again for twelve months in the 2 League to be. "

Medical Officer: Schumi can take up to 60

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Michael Schumacher (41) looking fit after his passed endurance test in the GP2 car> in Jerez ahead: "I feel. Hey, it can start again! "
His fans, Mercedes, and the entire Formula 1 hope that it does not deceive his feelings. Holding his neck from the increased burdens in the silver arrow? Certainty brings just the test on 1 February in Valencia. But now a renowned race doctor surprised with the following conclusion: Schumi can also travel with 60 yet!
"First of all, younger people have it easier to really get into shape," said Dr. Steve Olvey, a doctor in the U.S. IndyCar series. "But there is also the astonishing fact that you can build with a lot of desire and passion as a 60-year-old still at least 90 to 95 percent of the fitness of a 20-year-olds. Even the muscle still works perfectly at that age. "
Olvey neurosurgeon who treated even Schumi-mate Felipe Massa after the horrific crash in August, cleans up well with the prejudice that allow for responsiveness with advancing age: "The you can keep the same level. Provided however, that certain things you are training constantly. For example, the interaction of eye and hand. As suitable, for example, computer games. "
In that respect Schumi is a pattern of returnees, he trained the body and reflexes in kart and on the bike and not with Daddelspielen.