One person in eight is sore

Hamburg / Cologne - underweight, missing teeth, ulcers. The health status of many elderly people is frightening. Frequently they die neglected and lonely. This is the result of a new study.
The death brings to light some truth. For while many old, lonely people have no one to whom they can confide in, their bodies often tell a lot about her last months. Professor Klaus Püschel, Head of Legal Medicine at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, has investigated more than 8,500 corpses of people who were older than 60 years. The results could be transferred to the whole Federal Republic. And they are alarming. "Old people often die alone and neglected." Particularly dramatic is the physical condition of many dead.
The results:
• were underweight, 15 percent of the average 81-year-old man.
• With a gastric tube through the abdominal wall were fed artificially for nearly seven percent - in third was the inflamed skin at the entry point.
• A Druckliegegeschwür (decubitus) had one in eight. A total of 3.3 percent were the wounds even to the bone.
• No teeth or dentures, six percent of deaths in the mouth. Only 2.7 percent had a complete dentition with no dental restorations.
"Druckliegegeschwüre are in care in North Rhine-Westphalia a big problem," says Lothar scratch by the Hospital Association NRW. The staffing situation was extremely tense. Even Christoph Treiß, Managing Director of the National Federation free outpatient nursing NRW, knows the problem. At the same time he stressed: "NRW is not care-Wild-West." Eugen Brysch, Chief of the German Hospice Foundation, calls for tougher sanctions: "Illegal parking is punishable in Germany consistently than injury to people in need of care."
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Penis cut off - he forgave her in TV show

Los Angeles - your name makes men tremble to this day. Lorena Bobbitt castrated 16 years ago during an argument her husband John.
Now they found themselves the first time - in the television show "The Insider" on U.S. television. A notable presence: For John (now 42 and long since fully "functional") has forgiven his ex-wife, sent her greetings, even love - for example on Valentine's. Lorena Bobitt: "Maybe he thinks still, we were married."
Lorena has less romantic feelings for John. He came on Tattag, 23 June 1993, drunk from a party went by himself to his wife. The revenged himself as he slept. In the TV: "I remember to this day, as I was holding in one hand and his penis in the other, the bloody knife."
Remorse feels the beauty not because of it. "You gave me back then driven to it," she said their ex's face. The even apologized: "Sorry that I have not loved you so, as you had earned."

Switzerland has made me Jeck

Bonn - Sometimes you can hear the chanting of the Rhine with him, "weatherman" Sven Plöger (42) is a real Bonner!
Born here and raised. Almost every day we graduate the meteorologist said on TV the highs and lows - not only for the "evening news", but also in the "Morning Magazine" ARD "or the" Current Time ".
 Plöger part of the team of the Swiss Wettergurus Joerg Kachelmann. In the weather center in Gais Plöger lives. After a good 13 years in Switzerland: How much is there still left Rhineland?
Plöger in perfect Bönnsch: "Of course I still put in a Bonner. I am a regular here. Is odd: In my time I was not in the Rhineland Karnevalsjeck. But since I live in Switzerland, I come every year for extra Weiberfastnacht to Bonn and make friends with one on it. "
The change was a big change. Gais has just 2,700 inhabitants. Plöger: "Bonn is a real city. I love to walk along the Rhine, or drinking a Kölsch in "Bönnsch." The gliding leads me here often. I made 20 years ago in Hangelar soaring ticket. "
Now we have to make do without his weather forecasts: Plöger flies on 22 July to China. "Then is the longest solar eclipse of the century, I have to of course be there."

Giant Tim (2, 11) makes the baskets much

Bonn - insiders had expected it, since Tuesday, it's official: The Telekom Baskets Bonn have committed international Tim Ohlbrecht. The 21-year-old signed for two years in the runner-up.
When I see a Tim Ohlbrecht hole, then I know what I'm doing. I know what he can. "With this sentence Bonn coach Mike Koch tries to stifle critics of all votes in the bud. "I have the task of developing the players here, and I look forward to extreme."
And the coach sees only good in this change. "Mike Koch is an ideal coach for Tim. From this transfer will benefit three sides: the baskets, the national team - and Tim himself, "says Dirk Bauermann in conversation with EXPRESS. "It is gratifying when you are committed by young German international top teams in the league."
Thus, the cadres of the baskets for the 2009/2010 season is complete. Besides came Ohlbrecht Jared Jordan (Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius / LIT), Bryce Taylor (Premiata Montegranaro / ITA), and Chris Ensminger (Paderborn) new to the team. Remaining are John Strasser, Vincent Yarbrough, Artur Kolodziejski, John Bowler, Patrick Flomo, Alex King and the two youngsters Fabian Thüllig and Jonas Wohlfahrt-Botter man.
The baskets have left EJ Rowland (Vanoli Soresina / ITA), Matthias von Heydebrand (SG Sechtem), Ken Johnson, Winsome Frazier, Brandon Bowman, Tim Clifford and Kevin Lubanzadio (all target) is still unknown.
On Friday, the new team will travel (but still without Ohlbrecht) their training camp in Rotenburg an der Fulda () until September 11. The international will by 20 September to join his new colleagues. Then ends the European Championship in Poland, which denies the 2.11-meter-range chicken with the DBB. Koch sees no problem: "First, he stands in the juice when he comes to us. Second, many other teams also have the problem that players will do so only later. That's how it is in basketball. "

Sold for 10,000 euros to Transe

Hamburg - Hamburg Bizzrarer process. Because his friends asked him for $ 10,000 to a sold transvestite sex with him and he wanted to put the now accused Yusuf's "buyer's order."
On 25 June sought the then 19-year-old Yusuf construction workers a place to sleep. He found him in the transvestite "Silvana" (middle Valjed example). Friends I had sold for 10,000 euros to Silvana.
When he appeared in the Hamburg apartment, found him almost the blow: "He said I had to do whatever he wanted from me because he had paid a lot for me," said I. According to the Hamburger Morgenpost. "
Then it was pressed as, taken his passport. "He wanted to make sex with me, but I've never done sex with a man. The fact that he does with men, I have only learned since."
But I would not. Silvana He threatened with a knife. In court, he now said: "I wanted only to frighten him, but he was not afraid, because I have stabbed."
39 times chopping Yusuf on his victim is a. When the still resisted, he struck him a VCR over the head and fled. Valjdet B. aka Silvana died soon afterwards.