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This fits what the Federal Statistical Office reported on the International Family Day these days. After 2011, only lived almost half (49 percent) of the population in Germany in families. 15 years earlier it was 57 percent. Particularly strong is the decline in East Germany. Lived there in 1996 to 58 per cent of households mothers and / or fathers with children together, there are now only 42 percent. Is similarly low proportion of the family in the big cities. About 60 percent of the residents of Berlin or Hamburg live alone without children or parents.

First, people are living longer. If the children have left home, parents often spend another 30, 40 years alone, with your partner / her partner or end in a nursing home, but not necessarily beyond her family. Only they do not live up with their children. Who live for themselves, maybe someday own children visiting their grandparents, and of which they are cared for sometimes or regularly. So the family continues to exist, just not as in earlier times more under one roof.

This trend is especially true in East Germany. Many villages and small towns there depopulated. Especially the boys pull away. 1996, a few years after unification, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had the highest proportion of family still at 63 percent. Meanwhile, he has fallen by a third to 42 percent. Similarly, in Brandenburg, Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. The people opt not necessarily against the family, they only find in many cases not working or training course near.

ROME – Likely other objections, the educational director of the kindergarten San Roman theater of ill-treatment by a teacher over, as the leader, under house arrest. Why Maria Rosaria Citti did not confine itself to avoid detection sull'anziana teacher, Franca Mattei. But he also failed to follow up on all complaints and reports he received from the other in-service teachers in the school. For this reason, in the coming days against him could take a new accusation: omission of official acts or abuse of official acts. THE BULLYING The hypothesis he is working on the Roman prosecutor Eugenio Albamonte, seems to be confirmed by the round of auditions started yesterday morning from the police station area, directed by Adriano Lauro. Teachers and school staff all tell the same story: they saw that something was wrong in Section F. They saw that connects Mattei tugged violently small, with insults shouted at them and forced them to beat with each other for punishment. But when they turned to the manager, were faced with a wall of silence and Omerta, in front of which most of them preferred to surrender. We have not reported the facts because those who persistently pointed these things were marginalized or insulted someone and he was also afraid of losing their jobs, they said. A real mobbing, as reconstructed by investigators, against telling anyone that he had witnessed the violence. Over the last few years, a teacher would have asked to be moved to another section, while not having to work more with my colleague Mattei, while a janitor that signaled the violence the headmaster would have answered: Go clean the c. . . , These things do not concern you. The Recitation of the order of custody, they tell several incidents of violence on the part of the teacher: From the gestures with which he threatens to beat or to pull the neck, the jerks, the pressures and shock, slaps to the face and mouth , struggling mightily to his arm, to the powerful pull of hair. Among the videos recorded by hidden camera, there no 'one in which the teacher is angry with a child, 3 years old, can not remember the date of the play: The teacher then approaches his table and tells him: " F. J. ! On May 30, tell a little '! Repeat immediately there I said! May 30 before repeat it three! If you do not repeat the come and attack you from the chandelier! I will not laugh! Hey, when you do one two? "F. says, "May 30," the teacher urges him "say it louder" and the child repeats "May 30" and the teacher "stronger" the child repeats, "May 30" and the teacher says, "Now you get a slap in the face" . INTERROGATION Both the teacher Franca Mattei, is the leader Maria Rosaria Citti, both under house arrest on charges of ill-treatment of minors, will be heard during the interrogation of guarantee Monday morning, in the offices of the court, by the investigating judge in the presence Elvira Tambourine the prosecutor, Albamonte. Until the conclusion of the investigation, for the prosecution does not intend to distribute to parents of small images of hidden camera that recorded the mistreatment: the objective prevent their testimony or other might be affected.

Since then, the art world Kapoor has brought the most incredible things, barrel-heavy sculptures, for example, can include it in their dimensions with skyscrapers. Documentation from the discovery of a superstar then today has become a big shot of the sculpture to the jockey, the major exhibition centers in the world. This summer, he will be in Berlin on Saturday, he is seen with a retrospective at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, with over 70 works.

And yet, the now 59-year-old remains true to its origins. The sculptural language of living in London since studying Indian artist is unchanged, the interplay of volume and emptiness, suggestion and concrete space. Even the black hole, Descent into Limbo is always dug as a proven track reissue, this time in Hall 5 of the Gropius-Bau. The art department had to vacate her office this because the opening reaches five feet down. For the viewer it has the dimension of the firmament. A small, fine masterpiece.

Kapoor now for almost everything seems possible – of money and technical equipment are not lacking. The danger is that this stage manager of the sublime battle his own material falls victim. That this is not yet happening in Berlin, located on the magical moments of his art. The viewer can feel the pathos of well-calculated, show the effect on the air pressure cannon that a fat lump of red wax ballert every half hour in a corner of the hall, with the bulge of a curved wall, entitled When I am Pregnant. Or in the oversized waxen bell that constantly changes its shape due to heat and is moved from one hour rotating disc back into shape. But despite the severity of his tons of materials resides Kapoor's exploration of the premises of the Gropius-Bau something light and playful held.

This offensive is an answer to dernires menes by Boko Haram attacks and dtrioration the situation in the north-east. In its Declaration, the president Jonathan no longer speak of a criminal group, but a rebellion and it indicates that some parts of the state of Borno, a stronghold of Boko Haram are not under the control of the authorities. It is a dark presentation o transparat a threat to territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country. This has amen dcrter emergency state. This is not the first time he had done in December 2010 in four states. But it was very clear, this time, a deployment of forces and means very important to conduct a direct and unprecedented battle.

There was no radical change in the situation. The problem is that the Federal Planning State seems raliser today the gravity of the situation. But one has the feeling that the state is Introduced as a scuritaire plan concentrs vast areas in rural areas and areas with frontalires Chad and Niger.

m. Maybe that means increased scuritaires and collaboration with neighboring states will enable reduce the strength of Boko Haram. The campaign will last for months and it will not short-term stabilization and normalization. It will be difficult for security forces to identify camps Boko Haram, whose forces are not concentrated, which always has the possibility to disperse within the population, and even beyond the borders.

The problem is that this is not accompanied by clear and audible messages to the civilian population. The fight against Boko Haram will definitely be at the cost of many civilian casualties. In the medium term, there is a risk of radicalization of the population, if it believes that the threat comes as Boko Haram as fdrales forces. Boko Haram members are mostly young Nigrians these regions. They have a foothold in the society, even if they are not popular or majority. Conducting state can have consequences on the tilting part of the population to Boko Haram, but the biggest risk is that the population refuses cooperate with the state and the forces of s SAFETY.

Sleaze, the phenomenon is far from new. Nigerian police said on Wednesday he had discovered a "baby factory" in a house in Enugu, southeast Nigeria, in which girls were locked and made pregnant. Three people suspected of trying to sell future infants were arrested. "Informed by the intelligence services, we raided the house where we found six girls aged less than 17 years since we released" Monday, said a spokesman for police in the area. Two men and a woman suspected of being responsible for child trafficking were arrested during the operation, he said, and they are now cooperating with the police.

In a report on human trafficking published in April 2013, the European Union (EU) has ranked Nigeria as the non-EU countries where this problem is most prevalent. Several other "baby factories" of the same type have been discovered in recent years by the Nigerian police. In May 2011, in Abia State (south-east), the police had freed 32 pregnant girls who reported that they were offered between 25. 000 and 30. 000 naira (between 123 and 148 euros), according to the sex of their baby. The children were then sold to one million naira (4. 940 euros) according to NAPTIP. In some cases, babies are believed to be destined for black magic rituals.

ROME – From Moses to notav of Venice, from civil Frosinone to landfill Chiaiano in Naples, passing less famous works such as photovoltaic plant of San Miniato or the incinerator of Cupello: 354 projects are challenged only in 2012 in Italy, an increase of 7% compared to 2011, and 151 cases emerged for the first time just last year.

YOUR BACKYARD – was revealed by the seventh edition of the Nimby forum, presented yesterday in Rome: NIMBY stands for "Not in my back yard", "not in my backyard," an English expression that sums up the attitude of those who accepts all projects and work schedule, provided they are not made in the vicinity of your own home.

SLOW DEVELOPMENT – Whether that oppositions may be carried out by the citizens (35.6%), public bodies (28.3%) or politicians (23.2%), "the Nimby syndrome is a phenomenon now established in Italy – write the speakers – and the "no" cut across different industrial sectors and "behaving as a result of" a general slowdown in the country's development, boosted by obstacles of administrative and bureaucratic. "

The NO-TRIV – An extreme case is represented by the company Natural Resources Development (Srn), which in the period 2005-2010 has carried out all the steps to proceed with the search for oil in an area between Campania and Molise. The local authorities concerned did not attend all the conferences of services, only to unleash a campaign "No triv 'when the company began its work, appealing to" objections purely general, not to say ideological, "writes the report. As the impasse could have been avoided?

IS THE POPULAR PARTICIPATION – According to the Observatory, setting the stage for popular participation, as was the case in the singular case of Ascoli 21, a project to redevelop a former industrial area of ​​Ascoli Piceno and make it into a park with apartments and a technology hub , science and culture. Successful challenge, thanks to the direct involvement of citizens and local authorities, both public and private.

Nearing retirement, the prison psychologist Jack Mabry is (Robert De Niro) to decide whether the arsonist Gerald "Stone" Creeson (Edward Norton) may be dismissed. After eight years of detention in the unconditional freedom and sets his attractive wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich) plans on the parole examiner. With success, as in Jack's marriage, it has been running for years no longer good. But as Stone Madylyn his wife (Frances Conroy) also draws in the story, they trigger from a disaster.

When two seasoned character actors like Robert De Niro ("Heat") and Edward Norton ("Fight Club") in a triangular relationship with the action Actrice Milla Jovovich together ("The Fifth Element"), it just needs to come out something useful. The thought probably director John Curran ("The Painted Veil") and gave them an unfortunately somewhat inaccessible script in hand. So it makes true fun to watch the perfect game of the stars, but you have to concentrate much so that the actual spark jumps. A strong dialogue psychodrama, whose first acting role stereotyped images contact surprising.

Former NASA employee and astronomer Philip Plait presents on its website, in books and documentaries to know about the universe. In the three-part, produced by the Discovery Channel television series, he reports on entertaining real or perceived dangers that threaten us terrestrials from outer space. The first part is devoted to the topic of asteroids, which appear particularly relevant and realistic in Russia after impact of a large specimen in broad daylight. The second part takes on alien life forms, while the third part describes the effects of astronomical phenomena such as supernova explosions. The single DVD edition of this series already available as a box with the title "Death from Outer Space" will be released in July on the German market. Here Apocalypse interested have the opportunity to strike for little money already in May.

East Frisia, which is the gray-blue sky, the steel blue lights on sunny days. It is brownish-blue watts and the dark blue sea as the East Frisians call the vast ocean. There are also the countless shades of blue of the lakes, which are called the Great Sea or the eternal sea here, and there are many blue of the channels that divide the landscape. Blue is what makes Ostfriesland, and also what the East Frisians made them rich. In the vast plain in the north-west of Germany and the blueprint is a tradition.

The name Blue print is confusing, however, because when originally from India Blaufärbedruck linen or cotton fabrics dyed with indigo blue and not blue printed. Only at the places where beforehand by using printing plates and a sticky mass which seals the fuel very delicate patterns are pressed, the fabric is white.

In every town there were several blue print that from 20 Century were supplanted by the industrial textile production, almost all. In the historic rooms of the East Frisian Teemuseums in the north is still a completely furnished Workshop Blue Print of old. If you want to see something like this in operation, but you have to go to Jever, in one of the last blue print of Germany.

In an old storage house where the blue print Georg Stark granted a glimpse into the history of the craft and the indigo trade. The forms that hang on the walls (in Kattrepel 3), are up to 400 years old and are used according to the old tradition of craftsmanship. The mostly carved from pear wood and additionally refined with metal pins and metal fittings pressure patterns are first coated with Druckpapp. Every dyer has its own, sometimes centuries old recipe this waxy sticky mass of rubber sap, clay, alum, copper grid (green chip), sulfate, and other constituents is.

From the substances with the tendril-like patterns tablecloths, curtains, cushion covers and also skirts or dresses were made. The indigo color is not simply thrown away after dyeing, but it was so often used again until the blue was depleted. And despite dominance of the color blue in East Frisia: at least blue wastewater before it was therefore not in the East Frisian channels.

After the collapse of a building housing the textile mills, which has more than one. 000 dead near Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on 24 April, the scandal over working conditions extends gradually to all brands. Clothes and branded labels In Extenso (an Auchan brand), Auchan, Carrefour and Camaïeu were found in the rubble, according to BFM TV.

"It is quite possible that these three groups did not even know that their products were manufactured there" and have therefore used, without knowing these plants, says Nayla Ajaltouni, the coordinator of the group on Ethics label in Le Parisien dated Wednesday. But she denounces the pressure from western retailers on local producers, driven to produce at low cost, even cut back on the working conditions of the workers. On Tuesday, H & M and Inditex Group (the parent company of Zara, in particular) have apologized and made arrangements to improve safety in these plants.

Highlighting the risks of its support for Syrian rebels, the attack Reyhanli forced Turkey to press more than ever the international community to act against the regime in Damascus to counter the growing risk of spillover of the conflict. Immediately past the shock of the double explosion in the Turkish border town, which is 48 dead and over a hundred injured, the authorities in Ankara have questioned Saturday the responsibility of the Syrian government and assured that he had crossed a "red line" allowing him to "take any action" in retaliation.

"Considering the departure of Bashar al-Assad inevitable, Turkey has sought to destabilize supporting the political and armed opposition in Syria," observes Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute. "But this failed with the serious consequences that the attacks have highlighted Saturday," he adds, "Ankara can no longer consider themselves immune from the effects of war." Attack Reyhanli included more than 80 Turkish citizens were the direct victims of Syrian events since their inception in 2011. Five of them were killed by shells fired from Syria in October. And in February, a suicide car bomb had 17 victims at a border post.

Challenged by protesters Reyhanli and his political opponents, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried Sunday to restore calm in calling on everyone to "keep his cool against every provocation to draw Turkey into the Syrian quagmire" . As he himself said Monday at a press conference, the Prime Minister intends to now, in light of the attack Reyhanli, enjoying his visit in Washington on Friday to "ask" to President Barack Obama to intervene more strongly in the crisis.

If the United States through NATO agreed to deploy in Turkey batteries Patriot ground-to-air missiles, they rejected the idea of ​​Ankara a no-fly zone over Syria and especially reluctant to deliver weapons to the Syrian rebels, lest they fall into the hands of his faction the most Islamized and radical. According to the Turkish press, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and intends to present to the American president evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the regime in Damascus, one of the "red lines" set by the U.S. administration.