Riots in Stockholm: Rioters attack police station
Posted on 23 May 2013 | Comments Off
Stockholm – On the fourth night in a row there has been riots in Sweden. The unrest reportedly attacked Swedish newspapers on the southern suburbs of Stockholm. Districts in the capital, there have also been incidents – as a police station in Stockholm had been set on fire. The fire was quickly extinguished but can be.
There had been injured at least one policeman, it said. Five people were arrested for attempted arson. Youth had thrown stones and smashed windows. Overall, about 30 cars were destroyed, burnt down a restaurant. The fire department had never have to fight so many fires at the same time, a police spokesman said. Also in Malmo are three cars burst into flames, police reported.
In Husby, a suburb north of Stockholm, it was first came last Sunday to unrest, they have since been flared up again every night. Background should be the death of a 69-year-old, whom the police – had shot – according to official figures in self-defense.
After the shooting vehicles had gone up in flames in Husby, teenagers pelted forces of police and firefighters with stones. Similar scenes occurred a little later in Fittja south of Stockholm, and in other suburbs.
Sweden's justice minister Beatrice Ask was called attacks on police or rescue workers as unacceptable. You can see why many residents were concerned in the suburbs and Husby and angry, Ask said. "Social exclusion is a serious cause of many problems, we understand that"
India successfully test for a naval missile BrahMos
Posted on 23 May 2013 | Comments Off
India Wednesday successfully tested its naval cruise missile BrahMos launched for the first time since the frigate Tarkash built in Russia, told RIA Novosti source in the Indian Defense Ministry. "The missile has maneuvered along the fixed path and destroyed its target," said the interlocutor of the agency. According to him, the BrahMos missiles will equip three frigates built in Russia under the 2006 contract: the Tarkash the Teg and Trikand. The first two vessels are already in service, Trikand should soon arrive in India Kaliningrad (Russian enclave on the Baltic). The first missiles of this class were delivered to the Indian armed forces in 2005. They are manufactured by the Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos founded in 1998. The company takes its name from the first syllables of the Indian river Brahmaputra and Russia's Moskva River. It is a supersonic missile solid rocket weighing 2.55 tons. 8.3 meters long, has a diameter of 0.67 meters. With a warhead of 200 to 300 kg, the BrahMos is capable of neutralizing targets at a distance of 290 km.
How to organize a conference on Syria
Posted on 22 May 2013 | Comments Off
Russian and U.S. diplomats are working hard to convene from 10 June in Geneva for several days international conference on Syria bringing together for the first time in two years of conflict, opponents and members of the regime to reach a negotiated transition of power in Damascus.
The delegation of a dozen members of the opposition is still under investigation. Two schemes are developed. The first is to send in Geneva five representatives of the National Coalition, the main opposition group, dubbed by Europe and the United States, five of the National Coordination, a secular opposition movement close enough Moscow and five rebel Free Syrian Army. "The Americans want to both sides, soldiers are present in Geneva for discussions on local cease-fire can start quickly," says one opponent also active behind the scenes. But some opponents are hostile, believing that the involvement of the military in Geneva process is premature. Moscow would have agreed with this argument.
The other option, perhaps more realistic, is to meet four opposition groups. The first compound Moaz al-Khatib, a former president of the National Coalition and moderate its sides (Abdelkarim Bakar probably) Islamist. A second round of four leaders of the coalition, probably with his head Riad Seif and his side a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood, Farouk Tayfour. "But no more a Muslim Brother, says the opponent. Americans and Russians agree on it. "The third group associate Michel Kiloet Bouni al-Walid, who froze their participation in the National Coalition. The last meet four leaders of the National Coordination around Mannar and Haytham Nasser Raja auxquel "could join an opponent inside Louaï Hussein.
Report of the Court of Auditors: “Overall fair, but stern”
Posted on 22 May 2013 | Comments Off
The report of the Court of Auditors, which lists all the menu malfunction of the French education does not fall steeply to the Minister of National Education Vincent Peillon. For teachers, already quite annoyed by the reform of school rhythms may not taste the potions – far more radical! – Concocted by the sages of the rue Cambon. At the point of jeopardizing the new projects of the Minister, which will open in the fall? Rue de Grenelle, trying to keep his composure: "This report is generally accurate and useful, but it is severe enough it does not forward the recent developments." – Implied the changes carried out by the current majority …
Other point designated by the Court of Auditors, which leaves the skeptic ministry assignments teachers unrelated to the real needs of students in the field. "This is less true. Management tools we have staff makes finer than before and rather snugly over the needs of the field assignments." Similarly, the desire of the Court to recruit teachers of middle and high school at the Academy rather than national level (to refine the management of human resources) does not convince: "Some problem areas are already struggling to attract teachers, if we break the game national assignments, it will be worse. " In other words, no future secondary teacher will want to pass the CAPES or aggregation in the toughest academies, whereas today they are appointed by the State.
The Government also considers as "a possible lead" one of the recommendations of the Court changing teacher evaluations today '"visited" by the inspectors on average every 7 to 10 years and in a rather bureaucratic. "It is possible to arrange a visit every 3 or 4 years, which is more qualitative" 'advance do you. A site there as hard thorny because it is accompanied by a greater margin of maneuver left to principals who, in fact, be more active today in the evaluation of "" their "teachers. Suffice to say that the face of teachers' unions, the game is not won.
Microsoft unveils Xbox One
Posted on 22 May 2013 | Comments Off
The new weapon of the Redmond giant wants to establish itself as a platform for interactive entertainment and compete at both the Nintendo Wii U and Sony PS4 but also the box Apple and Google.
The future platform entertainment called Microsoft Xbox One. Because it will bring together in one box several functions: advanced console video games, platform content aggregation TV and video and a computer room that will bring understanding to the TV and used to communicate.
Eight years after the Xbox 360, modernized in 2010 with its accessory voice control and motion recognition Kinect, Don Mattrick, president of the interactive entertainment division of Microsoft, presented Tuesday night the new game console in the U.S. group. One of Microsoft's Xbox is the last of his generation to be presented. The Nintendo Wii U is released, with mixed success, since the end of 2012. And Sony PlayStation 4 has been partially revealed in February.
For its part, the Xbox One, which has been shown, "is the result of our last four years of development," said Don Mattrick. It automatically recognizes the faces of console users, without the need for an access code, using the Kinect accessory has been redesigned. Xbox One may propose specific content choices for each user based on the activities carried out previously and watched programs. It should be "simple, instant and comprehensive to provide a new experience in the living room for games, television and entertainment," said Don Mattrick. "We must go as fast as the TV remote control to switch from one channel to the other," said Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment. Xbox One, with its voice command functions, to replace the remote control to watch TV, listen to music, use the communications software Skype, surf the web or just playing.
In Redmond, from the headquarters of the software world champion, in front of 200 journalists from around the world, Don Mattrick presented the weapon to open "a new generation of games, television and entertainment." It is a challenge for the next decade. Xbox One must serve to strengthen the presence of Microsoft's interactive entertainment and bury the box from its competitors Apple and Google, the AppleTV and GoogleBox. It will be "marketed worldwide by the end of the year," said Don Mattrick, without disclosing the price. The launch would be spread across countries, giving priority to the United States and Great Britain, where the previous console is the best selling.
Specific content will also be offered, including a television series, inspired by Halo, the production was given to Steven Spielberg. In addition, exclusive footage of the game Call of Duty Activision Ghosts, directed by Infinity Ward will be available for future Microsoft console. The football game Fifa 14 Electronic Arts will also be launched, as well as three other sports games in the U.S. group. In addition, Microsoft studios develop 15 specific games for the first year of Xbox One, which will be 8 new titles. Other games will be announced in a fortnight, at the international exhibition of video games E3 in Los Angeles.
Women's Football: Wolfsburg celebrates the double – and even triple that?
Posted on 19 May 2013 | Comments Off
Jana Burmeister has a sense of what the women's game could use more good for Popularity voltage. So the keeper of VfL Wolfsburg thought in the 65th Minute of the Cup Finals against Turbine Potsdam that they still have to provide some more thrills.
In the previous minutes, turbine had after a 0-3 down to goals from Martina Müller (44/52) and Conny polers (55) by Lisa Evans (59) and a penalty of Yuki Ogimi (62) been fighting. And then the shoe laces of Jana Burmeister opened exactly at the moment when she wanted to get the ball after a cross intercepted by teeing into play again. The 24-year-old, apparently infected by the nervousness of their rearguard, desperately searching for a helper who may tie their shoes. Lena Goessling recognized the pleading is not really and so the final woman of her team-mate ran to meet up. Unfortunately, Goessling was outside the box and the goalkeeper had the ball in his hand. "I do not know what I've done here," Jana Burmeister said after the game. "I guess I just wanted to make it exciting again. "
There was penalized for Potsdam and probably a handful of misery Jana Burmeister would take a radiant winner just left, would have taken the opportunity to compensate turbine. Instead, however, saved the German champions Wolfsburg from the lead to the finish and thus secured after winning the first league title in the club's history now also the first Cup victory and consequently also the first double. Next Thursday (21 clock / in euro sports live), the club could be the success story even expand to triple by winning the Champions League – the "she-wolves" could therefore be a role model for the men of Bayern Munich who aspire to the same athletic feat . However, the final opponent of the Wolfsburg women in London is the last three years unbeaten national and international champions Olympique Lyon.
By the successes of the past few weeks, the women of the work clubs have obviously worked out well, at least have the decency possibly also the respect of the powerful men in the Volkswagen city. In the stands in Cologne therefore sat next to President Gauck a remarkably star-studded delegation from Wolfsburg. Not only the mayor and the manager responsible for women's football Grunewald man watched, but also VW supervisory board Garcia Sanz, men's coach Dieter Hecking and manager Mike Schüssler proved the women's honor. "You should recognize what the women do," Allofs said. "They are also a team that is part of the VfL. "Above all, they are the team of VfL which currently enters significantly more encouraging results than those of men.
Chanel: The spirit of the fragrance
Posted on 19 May 2013 | Comments Off
Originally, underlines the curator, "the double-C has appeared on the stopper of the flacons, on the glass! Not on the label. And that changes everything." Even the digit Five already plays in Aubazine as an element of the esoteric Numerology a role. You dominates the monastery Architecture, is imprinted in walls, doors and floors. In the Catholic mysticism stands the Five for the quintessence and the spirit. But in Paris one will drawings, paintings, scores, letters, vials, hats, Dada-objects, see a garden and a small black.
With twenty Chanel is a small province seamstress that deserves itself as cabaret Spatz a Zubrot. Then they rises to to the sustained girls and gets as toys by her beau 1910, a Hutatelier in Paris. But now the events about beat. Than themselves the wants to sell hats and expand Chanel, you ranges they to the English mine owners Boy Capel further, of the her great love will not only, but her represents also his business sense available. With Boys Help they founds Fashion Shops in Paris and the seaside town Deauville. The First World War comes contrary to their provocative in itself, but, was now simply perceived as reasonable Jersey drafts, besides, he creates Paul Poiret and his from oriental-inspired Humpelröcke out of the way. In the decisive for Chanel been the leading Couturier is busy with the substance–saving makeover of the French uniform skirts. And than you signed the peace in Versailles, Chanel has revolutionized the fashion.
Meanwhile they belongs to the core Parisian artists Zirkel. The show shows a letter to Cocteau, is considering in the Chanel, to travel to Tristan Zara and Francis Picabia to Tyrol. Froment brings of the letter on this heap, with his for the early Zwanziger unheard of minimalist lettering to resettle the tiny No-5-label in the context of businesscards large, machine-written pamphlets, with which the Dadaists advertised their Happenings.
The spirit of the reduction was in the air. Chanel let himself their business from Jean-Michel Frank, of the French personification of the Bauhaus-Ideas shape,. However, for the liberated by all curlicues No-5-flacon, of the outclassed the opulent visions of her partners abruptly, there are still a other correspondence. Chanel-biographers go from assume that it were the-edged Spirits bottles in Boy Capels Reisenecessaire, on the back grabbed his girlfriend stylistically. A copy, a readymade: Coco Chanel renounced the creative License and discovered the beauty of the industrial object. Marcel Duchamp in any case, the father of the readymade, presented in the No-5-Birth year itself a perfume vials before than readymade. There is further parallels To his Concept Art. While he the female Age ego "Rrose Sélavy" grew themselves, with Damenhut, fur stole, curls and lipstick posed and his second I also ascribed the Author shank at of the very feminine Parfum sculpture, a cultivated Coco Chanel in occurrence, Fashion and more brittle No-5-packaging a rather masculine self. That themselves Rrose Sélavys hat back takes place in a Apollinaire-calligram, one sees this hat also at Picasso and he lets themselves identify as a creation Cocos, is a further indication for the currently circulating gender-Games.
40 Islamists released from prison each year in France
Posted on 19 May 2013 | Comments Off
Each year, approximately 80 to 90 Islamists were arrested by the national anti-terrorism services (DCRI, SDAT, SAT criminal brigade of Paris). France calls over the same half of the Islamists arrested across Europe. It constitutes the first defense of the Union address this threat, according to figures released by the European Police Office Europol, in its report of 25 April on terrorism. Of these 80-90 suspects, 40-50 spin straight on remand pending trial of their case. We judge fifteen per year. The acquittal rate in fine for acts of terrorism, according to Europol, 7% in France.
"The Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence does not have sufficient human resources to keep track all the Islamists out of prison. It is already focused on the comings and goings of members of networks that emerge over the investigations, "said a prefect. Even in prison, some jihadists remain active. The anti-terrorism judge Marc Trévidic recalls the case of Safe Bourada, already convicted for the attacks in 1995 and was restored a terrorist group in prison. This planned attacks in the Paris Metro and against Orly airport. The arrest of Said Arif, profile equally disturbing, is a priority for the Place Beauvau.
Hoffenheim win against Borussia Dortmund: “We live – yet”
Posted on 18 May 2013 | Comments Off
Hoffenheim, which had been sent by a patron Dietmar Hopp with the best economic and human resources to the season, got 27 game days, no access at all to the sporting events. It was comparable to the current game against Dortmund, where the TSG 75 minutes hardly brought anything to pass. She seemed mostly lethargic, tactically undisciplined, held neither to walking tracks, even on assignments.
"Sometimes we seem to need a kick in the butt to wake up," says Salihovic. Gisdol say about TSG managers that he should have especially influenced the leadership players like Salihovic, Beck or the newly installed goalkeeper Koen Casteels from him. "He talks a lot, tells us what kind of football we are playing," says Beck. Salihovic achieved in Dortmund with two large nerves penalty goals, and also refused to be distracted by emergency Goalkeeper Kevin Grosskreutz in Weidenfeller jersey after BVB's main goalkeeper was sent off with red. Beck showed an exemplary fighting spirit, Casteels parried several excellent against Robert Lewandowski and Jakub Blaszczykowski.
Just as it came: Mats Hummels and Roman Weidenfeller foulten completely unnecessary in their own penalty area, so Salihovic could make the Dortmund lead after Lewandowski hit two goals to naught. Everything looked after happy ending from – as Hoffenheim, as so often, even still seemed to destroy all dreams: The TSG-defense was Marcel Schmelzer shoot free in injury time, Lewandowski drew the ball easily into the goal and Hoffenheim appeared at the last second descended. But referee Jochen Drees detected after consultation with his assistant for offside – a correct decision, no Hoffenheim luck.
Down and Out in Group: “climate of fear” in pirate faction
Posted on 18 May 2013 | Comments Off
When the rumors to wait as it is reported in the core question that he is in a relationship with an employee of the Group colleague Susanne Graf since December. In addition, the mother of the employee, who worked in the press office since July 2012, was appointed head of the press office two months ago. Especially now exerts Count bitter criticism of Lauer. In a lengthy blog post, the only woman in the group Lauer accused of creating "a climate of fear." "I want to be a member of a group that threatens its members to withdraw their right to parliamentary participation," writes Count
The deputy Gerwald Claus-Brunner makes fun of Lauer. "On a party with 1 200 participants whisper sweet nothings to his girlfriend and then wonder afterward that it is known to the public," he wrote on Twitter. The timing of the debate is not random. In June, the Group Executive Board is elected; Lauer intends to run again. On Tuesday there is a – give pronunciation in the group – non-public.