Stage so, no girlfriend

Dusseldorf - inexorably progresses Ricardo Marinello's career ladder.
Step by step climbing the Super Talent winner of the 2007 opera Olymp - fast and furious. Victory in the RTL show, first CD, performances in his own restaurant, passed the entrance examination of the renowned Robert Schumann Musikhochschule.
And thanks to the university, he now has his first starring role in an opera - in the "Journey to Reims" (premiere today at 19.30 clock in Partika Hall of the university in the Fischer Road 110). "We rehearse for a good half a year.
Of course, something always a little stress. For me, however, positive stress. Mostly because I can play two roles: Don Luigino and Zeferino, "says Ricardo Marinello was happy when talking to the EXPRESS. Until 21 April is the 20-year-old daily stand on the stage. "The fact that I can play my first real commitment in my hometown of Düsseldorf, is of course something very special."
This is Ricardo for his parents and Birgit Rosario. "They are very proud of me, will be at the premiere in the audience." With heart and soul lead the two on the Super Talent prize money bought "Marinello" in Upper Kassel. Ricardo, laughing: "There I am almost every day. It runs very well. Maybe because I only sing and not cook. "
It runs so everything is perfect in Ricardo Marinellos life. Everything? No. For perfect happiness the "Pavarotti is missing from the Rhine" or the perfect friend: "Yes, I'm still single. I do not know why it does not work, "he says depressed. In order to laugh but then again: "The EXPRESS times could even start a big appeal - perhaps it is yes, then what."

Traveling with the pothole-Scout

Düsseldorf -
Happy times, sometimes cold, sometimes snow, sometimes rain, what annoys the people, is for Düsseldorf streets is a real horror.
In many bursts, therefore, on the asphalt, leaving ugly, but especially for pedestrians and motorists, dangerous potholes.
This is a job for Bernard van Kampen: He is one of twelve control goers to review daily all roads, footpaths and cycle paths.
Equipped with a digital pocket computer running van Kampen per week - whether summer or winter - about 70 km from and looks after things.
Has he found a pothole, he gives the exact position in its digital city map and quantify the nature and size of the damage. "From me to be marked as yellow damage reported to the damaged area and usually the very next day from one of our 18 service road, columns (a total of 45 employees) repaired," he explains. "Marked in red represent a risk to road safety and are put on the same day."
"The problem is the constant change of freeze-thaw on," said Roland Hahn from the Office for traffic management. "Taut the ice, water runs into the road cracks. If it freezes, it expands and breaks the asphalt. The constant freezing and watering holes are getting bigger. "
If the repair column called automatically warms first cold asphalt with an oversized burner, fill the holes and then it spreads from the site. Particularly from frost damaged roads are currently, according to Hahn, the Heinrich-Ehrhardt-Strasse, Grashof, Brehm, Duisburg or Monheimer street. "Citizens can report holes in our office." Per year are a 20,000 damage claims.

Mentally ill patients holed up in apartment

Krefeld - large-scale operation for police and fire departments in Krefeld. A mentally ill man (26) had threatened a neighbor on Saturday. When police intervened, the 26-year-old struggled violently, and went up to the officials. He could take refuge in his apartment.
Armed with a knife, he distributed pieces of glass broken bottles on the ground to keep the police at bay.
For safety, the fire built in front of the apartment on a throw pillow. Special forces have been required, the 26-year-olds brought out of the apartment.
If the arrest is an officer and wounded the young man to the body. The mentally ill were brought by force to a clinic.