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Ho Bridget, how are you related to the Reeves?
Thanks C.
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hello, I went to the cemetery to try and find "Candis" and really had a lot of trouble. It appeared there were relatives buried here, but I could not find Candis Fisher. I spoke with a gentleman that looked up the church records and he said that her DOB was 1816. And that her name was Elvira Candis Alley Fisher, he even told me what section she was in…. however, it was a very confusing cemetery and I could not follow the marking system. I will try to go there again. (jan-2014)
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With so unrelated taking pictures and posting in bulk I had assumed that you were not related. This makes us sorta cousins.
Eva's husband was the brother to my paternal grandmother, my grandmother and her brother both worked for the bur of the mint.
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james adrian tomlin
Could you please transfer this to me also
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Memorial #15631414, Eva Hermea Purcell Tomlin, her husband was the daughter of my great grandmother on my fathers side. could you please transfer this to me so I can update it.
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Paulette Sampson
I would like permission to use your photo of Holly Hill Cemetery signage. I only have 1 relative there that I know of. I will give you photo credit as it is respectful to the copywriter.
Sincerely, Paulette 47376137
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I am researching Samuel Ward (1783-1855). Do you know of his parents? I know of two children he had, William Norman and Sarah Caroine. Do you know of any others?
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Hi, I'd like to ask permission to post the photo for Nora and Sidney Anderson buried at Fishing Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Wilkes County, NC. I'd be happy to give you credit. Thanks for your consideration.
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No I am no kin at all. I was just visiting the cemetery one day to take a picture for someone else and I took pictures of the whole row. If you would like, i would be glad to transfer it to you so you can add any other family info you have. Just let me know.
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could you transfer his and eva percells memorial to me so I can maintain the family links, as well as add other information I have from family, this family is related to me.
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A RAFT of changes have been called for after the two recent closures of the QEII Bridge caused absolute chaos on the roads around Lakeside.
Ensignbus, Thurrock's leading bus firm which runs 15 services in the borough, is demanding the Highways Authority sort out problems.
High winds forced the crossing to shut down for long periods on Monday, December 23, and Monday, December 30. This led to horrendous delays of up to six hours around the shopping centre.
Ensignbus bosses want to see: *Conditions for suspending charging at the tolls to be revised to take into account the impact of the traffic on local roads.
*Enforceable box junctions put in at Junction 31 of the M25 to prevent traffic diverting down the slip road past Thurrock Services and back onto the M25 and to stop lorries blocking the roundabout.
*Electronic road information signs put up at certain key points in Thurrock to help people make better choices on where to go when the crossing has problems.
As well as causing passengers huge inconvenience, these two closures cost Ensignbus £4,000 in staff, fuel costs and lost passenger revenue.
Paul Dickson, customer services manager for Ensignbus said: "We always deploy additional resources when traffic gets bad in the area and this costs us extra for, sometimes, little affect as things are so bad.
"The Highways Agency say it is able to monitor traffic build up on the A282 and M25 but clearly they do not or are not able to monitor the traffic impact on local roads. Most of the traffic diverts off the M25 to avoid the backlog and then creates a bigger problem on the Thurrock local road network."
The bridge's closure over Christmas led furious residents to question why the barriers at the Dartford Tunnel tolls were not constantly opened and the tolls lifted to improve traffic flow.
A spokesman for the Highways Agency said the existing barriers would never be lifted permanently as they control traffic.
He said as part of the design process for free-flow charging - introduced last October - the authority is reviewing current arrangements.
Currently queues need to be 10 miles long on the M25 for charges to be lifted, which they were not.
He said: "The intent of the charge suspension protocol is to provide congestion relief in and around Dartford and Thurrock, not just on the M25.
"In order to apply the protocol consistently we monitor traffic build up on the M25 as consistent real time traffic monitoring is available for this route."


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My twins had two placentas, so I don't have personal experience to offer you, but I do know that there are serious risks when a placenta is shared. In particular twin to twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). This is where one twin gets more blood and nutrients than the other, putting both babies at risk.
At this point, IMO, it is probably better to keep the regularly scheduled US appointments because the risk of TTTS is far greater than exposure to US. In the US they'll be able to see if one baby is getting more blood supply than the other.
Here's the wiki page, hope this helps! PS I'm sure your babies will be perfect!
Congratulations!! It sounds like we are due fairly close together. I am 23 weeks. My twins have separate placentas, which was still able to be determined at my 19 week U/S, so I don't have much relevant info to add. I, too, am leery of U/S exposure, and was able to negotiate with my care provider to have fewer scans. I do think it is important to know if your twins have any shared circulation, so hopefully once that is determined you will be able to make a more informed decision about how many scans would be appropriate in your case.
Mom to eight!! Our twin girls arrived 3-3-2011.
If they share a placenta, they are likely mono-chorionic twins, and they need to be monitored more closely. My girls were mono-chorionic and they had many ultrasounds....extended ones...I had them every two weeks up to 28 weeks and then weekly afterwards. The risk is Twin to twin transfusion, if they detect it, sometimes they can do something about it. My girls are now almost 4 and have met every milestone...they were born at 37 w, 3 days.
I wish I had more time to write now, but I know if you search twin to twin transfusion here, you will find lots of great information.
My opinion is, modern medicine has its uses, and we should utilize them.
Hope this helps.
First, I want to reassure you...it is the 1st trimester scan that would have seen nothing regarding whether or not there was truly 1 placenta. The 2nd trimester or something called a level 2 u/s is what can *sometimes* see if there is one placenta. So actually, you did not miss your chance to see that.
Yes, it is true that TTTS is a risk for MZ twins that share a placenta. However, you must keep in mind that even amongst MZ twins, TTTS is *extremely* rare. If you choose not to monitor via u/s, then you need to pay very close attention to anything that feels like you have rapidly growing amniotic fluid (namely, pain and obvious swelling). When they monitor you for TTTS, they are paying the most attention to size discordance AND fluid levels. (In TTTS, because one twin is donating blood to the other, they have less fluid and nutrients to process and pee out and create amniotic fluid, while the twin who is donated to will have too much because their system is overtaxed.)
I know that there is a lot of scary info out there on u/s. All I can share with you is my experience--and that is, my twins who underwent u/s 3-4 times a week from week 20 to week 36 are both highly capable (intellectually) and are normal children otherwise. OTOH, since the TTTS that they had was just below the qualifying cutoff from the surgery, we had no intervention, so technically it would have been "fine" not to have all those u/s. I would NEVER EVER presume to tell a mother what she should do as far as risk assesment for her children in the womb. For us, because the TTTS was severe and early on while not quite rising to the level of in-utereo surgery, but close enough that both of their lives could have been in danger at any time were it to shift just a bit, we felt that we were willing to risk the potential problems with u/s vs. less timely intervention if necessary and the probable death of both infants (my donor twin was receiving a share of the nutrients that was just abouve the survivability level--we are very lucky that he did not die, and had he, his brother would have either died as well or suffered permanent brain/body injury). BUT....you *must* keep in mind that most MZ twins do not and will not develop TTTS. And many cases of TTTS are not as severe as we suffered through. The earlier it is spotted, the worse the prognosis (Ours was detected at 22 weeks, which is not good). I would say if there was no size discordance at your 2nd trimester scan, and one twin was not severely deficient in fluid, you are probably going to be fine.
I think it is worth it to seek out a qualified, expert opinion and assessment (probably with a perinatologist), at least once though. The average OB/GYN office is *not* equipped to inform you about TTTS, most OB/GYNs operate with extremely outdated and even dangerous information. If you are assessed and they do find significant fluid differences and blood flow problems, I highly recommend starting with www.tttsfoundation.org FIRST. As well as getting a second opinion if you can. There is a lot of horrible information out there, but the TTTS Foundation is internationally respected and has great info, they even educate doctors.
If TTTS is not an issue (and it more than likely will not be), then while you will receive a lot of pressure for stress tests after week 34, I think as long as you are willing to go with your gut and be sure to pay attention to any warning feelings YOU might have, then you will be find to refuse u/s that you don't want. But I guess I would really encourage you to get a real assessment *first*, by a doctor and tech who know what they are talking about. If you were indeed told that you missed your chance to find out if the placentas are separate because you didn't get a first trimester u/s, you are not getting knowledgable or competant advice.
Thanks a lot everyone for yr responses. I have my gynaec's appointment soon... I will know what she says then about frequnt u/s....
Chiming in late - congratulations on your double blessing!
We discovered we were having twins at a US at 10 weeks. By the time I delivered, I'd had 9 more. My sons were born at 39 weeks, perfectly healthy and normal. They are 16 years old now, Juniors in high school. They don't have any problems that could be associated with high exposure to ultrasound.
I know that I got a lot of comfort every time I saw my babies on US. I believe that the advantage of reducing some of Mother's stress, by closely monitoring the babies and making sure everything is OK, outweighs the possible risks of US.
Best wishes to you for a long and comfortable pregnancy, and two healthy babies!
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If there's anything going down in Guadalupe, William Robles is the first to know about it. That's one reason why so many reporters stay in contact with the local community activist, who can often be seen doing security for different private and city events or patrolling the square-mile municipality of 5,000 souls on his bike.
If Robles spots something happening, like a fire truck pulling up to a blazing home or MCSO deputies arresting a fellow Guadalupano, the 40-year-old acts as a one-man news outlet, firing off e-mails to local TV and print reporters. He also keeps them apprised when there's an important town hall meeting, a religious celebration, or a festival coming up.
Robles seems to be at every protest and every community gathering of note. And his activities are not just confined to Guadalupe. When the MCSO did a sweep of faraway Avondale, Robles was there to protest the sheriff. When Zack de la Rocha came to town last time, Robles was there, too, marching with his big drum, banging out a beat that seems to keep the nativists and Minutemen at bay.
In fact, days before the big May 2 march led by de la Rocha, Robles walked all the way from Guadalupe to the Wells Fargo Building in downtown Phoenix, where Sheriff Joe Arpaio keeps his offices. It was his personal protest for those suffering in Arpaio's vast incarceration complex. Dressed in black on a hot spring day, he carried before him a flag bearing the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
When he's not on patrol or involved in a demonstration, Robles is usually studying computers at South Mountain Community College or spinning a combo of hip-hop and Yaqui music as "DJ BigWill" on the Yaqui tribe's radio station, KPYT 100.3 FM in Tucson. Robles is part Yaqui, like Guadalupe itself, which is half Yaqui Indian and half Mexican-American.
An easygoing guy, Robles is quick with a laugh and a joke. He likes Dr. Pepper and Chinese buffets and razzing his friends. Truth be told, it would be hard to imagine Guadalupe without him.
To paraphrase an old saying about a dead cat, you could swing a baseball bat in this town and hit a piñata. Many grocery stores sell them, and you can easily cruise 16th Street in central Phoenix and find a wide selection. But would it be wide enough? This year, our little princess didn't want a princess piñata. She wanted a piglet. And not just any swine would do; she wanted Piglet — you know, from Winnie-the-Pooh. After exhausting our brick-and-mortar possibilities, we got online and found Arizona Piñatas. We called, and a cheerful employee complied, agreeing that Piglet would be ready by Friday. And would we like it delivered? What? We just about dropped the iPhone, we were so happy. Yes, absolutely. And, sure, throw in the matching stick to whack the thing with. This endeavor wasn't cheap, we'll warn you. But, boy, was it worth it. Piglet arrived on our front porch on time as promised and was the life of the party until, well, until he wasn't.
People often refer to Phoenix as a young city, but our burgeoning metropolis has a pretty old soul. That's why our hearts delight when we have the opportunity to drive past what used to be the El Mural bar in west Phoenix. It's been years since anyone's hoisted a drink there, but the outside is still emblazoned with the beautiful work of Victor Caldee. Though of Cuban origin, the artist (with the help of Miguel Dominguez) brought together a bevy of Mexican icons: music and entertainment heroes Beatriz Adriana, Lola Beltran, Vicente Fernandez, and Jose Alfredo Jimenez, and revolutionaries Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. The spirit of old Phoeniquera barrios is further connected to a past long gone via the depiction of a Mayan figure and pyramid surrounding El Mural's entrance.
For the past several years, the Desert Botanical Garden has thrown the best Dia de los Muertos party in town. This year, the festivities — held Halloween weekend and the first week of November — promise to be grander than ever, with performances, food, and hands-on crafts for the kids. Oh, and a mercado! We'll be sure to stop by to check out the wares offered by Bets and Nancy Nenad, two adventurous Phoenicians who travel through Mexico to bring back a fine, fun selection of skeletons in many forms — from plastic to papier-mâché. Hey, it's a living.
The Hispanic equivalent of the bat mitzvah or "Sweet 16" party, the quinceañera marks a Latina girl's coming of age. It's easy to find a respectable dress for the event, but only at a true tiendas de bodas can you get service to fit a quince's exact needs. Owner Ofelia Martinez understands the Hispanic market and, more importantly, understands young Hispanic women. Her shop carries a wide range of colorful gowns and specializes in "plus sizes," which means girls with curves won't have to stretch and tug their way into a stick-girl dress. Fluffy, traditional quinceañera dresses in shades of peach and robin's-egg blue are plentiful. If the quince is a modern gal, perhaps a more contemporary sheath dress — in ivory white to please la familia. The shop also does in-house alterations and carries latilla veils, rosaries, crowns, and gloves to accessorize the little princess. Whether the quince wants to look like Cinderella or J-Lo in The Wedding Planner, Ofelia has her covered.
At one end of this cavernous, winding mishmash of spaces is a room packed with all kinds of crosses — metal, tin, wooden. At the other end, there's a room full of hand-tooled gun holsters. In between is just about any Mexican tchotchke you can dream of: small wooden guitars, leather wallets, ceramic pots, embroidered dresses. We felt like we'd died and gone to Nogales. Beware: The neighborhood, across the street from the Arizona State Hospital, is in a rough part of town near Van Buren Street. Obviously the owners are aware of their surroundings. The place opens at 9 on weekdays, but whatever the time of day, you'll need to ring the bell before they'll let you in.


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After requests by many of our customers for a lighting controller, we have developed the Monster Brain. The Monster Brain is an Ethernet controller with an embedded web server that allows configuration using a web browser, no software to install. It is capable of controlling multiple LDM drivers from a single trigger input via DIN rail bus connector.
Four strobe channels have independent on, off and delay times with burst mode setting. If used with ALDM drivers up to three of the strobe channels can be set to control the light intensity with 0-10V outputs. The light output can be adjusted independently on three of the channels from 10 percent to 100 percent current output. Two camera trigger outputs with programmable delays can be used to ensure that the light is at 100 percent before taking an image. Up to 32 product ID settings can be stored and selected via web page or hardware inputs. The trigger input has a programmable debounce setting to block false triggers. The scheduled release for this new product is the 1st quarter of 2007.
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Have you ever noticed that the air smells salty in some places on the Chesapeake Bay, while in others it does not? The salt you smell has to do with the salinity, or amount of salt, in the water you're near.
On the upper Bay in Maryland, where the Bay's salinity is lowest, you probably won't smell that "ocean" smell. But near the mouth of the Bay in Virginia, where salinity is highest, the air may smell very salty.
Of course, this "salty air" test isn't exactly scientific. Salinity is scientifically defined as the number of grams of dissolved salts present in 1,000 grams of water. It is usually expressed in parts per thousand (ppt).
Fresh water contains few salts (less than 0.5 ppt) and is less dense than full ocean-strength sea water, which averages 25 to 30 ppt.
The Chesapeake Bay's salinity is highest at its mouth, where sea water from the Atlantic Ocean enters. As you head north in the Bay, salinity gradually decreases.
Water with salinity greater than 0.5 ppt but less than 25 ppt is called brackish, meaning a combination of salt water and fresh water. Most of the water in the Chesapeake Bay is brackish.
On a map, salinity contours called isohalines mark the salt content of surface waters. Isohalines tend to show a southwest-to-northeast tilt for two reasons:
The greatest volume of fresh water enters the Bay from its northern and western tributaries, such as the Susquehanna and Potomac rivers.
The earth's rotation causes a phenomenon called the Coriolis Force. Flowing water in the Northern Hemisphere deflects to the right, which means that saltier water moving up the Bay veers towards the Eastern Shore. Therefore, water near the Eastern Shore is saltier than water on the western side of the Bay.
Salinity in the Chesapeake Bay fluctuates depending on precipitation and the season. In drought years, such as 2007, salinity increases because less fresh water flows from the Bay's rivers. This can have both mixed effects on Bay species like oysters, blue crabs and underwater bay grasses.
Oysters have higher spat sets in years when salinity is high. However, MSX and Dermo, the two diseases that have ravaged Bay oyster populations, also flourish in saltier waters.
When more sea water enters the lower Bay and creeps northward, crabs migrate to the upper reaches of the Bay and the headwaters of rivers to escape the high salinity. This northerly migration can benefit crab reproduction, as females lay their egg masses further up the Bay rather than near the ocean. Their location, coupled with decreased fresh water flow, allows crab larvae to stay closer to the Bay, where they are more likely to survive than if they were swept out into the ocean.
Dramatic changes in Bay salinity can have adverse effects on bay grasses because most species specifically require either salty, brackish or fresh waters to grow. Since bay grasses cannot migrate with changing salinity, they ultimately die.
So the next time you're by the Bay — whether at the beach, on a boat or in your neighborhood — take a deep breath and enjoy the salty (or not-so-salty) smell of the air. While it may simply be a breeze for you, the amount of salt you smell means a lot to the critters living below the water's surface.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Inspector General (IG) released on Sept. 10 an evaluation report stating that development growth in the Bay watershed is outpacing Bay restoration efforts. The report was written in response to Congressional requests to evaluate how well the EPA is assisting its Chesapeake Bay partners in restoring the estuary.
The Bay watershed's population is over 16.5 million and growing by more than 170,000 residents annually. The rapid rate of population growth and related residential and commercial development means that this is the only pollution sector in the Bay watershed that is still growing.
In the Bay Program's 2006 Bay Health and Restoration Assessment, it was estimated that increases in pollution due to development have surpassed the gains achieved to date from improved landscape design and stormwater management practices. This estimation from Bay Program scientists has now been corroborated by the IG report.
To combat the increase in pollution from development in the Bay watershed, Bay Program partners are focusing restoration efforts on reducing nutrient and sediment runoff from new development.
Pennsylvania and Virginia have been revising their stormwater regulations.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley recently signed a new stormwater law, and the Maryland Department of the Environment is now working on regulatory actions it will need to put in place to comply with the new Maryland law.
The IG report listed two main recommendations for reducing nutrient and sediment loads from developing lands.
The Chesapeake Bay Program Office director should prepare a strategy to:
Download the full IG evaluation report from the EPA website.
Two reports released in September detail the wide-ranging potential effects of biofuel production and global warming on the future of the Bay and its watershed.
America 's desire to reduce greenhouse gases and become energy independent has turned our attention toward biofuels, a category of alternative energy products made from crops, such as corn, and other organic sources. However, if increased corn production in the Bay watershed is not handled correctly, more nutrients could flow into our already over-enriched Bay and rivers.
Biofuels and the Bay discusses what needs to be done to develop a "best strategy" for biofuels in the Bay region, as well as:
Download Biofuels and the Bay from the Chesapeake Bay Commission website.
Over the past 25 years, billions of dollars have been invested in restoration activities across the Bay watershed. But global warming may make it harder for Bay restoration partners to reach their conservation goals. The National Wildlife Federation synthesizes the many ways that fish and wildlife in the Bay region will be affected by global warming, including loss of coastal habitat, altered migration patterns and more aquatic diseases.
The Chesapeake Bay and Global Warming offers solutions and recommendations to reduce the impact of global warming on the Bay's habitats and wildlife, including:
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Es herbstelt schon! Autumn in Germany and Austria(324 Posts)
A thread for all those living in Germany or Austria or anyone who just wants to chat/ask a question about living in or visiting this part of the world - all welcome.
Previous thread here.
Ambling I don't think the DC have done any activities that have been more than a 5-10 minute drive away so I've never hung around waiting for them - apart from when they went swimming, but then I sat at the side of the pool. I did get fed up with the amount of chauffeuring I had to do a few years ago, but now we just have DD1's dyslexia lesson and scouts and DD2's piano lesson, which is quite manageable. DD1 usually walks to scouts and gets a lift back with a friend, so I hardly do any driving during the week.
€100 for the mole removal sounds about right. I can't remember exactly what I've paid, but I know that a check-up is €90 and I think mole removal is slightly more (but it includes a follow-up appointment to have the stitches removed if necessary).
Primark madness has reached Austria too, but I have no intention of going - it's the other side of Vienna from us anyway, so not the easiest place to get to. Not that this puts us off going to Tesco and M&S in Bratislava.
Our 20th anniversary is coming up soon and we were hoping to go out for a meal to celebrate, but our neighbours - one of whose daughters we would normally ask to babysit - are most inconveniently away that weekend and I'm a bit stuck about who to ask otherwise. Virtually everyone we know here has children the same age as ours, which is no good for babysitting purposes, and has family on hand to babysit, which means I can't even ask for recommendations.
Linzer what a shame about the anniversary dinner, could you make it a family meal out for a treat so you atleast don't have to stand in the kitchen that day!
Having activities 5 to 10 minutes away has always been my goal too! We moved to this part of town especially so the dc had a 10 minute walk to school and dh 15 minutes to work. Ds obliged my plan by joining the local Verein for table tennis but dd has other plans!
The club she has chosen is 35 minutes away by car when traffic is OK but today she has to be at training at 5pm meaning we'd have to set of at 4pm due to Berufsverkehr. I think I'll send her on the tram (40 minutes) so she atleast gets there on time and I can pick her up at 7pm. She's 14 now, I keep forgetting she's not my baby anymore so she is quite capable (and willing) to go by tram.
I love the image of groups of girls running towards Primark screaming . That would be me but running in the opposite direction!
Does anyone here subscribe to LoveFilm? We were thinking of doing it, as finding the actual German TV not very compelling, and we thought it would be easier to watch films with subtitles (or in English!) It is €6.99 a month, not sure if it is worth it or not.
Spooked we don't have it but it's got to be worth it when you see the rubbish on German TV!
OK, dd is going on the tram to her training so she's just got in from school (long day until 3.10pm), scoffed her lunch in less than 5 minutes and is getting changed to go. I'm going to drop her at the tram station but it's only 5 minutes away by car. Phew, no sitting around for me atleast!
Argh, just typed a long message but IE went all weird for a minute and now it's suddenly disappeared from the box!
Ambling The tram sounds like a good idea if it saves you all that driving and hanging around. That does sound like a long day - does your DD do her homework in the evenings then? I find it can be a real struggle for DD1 to fit in all her homework and revision on her long days if we have anything else planned in the afternoon - like yesterday, when she had an appointment at the dental hygienist's. Her long days are "only" until 2, but by the time she's walked home, had lunch and is ready to do her homework it's getting on for 3pm.
Spooked Sorry, no idea about Lovefilm. Someone on here did recommend it to me (or recommended a couple of films that are available on it, at any rate), but I don't know much about it otherwise.
Our search for a babysitter is looking a bit more positive as I've been given a couple of phone numbers to try. DS wants a babysitter to come and look after them when I'm at the parents' evening in a couple of weeks and was quite disappointed when I told him that he can come along too (until I reminded him that there'll be a buffet)!
I think I'm going to have a lot to learn before Dd starts school - do you mean that if your kids have a "long day" at school then they don't get any lunch until after they get home?!
Good luck with finding a babysitter Linzer! We had to take the DC with us when we went out for our anniversary meal. Luckily it was in the summer so we could sit outside
I think I am going to bite the bullet with love film - had alook last night and there seem to be lots with the option of English. And iit's too cold to sit out on the balcony in the evenings now, so we need to find something to do !
Spooked Most secondary schools have a canteen, I think - I'm not actually sure whether ours does, but I can't even give DD1 a packed lunch as she wouldn't have time to eat it (her two long days go from 7.45am to 1.50pm, with just a 20 minute break at around 10.15am and otherwise five-minute breaks in between lessons). People here are shocked that primary school children are at school until around 3pm in the UK, but I think that expecting an 11 year old to do those hours with no time for lunch is hardly ideal either.
Sounds like a good decision re Lovefilm; I need my fix of British TV to help keep me sane! I was thinking recently that I really should start reading and watching more German as, even though I speak it every day, I feel like my German is stagnating atm - but somehow, when there's an English option available, I'll always go for that.
Hallo new-thread!
DDs St Martin/ Laterne fest walk thing got cancelled last night as it rained so they held it over to tonight. Fixed rictous-grins of forced-sociability being practiced and pasted on face already for that. DH is coming too as I have a feeling DD is making a couple of friends now and wants to sort playdates. She has been telling Kiga buddies about her Ritter-burg which is a giant house thing engineer DH made out of a bedrooms worth of IKEA boxes!
I can warn anyone unaware of it that SCS/ Shopping City Sud Vienna carparking is getting worse. Not just the bit round the train stop but all round IKEA where the entrance is remodelled and it doesn't look possible it will be fixed before Christmas- it's absolutely hellish. We had to go as my BIL/ SIL have unsensible cars with no boot space but needed a large amount of kit (they are expecting twins in Feb). Payback at least is sweet- it's in the form of babysitting as I got tickets to a concert 22 Nov. I don't know how useful it is but I will PM you my childminders dets Linzer.
C4ro I noticed a small group of dc walking with lanterns last night when I went to pick dd up from training. Will you have a Glühwein stand at the end of the walk? I remember that was one of the rewards for the parents after walking round in the cold!
Linzer yes, the long days are a rush but dd had prepared most of her homework on Sunday and when she got home at 7:30pm she showered the sat in the kitchen eating toast and doing her french homework with me (I helped her so she got it done quickly).
Long days here are from 8am to 15.10pm with no canteen in school. Under year 10 dc aren't allowed off the school grounds to go to the bakery or Imbiss either so those days I pack extra snacks and then my 2 have their hot meal at 3.30pm when they get home.
Primary school in Berlin was just as bad really as they had 8.20 to 2pm classes with no lunch break and by the time we got home it was half past two. Not surprisingly the last lesson was a waste of time as all the dc were hungry and not concentrating. That's one of the reasons I'm just when they talk about ganztagschulen - the sooner the better, but they need to start building canteens onto their school buildings before they make the change.
Ambling That makes the DC's mornings seem short in comparison! Unless they do afterschool activities, the children are always out of primary school here by 12.45pm. Are people in Germany very sceptical of Ganztagsschulen or is it just here? It seems to be considered almost akin to child slavery. And Glühwein stands at the end of the walk? I might actually have enjoyed the Martinsfest if we'd had such a luxury!
C4ro Thanks for the PM - looks like I have a few options now.
I really didn't want to hear that about the SCS, though; platanos and I are meeting there on Friday and it's only the second time I've driven there. The car parking area is difficult enough to navigate at the best of times - has it got worse over the past few weeks? We last went about a month ago and had to drive to the top of the Ikea multistory car park then.
Back from day-late Laterne thing now. There was indeed apple-based "Erwachsene punch" at the end to make it bearable! The kids one smelt/ looked a bit similar so I may have dosed up DD now by possibly getting the cups muddled up while juggling paperplate of cake and salzstangerl!
We also had a quite ineffective policeman blocking cars from coming as we walked slowly round the block in the middle of the road! He couldn't quite stop both ways of traffic as we did the t-junctions but it was only 30-speed backstreets so not too critical and fairly clear to the drivers what they'd accidentally come across! All three classes of DDs Kiga sang a song and did some play thing. It was amusing enough. Despite it being actual candles in the lanterns I didn't smell burning hair or child once which did impress me.
SCS horrors are the SouthWest side of IKEA. Shops and parking being remodelled there- but on a weekday I think you'll really be OK.
You know how there is that massive ring road round the place that you usually start on the South side there is more parking if you go all the way to the North/top and cut in around Media Markt/ Reiter/ ToysRUs for parking (so go all up the long side and a bit across the top of the whole shopping-behemoth). Recommend not to go on a Saturday though!
Erwachsene punch is great stuff isn't it? Our Stadtteil does a lantern walk and then sets up a Glühwein stand on the public carpark at the end of the walk which seriously improves attendance by parents, grand-parents etc.
Vienna parking sounds fun. Parking is a nightmare where dd goes to training. Sometimes I have to drive round and round the block until I can get in a space.
We had the brakes changed on the car yesterday and the winter tyres are on now too. They were so generous as to only charge us half for changing the tyres seeing as they had the front wheels off anyway to do the brakes. That's 360€ spent.
Both dc brought Klassenfahrt letters home too last night. Dd's is 340€ for 5 days camping near Poland in the Uckermark forest area, a hundred of which has to be payed by 31st December (not a great time for some families to have another 100€ going out of the bank I'm sure) and ds's is 220€ for 4 days in Berlin.
I'm sure we only ever got Kinderpunsch afterwards, which wasn't quite enough of a reward for me. They dropped the walk once KiGa started taking 2.5 year olds as they decided it was too far for them, which was definitely an improvement in my eyes. I prefer to walk when it's light, dry and not too cold, and at a reasonable pace!
Ambling All the school expenses really add up, don't they? Particularly if you have more than one child at school. DD1's trips away have only cost just over €100 so far, but they only went for a few days both times. They were supposed to be going on a week's skiing trip this year but too many of the parents refused to send their DC, so they just went away on a "normal" trip for three days away instead. DD2 went on a class trip yesterday, just for the day, and gave everyone a fright when she fainted after lunch; she's been fine since, though.
C4ro I try to avoid the SCS on a Saturday full stop, even if it's DH driving! Luckily we rarely need to go any more, although there was a time just after we first moved here when we would find ourselves at Ikea almost every weekend.
Off to the doctor's now to see if anything can be done about DS still wetting the bed. None of them was dry at night particularly early and I know that boys usually take longer than girls, but I thought I'd better get him checked out now that he's 7.
Hope you can get it sorted out Linzer, does it upset your ds when he has accidents at night time?
Not sure what to think of school's latest news.
Teachers in Nidersachsen (at Gymnasium) are being asked/made to teach an hour longer than usual. They're not happy and are threatening to stop all extra Nachhilfe, day trips and extras unless the rule is changed back to how it was before.
Last week they called the entire school together and presented their side of it, then asked the dc to vote if they agreed or not (ds voted no and dd abstained).
Now they've sent a letter home with a copy of a protest letter for parents to sign and send to the Bürgermeister! Niedersachsen already has one of the lowest Pflichtstunden that a teacher has to be in class (23 I think compared to 28 in Bavaria). We won't be signing (wonders if dh will make it home before 9pm tonight after a 13 hour working day)!
We had a similar kind of thing here a couple of years ago, Ambling - I think it was primary school teachers then, who were being asked to work an extra two hours a week. There was talk of strikes but it didn't get that far in the end. I found it hard to have much sympathy for them, as they're at school for far fewer hours than primary school teachers in the UK and are probably better paid - I read somewhere that Austrian primary (I think) school teachers are among the best paid in Europe. I bet they have less paperwork to deal with as well and far more freedom to teach the way they want (teaching methods and curricula vary hugely even from class to class within the same school).
DS does get a little embarrassed about still wearing a nappy at night and would really like to be able to do without it - he's particularly worried about going away to the Pfadfinderlager for a week in the summer (although as he didn't get a place this year, it won't be an issue until summer 2015!). He has a chart to fill in - whether he's dry/slightly wet/very wet - over the next few weeks and we also have to measure his fluid intake and output over a weekend. He'll have to have an ultrasound (IIRC) at his next appointment and, if no physical cause is found, can be given tablets to adjust his hormone levels. So it's all looking quite positive and as if the problem will be able to be sorted out before too much longer.
I've had quite a stressful afternoon trying to find someone willing to lend me their Android phone so that I can test an app I've translated. I was even thinking about putting out an appeal on FB, but have now arranged to go over to a friend's tomorrow morning to borrow her phone for a while. I'm sure that arranging to borrow other people's electronic equipment was never in the job description.
That all sounds positive, Linzer. I hope it's sorted fairly quickly and that your DS doesn't have to worry about trips etc. What sort of app did you translate?
Ambling I was a teaching assistant in Niedersachsen on my year abroad (10 years ago) and as far as I can remember an average of one teacher a a month went off sick with stress or had a nervous breakdown. That might just have been my particular school though. I remember them talking about leaving the classroom at 1pm, but not actually stopping work until 11pm or thereabouts. This was 10 years ago though and it might just have been the school I was at. That said, it does seem like they have it easier than teachers in Bundslaender with more Pflichtstunden. I think anyone would revolt at the idea of an extra hour nailed onto your working day, but I don't think I know enough about it to really form an opinion, especially with not having school-age DC. So really, that was a bit of a pointless waffle on my part
c4ro Glad you got some punch out of the Laternenumzug!
Have you found anything good on LoveFilm, spooked? A friend of mine here uses it and really loves it. We had the free trial and enjoyed it, but then cancelled it as we were trying to save money.
Hello to everyone else!
DS has completely dropped his daytime nap, yet appears to have twice his usual amount of energy, which is why I haven't had chance to post for ages. The days seem very long at the moment! Bedtime has become a lot easier though, which is a really big positive. I took a few of the bars out of his cot so he can get in and out, thinking that he could come to our bed himself when he wakes in the night. Unfortunately, while he's happy to climb in and out of his bed during the day, he refuses at night and cries for us to come and get him, and screams at the suggestion that he might like to come out himself. Maybe he just needs a bit of time to get used to it, who knows! He had a nasty virus the other week too and is still a bit clingy, so I think that might have something to do with it too.
Hello everyone,
I have been living in Munich since July, moved here with my DH and my 2 year old DD from London. We have been enjoying all that Munich and the surrounding areas have to offer and I am slowly getting use to no shops been open on Sunday and I hate to admit it but I am missing the variety of food in tesco.
Will look forward to reading this thread
Hi Bling I would love to have Sunday shopping in Germany too. We sometimes go into the city by tram to the Hauptbahnhof just because all the shops are open! Does Munich have Sunday shopping on the build up to Christmas? When we lived in Berlin the opening hours were getting better and better, often shops open up to 9 or 10pm too, lots of Sunday open days etc.
woolly can't remember exactly how old your ds is - is he just gone 2? Do you have a night light for him when he wakes up at night? Maybe he can't see to get to you in the dark?
My dc kept their afternoon naps until around 3 years old but they were late go-to-bedders. Now they are teenagers and have an afternoon nap quite often after school and never go to bed before 10pm - infact I've been in bed before them a few times this week!
Sounds like your doctor is very good offering so much help with ds Linzer, hope it's worked out soon. I have yet to find a doctor who doesn't seem to be in a rush to get me/the dc out of the place.
Just got back from the vets with the gerbil. She has scratched her eye until it stated bleeding and now that's making her scratch it even more. Hope the gel we were given will help stop it bothering her.
Ambling Poor gerbil, hope her eye is better soon. We were wondering whether to take the tortoises to the vet before they hibernate, but DH reckons we can leave it until next year.
Hi Bling, I'm another one who misses Sunday shopping and Tesco! We don't live too far from the border with Eastern Europe so can get to Tesco there, which is open on a Sunday - but has only a tiny shelf of British food, unfortunately.
Woolly The app is for women affected by DV. It really felt like I was translating something worthwhile and the actual translation was quite straightforward, but the technical side was a bit of a challenge; actually, finding someone with an Android phone who was around this morning was the biggest challenge! Lovely friend made me coffee and took her toddler off into her bedroom so that I could work - although she insisted it was fine.
Hope the nights get better soon - neither of the DDs would ever get up in the night and would always cry for us to come and get them; DS is the only one who would ever get up and come into our bed (still does, occasionally), which is much easier albeit rather cramped!
We've lost the girls this evening (they're sleeping at a friends), but have gained an extra boy as DS has a friend staying overnight. They're off school tomorrow for St Leopold's Day so we're off to meet platanos and her DC
if I can manage to negotiate the roads round the shopping centre.
Hello everyone!
boo hoo hooo linzer and I could not meet up because ds has a fever. I am waiting for him to wake up to take him to the drs. He's got a history of emergency drs coming round in the middle of the night and dispatching him in an ambulance to hospital, so I would rather get him seen by the GP before the weekend. Hope you had a good day Linzer, I was so looking forward to catching up. And discussing naked vegan cooking .
The Lanternefest stories made me smile - first year without one! I found the walk quite stressful as was never sure where my dc were, and hoping someone was looking after them. Always a relief when they found me at the end of the walk, and "shared" their Kipferl with me. I say "shared" but I got the tiniest crumb, they kept the rest. I told them it was like St Martin giving the poor man a thread of his coat. But the message never got through.
The long school hours with no lunch, or a proper break, are a nightmare. DD1 goes from 8 - 14 with no food. I could not do it. At the beginning of the year, taking a Jause was not "cool" but she is now taking one with her. Yes, hupa she is tired at the end of the week. We have had to endure some horrible behaviour at home. She took to shouting, hitting and kicking (me and her siblings) so we have been strict and things seem to be improving.
Hope you have stocked up on shoes, boots and winter gear. So far, DS has had fleeced lined waterproofs rather than snow trousers. Maybe why he is constantly ill? Or is that because he does not wear a wooly hat in 20 degrees? Which reminds me, I came across a blog - a spanish mum in germany. It is rather funny and many of the things she finds "odd" are things we discuss on here. But one thing puzzled me - she says that when a child is ill, her German ILs insist on putting raw onion under the bed, in the bedroom, everywhere. Have any of you ever come across this? DH says he has never heard of it.
I am dreading the cost of those school trips.
Must go as ds seems to be waking up. Sorry for the disjointed post! Hope you all have a good weekend!
I keep hearing the onion thing, not from Germany though. I have to keep biting my tongue. The "theory" is that it absorbs bad bacteria and I just want to shout HOW DOES IT DO THAT, DO YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BACTERIA ACTUALLY WORKS AAAAAAAAARGH.
I've heard that onions have antiseptic properties, which is why one could put raw onion on a wound. Haven't heard about it getting rid of flu, colds etc though
Sorry meant to post properly but ds1 just arrive...
My Irish grandmother used to claim you should drink hot milk with cloves and onion in for a cold. Never heard of putting it under a bed though.
No room under any of our beds to squeeze a raw onion anyway, too much rubbish stored under there.
First Lovefilm envelope arrived today - perfect timing. The King's Speech. Very much looking forward to packing the DC off to bed and watching it
Exactly! For something to have an effect against bacteria you need to actually touch the bacteria with it, it doesn't magically suck it out of a sick person through a room!
It's like saying, oh, bleach cleans toilets. I'll just leave this open bottle here and it will magically suck all of the dirt and germs away! Er, no, it won't.
Hello - the OP says this is a place where we can ask about visiting so perhaps someone here can help me with a couple of questions relating to DD's German exchange which is the first week of December, somewhere near Cologne?
The first question is, she needs to take a gift for the host family and for her partner (another 14/15yo girl) - which should be something typically English, ideally local (Lancashire). So... can you think of anything you'd really like from hereabouts? Obv not heavy/bulky or too expensive (as they will doubtless reciprocate on the return visit).
The second is a reality check on what the weather is likely to be like - the teacher says it will probably be very cold, probably snow ... her normal non-school footwear is canvas hightops which I doubt will be adequate, her boot selection is wellie, walking or snowboots, which seem like overkill or inappropriate so I'm trying to persuade her she needs something else (I've got the one teenage girl who doesn't like shopping, esp not shoes).
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Collina, 45, has reached the retirement age for referees in Italy and he must quit at the end of the season.
Newspaper reports suggest he has been offered the job of assigning referees for Italy's top two divisions
However, the Italian referee's union is lobbying to raise the retirement age to 48, and there have been moves to grant Collina an exemption to continue.
"If the Italian federation wants to give Collina a special exemption to continue refereeing, FIFA will not oppose it," FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Tuesday.
"But this exception will be valid only for Italian competitions. At the international level rules exist and they will be respected.
"Therefore, even though we don't like it, Collina will not be able to referee during the next World Cup," Blatter added.
The Gazzetta dello Sport claims the move will be formally announced in June when the Serie B season is over.
Under current Uefa rules Collina could continue to officiate elsewhere in Europe until the end of the calendar year.
The world renowned official, who has previously been linked with a move to the Premiership, has handled many memorable games including the 2002 World Cup final and the 1999 Champions League final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich.


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Nov 09 - 15, 1996Caretaker prime minister Malik Meraj Khalid is a highly respected national figure, having to his credit a vast experience of politics and social work. He was founder member of the PPP. He was president of the Punjab People's Party from 1974 to 1977 and a member of the central executive committee. He relentlessly worked for the restoration of democracy and suffered imprisonment.
A selfless person, he has been a federal minister, chief minister of the Punjab, speaker of the National Assembly twice and was rector of the International Islamic University before taking over as caretaker prime minister.
He began his political career with his first election as member of the West Pakistan assembly in 1965 as a independent candidate. He took active part in social welfare work as a member of the permanent international committee of International Conference of Social Work. He is also the founder secretary-general of the Pakistan Organization for Afro-Asian People's Solidarity.
He was appointed as federal minister and later the chief minister of the Punjab. In 1974, he was appointed, once again as the federal minister for law and parliamentary affairs and later as the federal minister for local government, rural development and social welfare.
In 1972, he led Pakistan delegation to the second Islamic Foreign Ministers' Conference held at Jeddah. In 1973, he led the Pakistan delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.
Malik Meraj Khalid has held posts in a number of social welfare institutions and has established a number of rural community high schools in his area. He was president of Pakistan Olympic Association for four years and was also chief of the Pakistan contingent to World Olympics in 1976 held at Montreal, Canada.
He organised the panchayat movement in Pakistan in the early fifties and also developed the concept of local government at grossroots level. Malik Meraj Khalid has been a keen sportsman. As a college student he was university champion in various fields of sports and organised a number of sports and cultural activities.
A learned and softspoken person of humble nature he has been rector of the International Islamic University till he was nominated as caretaker prime minister. For the last about one year he has been publicly criticising the PPP government for rampant corruption in its ranks.
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Lt. Gen. (Rtd) Sahibzada Yaqoob Ali Khan who has been given the portfolio of foreign affairs has, in the past, twice served in this capacity first during Gen. Zia-ul-Haq's regime and for the second time in Benazir's first tenure in 1988-90. He has also served as Pakistan's ambassador in various countries including the United States.
Interior minister Ummar Afridi is a retired bureaucrat hailing from district Kohat in NWFP. He has served as chief secretary Frontier Province, chief commissioner Islamabad and as principal secretary to former president Ghulam Ishaq Khan and for some time to president Farooq Leghari.
Defence and establishment minister, Shahid Hamid is a prominent lawyer of Lahore. He is the son of well known PPP leader Brig. (Rtd) Hamid Nawaz. He represented president Farooq Leghari in the Supreme Court in the reference against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Irshad Ahmad Haqqani who has been given the portfolio of information is a well known journalist with over 40 years standing in the profession. He was resident editor of daily Jang, Lahore. His column "Harf-e-Tamanna" was a widely read one. He was known as a confidant of the president as was also reflected in his writings, mostly supporting Farooq Leghari in the president-P{M tussle.
Minister for education, Begum Abida Hussain hails from a well known political family of Jhang. She was an active member of PML(N) and has also served as Pakistan ambassador in the United States during Nawaz Sharif government. Her husband Fakhar Imam, a prominent leader of PML(N) has also served as education minister and speaker of the National Assembly.
Minister for food and agriculture, Senator Shafqat Mahmud, is also a former bureaucrat. He resigned government service as deputy commissioner and joined Pakistan People's Party. He was a member of the central executive committee of PPP and was elected Senator on PPP ticket.
Minister for industries and production Sadiq Awan is a businessman and owner of a leading courier service of Pakistan. His name came into limelight last year as the highest tax payer in the country.
Minister for petroleum and natural resources, Javed Jabbar comes from the advertising profession. He joined PPP in 1988 and served as information minister in the first Benazir government during 1988-90. Recently, he filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the former federal government for misusing the electronic media.
Commerce Minister Dr. Zubair is a former employee of IMF and a close relative of president Farooq Leghari and NWFP chief minister Aftab Sherpao. He is a highly qualified economist who left IMF to start his own consultancy business in Pakistan. Dr. Khan, author of a number of books on economy has been delivering lectures at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He has some experience of the commerce ministry, having worked there as consultant on Pak-India trade.


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This weekend of fallball sees coast-to-coast fall scrimmages and tournaments. Some of the highlights include the Capital Lacrosse Classic in Bethesda, Md., the Team Canada scrimmages in Buffalo, the San Francisco Lacrosse Classic and a new fallball tournament at Johns Hopkins.
The full event schedule is here; below are five things to watch this weekend. Check back for tons of analysis, photos and videos of the weekend.
It's an important weekend ahead for Team Canada, as 51 candidates for the 2014 roster will head to Buffalo to compete in a series of intra-squad matchups and scrimmages against Denver, Robert Morris and Canisius. Leading up to the event, Team Canada head coach Randy Mearns said: "In my experience with the national program, I think it is safe to say that this is the deepest, most qualified group of Canadian field lacrosse players trying to earn a spot to represent Canada in the World Championships next July."
The pool of is decked with some of the most respected players in the game — including John Grant Jr. and Brodie Merrill — who are likely shoo-ins. But there's intrigue in how the rest of the roster fills out — particularly, which current-college and fresh-out-of-college players will help bolster the unit — and how the Team Canada coaching staff constructs a defensive midfield to answer the dynamic and athletic Team USA midfield that was a big reason for Canada's silver-medal finish in 2010. Also an interesting story to watch unfold will be in the cage, as the group of netminders trying out includes both potential returnees in Evan Kirk and Angus Dineley and Dillon Ward, who had a breakout season in college last spring at Bellarmine and went on to play for the Hamilton Nationals in the summer.
When IL visited Johns Hopkins two weeks ago for our Fall All-Access series, we were intrigued but not entirely surprised that the program was in the early stages of incorporating a new offense for the 2014 season. Hopkins' current (and future) roster features mostly smaller, quicker, off-ball, high IQ players (your Rob Guidas and Wells Stanwicks if you will) and the coaches realized they need to emphasize those traits in the offense. This Sunday, Hopkins will have a chance to work out the kinks when the Blue Jays host UMass, Rutgers and Fairfield for a full-day scrimmage.
Richmond and Monmouth both kicked off intercollegiate competition last weekend, making strong first impressions. Now it's Boston University's turn. Coach Ryan Polley has a strong resume and an experience in the New England area, leading Yale's defense in recent years. The Terriers will face Sacred Heart at 10 a.m. before taking on Hartford at noon.
This weekend brings a glimpse of the potential impact brought by high-profile assistant coaching moves. John Walker, a former All-American at West Point who spent four years on Dom Starsia's staff at Virginia, heads to San Francisco for his first real action as a member of the Princeton Tigers staff, taking over defensive responsibilities there underneath Chris Bates. Walker is joined by Brad Conlon, who came to the Tigers after spending three seasons at Division II Pfiefer and coaching the Falcons' defense and goalies. This weekend also sees the first time Starsia will coach alongside his son, Joe, who served as the defensive coordinator at Colgate in 2012 and 2013. Joe will assume the defensive responsibilities for the Cavaliers in the wake of Walker's departure. Both Princeton and Virginia — and the Cavaliers in particular — look to rebound from what some might consider disappointing results in 2013, with the Tigers losing to Yale in the Ivy League tournament championship after knocking off Cornell and UVA missing the playoffs for the first time since 2004.
The Mountain Hawks replace two players on attack who were immensely instrumental in their back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths. Quarterback David DiMaria and slasher Dante Fantoni combined for 210 points in their junior and senior seasons. Just a year ago, coach Kevin Cassese had the task of replacing the Lao-Gosney twins at the midfield, a process that took some time last season to smooth out.
Juniors Dan Taylor and Patrick Corbett topped 75 points combined last season, and they're dynamic Canadian finishers, but finding a dodger/ball-carrier is a task for Lehigh this fall. They scrimmage Penn State and Lehigh at the Capital Lacrosse Classic on Sunday.
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The National Honoree, Shannon Lambert, recognized for her work with Pandora's Project, which provides support, information and resources to sexual violence survivors received an additional $25,000 from L'Oréal Paris as a result of a national online vote at womenofworth.com.
It is estimated that at least one in six individuals will experience rape or sexual abuse in their lifetime, and for many, the aftermath of sexual violence is isolating and devastating. Pandora's Project offers an online resource moderated by a team of volunteers that provides peer-to-peer support for male and female victims of sexual violence. The organization also operates a free sexual assault lending library, maintains resource lists for those in need of face-to-face support, and organizes retreat weekends for women ready to take their healing one step farther.
"I am delighted to be honored as a L'Oréal Paris Woman of Worth," said Lambert. "The support L'Oréal Paris has given to Pandora's Project will enable us to continue to help victims of sexual violence and to support their recovery."
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CNL has announced the release of IPSecurityCenter v4.1. This release of IPSecurityCenter adds a number of new and enhanced features including Geographical Information Systems (GIS) mapping integration, a new administration interface and the addition of IPSecurityCenter web client.
These new features have been developed in line with IPSecurityCenter growing customer base, which includes critical national infrastructure, law enforcement, petrochemical and enterprise corporations. IPSecurityCenter enables these organisations to work within their standard operating procedures and to comply with standards such as CNPI, HSPD-5 & NIMS.
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The map engine integrates directly with third party mapping components such as Google Earth and Google Maps; integration with other GIS systems is under development. It will allow end users to zoom and scroll through maps, helping operators understand exactly where they are in proximity to cameras, entrances, emergency routes, etc. This is especially useful in emergencies, where it can help guide response teams to the right location. It can also be used to plot cameras, allowing instant access to these cameras in a very intuitive and graphical way.
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Four-wheeler will never replace Larry Schanzenbach's horse
When a quarter horse and cowboy work cattle, they are as one.
"It's just a beautiful thing to see," Shirley Schanzenbach said.
"I still work my cattle the old-fashioned way, from the back of a horse," Larry Schanzenbach said. "My 20-year old bay gelding will follow a cow through a gopher hole. I won't have a four-wheeler on the place. We have a lot of flowing springs on our place. A four-wheeler would only get stuck."
Larry's motto has always been, "sometimes working cattle requires two heads-mine and the horse. And with a four-wheeler there is only one!"
Shirley and Larry operate a cow-calf operation on Larry's grandparents' place east of Selby. Larry was co-owner of Selby Oil with Harry Brown for 26 years, worked for NAPA for eight and then for Dakota Trails. Shirley recently retired from CamWal Electric after 45 years.
The fact that a city kid could realize his dream of becoming a cowboy like his idol Casey Tibbs is, in itself, quite a feat. Factor into that the distinction of winning the 1964 South Dakota State Championship in bull riding and placing second in a five-state area in bull riding, losing first place by $1.12.
The only child born in 1941, to Edward and Agnes Schanzenbach, the family operated the Phillips 66 dealership. Accompanying his dad when he delivered fuel oil to local farms, when his dad wasn't looking, Larry would sneak away to the corrals and slip onto a calf or two when they ran by.
"I've always loved horses and wanted one of my own," he said. "But mom and dad resisted."
His parents would go south each winter and his grandmother, Lillian Hoven, would come to babysit. Knowing how much Larry wanted a horse and being a bit of a soft touch when Larry was in the eighth grade, he and his grandmother went out and bought a little bay mare from Ellsworth Shillingstad, which Larry named Babe.
The Walworth County Fairgrounds was located just west of where Mr. Bob's Drive Inn in Selby is today. Dick Miller, Johnny Hoven, Darrell Zabel, Herb Aman, Manny Pressler and Larry formed the Circle "S" Riding Club. Merlyn Thorstenson, Dale Oxner, Spud Schanzenbach and Larry practiced their roping skills by roping nail kegs. Larry practiced his bull riding skills by riding a semi tire all over the gas station.
"It was great practice," he said.
They also designed a bucking bull from a 55-gallon drum they hooked to four ropes. They would take turns pulling on the ropes, taking great enjoyment in trying to unseat the other.
"When Cud and Wood Cheskey and myself were about 14-years old, we traveled down to Ft. Pierre to see our idol Casey Tibbs in the Match of Champions," he said.
Casey had started a bareback competition for boys up to the age of 16, with world champion riders Tibbs and Marty Wood, Duane Howard and Joe Chase coaching them as they attempted to ride 2-year old colts.
"They put me on this colt, which proceeded to lay me out like a dirty shirt," he said. Everyone was asking him if he was O.K., and although he couldn't breathe, somehow he chocked out, "I'm fine."
At the end of the competition, he was awarded the prize for "Hard Luck Cowboy" for the worst wreck.
"Since that time I got my feet wet, I've liked rodeo a whole bunch," he said.
Although Larry preferred bareback riding, he found he was exceptionally good at bull riding. A lot of cowboys weren't. By entering as many events as he could, he increased his odds of winning big, he said. The only event he didn't participate in was calf roping because he didn't have the right horse for it. The entry fee, he recalled, was $15 and he could make as much as $350 in one event, and $8,000 to $10,000 a season.
"You couldn't do that in softball," he said.
The season that ran from May through October was extended with the introduction of several indoor rodeos.
"My dad used to say, rodeoing isn't knowledge, it's lack of it," Larry said. Working for his dad, Larry often had to juggle hours with the other employees to attend many of the rodeos. His dad wasn't going to make special accommodations for him.
"Although dad said he thought of rodeo as nonsense, I think he was really proud of me," he said.
The family never talked rodeo or asked where he was riding. They would often just show up.
After graduating from Selby High School in 1959, he enrolled in South Dakota State University at Brookings because he heard they had an incredible rodeo club. And although he wasn't enrolled at Northern State College, he knew Ernie Hammrich of Mobridge, who provided some of their rodeo stock. He allowed Larry to ride the animals there.
"I didn't leave until I rode every one," he said.
In 1966, Larry was named president of the South Dakota Rodeo Association.
Probably the most extensive injury he ever received was at the Sitting Bull Stampede Rodeo. After a bull threw him to the ground it whirled and knocked him down. He broke a bunch of ribs and punctured a lung. He was rushed to the old Railroad Hospital where he remained from July 4 to September.
"The Mobridge Rodeo Association gave me the Hard Luck Cowboy Award," he said.
At the end of the 1974 season, at the age of 36, Larry sadly admitted to himself that it was time to hang up his spurs.
"Rodeo," he said, "it's a young man's game."
Larry and Shirley enjoy visiting their sons and their families. Troy and his wife Joyce have a son, Cade, and a daughter, Calyn, and live in Prior Lake, Minn. Trent and his wife Mandie are expecting their first child in October and live in Sioux Falls.


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Introducing lead actor Warwick Davis, writer/executive producer Gervais describes the show as a cross between 'The Office' and 'Extras'.
Ricky Gervais has begun the production of new series "Life's Too Short", which he promotes in a teaser. The British actor appears with lead star Warwick Davis as well as co-writer and co-creator Stephen Merchant in the sneak peek to explain a bit about the show.
A seven-episode series, it is a faux documentary like "The Office" and will feature a number of celebrity cameos like "Extras". Those who are set to make appearance are Steve Carell (former star of America's "Office"), Johnny Depp and Sting.
The show follows Davis as a fictionalized version of himself, a person who has fallen on hard times and desperately tries to hustle and connive his way back into the spotlight. Jo Enright joins the regular cast as Davis' wife Sue, while Rosamund Hanson will portray his assistant Cheryl. Gervais and Merchant will also play themselves in minor roles.
"Life's Too Short" will be debuted on BBC Two later this year, but will not air in the U.S. on HBO until 2012.


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