Air Travel and Pregnancy Tips Sunday, October 31, 2010

Air travel during pregnancy is never easy. A lot of precautionary measures have to be taken to ensure the comfort and safety of the expecting mother. Although air travel should be minimized as far as possible during the pregnancy, it should not curb the freedom of pregnant women to travel by air, whether for leisure or for work purposes. A few simple steps can easily be taken to ease the journey during the flight.

As far as seating for pregnant travelers is concerned, always request for bulkhead seat, which is the seat located just behind the bulkhead partition that separates the plane into economic class from business class. Most of the bulkhead seats provide more legroom. Keeping in mind that the pregnant uterus is pressing on the urinary bladder, the frequency of urination is expected to be increased as pregnancy progresses. Thus, an aisle seat behind bulkhead would be ideal and easy to move to the washroom. Sometimes, the washrooms would be made available just at the bulkhead section in certain airlines.

Swelling around the ankles and lower legs are common in pregnancy. These conditions can be made worse when flying in a long distance journey. Pregnancy has higher risk in developing varicose vein and deep vein thrombosis. Thus, it is advisable to remove the shoe and stocking when resting on the flight journey. Keep the blood circulation smooth by doing a few simple stretching exercises that can be carried out on the seat. It involves stretching both arms and shoulders, followed by stretching the legs and then rotate the feet. A bulkhead seat would certainly be more spacious and convenient for this purpose.

Strolling along the aisle every hour is helpful especially in long distance air travel. Together with the stretching exercise, the pregnant travelers should feel more relax and less numbness around lower limbs due to poor blood circulation.

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Oktoberfest in Munich

Visit www.Twizgo.com To learn everything you need to know to Travel to Europe the right way! Sign up for our FREE Travel Guides and Tips, giving you the inside travel information you need to travel like a local, not a tourist. We're two Americans who have lived and worked in Europe for years. We know how to do Europe right! This is our famous Oktoberfest video for Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Here you'll see all the Oktoberfest beer tents, drunken girls, Wiener schnitzel, and of course, some traditional German and Bavarian drinking songs! German beer, girls in dirndls, guys in lederhosen, people eating bratwurst and whole chickens, lots of potatoes and of course, millions of liters of wonderful German beer - Bavarian lager, hefeweizen, and many many more! Have you been to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany? Tell us about it! Add your comments below! For more inside information about traveling to Europe the right way, visit: www.Twizgo.com And sign up for our FREE Travel Guides and Tips! Prost!



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Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany Sunday, October 24, 2010

Shane-O guides us through Munich's biggest party - Oktoberfest.



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Lufthansa Flug 714 - München zu Tokyo Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Welcome to Lufthansa Flight Sim! Check out my other videos. LufthansaFlightSim does mostly Lufthansa based flights, but will be doing flights from many airlines in the Star Alliance. Have a flight you'd like to see done? Let me know! Enjoy :-) Flight: 714 Airline: Lufthansa Aircraft: Airbus A340-300 Service: EDDM to RJAA Flight Simulator: 2004 w/ Add-On's Video Capturing Software: FRAPS Weather: Overcast/Rain Soundtrack: Augen Auf - Oomph!



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The Sport of Archery in the Olympic Games Saturday, October 9, 2010

Archery was not a sports event in the first ancient Olympic Games in Greece. However, the games were held for over 1,000 years, so it's entirely possible that at some time archery was an Olympic sport in the past.

Archery for men was an event for the first time in the modern Olympics in 1900. The first archery event for women was in 1904. However, there was no uniformity in the rules in those early Olympics and archery was dropped as an event after 1920. The international governing body for archery, the Federation Internationale de Tira l'Arc (FITA), was founded in 1931. It took many years before all countries accepted the new international rules for competition, but archery was able to return as an Olympic sport to the 1972 Munich Games. In 1988, team competitions were held in addition to the individual events.

Since 1992, the event format is head-to-head competition for the top 64 athletes. There are four archery events: Men's Individual, Women's Individual, Men's Team and Women's Team.

Individual competitors (men and women) shoot 72 arrows at a 'bulls-eye' target from a distance of 70 meters (229 feet, 8 inches). Each shot must be made within a 40-second time limit. A perfect score would be 720. A 'sudden death' overtime shot is made in the event of a tie.

Team competitions consist of 16 3-archer teams. As in the individual events, each archer shoots 72 arrows are shot at a distance of 70 meters. In a tie score, each team member will shoot one arrow. The arrow closest to the center of the target determines the winner.

The target has ten rings. One point is scored for an arrow landing in the outermost ring, 2 points for a hit in the next ring, continuing in this manner to the center ring which awards 10 points.

The recurve bow is used by Olympic Archers. An arrow shot by this bow travels at more than 150 mph. The bows are very 'high-tech', manufactured from wood, fiberglass and graphite. They have stabilizers which help keep the arrow flights straight and sights to help in aiming. The strings are made from a hydrocarbon product or from Kevlar. The arrows are aluminum or carbon graphite. The cost of this gear is over $1,000.

An Olympic archer has normally been training for at least ten years. It's essential to develop perfect form (or as close to perfect as humanly possible). A good coach is also very important. The proper equipment, of course, is needed. Fortunately, archery is much less expensive to pursue than many other sports. Read, study, talk to other archers. Attend and compete in local and national tournaments. Most important, practice, practice, practice.

Archery is a sport accessible to many disabled athletes. A New Zealand woman, Neroli Fairhall, was the first paraplegic to compete in the Olympic Games. She was a gold medalist in the Commonwealth Games. This is also a sport that people can continue with for much of their lives and enjoy with their families. Hope to see you at the Olympics!

Michael Russell

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Eight Must Visiting Places In San Francisco Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Golden Gate Bridge: this is a tourist attraction that links the Marin County and San Francisco, this bridge endures about 100,000 cars every day. The bridge is over a mile long and it was built to withstand blowing winds of more than 100 miles per hour by swinging about 27 feet at its center. To see the bridge, the easiest viewpoint is from the Fisherman's Wharf.

Fisherman's Wharf: Again one of the top tourist destination known for its restaurants, museums and shops. One can spend some time exploring 'necks of the Woods'. Some museums of interest are Treasure Island Museum, City of San Francisco Museum and 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' museum. The Underwater World is a superb aquarium build with 700, 000 gallons of water. Visitors can explore the aquatic life through transparent glass tunnel.

Chinatown: Another superb tourist attraction, get the bus number 45 from Market and 3rd Sts. down. Enter from Dragon's Gate (the south entrance) into the Grant Avenue. With up-turned roofs and dragon lamp posts you can see shops selling everything like kites to utensils. You should check out the Cantonese wood carvings on Kong Chow Temple and the Fortune Cookie Factory.

Alcatraz Island: It was once a maximum security Federal Penitentiary but now a part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The ferry can take you to the island, landing at the only pier which serves the steep-sided island.

Lombard Street: It descends form the east side of the Russian Hill and originally too steep for cars to drive on, banked at a natural incline of 27 degrees. During the year of 1920s a section of it was revamped by adding eight curves. Today this is called as 'The Crookedest Street in the World'! Automobiles can drive downhill at the speed of 8km/h only, while pedestrians can make use of the steps. Beautifully cut hedges with flowers will make it pleasant to walk and the view from the summit is astonishing.

California Academy of Sciences is a cultural attraction, located in Golden Gate Park between Shakespeare Garden and the Aquarium; it holds the Morrison Planetarium, a gem and mineral hall and Steinhart Aquarium. You can experience the strength and movement of earth tremors and it also has an African Hall with realistic models of African animals.

Nob Hill: this is a natural attraction which is the highest summit of SF, rising to 103 meters above the sea and from where you will have a spectacular view of SF city. It is considered to be the most elite place in San Francisco. The Cable Car Museum is on the way from Nob Hill to Russian Hill that depicts the cable car's 121 years of history.

Lafayette Park: again a natural attraction which is one of the city's moat loveliest hilltop gardens, this park is filled with eucalyptus tress which is also a leafy green haven of pine. Previously it was used by squatters and there are still some more houses dating back to the year 1936 which were originally constructed by squatters. One must go from the California Street, right into Octavia Street to reach Lafayette Park.

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Air Berlin 737-800 D-ABAP - Landing in Munich on heavy snow falls

NOTE. That day many flights to munich we're canceled due to airport closure in munich because of heavy snow falls. We've been one of 3 of over 15 flights that day to munich. Scheduled flight time was 50 minutes. We flown 1h and 40mins due airport closure on approach A/C D-ABAP



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