English Forum Switzerland http://www.englishforum.ch/ Community portal for English-speaking people in Switzerland en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:53:18 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.englishforum.ch/images/misc/rss.jpg English Forum Switzerland http://www.englishforum.ch/ Kitchen Units For Sale Birmingham http://www.englishforum.ch/introductions/180109-kitchen-units-sale-birmingham.html Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:41:17 GMT Kitchen Units For Sale Birmingham. www.diykitchens1.co.uk . Twelve kitchen units and appliances for sale £595.Tel 01616-694785. Kitchen Units For Sale Birmingham Kitchen Units For Sale Birmingham (http://www.kitchen-unit.co.uk/kitchen-units-birmingham.php) Kitchen Units For Sale Birmingham.
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Kitchen Units For Sale Birmingham ]]> Introductions setantobat http://www.englishforum.ch/introductions/180109-kitchen-units-sale-birmingham.html Tapioca Pearls in Basel or Close to Border http://www.englishforum.ch/food-drink/180108-tapioca-pearls-basel-close-border.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:50:38 GMT Hey Everyone, Please let me know if you have seen tapioca pearls in any local shop. I have been hunting for them, but cannot locate them. Many thanks in advance. Hey Everyone,

Please let me know if you have seen tapioca pearls in any local shop. I have been hunting for them, but cannot locate them.

Many thanks in advance. ]]> Food and drink Spellbound http://www.englishforum.ch/food-drink/180108-tapioca-pearls-basel-close-border.html Urgent: Please Help http://www.englishforum.ch/family-matters-health/180107-urgent-please-help.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:36:04 GMT Hello everyone, I am new here and I hope I can get some good answers to my question. Does anyone know any EXCELLENT spine surgeon in Zurich? Please let me know if you do. this is an emergency case and I really could use some knowledge. Regards Mary Hello everyone, I am new here and I hope I can get some good answers to my question. Does anyone know any EXCELLENT spine surgeon in Zurich? Please let me know if you do. this is an emergency case and I really could use some knowledge.
Regards
Mary ]]> Family matters/health Sharameli http://www.englishforum.ch/family-matters-health/180107-urgent-please-help.html Humidity in cellar http://www.englishforum.ch/complaints-corner/180106-humidity-cellar.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:35:55 GMT Its a fairly new construction (2011), we have all the windows open and have deployed a dehumidifier, but still the cellar does not want to become dry. There is no obvious water coming in, its simply damp...this became especially obvious with the recent hot weather. Even the stairs from the cellar (smoothed concrete) got dark spots since 2 days. Next step is to get an expert to assess the situation, arghhhhh :mad: Its a fairly new construction (2011), we have all the windows open and have deployed a dehumidifier, but still the cellar does not want to become dry. There is no obvious water coming in, its simply damp...this became especially obvious with the recent hot weather. Even the stairs from the cellar (smoothed concrete) got dark spots since 2 days.

Next step is to get an expert to assess the situation, arghhhhh :mad: ]]> Complaints corner Vaud http://www.englishforum.ch/complaints-corner/180106-humidity-cellar.html Bubukid Summer Sale http://www.englishforum.ch/commercial-events/180105-bubukid-summer-sale.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:18:34 GMT We are having a Summer sale 10% Off until 30 June hats, new born packs, toys, equipment, kids clothes and more..... www.bubukid.com come and visit my store Cass We are having a Summer sale 10% Off until 30 June

hats, new born packs, toys, equipment, kids clothes and more.....

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come and visit my store

Cass ]]> Commercial events CTuxford http://www.englishforum.ch/commercial-events/180105-bubukid-summer-sale.html Can the Swiss Goverment help a Swiss au pair with her Language Courses. http://www.englishforum.ch/other-general/180104-can-swiss-goverment-help-swiss-au-pair-her-language-courses.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:01:16 GMT Hello ESF followers: I would like to ask for some help, I will start a job as aupair in a month but the family doesnt want to pay for my language courses. I cannot afford to pay the language courses because my salary its 650 Franks per month and i need this money for paying different things. I would like to know if i qualify for the courses that the swiss goverment offers to unemployed people. Is there a change for me as au pair to get this free german courses. By the way i have Swiss Nationality. Can someone give some advice or tips? Thank You in advanced. Have a Good Night Hello ESF followers:

I would like to ask for some help, I will start a job as aupair in a month but the family doesnt want to pay for my language courses. I cannot afford to pay the language courses because my salary its 650 Franks per month and i need this money for paying different things. I would like to know if i qualify for the courses that the swiss goverment offers to unemployed people. Is there a change for me as au pair to get this free german courses. By the way i have Swiss Nationality. Can someone give some advice or tips?

Thank You in advanced.

Have a Good Night ]]> Other/general Yanira http://www.englishforum.ch/other-general/180104-can-swiss-goverment-help-swiss-au-pair-her-language-courses.html Toddler with very itchy skin http://www.englishforum.ch/family-matters-health/180103-toddler-very-itchy-skin.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:58:31 GMT I have a three year old boy who has always had sensitive and very dry skin. In the last few weeks it has become even more severe (pollen related?) with his torso, legs, arms, back, and anywhere he can reach now covered in bloody scratch marks. He scratches almost constantly and he even scratches at night in his sleep. The most successful treatment to date from his paediatrician has been linola fett - but now this seems to be making very little impact. Has anyone had a similar experience and can recommend a different approach / treatment? Perhaps a naturopath or skin specialist that you recommend? Should I be investigating food allergies? Appreciate any feedback. C I have a three year old boy who has always had sensitive and very dry skin. In the last few weeks it has become even more severe (pollen related?) with his torso, legs, arms, back, and anywhere he can reach now covered in bloody scratch marks. He scratches almost constantly and he even scratches at night in his sleep.

The most successful treatment to date from his paediatrician has been linola fett - but now this seems to be making very little impact.

Has anyone had a similar experience and can recommend a different approach / treatment? Perhaps a naturopath or skin specialist that you recommend? Should I be investigating food allergies?

Appreciate any feedback.

C ]]> Family matters/health ctoop http://www.englishforum.ch/family-matters-health/180103-toddler-very-itchy-skin.html Its always the quiet ones http://www.englishforum.ch/general-off-topic/180102-its-always-quiet-ones.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:32:15 GMT £60,000-a-year surveyor who led secret life as leader of prolific graffiti gang which defaced hundreds of trains and buildings is jailed
  • Kristian Holmes, 32, caused £250,000 of damage to trains and buildings
  • The father-of-two sprayed 'VAMP' tag across rail network and even abroad
  • One of his accomplices was 4ft tall and required a stepladder to get on trains

Defacer: Kristian Holmes, pictured at an earlier hearing, carried out a seven-year vandalism campaign on trains

To his colleagues Kristian Holmes was a respectable father of two, dedicated to his £60,000-a-year job as a surveyor.
But the bespectacled office worker was living a double life as one of Britain’s most prolific graffiti vandals.
Yesterday he waved goodbye to his family as he was jailed for three-and-a-half years for a trail of destruction that even included a steam train run by volunteers.
Holmes, 32, caused damage estimated at more than £250,000 and forced scores of trains out of service by defacing carriages.

One of his most high-profile victims was the Bluebell Railway, the steam-powered heritage line in Sussex.
Over the next seven years his ‘VAMP’ tag was found across the rail network on engines, walls and bridges, and was even discovered in Ibiza.

Jailing him at Blackfriars Crown Court in London, Judge Deva Pillay said: ‘These defacing attacks upon the property of others was at times so prolific that it could justly be described, on occasions, as occurring on an industrial scale.
‘The costs incurred by the railway companies and owners of property, and ultimately the community at large to clear up this unsightly mess, was and is very substantial indeed.’
Holmes, of Sidcup, South-East London, was a leading member of the so-called ‘PS crew’ which defaced property with tags, in-jokes and crude caricatures.
He kept an A-Z London street map marked with the locations he had vandalised, along with notes on how to avoid being caught scrawled in the margins.

The vandal was joined by others, including 4ft 3in Matthew Mandell, 30, who needed a step ladder to reach the trains.
They often posed as maintenance workers wearing Network Rail high-visibility jackets and trousers to avoid suspicion.

But when he realised police were on to him, Holmes posted a series of YouTube videos showing a mixed race man spraying his distinctive tag.


Costly: The cost of the damage caused by the daubings of Holmes and his gang is estimated to be around £250,000



The crude 'Vamp' tag was found across the rail network on engines, rail-side walls, bridges, and was even spotted in Ibiza

Prolific 'vamp' tagging account manger Kristian Holmes at work

He was finally arrested in front of shocked colleagues at his workplace, RI Building Services, in Bromley, South-East London, in April 2010.

Searches uncovered a vast amount of evidence of his secret life, including spray can nozzles and paint-splattered gloves.

Prosecutor James Murray-Smith said the total damage was estimated at £250,000, one of the highest value criminal damage cases to come to court.

He told the jury: ‘Mr Holmes is a prolific graffiti vandal. We are not talking here about witty imaginative images such as those I expect you are familiar with by Banksy … I would suggest what you are dealing with is simple damage.

‘It is damage which to the vast majority of the public is tedious and depressing.’

The apparently respectable father’s trail of destruction began at the world-famous Bluebell Railway in 2003.


'These defacing attacks upon the property of others was at times so prolific that it could justly be described... as occurring on an industrial scale', said Judge Deva Pillay



Ploy: Holmes posted a series of YouTube videos appeared to show a mixed race man spraying the word VAMP in a bid to derail the investigation



Wanton: A vintage train carriage that was restored by volunteer railway enthusiasts was one of Holmes' targets

CCTV at the train yard in Uckfield, Sussex, showed Holmes and four others vaulting the fence at night to cause £3,000 of damage.

DNA on a discarded cigarette, left at the scene among empty paint cans, linked Holmes to the offence.

Volunteer Anthony Funnell said: ‘What can’t be qualified is the effect this had on the volunteers who have given up their time to restore the carriages.’

The vandal’s crimes then spread across the commuter network as he struck property owned by National Express East Anglia, London Overground and South Eastern.

In 2009 he was seen writing on a wall in Brick Lane, East London. But police released him with a warning after he claimed he was only reading the graffiti.

Holmes was jailed for two-and-a-half years for 39 counts of criminal damage, and sentenced to a further 12 months for attempting to pervert the course of justice with the bogus YouTube videos.


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]]> General off-topic Castro http://www.englishforum.ch/general-off-topic/180102-its-always-quiet-ones.html moving sale: car and flat in Zurich http://www.englishforum.ch/items-sale/180101-moving-sale-car-flat-zurich.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:12 GMT Moving back to UK: car (BMW X5) and flat available in Zurich

http://www.autoscout24.ch/de/d/bmw-x...?vehid=1659330

http://www.homegate.ch/mieten/104314...ault&l=default ]]> Items for sale SwissUK http://www.englishforum.ch/items-sale/180101-moving-sale-car-flat-zurich.html <![CDATA[For Sale: toaster and microwave [zurich]]]> http://www.englishforum.ch/items-sale/180100-sale-toaster-microwave-zurich.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:26:03 GMT Microwave - 20CHF Toaster - 10CHF Microwave - 20CHF

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]]> Items for sale roberttran http://www.englishforum.ch/items-sale/180100-sale-toaster-microwave-zurich.html Bern dinner club, down by the Aare river http://www.englishforum.ch/social-events/180099-bern-dinner-club-down-aare-river.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:53:01 GMT On the first Tuesday of each month we meet up for a meal and a chat at a reasonably priced restaurant in Bern.

I am thinking of going to this restaurant which is below the Swiss Parliament west wing building, down near the river. You can get down there using the Marzili Berg Bahn. Driving and parking there is VERY difficult. Later on after 20:30 there is a bus number 30 on a circular route, to & from the Hauptbahnhof stopping outside the UBS bank, http://www.bernmobil.ch/file/Baustel...an_Bahnhof.pdf

Restaurant Marzilibrücke
Gasstrasse 8
3005 Bern

http://www.taberna.ch/marzilibruecke/das-restaurant/

http://map.search.ch/Gassstrasse-8,-...verkehr,gastro

There is the Marzili Berg-Bahn nearby, which comes down from the Swiss parliament terrace.

Please don't choose a "maybe" selection. I find it embarrassing explaining that I don't know if the guest is coming or not.
There is a useful reminder function at the top right on this page, please decide, yes or no.

I will close the reservation list about 2 hours before we eat, and tell the restaurant how many of us are coming.

Looking forward to seeing you there, hopefully the weather will be cool. ]]> Social events Sbrinz http://www.englishforum.ch/social-events/180099-bern-dinner-club-down-aare-river.html <![CDATA[Looking for someone speaking german and english [Zug area]]]> http://www.englishforum.ch/jobs-offered/180098-looking-someone-speaking-german-english-zug-area.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:29:49 GMT My wife needs to go to the unemployment office on Monday 24th of June from 08:30 to 11:30 in Zug. There will be an introduction course in German and she need someone to come along and translate.... If you are interested and can do it - please send me a PM with a fee. Many Thanks! My wife needs to go to the unemployment office on Monday 24th of June from 08:30 to 11:30 in Zug. There will be an introduction course in German and she need someone to come along and translate....

If you are interested and can do it - please send me a PM with a fee.

Many Thanks! ]]> Jobs offered bobo_97 http://www.englishforum.ch/jobs-offered/180098-looking-someone-speaking-german-english-zug-area.html Nice to meet you!!! http://www.englishforum.ch/introductions/180097-nice-meet-you.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:27:37 GMT Hi all,my name is John (Giannis) and i come from Greece. I am here in Swiss for a month and my target is to find a job and after study in a university or something here. I would love to meet new people. I like sports,pc games,hanging out with friends and of course having lots lots of fun. Dont hesitate to send me a message or gust repoly to my thread. Nice to meet you all,hope we have some fun!!! Hi all,my name is John (Giannis) and i come from Greece.
I am here in Swiss for a month and my target is to find a job and after study in a university or something here.
I would love to meet new people.
I like sports,pc games,hanging out with friends and of course having lots lots of fun.
Dont hesitate to send me a message or gust repoly to my thread.
Nice to meet you all,hope we have some fun!!! ]]> Introductions Johnjohn http://www.englishforum.ch/introductions/180097-nice-meet-you.html Move business to CH as a non-EU citizen? http://www.englishforum.ch/business-entrepreneur/180096-move-business-ch-non-eu-citizen.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:20:15 GMT Hi-

Can I move my business to Switzerland as a non-EU citizen? I'd need some type of permit (B or C, I presume) to live here, along with my wife. Preferably, my wife would be able to work as well (I think on a B visa, the spouse can also find employment?)...

I currently employ 6 contractors (two full time). Revenue is around 500-550k annually. It's a small business, but a healthy one.

I read that if you hire Swiss people you can get a visa to live in Switzerland and start a business there. How many people? Does it have to be FT or can you hire contractors?

I'm in the computer consulting business and I want to live in Zurich, or if Zurich isn't possible, somewhere in the German part of Switzerland.

Thank you! ]]> abcxyz http://www.englishforum.ch/business-entrepreneur/180096-move-business-ch-non-eu-citizen.html Coming to Zug http://www.englishforum.ch/introductions/180094-coming-zug.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:27:06 GMT Hi - I'm moving to Zug from London next month.

Just started doing prep like finding somewhere to live, sorting bank accounts, etc - and came across this forum.

Hi(!) ]]> Introductions shenmue http://www.englishforum.ch/introductions/180094-coming-zug.html