Guest Blogs
Knowitall.ch often invites local experts in their field to contribute to their own blogs on our site. This means not only you will benefit from the useful recommendations that we make on our News pages, but you can also profit from some of the great advice and tips that these experts have to make on their favorite subjects. Whilst each of these bloggers has been recommended to us at some point during the evolution of Know-it-all passport and knowitall.ch, obviously we are not able to test out all the suggestions they make on their blogs, nor do we necessarily agree with all their opinions. So if you do find one of their tips useful (or not!), do let us know!
To make these blogs more accessible to you, we have now decided to group them altogether in one section, entitled Guest Blogs, accessible from our main menu bar. We will also post the most recent blogs on the home page of our site in the right hand column.
We are still building up this area of the site, and are looking for bloggers in a number of sections, including Your Home, Travel, and Leisure, so if you feel you have a useful contribution to make in either of these areas, and have the time to submit blog entries approximately every month, then please get in touch!
By Hiba Giacoletto, Healthwise
Have you tried whipping yourself into losing weight? Do you promise yourself every time summer comes around that THIS time, you are going to stick to the diet plan and visit the gym religiously?
If you have tried all sorts of diets, but none of them seem to work, how about trying something different? An approach based on pleasure and kindness towards yourself instead of deprivation and restriction.
Here are six healthy ways to lose weight without dieting – they may not lead to rapid weight loss, but the weight loss tends to be more sustainable.
(c) copyright HealthFirst 2015
By Dr Penny Fraser, HealthFirst
Summer is here! The school bags will soon be slung into a cupboard and the suitcases brought out to pack for holidays and family visits. Whether you are travelling by car, train or plane, the one thing that should always be taken is your First Aid Kit.
How to make an arm sling
One of the essential items that you should find in your kit is an arm-sling, used for injured collarbones, shoulders, elbows, arms, wrists and hands. Do you know why you would use one of these?
Four reasons for putting an arm sling on an injured person:
- It's a pain-killer. Every time damaged skin, muscle, tendons, bones and joints are moved, they send strong pain messages along the nerves to the brain. Ouch! If these damaged tissues are kept still and supported in an arm sling then the person will be in less pain.
- It prevents secondary injury. If the damaged tissues are kept still in the sling, then this reduces the chance of bone fragments, torn veins and ligaments wobbling about and causing worse bleeding or swelling etc.
- It accelerates recovery. It is scientifically proven that if, after an injury, people have their pain controlled and psychological stress reduced, they heal quicker. Excellent First Aid includes reassuring the person with words, gestures and eye-contact whilst putting on an arm sling.
- It gives a clear signal to others. When another person sees the arm sling, they know that the wearer is injured and needs to be cared for. A paramedic, nurse or doctor will also be able to direct their questions and treatment quickly to the injured arm, indicated by the presence of the arm sling.
By Dean Marriott
Staying in university accommodation may not have you immediately chomping at the bit, however, when that accommodation forms part of one of the most prestigious and historical universities in the UK, you may want to have a rethink.
The University of Cambridge is the second oldest university in England and was founded in 1209. Its 31 colleges are steeped in history with a seemingly endless list of world-renowned alumni including Sir Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Alan Turing, John Maynard Keynes, Christopher Marlowe, A. A. Milne, Rupert Brooke, Sir Ian McKellen and John Cleese. Being located in the East of England, it is easily accessed from most major airports, with Stansted and Luton being by far the most convenient.
Last week, the GEMS World Language Learning Centre was a finalist in the global Cambridge English Preparation Centre awards which took place in Cambridge, England. I was fortunate enough to be flown to England and to spend four nights at King’s College, Cambridge to participate.
Edith Wharton said “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” So when you think of dynamic duos, we contemplate of the power of two and this is exactly what you get with Michael and Juliette McGannon. The husband and wife team have created high-powered, impactful workshops, which they deliver worldwide. Since 1988, they have listened to more than 125,000 managers who told them to make their seminars simple, effective and good fun. They have developed extremely useful tools and strategies for keeping modern managers at the peak of their game.
I met them last year at one of their workshops and what really struck me was their very humane, caring and pragmatic approach. I am very grateful to them both that they found the time to be interviewed.
I hope you enjoy their interview as much as I did!
By Stephen Langton, Forth Capital
For thousands of years there have been Greek Tragedies. From Oedipus to modern times, the idea of a Greek Tragedy is a familiar one. In most recent years, the Greek Tragedy being played out in front of our eyes in real time, has been the demise of the Greek economy and the suffering of the Greek people.
An inefficient and inflexible labour market, a reliance on the black economy and a divergence in growth from its Northern EU brethren, coupled with the debt from the global financial crisis, made the current situation inevitable.
Austerity hasn’t worked for Greece and the “Emperor’s New Clothes” reality is that Greece cannot pay back the debt whether it wants to or not.
This is not the first time in their history that the Greek people have suffered and I suspect it will not be the last.
