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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!
Read the full blog entry from Rosa's Yummy Yums
Today, I have decided to post an Autumn/Winter Norwegian apple delicacy that fits perfectly the season: "Eplepai". The name translates into "Apple Pie" in English, yet this speciality is rather a soft wettish cake than a shortcrust pastry-based dessert.
This Scandinavian goodie is ridiculously simple and fast to put together, nonetheless it is far from being characterless, boring or bland gustatively speaking. The warm spices pair admirably with the sweet tartness of the fruits and the toasted almonds add a gorgeously nutty note to the whole. A luscious and morish treat that is sticky, extra moist, super smooth in texture, mighty gratifying and somehow reminds me of pudding. Heavenly!
I have freely adapted the recipe from Beatrice Ojakangas' marvelous and highly recommended bestseller "The Great Scandinavian Baking Book". I operated a few small changes to it as I believed it could be slightly improved (not that it really needed any enhancement, though). My version uses ground cardamom, vanilla extract and roasted almond sticks. An addition which doesn't alter the über-nordisk and preciously old-fashioned flavors of that succulent torte.
By David Cooper, Fund Advisers Europe
Another European Summit happens this week in an attempt to find an answer (again!) to the Eurozone crisis of confidence.
It appears we shall see Germany pushing for greater degrees of Fiscal Union, as a trade for their continued support of the Eurozone failing economies. At the moment Germany is the only thing standing between many of the indebted countries and bankruptcy.
Ms Merkel would have Germany, the EFSF and the European Central Bank, support the failing economies, allowing them to remain liquid, able to raise funds from Sovereign Debt whilst implementing austerity measures to reduce deficits. Measures Germany would want agreed under the Fiscal Union – moving Europe closer towards becoming the ‘United States of Europe’.
Perhaps to understand how this has come about, it is better to look at why the Eurozone, in its current guise, has failed.
By Sarah Santacroce at Simplicity
If you run a business website and check your Google Analytics regularly, you might know that the “Contact us” page is one of the most frequently visited pages of your site (after the home page, the about page and the resource page). So you want to make sure that you give the visitor all the necessary information he/she needs.
To do that, first let’s analyze why people visit the “Contact us” page:
- they want to call you
- they want to e-mail you
- they want to find out where you are located (which country)
- they are looking for a name of one of your employees
- they need your address to write you an invoice
- they want to see how to find you (map)
- they want to see your Social Media profiles
- they want to know who runs the website/company
By David Cooper, Fund Advisers Europe
Bond yields are rising to record highs.
European leaders suspend aid to Athens.
Greece staggers closer to default before the year end.
France and Germany stand united, issuing ultimatums to the Athens parliament to decide on the future of their membership of the Euro.
These events have led to financial institutions, down to private retail investors losing confidence in European based investments – both bonds and equity.
Conflicting statements from the Greek leaders regarding their intentions and wishes around membership of the Eurozone, are prolonging the uncertainty and with MP's resigning from the ruling party, their majority has been cut to just one.
Yesterday's announcement that the referendum was to be cancelled brought some relief, however can this be considered a long term situation, or should we expect a further change from Athens?
By Diana Ritchie, Spouse Career Center and Swiss Career Connections
I was speaking with a friend the other day and she was explaining how she feels like she has been held back by the notion that she wants to and has wanted to move back “HOME” every since she arrived in the region some 11 years ago. She still waits for her visits home to cut her hair, to do her shopping, to stock up on her favorite food items, and does not partake in all that is offered here, as she waits to go “HOME”. She also spoke with envy how a mutual friend managed to get a job in a foreign country – here where she lives. Her feeling of frustration at not knowing how to move on with her life “HERE” is common and felt by many expats, newcomers, and even old-comers.
Do you share her feelings of straddling two countries, one foot here and the other foot on “HOME” turf? Do you feel like if only I was “HOME” I would know how to find a job, and could get on with my life, but here it feels like my life is on hold, or much worse, unpleasant?
As Managing Director of the Spouse Career Centre and Swiss Career Connections, a qualified Sophrologist, and an NLP practitioner, I have organized and will assist in the production of three workshops, designed to help participants make the most of their time abroad.
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