A lot of expats (expatriates are people who live in a foreign country) moving into a new country are often faced with difficulties most of us rarely encounter. Things such as getting legal advice, finding accommodation, updating a CV, etc, all take on a new dimension of difficulty when doing so in an unfamiliar language and city.
This is one way in which the Internet has been such a great help to expats, via the expat forum. In Munich, the population is expanding at a fast rate which includes over 50% of the new residents being of foreign descent. There is a huge market for those who don’t speak the language well enough to settle in easily. This is where ‘Talk Munich’ comes in. Talk Munich is an English-language expat forum that helps people in Munich and the surrounding Bavarian region to settle into life there. It can be a great resource for finding out all the little things which can be so troublesome if you don’t speak the language.
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Does anyone else think that the major churches are against gender equality? We know that the Catholic church believes the woman’s role in a relationship is as a stay-at-home mother; but what about other churches collective attitudes?
This question is a pivotal one and more important than even feminists probably realise. European scholars in the last few hundred years have been predicting the demise of the church as science and rationality take hold and push superstition out of the way. Yet religion and the church have managed to hang on and still look strong. If they really are against gender equality, then their existence effectively is working against women being equal members of society.
So the question is whether or not women will rebel against organised religion and the very subtle persecution they have suffered up to now. Only time will tell, but for the moment it seem the atheists and feminists have something in common.
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Can you trust your partner?
The cornerstone of every good relationship is trust. Without it, the relationship cannot survive. Yet there appears to be a common theme emerging in recent years in Western society – female equality is impacting relationships in ways unforeseen and not always beneficial.
Statistically women are more likely to cheat on their partners now that at any time in the recent past. When men cheat they try to be clever and hide it, but men just aren’t as clever socially or in picking up subtle body language or signs as women are. Quite often the woman knows her partner has cheated even before he does (joke). The point is that women are better at reading men than men are at reading women. In other words, a woman has a better chance of spotting her partner cheating than a man does.
Where does this leave men? In a changing world where women have more equality (and rightly so), they do seem to be picking up some of the bad habits of a certain type of man. Cheating is on the rise amongst women… and men have a big disadvantage in fighting this:
- In divorce, men tend to lose more (highly debatable statement, but let us assume it for now).
- If a man cheats and his partner does not find out about it, she will not raise the child which he may father. If a woman cheats and her partner does not find out about it, he will spend a sizable portion of his life raising another man’s child, without even being aware of it.
- Men will often find it hard to spot if a woman is cheating.
Put these few points together and the stakes are suddenly quite high for a man to get married; he stands to lose a lot if his partner proves not to be trustworthy. Yet he may never know this about her. Hence another reason why men are slowing moving away from marriage.
I understand this is very controversial what I am saying, but sometimes it is healthy to play devil’s advocate and see what debate it provokes.
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The proliferation of free online dating sites is reaching unmaintainable levels. There is so much competition and so few quality sites which deliver on their promise. Niche sites are the real area of growth. By this I mean sites which cater for a particular subset of society. Like for instance, dating aimed at a certain religion or sexual persuasion. People want their choice reduced in the area of dating sites as most people think they know what they want and wish to avoid all the unnecessary profiles they have to wade through. If you can successfully target a niche which is in demand for dating, then you stand a better chance of tackling the SEO and winning than if you kept your site generic and hence went into direct competition with the big dating sites.
Furthermore, by making your site free, perhaps you are telling your customers that it is a cheap site. I think there are too many free sites now and it lowers the expected quality of the people using it… spammers, scammers and fake profiles just jump into my mind when I think of free online dating sites. So consider a nominal fee for your niche site in order to show that your site has a bit of class. People are willing to pay for that.
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Are you familiar with SEO and how it can impact your site?
For any web business owner, SEO is a vital ingredient in their marketing plan. Search Engineer Optimisation (SEO) is a collection of techniques employed by a webmaster to improve their site’s placement in a search engine’s results page (SERP’s). This will lead to more traffic (in SEO lingo ’traffic’ refers to people/site visitors). Normally the SERP’s in question relate to the Google search engine as this is the biggest in terms of overall usage on the Internet.
Why is SEO important. Well, if you rise in the SERP’s because of a successful SEO campaign, you will get more targeted visitors and hence more sales or conversions (‘conversion’ is a sales term to represent some action performed by a customer, e.g. buying a product or signing up as a forum member). This will lead to a more profitable or successful site. The problem however is conducting a suitable SEO campaign which will generate good results within your budget. For most small online businesses, spending on SEO services is usually an afterthought. Unfortunately, this is a critical mistake; if you save on SEO, then your site has little chance of becoming the runaway success you are hoping it will be.
One solution is to get greater results for your SEO investment. By this I mean getting more work done per unit currency than you are currently able to acquire. This is possible via SEO outsourcing. There is one company which is specialising in this and other optimisation services; www.Hot4SEO.com. They get your contractual marketing performed in a highly skilled foreign market, where the exchange rate benefits the site owner. By contacting this company they can slice your marketing budget to a fraction of what it would normally cost. Well worth considering if you are a website owner and need a bit of help to get your business promoted in Google
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Divorce rates in Western countries are extremely high. One has to ask why are people even bothering getting married nowadays. In Germany and Austria, over 50% of marriages in any one year end in divorce. So why does marriage still exist when the after-effects are so devastating for everyone involved?
I have a theory. I think everyone starts out with good intentions, but living in a greedy, self-absorbed culture makes the reality of good goals harder to attain – and a prolonged marriage is a good goal. Marriage is a pact between two people whereby they declare a lifelong committment to each other. How can the average Westerner make this level of committment to another human, when statistics show he/she cannot even control their own level of junk-food intake, do not have the self-discipline to exercise enough and live in a society which is obsessed with self-fulfillment at the expense of those around them. In the West, we are not encouraged to show committment to anyone but ourselves. The truth is that few Western people really have the self-drive, thoughtfulness and ambition to treat other humans well, and this applies equally to their partner.
Sure, they might think they will treat their spouse differently, but statistics are showng them they are wrong. Over 50% of them are wrong at least. I think the trick to a successful relationship is dedication to the other person. Going the extra mile to give them something more than what comes naturally to you. Be thoughtful, give your partner a reason to love you and make their life easier. Assuming your parter can match your efforts, then going the extra mile could be the technique that makes your marriage work.
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Working at a relationship is often easier said than done. We all have many reasons and grievances which make us stop short of fulfilling the obligations we make in a relationship. Why do we sometimes fail to do what we set out to achieve in our relationship and end up hurting ourselves and our partner in the process. A few human attributes spring to mind as the cause of this: anger, selfishness, greed, to name but a few.
Making a relationship work is all about facing up to the relationship challenges. The number one challenge is about putting the other person first. We naturally wish to defend and protect ourselves first, but in doing so we can cause problems. By first putting yourself in your partner’s shoes (methaphorically speaking), you should be able to see the situation from their perspective. Often that is all that is required to calm your own feelings of resentment or anger and hence approach the problem more unemotionally.
It is not easy to tackle relationship problems if your motivation for being in a relationship is materialistic, i.e. for money, security, physical satisfaction, etc. First try to develop true feelings and understand your partner. Place your partner’s happiness at least as equal to your own. Only then are you in a position to maturely handle conflict as it arises. Remember to make them happy, and put in as much effort as you do to make yourself happy. If you find you are treating yourself so much more better than you are treating your partner, then you need to look a little at yourself and be honest about your reasons for being in that relationship. Is it really about love, or about comfort?
To achieve relationship harmony, you need to make sure both you and your partner are happy. Remember, to follow the path to happiness, it is often easiest to send your partner ahead first.
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So you have your site completed and you are ready to invest some time optimising it for Google. Where do you start and what are the most important elements of optimisation?
Well, SEO can be divided into two sections, i.e. ‘off-page’ and ‘on-page’ optimisation. First you need to start by getting the on-page factors correct. I will not go into the details of on-page optimisation as there are many sites which detail this. Suffice to say that you must get this right from the start and make sure each page has a dedicated and well-defined set of keywords and that each page is optimised for those keywords (links, images, text). If you ignore this step your SEO efforts will be severely hampered and may result in messy stats for your site. Equally important in your on-page SEO efforts is following good practice guidelines and avoiding certain coding style/techniques which might be considered black-hat or even grey-hat (e.g. using Javascript to disable the browser’s ‘back’ button). These might work for a short time, but you risk being penalised by Google and having your site thrown into the sandbox.
Off-page optimisation is quite labour-intensive but a critical part of SEO. This is where most of your attention will be focused. You will need to get links to your site from other sites. These in-bound links should come from a wide variety of sites, of different page rank and with different keywords in the anchor text of the link. Google wants a site’s popularity to grow naturally, so any SEO practices which follows an unnatural pattern will flag your site to Google and potentially result in a penalty. Get your in-bounds links in an organic fashion by creating good link-bait and absorbing content. As you manually harvest links, try to do so in a gentle exponential manner, starting with a few links and gradually acquiring more and more. Make sure the links come from a statistically viable range of PR’s. I.e. most of your links should come from pages of PR 0, 1 and 2, with a decreasing number of links from higher PR pages.
The rule of thumb is to make all your SEO efforts look as natural as possible. Stick to this rule and your site should enjoy an increase in PR and traffic. Flout it and you run the risk of being sandboxed by Google.
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There are so many different dating sites to choose from and so many varied interfaces. This poses problems for end users of these sites. How do you know which dating sites have real members and not loads of fake ones.? Are there hidden charges and annoying marketing techniques such as ‘Sign up for free’ (but pay to email someone)? Many poor examples of dating sites exist and a lot of them are nothing more than the same sites franchised out to people wanting to run their own web business. Many more are filled nearly completely with fake profiles and even the big sites have been caught out a few times in this manner (as a few big US court cases will verify).
How do you spot a decent Dating Site? Well, a good dating site should meet the following criteria:
- A good Page Rank (PR is a measure of Google’s opinion on the importance of this site)
- No fake profiles, i.e. no profiles made up by the site owners and serious anti-spam measures in place to prevent spammers loading fake profiles
- Fees detailed up-front and clearly identified
- Clean, uncluttered layout, easy to use and non-stressful user interface
- Terms and Conditions (T&C), plus a privacy policy
- Plenty of members (but beware sites which say they have millions of members, many are cheating their customers – most of the big Dating Sites are well known, so if you see a site with millions of members, but nobody has heard of them, then the alarm bells should start to ring)
- A policy of opt-ins rather than opt-outs. What this means is that many sites will, by default, sell/share your details onto their ’sister’ sites or other third parties (on these sites, by default you need to opt-out of such blatant privacy violations – reputable sites will only allow you to opt-in to them). Avoid these opt-out sites and read the small print carefully to make sure your email address does not end up on some mass-mailing list
Pay attention to those 7 points and you should be able to avoid falling foul of scammers or at the very least having your time wasted. Clickinlove is a reputable site which adheres to the above points and engages only in ethical marketing, so feel free to check it out and see if it has what you are after.
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Valentines Day is associated with romance and love. But is it a little one-sided?
Stereotypically, women crave their partner to be more romantic and this is one day when traditionally they should receive some gesture of love from the man in their life (we can ignore for now the glaringly obvious shallowness of this). But what should the man expect on this day… how many men are expecting a nice surprise? A very controversial comment to say that perhaps the woman should make an effort for the man, but try to see it from another angle; how can women achieve equality if they choose to act as the weaker gender in relationships. In other words, why should the man be the one running after the woman and why does she allow this? Some women might think this is great, but I think it shows that women are both allowing themselves to be patronised and also failing to show mutual love in their relationship.
Think about it for a moment and you might see that perhaps by making the man do the running, women are losing the respect of that man. I personally respect a woman who is both capable of showing love as well as receiving it. Valentines day is a day for both genders and if women really want equality, then they need to realise that equality is not only meant for the work environment. Only by both partners showing consistent mutual love to each other can they be truly equal.
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It would seem that Western culture is not always making the right moves. A British 3-year study concluded that children had a harder life now than their parents did when they were young. Part of the problem, the report states, is that parents are working more in recent times and consequently children are lacking the emotional stimulus they would normally have acquired from them. In previous generations this would have been provided by the stay-at-home mother, whereas nowadays women are far more likely to go back to work after pregnancy. This is leading to some important questions being asked about the plight of female equality. The implication is that many would see this as a call to return to old-fashioned values because of the so-called proof that working mothers damage their children’s development. I think differently. Women’s equality in the workplace and motherhood are not mutually exclusive. There is a solution to be found and it is not in the family home, but in the workplace. Working laws and culture have created an environment where men benefit more. If these laws changed to fit in more with a varied lifestyle, such as non-standard working hours, maximum number of working days, flexible working arrangements, then everyone would benefit. The rigid 9-5 working culture is geared towards the stereotypical male employee and is really a relic of a darker age. Employment flexibility is the key to ensuring that both men and women work in cultures suited to their gender and allows both parents to spend adequate time with their children. Making women the scapegoat for a fall in family cohesion, is really only a symptom of the subtle inequality which still exists in Western culture today.
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There is often confusion about the difference between SEO and SEM, so let us clarify what they both are. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) does exactly what it says, i.e. it is all about optimising a site (or more specifically a page on a site) to rank well in the various search engines for a select few keywords, i.e. words which people type into the search engine to find a page. SEO involves techniques which can be broadly categorised as either on-page or off-page. The former means optimisation which deals with the actual page being optimised, such as the title, headings, image optimisation etc. Whereas the latter deals with other sites and how they interact with the page you are optimising, i.e. inbound links.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is a superset of SEO; what this means is that SEM involves many techniques to market your site, one of which is SEO. SEM (leaving out SEO for the moment) concentrates on branding, Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising (such as Google Adwords), affiliate subscribers and other such marketing ploys.
A big difference between SEO and SEM is that SEO is largely free (unless you pay for SEO services through a consulting company) whereas SEM, like any form of marketing requires financial investment. Another difference is that SEM is totally legitimate, whereas the search engines do not like SEO all that much as they consider it an artificial way to manipulate their algorithmic search result pages (SERP’s).
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SQL stands for Structured Query Language (some people call is Sequential Query Language) and is a language used to interrogate and save data to a database. MySQL is a more lightweight version of Oracle, but both are based on SQL. Websites developers tend to use MySQL as it is the most popularly supported tool for dababase manipulation amongst hosting providers.
As a web developer, you may wish to learn MySQL, but I would advise taking it one step further and also learning Oracle. Both are based on SQL and similar in syntax, but Oracle is used by major corporations and is a very powerful tool to help you develop your career. Combining Oracle and PHP leaves you with a skillset which is much in demand and which pays very well. It is worth adding Oracle to your arsenal of languages not only for the improved job opportunites, but also because it is more flexible than MySQL and can achieve things which are hard to achieve otherwise.
Irrespective of which dababase language you use, try to learn some language to complement it. I find PHP to be the best language I have used. It is object-orientated and very well supported in terms of documentation, updates and a helpful large user community.
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Online dating is generally safer and more convenient than blind dates, but you sometimes hear tales of things going wrong. Strangely enough, it appears that the stories which hit the headlines usually involve gullible men being ripped-off or travelling to some exotic country to meet a woman, only to be abducted and held for ransom. There are indeed some real issues with arranging to meet someone you have not previously met and a certain level of common sense should prevail. However, in matters of the heart, logic and common sense are not always the controlling factors and people do make mistakes.
Firstly, never give money to anyone you have never met. Secondly, only meet a person for the first time in a place that is neutral and public. Thirdly, never pass sensitive information to anyone you do not know or trust. Lastly, for that initial date, always give exact meeting details such as location, time, etc to a friend. Of course these tips mostly apply to situations where there appears to be a lot of doubt in the authenticity of the person you are meeting, but it won’t hurt to apply them to more apparently ’safer’ dates.
The trick is to keep optimistic, be practical and not let your imagination pick trouble where none exists. On the same note, do keep your wits about you and play it safe till you know the person you are dealing with, on a face-to-face basis.
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