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Mandatory Military Service in Greece

January 5, 2014 by Bill Fiskilis Leave a Comment

Mandatory Military Service in GreeceJust received a letter from the Consulate General of Greece in Melbourne, but it was addressed to my brother who is single with no kids. The letter stated to contact the army section and supply the following. ” Bring records of international movements since birth and all passwords, wow unreal they always know were you are and can be called into military service were-ever you live on the planet.

How did this come about, well back in 80’s we went to Greece it was a normal holiday we use to venture of every couple of years only ever for 3 months at a time. This time we decided to stay for a few years this was exciting news for us. Even tho we were Australian citizens we could come and go at our leisure, we’ll not as easy as that. My parents were born in Greece and even us kids we were born in Australia. Greece is a lovely place people were family orientated, I’ll write a post about Greece soon on another post.

We couldn’t go to school, as we had to be registered as Greek citizens, finally my parents changed all that and we could attend school, we stayed for 4 years and us kids wanted to go back to aussie land we missed it so we ventured back in 1985.

I went over back to Greece in 2005 to oversea a property we were selling it was a spur of the moment, landing in Greece it felt good being able to see all me relations once again, this is when the trouble all started. The lady in immigration told me that she is going to hold my passport, being stunned I had a bit of an argument with her. All it was is that I haven’t served me military service, I explained to her I’m only here for 2 weeks and I have a leeway of 30 days but nope she kept saying that I’ll be detained as soon as I return to immigration to fly back to Australia.
Panic panic I had my parents fax me over my kids certificates etc, I went to see a military general I think he was, luckily my uncle works high up in the office were the general was stationed, He finally was convinced with all the paperwork and that I couldn’t be detained as I had children I was still feeling scared but no questions asked I left in good spirit.

Now finally finding everything out, wished I’d known earlier, when we were Enrolled in Greece to attend schooling this made it mandatory to serve in the military later on in life. Now it’s my brothers turn he is 41, probably will never return to Greece but there still calling his name up and now sending him letters to go and see them in Melbourne.

Below are extracts of there site;
All men between the age of 19 and 45* with Greek citizenship or those designated by Greek authorities as being of Greek origin, ancestry or descent — regardless of country of birth, current citizenship, passport or domicile — must serve mandatory military service.
Exceptions are if you are unfit or have 3 children.

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Themes Part 1

January 4, 2014 by Bill Fiskilis Leave a Comment

WordPress ThemesThere are many themes out there littery thousands of them, which is the best one? Well there are many to chose from paid themes or free themes. I have done plenty of research and have found the paid themes are the best ones why? Because they offer much more versatility you can do more to them than a free theme, don’t get me wrong there are plenty of free good themes out there but I find them limited to how you can manipulate them.

WordPress has some nice free themes like the twenty eleven, twenty twelve and so on, themefrost is another good site for themes there are plenty to chose from. I like the studiopress themes that run a genesis framework. Framework is the Motor that runs the theme pretty much you can have the best looking theme out there but under all the paint and glimmer is the motor that runs it any good or limited to what you can do? Genises is a bullet proof SEO ready one of th best around I have found, obviously the genises does cost you to buy it. Worth every cent the genises framework I run them on all me sites that I have.

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What is SEO Part 1

January 4, 2014 by Bill Fiskilis Leave a Comment

SEOWhat is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search Engine Optimization or more commonly known as SEO is the process of  improving your website’s ranking on search engines.

Why is SEO important

Since Search Engines are like reverse broadcast networks that provide instant answers to questions, it provides ultra-targeted advertising. This means that your websites comes up for actual people who are looking for your products and/or services.

The first audience to view your content will be the search engines which will scan your entire website to kind of index it and if your web site doesn’t have the necessary or right keywords all your effort will be in vain.

Making it easier.

There are many SEO sites that will help you to target, this is getting harder and harder that is to be number 1 on Google search. It’s all about having good content, post regularly and good Keywords I’ll cover Keywords in another article soon.  Best way I have found is trial and error there are many plugins available to make your life easier I use one called SEO for all my wordpress Driven sites.

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