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Why Aren't Foreigners Buying Up American Real Estate? - Refinance

I remember the 1980s. The American dollar was strong. Interest rates were higher than today. And foreigners were buying up as much of America as they could.

Now the American dollar is weak. Interest rates are low. Why aren't foreigners flooding into America and buying up real estate like they did in the 1980s and 1990s? It must be because the outlook for the American economy is dire. America looks like a bad bet to investors.

Filed under Politics, mortgage by Luke Ford

Source: http://www.refinancemortgagenow.net/blog/2012/03/02/why-arent-foreigners-buying-up-american-real-estate/

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How Organizing Your Family Benefits Everyone | Self Improvement ...

There are benefits to organizing besides just a neater home. In fact, the entire family can gain from getting organized. Here are some ways that organizing time, stuff, and schedules can benefit everyone.

Finding Stuff

How many family fights begin with someone unable to find something? For example, the ever-elusive remote control seems to be missing; the family member who wants to watch TV gets frustrated and starts blaming others for losing the remote. The blamed family members get upset and say it?s not their fault, and then a big fight ensues.

Here?s another scenario: you?re trying to get out the door and your kids can?t find their shoes, books, whatever. You become frustrated and so do they, and tempers flare.

So being able to find stuff can go a long way toward creating family peace. Designate a place for those ?slippery? items that tend to cause controversy: shoes, remotes, adapters, books. Each family member can have his or her basket to keep miscellaneous things in, and you can put a shoe rack or big basket/bucket by the door for shoes. You can also keep a list by your front door of what to check for before you leave: library books, glasses, keys, etc.

Routine

Experts point out that children feel much more secure when there?s a routine. Establishing routines is part of family organization, and can definitely make for happier family members. Routines give everyone a sense of calm, because you know what?s coming next (to an extent, of course). Adults and kids alike benefit from a regular routine and tasks that are made into habits.

Regular Family Meetings

As you establish a routine, work regular family meetings into the schedule. Maybe once a week or once a month works best for your family; whatever makes for a regular time to get together and air concerns, offer solutions, and brainstorm. Maybe tie it in with something fun, like pizza and movie night or serve a special dessert during the meeting (offices use this tactic by offering doughnuts at meetings!).

Meetings are a great time to get everyone?s schedule worked out and understood, and for family members to speak up about things that are bothering them. It?s also a good time to establish rules and make sure everyone understands what they are.

Better Communication

As families organize their time and personal items, communication tends to open up. For one thing, more time is available for spending together as a family ? you?re not wasting time arguing and looking for stuff. Also, since organizing involves family meetings, you will have more of a chance to talk things out with other family members.

Source: http://www.e-self-help.com/how-organizing-your-family-benefits-everyone/

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Diet, Nutrition, Healthy Eating and Weight Loss | Morpheus

As a personal training company we aim to educate and encourage our clients to adopt behavioural changes that will lead them to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Part of our approach focuses on the diet and nutrition that each of our clients take on board. This is against a backdrop of never-ending information and misinformation about what constitutes a healthy diet. What this post will look at is how the ?diet industry? has changed over the last decade, how we as a company approach this complex area with our clients and some perspective on what is to come.?

Clearly, over the past decade or so all the epidemiological data on levels of obesity in the UK indicate that things have continued to change for the worse in the general population despite an abundance of information, endless TV shows focused on weight loss, nutrition, healthy eating and exercise. Surely, with so much education and information within easy reach we should have a healthier nation? But what exactly is a healthy diet? We are all biochemically different, products of different genes that were raised in different environments whose nourishment came from differing sources. Hence, humanity has survived and adapted to all manner of food sources and this variety has led our bodies to adapt to certain foodstuffs and reject others.

How to Lose Weight Fast

The obsession with fast weight loss has become a national obsession, but if all the evidence is correct we are not doing very well at it. The exhortations to follow a certain diet plan to achieve the ideal bodyweight/size are routinely wheeled out by well-meaning nutritionists and health professionals. From a purely physiological/biochemical perspective losing weight would seem a relatively simple matter. Weight loss will happen if the number of calories consumed in a day is less than the number of calories expended. However, the key debates centre around the extent to which the type of calories consumed (e.g. low or high fat, low or high carbohydrate, low or high protein in various combinations) impact on either the speed or the extent of the weight loss. Fashionable diets tend to pander to these debates and hence the proliferation of new diet plans and approaches, e.g. Atkins diet, Dukan Diet, South Beach etc. The very word diet has become to symbolise restriction, restraint, a triumph of will over temptation. In other words, setting us up for failure.

Weight loss will indeed happen on very low intakes (<1,000 calories per day), but the physiological response to a heavily restricted intake, in effect starvation will decrease metabolic rate, reduce fat mobilisation and fat burning resulting in a slowing of weight loss over time. Deficits achieved by moderate decreases in intake together with increased activity are therefore more effective in the long run. The key to achieving this and how we at Morpheus generally approach this with our personal training clients is ensure that the food consumed suits an individual?s likes and dislikes and fits in well with their lifestyle. There is no point in enforcing unrealistic diet plans that will be quickly discarded and bad habits resumed. This is the key to successful weight loss on an individual level. The allure of high-protein diets that do indeed gain results are often not sustainable and eliminating whole food groups or very low calorie diets lead to most or all of the weight being regained.

So, where did we receive our advice on healthy eating, what started the trend towards a healthy diet? Dietary advice was largely informed at the start of the 21st century by the Healthy Eating Pyramid developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the early 1990?s and modified in 2005.

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Food macronutients in pyramid

Healthy Eating Pyramid (Figure 1)

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It has been well documented that the development of this pyramid was influenced by commercial interests keen to see a predominance of wheat growers and cattle farmers, consequently the pyramid over-emphasised refined and processed carbohydrate sources of energy by displaying loaves of bread, bowls of breakfast cereal, white rice and pasta and potatoes, failing to distinguish between these and wholegrains and brown rice. Consequently, throughout the 1990?s and 2000?s the obesity epidemic was fuelled by intake of high calorie dense, nutrient light, high glycaemic index (GI) and high glycaemic load (GL) foods. It?s little surprise therefore that an Atkins style diet plan would become popular and and achieve success in terms of stimulating weight loss. Once these ?carbs? are cut out of the diet the only thing left is protein and fat. Both in combination enhance satiety and make you feel fuller for longer, chemically switch off hunger pangs and increase weight loss. But we now seem to hold the view that carbs = bad, ?protein=good, resulting in consumption of high protein foods and reduction in any form of carbohydrate, which potentially can be harmful in some instances. Whilst evidence suggests that a diet plan that is lower in overall carbohydrates is good, it is the high GI carbs that should be eliminated or at least restricted. These should be replaced with ?good? carbs in the form of whole grains, low GI root vegetables such as squashes and sweet potatoes, together with green vegetables and beans. These nutrient dense high fibre foods enable better appetite control and also as recent evidence is demonstrating are essential in preventing bowel cancer.

The Fat of the Land

Another important failure of the food pyramid was that it failed to differentiate between types of fat. All fat was deemed bad and confined to the tip of the pyramid which ignored the research that demonstrated the health benefits of of essential mono and polyunsaturated fats from fish, and vegetable sources such as dark green leafy vegetables, nuts and seeds. Again, this common misconception led to food manufacturers to develop fat-free products laden with sugar and salt and established the belief in the public?s mind that any FAT was equally evil as any CARB. ?We now know that it is the trans fats found in hydrogenated vegetable oils that is the real danger to our health as the human system cannot metabolise them and lead to big increase in bad LDL blood lipids whilst lowering good HDL?s and enhancing systemic inflammation.

Healthy Eating and Healthy Diet

Clearly, as rates of obesity are one the rise it would appear that a clear, easy to understand message is needed to enable the public to make healthy, well-informed choices regarding their diets. Without it there will be a persistence of faddy, fashionable diets that serve only to confuse an already bewildered, diet-exhausted public. Thankfully, the USDA finally discontinued the food pyramid and instead introduced MyPlate to the world which although is a much improved message, prioritising fruit and vegetables, it did not mention any fat, good or bad and doesn?t distinguish between different types of protein. Fortunately, an alternative version has been produced by Harvard University?s School of Public Health. It clearly summarises the past 10 years of accumulated evidence base for the relationship between nutrition health and weight-management and allows the public to make better choices. ?Although, at Morpheus personal training we don?t subscribe to all the new recommendations, we feel it is a large step in the right direction.?

Healthy Eating Plate with Macronutrients

Healthy Eating Plate - Harvard Medical School

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?Diet Restriction, Genes, Disease and Long Life?

Diet, nutrition and healthy eating has been an evolving science over the last 10 years and will continue to evolve as new research brings forth new ideas and revelations on what we as human beings can consume to enable better health and prevent disease. The unlocking of the codes within our genes is telling us much about our health, how likely we are to develop certain diseases and what we can do to prevent them. But clearly as health professionals and personal trainers we need to continually educate and inform our clients of the benefits of consuming nutritious, well-balanced meals as like most things in life, prevention is better than cure.?

In an age of abundant food sources it is admittedly hard to turn the other cheek. Never has there been an age where food was so plentiful for those of us lucky enough to live in the developed world. Supermarkets shelves bursting with all types of food, and super marketeers ready and willing to offer multi-packs of food at reduced prices tempting an already voracious consumer. Difficult therefore to adhere to a new piece of science coming out of the US that believes starving every other day may actually help with weigh-loss, delay age-related disease, boost brain power and extend lifespan. Many a personal trainer will tell you that starving is a game of diminishing returns, so to speak, and that the pounds will surely creep back on once metabolism slows to a snail?s pace. According to this experimental diet, pioneered at the National Institute for Ageing (NIA) it contends that ?Dietary energy restriction extends lifespan and protects the brain and cardiovascular system against age-related disease?. More importantly for the fitness community their experiments showed that feeding intermittently ( i.e. on alternate days) increased sensitivity to insulin, the all-important hormone that regulates sugar in the blood reducing the risk of diabetes and reduced fat storage. There were also indicative markers for enhanced function of brain synapses and resistance to a neurotoxin that simulates Alzheimer?s disease. Slightly worrying in this research is the contention that would-be dieters could feasibly eat what they liked on their ?eating? days and still be effective with their weight-management. However, it is proof that our genes are only part of the story and that what we eat and how we eat can have a massive impact on our health and wellbeing.

Amongst all the information that is continually purveyed through media channels and by well-intentioned health professionals about how to lose weight, maintain a healthy weight and what diet we should consume, it is clear that following the latest fashionable diet is, and most of the evidence bears this out, going to be unsustainable in the long run and not be ?healthy?. Over-complicated, supplement-led diets are not the answer to achieving an optimum weight and preventing disease. Getting the basics right is essential together with understanding the role the macronutrients play in human health and performance and is how we approach this area with the majority of our personal training clients.

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Source: http://www.morpheushealthandfitness.com/diet-nutrition-healthy-eating-and-weight-loss-a-perspective/

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Lady Gaga lends star wattage to youth empowerment (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - Pop diva Lady Gaga brought her star power, her mom and some of her famous friends, including Oprah Winfrey, to Harvard University on Wednesday to launch a new foundation aimed at empowering young people and stamping out bullying.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/celebrity/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120229/people_nm/us_ladygaga_bullying

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Small Business Marketing ? Are Business Cards Still Effective in ...

Inspite of the growth of online marketing such as PPC advertising and social media marketing, many small business owners are frequently finding business cards delivering some of the greatest returns and best outcomes.

Currently there may very well be more smartphones out there than in the past plus promoting latest products and services using Facebook may be exciting however for individuals who?s organisations rely on frequent lead generation it is difficult to do better than the overall performance of business cards when they are utilized to their maximum potential.

Regardless of sector, service or product nearly all business owners as well as small business owners will find that their success is directly related towards the number of new contacts which are made each day. Regardless if you are concentrating on Business to business campaigns or even direct to consumer marketing, face-to-face networking is amazingly effective and cost-effective. Even when new business owners merely committed to giving away 10 business cards every day that could be 300 brand new connections each month. Next multiply this number by 250 (the common social network) and that?s 75,000 brand new prospects per month just from handing out a couple of business cards on a daily basis.

Still, this barely scratches the surface of what can be achieved with the help of business cards. Basic augmentations such as adding toll-free numbers on your cards can add a great deal of worth and provide the image of being a well established organisation, even if you?re a 1 man shop that only started yesterday. When you have many other staff members who you are giving with marketing materials this would also ensure that you don?t lose any leads or sales even when employees move on or if you change locations.

By having them printed on magnets, business cards allow small companies in Australia to create long lasting promoting pieces which keeps your brand name within the front within your prospect?s thoughts for numerous months in the future. Further than reaching your original targets, it will also get the sales message in front of other people that visits their homes.

QR codes are getting increasingly popular with marketers and companies around the world. Using these Quick Response codes on your business cards will mean the opportunity to smoothly cross the divide between the real world and your interactive presence on the net. Utilizing their smartphones your potential clients will be able to scan your QR codes and be delivered to focused mobile webpages, product details as well as video.

Whenever ordering, business owners need to keep in your mind the fact that business card design capabilities have improved a lot in the past few years and there is a lot more that you can do with the right designer on your side than ever before. For anyone who is just establishing a brand new business or are working within a strict budget take a look around for a firm who has smaller minimum quantities, at least up until you start to see some returns. Finally, be sure you insist upon free delivery of your business cards in Australia to keep your expenses down and Return on investment up.

Evidently there is lots you?re able to do in promoting your new company today. If you aren?t continuously insisting on the maximum return on your marketing you?re likely to be swiftly left behind by competitors operating on larger profit margins. So great looking business cards may very well be exactly what you need to get the edge.

For further info on business cards in Australia and for the best quality and lowest priced business cards in Brisbane, check out Australia?s favourite online print broker, Space Print!

Source: http://www.articlesforamerica.com/small-business-marketing-are-business-cards-still-effective-in-australia.html

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Kogeto Dot Panorama iPhone 4/4S Camera Adapter Review

A few weeks ago, I reviewed the GoPano micro?panorama lens attachment for the iPhone 4/4S. This adapter?allows you to easily?capture?360 degree video and sound. I loved the concept of the product, but the resulting video was less than impressive due to focus issues. Techguy commented on that review suggesting that I might want to take [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/02/29/kogeto-dot-panorama-iphone-44s-camera-adapter-review/

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Postpartum Happiness and Maternity Leave | Being Pregnant

flexible working arrangement for moms 225x300 Work or Stay At Home? New Study Reveals Your Postpartum Happiness Depends on You Making the Right DecisionWhen I was pregnant with my first, I was a sixth grade teacher teaching science at a middle school. My daughter was due a few weeks after the new school year started, which meant that I was very pregnant at the school orientation to meet my new students and parents.

As I gave my speech on what to expect for the year as well as what would happen when I leave for maternity leave, I noticed ?looks? from moms around the room. As I opened the discussion up for questions, there were quite a few times when I was asked if I would be returning to work after the baby was born. Even though I covered that in the speech prior, these parents had doubts that I would return. They expressed their concern that I would fall in love with my little girl and never want to return to the workforce again.

They were right, but in only some ways. I did fall in love with my little girl, but I also wanted to return to work after my maternity leave was up. With my husband living over a thousand miles away from us, returning to work gave me the much needed adult time that I longed for at home. I loved my job and being able to educate others. It made my time with my daughter just that much more special when I picked her up after I got off work and on the weekends. Although it was a tough decision to decided whether or not to return back to work (I admit I did extend my maternity leave,) I know that it was the right decision.

Deciding whether or not to stay at home after the baby is born or to return to work can be a tough decision for many mothers. According to a new study, your postpartum happiness depends on whether you do what you really want to do in regards to returning to work or staying at home.

The research, conducted on 1,110 first time mothers at Brigham Young University and published in the journal?Human Relations, found?that 71 percent of the mothers were not doing what they really wanted to do in regards to working or not working after they had their baby. Of the women surveyed, the postpartum depression rates are much higher if a mother does the opposite of what she really wants to do, whether she stays at home or goes to work.

Twenty five percent of the mothers in the study experienced clinical depression when they did the opposite of what they wanted compared to only 14 percent who suffered from depression and were happy with their decision of returning to work or staying at home.

Although the decision is a hard one, some women have no control over whether or not they want to stay at home or return to work regardless of what they really want to do. Some moms have to return to work after the baby to help support the family, because we all know that having a baby is a big financial commitment. Other mothers can?t find work after having a baby and are forced to stay home.?It?s sad to me that this can affect their postpartum happiness, especially if you have no control over the situation.

I was fortunate to be able to return to work after having my daughter when I wanted to. The decision made me happier with myself and I think that it strengthened the relationship I shared with my daughter.

Read more from Lauren at?A Mommy in the City. For more updates, follow Lauren on?Facebook and?Twitter !

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 Work or Stay At Home? New Study Reveals Your Postpartum Happiness Depends on You Making the Right Decision

Source: http://blogs.babble.com/being-pregnant/2012/02/28/work-or-stay-at-home-new-study-reveals-your-postpartum-happiness-depends-on-you-making-the-right-decision/

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