Understanding Indoor Air Pollution And How It Affects You (investment residential properties)
No commentsBy Isaac Small
Another EPA study stated that the toxic chemicals in household cleaners are 3 times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor air. The CMHC reports that houses today are so energy-efficient that “outgassing” of chemicals has nowhere to go, so it builds up inside the home. We spend 90% of our time indoors, and 65% of our time at home. Mothers, infants, and the elderly spend 90% of their time in the home.
The National Cancer Association released the results of a 15-year study concluding that women who work in the home are at a 54% higher risk of developing cancer than women who work outside the home. Cancer rates have almost doubled since 1960. Cancer is the NUMBER ONE cause of death for children. There has been a 26% increase in breast cancer since 1982. Breast cancer is the NUMBER ONE killer of women between the ages of 35 and 54. The primary suspects are laundry detergents, household cleaners, and pesticides. Bleach is being linked to the rising rates of breast cancer in women, reproductive problems in men, and learning and behavioral problems in children.
Chemicals get into our body through inhalation, ingestion and absorption. We breathe 10 to 20 thousand liters of air per day. There are more than 3 million poisonings every year. Household cleaners are the NUMBER ONE cause of poisoning of children. Since 1980, asthma has increased by 600%. The Canadian Lung Association and Asthma Society of Canada identify common household cleaners and cosmetics as triggers. ADD/ADHD are epidemic in schools today. Behavioral problems have long been linked to exposure to toxic chemicals and molds. Use of Ritalin has skyrocketed since 1990. Chemical and environmental sensitivities are known to cause all types of headaches.
Labeling laws do not protect the consumer - they protect big business.The New York Poison Control Center reports that 85% of product warning labels were either inadequate or incorrect for identifying a poison, and for first aid instructions. Formaldehyde, phenol, benzene, toluene, xylene are found in common household cleaners, cosmetics, beverages, fabrics and cigarette smoke. These chemicals are cancer causing and toxic to the immune system. Chemicals are attracted to, and stored in fatty tissue. The brain is a prime target for these destructive organics because of its high fat content and very rich blood supply.
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has found more than 2500 chemicals in cosmetics that are toxic and cause tumors, reproductive complications, biological mutations, and skin and eye irritations. Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, circulatory disorders, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, and hormonal problems are diseases commonly related to chemical exposure. Pesticides only have to include active ingredients on the labels, even though the inert (inactive) ingredients may account for 99%, many of which are toxic and poisons.
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Finding Gifts That Fit The Traditional Anniversary Gift List
By Darrin Lowe
People love to celebrate anniversaries, being together another year shows that they truly love each other and they continue to strengthen the bonds and celebrate their union year after year. A lot of couples celebrate this special occasion by giving gifts to each other that symbolizes their anniversary, like “paper” for the 1st year and “leather” for the 5th year. Although following the “Traditional Anniversary Gift List” can sound easy at first, but it can be very difficult and frustrating trying to follow the list for some years.
Sure the Silver, Golden and Diamond anniversaries are easy, its pretty well spelled out. But what about anniversaries like the “Paper” (1st) anniversary or “Steel” (11th) anniversary? These can be difficult for a woman and almost impossible for a man shopping for the perfect gift that will show their love and appreciation of their partner. So with the summer months which are the busy season for weddings and anniversaries approaching fast I thought this would be a good time to start covering each of the years and their symbolic gift.
“Paper” is the traditional symbol of the first year wedding anniversary.
Since the traditional symbol for the 1st wedding anniversary gift is paper, you’ll need to start “thinking outside the box” if you’re going to follow this list successfully.
Some cheaper but very thoughtful gifts of paper would be homemade coupons good for a massage or breakfast in bed, poetry or love letters hand written on nice stationary, homemade greeting cards.
In the moderate price range could be books that would be of interest to the recipient, photographs, you can order a copy of the newspaper from the wedding date that shows what was going on the day of your wedding, tickets to a show or sporting event, posters, board games, puzzles, gift certificates to their favorite stores, stationary, tickets to concerts, or my favorite - paper roses.
While gift cards and gift certificates are acceptable gifts for a couple, I would NOT recommend this as a gift to a spouse, this is your first anniversary together and you need to put a little more thought into it than giving something as impersonal as money.
I personally think that “paper roses” are one of the best first year anniversary gifts available, for two reasons, one - you have the romance and intimacy of roses, two - your able to stay with the “traditional” list of anniversary gifts. A bonus to this idea is that unlike real roses this gift can last forever. I am not talking about artificial flowers here, these are paper roses that are hand made especially for first year anniversaries, you can even have them personalized.
On the more expensive end would be airline tickets to a dream vacation, an oil painting from your wedding photograph, fine art prints.
Just remember, you can express your love and feelings without giving expensive gifts, just put a little thought into it. Love is still the best gift, it is costless yet so pure and irrevocable.
Next week I’ll cover the 2nd/Cotton anniversary.
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Taking Advantage Of Free Garbage Bags
By Isaac Small
The scenario:
A newlywed couple moves into their new home. After a couple of months, they realize that they have many more garbage bags than they need. However, they have not bought any garbage bags since they got married. Where did all of the garbage bags come from?
Your mission:
See how fast you can arrive at the correct solution by using the following clues: 1) The garbage bags were not a wedding gift
2) The couple did not bring any garbage bags with them when they moved
3) The bags were not in the couple’s new home when they arrived
4) The fact that the two people are newlyweds is irrelevant
5) The type of home that the couple moved into is irrelevant
6) The bags were made of plastic
7) People gave the bags to the couple, but
The bags were not any type of gift
9) The bags are not “traditional” garbage bags
10) The bags came in many colors.
The solution:
Have you figured out the solution yet? The garbage bags are actually plastic bags from grocery and other types of stores! The couple only has small garbage cans in their home, and the plastic bags fit perfectly inside of them. Plus, the handles make them very extremely easy to tie shut when they become full. The trash cans need to be emptied more often than larger cans would, but that small inconvenience is worth the savings. Yearly garbage bag expenses: $0.00!
In addition to the monetary reasons, reusing grocery bags is a simple way to recycle and eliminate the waste created by throwing away the plastic bags inside of another garbage bag. Once you have a good supply of plastic bags, consider taking an empty canvas bag or backpack with you to the grocery store. Check the bag with a store employee when you enter so that no one thinks that you are shoplifting. Then, when you are done shopping, skip getting a new bag and load your purchases into your own reusable bag instead.
A few other super-easy ways to save money and recycle:
Save scrap paper. Save any papers that have nothing on the back or large blank spaces. Advertising flyers, old work papers and school papers all work well. You can cut the pages into smaller pieces if they would be more convenient for you. Put the paper in a stack or a box with a pen nearby, and you’ll never have to scramble when you need to jot down something. Spots near the base of your house phone or beside the computer are both great locations.
Save sturdy boxes from food, electronics, mailers, etc. Cover them with the Sunday comics or some previously-used wrapping paper. Label each box with a marker and use as stackable storage for recipes, comic books or just about anything else.
Save large, empty plastic soda and juice bottles. Fill them with water, and store in your freezer. Having less open space in your freezer will help it run more efficiently. And when you need more room in the freezer, simply take out one of the bottles of ice!
Save torn and worn out clothing. Tear or cut them into pieces and use as rags for cleaning and dusting.
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Why Folks Really Want a Makati Condo (investment property specialist)
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It is not a secret that Makati properties are known by the Filipino populace as being among the most renowned examples of Manila real estate. The city is the monetary prime city of the Philippines, possesses the most well known foreign traders and business areas, and is a local choice among the most influential and respected land designers. A Makati condo is steeply-priced especially for the average Filipino who scarcely has sufficient to survive with on a regular structure but it’s additionally an indication of getting the wealth and esteem essential to make one’s way in the Philippine equivalent of Wall Street.
One of the biggest motives a Makati condo is accordingly valuable is owing to the city’s place in Philippine pop society. Makati is the city for business leaders, for changers and shakers, and for the most successful individuals in the native overall economy. It serves as the residence of the old rich which, right until just lately, dominated Philippine commercial enterprise. The idea of life in Makati is one that appeals to numerous people in the country because it is representational of having some claim of being on precisely the same level as the major political and fiscal people in the nation. Dwelling in Makati is, in many ways, an indicator that an individual has shifted up the socio-economic hierarchy and is more profitable than the less well off segments of the public.
You can find likewise remarkably functional factors for why Manila real estate is at its most high-priced in Makati. The most significant land developers in the country, just like Ayala Land, cause it to be a point to use the metropolis as the location where they develop their most impressive, most renowned projects. Due to the area’s setting as a substantial monetary region, land builders understand that even if they invest plenty of money on offering the top accommodations and elements for a Makati condo, they will be profiting from it in the long haul. The location has a near-continuous ebb and flow of buyers, business people, professionals, and executives, and more than a few of those would desire residing arrangements within just the city. That gives a sector that land developers can reliably take advantage of and that their competitors can at the same time, which suggests they will make an effort to outdo one another with regards to Makati condo advantages, capabilities, and recreation.
Makati’s reputation in Manila real estate as a site of convenience, safety, and excellence relating to residential options in addition performs a component in helping to make the average Makati condo far more attractive. The Philippines, in spite of being drastically more westernized culturally than most countries in the Asian region, still carries a holdover from powerful Chinese ethnic influences that makes them partly engaged with preserving image and status. This carries over, slightly, in the improvement undertakings in Makati. Since it gained a social impression as a position where the quality of living is higher than the rest of the region, developers have seen fit to continue the good work. Culturally, this maintains the metropolis’s reputation. In a financial sense, it in addition functions as an easy method of attempting to keep the current market thinking about what’s accessible.
The status and track record that is attached to a Makati condo, or any kind of real estate in the city, is one which is branded on in the current Filipino awareness. The city is seen as the location to be for individuals who wish to be effective. The overall appeal of this kind of position, imaginary or authentic, is challenging to deny.
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Medical Services and Standards in (overseas investment properties) Mexico
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With the large numbers of Americans and Canadians choosing to purchase real estate in mexico and retire in Mexico, a significant issue concerns the availability, quality and cost of DENTAL CARE. This article will assist those who are intending to retire in Mexico:
1. Misconceptions: I have listened too many of my clients respond to my experiences with the medical profession in Mexico and have found that most Americans and Canadians think that the Mexican Medical System is very poor. They are generally quite shocked when I pass on some of our experiences;
2. Comparing: I am a Canadian who is very familiar with the systems in Canada versus Mexico. In Canada, unless it is an emergency, the following is a process that one would go through to get medical services:
a. In Canada:
i. you cannot telephone a specialists office, make an appointment and want to get services;
ii. one must first make an appointment with a General Practitioner which sometimes means a month or more before the appointment can be made;
iii. If one requires the services of a Specialist, it is up to the General Practitioner to make the referral and it is not unheard of that this may be two, three or four months before an appointment can be had. Please keep this in mind as I explain a process we experienced in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico;
b. In Mexico:
i. My wife was in Canada and was returning home on a Friday afternoon, arriving in Puerto Vallarta at 3:30. She had a very bad cough so I made an appointment with our doctor who is a heart specialist as well as being trained as an Internist. She normally does not work that late on a Friday but agreed to stay to see my wife.
ii. Arriving at Lupita’s office, she immediately ordered X-rays which were done and back in her office in about 20 minutes;
iii. There were 15 spots on my wife’s left lung and the immediate conclusion was that this was probably Mastasisis meaning there would be a major cancerous tumor somewhere else in my wife’s body and these spots were a secondary result;
iv. Between 5:00 P.M. on the Friday and 10:00 A.M., the following Monday, this was what was accomplished:
1. A mammogram;
2. Three appointments with specialists;
3. A CatScan,
4. And MRI.
v. On Monday morning, she was scheduled for a biopsy to probe the lung to get samples for testing and the test results were back by Wednesday.
vi. Fortunately for my wife and our family, she was fine and this was a result of some food particles getting into her lung.
vii. When I pass on this experience to both Canadians and Americans, they are almost in disbelief;
viii. The cost of all of those services was less than $2,000 USD.
c. Insurance in Mexico:
i. In comparison to the United States, the cost of acquiring insurance is quite cheap in comparison and it is recommended that it be acquired before you are 65.
Generally we have found the Medical Care to be as good as if not better than that that we are used to in Canada. I cannot speak for those that live in the USA except that Americans that I have discussed this with are amazed at the costs compared to our friends to the north. I have multiple experiences like the above coupled with specialists providing us with their personal cell phone number. They are always very accessible and their highest priority is to the benefit of their patients.
Hoping the information above is helpful, I will be writing many articles to assist Americans and Canadians on decisions regarding Living in Mexico and purchasing real estate in Puerto Vallarta.
William McFadden
Email: William@mcfaddengroupmexico.com
Website: http://www.mcfaddengroupmexico.com
Toll free from Canada and the USA: 1 877 651 3118
Finding Gifts That Fit The Traditional Anniversary Gift List
By Darrin Lowe
People love to celebrate anniversaries, being together another year shows that they truly love each other and they continue to strengthen the bonds and celebrate their union year after year. A lot of couples celebrate this special occasion by giving gifts to each other that symbolizes their anniversary, like “paper” for the 1st year and “leather” for the 5th year. Although following the “Traditional Anniversary Gift List” can sound easy at first, but it can be very difficult and frustrating trying to follow the list for some years.
Sure the Silver, Golden and Diamond anniversaries are easy, its pretty well spelled out. But what about anniversaries like the “Paper” (1st) anniversary or “Steel” (11th) anniversary? These can be difficult for a woman and almost impossible for a man shopping for the perfect gift that will show their love and appreciation of their partner. So with the summer months which are the busy season for weddings and anniversaries approaching fast I thought this would be a good time to start covering each of the years and their symbolic gift.
“Paper” is the traditional symbol of the first year wedding anniversary.
Since the traditional symbol for the 1st wedding anniversary gift is paper, you’ll need to start “thinking outside the box” if you’re going to follow this list successfully.
Some cheaper but very thoughtful gifts of paper would be homemade coupons good for a massage or breakfast in bed, poetry or love letters hand written on nice stationary, homemade greeting cards.
In the moderate price range could be books that would be of interest to the recipient, photographs, you can order a copy of the newspaper from the wedding date that shows what was going on the day of your wedding, tickets to a show or sporting event, posters, board games, puzzles, gift certificates to their favorite stores, stationary, tickets to concerts, or my favorite - paper roses.
While gift cards and gift certificates are acceptable gifts for a couple, I would NOT recommend this as a gift to a spouse, this is your first anniversary together and you need to put a little more thought into it than giving something as impersonal as money.
I personally think that “paper roses” are one of the best first year anniversary gifts available, for two reasons, one - you have the romance and intimacy of roses, two - your able to stay with the “traditional” list of anniversary gifts. A bonus to this idea is that unlike real roses this gift can last forever. I am not talking about artificial flowers here, these are paper roses that are hand made especially for first year anniversaries, you can even have them personalized.
On the more expensive end would be airline tickets to a dream vacation, an oil painting from your wedding photograph, fine art prints.
Just remember, you can express your love and feelings without giving expensive gifts, just put a little thought into it. Love is still the best gift, it is costless yet so pure and irrevocable.
Next week I’ll cover the 2nd/Cotton anniversary.
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Medical (selling investment properties) Services and Standards in Mexico
No commentsBy Julie McFadden
With the large numbers of Americans and Canadians choosing to purchase real estate in mexico and retire in Mexico, a significant issue concerns the availability, quality and cost of DENTAL CARE. This article will assist those who are intending to retire in Mexico:
1. Misconceptions: I have listened too many of my clients respond to my experiences with the medical profession in Mexico and have found that most Americans and Canadians think that the Mexican Medical System is very poor. They are generally quite shocked when I pass on some of our experiences;
2. Comparing: I am a Canadian who is very familiar with the systems in Canada versus Mexico. In Canada, unless it is an emergency, the following is a process that one would go through to get medical services:
a. In Canada:
i. you cannot telephone a specialists office, make an appointment and want to get services;
ii. one must first make an appointment with a General Practitioner which sometimes means a month or more before the appointment can be made;
iii. If one requires the services of a Specialist, it is up to the General Practitioner to make the referral and it is not unheard of that this may be two, three or four months before an appointment can be had. Please keep this in mind as I explain a process we experienced in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico;
b. In Mexico:
i. My wife was in Canada and was returning home on a Friday afternoon, arriving in Puerto Vallarta at 3:30. She had a very bad cough so I made an appointment with our doctor who is a heart specialist as well as being trained as an Internist. She normally does not work that late on a Friday but agreed to stay to see my wife.
ii. Arriving at Lupita’s office, she immediately ordered X-rays which were done and back in her office in about 20 minutes;
iii. There were 15 spots on my wife’s left lung and the immediate conclusion was that this was probably Mastasisis meaning there would be a major cancerous tumor somewhere else in my wife’s body and these spots were a secondary result;
iv. Between 5:00 P.M. on the Friday and 10:00 A.M., the following Monday, this was what was accomplished:
1. A mammogram;
2. Three appointments with specialists;
3. A CatScan,
4. And MRI.
v. On Monday morning, she was scheduled for a biopsy to probe the lung to get samples for testing and the test results were back by Wednesday.
vi. Fortunately for my wife and our family, she was fine and this was a result of some food particles getting into her lung.
vii. When I pass on this experience to both Canadians and Americans, they are almost in disbelief;
viii. The cost of all of those services was less than $2,000 USD.
c. Insurance in Mexico:
i. In comparison to the United States, the cost of acquiring insurance is quite cheap in comparison and it is recommended that it be acquired before you are 65.
Generally we have found the Medical Care to be as good as if not better than that that we are used to in Canada. I cannot speak for those that live in the USA except that Americans that I have discussed this with are amazed at the costs compared to our friends to the north. I have multiple experiences like the above coupled with specialists providing us with their personal cell phone number. They are always very accessible and their highest priority is to the benefit of their patients.
Hoping the information above is helpful, I will be writing many articles to assist Americans and Canadians on decisions regarding Living in Mexico and purchasing real estate in Puerto Vallarta.
William McFadden
Email: William@mcfaddengroupmexico.com
Website: http://www.mcfaddengroupmexico.com
Toll free from Canada and the USA: 1 877 651 3118
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