Lonely but hurried New Yorkers can rest easy this Valentine’s Day — the love coach is on her way.
Laurie Davis, 29, runescape gold founded eFlirtExpert.com to guide the lovelorn through a $4 billion Internet dating industry where quantity doesn’t necessarily translate
into Mr or Mrs Right.
Think of her as the personal fitness instructor of the heart.
For $140, Davis will construct clients a profile and send out five messages on dating websites. For $2,500 — the “VIP” package — a whole life makeover is
offered: “dating management, conciergers gold service
, personal shopping.”
Davis says: “I become you until you find the perfect gingerbread man.”
Client Laura Myers, 38,
went for help when her Internet matchmaking attempts resulted in men too old, too young, or with “salaries far below mine.”runescape money Her flirt coach is helping her present herself online — and explain who she’s looking for — more coherently.
Myers says taking advice from a woman a decade younger is a good idea in today’s high-tech dating game.
“Last time I was seriously dating someone you didn’t have Facebook, you couldn’t Google someone, so I do think it’s important because it’s now such a big
part of everyone’s life to make sure that you’re out there in a positive way.”
People the world over are living longer, and now a new study shows who is likely to live the longest.runescape gold The information could help doctors and others,
including the elderly, plan goals for treatment and care.
Not many people who live to be 100 are still driving a car. But Mazerine Wingate is. His eyesight is still sharprs gold , and not only that, he still goes to work
six days a week at a post office in the eastern state of Maryland. He started his job as a janitor there when he was 60. And, you can find him keeping the
post office spotlessly clean six days a week.
Wingate simply said, "I feel like working."
Wingate said he has no major health issues. Rob Parsell, the photographer who shot this interview, asked him for advice. Wingate's recommendation: "Keep
moving. Keep moving."runescape money "That's it? Just keep moving?" Parsell pressed.
"Keep moving," Wingate replied.
While it is unusual for people of that age to hold down a job, it is becoming more and more common to reach the 100-year mark. Dr. Neil Buckholtz at the
National Institute on Aging said long life is a concern for governments the world over.
"The population, not only in the United States, but worldwide, of older people is increasing," said Buckholtz. "And actually, the fastest-growing group of runescape items people in the United States are those people over 85.
A new study shows a relationship between fast walking and life expectancy. For this study, researchers looked at walking speed and other health factors for
almost 35,000 older adults. They followed the participants for up to 20 years. Dr. Stephanie Studenski at the University of Pittsburgh led the study.
"Your walking speed is a reflection of just how well many of your body's systems are doing,runescape accounts
" noted Studenski.
By timing walking speed and using the longevity charts, doctors can provide better care for their patients. For example, most doctors don't screen patients
older than 70 for prostate cancer. But if a man is otherwise healthy and energetic, and expected torunescape power leveling live at least 10 more years, he might benefit from the
screening. For those who are less healthy, doctors could look for ways to improve their health and quality of life.
Dr. Studenski says the charts, while good, however, are not always indi
Requiring employees to smile at customers may backfire because US researchers say fake smiling worsens mood and affects productivity。
Brent Scott,runescape gold assistant professor of management at Michigan State University, and former MSU doctoral student Christopher Barnes, studied a group of city bus drivers during a two-week period
. They examined the effects of fake smiling and deep acting, or cultivating positive emotions by recalling pleasant memories。
"Employers mayrs gold think that simply getting their employees to smile is good for the organization, but that's not necessarily the case," Scott says in a statement. "Smiling for the sake of smiling can lead to emotional exhaustion and withdrawal, and that's bad for the organization."
The researchers found the findings were stronger for the female bus drivers。runescape money
"Women were harmed more by surface acting
, meaning their mood worsened even more than the men and they withdrew more from work," Scott says. "But they were helped more by deep acting, meaning their mood improved more and they withdrew less."
Deep acting may help improve mood in the short-term, but Scott says it has been suggested that if people do this over a long period they start to feel inauthentic。 runescape items The findings are published in the Academy of Management Journal。
Calm Down! Tips for Regaining Your Cool Quickly
Tear ducts. runescape gold They’re not my friends. I don’t send them Christmas cards. I don’t invite them to parties. Still, unbidden and unwanted, tears have a tendency to well up in my eyes whenever I’m having a difficult conversation with someone. And, though it’s quite rare, I’ve been known to totally blow a gasket or two. Let’s face it, that red-faced, exploding-at-the-seams angry look isn’t exactly fashion forward.
Emotions are good things.rs gold They help steer our choices and, when worn on our sleeves, give others clues to how we’re feeling. But sometimes emotions—such as traitor tears, a red-hot temper, or panic-inducing anxiety—are a downright pain in the rear. When high emotions get in the way of your professionalism, prevent you from effectively communicating, or cause your mascara to create a raccoon effect, it’s time to take control.
Keeping Cool in the Heat of the Moment
runescape money As calm as we may try to keep our lives, there’s one thing that’s for sure. @#!& happens. Grocery clerks put bottles of orange juice on top of egg cartons. Speed-demon drivers cut you off on the highway. Checks bounce when your significant other forgets to write a withdrawal in the register. Bosses assign impossible late-night tasks. And it’s important to keep yourself together when everything falls apart. Here’s how: runescape items
* Take a breather. As simple as it sounds, take a few seconds to breathe. You can also try repeating a calming phrase (either out loud or in your mind). Sometimes a few seconds is all it takes to get a better rein on your emotions. You don’t have to swallow emotions away—just keep them in check so you’re controlling them and they aren’t controlling you.
* ITCH. When you want to scream and yell, instead ITCH. Can you just Ignore the situation at hand? If not, then Take control, Calm yourself, and Handle the situation properly.
* Change the scenery. If possible, remove yourself from the situation at hand, runescape accountseven if it’s only for a few minutes. If you’re in a stressful meeting at work that’s causing you to feel angry or anxious, excuse yourself to use the restroom. Then use those few minutes to regain control. If you’re having an argument with your spouse, tell him or her you need a minute and step outside for some fresh air. A little change of scenery can help you gain some perspective and recharge you so you can handle the situation calmly.
Beijing’s Municipal Health Bureau says that Beijingers consume an average of 13.4 grams of salt per day. That’s more than twice the amount recommended by the
World Health Organization.runescape gold
So they are campaigning restaurants and households to shake something else on their food. Low-sodium salt.
Now, low-sodium salt is not salt, it’s a salt substitute. High in POTASSIUM chloride and low in SODIUM chloride.
Shelley Beattie is a holistic nutritionist in Calgary, Canada. She says because these products are low in SODIUM, they CAN be a safer choice for people with
blood pressure concerns.rs gold But she says these high-potassium salt substitutes aren’t safe for everyone.
“IF an individual is on medication or has any sort of kidney dysfunction, what can happen is if they get too much potassium, they won’t excrete it out of
their body, and it can lead to all sorts of health problems like abnormal heart rhythms, muscle weakness and it can actually be fatal.”
And, she says, like table salt, they are chemically processed.
“They can be bleached, dried, heated, a bunch of pollutants added…That’s why I refer people on to a natural sea salt where you know that it’s coming out ofrunescape money the ocean and it hasn’t been refined or processed.”
And Beattie says just changing the PRODUCT is a “band-aid solution” that can’t solve Beijing’s blood pressure crisis.
“You’re not going to change your blood pressure just by putting in a low-salt additive. You need to look at the person’s activity, whether they smoke, what
their stress levels are.”
She says rather than eating a DIFFERENT salt, people should just eat less salty food.
But Olivia Lee says salt substitutes shouldn’t be tossed out just yet. She’s a personal nutrition coach in Beijing. She says humans have a natural love of
salt…especially Beijingers.runescape items
“The soups are salty, the vegetables are salty, and even the breads sometimes have salt added to them.”
So she says people aren’t likely to drop the habit overnight.
“Any change in salt preference requires two to four months of concerted salt reduction.”
And Lee says the China Salt Substitute Study showed the stuff can work. In 2009, the George Institute China tested low-sodium salt on 600 people with high
blood pressure in rural China.
“And they found there was a lot of decrease in blood pressure and in clogged arteries which are also a big factor in heart disease.”runescape accounts
Lee says the campaign could do some good for Beijingers with serious high blood pressure.
“Mandating using salt replacement may be a nice quick fix.”
But she says, it can’t be the ONLY fix.
“I think trying to get people to quit smoking, is a big one. Getting them to exercise and eat more vegetabes…would all work together.”
Shelley Beattie also says that an education program for healthier lifestyle would be a more effective long-term fix to high blood pressure in Beijing. And
she says that the number one factor in maintaining heart health is good old-fashioned stress management.
Women communicaterunescape gold better than men and actually talk less, researchers said Friday。
Men speak more words than women in a day, but have a weaker command of language in social situations, use the same words repeatedly and pay unconvincing
compliments, British researchers said after studying how men and women communicate。
Manchester University researchers found that when conversation centered on serious issues such as current affairs men and women used similar language, rs gold
but they differed widely when it came to chit-chat in social situations。
The women in the research commissioned by British female-friendly insurance firm Sheilas' Wheels had superior communication skills and used a wider
variety of words in social situations, while men struggled with their command of language。
runescape money "It is men who are more likely to talk for the sake of talking when engaged in social chit-chat by recycling their words with ritualistic and redundant
language that doesn't contain new information," Manchester University researcher Geoffrey Beattie said。
The team of researchers carried recording devices over a one week period in order to transcribe 50 conversations, which were split between men and women
in serious and social conversations。
Each conversation was given to five volunteers who read five different versions with every fifth word removed and were asked to guess the missing word。
Men used a few simple words in social situations and the limited variety of their vocabulary became even more marked when it came to paying compliments,
researchers said。runescape items
The study showed compliments from men were 90 percent predictable -- frequently making use of words "you," "really" and "nice" -- while women had more
detail in their compliments, making them less predictable and more genuine-sounding。
The Manchester University team helped dispel the myth of women as chatterboxes and discovered it's men who have the tendency to blather on by analyzing
supporting research into male and female communication。
Only two out of 56 separate studies analyzing the difference in communication between men and women concluded that women use more words per day than men
- while 24 concluded that men use more。