Turkish Property is still rising and residences in Turkey are seen as affordable and tempting with sizable investment in 2014 and that growth in sales of Turkish property is likely to keep onin 2015
The Turkish Market seems set to progress in 2015
International real estate market players keep a close eye on a country's wider fiscal position, not just the state of its real estate market, especially in what are still unstable financial times for much of the world. This healthy and ever-increasing level of tourism is sure to bolster property sales in Turkey. This news is especially remarkable given that Spain has only just escaped a bailout, unlike its neighbours Portugal which succumbed, so decisions to invest internationally don't come lightly. As House Sales Turkey previously reported, the Russian overseas property magazine International Residence carried out a investigation at Moscows leading property show in March of this year. Given that The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has predicted as many as 1 million more Russian tourists will visit Turkey this year (when over 3 million Russian tourists travelled to Turkey last year), it could be that Russian vendees will bolster real estate in Turkey for some time. While the prices of property in Turkey have slowed in the past few years (just like in the rest of Europe), the market is still jaunty, in part due to variables such as Turkeys strong tourism.
Both districts have healthy sources of demand for rentals, including university campuses. Having a waterfront, means Belikduzu also offers a water taxi service. 115,786 houses changed hands in September. The Turkish property market has cooled down a little from the torrid pace over the last decade. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), a total of 1,774 houses were sold to foreigners in August, displaying a significant contrast to the 890 homes sold last year. The canal will connect the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, transforming the land along its route and attracting more Gulf investment to the country. They offer a good selection of off plan and newly built quality apartments, within gated complexes and with communal facilities, priced between $100,000 and $200,000, all of which suits the requirements and budget of typical Gulf investors.
Is 2015 the right time to buy real estate in Turkey land and property in Turkey seems to be at the right time of its cycle
Two up and coming districts on Istanbul's European side have become hot spots for Gulf investors purchasing second homes in 2014, it is claimed. Walker also explained that Belikduzu and Bahcesehir both have excellent transport connections, by bus, train and motorway, with the Istanbul's cultural and business districts, as well as the main Istanbul airport (Ataturk International Airport), making transfers from the Middle East easy. However, a slow-down is now evident although growth continues to be recorded.
Residential rental values increased the most in Antalya, the fastest-growing city in Turkey, perennially popular with tourists. Several factors including new value-added tax laws and an anticipated economic cooling in 2014 means reduced domestic sales volume for both new and resale homes through the end of this year. Although the domestic property market still faces challenges and demand remains weak, the climate for foreign investors has improved significantly, with interest focusing mainly on apartments in resort areas. It is widely believed that foreign investors will pick up the slack in the domestic property market as transaction volumes have consistently risen over the last 18 months, showing no loss in investor sentiment for Turkey.
Major infrastructure projects have also underpinned property investment in the country, with more large-scale projects in the pipeline. With fewer restrictions on foreign property purchases, mortgage availability also increased in August after declining for the preceding seven months. Foreign investors in Turkey's property market also received a boost this year, as restrictions on the sale of real estate to foreigners were reduced. Bahcesehir has the Akbati shopping centre, Akkoza mall and Prestige mall. Vatandas said the high cost of land in a dynamic metropolitan areas was responsible for the large price hikes in Istanbul, where more than 14 million people live.
The price index for Istanbul has increased about 8-10 points more within five years compared with the country as a whole. Around 13,611 real estates were sold to foreign buyers in the first nine months of the year, an increase from 12, 181 the year before.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Texas mom breaks world record for donating breast milk - New York Daily News
A northern Texas mom made her way into the Guinness Book of World Records by donating more breast milk than any other woman has — nearly 87 gallons of it.
Alicia Richman, of Granbury, had a son last March and found she was producing more milk than she needed to feed him, according to a press release.
“I was so blessed to have more milk than I needed,” she recalled. “I pumped at work, on vacations, in the car. And I never had to buy formula.”
She saved money on formula, but soon ran out of room in her freezer to store her excess milk. Then she learned about the Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas, a nonprofit that provides mother’s milk to babies in intensive care whose own mothers can’t.
Richman started donating to the bank in June 2011, and by March of this year her gifts added up to 11,115 ounces, or 86.8 gallons — shattering the previous “Most Breast Milk Donated” record by more than 23 gallons.
Just three ounces of milk is enough to feed a premature infant nine times, said Amy Vickers, executive director of the Mothers’ Milk Bank. “Alicia’s generous gift of human milk has fed hundreds, and more likely, thousands of premature babies across the United States.”
Richman will be happy to have her record broken — she hoped to be Guinness certified in order to raise awareness of milk banks — though she could be her own toughest competition.
“I’m planning to beat my own record when we have a second baby,” she said.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Quitting smoking may extend life 10 years - World Science
The scientists say that other new research suggests similar effects in men.
British researchers recruited 1.3 million women were to a study between 1996 and 2001, at ages 50 to 65 years. Participants filled out a questionnaire about lifestyle, medical and social factors and were resurveyed by mail three years later. Women were traced for an average of 12 years from when they joined. The findings were published in the medical journal The Lancet on Oct. 27.
Initially, 20 percent of the study participants were smokers, 28 percent were ex-smokers, and 52 percent had never smoked. Those who were still smokers three years later were found to be nearly three times as likely as non-smokers to die over the next nine years, even though some reduced their risk by stopping smoking during this period.
The threefold death rate ratio means that two-thirds of all deaths of smokers in their 50s, 60s, and 70s are caused by smoking, as most of the difference between smokers and non-smokers came from smoking-related diseases such as lung cancer, chronic lung disease, heart disease, or stroke, the researchers said.
The risks among smokers increased steeply with amount smoked, although even for those who smoked just one cigarette a day at the start of the study, mortality rates were double those for non-smokers.
Both the hazards of smoking and, accordingingly, the benefits of stopping are bigger than previous studies have suggested, the investigators said. Smokers who stopped around age 30 were found to avoid 97 percent of their excess risk of premature death, and although serious excess hazards remained for decades among those who smoked until age 40 before stopping, the excess hazards among those who continued smoking after age 40 were ten times bigger.
“If women smoke like men, they die like men – but, whether they are men or women, smokers who stop before reaching middle age will on average gain about an extra ten years of life,” said study co-author Richard Peto, at the University of Oxford, UK. “Both in the UK and in the USA, women born around 1940 were the first generation in which many smoked substantial numbers of cigarettes throughout adult life. Hence, only in the 21st century could we observe directly the full effects of prolonged smoking, and of prolonged cessation, on premature mortality among women.”
The authors wrote that they found “the proportional excess risk in smokers was more marked than in many previous studies, but recently updated analyses of 21st century mortality in six smaller cohorts of U.S. smokers now suggest, in aggregate, similar hazards from smoking and benefits of stopping, as does a recent study in Japanese men and women.”
As for their own study, Peto and colleagues wrote further that “although the relative risks for the effects of prolonged smoking on particular diseases cannot be generalised exactly to populations with very different background rates of those diseases, they should be approximately generalisable to many (though not all) countries where women smoke.”
The research was published to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Richard Doll, one of the first people to identify the link between lung cancer and smoking.
Smokers Who Survive Stroke At Increased Risk Of Another Stroke, Heart Attack, Death
Those who quit smoking before their stroke also had less risk of poorer outcomes than current smokers, researchers found.
Researchers in Melbourne, Australia, tracked 1,589 patients who experienced a first or recurrent stroke in 1996-99. They followed them for 10 years, using medical records and in-person and telephone interviews, and tracked demographics, deaths, recurrent strokes and heart attacks.
Compared to those who never smoked: Those who smoked when they had a stroke were 30 percent more likely to have a poor outcome. Among those who survived the first 28 days after stroke, current smokers had a 42 percent higher risk of poorer outcomes. Ex-smokers had an 18 percent higher risk of poorer outcomes. Compared to past smokers: Among those who survived the first 28 days after stroke, current smokers had a 23 percent higher risk of poorer outcomes during the 10 years. "This research provides fresh incentive to quit smoking now or never start because it shows smokers fare far worse after strokes than non-smokers," said Amanda Thrift, Ph.D., the study's lead researcher and professor of epidemiology for the Department of Medicine in the Southern Clinical School at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
In the study, those living in disadvantaged areas were much more likely to smoke, with 52 percent of current smokers belonging to the most disadvantaged group, compared to 31 percent of those who never smoked.
"We also found smoking had its greatest impact on younger patients," Thrift said. "The people who smoked in our study were younger, more often male, and more often from a disadvantaged background. Although we want everyone to give up smoking, targeting this group could yield greater benefits with fewer dollars spent."
The study focused on patients who survived the most common type of stroke: an ischemic stroke (caused by blood clot). Researchers didn't link smoking to poorer long-term outcomes for patients whose stroke was caused by bleeding within the brain (intracerebral hemorrhage), possibly due to a small sample size.
Previous studies, which have been shorter, had a smaller sample size or were less comprehensive, have provided inconsistent results on smoking's role on long-term outcomes after a stroke.
Stroke is the fourth-leading cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the United States.
A stroke occurs about every 40 seconds in America.
Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release. Click 'references' tab above for source.Visit our stroke section for the latest news on this subject. Co-authors are Joosup Kim, BBiomedSci; Seana Gall, Ph.D.; Helen Dewey, Ph.D.; Richard Macdonell, M.D.; and Jonathan Sturm, Ph.D. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.
The National Health and Medical Research Council, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Foundation for High Blood Pressure Research and the National Stroke Foundation funded the study.
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Panel: Pregnant women, get whooping cough shot - Boston.com
ATLANTA (AP) — An expert panel is urging every expecting mother to get a shot preventing whooping cough, preferably in the last three months of her pregnancy to help protect her baby.
The advice follows a frightening resurgence of the dreaded childhood disease. More than 32,000 cases, including 16 deaths, have been reported so far this year, and 2012 is on track to be the nation’s worst year for whooping cough since 1959.
It’s only the second time a vaccine has been advised for all women during pregnancy. Flu shots were first recommended for them in the 1990s.
The new advice was approved in a vote Wednesday by the government’s vaccine advisory panel. Federal health officials usually adopt the group’s guidance and promote it to doctors and the public.
Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious disease. Its name comes from the sound children make as they gasp for breath.
Despite long-standing childhood immunizations, cases have been climbing in the past decade. Most are infants two months and younger — too young to be vaccinated because their immune systems are too immature.
Health officials increasingly have pushed to get older children and adults vaccinated, to reduce the number of carriers who might infect vulnerable infants. An estimated 30 to 40 percent of infected newborns got the disease from their mothers.
In recent years, a combination vaccine — that included protection against pertussis— was offered to women immediately after they gave birth. Then after a whooping cough epidemic in California, the panel last year recommended a one-time dose of a combination vaccine for expectant mothers, either before or during pregnancy.
But fewer than 3 percent of pregnant women have gotten the vaccination, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Worse, recent research has shown the whooping cough vaccine’s protection doesn’t last as long as previously thought. A recent study found women vaccinated within two years of their pregnancy had relatively few antibodies to pass on to their newborns. That included women vaccinated early in their pregnancy, said Dr. Mary Healy, the Baylor College of Medicine researcher who led the study. That suggests women need to be vaccinated during the third trimester for it to really have an effect, she said.
Despite the overwhelming vote tally, several members of the panel voiced uneasiness with a lack of data on how effective and safe such a recommendation will be for mothers and newborns.
CDC officials acknowledge they have data on only hundreds of women who got the shots during pregnancy. What’s more, the vaccine is only licensed to be given to adults once. Under the new recommendation, women who raise large families may be getting the vaccine three or four or more times.
But CDC experts repeated there’s no evidence of serious risk to either mothers or newborns. And they estimated that enacting the recommendation could reduce whooping cough cases by 33 percent, hospitalizations by 38 percent and deaths by 49 percent.
‘‘The benefits of vaccination outweigh the theoretical risks,’’ said Jennifer Liang, a CDC epidemiologist who presented the benefit estimates to the panel.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Spending on Medicaid Has Slowed, Survey Finds - New York Times
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