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I like to trade stocks and shares but what do when unemployment in both the US and UK keep increasing? Interestingly the major stock markets are also increasing.

Unfortunately, equity markets are completely detached from the ‘real’ economy. So as unemployment continues to rise, and is expected to continue rising throughout 2010, we could see the Dow Jones and FTSE 100 continue to rally.

Yes the stock markets are supposedly ‘forward thinking’ and investing in the future but the current picture is unclear.

Looking at the UK, inflation looks like it will remain around its target of 2%. Of course controlling inflation is easier said than done. No one knows what affect the quantitative easing will have on the economy in 6 months time.

The focus will be on the outlook for growth and indications of when the US, European and UK stimulus packages will end. Growth is returning but, with Governments short of funds, tax rises are expected in 2010. The little growth we have could quickly end.

All-in-all the markets look like they will remain volatile for quite some time. It is not all bad news though. There are a few ways of taking advantage of the market volatility.

One option is spread betting, with a spread betting account you can go long or short of the markets. This means an investor can trade a market in the direction they feel it will move. You are not limited to only speculating on markets to go up. If you think the FTSE 100 or Dow Jones will go down you can bet on them to fall.

Another advantage in the current volatile climate is that you purely are speculating on the future price of a market; you are not actually buying or selling anything. This lets you complete trades quickly.

Of course, all forms of financial investment have the potential for incurring losses. For example, trading in stock, property, investment funds and pensions can lead to you losing money. With spread bets your losses can exceed your initial investment.

Having said that spread bets are tax free, there is no capital gains tax, no stamp duty and no income tax on spread betting*.

And unlike traditional stocks and shares trading, there are no commissions or broker’s fees.

If you are considering spread betting then you should also consider where you might trade. A number of spread betting firms offer the usual benefits of letting you trade thousands of UK, US and European markets as well as letting you trade outside normal market hours. Some firms, such as FinancialSpreads.com, will let you trade markets 24 hours a day.

A final comment though, spread bets carry a high level of risk to your capital. You should only speculate with funds you can afford to lose. Like the adverts say, before trading, please ensure that spread betting matches your investment requirements. Familiarise yourself with the risks involved. Seek independent advice where necessary.

* Based on current UK tax law, if you pay tax in another jurisdiction then tax law may vary.

As a painting contractor for many years, I have witnessed many blunders by well meaning homeowners who simply don’t understand just how unpredictable gloss paint can be on interior walls. In an effort to achieve durability and scrub ability, many sprint off to purchase satin or gloss paint without taking into account the hurdles that will shortly become very noticeable. With their dreams of rich color tones that gloss paint affords and the scrub able persona of the paint, some homeowners reason they simply can’t go wrong.
Most painting contractors would agree that one could certainly make a suitable line of reasoning for using paints with sheen; then again most homeowners are not aware of the problem to using glossy paint on their walls.

Below are problems coupled with using gloss paint.

1. One of the most widespread problems with using gloss paint is it causes minor defects in your walls to become detectable. Defects that are veiled by flat paint suddenly come alive when using satin or gloss paint. If you receive a fair amount of sunlight through windows in the room, it will be even more perceptible. Sheetrock tape joints that are faintly raised or depressed can become evident. Uneven texture in the walls can become visible, etc.

2. Paints with a sheen are notorious for causing a halo effect around trim. When walls are rolled in a room, the roller nap leaves a different texture than what a brush leaves when cutting in wall paint around doors, windows, baseboard, and crown moldings. Light reflects differently from the texture left by the brush than from the textures left by the roller nap. This is a very annoying problem that can ruin the appearance of your freshly painted room.

3. If you are planning to paint gloss over existing flat walls, you really need two coats of paint to avoid flashing (unevenness of sheen throughout the wall). Two coats improve consistency of sheen and enhance color tone. This of course, increases your cost.

If you must have sheen on the walls, then follow these suggestions

1. Use very low sheen paint. The use of eggshell, or satin sheens will help minimize the above problems associated with gloss paints.

2. Prepare your walls very well. Some of the problems may be beyond the scale of what you or the painter you hire can do. A sheet rock contractor may be your best preference for major wall repair.

3. Always cut your walls in first using a brush. Then proceed to rolling the walls. After the walls have been cut in with a brush, then roll the wall paint with a roller and nap within a quarter of an inch of your trim. Alternatively, you can apply blue tape to all your trim which will allow you to roll up to the trim. This will go a long way in reducing the halo effect. Additionally, obtaining a smaller roller frame and nap will allow you to reach tight areas a standard size roller can’t reach. If you touch your trim with the roller, then clean the paint off the trim with a cloth immediately.

4. Be sure and budget for two coats of paint to achieve the look and feel you want.

Low sheen paint can give you the richness and dept of color with reduced problems in particular in rooms that do not get a lot of light. If you are going to use flat paint, then understand not all flat paints are alike. Top of the line flat paints will clean with much less damage to the wall than lower quality paint. Make sure it is a scrub able paint. When you wash flat paint you should use a sponge with water and soap. Never use a cloth. Cleaning with a cloth will polish the surface, causing sheen to appear at that spot. My suggestion as a painting contractor is plan your project well. Consider the quirks of gloss paint and budget in view of that. Weigh the pros and cons of using sheen on your walls.

In the best case scenario, service teams such as The March Group complaints awareness team can diffuse situations with angry or frustrated clientele and can actually win a lifelong customer by handling the situation in a professional and conscientious manner. In the worst case scenario, customer service departments can not only lose a customer, but they can lose other customers through negative reviews and from a failure to learn from the situation. So how do customer service departments handle things the right way?

Successful service departments like The March Group complaints awareness team always take the complaints and concerns of the customer seriously. The company representatives avoid finger pointing and work to truly listen to what the client or customer has to say. They then ask what they can do to make the situation right. Although the initial grievance of the client or customer might seem unreasonable, in most cases they want to be heard and have their simple complaint addressed. With careful listening skills, the customer service team can then make the upset individual or organization an offer in good faith or can present a variety of offers to diffuse the situation and give the other party options.

When teams like The March Group complaints awareness team take their complaints seriously, they can use the negative situation as a learning opportunity to make a positive change in the future. Likewise, the client or customer will trust that the company is on their side at this point, and they will have regained control over what might have felt like an out of control problem. If a complaint is handled effectively, the customer or client will tell others about their positive experience. If it is not handled effectively, they will also tell people, and they will probably tell more people than if they were happy.

Clearly, handling customer complaints responsibly is an important aspect of any successful modern company.

When a service team like The March Group complaints awareness team handles a complaint from a customer, they must really listen rather than shifting blame or making light of the situation. If the customer contact is in person, the service representatives can make eye contact and continue listening until the customer is done talking. If the customer contact is on the phone, the complaints awareness team member can convey their understanding of where the customer is coming from by asking pertinent questions. Then it’s time for the customer service representative to take action to resolve the circumstances.

In order to diffuse the situation, departments like The March Group complaints awareness team generally encourage service representatives to ask questions about how they can better understand the issue, what happened to lead to the complaint and how the company can make things better. This provides an opportunity to really understand the heart of the issue and to show the customer that you truly care. Sometimes you can win a new customer for life, and at the very least you can make sure this doesn’t happen again with another customer in the future.

Customer service teams like The March Group complaints awareness team are most successful when they can get to the heart of the matter and ask what they can do to make things right in the simplest terms. This is, of course, an open-ended question that a customer might respond to in an unreasonable manner. But if the service professional has made every effort to diffuse the situation, they should be able to start a positive and productive discussion at this point.

Whether a company is in the mergers and acquisitions field like The March Group, or if they are in sales, manufacturing or any sort of service field, they can make the most of negative situations with an excellent customer service team on hand to diffuse the frustration of the customer. This provides the opportunity to turn things around and perhaps win a loyal customer for life.

The share market of India is dominated by online trading and investors constitute all class of people, the young and the old alike. It is only market knowledge, a computer and the Internet that makes investing possible at a click of the mouse. And with an online trading account facilitating your shares trading , you need not physically visit your broker. You will be guided in your buying decisions by your broker online. Getting registered at brokerage platforms further makes the process easy. It is because you get guidance, tips, and lots more right at your mail box.

Trading in equity shares online entails with it a number of advantages. The process begins with opening an online trading account, i.e., a demat account. It is an account in digital form and means dematerialization of the trading account. Unlike a physical trading account which needs the submission of a number of documents, a demat account requires your PAN card, which is mandatory. You may or may not require submitting other documents. You will have to deposit enough cash in your demat account which can be linked to your bank account. It is easy to use and its flexibility as well as the security factor associated with it is an added advantage. Once you buy equity shares, money gets transferred automatically and in case of any profits gained from the same, the amount gets automatically credited too. The whole process is digitized and made hassle-free and easy for the investor. Your broker will only guide you and update you about potential equity shares. It rests wholly upon you to give your decision whether to buy the same whether to hold it for some time and the like. There are a group of stock brokers who select potential stocks and then buy and sell them on behalf of the investors.

It is strongly recommended that you watch share market live regularly if you are seriously investing in the share market in India. The market is highly volatile and market fluctuations may drive your investment prospects towards the drain. If you are equipped with complete knowledge about the share market, you will be able to take intelligent decisions and gain profits at a stretch. To watch share market live, visit any online brokerage platform and if you are already registered as aforementioned, you can view it in the said platform.

The share market of India has two major stock exchanges – the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The calculations are done on a free float market capitalization method represented by the Sensex and the Nifty. There are also a number of other stock exchanges prominent at the state levels.

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This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Renegade Roundtable, which can be found at http://www.RenegadeRoundtable.com. In this excerpt, Angela Stokes shares on finding or building a support group and steps you can take today to start down the road to better health.

Renegade Water Secrets with Angela Stokes, raw foodist, teacher and expert on raw food weight loss.

Kevin: You mentioned that finding a support group was important. Your family, you say, was filled with obesity and not a healthy group of people that you could probably find support from. Where did you go to find the support?

Angela: In the very beginning the main thing that kept me going was going to potlucks. There was potlucks about once a month and that really made all the difference to me. Because, as I said, I was out in the countryside in Iceland and I really felt isolated and just kind of crazy at times and I then would go to these potlucks and there would be all these people there and all this amazing, vibrant food. I would see people’s different creations and just that sense of community and it’s not just me. That really nice feeling of there’s other people who are on this path. And then of course everything’s just been growing on the Internet so much in the last years with raw food. So I started to get more and more into that and these days we have such wonderful communities online like giveittomeraw.com eat.rawfood.com and so that’s what I really encourage people to get into. If you can, meeting people face to face in your communities or if there aren’t any potlucks in your area create one. Just put some little signs up around your area saying, “Is anyone interested in eating more healthily” or you could even say “in eating raw food” or “eating vegan” or whatever it is. Or start a reading group around health books and develop it from there. You don’t have to feel isolated or alone. This message really is spreading. That’s what excites me, is to think about how it’s just going to keep on expanding. At the moment the infrastructure isn’t there so much in society for it to feel particularly easy to be a raw foodist a lot of the time. But it’s coming. It’s going to be so exciting in the coming years, I think, to see what unfolds.

Kevin: Let’s get into a question that I like from one of our listeners who’s on the line now, she basically asks what’s the best way to get started into raw foods without shocking the system?

Angela: Yeah, I recommend for people to start out eating at least 50 percent raw and preferably at least 50 percent of that to be fresh, raw stuff. So not all dehydrated and packaged raw foods but a lot of fresh stuff. And just take it from there and start building up the percentage of raw that you can handle. And maybe at some point you become 100 percent raw and maybe you don’t. Like this person says in the question, it’s really important to not shock the system. From what I’ve seen over and over again with people, so many people find out about raw food and they want to go 100 percent and they jump in the deep end and then they go into this huge detox and you never see them again. They jump completely off the wagon and that’s it. And I feel really sad when I see that kind of thing. I would much rather see people just slowly, slowly build new habits into their lives. This to me is a lifestyle. It’s not about going on some diet you’re going to go off again at some point. That’s not the mentality around it from my perspective.

So yeah, slowly build in, working with the foods that you already know you like. Everybody has some kind of raw foods they already know they like. Maybe it’s plums or maybe it’s celery, whatever. And this is actually one of the steps that I guide people to do in “RAW EMOTIONS” is to make a list of the foods that you already know that you like and have that visible in your house. Have it up, like on your fridge so when you go shopping or when you’re ordering online or whatever it is, you have this thing and you can keep adding to it as you try new things, as your taste buds adjust. And keep trying new things. Every week maybe try one or two new foods. And just slowly, slowly keep incorporating new things so that you don’t get this sense of restriction and deprivation. Which that’s so common that you’ll hear people when they go raw saying, “Oh, I can’t eat bread anymore.” Or, “I’m not allowed to eat this.” To me that’s just not really coming from a space of empowerment or a space where you’re really enjoying what you’re doing. It just seems to come from a weakened perspective. And so slowly build it up and make sure that you’re doing what you can to help the body as it detoxes. Because that’s really what this is all about. It’s really about coming into alignment with nature.

It’s like pressing the reset button in your body. It’s like pressing the release button. “Okay, I packed in heaven knows how many pounds and pounds of toxic stuff for years and now we’re going to let go of it.” And your body’s just going to go for it. Like I said earlier, the body just rushes towards optimal health and it will just be dumping stuff out of your cells like crazy. So do what you can to help with that process. Do colon cleansing, do skin brushing, keep your lymphs moving, do exercise, anything. Tongue scraping, netipot, whatever you can to help keep the detox process going. And be kind to yourself. Be gentle to yourself. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing in the beginning. Take it slowly.

Kevin: Some people might not know what skin brushing is. Can you just explain what that is?

Angela: Sure. You take a dry bristle brush, a special one that you can buy in health food shops and stuff, they’re really inexpensive, maybe ten dollars, and you go over your entire body with this dry brush, like before bathing or before you step in the shower or whatever. And that sounds kind of crazy when you’re not used to it but once you start doing it you might find that you just fall in love with dry skin brushing. It’s a wonderful way of removing dead skin cells from the surface of your skin. You know, the skin is our biggest organ and there’s such an opportunity for detoxing through our skin. But a lot of people just don’t really seize the opportunity. People where clothes all the time, tight clothes and they put deodorant on and body lotions and they really don’t give the body and the skin that much space to breathe. So when you do the dry skin brushing it’s like you’re removing all these dead layers of skin, you’re giving the muscles a nice workout, you’re moving the lymph as well and it’s just all around a very beneficial habit to do daily with your body. And it’s so cheap. Ten dollars investment in a brush and you’ve got it for like twenty years or something. So I highly recommend dry skin brushing.

Kevin: So what would you suggest for someone right now, listening to this call, enjoyed everything that you have said, what would you suggest is their first step to just either getting the weight loss or getting the raw food results that they’re really looking for?

Angela: I would definitely say if you still have processed or cooked food items in your house that you don’t feel great about, and it’s within your boundaries to get them out of your house, then go for it. Just get those things out of your personal space and start to get that list together of the things that you really enjoy. Start connecting to other people, build your momentum around this lifestyle so that it just becomes more embedded in your day to day things that you do. So that it just becomes habitual.

We’ve had so many years of living and eating this other way, and we’ve got all those patterns behind us to move out of now, just try and do what you can to every day just check in with what’s happening with you with raw foods in some way, whether it’s that you open a raw food book or go onto a raw food website for inspiration. Reach out to others, you’re not alone.

And I always say, I really feel like if I can do this than anyone can. Six years ago I was 300 pounds and had no interest in health whatsoever. And I’m still here. I wouldn’t be here still, six years later, if there wasn’t a good reason for it. So my health, my happiness, everything in my life was completely transformed from doing this. And there’s no reason why other people can’t experience that same kind of shifts if they just choose to do so and stay on that track.

Kevin: That’s great advice.