News on Youtube Sep 27 2017

Hey guys! Yep, I know! Don't tell me! Shame on me!

I've been a very nasty girl here on Youtube lately, I kow

but let's move on, cause you know, that's not a drama movie so

I'm pretty sure you're here for content and let's go!

Well the last time that I talked to you guys I was in Muscatine. You guys remember right? In Iowa!

But now I live in North Liberty, it's another city

Yep, we moved to another city and that's why I'm here today

- to share how it is to rent a house here in the USA, from the moment we started browsing a house on the web

to the day we finally moved. I'm also gonna talk about costs, curiosities, processes and much more.

Just one point: all the information that I'm providing here is related to Iowa, ok?

General rules and prices may vary a lot from state to state.

Well this video is all in English but you can active the subtitles below, either in Portuguese or English

If it's your first time in the channel, please don't forget to subscribe

and don't forget to share this video with your friends. I'm pretty sure they're going to enjoy it as well!

So the first question: Why did we decide to move?

You guys know that I love Muscatine, it's a very beautiful city, a small city but a very beautiful city

but the point is, Tuca - Tuca is my husband - so Tuca and I used to live in an apartment

It was just a two-story apartment but it was an apartment and that's the first reason:

We really wanted to live in a house. Yeah, with a nice garden, a yard, a nice garage...

and I'm gonna add some other extra facts that we were considering when moving to another place

Our car used to be parked off-street. Well, it's ok most of the times but

when it's hailing, it might damage your car if the stones are too big - or even worse, when it's snowing.

So a garage would be nice! Another point: where we lived there was not a single window in the kitchen

so, I don't know... just grill/fry - whatever - a steak and you'll have a foggy house

and a crazy fire alarm screaming to the moon and back. I mean, really out loud.

You get desperate. I don't know if you have ever heard but I'll try to find a video and put it in here

And the last reason is regarding the bathtub. If you don't know, when you take a shower here in the US

most of the houses have a bathtub and a plastic shower curtain.

Once again that's very different to me since in Brazil, back in Brazil, I used to take a shower in boxes.

Guys I'm not complaning ok? I'm just telling you why we decided to move because here in the house where we're living

we could find all these things. But everything was great, everything was amazing, wonderful.

There was nothing I would complain like, for a second about the house where I lived. I'm serious and I mean it.

Actually I'm very very thankful for the whole opportunity I had in that house and now in this one so please, don't get me wrong ok? :)

And you might say that I'm being very picky and I don't know maybe I am but I'd like to share with you like friends you know...

the reason that we considered when moving to another house. And I guess that's normal, we always want something better.

One more point: it was summer - actually now it's fall, fall has just started - but it was summer

and we realized we could have some extra benefits like having a yard, we could grill, call some friends, have a party...

have a garden to grow all my flowers and herbs, you know, more space!

Ok so where do we usually find houses to rent? Basically on the web

You know, home owners also advertise on local newspapers but most people search on the web, on facebook groups,

realtor websites, I don't know and things related to that.

And Erika, now the question that I wanna know is: How much is it to rent a house in Iowa?

So just out of curiosity, if you're planning to rent a house with like, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, a laundry, a living room...

You're gonna pay aroung $1,000 - actually it might range from $800 to $1,200 + utilities

Now if you wanna add an extra bedroom, a garage and probably more space, you'll pay from $1,200 to $2,000 + utilities

Erika, you're saying UTILITIES, UTILITIES... WHAT ARE UTILITIES?

Guys, utilities are: GAS + ELECTRICITY +WATER + TRASH AND RECYCLING + whatever you wish like INTERNET / CABLE TV

Guys, that was just a guesstimate to rent a house here, in a small city, here in Iowa.

Have you ever hear of that expression: GUESSTIMATE? You know I love sharing a different vocabulary with you all, right?

It's a GUESS and an ESTIMATE of something. A very very very common word or expression if you prefer to call it like that

here in the US so you'd better memorize it! So going back to the story...

Our friend Marcelo Bahia was browsing the web, he was trying to find a house for us as well.

He knew what we wanted, the budget we had, by the way THANK YOU again Bahia, you're such a good friend!

And actually he found the house where I am living right now! Now I'll tell you something very very funny:

The day we came to visit the house, you know, I got so in love with the space especially because the remodelled the house

that I wanted to sign the leasing the same day of the visit. I basically asked the landlord:

"Ok so what's the next step? I mean, where do I sign?" and Tuca looked at me like:

"Aren't going to talk to me and ask my opinion? - but he liked the house of course!

But there's a process to rent a house. It's not like "Ok, I liked the house, where do I sign? Can I move tomorrow" No it's not like that

It's pretty different at least from Brazil and that's the next question I'm going to answer:

What is the process to rent a house? Again, here in Iowa! First of all, again you don't need a guarantor to rent a house

You have to pay a safe deposit. Ok so What is a safe deposit? Well the safe deposit it is the same amount as your rent

and you pay it previously or with your first rent. When your leasing finishes and you decide to move to another house and everything

is ok with the house, if you haven't broken anything, the landlord will give all your money back, I mean your safe deposit

Second: when you decide you want to move to the house, you want to rent the house, you have to fill an application

I'll just leave an application so you can have an ideia of what it is and in our case, with the application we paid $60

This money was used to check our credit history and also our background. Well, if approved you can proceed to talk about

and then sign the leasing contract. Once you have the contract on your hands, you gotta read it thoroughly

Yeah, you gotta make sure that you agree with everything the landlord is saying on the contract. Everything he/she is considering.

After signing it, the landlord will tell you when the house is free to go and that's it! You just rent a U-HAUL and you move to the new house

In our case we didn't rent a U-HAUL. Yeah, we thought it would be available, would be there for us at the day that we moved

but actually we should have booked it like, some weeks before so at the day that we decided to move there was no one left

Thank God again we have friends, so our friend Mateus has a truck and Bahia came to help us three.

and everything thank god was perfect. So Mateus once again thank you so much for helping us that day, Bahia and Mateus thank you!

So guys I guess I covered all the topics that I was supposed to speak today

If you wanna follow a little bit of my routine here in North Liberty, just follow me on Instagram

if you wanna also practice your English 'cause I also speak a lot of English in there

but guys I really hope you have enjoyed this video. Don't forget to like my video because it really motivates me

and it also helps to spread the information. Ok guys? So on Thursday we're gonna have another video and I'm pretty sure

you're gonna like that one. Stay tuned. Take care of yourselves guys and see you on Thursday. Bye!

For more infomation >> I MOVED! RENTING A HOUSE IN THE USA | How much is that? What's the process and much more - Duration: 7:43.

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Easywipe Bottom Wiper: How To Use for Personal Hygiene - Duration: 0:42.

This is the Buckingham Easywipe, and here's how to use it.

Take hold of your toilet tissue - four sheets should be enough,

and wrap the tissue around the Easywipe tucking both ends into the unique gripping slot

The tissue is clamped and held fast until you're ready to dispose of it.

Then, simply push the button on top of the handle for quick release of the soiled paper,

with no need to touch at all. Supplied with the it's own soft carry case,

the Easywipe is just one of a range of products designed by Occupational Therapist Chris Buckingham,

for Buckingham Healthcare - the company helping people to help themselves

For more infomation >> Easywipe Bottom Wiper: How To Use for Personal Hygiene - Duration: 0:42.

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Sarpy Chiropractic - How To Fuel Your Body Episode 12: Body Fat and Protein - Duration: 4:15.

Hey everyone, Dr. Rodney White here with week 12 of the weekly series on how to fuel your body.

So following up from last week's body fat percentage episode, now you should know where your body fat

is vs. what your lean muscle mass is and this is how we're going to work out how much protein you should be eating every day.

Because we have to have protein, they make up the essential building blocks of the amino acids that build all our tissues,

especially when you're exercising a lot but if we have too much, it can trigger certain pathways in our body

that can lead to disease and things like that almost as bad as too much sugar and carbs.

So, if you're not someone who's working out heavily and trying to build a lot of muscle mass,

we're going to give you, essentially the basic formula here and then you can tweak that either way,

if you work out heavily, you need more, if you've already got a chronic illness or something like cancer, you want even less.

And sometimes it depends on blood type and things like that too, but if you're in a fairly normal situation, this formula will help you alot.

So, what you want to get every day is one gram of protein per kilogram of lean muscle body mass.

So, the first thing you have to do is get from pounds to kilograms. To do that, we just divide the number by 2.2

or you just go online to Google and do the conversion. So, if you're someone who has, if you're 200lbs, that equates to about

90 kilograms, but you can't just then say I need to eat 90 grams of protein to match that because that's not

your lean muscle mass. So, if we use the example of someone who is 200lbs, with 30 percent body fat, that means they're 70 percent is lean muscle mass.

So, if they're 90 kilograms, 70 percent of that is about 60-63 kilograms of lean muscle mass.

So, one gram of protein per that is 63 grams in a day. Now what you want to do is split that up over your meals.

In a perfect world, you might have three meals throughout the day in your nine or ten hour eating window because of course

we should be doing that little bit of fasting as we've talked about previously, and so that 60-63 grams

comes down to about 21 grams per meal. The best way to get it right is to measure out all your portions but you might be like

me and you don't really have the detail orientation to always want to do that and be that perfect so you can guess a little bit.

So, if you're eating meat, most meat, especially red meat, about a quarter of the size of a deck of cards is going to be about 5-7 grams of protein.

If it's fish or seafood, about a quarter of the size of a checkbook will be 5-7 grams of protein.

But to be honest, weighing it and working it out the first time, isn't that difficult. But that's then how you make sure you're getting the right amount of protein.

Remember to that vegetables, nuts, seeds, also have protein so you take that into account if you're eating that.

It seems more complicated than it really is. Once you work out exactly how much protein you should be having and then you measure or weigh these things the first couple times you eat them,

I promise you it's more simple than what it seems. So now, you're nice and set up, you're eating that high fat, good fat diet,

getting the right amount of proteins, we're really limiting the carbs, and ideally if you're doing no sugars, no trans fats, or the bad oils,

you are giving your body the clean, efficient fuel that you want it to have for you to be able to stay healthy and do the things you enjoy.

The side note, like I mentioned at the start, if you are working out, especially with a lot of resistance weights and trying to build muscle,

you have to have more protein, especially on those days. We will do another video on that in the next few weeks but for now, hopefully this is a good start.

If anyone's confused, please ask questions down below, we will always answer them, as always share this content

with anyone that you think will find it valuable and have a great day!

For more infomation >> Sarpy Chiropractic - How To Fuel Your Body Episode 12: Body Fat and Protein - Duration: 4:15.

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Keys to Success | How to stay connected to and maintain your life outside the truck - Duration: 5:09.

It is often said that truck driving is not just a job, it's a lifestyle.

A truck driving career is similar to many other professions with a lot of travel,

like airplane pilots, flight attendants and military service members.

There are things you can do, as a truck driver, to stay connected with family and friends

and you'll have our ongoing support to help.

Support from the company that you work for and support from home makes it so you can be successful out here.

Keeping in constant contact with my family. I can't be there physically but as long as we can speak to each other in some form all the time we're fine.

I keep in contact with my parents, I call them every other day or so.

I have a two year old son.

He's my world.

We have iPhones so we can FaceTime.

The other night I was helping my son do homework over the phone, we have a lot of that interaction.

I'll write a nice letter, what I'm thinking, maybe what happened during the day,

same things you might put into a text, if you write it out it means a lot more.

Just about every truck stop I've been to has either a mailbox out front or they'll mail the letter for you.

And, a lot of them even sell post cards.

You can send your family a little picture of where you've been and what you've seen during the day.

They're thinking about you and they want to know that you're thinking about them,

it's an important thing and it keeps the family together I think.

When I entered the trucking industry one of the big things was that I could bring my pet with me and as you know, Roehl has a pet program.

From national fleets with flexible home times to home weekly regional or dedicated fleets

to set schedules on one of our HOMEtime Plus fleets, the key here is finding a fleet that meets your needs!

I also got on a dedicated regional fleet so that I do go home once a week.

I stay out for anywhere from 4-6 weeks at a time because I get more home time, I earn more days off

and can go home and spend 5, 6, 7 days off, if I can, with my family.

I stay out about 18-21 days, go home for 3 or 4 days.

I don't need to go home, I don't feel I need to go home due to the fact that Roehl gets me through my home terminal.

It can be a great lifestyle, you just have to find what fits your personality.

At Roehl, we believe you deserve a LOT, a life outside the truck,

so you can enjoy your time, your way.

You're going to have time to be at home, maybe kick back and watch some TV or football

or whatever you want and get the grass cut or whatever you need to do.

Remember to take the time to do something fun and personal with your family.

I fly Radio Controlled airplanes as a hobby, me and my dad set aside a day to go out and do that.

If there's a movie that I know my daughter wants to see we buy those tickets in advance.

You find the things that you know you all enjoy.

Whether I take my kids to the waterpark, bowling, go to your local zoo, whatever you want to do.

When I go home this next time we're going to San Diego for my son's birthday.

We're going to spend a whole week out there, go to Sea World, San Diego Zoo,

we rented a little condo on the beach.

Without this job I couldn't take those weeks off at a time, so it is beneficial!

When I get home I drop my truck off where I park it, get my car and go get my boy.

Make the most of that time, that makes the transition going back to the truck easier

because you feel like you've actually done something while you where at home.

I actually get more time with my family than I did as a mechanic when I worked six days a week and only had one day off, yeah I was home every night but I was drained!

I can tell I really like this business because I look forward to going back out.

I come back out and get a little pit in my stomach from missing my family

but then I just look forward to the next time home.

Being a successful truck driver means understanding the trade off between your home time and how much you earn.

We offer many different fleet options so you can find balance.

Also, because of the great technology we have access to, it's easier than ever to stay connected with friends and family.

At Roehl, you will have full access to the support you need to make your career a success!