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Saturday 31 December 2011
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Friday 30 December 2011
Singer Etta James breathing on her own again (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Soul singer Etta James, who is terminally ill with leukemia, has been taken off a respirator and is breathing on her own again, her friend and manager said on Friday.
Lupe De Leon said the "At Last" singer, 73, is soon expected to leave the intensive care unit of a hospital near her home in Riverside, east of Los Angeles.
"The hospital is preparing Etta for release from ICU to a step down unit. She is stable and breathing on her own. Her blood pressure is normal," De Leon said.
James was admitted to the hospital last week because she was struggling to breathe. She has been in failing health for several years and suffers from leukemia, kidney disease and dementia but had previously been cared for at her Southern California home.
Her live-in doctor said earlier in December that James was considered terminally ill, and that she communicates mostly with nods and simple words. The three-time Grammy Award singer earlier battled obesity and was addicted to heroin for many years.
James was a key figure in the early days of R&B music with hit songs like "The Wallflower" and "Good Rockin' Daddy". But it was her 1961 recording of the ballad "At Last" that put her on the map.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy)
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Thursday 29 December 2011
2012 Annual Legal / Tax Documentation Renewals Due | China ...
Dec. 28 ? As the yearend is approaching, foreign-invested businesses in China should begin thinking about preparing for the annual cooperative examination that takes place each year between March 1 and June 30. The procedure can be undertaken by the foreign business itself or by its local agency after the annual audit of the enterprise is completed. The requirement for representative offices (ROs) is different, and is discussed at the end of this article.
Governmental departments involved
?Annual cooperative examination? refers to examination of enterprises jointly conducted by relevant government departments, usually seven of them. The departments involved may vary depending on the?location in which the enterprise is located, but in general they are as follows:
- Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)
- Administration of Industry and Commerce (AIC)
- Statistics Bureau
- Finance Bureau
- Tax Bureau
- Administration of Foreign Exchange (AFE)
- Customs
Documents required
The examination is designed to ensure that foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) conduct business in compliance with legal requirements and involves submitting the documents below to the authorities for checking and renewal. Some of these documents are required by more than one department, and multiple copies should be prepared accordingly (Note: all photocopied documents need to be stamped with the company seal):
- Annual cooperative examination report
- Approval certificates of FIEs
- Business license duplicate
- Capital verification report
- Tax registration certificate duplicate
- Finance registration certificate duplicate
- Audit report issued by CPA firm
- Audit report of foreign currency issued by CPA firm
- Annual financial statement (full set) of the business
- Annual financial report
- Statistical registration certificate
- Customs declaration registration certificate
- Foreign currency registration certificate of FIEs
- For enterprises in encouraged industries, photocopy of encouraged project confirmation certificate
- For advanced technology enterprises and export enterprises, photocopies of certificates for these two kinds of enterprises
Examination procedure
To begin the official procedure, companies should log onto the online annual inspection system website (for many cities/provinces, this website is www.lhnj.gov.cn) and register and fill out the necessary information. After that, a preliminary annual inspection will be conducted online. If the company passes this preliminary inspection, it can print out the relevant materials and submit them together with the above required documentation to a joint inspection location by early June to finalize the procedure. At the end of the inspection, an annual inspection seal will be affixed on the business license duplicate of the enterprise.
The procedures and requirements can vary depending on the region.
In Beijing, after submitting the annual cooperative examination report online, paper filing is not required except for AIC and AFE.
In Shanghai, if companies do not complete the filing online before the end of May, they are required to submit paper materials to each department separately. In addition, the examination conducted by the AIC takes place separately from the cooperative examination.
If you are unsure of the procedure at your locality, please contact us for advice.
It should be noted that if the Chinese administration staff handling this work have no previous experience in handling foreign businesses legal administration, there might be problems concerning incomplete registrations as the procedures for renewing foreign invested business licenses are different from Chinese domestic businesses. As mentioned, operational difficulties or even fines and penalties can be levied if the annual renewal documentation is not filed completely or on time.
Representative Offices
While ROs are exempt from annual cooperative examinations, starting from 2011, ROs are also required to submit an annual report between March 1 and June 30 every year providing information on the legal status and standing information of the headquarters overseas, ongoing business activities of the RO, and an audited expenses report. The registration authorities will issue an RMB10,000 to RMB30,000 penalty if the RO fails to provide such reports on time, and an RMB20,000 to RMB200,000 penalty if the report includes false information. Fraud may also lead to license revocation. The impact of this is to effectively clamp down on the use of RO for quasi trading purposes.
Dezan Shira & Associates is a boutique professional services firm providing foreign direct investment business advisory, tax, accounting, payroll and due diligence services for multinational clients in China. The firm specializes in assisting foreign enterprises with their tax obligations. For further advice and specifics relating to these recent measures, please email china@dezshira.com, visit www.dezshira.com, or download the firm?s brochure here.
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Tuesday 27 December 2011
Afghan 'soldier' opens fire on Nato troops
A man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on coalition troops in western Afghanistan, Nato officials said today.
Unconfirmed reports said the gunman died and several alliance soldiers were wounded in Saturday's attack .
A Nato statement said there were no fatalities among alliance soldiers in the shooting at an outpost in Bala Boluk district.
If the probe confirms that the gunman was a soldier, the shooting will be the latest in a series of attacks by Afghans against coalition partners. Those shootings have raised fears of Taliban infiltration as Nato speeds up the training of Afghan security forces.
Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Gen Mohammad Zahir Azimi confirmed the attack and said Nato troops shot dead the gunman.
Coalition troops are to end their combat role in 2014, and the goal is to have 195,000 trained Afghan troops in service by next October. Afghan security forces have already started taking the lead in several regions as part of the process that will put them in charge of security across the nation by the end of 2014.
Commanders of Nato's training mission have said that coalition and Afghan forces keep a sharp eye out for possible Taliban infiltrators at the recruitment, training and deployment stages.
A Taliban statement today said that the insurgents were confident of victory and that the Nato forces would face the same fate as the Soviet invaders who withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 after an almost decade-long war.
The insurgents "are successfully withstanding all the coalition forces led by the US invaders and will make them all face the same fate that befell the Red Army," said the statement marking the 32nd anniversary of the Soviet invasion in 1979.
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Monday 26 December 2011
Pure swings by the FCC with Contour 200i-Air(play dock)
Remember Pure's Contour iPhone dock / WiFi radio that debuted last year at CES? Between us, you and the wall, we suspect a sequel is on the way in the shape of the Contour 200i Air that's just been escorted out of the FCC's underground bunker and dumped unceremoniously on a Washington highway. It's packing the same setup as this year's model, except now it's packing Airplay chops for when you wanna stream music from your couch-based iDevice. Stay tuned, we'll try to get our hands on one of these in a fortnight's time.
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Sunday 25 December 2011
Presidential race in Iowa quieter than in the past
Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., signs an autograph during a campaign stop at at Tangleberries in Centerville, Iowa, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., listens to a question during a campaign stop at Lodge Pizza & Steakhouse in Corydon, Iowa, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to workers and local residents after touring the TPI Iowa wind blade manufacturing facility, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? It's been a different presidential race in Iowa this year ? quieter.
Campaign headquarters have hardly been buzzing with activity, unlike the around-the-clock nature of past contests. Candidates have barely visited the state, compared with years when most all but moved here. And they have largely refrained from building the grass-roots armies of yesteryear, in favor of more modest on-the-ground teams of paid staffers and volunteers.
The final rush of campaigning here gets under way Monday, just a week before the Jan. 3 caucuses, and, to be sure, there will be a flurry of candidate appearances and get-out-the-vote efforts all week.
But that will belie the reality of much of 2011, a year marked by a less aggressive personal courtship of Iowans in a campaign that, instead, has largely gravitated around a series of 13 nationally televised debates, a crush of television ads and interviews on media outlets watched by many Republican primary voters, like Fox News Channel.
"We just haven't had as much face time," Republican chairwoman Trudy Caviness in Wapello County said. "That's why we're so undecided."
Indeed, people here simply don't know the Republican presidential candidates that well. And it's a big reason why the contest in Iowa is so volatile and why the caucus outcome could end up being more representative of the mood of national Republicans than in past years when GOP activists here have gone it alone by launching an unlikely front-runner to the top of the field.
With a week to go, the state of the race in Iowa generally mirrors the race from coast to coast.
Polls show Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, having lost ground and Texas Rep. Ron Paul having risen, with both still in contention with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the head of the pack. All the others competing in Iowa ? Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum ? are trailing.
But, in a sign that the contest is anyone's to win, most polls have shown most Republican caucusgoers undecided and willing to change their minds before the contest in a state where the vote typically breaks late in the campaign year.
There are a slew of reasons why the Iowa campaign is a much more muted affair than in 2008 ? marked by the iconic clash of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who together employed almost 300 staff in Iowa and held blockbuster rallies. This year, there is no contested Democratic primary, given that President Barack Obama has no serious challenger. Only Republicans are competing, and those candidates are approaching the state differently, both visiting and hiring less. Also, like it did everywhere else, the race here started slowly ? months later than usual ? as a slew of GOP politicians weighed candidacies, only to abort White House bids.
Long-time Republican activists here, who often joke that they like to meet the candidates several times before deciding, have barely seen the candidates once, much less at all, and no campaign has more than 20 paid staff in the state.
All that's partly a consequence of how technology has changed both the political and media environments in recent years. Campaigns now can more precisely ? and cheaply ? target their pitches to voters from afar, sending personalized e-mails and YouTube video messages from the candidates to voters directly, and more campaign outreach is being handled by volunteers and through central national websites. And voters, themselves, now can go online and find information about the candidates without having to wait for the White House hopeful to show up in the town square.
"Caucuses don't exist in a vacuum. They're not the same every time," said John Stineman, a West Des Moines Republican activist who ran Steve Forbes 2000 Iowa campaign. "But everything else has changed. Why wouldn't the caucuses change?"
Part of the change has been driven by Romney's approach to the state.
The nominal GOP front-runner for most of the year, Romney has been far less aggressive in cultivating support in Iowa than in his failed bid of 2008. He's only spent 10 days in the state this year, compared to 77 days four years ago, in an attempt to lower expectations in the leadoff state where evangelical conservatives have harbored doubts about Romney in light of his Mormon faith and changed positions on some social issues.
Paul, the Texas congressman, has been focused more on building a national following than being a one-state candidate.
Gingrich only became a serious contender in the state a few weeks ago. And, until recently, he didn't have the money or manpower to launch a full-scale Iowa campaign, meaning more sporadic visits and a smaller team. He's struggled to reach all parts of the state more than once; it was just last week that he visited Ottumwa, seat of the county Caviness represents and a medium-size Iowa city uniquely situated in the southeast with its own small media market.
Likewise, Perry has not been to Marshalltown, a central Iowa GOP hub about the same size as Ottumwa and home of the state-run veterans home. It would seem like a natural spot for Perry, a former Air Force officer who has sought veterans support. But he also hasn't visited Fort Dodge, also another mid-size Iowa city in north-central Iowa on the way to heavily Republican northwest Iowa.
Those who have been struggling to gain traction ? and who lack the money of better-funded, better-known rivals ? are turning to old-fashioned retail campaigning in hopes of wooing voters the traditional way.
Bachmann is in the midst of a bus tour that has her crisscrossing the state. And Santorum, who never has broken out of the back of the pack, is betting that a year of one-on-one campaigning will pay off in the end.
Barb Livingston is proof that, for all the changes, there's still something to be said for the personal approach. She has struggled all year to find a candidate to back and is basing her decision on a personal impression she had ? except that impression was established four years ago, riding around Marshall County with Romney.
"When push comes to shove, I had a chance to meet him and travel around with," said Livingston, a former Marshall County GOP chairwoman. "He's someone personally I connected with."
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Americans Elect Qualifies For California Ballot
Earlier this week, the privately funded political group Americans Elect scored a spot on the California ballot in the 2012 presidential election by submitting the signatures of over one million registered voters.
California is the twelfth state--including crucial swing states like Ohio, Florida and Nevada--to give the organization a place on the ballot. The group expects to eventually have its candidate listed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
"It is clear that voters are receptive to more choices, more competition, and the reason is that the Democratic and Republican officeholders are not meeting their needs," Darry Sragow, a longtime California Democratic strategist now advising Americans Elect, told the Los Angeles Times.
The candidate for the new political party will be selected though a vote on its website sometime between April and June of next year; however, it's unclear from which side of the political spectrum he or she will be drawn.
Presently, only former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer (who also briefly flirted with seeking the Republican nomination until lackluster fundraising and virtually nonexistent name recognition ultimately did him in) is the sole candidate to have declared his intention to seek the Americans Elect nomination.
There is also some energy on the site going towards libertarian iconoclast Ron Paul, who is currently polling near the top of the race for the Republican nomination, as well as former GOP Utah governor John Huntsman. Reality TV star Donald Trump has also mused publicly about the possibility of throwing his has into Americans Elect's ring.
The organization ideally hopes to nominate a centrist, such as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who would be able to draw voters from both sides of the ideological divide.
The chairman and most public face of Americans Elect is wealthy financier Peter Ackerman, who was the number two for infamous junk-bond kingpin Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980s and previously served on the board of directors for the influential conservative think tank The Cato Institute.
In addition to Ackerman, the organization's senior leadership is largely comprised of Washington insiders like former National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, former New Jersey Governor and Environmental Protection Agency head Christine Todd Whitman and George W. Bush strategist Mark McKinnon.
While Ackerman has given Americans Elect some $5.5 million, other donors to the organization have been kept secret. "This is not popular in the Democratic of Republican parties," Elliot Ackerman, Peter's son and the group's chief operating officer told the Sacramento Bee. Ackerman argued that Americans Elect's backers shouldn't be made public or else they would likely face recriminations from the political elites of both parties.
Americans Elect's secretive funding model isn't the only reason some political observers remain weary of the group. Time Magazine reports:
Skeptics are also wary of the powers the group has reserved for itself. The group's bylaws entrust an appointed group of advisers -- known as the "candidate certification committee" -- with deciding whether candidates who don't automatically qualify for inclusion on the ballot are eligible for nomination. The committee's decision can be vetoed by two-thirds of Americans Elect delegates, but the structure has sparked complaints that it's sinister -- "uberdemocracy meets back-room bosses," as Obama strategist David Axelrod put it to reporters on Dec. 13.
Americans Elect hopes to officially be on the ballot in 30 states by the end of the year.
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New Libyan leaders juggle demands, grievances (Reuters)
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI (Reuters) ? The mood was almost merry outside Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib's Tripoli office.
Under a weak winter sun, teenagers in flip-flops scaled palm trees above a crowd that sang and danced to the beat of a drum.
But their message was serious.
"If you don't have dinars, give us dollars!" they sang this week. "Where's our share?!" cried a voice from the throng.
The protesters were mainly from the Libyan capital, some of them students who said they had swapped their books for guns and joined the fight against Muammar Gaddafi.
More than two months after his capture and killing, they want their reward.
"We're not asking for money, we're asking for a chance to work," said Anis Bashir, who described himself as a unit commander from the Libyan capital.
"The ministers say one thing, their deputies another, and the NTC (National Transitional Council) something else entirely. Just give us an answer!"
The common cause that united fighters during the bruising war that ended Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship in August is giving way to factionalism and bitterness.
Weak and disorganized, the self-appointed but internationally-recognized interim leadership, known as the NTC, is under attack from all sides, but can satisfy only some.
The winners include fighting units from the western mountain town of Zintan, lounging in armchairs on the second floor of Keib's building where Zintan military commander Osama Al-Juwali now occupies the wood-paneled office of the interim defence minister.
After months of rocket bombardment by pro-Gaddafi forces, the Zintanis broke the siege and swept down into the plains backed by NATO bombing to join the push on Tripoli in August.
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They seized the international airport, and still hold it today by force of arms. In November, they captured Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and spirited him by plane to Zintan, where he remains.
These are powerful bargaining chips, and days after Saif's capture, Al-Juwali got his job in a divvying-up of portfolios that reflected Libya's deep tribal divisions and modern-day power struggles.
His wartime comrades will reap the benefits. This North African desert state is sparsely populated, rich in oil and potentially affluent.
The militias hold the turf they took when Tripoli fell, refusing to disarm or disperse until they get what they are owed. The weak, meanwhile, scrawl their demands on sheets of paper and scale the railings outside Keib's office.
They include public sector workers who say they have not been paid for months.
The leadership would do well to heed the lessons of Tunisia and Egypt, where dictatorships were also swept aside by the Arab Spring but a dearth of trust in the unelected people who replaced them pending elections led to violence in the streets.
Unlike Tunisia and Egypt, Libya's rebellion turned to war, and has bred a sense of entitlement among those who say they spilled the most blood.
"Workers from this company also joined the fight," said 32-year-old engineer Sami Al-Bakoush. "They live in Tripoli and now they want to go back to their work, but how can they when they don't have a salary?"
He and the other 500-600 employees at the state-run Engineering Technology Company walked off the job in March, saying they suspected the factory would be used to feed Gaddafi's war apparatus, and have not been paid since June.
In the eastern city of Benghazi, seat of the rebellion that began in February, some 20,000-30,000 people filled the central Shajara square earlier this month to protest against the NTC. Hundreds daily have been demonstrating since.
They complain the NTC lacks transparency and legitimacy, and are calling for the state to be purged of alleged collaborators with the old regime.
MISTRUST
"There's a lack of trust between the politicians and the streets," said Alhabib Alamin, a 44-year-old writer and political activist in Benghazi.
"Libyans feel there's a power struggle between political factions, and interference from foreign parties. Fear is rising on the Libyan streets in general, not just in Benghazi."
On Tuesday, an envoy of NTC chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil met the protesters and local council leaders and they agreed to suspend Benghazi's NTC representatives and elect replacements, an activist close to the negotiations told Reuters.
A small number of protesters took up the call in the trading hub of Misrata, scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, and political activists said NTC representatives in Zawiyah -- site of Libya's second largest oil refinery -- might also be replaced.
Employees at Libya's state broadcaster have also demonstrated, accusing the NTC of reneging on a promise to set up an independent governing board, and doctors in Tripoli have called for the resignation of interim Health Minister Fatima Al-Hamroush after she hired her sister as chief of staff.
The interim government might win some respite with the release of an estimated $150 billion in overseas assets after the United Nations last week lifted sanctions on Libya's central bank and a subsidiary.
The cash will go a long way towards rebuilding the country and paying the public sector.
They also talk of a plan to integrate the fighters into an army and police force that are still being formed.
But there won't be space for everyone.
Prime Minister Keib emerged from his office to address the protesters this week, telling them to submit their names and the serial numbers of their weapons and they would be paid.
But inside the foyer, the Zintan pilot who picked up Saif al-Islam after his desert capture was fingering his pistol.
Abdullah al-Mehdi had swapped his green flight fatigues for a sharp dark suit and shiny leather shoes, and he was dismissive of the crowd.
"They didn't fight," he said.
(Additional reporting by Hamuda Hassan, Taha Zargoun and Ali Shuaib; Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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Saturday 24 December 2011
2012 CES will be our last show: Microsoft
New York: Microsoft Corp. is pulling out of the International Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show in the Americas. It's joining Apple in saying that it prefers to put on its own events when the time is right to show off its products.
Microsoft said the next show, to be held January 9-12 in Las Vegas, will be the last show at which it has a booth or the CEO delivers the customary kick-off speech.
Company founder Bill Gates delivered keynote speeches at the show for 11 straight years. Current CEO Steve Ballmer has delivered the speech for the past three shows and will present his last next month.
It prefers to put on its own events when the time is right to show off its products.
The software company has been one of the biggest US supporters of the annual event, which gathered nearly 150,000 people this year. Originally focused on living-room electronics, the show has become the big annual US event for all consumer technology after the demise of big computer-focused shows such as Comdex.
Microsoft says it will continue to use CES as a place to connect to customers, but it won't have a booth because its product milestones don't align with the show's January timing.
At the upcoming show, Ballmer is scheduled to speak about the Windows 8 operating system. But the software isn't expected to be ready until late next year, so computer makers won't have any real Windows 8 products at the show.
"They're not cooked yet. So he's going to be stuck trying to present a bunch of stuff that will be months away from being ready," said technology industry analyst Rob Enderle.
Apple doesn't participate in trade shows at all after pulling out of the Macworld Conference & Expo after 2009.
The Consumer Electronics Association, which organizes CES, said it has tremendous demand for invitations to hold keynote speeches, and it has already received feelers from companies that want to rent for the 2013 show the space where Microsoft usually has its booth.
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Guest Post ? Personal finance, goals, and the relationship factor ...
Posted on December 23, 2011 in guest post ?
NOTE: Today?s guest post is from?Robb Engen who writes about Canadian personal finance at?Boomer & Echo, as well as at Moneyville.ca.
We all know that teenagers are out of touch with reality, expecting to earn $90,000 per year by age 30. In my experience, many single 20-somethings are just as clueless when it comes to creating a realistic financial plan.
I read an article recently about a 22-year-old man named Sean who just graduated from college and started working for an investment bank. His goal was to be financial free by age 33, and here?s how he planned to do it:
Sean had a great starting salary of $75,000 per year, with the potential to earn an additional $50,000 in bonuses. To maximize his income, Sean?s brilliant plan included working 85-hour weeks for the next 11 years. He shared an apartment near his office downtown so he could walk to work.? Sean planned to save money on food by bringing his lunch and dinner to work so he could eat at his desk.
The end result of Sean?s financial plan was to save over 60 per cent of his income and have an investment portfolio worth $1.5 million by the time he reached age 33. I?m all for setting lofty goals, but this plan doesn?t stand a chance. It?s just a dream.
I can remember when I was in my early 20?s and single, dreaming of financial freedom. I worked long hours, socked away money inside my RRSP, and lived on Pizza Pops and Kraft Dinner. I was going to retire young and wealthy, and then live it up over-seas. But then something happened that usually foils the financial dreams of all single men; I met a girl.
The one thing that is rarely accounted for in the financial dreams of young singles is the relationship factor. Suddenly you have to consider someone else?s needs other than your own. I don?t know about you, but my significant other wouldn?t really appreciate me working 85-hour weeks while sharing a cramped two-bedroom apartment with my old college roommate.
My financial priorities have changed dramatically in the last 10 years. When I was single I put any extra dollar into my RRSP without even thinking about my short term financial needs. Now that I?m married and have a family, I find myself more concerned with paying off our mortgage, building an emergency fund, and saving for a nice family vacation. I?ll stop myself before I end up buying a used mini-van.
I?m not suggesting that young single folks can?t make their financial dreams come true. Just remember to have a back-up plan that includes a significant other in your life.
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**NOTE: I absolutely agree with Robb. Everything you thought you knew and wanted in life can be turned upside down once you meet someone special. I think even the biggest relationship skeptic can change if the right person comes along. But maybe that?s just me wanting to believe that it?s true. :)
Robb Engen lives in Lethbridge, AB and writes about Canadian personal finance at?Boomer & Echo. Together with his mom, (she?s the Boomer, he?s the Echo) they offer their own unique perspectives on saving, investing and personal finance. You can follow him on Twitter?@BoomerandEcho.
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Friday 23 December 2011
Kenya HIV families torn between health or food (AP)
NAIROBI, Kenya ? Rosalia Adhiambo won't take the free anti-HIV drugs that would prolong her life. The spiraling price of food in Kenya means she can't afford to feed both her grandniece and herself.
So she feeds 5-year-old Emily and doesn't take her own medicine, fearing that the nausea she would get from taking the drugs without adequate food will make her too weak to look for work.
Prices for staple foods this year are almost twice as high as in 2009, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization says. The rising prices and a dwindling of funds for HIV programs mean countless poor families must decide whether to focus on the health of an HIV-positive adult or on a child's hunger.
Valerian Kamito, a nurse at the clinic that gives Adhiambo her food, says some patients are refusing to start treatment for HIV and around a quarter of his 1,555 patients on anti-HIV drugs are now skipping their medication.
"They say they cannot take them on an empty stomach," Kamito said. Before prices rose, he said, "it was very rare."
HIV-positive adults need 10 percent more calories than other people just to maintain their body weight. Children with HIV need between 30 percent to 50 percent more calories than other children. They will lose weight and be vulnerable to infections without those calories, said nutritionist Kate Greenaway from the aid agency Catholic Relief Services.
Annual inflation in Kenya is around 20 percent, but wages haven't kept pace. Around half of Kenyans live on less than $2 a day, including 52-year-old Adhiambo, who makes $1 each day she does housework.
"When there is nothing to eat, we go to bed hungry. I tell Emily it is because God did not send us food today," said Adhiambo, motioning to a cardboard picture of Jesus on the wall of their corrugated iron shack.
"Emily stands before that picture and prays, 'God, please remember to send us food tomorrow,'" said Adhiambo.
She had work for two weeks last month, but the younger women get most of the jobs. Adhiambo relies on her daily free meal of rice, beans and vegetables from a clinic run by Catholic Relief Services in the Mathare slum, though she sometimes misses that if she is searching for work. The staff there are trying to persuade her to take her anti-HIV drugs.
But Adhiambo carries the food home and gives most of it to Emily, who isn't signed up for the CRS program, though workers there are trying to get her into it. The bright-eyed little girl in the torn blue dress is almost all that's left of Adhiambo's family. Adhiambo's brother, two sisters and husband are all dead. Emily's mother is alive, but ill. She refuses to be tested. Emily has been tested and is HIV positive.
Adhiambo needs to take drugs called anti-retrovirals, or ARVs, and so will Emily. Taken regularly, the medicine can prolong life by years, possibly decades. But if taken sporadically, the medicine will lose its effectiveness.
Patients say the medicine can cause nausea, fatigue, and diarrhea at first, especially if there is no food to go with it, said Greenaway. The drugs also cause a ravenous hunger as the body starts to recover. Adhiambo, afraid that the side effects will prevent her from working, refuses to take the pills.
The clinic gives 400 of its patients, Adhiambo among them, "prescribed food" to eat with their medicines so they'll continue the treatment. But most take the meals home to share with their families, said Kamito. The program has a long waiting list. The financial crisis means there is no money to expand it.
Globally, there has been around a 10 percent decline in HIV/AIDS funding, said Michel Sidibe, the UNAIDS executive director. The world's top funder of public health programs ? the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ? has disbursed $15 billion since 2002, but it cannot afford to pay for any new or expanded programs until 2014.
Poverty, meanwhile, continues to eat at the gains made by modern medicine in fighting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Twenty to 30 percent of HIV-positive patients in the developing world drop out in the first two years of treatment, said Nils Grede, the deputy chief of the World Food Program's nutrition and HIV/AIDS unit.
"Barriers to continue the treatment ... are often related to poverty. You don't have the money to pay for the bus, you don't have enough food, so you spend your time on trying to make sure that your family eats," Grede told The Associated Press in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
"People adhere much better to drug regimens when there is food," said Greenaway. "But in poor families, that might mean mothers who want to stay strong have to decide whether to take something from their children's plates."
Adhiambo's neighbor Ishmael Abongo, a 35-year-old father of four, must do just that. He and his wife Mary are both HIV positive, as is one of their sons. The whole family shares the clinic's food. When he has found work, Abongo takes a bit of porridge from dinner and saves it for the morning so he isn't too dizzy for a two-hour bus journey.
"I know it is important to take the drugs," he said.
He recounted knowing four people who did not take the pills because they had no food. They are now all dead, Abongo said.
A clinic social worker visited Adhiambo in her tiny shack in December, trying to persuade her to take her medication or risk dying, and leaving Emily with no family to care for her. But Adhiambo was more worried about their present situation.
"What will happen to her if I take these drugs and I get sick?" Adhiambo asked, adding that if she can't work or even walk because of side effects from the medicine they won't have any food.
Eventually, Adhiambo stood up. She needed to find some clothes or a floor that needed washing. She was two months behind with the rent ? $15 a month ? and could be evicted.
The white-winged Jesus that Emily prays to was shown in the picture walking through a garden, nothing like the smelly alley outside the shack.
Words below picture said: "May my prayers come before you, that you heal me according to your will."
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Associated Press writer Luc van Kemenade in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia contributed to this report.
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Extra Vitamin D May Not Lower Cancer Risk, But It Prevents ...
By Frederik Joelving
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Extra vitamin D and calcium may offer some protection against fractures in elderly people, but have little or no impact on cancer risk, according to a fresh look at the medical evidence.
Some research has suggested that vitamin D, with or without calcium, might help stave off cancer, but recent trials have slashed those hopes.
"It turns out that as a group, all of the micronutrient supplements have been disappointing," said Dr. Michael Pollak, who heads the division of cancer prevention at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and was not involved in the new work.
"Even one of the best candidates, which is vitamin D, is certainly no slam dunk," he told Reuters Health.
The new report, out Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was commissioned by the government-backed U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to inform its public recommendations.
It pulls together 19 gold standard experiments -- so-called randomized controlled trials -- on vitamin D with or without calcium. The trials lasted anywhere from seven months to seven years and ranged in size from a few thousand participants to tens of thousands.
Only three of them reported on cancer, however. While one small study found some protection against cancer in postmenopausal women taking vitamin D and calcium, the larger studies found no benefits.
"I don't have confidence in any of the findings because they could be chance findings," lead researcher Mei Chung, of Tufts Medical Center in Boston, told Reuters Health.
Last month, another randomized controlled trial was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Although it wasn't included in Chung's report, it confirms her results.
In that study, among seniors taking 800 IU of vitamin D daily for a few years, 32 out of every 100 died during the study, while 33 out of every 100 people who did not get the supplement died.
That small difference could easily have been due to chance, the researchers found. There were no differences in deaths from cancer or heart disease either, just as calcium also proved unhelpful.
According to Chung, one large U.S. study, known as the Women's Health Initiative, also showed that women taking the supplements had higher rates of kidney and bladder stones.
Marji McCullough, a nutritional scientist at the American Cancer Society, said her organization does not advise dietary supplements to prevent cancer.
"Various researchers have recommended that, but large consensus panels have not," she told Reuters Health. "There is no compelling evidence currently that taking supplements will lower your cancer risk."
The Institute of Medicine recommends that most adults get 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams (mg) of calcium per day and 600 to 800 IU of vitamin D. It sets a recommended upper limit at 2,000 mg of calcium and 4,000 IU of vitamin D.
However, Chung's team did find a small reduction in fracture risk among elderly people living in an institution such as a nursing home, with extra vitamin D and calcium preventing two out of every 100 expected fractures.
But the risk reduction was smaller for people living on their own, and might have been due to chance, she added.
Chung, who is assistant director of the Evidence-based Practice Center at Tufts, said that in an earlier report from 2009, which looked at several possible health benefits, only the fracture benefit was convincing.
Pollak said it's possible that a few people who have low levels of vitamin D may get some benefit from it, but that doesn't warrant everybody taking extra vitamins.
"You can have too much of a good thing," he told Reuters Health.
For people interested in lowering their cancer risk, he added, there are better ways to go than supplements.
"Don't smoke and stay as close as you can to your ideal body weight," Pollak urged. "Those two things will definitely lower you cancer risk and they will have many other health benefits as well -- and there are no possible downsides."
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force could not say when its new vitamin D guidelines will be released.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/an7XRm Annals of Internal Medicine, online December 19, 2011.
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