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(c) 2010 F. Bruce Abel

Maybe it's just the clear air here in Cottage Country, but this Saturday Globe and Mail piece on the various ways to invest/trade commodities, I give high credence to.  Contango, for example is explained, and its effect on return within an ETF.  And since it's a Canadian newspaper I give high credence to mining discussion.  Here's a snip and the link for the full article.


How to play commodities (and not get trampled) - The Globe and Mail: "The creation of commodity-based exchange-traded funds made it a lot easier for the individual investor. But pitfalls exist there, as well, because of a futures-market phenomenon known as “contango,” when the price of a futures contract exceeds the spot price of a commodity."

Read the Article; Then Read the Comment

(c) 2010 F. Bruce Abel

Compelling article showing Obama to be weak weak weak. Then a brilliant comment putting things into perspective. All in the wonderful (and I mean this) Saturday Globe and Mail today.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/konrad-yakabuski/oil-spill-casts-a-menacing-pall-over-obamas-agenda/article1601747/

The comment:

Creative Investor, interesting analysis.

I live near the Rockies. Somebody, at some time, made the decision to build the TransCanada highway right through the mountains.

Creative Investor, I assume that your follow the same analysis here, and that you blame the people who decided to build the highway for every car crash, whether it was due to a drunk driver, negligence, bad weather, whatever.

Because, obviously, there would have been NO CAR CRASHES on a mountain highway if the highway had never been built. So true, so true.

There have been some train derailments on the tracks near the mountains, too. Drat those politicians who decided to build those train tracks across the country. There wouldn't have been even one single solitary train derailment if they hadn't built the railroad right across the country.

Creative Investor, I deduce that you aren't troubled by the reports that BP was cutting corners immediately before the explosion. Perhaps you think that oil companies should be excused from any responsibility to perform their work prudently and to the highest standards of the industry. Because, after all, according to your analysis, once the federal government allowed them to drill offshore, all the blame goes to the government and not one iota of blame goes to the company, regardless of how reckless or negligent it may have been.

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"Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining."

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Get Rid of Your Investment Advisor

(c) 2009 F. Bruce Abel

This is pretty plain-Jane but good. There must be millions who are doing this.

Another good item from a Saturday Globe and Mail.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/features/portfolio-strategy/the-do-it-yourself-escape-plan/article1276867/

In my case in January I opened up a Schwab account. What have I learned?

I make a couple of round trip trades a day. I ignore the price except that I make sure I buy with a limit order inserted by Schwab as the "asked" price.

When I get out I do not look at the price or whether I am ahead or behind. I usually know this generally because I have CNBC on without the sound.

I do not compare my result with how the market is doing that day or week. That is irrelevant.

I follow leads by Jim Cramer, but only after waiting a few days.

And I "winning?" Barely.

The Loonie

From Canada: good!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/features/taking-stock/at-long-last-praise-for-our-soaring-loonie/article1252780/

Read the Comments to This Canadian Article on Health Care

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Sugar's "High" Will Affect us at the Pump

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Globe and Mail: An Analysis of the Canadian System

Pretty good.
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Globe and Mail -- Blood Pressure Meds Undermined by Salt

At whatever age, one should read this article carefully:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/blood-pressure-drugs-undermined-by-salt/article1236704/

Globe & Mail -- Rebranding Bankers So They're Not the "Lawyers"

Note that Canadian banks were not culprits:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/bankers-the-new-lawyers/article1227773/

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It's certainly not new advice: eat better, exercise more, manage your weight, limit alcohol, and don't smoke to help ward off heart disease. Even just making one lifestyle change can lower your risk. But it's advice worth repeating.
Two studies, published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association underscore the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle. The findings: Adhering to a combination of low-risk lifestyle behaviours can dramatically reduce your odds of developing high blood pressure and heart failure.
In the first study, researchers from Boston followed 83,882 healthy women, aged 27 to 44, for 14 years to examine the relationship between six lifestyle and diet factors and the risk of being diagnosed with hypertension. These factors included having a body mass index of less than 25, 30 minutes of daily vigorous exercise, modest alcohol intake (less than one drink per day), use of non-prescription pain killers (i.e. aspirin, acetaminophen) less than once per week, taking 400 micrograms of folic acid, and a diet that closely matched the DASH diet.
The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet is low in saturated fat and emphasizes fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and low-fat dairy products, food choices high in fibre, calcium, magnesium and potassium – nutrients linked with lower blood pressure.
All six lifestyle factors have been previously linked with loweringthe risk of developing hypertension, and many have been shown to reduce elevated blood pressure. When each factor was assessed individually, body mass index was the most powerful predictor of hypertension.
Women with a BMI of 30 or greater were almost five times more likely to develop high blood pressure than were those with a BMI of less than 23. (BMI is calculated as your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters. For adults, a BMI of 25 or more signals overweight; 30 or more indicates obesity.)
Adhering to a combination of low-risk factors offered even greater protection; the more low-risk factors women had, the lower their risk for hypertension. Women who were low risk for three factors – healthy BMI, daily vigorous exercise, and a DASH-style diet – had a 54 per cent reduced risk of high blood pressure. Adding a modest alcohol intake into the equation – four low-risk factors – reduced the risk by 72 per cent. Women who had all six low-risk factors were 80 per cent less likely to develop high blood pressure compared to those who lacked them.
The researchers also estimated how many cases of newly diagnosed hypertension could have been avoided had all women in the study adhered to a combination of healthy behaviours. If all women were low risk for all six factors, an estimated 78 per cent of new cases of hypertension could have been prevented. Had all the women had a healthy BMI, exercised daily and followed a healthy diet, one-half of all new cases could have been averted.
The second study included data from 20,900 healthy men who were followed for 22 years to assess the impact of six healthy habits on the lifetime risk of heart failure, which is usually preceded by risk factors such as high blood pressure, heart attack, diabetes and obesity.
Your lifetime risk of a disease is the risk of ever developing it during your remaining lifetime. It's estimated that one in every five adults aged 40 will succumb to heart failure in their remaining years.
In this study, men who exercised regularly, drank modestly, did not smoke, who were not overweight and had a diet that included breakfast cereal (at least once per week) and fruits and vegetables (at least four daily servings) had a lower lifetime risk of heart failure.
Men who adhered to none of these behaviours had a lifetime risk of 21 per cent. The lifetime risk dropped to 10 per cent among men who followed four or more of these low-risk habits.
The findings from these studies share a common message. Modifying one lifestyle factor can guard against high blood pressure and heart failure but adopting a combination of factors offers even greater protection.
If you're already implementing one – or more – of the healthy habits below, take action to engage in another. Doing so can help prevent heart disease and greatly enhance your overall health.
Control your weight
If your BMI is over 25, pinpoint specific areas in your diet that need adjusting. Common blunders include skipping breakfast, hefty portion sizes, no midday snack, too many sweets and snacking after dinner.
Keep a food diary for two weeks to highlight areas for improvement. Once you start writing down what you eat, chances are your eating habits will improve.
Adopt a DASH-style diet
To boost your intake of calcium, magnesium and potassium, include fruits and vegetables in all your meals and snacks to consume seven to 10 daily servings combined. Get two servings of low fat dairy products each day. Eat legumes or nuts four times per week. For more on the DASH diet, visit www.dashdiet.org.
Include whole grains
Start the day with a bowl of whole grain cereal. Read labels to choose one that's 100 per cent whole grain and has at least five grams of fibre per serving.
Make most of your daily grain servings – bread, crackers, rice, pasta – whole grain instead of refined (white).
Reduce sodium
Healthy adults need only 1,300 to 1,500 milligrams of sodium daily. Read nutrition information on food labels and restaurant websites to help you consume at most 2,300 milligrams per day – the upper limit.
Include daily exercise
Aim to work up a sweat for 30 minutes most days of the week. Physical activity lowers blood pressure and decreases the risk of hypertension.
Moderate alcohol
If you drink, limit your intake to one a day (women) and one to two per day (men). Higher intakes contribute to weight gain and can boost blood pressure.
Take folic acid
It's thought this B vitamin promotes healthy blood pressure by keeping arteries and other blood vessels flexible. To ensure your meeting your daily requirement of 400 micrograms (0.4 milligrams), take a multivitamin supplement. (Unless you're pregnant or advised by your doctor to so, I don't advise getting more that 0.4 milligrams from a supplement.)
Foods rich in the nutrient include cooked spinach, lentils, black beans, asparagus and artichokes.
Quit smoking
Smoking speeds up heart rate, damages the cells that line blood vessels, lowers HDL (good) cholesterol and can increase the tendency for blood clots to form which can cause heart attack and stroke.
Leslie Beck, a Toronto-based dietitian at the Medcan Clinic, is on CTV's Canada AM every Wednesday. www.lesliebeck.com.
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7/22/2009 4:52:00 AM
adopting a healthy lifestyle is simple; execution does take some effort! it should be started as young as possible but it is never too late to start.not only will people feel better, avoid illness, and live longer but they will help prevent our health care system from going bust. in the meantime it can reduce demand for resources.last word; medicines delay severe illness; good lifestyle may prevent them!

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My turn: I too must be allowed to recycle valid food-life arguments.I too have written a book 'Hart Smart Living' available Amazon US, not carried in Canada.hartsmartliving.com contains the practical entry into food comfort. Think!The two studies mentioned in the above article only confirm the damage done to normal nutrition. Water, even, has given way to foreign liquid concoctions, 'health' labeled!Obesity--carbohydritis has remained unstoppable.The Dash diet--eat better? Eat healthier? Proven wrong for decades.Health Editor Paul Taylor has the first of 25 food-health-life related articles available to Globe and Mail.

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Last updated on Friday, Jul. 03, 2009 03:24AM EDT
A Canadian is someone who knows how to have sex in a canoe.
–Pierre Berton
Thirty years ago, in 1979, I became a Canadian citizen. I stood up in citizenship court, along with dozens of complete strangers, and pledged an oath to the Queen. I had it easy. Most of them had crossed an ocean and learned a new language; I had merely crossed a border. Afterward, we all shook hands, and I cried.
The next step, obviously, was to have sex in a canoe.
I was determined to become a real Canadian. I deliberately toned down my Midwestern accent (“I'm from Chicawgo”). I learned the difference between Saint John and St. John's. I discovered that “roof” doesn't rhyme with “woof,” and that “chesterfield” is not a cigarette. I enthusiastically sprinkled my spelling with random u's.
But I soon learned that the authentic soul of Canada is in the wilderness. Just ask Margaret Atwood (or my pal Roy MacGregor). If you want to feel truly Canadian, you've got to get out there and learn to paddle a canoe.
So I set out to make up for lost time.
My first canoe trip in Canada was through Algonquin Park. How iconic is that? Pristine lakes, gorgeous sunsets, whispering pines. I was young and in love. My love object and I would pitch our tent under the Milky Way and listen to the call of the loons.
It didn't quite work out as planned. We hadn't foreseen the bugs, the rain or the beer-logged louts on the next island who were obviously not interested in the transcendent beauty of the landscape. By the time we'd found a vacant campsite, pitched our tent and devoured our soggy dinner, I was feeling rather snappish. Once again, I learned that sleeping on the ground is highly overrated. In the middle of the night, we were woken by an awful racket. Bears? No. It was raccoons, helping themselves to our food, which had been carefully strung on a line between two trees. Perhaps they'd formed a raccoon pyramid to get at it. My beloved companion grabbed the first projectile that came to hand and launched it at them. It was my canoe paddle. It hit a tree and broke.
Margaret Atwood would have had an extra paddle. We did not. Nor did we have extra food. The next morning, we bundled our hungry selves into our canoe. I huddled in the bow against a ferocious headwind as my former love object tried to paddle us back to the parking lot.
We broke up soon after that. But my fitful romance with the wilderness endured. I even travelled down the Nahanni, one of the most glorious rivers in Canada. I can't tell you much about the scenery, though. Soon after we set out, it began to snow. (It was August.) The snow turned to rain and fog that soaked our clothes and lingered throughout the week. Just as we reached the end of the trip, the sun peeped out again, and we were swarmed by mosquitoes as big as hummingbirds. There are reasons hardly anyone lives up there.
The wilderness is central to the Canadian identity. But very few Canadians spend much time in it. That makes it even easier to romanticize. In reality, we are one of the world's most urban nations. Our hinterland is magnificent, hostile and almost entirely uninhabited. Even though we've put loons and lakes on our money, hardly anyone lives near loons and lakes, or even sees them. Maybe we should have Timbits on our money, instead.
Canadians like the idea of the wilderness a lot more than the thing itself. Ninety per cent of the people who take vacations in the Rockies never venture more than an hour away on foot from the parking lot. After two or three hours on foot, you'll have the trail to yourself; after four or five hours, you'll have entire lakes and mountains to yourself. All you have to do is hump a lot of stuff on your back, give up indoor plumbing, and get blisters.
The trouble with the wilderness is that you can't experience the awesome beauty of it without some measure of inconvenience, effort and discomfort. Most people prefer comfort. Take Muskoka, a once-idyllic place of musty summer cottages and rustic plumbing. Today, the shoreline is crowded with timbered mansions decked out in faux rustic style and every conceivable mod con. People spend three hours in heavy traffic to get there from the city. Only millionaires can afford to go there, and the haunting call of the loon is drowned out by the roar of giant smelly engines.
Fortunately, transcendent places still exist in Canada. You don't even need survival skills to experience them. You can rent survival skills. That's how I got down the Nahanni and kayaked the Queen Charlotte Islands without drowning. I've seen the Northern Lights and mountain goats and elk and bears, usually with plenty of help from enthusiastic young people who do all the heavy lifting. I'm aware that experiencing the splendours of the wilderness is a privilege largely reserved for indigenous peoples and well-heeled Anglo-Saxons who grew up reading Pierre Berton.
Will future generations of Canadians continue to believe that the wilderness is central to our identity? I'm not sure. Will it ever even occur to the kids of newcomers from Pakistan or China to have sex in a canoe? I have no idea. What I can tell you is that, in the interest of research, I tried it once myself. Like most wilderness experiences, it involved a fair degree of inconvenience, effort and discomfort. But I didn't mind. At last I knew I was Canadian.
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