Thursday, June 28, 2012

Become Master Of The Road With Motorbike Finance

Get going 'Jack ' on your wonderful new motorbike! How fantastic it feels to be on 2 wheels. Especially when you're driven by great fitting motorbike finance. Whether you see yourself in the saddle of a new or second user ride. You can turn the ignition on your motorbike ownership dream with flexible finance. It is simpler than you might assume.

Motorbike finances gets you terrific bargaining traction

Whether you are purchasing new or used, the cost of your chosen motorbike is a key consideration. Imagine the enhanced negotiating power that pre-approved motorbike finance would clinch you. Right there lies your capability to negotiate the very best deal on your wanted ride. You could have pre-approval in hand inside just 10 minutes. End-to-end finance brokerage Natloans allows you to apply online. So that you can secure motorbike finance pre-approval from the comfort of home. No scooting all over city to test out different lenders - now that is a huge bonus.

Motorbike finance can drive several other advantages as well. Like:

  • Competitive IRs to minimise your costs
  • Borrowing options for dealer or private motorbike sales
  • Totally $0 monthly charges or penalties on extra payments
  • Borrower certainty through fixed rates and repayments
  • Flexible loan terms up to 5 years so your motorbike finance fits your lifestyle
  • Liberty to finance either a new or second-user motorbike

Finance your motorbike your way

Your financial footing is unconditionally unique. Just like your inducements for purchasing a motorbike. So respondent lenders like Natloans offer motorbike finance options to match your need. Select either:

  • Secured motorbike finance: ideal if you are after a costlier bike yet have a lower down-payment. Simply put up your home, valuable documents or even your new bike as collateral to secure finance. Meanwhile you can enjoy each inch of your new ride with low interest rates and flexible repayment terms; or
  • Unsecured motorbike finance: don't really wish to put up your assets as collateral? No trouble at all with unsecured finance. Your lender will simply assess your repayment capability against your earnings, cash position and work. Yes you will have higher interest rates, but you'll also have your motorbike - and full asset preservation too.

Sure it is rousing to get a motorbike. Yet this represents a big life-style investment that you want to get right. Natloans places expert finance brokers on-hand to connect you with quality motorbike financiers. All while offering expert recommendation and streamlined service.

Mary Nebotakis - has a B.Economics, Dip.Financial Services, Cert IV Workplace Learning & Assessment. On her website she has got many interesting videos and articles on motorbike finance. You will also find more information on bike finance.

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Nexus 7 review: the best $200 tablet you can buy

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In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing. The "race to the bottom," the company said, would profoundly impact the industry, killing profit margins and flooding the market with cheap, terrible machines. Sony was wrong, its stance lasting about a year before joining the competition with its own VAIO W.

Four years on we're buying better laptops than ever before and, with the netbook class now more or less dead, that downward competition seems to have shifted to the tablet front. A flood of cheap, truly awful slates preceded Amazon's Kindle Fire, the $200 tablet from a major brand that looks to have been the proper catalyst in plunging prices. The latest challenger to enter the competition is ASUS, partnering with Google to create the first Nexus tablet, a device that not only will amaze with its MSRP, but with its quality. It's called the Nexus 7, it too is $200, and it's better than Amazon's offering in every way but one.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

It's Time for a Royal Commission on Banking Practices ?

Does Mervyn King Have a Clue?


The world around us is facing economic upheaval and uncertainty. Major European economies are being tossed around on the choppy waters of the financial markets as if they are nothing more than fishing boats caught in an extended winter storm. Despite all the effort to prove otherwise, austerity is providing no safe harbour for these battered economies, despite the many claims. The lack of growth across Europe has always been the real problem, but the fiscal conservatives are in perpetual denial. They are locked into a form of handbag economics that pays lip-service to household moralism but which misses the bigger picture and the greater dangers.

[The Governor of the Bank of England is today reported saying he doesn't know when the recovery will take place. According to the Daily Mail King is reported saying "I don?t think we?re halfway through it". If King doesn't know perhaps it is time for him to move aside and make way for someone who isn't so out of touch and has a better sense of what is going on?]

Times are getting harder for most people. Our cities are rapidly hollowing out. Our high streets are becoming ghostly, deathly even. There is little evidence that any recovery will start soon, and even if it did there is little chance that it will have an impact soon. Money is being stuffed into the banks, but the real economy is withering and atrophying. The jobs market is getting tighter, with more people dependent on part-time work. There is little evidence that companies are investing in people. The rate of company failure is constant and seemingly inexorable, while the rate of new business ventures is sluggish and anaemic. It is a sensible question to ask, but would you invest in the British economy at this time given such an uncertain outlook? The ?animal spirits? of business entrepreneurialism are well and truly quelled and tamed. It?s batton-down-the-hatches time.

Almost in the same instant the government seems hell-bent on alienating young people. First came the cuts in Educational Maintenance Allowance, then the hike in fees for Higher Education, now comes the proposal from the Prime Minister to take away the Housing Benefits of anyone under twenty-five. Just when support from the state is most needed, all the talk is about withdrawing help and punishing people who need it most. The one lifeline that many people have when they are trying to get established is that they can move to a new part of the country and find work, safe in the knowledge that they have a cushion in housing benefit. It?s not the fault of young people entering the housing market that rents are extortionate and that affordable social housing is restricted. The locked-up housing market is impossible to enter unless parents make significant financial investments in their offspring. Further locking-in privilege and reducing the ability of ordinary working people to stand on their own.

Lets not fool ourselves into thinking that British social benefits are generous. They are restrictive, slow and inflexible. The great bulk of spending on social benefits goes to supporting pensioners, but it is the young who are getting it in the neck and are taking the blame. Before they have even started out they are having their hands tied behind their backs. The Tories often argue that it is unreasonable to leave our children with debt. What they don?t comprehend is that there is an even worse burden. Leaving our children in poverty now for the sake of not taking on any debt. Starving people of investment now is not virtuous, it is cruel and immoral.

At the same time the British banking system trundles on as if nothing has changed. There is little indication that the banking practices of the past have been revised or moderated. The big banks are still refusing to lend to small businesses and families as they try to manage exorbitant fees and restrictive credit ratings. The banks are unchallenged and unaccountable. The City of London remains the political force that sucks the life out of the British political class. Money and privilege are concentrated in super-conglomerates that cross international boundaries and don?t answer to anyone but themselves. Much of the practices of banking are corrupt and immoral, but we have internalised the promise of extended wealth and riches and turned-off our moral compass because we wanted to make a fast-buck. As Charles Ferguson argues ?the new elite has obtained much of its extreme wealth not through superior productivity, but mainly via forced transfers from the rest of the world?s population?.

It?s time for two things to happen. Firstly, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King should be sacked and removed from his job. His complicity with the Conservative Party, now and in the run-up to the election in 2010, has been breathtaking. This is not a banker with an independent, evidence-based view, but a banker with an ideological axe to grind. It?s time that he went. The second thing that needs to happen is the establishment of a Royal Commission into Banking Practices. It is a scandal that no-one has gone to prison for crimes committed in the run-up to the financial crash of 2008. Evidence gathered through the commission should lead to criminal prosecution of those shady people, hanging in the background and never answerable to the public, parliament and the courts, but who have taken this country to its knees. The stated aim of the Royal Commission should include wiping out restrictive and class-based practices that keep the banking system in the hands of small cliques and oligarchs. How we establish a new democratic structure for finance and investment in this country will determine the kind of nation that we need to be.

Competing against China, India and the emerging economies will require an ethical standard that goes beyond our immediate short-term interest. We have to be fully integrated with a modern, ethical, equitable and fair Europe. Protectionism and isolation wont save us, but ethical sustainability will. And we have to practice what we preach. Universal welfare services for all, providing support and investment for the poor rather than blame and abuse from millionaires. A fair taxation system with everyone making a contribution according to their ability to pay. We laugh at Greece with it?s embedded patronage systems, but British society is more riddled with patronage and class-based division than at any other time in our history. It?s time we started to polarise this debate and make some clear choices, before something worse comes along that we will all regret for generations.

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Side effects persist after prostate cancer treatment

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who are treated for prostate cancer may still suffer side effects from treatment up to a decade later, a new study finds.

Researchers found that more than 500 men with cancer - including cancers caught through regular screening - ended up with poorer sexual function and more bladder control problems for up to 10 years afterward than men with no cancer diagnosis.

That might sound like a good tradeoff for having your cancer found and treated.

But the issue is complicated. Prostate cancer is often slow-growing and may never get to the point that it threatens a man's life.

And a number of studies have found no proof that using PSA blood tests to screen men for prostate cancer actually saves lives.

Because of that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) - an expert panel with federal support - advises against routine prostate cancer screening.

With the benefits of screening in doubt, that makes the question of treatment side effects even more important.

"The reality is that right now, the screening decision and the treatment decision have to be made on an individual basis," said Kathryn L. Taylor, of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

"This study doesn't answer those questions for individuals," said Taylor, who led the research.

But she said the findings do give men more information on the long-term side effects of prostate cancer treatment - whether it's surgery, radiation or hormone therapy.

Up to 10 years after treatment, more than 95 percent of men had some degree of sexual dysfunction, Taylor's team found. And about half had urinary symptoms.

Past studies have found such lingering side effects, too. But they have been shorter-term - following men for as far as five years. And they've left some question as to whether the sexual and urinary problems could just be a product of aging, rather than prostate cancer treatment, Taylor explained.

These latest findings, reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, suggest it's not simply the aging process that's to blame.

That's because Taylor's team had data on men who'd taken part in a large clinical trial on prostate cancer screening.

The researchers were able to compare 269 men who'd had prostate cancer detected and treated after screening with 260 men who'd also been screened but remained cancer-free.

And when they accounted for the men's age, overall health and other factors, the group treated for cancer had worse sexual and urinary function up to 10 years later.

The same pattern held up among men in the trial arms who weren't screened for prostate cancer and did or didn't get diagnosed and treated.

TREATMENT OPTIONS

That all suggests the blame lies with prostate cancer treatment, or possibly the cancer itself to some degree, according to Taylor.

"The bottom line is that the (prostate cancer) group was worse off," Taylor said. And that's something men should have in mind when deciding on prostate cancer screening, she and her colleagues say.

Once prostate cancer is detected, men have another big decision. If the cancer is early-stage, they can choose to put off treatment and instead have the cancer monitored to see if it's progressing - what doctors call "active surveillance."

Or they can go for treatment, with surgery being the usual option for earlier cancer.

"We like to tell men to think of it as one big question," Taylor said.

That is, don't think of the screening decision in isolation, she explained. Men should remember that if an early cancer is caught, they'll have to decide on treatment, Taylor said.

Active surveillance, by definition, is not treatment - but it does mean regular PSA blood tests and periodic biopsies.

The USPSTF recommendation against routine prostate cancer screening does not preclude men from asking for it, or doctors from offering.

And Taylor pointed out that studies look at population-wide effects. Even if PSA screening has not cut overall death rates from prostate cancer, some men may benefit.

She suggested men "get educated" about prostate cancer and make a screening decision based on a careful discussion with their doctors.

In the U.S., just over 28,000 men will die of prostate cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society. But close to 242,000 new cases will be diagnosed, many of which will be early cancers.

According to the National Cancer Institute, about half of all U.S. men diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009 fell into the "low-risk" category - meaning their cancer was unlikely to progress.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/MU6YjL Journal of Clinical Oncology, online June 25, 2012.

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U.S. lawmaker takes Mexican gun case to Obama

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Obama Warns Against 'Scary Voices' in Political Ads

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