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Did May 6th frighten or excite you? I received a few emails from frightened dividend investors letting me know they were getting out of the market, while others asked if this was the beginning of another significant downturn. The first group are destined to always lose money in the market (sell low/buy high) and my answer to the second group was,  ‘I hope so!’ Let me explain.

As a long-term dividend investor I love buying blue-chip companies when they go on sale and there is no underlying fundamental business reason.  If you can buy a Ferrari at the price of a Camaro, most people would consider that a good thing, but for some reason many long-term investors fret whenever there is a major clearance sale on the stocks they want to own.

I keep a list of great stocks that I would love to buy or add to my current position.  Here are a few on that list:

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) | Yield @ Buy Price: 3.57%
Buy Price: $38.11 | Recent Price: $41.80 | Premium: 9.68% | Analysis

International Business Machines (IBM) | Yield @ Buy Price: 2.18%
Buy Price: $119.11 | Recent Price: $131.19 | Premium: 10.14%

Pepsico, Inc. (PEP) | Yield @ Buy Price: 3.04%
Buy Price: $59.28 | Recent Price: $66.07 | Premium: 11.5%

Genuine Parts Company (GPC) | Yield @ Buy Price: 4.68%
Buy Price: $35.04 | Recent Price: $41.25 | Premium: 17.7% | Analysis

Eaton Vance Corp. (EV) | Yield @ Buy Price: 2.59%
Buy Price: $24.67 | Recent Price: $32.80 | Premium: 32.93%

If the market drops, there is no need to panic if you are a long-term, buy-and-hold investor. While others are content to give away their stocks, I will pull out my wish list and see if any of my targets ready for harvesting.

Full Disclosure: Long ADP, PEP, GPC. See a list of all my income holdings here.

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The seventh installment of the famous shooting game Call of Duty will be released on November. Call of Duty: Black Ops full uncut trailer has been released by Treyarch today.

Call of Duty is a first person and third-person shooting video game series that began on PC, then later expanded to handhelds and gaming consoles like PS, Wii and Xbox. The Call of Duty video games are published and owned by Activision. Call of Duty: Black Ops is developed by Treyarch.

The uncut trailer has a series of in-game shots from the game’s locations like Cuba, Vietnam, Italy and other countries as well as a few of the gameplay elements. It takes place during the Cold War in 1968.

Call of Duty: Black Ops uncut trailer also features the exciting plot and intense gameplay that gamers will experience. Viewers will also witness the birth of the Elite Special Forces and participate in off-the-record missions using unconventional weapons to get the job done.

Watch Call of Duty: Black Ops – World Premiere Uncut Trailer

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Rik was the first of a few of you to send in the news that the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is claiming that London will be fully covered by WiFi in time for the 2012 Olympic games. Of course, considering that the UK Parliament just passed the Digital Economy Act, which calls for carefully limiting access to the internet for people accused (not convicted) of infringement online, it makes you wonder how that’s going to work. Even if Ofcom has said that the DEA rules won’t initially apply to wireless providers, it does seem a bit odd to have the government offering a service like this. Once again, we’re seeing how the government has these two competing issues that don’t play well together: getting more broadband availability, while looking to help out the entertainment industry by kicking people off the internet at the same time. Who will be the first Olympic athlete kicked offline for downloading some music during the games?

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Yahoo has announced that it has acquired Associated Content for an undisclosed sum. Several sources put it at $90 million to $100 million, with the first sum being the most likely. Yahoo says the move will bolster its content offering especially for niche interests. It plans to expand Associated Content’s current platform globally and integrate t… (read more)

Togetherville, a social network for children ages 6 to 10, aims to attract children to a more age-appropriate setting. The site launches Tuesday night. The accounts must be created by the parents using their own Facebook logins. Parents are able to approve or reject their children’s friends and see what activities or games their children are up to. Mandeep Singh Dhillon, CEO and co-founder, said “The adults participate directly. Which is why this is not a digital babysitter.” “The first platform that really integrates young children’s ability to use the Web with their grownups close by.”Kids will have separate logins to Togetherville, and the site looks different depending whether the child or the parent is logged in. There are games, pre-screened YouTube videos and other activities for children. Stephen  Balkam, CEO of the Washington DC-based noprofit Family Online Safety Institute, termed the site as a “much safer environment.” The site aims to keep children safe from cyberbullying and other dangers online.

There are many kid-friendly sites at the site, one of which is Disney’s Club Penguin which has a social-networking aspect. Togetherville offers children their first taste of social networking where they will use their real-life identities and real-life relationships. The site is also free of advertisements. Togetherville presents an environment that kids can enjoy and that parents will feel comfortable managing.

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Japan’s DoCoMo network has announced the release of the 4.1 inch Toshiba K01 as the Dynapocket T-01B.

The handset runs Windows 6.5.3 Phone offers a 4.1” OLED capacitive touch screen with a 480×800 resolution, a 3.2Mpix Camera module with auto-focus, Wi-Fi B/G, 1GHz Snapdragon, GPS, HSPDA, HSUPA, Bluetooth.

Unfortunately this extremely attractive handset, which we saw announced at Mobile World Congress 2010 is still to make an appearance anywhere in the west.

See a video of the handset and a gallery of pictures after the break.

Via Akihabara.com

Hybrid and electric vehicles may be the auto industry’s solution for more stringent fuel economy regulations, but they also pose a new threat. Because of their silent operation, hybrid and electric vehicles can pose a threat to surround pedestrians, prompting the introduction of new “quiet cars” laws.

Championed by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, the proposed regulations would require automakers to equip hybrid, electric and other silently operated vehicles with an audible warning to alert surrounding pedestrians. The proposal is expected to be attached to the proposed auto safety laws currently in front of Congress.

The regulations “will help to ensure the safety of pedestrians, especially those who are blind, as an increasing number of hybrid and electric vehicles are sold,” the National Federation of the Blind, American Council of the Blind said in a letter to Congress. The proposal would require “for an alert sound that allows blind and other pedestrians to reasonably detect a nearby electric or hybrid vehicle.”

If approved, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would begin writing the rules for the “quiet cars” legislation within 18 months, with the rules to be finalize within three years.

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Source: Leftlane

Eco Factor: Furniture made using recycled polyethylene.

We recently published a list of green furniture units that were made using sustainable cardboard. However, if you think that your living room needs something trendier than cardboard, then Loll Designs is the brand you should be checking out. The design firm has unveiled a range of furniture and products made from 100 percent recycled materials at the ICFF 2010. The furniture units have been made using recycled polyethylene sourced from discarded gallon milk jugs.

Apart from producing green furniture units, the design firm is also paying a fee to Carbonfund for every package shipped to offset the carbon generated. The company also states that they are sourcing wind generated power through Windsense, from Minnesota Power. Moreover, Loll Designs is also a member and contributor to 1 Percent For The Planet.

Via: PSFK

It’s been a strange year so far for American League power. Go back to your March projections, see what you expected from Paul Konerko, Ty Wigginton, Jose Bautista, Alex Gonzalez and Andruw Jones. Auction bucks have been trumped, at least temporarily, by waiver luck.

With that theme in mind, let’s talk about Luke Scott(notes). I’m not going to promise you anything long-term on this stock, but we’ve seen him go on power runs before and he’s smoking hot right now.

Scott knocked a pair of homers at Camden Yards Tuesday, giving him seven in 45 May at-bats. He wasn’t picking on a scrub pitcher here; the taters came against Kansas City ace Zack Greinke(notes). And both of the home runs were absolute rockets; the first one was more the towering type, while the second one left the park almost instantly.

Scott is never going to get into the All-Star Game without a ticket, but he’s not a bad power source in certain circumstances. He’s got 36 career homers over 521 career at-bats at Camden Yards. He’s a career .504 slugger against right-handed pitching. And he’s one of those notorious streak hitters; perhaps you remember the late May tear he went on last season (eight homers in 10 days). He’s not a perfect player, but if you need a power boost, there’s a case to be made for Scott.

The Orioles don’t have any home games left this week, but Scott still offers some short-term cachet. He’s a decent play at Texas the next two days (up against a pair of right-handed starters), and Scott should get some good hacks in against Washington’s Craig Stammen(notes) Saturday (the Nats throw lefties Friday and Sunday). Scott has been successful in both of these stadiums, albeit in small samples: he’s got two homers in 30 career at-bats at Arlington, and he’s gone deep twice in three games at Nationals Park.

If you’re looking for a National League version of Scott, how about Cincinnati’s Jonny Gomes(notes)? The hack-tastistic Red is on a 20-for-49 binge this month with three homers and 13 RBIs, and he’s got some nice matchups coming up (Kenshin Kawakami(notes) on Wednesday, and three games at Cleveland this weekend). Gomes is available in 93 percent of Yahoo! leagues as we go to press, while Scott is 88-percent available. Give these guys a tryout over the rest of the week.

There’s your lead (or lede) item, amigos. I’ll be back in a little bit with 850 more words, give or take a few.  

Possibly showing a change in how Toyota will now approach recall matters, the automaker has announced that it will be recalling approximately 11,500 Lexus LS models based on only 12 complaints surrounding the electronic steering system. The recall will affect the LS460, LS460L, LS600h and LS600hL sedans.

According to a report by Dow Jones, Toyota announced today that it will be recalling approximately, 11,500 LS model sedans worldwide due to a faulty electronic control system for the steering wheel.

Toyota says that approximately 4,500 on the LS460, LS460L, LS600h and LS600hL sedans are located in Japan, with another 7,000 vehicles in 50 world markets – including the U.S. and China.

To date, Toyota has received 12 complaints, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. The electrical component that is causing the failure comes standard in the Japanese market LS sedans, while it is an option in other markets such as Europe and the U.S.

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Source: Leftlane

According to the latest reports, it appears that Ferdinand Piëch a.k.a. former Volkswagen chairman confirmed the fact that there will be a new supercar from Bugatti!

What it is more interesting is that this new vehicle will be even more powerful and will have around 1200 hp, as the 1001 hp found on the current Bugatti Veyron were not enough. For those who don’t know the Veyron is powered by a sixteen cylinder engine featuring four turbochargers and there are big chances to see a modified version of this engine on the new car. And regarding the new car there are big chances to see it, because if there is someone who knowns about it, then Ferdinand Piëch is that person!

[source autoblog via teamspeed]

Source: Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots

This hard to miss SUV with it’s tie-dye camouflage paint job are spy shots of Land Rover road testing its new premium compact the Range Rover LRX.

The LRX is expected to be unveiled next month to coincide with the 40th anniversary of when the original Range Rover was first revealed to the public and should be showcased at the 2010 Paris Motor Show.

Production is set to begin in early 2011 and the LRX will be equipped with the Freelander drivetrain and will become the first Land Rover group product available with front-wheel drive.

Compare the spy pics with the video concept after the jump.

Source | autoblog.com via autoblog.it

Para completar la remodelación de sus modelos SEAT también ha actualizado las motorizaciones y los equipamientos de sus dos modelos más grandes, el Altea y el Altea XL. Si quieres consultar los cambios que introdujeron en sus modelos Ibiza y León los tienes en este post.

Seat introduce el motor 1.2 TSI de 105 CV con cambio de 6 velocidades en los acabados Reference y Style para ambos modelos, una vez más enfocada directamente a la reducción de consumos y de emisiones a la atmósfera, ofreciendo una rebaja de 7,3 litros a los 100 a 5,9 y de los alrededor de 180 gr/km de la anterior motorización a 139gr/km.

Además se elimina el acabado Sport en el Altea y en el Altea XL, eliminándose conjuntamente el motor 2.0 TDI de 170cv, que se ve que tanta potencia (y consumo) no tenían mucha salida en un mercado como el actual. Se introduce también en todos los acabados salvo el emoción el asistente de ayuda al arranque en pendientes y el Altea FreeTrack lo incluye de serie en las versiones de tracción a las dos ruedas y a las cuatro ruedas.

Los precios del SEAT Altea 1.2 TSI de 105 CV son 17.200 € para el Reference y 18.700 € para la versión Style, mientras que para el Altea XL, 18.200 € en la versión Reference y 19.700 € para la versión Style. Un lavado de cara a la imagen de estos modelos orientándolos a las nuevas demandas del mercado.

Fuente | SEAT

This is for the husbands out there whose wife is on their postpartum stage. Do you know that you too can be affected by the depression that your wife is experiencing during this stage?

As we all know, only the mothers who had just undergone labor are experiencing postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is a depression that occurs soon after giving birth. During this depression, the mother feels worthless, fatigued, restless and anxious. The husband should understand the symptoms of postpartum depression but how if he experiences the symptoms as well?

A study revealed that one in ten fathers and one in five mothers experience postpartum depression. The researcher, James Paulson of Eastern Virginia, stated that depression affects both parents and both parents should be on the look out for it. According to the research that was released on Tuesday, the authors estimated that 10 percent of the fathers experience depression before or soon after the birth of a child. For comparison, about 5 percent of men in the general population will suffer depression over the course of one year. This suggests that depression in expecting or new dads “represents a significant public health concern,”

Yes, this is a public health concern since it affects every family in the community. Now, not only the mothers are being depressed but  the fathers too. This will not have good effect on children; since depressed parents will not be able to take good care of them. During the post partum stage, the fathers are the ones who are likely to be more involved in parenting. But with the findings of the study, we should be alarmed and try to avoid this kind of situations.

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Yesterday I posted about setting up a PGP key server in Ubuntu for use at work. That is one piece of the puzzle. The second piece of the PGP puzzle is integrating PGP with your email client so that you can easily send and receive encrypted messages.

I always recommend gpg4win for Windows users looking for a free OpenPGP solution in Windows. In Linux, GPG is built in, but in Windows you have to find 3rd party software to get the job done. In Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007, the Outlook plug-in that comes with gpg4win works great. The problem? We are now using Outlook 2010 in the office. Sometimes it sucks to be bleeding edge because old software isn’t always compatible.

You know what works well for PGP/GPG though? Mozilla Thunderbird with the Enigmail extension. The problem with Thunderbird is that it doesn’t natively support Microsoft Exchange. Sure there are tricks to get it to work, but in reality the best way is to enable secure IMAP and SMTP to your Exchange server. You can easily do that on ports 993 and 587 the way Google does with Gmail. If you don’t know how to do that, look it up because it is beyond the scope of this post!

Anyhoo, back on track. So I configured Secure IMAP/SMTP on my Exchange server, and got Thunderbird working fine… Well, except Calendar and Contacts. The contact issue wasn’t a big deal because I just imported them in from Outlook. My Calendar however is dynamic, and I like it to have a two-way sync with Exchange. Also, there isn’t a built-in calendar for Thunderbird. That is where Lightning comes in. Lightning is a calendar extension for Thunderbird and Seamonkey.

Okay, so I installed Lightning, but it doesn’t automagically start working with Exchange. For that I needed yet one more extension. It comes as a private 3rd party extension called The Microsoft Data Provider for Thunderbird Lightning. Here are some of the features it provides:

• Creating, modifying, deleting calendar items.
• Inviting attendees to meetings and sending meeting requests.
• Free/Busy information when inviting other Exchange users to meetings.
• Notifications for meeting requests
• Configuration autodiscovery

Now, with the exception of accepting/declining inbound meeting requests (Still have to use OWA for that) I can fully manage my calendar through Thunderbird and have it sync with Exchange!

Are you using Thunderbird  with Exchange? Know of any other cool plug-ins and extensions to make it work better? Do you use PGP with Outlook 2010? What plug-in do you use for that? Let me know in the comments!

Um veículo compacto, urbano, com convergência de mídias e infotainment, fácil de estacionar e com zero emissão. Estas foram as solicitações dos mais de 1,5 milhão de internautas que já visitaram o www.fiatmio.cc, portal onde os consumidores ajudam a Fiat a construir o Fiat Mio, veículo de inovação aberta que inspira o Fiat Concept Car III, o FCC III, novo carro conceito da fabricante, que será apresentado no Salão Internacional do Automóvel de São Paulo.

O Design do veículo foi desenvolvido por uma equipe dedicada de 10 profissionais que interagiram com os internautas e tiveram seu trabalho final aprovado. As tecnologias que serão apresentadas também foram desenvolvidas a partir de conversas no portal do projeto.

A linha de design escolhida foi a Precision, que no exterior se caracteriza por um design clean, minimalista e funcional, onde a grande área envidraçada se destaca. Os contrastes existentes entre a lateral, as áreas envidraçadas e a região traseira, modular, propiciam uma leitura de robustez. O dinamismo da linha de cintura auxilia, visualmente, a alongar o compacto FCCIII. No frontal, uns dos destaques são as laterais que avançam na região inferior sobre a “cúpula” do pára-brisa que em conjunto com os faróis, criam uma imagem de força. As rodas do FCCIII estão cobertas por grandes calotas que propiciam uma melhora aerodinâmica ao carro. Na traseira as lanternas, assim como nos faróis, estão posicionadas atrás dos vidros trazendo simplicidade as formas do carro sem perder a beleza que o olhar dos faróis e lanternas dão ao carro.

As dimensões do veículo já estão definidas: 1560 mm de largura, 1530 mm de altura e comprimento de 2500 mm.

A construção do FCC III e do Fiat Mio podem ser acompanhadas por meio do www.fiatmio.cc/makingoff. Já são mais de 10 mil idéias cadastradas de usuários em mais de 40 países.

Fonte: Fiat

Eco Factor: Hotel constructed from sustainable and locally sourced materials.

Singapore-based architecture and design firm WOHA has developed the Alila Villas Uluwatu hotel complex in Bali, Indonesia. The complex is designed to be environmentally friendly and is constructed from materials found locally. The hotel has 50 hotel suites and 35 residential villas.

The architecture firm has combined traditional Balinese pavilion architecture and rural landscapes with a more modern treatment of space and form. Instead of using typical steep Balinese pavilions, the buildings are influenced by local farmers and their terraces of loosely piled limestone boulders.

All construction materials have been sourced locally. Local craftsmen in Java and Bali have made the interior furniture from coconut timber and bamboo. Other environmentally responsible systems included in the hotel complex are rainwater collection and water recycling system, collection of gray water and using it for watering plant and toilet flushing. Moreover, low energy lighting is used and dry-climate vegetation is included to reduce water usage.

Via: DesignBoom

Bruce V. Bigelow wrote:

In a move that borrows a page from Intel’s “Rock Stars of Engineering” advertising campaign, a San Diego non-profit group is organizing a program that will bring the aspiring rock stars of San Diego’s life sciences industry into local classrooms.

The pilot program, funded by a $100,000 grant from the Cambridge, MA-based Biogen Idec Foundation, will recruit entrepreneurial founders of early stage biotech companies to talk about their breakthrough innovations and why they started their companies. The idea is to get young people excited about studying science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), says Duane Roth, who heads Connect, the 25-year-old non-profit organization that supports technology and entrepreneurship in San Diego.

“So many things have been tried before,” says Roth, who frets that American students just don’t relate to STEM education or see the career possibilities. “We think young people—7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th-graders—relate more to products than to lectures.” By arranging to have entrepreneurs talk about their technologies, Roth says, students can grasp how inventions gets commercialized, and what it takes to bring a product to market.

One early recruit, for example, is Jack DeFranco, CEO of San Diego-based Targeson, which invents ultrasound contrast agents used to detect disease at the molecular level, before someone who is ill even shows any symptoms.

The real Ajay Bhatt

The speaker program is reminiscent of last year’s Intel ad campaign that has swooning workplace groupies surrounding a wonkish, middle-aged man as a screen graphic reads, “Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of USB,” which is followed by a message that says, “Our rock stars aren’t like your rock stars.” (An actor was portraying the real Ajay Bhatt.) I’m also reminded of a photo spread in GQ magazine last year of the “Rockstars of Science” that paired Eric Topol, the prominent Scripps’ cardiologist and translational medicine researcher, with real-life singers like Seal, Sheryl Crow, and Josh Groban.

I think it is a great idea,” says Larry Bock, a longtime life sciences venture investor in San Diego who heard about the pilot program in March. As executive director of the non-profit USA Science & Engineering Festival, which is scheduled to take place this fall in Washington, D.C., Bock has focused much of his time on …Next Page »

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The finalists are revealed tonight on the Dancing With The Stars May 18 results show. The eliminated couple is no other than Chad Ochocinco and Cheryl.

After Disney superstar Miley Cyrus performed her latest single “Can’t Be Tamed,” the announcement of the bottom group came.

The first couple who were safe tonight was Evan Lysacek and professional dance partner Ana. The next safe couple was Nicole Scherzinger and Derek. Nicole and Evan tied for the top position on the DWTS leader board last night, with a score of 59 from the judges.

The bottom two couples were Chad Ochocinco and Erin Andrews. Erin Andrews took second position with a score of 56 and Chad Ochocinco landed at the bottom with a score of 52 last night.

After the votes were counted, it was time to say goodbye to Chad Ochocinco and his dancing partner Cheryl Burke. Sadly, they will not be going to the finals. However, Chad said he had a nice time on DWTS.

“This was awesome, I enjoyed the journey,” Chad Ochocinco said. “I met some wonderful people, and I got some great criticism that’s only made me stronger. In my eyes, I have already won.”

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Our very own Wilson Rothman teamed up with his friends “Addison Richards, a certified sommelier and the wine director of the Wild Ginger restaurant in Seattle, and Noah Musler, an avid wine collector” to review some bottle-top wine accessories for the NYT’s Diner’s Journal. The article is well worth a read even if you’re not ready to hop into #drunkmodo just yet. [NYT] More »










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