CUMULATIVE DIVIDEND INCREASES SURPASSES FULL 2010

The net S & P 500 rates indicated dividend (increases less decreases) year 20.985 billion update has just surpassed (today XOM put the) total increased 20.650 billion in 2010. Using the analogy of dividends being your pay cheque, CDA has given you a 8.20% salary increase, with 12 months 17,90% increase. However, you still 10.66% less than you were in June 2008, with my estimate that it will be early 2013 until you get the equivalent payment in your hand as you did in 2008. For the first four months of the year, the net dividend indicated increases for the S & P 500 is 148% of the period of April 2010, 4 months, with the actual amount + 13.6%.

For the full year, I expect dividend increases continue at a rapid pace, but not at the level of the last four months. If the economy continues to improve (or at least the housing and Commercial real estate is not dive), I would expect a possible second round (not that we are still made with the first) of Financial dividend increases year, with the payment increased in the first quarter of 2012.

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Winds kill man, create chaos across Ontario.

Winds gusting up to 120 km/h swept the South and East of Ontario, and then shelling Quebec on Thursday, killing at least one person, injuring a dozen boats capsizing and hitting power of approximately 300,000 households.

Environment Canada has issued a warning of winds just before 11 o'clock in the morning, with winds reaching the region of Niagara, Hamilton, Toronto and the north shore of Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County.

Winds were blamed for a death in Grimsby, Ontario, approximately 30 kilometres east of Hamilton. The Niagara Regional Police stated that a man to the sound of the 1970s was killed when he was hit by a flying garage, which had supported against a hangar door before the wind came out. The man lives on the property.

At least a dozen other people have been injured in Ontario and Quebec.

The Burlington Skyway Bridge and the bridge of the Garden-City of St. Catharines were closed for a few hours winds. Both were reopened later in the day.

In Hamilton Harbour, approximately five boatfuls of student rowers were rescued after at least seven vessels capsized.

Wind Warning ended at about 1 p.m.

Hydro crews worked to restore the power of 150 000 homes across the province, said Nancy Shaddick of Hydro One.

"Situation, power can be restored quickly or rerouted to bring power to a lot of the community," she said.

Power lost about 20,000 in Ottawa, who also felt wind and Hydro Ottawa said it would be switching to a backup system to restore electricity as soon as possible.

Horizon utilities said some 30 000 of its customers without power in St. Catharines, with approximately 6 500 in Hamilton.

"Winds toppled poles and overthrown son and trees falling on the son, said Tony Iavarone, spokesman for the company." It is now extinct in Hamilton, but in St. Catharines, we see even more natural. ?

Students at St. Lockview public school Catharines were forced to leave the building after wind gusts uprooted a part of the roof of the school. No injuries have been reported.

Trucks overturned and debris caused delays on the Queen Elizabeth Way through the Niagara region.

Garbage was put on hold in the region and landfills are closed.

Police were warning drivers to use caution and invites everyone to be careful after reports of fallen power lines and trees.

High winds overturned this sign parking in downtown Toronto on Thursday. (Jamie Strashin/CBC News)

In Toronto, waves up to three metres high were spotted on the shores of the Lake and the Boulevard Club, located on the Lake directly south of the Roncesvalles Avenue, was forced to close due to flooding caused by the high waves.

The docks of the club also suffered damage from high waves.

Toronto fire crews were busy answering calls on power lines have fallen and Twitter users called Toronto "city of winds" in the messages displayed on Thursday morning.

Environment Canada also issued a warning for a large part of Quebec on Thursday, warning of wind gusts up to 90 km/h.

Winds eliminated the power of at least 155 000 customers in the province in the afternoon.

Outages were reported in the Outaouais, on the South Shore, Laval Laurentides, the Eastern Townships and Central Quebec.

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Samsung sees "Undesirable" Business continued after Net Falls

April 29, 2011, 4: 42 pm EDT by Jun Yang

(Updates with price action in the fifth paragraph of closing).

April 29 (Bloomberg) - Samsung Electronics Co., major manufacturer more televisions and panels on screen flat, said sales of consumer electronics can remain silent in the second quarter, after the fall of profit for the first time in more than a year.The company said demand for televisions and panels LCD may be amortized in the uncertainty of the global economy. Suwon, manufacturer focused on the Korea in the South of the Galaxy smartphones and tablets reported a 30% decrease in net income in the first quarter today as competition drove prices down.Samsung, which this month has agreed to sell its hard drive unit, plans to introduce more computers smartphones and tablet to take on Apple Inc. and boost profitability. Already wounded by stagnant TV sales and falling prices, Samsung and other manufacturers introduce new technologies such as 3D functionality and Internet connectivity to attract consumers to their old upgrade LCD TVs. "" I'm not sure on the second quarter, "said Im Jeong Jae, a Fund Manager based in Seoul to Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management Co., which oversees about $ 30 billion. "The key will be price and sales will be revived is to strategies of manufacturers of television sets."Shares fell from 0.8 percent to won 893,000 at 3 p.m., near trading in Seoul taking the decline of the date of the year at 5.9%. The benchmark index ABN fell by 0.7%.DeclineThe company is expected to "undesirable" business environment to continue in the second quarter, Robert Yi, vice President of relations with investors, said on a conference call today. Slow demand for televisions is likely to continue during the earthquake of 11 March to the Japan have contributed to a "significant decrease" ventes sales of LCD display, said Lee Jung Ryul, Vice-President unit of the group. "Global demand is not 100% clear," Yi said, citing the uncertainty of the global economic recovery and a possible impact by the earthquake in Japan.The average price for the United States flat screen televisions fell for a third straight month in February as manufacturers attempt to erase the inventory before the deployment of new models ", according to a study of the IHS ISuppli Corporation. Samsung sold 8.8 million units of TVs to flat in the first quarter, five per cent more of a year earlier, the company said.Income net in the three months ending March fell to 2.78 trillion won ($2.6 billion), Samsung said in a statement. Which corresponded to the average of 2.8 billion won of 12 analysts compiled by Bloomberg estimates. Sales increased by 6.8% to 37 billion won, a preliminary estimate announced the April 7.Displays, SemiconductorsOperating, income, or sales less cost of goods sold and administrative expenditures, fell 33 percent to 2.95 won trillion, under the provisions of the preliminary estimate of the company. Manufacture of TV from Samsung unit operating profit fell to 3.3% at 100 billion won a year, while sales increased 5% to 13.5 billion won.Analysts had predicted profit Division will be 85 billion won, based on the median of seven interviewed by Bloomberg estimates News.The display division had a loss of 230 billion won more than 140 billion won loss in the survey. Sales fell by 5% to 6.5 billion won, said Samsung.Tirer profit semiconductor division fell 5.9% to 1.6 trillion won on sales of 9.18 trillion won, compared to the median of 1.7 trillion won estimates seven analyst.Profit rose unity 1.2% of telecommunications to 1.4 trillion won, thus exceeding the median of 1.2 billion estimates won seven analyst. Sales increased 19% 10,64 trillion won.Samsung has intended to sell some 60 million units of smartphones this year, J.K. Shin, Chief of the division of mobile telephony, stated in January, after the company has achieved its target to sell 10 million units of the Galaxy s smartphone last year.

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Spain to pass the underground economy Plan to help Budget, employment

April 29, 2011, 4: 17 am EDT by Emma Ross-Thomas

(Updated with data from unemployment in the eighth paragraph).

April 29 (Bloomberg) - Spain unveil underground repression employment so that the Government seeks to shrink one of the largest economies in shadow of the region, strengthen tax revenues and reduce the unemployment rate over high European Union.The plan will provide "incentives" to employers to declare workers not registered before that tougher sanctions on illegal employment are imposed within a period of three months, Labour Minister Valeriano Gomez said yesterday. Today, the Cabinet is due to approve the plan, which also aims to prevent people from working informally while claiming government benefits. Gomez will hold a press conference at 1: 45 pm to explain their actions.The Spain Socialist Government is fighting the shadow economy, worth almost a quarter of domestic product, according to the union of the Spain of tax inspectors. In the efforts to protect the economy of the sovereign debt crisis, the Government sought to increase revenue to reduce the third budget of the euro area deficit cutting official unemployment of 21%. "We are at the top of the European ranking in terms of the underground economy, just behind the neck of the neck with the Italy and the Greece,"Jose Maria Mollinedo, Secretary General of tax inspectors union Gestha, said in a telephone interview.Gestha considers the undeclared earnings amounted to 82 billion euros ($121 billion) per year and the narrowing of the underground economy of 10 percentage points in proportion to GDP would raise € 13 billion in social security contributions. 500-Euro BillsOverallthe underground economy is a value of 23 per cent of GDP, according to Gestha. Funcas, the arm of research of the Spain savings bank association, puts the number at about 17 percent and says that there are approximately 4 million undeclared jobs. Friedrich Schneider, Professor at the University of Linz, Austria, which the underground activity studies, believes the underground economy of Spain to 19 percent of GDP last year, compared to 25 per cent in Greece and 22 percent in Italy.Spain is home to 18% of the Bills of 500 euro for the euro areawhich are usually used for non-registered, although cash transactions that the Spanish economy represents 12% of the region of production, according to data from the Bank of Spain and European Central Bank.Official UnemploymentToday measures aimed at trimming the official unemployment ratewhich rose to 21.3% in the first quarter, the National Institute of statistics, said today, compared to 20.3 per cent in the previous three months. Although unemployment in Spain at the head of the EU, the rate of defaults on mortgages is 2.5%, which suggests that unemployment with informal income benefits, are complete the households Mollinedo said. "The underground economy is a system of survival both for workers and businesses, said Jose Manuel Saiz, Professor at the school of commerce Nebrija and contributing author"Ethics and legality in business", focusing on the underground economy.Informal jobs will only be converted into formal employment "If the company can pay", Saiz said, warning that the program can "choke small businesses that remain just".The plan may also not go far enough because it tackles one aspect of the underground economy and address is not the source of the unregistered money that companies use to pay informal workers, said Javier Díaz-Giménez, a professor at IESE business school in Madrid and Advisor to the former Government."Employers pay a salary of 2,000 euros per month must also contribute more than 500 euros in payments of social security, the National Statistics Institute show data"."If you are seriously underground economy you need a great plan that includes not only the labour market, but a comprehensive approach to the black market," he said in a telephone interview. "Everything is sparse, half-baked.".Tax FraudThe Government was also tackling tax evasion since 2005, followed by payments made with 500 euro notes, tighten control on bank transactions and investigate fraudulent property structures in enterprises. The campaign against tax fraud raised 10 billion euros last year, or 1% of the GDP last year, the Ministry of finance said on February 10.Gomez, the Minister of labour, said yesterday the new plan will not include a "" amnesty""even as he has said the objective "was more in the future than the past." "" "The general idea is so much looking at what companies have done in the past, but in helping them to find employment,"he said in an interview on broadcaster RTVE yesterday."

-With the help of Ainhoa Goyeneche in Madrid and Jana Randow, in Frankfurt, editor in Chief: Andrew Davis, Jeffrey Donovan

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Points of risk of obesity of children in pregnancy

What eats a mother during pregnancy can put her baby to an increased risk of obesity, suggests new research presented at a Summit of obesity in Montreal.

National Summit of the Canadian obesity network includes more than 800 delegates discuss prevention and treatment of public, political prospects and legal genetic health, nutrition,

A child touches the belly of its mother house in the last stages of her pregnancy. Pregnant with high cholesterol or acidic levels fatty women are more likely to have children later became obese and develop Type 2 diabetes, researchers only. Regis Duvignau/Reuters.

Physicians and researchers, the focus of prevention begins to move - in the uterus.

Dr. Jill Hamilton, a pediatric endocrinologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, said emerging research shows pregnant women with high levels of cholesterol and fatty acid levels is more likely to have children later became obese and develop Type 2 diabetes.

"Some of these molecules can be transmitted to the baby and influence how the baby develops, Hamilton a."It may affect the programming of channels in the brain linked to appetite.""

Factors in the uterus can interact to change permanently the gene expression without actually changing the structure of DNA. The process is called epigenetics, and changes can affect how DNA instructions are interpreted as cells, proteins and the other in the body building blocks are formed.

In the research on obesity, "epigenetic" changes relate to the regulation of appetite. Those that can affect the way the body handles glucose fuel in food, which increases the likelihood that a child could develop resistance to insulin, or obesity, said Hamilton.

This week, Dr. Keith Godfrey, Professor of epidemiology and human development at the University of Southhamptom, in England and his colleagues published their results in the journal of diabetes. For the first time, the study showed that nutrition for women during pregnancy can change how DNA child works and bring the children to develop more fat.

The team of Godfrey measured epigenetic markers in nearly 300 children at birth. Markers explained at least 25% of the difference of adiposity when children have been studied again in six or nine years - or average a difference of about two kilograms for a 30 kilogram nine years.

"Remarkably, simple changes in the diet of the mother during pregnancy can permanently change appetite and levels of physical activity in the offspring," Godrey said previous studies on animals.

For Jolyn Swain, in Halifax, who is four months pregnant research changes any for it.

"It gives me envy to participate more, it gives me want to keep these journals of food and check the boxes," said Swain.

Researchers have said that they cannot prescribe specific foods to eat or avoid pregnancy. The conclusions also do not change current nutritional advice for pregnant women, apart from giving a another important reason to follow.

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Trump singed on birther gambit Obama

A full-throttle reaction against Donald Trump grabbed the United States on Thursday, with everyone from activists of the civil rights respected journalists and a favoured son Tea Party piles.

Even the usually unflappable Trump see accusations, that it was racist to raise questions about diplomas and Barack Obama on the heels of suggest that the President was not born in the United States.

Used to be the subject of ridicule, widespread in the 1980s, when Canadian Graydon Carter spy magazine he skewered happily as a "vulgarian rights court", Trump has since created a large fan and a grudging respect for his keen sense of business because of his TV réalitéL show ' apprentice.

But there is little love for Trump Thursday, the day after the White House pulled birth certificate for the long-form of the President after that billionaire revitalized the debate of what is called birther. The standard form of the document was released three years ago.

Trump took credit for the move of the White House, and then proceeded to his line of attack by suggesting Obama was academic fraud who did not have the qualifications to Harvard. He seemed to be a reference to the policies of affirmative action in the country, hated by many Republicans.

This new front in battle prompted a scathing rebuke of Bob Schieffer, a journalistic respected veteran of the United States which has covered national politics for decades.

"It is a code just to say: it is mounted in the school of law, because he is black," Schieffer said on the CBS Evening News. "This is a ugly racism strain that runs through this thing."

Jesse Jackson and other civil rights activists also have positions of the Trump suggested on the issue of the birther smack of academic authenticity of the Obama of racism. A white President, they point out, has never been hunted by questions about his hometown.

A day after the remarks of Schieffer, Trump appeared taken interloqué.

"This is a terrible statement to a news anchor to do", Trump said when reached by TMZ gossip Web site. "I am the last person who should say such a thing on."

But for the first time since the beginning of the Trump take ostensibly for a race for the Republican presidential nomination, it seemed that he blushes first. The man known as "the Donald" walked back his latest attack of Obama.

"Grades are the least important aspect of someone being President", he told TMZ. "It is not something big for me."

The reaction has been brewing even before a frustrated Obama, denouncing the "Carnival Barker" who wrongly insist he was not born in the United States, appeared in the briefing room of the White House to express its dismay that questions on place of birth has continued to dog.

Liberal of Celebrity Apprentice fans stopped would have been watching since Trump began flying the flag birther and therefore to obtain ratings of the show, the Atlantic reported Thursday, citing demographic research provided by the National Media Inc..

Expert curators such as Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer were contemptuous of the potential of the Trump run for President for weeks. And in private, Republicans have been appalled by how much attention, it was diverting to other, more legitimate, potential candidates who may chance to beat Obama in 2012.

Trump has been at the top of opinion polls, leading other potential Republican candidates.

But Paul Rand, a beloved child of Tea Party movement - whose adherents believe much Obama was not born in the United States - said number of Trump will fall when Republicans learn that he has donated more money for the Democrats that the GOPincluding Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate.

Paul has launched a challenge to Trump Thursday in the comments of the public who are among the first to spring to the mouth of a large Republican publicly.

Kentucky Senator opened a breakfast speech to New risk to require the Trump Republican titles.

"I want to see the original long-form certificate of Republican nomination of Donald Trump," he said to laughter from the crowd. "To seriously...". I want to see the original of the long-form certificate, with the seal in relief, of the Republican registration of Donald Trump. ?

He has even a jab to Trump on Obama attacks while ridiculing his simplistic ideas on how to deal with the soaring price of gasoline.

"He always complained on the education of the President", Paul said to journalists covering the event in Concord, N.H.

"What economic school teaches you that you may have a bully for a President who sets the price by saying simply the country what is the price that they should require." That shows me an economic simplicity that can really not be equivalent to the stature to be President. ?

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