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Each Sunday I highlight the Carnivals I participated in over the past week, along with any notable articles that I came across. For those readers not familiar with carnivals, it's where personal finance bloggers submit their best articles of the week with one blog serving as the host. The entries are separated into various categories such as Investing, Credit, Debt, Budgeting, Frugality, Wealth Building, Money Management, Financial Planning, Insurance, Taxes, The Economy, Real Estate, et. al. Below are the carnivals that I participated in this week, along with a link to my article:

The Wealth Builder Carnival published: 6 Stocks Sending A Strong Message With Higher Dividends
Articles I enjoyed reading included (in no particular order):

- The Dividend Guy presented Key Dividend Growth Ratios ? The Secret Behind Dividend Investing
- Dividend Monk presented Diageo: Expensive at Current Price
- Dividend Mantra presented Your Savings Rate Trumps Your Investment Returns

The DIV-Net Featured Articles

Articles from D4L-News:

Buy Dividend Winning Stocks In Dips
It was quite clear to us that there was a sell-off in many dividend paying stocks on Friday, with a new focus on growth stocks. The growth areas were led by financials, like Bank of America (BAC) and other large banks, since the Fed has basically given them an unlimited check book to use funds at ridiculously low interest rates, and have a wide enough spread to make money on virtually anything they desire. Our portfolio now consists of...

What You Need To Know Before Trading Dividend Stocks
Prior to buying stock in a company that distributes cash dividends, check today?s newspaper. If the stock you want to buy has been marked x in any of these papers, it means that it is already gone ex-dividend. In case of a company that pays dividends in form of stock, you should also confirm if the stock has approached ex-dividend ahead of investing in it. Another thing you should determine is...

Dividend Stocks For the 2013 Stock Crash
Even though stimulus measures trigger market rallies, they're actually admissions that economies are so weak they need government assistance. As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently stated, the economic conditions in the United States, particularly high unemployment, should be of "grave concern" to all. Legendary investor Jim Rogers declared in an interview that, "In America, we have had recessions every 4 to 6 years at the beginning of the republic. 2013 is going to be a mess. It always has been, there's no reason it won't be this time too. Be careful..." In order to heed Rogers' warning, investors should consider adding the following stocks to their portfolios. The best way to profit from Rogers' sage advice is to...

Investors Pile Into Stocks Likely to Keep Raising Dividend
Call them the new growth stocks. After rushing into dividend stocks of all stripes this year, some investors are homing in on a more select group: stocks of companies that are likely to keep raising their dividends at a fast clip. It is all part of the chase for better returns on the heels of the Federal Reserve's announcement last week of another round of bond buying aimed to keep interest rates at rock-bottom levels until the economy improves. As yields on the 10-year Treasury wallow at near-record lows and "junk"-bond yields also are sinking, investors are seeking anything that offers some extra income. For months, that meant investors bought...

Dividend Stocks With An A+ Buy-Rating
There's about 6,000 U.S.-listed stocks trading on the major exchanges on any given day. Of those, TheStreet Ratings has rated 5,774 and only 121 issues -- about 2% -- have received an "A+," our highest rating. TheStreet Ratings' stock model projects a stock's total return potential over a 12-month period including both price appreciation and dividends. We consider each of these stocks to be strong buys. Nine of these exceptional companies are well-known Dow dividend stocks...

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There are some really good articles here, please take time and read a few of them. ? ?

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Source: http://www.dividend-growth-stocks.com/2012/09/weekly-links-september-30-2012.html

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The Movie Geeks speak with acclaimed actor Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Men in Black, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) about the highlights of his extraordinary career, and his new film Chained, which is now available on DVD and blu-ray.

Butz and Butz Sports Radio broadcast live from the bar at the One Crazy Fan Tailgate Truck at Lincoln Financial Field with former Eagles Pro Bowl linebacker William Thomas.

At only 20 years old, J. Anton Boykin is already affectionately known as the "Sax Sensation." Since the age of eight he has been mastering the craft of music. Come listen to him talk about what inspires him.

EGH Media presents Rowan Galagher who is The Mad Pride. A singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who doesn't read music and also successfully controls Tourette?s syndrome.

MGN Radio welcomes Author Ngozi Achebe to discuss her new book, Onaedo - The Blacksmith's Daughter on our show. Her debut novel has already been nominated for several literary awards.

The Gridiron Chefs with TP Tymless and James Greenwood break down the weeks games in the NFL, the pressing topics around the league and listener questions.

This week Tim and Jill will finish the discussion on LGBT and Marriage Equality, this is a hot topic that has been trending on social networks and is an important issue for voters as we near election time.

Francy and Friends will be LIVE from The Days of Terror Convention, be sure to tune in as they will be meeting some of the biggest names in horror films. You never know who you might run into.

It's open-wheel racing and NASCAR on this episode, as Dustin Parks will be joined by guest co-host Glenn Locke. These two always bring great conversation, and this will be no different.

Grab your Saturday morning coffee and tune into "Those Diner and Motorcycle Guys" hosted by those eggs over easy riders Garrison Leykam and Scot Doane. "Those Diner and Motorcycle Guys"...talk radio was never like this!

BGE Radio welcomes Playboy Model Crissy Henderson to the show. Crissy is an actress, model and philanthropist. Tune in as she speaks about her life and upcoming work.

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Click here to read New Apple Patents Hint At Upcoming Camera Features

With iPhone 5 announced and released, designers are back to the grindstone. In fact, they probably already have been for a while. A few new Apple patents filed just a few days ago provide some hints at what Apple cameras might do in the future. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Qnz9cbEY4wQ/new-apple-patents-hint-at-a-few-upcoming-camera-features

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I am a Mommy to five...Birdman (17), Shmoobi (16), Sport (11), Princess (3) & Jazzy (2). Shmoobi is our biological son, the other four our our adoptive/foster children. I run an in-home daycare caring for my two daughters, three 2 year old girls and two school age girls. Well Sport & Jazzy's biological mother delivered a healthy baby girl last Friday and the baby was placed into foster care into our home. I am trying to manage my daycare plus my toddler daughters with a newborn baby girl. Here are some questions for those with infants and toddlers?

* Do you go outside often? We were going out 2-4 hours a day? I am in Western NY so it can get cold here!
* Do you ask the toddlers not to touch the baby (germs)?
* Do you limit field trips and outings? We currently attend an outside pre-school T/Th and ballet Friday plus a field trip Wednesdays.
* Do you have any advice for a Mommy of six/ having three girls ages 3 and under?

My husband and I are so happy to have such a big family but are working on finding our new routine and making it work for us giving all our children attention, love and guidance!

Source: http://forums.adoption.com/foster-parent-support/408325-our-6th-child.html

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Click here to read This Is How Graphene Will Grow the Flexible Semiconductors of the Future

As you should already know, graphene is the super thin, super strong, transparent, conductive, self-repairing material that's poised to revolutionize the future by not only by super-charging batteries but also by giving us flexible semiconductors. This is how they get made. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/DveppnVBg9Y/this-is-how-graphene-will-grow-the-flexible-semiconductors-of-the-future

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A?1 percent tax on billionaires around the world. ?A tax on all currency trading in the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling.? ?Another? ?tiny?? tax on all financial transactions, including stock and bond trading, and trading in financial derivatives. ?New taxes on carbon emissions and on airline tickets. ?A royalty on all undersea mineral resources extracted more than 100 miles offshore of any nation?s territory.

The United Nations is at it again:? finding new and ?innovative? ways to create global taxes that would transfer hundreds of billions, and even trillions, of dollars from the rich nations of the world ? especially the U.S. ? to poorer ones, in line with U.N.-directed economic, social and environmental development.

These latest global tax proposals have received various forms of endorsement at U.N. meetings over the spring and summer, and will be entered into the record during the 67^th? U.N. General Assembly session, which began this week. The agenda for the entire session, lasting through December, is scheduled to be finalized on Friday.

How to convince developed countries wracked by economic recession and spiraling levels of government debt ? especially the U.S. ? is another issue, which the world organization may well end up trying to finesse.?

As the U.N. itself notes, in a major report on the taxation topic titled, ?In Search of New Development Finance? ? the main topic at a high-level international meeting of the U.N.?s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this summer ? ?These proposals are subject to political controversy. For instance, many countries are not willing to support international forms of taxation, as these are said to undermine national sovereignty.?

The world organization, and its constellation of funds, agencies and programs, has been pushing ?innovative financing? for nearly a decade.

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The U.N. clearly hopes it can find a way to move ahead. ? Politically, tapping revenue from global resources and raising taxes internationally to address global problems are much more difficult than taxing for purely domestic purposes,? admits an ECOSOC document produced last April. But, it summarizes, ??the time has come to confront the challenge.?

Shortly thereafter, the tax proposals ? known in U.N.-speak as ?innovative methods of financing?? got a limited endorsement from a group of government ministers and other heads of national delegations who attended a major ECOSOC meeting in New York City in July.

The global taxation idea was echoed this week by Jeffrey Sachs, head of Columbia University?s Earth Institute and also a U.N. Assistant Secretary General. Sachs was recently named by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to head a new intellectual lobbying group of experts called the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.? It ?will work closely with United Nations agencies, multilateral financing institutions and other international organizations,? according to the Earth Institute website.

On Monday, the controversial economist, a vociferous supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, called on President Obama to implement a carbon tax that in turn could be used to finance bonds, paying for investments to combat ?climate change? ? one of the major focuses of the new solutions network.

Sachs was quoted by Bloomberg News as declaring that, ?I?m happy to have the future pay for a lot of this. It doesn?t have to be current financed.?

In the midst of a heated U.S. national election campaign, any official endorsement of those views is unlikely.

Nonetheless, the U.N. is taking a longer view. The world organization, and its constellation of funds, agencies and programs, has been pushing ?innovative financing? for nearly a decade, since the topic was discussed in depth at an international conference in 2002.? The topic was endorsed again at the failed Rio + 20 conference last summer, without much detail attached.

But the need for new revenue is becoming more urgent as the world?s rich countries, gripped in recession, no longer hand out foreign aid with the same generosity as before ? though the total reached $133 billion annually last year?while the demands for huge additional amounts of money for social and climate issues continues to grow.

Earlier this year, for example, the overseers of a new, U.N.-sponsored? Green Climate Fund held their first meeting in Bonn to contemplate the spending of some $30 billion annually ? rising to $100 billion by 2020 ? to meet climate change needs in developing countries.? Where all that money will come from is still not clear.

The U.N.?s latest roster of tax possibilities certainly has what the New Development Finance Report calls ?large fundraising potential.? Or, at least some of them do. An around-the-world tax of $25 per ton on carbon dioxide emissions in rich countries, the report says, could raise some $250 billion a year. That new billionaire?s tax would raise anywhere from $40 billion to $50 billion per year, the report estimates, though it adds that the idea ?is not yet in any international agenda.?

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The U.N. places the same estimated value on the proposed currency tax ($40 billion), and roughly the same thing on its proposed financial tax ($15 billion to $75 billion).

Even more innovative is a notion to, in effect, borrow the lines of credit allocated to rich countries themselves at the International Monetary Fund, and? ?leverage? them to create new investment funds for the world?s poor. How to do this while preserving those credit lines as a reserve asset that rich countries could draw on when required, the report admits, remains to be seen.

Another ?innovative? idea that may have trouble staying afloat is the notion of charging royalties on undersea minerals more than 100 miles offshore, within what are called ?exclusive economic zones? ? in effect, inside some country?s sovereign economic territory.

The sensitive issue here is that the world?s current ?exclusive economic zones? extend 200 miles offshore ? meaning that the U.N. is suggesting that it collect royalties on mineral wealth on half the ?exclusive? territory, which it refers to in the report as part of the ?global commons.??

For most nations, excluding the U.S., those 200 mile zones were established by the U.N.-sponsored Law of the Sea Treaty, known as LOST, which came into force in 1994 after it was signed and ratified by 162 countries. (The U.S. signed but has not ratified LOST; its 200-mile ?exclusive economic zone? was established by presidential decree.)

The new, 100-mile royalty proposal in the U.N.?s financing report would require a new agreement to hand over proceeds from half of that territory to the U.N.-sponsored International Seabed Authority.

George Russell is executive editor of Fox News and can be found on Twitter @GeorgeRussell

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Source: http://avidinvestorgroup.com/2012/09/more-taxes-un-now-wants-more-of-the-action/

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Bats harbor many types of coronaviruses and were probably the original source of the new coronavirus that appeared in the Middle East.

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Bats harbor many types of coronaviruses and were probably the original source of the new coronavirus that appeared in the Middle East.

On the surface, the new coronavirus detected in the Middle East this month looks quite similar to SARS. It apparently causes severe respiratory problems, and can be lethal.

But with viruses, the devil is in their details ? the genetic details.

Dutch virologists have just published the whole genome of the new coronavirus ? all 30,118 letters of its code. And, the sequence reveals that the mystery virus is most closely related to coronaviruses that infect bats in Southeast Asia.

In fact, the pathogen is more similar to two bat viruses than it is to the human SARS virus that sent the world into a panic when it infected nearly 8,000 people in 2003.

Virologist Ron Fouchier, who has done controversial work on bird flu viruses, led the sequencing effort of the SARS-like virus. He tells Shots the results suggest that the new coronavirus virus came from bats. "Bats harbor many coronaviruses, so it's logical to assume that bats are the natural reservoir" of the new pathogen, he says.

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"But this doesn't mean the Saudi man contracted the virus from bats," says Fouchier.

When viruses jump from animals to humans, there's usually a second animal that connects the natural carrier with humans. This species is called the amplifier because it increases the number of viral particles that can hop over into people.

With SARS, Fouchier says, it probably started off in bats and then jumped into an exotic animal, such as a civet cat, before it made its way to people.

This type of infection trajectory fits with what epidemiologists have seen, so far, for the new coronavirus.

In the past few weeks, John Watson and his team at Britain's Health Protection Agency have tracked down about 60 people who recently came in contact with one of the men infected with the virus. "None of these contacts have become seriously ill or shown any sign of being infected with the virus," Watson tells Shots.

Plus, there's nothing special happening where the sick man lived, such as an uptick in cases of respiratory illnesses. This is strong evidence that the virus came from an animal and that it probably can't yet move between people.

But to know for sure, Watson says, scientists need to find more cases of the new virus.

The genome sequence will be a big help on this front. Fouchier and his team just published a diagnostic test for the new virus, which doctors around the world can use to verify suspected cases of the disease.

Fouchier says that the genome may also give clues to drugs that may be effective against the virus.

Companies can also begin to design vaccines for the virus, Fouchier adds. "There are experimental vaccines for SARS, and these could be updated to work on the virus," he says. "All knowledge that we built for SARS is not lost."

So what's he doing next? First, taking a few steps backward. "We still need proof that the virus is the cause of the disease," he says. "We are currently starting animal experiments with macaques and ferrets to show that this virus actually makes animals sick. Many viruses don't."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/28/161944734/holy-bat-virus-genome-hints-at-origin-of-sars-like-virus?ft=1&f=1007

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Editor?s Note: This is what they wanted all along. If they can?t get their carbon or Internet tax, they?ll get their austerity tax or whatever trumped up name they come up with.

A?1 percent tax on billionaires around the world. ?A tax on all currency trading in the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling.? ?Another? ?tiny?? tax on all financial transactions, including stock and bond trading, and trading in financial derivatives. ?New taxes on carbon emissions and on airline tickets. ?A royalty on all undersea mineral resources extracted more than 100 miles offshore of any nation?s territory.

The United Nations is at it again:? finding new and ?innovative? ways to create global taxes that would transfer hundreds of billions, and even trillions, of dollars from the rich nations of the world ? especially the U.S. ? to poorer ones, in line with U.N.-directed economic, social and environmental development.

These latest global tax proposals have received various forms of endorsement at U.N. meetings over the spring and summer, and will be entered into the record during the 67^th? U.N. General Assembly session, which began this week. The agenda for the entire session, lasting through December, is scheduled to be finalized on Friday.

How to convince developed countries wracked by economic recession and spiraling levels of government debt ? especially the U.S. ? is another issue, which the world organization may well end up trying to finesse.