Tuesday, 15 March 2011

PENTAX DSLRs: LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

PENTAX DSLRs: LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5: " Email: brqyvn@gmail.com Hi Pentaxian friends. PENTAX ANNOUNCES LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5 Compare the K-5 Limited eDITION with..."

LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

Email: brqyvn@gmail.com

Hi Pentaxian friends.

PENTAX ANNOUNCES LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

Compare the K-5 Limited eDITION with the K-7 Silver Limited Edition.

AND THREE DA LIMITED EDITION SILVER LENSES

Golden, Colorado (February 7, 2011)…PENTAX Imaging Company has announced that the popular K-5 digital SLR will be available soon in Limited Edition Silver. Available in the US in limited quantities this special-edition model of the PENTAX K-5 digital SLR camera will feature an exclusive design with an original exterior color scheme and a uniquely shaped grip.

Along with the silver K-5, PENTAX announced three popular PENTAX DA Limited Edition Silver lens models designed for use with PENTAX digital SLR cameras also which will ship in the near future. Each limited edition lens will feature a high-quality, silver finish applied to the high precision machine shaped lens barrel, hood and cap.

The three prime lenses that will be available in silver include:

• smc PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2 AL Limited Silver

• smc PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 Limited Silver

• smc PENTAX-DA 70mm F2.4 Limited Silver

The special edition, silver finish K-5 will match existing PENTAX FA-Limited series lenses and the new DA Limited Silver series lenses. The camera’s mode dial, control buttons and levers all feature the elegant silver color. To improve handling, this special-edition model comes with an exclusively designed grip that is thicker than the standard K-5 model. Shock-resistant, scratchproof reinforced glass has been used to protect the LCD monitor on the camera’s back panel and the status panel on the top panel.

First announced in September 2010, the K-5 DSLR offers a true high-end, weather-resistant prosumer design and features normally found only on the most costly of professional cameras including:

• High resolution 16.3 megapixel CMOS sensor.

• Fast 7 FPS to capture fast action shots.

• A high sensitivity 80-12800 ISO range, expandable to 51200, with improved noise performance overall.

• Widescreen 1080p HD video at 25 FPS with sound via built-in microphone or external 3.5mm stereo microphone jack.

The unique DA Limited series of prime lenses offers incredible sharpness and image quality, and are made specifically for PENTAX DSLR cameras. These lenses are ideal for even the most discerning photographer who demands top performance in an ultra-compact package. The high-grade aluminum construction of the DA Limited series provides the utmost durability and elegant design.

Whether paired or purchased separately, the Limited Edition Silver K-5 and the smc PENTAX DA

Limited Silver lenses will offer owners a classic, high-end photography expererience. Priced at $1699.95 (body kit), the PENTAX K-5 Limited Edition Silver will be available in April 2011.

The PENTAX DA Limited Edition Silver lens pricing and availability are TBA. More information is available here: www.pentaximaging.com and product images are available here:

Preorder is available here: http://www.pentaxwebstore.com/

PENTAX DSLRs: LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

PENTAX DSLRs: LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5: " Email: brqyvn@gmail.com Hi Pentaxian friends. PENTAX ANNOUNCES LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5 Compare the K-5 Limited eDITION with..."

LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

Email: brqyvn@gmail.com

Hi Pentaxian friends.

PENTAX ANNOUNCES LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

Compare the K-5 Limited eDITION with the K-7 Silver Limited Edition.

AND THREE DA LIMITED EDITION SILVER LENSES

Next GE: Rules of engagement

Singapore

Next GE: Rules of engagement

my paper
Tue, Mar 15, 2011

1. Use of new media in campaign activities

Before: Only party websites, chat rooms, discussion forums, e-mail, SMSes and hyperlinks could be used for Internet election advertising.

Now: Podcasts, video-sharing sites like YouTube, microblogs like Twitter, MMS, social-networking sites like Facebook and electronic media applications are permitted.

2. Appeals to forward election advertisements

Before: Political parties and candidates were not allowed to circulate materials, such as chain e-mail messages, appealing to recipients to forward them.

Now: They are free to do so.

3. Use of live recordings as campaign tools

Before: Candidates or groups of candidates could use only photographs for election advertising.

Now: They can distribute and exhibit live recordings of lawful election activities during the election period.

4. Distribution of live campaign recordings

Before: All films had to be sent to the Board of Film Censors for classification before being shown or distributed.

Now: Live recordings of lawful election activities are exempt from classification. The film must not dramatise the event or have additions, subtractions, omissions or other modifications.

5. Declaration of new-media tools for elections

Before: Not applicable.

Now: All candidates must declare the new-media platforms they own which they intend to use for election advertising within 12 hours of the start of the campaign.

6. Individual Singaporeans participating in Internet election advertising

Before: During the elections period, those who publish election advertisements had to declare their particulars on the material.

Now: They need not do so if they are acting in an unpaid personal capacity.

7. Authorisation for election expenses

Before: Election agents had to fill up two forms reporting the payment of expenses by the party.

Now: Election agents must fill up two additional forms when consolidating the expenses of candidates within a GRC.

8. Non-citizens in election activity

Before: Non-citizens were prohibited from taking part in any form of election activity.

Now: Workers who are Singapore PRs or work-pass holders can now carry out manual work such as putting up election posters.

9. Election-campaign promotional items

Before: Parties and candidates could promote themselves using only buttons, pens, pencils and balloons.

Now: They can distribute items such as diaries, key chains, soft toys, tissue packets and T-shirts without declaring their personal particulars.

10. Permit for Speakers' Corner

Before: People could speak at the Speakers' Corner without a permit since 2008.

Now: This will be revoked during the campaign period. All activities there require a permit from police, whether or not the space is designated as an election site.

AirAsia's follow-through rebound likely

SN Lock

SHARE prices on Bursa Malaysia consolidated in response to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan yesterday. Decliners outpaced advancers by 352 to 308.

The FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (FBM KLCI) rebounded from its intra-day low of 1,480.79 to its intra-day high of 1,500.10 yesterday. It closed at 1,495.35 points, giving a day-on-day loss of 0.27 point, or 0.02 per cent.

AirAsia Bhd trended higher to close at RM2.54, giving it a day-on-day gain of 7 sen, or 2.83 per cent.

Chartwise, AirAsia's daily price trend fell from its recent high of RM3.04 on January 14, to its intra-day low of RM2.35 on February 24, posting a total loss of 69 sen.

Its 60-minute price trend staged a minor technical breakout of its short-term downtrend (B3:B4) yesterday and stayed above its intermediate-term uptrend (B1:B2).

Its daily fast MACD (moving average convergence divergence) continued to stay above its daily slow MACD yesterday. Both of its daily fast and slow MACDs stayed below their respective neutral reference lines.

AirAsia's daily price trend is likely to stage a follow-through technical rebound.

The subject expressed above is based on technical analysis and opinions of the writer. It is not a solicitation to buy or sell.

More quick exits unlikely

Newly-listed companies are not expected to follow Berjaya Retail Bhd's "quick" privatisation route, even though more than half of some 35 companies listed since last year are trading below their initial public offering (IPO) price.

"There are many companies trading below their IPO prices, but I don't think this is going to be a trend. There are many other factors to consider before taking a company private, not just how its share price perform," Mercury Securities head of research Edmund Tham said when contacted yesterday.

"When companies are listed, they get higher market and product visibility. They could also get easier access to financing and better financing terms," Tham added.

Since 2010, some 35 companies made their debut on either the Main Market or the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia. Of this, 20 companies, or about 57 per cent, are below their IPO prices.

From the 35 IPOs, 28 are listed on the Main Market, while the balance seven are listed on the ACE Market. Five of the seven ACE Market IPOs are trading below their IPO prices.

Analysts pointed out that the underperformance was due to market sentiment and lack of exposure to investors, among others.

They also pointed out that the main reason these newly-listed companies embarked on the IPO exercise was to raise funds for expansion. Therefore, it is unlikely that they would seek more funds to privatise themselves only after a short stint on the bourse.

Last Friday, Premier Merchandise Sdn Bhd, in which tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan has an indirect 100 per cent stake, announced plans to buy the remaining shares it does not own in Berjaya Retail for 65 sen each. The move came less than seven months after its debut on the local stock exchange.

Premier Merchandise cited BRetail's undervalued share price as one of the key reasons for the privatisation plan.

The exercise would cost Tan, who has an indirect stake of 85 per cent in BRetail, about RM145 million.

Some analysts are not surprised by Tan's move but were somewhat disappointed by it.

"It is quite bad for minority shareholders who are looking for long-term investments," said an analyst from a local research house.

Although they ruled out the privatisation prospects of newly-listed firms, analysts are not dismissing such exercises being taken by some.

An analyst said that companies that could be in the privatisation radar must boast criteria such as cash-rich, business-savvy owner or major shareholder, under-performance of their share price, and price-to-earnings (PE) ratio that is significantly below industry peers.

One such company under the investors' radar is DRB-HICOM Bhd, whose privatisation talks have been widely speculated.

The group is currently trading at single-digit PE, as compared to its peers, which are trading as much as more than 30 times PE.

DRB-HICOM had said it is unaware of any privatisation plans.

Hwang-DBS Vickers has placed a target price of RM3.80 on the group.

Read more: More quick exits unlikely http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/ipo14-2/Article/index_html#ixzz1Gd1a5I2d

Focus on education boosts Asian businesses | The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre & Scranton PA

March 6

Focus on education boosts Asian businesses

By Alexander MacInnes The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Small business experts believe Asians are successful, in part, because of their disciplined work ethic, their investment in educating the next generation to join the professional ranks and their loyalty in serving the Asian community.

Dave Kang, vice president of Evermetal, Inc., sells scrap metal to companies in Asia.

Nationally, there are about 6 million minority-owned businesses, of which 3 percent gross more than $1 million in sales, according to Heyward Davenport, regional director of the Minority Business Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Of those most profitable businesses, half are owned by Asian-Americans, according to Davenport. That success, according to interviews and available data, starts with a rigorous commitment to educational achievement, which then leads to higher-paying jobs, or the creation of businesses in more lucrative fields — such as engineering, information technology and health care. Once established, Indian, Korean and Chinese business leaders tend to carry less debt and save more of what they’ve earned.

Anil Bansal, president of the Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, is blunt about the success of Indians.

“It’s the education,” said Bansal, a founder of the Indus American Bank in Edison and owner of a Web design company and a restaurant. “There’s no secret, whatsoever.”

The gap in earnings between workers with advanced degrees and those with some college experience or an associate’s degree has grown in the last 10 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2000 those with advanced degrees earned on average 70 percent more than employees with less education. Last year, that difference grew to 84 percent.

Succeeding in the classroom is a message delivered repeatedly to the next generation, according to Saeed Patel, president of Amex Computers Inc. in Carlstadt. Patel came to New Jersey from Gujarat, India, 22 years ago — with a $15,000 loan from his parents and an engineering degree.

“We don’t discount education,” Patel said. “We want to make sure our kids have the best opportunities. That is actually on my mind every day.”

Patel’s Amex, a wholesale computer distribution company, had sales of $28.5 million last year. He said he has expanded his businesses cautiously, without overextending himself and building on his savings — characteristics, Patel says, that are common among Asian immigrants.

Asian business leaders across the country added almost as many employees to the workforce as African-American, Hispanic and Native American business owners combined, according to the U.S. 2007 Economic Census.

Asians created 2.8 million jobs, compared with 3 million by businesses owned by the other three groups. When Asians created those jobs, they were more often in the science and technology sectors.

Chiling Tong, the former chief of staff for the Minority Business Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, says Asians are expanding into areas of business beyond information technology, such as energy and recycling.

The Short Interest Site of WallStreetCourier.com - Retrieve historical monthly short interest data of over 8000 stocks

Theoretical Aspects of Short Interest

What ist the Short Interest?

This is the number of shares currently borrowed by short sellers for sale, but not yet returned to the owner (lender). Every short seller anticipates a declining stock market. A profit is made if the stock is bought back at a lower price than when it was sold short. When a large amount of short selling activity is occurring, market participants obviously expect prices to head lower. Short sellers are potential buyers sooner or later and represent a lot of buying power when they have to scramble for cover in a sudden market turn.

Short Interest Theory

This is the theory that a large short interest is the predecessor of a rise in the price of a stock. The reasoning behind this is that the short positions must eventually be covered, which means that there will be more purchasers of the stock who in turn drive the price up. If a stock's price begins to rise significantly, investors who have short sold the stock will quickly begin to close out their positions (by purchasing shares off the open market), creating buying pressure for the stock and driving the price up even more. If a previously lagging stock turns very bullish, the buying action of short sellers can result in extra upward momentum and increased losses for short sellers who are slow to close out their positions. The longer the days to cover, the more pronounced this effect can be.

Short Squeeze

A short squeeze occurs when short sellers are scrambling to replace their borrowed stock thereby increasing demand and decreasing supply, forcing prices up. Short squeezes tend to occur more often in smaller cap stocks, which have a very small float (supply), but large caps are certainly not immune from this situation.

Short Interest Ratio

The short interest ratio is the number of days it would take to cover the short interest if trading continued at the average daily volume for the month. For example, if a company has average daily volume of 1 million shares and 2 million shares are currently short sold, the shares have a cover rate of 2 days.

Will Last Week's Stock Sell-Off Trip Up the Bull Market?

BY JON D. MARKMAN, Contributing Writer, Money Morning

Stocks tumbled over the past week - despite a sharp 3% drop in crude oil prices - as investors fretted about the devastating earthquake in Japan, a downgrade of Spain's sovereign debt rating, weak trade data out of China, Germany and the United States and violence in Saudi Arabia.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down by 1% for the week, while the Nasdaq Composite Indexfinished down 2.5% and the Russell 2000 small caps fell 2.7%. The stock sell-off was punctuated by a 90% downside day on Thursday, which means nine out of 10 stocks finished lower and 9/10 of the volume was in declining stocks.

Selling was intense and there appeared to be what The Street calls "real money" selling, which means not just speculators but individuals and institutions. Measures of buying power retreated to its lowest level of the year, while selling pressure is at its highest. Defensive stocks were relatively strong, led by McDonalds Corp. (NYSE:MCD) and Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) - burgers and cigarettes.

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Tuesday, 15 March 2011

PENTAX DSLRs: LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

PENTAX DSLRs: LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

LIMITED EDITION SILVER K-5

Next GE: Rules of engagement

Next GE: Rules of engagement

AirAsia's follow-through rebound likely

More quick exits unlikely

Focus on education boosts Asian businesses | The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre & Scranton PA

Focus on education boosts Asian businesses

The Short Interest Site of WallStreetCourier.com - Retrieve historical monthly short interest data of over 8000 stocks

Theoretical Aspects of Short Interest

What ist the Short Interest?

Short Interest Theory

Short Squeeze

Short Interest Ratio

Will Last Week's Stock Sell-Off Trip Up the Bull Market?

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