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Power to the World with WakaWaka Personal Solar Power Station
Most efficient solar lamp in the world now provides ability to charge any cell phone and tablet with USB connector .
Haarlem (The Netherlands) —December 10, 2012 – The WakaWaka Power is the much anticipated follow-up to the very successful WakaWaka Light, winner of 4 Accenture Innovation Awards last month. Building on the original design, the WakaWaka Power is thinner and  lighter and features a Sunpower solar cell, Intivation power management and much more battery capacity than the previous version.  It deliveres up to 60 lumens of bright, safe, bright reading light for more than 40 hours on an 8 hour solar charge as well as the ability to charge cell phones and tablets.
Always Power at Your Fingertips
The WakaWaka Power is the culmination of many months of design to create a product that is both a fashionable and a functional tool for everyday use. With the growth in mobile devices, there is a increased need to have a reliable, efficient, portable device that ensures power at your fingertips at all times. The WakaWaka power was dramatically upgraded with the best solar technology on the market today, which makes it up to 200% more efficient than comparable products, in particular in low light conditions. The sun does not always shine.
Personal Solar Power Station
Consumer feedback has guided the development to meet the needs of not only consumers but also of disaster prep, emergency services and even military. Four different light modes generate a bright torch light down to a low intensity night safety light. As an extra a SOS emergency beacon is programmed. Being so compact and reliable as well as very easy to use with just a single large button, the WakaWaka Power is well suited to be the premier Personal Solar Power Station worldwide.
Crowdfunding
On 12-12-12 the pre-sale of the WakaWaka Power will start on Kickstarter.com . The suggested retail price for the WakaWaka Power is $79.00. During this pre-sale Kickstarter event, visitors can purchase the WakaWaka Power for as little as $49.00/unit.  The funds raised will be used to take the prototype into production ready for delivery to retail stores around May.
Light Up Haiti
For each WakaWaka Power sold during the crowdfunding campaign, one WakaWaka Light (lights only) will be delivered to UNHCR to be distributed to a Haitian family living in darkness. Still today, 3 years after the devastating earthquake in 2010, more than 370,000 Haitians live in shelters, without any electricity, heavily dependent on toxic, expensive and extremely dangerous kerosene lamps. This short video indicates the situation there.
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CERN 1990-2012

CERN-In 1990 European Centre for Nuclear Research landed an order to deliver a complex set of computer modules for experiments from my company. It followed with further requests. Finally in 1991 December I got a blank order for 1992. And this is how we got along so well, that I was in Meyrin every other month from then on. Now I am on the other side of the Atlantic, but still keep contact with this great bunch of scientists trying to crack the atom. Many friends have retired, Dr Parkman, Dr. Eck and others, But even today more than 22 to years later, the news which arrived this morning is worth to publish for others to know.

Professor Agnieszka Zalewska Elected President of CERN Council

Geneva, 20 September 2012. CERN[1] Council today elected Professor Agnieszka Zalewska as its 21st President for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013. Professor Zalewska takes over from Michel Spiro who comes to the conclusion of his three-year term at the end of December.

“I feel particularly honoured to have presided over the CERN Council through a period that has seen the first major results from the LHC,” said Professor Spiro. “But we are just at the start, so while warmly thanking CERN management and personnel for the last three years, I’d like to wish Professor Zalewska all the very best as the LHC adventure continues to unfold.”

Agnieszka Zalewska is a Professor at the H. Niewodniczański Institute of High Energy Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She has a distinguished career in particle physics and a long association with CERN. She received her doctorate in 1975 from the Jagellonian University, Krakow, for work carried out on bubble chamber data from an experiment at CERN. Later, she worked on the DELPHI experiment at CERN’s Large Electron Positron collider, LEP, where she played an important role in the development of silicon tracking detectors. Since 2000, she has been involved with neutrino physics through the ICARUS experiment at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory, which studies a neutrino beam sent through the Earth from CERN, and has also been involved with feasibility studies for an underground laboratory in Poland. She has been a member of several CERN committees, and has been the Polish scientific delegate to the CERN Council since January 2010.

“The coming years will be fascinating, but demanding, as we prepare the LHC for running at higher energies and implement the updated European Strategy for Particle Physics,” said Zalewska. “CERN and its Council will become my only priority, and I would like to thank the Council members and outgoing President for the confidence they have placed in me.”

RFID products for North America

RFIDproducts for the North American markets

Ogdensburg, NY (August 30, 2012) Tony Puch, VP of IMU Swiss Inc. a division of IMU Group Swiss of Cham, Switzerland, has announced signing of cooperation agreement with CAEN RFID slr of Italy to distribute their product via the channel in North America. Especially the Eastern Canada and the US New England States are going to see the initial impact on their territory.

IMU Group Swiss is a leading IT technology provider on a global scale. Established 15 years ago, has supplied military and aerospace clients as well as high end solutions for banking (serving 3 out of Fortune 50 banks), medical, energy and power industries worldwide. IMU is working to shorten the time to market, or as some say, time to cash, helping clients to complete their integration before time and save on budget.

CAEN RFID is a leading supplier of UHF RFID readers and logger tags. It has been among the first European companies to design and manufacture UHF RFID readers.

Besides being a leading supplier of basic RFID technology, CAEN RFID is ready to perform also as a solution enabler, thus allowing to reduce integration time and costs, doing so IMU and CAEN work hand in hand.

The above agreement is a result of long term cooperation starting 10 years ago, were both companies met at CERN in Geneva. Both have invested in Atlas (part of Hadron particle accelerator development) heavily and for many years.

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Dear Reader,

The Market Risk Over the Next 2 Years is to the Upside

How do I know? Look at the evidence…
Has anybody noticed the VIX – the “impending doom” indicator? Check out the 5 year chart below. The three peaks represent the GFC – comprising Lehman Brothers crash, EU debt crisis 1 and lastly EU debt crisis 2 with added Japanese tsunami and Libyan war just to make life even more difficult.
While much of the data I am going to show you is American, where the American market goes, so does the Australian market, so it is equally applicable.

Over the years, the VIX has been a reliable indicator of fear in the markets and it currently sits at around 14 – this is a pre-GFC low! - This is a number you’d associate with the “happy period” - the one between 2003 and 2006. This reading tells us we are well past any chance of systemic meltdown. However, there are other indicators… The S&P 500 Index stocks are very cheap and close to levels that were last seen in the 1990’s just before the “great bull rally” began….

The “crowd” is still doing crazy things by withdrawing money from the markets by redeeming from managed funds (US figures in the chart, but Australian numbers are similar). This is a common occurrence every time there is a “problem” due to “retail investors” still reading the “risk-heightened” headlines and sensationalist journos pumping out “newspaper selling” doom and gloom stories. Retail investors (the “crowd”) always sell low and buy high and it’s happening again…

Another very good indicator is the 2-year Swap Spread. In finance, this the difference between, say, the US Treasury Bond yield and the LIBOR rate, being the rate at which banks will lend to each other. The higher the Swap Spread is; the more risk is perceived by banks and investors. When it is very high, systemic meltdown is of concern and when low, as it is now, there are few real systemic risks concerning the financial system. Obviously, according to these statistics, there are still slightly elevated concerns about Europe, but they have been dropping throughout 2012, whereas there are few if any concerns about the US. In fact, the US banking system according to most statistics has not been in better shape for decades. The grey area indicates recession.

Lastly, US unemployment is trending down and where unemployment goes, markets follow (inversely of course)….

So there you have it. Remaining too negative over the next few months could possibly be very harmful to your wealth.
It could be this is the end of 5 years of chaos. I have to say, I have never in the last 5 years seen all these charts saying all the same thing, all at the same time, and so convincingly! Of course, there will be bumps along the way, but I think the nasty “apocalyptic meltdowns” are over. Long-term, I’m very bullish, particularly on the US economy.
To add further evidence to my theory, last Sunday, over lunch I had a good chat with a guy who owns and runs a US based “analytics” company who assists some of the biggest and most innovative companies (think S&P 500 companies) in the US to improve productivity and efficiency and he was very positive about prospects for the US economy and particularly the companies he’s been doing work for. He couldn’t tell me too much in relation to specifics due to confidentiality issues, but he did say having worked with some (13 in all, mainly technology) of our TC and Trident Global Growth Fund companies, that he wouldn’t sell any of them, in fact, he said buy more.
He was most enthused about one of our biggest holdings in the Fund, describing the company with a wry smile as “amazing – you have no idea what these guys are capable of – they have some incredible stuff coming!” and it wasn’t Apple.
I suspect, as many well-respected fund managers and professional investors do, that we are likely to re-enter another multi-year bull market not unlike what we saw in the period from 2002 to 2007. I believe we have one of the last opportunities to buy under-valued stocks before the end of this year, before it all takes off. Do you want to be a part of it?
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This portfolio will include Australian and US stocks that have proven records of being for the most part recession proof and providing consistently growing dividends as well as earnings growth that will at least keep up with inflation. These companies will NOT be pure dividend plays, these will be strong and durable companies with excellent balance sheets and cash flows with good business models.
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• The underlying business is strong and is to a great extent immune to stock market events and economic crises.

The Yield portfolio includes a rundown of who they are and what they do, their history of earnings, dividends and how they go during tumultuous times and why we think they are just the ticket for conservative and safe portfolios – now every week. We’ll be keeping the portfolio mix at 50% Australian and 50% US based stocks.
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MEET THE ASTRONAUTS WHO INSTALLED AMS

AT CERN ON WEDNESDAY 25 JULY, 2012 AT 10:30

IN THE PAYLOAD AND OPERATIONS CONTROL CENTRE (POCC) @ CERN

one year after launch to the ISS

Geneva, 16 July 2012. Fourteen months ago, on 16 May 2011, the space shuttle Endeavour took off for the last time from Cape Canaveral in Florida with six astronauts on board. Their mission (code-named STS-134) was to install the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), the dark matter and antimatter detector designed at CERN, on the International Space Station. Since then, AMS has sent over 18 billion cosmic ray events from space to the POCC on the CERN Prévessin site.

On Wednesday 25 July, the astronauts who installed AMS on the ISS and their spouses will visit the POCC for the first time.  A press conference to mark the occasion and provide an update of the AMS searches in space 14 months after the start of data-taking will be held at the POCC at 10:30 CEST on 25 July, with the following programme:

09:30 Registration of the Press at CERN Main campus, reception, building 33

10:15 Shuttle departures from CERN reception to the POCC

10:30 Arrival of the members of the press and Photo opportunity in the POCC

10:35 Press Conference “AMS, one year in space”

Welcome by CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer
ESA Director for Science Alvaro Gimenez
AMS Spokesperson Sam Ting
STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly
Questions and answers with the above, STS 134 crew, spouses and AMS collaboration members
11:30 Tree planting by Astronaut Mark Kelly and his crew with commemorative plaque

11:35 Visit of the POCC for journalists with AMS scientists

Journalists wishing to attend should contact the CERN press office by 12:00 CEST on Monday 23 July at the latest, providing their nationality, date of birth and passport or identity card number. This document must also be presented before the visit. Please note that only the people who have registered will be able to go to the POCC.

AMS is studying fundamental issues about matter and the origin and structure of the Universe directly from space. Its main scientific target is the search for dark matter and antimatter, in a programme that is complementary to that of the Large Hadron Collider.

The following astronauts and spouses will be at CERN:

Mark Kelly, (NASA), US Navy Captain, a veteran of four space flights to the International Space Station and commander of expedition STS 134.

Gabrielle Giffords, wife of Shuttle commander Mark Kelly, has represented Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from 2007 to January 2012.

Greg Johnson (NASA), US Air force Colonel, twice pilot of Space Shuttle Endeavour, and his spouse Cari Michele Johnson.

Roberto Vittori (ESA), who had the delicate task of moving the AMS detector to the ISS with the Shuttle robotic arm on STS-134, and his spouse Valeria Nardi.

Michael Fincke (NASA), who has a record 381 days, 15 hours, and 11 minutes in orbit or space and participated in a movie for the Star Trek series, and his spouse Renita Saikia.

Drew Feustel (NASA), mostly known for repairing the Hubble Space telescope during the longest spacewalk, and his spouse Indira Devi Bhatnagar.

Gregory Chamitoff (NASA), the last space walker of the Space Shuttle programme, with 198 days in space, and his spouse Chantal Caviness.



Contact:

CERN Press Office, press.office@cern.ch

+41 22 767 34 32

+41 22 767 21 41



* CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a candidate for accession. Israel and Serbia are Associate Members in the pre-stage to Membership. India, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.

** The AMS detector components were produced by an international team of 60 institutes from 16 countries, with substantial contributions from CERN Member States (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland), and from China (Taipei) and the United States. The detector was assembled at CERN, with the assistance of the Laboratory’s technical services.



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Trident Confidential issue May 2012

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The World is Economically Lethargic – So Why Are Corporate Earnings at an All-Time Record?

Lance Spicer, Editor, Trident Confidential, 2 May, 2:42 PM

Is there a different “reality”? Has there been some sort of disconnect in the economy where you can have bad (or ordinary) economic news and great earnings from companies?
The answer is yes.
GDP data blinds us. For example, the US economy grew at 2.2 per cent (annualized rate) in the March quarter, which was well short of the average forecasts of economists who had predicted 2.7 per cent. This on the surface was quite bad, but the market kind of ignored it and pushed it’s way higher on the day the news came out and the reason was it wasn’t a bad a figure at all. In fact it was viewed very positively. It was the make up of the GDP number that made the difference. It showed a big drop in government spending (down 5.6 per cent) and a smaller contribution from inventories than expected (0.6 per cent versus 1.8 per cent in the December quarter). More than offsetting this was an increase in personal consumption of 2.9 per cent, which was the biggest gain in more than a year and this was attributed to a big increase in spending on cars and construction.
What this tells us is that the US consumer, who makes up 70% of the US economy, is feeling good and confident enough to buy new cars and build houses, and spend lots of money on other stuff too. Jobs are coming back also so they are confident of keeping their jobs now too, as more and more American businesses start employing more people, particularly in manufacturing and technology.
What makes this recovery so different is that it is unique in that there has been little in the way of government spending support – the private sector is recovering the US economy virtually on it’s own. Government employing people and providing economic incentives assists most recoveries – this one has had just the opposite. If you were to compare this recovery with others, on an apples versus apples basis, and deducted government GDP stimulus from other recoveries, you’ll find this one is one of the most powerful recoveries in the private sector.
That’s why earnings are so high and when you also consider the emergence of China and other emerging economies and how they are buying more technology from the US, as well as very cheap borrowing costs, is it any wonder we are seeing the earnings surprise so much to the upside?

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 http://www.tridentconfidential.com/news-articles/the-world-is-economically-lethargic-so-why-are-corporate-earnings-at-an-all-time-record.aspx

Environmentally Concienscious Business Developmwnt

Stefan Baginski has accepted nomination form ECBD  (www.ecbdconsulting.ca) as Senior Associate. With over 30 years of experience in the global marketplace he is bringing expertize in high technology, mil and aerospace, energy and power energy, P&L, business development, sales and marketing.
We all looking forward to expanding our activities. With offices in North America, Europe and soon in the Middle East ECBD can serve its clients in critical areas and with the right type of people.

Understanding Long-term Investing

Lance Spicer, Editor - Trident Confidential, 6 Feb, 2:44 PM

Most investors want to be just like Warren Buffett, but few, when given the chance will invest like him. Most invest in exactly the opposite way – they then lose money and constitute the majority of investors who rarely do overly well in stocks.
Investing just like Warren Buffett is easy, but very few people can do it. They lack one vital thing – patience.
The average investor is not an investor at all – they are “speculators”. They judge their investments based on daily, weekly or monthly movements. They make decisions to buy or sell based not on the long-term outlook of a business, but what happened yesterday, or become caught up in the fear of what might happen tomorrow – this is speculation, not investing.
Most investors are guilty of it and due to the pressure of quick returns, investment professionals (who should know better) also get caught up with it, as they feel that if they don’t follow the bad habits of their customers they will be subject of criticism or redemptions if the results aren’t there in the short-term.
This is a major mistake and one that many fund managers make today. It turns most fund managers into “mediocrity-seeking, index-huggers” that would rather be wrong and average, rather than be right and above average because the time frame of the average investor is so short that wrong and average is “safer”.
It’s best to illustrate this by looking at a Warren Buffett favourite – Coca Cola. As we well know, Warren is famous for saying his holding period of a stock is forever and nothing shows and explains his success and the failure of the average investor better than this chart below.

Warren and average investors both invested in exactly the same stock and at similar entry points, and even if Warren had bought when everyone else did, he still would be up 34%. The difference was the holding period. The average investor sold a perfectly good company – ignoring all fundamentals, exactly the same fundamentals they relied on so much to buy the stock in the first place – and sold at 19% loss.This is the story of their investment lives. Warren on the other hand is up 54% in exactly the same stock.
(Please note: This stock was chosen as an example as it is one that Warren is just an ordinary investor in, like any other person is, and has no extra influence or information about the share.)
It’s pointless doing all the research and finding a great investment for the long-term, if at the first sign of trouble, you dump the lot, take a loss and go to cash. It seems to me that most investors forget what they have invested in and have disregarded common sense totally.
Let me give you one more example of less than sensible behaviour. Just say you own a coffee shop, it’s profitable, it has it’s bad days and good days – but over a given period, the business is good. Now, you buy the newspaper and you read that economic conditions could get worse next year, do you immediately put up a for sale sign? Only to take it down a week later when you realise the journalist overstated the issue. No, of course you don’t – so why do it with the other businesses you own - your shares?
The Warren Buffett Investing Secret? He buys when everyone is selling, he buys the right companies and then holds them for a very long time.
The “average investor” does not do this – the average investor wants profits right now and has no patience to wait for results.
The reason? They don’t understand the companies they have invested in, so therefore buy them in ignorance, and sell them the same way.  The “average investors” are the first to become “greedy” and the first to become “panicked” – they are not equipped emotionally and therefore the market moves against them every time.
Successful investors are contrarian – they go against the “crowd”.
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