Having supported many projects whithin CERN for over 20 years, haveing blanket PO from them over the years along with another friendly supplier from States, the writer was privileged to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world, including the Atlas machine. Managed by personal friend of mine, we have seen its highs and its hurdles in progress till its final completion several years ago. Any news from CERN is usually a good news for the writer, thus the following PR is here for your reading pleasure:
Geneva 14 February 2013. At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN1 Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, bringing the machine’s first three-year running period to a successful conclusion. The LHC’s first run has seen major advances in physics, including the discovery of a new particle that looks increasingly like the long–sought Higgs boson, announced on 4 July 2012. And during the last weeks of the run, the remarkable figure of 100 petabytes of data stored in the CERN mass-storage systems was surpassed. This data volume is roughly equivalent to 700 years of full HD-quality movies.
“We have every reason to be very satisfied with the LHC’s first three years,” said CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer. “The machine, the experiments, the computing facilities and all infrastructures behaved brilliantly, and we have a major scientific discovery in our pocket.”
The LHC now begins its first long shutdown, LS1. Over the coming months major consolidation and maintenance work will be carried out across the whole of CERN’s accelerator chain. The LHC will be readied for higher energy running, and the experiments will undergo essential maintenance. LHC running is scheduled to resume in 2015, with the rest of the CERN complex starting up again in the second half of 2014.
“There is a great deal of consolidation work to do on CERN’s whole accelerator complex, as well as the LHC itself,” said CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers. “We’ll essentially be rebuilding the interconnections between LHC magnets, so when we resume running in 2015, we will be able to operate the machine at its design energy of 7TeV per beam”.
The LHC exceeded all expectations in its first three-year run, delivering significantly more data to the experiments than initially foreseen. Physicists measure data quantity in units known as inverse femtobarns, and by the time the last high energy proton-proton data were recorded in December, the ATLAS and CMS experiments had each recorded around 30 inverse femtobarns, of which over 23 were recorded in 2012.
To put this into context, the particle whose discovery was announced on 4 July 2012 was found by analysing around 12 inverse femtobarns. That means CERN’s experimental physics community still has plenty of data to analyse during LS1.
“There will be plenty of physics to do during LS1, and not only at the LHC,” said CERN Research Director Sergio Bertolucci. “The LHC is the flagship of CERN’s experimental programme, but is nevertheless just one component of a very varied research infrastructure. All of the other experiments here have on-going analyses, so I’m looking forward to many interesting results emerging as LS1 progresses.”
For the first weeks of 2013, the LHC has been colliding protons with lead ions as part of the programme to understand matter as it would have been just after the Big Bang. The last four days of the run saw a return to proton-proton collisions, this time at reduced energy. These collisions will provide useful data for interpreting the data recorded with lead ions. Single beam studies will continue until the weekend, when the process of bringing the LHC up to room temperature will begin, allowing LS1 work to get under way.
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2013/01/08
new year 2013
No-one I know of says 2011 was a pleasant year to be an investor – 90% of fund manager’s loathed it and lost money due to a mixture of wild and unpredictable currency movements and of course crazy volatility and massive irrational selloffs. Then came 2012, which was much better but not without it's moments, but all in all a better year despite all the dramas of the Europe debt crisis and fiscal cliff. However, 2013 will see most of this behind us.
I think 2013 will have a lower political involvement and that alone will make it a better year and investors can go back to concentrating on what’s important – buying shares in businesses that are doing well, based on common sense and good solid business fundamentals – won’t that be nice?
I think 2013 will have a lower political involvement and that alone will make it a better year and investors can go back to concentrating on what’s important – buying shares in businesses that are doing well, based on common sense and good solid business fundamentals – won’t that be nice?
2013/01/02
Happy and prosperous new year
As usual I wish you and yours a happy, healthy and prosperous new year, to all readers and co-editors of this blog.
best regards
Stefan (Baginski)
twitter @sbaginski22
best regards
Stefan (Baginski)
twitter @sbaginski22
2012/12/10
Waka Waka strikes successfully again!
- PRESS RELEASE -
for immediate release
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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2012/09/21
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.”
2012/09/01
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.
2012/08/16
Great material from down and under, all details on Trident please find below:
Dear Reader,
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.
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?
If you would like to join us now, we are offering a special discount for this limited opportunity - Get on board at $100 off by using the link below:
Join us now for just $699
This gives you 50 issues plus access to our full archive of stocks, investment library and reports and both our Growth and NEW Yield Portfolios for 12 months.
It’s for a limited time only. So Don’t Miss Out!
At Trident Confidential, I do full research of stocks for you and then present buys that I think will be worth your while. Unlike other newsletters with stock picks, I give you a full analysis tell you when to buy, how much to pay, what I think the stock will achieve and most importantly when to sell to make a profit. Our aim is to not only provide you with good stocks to invest in but also to teach you how to become a good stock market investor on your own (if you aren't already).
We have also created a new free addition of a Yield Portfolio, which features at least 50% Australian stocks.
This portfolio of suggested “Ultra-Safe” and dividend stocks is for the benefit of investors who would like some investment ideas that just “cruise on through” the current volatility and provide very nice and “rock solid and rising” dividends.
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.
This new portfolio is in addition to our normal “Growth” Portfolio – it’s just another added service we’ll be providing to you as part of your subscription.
The Yield portfolio consists of stocks that have the following attributes (among others):
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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)…. |
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?
If you would like to join us now, we are offering a special discount for this limited opportunity - Get on board at $100 off by using the link below:
Join us now for just $699
This gives you 50 issues plus access to our full archive of stocks, investment library and reports and both our Growth and NEW Yield Portfolios for 12 months.
It’s for a limited time only. So Don’t Miss Out!
At Trident Confidential, I do full research of stocks for you and then present buys that I think will be worth your while. Unlike other newsletters with stock picks, I give you a full analysis tell you when to buy, how much to pay, what I think the stock will achieve and most importantly when to sell to make a profit. Our aim is to not only provide you with good stocks to invest in but also to teach you how to become a good stock market investor on your own (if you aren't already).
We have also created a new free addition of a Yield Portfolio, which features at least 50% Australian stocks.
This portfolio of suggested “Ultra-Safe” and dividend stocks is for the benefit of investors who would like some investment ideas that just “cruise on through” the current volatility and provide very nice and “rock solid and rising” dividends.
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.
This new portfolio is in addition to our normal “Growth” Portfolio – it’s just another added service we’ll be providing to you as part of your subscription.
The Yield portfolio consists of stocks that have the following attributes (among others):
- Earnings that have shown strength during recessionary periods.
- Earnings that grow at a rate in excess of inflation.
- Relative price stability during periods of market unrest.
- A reliable dividend payment each quarter or half year.
- Consistent increases to that dividend year on year.
- Good Return on Equity
- The underlying business is strong and is to a great extent immune to stock market events and economic crises.
If you would like to get on board with us and have access to these type of great investments and save $100 off a 1 year subscription – Click Below
Usually $799 per annum with this link just $699
Trident Confidential has achieved market-beating returns since 2005 and as such is classed as one of the world's leading stock market investment newsletters.
Trident Confidential is my weekly, web-based stock market investment newsletter and complete investing system, which comes with full instructions and a free supplementary education library for one low joining fee for a 12 month period.
This is not just your usual newsletter/stock tip service. When you sign up with us you get a full investing system, with full instructions to guide you step-by-step through stock market investing, not just stock picks.
Join us now at just $699
Hope to see you on board. This is a great time to get in. I believe this is going to prove be a great time to be invested.
Until Next Time…
Kind Regards
Lance Spicer
Editor, Trident Confidential
© 2012 by Trident Investment Management Pty Ltd is an authorised representative (AR# 339798) of Australian Mutual Holdings Limited (ABN 90 115 182 137), AFSL No: 295393. Trading involves the risk of loss. Please consult an independent financial advisor to see if this investment is right for you. General trade recommendations are basic general advice only.
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