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Automated Forensic Ballistics Pioneer Launches ALIAS -- the Next Generation of Forensic Ballistics -- at International Firearms Working Group


WIESBADEN, GERMANY and BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS -- 10/21/09 -- Led by President and CEO Mike Barrett, the automated forensic ballistics pioneer who brought IBIS to firearms examiners and technicians in the early 90s, Pyramidal Technologies Ltd. is proud to announce the ALIAS Advanced Ballistics Analysis System product launch. The launch takes place today concurrent with the 16th annual European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENFSI) Expert Working Group Firearms and Gunshot Residue (GSR) meeting in Wiesbaden, Germany, where ALIAS is being demonstrated for the first time to international firearms experts.

"ALIAS is the next generation in forensic ballistics because it brings a 3D imaging, correlation, visualization and confirmation system that delivers an exponential increase in cartridge data available for analysis," stated Barrett, who was inspired to create ALIAS after attending an IBIS course in 2006.

"After a brief retirement, I returned to forensic ballistics as the Firearms Examiner and Firearms Section Technical Lead at the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office," said Barrett. "I went on a course for IBIS, the system I developed in the early 90s. After taking the course, I realized that nothing of significance had happened with IBIS technology in 16 years. At the same time colleagues asked if I could do something, so I assembled an expert team to re-introduce state-of-the-art software, hardware and cartridge scanning technology to law enforcement agencies around the world. The goal of ALIAS is to solve more crimes, convict more criminals and save more lives taken each year as a result of criminal firearms use."

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Creative Marketing in a Tight Economy


Dayner Azzellino, MBA Thursday, October 22 2009

Many valuable inventions of the last generation had their genesis in the Great Depression. These include the supermarket, photocopy technology, car radio, chocolate chip cookie and the board game Monopoly. This is a lesson to us as we consider whether to tighten, loosen or simply trash our respective belts.

Allow me to introduce a non-typical response to hard times, which is: work with greater creativity and more practical strategy.

The fact is in the midst of bad news, there are companies that are profiting in these tight times. Some of it is due to their services’ relevance to market needs, like low cost giants McDonalds and Wal-Mart. It is possible that our own Pennywise stores, wholesale stores or markets may also have influxes of new customers nowadays. My point is people are still consuming; they are simply being cautious and seeking out value for the money they spend.

So what strategy does a company employ in these days? While Harvard Business School purports four main types: low cost, differentiation, networking and client relationship, I advocate that the most important for use in our environment is the third and fourth.

Networking is a buzzword but let us explore how it can help a company or individual in a constricted consumer environment. Then while we admittedly talk volumes about customer service, how do we use our processes — the day to day activities — to optimise customer satisfaction and “re-patronage”.

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Road Rage:
Fuel Vapor Heightens Aggression, Rat Study Finds


fr. Science Daily (Nov. 24, 2009) — Outrageous prices may not be the only thing causing anger at the petrol pumps. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Physiology, has shown that rats exposed to fumes from leaded and unleaded gasoline become more aggressive.

Amal Kinawy, from Cairo University, Egypt, examined the emotionally incendiary properties of gasoline in three groups of male rats, each exposed to either leaded-gas fumes, unleaded-gas fumes or clean air. As well as observing the animals' behavior, she studied any resulting neurological and physiological changes.

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Bhopal residents demonstrate on the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster. Photograph: Reinhard Krause/Reuters


Bhopal marks 25th anniversary of Union Carbide gas disaster


Activists and survivors continue to fight for justice over gas leak which killed 20,000 and affected 600,000 others.

Campaigners and survivors marked the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal industrial disaster today with demands that the people responsible for tens of thousands of deaths be finally brought to justice.

The demonstrators marched on the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, central India, where on 3 December 1984 noxious white clouds of methyl isocyanate gas killed thousands within days. There has never been an official death toll but estimates based on hospital records show 20,000 people died and almost 600,000 people were left with irreparable physical damage.

Recent tests reveal the groundwater near the plant, which has yet to be dismantled, is laced with carcinogens, and there is increasing evidence that this has caused birth defects and chronic illnesses.


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Microsoft Donates $7.3 Million to
Latin America and the Caribbean !


$1.925 million (U.S.) in cash and $5.413 million in software


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the  COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009


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The veined octopus's coconut shelters may be first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate


Biologists studying the habits of veined octopuses in the waters of Indonesia have noticed that the animal has a most unusual hobby: collecting discarded coconut shells and using them for shelter.

Beyond the fact that it’s hilarious to watch the octopuses slithering across the ocean floor dragging halved coconut shells and even assembling two of them to make a creative hiding spot (watch the embedded video above), it also could be the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal.

According to the Associated Press, two Australian scientists -- Julian Finn, a research biologist at the museum who specializes in cephalopods, and Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Melbourne -- observed the behavior in four of the veined octopuses during a series of dive trips in Indonesia between 1998 and 2008. Their findings were published this week in the journal Current Biology. "We were blown away," Norman told National Geographic of the strange discovery. "It was hard not to laugh underwater and flood your [scuba] mask."

Similar to hermit crabs, octopuses often use foreign objects as shelter, but the veined octopus takes the idea one step further. It's been observed preparing the shells by cleaning them out, carrying them long distances (up to 65 feet) and reassembling them as shelter in another place.  
The whole process is rather a tricky one; in order to move the shells, an octopus must first stack them, then wrap its body over them before "[trundling] along on its arm tips until a predator comes or there's a threat,"

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The octopus: One of Earth's smartest

Octopuses are so smart they tip-toe around awkwardly on the ocean floor hoarding coconut shells to later build themselves a fort to defend themselves from predators, a new Australian study has found.

"Amazing behavior," said Australian biologist Julian Finn of Museum Victoria in Melbourne, who first observed the octopuses' smart moves while leading a team in Indonesia.

"We were blown away,"

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fr. the news ~peace  Wink


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other news - USA

The high winds whistling
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outright brutal lately!
We're Working the heck
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Shocked  Shocked Shocked


Winter System Freezes the North, Chills the South
2010 has kicked off with record snowfall in the Northeast and freezing temperatures as far south as Florida.


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Entire East Coast Feeling the Chills

A bitter chill has settled in across the eastern half of the country, threatening crops, closing schools and making Charleston, S.C., feel more like New York City.

Records snows were reported over the weekend in Vermont, and farmers in Florida scrambled Monday to save strawberries and tomatoes.

The deep freeze will last for at least the rest of the week. The National Weather Service said the mercury could fall below zero in St. Louis later this week for the first time since 1999.

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fascinating as always,
on the International Consumer Electronics Show
being held in Las Vegas
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Gadgets abound at Consumer Electronics Show

LAS VEGAS — With the annual International Consumer Electronics Show taking over Las Vegas this weekend, an endless number of products are being introduced and are on display.

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CES: Jimi Hendrix, Taylor Swift, 3D headline Sony's news conference

LAS VEGAS--It wasn't a Sony exec that welcomed us to Sony's news conference Wednesday, but Jimi Hendrix--in 3D. Sony opened its CES 2010 news conference, as expected, by emphasizing 3D technology.

The Hendrix video is a demonstration of Sony's plan to remaster concert footage in 3D.
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fr. the news
the latest on the summit on  the summit (
awareness of  global clean water crisis in Africa
& beyond..)
& solar energy in Benin West Africa!

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Solar-Powered Pumps Aid African Farmers

Irrigation systems tested in Benin led to bigger surpluses that women farmers could sell. That way they could buy more food during the dry season. Transcript of radio broadcast: 10 January 2010

A new study in West Africa shows how farm irrigation systems powered by the sun can produce more food and money for villagers. The study in Benin found that solar-powered pumps are effective in supplying water, especially during the long dry season.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the world with the least food security. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that more than one billion of the world's people faced hunger last year. Around two hundred sixty-five million of them live south of the Sahara Desert. Lack of rainfall is one of their main causes of food shortages.

Jennifer Burney from Stanford University in California led the study. The research team helped build three solar-powered drip irrigation systems in northern Benin.

Between thirty and thirty-five women used each system to pump water from the ground or a stream. Each woman was responsible for farming her own one hundred twenty square meters of land. They also farmed other land collectively.

The solar-powered irrigation systems produced an average of nearly two metric tons of vegetables per month. During the first year, the women kept a monthly average of almost nine kilograms of vegetables for home use.

They sold the surplus produce at local markets. The earnings greatly increased their ability to buy food during the dry season which can last six to nine months.

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Lupe Fiasco, Santigold Check In As 'Summit On The Summit' Team Nears Kilimanjaro's Peak
Santi says talking with African villagers about clean water is 'a great incentive to climb the mountain.'


Over the past five days, Lupe Fiasco has seen it all: rain, sleet, snow, tropical heat, fog, wind and bone-chilling cold. But just hours before slipping on his boots again for the final 15-hour climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the rapper told MTV News on Monday morning (January 11) that he's feeling really good about the trek.

"It's been an arduous task," said a slightly winded-sounding Lupe about the journey to the top of the highest mountain in Africa (19,340 feet) as part of the Summit on the Summit project to raise awareness about clean water.MTV's cameras are following Lupe and his fellow travelers — musicians Kenna (who is also the trip's leader) and Santigold, actors Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch and Isabel Lucas, along with a number of scientists and activists — on their seven-day, 50-mile journey up the mountain to raise awareness about the need for clean water in developing nations around the globe. The journey will be chronicled in a 90-minute documentary slated to air on March 14 at p.m. on MTV.

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- grew up in iladelp!
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More food & cleaner water always a good thing to read about. Also, thanks for the reminder to check in on the Summit on the Summit. I need to follow on twitter so I can keep up.
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Nobel Prize-nominated Jamaican scientist Dr Bert Fraser-Reid in the laboratory. - FILE
In search of 'head sugar'


Paul H. Williams, Gleaner Writer

Dr Bert Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born world-renowned researcher in organic, synthetic and sugar chemistry who was once nominated for a Nobel Prize. In the November 16, 2009 instalment of His Story, called The 'accidental scientist', we told of how he got involved in chemistry purely by chance. Sometime last year, he returned to his native Clarendon to look at the manufacturing of what is known locally as 'head sugar'.

"Is head sugar still made in Jamaica? This was a question that I directed to any Jamaican who would listen. Today's 20-year-olds had no idea what I was talking about. Their 40-year-old parents confused it with 'wet sugar'. Wet sugar is really head sugar dispersed in molasses," he says.

So, after much inquiry he found a man named Leopold Maye in Summerfield, one mile from Clarendon College, where he had spent 10 years as a student and teacher. But why his sudden interest in head sugar?

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Deepest Black Smoker Discovered in Caribbean!
Over three miles down in the ocean, where the Caribbean Sea's warm blue waters fade into lightless black, scientists have found something bizarre and wonderful: the deepest active hydrothermal vent system on the planet.The science crew aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook are currently at sea exploring the Cayman Trough, the deepest ocean ridge on Earth.

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World's deepest undersea vents discovered in Caribbean

What are believed to be the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents have been discovered in the Caribbean.

The vents, known as black smokers, were located 5,000m (3.1 miles) down in the Cayman Trough.

The volcanic chimneys, which spew out water hot enough to melt lead, were caught on film by a British-led team.

Marine biologist Dr Jon Copley said: "Seeing the world's deepest black-smoker vents looming out of the darkness was awe-inspiring."

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Caribbean Region Takes Action Against Garbage At Sea
The discharge of garbage by ships in the wider Caribbean region will be prohibited as of May 1, 2011, following decisive action by the International Maritime Organization.
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