Wednesday November 3, 2010

____________________
Ted Talks

David Bismark: E-voting without fraud

David Bismark demos a new system for voting that contains a simple, verifiable way to prevent fraud and miscounting -- while keeping each person's vote secret. David Bismark has co-developed an electronic voting system that contains a simple and reliable method of verification.

____________________
Appointment

Twenty-four year industry veteran leads innovative 3G live broadcast technology company

Waterloo — Dejero announced that Dan Mance is joining the company as CEO. He has previously served as Vice President Digital Media & CTO of Harris Broadcast, CTO of Leitch Technology and CEO and Founder of Inscriber Technology Corporation.

____________________
Digital World

Supporting Innovation And Creating Jobs In Niagara

Ontario Government Supporting Entrepreneurs, Bringing Local Ideas To Life

Queens Park - The Niagara Interactive Media Generator (nGen) has been selected to join the new Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE). ONE consists of 14 regional innovation centres across Ontario. These centres help local entrepreneurs bring new and innovative ideas to the marketplace, such as new ways to treat disease, cleaner ways to produce power and next-generation digital entertainment.

____________________
Assitive Technology

Award-winning research promises improvements to laser surgery

Kingston - New low-cost imaging technology could improve the safety of laser surgery. The research netted two physics graduate students first prize at the 29th Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics poster contest.
____________________
Quarterly Results

ATS REPORTS SECOND QUARTER FISCAL 2011 RESULTS

CAMBRIDGE - ATS Automation Tooling Systems reported its financial results for the three and six months ended September 26, 2010.

____________________
Appointment

Twenty-four year industry veteran leads innovative 3G live broadcast technology company

Waterloo — Dejero announced that Dan Mance is joining the company as CEO. He has previously served as Vice President Digital Media & CTO of Harris Broadcast, CTO of Leitch Technology and CEO and Founder of Inscriber Technology Corporation. Dan maneuvered Inscriber from a one-person technology start-up in Waterloo, to a company of 120 persons with over 100,000 installations in over 110 countries.

____________________
Taxes

Taxes and prudent fiscal management highlight pre-budget input from Canada's CAs

OTTAWA - Canada's Chartered Accountants in Ottawa called for a simpler, more competitive corporate tax system and prudent fiscal management by the federal government.

____________________
Housing

Stability and Balance: Kitchener's Housing Outlook for 2011

KITCHENER - The housing markets in Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo will stabilize in 2011, according to Erica McLerie, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's (CMHC) Senior Market Analyst for the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). CMHC outlined its latest forecast for these areas yesterday at the annual CMHC Housing Outlook Seminar.

____________________
World Economy

Global Crisis Has Cost 30 Million Jobs: IMF Chief

World News - "The global crisis has cost 30 million jobs around the world, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Monday....

____________________
Guest Column

You've lost your job - what's next?
by Ian Burns, CLU, ChFC, EPC

Losing your job is an emotional, gut-wrenching experience, whether you are being terminated or offered some kind of early retirement package. Having someone say they chose you as part of an “employee reduction program” can be a crushing blow to your confidence and self-worth.

____________________
Editors Statement

The Moral Case for Allowing the PotashCorp Takeover

Statement issued by Corporate Knights Magazine's Editor-in-Chief

TORONTO – In anticipation of the Harper government’s decision on whether or not to approve BHP’s bid to takeover PotashCorp, Toby A.A. Heaps, Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Knights Magazine, would like to issue the following statement:

____________________
Remembrance Day World Peace

Palestinian doctor and Nobel Peace Prize nominee to speak at Laurier

WATERLOO – Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian doctor, author, and Middle East peace advocate who lost three of his daughters and a niece to Israeli tank fire, will be speaking at Laurier’s Waterloo campus Thursday, Nov. 11. Abuelaish will deliver his lecture, “Making the Change on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity,” at 7 p.m. in the Bricker Academic Building room BA102.

____________________
Apps

BlackBerry Partners Fund Reveals Regional Semi-Finalists in the Third Annual Developer Challenge

TORONTO - BlackBerry Partners Fund(TM) announced the 28 applications for BlackBerry(R) smartphones that were selected as Regional Semi-Finalists in the second round of judging in the third annual BlackBerry Partners Fund "Super Apps" Developer Challenge.

____________________
Art & Technology

Louvre Researcher Talks About Art & Physics

Guelph - Art and physics met at a University of Guelph lecture last night by Thomas Calligaro, a researcher at Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France, located in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

____________________
Water

Miller’s ECO report touches on many conservation issues
By Janet Baine

Grand River Basin - Each fall Ontario’s environmental commissioner, Gord Miller, looks deeply into environmental issues and outlines his findings in an annual report.

____________________
Media

Reliance on Local Newspapers Remains Strong

Kubas Consultants Completes Canada's Most Comprehensive Single Publisher Community Media Study

TORONTO - Readers continue to rely on their Metroland local newspaper for news and information, according to the most comprehensive community media study undertaken in Canada for a single publisher.

____________________
R&D

Brain’s ability to selectively focus and “pay attention” diminishes with age

TORONTO – A University of Toronto study shows that visual attention — the brain’s ability to selectively filter unattended or unwanted information from reaching awareness — diminishes with age, leaving older adults less capable of filtering out distracting or irrelevant information.

____________________
Book Review

NEW BOOK REVEALS 9 SIMPLE WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS

“The Business Mechanic should be required reading for all business owners.”
--Frank Jennings, Vice President, Retired, Fruit of the Loom

The advice industry is full of theories, concepts, and systems designed to improve business results. Most make it far more complicated than it has to be – certainly far more complicated than it ought to be. Most business owners and CEOs need to stop looking for the latest solution and focus solely on the only true metric of business success: profits.

____________________
Health Care

One egg yolk worse than a KFC double-down when it comes to cholesterol

London - Three leading physicians have published a review in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology warning about the danger of dietary cholesterol for those at risk of a heart attack or stroke. And they say one of the worst offenders is the egg yolk which, depending on size, can contain 215 to 275 mg of cholesterol.

___________________
Growth Indicator

Improving Access to Government Services in New Hamburg

Ontario Opens an Integrated ServiceOntario Centre

New Hamburg - As of November 1, New Hamburg residents have a newly integrated ServiceOntario centre and can access health card and driver and vehicle services under one roof.

____________________
Trade

Home Improvement Retailer Lowe's Ignites Skilled Trades and Technology Week with $1.25 Million Contribution

Annual showcase draws attention to the impending shortage of skilled trade workers and new career opportunities available to youth

OTTAWA - Skills/Compétences Canada, a national not-for-profit organization that actively promotes careers in skilled trades, hosted the official launch of Skilled Trades and Technology Week 2010 at a joint event that also marked a major funding contribution from home improvement retailer Lowe's.

____________________
Socioeconomic Research

Income and Long-Term Breast Cancer Survival: Comparisons of Vulnerable Urban Places in Ontario and California

Windsor - Effects of socioeconomic status on the long-term survival of 808 women with node-negative breast cancer in Canada and the United States were observed. Ontario and California samples diagnosed between 1988 and 1990 were followed until 2006. Socioeconomic data were taken from population censuses.

____________________
Technology Vision

IBM outlines vision of a more intuitive Internet

New research demonstrates potential for Web to become even more personalized, automated tool

MARKHAM - An IBM-led team of researchers has mapped out a smarter, more intuitive version of the Internet - one you can assign tasks to make your life easier, such as ordering taxis, managing social engagements or even paying bills.