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May 2007 Dear Colleagues,
In the month of May we Bulgarians, united by our Heritage, all over the world celebrate the two Great Bulgarian Scholars and Philosophers Constantine - Cyril and Methody. Their legacy lives in our hearts, in our soul throughout our goals for higher education. We are proud of our Heritage in the same way that our forefathers were. We greet all Bulgarian Engineers in Canada with the Day of the Bulgarian Culture – 24th of May; day of our History, day of our nonstop search for genuine answer and spark of innovation, day for our future and for the future of the generations to come.
Saints Cyril and Methodius painted by Jan Matejko.
The next ABEC Meeting will
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May 27th 2007,
12.15 noon AGENDA: 1) Our Colleague Eng. Plamen Blagoev, P. Eng. will share with us his recent experience in obtaining a License from PEO. This would be very good opportunity for all those also seeking PEO status to become aware of the latest necessary steps and procedures required for this certification as well as to hear Mr. Blagoev’s personal experience, where he may give us some valuable tips and advice! He will answer your questions. 2) Membership card – Nick Paskalev 3) Month of“Safety in the workplace” short information from -P. Lawrence. 4) Company Benefits: "Group Insurance and Group Retirement Benefits", - Speaker Mladen Alexiev - Insurance Broker. Mladen Alexiev graduated from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia (УНСС) in 1992. In Canada Mladen continues his education by taking investment and insurance courses on a regular basis. He holds certificates from the Canadian Securities Institute, Financial Services Commission of Ontario and RESP Dealers Association of Canada.
THE ASSOCIATION OF POLISH ENGINEERS IN CANADA, in cooperation with IEEE Toronto is organizing a Conference on the:
"REACTOR DESIGNS FOR THE UPCOMING NUCLEAR STATIONS WORLDWIDE". Currently there are over 400 operating nuclear power reactors in the world, 30 more are under construction to go to operation in 2007-2013, and another 8 committed for 2013-2017. It is also projected that by 2050 there will be some 1,500 reactors worldwide. During the conference, experts will present strengths and weaknesses of the leading reactor designs. The conference will take place on
Thursday, May 24, 2007, 7p.m. In the SPK Building, 206 Beverly Street, Toronto. Admission free. Registration and refreshments 6:30 Cash bar will be open, as well as a restaurant, where excellent food is available at reasonable prices. A discussion will follow experts' presentations.
We received also your thoughts for the previous Meeting – Lecture from Eng. Voiko Loukanov, Ph.D., P.Eng. “Thank you for the idea to invite Mr. Loukanov. It was a very good presentation, much so as it showed that there are chances to be a successful immigrant. What is needed is strong business intuition, a piece of luck and hard, hard work. May this happens to more Bulgarians. Because we can. Best wishes, Jordan (PhD)
TRAINING
Brown Fleming Catholic Adult Center 870 Queen Street West Tel.905-891-3034 Website: www.dpcdsb.org/coopcentre
http://www.skillsinternational.ca/index-en.php
http://www.costi.org/index.php
Job search for Southern Ontario
CAES Career Advancement Employment Services Inc. Caledon Community Services and Upgrading Canadian Executive Consultants Inc. Canadian Jobs Catalogue Table of Contents (D) Careerclick.com | Welcome | Careers, Resumes, Jobs EngCen.ca - jobs and resumes for Canadian Engineers GOjobs -- Government of Ontario Job Opportunities HRDC Labour Market Information Stoakley-Dudley Consultants Ltd. The Toronto Star Careers - a workopolis.com Community Workopolis.com - Canada's Biggest Job Site
CSME -- Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering http://www.brainhunter.com/bhnh/eng/index.html http://www.applicants.ca/joblistings.html http://www.maple-reinders.com/careers.php And see also http://engineering.thingamajob.com
http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/home.do
North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week May 6 - 12, 2007
Every year Canada, the United States and Mexico join together to focus attention on the importance of preventing injury and illness in the workplace. North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week strives to: Increase understanding of the benefits of investment in occupational health and safety. Raise awareness of the role and contribution of health and safety professionals. Reduce workplace injuries and illness by encouraging health and safety activities. Start today with your commitment to health and safety by checking out the WSIB brochure http://www.wsib.on.ca/wsib/wsibsite.nsf/LookupFiles/NAOSHEventsNAOSH_brochure/$File/5023A_NAOSH.pdf (1mb, pdf). It offers valuable insight into the steps you can take develop a safety and health culture in your workplace.
iPods may cause pacemaker glitchDENVER, May 11 (UPI) -- A Michigan high school student says iPods may cause mild interference with the function of pacemakers. A study presented by Jay Thaker at the Heart Rhythm Society's annual meeting in Denver found that the portable music players caused implantable pacemakers to misread the heart's pacing when placed two inches from patients' chest for five to 10 seconds, the University of Michigan said in a news release. In one case, the pacemaker stopped functioning. Thaker, a senior at Okemos High School in Okemos, Mich., worked with a University of Michigan and Michigan State team on the study. "For people depending on these pacing devices, iPod interference can lead physicians to misdiagnose the actual heart function," said Thaker. "Our findings are disconcerting because although the typical pacemaker patient may not be an iPod user, they are often in close contact with grandchildren and other young people who are avid users. "The study tested iPods on 83 patients at the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute and Michigan State University with dual- and single-chamber pacemakers. http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070511-23591400-bc-us-ipod.xml Copyright 2007 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
Source: University of East AngliaDate: May 11, 2007 'Short-circuit' Found in Ocean CirculationScience Daily — Scientists have discovered how ocean circulation is working in the current that flows around Antarctica by tracing the path of helium from underwater volcanoes. NaN The team, led by Alberto Naveira Garabato of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (formerly based at the University of East Anglia), has discovered a 'short-circuit' in the circulation of the world's oceans that could aid predictions about future climate change. This process in the Southern Ocean allows cold waters that sink to the abyss to return to the surface more rapidly than previously thought. This affects the Southern Ocean circulation, which links all the other oceans, and is also relevant to uptake and release of carbon dioxide by the sea – transport between the deep and surface waters in the Southern Ocean is particularly important for this process. Understanding oceanic circulation is important because it distributes heat, carbon and nutrients around the globe and therefore plays a central role in regulating Earth's climate. The findings show that much of the overturning circulation - how water moves and mixes vertically - around Antarctica takes place just around the tip of South America and in the small region in the Atlantic south of the Falklands, called the Scotia Sea. Co-author Prof Andrew Watson, from the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, said they were fundamental findings. “The Southern Ocean is the least well understood part of the world ocean, but one of the most important parts. We are going to have to understand its circulation before we can make really confident predictions about how the climate is going to change over the next 100 years. “This is a piece of knowledge that will help us do that. This tells us how an important part of it works.” The research shows that a combination of rapid mixing across and rapid movement along density surfaces creates a 'short-circuit' in the overturning circulation, meaning it is more concentrated in this part of the Southern Ocean. The researchers made use of a unique signal - the spread of helium released naturally from the Earth’s interior at deep vents in the Pacific. The helium dissolves in the deep sea and a plume of this marked water travels down the coast of Chile. It is injected at depth into the Antarctic current on the Pacific side of Cape Horn. It then streams through into the Atlantic with the current, but in the process is spread, shifted and diffused by the circulation. Measurements of this spreading of the helium were used to deduce the ‘short-circuit’. Dr David Stevens, from UEA’s School of Mathematics, and Wolfgang Roether, from the University of Bremen, Germany, are also co-authors. The details are published in Nature. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070510123724.htm
THEMIS: the stakeout for northern lights in the Canadian tundra http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/sciences/themis.asp ABEC’s News Next ABEC Meetings will be:
In the lower Hall of the Church “Sts Cyril and Methody” Meeting – With Mr. Plamen Blagoev P. Eng and Mr. Mladen Alexiev, Insurance Broker.
In the lower Hall of the Church “Sts Cyril and Methody” Meeting –
Membership fee, due for 2007 year is $50 per year. Please send your cheque (making it payable to ABEC) to our Treasurer Eng. Tonya Bojkova at the address: Mrs. Tonya Bojkova, 903 – 91 Cosburn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M4K 2G2
New Members are always welcome!
Best Regards to all ABEC Members Pauline Loultcheva-Lawrence pauline_m_lawrence@hotmail.com
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