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Some of us awoke to warm showers today. The rest of us were left in the cold. A friendly feud was had between the have's and have not's! After a breakfast of fresh fruit, delicious omelets, and warm unknown juice we headed to the public hospital of Riobamba, Ecuador. Twenty four of us split into 5 different cars and arrived at the hospital lobby where patients were quietly waiting for us. It is Sunday morning and aside from our surgical mission group, the hospital staff assisting us, and the patients the hospital was eerily vacant in the morning. Our first mission was to unload our 54 crates and bags of surgical equipment to the operating room. We were excited to get underway!
The surgical teams split up into urology, general surgery, and plastic surgery and headed toward the consultation rooms. The urologists, Drs' Brad and Pradeep (Michigan), had a busy morning coordinating care with local urologist Dr. Garcia Wilson. He kept the atmosphere light joking with patients and staff, reminding them that international experts on 'all things below the belt' had finally arrived. 15 surgeries ranging from uterovaginal prolapsed to prostate cancer were boarded for surgery starting the next day. Drs' Pravin (Iowa) and Helen (Ireland) identified three patients including a twelve year old who needed colostomy reversals. Plastic surgeons, Drs' Parit (Chicago) Mehul (Michigan) and Loren (Michigan) identified large number of microtia and complex cleft palate.
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Finally after a long afternoon of triage and set up we headed home, Primavera Hotel, in hopes that the have-nots would have some warm water for showers. Ahh! Again, no such luck for everyone. However, there was enough lasagna and cervaza to go around for everyone. And even a late night ping pong tourney for those who were interested. A quick debriefing of the day's events by everyone allowed us to all recap what we liked so much about this mission – Emily and Anna, our PA students, even admitted to enjoying the urology clinic! Callie, our photographer, had the days events recorded for us to review.
Well we are all excited about tomorrow's surgical procedures and getting to know the culture of Ecuador we are currently immersed in. More then!
Hi to everyone at home!
Saturday, 10/17:
In the morning, Mehul, Praveen, and Lauren saw three patients at our hotel before heading out for a quick tour of Quito. On our tour, we got to see a beautiful Basilica, and "the middle of the earth" where they did various experiments to show the difference of forces between the Northern and Southern hemispheres, compared to the equator. We took various photos at the equator.
Thereafter, we went back to the hotel and loaded all of our medical supplies onto a truck along with our personal belongings, and started the 3 hour trek to Riobamba.


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Your Smartphone Can Do Physics
|Screenshot from AndroSensor.
Watching this data stream across my screen, I'm reminded just how powerful a computer my phone really is. Wrapped into one, the smartphone is an accelerometer, a compass, a microphone, a magnetometer, a photon detector, and a gyroscope. More advanced phones can even measure things like temperature and air pressure.
Smartphone Physics in the ParkTo explore the power of your phone, here's a simple physics experiment you can do at your local park. Simply by swinging on a swing and collecting a bit of data, you can measure the length of the swing without ever pulling out a ruler.
1. To get started, download the free SPARKvue app (or another data logger app like SensorLog or AndroSensor). Open it up and have a play. By clicking on the measurement you want to track and then clicking on 'Show', you will see an graph window open with a green play button in the corner. Click the play button and the phone will start tracking acceleration over time. To stop recording, click the play button again. Save your data using the share icon above the graph.
2. Find a swing.
3. Fix your phone to the swing chain with tape or hold it really still against your chest in portrait orientation with the screen facing your body. Since I was a bit lazy, I opted for the latter option but this makes the final data a bit messier with all the inevitable extra movement. You want portrait orientation in order to measure the acceleration along the direction of the swing chains. This will tell us how the centripetal acceleration from the tension in the chains changes as you swing.
4. Start swinging and recording the Y-axis acceleration, without moving your legs or twisting your body. Collect data for about 20 seconds.
5. Stop recording and have a look at your lovely sinusoidal graph. You could try to do the next step directly from this graph, but I wanted a bigger plot, so I saved the raw data and copied it into Excel once I was back home.
Here are the first 20 seconds of my swing, plotting the centripetal (Y-axis) acceleration against time. You can immediately see the sine wave pattern of the swing, and the fact that the height of the peaks is decreasing over time. This is because all pendulums have a bit of friction and gradually come to a halt. Keep in mind that this plot shows the change in acceleration, not velocity or position.
|Acceleration of a swing, as measured along the chain of a swing. Data collected with SPARKvue and graphed in Excel. Credit: author, Tamela Maciel
|Direction of total velocity and acceleration for a simple pendulum.
Credit: Ruryk via Wikimedia Commons
The minimum peaks correspond to when you are at the highest point in the swing and you briefly come to a stop before zooming back down the other way. Check out The Physics Classroom site for some handy diagrams of pendulum acceleration parallel and perpendicular to the string.
Once we know what the peaks represent, we can see that the time between two peaks is half a cycle (period). Therefore the time between every other peak is one period.
For slightly more accuracy, I counted out the time between 5 periods (shown on the graph) and divided by five to get an average period of 2.65 seconds per swing.
From my physics text book I know that a simple pendulum has a period that depends only on its length, l, and the constant acceleration due to gravity, g:
This is a reasonable value, based on my local swing set, but of course I could always double check with a ruler.
Now a few caveats: my swing and my body are not a simple pendulum, which assumes a point mass on the end of a weightless string. I have legs and arms that stick out away from my center of mass, and the chains of the swing definitely do have mass. So this simple period equation is not quite correct for the swing (instead I should think about the physics of the physical pendulum). But as a first approximation, the period equation gives a pretty reasonable answer.
|Roller coaster. Credit: nick stewart via flickr
So the next time you're in an elevator, on a roller coaster, or skateboarding down that hill, consider taking your smartphone along for the ride and seeing what kind of forces are guiding your acceleration (but be safe!).
For more ideas of simple physics experiments with your smartphone, check out iPhysicsLabs, a dedicated column of smartphone experiments in The Physics Teacher journal. Column editors Jochen Kuhn and Patrik Vogt also describe various gravity experiments in the classroom and out in an amusement park in their 2013 article in the European Journal of Physics Education.
And if you're wondering how your phone really measures acceleration, and why it displays 9.8 m/s/s even when it's stationary, check out this recent Physics Teacher article from Colleen Lanz Countryman, a PhD student at North Carolina State University who is studying the use of smartphones in the physics classroom.
By Tamela Maciel, also known as "pendulum"
Top image credit: Yun Huang Yong via flickr
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Candles and Vows - Glorious End to the Year of Consecrated Life
February 2nd was the end of the Year of Consecrated Life. We had our usual blessing of candles in the gathering space in back of chapel. It was exquisite to sing a capella "In His Temple Now Behold Him" as we celebrated the 40th day of the birth of Christ and the Mystery of his Presentation in the Temple. Unfortunately, I can't remember what we sang when we went back into chapel. We were also blessed to have two of our diocesan priests here on retreat this week. (Click on a photo to enlarge)
After the homily we had the joy of Sr. Cecilia Maria renewing her profession of the five Passionist vows in the hands of Mother Catherine Marie. Can you believe it has been three years since her First Profession!? We join with her in rejoicing and sing Alleluia for Jesus' call to her to be his bride. God-willing, she will make her Perpetual Profession in 2019.


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Ligonier awakening prayer guide week 2 February 2018
Pray for your church, coworkers, and neighbors.
Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write on to you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Prayer by highplainsparson:
O Lord our Father we are a people that you have made and we live here in the city of Babylon in a foreign and strange place which does not know you. We bear the reproach and shame that the world puts upon us for being your people, but let us glorify your name in everything that we do, in conversation with others that don't know you to lead them to the way. Let our local church hold fast to the confession that was once delivered to the Saints and was handed down through our forefathers in the faith. Let us be like the early church that did not waver in her faith or morals but proclaimed them to the world. Let us be thankful Lord for your law and your gospel and proclaim both without equivocation or trying to soften it up, but let us soften up our demeanor in order to bring people to the truth of you. Strengthen our hearts for we are so weak and frail and afraid. Let us go boldly in our community and tell others the reason for the hope that we have within us that many souls may be converted to you where we work, where we live, and gathered to your church where we worship. Add to the number of your local church where we gather and stir up your people to seek the lost in the world. The contrast between the world and the church is real. Let us never be ashamed of it but to unashamedly stand firm. Let us show them that your love is better than any love the world can offer and that we have a better way, and let this firmness of confession be ours by your Spirit and your grace working in us. Use it effectively to build the local church where we are. We pray this in Jesus name.


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bitched complained about the lack of functionality of Tumblr's iPhone app before. It's just so, so, so lacking compared to 3rd party apps.
Well, today, Tumblr rolled out a MAJAH update to their iPhone app. It addresses a couple of the gripes I have, but ignored others, & then removed on really key feature!
The app now allows for posting from multiple blogs, but those are the secondary blogs already attached to your main account. I started one of my other tumblogs as a secondary, but couldn't figure out how to blog (easily) from it using an app. I went back and forth from secondary blog to completely separate account a couple of times and settled on the separate account. Which is not supported with this new app update. So, that doesn't help me there. I'll still have to use a different app, if I want to blog mobile-y.
But, there is good! I like being able to see if any of my contacts are on Tumblr, and follow them. I don't have that many contacts, but I can see others using that feature a lot. Seeing all your likes is cool too. LOVE THE DRAFTS MANAGEMENT! Now that's what I was talking about! Before it was like they didn't even exist. Bravo, Tumblr!
Back to the bad. WHERE IS THE SEARCH FUNCTION?! Now, I'm fully aware that I could just be blind and missed it. So, if I did, someone please direct me to it! If it really isn't there, then it's a step in the wrong direction. While the previous update left much to be desired, it STILL at least had a search function! I can't even…
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New doodle, while sitting watching The Social Network. Not sure why it made me think of poo.
Also threw together a small Neck Face tribute for this weeks Blackbook Battle. I'm still new to graffiti in general so I don't seem to have the same heroes or the same history as a lot of the battling community. Still happy with how it looks.
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There is no doubt we live in demanding times. The greatest demand is on our time. We have so many things jumping up and down yelling for our attention. It's like being the teacher in a preschool class where the kids have been eating candy and drinking soda all day. We feel like that old commercial "Calgon take me away!"
It can be absolutely overwhelming. The truth is though, we are in control. We don't have to let life act on us we can act on it. Stephan Covey in his book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People says it's not about planning our time, it's about planning our priorities.
What is truly important to your life? If we were to get honest much of what we do is virtually unimportant.
How do we know what's important?
1. Does it matter in the long run?
2. If I do it or don't do it will it make any difference in my life or the life of my family?
3. Does it contribute to my personal purpose or vision?
4. Does it have real substantial value?
5. Is it life giving or life wasting?
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1. Learn to say no if it doesn't meet the criteria. It's ok to say no. You don't need to, nor can you do everything.
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5. Get everyone on the same page
6. Realize life is a river not a compartment. Find your flow, your rhythm and get comfortable with it. Don't force yourself to compete with yourself.
7. Your family is all on the same team. Play like a team. No one person should be carrying the load of the whole team. Everyone do your part.
If your going to make a difference in life, and your life is going to mean something it will be full, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming. It's your choice and your decisions that create your focus.
My wife is a teacher, I'm a pastor I have a heavily involved senior in High School and a 5th grader. Sometimes it gets a little crazy but when we live the principles I've written about here our focus stays clear, we get it done we are happy and fulfilled and helping others.
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Charleston Stage Company and Festiv-All Charleston Announce 2010 Playwriting Competition
This is the fourth year for Charleston Stage Company's Location Plays for Festiv-ALL! Previous productions have included the Bank Lobby Play, the Elvis Play, The Crossing (back this year by popular demand) and the wildly successful Trolley Play.
This year's play contest, titled "The River Play" will be performed in one of the main cabins on the riverboat that will shuttle passengers between the Levee in downtown Charleston and the "Wine and All That Jazz" event taking place on the University of Charleston campus on Saturday, June 26, 2010.
The Rules are as follows:
- All playwrights must be West Virginia residents.
- The play must not have been previously produced.
- Must have 2 to 4 characters of any age/gender
- Have a running time of 10 minutes
- The first line of dialogue must be "This is where it gets deep."
- Playwrights can submit more than one play. Collaborations between writers are also acceptable.
- Playwrights must be available to attend the first performance on Saturday, June 26, 2010
- All plays must be typewritten and mailed to the Charleston Stage Company at 123 Summers Street Charleston, WV 25301 by May 1, 2010 or emailed in WORD or PDF format to email@example.com from the above rules, the only limits are those of your imagination.
The plays will be read and judged by judges who will consider (among other things) creative use of the dramatic possibilities of the space. For more information, go to the Charleston Stage Company website at www.charlestonstagecompany.com.
This project is made possible, in part, through funding by the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and the Fund for the Arts.


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Dry Skin Treatment and Remedies
Dryness of skin is an apparent fact that the skin has dropped nearly all of its vital defensive characteristics. Dry skins are mostly damaged by sun's rays, hard water, and breeze. The skin failures its real softness, dries up, and right after each and every rinse the skin obtain abnormally tough and difficult.
Ecological elements like as direct exposure to sun, wind flow, frosty, substances, or cosmetic makeup products, or too much showering using unpleasant soaps may also lead to dry skin. Situations like this kind of dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, or seborrhea also are result in the dry skin.
In accordance to Ayurveda, dryness of skin is a prevalent characteristic of a Vata composition. Vata leads to dryness of the skin whenever it is vitiated owing to periodic affects.
Honey, is an excellent therapy intended for dry skin.
Include half tablespoon of honey to 1-2 tablespoon of rose water. Implement on face, neck, and other dried skin area. This is organic and harmless. Depart it for about 15-20 minutes, after that rinse off with tepid water. Honey moisturizes and soothes dry skin, and is soothing enough for daily use. This combination wipes the skin, tones it, and makes it shining.
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Two Muslim businessmen who ran a Halal chicken slaughterhouse were arrested and charged by federal authorities for alleged human trafficking and harboring illegal immigrants for exploitation and monetary gain.
Mohammad Abdul Wahid, 54, of Queens, New York, and Mohammed Iqbal Kabir, 42, from the Bronx, were each charged with conspiracy to commit human trafficking-related offenses; conspiracy to harbor undocumented persons for financial gain; and violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced in a news release.
Between July 2011 and January 2016, Wahid owned and operated the Halal chicken slaughterhouse in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, which followed the traditional Islamic practice of Muslim individuals slaughtering poultry.
Wahid and Kabir reportedly employed Muslim illegal immigrants to work at the slaughterhouse, paying them only $290 a week in cash based on 70 to 100 hours a week.
The defendants allegedly did not pay overtime and forced employees to live in a boarding house nearby, which deducted $40 a week from each paycheck. That house was infested with insects and did not have hot water or heat.
Wahid and Kabir reportedly threatened employees that complained about work and living conditions with calls to the police for potential deportation. The matter would remain unresolved until the plant failed health inspections.
The pair is now facing up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the human trafficking charge alone. For harboring illegal immigrants and violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, they face up to 10 years in prison and an additional maximum of six months in prison, along with a an up to $260,000 fine.
The charges will be taken before a New Jersey grand jury for a possible indictment.
John Binder is a contributor for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


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From The President.
This is a quick hello reminding you all that our AGM was held on Saturday 4th May, click here to view the annual report.
For those of you who have renewed your membership, thank you.
For those of you who have not renewed your membership it is a good time to think about it. Don't forget that if you come into the library to use the many resources there as a non member you will be required to pay $5 on each visit.
Presidents update 20 September 2018.
It seems no time at all that I did my last update. But in that time I have travelled half way round the world and back, (notwithstanding the jet lag on return) I am in one piece.
I have written a couple of articles for the upcoming BTL so I won't repeat that information here, suffice to say I had a great time, mostly with my cousin Mike and his wife Angela and dog Sadie. He took me around all the villages of East Kent where my Mother's ancestors came from. We visited all the churches and again I was amazed at the number of them, sometimes two in a village. They are all still operating albeit with small congregations. As you will see in one of my articles Mike is a bell ringer, (a campanologist to you purists out there). He rings regularly in the Churches around East Kent and in particular Canterbury Cathedral.
We also visited a village in Sussex called Rotherfield where my Alchorne ancestors came from. There is an article on that in the BTL so you will need to wait for that.
Verna, Rae, Leon and I attended the Affiliates Conference in Busselton last Saturday. A good talk fest was had during the day with an exchange of ideas. Some of the Societies have great ideas, one of which is having a facebook page to reach a wider audience, which is a good idea however they have a dedicated administrator which is very necessary. We have tried that and have not been successful so far. If anyone is interested please let me know.
Each of the Societies was given a book by the WAGS reps called "Moments of Memory" and provides stories of mothers who lost their babies to adoption. If you are interested in this it is in our library.
We were advised that a Graeme McKenzie is coming out here next year for a series of talks on Scottish research etc. Unfortunately he will be in WA on Monday and Tuesday 25th and 26th March 2019. However if you would be interested in attending his lectures, (at a place to be determined), please let me know. His websites are www.highlandroots.org/Graeme.htm and https://www.highlandroots.org/Index.html
We have had to make a last minute change to our speaker at the next meeting on 6th October. This will now be Diane Oldman who will talk about two WWI soldiers. Should be very interesting, and perhaps you could all spread the word because of the late change.
A reminder for you all that the Seniors Expo is on 5th October at the Mike Barnet sports centre. We still need some people to help on our stall. Last year we had a great response to our open day on the Saturday after in the library so we are doing the same this year, on the 6th, just before our meeting. The library will open at 10.00 a.m. and we will finish by 1 p.m. getting to our meeting at 2.
Peter Godfrey, President.
20 September 2018.
Mandurah FHS Meeting Library Precinct off Third Avenue Mandurah, next meeting 1.30pm Saturday 14th September 2019 when we have our talk Darryl Brady – Advancing You DNA Tree click here for details .


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Lifetime achievement: David Anderson
Since the early 1970s, David Anderson has been key in the European hedge fund industry
Hedge Funds Review European Single Manager Awards 2016
Not many people in the hedge fund industry can remember – let alone were instrumental in – the creation of Europe's first managed futures fund. David Anderson, now chairman of Insch Capital Management, has been one of the leaders in the creation of the hedge fund industry in Europe since the mid-1970s.
Not only was he one of the first to see the potential of derivatives and futures for investment management purposes, he is widely credited with turning the Man Group into Europe's largest asset manager. His first acquisition for Man was AHL.
Anderson has had a long and distinguished career in financial management. In the early 1970s he started one of the first independent, privately owned futures brokers in London and was crucial in developing innovative methods for investing in futures and options.
He served as vice-chairman of the London Commodity Exchange and as a council member of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers, which became the Securities and Futures Association (SFA) and was subsequently merged into the Financial Services Authority (FSA), now the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
In addition he was a member of the Securities Institute and director of the Securities and Investments Board (SIB), the first regulatory authority in the UK encompassing everything to do with finance. Before this there had been around 13 self-regulatory organisations, one for each financial area such as commodity futures, life insurance, financial advice and others.
In the run-up to the introduction of the Financial Services Act of 1986, he played an instrumental role.
"SIB was the big thing. When the act was created, everyone wondered what SIB would do and how," remembers Anderson. As a representative of the commodity markets on the SIB, he was "doing battle" with the-then Bank of England governor and treasury secretary. "All the great and good were there to create a new structure. No one understood futures or commodities. They didn't know the difference between physical shipments and forwards and futures contracts. They just lumped it all in with commodities. We had to start from scratch." To help them understand this new world, he took government ministers and officials from SIB around the commodity exchange to sit on a dealing desk so they could learn about the world of derivatives.
When the act came into effect it separated future brokers and other activities. That was the beginning of modern-day Man Group.
"We had anticipated that there would be a sort of conflict of interest. The company notionally separated futures broking and other activities. Along with futures and options came our fund management business, called Mint [Man International]," explains Anderson.
"Everyone involved in finance had to be authorised or become a member of one of the self-regulating bodies the SIB oversaw. ED&F Man remained separate for physical trading and shipping, but Man International was regulated by the SIB," he adds.
Mint went on to become the first managed futures fund to reach $1 billion in assets under management. Man Group, as started by Anderson, is now the largest hedge fund business in Europe, but still has AHL as one of its flagship products at the head of the quantitative side of the business.
According to Anderson, much and nothing has changed in the intervening years. In the early days of derivatives, he and others struggled with uncomprehending governments. "Harold Wilson's Labour government wanted to take the City apart," says Anderson. They and others saw the world of futures as a gambling casino. "Those were [Wilson's] words and they stick in my mind forever. Labour believed the City was a big casino."
A business in three parts
Now he sees the investment business has expanded and moved more to centre stage. For him, however, investment management consists of three businesses and if these areas are well run, success should follow. First, the business needs technical, quantitative investment management techniques and trading specialists "brilliant at what he/she does but couldn't sell anything to anyone and not good at running things".
Next is the packaging of that product and marketing it. The third area is managing a business. "This is how we originally structured Man."
He believes there is a time and place to bring out the investment manager or "quants" but it depends on the audience and it is a delicate mix. "If you sit down and get a hard time from compliance operations of a pension fund, you want your lawyer there or salesman, but you don't want a quantitative genius," he says.
Today he believes hedge funds should be striving for one objective – absolute returns, whatever the strategy. "How are pension plans to fund future liabilities if they don't seek out managers with absolute return techniques? But that's difficult. How do you select the sheep from the goats?" notes Anderson. He also questions why absolute return strategies are not considered mainstream investment management rather than "alternatives".
His advice to the hedge fund industry overall is to talk in a more coherent academic manner to the main investment management industry so that they can understand what absolute return is and why using hedge funds is a good option.


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The Farmers of North America Strategic Agriculture Institute (FNA-STAG) applauds the House of
Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food for their third report on the "Competitiveness
of Canadian Agriculture" released May 6, 2010. Of particular note is a recommendation concerning the
regulatory framework with respect to generic pesticides.
Recommendation 4.4 calls for the immediate marketing of generic products as soon as the scientific
review has been completed. This change would mean generic products would be available to farmers
sooner. "We want farmers to be able to save money on a generic product as soon as possible",
comments Bob Friesen, FNA-STAG CEO. He continues by saying, "This recommendation would be a
significant improvement from the current proposal that negotiation of compensable data happens first,
which takes too long. This means that a lower cost generic could miss a full growing season." This is in
contrast with the U.S. where marketing begins immediately following the scientific review.
It is important also to point out that taking out the delays in the process would have no danger to
environment or health because the scientific review process that considers these factors would already be
Farmers of North America provided testimony to the Standing Committee in June, 2009 that focused on
the opportunities for changes to generic registration practices and what it would mean for farmers. Based
on the recommendation that appears in the Standing Committee's report, it was time well spent. "Current
regulation provides a period of exclusive marketing for the original registrant and that's fine – that
encourages investment in innovation. What's not fine is when the generic registration process is draggedout with delay tactics while farmers could be saving money with a lower cost product."
If implemented, this recommendation would make Canada more competitive with the U.S. regulatory
system, something FNA has been calling for. Canadian farmers constantly compete with U.S. farmers in a
global commodity market who have enjoyed lower input costs, in part due to their regulatory system.
"Let's at least give Canadian farmers the opportunity to level the playing field a bit with respect to cost of
inputs," says Friesen. "This would be a huge victory for Canadian farmers. This is really important for the
cause of farm profitability."
FNA-STAG requests the Federal Government to adopt this recommendation as soon as possible and
include it in the current Protection for Proprietary Interests in Data Protection (PPIP) draft regulation.
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Farmers of North America Strategic Agriculture Institute (FNA-STAG) is a not-for-profit organization with
the single mission of "Improving Farm Profitability."
For more information contact:
Bob Friesen, CEO: (613) 230-2222 / (613) 852-9711
Recommendation Could Save Farmers Millions
The Farmers of North America Strategic Agriculture Institute (FNA-STAG) applauds the House of


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Booking Croatia
For Booking.com we produced a series of video's in which an Australian couple goes on a sponteneous roadtrip in Croatia. We follow their adventures as they surprise each other by booking amazing hotels along the Dalmatian coast.
For this series we experimented with a directed style in which the couple was partly filming themselves, using go-pro's, drones and iphones.
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So after a frenzied night on the dancefloor you head back and crank out what your sure is the next buzz tune… what do you do next?
Like everything there are more ways than one to submit a demo, but to me they all centre around some common themes.
Lets look at it from the record labels point of view. They license your track to release – the intention is at the very least to make money through sales. So a track needs to be targeted to a label that fits the style of track or one who's audience who would buy it.
In the end It's all about value.
You need to show the record label that your someone they can work with, that your music is going to enhance they're peer status, kudos and bank balance either in the short term or, if forward thinking enough, in the medium term.
Especially in the current climate of file-sharing, a single release is rarely going make them mega money, if any. In my opinion, you need to show what you will bring to the label and how you will assist they're cause. So take some time and figure out what the label's ethos is and then pitch yourself in a way that will show to them you can push them further along that path. In the current climate a release is a joint effort between artist and label, and the label needs to see that you are going to promote and push the release just as hard as they will. That means you need to show you can connect with people and build relationships around your music. Not to mention make the sacrifices to get your music where it will get heard.
Things to include when submitting music to label:
1) Catchy sell on the track and you. One paragraph ideally
2) Peer review of track – ideally some feedback from named DJ's who are playing it and where
3) Short succinct biography
4) History – any previous tracks you have had out, or played or supporters of your past music
5) Closing statement, do you intend to contact them in a week etc or what you plan next. You want to try and hook them in make them feel there is a buzz and they need to act quick to snap this hot cut up
6) Contact details
Thing not to do:
Send a poor quality mixdown, have the track up online in its entirety for people to rip, make the track freely available to download. If you must share around, make a short snappy edit that gives people the theme and draws them in, leaving them wanting more.
If you think you have some great stuff of interest, Forbidden Fruit is always interested to hear from hardworking and talented producers. You can you the soundcloud dropbox or send download links in your email to firstname.lastname@example.com
It's alot of hard work I won't lie, and producing the killer groove and hook is merely stage one of the game – first quarter over, three to go! However, the rewards are fantastic!! Where else can you engineer something and then see hundreds or thousands of people getting off to it? Even at the Haight-Ashbury orgies of the late 60's one man couldn't make sweet love to that many women! I still vividly remember the first time Darius Syrossian dropped one of my tracks to a packed room at Tribal Sessions at Mission in Leeds, over a thousand people going off it to my tune. My knees went weak! It was like a dream wandering through the dancefloor with my music playing and all these people loving it … it's a hunger that leaves you wanting more. Enjoy the journey ;p


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Courtesy of American Energy Society and Eric Vettel
- Investments in renewable energy are declining in 2016:
* China's investments fell 34 percent, down to $33.7 billion.
* In Africa and the Middle East, investment fell 46 percent, to $4.2 billion.
* The United States saw a drop of 5 percent, to $23.1 billion.
Note: Brazil and Europe were the only regions to see an increase, led by Europe's 4 percent gain.
- The prevailing theory about renewable energy is that "variability" or "intermittency" caps the amount of electricity that wind and solar can contribute to the grid at 15 to 20 percent of the total (the sun and wind are not constant sources of energy). However, there is new evidence that renewables are beginning to break through that barrier. AES Premium Members have access to the report by the White House Council of Economic Advisors.
- The total number of electric vehicles worldwide has tripled since 2013.
- Without question, battery storage is a hot topic, with some calling it the "Next Big Thing." However, consider the future promise of the technology in the current context: in 2015, a record 221 megawatts (MW) of storage capacity was installed in the US, more than three times as much as in 2014 (65 MW). But more than 160 MW of the 2015 total was deployed by a single regional transmission organization (the PJM Interconnection market). And 221 MW is not much in the context of a total US generation capacity of more than a million megawatts. Storage might be the "Next Big Thing," but there is a lot of work to be done.
- The top 3 largest rooftop photovoltaic installation projects in the world:
* 11.5MV rooftop solar plant at Beas Dera, India (spread over 42 acres on the Dera Baba, the plant has the capacity to produce 11.5MW electricity).
* 8.1MW in Pfenning Logistics distribution centre in Germany.
* 6.4MW solar array on the rooftop of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino campus in Las Vegas.
(Note: for the rest of this list and similar stories, visit your AES website account).


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Distractions and Revisions
Writing books is the easy part. Selling books is more difficult.
I'm learning a lot about marketing and selling books, but it can get really overwhelming. I need to always have a creative outlet, and lately that's been plays.
Normally, I write plays for middle school aged kids. They're fun, silly, and weird, and I really enjoy writing them. I usually write them for my students, so I have an idea of who will be playing what part* and when the performance will take place.
*Confession: I've written parts for certain students before. They can be such a great source of inspiration.
This time, I am writing something different. A play for adults. Nothing quirky or fantastical. It's all based in reality - which is a definite departure from the norm. It's still funny, maybe a little dark (like most of my writing), and completely different from anything else I've written.
I have no plan for it. I'm not sure what will come of it (if anything), but I really like it. It's been a nice distraction from marketing headaches. I find writing plays so relaxing, and I'm looking forward to the next steps. Hopefully, I'll see it on stage some day.
I have one other project that I'm currently working on - in addition to the numerous other projects on pause right now. My daughter is always asking if she can read my books. Considering the content of my books, the answer has always been "not until you're older."
One day I was clearing out my bookshelves, and I found an old proof copy of a YA book I wrote. It was actually the second book I ever wrote. I liked it, but I took a break from writing for a little while and kind of forgot about it. I switched publishers and didn't think about it again until my girl wanted to read my writing.
It needed some work. My writing has definitely improved in the last eight(?!) years, and I wanted to give my girl my best work. So, the project I am mostly focused on right now is to revise, re-format, and re-publish my second book. I talked to my cover guy, and he is working on a gorgeous new cover for it. Really hoping to have it ready for her birthday.
Today's the day!
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There's only one goal in the city of Famecili, and that is to become the ideal. Toned, tanned, and beautiful. The SuperGym Trainers are going to get you there by any means necessary. Health guru, Benjamin Pratt, hand-picked them to make sure you get fit or die trying. Come train with the best of the best. It's not like you really have a choice.
Maggie is not the ideal. She's not toned, tan, or beautiful, and she never will be. But, she is special. She has a special power that makes her dangerous, and her body seems completely resistant to change. Mr. Pratt loves a challenge and becomes obsessed with Maggie. He is going to do everything he can to make her the ideal. Maggie is focused entirely on escaping Mr. Pratt and his SuperGyms. There is a wall outside the city, and she is determined to get over it. But, is freedom what waits for her on the other side?
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Em is a writer, theatre director, and hiker. She likes mixing horror with magical realism and adding sci-fi twist.
February 2019