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BCMA Transparency Hits The Wall
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As the hot summer weather gives way to cooler fall temperatures reflections on the events of summer are common.
BCMA transparency was again prominent at the Wall Centre at this year's AGM on June 13, 2009. The accuracy of the Minutes of the 2008 AGM held in Prince George was the subject that consumed much of the debate. This may only be known to the 170 members who attended out of the BCMA membership of more than 11,000 who rely on information provided in the BCMA annual report and the BCMJ reports of the AGM.
BCMA members may recall how the 2007 AGM in Vancouver came to an abrupt end after an esteemed colleague rose to present a motion "that the General Assembly deplores board policies that would suppress, restrict or undermine open communications between directors and members" and before discussion on the motion could begin a mass exodus of the Board directors served to squash the quorum and end further debate.
BCMA members will also recall how immediately following the 2007 AGM arrangements were changed to relocate the 2008 AGM to Prince George. But what really happened in Prince George?
Internet search activity as measures of human health trends
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With millions of searches done on the Internet every day it is no surprise that search engine giants like Google are exploring many applications of the search activity data.
One interesting application of Internet search activity data is Google Flu Trends that while providing graphs of results from New Zealand, Australia and the United States, says of itself:
New Palm Pre sends data to Palm every day
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This news feed from today about the new Palm Pre smart phone may be of interest to those who want to know about intrusions to their privacy.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/palm-pre-privacy/
Palm Pre users watch out. Palm may know a lot more about you than you would like to share.
Preserving cocoa flavanols during cooking and baking
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Here's an interesting research article on cooking with cocoa and the impact on retaining the antioxidant activity and cocoa flavanols in the food.
Internet Diggbar and how to stop it
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An article on the new Internet "feature" brought out by Digg appeared in the sidebar newsfeed today and caught my eye. It's a very interesting article to read.
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/The Diggbar Is Evil - How to Stop it
