Beautiful things can come, 23L at a time. I did up a batch of blonde ale beer (maybe a bit like MGD). I added 2 kg of blueberries into the secondary fermentation vessel, then added my brew. I am going to let this go for another two weeks before bottling. The sugars from the blueberries have given the yeast something to munch on. Cheers! -Jay
Here’s this morning’s interview with CBC’s Lisa Laco. I had fun with this one. I take my role as Official Spokesperson for the Society of the Concrete Moose seriously. It aired on June 22, 2010 at 7:50 am.
In this interview with CBC’s Lisa Laco, we hear from Carney Matheson from Lakehead University’s Paleo-DNA laboratory, as well as some student’s who’ve just completed the three week training in DNA techniques.
This interview aired on CBC Radio, 88.3FM in Thunder Bay on June 4, 2010 at 7:40 am.
Lakehead University “Soils Nerds” on CBC Radio - Thunder Bay. Talk about garden soils and healthy gardens. Aired May 17, 2010 at 7:20 am.
On May 5 and 6, 2010 I attended the International Biomass Conference and Expo in Minneapolis, MN. All in all it was a good conference. I learned a lot and made some good contacts. In this video I note a few things I thought they did really well and a few things that could have been improved. If you ever find yourself planning a big event (a conference, your wedding etc.) there might be a few tips in here for you.
I just discovered librivox.org. It’s kind of like a marriage between public domain books, wikis and podcasting. Anyone can record a chapter. After all the book chapters are recorded and uploaded from the community, it becomes available for everyone. Cool idea if you ask me.
Friarbuck. We would have to know what the mission of the TB Royal order of the Water Buffalo before we started talking Financial, Customer, Internal and Innovation.
Financial would be pretty straight forward. Probably the important measure are already being watched. I think metrics would be easy for this.
Customers. In a non-profit, who are your customers for starters? Are they people who access your services? Likely. So what does a happy “customer” look like? How do you measure it? Are they satisfied? Are their lives better because of your non-profit? How would you measure that?
Internal. In the video I only mention staffing, but it goes farther than that. Are there business practices or policy that are getting in the way of accomplishing the mission? Are there lack of controls or accountability? Is there an established grievance process? How would you measure these things in your context.
Innovation and Learning. In a changing world, what is the non-profit doing to remain responsive to the “customer’s” the while maintaining true to its mission and strategy? Is their a culture of creativity and freedom? Is it OK to fail and take chances? Are there programs in place to facilitate innovation? Google has the 20% rule, where staff are to spend 20% of their time on new projects and exploring new and novel ideas. How would a non-profit measure these things?
