With international experience in industrial development, involvement in high-technology start-up management, an MBA, and expertise delivering efficient and effective services, Rand leads VanTek in meeting and exceeding client expectations. Innovators need to be able to focus their energy and funding on their creative work, and depend on timely, consistent, affordable, and value-added advice on their intellectual property, entrepreneurial strategy, public and private fundraising, and the essentials of business administration. Associated patent firms worldwide looking for client IP protection--both patents and trademarks--in Canada need to know that their instructions will be followed to the letter, in short order or exactly when requested, and at a reasonable cost. Whether what is needed is a timely and accurate filing in Canada, a full understanding of the costs and timelines for intellectual property protection in Canada or worldwide, or expertise on new business formation--from corporate structure to accounting--Rand provides exactly what is needed. Yesterday.

Our Vision: To be the organization of choice for all patent prosecution professionals. Our Mission: To provide networking, education, collegial exchange, benefits, and a collective voice in the larger IP community on patent law and prosecution practice, so patent practitioners can flourish and achieve the highest levels of competence and professionalism in their practice. Our Values: Collegiality - Helping each other through the collective wisdom and experience of the membership. Inclusiveness - Respecting the role of all those involved in the patent prosecution profession. Commitment to Excellence - Promoting life-long professional development and integrity. Belief in Strong Patent System - A strong patent system enhances our profession and work of our clients.

Following the oversubscribed, blow-out 3-day New Economy Summit at UBC in April of 2013, and expanding from our now six years of teaching Ecological Economics, PIEE was born on Pi Day 2014 (3/14 at 3:59 PM). A dedicated team of three economics instructors and a corps of several dozen political organizers, students and practitioners are working to promote and realize an economic model based upon the laws of physics and our knowledge of planetary ecology. We have set out to change the very philosophical and practical basis of our globe's, nation's, province's, and local economic systems. Nothing less is necessary to continue the existence of the human species and every other form of life on planet Earth. Welcome to the new global ecosystem of Ecological Economics.

Media is the medium, the realtime texture to relationships between leaders and those lead. Control of image is the control of the agenda, and the will to act. That control is evaporating under the onslaught of distributed image and sound acquisition, production, and distribution. Storage and retrieval of this media is also a powerful tool of accountability.The political stage is now illuminated, and the tools ready for action.Chatterbox Productions provides synchronized multi-camera 1080 to 4K setups from Glidecams, tripods, and static or flight pattern programmable drones for public or sporting events. Available field cameras range from the Sony Z1 and FX1 (NTSC only) and Pentax K1 to the small-format Sony A1 and a half-dozen 4K GoPro cameras. Colour-adjustable studio and remote field lighting is also available. Sennheiser wireless, wired lav or condenser, and stand-along Tascan digital recorders are used for sound acquisition. Digitizing for educational programming is accommodated using 4000 dpi Nikon slide (diapositive) and 1200 dpi 11"x17" flatbed scanners. Editing up to 4K video media and 20 megapixel stills is generally managed using Final Cut Pro Studio, and then output to computer file, tape, DVD, or BluRay. Learn about our world, from anywhere: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChatterboxFilms. For those interested in landscape painting, check out especially this extensive series on the history and practice of Chinese landscape painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGoEkPj-C5o or at the link below.