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Big Canna Corruption: Meet The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
E42: Big Canna Corruption: Meet The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Let's look into the brave new world of legal cannabis, licensing, taxation, and influence from big businesses including big pharma. It's a hill and valley ride:
-Matt and Dee Dee debate Gov. Beshear's legislative actions on cannabis.
-Matt presents some alarming articles concerning Big Pharma's track record.
-Big Cannabis: what is it, and how will big business interests change the cannabis industry?
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Hi, I'm Matt,
And I'm Dee Dee. We are the hilarious outcome of opposing brains, sharing a mutual desire to share knowledge and positive thinking about him and cannabis.
We are here to tear down the walls built by big pharma and other big companies that seek to keep the human race and fear and divided.
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Join us as we enter into this misunderstood and the unknown. Hey, happy hamsters. So great to be back with you. Um, we are live from our 812 Hemp store in Clarksville, Indiana, and we actually opened December 14th, so we did kind of a soft opening, you know, you gotta make sure all them bugs or worked out, but we are so excited to be helping, uh, Indiana customers and we can't wait to show you our new space. Um, it is beautiful over here and I have to thank Matt, my business partner. He has worked his tail off in this store, but also I definitely wanna thank, um, Hope who has been here. She's done a lot of lot of things to help us. They have, they have done just a beautiful job and I could not like do this on my own. It truly does take a team and I feel so blessed and so honored and I don't wanna get emotional, but dang it, I am so happy with everybody that is part of this and we've made this happen. And even the entire team at 502 Hemp y'all, I appreciate you. Hopefully you listened and you hear this and of course I posted on my Facebook, but man, I am so proud of everything that we've managed to accomplish, so I just had to get that out there, Matt, before we even started.
Well, hey, thank you. Thank you Dee. I think that that's great and that, that that's very, very heartfelt and sincere and right on. Yeah. Um, yeah. And it has been an adventure, but it's, it's fun and
Uh, yeah. Cause this is your first time opening a store,
Right? A retail store. Yes. A
Retail store.
Yeah. Yeah. Not a store. I mean, I've opened a store, but not that like where people just walked in and out. More of an office store
Of Yeah. Big
Difference where people walking in are wearing big difference ties or, or, or a construction outfit. Those are the two. Uh, yeah,
You've done a lot of the construction stuff, so Yeah. But yeah. And I'm just gonna point this out there, y'all, it is nice to have somebody on your team that can do all the construction. Cuz when I want, you know, a board put here or something hung there. Matt's like, okay, where do you want it? And I'm like, yes. This is so great. Yeah.
I wanna make it, it my value revealed
<laugh>. It is,
It's the screwdriver. I'm a glorified
Screwdriver. I'm like, do you wanna see my honey-do list at home too? <laugh>? I'm sure Katie keeps you busy with some of that stuff too.
We, yeah. I've always got a project.
I know. Figured.
Yeah. So Right on. Heck. Yeah. Well that being said, are you ready to be in? I am. I am. Okay. Well we got an interesting one today. Um, so the title of this podcast is, uh, big Can of Corruption, um, and that in Well
Good deal. Okay.
Incorporates a lot of stuff. Uh, cuz there's a lot of things going on. So what I, what I thought we do today is switch a little gears, uh, uh, switch some gears. We're gonna kind of get out of the hemp and get a little more into the cannabis. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and, uh, what's going on with cannabis legalization? What's going on with licensing? Mm-hmm. <affirmative> of cannabis. What's going on with taxation of cannabis? What's going on with, uh, medical versus recreational. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, what's going on with, uh, corruption within that? Um, and the, the individual state governments, Ooh. Uh, what's going on in Kentucky and, uh, the smoke and mirrors. That's, in my opinion, Beshear has, has flopped out. That's now turning into a, hey, get a medical card that is absolutely worthless. And there's, starting next year,
There's no medical program, so there's no cards that actually exist. Yeah. Yeah. Most people don't understand that.
So there's a lot. And we're gonna touch on a little, uh, in the, in this particular show notes, there's gonna be a ton of attachments because there's a, it's, it's a very diverse topic. There's a lot of different subjects that I want to, I want to touch on. Um, and I wanted to make sure that if you listeners are interested, you could get a little more in depth. So there's some really good articles, um, in this show notes. If you're interested in hearing a little bit more, I'd encourage you, cuz this is just gonna be like a top level 5,000 foot view type thing. I'm gonna throw out a, a few statistics here and there, but that's it. Um, so, you know, kind of starting off, uh, why don't we go ahead and work inside out. Okay. Um, we started with the Beier thing. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, and if you all don't know, uh, deedee was a, played an integral role on that on, on Bashir's team, right. On the medical marijuana. Uh, can I did, what was it called? The Miracle Medical?
It was medical. It was the Medical Cannabis Advisory
Committee. Medical Cannabis Advisory
Committee. Yeah. Because marijuana and him, all of that, it's cannabis. Yeah. You know, we just gotta get used to calling it that marijuana is such a racist term.
Racist. Mm-hmm.
<affirmative>. It
Is. Oh yeah. I guess cuz it's, it is, it's, uh, uh, Mexican. Yes.
And they,
Yeah. It's Mexican slang
Back in the, yeah. Thirties, I think. Twenties, thirties. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, with that being said, if you, if you don't know, and those of you who are listening who are Kentucky residents, uh, there's this B bill that will be in effect, uh, the first of 2023. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, legalize. You're, you're allowed to legally possess marijuana in Kentucky. If you have a medical card stating as such, let's be clear.
Up up to eight
Ounces. Up to eight ounces. So let, let, let's just be clear on that. You cannot buy cannabis in Kentucky under this bill,
Period. There's no dispensaries, there's no medical marijuana dispensaries. There's no recreational dispensaries. That does not
Exist. There, there is no not allowed. The, the closest medical state is Ohio. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> does not reciprocate because we do not have, cannot go to
Ohio marijuana program
Mm-hmm. <affirmative> because of, because of their stipulations. So you're looking at going to Virginia, which is, by the way, one of the most expensive states to buy marijuana in, uh, currently. And well, cannabis, and I'll get into that. Um, and then you're gonna drive through states where it's not legal and your, your card is not, doesn't mean anything. And at best it will be taken, you're and confiscated when you get pulled over at worst, uh, you'll be charged. Right. Uh, with a, with a crime.
And Governor Bashear's order can't help you in another state.
No. He,
He can't pardon you from another state.
So, in my opinion, what this is was a little clever political way for Bashir to cover his ass, make it look like he's doing something to move forward and then create a new niche for people to rip other people off with this new medical card that's being sold in Kentucky. Because there's a already people advertising, get your medical card in Kentucky. These people are ripping you off. They're taking your money for nothing.
Right. But you know, I'm gonna disagree with you on Bashir. Go ahead. And we, we,
To. Right. And you know, I'm going to, because he is the first governor that has done anything to move the needle on marijuana. The first governor in this entire state, you've got four senators that are stopping passing medical marijuana. He, this was his little, and he, and you know what really gets me? He waited until after the elections to make this announcement. So I don't, I do not truly believe it was a political move or pool or what have you. And honestly, I don't give a shit if it was because he is the only only governor that has done anything to move medical along. Now do I agree with it? No. Is it the best he could do? Yeah. Pretty much. Could it be, um,
H why would you say it's the best he could do?
Because he only, he only has executive orders. I mean, that's all the power he has that he can
Use. But, but he could use his executive order to go ahead and approve
Wreck. He couldn't. Why not? Not wreck. Are you kidding? McKian Medical? You think re's gonna happen in this state? Are you serious? Dude, dude. Um, he's again, yeah. No, I mean, I, I commend him. At least he did something. Yeah. Better than nothing. Yeah. And I, to me, I think it's gonna force the legislation to freaking bring it for a vote.
Will it though, will it though? Or was it just like a, Hey, you know, I'm gonna piss people off if I, if I don't do something, but I can't do some, if I do something big, it'll piss these people off. So how can I straddle the fence here and make sure I don't piss this group off or this group? And then kind of just move things forward just a little bit. Just a little itty bitty really
Baby step. Only he can answer that
Question. Right. I know. And be sure if you're listening,
Can come on our lemme know. Come
On. Our
You can come on our podcast. On our podcast. That be, cause I'm not, I mean, I, I, I just, to me it's like, it's like saying, hey, we're, we're, we're changing 12 to a dozen. 12 is a dozen now. Well, but you're, you're welcome. But you
Know what? He did do that executive order did do it, did do it made that up to that eight ounces a misdemeanor. So that's helpful for people that do
Have Yeah. For people
That are buying it from another state that do bring it in. And at least they can have up to eight ounces and not be
A felon with a medical card,
Not a card. A recommendation
With a medical recommendation
Recommendation. That's what gets me about it. And that's why those other companies that are, you know, Ew, we'll get you a medical card. Yeah. That's
Bullshit. Well, and here's what gets me about medical altogether is why
It, all of it's medical, why recreation's, medical, all of
It be right. Because, but what this medical thing is, is first of all, it creates a layer for people to collect money on these quote unquote subs, uh, prescriptions. Right. Right. Which is just another way to take people's money.
Well, and, and doctors truly, truly, legally, federally cannot write a prescription for marijuana Right. On a notepad. Right. That is because it's not FDA approved. Right. And it's still schedule one.
Right. So, so
Even the doctors that are doing it, what kind of risk are they running federally?
So it's not even
They lose their license.
Right. So it's not even quote unquote medical. Right. It's it's just a, it's just a, oh, hey, we're, it's, we're gonna apply another asshole tax to this system Yeah. To take another piece of, and
We can get into the tax parts. I'm still bent that they lowered the income tax a half a percent only to raise all the sales tax on everything else.
So I think, you know, if you can't, if the FDA can't classify it as a medical drug, if they can't classify it as a supplement, then you can't make it medical. It's either recreational or it's not.
I, I agree
With you and, uh, you know, this whole medical bullshit. Come on, gimme a break.
It it what it really should be, and there's a couple coalitions out there that I am all for. It's responsible cannabis use Hello? 21 and up. Yeah. You should be able to do whatever the hell you want. Yeah. We shouldn't have all these rules and regulations to try and keep us, us safe. If that's the case, then get rid of alcohol. Right. Quit promoting that. Right. Quit promoting cigarettes. Right. Uh, really? Yeah.
You know, they
Hundred percent agree. They've damn near, they've damned near destroyed the vaping industry. Right. You and I agree. It's not the best, safest, healthiest, blah, blah, blah. But they've damn near destroyed that industry and they still allow alcohol that's killed people. Uh, <affirmative>, they still allow cigarettes that has killed people. You can find that in freaking drug stores for crying out loud, but cannabis and no one's died from it. Right. So, and that's still a federal schedule one narcotic. I mean, it's, it's re it's insane. Right. And even with Biden and his whole big pardon thing, you know, in 94 he wrote the bill that put a hell of a lot of people in prison.
Right. Well, but all you can do is correct your mistakes. That's true. To play the devil's advocate. That's true. So, so to pull that back, one, I agree with you, and I think that the, I I, I think that, I didn't even know
We were talking about all this stuff today, people, so this is great.
<laugh>. So I think, I think where we get lost is that, you know, we, we we're given the illusion that this medical thing creates a layer of protection or a layer of make sure that it's done right. That's bullshit. Yeah. All it does is create another layer of you have to pay this before you can get that. Yep. What really needs to happen is wreck needs to be regulated so that it is one safe, clean mm-hmm. <affirmative> tested. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and affordable mm-hmm. <affirmative> and available mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, to the right people who qualify for it, meaning you're of the right age and, um, you, you know, whatever. I mean, there, there can be some loose criteria there. Uh, age, age restrictions or mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, you know, intoxication restrictions and, and limited
Things like that amount if you need to, but you also need a limited of alcohol. Maybe you, you only get one
Six pack. They do that in, in some states actually
Way. I know. And they would have terrible Sunday sales. Some of 'em. Yeah, I know. But I'm just saying, you
Know, see, I grew, I grew up, we didn't, we weren't, we, where I grew up, it wasn't even called, you weren't even allowed to call it a package or a liquor store. Oh, liquor store was illegal. It was called a package store. A package store. And you went there to buy, so you're old packages
<laugh> what stage you grew up at?
What? Massachusetts. Okay. What was in these packages was booze. But that, but that is mm-hmm. <affirmative>. And, and now, um, you know, Massachusetts is a marijuana legal state and they're, they actually, and actually in mass now, uh, marijuana tourism is a thing. Oh
Yeah. Well, of course it is.
Of course. It's funny how, how there's marijuana in in one generation. It's gone. It's gone from, oh no. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> is, don't the liquor store. What? Where's the, what's a liquor store? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Where's that? The Paki,
I remember in Ohio you had to have it in a brown paper bag. Mm-hmm. Like 12 pack has to be in a big paper bra bag. Yeah. You, it always had to be covered. Like, now you just walk out with the 12 pack. Six pack, whatever. You don't have to have in a bag. Yeah. But in Ohio, I remember that when I was working at the convenience store Yeah. A long time ago. I wasn't even old enough to sell it, but yeah. Anyway,
Anyway, so moving off the booze mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, so the next ne next issue we're having in this, uh, state of, you know, marijuana legalization. And don't get me wrong, I I I, I don't want to just, this would be like a bitch session podcast where we're complaining about, are you sure? Uh, yes. Because it's great that marijuana's being legal legalized, but it is really important now that we're seeing this shift that we get in front of this so we don't see it go the way of so many other things that fall to excessive taxation, excessive regulation, excessive, uh, licensing restrictions and things where it, it, it's only available for the, the top 1% mm-hmm. <affirmative> that can afford it, which happens to be big pharma. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> who, uh, I, well, I've got some, there are some things, some interesting things about big pharma I want to read, but there's Sure is shit not looking out for your best interest. They're looking out for the bottom line of their company, because that's what they do. That that is the, I do not interpret big pharma as evil or not evil. They are simply a machine created to collect as much revenue as humanly possible by any means necessary.
They are the epitome
Of capitalism. I do. And, and I don't think, I don't, I don't interpret that as evil or not evil. You have to decide whether that's the company that you want to invest your, your, your money in and you want to trust your health with.
I don't, I think
They're evil. And sometimes you don't have a choice. Yeah. Well, if you want to interpret that as evil, that's fine. High vibration, low vibration. Yeah. Whatever.
But some of, don't get me wrong, there's some good, obviously there's some good medications out there that have truly helped people. Then there's some that are not so good. And by all means, read the side effects and medications you're taking. Yeah. Oh my goodness. But I wanted real quick, Matt, before you move on, I went, I was just interviewed a few minutes ago, literally before you got here, and one of the questions they asked me is if I wanted to get into the marijuana, medical marijuana and open a dispensary. And I said, you know, honestly, there's a lot of things that need to change before I even wanna get into that. Banking is one of them. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> banking has been nothing but a pain in the ass, even for the hemp industry. And I was promised back in 2019 that all of this was gonna get taken care of when Senator McConnell came out to my husband's shop and he looked right at me and he's like, we are working hard on that. Well, what, this week, last week, I don't remember. It got shot down again when they tried to put the Safe Banking Act in on, I think it's an ominous whatever that is. The spinning bill. And, and McConnell and others bragged that they shut it down. Like what the, what, what the hell, man. Wow. I mean, we've gotta get safe banking for the cannabis industry in
General. Right. And these are the topics that I want to bring up today because now is the time. It is before it's too late. It is. Because what, what will happen if we don't do something is it will just fall into the hands of the same people Yeah. That are controlling the sheel narrative that is, you know, our country's economic system. Right. And it'll just be another thing that's regulated that you have to buy from a company who only cares about their bottom line. Exactly. And not your health and not your wellbeing. And certainly not your wellness.
Exactly. And, and not being able to ride off business expenses. These cannabis companies, the marijuana side, not being able to write off their business expenses like that stuff would be a nightmare to deal with and only deal in cash. That is scary. I mean, you're running a lot of risks, risky stuff there. And that getting robbed, uh, only paying your employees in cash. I mean, how did they make that deposit into their bank account without triggering that whole $600 thing and not being audited for putting cash in their accounts? Oh. So there's a lot of things that have to get changed before I'm really, truly wanna get involved. I'll always be an advocate, but opening a dispensary at this moment right now, I would say probably
No. Yeah. Well, so, um, the, you know, and then the next stage of that, uh, licensing mm-hmm. <affirmative>, which is state regulated mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and every state has <laugh>. I don't even, I mean, I will, I don't even know where to words. I don't even know where to begin. I mean, starting with, you know, the, the, the big, you know, what was it, Calexico, California debacle where it was revealed that city officials in LA were, were taking bribes in exchange for licenses. Um, but they don't even need to do that anymore. Cuz now, cuz now what's, what, what a lot of these states are doing is they're making the licensing so high mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, that you have to just have an excessive amount of, uh, capital and you need to be a big, nasty, uh, business. Yep. Which we all know, you know, when businesses get in, when when businesses reach a certain size, they become their own entity. They do. Um, and that entity is typically predicated upon its survival of, you know, economic Darwinism mm-hmm. <affirmative>, which is who's raising, who's making the most profit, and who's bringing that profit to the bottom line for the shareholders. Right. Um, so those are the people that, that when this licensing gets outta hand are the only ones who can get the licenses and then they get in and then they do all kind of corrupt shit. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, so real, that's my, that's a real Kentucky too real, real problem. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cuz there's no corruption in
Kentucky. Oh lord. Heavens. No. Not even in the hemp industry. Not here. <laugh>.
Yeah. So don't even get me going. Sorry. That was very sarcastic
<laugh>. Yes, it was. That
Was terrible. Um, my apologies. But, uh, it, it's something that absolutely needs to be addressed because instead of it becoming a factor of is this, is this the right person to have a license? Is this the right company to have a license? Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, is this company gonna look out for the best interest of its consumers? Is this company gonna look and make sure that it's maintaining quality product? Is this, is this gonna look out for the benefit of the community? No, no, no, no, no. It's just about how much money you have. Right. And that, I mean, it's hard for me not to get pissed off about that because that is exactly the situation that has gotten us where we are. Right. With things like big pharma. Right.
You know, and, and even in the head industry, there are many people that only give a shit about the bottom line and the money. Yeah. They don't care that they're selling products that could be contaminated. They don't care about all that shit. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it's like that in a lot of industries. It's not just, you know, but what else
You got? Well, so next, <laugh>. So at, if you just happen to be able to scrape enough money together for your license mm-hmm. <affirmative>, guess what comes next? The taxation.
Oh God. Yeah.
Also state regulated. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and <laugh>. They're, okay. So these taxes run anywhere from 20 to 80%.
The, the, uh, hang, I'll find this statute. Are you crappy? But the irs, I think it's two 80 e My goodness. Um ha ha has, has companies, uh, cannabis companies reporting up to 80%. Um, taxation. You cannot survive on that. Well, no, you cannot survive on that. So,
Um, yeah, it's, uh, IRS two 80 e tax code, um, uh, taxes ranging between 40 and 80%. And that's reported from the irs. Oh, so that's not businesses. That's the IRS report
That just made my stomach curl because I'm like, we pay enough in taxes. I could not imagine. Yeah.
So, so now, now do I think, um, do I think cannabis should, should not be taxed? No, I definitely think it should be taxed because I think people will pay that tax. And I think that I I it should
Be a reasonable
Tax Exactly. On it has to be something. It has to be something to where the, you know, the right people are, are in place, not the most, you know, economically advantageous or corrupt people are in place. <laugh> mm-hmm. <affirmative> and, um, excuse me, they're selling a product that, uh, that, that that is, that is correct. And at a price point that's affordable for customers. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, because the bottom line is, um, the black market industry is still there. Sales of marijuana in California are three to one black market to Dispensate. Oh,
That does not
Surprise me now. And that is, that's because it is so fucking expensive to buy cannabis in California. John. No, nobody, no.
John and I have said that forever because of that taxation, there will always be a black market. And until you get rid of that, you're still gonna have cartels. You're still gonna have people coming in from outside this country to sell, to sell marijuana. Right. Because it's cheaper. Right.
Right. Yeah. And you're gonna have people that, that, that, that are gonna take that risk. Yep. And when you, when something's illegal, it turns into crime. Yep. When crime turns into violence. Yep. And then the snowball continues. So
Well, and not even to mention the whole war on drugs and how you could literally lose your house if you had marijuana and you, you know, they take that from you and then they're home. Your money, your cars, all that shit over whatever amount it was back in the day. Right. I mean, things have changed now, but do we really wanna talk about the whole prisoner exchange with Russia and how one person is now free that violated, uh, their cannabis laws and now we have all of these people sitting in jail here in the United States. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad she got out of there. I'm glad she came home, but pardon the rest of the people that are sitting in the United States that are in fucking jail over a dime bag.
Seriously. I I, that pisses me off. I agree. That is a double standard and it needs to be corrected.
Right. Well,
Sorry, there's mine.
Well, thank you for the rant. You're welcome. But again, um, and, and I believe I said the statistic in an earlier podcast, but I'll say it again. Um, uh, 40% of, uh, the cannabis, cannabis industries nationwide are in the red, which means they are losing money. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, in California, that's 60%. And these are people that can afford the licensing and afford all the expenses. Right. And they're still, yeah. I mean, and that, that's not people breaking even. I, I'm, I don't know all the statistics, but I'm, I'm willing to bet that it's, it's in the single digits as the companies that are actually turning a reasonable profit mm-hmm. <affirmative> in most states, uh, where cannabis is legal. Um, and, uh, just to give you some ideas of the taxation, I had some really interesting numbers here. Okay. So, uh, here's a little trivia for you. This will be fun. What's the lowest legal, um, cost of cannabis per gram right now? Just guess
$10,
$9 and 75 cents.
Know? Pretty damn good.
We're not talking about how I know
That. Ooh.
Michigan? We're done. Uh, that is in a few different states. Okay. But that was reported from
Michigan's pretty cheap What
Didn't say darn it. Uh, but anyway, um,
But see that, that also
What,
Not only the black market, but then you have the retailers that are, you know, in com competition with each other. They're so, they're lowering the prices lower on their prices.
Well, and a lot of a, a lot of these, this pricing has to do with taxation. Yeah. They have to charge it for, for the tax because they, they charge so much for tax. Right. What's the most expensive state?
Oh Hmm. It's a medical state or a rec
State. It doesn't matter.
I dunno. Virgin, Virginia. Oh, Virginia. $18 and 60 cents a gram.
You mention, you mentioned Virginia. No,
I mentioned Virginia earlier. Yeah. Yeah. Them being exorbitantly expensive. $18 and 60 cents cuz their tax rates are so high. Ouch. Pennsylvania's second, $15 and 62 cents. Dang. New Jersey's third 1495. That surprised me in New Jersey. Maryland's fourth, 1389 and Ohio is fifth at 1383.
Damn. I know. I got a really good friend. He has his medical card in Ohio, but he drives up to Michigan to get his stuff because it's so much cheaper.
Right? Yeah. Right. They were charging, it's, it's dumb.
It's dumb. They were charging $60 for a vape cart in Michigan. They got it for 10. Right. Huge difference. Right. Huge difference.
Right? Yeah. Okay, so here, here's the last thing that I wanted to bring up. All right. In this, so, um, whether you want to call what we've discussed today, corruption or not, it's completely up to you. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, uh, I don't know if, uh, if we've discussed this or not, but, um, Pfizer has entered the cannabis, uh, industry and, um, oh gosh, what I, I forget the name of the company that they purchased. Um, but they are, they will be the next big canna. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, shoot. Shit.
I'm gonna, oh, yeah. You gotta find one out. I don't have to, you gotta know what name it is.
Why is that? That doesn't surprise me though. I mean, you've, you've got companies that are trying to get, um, patents for CBD oil and CBD products and you know, in order to get a patent for that, you have to have other synthetic stuff put into it. Yes. And do your, you know, trials and all that stuff. But you can't patent a plant, so,
Oh, okay. You find it. Yeah. Good. Um, so <laugh>, I'm just gonna read this, this, this actually came from, um, uh, uh, a site that very obscure, but anyway, oh, um, it's in, it's in the notes that your history, the, the, the title is, is Big Weed Coming with Pfizer's recent purchase mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Oh, the French Toast. It's, it's from the French Toast. Have you look, ever read that? Yes. Okay. It's kinda like that. Um, our great overlords and global saviors, Pfizer announced their intentions, uh, to get into the medical, uh, industry with a purchase with a 16 6.7 billion acquisition of Arena Pharmaceuticals. Okay. So they spent 6.7 billion on this. Uh, yeah. So, you know, MOPA gonna compete with, uh, Pfizer on that. You know, you think they're gonna push their weight around, make sure that they're the only competition in town.
Hey, Pfizer, I I know <laugh>. I can help you find a space
<laugh>. Okay. So, uh, again, and, and here, here's the thing is, so what, so what what Wow, what's going to happen if we allow it to is big pharma will just consume the, the marijuana industry they will. Um, because, and frankly, I understand the motivation because if you're a company that economic Darwinism, um, you're losing massive amounts of, of revenue as marijuana continues to be legalized mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, you're gonna have to jump on that bus. You're gonna have no choice because otherwise you're not gonna survive. Right. Um, so they're doing what they feel they need to do to survive that can under, you can understand that mm-hmm. <affirmative>, but I wanna read some interesting, um, some interesting, um, fraud cases with big Pharma just so that the listeners can know. These are the, these are the quote unquote overlords. And, uh, and, and who, if we let them, we will have to buy our cannabis from Oh my gosh. Um, uh, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson pled guilty to, uh, misbranding and, uh, with the intent to defraud and mislead and paying kickbacks to healthcare providers to, um, induce them to prescribe their drugs, um, resulting in fines of 2.3 billion. In 2009, um, Pfizer, Pfizer settled a lawsuit for manipulating studies and suppressing negative findings. Uh, the later, uh, I believe later that year, uh, Moderna has never developed an approved drug yet. One of their board of, oh. Yet one of their board members was placed in charge of the operational, uh, warp speed.
<laugh>. This certainly is unrelated to the fact that they received the most federal VA vaccine research and development funding. What, and have received over 6 billion from our government since the start of the pandemic. What? Yeah.
And I'm sure all this is posted
Like, well, and, and that's, you didn't
Just pull this shit outta your
Ass. No, no, no, no. This is, this is from, um, this is actually from the Freedom First Network.
Yeah. So, uh, yeah. So, and not only that, but I'll, the, you know, I'm glad I did. Pfizer. Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson have a windfall of, of money now, thanks to Covid, uh, from, from those vaccines that were paid for by our government. So, which gives them more control. Yeah. So, so where do you think they're gonna spend that money now?
Well, yeah, big can. Why
Wouldn't, why wouldn't you pour that into big cans? The next thing? Wow. Um,
People don't get it, Matt. They don't get it.
Uh, Gilead Sciences paid 97. Oh, Gilead. Gilead.
Gilead. Really? Gilead. Okay. See, I knew it was
Happening. Paid 97 million in fines because you don't know that reference because it, it illegally used a non-profit foundation as a conduit to pay, uh, Medicare copays for its own drug. And to the 2005 AstraZeneca's drug, uh, Crestor was shown to be linked to a light life-threatening muscle disease while the company withheld evidence from this and two dozen other effects, uh, from the public.
Wow. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>
In 2012, Glaxo Sim Klein paid 3 billion in fines as it failed to include certain safety data relating to their drug since it was labeled at, uh, since it was labeled as corrected to heart failure and attacks connect. Oh. Since it was labeled, since labeled as connected to Heart Failure and Attacks.
I'm telling you, you've gotta read the freaking, um, side effects for those medications. People. Yeah. Wow.
Yeah. So, um, and these are the, these are, these are also the people that are, you know, uh, paying the FDA behind the scenes. Um, we
Can't get into that. Yeah. Gotta be careful with, you know, what we know for sure. And what we don't know, Matt. We'll,
We'll, well, here's one right here.
This is all
Opinion people. No, no. What I'm reading is, I know is, is, you know, referenced. So if, if, you know, please check the references. If, if you don't want to take it for face value. Food and Drug Administration worked behind the scenes with, uh, the company Biogen, to alter previously conducted trials, uh, of their $56,000 per year Alzheimer's treatment. Uh, by removing the, uh, the subset of people for whom the drug didn't work, they found a slight, uh, statistical effect in favor of the drug. So basically, uh, they manipulated the statistics for people who have to pay $56,000 a year for this drug to make it look more effective than it actually was. Yep. Even after doing this, an administrative community, even after doing this, an advisory committee voted 10 to zero, uh, against approving the drug. The FDA approved the drug anyway, causing, uh, three committee members to Desi to resign.
Wow. Yep.
Yep. So anyway, and, and it goes on and on there, there's, there's, I, we, I could literally spend an hour reading these. Uh, the bottom line, the, the bottom line is, uh, you know, with that great money and that great power comes corruption. Um, yeah. That's so sad. And we really, really, really as a society, as a, as local communities and as individuals have to take it upon ourselves to not allow corruption to enter this industry any more than it already has and reverse what we've d what what has been done mm-hmm. <affirmative>, because we're all responsible. If you sit idly by and say, huh, what can I do? You're part of the problem.
That, yeah. You're part of the problem. Yeah. And that, and that's it. And you can stick your head in the sand all you want. Uh, but that just makes you a sheep. And, and I, I don't, I, I don't wanna live that way. And I hope if you're listening to this podcast means you're a free thinker, and I hope that you don't wanna live that way either. Right. So I would be very careful in the future to read any laws where marijuana legalization in any fashion comes up before if it should it come to a vote before you vote on it should. If, but
We don't get to vote on it
Here. Well, not yet, but that may happen.
Yeah. We'll see.
We'll see. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, if you are in a state where it's legal, I would be pressed now, I would be No, there's this silver lining here because it's not too late. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. It is far from too late. And the big thing here is that, you know, there's not been federal movement yet. True. And I am not a big person on saying, oh, big brother federal needs to, to get in here. But if the right people are smart enough in the government to look out for the best interests of the people, <laugh> That's funny. Don't be sarcastic. No,
No. That's funny. Come on. Have they ever done that? Yes. There's only a few.
Yes. They have. Yes. A few. This, this, this country was founded on people, a few with those interests in mind, unfortunately. And you can sit, you don't have enough. And that's another thing though. You can't just sit, you can't sit there and say, oh, well, nobody, you know, nobody cares. Everybody's corrupted. I'm
Not saying that. No. But there's only so many that care and the rest of them are bought and paid for by big Pharma. Right.
But we, but we have to change that. You
Have to, and it is follow the money source. When you're out there trying to vote for someone follow their money
Source, this information is coming out. Yeah. People are realizing. Yes. I mean, there, it's, I knows it's making it in, it's breaking through to the mainstream because it's so bad and it needs too, it can't, it can't. The, the, the levy has no longer held. So the information is out. This information is public. What I've read to you, I did with not much research on the internet. Right. Uh, to find this information. Um, and, and that was, uh, you know, I could spend a career, um, on, on, on this, uh, stuff. But the bottom line is it's not too late. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, there are, there's absolutely change ability to affect change. Right. We have to take it upon ourselves and not just throw our hands up in the air and not just say, oh, the corrupt politician. Um, you know, don't buy the product. I would say break the law, buy illegal shit. I mean, seriously. I, I would, I, I, you know, I mean, that's, look at the Boston Tea Party, you know what I'm saying? Dump that, dump that, dump that bullshit Fi Pfizer marijuana in the ocean
Until we get past the political parties and the two sides. And we all realize that we need to look at our best interest and not necessarily those two political parties best interest. Yeah. That's when things will really start to change. Yeah. When we, the people stand up against the corruption and for the, for all of it, and we start voting for people that actually have our best interest in heart, that's when the true changes are gonna start happening. Yeah. And if we can keep politics out of, and get it out of the FDA and get it out of the big pharmas and the big companies and break up the mono, I mean, there's so many things that we can do to, to change all of this Yeah. And actually become that one great nation again. Yeah. But when you've got all these companies running things and, and footing the bill and paying people off and buying things, it, it, that is what is destroying us as a nation. And you're, you've got those two both sides fighting and arguing over stupid
Shit. Well, but that, that's a old play. I know. That's a old play. I know. Is is it
Aggravates
The piss outta me. Yeah. And, and I, you know, obviously I don't want to get into too deep into politics. I know, but it's, it's super easy. And that, that's how you control the, the popule. It is, it's, it's just like a team. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, you pick a team mm-hmm. <affirmative> and that's your team matter. And everything that team does is Right. Everything the other team does is wrong. And you know that, that way you can, you can at least divide the populace in half. Then you go in there and then you create other riffs Yep. To continue to divide between the two bars. I know. It's then, and then the next thing you know, you know, you're, you're part of some small word,
But I think Matt, we can all agree cannabis is the answer.
<laugh>. I, you know, I, it's, it's, I'm I'm glad you said that cuz I think cannabis is the start because it is here is something we can
All agree on
Cannabis here. Well, but here is something that is proved to, well, I I don't Well yeah. I'm gonna say was proved to, um, have potential cortical stimulation benefits to get you thinking Yeah. To get your brain thinking in a different way than it does every day. So my hope is enough people will, will use this product that maybe it will wake them up
Trying it illegal forever.
It's maybe
It helps you think,
Oh my God, I don't wanna, my gosh, I don't, this is just a sarcastic eureka maelstrom and I, I yeah, I know. I don't wanna do that. Eureka, um, <laugh>. Yeah. Free thinking and support the individuals that support your interest. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> don't support the individual that's on your team. Right. Um, the person on your team is the person that's looking out for your health and wellness. Um, and if are you think, if you think that that's, if you think that that's a money-oriented individual, you are, you're wrong. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and I, I don't come out and ever tell anyone they're wrong, but you're wrong because that's not it. That's not worth
That. What an interesting podcast, y'all. I didn't know this is where we're going today. So it, it's definitely, I I like what you found as far as the research goes because, you know, it's hard. They wanna just keep people like us shut up about it. They don't want this information getting out there and not enough people do their own free thinking to even look or even do the research. But it's there. It's there. If you take the time, just you can do, I mean, ah, ah, let's stop the madness.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and,
And keep the corruption out of, um, cannabis.
Yeah. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> I'll, yeah. I mean that, that's, we, we've got a, we've got an opportunity for stop,
Stop the good old boys.
We have work, we have an opportunity for change. We do. And, and I, I think that this is a great example mm-hmm. Of, of where we, you know, as a, people can start making changes and start deciding what we want. Exactly. I mean, you know, Johnny Apple Seed, I agree. You, you throw a seed in the ground, it's gonna, it's gonna grow.
Um, you know, you throw five pounds of seeds and ditches all along the freeways of America, they're gonna grow. I mean,
Don't really do that, but, right. Uh, I'm just on that note, you know, I'm just saying.
But, uh, so yes, thank you for all that information. I think that people need to hear this and, you know, thank you listeners, we really appreciate you. Please like, follow, share and, uh, tell your friends about hemp and happiness, um, and all the fun that we have. So maybe they'll learn something too, and then they can give you credit <laugh>. But peace out. And hey, if you don't hear us, um, have a wonderful holiday season. Stay safe, try and stay healthy. Get your vitamins in and, uh, don't forget to stock up so you can deal with all of your favorite relatives. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So we're open eight 12 hemps Open, 5 0 2 Hemps open. So come see us. And of course we have websites as well. <laugh>
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Licensing v Franchising, a Distinction Without a Difference?
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Looking to expand your business? What's the best strategy? License your trademark? Or franchise the entire business process? How do you distinguish between these two options?
The first step to making an informed decision about whether to grow your business by licensing or franchising is to understand the difference between the two legal structures.
What is a Trademark License?
Generally, licensing is a method of business expansion whereby one company, the "Licensor," grants another company, the "Licensee," the right to use a trademark in connection with the sale of products or services in exchange for a fee. For example, when Best Buy advertises and sells Apple iPhones, Best Buy will also obtain a license from Apple to use the Apple name (trademark) to advertise the sale of iPhones in its stores. This license agreement may include certain limitations as to how, for example, Best Buy can use the iPhone name, where Best Buy can use the name (e.g., only in its stores, in commercials, etc.) and how long Best Buy has the right to use the iPhone name. In exchange for this right, Best Buy pays Apple a fee.
When granting a license to use a name or trademark, the owner must keep control over the licensee's use of the name in order to maintain quality control. Otherwise, the licensor may face a claim that it has abandoned the trademark and that the license agreement is actually a "naked" license.
However, the control exercised by the licensor must not be so great that the licensor actually exercises control over the operation of the business. If it does, the arrangement may actually be a franchise rather than a license relationship.
What is a Franchise?
Franchising is another method of business expansion. When thinking of franchises, most folks think of restaurants such as McDonalds, 7-Eleven or Pizza Hut. In fact, franchising crosses many industries including fitness, home health care, family entertainment centers such as trampoline parks, home improvement services, and tutoring services.
In a franchise relationship, the owner of the brand uses other peoples' money and sweat equity to open additional locations under the same name. For example, Frank is a successful restauranteur. He has two hot dog restaurants named Frank's Franks and he wants to open a third location. However, Frank does not want to invest his own money in the restaurant and does not have the time to manage yet another location. Instead, he allows his neighbor, Bob, to open a restaurant using the name Frank's Franks. Frank teaches Bob how to operate the business as a Frank's Franks restaurant in exchange for a monthly fee. This relationship is a franchise.
Similar to a trademark licensee, Bob, the franchisee, has the right to use Frank's name "Frank's Franks" to operate his restaurant. However, he is also obtaining the right to operate the restaurant as Frank's Franks location. In exchange for these rights, Bob will pay Frank a fee.
Since Bob is going to operate the business as a Frank's Franks restaurant (and not simply sell Frank's Franks hot dogs), Frank will have to exert control over not only the use of the name but the operation of the restaurant.
Unlike licensing arrangements, the offer and sale of franchises is highly regulated by the Federal Trade Commission and the failure to comply with franchise laws, even inadvertently, can subject the franchisor/licensor to significant civil and even criminal penalties. Therefore, when creating a license relationship, it is important to make sure that a franchise is not inadvertently created.
What's a Wannabe Licensor to do?
As discussed, under a true licensing arrangement, the licensor's control over the licensee's business operations is limited to the extent required to ensure quality control over the use of the trademark and the goods and services sold under the trademark. The licensor does not exercise control over other facets of the licensee's business.
Thus, businesses that engage in licensing that do not want to fall within the rubric of franchising should be mindful not to exercise too much control over the licensee's operations. Such activities, even inadvertent, may render the business opportunity a franchise and subject the licensor (and even its owners) to civil and potentially criminal charges for failure to comply with franchise laws.
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Q: Does updating the mobile push contact key value in the app code update all the previous push contacts? For email we use email address as contact key.
For push we use UUID as contact key.
And in contact Builder it appears as separate records and we can identify them as same customers.
Yes I know that we need to use consistent contact key across channels but this is how it was set up unfortunately.
My question is, if we replace email_address as contact key for Mobile push instead of UUID
would the contact appear as single record in 'Contact Builder' after this change?
Also how can we update these changes in the app in order to change contact key to email-address?
If we just replace  existing UUID to email-address in the code, will  this update the contacts that already were created in marketing cloud (contacts that has UUID as contact key)?
OR
Is it going to apply this change only to the contacts that got in after the code change?
Please let me know how we should go about this change?

A: Setting the Contact Key will update all contacts for which that code is executed.

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General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) reported a sharp increase in first-quarter adjusted earnings despite flat revenues. The numbers came in above analysts' forecast, driving the company's stock higher in early trading on Tuesday.
The engineering conglomerate posted adjusted earnings of $0.24 per share for the March quarter, up from the $0.13 per share profit it reported in the comparable quarter of 2021. The latest number also exceeded experts' projections. On an unadjusted basis, it was a net loss of $0.74 per share, compared to earnings of $0.02 per share in the prior-year period.
First-quarter revenues came in at $17.0 billion, which is broadly unchanged from the prior-year level. Analysts were looking for a slightly smaller number for the most recent quarter.
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The conventional approach to a consensus-seeking problem is for each participant to reveal to the group the item to which they had allocated their first ranking and for a consensus eventually to emerge out of the different choices. The same procedure is then repeated for subsequent rankings.
On this afternoon, three groups settled down happily to this approach and were soon involved in heated discussion. Not so the fourth. Within this group was one person (we'll call her Jane) who happened to see things a little differently.
Noticing that the items on the list seemed to fall into groups corresponding to the different stages of project management, she suggested that it might ease the task, and reduce confusion, if these clusters were identified first, with rankings subsequently being assigned to individual items within each cluster.
Her temerity in proposing this was rewarded with immediate resistance, hasty rejection, on the grounds that it would take time away from the task as set, and a strong urging that the conventional approach be adopted. Recognising defeat, she fell in with the group's preferred way of working, but found that she continued to fall foul of the group just by disagreeing over certain rankings. Not feeling any particular need to get her point of view accepted, she gradually withdrew from the debate, preferring to listen to the various expressions of opinion and their accompanying justifications, finding in this activity a genuine source of interest.
When she next involved herself, she again incurred the displeasure of the group. The discussion had become predictably confused, with much crosstalking, uncertainty over what had been agreed and which item was under discussion. This was clearly a source of anxiety for one group member, who tried to direct the group's activities towards completing the task.
"But some interesting points are emerging", protested Jane. "And it's not a real training session nor have we been given the time normally allocated to this exercise, so does it really matter whether we finish or not?" This was treated as heresy. She was put firmly in her place by the self-appointed group leader who reaffirmed the importance of obeying the rules and then turned his attentions to a determined effort to get the group to do just that.
The outcome was one incomplete task, several group members irked by what they saw as irrelevant interruptions, and Jane bemused by the fact that an arbitrary assignment could assume such importance that a hastily cobbled together rankings was preferable to an exploration of issues arising from the use of such exercises.
We have recounted this incident in detail because if affords an excellent example of the annoyances and defensiveness which can emerge when a group of people try to work together as a team even in an unstressed context as a workshop.
We have found such upsets are a common occurrence in groups. The supportiveness and co-operationwhich is suggested by the statement "We work as a team here", is often marred by the sort of problem that our incident illustrates. But why does it happen?
In running team-building courses we have been looking for ways of predicting and explaining such conflict and to provide people with a framework which helps them to understand and interpret their behaviour. Our previous experience with the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI for short), devised by Michael Kirton at the Occupational Research Centre, in the UK., suggested that data from this inventory and related personality traits, might give us the information we wanted. Before we refer again to Jane and her experiences, we will first explain what KAI measures (Table 1).
The theory on which the inventory is based is concerned with differences in the thinking style of individuals in effecting change. So it involves creativity, problem solving and decision making. The inventory locates people on a continuum of style difference, ranging from high Adaptor to high Innovator. Adaptors prefer to solve problems from within a consensually agreed structure, such as a paradigm, a theory, a set of rules, mores: or a scientific system of classification etc.
The Innovator, in contrast, finds greater comfort in a looser structure, of which less of it need be consensually agreed. As a result of this freedom the innovator is likely to throw up more ideas, at least some of which are innovative – that are likely to go to the edges of the rules and beyond. With this risky strategy, more ideas are lost, even laughed out of court, but despite the loss some of the ideas are accepted. Among them will be the occasional one that is spectacularly successful and mould breaking. However, this is often done at a cost of group temper and cohesion. The value of the innovator is undoubted. The disadvantages are obvious, too, as there is always the possibility that no workable radical idea turns up and the rules have been trampled on to no good purpose.
The adaptors' virtues are equally apparent – except perhaps to high innovators – since their changes are in support of the paradigm and often lead to almost instant improvement. They succeed by using the rule and by "doing better". Their disadvantage is they may stay with the worn paradigm too long, patching it up with great efficiency when it would be best to dump it. No supermen here, according to Kirton. Each has advantages and disadvantages depending on the ever-changing situation. A team needs a balance in order to solve complex problems that come its way. Regrettably those far apart on Kirton's scale are at least as likely to quarrel as to combine!
The innovator also seems to the adaptor (or more precisely – the more adaptive) to be very willing to trade immediate efficiency for some longer term payoff (therefore seeming in the short term to be inefficient) and seems unwilling to conform to other peoples' rules and regulations. An equally high adaptor has the opposite characteristics, wanting to begin by mastering the detail of the problem as given and looking towards as early an efficient payoff as can be got.
That is the theory – or part of it. There remains one addition: the total KAI scores are made up of sub-scores names Sufficiency-Proliferation of Originality, Efficiency and Rule/group Conformity, that are mostly self-explanatory. We can begin to see what this all means in practice by looking again at the incident described at the beginning of this article. We know that Jane has a total KAI score of 120, with 50 on sufficiency of originality, 21 for efficiency and 49 on conformity (see Table 2, for comparison).
These scores are congruent with her behaviour in the group, her suggestions for doing things a different way, her concern with issues other than those immediately confronting the group (which made her seem inefficient), coupled with her failure to record her own rankings (which would have confirmed the impression of inefficiency), and her disregard for the objectives and rules which the group had accepted for itself.
We can also speculate about what was happening to the group, for the members' scores were all more adaptive. Users of the inventory have found that problems arise when innovators and adaptors try to work together. At around 20 points difference the problems begin to emerge and persist. Innovators are seen by their more adaptive colleagues as being "abrasive, insensitive and disruptive". For their part, innovators see adaptors as stuffy and unenterprising and as being too bound by rules and systems which the innovator views as restrictive and ineffectual. Neither party acknowledges the virtues of the other. Our colleague was acting in a typical though not extreme innovator style. The reactions that this provoked were typical of adaptors faced with a threat to their equilibrium.
The incident illustrates the concepts which lie behind KAI and their outcome in practice.
For the past two years or so, we have run seminars on making teams more effective. We experimented with KAI as a means of providing the information we wanted. We will describe its application on a management course for senior teachers.
Our team building seminars are built around a three hour group exercise which we devised to provide a microcosm of managerial activity. In our exercise 'FOCUS' we form teams of four or five people, each team assuming that they are an independent production company tendering to produce a regular television news programme.
Their task is to submit an outline of one sample programme indicating the nature of items and the costs involved, and including a linking script. Instructions are issued explaining the constraints they have to work under – the idiosyncrasies of the producer, the need to use information purchased from the 'news agency' and the deadlines they have to meet, the first being the submission of their 'company name'.
On the course we are describing, we made three teams of five people each, allocating them on the basis of their KAI scores without telling them. Our aim was to create groups which would approach the task in different ways, illustrating facets of team working. KAI scores for the three companies are compared in Figure 3.
Group A: 'Friday Focus'. Inspection of KAI scores led to the expectation that they would keep to our guidelines and would produce a sound though straightforward proposal, reflecting the fact that none of them was markedly innovative. We also predicted that the overall efficiency and conformity of the group would ensure that they met the objectives and obeyed our rules.
Group B: 'Newsco'. Using KAI scores, we deliberately included in this team three highly innovative people, hoping that this would illustrate the problems which so often arise in such mixed teams.
Group C: 'Pandora Production'. KAI scores show this team has the most adaptive average score of the three, with their average SO score significantly more adaptive than that of Group B. (The Mann Whitney 'U' Test showed that the probability of this occurring by chance was less than one in twenty.) With their scores on E showing them to be the most adaptively efficient group, we thought that they would work happily together producing a sound, middle of the road, carefully worked out proposal which would lack mould breaking imagination. Our one uncertainty lay in the fate of the single innovator amongst four adaptors.
As we had hoped, the groups were indeed very different in their style of working and in the nature of their various tenders. KAI scores provided useful insights into why things happened as they did.
Nowhere were these general comments more applicable than with 'Newsco'. Their tender was an admirably imaginative and fully scripted (we forgave them the near illegibility), but they grossly overspent and failed to meet their deadlines.
disarray around her and single-mindedly pursued her self-appointed task of writing the script. We could not have wished for a more dramatic illustration of the problems which highly innovative people create amongst themselves.
'Pandora Productions' operated in the way which we had predicted. Their tender was neatly produced, their budget was modest and their deadlines were met. The only missing feature was the anticipated lack of innovative style.
We were interested to find that the sole innovator in this team was not rejected by his more adaptive colleagues. Instead, he emerged as a Chairman which enabled the other team members to work calmly and co-operatively towards their goal.
'Friday Focus' produced their tender on time, having kept well within their budgets and met each deadline. The context, though, was not noticeably unoriginal and had not made full use of all the resources that had been available. Instead of the anticipated conflict over leadership, the group fragmented with each person working independently of the others which led to a lack of structure and absence of an overall theme in their submission.
Only one member adopted a different role which in fact tallied very closely with his KAI score. Being adaptive on originality, very efficient but also relatively highly (innovatively) non-conforming, he decided that contributing to the proposal was not his forte. Instead, he undertook to check the costings, consult the 'producer' and negotiate with the 'news agency' for material for the programme. This gave full rein to his adaptive efficiency while enabling him to distance himself from the group in a way which did not upset them.
In the end, to what extent were we able to provide a framework which enabled participants to interpret what happened in their teams?
It was here that KAI proved particularly helpful to us in describing, predicting and explaining what happened, and judging by their reactions when given KAI-based feedback – sudden understanding and illumination mixed with some rueful self recognition – participants were equally impressed. Their positive response finally convinced us that the inventory provided the framework we had been looking for.
Since this course, KAI has become an essential part of our professional toolkit, and continues to prove its worth in our assessment and development activities with individuals and teams alike. We would hesitate to work without it.
It has helped our managers to work together, understanding each others thinking style preferences, which has resulted in a very successful team.


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And — remarkably — coach Pete Carroll said Jesse Williams has a chance to compete in August for a spot on the roster. Three weeks ago, the third-year defensive tackle had his cancerous kidney removed.
That's how Seattle ended its mandatory minicamp with its only practice the league allowed Thursday at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center.
Wilson confirmed that, yes, he did take out a rich insurance policy against injury for the 2015 season in the event the two-time Super Bowl QB ends up playing it under his $1.5 million base salary to end his rookie contract from 2012.
So what message should fans be getting about him and his future with the Seahawks?
"I love the game of football. I love playing here. Hopefully it all works out," Wilson said. "I just trust in it. As you guys know, I'm not going to go into great detail about that, at all. It's a private matter.
Wilson wouldn't answer when asked if, in his mind, it's the end of contract talks for the season if he doesn't have a new deal by the start of training camp.
But Carroll did answer that. The coach said if the team and its quarterback haven't come to an agreement by the start of camp, the Seahawks will be willing to stay at it, that it won't be shelved until after the season.
"No, I don't care how long we keep working," Carroll said. "Whatever it takes, to do the right thing.
But he could have. Being here saved the star running back a potential $70,000 ding. His biggest contribution during practice was mentoring understudy Christine Michael some in conversations.
Michael did some individual position drills then stayed out the rest of practice. Carroll said he had a tight hamstring.
Irvin spoke after practice and declared: "I want to be in Seattle." That was different than "I'm going to be in Atlanta next season," which is what he said to blacksportsonline.com while he was in his hometown last month.
"Obviously, my words got misinterpreted," Irvin said Thursday. "(In) 2012, I had a lot of questions coming out in the draft. Pete and John, they stuck their neck out for me, taking me in the first round. Why wouldn't I want to be here?
Irvin admitted the decision has given him new motivation for the 2015 season.
Irvin said when he met this spring with Schneider, the GM told him the team wants Irvin to play for it for many years beyond this one.
Carroll said Williams is in "recovery mode" trying to get back to football shape following the surgery to remove his kidney followed a diagnosis last month of papillary type 2 cancer.
"It's just a matter of how soon he can get strong and what kind of level of conditioning can he achieve and then we're going to reassess. But the doctors have said that it's safe for him to come back and play football," Carroll said.
Cassius Marsh, drafted in 2014 out of UCLA as a defensive end, got his first work as an outside linebacker. Carroll said this was to see if there is "flexibility" for Marsh there for the future. … The players now scatter for six weeks to work out on their own. One Seahawks' time off is likely to be better than others': receiver Jermaine Kearse from Lakes High and the University of Washington is getting married to model Marisa Ventura.
The News Tribune's seven-round Seahawks mock draft has Seattle trading a first-round choice — for the eighth straight year — gaining three more picks then taking three defensive linemen and two wide receivers.


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Q: convert two chars at a time from a string to hex I have the following piece of code which converts 1 char to a hex at a time. I want to convert two chars to a hex. ie 99ab should be treated as '99', 'ab' to be converted to its equivalent hex.
Current implementation is as follows
$final =~ s/(.)/sprintf("0x%X ",ord($1))/eg;
chop($final);

TIA

A: Your question doesn't make much sense. Hex is a string representation of a number. You can't convert a string to hex.
You can convert individual characters of a string to hex since characters are merely numbers, but that's clearly not what you want. (That's what your code does.)

I think you are trying to convert from from hex to chars.
6 chars "6a6b0a" ⇒ 3 chars "\x6a\x6b\x0a"

If so, you can use your choice of
$final =~ s/(..)/ chr(hex($1)) /seg;

or
$final = pack 'H*', $final;

The other possibility I can think of is that you want to unpack 16-bit integers.
6 chars "6a6b" ⇒ 13 chars "0x6136 0x6236"   (LE byte order)
   -or-
6 chars "6a6b" ⇒ 13 chars "0x3661 0x3662"   (BE byte order)

If so, you can use
my @nums = unpack 'S<*', $packed;  # For 16-bit ints, LE byte order
   -or-
my @nums = unpack 'S>*', $packed;  # For 16-bit ints, BE byte order

my $final = join ' ', map sprintf('0x%04X', $_), @nums;


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Das Royal Museum ist ein 1888 eröffnetes Museum für Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Kunst in der Chambers Street in Edinburgh. Das Museum ist Teil der National Museums of Scotland. Das Gebäude wurde von Francis Fowke entworfen.

1998 wurde das Museum an das direkt angrenzende und neu gebaute Museum of Scotland angegliedert. Beide Museen zusammen bilden das National Museum of Scotland, das gemeinsam mit dem National War Museum, dem National Museum of Costume, dem National Museum of Rural Life und dem National Museum of Flight zu den Nationalmuseen in Schottland gehört. Der Eintritt in die Dauerausstellung des Royal Museums ist frei, für zeitlich begrenzte Sonderausstellungen muss Eintritt gezahlt werden.

Geschichte und Architektur

Der Bau des Museumsgebäudes wurde 1861 begonnen und phasenweise fortgeführt. Architekt war Francis Fowke, der bereits an der Planung der Royal Albert Hall mitgewirkt hatte. Manche Teile des Museums hatten bereits eröffnet, als einige Bauabschnitte noch nicht fertiggestellt waren. Der ursprüngliche Bau war 1888 vollendet. Die Außenfassade, von Fowkes im Stil der Neorenaissance gehalten, steht im Kontrast zur lichtdurchfluteten Eingangshalle, angelehnt an die Halle des Crystal Palace in London.

Anfangs stellte das Museum viele Stücke aus, die aus dem Museum der Universität Edinburgh kamen. Über eine Brücke war das Museum mit dem Old College der Universität verbunden. Die Studenten der Universität hatten so Zugang zum Museum und räumten öfter die Ausstellung um. Teilweise verschwanden auch Ausstellungsstücke. In den 1870er Jahren wurde im Rahmen einer Studentenparty die vom Museum für einen Empfang vorbereiteten Erfrischungen gestohlen. Daraufhin ließ die Museumsleitung die Brücke zumauern.

Bis Juli 2011 wurde das Museum umfassend renoviert (die veranschlagten Kosten für das Projekt beliefen sich auf 46 Millionen Pfund) und die Ausstellungsfläche um zuvor nicht zugängliche Bereiche erweitert.

Dauerausstellung

Die Ausstellung umfasst Objekte aus den Bereichen der Geologie, Archäologie, Naturgeschichte, Wissenschaft, Technik und Kunst. In der Dauerausstellung ist unter anderem der präparierte Körper des ersten geklonten Säugetieres, Dolly, zu sehen, außerdem Objekte aus dem alten Ägypten, ein Walskelett und moderne Kunst, wie zum Beispiel ein extravaganter Anzug des Sängers Elton John. Der Gebäudeflügel, in dem das Walskelett ausgestellt ist gehört zu den wegen Renovierungsarbeiten geschlossenen Bereichen, dessen Wiedereröffnung Juli 2011 erfolgte.

Sonderausstellungen
Im Museum gibt es regelmäßige Sonderausstellungen. 2008/2009 beschäftigt sich das Museum mit der Designerin Jean Muir. Vergangene Sonderausstellungen hatten unter anderem die Werke von Pablo Picasso (Fired with Passion), schottische Silberarbeiten (Silver: Made in Scotland) oder das Leben in der kanadischen Subarktis (Extremes: Life in Subarctic Canada) zum Thema.

Learning Centre
Das Museum verfügt über einen Lernbereich mit Gruppenräumen und bietet innerhalb der Ausstellung ein Museum zum Ausprobieren. So gibt es im Abschnitt für Technik verschiedene Experimente und einen Fahrsimulator, die Tierwelt und der Geologiebereich haben Objekte zum Anfassen und viele Stationen, in denen erklärende Filme gezeigt werden. Im Learning Centre kann man an Workshops und Aktivitäten für unterschiedliche Altersgruppen teilnehmen.

Weblinks

Offizielle Website

Einzelnachweise

Bildung und Forschung in Edinburgh
Museum in Edinburgh
Verkehrsmuseum in Schottland
Erbaut in den 1880er Jahren
Automuseum im Vereinigten Königreich
Kategorie-A-Bauwerk in Edinburgh
Bauwerk der Neorenaissance in Schottland
Gegründet 1888
Bauwerk des Historismus in Edinburgh (Council Area)
National Museum of Scotland

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Nuclear physics is a branch of physics which deals with the structure and properties of atomic nuclei, as also with their collisions (nuclear reactions).
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One of the main topics of nuclear physics is the study of radioactivity. Radioactivity is the phenomena of decomposition of atomic nuclei of certain chemical elements, accompanied by active radiation. Nuclear physicists study the phenomenon of radioactivity, as well as its possible application in human life, for example, in military equipment or nuclear power plants.
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NOAA Research Scientist Profiles
SuperUser Account Friday, March 9, 2012
/ Categories: Arctic, Climate, Weather
Shupe, Matthew
Monitoring Climate with Clouds
Matthew Shupe, Ph.D., is a physical scientist for NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research on clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric structure over the Arctic provides data critical to monitor climate variability in the region. In 2011, Shupe was honored as co-author of a publication selected for a 2010 OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Award.
Why does your research matter?
I study cloud and atmosphere processes that influence Arctic energy and hydrologic systems. As our global climate changes, it is apparent that these changes are manifesting quickly and strongly in the Arctic. Cloud processes play important roles in the changing Arctic climate, but since there have been few comprehensive measurements of the cloud-atmosphere-surface system and our modeling capabilities are similarly limited, we do not have a very good understanding of these roles. Ultimately, an improved understanding of these important processes will contribute towards better climate model simulations, both within the Arctic region and on global scales.
What do you enjoy the most about your work?
"My job as a scientist at NOAA found me (unfunded and unsure of my direction) at an Arctic experiment, brought me to Boulder, and showed me that a scientist's life of intellectual challenges can be fulfilling in many ways. "
For the day-to-day, I enjoy scientific conversations with colleagues because they reveal new ideas and help to consolidate our progress on various subjects. I also enjoy field work in exotic and extreme Arctic environments. These are really once-in-a-lifetime (well, maybe more like once-in-a-year!) opportunities to see some amazing places and to be embedded within the environment that I study. The experiences provide important context on a scientific level and are captivating on a personally level.
Where do you do most of your work? In a lab? In field studies?
"Most" of my work consists of sitting in front of a computer, as there is so much data to analyze! I also spend significant chunks of time at meetings of various flavors. Lastly, while it comprises a relatively small portion of my actual time, I do conduct field work at many locations around the world, primarily in the Arctic. This later element is critical for me to maintain some semblance of physical and mental balance.
What in your lab could you not live without?
Collaboration. While it is fun and fulfilling to conduct independent, individual research, it is ultimately through a network of collaborations with other scientists that our ideas and studies collectively begin to have more meaning and impact. These days collaboration has become so easy because of improved tools for communication (email, Skype, shared documents, etc.) and the relative ease of travel to meetings. I can only imagine that collaborations were much more difficult in the past.
If you could invent any instrument to advance your research and cost were no object, what would it be? Why?
The easy answer here is a well-coordinated, multi-instrument cloud-atmosphere observatory that combines a variety of active and passive remote sensors. There currently exist some approximations of such a system, but each has significant limitations. However, if I were to focus on a single measurement, I would like to develop an ice nucleation chamber that is able to observe and characterize all mechanisms through which ice crystals nucleate in the atmosphere. Our current capabilities for making such measurements are limited to the point that I do not believe that we have a very comprehensive understanding of atmospheric ice particle formation.
When did you know you wanted to pursue science?
I actually think science pursued me. My mind has always thirsted for challenges, typically mechanical or mathematical in nature. As I worked my way through school, test scores and achievements seemed to suggest that science had selected me. It became even clearer when I found myself excited each day for my 8 a.m. organic chemistry class during college. But even after all of that, I still do not feel that I pursued science as an occupation after college. My job as a scientist at NOAA found me (unfunded and unsure of my direction) at an Arctic experiment, brought me to Boulder, and showed me that a scientist's life of intellectual challenges can be fulfilling in many ways.
What's at the top of your recommended reading list for someone wanting to explore a career in science?
I have not read many of the science-themed books that target a general audience. I'm sure there are some good ones. In the end, if one is interested in a career in science, I think it is best to dive into the literature of the specific area of interest. Find review articles or books that help to outline the status of the field and the outstanding questions that need more attention.
And how about a personal favorite book?
Some of my favorite books are by Ayn Rand because of the consistency and purity -- and sometimes insanity -- of her characters. I also enjoy books like Fingerprints of the Gods or Collapse, which offer intriguing perspectives on humankinds' history on this planet. Overall, my most favorite books are those like The Bhagavad Gita and The Way of the Bodhisattva as they continue to reveal new insights on life and our situation here each time I read passages.
What part of your job as a NOAA scientist did you least expect to be doing?
The non-research aspects of being a scientist! These were not unexpected entirely, but I have been surprised at the way in which these other activities such as travel to meetings, reviewing written material, acting in leadership roles, paperwork, etc. tend to take over if you are not careful!
Do you have an outside hobby?
I enjoy working with wood, carving, lathe work, and other building projects. These days they are usually related in some way to home improvements. I also spend a fair amount of time with my family enjoying the many outdoor activities that Colorado has to offer including skiing, backpacking, mountain biking, and rafting.
What would you be doing if you had not become a scientist?
This is a tough one to answer. I have always enjoyed art and design, and I initially planned to go to architecture school. So perhaps that could have been a direction for me. But now that I have led the scientist's life, I see the importance of intellectual stimulation and challenge at work. Perhaps architecture would have offered enough of that.
Who is your favorite historical scientist and why?
Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian scientist and explorer, who was the first to cross the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 1880s and charted new territory in the Arctic Ocean in the 1890s. His endeavors are inspiring to me as an Arctic scientist who works in both Greenland and the Arctic Ocean, although our current adventures pale in comparison to his. How did his team ever survive without Gore-Tex, ice breakers, snow machines, and diesel generators? And in spite of their challenges, the team was still able to make measurements that are scientifically important and relevant today.
Shupe holds a Ph.D. and master's degree in astrophysical, planetary and atmospheric sciences from the University of Colorado. He studied atmospheric chemistry and mathematics for his bachelor of science degree at the University of Puget Sound.
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Four arrested following burglary incidents in Co Kildare
The arrests are in relation to a number of robberies and burglaries in the Newbridge, Rathangan and Brownstown areas
Gardaí have arrested four men in relation to a number of incidents of burglary and robbery in Co Kildare this month.
Gardaí responded to reports of a burglary in Newbridge shortly before 3.45pm on Monday afternoon, where two men, aged in their 40s and 30s, were arrested at the scene.
In a follow-up operation, two men, both aged in their 20s, were arrested.
The arrests are in relation to a number of robberies and burglaries in the Newbridge, Rathangan and Brownstown areas of Co Kildare in November, a Garda statement said.
All four men are currently detained under the provisions of Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at Kildare and Newbridge Garda stations.
Investigations are ongoing, the Garda statement added.
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GFI Software continues to enhance and strengthen the broad array of networking infrastructure solutions it develops to meet the evolving IT needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide. GFI's Infrastructure Business Unit today announced the availability of GFI BackUp™ 2011, the latest version of the company's data backup and recovery products that enable SMBs to easily deploy and manage a robust disaster recovery solution company-wide.
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