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Gun reform advocates gathered outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to mark the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims and send a loud message to lawmakers: End gun violence now.
The rally followed an intense House Judiciary Committee hearing on assault weapons and featured comments from activists and congressional leaders, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Georgia Rep. John Lewis.
Hip hop artist Common also appeared at the demonstration and emphasized the importance of connecting with communities that have experienced tragedies.
Newsy spoke with a few of the attendees in D.C., including some who have lost loved ones to gun violence.
Po Murray, chairwoman of the advocacy group Newtown Action Alliance, said: "We needed to learn how to out-shout the gun lobby that's been around for decades, building their capacity and resources. And after the Sandy Hook tragedy, what we've done is change the conversation and we're changing the culture now, to the point where the majority of Americans support common-sense gun laws—background checks, assault weapons ban. And it's just a matter of time before the electorate decides to take action at the polls."
Pastor Zonia Cooper's 23-year-old son was killed by gun violence.
She said: "It's not that I wasn't on board before, but now it's more personal. So, most of the time, it's going to be personal for somebody to get on board. So, being persistent to continue to do this so that they can know that this is important. When you're tired of going to the playground with bullet-proof backpacks on—this is ridiculous. "
Cooper added: "When do we get back to picnics in the park? When do we get back to being able to go to church and not have security guards at the door?"
Pam Bosely of the group Purpose Over Pain also lost her son to gun violence.
She said: "We want them to do their job and pass some gun bills, and stop making excuses. Because that's all we see and hear is excuses, excuses, excuses. I want them to fight hard, like we fight in our community, for us to live because we all deserve to have our constitutional right to live and we all deserve to have our pursuit of happiness."
Bosely continued: "They talk about 'We want to take away guns,' we're not asking for that. A lot of constituents are for universal background check and [an] assault weapon ban, so constituents need to talk [to their representatives]. And if they don't do right, vote them out."


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Island Health's mask-up policy came into effect Monday in an effort to protect patients, staff and the public from getting the flu.
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The health authority asks that anyone who is ill does not visit loved ones in long-term care homes or health facilities until they are feeling better.
The flu is among the top 10 leading causes of death in Canada, estimated to kill 3,500 people every year. Symptoms include fever, headache, runny nose, sore throat, fatigue and cough. The flu is often used to describe colds or stomach viruses, but its symptoms usually last longer and are more severe than a cold.
Island Health says the best way to protect yourself and others from the flu is to get immunized. It also recommends cleaning your hands regularly, coughing or sneezing into your elbow, sleeve or a tissue and staying at home when you're sick. For information on free flu shot eligibility and where to get immunized, visit islandhealth.ca/flu.
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Dennis O'Malley is CEO of Caliva Dispensary in San Jose California. Listen in as Dennis shares how difficult but rewarding it is to run a thriving vertically integrated cannabis company.
Key Takeaways:
– The price of wholesale cannabis in California vs Oregon
– How to successfully navigate regulatory changes
– Creating in-house technology
– Why delivery app Eaze is a dominating force in California Cannabis
– Building a brand
– Staying competitive
– What the future holds for cannabis operators in California
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Matthew: How do you create a thriving cannabis brand in California given the immense amount of red tape and market competition? We're going to find out today in our interview with Dennis O'Malley, CEO of Caliva. Dennis, welcome to CannaInsider.
Dennis: Matt, thanks so much for having me. I'm excited.
Matthew: Give us a sense of geography. Where are you in the world today?
Dennis: Sure. I am right in the heart of Silicon Valley, so right in San Jose, California, which is just south of San Francisco in the middle of the state. What most people don't know about Silicon Valley before it was known for high tech and internet and before that Silicon semi-conductors, it was called the valley of the heart's delight and it was known for the best fruit and growing region of things like prunes and strawberries and other things, so.
Matthew: Almonds too, right?
Dennis: Almonds. Absolutely, we are right in the valley of the heart's delight.
Matthew: Yeah, that's Central Valley in California. I didn't know about it until I drove through it and I was like, oh my gosh, there's just tons of produce and things grown out there and you can actually see it from like satellite imagery, like how this huge valley, how big it is. It's pretty amazing.
Dennis: Absolutely. We've checked all around us. We're back to the farming roots
Matthew: And I'm in Paris, France today.
Dennis: Wonderful.
Matthew: Now, give us a sense of what Caliva is at a high level.
Dennis: Sure. So we are a large vertically-integrated cannabis company. We exist to make very high-quality innovative products for our consumers, and our consumers are mainly adult use consumers. And we seek to certainly be the most trusted brand in cannabis. And we really pride ourselves on a brand promise of consistency, transparency and accessibility of our products. Most people know us for our product portfolio and most people also have seen, experienced our dispensary in San Jose as well.
Matthew: Okay. Can you share a little bit about your background and journey and how you came to start Caliva?
Dennis: Sure. The easiest part about that is I definitely did not start Caliva. Caliva's a little over three years old. And I came on board a little over a year and a half ago. I always credit people from incubating and starting thing with...that it's the hardest thing in the world to give birth to anything. And those who did that I have immense respect for in any part of the industry, certainly as the founders of Caliva. I knew one of the investors in Caliva. I've had a 25-plus year relationship with them. And as I got to know more about the business, I was just intrigued with the mission that Caliva had and which was to do business the right way and have higher standards and provide a great way for, you know, newer consumers to get access to natural health and wellness options. And I really couldn't think of more of a mission-based purpose.
And so I came on board as president in early 2017 and took on the CEO role earlier this year and we're growing like mad and I wouldn't want to spend time with anybody else or you know, have any other mission. So we're thrilled about what we're doing.
Matthew: Okay. And how would you describe the California cannabis market right now for people that really don't have a sense?
Dennis: Yeah, I think there is an overabundance of press around our industry for a whole variety of different reasons. I believe that most people believe that everybody in cannabis is making money hand over fist and no one really is. You know, the adage that I've heard used in tech is it takes a long time to turn money into knowledge and that's exactly where the industry is at today. And hopefully soon we will be turning that knowledge into money.
So it is very much still in the investment mode for almost everybody within the industry. There are large billion dollar figures thrown out there, but then when you look at 35% taxes in the case of where we're at in San Jose to the expense of regulations and the cost of doing business, it is a very capital-intensive business that requires precision operations in somewhat large scale growth to be successful and we're certainly committed to it for the long term. But I also think that it's just extremely difficult to get long-term investment, longer term decisions based on uncertainty around regulations, you know, financial services challenges. So what most people don't see is the difficulty of how hard it is to run a business. But what I think we enjoy and we'd love to see is such as the new Gallup poll where a record amount of, you know, folks in the U.S. really are supportive for cannabis being illegal throughout the U.S.
Matthew: Yeah. And just so people get a sense of what the whole operation looks like, it's a vertically-integrated, grow dispensary, and then brands. Correct? Around your own brands inside your dispensary. Is that correct?
Dennis: Yeah. The easiest way to think about it is we create really great high-quality raw materials, so we have a 22,000 square foot canopy of grow. So we're producing thousands of pounds of high-quality indoor flower a year. We produce our own oil, so both crude and distillate oil that is mainly used in our own products, but also used in third-party products. So that's the first component of it in terms of grow and manufacturing. The second component of it is we produce a line of packaged flower, packaged pre-rolls, packaged vape pens. So we do a lot of our own in-house manufacturing, branding, packaging. And then lastly is we really control and manage our own distribution channels. So we have a large wholesale sales team.
Caliva brands are in about 350 dispensaries in California, and those are adult-use dispensaries. So we're in about 80% of dispensaries in California. We have our one retail store in San Jose as well, and we also enable both consumers to order online through caliva.menu and we have great relationships with other third-party distributors and online platforms such as Eaze. So that's the easiest way to think about our business. And we have other locations that we're opening up, we'll have a location in closer to San Francisco opening up next month. And then we'll have a location down in LA opening in February 1st.
Matthew: And what's the current cost per pound of cannabis in California at a wholesale basis roughly?
Dennis: Yeah. In terms of price per pound, if a wholesale buyer was looking to buy a pound or two from us, the average price per pound is anywhere between $2300 to $2,500. It goes up if there's a strain that's more exotic or higher THC or higher quality, and it drops if there's volume discounts. What we've seen at least for indoor flower is that there is still a shortage of consistent flower and consistent suppliers out there. So the price points have remained pretty stable since July 1st.
Matthew: Okay. And off the top of your head, do you know how that compares to your neighbor to the North Oregon and how much a wholesale pound of cannabis is going for there?
Dennis: Yeah. I don't have empirical evidence around this. Anecdotally, I've heard the same horror stories that most other people I've heard of a flower being sent to auctions and per pound price is wholesale going for hundreds of dollars. The worst anecdote I heard was that somebody had auctioned off their flower for $25 a pound, but that is unsubstantiated. Maybe urban legend, but I know that there has been certainly issues with wholesale flower, mainly outdoor and greenhouse I believe in Oregon. Certainly, a different market right now.
Matthew: Wow, that's crazy. If you think about us having a...if we had a national... It was prohibition ended nationally, how there will be a free flow and it would come to some equilibrium, you know, supplementing California supply. I guess since California likes to control everything, they'll probably not allow that, I would imagine. But that's a tremendous difference. That's almost, you know, what are we talking about here? That's 10 times more. Well, I mean, excluding that $25 like outlier, you know, more than 10 times in California. What do you attribute that to?
Dennis: Well, I think Oregon, from what my understanding is had an unlimited cultivation licensing structure, so the oversupply of flower, I believe, was a just unforecasted or poorly forecasted in terms of the regulatory bodies, one. Number two is given that the infrastructure it takes to, you know, to build for flower and then to be able to produce flower once you're actually invested in and it's very hard to deviate from it. So if you have a cultivation facility, you cultivate flower, it's very difficult to pivot. So I think California had learned from that and certainly try to limit some of the license is one. I think two, some of the operators still understood that in the market that that might be a tougher area. However, our forecast at least at Caliva is that there's 10 times more legal supply that will come online in 2018, then there is legal demand. So we certainly see cultivation as an area that will have excess capacity very quickly. The amount of infrastructure and large-scale projects throughout the state is just massive and we actually see majority of consumers turning to other products outside of flower.
Matthew: Interesting. So if that's the case, then to stay alive and prosper, you have to lower your production costs. And also, to maintain your margins you really need loyal customers that see a unique value in your product. How do you respond to those two dynamics?
Dennis: Yeah, great question. For us, it's always been about vertical integration and vertical integration for us meant controlling the supply and demand chain. And really the number one driver for us was to ensure quality. So we're obsessed about the quality and the customer experience. So our primary objective is how do we get the very best tested consistent product into the hands of the consumer in a very easy manner? And vertical integration for us means that we can deliver the freshest product at the lowest cost with the highest quality and the most convenient way to as many consumers as possible. Now, does that also provide some opportunity for cost optimization and driving down costs and increasing efficiency? Absolutely. And we have a ton, we have a ways to go to be doing that, but our guiding principle has always been quality first customer first and we really built Caliva around that and have tried to deliver against that promise.
So have been customer-obsessed and we still believe that if we're producing very good raw materials that go into innovative products and we have a great experience in terms of how they buy their products and whatever way that they wanna buy, whether it's through our dispensary, somebody else's dispensary, on eaze.com, on caliva.menu, they choose in terms of how to purchase the products and that it's a very convenient way for them to be able to do that. You know, that will equal happy customers. But of course, they wanna pay less versus more and will continue to try to drive, you know, cost optimizations around that.
Matthew: Give us a little background on what changed on July first and why that's important for the California market.
Dennis: Yeah. Great, great question. I was blindsided by the demand that we received 8:00 a.m. on July 1st, and I remember this just vividly. It was one of the, you know, the biggest aha moments for us. I was sitting at my computer and we had an email come in from Humboldt that said, we would like to see if you delivered a Humboldt because we are short on flower. And I immediately knew something was different. So I never thought that a dispensary in Humboldt would reach out to an indoor grower in San Jose, and that they would be short of flowers. So 8:00 a.m. on from July2 first our world changed in what we saw was that there was a complete shortage of providers that were able to provide tested product in childproof packaging through a distributor in economical and timely manner.
And so we were able to do that and there's different infrastructure type of things that we built in advance so that we could be consistent and reliable to our dispensary partners, but we complete all. I completely underestimated the amount of demand that would come into our facility for all of our products, including flower. And what that resulted in was a certainly backlog of orders that we just dug out of a couple of weeks ago. So we had been on back order for every product we've had for July through, you know, early October.
Matthew: Wow, that's crazy. And you know, speaking of Humboldt, there's a lot of black market trade and that has an effect obviously on the regulated market. How do you view that? Do you think that's a big impact, small impact, and how do you feel about in general?
Dennis: Well, I think there's two ways to answer that. One is just my personal feelings on this. My personal feelings are that we as an industry should do whatever we can to allow as many people into the legal industry as we can. So I don't believe there's been enough help, guidance, flexibility to be able to convert, especially farmers, but also manufacturers and distributors from a quasi legal market into a illegal market. So I wish as an industry we did more on that.
The second part about that is indoor flower, that there's not a large black market for indoor flower. So the most competitive market out there for black market flowers is greenhouse and outdoor. So for discerning consumers who are looking for top quality flower we haven't seen that it's been a large issue. Would we like the black market to go away? I think every industry would always say that and we and certainly we would. But we probably have less exposure at it at Caliva given that majority of our revenue is coming from indoor flower and then packaged products than outdoor flower and greenhouse flower.
Matthew: Okay. One thing I've noticed about Caliva and talking with you, maybe it's where you're situated in the world in Silicon Valley, is that you've put a lot into developing your own technology, a lot of effort and time o optimize your business. Can you talk a little bit about why you decided to invest in your own technology versus buying off the shelf and what that experience has been like?
Dennis: Sure. Well, I think a good example of that is our wholesale portal. We're in a very unique position as a wholesaler to, you know, again, you know, hundreds of dispensaries in the state is that we run a dispensary too. And we know how hard it is to maintain accurate inventory of product on our shelves. And we were certainly affected by it as a dispensary on July 1st when we didn't have edibles on our shelves for two weeks. And we didn't have really visibility in terms of when those edibles would be back up on the shelves. So we built a wholesale portal because we didn't see that there was an existing application that was out there that met our needs, that was, you know, very unique to Caliva not a marketplace. And so are, you know, hundreds of dispensary customers are able to see real-time inventory of all of our flower, not just what is on in inventory today, but also what's being harvested as well as the inventory of our products. So they can place orders online for immediate delivery. They can place orders ahead of time.
So what we've heard from our dispensary partners is it allows them to have a really good, you know, forecasting of products because we are reliable, dependable partner that we have products in stock and inventory. And then when they actually order them, we deliver them on time in a seamless process where they're getting updates and those types of things. So we've spent a lot of time and a lot of investment to develop the wholesale portal, but hopefully, it's paying off for our dispensary customers.
Matthew: And then for your menu, I mean there's a menu that's required, not required, but there's a menu that most dispensaries keep for their...just for themselves, their dispensary, for their customers, but they also want to cascade to Weedmaps or other platforms so that they can get as many potential eyeballs looking at their goods. How have you done the menu? How does that work?
Dennis: Yeah, really great, great question. So just as much as we have developed innovative technology for our wholesale business, we've developed the same type of innovative technology for our consumer business. So caliva.menu, which is, you know, our online ordering platform today has all been built in house and it's really kind of modeled after Google Express, which is a very kind of easy mobile application to be able to order products quickly. But what we saw was when I came into Caliva, Caliva and most other dispensaries, they spent a lot of time manually updating all of their menus and their specials and online and then going to third parties like Weedmaps and other places and uploading pictures and product descriptions and prices. And nobody else in any other retail industry does that.
What everybody else in retail does is they invest in a product information management system. They have one system of record for all of their products. That system of record for all their products syndicates that information to all of the end points of which, whether it's a wholesale marketplace or your consumer site and you make one change and you have the visibility to those changes and everything else is up-to-date. It's the only way to manage channel conflict and updated pricing and inventory. So we early on invested in product information management systems, brought in people who could manage APIs, Application Program Interfaces, to make sure that we could talk to other third parties.
And then we have, you know, had a pretty discerning process in terms of what third-party technologies that we work with and they all have to have open or rest APIs, so that our technology can connect into it. But it's made a world of difference for us to have great consumer experience because whatever our consumer see online, they know that we have it in stock. It's the actual accurate pricing. So we no longer have customers either ordering online and saying, whoops, we're out of the product or coming in and say, whoops, you know, the menu wasn't updated. That doesn't exist at Caliva. And that took a long time to get to, but that's why we made the investment in the technology.
Matthew: Okay. And for people that don't know API is Application Programming Interface and that essentially is a way for systems to talk to each other in a way that's universally understood by all and pass information back and forth. So did you try anything off the shelf and were unhappy with the experience there? Is there anything you can say about that?
Dennis: Yes. We've tried and kicked the tires with many different applications. Unfortunately, the amount of investment I would say going into a technology is created for complex vertically integrated cannabis companies just as light. Most technology applications are optimized for dispensaries which aren't vertically-integrated because it's a larger market share and there's just not a lot of people developing applications for large vertically-integrated businesses. So we've kicked the tires on a lot of them and we continue to build our own tech platforms. But we've, you know, we failed at a bunch of different tech platforms and applications too. So the caliva.menu and the wholesale portal are shiny stars, but we feel we've got our share of failed attempts of other things as well.
Matthew: And what about creating an ideal dispensary experience? I mean, there's some objective things you can look at like square footage, but then there's kind of soft subjective things like lighting, the general vibe and the mood and how a dispensary welcomes you. What can you say about creating a dispensary experience?
Dennis: Yeah, our dispensary experience has the same guiding principles as we do for how we think about our company and our role to consumers. So as we position ourselves, as you know, aspirationally, to be the most trusted brand in cannabis, trust is critical. Trust comes from consumer confidence. So consumer confidence really comes from education. And we know this is a highly considered purchase for most consumers, that they're gonna shop online a couple times. They're gonna ask a couple of friends, they're gonna do their research. And in this day and age for the new curious consumer, they spend about 12 to 15 minutes with our wellness consultants. We used to call them budtenders, we now call them wellness consultants, asking questions about what's right for them. So for us the, you know, the guiding principle is how do we have our consumers trust the experience within Caliva and then trust the product and the brands that they buy.
So we certainly believe that those coming into the store, spending that 12 to 15 minutes with our wellness consultants, they wanna be able to have credible people provide expertise around what their issues are and how to solve them. We have 30,000 consumers come in, you know, to our stores in a year and they're generally asking for help with pain, sleep and anxiety. And so our wellness consultants should be able to ask questions, listen and provide some recommendations on that. After they come into the store, their next order is usually a delivery or pickup order given they have found something that's worked for them, we need to have a very seamless, easy experience to be able to order any products and Caliva products on our online menu. And it has to be, you know, somewhat fun and we think we've been able to deliver that.
Matthew: Okay. When you look at the budtenders you've worked with or wellness consultants, are there any things that stand out and what makes a good a wellness consultant? Is it empathy or energy or knowledge? What are kind of the few things that stick out?
Dennis: Yeah, it's 100% confidence and knowledge. So we are obsessed with polling our consumers and getting feedback on our consumers. We have a online chat on our website and our web app that we have real-time chats from our wellness consultants and we get real-time reviews from them. But the overwhelming feedback on our wellness consultants is how knowledgeable that they are on the products, how helpful they are in terms of the products and their success in terms of recommendations.
So there's a lot of different types of personalities. There's a lot of different styles. There's some people who spend way more time than they probably should with customers. There's some people who just get to the point. There's some people who are curious and happy. There's some people who are more introverted. But in the end, we look for people who are very naturally curious, who are empathetic, but most of all, have accurate and factual knowledge for consumers and ensure that that consumer is getting, walking away with, you know, confidence and trust in the process. But it's been amazing to us to see the consumer feedback after we survey them both on our online chats and then our either retail store experience.
Matthew: Now let's talk about delivery apps a little bit. I can see why these are so popular, especially in California. People come home after a long day or they're up late at night and they got their shoes off and they're chilling, they don't wanna go out and deal with California traffic. So they pop open their smartphone and they make an order online. Which apps are they turning to the most right now? What has the largest market share in California?
Dennis: Yeah, just, even before that, you know, if you look at the economy, it's a convenience-based economy, especially with people who are 21 to 30 and Millennials. If you look at Netflix and GrubHub and Domino's and Amazon Prime, everybody is seeking delivery. So when they look at cannabis, it's no different if you know what you're doing. So I would say for us, what we see in certainly in Northern California, there's really no competition in terms of market share to Eaze. Eaze is the default, I would say, you know, platform for most of the Northern California consumers. There's a lot of other great players that provide, I'd say, connoisseur type of deliveries and have built a good niche in terms of, you know, especially around San Francisco and those types of places. But for large market share, it's definitely been Eaze and we see Eaze also making big strides down in Southern California.
There's an app called Stony App that is getting great traction down in Southern California too. And those apps are generally for people who really know what they're doing and who, you know, really know what they want and they want their cannabis pretty quickly and they wanted a great value. What we found at Caliva is our consumers are a little bit different than that on a majority of time. So our consumers, when they use caliva.menu to order, they're okay waiting a couple hours. They actually have a bunch of questions when they ask.
And so, you know, we have about a thousand online chats a month when we're doing delivery orders because people are asking questions, you know, in real time to our wellness consultants on the app before they order. And it's just a very different consumer. And we, you know, we find certainly within the Bay Area, so south of San Francisco through just south of San Jose that our own delivery service is probably increasing about 20%, 25% month over month. But I would say those are the three. Eaze, we've certainly seen some increase in ours. And then Eaze and Stony App and in Southern California, and we're a great partner with Eaze. Our products are on their menu and we support them in a number of different ways. But they're a fantastic service.
Matthew: Now, when people use an app to have a delivery made to their house, can you talk about the difference between the current revenue in store versus on an app?
Dennis: Yeah, I certainly can give a perspective on it. Again, you can't find better deals in cannabis than you can on Eaze. So they have incredible promotions and we, you know, we see incredible delivery times from that. So in general, you would generally see, I would say, you know, lower AOS from that type of delivery platform. In terms of, you know, in-store purchases at least in our experience, our in-store purchases from new consumers that they're putting their toes in the water. So their initial purchase isn't that high. What we do see is that, you know, after that, at least from in-store to our delivery is once they found something that works for them, they feel much more comfortable and confident and they're ordering, you know, multiple of those items in two weeks later or three weeks later. So I think it's just a little bit different. It's, again, Eaze has a very, I'd say, a regular consumer that takes advantage of great deals and, you know, at least for Caliva at a much smaller scale than Eaze obviously. We see our consumer trying first deciding what works for them and then really getting on a good routine of products that they would use over and over again.
Matthew: Okay. Now, if you were to wave a magic wand and change one thing about the California market, what would it be?
Dennis: Gosh, I don't know if my answer would be different than anybody else's in the industry. But, you know, we try to look at what's best for the consumer versus what's best for Caliva. So if I'm a consumer, here's what I want. Number one, I wanna be able to pay for my candidates with a credit card. So where and how can I can do that? And it's not always easy to do. For instance, you can do that with eaze.com today. You can't do that on, you know, caliva.menu today. So if I'm a consumer, I want to pay on credit card. Number two, if I'm a consumer, I want to be able to talk to experts around cannabis and I don't wanna have to drive to, you know, an industrial area to do so. So I'd like more dispensaries. I like dispensaries, you know, zone in areas that are accessible to me.
So in, at least in our area, there's not one dispensary from San Francisco to San Jose, which is a highly populated area, but that's, you know, that's an hour from, you know, having a dispensary. So in more rural areas, it's even worse. So the number two thing as a consumer, I'd like to have more dispensaries. And then number three, I'd say, I'd like to have a better assurance of, you know, tested and quality products. And if I'm a consumer, I'd wanna know if my CBD is... Is industrial hemp CBD from China or if it's, you know, cannabis-based CBD from Caliva. I'd like more visibility and transparency of what's going into the products and I like more of official rubber stamp of, you know, saying that this product was tested under these results and to have more consistent testing. So we always try to look at what the consumer wants and if I had a one or maybe that's three wishes versus one, those are the three things that I'd look for.
Matthew: Is the market changing at all in a way that you think most business owners don't really understand, you know, there's a change that's happening that you maybe see that you think they don't appreciate quite in the same context at all?
Dennis: Yeah. Yes and no. One is I think there is no harder business in the world than to run a cannabis business. And most business owners that I know are working 7 days a week, 20 hours a day, and they are passionate about their employees and their consumers. It's just it's an amazing mission for most of these folks. So I think, one, they have their nose to the grindstone so they see every single day what's happening. But I think if you look up and, you know, pick your head up out of the trees and see the forest, there is this groundswell of a consumers who are demanding natural health and wellness options and the situation today is just not working for them. They're not looking for high THC products that they have to go in and buy from a dispensary and pay up to 35% taxes on. They want to integrate cannabis into their daily lives. They would like to, you know, micro dose as needed, have a lot of confidence in the products and they'd like to be able to receive it in a very convenient manner.
So it's difficult for, I'd say, many smaller business owners to go after where the market is going versus where it's at today. But the challenge with that is that when the market gets there, where will you be? And we certainly work and try to help our partners be able to get there and to see what we're seeing, but that's where we're headed. We're headed to not the 500,000 people that are shopping in dispensaries in California today, but we're going after the, you know, the 24 million consumers in California voted for cannabis legalization to be able to try to integrate, you know, cannabis into their lives and give them a very easy, convenient way to be able to choose cannabis to whether it's alleviate pain, sleep and anxiety or whether it's, you know, good for you products around energy and recovery or whether it's just recreational products to be social.
Matthew: Okay. Dennis, I like to ask some personal development questions to help listeners get a better sense of who you are personally. Is there a book that's had a big impact on your life or way of thinking that you'd like to share?
Dennis: Yeah, it's certainly nerdy, but it's been helpful, and I've listened. I've read the book and both listened to the podcast, but it's what...it's called "What Matters" by John Doerr. And it's really about a management methodology that is aligning your business to objective and key results. And they're called OKRs and they're pretty popular now and Google has made them popular. But what I found is, is that it just translates over into life, which is what I used to call the big rocks, which is, you know, what are the big things that you have to get done and what do you need to get right. And it was really a good framework for me that we've started to implement at Caliva. So we all get visibility in terms of what we're working on, but most importantly, what's most important to us. And I thought that, you know, for me, that translated really well to life as well and it's a good system of thinking for me. So that's been my latest book and it's on audible.com and it's a fun read too.
Matthew: Oh, great. For people who don't know John Doerr's one of the founders or principles of Kleiner Perkins, a big venture capital firm right there in your neck of the woods there.
Dennis: Absolutely. Yeah, he does a good job.
Matthew: Okay. And is there a tool that helps you or your team with productivity at all that you'd suggest?
Dennis: Yeah. And my team would get tired of hearing about this from me. And they would all be rolling my eyes, but I am a Slack addict. So Slack is an internal messaging tool and I have a wonderful team of young engineers that humors me and in all of my asks to be able to get real-time information. So Slack is it's an APP on my phone that I get real-time notifications in terms of what our hourly sales are in a retail dispensary. I get out of stock alerts if we're out of stock and any products. It's a check-in basis, so I know where all of the team is at all times for location and I get, you know, real-time status updates on it. So the integrations that we've had into Slack and the notifications that I get, I geek out on that. And that has at least allowed me anywhere I'm at to really have a good pulse of what's going on in the organization.
Matthew: Okay. So you have different channels that allow you to have team members that are involved in certain details of the business communicate together. So you might have like cultivation on one, your wellness consultants on another and that way you're not bothering people unnecessarily with communications that don't need to be involved.
Dennis: Exactly. It's all about access to real-time information. So the less that I have to actually bother people and randomize them and ask them what's going on and the more that they're able to proactively signal to me about what the updates are as well as just real-time integration with other apps. It's just been a great productivity tool for people to broadcast out what their updates are. So I'm on slack. That's the app that I'm on a more than email and it's, you know, for a company that is now 330 people with multiple locations. It's an app I certainly couldn't live without.
Matthew: And would you say it's reduced your email usage and if so by how much?
Dennis: It absolutely has by 50%. I hate email. I'm terrible at email. It takes too long. It is not a critical form of communication. And you know, bite size, bite size, little updates through Slack have dramatically changed the interactions that we've had. But yes, if I could reduce my email usage by another 90%, I would.
Matthew: I don't know if you've read the study, but there, it was said that for every one email you send you get 1.25 emails back.
Dennis: Self-fulfilling prophecy for sure.
Matthew: So there's definitely an incentive there to find ways to reduce email. So, well said. Dennis, in closing, how can listeners learn more about Caliva? Find your brands, find your menus and visit your dispensary?
Dennis: Yeah, I really appreciate it. One is that if you're in the San Jose or Silicon Valley area, please come by our dispensary, it's right in 7th Street in San Jose, we love to walk you through what we're doing here. We have delivery through caliva.menu in the greater Bay area. But again, we partner with Eaze, so if you're anywhere in any part of California, just eaze.com where we have 14 to 17 products on there. And then on our website of just go caliva.com, you'll see, you know, over 150 dispensaries that we have listed in terms of where you can buy our products and through all of our great retail dispensary customers. So we are very unique to California. We're, you know, very much a California authentic brand with California roots and, you know, we look forward to continuing to expand throughout California.
Matthew: Well, Dennis, thanks so much for coming on the show today and we wish you all the best.
Dennis: Yeah. Thanks so much, Matt. I really enjoyed it.


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Immediate Crisis Over, Howard Brown Looks to Future
When Chicago's Howard Brown Health Center announced in early November that it would need to raise $500,000 before the year's end in order to keep its doors open, it did not take long for LGBT Chicagoans to rally behind the endangered, queer-geared center as it fought against its financial plight.
On Dec. 23, the center was able to announce that it had met -- and, in fact, exceeded -- its ambitious fundraising goal by raising a reported $663,000 during its Lifeline Appeal campaign. That came as a huge relief for the city's LGBT community, many of whom directly participated in the cause. According to Howard Brown chief development officer Chuck Benya, some 1,500 people donated to the campaign, many of them first-time contributors.
True, Howard Brown, founded in 1974, was successful in its lightning-round push to sustain its services and programming. But center leadership is hardly relaxing with the arrival of the new year. They will need to keep raising funds to chip away at the $3 million in debt left as a legacy from the previous executive team's alleged financial mismanagement.
Howard Brown is currently focusing on taking the community's unprecedented level of support and building on it while continuing to overcome a troubling-at-times financial reputation.
"The response from the community to date was tremendous and remarkable," Benya said. "Our key priorities now are, first and foremost, showing how thankful we are for the response to our appeal and now moving forward with some new plans for the future."
The center is already in the midst of recruiting for new leadership in its board. By the beginning of 2011, half of the center's board had resigned. The remaining members, excluding new board chair Karma Israelsen, will also be replaced by an entirely new board by July 1, the start of the new fiscal year. The center also has plans for a town hall event, to be held in March, allowing members of the community to ask questions about the future direction of the center.
"We are in the planning process now, coming out of this crisis," Benya said. "We are going to continue to have conversations with our donors, stakeholders and those who have been really constructive in this criticisms of us in seeing how we can continue to address their needs."
In terms of its fundraising strategies going forward, the center appears to be borrowing a page from the many small, community-led fundraisers that helped raise funds for the center, as well as educate people outside of the LGBT community of the center's significant role. While big donations came in from Walgreen's ($25,000) and one anonymous donor who matched $200,000 in donations, these smaller events filled many queer Chicagoans' social calendars through the holiday season.
As part of the newly formed Chicago Story Collective of which he is part, comedian Keith Ecker utilized the collective's inaugural "Holidays Are Hell" show at the Town Hall Pub. Ecker already co-produces a monthly Howard Brown fundraising event titled Essay Fiesta every third Monday at the Book Cellar. The Town Hall event raised several hundred dollars for the center on Dec. 10.
That same night, due west in Logan Square, Join the Impact-Chicago hosted a fundraiser of their own. Donations to their Queer Noise open mic event and house after-party went to Howard Brown. JTIC donated $350 to the center.
"If there ever was a reason for the Chicago community to come together, this was it," JTIC member Lindsey Dietzler said. "I think everybody else felt the same way. Our community would be in such dire straits without them."
Both Dietzler and Ecker said they, while encouraged by the changes to the board, hoped to see Howard Brown emphasize transparency as it progresses into the new year.
"I hope the organization makes transparency a priority," Ecker said. "Although I trust that Howard Brown has handled the situation with the best of intentions, I do believe that the initial silence on the issue did more harm than good."
Dietzler also hoped to see more frequent financial reports from the center in the future, as part of that transparency.
Howard Brown's leadership seems to be taking such suggestions to heart as it develops strategies to increase its revenue and sustain its services and programming in the future. He also said the center will be pushing the use of its pharmacy, located at the center, and private practice, Triad, to community members looking to directly support them.
Benya added that its approach to fundraising will emphasize both events with lower ticket prices. Its Feb. 18 gala at the Palmer House, he said, will be scaled down and accessible to a broader range of people - and social networking campaigns.
"We're fundraising on a shoestring budget, using tools that are cost-effective like Facebook and Twitter instead of snail mail," Benya added. "We have a tight rein on our expenses so that we can sustain our client services and programming."


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Our gites here in the Pyrenees, South West France are full of charm and character.
Between us we have turned our rustic open barn with its magnificent stone and chestnut wood construction into two gites. We have kept many of the wood features and incorporated them into their design; indeed the 'tree' in the lower gite is a fantastic feature, along with the whalebone arches and many other original features that all add to the rustic charm.
For pictures of the transformation, see our Renovation page.
Although there is a TV and DVD player (selection of latest films) for you to use, the TV is just for the DVD player.
We operate a strict NO SMOKING policy inside our Gites, however smoking is permitted outside.
Although the use of the barn has changed, we decided to name the gites after what they used to be. The lower gite is 'The Pigpen', the upper gite is 'The Hayloft'.
What was once an open fronted barn is now our gites.
We have 2 gites for you to enjoy, be comfortable and relax in, here in the Pyrenees:


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The most dreaded question of a job interview might be about your salary history. But legislators across the country are working to ban it from the list of questions an employer can legally ask you—and that could help women close the gender wage gap.
Last week, Massachusetts became the first state to pass a bill banning employers from asking job applicants about their salary history. And this week, the New York City public advocate introduced similar legislation, with comparable laws being proposed in New York, California, and Colorado, Politico reports.
Why the hubbub over a single question? As we know, women and people of color are underpaid compared to white men. Advocates for this kind of legislation say that basing their future salaries on what they've made in the past only undermines their ability to earn equal pay—and that factoring in previous (and likely too-low) pay almost guarantees a gap will remain throughout their careers.
What's more, women are less likely than men to negotiate their initial offers. (A recent Glassdoor survey shows that 68 percent of women accepted what they were offered without negotiation.) When we do, we're seen as aggressive and pushy, and we're often penalized for the attempt. That makes it all the more important, these advocates argue, that previous salaries not be considered in new negotiations.
The pay gap, on average, stands at 21 cents, with women earning 79 cents for every $1 their male counterparts take home.
But New York City public advocate Letitia James, who introduced the bill that would ban employers from asking about salary history in the city, found that female municipal workers there make 18 percent less than their male peers, while private sector workers make nine percent less than men. That gap widens for Asian, African-American and Hispanic women, who earn 37 percent, 45 percent, and 54 percent less respectively than white men in similar jobs, Politico reports.
If you're asked to provide your salary history in a job interview—and you live somewhere other than Massachusetts, where it's now illegal to ask this question—it may be best to dodge the issue entirely. Your salary information is only public when you work for the government. As a private sector employee, you can simply say your salary information is confidential. Or, push back on a potential employer by asking how the question is relevant—or even what's in his or her budget for the position.


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Welcome to your Southern Travels Best of South Africa Tour. On arrival in Cape Town, you will be met by your Southern Travel Tour Manager who will welcome you and take you to your hotel in Cape Town (Check in after 1400 hrs. as per International Standards). Cape Town is the second largest city in South Africa and is the capital of the Western Cape Province, as well as the legislative capital of South Africa. The rest of the day is at leisure to explore this beautiful and exciting city on your own.
After breakfast Proceed to Half Day Cape Town City Tour, Take the cable car to the top of Table
Mountain (Table Mountain is weather permitting) for a panoramic view of the city and coastline. Continue through the historic Malay Quarter, past the South African Museum, with its famed Bushmen exhibits, the Castle and other interesting sights. Towards the end of the morning a visit is made at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. This is South Africa's most talked about tourist venue with many shops and restaurants. Spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure.
After breakfast at the hotel, depart on a Full Day Tour of Cape Point We flank the cold Atlantic Ocean en route to Hout Bay. Once a fishing community now one of the most popular residential areas, the harbour still has a charm of days gone by. Enjoy a half hour cruise to "Seal Island" or for the not so adventurous the fish market "Mariners Wharf " is a must. We now continue alongside the Indian Ocean, and stop to see the Jackass penguin colony, which has become well established, at Boulders beach near Simonstown. Then we travel onwards until we reach Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. Said to be the romantic meeting place of the two mighty oceans, the Atlantic and the Indian, Sir Francis Drake the Explorer once called it "the fairest Cape that we saw in the whole circumference of the Globe". And rightly so, it must be the highlight of any visit to the Mother City, if not South Africa. Our last stop of the day is at the Kirsten bosch Botanical gardens, home of some 3500 species of Southern African fauna and flora.
After breakfast, depart for Knysna, situated between lush forests and the shores of the peaceful lagoon. In the evening, depart on a sunset cruise on the Knysna Lagoon. Cruise to the Knysna Heads, on the boat comfortable and cozy with a classic wooden feel.
After breakfast explore full day tour to Oudtshoorn, which is a town in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. With 80,336 inhabitants it is the largest town in the Little Karoo region. The town is home to the world's largest Ostrich population with a number of specialized ostrich breeding farms such as the Safari Show Farm. Later visit to Cango Caves – the Klein Karoo's oldest and most popular attraction…. One of the world's natural wonders. Visit the Safari Ostrich Farm – the ultimate "ostrich experience" with thousands of ostriches to view from incubation stage to full grown adults that visitors can ride. The farm has an excellent restaurant specializing in South African Cuisine, especially ostrich meat It also boasts a curio shop including an excellent range of ostrich products. After words visit to Cango Wildlife Ranch – here you will have the opportunity to view some of the animal species that inhabited the Karoo Region in the early days.
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xsi:type Train Wreck
I've never liked xsi:type. From my perspective, elements have declarations and those declarations tell you the type of an element.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
I've never liked
Whenever I think about it, my intuition whispers softly that any design
that requires it is somehow flawed or at least ugly.
From my perspective, elements have declarations and those declarations tell you the type of an element. I don't care if the notion of type is explicitly part of the schema language or not.
<address> is an
"address" because somewhere there's a declaration for that element that
tells you what attributes and children it can have. Things that can
have streets and cities and postal codes are addresses so that's what makes an
<address> an "address".
Here's an address type, for example:
<xs:complexType name="Address">
<xs:element name="addressee" type="xs:string"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element name="street" type="xs:string"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="3"/>
<xs:element name="city" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:element name="stateOrProvince" type="xs:string"
minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element name="postCode" type="xs:string"/>
And we might associate that type with a particular element using the declaration:
<xs:element name="address" type="a:Address"/>
In the old days, when we used DTDs, there was a one-to-one correspondence
between element names and their declarations. That's no longer true, but I
still think my premise holds. If there are several declarations for
<address>, at least one of them must apply
if the document is valid. (If the document isn't valid, all bets are off anyway.)
If more than one declaration applies, some schema languages call that an error
and some don't. If it isn't an error, I'd probably like a warning about that
in my development environment, but as far as I'm concerned, the tool is free
to pick any one of the declarations (or all of them, if that's appropriate in
the processing environment).
Now, my choice of element names in the address type belies a desire to handle
international addresses (if I was only concerned with U.S. addresses, I'd have
just named the children
state and
zip). So let's make
an international address type:
<xs:complexType name="IntlAddress">
<xs:extension base="a:Address">
<xs:element name="country" type="xs:string"/>
And associate it with an element:
<xs:element name="intladdress" type="a:IntlAddress"/>
With these types and declarations, I can write a stylesheet that
addresses and
intladdresses and I can do that with full knowledge
of the attributes and children each can have because I know how
address and
intladdress are
Because an international address is defined as an extension of an address, things like this are valid:
<address xsi:type="a:IntlAddress">
<addressee>The House of Commons</addressee>
<postCode>SW1A 0AA</postCode>
What does this mean? It means that the declaration for
isn't relevant here. The type of our element has been hijacked.
Critically, it means the mental model that knowing an element's name (in a particular context) and knowing that it's valid tells you enough about it's type to process it is wrong.
This XSLT template is going to silently do the wrong thing:
<xsl:template match="a:address">
<p class="{local-name(.)}">
<xsl:for-each select="a:addressee|a:street">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:value-of select="a:city"/>
<xsl:if test="a:stateOrProvince">
<xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="a:stateOrProvince"/>
<xsl:text>  </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="a:postCode"/>
XSLT 2.0 provides machinery to deal with this situation. You can, for example, match on the name of the type instead of the name of the element. But that means you're going to need a type-aware XSLT 2.0 processor and a possibly substantial rewrite of your stylesheets.
Your other applications, in Perl,
Python, your language of
choice, are going to have to be adapted as well. I think that's going to mean
explicitly checking for
xsi:type or
getting some sort of general access to the PSVI.
This isn't news, of course. In fact, I must have known this at some level
all along. But my attention was drawn to this particular side-effect
xsi:type recently and it makes me
xsi:type even less.
W3C XML Schema fans will probably tell me that if I just accept the W3C XML Schema type-based model of the world, upgrade my tools, and treat the type information as primary, it'll all "just work". What's more, I expect they'll tell me this is "the right way" to work with XML. Then one of them will tell me that XML is, like, you know, "object oriented." I don't know if that'll make me laugh or cry, but I'll argue that they're wrong.
Alas, you can't prevent the use of
(W3C XML Schema implicitly declares them globally and offers no provision for
constraining their use). So you'll have to support them, or use some other
constraint mechanism to prevent them, if you support W3C XML Schema.
Yet another reason to avoid XSD like the plague. XML development shouldn't require one to buy a thousand-dollar IDE to understand what you're doing.
"Avoid like the plague" is a bit much. I consider it a reason to discourage the use of XSD outside of the domains it was optimized for: XMLization of transaction-oriented data and/or data from relational databases. (This is a bit of a simplification, but only a bit.) I don't have much problem with
<xs:element name="quantity" type="xs:integer"/>
but when dealing with data more oriented toward publishable content, then, as Norm shows, XSD gets messier and messier.
I've been thinking for a while that a distinction between publishable content and transaction-oriented data is more useful than the traditional distinction in the XML world between "documents" and "data", since all well-formed XML is both.
I think it's definitely a question of choosing the right tool for the job, and that means known the strengths and limitations of your tools.
But your example strikes me as a little off-topic, Bob. It was never my intent to suggest it was bad to declare types. The tricky bit occurs when someone says:
<quantity xsi:type="byte">34</quantity>
in a document. And even then, it's probably harmless because byte is a restriction of integer. In fact, for simple types it may not matter very much (though I haven't thought through all the possibilities).
As a newbie I developed a lot of applications using xml as a command language. I am particulary fond of things like:
<cmd type="delete" item-id="2342"/> <cmd type="insert"/> <cmd type="edit" item-id="2342"/>
Is this a difficult structure to document using xsd?
I can not figure it out, but this article seemed to be close to the topic of elements with the same name but with a differrentating "type" attribute....
It's difficult as in impossible to have an XSD with different content models for the different 'cmd' elements based on the value of the type attribute.
DTDs can't do it either, but RELAX NG can.


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Rainn Wilson, the star of the NBC comedy The Office and creator of Soul Pancake, sat down with me at SXSW to talk about how he's built his passion project SoulPancake.com into a real business with soul. Wilson describes the site as an "online community for people who want to explore life's big questions, philosophy, spirituality, and creativity."
Soul Pancake was recently given an investment from YouTube as part of their $100 million dollar fund. He shared some of their programming details (talking to rock bands about life's big questions and having a storyteller travel around the world) and what this disruption means for traditional entertainment.
Wilson also admitted to us that "every time I strangle a cat, I think about it's soul."
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Travel: Mile End – Day 5
Our last day in Montreal started off somewhat leisurely (unsurprisingly), as we spent the morning packing and doing laundry. Our plan for the day was to explore the Mile End neighbourhood a bit more, which we'd seen a bit of the previous day during lunch at Lawrence. This area was traditionally a multicultural area, home to Jews, Greeks and Portuguese, but has transformed somewhat into being a very hipster, artsy area, with cafés, restaurants and little shops abound. After a bit of poking around, we had a few interesting coffee spots on our list as well. So we headed off in search of the first one: Dispatch Coffee. This roaster, which purportedly opened its doors within the last few months, was actually located just outside of Mile End, but we thought we'd start there and work our way back. It did involve taking the metro and a bus, which was easy enough to find. Unfortunately, the bus did not indicate anywhere what stop it was approaching, so we resorted to using David's GPS on his phone to give us a rough idea of where we were at.
We got off just a little past where I thought it was but couldn't actually see the shop (or the appropriate street). After attempting to stand outside a Tim Horton's to use their wifi (with no success), we eventually gave up and started walking around in search of it. After much walking around (and a grumbling stomach on my part), we headed back to the Timmy's to grab a donut and use their wifi. I don't always write down blow-by-blow directions or screen grab Google maps, but I usually kick myself when I don't. It's different when you're not just interested in exploring an area but are interested in finding one specific destination. We eventually found that we'd overshot a bit and so backtracked. At long last, hidden in a bizarre little industrial area, we came across Dispatch Coffee. The space was definitely production-oriented (with the roaster and production floor very prominent), but it did have a very sleek bar and clean-lined design, with an in-counter espresso machine. Despite this slickness, there were touches that made it feel more casual and inviting, such as a pegboard back drop and the odd potted plants. I went with my staple hot chocolate, which was very good. David ordered a Guatemalan single origin espresso, which he declared to be delicious. Light roasted but very well-developed (not grassy or tea-ish, as can often happen with lighter roasts). Because he can't help himself, David was soon chatting with the head roaster, who happily talked to him about his beans and their production in general. He grabbed a pour-over, also quite good, which we ultimately took to-go so we could be on our way.
We wandered our way over to Mile End, which was an interesting mix of residential and commercial, with residential apartments on parallel streets and commercial shops on the perpendicular streets. I thought it might be nice to check-out one of the famed bagel shops to have something to eat. There's apparently a bagel war between two bagel places, St-Viateur and Fairmount. We came across St-Viateur's first, so it got first dibs. However, when we entered, it didn't look like a place where you could actually sit and eat a bagel (despite the misleading photo in my Lonely Planet guidebook, which had a photo of a bagel with salmon and cream cheese and a some roasted potatoes and the caption St-Viateur!). It looked more like a wholesale bagel shop where I certainly could have bought a single bagel but would have to buy a tub of cream cheese and salmon to make my own. Alas. We continued our wanderings through the streets, until we eventually stumbled across Wilensky's, another famous Montreal institution. We'd heard of it from Anthony Bourdain's travel/food show Parts Unknown, where he'd sampled their Wilensky Special (all-beef salami and bologna on an egg roll with mustard and Swiss cheese). As it was past 3 pm, we were the only customers in the shop, which was a little bit awkward, but the friendly staff chatted us up about the history of the place (open since 1932 and still in the family). David scarfed down a special with a root beer soda, while I had a hot dog and Swiss cheese. David noted that he would happily eat more of it–simple, "feel good" food.
From there, I was eager to investigate a chocolaterie that I'd heard of called Juliette & Chocolat. The place itself was surprisingly commercial feeling; however, they know their chocolate. We sat down for cups of drinking chocolate, choosing from a menu of chocolates organized by region and percentage of cocoa. David bravely went with the 80% dark chocolate from Uganda, and I had the Peruvian 65% dark chocolate. They were thick and super-flavourful! David's was bold and crisp–despite being melted chocolate, it had a sharp mouth feel, almost like a dry red wine. Mine was surprisingly creamy and fruity with just the right amount of sweetness to make it exceedingly drinkable. All of the yums.
Bellies full of chocolate, we decided to make our way back over to Boulevard Saint-Laurent for a bit of browsing. We amused ourselves along the way with photos of the fun murals and street art (many of which involved bagels). We eventually made our way over to Hotel Herman, a interesting spot that we'd passed the day before and, upon further poking around on the Interweb, looked to be a good place to have some dinner. The interior was beautifully designed, with a gorgeous U-shaped bar that dominated the space. We started off with a pair of cocktails. I had "La Farigoule", a pear-based drink with thyme and lemon juice (absolutely delightful!), and David had a "Bitter Smoke", Scotch, Montenegro and Vermouth, (also delightful).
As we were informed that people usually order a couple of plates per person, we ordered three to start with. I couldn't resist getting the potato dish which had morels and cheese curds. The potatoes were incredibly smooth and creamy, punctuated by the occasional cheese curd which made for a nice textural complement to the creaminess. David similarly was compelled to order the sweet breads served with parsley roots and parsley puree. The sweetbread was seared perfectly to give it a nice crisp on the outside and creaminess on the inside. Finally, we enjoyed the guinea fowl with parsnip and brown butter. The parsnip seemed to be made into little parsnip gnocchi which were divinely good (must try at home!). Everything was crazily delicious. Beautifully-presented. A win. We ordered ourselves another round of cocktails and the cheese plate, which was also lovely (and unphotographed because we tucked into it so quickly), before calling it a night. A wonderfully delicious send-off from Montreal.


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In the original Netflix adventure Okja, Paul Dano, Lily Collins, Steven Yeun, Devon Bostick and Daniel Henshall play bickering leaders of the Animal Liberation Front. Their bickering is about the most pure read of their member's manual and the proper use of translation of language. It's but one comedic celebration and critique of modern times, that activists need purity in their group although anyone who's on board with their fringe cause should feel equal in that realm. The Liberators have teamed with a young Korean girl named Mija (An Seo Huyn) to free her beloved "super-pig" (a genetically modified pig bread by a corporation to be really large and thus feed more people from one animal) from the corporation that created it.
Recently, I got the chance to sit down with three of the members of this liberation—Dano, Collins and Yeun—to discuss Bong Joon-ho's new Netflix movie. We discussed their bonded moments with pets, their character names (J, K, Blond, Red, and Silver; you can probably guess the question), plus Dano's peculiar presence in films in which flatulence is used as an escape method (Okja and Swiss Army Man).


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11th November 2006
Broadcast on 11th November 2006, RTE Radio's long standing show Ceili House featured senior members of our local Comhaltas group.
The local audience got two treats the night of the recording: great music AND watching the interesting mechanics of a "live" radio broadcast. This included, unfortunately, the death of an important piece of recording equipment and the cobbling together of a backup system.
Full honours to Michéal Marrinan for putting together the show in short order when a slot unexpectedly opened on the Ceili House schedule. And it was a great credit to all the local musicians who turned up on very short notice.
After years and years of making music together and playing the summer Sesiún shows, the musicians and dancers of Craobh na gCumarch are tight. No bother on them at all, at all, to play and dance a couple dozen pieces of ravishing music to an international audience.


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I am Lauren, an Oregon native about to take on the Pacific Crest Trail in April. I am excited to be working with the trek.co and to be sharing my experiences on trail with you guys. I am by no means a blogger, in fact I have never blogged before in my life, but I am about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime so I figured now would be a good time to start. I have developed a love for hiking and the outdoors over the last few years and have decided to dedicate part of my life, about 5 or 6 months to be exact, to walking through nature and continuing to find myself. In nature is when I feel most connected to myself and the universe. It is a place where I feel free and balanced. I have begun the journey of self discovery in the forests of Oregon and am excited to continue that journey along the PCT. That four-legged cutie you see in the picture above is, Lyla. She is my pride and joy, my best friend, and my favorite hiking companion. Unfortunately, Lyla will not be joining me on my thru-hike but I know she will be in good hands with my parents back home. Who knows, maybe she will join me for a weekend or two. I am going to miss her the most I think.
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Women's Rights
Out of a history where women have consistently been disadvantaged on account of their sex, women's rights is embraced as a critical agenda by most people aspiring for a truly democratic society - this, as a matter of basic human rights. What exactly this means and looks like differs across political communities.
In the progressive view of women's rights - often known as feminism - any roles women might freely choose should be respected and supported. Furthermore, we may insist that no barriers on the basis of gender alone should be permitted under the law. Just as civil rights have been expanded over the life of our American democracy (through laws and court decisions) e.g. to former slaves, native Americans and the Civil Rights Act prohibits sex discrimination as well as race, national origin - so also the Equal Rights Amendment is intended to prevent exceptions from being created/recognized. From this vantage point, women should have the same right as men to pursue life liberty and happiness - at home, in the workplace and in society. If so, many distinctions currently allowed cannot be justified.
For conservatives, the traditional roles of women are typically focused primarily on home, children and caregiving as natural and fulfilling. From this vantage point, feminism has often devalued roles that are essential foundations to human life and of the highest dignity. Feminism also is seen as putting women's rights in opposition to men's rights - in a zero-sum game where there can only be one winner. This is seen as undermining natural relationships between men and women that are important for the strength of families and the society.
That being said, conservatives insist they are not opposed to fundamental women's rights - with legal equality like voting and the right to own property appropriate rights to insure to women. But when it comes to arguments like "equal pay", and the mandate of what has been tried and failed - an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution - conservatives see this as forcing the same treatment of men and women where it should not be - eg military service and the military draft. This also disrespects the traditional roles of women which are not recognized as at times justifying certain differentiations in the treatment of men and women that are intended to protect these traditional roles.
The question of what creates equality has continued to be an interesting conversations Feminists tend to argue that paid maternity leave and accommodations to women's unique reproductive role - and sometimes, to their physique - should be viewed as part of "women's rights." By contrast, conservatives tend to argue that equal is equal - women have to compete on the same ground as men.


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Azur Lane: Crosswave Steel Game Case
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Discover the most classified of information hidden within the Nautical Debriefing Art Book. Inside this hardcover book, you'll find design documents, rigging breakdowns, and more for all of the playable characters in Azur Lane: Crosswave!
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Pages: 96
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- Release date:
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- Platform:
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- Genre:
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- ESRB descriptor:
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I am relatively new to the Azur Lane series and decided to pick up this product (PS4 Edition) when it was on sale and boy was that one of the best decisions I made. The box I recieved was MASSIVE and filled with high quality products, and for the code that the PS4 edition comes with I recieved it extremely fast after purchasing the product. Overall I am extremely satisfied with this and I highly recommend this to those who are fans of the series or are like me and want to get into it while also getting cool stuff along as well.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
The Conservative culture of obscurantism
Though it's likely that few of the CPC faithful would be familiar with the term, it seems that obscurantism is woven deeply into that party's culture.
An article in yesterday's Le Devoir offers up evidence of many instances where the Conservatives' New Government has reined in the release of information and willfully promoted a culture of obscurantism.
A brief look at the succinct entry for obscurantism in Wikipedia takes you from the familiar ("the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known") to the hermetic (Derrida, Lacan et al). Ever pragmatic, Le Devoir provides examples of the Conservatives practices of obscuring information from the public by making it unavailable. Two major scientific studies commissioned by the federal government, the first about global warming and its effect upon public health and the second, a rigorous analysis of the social costs of our current transportation systems, were released in the dead of summer.
The article also mentions that immediately after the Conservatives came to power in 2006, all information and links regarding the Kyoto accord were removed from the Environment Canada website. An allusion to the SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) tactic for silencing critics did not reference the Chuck Cadman affair, but I will.
"Though often associated with religious fundamentalism, obscurantism is a distinct strain of thought: Fundamentalism presupposes a sincere belief in religion, while obscurantism rests on the deliberate manipulation of faith by an enlightened few."
Which segues perfectly to a rather arcane species of obcurantists: Opus Dei members. Thanks to La Presse and its diligent reporters, a Con candidate in a riding south of Montréal has been outed as an adherent of that extremist orthodox sect within the Catholic Church.
Fortunately, black hole production is not yet available to the Cons' overactive web designer geeks otherwise there might be more major 'unsanctioned' obscurantism.
CPC kids - don't play with the anti-matter machine at Conservative Party Headquarters without adult supervision, okay?
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Surviving Tough Times: 100 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips
I floated a message in a bottle out to the small business community, asking how owners and entrepreneurs keep their heads on straight, staying positive and focused, during the inevitable trials, tribulations, and stresses of business life. Little did I know how many bottles full of interesting experiences and wisdom would come back.
I don't know about you, but my DNA and psychological makeup are always conspiring against me, narrowing my vision to the latest fire I need to put out, or making me worry about too many things I probably shouldn't worry about. I know better, but I am a (recovering) obsessive and pessimist, so every day is a battle to avoid distraction and overreaction to the ups and downs of my business. So, I thought I'd cast a net out into the entrepreneurial community to see how my peers deal with their "downs."
Within forty-eight hours I had received well over 100 responses. I'd love to reprint many of them in their entirety, but I can't, so I'll share some representative highlights. (Note: I edited some comments for brevity).
When asked how they dealt with difficult times or business struggles, the respondents generally fell into one of two categories, which I think can be described most succinctly as "Outward-looking" and "Inward-looking:"
Outward-looking people tend to focus on the business itself and the big picture, in a fairly unemotional and matter-of-fact manner, and may also take advantage of outside resources and support:
- "Compartmentalize... when budgets got real lean I compartmentalized the immediate pain of a tight budget and kept the long term goal in mind." -Jeff Brodsly, Co-Owner, Elite Merchant Solutions
- "Think around the problem... there is always another way to look at something, a way to tackle it that has not yet been tried." -- Pamela Barefoot, President, Blue Crab Bay
- "My philosophy on managing my attitude when things are stressful focuses around four things: Mission, Vision, Values and a Realistic view of the financial situation." -- Doug Burgoyne, President, Frogbox
- "I make 100 decisions a day, 99 of which I don't want to think about. The little things cannot be ignored and take up a big portion of your time as a business owner, but keeping the big picture in focus is vital to survival" -- Retha Sandler, President, Blamtastic
- "Perspective allows me to know that just about any successful business does not follow the plan it starts out with... Groupon [for example] was originally a cause-based message board. Call it adjusting or pivoting, whatever. I call it 'zagging.'" -- Dave DuPont, CEO, Teamsnap
- "Once a week, I review my business plan, review our top projects list, look through the marketing calendar and the financials. I believe you plan or get planned for" -- Ellen Rohr, President, Bare Bones Biz
- "I subscribe to the Vince Lombardi philosophy of winning in the workplace: when things are tough you must get better at what you do." -- Venanzio Ciampa, President, The Promotion Factory
- "I stay in action. Action alleviates anxiety. I feel better when I am actively doing things to promote my business." -- BJ Gallagher, sociologist/author, Peacock Productions
- "You HAVE to know your purpose for running your company in the first place! Why does your business exist? Who do you serve? What do they need most from you, right now? 99% of business owners do not take the time for this introspection." -- Christian T Russell, Dangerous TACTICS
- "I remind myself that nobody is making me do this. I chose to build a company... I can stop if I want. This always reminds me that I'd be miserable doing anything else." -- J.T. O'Donnell, President, Careerealism
- "We mindfully approach unlikable or frustrating things with an attitude of kindness... most important, be kind to ourselves and our staff by remembering that the reason we are in business is to serve others." -- Mitch and Jen, The Paw House Inn
- "To maintain a healthy perspective we take inventory of the great attributes of our company... Instead of cringing at challenges, we try to savor them... and reflect upon past triumphs." -- Adam Anthony, CEO, Creo Care
- "Focus on what you have to work with, not what you don't have. Positivity is everything. Meditating is also key. Anything you can do to keep your head in the game and keep your cool." -- David Collier, President, Ink Floyd Screen Printing
- "Repeat to yourself that 'worry' is a waste of mental resources. I concentrate on what I can control." -- Kenneth Lebersfeld, CEO, Capitol Lighting
- "I have a "mantra" of sorts, summed up in three words: "Okay; now what?" using [the challenging moment] as the starting point for planning what to do and how to forge ahead." -- Alan Simon, President, Thinking Helmet
Thanks to this unscientific survey, I'm reminded that most of us who start and run businesses deal with these things, and reassured by the fact that none of my headaches are unique (or even all that bad compared to some, knock on wood). And I was bolstered by the wisdom, experience, perseverance, positive approaches, and generally sound thinking reflected in the responses.
If you were one of the many whose comments I couldn't fit, or you have your own perspective on staying positive, please post your thoughts below.
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Children learn informally, through play and interacting with their world, during their early years, often persisting and tackling new challenges. All children enter school expecting to succeed.
However, for many children they lose confidence and motivation when they do not succeed. Results in poor self-efficacy
Why do some children fail?
Do they stop being able to learn?
Is the fault within the child?
Is the nature of the educational program or the teaching part of the problem?
It is essential that teachers understand the learning process and the factors that enhance or impede children's learning. Understanding how children learn is fundamental for teaching and effective curriculum planning.
Pedagogical content knowledge suggests –
Select appropriate methods
Knowledge of curriculum content
Steps involved in learning process
Anticipate difficulties students may experience
Awareness of learning characteristics of the students
◦ process
◦ permanent change
◦ acquire new skills, knowledge, attitudes and values
◦ increasing automaticity
◦ two neurons communicating with each other
◦ knowledge
◦ skills
◦ attitudes and values
Knowledge /learned information may be acquired incidentally in daily life. A Sound knowledge base is needed for thinking and reasoning skills – retrieval and application – automaticity (example - learning to read).
This is most valuable when related to information previously stored in memory. Intellectual skills = cognitive abilities that allow students to interact successfully with their environment and successfully complete new tasks.
Acquire concepts, rules, routines and symbol systems. Thinking, reasoning and problem solving.
Direct teaching, demonstration and guided practice. Mental strategies used to approach a learning task or problem. Metacognitive processes that control our cognition = internal executive processes – plan, monitor and evaluate performance.
The Lack of appropriate strategies = the cause of learning difficulties.
Cognitive strategies taught by direct explanation and modelling, think alouds (self-talk), guided practice and reflection. Affects personal choices toward object, person and event. There is a significant association with competence and efficacy as a learner – shaped by the extent to which students fail or succeed at school. Intentional learning – learner deliberately working to acquire knowledge, skill or strategy.
Incidental learning does not require conscious effort to acquire information or skill it is exposure and learning unintentionally. A Combination of student-centred and direct teaching most effective.
Students with LD require additional direct teaching approaches.
Observation and imitation.
◦ Attention
◦ Retention - memory
◦ Reproduction – recall and imitate
◦ Reinforcement or incentive - motivation
May be intentional or incidental.
Social Learning Theory – learning in the social environment – self-efficacy, self-understanding.
Important during initial stages of learning key information (maths symbols and notation, spelling sight words). Meaningful learning contributes to the development of intellectual skills and cognitive strategies. Learning hierarchy – each new stage or level of learning is dependent upon prerequisite knowledge, skills and strategies at a lower level (maths).
Task analysis – determining the learning hierarchy for specific task.
Stages through which a learner passes in order to acquire new knowledge, skills and strategies:
1. Attention to task – without attention no learning
2. Acquisition – demonstration, prompting and error correction
3. Application – developing competency
4. Automaticity - fluency
5. Maintenance – practice over time
6. Generalisation – teaching across range of contexts
7. Adaption – independent learning and usage
Different learners require different times at each level.
here is a great video about urban learning :)
here is a great video about urban learning :)


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