Southern Alberta Opium Feasibility Study – $6000/HA vs. $2000/HA Wheat April 26, 2008
Posted by infinitystudies in Agriculture, Health, International, Medicine, Opium, Places, Research, alberta, lethbridge.Tags: Agriculture, alberta, Crop, Feasability, lethbridge, Medicine, Opium, Research
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This project was untertaken by John Martin, Ian Ouerkerk, Curtis Goodman, Kyle Mesic, and James Bishop. Together we make up Suits Associates International* and we are going to investigate the relevant issues surrounding opium production in Southern Alberta – specifically in the Lethbridge area. We feel will be of great interest to you as investors::
What kind of money are we looking at for the people in the area?
Right now there is a group of twenty southern Alberta farmers and businessmen on side with the idea of commercially growing poppies in southern Alberta. The most prominent spokesperon is Glen Metzler, a Lethbridge businessman.
He and other sources have said poppies will pay more per acre than any other crop we’ve grown, perfect for a struggling farming industry – how much can farmers expect to make?
As much as $6000 per hectare! While wheat farming generates about $825 per acre*.
Metzler and his associates (which I’ll come back to in a moment) have teamed up under the title of API labs and plan to begin producing medicinal poppies in our area in the near future. Their plans include a $40 million pharmaceutical plant near Lethbridge, resulting in 150 new jobs in the Lethbridge area and $300 million injected annually into the local economy.
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National Culture: Canadian Subsidiary, France Headquarters – Obstacles to Commerce April 21, 2008
Posted by infinitystudies in Business, Culture, International, Management.Tags: Business, Hofstede, Individualism, Long-Term Orientation, Masculinity, National Culture, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance
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Hofstede Analysis
To accurately define culture there are three key aspects to understand – the pervasive shared beliefs, norms, and values which guide everyday life. An important distinction to make is the fact that culture does not exist – instead it is constructed by humans, as a tool to identify and explain behaviour (Hofstede, 2002). It is generally understood that business culture is largely influenced by national culture. These organization-specific (or professional) cultures are often discovered or created as members deal with internal and external problems. As the business world continues to adapt to a truly globalized marketplace it is important for organizations to recognize the subtle differences among national cultures and how this impacts operations. The firm Sodexo requires an astute understanding from managers of cultural difference – especially considering they operate in over 80 countries worldwide. The complexity of business interactions can be minimized with better understanding of the “acceptable ways to conduct business in a society” (Cullen/Parboteeah, 2005).
Geert Hofstede has led the way in developing accurate models for measuring and comparing the subtleties of national culture. Originally Hofstede published a report after extensive participant-based research at IBM in the 1980s. His most recent work, released in 2001, added great clarification and empirical evidence to his five dimensions of national culture: Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism, Masculinity, and Long-term Orientation. These dimensions have now been researched in seventy different countries – and have come to be accepted in the international business community as reliable measures of national culture.
Understanding of these five dimensions will give business managers the knowledge to have meaningful and effective interactions between cultures.
Highway Trash – Visually Stimulating? April 18, 2008
Posted by infinitystudies in Environment, Places.Tags: alberta, crowsnest highway, dump, Environment, garbage, grandfather clause, lethbridge
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As one drives down the #3 Highway, passing through the majestic Lethbridge coulees, they cannot help but notice the blatant environmental discrepancy. Here lay a private dump, protected by grandfather clauses – which permit the continued use regardless of current laws. The daily commuter cannot help but notice this mounting pile which fill an area once eroded by the wind and water. Although there are some limitations on what can be dumped at this location, it still presents a visual concern… but is this a bad thing? Should those living in our disposable society be subjected to the evidence of our wastefulness? Does this motivate individual action – or does it allow complacency to set in among the population?
A Short Review of: E=MC2 by David Bodanis April 16, 2008
Posted by infinitystudies in Biography, Book Review, Einstein, Energy, Physics, nuclear.Tags: Albert Einstein, Atom, Book Review, Energy, History, Mass, nuclear, Speed of Light
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e=mc2
A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
Author: David Bodanis
I am always weary when I pick up books with pull-quotes of previous popular critics – like the John Polanyi’s from the Globe and Mail “Exhilarating. E=mc2 is to be treasured.” I cannot help but wonder if the book will live up to such blatant marketing-ploys promising instant enlightenment. The author David Bodanis, an academic at Oxford is able to deliver on those claims. His concise account surrounding the development of popular science’s biggest breakthrough of the 20th century; the preface details his muse of the book as Cameron Diaz – whom queried as to the meaning of e=mc2 in a television interview.
“It got me thinking. Everyone knows that e=mc2 is really important, but they don’t know what it means, and that’s frustrating, because the equation is so short that you’d think it would be understandable.”
Protected: La Paz, Bolivia- Area Picture April 15, 2008
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