Legal Uses For Your Marijuana Seeds
Its no secret that many countries ban the sale of cannabis. Its slightly less known that in many of these countries the actual cannabis seeds are legally allowed to be bought and sold. We whole-heartedly support these measures and only recommend our cannabis seeds are used for novelty purposes, as you can imagine but often we get asked exactly what people should use them for. Well, heres what we do with our spare cannabis seeds hopefully itll inspire you!
1. One for the Mantle Piece
Impress your friends with your fine collection of rare cannabis seeds by putting them on display. I personally have a collection of 127 marijuana seeds, each one lovingly laid out on its own plush red cushion in a glass display case. Not only do they show you to be the expert collector you are, but they make great conversation starters.
2. An Expensive Form of Birdseed
If youre in a country where the purchasing of cannabis seeds is legal, then theres no reason not to feed them to your birds. Hemp is a common component of seed mixes for birds, and many report that our feathered friends will eat the cannabis seeds first. Its no surprise when you consider how full of nutrients the humble marijuana seed is each one is packed with magnesium-rich chlorophyll and protein, making it a nutritious and easy to digest treat. In 1937 when the bird seed companies testified before congress regarding the legalities of marijuana seeds, they are reported to have stated that canaries wont sing without it.
3. Make Your Own Rainstick
A rainstick is a long hollow tube filled with beads of beans. When the stick is held up, all the filling fall down, and creates a sound like heavy rain falling. If you have enough cannabis seeds lying around, why not try your hand at constructing your own? Wholesome fun which is resolutely not illegal!
4. Make a Rattle for an Infant
If that doesnt work (which it wont), consider scaling down your aims and constructing a rattle. Simply drop a handful of cannabis seeds into an empty matchbox, securely fasten it shut and attach a pencil for a rattle on a budget.
5. Bring the Spirit of Summer with Miniature Boulles
Missing boulles on the lawn and the spirit of summer? Why not recreate the fun of boulles with your cannabis seeds. Paint each seed the colour you want, and then recreate the skilled sport of the elderly in your own living room.
6. Thrifty Christmas Presents
Economically speaking, times are hard and getting the money together for Christmas presents can be tricky. Although not the cheapest seeds, a bag of marijuana will still provide one seed each for all your family and friends and when they see all of the novel, fun and, best of all, legal things they can do with their gift, theyre sure to offer you their sincere and whole-hearted thanks.
7. Leave a Trail to Find your Way Around
Hansel and Gretel had the right idea they left a trail of breadcrumbs in the woods to find their way out. Of course it backfires on them when the breadcrumbs are eaten – which is why using cannabis seeds to find your way works best indoors. You should also make sure only to use them on white surfaces so they really show up clearly. Still, if youre ever lost in a white floored palace, then you could use your cannabis seeds for navigation I suppose.
8. Make Some Fine Cannabis Seed Art
Many of those who claim cannabis should be grown illegally point to the fine art that has been created by those using the high of the finished drug. But kids, you dont need to be high to make great art try using the seeds themselves! You can paint the seeds and make them into a mosaic or a mural!
9. Make Yourself a Comfy Beanbag
Beanbags typically have thousands of polystyrene balls inside, but why not put your cannabis seeds to good use and fill a beanbag with them? Sure, it will cost a few thousand pounds more than buying polystyrene balls, but a beanbag full of cannabis seeds (probably) feels a lot more comfortable and youll have the satisfaction of knowing yours is indefinably better.
10. Guess the Number of Marijuana Seeds in the Jar
A great way of recouping some of your losses on the marijuana seed beanbag is to put your remaining seeds in a jar, and have a competition amongst your friends over who can guess the correct number. If you put the price to play high enough, you could even make a profit on your comfy, comfy beanbag.
So use your cannabis seeds for any of these purposes, but make sure you dont grow them under any circumstances! It can only end in tears.
Dealing with a troublesome and rebellious employee who is disrupting the work environment
Managing with a troublesome and rebellious employee who is disrupting the work environment
Good harmonious working environments and co-worker relationships are a must in a productive healthcare marketing organization or any other business marketing environment. Anything that takes away from a stable and happy work environment diminishes the organizations’ strength and its’ financial success by creating work force uncertainty, work environment friction and ultimately loss of job enthusiasm and job unhappiness.
Whenever one begins a new job assignment as a manager, they should meet with the entire staff and lay out expectations and the limits that are acceptable as related to job performance, work attendance, work place disruption and trouble stirring employees. Make certain everyone knows what is expected from them including how they are expected to contribute to a harmonious and productive work environment. Whenever a new employee is started, this same orientation must be provided to insure they understand the work place requirements and rules and the consequences for not adhering to the expected performance practices.
Whenever someone is found to be a disruptive agent in the work environment or a trouble stirring employee in general, they should be called in and counseled regarding the circumstances, observations, perceptions and given an opportunity to clear up any uncertainty and to make sure they understand what you require and expect from them regarding their contribution to and participation in a harmonious and productive work environment. This process allows the air to be cleared without any uncertainty as to what you are expecting from them and allows the employee to express their commitment to work with your directives and management focuses. In addition, they must be reminded that performance and behavior expectations in the workplace have already been set forth in an earlier orientation meeting as to your expectations related to employee contributions in and to workplace environment. All occurrences, incidents and meetings regarding work place performance and discipline should be documented as well as the initial orientation session that is was conducted disclosing your expectations from employees. These documentations should include date, time and the discussion points of meetings with the person(s) involved. Remember to follow your company’s’ policies and procedures as related to disciplinary actions, corrective action plans and proper protocol in these matters and keep your superiors and HR informed of your actions. This will keep your head off the corporate chopping block and protect your company and your job from legal challenges that may be brought later by a dismissed employee.
If disruptive activities and behavior issues persist, further and immediate action in is of the utmost importance. It is readily apparent when there is a disruption in the work environment. The disruptive employee(s) will try to gather 1 or 2, and sometimes more people to support their disruptive activities and behavior. Often, this is done by making threatening comments to these other people such as -the boss is out to get you- or -I heard the director talking about making some changes in your position -. The disruptive employee may do and say anything to gain support from other employees for their disruptive plans. Their efforts may extend outside your department and direct management area. The more support or sympathy they receive, the bolder they will become in making threatening statements to other employees about their manager and a common rumor thread is that you are going to fire or eliminated another co-worker. These statements are designed to bring maximum disruption within the work environment and give unfounded credibility to the disruptive force creating fear and unrest among other employees and winning the disruptive agent support and a degree of misguided respect by frightened co-workers. The disruptive agent may eventually take these activities to the corporate level and when that happens you will be hearing from above regarding morale in your department with questions about your management capabilities. Work begins to slow down, morale drops out the bottom and everyone is huddling together in small groups whispering and repeating rumors of perceived or rumored threats and worried about their jobs. The focus in this work environment becomes job worry, apprehension and fear of coming to work every day. Job happiness has left the building and the job. Before this happens, (not after) it is time to bring the disruptive employee in and take immediate action before morale gets this far gone. Once morale drops to this level, it takes a lot of work and time away from the managers’ normal duties to fix the problems that have surfaced and return the work environment to a productive one. You may spend days and weeks dealing nearly all day with this issue especially if it escalates to the corporate level. If that happens, you are dealing with the disruptive issue on two fronts and this means twice the time and energy to bring the disruption under control.
A written corrective statement should be issued and given to the disruptive employee in format allowing the employee a response in writing and a specific action plan set forth for correction and an action plan for failure to correct the disruptive activities. If the disruptive employee does not correct their activities or if they again resume these activities, they should be terminated immediately and escorted from the building by security. Employees who are so entrenched on disrupting the work environment are out to destroy your position, your department or the organization and will stop at nothing in this pursuit including going all the way to the top corporate CEO to discredit your performance. Once they are gone, you must work to promote and reestablish good employee relationships, re-building, team spirit promotion and employee motivation. A disruptive employee left in place too long can destroy a lot of progress, cost you your job, cost the business in financial success and achieved production. Remember, if you have a disruptive employee who refuses to cease disruptive activities, the sooner they are out, the better. If you are in management, keep your team focused and working smoothly with each other. If you have issues among personnel, address it immediately and don’t ignore it hoping it will go away. It usually does not go away and may become a huge issue for you and could ultimately bring scrutiny upon your position for failure to perform. Remember, you want positive recognition, not negative recognition.
Ray Vaughn, HealthCare Marketing Specialist Developing Successful Marketing Strategies for HealthCare and Business Contact at or
[Top]Legal Offshoring India’s Pie!
In this highly competitive global market every corporation requires to work on minimal margins and they required adopting cost cutting measures and that is where outsourcing became imperative.
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is the third big Leap of outsourcing industry in India, after Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) & Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO). LPO is an activity or practice to get legal support services from legal services firms or corporations.
In the beginning, LPO covered mostly low-end transcription work (Data management, Word Processing, Litigation support, Book-keeping and reconciliations etc.) but now LPO also includes a huge range of high end legal processes such as patent application drafting, legal research, pre-litigation documentation, advising clients, writing software licensing agreements and drafting distribution agreements.
The total market size of Global LPO business is around USD 250 billion. And out of this US alone captures two third of LPO business. The growing cost of Legal services in USA leads it to outsource or offshore the legal activity. It was very necessary for US law firms to obtain the Legal support services from outside to either save their business by cost cutting or for profit making.
There are a lot of examples of US law firms that were running their business successfully & were well known in their field but due to increasing cost in legal services they could not survive. And these failure firms proved to be a good learning example for rest of the firms or corporations and it became imperative for US law firms to outsource the legal support services.
India had already proved its reliability with its IT BPO & KPO services, so it emerged as a favorable destination for LPO business. The first legal outsourcing to India started back in 1995, when Bickel & Brewer the Dallas based litigation firm, with 34 lawyers opened an office in Hyderabad.
The next thing that gave an impetus to the industry was when General Electric, in 2001, added a legal division to their currently existing base of operations in India. This legal cell was specifically started to handle legal compliance and research for GE plastics and GE consumer finance (Divisions of GE capital). Thereafter, the industry witnessed a steady upswing in demand for outsourced legal services from India. And then the foreign players started coming in India.
This gave an opportunity to the Indian lawyers & students wanting to go abroad or want to earn hefty amount get good opportunity to work with legal outsourcing firms.
In India most of the Legal Process Outsourcing business revolves around three major activities.
Legal transcription and drafting services: Law firms have extensive documentation requirements, which normally get outsourced to India. This involves data entry or activities like sending correspondence, document management and indexing, drafting memos etc. This is the entry level, low value high volume task. Owing to low risks, this sometimes tops the priority lists for firms starting outsourcing.
Patent prosecution assistance: This is the hottest area in Legal Processes Outsourcing. It involves assistance in filing patent applications, infringement studies, IP asset management services, prior art searches etc.
Legal research: It involves performing legislative history research, jurisdiction studies and other typical case study researches that are common with the legal profession. When dea ing with corporate activities, like mergers and acquisitions legal due diligence of the potential targets or acquirers and their accompanying legal issues becomes imperative. This involves extensive data research etc and hence a lucrative outsourcing task.
[Top]Legal Process Outsourcing’s Point Of Inflection
Depending on what you are reading and who you are talking to it can be unclear whether or not legal process outsourcing is making true headway in the legal industry. A report on some sites surfaced this week which discuss apparent reluctance to sending even simpler legal tasks offshore. The Lawyer reported how Integreons operations both in Fargo and in Bristol was cost prohibitive to the firms operations since clients do not prefer the LPO to send any work overseas. Its quite interesting that the LPOs clients, who give their business to Integreon, want the provider to perform work onshore rather than reap benefits of the lower cost offshore model which they signed on to profit from in the first place. Is this a trend in legal process outsourcing which has been largely synonymous with transmitting work overseas to the lower cost centers in India, Philippines and beyond? Or rather, does this story reflect the eve of an inflection point that will breed LPO differentiation to new service delivery models moving forward?
The reason for the differentiation question lies in the case seen in the Integreon story. Providers will adjust and offer service as dictated by their clients when it makes sense. Its a fact of doing business. Otherwise turning your back on clients doesnt bode well for your future business, and in turn helps your competitors who adjust and offer accordingly. But does this story actually make sense – to essentially abandon the offshore model which is the foundation for the cost savings and is at the heart of the law firm attraction to LPO?
Onshore arms do make sense to the LPO model if the delivery model finds a way for it to make it economically viable. Paying up to 90% of revenues to onshore salaries does not, but it could if fees could be raised to justify the overall service being provided. Or perhaps volumes will allow them to achieve economies of scale thus pushing them into the black. But this does call for another look at the overall legal outsourcing value proposition.
Cost savings, increased productivity, access to back office capacity – and the list could go on – but these are some of the driving forces behind the value of legal process outsourcing. However were witnessing a transformative period for the industry if the offshore reluctance holds true. It will, if it hasnt already, cause legal process outsourcing providers to ask themselves how they continue driving their operations and maintain the value to the client. The answer will lie based on their internal capabilities, their ability to react, and most importantly their innovative view of the service model. The winning model will achieve greater inroads in improving the central word of the industry name; Process. The industry as a whole must improve the process in which it interacts with clients and delivers their work products.
No matter the industry, business process exists in one way or another, and it in fact is almost always enhanced through the implementation o f technological solutions that make life easier for all those involved. It requires studying the end-to-end process between client and provider, and determining the areas of pain and opportunity to marry up with new tools, perhaps not yet envisioned. The fact is that technology has undoubtedly facilitated the LPO industry, but this inflection point is calling for a push to the boundaries of what technology will do for LPOs maturity in the face of client demands for onshore support. More mature, cutting edge platforms coupled with some level of onshore support must contribute to the value proposition and offer a complementary service to the overall offering of the provider.
If pieced together properly, the suite of services that the LPO provides may in fact dictate higher fees through the realization of increased service value. Or it may just at least maintain legal process outsourcings cost competitive edge. Either way it will create a factor of differentiation between pure play LPO providers who compete solely on cost, and those providers who seek to stand apart from the pack and offer an innovative approach to legal outsourcing.
[Top]The 5 Most Exciting Law Enforcement Jobs
There are hundreds of law enforcement jobs accessible, and whereas any job within the law enforcement field is certain to be fascinating, some jobs are a bit additional exciting (and nerve-wracking!) than others. Browse on for an inventory of the five most adrenaline-pumping law enforcement jobs available.
Special Weapons and Ways (SWAT) Officers
Special Weapons and Ways (SWAT) officers are highly trained police officers who handle extraordinarily high-risk operations that normal cops aren’t equipped to address. SWAT groups may be asked to provide assistance on drug raids, give extra security at high-profile events, conduct hostage rescue missions, and more. Due to the violent dangers they usually face on the duty, SWAT team members have special protecting gear and firearms, including armored cars and assault rifles. This law enforcement job is adrenaline-jolting and unpredictable. If you’re part of a SWAT team, you’ll never understand what to expect once you head to work.
CIA Clandestine Services Core Collectors
CIA Clandestine Services Core Collectors are the CIA agents who work abroad, collecting intelligence data from foreign sources so as to assist maintain US safety and security. These agents travel internationally and interact with a variety of folks in hopes of obtaining clandestine data that they can report back to CIA headquarters. The task involves travel, danger, and intrigue. For the most half, CIA agents are needed to keep their true identities and purpose hidden while on and off the job. Unlike most other law enforcement jobs, CIA agents have to stay what they do for a living a secret from almost everybody they know, including friends.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agents
FBI special agents, like CIA agents, are responsible for investigating and maintaining US security. In contrast to internationally-serving CIA agents, however, FBI agents generally work on the national level. FBI agents are sometimes assigned to one specialty, which may embrace fields such as foreign counterintelligence, organized crime, cyber crime, and more. Irrespective of what their specialty, all agents should pass stringent government security clearance necessities, as most are aware about classified government information.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Federal Air Marshals
The TSA is that the US government organization responsible for keeping each side of US air transportation safe, from airports to airplanes. TSA Federal Air Marshals are on the front lines of this mission to keep US air travel free of terrorist threats. These armed law enforcement officers serve undercover in airports and on passenger flights to confirm the safety of air travel out and in of the United States. Working undercover, a federal air marshal must discretely monitor his surroundings for suspicious activity. Air marshals would like to know regarding everything from aviation medication to close-quarters self defense. They are conjointly held to higher standards of firearm accuracy than any other law enforcement jobs agency. Being a federal air marshal could be a high-pressure job which requires masses of your time traveling and constant alertness.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agents
Law enforcement jobs with the DEA support the US government in its war against drugs. DEA special agents are primarily responsible for serving to to enforce the US Government’s drug and drug trafficking laws. The task of a DEA agent involves helping to analyze and prosecute drug traffickers. This often means that working undercover whereas investigating suspected traffickers and collecting intelligence info to assist convict those people who are breaking US drug laws. Like the opposite jobs profiled here, DEA agents typically interact with dangerous individuals and can be put in unpredictable situations.
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