The Harold Perry Show! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Harold Perry as Honest Harold the Homemaker. The month of March brings cold winds and the big blow income tax returns. Our friend Honest Harold is following the good old American customer getting his return in on the last day. It's the morning of March 15th and we find Harold just finishing making out his form. Well, that just about does it. Let's see. Better make sure I get down all my income. There's my salary. That sure didn't take up much space. I put down that Christmas bonus the radio station gave me. Three Vaughn Monroe records. Well, I guess that's all the income I have to declare. Oh, I did get a 50 cent refund on those old Citronella bottles grandpa left down the cellar. Nah, the government wouldn't be interested in that. Still working on your income tax, Harold. And I just finished it, Mother. My, I don't see how you do it. Filling out that complicated form all by yourself. It really wasn't much, Mother. All it takes is a little intelligence, a keen mind, hair-trigger thinking. Oh, yeah. Yes, sir. It's a wonderful feeling, though, having your income tax all made out, Mother. I don't want to be late with it. The government needs the money, you know. How much are you sending to government? Oh, I get a refund of $1.60. Harold, I just thought of something. What's that money? I wonder if I have to pay income tax this year. Mother, what income did you have? Well, it wasn't exactly income. I traded a chocolate cake for a pillow with Washington DC embroidered on it. A pillow with Washington DC? What's that got to do with income tax? Well, I thought it might be a capital gain. Very good, Mother, very good. That was a quip I read in the Pathfinder. Well, that's one quip that should have passed in the night. What? Skip it, Mother, nautical term. Well, I think I'll drop down and see how Doc and Peter, coming with their income tax, maybe I can help them, huh? Might as well stop by and see Flora Bell, too. It'd be kind of fun to help her. Harold. Well, all I have to do now is put this tax return in the envelope. You want me to mail it for you, Harold. I'm going right downtown. All right, Mother, thanks. Here you are. Eat gods, what's that? Oh, that's Mr. Walker. He's calling for me in this tractor. Mother, his tractor. Well, his Rio is in the garage today. He's getting his 100,000 mile checkup. Where's that rickety Romeo taking you today? We're going to a meeting of the sunny side of Seventy Club. We're both on the Taffy Pool Committee. Come in, Ogilby. Ogilby. Good morning. How are you, Ogilby? Just fine. How are you, ma'am? Good morning, Mr. Walker. Oh, I didn't see you there, Sonny. Thought you was a rubber plant. Very funny. Well, maybe I was stretching things a little. I guess he reads the Pathfinder, too. Well, Mrs. Hamper, are you ready to go? Yes, I am. My carriage awaits with us, fair lady. Some carriage looks more like a cement mixer. I'll get my hat, Mr. Walker. I think I'll wear the one with the plume today. Well, got to be going. You want to lift downtown on my tractor, Sonny? What? I haven't got any room up front, but you can sit on the corn, Shucker. No, thanks. Do I look like an era corn to you? Want me to answer that, Sonny? They're pretty cute, Mother and Mr. Walker. It's a wonderful feeling to have your income tax all mailed out. I mean, all made out, mailed. But old Doc Yack Yack hasn't finished his yet. I think I'll have a little fun with the old horse, Doctor. Hello, Herr. Hello, Doc. What's you doing? I'm trying to make out my income tax. Well, mine's all finished and mailed. I didn't have a bit of trouble. Well, yours are simple to make out, but don't forget I got 17 dependents. What? Well, there's Silver Moon, my horse, an evangelion, macaque or spaniel and her 12 puppies. Oh, my. And then there's Arthur McGoo. Yes, good morning, Arthur. Doc, you can't put down animals for dependents. Arthur, you're goat. I don't see why not. The form says a dependent is anyone who earned less than $500. And that goat didn't make a cent last year. That's what you think. Well, anyway, he receives over half his support from me. Why, I've kept him in tin cans ever since he was a kid. Haven't I, Arthur? Doc, are you really going to list your animals as dependents? Oh, of course not, Herr. You had me worried there for a minute. I couldn't list Arthur the goat. Dependent has to be closely related to you. I, of course. And Arthur and I are only second cousins. Believe me, Doc, you're a lot closer than that. That's Flora Belle's having a lot of trouble with her income tax. I'll just be big-hearted and offer to help her. While I'm adding up her income, maybe I can deduct a kiss or two. Oh, Harold. Well, hello, Flora Belle. Just happened to be passing by. I thought I'd drop in. In case you needed any help with your income tax, as long as I was passing by. Now, Harold, I'm on to you. Last time you helped me with my income tax, it took us three hours to get past my social security number. Well, it was a long number.  You said that was part of the withholding tax. I did. You're not going to fool me this time. I'm going to do my income tax all by myself. Oh, well, I tried. See you later, Flora Belle. Of course, if you want to come in and keep me company. You can just sit and watch me if you promise to behave yourself. Sure. Well, shall we go in? All right. Now, you sit right there on the sofa.  It's more comfortable. Now, Harold, none of your tricks, remember? You promise. Oh, yeah. I'll just sit over here at the table. Now, let's see where I was. Oh, enter your total wages and salary. Yeah. Gosh, Flora Belle looks cute in that apron. That ink smudge on her nose. Yoo-hoo, Flora Belle. Harold, now, you stop disturbing me. I'm having an awful time figuring out my deductions. You want me to come over there and help you? No, I don't. I'll come over there. Well, I'll just sit here beside you. But remember, it strictly business. Oh, sure. Maybe I'd better sit a little closer so you can see the small print. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your hair is tickling my nose. Do you like my new perfume, Harold? Yeah. It's called Monsoon Madness. Well, here comes Hurricane Harold. I think I'll turn on the radio. A little music might help me concentrate on my income tax. Yeah, good idea. Well, I declare they're playing one of our old songs. Oh, remember when they played that at the senior class prom and you kept wanting to dance in the dark corners all night? Yeah, I had on a rented tuxedo and my pants were too short.  All right, cream puff. In my... Remember what I did? What? I gave you a kiss like this. You never kissed like that in high school? Dear, you're getting romantic this way when you know I'm trying to do my income tax. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?  Give me a minute, boy, I'm on the phone. Oh, go right ahead. Talking to my girl, Eloise Zeigenfuss. Cool. Sorry, Eloise, a friend of mine just come in. What's that, Eloise? What's that, Eloise? Declare, Eloise is jealous. She thinks you're another girl. Oh, goodness. It's just my friend, Harold Hamp, honeybun. Honeybun. And beside Eloise, you know you're the only girl for me. And that's the way I feel about you. Goodbye, Eloise. Declare, she sent me oceans of love. Sounds like she's talking underwater, all right. Pete, have you finished your tax report? Well, I'm working on her, boy. I hope I get done by midnight. Well, it's simple if you just follow the directions. Well, I hope you got it right, boy. There's a special investigator in town. Special investigator? Yep, internal revenue, man, from Washington. Guess he's here to check up. See that nobody's trying to cheat on their income tax. Cheat? Oh, hell, I got nothing to worry about. You sure you put down all your income, Harold? Of course I did. Well, everything except 50 cents, I got back in some old Citronella bottles.  Pete, the government isn't interested in a refund on some old bottles. What can they do with 50 cents in Washington? Well, they'd buy Harry Truman a box of stationery. Yeah, it could be. Gosh, I wonder if I am in trouble. Which mother hadn't mailed my income tax letter? I hope that the investigator don't catch your hair. Oh, Pete, those fellows have got more important things to do than... Good morning, gentlemen. Well, good morning. Are you the marshal here? Yes, sir. Except on Sunday. Well, I'm from Washington. You're from Washington? Yes. My name is J. Edgar Benziger. Uh-huh. I'm a T-man. A T-man? Oh, well, I'm a Sankerman myself. Harold, this is the man from the Internal Revenue Department. Oh! Oh, well, I guess they keep you fellas pretty busy this time of the year. Yes, unfortunately, a lot of people think they can cheat the government on their income tax. But they very seldom get away with it. No, I guess not. But I suppose you spend all your time going after the big fellas. Oh, no, they're all criminals to us. No matter if they're trying to get away with $10,000 or 50 cents. Zoink. That's you, boy. Quiet, Pete. Yes, sir, there's only one place for a man that tries to cheat the government, and that's jail. Jail?   Yes, sir, it makes no difference to us if it's $10,000 or 50 cents. How do you guess it? Well, nice to have met you, Mr. and... Benziger, J. Edgar. I don't believe I got your name. My name? Let's see. Oh, yes, I'm Harold Hemp. Hemp? Well, I hope I never have to rope you in. We'll return for the second act of our story, honest Harold, in just a moment. Judy Garland will be Bing Crosby's guest in a merry musical half hour with a decided Western flavor on CBS Later This Evening. Following this CBS Bing Crosby show on most of these same stations will be the world's welterweight championship battle between Charlie Fuseri and Johnny Breton. That's two great broadcasts on CBS Later Tonight. Judy Garland as Bing Crosby's guest and the Charlie Fuseri Johnny Breton battle for Sugar Ray Robinson's vacated welterweight title. And now, back to Harold Perry as honest Harold the homemaker. Well, March the 15th has turned out to be a taxing day for honest Harold. He forgot to include a 50-cent item in his tax return and he has already given the letter to his mother to mail. Right now we find honest Harold in the living room, a very worried man. Why did this have to happen to me? Just when that tea man is in town? Say, maybe if I just offered to give him the 50-cent. No, I think I'm trying to bribe him. Is that you, mother? Oh, hello, Harold. I have some wonderful news. Oh, what's that? At our club meeting this morning, Mr. Walker and I were elected King and Queen of the Tapley Pool. Oh, that's very nice, mother. I suppose you mailed my income tax return. Harold, I have a confession to make. I didn't mail your letter. What? You didn't? No, I gave it to Dr. Yancey to mail. Yeah. Well, we met downtown just now and he said he was going to the post office. I thought that way the government would be sure to get it. Yeah, sure to get me too. What, Harold? Nothing. Goodbye, mother. Got to see Doc about jail. I mean bail. Oh, mail. Doc, you're just the man I want to see. Oh, I am? Yeah, you see. That's nice of you to say that, Harold. What? And I want you to know that I always enjoy seeing you too. Doc, will you keep quiet a minute? Oh, all right, Harold. I won't say a word. My mother just gave you a letter to mail. What'd you do with it, Doc? Doc, say something. You told me to keep quiet, Harold. Hi, Doc. I'm sorry. I apologize. Apology accepted. Good. Now did you mail a letter? Well, here's what happened. See, I was on my way to the post office when I passed the pet shop. Yeah? I saw the cutest little puppy in the window. I just had to go in and say hello. Oh, my goodness. And then the letter fell out of my pocket and I reached over to pick it up. The letter? No, the puppy. What happened to the letter? Oh, the puppy picked that up. Oh. She was your retriever, Harold. Doc, did you mail the letter? Well, every time I started to leave, that little puppy went, sounds like the lunch whistle at the laundry. Oh, so I just couldn't leave her? Please, Doc, what about the letter? Well, Pete came along and I gave it to him to mail. Oh. Well, Harold, I couldn't leave that little puppy. Why, you should have heard her.  I got to find Pete. Oh, howdy, Harold. Pete, you sure were speeding along there, boy. You better watch it. This is a 15-mile zone. Pete, what'd you do with that letter that Doc gave you to mail? Letter? Yes. It had my tax return in it. Oh, yeah. Now, let me see. What did I do with that? Come on, Pete. What's the matter with you? Can't you remember anything? Boy, I swear since I fell in love with Eloise, I'm in A days.  Pete! A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Pete, listen. Doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle. Pete, will you stop that doodling? Did you mail the letter? Oh, say I remember now. I just put it in that mailbox there on the corner. Oh, no. Doodle, doodle, doodle. You're crazy in the noodle. Goodbye. Guess there's no use hanging around this mailbox. A letter's in there and I'm out here. Say, maybe I can talk Fred the mailman into giving it back to me. He owes me a favor.  Let's see here. What time's the next pickup? 5.20. Guess I'll just have to wait. I wonder if I could see my letter if I look in the box. Wouldn't it hurt to take a peek? Yeah. There's my letter right on top. Yeah. I might just stick my little hand in there. See if I can touch it. Small opening. Ain't got to get my hand out. Somebody might think I was... stuck. Oh, get out. How are you, Honest Harold? Hello, Mr. Ben Singer. Having trouble getting your hand out of that mailbox? Oh, is this a mailbox? Thought it was a Coca-Cola machine. Just trying to get my nickel back. My hand out. I'm glad you weren't tampering with the mail. You know you could get a jail sentence for that. You can? Yes, almost as long as for cheating on your income tax. I'll be very interested in looking over your tax return. Honest Harold. Ha, ha, ha. Oh, brother. Well, see you later. If I hand the wings of an angel over these prison walls, I would fly. Hey, nice voice. Ten minutes late now. Getting cold, too. He got Mr. Walker and his tractor. He's going to stop. Trouble ever since I dropped a cake of yeast in the gas tank. What are you here for, sonny? If you must know, I'm waiting for Fred the mailman. Well, you'll have a long wait. Fred's laid up with a lumbago today. What? Well, who's taking his place? I am. Oh, no. Yep. Always call on me in emergencies. I'm in the mailman's reserve. Company B. One sight, sonny. The mail must go through. Yeah, let's see what we got in here. Mr. Walker. Wait a minute, sonny. I'm sorting the mail. Let's see here. Mm-hmm. Hazel Wilkins is writing to her old boyfriend in Charlieville again. Must have broken up with that window-blind salesman. Mr. Walker, there's a letter of mine in there, and I'd like to have it back. Sonny, do you realize that's tampering with a U.S. mail? But it's my letter. Not when it gets in this box it ain't. It's the property of the U.S. But, Mr. Walker, if I don't get the letter back, I might go to jail. Oh, that's too bad. Now look here, Walker. I've got to have that letter. Oh, over my dead body. Don't tempt me. Well, I guess I got all the mail. Let's get this bag on my shoulder. There! See you later, sonny. But, Mr. Walker, wait a minute, please. I can't wait. Mail's got to go through. Neither snow nor sleet, nor gloom of night. Well, there's something like that. Mr. Walker, you don't know what this means to me. I can't tell you from the mailbox, sonny. Both look kind of green. Oh, the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! I guess it better go home. Can't just keep walking the streets. I could only get my hands on that letter. Well, I didn't. Hope I get an outside sell. We're gonna miss my friends. Oh, Doc and Pete. Wonder Flora Bell is gonna wait for me. I don't know. She's pretty fickle. Never forget when I went away for a weekend once. When I came back, she was engaged to the basketball captain. We lost every game that year, too. Oh, well, yes, mother. My, you're late, son. I've been waiting dinner for you. I'm not very hungry, mother. Oh, Harold, there's a man here to see you. There is? Yes, he wants to talk to you about your income tax letter. Zeef. He said you did something wrong, Harold. Oh, this is it. I tried to tell him that you didn't mean to cheat the government. Thanks, mother. You're true blue. But it was my mistake. I'm ready to face him now. He's right in there, Harold. Yeah, here I am, sonny. Mr. Walker, what are you doing here? I came to see you about your income tax letter. You forgot to put a stamp on the envelope. Huh? A stamp? You can't get away with that, Buster. I have to give this letter back to you. There. Well, thanks, Mr. Walker. I love you. Well, you're kind of cute yourself, sonny, but your mother's seen me first. Well, shall we have dinner now? You two start without me, mother. I've got to clean up a little business with the government. Say, what about you folks listening in? Have you mailed in your income tax returns yet? Don't forget, tomorrow's the last day. You don't want J. Edgar Benzinger after you. You've just heard the Harold Perry show, Honest Harold. The supporting players tonight included Joseph Kearns, Jane Morgan, Marley Bear, Cliff Arquette, Shirley Mitchell, Ken Christie, and David Light. 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Welcome to this episode of Door Hardware Nerds. I'm your host, Mia Merrill. Today, I am joined by living Asa Abloy legend Tom Harris. He has been in the industry for just under 43 years, and he is going to sit down with us today and give us some of his wisdom that he has picked up over the years. Welcome, Tom. Thanks for joining us today. Well, I appreciate the invitation. I don't think we've ever shared where the name Door Hardware Nerds came from, but you're actually the originator of that. How'd you come up with that? Well, we just, well, we are nerds.  And when you get in it, it's something you think about. And it's actually really what we said informally. So why not use it? Yeah. So you did. We did. We took it, we ran with it. It fits. You are known for tomisms, we like to call them. Can you explain what a tomism is? Oh, it's actually an attempt at being funny sometimes. But also try to capsuleize an idea in a few words. So we're going to run through some rapid fire, and I want you to explain what they mean. Okay? It's easy to get wet when it's raining. Well, you know, when the economy's really good, you can start feeling good about what you're doing, which is okay. But you've got to realize that, you know, this is an easy environment. It's going to get tougher. So realize that you're in that type of environment when you're there, because you've got to get ready for when it's not raining. Okay. Air talk. Oh, goodness. That's when happens too often when you basically sit around and just chatter, and nobody takes notes, and there are no action points. And it's a good idea, but there's no assignments. It drives me crazy. It drives me crazy. Air talk. We all do it. We do. Just because it has four legs doesn't mean it's a horse. You know, there are race horses, and I guess they're carriage horses. They still have four legs. They don't do the same thing, and products are a lot way too, because, you know, we have to build product for really tough environments. And some of the lighter duty stuff doesn't fit a tough environment. I think it's something that we need to recognize. To do business, you have to break bread. So that's a good one. That's an old one. I don't use much anymore. But I used to live in Asia, and food is so important. It's such a big part of business. And so if you did want to develop a relationship, no matter what you were eating, or where you were going, you needed to participate. Is there a favorite Thomism that we didn't talk about? I think you did pretty good. I think that's good. Was your first job out of college in this industry? Actually, even before. Okay. I started in college. I worked two or three years in college at the Monroe factory, putting together door-closer arms. So I have two, three years, and then I have the 43 years. So you're actually close to 45 years. And if they counted that. Yeah. They should, shouldn't they? Yeah, they should. They should. You've been here. So what, in high school, what got you in there? Was that just like a normal job? A family friend. A family friend. And do you regret them being a friend now? Oh no, no, no. It was actually good. And it was at the Monroe plant where they make door closures. And part of their thing was prepare you for life. There were a lot of college students we hired back then. They worked us pretty well. They wanted us to go back to college and study. That's funny. All right. So what was your first official role within the industry? Well, back in the day, we've restarted again through the RDP program. And I think they're sales trainees. The industry was full of trainees and sales. And I was one of, probably in two or three years, one of about eight or nine. Some of them retired out of the industry, but many, many people started through the sales training program in the field. So it was your first brand that you worked on? Yale. Yale. So you started with Yale. You're finishing with Yale. Absolutely. You had to get out before. No, no, no, no. I'm excited about Accenture. It's tough, but I'm still excited about it. Yeah. I think it's a nice future forward. Yep. Yeah. What did you wear your first day on the job? Do you remember? Or what car did you drive? Well, I knew I dressed poorly. That's for sure, because I had no money. And I had a mud-colored cutlass. Oh my gosh. It would barely run. So you started with Yale. How many acquisitions has Yale gone through since when you started to now? Five. We were about starting back in the 80s. We were part of Eaton, then we were part of Scoville, and then on and on and on. It was a lot of change, because each company had a different culture or lack of a culture. Prior to Asa Abloy, those were tough periods. Yeah. We were not valued as a brand. We weren't valued as people before Asa Abloy. That was really the turning point for the company, because we started investing in the business, we started investing in people, we started using logic for business decisions, and just steady improvement, improvement. What's the biggest change you've noticed in the past 43, well, 45 years. Yeah. Okay. You've given me the two. I'm giving you the two. There's one big thing that's happened, and when you reflect back, you see it. We did not see it at the time, but the industry has changed dramatically. And I talk about societal trends that have impacted our industry. And so these trends have largely contributed to opportunity for us. A lot of times when the world is changing, if the company doesn't change, you get swamped. We didn't get swamped. But there's so many things in society right now that are demanding on our products that weren't there 40 years ago. Privacy, classroom security, aesthetics, touchless, mobile. I'm even missing some. And those have all resulted in new products and new product development. That's the biggest impact, really, on our industry, big picture-wise, in my opinion. Okay. So you have talked about your overseas roles in Asia, but that's not the only overseas role. Can you tell me about the time you've spent not stateside? Oh, well, living-wise, I lived in England, which one of the things I would say for people's career, I think that if you get a chance for an overseas assignment, I think you should take it. I would even if you have a family or whatever, if I was able, you could enable that. I think if it fits your lifestyle, I think you should really do it. So I lived in England and in Hong Kong, both. And I traveled, I think I've said I've traveled and done business in 43 countries over that time, which was kind of neat. What was your favorite thing about living internationally, and it could be different for both England and Hong Kong? Well, I like food. So we start with that. Asia's just an amazing place in terms of coming from North Carolina, Monroe, North Carolina, and then being exposed to the types of food that you've never seen in your entire life. So that was a neat part of it, just different cultures. And the one thing I try to do is when I travel somewhere, is learn a little bit about its history, its people, and its culture, which really made it a lot more meaningful. Can you talk about your favorite project you've ever worked on? It was in China in 1986, and we were in Shanghai, working out of Hong Kong back to Shanghai. It was a Hilton hotel, which was the first international hotel in China, in Shanghai anyway, that had been built in probably 40 or 50 years. And I think what was fascinating about that is traveling to Shanghai, there weren't a lot of foreigners there, there weren't a lot of Americans there, there weren't a lot of places to stay. You know, we had to get a hotel when we got there, you couldn't book in advance, and they made us stay in the same room. It was a large hotel. We never figured that out. That's funny. Yeah, it was odd. All right, so who is someone that has inspired you in your career? I think you have to look for is people that help mentor you, and sometimes it may not feel good at the time. They may challenge you a lot. And I think I've been fortunate to work for quite a few people, and I think some better than others, and I always say my best boss is my current boss, and there's a little bit of truth to that at all times, but I think you learn a little bit from something, from everybody you work for, you know, how to organize maybe, or how to do a sales call, or how to present a product, or how to organize and lead something. I think you learn a little bit from everybody you work for. I think one of the things I've been fortunate is to work for so many different people. You know, that's part of belonging to so many different companies as well. One company, but bought and sold so many times. So what's next for you, Tom? You starting a band, you going on vacation? A little bit of everything, not a band, though. You know, you're supposed to have a big plan, right, when you retire. I have plans, but I don't have grandiose plans. I've been with the company 43 years. I've been married for 31 years, and I've had the same walking friends for 28 years, and we've walked together for 28 years. I don't join them during the week, but I'll join them again, and that'll be something every day. Exercise, travel a little bit, a little bit of consulting. A little bit. A little bit. We'll see you. It'll work out real soon. You don't need a big plan. Yeah. They say you do. That's true. That, I don't think so. Hope not. Yeah. What advice would you have for somebody that's just starting out in this industry? Many years ago, this was before those societal changes and our business changed so much, it was not as interesting a business as it is today. But, you know, while we're not Google or Apple, we do a lot of things that technology companies do, and that's pretty neat. And, you know, we have all kinds of job descriptions that we didn't have even five years ago, even two or three years ago. Beth has marketing people and jobs that we didn't have before. So I think it's all right here to have an exciting career. And one of the nice things about it is we're in a very good industry. So you can take the technology, you can, whether it be in product technology, manufacturing technology, marketing, etc., and apply it here. It all fits. And the nice thing about us is we're willing to invest even to take risks in some things. And we do, we actually say, this is a risk, let's do it anyway. What is your most memorable or favorite product that either you've worked on or we've released? Well, that's a good question. I guess, and it's recent, and you know what it's going to be. Indicators. And, you know, this whole trend with privacy, I think we saw it coming. Related to classroom security, privacy, restroom. And I know that's late in my career, but that's one of the most interesting things to me. There's been a lot of other things, but that's been quite interesting, quite frankly. And it's interesting to see all the evolution of products and we've applied it in so many different places. And then, as we know, they've sold very well. So that's been a lot of fun. Yeah, I would say you have the Godfather of Indicators. Indicator, man.  Yeah, there you go. But that was fun and everybody bought into it. I mean, we all did it. And people came up with different ideas and what if we did this and what if we did that? And we just did it. Yeah, and we're still evolving it and coming up with new concepts. And we didn't overthink it, we just did it. Yeah. What's your biggest hope for the industry's future? Well, I actually feel very optimistic about the industry's future because I think what we do is very important to society. You know, I talked earlier about life safety, which is our traditional, life safety and security was our traditional definition, but now we have products that help who thought we would have climate products? You know, shelter in place products. And I think that's just going to continue. I don't think that's going to stop. I think, you know, we tell the story that we did ADA levers in 1980 something and that was a societal change. It made it easier to access a building. But now we do something like that almost every other year, some new society. So I think that looks quite bright for those type of things. People won't help. Yeah. So you mentioned the lever chain, basically from lever to knob. That was one of the biggest. Nobs to lever. I'm sorry. Yes.  You were also here basically for the crossbar to push bar. Crossbar to push bar. Yeah. What was that like? What was it like going through those types of changes? One of the things, I'll give you an example. We used to make, believe it or not, cast iron mortise locks when I started. And they would bow and do all types of things. And I met John Trafalgar because of that. We were in a hotel changing all the locks because they were cast iron broken. And his room was in the hotel. We knew he was there. And so I'm the one that went in. And he was very nice. So that was kind of cool. Yeah. At the beginning of your career, did you ever expect to stay in this industry for so long? One of the things about the industry, and we talk about it, people tend to stay. There's something about it that gets in your blood. And I was talking to someone just recently that came from a different industry. And he was talking about how unique it is that people stay so long. You know, I have 43 years, but I can walk out here and find people that have just as many, if not a few more, years than I do. So that's quite interesting. People tend to stay. It's a stable industry, but also I think it's a part of a culture. And I think that we are just a bunch of nerds.  Do a hard way nerds. Something quite interesting. To me, and we don't think about this in these terms, but our products are in the background. They're taken for granted, which is a good thing that people can take them for granted. They don't worry about their life safety. They don't have to worry about getting out of the building. But we make hundreds of thousands if not millions of products every year. Think about this. In our North American market, our products are used probably hundreds of thousands if not millions of times a day, billions of times a year. And they work. People take it for granted. And I don't think you can think of another industry that's that hidden that is so ubiquitous in our lives, that is used so often. I mean, you literally cannot walk to a commercial building without being impacted in some way by an outside product. And it's kind of neat. That's a neat thing. I can't think of another industry like it. I've thought about it, but I can't think of anything quite like it. Yeah, I like to say, if we're doing our jobs, you don't think about what we fight. Exactly. All right. All right. Well, we thank you for your service for the past 45 years to the end. Thank you for the ad. I appreciate that. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our channel.


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Moving on to entertainment news, Drake reportedly unfollowed Rihanna and A$AP Rocky after their pregnancy announcement. Rihanna and Rocky who started dating in 2020 after years as friends confirmed they were expecting their first baby together with photos of Rihanna's baby boy. Drake, who has now refollowed Rocky after it made headlines that he unfollowed him, was rumored to have dated Rihanna but the pair denied it.


In 1941, the American Medical Association's Council on Foods and Nutrition was presented with a new product, VyChocolate and a vitamin-fortified chocolate bar, offered ostensibly as a product of high, nutritive value, but in reality intended for promotion to the public as a kind of vitaminized candy. Surely something like that couldn't happen today, but that's the entire sugary cereal industry's business model. 12 vitamins and minerals, way better than those marshmallow fruit loops with just a measly 11. Nutrients are added to breakfast cereals as a marketing gimmick to create an aura of healthfulness. If these same nutrients were added to soda, would we feed our kids Coke for breakfast? We might as well spray cotton candy with vitamins, too. As one medical journal editorial read, adding vitamins and minerals to sugary cereals is worse than useless. The subtle message is that somehow it's safe to eat more. General mills grow up strong with big G kids cereals, ad camping, featured products like lucky charms, tricked cocoa puffs. That's like the dairy industry promoting ice cream to get your calcium. Kids who eat pre-sweetened breakfast cereals make it more than 20% of their daily calories from added sugar. Most sugar in the American diet comes from beverages like soda, but breakfast cereals represent the third largest food source of added sugars in the diets of children and adolescents, wedged between candy and ice cream. On a per serving basis, there is more added sugar in a cereal like frosted flakes than there is in frosted chocolate cake brownies or frosted doughnut. Kellogg and General Mills argue that breakfast cereals only contribute a relatively small amount of sugar to the diets of children, less than soda, for example. This is a perfect example of a psychological phenomenon known as diffusion of responsibility. That's like every restaurant in the country arguing that their individual contribution to the problem of secondhand smoke is relatively tiny, therefore they should be exempted from the smoking ban. Each and every source of added sugar should be reduced. The industry argues that most of their cereals have less than 10 grams of sugar per serving, but when Consumer Reports measured how much youngsters actually poured, they were found to serve themselves about 50% more than the suggested serving size for most of the tested cereals. The average portion of frosted flakes they poured for themselves contained 18 grams of sugar, four and a half teaspoons, or six sugar packets worth. It's been estimated that a child eating one serving a day of the average children's cereal would consume close to 10 pounds of sugar in a year, nearly 1,000 spoonfuls of sugar. General Mills offers the Mary Poppins defense, arguing that it's those spoonfuls of sugar that help the medicine go down, explaining that if sugars removed from brand cereal, it would have the consistency of sawdust. If we couldn't add sugar, our cereals would be unpalatable. If one has to add sugar to a product to make it edible, that should be a sign. That's a characteristic of so-called ultra-processed foods, where you have to pack them full of things like sugar, salt, flavorings, since they've had their natural intrinsic flavors processed out, and you have to mask any unpleasantries in the final product. The president of the Cereal Institute has argued that without sugary cereals, kids might not eat breakfast at all, similar to dairy industry arguments that were removing chocolate milk from school cafeterias with risk kids skipping lunch. He also stressed, we must consider the alternatives, Kellogg's director of nutrition once put it, I would suggest that Froot Loops as a snack are much better than potato chips or a sweet roll. You know there's a problem, when the only way to make your product look good is to compare it to Pringles and Cinnabon.


And this is Cannabis Chronicles, a 10,000 year artist. And today, we are going to visit with Mike Ruckels, who is my new best friend, and you know I only talk to best friends. And he has been on a journey with Cannabis for so long dealing with our version of Uncle Sam, with the state and the police, and the undercover. Oh, it's a mess. So, last week, we began this artist with him. So today, we will do part two. Aloha, Mike. Aloha. Marcia, how's it going? It's great. I am glad to see you. So, bring us up to date of where you, what year did you start this fight? Well, we actually started in 07. Oh, my God. Yeah, that was when we formed what was called Friends for Justice. And what happened, I'd put an ad in the paper saying, you've got illegal marijuana, but been busted anyway, united, we stand. And so what happened was over 100 people called me and we formed this group called Friends for Justice, which I believe ultimately is what saved me. Because even at the end, when I went pro se, I was able to refer to the gallery when I would say, hey, the people I was helping. And I was able to gesture over to the gallery, which was just full of people. Because they were members and people that we helped over the years. And so I believe that ultimately helped the jury understand that what we were doing was helping people not be trying to do anything criminal. And that collectives, you know, were non-profit. Nobody was trying to make any money and that we were actually trying to help the sick and dying that were falling through the cracks at the time. And you've got to remember this was before dispensaries. And there really was nowhere for people that didn't use cannabis prior to an illness to acquire cannabis. Because you've got to remember if, you know, if you're like me who've been smoking cannabis since you were 13, I had no trouble acquiring cannabis. Because I had been inquiring for 50 years and so I was well acquainted with how to do so.  And you're trying to find this help. Well, sadly, most people on the big island would have to leave the state in order to do that. Yes. Like I believe Roseanne Barr was one of the first famous ones who pointed out that the only way she could find a medical cannabis in the state of Hawaii was to fly back to California and show them her Hawaii medical license. Because they had what we now have, I forget what they call it. Only in California, resperosity means they look at your Hawaiian medical card and they honor it. Resperosity over here means you've got to get a new card. And pay the county $40, $50. And then they'll honor your California card for two months. Well, let me say that anyway, that's a different story. Yeah. So anyway, so about the end of life. Right. And so anyway, that's a different story. We're going to go back to the trial. So anyway, so when Act 178 took place, and that was in 2013, but it didn't take effect, so 2015, we opened in 2015. But before we opened, we talked to the governor. We talked to the head of the program. We talked to everybody, and we thought that we had been given permission. At one point, Peter Whitaker, the head of the medical cannabis program, told us we were good to go at one of the health meetings. Anyway, so we opened and they sent in an undercover. And what they did is that when they changed from NED to the health department, they were allowed to promulgate new rules. And the legislators did this because they thought there was probably a conflict of interest with narcotics enforcement division running the medical cannabis program. And they had an excellent point. Only problem with it is that when they changed to the health department, this allowed the attorney general to promulgate new rules. And so you got to remember that the Department of Public Safety, which is this big triangle with the attorney general at the top. And so he was the one, and you got to remember the head of the program, Peter Whitaker, he was just a nice doctor. He actually ran the AIDS program before, and he's a very nice, intelligent doctor. And he's someone who's dedicated to helping people. And he really wanted to help us, cannabis patients, too. And if he would have had autonomy, it would have been great. And believe me, we would already have a way better program. Sadly, he had no autonomy. The attorney general was able to promulgate new rules that read like a wish list for a prosecutor, because that's exactly what it was. But at that meeting, we were able to get Peter Whitaker to say, well, if that's what the law reads, and I had to get rude to get him to say this. But I got it on video, and I apologize to him right now for being rude. But I got him to say, hey, if that's what the law reads and it does, you're good to go. So we opened the business, and so they sent in this undercover. And a nice young man. But the thing was, he was from Samoa. He had six children. A very nice young man. Samoa, when I said young, you know, fifties. And anyway, he came in and said he had a bad back, which apparently he didn't have. And he lied to me on the phone and said he had a card. Because we had over 150 members, and I was trying to protect them. Anyway, he lied, he comes up. I never let him out of the car because he had to produce your card. Anyway, he couldn't produce a card, so I recommended a couple doctors to him. He actually went to one of the doctors, Dr. Berg, a very fine doctor. And he got a card. And so he didn't actually have the card, but he had the written certification. That later became a rub. That's why I'm bringing that up now. But, and so, when he came back, showed me the certification. We signed him up because we were a private collective. Before that, we used to be a club. But when Act 178 took place, we turned into a collective. Because the new rules said you couldn't consume cannabis anywhere open to the public. So instead of being a club, which is open to the public, we switched to a collective, which is private. And so we'd make members sign things. And one of the things we'd make them sign was the coal memo, which was this federal memo that had come out, which later got rescinded by, uh, can't think of the guy.  That's why I can't think of him. Or Jeff Sessions. Oh, yes. He rescinded the coal memo. But basically what the coal memo said was, hey, if you follow these seven things, then the feds won't come after you if you're doing medical in your state. So we made our members sign all that, and I made this guy sign it. Anyway, he signed up and we transferred medicine to him. And they came back five days later and they busted me. Now, you'll notice that later in the trial, what, you know, the prosecutor, what he says is he goes, because he tried to confuse the jury, and I'm kind of glad he did, but he went, hey, this isn't about patient to patient transfer. He says, this is about Mr. Ruggles hooking up a patient before he actually has his registration card. And he's like, the new rules say you can't do that. And he pointed to these new promulgated rules. The only thing is, the new rules don't say that. If you look at the new rules, what they say is, is that upon receiving your registration card, carry it when you're possessing. So you'll notice the difference. It doesn't say you must have it to possess. It says once you've received it, you must carry it when you're possessing. Anyway, so that's what he tried to say that it boiled down. It's written certification, but that doesn't mean you can possess, even though it does. And if you read it, even in the new administrative rules, what it says is that it's signed from the doctor till one year or sooner if the doctor recommends it. So you're actually certified as soon as you get your written certification. But the prosecutor was right. Your written certification isn't just your letter. That letter also signifies that all the other requirements for your written certification, including the money, has been sent to the health department. Anyway, that's what he tried to say the law was, but because right before the trial, like two days before the trial, they dismissed 31 charges, 30 felonies and a misdemeanor. And, you know, for a guy, you would think you would be relieved when they dismissed that because I was facing three lives, plus 32 years. They dismissed 30 charges and a misdemeanor, you think you'd be relieved. And I ran towards this, is that I've had an excellent group of young people helping me. Mr. Nurses, we had lawyers, I had a lot of people helping me, and I was trying to bring this forward for every collective in the state. And you gotta remember there were no dispensaries at the time, and there was over 20,000 patients. So we knew that there was literally hundreds of collective frays, some other collective that wasn't as well-prepared as I, would get arrested and just get steamrolled. It would be my decision to do it. And so here we had 10 boxes of stuff. This guy, I had to buy four printers. We had 10 boxes, both boxes, proving every one of those malicious charges were false. 33 felonies, I was 32 felonies and a misdemeanor. I was facing three lives plus 32 years.  But it was a very humbling, all those people coming out to the gallery, I can never thank them enough, because I believe in the end, I tried to make it about a real, I'm sending off a question to the Supreme Court, right? Why a concern can go straight to the Supreme Court? Because I'm sure they spent over a decade. They spent $100,000 just on my lawyers and I was pro-safe. Mike, Mike, we have to take a break. We have to take a break. And we'll be back in one minute. Okay? Don't go away. I won't. Thanks to our ThinkTech underwriters and grand tours, the Atherton Family Foundation, Carol Mun Lee and the Friends of ThinkTech, the Center for Microbial Oceanography, Research and Education, Collateral Analytics, the Cook Foundation, Dwayne Kurisu, the Hawaii Community Foundation, the Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners, Hawaii Energy, the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, Hawaiian Electric Company, Integrated Security Technologies, Galen Ho of BAE Systems, Kamehameha Schools, MW Group, the Shidler Family Foundation, the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust, Volo Foundation, Yuriko J. Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. And we're back. We're talking with Mike Ruggles about his struggles to assist people with medical cannabis and all he went through for 15 years. Now, I have my medical cannabis card, registration card, and it has a registration number and an expiration date and the growth site, and I am a caregiver, so that's what my card says, that I am the caregiver and it says who it's for and where the growth site is. Not that I could ever figure out how to grow plants, but that's what the card says anyway. It's not as easy as it looks. No, it isn't. No. No. But once you're talking about that, but it says here, it says registration card. It doesn't say anything else. It says registration card. So when you said that, you're talking about it without just a scene. Because how worse is this? It's the doctor's recommendation, written certification, that allows you to acquire and consume. It's the registration card that allows you to grow. But apparently with the new rules, what they're saying is that if you're going to possess, like if you're going to go down to the dispensary and acquire some cannabis, you're going to get a new registration card with you. Even though you don't really need it in order to consume, apparently now, in order to possess, you have to have it, but only once it's been issued to you. See what I mean? Say you're a new patient and you haven't been issued a card yet. You should still be allowed to take your written certification to the dispensary but that's not what this case was about. And obviously with 32 felonies and a misdemeanor, it clearly wasn't about whether it was certificate or registration, but the prosecutor tried to steer it that way. And what saved me, too, you got to remember was the judge, Nakamura, and I want to thank him, not because he's a cannabis advocate, or believes in medical cannabis, or any ways on our side, but he did with something no other judge in the state has done for 19 years, which has led a medical patient to tell his story. You got to remember, and he told me even before I told my story that he was going to rule against me because he did. Once I told my story, he ruled against me and the jury instruction said, unless Mr. Rebels was care-given for the undercover and can prove it, you must find him guilty. And so what he was basically saying was, is that patient-to-patient transfer is illegal. But you got to remember, I tried to get everybody to weigh in on this from the governor on down, and I'm sending a saying off to the Supreme Court, a question, just asking that question, is patient-to-patient transferred legal in the state of Hawaii? And if it's not, see, I'm going to sue him because what happens is this, and maybe you can talk to your federal buddies and Brian about it today, which is federal law since probation reads like this, is that when the state decides not to enforce federal law like drinking our cannabis as medical programs do, well, then you have to not enforce it on everybody. You don't get to just say, hey, I'm not going to enforce it on eight rich people that pay me, but enforce it on everybody else in the state. So unless the Supreme Court rules and the state admits the patient-to-patient transfer is legal, then what the dispensaries are doing is illegal. See what I'm saying? That's called racketeering. Because back in the old days, that's how our speakeasies would be allowed to operate. And that's how it saved the depression, because that money from alcohol. Exactly. And so they've already got a law set for that. You can't racketeer. That means you either enforce federal law uniformly or you don't enforce it at all. And in our state, they shouldn't be enforcing it. See, it's the same law they got in California. And so you got to remember, Act 228 reads word for word as the same as the one in California does. And they've always been able. Patients have always been able to distribute amongst themselves. Dispensaries were always able to operate and collect. Those were always legitimate. And so we're still fighting that fight. Even though the jury saved me, the question hasn't actually been answered yet. And so we're asking it to the Supreme Court, and if we don't get the right answer, I'm going to sue the dispensaries and try, I'm going to try to get a injunction against them because it's not fair for just eight people or eight companies to be allowed to break federal law while they enforce it on the rest of the state. Because you got to remember, these eight companies, they're doing it for profit. They're in simple.  And like I said in court, I find that repugnant. Our collective never made a dime. People that I transferred as the prosecutor pointed out, no, over $10,000 a month was going through our collective. But I never got a penny of it. It all went to other members that were transferring excess medicine. And they weren't charging for the medicine. They were charging for what it took them to grow their own and trying to get back what it cost. Because our prices reflected that. Our cannabis was going for $100 an ounce. And you can't find $100 an ounce in these dispensaries. No, here it's $500. We had hundreds of varieties. And why? Because these people spared no expense. They were growing it for themselves. And this was excess stuff. And the money went right back into the community.  And any time I can help, and I help many a cancer patient, because I can tell you this, first-hand knowledge. There's nothing better for skin cancer than cannabis. But you got to know as a chemistry major, and I have chemistry managers working for the collective, or I did. You got to kind of know what you're doing. Rick Simpson's formula is good, but you can get way better than that. It's a very crude. He wasn't a chemist. He was just a guy that had skin cancer and thought, cannabis might help. And actually made his own carrot, Rick Simpson oil. But, you know, he was very crude about it. He did it in a rice cooker with no chemistry background. And so, if you know what you're doing, see, we've made medicine, like one of our members, a gray wolf, I can be, because it's his nickname. He had skin cancer that had literally taken over his whole nose, one cheekbone, one eye, and his forehead. And we were able to save him. In fact, I can get him on the radio for you. We were able to save him with a combination of cannabis concentrate, which is utterly amazing to see someone recover from stage four skin cancer like that. Oh yes, my goodness, yes. And I just want everybody to know that. One thing's for sure, there's nothing better for skin cancer than cannabis and the proper concentrate. And so I want everybody that has any problem with any kind of skin cancer should immediately run out and see what they can do to get some form of cancer, a high THC concentrate. Can you just, can you put it, apply it, or do you have to ingest it? Well, it depends what you got, but for skin cancer, yeah, you want to apply it right on. In fact, when I first, you know, I stumbled onto it accidentally. And when I first put it on some that I had that I was scheduled to have operated on, it started stinging mildly. And I almost pulled it off.  So the next morning when I got up, it was amazing the difference. It was like, it would have been a runny, nasty sore. The next day it scabbed over. It was that quick, one day. And then like four or five days later, something that was obviously deadly was gone. Oh my. And that, I'm telling you, is a fact. And I can document it. I had two doctors who couldn't really cut it. When I showed it to them, they couldn't believe it. Oh. Anyway, so back to the trial. Yes. We had a little bit of time. So let's finish with the trial. All right. So hey, I had to, they dropped 31 charges. And like I said, I almost cried because I had 10 book boxes. I was going to prove I was innocent and they did all this crazy stuff they made. They said I had 150 plants over 50 pounds of pot. None of that was true. We weren't one gram or one plant over and I was going to prove each one of those charges false. But at the last minute, they boiled it down to just an ounce and a half in an e-pin. And they tried to say it was about a certificate versus a registration. Then when it came time for, to tell the jury the instructions, they were like, hey, if he wouldn't care to give it for that guy, that means he's guilty. And I got up and said what the prosecutor said. He's like, hey, everything else is noise. I pointed out, I said, look, they're changing their story. Look, if I would have had a registration card, would you be able to say I'm not guilty? No, you would not. So this obviously isn't about certificate versus registration. It's about what this still is about, which is can patients to patients transfer in a state of Hawaii after almost 20 years. It's going to be 20 years in too much, right? Right. And so I believe that patients can, if they cannot. I always want everybody to know out there, I'm still fighting for this. Even though I was found not guilty, we're going to get to the bottom of this. Either the Supreme Court says we can, and that's the end of it, or they say we can't, and then I'm going to sue the dispensaries, and we're also going to rally all the, and get everybody out there to go talk to the legislators. That was my next question. What are you doing with the legislature? Do you have it? We want them to tell, but do you... There's a lot that says distinctly and clearly that it's okay for patients to transfer or march themselves. Okay. So what we need... It's okay for patients to use, it kind of says it now, but we've had several medical patients get caught with cannabis concentrate and get charged. And then sadly, they take deals, because what happens is they do like they did to me. They overcharge you, and it's hard to say, I'm going to fight it when you're facing three lives plus 32. Everybody takes the deal, especially on this horrible practice of overcharging people. And like I say, why do they overcharge medical patients so you don't get to say you are a medical patient? Because you've got to remember, this is an affirmative defense. It's up to the judge to decide. Luckily, because I was running a collective, I was at least able to tell my story. But remember, the judge ruled against me. Did I get to use the medical defense? No. Has anybody in the state of Hawaii ever been able to use the medical defense? No. The only person that ever got ruled could was Woodall, and that was in the Supreme Court. And so that jury of mine was the first jury to even hear anybody bring up the medical defense. Ultimately, I didn't get to use it, but just because I was able to bring it up, they acquitted me.  And so there was no denying that I helped hundreds of people. And I had a few of them testify. In fact, Gray Wolf was very convincing. He got on the stand and went, no, look at me, he saved my life. Now, my question to you is how can we help with the legislature since the legislature's here and you're there? The Supreme Court rules against patient deposition transfer. We've got to talk to all our senators and our... Yeah, well, I meant right here in the state. I'll interrupt guys and let them know we need to have patient-to-patient transfer. Plus, patients have to be allowed to use cannabis in any form. Because you've got to remember, if you've got skin cancer, you can't just put buds on that. You've got to have somebody who knows what he's doing turn that cannabis into a concentrate that you can apply. Well, listen now, we are at the end of the program and I really love to talk to you again. But we will talk offline about how we can help with the legislature. Those of us that live here can actually physically go to the legislature. It's been a pleasure talking to everybody and I certainly hope we can do it again. We can. Thank you so much and we'll see you next time. Aloha.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following problem today. Given that hcf of 306 and 657 is equal to 9, find lcm of 306 and 657. Now let us write the key idea for that review using another problem. That is, a,b into lcm of a,b is equal to a into b. Now let us write our solution. Given to us is a is equal to 306, b is equal to 657 and hcf of 306,657 is equal to 9. And we have to find the lcm. Therefore, lcm of 306,657 is equal to a into b divided by hcf of 306,657 which is equal to 306 into 657 divided by 9. It cuts by 3. It cuts by 3. We get 1, 0, 2. Again this 3 gets cut and here we get 2, 1, 9. Therefore, which is equal to 1, 0, 2 into 2, 1, 9 which is equal to 2, 2, 3, 3, 8. Hence, required lcm of 306,657 is equal to 2, 2, 3, 3, 8. I hope you understood this problem. Bye and have a nice day.


Receive with the operation. Roger. 30 seconds. TV is action. It's pictures. It's sound. It's color. It's light. It's movement. It's motion. It's emotion. When you watch television, you almost get the impression that you're seeing reality. But the thing about television is that television is produced. Hundreds of hours go into producing a half hour show. Maybe dozens of people have been involved in that production. My name is John Aker and I'm a TV producer at the Minneapolis Television Network. We're a TV station, but we're a little bit different than a lot of other TV stations. We're a public access television station. Here at MTN, anyone can come in and make a show. Microphone check, one, two, one, two. We have production facilities. We have cameras. And we have editing systems. And we have studios. And we teach people how to use that equipment. And that's one of the things I do. You need a lot of gear to make a TV show. You need lights, tripods, batteries, microphones, and cables. You used to have to use just really big cameras to get anything. But these days, we got small cameras too. This is MTN Studio A. We have three cameras. We have the microphones. There's a whole grid of lights to brighten up the shot, but also to give it different color and effects. Right behind me is the control room of our Studio A. Right now there's a live show going out of there. The director has a big board that has all the cameras lined up there. He can just press buttons to switch from one camera to the other. There's also an audio person. The audio person is adjusting all the levels from all the people who are out in the studio. So you can see a lot goes on to make a live TV program. If you know how television is made, you become an active viewer. You participate in the process of how TV makes sense to you. Before you even roll the cameras, there's a whole part of the process called pre-production.  Then there's the part of the process called production.  I do a lot of videotaping at different community events. I'll have the camera and get a lot of interesting shots of things going on, and then I'll also interview people.  Now you want to put it all in order so someone can watch your show. That's what we do in the edit suite. This is one of our new computer-based editing systems that makes editing video as fun as playing a video game. You can move your shots all around just like this. I spend a lot of time then editing together the video that I shot, and that's all called post-production. Then you also do audio mixing. There's maybe some sound that you didn't record on location, like music that you want, maybe narration, where you have someone read a prepared script. Also, you might want to add credits, titles. There's a lot of work that goes on before you finally get to see the piece of television that's actually done and then shown on the channels.


Highbridge Company presents The Philadelphia Chromosome, by Jessica Wopner, read by Heather Henderson. Original material copyright 2013 Jessica Wopner. Recording copyright 2013 Highbridge Company and recorded by arrangement with The Experiment LLC. Authors Note This book draws extensively from interviews I conducted with those who lived this story. Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes herein are from those interviews which took place in 2012 or, in the case of a few scientists, 2007, where quotes are taken from other material the original source is noted. Jessica Wopner Forward by Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D. A widespread illusion is that cancer is a disease of modernity, an artifact of pollution and bad diet and myriad other factors associated with a modern lifestyle. The truth is quite different. The disease of cancer threatens all multicellular life with greater or lesser frequency. In the case of our own species, cancer incidence has exploded because we now live long enough to develop a disease, much like Alzheimer's, that largely strikes the aged. Until recently we did not know how and why the disease arose, and yet in spite of this we developed the means to treat some, but hardly all, forms of the disease. The use of chemotherapy and radiation has had a remarkable effect in treating some cancers, and almost no effect on others. By the early 1970s, however, it was already clear that these cytotoxic therapies had yielded almost as much benefit as they possibly could, that is, they had exhausted their potential for making major inroads into reducing cancer-associated mortality. Those looking over the scientific horizon concluded that new ways of treating the disease were required. The thinking of those interested in such innovations in cancer treatment focused on how the disease was being caused. If only one could understand the defects within cancer cells they reasoned, novel ways of treating the disease would surely emerge. This article of faith gained currency with the discoveries in the second half of the 1970s that distinct cancer-causing genes could be found within cancer cells. The genes, soon called oncogenes, appeared to be the motive forces behind the runaway proliferation of many types of human cancer cells. By attacking these genes, and more specifically the proteins that they produced, highly targeted, extremely effective therapies could be developed, or so the thinking went. The proponents of this new approach to dealing with cancer portrayed their strategy as a means of developing sample complete. Ready to continue?


So much about fashion for cancer. Let me begin, let's begin from Cindy. So Cindy Karibusana. I see that you're wearing something beautiful. Yeah, I am wearing crown and a stash. Alright, so tell us who. So Cindy, you are the beauty of Africa international pageant. Yeah. So beauty of Africa international pageant is a pageant which was held first in Kenya but it's an international pageant which usually is held in Nigeria. So in Kenya we had 37 counties participating. We held it on August 10th and I emerged the winner of this year. And I proceeded to Nigeria where we had the event held on October 5th and again I emerged the winner of the whole Africa. Wow, congratulations. Thank you so much. And I know that you don't have those Nigerian things. No, I'm still loading for it. I'm still loading for it. Alright, let's go over to the other side. Of course today we have two beautiful young ladies and of course I want to introduce Miss Platinum Credit. Tell us. So my name is Diana Kaetja. Miss Platinum Credit. Amazing. Platinum Credit is our microfinance. We usually lend loans. And we are really interested in CSR giving back to the society. Yes. Alright, now let's go to the man himself, Mark. Welcome to this thing. Thank you. So cool, so calm and collected. Are you a professor by any chance? Not really. I hope it will become one. Very soon it will become one.  You were there something sort of a director but directors are quite a number of them. But you just turned in for fashion for cancer. What is it all about? My name is Mark Wandera. I volunteer with an organization called Breast Cancer Kenya. So Breast Cancer Kenya basically is an NGO that basically looks after cancer patients. So what we have coming up is what we call fashion for cancer. Ideally when people hear about cancer, it becomes a death sentence. So we want to bring the other live side of, it's not supposed to be a death sentence so to speak, there's life after cancer. So in that case we want to use fashion to be able to create awareness and tell the people out there that it can be done. When you get tested early and it's treated, it can actually come out strong and looking actually really really good. So that's the whole idea about fashion for cancer. Alright, hand me to understand this. What's fashion and then we have cancer because oftentimes when you're treated or are diagnosed with cancer, as you have said before, most people tend to think that it's a death sentence and sometimes even people say like, I don't want treatment. Let me just do this in a very shift way. What's the relation? The reason why we picked fashion for the whole idea is basically about self-esteem. So the moment you dress well, you look good, it helps you boost your self-esteem. So once you're diagnosed with cancer, most of the people tend to withdraw from the social life, so your esteem goes down. So the whole idea about using fashion for cancer is basically to bring life back.  So ideally is when your confidence goes up, you're able to do so much, you can achieve your dreams and you can do so much.  That's why you went for fashion. Alright Mark, how many groups do you have with cancer patients? Currently we work with a network of organization under what we call KENCO, the Kenya network of cancer organizations in Kenya. Cancer or cancer? Cancer organizations in Kenya. They have 34 organizations and breast cancer Kenya is among them. So you're just a part of the entire body? Part of a whole group. Alright. Customize. Why choose cancer and not any other because anyway we have quite a number of these cardiovascular diseases and quite a number of them. Why these? As we speak today, I think there was this issue about we've lost some of our prominent people over cancer and the whole idea is when we become really serious about the whole topic and everything. So what we thought about it is we're all affected in one way or another. So you have a friend, probably you've lost a friend through cancer, either family or a member or anything like that. So it's not about the social status at the end of the day. It could be you today, it could be the next person tomorrow. So you want to make sure that we spread the word out there. You need to get checked today. People who have been diagnosed with cancer are not so unique. It can get to anybody. Let me come over to you Cindy. What's the issue that you have for fashion for cancer? I'm actually so excited about this because I don't think anyone in Kenya has even incorporated fashion and cancer before. It's for the person that we're hearing. I'm so excited because at least we are able to showcase the fashion and also care about the cancer patients in this event. You have won already a title which by chance happens to be international, not local. What do you plan? It's good to be clear, it's international. They come through a lot of challenges but what do you plan to impact towards these cancer patients? Before winning the international pageant, I was already working with Mr. Mark. We started working long ago and I'm just in to help the cancer patients in each and any way through the fashion for cancer. What precisely would you like to say about the size that you have? What precisely do you help in? I do help in buying the kids for the cancer patients because you're planning on raising some funds to at least buy care kits for the cancer patients. Mark will be talking about that later on about the kit. Let me come over to you and let me ask you also having your own title and it's proud. Kiliam say wuku wa hand by these. Everyone hands these. Like us, they're just cool. They're playing it safe. What's your main objective for cancer, for fashion for cancer? First of all, I'm really excited about this because I'm really passionate about the human dignity. You see the stigma around the cancer patients. I really like them to live a normal life and see even the loss of hair as another fashion, just fashion so their lives are normal. So my objective is to create awareness first of all and the youth are one of our main I think the youth in Niraesiku to spread the word. We're going to spread the word through media first of all so our objective is creating awareness visiting patients so that they don't feel alone. And the kids, we need to provide the kids for them. There's the one that is revolving around but before we even talk about the one that is kids, someone is wondering what these are key things about. We will be talking about that but let me ask you Mark about the issue of stigmatization quite really affecting most cancer patients and some of them have even been forced to live their homes to go and look for other ways to try and live. Why would someone stigmatize or rather what's the ground? Recently it was so unfortunate we actually lost someone I think it was in Kiturai. The lady realized she had been diagnosed with cancer and she went and took away her life.  So the whole idea basically is to make sure that the moment you hear cancer you realize that you still have a chance to live a normal life even after going through treatment. Alright and let's talk about probably it would be best to talk about these when you're diagnosed with cancer and you're told this is the thing that will be happening you'll be going through chemo, radiotherapy there's so much that happens around even men but primarily women you get to lose their hair there's so much that happens and the body destabilizes all of a sudden because of the drugs and the like why now venture into these Kit that will be told by Mike what do you think is something that comes out as unique? Okay I think we venture into the Kit just to show them how they are beautiful they are still beautiful without the hair they are still beautiful when the skin is not okay and yeah we just want to show them that cancer is not the end and the side effects of the chemotherapy and everything they have gone through it can also just be helped or be solved in one way or another You can still wear the crown even if you are cancer? Yeah you can still wear it Oh Rufsaam you cannot write off these things let me come back to you Mike Mike probably someone at home is like he kid me like what is this kid thing revolving around each and every one of us what is this kid thing? Yeah just to mention what we call the care kit basically reflects on what a cancer patient goes through it's a simple way of painting a picture of what a cancer patient actually goes through right after they are diagnosed through treatment so the kid has a few items that basically explain the kind of experiences our cancer patients really go through so to speak it's not such a smooth ride because now your body sort of adjusts into due to chemotherapy so I'll mention a few items probably that are in the kit so one of the items in the kit is a water bottle and probably guys are wondering why do we need the water bottle the moment you start chemotherapy you need to rehydrate all the time so that's why we are advocating for the kit to have a good quality water bottle so as you continue let's talk about probably just to give a background image someone who is watching a kid is like that first aid kit but now it compasses now what a cancer patient needs exactly please proceed thank you besides the water bottle we have a wig so some patients tend to lose their hair and you realize what the women normally say is without hair and then for them there is no beauty quote in quote as much as we think probably you lose your hair but you are still a beautiful person either way but I want to believe the same beauty comes from the inside so the wig is just to compliment throughout the life then we have what you call the headphones I know guys are wondering why would a cancer patient need headphones yes when you go through chemotherapy you are put in a certain space where probably you are all alone and we want to remind you that you can also inspire yourself that you have the strength to do this and we all know that music is really therapeutic so at that moment when you go for your treatment even as the doctors leave you to the treatment as the chemo goes on you can probably listen to some really inspiring music so that you keep yourself up keep your spirits up so that's why we need the headphones then as you go through chemotherapy your skin becomes more sensitive so we also advocate for soft soaps the ones that don't have a lot of fragrance too much perfume we do away with that then we also advocate for when it comes to matters tea and coffee we go for tea and coffee that does not have caffeine so ideally the moment your blood starts taking in other external components then there are so many things that changes so that's what we are really advocating for for softer, healthier ways of living as you go through chemotherapy then there's something we call we also have the Masaishuka basically to keep you warm because sometimes can really get cold for cancer patients so like we advocate them to continue their normal lives so that even wherever they are whether they are at work places or anything wherever they are they're still able to cover themselves and continue their normal lives basically the khakis to help the patient continue with their normal life good, thank you very much Mark and I want to come to Diana and ask this Diana she has mentioned quite a number of things headphones, earphones and all this kind of soaps nini, what do you think should be really the most important thing right after from the time you told it's chemo, it's radio what's that one thing that you say this is paramount as per this time so for me I think there should be a talk before to prepare the cancer patient for this journey it's something you're not used to it's like a shock and you have to now adjust to this new transformation so you have to talk to the cancer patient or the survivors first or you talk to them tell them it's normal it's a transformation it's a new phase and you have to be strong in this journey and Cindy let's have a look at it from now on another positive side of it you know to me kwa sayla let's talk now about the fashion day and all that that you guys are planning it's coming up in a short while looking at you you such like looking so good and when somebody is watching from kwa sayla you cannot even understand my situation what do you tell this kind of person I will tell that kind of person such is just a challenge in life which can be easily overcome it's not the end just motivating her from day to day and cancer is treatable when it's recognized in an early stage and here I'll convince the person that it's okay to have that and it's okay to move on with life right Mark tell us about the event that you're planning basically the event is going to be a fashion affair and we're not coming to have a sad situation you know I had to put it in my hand yes the whole idea basically is to tell the world out there both the patient, the survivors the caregivers and any other person who is really interested in helping us come through that this is actually really possible yes the way kipchoga did it we are going to do it yes basically we're telling everyone come looking good because it's an event where we come to feel good and that is the whole idea we need our patients we need our brothers our sisters to come and actually feel good about themselves that is the whole basic symbology about the whole idea come and feel good because when someone is told about cancer we say they just think about writing themselves so what we're telling them is come dress feel good life has to continue of course we're saying something has changed to us but like the way Diana is putting it embrace the new you embrace this new face embrace this new journey and the most important thing we're trying to communicate is you are not alone when this together we will see you through it we are working with you until the end we will make sure you get the dignity you deserve we will make sure you get the best care you deserve and we will try our best and that's why you're not doing this alone we're calling upon everyone to come on board and help give the way Diana is putting it that dignity that they actually deserve the gala is coming up this weekend where will it be? at Kohlan cafe that's where we're going to host the gala night from 6pm to 10pm wow it's a living time yes yes yes so we're inviting you probably probably I might be coming probably you can tell us how much is it the ticket we're not calling it really a ticket it's basically a donation it goes at 1000 shillings so you are targeting to raise around 500k yes and all these amount goes to the cancer patients yes definitely to go and buy the kids now who are these kids who are these patients are they from the same body that you talked about? like myself I come from I represent breast cancer Kenya but we are a part of a large organization called the Kenya Network of Cancer Organizations which you mentioned it's a body it's a body in 34 organizations so each and every organization have their own members so ideally not only our members are going to benefit we are going to share whatever we get with other cancer organizations based on the needs ok if someone probably is at home and saying I'd like to just even if it's just buy that one and come give it in solid cash 6,000 packet alright so packet it's 6k you can of course go and donate it as we are talking about Interpreting issue Tuesday we are going to purchase few things here and there as you tell our cancer patients they still hope yes it's breast cancer awareness month let's begin because women are the most affected bodies let's begin from Diana this is quite something that is really affecting most young ladies and even some of them we know they are in the business sector they are in the market place but when cancer comes they feel like as Mark was saying they feel like it's time now to even keep it low and shut off what's your word for that ok first of all you ok you are not used to such diseases maybe you get malaria you go to the hospital you come back but now this is something we see it as a big deal now let me just cut myself off I'm not fit I cannot go on it's good for people to know before you get you get treated early that's what I'm saying you get treated early breast cancer is that check usually you check every month you check yourself do you do? really? ok I learned recently and usually I check myself so you do? yeah if there's any change you go get checked before it becomes serious Cindy do you? yes I do I even did it yesterday ok Cindy even did it yesterday so as I asked Diana what would you say to someone who has been done with breast cancer? ok I would tell someone who has breast cancer that breast cancer is a disease like any other and it's a disease that can be treated at an early stage and if not she is still beautiful even if she has the breast terminated or what that's not what makes a beauty of a person someone is beautiful from the inside as Mark said awesome now Mark at Normalizia let's call it a day now Mark give us your potential with telling us how can we get to this particular place and how best can we donate if we may not manage to come to the event if you allow I think there's a very important aspect we really forgetting and you've only talked about the women you forgetting the guys the man yes yes so we are not different from them we can also get affected breast cancer? yes yes yes so we really need also to go for checkup and also keep on checking on ourselves but the bottom line is we are guys we have girlfriends we have sisters we have wives they need us to do this yes they might discover something is not really quite okay with them and keep quiet so if you realize there's something that is probably not okay kind of reach out to her and talk to her and advise her to actually go and support her be there the most important is to be there your presence matters yes so sometimes you forget about all this you might send the cash and everything I think the most important thing is be there be there when it all happens that is what counts alright give us your potential because of time please come we are inviting everyone probably can look at this camera okay we are inviting all of you to come for the fashion for cancer this weekend the 19th from 6 to 10pm our tickets are going for 1000 shillings only if you have any donations that you want to make please go to Kulan cafe we have a team assigned there you can drop your donations there and will be really really grateful and lastly I also want to thank our partners we have so many partners who come on board and then helping us to do this I would love to mention all of them but kindly for giving the interest we are watching in the interest of time just know we are really grateful for coming on board and supporting us and also to Diana and Cindy we also want to thank them and the rest of the team who are actually doing this we really appreciate it and I bet they are really into this yes definitely let me give you each one of 30 seconds just a parting shot I want to say thank you so much for Mr. Mark first for starting this because it's actually thinking out of the box to help cancer patients in this manner and also thank you for all the people who are sponsoring us and who are in the team with us and thank you first of all I thank God for him and the idea that came this is a very noble cause to support the cancer patients and I would like to tell every person who has been diagnosed with cancer that there is still life just leave it and don't look back don't think it's something out of the ordinary it's just a disease like any other so yeah live life don't confuse death and life yeah just live yeah thanks Mrs. Diana are you on any social media platform for the fashion for cancer you are kindly give us apparently we're only on one which is where we want to focus on right now we're on Facebook go check Breast Cancer Kenya and you'll get all the information there alright thanks so much guys for making time and being with our student talking about cancer and fashion something that is coming up and really huge many thanks for keeping time and making time for us rather and it's always an honour and a privilege to have you once a morning from 7 all through to 10 we're not yet done very coming up next so much and yet so much that is ready to unleash well from me it's a very good morning we are back so thanks very much for coming big up on yourself