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By thepoefficientone	Interviews, Poetry League, Season 5, Showcase
QUEEN OF THE WORD N SOUND MIC [2015]
What better way to kick start the 5th Season of the Word N Sound Poetry League than to launch our 1st show of the year with the reigning Queen of the WordnSound mic, Thando 'The Poet' Buthelezi.
We chat to the Boston Media Graduate about the fine line between hiphop and poetry, her brewing audio tape and why she won't be defending her title.
"My biggest regret as a writer is that for so many years i neglected the fact that i'm writer"
What impact has slam poetry had on you as a poet?
It has diverted me completely from being content with having produced good work or "DOPE" stuff by instilling in me the Discipline of not settling for anything less than Quality Work and also I appreciate other peoples poetry a lot more
You hold the WordnSound 2015 Queen of the mic title. What responsibilities
do you think this title carries?
Considering that a foundation of Sisters Reigning has already been laid, i'd suppose my responsibility is to keep the culture going by encouraging more and more ladies to come out their shells and actually slam so we can take it again this year.
They say there's a fine line between hiphop and poetry, your writing style borrows from HipHop. Would you say there's a difference between the genres, if so please substantiate.
The main reason I think I'm actually able to borrow elements of hip hop and fuse them with my poetry, is because I guess to some degree I do believe that the two genres are the same, there only difference I'd say is the rate of growth, hip hop is obviously growing a lot faster than spoken word. Unfortunately the more it evolves, there more it drifts from being a sibling of poetry to a distant cousin. But they still family.
[I also don't understand what the heck I just said lol.]
It is known that you won't be defending your title at the WNS 2015 Poetry League, Why?
The word n sound experience was really great and I'd love to do it all over again but more than that I think I would love to see somebody else being awarded the same opportunity that I was given. Because I believe we've all worked equally hard and deserved the title.
As a Boston Media House graduate, how does your media qualification benefit your poetry?
It has helped me to think strategically, coz before I even put words together I'm already thinking of how I will be able to sell this body of work as a product. Also Doing Radio has helped a lot with improving my Voice, I project a lot better now and all the breathing and MiC techniques I've learned, I can now apply when perfoming my poetry as well.
You are currently recording your audio tape, what strategy have you put in place to ensure it becomes a success?
Well I intend on branching out of the Jo'burg scene for a while, travel around to secure a larger fan base., I'll be certainly Making use of Broadcast and Social Media Platforms a lot more than i did before because My project is not something i want to limit to the Poetry Scene, it's for everybody and with that said im challenged also to put together a balanced sound which is accommodating to every person.
You comprise 1 part of the Phenomenal 9.
a) What is the phenomenal 9?
It's a divine sisterhood aimed at eliminating competitiveness among us women in the poetry circle and encourages unity and friendship beyond poetry sessions. Because we are a lot more stronger as a unit.
The Phenomenal 9
b) What is the core function of this group in the evolution of the poetry industry today?
Our core function in evolving poetry is to introduce the breaking of boundaries.
We have now brought theatre to our ordinary stages, to ordinary people, that's a culture that we would like to see grow, to see a lot more poets stepping out of their comfort zones.
c) Where can 1 find a sample of work the group has produced?
We have a Facebook page and all information regarding our work is there, our Women's day tour was filmed as well as the CLEANSING show we had in December. We hope to avail it to the public soon.
What has been your greatest regret as a writer
My biggest regret as a writer is that for so many years i neglected the fact that i'm writer. I feel like i would have been a lot further than i am now had i took my craft seriously from the onset and invested in it.
If you had to improve the WordnSound Poetry league by adding an element of your choice to the platform, what would you add?
I would segment the slam into categories maybe, coz I've noticed the many different elements that people have brought forward and I would like to see more of that variety being acknowledged and celebrated on the WNS Stage.
Which poem have you listened to and thought, snap why didn't I think of that?
Xongani Maluleke's SIDE CHICK poem. It's the ONE shem ay!
Tagged episode 1, Phenomenal 9, queen of the mic, season 5, Thando Buthelezi


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The 'Black Panther' star talks about her workouts, healthy eating philosophy, and cause that gives her purpose.
When Danai Gurira wants to clear her head, she hands her phone to her trainer and launches into a 90-minute workout. "It takes me away from whatever else is going on," says the actor, award-winning playwright, and social activist. "All the things pulling at me out in the world are put on pause. My trainer uses my phone to track my heart rate. So I don't have access to anything except what we're doing."
Taking time out to focus is especially important these days because Danai, 41, is one very busy woman. In the last year she has starred as the fierce Okoye in not one but two movies—Black Panther, the award-winning superhero film that broke box office records, and Avengers: Infinity War—and portrayed the zombie-killing Michonne on the hit TV show The Walking Dead. (Her co-star Lauren Cohan has graced the cover of Shape before too.) Next up for Danai: a role in the hotly anticipated Avengers: Endgame, which hits theaters April 26.
Then there's all the advocacy work she does. Danai, who was recently named a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador, also founded and leads Love Our Girls, an organization with a mission to bring awareness and support to issues affecting women and girls worldwide. In truth, this part of her life is therapeutic, says Danai, who was born in Iowa and grew up in Zimbabwe. "I consider everything I do that involves any degree of advocacy or service to be self-care," she says. "Stepping out of myself to help others is also a way of taking care of my soul, quite honestly. I don't feel good about who I am if I'm not connected to a larger issue."
As her inspiring list of professional and personal projects grows, these strategies keep Danai inspired, happy, and strong.
"For the last three years, I've worked out with my trainer, A.J. Fisher, three or four times a week. I started working with her when I got the role of Okoye. I was about to go into pre-production, and I felt like I needed to amp up my fitness and endurance. I call her the MacGyver of trainers because she can create an elaborate course in your living room with just a coffee table and a couple of resistance bands. She mixes things up—it's never the same workout, so your body can't get used to it. She uses methods I was already connected to, like the Alexander technique, yoga, and Pilates, and incorporates them into a very rigorous workout that enables me to strengthen and become more holistically stronger.
"I have had the good fortune of being able to portray characters like the leader of an army or a woman with a big samurai sword that she uses very well. And I thoroughly enjoy that. I believe women should be able to play roles that are messy and contradictory and complicated and not always likable, just as men have. To me, that's equality. But we can't overcorrect and make all female characters strong and perfect. Because that is also limiting and restricting. Women should be able to portray the full gamut of human experience. There's a lot of power in complexity."
"I started Love Our Girls three years ago, around the time my play Eclipsed went to Broadway. The play, which takes place in a war zone in Liberia, gives a voice to girls and women in captivity. It's an issue we don't hear much about, and I realized it was the moment to create a platform for it. It was Valentine's Day, which is also my birthday, and I thought, If we were to love women and girls in this world more, surely the issues of inequality would steeply diminish or disappear. And that's basically the premise of Love Our Girls. On the 14th of every month we send a newsletter that features women, girls, and organizations around the world that are doing amazing things but don't get enough attention. To join our efforts, go to logpledge.org and take the pledge. We'll give you the tools to become involved. It's a way of giving girls and women, whether they're in Congo or Brooklyn, more opportunity."


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The boss, the teacher, the superior, like the imaginary father of childhood, knows everything and can do anything. The child, after a certain time, begins to fear the power of the parents, who seem to have great capacity to persuade, give orders, punish, praise, or manipulate. In the Christian community, the typical characteristics of the lack of emotional maturity during childhood have been encouraged and favoured, perpetuating, in this way, immaturity in its diverse structures, in particular in the clerical position. In that Christian community, it has to be stated, in terms of clear psychoanalytic reference, that the place of the father should remain empty. Father, teacher, or director, are not Christian words in so far as they are used to describe a type of interpersonal relationship inside the community. "In the realm of authority, the global Christian community has failed in the right reading of the signs of the times".


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Bruce Springsteen – "High Hopes"
October 7, 2015 /in Music We Like /by Wes Yahola
Review by David Fricke
Bruce Springsteen's 18th studio album is a portrait of the artist at the top of his 21st-century game: rock-soul dynamite and finely drawn pathos bound by familiar, urgent themes (national crisis, private struggle, the daily striving for more perfect union) and the certain-victor's force in Springsteen's singing. High Hopes is also a deep look back over Springsteen's past decade, his best onstage and record since the first, with a keen eye turned forward. The cumulative effect of this mass of old, borrowed, blue and renewed – covers, recent outtakes and redefining takes on two classics – is retrospect with a cutting edge, running like one of the singer's epic look-ma-no-set-list gigs: full of surprises, all with a reason for being there.
Much of High Hopes comes from the what-was-he-thinking shelf: unreleased songs cut for albums going back to 2002's The Rising, revived with freshening parts. It's hard to see how "Frankie Fell in Love," a frat-rock riot, and the letter from rock bottom "Down in the Hole" ("My Hometown" with less light) ever got the chop. But Springsteen effectively recasts this material with the folk-soul-gospel-army might of his current E Street big band. The background-vocal choir puts a literal finishing touch on the warrior-hymn charge of "Heaven's Wall." In the gangsters convention "Harry's Place," recent E Street recruit Tom Morello fires chain-saw bursts of guitar across meaty peals of sax originally laid down by the late Clarence Clemons. And that's Danny Federici, who died in 2008, playing organ on "The Wall," a requiem for one of Springsteen's Jersey-bar-band mentors, underscoring the singer's belief in the unbroken chains running through his band.
Springsteen revisits two older songs with dramatic results: the acoustic title track from 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad, and "American Skin (41 Shots)," his response to the 1999 killing of Amadou Diallo by New York City police. Morello previously electrified "Tom Joad" with Rage Against the Machine; he is a key trigger in this heaving-Phil Spector detonation as well. Springsteen gives him a verse to sing, adding a younger, strident tension to his own fury, while Morello's soloing – scouring and elegiac – puts a new exclamation point on the pledge of righteous vengeance, the way Jimi Hendrix forever altered the Armageddon in "All Along the Watchtower." Morello is on "American Skin" too, but this version is Springsteen's triumph as a bandleader – sculpting that live force with rich studio textures – and a topical lyricist, mining new headlines (Trayvon Martin, NSA surveillance, the numbing cycle of school shootings) reverberating in there now.
High Hopes starts and ends with covers, a first on a Springsteen studio album. But the title song, a 1990 rebel-folk gallop by the Havalinas, and Suicide's closing mantra, "Dream Baby Dream," are fighters' promises, and they fit Springsteen and this record like weathered boxing gloves. "Give me help/Give me strength/Give a soul a night of fearless sleep," he demands in the former, in a crusty, arcing howl, like a guy who's been doing this for a long time and is real tired of asking nice.
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Yesterday marked the final race day of the 2017 Port Phillip Women's Championship Series (PPWCS) and was hosted by Royal Brighton Yacht Club.
This series was completed with the two- day Brighton Ladies Skipper's Series (BLiSS) Regatta with only the Sunday race counting towards the overall point score for the PPWCS.
There was only one long race scheduled yesterday, adding a great mix to the type of racing supported by the PPWCS. Yesterday's breeze light and variable meaning teams needed to focus on the strategic placement of their boats for the long upwind.
This variable breeze seemed to affect some of the competitors' start-line forcing them to tack away from the predominant pressure lines and requiring them to work hard to make gains for that upwind.
A huge thank you goes out to the Race Officers for the season along with the many volunteers who assisted them. You may have also noticed the great pictures taken over the course of the season by Alex McKinnon- a huge thank you goes out to her. Please visit her website if you wish to purchase any of these pictures for yourself. Finally, we wish to thank our sponsors Kingston Trophies, Custom Yacht Covers, North Sails, Club Marine Insurance and Australian Sailing for supporting this event and making it possible for everyone to enjoy.
The Port Phillip Women's Championship Series now comes to an end with the final presentation evening being held on Sunday the 28th May at the Royal Brighton Yacht Club. This year the presentation evening is being combined with the Club Marine Series. Entry is free but RSVP is mandatory and closes two weeks before the event. To register for this evening click here.


Meet Our Team | Penn State Law | University Park, Pa.
The Law School's Graduate and International Programs team focuses on ensuring that International LL.M. and S.J.D. students become a vital part of the law school community—enriching the program with their diversity of experience. Penn State Law's integration with the School of International affairs offers students two faculties with unmatched depth in international law and policy.
Steve oversees LL.M. ,S.J.D., and Pre-LL.M. admissions, international student services, certificate programs, student exchanges, and the visiting scholar program at Penn State Law. Before his appointment, Steve lived for 8 years in China where he is an honorary law professor at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and also a visiting professor at other Chinese law schools. Steve is proficient in French, Chinese, and Swedish, and is energized by the rich diversity talented international students bring to Penn State Law. On Steve's "perfect day" you'll see him on his stand-up paddleboard on an ocean or nearby lake; and, making "s'mores" over a campfire with family and students. Education: J.D., University of Oregon; M.B.A., The George Washington University; B.A., Brigham Young University.
In addition to admissions—with a particular focus on applicants from China and exchange students—Jing also directs student services for all international LL.M., S.J.D., and exchange students. Jing manages the visiting scholar program and the 30+ and growing international agreements. Prior to joining Penn State she worked for a patent and trademark law office in China. From 2002 to 2006, Jing was a patent examiner of State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (also known as the Chinese Patent Office). On Jing's "perfect day" you'll see her enjoying her son's piano recital or her daughter's figure skating ice show. Education: LL.M., Penn State Law; B.E. and M.E., Tianjin University of China.
Brenda is the first point of contact for all LL.M. and S.J.D. admissions activities at Penn State Law. Brenda processes all applications, reviews student files, and prepares the application materials for committee review. Brenda also works closely with DISSA throughout the immigration process. Brenda enjoys the personal contact she has with incoming students and is always eager to assist with admission matters. Prior to joining Penn State Law, Brenda was employed for 18 years at the Clinton County District Attorney's office, where for several years she managed the office. On Brenda's "perfect day," you will find her on one of the local walking trails enjoying the scenery, wildlife, and sunset views; or, enjoying time with her family. Education: Certified Paralegal, Blackstone School of Law.
Wanda oversees student services for LL.M., Pre-LL.M., S.J.D. and exchange students. Before her appointment at Penn State Law, Wanda was employed for 20 years as a paralegal for the Law Firm of Mitinger & DeBoef, and for 7 years as a Real Estate Closing Coordinator for the Law Firm of Babst Calland. Wanda loves interacting with the students and the diversity of cultures that they bring to the program. Wanda's perfect day would consist of reading, taking long walks, bike riding, swimming, and cooking with family and friends--not necessarily in that order and not all in one day. Education: Centre Business School; Associates Degree – Executive Assistant/Paralegal.
Isa oversees LL.M. admissions for students from Latin America, and also coordinates certificate programs and other collaborations with law schools, bar associations, and educational institutions in Latin America. Isa has rich professional experience as a public defender in her home country of Honduras. In addition to working with law firms and handling pro bono cases, she has been working with The American Law Institute as a researcher. Bilingual in English and Spanish, she has considerable experience in arbitration in association with Arbitrator Intelligence as its Spanish Outreach Coordinator. She is highly passionate about helping people in need, particularly in areas of immigration, domestic abuse, and environmental laws. Isa has been at the forefront of activities at Penn State Law's Center for Immigrant Rights. She enjoys cultural exchanges with students from across the globe, exploring their food, music, and dance while giving a glimpse of her homeland as well. Education: M.I.A. candidate, Penn State School of International Affairs; LL.M., Penn State Law; J.D., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras en el valle de Sula.
Mallory serves as a coordinator between the Graduate and International Program and Penn State Law's Communications Department. Mallory also assists with all student services and is in charge of the J.D./LL.M. mentor program. Mallory is currently completing her J.D. and Masters in International Affairs at Penn State Law. Besides English, she is moderately proficient in Italian and can speak a little German, Spanish, and Afrikaans. On Mallory's "perfect day," you will find her curled up on a sofa with a good book on a rainy day. Education: J.D./MIA Class of 2020, Penn State Law, B.A., George Mason University.
Adel is the first contact for all Indonesian applicants to the LL.M. Program, and also is engaged in exploring collaborations with law schools, universities, and other institutions in Indonesia. Prior to her Penn State Law LL.M. residency, Adel was a practicing lawyer in Jakarta. During her LL.M. studies, Adel focused on international litigation and arbitration, also serving as a research fellow and research assistant in areas related to international arbitration. Education: LL.M., Penn State Law; B.A., Law, Hasanuddin University School of Law (Indonesia).
Sonam is the Penn State law Programs Director for Bhutan, India and Nepal, providing application consultations to applicants and institutional partners. Prior to completing her LL.M. at Penn State Law in 2017, Sonam lived in India for five years, where she completed her LL.B. degree, graduating with gold medal distinction. A natural talent in linguistics, Sonam is proficient in Hindi and Dzongkha as well as other dialects and languages. Education: LL.M., Penn State Law; LL.B., Lloyd Law College (India).
Melissa is the first contact for Chinese applicants, taking charge of all China-related LL.M. application inquiries. She also delivers student services to our international students. Prior to joining Penn State Law, Melissa interned in Chinese courts, a securities corporation, and in a social justice center. Melissa graduated from Penn State Law's LL.M. Program in May 2018, and is "well-known" among students because of her hospitality and good culinary skills. Besides Mandarin and English, Melissa can also speak a little Korean and Cantonese. On Melissa's "perfect day," you'll see her hosting a hotpot night for friends and family after a great movie. Education: LL.M., Penn State Law; M.A. and B.A., Law, Northwest University of Political Science and Law.


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PROPOSALS on reforming Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws will not be considered because of the collapse of powersharing, health minister Michelle O'Neill has said.
Women cannot seek a termination where there is a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality. Instead some fly to Britain for the procedure.
The assembly is likely to be dissolved on Monday and snap elections called so ministers will not be able to consider any change to the law.
Ms O'Neill said: "I indicated previously that I would work with the justice minister to bring forward proposals in the new year for consideration by the [ministerial] executive, taking account of the findings of the fatal foetal abnormality working group.
"The current situation is that there is no longer an executive in place to consider those proposals, as a result of the fallout over the renewable heat incentive (RHI) scandal."
The expert group was established by Stormont last year after a High Court judge ruled an almost outright ban on abortion breached human rights laws.
Amnesty International Northern Ireland director Patrick Corrigan said: "The apparent collapse of the executive means that there is now no end in sight to the trauma inflicted on women with fatal foetal diagnoses of being forced to travel to England to seek lawful abortion.
"Whoever is in ministerial office after the election must address this disgraceful situation and also that of other women left with a choice between boarding a plane or facing prosecution simply for seeking healthcare available on the NHS in every other part of the UK."
Unlike other parts of Britain, the 1967 Abortion Act does not extend to Northern Ireland where abortions are illegal except in very limited circumstances where the life or mental health of the mother is in danger.
Northern Ireland has a vocal pro-life lobby and Stormont has previously rejected a bid to relax abortion laws.
Former DUP health minister Jim Wells welcomed the hiatus.
"The minister is saying that she cannot take this issue forward because there is currently no executive to refer it to.
"If the executive returns then the issue may come back on to the table as it were.
"As a pro-life MLA I believe that there is no need whatsoever for any change in the current law on abortion in Northern Ireland."
The legal position was challenged in court last summer.
Submissions were made on behalf of Sarah Ewart, (24), who went public about travelling to England for an abortion in 2013 after being told her first child had a severe brain malformation and no chance of survival.
Alliance MLA David Ford's bill on reforming the law around fatal foetal abnormalities is also likely to be a casualty of the dissolution.
"It is very disappointing for women who are continuing to suffer in Northern Ireland," he said.


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The Berkshire Special 2018
The Warren & Charlie Show
The Oracle of Omaha and his long-time partner shared insights right from moats to cryptocurrencies at Berkshire Hathaway's 2018 annual meeting at Omaha. Edited excerpts
Warren, you previously said that there are two parts to your job — overseeing the managers and capital allocation. Ajit and Greg now oversee the managers, which leaves you with capital allocation. However, you share capital allocation with Ted Weschler and Todd Combs. Does that mean you are semi-retired or, if not, please explain?
BUFFETT: I've been semi-retired for decades. Well, it's hard to break down the percentage of the time that I was involved. Ajit and Greg have been doing a great job. Likewise, Ted and Todd are doing a very god job when it comes to investing, managing $12 billion-$13 billion each. We have $170 billion now in equities, $20 billion in bonds and another $100 billion in cash. And I still have the responsibility, basically, for the other $300 billion. Clearly, we've got two people in Ajit and Greg who are smarter, more energetic, and just bring more to the job every day. Ted and Todd not only do a great job with the $12-13 billion each but they also do – have done a number of things for Berkshire that they do it cheerfully, but more importantly, very skillfully. There's one thing or another that I will have them looking into or working on, and sometimes I steal their ideas.
MUNGER: Well, I've watched Warren for a long time, and he sits around reading most of the time and thinking. Part of the Berkshire secret is that when there's nothing to do, Warren is very good at doing nothing.
Warren, have you given a thought to other Berkshire managers becoming publicly more visible so that future generations of successful business owners continue to bring deal opportunities to Berkshire like they have in prior decades?
BUFFETT: I don't think our reputation is dependent on Charlie or me but on the reputation that Berkshire is a very good home for companies, particularly private ones. There will be a little testing period for whoever takes over but basically we've got the money to do the deals. People can see how our subsidiaries operate in the future and the truth is that I think some of the other executives are getting better known. As I mentioned, my phone isn't ringing off the hook with good deals but maybe the next guy will get more calls. We absolutely are the first call and we will continue to be the first call whether Charlie or I answer the phone or somebody else does.
MUNGER: It is weird that about 99% of public companies that change hands in a sort of auction provided or presided over by an investment banker is leveraged to the gills and then re-leveraged. Their money is coming out of charitable endowments and pension plans. Sooner or later this is going to end in an unpleasant episode, and, I think, we'll be around in good shape at that time.
Warren, one of your more famous and perhaps most insightful quotes goes as follows, "Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." In light of the unauthorized accounts scandal at Wells Fargo at what magnitude of leakage would Berkshire consider changing vessels?
BUFFETT: Wells Fargo proved the efficacy of incentives and it's just that they had the wrong incentives. That was bad. But they committed a much greater error by ignoring the fact that they had a faulty incentive system. You can't have 377,000 employees and expect that everyone is behaving like Ben Franklin. If we find something wrong is going on, we need to do something about it. Wells Fargo and Salomon didn't do it. The truth is we've made a couple of our greatest investments with people who have made similar errors such as American Express and Geico. And that caused a lot of pain at American Express in 1964. It caused a lot of pain at Geico in 1976. It caused a layoff of a significant portion of the workforce, all kinds of things. But they cleaned it up. I see no reason why Wells Fargo as a company from both an investment standpoint and a moral standpoint is in any way inferior to the other big banks with which it competes. I like Tim Sloan as a manager, and he is correcting mistakes made by other people. Charlie says that an ounce of prevention isn't worth a pound of cure but about a ton of cure.
MUNGER: Wells Fargo is going to be better going forward than it would have been if these leaks had never been discovered. I think Harvey Weinstein has done a lot to improve behavior. If I had to say which bank is likely to behave the best in the future, it might well be Wells Fargo, of all of them.
I'm a huge fan of you Charlie, mostly for your 25 Cognitive Biases. I'm fairly certain that your cognitive biases work for internet-related companies. Now that you're partnering with Amazon [and JP Morgan] on healthcare, I'm curious, have you started to understand how to apply these biases to internet-related companies? Or is there another set of tools you use to decide if you understand a business? Because you guys talk a lot about not investing in businesses that you don't understand.
[Berkshire has a partnership with JPMorgan Chase & Co and Amazon to cut healthcare costs and improve services for their employees]
BUFFETT: We have 2-3 organizations with leaders that I admire and trust, and we hope to do something. We have a hugely noncompetitive medical cost in America relative to any country in the world. Medical costs have soared from 5% of GDP to 18% which are currently the highest worldwide and have gone from $170 per capita in 1960 to $10,000 now. It's a tapeworm eating into the competitiveness of American businesses. We have fewer doctors, hospitals and nurses per capita than some of the other countries that are well below us. We want our employees to get better medical service at lower cost. But we do think there might be ways to make real significant changes. Maybe the three organisations, which employ over a million people, can think of a better way without that 18% going to 20%-22% in the lifetime of our children. We are positioned better than most others to try and make sure we've got the right partners. So, we will give it a shot and see what happens.
MUNGER: There is some precedent for success in this public service activity. If you go back many decades, John D Rockefeller, using his own money, made an enormous improvement in American medical care. In fact, there's never been any similar improvement done by any one man since that rivals it. So Warren, having imitated Rockefeller in one way, is just trying another. And maybe it'll work.
I read in the newspapers about the Federal Reserve and the inflation numbers. There must be an increase supply of treasury bonds that must go to auction. My question is how would it impact the yield or interest rate?
BUFFETT: I don't know, and the good news is nobody knows. There are a lot of variables in the picture. Moreover, long-term bonds are terrible investments. Long-term bonds, at these rates, are basically ridiculous because the Fed is telling you they want 2% inflation while the bonds don't bring more than 3%. And of course, if you're an individual, then you pay tax on it. You're going to have some income taxes to pay. Let's say, it brings your after-tax return down to 2½%. So the Federal Reserve is telling you that they're going to do whatever's in their power to make sure that you don't get more than a half a percent a year of inflation-adjusted income.
You've got trillions of dollars in the hands of people that are trying to guess which maturity would be the best to own and all that sort of thing. And we do not bring anything to that game that would allow us to think that we've got an edge.
MUNGER: Well, it wasn't fair for our monetary authorities to reduce the savings rates, paid mostly to old people, as much as they did. But they probably had to do it to fight the great recession. But it clearly wasn't fair. And the conditions were weird. In my whole lifetime, it's only happened once that interest rates went down so low and stayed low for a long time. It was unfair but it benefited the people in this room enormously because it drove asset prices up, including the price of Berkshire Hathaway stock. So, we're all a bunch of undeserving people, and I hope that we continue to be so.
BUFFETT: In 1942, we used to buy savings stamps, which used to be called US War Bonds. You put $18.75 and you got back $25 in 10 years. And that's when I learnt that that $4 for three — in 10 years — was 2.9% compounded. Even an 11-year-old could understand that 2.9% compounded for 10 years was not a good investment. But we all bought them. But we all bought them as a part of the war effort. The government knew that significant inflation was coming. The war took our debt up to 120% of GDP and it was the great Keynesian experiment and it sent us on a wave of prosperity. The government then reneged on every citizen who put their money in, and treasury bonds have been unattractive ever since, except in early '80s. I mean, you really had a chance to invest your money by buying zero-coupon treasury bonds, and in effect, guarantee yourself that for 30 years you would get a compounded return, you know, something like 14% for 30 years of your lifetime. So every now and then, something really strange happens in markets and the trick is to not only be prepared but to take action when it happens.
Elon Musk on his Tesla earnings call said, "I think moats are lame..." So Warren, it seems the world has changed. Business is getting more competitive. Pace of innovation, technology is impacting everything. Is Elon right?
MUNGER: Elon says a conventional mode is quaint. And that's true of a puddle of water! And he says that the best moat would be to have a big competitive position. And that is also right. You know, it's ridiculous. Warren does not intend to build an actual moat. Even though they're quaint.
BUFFETT: There's been more moats that have been — become susceptible to invasion — than seemed to be the case, earlier. But there's always been the attempt to do it. But certainly — you could work at — certainly should be working at improving your own moat and defending your own moat all of the time. And then — Elon may turn things upside down in some areas. I don't think he'd want to take us on in candy. Being the low-cost producer, for example, is a terribly important moat. And something like Geico — technology has really not brought down the cost that much. But among big companies, we are a low-cost producer, and that is not bad when you're selling an essential item.
Do you think Apple would be better spending $100 billion on buyback or buying other productive businesses the way you have generally preferred?
BUFFETT: Apple has an incredible consumer product. I think it's extremely hard to find acquisitions that would be accretive to Apple in the $50 billion or $100 billion or $200 billion dollar range. They do a lot of small acquisitions and I am delighted to see them repurchasing shares. We own 215 million or 5% of it. With the passage of time, we may own 6-7% simply because they repurchase the shares. I love the idea of having our 5% grow without laying out a dime. They are not going to find $50 billion or $100 billion acquisitions at a remotely sensible price. I don't see anything that would make a lot of sense for them in terms of what they would have to pay and what they would get, whereas I do see a business that they know everything about. So, we very much approve of them repurchasing the shares.
MUNGER: Generally speaking, in America, when companies go out hell bent to buy other companies, they are worthless after the transaction is made than they were before. A great many places have nothing better to do than to buy their own stock. Apple would be very lucky if they had something available at a low price that they could buy. I think that the reason these companies are buying their stock is that they're smart enough to know that it's better for them than anything else.
BUFFETT: That does not mean we approve of every buyback.
MUNGER Some people just buy to keep the stock up, and that, of course, is insane and immoral. Apart from that, it's fine.
Were there any particular reasons why Berkshire did not ramp up its stakes in Visa and MasterCard to more meaningful levels, especially during those years when American Express was struggling?
BUFFETT: Yeah. When Ted and Todd, or either one of them — I won't get into which one of them specifically — bought, or for that matter they could both have bought — Visa and MasterCard — they were significant portions of their portfolio. And there was no embargo or anything on them owning those stocks because we had a big investment in American Express. I could have bought them [Visa and MasterCard] as well and, looking back, I should have. American Express has done a fabulous job and now we own 17% from 12% earlier. We have done it without spending a dime and it's a company that has really done a fantastic job in a very competitive field where lot of people would love to take their customers away from them. It is really quite a business and we love the fact that we own it.
MUNGER: Well, we would have been a lot better with all of our stock picking if we could do it in retrospect. But at the time we had a big position in American Express and there is one tiny cloud on the horizon of the payments processors, and that is a system of WeChat in China. I don't have the faintest idea how important that cloud is, and I don't think Warren does either.
BUFFETT: Payments are a huge deal worldwide and you've got all kinds of smart people working in various ways to change the payment arrangement. There are a lot of people who will game the system and switch from one card to another based on the rewards and that sort of thing. But there is a very substantial group for which American Express does something special, and they keep capitalising on that premier position with that group.
Buffett, this year at the end of the annual report you probably listed the newspapers that Berkshire owns today along with their circulation. The circulation of 26 newspapers that Berkshire still owns of the 28 that it originally bought fell sharply. Imagine that you are writing about Berkshire's experience with newspapers, what would you be saying?
BUFFETT: The problem has been that no one except Wall Street Journal, New York Times and now, probably, The Washington Post have come up with a digital product that will replace the revenue that is being lost as print newspapers lose both circulation and advertising. It is very difficult to see with the lack of success in terms of important dollars arising from digital, how the print product survives over time. I'm afraid that's true of 1,300 papers in this country. I would like to see daily newspapers become economically viable because of the importance to society. Economic significance to Berkshire is almost negligible as we've bought all the papers at reasonable prices, but the significance to the society is enormous.
MUNGER: The decline was faster than we thought it was going to be. We miscalculated, we may have done it because we both love newspapers and have considered them so important in our country. These little local newspaper monopolies tended to be owned by people who behaved well and tended to control the politicians. And we're going to miss these newspapers if they disappear. I hope to God it doesn't happen, but the figures are not good,.
Since 2008, after tax corporate profits have been 8 to 10% of GDP. Do you believe this is a permanent shift in the US economy? Or will corporate profits revert back to the 4%-6% GDP range that was normal in the 20th Century?
BUFFETT: You now have the four largest companies, by market value, in the US — a $30 trillion market — that essentially don't need any net tangible assets. If you go back many years and look to the largest companies, it would be AT&T, General Motors and Exxon Mobil. These companies required a lot of capital to produce earnings. American industry has gotten incredibly more profitable, in aggregate, over the past 20-30 years. Look at the return on the S&P 500, the earnings as a percent of net tangible assets, and the rest is just, you know, if you buy a company that has a million dollars worth of net worth and you pay a billion for it, it still only had the million dollars of net worth. I mean you just paid more for it. So, the basic profitability of the company is huge, even though your investment may be at a significantly higher price. If you look at the earnings on tangible net worth of the S&P 500 and compare it to 20 years ago, it is amazing. And that is really due to the fact that this has become somewhat, you could call it an asset-light economy. Those four companies now comprise close to 10% of the market value of the entire publicly traded corporate America and don't need any money. They will earn even more money with the tax rate going down.
How do you go about attempting to forecast the degree of future success of one specific product in a good business versus another, such that you invest in American Express and Coca-Cola rather than Diners Club or RC Cola, for example?
BUFFETT: With American Express it was an interesting situation because Diners Club got there first. American Express went into the credit card business because they were worried about what was going to happen to Travelers Cheques. But the interesting thing that happened when American Express went into competition with Diners Club, was that instead of charging less than Diners Club, they ended at higher prices. If you were a sales person and pulled out that American Express card, you would look like you were JP Morgan. If you pulled out the Diner's Club, you looked like a guy who was kiting his checks from one month to the next. Ralph Schneider and Al Bloomingdale developed the Diners Club and they were very smart about getting there first but they weren't smart about merchandising it subsequently. All kinds of colas came out over the years, but Coke is the real thing. I wouldn't take RC at half the price of Coke. A 6.5-ounce Coke sold for a nickel in 1900 and now is not much more, whereas in 1942 a newspaper was 3 cents. So, the enjoyment has gone dramatically down on an inflation-adjusted level. Coke is a real bargain product. Just like with See's — if you were a teenage boy, and you went to your girlfriend's house and you gave the box of candy to her or to her mother or father and she kissed you, you know, you lose price sensitivity at that point. We like products where people feel like kissing rather than slapping you. We are betting on the ecosystem of Apple products led by the iPhone but see characteristics that make me think this is extraordinary. So far we've been right on American Express and Coca-Cola. After the Amex scandal in 1963, there was really worry about whether the company would survive. But no one quit using the card. Nobody quit using the Travelers Checks. When we are talking about a consumer product, we want to see how a consumer product behaves under a lot of the circumstances. Then we want to use scuttleback method of investing, as mentioned in Phil Fisher's book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. You can get a feel for some products and then there are others you can't. Sometimes you're wrong. Ted and Todd do a lot of that and they have some people helping them out in doing it, too. Charlie has done it with Costco. It has an enormous appeal to its constituency. They surprise and delight their customers and there is nothing like that in business. If you have delighted customers, you're a long way home.
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The Fetlar Sheepdog Trials is a popular event, within the crofting community, and many serious triallists come over to participate or watch.
A recent addition to Fetlar's event calendar has been the Hnefatafl World Championship. Hnefatafl - an ancient Viking game - has been popularised by the Fetlar Hnefatafl panel, who are working hard to promote and spread the game. For more information about the game including details of forthcoming events please visit our Hnefatafl page.
As well as regular events, Fetlar often hosts occasional one-off events, such as concerts run by the Shetland Folk Festival or Shetland Accordian and Fiddler Festival.
The Fetlar hall celebrates its anniversary annually with a Dinner Dance, usually held in the Autumn. Other one of activity days are often planned during the summer with plenty of scope for wildlife, kids activities and wildlife appreciation.


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So what else did my mom and I do on our apartment hunting trip to Dallas? We ate! And some other stuff.
Wednesday after looking at all the apartments we grabbed lunch at Cafe Express. We wander in not knowing what it was, but there were TONS of different salads, sandwiches, and pastas to choose from. I ended up with a great veggie and hummus sandwich and a side of fruit. Just what I was craving.
After I chose my apartment, we drove all around Dallas to see what my commutes would be like. We stopped by both the store I will manage and the store I'll train at, as well as spent a good hour finding the two Bikram studios in Dallas. Totally necessary.
For dinner we tried a place that had been consistently recommended to us, Cosmic Cafe. Supposedly the best vegetarian restaurant in Dallas, I couldn't come down without eating there!
This hybrid Indian/Mexican restaurant had a totally funky vibe inside that I dug. It even had meditation rooms upstairs:) My mom and I both had Kirin beers while looking over the menu. We wanted to try a variety of things, so we ended up splitting two main dishes – Buddhas Delight and Cosmic Stir.
We meandered our way through each and every aspect of these dishes until the plates were clear. I will be going back for their Dahl during chilly winters and the Cosmic Stir is going to become a regular meal for me. It was INCREDIBLE! I wish I could describe the yogurt-based, slightly sweet Asian dressing on it in some way other that "MMMM", but I can't. It was just delicious!
The only disappointing part was the Samosa. It was just too greasy and tasted like a weird savory funnel cake.
Post dinner we walked around West Village, a fancy schmancy shopping district and just so happened to come upon a Pinkberry (totally planned). I got a mix of tart and salted caramel topped with dark chocolate crispies and chocolate candies. Perfect ending to the day.
No wait. I forgot about the condom stores we passed on the way home. For real Dallas? There are no zoning laws so there are "Condoms To Go" and "Condom Sense" stores on the side of the street. Soooo strange….
Now the night is complete.
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Dallas seems like such an awesome town! And condom stores? I'm sold!
But just wondering, how much hotter is it in Dallas compared to STL?
Haha the condom stores are too funny! I remember there used to be one called "Condom Revolution" on the way to Newport Beach. How could you possibly fill a whole store with condoms?!
Omg that is awesome…condom stores? Hahahaha. So happy you found a place that you like!
Cosmic Cafe looks amazing!! Are the Bikram studios within a good driving distance? Looks like you've found some good places in Dallas!
Condoms to go? Really? I didn't know people put that much thought into which condoms they purchased.
That sounds like you and your mom had such a fun trip! Hahaha I never knew there was even such a thing as a condom store that is too funny!
That sounds like a great first day in your new home! How fun that your mom and you could explore together! That vegetarian restaurant looks great! I might have to go there next week! And I hate it when samosas are like that! Sometimes they can be so yummy but other times they are like fried rocks- yuck, no thank you! And omg salted caramel pinkberry? That sounds like a fabulous new flavor that I need to try!
Hahah.. those condom stores are too funny!
I love that you scoped out the Bikram Studios!! And the sandwich from the first place looks awesome!
I am definitely headed to Cosmic tomorrow for my birthday. I have lived in Dallas all my life and have never been there. Ridiculous I know, but I am super excited!
Wow! Those are some awesome restaurant choices! 🙂 that sandwich looks so good!
HAHA! I remember Condom Sense from when I was a kid in Dallas. Every time we would drive to the orthodontist, I would see it and giggle.


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EL SEGUNDO, CA (October 1, 2012)—Adishian Law Group served as exclusive sell-side counsel to Bay Area Pain Center in its sale to Prospira PainCare.
In one of the most significant M&A transactions for a Bay Area healthcare company this year, Prospira PainCare (www.prospirapc.com) announced the acquisition of Bay Area Pain & Wellness Center ("BAPWC") (www.bapwc.com) as its initial entry into the massive California market.
The Adishian Law Group represented BAPWC as exclusive sell-side legal counsel throughout the transaction, from letter of intent through execution of deal documents. Prospira's transaction team included three law firms — two ranked in the Top 60 in the United States by size — and three private equity firms. "Representing BAPWC in the sale of the enterprise to such a sophisticated buyer as Prospira was the type of challenging, complex and fun assignment that lies right in our wheelhouse," states Chris Adishian, President of the Adishian Law Group. "Our team brought a wealth of transactional experience to the table, which leveled the playing field and helped the Company reach a "full value" deal that was fair all around."
This confidence in the Adishian firm is testimony to the Principal's judgment and the firm's breadth and depth of knowledge in sell-side M&A transactions. Prior to quarterbacking corporate and transactional matters as a lawyer, Adishian spent time at Arthur Andersen and the West Coast's leading investment banking firm, Montgomery Securities.
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At a remote farmhouse Anna pays an unexpected a visit to Kate, her old flatmate, now married to Deeley. They reminisce about old times in London twenty years ago. But all is not as it seems. This darkly erotic, haunting and puzzling play reveals a game of power and possession as memories unfold and are used as weapons of sinister manipulation.
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Cyprus News on TRNC London Office goes online.
THE office of the TRNC representative in London went online this week, in a move to plant its feet firmly in the 21st century.
The new e-consulate will allow Turkish Cypriot Londoners to access all government services, information and forms online, potentially halving waiting times.
TRNC Consul General, Cem Topcu, called the website a "window to the world" for the Turkish Cypriot administration, claiming it will bring administrators and the public closer together.
Press Secretary for the TRNC London office, Hüseyin Özel said: "The creation of this website will bring the representative's office closer to the people we serve and will make our services more accessible.
The website was put together after studying the online services of other consulates across the world and is expected to minimise personal and telephones traffic through the office. End users can download all application forms online, fill them out and return them to the office with the appropriate documents. All information is available in English and Turkish and the website sports links to all other Turkish Cypriot government departments.
Mr Özel called on end users to let the office know of any additional features they would like to see on the online service and to alert them to any omissions.
The site includes a registration service to help the office keep track of all the Turkish Cypriot people living in the UK. Readers are urged to register with the service to receive up-to-date information on the work of the TRNC London office.
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Shelled (but not dropped) at the "Weekly World's"
Did anybody else read that article in Bicycling mag this month? It was interesting as the author travels around the country, participating in the various rides that have a reputation for being hammerfests and race training.
We had our version today in Jacksonville and I thought I'd share my pain..or relive it. Any stories of your local equivalent would be cool, so I know which rides to avoid when I travel, at a minimum!
There were perhaps 100 people at the FCCJ Kent campus for the start of today's ride. Pretty much everyone I know who's a bike racer in town was there, including past and current state road race and time trial champions.
After about 10 miles of winding out of town, it was on like Donkey Kong. The pace cranked up to ridiculous levels, and stayed there. Highlighting random blocks of the Powertap download, I see one 45 minute block where we averaged 26.3 mph, and I was putting out 232 watts average to do it..in the pack. We averaged nearly 25 mph for two hours. Yes, before anybody asks..it's flat here.
I am proud to say that I came back into the parking lot with the last 15 or so survivors. I didn't pull much; I was just gasping and trying to survive. I nearly went out the back once and another local triathlete traded pulls with me to get us back in the group. The pace in the group wasn't so bad, it was the accelerations. You'd come around a corner, talking to somebody for a sec..then look up and everybody's standing up, sprinting at 30+ mph and you've got a hundred yard gap that takes 10 minutes of gasping time trialing to make back up.
Anyway, it was a good ride, and I'm cooked now.
nope. how about cutting and pasting it here, so we can read it.
yeah, I'm ready for another round from the IP lawyers, how 'bout you?
believe me when i type this: IP is not easy to protect. i say: GO FOR IT.
- someone who's lost a chunk of change after having their IP stolen.
What can possibly be "intellectual" about anything in Bicycling?
What would YOU do if this happened during a race?


The Texas SSB [State Securities Board] has issued around 16 orders against suspected cryptocurrency scam investments schemes in 2018.
In line with a recent '2018 enforcement report' published, the Texas SSB [State Securities Board] has issued around 16 orders against suspected cryptocurrency scam investments schemes in 2018.
Targeting actors tempting Texas residents with several investment schemes, the SSB stated it had successfully cited a total of sixty individuals and entities over the twelve-months period that reportedly sold-out unregistered security entities.
Scams enclosed the now-infamous 'BitConnect', which was an investment scam racket that lost almost its entire market capitalization after a string of revelations concerning its authenticity globally.
The report additionally highlights the increasing partnership activities between the SSB and native law enforcement in tracing down and bringing accusers to justice.
Nationwide, the U.S. continues to target strictly illegitimate offerings involving cryptocurrency and securities. A preoccupation of interstate regulator the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission], some states have taken a tough line on 'scams', despite the 'patchwork' restrictive landscape around cryptocurrencies more widely.
Earlier in Apr. last year, the SSB was also trying around 30 cryptocurrency 'schemes' active within the Texas borders.
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Appeasing Gardner's "Multiple Intelligences" - All about apps in YOUR classroom!
Of the four mentioned above, I was the most interested in what Gardner had discovered about the way we learn. Sitting in my seat throughout my entire education, it never occurred to me that I could be learning in a different modality than my neighbor. The teacher stood at the front of the room, delivered the content, and we all either got it didn't get it. Now, of course, some students retained the content better than others, but that was just because they were smarter than the rest of the class. If we didn't absorb the material, our teachers had us come in on our own time so that we could get more practice using the same exact model of instruction as before. The only element that was different was the notion that it would be in a small group without as many distractions.
Since Gardner's work has been published and embraced (and now one of the most pivotal pieces of research regarding education and brain theory), education has been transformed for the better. The problem has been that, given a class of 35 students who all learn using a variety of Gardner's 7 identified intelligences, how can a teacher truly reach all of the students in the room at the same time using the same lesson? The answer to this, resoundingly since the research was released, has been "I just don't have enough time". This is such a fair and accurate response. Maybe on a formal evaluation day, but not on a daily basis - until technology became available in the manner that it has today.
Howard Gardner, I hope you're smiling!
The advantage of integrating technology into the classroom, as far as Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, is that the instructor can easily plan for a multitude of modalities all in the same unit by implementing various apps and technology for each. In my 8th grade Algebra class, it is very difficult to hit each of the seven intelligences on a daily basis. However, there are days where we are doing reteach, extension, or independent work in which many of these modalities can come into play.
The Visual-Spatial group are usually the easiest students to relate to during the majority of units. Give them a picture, something to relate to, and they will get the majority of the lesson.
During this portion of the lesson, students were able to get visuals that represented various slopes of lines seen in nature and have discussions about them. Taking each of these visuals into context, students were asked to think about how easy it would be to walk across the given line with no assistance whatsoever (no climbing gear, just walking!). Using the iPad Prezi Viewer, students are able to go through the presentation at their own pace and get a good understanding of the pictures and the different ways of writing slope. There is also an embedded YouTube video of additional instruction for students who need it.
The interpersonal student is usually the one that gets pegged as the nuisance in the room because he/she doesn't want to listen to what you have to say for 35 minutes. Instead, they want to be the ones telling their friends and classmates what they have just learned (and other things, of course).
For these students, we had a discussion about each one of the pictures above. How easy would it be to walk across each line presented? The answers varied, but the interpersonal student buried in each group was more than happy to chip in their rendition of the answer. It wasn't an unstructured conversation about a slew of problems. On the contrary, these were brief, focused, mini-conversations about the task at hand.
These are the students that I feel the worst about. They sit in class as their mind is elsewhere. Sitting in a chair for 51 minutes is the equivalent to being strapped down in chains as their mind is racing through all of the high-energy things they would rather be doing. It is highly likely that your kinesthetic learners are the trouble-makers who can't stay in their seat. Who can blame them?!
If you want to help these students learn in their own environment, give them something to do! With the iPad, this is a simple task. For this lesson, two students were asked to go around campus to find an example of the four different types of slope. As you can see in the video below, the proof of understanding took 17 seconds from the video and a total of 10 minutes for them to complete. In that same amount of time, those two students were on a mission to find these four examples and did so flawlessly.
Taking a formula or idea and putting it into a song is what these students need. Not only is it helpful for the students who thrives for the musical anecdote, but it also helps the students who have a hard time with memorization. Think about how you learned your abc's. Now try saying them. It's virtually impossible. In fact, you have to think very hard about not singing while you're simply stating each of the 26 letters.
The musical students in the class are currently being tasked with the objective of creating a song to remember the slope formula. This is something new to students when they get into 8th grade and something that is very difficult to memorize. Using the iPad apps iMovie and Notes Plus, students are in the process of creating their lyrics and video for their unique rendition of a song to remember the slope formula. Be sure to check out my Algebra page for updates as they come! This is also good for the linguistic student, kinesthetic student, and interpersonal student.
(As a side note, this is being done on the students' own time due to me not having enough iPads in the room for them to work on it during class).
Intrapersonal students tend to be shy, leading us to believe that they don't "get it". It's difficult to tap into the knowledge-base of these learners because they would rather be left alone and not have to speak out in class. In traditional classrooms, we have a huge divide between learning and being able to share out in a formative manner. On a test, these students will be able to show you everything that they know. But, when it comes to classroom discussion or "cold-call" responses, they will clam up or refuse to engage.
During the lesson on slope, we finished up with the Prezi and got into a few examples. The students were responsible for finding the slope of a line given two points. Simple enough, and usually it would be followed up with randomized questioning, Think-Pair-Share, and other instructional strategies that allowed students to interact with each other. Unfortunately, these students have no desire to. Instead, we used a Web 2.0 tool called TodaysMeet. This is a website that allows the instructor to create a FREE chatroom on the fly for a determined period of time (for my class, I set them up for 12 hours). Within this chatroom, even the most introverted student can freely respond to a given question presented to the class. Not only is TodaysMeet easy to use for the intrapersonal student, but it can also be used to check for understanding in a 1:1 or BYOD setting immediately.
The linguist is just waiting to express his/her skills in words. Being able to say what it is they know is the skill set that we don't give our students enough chances to do. Being so busy with doing the problems or delivering the content is a common problem that we need to find ways around.
Using the iPad with the Educreations app, students were able to stand up and explain how they got the solutions to each of the problems that were presented. Not only did the linguistic students get a chance to say what they knew, but the entire class filled with intrapersonal and auditory learners were able to get support as well.
Truth be told, this lesson took a little bit less than 2 full class periods. In conclusion, almost every single modality was achieved in less than two hours. To go into this deeper, this would not have been possible without the technology that my students have at their fingertips. It may seem like pandemonium ensued as these two days played themselves out in my classroom. Conversely, it was possible the best two-day lesson that I've done.
For those of you who are watching the video above and wondering about the screen that I am using, it is called Lucera. The screen is an incredibly thin and very light rear-projection screen that has no moving parts and is a new product that is sure to be showing up in classroom all around the world. If you are interested in learning more about the product, please email me! I have been using it in my room for the past 3 days and my students absolutely love it. The screen is fairly small, but I'm overwhelmed by how many students can see the board clearly from anywhere in the room. There is minimal glare, even though the video doesn't show that in action.
I have also been using the Lucera screen in conjunction with Class Dojo, a hilarious app that allows your students to see how many points they are gaining or losing based on a large list of options. I have my students separated into groups and, as the class period carries on, I can easily award points for a group working well or dock points for groups that are off task. During the lesson, simply swipe between your presentation or instruction and Class Dojo to keep the students engaged and updated about the points they have earned or lost for the class period. Even for 8th graders, this is a great resource (and FREE)!!!


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This is why Jeremy Corbyn's leaked manifesto pledge to protect workers is so important [VIDEO]
Amid the storm surrounding the leaking of a draft of Labour's general election manifesto, one important area that Jeremy Corbyn has outlined is increasing the protection of workers' rights. And for one group of employees, this couldn't come soon enough.
Members of the United Voices of the World (UVW) union are staging three one-day walkouts at the London School of Economics (LSE). This is an ongoing industrial dispute between the UVW-represented workers, the LSE, and outsourcing company Noonan. The three walkouts – on 11, 18 and 25 May – follow a two-day strike on 15/16 March. UVW said of the action on 11 May:
Cleaners at the LSE have voted to take further strike action following the LSE's failure to concede their claim for parity of terms and conditions of employment with in-house staff, or make any offer of settlement.
Workers pushed to the edge
Members of UVW and Class War held a noisy protest outside the LSE. Banners were unfurled, horns blown, music played, and songs and chants rang through the air:
Several police officers were present but, for the time The Canary was there, the protest went off without incident. The action was attracting some interest from students, academic staff, and members of the public:
But one local business owner was unhappy with the UVW action, saying it was disrupting her trade. Members of the union argued with her that their livelihoods were at stake. But in the end, neither side could agree. UVW members then marched through the side streets around the LSE building, to the sound of Bob Marley's Get Up, Stand Up:
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"Second-class citizens"
The LSE outsources the contract for cleaning to Noonan Services. The cleaners were getting £9.40 an hour, even though they worked in London, where the recommended Living Wage is £9.75. Noonan has since agreed to pay them the higher rate of £9.75. Also, Noonan only gives the cleaners 28 days paid holiday, while regular LSE staff get 41. And the cleaners only get a 1% pension contribution from Noonan, while regular LSE staff receive 13- 16%. Finally, Noonan only gives the LSE cleaners Statutory Sick Pay. This means that, if the cleaners are ill, Noonan does not pay them for the first three days. And then, they only get £88.45 a week after this.
UVW claims that:
For decades, the cleaners' [contracts] have been significantly and inferior to their in-house counterparts, creating a two tier workforce at the LSE. This inequality has not only caused substantial hardship for the cleaners on an individual level, but has also been divisive and socially corrosive for the LSE community. Consequently, the cleaners, in their own words, have felt 'invisible' and 'second class'.
The union says "the cleaners considered [LSE and Noonan's] responses to be as vacuous as they were disrespectful".
The LSE response?
The LSE told The Canary:
The strike is being coordinated by UVW, an unaffiliated union representing 60 of the 421 cleaning staff at LSE employed by Noonan. 40 members of UVW voted in the recent strike ballot. The cleaning staff at LSE have access to recognised trade union representation through Unison, which has a successful track record in campaigning for its members. Contrary to some reports, Noonan staff at LSE receive, at least, the London Living Wage, the same hourly rate as equivalent staff employed directly by LSE. This has been the case for a number of years. The decision by UVW to initiate industrial action is disappointing, especially considering cleaners and recognised trade union representatives are still engaged in constructive negotiations.
The Canary contacted Noonan for comment. But at the time of publication, no response had been received.
A much deeper problem
The UVW has seen the need for more and more industrial action in recent months. From John Lewis to Harrods, via the LSE, its members (many of them foreign nationals) are increasingly frustrated at their treatment at the hands of some of the UK's best-known companies. And its members are a prime example of why Conservative policies for working people have failed. So whether you support Corbyn's manifesto promise to protect workers' rights or the promise of another opposition party, it's essential that we all get out and vote on 8 June.
– Register to vote in the 8 June general election. People can call 0300 200 3500 if they don't already have a national insurance number.
– Discuss the key policy issues with family members, colleagues and neighbours. And organise! Join (and participate in the activities of) a union, an activist group, and/or a political party.
– Also read more Canary articles on the 2017 general election.
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In the foothills of the Yarra Valley, Warrandyte South is where you'll find great wine, good food and friendly faces just a short drive from Melbourne.
It's a small corner of the world, Warrandyte South. Less than 1000 people call it home, but what it lacks in population it more than makes up for in deliciousness. This here is fertile land, with vineyards, berry fields and fresh produce grown amongst its verdant scenery. The locals know and cherish their patch, but the secret will be out of the bag soon enough.
'Real people, real wine, real character' is a motto that fits Warrandyte South to the ground, and it's one that Rob and his team at Rob Dolan Wines live by with pride. In eight short years the winery has established an enviable position in the local and national wine industries, with major awards (including the prestigious 2014 winner of Newcomer Winery of the Year at the James Halliday Australian Wine Companion Awards) and international distribution deals to their name. Luckily for you, it's only 30 minutes from Melbourne's city centre (or right on your doorstep if you're a lucky local) and you can taste amazing Yarra Valley wines, paired with delicious local cheeses and other produce, in the cellar door seven days a week.
For a lunch option that will have you remembering a day in Warrandyte South for years, make a beeline to Olivigna, the fine dining institution deep in the heart of Pietro Gallo Estate. Lead your stomach to a Tuscan setting, on the Olivigna piazza in the hills of the Yarra Valley, where homemade pastas, breads and preserves make dining a pleasure. When the weather's fine, while away the afternoon under blue skies as you gaze over the vineyards; and remember to visit during chestnut season (April to May) to sip on a Sangiovese as you wait for the nuts to roast on the piazza. Alternatively, treat yourself to a distillery tour or grappa appreciation class. Pietro Gallo Estate invite their guests to sip, savour, taste and share the finer things in life with the people who matter most.
Keep the foodie dream alive with a stop at Warrandyte Berry Farm. You'll spot its two stalls pumping out an array of strawberry delights on the side of Ringwood-Warrandyte Road. If you choose the homemade ice cream topped with fresh strawberries and berry sauce, you'll probably want to enjoy it onsite. If it's a tab of fragrant strawberry leather (like a fruit roll-up), or something from the display of jams, sauces and preserves, you can probably afford to save it until you get home. If it's a chocolate-dipped strawberry or orange slice, jam doughnut or punnet of fresh-from-the-plant strawberries, it won't matter where you eat them – you'll be in heaven.
Who knew gluten free food in Melbourne could taste so good? The folks at Yarralicious, that's who. All-day breakfast – think free range eggs and ham with chilli jam on gluten-free toast or freshly-toasted muesli with poached apples – or gluten free treats like passionfruit cake and farmhouse chocolate cake with Mocha buttercream frosting is sure to satisfy. Yarralicious will convert even the hardiest of gluten lovers. No matter what your flavour, the provedores, growers and makers in Warrandyte South are guaranteed to give you your fill.
Bohemian vibes, heart-warming food and lush bushland await in this pocket of Melbourne. Here are our favourite things to do in Warrandyte.
When hunger strikes, it's always handy to have a few fast and easy eateries in your arsenal. Here are our favourite places for quick bites on Melbourne's east side.
As a Melburnian, it's always good to have a few ideas in your back pocket for when the weather turns. Here are our top wet weather activities in Melbourne's east, including options for the kids.


If I'd a nickel for each time I've been asked to share with someone the main element to getting fit I'd be living on some island being fed grapes (organic of course) by a variety of very attentive and exceptionally formed females. This however isn't my reality. Therefore, I will do my best to answer the question for you.
Given the question, "what is the main element to getting fit," there are always a few things we should take into consideration.
- No matter science, everyone defines physical fitness differently based by themselves preferences.
- There are numerous ways to achieve any element of physical fitness I'm just discussing a couple.
- You should know what the 5 primary components of physical fitness are as determined by science.
- All "keys" to physical fitness require ongoing effort on the the main person getting back in shape.
Once we have determined these things we are able to get on with discussing just a couple ways I am aware you can enhance your fitness level in a hurry. To be exact, I'm going to talk about four (4) components of advice I will give pretty much anyone wanting to obtain easily fit in the shortest possible time.
1. Sprint often - if you are running, mowing the lawn, jump roping or scaling an extremely tall tree, take action with maximal intensity. Of course this reduces enough time you place into the experience, but the entire physiology of the experience will benefit you more as well. Having said this, I ought to probably explain that last statement. If you're wanting to operate a marathon or swim to Tahiti, my previous statement is an overall lie. However if you need to be strong, powerful, energetic, lean and muscular then my statement is right on the cash (give me my nickel - another grape please). Those who sprint as a fundamental part of these training are muscular, lean and powerful. If that you don't believe me, just type "track sprinter" into Google images and see what kinds of physiques you find. On the other hand, people who do cross country, lower intensity exercise (long distance running, biking etc.) are generally thin, less muscular and have a general less well-rounded physique. You can type "endurance athlete" into Google images if you like. While I tend to appreciate both forms of fitness activity and both forms of physique I admit, that sprinter's physiques look more like what my idea of a healthy body image is. When you desire a body that is functional, strong, powerful, lean and vibrant, reach sprinting!
2. Reduce Grains and Dairy - luckily this tip is beginning to take root and are more accepted in the fitness world. Main point here; our bodies weren't made to ingest grain products nor dairy from non-human animals. Cow's milk, goat's milk, any milk other than human milk was designed for the babies of the species, not for you and I. While human milk was designed for us to drink, even it was only supposed to be ingested during infancy. Once we are able to eat, chew and handle our own food we're meant to consume the phenomenally nourishing things the planet earth provides us naturally. Grains exist in great amounts because our starving ancestors in the past in the day figured out that growing some wheat, rye or oats and carrying it around in a sack was easier than chasing down a rabbit or rooting around for walnuts during a snow storm. Luckily we aren't so hard-up for nourishment these days. If you're a starving mess, then by all means, load through to the milk and bread. Heck, if you're truly starving, eat anything you can find! But if fitness is your goal and not merely surviving, then scale back on the grains and dairy. They're hard on the body, they are not easily digested, the majority are addictive, they tend to create inflammation and our body reacts in their mind by becoming bloated, sluggish and fatty. There's even evidence to show that grains (primarily wheat) can lead to verifiable brain damage and donate to disorders like ADD, ADHD and depression. Make an effort to stick to lean meats, fibrous vegetables, nuts, berries and melons. Things like this are what our bodies were made to feast upon, so give it a try.
3. Work with a Fitness Coach - I am aware, I am aware, you're thinking, "Jared, this isn't an extremely original tip," but it's one of the best tips I will give you. Within my experience, less than 1% of all gym members make use of a personal trainer whilst in excess of 60% stop coming and eventually drop their membership. You notice it every January! Herds of men and women join the gym and shuffle toward the treadmills as though led by some primal force. After a couple weeks you see fewer and fewer of the newest faces and by March, oahu is the same group of regulars that have been coming. But, we all know that those that assist, and continue to make use of a personal trainer or fitness coach, stick to their programs, they keep coming to the gym, and eventually they develop habits that lead them toward a far more fit lifestyle. Working with a fitness coach or trainer is completely one of the best recommendations I can make to anyone wanting to obtain fit. My only caution is that you select your coach wisely. I personally hire an expert coach to oversee my entire fitness program. That's how strongly I believe in this factor.


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England: Court Upholds Rock Solid Contract
Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited [2018] UKSC 24
The Supreme Court has held that a clause in a contract, which required modifications to that contract be in writing and signed by both parties, invalidated a subsequent oral agreement to vary the contract. Specifically, the issue before the court was whether the No Oral Modification (NOM) clause was legally effective.
Rock Advertising entered into a licence with MWB to occupy office space for a fixed term of 12 months. The licence contained a clause requiring all variations to be set out in writing and signed on behalf of both parties.
However, it was later agreed that the payment schedule would be varied. Despite this, MWB treated the variation as merely a proposal and rejected the new schedule before excluding Rock Advertising from the premises for failing to pay the arrears. Ultimately, MWB terminated the licence.
At first instance, the County Court found that the oral agreement did not satisfy the formal requirements of the NOM Clause. The Court of Appeal subsequently reversed the decision, holding that the oral variation amounted to an agreement to dispense with the NOM clause. MWB consequently brought proceedings to the Supreme Court.
The case focused on whether the agreement to vary the payment schedule was effective, despite being in breach of the requirements of the NOM clause.
The Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal's decision, unanimously holding that the absence of the writing and signatures required by the NOM clause rendered the oral agreement to vary the contract invalid. In doing so, Lord Sumption found that the proper understanding of party autonomy is that parties may agree to bind their future conduct, however that agreement will be definitive. Consequently, as the contract stipulated that variations to the contract were to be in writing, the oral variation was deemed invalid.
In this instance, Rock Advertising argued that MWB acted on the agreement and that the doctrine of estoppel should therefore apply to prevent unfairness. Specifically, they contended that MWB should not be able to rely on the NOM clause to invalidate the oral variation. However, the court ruled that estoppel did not arise on the facts of this case.Rather, the court held that for estoppel to arise, there needed to be evidence of words or conduct which unequivocally represented the variation as valid, and that it needed to be something more than the informal promise itself.
This case serves as a timely reminder for businesses whose contracts are governed by English law, that they should seek to ensure all stakeholders are aware that informal and oral variations to contracts containing NOM clauses will not be enforceable. They should also note that the defence of estoppel may be difficult to establish and should be careful to follow the strict provisions of any NOM clause.
Ultimately, it provides that where a contract contains a NOM clause, the parties can be certain that the written contract represents the contract in entirety.
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