your second book yes i'm very excited i know it's been out a while on amazon but this is this is the the first official this is the official launch yes happening in glenn the old glenn bar at three o'clock saturday brilliant good spot yes uh tell us tell us a wee bit about the book it's about uh it's it's about a young newlywed woman well her and her husband yes yes it's um based john on a real legal case from my life from their life my parents life which occurred it's set from the years 1956 to 1965 and uh so the central uh bones of the story is based on a true a true legal case okay okay yeah now the fact that it's set in sort of uh devillaries ireland is the factor oh yeah oh that's a big factor yeah they were austere times you know what i was just talking to my friend about it and we were saying we fought for our independence we fought hard and then dev closed us right in again yes and then that yeah they had to be another fight then entirely for for women to get their independence absolutely he brought in the one man one one job uh rule which you know for somebody like my mother uh proved to be a tricky situation uh of course married men could teach away and do with the like but uh married women if they were teachers they had to give up their job yeah i was just looking back now there's such strange times and and yes you know which had about the good old days yeah the good the good old days no they were tough times and uh gracey gracey is really a woman before her times you know she was um a qualified teacher which in those days coming out of college in 19 uh the late 40s early 50s most women who taught and indeed some men they they were just well educated you know they could read and write or they had their leading cert but she was one of the first to come out of curries for college in black rock dublin and as i say in the novel fully qualified well she she had to battle against a lot of things and not just the the era that she was living and working in but she she struggled as well with with some of her neighbors and there was some pub owners who didn't like competition in yes yeah yeah well i mean there's kind of shades of the field john b kim's field about it you know uh there's a famous quote about writing which says there are only two plots someone goes on a journey or the stranger comes to town and in gracey the stranger comes to town you know it's that you know that spaghetti western feeling where the the locals just don't want you they they're threatened um they are not very nice they're you know they're insecure and in comes this young hopeful couple um uh jim is a maverick you know he he is out of step he's not a devil era person he's a michael collins man um which back then wasn't probably the most popular thing to be mm-hmm wasn't seen and so they stumble into a nest of wasps if you like and they get very badly stung it's it's like when you walk into the post office and everything goes quiet haha yeah i remember those times yeah who doesn't yeah yeah i certainly remember them yeah there's you know there's a bit of gossiping going on and you you decided to take the plunge into writing um there was some time back now you retired in 2012 and uh mind you this is one of your second books so what have you been doing for the rest of the time well this one has been in the making for about four years um and uh i suppose i'm a bit lazy i mean i could have i could have stuck with it and be one of those writers who you know writes from seven to two and from five to whatever but i wasn't really um and uh uh this is it now john this is the timing for this one so okay okay and uh or we're gonna have to wait a long time then for the third one hopefully not i'm actually kind of quarter way into that one now at the minute so uh maybe i'm gathering confidence as i go yeah i'm gathering pace yeah yeah okay so uh tell us about saturday saturday afternoon in glen bar saturday afternoon from three to five you know ish there'll be a wee glass of wine the book will be there um i'm just hoping now that i'll have enough books for everybody because if everybody arrives who says they're coming out uh there might be room in the pub for them but um it's also going to be available in the bookmark you know beside pennies in letter kenny oh yes in the shopping center yeah that bookstore from sunday um the day after the book launch they'll be out there and on monday so you know anybody who wants it and can't make the book launch get in there uh as quickly as you can it is available i know people who have already downloaded it on their kindles because a lot of people read on kindle now um and it is on on amazon of course and it will be available hopefully uh for the christmas market and all the little independent uh bookstores around the place as well and if anyone's seeking it out it's called gracey and the section would be historical fiction historical fiction exactly yeah yeah yeah well the best of luck with the book couldn't be coming out at a better time now now that there's a whole charge for for books ahead of christmas and and and hopefully it features well listen it's called gracey and uh the launch just remind listeners again is uh the saturday afternoon the glen bar in carry gert uh or in the in the in the glen bar in glen katrina thank you very much thank you john pleasure


I'm Dr. Briny Caw, Technology Analyst, covering 3D printing at ID Tech X and I'm joined today by Mr. Dave Barty from RICO Europe. Mr. Barty. Good morning. Good morning. Could you tell me a little bit more about RICO's activities within 3D printing but also more broadly what you're up to? Yeah so RICO is best known as number one in document management and in the cut sheet markets for office digitisation. From that we've got a number of core skills that we've brought out and additive manufacturing is one of those areas where we can implement those skills. So fundamentally knowledge of toner allows us to manage powder and those powder technologies allow us to use different applications within the additive manufacturing market. The first one of which is behind me and this is laser centering so we're looking at industrial scale applications for particularly automotive aerospace but it has spin-offs into healthcare and we're talking here about the ability to do functional prototyping so not just a one-off but also small short runs of ten up to maybe a hundred devices. This SLS technology is fundamental to the systems that we sell and these are large scale systems and not desktop so hence the reason we call it additive manufacturing and not 3D. Absolutely alright and these are polyamides that you're using here. We have polyamides but we also have polypropylene and PBT which we're demonstrating here so the powder is where we can add value, class speed technologies really for more robustness but also to be able to weld into existing extruded applications or injection moulded applications. The spin-off from this is where we can combine other technologies which is inkjet and additive manufacturing together. A little bit of an example of where you're moving towards. Yes so this case demonstrates the combination of our print head technology and also of the evolution and revolution of new materials that we are working on in Japan. One of which is this which is a very tactile method of producing synthetic organs. Synthetic organs is not a morbid application but it's used primarily for medical training where real body parts are difficult to come by. We can simulate with assist, different colours, we can also put the internal workings of an organ together and you see in the case here we have another example of the kidney, we have a liver, we have a heart and we also can create hollow structures with veins and that's for medical training so catheter training for the livers we can actually take the 3D CAD and make an MRI of true patient's dimensions and that allows the trainee surgeons to practice on something that is far less expensive than a real material and of course it's in far better quantity and supply. This maps with print head technology that already exists in the market and if we use a different technology we can then start to work on anti-manufacturing which is a binder process whereby we're encapsulating glass, ceramic, metal, peak, so heavy engineered or specialist engineering plastics but we're not damaging the internal parts so we're not centering it as we produce it. We put an encapsulation around going back to what I was saying about our competence in toner which is an encapsulated pigment, in this case it's an encapsulated metal glass ceramic which we then react with an aqueous fluid to create the bond chemically rather than by using heat or laser. So the parts that you would obtain after that would that need to be sintered, to de-bind it away from the aqueous binder or could you use it as is? It depends on what the base material is and with peak the great thing about this is typically when you sinter peak you have to dispose of all of the waste materials. What we do is take it out, shake it and we can reuse all of the spare materials for it. If it's metal parts we don't sinter it as we produce it, we produce the part first and then we effectively bake it rather than sinter it afterwards so we're post treating the finished product. Alright and so my final question is what do you think of the ID TechEx? Well this is our first time exhibiting at ID TechEx. I've been here for the last three years and I think it's a great opportunity for us to bring some new applications from R&D to get people the experience of what the market's looking for and to network with people who are potentially partners or even customers for these products and we can feed that information directly back into our R&D department. So an example of a new product, this is the first time that this has been shown outside of Japan and what we're looking at here is energy harvesting so we're using a solar die cell which is the red part although we can make different colours, yellows and blues and we're capturing it either on a solid such as this and this is what's powering the turntable just on the ambient light, indoor light, or we have a flexible application here which could be applied to wearable technologies and more robust applications and that again is powering the LED so everything that you see twinkling here is being powered by the operation of the cell. And you have it for sensors, either gas sensors, CO2 sensors, temperature sensors but also one of the key areas for this is IoT applications where you want to place a sensor but you're never going to change the battery so you need to be capturing energy all of the time and with our semiconductor business we also have low-level energy management for automotive, for things like key fobs and infotainment so we have energy harvesting, we also have low-level energy management within our cell and this really is a showcase for this product and to enable us to really gather some market feedback as to where we take it. Well thank you very much for this very informative interview. Thank you.


Lesson study can take lots of different forms in different projects. The way our current project is organized is a teacher is signing up for an intensive one-year commitment. And other teachers have the opportunity to participate in some of the project's activities over the course of that year, but aren't involved in the lesson study aspect. So over the course of the year, we start off in the summertime, we bring in three historians. One historian does a focus on the legal and political history of the theme that we're exploring. Another, the social history, a third, the economic history of that theme. Then I work with two teachers, two professors from the University of Portland, and they're focusing on historical thinking and literacy needs of students and strategies to help students engage with that. Teachers begin the process of planning a lesson during that one week summer institute. Then in the fall, they get together for a couple of evenings and further plan out their lesson, further consider other strategies, and then they do a demonstration lesson in the fall. In the spring, we start up again with the addition of a trip. We do a week-long history on location study of the historical theme, and then follow up with another part of the lesson study cycle in the spring. We also have a variety of events with historians over the course of the year connected to the theme, including one with a local partner that focuses on the regional connection to that theme. In lesson study, the ideal size for a group is about four to six participants. However, we have had groups which for different reasons have had fewer or have had more, but it seems as though four to six is the right number of participants for a lesson study group. We've played with our approach in response to the feedback that teachers have given us in response to the evaluation that we've received from our third party evaluator. In our previous project, lesson study was written into our proposal, but it wasn't budgeted, and lesson study is something that requires having substitutes for all teachers involved when the demonstration lessons happen. We worked with professional learning teams and a professional learning team structure of collegial inquiry and collaborative work, but without a true lesson study of writing a lesson together and observing the lesson. In this new grant that we're in right now, which we're in the second year of, we've been able to embed it fully into it because it was in there in the planning stages and on the budget page. The last year we did a single lesson study cycle with teachers. What we found was that we really wanted to do two lesson study cycles with teachers, assuming that a group comes together more fully after having done it through once and will be able to maximize and have a more enhanced experience the second time around. The organization of lesson study teams can happen in many different ways. One way that it can happen is geography. So again, I'm working in with a project that deals with teachers through a very large geographic zone. So sometimes we'll organize teachers based on within a district or based on within a school. Other times it goes based on interest or familiarity with each other. Other times people just fall into each other's arms. We've tried it different ways. We'll continue to try it different ways. We have had mixed results with the idea of lesson study teams being organized outside of assignment areas. What is important is that everybody who's on the planning team has a vested interest in creating a lesson that they can use in their classroom. That can happen across assignment areas. If one person in the group teaches Washington State history and another person teaches U.S. history, they can write a lesson together that gets tweaked a little bit for the one setting and a little bit for the other setting. Likewise in vertical age groups, you can have a team with fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade teachers if they're looking at the same historical idea but thinking about that across a developmental range. And so they can tweak it. What doesn't work is when a teacher says, well, that's not really what I teach. So I'll participate in this. I'll give it my best effort. But it's not really what I teach so I'm not going to go anywhere with it. It's not mine. What people need to feel is ownership about the lesson.


Yo, welcome back to the breakfast on plus safety Africa. We're still sticking with a conversation about Pantami, Nigeria's minister for communications and digital economy. And it's about the debates. Should Pantami resign or stay? And we know that at the House of Reps yesterday, this was raised and raised this before the House of Representatives, you know, saying that Pantami should definitely resign. There should be probes, investigations into all the allegations that have surfaced in the past week. But the reaction we saw from the presidency yesterday was a Bajabiamila, simply six states on the word noted. Let's dig into this situation right now with our guest, Jose Anini, as well as David, today he was with us for the last segment. Good morning to you, gentlemen. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Good morning. Thanks for having me. OK, beginning with you, Mr. Anini, regarding this issue, Pantami staying, Pantami resigning. I'm sure you've been following the news for for quite a while now. Where do you stand on this matter? I think we sort of have have evolved way past the conversation about him resigning or him staying. I think he should. We are the point where, given the gravity of his statements, he should be sacked and, at the very least, arrested and prosecuted. OK. So so regarding what happened, you know, yesterday in the House of Representatives, did you did you see that coming? So, you know, unfortunately, yes, we sort of have seen a silence from the APC political class and to be fair, some of the PDP political leaders as well. I think just because of the sensitivity of this topic, people don't want to get and brought into a religious conflagration. And it's unfortunate because, again, I said this has been an evolving situation and we have seen this move very rapidly from the opinions of a man to to my point, to my mind, a national security issue. And it was very disappointing that the House of Representatives, the speaker of the House of Representatives failed to realize or recognize the gravity of Pantami's statements and actions and chose instead to place politics over national interest. All right, David, let's bring you back here in here. What what does this really represent to you? Seeing what played out yesterday. Is it, you know, possible that they the national or the House of Reps also may not see how damning these revelations are and don't see it as a big deal? And of course, is this also a representation of what you expect from the Nigerian government concerning Issa Pantami? I think we are making the calculation they usually make, which is that if you ignore a situation, the Nigerian people will eventually get tired and move on to the next trending topic that this is just gist for the Nigerian people. I think, however, in this case, that that's a gross miscalculation because I think when you're talking about having a cabinet minister who has access to an entire nation data and I mean an entire nation's data.  This person has access to it. And this person has links to actual terrorists, right? And this person now has been implicated potentially in planning a genocide and it is written in black and white. Then I don't know how you expect that this is going to blow over. This situation is only going to keep on gathering more and more dots. It's not going to blow over. So again, some of the people in question, some of the characters in the National Assembly haven't especially struck me as the brightest people in the world. But one hope that at least they will be able to read the writing on the wall that this one isn't going away. People are not going to let this one go. We're not expecting a lot. Right? The bar is already on the floor. Right? If we're saying that we don't want our minister of communication to be an al-Qaeda sympathizer or to be a genocide there, then I mean, that is the absolute bare bottom minimum requirement. And we're entitled to ask for that. So again, this this isn't going anywhere. Right? I they probably hope it will. But this is not going anywhere. This has only just begun. All right, David, let's hold on and listen to this this important clip. I think you want to hold this National Assembly responsible. What of you as an individual over one hundred and eighty million Nigerians? You were unable to. The announcement was met. The man was presented to the floor of the Senate. He was screened and no individual out of over one hundred and eighty million Nigerians was able to remember that comment made to write petition to the National Assembly for them to act or not to act. So if National Assembly should be her responsible or the DSS, the people of this country should equally be here responsible. Welcome back. Just a quick reactions to all that is currently going on. I'll say I'm going to bring you back in here. And I want, you know, you to share your views on. Do you think that this is, you know, how Nigeria has always been?  Does this, you know, show you in any way what we might have been dealing with in a very, very long time? I think so. I also want to quickly address the clip you just had. And it's unfortunate that a representative doesn't understand that, you know, by nature of our democracy, he is there representing us. And if he fails to represent us, he collects a salary. He cannot turn around and say, you know, we failed to do his job. And again, to David's point, you know, it sort of reflects, I think, the lack of capacity or competence in every almost every sector of political space. That's why you have a character common on national television to spout the nonsense we just heard on an issue of such grave, grave importance. And I want to separate. I don't know if this was because I missed David's contribution. I want to officially say thank you to David's for his doggedness in pursuing this story. But, you know, there are two, there are two, two streams now, I think, in this thing, there's Pantami and his on fitness for office because of the things he said. It goes beyond his opinions, which is entitled to. It's now evolved into incitement of violence. And then there's the document that was was leaked yesterday of a J&I meeting. Four chapters of the J&I, I think it was Bauchi, Niger, Plato and Kaduna sat down and met under the chairmanship of Issa Pantami, the current minister of communications and digital technology to plan how they were going to execute a genocide against northern Nigerian Christians. I say alleged deliberately because I honest to God pray that that document is forged at the very least I expect the government and the J&I to come out and deny the debunk or explain what what what those minutes mean because the J&I is not an individual. It's the umbrella organization of of Nigerian Muslims just like the Khan is for Christians. So when you see chapters sitting down and plotting genocide, it it speaks to a deep terrifying rots within the Nigerian system that transcends politics, all right, I'll say ethnicity and and even religion.   Well, if this wasn't so, as people say, what steps actually should the House of Reps be taking on this matter? I mean, it's clear what they should be doing at the very least. Pantami himself should be someone that the very least should be someone to appear for the House, to explain his comments, to explain himself, right? The president himself, ideally, is who should be someone. But I think you and I know that at this point it's it's expecting maybe expecting too much for them to do that and for the president to honor their invitation if they do that. Because, you know, we don't even have a president anymore. We have an emperor. So, you know, it's fine. We've accepted that. But at the very least Pantami himself should be someone to appear before the House of Representatives. Like there is this very damaging conception that, sorry, misconception that appears to be prevalent in the National Assembly where they see themselves as rulers, not as representatives. So they know they are not really familiar with the idea of Nigerians demanding something from them and telling them, giving them instructions. They're used to people rolling at their feet and pleading and begging and asking. So at the point where Nigerians are like, no, we're not asking. We are telling you to do this. They are completely unfamiliar with this. And, you know, then you get statements like what that guy said just now where he was saying it's you, the people that failed. Don't blame the DSS and don't blame the Senate. And that's it. That's his mindset that is very prevalent within the National Assembly. So, all I can really hope for is that at this point, somebody finally gets the message that this is not going the way. This something needs to be done about this. And that regardless of party politics, which Bajabiamila is punch drunk on, that something needs to be done. All right, David and also thank you both for your time this morning. Thank you for speaking with us and for being a part of the breakfast. Thanks for having us. All right, thank you very much. And that's where we wrap up the conversations this morning. It's been a pretty tense Thursday morning. Yes, it has. 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This 2020 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box XLT is stock number 11689Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Your new and used high-duty truck headquarters. This truck has the 7.3-liter V8 motor, which pumps out 430 horsepower. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop for the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. Rapid red tint coat, clear coat is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device or television, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the styling, looks, and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you want to subscribe to our YouTube channel and the lower right-hand part of the screen is a gold subscribe button. Click that to get daily notifications on all the videos we do of our new and used inventory each and every day. This one comes with the chromed 18-inch alloy rims. They are in excellent shape and they come with Nitto Terra Grappler G2 tires. These are all-terrain tires and they are LT32565R18s. They have right around half the tread left on them. Frame and underbody on this truck is an exceptionally nice clean condition. Front fender is in nice shape as well. Those are just stickers for the flames there. So if you didn't like them, you could definitely remove them. Headlight lenses are nice and clear and the front bumper and lower valance are in excellent shape as well. Those come with the factory fog lights and the hood is in excellent shape too. Do you get the chromed out Super Duty logo there? Chrome-trimmed grille. Pastner side front fender is in nice shape as well. No dents or dings on that. And the passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes or corrosion. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. You can make a smart buying decision from the comfort of your own home. Very clean down that side. This is just what pictures do not give you the reflection off the side of the vehicle so you can see if there's any dents or dings and this side looks great. This back rim is in excellent shape and the back tires have right around the same on tread as the front tires, maybe just a hair bit less. The frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. 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And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Down the rest of this side looks really good. Once again, like I said, if you don't like those flames, you can always remove them. It does have the driver's side door code entry. We do have the code for that. And if you want to see how to get your own door code on your 2020 F-250 in the upper right-hand corner screen, there's a link to that video that we did. Blind spot monitoring in the mirrors. And you do get LED side lights and they are chrome-trimmed. They are telescopic and they fold in as well. In fact, they are power-folded mirrors, so they fold in like so. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. And then it does have the power scope feature as well, where they power telescope out and in. And both sides are working for that. Inside the XLT package gives you the gray cloth interior. There are no rips, there are no tears on the seats. 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It might not have the backup camera. Turned out four-wheel drive factory brake controller. Your heated seats and climate controls and all your controls for the radio. Now you can also do it touchscreen. And it does have settings on here where you have your mobile apps. The Ford Pass Connect, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto. And yeah, you can do all that stuff from the radio right here. Up here is your stability control. Your lane departure warning. Down here you get a USB and a USB-C. 110 volt, 400 watt plug-in and 12 volt power point. And the passenger side seat and floor mat are in excellent condition. This truck smells very clean inside. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. And the headliner is in really nice shape. You do get map lights up there. And we'll check out the back seats. And then we will start it up. Check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as front seats. No rips or tears back here. 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Good day, fellow investors. Today I'm going to give you five reasons why I firmly believe Berkshire Hattaway stock is much, much better than the SAP 500 index. So if you're an American, if you want exposure to American stocks, Berkshire is better than the SAP 500 and I'll give you five reasons for that. In this video, we will compare the performance of the SAP 500 versus Berkshire. We will compare investment strategies, which is the first advantage for Berkshire, index funds buy high and sell low while Berkshire does the opposite. We'll compare the valuation, price to book, return on invested capital and shareholder value creation and then we'll conclude and you will see why Berkshire will beat the SAP 500 in the next 10 years, 20 years. Now you will say, okay, but the SAP did so good over the last 10 years and it destroyed Berkshire. Yes, that is 10 years, but give Buffett the benefit of a full market cycle. In the last 10 years, amazing performance by the SAP 500, but the reason behind this is obvious. Quantitative easing and lower interest rates. Just take a look at the federal funds rate. It has been close to zero for seven years and just now it has started to go slightly, slightly up. So this is the reason why stocks did very, very well. Further, there is a mania about index funds, SAP 500, all you have to do in your life is just invest in index funds and don't have to think about anything else. I think that's wrong, but the past 10 years prove me wrong for now. We'll see how it will end up in the long term. Let's see. So also the SAP 500, the full chart, the line is from the lower line is Berkshire, the brownish line has outperformed Berkshire over the last 10 years. When you add the dividends onto that, the outperformance is really, really big over the last 10 years. However, this perspective only uses 10 years, which is one part of the stock market cycle. So this is just the bull market, the last bull market. If we had the bear market, then things change significantly. So if I go just to 2006, this is the comparison between the SAP 500, the full chart and the brown line for Berkshire. Return for Berkshire almost 250%. Now the SAP 500, 114%. Add, well, 40, 50% of dividends onto that and the SAP has underperformed Berkshire. If I go back a little bit more to 2003, the outperformance for Berkshire really, really increases. So if I go even a little bit more 20 years, Berkshire has destroyed the SAP 500. And I believe Berkshire will do that again in the future. 10,000 invested in 1997 in Berkshire would be around 58,000 in the SAP 500 when I add the dividends, which make almost 40% of the return close to 30,000. But just past long-term performance is not my argument why Berkshire will outperform the SAP 500. Let me show you five arguments. Why will that be that are better than just past performance? Because past performance is no indication of future performance. These five arguments are an indication of future stock market performance. My first argument is index funds are market weighted investments. So they buy the stock that has the largest market capitalization while Buffett does the opposite. Buffett likes to buy low and then keep the quality businesses that he bought low, getting the dividends practically forever, while SAP 500 indexes buy the hottest stock with the largest market capitalization. And then when that turns down, they have to sell that and buy something else that is hot. So let me elaborate on the first argument. If I look at the portfolio of the SAP 500 index, the largest company, Apple, of course Buffett is also buying Apple, but he's not buying Microsoft, Amazon, Berkshire is also there, but already just 1.73% of the stock market weight. Then other stocks. So index funds always buy the largest market capitalizations. And when you invest in an index fund, you're buying the largest stocks. If we look at Buffett's portfolio, it is a little bit different. Of course, he has Apple because he thinks it's a good investment, American Express, Bank of America. And that's another reason why Buffett will outperform how he got to that Bank of America. We'll talk in a second. Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo. So first, you get just 4% of Apple in an index funds with Buffett. That is a little bit higher as he has 25% of his stock market portfolio in Apple. And then the rest, the majority in other 5 big stocks. So he is really focused, okay, this is a good company. This is a great business at a fair price. I'm really putting a lot of money into that. He's not buying everything and he's not buying the bad. Further, Buffett can make special deals to acquire companies at a very, very low price, which index funds can't do. Let's see how he got to the big position in Bank of America. So Buffett invests 5 billion in Bank of America August 25, 2011. Okay, you say he bought stocks early. No, he didn't buy stocks. He bought preferred stocks that pay 6% annual dividend. And he will, he received warrants for 700 million shares that it can exercise over the next 10 years. Of course, this was already in 2017, 12 billion made. Now we are at 14 billion made. So that's one. He buys low. He keeps for long term. He gets the dividends. He can make special deals. Index funds do the opposite. So that's one argument. The second argument to buy low, Buffett is disciplined. He's stashing cash and he's patient and he waits for opportunities to come to him. Index funds chase stocks as those go higher, go higher as people put more money into index funds. They simply have to buy what is out there. So there is no common sense application in index funds. Buffett Berkshire is all about common sense. This is the current growing stockpile, 111 billion in cash at the end of the second quarter waiting for new opportunities to come. Perhaps in the next recession, as JP Morgan said, that will come in the next two years. So number two, you don't have to time the market. Buffett will do that for you. And I think that Buffett and Berkshire will do that better than you can do it by yourself. So they have the cash. They will deploy that cash at a high return on investment as they have been doing in the past. The high return on investment is the third argument I have for Berkshire Hathaway. Also with the discipline, Berkshire bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe in 2009 for 45 billion. And since 2011, he has been getting dividends of about 3.5 billion on debt. So a 10% dividend yield on his investment. That is what his patience leads to, which leads to higher high returns on investment capital. Now he's getting 3% from treasuries. He will deploy that at 10% in the meantime he's waiting. As I said, with the SAP 500, you buy high and sell low. Look at what you buy. These are the top holdings now. But let's just look at what were the top holdings in 2014. Exxon is out, General Electric is out, Chevron is out. So you were buying oil stocks at their peak. At peak oil, you were putting into such stocks. That's something that Buffett didn't do and doesn't do. If we go a little bit more back in history, 2008, six stocks here are not anymore in the index. So you really again buy those hot stocks and you don't buy the growing, the powerful, the great businesses that will come into the SAP 500 in the future. If I go back to 1999, Microsoft was the leader with 600 billion market cap. Now it's just around 800 billion. So that's 25% increase over 20 years. The other nine are not included in the SAP 500. So that's what I mean, buying high and selling low. So you're buying Lucent, Citigroup. Just Google how did those companies, American Online, fair in the last 20 years. So Buffett is not buying the bad, while index funds are always buying the bad. Number four, when you buy index funds, you, as I said already 20 times, you buy everything, the hottest stock, what the general market thinks are the hottest stocks. You are not investing in startups. Buffett can and he is investing in startups. So even better diversification and he's doing that for you. If we look at the sectors of the SAP 500 index, 15.21% is in healthcare. What is Buffett doing with some guys, Bezos and Demon from some companies, Amazon and JPMorgan, he is starting a healthcare business that will probably displace the healthcare industry over the next 10, 20 years. So at very low cost, the next Amazon of healthcare is being built by Buffett with his power, with his connection. So you have a startup that's set up by Berkshire, Amazon, JPMorgan versus old companies that are set up in an old structure in an old business model with 15% of exposure for the SAP 500. Who will do better? What do you think? So that's another argument for Berkshire. And then number five, extremely important fundamentals. We will compare the valuation, the price to book, return on investment capital, and then you'll see how even on the fundamental side Berkshire has a great advantage. Valuation, Berkshire, price to earnings ratio, okay, 10, that's because of taxes. So forward is 18, that's something we can use, current SAP 500 P ratio 22 forward, also 18. So valuation is equal. Okay, let's take it at that. Price to sales ratio, Berkshire 2.16, SAP 500, 2.14. So that's even equal. However, price to book value, SAP 500, 3.32, Berkshire 1.43. So if you buy Berkshire now, you pay 43% over the real value of the assets. If you buy the SAP 500, you pay you pay 3.2 times the value of the assets. So those assets are the long term value that book value is the long term quality that will lead to long term earnings. And a return on the invested capital is what drives the market, the earnings yield, the dividends that gives the potential for that. The discrepancy between Berkshire and the SAP 500 is another key that will allow Berkshire to outperform the index. Let me show you this. Over the past 10 years, the SAP 500 book value went from 530 to 833. When I add 400 points of dividends on top of that, I am at return on book value of 8.8% per year, which is not bad. But if I look at Berkshire, the book value went from 70,000 to 218,000, which is 12% return on capital per year. So Buffett has the book value, which returns 12%, SAP 500 return 8%, that 4% is an amazing difference. It's a huge difference. Plus, you are getting Berkshire's book value, Berkshire's capital at a 50% discount than what you get at index funds. So 4 percentage points higher return plus 50% discount rate. That's a big, big discrepancy that will be seen in the next 10-20 years. Further, what is Buffett doing? He's waiting patiently with 3%, getting the 3% and keeping his money to invest it to deploy it when there will be opportunities for 10% and higher. What are SAP 500 companies doing with your capital, with your money? They are buying extremely expensive stocks with buybacks. If we look at the SAP 500 buybacks, you can see that when stocks are at the highest level, when everything is just about to crash, then SAP 500 companies jump into doing buybacks to push stock prices higher to get more option and to screw shareholders. So that's what they are doing. What is Buffett doing? He is buying on the low like he did with Burlington Santa Fe. He waits for opportunities and he waits with cash. He accumulates cash to deploy that significantly to shoot another elephant like he likes to say in 2019 or 2020. On diversification, the SAP 500 is diversified, but Berkshire is also diversified. You have insurance, utilities, energy, manufacturing and other, a big part with all the stocks and the smaller businesses from Seescandy to other, plus Burlington. So again, you get the diversification too. So to conclude, I really think that investing in Berkshire, dollar cost averaging in Berkshire over time will lead to higher returns than the SAP 500, like it was the case over the past 20 years. I don't think we will have to wait another 20 years to see that divergence, probably just 10 years, especially if we see more volatility in the markets, a recession. So that's why if you're invested in the SAP 500, I would urge you to really look at Berkshire and see about the mindset when it comes to investing in index funds or in Berkshire. Buffett never said to invest in Berkshire because he leaves that to you, but I think we should do what he does and not what he says and invest in Berkshire if you are a passive investor. 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So my beautiful people, I am back with another Elden Ring video and today I'm going to guide you through Renna's side quest which is pretty big but it rewards you an amazing dark moon great sword but it also opens up the opportunity for you to earn more rewards too and that's why I want to make the guide so I can send people back to it in reference to other videos when I do cover other things which need this side quest completed. How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and if you're doing enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Okay so Renna's quest line isn't that lengthy to be honest you should get it done in under an hour especially with this guide's help. What I will say is a lot of people may be confused by a few steps I've already seen online via other guides because if you've already killed Radhan a lot of the steps early on in this quest where you have to talk to certain NPCs won't be there for you so it can confuse you. So if you've already defeated Radhan check out the timestamps linked within the comment section and video description and look where it says start from here if you've already killed Radhan.  With you've already taken out Renna the queen of the full moon who is located in the academy and also the Royal Knight Loretta within carrier mana there's two bosses out of the way for you already if not it doesn't really matter because they are along the way in getting this quest line completed. Okay so first up guys you need to obviously talk to Renna at the church of Ella you would have done this real early on she's there normally the night after you get your mount now you may have to activate a few graces and come back here to the church of Ella at night and you'll see Renna sitting on a wall. Okay so to start Renna's quest line from here you need to go to Renna's rise as you can see on the map right here this does mean though guys you will have to progress through carrier mana and you will have to progress and defeat the Royal Knight Loretta boss who's located in the main room here so yeah once you've taken him out you can then progress and start Renna's quest line if you've already taken him out then you are good people don't worry about this so yeah once you've taken him out if you've already done this make your way to Renna's rise and climb to the top of this tower so once at the top guys talk to Renna and clear out all dialogue when you get the dialogue option of serving Renna the witch make sure you do that once you've done this guys you then need to go downstairs within the tower because you won't actually be able to leave the area and talk to the three phantoms they are located within the tower they're harder to miss than they are to spot so you get that done then once you've done that go back and talk to Renna. From here guys you need to go to seal for a river well and talk to Blade and from here guys you need to go to Silivus's rise and speak to Silivus when you clear out his dialogue select accept the task and ask about Nacron a place we're going to be going to. Then guys you need to go to Waypoint ruins and give the Silivus introduction to Sorcerous Selen now for me I'd already done the Selen quest align so Selen wasn't within Waypoint ruins for me anymore if this is the case for you guys you would have no doubt already taken out Renna the queen of the full moon at the academy and Sorcerous Selen should be located there as you're going to the main library left hand side like a big ball of heads it's it's wild people it's wild speak to her there but like me there may be a chance that there's no actual extra dialogue here or no progression here which is completely fine that's what happened to me so let's carry on to the next step now this is the step where you need to go to the impassable great bridge but right at the map and talk to the guy to start the redine festival this is where you have to when you first get the redine cutscene then you have to fight redine and take him out once you've taken him out guys we then have to progress now like I said you've already taken out redine this is probably where you need to start this quest from like I said at the start of the video which is completely fine so from here guys we now need to go to Necron where if you go to for height west you can simply make your way down with a giant hole in the floor now from here you will have to progress through and past the mimic tier boss fight like I said a walk in the park a little bit of advice take off all your armor and just slaying people because he mimics what you do and from here guys follow the path I take unscrew now to grab the finger slayer blade this is something we have to return to Ranny and give her and this will complete part one of Ranny's quest line so once you've returned to Ranny within Ranny's rise guys and you've given her the blade you now want to reset at this site of grace so fast travel to a site of grace and come back to this one that's probably your best bet now normally and this confused heck at me guys there should be a teleporter or a portal at the top of this tower which takes you to where you need to go which is to the Ansel River main for me though that teleporter was not there if this is the case for you guys you're going to have to do what I had to do now pinpointed on the map right here we can Ansel River well or going down here guys actually doesn't give you access to where we need to go it doesn't give you access where we need to actually get within this area because we need to get up here Ansel River main we actually come down into here and you can't actually focus up here so the only other way I know of to get up here guys which I'm seeing a lot of people missing their guides is to take out another boss in the twin gargoyles and they ain't too easy if I'm honest with you and these are located back within Nakron so from the mimic tier grace point spot this is where you need to come to you need to come and follow the direction I take unscrew now and come all the way up to the great waterfall basin which is the closest grace point from here guys you will have to progress through and defeat the twin gargoyles which like I said ain't the easiest of buses within this game okay so once you've taken out the twin gargoyles if you go to the back of the room there will be a grace just to the right of grace guys there will be a coffin which you can actually get into and travel where we need to actually go to next to which is the deep root depths now from the deep root depths guys you will start here the great waterfall crest is where you will spawn in when you use that coffin if you've already got any of these grace points you can see on screen now that's even better for you if you haven't you will have to follow the path I go or take on screen now to another coffin so once you get to this coffin guys this will then teleport you to answer with a main okay so once you are here guys you need to pick up the items on the floor and you will see that there is a miniature runny doll once you pick this up guys you then sit next to this grace this slight grace and you can see the dialogue option at the bottom where you can talk to her keep selecting this until dialogue more dialogue pops up from here guys you then need to progress forward and take out baleful shadow he will drop the discarded palace key from this point progress forward guys and go down in this lift to this area a rut and activate that grace from here guys we need to go to the reya lucaria grand library this is actually the area where you will have to fight if you haven't already defeated runela queen of the full moon but if you've already taken her out you are good if you haven't she will await you take her down people now if you had already taken her down or once you do take her down you will notice a chest to her right i believe it is this is where you use that discarded palace key moving this chest guys you will get the dark moon ring from here guys you need to go back to that lake of rut once you are here you need to run through this rut and navigate all the way past it to rest in this coffin or this tomb so do as i do on screen now guys making sure you've got plenty of those healing flasks because you're probably going to need them now once you get in this coffin you'll then come to another bus called the astral natural born of the void here you will also have to take out this bus once you've done this guys progress forward to this elevator to the moonlight altar once you are here guys navigate to this cathedral and also activate this grace from here guys drop down his hole and follow the path i take and you'll find runny he had just give her the dark moon ring for this guys once you've cleared out the dialogue you will be rewarded the dark moon great sword and there we have it people the runny quest line and it's reward so yeah guys at the end of the video has now arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here and want to see more 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If the shadow figure contains valuable, vital forces, they ought to be assimilated into actual experience and not repressed. It is up to the ego to give up its pride and prigishness and to live out something that seems to be dark but actually may not be. This can require a sacrifice just as heroic as the conquest of passion, but in an opposite sense. The ethical difficulties that arise when one meets one's shadow are well described in the eighteenth book of the Quran. In this tale, Moses meets Hidr, the green one, or first angel of God, in the desert. They wander along together, and Hidr expresses his fear that Moses will not be able to witness his deeds without indignation. If Moses cannot bear with him and trust him, Hidr will have to leave. Presently, Hidr scuttles the fishing boat of some poor villagers. Then, before Moses' eyes, he kills a handsome young man, and finally he restores the fallen wall of a city of unbelievers. Moses cannot help expressing his indignation, and so Hidr has to leave him. Before his departure, however, he explains the reasons for his actions. By scuttling the boat, he actually saved it for its owners because pirates were on their way to steal it, as it is the fishermen can salvage it. The handsome young man was on his way to commit a crime, and by killing him, Hidr saved his pious parents from infamy. By restoring the wall, two pious young men were saved from ruin because their treasure was buried under it. Moses, who had been so morally indignant, saw now, too late, that his judgment had been too hasty. Hidr's doings had seemed to be totally evil, but in fact they were not. Looking at this story naively, one might assume that Hidr is the lawless, capricious evil shadow of pious law abiding Moses. But this is not the case. Hidr is much more the personification of some secret creative actions of the Godhead. One can find a similar meaning in the famous Indian story of the King and the Corpse, as interpreted by Henry Zimmer. It is no accident that I have not quoted a dream to illustrate this subtle problem. I have chosen this well-known story from the Koran because it sums up the experience of a lifetime which would very rarely be expressed with such clarity in an individual dream. When dark figures turn up in our dreams and seem to want something, we cannot be sure whether they personify merely a shadowy part of ourselves, or the self, or both at the same time. Divining in advance whether our dark partner symbolizes a shortcoming that we should overcome, or a meaningful bit of life that we should accept, this is one of the most difficult problems that we encounter on the way to individuation. Moreover, the dream symbols are often so subtle and complicated that one cannot be sure of their interpretation. In such a situation all one can do is accept the discomfort of ethical doubt, making no final decisions or commitments, and continuing to watch the dreams. This resembles the situation of Cinderella when her stepmother threw a heap of good and bad peas in front of her and asked her to sort them out. Although it seemed quite hopeless, Cinderella began patiently to sort the peas, and suddenly doves, or ants in some versions, came to help her. These creatures symbolize helpful, deeply unconscious impulses that can only be felt in one's body as it were, and that point to a way out. Somewhere, right at the bottom of one's own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call I behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt. Sometimes all attempts to understand the hints of the unconscious fail, and in such a difficulty one can only have the courage to do what seems to be right while being ready to change course if the suggestions of the unconscious should suddenly point in another direction. It may also happen, although this is unusual, that a person will find it better to resist the urge of the unconscious even at the price of feeling warped by doing so rather than depart too far from the state of being human. This would be the situation of people who had to live out a criminal disposition in order to be completely themselves. The strength and inner clarity needed by the ego in order to make such a decision stems secretly from the great man who apparently does not want to reveal himself too clearly. It may be that the self wants the ego to make a free choice, or it may be that the self depends on human consciousness and its decisions to help him to become manifest. When it comes to such difficult ethical problems, no one can truly judge the deeds of others. Each man has to look to his own problem and try to determine what is right for himself. As an old Zen Buddhist master said, we must follow the example of the cowherd who watches his ox with a stick so that it will not graze on other people's meadows. These new discoveries of depth psychology are bound to make some change in our collective ethical views, for they will compel us to judge all human actions in a much more individual and subtle way. The discovery of the unconscious is one of the most far-reaching discoveries of recent times, but the fact that recognition of its unconscious reality involves honest self-examination and reorganization of one's life causes many people to continue to behave as if nothing at all has happened. It takes a lot of courage to take the unconscious seriously and to tackle the problems it raises. Most people are too indolent to think deeply about even those moral aspects of their behavior of which they are conscious. They are certainly too lazy to consider how the unconscious affects them.