Funny Mr Woody

Here is my teacher giving a lesson on Maori pronunciation:

Marketing Tricks

To sell their products, marketers often use different approaches to influence you. One such way is to present a problem that you didn't even know you really had, and then immediately show you their solution. Another way is to show someone you admire or look up to using the product, such as a toy aimed at five-year-olds being used by an older person, around the age of seven or eight, because smaller children look up to older people. Some ads aim to form an emotional bond with you, such as showing a lady with a baby in an advertisement for a product aimed at single mothers. Cadbury uses a similar approach, by showing you something that has nothing to do with their product, but instead makes you think, "Wow, that's cool". Here are a few examples of this:

Stuff we need to know about for our term project

Consumers Guarantee Act
• The Guarantee means that when someone sells you something they automatically agree to the following terms and conditions:
• Manufacturers have to make sure that goods do what they are made to do, and that they have replacement parts available. The manufacturer also has to honour any warranties that people give them.
• Retailers will make sure that their goods match the display model and the description given in the advertisements. Also, the product must belong to the consumer once paid for, and it must be sold for a reasonable price.
• Providers of a service guarantee that their service will be performed with reasonable care and skill, will fit for the particular purpose they were supplied for and will be completed within a reasonable time for a reasonable price.
Ministry of Consumer Affairs
• You are covered if you are buying everyday products such as clothes, washing machines, cars, etc… or services of a type that people ordinarily have carried out for a personal or household purpose, such as car repairs, haircuts, dry cleaning, painting or work done by a lawyer. From 8 July 2003, the Consumer Guarantees Act applies to electricity, gas, water and computer software. From this date, the Consumer Guarantees Act also applies to services relating to the supply of electricity, telecommunications, gas, water, and the removal of wastewater.
• You are not covered by the Act if you buy the product from a private seller or from an auction/tender. It also doesn’t cover commercial goods, e.g. goods or services of a type that are ordinarily bought for use in offices, factories or farms (although these may be covered by the Sale of Goods Act).
• There are remedies that traders must provide if a guarantee is broken. There is a range of remedies dependent on such issues as which guarantee was broken, how serious the problem is and whether you want a remedy for faulty goods against the manufacturer or retailer.
Advertising Standards Authority
• The ASA sets the rules and guidelines for what you can and can’t put in a advertisement directed at children, food (well not at food but about food, you get my point), etc…
• The purpose of the Advertising Standards Authority is to “self-regulate advertising in New Zealand”.

Term topic

Hi, I know I haven't posted in AGES, but I have been pretty busy with stuff, so I thought I'd bring all my readers up to date.
This term we are learning about entrepreneurs, innovators, and inventors. We have to design and create a product to sell at a trade fair between our classes in week 10. Sprint Gas Racing and I have been developing a set of tutorials that we are going to sell to people who need ICT assistance.
Now for some definitions. Dictionary.com says:

en⋅tre⋅pre⋅neur

–noun

1.	a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.

2.	an employer of productive labor; contractor.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to deal with or initiate as an entrepreneur.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to act as an entrepreneur.

in⋅no⋅vate

–verb (used without object)

1.	to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time: to innovate a computer operating system.

3.	Archaic. to alter.

in⋅ven⋅tor

–noun

a person who invents, esp. one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.

Also, in⋅vent⋅er.

10 things that I want to learn more about

1. Firstly, I would like to learn more about space. I mean in general. Like all about the horoscopes and how they work and stuff, but also about space travel and other planets and how the whole solar system works and stuff like that. Specifically, in how many years will technology be advanced enough for us to start a habitat on Mars? Will it be like that movie where people grow moss on Mars to produce Oxygen for us?
2. Secondly, I would like to learn some more about War and stuff. Like what is the difference in the planes and tanks that the Nazis used as opposed to the ones that the Allies used? And how much has battle plans and war strategies improved from back in the dark ages when we had wooden catapults and used sticks to poke each other?
3. Another thing that would be interesting to learn about would be the Medieval times. How much better has our technology gotten from trebuchets and Viking weapons and stuff? Also, what are the differences in the economies, did there used to be banks and trading posts and stuff? And was there an exchange rate or were all currencies equal?
4. I think animals would be another cool topic. It is, however, a very wide topic. Like would we study their habitat, or their behavior in the wild and in captivity, or would we study what they ate and what they descended from and their placement in the classification hierarchy. Perhaps a bit of all of these...
5. What about studying ancient civilisations? I know I'va already said Medieval, but this time I mean like Egyptians, or Greeks, or Romans, or Mayans, or Incans, or Aztecs, or something like that. The list could go on for ages, there is like tons of Horrible Histories books about stuff like that.
6. Also, I think that carrying on with our sustainability topic would be quite cool, as we have done quite a lot of work on that, but I don't think that we have quite wrapped that up as I think there is still quite a lot of stuff to cover, and some more activities and stuff that we could do.
7. A bit of history could come in really useful later on in life if we were to be a person who was good at trivia or quizzes and stuff. Also, I think history would come in handy at high school, because we will probably need knowledge of history and stuff like that there.
8. I think learning more ICT would be cool as, and though I already know lots about ICT I would like to hone my skills and practice and stuff. I could also possibly be an ICT mentor and teach people ICT...
9. Electronics also falls in the above catergory. Although in electronics I have a lot more to learn still, and I don't think that many people in my class would want to learn stuff about electronics. Oh well, it still made my ton ten things I want to learn more about.
10. I'm not sure, but I don't think ICT covers film-making, and some other people mentioned that on Mr Woody's blog, so I think that would be pretty cool. I know how to do the editing and filming and stuff, and I know that Midnight Baloney wants to be a film director or something like that when he grows up, so if you [reader] want to be an actor, filmer, script-writer or anything like that for a movie when you grow up, then please leave a comment saying what you want to be.

Quote of the day: Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. - Blaise Pascal

Crop circles in Aussie

The Australians of Tasmania have finally solved the great mystery of the crop circle in their poppy fields. The accused are wallabies, who have been found eating the poppy heads (or narcotic seed pods actually), thus getting high, and hopping round in random circles. Many people believe crop circles that mysteriously appear in fields around the world are created by aliens. There has been 17 thefts resulting in 2280 poppy heads stolen throughout the financial year. Stolen from the poppy farms that are considered some of the safest in the world. Here are some quotes:

Attorney-General Lara Giddings said "the drugged out wallabies had been found hopping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations".

Poppy producer Tasmanian Alkaloids said "livestock which ate the poppies were known to "act weird" -- including deer and sheep in the state's highlands".

Mr Rockliff said "There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles".

Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the medicine market. Farmers grow the crop supplying the market with about 50 percent of the world's raw material for morphine and related opiates.

Weird, huh.

Quote of the day: Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again. - Mike Myers

Hahaha very funny cats...

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