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ISSUE 31WEEK 11 Bond University's Weekly Student Publication

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Andra.Nasrie..............Chief of Staff

Jorja.Wallace.........................Editor

Milly.Arsic................. Sub Editor

Mona.Mizikovsky................. Sub Editor

Shannan.Smith................. Sub Editor

Andra.Nasrie....................Designer

Zee.Tarona...........Photographer

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Weekly Busa Report

A Tale of Two (Univer)cities

High Heels

Photos

The Language Challenge

Wax for a Cure

Bond’s Next Greatest Restaurant

Reviews

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Editor's Report

Issue 31

OMFG we sooooooo cute - matching and all. We needed a new pic this week because it was defs a team effort. Andra tried out designing. What up?

Soooo we’ve all had that slap in the face this week when we realised exams are only two weeks away. Oh helllllll no. So not prepared - as per usual - but who is? If someone next to you responds ‘I am’, shoot them a disgruntled look of envy and rage.

The only thing I’m preparing for this week is sleep deprivation, and maybe a touch of alcohol poison-ing. (So. Many. Birthdays). Although I wouldn’t mind it if my assignments grew hands and did themselves (get your mind out of the gutter).

This week we are a little smaller, but it is Week 11 so no surprises there. BUT that doesn’t mean that we haven’t served you up a slice of awesome. Get REDy (see what I did there) for a little distraction and a lot of diversity.

From an educated insight into the public versus private divide, to why high heels equal pain; we’ve dished up just enough procrastination to get you through hump day.

Don’t forget, Res Dinner is only a week away! Pull on your cape and tights, grab your wand and ranga GF, or hack off your nose and awkwardly hug Malfoy. It’s the last chance to celebrate how much work you haven’t done for the past 12 weeks, before the mad rush to study begins.

That’s all for this week folks. Until next time,

Your awesome Scope team.

Res Wars

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I thought it important to ‘Bondstock’ SCOPE this week. Not so much with an advertisement of Bondstock, nor a summary of the week that was – but more so to help clear up a couple of Bondstock truths and tales!

1) Bondstock is sold out! (TALE)This We are very excited with the response you, the student body gave to Bondstock last week! It is shaping up to be one hell of a week for all those involved – and we look forward to bringing you an incredible and memo-rable experience.

In saying that – Bondstock sold 400 packs last week which included (Student’s Ball, Secret Location Party and Music Festival). So in terms of being ‘sold out’ – we are currently sold out of Secret Location Party, have 40 tick-ets left to Students Ball and 500 first release tickets to Bondstock Music Festival.

Remembering that the ticketed events are only one aspect of Bondstock, there are 10 free or very inexpensive events on the Bondstock calendar

2) We will be releasing more packs? (TALE)At the current time – this one is a tale and not a truth! While we would like to ensure that everyone who wants a Bondstock pack gets one – sometimes this just isn’t possible due to capacity of venues and the likely hood of a large crowd impinging on another student’s Bondstock experience.

If we do release more Bondstock packs – we will be sure to let you know via your all student emails and Face-book – so stay tuned for updates!

3) Every student who purchased a Bondstock pack will get a shirt! (TRUTH)Last week – we had a number of problems with our t-shirt supplier of Bondstock shirts. Thank you all so much for your patience and understanding with this issue!

The good news: The shirts are boxed up, in the Bondstock office, ready to be given out to all those who pur-chased a Bondstock pack during Teaser Week.

The bad news: There isn’t any!

How to pick up your shirt: Come to Wednesday by the Water this week between 12pm – 1pm OR visit Alan in his BUSA office hours 9am – 12pm this coming Friday.

4) Bondstock will (hopefully) be an enjoyable experience. For the time being though, Bondstock is going to take a nanna nap – and keep all its efforts focused on preparing an amazing week – rather than bother you all with the same information week after week! (TRUTH):)

All the best with your upcoming exams,

Alan and the Bondstock team!

Launch  Party   Comedy  Night  

Bondstock  Night  Markets   Bond  Revue  

Bondstock  Triathlon   Bond  welcomes  a  ‘VIP’  

Public  Speaking  Alumni  Excellence  Medal   Wednesday  Water  Extravaganza  

Bondy  Big  Breakfast   Bond  Class  Photo  

 

A tale of two (Univer)cities: The public and private divide

A lot of Bondies rely on this system and, without it, our stu-dent body would struggle. But, in reality, Bondies on FEE-HELP are paying a lot more for their education than, for example, our friends at Griffith, or any other public univer-sity. You know exactly what you are signing up for when you enrol at Bond. I am not talking about subject fees, but repayments. Whilst Australians at public universities have an interest-free loan, you can expect to be slugged with a 25 per cent repayment fee if you chose to study at Bond.

To put this into perspective, a typical two year single de-gree at Bond contains 24 subjects at a cost of $3,820 each, reaching a cost of $91,680. If you rely on FEE-HELP, the 25 per cent fee of this is $22,920. A combined degree student, on the other hand, undertakes about 40 subjects, with a total degree cost of $152, 800. The FEE-HELP fee for this combination is a whopping $38,200.

So while Australians at public universities have an inter-est-free loan to cover the cost of their already substantially cheaper degree, we here at Bond are slugged with a fee comparable to a basic arts or science degree at any other university in Australia.

This is just one example of how governments, Liberal in the past, Labor now, are screwing you with your pants on.

Bondies on Youth Allowance are being short-changed.

Recent changes to Centrelink payments have seen the ad-vent of the start-up scholarship, a lump sum payment at the beginning of each semester to cover the cost of text books. It started at $1000 and has been indexed to about $1,092. This is a welcome move, but for us it is an inequi-table one. Bondies do not get the payment at the start of each semester; they get it only at the commencement of the public universities two semesters per year. Not to pick on Griffith again, but as a public university, they provide a telling comparison.

Compare the pair: a law/commerce student at Griffith on Youth Allowance will receive about $12,000 in start-up scholarship payments over the span of their degree. A law/commerce student at Bond will see only $7,000. As far as I know, textbooks cost the same at Griffith as they do at Bond, so where’s our extra $5,000?

Youth Allowance is not the only payment prejudiced by this. All social security allowances are. By law, to qualify as a fulltime student, one must study at least three subjects a semester: for our friends at Griffith, this is just six subjects a year. For a Bond student, however, you can’t get away with six subjects a year, you have to do at least nine, three every semester. Whilst our neighbours laze around in ba-nana lounges across a three month summer break, you better show up to your lectures and tutorials, otherwise risk having your payment cancelled.

In the Far East, patients pay their doctors when they are healthy, not when they are sick. They pay for what they want, not what they don’t want.

It is a little like what we try to do with university education in this country. You pay for what you want, when you have it. Our government is happy to loan you the money for an education, just pay them back once you are finished and employed. May this always be the case.

By Matt McLean

By Matt McLean

Ever tried landing a government internship? Good luck. Most cater only to the lengthy holiday periods of our public univer-sity counterparts. The list goes on and on.

It all comes back to the fundamental bias against private uni-versity education in this country. What a shame indeed. The great intellectual powerhouses of the world like Harvard and Yale are private, so why can’t our lucky country have private universities as well?

I have raised this matter with Liberal and Labor Members of Parliament in the past and I get the feeling that the general attitude is: if you can afford to go to a private university, you can afford to pay more. Maybe this is the case for a small per-centage of students here but, by and large, most Bondies could use just a little help from their government. The hundreds of students on scholarships (I should disclose I fall within this cat-egory) may be blessed with tuition discounts, but this doesn’t pay the rent or put food on the table and, with the hectic tri-mester system, we don’t have six month holidays a year to top up our savings. I come from a school of thought in politics where government is not the enemy, it is meant to be your friend. It is a place where people should come together and no one is left behind. We don’t want a hand-out, perhaps just a hand-up; a helping hand every now and then. It would be nice if things were just a little bit easier for Bondies. We don’t expect a free ride, but it seems some in Parliament have gone out of their way to make things more difficult.

We know we have to pay a premium for the Bond experience. It is only fair we pay more for a better student-to-teacher ratio, state-of-the-art facilities, and cutting edge resources. But in exclusion from government payments, exorbitant repayment fees and a whole raft of policies that favour public over private universities, it seems a little too high a price to pay.

After all, for every student place a private university such as Bond provides, it leaves an extra place for a student to attend a public university. Across the country university places are lim-ited. Nearly 5,000 students at Bond means nearly 5,000 extra students in universities across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Ad-elaide and Brisbane - students who otherwise would not get a shot at tertiary education.

Private universities are here to help, not to hurt. So cut the stu-dents that undertake private tertiary education just a little bit of slack. I am sure in the far-East people pay a similar price for what they want. Why should we pay so much more for what we want?

We don’t want a hand-out, perhaps just a hand-up; a help-ing hand every now and then. It would be nice if things were just a little bit easier for Bon-dies. We don’t expect a free ride, but it seems some in Parliament have gone out of their way to

make things more difficult.

HighHeels

Mona Mizikovsky

As a law student who’s graduating in December and has a slim to zero chance of getting a graduate posi-tion, I decided to undertake a clerkship. In fact, I’m sit-ting at my fab clerkship desk whilst writing this article. However, it seems I was completely unaware, nay, ut-terly oblivious, to the one thing I would struggle with for the entirety of my one month role: the need to wear high heels every single day.

Now, I’m not your average university student. I don’t really understand the concept of dresses, I believe bag-gy pants are God sent and if there is anything I hate more in life than capsicum (and boy do I hate capsicum a lot), it’s high heels. However, it has become abun-dantly clear after spending one month working in the Brisbane CBD that the rest of the world is against me.

I don’t get high heels. I don’t understand them; they make no sense to me at all. What could be more un-comfortable than a pair of ridiculously tight shoes propped up by a teency weency stick of support? Nothing! Nothing beats a pair of flats, or ballet shoes, or a pair of doc martens (For future reference, I am in love with my docs and am just waiting until I can find a law firm that will hire me and let me wear them to work).

Flat shoes support your feet. They love your feet. Flat shoes tell you at the end of every day ‘hey, we know you’re having a tough time sitting in that uncomfort-able suit trying to decipher Northern Territory petro-leum exploration legislation, so we are here for you, we got your back’. Do you think your high heels are going to hug you at night after you’ve had a tough day? No, but your slippers will, another prime example of flat shoes.

Ok, so if you are already disagreeing with me, which 99 per cent of you probably are, let me try another an-gle. I catch the train to work, just like the thousands of other Brisbanites, and I often see ladies wearing busi-ness-wear teamed with running shoes. Why, you may ask? Well, it’s because no sane person can catch public transport in a pair of stilettos and make it in one, un-pained, piece to work. So, these ladies don their most comfortable sneakers until they get to the office where they can put their dreaded heels on.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Sometimes catching Queensland Rail can be a bit of a fight and you don’t want to be held back by your heels, but come on. Why wouldn’t you just wear a lovely looking pair of flats the whole day? Save the ugly sneakers, save having to car-ry another pair of shoes and always be prepared for a fight on the train and in the office.

Well, if I’m still not winning you over, what about the health effects of heels? Here’s a sexy quote I found from personalhealthzone.com: “wearing shoes with heel elevation greater than 25mm was associated with hallux valgus and plantar calluses in women”. Ew. Bunions and calluses, no thanks! But “even shoes with moderately high heels (1.5 inch) significantly increase knee torques thought to be relevant in the develop-ment and/or progression of knee osteoarthritis”. How’s that for sexy?

Nine’s show “What’s Good For You” even weighed in on the debate by stating that wearing high heels for even one day can result in back pain, as your body’s centre of gravity is thrust forward. Heels can also lead to hammer toes and tendon injuries. Not to mention that women suffer from knee arthritis twice as much as men, due to the alleged sexy shoe. Dr Casey Ker-rigan, a Professor of physical medicine and rehabilita-tion at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, told the show that the “perfect shoe should be a shoe with hardly any support at all and with no heel, at the very most a half inch of a heel”. If that isn’t clear promotion for doc martens, then I don’t know what is.

I do understand that high heels can make you look and/or feel sexier, but given their impracticalities, uncomfortableness and health hazard, I am not sold. I don’t need those extra inches. In fact, doc martens provide about an extra 3cm in height, and make me look way more aggressive than you ever will in your sparkly choo’s.

Don’t get me wrong though; if you can strut in your heels like Carrie Bradshaw, then all the more power to you. But don’t expect me to be there massaging your feet and back every night, or rubbing cream into your arthritis-suffering knees.

What could be more uncomforta-ble than a pair of ridiculously tight shoes propped up by a teency weency stick of support?

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Havanna Nights

Havanna NightsPhotographer: Zee Tarona

Bondy 500

Photos courtesy of the HSA

     

Undertaking tertiary studies in your second - or even third - language can be challenging. I can only share my own experience with you, but I can imagine I am by far not the only person who is having these thoughts here at Bond.

Personally, I have always approached life from a very lib-eral and international point of view. During my travels through Europe, the US, Africa and Asia, I have always made the effort to study the language of the country that I was planning to visit. Sometimes it was only the basics, but sufficient to be able to get around. I found that this gave me a greater ability to communicate with the locals, which would in turn assist me in grasping a better under-standing of their customs and way of life. This approach has contributed to many pleasant surprises, which I would have never been able to experience if I hadn’t spoken the local language. In Japan, for example, I was invited to ex-perience a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto at a ‘chashitsu’ (teahouse), where I had the opportunity to meet some of the world’s most renowned Japanese heart surgeons.

Of course studying overseas in your second or third lan-guage is a conscious choice you make and is definitely something to seriously consider before diving into. If you are really honest to yourself, you know that you could be in for a few surprises, and possibly have a couple of hurdles to overcome along the way. However, that makes the experi-ence even more interesting. Until then, it is us, the other lingual versus them, the native speakers.

Sometimes you can be very passionate about a certain topic, but the words to express exactly how you feel or what you intend to relay are just not coming out the way you want them to. This can make you feel a bit frustrated, especially when this happens during an exam or a pres-entation, and believe me, it does happen, no matter how many times you rehearse.

Still, there is good news and bad news. There will always be people who will not understand this shortcoming and deal with your temporary failure in a negative way... and yes, you will face prejudgment for having an accent or us-ing ‘weird’ expressions. Despite all that, my experience has

proven that more people actually enjoy the diversity and take this difference on board as some sort of ‘exotic’ feature you possess, which is quite flattering.

What most mono-lingual people don’t realize is that it can take an individual quite a few years to completely immerse themselves in a foreign language and speak it fluently. While switching between languages usually happens nat-urally, mono-lingual people often think that we are operat-ing some sort of linguistic computer system in our heads, which, I can assure them, is not the case.

To all non-native English speakers out there: when you find yourself going through boxes of ‘stuff’ in your spare room, trying to find something while speaking to yourself in Eng-lish, you know that ‘you have arrived’, and now belong with ‘them’.

The Language ChallengeAnneMie Decatte

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Down Under Bar & Grill - People’s Choice Award

Students in the School of Hotel, Resort and Tourism Management are closer to opening their own restaurants after competing in Bond University’s Next Great Res-taurant, 1st Annual Competition on Wednesday, July 19. Students enrolled in the International Food and Beverage Management subject were instructed by Visiting Professor, Dr Janice Scarinci, on the ins and outs of de-signing, operating, marketing, and managing food and beverage outlets.

As part of their semester project, six student teams created a restaurant concept including name, design and decor, uniform, and menu, which was then brought to life in the Princeton Room on campus. The teams served a sample of their restau-rant’s signature dish, prepared by the Bond University chefs, to a panel of judges and guests including business professionals, academics, students and industry rep-resentatives.

‘Down Under Bar & Grill’ received the People’s Choice Award and ‘El Toro’ was award-ed Restaurant of the Year by Dr Scarinci and a team of judges.

For more information about the School of Hotel, Resort and Tourism Management, please visit www.bond.edu.au/hrtm

BondUniversity'sNextGreatRestaurant

El Toro - Restaurant of the Year

A pot of wax, a crowd of people and brave volunteers are all that is needed to make an event for charity a success. Bond’s Rotaract club hosted the event ‘Wax for a Cure’ at Don’s last Thursday night, creating an atmos-phere filled with intoxication, excitement and anxiousness as three brave Bondies literally ‘go in for the kill’ to wax off their unwanted hair.

The cause extended itself beyond simply waxing, as the crowd willingly supported the event despite the chilly weather. Although Sam Jones, Simon Stephen and Sam Kingsley offered to volunteer prior to the event, many others joined in the fun offering their leg hair, armpits and even eyebrows to be waxed off. Business law student Jason Zhe waxed off one eyebrow ‘just for fun’ but voluntarily gave up both eyebrows to support the great cause.

The event ended up a great success raising a total of $313.05 for children and families at the Childhood Can-cer Support. We thank all of our volunteers, beautician Jo from Brazilian Princess, Rotaract members for the organisation of the event and Don’s attendees for the generous donations.

As the saying goes ‘there’s a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow’—perhaps it was only a small pot but a pot where its value is much greater than its price.

For more information on the cause, visit http://www.ccs.org.au.

For more information on or to make an appointment with Brazilian Princess in Varsity Lakes, contact Jo on 0410305579.

From a Pot of Wax to a Pot of GoldJoey Chan/Ansha Krish

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Looking slightly pensive over a cup of hot jasmine tea, my critic com-panion this week, Chantal McNaught, stated very matter of factly: “you know raw ginger goes through you like water in a sieve, right?” I, on my fifth serve of raw ginger, looked up slightly alarmed.

Perhaps my odd taking to raw ginger and my general wide-eyed expres-sion upon entering the sushi-train style sushi bar is notice enough to the reader that I am no sushi expert. However, I will attempt to give the westerners present a review written for you.

Having worked in various capacities in the hospitality industry in the past, my immediate query was to the temperature control of the sushi, especially as many of the creations are based on seafood. I am told that the golden rule in sushi train bars is to always eat when it is busy so that there is a high turnover of food pieces. However, the second time I dined at Sashimi, the bar was fairly empty. I must say that during the one hour I was there, I did not notice any of the items taken off the conveyor belt. Indeed, the deep fried rice was cold and had obviously been this way for some time. At any rate, I asked the chef to make me a few of the items fresh, which they were happy to do. There are also menu options to choose from.

Despite the possible hygiene risks, I was intrigued by the presentation style of the food. Previewing each little sushi creation was an amazing experience and to be truly appreciated you have to experience it. Take it from me, if you haven’t tried it before, try it now!

So onto the food: each item is as much a piece of art as it is food. The huge range of sushi includes most notably a crisp, fresh, green leafy sea-weed selection wrapped in seaweed paper and golden caviar wrapped again in green seaweed. Of course the safer varieties of avocado and chicken, vegetarian and tuna with asparagus (to name a few) are also available. Having only eaten sushi for the past 6 months, the only nega-tive (other than the lack of food poisoning) that I can point out is that the seaweed wrapper of one of the (freshly made) sushi plates I ordered was quite rubbery. I think this was because the wrapper was not soaked for long enough.

There was plenty of soy sauce and wasabi to spread over the sushi piec-es. I am also told that the raw ginger is to “cleanse the palette” which I found it certainly did, even though I certainly had more than the aver-age serving. In terms of beverages there was a wide range of standard soft drinks and free hot green tea. I was surprised that, for a sushi res-taurant, there was not a wider variety of Japanese drinks. After all, it ca-ters for a very particular culture competing against many other culture-specific restaurants that perform very well in their own separate niches.

The general layout of the bar is quite comfortable. The seats are set well apart and there are no awkward struggles around backs of chairs and the walls. The bar stools, however, do not encourage a long stay, as the lack of chair backs does not provide for a comfortable seat. The pricing is quite reasonable and the meal is really quite filling.

I recommend this bar for a quiet catch up with friends or a casual meet-ing. I rate this establishment 8/10. Open 11am to 9pm. For more reviews follow me on Twitter @RobertARooney.

SUSHIMI FOOD REVIEW

Must-listens this week:

Beirut - East Harlem

Jay-Z and Kanye West - Otis

Wu Lyf - Heavy Pop

HOT

Cadel Evans

Cashmere

Open Day

The Androids given out by the IT School

at Open Day

Woolen loin cloth

OSX Lion

Bond Country Road bags

Free coffee at Open Day

Goats

Bondies taking advantage of

freebies at Open Day

Turning 21

Family

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Barriers

Work pile-up

Throwing up on friends

Police breath testing on Bond

property

Smoke outside

Angry Boys

Russia confirming that beer is indeed

alcohol

Mia Freedman

Two weeks until exams

Blisters the size of friggin mountains

Cab fines

Turning 23

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NOTIt’s been the best of times; it’s been the worst of times. Scrap that, it’s Res Wars – there is no worst of times! Perhaps we should say there have been Pizza times and Subway times? Nevertheless, last week featured Res Sports Carnival, the last Res Wars of the semester and a sign of exams around the corner.

Res Sports Carnival is one of our new initiatives in-troduced last semester and brings back all those fond memories of novelty events from sports day at school – you’ve got the traditional tunnel ball and captain ball (or bob ball to others), as well as the three-legged, egg and spoon and sack races, as well as the box car relay and a medley race of the last four. Plus, a 100m sprint for the boys and girls to the chequered flag.

The beauty of the carnival as the last event of semester is that there are so many points up for grabs, almost any team can still take out the over-all Champion’s trophy. The Carnival has a twist and the joker or wild card can be played with strategy to double a team’s points for a particular race or

game. Hence, with all these complicated math-ematical formulas, we’re still trying to figure out who actually won on the night!

Each team put on a great display of support for their fellow team mates and a special shout-out goes to the Red Devils – who with just two mem-bers, raced harder than any other individuals and managed to amass an impressive amount of points and put themselves within reach of the top position.

Res Dinner is just around the corner on Thursday of Week 12 (that’s next week for those who’ve been studying under a rock). The theme is super-heroes and super villains, and yes, capes are com-pulsory! The results and two big prizes you’ve all been waiting to hear will be revealed on the night, so don’t forget to register for your free dinner on-line or at the accommodation office, as well as vote for some of our more amusing prizes.

Thank you for playing, good luck for exams and see you at Res Dinner!

Res Wars - Weekly ReportCarnival Week 10 Kit Richards

One minute with... Olivia McCauley1. If you could bring back one famous person from the dead - who would it be & why?Alexander McQueen, no wait probably Sigmund Freud for a myriad of obvious reasons.

2. If you had to choose a movie title for your life story, what would it be?I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.

3. If you had to eat three things for the rest of your life, what would those foods be?ChocolateCheesePotato – they literally make everything good: vodka, fries, potato bake, vodka, potato chips, mash, vodka, baked potato (said in Bubba from Forrest Gump voice).. . . . I swear I’m actually a healthy-ish person

4. How does it feel to be on a winning netball team?Like a bawse – because I’m a mother f***ing monster with thug world problems like Meeeeshka or Shots (Team Woman FTW)

Shameless Plug: Come & Watch The Bond University Netball Club Grand Final!This Thursday @ 6pm in the Sports Hall.Be there.

5. Are you as delicious as the food maccas?That’s a big call – are we talking normal or 3am inebriated this-is-

the-greatest-thing-I’ve-ever-consumed burgers?Maccas would probs still win.

6. If women were to rule the world by 2050, how different would the world be?In reality it won’t happen, because women will always fight with each other and choose men first – ain’t no true bro’s before ho’s with females. If it did though? Probably just a whole lot of bitchy coun-tries refusing to talk to each other for stu-pid reasons – America probably wouldn’t be talking to Australia because we told them “You better check yourself, before you wreck yourself..”

7. If you could choose any three people to be stranded on a desert island with, who would you choose and why?Bear Grylls – enough saidTina Fey – for eternal laughterUsher – for general musicality, manliness and sexiness

8. You have the choice to live with a gorilla who knows sign language or a dog who sings lullabies, which do you choose and why? Dog – duhhhh would be like the world’s best guard dog, could you imagine how much that would trip out robbers? Also, if you were really lazy: Parenting Accomplished.