Interesting stuff
"The nursing profession is returning to onsite, hands on learning. (It used to happen 20 years ago). Hands on learning is one solution. Another is hand written exams and assignments under supervision. Hand writing - a lost art. Alas, it won't happen anytime soon. The university sausage factory are not purveyors of fine meat, instead they pocket the fees and churn out footy franks."
Haha, while I agree with more a hands on experience (how about something on time management while we're at it) the very nature of the technical skills required in nursing, means a cookie cutter approach is needed This ensures standardisation of practice, evidence based, of course
"...and is working on asking better and better questions each time/lecture. It's exactly how I studied, and he's developed it himself. The grades aren't straight distinctions, but at least he's honest..."
takes a long long time to work out how to actually ask questions, and get distinctions, in the classes of conformity that is the contemporary uni system...
and even then... more conforming is required than there should be...
Now this is interesting. Negative leap second coming up.
https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/earth-records-shortest-day-putti…
"It’s a greater threat than the slow creep of Communism, BLM or anything else you can think of COMBINED."
Ha ha ha...no hyperbole now.
velocityjohnno wrote:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-30/cheating-rife-australian-unis-on…
What's the solution to this one, Brains Trust?
Ban all graduates from your workplace's hiring?
Develop an app to detect if their phone has ever gone to a cheating site?
Ask Chegg for an answer?
It really devalues the degrees, if you consider it's not even their own work.
I think the solution is to bring in a limit as to how much you can cheat. Maybe something like "As much information as you can fit on your hand with a ball point pen". Sort of old school cheating in a new world era.
DudeSweetDudeSweet wrote:
Do the reset!
https://culturalhusbandry.substack.com/p/the-great-reset?utm_source=url…
I think the true reset will come when we reach the modern "let them eat cake" scenario. Sri Lanka is a prime example, not so much in the stealth in which the wealth was stolen, but more the end result of a whole nation of people with nothing to show for their every day existence, and there will be more countries in this position in the near future. How long a problem like this takes to reach the financially corrupt rich nations of the world is anyone's guess. But you can't fuck with a human being's instinct to survive in this world forever without any consequences.
Edit: After watching 4 Corners last night I'd be putting my money on the Solomon Islands being the next Sri Lanka.
"It’s a greater threat than the slow creep of Communism, BLM or anything else you can think of COMBINED."
that certainly caught my eye
would've been a good article if old mate left it out, much more effective... he instantly isolated half of the people he needs to wake up...
garyg1412 wrote:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-30/cheating-rife-australian-unis-on…What's the solution to this one, Brains Trust?
Ban all graduates from your workplace's hiring?
Develop an app to detect if their phone has ever gone to a cheating site?
Ask Chegg for an answer?
It really devalues the degrees, if you consider it's not even their own work.
I think the solution is to bring in a limit as to how much you can cheat. Maybe something like "As much information as you can fit on your hand with a ball point pen". Sort of old school cheating in a new world era.
I wonder how much of an actual problem it is. The main Universities have been using anti-plagiarism software for at least 20 years, so I would assume this sort of stuff would be picked up.
Anyone with actual skin in the game, academic or student, care to comment?
"For sound designers, the sonic possibilities of electric vehicles represent the dawn of a new age. “I feel fortunate that I get to work on features that will influence the way the world will sound,” an audio designer at General Motors said.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/what-should-a-nine-thousa…
Another reason to hate El Niño years, apparently it last caused a drop in sea level in the Gulf of Carpentaria resulting in mass die off of mangroves.
The article doesn’t actually explain the relationship between sea levels and El Niño…
Craig? Any suggestions? Is it wind directions? Strong winds from the same direction in Tuggerah Lakes can cause a drop in water levels on one side of the lake.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-02/mangrove-dieback-gulf-of-carpent…
Is pelosi's visit to taiwan the biggest, dumbest, unfolding foriegn policy blunder ever?
sure looking that way...
"Is pelosi's visit to taiwan the biggest, dumbest, unfolding foriegn policy blunder ever?
sure looking that way."
She sees it as a triumphant ending to the arc of her career. She went to Tiananmen after the tanks as a young Senator. She's a grandstanding idiot, bit of insider trading whiff about her and her husband too.
What if China shoot down her plane? Go to war over Nancy?
I don't know, my first impulse is to think it's a show of well directed leadership on the world stage by the US.
All countries need to keep pushing back against China's expansion and enforce things like freely navigating the South China Sea and freely maintaining independent relations with a democratic Taiwan.
It might be a different story if China actually had something culturally, economically or politically etc appealing to contribute to the rest of the world. But there's nothing about Chinese society or its economic and political etc systems that is of any value to the world.
Speaking of policy blunders, in the end the US made the biggest and dumbest foreign policy blunder of all time when in the late 40s it stood idly by and allowed Mao and the communist party, with Russian backing, to seize power in mainland China. At the time the US estimated that China would never become a threat, particularly under a communist government.
The world is now just facing the consequences of that all time gigantic miscalculation.
sypkan wrote:
Is pelosi's visit to taiwan the biggest, dumbest, unfolding foriegn policy blunder ever?
sure looking that way...
So China should be allowed to dictate who visits an independent country?
Distracted wrote:
Another reason to hate El Niño years, apparently it last caused a drop in sea level in the Gulf of Carpentaria resulting in mass die off of mangroves.
The article doesn’t actually explain the relationship between sea levels and El Niño…
Craig? Any suggestions? Is it wind directions? Strong winds from the same direction in Tuggerah Lakes can cause a drop in water levels on one side of the lake.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-02/mangrove-dieback-gulf-of-carpent…
Will have a look into it. Would imagine it'd be linked to persistent winds from a certain direction lowering the sea level on one coast and rising at the opposite.
Hawkish on China since the 90's
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-03/nancy-pelosi-s-long-history-of-c…
This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. Another example of the elderly being shafted by our society
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/03/virtual-nurses-m…
gsco wrote:
I don't know, my first impulse is to think it's a show of well directed leadership on the world stage by the US.
All countries need to keep pushing back against China's expansion and enforce things like freely navigating the South China Sea and freely maintaining independent relations with a democratic Taiwan.
It might be a different story if China actually had something culturally, economically or politically etc appealing to contribute to the rest of the world. But there's nothing about Chinese society or its economic and political etc systems that is of any value to the world.
Speaking of policy blunders, in the end the US made the biggest and dumbest foreign policy blunder of all time when in the late 40s it stood idly by and allowed Mao and the communist party, with Russian backing, to seize power in mainland China. At the time the US estimated that China would never become a threat, particularly under a communist government.
The world is now just facing the consequences of that all time gigantic miscalculation.
Don't know if you've read The Shock Doctrine gsco, but if you haven't, grab yourself a copy sometime and spend a rainy day finding out the side of the USA most of us never got taught in history class.
If you want to question a country's negative contribution culturally, economically or politically to the world since the late 40's then this book will clearly explain that capitalist USA is as void of any decent contributions to the rest of the world as communist China is.
Thanks, I'd heard of it but never gotten to reading it. Is a whopping $18 on amazon so it's on the way.
I'm nearly finished reading a really thought provoking book called Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. It has an interesting chapter on capitalism. Recommended.
"So China should be allowed to dictate who visits an independent country?"
no, they most certainly should not
like most things, its how this administration goes about doing stuff, rather than what they do
peter hatcher on 'the world' last night - a china hawk himself -said something along the lines... 'there's seems to be absolutely no reason for this visit beyond proovocation' ... (and pelosi's end of legacy grandstanding... (me)) and.... ''now is a time for dialogue, rather than the backing of china/themselves into corners'...
pelosi should have just shown up on the quiet if she must go, like most leades do to war zones... (potential)
the biden convo with the Xi didn't go well... if Xi doesn't do something, he looks weak ...if pelosi backs out, they look weak... it's now just all an act of showmanship... at a time when the heat is at about 9...
he / they have basically given Xi an excuse to edge his military closer to the island and war...
for what?
absolutely no strategical gain at all it would seem...
dumb
A return to Cold War brinkmanship ( not showmanship Sypkan). With the doomsday clock edging toward midnight as the ship of geriatric fools leading the US look to expand it’s imperialist ideals on too many fronts. Ukraine and now Taiwan.
As far as US blunders re China, iirc MacArthur certainly wished to extend the Korean war into China (to the point of being regarded as insubordinate) - but surely the biggest blunder has to be granting 'most favoured nation' status to China under the Clinton administration, which paved the way for 5 million US manufacturing jobs to head there. Before that, early 70s saw a pivot to China (Kissenger?) which formed a shift in policy and attempted to include the CCP in the world order.
After WW2 the nationalist (Kuomintang) and communist Chinese fought a civil war (ultimate event of the century of humiliation) with the nationalists retreating to Taiwan, and thus remaining undefeated by the CCP. Unfinished business...
There's also quite a lot of info on this century of humiliation after the implosion of the Qing dynasty, and the idea that 'payback' is a motive for their policy.
China has 5000+ years of civilisation and some very deep and insightful philosophy and spiritual wisdom, priceless stuff.
Yeah interesting fella that one.
Check out his vid where he paddles the Cook River in Sydney.
Enjoyed that Patrick.
Fck the Chinese Govt and Xi Ping.
Paranoid about anything they cant control. Even wanting to dictate how the next Dalai Lama is chosen.
Must be a lot of tiny dicks in their Parliament.
Supporters might ask themselves how many dissidents are around these days?
Seems that what everyone suspected during covid is true. AFR is reporting that surfing was one of the top 3 growing sports during covid and the most popular new sport for women.
AFR wrote:
When the COVID-19 lockdown forced professionals to work from home, a group of young Sydney lawyers used the increased flexibility to meet up for a surf and ride the wave of a massive spike in female participation in the sport.
Surfing was one of the fastest-growing activities during the pandemic, alongside basketball and soccer, with 196,000 people aged 15 or older picking it up in 2020 or last year, according to the latest data from the Australian Sports Commission.
But it was the most popular new sport for women, the report said, with 60 per cent of beginners during the pandemic – nearly 120,000 – being female.
Samichhya Khadka, Lucy Byrne and Stephanie Willis, all aged 29, used the work-from-home lifestyle during lockdown to meet up with a group of other women for a surf before or after they clocked off – a habit they maintained when normalcy returned.
“Surfing is incredibly blissful,” Ms Khadka, who started the pandemic as a lawyer with Ashurst but moved to climate tech software start-up Cecil in January, told The Australian Financial Review.
“You definitely notice a change in mood when you go in the morning, so I feel very lucky to live and work close to the beach. The only problem is that you never want to leave the waves.”
The group took a few one-hour lessons to hone their skills before making a routine of meeting up at Bondi Beach or Maroubra.
And while 72 per cent of surfers are men, according to the ASC, Ms Willis, a planning and environment lawyer at Dentons, said that heading out on to the waves with friends helped ease any trepidation they had.
“It is very intimidating going out and seeing no other women, but at Bondi there’s sometimes 50 per cent women out there and usually at least one other group,” she said.
“Lots of them are really encouraging of the younger female surfers. There’s lots of camaraderie, and you do notice more and more women.”
Karina Lee, a wedding photographer whose work has been featured in Vogue Australia, also got addicted to surfing during the pandemic.
The 33-year-old, who grew up in Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast but now also calls Sydney home, says she can get out on the board five times a week as she runs her own business. And while she was a competitive rhythmic gymnast until the age of 23, which left her with strong body awareness and co-ordination, Ms Lee still took lessons to avoid danger.
“You’re reacting to the ocean, unlike a gymnastics floor which is always the same,” she said.
“It can be a difficult sport that puts you in your place. One day, you get a great wave, and the next, there’s nothing. But I’m hooked.”
NSW remains Australia’s capital of surfing, according to Ausplay, with nearly 43 per cent of participants, followed by Queensland with 21.6 per cent, Victoria with 15.7 per cent and WA with 12.2 per cent.
And in its drive to keep supporting the growth of female participation, Surfing NSW has announced that Adslot chief financial officer Felicity Conlan will join its board on Monday, alongside Audible Australia manager Ben Rolleston.
“We need to support women and make sure they have the confidence to compete, have fun, and embrace surfing – it leads to health and vitality,” Ms Conlan said.
Surfing NSW chairman John O’Neill said the new pair would bring expertise in technology, finance and oversight of operational management to the board’s ranks.
I wonder where the ASC gets those numbers from? The only formal count is via Surfing Australia which has fewer than 20,000 members.
Also, this quote:
"Surfing was one of the fastest-growing activities during the pandemic, alongside basketball and soccer..."
Soccer effectively stopped during the pandemic, as did most team sports, it's the reason solo sports such as surfing, mountain biking, and kayaking boomed.
But yeah, in general I agree with the premise that surfing numbers increased, with a greater percentage being women.
ABC tonight.
Backroads about French Island Vic. So very uplifting about a community.
4 Courners about the United Nations. So so upsetting and demoralising.
30 minutes of propaganda...
foklowed by 30 minutes of cutting questions
with 30 minutes of inadequate answers...
'the new labor government offers a chance for a reset...'
tell him he's dreaming!
the charade is up
But nobody is dreaming by following this charade ;);)
Oh yes…. Double standards, lies and manipulation will serve us better than trying to pretend that our livelihoods won’t have anything to do with having a good relationship with our biggest trading partner… ummmm ….ok. And where are those devices made that you use to get your ‘news’ from again? ;)
You know - ‘our’ propaganda…
;););)
- ‘person who exercises supreme command and control over armed forces’
- ‘a chief executive with the political mandate to undertake discretionary decision-making’
;););)
my device is made in south korea
I make a point of it, about time various governments did the same...
not likely (or not timely) whilst the billionaire class that actually rule the world are so heavily invested
the pulling of teeth takes time
fwiw, i believe we should have good relations with china, but all that trade, reliance, and being so intertwined makes it impossible
our systems are incompatible and have grown apart
the exact opposite of the lemon the great globalists sold us...
What exactly is Australia's foreign policy objective when it comes to China?
Excellent and timely perspective
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/why-i-yearn-for-the-days-when-lose…
gsco wrote:
What exactly is Australia's foreign policy objective when it comes to China?
'strategic ambiguity'
...with a touch of pig iron bob and biden-esque no fucking idea thrown in...
Haha seems legit Patrick. That was funny. I’ll have to give that movie a watch.
Segue to Nicaragua ~ The Jaguar Smile, great book...
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-jaguar-smile-salman-rushdie/book/97800…
...as is this one
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-country-under-my-skin-a-memoir-of-love…
Nicaragua is an interesting and fascinating country. Good surf too
"Haha seems legit Patrick. That was funny. I’ll have to give that movie a watch." Same here, I haven't seen it, just came across a funny clip.
Why aren’t you into the scrub turkeys?
They do a good job of taking up leaf litter around our place ….rather them use it to build an interesting nest than have it lay there as firestarters during summer.
Funny how they roost in trees.
Besides…you may be eating them come the apocalypse.
BTW…did you know Stallone was bullimic during preparation for Rambo 2?
Have it cunts