What made you happy today?

[stui magpie]

Mansuite is the best description I can give it.

Dunny, hand basin and mirror, wardrobes, storage, bookshelf, filing cabinet and gunsafe. Ensuite just doesn't work.

[think positive]

its a yukky word anyway! it doesnt roll off the tongue! mansuite is better!!!

almost finished christmas shopping - most of it online! i got 8 deliveries today, a couple for work, most for the kids! once in the gym, once in the shower, and then hubby comes running in at about 8 and says quick grab your camera, so ive been running around the street all day in dressing gowns!

[luvdids]

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Had a lovely day with Mrs WPT today. Doing the garden, went out for brunch, just “being”.

Getting two more hours twice a week for Mum. She now has:

Daily district nursing
Cleaning now twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays
A companion once a week to assist her to shop and some basic cooking

Now to sort dinner a few times a week. 😊

[think positive]

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Spin class Saturday morning (first time on a bike since the GVBR finished last Sunday)
In the garden all day yesterday with Mrs WPT, garden starting to look a treat

Rode to Frankston and back this morning: magnificent day; barely any wind at 7am. Rode with two others, one guy stopped at Mordicalloc and had to go back for "family reasons" while I rode with a woman who was on her first ride to Frankston (she rode from Port Melbourne to our starting point in Elwood on Beach Road).

She did a good job too: we were doing about 25km's/hr from Mordy to Franga. She turned off to have breakfast with her Mum who lives in Frankston.

I continued on & did Olivers Hill (got to 62 km's / hour) then return. In Frankston I followed two blokes heading south who were motoring (32-38km's/hr) they in effect dragged me all the way to Edithvale and between Edithvale & Aspendale they burnt me off (I just couldn't maintain it). Stopped in Mordy for Coffee then rode home.

Multiple detours today because of a (mini-triathlon) from Brighton - Beaumauris. As it transpires my oldest's boyfriend did the mini-marathon and came second! Good on him (epecially good as he hasn't done it for a while)

[think positive]

Well done mate, hard yakka!

I did a shoot with 2 little babies Friday, first shoot since I got my studio space back, came out fantastic, so much easier to control the light than in a lounge room!
Yesterday I did a shoot for sisters, 4 and 6. The 4 year old cracked the sads half way through but I got some great shots. I’ve never met the kids or the mum, I was asked to do the shoot by the mum of a some kids that have modelled for me before. The six year old just finished her second year of chemo and radiation. I’m not sure exactly what for. As Fiona did all those years ago when she sliced her face to ribbons, this kid left me humbled, awestruck and when She left, heartbroken. So $�$%^%%$ cruel how can there be a god? Kids should get sick like this. Her mum asked me to edit out her nose tube and bandages, it will take a while but I’m determined to do a great job. She sparkled. She glowed with joy. She taught me...so much. 6 years old but so courageous. And I’m left again to thank my lucky stars for my healthy kids. Cheers

[Pi]

Finally,

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/merlino-calls-on-universities-to-make-maths-a-prerequisite-subject-20191210-p53ior.html

The 'woke' studies facilitators are not going to be happy; i'm sure they'll find a sheltered workshop somewhere.

[David]

[Pi]

^
Because the people who teach woke studies usually avoid having to do basic arithmetic, so they downgrade it while promoting jobs for their graduates.

It has to be a back to basics approach. True intellectual diversity in both academic and academic administrative departments might go along way to improving outcomes.

[David]

I'm not entirely sure what you're grouping within "woke studies", but it strikes me that there are plenty of subject areas that don't really require basic arithmetic – or certainly, have no capacity for teaching it at a tertiary level – and that this doesn't make them worthless. Consider, for instance, History, Linguistics, English, Classics, Philosophy, Media and Communications, Film Studies, Political Science, Anthropology, Criminology, Geography, Sociology and Visual Arts, just for starters. I do think STEM is hugely important, but it's not the be all and end all of education.

[Pi]

When I refer to 'woke' studies its generally Humanities departments, who over the last fifty years have been encroaching into other disciplines with compulsory 'sensitivity' courses shoehorned in. Its now become unbalanced to the detriment of students.

I dont see the mathematics professor knocking on the door of the gender studies department insisting they learn how to do statistical calculation and analysis. Ironic since they love quoting statistics but are unable to work with raw data in a meaningful way.

check this guy out.
https://www.theage.com.au/education/in-china-nicholas-studied-maths-20-hours-a-week-in-australia-it-s-three-20191203-p53ggv.html

Now; you might think this guys schooling is out of balance; i'm not so sure.

lets take your list:

Criminology, you will probably need trigonometry at some point to work out bullet angles.

Geography; again, navigation and map analysis requires trigonometry and geometry for map surveys.

Media and Communications; wavelengths and signal flow kind of matter for signal transmission.

Anthropology; statistics and analyzing and compiling raw data.

Im not saying the rest of them are worthless but in today's world less would be more at this point in time.

[Wokko]

Needing maths in order to study something like History is ridiculous. Not everybody is inclined towards STEM type subjects both at high school and university.

I'd be more inclined to remove things like "Gender Studies" and other subjective entirely progressive/left social subjects from HECS funding and make them upfront fee only. They add nothing to the country or the participants and are just a propaganda production line.

There are certainly some valuable classes and majors within the arts faculty but too many of those faculties are entirely taken over by the political left. Diversity of opinion, both from staff and students and a vigorous commitment to free speech would go a long way to improving university.

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