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Science fiction movie from 1967.
Cyborg 2087.
Free on YouTube at https://youtu.be/9vGu55liVMM
Synopsis from Wikipedia:
Seems somewhat familiar now.
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Seems somewhat familiar now.
Naaah, we don’t have time travel.
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Of course we do – it’s just going forward. Duh.
But of course you’d need a parallel time stream to avoid the time loop ping-pong conundrum.
Anti-time will really mess with your head. 😉
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Of course, that one speed conveyor that all us mere mortals get to travel on. It’s travel but not the kind that you bother to write home about.
I was actually thinking of traveling forward, backward, upward, downward, slantwise, everything that Willy Wonker would want.
Now that’s something to write about, hell, you could even make movies about it.
Can I get a grant to cover this development?
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Of course you can!
Just add the words “climate”, “DEI”, “equality” or “trans” in your application.
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Ukraine the Largest Money Laundering Scam in Modern History
“The pardon Biden gave his son identified these two cases and any offenses that Hunter Biden “committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024. However, reliable sources suggest that Hunter was involved with the bio-labs in Ukraine before 2014 to the extent that Putin wanted to discuss Hunter’s involvement with Papa Biden. You cannot accept money from a foreign government without registering as an agent of that government. Ukraine has been the largest money laundering scam in modern history.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/ukraine-the-largest-money-laundering-scam-in-modern-history/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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https://ukrainesurrogacy.com/programmes/basic-surrogacy-programme/ “Ukraine surrogacy is possibly the best option globally for married couples seeking to have a family through a legal surrogacy arrangement. Surrogacy Ukraine and assisted reproduction is governed by multiple acts including Article 123, Part 2 of the Family Code of Ukraine which expressly regulates the affiliation of a child born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies and a surrogacy programme.
In addition, Article 139 of the Family Code of Ukraine, specifically Part 2 of this Article, stipulates that contesting maternal affiliation of a genetic mother by a gestational carrier is prohibited. Therefore, when engaging in surrogacy in Ukraine with properly drafted legal contracts, the child is legally considered to be the child of the intended parents from the very moment of conception.”
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Biden will also pardon himself and his brother.
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He might do so, but I think there is a higher authority that has the final say.
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Sounds Right! – How Bidenomics Works
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Other carcinogenic viruses, such as herpes simplex virus, can also be activated during immune suppression associated with COVID-19 “vaccines.” One of the tumors associated with this latent virus is the deadly glioblastoma multiforme tumor, a highly aggressive brain tumor resistant to most conventional treatments. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10695344/
Australian of the year Professor Scolyer, 57, was diagnosed with glioblastoma IDH wild-type in early June last year and became “patient zero” in a pioneering immunotherapy approach that has produced remarkable results.
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Professor Ian Brighthope
Dangers of the Vaccine, https://youtu.be/qaCc8NobSvk
An Extract From “The Great Debate” 29/11/2024
Is there still a chance for you?
The Great Debate, Port Hedland vs The Premier, Perth, WA
In response to the W.A. Premier Roger Cooks attacks on the Port Hedland Council motion: Exposing the misinformation and disinformation regarding the COVID-19 jab DNA contamination issue.
featuring:
Senator Malcolm Roberts
Russell Broadbent MP
Professor Gigi Foster
Professor Ian Brighthope
Julian Gillespie
Katie Ashby-Koppens
Rebekah Barnett
Simian virus DNA sequence (a cancer-accelerator) now proven to be present in Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines:
https://youtu.be/qaCc8NobSvk?si=rjb7jzF5ap6Zq6KW&t=1117
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369967228_Sequencing_of_bivalent_Moderna_and_Pfizer_mRNA_vaccines_reveals_nanogram_to_microgram_quantities_of_expression_vector_dsDNA_per_dose
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https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/australian-government-will-not-suspend – “For a decision maker to make such a large impactful decision that would unduly worry Australians, the evidence relied upon must be legally, scientifically, and clinically sound.”
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Anthony Fauci called RFK Jr. a liar for stating that not one of the 72 vaccines mandated for children has ever been safety tested*.
In response, RFK Jr. took legal action, and after a year of delays, Fauci’s lawyers conceded that RFK Jr. had been correct.
“There’s no downstream liability, there’s no front-end safety testing… and there’s no marketing and advertising costs, because the federal government is ordering 78 million school kids to take that vaccine every year.”
“What better product could you have? And so there was a gold rush to add all these new vaccines to the schedule… because if you get onto that schedule, it’s a billion dollars a year for your company.”
“So we got all of these new vaccines, 72 shots, 16 vaccines… And that year, 1989, we saw an explosion in chronic disease in American children… ADHD, sleep disorders, language delays, ASD, autism, Tourette’s syndrome, ticks, narcolepsy.”
“Autism went from one in 10,000 in my generation… to one in every 34 kids today.”
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1861748409973026909
There’s no money to be made in curing people, but a patient for life makes $$$$$$.
But now we have the Fakevax ™ fiasco, duplicating and exceeding the vax crimes of the past.
But wait, you also get the dna contamination and exosome shedding nightmare building right now.
Anyone have a genome extrapolation algorithm and access to a supercomputer? 😎
There are some thing money won’t buy a solution to. 😉
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My ongoing critique of floating wind. We now have secondary entanglement and more broadly mooring line web harassment.
The California offshore wind environmental impact statement is full of holes
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/02/the-california-offshore-wind-environmental-impact-statement-is-full-of-holes/
Some key excerpts:
“BOEM is taking comments on a draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for its five floating wind offshore leases off the California coast. I am doing research prior to commenting and this is my first report which other commenters might find useful. The comment deadline is February 12 so the final EIS will be under the Trump Administration. This may make comments opposing the Program more important than they have been previously when they were mostly ignored.
For the PEIS and how to comment see https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/state-activities/california-offshore-wind-programmatic-environmental-impact ”
“The systematic harassment of large numbers of endangered and protected species of whales and other animals is not discussed. In fact the term “harassment” only occurs twice in the entire main report. Death due to noise harassment is one of the top adverse impacts of offshore wind.
Moreover floating wind introduces a major non-acoustic form of harassment. This is the 3D web of potentially thousands of mooring cables each of which could be up to a mile long. We may be talking about hundreds of square miles of deep ocean literally filled with webs of cables. Harassment is defined as causing behavioral change on a protected animal’s part and these monstrous webs will certainly do that.
The PEIS does briefly mention the threat of “secondary entanglement” in the nets, lines and other debris that are caught on the cables over time. The potential adverse effects of this deadly accumulation needs to be assessed in detail.”
“Lastly there is an extensive economics section but no mention of cost. Development of these five leases will likely cost ratepayers and taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, possibly hundreds of billions, but these staggering sums are never quantified. Job creation is treated in detail as a benefit when jobs are in fact a cost.”
More in the article. Please share it.
Floating wind looks worse all the time.
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You Tube 1 hr 08 Min 11 Secs – Australia – The Real Cost of Net Zero: The shocking truth of the renewable energy push
Sky News Australia reveals the true cost of the race to renewable energy in an exclusive investigation by political contributor Chris Uhlmann.
1,943 Comments
– Destroying Australia’s beautiful environment in order to save the environment. How could that not be a con? 🤡🤬
– What a great Doco, should be played on all Major National television stations across Australia.
– Brilliant report by Chris Uhlmann. Covers all the things Blackout Bowen doesn’t want to talk about at all.
– Chris Uhlmann should take on Chris Bowen as a work experience student. Bowen might learn some of the energy logic before he sends our Australia broke. So sad.
– I weep for this once-great nation
– What happened to: “LED lights will save the world.” We all installed LED’s and nothing has changed, our power bills keep rising. Now it’s solar and wind but our power bills just keep rising. What’s next ? Wood fires ?
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GasoMetrics!
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Meta Becomes Latest Tech Giant To Embrace Nuclear Power With Open Arms
We wrote back in early November that Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told Meta workers that plans to build an AI data center powered by nuclear energy were scrapped after rare bees were discovered on the proposed site.
Now it looks like things could be back on track, according to new reporting from Axios, who writes that Meta is joining industry heavyweights like Amazon and Google in exploring nuclear energy as a zero-carbon solution.
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[Snip – Had to remove some. Copying and pasting 60% of the article exceeds “fair use” guidelines. Closer to 10% would be better. Please consider for other posts. Thanks for sharing. – Raquel]
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More bad news for the Covid v*xed
https://slaynews.com/news/covid-vaccines-feed-cancer-cells-help-tumors-resist-treatment/
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My angst today is aimed at the once great Commonwealth Bank of Australia privatised by John Howard then rebranded CBA. After recording humungous profits every year since they now want to levy a charge to withdraw your cash, that they have been using on the overnight currency exchange system to boost earnings even more, if you want to withdraw it. They also intend to levy an account keeping fee on the most popular account.
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Isn’t the mortgage lending up around 100:1 of the deposits these days? High enough to make sure no-one gets their money back if we all want it at once.
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Heh…even with FRB, fractional reserve banking, at 10% you won’t all get your money back on demand.
That’s what the masses have no idea of.
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Bob Hawke was the PM in September, 1991, when the CBA IPO went ahead. Not John Howard.
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Thanks I’ve just reread that little bit of history and I note Paul Keating was also involved.
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It would have been Keating’s baby.
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When was it “rebranded CBA”? That’s just its ASX stock identifier.
If you want a rueful laugh, check out the explanation of their 2020 logo:
Marketing types — different planet!
(Have to admit that we did indeed have canned lives in 2020)
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Well, CIA in Korea? Did the President not do what he was told and now undergoes a colour revolution? I wonder if the invasion force of 40,000 troops the Yanks have there are out on the streets making sure if all works correctly?
North Korea gets the blame of course, the Yanks will double-down on them for sending troops to Ukraine, although interviews with Ukie troops in Kursk said they hadn’t a Korean anywhere.
““Through this state of emergency martial law, I will rebuild and protect the free Republic of Korea, which is falling into the abyss of national ruin. To this end, I will definitely eradicate the root causes of national ruin and the anti-state forces that have persistently engaged in malicious conduct.””
That sounds like introducing tyranny to protect freedom, as all the politicians love to do!
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Seems to have backed down – 2130Z/3rd
Auto
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Yes. The lawmakers scaled fences and made their way past armed guards to vote 190 to 0 against the martial law, so it was rescinded at 4am EST.
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Do you have proof of CIA involvement? A serious charge if baseless.
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FWIW
“Is DuckDuck Go Biased To MSM? I Think So.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/is-duckduck-go-biased-to-msm-i-think-so/
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Ask Google, they’ll tell you the answer.
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They capitulated several years ago when they aligned with Google
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I use Brave’s search engine if I fear political bias. Works sometimes.
search dot brave dot com
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Note to Kim: Aunty could learn a lot from Joe Rogan
The ABC chairman might want to show more curiosity about the roaring media success of Joe Rogan. After all, Rogan represents another counterculture revolt against the tut-tutting self-righteousness at many of our institutions, including the ABC.
Janet Albrechtsen Columnist
The newish and urbane chairman of the ABC might want to show more curiosity about the roaring online media success of Joe Rogan.
After all, Rogan and others like him represent another counterculture revolt against the tut-tutting self-righteousness at many of our institutions, including in the media – and most certainly at the ABC.
Williams’s gut reaction to Rogan – describing his podcasts as “deeply repulsive” for preying on people’s vulnerabilities – explains in a nutshell why Rogan and others like him are media sensations.
Williams appears to have completely missed this cultural shift. His default denunciation of Rogan was one heck of an own goal for him and the ABC. Why didn’t he try to at least fake some interest? Instead, many saw an uninquisitive new chairman reinforcing a lack of curiosity downstream at the public broadcaster.
Normal programming at the ABC means a smorgasbord of ill-informed, unquestioning stories about bad men (toxic masculinity) and poor women (gender pay gaps). The $1bn-plus annual direct transfer from taxpayers to the ABC doesn’t stretch to employing a single contrarian journalist to question this constant diet of sanctimonious lectures at the ABC.
The overpaid geniuses at the ABC could do worse than listen to a few Rogan podcasts.
If Rogan is “appalling” – as Williams claims (though he says he’s not a listener)
– put it down to an equal and opposite reaction to a puritanical decade that preceded Rogan’s rise to fame and fortune.
The ABC’s business model of po-faced institutionalised taking of offence is dying.
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From the Comments
– What has four corners but only one side?
– Just watch Insiders on a Sunday morning and you see what’s wrong with our ABC. Unfortunately you have to wait till February as the people involved in the show are totally exhausted and in need of revitalisation. Wish I had such a long break when I was working…
– The big problem for the total LaborGreenTeal people is that if the ABC goes or at least gets back to a normal 50/50 non biased charter, they have nowhere else to go.
Just like when Twitter was taken over by Musk.
– I’ve given up on the Free to Air TV Channels. They will die away like in the USA.
So many bad things by Labor/Greens/Teals that they are allowed to get away with.
The ABC is just a (Taxpayer funded) propaganda unit for Labor/Greens/Teals and attack dog against the coalition.
– The ABC, Australia’s most (un)trusted news source.
– Great article again Janet. Joe Rogan is not an intellectual, who is? He must be one of the most knowledgable blokes on earth. He asks all the right questions, warts and all. He interviews anybody and everybody and the dialogue goes forever. Real conversations, straight talking with real people, most have been there done that, no matter what vocation. Highly recommended podcast.
– The ABC. About as popular as a horse and cart in a lift.
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It appears I am not alone in my disgust at what their ABC dishes up for content. The all think it is cute to be smarmy, know-it-alls. So-called reporters impose their opinions on the people they interview rather than seeking the other’s opinion.
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One of many examples of why we can be disgusted at what the ABC dishes up.
https://joannenova.com.au/2012/12/abc-doco-uncut-evans-nova-minchin-and-rose-the-full-unedited-video/
The story by Jo about her interview on the ABC is from 12 years ago, but nothing has changed. As evidenced by the ABC’s adding in the sound of gun shots to the audio of a story about Aus soldiers in 2022 and only recently taken down with the ABC news director describing it as “Incorrectly edited”.
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I see the much under-reported umbrella crime has reared it’ ugly head –
Lawyers rubbing their hands together on this one.
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Which political party will want to adopt him as a candidate?
Oh damn – he identifies as a man so no publicity on the ABC.
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I’m not sure the phrase “army veteran” is being used appropriately by journos.
I like this paragraph-
I’m sure he’ll work pro bono.
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President momentarily loses mind.
‘South Korea’s rightwing president has been forced to back down after he unexpectedly declared martial law only to face unanimous opposition from the national assembly, in the most serious challenge to the country’s democracy since the 1980s.’ (Guardian)
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Return to old-school teaching sends NAPLAN results through roof – LIST OF TOP SCHOOLS
An old-school teaching method known as explicit instruction has lifted student performance in this year’s NAPLAN tests of literacy and numeracy – SEE THE LIST of schools making a difference
NATASHA BITA
A Catholic school cluster has shot to success in this year’s NAPLAN results, after abandoning failed teaching fads through the nation’s biggest experiment in the science of learning.
A return to the old-school teaching style of “direct instruction’’ has delivered academic dividends for 23,000 students at 56 Catholic schools in the ACT and Goulburn, based on the NAPLAN) results for 9629 schools to be made public on Wednesday.
The Catholic schools make up 13 of the 20 schools flagged by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority as “making a difference’’ in the ACT.
Just a quarter of schools in the ACT are Catholic, yet they make up two-thirds of ACARA’s list of schools that out-performed others with a similar background of parental occupation and education.
For years the Catholic schools had underperformed – until the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn embraced direct instruction, also known as “explicit teaching’’, through the Catalyst project in 2020.
Four years later, the schools have caught up to deliver their best-ever NAPLAN results.
Mr Fox said teachers were saving five hours a week in lesson preparation because the Catalyst program provides high-quality lesson plans and “commonsense curriculum materials” used in all classrooms.
The Catalyst program is based on the scientific concept of “cognitive load theory’’, to ensure new information is embedded in students’ long-term memory. Students are not overwhelmed with new information, and are given time to practise and repeat concepts until they’ve mastered them.
Teachers direct and closely monitor students’ learning – a reversal of the failed fad of “student-directed learning’’ that expected students to “lead their own learning journey’’.
Catalyst was designed by Knowledge Society, which is also working on explicit instruction techniques with 26 Catholic schools in the Geelong region, 51 schools in the Sandhurst Diocese in Victoria, and 20 public schools in Western Australia.
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A revolution is now underway in our classrooms
ELENA DOUGLAS
The latest round of NAPLAN results released by the Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority confirm that schools, in any postcode, that improve their curriculum and lessons, implement explicit teaching and an evidence-based approach to reading instruction can surge ahead in learning outcomes.
The data couldn’t be clearer: regardless of socio-economic context, high-performing schools are nearly exclusively those that privilege evidence-based teaching and learning, including explicit instruction and a knowledge-rich curriculum.
Take the achievement of the first program of its kind to lead the change to explicit instruction across a whole system: the Catalyst program. In 2019, the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn, under the leadership of Ross Fox, introduced an Australian-first program to support its teachers to implement explicit instruction and evidence-based reading in every classroom in every school.
Catalyst was implemented in 56 schools across NSW and the ACT and has involved significant investment in professional learning of teachers and leaders over five years.
It’s a natural experiment because the government system did not change its practice and the Catholic and state system in the ACT have very similar demographics. The performance of the Catholic schools in the ACT can be compared with those of the ACT government, which made no practice change at the time.
After five years of committed change, the results are in. So, what happened? The data released by ACARA this week shows 13 out of the top 20 performing schools in the ACT are Catholic schools. Given that the Catholic system accounts for 20 per cent of ACT schools, having 65 per cent of the top performing schools represents a clear demonstration that the Catalyst program has delivered results.
Catalyst has been high profile enough to be copied and emulated. The resources developed for it are available publicly and have been shared widely. It is a rolling revolution, now bearing fruits in better learning outcomes.
Noel Pearson, long-time advocate for evidence-based reading instruction and explicit teaching, said it was the “best thing that has happened in Australian education in 20 years”.
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Nostalgia – as one who did Latin up to 4th year High School, sat for Intermediate Certificate Latin but dropped for Leaving Certificate, as too many subjects & did French instead
The Ongoing Decline of Languages and Literature
Part 1, by Jane Petkovic
My mother was a born teacher. Educated at the academically-selective Sydney Girls’ High School, she matriculated to the University of Sydney. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Latin and Ancient History (1953) and a post-graduate Diploma in Education (1954), she began an uninterrupted teaching career in New South Wales state high schools which lasted until her retirement in 1991.
My mother also had a historian’s heart. This meant the labelling and long-term retention of a large number of documents. Amongst these were some Latin public examination papers for the Intermediate Certificate, which students took after three years of high school instruction, and the more demanding Leaving Certificate, taken by a smaller cohort two years later. These were the public exams that pre-dated the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate, established by 1966 in New South Wales.
Looking through those early exam papers, together with some of my mother’s teaching notes, and then-current Latin textbooks, I have been wondering how high school education has fared since.
How does the current academic content of high school subjects and public exams compare with what went before?
This last question some would find provocative.
It assumes that the chief purpose of education is academic—understood broadly—and that the public examination papers provide a sound and readily-available means of making comparisons, and drawing conclusions from them.
The very notion of academic educational content has attracted increasing criticism since the 1960s.
The educational establishment largely abandoned the idea of an intellectual cultural deposit that teachers should pass on. The logical outcome of this was seen around 1971, when state departments of education ceased to provide syllabuses. Schools had to devise their own curricula, and textbooks fell out of favour. Teachers therefore had no reliable fall-back to facilitate lesson-planning and classroom exercises.
Every lesson became unrealistically burdensome.
As went the content, so went the structure of staged progression, of providing and then building upon foundational skills and knowledge. Perhaps it is no coincidence that by the latter part of the twentieth century, education departments struggled to attract and retain teachers with moderately sound competency, not to say, interest, in their teaching subject.
This may seem counter-intuitive, as by 1991, all teacher training in New South Wales was delivered by universities.
Teacher training became less an apprenticeship when put in the hands of educational instructors more theoretically interested in teaching than practically experienced in it.
New South Wales government figures for 2022 show that a slim 7 per cent of the HSC candidature studied a language other than English. By comparison, in the 1979 School Certificate, 11 per cent of candidates sat French, and a tiny 1 per cent sat Latin.
In my mother’s first year of teaching, 1955, over a third of the Intermediate Certificate candidature sat French, and nearly 13 per cent sat Latin.
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All right then, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
But seriously, I enjoyed the four years of compulsory Latin at Unley High School which was bolstered by J P Giles, the co-author of the Latin textbook that every SA student was compelled to use. He had a pass threshold of 97%! Failing students quivered when his beady eyes settled on their forehead as he drew a chalk cross and said “why don’t you know your work, you neuter-ninny. “ JPG honed his skills as a teacher by interrogating WW2 Japanese POWs.
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You may well have enjoyed it, but what else did you miss out on learning during that 4 year period ?
Learning Japanese, Chinese, Russian, German, etc,….?
Or these days a Computer coding language ?
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Chad,
It isn’t a zero-sum game. Learning *more* often equips you to learn more still.
As for learning a “Computer coding language”, that’s not a role for schools (or universities) in my book. Programming’s pretty easy to learn if you want to. What might inspire more kids to *want* to is if they were taught exactly how a computer works. That’s simple enough that even quite a few teachers could understand it.
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There are only a finite number of hours in a teaching year, and whilst some pupils may well get inspired enough to self learn beyond those limits, you will agree that a competant teacher is much more effective for correct understanding and direction of learning.
Any time spent on “fringe” subjects such as latin, could be much better utilised on more life relavent subjects..
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I did Latin for four years and wasn’t much good at it, with an uninspring teacher. However, I have still felt it relevant to my life. It has helped me with understanding modern languages and the derivation of words. I later learnt a smattering of Greek, in its various ‘editions’, including the Greek Cypriot. That also helped with understanding words, including many modern hybrid ones.
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You can bet all your assets that the MSM will rally together to avoid making this news public or being involved in any debate on the subject.
Can’t have students being inquisitive now! That leads to all sorts of narrative non compliance!!
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IS the australian not mainstream? Anyway, you know that I’ve looked this up and it is all over the place on MSM so give me your assets.
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We now need the rush of sxxt to the brain over global warming and solar/wind
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World temps stuck on a high plateau.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_November_2024_v6.1_20x9-scaled.jpg
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Bah… I only had one job and you’ve done it
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Just like most of the others who are employed in the ACT. 😉
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How is Australia looking Geoff?
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See a few posts below, Graeme. We have had on average, the last 17 months with no warming trend by the least squares data fit method.
Compare that to what BOM produces for near land surface temperatures and explain any differences.
Geoff S
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Thanks Geoff. When the BOM replace cooler temp measuring sites such as Cockatoo Island off the coast near Derby with a very hot site such as Curtin airfield, plus add more inland temp measuring sites, then homogenise the cooler costal sites with hotter inland sites, it’s no wonder the temp averages increase.
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Wow, almost enough data for two points on a real climate graph.
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“enough data for two points on a real climate graph.”
Still it would be nice to run ENSO/PDO against that graph . But then that would just be weather wouldn’t it?
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What a waste of resources! A real ecofadist would need only one!
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Just in time for Christmas
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Good grief!
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If they had nucular you could believe this
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Remember , Chernoble is in the Ukraine !
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Wasn’t that supposed to be the “Neukraine”?
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-02/tasmanian-club-allows-women-in-bar-if-accompanied-by-a-man/104671150
If they can’t define “what is a woman” what is a Man?
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Here is the UAH satellite monthly temperature data updated to include November just ended. I show it here as the “pause” popularised by Viscount Monckton.
The 17 months of present pause might lengthen rapidly if the temperature continues to fall, bringing in more months from earlier years, sometimes a few months at a time, as well as more recent months as they happen one at at time.
The shape of the recent high peak is more muted than that of the globe as a whole. North Polar warming numbers suggest the reason, as they are not being reflected in the South polar region. I cannot see much effect from the volcanic episode at Hunga Tonga, but that is a matter of personal subjectivity and I could be wrong. More and more it seems that these atmospheric temperatures are caused by ocean temperature variations, namely whether hot pools or cold pools of water dominate the surface pattern. Dr Bill Kininmonth, a senior scientist of the BOM, explained this years ago, as Jo reminds us now and then.
Those who favour CO2 as the control knob for global temperatures require a better explanation of why the warming that CO2 is supposed to control quite often becomes no warming or cooling.
When you put a saucepan on your cook top, you expect it to heat your food at a steady rate with no cooling intervals. What interrupts alleged CO2 warming to allow cooling to happen?
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahdec2024.jpg
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Thanks for the chart.
Dec 2022 had no linear warming trend for 10 years 5 months.
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahdec2022.jpg
Dec 2023 had no linear warming trend for 11 years 3 months.
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahdec2023.jpg
and Dec 2024 chart has no positive warming trend over last 17 months
https://www.geoffstuff.com/uahdec2024.jpg
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Does that mean we don’t have a warming trend over Australia for over 12 years?
Do you have a chart of the full data period?
Thanks.
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Strop,
We do have a UAH warming trend of a bit below 0.2 deg C per century equivalent over the last 12 years, but that is a trend that has other interests.
A purpose of these Monckton style “pause” charts is to assist in prediction of cusps or turning points and to show their evolution month by month.
Dr Spencer has calculated the long term trends of warming from the 1970s, for an overall view not particularly related to cusps.
Does thius help?
I can make a 12-year map if you really want one, but it is not my prime line of interest just now. Let me know.
Thanks for your comment. Geoff
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‘I cannot see much effect from the volcanic episode at Hunga Tonga … ‘
Could it be that the Northern Hemisphere was impacted more than the Southern Hemisphere?
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Tucker Carlson is Back in Moscow, Russia, to Interview Sergey Lavrov
December 3, 2024 – Sundance
Congratulations to Tucker Carlson for gaining re-entry visas during a time when Russia has essentially locked down their visitor entry process.
Tucker Carlson has announced he is back in Moscow, Russia for an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. WATCH:
This should be an exceptional interview at a very critical time in the transition of U.S. power.
Below is a transcript of the recent comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin remarking on President Donald Trump.
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Transcript of the Tucker Carlson video above – https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/tucker-carlson-is-back-russia-will-interview-sergey/
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‘ … risking the life of every person on this planet?’
Hyperbole, take your bat and ball home and the Europeans will battle on without the sooks.
Appeasement won’t work, victory to Ukraine.
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The shape of light: Scientists reveal image of an individual photon for 1st time ever
Researchers in Birmingham have created the first image of a photon, a lemon-shaped particle of light emitted from the surface of a nanoparticle. The theory that made this image possible, reported Nov. 14 in the journal Physical Review Letters, enables scientists to calculate and understand various properties of these quantum particles — which could open up a range of new possibilities across fields such as quantum computing, photovoltaic devices and artificial photosynthesis.
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/quantum-physics/the-shape-of-light-scientists-reveal-image-of-an-individual-photon-for-1st-time-ever
Not what I expected.
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But one shape only? Think they were saying that photons can change shape depending on their environment?
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Bumped from yesterday’s discussion on Bovaer
“In Australia, as part of their commitment to wokeness and ESG, Coles suppliers use this drug in cattle. They call it a “supplement” but the (US) FDA call it a drug.
https://www.colesgroup.com.au/media-releases/?page=coles-boosts-sustainability-in-beef-production-with-expanded-use-of-supplement ”
Here is Meat and Livestock Australia on that –
https://www.mla.com.au/research-and-development/Environment-sustainability/bovaer10-your-questions-answered/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0J0WjxUzm1sPL8KSvcyHQlh_v1SX6KJBWMTcT-9hPh9QTBAubLWR94GFw_aem_TYWS0bVQJ83pmAezHy-a3A
I haven’t had a chance to flea it to see if they have clicked to “supplement” or “drug”
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FWIW
“Here’s why Tucker Carlson has returned to Moscow.”
https://twitter.com/i/status/1864092222091657502
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/heres-why-tucker-carlson-has-returned-to-moscow.html
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