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Doctors told to make beds and clean sinks
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523906/hutt-hospital-doctors-told-to-make-beds-clean-sinks
Is this Lester Levy’s solution to improving wait times?
Have you been affected by health worker shortages or budget cuts? Share your story with kate.green@rnz.co.nz
Great to see Venezuela’s civil society standing up against election interference.
Venezuela stands in contrast to failed soft-left losers like Whitlam in Australia, or Lula in Brazil, who allowed CIA machinations to evict those with moral right to govern from power.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/01/regime-change-in-venezuela-unlikely/
Teenage angst -we all have had it whatever gender.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523872/teenage-girls-feel-silenced-and-squashed-author
Teenage girls have a message for their parents and the rest of the world; we’re smarter than you think we are. So says Chelsey Goodan who tutors girls in their teens.
Goodan is on a mission to deliver that message from her students, that too often teenage girls feel dismissed as dramatic, mean or shallow, she told RNZ’s Afternoons.
After 16 years of listening to their concerns about beauty, shame, people-pleasing and friends, Goodan offers advice for parents and caregivers in her new book, Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls.
When attending Ms Chelsey Goodan’s groups get ready for the theme ‘I’m so misunderstood,’
which will be one of the main themes she is communicating! Come on, it is hard finding your way in the malfunctioning, fibbing, competitive universe and who is true and not, don’t expect immediate proficiency, with nor stumbles or mind-changes!
Is it OK to have hurt feelings?
It can be normal to have hurt feelings from time to time. Identifying the source of your hurt and learning how to cope with emotions effectively may create a sense of balance in your life.14 Mei 2024
What To Do When Someone Hurts Your Feelings | BetterHelp
https://www.betterhelp.com › advice › general › what-to-…
Try music accompaniment from The Conchords ‘I’ve got hurt feelings.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0jlDrVs3Sg
If you, like me, grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, you may have come across the classic refrigerator magnet, “Teenagers, leave home now while you still know everything.”
Perhaps you know a teen, or maybe you were a teen, like this: pop-star energy, a little too confident in your opinions, a little too certain that no one could know what you know.
Adolescence is the period of life when people transform from children into adults. To handle the transition successfully, people need to shed parental dependencies and become more autonomous and independent. So it makes sense that teens think – or at least act like – they know everything.
https://theconversation.com/teens-dont-know-everything-and-those-who-acknowledge-that-fact-are-more-eager-to-learn-214120
I think this regularly crops up in thought.
If I just had a different body, I know everything would be OK.
and
The key to having your teen listen to what you say is to be gentle and kind; never be sarcastic or domineering; and to not be condescending.
And to not be so patronising; remember they have been observing you for yonks and wondering how they can put up with more orders from such limited, faulty beings. Their obvious way is to behave the opposite to what you require or ‘model.’
High flying aspirants take note.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523978/air-new-zealand-explains-its-airfares-after-it-cost-almost-2000-to-fly-domestically
…At the time of writing, flights for two people from Auckland to Christchurch on Friday 16 August, leaving after work at 6pm and returning on Sunday 18 August at 3pm cost $1884. This did not include a checked-in bag, just 7kg of carry-on.
Leaving Christchurch at 10am would see the trip cost $1480. The cheapest option was $1020, departing at 6am on Friday, but that would require a day of annual leave or remote work.
The most expensive fare option for Jetstar, for the same dates, was $1236 – leaving Auckland at 6.30pm and returning on Sunday at 8.25pm. That is about $650 cheaper than its competitor. Its cheapest was $734, departing Auckland at 9.25am on Friday and coming back at 6.15am on Sunday…
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018949356/when-an-algorithm-is-your-boss
The gig economy used to be made up of artists, musicians, actors dipping in and out of work, or people picking up those jobs you see advertised on supermarket noticeboards.
Now it’s expanding, pushed by rapidly developing technology.
Not only are apps such as Uber, Airbnb and DoorDash increasingly becoming a part of our lives, but white collar workers such as designers, architects and accountants are using platforms such as Fiverr to pick up jobs from around the world.
Statistics on the size of the gig economy here are thin, regulation is virtually non-existent, and employment courts are still dealing with industrial relations issues…
Dr Nadia Dabee, senior lecturer of commercial law at Auckland University’s business school, will deliver a talk on the subject at the end of the month [August 2024] as part of the university’s “raising the bar’* series. The title is “Why gig work doesn’t live up to the hype – and what New Zealand can do about it”.
“I’m interested particularly in gig workers who are working under what we call the ‘algorithmic boss’, because they have very little control over what this algorithmic boss does, which is why I think we need to pay special attention to that,” she says.
“I don’t think the data captures exactly how many people are doing AI-mediated platform work. [First Union] estimated that [there are] 7,000 Uber drivers in New Zealand so it’s not huge, but we don’t know how many of them exactly rely on Uber as their main source of income, and we don’t know how many more gig workers there are out there.”..
Innovative for Awkward University Busi Schl.
* Featuring 20 fascinating talks at ten bars in inner-city Auckland on one night, Raising the Bar is a chance for curious minds with a penchant for a pint to tap into some of the big ideas and remarkable research coming out of the University of Auckland.-4 rā i mua
Raising the Bar brings big ideas to Auckland bars
The University of Auckland
https://www.auckland.ac.nz › news › 2024/07/29 › raisin…
[4 rā i mua is?
Googled – I ngā rā o mua – In the old days
TKI Te Kete Ipurangi https://tereomaori.tki.org.nz › Curriculum-level-5 › I-ng…
I ngā rā o mua – In the old days · Achievement objective · Learning intention · Modes · Materials · Lesson sequence · Language to use · Further learning · Other ].
Jul.29/24 https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018948356/imagining-a-better-school-system-for-new-zealand
Peter O’Connor will be holding a session on the impact schools have on children’s imagination in Auckland on the 27th of August as part of Auckland University’s annual Raising the Bar event. Find further details here…
2023 information about:- Have a drink and a think at Raising the Bar
University of Canterbury https://www.canterbury.ac.nz › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
5 Hūr 2024 (Don’t know what that date in Maori means but the item accompanying is about 2023 – however it is detailed and worth reading.)—
The University of Canterbury is Raising the Bar, with 20 talks in 10 bars on 1 night in Christchurch, Lyttelton and Lincoln on topics that matter.
(2023 I think but they may be on a different timeline in Christchurch!)
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