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Daily review 16/05/2025

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, May 16th, 2025 - 13 comments
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13 comments on “Daily review 16/05/2025 ”

  1. Drowsy M. Kram 1
    16 May 2025 at 6:00 pm

    Is Nicky 'No Boats' Willis is insulting her way to the budget? sad NActF’s MO, imho.

    Pay equity issue will not go away [15 May 2025]
    Finance Minister Nicola Willis characterised the current regime as "a Trojan Horse for a multi-billion dollar grievance industry driven by public sector unions."

    Mackintosh said she found that description "so interesting".

    "What I immediately think of when I hear that is the 'Treaty Grievance Industry' – and the point about grievance is that it's about wrong and harm that has been done, and so to use that word as an insult is an insult. Because there is a grievance to have been undervalued … that people responsible for how much you get paid don't think it's important for you to have enough money to live on. If that's not a grievance I don't know what is."

    Pay equity reform – reducing cost or reducing equality? [16 May 2025]
    Whether or not the right balance between employers and employees dealing with pay equity issues has now been set, there is a real basis for concern about the way in which the rules have been rewritten. The decision to change the law without consultation and to give it retrospective effect is a drastic step with severe consequences for those who have been seeking pay equity.

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  2. Phillip ure 2
    16 May 2025 at 6:14 pm

    Memo to old people:

    Ya gotta have the energy for the upcoming election campaign..

    How ya gonna get there…?

    No need for gyms..and the like..

    Just get yourself self a set of dumbells..

    ..and start lifting them…

    I started doing it about two years ago… purely as an exercise to stave off the ravages of old age..

    I couldn't do the gym thing…too much commitment…to boring..

    When I started I struggled to do twenty curls ..

    ..I am currently lifting 4,000 kg a day …

    ..and the easiest way to get there..is to do it in bites…

    ..I do 100 curls in each bite….500 per day..

    I do one hundred while water is boiling for tea ..

    ..another hundred while the tea steeps

    …another hundred while the coffee perks…and I only have two hundred to slot in later on the day..

    ..I am old…my core has so strengthened…I feel fit/healthy/strong..I am on no meds..

    My only other variations from most is that I have been vegan for a number of decades… don't use booze ..use pot…

    I gotta tell ya…the lifting thing really works…

    (This has been a public service announcement..)

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    • Phillip ure 2.1
      16 May 2025 at 8:39 pm

      Correction:

      I said I was lifting 4,000kg a day ..

      ..it is actually 8,000 kg a day…

      (apologies for the misinformation)

      ..and while I have your attention..do support the legal option for pot .eh..?

      ..a lot of people fought for a long time..for that right..

      ..and seriously..!.. currently I am dipping into some that has a THC rating of 27%..

      ..all I can say is whoar..!

      (Website is access relief…they have a retail outlet on quay st..details on site ..)

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    • Joe90 2.2
      16 May 2025 at 11:19 pm

      Dont neglect overhead pressing for shoulder health. Upper thigh strength correlates with longevity, too, so best throw in some dumbell based lower body stuff. Bulgarian spĺits, goblet squats, Romanian deadlifts.

      The other biggie is mat-based core work. Dead bugs, planks, leg raises, clam shells, supermans, hip bridges, glute kicks, bird dogs, are all easily mastered and do wonders for mobility and posture.

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      • Phillip ure 2.2.1
        17 May 2025 at 8:30 am

        Thanks for that…I will look them up ..and incorporate them…

        I have been surprised at the results I have got from such a clumsy/amateurish approach to this…

        … along the lines of if I can do it…. anyone can…and it is never too' late to start…

        And I can't overemphasize how well that early morning routine works for me..

        ..'cos essentially I am easily distracted by things like reading/music/whatever…and so leaving it for later is fraught…

        ..so getting it out of the way early on is crucial ..for me..

        And I also can't overemphasise how good it feels to experience that rejuvenation…

        The rewards just keep on keeping on…

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    • Binders full of women 2.3
      17 May 2025 at 8:00 am

      Good advice…age is withering my biceps and it has a slight impact on surfing and golf. So I've been curling. Still biking 2 x25mins to work. And following Hoskings advice.. one leg balancing.. I've been doing 2 min on each leg alternating as I endure the boredom of morning staff briefings

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      • Binders full of women 2.3.1
        17 May 2025 at 8:02 am

        Oh and squats.. EVERY time I pick something up.. undies, shoes, dropped pen ..I do a proper squat.. not a back bend.

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    • joe90 2.4
      17 May 2025 at 12:37 pm

      ..I do 100 curls in each bite….500 per day..

      You're in junk volume territory there, Phil. It doesn't matter what you're going for, muscle tone, strength or hypertrophy, and even with a high rep/low weight approach, progressive overload is how it works.

      So slow down, there's as much if not more bang for your buck in the eccentric as there is in the concentric phase, and limit yourself to 3/4 sets of 10/12 reps a day with a goal of 18/20 sets a week. The right weight is the weight that has you starting to feel it after the first set, feeling it at the end of your second, and struggling a little with last reps of your final set.

      Happy lifting.

      https://www.menshealth.com/uk/building-muscle/train-smarter/a63421047/what-is-junk-volume/

      https://www.healthline.com/health/progressive-overload

      https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness/eccentric-training

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      • Phillip ure 2.4.1
        17 May 2025 at 5:27 pm

        Chrs ..

        I did say it was a clumsy/amateurish go at this…

        My dumbells are only 8 kg each….so I figured a high number was the only way to go..

        I am going to upgrade the dumbells…and my son..who gyms..reckons I should invest in a kettlebell…

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        • joe90 2.4.1.1
          17 May 2025 at 6:55 pm

          reckons I should invest in a kettlebell…

          Definitely. Go for a pair and because second hand gym gear is either rubbish, over priced rubbish or just way over priced, save yourself the bother and go straight to the red shed.

          Don't over cook it. Septuagenarian elbows/joints/tendons (pretty much every fucking thing) are spectacularly vulnerable, they take an age to recover from seemingly minor rips and the best way to avoid jiggering yourself is to be warm, and not just warm-up warm, proper warm, thirty minutes or more in thermals, jersey and swannie warm. And pyramid training.

          If you're keen, this guy.

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  3. Muttonbird 3
    16 May 2025 at 8:12 pm

    A few things going on with this announcement:

    Budget 2025: Nicola Willis announces half-billion-dollar boost for film industry.

    Finance and Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis announced the more than doubling of the government's film subsidy, saying the New Zealand film industry could not survive without the rebates.

    It's not a doubling of the subsidy, the subsidy is the same (20-25%), it's a lifting of the cap so that if more big budget film and TV productions come here they can access the grant. That half billion boost is not money spent until several orders of magnitude of that brought in from offshore first.

    The Screen Production and Development Association president Irene Gardiner said the boost to the international rebate scheme was a welcome acknowledgement that New Zealand was already attracting a lot of international film production.

    However, she said the domestic sector also needed support.

    "This is making sure that the kitty is there to pay out the international screen production rebate, that's important. That's good for the New Zealand economy, it's good for the screen industry because it's jobs… However, we do need both our domestic sector and our international sector to be strong.

    This is key, without a domestic sector, there is no international sector. The domestic sector provides the pool of crew required to respond to the fluctuating demands of the international sector. It is also a training and apprenticeship nursery.

    Needs a whole of industry approach and I'm not sure today's announcement has done that at all.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/561215/budget-2025-nicola-willis-announces-half-billion-dollar-boost-for-film-industry

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    • Incognito 3.1
      16 May 2025 at 8:42 pm

      This is key, without a domestic sector, there is no international sector. The domestic sector provides the pool of crew required to respond to the fluctuating demands of the international sector. It is also a training and apprenticeship nursery.

      Needs a whole of industry approach and I’m not sure today’s announcement has done that at all.

      Yes, that’s an excellent observation and a truism that applies to all sectors. For example, it is true for the science sector and there’s actual research (data) to support it – it is in the Science System Advisory Group Report chaired by Peter Gluckman that called for increased government funding. However, this has been completely ignored by the Coalition, which was predictable.

      The Coalition Government is hell bound on shrinking government and public-good funding and expects the domestic and international private sector to pick up the tab – they’re screaming ‘Growth! Growth! Growth!’ but the dog-whistle sounds ‘Cut! Cut! Cut!’.

      Of course, investors will snap up low-risk low-hanging fruit, which will give the appearance of (early) success but those quick ‘wins’ won’t last and they won’t have lasting impact on any sector – money can leave as easily as it arrives, just like immigration numbers, but even easier. This is how the wealthy elites in NZ want it to be anyway because money comes before (NZ) people.

      Just about any other country in the world, incl. China, play a much more effective long-term game of building up sectors on sustainable footing. However, these shambolic managers of the economy in Government seem to think that they have the best rulebook ever written, the arrogant fools.

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