Posts by Hebe
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Jen Hay,
Great work by all! The site is soo neat and tidy compared with some I have been involved with (and that was without earthquakes).
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Geoff Lealand,
it is difficult to believe that Sutton and CERA hadn’t heard of the Haywood’s difficulties until today
St Rog rather shot hisself in the foot by saying the last time he (Cera?) had heard from David Haywood was in September last year. It is difficult to believe that Mr Sutton is not receiving near daily logs of media reports regarding Christchurch. If he's not, I'd be willing to chip and buy him a subscription.
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Islander,
Anything we can do to help?
Love- KeriBound to be!
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Lilith __,
think it's important that we don't just do photos of rubble and demolition! There's lots happening here apart from that.
Exactly. I love your Sumner on Sunday pix; the big rug is an awesome feat.
Though I like the big-machinery stage we are in now; some amazing great wide spaces are being created; I looked at an area this evening as I was doing the 5pm pick-up run and was amazed by the vastness of what had seemed like a smallish city block when it had buildings plural.
When I have gone to some iconic-to-me sites the dirt and gravel underfoot set me wondering how long it had been since that soil had seen daylight; what had happened there before it was built on; what the city looked like when it was Otautahi pa and surrounds; what trees and vegetation were there, what birds.
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Lilith __,
Perhaps we could do a joint post, “
Please do. There are so many scenes worth recording, anyone who doesn't do earthquake can leave it to those of us who can't help but return to the subject
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Your understanding is mistaken. This is a major reason why one might conclude a student loan isn't really a loan.
I stand corrected. Stupid system, for everyone concerned then unless there are fishhooks I do not foresee.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Marcus Turner,
My understanding is that if a student loan were not repaid by the time the student (or former student) died, it would come out of their estate like any other debt. Which is as it should be. Living costs are negotiable for loans, but allowing course fees but not course costs for loans is stealth age-discrimination. Would it hold up under human-rights legislation?
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Bart Janssen,
Did they really think it through or is the change just a way of locking in the best tertiary education for the wealthy?
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Marcus Turner,
Makes a person feel old and in the way...
Yes; what about my fourth career? It is a dumb move because as my baby boom-generation ages, we are active longer and capable of working longer. Our national super entitlement age will rise, and I think the super will be means tested to some degree. so we need to plan for self-employment in some way. I'm happy about that but I fail to see why I should not access study assistance up to a certain limit of study years just because of my age. Note I am talking student loan for direct course costs, not student allowance or loans for living costs.
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Discriminatory too: over-55 year olds can't borrow for living expenses and course-related costs now. So I have only 3 years in which to do extramural study and be able to afford to go to the North Island for the three seminar weeks in a year.