Posts by Kerry Weston
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Well, now we know where the money saved by ditching TIA payments for unworthy solo mothers is going - Key's announced $150 million for free youth vocational training at polys, private trainers - and, *of course* six week taster stints in the army.
Yep, bugger the mothers. Unpaid, 24 hour on-call fools, wearing themselves out making sure everyone in the family is looked after so everyone can be productive. Just as well we don't recognise unpaid labour in our GDP stats, might make women look ultra-productive or something.
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Have a look on the salt packets ingredient list. There is an ingredient called "anti caking agent" its real name is potassium ferrocyanide. Its relatively stable until its mixed with acid. Then it produces hydrogen cyanide gas.
Is this what causes evil farts?
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I seem to recall dobbing-in being fairly common in the 90s.
It's still common - the 0800 dob in a bennie line is listed in the phone book - one can call anonymously. The Benefit Fraud Squad is a pretty scary outfit - you're guilty until you can prove yourself innocent and payments instantly axed until you "co-operate." This is why many DPBers keep a low profile and live on the fringes - way too vulnerable to attack.
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Not that it has ever been vaunted in talkbackland..
Lawhs yesterday was diabolical over the hair extensions - one of her ex-neighbours called to declare that "she thought she was better than us" and Lawhs nearly wet himself with excitement that this guy might have some real dirt ... I was at someone else's house and had to leave the room at that point, for fear I'd biff the radio out a window.
Do these people just overlook the fact that everybody is entitled to accomodation supplement, tax credits, plus the $60 in work payment if you work 20hrs (single) or 30 hrs (partnered)? And that DPBers are required to work 15 hours a week - that income, which abates the rate of benefit over $80pw gross earnings, plus the child support the govt keeps makes up a sizable portion of the base rate of benefit, which is the only thing DPBers get that is not available to anyone else on a low income. The ONLY cost to the taxpayer?
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Tony Parker - you're teaching in my home town. I'm an ex-Colenso pupil from waaay back. Always read your posts with interest.
I'm putting some thought into TC as a post-grad option and teaching history or english/media studies maybe - and a sideways jump into art if I can. The whole TolleyWax thing is off-putting, though. And the paperwork - I believe it's horrendous.
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With equal and apposite reactionaries..
Sacha, it was the thread that wouldn't die that actually prompted me to take the new media paper
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Thats my learning style, for which I was in the minority.
There should be room for any/many learning styles. My son, 16, hasn't been to a secondary school at all, he's enrolled at one but does work by correspondence. He prefers to work in booklets, but does writing on Word and plays with graphics. He's doing well, considering anxiety/aspie issues, he's on track to get his ncea1 and computing credits at level 2.
But the best thing by far is he's playing electric guitar - totally taken to it and he has that obsessional edge about it. He's got a great teacher - a guy who plays in 3 bands including an AC/DC tribute band - who is so enthusiastic and affirmative that he just carries my boy along.
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Sure you can't eat it remotely.
yeah, but!! you can't touch it, smell it, play with it ... all those tactile responses that are soooo important. I couldn't paint without slurping my fingers in it, whiffing up the pungent scent of turps and oils ...it's a vital part of it. The whole slow, simmering, accidental process. God, i miss it.
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the slid projectors from the old school history lectures, will they end up as found objects art in the future. I know they will, but who will be the attending audiences? art history students?
media history students??
I listened to Bryan Crump talking to Emma Someone, curator of Artspace, last night on Natrad and she was talking about painting in the digital age and whether it was dying. As has been prophesied since about 1839 - Paul de la Roche declared painting dead in the face of photography. But painting has claws. And Emma pointed to artists such as Marlene Dumas, who's just exhibited at MoMA, whose work is diaristic, personalised, small (as opposed to giant size canvases) as characteristic of painting's response.
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You can learn recipes - but you CANNOT LEARN FOOD.
Thought we'd get a whole post in CAPS from you, Islander...heehee.