El Pibe

Great, now I'm going to get the weirdest recommended items emails after viewing that lot!!! mind you, maybe I shouldn't have bought the Paul Ross print!!

hence the 'out of hours' bit. Actually my instructor also took me to sainsbury's for reversing into a parking space practice. They can make you do it in the test and it's REALLY narrow at Hither Green test centre!!!!!

i thought we'd gone decimal, shouldn't that just be 2.5 or whatever it is?

completely agree re the targets and league tables. Mind you GCSE/O'Level was ever thus even before the league tables. Perhaps 15-16 is considered too young to develop those skills! A pity, no wonder kids find history boring when it should be about thinking for yourself and not accepting everything at face value. As for the not belittling individual users, I though that was your hobby!!

Agree that teaching history should be more about teaching critical thinking, but at GCSE it most certainly isn't it's just rote learning some shallow narrative essays. Perhaps a more important subject these days should be 'reading the internet' with a particular emphasis on not believing all the crap you read on the internet. I can't help but feel the likes of new nexus are a generational phenomenon who sailed (bored) through school on a bunch of media studies type subjects and have nurtured an autodidactic world view without having previously developed the skills necessary to critically sift the overwhelming abundance of information we have to hand. Trying saying that in one breath!

call-centre studies it is then, including such key skills as 'Northern Irish and geordie accents' and 'flicking an elastic band into your co-wokers' eye whilst retaining a prefssional demanour over your headset'

sneak into the herne hill velodrome at night? Sainsbury's car park out of hours is probably your best bet.

Very interesting insights into the nature of the Syrian resistance in a Q&A with Nir Rosen. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/02/201221315020166516.html Not the comments form Hamas and their prognosis of Hezbpollah's future at the end. Fascinating stuff.

Aaah. I was thinking of more traditional vocational subjects like metalwork, desig&technology and so forth. I agree that focus should be kept up on improving literacy, & numeracy paticularly, but that surely still leaves room for allowing pupils to branch away from purely academic subjects.

how cool is this web site? http://htwins.net/scale2/ How to make yourself feel very small....or very big, depending on which direction you go.

You don't have many friends*, do you :-/ *people you do raids with in World of Warcraft don't count.

But using terminology like 'juice box' in a south east london forum just seems a bit odd! You wouldn't be telling me to 'have a chai' if we were discussing whether the much touted emergence of India as a superpower is a false dawn, would you? Like I say, weird obsession.

"It's a bunch of millionaires running around a field in colourful shirts. It can be fun, it can be nice to watch but..." Pretty much how I feel about the game these days. Am much more excited by Stevenage doing the double over Sheffield Wednesday these days

A juice box?!? How do you make a box from juice? Is this some secret NSA technology you're not sharing with us?

"Ooh a picture of your momma" would have been better, and in keeping with your strange preoccupation with the united states. Still a 2/10 mind, but that's double the score!!

That seems a bit weird to me frankly especially at a time when we're supposed to be skilling up a wrokforce. I'd agree if they were removing the likes of general/business/film studies from league table. I'd actually be happier if they were removing league tables.

Some nice goals weren't there.

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/tin-foil-hat.jpg

That actually hertz two reed

"In practice vastly more UK citizens have been extradited to the US than vice versa" I'd be interested to see the raw numbers on this. This would suggest that uk citizens are more likely to commit crimes against/in/contrary to the US than vice versa, which would be common sense really given our more cosmopolitan outlook and their more parochial, leave alone the population difference. Also the UK has turned down a number of US requests under the treaty, the US has yet to turn down a single UK request in the other direction. Of course I'm for a balanced treaty, but this topic always seems to involve a hysterical pitch out of all proportion to the actual practical applications in the real world.

I have to read CVs pretty often. Keeping it short is key, my eyes will glaze over at the thought of a 6-7 page CV but it won't exclude anyone, I'll simply skip much quicker for salient points meaning I might miss more, but all else being equal i'll go for the 1-2 page over the 6 as to me it demonstrates an ability to sift information and a more disciplined thought process. My general points would be make it readable (try and avoid tables, graphics, clutter in general). Use as few fonts as possible and use something that doesn't detract, arial/helvetica would be fine. Keep it short, no more than 2 pages, salient bullet points can be preferable to descriptive sentences (but not necessarily). As mentioned above, tailor your cv for each job, you can lose whole chunks if they're irrelevant and beef up bits that are key to the role. I tend to keep a template cv with everything and just delete/edit bits as appropriate in a new copy. Avoid any mistakes. Spelling error = bin. Bad grammar = bin. Clunky sentences and structure = bottom of pile. Vague structure to follow, by no means hard and fast: top level personal details (no photo). career precis (keep each stint short with emphasis on relevant experience / responsibility) skills education (put this higher up if more relevant than experience for job) [optional] A very short bit about yourself. Avoid humour and cliches. I'm pretty sure every one loves travel, reading and socialising. I rarely look unless it's down to final 2 or 3 and even then it doesn't really sway except maybe negatively "I love dogs but i couldn't eat a whole one" = bin. At no point try to be cute or clever. Someone is trying to scrape through 40 CVs for something that fits. Make sure the pertinent stuff leaps off the page. Get someone else to read and ask what they remember an hour later. Ooh, and definitely get soneone to proof it, spellchecker can't spot it all. edited for typos, do as I do not .....

touch? ;)

I recall reading an article that followed up previous lost extraditions that used claims of orange jump suits and manacles, and most were actually granted bail. In a couple of cases they were under house arrest, though paid for by the state and in nice hotels. As these were white collar crimes they all went to low security prisons. Noone was forced to don either of the above. ACtually I guess a murderer might, but they probably don't have campaigns trying to elicit sympathy for them. Again I sympathise, especially in cases where what has been done simply isnt a crime in this country (providing miltary products to Iran would be here too), but nothings going to be achieved using such hyperbole however well intentioned. *edited after a bit of a ponder (and his orchestra)*

I gather Rupert Murdoch is said do be deeply touched by the messages of condolence left on Whitney's voicemail.

a tad hyperbolic there snoodrot!