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diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Agree that it will become less of an issue re. > comparisons. The majority of University intakes > tend to be from the same age group, although there > will be those taking gap years and mature > students. Employers could be confused initially, > but surely that's what interviews are for... You've got to get through to interview first, and that's what CVs are for...and you will get applicants a year apart in age having a completely different form of grading.

SoozieW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks will do. It's not quite as convenenient > though with 2 changes by train and tram but my > guests are all up for it so its all good. ED > Tulse Hill > Mitcham Junction, train all the way, one change, 22 mins and a five minute walk.

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Best thing is to not try to look backwards and > compare to an old system. I know its human nature > to want to judge things on what we're familiar > with, but in 2 years no one will worry about what > the 'equivalent' was under the old > system...they'll just worry about 1-9. Which would be all well and good if it wasn't for the fact that, as I said above, it means young people will be competing against each other in the job market with differently-graded qualifications, which is confusing for employers and unfair on applicants. Say you had two candidates applying for a job, one had eight Bs under the old system and one has eight 5s under the new. 4-5-6 now covers what was C-B - how does an employer know whether the 5s equate to a B or a C? Yes 1-9 is "a bloody simple system to understand", but A-G didn't exactly require a PhD to follow and it really didn't need changing.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But nice results Rendel - hope your all proud. Very, thanks!

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Despite the fact that this is the second year of a > numerical grading system, on the radio this > morning they were saying that the change from A*-G > to a 9-1 numerical system is likely to cause > confusion and anxiety amongst teenagers and > parents.... > > If a 9-1 numerical system is going to cause you > confusion then one would have to think our > schooling system is in more trouble than we > thought.... Bit cynical - it hasn't just replaced letters with numbers, it's somewhat more complex. For example, my niece has just been awarded 3x9, 4x8 and 2x7. 7,8 and 9 are replacements for the A and A* bands, so when looking at her results and comparing them with a competitor for a job or college place who took their GCSEs under the old grade system, has she got 7 A* and 2 A grades? 3 A* and 6 A grades? Split the difference and call it 5 A* and 4 As? It is confusing and the change, in my opinion and that of many teaching friends and former colleagues, was totally unnecessary.

Always interested to learn something new! How funny, played rugby several times against Old Alleynians and never realised they were from the College.

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone have any rough idea how many flights a > day use the KCH helipad? When we lived almost opposite the hospital, and Ruskin Park where they used to land, there was a rough average of about one every two days, one assumes it's remained about the same.

tomdhu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Could it be that the OP has an old axe to grind? Perhaps in the interests of disclosure, if you're accusing others of grinding axes, you should mention that you're an old Alleynian?

DulwichBorn&Bred Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On top of that I have to spend a fortune replacing > my artificial lawn in my courtyard because despite > removing all the poo every day, it?s still stuck > into the turf and cannot be removed despite > spending a lot of money on cleaning products to > remove the stains. Extremely unlikely that cats will have been regularly relieving themselves on a hard surface like astroturf, they always want something they can kick over. Much more likely foxes, that seem to prefer hard surafces, as the state of my garden step regularly tesitifies.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some local people, not me but certainly people using > this forum, have been told by council staff that BME > have priority Shouldn't that be "some people claim to have been told by council officials that BME have priority"? Or is there any evidence that this is actually a council policy? First I've heard of it if so.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And positive discrimination and affirmative action > has done nothing to alleviate racism- it has > exacerbated it in some areas of our cities and set > up serious resentments... Some people (you) are on a hairtrigger to be resentful about anything. We do not have positive discrimination in the UK except in very, very specific circumstances (e.g. allowing women-only applications for staff at a women's refuge), it's generally illegal under the Equality Act. Frothers like you think we have positive discrimination ("I met a bloke down the pub who told me only black people can get jobs with the council" etc etc) but that's because you'd believe anything.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Without wishing to sound callous (it's someone's > son/brother/friend, after all), a few more > high-profile chases and arrests like that should > quickly make a difference to the moped-mugger > crimewave. Indeed - I don't think it sounds callous at all, sounds as though the police did a superb job of chasing them halfway across town and capturing them without a single police officer, suspect or member of the public being hurt. Proof, were it needed, that with the requisite resources and manpower they can do the job brilliantly. If only the law and order party hadn't tied one hand behind their backs...

Hope he enjoys, looks great!

Reckon RPC's got the one - when I went to the window to see what the helicopter was doing flying so low five police cars roared up Coppleston with their blues and twos on, heading towards the Denmark Hill area. Looks like a good job well done.

This looks fun, I'd be going if I didn't have to work! https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/africa-centre-summer-festival

If she doesn't have ideological objections (it wouldn't be my bag though some of my best friends are private school teachers!) then private schools do not have a mandatory level of education required and certainly don't require teacher training - a mate of mine went into the city after his degree, realised he hated it after six months and walked straight into a job at a prestigious public school without ever having taught a lesson. Depending on the age group they might be very interested in her experience, couldn't do any harm to ask.

Very wise.

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intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Couple of nights ago I was beginning to think that > there was a helicopter trying to land in my garden > . > > This afternoon there is much circling . > > Are they looking for a suspected criminal ? > > I wish it wouls stop . I noticed a lot a couple of days ago, when I went out in the garden to look it was the Kent air ambulance which did a lot of circuits - maybe the weather conditions were making it hard for them to access the King's helipad?

I've only lived here two and a half years but in that time haven't noticed things getting worse - in fact it's beautifully quiet in my opinion! Long road though, if we're in different segments it could well be different (I'm about in the middle near Soames Street). There is a group of youths who seem to have got into the habit of gathering near the Soames Street corner of an evening in this hot weather, but they're perfectly peaceful and indeed polite so don't bother me (they might look a bit intimidating to a stranger I suppose). Building works can be annoying, especially when you work from home as I do, but they're part and parcel of living in London. Other than that the only annoyance recently has been the idiots using the road as a ratrun because of the works outside ED station - by all means use the road, but not at twice the speed limit! Oh and a couple of selfish twats in the morning who obviously pick people up and sound their horns instead of getting out and knocking on the door. But otherwise,I find it very chilled! ETA sorry, I've just seen that you live on the one-way part, so almost a different street!

dbboy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes and you could express an opinion that Boris > looks like a penguin or a walrus, which is similar > to him saying women in burka's look like a letter > box. It was his OPINION which you may agree or > disagree with. It got him three to four days worth > of Free publicity from other reporting channels > plus its become a topic on here. Saying Johnson looks like a walrus, or indeed a delinquent warthog, might be personally offensive, but it would not be being offensive about an item central to his religious beliefs. There's a difference. I wonder if people would have been OK with someone ridiculing Sikhs' turbans, Hindu saris and bindis, Hasidic Jews' hats and ringlets, or Christian vestments? They're all, in their way, as silly/sacred, depending on your viewpoint, as a burka (my personal opinion is that they're all damned silly, but then I'm Godless and beyond redemption), but for some reason it's only the Muslims it seems acceptable to attack.

If you look at the bottom of their page there are two short-lived names used pre-Brighthouse: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06073794

Incidentally, "- killing animals on clearly defined journeys in and out of South London. If these incidents were all down to foxes, we would have reports from all over, not just in places off main roads which we are able to map." Seriously? Where in London can things happen that are not close to main roads? Another example of constructing a narrative and trimming the facts to fit.

In the article it seems there are a number of experts who do not share this opinion. As I stated elsewhere on this thread, there is no doubt that there are horrible people out there who do horrible things to animals, often to take revenge on neighbours, ex-partners etc. Some of these events are doubtless committed by humans. It's the overarching narrative of a single person doing this that is highly questionable in my view. This person has supposedly ritually slaughtered over 500 cats and other animals in and around London and elsewhere, without ever leaving a footprint, a shred of clothing, a DNA trace, nothing? In the most heavily CCTV'd city in the world, he's never been caught on camera? It just doesn't ring true to me and examples such as the one from the article, where two unexplained cat deaths are attributed to the "cat killer" on the basis of a policeman's interpretation of the owner's description of the remains of one of them, don't make me any more convinced. As Penguin sagely noted above, once you start looking for patterns you can see them everywhere. A small example from my own experience: in our last flat we had an empty rabbit hutch at the end of the garden (the rabbit was supposed to live in it but within a day of arrival he was living indoors and ruling the roost!). One day I found a largish and very neatly decapitated rabbit on top of it, clearly had been someone's pet. Extremely upsetting; the same day a neighbour came round and said she'd seen a fox come through several gardens carrying this body, and it had been spooked as it went over our fence and dropped it, coincidentally on top of the hutch. Now if she hadn't seen it, I might well have thought someone was doing something foul, and had it been this day and age I might well have attributed it to the cat killer. It's easy to construct a narrative, it's not so easy to deconstruct one once it's in the public imagination. Incidentally, the bloke we got to come and remove the remains said he'd seen several pet rabbits decapitated in this way, "amazing how clean it is, you'd think the buggers had carving knives." I'm not trying to upset anyone and as a devoted pet lover myself I feel for everyone who's lost a pet from whatever cause, but I do think there needs to be more rational analysis of this alleged phenomenon.

Well that's good, PF, you've learned something then and new knowledge is always a good thing. If SNARL are spreading unecessary alarm as well as wasting police resources, that is not "a good thing." This passage from the article I thought was particularly striking: Smith suspected Polly had been struck by a lorry on the busy road to which the path leads, before scavengers had swooped. He buried her in the garden. Six weeks later, Basil went missing. After a fruitless search, Smith got a ?horrible feeling? about a connection. When he reported Basil?s disappearance to police, and described Polly?s death, he says an officer arrived the same day. ?He said that, from the description of the injuries, he was satisfied that this was a cat killing,? says Smith, a former radio journalist, who now believes that the killer had come back for Basil. So let's just follow that through: the guy thought his cat had been hit by a lorry then predated by scavengers. Very sad, but he buries it and nothing untoward is suspected. Then six weeks later, his other cat goes missing, he calls the police (because he has "a horrible feeling") and a copper, without examining the body or having any other evidence, says oh yes, that's the cat killer. Leaving aside the fact that such an operation on the part of the alleged killer would require Hannibal Lecter levels of research and staking out, and that the body of the missing cat never appeared, we suddenly have two victims chalked up to the cat killer on the basis of a policeman's interpretation of a verbal account of the remains of one of them. SNARL immediately accept this and also attribute it to the cat killer, to the extent that, in a frankly disturbing scene, the male half of SNARL takes a frozen decapitated cat head to the owner and defrosts it in his kitchen to see if it's his cat (it wasn't). This isn't a logical or evidence-based investigation, it's hysteria.