Suggest a story for Saturday October 4th
Yikes it's October already, cue Pat Kilbride singing "This October Song". At the moment the news agenda is a bare ruined choir, so please send in your ideas for what we might feature.
Your suggestions have steered us towards poems and Grüne Punkts, all you have to do is leave a comment, or send an email - we'll even take letters and wax tablets written in cuneiform*
And if you want to know what the picture above is all about you'll have to listen to the podcast.
*only tablets where a translation is provided and postage paid will be accepted.
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WHERE do I suggest a story? i clicked on the link but it just seemed to be this page again.
My story was simply to draw people's attention to this website: http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/
Sounds like a bit of interesting fun.
Good luck. I enjoy the programme.
Hugh
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This was triggered by seeing a aerial picture of the village from 1964. Just looking at it compared to today, one thing was obvious:
ALL the land was now manicured and assigned.
Or was it because I saw a clip of a Police program saying that they were removing all noisy people from a park.
In our village there used to be open spaces. Rough grass. Open gravel areas. Somewhere children could actually be children and get dirty. They could be noisy and have fun. They used to play in the area next to the allotments. They used to play in the quarry.
Now it is perfect groomed, but lifeless.
Areas with rough dirt. Large old tree trunks. Lumps of rock. Uncut bumpy grass. Rugged shelters. Basically with a few ground rules (no explosives, paint, knives...) you could not get in trouble for being there. The areas were IN the community, overlooked and observed.
When will children (11-16 years) be given the space to grow?
At a minimum when will we start assigning "noisy" areas in parks?
When will the council/police provide park keepers that protect the right of children to play. Today they are just defending the damage to their pristine parks so the Parish Council can win the next heartless village competition. (aka. village in bloom)
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Hugh..
You found the right place and have got us started. So there will be more about this - and the other sites that have sprung up - on the blog. Thanks for the suggestion - very timely. There's more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/09/vote_early_vote_often.shtml
Perhaps someone should start ificouldrunabank.com?
Many thanks - Rupert ( iPM Ed )
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Yesterday I came across this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7B4laX1E70
It is a 1 minute address from Rep Michael Burgess to the US House of Representatives. In it he mentions that the US is "under Martial Law, as declared by the Speaker last night" I was unable to find a mention of this event on the BBC so I went to American news websites finding articles like this.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/75831
Furthermore according to ArmyTimes the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has been pulled from Iraq and redeployed in Colorado
I'm not one for conspiracy theories but something seems to be happening.
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Thanks falcs-gl - video well worth a watch...
We're working on a piece about the US emergency finance bill for this week's prog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/09/did_the_web_kill_the_bill.shtml
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'notsarahkay' emailed iPM:
'Ofsted - who inspects the inspectors?'
I would like to know who Ofsted think they are? Who works for Ofsted?
What gives them the right to hold such clout and bring about so much
anxiety? Why should I respect their judgement? .....among other questions.
I have encountered Ofsted three times in the last couple of weeks,
1. In the news: Chief inspector suggests that Maths is being taught to
the test....my response - well err yes, isn't that a statement of the
obvious! ( I have worked in industry for quite a time and my
understanding is that people generally work to targets - in this case
how many A*-C grades you can get)
2. My childminder is about to be 'Ofsteded': As someone who has been
childminding for over 20 years and I consider to be 'outstanding' she is
aprehensive about the visit. All her skills are through experience, not
paper work, and she can be brought down through lack of paper work. She
is also worried that she will be made to go on 'courses', again
something that is causing her concern.
3. The school in which I work as a teacher (I changed career a few years
back) is now on 'Ofsted alert': It could be visited any time between now
and next May and the whole of the senior and middle management are
scared and apprehensive. We have had training and inset days on Ofsted
and what they are looking for and I have to say that the only thing it
has succeeded in doing for most of the staff is for them to say 'oh well
I now feel totally inadequate as a teacher, I can't possibly read all
this info, or know the difference between, AND impliment in every
lesson, SEAL and PLTS (or is that PTLS), BFL, AFL, ECM, GandT, SEN etc AND
write it all down in every lesson plan, so I will just carry on
regardless - now what am I teaching the year 10's?
Anyway, just a suggestion
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With the financial uncertainty this week, I’ve been looking at opening additional savings accounts to spread my financial risk, and run into an interesting problem.
To open a bank account, banks want you to supply them with some form of confirmation of your address., showing that you have lived there recently, normally within the past 3-6 months.
Normally a utility bill has sufficed. But with governments and companies encouraging us to be greener, and sometimes because there is no option, many people like myself have moved to paperless billing. Normally You can access your bill online or via a pdf printout, but no longer have an “original” paper bill. If you want to use a utility bill, banks require an original copy and not a printout.
You could use a council tax or water rates bill. But these could be up to a year old, and hence don’t show that you currently or recently have lived at the address.
Alternatively you could use a bank statement, but once again many of these are operated online with no original paper statement (except perhaps for your annual statement of interest, which again could be up tot a year out of date). Also, many people would not be happy about spreading their financial details around by sending out bank statements to other organisations.
So how can you prove where you live in a green and paperless environment? I’d be interested to know the answer.
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Curious to know whether the current court case about the MS sufferer is being sponsored by "Dignitas" (or voluntary euthanasia society as was). Over the last several years I gather they have been sponsors of similar cases - something that has not been publicised on news casts that I have heard.
Would such a vested interest be worth researching and reporting, as the recent input from Warnock makes me worry that the Joffe bill on assisted suicide will be revisited soon.
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