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Tuesday 22 March 2011
Dear Jessica Lee,
I am very concerned that the cuts that are being implemented are
leading to the weak ones and the vulnerable becoming just more
disadvantaged.
For example my wife works in a Derbyshire Primary School. Something
like 90% of their school budget is the wage bill for Teachers, support
staff and teaching Assistants (TAs). The Teaching assistants are
deployed to support the least able. So the school budget is being cut
by 40K. The Head has no option but to cut the wage bill and that has
resulted in a reduction in TA hours. In my wife's class that means her
least able children get less support. These are the children who over
their life time are going to become service users of many public
services at great expense over their lifetime. The chances of this
outcome have just become more certain due to the short sited nature of
the cuts being meted out by this Government.
Personally I approve of the concept of early interventions - having
TA's is a form of early intervention. Accessing appropriate specialist
support like ed psyche's and the like can change the life outcomes for
vulnerable children. However funding needs to be increased in early
intervention to break the negative life cycle that some children would
otherwise face. What is you position on early intervention programmes
promoted by Graham Allen MP and Ian Duncan Smith MP? What are you doing
to make sure that investment is being made in this area of public
service?
Can you tell me what the budget is for our action against Gaddafi's
Libyan regime. I read that on the first day of action we used 22
Tomahawk Cruise Missiles - each one costs £300,000 - so day one cost
£7million plus in missiles alone. That £7 mill could have been put to
better use in funding education in the UK. The only saving grace is
that at least the UN have sanctioned this action unlike Blair's war
crimes against Iraq. Time he was put away - he apologised too late and
too little. There was no game plan beyond toppling Saddam Hussain. The
day before's Blair proposed war in Iraq I wrote to my then MP Liz
Blackman asking her to vote against a war - however my actions changed
nothing. LB voted in favour of war.
Could you please advise me whether the Government you are part of has a
clear understanding of the outcome that you are trying to achieve in
Libya. We should not make the same mistake that was made in Iraq? Do we
have an exit strategy? Will our action enable the people to have a
democratically elected Government?
That's enough for now. I would appreciate hearing your answers.
Yours sincerely,
Paul B
Voter Long Eaton
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A good bit of brickwork, but it is standing in the way of development, and so has to go.
Beyond it the building materials are ready.
Came with a lovely bespoke leather case. Tried to take the viewfinder off to clean it up a little bit. The screws are brass (i think) and won't budge. I don't want to strip them. Any suggestions welcome. There's a slight scratch on the front glass of the viewfinder and as you can see this has been used but what djah expect for a 70 year old camera!!!
Circus Space degree students during the night time dress rehearsal for their graduation show during the annual open air Watch This Space festival outside the National Theatre.
A rollerblading robot hands Ijon Tichy a moose's head, in a Polish theatre company's strange dance-based interpretation of the works of Stanislaw Lem.
Armchair Theatre part of the Watch This Space area at the Royal National Theatre on the Southbank, London.
NASA Astronaut Candidate Frank Rubio answers a question during a live episode of the Administrator's monthly chat show, Watch This Space, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in the Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA's newest astronaut candidate class has started their two years of training, after which the new astronaut candidates could be assigned to missions performing research on the International Space Station, launching from American soil on spacecraft built by commercial companies, and launching on deep space missions on NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Garden of Fire (the Concrete Inferno) by pyrotechnics company The World Famous. Part of the Watch This Space series at the National Theatre, and also coinciding with the Olympic torch arriving ready for London 2012.
Circus Space degree students prepare for their graduation show during the annual open air Watch This Space festival outside the National Theatre.
i dipped into the archives this morning and found two shots from our cross country trip back in 2003. (here's the other one.)
while driving down into wyoming from montana, we had to stop in the middle of the highway while some construction workers did their thing. this was the man who stopped us. he stood there in the middle of the road with his sign and his flag -- not waving it, not moving. just standing there, assuming we wouldn't hit him. (we didn't.)
florian rolled down the car window, and he came over and started chatting with us. when he asked us where we were from and we told him new york, he laughed and said," dang, them new yorkers never want to stop for me! sometimes i gotta go chasin' after 'em, cos they're always speeding!" he then went on to tell us what they were doing to the road, and you could see he loved having someone to talk to.
so i got out my camera, leaned over florian, and asked, "sir, would it be okay with you if i took a picture of you, for my photo album?" he laughed and said, "why, sure, miss! you just make sure you put my name right there next to my picture in that album of yours. my name is walking eagle."
and then he posed for me. i got the shot you see here. and when we got home, i put it in my album. and i wrote down his name.
Nightime presentation of 'The Bridge', by the physical theatre company Mimbre, at the outside theatre at The National Theatre beside the Thames.
One of the Dancers performing in a Dance music production named "Gullivers Boombox '08. This was performed outside the National Theater South Bank as part of the Summer "Watch This Space" events
An empty lot across the street from Lafayette Park in Tallahassee, Florida. The only yard without any building in this direction for a mile or two where I walk maybe once a week. I suppose one reason to paint the pipes red, or some other bright color, would be to make them easier to see and avoid hitting with heavy rider mowers.
If you walked up the lawn on the right edge of the top left picture far enough and turned 90 degrees to the left you would see what is shown in the bottom left picture. The right hand picture is simply what you would see if you stepped forward a few feet in the bottom left view for a closer look at the pipes.
Sept. 18th I uploaded different picture of this empty lot, of just the steps and hedges (before the vines grew up out of the tops) and what's behind them: www.flickr.com/photos/readerwalker/3933108504/