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Has anyone used the variable aerial attenuator recommended by *Bob* to get a better/ clearer transmission? This seems to be the problem I am having as well.

Thanks for all these responces. Would the consensus be that sometimes "rote" "old fashioned" learning maybe particularly in Maths is the only way to get the basics cemented in?

Fishing for advise/ opinions/ experiences about Kumon classes for children of different ages? Has anyone used the programmer to help kids learn?

I am concerned about the quality of the work Southwark contracts as I live here and provide the money: randomly what I know Peckham Pulse: construction problems for years with little attention to design for energy conservation or generation Dulwich Leisure Centre: ditto Fusion Website booking: not fit for purpose Veolia: How was a contract awarded to this firm? Southwark Parking Authority: Is there any chance that the corruption exposed this week in Chelsea operates here? So having looked at your photo I have to say whether or not this work will be buried it looks like it isn't fit for purpose and certainly shows the worker to have no pride in their product. The edges on the Pyramids are better done.

The proposed redevelopment of the Peckham Rye Station seems on the order of what transformed Herne Hill so full marks there. I'm not sure a few lit hoardings are going to make or break an area. Not getting a good deal... not having any idea how to research and negotiate professionally not knowing how to make timely linked up decisions that minimize waste and maximize output (I'm sure Southwark is not unique but we live here) this observation of the council appointments and decision making and decision makers (irregardless of party in power I'd hazard a quess) must change now.

A question for the experts: Is it possible to soundproof a building to the point that whatever happens inside cannot be heard on the other side of the property wall? And then so long as people enter and leave with decorum.... what happens inside stays inside? Sorry if I'm in left field, I haven't studied this thread.

Cllr Barrie Hargrove is Southwark's cabinet member for transport, environment and recycling; a portfolio which covers rubbish collection, roads, parks and much more, with a budget of more than ?65m a year Correspondence Address: c/o Members' Room 160 Tooley Street London SE1 2QH Bus. Phone: 020 7525 7311 Email: barrie.hargrove@southwark.gov.uk

Here's a 23:59 hour "zero" cost solution: Everyone has to display dashboard time clocks Parking wardens check that clocks are not set "ahead" throughout the day and this (used all over the continent) system also ensures fair ticketing on free but "timed" parking everywhere. Residents are identified by their car's MOT/ Tax Disk (Am I correct that this can be read and shows residence?) This simple solution can be used for all timed parking where fees are not collected. In general it is certainly the case that "governments" want ways to exploit/ tax demand (ie influence behaviour through price) for revenue. In this case the "demand" is for private fossil fuel transport which studies show is CHEAPER all in than it has ever been before. There are multiples more cars than parking in high residential and shopping areas and hence parking has a premium that can be milked for revenue. If government explicitly acted to shape demand for the common good it might: mini / electric/ criteria X cars park free 2nd and up cars get taxed per residence! (these are ideas digest them) cars pay by size (!!!) no new housing built without off street parking for all occupied units (ground floor dedicated to parking and storage and bicycles) Everyone pays "parking" charges per year. Not road use charge, that's something else. The right to park, to use space on the street in a propriatory manner. But "government" has to examine the curbs and make sure conflicting painted warnings do not through mindlessness chop up precious space into unuseable bits that then makes illegal parkers out of law abiding citizens Islington for one uses some of these ideas. And more cycle lock up hoops, hundreds more everywhere. And crack down on drivers that disrespect pedestrians and cyclists and talk on phones while speeding over humps. And crack down on people who still 10 years on congest the roads around schools People driving to East Dulwich Station cannot have a journey of more than a mile. Get out of your cars and walk. Look at all the trouble 20 anonymous people cause.

I don't live in the CPZ and I didn't respond to the questionnaire. I do live in Southwark and I am affected by decisions Southwark respresentatives make. Peter John earns almost ?56,000 and Barrie Hargrove earns almost ?44,000 two of the highest paid council representatives. Mr Hargrove has at least two important portfolios: Title: Cabinet Member for Transport, Environment and Recycling. Party: Labour. Ward: Peckham. For Borough recycling he chose Veolia FT Veolia article Sat the 7th Jan recycling as money making opportunity: GO DUTCH an unremarkable decision at best but more likely an uninformed and wrong decision. In parking Mr Hargrove continues that management style of unremarkable, ordinary and shortsighted. The council objectives of reducing cars and traffic and raising money are dealt with entirely by ticketing stationary vehicles with lightening strikes on the unwary. As for the environment look around you... I see unremarkable new build, no new technology, green space under constant threat and councillors standing in front of, for example, the East Dulwich Baths renovation captioned look how great we are. Well let's consider the East Dulwich Baths: the heating/ cooling doesn't work, the building blazes with electricity consumption, there's little green technology, the roof leaks, there is no attention to getting details right. What exactly does Southwark Building Control know about modern building engineering and design or all the tricks and economies of rennovating old build to the highest standard of design and technology for the least money? To allow yourselves to be divided and be conqured on local issues to become frantic on this CPZ and ignore other posts that have gone through unnoticed eg that the green space behind Sainsbury's will be divided up and built on (increasing congestion in exactly the area of the CPZ you all care about it) or the garden centre will be built on (more congestion) and transit fares have gone up (people switch back to cars). Well My concern is only at the bungling simple ordinaryiness of the people we elect. No one seems to know how to access and process and cross reference and use the mountains of data that exist on all these important issues.

If East Dulwich has better Rail access, if people walked and rode bicycles, if people had tiny urban cars and only one per house, if Southward cherished open space over antiquated ticky tacky high density residences: IF... then there would be a structurally different enlightened planned environment and this thread wouldn't exist. Southwark constructed the CPZ survey and the way it was handled so Southwark cannot say it does not like the results. The "44 complaints received" over the years might be part of the 95 people responding who want some form of control. You certainly cannot just add them in on top as Mr Barber suggests. You should have and should take proper statistically valid samples and that's that. Deeply ordinary policy makers generating weak flawed policy stokes anger and anger is a tinderbox. Parking/ refuse and so forth are all results of entrenched behavioural/ structural problems that government won't touch except like the wizzard of oz as a tiny weak pretend power which can only pull strings behind a curtain and make gruff noises through a microphone. Or trick people when they're not looking. Or use one red herring to distract while other stuff is being done under radar. Without a clear understanding of a long term future, unable to discuss with and lead and educate from the front, government waffles and fudges and and huffs and puffs and psycologically "nudges" and simply slowly degrades freedoms and providing services. On Parking Citizens There are too many cars on the streets. People buy too many cars There are more cars than house fronts Cars are too big Cars are too fast Cars are a huge part of environmental problems and international petrolium/ fossil fuel/ agricultural conflicts People do not obey existing laws People park fully intending to make it impossible for other parkers so as to "protect" their car's space Government tax second cars? take a stand on the size of cars or other car related stuff? survey streets carefully for badly drawn restrictions that limit parking? (my street certainly loses 1/3 of space to thoughtlessly painted lines) Parking law enforcement and street signage designed to trick and punish to raise money weave back and forth between legitimate and corrupt governmental use of power. I absolutely think some subcontracted parking control firms tolerate corrupt officers on the street to raise money from tickets. Parked empty cars are soft easy cash cows. Drivers in cars are scary. mynamehere Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well I'll wade in with the first knee jerk > reaction. Statistics and sampling are a science > and not something Southwark has to invent. The > words and the methods are well established. To > sample randomly means to glean responce to > unbiased questions from a statistically clear > cross section of the population. One or at most 2 > surveyors standing / walking designated routes > knocking on prestablished doors, asking every 10th > person, every xth car driver/ parker at 7am, 10am, > noon, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm and so compiling 50 full > responces including originating postcost/ living > post code/ destination post code. All in a > rigorous holds water questionnaire would cost > ?5,000 and any academic statistician would verify > its worth. > > What Southwark does is endless paper and random > conversation. No one ends up better informed and > everyone ends up angrier. I remember when > bicycles were rediscovered about 5 years ago and > Southwark set up a fact finding group to poll and > tally where people wanted bike lock hoops. The > answer without asking is EVERYWHERE are there are > hundreds too few about. > > The absurd paper hoops telling us holiday refuse > collection. How much did they cost? Well they're > all over the streets. Who needed them to know the > collections are one day off assuming government > does not entirely break down in the interum. > > The respondents on this forum are absolutely > correct that the government twists responces to > suit their own objectives. In the CPZ question > they ask for people to return a questionnaire and > then the report correctly says that only certain > types of people return questionnairs and so the > results are biased. Well then as above conduct a > statistically accurate random survey. When it > suits Government (Southwark) to stop something > they weigh one government solicited self > interested negative responce against hundreds of > non respondents (this is a real example but > entirely different to CPZs). Conversely and > equally perversely when (in the CPZ responce) over > 20% respond to a blanket survey endless provided > here on the forum and through letter boxes and > on-line and then the responces are called > self-serving and biased and the 80% who didn't > respond are then imagined to think and feel any > way the report writer would like. > > All the legal treacle worded paper Southwark > generates and stuffs into doors or hangs from > posts solicits private biased opinions which are > then "analysed" to suit. > > Statistics and surveys are mathematical tools.

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Well I'll wade in with the first knee jerk reaction. Statistics and sampling are a science and not something Southwark has to invent. The words and the methods are well established. To sample randomly means to glean responce to unbiased questions from a statistically clear cross section of the population. One or at most 2 surveyors standing / walking designated routes knocking on prestablished doors, asking every 10th person, every xth car driver/ parker at 7am, 10am, noon, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm and so compiling 50 full responces including originating postcost/ living post code/ destination post code. All in a rigorous holds water questionnaire would cost ?5,000 and any academic statistician would verify its worth. What Southwark does is endless paper and random conversation. No one ends up better informed and everyone ends up angrier. I remember when bicycles were rediscovered about 5 years ago and Southwark set up a fact finding group to poll and tally where people wanted bike lock hoops. The answer without asking is EVERYWHERE are there are hundreds too few about. The absurd paper hoops telling us holiday refuse collection. How much did they cost? Well they're all over the streets. Who needed them to know the collections are one day off assuming government does not entirely break down in the interum. The respondents on this forum are absolutely correct that the government twists responces to suit their own objectives. In the CPZ question they ask for people to return a questionnaire and then the report correctly says that only certain types of people return questionnairs and so the results are biased. Well then as above conduct a statistically accurate random survey. When it suits Government (Southwark) to stop something they weigh one government solicited self interested negative responce against hundreds of non respondents (this is a real example but entirely different to CPZs). Conversely and equally perversely when (in the CPZ responce) over 20% respond to a blanket survey endless provided here on the forum and through letter boxes and on-line and then the responces are called self-serving and biased and the 80% who didn't respond are then imagined to think and feel any way the report writer would like. All the legal treacle worded paper Southwark generates and stuffs into doors or hangs from posts solicits private biased opinions which are then "analysed" to suit. Statistics and surveys are mathematical tools.

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Fred you need to email barrie.hargrove@southwark.gov.uk. Mr Hargrove is the force behind parking as well as other things. People who actually make decisions often hide behind others who take the flac for different reasons in their stead

I completely agree. I have 2 pretty pails outside the back door: one fills for my compost and the other fills for the brown bin. I want services from government that I cannot provide myself: health, education, recycling and those I want at WORLD standard not made up local play government baby let's try this or that for a few years and then oh well wasn't really good enough oops let's try something else. The cost of those bags must be multiples of the lollipop people they're axing or children's services or any number of things I can't do myself. I want government with imagination and intellectual passion not Barrie Hargrove and Peter John muddling along with second best because you lot don't shoot at them you shoot at the messanger. Walk up and down streets, those green bags are decomposing on doorsteps everywhere.

It is unacceptable to make professional and personal allegations of honesty and character. I think parking and street use are vicious problems. How many cars should people have? How big should cars be? How powerful should cars be? Should you have to pay to have the right to park everywhere in a city? 150 years ago this was farmland (see all the bucolic chener book and history buff posts)and now we're fighting each other like caged rats for space and it will get worse. Southeast England will be more densely populated than anywhere else and there will be water shortages. Just imagine the riots and fights, real fights there will be if we don't change the way we plan. Here, have a go at me: stop population growth everywhere, that's right, fewer children. Build flats with underground parking/ solar/ grey water recycling or don't build them. Ride a bike. Walk. Only one car per household. Only small electric cars. Personnally I think the streets should be redesigned to include farmed spaces. You get the idea. Why didn't Tessa Jowel get the Underground out here? What has the MP for this area done? Nothing.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/406 sign e-petitions 406 to get a law with teeth for dealing with metal thefts

My son was on the train to North Dulwich and left his phone on the seat. When I called him as a mother will the phone rang on the seat by itself until a woman answered and explained why. We arranged to meet with my son ringing her door with a bottle of wine in his hand. Many years earlier I left my passport on a counter at an airport, walked away, far far away, realised I'd left my passport far far behind on a counter. I hurried back and there it was. Another time in the dead center of Italy at a bank in the days before the Euro I changed ?100, received a wad of Lira and drove off several 100 miles. When I got to Mediterranean, I took out the wad of Lira and realized that the Teller had exchanged ?1000 not ?100: zeros didn't mean much in the olden days in Italy. The group I was with had a heated chat. We decided to call the bank and the Teller and her Boy Friend drove all night to meet us the next day with a big thank you.

Barrie Hargrove is Labour. His portfolio seems endless. His presence is everywhere. I don't think he does nuance research or researched reflection.

Absolutely appeal. What I hate is the blatent corruption (yes unaccoutable politically protected systems that operate to hurt people without solving real problems are corrupt) of the parking system. Totally 3rd world where faceless unaccaountable beaurocracy tries to trick you and goes for easy pickings ketting harder to catch problems continue unchecked. Guess who's in charge of this incompetent management of what should be legitimate, transparant "housekeeping"?

Get photovoltaic panels: at least 10 on a normal victorian roof and a hot water system. Our house has been 50% self sufficient since we put these two systems in and you can register for a Feed In Tariff. Your house will look and feel super.

http://www.waste-management-world.com/index/display/article-display/3814416209/articles/waste-management-world/volume-11/issue-1/features/dutch-successes.html This is what the best recycling practice looks like. It's from the Netherlands. They've been the world leaders since the 1990's. In their hub recycling centres they are generating electricity as well as recycling a huge range of materials. Were the Dutch companies considered? France has the same low level of recycling as the UK. I'd love to see the research and hear the conversations behind the decision that was taken to cement Veolia into place

As far as I can see Veolia has been allowed to become a virtual monopoly no questions asked. When I asked questions during the trialling period I was referred to the PR man at Veolia who never, not once, knew the answer. All he seems to be is a front to the company and that is to whom Councillor Hargreaves deferred as the depository of wisdom. It must be a charade of mirrors where a swish plant gets built and bins are thickly distributed. The statistic is then quickly forthcoming that recycling is going up and targets are being met and exceeded. Bales are baled... and then returned as contaminated and dumped in landfill. Meanwhile on the streets it is pretty much business as usual albeit with loads and loads of bins (and with garish colours). Skips full of recyclable materials are trundled as usual to kandfills. There seems to be no intellectual desire to get it right, no passion to get it right, no recourse to neutral expert opinion, no long term costing of getting it wrong, no leadership to reeducate a population to change habits with deep understanding of why we're changing and where we're going. Just a statistic: Recycling has gone up! The Blue Bins are full!

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3243518 Mr Hargreaves and Veolia and everyone else needs to watch this dispatch. I cannot understand why southwark or any other council invents private systems. There is a right and wrong way to recycle it is not a private option. Millions are being wasted because there is no understanding of what government leadership using world best knowledge means. And that includes telling industry exactly what materials they can use if at all

Councillor Barrie Hargrove, cabinet member for transport, environment and recycling at Southwark Council Transport... that includes parking fines and administration Environment and Recycling.... the blue and brown and green bins a man who from the creation and implimentation of policy can only be seen as having little insight or interest or breathe of knowledge