Apartment found - yay!

[silveradept]

Last piece of puzzle has clicked into place, as I was approved for an apartment that will be right across from where the workplace will eventually be, when the new workplace is built. At the very latest, by Tuesday, I will be starting work and moving in. Sounds like it'll be a busy, busy day.

To save my own sanity, you guys get linked on, so I don't have to go through a horrendous backscroll. Brace yourselves.

Artificial heart device assists child to regenerate natural tissue. Take enough strain off it, I suppose, and nature does what she will. Neat-o.

Things continue to degenerate while supposedly being clarified. Again, apparently even linking to "objectionable content", even if the content should shift on you, could get you ToSsed from LJ.

U.K. is dumbing down the tests, apparently taking an example from America on how to run an education system. First link has the answers, and here's a sample test, in PDF format. I assume the reading audience is smart enough to know why nobody should take American public education as an example.

bradhicks comments on two years after Katrina rolled through, saying that it's really too early to call on how much and how well things are going, why it seems to be that Republicans have "bathroom problems", the illusion of showing both sides of an issue, and what happens when someone hasn't broken the law, but is someone most people consider to be icky.

Police provoking demonstrators into rioters to arrest them later? Baaaad juju, people. Really bad juju. That's not a road you want to walk.

Anyway, that's the half-update. There's still more in my back-burner, but I'm out of time, as usual. See you all tomorrow.

Comments

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

As for the test: I do vaguely remember my GCSE Physics test being harder, but it is P1 (kinda like a midterm test in 9th grade) so it's not that bad. Ours was more blue-book though rather than multiple choice, they probably have a bluebook section and this is just the starter section. Remember: you or I would be starting at question 17 and working to 40 so it's not that easy (unless you want to cap your physics grade at a C). The Times is somewhat misreporting, I think. What seems to be the case is that they're adding a "if you're not that bright, here are some more confidence booster questions" section. There's still plenty of questions at the top to differentiate the A from the A* candidates. They're also making the exam a little easier on the graders since they can Scantron multiple choice (imagine having to grade hundreds of messily-written exams from across the country). They're a long way from science education in the US. (I think a number of those questions are about as hard as you'd get on the SAT Physics exam and maybe even the AP physics exam... which just goes to show.)

[silveradept]

So it's not the slide into oblivion that everyone wants to say it is, it's just making less work for the graders and putting a few more things in so that even the lower end of the scale feels that they're going to do okay?