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PPP/C trying to tamper with Audit Office conflict of interest queries – Greenidge
APNU member and Chairman of the Public Accounts Com-mittee (PAC) Carl Greenidge yesterday accused the PPP/C of attempting to tamper with efforts to determine if there was the propensity for a conflict of interest in having the Finance Minister and his wife hold their respective positions.
Dr Ashni Singh is the Minister of Finance and his wife Gitanjali Singh is Director in the Audit Office.
During a press conference yesterday, Greenidge said that during the course of a PAC meeting, PPP/C Member Gail Teixeira complained that her party's representatives had not had an input into the letter Greenidge sent to the oversight bodies of Chartered Accountants. She also stated that it was wrong to have mentioned the name of Mrs Singh since this effectively linked her to the Ministry of Finance
Greenidge had sent a letter to Guyanese, regional and international institutions regarding their codes of ethics and querying whether there was apossible conflict of interest arising from the appointment of Mrs Singh, given that she would be required to audit, directly or indirectly, agencies for which her husband has policy responsibilities.
Greenidge also questioned the rationale of the move to confirm Mrs Singh and Auditor General Deodat Sharma after more than eight years of claiming that they lacked the necessary qualifications.
When asked if the decisions of these institutions have the ability to compel changes, he admitted that their decisions are not binding, and as such they cannot tell government what to do. He opined, however, that being professionals, both the Finance Minister and his wife should strongly consider the suggestions that are produced. As it relates to the Auditor General, who is a member of these bodies, the decisions should have some weight.
Greenidge stated that at the meeting, Teixeira announced that the PPP/C had written the institutes directly, suggesting that the PAC did not intend to have the names mentioned. He referred to this move as deplorable and accused the government of attempting to intimidate these institutions, and take away suspicion from a highly suspicious situation. He further stated that though it is not uncommon for a couple to be in superior and subordinate positions in institutions, such a practice is unacceptable where finances are concerned; suggesting that one of the parties should have been transferred to avoid the possibility of a conflict of interest.
Greenidge insisted that without the mention of the relevant names to the oversight bodies, they would not be in a position to offer advice on this special and controversial case at a time when government is embroiled in accusations about corruption and calls for entities such as National Industrial and Commercial Investments Ltd (NICIL) and AHL, which have failed to account for billions of dollars left in their keeping, to be audited.
Greenidge stated that there is already a strong local conviction that the matter does constitute a conflict of interest, and suggested that maybe the PPP/C does not want the names mentioned since it would point directly to the source of the conflict. He questioned the intention of the PPP/C and stated that in the light of being labelled the second most corrupt country in Latin America and the most corrupt country in the Caribbean, all parties involved should take all measures necessary to comply with current proceedings.
Mrs Singh's promotion to the de facto number two position in the Office of the Auditor General was sought by Sharma, who at that time was the acting auditor general. It was facilitated by the unexpected and temporary PPP/C majority on the PAC resulting from the sudden and unannounced absence of Alliance For Change Repre-sentative, Trevor Williams. Greenidge stated that having this temporary majority, members of the PPP/C insisted on voting on these matters. He said considering the absence of Williams he attempted to vote on the matter but was informed that the Standing Orders do not permit such an action.
He said the Clerk, who has the responsibility to give advice on such matters, referred the meeting to the Standing Order which pertained to the Select Commit-tee and the Standing Order which says that in the absence of a specific Standing Order, the House/meetings have to abide by procedures that would have been adopted by the plenary of the assembly.
Greenidge stated that in an efforts to determine the decision-making capacities of the PAC, he sent a letter to the Chairman of the Standing Orders Committee on October 25th, drawing its attention to the fact that Standing Orders 48 (2), 80 (5) and 102 (2), which refer to the voting powers of the Chairmen of Stand-ing and Select Committees are conflicting. He stated that the Standing Orders Committee is expected to give guidance on the matter although the PPP/C has also written a separate letter arguing that the rules are clear and that the Chairman of the PAC cannot vote.
Greenidge stated that a full report of the PAC deliberations in relation to the appointment of the Auditor General's office staff, as well as the views of the Standing Order committee will be examined by the National Assembly in a few weeks' time. He stated that staff members have been appointed by the Auditor General and confirmed by the PPP/C in the interim and Teixeira has already contended that these appointments cannot be reversed.
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Charlie Morton Out Six Months After Hip Surgery
Pittsburgh Pirates right handed pitcher Charlie Morton had successful surgery today to repair a torn labrum in his left hip. The recovery time for such a surgery is six months, which should put Morton out until about the middle of April. The injury affected Morton throughout the season, especially toward the end of the year, and the team decided that the best course of action would be to have it repaired.
The Pirates open their 2012 season with three games in four days, followed by an off-day. They won't need five starters until April 14th, so there's a chance that they won't be affected by Morton's injury. Worst case, they would need a spot starter on April 14th, and wouldn't need a fifth starter again until April 24th. The season is too far off to be talking about spot starters, ...
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Panic-stricken that the water rushing down my legs would ruin the upholstery of his company car, my husband covered the seat of his sedan with an enormous, brown, plastic garbage bag. Experiencing frequent contractions and piercing pain, I lacked the energy to express my anger toward him for worrying more about the interior of a car than the comfort of his pregnant, laboring wife.
We arrived at the hospital. 12 hours of contractions and pushing later, we welcomed our egg-headed wonder into our lives.
When I held my firstborn in my arms, I was so surprised. I had been in such unrelenting agony that I had actually forgotten the purpose of my suffering. I had given birth to a beautiful, brown-eyed baby boy. We named him John.
John was so little.
John was so sweet.
John was so not what I expected.
Honestly, the day we brought our newborn across the threshold of our home, the angst began. I feared that I wouldn't be able to be the mother he deserved. I'm not just talking about the typical trepidation of a new mom. I'm talking terror. I knew nothing about being a mother.
I never wanted to have children. Having spent the last eight years of my professional life in early intervention of children with developmental delays, I knew more about child development than child-rearing. Frank had assured me. "You'll be a great mom." I heard the words in my head but never felt them in my heart.
The first few years were spent in obsessive checking of developmental charts, perusing parenting books and keeping copious notes of milestones met. I was mothering in the same fashion I had taught. Teaching came naturally, but maternal instincts were simply absent within me.
Having grown up in a family of six children under less than ideal conditions, I had always seen having a family as an unwelcome burden.
John wasn't a burden. I loved him immensely. I was just so very, very fearful of being anything less than what he merited.
Thankfully, as time passed, I began to notice that if I was unsure of how to deal with a new stage or symptom, I could seek clarity in conversations with friends, relevant research and in simply listening to my instincts.
As the years passed, the self-doubt turned to the peaceful assurance of knowing that I was doing the best that I possibly could.
I felt relief in the realization that I would never perfect parenting. It was enough to know that I had developed a means for clarifying confusion. I made many mistakes along the way, but somehow, I found a way to turn things around when I became aware of my mishaps.
I was continually progressing along the path of "clear parenting."
So 17 years later, I look back on the day my beautiful boy was born.
I am filled with gratitude. Gratitude for the young man he has become. Gratitude for the way that he loves so very deeply. Most of all, gratitude for the way he made a doubt-filled woman into a mom who is overwhelmed with delight.
Children are typically patiently raised by their mothers (and fathers).
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MatchDay Buzz Prediction:
Gianfranco Zola's team are unbeaten in six away games, winning two and drawing four, whilst Arsenal have scored once in each of their last four home matches on the way to picking up ten points
The last ten stagings of this fixture have each produced a positive result, with eight Arsenal victories and two wins for West Ham. Furthermore, six of the Arsenal triumphs were achieved on the back of keeping a clean sheet
Scoring and conceding patterns from the last 19 home and away games respectively suggest that West Ham will have a hard time scoring, whilst Arsenal could find the net through a forward in open playCopyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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In not at all the strangest annoucement of all time, feted author J.K. Rowling is teaming up with Warner Bros Studios yet again to revisit the world she created and populated with all things Potter.
It all comes from a 2001 book called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Ostensibly written by one NewtScamander, it's supposed to be the book Harry Potter himself uses to learn about all the magical creatures in the land.
Clever marketing aside, the adaptation will take the route of exploring the adventures of Scamander himself as he discovers new creatures, some 70 years before the time of Harry and Hogwarts. In this case, Rowling herself will handle the screenplay, expanding on the ideas explored in the original book.
Naturally, hopes will be high for the new endeavour with the 8 Harry Potter films making more than $7.5 billion dollars in their run between 2001 and 2011. And if the the first is a sucess, we'll have an all new film series on our hands.
Here's what Rowling had to say: "Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for seventeen years, 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt's story will start in New York, seventy years before Harry's gets underway."
The film series will be supported by other media, including video games and 'consumer products' - which we suppose means toys. And there will also be some link up with Rowling's ever growing interactive site at Pottermore.com.
And if that's not enough Rowling, a BBC mini-series version of her recent novel The Casual Vacancy is set to go into production in 2014, with international distribution handled by Warners.
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Splurge or Save on Blush?
The pigments in blush are very similar to those in eye shadow―the less expensive the product, the more likely it is that the pigments have been diluted with talc and other powder ingredients or are not milled as smoothly. "Inexpensive blushes might leave streaks, and they rarely give you a silky feel," says San Francisco makeup artist Hillary Clark. If you want to add color and dimension to your face, it's worth the money to buy a blush that stays on. And you shouldn't have to swipe your cheek 18 times to get the color you want. Recommended product: Nars Blush ($27, narscosmetics.com) is loaded with pigments that are finely milled.
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"Inexpensive cream blushes tend to have more lasting color than powders in the same price range," says Turnbow. Because you dab them on the apples of the cheeks (rather than brushing them across the entire cheekbones), you can get a rich shade.


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I want my works to convey a somewhat distressed feeling, but I also like to add some humour – not too much though, the image should not just be funny. I like it to be a bit uncomfortable.
Before I went to artschool, I studied economics and I worked a couple of years on several offices, which I did not like very much. In the end I got RSI and could not work on a computer anymore. That was when I decided to follow my heart and I went to artschool. The smurfs are surrounded by stuff I remember from this time; the grey furniture, the paperwork, the forgotten plant in the corner etc. I hope this is not typical Dutch, but I don't think so.


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When you first fire up this screen and start using a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200, you realise just how limiting a native resolution of 1,280 x 1,024 really is. The amount of windows that you can have open at once, and keep an eye on, is pretty amazing. The general image quality is also very good, and running everyday applications is a joy on the VP231wb.
I was surprised to see that the LCD panel has a response time of 16ms, which should keep hardcore gamers happy. That said, it's unlikely that you're going to be able to play your favourite games at the native resolution – finding a graphics card powerful enough to play Doom3 or Half-Life 2 at 1,920 x 1,200 won't be easy, unless nVidia gets SLi working and you can afford two GeForce 6800 Ultra cards. Video playback was also first rate, and with the widescreen aspect ratio, you can get the best out of anamorphic DVDs. If you are going to watch movies on this screen you'll also be happy to know that the viewing angle is superb in both the horizontal and vertical planes.
But as is often the case, firing up DisplayMate highlighted some image quality issues. Just like the ViewSonic VX910 that I reviewed recently, the VP231wb has some trouble with the 256 Intensity Level Colour Ramp – the transition from maximum to minimum intensity was not a smooth graduation and there was a significant amount of banding towards the lower intensity scale. The greyscale 256 Level Intensity Ramp showed more pronounced problems, with the banding extending right through to the high intensity end. However, the VP231wb didn't suffer in the Colour Scales test like the VX910 did – here there was a uniform transition from high intensity to low, with the image dropping off in the last block of colour as it was supposed to . This shows that there is little compression going on, and that you shouldn't be losing detail in images at either high or low intensity.
Unfortunately, the problems with tonal graduation means that the VP231wb might not be best suited to heavy image editing work – and to be honest that's exactly the type of work you're going to want to do on a 23in high-resolution monitor. That said, I did use the VP231wb to view and edit some images under Photoshop and I didn't feel that the image quality was compromised in any way. Ultimately, DisplayMate is designed to make life as difficult as possible for monitors, so you might find that in real world use you won't encounter any problems. I would however, recommend trying out a VP231wb before buying if you're an imaging professional or a keen digital photographer.
Now I fully expected this screen to be expensive – after all, the last 23in widescreen monitor I looked at (the LG L2320A) cost £2,399. However, things have moved on since then and the price of these screens is far more realistic, with the ViewSonic undercutting the hp by around £80. But with a street price of £1,379 you're still going to need deep pockets to be able to reach the upper echelons of desktop displays.
The ViewSonic VP231wb is a great screen with an awesome resolution and sleek and stylish design. But much as I love the VP stand, the omission of a pivot option is a disappointment, while the large, external power brick makes the solution somewhat inelegant. On the plus side, the 16ms panel will please some gamers, and the integrated USB 2.0 hub is worth having. Ultimately though, the VP231wb is slightly eclipsed by the hp 2335, which offers a stronger feature set.
The ViewSonic VP231wb has not yet been officially launched, but it will be available soon.


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The company said that its Zinn Beauty Collection is a line of natural beauty products that is made with 100% argan oil. The lineup includes Zinn velvet facial cleansing milk, Zinn revitalizing anti-aging cream, Zinn smooth body milk and Zinn 100% Moroccan argan oil. The products will retail from $24.99 to $29.99.
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The Grazia editor-in-chief, Jane Bruton, was named editors' editor of the year at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards last night.
"It was a real surprise," said Bruton - surely the only editor at the event putting their current issue together from a perspex box in the middle of a shopping centre. "It's crazy," she said. "It's so loud we've spent all week shouting at each other."
Bruton fought off competition from Jeremy Langmead of Esquire, Nicola Jeal of Observer Food Monthly/Observer Woman, Alexandra Shulman of Vogue and Maureen Rice of Psychologies among others.
But Shulman and Rice did not go home emptyhanded. The Vogue editor won in the women's monthly category, and Rice in the Lifestyle section. Ali Hall from Look took the women's weekly award.
The Mark Boxer award for lifetime achievement went to Felix Dennis. "The strange thing about editors is that I've always sort of loved them and hated them at the same time - and I've fired a lot of them," Dennis told a packed ballroom at the Hilton Park Lane.
"But it's the editors in the end who made me all the money." And at a reputed fortune of £750m, that is quite some cash.
Empire's Mark Dinning took the award for entertainment and celebrity magazines, and Michele Lavery, the editor of the Telegraph Magazine, the prize for best newspaper magazine.
Dylan Jones, resplendent in purple velvet suit and bow-tie, won the men's magazine's category for GQ, art-director turned editor Tony Chambers of Wallpaper* took new editor of the year, and Phil Hilton from Shortlist won launch of the year.
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it is very easy to make maple stain to the color of mahogany. but point process has nothing to do with refinishing.
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Carol L. Atkins knows what it's like to be on the slow track. In 1981, the 32-year-old Gainesville (Fla.) resident landed a job as a cashier at Publix Supermarkets Inc., a fast-growing chain based in Lakeland, Fla. Eight years later, she was promoted to grocery stocker, normally the first step toward a higher-paying job in management. Despite a spotless employment record, however, Atkins remained stuck in the same job while men were promoted ahead of her. The breaking point came last year, when Publix opened two new stores in Gainesville and a man with less than three years on the job leapfrogged into a new managerial slot. "I believe I would have been promoted if I was a man," says Atkins.
Fed up, Atkins and 11 other women slapped Publix with a sex discrimination suit last July that was joined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. And on Mar. 12, a federal court designated the case a class action on behalf of more than 100,000 current and former female employees of Publix, making it the largest sex discrimination case in U.S. history. The central charge: that Publix hires women into dead-end, low-wage jobs and blocks them from the stock and clerk positions that would put them on a management track. Publix denies that it discriminates, arguing that most female employees choose not to take career-track jobs in part because of the long hours.
The significance of the case extends well beyond Publix. Such suits are key to efforts by the United Food & Commercial Workers to maintain pay levels throughout the supermarket industry and to organize nonunion chains such as Publix. Already, the union has won big victories against unionized supermarket chains such as Lucky Stores Inc. and Albertson's Inc. Lucky paid out $107 million in 1992 after a court ruled that it had discriminated against 14,000 women. In 1994, Albertson's settled sexual and racial discrimination charges by agreeing to pay $29 million to 26,000 women and Hispanics. Now, with Publix, the UFCW is breaking into nonunionized territory. "This is a major issue that will roll through the entire industry," says Greg Denier, a UFCW official in charge of the Publix organizing campaign.
There's no question that Publix has some explaining to do. Women hold close to 40% of all supermarket management positions nationwide but only 21% of Publix ones, according to EEOC and Census Bureau statistics cited by the Publix plaintiffs. The chain typically hires men into the clerk and stock jobs that often lead to management, while only 12% of women get such prime spots. The few women who do make it into management wind up in the deli, which is 90% female and doesn't lead up the ladder. The result: Full-time male employees in Publix' retail stores earned an average of 35% more than full-time females in 1994, according to company records submitted in court.
COUNTEROFFENSIVE. Publix doesn't dispute the statistics, but it does disagree with the plaintiffs' interpretation of them. R. Lawrence Ashe, Jr., a partner at Atlanta's Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Publix' lead lawyer in the case, says that men are 15 times more likely to have prior experience in stock or clerk jobs before joining Publix. And, he says, women choose dead-end jobs because the hours are better and they don't require relocation. "Publix doesn't tell anyone they can miss a night shift to stay home with their kids," says Ashe.
Publix also is staging a counteroffensive to the UFCW's organizing efforts. Company lawyers have fanned out across the company and obtained affidavits from more than 6,000 female employees stating that they do not feel discriminated against at Publix.
Atkins and her colleagues aren't convinced. They note that Ashe says the affidavits from employees were obtained when lawyers entered stores to interview employees. And they say Publix could make career-track positions more desirable to women.
The suit means that Publix faces potential liabilities that could total hundreds of millions of dollars. And it gives the UFCW an emotional issue that could help it attract thousands of new members. If the union scores big, a whole lot more than the Publix deli counter may get a good shaking up.


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10 starts and ends on bad notes, but there is much excellence in between. "10.2" for instance is simply an atonal drone with rhythmic pseudo CD skips, and is impressive for the level of atmosphere that exists in something so sparse. On "10.3", Supersilent shows its jazz colors, and it plays like a John Cage composition trapped in Sun Ra's "Heliocentric Worlds". "10.4" is a brief, unsettling interlude, where so much is said with so little. "10.6" has a Peruvian touch with what sounds like a pan flute—or something of that ilk—over moody piano melodies, not unlike Sigur Ros. "10.7" struck me as Albert Ayler stuck in a horror movie soundtrack for 90 seconds, but the real star of the show is "10.9", with its ever-present, evolving drone, flecked with white noise, as if Christian Fennesz smoked some pot and spent a few hours listening to early Tangerine Dream.
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In 1995, Cheryl Strayed set out to hike some 1,100 miles—from the Mojave Desert to the Washington State border—on the Pacific Crest Trail. In this book excerpt from her best-selling memoir Wild, she describes a day on the trail.
As I hiked, I tried to force myself not to think about the things that hurt—my shoulders and upper back, my feet and hips—but I succeeded for only short bursts of time. As I traversed the eastern flank of Mount Jenkins, I paused several times to take in vast views of the desert that spread east below me to the vanishing point. By afternoon I had come to a rockslide and stopped. I looked up the mountain and followed the slide with my eyes all the way down. There was a great river of angular fist-sized metamorphic rocks—in place of the once-flat two-foot-wide trail that any human could walk through. And I wasn't even a normal human. I was a human with a god-awful load on my back and without even a trekking pole to balance myself. Why I had neglected to bring a trekking pole, while not failing to bring a foldable saw, I did not know. Finding a stick was impossible—the sparse low and scraggly trees around me were of no use. There was nothing to do but to push on.
My legs trembled as I stepped onto the rockslide in a half squat, fearful that my usual hunching in a remotely upright position would upset the rocks and cause them to slide en masse farther down the mountain, carrying me with them. I fell once, landing hard on my knee, and then I rose to pick my way even more tediously across, the water in the giant dromedary bag on my back sloshing with each step. When I reached the other side of the slide, I was so relieved it didn't matter that my knee was pulsing in pain and bleeding. That's behind me, I thought with gratitude, but I was mistaken.
I had to cross three more rockslides that afternoon.
I camped that night on a high saddle between Mount Jenkins and Mount Owens, my body traumatized by what it had taken to get there, though I'd covered only 8.5 miles. I had silently lambasted myself for not hiking more quickly, but now, as I sat in my camp chair catatonically spooning my dinner into my mouth from the hot pot that sat in the dirt between my feet, I was only thankful that I'd made it this far. I was at an elevation of 7,000 feet, the sky everywhere around me. To the west I could see the sun fading over the undulating land in a display of 10 shades of orange and pink; to the east the seemingly endless desert valley stretched out of sight.
The Sierra Nevada is a single uptilted block of the earth's crust. Its western slope comprises 90 percent of the range, the peaks gradually descending to the fertile valleys that eventually give way to the California coast—which parallels the Pacific Crest Trail roughly 200 miles to the west for most of the way. The eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada is entirely different: a sharp escarpment that drops abruptly down to a great flat plain of desert that runs all the way to the Great Basin in Nevada. I'd seen the Sierra Nevada only once before, when I'd come west with Paul a few months after we left New York. We'd camped in Death Valley and the next day drove for hours across a landscape so desolate it seemed not of this earth. By midday the Sierra Nevada appeared on the western horizon, a great white impenetrable wall rising from the land. It was nearly impossible for me to conjure that image now as I sat on the high mountain saddle. I wasn't standing back from that wall anymore. I was on its spine. I stared out over the land in a demolished rapture, too tired to even rise and walk to my tent, watching the sky darken. Above me, the moon rose bright, and below me, far in the distance, the lights in the towns of Inyokern and Ridgecrest twinkled on. The silence was tremendous. The absence felt like a weight. This is what I came for, I thought. This is what I got.
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Some say men know little, and care less, about domestic interiors. Fools! Consider this from a literary fellow whose aesthetic sense of domestic beauty was so highly attuned that he once said: "I find it harder and harder to live up to my blue china."
Oscar Wilde's library was a carefully choreographed space with a low divan, ottomans, lanterns and hangings, and it was here, according to his biographer, Richard Ellman, that Wilde smoked, conducted tête-à-têtes and did most of his writing. But it wasn't the only room that he had stage designer William Godwin fit out to his theatrical specifications. On the third floor of his four-storey house was the study, painted gold and vermilion.
You may well now be asking yourself (I know I am) the following: even though Wilde was a big bloke, did he really need both a library and a study? If he did most of his writing in his library, couldn't he have given over his study to his wife, Constance? And was his rather modern interest in home furnishings representative of his fellow males at the time?
A new exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in east London is to explore the balance between men and women when it comes to choosing soft furnishings, from the repressive patriarchal atmosphere of the Victorian era, to today. Who ruled the roost domestically? Were men in charge at home, just as much as they ensured their stranglehold on the world outside? Or was the home one of the few places where women ran the show?
"Wilde's an extreme example," says Christine Lalumia, deputy director of the Geffrye Museum. "He takes it further than most, but the fact that he was gay is irrelevant. For most of the period we're considering, men had the financial power, women didn't have the vote, and the notion that an Englishman's home was his castle had enormous power. Yet there is this misconception that men were absent while their wives made the choices about furnishings."
The exhibition is partly aimed at exploding the myth that men - the straight ones, at least - would sooner stick rusty knitting needles in their eyes than spend Saturday afternoon examining curtain fabrics with their life partners. When, for instance, WS Gilbert spent one 19th-century afternoon with his wife at Liberty, checking out a Japanese display, it was the catalyst for his and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado. "Husbands and wives made decorating decisions collaboratively," say the exhibition's curators.
However, the sexist rhetoric of leading Victorian writers suggested otherwise. The home was the wife's domain. The poet Coventry Patmore said he preferred to keep his angelic wife "in the house", while critic John Ruskin wrote that "home was a feeling that followed the true wife wherever she went". Stereotypical Victorian gents preferred to be "in the club" rather than chilling in the home, where they risked being symbolically castrated. If the home was, as 17th-century English jurist Sir Edward Coke claimed, an Englishman's castle, then it was one in which he was an absentee landlord or irritating guest.
If you think I'm joking about the symbolic castration thing, reflect on this: Charles Eastlake, keeper of the National Gallery from 1878-1898, reportedly said, "I can go off and buy masterpieces, but at home I can't win the battle of the mantelpieces." Yet Eastlake was the author of Hints On Household Taste In Furniture, Upholstery And Other Details, one of which, ironically enough, was that the mantelpiece in one's library should be a place for the display of important male artefacts. Eastlake recommended that it should be divided into panels, and that "a little museum may thus be formed". In his own home, though, he could not even divide the mantelpiece into one panel marked "His" and another "Hers". Maybe Eastlake needed to have a long, boring conversation with his wife about their relationship.
In this socio-aesthetic maelstrom, Wilde was pivotal in challenging women's presumed domestic dominance (a dominance, you will have noticed, posited by men, often very bearded ones). "Not surprisingly, the married Victorian woman was to Oscar Wilde a signifier of middle-class banality, and he had little time for the domestic ideology that surrounded her," writes Professor Allison Pease in Reading Wilde/Querying Spaces. "Thus he introduced a new notion of the home in his 'House Beautiful' campaign that focused more on the aesthetically pleasing form of the house than its occupants. By taking the angel out of the house and making it beautiful, he threatened to empty the home of its moral core."
But there is another strand to the story: when men got involved (commandingly), whole rooms changed their gender. Men ruled libraries, studies, smoking rooms and, most of all, dining rooms: it was in the last that the paterfamilias sat at the head of the table, surrounded by putatively masculine mahogany and heavy draperies, thereby hoping to resist the symbolic castration.
Domestic gender politics have changed dramatically. "In the Edwardian period, houses became smaller," Lalumia says. As a result, even if today's fathers are perhaps bigger than their forebears, they are less likely to command dining rooms. The time of such gendered spaces for even the middle classes (with whose tastes the Geffrye show is exclusively concerned) is over.
This is the new deal: women rarely get rooms of their own and men, faced with a new kind of symbolic castration, get the hump. Having got the hump, men (as they so often do, the pathetic sulks) have talked with their feet. "In the 20th century, men lost the den or study or library, and moved out to the garage or shed," Lalumia says. Which is why, no doubt, there has been such a literary flourishing of shed-bound male writers (think George Bernard Shaw or Philip Pullman). One can't help but think that Wilde would sooner have done himself in than write in a shed, especially one of those self-assembly Homebase jobbies. No matter: the shed has become the male (with) drawing room.
Sheds notwithstanding, nowadays we think of domestic space as gender neutral. But some domestic stereotypes remain. "Women today, as they have in the past, tend to take more of an interest in the soft furnishings, while men may take a lead on 'electronic stuff'," the Geffrye's experts claim. Maybe in your house. In mine, it's my partner who deals with the electronic stuff, despite the undeniable fact of her being a woman, while I ruche the curtains and plump the cushions in a gender-transgressive way, nonetheless secure in my masculinity. At least, that's my story.
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Furthermore, you can take liquids on board for use during the flight, such as liquids for medicinal purposes or due to special dietary requirements, including baby food. If you are carrying liquids for medicinal purposes or baby food, make sure they do not exceed the quantity required for the flight. Security staff may ask you to taste the liquid (e.g., baby food) or present a document of its origin (e.g., if carrying insulin, you must show a medical certificate or a prescription in your name).
The new rules only apply to carry on (cabin) baggage. The carriage of liquids in checked baggage is only subject to general rules.
Shopping at the Airport - Duty Free Sales
You can buy liquids (such as drinks, perfumes, creams) at airport Duty Free shops that are located beyond the passport control, provided you show your boarding pass. Liquids must be placed together with the receipt in sealed transparent bag at the time of purchase.
Liquids can also be purchased and placed in sealed bag on board an aircraft. You do wait with opening the sealed bag until you pass through the security control at the last transfer airport in the European Union.
Items Permitted in the Hand Bags
- Liquids, creams, lotions packed in transparent sealed bags - max 1 litre (individual containers up to 100ml).
- Personal medicines, dietary requirements, and baby food for the trip.
- Liquids, perfumes, and drinks bought in the airport transit area packed in sealed bags.
All other items have to be put in the checked baggage.
In case of any question, please, ask your sales agency or contact the Czech Airlines Call Centre at (420) 239 007 007.
Rules for Use of Electronic Devices
Permited electronic devices
- Handheld devices with 'fl ight safe' mode
Handheld devices, such as tablets, e-readers and mobile phones may be used during all phases of the flight provided the 'flight safe' mode is enabled before departure. Devices must be safely secured in the customer's hand or a pocket during taxi, take-off and landing. Accessories, such as headphones, must not obstruct access to the aisle.
- Devices without 'flight safe' mode
Any device that transmits or receives communications but does not have a 'flight safe' mode, must be switched off for the duration of the flight.
- Laptops, ultrabooks and notebooks
These devices may be used during boarding but not for taxi, take-off and landing. They may be used in-flight, provided any built-in connectivity such as Wi-Fi is switched off or set to 'flight safe' mode. They must be stowed away safely during taxi, take-off and landing. Other devices without connectivity. This will include items such as DVD players, electronic games, and music players, personal cameras. Only small, handheld devices may be used during taxi, take-off and landing. Larger devices must be switched off and stowed away safely during take-off and landing.
- Other devices without connectivity
This will include items such as DVD players, electronic games, and music players, personal cameras. Only small, handheld devices may be used during taxi, take-off and landing. Larger devices must be switched off and stowed away safely during take-off and landing.
- Bluetooth accessories
All Bluetooth accessories (for example wireless keyboard, headphones, etc) may only be used during the flight but must remain switched off for taxi, take-off and landing.
Prohibition of the use of handled devices
Under certain circumstances your flight or cabin crew may ask that all electronic devices be switched off. For example, during some automatic landings or emergency situation.
We ask customers seated in the emergency exit rownot to use any electronic devices during taxi, take-off and landing.
Use of headphones
Personal headphones can now be used for all stages of flight and may be attached to your personal device or to the aircraft's In-flight Entertainment system.
We ask that customers remove their headphones for the safety briefing.


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Amazon made quite a splash when it introduced
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Barnes and Noble may seem like an also-ran in the tablet game with Apple gobbling up the lion's share of the market and Amazon grabbing on to the rest, but the company looks poised to outshine the latest Kindle Fire HD models with some fresh Nook tablets. The first new model is the Nook HD which features a 7" display and a screen resolution of 1440x900. Barnes and Noble quickly pointed out that at 243 pixels per inch (PPI), the Nook HD has 25 percent more pixels than the
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The Kindle Fire HD comparisons kept popping up with Barnes and Noble stating that the Nook HD is 20 percent lighter and a half-inch narrower than its main competitor. On the performance front, the Nook HD packs a 1.3GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. A microSD slot is included if you wish to increase your storage capacity beyond the standard allotment.
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The Nook HD will be offered in two colors (Snow or Smoke) and will be priced at $199 for the 8GB model and $229 for the 16GB model. The Nook HD will give you up to 10.5 hours of battery life while reading and 9 hours while watching video.
Barnes and Noble is also stepping it up a notch with a new model that is directly aimed at Amazon's 8.9" Kindle Fire HD. The new Nook HD+ features 9" display with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1280 (256 PPI). The high-resolution tablet weighs just 18.2 ounces and features a 1.5GHz dual-core processor paired with 1GB of RAM. It too will feature a microSD slot for storage expansion.
The Nook HD+ is priced at $269 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model. Battery life for the Nook HD+ is slightly below its smaller brother at 10 hours reading/9 hours video.
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Both new tablets will ship in October (you can
pre-order today
) and both run a customized version of Android 4.0.
"With the combination of the highest resolution screen, lightest weight and expansive access to content rendered in a digital quality never before seen, NOOK HD is the world's best 7-inch media tablet," said William J. Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble. "We designed our larger format tablet NOOK HD+ because we think there's big demand from customers for a super-light, extremely high quality 9-inch tablet, at half the price of the iPad. Both our 7-inch NOOK HD and 9-inch NOOK HD+ deliver an exceptional customer experience."
Feeling like it has something to prove considering its meager market share in this space, Barnes and Noble is touting that it includes an AC adapter at no additional charge with its Nook tablets (Amazon charges $20 extra) and that its tablets don't blast you with advertisements (Amazon
charges customers $15 to get rid of the ads
Barnes and Noble is also opening up a new Nook Video streaming service which will provide access to TV shows like "Game of Thrones" and "Breaking Bad", and movies like "The Dark Knight" and the Harry Potter franchise. Other niceties include a growing books library, revised Nook Newstand, Nook Catalog (allows customers to browse retail catalogs like Pottery Barn and L.L. Bean), and a revamped Nook Store.
While Barnes and Noble may tout a pricing and spec advantage, it still can't touch the Kindle Fire HD's access to the vast Amazon ecosystem of apps and video content. In addition, Barnes and Noble isn't offering an LTE version of its big tablet like Amazon, which prices its 8.9" Kindle Fire HD LTE 4G at $499.
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befor I head into the final phase of my short movie, I start to think abbout how to render it. The movie will be something like 5 minutes, so if I use 25fps that gives 7500frames.
7500 images to render. thats a lot.
So I can:
a.) optimize my rendertime so much that my single home computer (apple G5 2x2gig) can do it all on its own. I will ask some question bout this later.
b.) buy some renderslaves; cheap pcs that help me do the job. ... here a good question would be what to by and wich system to run on them (XP or linux) also here I would have upgrade from maya 6 to 6.5 to have to more mr renderlicenses. right?
c.) look for some comercial renderfarms and the prices.
ad a.)
at the moment I am at 3 minutes by frame. 720x576
that would be 375 hours (15 days) rendertime for the whole 7500 frames
I use mental ray, I baked some shadows to the texture and use one spotlight with raytraced shadows (14 shadow rays). some other lights as fillers without shadow.
the antialiasing is set to -1/+1 what is still to low. but when I give it 0/2 this the rendertime goes up a lot.
It would really help a lot to help me here and share your experience.
I also can offer to mail the scene to people who want to take a look at it, trying to optimize it.
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See our listing of this year's gift guide.
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$250 ($300 for 3G version)
The PS Vita is Sony's latest portable video gaming system, the successor to the PlayStation Portable. But instead of just focusing on video games, the Vita includes features you'd expect on a smartphone or tablet - things a front-facing and rear camera for video chats, and a Wi-Fi or 3G connection for connecting to the Internet. A touchscreen and new user interface lets you easily access new features, such as shopping for additional games/apps through the Sony PlayStation Store, or purchasing additional music, videos and photos (you can also load up your own content to play on the device). Much like the PSP, there's a wide variety of games for the Vita, which this time are stored on an SD memory card instead of the PSP disc-based cartridge.
While you could certainly use the Vita as a stand-alone gaming device quite nicely, you get additional features if you own a PS3 home gaming console. The Cross-Play feature lets you play a game on the PS3, pause/save the game, and then continue playing it on the Vita. Simultaneous Cross-Play lets you play games against others, with one person using the Vita and another person using a PS3 controller, for example. Cross-Play requires specific games (including Hustle Kings, MotorStorm RC, Wipeout HD, Wipeout 2048, Street Fighter X Tekken, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, MLB13: The Show, Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault, Fuseball and When Vikings Attack!)
The remote play option is also cool - with the PS3 running, you can switch to remote play and operate the PS3's menu on the Vita's screen (and play games this way, too, if you would rather play a game on a smaller screen instead of the larger TV display, one assumes). This can be a nice option if the TV your PS3 is connected to needs to be used for something else (like, say, your spouse or kids want to watch regular TV).
Sadly, the remote play features can't control the streaming media apps on the PS3 - it would have been nice to watch movies that you've already purchased through the PS3 on the Vita. And content that you purchase via the Vita also doesn't show up in the PS3 menu. In a world where Apple and Amazon have successfully initiated cloud-based entertainment (purchase content and view on multiple devices), the inability to do this via a PS3 and the Vita is much more noticeable.
The final decision on whether to buy a PS Vita lies with your place in the Sony universe of products. If you (or your gift recipient) already owns a PS3, then great - the Vita is a great complement to this Sony ecosystem. If they are a gamer and want to have that same experience while out and about, then it's also worth a look.
But keep in mind that there are lots of other choices out there too - for example, Nintendo's DS gaming platforms for kids, and even the iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch) for more casual gaming options.
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ThinkGeek iCade 8-bitty game controller
The iPad is great for playing games, but sometimes the touchscreen is useless for controlling a character in the old-school arcade method (where you have to have someone move left, right, up down, fire or jump). For games like that (and there are many of them), ThinkGeek has helped develop the 8-bitty, giving users a Bluetooth-enabled handheld controller that looks like the old Nintendo Entertainment System controller. Powered by two AAA batteries, the 8-bitty has a D-pad on the left that lets you move up, left, down and right, and four buttons on the right. There's also two "shoulder" buttons as well.
Once connected to your iPad, you can then play games via this controller - it works with games like Atari's Greatest Hits, Activision Anthology, Midway Arcade, Namco Arcade and others (the full list is here). For most of the games, you can customize the game to react to which button you press.
After I got it up and running, it really felt like I was back in the '80s arcade of my youth. The controller is very responsive - I never felt any lag or latency (although playing Kaboom! in the Activision Anthology game still stinks without a paddle-like controller) or anything that affected my gameplay. The only downside was that the controller acts like a keyboard - if you decide you want a new game and need to type it in the App Store, you need to turn off the controller to activate the iPad's on-screen keyboard.
A minor quibble, though. Overall I was very impressed with the controller - if there's an iPad gamer on your holiday list, they will be even happier with the 8-bitty.
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If you spend any time playing computer games (especially MMORPGs) or if you've recently purchased a high-performance gaming laptop, you'll notice that they tend to run hot with long-term use. Depending on the design of the notebook, you might need some additional cooling protection for the device, which is where the HD3 Gaming Chill Mat from Targus comes in.
The device sits under your notebook and connects to an open USB port to power the unit's three fans. If you are using an older notebook, you might need two USB ports, but for most notebooks one port should suffice.
The unit includes an aluminum alloy grill that aims to dissipate heat more efficiently, as well as airflow straighteners to help reduce "air turbulence" - it all sounds very cool, of course. The mat also has non-skid feet to keep the unit (and your notebook) from sliding around.
In my tests with my MacBook Pro (playing Guild Wars 2), I noticed a definite improvement in the amount of heat that the notebook generated during the game. While Targus says the fans are "ultra-quiet", you will definitely notice when the unit is powered on and working.
The gaming mat can fit notebooks up to 18-inches, so that should cover most of the major gaming notebooks as well as regular laptop systems. If you've been finding that your notebook has been running hot, or to protect your gaming notebook purchase, pick up one of these as well.
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Anyway who ever it was thought our gas calor gas tanks were wrongly sited, the fact they have been there for 12 years and sited by Calor gas who know the law and regs inside out how to site them. They are checked every year for safety including the feed out gas pipes, they are protection by safety barriers and are in line with the regs at the time of placement. It seems some twat thinks they know better. I guess they don't like to see businesses who are doing well play the game or they just don't like them where they are. It makes me think is it all worth the grief and frustration and great expence running a business these days.
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