When lighting your bathroom you have the ideal opportunity to really go for it with your lighting Do not be constrained by what your electrician might tell you (that you can only have one light in the centre of the ceiling because of safety standards). Your bathroom is the place to really be uninhibited and use your lighting to create mood. Imagine yourself lying in the bath reading a book surrounded by soft lighting that flickers beautifully on the ripples of water. what a lovely way to end your day and so much nicer than the bright light we oh so often use in our bathrooms.
It is advisable to have layers of light in your bathroom which operate off different dimmer switches. this gives you so much more scope than just having everything working from the one switch. Consider all the places you can have light in your bathroom. Firstly there is the ceiling where recessed lighting is the most suitable. (Be careful not to use a recessed light only directly above a mirror as this causes shadows and is extremely unflattering). Your recessed lighting does not need to be in any uniform pattern, it works better if you use them where they are most beneficial. For example you could use a recessed downlight in the shower, not only does it give you light in an area you need it, it also reflects off the water and the tiles. It does have to be a downlight which is suitable for that area (watertight).In certain parts of Europe bathroom lighting is given what is called an IP rating which indicates what area of the bathroom it is suitable for.
You might like the idea of using a glamorous ceiling pendant in your bathroom but unless your fitting is more than 2.25 metres from the bath it is not acceptable in some countries, so it is advisable to find out what the regulations are. However if you are lucky enough to have gorgeous high ceilings then a chandelier in a bathroom is the absolute height of luxury. For the rest of us we can still make our bathrooms luxurious but we have to be a bit cleverer with our lighting if you have any alcove areas it is a really good look to use downlights inside the alcove as it gives a lovely effect. you can use lights inset into the plinth under your bath or sink unit. It is possible to be very adventurous in these areas and use colour changing lights if that appeals to you.
Going back to the point made earlier about not using one direct light above your mirror the ideal scenario is to light your mirror from either side to eliminate shadows. you can buy bathroom mirrors that have an inbuilt light system which is ideal for a clean line look. Alternatively there are super wall lights available that will give the same result if used either side of your mirror. It is possible to have a de- mister heater attached to the back of your mirror which can be very useful.
On a final note it is always worth consulting a lighting design specialist to help you consider your options and maybe looking at interiors magazines might give you some idea of the possibilities that are available in bathroom lighting.
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LONDON (AP) — The Olympic flame is nowhere to be seen.
LONDON (AP) — Fresh from her star turn as the latest Bond Girl, Queen Elizabeth II returned to Olympic Park for an encore Saturday, while the usually biting British press gave a resounding review: we are amused.
The queen visited with fawning British Olympians in the athletes village and rode to the top of the 377-foot (115-meter) Orbit tower beside the stadium, where on Friday night she officially opened the 2012 Games. her husband, Prince Philip, and London Mayor Boris Johnson accompanied her.
Dressed in a royal blue silk dress, crepe coat and matching hat, the queen could be heard remarking at the views of the London skyline and countryside. she wore a brooch given to her in 1948 — the last time London hosted the Olympics and four years before her accession to the throne.
In describing her role in the opening ceremony, created by director Danny Boyle, Johnson said the queen had told him she was “very, very impressed with the success of her first film appearance, her first dramatic venture. It was very funny and seems to have gone down particularly well with the international audiences.”
And, it seems, with the British media.
The Guardian called the queen’s appearance “one of the highlights of Danny Boyle’s tumultuously inventive opening ceremony of the 2012 Games. … now, thanks to Boyle, we really have seen everything.”
“I was worried that there was too much self-parody, that the world might be laughing at us,” wrote columnist Giles Coren in The Times of London. “But they were laughing with us. They were silently awed.”
The show-stopping moment featured the queen making her acting debut alongside Daniel Craig, who portrayed James Bond in a film beamed into the stadium.
Boyle’s production showed Bond striding into Buckingham Palace to escort his VIP guest to the Olympic ceremony. many had expected a famous actress to play the role of the queen, and there was an audible gasped as the real-life royal was seen to swivel round in her desk chair and declare: “Good evening, mr. Bond.”
Buckingham Palace confirmed that the 86-year-old monarch agreed last year to participate. The filming took place at the palace in March and April and featured two of the queen’s corgi dogs: Monty and Holly.
At the end of the film segment, two stuntmen dressed as Bond and the queen parachuted from a helicopter into the stadium, and moments later Elizabeth and Philip emerged in the stands.
Boyle told NBC television that the queen had been a natural. “You don’t have to tell her something twice,” he said. “She picks it up straight away, about cameras and angles.”
The sequence has already provided the defining images of the games, according to the Daily Telegraph in Australia, where the queen also reigns.
“A few hundred years ago director Danny Boyle could have been sent to the Tower for even suggesting such treason,” the Sydney newspaper said. “But as if to show how far England and the monarchy have come in that time, her Majesty not only let Boyle get away with it. she was actually in on the joke.”
The German newspaper Die Welt wrote that “often seen as reserved and unapproachable, the queen changed all that alongside James Bond.”
The queen offered more surprises Saturday as she met about 150 members of the British Olympic team. Spectators took in the scene from balconies draped in Union Jack flags.
“For her to come through and meet the athletes, and see where we’re living, it was amazing,” said Rose Anderson, 24, a member of the women’s basketball team.
“She went inside one of the athletes’ bedrooms and chatted to us. It was just awesome, especially after last night,” she said. “Last night will never be topped. I’ll never get an experience like that again, and then this will never be topped either.”
The queen also met athletes from other nations in the dining hall.
“She’s beautiful,” said Jess Fox, who competes for Australia in the canoe slalom. “We saw her from afar last night in the stadium, but it was amazing to see her like this.”
Fashion Olympics: big designers behind games kits
LONDON (AP) — who said sportswear can’t be chic?
The athletes’ parade during Friday’s opening ceremony might as well have been a catwalk show, with some of fashion’s biggest names — Armani, Prada, Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney — designing the team uniforms.
Many in the fashion industry are already calling this the most stylish Olympics ever.
“For any designer, this is the biggest audience you can possibly have for your designs and arguably the most critical,” said Avril Graham, Harper’s Bazaar executive fashion and beauty editor. “These outfits have to fly the flag and represent their nation in the eyes of the rest of the world.”
The Italians must be some of the best-dressed athletes, scoring points with an understated monochrome kit in navy and white by Giorgio Armani, as well as waterproof blue designs for their sailing team by Prada.
Stella McCartney has worked with Adidas to design the sporting gear and “village wear” (read lounge wear) for Britain’s home team, though the outfits weren’t on show Friday as athletes covered up in white and gold tracksuits. McCartney’s gear takes inspiration from the iconic Union flag, but she said she deconstructed it to make it “more delicate and feminine.” Look out for them on the track and at the pool: Red is sparingly used to highlight a palette that mostly features white and shades of blue — turquoise, navy, cobalt.
Meanwhile, the American team may have gotten a barrage of bad press for its made-in-China Ralph Lauren uniforms, but the preppy designs were still some of the most stylish in the arena: clean-cut navy blazers, crisp white trousers, skirts, and shoes, accessorized with navy berets and blue, red and white striped scarves.
The Jamaican team is in the spotlight because of sprinter Usain Bolt, so it’s fitting that it also got a boost in the fashion stakes this year. its kit, which features the national colors as well as lightning-like prints, was designed by Cedella Marley, daughter of legendary singer Bob Marley, for Puma. The styles were modeled by a flamboyantly dancing Bolt at a London catwalk recently.
“Cedella Marley brings island color to team Jamaica — a sea of tropical yellow, green and black,” Graham said Friday.
Other designers behind the Olympics this year include luxury label Hermes, which designed riding jackets for the French equestrian team, and Salvatore Ferragamo, which designed the official uniform for the tiny European republic of San Marino.
Some designers didn’t get involved in the official Olympics gear but used the games as an opportunity to cash in and promote their brands anyway.
Karl Lagerfeld, for example, launched an Olympic-themed women’s wear collection called Team Karl at the London department store Selfridge’s — though he reportedly said he wouldn’t tune in to watch the games.
Meanwhile, high-street chain store H&M said it was launching two pop-up stores dedicated to selling sportswear in London.
Friday’s parade of athletes also showcased some surprising and less popular designs.
The German team was notable for not using its national colors at all. Instead, the kit was all hot pink for the women’s jackets and cornflower blue for the men. both were paired with white trousers.
The Czechs, meanwhile, wore bright blue wellington rain boots paired with white shorts.
Spectators also made their own judgments about the much-maligned uniforms for the Spaniards and Russians, both made by Russian sportswear company Bosco. Some Spanish athletes have posted tweets grumbling about their garish red and gold outfits, and there are even Spanish Facebook groups set up to campaign against the gear.
Official kit aside, there were strong fashion showings in the spectator stand, too.
Michelle Obama chose a white dress by J. Mendel, while the Duchess of Cambridge, formerly known as Kate Middleton, dazzled with a pastel blue satin and belted coat dress reportedly by wunderkind Christopher Kane.
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s wife, Samantha, demonstrated her fashion credentials with a bold red and black outfit by London-based designer Roksanda Illincic.
Olympic visitors take gold-medal hit in wallet
LONDON (AP) — Day 1 in Olympic Park and already visitors were feeling it in their wallets.
“Twenty-five pounds for a T-shirt?” exclaimed Catherine Goley of Birmingham, who was browsing through a London 2012 souvenir shop near Olympic Stadium Saturday — and made a hasty exit after finding nothing in her price range.
The one-eyed Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville were going for 15 pounds ($23) a pop, while the hometown “Team GB” backpacks ran 37 pounds ($57). Team GB tablet sleeves were a relative steal at 12 ($18) pounds apiece.
“The stuff they were selling in the supermarkets was much cheaper,” she said.
Goley had tickets for Saturday night’s swim finals but others without tickets came to the park just to check it out on the first day of competition after the opening ceremony, paying 10 pounds ($15) to get in and another 15 pounds ($22) to go up the Orbit observation deck.
Colleen Whalen, of Cincinnati, Ohio, said she would have paid to go up since that’s the only way to see inside the main stadium and the Olympic flame, but tickets were sold out.
Whalen, who won a ticket to the swim finals, said she briefly considered buying a ticket for the opening ceremony, but balked at the price for a last-minute seat.
“The only tickets left were 1,800 or 2,300 pounds and, yes, that’s definitely out of my price range.” (In dollars, that’s $2,800 to $3,570).
Food wasn’t any bargain, either — expensive even for a city long considered one of the world’s costliest.
A healthy portion of the British mainstay fish and chips set John Porter back 8 pounds, 50 pence — and that was just for his 8-year-old niece Freya. Normally it costs about half as much. Porter, who lives in a London suburb, had a roast beef sandwich, and wasn’t terribly impressed.
“At 8 pounds, I’ll be honest. I won’t have it again.”
Stadium prices are always higher than what you can get outside the venue, and London is no exception. Tickets for events started at 20 pounds ($31) and went up from there.
As a result, Whalen, the Ohio bank manager, said she didn’t blink at the 26-pound Olympic logo polo shirt she bought her husband.
“I didn’t think it was too bad for an event as high-profile as this,” she said. “You have to expect prices will be a bit higher.”
But at least she bought something. On Saturday, several athletes were seen window shopping at the Westfield Mall on the edge of Olympic Park, but many returned home empty-handed.
“I am just here to look,” Marouane M’rabet, a Tunisian volleyballer, explained apologetically to a sales clerk who had spent the last five minutes rubbing a sample bottle of massage oil onto his forearm, even offering a discount if he bought more than one.
After he and a teammate walked off, the woman explained the problem.
“They aren’t allowed to bring any liquids into the athletes village,” she said, a reference to tight security at the closed-off complex where the Olympians are housed. “So they never buy anything.”
UK police charge two over Olympic ticket scalping
LONDON (AP) — A German man and a Slovakian woman were charged Saturday by British police over alleged attempts to illegally resell tickets to the Olympic opening ceremony, while 16 others have been arrested in the last two days over similar offenses.
Scotland Yard said that 57-year-old Wolfgang Menzel and 30-year-old Maria Bukranova were charged after plain clothes officers carried out an operation against ticket scalpers — known as ticket touts in Britain — on Friday night.
The two — and five others — were arrested just hours before the ceremony began at London’s Olympic stadium.
Police said that three men are being questioned, one woman has been released without charge and another man has been bailed pending further inquiries.
Two other people were arrested over the alleged theft of two Olympic lane passes — which allow the bearers to use lanes on London roads reserved for officials and VIPs.
Scotland Yard said it had also detained 11 men on Saturday over suspected ticket fraud — two have been bailed while inquiries continue, one has been freed and eight are being questioned.
“My team has been working tirelessly to clamp down on ticket touts. we have been, and will continue to seek out and take robust action,” Det. Supt. Nick Downing said.
“Ticket touting is illegal and is a clear exploitation of those who genuinely wish to experience the games first-hand,” he said.
London mayor: Olympic ceremony attack ‘nonsense’
LONDON (AP) — London’s mayor says a fellow member of Britain’s governing Conservative Party was talking nonsense when he criticized the Olympic opening ceremony as too political.
Aidan Burley, a 33-year-old legislator, posted a message to his Twitter account accusing Friday’s ceremony of being too “leftie” — slang for politically left wing — and criticizing its use of rap music.
Director Danny Boyle’s ceremony hailed Britain’s National Health Service, begun in 1944 under a center-left Labour Party government, and celebrated the nation’s ethnic diversity.
London Mayor Boris Johnson, a member of the center-right Conservatives, said Burley’s comments were “nonsense,” and the event had left him with “hot tears of patriotic pride.”
Burley last year lost a junior government role after he attended a party in France where a guest wore a Nazi uniform.
Television
NBC sets opening ceremony record
NEW YORK (AP) — A look at media coverage of the London Olympics:
LONDON (AP) — the Olympic flame is nowhere to be seen.
LONDON (AP) — Fresh from her star turn as the latest Bond Girl, Queen Elizabeth II returned to Olympic Park for an encore Saturday, while the usually biting British press gave a resounding review: We are amused.
The queen visited with fawning British Olympians in the athletes village and rode to the top of the 377-foot (115-meter) Orbit tower beside the stadium, where on Friday night she officially opened the 2012 Games. her husband, Prince Philip, and London Mayor Boris Johnson accompanied her.
Dressed in a royal blue silk dress, crepe coat and matching hat, the queen could be heard remarking at the views of the London skyline and countryside. she wore a brooch given to her in 1948 — the last time London hosted the Olympics and four years before her accession to the throne.
In describing her role in the opening ceremony, created by director Danny Boyle, Johnson said the queen had told him she was “very, very impressed with the success of her first film appearance, her first dramatic venture. It was very funny and seems to have gone down particularly well with the international audiences.”
And, it seems, with the British media.
The Guardian called the queen’s appearance “one of the highlights of Danny Boyle’s tumultuously inventive opening ceremony of the 2012 Games. … now, thanks to Boyle, we really have seen everything.”
“I was worried that there was too much self-parody, that the world might be laughing at us,” wrote columnist Giles Coren in the Times of London. “But they were laughing with us. they were silently awed.”
The show-stopping moment featured the queen making her acting debut alongside Daniel Craig, who portrayed James Bond in a film beamed into the stadium.
Boyle’s production showed Bond striding into Buckingham Palace to escort his VIP guest to the Olympic ceremony. many had expected a famous actress to play the role of the queen, and there was an audible gasped as the real-life royal was seen to swivel round in her desk chair and declare: “Good evening, Mr. Bond.”
Buckingham Palace confirmed that the 86-year-old monarch agreed last year to participate. the filming took place at the palace in March and April and featured two of the queen’s corgi dogs: Monty and Holly.
At the end of the film segment, two stuntmen dressed as Bond and the queen parachuted from a helicopter into the stadium, and moments later Elizabeth and Philip emerged in the stands.
Boyle told NBC television that the queen had been a natural. “You don’t have to tell her something twice,” he said. “She picks it up straight away, about cameras and angles.”
The sequence has already provided the defining images of the games, according to the Daily Telegraph in Australia, where the queen also reigns.
“A few hundred years ago director Danny Boyle could have been sent to the Tower for even suggesting such treason,” the Sydney newspaper said. “But as if to show how far England and the monarchy have come in that time, her Majesty not only let Boyle get away with it. she was actually in on the joke.”
The German newspaper Die Welt wrote that “often seen as reserved and unapproachable, the queen changed all that alongside James Bond.”
The queen offered more surprises Saturday as she met about 150 members of the British Olympic team. Spectators took in the scene from balconies draped in Union Jack flags.
“For her to come through and meet the athletes, and see where we’re living, it was amazing,” said Rose Anderson, 24, a member of the women’s basketball team.
“She went inside one of the athletes’ bedrooms and chatted to us. It was just awesome, especially after last night,” she said. “Last night will never be topped. I’ll never get an experience like that again, and then this will never be topped either.”
The queen also met athletes from other nations in the dining hall.
“She’s beautiful,” said Jess Fox, who competes for Australia in the canoe slalom. “We saw her from afar last night in the stadium, but it was amazing to see her like this.”
Fashion Olympics: big designers behind games kits
LONDON (AP) — Who said sportswear can’t be chic?
The athletes’ parade during Friday’s opening ceremony might as well have been a catwalk show, with some of fashion’s biggest names — Armani, Prada, Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney — designing the team uniforms.
Many in the fashion industry are already calling this the most stylish Olympics ever.
“For any designer, this is the biggest audience you can possibly have for your designs and arguably the most critical,” said Avril Graham, Harper’s Bazaar executive fashion and beauty editor. “These outfits have to fly the flag and represent their nation in the eyes of the rest of the world.”
The Italians must be some of the best-dressed athletes, scoring points with an understated monochrome kit in navy and white by Giorgio Armani, as well as waterproof blue designs for their sailing team by Prada.
Stella McCartney has worked with Adidas to design the sporting gear and “village wear” (read lounge wear) for Britain’s home team, though the outfits weren’t on show Friday as athletes covered up in white and gold tracksuits. McCartney’s gear takes inspiration from the iconic Union flag, but she said she deconstructed it to make it “more delicate and feminine.” look out for them on the track and at the pool: Red is sparingly used to highlight a palette that mostly features white and shades of blue — turquoise, navy, cobalt.
Meanwhile, the American team may have gotten a barrage of bad press for its made-in-China Ralph Lauren uniforms, but the preppy designs were still some of the most stylish in the arena: clean-cut navy blazers, crisp white trousers, skirts, and shoes, accessorized with navy berets and blue, red and white striped scarves.
The Jamaican team is in the spotlight because of sprinter Usain Bolt, so it’s fitting that it also got a boost in the fashion stakes this year. its kit, which features the national colors as well as lightning-like prints, was designed by Cedella Marley, daughter of legendary singer Bob Marley, for Puma. the styles were modeled by a flamboyantly dancing Bolt at a London catwalk recently.
“Cedella Marley brings island color to team Jamaica — a sea of tropical yellow, green and black,” Graham said Friday.
Other designers behind the Olympics this year include luxury label Hermes, which designed riding jackets for the French equestrian team, and Salvatore Ferragamo, which designed the official uniform for the tiny European republic of San Marino.
Some designers didn’t get involved in the official Olympics gear but used the games as an opportunity to cash in and promote their brands anyway.
Karl Lagerfeld, for example, launched an Olympic-themed women’s wear collection called Team Karl at the London department store Selfridge’s — though he reportedly said he wouldn’t tune in to watch the games.
Meanwhile, high-street chain store H&M said it was launching two pop-up stores dedicated to selling sportswear in London.
Friday’s parade of athletes also showcased some surprising and less popular designs.
The German team was notable for not using its national colors at all. Instead, the kit was all hot pink for the women’s jackets and cornflower blue for the men. both were paired with white trousers.
The Czechs, meanwhile, wore bright blue wellington rain boots paired with white shorts.
Spectators also made their own judgments about the much-maligned uniforms for the Spaniards and Russians, both made by Russian sportswear company Bosco. some Spanish athletes have posted tweets grumbling about their garish red and gold outfits, and there are even Spanish Facebook groups set up to campaign against the gear.
Official kit aside, there were strong fashion showings in the spectator stand, too.
Michelle Obama chose a white dress by J. Mendel, while the Duchess of Cambridge, formerly known as Kate Middleton, dazzled with a pastel blue satin and belted coat dress reportedly by wunderkind Christopher Kane.
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s wife, Samantha, demonstrated her fashion credentials with a bold red and black outfit by London-based designer Roksanda Illincic.
Olympic visitors take gold-medal hit in wallet
LONDON (AP) — Day 1 in Olympic Park and already visitors were feeling it in their wallets.
“Twenty-five pounds for a T-shirt?” exclaimed Catherine Goley of Birmingham, who was browsing through a London 2012 souvenir shop near Olympic Stadium Saturday — and made a hasty exit after finding nothing in her price range.
The one-eyed Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville were going for 15 pounds ($23) a pop, while the hometown “Team GB” backpacks ran 37 pounds ($57). Team GB tablet sleeves were a relative steal at 12 ($18) pounds apiece.
“The stuff they were selling in the supermarkets was much cheaper,” she said.
Goley had tickets for Saturday night’s swim finals but others without tickets came to the park just to check it out on the first day of competition after the opening ceremony, paying 10 pounds ($15) to get in and another 15 pounds ($22) to go up the Orbit observation deck.
Colleen Whalen, of Cincinnati, Ohio, said she would have paid to go up since that’s the only way to see inside the main stadium and the Olympic flame, but tickets were sold out.
Whalen, who won a ticket to the swim finals, said she briefly considered buying a ticket for the opening ceremony, but balked at the price for a last-minute seat.
“The only tickets left were 1,800 or 2,300 pounds and, yes, that’s definitely out of my price range.” (In dollars, that’s $2,800 to $3,570).
Food wasn’t any bargain, either — expensive even for a city long considered one of the world’s costliest.
A healthy portion of the British mainstay fish and chips set John Porter back 8 pounds, 50 pence — and that was just for his 8-year-old niece Freya. Normally it costs about half as much. Porter, who lives in a London suburb, had a roast beef sandwich, and wasn’t terribly impressed.
“At 8 pounds, I’ll be honest. I won’t have it again.”
Stadium prices are always higher than what you can get outside the venue, and London is no exception. Tickets for events started at 20 pounds ($31) and went up from there.
As a result, Whalen, the Ohio bank manager, said she didn’t blink at the 26-pound Olympic logo polo shirt she bought her husband.
“I didn’t think it was too bad for an event as high-profile as this,” she said. “You have to expect prices will be a bit higher.”
But at least she bought something. on Saturday, several athletes were seen window shopping at the Westfield Mall on the edge of Olympic Park, but many returned home empty-handed.
“I am just here to look,” Marouane M’rabet, a Tunisian volleyballer, explained apologetically to a sales clerk who had spent the last five minutes rubbing a sample bottle of massage oil onto his forearm, even offering a discount if he bought more than one.
After he and a teammate walked off, the woman explained the problem.
“They aren’t allowed to bring any liquids into the athletes village,” she said, a reference to tight security at the closed-off complex where the Olympians are housed. “So they never buy anything.”
UK police charge two over Olympic ticket scalping
LONDON (AP) — a German man and a Slovakian woman were charged Saturday by British police over alleged attempts to illegally resell tickets to the Olympic opening ceremony, while 16 others have been arrested in the last two days over similar offenses.
Scotland Yard said that 57-year-old Wolfgang Menzel and 30-year-old Maria Bukranova were charged after plain clothes officers carried out an operation against ticket scalpers — known as ticket touts in Britain — on Friday night.
The two — and five others — were arrested just hours before the ceremony began at London’s Olympic stadium.
Police said that three men are being questioned, one woman has been released without charge and another man has been bailed pending further inquiries.
Two other people were arrested over the alleged theft of two Olympic lane passes — which allow the bearers to use lanes on London roads reserved for officials and VIPs.
Scotland Yard said it had also detained 11 men on Saturday over suspected ticket fraud — two have been bailed while inquiries continue, one has been freed and eight are being questioned.
“My team has been working tirelessly to clamp down on ticket touts. We have been, and will continue to seek out and take robust action,” Det. Supt. Nick Downing said.
“Ticket touting is illegal and is a clear exploitation of those who genuinely wish to experience the games first-hand,” he said.
London mayor: Olympic ceremony attack ‘nonsense’
LONDON (AP) — London’s mayor says a fellow member of Britain’s governing Conservative Party was talking nonsense when he criticized the Olympic opening ceremony as too political.
Aidan Burley, a 33-year-old legislator, posted a message to his Twitter account accusing Friday’s ceremony of being too “leftie” — slang for politically left wing — and criticizing its use of rap music.
Director Danny Boyle’s ceremony hailed Britain’s National Health Service, begun in 1944 under a center-left Labour Party government, and celebrated the nation’s ethnic diversity.
London Mayor Boris Johnson, a member of the center-right Conservatives, said Burley’s comments were “nonsense,” and the event had left him with “hot tears of patriotic pride.”
Burley last year lost a junior government role after he attended a party in France where a guest wore a Nazi uniform.
Television
NBC sets opening ceremony record
NEW YORK (AP) — a look at media coverage of the London Olympics:
PUBLISHED: 01:02, 1 August 2012 | UPDATED: 11:54, 1 August 2012
It is a finding that could explain why many an alcohol-fuelled approach in a bar ends in failure.
Research shows that alcohol makes us think we are more attractive than we really are.
Even the mere expectation of being tipsy is enough to boost ego.
Cheers! The more we drink, the more attractive we think we are, new research has found
However, the effects are purely in the mind of the drinker. Sadly for them, others do not find them any more appealing.
The finding comes from researchers who asked 19 men and women drinking in a French bar to rate their own attractiveness and blow into a breathalyser.
The more they had drunk, the more attractive they thought they were, the Journal of Individual Differences reports.
A second experiment revealed that the mere thought of alcohol is enough to boost someone’s opinion of themselves.
Here, 86 young men were told they were taking part in a taste test for a new minty lemon drink.
Some were given an alcoholic version, others the same drink minus the booze. in each case, some were told the drink was alcoholic, others were told it was alcohol-free.
After a short break to allow the alcohol to take its effect, they recorded an advertisement for the fictional drink.
They then watched the tape back and rated their appeal.
This showed that those who thought they were drunk rated themselves more highly than the others, regardless of whether they’d had any alcohol or not.
Beer goggles do exist after all
However, a third experiment showed this to be an illusion.
When the tapes were played back to a panel of university students, they were unimpressed.
The French, US and Dutch researchers believe that memories of glamorous film stars drinking alcohol leads us to associate drinking with attractiveness.
University of Grenoble researcher Laurent Begue said: ‘Almost everyone thinks they are more attractive after they think they have consumed alcohol.
‘however, ratings from independent judges showed that this boost in self-evaluation was unrelated to actual performance.’
The study builds on previous research into the ‘beer goggle effect’ – the fact that we seem to find others more attractive after drinking.
Now, it seems that beer goggles can also work in reverse.
But others have disputed the idea of beer goggles, with a British study concluding that men find women no prettier after drinking.
The Leicester University researchers said: ‘there was no difference – the men were just as undiscerning as ever.’
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Drummonds have introduced a collection of new Lever handle mixer taps that combine superbly with gleaming white enamel basins and baths
The new mixer taps are simple yet very pleasing to the eye; they are precision-cast in solid brass, using the authentic lost wax process and they present brilliantly proportioned ceramic handles.
There are a range of different designs including, bath taps, basin taps and 3-hole basin mixers.
Shown in our picture in chrome, they also come in nickel and brass. Prices for basin taps start from £522 inc.VAT per set.
With inspiration drawn from period pieces and traditional manufacturing, Drummonds produces bathroom products with a solidity and integrity rarely seen nowadays.
But these are not just copies: they are designed around the intricacies of modern plumbing, to an ideal of classic English bathroom style.
AboutDrummonds specialize in the manufacture and distribution of bathroom products.They are made unlike any others, from free standing cast iron baths with dry frit vitreous enamel, to the lost wax brass casting process used to manufacture their taps, showers and other brassware.
Jun 22 2012 by Carla Callaghan, Kilmarnock Standard
ROADWORKS set to cause traffic disruptions in Darvel are expected to last for six months.
Improvements are to be made to the weakened culvert at West Main Street, which is unable to support the abnormal load vehicles using the road to access the Bankend Rig windfarm.
Works will include the excavation of Burn Road and West Main Street and movement of windfarm components. A bridge plate will also replace the current short-term steel plate to strengthen the culvert.
An East Ayrshire Council spokesman said: “This complex project will undoubtedly have an effect upon householders and the travelling public, however every effort will be made to keep disruption to a minimum during the extensive works.”
The programme of works is detailed below: from Monday 18 June – excavation of Burn Road and West Main Street. The work will last four days, Burn Road will be closed to through traffic and temporary traffic lights will be in place on West Main Street.
Monday, July 2 – the temporary bridging deck will be installed. This work will be carried out by wind farm developers appointed contractor, RJ McLeod and will take two weeks. Single way traffic will be controlled by temporary traffic lights.
August to September – movement of wind farm components. Two-way traffic will be maintained on West Main Street, but speed restrictions may apply. The movement of the large vehicles will be escorted by the police, where appropriate, which will minimise traffic disruption.
October – temporary diversion of water mains by Scottish Water which will take two weeks.
Mid October to late December – replacement of Matthews Burn Culvert. Temporary traffic lights will remain in place during the works to ensure the safety of the travelling public and maintain the flow of traffic.
Your bathroom is one of the most important rooms in your house and proper lighting is essential. The trend is going away from the traditional lighting. Many people are turning towards Japanese inspired looks for their home, including Japanese bathroom and kitchen lighting. The look is very clean, crisp, and some say it has a very calming effect on the home.
The traditional Japanese home is based on Ma, which is the balance between space and objects. The designs are very simple, uncluttered, with clean lines and edges. Some people may find it overwhelming to decorate their entire home in a Japanese style so a great way to start is with lighting.
Lighting is very important in the Japanese home. As you may have seen and loved, light is diffused through paper to give a warm glow. one way that you can mimic this look is by placing lights behind paper screens to do this. You can buy a simple white paper lampshade. You can also buy the paper material at a craft store and make your own.
A hanging lamp is an easy way to decorate your bathroom with Japanese lighting. You could also choose a shoji lamp, which is made of a beautiful wood frame and covered with rice pulp paper. These lamps can be placed in the corner of your bathroom for a truly unique look.
Some companies are even launching Japanese-style lighting fixtures that are made from plant based plastic. These eco-friendly plastics are made from corn starch and are the first of its kind to be marketed in the lighting industry.
Overall, Japanese lighting for your home is a wonderful way to give your bathroom, kitchen, or any other room in your house a unique look. Don’t be surprised if your friends and family will be impressed and want to duplicate your design.
Home buyers who act now could be spending the summer relaxing in the garden of a brand new home in Worcester.
Redrow has a standout choice of three and four-bedroom homes available at the Earl’s Park development. some of the homes are almost ready to move into and with part exchange available buyers could find they’re able to move sooner rather than later.
Pauline Turnbull, sales director for Redrow Homes (Midlands), explains: “People with school-age children who are considering moving home should be actively looking for their new home now if they want to move during the school summer holidays and minimise any disruption to their children’s education. those who reserve one of our stylish new homes now could enjoy the summer in the garden of their new home. They could even host a barbecue as a house warming.”
Prices at Earl’s Park start from £204,995 for a three-bedroom home. a four-bedroom Cambridge, available from £299,995, is almost ready to move in to.
The open plan kitchen, dining area and family room spans the width of the Cambridge and is at the heart of the home, providing a light, airy sociable space. There’s also a separate lounge for privacy, a utility to keep the washer, dryer and boiler out of the kitchen, plus downstairs cloaks.
Upstairs, the master bedroom boasts an en-suite to complement the family bathroom.
“Designed with modern family living in mind, our new homes feature items that customers might not normally expect to find as standard, including fitted wardrobes, built-in book shelves, outside lights and under lighting to kitchen units; while bathrooms and en-suites enjoy quality fixtures and fittings, with an exclusive tile range,” Pauline added.
“They’re ideal for those who want to climb the property ladder and with part exchange available even buyers with a home of their own to sell could find they’re able to move sooner than they anticipated. We’ll effectively buy their old home so that they can buy one of ours. There’s no need to worry about getting caught in a complicated chain and no agent’s fees to pay, making part exchange the quick and easy way to move from old to new.”
Earl’s Park is just a short journey away from the centre of Worcester and with easy access to the M5 and M42 , it’s the ideal base for commuters.
some 20 acres of woodland will form part of Redrow’s development of the former Earl’s Court Farm site, where species-rich grassland will be retained, an existing wet pond area enhanced, additional trees planted along the streets and new woodland areas created.
a Cambridge style show home is open for viewing at Earl’s Park from 10am to 5.30pm daily. for more information about the homes available or log on to redrow.co.uk.
