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I have a brand new Patriot GB class 10 sdhc card used it in my brand new Canon T2i after taking shots got card error, turn off the camera and tryed it again....same thing. My computer can not read the card at all. Is there any one who can retrive the photographs at a low cost
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Question...when you first put the new card in the camera, did you format it in the camera? If you didn't, it might have worked briefly but eventually would stop. You could use a card reader to download any pics from the card and then format it in the camera. That should get going again. This reader is great and only $13 at Walmart.\012
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I have a brand new Patriot GB class 10 sdhc card used it in my brand new Canon T2i after taking shots got card error, turn off the camera and tryed it again....same thing. My computer can not read the card at all. Is there any one who can retrive the photographs at a low cost
Question...when you first put the new card in the camera, did you format it in the camera? If you didn't, it might have worked briefly but eventually would stop. You could use a card reader to download any pics from the card and then format it in the ... Canon Digital Cameras
Put new SD card in (Micro Center brand) can only read card when I plug camera into computer cannot read card when I plug card into computer. Card slot on computer works on my Nikon card.
No. SD cards will work in SDHC devices but not the other way around. It's a hardware incompatibility and cannot be changed in firmware. The only solution is to get an SDHC-capable card reader. ... Canon EOS 400D / Rebel XTi Digital Camera
I have a Brand new camera, the cannon SD880.. I just got back from vacation and as I opened my camera it said memory card error, I then clicked the button to view my pictures and it said memory card us locked. ( It was unlocked though) I took the memory card out and it was unlocked... I tried downloading them onto my computer and It read no photos. I am very worried that they are gone, which would make no sense, is their anyway to fix this? how can I recover this problem thanks
It sounds like you've got a troublesome memory card problem. \012 If you really want to regain your photos there, I would like recommend you to try a photo recovery freeware that can restore all your inaccessible photos back for free: ... Canon PowerShot SD880 IS / Digital IXUS 870 IS Digital Camera
Hi there. i have a canon ixus 30 camera. i brought a brand new 4gb memory card for it. when i put it in the camera it says 'memory card error'. i read somewhere that formatting it helps but when i tried to format it on the camera it doesnt work because the format word is blacked out. i also tried formatting the card on my computer. it formatted it but when i put it back in the camera it still came up with the same error message. what can i do to fix this so i can take pictures etc??????
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Lens distorded My view is blurred and jagged appearing. When taking the picture anyway, it comes out the same, and but a little hour glass thing comes in view and empties and then it reads card is full, after taking only one picture. What in the world could be causing this. I recently bought a new battery. It is fully charged. I hope I didn't ruin my camera with this off brand battery. Actuall I put the old one in to see if it did the same thing and it does. How ever you can help, I would appre
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Im trying to transfer my pictures and I keep getting a pop-up that says it's not reading a cf card in the camera. I have a brand new card because the old one said the same thing.
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I can't transfer my pics from lumix lx3 to pc. When I first connect camera to pc via usb cable, a new drive pops up and I can initially see my pics. Then things lock up and my pc tells me that it can't read from the drive and my camera won't turn off (unless I remove battery). Is this a common problem? The camera and sandisk sdhc 4gb are brand new. I'd rather not need depend on a card reader. Any help?
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How do i format new memory card on an apple computer. Reading the solutions it says to format on your computer. I don't know how to do that. My new memory card reads full and then when I try to format comes up error as stated in several other requests for help.
Hello\015\012\015\012Insert your memory card into your computer's reader if you have one. If \015\012not, you can purchase a multi-format USB Memory Card reader from \015\012Amazon.com or Buy.com\015\012 ... Kodak EasyShare C310 Digital Camera
Brand New Canon Rebel T3i not reading SD cards.
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"card error" removed the cf card to place pics on my computer...put the cf card back in the camera and the screen reads card error...bought a new cf card and a new xd card and when i placed the new cards in camera still received "card error" with both...
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I am having trouble with computer not being able to read my memory card. Got a new memory card and I took pictures with it and they showed up on the camera put memory card in computer and said there were no pictures and now the camera won't read it either.
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... Canon PowerShot SX20 IS Digital Camera
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I have a brand new PENTAX E70L camera, with SD memory card. i took a few photos on it and then turned it off. Now when i turn the camera on it reads -card requires formatting.I press continue , to format and it starts to format and then reads"card can not be read"
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... Kodak EasyShare Z740 Digital Camera


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This bulletin contains detailed public sector employment estimates for the first quarter of 2012. For most sources that contribute to these statistics, the employment is reported for a specific day in March 2012. The public sector comprises central government, local government and public corporations as defined for the UK National Accounts.
Estimates of public sector employment are provided on a headcount and full-time equivalent basis for sectors and industries, and also by region on a headcount basis only. In addition, Civil Service employment is provided by government department and agency. Employment in Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) is aggregated by sponsoring department. Since the inclusion of some financial institutions in the public sector in 2009, estimates for public sector employment and employment in public corporations have been provided with and without these financial institutions.
Estimates of private sector employment are provided. These are derived as the difference between Labour Force Survey estimates of employment in the whole economy and the public sector estimates collected from public sector organisations.
The main uses of these statistics are in monitoring changes in the number of people employed in the public and private sector in the UK, and in informing policy formation and monitoring on public sector employment.
|Central government (incl. NHS)
|Local government
|Public corporations
|Total public sector
|Of which: Civil Service 1
|Change on quarter
|Change %
|Change on year
|Change %
Total public sector employment was 5.899 million in the first quarter of 2012, a decrease of 39,000 (0.7 per cent) compared with the previous quarter. This is the tenth consecutive quarter that total public sector employment has decreased. Employment in local government decreased by 33,000 (1.2 per cent) to 2.647 million, while employment in central government decreased by 1,000 (0.0 per cent) to 2.763 million. Approximately 6,000 (on a non-seasonally adjusted basis) employment moved from local government to central government between Q4 2011 and Q1 2012 as a result of local authority controlled schools, which are classified to local government, converting to Academy status (which are classified to central government) ( Table 1 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) ).
In Q1 2012 employment in UK public corporations decreased by 5,000 (1.0 per cent) to 489,000. In the same quarter, employment in the Civil Service in Great Britain decreased by 7,000 (1.5 per cent) to 464,000.
For Q1 2012, there was a decrease of 278,000 (4.5 per cent) in public sector employment compared with the same quarter the year previous. The largest actual decrease was in local government (202,000; 7.1 per cent), followed by central government, which decreased by 40,000 (1.4 per cent). In the year to Q1 2012, approximately 56,000 employment moved from local government to central government, as a result of local authority controlled schools converting to Academy status. In the year to Q1 2012, employment in the Civil Service decreased by 49,000 (9.6 per cent).
When public sector employment is analysed by industry (Standard Industrial Classification 2007), the largest decrease in the first quarter of 2012, compared with the fourth quarter of 2011, was in the category 'other public sector' (16,000; 1.9 per cent) ( Table 2 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) ).
Employment in public administration (11,000; 1.0 per cent), other health and social work (10,000; 3.0 per cent), Police (5,000; 1.9 per cent), HM Forces (2,000; 1.1 per cent) and construction (1,000; 2.3 per cent) all decreased between Q4 2011 and Q1 2012. There was no change in the level of employment in the NHS. Employment in education (5,000; 0.3 per cent) increased.
Table 3 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) provides full-time equivalent (FTE) estimates by sector classification while Table 4 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) provides FTE estimates by industry.
Total public sector employment on an FTE basis was 4.787 million in the first quarter of 2012. This is a decrease of 36,000 (0.7 per cent) compared with the fourth quarter of 2011, driven by a decrease in local government of 27,000 (1.3 per cent). The FTE employment in public corporations decreased by 5,000 (1.1 per cent) to 452,000, and the FTE employment in central government decreased by 4,000 (0.2 per cent) to 2.359 million. In Q1 2012 the number of FTE employees in the Civil Service stood at 428,000, a decrease of 7,000 (1.6 per cent) compared with the previous quarter.
By industry, the largest decrease in FTE employment in Q1 2012 compared against Q4 2011 was in other public sector (14,000; 1.9 per cent). The only increase in FTE employment by industry over the same period was in education (2,000; 0.2 per cent).
Private sector employment totals are derived as the difference between Labour Force Survey employment estimates for the whole economy and the public sector estimates collected from public sector organisations.
In Q1 2012, private sector employment increased by 205,000 (0.9 per cent) to 23.382 million compared with Q4 2011. Employment in the public sector decreased by 39,000 (0.7 per cent) over the same period. At Q1 2012, the public sector accounted for 20.1 per cent of total employment in the UK, down from 20.4 per cent at Q4 2011 ( Table 5 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) ).
Compared with Q1 2011, private sector employment has increased by 320,000 (1.4 per cent), while public sector employment has decreased by 278,000 (4.5 per cent).
London is the region with the largest number of public sector employees (781,000) followed by the South East (677,000), the North West (674,000) and Scotland (585,000) ( Table 6 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) ).
In Q1 2012 there were decreases in public sector employment for all English regions compared with Q4 2011. The largest decreases were Yorkshire and The Humber (10,000; 1.8 per cent) and the East of England (6,000; 1.3 per cent).
In Q1 2012, England (47,000; 1.0 per cent) and Scotland (1,000; 0.2 per cent) showed decreases in public sector employment compared with the previous quarter. There were increases in public sector employment in Wales (0 thousand; 0.1 per cent) and Northern Ireland (1,000; 0.5 per cent).
In the year to Q1 2012, England (250,000; 5.0 per cent), Scotland (28,000; 4.5 per cent), Northern Ireland (5,000; 2.0 per cent) and Wales (5,000; 1.5 per cent) all showed decreases in public sector employment.
In the year to Q1 2012, public sector employment in Great Britain decreased by 280,000 (4.7 per cent). Public sector employment in the United Kingdom decreased by 278,000 (4.5 per cent; seasonally adjusted).
In Q1 2012 Northern Ireland (28.5 per cent), Wales (26.2 per cent), the North East (23.9 per cent) and Scotland (23.8 per cent) had the highest proportion of their workforce employed in the public sector. The areas of the UK with the lowest proportion of their workforce employed in the public sector were the East of England (16.8 per cent); the South East (17.1 per cent); London (18.0 per cent) and the East Midlands (18.8 per cent).
Table 7 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) shows estimates of public sector employment both including and excluding publicly owned financial corporations such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group. A non seasonally adjusted time series for financial corporations can be found at background note 8 of this statistical bulletin.
At Q1 2012, public sector employment (excluding financial corporations) decreased by 29,000 (0.5 per cent) compared with the previous quarter, and by 267,000 (4.5 per cent) compared with the same quarter the previous year. At Q1 2012, publicly owned financial corporations accounted for 3.4 per cent of total public sector employment.
Table 8 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) shows employment by government department, whereas Table 9 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) provides a more detailed breakdown of employment by agency.
The number of employees in the Civil Service decreased by 6,930 (1.5 per cent) compared with the previous quarter, to 463,680, and on a full-time equivalent (FTE) basis by 6,960 (1.6 per cent) to 428,280.
A small number of departments reported increases in employment in Q1 2012, when compared with the previous quarter. Employment in HM Treasury increased by 70 headcount, 70 FTE. Employment in the Department for Energy and Climate Change increased by 70 headcount, 60 FTE basis. Employment in the Cabinet Office increased by 60 headcount, 70 FTE, mainly due to a transfer of Government Property Unit staff from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Employment in the Department for International Development increased by 40 headcount, 30 FTE. There were no other large increases.
There were a number of significant decreases in employment by department in Q1 2012. Employment in the Ministry of Defence decreased by 3,290 headcount, 3,260 FTE. Employment in the Department for Work and Pensions decreased by 1,320 headcount, 1,320 FTE. Employment in the Ministry of Justice decreased by 1,300 headcount; 1,270 FTE.
Table 10 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) provides the employment in Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), broken down by sponsoring department, on a headcount and full-time equivalent (FTE) basis.
In Q1 2012 total employment in Executive NDPBs increased by 390 headcount; 510 FTE, when compared to Q4 2011. Note that this does not include Executive NDPBs sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as the estimate would potentially be disclosive. Three sponsoring departments showed decreases in the employment of their sponsored Executive NDPBs. These were the Scottish Government (140 headcount; 80 FTE), the Department for Education (80 headcount; 50 FTE) and the Home Office (30 headcount; 30 FTE). In Q1 2012, employment in Executive NDPBs sponsored by the Ministry of Justice and the Welsh Government showed no change when compared with Q4 2011. All other departments showed increases in employment in the Executive NDPBs that they sponsored. The largest increases in employment over the same period were seen in the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (280 headcount; 270 FTE), the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (170 headcount, 100 FTE) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (90 headcount; 150 FTE).
Basic Quality Information
In 2005 the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in collaboration with other government departments and the devolved administrations, implemented major improvements to public sector employment (PSE) estimates. Standard definitions for public sector employment across all departmental statistics were agreed and a single definitive set of quarterly PSE estimates introduced. A new Quarterly Public Sector Employment Survey (QPSES) was established. ONS publishes official PSE estimates each quarter, as National Statistics in the form of a Statistical Bulletin, approximately 11 weeks after the period to which they refer.
Further details can be found in the Summary Quality Report for Public Sector Employment (115.9 Kb Pdf) .
Relevance to Users
The public sector comprises central government, local government and public corporations as defined for the UK National Accounts. ONS produces the United Kingdom's National Accounts. The National Accounts are an internationally comparable accounting framework that describes the activities in a national economy. The relevant international manuals are the System of National Accounts 1993 (SNA93) and the European System of Accounts 1995 (ESA95). As part of the process of producing the National Accounts, ONS decides on the classification of institutions and transactions within the economy using the current UK classification process.
The Public Sector Classification Guide (81.9 Kb Pdf) provides information on the classification of organisations and institutions in the National Accounts.
The public sector employment estimates relate to the number of people employed according to returns from relevant organisations, but they include a number of workers with a second job in the public sector whose main job is in the private sector or in a separate public sector organisation. The private sector estimate, which is obtained by taking the difference between the Labour Force Survey estimate of people employed in the whole economy and the public sector total, will thus tend to be correspondingly understated by a small percentage.
Headcount estimates are based on the number of employees with an employment contract who are being paid by the organisation. Employees can be permanent, on a fixed-term contract or employed on a casual basis. Self-employed, contract workers and agency workers are excluded.
Permanent employees, as defined in Table 8 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) , are employees with a contract with no agreed expiry date or a fixed term contract of more than 12 months. Temporary/casual employees are those with a fixed term contract of 12 months or less or employed on a casual basis.
As well as the headcount estimates, estimates have also been produced for the number of employees in full-time equivalents (FTE) back to 1999. This is based on converting part-time employees' hours into a full-time employees' equivalent and provides a better indication of total labour input than a simple headcount.
Common Pitfalls in Interpreting Series
Estimates of public sector employment for Q4 2011 to Q1 2012 are based partly on projections for some sources. As part of the development programme to improve the quality of public sector employment estimates, public sector organisations are working towards the production of timely quarterly estimates. Until this development programme is completed, there remains a requirement to include estimates for certain sources:
Police (including civilians) workforce estimates for England and Wales are published every six months (for two quarters) by the Home Office.
NHS workforce statistics for England are derived from a pay system which covers all but two English NHS organisations. This produces very good estimates of staff numbers. Figures for the two other organisations are estimated based on annual NHS Workforce Census figures. This new source of estimates will reduce the need to revise estimates in the future.
The Home Office has provided estimates for the Police in England and Wales. These estimates are based on projections and may be subject to revision.
All time series in the Public Sector Employment release are seasonally adjusted to aid interpretation. As seasonal adjustment does not preserve additivity within aggregation structures, relationships that hold in the unadjusted series do not necessarily hold for the seasonally adjusted series. For example, total public sector employment equals the sum total of all public sector industry estimates before seasonal adjustment, but this is not necessarily true after seasonal adjustment.
Public sector employment statistics have previously been published for periods up to and including Q4 2011. In line with the published revisions policy for public sector employment statistics (26.4 Kb Pdf) , the statistics have been revised, to take account of late information from respondents.
Tables 1R to 5R (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) illustrate the size of the revisions in each category.
Concepts and Definitions
Central government includes all administrative departments of government and other central agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies, as such it is wider than the Civil Service. This sector also includes HM Forces and the National Health Service (NHS). Within education, Academies are classified to central government. From 1 April 2005, central government includes the former Magistrates' Courts Service which has been brought together with the Court Service to form Her Majesty's Courts Service. The Magistrates' Courts Service was previously classified to local government.
Local government covers those types of public administration that only cover a locality and any bodies controlled and mainly financed by them. The sub-sector includes all areas of administrative authorities including parish councils, though these units are not covered by the current estimates for local authorities. It includes police forces and their civilian staff. All functions of local authorities are classified to the sub-sector, although trading activities that produce market output (for example, housing and municipally owned markets) are regarded as quasi-corporations and appear under public corporations. Local education authorities are part of local government, as are voluntary aided schools, county schools and, from September 1999, foundation schools (formerly grant-maintained).
Public corporations are companies or quasi-corporations controlled by government. Examples include Royal Mail and London Underground Ltd. These companies receive more than half their income from sales of goods or services into the market place (see background note 8 for details about financial institutions, for example Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland Group, classified to the public sector).
The estimates of Civil Service employees count all home Civil Service employees (including from 1 April 2005 the employees of the former Magistrates' Courts Service). Civil Service employees can be classified to central government or public corporations. Examples of public corporations include the UK Intellectual Property Office and the Driving Standards Agency. Civil Service estimates exclude the Northern Ireland Civil Service and other Crown servants. Employees in these groups are included in estimates of central government employment.
Response rates: PSE statistics are compiled from a range of sources. The primary source is the Quarterly Public Sector Employment Survey (QPSES). The QPSES comprises three separate data collections; the home Civil Service, Local Authorities in England and Wales and Great Britain public corporations and Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs). Returned questionnaires go through a series of automated validation tests to check for completeness and consistency and to identify any significant movements compared with the previous period reported (and the same period the previous year). The automated checks are followed up with respondents where errors are detected or further explanation is required. The target is to clear 95 per cent of test failures prior to processing results. ONS targets for response to each of the three surveys ahead of compiling results are 85 per cent (number of respondents) and 90 per cent (of total employment). In addition, each survey has a list of critical respondents (usually those with the largest employment) for which special efforts are made to achieve 100 per cent response and clearance of test failures.
|Response (per cent of questionnaires returned)
|Response (per cent of employment)
|Local Authorities Survey
|Public Bodies Survey
|Civil Service Survey
|Other Sources (see below)
Data for non-responders are imputed based on previous returns and known annual changes in seasonality. It is extremely rare for a Local Authority, Public Body or Civil Service department to non-respond for two consecutive quarters. The data collection is statutory for Local Authorities and Public Bodies (Statistics of Trade Act 1947) and positive action is taken to address non-response issues as and when they occur.
So that estimates of total public sector employment can be made it is necessary for further information to be gathered from external sources.
|Geographic Coverage
|Central Government
|HM Forces
|MoD: DASA
|National Health Service
|Information Centre for Health and Social Care (IC)
|Welsh Government
|Scottish Government
|Northern Ireland
|Department of Finance and Personnel
|Other Central Government
|Great Britain
|Quarterly Public Sector Employment Survey (ONS); Probation Service and Police Strength
|Northern Ireland
|Department of Finance and Personnel
|Local Government
|Local Authorities
|England and Wales
|Quarterly Public Sector Employment Survey (ONS)
|Joint Staffing Watch (Scottish Government)
|Northern Ireland
|Department of Finance and Personnel
|Police (including civilians)
|England and Wales
|Home Office
|Joint Staffing Watch (Scottish Government)
|Northern Ireland
|Department of Finance and Personnel
|Public Corporations
|Great Britain
|Quarterly Public Sector Employment Survey (ONS)
|Northern Ireland
|Department of Finance and Personnel
ONS is now able to produce regional estimates of PSE based on returns from public sector organisations ( Table 6 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) ). These supersede those produced using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) which previously had been used in conjunction with national PSE estimates to produce estimates by region.
Future Revisions
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The estimates of public sector employment in education (SIC division 85) differ from the school workforce estimates published by the Department for Education (DfE) (formerly Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)) mainly as a result of differences in coverage and data sources. DfE estimates focus on the number of FTE teachers and support staff for England only. By comparison, the ONS estimates are derived by allocating local authority employees to education using the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) and the Quarterly Public Sector Employment Survey (QPSES) in England and Wales. Estimates include all employees reported by local authorities as working in primary, secondary and adult education establishments including some groups who are not covered by the DfE statistics, such as adult education staff and certain categories of support staff. Employment estimates for education in Scotland and Northern Ireland are also included to give a wider UK coverage. The different coverage of the ONS and DfE education statistics serve the needs of different users. Those who require information on the workforce in England who are directly involved in pupils' teaching and learning should use DfE published statistics. Users should also refer to DfE published statistics to gauge trends in education employment. Those who seek data on UK public sector employment in education, in its widest sense, should use the ONS data in this release. For further information on the differences between DfE and ONS data on education please see pages 44 to 46 of the Public Sector Employment Trends 2005 (463 Kb Pdf) article published in October 2005.
ONS estimates for the NHS also differ from the headline figure produced by the Information Centre for Health and Social care (IC). Again, this reflects the wider UK coverage (IC figures are for England only) plus the exclusion by ONS of general practitioners (GPs). ONS, in accordance with National Accounts practice, classifies GPs as part of the private sector. ONS also include 'hospital practitioners and clinical assistants' who work in hospitals on a salaried pay scale but generally work as GPs leading the Information Centre to exclude them from their totals to avoid double counting. When these factors are allowed for, ONS and NHS data can be shown to be identical.
Sector classification and machinery of government changes in the period since 31 March 2011 are listed here:
|Government Property Unit
|As of March 2012, approximately 50 Government Property Unit staff moved from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills to Cabinet Office.
|Home Office
|There is ongoing movement of staff between HQ Home Office and each of the Department's Executive Agencies (and vice versa) as staff move to meet the demands of the business. On 1 March 2012, approximately 7,470 full-time equivalents moved from the UK Border Agency to Home Office HQ in an internal restructure. Between Q2 2011 and Q3 2011 the headcount within Headquarters increased. The main reasons for this increase were restructuring within the Department and transfers of existing civil servants between government departments, in particular: 99 staff within UKBA's Immigration and Border Policy transferred from UKBA to become part of HQ Home Office; 30 staff within the UKBA Chief Inspectorate Unit, (previously an arms-length organisation and therefore excluded from earlier QPSES returns), joined HQ Home Office; 15 staff joined HQ as part of the roll out of Civil Service Learning, a Next Generation HR business, based within the Home Office on behalf of all government Departments, and; a further 31 staff moved out of HQ Home Office to its Executive Agencies or other Government Departments.
|Standards and Testing Agency (STA)
|The STA is a new executive agency of the Department for Education and commenced operating on 3 October 2011.
|Department for Work and Pensions
|Jobcentre Plus and the Disability and Carers Service ceased to have legal status with effect from 2 October 2011. This information has been aggregated with that of DWP Corporate and Shared Services to produce one figure for the Department for Work and Pensions. The Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission and the Health and Safety Executive are unaffected by this change and remain Crown Non-Departmental Public Bodies.
|Government Office for the Regions (GOR)
|The Government Office network closed at the end of March 2011. Almost all staff were made redundant, with the remainder (fewer than 10) transferring to the Department for Communities and Local Government payroll for administrative purposes.
|The Postal Services Commission (Postcomm)
|Postcomm (at the time approximately 50 staff) was merged into the communications regulator Ofcom on 1 October 2011.
|HM Land Registry
|On 18 July 2011, HM Land Registry (at the time approximately 4,990 staff) moved from the Ministry of Justice to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
|The Met Office
|On 18 July 2011, the Met Office (at the time approximately 1,820 staff) moved from the Ministry of Defence to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
|Ordnance Survey
|On 18 July 2011, Ordnance Survey (at the time approximately 1,100 staff) moved from the Department for Communities and Local Government to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
|Education Scotland
|On 1 July 2011, HM Inspectorate of Education and Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) merged to form Education Scotland. Education Scotland is a Scottish Government Agency.
|Buying Solutions
|In June 2011, Buying Solutions had a change of name and is now known as the Government Procurement Service.
|National Fraud Authority
|NFA (at the time approximately 50 staff) became an agency of Home Office from Q2 2011. NFA data has been returned manually by NFA.
|Scotland Office and Wales Office
|Scotland Office and Wales Office ceased to be part of MoJ on 1 April 2011. Figures have been shown separately from Q2 2011 onwards.
|National School for Government
|On 1 April 2011, NSG reverted back to being part of the Cabinet Office. This increased the Cabinet Office headcount. The new learning organisation 'Civil Service Learning' is expected to be fully operational by April 2012.
|UK Space Agency
|The UK Space Agency was launched officially on 23 March 2010 and became an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from 1 April 2011.
|Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS)
|On 1 April 2011, the Social Work Inspection Agency (SWIA) and the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care merged to form the Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS). The new organisation is an NDPB, staff are public servants.
|Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS)
|On 1 April 2011, Her Majesty's Courts Service (HMCS) and the Tribunals Service merged to form Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS).
|Government Equalities Office
|On 1 April 2011 the Government Equalities Office (at the time approximately 120 staff) became part of the Home Office.
|Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency
|On 1 April 2011, Animal Health merged with the Veterinary Laboratories Agency to form the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency.
|National Records of Scotland (NRS)
|From 1 April 2011, the General Register Office for Scotland merged with the National Archives of Scotland to become the National Records of Scotland (NRS).
Financial Institutions Classified to the Public Sector
On 19 February 2009, ONS announced the classification of Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Lloyds Banking Group as public corporations from 13 October 2008. To facilitate analyses of public sector employment estimates by users, the following non seasonally adjusted time-series has been created to demonstrate the full impact of recent financial corporations' classifications to the public sector (based on Standard Industrial Classification 2007, industry 64 (Financial Intermediation).
|Full-time equivalent
* Bank of England classified as a public financial corporation on 7 February 2008 from its inception (1946). Northern Rock classified as a public financial corporation from 9 October 2007.
** Bradford and Bingley plc classified as a public financial corporation from 26 September 2008.
*** Lloyds Banking Group classified as a public financial corporation from 13 October 2008. Royal Bank of Scotland Group classified as a public financial corporation from 13 October 2008.
****Northern Rock plc classified as private sector following its sale to Virgin Money Holdings (UK) Ltd, on 1 January 2012. More information about the sale can be found on the UK Financial Investments Ltd website.
Further Education Colleges
On 13 October 2010, ONS announced the reclassification of further education corporations and sixth form colleges to the public sector. ONS, as part of the Q4 2010 publication, took on employment estimates for Further Education colleges back to 1993 or their inception if later.
On 31 May 2012, ONS announced the reclassification of English further education corporations and sixth form colleges to the private sector, as Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households (NPISH), effective from 1 April 2012. As such, employment estimates for English further education corporations and sixth form colleges are included in ONS estimates of public sector employment from 1993 or their inception if later, to Q1 2012. Further education corporations and sixth form college employment estimates will not be included in public sector employment estimates from Q2 2012 onwards. More information on this decision can be found in the Reclassification of Further Education Corporations and Sixth Form Colleges in England article published on 31 May 2012.
The Census
The Census is a count of the population in the UK. It takes place every 10 years and asks everyone the same questions to give a complete picture of the nation. This information is used to estimate the likely number of people and households in each area for the next 10 years. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) designs, manages and runs the census in England and Wales. The General Register Office Scotland (GROS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for the census in Scotland and Northern Ireland. All three agreed to conduct their 2011 censuses on the same day (27 March 2011) in order to produce consistent and coherent information that covers the whole of the UK. The Census generated approximately 40,000 temporary public sector jobs across the UK, covering a range of part-time and full-time roles.
The number of people in public sector employment was 6.054 million at Q2 2011, down 123,000 from Q1 2011. The estimate for Q1 2011 includes 15,000 people employed on a temporary basis in connection with the 2011 Census, but there were only 1,000 people employed in these temporary jobs at Q2 2011. Excluding people employed in temporary Census posts, the fall in public sector employment between Q1 and Q2 2011 was 109,000.
Non-Departmental Public Bodies
Since the release of the Q2 2011 Public Sector Employment statistical bulletin, ONS has published a table detailing employment in Non-Departmental Public Bodies by their sponsoring government department ( Table 10 (517.5 Kb Excel sheet) ). This table does not detail employment at an individual Non-Departmental Public Body level. ONS is working with Non-Departmental Public Bodies to gain consent to publish their individual returns to the Quarterly Public Sector Employment Survey (QPSES) on the National Statistics website.
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ONS launched its new website on 27 August 2011. The new website improves the way users can access our statistics but many existing bookmarks and links will no longer work and users will need to update them. More information can be found on our Web Development page.
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While I do like BufferTabs (even more since my feature requests for avoiding two rows of tabs was accepted ;)), I find pretty unfriendly how it select the next tab when I close one buffer.
For example, you open 6 files (like doing a search and replace) :
file1 file2 [file3] file4 file5 file6
The active tab/buffer is [file3]. If you close it, the editor will select the next tab in its list, but while I would expect [file4] to be selected, it select [file1], or whatever.
ie: when I do close a buffer, I would expect BufferTabs to select the tab next to the one I closed.
Why ?
Well, first it work like that in Firefox. Second, when you do a big search and replace (like a tab2space), you want to close all those tabs, but if I close one modified file, then the next select buffer is (for example) another file that I had opened.
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Martina was born in Vale, Oregon, on 18 April 1925, to Jose Yraguen and Claudia Acordagoitia. Interested in her heritage ever since her mother sang to her in Basque as a child, she has researched her parents' immigrations to the US, and shares some of her discoveries. Martina has seven brothers and sisters, and recalls the cramped conditions of the tiny house with the dirt floor they lived for a time. Although her family didn't keep in close contact with relatives in Euskadi, they often socialized with neighboring Basques, and she grew up fluent in Euskera.
It was a tradition in Martina's family for the kids to leave school at age 15, so she decided to become a beautician. In her family, dating was not allowed unless it was with a Basque boy, but she met the man of her dreams in Lorenzo Echanis; the couple was married in 1946. Martina describes the 3 excruciating years that Larry was in the war, during which she prayed for his safety.
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08-27-2013 #11derklown Guest
Thanks for the update
08-27-2013 #12hayman Guest
nice work mashallah
11-01-2013 #13maysam91 Guest
Video: XMB Arabic Edition (Mustafa Star) PS3 CFW 4.50 v1.04 Arrives
Following up on the previous update, today I (mortahda salh) have made available my XMB Arabic Edition (Mustafa Star) PS3 CFW 4.50 v1.04 with details below.
Download: Xmb_Arabic_Edition__MUSTAFA_STAR__CFW_4.50.pkg (32.1 MB)
Hi all... I finish to day from release xmb arabic cfw 4.50 that is contain:
1. add official gameboot.
2. add new waves.
3. add new style xmb.
4. add new themes.
5. remove cinavia protection. (thanks to habib).
6. add ability to install on cfw rogero and habib cfw 4.50.
7. get more translation.
To watch video:
Note: These were made from my efforts.
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11-01-2013 #14Kratoz Guest
Please remove this, because arabic language files from my work.
just change some things.
11-01-2013 #15maysam91 Guest
i swear this is my work only without any one just (habib) files cinavia protection special thanks for him.
because (haider) thinks that he is only one know how to translate to arabic language and that is wrong because the world full with more than and i will continue with more and more and special thanks for administration.
thanks for every one like this or dislike but there is no thing impossible with more efforts in the future i will do my best for you and soon i will release REBUG XMB ARABIC language.
11-04-2013 #16tommasi Guest
both of you are Iraqis who live in Iraq and now you guys fighting over this? like really? both of you should work together not against each other.
Just because he did translate to Arabic doesn't make him think he is the only one who can do it, but at least he step up and did it first and now you just took his idea and did it again and bad mouthing him.
11-05-2013 #17Kratoz Guest
Sorry I checked the files, it's different from my files. You are translated 68 files, and I translated 98 files. I will be released tomorrow for my files. Again I say sorry
11-06-2013 #18maysam91 Guest
thanks to tommasi to his advice. and kratoz for his apologize.
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Video: Haider ENG2AR (Arabic) v1.04 PS3 CFW 4.50 is Released
Following up on his previous update and the recent update by Mustafa Star (aka mortahda salh), today PlayStation 3 developer Haider.Kiara has made available a demo installation video of what he calls Haider ENG2AR v1.04 PS3 CFW for 4.50 which adds Arabic language support to the PS3 system.
Download: HAIDER ENG2AR v1.04 CFW4.50.rar (49.29 MB)
To quote, roughly translated: Hi, this official update for HAIDER ENG2AR with support CFW 4.50
- Added support CFW 4.50 (Rogero & Habib & STEVEN)
- Added new font
- Added ShowTime Arabic, after install mod go to install package files and install it
- Added theme UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception PS3 Dynamic Theme
- Change XMB wave animation by b0redkid
- Change coldboot
Note: Please do not turn off the system during the installation process
Important note there is no support for browsing ARABIC or Keyboard
How to Install
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11-16-2013 #20maysam91 Guest
Rebug CFW 4.46.2 XMB Mod v02.03.08 Arabic ICE Edition Installer 1.6
Following up on my previous update, today I present a new translation of mine (Mustafa Star) for Rebug CFW 4.46.2 XMB Mod v02.03.08 Arabic ICE Edition Installer 1.6 with details below.
Download: REBUG_CFW_4.46.2_XMB_MOD_v02.03.08.Arabic.__ICE_ED ITION__Installer_1.6.pkg
Hi all... I *MUSTAFA STAR* and I finish new translation I finish from translate (REBUG_CFW_4.46.2_XMB_MOD_v02.03.08.English._[ICE_EDITION]_Installer_1.6~1) to ARABIC language and has the same feature, it look as the original and has more changes thanks to [IcEmAn] and thanks to PS3 NEWS.
NOTE: This where translate by *mustafa star* only.
1. first of all you need to be on cfw rebug 4.46.1 rex edition
2. install rebug-toolbox-02.01.05.pkg from package manager - install from hdd
3. run the rebug tools from xmb and make sure on (rebug) mode and on (retail) xmb and on dex setting. (i am not talking about dex mode)
4. install the the arabic ice edition.
5. finally before this steps make sure you ara on (english language us)
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Understanding Syrian tensions and how they affect oil prices (Part 2 of 3)
Syria's civil war
Syria entered into a civil war in 2011, which began with anti-government protests that escalated into a full-scale conflict. Protestors eventually demanded the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad. Violence between al-Assad supporters and his opposition turned into a long and bloody engagement.
Recently, in August, allegations came out that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people, which violates international law. Following the attack, other countries, including Britain, France, and the United States, tried to determine the best way to deal with Syria. Meanwhile, Russia has expressed its opinion that the attack wasn't carried out by the Syrian government, but by rebel forces. It's worth noting that Russia has generally supported President al-Assad and his government throughout Syria's civil conflict.
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In response to the chemical attack, the United States pondered military action against Syria. The escalating Syria tensions caused oil prices to increase to elevated levels, as markets feared the possibility of supply shocks throughout the Middle East. Syria itself doesn't export significant amounts of oil. But the country is close to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, as well as the Suez Canal—a major transportation throughway. Military action in Syria has the potential to disrupt normal oil production and transportation operations throughout the Middle East. Plus, unrest in one region can easily spread to unrest in neighboring regions, as we saw with the 2011 Arab Spring movement. In response to this volatility, WTI oil prices over the past month have been consistently over $105 per barrel—some of the highest levels since March 2012. High crude oil prices generally translate into higher earnings for oil producers such as ExxonMobil (XOM) and Chevron Corp. (CVX). Energy ETFs such as the Energy Select SPDR ETF (XLE) and the Vanguard Energy ETF (VDE) also comprise various companies that benefit from elevated oil prices.
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A few days ago I was pleasantly surprised with a package from *Traidcraft. I have been craving some proper chocolate chips cookies for a while and was hoping these beauties would satisfy my taste buds. Let me tell you - they delivered!
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* Double Chocolate Chunk
I am not the biggest fan of ginger, therefore I wasn't too impressed with the taste of the Stem Ginger cookies. Personally, I would probably rate them "A" as in Average. However, I think people, who are big ginger fans, would know how to enjoy this flavour better. Something tells me that, as they are one of the companies' best sellers as you can see *HERE.
Double Chocolate Chunk cookies, on the other hand, are HEAVEN! They are seriously my favourite cookies by far! Being a vegan, it is sometimes slightly hard to find those massive, very chocolaty cookies, but as I wrote above, this brand delivered. You have no idea how hard it was to take all these photos without eating them all (I ate quite a few before even starting taking the photos. No shame!)
As you have probably noticed in my other posts, it is important to me that the brand itself is somewhat ethical as well. Knowing that, you can imagine the stupid smile that occurred on my face, when I realised these cookies are not just vegan, but also Fair Trade, as they are UK's first cookie range to contain Fair Trade palm oil. Hola! I don't know about you, but that's pretty much a win-win for me.
Reading this post, I realised I kinda sound like a written advertisement... So I just want to clear this up; I was by no means paid to say that, however, it is my honest opinion when I write the following:
LOVE the Double Chocolate Chunk cookies because they are
*so good it is not even funny
*suitable for vegans
*Fair Trade
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What are your favourite chocolaty sweets (possibly vegan)? I'd love to hear about them. You know, Aniqa likes good food, too ;) ♥


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One of my most memorable gas this gen was Alpha Protocol and it cost hee-haw.
Some of those 5 quid 7/10 games can be great.
Having said that, we should try and resist buying everything that gets 75% off in a Steam Sale as it's a bargain, if you're a multi platform adult gamer it's impossible to play all good games so yeah, I see the point if the OP.
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When you put together your balance sheet, you need to start with your gross property, plant and equipment and then wind down to your net property, plant and equipment. Your gross property, plant and equipment is the amount that you paid for any property, buildings or other assets that you own. You then need to depreciate these assets each year. Depreciation reduces the value of the asset as you use it. The net property, plant and equipment is your cost for the equipment less your accumulated depreciation.
1. Add your assets that can be classified as property, plant and equipment from your general ledger. These should be your costs for purchasing each asset. For example, assume you have been in business for five years. During the five years you purchased land for $100,000, a building for $20,000 and a machine for $5,000. So your gross property, plant and equipment is $100,000 plus $20,000 plus $5,000 for a total of $125,000.
2. Add the current year's depreciation to your accumulated depreciation. Accumulated depreciation is the amount of depreciation from prior years. In the example, assume your accumulated depreciation is $40,000 and this year's depreciation is $6,000, so your total accumulated depreciation is $46,000.
3. Subtract your total accumulated depreciation from your gross property, plant and equipment. In the example, $125,000 minus $46,000 equals $79,000 for your net property, plant and equipment.
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Posting anonymously?
Maybe. It appears that even the ACLU may have to give up your identity. For the record, yours truly won't go to jail to keep it secret.
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Maybe. It appears that even the ACLU may have to give up your identity. For the record, yours truly won't go to jail to keep it secret.
I think libel and slander should be proven before identities should be forced to be revealed. What a bunch of lame whiners politicans are becoming.....
Except for whistleblower situations( where the threat of retaliation could chill disclosure), if someone chooses to do personal harm with their words, that is their choice, but I think they should also have the courage to own the words they choose to publish. Who are the real whiners here?
Hey Jack, where pray tell is Drew posting from, a CoP office?
And Drew, wake up, we have the vengeful SamRand twins in power with hit squads and city bureaus who will and do harrass the he!! out of people who disagree with the powers that be. When dealing with bullies with way too much power on their side, anonymity is something of an equalizer. So yeah, I am calling the bullies both whiners and glass jaws.
If we feel we have to be anonymous, then those "powers that be" have already won the intimidation battle. As I recall the Declaration of Independence wasn't anonymous, and it was knowing and blatant sedition. Anonymous character assassination (not referring to LucsAdvo post) is its own form of cowardly brutality.
The Declaration of Independence most assuredly wasn't signed anonymously. But among its signers were men who published editorials and pamphlets under pseudonyms advancing the cause for freedom, most notably Ben Franklin.
There is a time and a place for coming forward forthrightly for sure, but there are also times when the greater good is served by anonymity.
Key ethics when posting negative comments anonymously, in my view, are the same as when posting openly -- take care not to take on the weak and defenseless, don't threaten anyone's person or property and be truthful.
One more nail in the coffin of freedom courtesy of the hammer that is the ACLU.
For such a petty cause also.


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Dear colleagues and friends,
This page includes some of my
journal notes and a few slides from travels this past summer. My
walking guides were Flaubert's Par les Champs et par les Grèves
(Voyage in Brittany)and
L'Education Sentimentale
(Sentimental Education).
Andover, November 2004
Flaubert describes Brest as an arsenal with a town around it and it's still that way even after having been entirely rebuilt. I went up the rue de Siam, a street I remembered from Prévert's poem, Barbara, but I went there to find a cyber café, an internet café that I finally found at L'Ecole Buissonnière just above Place de la Liberté.
La pointe St Mathieu
A hike near Brest took us to the Pointe Saint-Mathieu, an extremity of the Finistère sticking out into the Atlantic. Flaubert is right that the ruins of the Abbaye there are lovely. We had a picnic on the rocks near the Pointe St. Mathieu and then joined the grande randonnée, a main hiking path, walking back towards Brest along the cliffs and then in another direction towards Le Conquet until it started to rain too hard to continue. So far it's rained everyday. It's fine when there's light rain, but in three different places we've gotten caught in a downpour.
Each of the peninsulas where we've hiked has had a different character. Quiberon has high winds, steep cliffs and big surf, very dramatic and wild and isolated; by Pont-l'Abbé the coast seemed very calm and flat although rocky; la Pointe St. Mathieu seems less treacherous than la côte sauvage. There are lots of French walkers around, many with hiking sticks, people of all ages. The cliffs are high and the views are beautiful but it's quite different from the Quiberon peninsula where sometimes we wouldn't see another hiker all day. The one drawback is that there are too many reminders of WWII near la Pointe Ste Mathieu. Flaubert is right. The Arsenal is the real city, and the signs of war even extend from Brest to La Pointe St. Mathieu.
It rained again. I keep wondering what Flaubert did when it rained. He apparently smoked a pipe and used a stick. I try to picture him covering up. Did he have anything waterproof? How fast did he walk? How long a day?
People we meet are saying they went to the south of France last year but it was too hot so they went to Brittany this year and it rained every day.
The Hôtel de la Corniche in Brest is very comfortable and, as in the other inns, the owners are very kind. For breakfast they served four kinds of bread: croissant, pain au chocolat, brioche, and baguette and that had fresh squeezed orange juice, café au lait or hot chocolate and different jams and honey.
St. Malo
"Saint-Malo, bâti sur la mer enclos de ramparts, semble, lorsqu'on arrive, une couronne de pierres posee sur les flots dont les mâchicoulis sont les fleurons." (Saint-Malo, built on the sea, enclosed by ramparts, seems, when you arrive, a crown of stones set on the waves, a crown of which the machicolations are the jewels.)
It was July when Flaubert got to St. Malo. He'd been walking for two months, but still at a pretty good pace it seems, and certainly not in a straight line.
Our hotel in St. Malo, Le Palais, was 53 euros and very close to the ramparts and we had a good dinner nearby at la Marée. Flaubert says the walk around the ramparts is one of the most beautiful walks anywhere and no one does it. He's right about the first part, but lots of people are doing it now. Walking around the ramparts at 11 pm we were hardly alone. Everyone seemed to be out for the sights including some kids walking precariously on the edge of the ramparts. At 7 am we went back and then we had a fantastic view from the ramparts in all directions. After walking around St. Malo we were able to walk out to an island behind it at low tide. Then returning just 40 minutes later, after breakfast, we found that the island was surrounded by water again. We were just glad we hadn't lingered out there. The tide and currents seemed strong. We got out of St. Malo fast before it got crowded again.
The next stop was an
impromptu one: Rouen, Flaubert's hometown, and there we visited
Flaubert's house and
the hospital where his father worked, now the musée Flaubert. The rooms devoted to phrenology and the 19th
century medicine proved interesting, but I'd wanted to go there for one
room -
the one where Flaubert was born, the one with the parrot, Félicité's
parrot, and the parrot of Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes. Overcome by a strong emotion in that
room, I was becoming a true fan of Flaubert, fan or fana.
Back in Paris Mark bought me a copy of the Sand-Flaubert correspondence and I started to read it. Both of them come across well in their letters – very kind, witty, and generous, and of course interesting and brilliant. He hadn't liked her books much originally, but she was so kind, as well as insightful, about writing good reviews for him when no one else did, that he ended up having a deep loving friendship with her. Mark and I had a wonderful day in Paris on his last day in France. We walked to the Louvre, spent an hour or so there, and on the walk back made a number of fortuitous stops, including one to hear a young and talented opera singer give a concert in the courtyard of Le Palais-Royal. We had a snack on the rooftop of la Samaritaine at sunset, at a corner table, overlooking the Seine; down below we stopped to watch the stunts of the roller bladders on the bridge in front of Notre Dame, and to see Paris Plage being dismantled, sand, cabanas, and all on the other side of Le Pont Neuf. It did rain a little.
After Mark left I started to read L'Education Sentimentale every day and to walk in the neighborhoods and streets that Flaubert wrote about. I usually make some plans for the day in the morning while I have my morning coffee and croissant at Place de la Contrescarpe and then walk from 10 am to 4 pm with a 45 minute stop for lunch. The bakers at S.Hervet across the street from L'Hôtel St. Christophe started to give me pastries and croissants after I showed them that Patricia Wells had written up their bakery and gave them her book. Their sourdough bread is supposed to be the best in Paris.
Whenever I mention where I'm planning to walk people tell me it's too far to walk. I'd probably say the same myself if I lived here, but now the walking itself is the plan, the substance, more than the destinations. Flaubert walked everywhere as a student, and his character, Frédéric walked everywhere. Only the bourgeois traveled by coach.
While looking up some of the places mentioned in l'Education Sentimentale in a book I found at the Librairie Joseph Gibert I stumbled on some facts about Flaubert's travel journals. When I was reading Par les Champs et Par les Grèves I thought at times that Flaubert seemed to have a zen sensibility in his enthusiasm for nature, his lack of self-censorship, and his non-attachment. I found out from Maxime du Camp, Flaubert's walking companion in Britanny, that they did most of their walking in the morning and then they had lunch and walked to where they were staying and took notes. They had started by taking a week off whenever they needed to write a chapter but then decided not to break up the walking, just to take notes and write up the chapter later. Du Camp explains that they planned not to publish their writing though they worked hard on it. They wanted to be completely free and irreverent. It's odd if Flaubert was apparently more concerned about reactions to the travel journals than the novels even though the novels got panned or banned. Also while looking at the pictures in a Victor Brombert book there I saw that Flaubert had a Buddha in his study in Croisset.
I had first-hand verification that the journals could still prove controversial. Even in 2004, a hundred and fifty years later, B. was saying, only half jokingly, that GF didn't have anything nice to say about Rennes. Translation of what he concluded:"When the seals (trained seals that he'd seen) have left, there won't be anything to see in Rennes.". And J-P had said he didn't like what Flaubert had to say about Carnac - that ultimately the menhirs were just big stones.
The grands magasins, department stores, Printemps and Galeries Lafayette, had just been built in the Paris Flaubert describes in L'Education Sentimentale. At Le Bon Marché, I stopped in at La Grande Epicerie and just bought une fougasse aux noix et aux raisins, which I later ate in my room, marveling that something that cost just a euro could be so fabulously delicious and such a treat.
Flaubert studied at the Faculté de Droit near the Panthéon and I'm staying at l'Hôtel St. Christophe on rue Lacépède on the other side of the Panthéon. Rue de l'Ecole Polytechnique runs into rue Descartes which runs into rue Mouffetard from which I take rue Lacépède at Place de la Contrescarpe. Going up rue Cardinal Le Moine just a few steps from Place de la Contrescarpe to #74 you can see where Hemingway lived on the fourth floor. He referred to it in Paris est une Fête, a Moveable Feast, as the Paris they knew when they were poor and happy and the sign on the building said it was his favorite neighborhood. It's still a great neighborhood, so he was right about that. It's interesting that it was as appealing in the 1920s as it is now. La Rue Mouffetard has been a market street for centuries. The nearby rue Monge still seems a normal neighborhood with supermarkets, and chocolate shops, cafés, three bakeries, and an open market on Saturdays. In Le Monde I read a piece about Julia Child (in her honor and memory, she just died) in which she described how she worked hard to get the best produce for her guests at the markets when she lived in in France. The hard work consisted of flattering vendors at the market to have a good experience and to get the best produce. It's true that people are very sweet and appreciative when they have something good and you compliment them. Right now the little fraises des bois, wild strawberries, are particularly good.
Today, August 24, the news is about the 60thanniversary of the liberation of Paris. August 25 1944 was the day the Americans arrived on the Champs Elysées and De Gaulle said,"Paris outragé, Paris brisé, mais Paris libéré."
I went to the TGB, known as the Mitterand Library to check on the two versions of L'Education Sentimentale. I walked through the Jardin des Plantes, past the long-haired ponies from le Poitou, tigers and panthers, crocodiles and ostriches, boa constrictors and pythons. At one point I passed a lawn that I thought at first looked uncharacteristically messy for France. But no. On closer inspection, it was not an unkempt lawn but a prairie, replanted twice a year and left to grow.
the Seine, the TGB looks like four big glass towers
top of a pyramid platform formed by steep flights of steps. I walked over to the east side and up the
steps and then down an escalator to the east entrance. There I saw that
the TGB was built around a lower courtyard planted with trees that you
look down on. All four towers are linked,
not separate, as they look from outside. Most
of the library is underneath. First I went
to the expo on la chanson française where I spent a
lot of time listening to songs under speakers that looked like big
round hairdryers. Then I
listened to various French personalities telling what their favorite
song was and why. I loved the way they
told the reasons they liked particular songs. It
usually had to do with very personal associations and coincidences in
their lives.
Finally I went to the reading room where I found "La première Education Sentimentale" and I found out where Flaubert had lived in Paris, near l'Odéon and near the Luxembourg and also that the first Education Sentimentale would have been considered a separate major work if it had not had the same title. I think that Flaubert didn't give it another title because it was too closely autobiographical and he didn't intend to publish it. As it was, even in the second Education Sentimentale, Flaubert's friends could recognize all of the characters as people Flaubert had known in Paris when he was about 25. Almost everyone in the TGB except me was about 25. You buy a card like a metro card that you use to go in and out of the reading and reference rooms.
The TGB looks impressive and a bit eerie from outside, perhaps because I entered and left in an unusual way. I followed the sortie signs and went up the escalator to the open air, way above the trees of the courtyard. The wind was blowing fairly hard and I was on the roof with no one in sight. I walked to the edge where I saw some trees in cages that I'd seen on the way in. Then I made my way down the stone stairs, essentially down the side of the building. I can't imagine an 80 year old going there that way, in fact no wonder no one else over 25 was hanging out there, but I liked the adventure. It was like trying to figure out how to penetrate a mysterious glass fortress. It's one of the most fascinating places to visit in Paris but my supposedly hip Avant-Guide which devotes many pages to shopping doesn't mention the TGB at all.
Flaubert talks a lot about the Tuileries and the Madeleine and the rue Tronchet in L'Education Sentimentale. The Seine is in a sense the main character and the distinctions made between the people who live on the right bank and the left bank remain similar to the generalizations made today. The students are on the left bank, the bourgeoisie on the right.
I went to the Musée d'Orsay to stop thinking about Flaubert for a while but that was when I noticed that Gustave seemed to be a common 19thcentury name, at least for artists, and I saw an exhibition of paintings of Paris in the 1840s, by a Dutch painter, Jongkind. He and Flaubert were in Paris at the same time, at the same age.
When Flaubert was in Paris the musée d'Orsay was not even the Gare D'Orsay. Now, in the museum, you see people standing in front of paintings, facing out and smiling into space - instead of facing the paintings and looking at them. Several times that took me aback until I realized it was because their friends were taking pictures of them with cell phones. The paintings had become a backdrop.
At the time of L'Education Sentimentale, the galleries, the 19th centry shopping malls, were being built and they caused a sensation. You can still walk from one galerie to another starting from the galerie Véro Dodat above the Palais Royal and going all the way up to the Grands Boulevards. One of the most famous ones was le Passage des Panoramas (1831-4) and Flaubert mentions it. One of the ones that's most unchanged is the Passage Choiseul (1829), near rue des Petits Champs. Walter Benjamin's book is very interesting on that subject. Flaubert mentions the Palais Royal a number of times because on a special occasion the place to go for dinner was Les Trois Frères at the Palais Royal. It's not there any more but the gorgeous nineteenth restaurant Le Grand Véfour is still there.
Frédéric and his fellow students typically went to the inexpensive left bank restaurants, as students still do today – the restaurants on rue de la Harpe and rue St. Jacques. The rich people went to the right bank restaurants as they do today – to places like Le Grand Véfour at the Palais Royal.
In L'Education Sentimentale, the family of the banker, Dambreuse, lived on the right bank, on rue d'Anjou, now the faubourg St. Honoré, and Arnoux, the businessman, lived on rue de Choiseul after rue du Paradis. His business place, L'Art Industriel, was on the boulevard Montmartre.
When Frédéric goes for a walk in Paris he often gets lost in sort of a labyrinth of Paris streets. There's a certain disorderly, meandering quality that's easy to emulate. Once Frédéric ends up at the Champs Elysées by mistake.
When the left bank students start out for the right bank they assemble on the rue St. Jacques and on the rue Soufflot near the Panthéon. They were "les insurgés", the insurgents.
I left Frédéric, the
hero of ES, and walked down the
rue d'Ulm to see L'Ecole Normale Supérieure on the other side of the
Montagne Ste Geneviève – in my territory this time.
I wanted to think about Sartre, studying in Paris a ten
minute walk and a
century away from Flaubert's locale at the Faculté de Droit. Sartre's study of Flaubert, L'Idiot de
Famille , the Family Idiot, refers to the fact that at first
Flaubert seemed to be the guy who couldn't succeed at his law studies. Sartre may have been famous for coming first
on the aggrégation, but he failed it the first time, so they had
something in common.
As I walked up and down and around la Montagne Ste Genevieve the last couple of days I noticed that the cafés like le café de la Maierie at la Place de l'Estrapade, that had been closed in August, were starting to open again. That café is supposed to be "très tendance" meaning very trendy. I looked in to see what was special about it. "Convivial" says le Nouvel Observateur. But I couldn't tell by looking in. The most sought after cafés are the most traditional and unchanged-looking ones, the regular cafés.
The Seine, the most important place in Flaubert's geography of Paris places, was instinctively the most important place for me too as I crossed it every day. My walks began and ended with the Montagne Ste Geneviève, with the Panthéon, the ridiculous Panthéon, on top of it. Ugly, sexist, big, inconsistent, chauvinistic. I wonder if anyone likes it. I thought Sartre sounded egotistical saying in advance that he didn't want to be buried there, but I can see why he'd want to make sure. In front of the Panthéon is the Café Soufflot, where I met B. It's a very significant café in L'Education Sentimentale because that's where Frédéric met Deslauriers when the 1848 revolution was starting. The next day the students crossed the Seine and went around the Madeleine and down to the Place de la Concorde and on to the Tuileries. Paris was invaded from all directions. The bourgeoisie joined the students against the government. The city of Paris rose up against the seat of power as symbolized by the Tuileries.
Frédéric had a
rendez-vous with Mme Arnoux (Mme Schlesinger) on the rue Tronchet but
she didn't come. He
thought she
didn't care. Frédéric found out much later
that her son had been very sick, but by then both of their lives had
taken a different turn.
Why was Flaubert so attractive and such a great walker in Brittany in 1847 and so different two or three years later when he went to Egypt? Did he really choose his work or did life disappoint him? How did someone so outgoing become so reclusive? How could he be such a risk taker on Belle-Isle and lead such a quiet life after that?
Maybe Flaubert changed so fast physically because he was as excessive in sitting and writing as he was in walking. After the year in Paris, the summer in Britanny, and the events of 1848 he had a lot to write about. In any case, the three-month walk through Brittany and the Loire Valley was an extraordinary physical feat, one that I wouldn't have expected of Flaubert before reading his journals. After 1847, he was considered almost an invalid because of his nervous disorder.
I had read somewhere that Flaubert was repressed. He didn't seem that way from the travel journals. He chose writing because he loved it and he knew he had a great gift. At a certain point he didn't want to take much time away from his work, because he knew he was on to something. Probably he couldn't have produced the work he produced without becoming a recluse. Even though his work was a different kind of endeavor, I understood it as another kind of risk taking after reading about his continuous 14 hour walk on Belle Isle during which he explored a remote and wild part of the island where he easily could have been trapped by tides and bad weather.
As the cafés started
to reopen in September, my friends started to come back to town, and
they assumed I'd been bored and lonely in Paris by myself.
I'd had a great time though, reading L'Education Sentimentale,
walking around Paris, and seeing it through the eyes of Frédéric Moreau
in the 1840s.


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