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Softchoice has offered an office battery recycling service since 2009 at all of our offices and have had extreme success with our program! Employees areencouraged to bring in their used batteries from their home and Softchoice will dispose of them in an environmentally friendly way. This is done through a E-waste recycling company that our landlord provides. In addition to alkaline and recharge-ables, Softchoice also recycles laptop batteries.
In 2010 Softchoice collected approximately 350 used batteries, in addition to our 700 collected in 2009. That brings our total to over 1000 recycled batteries!
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Direct Democracy Comment
Cameron now Parliament's fixer - openly protects corrupt MPs, lords and bishops
The so-called 'Investigation' into historic establishment-led child abuse cover-ups is being fixed from the start because, David Cameron is openly attempting to remove the possibility of an independent result. Even before the investigation was announced, David Cameron's long-term close friend and unelected Conservative Deputy Head of Government Policy Patrick Rock was investigated regarding sexual misconduct towards female colleagues and then later arrested [Feb. 2014] on charges relating to paedophilia and, while blocking the Metropolitan Police from arresting his friend, David Cameron asked the NCA to step in so that it wouldn't be publicly disclosed and, so that it could all be covered-up.
PA direct democracy video: Cameron protected paedophile friend while blocking Inet Protect
PA direct democracy video: Cameron lied - disclosing friend's arrest would NOT compromise investigation
David Cameron's first choice for a chair person [former judge 'Lady' Elizabeth Butler-Sloss] quit when news of her links with key suspects were revealed and amazingly, she was NOT removed when news of her own historic child abuse cover-up was published and in a show of contempt for victims and voters alike, both David Cameron and Teresa May continued to argue to keep her AFTER this information was published, stating that she was "above reproach" and in our opinion, this says much about David Cameron and his Home Office side-kick Theresa May. For one thing, it confirms that they wanted a chair person who had herself ran a child abuse cover-up, to be running the investigation into establishment-led child abuse cover-ups.
• Home Office defends Butler-Sloss amid claims of abuse cover-up
By selecting a member of the establishment to investigate establishment-led child abuse cover-ups instead of selecting someone who is independent of the establishment, David Cameron also directly ignored and disrespected victim's groups who stated that they wanted an independent judge and when initially appointed and before news of her past child abuse cover-up was disclosed, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss herself also ignored public requests from victim's groups to resign and even after news of her past abuse cover-up was disclosed, she still refused to resign - demonstrating utter contempt for both the victims and for the wider public.
David Cameron clearly demonstrates that the establishment's reputation must be prioritised over the search for the truth, that he has no respect for child victims of establishment abuse and, that he himself knows a lot more about establishment-led abuse than we currently do. Why do you think you won't be able to see the results of any investigation until after the next general election?
During 1999, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was President of the UK Family Courts and during her stint, she refused to answer to calls from child psychologist from across the UK who wanted to know why she deemed Parental Alienation and Parental Kidnap to be of no detriment to children. It has been pointed-out to her how both Parental Alienation and Parental Kidnap are extremely abusive to children and that other countries recognise both acts as crimes against children but, unelected members of the UK establishment are accountable to no one and so, Parental Kidnap in the UK has increased by over 80% during the last ten years alone.
To summarise, this is a woman who while in her job as President of the UK Family Courts, implemented a cover-up to protect a child-abusing bishop while refusing to prioritise the rights, needs and well-being of children above the desires [not the needs] of custodial parents and the state. To this day, she [along with the entire judiciary] refuse to reason their stance on this particular issue and as this is never an issue for the electorate, children have and will continue to be abused by the state and custodial parents. She believes that a man is only entitled to be recognised within UK common law as a father if he was married [a religious ceremony] at the time of conception and, she refuses to make it a legal obligation for the mother to be honest when completing a birth certificate and so, her priority has always been to protect the church [lawfully or not] at any cost to children.
In an attempt to protect Ian Duncan Smith and the DWP, David Cameron disappeared the 4000 ill people who died within 6 weeks of being forced to work - only to have them reappear later when David Cameron's cover-up fell apart and since working directly with Tony Blair in 2013, David Cameron has been supporting Tony Blair's child abuse cover-up which started in 1998.
• Cameron's family, fellow Tories and the church conspired to kill-off abuse investigation
• Cameron at it again; covered-up 4,000 ill people who died within weeks of being forced to work
• Cameron at it again: covered-up activist's death at hands of Tory bully who he then promoted
The UK and US are the only remaining countries in the world where parental and state kidnap are legal because even in countries where this does happen, it is not written into those country's laws that it is acceptable to do so.
Keep voting and our children will reap!
• PA direct democracy media: [Social Politics] Social Engineering and State Kidnap
• PA direct democracy proposals: Law - Family and Child Protection
• PA direct democracy comment: No regard for child welfare - Cameron's policies proliferate child abuse
PA direct democracy video: Defend your children against Cameron's betrayal - 100% intrusion block
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Relax in the sauna at the beauty center or enjoy the indoor swimming pool. In the summer months the outdoor pool and the private sandy beach is also at your disposal.
The outdoor pool is exposed to the sun throughout the day and you can relax on deck chair sipping a drink.
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After graduating from Wayne State University with a Bachelor's of Science, majoring in Psychology, Jay became a Nationally Certified Pharmacy Technician for 14 years. During those years, he came to know the members of his community and has always been an active participant in it. He is a member of the Arab-American Association and recently has almost completed my masters in Organizational Leadership and Administration. He comes from a close-knit family of four and is passionate about making a difference in the lives of the people in his community. So when deciding on a career, real estate was the obvious choice. Jay is a member of RE/MAX Nexus Group and the goal is to provide clients with expertise and excellent customer service so that their pursuit of happiness can always be achieved. Jay is fluent in English, and Arabic. He is Canadian, American and Lebanese which helps him relate and help so many. Give him a call and see for yourself.
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Remarks on Receiving the Department of Education Report on Improving Education
May 20, 1987
Well, thank you Secretary Bennett. Today we are pleased to release a government report with some good news and some common sense in it. It's the third in Secretary Bennett's "What Works'' series, and it's called "Schools That Work: Educating Disadvantaged Children,'' and it should top the summer reading list of everyone who is concerned about the quality of education in our country. Its message is simple: Good schools make a difference. By giving students the knowledge and values they need to succeed, good schools can help children overcome poverty. They give our disadvantaged children hope, strength, and opportunity; they give them a future.
And the good news is that, as Secretary Bennett's book describes it, we have a number of these schools already, schools winning against the odds, schools that give their students just what it takes: respect for learning and the habits of heart and mind that are necessary for achievement. Instead of high dropout rates, these schools produce high test scores, regular attendance, and impressive college placement records. In schools such as these, a child's homelife or his parents' finances and education are no barrier to success.
These are schools like Chambers Elementary School in East Cleveland, Ohio, where three-quarters of the students are poor and two-thirds come from broken homes or single-parent families, but where test scores just keep going up, and most students read and do math at or above grade level. Now how does Chambers Elementary do it? Well, Principal Joseph Whelan accentuates the positive. He recites the Pledge of Allegiance every morning over the public address system; he insists on excellence; he rewards students for good work; he encourages parents to get involved. And one former student says it best: ``All that schoolwork prepared me to enter high school and leave there as a straight-A student. All those rules taught me right from wrong. At Chambers, I was special.'' Thank you, Principal Whelan. [Applause]
And then there are schools like Hales Franciscan High School in Chicago, Illinois. At Hales Franciscan, 300 young black men from Chicago's inner schools -- or inner city, I should say -- most of them poor, most from single-parent homes, are given an academic and religious education designed to help them escape the poverty trap and get into college. Father Mario DiCicco, the principal, and the community of Franciscan friars and lay teachers give them what it takes -- a strong core curriculum, lots of homework, and an emphasis on values that encourages moral judgment and social responsibility. At least 90 percent of each year's graduates go on to postsecondary education. As many as three-quarters go to 4-year colleges. Yes, Hales Franciscan High School works. Father is not here with us today, but we can recognize what has been accomplished there.
And so does the Gaskins Freedom Youth Academy right here in Washington, DC. Henry and Mary Ann Gaskins have five children of their own and each works full-time, but they feel so strongly about education that 6 years ago they opened their home to neighborhood children and turned it into a thriving afterschool program. Today, Dr. and Mrs. Gaskins tutor 75 children, from kindergarten through 12th grade, giving poor and minority students one-on-one attention in all subject areas -- even computers. And they try to ``blend goodness of character with intellectual skills.'' And their students respond. And here, too, we find rising achievement scores and the attitudes necessary for success.
These schools and programs may seem miraculous, but their accomplishments are no mystery. They can be duplicated all over again, all around America. And they should be; we know how it's done. It's done through the effort of adults who care, men and women who never say die and who stick to traditional values and the basic principles that have always been the secret to good education.
First, schools that work for disadvantaged children are schools that believe they can make a difference. They don't use poverty as an excuse for failure. And they don't wait around for new Federal programs before they start to do their jobs. Their business is children, and their first and most important message to those children is: No matter who you are or where you're from, you can learn.
Second, schools that work for the disadvantaged are schools that help their students develop the same qualities of character and the same values that most Americans want for their children. They know there are no such things as black values and white values or poor values and rich values. No, they know there are only basic American values. They know that lower standards are double standards -- and double standards are wrong. Effort, homework, discipline, values, and quality teaching are the best any education can offer -- to any student, including a poor, disadvantaged child.
Finally, schools that work for disadvantaged children are, well, old-fashioned. They don't go for tricks. They use what's tried and true: clear standards of behavior, long hours, hard work, and measurable goals. They teach the basics -- reading, mathematics, science, and writing. And they teach about America -- our history, literature, our great heroes, and our democratic principles. In fact, Secretary Bennett tells me that one of the most striking things that he's learned in his many visits to our nation's classrooms is that those schools which instill a sense of patriotism in their students by saying the Pledge of Allegiance or singing ``The Star-Spangled Banner'' invariably are the most successful.
Study after study tells us that education is the surest way for individuals to rise above poverty. We've done a lot in the United States to guarantee access and opportunities for education to all our citizens, especially the disadvantaged. We've spent generously on education, more than any other nation on Earth. But too many disadvantaged children are still not getting the education they need. In some cases, we may have spent money on the wrong things. In some others, we may have tried to fix what wasn't broken in the first place. But whatever the reason, we can do better, and we have to, because universal access to education is simply not good enough. Americans need universal access to quality education -- education that works.
I just yesterday had the privilege to speak to the graduating seniors of the Hamilton County-Chattanooga City high schools -- all 13 of them -- not 13 students, 1700 graduates from 13 schools. And believe me, events like those are one of the best things about having this job I've got. Before me were thousands of bright, eager students ready to take to the world. America is lucky to have youth like those, like the young people one meets all over this country. And I just can't help but feel it's our duty to give them the very best education we can possibly provide. It's our duty to them, and our duty to a nation, because those young people are America's future.
And I have to relate just a little personal experience here in closing. I remember one day I was sitting in the principal's office. I wasn't invited in there for a social visit. [Laughter] And he said something that fortunately stuck in my mind, and I remembered. He said, "Reagan, I don't care what you think of me now. I'm only concerned with what you'll think of me 15 years from now.'' And I thank the Lord that I had the opportunity to tell him shortly before he died how I felt about him 15 years afterward, after that visit in his office. And he was a very great influence in my life.
I recommend to you a poem written by Clark Mollenhoff, the journalist who was part of the White House press corps. He has written a poem called "Teacher,'' and it talks to you about what teachers mean and the effect they have on children. And I think you'd all be very proud to read his opinion of you. And having read the poem myself, I share that opinion of you. Thank you, and God bless you.
Note: The President spoke at 11:50 a.m. in Room 450 of the Old Executive Office Building. In his opening remarks, he referred to Secretary of Education William J. Bennett.


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New Allergy App developed by Columbia University
There is a great app for smart phones developed by Columbia U, U of Maryland, and Smithsonian Institute called Leafsnap. http://leafsnap.com Basically, if you have allergies and are wondering if you are allergic to the tree just outside your window or anywhere you spend time, you can take a photo and LeafSnap will give you name of the tree. Although initiallyRead More


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Speaker of the House John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden cried as Pope Francis addressed Congress Thursday. Many other political leaders were visibly moved by the mere first-ever presence of a pope in the chamber.
But reaction also came quickly to the content of the pope's speech, which was full of politics (we highlighted 10 political moments here). He received applause and (sometimes partisan) standing ovations as he spoke about the death penalty, immigration, defending life, climate change and family. Here is how political leaders, including several presidential candidates, reacted to the pope's address (we will update as we see more):
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Republican presidential candidate and Sen. Ted Cruz:
"I believe the death penalty is a recognition of the preciousness of human life, that for the most egregious crimes, the ultimate punishment should apply." (Politico)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi:
"He reminded us of our sacred and inescapable responsibility to those struggling to escape poverty, persecution and war. He challenged us to rescue our planet from the climate crisis that threatens the future of our children and the health of God's creation – and to do so sensitive to the needs of the poor."
Presidential candidate and Sen. Marco Rubio :
"Today's speech was an inspiring moment, to be there and witness the Pope's speech before Congress. I was moved by the Pope's message and by the sight of him standing in front of the U.S. flag with the words 'In God We Trust' engraved in the wall behind him. The Pope today, reminded us of the faith our nation has placed in God since its very founding, and why we should have a lot of faith in America's future.
At a time when so many of our people are gripped with uncertainty about the future, the Pope reminded us that America has a special calling as a nation that is guided by high ideals and the moral aims to build a more perfect union and to make the world a better place. He reminded us that, whatever our policy differences might be, we are all called to put the good of our people above all."
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Battlefield 1 Expansion Teased
As teases go, it's only a little one. A flirtations tickle, little more. But, as this is Battlefield 1, one of our favourite shooters of the moment, our interest is well and truly piqued by the brand-new fifteen-second trailer that joins a couple of pieces of concept art released last December.
So, what exactly is being teased here? That would be the first major expansion to hit Battlefield 1 since launch. Entitled They Shall Not Pass, the expansion will feature all-new maps, new weapons, and the new playable French Army faction. They Shall Not Pass will truly expand the theater of all-out war.
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With at least one of the new maps set in North Eastern France, near the city of Verdun, it's clear that Battlefield 1 isn't shying away from depicting some of the most bloody conflicts in human history.
"Around 1 million shells were fired in the opening barrage of the Battle of Verdun. This created massive forest fires around the fortified city and the battlefields surrounding it. Soldiers tell stories of being able to see these fires from far away. We really wanted to capture this initial fighting in a battle that came to be known as the Devil's Anvil.
"The initial fighting around Verdun quickly transformed villages like Samogneux and entire forests into shadows of their former self. Verdun turned into the longest battle of the war lasting 9 months which completely transformed it. We wanted our players to be part of these initial intense attacks in the cold February of 1916."
We've been gripped by Battlefield 1 since launch – an unexpectedly compelling and, at times, harrowing single player campaign was a particularly welcome surprise.
More details about the expansion are promised next week.
You will be able to play They Shall Not Pass two weeks early, with the Battlefield 1 Premium Season Pass, available from the Store priced £39.99 (with a £4.00 discount for EA Access members).
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California Supreme Court Hands Victory to Private Property Owners Over Public Use
By: Sean M. Sherlock
In 1970 the California Supreme Court held that, under certain circumstances, private property owners impliedly dedicate their property to the public if they permit the public to use it. Gion v. City of Santa Cruz (1970) 2 Cal.3d 29. This holding was controversial, and the next year the California Legislature enacted Civil Code section 1009 limiting the public's ability to permanently use private property through an implied dedication.
In the 40-plus years since then, the lower courts have wrestled with the issue of whether the statute limiting implied dedication applies only to recreational uses by the public, or also to nonrecreational uses.… Read More »
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Tambourine Coffee is an independent coffee shop serving artisan coffee from local roasters in Leeds and Saltaire.
Visit Tambourine Coffee for the finest quality coffee and a mouth-watering choice of light snacks, brunches, lunches and cakes sourced from talented local suppliers including Edward Street Bakery, Brown and Blond brownies, and Northern Bloc ice-cream.
The perfect place to unwind, catch up with friends and family or catch up with work in a stress-free environment away from the office. Tambourine Coffee prides itself on being family-friendly; there is a blackboard and books to keep little ones entertained plus high chairs and baby changing facilities.
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The final guideline on Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Type 2 Diabetes is now available to review. This guideline has been approved by the NHMRC. The Guideline and Technical Report can be downloaded here:
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Playing hookie
I skipped class today for the first time since I started the nursing program. I have the worst sinus infection I have ever had and woke not being able to really open my eyes or move my head without pain. Went to see the doc today and got on some antibiotics, so I should be better soon. I know better then to let something like that get that bad but I was really hoping my body could fight the infection on it's own. I go see my doctor for asthma follow-ups so often, I hate going in there for anything else.
So anyway, I'll have to get the lecture notes from a classmate and just study that material a little harder. It felt weird staying home though, I really felt guilty, like I was going to get in trouble for it or something. Kind of makes me feel like I'm in high school again.......ah, to be in high school again. If I could go back 15 years with the smarts and the confidence I have now and be in my teenage body again, wow, things would have been way different for me.
Does anyone out there watch American Idol? I do, my own guilty pleasure. I watch these kids each week and live somewhat vicariously through them, I wish I had done more with my voice when I was younger. Anyway,If you watch it.... My two favs are Carrie and Bo, but Vonzelle actually gave me goosebumps tonight so I think she's third on my list. I hate Whitney Houston songs but she pulled it off. The whole reason I bring this up is, am I the only one who thinks Paula seems like she's high? I swear, she looked so stoned tonight. I hope for her sake she's not because I read she was put on probation for a hit and run and I'm thinking she wouldn't pass a drug test.
Poor Paula, It must really suck to be an 80s has-been thrown back into fame by being on a show like AI. She gets to watch these people become famous and do what she used to do. Hope she's getting paid well.


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Mahjong Escape Ancient China
- Over 175 unique layouts
- Journey through 4000 years collecting treasure
- Classic Mah Jong Solitaire with 3 difficulty level
- 5 Special power-up tiles
- 15 hand-painted backgrounds
- OS : Windows 2000/XP/VISTA/7/8
- CPU : 600MHz or faster Processor
- Memory : 128
Review for game: Mahjong Escape Ancient China
Your adventure begins over 4000 years ago in Ancient China. Match the Magic Gold tiles and travel through 11 Dynasties, unlocking ancient wisdom on your way to collect the lost Dynasty treasures. Includes two ways to play: Dynasty Adventure & Classic Mah Jong solitaire. Enjoy over 175 unique levels. Escape today!
Match your way through unique variations on the classic Chinese tile game.
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REQUIRES Windows/MacOSAges: 3 YEARS & UP
Game Description:
Escape to Ancient China to Collect the Lost Dynasty Treasures!
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This is the best Mahjong game amongst those available. Nice artistry, I liked the bit of history, the music is subtle and apropos, love the "confucius" proverbs!
Wow . . . ! With a choice of playing the Dynasty Adventure - which spans Chinese history, beginning with the Xia Period of 2000 BC & ending in the Qing Period in 1912 - or the Classic mode of favorite layouts, this game has hours of fun . . . ! There are all sorts of aids, such as Jokers, magnets & locks & keys, to help you out of tough designs . . . Also, at the end of each game in the Dynasty Adventure, you earn a bit of wisdom - for example, did you know that the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, & the second best time is today . . . ? So, get this game, by all means, & remember these words to live by - "A clumsy bird that flies early will get to the forest first . . . !"
this is a top game, but anything by pop cap is ten out of ten for me. cant wait for another one to be available. i will buy it without even testing it.
I cannot pass up a game of mahjong. It is very fun and keep your wits about you.
I've been going down the list of the Mahjong games, trying each one to see if I like them or not. Imo this is the best of all of them. I bought it right after the demo, and then I tried Escape Ancient Japan by the same developers and I bought it, too. They are both really good games. I hope they get more of the same. The tiles are nice and large, you can play the adventure or the classic; I played both. You can choose the backgrounds and the tiles, and there are locks and keys in the adventure game, and it's fun trying to figure out just where the locks and keys are. Then you have joker tiles that allow you to remove all tiles of the same kind at one time, and magnets here and there that you can use to move tiles completely away from a given area. If you don't use the jokers and magnets you get extra points. You're not timed in either game, which I like. I don't like being timed in ANY game. I like to kick back and relax while I'm gaming. As for this game, it's the best Mahjong game I've ever played, and I've already played both the adventure and the classic three times. There are so many different layouts and levels that it can be played over and over and not seem the same to you. I seldom listen to music that games have, but this game has enjoyable music, it's oriental and it's not intrusive at all, so I left it on. I like the other game sounds, too. If you like Mahjong games you'll love this one. Enjoy!
A very nicely done Mahjong game. You can choose classic mahjong which has many many boards to choose from. Or Adventure mode which takes you on a dynasty adventure through Chinese history. Tiles are large. Music is nice. No glitches, game ran smoothly. You can play timed or untimed. Very nice. Would recommend.


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WELCOMEAn imaginative venue for locally sourced fine dining from chef's Jamie Randall (Odettes, Galvin La Chapelle) and Olivia Barry (Murano, Galvin). Serving Modern European Food in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.
Adelina At Your Yard is a new collection service from the award winning Adelina Yard restaurant in Bristol. Offering locally sourced fine dining kits, picnics, breakfasts, produce boxes and cheese & wines from chef's Jamie Randall and Olivia Barry.
A la carte & Tasting menus
Choose between our a la carte and tasting menu and you will be taken on a real journey of flavour and creativity with an explosion of colours, textures and surprise. Our a la carte menu is offered Tuesday to Thursday lunch and dinner, and for lunch on Friday and Saturday (not Friday or Saturday night). Our tasting menu is available for lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday.
Enjoy a beautifully prepared seasonal and relaxed lunch at Adelina Yard from 12pm to 2.30pm. Our 3 course lunch for only £21.95 (Tuesday to Friday) represents exceptional value. Saturday lunches we offer a shortened version of our tasting menu, alongside our full tasting menu and a la carte.
What cooking, and charm, and general all-round talent. If this opened in London, it would be swamped and swooned over. But Bristolians don't like to make a fuss. In a city abuzz with world-class cooking, Adelina Yard easily earns its place at the top table. This is a restaurant to truly relish.
The Jerusalem artichoke, this time with chanterelle risotto, was the choice of my newly vegan wife; while my duck ragu was rich and indulgent served with cylinders of swede. It also came with a large leaf of cavolo nero, an Italian kale. What a start to the new year. Adelina Yard has swiftly set the bar very high.
This is a wonderful place which is perfect for special occasions. I urge you if you can afford it, to go for the tasting menu. It'll really allow you to get a full understanding of just how talented chefs Jamie Randall and Olivia Barry are.
CHEF'S TABLESitting side by side, you will be facing the kitchen watching our Chefs as they create and serve dishes for you and your fellow guests. On elevated stool seating, the emphasis of this dining experience is to interact with our Chefs throughout your meal, whilst enjoying a birds eye view of the inner workings of our small but perfectly formed kitchen! Our Chef's Table can seat up to 6 guests, but tables of 2 and above are also encouraged-as long as you don't mind getting to know your neighbours! You are welcome to book this experience online, however if you have any questions about what to expect please don't hesitate to give us a call.
Indisputably a classic gastronomic experience, albeit with a lighter touch, this is a sophisticated treat. Expect dishes sourced from the finest British produce with an additional option for a wine pairing to accompany your experience.
GIFT VOUCHERSTreat your loved one, friend or family member to a gift with a difference at Adelina Yard. From monetary gift vouchers to a selection of dining experiences, Adelina Yard offer that something different as a gift.
We offer a monetary gift voucher amounts starting from £50. The vouchers are perfect for that someone special who would appreciate the gift of fine food. All vouchers are valid for 6 months.
Our dining experiences truly showcase our range of menus and cuisines. Choose from several different experiences from lunch for two or decadent tasting menu with a bottle of champagne. All of our experiences are valid for 6 months.
THE TEAMJamie & Olivia head up the team at Adelina Yard, bringing their extensive culinary skills, expertise and experience to the kitchen.
Olivia Barry
Chef Owner
Olivia is a born and bred Bristol girl; at her apprenticeship under the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts, she was one of just four students to achieve a Diploma in Professional Cookery with distinction. Since then, she has worked at St. Albans and The Wolseley, Wright Brothers in Soho and for the Galvin Brothers. Prior to returning home, Olivia worked under Angela Hartnett at her Michelin-starred Murano in Mayfair, London.
Jamie Randall
Chef Owner
Jamie, originally from Deal in Kent, completed his training at Thanet Catering College and is a past winner of the Annual Award for Excellence from the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts. Jamie worked at St. Albans (Corbin and King group) before joining Galvin La Chappelle, where he was part of the team that gained a Michelin star. Prior to making Bristol his home, Jamie was head chef at Bryn Williams' Odettes, in Primrose Hill London.
WANT TO WORK WITH US?We are always looking for passionate kitchen and restaurant staff to join our team. If you are interested please email us at email@example.com
GALLERYView our seasonal gallery of dishes at Adelina Yard.
Book A TableComplete you booking below or telephone us on 0117 925 6682.
NEWS & EVENTSKeep up to date with our latest news, events & recipes
Weekend Dinner Taster Menus
As of the 1st April, we are excited to announce that on Friday & Saturday evenings we will only have our taster menus available on the menu. This gives you the perfect opportunity to give you a great tasting experience
Happy New Year from Adelina Yard
First a huge thank you for all your continued support, we can't wait to get going again and bring you some incredible food and wine! Jamie and Olivia have some new delicious dishes that they are proud to be cooking
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In April 2018, I set off on a journey with 22 other chefs and restaurateurs from Bristol to the Langtang Valley in Nepal. This journey was just the start of an expedition to trek to an altitude of 4300m in
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Meh.El Protoolio wrote:I've never seen them. I am kind of excited.
Kind of mediocre live.
Then again I also don't like anything they've done in the past 12 years.
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Meh.El Protoolio wrote:I've never seen them. I am kind of excited.
Awesome_Komodo wrote:Kind of mediocre live.
Then again I also don't like anything they've done in the past 12 years.
Andrew. wrote:...everything about the music and the people making it runs real deep, comes from a real place. I'm curious how this album will stand up over time compared to the rest of their catalogue, but there's no question it's fucking great.
The new High on Fire album 'Luminiferous' is out now. The band will be on tour through the end of the summer. Matt there's always debate about the state of contemporary metal. What makes right now a great time for High On Fire in the context of the current metal scene?
I think I'm fortunate to have been born on the day that I was born and be the person that I am. I don't think I'm above or below anybody else. As far as I'm concerned, I have the ultimate rhythm section so anything I do, they're going to make 10 times better. Jeff [Matz] and Des [Kensel] are just anomalies of life. They're the best musicians that I could have ever asked for to play with. So when I put my thoughts and my feelings and my poetry, everything into even Des' hi-hat, I know it's going to come out awesome even if I suck, they don't suck [laughs].
I have a good backup in case I fail, and if I don't fail, I put a lot of personal feelings, feelings about this earth and a lot of feelings about how I see the human race going. I just believe a lot of people really need to wake up to the fact that their earth is crumbling around them and disease is not survived. It's not sustenance. It's poison. I just enjoy playing. I'm trying to convey about what I feel about all of that through playing with these amazing men, and touring and being as heavy as possible.
I think we did a really good job High On Fire wise, because we've been doing this for a while now and we have our tricks and our tool bag. Putting it together, though, this one came out way faster and way more furious… it was way easier to convey. I don't know. I'm really proud of this one. I'm really proud of my bandmates for it. It was a serious trip to make. Every time we make a record, some kind of tragedy happens to me and everybody else. We all have our reasons for having change in our lives. You can take that chance and turn it into something beautiful and I suppose that we're doing what we're supposed to be doing. I don't know. I don't even know if that's correct, but you have to ask someone higher than me to understand it, so I don't know.
154 wrote:Are you in Voivod or something?
People tend to mention Motorhead and Black Sabbath to describe High On Fire. But, what bands inspire you? Especially on 'Luminiferous' that are far removed from what your band actually sounds like?
Oh definitely, The study of [Tony] Iommi or the study of [jazz guitarist] John McLaughlin, vocalists, I mean there's also even some Jethro Tull. There's some Black Sabbath, some Iron Maiden and some Motorhead, but I never try to emulate anybody exactly. I just know what I like to hear and what we grew up on. We just incorporate all the hardcore and all the metal we grew up on. We were a spoiled generation, because we got to see all the great s–t. Then after all the good s–t turned not original, then the people after us got to hear all of that stuff. I'm sure all of us were a part of that [laughs]. They got to hear all of our older bands. We were just learning how to play. We get together now, and damn dude. We know how to f–k s—t up, just because we know what good songwriting is just because of our heritage. I grew up on Neurosis and The Melvins and Rich Kids on LSD, Circle Jerks and Black Flag.
That's all the hardcore stuff then there's Iron Maiden and Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Slayer. Of course they're all influences. Metallica even before they went super sold out or whatever, "For Whom The Bell Tolls" blew me away the first time I heard it and put an impact on my life because I learned the song on guitar when I was a kid before I even knew how to tune it. I don't know. I suppose that the important part of that is, though, the influences on me but not using your influences so you're directly or copying or ripping anyone off. You're using it to abilify your style.
Style is everything is everything in the words of Charles Bukowski. Style is everything, style is what's going to make you noticed. Someone is going to recognize you whether or not they'll recognize your playing, because you made your style. No one has done that like you, and no one can do that like you because you have your own art. And the sole art of what you do is going to sound like you. If it isn't like that then you're not doing it for the right reasons.
154 wrote:Are you in Voivod or something?
Matt, what's most surreal about non-metal outlets like The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly and NPR praising the new High On Fire music?
I have no idea. You tell me, man. If they're actually craving it then it means I did something right. I don't know. I think it's a real thing and it's not fake, man, we're not fake people. When we step up, we do our things as warriors and we've been doing this for a very long time. There's no rest for the wicked. None of us have done anything less than sacrifice our entire lives to play riffs. It's the most important part. Then, if you smash someone over the head with it because you're good at it, it's because you believe and you are a warrior of that riff. You're a warrior of all the riffs. I don't know how else to explain it.
154 wrote:Are you in Voivod or something?
You're not shy about discussing topics such as governmental conspiracy and alien infiltration. Is it frustrating or amusing that some people are amused themselves by your opinions?
It's frustrating to a point but actually if someone's not smart enough to f–king breath, it's like a turkey drowning in the rain. If you don't see what's going on, if you don't see them crashing the American dollar, them crashing the he Euro… I'm sorry but the American dream is dead. Your constitution pretty much got pissed on the minute the Patriot Act got into play. They're going to come and try and take your guns. They're going to come and try to take your freedoms. They already took our smoking, hey man, I'm a smoker and if you don't like smoking get the f–k out of the bar man because your f–king liver matters more than your lungs anyway. It's going to go out quicker. It's frustrating to me that like Holland has such a perfect thing where they treat you like an adult, and then the American government is saving us from ourselves because we want to stick up and maybe have some personal f–king freedoms in this world. Actually they're taking them away day by day.
I voted for Obama and it's a regret that I have because he's just following after George Bush. Pretty soon, mark my words, if there's not a military law soon or there's not some f–king Ebola epidemic which was created in a lab by some f–king Rockefeller or Bill Gates, all the f–king elite that want us all f–king dead. They want six billion people dead and they will do it any way they possibly can pull it off. They're going to do it in a way with like a sick cow, and they need to give you a morphine injection or they need to give you oxygen just so you don't feel like you're going to die in a plane crash. You know what? The plane has been crashing for about f–king 10 years now.
The minute 9/11 happened was the day that the U.S. no longer had any sort of f–king prestige. There's no prestige with 9/11 and killing our own people with people that we hired, Saudi Arabia that those motherf–kers have been in bed with since f–king Afghanistan. We're the ones that armed Al Qaeda to begin with and then all of a sudden it's ISIS, where the f–k did ISIS come from? That's an ancient fertile f–king crescent kind of term for the goddess that liked to fly over – you know the epic of Gilgamesh? You know what ISIS was? She was a fucking reptilian goddess who liked to fly over the clouds and f–king curse IMGT with the plague. If you read back and you read into history and you actually do some research, you're going to realize that the mythology of man actually can obtain some truth to it if you put some f–king classic common sense to it. But no one is going to believe me and they'll call me crazy right now, I'll put a tinfoil hat on my head. I don't really care, because they're going to understand when the FEMA camps start. Then they'll start telling me I'm right.
I don't really care. I'm speaking out against it, because if we do something now we can do something now. If we don't do anything now and people don't f–king wake up? Pretty soon we're all f–king slaves and everybody's just a TV baby like we have been since the 70s. People have been dumbing themselves down for way too long now and it's time to wake up and turn your TV off and throw it in the hallway. Time to read a book, dude. Time to think. Critically think. That's what they don't like. That's why they put fluoride in your water. They put chemtrails and they feed it to your children. Then they abduct your children and act like nothing happens. It's a sickening society that's in a world that can be saved, in a world that is great.
There is hope in the world, it's just, man, people need to stop relying on FOX News to give them their information and to stop feeding their kids from Wal-Mart. If they do that, then they might have a f–king chance at survival. If not, I'm going to continue to play music and when I have to survive I'll survive. But this place isn't going to be how it is in about five years. So, it's not going to be the same. No one believes me. Well, you don't have to. It's the f–king truth.
154 wrote:Are you in Voivod or something?
Matt, between High On Fire and Sleep, you've been on the road quite a bit. What feels odd about being home, when you're away from that nomadic life?
I get about a week or two at a time. I don't know. I feel like it's my duty to do the both of them. To create as much as I can. In this society that are selfish and 1% are allowed it going and it's not going to well. People who can't take care of themselves will fall and this is what I believe and this is why I do what I do double fold. I want everybody to see in the public eye. I don't want fame, fortune or anything like that. I just want people to see me and f–king put something on me dude. Do you know who I respect? George Carlin. Have you ever seen that man talk before he had the malfunction? It's a tragic thing what happened to that man. Do you realize that that man was doing exactly what I'm trying to do right now? Everybody called him crazy, but actually that dude was smart as s–t. Maybe I'm insane. And if I am, just chalk it up to the dude has good lyrics because he's f–king nuts. And if it makes any sense to anyone else? Hey man, f–k, right on. If I finally lost it then chalk it up to the record that I finally lost it… its a really good record. If that is cool?
Everything you got going on is cool with me.
I have to say what I think because there's going to be a lot of people who talk against me or find me repulsive in some weird way but it's because of the programing doesn't allow them to think outside their own box. If you believe it, cool. Keep on what you keep on. I'm not trying to distract you from the distraction they already have on you. I'm just trying to play music and do a good job.
154 wrote:Are you in Voivod or something?
jbar wrote:I got a high on Pryor shirt that's just begging to have the sleeves cut off.
LBx wrote:Not a fan.
(Dig that bass though. Sexy.)
Dee Wig wrote:You'd have to be straight-up out of your goddamned mind to think Robocop was crap.
elmofreech wrote:Really digging High on Fire lately.
Seen them a bunch over the last 10-12 years & always thought they were cool, but they never did it for me until now. Newest record is cool, and the one before it, and Surrounded By Thieves. Southern Lord has a sale on their Art of Self Defense reissue right now if anyone wants the purple vinyl.
Anyone down with Kalas? Matt Pike does vocals only. I think this album is outstanding.
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Beef stew is one of those perfect comforting dishes for wintertime. While this year has been particularly mild, the past few days have been more like the cold winter I'm used to. And I've finally found a beef stew recipe I love. I grew up on a very simple sort of stew: beef, potatoes, and carrots in a thick gravy. Over the years, I've tried various recipes or restaurant versions, but nothing worked. Many had tomatoes, peas, or corn, or they had too much garlic or strong herbs like rosemary.
But this recipe is warm, simple, and fills your belly quickly. Adapted from the recipe here.
- 1 pound beef stew meat
- 2 tbsp oil (I used lard)
- flour mixed with pepper (maybe salt. I didn't use salt because I knew my broth was really salty.)
- 2 cups beef broth (and 2-3 more cups of water or broth for later)
- 1 tsp dried parsley
- 1/4 tsp gr. black pepper
- 2 large potatoes (or 3-4 little ones), peeled and cubed
- 2-3 carrots, peeled and cut into 1 inch circles
- 2 stalks celery, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1/2 large onion, chopped
- 1 tsp cornstarch mixed with 1 tsp water
Heat oil over medium heat in a dutch oven or other large pot. Coat meat in flour, and cook meat in oil until brown. Add the broth, making sure to scrape the bottom of the pot to free any stuck bits. Stir in parsley and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and cover. Simmer for about 30 minutes.
Add the potatoes, carrots, onions, and celery. If necessary, add up to another 3 cups of broth/water to increase the liquid to the desired amount of sauce. Add the cornstarch mixture, and cover. Simmer another hour. Stew is done when the veggies are soft and the sauce is thick. If it doesn't thicken over the hour, remove the lid and simmer a little longer. Serves about 4.
This really doesn't need anything to go with it. It's a nice one-pot, one-dish meal. I'd be curious to see how it fared in the slow-cooker.


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Ciptor is working very close with InAuth, a leading digital device authentication company, today announced it has enhanced its InExchange® solution, a global digital intelligence network, to provide businesses with advanced insights to help them make smarter security decisions. InExchange now enables clients to associate device elements with anonymized user data across multiple industries, giving businesses a more holistic view of the trustworthiness of a device so that they can better assess the riskiness of a transaction and take additional steps to mitigate potential fraud as needed.
The core of InExchange's innovative capabilities is built upon InAuth's next-generation device identifier for both mobile apps and browsers. InAuth leverages thousands of device attributes to create a unique identifier for mobile apps and a similar identifier for browsers, allowing InAuth to identify the same device across multiple organizations. To understand the riskiness of a digital transaction, InExchange participants can query the network to gain intelligence about the reputation of a device along with anonymized user data elements associated with that device. Contributions to InExchange are managed in compliance with SOC 2 requirements, an industry standard for the secure management of data. All data within InExchange is cryptographically masked so it is anonymized and protected, and clients using InExchange do not have access to other clients' transaction data.
InExchange is particulary valuable in situations where a device may be transacting with a business for the first time, such as a new digital account opening at a bank or a guest checkout transaction on an ecommerce site. Enhancements to InExchange will enable that business to have a greater degree of confidence about whether the device should be trusted based on prior interactions it has had with other users of InExchange. With U.S. card-not-present fraud expected to rise to $7.2B by 2020, an intelligence model where businesses can leverage an aggregated view of digital intelligence across many industries has never been more critical.
"Without the benefit of enhanced risk intelligence from InExchange, businesses are working in silos with limited information on the positive or negative history of the devices using their digital channels," said Lisa Stanton, President, InAuth. "InExchange helps to solve that issue by leveraging the collective experience of an entire network of participating companies across key industries, including banking, payments and ecommerce. We're excited to deliver an innovative solution that allows businesses to expand digital services offerings, enables good consumers to transact in a frictionless manner, and can help stop fraud from happening before it occurs."
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I am God
Version in Serbian language – https://dmilenkovic.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/ja-sam-bog/ I am God. But you can call me however you like. I had so many names so far, that I've stopped remembering them. Each name gave me different qualities. It's entertaining for me to watch them imaging me, and arrogating. And when they arrogate me, then they praise and worship… Read More I am God


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Inverse trigonometric functions are functions that reverse trigonometric functions (in brief). Trigonometric functions are functions of an angle measure. They are primarily used to find lengths of the legs of a triangle (or some triangular relationship). Inverse trigonometric functions are functions of the ratio of lengths of a triangle. They are primarily used to find the corresponding angle of the ratio of the legs of a triangle. There are other uses, but I will keep it brief for this blog.
Every semester, I have to put more effort into explaining inverse trigonometric functions. Although the concept is the same, the students, and their perceptions, change. There are only so many ways I can think of to explain this concept. So I decided to get some help from several online resources. Of course, I suggest that my students do the same, but that's another blog, for another day.
Here are a few links I came across that should be helpful to students and teachers alike, looking for alternative ways to explain inverse trigonometric functions.
Paul's Online Math Notes (Paul Dawkins)
How do you teach inverse trigonometric functions to your students?


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SquareDAQ is a virtual stock market trading game based around the professional wrestling industry where the commodities being traded are the athletes and performers.
When you create a new account you are given 100,000 virtual dollars to build your own portfolio and fill it with your favourite performers, underutilized talents and future prospects. Prices will fluctuate throughout the day based on supply and demand as players trade stocks.
Welcome to the first SquareDAQ prototype. Please excuse the basic page design while we focus on game functionality. Sorry the site is not very mobile friendly right now for the same reason.
Please feel free to sign up, play and give some feedback about the game play and send in your ideas to make things better.
Disclaimer: The game is still under heavy development. You are welcome to sign up, participate and send feedback as the more people we have influencing the markets the better. You can find more information about the game over on the rules page.


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Last Friday evening, I attended a concert at Powell Symphony Hall with my friend Nancy. Like a child opening a gift, we were ecstatic to see Chris Botti and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra perform together. If you've never heard of Chris Botti, he's only the best jazz trumpeter to walk the face of the earth. I've not missed a concert of his since he opened for the silken songbird, Diana Krall over 12 years ago at the Fox Theatre.
With no musicality in my family, I love to listen to music of all genres – jazz, classical, Christian and rock.
Entering the venue, seeing everyone dressed in their best, eyeing the winding staircases and the magnificent chandeliers, made me smile.
As we settled in our seats and the lights dimmed, the audience became silent. I closed my eyes for a moment and listened to the sweet melodies permeating from the orchestra, the smooth sounds of Chris' trumpet, and the weeping strings of the guest violinist. It was nothing less than magical.
Over the course of the evening, Chris brought out guest singers, highlighted his band, and introduced new up-and-comers. As the concert drew to a close, the lights dimmed deeper, and the spotlight was on Chris and his pianist. The room's ambiance felt like an intimate jazz club.
On Sunday, I headed to another cultural event at the Unity Center in Columbia, Missouri, Friends Abby and Marcia accompanied me to the book launch of Well-Versed 2015. Marcia and I were receiving awards for our works from the Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writer's Guild. Our poems and prose were accepted for inclusion into the anthology.
Winners and contributors read aloud poems and stories about Moms, mystery, nature, pets, and even family conflicts. I listened intently.
Some stories had me rolling with laughter, others made me think; still others stirred up such raw emotion I found myself sobbing.
Each event had one thing in common. The performers – whether musicians or writers – glorified God.
When a human being is doing what he or she was created to do, then God is honored and glorified.
When God is honored, "Other people take notice. The world wakes up a little bit, sees things in a clearer/holier light, and seeks the source of that light," says Coffee with God author, Sarah Arthur.
Performers glorify God by "using their talents to their utmost," Arthur says.
Sometimes I don't feel fully alive. I'm either wandering aimlessly throughout the day, depressed or unmotivated. (Like yesterday)
When I take the time to glorify God (right now with my writing), that's when I feel alive.
And that when I think He is happiest.
Peace, love, and all that Jazz,


text: India's government says Maoist rebels represent the country's greatest internal security threat.They have waged war against the government for more than 40 years. More than 6,000 people have been killed, and many more maimed and injured. At least 50,000 federal paramilitaries are fighting the insurgents. That figure sits alongside police and special government task forces, all at huge financial cost.In the last four years, almost $30 million in extra defence money has gone to states where Naxals have the heaviest presence.But this expensive strategy appears to be getting the government nowhere. In our exclusive report on the Naxal movement, Al Jazeera's Kamal Kumar discovers the dangers of policing the front line. SOURCE: Al Jazeera Politics Asia India


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South Africa has made great strides towards achieving gender equality in education. According to the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report, gender parity on all education indicators has been achieved. In terms of access to primary education, gender gaps on educational accessibility are closed. Proportionally more females are enrolled in secondary and tertiary level education than males. Females are also more likely to have higher levels of educational attainment than males.
This progress towards gender equality has contributed to poverty reduction in various ways:
- Increased levels of education have empowered females as they get equipped with the self-confidence, knowledge and skills to participate fully in their communities.
- Education of girls has resulted in higher family incomes and increased productivity.
- Health benefits of education with an impact on poverty reduction include delayed marriages, reduced fertility rates and improved maternal and child health.
Despite the achievements, the latest Gender Series report on Education (2004-2014) from Statistics SA reveals many remaining challenges:
- There are large gaps in subject preferences and performance, which often result in varying social and economic gender inequalities. For example, there is a significant gap in South Africa in favour of males qualified in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects, resulting in male dominance in STEM-related occupations such as engineers and architects. More females are enrolled for Business and Commerce, Education and Other Humanities study fields. Education has the highest gender disparities, followed by Other Humanities (3/1 and 1,77/1 ratios respectively). Male-dominated professions are often those that command higher pay. Gender prejudice within the education system about maths and science abilities of females remain widespread.
- Males are more likely than females to enrol in Masters and Doctorate studies. Females enrol more frequently in lower tertiary qualifications.
- Employment absorption rates for females are significantly lower than for males, leaving them more at risk of poverty despite their education levels. Moreover, South African women remain disadvantaged in terms of pay, promotion, job stability and status.
- There are persistent gender inequalities in performing unpaid care or house work. Women spend more time on unpaid work, having a negative impact on their careers in the labour market, impacting their work status and pay, regardless of levels of education obtained.
- Boys' performance in literacy is significantly lower than that of girls. Boys are also more likely to leave school early. Some of the negative social impacts associated with boys dropping out of school include crime and gender-based violence. This confirms the need for a growing focus within the gender rights movement on the construction of masculinity.
- Girls are more likely to stay at home due to family commitments such as child minding, which seems to have a bigger impact on girls living in urban areas as opposed to rural areas. Pregnancy and marriage also act as social gender-specific obstacles that hinder access to education for girls, particularly those from rural areas.
The most fundamental impact of education and gender equality on poverty reduction may lie in its impact on slowly changing norms in a society:
"In particular, the education of boys and girls—beyond its role in building human capital—is crucial in shaping norms. In multiple discussions, adolescent boys and girls described how education exposed them to new ideas and knowledge, enlarging their capacity to analyse and encouraging critical scrutiny of established gender relations and the status quo. These discussions reaffirmed what is already known about the intergenerational transfer and reproduction of norms within households. Education fosters learning away from the household environment where gender roles are played out in every interaction and action. The research team realised the importance of ensuring that school curricula offer gender-neutral learning opportunities." (World Bank, 2012)
These results confirm some of the findings from the World Bank Report which I wrote about earlier.
"One of the more consistent findings across the 97 research sites is the universality and resilience of the norms that underpin gender roles. In every research location, women and men of all generations identified the dominance of women's domestic role and men's bread winning role as absolutely core to female and male identities. Some of the focus groups gave evidence of gender norms changing, albeit slowly and incrementally, with new economic opportunity, markets, and urbanization."
This blog post is a contribution to the IIEP Course "Monitoring and Evaluating Gender Equality in Education', edition 2016.
Taylor, S. & Spaull, N. 2015. Measuring access to learning over a period of increased access to schooling: The case of Southern and Eastern Africa since 2000, International Journal of Educational Development, 41, 47-59.
Statistics SA, 2015, Gender Series Volume II, Education, Report No. 03-10-12 (2004–2014)
World Bank, 2012, On Norms and Agency Conversations about Gender Equality with Women and Men in 20 Countries (link)


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You will adore this cute two bedroom cottage at the top of a hill overlooking the bay. Wake up to sounds of the waves hitting the beach and walk right up the hill to bed after a late night relaxing by your beachside campfire. This two bedroom cottage that sleeps 4 has a spacious entry way and eat in kitchen area. The living room is comfortable and sits right off of an adjoining bedroom.
Plenty of room out front to park your boat, ATV or snowmobile.
Eat in kitchen, full bathroom, living room with satellite TV, each bedroom has a full size bed. One of our beaches is just down a hill from your front door.
Fishermen are attracted to our area year round and you can walk right out into the bay from our beach and catch your limit of panfish and bass.
Short drive to hiking trails, unique beaches, boat tours of the Apostle Islands and the beautiful tourist town of Bayfield Wisconsin. You will love our off the grid yet convenient location.


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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
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One of the missions of the U.S. Army Reserve Marksmanship Program is to provide, select, and supervise Mobile Training Teams (MTT) to conduct "Train the Trainer" clinics. This provides the Army Reserve with instructors to conduct small arms training, small arms marksmanship training in sniper weapons, Special Reaction Team (SRT), combat shotgun, crew-served weapons, and other specialized small arms training applications, assisting Reserve units in maintaining mission readiness.
USAR commanders can use instructors and marksmen trained by MTTs for conducting marksmanship training by request. Current contact information for units making requests to Mr. Soto at 630-910-3213 ext. 102.


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I took this picture this morning from the playground of the school where I work. By noon the clouds had rolled in and we couldn't see the mountains anymore. These are the Olympic Mountains.
After school at the park we saw a lot of water fowl.
What fun with your new camera and your kids. Love the blue skies and mountains and the red billed duck (looks like he was having a good time too).ReplyDelete
Wow isn't he an awesome chap! Still looks very cold. Hope you can stop by Tasty Spot Tuesday & Oh! My Heartsie WW w/Linky
Have a great week!
What lovely photos wish spring would start here :-)
Have a springtastic week
The mountains are especially beautiful and great photos of all the waterbirds.ReplyDelete
What a fabulous capture of the red-billed duck in action. I LOVE it! Glad you had Spring ... we had snow!! Thanks for visiting Walk and Click Wednesday!!ReplyDelete
Pretty ducks!!! Is the last photo, the bird...is it actually called a red billed duck? So unusual.
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Looks like a fun walk. It's interesting that there was only one duck of its kind.ReplyDelete
Fantastic photography ~ love the last one with the 'wings in action' ~ beautiful! ^_^ReplyDelete
Brilliant capture of movement in that last shot and the mountains looks beautifully rugged
Loving your spring snaps! That first shot is gorgeous scenery! Happy WW!ReplyDelete
Spring is here for sure. Love the peek of the Olympics. We see them on occasion from Stanwood but there are usually clouds in the way. There is one road on Fir Island near Conway where you can see Rainier, the Olympics and Baker from the same spot.
Like the bird shots too. MB
Lovely shot of the mountains. How fun to play with a new camera. Visiting from Walk and Click.ReplyDelete
Beautiful to see the mountains and all your birds.ReplyDelete
Nice pictures - I do like the flapping duck! (and the mountains!)
Cheers and thanks for linking to WBW.
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High Brow Glow Pencil by Benefit Cosmetics {REVIEW}
Yet ANOTHER highlighting product from Benefit Cosmetics for you to feast your eyes on!
I am not usually one to spend money on products that basically do just one thing. This is a highlighter for your brows; AKA, you could use regular highlighter and achieve a similar effect.
However, since the Benefit bug bit me hard, and because I have seen tons of fab reviews, I had to get my greedy little swatched hands on this.
The Benefit High Brow Glow Eyebrow Highlighter is a chunky eyebrow lifting pencil designed to highlight, define your brow arches and enhance your eye colour. It is also in a universally appropriate shade so that it suits all skin tones.
The consistency is quite creamy and the thickness will depend on how much you apply onto the skin. Like most Benefit highlighters, the formula is sooo easy to blend out which is a bonus seeing as your brow are is not the largest canvas to work with.
If you Google images of this product it looks a bit pink on the Benefit website. I would call it more of a pearly nude shade. If you actually want more of a pink shade product then the sister of this, the High Brow Pencil, will be the choice for you.
So as I said before, you could really use any old highlighter on your brows but this truly gives your brows an arched and defined look that I have not been able to achieve with powdered highlighters. Due to the fact that it is so creamy, you can even get a way with brows that probably should have been tended to a few days before. Those stray hairs are easily covered up and camouflaged with this beauty.
I would suggest applying below and above your eyes for the perfectly arched and clean look. You can also use it on the inside corner of your eyes and on your cupids bow if you want some extra uses out of it!
You can purchase this for R275 on the Red Square online store here or from certain Edgars stores within South Africa. And the original High Brow is also available for the same price at the same stores.
As far as Benefit Cosmetics products go, this is one of the more affordable items. I would really push for you to buy it because it really is a winning product. And if the price tag is still too much for your brain, think about just how many uses you will get out of this HUGE pencil!
I hope you enjoyed this review!


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Communal Materials; Or, Evolution Isn't Fast Enough
'Deaccessioning' is a term and practice common to both library and art institution. It is the practice in which materials held by public collections are considered, and those deemed of 'questionable value' are removed and sold off to make way for new items. Communal Materials; Or, Evolution Isn't Fast Enough is a project in problem solving which brings ideas around deaccession into play with the rise in alternative education projects and urban regeneration in London.
Evolution Isn't Fast Enough is speculative and comprised of three interrelated strands. Drawing from the deaccessioned, the three project strands act as probes into ways of thinking that might be produced through working not only with physical materials, but with skills, ideas and methods that are of questionable value in the current economic climate.
1. Site-responsive live installation throughout a former library, A Call from the Library
Based in Hackney (East London), local project partners and venues include PEER Gallery, City University London, Open School East, De Beauvoir Housing Estate, and (the former) Rose Lipman Library & Hackney Archives.
Supported by Arts Council England.
// Please find information on each of the strands with links to documentation below //
→ STRAND ONE: A Call from the Library
In A Call from the Library the deaccessioned material was the Rose Lipman Library building; a former library and community centre recently decommissioned from it's intended use in a regeneration area. A Call from the Library was a public field writing exercise in 'listening to' and 'playing' the library as a building, an idea, utopian project and space of knowledge production. The 'score' was the former public library itself.
Performed throughout a former public library, A Call from the Library was a collaboration between artist Lisa Skuret and sound artist Seth Ayyaz, stemming from a week long 'field writing' exercise in the former Rose Lipman Library building. Through their different practices, they built an open system to 'listen' to rooms and architectural spaces, and in effect 'play' them sonically and textually.
The results of their research activities in the library was a live installation or durational performance; a weekend long continuation of their field writing process in which the building began to 'speak'. During the public field-writing weekend, Skuret and Ayyaz were joined by vocalists and sonic improvisors Guy Harries and Kay Grant.
Documentation: video and stills
→ STRAND TWO: The De Beauvoir Labs
An interdisciplinary fashioning of undervalued skills into hybrid tools to collectively rethink utopian enterprises.
For each Lab a Hackney resident with self-identified unvalued skills was paired with a practitioner with very different skills, and collaborating together with myself, devised a public event. The format of the public Labs was open to take any form: a text, workshop, discussion, performance, song, diagram, or manifestation of an (im)practical object.
Labs have included a participatory performance with a writer and a recorder instrument player; a workshop with a yodeller and a knitter; a coffee morning with a neuroscientist and a Turkish coffee reader; and a walk with a scent designer and a former community nurse.
Information on the lab Portunalia:
This collaborative event at PEER Gallery in Hoxton marked the eve of Portunalia, a neglected festival that honours the Roman god of doors, keys and livestock. As part of De Beauvoir Labs, it was the first speculative and interdisciplinary attempt to revive undervalued skills through collective effort. Over the course of the afternoon a score and lyrics were produced, by way of painless input on the part of gallery visitors, and the song was performed at 5:30pm by all women recorder troupe, the Dolly Mixtures.
Led by artist Lisa Skuret and writer Sally O'Reilly, the score was generated through data produced via gallery visitors keys, a variety of domestic kitchen scales, the textual affects of rooms, and misplaced personal effects.
After the event, a music stand and a recorder were installed in the gallery at PEER as part of the current exhibition. Visitors to the gallery were welcome to throw their 'keys to the wind' in offering by playing the communal score.
The third strand of the project is ongoing research on 'voice' with a community reading group which meets via telephone conference call.
Supported and funded by Arts Council England. With special thanks to the Department of Music at City University London.


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The history of badminton can be traced back to various games employing a 'shuttlecock' – the recognisable feathered ball used in the game – some of which have been played across Eurasia for centuries. In 19th century Britain, a game called 'battledore and shuttlecock' was popular. 'Battledore' was an early name for a racket. The game was played without a net and had no standardised rules, but its similarities make it a likely predecessor to the badminton sport that is played today.
Badminton's Cloudy Origins
The history of badminton does not tell us of its exact origin, but the origin of the word 'badminton' is not in dispute; it refers to the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton House in Gloucester. What isn't known is why the house lent its name to the sport in the first place. In the early 1860s, the sport was given its name, being distinguished from 'battledore and shuttlecocks' in that it was played over a suspended net.
It is likely that the game was created by the British living in India in the middle of the 19th century. There, a similar game called 'ball badminton' was played interchangeably with badminton. It employed a woollen ball instead of a shuttlecock. Badminton was particularly popular in the Indian garrison town of Puna, where the first rules were set to paper. Returning officers brought the game to Britain and the first badminton club was established in Folkestone in the 1870s.
Badminton Rules and Regulations
The history of badminton rules starts with the Puna regulations, which were then revised several times in the late 19th century by various respected members of British badminton clubs. The Badminton Association of England was established in 1893, when they also published an official set of rules. By the turn of the century, badminton was played competitively across Britain in gentleman's doubles, ladies doubles, mixed doubles, and singles.
It only took badminton three decades to spread from Britain and become popular on a global scale. In 1934 the International Badminton Federation was established by nine member states; England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Denmark, France, Netherlands, and New Zealand. Today, the name has been changed to the Badminton World Federation, and it has grown to an impressive 176 member nations. There are several large worldwide competitions and in 1992, badminton became an official sport of the Summer Olympics.
Badminton in the World Today
Today, badminton is played all over the world, both as a professional and recreational sport. In Europe, Denmark has long produced many of the top professional players, and globally the Danish stars are mostly rivalled by players from Asia. It is also a widespread backyard pass-time in both the USA and Europe. Its popularity, no doubt, comes down to that it requires a relatively small area to play, and that the lightness of the shuttlecocks means there is little risk of breaking windows unlike a football or tennis ball might. But despite its light rackets and shuttlecocks that are easily stolen by the wind, badminton is a high-intensity exercise.