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Adelaide Casely Hayford, née Smith was born on June 27, 1868 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to a Gold Coast mulatto father of English and Fanti heritage and a Krio mother related to the Easmon family in Sierra Leone.

The young Adelaide spent most of her childhood and adolescence in England where her father had retired in 1872. In England, she attended the Jersey Ladies College, and at the age of seventeen proceeded to Stuttgart, Germany to study music at the Stuttgart Conservatory.

Adelaide and her sisters returned to Sierra Leone after twenty-five years abroad. In Freetown she became a strong advocate for cultural nationalism as well as an educationist, and an ardent feminist. Her determination to ensure that Sierra Leoneans preserve their national identity and cultural heritage caused her in 1925 to attend a reception in honour of the Prince of Wales in traditional African costume. This caused quite a sensation then. She had also become a short story writer.

After spending a few years in Freetown, she returned to England where, together with her sister, she opened a boarding home for African bachelors. During this period she married J. E. Casely Hayford, a Gold Coast barrister, author and politician, who was an active advocate of Pan-Africanism and cultural nationalism. It is probable that her marriage to J. E. Casely Hayford gave her a deeper insight into African culture and may have influenced her transformation into a cultural nationalist.

Inspired by the ideas of racial pride and co-operation advanced by Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), she joined the Ladies Division of the Freetown Branch on her return and became its President. She resigned from the Association however, in June, 1920 because of a conflict of interest between the UNIA and the proposed Girls’ Vocational School she intended to establish. The same year, she travelled to the United States to study Afro-American educational programmes for industrial education and to raise funds for the proposed Girls’ Vocational School. In the United States, proudly attired in African costume, she gave public lectures aimed at correcting the misguided American notions about Africa There she came to know more than any other African of her day the most notable Afro-Americans from W.E. B..Du Bois to Paul Robeson and Mrs Booker T. Washington. .

On returning back to Freetown, Adelaide embarked on her project of establishing a vocational institution which would “awaken in pupils love of the country, pride of race, an enthusiasm for the blackman’s capabilities and genuine admiration for Africa’s wonderful artwork”. In October 1923, The Girls’ Vocational School opened in the Smith Family home at Gloucester Street, opposite the Post Office, with fourteen pupils. As Principal, she would have preferred the pupils wearing native dress to school, but this idea was rejected by the community. However, on African’s Day, which was held once every quarter, the pupils dressed in African costumes and studied African history, folklore, songs and artwork, and played African games and danced traditional dances. She headed the school till she retired in 1940, and the school was forced to close down.

A gifted public speaker, Adelaide advocated that Congress Day, the day marking the founding of the National Congress of British West Africa, like Empire Day, ought to be observed as a public holiday, and she canvassed mothers to explain the significance of the day to their children. She recognised the immediate need for a national University and called for the establishment of a professorship in the major African languages. Of especial significance was the emphasis she placed on arts and crafts as Africa’s unique contribution to world culture.

Despite Adelaide’s opposition to the injustices of the colonial system and her strong advocacy of cultural nationalism, the British authorities had sufficient respect for her to award her the King’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935, and the M.B.E. in 1950. She spent the final years of her life writing her memoirs and short stories. Her memoirs were published in West Africa Review during 1953 and 1954.

She died in January 1960, at the ripe age of 91 leaving behind her a legacy of cultural awareness which all Sierra Leoneans as well as Africans if not pan-Africans should emulate. Her long life spanning the reign of two British monarchs, Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth made her experience the stimulations of change that affect her both as a woman and as an African. One of her most enduring legacies is her daughter, Gladys Casely Hayford who though she pre-deceased her mother has a lasting place in the history of Sierra Leone Literature, for her pioneering poetry some of which were written in Krio, a language that was to grow in literary as well as linguistic importance..

References:

An African Victorian Feminist; the Life and Times of Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford, 1868-1960

West African Narrative: An Anthology for Schools compiled and edited by Paul Edwards

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Source by Arthur Smith

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London Wasps were formed 1867 and turned professional (along with many other clubs) in 1999 and compete at Rugby Union. Wasps have enjoyed tremendous success over the years and have a large following of dedicated fans.

Wasps play their home games at Adams Park but have previously ran out in front of crowds at Finchley Road and Loftus Road. Since turning professional they have also played some of their games away from their home ground in locations including the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and Twickenham, the home of English rugby.

In recent years they have won many of the major honours available to RFU teams, including the Heineken Cup, the English championship and the Powergen Cup. They continue to be a major force in the RFU and consistently provide the English national side with some its best players.

Recent heroes include Phil Vickery, Danny Cipriani and Paul Sackey. However, the best and perhaps most decorated player that Wasps have if former England captain and World Cup winner Lawrence Dallaglio who has been a massive influence on their success, as well as becoming one of the few real household names in rugby.

The Wasps rugby shirts and black with yellow trim for the home jerseys and yellow with black trim for the change kit. These colours have never changed in their entire history, meaning that the Wasps kits are a strong and traditional rugby image.

Undoubtedly Wasps are one of the strongest names in British rugby and with the big names associated with the club, nobody would be surprised to see this continue for long into the future.

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Source by Thomas Baugh

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Landscaping or landscape architecture is no new art. It can be traced back to 600 B.C. where landscape design was used in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and which is considered today as one of the seven wonders of the world. The famous Mayans used landscaping principles without even knowing it when they created walkways to and around their temples, surrounding them with intricate, carefully constructed flowerbeds and bushes. Romans used landscaping in courtyards and created borders around their land. Good landscaping was seen as a sign of wealth in the 17th and 18th century and in Jamaica, plantation owners lined walkways with palm trees. People would even ship in different rocks and stones to build walls in their gardens. The Great Wall of China was not built for aesthetic purposes, but was a necessity to keep enemies at bay. Landscaping through the ages has been magical, especially when you look at wonders like Stonehenge in England. These stones were transported from Wales, which means them being there is somewhat of a miracle.

The words “landscape architecture” however, was first used in Gilbert Laing Meason’s book, On The Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy in 1828. This was the first time someone realised there was a correlation between landscaping and architecture and that designing a landscape could in fact be an art all on its own. The Italians painted landscapes in carefully constructed ways, incorporating design in both painting and gardening. Later, Frederick Olmstead and Calvert Vaux defined “landscape architecture” as a professional task of designing a composition using plants, landform, water, paving and other natural, as well as man-made structures. These men went on to design Central Park in New York and officially named themselves “landscape architects” in 1863. Soon after, Europe adopted the term and landscape architects started practicing all over the globe.

Landscaping is a worldwide profession today and is even represented by organizations like the International Federation of Landscape Architects. Landscaping, however, has expanded and not only applies to public spaces and world wonders: almost every home can have a well-designed landscape. Even fine arts and landscape architecture became interwoven through the ages, because people slowly realised how designing a landscape also required the professional and technical components that fine arts made use of: creative concepts, design, theories and aesthetic principles and guidelines. The introduction of computers in the 20th century changed both fine art and landscaping and today, it is possible for landscape architects to see and experience their full design in 3-D before applying it. Since the late 20th century, many formatting uses for scanning and printing, the wide array of options with digital technology for drawing, images and site videos; and the nearly infinite reach of the internet has transformed the exploration and interaction when sharing creative objectives. This has also developed effective communication and collaboration within the project team, clients, and involved people the world. Landscaping has always and especially today improves the quality of peoples’ physical surroundings given them a sense of nature in an increasingly material world.

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Source by Peter Schlebusch

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Houston, TX (July 2018)… Xia Xia Zhang, recipient of the 2017 Global Music Awards; Gold Medal “Emerging Artist” Award, as well as numerous other worldwide accolades, she is ready to re-commit to touring. Some of her awards for her outstanding performances include:

• Winner Fleming / Prince of Wales Award, UK – 2009
• 1st Prize Wilfried Parry International String Competition, UK – 2009
• Winner of Hami-Kanga Memorial Prize for Outstanding Violin Soloist, UK – 2009
• 1st Prize & Best Performance Award Intl. Romantic Music Competition, US – 2013
• 2nd Prize Canetti Festival International String Competition, Bulgaria – 2008
• Bronze Medal Hong Kong International Violin Competition, China -2012
• Winner Sainsbury Award for Musician, UK – 2010
• Winner Allan Nesta Fufusion Award for Musician, UK – 2007 and 2008
• Winner Shadts Violin Competition, US – 2012
• Winner China National Violin Competition, China – 2006

In 1996, the Chinese Musician’s Dictionary deemed Xia Xia a child prodigy, and over twenty years later, she has not disappointed. She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts by the impressively young age of 27. Continuously, Xia Xia receives recognition and praise throughout the world of Classical music.

After performing internationally in locations around the United Kingdom, United States, China, Germany and Bulgaria, Xia Xia has settled in the Houston, Texas area. An adjunct Professor of Music, she is currently working alongside the accomplished music faculty at Texas’s Lone Star College. She is now ready to share her talents with audiences that extend beyond her students.

Xia Xia is looking forward to opportunities to perform at events in and around Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, Shreveport, Galveston, and New Orleans in the near future. She invites proposed opportunities for: Ensembles, Concertos, Solo Performances, Piano Accompanied Performances, Private Events, Opening Slots and Festivals.

Xia Xia believes strongly that “music is a universal language from God,” and booking an event to showcase her talents equals offering the community an opportunity to come together and for all to enjoy the masterful and elegant violin melodies of Xia Xia Zhang.

Hear her music on: YouTube at http://bit.ly/Xiaxia-Youtube, and explore her new commercial single, available on CD Baby, where Xia Xia performs her seven minute,forty-two second long version of the Franck Violin Sonata by Cesar Franck. It is one of his best-known compositions, and is considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written. This sonata was written in 1886, as a wedding present for violinist Eugene Ysaye.

Visit her Website at http://www.xiaxiazhang.com

And learn about recent and upcoming performances on Facebook at http://bit.ly/Xiaxia-FB.

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Source by Jayce Cheldin

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When it comes to wine, Australia should not be disregarded, as it’s the 4th largest wine producer and exporter in the world. Approximately 750 million litres of Australian wine ends up on the international market and the local market is also strong. Australians love consuming wine and a massive 530 million litres is consumed each year with white wine being the most popular at 50% followed by red wine at 35%.

Practically, every state of Australia is producing wine with places like South Australia’s Adelaide Hills, Western Australia’s Margaret River and New South Wales’ Hunter Valley regarded as some of the top wine growing regions. All up, Australia has about 60 regions that are entirely designated to growing grapes and making wine, which cover about 160,000 hectares of land, the main regions being located in the southern part, where the air is cooler.

When it comes to grapes and wines varieties, there are quite a few, the following list presenting the most popular types of grapes and the wines these regions produce:

SAUVIGNON BLANC

Sauvignon Blanc is a white grape variety, with a light green skin. Originally, these grapes come from Bordeaux, a region in France, from which it spread all over the world. The climate can influence the flavor of these grapes, which ranges between grassy and exotic notes. The wine made from these grapes is fresh, crisp, and elegant, being the perfect accompaniment for cheese and one of the few wines that can be served with sushi.

VERDELHO

This is another type of white grape variety, which comes from Portugal, being mainly planted in Madeira. It’s known for being richer in sugar in comparison with other white grape types, so the taste of the wine is also be sweeter. In Australia, Verhelho is famous for its honeysuckle and lime flavours, and tends to get an oily texture once it starts aging.

SEMILLON

A type of white grape with a beautiful golden skin, the Semillon is commonly used in France and Australia. This grape variety is well known for the fact that it produces sweet and dry wines, with a citrusy flavor, of lime or green apple.

CHARDONNAY

This is a white variety of grapes that originates from the Burgundy area of France, famous for its wine. Its versatility and flavours, plus its importance to wine making, made the Chardonnay appreciated and cultivated around the world. In warm locations, such as Australia, the body of the Chardonnay wine tends to be rather acidic, with a fruity flavor of pear, plum, or apple.

RIESLING

Riesling is a white grape type originally from Germany. It is highly regarded because it tends to produce very aromatic grapes. Its flavor is rather flowery, almost like a perfume, although in Australia it also gets a citrusy taste, similar to lime.

PINOT GRIS – PINOT GRIGIO

Pinot Gris or Pinot Grigio is the white variety of Pinot Noir. The fruits have a grayish-blue color, which explains the name. The wine produced from this type of grape has a variety of colours, ranging from a brilliant gold to a coppery shade, and even a soft shade if pink. It is appreciated for its light body and rather spicy flavor.

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Source by Fiona S

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April 2010 witnessed 30,353 company registrations in England and Wales and 1,793 in Scotland. The simple, straightforward laws, the political stability and the varied opportunities offered by the UK makes the country a company formation hub. Companies House, the authority that validates all company registration applications, offers online as well as offline company registration facilities. If you are looking forward to opening your company within a single day, online registration is the best option.

Company Registration: Why Prefer the Electronic Procedure?

Online company registration is quick and cost-effective. This, perhaps, is the most important reason why people prefer the online option. Online registration facilitates:

Speedy company formation: The Internet personifies speed! All the procedures can be fulfilled online without moving a step away from home. To register a company in the UK, you will have to fill the Memorandum and Articles of Association, Form 10 and 12. If done online, Form 10 can be skipped.

Also, it is crucial to ensure that the company name does not resemble any other companies. You can check this in the online ‘WebCHeck’ search service.

Less expense: The registration fee via post is 20 and the ‘same-day’ service charges are 50. On the other hand, software filing can be completed at just 15 and same-day service at 30.

Company Registration: Look for Agents Online

The entire procedure can be completed easily with the help of online agents. The Internet helps you save the time and effort that would have otherwise been spent on searching for agents personally and submitting the right papers. A reputed online consulting agency will handhold clients through the registration process. This makes completing the procedures and submitting the documents very easy.

An online agency may even offer packages, such as:

• Bronze pack: At 17.99, this package offers an electronic certificate of incorporation and copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association.

• Silver pack: This pack includes a printed certificate of incorporation and an electronic copy of the Memorandum and Articles. Additionally, it offers a registered office at a prestigious address in London. This is available at 53.99.

• Gold pack: At 93.99, this package comprises all the facilities of the previous two packs as well as a Maintenance of Statutory Books.

All these three packages are available at CompanyFormations247.co.uk. This is one of the oldest and best agencies in the UK, known for its customer services and reasonable prices.

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Source by Alice Shown

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Are you a restaurateur? Remember, organizing a food festival is an effective strategy you can take to attract customers or foodies to your business. While on one hand you can offer them food prepared by the finest chefs of your restaurant, make them appreciate the quality, and make them your customers; on the other, you can extend your business and make a large number of customers both in your city and from other cities. If you can promote and popularize the event through advertisements and various promotional activities, you may be able to attract international tourists to your festival. So, you can see that a properly organized and planned food festival can really boost up your business and help you to make a large amount of profit. However, before organizing a festival, there are three most important factors that you must consider. A list of those three factors is given below:

• Theme: Before you make any plan, the foremost thing is to decide the theme for the festival. The theme for the occasion can be Thai, Chinese, Indian, or Tibetan. Whatever be the theme you choose, you need to make arrangements for dishes accordingly. In addition to that, you need to decorate you eatery to match with the theme of the festival. You should check whether the props, the decorations, and the ambience are perfectly suited to the theme of the festival.
• Menu: Generally, the restaurants adopt the food culture of particular regions of the world as their themes for such festivals. However, you must remember that there can be more than one staple dish of a region. That is the reason, you need to research well and finalize a menu for the event. While deciding on the dishes, you must make it a point to check whether those are popular and yet unique choices for such an event.
• Budget: You need to consider your budget before planning such an event. According to your budget, you can organize such an event either in your restaurant or in a club or in a banquet. The number of dishes in the menu card also determines the cost of organizing such a program. In addition to that, you must calculate your finances well and make sure that you are getting a profitable return on investment from the festival.

If you need help or assistance to organize, promote, and manage a food festival, you can always opt for the services of an online event management service provider.

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Source by Gurg Sumit Kumar

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The world is sinking as sea levels rise and flooding happens more often. We are now seeing one in one-thousand of years events and houses are ruined, washed away, or otherwise destroyed. Those who re insured are often left out in the cold when they discover that the Insurance Company refuses their request for reimbursement. The reasons given are staggering and range from an Act of God to one forgot to include flood in their policy.

Under normal circumstances one might forget to include flood because they live well away fro a river or creek and their location has never experienced water rise before. This, however, is not a good reason to leave it off as some in the recent flooding of Victoria and parts of New South Wales discovered.

Huge storms and heavy rain sent an ocean of water rushing down from Queensland after the cyclone of 2010-2011. This impacted areas of NSW that left residents stunned. The man-holes in the streets lifted up as water poured out of the drainage system and flooded like creeks rushing through their homes.

The question is what is an act of God when it comes to insurance pay-out? Isn’t all the result of rain and natural events? Well, not exactly! The definition of such is that it is unavoidable through the use of caution and preventative measures. This allows many companies to find a loophole in your policy.

For instance, take the case of a flooded creek beside a property in Wollongong, NSW. This happened as the result of a massive storm but the insurance company avoided the pay-out, and why? Because it was determined that the landscaping around the house acted as channel for the water. This was found to be legitimate because the owner had contributed to the water entering the property.

While such companies have a huge burden on their hands in the light of the number of natural events one wonders whether insurance is the answer. The cost of it is a heavy impact on the hip pocket and if the end result is that one isn’t covered then wouldn’t the money have been better placed in a bank to earn interest over the years the policy had been running.

Insurance is a huge risk and whether or not one can safely enforce a claim the bottom line is that with so many floods and homes destroyed there has to be a breaking point. My answer is not to have insurance on anything but to trust in the Spirit to protect me. After all, if we are talking about an act of God then isn’t that the place to put your trust.

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Source by Norma Holt

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Tattoo Tips for Body Art Designs

There are thousands of designs to choose from online, and it can be quite frustrating to search for one unless you already know ahead of time just what you want. Below are the major categories for the top tattoo styles below.

Beginner Tips

If you are uneasy about an image, try getting a stencil of the tattoo design you are considering and seeing what it looks like on you. Another best bet is to get a temporary tattoo in the form of a henna tattoo. Although henna is usually a dark brown pigment and not multicolored, you can “test drive” your design and gauge your emotional reaction to it.

Most Popular Design Choices

CELTIC – Dating back to the Celtic Civilization of Ireland, Wales and Scottland, filigree designs displaying twisted wire-like representation.

ANGEL – Ever popular with the young and the old, angels are associated with divine goodness, purity and spiritual love.

BUTTERFLY – Especially women are drawn to the natural beauty of butterflies you’ve seen and ones you can dream up.

KANJI – Symbolic characters based on ancient Chinese and Japanese hand drawn writing, there are half a million characters to choose from. Research your choice of a meaningful phrase or keyword online.

FLOWER – Popular with women are the timeless representations of beauty.

TRIBAL – Tribal tattoos have been practiced in one form or another for millennia and their current popularity show no sign of slowing down. Included in this category of tribal tattoos are Maori tattoos, Polynesian and Haida style of tattoos.

SWALLOW – Swallow tattoos used to be the preserve of sailors but have come full circle and are the ultimate in old school hip.

BLACK AND GRAY – Black and gray tattoos are generally believed to have started in prisons in the United States but have evolved into a popular style of tattoo. Certain tattoo artists specialize in this style and have become well known for it.

BIKER – Biker tattoos usually depict the biker club or gang the biker belongs to. Skulls, snakes and dice tattoos are often be seen on bikers along with fantasy style and Norse tattoos depicting mythical creatures.

STAR – Shooting star tattoos and nautical stars are the most popular form of tattoo design based the high number of searches to this website and according to many tattooists.

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Source by JD Kelso

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What happens if a spouse passes away and hasn’t left any beneficiary on his superannuation? Does it help if their Will is a mirror will of yours? Does that naturally qualify you for their superannuation as well?

Important questions and the following should help people understand the relevant issues. You should also be clear that this article refers to the current situation in New South Wales, Australia; laws differ from state to state and country to country.

Individuals frequently expect that their superannuation is part of their estate when they pass away. The same as any real estate, articles of value or cash in the bank. This is not always the case. Sadly, unless an individual’s will names their estate as the beneficiary of their superannuation, the dispersion of the superannuation will be at the discretion of the trustee of the superannuation fund. The trustee is only bound to the terms of the trust deed or the will, if it names the estate as beneficiary. Even if the estate is named as the beneficiary of the superannuation fund, the trustee may still decide to ignore it and focus on the trust deed of the fund.

Sometimes a spouse doesn’t designate his Estate as the beneficiary of his superannuation. Sometimes they also haven’t set up any binding or non binding assignments on the trustee of the Superannuation Fund. These would normally set out who was to get the superannuation and by definition are binding or not.

A binding nomination is the best way to go to be confident that your superannuation goes where you want it to. The trustee of the fund is bound to distribute the fund assets according to the binding nomination.

A non-binding nomination simply list the people you would like your funds to go to. The trustee is not bound to follow these instructions. They can include any dependents you had at the time of your passing including family, spouse, child or other person.

If your spouse has passed away without a binding superannuation nomination, you should appoint legal counsel at the earliest opportunity. Counsel will review the superannuation trust deed to assess how the trustee can disperse the superannuation. Your legal counsel will also be able to negotiate with the trustee for your entitlement. The fact that you can show mirror wills goes a long way to support your claim.

To sum up, it is always good practice to consult legal help when writing a will, dispersing a will or challenging a will. This assures you and your loved ones that your intentions are followed as closely as possible.

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Source by Daz Giles