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A Report by the Skills Commission ONE SYSTEM, MANY PATHWAYS FORGING CONSENSUS ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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1 A Report by the Skills Commission ONE SYSTEM, MANY PATHWAYS FORGING CONSENSUS ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING
3 Our ambition is simple: to create an environment for education and skills that best serves learners, the economy, and society as a whole. Barry Sheerman MP Dame Ruth Silver
4 4 One System, Many Pathways
5 One System, Many Pathways 5 CONTENTS Foreword 6 Inquiry Co-Chairs Foreword 7 Recommendations 9 1: The Values Consensus 11 2: Learners in a transition system 16 3: A mid-term review of reforms 22 4: Recommendations for change 34 Appendix: Where are the learners? 40 The Skills Commission 42 Contributors 43 Acronyms 44 Secretariat 45 Sponsors 46 Acknowledgments 47
6 6 One System, Many Pathways FOREWORD In the middle of a Parliament, following a number of reports focused heavily on the further education sector, the Skills Commission turns its attention to the broader system of education and training with an inquiry looking at the age group. This is one of our most ambitious pieces to date, and also one of the most important. We chose this project as a result of changes occurring across education and training that seemed to be happening at some level removed from further education and skills. Whilst we welcomed the renewed political focus on quality and rigour in vocational and technical qualifications and training, these reforms, alongside changes to funding, and the raising of the participation age, have had a big impact on the system as a whole. Significantly, these reforms have blurred the boundaries between academic and vocational training, and between providers with new players on the scene the much-championed University Technical Colleges alongside Free Schools and Academies and Further Education Colleges now able to recruit learners at 14. This institutional diversity, with the new approach to the funding of education and skills funding following the learner rather than the qualification makes the notion of a systems approach to the age group so much more important. We felt the need to take a pause, reconvene, and assess where we are right now against where we want to get to. That is not to say that we ignore the academic pathway through to higher education, nor do we question the need for world-class research in our universities. Our ambition is simple: to create an environment for education and skills that best serves learners, the economy and society as a whole. That means the right pathways for each and every learner, whether that be academic or vocational, leading to employment, higher education, or further study. During the final stages of this inquiry, the OECD produced a damning report on literacy and numeracy skills in the United Kingdom, which made all of us in the education and skills field sit up and take notice. It also made a system-wide analysis more important than ever. We must all pull in the same direction, and we hope that this report will give focus to that pull. We would like to thank Ian Ferguson and Mike Tomlinson for co-chairing this inquiry, and our colleagues on the Skills Commission for their time and expertise. This report is offered as a think piece for the future, a blueprint for how to analyse and critique education and skills policy in a way that brings us together, rather than creates discord. One of our major concerns has been that reform has distracted from the true beneficiaries of education and training: the learners themselves. From a Skills Commission perspective, there has not been adequate promotion and analysis of the variety of pathways needed to create an enriched environment of education and training to reflect the vibrant UK economy. It is not the focus on academic rigour that concerns us, it is the focus on the academic pathway at the expense of other pathways to employment, further training, and higher education. Barry Sheerman MP Dame Ruth Silver
7 One System, Many Pathways 7 INQUIRY CO-CHAIRS FOREWORD The Skills Commission charged us with examining the system of education and training with a focus on the age group. Whilst a full Review of the sort undertaken previously was not possible over the four months we took evidence, we have produced a system-wide analysis. We spoke to learning providers, schools, colleges, young people, regulators, awarding bodies, civil servants, academics and Government advisors. It has been broad-reaching, as befits our terms of reference. We co-chaired this inquiry with one overarching aim to place the learners at the heart of our analysis, and make recommendations on the basis of what is right for each and every one of them. Our vision for learners is of one, encompassing, coherent system of education and training that is characterised by a diversity of pathways, with clear routes of progression to employment, further training, or higher education whatever is right for each learner. We consistently asked ourselves, and our contributors: is this policy, programme, qualification, institution contributing positively towards creating a system that is in the best interests of all learners from the ages of 14 to 19? It was striking how much agreement came back to us. In fact, we found this to be a very useful way of analysing education and training policies: assessing them against a clear and concise framework that you are confident all stakeholders agree with. It is why we have written this report to reflect that methodology. We have developed a Values Consensus framework: five principles that the Skills Commission firmly believes are shared by all those engaged in the education and training landscape of this country. It is these values that should guide future education and skills policy, and should be used to assess what is already in place. We understand that reforms take time to embed, and that the system is still settling down after a period of extensive change. However, in assessing what has been enacted since 2010, and in some cases what has been the case for many years before then, we do make recommendations where we see the need for change. Some of these recommendations require immediate action. For example, the crisis in information, advice, and guidance across our education and training landscape cannot be ignored. The time has also arrived for the Department for Education to make more frequent and explicit statements of belief in the value to employers and higher education of high quality vocational education when underpinned by strong academic rigour. Employers tell us they are concerned about the time allocated to technical and vocational provision between the ages of 14 and 16, and we call on the Department for Education to look again at this significant piece of reform. Following on from a consistent refrain heard throughout our evidence sessions, we respond to calls for a new kind of debate about quality. Our concept of dynamic quality takes into account a more complex approach to measuring outcomes, with greater focus on the quality of the learner s experience. It is our hope that Ofsted and the Department for Education take serious note of recommendations in this area, as an unsubtle understanding of quality across different kinds of provision has hampered our system of education and training for too long. We also make recommendations about the need to urgently expand the provision of apprenticeships available at 16, and add our voices to the call for much greater focus on the functional component of GCSE Mathematics and English, qualifications that have not, for some time, adequately pointed to a learner s numeracy and literacy skills.
8 8 One System, Many Pathways Our vision for learners is of one, encompassing, coherent system of education and training that is characterised by a diversity of pathways, with clear routes of progression to employment, further training, or higher education whatever is right for each learner. We would like to thank the Skills Commission for asking us to chair this important piece of work. We hope this report will be useful for all. Particularly, we hope it will be useful for politicians of all parties to use as a guide for how to assess and form policy, knowing that if it adheres to our Values Consensus, it is likely to be well-received. With a General Election looming large on the horizon, it couldn t be more timely. We now call upon the Government, politicians of all parties, campaign groups and practitioners to sign up to our Values Consensus in the interests of young people. Ian Ferguson CBE Sir Mike Tomlinson
9 One System, Many Pathways 9 RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendation 1 The Department for Education should recognise a system of education and training in England. Recommendation 2 The Department for Education should examine how to spark a cultural change in education and training in England towards greater acceptance of learners repeating a learning year. Recommendation 3 The Department for Education must immediately acknowledge the crisis in information, advice, and guidance, and undertake a full review of provision. A range of sources must be available to all learners before the age of 14, their parents, carers and guardians, alongside access to trained advisors. Recommendation 4 Employers and employer bodies should make a commitment to placing engagement in education and training at the top of their organisational agendas. The Department for Education should consider how to incentivise schools to engage with employers more systematically and work with the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills, and sector bodies to introduce associate governors to support greater employer engagement in the education and training sector. They should also consider more programmes of two-way work experience. Recommendation 5 All compensatory support mechanisms should be available to all institutions providing education and training, and should follow the learner across the system. Ofsted should prioritise publishing analysis of the use of compensatory support, to ensure that it is targeted effectively. Recommendation 6 All institutions providing vocational and technical provision should be required to become accredited and licensed by The Skills Funding Agency should consider how this could be implemented. Recomendation 7 All those teaching in institutions receiving Government funding across the system should be appropriately qualified. We suggest this is achieved within two years. Recommendation 8 The Department for Education should coordinate discussions with the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills and the Department for Communities and Local Government on how to empower local partnerships to monitor competition between providers at a local level and drive collaboration. Where appropriate, this could include the Local Enterprise Partnerships. Recommendation 9 Ofsted should develop new collective and collaborative performance measures, and consider whether providers should only be judged outstanding if they have supported improvement in other providers, or at a system level. League tables should give priority to destination data of progress, including employment and value added. They should also allow for the sharing of an individual s destination score between institutions if both can measure their contribution to a learner s success.
10 10 One System, Many Pathways Recommendation 10 The expected standard of reaching a pass at GCSE Mathematics and English should be contingent upon passing a core functional component of the examination. The Department for Education should also seriously consider splitting GCSE Mathematics into Functional Mathematics and Pure Mathematics. The Association of Colleges, the 157 Group, and the Institute for Learning should undertake a review of the teaching of mathematics in colleges. Recomendation 11 The Department for Education should provide schools with greater freedoms to allocate time year olds can spend on technical and vocational qualifications and training. Recommendation 12 The Department for Education must give greater public support to the importance and value of quality vocational education and its routes to employment, higher education, and a prosperous economy. Recommendation 13 The Department for Education, working with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, should look, within the overall context of the recent Apprenticeship Implementation Plan, at specific measures to ensure focus on, and expansion of, apprenticeships at ages The DfE should also reintroduce the Young Apprenticeship programme.
11 One System, Many Pathways 11 1: THE VALUES CONSENSUS It is vital that between the ages of 14 and 19, our young people are prepared and developed for their future life and work. This requires us to recognise the diversity of talent and aspiration in our young people and that they require a diversity of suitable, challenging learning programmes alongside innovative providers to help them fulfil their potential. To achieve this, future education and skills policy should be ambitious and forward-thinking. It should reconnect employers to learners, encouraging colleges and training providers to be enterprising, innovative local hubs of excellence. For this reason, the Skills Commission chose to examine the system of education and training through the lens of quality and choice for learners. We believed that despite highly-publicised disagreements about the ambitions for England s schools and colleges, we would find consensus if we placed learners at the forefront of our analysis. We hoped that we could resurrect the idea of a consensus around education and skills, and use this review as a way of drawing the sector together to ensure that we are all pulling in the most sensible direction in the interests of learners. We firmly believe that there is an opportunity to create an education and training environment in England that is truly in the best interests of learners, the economy, and society. This opportunity is provided by something which was at one time rare in education and skills policy consensus which we found does indeed exist, across political parties, across employers, across providers, across practitioners. The consensus in 2013 is a powerfully-held and shared belief in the values that should define our system. Across the evidence we heard, there was very little disagreement about what the stated aims of education and skills policy should be: we all agree on what success looks like, and believe that we are, broadly, on the right track. However, there were some unintended consequences of legislation enacted before and after the 2010 election that have acted as significant obstacles to fulfilling the needs of the economy, and the ambitions and potential of young people. In this report, we frame the argument within a Values Consensus, assessing policy against this, rather than other indicators of success. It is our hope that the Values Consensus becomes a tool for all policymakers, MPs and Ministers to use in analysing policy. In chapter 3, we show how useful this can be by assessing post-2010 policy through this lens. Our Values Consensus can be summarised by five guiding principles. 1. Focusing always on what is right for each and every learner 2. Ensuring dynamic quality across the whole of the system of education and training 3. Achieving fairness across the whole of the system of education and training 4. Enabling transfer between pathways within the system of education and training 5. Creating real choice for all learners through effective information, advice, and guidance We urge policymakers to use these five principles to guide education and training policy, always questioning if the system as a whole lives up to them. That way, it will begin to resurrect consensus-driven education and skills policy in England. Our recommendations set out what the evidence tells us are the most likely routes to achieving the kind of education and training system that learners, their teachers, their parents, universities, and future
12 12 One System, Many Pathways employers deserve. There is also substantially more consensus across political parties than might be thought by simply monitoring the debate of the last three years, but the levers to pull (and in some cases the levers that have already been pulled by the Coalition Government since 2010) are not yet fully agreed upon. Additionally, there are some reforms that have been enacted in the spirit of our Values Consensus that have not yet had enough time to embed and reap success. In this case, we reflect concerns from employers and providers where they exist, but do not suggest radical U-turns when the results of policies are not yet clear. Despite the fact that jobs are being created in the economy 5, as the UKCES explain: there remain structural barriers in the labour market that have been compounded by the recession, and young people now have fewer opportunities than ever to find jobs and gain experience. 6 Of course, the problem is societal as much as it is economic. The figures quoted above translate into increased risk of mental health problems, social inequality and unrest. 7 Nevertheless, we do see urgency in getting the system right, and the real need for change. The facts speak for themselves. One in five young people are not in education, employment, or training, and this is set to cost the economy 28bn in state expenditure and lost productivity by Our literacy and numeracy levels lag well behind competitor economies. 2 It appears that the rebalancing project is beginning to bear fruit. 3 However, there is concern that the rebalancing of skills is not happening quickly enough to support the kind of productive export-driven economy that we are aiming towards UKCES (March 2013), available at: 2. OECD (October 2013), available at 3. The Telegraph (August 2013), available at 4. Evidence to the inquiry presented by the Baker Dearing Trust 5. ONS (October 2013), available at 6. UKCES (March 2013), available at 7. ibid.
13 One System, Many Pathways 13 In too many cases, the system of education and training as it exists is not functioning in the best interests of learners. Unintended consequences of policy change are skewing behaviours within institutions. Often, schools and colleges are behaving entirely rationally within the system as developed by policy change over previous decades. As it currently sits, the system operates almost like a faulty market: when a market doesn t work properly, perversities in the system drive up prices and can hamper innovation. In education and skills, the unintended consequences of some reforms means we have a system with a series of flaws that need ironing out, so that it works better for the users of the system, from learners themselves, to universities, colleges and employers. In reading this report, we encourage Government and its agencies to come out in agreement with our guiding principles for a system of education and training, and join us in using the Values Consensus to analyse policy change in the future. 1. Focusing always on what is right for each and every learner This may seem like common sense, but too often in our system one route or style of education and training has been the dominant. A young person should be helped to know where their talents lie and understand how this might translate into a fruitful and vibrant career. Unfortunately, this is not always a process institutions go through; not all young people are given enough opportunity to assess what is right for them, or look at their potential. Most discussion continues to focus on their projected attainment (which is then used as part of a measure of institutional performance). The system isn t designed in such a way as to make what is right easily accessible to all the different kinds of young people arriving at age 14 and being asked to make choices. As the 157 Group states on its website, broad based vocational education is valuable in its own right and right for many people in a way that traditional academic education may not be 8. There remain significant barriers to overcome in ensuring that vocational and occupational (or applied) education is available to all those for whom it is right. For many, the academic route will continue to be appropriate, and the system we design must also serve those learners and end-users just as well. We must ensure that universities receive candidates who are suitably qualified, prepared for the rigour of a university education, with qualifications that are a trustworthy indicator of achievement. 2. Ensuring dynamic quality across the system of education and training One of the greatest barriers to reaching and reflecting consensus has been a battle over the political ownership of the quality agenda. In discussing quality, we hope to move the debate away from simply who owns quality and make a distinction between the quality of provision, and quality outcomes that are not purely static and quantitative. We bring this together under the bracket of dynamic quality. Something that has quality is, in terms of education and skills policy, something that is fit for purpose. An education and training system that is fit for purpose must be producing young adults who make strong contributions to society and the economy, and will continue to do so throughout their lives. The wonderful vibrancy and dynamism of the economy and society must therefore be reflected in how we conceptualise quality in education and training. It is these kind of lifelong outcomes, lifelong societal and economic contributions, that we should use to measure institutional and system performance. We have become too focused on the wrong kinds of outcomes for the group, and this has skewed our understanding of quality. Our understanding is too static; it is often bound-up in the achievements of all 8.
14 14 One System, Many Pathways institutions learners in just one or two qualifications, at a certain point in time. Quality for a phase must be as much about destination and progression as it is about attainment. Moreover, destination is not simply where you move at the age of 19, it is how you move into adult life. There is a purpose to education and training that is all about longevity, and this must be reflected in how we measure and publicise what is of quality. We would like to see Government talking of dynamic quality : quality looking forwards, as well as backwards, involving employability and personal development, not simply one indicator of achievement at one arbitrary moment. For too long, quality has been a static measure, an approach enhanced by the current Government s refocus on end-ofcourse assessment. There has also been an unhelpful conflation of institutional indicators and measures of learner achievement. We would like to see this conflation disappear. The debate must move towards measures of quality that are as much about process teaching and learning, and the deep and ever-developing expertise of our teachers as educators, and what it is like in the classroom, the laboratory, the workshop, or the workplace as they are about outcomes. Importantly, when outcomes are used, they shouldn t be used as a static snapshot of one kind of quality. Quality is dynamic, but it is also diverse. When speaking of quality in the system, we must always be aware of quality across different styles of provision, across different institutions, and across different qualifications, for different learners. We recognise that this is a more challenging approach for Government, and for its agencies assessing quality in providers. This is particularly true in austere times. However, we believe that a one size fits all approach to quality in education and training is hampering our societal and economic progress. 3. Achieving fairness across the whole of the system of education and training We believe in aiming for a system where all learners and providers are treated fairly, with equity across the system: by law, by Government, by employers, and by agencies. This is not a question of applying the same regulatory conditions to all institutions, or seeing learners as identical. Rather, it is the opposite. We would like analysis and interpretation of a pluralist and dynamic system of education and training, as opposed to aiming at individual institutions in isolation, or adopting a limited understanding of the diversity of learners strengths and ambitions. In the current environment, across providers of education and training, there are many examples of where some courses, particularly vocational courses, are regarded as second class. It is a question of credibility of courses, and recognising true value when and where it exists. This is not about a one size fits all approach, to either learners or institutions. We recognise the importance of allowing diverse providers of diverse education and training to have a degree of institution-specific regulatory or monitoring tools. However, this should not, as is currently the case, encourage disadvantage and create a non-level playing field. A recent report by the Higher Education Commission looking at the regulation of institutions of HE, argued for a regulatory environment characterised as an equal rather than a level playing field to capture the diverse range of providers, without applying the same rules and standards to Oxbridge as they would to a small private college. 9 We would recommend that a similar approach is taken to the system equity across providers, schools, and colleges, so that unevenness and disadvantages for learners are ironed out. We do not wish to treat every institution or learner the same, rather we believe the system should treat each provider, and each learner, equally and appropriately. 9.
15 One System, Many Pathways Enabling transfer between pathways within the system of education and training We must aim for educational pathways that can reflect and cater for the true diversity of learners. In the words of Kenneth Baker, we must move from two routes to many pathways 10. The routes through the system must contain clear lines of sight to employment or further training including, of course, higher education and, significantly, must be conceived of as pathways not railroads. Inter-path permeability and standardisation are essential. A system built on pathways is characterised by ease of transfer. We must aim for a system where learners can move between pathways without being penalised, and must be able to move from one institution to another that is more suitable, without either institution losing out. Additionally, horizontal transfer must not be penalised. For example, neither institutions nor learners should be unnecessarily reprimanded for a pathway shift that might require an additional year remaining at level 2, but will in time see a learner reach level 4 and a worthwhile, productive career. 5. Creating real choice for all learners through effective information, advice, and guidance The ideal system of education and training is one that is responsive to the needs of the economy and employers, but also one that has learners at its heart, enabling them to make informed choices about themselves, their capabilities, and their aspirations. Government at all levels has an obligation to empower learners and their guardians through information. However, there is no adequate strategy to ensure students and families can make informed decisions about education and training, not just at 14, but across this transition phase. The supposed benefits that come from empowered learners able to make choices about their education (innovation, improvement through competition) aren t yet a reality as the consumers parents and learners are not informed. Ease of transfer between pathways, as described above, no matter how much structural change takes place, will not be achieved unless learners and their parents can make informed choices about qualifications and institutions, with a clear and honest understanding about likely opportunities for progression into further study or employment. This empowerment can come through a variety of sources, but must include employers and institutions working in partnership both nationally and locally. 10. Career College Trust (2013), available at
16 16 One System, Many Pathways 2: LEARNERS IN A TRANSITION SYSTEM In this chapter, we turn to the learners themselves. We argue that understanding the diversity of learners within a complex system is the most fruitful way of creating an environment of education and training that can provide what is right for each and every learner. This focus has been the overriding theme of this inquiry, as the changes to structure and content in the phase have left the learners somewhat overlooked in the face of reform. We show how explicit and implicit choices between pathways are currently made, and that there is a strong precedent for choices to occur even before 14. Policy should make sure that choices are made by knowledgeable learners, families and guardians, with clear understanding of progression through this transition phase to further training, higher education, or employment. Why 14-19? Our approach has been to look at how to best develop learners to become effective employees and effective human beings who can flourish in society. Long has there been debate over how the education system should be bracketed to help achieve this, and in our evidence sessions, we asked contributors their opinions of The phase does exist in law, yet the Department for Education told this inquiry that the current Government was not thinking in terms of a age group, and preferred the / division as championed by the Wolf Report. 11 The Commission sees benefits of division between Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications. However, given the connections between the two phases and their interdependence, many contributors believed that was more appropriate to ensure learners are well-served. This view is also strengthened by the raising of the education participation age (see chapter 3). We conceptualise the age group as a transition system, marking the transition from compulsory education to further optional study or the labour market (with some element of study). Thinking of a linear system is not enough; it must be considered as a dynamic system with interplay between diverse providers and learners. The diversity of institutional provision for education and training at 14 schools (including local authority controlled, free schools and academies), FE colleges, UTCs, Studio Schools, Career Colleges is enough in itself to demand a rethinking of the system as a whole, ensuring that it is operating cohesively in the best interests of learners. The Wolf Report concluded that the age of 14 was too young to make serious decisions on an academic or vocational learning pathway. However, Professor Wolf 11. Inquiry evidence, DfE
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – British Columbia's top health official says taking pure ecstasy can be safe when consumed responsibly by adults, despite warnings by police about the dangers of the street drug after a rash of deaths.
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I've ridden my bike to work before, but to be honest, it's been years. When I switched jobs and found myself a few more kilometers away I just decided to stick with transit.
This years Ride Your Bike To Work Day in Toronto seemed like a good opportunity to join in and start the habit back up. I had been hoping I'd run into roving packs of business people on wheels, but it just seemed like any other day riding your bike in the city.
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Episode 28 Part 1: Zero Sum Games of Fun
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Okay here we go with our (now annual) Mardi Gras retrospective. We got together on a Saturday night at Jeff's place to drunkenly and exhaustively go through every last minute of it. We recorded over three hours of material. As a favor to you, the listener, we've broken them up into more manageable bites. The plan was to go chronologically through the season. For the most part, we stuck to that. This first chapter takes us from Krewe Du Vieux through the first weekend of parades. The final bit here is a discussion of the #KreweOfChad. Here's a quick rundown of topics.
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- Alli loves Chewbacchus
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A zombie was grabbed by the head and slammed on the wall. The goliath of the first 3 perfect beings had been announcing his new self proclaimed name. He wanted a title other than "monster" or "thing". So he had given himself the name "Rafter". But a zombie had missed this announcement and unknowingly insulted him.
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Friday night is ready-meal night. (Unless we're feeling really rock and roll, of course, in which case it's take-away night.) So last night, I picked up a rather splendid looking moussaka from the M&S Gastropub (TM) range. (Love that name – it promises the feeling of going out and rubbing shoulders with real people without all the inconvenience of actually doing it. After all, the idea of other people is often so much more pleasant than the reality.)
I followed the simple instructions. "Pre-heat oven." There was a panel with the correct temperatures underneath, so I duly turned the dial to to 200C, and forgot all about it for a while as me and Steven caught up on the day's events.
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It is quick to cook and its protein content is equal to meat. Soya chunks is a by-product of extracting soybean oil.
Can be add to Rice to make pulao or also can be add to any Mixed vegetable curry.
2 Potatoes Cubed and boiled
2 cups Soya chunks soaked in boiled water for 10 - 15 minutes
1 Onion chopped
1/2 inch ginger finely chopped
3-4 cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 tomato chopped
1 Tbsp Kasoori Methi
1 Tbsp Curry Powder
1 Tbsp MDH Meat Masala Powder
2 Cardamom Pods
1 stick of cinamom
Salt to taste
1 Tbsp Oil
Take oil in a pressure cooker , add Cinnamom and cardamom pods. Now add the onions, ginger and garlic and fry till slightly golden brown around edges.
Add the kasoori methi and tomatoes to it.
Add all the dry masala powders to it and stir fry for 1min.
Now add the boiled potatoes and Soya chunks to it and fry for 2-3 min.
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Pure Hate from Berlin Germany shows how the whole crew working together can create an awesome piece. Watch them destroy a train. I like how one guy does the outlines and the rest fill it in. Also, look for the double handed fill ins.
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10 months
14 comments:
- Karan said...
What a fabulous pic of Caleb - seeing that smile has brightened my evening no end. :0)
Sorry work isn't going so well (((((hugs))))).
Enjoy the weekend - it'll do you good to have some me time, & the boys are sure to appreciate you all the more when you get back. :0)
- 22 November 2009 at 22:38
- Dianne said...
Have a fantastic time on your weekend away! It will be hard to be away, but it will be worth it for mommy...
- 22 November 2009 at 22:58
- Kim B said...
10 months! Wow!
So sorry to hear work is so miserable. Enjoy your weekend! You deserve it!
- 22 November 2009 at 23:35
- Terry said...
A great picture of Caleb! He could be the Gerber baby he's sooooo adorable! Keep your chin up about work. Things hopefully will change for the better soon. I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed for you.
- 23 November 2009 at 00:01
- Tanya said...
Enjoy your trip away! That is one cutie pie :)
- 23 November 2009 at 00:34
- Suzanne said...
Wow, Caleb has grown and I can't believe that it's 10 months already. Have a fun weekend away, although I know that your thoughts will be with your boys.
- 23 November 2009 at 01:11
- mainely stitching said...
Oh, Caleb's such a big cheery fellow!!
My DH and I were just talking about how shocking our workplace is. The least competent people keep getting promoted, and more and more of the talented people are trying to get away (difficult to do these days, but they're trying). We have all our fingers and toes crossed that it will be better once we are in Maine.
- 23 November 2009 at 08:17
- Vonna said...
What a pretty boy Caleb is, and boy does he look like his Daddy!
Have a wonderful Mommy time away :)
- 23 November 2009 at 22:36
- Dani - tkdchick said...
Wow! He's growing up so quickly!!!!!!!!
- 24 November 2009 at 04:54
- Andie said...
My gosh! He has gotten so big! Have a wonderful time away :D
- 24 November 2009 at 20:32
- Kathy A. said...
Enjoy your wedding and time away!
Caleb is sure a cutie. Love the laugh.
- 26 November 2009 at 19:29
- stitcherw said...
Great picture, he looks so happy. It doesn't seem possible that much time has passed. Sorry work isn't going so well, hope it improves in the future. Have a wonderful time at the wedding and enjoy a bit of time to yourself.
- 1 December 2009 at 01:36
- J Rae said...
What a great pic of Caleb! I'm sure the 10 months have flown by!
Hope you had a great time at the wedding!
So sorry to hear about the struggles at work. Good luck at the job search once you start looking.
- 3 December 2009 at 22:48
- Hazel said...
Caleb looking lovely as ever. Hope you have a great time at the wedding! x
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Tonight is the opening night of Lindsay Anderson: A Personal Remembrance at the NFT.
Malcolm McDowell's tribute to the director is based partly on Anderson's own writings, and received impressive reviews at the Edinburgh Festival earlier this year.
During the tribute McDowell talks about his working realtionship with Anderson on films such as
And to follow up, the the BFI are running a season of Anderson's films throughout this month which includes an on-stage interview with McDowell.


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text: HiNation AB took part in SWEACC event held in Just Africa. The main aim of the event was to meet up with our African counterparts to appreciate more about each others culture and differences. There was certainly a lot to get out of the session, especially the knowledge as well as the valuable business networks.


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'Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Edges Out 'Wolf of Wall Street' at Christmas Box Office
Christmas Day box office numbers are rolling in, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug just narrowly beat out new opener The Wolf of Wall Street by just a marginal amount, Variety reports.
The Hobbit film took in $9.3 million on Christmas Day, while the Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer The Wolf of Wall Street made just under that amount with $9.2 million.
Will Ferrell's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues came in at number three with $8.1 million earned.
Coming in at fourth place was also another new opener The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which earned $7.8 million.
Keanu Reaves' 47 Ronin and Sylvester Stallone's Grudge Match also were new openers, but did not fare as well at the box office, bringing in $7 million and $4 million, respectively.
WHAT DID YOU SEE at the movies on Christmas Day??


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From publisher blurb:
Generic adventures are tough to write. You don't know the tastes of the group or the game master. In modern games this is made even tougher because there is no accepted baseline (as there is in fantasy). One group might be seeking things "man was not meant to know" while the other searches for terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Abducted, an adventure scenario for Modern d20, attempts to wrestle with this problem by presenting a problem: the abduction of a little girl. This problem is presented with many possible causes and many possible solutions in the hope that the greatest number of games will find that the scenario fitting their style of play.
A generic D20 Modern adventure, that has the characters trying to rescue an abducted little girl.


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Tracy Moore, An Interview7 Share Tweet
Tracy Moore another of our newest Lubitel Lovers is no stranger in the Lomography community picking up his first LC-A 10 years ago. He describes his new Lubitel among others as humble and perfect.
1. How long have you been a Lomographer? How did you find out about Lomography?
I got my first LCA from my wife as an anniversary present I think in 1998. She had read someplace about this amazing camera that took really arty shots and so she bought me one. I used it on and off for a while, but didn't really go crazy with the LCA until I finally registered my lomohome in 2004 and started reading all the tips and tricks that others had posted. It was like a switch went off in my head and suddenly my cool camera transformed into a magic relic filled with infinite possibilites to explore.
2.The strangest, funniest, or hands-down greatest photographic/Lomographic encounter that you have ever had.
The Lomo World Congress '07….in London. Wow…the whole event was off the charts fun…and strange…and GREAT. I loved every minute of it. I'm ready for the next one!
3. If your photos shown here could have a soundtrack of three songs,what would they be (song title & artist please).
Ground Control to Major Tom by David Bowie
The Lighthouse by Interpol
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
4.If you could be anywhere, doing anything,
right now – where would it be and what would you do?
At the LWC 07 I met lomographers from 29 different countries. I would love to be on a giant road trip right now visiting many of them. This is the kind of trip where I litterally would take nothing but some clothes, several cameras, my journal….and not a whole lot more. Aimlessly wandering the planet taking pictures, drawing, and meeting people sounds like a dream to me.
Continue reading his interview here
written by lucasjakobsson on 2009-01-21 #news #interview #lubitel #lovers