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Emory University Joins the Climate Leadership Network
We are excited to announce that Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) President Gregory Fenves signed the Climate Commitment of the Presidents' Climate Leadership Commitments. In doing so, they are now part of the Climate Leadership Network.
Congratulations Emory University, and welcome to the Climate Leadership Network!
Western University Joins UC3
Western University, located in London, Ontario, Canada on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Attawandaron peoples has joined 22 other research universities across North America as a member of the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3).
Western University recently released their strategic plan, which sets ambitious sustainability goals including reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 45% by 2030, achieving net zero by 2050, and much more.
Welcome to UC3 Western University!
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NOTABLE NEWS
Follow Our Field Team at COP26
With 2030 less than ten years away, COP26 may be the most important United Nations Climate Change Conference of our lifetime.
Three Second Nature team members - Tim Carter, our president; Steve Muzzy, Senior Climate Programs Manager; and Noa Dazell, Climate Policy Associate - will be our Field Team on the ground at COP26. Throughout the conference, they will be writing about their own experiences.
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Second Nature Team Update
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Rachel Valletta
Senior Manager of Climate Programs
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2022 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit Goes Virtual
In partnership with the Intentional Endowments Network (IEN) we recently announced that after much consideration and conversations with many of our stakeholders, the 2022 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit will be virtual. Although it was a disappointing decision to have to make, for the health and safety of everyone, it was the right decision.
What It Means for the 2022 Summit:
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | 1pm EDT
In a January 2021 executive order addressing the climate crisis, President Joe Biden committed the U.S. to an ambitious conservation goal: to protect 30 percent of U.S. land and coastal seas by 2030. That target, known as "30 by 30," is grounded in science. In this webinar, we will introduce the 30x30 initiative and its connection and importance to climate, environmental justice and human health and make the case for why and how academia should expand their current sustainability goals to include biodiversity goals.
Note: if you registered for the webinar with the above description, but with the title: Managing Organizational Change for Transformational, Deep Decarbonization Initiatives on Campus, please note that it is the SAME webinar as this one; the title has changed. You do not need to re-register. Questions? Please contact: Chantal Madray.
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Petrovdanski sabor 1941. je naslov knjige crnogorskog novinara Vladimira Jovanovića.

Pored sistematiziranog opisa kronologije koja je prethodila proglašenju crnogorske nezavisnosti pod talijanskom okupacijom 12. srpnja 1941., kao i životopisa aktera ovog kontroverznog događaja, u knjizi su, prvi put za crnogorsku javnost, objavljeni prvorazredni povijesni izvori – fotografije o Petrovdanskom saboru.

Autor u predgovoru piše (orig. citat, na crnog.):

"Iz današnje vizure, zatrpane banalnostima politikantskih 'tumačenja' istorije, za mnoge će djelovati šokantno činjenica da su dr. Sekula Drljević i mitropolit crnogorsko-primorski SPC Joanikije (Lipovac), svako na svoj način, akteri Petrovdanskog sabora na kojem je, pod nadzorom italijanske okupacione vlasti, usvojena Deklaracija da se 'proglašava suverena i nezavisna Država Crna Gora u obliku Ustavne Monarhije'.

U službenoj povijesti SPC (iz 1996.), koju autor u knjizi citira, tvrdi se:

"Da je Mitropolit Joanikije bio okupatorski sluga on bi svakako učestvovao u petrovdanskom proglašenju tzv. 'Nezavisne države Crne Gore'... Mitropolit Joanikije je svojim beskompromisnim stavom ignorisao takve crnolatinaške, separatističke i anticrnogorske ideje i skupove".

Međutim, na fotografijama talijanskog porijekla, koje je objavio Vladimir Jovanović, vidi se kako je mitropolit Joanikije (1997. od strane Svetog arhijerejskog sabora SPC proglašen "sveštenomučenikom"), bio nazočan u sali Zetskog doma na Cetinju tijekom zasijedanja Petrovdanskog sabora, te da je također bio na svečanom ručku koji je, nakon toga, priređen u cetinjskom hotelu "Grand" – gdje je sjedio između dr. Sekule Drljevića i Mihaila Ivanovića.

Poglavlja
Knjiga Petrovdanski sabor 1941. ima sljedeća poglavlja:

 Akteri (životopisi članova Predsjedništa Petrovdanskog sabora: bivšeg crnogorskog ministra Mihaila Ivanovića, dr Sekule Drljevića, bivšeg crnogorskog ministra Jovana Popovića, odvjetnika Dušana Vučinića, odvjetnika Toma Kršikape, protojereja Sima Martinovića, učitelja Staniše Mučalice; zatim Joanikija (Lipovca), talijanskog okupacijskog visokog komesara grofa Serafina Mazzolinia i zapovjednik divizije Messina general-lajtnanta Carla Tuccia;
 Kronologija (popis po danima najvažnijih događaja i činjenica od početka talijanske okupacije 17. travnja 1941. do zasijedanja Petrovdanskog sabora);
 Delegati Petrovdanskog sabora (životopisi učesnika događaja 12. srpnja 1941. na Cetinju);
 Crnogorski Sabor proglasio je Slobodnu i Nezavisnu Kraljevinu Crnu Goru (izvješće lista Glas Crnogorca – La voce del Montenegro, br. 9, 13. srpnja 1941.);
 Petrovdan, Cetinje, 12. srpanj 1941. (foto-dokumenti o Petrovdanskom saboru).

Knjiga Vladimira Jovanovića Petrovdanski sabor 1941. (ISBN 978-86-85747-34-2) tiskana je 2011. u nakladi Otvorenog kulturnog foruma i Dukljanske akademije nauka i umjetnosti.

Izvori
 Izvješče o izlasku knjige "Petrovdanski sabor 1941." na Montenegrini
 Službene tvrdnje iz SPC da njihov mitropolit 1941. nije učestvovao u proglašenje Nezavisne Crne Gore pod talijanskom okupacijom

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Despised Icon-Purgatory album review and interview with Eric.
Despised Icon-Purgatory album review and interview.
Neither despised but without a doubt an absolute icon in the field of Deathcore. Cheesy puns aside, this is a breathtaking release of unrivaled and belligerent weight. It is extremely fierce and to create such a colossal album this far into their distinguished career is pretty damn amazing. Two albums after reforming and the world is at this band's feet. Purgatory is impeccable and magnificent.
Their bio states:
Despised Icon is a Canadian deathcore band from Montreal, Quebec. Formed in 2002, the band is noted for the talent of its drummer, Alex Pelletier, whom makes frequent use of the blasting technique, as well as for its dual lead vocalists; Alex Erian and Steve Marois. Erian makes use of a mid-range growl technique while Marois performs high-pitched shrieks, deeper growled vocals and pig squeals.
In April 2010, the band disbanded, but officially reformed four years later in February 2014.
Beast was released in 2016 and was exactly that, a nasty and hefty album that declared way more credit than a simple comeback album, and 2019 welcomes this fabulous release.
This is their sixth release and it not only shows off their established skills from a hardworking career but adds a few more elements in the mix. It has sufficient moments to briefly slow down, almost sludgy then pummels the hell out of the listener. 11 tracks of solid deathcore, but remember this is actually true deathcore, not that clean and heavy vocal bullshit so many bands embarrass themselves with. I state this because so many bands make the clearer vocals sound like some lame pop-punk band and the other vocals like a hardcore vocalist singing underwater. Fuck that crap. This is excellent hardcore vocals and pretty much staggering death metal vocals.
As previously mentioned, Beast was an excellent album, but everything here seems to have more creative spirit and an attack level equal to their best albums. And this album is one of their best, make no mistake about this. Tracks like Dead Weight, Apex Predator, Legacy, and the brilliant Light Speed are an absolute showcase of what aggressive music should be. Insane drums, tormented riffs, and exceptionally well-written songs buddied up with tremendous dual vocals. Moving On is the best deathcore in ages, the buildup is gripping and then the lunacy rips layers off your face. And that lovely Despised Icon trademark of the vocals really melding with the dazzling guitar attack. If you spend some time listening for the underlying groove, it will really mesmerize you massively. Yes, real metal masters at play here.
Of note is also the deeply personal lyrics on this album, I mean I really worshipped Moving On, but lyrically, like most tracks on this album, the incredible effort, and wordcraft are unbelievable. I personally have experienced deep grief and I give kudos to such skilled writing with compassion and effort. Even the title track has many themes we can all relate to. And it's rare except maybe for Napalm Death to have a full album where the lyrics are on point and thought-provoking.
With perfect production that matches the energy and heavy tone of the album, you have an album that is hypnotizing and uplifting. It could be the cure to anxiety or depressive states or just a kick-arse soundtrack for the gym.
Don't hesitate, please I guarantee this album will blow you away and never leave your playlist!!!.
The album is out now:
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Watch these:
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We had a fantastic chance to chat with Eric from the band. Passionate and great guy to chat with, he gives great insight into the band and hopefully with the band's links to Thy Art is Murder could hopefully tour again here in the future...fingers crossed. Enjoy!!!
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How one very special gallery empowers schools to put drawing at the heart of the curriculum
Earlier this year in a pre-Lockdown world that now seems very far away, I visited the House of Illustration in London. It wasn't my first trip - I've been following the gallery's progress since 2014, when it opened in a former railway building just north of King's Cross Station, and I've since made several visits. The gallery has always seemed at ease in its regenerated home and I imagined it welcoming us for many years to come.
Then came Lockdown, and closure. The world is changing fast, and with it this friendly little gallery. In a blaze of welcome optimism, it's spreading its wings and relocating to a larger site just up the road in Islington, where it will evolve to become The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, set in half an acre of landscaped outdoor space. This does mean that there will be no gallery-based learning opportunities until the new building opens in 2022, but in the meantime, education programmes and events will continue off-site and online.
Back in February, of course, I didn't know about these plans. I didn't even know about the Lockdown. The House of Illustration's Head of Education, Emily Jost, had agreed to meet with me to talk about their work with schools and other groups, so I was making my way to the gallery, brain buzzing with questions about drawing and its use in helping learners to explore, create, reflect and share. I've seen first-hand what a powerful impact this approach can have across a range of subjects, and I wanted to learn more about freeing illustration from its traditional art-lesson context and embedding it in every aspect of the curriculum.
Children drawing at House of Illustration
Emily talks passionately about 'drawing as a language' - one of the oldest human skills and vital to our wellbeing as expressive, effective and connected individuals. The education department's mission is to 'develop a diverse community of illustrators of all ages through high-quality teaching and creative collaboration,' and Emily's conviction that everyone should be enabled to develop their innate skills is clear. "What we really believe is that everyone can be an illustrator," she says. "They just need the right skills and confidence to be able to communicate visually."
'Drawing is so important to children because we are visual beings. We read faces, we read body language, we read symbols, even when we're tiny. We're really good at reading the world around us and it's vital we can do that....' Former Children's Laureate Lauren Child, speaking at the House of IllustrationEmily and her team of professional illustrators started working with schools and groups four years before their King's Cross building opened to the public. Since 2014 they've provided high-quality learning opportunities on-site, together with outreach sessions on a one-off or project basis.
Children drawing in the gallery at House of Illustration
Before Lockdown, an educational visit to the gallery included access to exhibition artwork, followed by a two-hour practical workshop led by a professional illustrator. Teachers were able to select any topic for their workshop, and topics could be drawn from any area of the curriculum. Emily's team provided a choice of six different workshops - Character Design, Pop Up Illustration, Poster Design, Creating Mood and Atmosphere, and Sequential Illustration – and Emily worked closely with teachers to ensure a good fit between their chosen topic and their workshop. Media and techniques were generally left to the professional illustrator leading each workshop, allowing them to work to their strengths in a way that fitted the brief and ensured good outcomes. The gallery's approach may differ going forward, though, so do check directly with them if you'd like to involve your school or group in future.
Over the years, Emily and her team have also worked extensively on special projects, based at the gallery and out in the community.
Detail from The Exceedingly Good Goods Yard by pupils at King's Cross Academy Primary School and Sion Ap Tomos, for House of Illustration
During the King's Cross Story Palace project, Year 2 children from King's Cross Academy Primary School took part in a series of workshops and walks with illustrator Sion Ap Tomos to find out about the history of the King's Cross Goods Yard. Ap Tomos created a beautifully-designed concertina booklet - The Exceedingly Good Goods Yard – which included children's artwork plus an informative text provided by The Building Exploratory, a local charity.
Detail from Ridley Road Market by pupils at Princess May Primary School and Sion Ap Tomos, for House of Illustration
Ridley Road Market was a project inspired by On Gentrification, a House of Illustration commission + exhibition by artist Lucinda Rogers. Led by Sion Ap Tomos, Year 5 pupils at Princess May Primary School drew on location at Ridley Road, a traditional East London market close to their school, and recorded their observations. They researched the market's history using materials from Hackney Archives and Ap Tomos preserved the children's images and writing for future generations in an eye-catching concertina booklet.
"When you go to the shops they just stand there, they don't tell you a bit about what they are selling. I like the attitude that they have in the market and it's a bit scary but that's a good thing..." Year 5 pupil
Emily also showed me a collection of booklets, each representing the work of a single child during a two-hour outreach workshop, and all of them printed in-house (on a photocopier) and staple-bound. The children had chosen what to write about and how to illustrate their stories, but "tight production values" had been imposed - there was no choice of font, for example, and the covers were uniformly plain and monochrome. As a result of the workshops, I could see that children of all abilities had been enabled to create a high-quality artefact with a sophisticated design aesthetic while retaining ownership over their content – and it was at this point that we discussed the balance between process and outcome. How much guidance should children be given? Should choices be restricted? To what extent should adults impose their own aesthetic judgements and values on children's work?
These are complex questions but picking them apart is useful, as well as interesting. When high value is placed on outcome at the expense of process, children may have little room for self-expression, or lose ownership of their work. Most of us will have seen children doing activities that involve little more than colouring a template, or following instructions towards a uniform outcome. But removing all external guidance or boundaries doesn't necessarily lead to greater creative expression or satisfaction. It may work in a therapeutic sense, but is unlikely to help children acquire the skills they need to produce the outcomes they desire, and of which they can ultimately feel proud. "I think some degree of restriction is essential when working with children, because they can't limit themselves yet, especially if they've had very little art teaching. They'll use every single colour, every single type of font. And they need to be taught, they need to know the parameters they're working within and the result they can expect if they follow those parameters. It's a really important part of their learning… I do believe in the process of making art, but I also believe in the power of slick outcomes. This is something I converted to after years of being a process person, and I now think both are equally important..." If we want children to enjoy good visual outcomes, if we want them to gain skills and develop aesthetic awareness, if we want them to use this innate language mindfully and with confidence, then we need to structure their learning, just as we would in any other subject. But if we structure too rigidly, children will not be able to express themselves, or have the courage to experiment and discover their own paths. For that, we need to step back and let them explore the materials and techniques in their own way.
And how do we meet these apparently conflicting needs? By working out which elements of a task should be restricted (and how, and for what purpose) while defining areas where there's room for exploration, self-expression and problem-solving.
Or – as I wrote in my notebook at the gallery - there's a time for getting your hands on every colour in the paintbox, and a time for being told that today you're working with two colours, and that's it...
Delivering semi-bespoke workshops at the gallery plus outreach in schools is demanding, but it does ensure that House of Illustration's offer is fresh, dynamic, and focused on the needs of participants. This care is extended to the teachers who take part, and developing their skills has always been a key aim. As Emily says, "teaching teachers is the most important thing we do… because that way, we reach so many more pupils…..Once teachers have got some accessible, usable skills and ideas, they can incorporate illustration into all their teaching in all subjects, and that's what we're aiming for."
Teachers taking part in training at House of Illustration
Until Lockdown, CPD training took place in the gallery as well as in schools, focusing on basic drawing skills and accessible skills like collage, and how these can be applied across all subjects, while masterclasses were available for those who wanted to take things further. During Lockdown, selected workshops and courses for adults were available online, and anyone interested in taking part in training of this type should keep an eye on the website or join the mailing list for further details.
A recent addition to the gallery's work with adult learners is Pathways into Children's Publishing: a national vocational programme which launched in December 2019 for ambitious and talented illustrators from diverse backgrounds, who remain under-represented in children's publishing. Pathways runs for two years and is managed and delivered by House of Illustration together with Pop-Up Projects. It is funded by Arts Council England and supported by 21 publisher and university affiliates.
Pathways is such an innovative and important programme that it deserves more space than I can give it here, and I'll be posting another blog about it soon. Until then, there are links below if you'd like to find out more.
Thinking on…
As well as learning about House of Illustration-specific offers and projects, Emily gave me lots to think about in a broader and more widely applicable sense.
So what did I take away from our discussion? What has fuelled my thinking since we met?
Embedding drawing throughout the curriculum
Talking about the 'language of illustration' – one that predates the language of the written word by fifteen thousand years or so – highlighted its fundamental importance and made me think about the risks of ignoring or downgrading it. All too often, I've seen drawing restricted to art lessons or used as a reward or 'time-filler' rather than being embedded throughout the curriculum as a way of exploring ideas and responses, recording facts and reactions, and communicating complex information. Drawing is a fundamental skill that enables a different way of exploring, visioning, synthesizing and learning. It can - and should - be embedded across the curriculum and used, like writing, as a tool.
The House of Illustration takes a co-created approach to schools workshops, in that adults with different roles and skills (in this case, teacher, illustrator and gallery educator) work together to create exciting, joined-up learning opportunities. I think co-creation is a really powerful way to work, and I'd like to see it becoming more widely understood and used.
Balancing process and outcome
As learners, we need high-quality opportunities to explore process – to be involved, be adventurous, be reflective, task risks and try new ideas.
We also need high-quality outcomes that are eye-catching, that make us feel proud, that we want to share and celebrate.
Acquiring skills
Many adults think they can't draw, often because they've been prevented from developing the necessary skills as they grew up - which makes it really important to equip adults taking any kind of teaching role with the experience, confidence, tools and ideas they need to use drawing and illustration in their work. And that goes for children and young people, too.
Learners of all ages also need to be taught how to look, and helped to develop a language for talking about what they see, because those are also necessary skills.
My understanding of all this is growing, and I'd like to take it further - so if you can add to the debate, I'd love to hear from you!
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Resources and further information
If you'd like to find out more about House of Illustration's learning offers and plans for the future:
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Watch Building Confidence and Skills Through Illustration, a House of Illustration video
Free Primary teaching resources from House of Illustration
For Illustrating Science click HERE
For Refugee Experiences click HERE
For Illustrating the Curriculum click HERE
Pathways into Illustration
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The new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Find out more about plans for the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration HERE
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How to watch Mavericks vs. Lakers: Live stream info, TV channel, game time | December 25
December 24, 2022 10:38 am ET
A pair of the NBA's best players will be on show when Luka Doncic (32.8 points per game, second in league) and the Dallas Mavericks (17-16) welcome in Anthony Davis (27.4, 11th) and the Los Angeles Lakers (13-19) on Sunday, December 25, 2022 at 2:30 PM ET on ABC and ESPN.
In their most recent game, the Mavericks beat the Rockets on Friday, 112-106. Their high scorer was Doncic with 50 points. In their most recent game, the Lakers fell to the Hornets on Friday, 134-130. Their high scorer was LeBron James with 34 points.
We will break down everything you need to know about this contest, including how to watch on FuboTV.
National Basketball Association odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds updated Sunday at 10:38 AM ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub.
Mavericks vs. Lakers: How to Watch on TV or Live Stream
Game Day: Sunday, December 25, 2022
Stadium: American Airlines Center
TV Channel: ESPN
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Mavericks vs. Lakers Odds and Spread
Spread Favorite: Mavericks (-7.5)
Moneyline: Mavericks (-311), Lakers (+250)
Total: 232.5 points
How to watch Trail Blazers vs. Raptors: Live stream info, TV channel, game time | January 28
Pascal Siakam and the Toronto Raptors (22-28) take on the Portland Trail Blazers (23-25) on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at Moda Center. The matchup will start at 10:00 PM ET on ROOT Sports NW+ and SportsNet.On Wednesday, in their last game, the Trail Blazers beat the Jazz 134-124. With 60 points, Damian Lillard was their top scorer. The Raptors lost their most recent game to the Warriors, 129-117, on Friday. Fred VanVleet was their leading scorer with 28 points.See more details below, including how to watch this matchup on FuboTV.National Basketball Association odds courtesy of
How to watch California Golden Bears vs. Oregon State Beavers: Live stream info, TV channel, game time | January 29
The California Golden Bears (10-10) welcome in the Oregon State Beavers (11-9) after dropping four home games in a row. It begins at 4:00 PM ET on Sunday, January 29, 2023.In its most recent matchup on Friday, Cal suffered a 78-73 loss to the Oregon. Oregon State's last outing on Friday ended in a 63-60 loss to Stanford.To prepare for this college hoops showdown, here is everything you need to prepare for Sunday's action.NCAA Basketball odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds updated Saturday at 1:29 PM ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access...
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The Seattle Kraken host the Columbus Blue Jackets at Climate Pledge Arena on Saturday, January 28 at 10:00 PM ET. The matchup airs on ESPN+, ROOT Sports NW, and BSOH.Over the past 10 games for the Kraken (6-3-1), their offense has totaled 35 goals while their defense has conceded 24 goals. They have recorded 30 power-play opportunities during that time, and have scored five goals (16.7%). The Blue Jackets have totaled 27 goals over their past 10 outings, while allowing 39 goals. A total of 25 power-play opportunities during that span have netted five power-play goals (20.0%). They are...
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Diets don't work. We all know that to maintain what doctors call a 'healthy weight', the only thing that really works is eating nutritious food and taking regular exercise.
But our relationship with food, and with our bodies is never merely physical. For example, what we call 'comfort eating' – eating for emotional reasons, rather than to satisfy hunger – now affects up to 12 million people in the UK*.
Psychologies' beauty & wellbeing editor is one of them. Sick of turning to food for solace when the results of her behaviour just gave her grief, she decided to investigate the comfort-eating phenomenon. In each issue you'll find Amerley Ollennu challenging you and herself to road-test research and healthy strategies to help change the way we think about food once and for all.
Nothing can be done alone, so here's the team that will be helping both Amerley and you get motivated, and learn more about yourself and healthy living. Keep checking the website for exercise and nutrition news, tips, and reviews.
Yvonne McMeel – Nutritionist With over 15 years' experience in the food and nutrition industry, Yvonne is Urban Retreat's resident nutritionist, who specialises in promoting optimum health and wellbeing. Yvonne provides bespoke nutrition and lifestyle programmes for weight loss, weight gain, specific health issues (such as fertility, PCOS, skin conditions, etc) as well as using the revolutionary new 'tapping' technique called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for weight loss and body confidence.
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Producer: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Tucker Albrizzi, Casey Affleck, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Bernard Hill, Jodelle Ferland, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, John Goodman, Hannah Noyes, Jack Blessing, Ranjani Brow, Michael Corbett, David Cowgill.
Norman is the only hope of a half-asleep town in the fight against hordes of evil spirits. His weapon is a super-mega-gift: the ability to communicate with ghosts. However, the dead are not the main danger, far worse are stupid adults with shotguns.
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Eleven-year-old Norman (in addition to being extremely unpopular at school, where he is teased mercilessly) sees ghosts, which is why his father makes no secret of the fact that he would prefer to have an easier son. And if only bullies and ghosts bothered the boy, now and then, at the most inopportune moments, extremely strange visions descend on him. For example, in the middle of a school play, Norman feels as if he has found himself in the woods, where the trees themselves warn him of the terrible threat hanging over the city. "It's all a witch's curse," then explains to the boy his uncle and part-time town madman, who also knows how to talk to the dead. It is from him that Norman learns that he alone can stop the villain, who has decided to rise from the grave for the 300th anniversary of his own execution.
"Paranorman" claims to be a children's movie, but it's aiming for a much broader audience. Horror fans, fans of black comedies, fans of puppet animation, as well as connoisseurs of British humor and apologists for American morality, are all invited to a masquerade ball, where yesterday's "Coraline in Nightmareland" storyboarders are now acting out a play about how easy it really is to become a monster.
The linchpin at the center of the puppet "Paranorman..." is the classic plot about an outcast who first accepts himself and then finds himself accepted by his own family and comrades. However, this becoming takes place in the setting of a complexly composed horror story. Zombies rise from their graves, townspeople arm themselves with pitchforks, a little dead girl does not want to forgive her long-time abusers, and a little living boy must show great courage to finally reconcile everyone with each other. The authors of the animated film themselves admit that they were inspired not only by the horrors of Romero, but also the classic John Hughes movies, so in company with Norman's town is saved by several strata of the school: good-natured fat Neil, the local bully Alvin, as well as pomaded sister Norman and over-pumped brother Neil - in other words "Breakfast Club" almost in full.
Actually, and all the humor of the story sits between the two poles of Timberton's "Chernushatina" and high school puberty. In live-action, all sorts of "dancing" with corpses looked unsavory at best, and the jokes from the second category might have seemed too unpretentious - in the detailed puppet world, everything works in the best way. In general, it's the puppetry, so playful and tangible at the same time, that allows directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler to sneak a number of their film's most important humanistic ideas onto the screen painlessly.
Paranorman, or How to Tame a Zombie
For example, they make zombies out to be almost lovable victims of circumstance, and a mob ready to be lynched easily turns into a collection of real freaks, and there's a more than lively idea that whether you're a dead man, an angry ghost or just a neighboring bar keeper - the important thing is to remain human, no matter what the circumstances.
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Key position providing technical assistance, industry connections, and program leadership to help small food and beverage manufacturing businesses grow to reach wholesale markets.
The Finger Lakes Regional Prosperity Network (FLRPnet) and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Tompkins County are partnering to pilot a food manufacturing sector development program. The Director of the Food Processing Business Incubation Program (FoodBIP) is responsible for developing, implementing and managing a dynamic outreach and technical assistance network. The Director will also curate an online database, adding current resource information such as co-packer capacity, distribution networks, companies offering package design, etc. FoodBIP is a business development program, targeting farm-based and factory-based food and beverage manufacturers. By connecting businesses with regional assets and technical assistance, FoodBIP will create an entrepreneurial ecosystem for the food sector and a regional identity as a good place to grow a food manufacturing business. Program goals include creating good jobs and careers, and fostering business investment in this rural region.
Ideal candidate will have food manufacturing knowledge, economic development experience, and commitment to revitalization of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. You must be an organized self-starter with the ability to develop and manage an innovative program to help small food and beverage processors expand to reach regional wholesale markets. You must thrive on connecting with business people to help them succeed. The initial contract is for a one year 0.8 FTE position serving Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, and Tompkins counties of New York. (We currently seek additional funding to make this full-time.) The position is based in Ithaca, however the Director may operate flexibly out of other locations in the region. The success of the pilot program will determine future expansion to a full-time position serving an expanded region. Salary for .8FTE is about $55,000.
A link to the full position description and application process is available at: application . The posting will remain open until we have a suitable pool of candidates. If you need assistance with the application process, please contact CCE Human Resources at 607-272-2292. Inquiries about the position are highly encouraged and may be directed to Martha Armstrong of FLRPnet and TCAD at (607) 273-0005 or marthaa@tcad.org.
FLRPnet and Cornell Cooperative Extension are equal opportunity employers. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and program participants.


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Home Business Wolfsburg: Volkswagen is expecting further job cuts
Wolfsburg: Volkswagen is expecting further job cuts
Volkswagen wants to save more. In order to create the announced investments in the electric mobility under its own power, limits of the car manufacturer, the offer for customers. "There are model variants, the buy no man," said Ralf Brandstätter, who as the Chief Operating Officer, day-to-day business of the brand.
the staff there is still ways of saving "along the demographic curve". Concrete Figures on the already well-known job cuts, but were not called. Talks with the works Council about socially acceptable solutions were conducted, it said. A spokesman for the works Council confirmed the first interviews. However, it is much too early to make statements about orders of magnitude.
More than nine billion euros will flow into the development of E-cars. The now announced additional austerity measures are expected to contribute to 2023 three billion euros. Previously it was known that the end of 2018 will be the annual cost of 2.2 billion euros as previously. By 2020, the costs in Germany should be dropped according to the Plan, then to 3 billion euros.
Six per cent operating return on sales
Above all, the core brand of VW Cars to be faster to be more profitable. Brandstätter announced that the brand in Europe pranks in the next model year, 25 percent of the engine transmission variants. Smaller cars would not be ordered as an entry-level model, often with a manual transmission rather than an automatic. The company will respond now.
"We are confident that we will achieve our goal of an operating margin of at least six per cent in the year 2022, three years earlier than planned," said the chief financial officer of the brand, Arno face. For a better result, the brand is also the previously agreed austerity measures of the so-called Zukunftspakts.
one of the Pact, the removal of up to 30,000 Digits, of 23,000 of them in Germany. Of 5,600 jobs had already been dismantled, reported by Brandstätter. In addition, he signed, according to 9.300 contracts for old-age part-time scheme. In return, 9000 jobs in the Software and battery development. Of these, 2,000 jobs had been created already.
risk of E-mobility
The E-mobility remains from the point of view of industry expert Stefan Bratzel, but a risk factor. "Volkswagen is lagging behind as other manufacturers in the development," said the Professor from the Center of Automotive Management, FH Bergisch Gladbach. It is also not clear whether there is the necessary infrastructure of charging stations in the foreseeable future.
However, VW is well positioned. The sun of good decisions in the past. "In addition to the diesel scandal are often forgotten," said Bratzel. An example of the modular Transverse matrix, which reduces the manufacturing cost. A contradiction he sees in the VW strategy to put in addition to E-cars to large SUV. By 2025 alone, Volkswagen passenger Cars wants to take on the offer at the town site from the current 11 to 30 expand.
For the current year, Volkswagen announced a distribution increase of 1.2 per cent to 5.7 million cars to eleven months. "We 530.000 deliveries are still missing, the record result of last year's set," said brands marketing chief Jürgen Stackmann. "According to my current assessment is that we could do that, maybe we are even slightly above."
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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Business and Innovation Reference Group brings together an outstanding group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entrepreneurs, business leaders and researchers to provide strategic advice on matters that impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
The Business and Innovation Reference Group aims to help increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entrepreneurs and innovators, and support the development of existing businesses across Queensland.
Members represent an enormous breadth of knowledge and experience.
The Business and Innovation Reference Group is an important step in achieving better social and economic outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and we thank this dedicated group of advocates for their time and dedication to this initiative.
To be considered for appointment to the Business and Innovation Reference Group you need to join the Queensland Register of Nominees to Government Boards.
For more information please contact the Secretariat via email referencegroupsec@ditid.qld.gov.au.
Ross is the Mayor of Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council, managing portfolios across all areas. He helps coordinate the Council's focus on using resources to build digital skills in young people and engaging them in the community. He was involved in the development of the Yarrabah Town Planning Scheme, enabling good decision-making regarding future land use in Yarrabah.
Mundanara is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of The Australian BlackCard Pty Ltd, a 100% Aboriginal owned and operated business. Mundanara has cultural heritage connected to the Wonnarua, Bunjalung, Birri-Gubba and Gungalu people. She is a proud advocate for her people, with experience working for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisations in Queensland including QUT, the Salvation Army Employment Plus, Bust at Work, the Child Support Agency, the Intitute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH), and Brisbane Indigenous Media Association. She is an associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and is on several committees and boards including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Business and Innovation Reference Group (BIRG), The Murri School, Queensland Tourism Industry Council Indigenous Employment Champions Network, and QUT's Indigenous Education, Research and Employment Committee (IEREC).
Michelle is from Townsville and connects to Kuku Yulanji nation. She is currently the CEO of the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute. She has completed a BA with First Class Honours in Political Science and Indigenous studies and is working on her PhD (on the participation of Aboriginal women in public and political life) at James Cook University. She is a human rights advocate and has a strong background in gender equality, working towards ensuring the voices of Indigenous women are represented at all levels. Michelle holds a number of directorship roles in the not-for-profit sector, including the Supply Nation Board, Thirrili and the OXFAM Indigenous Advisory Council. In 2013 Michelle was named in the Australian Financial Review/Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards. She received a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2017 and focused research on Indigenous governance and leadership models in the James Love Churchill Fellowship in 2018. She was also awarded 2015 National NAIDOC Scholar of the Year.
Donisha is the General Manager of Deadly Choices at the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health. She possesses over 20 years of experience in government and the not-for-profit sector in health policy, planning and management with a particular focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Ms Duff is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. She has familial links with Moa and Badu Islands (Torres Strait) and is a Yadhaigana/ Wuthathi Aboriginal traditional owner (Cape York).
Wanita took her experience as a qualified hairdresser to her home town of Mount Isa and became the proud owner of Dye with Style hair salon. The business experienced fast growth and Wanita began to employ other Indigenous women from her community and training apprentices. Dye with Style won the Indigenous Business Australia Indigenous Business of the Year Award in 2009, and was runner up in 2010. Wanita is also an Ambassador for Indigenous Education. She hopes to bring hair and beauty courses to the remote communities of the North West.
Charlie is a proud Yindinji man and Torres Strait Islander. He has been actively involved in the Indigenous business sector for over 2 decades. Charlie is the co-founder of CJ's Island Pizza on Stradbroke Island and business consultancy firm, Karma Lifestyles. He works with the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health in Men's Mental Health. He was the founding president of the SEQICC in 2006 and is now the Secretary.
Shane is a proud Bundjalung man who has demonstrated success and experience in leading and building sustainable growth for businesses across the telecommunications, civil, mining, and Oil and Gas sectors. Managing Director of Kennelly Constructions and Director at First People Recruitment Solutions. Kennelly Constructions supports young Indigenous achievers in Queensland through acknowledgement with the Aboriginal Achievement Award in the Queensland Young Achiever Awards.
Julie-Ann Lambourne, is a Torres Strait Island woman of Mabuiag and Darnley Island descent, and founding member and CEO of enVizion, an Indigenous-owned and operated charitable organisation that has assisted disadvantaged people see beyond limitations to reach their full potential since 2013. She is passionate about utilises cutting-edge technologies to complement traditional practices that deliver meaningful and creative solutions including the development of Indigenous business and leaders, and working with disadvantaged people to overcome adversities. Julie-ann has a wealth of experience across sectors including education, employment and training, social services, youth, management and community development. She was recognised as an Advance Queensland Community Digital Champion in 2016 and achieved a Masters of Business Administration in 2018.
Noel is a Dharug & Kamillaroi man and one of Australia's leading Indigenous communications and research practitioners. He is the founder and Managing Director of Winangali, a multi award-winning Indigenous communications and research consultancy specialising in engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander markets. He is also Director of Winangali Logistics, an Indigenous-owned freight management and warehousing company. Noel has worked in the Indigenous engagement space for over 25 years and as a consultant for almost 20 years. Winangali was awarded the 2012 Telstra Queensland Business of the Year and 2012 Telstra Queensland Micro-Business of the Year.
Colin is the Managing Director of the Myuma Group of not-for-profit corporations, owned and managed by Camooweal's Indjalandji-Dhidhanu traditional owners for the benefit of the region's predominantly Aboriginal communities. The Myuma Group manages the ongoing development and expansion of Indigenous civil construction, hospitality, catering, labour hire and business training.
Desmond is a traditional owner of Yalanji (Dawnvale and Wujal Wujal) and is the Mayor of Wujal-Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council. He works to enhance the wellbeing of individuals through improvements to the community as a whole. Desmond is a member of the Far Noth Queensland Regional Organisation of Councils, Far North Queensland Regional Transport Group, and the Internal Audit Committee. He is on the Board of the Remote Job and Communities Program and is also on the all-indigenous UMI Arts Board of Directors, which develops arts programmes for Indigenous communities.
Terri is the Managing Director and Founder of SevGen Indigenous Corporation, a registered non-for-profit charity providing assistance in enterprise, education and entrepreneurship sectors. It has been described as an authentic Australian pedagogy through it's 3E model for sustainable educational practice. Terri works to honour the full true and creative self of students, and celebrate, validate and reinvigorate Indigenous ways of being for the collective benefit of all. She is also a Senior Partner and Trainer with Edgeware Indigenous which supports the growth of cultural and creative businesses through mentoring and education.
Leesa is the owner of Isacariot Media Pty Ltd, an Aboriginal owned business specialises in creative and digital solutions that make an impact. She is also the founder of Deadly Bloggers, Australia's first online directory of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bloggers. Leesa has been involved in South East Queensland community organisations and in micro-business since the mid-1990s. Her experience has equipped her with range of knowledge and skills from many areas including academia, education and social media. Leesa was recognised as an Advance Queensland Community Digital Champion in 2016.
As the Managing Director of Regional Economic Solutions now 6 years old, Leann strives to bring about real economic and social parity for Indigenous Australians. Regional Economic Solutions partners with Australian company Ausenco for national and international reach. She is active on a range of boards including the Queensland Divisional Advisory Board Australian Red Cross (ARC), the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, and GIVIT. Leann has spent approximately thirty years as a public servant with the Queensland and Federal Government and also with the global organisation Australian Red Cross.


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The Family Mass is at 10.45am every Sunday. The Family Mass Group helps to make the Gospel message more accessible to children and to assist them in their understanding that they belong to a loving Christian family.
The children and their families are encouraged to take part in the Mass through the readings, which are from the Lectionary for Masses with children, and the bringing forward of the offertory gifts.
Sometimes the children present gospel mimes or introduce the readings in a creative way with art work. Parents and children find their attention and interest in the Mass stimulated by the special activities and participation of the families and the children through the Liturgy. Adults and members of the congregation find the Family Mass highlights the Gospel message in a simple yet very effective way.
The Family Mass Group meets once every two months, to plan ahead and evaluate. The group work in teams of two and are present at the Family Mass where they ensure that readers are prepared and that families involved in the liturgy are comfortable with their various roles.
There is initial training with support and workshops during the year. New members for the team are very welcome and much needed.


We have always had a thing for ketchup, and after years of mixing Melinda's into our ketchup, we finally said, wait, why don't we bottle our own? We're good at making all-natural sauces with fresh ingredients, so we set out to create ketchups inspired by fire.
Most average ketchups use High Fructose Corn Syrup, yuck! This is a major no no for Melinda's, instead we decided to use real cane sugar. We crafted a ketchup with the right amount of sweetness and acid balance to create that perfect tangy flavor and then added spicy peppers for that extra zing. French fries have never tasted better! Meatloaf fans were stoked! Those who like to use ketchup as a base for their own BBQ sauce suddenly had a host of new flavor options with real cane sugar, no GMO beet sugar or high fructose garbage. Melinda's offers our Original Habanero Pepper Ketchup for those that like it hot and our Ghost Pepper Ketchup for those who like it extremely hot. Our Chipotle Pepper Ketchup suits those looking for a natural smoky hot flavor or for something tangy and milder, try our Jalapeño Pepper Ketchup and last but not least for a bold & robust flavor, try our new Black Pepper Ketchup.
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The Ring of Cadman was rumored to have existed in the early 6th century. Rings in this time period were often made out of bronze and plated with gold or silver as it was difficult to separate gold from silver ore. In this time period wearing gold or silver rings as jewelry was not common except in Rome as it has been found that men often wore rings on every finger. The Ring of Cadman was said to have been forged in Rome for a high class lady who paid handsomely for it but was taken by the apprentice, for an unknown purpose, the moment it was finished, to England. Not many descriptions of this ancient artifact exist but one report has said "the ring was gold and had a Celtic knot pattern with three gems (two black and one red) evenly placed on the top".
It was rumored that Dame Brusen enchanted the Ring of Cadman to give the wearer great warrior abilities, such as strength and agility; around the same time she enchanted the ring belonging to Elaine Pelles in order to trick Lancelot into believing she was his love Queen Guinevere. It is said that Dame Brusen orchestrated the creation and theft of the ring, enchanting it for the purpose of giving her love strength to kill Merlin, the wizard of the round table, because he had made a fool of her at a social gathering. However, it is rumored that Merlin was aware of the treachery and cursed Dame Brusen's love to wander the countryside with severe amnesia until the day he died.
Not much has been said of the ring between its creation and enchantment and when it was rumored to be seen on the hand of one of the Irish army leaders, Eoghan, the son of one of the kings, in the Battle of Aine. No one is quite sure how it got to the island of Ireland. A friend of the prince said that when Eoghan was slain the ring was no longer on his hand and they had looked around the grass for it. A witness said he saw a mysterious man dressed in all black wrestle with Eoghan and remove the ring but he was distracted and when he looked back the man was gone and Eoghan was fighting someone else. Since that one sighting the ring has faded into anonymity and has not been seen in at least 1000 years.


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Craft beer collaboration celebrates shared values of three very different businesses
The Kyoto Brewing team poses with collaborators at the brewery on Feb. 4. | SATOKO KAWASAKI
by Daniel Traylor
A newspaper and a pub chain walk into a brewery…
It has all the makings of a joke, but this is no wisecrack —it's the story of how The Japan Times, Kyoto Brewing and the Brussels bar chain came together to make a truly newsworthy brew.
The day's batch is already underway as the collaboration team starts a tour of the Kyoto Brewing facilities in a quiet neighborhood a short cab ride from Kyoto Station.
Chris Hainge, Kyoto Brewing's co-founder and brewmaster, details the recipe starting with the malts — a Belgian pilsner base with the addition of German Vienna — and explains how each brew begins.
Representing the collaborators are members of The Japan Times' in-house beer club, joined by staff from Brussels.
The project got off the ground when members of the beer club had the idea to do a collaboration brew as part of The Japan Times' 120th anniversary celebrations. Brussels, which serves Kyoto Brewing's beers in its locations on dedicated taps, put the two sides together and joined in as a collaborator.
Head brewer / co-founder Chris Hainge gives a tour of Kyoto Brewing Co. | SATOKO KAWASAKI
The three have more in common than it may seem, Hainge says. The brewery was started by Hainge and two friends from their days working in Aomori Prefecture on the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme. Hainge sees a connection between the brewery, founded by a group of foreign residents, the newspaper, which has a team of foreign editors and writers on staff, and Brussels, with its lineup of imported beers. Both the brewery and the newspaper, he added, have a mission of sharing an understanding of Japan, be it through the daily news or a craft beer.
The beer itself also draws heavily on the foreign element. Hainge narrowed recipe ideas to a fruit saison — incorporating influence from the India Pale Ale scene in the United States — using ponkan, an orange-like citrus fruit that came to Japan through India around the same time The Japan Times was founded in the Meiji Era (1868-1912).
After the tour, the team gathers to help measure out the hops to be added later in the brewing process. The hop varieties — Millennium, Cascade and Mandarina Bavaria — are passed around for a chance to take in the aromas.
Hiroyuki Tomie, of the Japan Times beer club, holds a container of the hops, prior to them being added them to the brew kettle. | SATOKO KAWASAKI
Hainge, along with co-founders Paul Speed and Benjamin Falck, draw in close to get a whiff of Mandarina Bavaria, which they are using for the first time.
"We've never smelled it before," Falck says of the relatively new German hop, said to carry a fruity, citrus aroma with flavors of tangerine.
Then comes the ponkan: Peels for aroma, to be added during the aging process as close to packaging as possible, and juice for flavor, to be added to the brew kettle later in the day just before transfer to the fermentation tank.
Near the brew system, 25 kilograms of ponkan, sourced from Ehime Prefecture, sit in two boxes, with knives, peelers and a juicer set up on a small table.
At last the team members have a chance to get their hands dirty: Each ponkan must be inspected, rinsed, sanitized, peeled and juiced. Later, the juice will be pressed through strainer bags — again, by hand — before being added to the wort, the liquid that becomes beer through the magic of fermentation.
Collaborators prepare 25 kg of 'ponkan' in a process that took a group of about 10 people more than two hours. | SATOKO KAWASAKI
Hainge tells the collaborators that for the best aroma, only the outermost, orange-colored part of the peel is ideal. He demonstrates the technique, slowly peeling off a long, thin strip.
"I'm not a big fruit beer guy," Hainge says later. But the added element makes for a good collaboration, as a lot of preparation work is required on the brew day.
Collaborations in the craft beer industry take various forms. Breweries work with one another as well as beer bars, restaurants and occasionally other entities totally unrelated to beer.
While the scene in Japan is still developing compared to the U.S., Japanese breweries have tried various collaborations, some teaming up with overseas breweries and releasing the beer in both countries. Some tie-ups are business-focused, becoming more of a contract brew, but craft brewers tend to celebrate collaborations that are built on the larger community.
In the U.S., craft breweries have an " 'in-it-together' collective approach," Mark Snyder, export development program manager for the U.S.-based Brewers Association, said in an email.
Snyder, who took part in a Tokyo beer festival last year highlighting U.S. imports, said collaborations are part of the craft beer culture.
"Craft brewers are part of the community and use collaborations with other businesses in the same way brewers would collaborate with brewers," he said.
In Japan, Hainge says community collaborations are becoming more common. The brewery is working with a Kyoto cake shop, which will use Kyoto Brewing beer in a cake product. Later, the brewery will make a "cake beer."
The Japan Times beer — given the name Haru no Ibuki (a breath of spring) through an online poll — marks the brewery's first collaboration with an entity outside the food and drink industry.
The beer, set for an initial release on March 22 at Brussels group bars, was fermented with Belle Saison yeast, which is of Belgian origin. Kyoto Brewing's beers generally take inspiration from two sources: the craft beer scene in the U.S. and the traditional beers of Belgium.
Koichi Fujita, a beer manager for the Brussels group bars, samples the early stages of Haru no Ibuki. | SATOKO KAWASAKI
Koichi Fujita, who acts as a beer manager for Brussels, was happily surprised that his love for beer resulted in a collaboration.
"We are really connected by beer," he says, recalling a trip to Belgium he took with Hainge. "We went to Belgium together, now we're making Belgian beer together."
In line with COVID-19 guidelines, the government is strongly requesting that residents and visitors exercise caution if they choose to visit bars, restaurants, music venues and other public spaces.
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I WILL NEVER CHALLENGE CHAMISA : NCUBE
Wednesday, March 06, 2019 NewsdzeZimbabwe 0
MDC Alliance deputy president, Professor Welshman Ncube, has joined a slew of the opposition party's sycophantic officials who are shielding party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa from possible challenge at the elective Congress slated for May by insinuating that any challenge to the presidency would be a "political miscalculation."
Prof Ncube's sentiments are in sync with those of the MDC Harare Youth Assembly that on Monday suggested that a challenger to Mr Chamisa's presidency would have declared themselves an enemy of the party.
Mr Chamisa faces a possible challenge from the party's secretary general, Mr Douglas Mwonzora, who has been receiving a barrage of insults and threats from party officials intent on scuppering his campaign.
Despite presenting itself as a "democratic party of excellence", the MDC has been at pains to eliminate any challenge to Mr Chamisa's position at Congress set to run from 24-26 May.
There have been attempts to link Mr Mwonzora to Zanu-PF but the ruling party has distanced itself from the allegations saying it has no time to meddle in opposition politics.
In an interview in Bulawayo yesterday, Prof Ncube defended the Harare provincial Youth Assembly's stance saying they are entitled to their opinions.
"The Youth Assembly is a semi-autonomous organ of the party, first at national level; at provincial level as well, they are entitled to make their decisions," he said.
Prof Ncube said momentum favours Mr Chamisa' as he has inspired youths to participate in electoral processes.
"At this particular historical juncture to me, it appears unwise for anyone if they are nominated to accept that nomination given the credentials I've already summarised for you, for the incumbent Nelson Chamisa. Anyone who accepts nomination will probably be guilty of a serious political miscalculation, given where we are," he said.
"We are all individuals, using all the objective criteria that I have in mind, I really have a difficulty in finding any rationale for anyone to accept any nomination, my sense too, I will be surprised if anyone other than Chamisa is nominated given the momentum that we have had with him, given the inspirational advantage that he has."
Besides Mr Mwonzora, another probable challenger to Mr Chamisa is Engineer Elias Mudzuri. Prof Ncube said the party members should stop canvassing for nominations.
"What I personally think is unfortunate is where individuals go out of their way to be canvassing to be nominated. It shouldn't happen. We should be invited by the membership to accept nomination. Not to go out of our way to solicit for nomination.
"Therefore, I find the notion of challenging anyone to be problematic. You can't challenge anyone because you can't nominate yourself. You can't stand up and say I am challenging so and so. Challenging them as who?" he said.
Meanwhile, Prof Ncube is said to be eying one of the vice presidential positions but faces a possible challenge from Ms Thabitha Khumalo.
He said he would accept nomination for any position but not the presidency. Chronicle


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The new data disc for Path of Exile will bring roguelike gameplay
The old and still popular (and cherished) roguelike Path of Exile will get a new data disc next week, in which its authors will try out the currently very popular roguelike gameplay. The expansion will be called Forbidden Sanctum and will invite players to dungeons full of treasures, but also dangerous traps.
Within the dungeons, you'll have to go through four floors, each of which naturally has a boss waiting for you. But this is not necessarily the biggest challenge. Far more fundamental problems can be caused by rooms that inflict a certain greater or lesser penalty on your hero. You can deal with them with the help of various objects that will reduce their influence, but definitely do not expect a walk in the rose garden.
Developers from the Grinding Gear Games studio admit that when developing the new data disc, they were inspired by the classics of the roguelike genre, such as Binding of Isaac, but also the original Rogue itself, which gave the entire gaming industry its name. Part of the gameplay will be deciding whether to accept a reward immediately, or rather wait for a better version of it, but with the risk of not being able to get to it.
Relics encountered during individual playthroughs will be tied to the account and cannot be traded. Your character may also come across a special altar where you can "store" the acquired relic in case of failure.
Forbidden Sanctum is released on December 7th. Along with the new content, you can also expect traditional game balance tweaks and bug fixes.
Source: Games by games.tiscali.cz.
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Empowering Educators: An Instructional Workbook for Data Collection in the School and Classroom (Positive and Adaptive Behaviors) - Dr. Tish Taylor, P.H.D.
This manual provides educators with a specific understanding about data collection with behaviors with in the classroom. The descriptions and reproducible forms allow for collection of baseline data, data collection for progress monitoring, as well as helping students become more self-aware of their behaviors. The behaviors included in this manual are positive character traits, positive social behaviors, self-help skills, and coping with frustration and anger.


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Veterans for Peace Draw Attention to Questionable Military Action
Posted on October 22, 2015 October 22, 2015 by Mack Stetson
Since the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders Hospital 2 weeks ago, there has been a lot of talk about the future of American military presence in Afghanistan. The group Veterans for Peace is drawing attention to the bombing and to the ongoing presence in Afghanistan that has recently been drawn out to 2017.
The Washington Times reports:
Members of the group Veterans for Peace will hold a two hour vigil Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, Mo. the group announced Friday. The organization — made up of men and women who have served in World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars and other conflicts — argue that the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan that began 14 years ago has done more harm than good.
The conflict, "has not helped the Afghan people, but has cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars," organizers wrote in a press release.
The vigil comes days after President Obama announced that he would keep nearly 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through most of next year and 5,500 when he leaves office in 2017.
The announcement comes two weeks after a U.S. air strike hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, killing 22, including hospital staff, patients and children.
"As a veteran, I stand in solidarity with Doctors Without Borders and the Afghan people" said Tom Abeln, Veterans For Peace St. Louis Chapter President in a statement.
"We call for an independent investigation of the recent hospital bombing and for an end to the war in Afghanistan."
Multiple investigations of the bombing of the hospital are being conducted. From the official Pentagon investigation to one by the Afghan government, onlookers from around the globe are looking for answers. With innocent civilian lives taken only because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, the US military needs to be held accountable if it were the cause.
As President Obama begins his exit of the White House, will a government cover-up of a military action gone wrong be his legacy? Let's hope someone's investigation leads to some clear answers.
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Washington, D.C.- December 3, 2017: Her Excellency Lois Cheche Lewis Brutus, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Liberia to the United States, presented her Letters of Credence to President Donald J. Trump on November 29, 2017.
President Donald J. Trump participates in a Credentialing Ceremony for Newly Appointed Ambassadors to Washington, D.C.
According to a dispatch from the Embassy of Liberia in Washington, D.C., the ceremony took place at the Oval Office of the White House.
In remarks, Ambassador Brutus said Liberia and the United States are bound together by a unique relationship deeply rooted in common values and traditions, buttressed by a firm commitment to mutually beneficial objectives.
"I am here to assure you, Mr. President, that Liberia remains steadfast in her determination to strengthen, uphold and solidify this important relation on the basis of goodwill and mutual respect," she noted.
Ambassador Brutus also outlined some areas which could be beneficial to both countries, such as security, health, agriculture, trade and infrastructure development, education, and human development.
Ambassador Brutus said President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attaches extreme importance to the relationship between both countries. "Liberia is rich in untapped resources and the United States of America with its phenomenal technological progress and resilient material stature together we could develop a win-win cooperation for the benefit of our peoples," she added.
Ambassador Brutus indicated that during the nearly 12 years of relative peace and security under the leadership of President Sirleaf, Liberia is experiencing progress in various areas, including education, infrastructure and human development.
In response, President Trump recalled that the United States and Liberia share a special bond that dates to the first days of Liberia's republic, and today the bond is stronger than ever.
President Trump said since the end of the Liberian civil war in 2003, the country has improved security for its people, and taken on the difficult tasks of rebuilding its economy and strengthening its education and health systems.
"As your steadfast and longtime friend, the United States and the American people remain committed to partnering with you to create a healthy, peaceful, and democratic future for Liberia," President Trump noted.
Prior to her appointment as Liberia's Ambassador to the United States, Madam Brutus served as Liberia's Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. While in South Africa, she also served respectively as Deputy Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in South Africa, Dean of the ECOWAS Ambassadors in South Africa, and Dean of the Female Ambassadors and High Commissioners in the Republic of South Africa.
Ambassador Brutus is a seasoned diplomat and an accomplished legal expert with more than 30 years of experience in Public International Law. She is a former president and founding member of the Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia, a leading organization that advocates for the rights of women in Liberia.


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National Hurricane Center warns of cyclone, severe heavy rains
November 6, 2015 |
Cancun News and Mexico
Playa del Carmen, Q.R. – Recent heavy rains and strong winds along a majority of the coastline of Quintana Roo are the result of a tropical disturbance.
Meteorologist Luis Antonio Morales Ocaña, with the Municipal Coordination of Civil Protection, says that the National Hurricane Center is monitoring the system, warning that it could turn into a tropical cyclone in the next 48-hours and that they are continually providing updates to Civil Protection.
As of this morning, the National Hurricane Center says the system has a 20 percent chance of developing into a cyclone over the next 48-hours.
"This low pressure system of instability, also called a tropical disturbance, has a 20 percent chance of evolving into a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours. The National Hurricane Center is monitoring the system and giving me updates," he said.
Ocaña Morales said the National Weather Service had only detected the tropical wave, but now the Hurricane Center has updated the situation sending a "severe weather warning for heavy rain."
He explained that currently there is an area of instability in the southern portion of the state along the coast. This instability is "interacting as tropical wave 45, which is opposite to our shores, is estimated to land on Quintana Roo on Friday."
While the development of a cyclone is possible, he says that "there is a probability that the tropical disturbance will clash with cold front number 11, which is already crossing the country, and will interact in the Gulf of Mexico decreasing favorable conditions for the development of a cyclone."
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I signed up for Structured Chaos' Swap Shop and Blog party. The long list of women involved were inspiring and I felt I had much to live up to. I received my package in the mail from the outrageously talented Natalie Jost, the creative spirit and owner behind Olive Manna.
All photos below are from her site; my poor lighting won't give justice to her beautiful products and these pictures are as close as pretty compared to having them IRL.
I loved her items so much, I went for seconds, and recently thirds for Christmas gifts! Her prices are reasonable, and crafted and designed so meticulously, it's such a great deal to find paper goods that you can't wait to gift (or keep a few for yourself, it was a tough decision).
Her design doesn't stop at her shop, her blog is full of inspiration from downloadables, her great eye for etsy finds and Bible verses to keep your spirit up (if that's where you find your main inspiration). Just be sure to watch your time, a couple hours can be well spent browsing her archives.