Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change at CUHK Holds Eco Tour Photo and Colouring Contest 2016 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Edit Public Technologies 15 May 2016
The winners list can be viewed at the Gaia website. http.//www.gaia.cuhk.edu.hk/mocc/photoandcolouring ... CUHK Jockey Club Initiative Gaia. CUHK Jockey Club Initiative Gaia is a five-year community engagement programme, launched in 2012 by CUHK, with a generous donation of HK$70 million from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust ... More details of the MoCC can be found at www.gaia.cuhk.edu.hk/MoCC....

Greek wines bearing gifts

Edit The Observer 15 May 2016
Gaia Wild Ferment Assyrtiko, Santorini, Greece 2015 (£18.95, Slurp) If you were thinking in French terms, assyrtiko would be Greece’s answer to chardonnay ... There’s something of those characteristics, too, in a wine not in the Ecclectic range, Gaia’s Wild Ferment, where the flinty, subtly smoky notes meet a salty preserved lemon zinginess in an incisive, savoury white that reminds me a little of top-flight Chablis....

Latest Tolkien title explores the roots of Middle-earth

Edit The Examiner 14 May 2016
If you are a J.R.R ... But, if you have an interest in the origins of Tolkien's storytelling, and the underpinnings of his mythology of Middle-earth, "Kullervo" may be just what you are looking for ... She adds extensive notes, and includes two versions of an essay Tolkien delivered on the Kalevala, and her essay on Tolkien's Kullervo and its influence on his later mythology ... ....

Three settings other than Innistrad that transform would be perfect in

Edit The Examiner 14 May 2016
For example, using it on Theros would be a great fit as well; Greek mythology is just lousy with people and animals changing forms ... In Greek mythology, the Gods pretend to be mortals and reveal themselves at the key moment; people get changed into various animals (or even inanimate objects) due to their hubris; and monsters are born from things that were previously innocuous ... ....

A hamster's not so boring after all

Edit The Florida Times Union 14 May 2016
In “If I Had a Gryphon,” Sam brings home a hamster as a new pet, but one session reading a book about mythological creatures leaves her thinking hamsters are ho-hum. Certainly, a unicorn with a shiny horn would prove much more exciting. And so the rhyming speculation begins ... Readers get to see her thoughts in the vivid illustrations rendered by Cale Atkinson. “A hippogriff needs lots to do, like run and fetch. read more ... ....

Tomten Biketown ready to open shop in Leominster

Edit Worcester Telegram 14 May 2016
In only a few weeks, a new bike shop has burst onto the retail scene in Leominster.And a mischievous yet protective little elf may have helped. How else can you explain the quick transformation of a taekwondo studio into a comfortable bike shop with hundreds of recently built up new bicycles, bike products and accessories?Tomten. the gnome-like Scandinavian mythological creature that protects the farm ... ....

Message in a blossom

Edit Deccan Herald 14 May 2016
Alapadma presents the unfolding of a lotus and explores a few aspects of the flower such as Srishti Sarasija (signifying creation), Pada Pankaja (mythology), Leela Kamala (romance), Alankaara Ambuja (iconography) and Sahasrara Padmam (human wisdom) ... So in the next segment of Alapadma, the choreography illustrated this bit of mythology through selected verses from the Pasurams by the revered 6th-century Vaishnava saint, Periyalvar ... ....

Israeli professor to donate prize to help Palestinains

Edit Al Jazeera 14 May 2016
A professor who won the Israel Prize - considered one of the country's highest honours - has pledged to donate his cash prize to an Israeli group dedicated to helping Palestinians ... The awarding committee said Shulman's academic work was "outstanding in its diverse engagement with various literary genres and different areas of research, among them religion, mythology, art, folklore and imagination." ... @ali_reports. Source. Al Jazeera ... ....

Israeli academic to use cash prize to help Palestinians

Edit Al Jazeera 14 May 2016
A professor who won the Israel Prize - considered one of the country's highest honours - has pledged to donate his cash prize to an Israeli group dedicated to helping Palestinians ... The awarding committee said Shulman's academic work was "outstanding in its diverse engagement with various literary genres and different areas of research, among them religion, mythology, art, folklore and imagination." ... @ali_reports. Source. Al Jazeera ... ....

‘Banshee’ delivers the Hood-Brock confrontation years in the making

Edit Zap2it 14 May 2016
Banshee” checked off a major box on the series finale checklist Friday (May 13) with “Truths Other Than the Ones You Tell Yourself,” but warned — spoilers ahead ... It’s a confession years in the making ... RELATED ... I believed it ... RELATED ... The EPs told Zap2it after the Season 3 finale that even they don’t know his real name, because giving him a name would steal some of the mythology of the character ... ....

'Holier-than-thou' attitude causing conflicts: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Edit The Times of India 14 May 2016
UJJAIN. Warning that global warming and terrorism have become the world's biggest concerns, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that shedding the "holier-than- thou" attitude is the key to overcoming these issues and resolving conflicts ... Time has changed ... He said one of the major issues faced by the world is conflict management but the Indians know how to resolve the conflict and cited mythology to underscore his point ... ....

Would be happy if my art dents mindsets: Sufi Kathak dancer Manjari

Edit The Times of India 14 May 2016
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) As a young Kathak student from Luknow, Manjari Chaturvedi learnt her first lessons in communal harmony during the Babri Masjid's demolition in 1992, which resulted in ugly incidents of sectarian violence in the country ... On the dancer's part, it was a pathbreaking effort to blend Kathak, the classical dance heavily based on Hindu mythology, with Sufism, which professes love, not God ... "Black negates everything....

My island idyll to see the precious puffins

Edit Belfast Telegraph 14 May 2016
I had an amazing experience last week, which I’ve been dying to tell you about ever since ... And I have to say it was worth the long wait ... diverse variety of wildlife ... And it did ... This is. situated in the most spectacular spot, in between huge jagged stacks that look like the handiwork of the mythological giant Finn McCool; overlooking the ocean with Donegal, Islay, Jura, the Hebrides and the Mull of Kintyre all lined up on the horizon ... ....
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