By Marianna Richardson – – – In a stirring opening address at the 2025 G20 …| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On August 28th, 2025, …| Viewpoints
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In an ever-changing and unpredictable world, the best way to place long-term bets is to understand what has remained the same for centuries.| Hulry
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On August 8, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum hosted its final "Faith in Action: Reflections" webinar, focusing on "Disaster Preparedness, Relief, and Recovery." The discussion brought together faith-based humanitarian leaders to examine how religious communities serve as first responders…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On July 31st, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum, in partnership with Praeveni Global, hosted a webinar on "Faith Leadership and Missions" as part of a monthly series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Palermo Protocol. The panel explored how…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On July 31, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum hosted its fourth "Faith in Action: Reflections" webinar, focusing on "Migration and Refugee Movements, Human Trafficking, and Modern Slavery." The discussion brought together anti-trafficking practitioners and advocates to examine how faith…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On July 24, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum hosted its third "Faith in Action: Reflections" webinar, focusing on "Addressing Interreligious Tensions Through Literacy and Enhancing Understanding and Harmony." The discussion brought together diverse faith leaders and practitioners to examine…| Viewpoints
Northern Residents: A34s (heard and sighted Blackfish Sound/Queen Charlotte Strait) [A42s plus A94 in Salish Sea] Bigg’s Orcas: T036A1 and T036A1A, T065As Humpbacks: Quartz, Inukshuk, Stitch| orcalab.org
Tap-tap-tap. Ummm... Is this thing still working? Heck it's been a while. Let's see... We've had sixteen sessions of this campa...| aftertheogre.blogspot.com
On July 17, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum hosted its second "Faith in Action: Reflections" webinar, focusing on "Economic and Financial Action: Faith Perspectives on Economic Justice." The discussion brought together faith leaders and practitioners to examine how religious communities can address debt injustice and economic inequality. The panel featured…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – The G20 Interfaith Forum launched its "Faith in Action: Reflections" webinar series on July 10, 2025, with a powerful discussion on "The Role of Inter-religious Actors in Addressing Hunger and Poverty." The inaugural session featured Dr. Renier Koegelenberg, Executive…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On May 28-29, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum Association hosted Africa Week at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, dedicating significant time to amplifying youth voices on global governance priorities. The session "The Youth's Voice in Solidarity, Equality, and Sustainability"…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On May 28-29, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum Association hosted Africa Week at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, bringing together global experts to examine complex intersections between traditional belief systems, indigenous rights, and international policy frameworks. The session on…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On May 28-29, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum Association hosted Africa Week at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, examining how diverse stakeholders can meaningfully engage with global governance structures. This gathering featured key government officials and civil society leaders…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On May 28-29, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum Association hosted Africa Week at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, bringing together interfaith representatives, youth leaders, and G20 engagement groups to explore how Africa's diverse faith communities can meaningfully contribute to…| Viewpoints
By Katherine Marshall, IF20 Vice President – – – Relationships between governments and religious communities take diverse forms in different countries, ranging from virtual theocracies to those that are purposefully secular. A common feature nonetheless has been a focus on executive branches of governments. Thus an ambitious meeting on interfaith…| Viewpoints
Northern Residents: A34s (heard and sighted Blackfish Sound/Queen Charlotte Strait) [A42s plus A94 in Salish Sea] Bigg’s Orcas: T125A and T128 Humpbacks: Quartz, Inukshuk, Stitch(?)| orcalab.org
By Katherine Marshall, IF20 Vice President – – – Leaders hoping for peaceful, flourishing, and harmonious societies in today’s world contend with the dual challenge of promoting common values and a positive, unifying national identity, at the same time that they value and manage the trend towards increasing diversity of…| Viewpoints
By Marianna Richardson, Director of Communications for the G20 Interfaith Forum – – – On May 13-14, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum Association, in partnership with the United Religions Initiative (URI), the Inter-Religious Council of Ethiopia, and the African Union, hosted a two-day conference on "Africa's Faith Communities: Advancing the…| Viewpoints
Prevention as Protection: Children with disabilities in Rhode Island experience less maltreatment with early intervention. Children with disabilities, developmental delay or are at risk of delay […] The post Prevention as Protection: Federal Early Intervention in Rhode Island appeared first on The Heckman Equation.| The Heckman Equation
Home Visiting & Life Cycle Outcomes: High-quality family support demonstrates sustained effects into adolescence. From pregnancy to age five, the Preparing for Life (PFL) program provided […]| The Heckman Equation
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. – – – On March 27th, 2025, the G20 Interfaith Forum, in partnership with Praeveni Global, hosted the first webinar in a monthly series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Palermo Protocol, which will lead up to the G20 in South Africa…| Viewpoints
Here is a belated summary by the player of Merrill, up to the start of the current fight. Some of the below is inaccurate from my PoV from behind the metaphorical GM screen. Nonetheless as the account of an imperfect in-character recollection, we can let it stand. As always, I am giving out an Impulse Point to any player who writes a summary for the blog.| After the Ogre
Here are some screenshots from the last session. The battle with the goblin-kin continues... | After the Ogre
Here are some screenshots from the last session. The party's fight with the goblin-kin continues... | After the Ogre
We played yesterday. The fight with the goblin-kin picked up from the previous session. | After the Ogre
Session 82 was last Tuesday. We picked up the combat from the start of turn 10, where we had paused the PbP (see the interlude summaries). | After the Ogre
We had a session on Tuesday. However before we get to summarising that, I should finish summarising the PbP interlude. There was a second wave of goblin-kin after the first, and we got partway through that via PbP, before we switched back to the regular online session. | After the Ogre
The G20 Interfaith Forum (IF20) hosted a series of Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) meetings in Cape Town, South Africa, from February 24 to 28, 2025. These meetings aimed to advance interfaith dialogue and policy recommendations for global peacebuilding, religious freedom, and social cohesion. The events were led by…| Viewpoints
By JoAnne Wadsworth, Communications Consultant, G20 Interfaith Forum. - - - On February 17, 2025, during the opening session of the G20 Interfaith Forum pre-meetings at the Future Africa Centre at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Prof. Muhammed Haron, Head of Office in the Office of the Deputy Minister of…| Viewpoints
By Katherine Marshall, Vice President, G20 Interfaith Association - - - Members of the G20 Interfaith Forum leadership visited South Africa (the G20 2025 host) in February. The focus was on planning for G20 Interfaith events over the course of the year, and the group included Cole Durham, Tim Stratford,…| Viewpoints
Feb. 2-3. 2025 FIDELA is the Interreligious Forum of the Americas (Foro Interreligioso de las Americas). FIDELA helps to bring together individuals and organizations of faith, that address the issues and hope to be part of the solution to the problems that the people and the nations of the western…| Viewpoints
By Marianna Richardson, Director of Communications for the G20 Interfaith Forum – – – At the International Religious Freedom Summit, Brett Scharffs, Professor of Law at J. Reuben Clark Law School and director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies and a member of the IF20 board, focused…| Viewpoints
By Marianna Richardson, Director of Communications for the G20 Interfaith Forum – – – Elder Ulisses Soares, an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke at both the Global Faith Forum and the International Religious Freedom Summit 2025 during the first week in February. During both…| Viewpoints
By Marianna Richardson, Director of Communications for the G20 Interfaith Forum – – – Vice President Vance made an appearance and gave a significant speech at the IRF Summit. He pointed out that fostering a culture in which faith can thrive allows men and women to fully appreciate and respect…| Viewpoints
Last session we ended with the party were standing on a hilltop, watching the manticore fly away... Both the barbarian players were absent this session, so Ben and Violetta guarded the rear, and did not feature in the main fight.| After the Ogre
This session picked up with the party about to camp at the end of the first day after leaving the village.. . Session Date: Tue...| aftertheogre.blogspot.com
This session was the first game of the year. We picked up and the end of a week of downtime, during which time the PCs had been recovering from their recent adventure and talking to the locals in order to gather information.| After the Ogre
This session was last month. The last game of the year in fact . Session Date: Tuesday 17 December 2024 Party roster: Ben , hal...| aftertheogre.blogspot.com
Here we have our first session summary from the player of Violetta, the human "barbarian" from another world. This picks up from partway through the previous session, as Violetta recaps from when they (re-)encountered the slime. | After the Ogre
This session was last Tuesday. There have been more roster changes. Let me explain. | After the Ogre
It has been nine (9!) sessions since our last update. I have been lax. The longer I leave it the worse it gets. In that time, the campaign has reached the arbitrary landmark of 100 sessions in a little over two years. Unfortunately we have also lost a player (boo!), but thankfully gained another (hurrah!). Here is a brief summation of events.| After the Ogre
Session 94 was last week. Session 93 was the previous week. Here is a brief summation of events across the two sessions.| After the Ogre
We were again missing 2 players for last week's session. Here is a summary with some screenshots.| After the Ogre
Enhancing quality early care and education can offer a win-win solution for re-mobilizing the workforce, developing an up-and-coming talent pool and increasing economic activity now and in the decades ahead. In this webinar and accompanying summary, research by expert economists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is paired with the return on investment findings from Professor… The post The Dual Return on Investing in Quality Early Childhood Programs appeared first on The Heckman Equation.| The Heckman Equation
Session 91 was last Tuesday. We had a small group of 3 players, as two couldn't make it. We also ended earlier than usual, due to unavoidable interruption.| After the Ogre
Here is a belated summary by the player of Merrill, from the end of the big battle with the orcs and goblins by Titan's Hand. As always, I am giving out an Impulse Point to any player who writes a summary for the blog.| After the Ogre
It's been several weeks and I have been lax in posting. We have still been playing. I even have a summary from a player which I h ave...| aftertheogre.blogspot.com
As I said in the previous post , we unfortunately expect to be missing two players next session (both the barbarians) for different rea...| aftertheogre.blogspot.com
