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GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a graph based image processing
GEGL provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non destructive
image editing on larger than RAM buffers. Through babl it provides
support for a wide range of color models and pixel storage formats for
input and output.
• Floating point handling and processing and output of larger 8bit,
16bit integer and 32bit floating point per component buffers larger
than RAM.
• C, vala, C#, Python and Ruby interfaces using a consistent DOM like
graph API to manage processing graphs.
• Processing
□ Iterative chunk-wise processing.
□ Processes subregions and dependencies.
□ Subgraph caches to aid performance of non-destructive editing.
□ Experimental OpenCL acceleration, with possibility of hybrid
cpu/gpu processing.
• GeglBuffer
□ Storage of all babl supported formats.
□ Tiled sparse buffers (larger than RAM images).
□ linear buffers (allocated internally or from external
□ On demand tiled mipmapping.
□ inter process shared storage
□ External tile-backends (allow wrapping other tiled buffer
systems to use them through the GeglBuffer API).
• Operations
□ PNG, JPEG, SVG, EXR, RAW, ffmpeg, v4l and other image sources.
□ Pattern renderers
□ Arithmetic operations
□ link_operations.html#porter_duff[porter duff compositing]
□ SVG filter modes and full set of compositing ops from SVG-1.2
□ Gaussian blur, bilateral-filter, symmetric nearest neighbour,
□ blur, unsharp mask, pixelize and more.
□ Color correction.
□ Text rendering using cairo and pango.
□ HDR exposure merging and tone mapping operations.
□ Most operations operate in scRGB (using 32bit floating point/
HDR linear light RGBA)
• Bounding box based hit detection.
• XML serialization format (not-finalized)
This website is built at the time of the previous GEGL tarball release,
for information about what might change on the way to the next release
follow the following news sources:
Change log
For day to day fixes, contributions and changes.
The NEWS file for a list of major new features (also contains older
for known and tracked issues with GEGL and perhaps see the
The mailinglist archives for some discussion and announcement.
For examples of what GEGL's rendering engine currently can do look at
the gallery.
The GEGL project uses GNOME Bugzilla, a bug-tracking system that allows
us to coordinate bug reports. Bugzilla is also used for enhancement
requests and the preferred way to submit patches for GEGL is to open a
bug report and attach the patch to it. Bugzilla is also the closest you
will find to a roadmap for GEGL.
Below is a list of links to get you started with Bugzilla:
• List of Open Bugs
• List of Open Bugs (excluding enhancement requests)
• List of Enhancement Proposals
• Bugzilla Weekly Summary
You can subscribe to gegl-developer and view the archives here. The
GEGL developer list is the appopriate place to ask development
questions, and get more information about GEGL development in general.
You can email this list at email@example.com.
GEGL development is also discussed in #gegl on GIMPnet (irc.gimp.org).
GEGL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License and GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 3 of the Licenses, or (at your option) any later version. The
library itself is licensed under LGPL while the sample commandline
application and GUI binary gegl is licensed under GPL.
Many people have contributed to GEGL over time the following lists are
are ordered chronologically according to when they are mentioned in the
Calvin Williamson, Caroline Dahloff, Manish Singh, Jay Cox Daniel
Rogers, Sven Neumann, Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Philip Lafleur,
Dominik Ernst, Richard Kralovic, Kevin Cozens, Victor Bogado, Martin
Nordholts, Geert Jordaens, Michael Schumacher, John Marshall, Étienne
Bersac, Mark Probst, Håkon Hitland, Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer, Deji
Akingunola and Bradley Broom, Hans Petter Jansson, Jan Heller,
email@example.com, Sven Anders, Hubert Figuière, Sam Hocevar, yahvuu
at gmail.com, Nicolas Robidoux, Ruben Vermeersch, Gary V. Vaughan,
James Legg, Henrik Åkesson, Fryderyk Dziarmagowski, Ozan Caglayan,
Tobias Mueller, Nils Philippsen, Adam Turcotte, Danny Robson, Javier
Jardón and Yakkov Selkowitz, Kaja Liiv, Eric Daoust, Damien de Lemeny,
Fabian Groffen, Vincent Untz, Debarshi Ray, Stuart Axon, Kao, Barak
Itkin, Michael Muré, Mikael Magnusson, Patrick Horgan, Tobias
Ellinghaus, Rasmus Hahn, Chantal Racette, John Cupitt, Anthony Thyssen,
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Robert Sasu, Massimo Valentini, Hans Lo,
Zbigniew Chyla, David Evans, Javier Jardón, Matteo F. Vescovi and Jan
Garry R. Osgood, Øyvind Kolås, Kevin Cozens and Shlomi Fish.
Jakub Steiner, Øyvind Kolås, Tonda Tavalec
Building from source
GEGL and it's dependencies are known to work on Linux based systems,
windows with msys/mingw, and probably other platforms.
The latest development snapshot, and eventually stable versions of GEGL
are available at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gegl/.
The current code under development can be browsed online and cloned
from GNOME git using:
$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/babl
$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gegl
GEGL currently builds and works on linux, win32 and OSX most probably
also on other systems where glib and gtk+ work.
• Core
□ glib (including gobject, and gmodule) 2.16 or newer, which
provides inheritance, dynamic modules, common algorithms and
data structures for C programming.
□ babl 0.0.22 or newer (for pixel-format agnostisism).
□ libpng (png load/export ops, and image magick fallback import)
□ ruby (only if building from git)
• GUI (sandbox for testing ops and the API)
• Optional dependencies for operations.
□ SDL (display op)
□ libjpeg (jpg loader op)
□ libopenexr (exr loader op)
□ libopenraw (raw loader op)
□ cairo, pango (text source op)
□ avcodec, avformat (ff-load and experimental ff-save)
□ librsvg (svg loader)
• Documentation (this document)
□ asciidoc
To build GEGL type the following in the toplevel source directory:
$ ./configure # or: ./autogen.sh if building from git
$ make
$ sudo make install
With GEGL you chain together image processing operations represented by
nodes into a graph. GEGL provides such operations for loading and
storing images, adjusting colors, filtering in different ways,
transforming and compositing images.
GEGL's programmer/user interface is a Directed Acyclic Graph of nodes.
The DAG expresses a processing chain of operations. A DAG, or any node
in it, expresses a composited and processed image. It is possible to
request rectangular regions in a wide range of pixel formats from any
This howto describes good-to-know things for developing gegl
Public API
The public API reference documents the API used for creating things
with GEGL, this API does not change much at all and is also the API
provided by language bindings. To make the public API available when
compiling a .c file add #include <gegl.h>, compile and link with the
flags provided by pkg-config and you should be all set. When you are
comfortable with the public API, or are using GEGL in some project
looking at the Operation reference might be useful.
The public API also includes GeglBuffer, a flexible tiled and linear
raster buffer storage system.
The bindings for use of GEGL in other programming languages than C are
co-hosted with GEGL in GNOME git but are not part of the regular GEGL
distribution. The following language bindings are currently available:
vala, C#, Python and Ruby.
Hello world
The following is a small sample GEGL application that animates a zoom
on a mandelbrot fractal. compile it with:
$ gcc hello-world.c `pkg-config --libs --cflags gegl` -o hello-world
This example and others can be found in the examples subdir of the GEGL
#include <gegl.h>
#include <glib/gprintf.h>
main (gint argc,
gchar **argv)
g_thread_init (NULL);
gegl_init (&argc, &argv); /* initialize the GEGL library */
/* instantiate a graph */
GeglNode *gegl = gegl_node_new ();
This is the graph we're going to construct:
| display |
| over |
| \
| \
| \
| |
| .------.
| | text |
| `------'
| fractal-explorer |
/*< The image nodes representing operations we want to perform */
GeglNode *display = gegl_node_create_child (gegl, "gegl:display");
GeglNode *over = gegl_node_new_child (gegl,
"operation", "gegl:over",
GeglNode *text = gegl_node_new_child (gegl,
"operation", "gegl:text",
"size", 10.0,
"color", gegl_color_new ("rgb(1.0,1.0,1.0)"),
GeglNode *mandelbrot = gegl_node_new_child (gegl,
"operation", "gegl:fractal-explorer",
"width", 512,
"height", 384,
gegl_node_link_many (mandelbrot, over, display, NULL);
gegl_node_connect_to (text, "output", over, "aux");
/* request that the save node is processed, all dependencies will
* be processed as well
gint frame;
gint frames = 200;
for (frame=0; frame<frames; frame++)
gchar string[512];
gdouble t = frame * 1.0/frames;
gdouble cx = -1.76;
gdouble cy = 0.0;
#define INTERPOLATE(min,max) ((max)*(t)+(min)*(1.0-t))
gdouble xmin = INTERPOLATE( cx-0.02, cx-2.5);
gdouble ymin = INTERPOLATE( cy-0.02, cy-2.5);
gdouble xmax = INTERPOLATE( cx+0.02, cx+2.5);
gdouble ymax = INTERPOLATE( cy+0.02, cy+2.5);
if (xmin<-3.0)
if (ymin<-3.0)
gegl_node_set (mandelbrot, "xmin", xmin,
"ymin", ymin,
"xmax", xmax,
"ymax", ymax,
g_sprintf (string, "%1.3f,%1.3f %1.3f×%1.3f",
xmin, ymin, xmax-xmin, ymax-ymin);
gegl_node_set (text, "string", string, NULL);
gegl_node_process (display);
/* free resources used by the graph and the nodes it owns */
g_object_unref (gegl);
/* free resources globally used by GEGL */
gegl_exit ();
return 0;
Operation API
An API to extend the functionality of GEGL with new image processing
primitive, file loaders, export formats or similar.
Each GEGL operation is defined in a .c file that gets turned into a
single shared object that is loaded. Each operation is a subclass of
one of the provided base classes:
The base operation class, which all the other base classes are
derived from, deriving from this is often quite a bit of work and
is encouraged only when your operation doesn't fit into any of the
other categories
The filter base class sets up GeglBuffers for input and output pads
The point-filter base class is for filters where an output pixel
only depends on the color and alpha values of the corresponding
input pixel. This allows you to do the processing on linear
buffers, in the future versions of GEGL operations implemented
using the point-filter will get speed increases due to more
intelligent processing possible in the point filter class
The AreaFilter base class allows defining operations where the
output data depends on a neighbourhood with an input window that
extends beyond the output window, the information about needed
extra pixels in different directions should be set up in the
prepare callback for the operation.
Composer operations are operations that take two inputs named input
and aux and write their output to the output pad output
A baseclass for composer functions where the output pixels' values
depends only on the values of the single corresponding input and
aux pixels.
Operations used as render sources or file loaders, the process
method receives a GeglBuffer to write it's output into
The point-render base class is a specialized source operation,
where the render is done in small piece to lower the need to do
copies. It's dedicated to operation which may be rendered in
pieces, like pattern generation.
An operation that consumes a GeglBuffer, used for filewriters,
display (for the sdl display node)
Base class for operations that want access to previous frames in a
video sequence, it contains API to configure the amounts of frames
to store as well as getting a GeglBuffer pointing to any of the
previously stored frames.
Used for GEGL operations that are implemented as a sub-graph, at
the moment these are defined as C files but should in the future be
possible to declare as XML instead.
To create your own operations you should start by looking for one that
does approximatly what you already need. Copy it to a new .c source
file, and replace the occurences of the filename (operation name in the
Take a look at the brightness contrast operation for a point operation
well sprinkled with comments as a starting point.
Some environment variables can be set to alter how GEGL runs, all of
these options are also available as properties on a singleton GObject
returned from gegl_config ().
A value between 0.0 and 1.0 indicating a trade-off between quality
and speed. Defaults to 1.0 (max quality).
The amount of error that babl tolerates, set it to for instance 0.1
to use some conversions that trade some quality for speed.
The number of pixels processed simulatnously.
The tile size used internally by GEGL, defaults to 128x64
The directory where temporary swap files are written, if not
specified GEGL will not swap to disk. Be aware that swapping to
disk is still experimental and GEGL is currently not removing the
per process swap files.
The size of the tile cache used by GeglBuffer specified in
set it to "all" to enable all debugging, more specific domains for
debugging information are also available.
When set babl will write a html file (/tmp/babl-stats.html)
containing a matrix of used conversions, as well as all existing
conversions and which optimized paths are followed.
Display tile/buffer leakage statistics.
Show the results of have/need rect negotiations.
Print a performance instrumentation breakdown of GEGL and it's
operations. GEGL_USE_OPENCL: Enable use of OpenCL processing.
GEGL provides a commandline tool called gegl, for working with the XML
data model from file, stdin or the commandline. It can display the
result of processing the layer tree or save it to file.
Some examples:
Render a composition to a PNG file:
$ gegl composition.xml -o composition.png
Invoke gegl like a viewer for gegl compositions:
$ gegl -ui -d 5 composition.xml
Using gegl with png's passing through stdin/stdout piping.
$ cat input.png | gegl -o - -x "<gegl>
<node class='invert'/>
<node class='scale' x='0.5' y='0.5'/>
<node class='png-load' path='-'/></tree></gegl>" > output.png
The latest development version is available in the gegl repository in
GNOME git.
gegl usage
The following is the usage information of the gegl binary, this
documentation might not be complete.
usage: /home/pippin/src/gegl/bin/.libs/lt-gegl [options] <file | -- [op [op] ..]>
-h, --help this help information
-i, --file read xml from named file
-x, --xml use xml provided in next argument
--dot output a graphviz graph description
-o, --output output generated image to named file, type based
on extension.
-p increment frame counters of various elements when
processing is done.
-X output the XML that was read in
-v, --verbose print diagnostics while running
All parameters following -- are considered ops to be chained together
into a small composition instead of using an xml file, this allows for
easy testing of filters. Be aware that the default value will be used
for all properties.
The main source of documentation as GEGL grows is the operations
reference. Plug-ins themselves register information about the
categories they belong to, what they do, and documentation of the
available parameters.
A link/pipe routing image flow between operations within the graph
goes from an output pad to an input pad, in graph glossary this
might also be referred to as an edge.
Directed Acyclic Graph, see graph.
A composition of nodes, the graph is a DAG.
The nodes are connected in the graph. A node has an associated
operation or can be constructed graph.
The processing primitive of GEGL, is where the actual image
processing takes place. Operations are plug-ins and provide the
actual functionality of GEGL
The part of a node that exchanges image content. The place where
image "pipes" are used to connect the various operations in the
input pad
consumes image data, might also be seen as an image parameter to
the operation.
output pad
a place where data can be requested, multiple input pads can
reference the same output pad.
Properties are what controls the behavior of operations. Through
the use of GParamSpecs properties they are self documenting via
Directory overview
GEGL dirs
Directories marked with ⊙ use GNU make extensions to include any .c
file dropped into the directory in the build.
├──gegl core source of GEGL, library init/deinit,
│ │
│ ├──buffer contains the implementation of GeglBuffer
│ │ - sparse (tiled)
│ │ - recursivly subbuffer extendable
│ │ - clipping rectangle (defaults to bounds when making
│ │ subbuffers)
│ │ - storage in any babl supported pixel format
│ │ - read/write rectangular region as linear buffer for
│ │ any babl supported pixel format.
│ ├──graph graph storage and manipulation code.
│ ├──module The code to load plug-ins located in a colon seperated
│ │ list of paths from the environment variable GEGL_PATH
│ ├──operation The GeglOperation base class, and subclasses that act
│ │ as baseclasses for implementeting different types of
│ │ operation plug-ins.
│ ├──process The code controlling data processing.
│ └──property-types specialized classes/paramspecs for GeglOperation
│ properties.
├──examples ⊙ hello-world and other example uses of the GEGL API.
├──tests various tests used to maintain stability when developing
├──operations Runtime loaded plug-ins for image processing operations.
│ │
│ ├──core ⊙ Basic operations tightly coupled with GEGL.
│ ├──affine Transforming operations (rotate/scale/translate)
│ ├──generated ⊙ Operations generated from scripts (currently
│ ├──external Operations with external dependencies.
│ ├──common ⊙ Other operations.
│ └──workshop ⊙ Works in progress, (you must pass --enable-workshop
│ │ when configurig to build these by default, you can enter
│ │ the directory manually and type make && sudo make install
│ │ as well.
│ │
│ ├──external operations in the workshop with external dependencies.
│ └──generated generated operations that are in the workshop.
├──docs The GEGL website (this documentation), built for your
│ │ the corresponding sourcetree with correct documentation
│ │ etc.
│ │
│ └──gallery ⊙ A gallery of sample GEGL compositions, using the
│ │ (not yet stabilized) XML format.
│ │
│ └──data Image data used by the sample compositions.
├──bin gegl binary, for processing XML compositions to png files.
├──bindings bindings for using GEGL from other programming languages
│ not included in the tarball distribution but exist in
│ the git repository.
└──tools some small utilities to help the build.
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Public API
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Directory overview
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Over the years I have witnessed many different scheduling changes. Most did not seem worth the effort, but there have been four that continue to impress me over the years. I believe you will find these scheduling structures helpful regardless of whether you work in an elementary, middle or high school. Maybe you won't implement any of the four ideas, but one or more of them could generate your own system as you bounce the ideas around in your head.
The first structure is for grades 3-5 or 4-6 in an elementary school. I call this Elementary School Departmentalization. Instead of students switching between teachers of the same grade level, the elementary team consists of one grade 3 teacher, one grade 4 teacher and one grade 5 teacher. Each of the three have a specialty – social studies, math or science. All three teachers are responsible for teaching language arts. The daily schedule for each teacher involves them teaching language arts and their specialty in the morning to their home room and in the afternoon teaching their specialty to the other two grade levels. For example, the grade 4 teacher could be the social studies teacher. He or she would teach language arts and social studies in the morning to grade 4 students and then social studies to both grades 3 and 5 in the afternoon. Each day this teacher would see last year's students for a period and next year's students for a period. This structure meets the needs of academic deep knowledge and at the same time strengthens relationships because each teacher works with each student over a three-year period of time.
The second structure is probably best suited for elementary also, but a variation could be utilized for secondary schools. The teaching day for most teachers remains the same, but for special education, art, music, PE, etc. the schedule changes by two hours. The teaching day for some teachers would be 10-5 instead of 8-3. This scheduling includes some full-time teachers in the after-school program. The one time I observed this, the music teacher had a dozen ensembles after school. In addition to the enhanced after-school program, many classroom teachers love having all of their students together for the first two hours of the day with no pull-out for special purposes.
The third structure I observed was in a middle school solving the issue of less learning for far too many students in the afternoon. The school offered 7 periods a day to students. The days were labeled A,B,C,D,E,F, G. On "A" day students met their classes in order 1-7. The second day, labeled "B," they first met classes 2-7 and then 1. The third day, they met classes 3-7 and then 1 and 2 and so on. Further, they changed the minutes. The first three periods of the day were 60 minutes long and the period just before lunch was 30 minutes. The first two afternoon periods were 60 minutes and the last period of the day was 30 minutes. The students, teachers and administrators loved the scheduling. They solved the researched problem of less learning in afternoon classrooms for too many students.
The final structure was for 100 high school students who preferred to go to school in the evening. Four teachers were assigned to teach Monday to Thursday night with the same number of minutes of instruction as other students received in 5 days. What most amazed these teachers was that the students who were most disruptive during the day were cooperative in the evening.
It is my opinion that far too many of our structural changes do not bring about the improvement we desire. I am impressed with the willingness of these teachers, students and administrators to think outside of the box in order to enhance productivity and learning outcomes.

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July 2
On July 2, since 1659, the Italian city of Siena has hosted Il
Palio, a medieval-style horse race around its central piazza that
lasts only 70 seconds but occupies local citizens for the entire
year. It's no Kentucky Derby, with high-stakes Thoroughbreds and
swank parties; it's a celebration of the soul of the city. Each of
17 competing horses represents a neighborhood. On race morning, the
horses are led into Mass at local churches to be blessed by a
priest, and the jockeys, who ride bareback, are bedecked in their
neighborhoods' special colors and symbols (she-wolf, dragon,
porcupine, noble goose). Weeks of feasting, partying, and betting
precede the race, and afterward, throughout the year, each
neighborhood puts on a colorful, noisy festival anticipating next
year's Palio. While you might balk at the idea of staging a horse
race in your own town square, you might tap into Palio's grand
spirit by organizing interneighborhood softball games or volleyball
matches, complete with festive decorations and a party
August 1
Celebrated for centuries, August 1 (Lughnasadh, the Celts call
it; Lammas to the Anglo-Saxons) marks the start of the harvest
season when grains, fruits, and vegetables ripen. Lugh was an
influential Celtic god, the master of light whose gift of long days
made the harvest possible. Food is, of course, the celebration's
centerpiece. Some English village churches still hold a Loaf-Mass
to bless bread made from the season's first wheat. Fresh-baked
bread can begin your own Lughnasadh feast; add freshly picked
berries, tomatoes, melons, and sweet corn from the garden or
farmers' market. Traditionally, this celebration was marked with
merry fairs featuring agricultural displays, athletic contests, and
games–which inspired our own state and county fairs, held across
rural North America in late July and August. This was also a time
when young men and women engaged in serious wooing of prospective
mates, a tradition that has survived, as anyone who has watched
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NEW BRITAIN - With the music playing over the loudspeakers, Byron Jones bounced around from station to station working with and talking to kids about different drills or simply taking questions about what it's like playing in the National Football League.
The New Britain native, St. Paul graduate, former UConn safety and current Dallas Cowboys cornerback couldn't have asked for better weather, he said, to hold his first annual Bryon Jones Football Camp on Saturday at the PAL Raider Facility on Slater Road, the same place he played football growing up.
It was important for the event. Jones wanted to give back to the place where he began on his football journey to the NFL. But just as important was the message he wanted to give to the 250 young players - all ages 8-14 - in attendance: "Anything you want to achieve is possible, you just have to go out and work hard for it."
"It means everything honestly," Jones said of giving back to the New Britain community with his football camp. "It's an opportunity for the kids to see someone who grew up in New Britain, Connecticut, went to school right down the street, grew up on Slater Road and succeed and get to the highest level of football. I want these kids to be able to take that home and say 'I know Bryon Jones, a normal guy who grew up right down the street. I can be something great.' Just like that. That's the important part for these kids to understand is you can have a dream, but you have to have a plan to get there."
Around he moved around the field, it was hard not to notice the Cowboys and UConn jerseys and shirts among the crowd of people who came out to support the camp with Jones taking time to talk to them or take a photo.
There were also plenty of volunteers. There were a number of former collegiate players on the field running drills such as former CCSU linebacker Jeff Marino. Jones' former head coach at St. Paul, Jude Kelly, was an instructor. Whitsons Culinary, the New Britain Police Department and New Britain Parks and Recreation also donated supplies, time and volunteers for the event.
"This is amazing," said Marino, who also an all-conference player for New Britain High School. "This exactly is what the youth needs. This camp is showing the importance of fundamentals of the game and with Byron coming back and giving back to the community, showing there's always things you can work on. Helping out the youth and helping out the kids, the best part about it is its gives a sense of family. We all grew up in this city. We're coming back to give back to this city and teaching kids not just about football, but about the hard work and determination that comes with it."
Jones first came up for the idea for his camp during this past football season and reached out to New Britain Police Sergeant Matt Marino, who help spearhead the event and get things into motion. Much to Jones' surprise, within three days of registration being open, the camp had reached its capacity.
But as Jones was working on putting the camp together, it was also important for him to involve the New Britain Police Athletic League.
"I came up through the [PAL] program just like my brothers and this program has given me so much," Jones said. "I just think it's only right that I come back and give back to them as much as they have to me. I want this to be an every year thing, not just a one-time thing, especially for the kids in New Britain."
On the field, as the clocked ticked away and the sun brighter, the players rotated through their drills. There were plenty of smiles through each change, especially getting to learn from the quality of coaches on hand. Those coaches enjoyed it just as much.
"It's nice to see players who played for you that are still in the game and doing things to help other people," Kelly said. "Obviously, Byron Jones, New Britain guy, played here, played for us at St. Paul and for the University of Connecticut and he's just a wonderful, wonderful person. I tell people all the time Byron is a tremendous athlete, but he's an ever better person."
For Jones, there wasn't a better place to hold his inaugural football camp. As he said, giving back to the community is always important.
"I'm always going to be from New Britain, Connecticut," Jones said. "I'm always going to be here and coming home and helping the kids."
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This is another sentiment from my new My Favorite Things sentiment set.
The butterflies are all punched from American Crafts Amy Tangerine On A Whim scraps with a Martha Stewart punch (it punches 2 small and one large butterfly at once, if you want 3 butterflies).
I did think, "oh, my, what have I gotten myself into??" about halfway through the gluing process. I am in love with the final card.
Supplies: Stamp – My Favorite Things, paper – American Crafts Amy Tangerine On A Whim, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Stardream Silver, ink – VersaMark, die – Lawn Fawn, punch – Martha Stewart, embossing powder – Stampin' Up! Sterling Silver.


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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1971)
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Critic Reviews for When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
All Critics (5) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (4) | DVD (1)
The folks who brought you One Million Years B.C. have done it again, folks.
Entertains similarly to other prehistoric movies of the time - which is to provide little more than buoyant action, adventure, and stop-motion monstrosities.
A corny, fun outing; more Hammer than history. the special effects are decent and the women are eye-candy. A hoot.
How could any exotica cult film buff take a pass on this extravaganza?
Audience Reviews for When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
The third film by Hammer revolving around cavemen and women and occasionally dinosaurs. Before this was the first and most well known film with Harryhausen effects...'One Million Years BC', then came the sordid sounding 'Slave Girls'. I'm not overly sure why they made this film as its pretty much the same spiel as their first and best film 'One Million Years'. The plot is almost the same really, there is one tribe of caveblokes that are a bit sacrifice happy with their blondes and one tribe that are a bit more normal and haven't seen blonde haired women much it seems (yep blondes are a rare breed in these films). A sexy big breasted blonde escapes the nasty tribe and is found by the good tribe, there she falls in love with a cavebloke which upsets his other cavegirlfriend. The blonde is hounded and chased off but pursued by the nice cavebloke who loves her. All the while the bad cave tribe are also looking for the escaped blonde for some reason, all this leads to much death at the hands of dino's and a big tidal finale...for some reason. That is the plot but like the other films in this series its kinda tricky to follow it as everyone speaks in genuine caveman grunts. Yep its that approach again which Hammer really seemed to like back then, lots of scantily clad women with big breasts and a nonsensical dialog of grunts. Well actually the primitive language is suppose to be made up of genuine ancient dialect's of Phoenician, Latin, and Sanskrit sources, so I guess its quite clever really. Problem is all we ever seem to hear is 'akita' 'yo kita' and 'neecro', I swear if I hear one more damn caveman/women say 'akita' I will flip!!. For me this film is all about the dinosaurs, the plot is too similar, the acting is terrible and the dialog is annoying, only the big breasted cavewomen make it worth while. But the stop motion dinosaurs are awesomely done and actually look really good. The first thing I noticed was the movement on these models, its really really detailed and displays even the smallest skin movements. Sure they are a bit jerky when walking in full motion but their eyes and head movements are great, best example is the unknown dino that befriends 'Sanna' the blonde cavewoman. There are some other nice creatures too including some quite evil looking giant crabs, a nice sea monster moment, a bulky Chasmosaurus and a man eating plant hehe. Unfortunately they do spoil things by using dino footage from 'One Million', even worse they use crappy footage of two real reptiles with stuck on fins/scales fighting, no no no no. The films title is pretty cool, gets you interested and the idea is reasonable but they made 'One Million' four years prior so what was the point?. I just get the feeling they wanted to remake the Welch flick but with better dino effects. I'm not even sure which is better really, 'One Million' is more iconic of course but this has better model work and that's without Harryhausen!. Really I can only recommend this for the excellent dino stop motion models, if you are a Harryhausen/dinosaur/giant creature fan then you will enjoy parts of this film. The rest is complete dross and highly boring, there I said it.
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Wow, what a corny cheesy movie! This is such a silly concept to start with that it could've been slightly more fun if it didn't take itself seriously at all. Tribesmen offer blondes (yes, hair color racism right there) to the sun, since there's some sort of curse on it. It's all very vague because everyone talks on a cave men language that sound like babies talking to one another. Not sold yet? How about cheesy stop motion dinossaurs, cave men romance and skimpy leather bikins? Come on... It's a nice one to watch with your friends, to play a game of "did I spot a nipple right there". Seriously, those furkinis couldn't be any tighter if they tried to.
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Directed by Val Guest and staring Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patric Kingsor. Eirin Rating- PG-12 [IMG]http://i53.tinypic.com/23i9fnm.jpg[/IMG] I think it needs more then what it has got main reason why I say this is because of all the epic effects production designs that just make one fantastic movie. Sure it's not as good as 1 million years B.C. but I still liked this. Also I decide that I would import pictures. Set in a non-existant past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving a sacrifice of a blond woman to their gods in return for protection from the giant lizards looking to snack on them. Sanna, one of the sacrificial offerings, finds herself on her own when a freak storm interrupts the ceremony. As she searches for a safe haven she encounters hostility from rival tribes and lots of huge and very hungry dinos. I have seen its rating and I really disagree this movie is epic and nothing short of it. I liked the people, dinosaurs, visuals, music, and settings. Frankly this film was the benchmark for realistic and extremely believable stop motion animation. [IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/2yl4jg0.jpg[/IMG] 90% for story: It might have its flaws but I really liked it, still not as good as 1 million years B.C. 85% for acting: You don't get much out of them but they do give you a great performances in there roles. 100% for special effects: They are the breakthrough in film, but these stop motion dinosaurs are awesome to watch and look at, really some of the best I have seen. 85% for characters: There awesome most of the time, but some are better then others. 100% for everything else: This is only one movie James Cameron would only dream of making if he did avatar right. I can heavily recommend this and I think every body should see it sooner or later. Keiko's score 90-100
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Opinion: Climate Change Intensifies Injustice in East Oakland
Nov 23, 2018
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity
Mask Oakland and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) deliver breathing masks to local communities.
With the haze of Butte County's "Camp Fire" looming over the Bay Area, the injustices people face have become ever more evident. During this fire, we are most concerned for the health of children, those with asthma and other respiratory issues, outdoor workers and our unhoused neighbors.
Suggestions to stay indoors and switch out masks every eight hours are not feasible as an ultimate solution. It took hustle to get masks to share with schools, local organizations and the unhoused.
We still do not have enough for all that need them. We know that masks are not enough.
Our adult masks do not properly work for children because of fit and activity. The recommendation has been to keep children indoors with air filtration. This is difficult as air filtration devices are not affordable for low-income people, and information on making your own air filtration device is not as accessible.
Everyone has been told to stay indoors to avoid this poor air. This is not possible for our unhoused neighbors and for those housed in spaces unable to keep outdoor air from coming in due to poor insulation.
Poor air quality impacts are nothing new to East Oakland residents. Exposure to pollution from 880, industrial land uses, the Oakland Airport and the Port of Oakland has resulted in harsh smells, nausea and flare-ups of asthma.
In East Oakland, there is twice the rate of asthma emergency department visits. People in the hills of Oakland, on average, will live 15 years longer than those in the flats. Smells reach local schools and recreation centers, which do not have air filtration.
Breathing in East Oakland is a problem year-round. Many residents in East Oakland are Black and Latino, and race has historically not been considered in planning decisions. Most recently, a mega-crematorium, which will burn 3,000 bodies a year, was approved near a neighborhood that is nearly half Black and Latino.
The following are some of CBE's demands, calling on the City and other regional agencies to act with urgency to bring forth justice year-round:
- People must be housed, and housing must be affordable. Our unhoused neighbors and those struggling to stay in their housing need shelter. We demand 100 percent affordable housing on public land.
- Make major investments in community centers, senior centers, schools and libraries to turn them into hubs for daily healing and emergencies, including climate change-related disasters.
- Schools need air filtration, including: Brookfield, Madison, Esperanza, Fred Korematsu Discovery, Rise, New Highland, ACORN/Woodland, EnCompass, CCPA, Greenleaf, Community United, Roots, Futures School of Languages, Aurum Prep, Aspire Golden State, Lodestar, Lighthouse, and Lionel Wilson.
- Address local air quality by funding major greening projects and air filtration.
- Help families in healing from long-term exposure to air quality
- Rezone East Oakland. Current zoning does not provide enough of a buffer needed to protect neighborhoods next to industrial uses.
- Develop an environmental Justice element in the City of Oakland's General Plan.
- We demand local jobs.
We demand urgency but must work at the pace of the community. Major education is required to inform people of upcoming impacts and emergency resources.


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WHY would the NAACP want Charter Schools gone!
Feb 28, 2018 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
NRA and Planned Parenthood were started on the opposite ends of the spectrum.
Dem lawmaker says NRA is not welcome in Brooklyn.
Charter schools work hard to make sure that all forms of education are available to your children. Jeff Brown with Learn4Life joins Joe to discuss how charter schools pick up where traditional comprehensive schools fall short.
Career Technical Education (CTE) is one of the most exciting programs offered at Charter Schools that many public schools cannot handle. When they graduate, they graduate with a career!
Charter schools ARE public schools, funded with taxpayer money, at no charge to the student/families.
Charter schools are GREAT options for children who need personalized learning programs.
Jeff invites them to come visit charter schools and watch the kids thrive! Their number one concern is safety.
For those who'd like to homeschool but don't feel equipped, charter schools are a good option.
Only 17% of students are college bound. CTE programs get kids interested in other fields of study and prepare them to leave high school ready for trade school, or even a job!
Why is NAACP trying to squelch the charter school movement? They want a moratorium on charter schools.
The #1 thing students say they like about charter schools is SAFETY. What does that say about public schools???


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I have upgraded Mailman to v. 2.06. I created a list and then tried to
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If you're big into celebrating various holidays, like Valentines Day, you might be one of those people who changes up their kitchen linens too. Let's throw aprons into the mix, and you'll be all set!
Today, I'm going to show you how to turn Valentine tea towels into two different aprons. Any tea towel will work. So go to your local dollar store or splurge and get a nicer tea towel, whatever your preference. This project is quick and easy and I'm sure you'll want to share one of these with someone you love. Let's embrace the Valentine Day season, shall we?
Let's get started:
Supplies needed:
- Tea Towel
- Thread
- Ribbon (I found this lace red ribbon in the Christmas clearance section at Jo-ann's for 80% off.)
- Scissors
1. If your ribbon has wire in it, pull the wire out.
2. Measure 8 1/4" from the top of the tea towel, mark both sides of a tea towel for the back ties.
3. Cut two pieces of ribbon 22 - 24 inches of ribbon for the back ties & sew right sides facing to the tea towel using 1/4" seam.
4. Finish off the ends of the ribbon by folding 1/4" .
5. Cut a piece of ribbon around 24" for the neck tie. Fold the ribbon in half and pin the edges together.
6. Edge stitch the neck tie ribbon.
7. Pin the edge of the ribbon under and sew the neck tie to the left side of the top of the tea towel.
8. If your tea towel is large, you can add a tuck to the top, front center of the tea towel.
9. Sew both ribbons onto the tea towel with the folded edge toward the wrong side of the tea towel.
10. Sew 1 3/4" piece of the loop side of Velcro to wrong side of the top of the tea towel.
11. Sew the hook side of the Velcro to the right side of the neck tie ribbon.
For the second Valentine apron, you'll need a red bandana instead of ribbon. A bandana makes a sewing project easy because it already has four finished sides and you'll be using all of those finished edges for this apron. This heart tea towel was purchased from my local dollar store.
- 10 1/2" long x 6.25 wide - pocket
- 2) 3 1/2" x length of the bandana using the finished edges on 3 sides - bottom ruffle
- 3) 2 1/2" x length of the bandana - neck and waist ties
Follow steps 2 and 9 from the above tutorial for the placement of the ties.
Now to create the bottom ruffle on this apron, follow the steps below:
1. Sew the ruffle pieces together as shown, stitching the 2 pieces at an angle. Iron this seam.
2. Add a gathering stitch to the unfinished edge of the ruffle.
3. Gather the fabric evenly and sew from the wrong side the ruffle to the bottom edge of the tea towel (use 1/4" seam). Turn the tea towel over and top stitch the bottom of the tea towel.
To make the pocket:
- Mark all the unfinished edges 1/4" .
- Iron the edges under.
- Pin the pocket onto the upper portion of the tea towel.
- Edge stitch the pocket in place, pivoting at each of the corners.
For the waist ties, clean finish the unfinished edges.
To finish this apron, follow steps 6-9 above.
I shared these aprons with my youngest daughter. Growing up, she didn't get a lot of Valentine gifts because it was her twin sisters' birthday. So this year, I'm trying to make-up neglecting her for all those Valentines Days and I'm visiting her family in Okinawa. It's actually great too because now she cooks for me. Happy Valentines Day indeed.
Enjoy making these tea towel aprons. xoxo Grandma
Enjoy making these tea towel aprons. xoxo Grandma
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Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs W&W – Waves (Slander TomorrowWorld Remix)
The countdown to TomorrowWorld's arrival has nearly come to a close, with just about 24 hours left until Chattahoochee Hills transforms into an inviting festival grounds for ravers all over the country. Having already been called upon to produce Tomorrowland 2013's official anthem, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have returned a year later with W&W's masterful assistance to create 2014's theme – "Waves." Little did the world know that with the approach of Tomorrowland's Americanized version of the festival, LA-based duo Slander would enter the scene. Best known for breathing life into "heaven trap," it would only make sense that Derek Andersen and Scott Land were enlisted to try their hand at an official remix for this year's fete. Smooth rifts and soaring synths flirt with trembling 808s, the end result reaching a level of intensity that offsets the pair's more recent celestial series.
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Moving abroad? Here's the checklist to help you plan smarter
Deciding to move abroad will not be a split-second decision for most people.
If you're thinking of becoming an expat you probably have a destination country in mind, but you'll also be thinking how you make the move a success and how you make sure it doesn't cost you your life savings.
With the help of our handy checklist and a little smart planning, moving abroad doesn't have to be difficult.
1. Choosing the right destination
A really important part of moving abroad is choosing the right place to move to. You may have already fallen in love with a country and are ready to move, hence you reading this guide, but have you had a good look at the affordability of your new destination?
Before you commit to moving abroad make sure that you have chosen a country that offers value for money in terms of property prices and the cost of living, as well as economic and political stability.
Use the FairFX Property Abroad Cost Calculator to discover the affordability of your chosen destination. The calculator compares the average price of a property in over 30 countries, based on the average cost of a two-bedroom apartment. It also factors in the cost of buying a car overseas and a year's worth of petrol, utilities and daily essentials such as food and drink.
2. Paying for your property abroad
Whether you're buying or renting, you'll need to transfer pounds from the UK to pay for property costs. Whatever costs your transfers are for, make sure you plan ahead to get a better rate.
Leave your transfer to the last minute and you'll be forced to use the exchange rate on the day, and you could end up paying more than you need to. Start looking at your options now and shop around, remembering to compare providers on a like for like basis.
With our latest Buy & Hold Money Transfer service and a little smart planning, you get a lot more control over your currency transfers. If you know you need to make a Money Transfer at a future date (for a mortgage payment or to top-up your foreign bank account), you don't have to simply hope for a good rate on the day you send the money. You can move your money smarter, and choose when to lock in the exchange rate.
"How does that benefit me?" Head here for a rundown on how the feature works.
3. UK tax requirements
Sorting out your tax bill might not be the most exciting part of the checklist but it is a must. Depending on your residency status you might still be eligible to pay tax in the UK, and if you're being taxed in more than one country you may be eligible for tax relief. You'll also need to consider things such as UK savings accounts and any ISAs that you hold.
Either way, you'll need to notify HMRC that you are planning to leave, and notify the tax authority in your new country of your situation in terms of income and assets. Make sure you understand tax rules in your new country as an expat. Get advice from a local financial adviser who understands your requirements and can help ensure you don't fall foul of local laws.
Head to gov.uk for further guidance on your UK tax requirements.
4. Healthcare
Touch wood that you're in good shape and won't need any medical assistance in your new destination, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Make sure you've looked into registering with the local healthcare provider before you go, or at least understand how to register within a few days of arriving.
If you're leaving the UK permanently you're usually not entitled to NHS healthcare in the UK. Most people usually aren't entitled to use their UK-issued EHIC card either.
In Europe your eligibility for medical care should be the same as that of local citizens (this could change post-Brexit negotiations). Further afield, while your protections will typically not be as strong, Britain does have special agreements with a number of countries.
Make sure to look into this before you go as you may also be required to pay for private medical insurance or make contributions into a national scheme. Head to the NHS Choices website for further guidance.
5. Money when you touch down
If you have ongoing expenses and direct debits in the UK (or you plan to return in a few years) you might want to keep hold of your UK bank account for any Sterling transactions back at home. Contact your bank for assistance with access from abroad.
But if it is a permanent move you'll most certainly need to open a bank account in your new country of residence. For starters this will prevent you having to do a currency conversion every time you buy a pint of milk or a latte. To set up a bank account in your new country, contact your chosen bank before you touchdown, it's likely that you'll need to register in person but at least you'll be able to book an appointment and find out what documents you'll need to present.
6. Final few essentials
It feels silly to even say it but make sure you have printed copies of all your travel documents and any papers for your new home when you land. Immigration control may ask about your visa and your new address. These documents will also help you quickly get set up with a new bank account and register with local services and healthcare providers.
Make sure you plan ahead with your driving license. The UK partners with a number of countries where you can simply switch your existing UK license for a local license, if you have the relevant driving experience – you might still have to do this exchange in person though. And whether you're exchanging or applying for a new license there may still be a few requirements such as eye test, theory or practical exams.
Don't forget that you may still be eligible to vote in UK elections, particularly important if you're keeping your UK citizenship and planning to return in the near future. UK government policies will continue to impact your savings, pension and any UK property or assets...so it'd be nice to still have a say.
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What is good for you?
Hit anhit pashu pakshi ne jaana.
Manush tan gun gyaan nidhana An old man came to one of my events and said, "I'm illiterate, old, and poor. Can I experience peace too?"
He figured 3 faults in himself! Tell me one person in this world who is born educated!


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TLC at IIT Madras conducts various programs related to teaching-learning, across the academic year. A glimpse of the main activities of the centre is given below.
Faculty Development Programme
TLC core team conduct "Faculty Development Programmes" (FDP) for IIT Faculty as well as teachers of outside science and engineering colleges, with the help of experts from Texas A&M and Wipro Technologies. FDP focuses on current and emerging teaching-learning methodologies/ technologies to motivate the faculty towards professional excellence and satisfaction. A typical FDP will be of three days in duration.
What do you expect from a FDP?
The faculty development programs raises the following questions and assist you to find answers which are supported by research based data.
How to motivate the learners?
How do you familiarize the diverse group of learners that you are teaching in a class room?
How do you write learning outcomes for your course?
How do you conduct classes based on active and cooperative learning strategies?
How do you make an assessment plan?
How do you do reflective teaching?
Interactive sessions on ideas/thoughts /personal experiences in education
TLC conducts sessions on 'experience sharing' in teaching by faculties in science and engineering disciplines at IIT Madras. The purpose of these sessions is to bring both senior and junior faculties to one platform so that the rich individual teaching/learning experiences at IIT Madras can be shared to all, for mutual benefits. The discussions are oriented towards bringing out the real issues/ethos of the campus and how well we respond to them.
Organize orientation / training programmes for Teaching Assistants
TLC conducts TA Orientation program (TAO program) on a semester basis. The resource persons are TLC core team and experts from Wipro Technologies (Dr. Joshi and Dr. Sujatha). In addition to the orientation program, TLC also conduct three day workshop of TA training for volunteering TAs to improve their teaching and communication abilities.
Conduct "Faculty of the Future" programmes for QIP/ Ph.D/ M.S. scholars and other interested students to motivate them into pursuing a career in academics.
TLC core team conducts "faculty for the future" programmes for QIP candidates as well as Ph D/MS students who are interested in joining academia. The program provides useful tips which enable them to become better teachers and effective communicators.
Future Plans
Course specific pedagogy programs for faculty
TLC plan to organize the role of pedagogy in domain teaching. This session will involve the practical tips/ways about 'how to use the various teaching/learning pedagogies and learner centric approaches in teaching a particular subject'.
Facilitate a mentoring program for new faculty so that they are better equipped to merge into the Institute educational process.
TLC plan to offer assistance to newly recruited faculty in connection with their course design, syllabus preparation, teaching strategies and effective communications. Microteaching (video analysis of lectures) will be offered to interested faculty so that they can improve their teaching skills.
Promote inter-institutional and international cooperation
TLC plans to conduct inter-IIT and inter-institutional conferences and conclaves on teaching learning topics. The focus is to provide a national platform for serious deliberations and debates on educating the younger generations and equip them with skills required for meeting the purpose of education.


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Guided Nature Exploration Walk in the garden
Next week, I will take a group of curious visitors on an expedition into my garden to share how I redesigned a degraded monoculture of grass into a thriving wildlife hotspot that produces food and ecosystem services with very little work.
It is an example of regenerative design, an approach that adds more value than it takes. By designing like nature and with nature, we are not only restoring nature back to health but producing a whole lot of organic food & herbs in the process, which in turn is good for our health. We have only started about 5 years ago, but the progress is spectacular. It shows that instead of degrading our environment, we can also upgrade it and become a benign part of nature. During the visit, I will share my learnings and lots of interesting facts on what we can learn from nature to improve our designs and organisations. More exploration walks will be coming up in the future.
Regeneration starts at home.


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Volunteering Conference at NUI Galway
01 November 2006 - The fourth annual VOLT conference will be held at NUI Galway on 6 November, giving Irish volunteer coordinators a place to find peer support and share their knowledge and experience about good practice. VOLT (Volunteer Organisers Linking Together) is the Irish network of volunteer coordinators, and is facilitated and administered by Volunteering Ireland.
This conference, Paving the Way: Leadership in Volunteer Management, will feature international speaker Susan J. Ellis, world renowned expert on volunteer management on her first ever visit to Ireland. Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy, Life President of Focus Ireland will open the conference and Sean Kelly, representing the Taskforce on Active Citizenship, will provide an update on the work of the Taskforce.
The annual VOLT conference gives Irish volunteer managers the opportunity to explore issues related to coordinating volunteer programmes. This conference will look at the issue of leadership in volunteer management, the concepts of leadership and what this means to those involved in managing volunteer programmes.
Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy says "Leadership is about enabling people to realise their worth, their value and their potential".
This conference will give volunteer managers the opportunity to reflect on their own leadership style, how they lead volunteers within their own organisation and how they harness leadership qualities in their volunteers.
The conference is kindly sponsored by the Community Knowledge Initiative and the National Irish Bank and will take place in the Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway.
For more information visit www.volunteeringireland.ie or contact: Nancy Nuñez, VOLT Chairperson, Tel: 01 8722622, Mobile: 087 9258112, Email: email@example.com


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609 Workplace Stories: Step-by-step Inspiration for eLearning Engagement
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Thursday, November 17
Instructional Design
Using workplace stories to engage learners and enhance your content is a hot topic in learning and development. But when you're getting started with storytelling as an instructional design technique, you'll likely have a lot of questions about where to find effective stories for this purpose and how to make sure they not only entertain but also foster learning at the same time. You'll also want to know how best to integrate storytelling techniques in the tools you already use.
In this session, you'll discover how best to leverage the power of workplace stories in your eLearning projects. You'll take a look at a broader model for finding and building instructional stories in general, and also explore how to convey these stories using the specific strengths and weaknesses of eLearning. You'll learn how using stories strategically can boost engagement from your audience, and even how to use stories to motivate them before and after each course. This session will also introduce you to a variety of tools that can help you share these stories in exciting new ways.
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- What the basic elements of story are, and how to use them to tell a story in the context of eLearning
- How workplace stories can increase engagement while also teaching and reinforcing content
- How to find real workplace stories to use in your eLearning
- How to determine whether your instructional story just entertains or also fosters learning
- About tools that can help you find and bring to life workplace stories for your eLearning projects
Novice and intermediate designers and managers.
discussed in this session:
eLearning development tools (Captivate, Storyline, etc.); animation tools (PowToon, CrazyTalk, etc.); augmented reality tools (Aurasma, etc.); and social media tools (brainstorming, sharing, chat, etc.).
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Katie Stroud is a master story crafter at Incremental Success. Her roles in instructional design, technical writing, and consulting led her to develop a story-based approach to address the unspoken culture that lingers in every corporate initiative. The process is based on scientific studies that explain why people do what they do. It helps to find what inspires them to change behaviors in support of corporate goals.


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A few years ago I was talking with a CEO about whether or not he should pull his team together to focus in-depth attention on the future they wanted to create for their company. He said, "Beyond setting financial goals, I'm not sure we know enough about the future of our industry to be able to plan for it." I disagreed with him at length — and we did end up working with his team to define their vision and strategy in a way that turned out to be helpful. But many executives have said some version of this to me over the past couple of years: how can we envision what our businesses will or should be when everything is changing so quickly? Shouldn't we just be opportunistic: go along the best we can until we see a big shift clearly — and then pivot?
And my answer is: No. I've seen way too many companies lately make huge changes - in structure, goals, market target, product or service - in reaction to some perceived industry shift...and then change again a few months or weeks later when the next "big shift" comes along. It's exhausting for everyone involved, and almost never effective.
So, how does a company move forward well in these wildly changing times? How can you chart a course toward an achievable future when nothing seems certain?
Just last week, my business partner Jeff sent me a wonderful quote from Jeff Bezos:
"I very frequently get the question: 'What's going to change in the next 10 years?' And that is a very interesting question; it's a very common one. I almost never get the question: 'What's not going to change in the next 10 years?' And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time." - Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO
I thought — exactly! In the anxiety that can arise from the sense that "everything is changing," it's too easy to forget that many things aren't changing. And if you look at Amazon as a business, you'll see that Bezos has done a bang-up job of taking his own advice. Amazon was and is built to respond to fundamental human needs that haven't changed in hundreds of years and most likely won't change for hundreds more: our drive to get what we want, when we want it, as easily and economically as possible. Bezos has focused all of his creativity on how to meet those core needs; has harnessed technology to give us more choice, faster and less expensively.
When viewed through this lens, nearly all the new businesses that have sprung up and wildly succeeded during the past decade — and all the existing businesses that have stayed successful - have been based on meeting core human needs in the best way possible, mostly by taking advantage of new ways of doing business now available through technological advances. Google? People want to find stuff out. Google is the 21st century version of the 20th century encyclopedia (or the previous centuries' tribal elders). Facebook? Instagram? People want to stay connected. Facebook and now Instagram are the 21st century version of our ancestors' town squares, social clubs and sewing bees.
And much as people might rail against Bezos for destroying various segments of the pre-Amazon world economy (bookstore chains, for instance) — that has historically always happened when people find new, better ways to meet fundamental needs. The advent of mass-produced cars put millions of people (and horses) out of jobs over the first three decades of the 20th century; carriage makers, stable owners, horse breeders and sellers, tack shops. An entire industry, very central to our U.S. economy, was displaced. And in the never-ending quest to fulfill this basic human need — to get from place to place as safely, cheaply and quickly as possible — the next evolution, that of driverless cars, will once more put millions of people out of business.
An example: long-haul trucking. The combination of established routes and appealing economics makes it an obvious first place to focus in making self-driving vehicles the norm. In the U.S., there are currently around 3.5 million professional truck drivers. And think of the related industries that would no longer be needed, without those human drivers: over 7,000 truck stops in the U.S. alone; driver information services; companies that fit out truck cabs as living spaces…the list goes on and on. It's probably fair to assume that upwards of 4 million jobs will eventually be made redundant through the advent of driverless trucks.
And fortunately or unfortunately, there is no turning back. For example, all the anger, hope and nostalgia about the coal industry is not going to magically increase our reliance on coal. The basic human desires involved — wanting to make and build things and keep them working, as cheaply and efficiently as possible — has taken us from fire to steam to coal to coal-powered electricity and now to natural gas, wind, solar and nuclear energy. It's as unlikely that coal will re-find its heyday as an energy source as that we'll give up our cars and go back to the horse and buggy.
Assume that what I'm saying is true — that successful businesses are those that continue to find ways to best fulfill core needs. That means that, as an executive looking to the future of your business, you need to continually ask yourself two questions: Does our business fulfill one or more core human needs? Are we meeting that need in the most effective and efficient way possible, given changes in technology and people's expectations?
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Clinical Trial Demonstrates Success of Low FODMAP Diet
In a first-of-its-kind study in the U.S., individuals with irritable bowel syndrome showed an improvement in symptoms and quality of life compared to a control.
A change in diet improves the lives of those diagnosed with a common but hard-to-treat gut disorder. That's the conclusion of new research that studied, for the first time in the United States, the result of following a carefully controlled diet to improve the symptoms and quality of life for people with irritable bowel syndrome.
SEE ALSO: An Evolving 'Holistic' Approach to IBS Treatment
"This is the only methodically rigorous clinical trial to show that diet-based therapy can not only improve symptoms, but also quality of life in patients with IBS," says gastroenterologist Shanti Eswaran, M.D., a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan who researches the role of diet and food in functional bowel diseases such as IBS.
IBS can be highly debilitating and affect work, sleep and personal and family relationships. Between 10 and 15 percent of Americans have symptoms consistent with the syndrome.
Many practitioners and patients have turned to diet as a possible treatment, but many of the dietary recommendations have not been backed by clinical trials.
The University of Michigan study, the largest of its kind, measured the degree of relief from low FODMAP, a frequently recommended diet, which stands for Fermentable Oligo-Di-Monosaccharides and Polyols.
This diet excludes many compounds found in wheat, certain fruits and vegetables, garlic, onions and sugar substitutes. (Specific details on what to eat and what to avoid can be found here.)
Over a six-week process, registered dietitians educated and monitored the progress of more than 90 IBS patients. Roughly half followed a prescribed low FODMAP diet, and half were a control group that used a common-sense regimen, cutting down on large meals, binges and known irritants such as caffeine and alcohol.
Improving quality of life
The results presented at Digestive Disease Week 2016 in San Diego were impressive: More than 50 percent of the patients on the low FODMAP diet had major improvement of their abdominal pain, compared with 20 percent of the control group.
There was also more improvement of other bothersome symptoms compared to the control group: bloating, diarrhea and stool urgency.
SEE ALSO: New Research on the Microbiome In and Around Us Underway
At four weeks, the proportion of patients with a meaningful improvement in IBS quality of life was significantly higher in the low FODMAP group compared to the control group — 61 percent versus 27 percent.
While the results are highly encouraging for IBS sufferers, there are a few important caveats, Eswaran says.
Because of the many unknowns about the chemical causes and triggers of IBS, the list of "bad" foods is exhaustive and elusive, and help from a dietitian is recommended.
Eswaran collaborated with William Chey, M.D., Kenya Jackson, Sivaram G. Pillai, Samuel W. Chey and Theresa Han-Markey, M.S., R.D., at the University of Michigan on the study, which was published in Gastroenterology.
"Low FODMAP is not a new treatment, but we are now convinced that it really works," she says. "Our next step will be to more precisely determine the underlying chemistry of how and why particular foods can yield dramatically different results for different people. Meanwhile, we strongly recommend that IBS patients work with their physician and a registered dietitian to navigate the low FODMAP diet to take control of their IBS symptoms."
Eswaran received funding to conduct the research from the University of Michigan Nutritional and Obesity Center and Prometheus Diagnostics.


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Dear, patient, friends and supporters!
I am writing to you to give you an update on the project of my solo acoustic album that you have so generously supported.
The post production/mixing of the album has taken longer than anticipated. I myself was waiting for it for over a year. By the end of last year, we found a label that is very interested in releasing this project.
Although, it is not certain at this point, if this particular label and I will come to an agreement, if we do, then the release is planned for beginning of 2019.
That's quite a long time from now on, and I already feel like I have been waiting for a century, so I am very sorry to have to announce such a huge delay. I wish that this process could have been accelerated.
In the mean time, I decided I will record more songs that will be added to the album, which will, at least for me, make the waiting easier and the project won't feel so outdated.
My initial plan was to send the rewards together with the digital download and physical copy of the album (for the people that ordered the physical copy), but if you feel, you would like to have sent you reward sooner, please let me know!
In the meantime, the best way to be updated on what I am doing, is to follow me on social media, as I don't send out newsletters too often.
Additionally with this update I want to feature my dear friend and most fun collaborator, the photographer, graphic designer and videographer,
Krysta Brayer!
During the solo album recording at the amazing Brooklyn Recording Studio, she took some wonderful photos that captured the atmosphere very well. Please enjoy and make sure to check out her work on her website, www.krystabrayer.studio.
In any case, as soon as I have a definite release date, you will be the first ones to be notified! Thank you, once again, for your patience, love and support!
Yours, Lana
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The mission of the Santa Fe Trail Association is to protect and preserve the Santa Fe Trail and to promote awareness of the historical legacy associated with it.
Her relationship with the Santa Fe Trail Association began when she helped formed the Wet/Dry Routes Chapter in 1988-89 and served as the chapter's first president beginning in 1990.
Christine Day has shepherded fifth and sixth grade students down the Santa Fe Trail on ten-eleven-day camping trips since 1985.
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Resistance. According to Webster's Dictionary the word 'Resistance' is a noun that means "the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument". It comes from the early latin word 'resistere' meaning to 'hold back'.
Resistance in Tango refers to using the arms, hands, forearm, bicep, and scapula to create a state of matching tensile strength from the Follower's Right arm, and the Lead's Left arm of the Embrace. This is done from Open, Close, Vee, Open-V, Closed-V, the 'Berlin Embrace', or any of the other standard embrace formats. Truth be told, Resistance came about as an offshoot to the Apilado stance, and quite honestly the Lead placing the Follower exactly where and how they wanted them to be.
Usage. Resistance is used as a way to 'Feel' that your partner is and has responded to the request for X, whatever X is. Typically it is a Lead asking the Follower to create a 'wall' of physiological tensile strength (pressure) towards and into the Lead's Left hand with the Follower's Right Arm, Forearm, Bicep, Scapula, and Hand. This creates a way for the Lead to 'push' the Follower into tango vocabulary, in specific Ochos and Turns. 🙁 From the Follower's perspective, Resistance creates a way for the Follower to abdicate their responsibility of the dance, while at the same time creating zero ambiguity in executing X. None whatsoever. "Oh you want me to ocho ? Ok!" or "Oh you want a Molinete ? OK".
Belief ? The belief is that Resistance is an absolute requirement in order to dance Argentine Tango.
Reality ? No. It is not a requirement, and that's where we talk about Intention Based Dancing as a rule that has come about in the last two decades of the modern form of Argentine Tango.
The Tango Topics Opinion: Resistance is an absolute fallacy, an untruth, that at one time was true and is true no longer. Let's back up a bit, the statements above about 'Oh you want me to Ocho…" The 'Oh' is a lag, a delay in the Follower. They are being told to wait until they have confirmation that X is being asked of them. And the X, in this case, could be an Ocho, a Molinete in Close or Open Embrace, or any number of pieces of tango vocabulary. Further, the Lead that requires Resistance from their Follower, is having to work 10 times harder than they need to work. How ? They're quite factually having to meet the resistance of the Follower, and then…here's the hard part (literally), having to overpower the Follower's Resistance in order to move them. And in this case, it's not the Follower moving themselves. No. The Lead has to move the Follower. Because what typically goes hand-in-hand (no pun intended) with Resistance is complete lethargy from the Follower and a willingness to abdicate any and all responsibility to what's being asked of them. While at the same time being a vassal of compliance towards the Lead. Back to the point. Tango Resistance in the modern vernacular of Argentine Tango is thankfully losing it's 'grip'. However, there are many, many hold-outs that you'll run into with this stuff. Ideally, we want to engage Intention and be completely responsible and independently controlled but mutually cooperative dancers that work in concert with each other. The days of dictatorial Tango are coming to a close. Thankfully. #SocialDance #ArgentineTango #TangoDancing


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Apologies for not updating this little space of mine for a long while…Revising for end of year exams and spending time with the family (after 6 months away!) has just been eating up my time. Anyway, this post today is going to be slightly unique as it is quite personal and I've never written anything of this sort on here before. Ever since I attended a TEDxWarwick talk on 'Identity' a few months back, I've wanted to share this – my own interpretation of 'identity' - but have never quite known how...
I am what some people will call a Third Culture Kid. What this means is that I was raised in a country that isn't my nationality. Sounds confusing? Don't worry, I can assure you that you're not the only one. *cue Sam Smith* As I have mentioned it a couple of times on my blog already, some of you may know that I am Malaysian but have lived in Vietnam for 16 years of my life; and like most Third Culture Kids, I went to an international school. Whilst I completely acknowledge that I am incredibly privileged to have lived that sort of lifestyle and was given this experience/opportunity, I will admit that one of the biggest problem is the trouble with identity.
Being a citizen of one country but living in another is like having one foot out of the door and the other one in. In other words, it's as if I am 'sandwiched' between 2 cultures. The seemingly simple question, 'Where is home?' is actually quite tough to figure out. Whilst Malaysia is my home country, being away from it for more than 75% of my life, only visiting twice a year and not properly immersed in its culture, can I really consider myself a Malaysian? To me, Malaysia is associated with holidays – a place that I go to visit my relatives, indulge in its cuisine and occasionally do some retail therapy. Although I travel with a Malaysian passport, I don't possess the well known 'Malaysian accent' and am unfamiliar with the various slang phrases that others can so confidently slip into conversations.
But it's not to say that I am completely comfortable in the country that I reside in (Vietnam) either. Although I was practically raised there, schooled there, all my friends are there, and I can get around independently, it doesn't exclude the fact that I'm not from there. Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, I don't speak the language. Yes, I do know enough to get around - ordering food, bargaining and asking for directions…all the basics you need to survive. But being able to hold a steady conversation? Not going to happen. Even though I am more able to recommend to others which places to visit and which foods to try in Vietnam than Malaysia, I will always be considered an expatriate.
As I attended an international school, the whole 'coming from one country but living in another' was the norm. Being in the same situation as I was, they understood. But when I started university in the UK last fall and had to step out of my little bubble, I realize that maybe my scenario was not that simple. Which society do I join? Vietnamese or Malaysian? Either way, I will never be able to fully relate to either. In the end, I did make a decision to become a member of the Malaysian Student Association and I will admit that I am still testing the waters. A typical conversation that I have encountered goes something like this,
"Where are you from?"
"Which college did you go to?"
"Umm…I actually studied in Vietnam…for the past 16 years."
And after that, the conversation usually dies down. Maybe it's because they think I won't be able to keep up with their Malaysian culture references and slang. Even though I'm pretty sure they meant well, I even had someone said to me, "But you're not a real Malaysian though" Even those that aren't Malaysian get confused as to what nationality I really am, what passport I hold and if I am definitely not a 'halfie' (a person that has 2 different racial backgrounds).
So why am I writing this? This 'unique' situation of mine has made me more open-minded and given me unlimited opportunities so I would not change a thing. But despite all that, I am still struggling to decide which 'identity' I identify with more. Where is home? I will have to say, both Malaysia and Vietnam - but for different reasons. Culture is a tool that enables people to separate one country from another. Yet I think it's more than that. Identity is a fickle thing and holding the passport of a country doesn't make it any easier.


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Iran FM: US much to blame for Afghanistan's instability, insecurity
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the United States is to be to blame for a major part of instability and insecurity in Afghanistan.
The top diplomat made the remarks on Monday, addressing a virtual conference on Afghanistan that was being hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
"Today, all of us are faced with new circumstances and a new challenge in Afghanistan," Amir-Abdollahian said.
"An important part of the factor that has driven instability, insecurity, and the current disorderly situation in Afghanistan is rooted in the United States' trial-and-error-ridden policies and mistakes in Afghanistan," he added.
The official then went on to enumerate the international community's political and humanitarian duties towards the Central Asian nation amid the situation.
On the political level, members of the international community have to endeavor towards helping create an inclusive government that features all the concerned parties in Afghanistan, he said.
The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic, itself, concerning the country also relies on support for an Afghanistan that is free from terrorism, and narcotics, where the Afghan people can fully exercise their right to self-determination, the foreign minister said.
It is only one such government that could guarantee safety, stability, and development in Afghanistan, urged the Iranian official.
On the humanitarian level, the world has to scramble immediately to ensure the flow of aid to Afghanistan, he said, and expressed the Islamic Republic's readiness to help in the area by facilitating the transfer of the supplies towards the country.
Amir-Abdollahian, meanwhile, deplored the poor quality of the international community's performance concerning the situation of the Afghan refugees.