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Always a strong advocate of environmental responsibility, my knowledge of the lumber industry has been limited to information in opposition of it. The reality is that the largest industry in British Columbia, and by far the largest employer on this part of Vancouver Island, is lumber. In the last few years, I have made an effort to begin to understand the other side of it a bit more and today, while M and I were in Campbell River, we took a drive out to the Catalyst paper mill just to see what we could see. I still have a long way to go in the process. But, it's a good lesson in - if nothing else - knowing well why I take the position that I do on this issue.
By understanding of the fundamentals of electrical machines, engineers can easily analyze, design and debug electrical systems. Engineers can also enhance system effectiveness and performance which can boosts production and lowers costs for industrial applications.
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Side event at the fifth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership: “Understanding landscape and watershed management in mountains ”, 17.30-19.30, 12 December 2017, FAO HQ. During the side event, the new FAO publication “Watershed Management in Action” was launched.
The fifth Global Meeting of the Mountain Partnership – with its theme “Mountains under pressure: climate, hunger, migration” – was held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, on 11-13 December 2017.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO
Understanding Today's Agriculture class, and joined by ANFS grad students toured the organic poultry farm hosted by Extension poultry agent Georgie Cartanza. Photos Michele Walfred
via If you are curious about quantum computing, then watch this video and learn the concepts of quantum computing in 5 different ways. ift.tt/2NVkGaH
As an ice-breaker, parents practice greeting each other and introducing themselves in their non-native language. CAPCS hosted the workshop to help parents understand how the ESL program operates and how it is integrated into their child's learning.
Signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding with City University of Hong Kong.
Photo credit: UN Trande and Development / Nijat Adigozalov and Ibrahim Feyzullayev
At #COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will sharpen global attention on the economic inequalities that the climate emergency is deepening. More: unctad.org/unctad-at-cop29
Beauty refers to different things to different people. For some it means outer beauty, and for others it is intelligence or personality. Beautiful woman gives pleasure to your eyes and a wise woman pleases the mind. Women having virtues and high morality gives pleasure to the soul.
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Phil Borges shared his experience on capturing the lives of indigenous people and how he came to create Bridges To Understanding
Production still of Cesar (Karmann Bajuyo) telling his cousin Juan (Eddie Martinez) that he thinks he understands what grace is
In March 2025, I photographed Dr. Catie Cuan, a rare kind of technologist—one who does not merely study movement but inhabits it, shaping our understanding of both human and robotic motion in ways that feel at once inevitable and revolutionary. To witness her at work is to see someone in deep conversation with machines, coaxing out a language of movement that is not just efficient but expressive, not just technical but emotional.
A trained dancer and mechanical engineer, Cuan is a pioneer in ‘choreorobotics,’ a field that merges artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and art. Her career has been a dance in itself, moving fluidly between performance, research, and entrepreneurship, all in pursuit of a singular question: how can robots move in a way that feels alive?
Cuan holds a PhD and a Master’s of Science in robotics and AI from Stanford, where she is also a postdoctoral researcher leading the art and robotics efforts at the new Stanford Robotics Center. Her dissertation, “Compelling Robot Behaviors through Supervised Learning and Choreorobotics,” explores how machine learning can teach robots to move in ways that evoke presence—where motion itself carries meaning. During her doctoral research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Google, and Stanford University, she led the first multi-robot machine learning project at Everyday Robots (Google X) and Robotics at Google, now part of Google DeepMind.
But Cuan is not content to leave her work in the realm of academia. She has spent years choreographing robots, treating them not as rigid automatons but as performers capable of communicating through motion. She has held residencies at the Smithsonian, the Exploratorium, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, TED, Everyday Robots (Google X), the RAD Lab, and ThoughtWorks Arts, working with nearly a dozen different robotic platforms—from the industrial ABB IRB 6700 to small, interactive tabletop machines. Her performances reimagine robots not as servants or tools, but as collaborators, capable of moving with grace, intention, and even artistry.
Cuan’s vision is as much about rethinking robotics as it is about rethinking humanity’s relationship to machines. Her work suggests that the way a robot moves can influence the way we feel about it—that movement is not just a function of engineering but of psychology, of storytelling, of something deeply embedded in how we perceive life itself. In healthcare, she envisions robots that move with a bedside manner, adjusting their motion to put patients at ease. In entertainment, she imagines robots that can dance, that can anticipate and respond to human motion as a partner rather than an operator. Her work, at its core, is about breaking down the binary between the organic and the artificial.
Photographing Cuan, I saw someone who carries these ideas not just in her mind but in her body. Her own movements are precise yet fluid, deliberate yet spontaneous, as though she is always attuned to the forces of motion around her. In that moment, it was clear: she is not just designing how robots move—she is teaching them how to be seen, how to be understood, how to exist in a world that has, until now, only made space for the living.
On June 27, 2024 UH President David Lassner along with Provost Michael Bruno and JABSOM Interim Dean Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, MD signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tsuzuki Educational Group from Fukuoka, Japan. This signing marks the second One Health MOU UH has with Japan.
Friends at last.
A series of AI-generated pictures of Little Red Riding Hood and her new friend, the wolf, in different art styles.
To be continued.
Pictures made with Midjourney.
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