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I spent my first semester of Clinical Practice (student teaching) teaching two classes of 10th Grade College Prep English, and assisting in an AVID class. On this page you will find some of the lesson plans, projects, and activities that I developed for my students over the course of the Fall 2014 semester. GO EAGLES!

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Champion Juicer 2000 G5-NG853S-B comes with some exclusive features, and due to that, it is one of the most popular juicers in the market now. Every day, you expect a better day than before and a healthy glass of juice can help you to start a beautiful day. It is such a juicer that makes your juice making process easy and gives some fresh items quickly and easily.
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Features of Champion 2000 juicer
Heavy Duty Juicer
Champion Juicer 2000 G5-NG853S-B comes with a heavy-duty general electric motor. The 1725 RPMs, 540 Watt Motor provides a very quick result. No hassle, just a few moments can give you fresh juices that maintain its real flavor and original taste.
Powerful Juicer
It is a very efficient juicer for vegetables and fruits. Its juicing system enhances efficiency and reduces times to make juice. A full 1/3 HP has made this juicer very identical then other juicers in the market.
Juicing Screen
The juicing screen is an exclusive feature of this Juicer. Its manual instruction, sieve, and tamper help the juicer to produce continuous juice.
Champion juicer making carrot and beet and celery juice
Shape and Design
Champion 2000 juicer comes with a bit larger size and a 1.75″ Diameter Feed Tube. It has 540 Watt Motor, 1725 RPMs, 110V 50HZ power control system. Its attention-grabbing design can attract anyone. Its blades are prepared of long-lasting stainless steel. Eventually, this Champion 2000 has created its detached place among other juicers with beauty and quality.
Perfect for Larger Size
The Champion Juicer is comparatively larger and suitable for different sizes of fruits and vegetables. Users can be free from the hassle to cut ingredients into smaller pieces.
The Good
- The juicer comes with more power and durability, produce more juices
- Tempered stainless steel blades ensure long-lasting uses
- It provides great juice from both hard and soft produce with its heavy-duty motor
- Resilient and durable materials are used to make this juicer
- Its system minimizes the heavy oxidation and support health
- Manual instruction, juicing screen makes the juicing process easy
- User-friendly juicer, easy to assemble and disassemble
- Perfect for different sizes fruits and vegetable pieces
- All parts of the juicer are FDA approved, 1/3 HP motor and Floating cutter
The Bad
- Sometimes it requires to turn it off clean out the pulp
- Within one juice session, users may need to clean few times when juicing large pieces
- High-speed juicer can be unhealthy in some cases
Best Suited For
This well-designed juicer is perfect for all types of vegetables and fruits. It works fast to extract the ingredients, and you can have a cup of healthy juices within in a minute.
Other Uses
It can be used for multi-purpose tasks. It is also helpful to make frozen fruit sorbets, nut butter, purees, ice cream, and more.
Not So Great For
This hassle free juicer can produce continuous juice, but you may need to clean this few times in one session. Small slices don't create this problem.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Q: Does this juicer have a stainless steel blade?
A: Yes, it has a durable stainless-steel blade.
Q: Is this juicer made in the USA?
A: Yes, these Champion's juicers are made in California.
Q: Where does the pulp subsist?
A: At the end of the tube.
Now you have got some ideas after reading the Champion 2000 juicer review. It comes with great features, but very affordable. Its stainless steel blade and other durable elements increase strength and efficiency.
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Project Atlas, a breakthrough technology platform that integrates RealMassive's data, first-party data and third-party data to rapidly visualize risk and opportunity at the market, submarket, and property level. Users can create multiple visualizations of data, including heat maps, and animate that data over time. Commercial real estate decision makers will now have access to new insights to enable smarter business decisions and increase deal efficiency.
"Project Atlas provides CRE professionals with a holistic view of the swiftly changing commercial real estate market," It provides a seamless way to integrate and visualize disparate sets of data to enable more effective decision making. The response from asset managers and financiers of commercial real estate has been exceptional. Project Atlas is emblematic of our mission to empower CRE with the best data and technology available."- Craig Hancock CEO Real Massive.
To learn more about Project Atlas or request a private session for a comprehensive review of how to use the platform, contact: email@example.com or visit: https://www.realmassive.com/blog/realmassive-at-uli-and-project-atlas-unveiled/.


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Every property require maintenance in order to save its good condition. It should be repainted , cleaned and sometimes even remodeled . Postponing the renovation actions you should do in your home may have serious consequences not only for the property itself, but also for you and the people you leave with. Your living area have a great impact on your general vision and mood. If you live in a messy, dirty and old property, you should try refreshing it as soon as possible before you become a dirty and lethargic person who is lacking any motivation and self- improvement desire.
Unfortunately, there are certain moments when you can't do that even if you want to. In most of the cases you will need a particular amount of money you don't have on disposal. What should you do when you can't afford the luxury of refreshing your home ?
Seek for alternatives. The truth is that you may renovate the general look of the place you live in without spending a lot of money. You only have to determine what are the small things which will manage to add different feeling to your space.
Art Pillows
Even if you don't have the money for new sofa cover , you still can make your couch look better, even luxury. Place several small pillows at each corner of your sofa. You may either purchase them from the nearest home interior shop or make them yourself. If you want to release your art ability , take several white pillow cases. Lay them flat. Take a 6b or 7b pencil and delineate the figures you want to see on your pillows. Take a set of garment paintings and color your piece of art . Allow the covers to dry completely before putting them on the pillows. After that apply a tin layer of hairspray to seal up the color and prevent eventual stains on your clothes, coming from the covers.
Do you want to have one of those beautiful lace lamp shades in your living room ? Well, you can certainly make that happen without spending money in the local furniture and interior items supermarket. Instead, you can make it yourself at home. The process won't take a lot of your time and certainly will worth the invested effort . What you should do ?
First of all you have to collect the necessary materials. In this case you will need wallpaper glue or a mixture of equal amounts of water and flour, one balloon and an old lace tablecloth. If you don't have one on hand, you may use several lace piece taken from different old garments you don't wear anymore. When you have everything on hand you may start with the action.
Swell the balloon and tie a knot on its end. Moisten the lace parts with the adhesive on them and place the parts evenly so the whole balloon surface gets wrapped. Once you've done that leave the object to dry completely. When it hardens, the lace will form a thick shell that won't blend. After that take a needle and pop the balloon. Throw its parts away and just hand your beautiful new lamp shade on your lamp. Additionally, you can decorate the lace with brocade or attached small flower shaped items on it to achieve better look.
If your walls really need to be repainted, but you don't have anywhere to stay while it dries or you can't afford a high quality paint , don't feel sorry for yourself. Instead , go to the nearest hardware store and ask the consultants if they provide latex paint. It dries faster and don't have the strong smell of the commercial paints. Still, it has great hiding power. Most of all , this alternative is a lot more cheaper . The average price of a bucket of latex paint is about 6 pounds per gallon.
Alternatively, you can simply cover the areas which need to be repainted the most with a collection of cute colorful frames. According to home maintenance experts the usual price of a set of frames is about 6 up to 8pound for 3 to 6 frames.


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The other announcement is that Google partnered with Twitter to bring Twitter updates to searchers faster. Marissa Mayer writes "[W]e have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results ... we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you'll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information."
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Rewire Your Heart
By David Bowden
Many Christians believe the only way to fight sin is to grit our teeth, strengthen our resolve, and rise above the onslaught of temptation. But in reality, we have a far better weapon in our struggle with sin than the kind of willpower mantras associated with diets and exercise. This weapon is not saying "no" to sin but saying "yes" to God. In Rewire Your Heart, David Bowden helps us discover that God's plan for overcoming sin is to rewire our desires with the gospel. When we invite the Holy Spirit to transform our underlying affections with the good news of Jesus, we begin to break free from the cycle of sinning, feeling guilty, renewing our resolve, and sinning again. What's more, we get to encounter the rich fulfillment found in joyfully obeying God's commands.


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Did you miss any WCEI blogs? Never fear, we wrap up the year with the topics that were most read, shared, and commented upon.
In 2016, we covered a lot of ground, bringing you straight talk on range of wound care topics, including ostomy care, diabetic wounds, legal issues, assessment tips, and more. Which were readers' top five favorites? Here's the run-down.
Maceration and Hydrogels? Just Say Whoa
How do you use hydrogel dressings to keep wounds moist without causing maceration? Very carefully.
Exudate: The Type and Amount Is Telling You Something
Wound care clinicians need to know about the different types of exudate – and how much is present – for successful wound treatment and healing.
Say Cheese to the Camera: Wound Photography Shot by Family Members
These days, most people have a camera in their pocket, giving family members the ability to take their own wound photographs.
Wound Care Myths: 5 More Debunked
Whether it involves heel protectors, anti-embolism stockings, or letting wounds "breathe," there are still plenty of wound-care myths circulating out there. Ready for the truth? You can handle it.
Let's Talk Ostomy Types
A comprehensive guide to the different types of ostomies, including colostomies, ileostomies, and urostomies.
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Today is the 50th birthday of Omotola's husband, Captain Matthew Ekeinde. It's also the couple's 22nd wedding anniversary and the actress showered him with praises to mark the day.
Omotola who shared photos of them wrote…
"Happy 50th to A Unique, Different, One in a Lifetime Man. King Matthew Ekeinde. President of Aquatic Jungle Inc. Capt of Many planes and My heart. I usually forget it's Our Wedding Anniversary too…WOW! 22years! Thanks for My wakeup Gifts Hb! This picture captures How we started and where we still are. In his presence. I love you Honeyboy. #Happybirthday #happyanniversary to Us. ??"
Captain Matthew Ekeinde reportedly started the day by sending anniversary gifts and balloons to his wife of 22 years and mother of his 4 kids.
Recall that Captain Matthew Ekeinde in a recent interview with CityPeople's Senior Editor, WALE LAWAL, when asked what happened the very first time he set his eyes on his wife, the captain said…
Yes, the very first time was in church. I have this sister who's 51 years old, just a year older than me, she lives in Europe now, her name's Theresa. Over the years, I've been telling her, look, organize your friends, I want to marry. Go and find me one of your friends that I can get married to. So, she had met Omotola in a church in Iyana- Ipaja called Solid Rock headed by Pastor Tessy. My sister was attending the church at the time. It was a small but nice, youthful church. My sister now came home one day and said, yes, you have been disturbing me all this while to get you a wife, I just found somebody. Come to the church next service (it was a mid-week service) and I'll introduce her to you. So, on my way from work that Wednesday, I drove down to the church, went inside and sat at the back. I signaled to my sister to let her know I was in the church. So, after service, she now introduced me to Omotola. I looked at her and I was like, hey, cute, fine, small girl! But when I found out then that she was just sixteen years old, I was surprised. She looked a lot older than her age. I was like, 'Kai! This one is a misfire!' I was like almost twenty six then. So, I said, okay, we'll just be friends. And that was how we were friends for like two years and by the time she turned eighteen, I just saw her differently because all the while, I just saw her as a cute, fine young girl that was a friend of the family. That was it, there was nothing more than that. It was at her 18th birthday that things took a different turn. She had told me to get her a birthday gift, it was like a week to her birthday then and I wasn't in the country, I was based in the United States then, and was only coming down to Nigeria once in a while. A week after her birthday, I returned to Nigeria and got her a gift and left her a message to come to the house. I remember that day very clearly. The house where I was staying had a sliding glass door and you had to move the glass door to come in. And when she slid the door and came in, it was like the scales just fell off my eyes. I now saw her differently from the way I used to see her. This time, I saw her as a wife material. So, immediately she walked in, I said happy birthday, sorry I'm just giving you your gift one week after, but I also want to tell you, I want to marry you! She just hissed and said, 'abeegi! That's what you guys say.' Of course, within those two years that I knew her, I also knew her mum and the family. So, when she left, on my own, I went to see the mum and told her that I was going to marry Omotola. She was like, okay, fine, but why don't you let her finish her university. Then, she just got admission to the University of Ife. I was like, well, to wait four years won't be easy for me because it's very risky. It's either guys would give her a hard time in that Ife or put her under pressure and she'll probably give in. No, I wasn't willing to risk that. She's still a virgin now and I want to marry her a virgin, so that's it. I told her I couldn't wait for four years and she said, fine, you have to go and see the family. I went to see them and told them my intentions and the rest is history.
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Ten Thousand Things' 'The Sins of Sor Juana' doesn't back down from telling a story of a complex woman
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a woman, a writer, and an independent thinker in a 17th-century world where it was widely frowned upon to combine any two of those characteristics, let alone all three.
The eponymous offenses in The Sins of Sor Juana include some of the passionate poems for which Sor Juana is celebrated to this day, but they also include truly hurtful actions the character, as portrayed in Karen Zacarías' 1999 play, comes to regret. When the whole world seems to be against you, Zacarías suggests, it can be hard to know where to compromise, and when to forgive.
The play is eventful and accessible, but Zacarías has given companies a challenging balance to strike: celebrating Sor Juana's spirit without making her a saint. The new production by Ten Thousand Things is strongest in its first half, before comedy and suspense turn to tragedy. The drawn-out conclusion dilutes the show's initial impact, in large part because of the playwright's decision to tell two simultaneous stories that require back-to-back endings on similar notes.
Even by the standards of a company known for quality casts, director Marcela Lorca has assembled a sterling ensemble. In the close confines of the standard Ten Thousand Things stage configuration—in the round, lights up—the actors' shared energy shines.
That's particularly true of the would-be romantic triangle at the heart of the play's main story. An instantly winning Thallis Santesteban plays Sor Juana with a sharp wit and a pure spirit; she's up against Jason Rojas as an outrageously over-the-top cad and Ryan Colbert as a droll suitor with genuine affection but compromised motives.
They're in the court of a powerful Viceroy (Pedro Bayón) and Vicereine (Sun Mee Chomet), who are pulling the trio's strings, but in different directions. Chomet glories in juicy dual roles as the flamboyant Vicereine and as a bratty fundamentalist who becomes Sor Juana's nunnery nemesis in the framing story.
Zacarías makes generous and effective use of Sor Juana's poetry, recited in both English and Spanish. The play is attentive to the complex interrelationships of race, class, gender, and nationality in New Spain: today's Mexico. An Aztec maid (George Keller) keeps being mischaracterized as Mayan, in a clear parallel to the kind of unapologetic ignorance Native communities face today.
The company's design team efficiently transports us to the story's setting. Sarah Bahr's rich costumes have the kind of detail you can really appreciate in this kind of up-close setting, and the props managed by Abbee Warmboe are a marvel. With threats to free speech and to women's control over their own bodies alarmingly on the rise, Sor Juana is even more resonant today than it was 20 years ago. Lorca's winning production is an apt tribute to a trailblazing writer who remains underappreciated.
The Sins of Sor Juana
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This modular pedal is built on a rigid, smooth running mechanism consisting of a Cr-Mo axle and a slimline dual bearing system. It features low stack height, and a body abrasion guard. A gauge makes precise binding tension adjustment easy.
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At Mill Creek Family Practice, we have a variety of positions available. If you are interested in learning more about any of the below positions, please contact Maria Alvarez at (425) 338-4044.
Come join our team!
Position – Physician or ARNP
Mill Creek Family Practice is a well-established family practice group seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Family Practice Physician to join our family-friendly group. We are a physician-owned and operated clinic that opened its doors over 34 years ago. In the current climate of health care uncertainty and clinical financial problems, Mill Creek Family Practice is a thriving practice that remains financially solid and independent.
We are seeking both fulltime and part-time family practice physicians to join our team. We offer:
- Wonderful clinic setting, with a family-like atmosphere
- 100% outpatient Primary Care
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- Onsite imaging, including:
- X-ray
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- Fully employed positions, with competitive earning packages and excellent income potential
- Exceptional benefits and retirement vehicles
- Autonomy of practice and schedule
- Located in a youthful, high-growth area, we offer an exceptional payer mix with no ACO burdens or requirements
- Surrounded by lakes, mountains and trees, with year-round outdoor activities that include: Skiing, hiking, camping, fishing, sailing and kayaking. There are endless opportunities for the outdoor enthusiast
- Just minutes north of downtown Seattle, with all of the benefits of a metropolitan city
- International port city with cruise ships docking, and daily flights all over the world
We understand the long hours many physicians work, so feel free to call early mornings, evenings, or weekends.
Position – Receptionist and Records
Opening for a medical front office receptionist in a busy, friendly, family practice office in Mill Creek, WA. Candidate should have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a medical front office, with experience in family practice a plus.
We are a patient-friendly practice with a family atmosphere. The ideal candidate will have excellent phone and customer service skills, a warm and inviting personality, and above average computer ability.
Duties include greeting and scheduling patients, by phone and in-office; collecting payments, filing/faxing, chart maintenance, and patient registration. Strong, accurate attention to detail is a must.
Benefits include medical/dental, vacation, and 401(k).
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Experienced medical assistant needed for full- or part-time work. We are a busy family practice office in Mill Creek WA, and we pride ourselves on our patient-friendly, family atmosphere, as well as the teamwork demonstrated by our doctors and staff.
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Morocco TIMES 10/17/2005 | 12:36 am GMT
The Moroccan Minister Delegate to Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Taib Fassi Fihri, has denounced the Polisario and Algeria's exploitation of the migration "human tragedy for propaganda ends."
"The Polisario has just found itself a role as an actor in the control and the administration of migratory fluxes, while some credible international reports and different witnesses have confirmed that the Front has deployed all kinds of trafficking," said Taib Fassi Fihri.
The Moroccan Minister denounced the use of the buffer zone for political ends and drew attention to the importance of constructing brotherly relations between Morocco and the African countries.
He told MAP news agency on Sunday that "once again, the opponents of our Kingdom's territorial integrity are attempting to exploit a human tragedy to serve their cause."
"Algeria and the Polisario deliberately exploit the hell endured by those unfortunate migration candidates for propaganda ends," indicated the Minister. He added that many migrants were detained to be presented to the media and thus support the thesis of the so called "liberated territories."
"The kingdom of Morocco" he added "recalls that these so called territories are a buffer zone, which was willingly set up by Morocco, as part of the ceasefire operation initiated in Sept. 1991."
"Morocco, which has always evoked the reason for the existence of this zone, firmly denounces today its propagandist exploitation, which wickedly takes advantage of the current illegal migration flux."
The phenomenon, according to the Minister, has no relation with the regional conflict.
Nevertheless, Fassi Fihri said that Morocco takes the international community, particularly the UN, as a witness of this "unscrupulous manipulation of the unfortunate migrants' fate."
"Morocco is the first victim of this migratory phenomenon. The country sees the flow of thousands of Africans, administered by mafia and criminal networks, leave their homeland and pursue the European dream," he underlined.
The Minister also recalled Morocco's permanent appeals to Algeria, through regional organizations, the European Union and many member states, to adopt a less permissive policy concerning illegal migration and to control its borders.
"The Moroccan government" affirmed Fassi Fihri "underlines the importance of the relations between Morocco and African countries, in terms of culture, history and cooperation."
He stressed that such cooperation is necessary for the development of the continent. "It is an objective to which Europe must contribute in its attempt to stop the causes of migration," he said.
In turn, the Minister of Interior, Al Mustapha Sahel, declared that "this wave of propaganda directed by Algeria and Polisario attempts to ruin the image of Morocco."
"The Polisario is a mafia group which takes advantage of illegal migration and exploits the issue to serve its wicked plans," he emphasized.
The minister also declared that so far over 2,500 sub-Saharan migrants have been repatriated by plane, affirming that they were not subjected to any violence, either when they were assembled during the repatriation operation.
Fihri has denied accusations that Morocco has dumped sub-Saharan African migrants in the Sahara desert. The Polisario claimed earlier it had taken in more than 90 Africans wandering in the desert after Morocco expelled them. Fihri said the allegations were propaganda orchestrated by the Polisario Front and its ally, Algeria.


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Commexis Cast Aug. 21, 2017 – Mobile Gaming Ad Strategy Evolves
- August 21, 2017
Today's Commexis Cast feat. stories on the evolution of ad strategy in mobile gaming and a renewal of the age-old debate between traditional and digital ads.
Join the Commexis team as we add context to these stories for the busy CMO. All the news you need to know–from our inbox to yours.


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John Michael Gauch
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Phone: 479-575-4024
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Dr. John Gauch joined the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas as a Professor in 2008. He received his Honors B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Queen's University in Ontario in 1981 and 1982 respectively, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. From 1989 to 1993 he was an Assistant Professor in the College of Computer Science at Northeastern University in Boston. In 1993, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996. While at Kansas, he was Associate Chair for Graduate Studies from 2000 to 2005, and Co-Director of the e-Learning Design Laboratory from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Gauch has graduated seven Ph.D. students and over thirty M.S. students. In 2001, he was awarded the Archie and Nancy Dykes Outstanding Teaching Award at the University of Kansas.
Dr. Gauch conducts research in multimedia applications, developing tools and techniques for real-time digital video analysis. In particular, he has worked on methods to identify scene transition (cuts, fades, and dissolves), methods to automatically locate repeated video sequences (eg. commercials) in real-time, and methods to index and retrieve video clips from very large databases (thousands of hours of content) based on image features. Dr. Gauch is also interested in image processing and computer vision techniques for biomedical image enhancement, image segmentation, and motion tracking applications. This research has resulted in over sixty publications in these areas including one book and one patent.
Dr. Gauch has been active in technology transfer for over a decade. His early research in digital video libraries was transferred to FasTV.com in 1997. This technology was able to, in real-time, digitize and segment a broadcast news stream into stories, simultaneously indexing it by terms extracted from the closed-captions. In 1999, he developed and licensed technology to monitor multiple video streams to Turner Broadcasting to allow them to verify in real-time that commercials were sent to local cable operators were being shown in market. In 2002, he founded Veatros LLC to further commercialize video indexing and retrieval software. Veatros was acquired by DivX Inc. in 2007 to provide an improved video search and discovery service on the DivX Connected platform.
- Digital Image Processing
- Digital Video Processing
- Computer Vision
- Programming Foundations
- Computer Graphics
- Game Programming
- CSCE 2004 - Foundations I
- CSCE 2014 - Foundations II
- CSCE 4013 - Game Programming
- CSCE 4813 - Computer Graphics
- CSCE 5683 - Image Processing
- CSCE 5703 - Computer Vision
- Honours B.Sc. in Computer Science, 1981, Queen's University, Ontario
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, 1982, Queen's University, Ontario
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1989, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Imhoff Teaching Award, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2015
- College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher, CSCE Department, University of Arkansas, 2012
- Archie and Nancy Dykes Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kansas, 2001
- Miller Scholar, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, 2001
- Bellows Scholar, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, 2000
- Miller Scholar, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, 1999
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Wood Group PSN names new CEO
Dave Stewart has been appointed as chief executive officer (CEO) of Wood Group PSN (WGPSN). Effective April 2015, Stewart moves into this role from his previous position as UK managing director of WGPSN's UK operations.
Stewart has more than 38 years of oil and gas experience and joined Wood Group 17 years ago. During this time Stewart has been responsible for the establishment of Wood Group's duty holder business and creating WGPSN's industrial services capability through the acquisition of Pyeroy Group Limited in 2013.
He is also on the leadership team of Step Change in Safety, co-chair for Human Factors and Competence steering group and board trustee for the Oil and Gas Chaplaincy.
In his new position, Stewart will focus on continued business efficiency and support WGPSN's growth in the global oil and gas industry.
Dave Stewart said: "I am passionate about the company and committed to focusing on how we deliver collaborative, competitive and cost-effective solutions that enhance value for our clients in these challenging times.
"WGPSN is leading the charge in terms of understanding the measures required to safeguard the future growth of the oil and gas industry globally, and I look forward to taking on this challenge."
He will report to Robin Watson who will take up his new position of Chief Operating Officer of Wood Group in April.
Robin Watson, chief executive of Wood Group PSN said: "Dave's achievements during his time with WGPSN are testament to his passion and commitment towards the company and the wider industry. In 2014 WGPSN's North Sea business, led by Dave, achieved over $1.5bn, accounting for 40% of Wood Group PSN's overall revenue. I look forward to working with Dave to further strengthen and grow WGPSN's global operations."
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Why do we have enlightened Masters who descend to this world life after life to save sentient beings? Even though all beings have the Buddha nature, we wouldn't be able to become Buddhas without being given the key to enlightenment from a living Buddha. Thus, Buddhas have to come back life after life. However, sentient beings experience many obstacles during their lifetimes. They bear not only their own karma, but also that of their ancestors and the collective karma of their families, districts, and countries. This karma is so heavy that they are not able to go and look for a Buddha through their own effort. For this reason a Buddha has to give lectures in order to preach the Dharma.
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The platform also incorporates artificial intelligence to "uncover correlations, anomalies and associations by using machine learning to process trillions of data points every second," as a release puts it, and that's the aspect I'm going to focus on.
There's recently been a lot of thought-provoking information -- to take the spin off what some might call disturbing info -- about where AI might lead us. Elon Musk is one of those most concerned, even as he develops his own company to implant electrodes that someday will upload and download thoughts in the human brain. Granted, much of the apprehension is on a far more advanced, or totally hypothetical, level than the relatively benign desire of marketers to harness every purchasing proclivity of every consumer.
Then there's the matter of bots gunning for your job. Rest assured that the AI in Sysomos' new platform isn't.
"The human element, I think, is absolutely still critical," says Erica Jenkins, Sysomos' chief product officer. Based on all the "permutations and different measurement points" the platform mines, "we can tell the human, 'Hey, if you are going to go and create new content, the best theme should be …; , these type of key words should be included; here's maybe a hashtag or some type of a trend that might -- right now, real time -- be something that you could harness."
Leave the collecting and sifting of all that data to the machines, in other words, and spend your time crafting stories that will resonate with your target. Indeed, during a presentation CEO Heffring made last month, he was careful to put AI in its place.
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Dr. Christian Khalil joined LAU in 2014 as an assistant professor of environmental toxicology, after completing his PhD and working as a senior lecturer (environmental toxicology) and program authority for the Master of Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia since 2002. In 2010, he became the director of the International Environmental Services, a training and consulting organization based in Australia.
In his previous role as director of the Chemical Safety and Applied Toxicology (CSAT) labs at UNSW, his research team investigated:
- In vitro toxicology methods development for application to products testing (raw materials, cosmetic formulation);
- Nanoparticles toxicity on human derived cell cultures and human skin;
- Toxicity of welding fumes in vitro and in vivo, occupational exposure context;
- Chemical mixtures, their synergistic interactions and cytotoxicity;
- Toxicity assessment of environmental pollutants released into an aquatic environment;
- Investigation of the effect of altered NAD levels on DNA repair and survival in fibroblasts & keratinocytes (skin) cells following oxidative and U.V. damage.
He is also interested in a range of environmental research areas in Lebanon involving toxicology:
- The application of mammalian cells in screening environmental stressors in soils and river systems;
- The toxicity of artificial sun tanning chemicals on humans and their genotoxic and immunologic potential;
- The toxicity of car exhaust fumes on human lungs - an in vitro approach;
- Toxicity of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).
- Khalil, C., Human skin explants an in vitro approach for assessing UVB induced damage. Toxicol In Vitro, 2018. 53: p. 193-199.
- Khalil, C., C. Al Hageh, S. Korfali, and R.S. Khnayzer, Municipal leachates health risks: Chemical and cytotoxicity assessment from regulated and unregulated municipal dumpsites in Lebanon. Chemosphere, 2018. 208: p. 1-13.C. Al Hageh, M. Al Assaad, Z. El Masri, N. Samaan, M. El Sibai, C. Khalil and R. S. Khnayzer (2018) Long-lived cuprous bis-phenanthroline complex for the photodynamic therapy of cancer, Dalton Trans.
- Khalil C, Shebabay, C (2017) UVB damage onset and progression 24 h post exposure in human-derived skin cells Toxicology reports 4, 441-449.
- Khalil C, (2015) In vitro UVB induced cellular damage assessment using primary human skin derived fibroblasts MOJ Toxicology 1 (4), 20
- Khalil, C Characterization, cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of landfill leachates: A comparative assessment between landfills throughout Lebanon 8th World Congress on Toxicology and Pharmacology April 13-15, 2017 Dubai, UAE.
- Khalil, C, Baroudy K, Hajjeh C., El Khoury, R, Youssef, L (2016) Comparative assessment of human impacts from Lebanese landfills leachates using chemicals and in vitro toxicological assessments. 22nd International Science conference, The Social Avenues of Research, 38.
- Khalil, C, Baroudy K, Hajjeh C, El Khoury, R, Youssef, L. (2016) Surface water Chemical and toxicological assessment, from Afqa to Nahr Ibrahim. 22nd International Science conference, The Social Avenues of Research 38- 39.
- Khalil, C (2015) Characterization of UVB induced damage immediately and 24 h post exposure using in vitro cytotoxicity assays, 21st International Science conference, Horizon 2020: Advances in Sciences & Technology, 135-136.
- Khalil, C (2015) In vitro UVB induced cellular damage assessment using primary human skin derived cells , MOJ Toxicology 1(4):20-28
- Khalil, C (2015) Characterization of UVB induced damage immediately and 24 h post exposure using in vitro cytotoxicity assays, 21st International Science conference, Horizon 2020: Advances in Sciences & Technology, 135-136.
- Y Siti Hajar, A Intasiri, C Winder, C Khalil (2013) In vitro Cytotoxicity of Mild Steel and Stainless Steel Welding Fumes using Human-derived cells. Health 4 (2), 20-36.
- Ghauri, B., Manshaa, M., Khalil, C. (2012) Characterization of cytotoxicity of airborne particulates from urban areas of Lahore. Journal of Environmental Sciences 24:11, 2028–2034.
- Soni, B., Visavadiya, N, P., Dalwadi, N, Madamwar, D., Winder C., and Khalil, C. (2010) Purified c-phycoerythrin: safety studies in rats and protective role against permanganate mediated fibroblast-DNA damage. Journal of Applied Toxicology - 30: 542–550.
- Khalil, C., Nasir J. (2010) Toxicity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) mixtures using human derived cells. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment (132):3- 12.
- Khalil, C., Winder, C. (2008) Surface water toxicity assessment by ecotoxicological and in vitro toxicological assays. WIT Transactions on Biomedicine and Health (110):253- 262.
- Khalil C. (2008) Editorial: Managing the OHS environment Link. The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety — Australia and New Zealand 24 (2):91-96 Khalil, C. (2008) Managing the OHS environment Link. OHS Alert (feature Article) CCH Australia Limited (2):1-5.
- Khalil, C. (2006) Combining Three in vitro assays for detecting early signs of UVB cytotoxicity in cultured human skin fibroblasts. WIT Transactions on Biomedicine and Health (10):349-359 Bakand, S., Winder, C., Khalil, C., and Hayes, A. (2006). An experimental in vitro model for dynamic direct exposure of human cells to airborne contaminants. Toxicology Letters (165):1-10.
- Bakand, S., Winder, C., Khalil, C., Hayes, A. (2006). In Vitro Cytotoxicity of Formaldehyde and Gluatardehyde mixtures in human cells J. of UOEH (28):173-178.
- Bakand, S., Winder, C., Khalil, C., Hayes, A. (2005). A novel in vitro exposure technique for toxicity of selected volatile organic compounds. J. Environmental Monitoring (7):1-5.
- Bakand, S., Winder, C., Khalil, C., Hayes, A (2005). Toxicity assessment of industrial chemicals and airborne contaminants: Transition from in vivo to in vitro test methods: A review. Inhalation Toxicology 17(13):775-787.
- Bakand, S., Winder, C., Khalil, C., Hayes, A. (2005). Novel in vitro exposure techniques for toxicity testing and biomonitoring of airborne contaminants. ALTEX 22 (Spl):184
- Azzi, R., Hayes, A., Khalil, C., Winder, C. (2005). An in vitro study of the interactive effect of 24 binary and ternary mixtures from the GHS classification groups. ALTEX 22(Spl):128.
- Bakand, S., Hayes, A., Winder, C., Khalil, C., Markovic B. (2005). In vitro cytotoxicity testing of airborne formaldehyde collected in serum-free media. Toxicology and Industrial Health 21: 1-8.
- Khalil C. (2007). Environmental Sustainability, in Australian Master OHS and Environment Guide - 2nd editions (2007) ISBN 978-921223655.
- Khalil C. (2007). Managing the OHS environment Link, in Australian Master OHS and Environment Guide - 2nd editions (2007) ISBN 978-921223655.
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- PhD in Environmental Toxicology and Health, University of New South Wales, Australia
- MS in Environmental Studies, , University of New South Wales, Australia
- BS in Biology, Haigazian University, Lebanon.
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It's been a year since the Chennai floods ravaged the city. On December 2, 2015, people from all walks of life had come together to help those who were stranded, homeless and in need of food and shelter.
A year on from then, the city has returned to normalcy, but those who went through the experience will never forget it.
Many people turned saviours when they volunteered and went ahead with friends to do the best they can for the people in their city. The 272mm of rain the city received in a 24-hour period changed the course of life for nearly everyone.
Some of those who volunteered and helped people in the city during the floods speak to International Business Times, India about how they feel one year on after the devastation.
RJ Balaji
RJ Balaji, who is a RJ and an actor, was one of the first few celebrities in Chennai who ventured out into the streets to help people in distress. Together with actor Siddharth, they got together a band of volunteers, and started to coordinate relief activities in the city. They used twitter to mobile support and give out advice and help as well. They put the hashtag #Chennaimicro which went on to become a movement by itself in the city.
Talking to IBT a year later, RJ Balaji says, "I feel really good about my city and about the people in my city. And if you ask me this question even after a 100 years, my response will be the same. We have heard of people going out into the streets and fighting only during pre-Independence India when they wanted freedom. We have never seen anything like that in our lifetime. But that's what happened during the Chennai floods last year. We went out into the streets to help people. I feel really proud about it."
TS Suresh
He is a film editor in the Tamil film industry and when disaster struck Chennai, he did not hesitate to help people. TS Suresh went out every day in the days that followed December 2, helping distribute food in various parts of the city. Most of these areas were inundated with water, but that did not stop him and his friends. Suresh says, "My friends and I went out everyday distributing over 1000 packets of food. We went to all the flood-affected area."
How does he feel a year on? "Scary! I still can't believe that it has been a year. We need to create awareness among people. Nothing has changed unfortunately," says Suresh about the disaster management required in the city for such cases.
Sethulakshmi Johnson and Eco Kitchen
"It's been a year since the floods of Chennai and since it was a great team effort it helped in reaching out to so many people in Chennai," says Sethulakshmi Johnson who heads the Eco Kitchen project at the Y R Gaitonde Foundation. She and her dedicated staff at Eco Kitchen worked round-the-clock during the floods to provide food and relief for people in need.
"There was no power at our kitchen for few days, and we were handicapped, since ours is an industrial cooking facility, we can churn out more than 30,000 meals per meal time. We were supported with some fantastic volunteers from Cholamandalam artist village, who managed to get us diesel for the generator and got our production running," she explains. "Our hot Sambar rice and Pongal and Kitchidi is still spoken about, very fondly among people who helped distribute food to the places where food was inaccessible and badly hit by the floods."
But the experience helped the entire team do bigger things. "It gave us the strength to do more. Chefs, cooks, assistants, women who were staying the neighbourhood and who were affected by floods, reached the kitchen at odd hours to help pack and despatch 5000 and 7000 meals per meal time. The kitchen was buzzing with activities, as very soon, word-of-mouth took hold of things and people were whatsapping to find out if they can pick up."
The kitchen could not financially support all the food supplies but funds were raised online, through Facebook and through social networks. "We offered a wholesome meal at Rs 20 that helped people to pick up in large volumes. Those who could not afford to pay, we used the donations. Very soon our resources were getting depleted, and volunteers diverted tonnes of vegetables to be used for the Kathir dhan. Our team and colleagues were motivated to cook unconditionally and at short notice because we all knew that this was our contribution to Chennai in times of need," she adds.
Here are more stories of people who helped the city during the floods in 2015:
Anbodu Kochi: Malayalam actors, youngsters in Kerala unite to help Chennai
Helping Chennai: Siddharth, Kaniha, RJ Balaji and other real celebrity heroes
#ChennaiRains: First gesture comes from film fraternity, not India Inc


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ASUS and Google's new Nexus 7 tablet is all the rave right now, and with good reason. Sadly we don't have any official accessories for the tablet other than the case we took a look at last night. Some new photos revealed by Nordic Hardware shows that we're about to get some nice accessories to go along with our tablets.
For one, as you can see above, we'll be getting a nice desk dock or cradle, plus tons of cover options too. The POGO dock shown above and detailed below will use the pins on the side of the device, and looks to be a well made dock. The desktop dock is stated to "perfectly-angle" the Nexus 7 for "better movie and photo viewing, browsing, and email." With no HDMI-out it does feature 3.55mm headphone ports to extend music to your surround sound, as well as micro-USB to charge at the same time.
The gallery of images above (click to enlarge) has all the details for those interested. The slides point to a $49.99 USD price point for the dock, available come August 24th from ASUS. Most likely these will all be up on the Play Store soon. Then the same case we reported on last night, and have seen teased by ASUS will be coming in multiple colors and are titled as "travel covers." They were supposed to be available two weeks ago but so far only the dark grey is for sale.
Last the slides show a premium genuine leather option, something I'm sure many would love to purchase. It should be available in four different color options and hit the market at the end of August (31st) for around $39.99 a piece. So far we've only seen the one case become available, but hopefully these launch dates end up being accurate. I'd love the dock for my Nexus 7, but the cases I'll skip.
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Print Competition No 1 - Open
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Stan McCartin, one of the club's most popular judges, returned to give us his usual well informed comments in this season's first open print, with 19 monochrome and 44 colour prints.
Results as follows:
- Tony Bates - 39 points
- Bill Scott - 37 points
- Brian Jolley, Helen Richards, Nigel Fenner, Rod Norman - 36 points
Two 20's (maximum marks) were awarded to:
- Tony Bates - Tracks from a Bygone Era
- Bill Scott - A Face on the Tiles
- Brian Jolley - Bosham Hoe
- Ivor Cowley - 40 points
- Bill Scott, Dorothy Wood - 38 points
- Brian Jolley, John Sexton- 36 points
Five 20's in this section were awarded to:
- Ivor Cowley - Bath Abbey through the York Street Arch
- - Exotic Flower seen on Tresco
- Dorothy Wood - Shades of Former Glory
- Peter Bean - Inside the Spire – Salisbury Cathedral
Many thanks to Stan for once again giving excellent and fair assessments of our photos.
Also thanks to Geoff for his work in assembling the prints and record keeping.


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The most recent copy of Locus was waiting for me at my desk this morning, and I'd only just started thumbing through it when I was struck by two thoughts. The first was, "Uh oh, I forgot to write a blog post for today," and the second was, "Look at all these old science fiction and fantasy authors!"
(No offense to Connie Willis, excluded from that category, of course.)
It wasn't the first time I thought about all of the SF/fantasy authors out there who seem not only to live, but continue to work, into their nineties—eighties at least. The People & Publishing section of the October 2009 issue of Locus wishes happy 89th birthday to Ray Bradbury on the lower right-hand corner, and on the upper left-hand corner is a photo of another of my favorite authors of all time, Frederik Pohl, who is also 89, and was awarded an honorary high school diploma. According to the little news snippet accompanying the photo, Pohl dropped out of high school at the age of 15, which would have been 1935. I'm sure he's delighted to be able to say he's lived through part of both Great Depressions.
Two of my former co-workers at Wizards of the Coast. Mark Sehestedt and Peter Archer, knew veteran (to put it lightly) SF author Jack Williamson from their time as a student and professor (respectfully) at Eastern New Mexico University. Jack Williamson died in November 2006 at the age of 98. Robert Heinlein was 80 when he died in 1988. Arthur C. Clarke made it to 90 before he passed away in his beloved Sri Lanka in March of 2008.
Sure, there were authors who didn't make it that far. Philip K. Dick was only 53 when he died in 1982—but still, there just seems to be something about writing science fiction that keeps you young—at least keep you alive, anyway. What could it be?
Could it be that these men, some scientists before they started writing fiction, had some kind of forward-thinking edge on the average citizen? Do they know the chemistry behind longevity, and like Linus Pauling preserve their health with vitamins?
Some of them have been very successful over decades and decades, so is it because they're rich? But aren't there richer people than any of these guys who died lots younger? Money equals healthcare in America, so it would seem to follow that the richer you are the better healthcare you're getting, therefore the longer you live—but I'm not sure the statistics bear that out. Besides, I'm not sure that Jack Williamson, for instance was particularly wealthy.
Could they be in communication with aliens, or humans from the future who admire and were inspired by their work, and who occasionally visit them and allow them to spend a few minutes in their flying saucers' rejuvenation chambers? I guess it's as easy to believe that than, say, that Sarah Palin is qualified to be President of the United States, and people have told that story on national television.
The writer's life isn't terribly physically strenuous. Maybe that's it. If your job is to sit in a safe place tapping away at a typewriter you probably do have a leg up on people who, say, remove asbestos for a living, or work on Alaskan crab fishing boats. I'm pretty sure no one's ever drowned while writing a novel.
I briefly thought that maybe these guys stick around because they've found a way to do what they love, every day, and do it for a living. That they've been embraced by a community of intelligent, caring fans who admire their work and occasionally get a chance to tell them so. Could it be that doing what you love for a living makes you live longer? If your day to day work is exactly the activity you would plan on doing when you retire, are you less likely to retire at all? Does doing what you love make you work longer, feel vital longer, and so you live longer?
No, that couldn't be it.
Could it?
If so, I might just make it past Philip K. Dick's 53, and having just turned 45, 53 doesn't seem that old at all. If I live as long as Arthur C. Clarke, and for what it's worth, my paternal grandfather, I'm only halfway there.
Let's circle back on this subject in 2054 and I'll let you know if it was the love of the game that kept me going, or the aliens' rejuvenation tanks. Either way, I'll be a happy 90-year-old with a lot of stories left to tell.
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It's always good to have someone considered more or less an authority confirm your beliefs. That's why I want to share some quotes from Story Engineering by novelist and writing teacher Larry Brooks.
Story Engineering contains some of the best stuff I've ever read about crafting a novel. It's practical advice that's directly applicable to one's writing, presented in a matter that is neither straight-jacketed by process nor clouded with vagaries.
That's not the stuff I want to share, though. At least not this week. I want to give you some of the inspirational language from near the book's end, in Brooks's thoughts about why we write.
"If you are a writer–and you are if you actually write—you are already living the dream. Because the primary reward of writing comes from within, and you don't need to get published or sell your screenplay to access it."
Confirmation! Those who visit this site on a semi-regular basis (both of you) have heard me say similar things before. Writing is its own reward, even according to somebody who actually knows what they're doing!
Here's more:
"The inner reward is the gift of life itself. Writers are scribes of the human experience. To write about life we must see it and feel it, and in a way that eludes most. We are not better people in any way—read the biographies of great writers and this becomes crystal clear—but we are alive in a way that other are not. We are all about meaning. About subtext. We notice what others don't. If the purpose of the human experience is to immerse ourselves in growth and enlightenment, moving closer and closer to whatever spiritual truth you seek—hopefully have a few laughs and a few tears along the way—wearing the nametag of a writer makes that experience more vivid. We're hands-on with life, and in the process of committing our observations to the page we add value to it for others."
If that's not a top-notch assessment of writing's true rewards, I don't know what is. We only get one life (even if you believe in reincarnation, you only get this life once) and as writers we get to create a richer experience of it for ourselves and, with skill and luck, for others. If you ask me, it doesn't get any better than that.


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Victoria Minister for Innovation Services and Small Business Louise Asher
Coalition Government Announces Melbourne International Film Festival Funding Boost
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Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher today announced an additional $150,000 in funding for the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) to ensure its venues have up-to-date exhibition equipment for the 2012 festival.
"MIFF is a landmark on Melbourne's events calendar, attracting people to the city day and night, and adding to our reputation as Australia's most vibrant cultural destination." Ms. Asher said.
"As Australia's oldest and largest film festival, MIFF is respected locally and globally for the quality and breadth of its programming."
"With films now delivered in a variety of formats, the $150,000 funding boost will ensure MIFF has the programming flexibility to show films in different formats across different venues."
"The funding will allow the 2012 MIFF to screen the most exciting program to date, securing a high number of films from the prestigious Cannes Film Festival." Ms. Asher said.
In addition to funding of $150,000 for equipment, the 2012 MIFF has also received $17,500 from the Coalition Government through Tourism Victoria's Events Program to attract more visitors and showcase Melbourne as a leading screen culture and film capital.
Melbourne International Film Festival Chair Claire Dobbin said as a direct result of the funding, this year's festival line-up will feature over 35 films from Cannes, a significant increase on previous years.
"The majority of these films are only available in digital cinema package (DCP) format and without these additional funds MIFF would not have been able to secure these titles." Ms. Dobbin said.
"Cinema-loving Victorians can reap the benefits of the increased diversity of films on offer."
The 2012 festival will open with the Australian premiere of The Sapphires which recently debuted at Cannes. The Sapphires tells the story of four talented female singers from a remote Aboriginal mission in Victoria who is offered their first real gig entertaining American troops in Vietnam.
MIFF is the longest-running film festival in the Southern Hemisphere, offering filmgoers the opportunity to sample more than 300 titles annually from Australia and around the globe. MIFF also runs key government funded industry programs including MIFF Accelerator, MIFF 37º South Market and the MIFF Premiere Fund.
The 2012 Festival runs from 2 – 19 August 2012.


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The Gecko monoculture
March 7, 2016 § 8 Comments
I remember a time, not so very long ago, when Gecko powered 4 or 5 non-Mozilla browsers, some of them on exotic platforms, as well as GPS devices, wysiwyg editors, geographic platforms, email clients, image editors, eBook readers, documentation browsers, the UX of virus scanners, etc, as well as a host of innovative and exotic add-ons. In these days, Gecko was considered, among other things, one of the best cross-platform development toolkits available.
The year is now 2016 and, if you look around, you'll be hard-pressed to find Gecko used outside of Firefoxen (alright, and Thunderbird and Bluegriffon). Did Google or Apple or Microsoft do that? Not at all. I don't know how many in the Mozilla community remember this, but this was part of a Mozilla strategy. In this post, I'd like to discuss this strategy, its rationale, and the lessons that we may draw from it.
Dreaming the Internet of Things
February 17, 2016 § Leave a comment
One of these days, using the Cloud of OpaqueCompany ™, I will be able to set the colour of my lightbulbs by talking to my TV. Somewhere along the way, my house will become a little bit more energy hungry and a little bit more dependent on the Cloud of OpaqueCompany(tm) . That's the promise of the Internet of Things. Isn't that neat? Isn't that exciting?
Not really. At least, not for me. But, for some reason, whenever I read about that Internet of Things, it is about expensive gadgets that, to me, sounds like Christmas commercials: marginally useful, designed by marketers for spoilt westerners to be consumed then forgotten before the next Christmas shopping spree.
But this doesn't have to be.
I have spent a little time scratching the surface and trying to determine whether there was something more to this Internet of Things, beside the shopping list. I came back convinced that, once you forget the marketing, this Internet of Things can become a revolution as big as the Personal Computer or the World Wide Web – at least if we let it fall into the right hands.
Say you are the owner or manager of a small commerce, say a restaurant. Chances are that you need a burglar alarm, either because you fear that you are going to be burglarised, or because your insurance requires one. You have two solutions. Either you go to a store and buy some off-the-shelf product, or you contract a company, draw a list of requirements and pay for a custom setup. In either case, you are a consumer, and you are stuck with what you paid for. But needs change. Perhaps the insurance policies now requires you to have an alarm that can call the police automatically. Perhaps neighbours complained about the noise of the alarm and you need to turn it into a silent alarm that rings your cellphone. Perhaps the insurance has changed their policy and now requires you to take pictures of the burglary. Perhaps you have had work done and the small window in the bathroom is now large enough that it could be used to break in. Or water damage has destroyed one of your sensors and you need to replace it, but the model doesn't exist anymore. Or you are tired of triggering the alarm when you take out the garbage and need to refine the policy. Of your product was linked to a subscription, to call the police on your behalf, but the provider has stopped this service. In any of these cases, you are probably stuck. Because your needs have made you a consumer and you are served only as long as there is a market for your specific need.
Now, consider an alternate universe, in which you just need to walk or drive to the nearest store, buy a few off-the-shelf motion detectors, for the price of a few dollars and simply attach them in your restaurant, where you see fit. They use open standards, so you can install an app to get them to work together, or even better, use your cellphone to script them visually into doing what you need. Do you need to add one or ten, or replace them with different models, or add door-lock sensors? It's just as easy. Do you need to add a camera? Well, place it and use your cellphone to add that camera to your script. Use your cellphone again and customise the effect, to call the police, or ring your cellphone, or deactivate a single alarm between 11pm and 11.30pm, because that's when you take out the trash. And if your product is linked to a subscription, because it uses open standards, you can switch provider as needed. In this universe, the Internet of Things has put you in control – not a Cloud, not a silo – and drastically cut your costs and your dependencies.
A few months ago, Mozilla has started pivoting from SmartPhones to the Web of Things – that's the name we give to Internet of Things done right, with open standards, you in charge, rather than silos and Opaque Cloud ™. I can make no promise that we are going to succeed, but I believe in the huge potential of this Web of Things.
By the way, it doesn't stop at restaurants. The exact same open standards can help you guard against fires in your house or humidity in your server room. Or crowdsourcing flood detection in cities exposed to flash floods or automating experiments in a physics lab. Or watching your heartbeat or listening to your snores. Or determining which part of the village farm needs to be irrigated in priority or which part of the sewers need most attention.
Some of these problems already have commercial solutions. But what about your next problem, the one that hasn't attracted the attention of any company large enough to produce devices specifically for you?
Here is to the Web of Things. Let's make sure that it falls into the right hands.
Designing the Firefox Performance Stats Monitor, part 1: Measuring time without killing battery or performance
October 27, 2015 § Leave a comment
For a few versions, Firefox Nightly has been monitoring the performance of add-ons, thanks to the Performance Stats API. While we are waiting for the greenlight to let it graduate to Firefox Aurora, as well as investigating a few lingering false-positives, and while v2 is approaching steadily, it is time for a brain dump on this toolbox and its design.
The initial objective of this monitor is to be able to flag both add-ons and webpages that cause noticeable slowdowns, so as to let users disable/close whatever is making their use of Firefox miserable. We also envision more advanced uses that could let us find out if features of webpages cause slowdowns on specific OS/hardware combinations.
What have I done since last July?
July 16, 2015 § Leave a comment
School year 2014-2015 is ending. It's time for a brief report.
Re-dreaming Firefox (1): Firefox Agents
May 29, 2015 § 9 Comments
Gerv's recent post on the Jeeves Test got me thinking of the Firefox of my dreams. So I decided to write down a few ideas on how I would like to experience the web. Today: Firefox Agents. Let me emphasise that the features described in this blog post do not exist.
Marcel uses Firefox every day, for quite a number of things.
- He uses Firefox for fun, for watching videos and playing online games. For this purpose, he has installed a few tools for finding and downloading videos. Also, one of his main search engines is YouTube. Suggested movies? Sure, as long as they are fun.
- He uses Firefox for social networks. He follows his friends, he searches on Facebook, or Twitter, or Google+. If anything looks fun, or useful, he'd like to be informed.
- He uses Firefox for managing his bank accounts, his taxes, his health insurance. For this purpose, he has paranoid security settings – to avoid phishing, he can only browse to a few whitelisted websites – and no add-ons. He may be interested in getting information from these few websites, and in security updates, but that's about it. Also, since Firefox handles all his passwords, it must itself be protected by a password.
- He uses Firefox to read his Gmail account. And to read his other Gmail account. And he doesn't want to leak privacy information by doing so on the same Firefox that he's using for browsing.
- Oh, and he may also be using Firefox for browsing websites that are sensitive for any kind of reason, whether he's hunting for gifts for his close family, dating online, chatting with hackers, discussing politics, helping NGOs in sensitive parts of the globe, visiting BitTorrent trackers, consulting a physician through some online service, or, well, anything else that requires privacy. He'd like to perform such browsing with additional anonymity guarantees. This also means locking Firefox with a password.
- Sometimes, his children or friends borrow his computer and use Firefox, too.
Of course, since Marcel brings his own device at (or from) work, that's the same Firefox that he's using for all of these tasks, and he's probably even doing several of these tasks at the same time.
So, Marcel has a set of contradictory requirements, not to mention that each of his uses of Firefox needs to pass a distinct Jeeves Test. How do we keep him happy nevertheless?
Introducing Firefox Agents
In the rest of this post, I will be calling each of these uses of Firefox an Agent (if we ever implement this feature, it will, of course, be called Persona). Each Agent matches one way you use Firefox. While Firefox may be delivered with a predefined set of Agents, users can easily create new Agents. In the example, Marcel has his "Fun Agent", his "Social Agent", his "Work Agent", etc.
Each Agent is unique and separate:
- Each Agent has its own icon on Marcel's menu/desktop/tablet/phone and task list.
- Each Agent has its own visual identity, to make sure that work-related stuff doesn't end up accidentally in the Fun Agent.
- Each Agent has its own set of preferences, bookmarks, remembered passwords, cookies, cache, and add-ons.
- Each website may be connected to a given Agent, so that links received through Gmail or through Thunderbird, for instance, automatically open with the right Agent.
As a consequence, any technology that can come bundled with Firefox to, for instance, provide search suggestions or any other kind of website suggestions is tied to an Agent. For instance, Marcel's browsing a dating site, or shopping for shoes, or having religious activities will not be visible to any of his colleagues looking above his shoulder at his Work Agent, nor will it be tied to either of Marcel's Gmail accounts. This greatly increases the chances of suggestion technologies passing the Jeeves Test.
Agents are also connected:
- A menu in each Agent, as well as a keyboard shortcut, lets users quickly open/switch to other Agents.
- When an Agent follows a link to a website that belongs to another Agent, the relevant Agent opens automatically.
- Bookmarks may be pushed, on demand, from one Agent to another one.
- Passwords may be pulled, on demand, from one Agent to another one.
How far are we from Agents?
Technologically speaking, Firefox Agents almost exist. Indeed, Firefox has supported Profiles forever, since way before Firefox 1.0. I generally have three instances of Firefox opened at the same time (four when I'm doing web development), and it works nicely.
With a few add-ons, you can get almost everything, although not entirely connected together:
- Profilist helps a lot with switching between profiles, and the dev version adds distinct icons;
- Firefox Themes implement distinct appearances;
- there are add-ons implementing whitelist browsing;
- there are add-ons implementing password-protected Firefox.
A few features are missing, but as you can see, the list is actually quite short:
- Pushing/pulling passwords and bookmarks between Agents (although that's a subset of what Firefox Accounts can do).
- Attaching specific websites to specific Agents (although this doesn't seem too difficult to implement).
- Connecting this all together.
What now?
I would like to browse with this Firefox. Would you?
Detecting slow add-ons
May 6, 2015 § 13 Comments
When it is at its best, Firefox is fast. Really, really fast. When things start slowing down, though, using Firefox is much less fun. So, one of main objectives of the developers of Firefox is making sure that Firefox is and remains as smooth and responsive as humanly possible. There is, however, one thing that can slow down Firefox, and that remains out of the control of the developers: add-ons. Good add-ons are extraordinary, but small coding errors – or sometimes necessary hacks – can quickly drive the performance of Firefox into the ground.
So, how can an add-on developer (or add-on reviewer) find out whether her add-on is fast? Sadly, not much. Testing certainly helps, and the Profiler is invaluable to help pinpoint a slowdown once it has been noticed, but what about the performance of add-ons in everyday use? What about the experience of users?
To solve this issue, we decided to work on a set of tools to help add-on developers and reviewers find out the performance of their add-ons. Oh, and also to let users find out quickly if an add-on is slowing down their everyday experience.
On recent Nightly builds of Firefox, you may now open about:performance to get an overview of the performance cost of add-ons and webpages :
The main resources we monitor are :
- jank, which measures how much the add-on impacts the responsiveness of Firefox. For 60fps performance, jank should always remain ≤ 4. If an add-on regularly causes jank to increase past 6, you should be worried.
- CPOW aka blocking cross-process communications, which measures how much the add-on is causing Firefox to freeze waiting for a process to respond. Anything above 0 is bad.
Note that the design of this page is far from stable. I realise it's not very user-friendly at the moment, so don't hesitate to file bugs to help us improve it. Also note that, when running with e10s, the page doesn't display all the useful information. We are working on it.
add-on Telemetry
Add-on developers and reviewers can now find information on the performance of their add-ons on a dedicated dashboard.
These are real-world performance data, as extracted from user's computers. The two histograms available for the time being are:
- MISBEHAVING_ADDONS_JANK_LEVEL, which measures the jank, as detailed above;
- MISBEHAVING_ADDONS_CPOW_TIME_MS, which measure the amount of time spent in CPOW, as detailed above.
If you are an add-on developer, you should monitor regularly the performance of your add-on on this page. If you notice suspicious values, you should try and find out what causes these performance issues. Don't hesitate and reach out to us, we will try and help you.
Slow add-on Notification
Add-on developers and reviewers, as well as end-users, are now informed when an add-on causes either jank or CPOW performance issues:
Note that this feature is not ready to ride the trains, and we do not have a specific idea of when it will be made available for users of Aurora/DeveloperEdition. This is partly because the UX is not good enough yet, partly because the thresholds will certainly change, and partly because we want to give add-on developers time to fix any issue before the users see a dialog that suggest that an add-on should be uninstalled.
Performance Stats API
By the way, we have an API for accessing performance stats. Very imaginatively, it's called PerformanceStats.jsm [link]. While this API will still change during the coming weeks you can start playing with it if you are interested. Some add-ons may be able to throttle their performance use based on this data. Also, I hope that, in time, someone will be able to write a version of about:performance much nicer than mine 🙂
Challenges and work ahead
For the moment, we are in the process of stabilizing the API, its implementation and its performance. In parallel, we are working on making the UX of about:performance more useful. Once both are done, we are going to proceed with adding more measurements, making the code more e10s-friendly and measuring the performance of webpages.
If you are an add-on developer and if you feel that your add-on is tagged as slow by error, or if you have great ideas on how to make this data useful, feel free to ping me, preferably on IRC. You can find me on irc.mozilla.org, channel #developers, where I am Yoric.
Je Suis Charlie
January 7, 2015 § Leave a comment


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The year was a productive and inspiring one for me and for STAY COOL. In 2016 we exceeded 200 active elder members, with more than 120 of those attending one of the 6 events we hosted, or joining us on our educational hike, or participating in a march or tree-planting press event, or raising their voice on local climate change policies through letter writing or in-person testimony. I'm especially proud of the new programs we implemented that allow STAY COOL to connect with children – those members of the future generations we are working to protect.
Because of our partnership with the Water Conservation Garden, we developed "Ms. Smarty Plants™ Cools the Climate" – a presentation that more than a thousand schoolchildren saw this year after it launched at Balboa Park on Earth Day. The Garden expects to reach more than 50,000 children next year.
We worked with young students to create art with ocean climate messages and provided SIO graduate students with the art to bring to the Marrakesh climate change conference in November. Last year, we did the same and the U.S. State Department used the art in one of its negotiating sessions.
We strengthened our partnership with the Climate Science Alliance, and developed a science-based education program to teach 6th graders and older about climate change impacts on our ocean. Through this partnership, our outreach to public schools exposed more than 250 students to hands-on science experiments, personal stories from early career scientists and inspiring art projects.
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In 2016 we engaged more than 30 individual donors – a first for STAY COOL. We also were successful in attracting a Community Enhancement Grant from the County of San Diego. And in just a month, we have raised $4,000 to help continue our Youth Engagement programs in 2017.
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Thank you for your continued involvement with STAY COOL in 2016 and your personal commitment to help preserve a livable planet for our children and grandchildren. While 2017 will bring with it new challenges, there are many reasons to be optimistic about local action on climate change. As Dr. Somerville said at our December 8 event, "We are at a critical crossroads. We still have a chance of limiting climate change to a tolerable level, a level that offers some hope of successful adaptation. Our window of opportunity is still open."
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The Daily Mail and The Telegraph have been running stories about the slave-owning past of Richard Dawkin's ancestors. The family tree is to the right.
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Today's giveaway of two tickets to the upcoming "Taste of the Nation" (a $190 value) is a tough one. As you know, there will be some 40 chefs, plus another 15 pastry chefs and approximately a half-dozen mixologists at the Aragon Ballroom on Aug. 12th, all hoping to raise money to fight childhood hunger in our area. Here's today's challenge:
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