The Susquehanna River is the lifeblood of local communities throughout central Pennsylvania. Residents rely on the river for drinking water, recreation, and economic opportunities. It’s no surprise that there has been an outpouring of concern in recent years as anglers and biologists have seen declines in fish populations, especially in young smallmouth bass
Oklahoma has a total of 22 major groundwater basins that contain approximately 390 million acre-feet of water in storage. In the western half of the state, groundwater serves a significant purpose as it is the primary source of water. It is noteworthy to mention how the Ogallala Aquifer in western Oklahoma is the state’s largest groundwater basin. It has the capacity to store 90 million acre-feet of water. To contextualize its importance, the water it can supply can place the entire state in water measuring two feet deep.
CCW conference: Protecting Susquehanna and impacts on jobsClean Water
Mel Zimmerman, Clean Water Institute, Lycoming CollegeThe Susquehanna River is the lifeblood of local communities throughout central Pennsylvania. Residents rely on the river for drinking water, recreation, and economic opportunities. It’s no surprise that there has been an outpouring of concern in recent years as anglers and biologists have seen declines in fish populations, especially in young smallmouth bass. Join the discussion to understand what the fish and water quality are telling us about the Susquehanna and parallel concerns in the Shenandoah, Potomac and Juniata Rivers. Hear from experts working to understand the water quality impairments and what needs to be done to restore this once world-class fishery and the economy that relies on it.
North Carolina watersheds and river basinsKella Randolph
A river basin is the land that water flows across or under on its way to a river. It is the drainage area of a river. As a bathtub catches all the water that falls within its sides, a river basin sends all the water falling on the surrounding land into a central river and out to an estuary or the sea.
Saltwater is desalinated to produce water suitable for human consumption or irrigation. The by-product of the desalination process is brine. Desalination is used on many seagoing ships and submarines. Most of the modern interest in desalination is focused on cost-effective provision of fresh water for human use. Along with recycled wastewater, it is one of the few rainfall-independent water sources.
Oklahoma has a total of 22 major groundwater basins that contain approximately 390 million acre-feet of water in storage. In the western half of the state, groundwater serves a significant purpose as it is the primary source of water. It is noteworthy to mention how the Ogallala Aquifer in western Oklahoma is the state’s largest groundwater basin. It has the capacity to store 90 million acre-feet of water. To contextualize its importance, the water it can supply can place the entire state in water measuring two feet deep.
CCW conference: Protecting Susquehanna and impacts on jobsClean Water
Mel Zimmerman, Clean Water Institute, Lycoming CollegeThe Susquehanna River is the lifeblood of local communities throughout central Pennsylvania. Residents rely on the river for drinking water, recreation, and economic opportunities. It’s no surprise that there has been an outpouring of concern in recent years as anglers and biologists have seen declines in fish populations, especially in young smallmouth bass. Join the discussion to understand what the fish and water quality are telling us about the Susquehanna and parallel concerns in the Shenandoah, Potomac and Juniata Rivers. Hear from experts working to understand the water quality impairments and what needs to be done to restore this once world-class fishery and the economy that relies on it.
North Carolina watersheds and river basinsKella Randolph
A river basin is the land that water flows across or under on its way to a river. It is the drainage area of a river. As a bathtub catches all the water that falls within its sides, a river basin sends all the water falling on the surrounding land into a central river and out to an estuary or the sea.
Saltwater is desalinated to produce water suitable for human consumption or irrigation. The by-product of the desalination process is brine. Desalination is used on many seagoing ships and submarines. Most of the modern interest in desalination is focused on cost-effective provision of fresh water for human use. Along with recycled wastewater, it is one of the few rainfall-independent water sources.
CCW conf: Economic impact of_smallmouth_fishing_on_the_susquehanna [autosaved]Clean Water
The Susquehanna River is the lifeblood of local communities throughout central Pennsylvania. Residents rely on the river for drinking water, recreation, and economic opportunities. It’s no surprise that there has been an outpouring of concern in recent years as anglers and biologists have seen declines in fish populations, especially in young smallmouth bass. Join the discussion to understand what the fish and water quality are telling us about the Susquehanna and parallel concerns in the Shenandoah, Potomac and Juniata Rivers.
CCW conf: Economic impact of_smallmouth_fishing_on_the_susquehanna [autosaved]Clean Water
The Susquehanna River is the lifeblood of local communities throughout central Pennsylvania. Residents rely on the river for drinking water, recreation, and economic opportunities. It’s no surprise that there has been an outpouring of concern in recent years as anglers and biologists have seen declines in fish populations, especially in young smallmouth bass. Join the discussion to understand what the fish and water quality are telling us about the Susquehanna and parallel concerns in the Shenandoah, Potomac and Juniata Rivers.
PA needs to draft a strong Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP), not for the sake of the Chesapeake, but for the health of the Susquehanna. In January, the PA Fish and Boat Commission came out with a resolution that points out that the water quality of the Susquehanna is the cause for the demise of the Susquehanna bass fishery. Please watch this movie of the powerpoint that I presented in front of PA DEP Secretary Hanger and PA Department of Agriculture Secretary Redding (9/1/2010).
The State of the
HUDSON 2009
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
www.dec.ny.gov
The State of the
HUDSON 2009
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
www.dec.ny.gov
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The State of the Hudson 2009 was produced by the Hudson River Estuary Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conserva-
tion, in partnership with the New York State Water Resources Institute at Cornell University and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control
Commission. It was written by Steve Stanne, Elizabeth Roessler and Kristin Marcell and designed by Bob DeVilleneuve. Except as noted, all maps
were prepared by Clare Dunn and Lana Lau. Preparation of the report was greatly assisted by DEC’s Division of Public Aff airs, the Hudson River
Estuary Management Advisory Committee and Hudson River Estuary Coordinator Frances Dunwell and her staff at the Estuary Program. Thanks to
Commissioner Pete Grannis and Assistant Commissioner Jim Tierney for their leadership in accomplishing the program’s goals.
For more information on subjects covered, please visit the Hudson River Estuary Program pages on DEC’s website at www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4920.
html. A virtual tour, fact sheets, lesson plans and the Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda can be found there, as well as links to other programs and
organizations working to improve the Hudson and tell its stories.The Hudson River Estuary Program: Making a diff erence together for the river and
valley we share.
www.dec.ny.gov
Printed on FSC certified paper containing 100% post-consumer waste.
Cover art: Chance of Indian Summer by Andriano Manocchia
The Hudson River Estuary Program: Making a diff erence together for the river and valley we share.
The Hudson River Estuary Program leads a unique regional partnership to restore the Hudson and support the quality of life so valued by Hudson Valley resi-
dents. Its mission is to conserve the natural resources for which the Hudson is legendary, promote full public use and enjoyment of the river and clean up the
pollution that aff ects our ability to use and enjoy it.
The Estuary Program implements the Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda with partners, including the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve;
Hudson River Valley Greenway; New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program; New York State’s Offi ce of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the
departments of State, Health, Transportation and General Services; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Geological Survey; U.S. Department of
Commerce/NOAA, and many municipal governments, non-profi t groups, academic institutions and private sector organizations.
For more information, visit www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4920.html
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
The river shaped
our past; we now
shape its future.
Our power to
alter the
Hudson m ...
The Blueprint Jordan River visioning process was completed in December of 2008. Close to 3,000 residents and stakeholder participated in drafting a public vision for the river.
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The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
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Speakers:
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Charlie Greenberg, Host
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
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CCW Conference: Protecting the Susquehanna River
1. 4th ANNUAL CHOOSE CLEAN WATER CONFERENCE:
CLEAN WATER WORKS
JUNE 4 - 5, 2013
TREMONT SUITES HOTEL AND GRAND HISTORIC VENUE, BALTIMORE, MD
2. John Arway, Executive Director
PA Fish & Boat Commission
present the overview of the river and what it means
economically for a region, synopsis on river health and
recent declines in the smallmouth fishery, overview of
recent challenges re: the listing, need for action and
any parallels to other
waterbodies.
Moderate the Session
3. Susquehanna River
The Basin:
• Drains 27,510 square miles,
covering half the land area of
Pennsylvania and portions of
New York and Maryland.
• Includes all or portions of 66
counties.
• Comprises 43 percent of the
Chesapeake Bay's drainage
area.
• Has more than 49,000 miles of
waterways
• Has a population of more than 4
Million
• Is the largest tributary of the
Chesapeake Bay, providing 50
percent of its fresh water flows.
Source: www.srbc.net
4. Historical significance
Widely considered one of the best
smallmouth bass destinations in the
country
In 2005, Bassmaster Magazine listed
as one of top 5 rivers
American Rivers listed as the America’s
Most Endangered River in 2005 and
2011
12. Big business
Fishing and Boating are big business in
Pennsylvania
$3.4 billion to PA economy, annually
18,000 jobs
$120 million in state and local tax
revenue, annually
Major recreational resource
Susquehanna River smallmouth bass
(PFBC 2010)
Nearly 126,201 trips
$3,700,170 (2012 Dollars)
Photo: M. Hendricks
13. Request for PADEP and U.S. EPA to
Declare the River Sick (Impaired)
Healthy Fishery, Healthy River Sick Fishery, Sick River
14. 2013 EPA National Rivers And Streams Assessment:
More Than Half Of Waterways In 'Poor' Shape
"The recently published EPA National Rivers and Streams
Assessment Survey found that over 55 percent of our nation's
streams and rivers do not support healthy populations of
aquatic life. A total of 40 percent of our waters have been
identified to have high levels of phosphorus and 27 percent
have high levels of nitrogen. Four sampling sites of the
national survey were located on the Susquehanna River and
the two Pennsylvania sites rated poor for
fish, periphyton, water quality and total phosphorus. Since
EPA's own data corroborated the PFBC's findings that the
river is of poor quality, we are surprised that EPA did not
conclude that we need to list the river as impaired and develop
a plan to fix it.”
16. Acknowledgements
USGS Leetown Science Center, National
Fish Health Research Laboratory
Vicki Blazer
Luke Iwanowicz
Heather Ellery
USGS PA Water Science Center
Jeff Chaplin
PFBC Staff
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast
Fishery Center
Susquehanna River Technical and Policy
Committees
This concern has also culminated into political actionIn Sept. 2008, on the heels of the first year of water quality analysis, the executive director set a letter to the Sectary of PADEP requesting the dissolved oxygen criteria be changed to be more protective of warm-water fisheries based on the guidance of USEPAIn January of this year, the board of commissioner passed a resolution where they called the Susquehanna River impaired and in doing so call to the attention the need for PADEP to take actionAnd at the past meeting, the executive director took emergency action to impose a regulation change to immediate catch and release beginning Jan 1 2011. This was also part of a proposed rule-making that will be voted on by the Commission at the April Meeting after the 90-day comment period. This rule-change, as proposed, will extend for an indefinite period of time until catch-rates increase to past levels.
This concern has also culminated into political actionIn Sept. 2008, on the heels of the first year of water quality analysis, the executive director set a letter to the Sectary of PADEP requesting the dissolved oxygen criteria be changed to be more protective of warm-water fisheries based on the guidance of USEPAIn January of this year, the board of commissioner passed a resolution where they called the Susquehanna River impaired and in doing so call to the attention the need for PADEP to take actionAnd at the past meeting, the executive director took emergency action to impose a regulation change to immediate catch and release beginning Jan 1 2011. This was also part of a proposed rule-making that will be voted on by the Commission at the April Meeting after the 90-day comment period. This rule-change, as proposed, will extend for an indefinite period of time until catch-rates increase to past levels.