Using subcontractors gives a construction project a new dimension. Construction firms that can manage subcontractor risks, whether large or little, are significantly safer and more secure. Subcontractor defaults are common for contractors who do not manage risks. Subcontractors can manage subcontractor risks by posting a Surety Bond or obtaining a Subcontractor Default Insurance (SDI).
Companies will be required to post surety bonds in the construction industry, particularly for most government development projects. For the development or maintenance of any structure or public work, federal or state projects require contractors to obtain construction surety bonds.
If your surety bond is nearing expiration and needs to be renewed, be sure to renew those bonds to ensure the continued operation of your business. Here's a quick guide on why surety bond renewal is important.
Electronic bonding replicates the bond execution process. The introduction of the ESB or Electronic Surety Bond by the NMLS is intended to make the process of posting surety bonds more efficient and convenient for all parties involved.
It’s easy to get confused with the sections, wording, or clauses of a surety bond form, especially in the beginning. That's why it’s important to have a good understanding of it because it contains significantly more features than a typical contract. Here's a thorough look at the parts of a surety bond form.
Employees who engage in retirement employee benefit programs are protected by an ERISA bond. This bond is often required from businesses that administer retirement plans in order to avoid fraud and mismanagement.
Many states in the U.S. have already legalized medical marijuana. Federal and state laws require dispensary owners, cultivators, growers, and everyone else in the state-legal medical marijuana industry to get bonded. A Medical Marijuana Surety Bond is required for dispensaries to run their businesses legally.
Using subcontractors gives a construction project a new dimension. Construction firms that can manage subcontractor risks, whether large or little, are significantly safer and more secure. Subcontractor defaults are common for contractors who do not manage risks. Subcontractors can manage subcontractor risks by posting a Surety Bond or obtaining a Subcontractor Default Insurance (SDI).
Companies will be required to post surety bonds in the construction industry, particularly for most government development projects. For the development or maintenance of any structure or public work, federal or state projects require contractors to obtain construction surety bonds.
If your surety bond is nearing expiration and needs to be renewed, be sure to renew those bonds to ensure the continued operation of your business. Here's a quick guide on why surety bond renewal is important.
Electronic bonding replicates the bond execution process. The introduction of the ESB or Electronic Surety Bond by the NMLS is intended to make the process of posting surety bonds more efficient and convenient for all parties involved.
It’s easy to get confused with the sections, wording, or clauses of a surety bond form, especially in the beginning. That's why it’s important to have a good understanding of it because it contains significantly more features than a typical contract. Here's a thorough look at the parts of a surety bond form.
Employees who engage in retirement employee benefit programs are protected by an ERISA bond. This bond is often required from businesses that administer retirement plans in order to avoid fraud and mismanagement.
Many states in the U.S. have already legalized medical marijuana. Federal and state laws require dispensary owners, cultivators, growers, and everyone else in the state-legal medical marijuana industry to get bonded. A Medical Marijuana Surety Bond is required for dispensaries to run their businesses legally.
The document discusses the Federal Maritime Commission bond (FMC-48 bond) requirements for ocean transportation intermediaries. Non-vessel-operating common carriers and ocean freight forwarders must obtain an FMC-48 bond to provide proof of their financial security and guarantee compliance with Shipping Act regulations. The bond amounts vary depending on the type of services provided, but ocean carriers and freight forwarders will pay a percentage of the total required bond amount.
As a consumer, are you truly aware of what types of laws or bonds have been put into place to protect you? As a consumer, are you truly aware of the types of laws or bonds that have been put into place to protect you?
Surety bonds have been a standard requirement for construction projects within the United States for decades. There’s been an increase in demand for surety bonds in recent years, especially when it comes to P3 projects. This demand is born out of a need.
Here’s a guide highlighting the basics and the process of obtaining a Marijuana-Cannabis Surety Bond. Find out how to easily secure this type of surety bond.
This guide will teach you everything that you need to know about DMEPOS-Medicare Surety Bonds before you obtain one. Learn how to secure this type of surety bond fast and easily.
State laws have been enacted in recent years which restrict Principals from effecting cancellation or nonrenewal except under specified circumstances. How do you really cancel a Surety Bond?
Special Needs Trust Bond: Helping trustees secure the future of children with...Surety Bond Authority
A Special Needs Trust (SNT) is a legal arrangement that allows a special needs child to still be eligible to receive government benefits while keeping his or her assets at the same time. A Special Needs Trust Bond, essentially, serves as a financial guarantee regarding the fulfillment of the trustee’s fiduciary duties.
For healthcare providers that bill to Medicaid, this surety bond ensures that providers keep accurate records, bill correctly, and handle funds properly.
For the executor of an estate, this surety bond guarantees that the estate is managed according to the terms of the deceased’s will. If the executor fails to do their duty, the executor bond provides a level of protection to the family and heirs of the estate.
Court bonds is an umbrella term that covers surety bonds for a broad range of legal proceedings. These are used to minimize losses resulting from a court ruling or to ensure compliance with court-mandated actions.
Why character might be the most difficult yet the most important factor in ev...Surety Bond Authority
Character, Capacity, and Capital are considered as the three great essentials of underwriting. The surety bond industry relies on these factors to evaluate whether a principal is up to the task or not. Out of all three, character is the factor that can be easily overlooked because it falls under the heading of things that many believe they understand, or at least, the easiest to determine.
Surety bonds are aimed at providing guarantees that businesses will fulfill their contractual obligations or face penalties. More importantly, the various types of surety bonds are legally binding documents that many companies and even industries, cannot operate without obtaining the necessary surety bond.
IRP registration is necessary to conduct routine business across states and localities. Before participating in the IRP BWU program, DMV requires an IRP web user surety bond.
Various types of scams and fraudulent activities have proliferated across different sectors and industries, and the surety bond industry is no different. Here's a glimpse into some of the typical surety bond fraud and scams and how you can avoid getting conned by choosing a reputable surety bond provider.
From Basic Laws, Co-Surety Roles to Subrogation Rights, here are the surety bond fundamentals that you need to understand to have a deeper understanding of how sureties work.
In the process of obtaining surety bonds, you may come across the underwriting process. Here's a brief overview on how surety bond underwriters identify risks, understand terms and conditions, and evaluate the Principal’s three C’s.
Each state or jurisdiction has its surety bond form language to enforce the bond lawfully. To understand the type of surety bond that you need to obtain, you need to be familiar with the core elements of a bond form.
What role does collateral play in surety bonds? Here's a look at the types of collateral that sureties may accept, the right time to release a collateral, what happens to a collateral if you change sureties, and why a collateral may be necessary for riskier bonds.
Whether a surety bond is required or not, it is still a wise decision to obtain one as protection for certain eventualities, like claims. Handling claims is a time-sensitive event that requires a thorough and fair investigative process. Here are the steps in which the Surety handles a surety bond claim.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
The document discusses the Federal Maritime Commission bond (FMC-48 bond) requirements for ocean transportation intermediaries. Non-vessel-operating common carriers and ocean freight forwarders must obtain an FMC-48 bond to provide proof of their financial security and guarantee compliance with Shipping Act regulations. The bond amounts vary depending on the type of services provided, but ocean carriers and freight forwarders will pay a percentage of the total required bond amount.
As a consumer, are you truly aware of what types of laws or bonds have been put into place to protect you? As a consumer, are you truly aware of the types of laws or bonds that have been put into place to protect you?
Surety bonds have been a standard requirement for construction projects within the United States for decades. There’s been an increase in demand for surety bonds in recent years, especially when it comes to P3 projects. This demand is born out of a need.
Here’s a guide highlighting the basics and the process of obtaining a Marijuana-Cannabis Surety Bond. Find out how to easily secure this type of surety bond.
This guide will teach you everything that you need to know about DMEPOS-Medicare Surety Bonds before you obtain one. Learn how to secure this type of surety bond fast and easily.
State laws have been enacted in recent years which restrict Principals from effecting cancellation or nonrenewal except under specified circumstances. How do you really cancel a Surety Bond?
Special Needs Trust Bond: Helping trustees secure the future of children with...Surety Bond Authority
A Special Needs Trust (SNT) is a legal arrangement that allows a special needs child to still be eligible to receive government benefits while keeping his or her assets at the same time. A Special Needs Trust Bond, essentially, serves as a financial guarantee regarding the fulfillment of the trustee’s fiduciary duties.
For healthcare providers that bill to Medicaid, this surety bond ensures that providers keep accurate records, bill correctly, and handle funds properly.
For the executor of an estate, this surety bond guarantees that the estate is managed according to the terms of the deceased’s will. If the executor fails to do their duty, the executor bond provides a level of protection to the family and heirs of the estate.
Court bonds is an umbrella term that covers surety bonds for a broad range of legal proceedings. These are used to minimize losses resulting from a court ruling or to ensure compliance with court-mandated actions.
Why character might be the most difficult yet the most important factor in ev...Surety Bond Authority
Character, Capacity, and Capital are considered as the three great essentials of underwriting. The surety bond industry relies on these factors to evaluate whether a principal is up to the task or not. Out of all three, character is the factor that can be easily overlooked because it falls under the heading of things that many believe they understand, or at least, the easiest to determine.
Surety bonds are aimed at providing guarantees that businesses will fulfill their contractual obligations or face penalties. More importantly, the various types of surety bonds are legally binding documents that many companies and even industries, cannot operate without obtaining the necessary surety bond.
IRP registration is necessary to conduct routine business across states and localities. Before participating in the IRP BWU program, DMV requires an IRP web user surety bond.
Various types of scams and fraudulent activities have proliferated across different sectors and industries, and the surety bond industry is no different. Here's a glimpse into some of the typical surety bond fraud and scams and how you can avoid getting conned by choosing a reputable surety bond provider.
From Basic Laws, Co-Surety Roles to Subrogation Rights, here are the surety bond fundamentals that you need to understand to have a deeper understanding of how sureties work.
In the process of obtaining surety bonds, you may come across the underwriting process. Here's a brief overview on how surety bond underwriters identify risks, understand terms and conditions, and evaluate the Principal’s three C’s.
Each state or jurisdiction has its surety bond form language to enforce the bond lawfully. To understand the type of surety bond that you need to obtain, you need to be familiar with the core elements of a bond form.
What role does collateral play in surety bonds? Here's a look at the types of collateral that sureties may accept, the right time to release a collateral, what happens to a collateral if you change sureties, and why a collateral may be necessary for riskier bonds.
Whether a surety bond is required or not, it is still a wise decision to obtain one as protection for certain eventualities, like claims. Handling claims is a time-sensitive event that requires a thorough and fair investigative process. Here are the steps in which the Surety handles a surety bond claim.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
This is achieved through:
Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
Discover the Unseen: Tailored Recommendation of Unwatched ContentScyllaDB
The session shares how JioCinema approaches ""watch discounting."" This capability ensures that if a user watched a certain amount of a show/movie, the platform no longer recommends that particular content to the user. Flawless operation of this feature promotes the discover of new content, improving the overall user experience.
JioCinema is an Indian over-the-top media streaming service owned by Viacom18.