This document summarizes the blog posts and writings of local New Orleans bloggers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The bloggers used their platforms to share first-hand accounts from the ground, correct misinformation in national media, document the damage in their neighborhoods, and recall life before the storm. Their goal was to advocate for their city and give locals a voice when they most needed information and to feel connected. The document analyzes how blogging fulfilled important communication and storytelling needs for people directly impacted by the disaster.
This document provides a summary of the author's experience at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film and interactive festival held in Austin, Texas in March 2012. The author attended some music and film events as well as many of the interactive sessions over the five-day period. Key themes discussed included the dominance of young people in new media and technology, the overwhelming amount of parallel sessions and events to choose from, and the author's conclusion that while exhausting, SXSW is a valuable experience for seeing innovation in the online world being driven in the US.
This dissertation analyzes crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter to understand how authors persuade backers to donate money. The introduction discusses the story of a cat named Kickstand whose medical costs were crowdfunded. It defines crowdfunding and discusses how new models of digital labor have emerged, where work is driven by intrinsic motivations rather than financial compensation. The dissertation will examine how authors exchange social capital for monetary donations by analyzing project genres and language patterns. It aims to understand the role of persuasion in online communities.
The document discusses altruism, empathy, community service, and how they are related. It provides definitions of key terms like altruism, empathy, and community service. It also discusses how empathy and altruism can motivate community service and service learning. Examples are given of different types of community service projects and how community service can benefit individuals and communities. Research is cited showing a link between empathy, altruism, and a willingness to help others through community service.
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The document discusses various unconventional housing solutions that homeless individuals in Providence, Rhode Island created for themselves when shelters were at capacity or unsuitable, including tent communities called Hope City, Camp Runamuck, and Provitents, as well as makeshift shelters constructed by individuals out of found materials. It also shares comments from homeless individuals about the difficulties of living without stable housing, such as the health risks of shelters and challenges maintaining employment without a place to sleep or store possessions.
More than 100 millennials gathered at a summit hosted by Mobilize.org to discuss challenges facing their generation and civic engagement. Participants proposed project ideas and five were selected to receive $25,000 in funding. The winning projects were from North Carolina and Florida and focused on using art, volunteering, sustainability innovation, political education, and service learning to increase civic participation. Notable speakers at the event included journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and Representative Bakari Sellers.
This document provides an introduction to the book "Notes on the Underground" which explores the psychological, social, and political implications of living in a highly technological world where the human environment is increasingly artificial rather than natural. It notes that while human modification of the environment is not new, the current rate and extent of modification through technology is unprecedented. The book examines the "environmental crisis" from a cultural perspective rather than just a material one, looking at how a largely technological environment might impact human well-being and society in non-physical ways. It draws a parallel to the upheaval caused by the agricultural revolution and suggests that humanity's decision to dominate nature through technology could similarly cause deep spiritual and social disruption.
This document provides a summary of the author's experience at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film and interactive festival held in Austin, Texas in March 2012. The author attended some music and film events as well as many of the interactive sessions over the five-day period. Key themes discussed included the dominance of young people in new media and technology, the overwhelming amount of parallel sessions and events to choose from, and the author's conclusion that while exhausting, SXSW is a valuable experience for seeing innovation in the online world being driven in the US.
This dissertation analyzes crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter to understand how authors persuade backers to donate money. The introduction discusses the story of a cat named Kickstand whose medical costs were crowdfunded. It defines crowdfunding and discusses how new models of digital labor have emerged, where work is driven by intrinsic motivations rather than financial compensation. The dissertation will examine how authors exchange social capital for monetary donations by analyzing project genres and language patterns. It aims to understand the role of persuasion in online communities.
The document discusses altruism, empathy, community service, and how they are related. It provides definitions of key terms like altruism, empathy, and community service. It also discusses how empathy and altruism can motivate community service and service learning. Examples are given of different types of community service projects and how community service can benefit individuals and communities. Research is cited showing a link between empathy, altruism, and a willingness to help others through community service.
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The document discusses various unconventional housing solutions that homeless individuals in Providence, Rhode Island created for themselves when shelters were at capacity or unsuitable, including tent communities called Hope City, Camp Runamuck, and Provitents, as well as makeshift shelters constructed by individuals out of found materials. It also shares comments from homeless individuals about the difficulties of living without stable housing, such as the health risks of shelters and challenges maintaining employment without a place to sleep or store possessions.
More than 100 millennials gathered at a summit hosted by Mobilize.org to discuss challenges facing their generation and civic engagement. Participants proposed project ideas and five were selected to receive $25,000 in funding. The winning projects were from North Carolina and Florida and focused on using art, volunteering, sustainability innovation, political education, and service learning to increase civic participation. Notable speakers at the event included journalist Jose Antonio Vargas and Representative Bakari Sellers.
This document provides an introduction to the book "Notes on the Underground" which explores the psychological, social, and political implications of living in a highly technological world where the human environment is increasingly artificial rather than natural. It notes that while human modification of the environment is not new, the current rate and extent of modification through technology is unprecedented. The book examines the "environmental crisis" from a cultural perspective rather than just a material one, looking at how a largely technological environment might impact human well-being and society in non-physical ways. It draws a parallel to the upheaval caused by the agricultural revolution and suggests that humanity's decision to dominate nature through technology could similarly cause deep spiritual and social disruption.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of two Americas in his speech - a good America with prosperity and opportunity, and a bad America with poverty, unemployment, and poor living conditions. He discussed the racism blacks faced, like not being able to use public facilities or get certain jobs. His central message was about envisioning how our current actions will impact future generations and having responsibility for promoting justice. The Southern black church was extremely important to Dr. King, as it provided a place of strength and protection from the pressures of white society. He moved beyond civil rights to address larger issues like the Vietnam War and poverty, as his interactions with people both in the US and abroad made him see issues America needed to address.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of two Americas in his speech - a good America with prosperity and opportunity, and a bad America with poverty, unemployment, and poor living conditions. He discussed the racism blacks faced, like not being able to use public facilities or get certain jobs. His central message was about envisioning how our current actions will impact future generations and having responsibility for promoting justice. The Southern black church was extremely important to Dr. King, as it provided a place of strength and protection from the pressures of white society. He moved beyond the civil rights movement because, as he interacted more with people across the US and world, he began to see larger issues America needed to address beyond just segregation.
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This painting by Claude Monet from 1875 depicts a sunset over a river near Argenteuil, France. Monet experimented with new techniques to capture dynamic landscapes, focusing on compositional elements like form placement and focal points. The painting provides a strong background with boats and blends an orange sunset, cloudy blue sky, and dark green bushes together in a harmony of natural colors. It captures the fleeting moment of the sun setting on the horizon through Monet's use of striking color contrasts and depiction of scale, hue, and brushwork style.
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This document summarizes an article about why Earth Day no longer generates the same level of excitement and activism as the original Earth Day in 1970. It interviews three organizers from the first Earth Day event who provide insights. They note that while environmental issues are now more dire, creating widespread public support for action has been difficult. Factors include polarized politics, issues now being global in scale rather than local, and a lack of diversity in environmental leadership limiting its appeal. The organizers call for a shift in focus from issues primarily affecting the middle-class to addressing the needs of all people to build broader support and action on climate change.
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Why Aren’t We Excited About Earth Day Anymore?
Three organizers from the first event in 1970 remind us that we still have a lot of work to do.
By Devi Lockwood
NYTimes, April 21, 2020
In the 1960s, environmental destruction was upfront and personal. It was in your face. Los Angeles was shrouded in smog. The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire. Three million gallons of oil spilled off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. New York City dumped raw sewage into the Hudson River. Bald eagles were teetering near extinction in the lower 48 states because of the ravages of DDT. Leaded gasoline poisoned children.
“A lot of people were getting angry about dirty water, dirty air and litter,” said Barbara Reid Alexander, Midwest coordinator for the first Earth Day, in 1970. “People were excited to talk about it.”
Part of the spark that ignited Earth Day came from Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, who proposed campus teach-inson the environment, modeled after gatherings on college campuses where students and professors met to talk about the Vietnam War. Organizers chose April 22 because it would be before college students were cramming for final exams but after the snow melted.
On April 22, 1970, Mayor John Lindsay of New York shut down 45 blocks of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Across the country, 20 million people took to the streets. The National Education Association estimated that 10 million public school children participated in teach-in programs where they learned about the costs of environmental inaction.
“It was one of those transformational events,” said Denis Hayes, the national coordinator. “In 1969, people really didn’t talk about ‘the environment.’ By the middle of 1970, many Americans characterized themselves as environmentalists.”
The turnout catapulted environmental issues onto the political agenda. Democrats and Republicans took interest. Legislation followed: the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Resource Recovery and Conservation Act, National Forest Protection Act, the designation of Superfund sites and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.
“For the next decade, environmental legislation was almost unstoppable,” Mr. Hayes said.
Today the story is different. Fifty years ago, the effects of burning fossil fuels on the atmosphere was only beginning to be understood. Now it is the looming threat to the planet as the earth steadily warms. And only now are people seeing, on a large scale, the consequences: record-breaking heat, floods, intensifying storms, landscape fires in California and Australia, the disappearance of Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, dying coral reefs. But it has been a slow build to creating a movement with the power and public support that emerged from the first Earth Day.
At Independence Mall in Philadelphia, thousands gathered on Earth Day in 1970.Credit...Associated Press
What would it take for environmenta ...
The document discusses beliefs about witchcraft in African society. It notes that belief in witchcraft is common in African cultures as a way to explain evil, misfortune, or death. Witches are believed to have innate, mystical powers to harm others without their victim's knowledge. When bad things happen, they are usually attributed to witchcraft by someone known to the victim. Characteristics of a witch include having the inborn ability to harm others secretly and unjustifiably through psychic projection of powers from their mind. The document explores African perspectives on the nature and role of witchcraft.
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The passage discusses the impact of Puritans on American society. It argues that Puritanism shaped America's ethical and political views. Puritans contributed to Americans' devotion to education by establishing a zeal for education, with the Bible as the central text. They wanted education and enlightenment for all, especially common people, so they could read and understand the Bible themselves. Thus, Puritan values played a key role in shaping American society prior to the Civil War and beyond.
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This document provides instructions for how to get writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with valid email and password. 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and choose one based on qualifications. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment. 5) Request revisions until fully satisfied, with the option of a full refund for plagiarized work. The process aims to match clients with qualified writers and ensure client satisfaction.
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This document provides instructions for requesting writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with a password and email. 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and select one based on qualifications. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment if satisfied. 5) Request revisions until fully satisfied, and the company guarantees original, high-quality work or a full refund.
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The document discusses the process for obtaining writing help from HelpWriting.net. It involves 5 steps: 1) Creating an account with a password and email. 2) Completing a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Reviewing bids from writers and choosing one. 4) Reviewing the completed paper and authorizing payment. 5) Requesting revisions to ensure satisfaction, with a refund offered for plagiarized work.
The document outlines 5 steps for students to get help writing an assignment from the website HelpWriting.net, including creating an account, submitting a request form with instructions and deadline, reviewing bids from writers and choosing one, receiving the completed paper, and having the option to request revisions if needed. It promises original, high-quality content and a refund if work is plagiarized.
In Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker uses hyperbolic language and imagery to persuade his lover to engage in physical intimacy before time runs out. He argues that they are running out of time to be together, comparing the brevity of life to an hourglass rapidly draining sand. The speaker also uses exaggerated metaphors to depict his passionate desire for her, comparing it to the destructive forces of fire and corrosion. Overall, the poem employs hyperbole to convince the woman to accept the speaker's romantic advances before old age prevents their love from being fulfilled.
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1. The document summarizes an interview with Aaron Hines, a freshman student at Fairmont State University. It discusses his childhood memory of helping his grandfather build fences on their family farm.
2. Hines is undecided on his major but hopes his hard work this year will help steer him towards a specific direction. He graduated from Fairmont Senior High School, a small high school of under 800 students.
3. Hines parents both have bachelor's degrees - his father in engineering and his mother in education. Unlike many parents, they did not push Hines to immediately continue school after high school graduation.
"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
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
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.
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HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of two Americas in his speech - a good America with prosperity and opportunity, and a bad America with poverty, unemployment, and poor living conditions. He discussed the racism blacks faced, like not being able to use public facilities or get certain jobs. His central message was about envisioning how our current actions will impact future generations and having responsibility for promoting justice. The Southern black church was extremely important to Dr. King, as it provided a place of strength and protection from the pressures of white society. He moved beyond civil rights to address larger issues like the Vietnam War and poverty, as his interactions with people both in the US and abroad made him see issues America needed to address.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of two Americas in his speech - a good America with prosperity and opportunity, and a bad America with poverty, unemployment, and poor living conditions. He discussed the racism blacks faced, like not being able to use public facilities or get certain jobs. His central message was about envisioning how our current actions will impact future generations and having responsibility for promoting justice. The Southern black church was extremely important to Dr. King, as it provided a place of strength and protection from the pressures of white society. He moved beyond the civil rights movement because, as he interacted more with people across the US and world, he began to see larger issues America needed to address beyond just segregation.
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This painting by Claude Monet from 1875 depicts a sunset over a river near Argenteuil, France. Monet experimented with new techniques to capture dynamic landscapes, focusing on compositional elements like form placement and focal points. The painting provides a strong background with boats and blends an orange sunset, cloudy blue sky, and dark green bushes together in a harmony of natural colors. It captures the fleeting moment of the sun setting on the horizon through Monet's use of striking color contrasts and depiction of scale, hue, and brushwork style.
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This document summarizes an article about why Earth Day no longer generates the same level of excitement and activism as the original Earth Day in 1970. It interviews three organizers from the first Earth Day event who provide insights. They note that while environmental issues are now more dire, creating widespread public support for action has been difficult. Factors include polarized politics, issues now being global in scale rather than local, and a lack of diversity in environmental leadership limiting its appeal. The organizers call for a shift in focus from issues primarily affecting the middle-class to addressing the needs of all people to build broader support and action on climate change.
Why Aren’t We Excited About Earth Day AnymoreThree organizers f.docxhelzerpatrina
Why Aren’t We Excited About Earth Day Anymore?
Three organizers from the first event in 1970 remind us that we still have a lot of work to do.
By Devi Lockwood
NYTimes, April 21, 2020
In the 1960s, environmental destruction was upfront and personal. It was in your face. Los Angeles was shrouded in smog. The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire. Three million gallons of oil spilled off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. New York City dumped raw sewage into the Hudson River. Bald eagles were teetering near extinction in the lower 48 states because of the ravages of DDT. Leaded gasoline poisoned children.
“A lot of people were getting angry about dirty water, dirty air and litter,” said Barbara Reid Alexander, Midwest coordinator for the first Earth Day, in 1970. “People were excited to talk about it.”
Part of the spark that ignited Earth Day came from Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, who proposed campus teach-inson the environment, modeled after gatherings on college campuses where students and professors met to talk about the Vietnam War. Organizers chose April 22 because it would be before college students were cramming for final exams but after the snow melted.
On April 22, 1970, Mayor John Lindsay of New York shut down 45 blocks of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Across the country, 20 million people took to the streets. The National Education Association estimated that 10 million public school children participated in teach-in programs where they learned about the costs of environmental inaction.
“It was one of those transformational events,” said Denis Hayes, the national coordinator. “In 1969, people really didn’t talk about ‘the environment.’ By the middle of 1970, many Americans characterized themselves as environmentalists.”
The turnout catapulted environmental issues onto the political agenda. Democrats and Republicans took interest. Legislation followed: the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Resource Recovery and Conservation Act, National Forest Protection Act, the designation of Superfund sites and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.
“For the next decade, environmental legislation was almost unstoppable,” Mr. Hayes said.
Today the story is different. Fifty years ago, the effects of burning fossil fuels on the atmosphere was only beginning to be understood. Now it is the looming threat to the planet as the earth steadily warms. And only now are people seeing, on a large scale, the consequences: record-breaking heat, floods, intensifying storms, landscape fires in California and Australia, the disappearance of Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, dying coral reefs. But it has been a slow build to creating a movement with the power and public support that emerged from the first Earth Day.
At Independence Mall in Philadelphia, thousands gathered on Earth Day in 1970.Credit...Associated Press
What would it take for environmenta ...
The document discusses beliefs about witchcraft in African society. It notes that belief in witchcraft is common in African cultures as a way to explain evil, misfortune, or death. Witches are believed to have innate, mystical powers to harm others without their victim's knowledge. When bad things happen, they are usually attributed to witchcraft by someone known to the victim. Characteristics of a witch include having the inborn ability to harm others secretly and unjustifiably through psychic projection of powers from their mind. The document explores African perspectives on the nature and role of witchcraft.
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The document provides instructions for seeking essay writing help from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account, 2) Submit a request with instructions and deadline, 3) Review writer bids and qualifications then select a writer, 4) Review the paper and authorize payment, 5) Request revisions to ensure satisfaction. The service promises original, high-quality content with refunds for plagiarism.
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The passage discusses the impact of Puritans on American society. It argues that Puritanism shaped America's ethical and political views. Puritans contributed to Americans' devotion to education by establishing a zeal for education, with the Bible as the central text. They wanted education and enlightenment for all, especially common people, so they could read and understand the Bible themselves. Thus, Puritan values played a key role in shaping American society prior to the Civil War and beyond.
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This document provides instructions for how to get writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with valid email and password. 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and choose one based on qualifications. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment. 5) Request revisions until fully satisfied, with the option of a full refund for plagiarized work. The process aims to match clients with qualified writers and ensure client satisfaction.
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This document provides instructions for requesting writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with a password and email. 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and select one based on qualifications. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment if satisfied. 5) Request revisions until fully satisfied, and the company guarantees original, high-quality work or a full refund.
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The document discusses the process for obtaining writing help from HelpWriting.net. It involves 5 steps: 1) Creating an account with a password and email. 2) Completing a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Reviewing bids from writers and choosing one. 4) Reviewing the completed paper and authorizing payment. 5) Requesting revisions to ensure satisfaction, with a refund offered for plagiarized work.
The document outlines 5 steps for students to get help writing an assignment from the website HelpWriting.net, including creating an account, submitting a request form with instructions and deadline, reviewing bids from writers and choosing one, receiving the completed paper, and having the option to request revisions if needed. It promises original, high-quality content and a refund if work is plagiarized.
In Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker uses hyperbolic language and imagery to persuade his lover to engage in physical intimacy before time runs out. He argues that they are running out of time to be together, comparing the brevity of life to an hourglass rapidly draining sand. The speaker also uses exaggerated metaphors to depict his passionate desire for her, comparing it to the destructive forces of fire and corrosion. Overall, the poem employs hyperbole to convince the woman to accept the speaker's romantic advances before old age prevents their love from being fulfilled.
Sample Essay On Hindrances To Environmental ConservatJill Bell
1. The document summarizes an interview with Aaron Hines, a freshman student at Fairmont State University. It discusses his childhood memory of helping his grandfather build fences on their family farm.
2. Hines is undecided on his major but hopes his hard work this year will help steer him towards a specific direction. He graduated from Fairmont Senior High School, a small high school of under 800 students.
3. Hines parents both have bachelor's degrees - his father in engineering and his mother in education. Unlike many parents, they did not push Hines to immediately continue school after high school graduation.
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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
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
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.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
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This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
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-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
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Disaster 2.0: Lessons from the Post-Katrina Blogosphere
1. Disaster 2.0: Lessons from the Post-Hurricane Katrina Blogosphere Daisy Pignetti University of Wisconsin-Stout phdaisy@gmail.com
2. September 11thDisaster 1.0? Pew Internet data People primarily depended on their television for news, public and talk radio, and their telephones to communicate with and connect with friends and family during the days and weeks after. “43% of Internet users said they had at least some trouble accessing the websites they wanted to consult for news about the attacks”
3. September 11thKnowing where to look Informative and reverent commentary was happening in unexpected places (emails and discussion boards) A Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter remarked, “It’s as though if I comb through enough Web pages, sift through the right chat rooms, click on the right e-mail, I might somehow find some semblance of an answer to this ugly mess.”
4. David Weinberger on 9/11Ethos online “Now, for the first time, the nation and the world could talk with itself, doing what humans do when the innocent suffer: cry, comfort, inform, and, most important, tell the story together.” The Internet “gets its value not from the smoothness of its overall operation but from its abundance of small nuggets that point to more small nuggets.”
5. Jay Rosen on 9/11 “When the observer-hood becomes unthinkable, new things can be thought. It is reasonable to hope that September 11 eventually improves the mind of American journalism. If it does, it will be an instance of creative destruction.”
6. Hurricane Katrina“I Just Don’t Know…” “Television can pack an emotional wallop, in a way that the printed word cannot…with images [that] can distort truth and distract from what really matters.” “The Lessons of Katrina: Natural Horrors and Modern Technology,”The New Atlantis
7. Television Coverage “New Orleans was presented as a disorganized city on the brink of collapse… [with] certain programmatic themes emerging…finding damage, finding death, finding help, finding authority, and finding the bad guys” (Dynes and Rodriguez).
8. The Internet “performed admirably during the disaster” Craig’s List began to include postings of housing offers, lost people, and rides to or from Louisiana Nola.com, the web counterpart to the local newspaper, The Times-Picayune, saw its blog “actually become the paper” Katrina.com became “an information center for disaster relief”
14. Transparency During and after disasters, locals and other personally invested citizens can offer audiences unique takes on what the experience has done to their lives. The writing they do to document what they observe, while still constructed and primarily published in asynchronous environments, is more “raw” than anyone can ever create.
15. My Project’s Purpose Rhetorical analysis of writing that has purposefully gone public to: correct the misinformation being promulgated by the national media expose the wreckage Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches left behind in so many neighborhoods across the city recall the memories of what their lives were like before August 29, 2005
16. Jill WalkerBlogging “The primary function of these blogs and videos is not to be a factual report or confirmation of what is happening. They are highly subjective, emotional reports on events that we already know are happening…but we still wanted to read or see them from people actually experiencing the events.”
17. Meeting My SampleLinked by Comments August 2006 > Rising Tide Conference Organized on a wiki, this meeting described itself as “a ‘real life’ demonstration of internet activism as the nation prepares to mark the one year anniversary of a massive natural disaster followed by governmental failures on a similar scale.” List of New Orleans bloggers emerged More than 300 bloggers listed
18. Interactive Interview Project Q & A on a wiki rather than face-to-face Obviously tech-savvy respondents Links to representative blog posts requested Writing in the public domain, but I still sent email to NOLA blogger listserv requesting permission to use responses Institutional Review Board paperwork Immediate feedback but then slow follow-up responses Profiles sent to chosen bloggers for review
19. Insider Knowledge I am a native New Orleanian, so my respondents and I share a common language and knowledge of place As an autoethnographic researcher, I answered the questions as well As a participant in the first Rising Tide conference & being a frequent visitor to my hometown, the bloggers know my commitment to this project
20. Outsider Vibrations As an academic researcher, I was worried about asking people to be too reflective, especially about a traumatic event Might they just tell me to go read their blog? As someone no longer living in New Orleans and not dealing with recovery/rebuilding issues first-hand, my own blog [and civic] contributions are limited Again, might they just tell me to go read their blog?
21. “Writing Wrong”Sandra Gilbert an activity as much as a process of remembering, testifying, and reorganizing as it is of reiterating and striving to repair or readjust the effort to write [record] and right [rectify] wrong involves both fear and ferocity
22. Question:Why do you blog? The ongoing chaos of post K New Orleans and the massive breakdown in the social contract that is still destroying my home. We blog about all aspects of New Orleans life, starting with commentary on the daily news and including book reviews and essays from New Orleans writers about what it’s like to live there. Science, the public domain (as a member of Project Gutenberg), government boondoggles and, lately, what it’s like to live in a recovering New Orleans
23. Maitri @ Vatul.net “Made in Kuwait of Indian parts, I have lived in the Middle East, Champaign-Urbana, IL, Madison, WI and New Orleans, LA” “New Orleans is the only place in America that my multi-cultural background is validated and makes the most sense.”
24. Maitri @ Vatul.net My favorite pastime during high school and college classes was writing essays on anything I found thought-provoking at the time and emailing them to a list of politically- and socially-motivated friends. In the late 90s, I made my first site and put up essays as static HTML pages. Some time in 2003, after moving to New Orleans, I caught the Blogger bug and then switched to Wordpress. After the flood of 2005, I gave my blog over to citizen journalism on New Orleans.
25. Maitri @ Vatul.net My writing is relatively more polished and directed at a larger audience, one that has grown in leaps and bounds since the flood. Once readership has grown to this extent, you are obligated to delivering a relevant and readable product almost everyday, lest they lose interest in what is probably the biggest problem facing America today. If I’ve made at least one person think about or face the realities of New Orleans, then I’ve been responsible towards my community and to myself.
26. Day 219: We Are Not OkApril 4, 2006 What you need to know is the solemn truth about New Orleans. We Are Not Ok Did we think life was going to be easy in a 25%-habitable city with more than half of its population gone? No. Did we think we would easily bypass the effects of post-traumatic stress as long as we stayed in the rebuilding left lane, pedal to the metal? No. Did we think coming back was going to be easy? Yes and no. I know that there is no other place like this. America needs New Orleans. The world needs New Orleans. All of this could vanish. Again. And only a few care? We Are Not Ok
27. Day 338: InspirationAugust 1, 2006 Lately, I’ve taken to wondering why I do the things I do for New Orleans. Why do I write, take pictures, participate in various charitable and non-profit activities and fight so hard for my adopted city? One of the answers is obvious: I can’t sit still. Doing is such an innate part of me that if I DO not, a minor explosion may occur. All of this energy has to go somewhere. Another is not so conspicuous: New Orleans is my home and it is a mark of responsible citizenship to participate in as many activities as possible that will make one’s city better. This is not socialism or altruism – if you help make your surroundings better, you end up living in that much better of a place.
28. Day 555: One Football Field Every 45 MinutesMarch 6th, 2007 “Louisiana is currently losing approximately 24 square miles of wetlands per year, which is roughly one football field every 45 minutes.” Think about it like this: During the course of one Saints football game, Louisiana may conservatively estimate a loss of four equivalent Superdome greens around us.
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30. Day 1240: The Lower 9th Ward TodayJanuary 18, 2009 Dear President Bush, A parting gift as you leave the White House: an image of New Orleans as it is today. This is where our complacency met your apathy, a deadly combination. Thanks for waking us up to the worst possible America. Sincerely, Maitri
31. Conclusions… Local bloggers passionately defend what makes New Orleans so unique and worth saving. While this a more personal and emotional project for me, I strongly believe doing so is the most effective way to illustrate how Hurricane Katrina made these locals hyperaware of their basic human need to give and receive information.
While not overwhelming numbers, 17% and 11% respectively, this behavior implies our collective searching, navigating, and analyzing abilities have considerably improved since September 11th, including the means with which to assess information from such sites as valid or otherwise. But of the folks surveyed, how many were locals? In essence, how do we [locals] get to the heart of the story about [our] hometown?
Even if they did not create their blog with the intent of correcting the misinformation being promulgated by the national media, these citizens use their public writing spaces to expose the wreckage Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches left behind and to recall the memories of what their lives were like before August 29, 2005.