English people speak British English which has some differences from American English in terms of vocabulary and accents. Tea is a popular drink in England and drinking tea is part of the country's culture. Football originated in England and Manchester United and Arsenal are popular football teams. The Football Association is the oldest national football organization in the world. Halloween is celebrated on October 31st but Guy Fawkes Day on November 5th is a larger event where effigies of Guy Fawkes are burned and many fireworks are lit. The classic English garden emulates natural landscapes through features like lakes, trees, temples and bridges.
Photographs of Queensland verandas. Part of Becoming Queensland - an online exhibition looking at the first 50 years of Queensland, Australia, through stories about the people, places, institutions and lifestyles that have made it so special
Photographs of Queensland verandas. Part of Becoming Queensland - an online exhibition looking at the first 50 years of Queensland, Australia, through stories about the people, places, institutions and lifestyles that have made it so special
Iceland - A Mid-Atlantic European CountryJerry Daperro
Iceland is a small country with very small population 363 thousands, much smaller than most European city. Geographical it is situated in military strategic location, midway between the north Atlantic ocean. Geologically is also very interesting. It is part of the mid-Atlantic ridge on a fracture of the Earth crust, separating the American and the European continent. It is a new continent in the making.
You can’t just “add-on” a digital dimension to a brand. We are going to look at revisiting the old rules of branding to explore how brands can be digital (from the inside).
This year's theme for the Cannes Review is "People Inside":
- 100% People Inside through technology
- 100% People Inside through product
- 100% People Inside through people
Behavioral economics : what it is and how it could help us do our job betterDigitasLBi Paris
From forms to porn banners, how behavioral economics can optimize user experience?
by DigitasLBi strategic planning
Des formulaires aux bannières porno: comment l'économie comportementale peut optimiser l'exp. utilisateur - par les planneurs de DigitasLBi
Iceland - A Mid-Atlantic European CountryJerry Daperro
Iceland is a small country with very small population 363 thousands, much smaller than most European city. Geographical it is situated in military strategic location, midway between the north Atlantic ocean. Geologically is also very interesting. It is part of the mid-Atlantic ridge on a fracture of the Earth crust, separating the American and the European continent. It is a new continent in the making.
You can’t just “add-on” a digital dimension to a brand. We are going to look at revisiting the old rules of branding to explore how brands can be digital (from the inside).
This year's theme for the Cannes Review is "People Inside":
- 100% People Inside through technology
- 100% People Inside through product
- 100% People Inside through people
Behavioral economics : what it is and how it could help us do our job betterDigitasLBi Paris
From forms to porn banners, how behavioral economics can optimize user experience?
by DigitasLBi strategic planning
Des formulaires aux bannières porno: comment l'économie comportementale peut optimiser l'exp. utilisateur - par les planneurs de DigitasLBi
What's Next Contenus : Et si on parlait Performance ? DigitasLBi Paris
A la question : évaluez-vous le cout et l’efficacité de vos contenus ? Peu de directions de la communication ou digitales souhaitent répondre. L’énergie dépensée et l’enveloppe consacrée a la création de contenus sont des paramètres à mettre en regard des résultats obtenus. La cartographie de la présence digitale d’une entreprise via ses contenus réserve souvent des surprises tout comme leur rôle dans le parcours d’achat ou dans la conversion
Pour mesurer l’effet d’un contenu, faut-il encore qu’il intéresse ses publics, qu’il soit visible dans les moteurs, et surtout qu’à chaque contenu soit assigne un objectif quantifiable. Performance, audience et engagement sont les trois piliers qui ont guidé notre conférence.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Brand Kenya Board is mandated by the Government to build a strong country brand that fosters national pride, patriotism and earns global recognition and preferences. Towards this, the Board has been undertaking initiatives to build the Kenyan brand since 2008. In order to assess the level of progress made towards achieving its mandate, the Board commissioned VAS Consultants Limited to undertake a National Brand Audit. The objective of the assignment was to establish the perceived image of Kenya brand by the residents of Kenya and Kenyans in the Diaspora.
Measuring the brand index provides an indication of how successful the Board has been in branding Kenya and informs the identification and implementation of appropriate initiatives geared towards improving the Kenyan brand. Further, the index will enable the Board to track changes over time thus enable evaluation of the impact of various programmes adopted.
The data collection was undertaken in the months of January and February, 2013 and targeted Kenyan nationals within the country, Kenyans in the Diaspora, foreign nationals in Kenya, investors (local and international) and key informant institutions. The findings indicate that national brand index is 72% out of a possible maximum of 100%.
For the Kenyans within, the areas that rated high as good included improvements in agriculture and infrastructure, inspiration of Kenyans to work towards the economic prosperity of the country, enhanced accountability as a result of the implementation of the 2010 Constitution, sporting nature of Kenyans, social values manifested in Kenyans, pride about being Kenyan, diverse cultures, natural resources and climate in Kenya, and education levels in the country. The aspects that were of concern included corruption, high prices of essential services and commodities, non ssue based politics, tribalism and food insecurity.
Kenyans in the Diaspora rated as good the cultural diversity in Kenya, prevailing peace in the country, natural resources in the country, sporting nature of Kenyans and social values portrayed 2013 National Brand Audit Report vi by Kenyans. They however, identified poor leadership, corruption, poor planning, food insecurity, high cost of living, tribalism, unemployment as some of the challenges Kenya is faced with.
The investors’ indicated that Kenya is a destination of choice for potential investors, a country with great economic prospects, a country with well developed information communication
technology infrastructure, and a country with adequate labour supply. Their concerns included taxation requirements which they consider not reasonable, poor road network, poor planning, limited investment in health services, tribalism, insecurity, political instability and high cost of doing business.
The foreign nationals in Kenya rated as good the economic potential of Kenya and considered the country a competitive investment destination.
The core objective of SocialPRO clubs is to educate, impart knowledge & skills on various disciplines of social media to the university students and faculty. These clubs will also provide companies with a talent pool of graduates with a solid understanding of new media to help fix the knowledge gap in the corporate world. These clubs will also enhance collaboration between universities, exchange of ideas among the students and the industry and nurture creativity because students shall be exposed to the limitless possibilities online and learn how to tap into that potential therein. SocialPRO clubs will help university students refine their business ideas and find a high-potential commercial opportunity, gather resources such as talent and capital, figure out how to sell and market the idea and manage rapid growth. How? All the key partners they need for their start up ideas are on social networking sites. SocialPRO clubs will also create a platform that will enhance product and consumer engagement through creativity and innovation. The faculty will also benefit from these clubs as they’ll learn how to create and share digital content in various formats with the students across platforms thus ease content sharing and make learning more fun!
Free Laptops for Pupils in Kenya; A Guide on Implementing the ProjectMuthuri Kinyamu
Former SA president Nelson Mandela said that the internet and education are the two great equalizers in life, leveling the playing field for people, companies and countries worldwide. Those words must have inspired Kenya’s president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta when he promised Kenyans one solar-powered laptop per kid entering primary school.
Tax Burden & Door To Discontent
It may sound simple to execute but this is a huge project that requires massive budgetary allocations from treasury and thus could be a channel for corrupt government officials to siphon out money through the scheme. Laptops of course mean greater access to technology, information, and content nationwide, increased student interest in their education & development of 21st century skills and integration of teaching technology that supports improved learning.
Sounds like a good plan however the government has to emphasize that it’s the student, the teacher, the parent, the community—not just the technology and the laptops that will work hard collaboratively to improve the learning outcomes.
Secondly for effective learning to take place we must inspire kids to not only consume information but generate it, to produce ideas and share knowledge.
Teachers Need ICT Know-How
Teachers represent a critical element in the success of this initiative; in an e-Learning environment the teacher must be the guide, mentor, facilitator, and coach to improve education outcomes and help students develop 21st century skills.
School administrators too are primarily responsible for adherence to policy, applying governance on usage of the e-Learning environment, and ensuring that the environment is operational.
Professional development of primary school teachers thus needs to be put in place now for the e-learning program to be successful. Teachers and administrators must keep up with the changing environment of technology to provide the best resources for the program. The resources used for ongoing professional development may also be used for ongoing curriculum and content integration. Once the program is launched KIE can also allow teachers to share newly developed content, and collaborate on content creation.
Multi-sector Partners
Secondly the government must work with professional organizations, such as teachers unions and other societies to support the initiative.
Some of the limiting factors of the program include; the availability of content, teachers trained specifically in the use of ICT with younger children, theft and proper handling of ICT equipment by the young ones. Finally should the students keep their laptops at school until they develop the necessary carefulness this could be a security challenge to schools as break-ins may become the order of the day!
That said let us examine what the free laptops program requires to become a successful e-learning program;
Components of an E-learning Program
Solution elements
1. Technology-Affordable, rugged, energy-efficient, state-of
Possible Solutions to the Crisis in Higher Education in KenyaMuthuri Kinyamu
The Africa Learning barometer shows us that there is a deeper learning crisis that needs to be addressed to raise standards and improve learning outcomes. Teaching is at the heart of the learning crisis and epidemic levels of teacher absenteeism.
None of the public universities meet the internationally recommended teacher-student ration so what’s the solution? No funds to hire more scholars or pay them better!
119,000 pupils to miss Form One slots in 2013 in Kenya. Only 16,125 pupils including 600 with special needs to join national schools.
27000 papers published annually in Africa however Open Access is still a challenge.
Scientists & researchers don’t publish much online, Google Scholar doesn’t have much content on Africa; discovery happens faster when we digitize material and share knowledge.
No much class interaction=Lecturer-student due to increasing teacher to student ratios. There’s need to enhance that for effective learning & offer quality education.
There’s need to democratize education by offering access to high quality content for students and giving experts a platform to build an audience outside the class, allowing them to have 10,000 students instead of 50.
The Kenya Vision 2030 is the national long-term development blue-print that aims to transform Kenya into a newly industrializing, middle-income country providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030 in a clean and secure environment whilst making the country globally competitive.
The Vision comprises of three key pillars:
Economic; Social; and Political. The Economic Pillar aims to achieve an average economic growth rate of 10 per cent per annum and sustaining the same until 2030. The Social Pillar seeks to engender just, cohesive and equitable social development in a clean and secure environment, while the Political Pillar aims to realize an issue-based, people-centred, resultoriented and accountable democratic system.
The three pillars are anchored on the foundations of macroeconomic stability;
infrastructural development; Science, Technology and Innovation (STI); Land Reforms;
Human Resources Development; Security and Public Sector Reforms.
Progress has been made in the achievement of projects outlined in the development blueprint through concerted efforts by the implementing Agencies, comprising of all Ministries and other Government Departments.
The following chapters detail the progress made and the outlined plans for the next 5 years, running to 2017.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
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
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
AI for Every Business: Unlocking Your Product's Universal Potential by VP of ...
England
1.
2. LANGUAGE
●English people use English called British English
which has some different forms and accents from
American English.
French fries Sweater Gas
Chips Jumper Petrol
3. FOOD
English people eat potato as their staple food.
Jacket Mashed
Potato Potato
Tea is famous product in the country, and the drinking tea is
country’s custom.
Tea and
Scone!
4. SPORTS England is the birthplace of
football.
Manchester United and Arsenal are popular team.
The Football Association, also known simply as The FA is a the
oldest national football association all over the world.
5. EVENT
There is Halloween on 31st October in England, but there
is bigger event than it on 5th November called Guy
Fawkes Day.
People make effigies of Guy
Fawkes and burn them.
Many fireworks are also sent up
the night.
6. HOUSE Landscap
English Garden e
It is well known style of garden all over the world.
The Garden shows the view of nature like a landscape.
The garden usually has
lake, tree, classical temples
and bridges.
