Powerpoint used for a presentation talking about the Tar Sands Keystone XL pipeline issue and my personal experience getting arrested during the Tar Sands Action in DC.
In the aftermath of historical flooding from TS Irene, Moretowners leverage digital media (Front Porch Forum, Twitter, and Facebook) in our short-term and long-term communication and recovery efforts.
Global Warming boost is the expansion of Earth's normal surface temperature because of impact of nursery gasses, for example, carbon dioxide emanations from smoldering fossil energizes or from deforestation
In the aftermath of historical flooding from TS Irene, Moretowners leverage digital media (Front Porch Forum, Twitter, and Facebook) in our short-term and long-term communication and recovery efforts.
Global Warming boost is the expansion of Earth's normal surface temperature because of impact of nursery gasses, for example, carbon dioxide emanations from smoldering fossil energizes or from deforestation
Bluegrass Defiance: The Emergence and Growth of a Grassroots Resistance MovementRural Soc
In the spring of 2013, strangers began to appear along the roads of rural Kentucky's outer Bluegrass counties. They were asking to come onto people's land to do a survey for a pipeline that would be coming through. Within a few weeks, as more people began to investigate, it became clear that this would be a Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) pipeline to carry the viscous, volatile and toxic remains of fracking from the fields of Pennsylvania through Ohio and Kentucky and then onto the Gulf Coast. I became a participant observer of the grassroots resistance that emerged and gained national attention.
This paper will:
Document the emergence and growth of the pipeline opposition and its use of social media; and
Analyze the framing of the debate about the pipeline through the resistance themes used by the opposition and the ways in which the pipeline builders reacted to this "surprising revolt."
"The Google Group" provided the on-line support network for opponents of the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline, in addition to tracking every move the company made and every word they said in the 13 affected counties. Two web sites provided both breadth and depth of documentation and research on the hazards of NGLs, the poor safety record of the company, and the rights of individual property owners to resist the pipeline company. In addition, these sites documented the progress in the acquisition of easements by the company and mapped the shifting geography of the proposed route.
Bluegrass Defiance: The Emergence and Growth of a Grassroots Resistance MovementRural Soc
In the spring of 2013, strangers began to appear along the roads of rural Kentucky's outer Bluegrass counties. They were asking to come onto people's land to do a survey for a pipeline that would be coming through. Within a few weeks, as more people began to investigate, it became clear that this would be a Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) pipeline to carry the viscous, volatile and toxic remains of fracking from the fields of Pennsylvania through Ohio and Kentucky and then onto the Gulf Coast. I became a participant observer of the grassroots resistance that emerged and gained national attention.
This paper will:
Document the emergence and growth of the pipeline opposition and its use of social media; and
Analyze the framing of the debate about the pipeline through the resistance themes used by the opposition and the ways in which the pipeline builders reacted to this "surprising revolt."
"The Google Group" provided the on-line support network for opponents of the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline, in addition to tracking every move the company made and every word they said in the 13 affected counties. Two web sites provided both breadth and depth of documentation and research on the hazards of NGLs, the poor safety record of the company, and the rights of individual property owners to resist the pipeline company. In addition, these sites documented the progress in the acquisition of easements by the company and mapped the shifting geography of the proposed route.
Session 8 - Targeting economic and health benefits of greenways andbSharon Roerty
Information about authors and content for session with above title at ProWalk ProBike 2010. Presented 10:30 am, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 by Anthony J. (Tony) DeLucia, Ph.D. session organizer.
APA format in WordNo minimum word count.9 questions, some are 2 .docxlisandrai1k
APA format in Word
No minimum word count.
9 questions, some are 2 parts.
Reference:
Abbott, P. (2013)
Natural Disasters
9th edition. McGraw-Hill.
Equilibrium Stream, Flash vs. Regional Floods, & Urbanization Effects
The 1993 Mississippi River flood
Assign. 1. In a narrative format, discuss the key facts and critical issues presented.
2. 1. What were the weather conditions that produced the flood? How long did the flood water take to pass through the entire river system?
2. What measures were taken to protect cities from flooding?
3. Control of flood waters requires that many decisions be made. Should more miles of levees be built? Should existing levees be built higher? Should the river bottom be dredged deeper?
Should more flood waters be diverted out of the river channel into farmland and rural communities? Should the river course be shortened by cutting through meander bends?
Evaluate each of your decisions against the knowledge that the river is an equilibrium system that will work against some human constructions.
Wildfire & Fire Fighting; Mass Movements & Gravity
The 2007 Witch Creek fire in Southern California
4.
In a narrative format, discuss the key facts and critical issues presented.
5. 1. What are the damage statistics of the Witch Creek fire? Was it fuel or wind driven? Why is the chaparral vegetation of the area so prone to burn?
2. What were the lessons learned from "The Trails" housing development?
6. How could The Trails subdivision been designed and built in ways to avoid having so many houses catch fire? How can you protect a house from flying embers?
Subsidence & Falls; Flows of Rock & Snow; Slides & Mitigation
The 2014 "Oso mudslide" in Washington
7.
In a narrative format, discuss the key facts and critical issues presented.
8. 1. The "Oso mudslide" was actually two separate events that occurred a few minutes apart. Describe what the earth/rock/mud did during each part of each event [Hint: neither was a mudslide.
2. What role did the river play in setting up the slope failure? Why were the rocks in the hill so weak? What were they? How old were they?
9. What could / would you say to convince strong-minded people living in a beautiful rural setting in an unincorporated area that their landslide threat was so dangerous that they should give up their houses and land and move somewhere else?
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the false pPresident will be arriving in southern oregon on thursday august 22. there is tremendous interest in greeting him upon his arrival in our communities.
Letter to President Obama from Group of Anti-Fossil Fuel Nutters Asking the P...Marcellus Drilling News
A letter from a group of 400 mostly individuals, flying under the moniker of 400 "organizations," asking our Dear Leader to stop all fossil fuel extraction on federally controlled lands. Why? Because of mythical man-made global warming, of course! They have left their senses.
Manifesto of the Canadian Consulate blockade in Seattle.Carlo Voli
Manifesto explaining why a group of Seattle area residents blockaded the Canadian Consulate in Seattle on April, 3rd, 2013, protesting the tar sands and the Harper government's involvement.
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
1. Justice Friday "Making My Voice Be Heard" “ There comes a time when you need to take a stand. When sending letters and signing petitions isn’t enough. When together we must say, “ enough is enough — not on our watch.” That time is now. We must act together for the health of our planet, our air, our water, our climate, and our childr en.” Bill Mckibben
2. Josh Fox for the Tar Sands Action video Oscar nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) gives his powerful support to the Tar Sands Action, a two week sit-in at the White House to show President Obama he has the support of the people to stand up to Big Oil.
3. -Destruction of more boreal forest -Adding huge additional amounts of CO2 to atmosphere and accelerating the effects of Climate Change -Pollution of local watersheds affecting health and subsistence of local indigenous cultures. -Likely numerous pipeline leaks and spills affecting pristine areas of US, important rivers, Ogallalla acquifer, farmland, etc…. -Delaying our transition to a cleaner energy future, and sending a signal that it is OK to continue exploiting unconventional dirty fossil fuels. EFFECTS OF EXPANSION OF TAR SANDS OIL
28. NEXT LOCAL TAR SANDS ACTION STEPS Tar Sands Solidarity Seattle 3: Join 350.org's global MOVING PLANET celebration -- show the world how to move and groove to a fossil fuel free future! South Lake Union Park, Sat, Sept. 24, South Lake Union, 9:00 - 4:00. https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242977459080890 Tar Sands Solidarity Seattle 4: PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL VISIT SEATTLE Sun, Sept. 25 ! Help make sure our President hears exactly how much we care about climate change and about his necessary veto of the climate-busting Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline! https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159596690789227 Tar Sands Solidarity Seattle 5: CANADIANS and All , plan to meet downtown at the Westlake Park waterfall, near the Canadian Consulate in Se attle. Support the Tar Sands Actions that will be held in Ottawa on Mon. Sept. 26th! https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170120829732482