The letter is written in 2070 by a 50-year-old man who is one of the oldest people alive due to severe water shortages. He recalls the abundance of water, trees, and healthy living in his childhood compared to the barren desert landscape of the present. People now suffer from disease and malnutrition due to lack of clean water for drinking, bathing, and growing food. The environment was destroyed despite warnings, and life on Earth may soon be impossible due to the point of no return being passed for environmental damage.
This Slideshare presentation details what RiverLink is all about, offering information on our The Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan, our educational outreach, our water quality efforts and our recreational outreach, including the French Broad River Paddle Trail and our festivals. Get to know us and you'll love our work.
Tennessee Rain Garden Manual
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
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Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
This Slideshare presentation details what RiverLink is all about, offering information on our The Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan, our educational outreach, our water quality efforts and our recreational outreach, including the French Broad River Paddle Trail and our festivals. Get to know us and you'll love our work.
Tennessee Rain Garden Manual
`
For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214 ~
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079 ~
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159 ~
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348 ~
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden =
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440 ~
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide =
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110 ~
A Teacher's Guide to Rainwater Harvesting on Campus
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For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Using academic databases to vet gardening informationLindaCS
Learn how to search academic databases for science-based gardening advice. Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, Extension Urban Horticulturist at Washington State University, will take you step by step through the process she uses to bust hortricultural myths.
A group of us has got our heads together as \'Ignited Minds\' .. trying to awaken ourselves and enrolling others.
The enclosed presentation is fast threatening to become a reality ..
What do you recommend we do ..?
This is a fiction letter written in 2070! How the time will change. How people then would be living without or in shortage of drinking water, of any water for that matter. Because our generation didn't care for the enviornment, result shown in here is hair raising. Just think! Do something! Get Inspired and convey this messege to others to for a cuase!
A Teacher's Guide to Rainwater Harvesting on Campus
`
For more information, Please see websites below:
`
Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Using academic databases to vet gardening informationLindaCS
Learn how to search academic databases for science-based gardening advice. Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, Extension Urban Horticulturist at Washington State University, will take you step by step through the process she uses to bust hortricultural myths.
A group of us has got our heads together as \'Ignited Minds\' .. trying to awaken ourselves and enrolling others.
The enclosed presentation is fast threatening to become a reality ..
What do you recommend we do ..?
This is a fiction letter written in 2070! How the time will change. How people then would be living without or in shortage of drinking water, of any water for that matter. Because our generation didn't care for the enviornment, result shown in here is hair raising. Just think! Do something! Get Inspired and convey this messege to others to for a cuase!
This is not a prediction, but that which will happen for sure if we do not change. I got his video clip to coach institutions as a part of my volunteering work
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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/
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2. We are in the year 2070.
I just turned 50 years old, but I look 85.
I experience major kidney problems,
because I drink very little water.
I think that I don’t have much more time
to live.
Today, I am the oldest person living in
this society.
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3. I remember, when I was 5 years old
everything was very different.
There were lots of trees in the parks,
houses had beautiful gardens, and I could enjoy long baths and stay in
the shower for one whole hour.
Now, we have to clean ourselves by using disposable towelettes moisturized
with mineral oil.
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4. Before, women were proud of their beautiful hair.
Now, we have to shave our head to keep it clean without using water.
Before, my father used to wash his car
with water that came out of a hose.
Today, children find it hard to believe
that one ever could use water to perfom
such a task.
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5. I remember the many warnings:
”DON’T WASTE
WATER”
But nobody paid attention.
People assumed that water was
unlimited.
Today, rivers, dams, lagoons, and
under-ground water are all
either irremediably polluted or
completely dried up.
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6. The landscape that surrounds us has turned into nothing more than an
immense desert.
Gastro-intestinal infections, and skin and urinary tract diseases have now
become the main causes of death.
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7. Industry is paralysed, and the jobless rate reached a dramatic level.
Desalination plants are the main employers.
They give one drinking water instead of a salary.
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8. People are constantly being mugged for water on the deserted streets.
80% of the food is synthetic.
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9. Before, it was recommended that an adult drink 8 glasses of water a day.
Today, I am allowed only half a glass.
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10. Since we cannot wash our clothes, we throw them, which increases the amount
of trash.
We had to go back to using septic tanks, just like in the past century, because
the sewage system stopped working due to the lack of water.
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11. People look scary: their bodies are weak; parched by extreme dehydration;
covered by sores caused by ultraviolet rays that the atmosphere can no longer
filter since the ozone layer is depleted.
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12. Due to the dryness of her skin, a young 20 year-old woman looks more like 40.
Scientists perform all types of research
and investigations, but there is no solution
in sight.
We cannot produce water.
The lack of trees reduces the amount of oxygen available, which
in turn lowers the intellectual quotient of up-coming generations.
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13. The morphology of many individuals’ spermatozoa was altered...
…which results in children being
born with all sorts of deficiencies,
mutations and malformations.
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14. The government even makes us pay a tax for the air we breathe:
137 m3 per adult per day.
[31,102 gallons]
Those who can’t pay the tax are
expulsed from the “ventilated areas”
that are equipped with gigantic
mechanical lungs, powered by solar
energy.
The air supplied in the “ventilated areas” is not of very good quality, but at least
one can breathe there.
The average age is 35.
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15. Some countries succeeded in preserving a few islands of vegetation with their
own streams. These areas are closely monitored by the army.
Water has become a rare
commodity, a highly sought after
treasure, infinitely more valuable
than gold or diamonds.
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16. Here, though, there are no more trees because it hardly ever rains. And
whenever it does rain, it is acid rain that comes down.
There are no more seasons. Climatic
changes such as the greenhouse effect
and the polluting activities we indulged in
during the twentieth century took care of
that.
We were warned about the need to take care of our environment, but nobody
bothered.
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17. When my daughter asks me to tell her how it was when I was young, I describe
the beauty of the forests.
I tell her about the rain, about the
flowers, about how pleasurable it was
to bathe, to fish in the rivers and the
lakes, and being able to drink as much
water as one desired.
I tell her about how healthy people
used to be.
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18. She asks me:
- Daddy! Why is there no water anymore ?
I feel a lump in my throat...
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19. I can’t help feeling guilty, because I
belong to the generation that
completed the destruction of our
environment by simply not taking
seriously any of the warnings ... and
there were so many of them!
I belong to the last generation who
could have made a difference, but who
chose not to act.
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21. Quite frankly, I think that, within short, life on this Earth will no longer be
possible, because the destruction of our environment reached its point of no
return.
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22. How I wish I could go back in time and get the Human race to understand
this ...
... at a time when it was still possible for us to do something
to save our planet Earth!
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23. Tell this letter to all your friends and
contribute, even if it is only by a fraction, to
the necessary global awareness on the
water issue.
This is no game, it is already our reality.
Do it for your children; if you don’t have any
yet, maybe you will some day.
Don’t leave them hell as a legacy ... Leave
them life!
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