Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a partnership between producers and consumers where farming risks and rewards are shared. CSAs can take different forms, such as consumers doing the farming themselves, committing to buying produce in advance, or providing capital for the farm business. The benefits of CSA include fresh local food, better value, stable markets for producers, money staying in the local economy, and a sense of community. Swillington Organic Farm in Yorkshire is an example of a CSA that provides weekly produce boxes to members in exchange for an annual subscription fee.
This presentation:
1) Explores the current state of consumer health apps.
2) give examples of the major categories of health apps.
3) Showcases the functions of some of the mental health apps developed by HealtheDesigns for the Veterans Administration.
The World Health Organisation has identified the workplace as a key area for targeting health promotion and disease prevention. With the average Victorian spending a third of their day at work, it makes sense to utilise this environment to reinforce healthy attitudes and behaviours.
This presentation:
1) Explores the current state of consumer health apps.
2) give examples of the major categories of health apps.
3) Showcases the functions of some of the mental health apps developed by HealtheDesigns for the Veterans Administration.
The World Health Organisation has identified the workplace as a key area for targeting health promotion and disease prevention. With the average Victorian spending a third of their day at work, it makes sense to utilise this environment to reinforce healthy attitudes and behaviours.
A Presentation on Sandhills Farm to Table Case StudyMatson Consulting
This PowerPoint was presented by James Matson at the 16th Annual National Value-Added Agricultural Conference in Baltimore, Maryland on May 13th. This is a presentation on the article written by James Matson and Jessica Shaw for the National Agricultural & Rural Development Policy Center. The presentation highlights the research and commentary on the operations of Sandhills Farm to Table.
Janet Dwyer's presentation to the Land Economy Department at the University of Cambridge, discussing the implications for the agriculture sector since #Brexit.
“Partnering to Promote Smallholder Irrigation in SS Africa” by Peter Jump at the 2023 Water for Food Global Conference. A recording of the presentation can be found on the conference playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBeKOIXsg3JNyPowwJj6NDSpx4vlnCYj.
While small scale family farmers grow food, and produce 70% of the food in this region, we remain to be poorest, hungriest, mostmalnourished? Why ? First because many of us do not have adequate access , control or ownership of the basic natural resources needed to do farming: land, waters, forests, seeds. Without land rights, we cannot decide what to plant, when to plant, where to market the produce, and in many cases, get only a 30% share of the produce of the farm. Without water rights, the fishes we could have captured in our seas and waters are first captured by big commercial trawlers, leaving so little for the many of us who would like to fish. Without forestry rights, we lose our forests to big mining and logging companies. Without rights to breed, conserve, save and exchange seeds, we will be dependent on the seeds of big and multi-national seed companies..
Second, our yields are low, of inferior quality, and we do not have the money to buy necessary inputs such as seeds, fertilizers or even farm tools or put up needed services such as irrigation, electricity.
Our belief: Community-Corporate Partnership (CCP) will work well to bring sustainable development for it redistributes inequitable resources and benefits through win-win strategy. Co-Creating & Co-Investing Our Future, by mobilizing through participatory action research (PAR). Let joint social responsibility together, DC Research and Analyzing Development Issue Centre (ADIC).
As we enter the final throes of EU funded grant schemes in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, we welcome representation from several of those schemes with our message to the business community – 'use it or lose it'.
The session will feature presentations from:
Matt Borne - Growth Hub Funded Business Support
Anna Staevska - Cornwall Development Company Grants from BIG2
James Glover - Rural Payment Agency Grants from RDPE Growth Programme
Andrew James - PKF Francis Clark Tips on making a successful grant claim
We hear our friends and our family asking: What can we do about climate change? Here are some immediate actions you can take. This slidedeck will be revised and updated as more information becomes available.
Common Climate Network is a group of New Zealanders who want to spread positive, concrete actions we can all take in our daily lives to influence system change.
presented by Chief Executive Officer Rico B. Geron of the Sorosoro Ibaba Development Cooperative during the 2015 AFNR Symposium held last October 1, 2015 at the AIM Conference Center, Makati City
Presentation of Mr. Rogel Marsan of the Cosmic Farm during the Philippine Extension and Advisory Services Network (PhilEASNet) CAR Chapter and AFEN-CAR
A Presentation on Sandhills Farm to Table Case StudyMatson Consulting
This PowerPoint was presented by James Matson at the 16th Annual National Value-Added Agricultural Conference in Baltimore, Maryland on May 13th. This is a presentation on the article written by James Matson and Jessica Shaw for the National Agricultural & Rural Development Policy Center. The presentation highlights the research and commentary on the operations of Sandhills Farm to Table.
Janet Dwyer's presentation to the Land Economy Department at the University of Cambridge, discussing the implications for the agriculture sector since #Brexit.
“Partnering to Promote Smallholder Irrigation in SS Africa” by Peter Jump at the 2023 Water for Food Global Conference. A recording of the presentation can be found on the conference playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSBeKOIXsg3JNyPowwJj6NDSpx4vlnCYj.
While small scale family farmers grow food, and produce 70% of the food in this region, we remain to be poorest, hungriest, mostmalnourished? Why ? First because many of us do not have adequate access , control or ownership of the basic natural resources needed to do farming: land, waters, forests, seeds. Without land rights, we cannot decide what to plant, when to plant, where to market the produce, and in many cases, get only a 30% share of the produce of the farm. Without water rights, the fishes we could have captured in our seas and waters are first captured by big commercial trawlers, leaving so little for the many of us who would like to fish. Without forestry rights, we lose our forests to big mining and logging companies. Without rights to breed, conserve, save and exchange seeds, we will be dependent on the seeds of big and multi-national seed companies..
Second, our yields are low, of inferior quality, and we do not have the money to buy necessary inputs such as seeds, fertilizers or even farm tools or put up needed services such as irrigation, electricity.
Our belief: Community-Corporate Partnership (CCP) will work well to bring sustainable development for it redistributes inequitable resources and benefits through win-win strategy. Co-Creating & Co-Investing Our Future, by mobilizing through participatory action research (PAR). Let joint social responsibility together, DC Research and Analyzing Development Issue Centre (ADIC).
As we enter the final throes of EU funded grant schemes in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, we welcome representation from several of those schemes with our message to the business community – 'use it or lose it'.
The session will feature presentations from:
Matt Borne - Growth Hub Funded Business Support
Anna Staevska - Cornwall Development Company Grants from BIG2
James Glover - Rural Payment Agency Grants from RDPE Growth Programme
Andrew James - PKF Francis Clark Tips on making a successful grant claim
We hear our friends and our family asking: What can we do about climate change? Here are some immediate actions you can take. This slidedeck will be revised and updated as more information becomes available.
Common Climate Network is a group of New Zealanders who want to spread positive, concrete actions we can all take in our daily lives to influence system change.
presented by Chief Executive Officer Rico B. Geron of the Sorosoro Ibaba Development Cooperative during the 2015 AFNR Symposium held last October 1, 2015 at the AIM Conference Center, Makati City
Presentation of Mr. Rogel Marsan of the Cosmic Farm during the Philippine Extension and Advisory Services Network (PhilEASNet) CAR Chapter and AFEN-CAR
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.
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 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
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
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/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
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.
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.
How world-class product teams are winning in the AI era by CEO and Founder, P...
Local Food - Soil Association Presentation
1. Community-Supported Agriculture a local food solution ‘ Live & Local’, Skipton 1st Oct 2008 Mick Marston mmarston@ soilassociation.org Kirstin Glendinning [email_address] Soil Association www.soilassociation.org/csa
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8. Proposed CSA Swillington Budget: March 2007 – Feb 2008 & pricing structure for period Budget Headings : £ Professional Fees – Grower 15,000 (12 months x £1250) Mobile Telephone grower 120 Bank charges 120 Insurance 350 Seeds & Plants 2000 Consumables (enviromesh, phormasol, canes etc) 1000 Tools/irrigation 300 Petty cash (petrol, string etc.) 300 Buying in vegetables 500 Rotavator tools (potato lifter, 5 tines) 350 Polytunnel 3500 Pump installation 300 Repair greenhouse 150 Website 50 Compost 150 Incorporation 700 Newsletter 20 Fencing 400 Professional fees accountant 300 Contingency 1280 Total: £26,890
9. Swillington CSA charges 1 SHARE (4 people) ½ SHARE (2 people) Prepay £614 £372 Q’ly std order £645 (£161.25/qt) £391 (£97.75/qt) Mthy std order £664 (£55.33/mth) £402 (£33.50/mth) Or weekly £12.80 £7.80 CSA income underwrites self-employed grower salary 57 members, £28k turnover, no grants
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14. Information & Support… The Soil Association is working as part of a partnership project called Making Local Food Work which is supporting the development of local food through social enterprise www.makinglocalfoodwork.co.uk The Soil Association Community Supported Agriculture project is providing: advice and support to new CSAs organising training events and networking opportunities comprehensive range of information such as action manual, ‘how to’ guides, case studies and practical examples through our website www.soilassociation.org/csa Funding: Lottery Local Food Fund www.localfoodgrants.org
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16. Community Supported Agriculture contacts: Amanda Daniel Soil Association (Bristol) T: 0117 914 2424 E: [email_address] Michael Marston Regional Development Coordinator – Northern England T: 01207 562317, F: 01207 561317 E: [email_address] Kirstin Glendinning Regional Development Coordinator – Leeds &Bradford,Midlands and Eastern England T: 0794 7715715 E: kglendinning@soilassociation.org Jade Bashford Regional Development Co-ordinator – Southern England T: 0117 914 2424 E: [email_address]