This newsletter provides information about upcoming Family Readiness Group (FRG) meetings, Strong Bonds events, tax assistance services, recreational activities, and a community meeting with a US Senator. Key details include B Company and HSC FRG meetings on March 8th and 28th, Strong Bonds couples and singles events in early March, free tax preparation assistance available starting on March 6th, Snow Ridge Military Free ski days on Wednesdays and some Fridays in January-March, and a community meeting on March 2nd with Senator Gillibrand and Holly Petraeus to discuss financial issues facing military families.
olivier Desbarres: The A-Team had a plan, the British government has a nebulo...Olivier Desbarres
The UK has its own eclectic A-Team led by Prime Minister May, tasked with getting the UK out of the EU and securing a more beneficial relationship with trading partners.
Theresa May, David Davis, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson have been dealt a tough hand and unsurprisingly have so far refused to reveal the intricate details of their daring plan.
But voters, businesses, parliament, EU leaders and foreign trading partners are pressing the government to elaborate on its tactics and strategies for Brexit.
There was break-through of sorts on 7th December, with the 650 members of the House of Commons (MPs) voting overwhelmingly to allow the government to trigger Article 50 by end-March in exchange for publishing the details of its Brexit plan.
But the devil is in the detail – or lack thereof. This parliamentary vote is not binding and the government has only agreed in the vaguest of terms to publish its plan for Brexit.
If MPs receive the plan late in the game and/or it is insufficiently detailed and assuming the Supreme Court rules that government has no prerogative to trigger Article 50, parliament may decide to delay or even scupper the process by which Article 50 is triggered.
Moreover, this likely vote in the House of Commons and House of Lords may well be only one of multiple votes which parliament has to hold between now and the approval of a final treaty between the UK and the EU.
In addition to these possible parliamentary hurdles, the government may also have to navigate a number of pending legal cases.
Some of these parliamentary votes may not take place and these legal actions may fail. There is certainly scope for further compromise between Theresa May’s government and parliament.
But the risk is that this reputation-sapping cat-and-mouse game extends beyond March, in turn making it far more difficult to predict the end-outcome – which ranges from the UK reverting to WTO rules (the “hardest” form of Brexit) to the UK staying in the EU.
Given the uncertain path which British executive and legislative bodies will take to reach a difficult-to-predict outcome at an unidentifiable point in the future, forecasting Sterling remains fraught with difficulty.
In this context I would expect Sterling to continue lacking direction near-term, particularly as the FX market has, it would seem, already priced out the more negative scenarios for the UK economy. Mixed UK data may not provide Sterling with much direction either way.
Liberals have not been anymore transparent than previous govts - https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2017/03/23/justin-trudeaus-promise-of-transparency-is-starting-to-look-empty-editorial.html
Never has both a Finance Minister and Prime Minister been convicted of ethical violations like Trudeau and Morneau
olivier Desbarres: The A-Team had a plan, the British government has a nebulo...Olivier Desbarres
The UK has its own eclectic A-Team led by Prime Minister May, tasked with getting the UK out of the EU and securing a more beneficial relationship with trading partners.
Theresa May, David Davis, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson have been dealt a tough hand and unsurprisingly have so far refused to reveal the intricate details of their daring plan.
But voters, businesses, parliament, EU leaders and foreign trading partners are pressing the government to elaborate on its tactics and strategies for Brexit.
There was break-through of sorts on 7th December, with the 650 members of the House of Commons (MPs) voting overwhelmingly to allow the government to trigger Article 50 by end-March in exchange for publishing the details of its Brexit plan.
But the devil is in the detail – or lack thereof. This parliamentary vote is not binding and the government has only agreed in the vaguest of terms to publish its plan for Brexit.
If MPs receive the plan late in the game and/or it is insufficiently detailed and assuming the Supreme Court rules that government has no prerogative to trigger Article 50, parliament may decide to delay or even scupper the process by which Article 50 is triggered.
Moreover, this likely vote in the House of Commons and House of Lords may well be only one of multiple votes which parliament has to hold between now and the approval of a final treaty between the UK and the EU.
In addition to these possible parliamentary hurdles, the government may also have to navigate a number of pending legal cases.
Some of these parliamentary votes may not take place and these legal actions may fail. There is certainly scope for further compromise between Theresa May’s government and parliament.
But the risk is that this reputation-sapping cat-and-mouse game extends beyond March, in turn making it far more difficult to predict the end-outcome – which ranges from the UK reverting to WTO rules (the “hardest” form of Brexit) to the UK staying in the EU.
Given the uncertain path which British executive and legislative bodies will take to reach a difficult-to-predict outcome at an unidentifiable point in the future, forecasting Sterling remains fraught with difficulty.
In this context I would expect Sterling to continue lacking direction near-term, particularly as the FX market has, it would seem, already priced out the more negative scenarios for the UK economy. Mixed UK data may not provide Sterling with much direction either way.
Liberals have not been anymore transparent than previous govts - https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2017/03/23/justin-trudeaus-promise-of-transparency-is-starting-to-look-empty-editorial.html
Never has both a Finance Minister and Prime Minister been convicted of ethical violations like Trudeau and Morneau
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
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/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.
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
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
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys at Amazon.pdf
March 1st FRSA FLASH
1. FRSA FLASH
Thursday, 1 March 2012 .
THOUGHTS 2
BRAVO FRG MTG 7
THEATER 8
SPECIAL NEWS 10
CHARLIE FRG MTG 11
ALPHA FRG MTG 17
Special Points of Interest
Contents of this newsletter are compiled from multiple Military Family news sources. Material pre-
sented does not represent the views or endorsement of the 10th CAB or the Army. This material is for
personal use of the readers. All readers are encouraged to do further research for all applicable re-
strictions and guidelines.
LTC Stiller
TF MTN Eagle Cdr
CSM Escalera
TF MTN Eagle CSM
Michele Galloway
TF MTN Eagle FRSA
Office 315-774-1206
Cell 315-836-6496
FROM 277th FRSA: FRG Meeting Highlights inside.
Lenten/Easter Schedule inside.
2. THOUGHTS TO CONSIDER !!!
PAGE 2 FRSA FLASH
The world is made up of two kinds of people - negative people and positive people. Life is not
so much about what happens to us. Life is also not so much about what we think happened
to us. Life is about what happens on the inside of us.
Art Linkletter was a man who found the secret of living life from the inside out. He was a TV
host who interacted with the guests on his program and often got hilarious results. He once
described himself as being like everybody's next-door neighbor, only smarter. Linkletter said,
"Things turn out the best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
Happiness does not depend on circumstances. It depends on the attitude toward the circum-
stances. Keep a positive attitude in your circumstance. An opportunity may be hiding in there
somewhere. Live life from the inside out with a positive expectation for your future!
3. PAGE 3 FRSA FLASH
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Fort Drum Tax Assistance Center offers free tax return preparation
Capt. Jordan Walerstein
Tax Assistance Center Officer in Charge
The Fort Drum Tax Assistance Center is scheduled to open Tuesday. Staffed by IRS trained
and certified Soldiers, the TAC will prepare and electronically file your federal and state in-
come tax returns free of charge. By filing your return electronically, you can receive your re-
fund in as little as one week.
Part of the Legal Assistance Office and the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, the TAC staff
assists active-duty Soldiers, mobilized Reservists on active duty for more than 29 days, retired
service members and their Families.
Under Army regulations, self-employed taxpayers and those involved in other private business
activities are not eligible for tax assistance services. (Family Child Care providers remain eligi-
ble.)
The TAC staff also is equipped to prepare 2010 returns for Soldiers returning from deployment
who were not able to file last year.
Located on South Post at the corner of Lewis and Conway / First Street West in Bldg. T-120
(near the AAFES gas station and across the street from Behavioral Health), the TAC will be
open from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Beginning Monday, you may call 772-6727 to schedule a next business day appointment.
Throughout tax season, the appointment line will open at 1 p.m. each day and will remain
open until all appointments are filled for the next business day.
The following documents are required to schedule an appointment:
Military ID (Common Access Card)
Social Security cards for you, your spouse and dependents and/or a Social Security num-
ber verification letter issued by the Social Security Administration. (Your military ID is not suffi-
cient.)
Birth dates for you, your spouse and dependents listed on the tax return.
Your Army W-2, which is available at www.mypay.dfas.mil. (Your leave and earnings state-
ment is not sufficient.)
A voided check to receive your refund by direct deposit.
To file taxes electronically on a married-filing-joint tax return, both spouses must be present or
have a special power of attorney or IRS Form 2848 authorizing you to sign the return.
The following documents may be necessary depending on your circumstances:
Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) assignment letter for you, your spouse
and dependents;
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4. FRSA FLASH PAGE 4
Check out all the FACEBOOK
pages. We have a page for the 10th
Combat Aviation Brigade as well as
each of our Task Forces within our
Brigade.
Proof of foreign status, if applying for an ITIN;
Wage and earning statement(s) Form W-2, W-2G, 1099-R from all employers of all of your
Family Members;
Interest and dividend statements from banks and brokers, including mortgage interest state-
ments (Forms 1099);
A copy of last year’s federal and state returns if available;
Divorce decrees and receipts for alimony paid or received;
Child custody and support orders;
Receipts for IRA contributions;
Total paid for day care provider and the day care provider’s tax identifying number (the pro-
vider's Social Security number or business Employer Identification Number); and
Receipts and other supporting documentation if you plan to itemize your deductions in lieu of the
standard deduction.
Visit www.facebook.com/drumtax for the most up-to-date information on the TAC.
For more information, call the Fort Drum Tax Assistance Center at 772-3735.
5. FRSA FLASH PAGE 5
MARCH 2012 Preview Is
Now Available Online
http://www.drummwr.com/
ClassesandEvents_files/
March%202012%
20Pre-
view_FMWR_Preview.pdf
Snow Ridge Ski Resort is having their Military
Free Day Lift Ticket Days
again this year.
Dates are as followed;
Wednesday - Every Wednesday thru
the entire ski season
Friday - January 6 & 20, February 3 &
10, March 2, 9 & 16, 2012
Hours of Operation are
Mon and Tues Closed
Wed 10am-4pm
Thurs - Friday 10am-8:30pm
Sat - Sun and Holidays 9am-4pm
Stop on by our Parks and Recreation building here on post to rent skiing or
snowboarding equipment. Click on the link for pricing information.
http://drummwr.com/ParksandRecreation_files/Brochure%2010-2011%20winter.pdf
7. FRSA FLASH PAGE 7
B Co FRG Meeting
Thursday, March 8th 2012 at 5pm
Adirondack Creek Community Center
Join us to get information, meet new
people, and make new friends! A light
refreshment will be provided.
If there are any questions contact Gigi Tomsu:
315-777-6521
gigitomsu@gmail.com
8. FRSA FLASH PAGE 8
What’s Playing at the Movies?
Post Theater
Bldg 10725, North Riva Ridge
Admission is $4.50 for adults; $2.25 for children 6-11; FREE for children 5
and younger.
For more movie information, call 772-5571
THU MAR 01 - 1900 The Devil Inside (R) ALL SEATS FOR THIS SHOWING $1
FRI MAR 02 - 1900 Red Tails (PG-13)
2130 Underworld Awakening (R)
SAT MAR 03 - 1400 The Muppets (PG)
1900 Haywire (R)
2130 Underworld Awakening (R)
SUN MAR 04 - 1400 The Muppets (PG)
1700 Red Tails (PG-13)
10. PAGE 10 FRSA FLASH
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
MARCH 2012 UPCOMING EVENTS
HSC FRG MEETING
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012, 5:30pm
277th Battalion Classroom
Strong Bonds Dates
Couples 2-4 March 2012
Lake George, NY
Singles 8-9 March 2012
MFLC
-PFC
Joe Wietecha , Our Personal Financial Counselor, is
back and here to help 277th Soldiers and Families on Thurs-
days (at BN) with any financial issues or just to ask ques-
tions. Call him at 586-350-7650 to help set up a budget,
check your credit, develop a plan to get out of debt, get
started investing, or whatever you need assistance with.
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and Holly Petraeus, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
will be guests at a Fort Drum community meeting the afternoon of March 2 at 3:30 pm. (1530) at the
Commons here on post. Please arrive 15 minutes early. The meeting will be open to all Fort Drum
soldiers, families and civilians. Gillibrand and Petraeus will focus their discussion on how to best as-
sist military families who are facing financial issues. There also will be a question-and-answer ses-
sion for the community. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to protect Ameri-
can consumers from unfair, deceptive or abusive practices at the hands of financial services provid-
ers - banks, credit card companies, mortgage and payday lenders, and debt collectors, to name a
few.