This document discusses how various aspects of society like education, school supplies, textbooks, shoes, computers, cars, tables, trees, bottled water, and the food pyramid influence society. It questions how these things challenge society to improve, how their value or availability differs between countries, and how society can use them to better the world.
Our April 2016 newsletter...a free publication from William Garvey and Associates, Lexington, MA.
This month we discuss compressed air, the Waxman-Hatch Act, Word controls and charge-in of components.
The Fairplex Park - A Redevelopment Proposal for the City of Pomona, CAsix14
A Redevelopment Proposal for the City of Pomona, CA
The Fairplex Park
Fairplex is starting to reinvent itself. Quaint stores, large open-air plazas, shaded walkways, and a public park.
The Fairplex Park is a mixed-use development with an assortment of interesting stores, retail shops, restaurants, mixed-income housing, neighborhood-serving amenities, some offices, along with a public park. Trees line the walkways and street plazas. People sit down for meals with tables shaded with umbrellas. Others prefer to stroll across the parkways. Customized to the Fairplex community, The Fairplex Park promises to create a pedestrian-friendly mixed-used environment that provides a more meaningful social, leisure and shopping experience and allows a greater opportunity for interaction among families, visitors, and neighbors.
Purposeful Community and Change Leadership for the 21st Century -Handout #9 e...ohedconnectforsuccess
June 29, 10:30am – noon, Room: Union A
Purposeful Community touches all aspects of the learning process. The four components of Purposeful Community will be explored in relation to increasing student achievement and growth. Participants will learn about the phases of the change-leadership process in the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative (called Enhancing Leadership Quality for Collaborative Action Impact). A mindset-management approach to leadership and delivery models will be shared, which will assist participants in creating a plan for Purposeful Community and Change Leadership in their own school or district.
Main Presenter: Mark Glasbrenner, Battelle for Kids
Co-Presenter(s): Barb Hansen, Battelle for Kids
UCT Upstarts 2015 Week 15: Digital Innovation with Jonathan MackenzieUCT Upstarts
UCT Upstarts 2015 Week 15: Digital Innovation with Jonathan Mackenzie
UCT Upstarts is the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Innovation Challenge. It’s a joint-initiative between UCT, the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Super Stage. UCT Upstarts is igniting a ‘Student Start-up Nation’ by creating a parallel university experience – one that produces a generation of both graduates and social entrepreneurs - who solve real-world problems from campus, and launch start-up realities beyond it. UCT Upstarts is building a ‘Social Innovation Culture’ that literally does make Africa work better and is helping to create an ‘Innovation Economy’ that actually does create jobs – starting from campus!
Our April 2016 newsletter...a free publication from William Garvey and Associates, Lexington, MA.
This month we discuss compressed air, the Waxman-Hatch Act, Word controls and charge-in of components.
The Fairplex Park - A Redevelopment Proposal for the City of Pomona, CAsix14
A Redevelopment Proposal for the City of Pomona, CA
The Fairplex Park
Fairplex is starting to reinvent itself. Quaint stores, large open-air plazas, shaded walkways, and a public park.
The Fairplex Park is a mixed-use development with an assortment of interesting stores, retail shops, restaurants, mixed-income housing, neighborhood-serving amenities, some offices, along with a public park. Trees line the walkways and street plazas. People sit down for meals with tables shaded with umbrellas. Others prefer to stroll across the parkways. Customized to the Fairplex community, The Fairplex Park promises to create a pedestrian-friendly mixed-used environment that provides a more meaningful social, leisure and shopping experience and allows a greater opportunity for interaction among families, visitors, and neighbors.
Purposeful Community and Change Leadership for the 21st Century -Handout #9 e...ohedconnectforsuccess
June 29, 10:30am – noon, Room: Union A
Purposeful Community touches all aspects of the learning process. The four components of Purposeful Community will be explored in relation to increasing student achievement and growth. Participants will learn about the phases of the change-leadership process in the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative (called Enhancing Leadership Quality for Collaborative Action Impact). A mindset-management approach to leadership and delivery models will be shared, which will assist participants in creating a plan for Purposeful Community and Change Leadership in their own school or district.
Main Presenter: Mark Glasbrenner, Battelle for Kids
Co-Presenter(s): Barb Hansen, Battelle for Kids
UCT Upstarts 2015 Week 15: Digital Innovation with Jonathan MackenzieUCT Upstarts
UCT Upstarts 2015 Week 15: Digital Innovation with Jonathan Mackenzie
UCT Upstarts is the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Innovation Challenge. It’s a joint-initiative between UCT, the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Super Stage. UCT Upstarts is igniting a ‘Student Start-up Nation’ by creating a parallel university experience – one that produces a generation of both graduates and social entrepreneurs - who solve real-world problems from campus, and launch start-up realities beyond it. UCT Upstarts is building a ‘Social Innovation Culture’ that literally does make Africa work better and is helping to create an ‘Innovation Economy’ that actually does create jobs – starting from campus!
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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/
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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/
2. School How does the value of education challenge society to go to school? Can a more private education make someone challenge themselves to strive for a better place in society?
3. School Supplies Why is it that school supplies are so important in aiding education in society? How is it that school supplies help society to further their education, but they are costly and hard to come by in all areas of the world?
4. Text books How does the value of a textbook differ from one country to another? What makes the value of a textbook worth the trouble to strive for education in our society?
5. Shoes In a society with so many choices in what to wear on our feet everyday, why is it that not everyone around the world can have a pair to wear? Can what we wear on our feet actually affect the job that we do and the society that we have come to be?
6. Computer With the computer technology that we have today, how can society strive to help the world around them? More and more people today have computers. How is it that society can grow in this technology so fast, but the world around us can be in such a dire need of non technological resources?
7. Car Why is it that in society the car that we are driving puts a value on our appearance even before the value on our minds, worth, and intelligence is taken into consideration? With all the transportation that we have today other that cars, why is it that we need a car to have a place in society?
8. Table Not everyone's culture has them sitting at a table for daily meals, so how can a table influence how we eat in different parts of the world? How can having a table in your home influence the time that we spend as a family in society?
9. Tree We are trying to make the world a better place by saving our environment, but how can just one tree help society in more then just the ways that it is used for today? How is society influenced by what we are using our natural resources for?
10. Bottled Water With the water bottle industry growing everyday, why is it that not all parts of the world can have clean water? Even though plastic is recyclable, why is it that society takes a bottled water and its uses for granted within its society?
11. Food Pyramid As the world gets bigger by the thousands, and more people are either starving or turning obese what value does society have on the daily recommendations of good health? The food Pyramid gives society daily recommendations for the right amount of each source of foods we should consume. How do Americans strive to better themselves with the use of this chart?
