Alameda County Saves $540,000 A Year in Electricity Costs with SunPowersunpower
They say sustainability starts at home. For Alameda County, home happens to be 738 square miles on the east side of the San Francisco Bay—population 1.4 million http://us.sunpower.com
Alameda County Saves $540,000 A Year in Electricity Costs with SunPowersunpower
They say sustainability starts at home. For Alameda County, home happens to be 738 square miles on the east side of the San Francisco Bay—population 1.4 million http://us.sunpower.com
Maura McDonnell - Visual Music Research Topicwebexistential
Presentation of PhD topic - My Research is .. for the History and Theory of Digital Arts Core Module of the DAH stuctured PhD programme, Trinity College, Dublin
Презентация рассказывает о здоровом образе жизни и сбалансированном питании, правильном подсчете ценности дневного рациона, энергетическом балансе человека.
Sandakphu Trip, June 2005, Birla High School Kolkata, IAYP.Siddharth Agarwal
This trek was conducted for the students enrolled under International Award for Young People Scheme at Birla High School for Boys Kolkata. The trip leader, Mr. Joydeep Ghoshal (owner of Juniper Travels) had been an amazing guide, along with the team of experts as mentioned in the presentation. Hope you enjoy the trip. :)
Parachute Digital benchmarked 100 Australian website donation pages against 59 points of criteria and got donor insights from a survey and in dept interviews with donors.
Maura McDonnell - Visual Music Research Topicwebexistential
Presentation of PhD topic - My Research is .. for the History and Theory of Digital Arts Core Module of the DAH stuctured PhD programme, Trinity College, Dublin
Презентация рассказывает о здоровом образе жизни и сбалансированном питании, правильном подсчете ценности дневного рациона, энергетическом балансе человека.
Sandakphu Trip, June 2005, Birla High School Kolkata, IAYP.Siddharth Agarwal
This trek was conducted for the students enrolled under International Award for Young People Scheme at Birla High School for Boys Kolkata. The trip leader, Mr. Joydeep Ghoshal (owner of Juniper Travels) had been an amazing guide, along with the team of experts as mentioned in the presentation. Hope you enjoy the trip. :)
Parachute Digital benchmarked 100 Australian website donation pages against 59 points of criteria and got donor insights from a survey and in dept interviews with donors.
Sustainable school design Case study- Discovery elementary schoolRohan Narvekar
This presentation is a case study of a Sustainable School Design for energy efficient technology and methods that could be brought under our use, The Net-Zero Energy aims for the same and we can observe here how it is introduced in this respective Project
Hillcrest Primary School LEED Project Profile | Miron ConstructionMiron Construction
More and more we are seeing school districts take an interest in integrating sustainable design and construction into their school construction projects. When Shawano School District decided to build a new primary school in Shawano, WI, the team implemented a number of sustainable strategies that earned the project Gold LEED certification.
1 Instructions for Spring 2014 Freshman Composition .docxmercysuttle
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Instructions for Spring 2014 Freshman Composition Final
Examination Readings
Place your name on this packet of readings you download from the Writing Program website.
You will return them to your instructor after you have finished writing the final essay
examination.
No class time will be allotted for discussion of the readings, but you may, if you wish, discuss
them outside of class with your classmates or other students enrolled in your freshman
composition class.
Bring this packet with you to the final exam. You will use information from these sources to
support your thesis. You may underline, highlight, and annotate the readings.
You may also bring a dictionary and your Little Seagull Handbook. However, you may not bring
thesis statements, outlines, prewriting, or drafts in any form to exam.
If you use MLA documentation style to credit your sources, bring the pre-printed Works Cited
page you downloaded with your reading packet and, when you have finished writing, place the
page in the Blue Book in which you have written your final draft.
If you use APA documentation style to credit your sources, bring the pre-printed References
page you downloaded with your reading packet and, when you have finished writing, place the
page in the Blue Book in which you have written your final draft.
For Writing Program essays, MLA or APA are the only two acceptable documentation styles.
For the final essay exam, you will need two large-sized Blue Books. These are available at the
bookstore. (If you have large handwriting, you may need a third Blue Book.) On the front cover
of each book, write your name, your WRC course and section number, the date of your final, and
your professor’s name. Turn in both Blue Books to your professor before the final. You may use
only Blue Books in which to write the final. On the day of the final, your professor will return
the Blue Books to you so you can use them for the final essay. At the final, use one book for
your prewriting and the other for your final draft. You will turn in both at the end of the final,
along with the prompt.
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Sustainability is about more than recycling at top colleges
By Monika Joshi
One Indiana school is not only drilling its students on academics, but it's also drilling holes in its campus to tap geothermal
energy. A Vermont college is into burning wood chips as a way to save money.
What they share is a passion for environmental sustainability — operating in a way that uses renewable fuels and tries to
save money in the process. Interest in sustainability is particularly strong on college campuses.
Princeton Review, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, is out this week with its 2012 Guide to 322 Green
Colleges and finds in a separate survey that 68% of more than 7,000 college applicants told them that a college's commitment to the
environment would play a role in their decision to apply to or attend that ...
The campuses of many state universities--with their miles of research laboratories and sports facilities to power, and tens of thousands of students to house--can sometimes resemble a small city. They can require as much energy to run as a small city, as well. Over the past decade, colleges and universities across the country have become concerned about their environmental footprint, and today they are leading the way in developing innovative approaches to rethinking energy infrastructure. Kent State University is installing nearly 45,000 square feet of solar panels on its athletic complex, while Princeton's power plant can now switch to run on biodiesel.
Colorado school districts need to find ways to continue supporting education as budgets are reduced. Learn how the Alamosa School District freed up dollars through the following creative strategies:
•Master Planning
•Collaboration with Utility Providers
•Campus Consolidation and Staffing Efficiencies
•Energy Options
•Maintenance Strategies
Colorado school districts need to find ways to continue supporting education as budgets are reduced. Learn how the Alamosa School District freed up dollars through the following creative strategies:
•Master Planning
•Collaboration with Utility Providers
•Campus Consolidation and Staffing Efficiencies
•Energy Options
•Maintenance Strategies
Rah-Miel Mitchell is the Program Manager for Ecopalooza. As the program manger he is responsible for managing the project development and communicating time lines to team members for both pre-production planning as well as the production of Ecopalooza.
Lake Mills Middle School LEED Project Profile | Miron ConstructionMiron Construction
When the Lake Mills community approved an addition/renovation project at the local middle school, the Lake Mills Area School District made sure sustainability was a key component of design and construction. The result is a Platinum LEED certified facility that will serve students for many years to come.
Campus Sustainability Best Practices
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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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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
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
Hidalgo county green initiatives presentation teeksHidalgoCounty
Hidalgo County showcased its green initiatives at the Growing Green Texas Rural Sustainability Conference this week. Conference attendees heard of the County's efforts to reduce energy consumption & cost, embrace renewable and sustainable sources of energy and implement projects that are mindful of the environment.
couldnt upload all in once so ive decided to upload one by one, not my best work, had to do it this morning before i got to work, anyways just wanted to meet the dead line, please do give your feed back asap sop that i can take more time on preparing a proper
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 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
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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
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.
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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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/
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
2. SUCCESSFUL GREEN SCHOOLS
From the many and different successful green schools found in my research, I have decided to work
with three schools that have tried to go green by taking into consideration the climate of the area
located, its building and the pupil for the better learning purpose.
Council School District # 13, Council, Idaho
The schools located in a cool and dry climate region, the district has 320 students and has a 80,000
square feet of interior spaces at a k-8 school and one high school. The school was given a help from
the Energy Division of the Idoho Department of Water Resources and the Rebuild America Program,
the district found a 47 year old boiler and radiant electric heat in the gymnasium of one of the schools
as obvious targets for energy savings, the school district decided to apply for a U.S Forestry Service
grant under the Fuels for schools program, which resulted in $386,000 award to use for an advanced
biomass system based on renewable energy technology, after wards the district entered into a
performance contract with Siemens Building Technologies to design a new biomass energy system
fuelled by wood chips, since the water in the system would be heated to only 850F instead of 1800F,
the school will use 250 tons of fuels per year rather than 300 tons, water in the system can be
replaced with naturally occurring cold ground water for cooling the building in warmer weather, an
additional savings can be gained by using the 850 F water to preheat water heaters. The district has
implemented other energy efficiency measures, including new T-8 lamps, new ballasts, light reduction
in areas tested for light intensity, and digital controls, the proposed biomass project will require an
additional $2.6 million from voters and a bond, although the bond had not yet passed when this paper
was prepared, superintendent Murray Dalgleish was confident that the community would support in
October 2004, and ground breaking is planned for spring 2005. Council School Dstrict #13 estimates
that these improvements will save more than $800,000 in energy cost over next 15 years, the district
which plans to make energy efficiency upgrades and the biomass plant part of the curriculum, will
also be a showcase and demonstration for other small schools in the states.
Corvallis School District 509J, Corvallis, Oregon
The Corvallis School district is located in a temperate and mixed climates and it has eight elementary
schools, two middle school and two high schools serving 6850 students but a new 125,000 square
foot middle school was scheduled to open in August 2004, and new 230,000square foot high in
September 2006. The new school will serve 552 students in the middle school and 1306 students in
high school, the school board with the help of the district’s Energy Education Coordinator, decided
that energy efficiency would be a priority for the two new schools, in 1999 the district partnered with
an energy consultant, Energy Education, Inc, to identify and implement energy saving projects by
focusing on reducing energy use during off peak hours and encouraging behavioural changes, such as
turning off lights and computers when not in use the district has saved $1.5 million from 1999 to
2004, a reimbursement from the local utility, Pacific Power, of $5,200 funded a lighting upgrade for
the Corvallis high school cafetweria. A sonsumer’s Power rebate and business Energy Tax Credit
(BETC) of $24,000 funded the crescent valley high school gymnasium lighting retrofit. Other
projects have included installing T-8 lighting; digitally controlled heating, ventilating and air-
3. conditioning (HVAC) equipment; and energy-efficient boilers. Teachers provided significant input on
the design of the new schools, and both teachers and students have requested energy data for use in
classrooms, the Oregon State Energy Office provided recommendations on community education and
outreach to the administrative staff in the Corvallis School District. Because the schools have had
significant energy and monetary savings, the community has been supportive of energy efficiency and
renewable energy projects in the two new schools, in the 2004 report to the superintendent, the school
district called for energy efficiency and renewable energy measures to be pursued for the two new
schools, both schools are applying for LEED silver ratings, Energy efficiency and renewable energy
will be incorporated directly into the building and curriculum, estimates indicate that the new high
school will use 35% less energy than a conventional school build code, and the middle school 30%
less energy. The district is also planning to install a small grid connected photovoltaic system in one
of the elementary school for educational purposes.
Elk River School District No.728, Elk River, Minnesota
Elk River School District No.728 has cold and humid climates and with 11,000 students in 17
buildings, Rogers high School, the first high performance high school in Minnesota, was completed in
2003, with a projected 850 students for the 2004-2005 school year and 257,00 square feet, this high
school use 25% less energy than the state standard for such schools, which translate into annual
savings of approximately $175,000, overall the entire project cost for Rogers High School was $32
million, in the late 1990’s the district found that additional classrooms were needed and that current
building were becoming increasingly expensive to maintain because of mold and other indoor air
quality issues in this variable climate, working with local design firm with experience in high
performance buildings, the Elk River’s director of business and operation began a series of activities
needed to construct high performance schools throughout the district.
Opening at the same time as Rogers High School was the new Westwood Elementary School with
74,000 square feet, this elementary has 475 students, cost $11.5 million to build and is expected to
save $65,000 to $75,000 per year in energy cost saving over code built building. Westwood
elementary is expected to receive a LEED silver certification, the first elementary school in Minnesota
to receive this distinction, using passive heating and cooling specifically designed for this climate, as
well as daylighting techniques, the elementary school uses 50% less energy that state standards,
according to district personnel there have been days in winter when it costs nothing to heat of the
school, according to Ron Bratlie, the Director of Special Projects, the building maintained its desired
temperature even with a constant flow of fresh air coming in, as is the case with many high
performance schools, the smaller HVAC equipment needed to heat and cool the structure is
responsible for significant cost reductions, Elk River School District is committed to creating a better
learning environment for its students and teachers and it is considered to be a leader I the states in
high performance school construction, Members of the district staff regularly give presentation to
other districts on the high performance design and construction process, Elk River school have also
been feature in Connexus Energy’s magazine and in a 2003 study by the Environmental Law Institute
in Washinton, D.C.
The school in the different climate zones described in these research all have receive financial and
educational benefits from a high performance design of their buildings, and many more schools
4. throughout the country and world are realizing the benefits of high performance design as shown in
the Energy Design Guidelines for high performance schools, the energy efficiency and renewable
energy technologies implemented in retrofits or new construction can provide energy savings as well
as a better learning environment. Because of the environmental impacts are important, these projects
are often more attractive than conventional design practices from a financial perspective, since these
buildings use less energy than their conventional counterparts, therefore I can safely assume that this
method are appropriate for schools in South Africa
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