The document summarizes the challenges of recovering from major earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand two years after significant earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. It describes the extensive damage to infrastructure and buildings from liquefaction. Key ongoing issues included the closure of the central business district, developing a recovery plan addressing long-term instability from liquefaction, removing entire damaged neighborhoods, and population movements. The recovery faced challenges around insurance claims, coordination across agencies, and financing the long-term rebuild. The document argues for proactive mitigation to reduce earthquake impacts.
A 10 Part Series on how we can co-create a viable future on a smarter planet
Hosted by Dr Robin Wood, President of Renaissance2, a charitable association
Vision 2050 was created by a team of unpaid volunteers, so if you enjoy it please make whatever donation you can to Renaissance2
www.renaissance2.eu
Thank You!
A 10 Part Series on how we can co-create a viable future on a smarter planet
Hosted by Dr Robin Wood, President of Renaissance2, a charitable association
Vision 2050 was created by a team of unpaid volunteers, so if you enjoy it please make whatever donation you can to Renaissance2
www.renaissance2.eu
Thank You!
The Christchurch earthquake was devastating due to loss of life, buildings, infrastructure, lifestyle etch, etc
The rebuild project is massive -- $45 billion over a 10 year period.
Many opportunities will result for industry.
View the slides & determine if your business can be a part of the Christchurch rebuild project
3rd Presentation: Investment Based on Risk Assessment and Past Disaster Experiences
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The Christchurch earthquake was devastating due to loss of life, buildings, infrastructure, lifestyle etch, etc
The rebuild project is massive -- $45 billion over a 10 year period.
Many opportunities will result for industry.
View the slides & determine if your business can be a part of the Christchurch rebuild project
3rd Presentation: Investment Based on Risk Assessment and Past Disaster Experiences
2nd Seminar, "Seismic Risk assessment for Kathmandu Valley" was held on 11th April, 2017, at Hotel Yak and Yeti (Durbarmarg, Kathmandu), for dissemination of results of Seismic Risk Assessment of 'The Project for Assessment of Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment for the Kathmandu Valley (JICA)'
Tests und Übungen im BCM-Lifecycle
Der Artikel hierzu findet sich bei BCM-News:
http://www.bcm-news.de/2012/12/16/die-phase-tests-und-uebungen-im-bcm-lifecycle/#more-18059
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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.
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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
How world-class product teams are winning in the AI era by CEO and Founder, P...
The hard realities of earthquake recovery for seattle
1. The Hard Realities of Earthquake Recovery:
Christchurch, NZ – Two Years Later
John D. Schelling, Earthquake Program Manager
Washington State Emergency Management
john.schelling@mil.wa.gov
253.512.7191
Twitter: @jdschelling
3. Location & Demographics
Christchurch is the largest city on the south island of New Zealand
Pre-Earthquake Population: 359,900 (~68% the size of Seattle’s Population)
174 square miles (~the size of Mountlake Terrace to Sea-Tac Airport)
Founded in 1856 ( Washington State admitted to Union in 1889) - Similar development histories
Seattle’s Sister City since 1981
4. The Canterbury Earthquakes
September 4, 2010 February 22, 2011
Magnitude 7.1 Magnitude 6.3
25 miles west of 3 miles southwest of
Christchurch Christchurch
6 miles deep 3 miles deep
Chch Chch
8. Initial EQ Impacts
181 deceased
EXTENSIVE and WIDESPREAD liquefaction
damage
Loss of utility power, water, and wastewater
treatment utilities for weeks to years
Significant damage to transportation network
600 buildings in downtown Christchurch affected
43,000 seat AMI Stadium experienced pervasive
damage
SEVERE damage to unreinforced brick buildings
11. Longer-Term Population Impacts
Note that while the population has been in flux over the longer
term and is beginning to reach pre-earthquake levels, the two
largest declines follow the most significant earthquakes.
13. Liquefaction is much, much more than a
nuisance…it’s a game changer for recovery
Earthquake happens…which leads to
Liquefaction occurring…which leads to
Sewer lines shift, break, fill with silt…which leads to
Wastewater treatment not possible…which leads to
Some beaches closed for 1+ years due to presence of
fecal coliform bacteria…which leads to
Impacts to health, safety, welfare, environment, tourism, recreation,
etc.
Which leads to…which leads to…which leads to…
14. The Canterbury Earthquakes:
September 4, 2010 - ?
More than 12,000 aftershocks since September 2010 – heard time & again
that Christchurch population is suffering from ‘quake brain’ – stress from
exposure to continuous shaking…
15. Recovery in Action
“It takes a ‘munting’ to build stronger; but
What do we design for? Where do we put it?”
16. So, what do you do when your entire
downtown is completely closed for 2+ years?
19. Why cargo containers?
Temporary, non-permanent
Standard size for easy
configuration/placement
Easy to transport
But perhaps most
importantly:
As temporary
structures, they do not
require water, sewer, or
electric utilities.
They also do not
require building
permits or inspections.
23. The Port Hole Bar & Grill…Lyttelton, NZ
Making the most of (temporary?) new accommodations,
the Port Hole has helped Lyttelton residents and visitors
establish a new gathering place.
24. Post-EQ Nightlife in Christchurch: The
Smash Palace
“Goodbye Blue Monday was a bar in Christchurch that ran from 2009-2011.
A family owned and run business, Goodbye Blue Monday liked to think it
provided some of the best gigs in Christchurch.
The bar was closed following the Christchurch earthquake on February 22nd
2011.While this was a sad time for us all, we counted ourselves lucky to be
alive.
Nowadays we remember the fun times. We had so many cool bands through
over the years that it felt like we were participating in helping Christchurch’s
up-and-comers have a stage to perform on… As well as music we had
lectures, debates, life drawing classes, motorbike restoration nights, chess
competitions, table tennis tournaments…
Oh, we had some fun. Now the bar is gone and all we are left with is
memories.”
www.thesmashpalace.com
27. But many, many brick and mortar locations
were fully operational…and some served lamb.
28. Transportation Recovery was On-Going
Temporary solutions
used in prime
liquefaction zones
Many complaints
from residents about
not knowing from
one week to the
next which roads
would be open and
which would be
closed for to allow
road and/or utility
repairs.
29. Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority
Land Decisions (as of Sept. 14, 2012)
Christchurch Kaiapoi
Most severe liquefaction occurred near existing and
historic waterways, like the Avon River in
Christchurch or the Kaiapoi and Waimakariri Rivers
in Kaiapoi---think Downtown and Duwamish in
Seattle…
30. So, how do you go to the bathroom and get
water after an earthquake in a Red Zoned area?
Temporary Water
Main
Waste receptacle
33. An Example of Community Notification
Methods: Recovery Bulletin Boards
34. Downtown Kaiapoi…
Specialized Teams Located in Banking/Finance Map Showing Planned/Programmed
Establishments Infrastructure Repairs (Yes, that says 2015.)
36. Where and how we build in
earthquake country…matters.
If ever there is a case to be made for pre-earthquake mitigation,
this is it.
37. Long-term consequences of life-safety only
codes: AMI Stadium
Welcome to the new AMI Stadium
The stadium suffered considerable structural damage in the 2011 quakes. Built in under
100 days, the new AMI Stadium has brought back the ability for the city to host large
outdoor sporting and music events once again.
Think about the emotional and economic impacts to a community when they lose the
ability for their local & national teams to play sport. http://www.vbase.co.nz/venues/ami-stadium
43. Top 10 Biggest Issues & Challenges 2 years
on…
I. Initial Establishment/Organization of a Recovery Authority
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority established 1 month after
earthquake
CER Act passed 2 months afterward giving CERA extensive powers
Responsive in establishing the an authority, but many residents are
frustrated with effectiveness
II. Central Business District remains closed 2 years later
Remains closed, in part, due to collapse hazards of taller buildings
III. Earthquake Insurance – Pros & Cons
Lack of initial surge capability/staff by EQC Earthquake Commission to
process insurance claims to expedite recovery
Lack of clarity on just which earthquakes were covered
Dealing with cumulative earthquake impacts to a structure
80% of losses are covered under insurance, making this the most insured
earthquake in modern history
44. Top 10 Biggest Issues & Challenges 2 years
on…
IV. Development of a recovery plan and accommodating long-term
instability from liquefaction damage
V. Removal of entire neighborhoods and horizontal utilities
damaged by liquefaction
VI. Population Movements and Notification/Consenting on
Redevelopment Plans, Buy-Outs, & Settlement
VII. Labor supply and accommodating influx of people to work on the
“Christchurch Rebuild”
VIII. Numerous responsibilities across multiple agencies
IX. Displacement of children again & again as well as lack of resources for
those who moved outside of Christchurch
X. Affordability and “Financing the Rebuild”
45. With every disaster comes opportunity.
Will we seize our opportunities to create a better,
more resilient Washington before or after our next big
earthquake(s)?