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Develop your pronunciation and fluency in speaking. Enrich your vocabulary. Become confident speakers in everyday life. Communicate effectively and interact socially in formal situations. Deal with situations when you travel to places where the language is spoken.

This program is tailored for Seniors (over the age of 65) who already speak Greek and would like to be given the chance to speak Greek MORE, to connect with people of similar background and interests and to expand their social network from the comfort of their home! Within a welcoming, lively, relaxed and fun atmosphere, we are focusing on discussion and activities about Greek music, cinema, history, society, nature, everyday life, travel, food and lots more!

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the SRE Practitioner course are professionals including: Anyone focused on large-scale service scalability and reliability Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches Business Managers Business Stakeholders Change Agents Consultants DevOps Practitioners IT Directors IT Managers IT Team Leaders Product Owners Scrum Masters Software Engineers Site Reliability Engineers System Integrators Tool Providers Overview After completing this course, students will have learned: Practical view of how to successfully implement a flourishing SRE culture in your organization. The underlying principles of SRE and an understanding of what it is not in terms of anti-patterns, and how you become aware of them to avoid them. The organizational impact of introducing SRE. Acing the art of SLIs and SLOs in a distributed ecosystem and extending the usage of Error Budgets beyond the normal to innovate and avoid risks. Building security and resilience by design in a distributed, zero-trust environment. How do you implement full stack observability, distributed tracing and bring about an Observability-driven development culture? Curating data using AI to move from reactive to proactive and predictive incident management. Also, how you use DataOps to build clean data lineage. Why is Platform Engineering so important in building consistency and predictability of SRE culture? Implementing practical Chaos Engineering. Major incident response responsibilities for a SRE based on incident command framework, and examples of anatomy of unmanaged incidents. Perspective of why SRE can be considered as the purest implementation of DevOps SRE Execution model Understanding the SRE role and understanding why reliability is everyone's problem. SRE success story learnings This course introduces a range of practices for advancing service reliability engineering through a mixture of automation, organizational ways of working and business alignment. Tailored for those focused on large-scale service scalability and reliability. SRE Anti-patterns Rebranding Ops or DevOps or Dev as SRE Users notice an issue before you do Measuring until my Edge False positives are worse than no alerts Configuration management trap for snowflakes The Dogpile: Mob incident response Point fixing Production Readiness Gatekeeper Fail-Safe really? SLO is a Proxy for Customer Happiness Define SLIs that meaningfully measure the reliability of a service from a user?s perspective Defining System boundaries in a distributed ecosystem for defining correct SLIs Use error budgets to help your team have better discussions and make better data-driven decisions Overall, Reliability is only as good as the weakest link on your service graph Error thresholds when 3rd party services are used Building Secure and Reliable Systems SRE and their role in Building Secure and Reliable systems Design for Changing Architecture Fault tolerant Design Design for Security Design for Resiliency Design for Scalability Design for Performance Design for Reliability Ensuring Data Security and Privacy Full-Stack Observability Modern Apps are Complex & Unpredictable Slow is the new down Pillars of Observability Implementing Synthetic and End user monitoring Observability driven development Distributed Tracing What happens to Monitoring? Instrumenting using Libraries an Agents Platform Engineering and AIOPs Taking a Platform Centric View solves Organizational scalability challenges such as fragmentation, inconsistency and unpredictability. How do you use AIOps to improve Resiliency How can DataOps help you in the journey A simple recipe to implement AIOps Indicative measurement of AIOps SRE & Incident Response Management SRE Key Responsibilities towards incident response DevOps & SRE and ITIL OODA and SRE Incident Response Closed Loop Remediation and the Advantages Swarming ? Food for Thought AI/ML for better incident management Chaos Engineering Navigating Complexity Chaos Engineering Defined Quick Facts about Chaos Engineering Chaos Monkey Origin Story Who is adopting Chaos Engineering Myths of Chaos Chaos Engineering Experiments GameDay Exercises Security Chaos Engineering Chaos Engineering Resources SRE is the Purest form of DevOps Key Principles of SRE SREs help increase Reliability across the product spectrum Metrics for Success Selection of Target areas SRE Execution Model Culture and Behavioral Skills are key SRE Case study Post-class assignments/exercises Non-abstract Large Scale Design (after Day 1) Engineering Instrumentation- Instrumenting Gremlin (after Day 2)

Part 1: ‘Lunch and Learn’ with Max & Fi ✨ ( About 15-20 min) Max and Fi will share various psychological models, resources and ideas to help you feel positive, purposeful and inspired in your EP career. We draw upon positive psychology, with the aim of helping you feel motivated, engaged and purposeful in your EP Career. Part 2: Time to connect 🧠🧠 ( About 40-45 min) Come and find your 'tribe' and connect with like-minded EPs. W e will organise breakout rooms for small group chats, reflections and connection-building within the EP community. You might want to share some ideas with others, find out what others are up to, make connections and explore possible collaborations. Maybe you're feeling isolated (easy in this role!) and just fancy some EP company and connection. We will offer some prompts for your chats and do our best to reduce any awkwardness and make it fun and friendly! Come with an open mind. Be brave. Be curious. See where the session takes you... Bring your own lunch and a cup of PositiviTEA. If your cup is feeling a bit empty, we hope we can fill it during the session* * This is a metaphor. No actual tea is included ;) P.s. Sorry this session is not suitable for aspiring EPs . Please do look out for more appropriate events via Twitter.

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Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for This introductory-level, fast-paced course is for skilled web developers new to React who have prior experienced working HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Overview Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current 'on-the-job' experience into every classroom. Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn about and explore: A basic and advanced understanding of React components An advanced, in-depth knowledge of how React works A complete understanding of using Redux How to build, validate, and populate interactive forms How to use inline styles for perfect looking components How to test React components How to build and use components How to get control of your build process A deep understanding of data-driven modeling with props and state How to use client-side routing for pages in your apps How to debug a React application Mastering React is a comprehensive hands-on course that aims to be the single most useful resource on getting up to speed quickly with React. Geared for more experienced web developers new to React, this course provides students with the core knowledge and hands-on skills they require to build reliable, powerful React apps. After the first few modules, you?ll have a solid understanding of React?s fundamentals and will be able to build a wide array of rich, interactive web apps with the framework. The first module is an introduction to the new functionality in ECMAScript 6 (JavaScript). Client-side routing between pages, managing complex state, and heavy API interaction at scale are also covered. This course consists of two parts. In the first part of the course students will explore all the fundamentals with a progressive, example-driven approach. You?ll create your first apps, learn how to write components, start handling user interaction, and manage rich forms. We end the first part by exploring the inner workings of Create React App (Facebook?s tool for running React apps), writing automated unit tests, and building a multi-page app that uses client-side routing. The latter part of the course moves into more advanced concepts that you?ll see used in large, production applications. These concepts explore strategies for data architecture, transport, and management: Redux is a state management paradigm based on the Flux architecture. Redux provides a structure for large state trees and allows you to decouple user interaction in your app from state changes. GraphQL is a powerful, typed, REST API alternative where the client describes the data it needs. Hooks is the powerful, new way to maintain state and properties with functional components and the future of React according to Facebook. ES6 Primer (Optional) Prefer const and let over var Arrow functions Modules Object.assign() Template literals The spread operator and Rest parameters Enhanced object literals Default arguments Destructuring assignments Your first React Web Application Setting up your development environment JavaScript ES6 /ES7 Getting started What?s a component? Our first component Building the App Making the App data-driven Your app?s first interaction Updating state and immutability Refactoring with the Babel plugin transform-class-properties JSX and the Virtual DOM React Uses a Virtual DOM Why Not Modify the Actual DOM? What is a Virtual DOM? Virtual DOM Pieces ReactElement JSX JSX Creates Elements JSX Attribute Expressions JSX Conditional Child Expressions JSX Boolean Attributes JSX Comments JSX Spread Syntax JSX Gotchas JSX Summary Components A time-logging app Getting started Breaking the app into components The steps for building React apps from scratch Updating timers Deleting timers Adding timing functionality Add start and stop functionality Methodology review Advanced Component Configuration with props, state, and children ReactComponent props are the parameters PropTypes Default props with getDefaultProps() context state Stateless Components Talking to Children Components with props.children Forms Forms 101 Text Input Remote Data Async Persistence Redux Form Modules Unit Testing & Jest Writing tests without a framework What is Jest? Using Jest Testing strategies for React applications Testing a basic React component with Enzyme Writing tests for the food lookup app Writing FoodSearch.test.js Routing What?s in a URL? React Router?s core components Building the components of react-router Dynamic routing with React Router Supporting authenticated routes Intro to Flux and Redux Why Flux? Flux is a Design Pattern Flux implementations Redux & Redux?s key ideas Building a counter The core of Redux The beginnings of a chat app Building the reducer() Subscribing to the store Connecting Redux to React Intermediate Redux Using createStore() from the redux library Representing messages as objects in state Introducing threads Adding the ThreadTabs component Supporting threads in the reducer Adding the action OPEN_THREAD Breaking up the reducer function Adding messagesReducer() Defining the initial state in the reducers Using combineReducers() from redux React Hooks Motivation behind Hooks How Hooks Map to Component Classes Using Hooks Requires react 'next' useState() Hook Example useEffect() Hook Example useContext() Hook Example Using Custom Hooks Using Webpack with Create React App JavaScript modules Create React App Exploring Create React App Webpack basics Making modifications Hot reloading; Auto-reloading Creating a production build Ejecting Using Create React App with an API server When to use Webpack/Create React App Using GraphQL Your First GraphQL Query GraphQL Benefits GraphQL vs. REST GraphQL vs. SQL Relay and GraphQL Frameworks Chapter Preview Consuming GraphQL Exploring With GraphiQL GraphQL Syntax 101 . Complex Types Exploring a Graph Graph Nodes ; Viewer Graph Connections and Edges Mutations Subscriptions GraphQL With JavaScript GraphQL With React

English as a foreign language Prepare to pass the citizenship English language test (IELTS life skills) Classes from A1 to B1 level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) . A1-A2 Elementary This course is designed for students of English who have little knowledge of the English language and want to achieve a better level. The course will focus on speaking practice, reading comprehension and pronunciation skills, writing and grammar. The syllabus: countries, numbers, possessive pronouns, days of the week, pronunciation skills (linking, stress, intonation). Family vocabulary and everyday objects; present tense of most common regular and irregular verbs. Asking questions and talking about activities, can and can’t, transports, some and any, how much and how many. Past simple, regular and irregular verbs, ordering food and drinks, dates and other past time phrases, buying tickets, asking politely, past simple, negative forms and questions, shops and shopping for clothes. Comparative adjectives, use of articles, going out and staying in, might and will, education and careers, filling a form, present perfect and sentence stress. Prepositions of movement, going places and describing things in a town, real life: for example, telephoning; consolidation activities. A2 - B1 Pre-intermediate This course will develop further your English language skills acquired with the Elementary course. This course will help you with the preparation for the citizenship test. Each lesson will focus on a grammar topic, vocabulary, reading and pronunciation practice, writing. The syllabus: revision of questions; present simple and frequency phrases. Talking about leisure activities and games, past simple, positive and negative, time phrases (at, on, in ago), describing feelings, talking about daily routines and jobs; should and shouldn’t, present continuous for future arrangements; inviting people; Comparative and superlative adjectives, questions with: how, what and what … like? Describing people; vowel sounds and silent letters, weak forms of prepositions. Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns, asking and giving directions. Present tense after if, adjectives for describing places, talking about how things were in the past, used to, past continuous, talking about health. Like and would like, conditional sentences with would, present simple passive and past simple passive, talking about products and personal items, writing a review, giving your opinion. Present perfect continuous and past perfect. Job interviews, getting a job and personal characteristics, meeting people; making suggestions. B1 - B2 Intermediate Asking and answering questions: everyday activities, people around you. The difference between have and have got. Speaking practice. E-mail writing (informal). Pronunciation and stress sounds activities. Past simple and continuous. Pronunciation of the -ed sound for past simple endings. Vocabulary: remembering and forgetting. Listening and speaking: first meetings and childhood memories (used to). Real life: showing interest. Pronunciation: sounding polite. Speaking practice. The sound /w/. Comparatives and superlatives. Describing towns and cities. Readings and discussions topics about travel and places to visit. Phrases for comparing. Design your own tour. Real life: booking a flight. Present perfect simple: strong and weak forms of ‘have’. Describing life events. Speaking: talking about people you admire. Writing task: curriculum vitae. Vocabulary: ‘take’. For, since and ago and the present perfect continuous. Pronunciation: linking. Comparing the past and the present. Future forms and future clauses with if, when etc. Talking about work. How to write a covering letter. Real life: a formal telephone call. Adjectives: -ed/-ing. Extreme adjectives. Write a review of a book/concert. Writing a consumer review. The passive forms. Speaking practice. Ripetizioni d’inglese Who these courses are for: Italian speakers who live in the UK who want to improve their skills to pass the UK citizenship exams (IELTS life skills). for Italian schoolchildren who need to prepare for exams (such as ‘esame di maturita’). for Italian students who want to improve their grades at school or simply need help with homework. for adults who want to improve their English for work or travel. IELTS – International English Language Testing System Life in the UK Test

Having a dog is a joyful experience but an untrained dog will put stress and anxiety on the whole family. At Cheshire Dog Services, we want to help you enjoy your dog so are happy to provide one to one training sessions for you and your dog. Having trained many different breeds from Chihuahua’s & Yorkies – Lab’s & Spaniels to Rottweiler’s & German Shepherds, I am well versed in handling most problems in any breed. I am also a member of The Guild of Dog Trainers who acknowledge the needs of dog owners & their aim of a well behaved dog. The Guild fully understands the expectation society places on dog owners & additionally the laws which affect them all. We live in an artificial environment, which can often pose many dangers to dogs. We invite pets into our home then punish or blame them for acting up like animals do. It’s our responsibility to teach our dogs what the social boundaries are and how to live in a human environment. Even though they become trusted family members, we need to remember that fundamentally they are animals and as beautiful and loving as they are, training is key to avoid behavioral problems that will inevitably crop up. Have you ever noticed when a trainer handles a students’ dog in class – the dog performs amazingly well? The dog then goes back to his owner and forgets all that was taught. This is all down to how you handle your dog. How you are able to read the smallest changes in their body language and posture and make the confident and correct adjustments according to what is required. As a dog trainer with many years worth of experience, my aim is to pass on my skills and as much knowledge as is possible to all of my valued clients. When you and I work together, your dog will learn FASTER! You will enjoy a better-behaved dog in a shorter period of time whilst still being actively involved in the process of teaching your dog. As your dog learns the necessary concepts with me, you will experience the benefit of reducing your own frustration within your own training sessions at home. I help both you and your dog come together towards a common goal of a happy life together. Puppy 1-2-1’s Pups are never too young to learn, their Mums teach them many things in the first 7/8 weeks before we take them into our lives. We need to continue to educate the pup so they know the boundaries we expect in order for them to fit into our human ways and for you to fully enjoy these wonderful creatures. Much can be done BEFORE they have had all their inoculations and are ready to walk outside. The key to effective training is teaching your pup that whenever he does something wrong, you immediately redirect him to what you expect and then reward for getting it right. Most of all, puppy training needs to be upbeat, consistent and rewarding with regular sessions practiced and integrated into your daily routine. What I’ll cover with you at your home are: Shaping behaviour Crating Basic obedience controls of Sit, down, stand, focus & wait. Recall set up, the most important command for all dogs without a doubt! The best type of equipment use to help with training, whistles for recall, training lines, reward pouches etc. Interactive play used to build bonds and value in you as the owner/handler through ball tugs, tugs and ropes. How to teach the pup to “leave it” Advice on leads, harnesses, treats, socialising, lead control Answer any questions you may have resulting to your puppy Adolescent and mature dogs 1-2-1’s Adolescence in dogs is reached by month 7-8 & the dog becomes fully mature by month 18. We’ll cover the following in our sessions or can focus on a specific need if requiredat’s r Obedience Heel-work so your dog walks nicely by your side and doesn’t pull. Wait / Stay commands for both obedience and safety Interactive play and bond building to aid recall Recall development is essential for all dogs big and small. “Leave it” command so the dog ignores what its told to leave Focus will allow a higher level of obedience. I believe positive reinforcement training is the best way to create a happy and confident dog who understands what is expected of them. I teach owners how to establish boundaries at home and employ problem behaviour prevention strategies from early puppyhood onwards. Training and behaviour problems are resolved without the punishment-based techniques that commonly result in fear, aggression, or deterioration of the bond between dog and owner. Instead I utilise positive methods based on well-established learning theories and behavioural science that are humane, practical and effective. I teach marker-based training, either with a clicker or word, combined with rewards of all kinds (e.g., food, toys, play, and praise). All my training sessions reflect a comprehensive understanding of the dog’s natural behaviour, and take into respect learning abilities as well as the dog’s mental and physical developmental stages. In my classes, I strive to create a relaxed and enjoyable learning experience as I believe that the human part of the equation needs as much support and understanding as the canine component. Most people learn more quickly when not subjected to criticisms and negative feedback and therefore, a positive approach to the training of the people is an integral part of all our classes. Please contact us for prices (they vary depending on what’s required)

This course provides attendees with the knowledge required to assess and care for service users with dysphagia.