Special Needs Families

Hello book lovers! I have been meaning to read this month's book for quite a while, and I'm very excited to announce it was one of the top-ranked books in our vote: Please read the 1966 classic sci-fi novel, **«Flowers for Algernon» by Daniel Keyes**, and come to our Monday 08. June 2026 meeting prepared to discuss it. Be aware that there is a novel of approximately 250-300 pages, and a much shorter novelette, which is a short story of around 26 pages. We will be reading the full novel. You are welcome to use any edition / language you would like; I will be using [this one](https://www.lesestoff.ch/en/detail/ISBN-9781857989380/Keyes.-Flowers-for-Algernon?CSPCHD=01g000000000WjfiiFwSqFo6TK$2pe$jGg0V110CjPdV11SVqg&bpmctrl=bpmrownr.1%7Cforeign.). As always I will try to bring something fun to eat / drink! You are welcome to bring something to eat for yourself, or even to share if you would like; there are plates and glasses we can use. The Bibliothek requests no smelly food. **Please RSVP here on Meetup if you plan to show up, so I have a head count. If you can't make it, please remove your RSVP.** We will review and discuss the selected book of the month, in English! This will be a group discussion, which I will gently moderate to keep participants engaged and focused. As the discussion winds down, time is allotted for participants to recommend future books, and to provide feedback to help shape the direction of subsequent meetings. If you would like to receive a discount ordering this book, give me your first and last name if you haven't done so already, and I will gladly add you to the list at the Schuler Bücher bookstore at Bahnhofstrasse 22 in Chur; remind them that you are in the English Book Club (or for online orders, type this in the notes field), and you will get a 10% discount when you pay at the register.

**Hey fellow AWS enthusiasts! ✨** This evening we'll takle our AWS costs! 💪🏻💸 We are happy to have **[Meisi Zhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meisi-z-52702b61/),** a Customer Facing Cloud Engineer @ codecentric, joining to walk us through **FinOps in Action with AWS Spot Instances**. Thanks to our friends at **[codecentric Nürnberg](https://www.codecentric.de/standorte/nuernberg)** for sponsoring the event with food and drinks and opening their wonderful offices for us! **📆 Tonight's Agenda** 19:00 - Welcoming **19:15 - Talk by Meisi followed by Q&A and knowledge sharing** 20:00 - Food, Drinks & Networking Looking forward to seeing you 👋🏻 **[Nora](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-schoener/)** & **[Frank](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprechtel/)** \-\-\- The talk ⤵️ **FinOps in Action: Real-World Cost Optimization using AWS Spot Instance** The talk is about our AWS funded PoC project, this project demonstrates the implementation of FinOps principles by leveraging AWS Spot Instances to achieve significant infrastructure savings without compromising workload performance. It provides a technical blueprint for orchestrating Spot Fleets and Auto Scaling groups, offering a practical approach to data-driven cloud financial management. The speaker⤵️ **Meisi Zhan** is a distinguished Customer-facing Cloud Consultant and Evangelist at codecentric, bringing over eight years of expertise in IT consulting and software engineering. As a highly experienced Pre-Sales Engineer and Solution Architect, she has a proven track record of building trusted advisor relationships and driving customer success across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Meisi excels at translating complex technical challenges into quantifiable, TCO-justified business value and viable technical architectures. Her approach focuses on Transformation Consulting, DevOps, and FinOps, ensuring that cloud-native solutions are both innovative and financially optimized. Get in Contact with Meis through [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meisi-z-52702b61/). \-\-\- **Please note:** At the event, photos and videos will be taken for marketing purposes both by our hosts and our location sponsors. We try to offer a hybrid experience by providing a video stream of the talk. There will be no recording published after the event. Please also keep in mind, that we try our best effort to provide a good streaming experience. We don't offer a professional stream, so delays, technical issues or other interference are a matter to be tolerated.

Dear Data Wizards, We are looking forward to inviting all of you to our next meetup. **IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN PERSON, PLEASE REACH OUT TO KRISTIAN DIRECTLY AS WE NEED TO REGISTER YOU IN THE CIRCLE.** **Topics** * What's New - Kristian * Data Quality Testing - Louis * Introduction to DAX User Defined Functions (UDFs) - Marco The session will be recorded and made available on YouTube --> [https://aka.ms/FabricUGYouTube](https://aka.ms/FabricUGYouTube) **Data Quality Testing** A hands-on introduction to data quality in the data warehouse context. The session highlights why data quality is business-critical, outlines different types of tests, explains the distinction between syntactic and semantic validations, and demonstrates how to integrate a step-by-step testing strategy into existing data pipelines. Covering everything from quick wins to advanced monitoring approaches, in a tool-agnostic manner. **Introduction to DAX User Defined Functions (UDFs)** A user-defined function is a DAX formula with parameters that can return values or tables. Parameters can be passed by value or by expression. In this session, you will learn how to define and consume user-defined functions in your semantic model, how to share them in different models, and how to use function libraries created by the community! **Sponsor** We are happy to share that this meetup is kindly sponsored by our partner Altyca, who is hosting the apéro for this event. A big thank-you to Altyca for supporting the Fabric & Power BI community and helping us create a great setting for learning, discussion, and networking. **Good to know** We want this group to be a safe environment that encourages open discussion, exchange of ideas and problems you may face. Therefore, we kindly ask that no members will leverage the information for unsolicited acquisitions of new customers or projects. This group builds on trust, and without it we cannot learn from each other and excel on this topic. **Want to be a presenter?** We are always looking for new speaker. If you are interested and would like to show something to the Power BI Meetup Group please feel free to contact us!

Bewusster, achtsamer Austausch über unsere Erfahrungen als hochsensible Personen. Entwicklung von Strategien für den Alltag, Beziehungen und das Berufsleben. Professionelles Networking für hochsensible, neurodivergente und autistische Menschen.

\*räusper \* Willkommen, mir sin a hauptsächlich casual EDH gruppa, mir sin prinzipiell sehr Proxy Freundlich und primär spielen mr eher für ank spass😊Notausgänge befinden sich Links und Rechts neben den Toiletten. Es sind durchschnittlich 12-16 Spieler vor Ort, von denen sich niemand über meetup anmeldet....oder überhaupt anmeldet. Wenn ihr lieber was anderes spielen wollt, ist auch ok. Wir haben genug Platz. English: Come and play magic with us. Use proxies if you want to. Have fun. Wanna play other games. Feel free to come. We've got enough space. We are around 12-16 players, just ignore the attendee list from meetup.

**Details** Entdecke beim nächsten UX Meetup, wie UX Designer echte Verantwortung übernehmen. **Benedikt Merz** und **Andreas Wolters**, Gründer von **Studio Llama**, präsentieren ein Framework für **Responsible Design**, das praktische Methoden gegen die negativen Begleiterscheinungen moderner Technologie liefert. Im Anschluss lädt uns [VITAMIN 2](https://vitamin2.ch/) zu einem Apéro, Drinks und Networking ein. Wir bitten wir dich um eine verbindliche Zu- oder Absage. Wir freuen uns auf dich! **Über den Talk** UX-Design bedeutet, die Interessen der Nutzer zu vertreten. Doch während User Centered Design Standard ist, kämpft unsere Gesellschaft zunehmend mit digitalem Stress, Sucht und Ausgrenzung. **Was läuft schief – und wie machen wir es besser?** In diesem Talk skizzieren die Speaker nicht nur das Problem, sondern liefern konkrete Lösungen: Ein Framework aus Prinzipien und Methoden, das UX-Praktiker dazu inspiriert, den Design-Alltag kritisch zu hinterfragen und verantwortungsbewusster zu gestalten. **Über die Speaker** **[Benedikt Merz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedikt-merz-263b2697/):** UX-Experte mit 13 Jahren Erfahrung an der Schnittstelle von Psychologie und Human-Computer Interaction. Sein Fokus liegt auf der Verbindung von Research und Konzeption. **[Andreas Wolters](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaswolters/):** UX Researcher und Designer mit über 10 Jahren internationaler Erfahrung (London, NL). Sein Hintergrund in Psychologie prägt seinen menschzentrierten Ansatz. **[Studio Llama](https://www.studio-llama.ch/)** ist ein Zürcher Kollektiv für UX-Forschung und Design. Sie verbinden Psychologie mit Anthropologie, um digitale Erlebnisse zu schaffen, die den Menschen und die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung konsequent in den Mittelpunkt stellen.

**ECK-Licht und Ton Gottesdienst:** Menschen aller Glaubensrichtungen und Überzeugungen sind zum ECK-Licht und Ton Gottesdienst willkommen. Du kannst davon ausgehen, dass du in irgendeiner Weise eine neue Erfahrung mit Gottes Liebe machen wirst! Die Gottesdienste dauern etwa eine Stunde und können Elemente wie eine Rede, leichte musikalische Darbietungen, Podiumsgespräche und Austausch in Kleingruppen beinhalten. In den Gottesdiensten gibt es immer Zeit, Licht und Ton Gottes zu erfahren beim Singen des HU und in der anschliessenden kurzen Kontemplation. Jede Person kann frei entscheiden, ob sie aktiv oder still teilnehmen will. Wenn du Fragen zur Veranstaltung hast oder technisch etwas unklar ist, kannst du dich gerne via Chat an den Event-Organisator wenden. Weitere Informationen zu Eckankar oder der Lehre von ECK findest du auf den Webseiten [www.eckankar.ch](http://www.eckankar.ch/) oder [www.eckankar.org](http://www.eckankar.org/) (in English). Unterstützt von Eckankar Schweiz, einer eingetragenen, gemeinnützigen Organisation.

**Join Anina every Sunday morning for an open level Hatha Yoga class!** This class is our way to #GiveBack to our Community, making yoga accessible to all with a reduced class price. It is an invitation to come together and share our love of yoga to serve others. The funds collected with the Community Classes are donated in equal parts to the Yoga Medicine Seva Foundation and Paréa SG, supporting broader communities through your own practice. Expect a balance of postures, breath and meditation practices, led each week with a specific theme drawn from the yoga philosophy - reflecting on how your practice on the mat can also nourish your daily life. **Class in English // Open Levels** Space is limited to 10 students. **\>\> Registration is mandatory [HERE](https://bubbleyoga.ch/yoga/schedule/).** Donation price is on 'pay what you can' basis, starting at CHF10. Yoga mats & equipment provided at the studio, simply come with comfortable clothes to move. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- The **Yoga Medicine Seva Foundation**'s mission is to fight human trafficking and sexual exploitation by empowering global, impoverished communities through efforts of education and entrepreneurship. You can learn more about the foundation [here](https://yogamedicine.com/india-seva/). **Paréa St. Gallen** supports humanitarian projects for displaced people at Europe’s borders. Every contribution goes directly to projects that provide safety, dignity, and essential resources to those in need. Additionally, Paréa SG organises events and campaigns to raise awareness about refugees' reality, aiming to foster understanding and solidarity within Swiss society.

Join Anne in the cosy Bubble Yoga studio or online for this energising & balancing yoga class! **Vinyasa Flow** is your fluid and energetic flow class! Emphasising the connection of breath and movement, the class combines a creative sequence of poses into a moving meditation, moving in rhythm with the breath - all enhanced by carefully curated music. With a positive, community oriented & uplifting environment, this class is designed to challenge and inspire you both physically and mentally. **Class in English // Intermediate level** **Join at the studio or live online via Zoom.** **\>\> Registrations mandatory [HERE](https://bubbleyoga.ch/yoga/schedule/).** Yoga mats & all equipment available at the studio. Simply bring comfy clothes to move. Class is taught in English. **Pricing options:** '2 for 1' Welcome Pack CHF 35 1 month unlimited Intro Pass CHF85 ZOOM Drop-in class CHF20 STUDIO Drop-in class CHF35 / Abos available. All details available on http://www.bubbleyoga.ch Come as you are & bring your friends! *** *** Bubble Yoga Kirchgasse 12 9000 St. Gallen *NB: The entrance door is at the BACK of the building, from the pathway facing Magnihalden fountain*

At Unity of Columbus, our Youth and Family Ministry nurtures the spiritual growth of children and families through love, joy, and practical spiritual teachings. Each Sunday, children explore timeless spiritual principles through stories, creative activities, music, and group sharing in a safe and welcoming environment. Our program encourages children to discover their own inner light, express kindness, and develop a personal connection with God. Together, we celebrate diversity, cultivate understanding, and inspire each child to live with purpose and compassion. Parents and families are invited to join in this uplifting journey of learning, laughter, and spiritual connection.

This is an all inclusive event to inform, support and help bring special needs families and the community together. Come and enjoy family and sensory friendly: games, activities, snacks, free stuff and more! Meets the 2nd Saturday of each month. Located at Village Chapel - 30 Circleville Avenue, Ashville, OH 43103.

The Unity of Columbus Resource Group for the Homeless is seeking compassionate volunteers who would like to help serve and uplift members of our homeless community. This group is dedicated to sharing kindness, resources, and support with individuals who may be experiencing difficult circumstances. Anyone with a heart for service is welcome to join us as we work together to make a positive difference in the lives of others. Community members are also invited to contribute by bringing helpful items for those in need. Donations of items can be contributed at the meeting and will be distributed to assist members of the homeless community. Please consider joining us and sharing this opportunity with friends, family, or associates who may also wish to help. Learn more about Unity of Columbus at www.unityofcolumbus.org or call (614) 267-4959. Together we can extend compassion, dignity, and support to our community. 💛