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A Woody Connection To New England's Colonial Past
By Patrick Skahill • Dec 26, 2017
Pitch pines were once found across Connecticut, but have since retreated back to only a few select spots in the state.
Patrick Skahill / WNPR
One of Connecticut's most uncommon species of evergreen can still be found -- if you know where to look.
It's a steep walk up a hill off Candlewood Road in Haddam. Beside me was Emery Gluck, a forester with the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Gluck said for the last 30 years -- he's passed this hill wondering if the trees perched on top were pitch pine.
"Because scattered throughout the valley here, there was a couple of pitch pines that might have had their seeds sourced from up here," Gluck said.
Today, pitch pine is one of Connecticut's hardest to find trees. When colonists arrived centuries ago it was everywhere, but generations of logging -- and environmental changes -- pushed the tree back to just a few select spots in the state.
Gluck, who in addition to his forestry work is an avid pitch pine enthusiast, said the tree and the shrubby plant "scrub oak" that it's often found with, thrive in areas scorched by fire.
"We have a scarcity of fires from an ecological point of view now -- and that's probably the main reason why pitch pine and scrub oak is one of our 13 imperiled ecosystems," Gluck said.
Which means the state is actively working to preserve the plant -- partially through controlled burns.
Some pitch pine cones are "serotinous," which means they need fire to open.
Credit Patrick Skahill / WNPR
Where Gluck and I visited had a naturally-occuring fire in 2016. And as we climbed through a graveyard of burnt branches and toppled trunks -- Gluck and I finally made our way to the hill's top.
It's windy -- and our view of the valley would be almost clear -- if not for a few pitch pines resolutely clinging to the outcropping's rocky ledge.
We approached and Gluck described the pitch pine's bark.
A close-up of bark on a pitch pine tree in Connecticut.
"It's quite flakey, almost like a red pine -- but it curls out," Gluck said. "Red pine is more flat -- it curls out on both ends. One of our seasonal [employees] called it an alligator-like bark."
These trees twist upward, curling like bonsai trees because of scant soil. But healthy pines can get quite tall -- with some in Connecticut reaching up to 80 feet.
"When people think of pitch pine they don't think of Connecticut. They think of Cape Cod and the New Jersey pine barrens," Gluck said.
But pitch pine's story is one of colonial America.
"Connecticut, as well as the rest of New England, had a rich history in having pitch pine," Gluck said. "Because it was very important to the early colonists for tar, pitch, and turpentine."
Tar and pitch from the tree were an important resource for the English navy. And way back when, there were even laws on the books in New Hampshire allowing taxes to be paid in tar instead of currency.
"A barrel of tar offset 20 shillings worth of taxes," Gluck said.
Gluck said some pitch pine cones on the ledge may be able to open due to the heat from light reflecting off stones on the ground.
Today the tree is much less common in New England. A lack of wildfires has been compounded by threats like the southern pine beetle.
But vestiges of pitch pine's past remain in our names.
"That's why we have Tarn Kiln Road and Voluntown and Tar Barrel hill in North Stonington," Gluck said.
Or spots like Candlewood Mountain in New Milford. Which, Gluck said is covered with thousands of white pines, but, today, only has about 2 pitch pines left.
Connecticut's Charcoal Has Stories to Tell, if You Know Where to Look
By Patrick Skahill • Nov 14, 2016
Collection of Cornwall Historical Society, Cornwall, CT
Although charcoal is now sold at your local supermarket, the unassuming briquette's story wasn't always confined to American grills and backyards. For a long time, charcoal was the lifeblood of Connecticut's iron industry -- fueling furnaces creating everything from weapons of war to wheels that rolled across the country.


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Corporate governance reforms in Japan
Corporate governance reforms are one of the key components of Abenomics, to improve economic growth in Japan
Corporate governance reforms in Japan: talk at the OAG House in Tokyo, Wednesday 20 September 2017, 18:30-20:00
Wednesday 20 September 2017, 18:30-20:00
Talk: Gerhard Fasol: "Corporate Governance Reformen in Japan: Erfahrungen als Aufsichtsratsdirektor einer japanischen Firmengruppe"
Free of charge. No registration necessary. Everyone welcome.
Location: OAG Haus, Minato-ku Akasaka 7-5-56, 107-0052 Tokyo-to
Details: http://oag.jp/events/gerhard-fasol-corporate-governance-reformen-in-japan/
The wealth and welfare of everyone living in Japan is based on the success of Japanese companies, how well companies are managed, and how managers are encouraged, supported and controlled.
Therefore corporate governance reforms are an important part of the "Abenomics" economic reform program. Many think that the corporate governance reforms of recent years have been the most successful part of Abenomics, and the former Chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange even said that these reforms happened much faster than he had thought.
Corporate governance mainly refers to the responsibilities of Board Directors who take part in the major decision making of every company, who supervise and support the executive management including the CEO/President of the company, and this make essential contributions to the success of companies.
Another aspect of corporate governance is the "stewardship code", which refers to the influence of investors on company's executive management.
Understanding decision making and the control of management, the way Japanese companies reach decisions and how this decision making is supervised, is essential knowledge for everyone who works to persuade Japanese corporations to take desired decisions, e.g. to achieve sales, partnerships, investments, or even Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), who invests in Japanese corporations. Employees should also understand how the companies they work for are run.
This talk will explain the major components and fundamentals of corporate governance and its reforms in Japan based on several years of practical hands-on experience on the Board of Directors and on the Supervisory & Audit Committee of a stock market listed Japanese corporation.
Speaker: Gerhard Fasol
Gerhard Fasol graduated with a PhD in Physics from Cambridge University and Trinity College. He worked as research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart on semiconductor and solid state physics research. He was tenured Faculty in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, and he was Research Fellow, then Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences at Trinity College Cambridge. He was Manager of the Hitachi Research Laboratory in Cambridge, Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at Tokyo University, and is founder of the advisory firm Eurotechnology Japan. He is Board Director of GMO Cloud KK, and since April 2017 he is Visiting Professor at the University of Kyushu.
Gerhard Fasol: Corporate governance reforms in Japan: hands-on insights as Board Director of a Japanese group
Copyright (c) 2017 by Eurotechnology Japan. All Rights Reserved.
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A sleek metal shingle product designed for durability and curb appeal, Boral Steel's Cottage Shingle creates a strong, weather-tight, environmentally-friendly metal and stone roof that protects the home for many decades. The material uses contrasting stone chip colors to provide a multi-blend (HD) accent to suit almost any architecture. Each panel effectively incorporates an industry first – offset, multi-grooved, deep weather, side-lap with Hi-Lo panel surfaces that create the classic cottage look.
The technical innovation and quality of the product begins with a computerized stone-chip grading and blending process. Boral uses a finer, higher quality, non-oiled natural granite stone chip that provides one of the tightest industry stone-coating matrixes available. Colors are either solid or flashed to provide a variegated non-patterned appearance.
Boral Cottage Shingle roofing is available in a variety of colors including Shadow Wood, Walnut, Weathered Timber, Birch, Cedar and Sage Green.
According to the manufacturer, Boral Steel is highly corrosion resistant AZ-50 Galvalume steel coated with specially prepared and treated with proprietary primer to enhance acrylic adhesion. Boral Basecoat is a proprietary special formulation developed by the world's largest resin supplier to promote long-life performance in all climates.
The product is Title 24 compliant, offers A Class A Fire Rating, and is made from up to 50 percent recycled material. The lightweight product ideal for both new construction and retrofits.
For more information, visit www.boralamerica.com/roofing.


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Bibi Reisdorf at the Global AI & Inclusion Symposium in Rio de Janeiro
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Global symposium on AI & Inclusion in beautiful Rio de Janeiro
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Last week, I had the immense pleasure of participating in the Global AI & Inclusion Symposium at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Global Network of Internet & Society Centers (NoC) invited a wide range of stakeholders toRio during November 8-10, 2017. Spearheaded and organized by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Institute of Technology and Society in Rio, the symposium brought together researchers, industry, NGOs, and other entities to discuss issues around inclusion and artificial intelligence (AI).
One of the key aspects of this symposium was the inclusion of perspectives fromnot only a wide range of areas and disciplines, but also from all regions across the globe. Each region was represented—however, more inclusion of underrepresented areas was noted as an area of action for future activities, as the discourse still saw a larger number of perspectives from Western backgrounds. As an example, although China is one of the key players regarding AI, only a small number of representatives were from China or provided a background on AI and inclusion in China.
The symposium was jam-packed with high-caliber talks, discussions, and activities. The symposium program can be found here. Whereas the first day focused on creating a common understanding of AI and inclusion as concepts and frameworks, the second day identified opportunities, challenges, and possible approaches and solutions to increase inclusion in AI, and the third day focused on areas for future research, education and interface building.
All speakers provided impressive background and knowledge on AI and inclusion to a multidisciplinary and multifaceted audience, which created a steep learning curve for me as a social scientist with (previously) little background in the technologies behind AI. However, the design of the symposium talks and activities facilitated a deep understanding of the issues around AI and inclusion for individuals from any disciplinary background.
Key issues in AI and inclusion
Our cluster group's suggestion on how to escape the AI Wild West and move toward unbiased (or less biased at least) AI
One of the key issues that stood out at this symposium is the bias and the exclusionary nature of AI through the way that AI is created and trained. For example, algorithms, which are an inherent part of AI, that are created through training datasets are only as good as those datasets. This means, if a training dataset—created by a human—is biased, the algorithm will be biased too. This became apparent quickly through a variety of examples, that included work from Desabafo Social, a non-profit that promotes social justice and youth participation in Brazil, which showed videos that revealed racist bias in search algorithms for a variety of photo sharing pages. An impressive example of their enlightening videos can be found here.
These issues of bias and exclusion at the creation stage do not just include race as a factor, but any underrepresented group. For example, the technology created for airport security prompts the security agents to choose whether a person is male or female before entering the millimeter wave scanner. Based on training datasets of typical male and female bodies, the scanner then decides whether there could be any objects hidden on those bodies. However, this AI technology (Automatic Target Recognition, ATR) only differentiates two genders, meaning that anyone who does not fall into these two categories will be marked as suspicious and will have to go through a secondary security hand search.
Another striking takeaway from the conference was the missing legal definition of AI and the absence of global standards in AI. For example, AI accuracy in face recognition is very high for white males, but low for black females. A good practice standard, for example a minimum accuracy requirement, does not currently exist, although a number of entities, such as the Mozilla Foundation, are aiming to create such standards as a "fair AI" badge—similar to the fair-trade badge—to remedy these issues.
Another area of concern in AI is privacy and surveillance, as AI relies on copious amounts of data to learn and improve its algorithms. However, users are often unsure of when, where, and how their data are collected and used for which purposes. Although some regulations have been passed to protect users' privacy, these regulations are not global, and different regions apply different laws and regulations. Accordingly, there were calls for—first of all—a global legal definition of AI, which
The Berkman Klein and ITS Rio team who organized the symposium
would provide the basis for creating global regulations on inclusion, privacy, and other areas affected by AI. Again, the Mozilla Foundation made a number of suggestions on "fair AI" and they provide a "holiday buyer's guide" on technology that will "snoop" on you—i.e., presents that you should probably not give to your loved ones… unless you'd like them to be snooped on…
Future Event on AI, bias, and inclusion at the Quello Center
Overall, the symposium left me personally with more questions than answers, but I am consoled by the fact that every single participant I spoke with felt invigorated and motivated to do something to move forward the cause of increasing inclusion in AI. For one, we all agreed to help make these issues a public conversation topic—this blog post is only the start. At the Quello Center, I will be organizing a discussion roundtable concerning issues around artificial intelligence, bias, and social exclusion, that will delve deeper into these issues based on the work that is happening here at MSU. Watch this space for a time and date during the spring semester 2018.
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Generative Music System artefatto::cinque #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Generative music system running on a raspberry pi controlling some micro televisions by powering them on/off with relays.
Both the noise of the televisions and the clicks of the relays were used as musical and visual element, together with some synthesized sound amplified by a cheap speaker. The composition used both probabilistic beats and markov-chains generated melodies, each cycle lasting about 7 minutes.


The purpose of this report was to assess the effects of declining membership on Masonic Buildings throughout the Connecticut River Valley. The Masons are an international philanthropic fraternal organization which has over 31 lodges or groups which meet at 24 sites in our study area. In Massachusetts, Masonic membership has declined almost 30% in the last ten years.
This report explores the history and physical characteristics of Ware, Massachusetts. It then delves into the existing recreation facilities currently in Ware. Finally, it identifies a list of issues and presents some long-term goals that touch on all forms of recreation including both indoor and passive recreational opportunities available within Ware.
This report provided a cross-section of mill buildings in the Springfield, Massachusetts area. These are representative in terms of location, past and present use and surrounding activities. The analysis of the mill buildings provides an inventory of each site, and when taken together, give an overall picture of the existing condition and potential of mill buildings.
The goal of this report was to provide guidance to the Planning Board and Board of Selectmen, among other government entities, of Whatley, Massachusetts, in developing local regulations and ordinances.
This report takes a look at the global market for green technology then focuses in on the six states that make up New England. It then takes a brief look at the history and the driving forces of the green technology In New England. Finally it compiles a list of foundations that meet the criteria set forth by the Center for Green Technology.
The purpose of this report was to determine the suitability for the reuse of six turn-of-the-century industrial mills in Easthampton, Massachusetts. The mills, clustered in the center of town, are an important historic and architectural resource, providing a visual link with Easthampton's industrial heritage.
The purpose of this studio project is to inventory the resources and create a preliminary marketing strategy for the Town of Berre. A community wide survey was to be designed to gain insights on the perspectives and strengths of the community, but it was decided that citizen feeling could be more effectively and practically determined through focus groups.


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Q: Fail OmniSharp MSBuild ProjectManager Note: I already search other similar question related to OmniSharp issue, could not find proper solution.Intellisense of vs code c# not working. I uninstall the c# extension and install again but it can not resolve my issue.I also install previous version of csharp 1.15.2 but it does not work. I attach my log info

My dotnet --info is as follow

.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version:   3.0.100
 Commit:    04339c3a26

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.18362
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\3.0.100\

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 3.0.0
  Commit:  7d57652f33

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  1.1.14 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  3.0.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 1.0.16 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 1.1.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.13 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

My log is as follow

Starting OmniSharp server at 10/12/2019, 8:51:54 am
    Target: e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula\Nebula.sln

OmniSharp server started.
    Path: C:\Users\aliimran.MREMIND\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.csharp-1.21.8\.omnisharp\1.34.8\OmniSharp.exe
    PID: 17160

[info]: OmniSharp.Stdio.Host
        Starting OmniSharp on Windows 6.2.9200.0 (x64)
[info]: OmniSharp.Services.DotNetCliService
        DotNetPath set to dotnet
[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator
        Located 2 MSBuild instance(s)
            1: Visual Studio Community 2019 16.3.29411.108 - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin"
            2: StandAlone 16.3 - "C:\Users\aliimran.MREMIND\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.csharp-1.21.8\.omnisharp\1.34.8\.msbuild\Current\Bin"
[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator
        Registered MSBuild instance: Visual Studio Community 2019 16.3.29411.108 - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin"
[info]: OmniSharp.Cake.CakeProjectSystem
        Detecting Cake files in 'e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula'.
[info]: OmniSharp.Cake.CakeProjectSystem
        Could not find any Cake files
[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectSystem
        Detecting projects in 'e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula\Nebula.sln'.
[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager
        Queue project update for 'e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula\Nebula.csproj'
[info]: OmniSharp.Script.ScriptProjectSystem
        Detecting CSX files in 'e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula'.
[info]: OmniSharp.Script.ScriptProjectSystem
        Could not find any CSX files
[info]: OmniSharp.WorkspaceInitializer
        Invoking Workspace Options Provider: OmniSharp.Roslyn.CSharp.Services.CSharpFormattingWorkspaceOptionsProvider, Order: 0
[info]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager
        Loading project: e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula\Nebula.csproj
[info]: OmniSharp.WorkspaceInitializer
        Invoking Workspace Options Provider: OmniSharp.Roslyn.CSharp.Services.RenameWorkspaceOptionsProvider, Order: 100
[info]: OmniSharp.WorkspaceInitializer
        Invoking Workspace Options Provider: OmniSharp.Roslyn.CSharp.Services.EditorConfigWorkspaceOptionsProvider, Order: 200
[info]: OmniSharp.WorkspaceInitializer
        Configuration finished.
[info]: OmniSharp.Stdio.Host
        Omnisharp server running using Stdio at location 'e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula' on host 18328.
[warn]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager
        Failed to load project file 'e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula\Nebula.csproj'.
e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula\Nebula.csproj(1,1)
Microsoft.Build.Exceptions.InvalidProjectFileException: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\Microsoft.Common.targets
   at Microsoft.Build.Shared.ProjectErrorUtilities.ThrowInvalidProject(String errorSubCategoryResourceName, IElementLocation elementLocation, String resourceName, Object[] args)
   at Microsoft.Build.Shared.ProjectErrorUtilities.ThrowInvalidProject[T1](IElementLocation elementLocation, String resourceName, T1 arg0)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.ExpandAndLoadImportsFromUnescapedImportExpression(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement, String unescapedExpression, Boolean throwOnFileNotExistsError, List`1& imports)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.ExpandAndLoadImportsFromUnescapedImportExpressionConditioned(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement, List`1& projects, SdkResult& sdkResult, Boolean throwOnFileNotExistsError)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.ExpandAndLoadImports(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement, SdkResult& sdkResult)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.EvaluateImportElement(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.PerformDepthFirstPass(ProjectRootElement currentProjectOrImport)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.EvaluateImportElement(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.PerformDepthFirstPass(ProjectRootElement currentProjectOrImport)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.EvaluateImportElement(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.PerformDepthFirstPass(ProjectRootElement currentProjectOrImport)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.EvaluateImportElement(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.PerformDepthFirstPass(ProjectRootElement currentProjectOrImport)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.EvaluateImportElement(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.PerformDepthFirstPass(ProjectRootElement currentProjectOrImport)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.EvaluateImportElement(String directoryOfImportingFile, ProjectImportElement importElement)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.PerformDepthFirstPass(ProjectRootElement currentProjectOrImport)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Evaluator`4.Evaluate(ILoggingService loggingService, BuildEventContext buildEventContext)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project.Reevaluate(ILoggingService loggingServiceForEvaluation, ProjectLoadSettings loadSettings, EvaluationContext evaluationContext)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project.ReevaluateIfNecessary(ILoggingService loggingServiceForEvaluation, ProjectLoadSettings loadSettings, EvaluationContext evaluationContext)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project.Initialize(IDictionary`2 globalProperties, String toolsVersion, String subToolsetVersion, ProjectLoadSettings loadSettings, EvaluationContext evaluationContext)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project..ctor(String projectFile, IDictionary`2 globalProperties, String toolsVersion, String subToolsetVersion, ProjectCollection projectCollection, ProjectLoadSettings loadSettings, EvaluationContext evaluationContext)
   at Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.ProjectCollection.LoadProject(String fileName, IDictionary`2 globalProperties, String toolsVersion)
   at OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectLoader.EvaluateProjectFileCore(String filePath) in D:\a\1\s\src\OmniSharp.MSBuild\ProjectLoader.cs:line 129
   at OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectLoader.BuildProject(String filePath) in D:\a\1\s\src\OmniSharp.MSBuild\ProjectLoader.cs:line 72
   at OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectFile.ProjectFileInfo.Load(String filePath, ProjectIdInfo projectIdInfo, ProjectLoader loader) in D:\a\1\s\src\OmniSharp.MSBuild\ProjectFile\ProjectFileInfo.cs:line 98
   at OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager.LoadOrReloadProject(String projectFilePath, Func`1 loader) in D:\a\1\s\src\OmniSharp.MSBuild\ProjectManager.cs:line 308

[fail]: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager
        Attempted to update project that is not loaded: e:\Nebula Materials\Nebula\Nebula.csproj

A: In my case i have two dotnet core SDK. One form Visual studio 2019 and one from vs code. so first i uninstall the SDK from vs code and update my visual studio. This can resolve my issue.

Steps

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*check single version of SDK install on your machine  SDK or Visual

*studio update to latest version

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Sushi is always a good option for eating out; it's also fun to make at home and I like to change things up like in these spicy shrimp sushi stacks. This is a really simple change up on sushi where all of the flavours of a sushi roll are served in a stack, in this case a spicy shrimp sushi with avocado and cucumbers. This recipe starts off with sushi rice which is a short grained rice, which when cooked gets sticky, and it's seasoned with a touch of vinegar, sugar and salt after cooking. The next layer is a cool and creamy avocado and cucumber layer with diced avocado and cucumbers seasoned with lime juice and salt. The final layer is the spicy shrimp with large chunks of cooked, diced shrimp mixed up with mayo and sriracha chili sauce.
The trick to stacking these nicely is to use a circular tube where you place one layer in and pat it down before placing the next layer in. You can buy circular cookie cutter like cylinders specifically designed for this or you could just wing it like I do and use an empty tin can (like a soup can) where you remove the top and bottom. I also like to use a 1 cup measuring cup where I lightly oil it, push each layer down into it and then flip it onto the plate before sliding the cup off. I like to make these with cooked shrimp but feel free to replace it with raw tuna or salmon, etc. This spicy shrimp sushi stacks is sure to impress at you next get-together!
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The traffic and crossing of vehicles on Hafaz square in Karaj lack the necessary safeties, particularly the entrance into the Hafez Square from Char-Hesar (the continuation of Chaloos- Karaj path) is so risky. In order to solve this problem and secure Char-Hesar crossing and Shahid Modarres Boulevard (Khalaj Abad), construction of a non-coplanar bridge over this boulevard was put on the agenda. Hafez Bridge, Technical buildings and the intersection of paths at the end of Modarres Boulevard and the intersection of line 4 of Hesar with Shahid Modarres Boulevard put into operation.


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Tag Archives: temp workers
How Are Companies Impacted by Labor Shortages?
By Brian Sharp
Food and beverage manufacturers are seeing the effects of the coronavirus when it spreads through their workforce. Recently, there have been multiple closures of facilities operated by meat processors, including Smithfield Foods and Tyson Foods as COVID-19 has infected hundreds of workers.
The backdrop of stressful operations and work: Employees now face increased questions before entering plants and feelings of isolation as lunches and breaks are now solo activities due to social distancing. All of these stressors are compounded when you think about what we're asking them to do: Go into work and keep food on the grocery store shelves. This is a completely new way to operate, and it has a very real emotional effect on our workers.
We've received reports from customers where management is getting out of the back office and putting on hairnets to work the production line. The shortage of workers is a very real problem, and our customers are rising to the challenge. Plus, managing this overall labor shortage while doing more safety and sanitation checks than ever before to make sure transmission risks are eliminated is putting stress on everyone working in plants. It's never been harder to work in the food industry.
In response to California Governor Gavin Newsom's actions related to the pandemic, we stand behind any effort that is taken to accommodate the needs of these vital, valuable workers, including the executive order to provide supplemental paid sick leave. Such actions, both locally here in California and at the federal level, are critical to elevating the safety of our food manufacturing and distribution workers. Some heroes wear hairnets.
Temp Workers and Lack of Training Protocols
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the availability of skilled workers in food facilities. Through all the layoffs stemming from the economic standstill, food manufacturers and grocery workers are reporting increases in hiring to help keep up with demand—and to mitigate the effects of sick employees going on quarantine for two weeks. For instance, Albertson's, a large food grocery chain store, reported that it was hiring for 2,000 positions.
But hiring temporary workers is only half the battle. The task of training people who may have never worked in grocery or food manufacturing has become more critical in the face of new demands on sanitation and social distancing. With these measures in place, it's no longer a case of a new employee showing up for work and shadowing another employee or supervisor. Technology can close the gap, especially in food production where the regulations and safety standards require strict adherence to processes. For example, software can facilitate shorter employee training in the areas of quality policies and good documentation practices.
Same Volume with Fewer Workers
We are working closely with customers and partners to cope with new guidelines for social distancing inside food facilities, providing the capability to do remote audits as visitor restrictions have increased. Our software is also being used to screen food manufacturing workers for symptoms of COVID-19 before shift work starts to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus to other essential workers.
In response to increased needs from customers, we have developed three solutions to address the impact of COVID-19. These solutions, which include a personnel screener, changeover manager and remote supplier auditor, can help food and beverage manufacturers efficiently manage physical distancing measures, symptom screening, and travel restrictions.
It can't be stressed enough: The people who carry out food safety protocols are doing more checks and using more labor time to conform to regulations and guidelines for COVID-19. And, adhering to the systems, regulations and processes used to promote safe, high-quality products (in the same or even higher volumes) remains as crucial as ever. Simplifying these processes by leveraging software has been shown to cut 8 to12 hours of labor per day for a single facility. This is critical at a time when even one person being sick can cause lower throughput.
Plus, this isn't like manufacturing a car where a line will be built to produce hundreds of thousands of cars over a two- to three-year period. Food manufacturers must often change a line over to produce a different flavor, package type or food type altogether, in as little time as possible to keep production going. Robots and automation can help, but in a crisis like this where immediate productivity gains are needed, software can make the much-needed difference.


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By Jim Fisher
Oct. 22, 2019, 10 p.m.
The 360-degree GoPro Max camera promises an easier, better streamlined workflow than last year's Fusion, but has more niche appeal than the affordable Hero8 Black.
GoPro's second-generation 360-degree action camera, the Max ($499.99), is a lot friendlier to use than its first effort, last year's Fusion. You don't have to fiddle with dual memory cards, the software tools to work with 360 footage are a lot better now, and the camera has a touch screen so you can more easily adjust settings. It costs a bit more than our favorite action camera, the GoPro Hero8 Black, but is worth considering if you're intrigued by 360-degree capture and editing.
A Smaller Fusion
The Max takes its basic design cues from the Fusion. It has the same matte gray finish with a rubberized exterior, built to withstand drops and go underwater without the need for an external housing. But it's smaller all around, and adds a color touch screen so you can preview the frame from either of its lenses, and adjust settings via touch.
The camera measures 2.7 by 2.5 by 1.6 inches (HWD), weighs 5.8 ounces, and is waterproof to 16 feet. It ships with both opaque lens caps and clear dome protectors, as well as a mounting foot and a pair of adhesive mounts.
SEE ALSO: GoPro Hero8 Black
Mounting clips are integral to the design, and fold into the bottom for storage. You can mount the Max on a tripod, like GoPro's Shorty (which doubles as a selfie stick), which is useful if you're trying to get a level shot on uneven ground. If you have access to a flat surface, but no tripod handy, the Max can sit upright on its own.
The camera sports six internal microphones, and my initial test clips show them to be of very high quality. GoPro promises that they're on par with shotgun mics in terms of directionality. They did a good job isolating my voice, while still capturing the ambient sounds of nature, but I've not yet had a chance to try recording clips under heavy wind or in a more crowded urban environment.
Video is recorded to a single microSD card, a welcome move away from the dual cards used by the Fusion. The card slot is accessible via the removable side door. The door also covers the USB-C port, which is used for data transfer (at up to 480Mbps) and charging. The battery is good for about 85 minutes of 360-degree recording, or 105 minutes of single-lens, 1080p (16:9) or 1440p (4:3) video.
Wireless transfer is included as well. The Max has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, so you can opt for a mobile workflow with the GoPro app, a free download for Android or iOS. I worked with a beta version of the iOS app to reframe 360-degree footage on my iPad Pro. The only real downside is transfer time, which is on the slow side—footage transfers a little bit faster than real time, so expect each minute of video to take anywhere from 45 seconds to a minute to copy to your device.
What to Do With 360-Degree Video
If you're buying the Max, it should be with the intention of using its 360-degree capture capabilities. That doesn't mean you'll use it to push video to VR experiences (though you can). Instead, GoPro includes software tools with the Max to convert the 360-degree video, captured at 5.6K quality, into flat video, with your choice of aspect ratio—16:9, 1:1, 4:3, or 9:16. When extracting 16:9 video, you end up with 1080p footage. How sharp the video looks depends on your angle of view—zooming in too far certainly softens things—but it looks quite good when you stick to a wider angle.
You can convert 360-degree video into traditional, flat footage using touch tools if you opt to use GoPro's smartphone and tablet software. The interface is definitely intuitive. You can use your devices's accelerometer to tilt the angle of the video on screen, or pinch to zoom in or out and swipe the screen to set the angle of view.
This gives you freedom to highlight different parts of your footage, play around with fun projections like the spherical Little Planet view, and the like. Thanks to the use of keyframe animation, virtual camera movements and transitions are smooth and even.
Keyframes are also quite intuitive—add one to set your starting frame and another farther down your editing timeline to get to the frame you want to transition to. The longer apart you set them, the slower the transition, and vice versa. If you want to hold a particular shot between transitions, it's simply a matter of switching the transition type to a jump cut.
Those are just the basics. You'll get them down with a little bit of use. There's also desktop software available. I found it a little less easy to play with views using my laptop's trackpad versus the iPad screen, but aside from some fumbling with gestures and keyboard combinations, it just about matches the tablet experience.
In addition to video, the Max can record time-lapse video using one or both lenses, as well as images. The ultra-wide angle of view adds a panoramic image mode, which captures an ultra-wide angle. Because it's done with a single exposure, it's useful for capturing moving subjects, unlike smartphone panoramic capture, which relies on multi-frame stitching.
It's a Single-Lens Camera Too
The Max is limited to 24 or 30fps when using both of its lenses at launch. But many who are used to using action cameras prefer a quicker frame rate, whether it be to better capture fast motion or for some flexibility for slow-motion playback. The Hero8 Black can push to 240fps at 1080p quality.
The Max doesn't net as high a frame rate when using a single lens, but you can push it to 60fps. (You still get access to 24 and 30fps, if you prefer.) At its widest angle of view, it matches a 13mm full-frame lens, wider than you can get with the Hero8 Black.
For less-extreme coverage, the camera also has a 16mm wide-angle, a 19mm wide linear that removes distortion, and a 27mm angle of view that's close to the view of a smartphone's main lens. All modes support very strong stabilization with horizon leveling—the camera captures an incredible amount of information outside of the frame, with some overlap, so there's plenty of information to use to keep video stable and level.
I'm disappointed that GoPro doesn't include the option to make your own video presets with the Max, as it does with the Hero8. You can edit settings at any time via the touch interface, but it would be nice to be able to save a few different recipes for different types of clips.
Capture Everything
GoPro took its time before jumping into the 360-degree camera space. It's a strategy that, I think, worked to its benefit. While competitors made mistakes, and consumers fiddled with and threw away plenty of low-quality 360-degree add-on modules for smartphones, GoPro watched what tools others—particularly Insta360 with its One, and later Rylo—were including in software.
The Max's touch interface allows you to easily switch between different capture modes, something that's been missing from competitors. Audio sounds quite good in our initial testing, which adds some appeal to it as a vlogging camera. And while it's not built to go deep under water, you can get certainly take it snorkeling.
The software interface is still in beta, but I was happy with what I was able to make in a few minutes of tapping and swiping away in the GoPro app on an iPad Pro. If you use other GoPros in your work, you'll be happy to know you can cut the Max footage into your QuikStories, though you will have to reframe spherical footage first.
We've only had a short amount of time with the GoPro Max, so we're going to hold off on giving it a rating at this time. For now, if you're considering the Max against other 360-degree cameras, the Rylo and Insta360 One X are its closest rivals in price and functionality. If you're simply looking at action cameras, the Hero8 Black will net higher-quality 4K video for $100 less, but it won't let you capture 360-degree footage.
Bottom Line: The 360-degree GoPro Max camera promises an easier, more streamlined workflow than last year's Fusion, but has more niche appeal than the more affordable Hero8 Black.
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Study shows Oakland police less respectful toward black motorists
Sarah Hoenicke on September 27, 2017
In a study published this summer, researchers found that Oakland police officers were significantly less likely to use respectful language when talking to black motorists, and were more likely to speak respectfully to white drivers.
The researchers analyzed transcribed dialogue from footage taken by Oakland police using body cameras. Police officers wear these cameras, which record video of their interactions during traffic stops and other policing activities. The study "tells us about the everyday encounters people have [with] the police, and how those differ for Black and White citizens," wrote Nick Camp, one of the researchers, in an email.
"To date we've been mostly looking at what's been reported by the police in terms of their interactions with civilians," said Jack Glaser, a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley who is familiar with the study, "and now we've got some more realistic data based on their actual conversations."
The 981 encounters scrutinized for this study took place during April, 2014, in Oakland, and involved black and white motorists. The researchers, from Stanford University's linguistics, psychology, and computer science departments, wanted to see if there was a discernible difference in the level of respect with which officers spoke to the people they pulled over, based on the motorists' race.
To analyze the footage systematically, the researchers first took a small portion of the 36,738 "usable officer utterances" (gleaned from 183 hours of footage), and had "raters" participating in the study rank them on several "dimensions of respect." The researchers then generated a scale of which words and phrases were considered most respectful and which least respectful. These ranged from reassuring the motorist, which the raters associated highly with respectful language, to the officer telling the driver to put their hands on the wheel, which registered as disrespectful with raters.
Based on these participants' ratings, the researchers then built a model that they could use to rate the rest of the transcribed interactions. This "computational linguistic model" wrote Rob Voigt, one of the researchers, in an email, "is fundamentally a computer program we wrote that uses statistics about the human judgments of respect." This model, he continued, could "automatically estimate the level of respect in any officer utterance."
The model allowed the researchers to get "estimated ratings for every officer utterance in every interaction in our dataset, which would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to get by hand," Voigt wrote.
The researchers then used their model to analyze the remainder of their data—all 36,738 "usable officer utterances." They searched the police-motorist interactions for language associated with respect, such as "apologizing, gratitude, and expressions of concern for citizen safety," they wrote.
In a paper published in June in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the researchers posed their central question: "Controlling for contextual factors of the interaction, officers' language more respectful when speaking to white as opposed to black community members?"
Yes, they concluded. Even when taking into account the motorist's race, age, and gender; the officer's race; whether a search was conducted; and whether the stop ended in warning, citation, or arrest, the researchers still found that the interactions of officers with white motorists were more respectful.
"Police officers speak significantly less respectfully to black than to white community members in everyday traffic stops," they concluded.
Specifically, the researchers wrote, "White community members are 57 percent more likely to hear an officer say one of the most respectful utterances in our dataset, whereas black community members are 61 percent more likely to hear an officer say one of the least respectful utterances in our dataset."
Interactions also rated as more respectful when they involved officers speaking to older motorists, and when citations were given. But during stops where a search was conducted, officers were rated as less respectful, they concluded.
Stops of black drivers were more likely to involve a search and/or arrest than stops of white drivers. That said, police officers' interactions with black people "tend to be more fraught," the researchers wrote, "even when no arrest is made and no use of force occurs."
The researchers concluded that the officer's race, the geographic location of the stop, the crime rate in the area of the stop, and the density of businesses in the area of the stop "did not contribute a significant effect." They also found that the severity of the motorist's offense couldn't be used to predict the level of respect an officer would display, they wrote.
Civil rights advocates and people who study policing say this study is useful because having statistical evidence of bias may convince lawmakers and other powerful people that change is needed. "We have to look at policing patterns, where and what kinds of enforcement is happening in communities of color," said Elisa Della-Piana, legal director for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, a group of legal experts working to advance racial, economic, and immigrant justice for oppressed groups throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Della-Piana said there should be less policing of communities of color, and that the number of what she called "the low-level interactions," such as detentions, stops-and-frisks, and traffic stops, especially needs to be reduced because the frequency of those interactions erodes trust between community members and law enforcement.
Before this study, everyday interactions between the police and community members they serve couldn't be systematically measured, the researchers noted. But as Voight pointed out, "Thousands of hours of body camera footage are collected daily around the country, far more than could ever be analyzed by hand."
As the researchers note at the beginning of their paper, previously body-camera footage had mostly been studied to help determine whether a police officer involved in a violent encounter— usually with a black person—was guilty of committing a crime.
The Stanford study used footage that's much more commonplace—that taken during routine traffic stops. "By best estimates, more than one quarter of the public," over the age of 16, the authors wrote, "comes into contact with the police during the course of a year, most frequently as the result of a police-initiated traffic stop."
When reached for comment on the study, Oakland Police Department Public Information Officer Johnna Watson said that Oakland officers continue to work with the Stanford researchers, and that she was unable to "accommodate this request at this time."
Dr. Prince White, policy director at Oakland's Urban Peace Movement, an Oakland group working to change the community conditions that lead to experiences of violence and mass incarceration for people of color, said the study "rung true" for him. "This is something we already know. It's something I know, as being a black man," he said. "I've lived in California and been stopped by the police more times than I could ever count."
The study shows " that there's a lot of discretion, and a lot of power, in the hands of the police department, in how they treat the community," he said.
"Simple interactions, whether or not somebody's saying 'sir' or 'ma'am' to you, versus 'bro' and 'dude'—those are different forms of communication," White said. "And this is what this really verifies. Something that I say quite often, as a communications person, is that, when you open up the space for communication, people put themselves in it."
"The amount of disrespect that police show to people of color, and communities of color, as compared to white people—it's long been true that this is a problem, that widespread disrespect and bias is a problem," said Della-Piana.
Della-Piana said that it's important to study racial differences in policing because, "it is often true that even when something had been true for a long time, that a study can bring the attention of lawmakers. So, it is one tool, one way to gather the kind of support that's needed to change long-held practices."
Della-Piana thinks the study "will likely be cited in potential court cases, for judges to have a better understanding."
Glaser, the professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, stressed that he hopes the study doesn't encourage police officers to outwardly be more respectful while still disproportionately stopping and arresting people of color. "We don't want a situation where cops are just being really friendly and respectful to people, but they're still discriminating, and causing these disparate outcomes," he said. "You need both: You need better interactions, and fairer interactions."
Black people "are subjected to more contact with police than they should be, and as a consequence, they are subjected to more of the negative effects of that," said Glaser. "It's very destructive to the social fabric, and it needs to be addressed."
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Have your say on East Lancashire's Intensive Home Support Service
NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is seeking the views of people who use, or have used the East Lancashire Intensive Home Support Service (IHSS).
IHSS looks after people over 18 years of age within their own home and is provided by a team of nurses, therapists, and social care staff. It aims to prevent a hospital admission where possible for people who have a sudden deterioration/change in health. When appropriate, the service supports patients for a short period of time following discharge from hospital. The service works alongside other community health and social care services to agree ongoing care plans as required. The service is available 8.00am to 10.00pm, 7 days per week.
East Lancashire CCG is responsible for commissioning (buying) health care services on behalf of local people and it is reviewing the service as part of its ongoing work to ensure that it is meeting the needs of patients who use it. The CCG commissions East Lancashire Hospital Trust (ELHT) to deliver the Intensive Home Support Service, to patients living in East Lancashire.
Dr Santhosh Davis, local GP and Integrated Care Lead at the CCG said:
"Our overarching aim is to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and the quality of care for our population. We have a unique opportunity, in undertaking service reviews to do so in partnership with patients and the public. By listening to people's views about the Intensive Home Support Service we can use this information to develop and improve the service so that it really meets the needs of patients.
"We are asking people, about their experiences and views of this service as part of a wider stakeholder engagement campaign called 'Your Services, Your Say'."
People who have used this service (as a patient or carer), or with any experience of the service, for example as a health or social care professional are encouraged to submit their views on the following three questions:
What do you like about the service?
What, if anything could we do better?
Is there anything else you would like to tell us about the service?
Feedback can be submitted via any of the following methods:
Online survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/EastLancsIHSS
Writing: Freepost NHS EAST LANCASHIRE CCG
The survey will commence from 26th June 2019 for a period of four weeks.
Survey questionnaires are available online and paper copies will also be available via the Intensive Home Support Service and GP practices in East Lancashire.


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The **ItemDataBound** event occurs for each new item that is added to the **Items** collection of the dropdownlist when it is bound. This event only occurs if the items are loaded from a data source (the **DataSource** or **DataSourceID** property is set).

For each item that is added from a data source, the following events occur:

1. A new item is created and added to the Items collection.

2. The **Text** and **Value** properties of the item are set, based on the data.

3. The **ItemDataBound** event occurs.

The **ItemDataBound** event handler receives two arguments:

1. The **RadDropDownList** that is loading items. This argument is of type object, but can be cast to the **RadDropDownList** type.

2. An EventArgs object. This object has an **Item** property, which provides access to the item that was just bound. This item, in turn, has a **DataItem** property, which lets you access the item in the data source to which the **RadDropDownListItem** is being bound.

Use the **ItemDataBound** event handler to make changes to items as they are bound to the data. For example, you can set custom attributes based on other fields in the DataItem:

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<telerik:RadDropDownList ID="RadDropDownList1"
	 runat="server"
	 AutoPostBack="true"
	 OnItemDataBound="RadDropDownList1_ItemDataBound">
</telerik:RadDropDownList>
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protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
	for (int i = 0; i < RadDropDownList1.Items.Count; i++)
	{
		RadDropDownList1.Items[i].DataBind();
	}
}

protected void RadDropDownList1_ItemDataBound(object sender, DropDownListItemEventArgs e)
{
	DataRowView dataItem = (DataRowView)e.Item.DataItem;
	e.Item.Attributes["ImagePath"] = dataItem["ImagePath"].ToString();
	e.Item.Attributes["Description"] = dataItem["Description"].ToString();
}
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Protected Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
	For i As Integer = 0 To RadDropDownList1.Items.Count - 1
		RadDropDownList1.Items(i).DataBind()
	Next
End Sub

Protected Sub RadDropDownList1_ItemDataBound(sender As Object, e As DropDownListItemEventArgs)
	Dim dataItem As DataRowView = DirectCast(e.Item.DataItem, DataRowView)
	e.Item.Attributes("ImagePath") = dataItem("ImagePath").ToString()
	e.Item.Attributes("Description") = dataItem("Description").ToString()
End Sub
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Sullivan's third series, Legends of the First Empire, set in the distant past of Elan, explores the true history of the mythical world includes Age of Myth (2016), Age of Swords (2017), Age of War (2018), Age of Legend (2019), Age of Death (2020), and Age of Empyre (2020). The first volume of The Rise and Fall, Nolyn premiered in 2021.
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The Marival Group, a family-owned company that started over 30 years ago, has set a new precedent in the hospitality industry. With unparalleled services and exuberant grounds that will make your jaw drop, the Marival Group welcomes its newest all-inclusive hotel to their roster: Marival Armony Luxury Resort. Located in
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What is Web scraping, Web harvesting, or Web data extraction?
Data and information are two terms that are often used interchangeably but there's a notable difference between them. For example, data refers to bits of information, but not information itself. On the other hand, Information is a set of data which is processed in a meaningful way. With the overwhelming data available on the internet, different approaches like Web Scraping, Web Harvesting or Web Data Extraction are being used to generate actionable and game-changing insights over Internet use. But what exactly they mean in the online world. Let's take a look!
How does Web Scraping work
Computer programs designed as Intelligent bots do the work of Web Scraping. Unlike screen scraping, which only copies pixels displayed onscreen, web scraping extracts underlying HTML code and, with it, data stored in a database. The approach has become quite popular. In fact, it is considered as one of the essential skills to acquire in today's digital world. It has some great applications in compiling large data sets, fundamental to techniques like-
With the rapid expansion of digital information, accessing Big Data via Web Scraping or Web Data Extraction approach has become much easier. Having said that, Web Scraping can be used for digital businesses that rely on data harvesting in both, Legitimate or illegitimate cases. The former includes Benevolent Web Scraping Examples while the latter features Malicious Web Scraping examples.
Benevolent Web Scraping examples
Search engine bots crawling a site, analyzing its content to assign a rank based on certain findings, like Google.
Price comparison sites deploying bots to auto-fetch prices of products
Market research companies using scrapers to extract data from social media (e.g., for sentiment analysis, personal preferences, etc).
Malicious Web Scraping examples
Web Scraping for illegal purposes can inflict severe financial losses if data is extracted without the permission of website owners. The two most common use cases of Malicious Web Scraping are price scraping and content theft.
Price Scraping – Scraper bots inspect competing business databases to access pricing information, undercut rivals and boost sales.
Content Theft – This illegitimate activity comprises large-scale content theft from a target website. Typical targets mainly include online product catalogs and websites relying on digital content to drive business.
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Piast Kołodziej o simplement Piast (pronunciació polonesa: [ˈpʲiast kɔˈwɔd͡ʑɛj]; c. 740/1? - 861 dC) fou una figura semi-llegendària de la Polònia medieval (segle IX dC), el fundador de la dinastia Piast que governarà el futur Regne de Polònia.

Piast apareix a la Crònica polonesa (Gesta principum Polonorum) de Gallus Anonymus,juntament amb el seu pare, Chościsko i la dona de Piast, Rzepicha.

La crònica narra la història d'una visita inesperada realitzada a Piast per dos desconeguts. Demanen unir-se a la família de Piast per celebrar el setè aniversari (un ritu de pas pagà per als nois) del fill de Piast, Siemowit. A canvi de l'hospitalitat, els convidats van llançar un encanteri fent que el celler de Piast estigués ple d'abundància. Veient això, els compatriotes de Piast el declaren el seu nou príncep, en substitució del desaparegut príncep Popiel.

Si Piast existí realment, hauria estat el besavi del príncep Mieszko I (c. 930-92), el primer governant històric de Polònia i el besavi del besavi de Bolesław Chrobry (967-1025), el primer rei polonès.

Els mítics Piasts eren originaris de Gniezno, una vila fortificada fundada entre els segles VIII i IX, dins del territori tribu dels polans occidentals.

Segons la llegenda va morir l'any 861 amb 120 anys.

Durant més de mil anys d'història polonesa, ningú més va dugué el nom Piast.

Dues teories expliquen l'etimologia de la paraula Piast. El primer dona l'arrel com a piasta ("eix" [d'una roda] en polonès), una referència a la seva professió de fabricant de rodes. El segon relaciona Piast amb piastun ("custodi" o "guardià"). Això podria indicar la posició inicial de Piast com a majordom o "administrador de la casa" a la cort d'un altre governant i la posterior presa del poder per part de Piast. De forma anàloga al el desenvolupament de les primeres dinasties franques medievals, quan els majordoms de palau dels reis merovingis usurparen gradualment el control polític.

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Bibliografia
 Dzięcioł, W. (1966). The origins of Poland. London: Veritas.

Dinastia Piast
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For reasons unexplained, they begin racing through the airport and then through the streets of London. The bearded "Regular Joe" obviously can't keep up with the reigning Olympic gold medalist on foot, so he cheats by hopping into a cab, a boat and a bicycle along the way.
Bolt is so fast that he even has enough time to stop and purchase running attire with his Visa card on the way to the Olympic stadium, where he lines up for his big race, only to discover that the strange man is the official.


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Founded in 1875, Brigham Young University is one of the largest private universities in the country, with more than 33,000 students. The BYU Cougar athletic program is consistently one of the highest performing athletic departments in the country and holds 10 national titles, most notably in football, men's volleyball and cross country.


Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson's father, has been hospitalized after he suffered a stroke.
A spokeswoman for the 84-year-old said he suffered a mild stroke.
Angel Howansky said he went to a Las Vegas hospital late Wednesday night when he had trouble standing up and walking.
She says Joe Jackson was having pains in his head but reports he is feeling fine and should be released on Friday.
Joe Jackson was lucid enough to call a friend, who then drove him to the hospital.
His wife, Katherine, is reportedly on her way to Las Vegas to be with him.
Joe Jackson has maintained a residence there for many years while his wife lives in Los Angeles, where she cares for the late pop star's children.
Angel Howansky says Joe Jackson has had small strokes at least twice before this.
Joe Jackson is the father and former manager of the family of entertainers, which also includes The Jackson 5, La Toya Jackson and Janet Jackson.
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This site is located in the hills just SW of the City of San Luis Obispo. The site is located in the Laguna Lake Park operated by the City of San Luis Obispo. The entrance to the park is from Madonna Road off and west of Highway 101. You can also access Madonna Road from Los Osos Valley Road either from Los Osos or Freeway 101.
Once on the entrance road of the park keep right until it ends at the parking area, restroom and dog's area. Continue on foot west along and around the hill to the southern edge of its west face. Local flyers generally kite mid way or better up the hill to launch.
The site is a combination thermal/ridge site, and conditions can be quite strong. The ridge extends � mile northwest. Due to the presence of an approach control zone (SLO airport) to the south of the hill, you are restricted to 600 msl or below.
The large hill (Madonna Mountain) to the Northwest is private property and flying there is not recommended as the owner frowns on trespassers. Beware that favorable conditions which allow an experience pilot to fly Madonna Mountain are rare.
All pilots must have a rating of Intermediate (P-3) or higher. Novice (P-2) pilots must be accompanied by an instructor at the Site and pass the ground skill test.
Keeping the glider above your head for two minutes.
Demonstrate a successful reverse launch technique.
No flying above or across the ELECTRICAL POWER LINES.
A Waiver must have be signed, and on file with with the City of San Luis Obispo. This Waiver AND proof of medical and liability insurance is required by the City prior to flying this site.
Before conducting flight you must check the SBP ATIS (Airport Traffic Information System) on 120.600 mhz or call (805)545-9638 to see if anyone has called in for permission to fly at Laguna Lake that day. If not, you must call ATA (Airport Tower Administration) office at (805)781-8753 and request "paragliding activities at 4 miles northwest of the airport at 600 MSL and below".
This site may first appears benign but along with the thermal nature of the site, there are plenty things that can get you in trouble. The entire hill and shallow slope areas used for landing are strewn with sharp volcanic rocks and boulders sometimes hidden by vegetation. Also note that two separate barb wire fence enclosed "ecological study areas" are located in the flying area. One is located south of the normal LZ in front of launch. The other is located several hundred feet north of launch in the mid to lower portion of hill. Take note of their locations before you launch! As indicated above, stay clear of high voltage electrical power lines which are well forward of the hill/ridge.
Good year round site, not great in winter but better than most. Best winds WSW to WNW 8-16 mph. Best mid to late afternoon. Strong rotor can forms off the hill-ridge to the NW of the launch area when winds are northerly.


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