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Can Startups Solve Brazil's Protectionist Problem?
by Global Risk Insights	,	May 30, 2013
Can promoting startups in Brazil rejuvenate the country's economic image and kick start the growth that Brasilia is looking for?
Brazil's eagerness to join the international governance club is no secret. With this month's election of Brazilian diplomat Robert Azêvedo as the new head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the country has gotten another taste of the international leadership roundtable – and the responsibilities that come with it – as it continues to lobby for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
But despite its new leadership of the WTO, Brazil has been unable to shed its protectionist reputation, and questions remain whether President Dilma Roussef's government is prepared to grant international markets open access to its domestic economy.
Brazil has traditionally seen itself as a regional leader, and enjoys a number of free trade agreements through MERCOSUL, the Latin American trading bloc. President Roussef has also initiated efforts to implement more bilateral trade agreements as a means of accelerating GDP growth; Brazil's economy only grew by 0.9% in 2012 (versus 2.7% in 2011).
But beyond the MERCOSUL member states and Brazil's bilateral trade partners, the country has struggled to rework its image as a desirable place to do business. Brazil fell two spots to 130th (out of 185) in the World Bank's 2013 Ease of Doing Business rank, and foreign leaders including U.S. President Obama were quick to criticize Brazil after adopting greater protectionist tariffs in late 2012.
While Brazil is widely considered a stable democracy, its infamous bureaucracy and draconian tax laws with a top rate for corporations of 34% have discouraged all but the most committed companies with the necessary resources from setting up operations in Brazil. Legal requirements include resident labor market tests – which require companies to prove there are no resident Brazilians who could fill the role – and the need to train Brazilians to eventually replace foreign employees, not to mention the high payroll taxes and ever-changing tax codes. It should come as no surprise that while small and medium enterprises (SME) account for 98% of all companies in Brazil and 96% of all employment, few are foreign owned or operated.
President Rousseff hopes to change this. In April, Rousseff's government announced the US$78 million Startup Brasil program (modeled after a similar pilot in Chile), which will provide visas to foreign entrepreneurs to start or develop young tech-related businesses in Brazil. To be eligible, the startups must target the Brazilian market. New companies will receive guidance from business accelerators on how to develop the business and remain competitive in the local market. The startups are also eligible for seed funding worth up to R$200,000 (US$98,000) from the government to start their business, with additional funding available from private investors. Entrepreneurship is a boon to any economy, creating jobs, boosting GDP and promoting the national brand overseas, and Brazil's government seems to have taken note.
Brazil already has the essential social characteristics to foster innovation, boasting the third largest entrepreneurship community in the world. As The Economist noted, "Brazil does not lack go-getters," and its stable democracy can only help in encouraging new businesses. Last year, Brazil, with a population of 201 million people, registered 315,645 new limited liability corporations, compared to 429,363 in the UK. Startup Weekend, an international grassroots program that brings designers, programmers and marketers together to launch startups in one weekend, serves as an entrepreneurship litmus test; the organisation has already held events in eight Brazilian cities including São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and Recife.
Brazil is feverishly preparing to welcome the world during the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, but will first need to demonstrate its seriousness about opening its economy beyond Latin America. Startups might just be the gateway.
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Tags:	Brazil, Dilma Roussef, Dilma Rousseff, Entrepreneurship, Latin America, Security Council, SME, Startup Weekend, startups, Trade, United Nations, United States, World Trade Organization, WTO
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Homegrown e-commerce major Flipkart has partnered with online travel services provider MakeMyTrip to provide its users with travel options, a company statement said.
Initially, users can only make domestic flight bookings, which will be rolled out in the next few weeks. Hotel, bus and holiday bookings will soon follow, the statement added. MakeMyTrip will offer the services from its multiple brands, including its eponymous bookings site, Goibibo and redBus.
South African Internet conglomerate Naspers is an investor in both MakeMyTrip and Flipkart.
Early last week, TechCircle first reported that Flipkart was looking to enter the OTA space and would offer travel services by tying up with specific industry partners. It is also on the lookout to hire a category head.
"This strategic partnership helps us make travel booking a seamless experience for customers, even those in the farthest regions, while also furthering our goal of being a one-stop destination for all digital transactions online," Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart stated.
The partnership comes almost seven months after Mint reported that Rajesh Magow, co-founder and chief executive officer of MakeMyTrip, had returned to Flipkart's board after a two-year gap.
Industry experts that TechCircle spoke to said that the launch of a travel vertical would be in line with Flipkart's strategy to diversify into categories and drive more gross merchandise value and consumer stickiness through repeat consumer rates and on its platforms.
At the start of the year, Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy had told The Economic Times that increasing monthly active users on the platform would be the key metric going forward.
The latest announcement also comes amidst speculations of a potential consolidation in the Indian e-commerce landscape, where Walmart and Amazon are reportedly in talks to acquire Flipkart.
Flipkart's deep-pocketed rival Amazon has also been focusing on becoming a one-stop online destination for a wide variety of consumer categories. Amazon has already ventured into India's food retail space by launching a pilot in Pune in February. Amazon has not ventured into the OTA space yet, at least in India.
Since expanding its war chest last September following a $2.5-billion investment by Japanese Internet conglomerate SoftBank, Flipkart has left no stone unturned to drive consumer stickiness. This includes launching private labels in various categories to releasing its own smartphone.
Last November, Flipkart relaunched its grocery operations Supermart through a pilot, a category in which it can increase its repeat consumer rates.


When i import my database from Family Tree Maker to Roots Magic, RM (7.5.2.0) loses all the built-in links between the digital images and each person in the database. The images all show up in RM's media folder, but most of the images are are no longer linked to a person.
A while ago I inquired about this to RM Tech Support, who told me I would have to individually go into RM person-by-person, image-by-image, to re-establish the correct links. This seems like an insurmountable task.
Have you tried going to Lists > Media Gallery > [Tools] > Fix broken media links ?
Yes, that is one of the first things I tried, several times. Each time the message came back that "there are no broken media links". It's sort of like standing in the rain getting wet, while your friend keeps telling you it's not raining!
And you did a direct import from FTM to RM, not via GEDCOM?
I'm not an FTM user, so I'm just probing, hoping to find a point of helpfulness . . .
Yes, I did a direct import, not via GEDCOM. And for good measure, later on I did another direct import, just in case the first one was corrupted somehow. The RM Tech person stated that this failure to retain the links is just the way RM works, although it seems like a serious issue and not just for me. Because of this issue, I continue to use FTM as my primary genealogical database program.
I do appreciate and thank you for your thoughts, especially as you are not a FTM user.
What version of FTM? What operating system?
Windows 10, always currently updated.
You might try migrating your FTM 2006 database to FTM 2012 or 2014 and import from the later version.
But I wonder if your media items are linked to the primary Name in RM and have thus become unavailable except in the Media Gallery (same issue as for citations). Thus the link between database and media file is unbroken but you cannot see the item via Edit Person.
A simple SQLite query would confirm that is the case and another would transfer them to Person to make them available. Are you up to that? Else send me your file.
I've just checked using an old FTW file (might be FTM2006) and the files are exported by RM as .jpg but they are actually Jpeg2000 when opened by Irfanview.
I renamed a "*.jpg" to "*.jp2" and RM opened it so RM can handle jpeg2000. However, the easiest way is batch convert the files to proper jpg using a suitable program, not irfanview which seems to have problem on my Windows 7.
If the images appear in the Media Gallery as thumbnails, then RM has properly imported them. Select an image in the Gallery and look at the pane below the Tag buttons. If a tag reads Person Name-RIN "(name)", then I have identified the problem and it can be fixed with a SQLite script. It would be a variant of Citations Invisible - Reveal and Revert. At the time I developed it, I was unaware that Ancestry and FTM attached media to the Name fact. All that had been reported was the disappearance of citations. TreeShare has exposed the media and citations gulf to many more people.


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The Eastern Range mine is an iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 10 kilometres south-east of Paraburdoo.

The mine is partly owned and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of twelve iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara. In 2009, the combined Pilbara operations produced 202 million tonnes of iron ore, a 15 percent increase from 2008. The Pilbara operations accounted for almost 13 percent of the world's 2009 iron ore production of 1.59 billion tonnes.

The Hamersley Range, where the mine is located, contains 80 percent of all identified iron ore reserves in Australia and is one of the world's major iron ore provinces.

Overview

Rio Tinto iron ore operations in the Pilbara began in 1966. The mine itself began operations in 2004. The combined production capacity of the Paraburdoo, Eastern Range and Channar mines is 20 million tonnes of iron ore. The ore is processed both at Eastern Range and at Paraburdoo before being loaded onto rail, being transported from Eastern Range to Paraburdoo by conveyor belt.

Ore from the mine is then transported to the coast through the Hamersley & Robe River railway, where it is loaded onto ships. Ore from Eastern Range, like Brockman, Mount Tom Price, Paraburdoo, Channar, Marandoo and Yandicoogina are transported as lump and fines ore product from the mines to Dampier via rail. Before being loaded onto ships for export, the product is blended and rescreened. The maximum size for the lumps is 31.5 mm, while the fines are at a maximum of 6.3 mm.

The mine's workforce lives residential in Paraburdoo. In 2009, the combined operations of Paraburdoo, Channar and Eastern Range employed 1,081 people, a decrease in comparison to 2008, when it employed 1,324.

The mine is jointly owned by Rio Tinto, who holds 54% and Chinese company Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation, who owns the remaining 46%. Shanghai Baosteel acquired its share in the mine in April 2004 in order to secure a long-term, stable supply of resources for the Chinese economy. Rio Tinto's share of the mine is owned through Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary, which owns six mines in the Pilbara, and partly owns two more mines in the region, including Eastern Range.

While the Eastern Range deposit was known for two decades, it took China's emergence as a major steel producer and oversees investor to develop the mine.

References

External links
 Rio Tinto Iron Ore website
 MINEDEX website Database of the Department of Mines and Petroleum

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Which site you visit, what you purchase and which currencies you use is private data. They are unprocessed raw data that should not be shared with anyone and meant to be just that, private. Privacy laws exist to prevent corporations with unbridled access from creating models out of what you feed your search engine or what you share or post without the sole generator granting access. Sites and other platforms that require access to personal data must be compliant with GDPR, CCPA and BDSG-New rules.
These laws are in place to protect you, the source, from possible exploitation and even blackmail just in case those jewels land in the wrong hands. Luckily, these laws don't spare crypto–fiat on-ramps as BitFinex or CoinBase for example. As bridges, centralized exchanges are temporary solutions, gateways for crypto liquidity and because they are dominant–in terms of volumes and users, they play an important role–at least for now.
Neutrino, she says, has the best talents and their expertise would be used to keep "data safe and protect" clients.
In recent weeks, CoinBase came under fire for their acquisition of the controversial–yet reliable intelligence company— whose heads were former members of the notorious Milan based Hacking Team. Previously, Ethereum World News, reported that the team were caught selling surveillance tools to repressive regimes that lead to deaths, exiling and torture of several journalists across the world. But, it is more of Neutrino and what they do that put risk to customers of their ability to keep their data private.
Even though Neutrino expertise could come in handy when there is need of taming scams and related illegalities, it is increasingly becoming clear that CoinBase transactions will always be under a magnifying glass.
Will that in any way strip away privacy and compound problems which Christine Sandler has already admitted to? That there might be some user data being auctioned for cents in the dark web? Even though we must commend CoinBase for their effort of wading out government pressure of turning in user records for tax purposes to some successful and reasonable degree, the company should prepare for more backlash from users. Already there is a campaign urging customers to deactivate their account in light of recent events.
everyone knows that neutrino is a hackers team and notwithstanding that, coinbase had a partnership with neutrino.. what is an absurd!!


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Something like Split And Concat.
Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by Wadget, Jun 24, 2006.
Well there is the Unix split command. That deals with the splitting side. I think you can then just cat >> to append the files back together again.
So how exactly is that done?
Here is an example (I've just tried it with a real file to confirm it works).
This creates a load of 100k files that are the jpeg split up (the last file is less than 100k.
Repeat all the cats until you run out of files. I suspect there is probably a better way of doing the second step involving some shell scripting. Or you could write a cute GUI for this!
which will produce files split_Test_aa, split_Test_bb etc.
will put all the files back together again.
When you say "cd to the correct folder"
How do you cd it to a specific folder?
When you first start the Terminal your current working directory will be ~ (your home folder /Users/<username> normally). You use cd <foldername> to change to a folder within the current folder. cd .. takes you up one level. You can combine cds together with / so cd Desktop/test would take to you a folder called test on your Desktop if you start in your home folder.
You can list the contents of your current folder via ls. The standard output does not help you tell which are folders. ls -l gives you more details. If the block of letters at the start of the line starts with a d then it's a directory (folder).
A search for "split file" turned up several apps on versiontracker. Here's a few that might be decent.
Thanks for your help but those are all for OS X.
I'm looking for OS 9 here.
EDIT: Although Merger seems to work well for how i want it to work. Thanks.
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The goal at Westminster Abbey was to remember what has happened at ground level in places like the Nineveh plains, in northern Iraq. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby also took part in this unusual event, which was attended by leaders of 13 Middle Eastern church bodies, along with high-ranking British politicos and diplomats.
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export declare abstract class BenchmarkMeter {
    protected _lastMeasuredTime: number;
    private _currentValue;
    private _minValue;
    private _maxValue;
    private _averageValue;
    private _sumOfValues;
    private _numberOfMeasurements;
    constructor();
    get measurement(): Measurement;
    get lastMeasuredTime(): number;
    set lastMeasuredTime(value: number);
    get currentValue(): number;
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Jockey John Miller wins the Flemington International...
John Miller, 1973: Jockey John Miller is all smiles as he unsaddles after winning the Flemington International Stakes on Red Boy. 10-11-1973. PICTURE: Tony Feder. J. Miller / J. J. Miller / Johnny Miller. NOTE: John (J. J.) Miller (born 28 April 1933 in Fremantle, Western Australia) champion jockey and horse trainer. Miller rode more than 2200 winners in a career which started with his first win after just six races in 1947. He rode his last race in 1988 and then went on to a successful career as a trainer. He rode winners in all Australian states as well as enjoying overseas success in England, Mauritius, Ireland and Singapore. SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Miller File (Melb): P: MILLER, John. Date filed: 13-11-1973. Neg no: D 21456 / 66. ID: mls.
TONY FEDER
THE AGE (Melbourne)
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John Miller, Australian Jockey and Racehorse Trainer (born 1933)


Wimpel! Wrapped Wishes is on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art through February 21, 2010. It features work by Polly Apfelbaum, P. Timothy Gierschick II, Daniel Heyman, Tristin Lowe, Kathryn Pannepacker, Lance Pawling, Alexander Stadler, Leslie Sudock, Jane Trigere, Estelle Kessler Yarinsky and me. The exhibition was organized by Matthew Singer and Wendi Furman.
Click here to read a review and, if you're in Philadelphia, stop by and see the show!


Every so often, people confess that they miss mass. In truth, we can be here in full attendance and still miss mass. We miss mass when we miss three important points about the Eucharist. We miss mass if we miss (1) what we are fleeing from, (2) where we are headed (our destination), and (3) the journey itself through the wilderness, from where we came to where we are headed.
First, we miss mass, we miss the point of our gathering today if we forget that the Eucharist has something to do about our deliverance. If we do not see how we are slaves to all sorts of masters, how we ourselves try to lord it over others and enslave each other, how we are bound by our own fears and doubts, by our guilt and disordered possessions, we miss mass. If we do not see our own selfishness and woundedness and unfreedom, if we deceive ourselves into believing that Egypt is no more, we miss mass.
We are told to eat the Passover, in other words, to celebrate the Eucharist "with [our] loins girt, sandals on [our] feet and [our] staff in hand, [we] shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the Lord." We are to gather around this table like those who are in flight, that is, with urgency, like those who are fleeing something terrible and dark. There are no bitter herbs here to remind us of the bitterness of Egypt. There is only the heartbreak of a confession, at the start of every mass, a penitential moment to acknowledge how broken and lost and hungry we are. We miss mass if we think all is well with us, and there is no urgency for mercy to receive and give.
Second, we miss mass if we no longer know where we are headed, if we have forgotten our destination and destiny. Our destiny, the Promised Land, is to live with God forever. I do not know how inviting that is to you. I do know how inviting it is to live with someone we love, those who make us happy. If God is someone distant, someone we sort of love or who sort of makes us happy, if God is someone fearsome, then I am not sure if the prospect of living with God forever is something to be relished.
If, however by the grace of God, we learn to discover that God is love through the countless stories we hear at mass, that God is love and that he is behind all our own stories of love, if we come to believe that God is someone who desires our wholeness and happiness, then perhaps we will want to get going to where we are headed. If we begin to believe that God is someone who comes to redeem us in Jesus Christ his beloved Son, someone who has every intention to love us and forgive us and bring us home, despite our dysfunction and rebellion, then we will want to leave the unhappiness of Egypt for the promised joy of Paradise. We miss mass if we believe we are headed nowhere, and there is nothing ultimate about our stories and the lives we are leading.
Third and last, we miss mass if we miss the in-between, the lifelong journey itself through the wilderness from Egypt to the Promised Land. If we think we can bypass the wilderness and get to our destiny unscathed, unscarred, without being wounded along the way, we miss mass. If we believe that love can be short-circuited or that tears and blood can be spared from falling, we miss mass, we miss the point of living the life we are called to live.
If, however we learn to see again that it is by the blood of the lamb, smeared on the doorposts and lintels and crosses of our lives, that we are spared the sentence of death, we might recover the meaning of sacrifice, the value of our wounds that are Christ's wounds, as we make our way through the wilderness. Sacrifice has no meaning without love. Our wounds in the wilderness have no value if there is no love in them. The sacrifice of washing each other's feet, in the manner of our Lord and Teacher, in the manner of slaves in Egypt, is sanctified by love. We miss mass, we miss the whole point of the Eucharist if we miss the love that goes into all that we suffer in this lifelong journey to God who is our destiny.
My dear friends let us encourage one another not to miss mass. (1) Let us not miss the urgency of leaving the bitterness and lostness of Egypt. (2) Let us not miss where we are headed, our destiny, our God with whom we are meant to live forever. (3) Let us not miss the in-between, the journey itself, the sacrifice of love we suffer through the wilderness, from Egypt to the Promised Land.


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Professor Benjamin Kneller
b.kneller@abdn.ac.uk
The University of Aberdeen Meston 141
BSc University of Sheffield 1981
Postgraduate Research Assistant, University of Aberdeen 1981-87
PhD Aberdeen 1988
Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Sheffield, 1987-88
Post-doctoral Research Assistant Leeds, University of Leeds, 1988-90
Post-doctoral Research Assistant Leeds, University of Liverpool, 1990-91
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds, 1991-95
Lectuter, University of Leeds, 1995-2000
Senior Researcher, Institute for Crustal Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000-2004
Reader, University of Aberdeen, 2004-2006
Professor, University of Aberdeen, 2006-present (Emeritus since January 2019_
My research has spanned a range of fields in geology, from tectonics and high-grade metamorphic rocks in the 1980s (Ashcroft et al., 1984, Nature, 310, 760-762) to modern seafloor processes today (Zhang et al., 2018, Geology, doi.org/10.1130/G45178.1), but has mainly focussed on deepwater depositional systems.
Key publications include:
Kneller, B., Nasr-Azadani, M.M. & Meiburg, E. 2016. Long-range sediment transport in the world's oceans by stably stratified turbidity currents. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 8608–8620. doi:10.1002/2016JC011978
Kneller, B., Dykstra, M., Fairweather, L. and Milana, J-P., 2016, Mass-transport and slope accommodation: implications for turbidite sandstone reservoirs. AAPG Bulletin,100, 213–235.
Kneller, B.C., Milana, J.P., Buckee, C.M, & al Ja'aidi, O.S., 2004. Depositional Record of Deglaciation in a Paleofjord (Late Carboniferous of San Juan Province, Argentina); the Role of Catastrophic Sedimentation. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 116, 348-367.
Kneller, B.C., 2003. The influence of flow parameters on turbidite slope channel architecture. Marine & Petroleum Geology, 20, 901-910.
Kneller, B.C. & Buckee, C.M., 2000. The structure and fluid mechanics of turbidity currents; a review of some recent studies and their geological implications. Sedimentology,47, (Supplement 1), 62-94.
Kneller, B.C., Bennett, S.J., & McCaffrey, W.D., 1999. Velocity structure, turbulence and fluid stresses in experimental gravity currents. Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans. 104, C3, 5281-5291.
Kneller, B.C., 1995. Beyond the turbidite paradigm: physical models for deposition of turbidites and their implications for reservoir prediction. InHartley A.J. & Prosser D.J.Characterisation of Deep Marine Clastic SystemsGeological Society of London Special Publication No 94, 31-49.
Kneller, B.C., 1991. A foreland basin on the southern margin of Iapetus. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 148, 207-210.
Current research is mainly in four areas:
1. Typhoon-triggered turbidity currents, and the Holocene record of gravity current activity in the Gaoping Canyon, offshore Taiwan (in collaboration with Tongji University);
2. Architecture of deepwater systems in the Cretaceous fore-arc basin of Tibet, mainly the Albian-Coniacian Ngamring Formation (in collaboration with Nanjing University);
3. Interaction of gravity currents with topography - a laboratory study (in collaboration with Zhejiang University);
4. Origin of carbonate megabeds within dominantly siliciclastic deepwater systems (in collaboration with Universidad Nacional de San Juan).
In addition to the collaborations above, I am a Visiting Professor at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan.
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Valdez Buso, V, Aquino, CD, Paim, PSG, Gomes Paim, PS, Mori, AL, Fallgatter, C, Milana, JP & Kneller, B 2019, 'Late Palaeozoic glacial cycles and subcycles in western Gondwana: Correlation of surface and subsurface data of the Paraná Basin, Brazil', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 531, no. Part B, 108435. [Online] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.09.004
Li, P, Kneller, BC, Thompson, P, Bozetti, G & Dos Santos, T 2018, 'Architectural and facies organization of slope channel fills: Upper Cretaceous Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico', Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 92, pp. 632-649. [Online] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.11.026
Sobiesiak, MS, Valdez Buso, V, Kneller, BC, Alsop, GI & Milana, JP 2018, Block generation, deformation and interaction of mass transport deposits with the seafloor: An outcrop-based study of the Carboniferous at Cerro Bola, NW Argentina. in Special Publications. Special Publications, American Geophysical Union.
Maselli, V & Kneller, B 2018, 'Bottom currents, submarine mass failures and halokinesis at the toe of the Sigsbee Escarpment (Gulf of Mexico): Contrasting regimes during lowstand and highstand conditions?', Marine Geology, vol. 401, pp. 36-65. [Online] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.04.001
Bozetti, G, Cronin, BT, Kneller, BC & Jones, AM 2018, Deep-Water conglomeratic megabeds: analogues for event beds of the Brae Formation of the South Viking Graben, North Sea. in CC Turner & BT Cronin (eds), Rift-related coarse-grained submarine fan reservoirs: the Brae Play, South Viking Graben, North Sea. AAPG Memoirs, no. 115, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, pp. 114-118.
Zhang, Y, Liu, Z, Zhao, Y, Colin, C, Zhang, X, Wang, M, Zhao, S & Kneller, BC 2018, 'Long-term in situ observations on typhoon-triggered turbidity currents in the deep sea', Geology, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 675-678. [Online] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G45178.1
Nasr-Azadani, MM, Meiburg, E & Kneller, BC 2018, 'Mixing dynamics of turbidity currents interacting with complex seafloor topography', Environmental Fluid Mechanics, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 201 -223. [Online] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-016-9477-9
Liu, Q, Kneller, B, Fallgatter, C & Valdez Buso, V 2018, 'Quantitative comparisons of depositional architectures of unconfined and confined turbidite sheet systems', Sedimentary Geology, vol. 376, pp. 72-89. [Online] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.08.005
Sobiesiak, MS, Kneller, BC, Alsop, GI & Milana, JP 2018, 'Styles of basal interaction beneath mass transport deposits', Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 98, pp. 629-639. [Online] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.08.028
Liu, Q, Kneller, BC, Fallgatter, C, Valdez Buso, V & Milana, JP 2018, 'Tabularity of individual turbidite beds controlled by flow efficiency and degree of confinement', Sedimentology, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 2368-2387. [Online] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12470
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The major attraction at the park is The Tornado.
Here's the layout of the ride as seen from the train ride.
Heading into the brake run. This is a fun little wooden coaster.
So that's Stricker's Grove. A nice little park and worth a visit.


You probably give a lot of attention to healthy eating, exercise, and stress management. When is the last time you gave consideration to the health of your feet? Even if you're not athletically-inspired, your feet work tirelessly every day to get you through your essential tasks. While it can be easy to neglect them, your feet deserve as much care as any other part of your body. The following information will focus on important ways to keep your feet healthy for many years to come.
Let's begin with the basics of healthy foot care. You're likely aware of the importance of keeping your feet clean and dry. Regular washing can prevent common fungal infections that can cause itchy and cracked skin. Keeping your feet dry is a must in terms of both fungal infection prevention and comfort. It can also be helpful to moisturize your feet on a daily basis to prevent dryness, cracked heels, and other common problems. Lastly, trim your toenails straight across and file the edges in a comfortable fashion. This will help prevent painful ingrown toenails.
Foot care is especially important if you have diabetes, since your nerves might be damaged in your feet and you might have less blood flow there. You should have a foot exam at least annually, and always keep the blood flowing to your feet. Even if you have a minor foot problem, such as a corn or callus, you should avoid treating it yourself and go to a doctor instead. Wearing comfortable shoes that aren't too tight is a great way to avoid problems as well.
You may not give a lot of thought to the types of shoes you wear on a daily basis. However, if you spend a lot of time on your feet, your shoes are a vital part of maintaining excellent foot health. For starters, you need to consider your arch support. Even in the heat of summer, it is ideal to avoid flip-flops and slip-on style shoes that lack proper arch support. These shoes can lead to the development of foot pain over a period of time.
It's also important that your shoes fit properly. Shoes that are too tight can rub against your toes, leading to pain or injuries to the toenails. Pointed-toe shoes can cause defects within the toes and toenails. Additionally, selecting shoes that are too narrow could cause your feet to swell and cramp. It's ideal to select your shoes while wearing the socks or hosiery that you'll normally be wearing in your day to day life. This gives you an accurate picture of how the shoes will feel on a daily basis. Try to alternate your shoes so that you aren't wearing the same pair daily. Choose a broad, rounded toe style that can accommodate minor foot swelling throughout the day.
You may give considerable attention to exercising your body. But, have you considered daily foot exercises to maintain the health of your feet? Gentle stretches can relieve pain, promote flexibility, and prevent injuries from exercise or sports activities. Foot exercises don't need to be complex. Consider simple stretches that elongate the foot or rolling a tennis ball under the foot to relax and stretch the muscles.
Regardless of how much time you spend caring for your feet, problems can still arise that warrant the attention of a podiatrist like Scola, Jere A. Podiatrists are medical doctors that specialize in caring for the unique needs of the feet. If you experience ongoing pain without a known cause, bunions, severe calluses, or signs of an infection, it is in your best interests to consult with a podiatrist. He can also provide necessary advice for enhancing your regular foot care.
Your feet are an often-neglected part of your body that fulfill many vital functions each day. By implementing the steps above, you can have healthier feet to carry through the tasks of daily living. As always, seek immediate medical attention if you suspect you have a foot problem. You only get one pair of feet to last you a lifetime, so be sure to show them some tender loving care on a regular basis.


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Persona 5: Game Review
Cooper Rosenberg, Reporter|May 23, 2017
Persona 5 is the latest installment of the Persona series, a popular JRPG series featuring turn-based combat. It was released on April 4th, 2017, by the publisher Atlus. The game takes place in a modern day Tokyo, where the main protagonist has been sent to on probation. He is taken in by a local coffee shop owner and made to attend Shujin Academy where he quickly learns something weird is going on.
After the protagonist has a fated encounter with Sakamoto Ryuji, the two unknowingly slip into the world of "palaces," a structure created from the distorted perception of adults in the world. It's here where the duo unlocks the power of "Personas" which are manifestations of the heart of the user which can be used to fight the shadows which defend these palaces.
After unlocking these powers, the main characters team up with another student, Takamaki Ann, and a human who was turned into a cat, Morgana, and form the "Phantom Thieves" to dive into these "palaces" and steal the treasure of the one who's distorted desires created it and in doing so, force a change of heart into these corrupt adults.
The main part of the game, the combat in the palaces, is great. The turn based combat system is fast paced and feels so satisfying. It's very reminiscent of final fantasy turn based combat, but with some aspects of the element system from Pokemon games. The combat works so well with little grunts to make it quick enough so you aren't spending 5 minutes per battle with random weak enemies, but also works great enough to slow down the pace for the more important mini-boss and boss battles, which makes them feel much weightier and important.
Outside of the palaces, your character is just trying to live the life of a normal high school student. You have to study, hang out with friends, read, or just have some downtime at a hot spring or a batting cage. The social stats you build outside of palaces become very important for getting new equipment and The confidant system makes it very useful to develop meaningful relationships with your friends to provide out of combat perks and perks for combat.
An example of this is the "death" confidant, Takemi Tae, who is a shady doctor stripped of her medical licenses. She actually turns out to be an outstanding doctor who you can help by being her guinea pig for medical experiments. The more you help her with experiments, the more medical supplies she'll sell you, which become absolutely essential when running through palaces.
One thing this game does great is it makes all of your actions outside of the palace affect how you perform in the palace and vice versa. For example, increasing your "Guts" social stat allows you to get better weapons to perform better in palaces. And in palaces, when you defeat shadows you receive some Japanese Yen and items which you can use to buy stuff in the outside world and craft items which become useful in palaces. So everything you do is connected both in the outside world and in palaces which is really great game development.
Another great aspect of this game is the music. It's all got this jazzy coffee shop vibe and has many different renditions of each piece which change in game depending on the weather and your character's mood. The music provides great ambiance in and outside of combat. The opening song that comes on when you first open the game along with the great visuals of the main characters all ice skating on concrete (somehow) is amazing and really sets the mood for the rest of the game. The music in this game is easily some of the best music out of any game I've ever played, and I've played a lot of games in my 18 years on god's green earth. The music will get stuck in your head and you'll be humming it for days on end, it's just that catchy.
Overall this game will take you roughly 100 hours to complete, which is much longer than the average game would take to beat. Also the game has a New Game Plus mode which allows you to replay the game with all the stats and personas you acquired in your first play through. So to beat this game you're going to have to pump a solid amount of time into it, so maybe it isn't the best game to buy if you aren't willing to give days of time to one game. But if a long game that you can devote a lot of time here and there to is something you're looking for, as a single player game story driven game, Persona 5 is basically second to none.
In conclusion, this game has great combat, has fun things to do outside of combat, has meaningful dialogue and an intriguing story. Overall I'd give this game a 9.75/10, but rating based off enjoyment, I'd give it a 10/10. I love the combat, I love the music, and I love the game. Potential game of the year and definitely the best JRPG I've ever played.
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Hancockia is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae). There is only one known species, Hancockia uniflora, native to eastern Asia (Japan including Ryukyu Islands, Vietnam, Yunnan, Taiwan)

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How I Learned to Dive
A secret sexual life, at fifteen.
By Victor Lodato
Photograph by Chris Rush
I was fifteen, and he was in his twenties.
I wasn't coerced, though. I wasn't tricked or manipulated. I said yes—said it freely—because I wanted something. I wanted sex—or whatever it was that happened between two men. Of course, I wasn't a man yet.
When I think back on this, I wonder if I can trust my yes, the yes of a child. My body says that I can, but maybe I can't trust my body to work this out.
I hadn't thought about the man in a while; my time with him was more than thirty years ago. But lately his ghost has returned—maybe in light of the current debates about sex and power. These conversations have got under my skin, like a virus, making me sick with questions I'd never asked before: Was I manipulated? Was there an imbalance of power?
It's entirely plausible. I was a small, skinny guy who self-identified as weak, and so shy that I could barely speak in social situations. Often, when required to interact with strangers, I would begin to shake, in a frightening, fit-like manner.
The man—let's call him Sam—was quite the opposite: muscular, steady, confident, a lifeguard at the beach where I sometimes went with my parents. I had seen him a few times, certain he'd never noticed me. The day of our first encounter, I watched from a short distance as he taught a class to teen-agers—lifeguards in training, I suppose. The students were putting their mouths against a dummy.
I wasn't old enough to participate; to be a lifeguard, you had to be at least sixteen. And surely you needed more than golf balls for biceps—which, along with freakish, flagpole legs, were the sum of my physique.
Later that day, I saw him again, leaning against his scaffolded throne, eating a nectarine. He caught me looking, and then he was walking toward me. I stared at my feet.
"You were in my class, right?" I heard him say.
"No," I muttered. "I was just watching."
When I glanced up, he nodded—and immediately I felt my cheeks burning. Did he know what I'd been watching? His bare chest and tanned legs, the snug black Speedo.
I was trembling by that point, but for some reason when he said, "Walk with me," I followed him.
For a few minutes, we didn't talk—which both disturbed and excited me. Our silence seemed to suggest that we agreed on something. It was like a pact.
I followed him to a more deserted part of the beach, and then we were walking away from the ocean, toward some scrubby hills. I reminded myself that a lifeguard was like a policeman—a person you could trust.
"Are you O.K.?" he asked, noticing my jitters, or perhaps hearing how my teeth were chattering in spite of the scorching August sun.
When he finally stopped and turned toward me, we were in a patch of shade, surrounded by larger bushes and even some trees. If my mind said run, my body argued stay. I was locked in place by confusion and desire and a slow-reeling vertigo.
He asked why I was standing so far away.
I shrugged, and when I made a move to leave he approached, and touched my arm. "Don't."
He wasn't rough; he smiled. I could see the blond stubble on his golden chin. His beauty was formidable.
I said that I should probably go, while, below, my arousal contradicted me. He noticed, and drew my attention to the fact that he was experiencing a similar "problem." As we made small talk—the weather, the waves, my sunburn—the real conversation seemed to be happening between our bathing suits.
Somehow, a few minutes later, we were naked, with our hands going exactly where hands shouldn't go—or exactly where they should. I was in a limbo, in which there seemed to be no difference between the forbidden and the necessary. The sense of inevitability, of falling, was profound.
I had been with girls before, but we'd only kissed—and never with our clothes off. And those experiences had always felt like rehearsals for desire, ones in which I played my part perhaps too fervently, knowing that I'd been miscast.
But now, as I followed the lifeguard's lead, I felt that he was pulling me closer to myself. Strangely, this did not feel safe; it felt like drowning.
And then we were both lying on the sand, soaked and winded. For a moment, we stayed knotted together, as if untangling ourselves might prove to be too much effort, or leave too much room for questions and regret.
Finally, I slid away, and as I put on my bathing suit I felt a need to defend myself. I told the man I'd never done anything like that before.
"Me neither," he said.
I didn't believe him—he looked like a movie star. But maybe he meant he'd done it only with girls.
When I asked for his name, he told me.
He didn't ask for mine, and I thought, I'll never see him again.
But, as I turned to leave, he took a notebook from his backpack and wrote down a number.
"Call me," he said. "O.K.?"
At home, I put the number in a case meant for hiding keys—a tiny magnetized box that fit perfectly, and nearly invisibly, behind the metal desk in my bedroom. I'd bought the case a year before, liking the idea of it, but until now I had nothing to hide apart from a few wheat pennies my grandmother had given me.
Summer was over, and I was back in school, feeling as I often did this time of year: anxious and beleaguered. School brought out the worst of my stutters and shakes, driving my unnaturally high voice a notch higher. I mostly kept quiet, with my head down, fearful of bullies.
Unexpectedly, I felt no real shame about what I'd done with the man. On the contrary, the memory of our encounter often made me smile. What had originally felt like drowning now felt like flying. I was suddenly above myself—not at all the person I'd thought I was. My secret somehow invigorated me.
Of course, I was still incredibly insecure, which was the reason I hadn't yet called the man. I just couldn't understand why he'd be interested in someone like me. Hadn't he seen my girlish legs, the spots on my cheek? I found myself wondering if the whole thing was some kind of trick. Maybe what was really going on was a plot to humiliate me. Maybe, if I met him again, my parents would be there—or possibly the press, snapping photos. I'd be on the front page of the local paper, exposed. As a secret, my deed held no shame, but I was terrified of the judgment of others.
When I finally dialed Sam's number, my stupid teeth were chattering again. Miraculously, he remembered me. He was whispering, saying he couldn't talk for long. When I found out where he lived—nearly an hour away—my heart sank. But then he suggested that he drive to where I was.
"You can't come here," I said—whispering, too.
"Not to your house," he replied. "Isn't there a store or something close by?"
I mentioned the library—it was just a few blocks away.
We made a plan to meet the following Saturday.
He arrived in a sports car with a rumbling engine, right on time. When I got in, we shook hands, like business colleagues. He looked different, in jeans and a dark-blue work shirt, his blond hair slightly longer. I could tell that he was nervous, too, and this was somehow calming. As he drove, I asked where we were going.
He said he'd seen a few places on Route 46.
There were lots of diners there, I recalled—though it was a little early for lunch. I wasn't sure what two men did on a first date. Was this a date? When he pulled into the parking lot of a cheap motel, I said, "Oh."
"You all right with this?" he asked.
I nodded, and he told me to stay in the car while he got the key.
Once we were in the room, he seemed to relax a bit, and I tried to pretend it was the same for me. We talked for a while, with our clothes on—me in a chair, and Sam sprawled on the bed.
When I asked if he was still a lifeguard, he laughed. "It's October."
He explained that it had been a summer job; he was working at a warehouse now, loading trucks. This seemed unfair. After lifeguards stepped off their thrones—especially ones as handsome as Sam—didn't they become actors or models or professional athletes, some profession that would keep them in the light? I noticed for the first time that he seemed a little sad.
"What about you?" he asked.
There wasn't much to tell. I was a boring straight-A student, basically a loner. I wandered in the woods, collecting leaves, and read a lot of books.
Sam eventually led me to the bed, where it happened again—what had happened on the beach. When I had my orgasm, I made such a loud sound that it startled both of us. And then I started to cry. For a few moments, I was breathless, unable to stop.
"What's the matter?" Sam kept saying.
I shook my head, mortified. I wasn't really upset or afraid or even sad. But my orgasm had been so intense that it seemed to have hollowed me out—and I was overwhelmed by feelings I didn't understand.
Maybe it was simply the letting go. I'd always been a rigid child—the good boy—and now I was free of that, at least for a moment. I sniffled and calmed down, as Sam rubbed my back. When I apologized, he told me not to worry.
"You're just an intense little guy," he said.
Was I? I had no idea.
Over the next few months, as Sam and I continued to meet, I existed as two separate people. There was the shy, studious boy, who flinched at dodgeball and spent Saturday mornings helping his grandmother dust. And living beside this kid—or perhaps inside him—was the one who slipped away, now and then, to meet an older man, an ex-lifeguard, in a cheap motel. It was dizzying, like a math problem I couldn't solve. How could a boy who was so afraid of everything—everything—be taking such risks?
I still shook in Sam's presence, though sometimes I wondered if this was something other than fear. Looking back, I might say that I was shaking the way an egg might shake before it hatches. Something was locked inside, something desperate to get out.
When I was alone with this man, I was shocked by my desire, my hunger—especially in light of how reserved, polite, and gentle I normally was. I couldn't align my passion with what I considered my true nature: weakness.
Sam seemed surprised by my enthusiasm, and I suppose grateful. He never had my telephone number—never asked for it—but, every time I phoned, he said he was really glad to hear from me, and when could we meet?
Eventually, I stopped questioning his attraction to me. And I remained as attracted to him as ever—perhaps more, as the months passed and I grew brave enough to look him in the eye.
For a while, during that time, I remember thinking: if I could keep having sex with Sam, I wouldn't need anything else. I'd be content with just this, to the end of my days. It was a revelation how being kissed on the neck could stop all the confusion in a person's head, banish dread, raise fresh white flags of hope. In my adolescent reveries, sex and passion seemed to suggest a future of perpetual sunshine.
Though carnality was our primary enterprise, Sam and I did, I suppose, become friends. Sometimes I called him just to talk. One weekend, at the hotel, he suggested we take a dip in the grubby little pool beside the parking lot.
"What if someone sees us?" I asked.
"I'll tell them you're my brother," Sam said.
Outside, he dove right in. I stood on the side. I was a good swimmer, but a terrible diver. When I mentioned this to Sam, he got out and gave me some tips.
"Clench your toes around the edge, like a monkey." "Relax your knees." "Tuck your chin." "Most important," he said, "don't think about it too much. It's only water."
Our relationship—or whatever it was—lasted almost four years, until I was eighteen, a freshman in college, and Sam was around thirty, still working at the warehouse. During all those years, I never had sex with anyone else, despite the fact that Sam and I saw each other only around two dozen times.
But it was enough to change me. I began to have a better sense of who I was. And, though I remained fairly shy and quiet, my posture improved. In school, I sat up straighter and began to speak more freely, raising my hand when I had the answer. And, if someone made fun of my voice, I just ignored the gibes and thought of the lifeguard who'd once whispered in my ear the implausible, life-changing words: You're perfect.
Of course, the question remains: Did this man take advantage of me? Did he sense the ticking bomb of my fifteen-year-old desire—so potent and ready to go off? Was a gentle boy an easy target for him, a safe way to express something he'd pushed down in himself? Did he read my nature—that I was well versed in secrets and would keep my mouth shut?
Possibly all these things are true. But then I think of how, in many ways, I was the one who'd pursued him. I was the one who'd spotted him, that first day at the beach. I was the one who'd kept making the calls over the years. Yes, this man whose job was to protect children, to save them from drowning, had possibly misused his power. But I'd had some power, too. I'd chosen to lose my virginity. And I'd chosen him.
I realize how fortunate I was, not to have been hurt. First lust is a kind of madness. Why else would I have allowed myself to be locked in a strange motel room with a man years older and much stronger, without my parents, or anyone, knowing where I was? I was lucky that Sam was kind, that he never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to. He both revelled in my yeses and respected my nos—a skill that many in power have yet to learn.
The question, always, when two bodies crash together: Is there room for kindness? Despite what may have been inappropriate about Sam's impulses, he was never unkind.
The last time I called him was not long after my grandmother's death. I was at college, in an ugly dorm, feeling sad. Sam and I hadn't seen much of each other over the past few months. He was living with a woman now—a woman he'd eventually marry—and my school was more than two hours away.
Still, he wanted to see me. He asked if I could get to "our hotel," the following weekend. I put him off. Now that I was eighteen, couldn't we dispense with all the hiding? I wanted to stroll with Sam around the pretty campus, show him my favorite trees.
He didn't want that, though—would never want that. To continue seeing him was to continue in dark rooms at the side of a highway. But I was no longer the same person. My desire for Sam had been a kind of self-knowledge. Desire had given me a voice, and I didn't want to whisper on the telephone anymore.
I told the lifeguard goodbye.
It felt terrible—he was a friend, and he was unhappy—but I had to do it.
I was ready, I suppose, for my own life in the sun.
Victor Lodato is the author of two novels, including, most recently, "Edgar and Lucy."
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If you are interested in speaking at an upcoming Delaware SHRM Conference, review the speaker criteria before submitting your proposal.
Share the most advanced insights and strategy through established business methods.
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Connect with over 350 attendees during presentations and a special cocktail hour.
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As a conference speaker, you are welcome to attend the full conference. Meals, snacks and receptions are included. Similar to attendees, speakers may also qualify for recertification credits, and have their sessions pre-validated through the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and/or the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI).
Practical Application with an Engaging Delivery: We want passionate, engaging consultants and practitioners that have developed practical, immediately applicable work tools. Our audiences tend to be interactive, so a speaker who is comfortable speaking with mid-sized to large groups is preferred.
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Complete the Speaker Form and submit your completed proposal by February 28, 2019. Delaware SHRM will review proposals on a first-come, first-served basis. The conference program organizers will make final selections and acceptance notifications will be announced prior to May 2018.
Conference attendees are predominantly Human Resource professionals from a variety of industries and disciplines; from entry and intermediate-level experience to seasoned senior managers and directors, participants have a wide range of expertise in functional areas and organizational responsibilities.
Learn practical solutions to human capital and business issues.
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Sessions in this track could include: types of conflict, conflict resolution styles and techniques; negotiation tactics, strategies and styles, teamwork, networking, and relationship building.
The skills, knowledge and ability needed to understand the organization's operations, functions and external environment, and to apply business tools and analyses that inform HR initiatives and operations consistent with the overall strategic direction of the organization.
Sessions in this track could include: Business terms and concepts, demonstrating HR ROI, analyzing and interpreting business documents (e.g., balance sheets, budgets, cash flow statements, profit and loss statements); elements of a business case; business intelligence techniques and tools; financial analysis and methods for assessing business health.
The knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to work with organizational stakeholders in evaluating business challenges and identifying opportunities for the design, implementation and evaluation of change initiatives, and to build ongoing support for HR solutions that meet the changing needs of customers and the business.
Sessions in this track could include: Organizational change management theories and models, consulting processes and models, including the contributions of consulting to organizational systems and processes, effective consulting techniques (e.g., understanding organizational culture, understanding areas and limits of one's own expertise, setting reasonable expectations, avoiding overpromising), key components of successful client interactions (e.g., listening, empathy, communication, follow-up), methods for design and delivery of HR service functions and processes (e.g., issue tracking, client service).
The ability to value and to consider the perspectives and backgrounds of all parties, to interact with others in a global context, and to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Sessions in this track could include: techniques for bridging individual differences, best practices for managing globally diverse workforces; diversity and inclusion; global issues and strategies, designing policies and practices to ensure diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
The ability to navigate the organization and accomplish HR goals, create a compelling vision and mission for HR that aligns with the strategic direction and culture of the organization, lead and promote organizational change, manage the implementation and execution of HR initiatives, and promote the role of HR as a key business partner (influence).
Sessions in this track could include: Leadership theories, people management techniques, motivation theories, influence and persuasion techniques, emotional intelligence.
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Sessions in this track could include: HRIS and data management; how to use data to make data-driven decisions; environmental scans; process improvement; metrics; setting priorities and time management; interpreting survey data; analyzing risk to propose human capital solutions.
The ability to maintain high levels of professional integrity and to act as an ethical agent who promotes core values, integrity and accountability throughout the organization.
Sessions in this track could include: confidentiality and conflicts of interest; codes of conduct, employee advocacy; accountability; minimizing organizational risk from unethical practice; making difficult decisions.
Speaker presentations are not to be used to market or sell services, products, or companies.
Sessions run concurrently for one hour. If your proposal is selected for a Mega Session at the Delaware SHRM State Conference, the duration is ninety minutes.
Proposals must be submitted using the online proposal form and may include additional documents such as a video clip or link as well as supporting document such as PowerPoint presentation, outline, attendee feedback or other file.
Delaware SHRM has a tradition of utilizing educational conference sessions as a platform for innovation in the field of human resource management. We look for contributors who are willing to share their expertise without expectation of payment in the spirit of networking and sharing knowledge with our profession.
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This weekend, I was just checking Google Webmaster Tool for my blog when I found out that the site property is missing. The problem was that Google failed to verify my site because there was no Google Analytics tracking code available (I choose GA tracking method to verify the site in Webmaster Tool).
I'm pretty sure the tracking code has been installed. It must be a bug from Google side, I thought.
I clicked the button to check my site again. To my surprise, it showed an error that my site is failed to load. I opened new tab and enter my site url and all I keep getting was the spinner until a few minutes later Google Chrome displayed an error saying it was connection timeout or something.
That's weird. I use now to deploy my blog, and I think they'll restart the server if there is an error. I searched the zeit community slack channel and confirmed that indeed, now will restart my app if it crashes.
I started investigating this weird behavior. The only clue I have is the latest error reporting from Sentry.
I think I know what crashes my server. Somehow, sometimes my (free) mongodb server is unresponsive, causing timeout when trying to access the page that needs DB connection.
The problem is: why didn't now restart my app after crash?
For making sure it's not now's fault, I tried to reproducing this behavior locally.
I assume now uses something similar to nodemon or pm2 to manage services and restart them in the event of an error. I installed both binary in my local machine, and start the server. After the server is started, I kill my local mongod instance, and then visit the page. Both nodemon and pm2 prints the error when the page is visited after mongod is killed.
Interestingly, neither of them tried to restart the server after the error. Even after turning mongod back up, and visiting the page again, the server is still crashed.
Here's the server code that connects to db and create an http server.
As you can see, I've already handled the error case by exiting the process if there is an error. So if there is an error, the app will quit and now will restart it.
Turns out, I only add error handling for initial connection to the mongodb server. Any connection failures that happen after initial connection will crash the server with no way of recover unless it's restarted manually.
The fix is quite straightforward, I got these by searching express and mongoose integration. I didn't know that mongoose.connect returns an object with connection property that behaves like EventEmitter. This connection property can listen to various events like error, disconnected, and open.
Initial error handling will be moved as callback for error event. Attaching listener on express is moved as callback for open event. The only missing handler from previous code is for disconnected event. This is where we handle connection failures in the middle of request, we simply reconnect to the mongodb server.
Honestly, I still don't know why these crashes are unrecoverable. But at least for now, my blog is up and running again. I also added health check monitoring just in case.


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This week we are doing organic Yellow Squash as our pick of the week. Squash is from the same family as pumpkin and zucchini. This small, sweet squash has a slightly flattened top and scalloped edge. Squash is an excellent source of vitamin C and B2 as well as containing dietary fibre. Select firm squash that are heavy for its size and has smooth, glossy skin. Store in a sealed plastic bag in the fridge for up to three days. Simply wash and cook whole, sliced or cut into wedges. They can be baked, sautéed and made into stews.
This week we have freshly picked new season; Gala, Granny Smith and Fuji apples, as well as new season Organic Jazz apples. Furthermore, we are stocking new season Nashi, Corella and Josephine pears, which of course are all yummy eating!!
Our new season locally grown potatoes are: Organic Dutch Cream Potatoes, Organic Floyd, Organic Kestrel and Organic Epic potatoes.
This week's super-hot price is our new season Josephine pears for only $2.99 kg, and Broccolini bunch, 2 for $4.99. There will be more specials at the end of the week so stay tuned to us! If you haven't already done so, subscribe to our weekly email.
The heat we had in January continues to affect some of our produce. Crops affected have been strawberries, beans, peas, snowpeas, sugarsnaps, as well as our delicate herbs which are very sensitive to hot weather. This generates very limited supply at the market and causes price increases. Our team is doing the best to supply enough stock during this hard growing condition for our growers.
The good news is there are lines that we have plentiful are excellent quality and of course good value, such as; plums, grapes, oranges, limes, cucumbers, lettuce, and potatoes.


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Our client is one of the UK`s leading Utilities price comparison companies. The advisers provide advice and support to customers who are interested in saving money on utility products such as gas and electric in a time of ever increasing energy prices, this role is focused on protecting customers against these price rises.
We are looking for people with a drive to succeed within a growing company, who invest their time and training into employees. A typical day will be making outbound calls to existing clients and offering them a renewal of service, in line with the company development you may also be required to offer new products to existing customers with the overall aim of saving them money.
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Rev. Dr. Takashi Miyaji
Assistant Professor of Shin Buddhist Studies
Consortial Faculty
tmiyaji@shin-ibs.edu
Rev. Dr. Takashi Miyaji has been a minister since 2014 and currently works as a part-time minister at the Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church in Union City, CA. In addition, he teaches as an assistant professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California since September of 2020.
He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor's Degree with a double major in Philosophy and Japanese with a minor in Buddhism; Institute of Buddhist Studies at Berkeley, California with a Master's in Buddhist Studies; Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan with a Master's Degree in Shin Buddhist Studies; and completed the doctoral coursework at Ryukoku University as well as his dissertation, which is entitled, "Shin Buddhist Ethics (Shinshū Rinri no Kenkyū)." He specializes in the areas of Japanese Buddhism and religion, translation of Buddhist scripture, and Jodo Shinshu doctrine and ethics.
Takashi received his Tokudo and Kyoshi qualifications at the Honpa Hongwanji school located in Kyoto, Japan.
Degrees and Certifications
2019 Doctor of Philosophy, Ryukoku University (Kyoto, Japan)
2013 Master of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University
2010 Master of Buddhist Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies
2006 Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Hokyo rank: Academic title recognized within the Nishi Hongwanji (2016)
Kyoshi Ordination (2014)
Tokudo Ordination (2012)
Research and Teaching Interests
Shin Buddhist doctrine and contemporary social issues
Translations of sacred texts
Shin Buddhist hermeneutics and exegesis
Three Pure Land Sutras
Shinran's works
Topics on race, cultural identity, and complexities in translation and cultural exchange
History of Shin Buddhism as well as the history of Buddhism in America
Issues on Doubt and Shinjin in Shinran's Thought
English translation of Gomonshu's (Head Priest of Nishi Hngwanji) book entitled, Moving Forward Just As You Are: Living in These Uncertain Times 『ありのままに、ひたむきに』
A member of the Shin Buddhism Translation Series, a translation committee that completed the English translation of Tanluan's works: Commentary on the Treatise on the Pure Land, and Gathas in Praise of Amida Buddha.
English translation of the book into English entitled Ryu-dai, The First Step: "The Founding Spirit" of Ryukoku University
"An Examination of Shinran's Notion of Doubt: Particularly in the Scope of the Ōjōyōshū" in Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Vol. LXIII No. 2 (March 2015)


PHOTO: Allen Ramsey, DWCPhoto.com. Highlands senior Trey Bowden (17) returns at linebacker this year.
Editor's Note: This is the final preview before the football season begins.
The defense took its share of lumps early in the season in the 1-5 start.
But the hope is more experience returning will change that this season. The Highlands Bluebirds football team saw just starters Tyler Robinson at nose tackle and Austin Beal at cornerback return from the 2014 Class 4A state championship team.
But more than half the starters from last year return. Team averaged 26.9 points per game, 202.1 yards rushing and 154.4 passing against Highlands last year.
"We were young last year as far as experience," said Shelby Jones, Highlands Defensive Coordinator. "We weren't young grade-wise. I think it makes a difference when you have guys who have been playing for a couple years. That should help us especially early when some of the guys are getting their feet wet and getting used to how things are going to work."
Highlands finished 8-6 last year winning district and region championships in Class 5A. The Bluebirds built a 31-14 lead against Pulaski County in the third quarter of the state semi-finals. But the Maroons rallied for a 41-31 win to advance to the state championship game.
"I'm just really looking forward to being back at it," said Crosley New, Highlands junior defensive back. "We really feel like we missed some opportunities losing to Pulaski County last year. Really, everyone is coming back with a vengeance because we have some unfinished business. Right now, we're trying to execute on both sides of the ball."
New played in the season-opening loss at Cooper but left the game out for the year with an injury. New returns with an experienced secondary led by seniors Bradley Greene, Kyle Rust and Sam Taylor. Greene led Highlands with four interceptions for a return of 67 yards and Taylor had a team-high three fumble recoveries with 18 return yards.
Highlands graduated Beal, Austin Mayhew, Taylor Perez and Thomas Wood in the backfield. Beal took his talents to Lindsey Wilson University. But seniors John Buchanan, Ben Grothaus, Michael Siska and juniors Logan Seiple, Joe Steiden and Harrison Traylor could also make a difference there. They have a huge role in making sure teams don't throw the ball over top of them.
"We don't want to give up any big plays," Jones said. "We try to make you play a whole lot of plays and hope within those plays, you'll make a mistake."
The Highlands staff moved a few defensive backs to different positions. Seniors Carter Burke and Noah Kremer-Stegman moved to linebacker spots and Cameron Hays moved to wide receiver.
Burke and Kremer-Stegman will add to the depth at linebacker led by seniors Trey Bowden and Trent Webster. Seniors Dalton Cornett, Luke Meyer, Luke Ross along with juniors Korbyn Poole, Logan Sparks and sophomore Nick Bowman are also hoping to make an impact there. Highlands graduated Luke Lindeman, Jared Dougherty, Joe Dressman, Hank Johnson, Conner Welsch and Ben Ziegler from last year's linebacking depth. Dougherty is playing at Lindsey Wilson.
Jones and the defensive staff are big on not overloading the players with too many instructions. He wants the defenders to know their responsibilities within their 3-4 defensive scheme and let loose. That mostly eliminates the thinking.
The defensive line has the responsibility of putting pressure on quarterbacks and disrupting plays in the backfield. Tyler Robinson did that well for the Bluebirds. Robinson is walking on at the University of Louisville. Defensive linemen Jordan Johnson, Dalton Mallery, Caleb Mullikin and Tyler Sexton graduated and Drew Bravard transferred to Newport Central Catholic. But seniors Jacob Johnson, Bruce Seidel, Connor Myers and juniors Nick Blitz, Keaton Huddleston and Nate Davis hope to make an impact up front.
A huge emphasis every year is conditioning. The Highlands defense played 867 plays last year. Pulaski County wore down Highlands in the state semi-final game.
"That's important regardless of what you're trying to do," Jones said. "You want to have your guys in shape so they can play as many plays as possible. Early, it's anyone's guess. When you're dealing with the heat, you just don't know what's going to happen."
Highlands opens the season Aug. 19 against Cooper. Game time is 7 p.m.