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We have all had these moments when getting high with your friends and the conversations get funny and weird and you find yourselves imagining the most fantastic things. One topic leads to another, and suddenly you're talking about hotboxing in a space suit. Getting high in space. Wow.
'Would an astronaut suffer from oxygen deprivation?'
'Nah, we would design a special ventilation system allowing the astronaut to smoke weed without oxygen levels dropping.'
Suddenly you're designing a weed-friendly spaceship, which is like, a million dollar idea, and imagining yourself on a 10 year long space flight to god-knows-where, getting high and enjoying the view of our star system. Wow.
WHAT DOES SCIENCE SAY?
So, can you get high on marijuana in space? The answer is most likely, yes.
However, some scientists claim that our brain functioning is different in space than here on Earth. According to Stanford neuroscientist Ivan Soltesz, PhD, energetic solar particles, which we are protected from on Earth, may affect the CB1 receptors while being in space.[1]
CB1 receptors are crucial for physical and cognitive functioning and the ability to get high. Therefore, there may be a possibility that getting high in space won't be possible. However, as far as we know, nobody has actually tried it, and to prove these theories we would need willing volunteers to be the "high pioneers" in space. But of course we're 420% sure we could find some participants. Anybody?
The issue would of course be that NASA prevents astronauts from being intoxicated during their travels because that could sabotage their mission in a highly volatile setting.
Buzzed, High, Stoned Or Baked: What's The Difference?
Imagine being really stoned, and suddenly some space particle knocks off a wing from your spaceship. Red lights are flashing everywhere. The oxygen levels are dropping. You would probably only manage to make sure your weed doesn't drift away into space, because that would be a waste. There's no time. Stress. Panic. Hysteria.
Of course, such an event would be traumatic. But let's remember that humans have faced grave challenges in the past and conquered them with thunderous might. We stood victorious over totalitarian regimes. We defeated life-threatening diseases. We developed the f*****g internet! We can surely come up with ways that will be able to rip a bowl in space. Maybe Elon Musk has some good ideas?
GROWING PLANTS IN SPACE
Although during the 19th Century, Charles Darwin already hypothesized that gravity is necessary for roots to grow into the earth, the first experiment on growing plants in space took place in 1999. Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl launched a small scale plantation on Space Shuttle Columbia. But contrary to Darwin's beliefs, they discovered that plants don't need gravity for root orientation.
Further research conducted by NASA show that genetic profiles of plants change in space by switching on and off certain genetic expressions to cope with the zero gravity environment. Research is conducted on how different genetic profiles occurring in space can help us further understand the nature of our plants on earth, and how these spacey profiles can be beneficial for us humans.
In 2015, three astronauts tasted the first space-grown vegetable, the red romaine lettuce. It was grown in a special grow chamber system coined as "Veggie" developed by Orbital Technologies Corp. (ORBITEC), which is specially designed for plants to thrive in zero-gravity environments.
In the Veggie system, the seeds are placed in special plant pillows, which are designed to provide the roots with their necessities in a zero-gravity environment. The main issue with growing plants in space is that water does not absorb into the soil like it does on Earth.
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In space, water "balls up" and doesn't distribute itself evenly onto the roots. This prevents roots from receiving the oxygen and nutrients they need. NASA has solved this problem with these special plant pillows and by inserting water absorbable wicks, onto which the seeds are glued in the right direction so that to the roots shoot downward and plant material upward. LED lights deliver the plants with the necessary lumens for photosynthesis and help the plants grow in the right direction.
There's also another design, similar to the plant pillows, developed by NASA in Utah state. It consists of tightly packed small nylon triangles, providing an even water distribution for the roots.
NASA is currently experimenting with other plants such as zinnias, dwarf tomatoes, and dwarf peppers. Space-X expeditions add new resources to provide the researchers with more tools for research. Also they are working on APH "Advanced Plant Habitat", which will allow for space plantations to be fully automated and analyzed.[2] This will allow the data to be consolidated more effectively, and allow the astronaut farmers to navigate through the rough terrain of space plantations.
CONCLUSION: GETTING HIGH IN SPACE
We are coming closer to developing automated grow systems which will provide us with our greens in space and on Mars. However, the research is still in its infancy.
Who knows, maybe growing cannabis in space will show interesting genetic structures not encountered on Earth, delivering us with some fantastic cannabinoids. As for getting high in space, it's still not quite sure how weed will affect the astronaut. However, as commercial space travel is getting nearer, it probably won't be long before the first joint will be smoked in space.
^ Stanford Medicine, Space travelers beware: High-speed solar protons may mess up your hashish high, retrieved December-18-2018
^ NASA, International Space Station - Advanced Plant Habitat - 12.12.18, retrieved December-18-2018
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The two words you should repeat to yourself religiously are action and content. Action because until something becomes second nature you need to set reminders. Without action marketing opportunities are being wasted, but lost opportunities aren't the only problem. Without action there is no content and there's nothing worse than a dead account. From the customers perspective it makes you appear out of touch or out of business. I don't care what regimen you choose to talk yourself into everyday action, you simply must be committed whole heartedly or it would be better to never start.
Content is king, but does it mean you need to be brilliant everyday? I've said it before, focus on relevance. On that repetitive note, repetition is not bad thing and to some degree to be encourage. Let me be more specific,share and share again sometimes on multiple platforms and sometimes recirculated within the same platform. Share specials, menus, services, events, great employees and guest celebrations - 'Bob and Rose Smith are here celebrating their 50th anniversary. Congrats and thanks for choosing us for your celebration.' Tweet your own horn! Spotlight a new recipe or newly decorated lobby but also spotlight your goals and your achievements. Tell us how much you've saved the world by implementing green practices or, better yet, give your guests kudos for saving 1000's of gallons laundry water. Everyday in every business, owners have dreams of ways they can improve their business. Share them. If you're not already doing so get input from staff and customers as well. Don't operate in a vacuum. Talk, talk, talk about things to do and see in the area - spotlight the staff's favorite places to take family and friends when in town. Finally, address issues or questions promptly. The Internet has provided customers, warranted or not, a very public voice. It's inevitable, one day you're going to get a not so flattering comment. Be prepared. Anticipate negative comments ahead of time. That can be done by simply creating a protocol on how to handled issues because responding promptly to criticism is paramount. Your swift, polite, professional response to your problem may earn you credibility with potential customers.
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THE redevelopment of the former Golden Shoe Car Park will feature a 12,500 square foot public park, Minister for National Development and Second Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong said at a groundbreaking on Friday.
CapitaLand, CapitaLand Commercial Trust and Mitsubishi Estate, which are jointly redeveloping the old carpark, had previously announced plans to turn the site at 88 Market Street, which used to house a popular food centre and carpark, into an S$1.82 billion integrated development.
Besides the public space, footpaths along Market Street, Malacca Street and Phillip Street will be widened with added greenery, along with sheltered linkways along Malacca Street between Raffles Place and other developments. There will also be new cycling paths along these streets, which will connect to upcoming developments planned as part of the Central Area cycling network.
Mr Wong said these moves were aimed at making the area greener, and a "vibrant people-friendly zone". "We hope that Raffles Place will be an area that is not only bustling with the working crowd in the daytime, but will also be a place where people will want to visit to gather and interact at night," he said.
At 280 metres, the 51-storey tower will be among the tallest in the Raffles Place area, and have 350 carpark spaces from levels four to eight. Golden Shoe Car Park had 1,053 carpark spaces.
The former Market Street Car Park had 704 spaces. CapitaGreen, the 40-storey Grade A office tower on the site and which opened in 2015, has 180 parking spaces.
Market Street Food Centre, previously housed in Golden Shoe Car Park, will reopen at the second and third levels . It will be owned by the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR). Currently, stallholders are operating at an interim food centre in Cross Street.
Plans for the new green space, walkways and cycling paths were developed as part of a multi-agency effort by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Land Transport Authority (LTA) and National Parks Board, in collaboration with CapitaLand, which will implement the enhancement works.
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With a gross floor area of about one million square feet, 88 Market Street will comprise 635,000 sq ft of Grade A office space; a 299-unit Citadines serviced residence to be managed by The Ascott Ltd; and ancillary retail space. It will also have a sky garden and a "City Room" on the ground floor which can be used for community events.
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Moray Armstrong, managing director of advisory and transactions for CBRE said: "The office space will be playing into a strengthening office market that is showing encouraging signs on the demand side."


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Saying Kaddish for the Most Recent School Shooting Victim
By Evelyn Becker	 May 9, 2019
From the minute I got the first phone call on Tuesday afternoon, I was overcome with anxiety.
It was 2:30 and I was at one of my favorite coffee shops, working on a new book idea, when my phone rang. It was the Cherry Creek School District, telling me that my 14-year-old's middle school was on "secure perimeter" — meaning there was a known danger in the area, and all students and staff had to stay within a designated area in the school, with all external doors locked and windows covered. This was due to a "situation" in Highlands Ranch, a Denver suburb that's 12 miles from my own.
My worries magnified when I received a text a few minutes later from the Denver Jewish Day School, where my 11-year-old daughter is in fifth grade. They, too, were on a secure perimeter. Soon, I heard from a friend who'd arrived early DJDS to pick up her kids — that the security guard, who generally carries a side pistol, was standing at the entrance to the parking lot holding an AK-15 assault rifle. He stopped my friend — even with her familiar face and DJDS sticker on her car — to look in her backseat and ask her if she was being held hostage.
I continued to worry until 4:15, when both of my kids were finally at home, standing in my kitchen. By then, the local news stations were reporting that eight students at the STEM Academy in Highlands Ranch had been injured in a shooting. I caught a glimpse of the scene on TV, and it was horrifying: young children walking out of the school building with their hands grasped above their heads, as though under arrest; dozens of police cars and other emergency vehicles surrounding the school grounds.
I asked my kids if they'd been told what was going on, and they matter-of-factly reported that they had. Both told me that school progressed more or less as normal; my daughter said she couldn't go to gym because, in order to access the building, she'd have to walk outside. My children were not nearly as scared as I was — this is their reality, their normal. In fact, just a few weeks ago, on April 17, their schools were closed for an entire day due to a threat by a young woman from Florida who came to Colorado specifically to reenact the Columbine shooting as its 20th anniversary approached.
The kids and I got ready for our evening's activity. In an almost cruel twist of fate, we were headed toward a ceremony marking the beginning of Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day that commemorates fallen soldiers and victims of terrorist attacks.
I sat with my family at the Denver Jewish Community's Yom Hazikaron ceremony, held at a local synagogue. My daughter's glee club performed a beautiful song, and my husband, who was born and raised Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, spoke about the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue tragedy — and how his beloved hometown had joined the list of sacred spaces in the U.S. fallen victim to hatred and gun violence.
Still, my thoughts were with the STEM Academy in Highlands Ranch. I felt sad — synagogues and schools are supposed to be safe spaces in our society. My children, all children, have a right to an education. I as a parent, I have a right to feel free — not terrorized — to send my kids to school.
Soon after my husband spoke, I received a news alert on my phone: One of the victims, 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo, had died.
I burst into tears, devastated. I buried my chin into my neck, trying to hide my reaction. There, in synagogue, as I mourned Israel's fallen, my heart broke into pieces for the parents who lost their child. A child who'd been doing the most normal childhood thing of all: going to school.
I buried my chin into neck, trying to hide my reaction. But I'm terrible at concealing my emotions; my kids witnessed everything.
Today, I know that despite my mourning for my neighbors and my country, I have to do better. I have to be stronger — if not for me than for my daughter, who woke up at 5 a.m. this morning, screaming.
She had a nightmare. We were in the mountains, she said, with the Gruenwalds, our dear friends who lost their son a little over a year ago to brain cancer. In her dream, we were hiking, and a moose came by, though it kept walking. But then, she said, there was a bear — and it attacked me, her mother. Hence the screaming.
Her dream wasn't difficult for me to interpret. The "mountains" — meaning the Rockies — are why we moved to Denver eight years ago from Columbus, Ohio; we wanted a healthy, active, outdoor lifestyle. We also own a second home, at the ski resort Breckenridge, where we like to hike and ski, play and love. It's where we most like to be — together — with those with whom we love to hike and ski and play and love.
In my daughter's dream, I think the moose represents cancer. It got our dear friends, it got the brother of her classmate. But so far it has missed our family.
I think the bear, however, is a bullet. And it hit me.
I guided my daughter into my bed, where I tucked her in. I told her, "I am safe, and I will take care of you."
That's what mothers do, of course — we promise to protect our children. But just how will I do this? What does it mean to keep my kids safe if we continue to live in the United States — where there have been 15 school shootings so far in 2019, and there were three mass shootings in the past 11 days alone?
This is not the future I imagined for my family. I am trying to reimagine it with this reality, this life. I am trying to accept that my children are growing up in "Generation Lockdown." I continue to call and write my legislators, and to donate money to organizations like Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, and Giffords: Courage to Fight Gun Violence. I also recently joined the board of a local group working for freedom from gun violence, Colorado Ceasefire. But is it enough?
At the Yom Hazikaron commemoration, a rabbi reminded me that, although Jews say the Kadish for the dead, it is actually a prayer for the future: "Yitkadal V'yitkadash," meaning, "May he be exalted and sanctified."
May Kendrick Castillo, who lost his life while at school just 15 minutes from my home, somehow be exalted and sanctified.
May his mother, his family, his community, and his country somehow be comforted among the mourners of Colorado, the United States, the world.
May we all commit to doing better, and being stronger. Amen.

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The man sat at a small, round, wooden table. On the table were an open notebook and a cup of Earl Grey tea. The man looked around at the people getting their afternoon caffeine fix, then out the window to the rain pounding the strip mall parking lot, then back to the notebook. Random words were scrawled on the page: rain, Spring, taxes, TV, lost love, Census, Mondays of Lore.
Taking a sip of tea, the man thought, It would be so much easier if I could crack my skull open and lay my brain on the page. After a moment's thought, he added, That's probably more performance art than writing. With a sigh and muttered, "Damn," the man looked out at the rain hoping for an idea.
omg, how often I've felt like that…(I'm sure most ppl who write do). I love the way your description is so poetic. And I was drawn in from the first line.
Really nice. I'm not sure about the comma before the "Damn", though.
Nicely described scene a lot of us can relate too. I liked the self-deprecating correction about it being performance art and not writing.
And the comma before 'damn' is a grammar necessity, as any quote should be separated from the rest of the text by a comma.
Thanks. I was sitting in a coffee shop trying to think of something quick to write about, and this is what I came up with.
Published on March 22nd, 2010.
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When Will China Liberalize the Yuan?
In the face of an unwavering adherence by the US to highly accommodative policies, China is faced with the prospect of recycling its ever growing FX reserves into nations or regions that it probably has fundamental fiscal concerns about.
This brings me to the simple observation that the only meaningful way for China to deal with this problem is to change policy so that it doesn't need to intervene on a daily basis (and, hence, accumulate fresh FX reserves that require recycling).
Given this, recent comments from senior officials at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange are of real interest.
On April 27 Li Chao, a deputy governor at SAFE, told the China Securities Journal that in the long run China can only tackle its excess money problem by liberalizing its capital account and allowing cash to flow out, a process that should be sped up by reforming the yuan to make it convertible.
On the same day his colleague Sun Lujun, director general of the capital department of SAFE, argued that China's economic development had reached a stage where it was no longer necessary to maintain an old policy that encouraged foreign capital inflows but restricted fund outflows. He also said that China aimed to gradually ease capital controls and promote yuan convertibility.
This week also saw a telling comment emerge from Guan Tao, head of SAFE's international balance of payments department. In an essay published on the China Finance 40 Forum's website, he argued that allowing the yuan to float "doesn't necessarily mean the yuan will appreciate one way" and would help to contain one-way speculation. Moreover, market participants would automatically adjust their business activities to adapt to a floating system.
Concrete evidence that the topic has been raised at official levels emerged on May 3 when the Wall Street Journal published an interview with Huang Yiping, an economist at Peking University's China Macroeconomic Research Centre, arguing the case for what he called a "conditional free float."
His reasoning was simple. He noted that China's $3 trillion in foreign reserves meant "we're lending money to lots of countries and getting very low returns. I don't know if we can preserve the value [of the reserves], and there is no alternative to [investing in] the USD." He also noted that letting the currency float would also end the Peoples Bank of China's (PBOC) need to "sterilize" the inflow of US dollars by issuing bonds in yuan.
Mr. Huang also told the Journal that he had presented his ideas to the PBOC, Ministry of Finance and National Development and Reform Commission. He specifically noted that PBOC officials were sympathetic to his ideas, but that "the key issue isn't whether the PBOC agrees. The issue is whether top leaders agree."
Some idea of the advice that the most senior members of the Chinese government might be receiving on this matter emerged a few days later in a front page report in The China Daily. It quoted Chen Daofu, the policy research chief at the Financial Research Institute of the State Council's Development Research Centre, as saying that the time wasn't right to allow the yuan to float freely given the excessive liquidity caused by the FOMC's quantitative easing policy.
However, he also stated that China should speed up allowing full convertibility of the yuan in trade and direct investment. In other words, at least one figure in the Cabinet's advisory body believes that the pace of liberalization needs to pick up significantly.
Given that the interaction of US monetary policy and Chinese currency policy has been one of the defining forces for the currency markets over the past decade, this developing story needs to be tracked closely.


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Amazon is gearing up to launch full retail operations in Australia any day now, but its most profitable venture globally has already been running in this country with many customers for several years.
"It's an $US18 billion revenue run rate business, with a 42% growth rate in the last financials that we released. It's a pretty healthy clip on a reasonable sized business. We have millions of active customers," said Amazon Web Services chief executive Andy Jassy in Las Vegas.
Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing provider that has taken over as the most profitable division within Amazon. In fact, the last five quarters has seen it single-handedly cancel out the losses taken on by the retail arm.
In the quarter just ended in September, AWS globally racked up a $US1.2 billion operating profit to completely negate the $US936 million operating loss that came out of the e-commerce division.
And Australian companies have been customers for years.
Some of the publicly known customers include the Commonwealth Bank, Atlassian, Qantas, Fairfax Media, News Corp, Suncorp and Vodafone. Australian startups known to use AWS include names like Campaign Monitor, Freelancer, ZipMoney and Vinomofo.
The chances are, the typical Australian has used an online service that runs on Amazon without knowing it.
While Amazon will not break down client numbers in each country, a spokesperson said that Australia has "thousands of customers across all major industries including all major banks, larger government departments, industrial and media leaders, mining and resources and Australian startups".
Cloud computing allows a company to outsource their tech infrastructure needs, to avoid having to run its own data centres and servers. Amazon clinched first mover advantage in providing this outsourcing capability, launching its first public service in 2004 and relaunching the brand in 2006 – well before the term "cloud computing" was introduced into common parlance by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.
Microsoft and Google joined the race later, but sit far behind Amazon in market share with smaller product portfolios. Companies like IBM and Telstra have also tried providing cloud computing without much success.
While the service installed its first computer servers in Australia in 2012, local customers were using AWS long before that by outsourcing their infrastructure to Amazon's USA, Asia or even European data centres.
Australia head of startup ecosystem Ian Gardiner said outsourcing computing infrastructure was initially attractive for startups because it could quickly start a business for very little outlay.
"You can launch a startup now with essentially no money," he told Business Insider.
For a startup like Australian labour exchange marketplace Freelancer, which has operated its entire life in the cloud and just surpassed 25 million users this year, outsourcing its infrastructure to Amazon has a flow-on effect on the culture of the company.
"For us it helps not to have internal barriers [to new ideas]… The mindset that everyone in the company has is we have rapid releases [of new features], we try new technologies as they come out," said Freelancer systems engineering manager Aman Bazayev.
Business Insider spoke to multiple Australian companies and one common theme came out: outsourcing computing services allows even older businesses to behave like startups – by allowing new ideas to be turned into reality at speed and on the cheap.
"Qantas, Lion, HCF – they are progressive companies using cloud services a lot. A lot of the reason why they're doing is because they need and want innovation. They need and want a cultural shift to try and convince their staff and organisation that that's the way they have to move," said Gardiner.
For Australian marketing tech success story Campaign Monitor, its systems have to handle sending "billions" of emails each month with peaks and troughs – something that is far easier to dial up and down with outsourced computing infrastructure.
"We use close to 1000 [server] instances," Campaign Monitor chief information officer Henry Wiputra told Business Insider.
The annual AWS re:Invent conference, on this week, attracted 40,000 people from around the world to Las Vegas this year, taking over 5 casinos with sessions and events.
Adoring fans saw Jassy deliver a keynote on Wednesday that announced, among many new features, a tool to allow anyone to develop machine learning capabilities without having expertise in the area. The company also introduced functionality to bring video image recognition and natural language processor within the reach of customers.
"One of best things about AWS is that you can just try it and it doesn't cost much money. We have startup [assistance] programmes that we provide to these people as well – AWS credits, free training, engineering support," said Gardiner.
The journalist travelled to the US courtesy of Amazon Web Services.


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using System;
using System.Net;

namespace LegendaryClient.Logic.Region
{
    public sealed class OCE : BaseRegion
    {
        public override string RegionName
        {
            get { return "OCE"; }
        }

        public override string InternalName
        {
            get { return "OC1"; }
        }

        public override string ChatName
        {
            get { return "oc1"; }
        }

        public override Uri NewsAddress
        {
            get { return new Uri("http://ll.leagueoflegends.com/landingpage/data/oce/en_AU.js"); }
        }

        public override string Server
        {
            get { return "prod.oc1.lol.riotgames.com"; }
        }

        public override string LoginQueue
        {
            get { return "https://lq.oc1.lol.riotgames.com/"; }
        }

        public override string Locale
        {
            get { return "en_US"; }
        }

        public override IPAddress[] PingAddresses
        {
            get
            {
                return new IPAddress[]
                {
                    //No known IP address
                };
            }
        }

        public override Uri SpectatorLink
        {
            get { return new Uri("http://spectator.oc1.lol.riotgames.com/observer-mode/rest/"); }
        }

        public override string SpectatorIpAddress
        {
            get { return "192.64.169.29"; }
        }
    }
}

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Film · News
Drew Barrymore stars in cannibal comedy, Santa Clarita Diet
America's Sweetheart likes to gnaw on flesh.
Samantha O'Connor18 Jan, 2017
The popularity of vampires were replaced be the wave of zombies, but now it's time for the cannibals to shine. Last week, we showed you the trailer for a French coming-of-age story about a teenage cannibal and now it's been unveiled that America's sweetheart, Drew Barrymore will star in the Netflix original series, Santa Clarita Diet.
Watch the first trailer below.


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namespace content {
class BrowserContext;
}  // namespace content

#if BUILDFLAG(IS_MAC)
namespace device {
class GeolocationManager;
}  // namespace device
#endif  // BUILDFLAG(IS_MAC)

namespace webrtc {
class MediaStreamDeviceEnumerator;
}  // namespace webrtc

namespace embedder_support {

// Contains all delegates & helper classes needed to construct all default
// permission contexts via CreateDefaultPermissionContexts().
struct PermissionContextDelegates {
  PermissionContextDelegates();
  PermissionContextDelegates(PermissionContextDelegates&&);
  PermissionContextDelegates& operator=(PermissionContextDelegates&&);
  ~PermissionContextDelegates();

  std::unique_ptr<permissions::CameraPanTiltZoomPermissionContext::Delegate>
      camera_pan_tilt_zoom_permission_context_delegate;
  std::unique_ptr<permissions::GeolocationPermissionContext::Delegate>
      geolocation_permission_context_delegate;
#if BUILDFLAG(IS_MAC)
  device::GeolocationManager* geolocation_manager;
#endif  // BUILDFLAG(IS_MAC)
  raw_ptr<webrtc::MediaStreamDeviceEnumerator> media_stream_device_enumerator;
  std::unique_ptr<permissions::NfcPermissionContext::Delegate>
      nfc_permission_context_delegate;
};

// Creates default permission contexts shared between Content embedders.
// Embedders are expected to populate all fields of |delegates| which are then
// being used to create the specific permission contexts.
permissions::PermissionManager::PermissionContextMap
CreateDefaultPermissionContexts(content::BrowserContext* browser_context,
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}  // namespace embedder_support

#endif  // COMPONENTS_EMBEDDER_SUPPORT_PERMISSION_CONTEXT_UTILS_H_


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Buckcherry Singer Josh Todd - "I Just Want To Do What Feels Right"
Buckcherry's forthcoming album, Confessions (out Feb. 19), is largely based on the seven deadly sins — greed, gluttony, wrath, you know 'em — but frontman Josh Todd...
Childhood Sexual Abuse Fires Artist's Activism & Art
Anyone looking for a powerful example of something really good coming out of something really bad need look no further than Winnipeg-based multidisciplinary artist Ingrid D. Johnson. Through music...
Not-for-profit Bistro Aids Local Charities While Boosting Volunteerism
If she'd known how tough running a restaurant was, Judy Servay never would have launched one, especially a not-for-profit designed to serve the community with every plate of food. But as the...
Movember Merch: Products That Support The Prostate
The awesome power of the Movember moustache resides not only in the awareness it raises for men's health, but it's also the only time that men can get away with unruly facial hair and not...
Canadian Tenors Drop Everything For Bulembu
Vocal quartet the Tenors (a.k.a. the Canadian Tenors) have performed marquee gigs across the globe, from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics to Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee at Windsor Castle, but...
My Name Is Kay Opens Eyes At We Day
Canadian pop singer My Name Is Kay, who has collaborated with Tiesto, Diplo, Far East Movement and Cobra Starship, and released her own self-titled EP that earned notice, had her eyes opened recently...
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Appliance Manufacturer's Family Connection Informs CSR Decisions
Most people think of home when they think of appliances. So it made perfect sense when Electrolux Canada, maker of fridges, stoves, dishwashers and other shiny utilitarian things, recently announced...
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Uniportal vs. triportal video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of primary pneumothorax - A propensity matched bicentric study
Dania Nachira, Mahmoud Ismail, Elisa Meacci, Edoardo Zanfrini, Amedeo Iaffaldano, Marc Swierzy, Julianna Englisch, Svea Faber, Ramin Raul Ossami Saidy, Maria Letizia Vita, Venanzio Porziella, Jens C. Rueckert, Stefano Margaritora
IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli
Background: The role of triportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is widely recognized for the treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP). The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness and the potential advantages of uniportal VATS (U-VATS) for the treatment of PSP compared with triportal VATS. Methods: A total of 104 triportal (n=39) and uniportal (n=65) VATS procedures where performed for the treatment of PSP in two University hospitals. The prospectively collected data of postoperative outcomes were retrospectively reviewed and a 1:1 propensity score matching analysis was performed to compare the two VATS approaches. Results: No major adverse events occurred after operation. Compared with triportal-VATS, Uniportal-VATS showed the same effectiveness in terms of risk of recurrence (null in both groups), post-operative complications (P=1.000) and operating time (66.04±16.92 vs. 74.57±21.38 min, P=0.141). However, there was a statistically significant difference in favor of uniportal-VATS in terms of necessity of further access [0 vs. 7 (30.4%), P=0.004], chest tube duration (4.39±1.41 vs. 6.32±0.94 days, P<<0.001), postoperative hospital stay (4.78±1.31 vs. 6.61±1.67 days, P<<0.001), visual analogue pain score (VAS) at 24 hours (3.45±1.41 vs. 6.44±2.45, P<<0.001), number of patients who had pain after chest drain removal [1 (4.3%) vs. 16 (69.6%), P<<0.001], VAS after drainage removal (0.11±0.47 vs. 2.74±2.25, P<<0.001), postoperative pain duration (2.50±1.20 vs. 14.82±37.41 days, P<<0.001), pain killers intake (0.75±1.06 vs. 7.53±3.96 days, P=0.001), chronic paresthesia (level scale: 0 to 2; 0 vs. 0.52±0.66, P<<0.001), chronic neuralgia (0 vs. 0.43±0.59, P<<0.001) and cosmetic results (level scale: 0 to 3; 2.91±0.28 vs. 2.00±0.77, P<<0.001). Conclusions: U-VATS is feasible and safe and may be a less invasive alternative to triportal VATS for the treatment of PSP because of its effectiveness in reducing postoperative pain, paresthesia, hospital stay and in improving cosmetic results.
https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2018.04.124
Chest Tubes
Propensity Score
Pleurectomy
Triportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (triportal VATS)
Uniportal VATS (U-VATS)
Nachira, D., Ismail, M., Meacci, E., Zanfrini, E., Iaffaldano, A., Swierzy, M., ... Margaritora, S. (2018). Uniportal vs. triportal video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of primary pneumothorax - A propensity matched bicentric study. Journal of Thoracic Disease, 10, S3712-S3719. https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2018.04.124
Uniportal vs. triportal video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of primary pneumothorax - A propensity matched bicentric study. / Nachira, Dania; Ismail, Mahmoud; Meacci, Elisa; Zanfrini, Edoardo; Iaffaldano, Amedeo; Swierzy, Marc; Englisch, Julianna; Faber, Svea; Saidy, Ramin Raul Ossami; Vita, Maria Letizia; Porziella, Venanzio; Rueckert, Jens C.; Margaritora, Stefano.
In: Journal of Thoracic Disease, Vol. 10, 01.11.2018, p. S3712-S3719.
Nachira, D, Ismail, M, Meacci, E, Zanfrini, E, Iaffaldano, A, Swierzy, M, Englisch, J, Faber, S, Saidy, RRO, Vita, ML, Porziella, V, Rueckert, JC & Margaritora, S 2018, 'Uniportal vs. triportal video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of primary pneumothorax - A propensity matched bicentric study', Journal of Thoracic Disease, vol. 10, pp. S3712-S3719. https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2018.04.124
Nachira D, Ismail M, Meacci E, Zanfrini E, Iaffaldano A, Swierzy M et al. Uniportal vs. triportal video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of primary pneumothorax - A propensity matched bicentric study. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 2018 Nov 1;10:S3712-S3719. https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2018.04.124
Nachira, Dania ; Ismail, Mahmoud ; Meacci, Elisa ; Zanfrini, Edoardo ; Iaffaldano, Amedeo ; Swierzy, Marc ; Englisch, Julianna ; Faber, Svea ; Saidy, Ramin Raul Ossami ; Vita, Maria Letizia ; Porziella, Venanzio ; Rueckert, Jens C. ; Margaritora, Stefano. / Uniportal vs. triportal video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of primary pneumothorax - A propensity matched bicentric study. In: Journal of Thoracic Disease. 2018 ; Vol. 10. pp. S3712-S3719.
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AU - Margaritora, Stefano
N2 - Background: The role of triportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is widely recognized for the treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP). The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness and the potential advantages of uniportal VATS (U-VATS) for the treatment of PSP compared with triportal VATS. Methods: A total of 104 triportal (n=39) and uniportal (n=65) VATS procedures where performed for the treatment of PSP in two University hospitals. The prospectively collected data of postoperative outcomes were retrospectively reviewed and a 1:1 propensity score matching analysis was performed to compare the two VATS approaches. Results: No major adverse events occurred after operation. Compared with triportal-VATS, Uniportal-VATS showed the same effectiveness in terms of risk of recurrence (null in both groups), post-operative complications (P=1.000) and operating time (66.04±16.92 vs. 74.57±21.38 min, P=0.141). However, there was a statistically significant difference in favor of uniportal-VATS in terms of necessity of further access [0 vs. 7 (30.4%), P=0.004], chest tube duration (4.39±1.41 vs. 6.32±0.94 days, P<<0.001), postoperative hospital stay (4.78±1.31 vs. 6.61±1.67 days, P<<0.001), visual analogue pain score (VAS) at 24 hours (3.45±1.41 vs. 6.44±2.45, P<<0.001), number of patients who had pain after chest drain removal [1 (4.3%) vs. 16 (69.6%), P<<0.001], VAS after drainage removal (0.11±0.47 vs. 2.74±2.25, P<<0.001), postoperative pain duration (2.50±1.20 vs. 14.82±37.41 days, P<<0.001), pain killers intake (0.75±1.06 vs. 7.53±3.96 days, P=0.001), chronic paresthesia (level scale: 0 to 2; 0 vs. 0.52±0.66, P<<0.001), chronic neuralgia (0 vs. 0.43±0.59, P<<0.001) and cosmetic results (level scale: 0 to 3; 2.91±0.28 vs. 2.00±0.77, P<<0.001). Conclusions: U-VATS is feasible and safe and may be a less invasive alternative to triportal VATS for the treatment of PSP because of its effectiveness in reducing postoperative pain, paresthesia, hospital stay and in improving cosmetic results.
AB - Background: The role of triportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is widely recognized for the treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP). The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness and the potential advantages of uniportal VATS (U-VATS) for the treatment of PSP compared with triportal VATS. Methods: A total of 104 triportal (n=39) and uniportal (n=65) VATS procedures where performed for the treatment of PSP in two University hospitals. The prospectively collected data of postoperative outcomes were retrospectively reviewed and a 1:1 propensity score matching analysis was performed to compare the two VATS approaches. Results: No major adverse events occurred after operation. Compared with triportal-VATS, Uniportal-VATS showed the same effectiveness in terms of risk of recurrence (null in both groups), post-operative complications (P=1.000) and operating time (66.04±16.92 vs. 74.57±21.38 min, P=0.141). However, there was a statistically significant difference in favor of uniportal-VATS in terms of necessity of further access [0 vs. 7 (30.4%), P=0.004], chest tube duration (4.39±1.41 vs. 6.32±0.94 days, P<<0.001), postoperative hospital stay (4.78±1.31 vs. 6.61±1.67 days, P<<0.001), visual analogue pain score (VAS) at 24 hours (3.45±1.41 vs. 6.44±2.45, P<<0.001), number of patients who had pain after chest drain removal [1 (4.3%) vs. 16 (69.6%), P<<0.001], VAS after drainage removal (0.11±0.47 vs. 2.74±2.25, P<<0.001), postoperative pain duration (2.50±1.20 vs. 14.82±37.41 days, P<<0.001), pain killers intake (0.75±1.06 vs. 7.53±3.96 days, P=0.001), chronic paresthesia (level scale: 0 to 2; 0 vs. 0.52±0.66, P<<0.001), chronic neuralgia (0 vs. 0.43±0.59, P<<0.001) and cosmetic results (level scale: 0 to 3; 2.91±0.28 vs. 2.00±0.77, P<<0.001). Conclusions: U-VATS is feasible and safe and may be a less invasive alternative to triportal VATS for the treatment of PSP because of its effectiveness in reducing postoperative pain, paresthesia, hospital stay and in improving cosmetic results.
KW - Pleurectomy
KW - Pneumothorax
KW - Triportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (triportal VATS)
KW - Uniportal VATS (U-VATS)
U2 - 10.21037/jtd.2018.04.124
DO - 10.21037/jtd.2018.04.124
JO - Journal of Thoracic Disease
JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease
10.21037/jtd.2018.04.124
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Dear LT: You've got grit
Dear LT,
My first Second Lieutenant mug shot
In my first few weeks as the first women assigned to fly the Apache helicopter in the XVIII Airborne Corps at Ft. Bragg, NC, one out of 120 men in the regiment, I was sent to a nearby Marine Corps base for a women's history month breakfast. After the meal, the host walked me up to the commander of the base.
"Sir, this is Lieutenant Huffman," she said. "She's the first woman to fly Apaches at Bragg."
"Nice to meet you Sir," I said, and held out my hand.
The colonel looked at me. He did not smile. He straightened his shoulders, swiveled on his heel and walked away.
This wasn't the first time the environment I was entering revealed itself, and it certainly wasn't the last. It wasn't close to the worst. I remember making a small smile and saying "Hmmmm," and thinking, as I did each time, that there would always be people like that in the world, and having also to steel myself just a little bit more each time inside, which is to say, I had to find the grit down deep. You've got it too.
First days flight training as a second lieutenant in the UH-1 Huey helicopter
You're going to find grit indispensible in your career (but it's not the only thing...we have a lot to talk about!) You'd think that times have changed, but you'll read in the She's Got Grit profiles that things haven't necessarily changed all that much. Women are forging the way into new arenas all the time, and now almost anything is open to you. A field being open doesn't make it easy, though. and while it may not be easier to enter a new field, there are lessons new leaders can learn and strength we can find in those stories of making it through, past the detractors and in the midst of environments set up for failure.
Coming across across Angela Duckworth's TED talk on GRIT, I was riveted. Grit is the word I've always used to define my years in uniform. There were other things too, good and bad. There was a fierce pride, there was terror and excitement and frustration and elation, disappointment and triumph. Most of all, though, was grit. It turns out GRIT, if defined as resilience, has become something of a buzzword in both business and parenting. Forbes asks if you have it, National Geographic says it's more important than IQ, and there's even a GRIT institute.
So what is it? Duckworth says grit is passion and perseverance toward very long term goals. It's the thing that gets you to take one step and then another when you think you can't after a tragedy. A woman Everest climber I know says it's the rainy bivouac. It's some combination of courage and perseverance, endurance and fortitude. It isn't always pretty-- in fact, it rarely is-- but it's the part of each one of us that helps us keep going when we feel alone and exhausted. You have it. Whether it's how you responded to a bully at school or how you found the will to run at the fullback with the blond ponytail and the fearless charge, you have grit. Sometimes you just need to find it.
With stick buddy Anders Kyed from Denmark outside our UH-1 Huey trainer
I hope that these letters, along with the stories from people who know a thing or two about GRIT might inform and equip your own journey, as well as help you build environments where GRIT is less about survival and more about thriving.
You're going to have a great time. Know that there are those who have gone before you, and who survived and thrived. You will too.
When has grit been a function of your success? How do you define Grit?
Posted on January 28, 2016 by Shannon Polson and filed under Dear LT, Frontline Leadership, Courage, The Grit Project and tagged grit leadership leader women vanguard mentoring mentorship.


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And Then You Do This . . . .
Have cards made: This meant finding a good but affordable designer and printer and then doing the writing and proposing the design plan myself. Later, I had oversized postcards made to give or mail with my book when appropriate. I designed a few of these, customized for different audiences.
Get meaningful endorsements: Pre-publication, I reached out to secure endorsements for my book from a best-selling author, a New York book critic, a spiritual leader, and a well-known actress, all of whom I personally knew. I also tried to get blurbs from inspirational authors I admired but didn't know. To do that, I wrote appreciative letters, sent galleys . . . and got no response. ("The new 'no' is no response," one of my publicists told me.) I was especially disappointed not to hear back from a Boulder spiritual author to whom I had written a very individualized letter and who had graduated from the same small college I had. But I later saw her present her newest book at the Boulder Book Store, and I could see she was frantic and exhausted from doing all the public relations work that she, an author of many best-selling books, still had to do. Note to self: Do not contact authors who are about to launch or have recently launched a book. Second note to self: Getting meaningful endorsements at any point in the life of your book is helpful. You can always post them on Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon . . . or your refrigerator.
Think about Facebook: I chose not to have a book page on Facebook. Instead, I followed the advice of a fellow author to just use my personal page. This makes life a little simpler, but it does have drawbacks. I felt a little uncool pushing my book over and over to friends and relatives—and felt hurt when they didn't "like" or "share" my posts!
Another drawback is that Facebook doesn't allow you to boost posts on a personal page, although I was able to boost posts that I placed on my publisher's Facebook page. And anyone can create and place ads (word-limited posts with graphics and the word "Sponsored" above) that go into news feeds of a targeted audience you choose. I started doing this later in my journey and continued doing it for a few years—with diminishing returns.
Publicity: Get write-ups (reviews/excerpts/interviews/features) in magazines, journals, and newspapers. I did research on all outlets that I thought would like my book.
Distribution: Get books stocked at lots of non-bookstore outlets, including spas, gift stores, hospitals, airports, and unique sites. And I found that when I went in person to bookstores that did not already have my book, the buyer would often order it.
Book talks: Arrange to speak and/or sign at many different places. My publisher arranged a couple of book talks; the rest were up to me—along with all travel expenses. The bookstores did a lot of the PR to the press and made nice posters, but they always did so with my help and editing. Boutique and gift shops are two outlets that consistently reorder my book and give it a great display, and they appreciate having signed copies.
© 2018 Rivvy Neshama. All rights reserved. No part of this six-part essay may be reproduced without permission in writing from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations that acknowledge both the writer and the title of her book, Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles.


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17 Naughty Truths About Cate Blanchett
1. Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director.
2. She has received critical acclaim and many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Awards.
3. Blanchett is one of only five actors, and the only actress, to receive Academy Award nominations for portraying the same role in two films, as well as the only Australian to win two acting Oscars.
4. A six-time Oscar nominee, she has also received nominations for Notes on a Scandal .
5. Blanchett has also had an extensive career on stage and is a four-time Helpmann Award winner for Best Female Actor in a Play.
6. Her earlier roles include the title role in Electra at the National Institute of Dramatic Art .
7. From 2008 to 2013, she and her husband Andrew Upton were co-CEOs and artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company.
8. Her other roles on stage include Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire in Sydney, New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center .
9. She was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012.
10. While in Egypt, Blanchett was asked to be an extra as an American cheerleader in an Egyptian boxing movie, Kaboria, and in need of money, she accepted.
11. That year, she was cast as Clytemnestra in a production of Sophocles' Electra.
12. A couple of weeks after rehearsals, the actress playing the title role pulled out, and director Lindy Davies cast Blanchett in the role.
13. Her first high-profile international role was as Elizabeth I of England in the critically acclaimed 1998 film Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur.
14. The short was written and directed by her husband, Andrew Upton, and produced by Blanchett and Upton. and the critically acclaimed Anthony Minghella film The Talented Mr. Ripley, alongside Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
15. She received her second BAFTA nomination for her performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
16. Dans 2006, she starred opposite Brad Pitt in the multi-lingual, multi-narrative ensemble drama Babel, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, which received seven Academy Award nominations, the Steven Soderbergh-directed The Good German with George Clooney, and the acclaimed Notes on a Scandal opposite Dame Judi Dench.
17. The cameo was uncredited and she gave her fee to charity.
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Q: jQuery Validation in a dialog using .load() I have 2 ASP.Net pages, one contains an empty div that will hold the jQuery dialog window and the required code to .load() controls on another page which contains the controls I would like to validate. (They are ASP.Net textboxes contained in regular HTML tables)
The below code is used to open the dialog and load the second page containing the controls:
 $(".open-dialog").click(function () {
    $("#hfAddressHash").val($(this).attr('class').split(' ')[1]);
    $.ajaxSetup({ cache: false }) //Stops annoying caching problem.
    $('#dialog').load('jQueryLoad.aspx?Hash='123' + ' #divTest');
    dlg.dialog('open');
  });

An example of the controls displayed on the second page are as follows:

        Source System(s)
        <asp:Label ID="lblSource" runat="server"></asp:Label>
        Firm

<asp:Label ID="lblCountry" runat="server"></asp:Label>

        <asp:ImageButton ID="imgArrow" runat="server" CssClass="copyAddress Country" ImageUrl="/Intranet/_Resources/Icons/arrow.png" />
        Firm
        <asp:TextBox ID="txtCountry" CssClass="droppable" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

I would like to make the above 'txtCountry' control a required field for example using jQuery validation.
My validation and dialog functionality code is as follows:
  $("#form1").validate();

  if ($("#txtCountry").is(":visible")) {

    $("#txtCountry").rules("add", { required: true });
  }

  var dlg = $("#dialog").dialog({

    autoOpen: false,
    modal: true,
    height: 820,
    width: 860,
    buttons: {
      Cancel: function () {
        $("#dialog").dialog('close');
      },
      Submit: function () {
        if (!$('#form1').valid()) { // Validate on Submit
          return false;
        }

        var names = [];
        $('#cblTypes input:checked').each(function () {
          names.push($(this).val());
        });
        $.ajax({
          type: "POST",
          url: "AddressView.aspx/postAddress",
          data: '{"OwnerRef":"' + $("#hfClient").val() + '"}',
          async: false,
          contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
          dataType: "json",
          success: function (msg) {
            form1.submit();
          },
          error: function (msg) {
            alert(msg.d);
          }
        });
      }
    }
  });

On the press of the 'Submit' button contained in the jquery dialog, the page does not validate the 'txtCountry' control as intended to.
What am I missing here?

A: One thing I see right away. In your ajax settings, you have some json in the data part.
data: '{"OwnerRef":"' + $("#hfClient").val() + '"}',

Change it to:
data: { OwnerRef: $("#hfClient").val() },

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When international businesses' operate in other cultures, what advantages do they enjoy when they learn to adequately communicate? NOTE – Please do not forget to utilize/apply Hofstede's framework if necessary Culture is defined as the set of values, beliefs, rules, and institutions held by a specific group of people. It can also be defined, according to anthropologist Edward Taylor in 1870s as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, customs and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society" ( Oguneme 2009).
One very important component of culture recognized by all international businesses is communication. The effectiveness of the communication process depends on the degree to which the receiver understands the message the sender intended to convey. In order to effectively communicate managers must know how to overcome the barriers involved in the communication process". Using the Hofstede's cultural dimensions as a starting point, you can evaluate the approach taken, the decisions and actions based on a general overview of how society might think and react to you.
Therefore international business must be able to master the art of the spoken and the unspoken language in order to enjoy the advantages such as increased productivity and staff loyalty, minimal employee conflict and increased market sales. Productivity is enhanced when people learn to communicate effectively. This is so because the organization will feel more empowered as they are better able to execute tasks and jobs with shared objectives, confidence in the process and one direction. This in turn also brings about staff loyalty as the shared goal creates bonds between employees and the organization.
According to Hofstede Framework, collectivist cultures feel a strong association to groups, including family and work units. The goal is to maintain group harmony and work toward collective rather than personal goals" (Papa n. d. ). Most conflict is the result of misunderstood communication. When you become an effective communicator, you can resolve conflict and create harmony by bridging the communication gaps that create conflict and overcoming the difficulties of misperception, misinterpretation and misevaluation.
Hofstede's (1980) cultural value of Individualism-Collectivism has been widely applied as a theoretical framework for conflict management from a cross-cultural perspective. His theory presents the view of seeing things through the eyes of the other party, understanding and appreciating how each other function thus learning how to amicably handle and apply conflict resolution whether compromising, accommodating, avoiding, competing or collaborating (Yuen 2001).
Finally, international business aim to gain market share and increase sales with the help of powerful and careful marketing campaigns. In order to accomplish this, international businesses must recognize cultural differences; understand these differences accurately and adjust communication strategies according to the differences. For example, using Hofstede's fourth value dimension, masculinity verse femininity, some Middle East countries ad campaigns must be specific to the gender to ensure success (Shao n. d. ).
Without a doubt it is evident that effective communication builds strong business and personal relationships because you learn to understand exactly what people want and the methods necessary to make provisions for them. Communication makes formidable demands, such that it ultimately rewards both the individual and or the organization in providing an environment where the people thrive and the enterprise flourishes. Once the international businesses learn to communicate effectively, breaking down the cross- cultural barriers, they stand to create a win- win outcome for all involved (Mindtools. com).


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The MachineTag::Tag class represents a tag which can either be a machine tag or a plain tag. It inherits from String so it can be used in the same ways.
The MachineTag::Set class represents a set of tags and provides a way of looking them up by namespace or by namespace and predicate. It inherits from the Set so it can be used in the same ways. If String objects are passed into it they will automatically be converted to MachineTag::Tag objects.


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Statements » Saai submits commentary on UK trophy hunting ban
Saai submits commentary on UK trophy hunting ban
Saai, an organisation that protects the interests of family farmers, which also includes game farmers, recently submitted commentary on the UK government's consultation on whether to ban the import and export of hunting trophies to and from the UK. The call for evidence and consultation to gather views and expert evidence on trophy hunting was announced by Zac Goldsmith, International Environment Minister. The commentary period ends on 25 January 2020.
Overexploitation and inappropriately managed hunting activity are cited as some of the main concerns, because these are drivers of species extinction and biodiversity loss according to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
"The legal and sustainable use of wildlife, as well as the legal trade in hunting trophies has contributed greatly to the recovery of dwindling species populations – and even saved animals like the bontebok and the roan and sable antelopes from extinction," says Francois Rossouw, CEO of Saai.
The wildlife ranching sector not only contributes to the conservation of wildlife, but also makes a considerable contribution to the economy through tourism and the job opportunities that it creates.
"We are aware that South Africa is being used in this debate as a prime example to lobby against trophy hunting. The facts and research used against our wildlife ranching industry are poor and we believe that the wildlife farmers and their representatives should be given the opportunity to state their side of the argument before a decision is made," Rossouw adds.
Taking note of Defra's statement – that there will be future policy options to be discussed in terms of trophy hunting – Saai requested a meeting with Defra to make presentations on the wildlife ranching sector in South Africa along with network partners from across the industry.


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Q: Mule ESB, issue when adding up numbers within a JSON array I use the following dynamic query (even though I could have used a prepared stmt) in my Database COnnection node:
SELECT BALANCE FROM xxx.TAB

I have the following expression in the SetPayload command that is run immediately after the Datbase Connection node:
#[message.payload]

and I get the following response from curl:
[{"BALANCE":111.11},{"BALANCE":222.12},{"BALANCE":444.30}]

So I modify the flow, putting an expression node between the Database connection node and the SetPayload node with the following expressions:
sum = 0;
foreach (row : message.payload) {
  sum += row['BALANCE'];
}
message.payload = sum;

I run curl again, but this time I get the following:
777.5299999999999994315658113919199

Actually, the answer should be 777.53
What happened to this data?
Is there a way to fix this ?
Thanks

A: It's because the value is a Float or Double. Take a look at something like: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html
Bit messy, but something like:
sum = 0;
foreach (row : message.payload) {
  sum += row['BALANCE'];
}
message.payload = new java.text.DecimalFormat("#.##").format(sum);


Half-past ten in the morning was about her hour for seeking this spot — a time when the town avenues were deserted as the avenues of Karnac. Business had long since passed down them into its daily cells, and Leisure had not arrived there. So Elizabeth-Jane walked and read, or looked over the edge of the book to think, and thus reached the churchyard.
There, approaching her mother's grave she saw a solitary dark figure in the middle of the gravel-walk. This figure, too, was reading; but not from a book: the words which engrossed it being the inscription on Mrs. Henchard's tombstone. The personage was in mourning like herself, was about her age and size, and might have been her wraith or double, but for the fact that it was a lady much more beautifully dressed than she. Indeed, comparatively indifferent as Elizabeth-Jane was to dress, unless for some temporary whim or purpose, her eyes were arrested by the artistic perfection of the lady's appearance. Her gait, too, had a flexuousness about it, which seemed to avoid angularity. It was a revelation to Elizabeth that human beings could reach this stage of external development — she had never suspected it. She felt all the freshness and grace to be stolen from herself on the instant by the neighbourhood of such a stranger. And this was in face of the fact that Elizabeth could now have been writ handsome, while the young lady was simply pretty.
Had she been envious she might have hated the woman; but she did not do that — she allowed herself the pleasure of feeling fascinated. She wondered where the lady had come from. The stumpy and practical walk of honest homeliness which mostly prevailed there, the two styles of dress thereabout, the simple and the mistaken, equally avouched that this figure was no Casterbridge woman's, even if a book in her hand resembling a guide-book had not also suggested it.
The stranger presently moved from the tombstone of Mrs. Henchard, and vanished behind the corner of the wall. Elizabeth went to the tomb herself; beside it were two footprints distinct in the soil, signifying that the lady had stood there a long time. She returned homeward, musing on what she had seen, as she might have mused on a rainbow or the Northern Lights, a rare butterfly or a cameo.
Interesting as things had been out of doors, at home it turned out to be one of her bad days. Henchard, whose two years' mayoralty was ending, had been made aware that he was not to be chosen to fill a vacancy in the list of aldermen; and that Farfrae was likely to become one of the Council. This caused the unfortunate discovery that she had played the waiting-maid in the town of which he was Mayor to rankle in his mind yet more poisonously. He had learnt by personal inquiry at the time that it was to Donald Farfrae — that treacherous upstart — that she had thus humiliated herself. And though Mrs. Stannidge seemed to attach no great importance to the incident — the cheerful souls at the Three Mariners having exhausted its aspects long ago — such was Henchard's haughty spirit that the simple thrifty deed was regarded as little less than a social catastrophe by him.
Ever since the evening of his wife's arrival with her daughter there had been something in the air which had changed his luck. That dinner at the King's Arms with his friends had been Henchard's Austerlitz: he had had his successes since, but his course had not been upward. He was not to be numbered among the aldermen — that Peerage of burghers — as he had expected to be, and the consciousness of this soured him to-day.
"Well, where have you been?" he said to her with offhand laconism.
"I've been strolling in the Walks and churchyard, father, till I feel quite leery." She clapped her hand to her mouth, but too late.
This was just enough to incense Henchard after the other crosses of the day. "I WON'T have you talk like that!" he thundered. "'Leery,' indeed. One would think you worked upon a farm! One day I learn that you lend a hand in public-houses. Then I hear you talk like a clodhopper. I'm burned, if it goes on, this house can't hold us two."
The only way of getting a single pleasant thought to go to sleep upon after this was by recalling the lady she had seen that day, and hoping she might see her again.
Yours, M. HENCHARD Mr. Farfrae.
The morrow, being fairly fine, found Elizabeth-Jane again in the churchyard, but while looking for the lady she was startled by the apparition of Farfrae, who passed outside the gate. He glanced up for a moment from a pocket-book in which he appeared to be making figures as he went; whether or not he saw her he took no notice, and disappeared.
Unduly depressed by a sense of her own superfluity she thought he probably scorned her; and quite broken in spirit sat down on a bench. She fell into painful thought on her position, which ended with her saying quite loud, "O, I wish I was dead with dear mother!"


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Q: FTP file upload error in a Laravel app deployed in Heroku - Use of undefined constant FTP_BINARY Heroku's php version is 7.3. When I tried to upload any file from my app(deployed in heroku) to ftp it gives this error - Use of undefined constant FTP_BINARY - assumed 'FTP_BINARY' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in FilesystemManager.php. But in localhost where php version is 7, it works fine.What need to be done to solve this error? I have seen a similar question here, PHP 7.0.5: Use of undefined constant FTP_BINARY - assumed 'FTP_BINARY'
but the answer was applied to a windows OS and I am a little lost how to implement the solution in heroku cloud ie to turn on ftp in the php version according to the accepted answer.

A: create a procfile in the root folder and add this
web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 -i custom_php.ini public/
create a custom_php.ini file in the root folder (which will work as php.ini) file
and add this to that file
extension=ftp.so

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*https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/problem-with-ftp-in-laravel-52-on-php-717

*Edit php.ini on heroku