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Growing in grace reminds me of my first gardening experience. I had never gardened before, but that didn’t stop me from having dreams and expectations of a great harvest. I read every gardening magazine I could get my hands on through the winter months. I plotted my plans on scratch paper, purchased a variety of seeds, studied soil types and visited the garden store. Finally, spring was here. I tilled the ground and made perfect rows measured and remeasured. With great care, I plated each seed. I watered morning and evening. Hours were spent outside with my hands in the dirt and dreams of harvest on my mind.
And then I waited, and I waited. It seemed like I waited for weeks when in reality it was only hours that had lead to days.
Faith in His ability is more than trusting the process; it’s trusting our Creator.
In my impatience, I took my hand shovel, went outside, and started digging up each seed I had planted. Yes, you read that right. I dug my seeds up before they sprouted. I observed that some of the seeds had “long stringy things” so I discarded them as rotten. There were other times when I tiled the rows from weeds when in reality I was removing my brand new seedlings. My mother in law would later tell me, “Jeanette, you need to learn to rest on your hoe.” She continued her conversation, over tea, explaining the importance of waiting while gardening. Over the years, I learned to enjoy this waiting process. The lessons from my garden have been numerous.
It’s not only gardening that requires patience, is it?
Have you ever been impatient with growth in your life? Growth can look messy like those sprouting seeds. There are times when we are tempted to discard the process of growth. Times when we are impatient with the growth and blind to our progress. I’m sure that is why we were given this reminder from Philippians.
Whenever I hear someone tell me, “trust the process” it makes me cringe. I don’t normally trust processes. Consider the DMV, do you trust their process? I know I don’t. or what about the court system do you trust their process? We’d like to right? But the reality is I don’t. However, when I put my faith in God’s ability then the process is nothing more than the journey I must travel. If there’s anything I’ve learned in my 50 years of life, it’s that I can be confident in Him, His abilities, and His plan for my life- even when it’s difficult.
The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Php 1:6). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
To allow grace to grow in our lives we must cultivate gratitude. Removing weeds of complacency, doubt, fear, and entitlement and instead cultivate gratitude, remembering His faithfulness and goodness toward us.
The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Ps 107:1). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
P.S. Totally random, but If you’re a garden lover (or maybe you’re just like me and enjoy playing in the dirt) go to my friend’s site and purchase your heirloom garden seeds. You’ll find a beautiful assortment, high-quality seed and be supporting a lovely family in the process!
Gardens can teach us so much and I, too, have had lessons from gardening. And patience is at the top of the list. Thank you for sharing!


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If you are lagging on Anonymatrix, it can depend on a lot of things. For example, your computer speed, which browser you are using, your service provider, and how much content is trying to load.
First of all, make sure your computer is up to date, and run any scans to make sure there is not a lot of ad-ware, spyware, or malware that may be slowing it down. Typically Windows and Linux software use these. Perhaps a defragment has not been done in a while, and most importantly, try a different browser to see if that helps with the lags.
Another reason Anonymatrix could be lagging might be a problem with the Forumotion host. If too many people are logged onto the same server at once, lagging may result. If this is the case, be patient and wait until a less busier time. It could take a few minutes to a few hours to settle down.
If your lag continues, then send me a PM, but ONLY if your lagging issue is so great that it interferes with posting all-together, and this problem lasts for several days.
If you have an older computer or a slower service provider, all you can do is keep it updated, and be sure you do not have any viruses getting into your systems that could slow your computer down. Check to see if you have multiple programs, windows, or applications running that you are not aware of, because that can slow things down also.
For Windows machines, alt>control>delete at the same time brings up your task manger. You can use this to make sure you do not have too many applications running. On a Mac, press option>command>esc simultaneously, and you can then view your open applications, and if necessary, you can force-quit them.
When your browser page is loading, check to see WHAT it is loading. IE, FireFox, and Google Chrome usually display "waiting for "www.com" to load", so make sure you are loading the correct thing, and have not clicked on the wrong link or an advertisement by mistake.
An additional thought is to try running a debugger to see if anything out of the norm shows up, but some of the debuggers can be more then a headache then they are worth.
So the issue may be on your end, and it may be on mine. Just try out these suggestions, and hopefully the problem will improve. If your lag continues after several attempts and a few days, then send me a PM or an e-mail, but ONLY if your lagging issue is so great that it interferes with posting all-together, and this problem lasts for several days.
post was 11:11 xD SWWWEEEEET!!
For em it says 9:11... I'm just that talented!
I get slight bits of lag as I scroll down the page. Nothing too bad.
It's running pretty well, considering quite a few other sites I have lag bad. Like Anon Board.

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So you’re planning a trip to Iceland during the winter months and you’re wondering what activities will be available. This blog post will provide you with 10 of the the most popular options.
It is located just below the Arctic Circle, which lies at and above 66.5 degrees north. This means that the winter is rather long and daylight will be limited.
Iceland’s weather is capricious i.e., it changes often. Just because its “winter” doesn’t mean that there will be snow on the ground.
Bring lots of layers. This will give you the most number of options to enjoy the outdoors - whatever the weather throws at you. Try and make one of them waterproof.
Be Safe! Know your limits and know who to call if you get in trouble. The national emergency number is 112.
1 Northern lights - Though not really an activity, Iceland’s Northern Lights are one of the countries most popular winter draws and they are only visible during the “winter” months. By “winter,” we mean roughly from September - March. The reason being is that there needs to be sufficient darkness to actually see them. Please note that seeing the Northern lights is subject to cloud cover, so there’s no guarantee that you will see them. See our selection of Northern lights tours. If you want to learn more about how the Northern Lights form, check out this blog post wrote wrote up a while ago (even though it’s about Greenland, which it totally epic for Northern Lights, by the way) and if you want to photograph the Northern Lights, check out last week’s blog post with all the technical details.
2 Glacier walks and hikes - Strictly speaking, these are not exclusively winter activities, it’s not like the glaciers care if it’s winter. But, walking or hiking on a glacier is a must-do activity in Iceland. There’s something magical about being near or on one of these behemoths. Iceland has many glaciers and there are numerous glacier tours (our tours) available for just about any level.
4 Cross country skiing - Another popular activity in Iceland. Many go to the Bláfjöll ski area to cross-country ski and there are numerous other great locations around the country including guided tours across the Ice cap that covers 10% of the country! Wow, talk about an adventure!
5 Dog sledding - Somewhat of a newcomer to Iceland is dog sledding. Again, you’ll find people doing this - mostly as tours - in the Bláfjöll ski area. If this is your cup of tea, Iceland is an accessible country in which to go on a dog sledding tour.
6 Ice climbing - For the more adventurous, Iceland has loads of ice climbing locations. From glaciers to frozen waterfalls. We would go so far as to say, Iceland is an ice climbing paradise! Combine it with a glacier walk for the full experience.
7 Snowmobiling - Another popular activity in Iceland. many Icelanders own snowmobiles and there are literally hundreds of world-class snowmobiling destinations. The most epic are in the mountains above Akureyri and on Mýrdalsjökull in south Iceland. Seriously, words can’t describe the views here, couple with he utterly unspoiled nature.
8 Surfing - Say again?! That’s right people surf in Iceland. People come to Iceland to surf. And, the best time to do so is in the winter months.
9 Swimming - Iceland is one of the best countries in the world in which to swim, there are pools literally everywhere. Iceland has a plethora of wonderful, geothermal-heated pools and spas - including the world-famous Blue Lagoon. They are all open year-round and offer a great way to relax or, exercise. We like to relax, take a few lengths and then relax again. Its called a relax sandwich.
10 Alpine touring, Ski mountaineering & hiking combo - For the real outdoor adventure enthusiast, Iceland has many, many remote locations for alpine ski touring, ski mountaineering and hiking. For some, these would be heaven; we included this for you - you know who you are!
We could keep going on, but 10 is a good number. Wanna go? We’ll take you there! Check out our selection of tours, we are pretty sure that you will find something great, and then we’ll make sure you have the time of your life. Live for the adventure, and see you soon!

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As reports continue to pour in about the deadly attacks on Paris, France, our newsfeeds, televisions, and newspapers are full of fearful images and videos. I have already had many reactions. Anger: towards the terrorists and weak foreign policies of our nation and others. Grief: for the at least 128 lives lost and for their families. We all have a myriad of reactions to this and other tragedies and toward the cowardly perpetrators. But, I wonder if we are all praying as much as we should about this fear, terror, and injustice? How should we pray in times like this? How should we pray for Parisians; for the families of those grieving; for our governments; even for ISIS? Let me suggest three prayers we can all pray in light of the attacks on Paris.
Your presence is our peace and comfort. Your nearness is our hope. Many are brokenhearted today. Draw near and bring them comfort and peace. BUt many of those who are hurting today can know no real comfort today, not only because of their immense temporal loss, but because they do not know You. Today families are grieving without hope. Lord, draw near to them in the crushed spirits. Bring believers with the Gospel into their lives to speak grace, truth, love and eternity into their hopeless hearts. Bring them to hope even today, Lord.
Your Word says, "The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."(Lamentations 3:22-23) Today, show your new, faithful mercy and steadfast love to those who do not know. Turn their grief into eternal joy.
Lord, we confess that we, as believers, too often grieve these situations as those who have no hope. But, Lord, today we, with hope, say "Come quickly, Lord Jesus."
You say that vengeance belongs to You alone. Today, our hearts want vengeance. Today we see hurt, injustice and terror. We want justice for those who are grieving. We want justice against the wicked who maim and kill. We desire our nations execute justice. But Lord, our judgment and justice is often so clouded by our fear, our pain, and our sin. Today, we need You and You alone to execute justice. Bring the wicked to light. How long, O Lord, will you allow the wicked to not only trample the peoples of the earth. How long, O Lord, will you allow the wicked to trample Your great name? Remind us, Lord, that You will not tarry forever. Your justice and vengeance is coming. In the meantime, help us to pray for the nations and leaders that you raise up and tear down for your purposes and for your plans. Help us to trust that You are in control not only of the end of the story, but the means to that end. And help us to be patient as You are patient. To seek justice, but not vengeance. Be our stronghold today as You sit enthroned in Heaven and in our hearts.
Savior God, we praise you that if we are in Christ Jesus by grace through faith, we have not received justice for our sin. Jesus took Your just wrath against our sin. We praise you that we are living proof that You are just and that You deal fully and finally with the full weight of sin.
We need Your mercy today. We confess that we fear when we should trust You. We confess that we despair when we should hope. We confess that we despise our enemies when we should pray. Grant us mercy to pray for ISIS terrorists and those who hate You and Your people. We need mercy and we rest in mercy today. Your mercy made us Your sons and daughters even when we were your enemies. Your mercy took spiritually dead sinners from death to life. Lord, bring mercy to mind today as we remember the just wrath that was poured out on Jesus. Help us to believe that the punishment placed on Jesus is enough not just to save me, but is enough to save the wicked terrorist suicide bomber and murderer. Lord, remind me today of the great mercy that made Saul, the terrorist and enemy of the cross, into the missionary to your enemies. Pour out mercy today on Your enemies.
Bring ISIS leaders and followers to the light of Your glory and grace. Lord, we know that one day their knees will bow before you as Lord. Make that day today, Lord, if it be Your will. Raise up beautiful feet to take the Gospel of grace and mercy to the terrorists. Impress on the hearts of Your people to pray for mercy and to desire that no one face Your just wrath for all eternity in hell. Show Your grace and mercy to be greater than we can imagine. You are able. You have proved it. Show your glorious mercy today, Lord.
We pray today for Paris, for those mourning, for those afraid, for ISIS, for ourselves. Be near, be swift to return, be merciful. We pray in Jesus' great and glorious Name. The Name above Every Name. The Name that will cause every knee to bow; either now in glad acceptance of His Lordship, or for eternity in painful admission of His Lordship. For Your glory and our good. Amen.
Brad Russell is a husband, father, and pastor of Old Powhatan Baptist Church. Follow Pastor Brad at @pastorbradopbc and pastorbradrussell.com.
Here’s another story about what one WWII veteran is doing to help rescue Christians from ISIS!
NFL Player: It's OK to Pray for Paris But We Suspend a Football Coach for Praying After a Game?

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From 3.45 UK time on Friday May 25th, PlayBrighter will be inaccessible as we move servers. Total downtime is hard to predict, but should be in the vicinity of three hours.
1) We're doubling the amount of server memory available to us. This should make the site generally faster, and reduce the risk of the site going down as we grow.
2) We're moving the server to a European location. This should speed the site up for all of our UK and EU users.
Many apologies if this affects lesson plans for this week. We hope the new, faster PlayBrighter will make up for it!
EDIT: This all went smoothly!


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Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session.
Stressing that there is no alternative to the United Nations as a universal organization, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan today looked ahead 30 years to its 100th birthday in 2045 to propose far-reaching reforms, from creating a supranational currency to moving its Headquarters from New York to Asia.
“I believe that in the next 30 years, our civilization will find the wisdom and will to cut through the Gordian knot of wars and conflicts,” he told world leaders on the opening days of the General Assembly’s 70th annual General Debate.
He outlined a five-point programme, including the transformation of the UN Economic and Social Council into the Global Development Council, consisting of member States elected by the General Assembly, heads of all UN specialized agencies, with the task of becoming a global economic regulator to promote world-wide growth.
“The UN Member States need to combine their efforts to create a new supranational currency, which should be relevant to the targets and tasks of global sustainable development and prosperity,” he added.
Other planks in the programme include total nuclear disarmament worldwide, the imposition of international sanctions as the exclusive prerogative of the Security Council, and the establishment under UN auspices of a unified global network to counter international terrorism and extremism.
As the final plank, Mr. Nazarbayev proposed opening in Astana, the Kazakh capital, an International Centre for the development of green technologies and investment projects under UN auspices.
Aiming to support and promote a common response to the many cross-border challenges Central Asia faces – from environmental degradation to drug trafficking and water scarcity – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading to the region this week for meetings in which he will also touch on key UN priorities, such as ensuring sustainable development and tackling climate change.

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It would also be great if the service could maintain 2 or more servers running, preferably with the option to run clients from different folders (or atleast being able to use different config files *).
If I were you I'd create a new section in uvnc.ini called [service] to add the paths and different commandlines (and move there the single config line which currently exists now). It would make things cleaner.
Graphical support to configure this is not needed, we can use the ini file, but if I where you I'd slightly modify the current "edit settings"
*A simple way to implement this is to add a commandline parameter to select a diffetent .ini file. ie: "-configFile uvnc2.ini"
I can see that PCHelpware Viewer is saving settings in an .ini file that is in the user profile.
1. Can you make it portable? For example saving an .ini in the applications folder?
2. In the access_server.exe can it be possible to change the default ports? And of course the server and the viewer?
This is a great solution for remote desktop and helpware solution. Keep up the good work.
Is there any plans for linux version of access server?
I installed ChunkVNC and like the way the repeater works.
1) Possibility to install, from the compiled version and on the remote computer, the server (as service) with fixed access code en password.
This code will be stored in the central manager and on the server where the repeater is running in case of rebuilding the helper desktop computer.
The central manager running on the helpers desktop PC fetch all access code from the server without password, this password only can be added on the helpdesk PC.
The server and the helpdesk PC with the management console must be able to update, maintain (synchronize) on both side the "phone-book" with access code.


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Discounts are available for CEP members and students.
There are also up to 5 student bursaries available for students giving a presentation. These will be awarded competitively, based on the quality of eligible submissions. Successful applicants will pay a CEP-subsidised registration fee of £50 for registration, accommodation and all meals, including the conference dinner on Saturday. Our student bursaries have now been allocated.
Clifton Hill House has standard rooms only.
Day delegate rates for Saturday, Fri-Sat and Sat-Sun rates will all include the wine reception on Saturday evening. A buffet dinner will be provided at 8:00 pm on Friday for those booked into Clifton Hill House or Rodney Hotel that evening.
The conference dinner on Saturday must be booked separately (unless granted a CEP student bursary).
The system below allows you to pay using PayPal. You are not required to have or create a PayPal account. All standard credit and debit cards are accepted.
To use the form below, first enter your registrant details. Then please make your selections for registration by selecting the appropriate items from the drop-down boxes and clicking "Add to Cart". After you have made all your selections, please click "View Cart" to go to the PayPal website where you can review your choices (and delete any, if you need to) before making your payment securely via PayPal.
Please enter your details here before selecting your purchase options below.
Once you have registered, we will e-mail you within 7 days with further information, and to note any dietary requirements you may have.
Friday and Saturday night accommodation at Clifton Hill House, conference registration for Saturday and Sunday, all meals and refreshments (excluding Saturday's conference dinner).
Friday night accommodation at Clifton Hill House, conference registration for Saturday only, all meals and refreshments from Friday buffet to Saturday wine reception.
Saturday night accommodation at Clifton Hill House, Saturday wine reception + conference registration for Sunday, all meals and refreshments from Saturday wine reception to Sunday afternoon tea (excluding Saturday conference dinner).
Saturday conference registration only (includes Saturday lunch, morning + afternoon refreshments, wine reception).
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Must be booked separately unless granted a CEP student bursary.
Please click on "View cart" to go to the PayPal website and complete your payment.
CANCELLATIONS: We will endeavour to refund any cancellations where possible. All cancellations will incur a £20 administration fee. Cancellation requests received after Thursday 8th August may be less any cost of accommodation or meals in addition to the £20 fee.

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Rents in “trendy” East London boroughs are now overtaking or matching those of traditionally desirable West London areas such as Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth, according to new data released today.
Rising “property hotspot” Hackney now has similar rental values to its West London counterparts with average rents now £2,125 per month; a 9.15% increase on last year, overtaking typical rents of Richmond and Wandsworth which are currently £2,195 and £2,105 per month respectively.
The data, published by Move with Us rental index, also revealed a significant 8% rent rise in the borough of Tower Hamlets over the past 12 months with average rents now at £2,208 per month.
Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Camden and City of London were found to be the capital’s most expensive areas to rent with Kensington and Chelsea topping the list at average monthly rents of £5,306.
“There has been a reversal of fortunes in London with new trendy neighbourhoods in the East becoming the new popular places to rent in the Capital.

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The Butterfly Slimline mini table tennis table is a great choice for young players and can be easily transported to various places due to its compact foldable design. The table has a non-standard flare shape and a 12mm wood playing surface in an attractive midnight blue colour. It folds in half to ensure easy storage and is equipped with 4 easy to assemble legs for easy moving. The mini table tennis table is supplied ready to use and with accessories such as 2 mini sponge bats and 2 x 40mm balls.
for submitting product information about Butterfly Slimline Mini Table Tennis Table We aim to answer all questions within 2-3 days.
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As the seasons change, the more you feel the colder air blowing outside. And … in your home? If your gas furnace is blowing cold air and giving a chill to your Lincoln home, it’s time to contact AW Heating & Air Conditioning. Occasionally a lack of warm air from your gas furnace calls for a major repair, but a lot of time it can be a simple fix. Here are several reasons your gas furnace might be blowing cold air instead of keeping your home toasty.
If you haven’t had regular maintenance done on your gas furnace lately and you’ve forgotten to change your air filter, each could indicate why your furnace is blowing colder air. A dirty air filter can prevent air from flowing freely through your furnace. If this occurs, the furnace might overheat and cause the burner to shut down.
It could be that a lack of warm air from your gas furnace can be credited to something as simple as a pilot light that’s gone out. It’s possible, especially with older furnaces, for a draft to extinguish a pilot light. Other reasons for an extinguished pilot light are faulty gas valves or a faulty thermocouple.
Just as a dirty air filter can mean problems for your gas furnace, so can other furnace components if they aren’t appropriately cleaned. A dirty gas burner or flame sensor could cause your furnace to struggle to stay lit and reduce the warmth inside your house.
No matter what the reason for the problem is, AW Heating & Air Conditioning in Lincoln can help you get your gas furnace up and operating at an efficient level again. We can also help keep it running with ongoing, preventive maintenance. Contact us at 402-318-5351 or arrange an appointment with us online and we’ll be there to help.

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Project 82 is a series of intimate live performances recorded in a home studio, based in the heart of Dublin City. We’ve been working to create a platform for emerging talent with original music to record with our in-house sound engineer Anna Brizay, while behind the lens is Nathan Dunne our in-house cinematographer.
Encompassing all genres of music Project 82 wants to become the number one showcase for homegrown Irish talent and the go-to Youtube channel for people looking to hear something fresh. All the artists that have been involved have loved the experience and have been happy with the quality content we released. We hope artists/bands of any kind will approach us…if we like it we’ll record it.
For the moment this is a non-profit organization, we recently set up a crowdfunding via Patreon where people can donate per video and in return, we reward our pledgers. Any of the money we do make on this will go towards improvements for the project like acoustics, microphones, lighting etc..
You can stay updated with all the upcoming episodes on our Instagram, Facebook and Twitter pages, we also have a SoundCloud that features all songs recorded in the series. Visit our website for all other information.
If you are an artist with original music and would like to be featured on our show, please contact us at info@projecteightytwo.com with a link to your music, we would love to hear from you.
What a wonderful Idea and very helpful to young Independent Artists today.. These guy need as much support as possible . Not too much of this type of help around and it much be applauded . Very well done guys and you have my support..
Brilliant idea. I can see the queues forming around the block already..This is gonna be greatly Appreciated..

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A new study shows that moms with breast cancer who previously breastfed have a lower chance of that cancer returning.
You’ve probably heard that breastfeeding lowers your chances of developing breast cancer, but this study examined the relationship a bit further, a fact that the researchers say may make it one of the first of its kind.
A study of over 1,600 women with breast cancer revealed that those who had previously nursed a child had a 30 percent decreased risk of their breast cancer returning. They also discovered that those women had a 28 percent less chance of dying from the disease than their peers who never breastfed.
The study involved two groups of women, some who were diagnosed from 1997 to 2000 and others who were diagnosed from 2006 to 2013. Most were patients at Kaiser Permanente. The study showed a trend toward more positive outcomes for those afflicted with breast cancer, but the study authors do say the research doesn’t prove cause and effect — it only shows a link.
They also found that it didn’t seem to matter how long a mom breastfed her child, but there was less of a link when the duration was six months or less.
It should be noted that the connection was strongest when they studied women who had some of the most common types of breast cancers — those that are known as luminal A subtypes, which includes tumors called estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive). The statistics weren’t as strongly linked with other subtypes of breast cancers.
Even though it doesn’t show a specific cause and effect, this is encouraging, positive news. Lead author Marilyn Kwan, a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente division of research, says that breastfeeding causes physical changes that include maturation of cells in the breast that can have a protective effect, making them more resistant to cancer. Breastfeeding also often reduces the number of menstrual cycles a woman experiences over her lifetime, which results in less exposure to hormones.

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text: Our shaker top fits perfectly on a 24oz tumbler. Cocktail hour will never be the same! Great for protein shakes too! Includes: 1oz jigger, strainer & pourer. Dishwasher safe - top rack only.


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Yesterday was one of those look deeply into the hives kind of days. No rain or wind and only a few clouds to block full sun. First good day for weeks as cooler than normal weather and lots of rain has been the norm. My hives are about two weeks behind normal schedule. Even dandelions are behind.
Most hives and nucs are doing well with several frames of capped brood, uncapped larva, eggs as expected and solid bee cover. Pollen is in good supply and nectar is being stored. This spring is looking reasonably good considering the difficult weather.
I have several hives with standard queen issues. One nuc has a queen that is starting to lay drone brood in the typical pattern showing she was poorly mated. She is a newly purchased queen in a strong nuc so a “smash and replace” is her future. I made nucs several weeks early than normal because I hoped to get a jump on production. I guess a few poorly mated queens is the price one pays!
A different hive has a queen that has not ramped up egg production so she may suffer the same fate. I moved a few frames of brood out of the very strong hives into a few weaker hives boosting the weak and maybe helping to control swarming.
Next up is to watch for swarm cells. Time to make more nucs!

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The Amir His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani will take part in the first Paris Peace Forum on the invitation of the French government.
Slated to begin on November 11, the three-day forum is part of the drive by French President Emmanuel Macron to reaffirm the importance of multilateralism and collective action in responding to current global challenges.
According to sources, the Amir will be in Paris on Sunday to take part in the inaugural ceremony of the forum that aims to achieve peace through better global governance and to reduce international tensions through cooperation between states to face cross-boundary challenges, collective management of global common goods, and better regulation of the internet and communications.
ideas and initiatives which effectively contribute to better international cooperation on key global issues, fairer and more equitable globalisation, and a more effective multilateral system.
Several heads of state and government, representatives of major international organisations and stakeholders from civil society are expected to be among the thousands of participants. Some 119 projects will be presented at the event.
According to sources, the Amir will also participate in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to be held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
A major event on the global governance of the Internet, the 13th edition of IGF, is being organised by the French government under the auspices of the United Nations.
A global forum for multi-stakeholder dialogue on all public policy issues related to the Internet, the three-day IGF will begin on November 12.
The forum, under the theme ‘Internet of Trust’, will discuss proposed regulatory frameworks, global trends, potential risks, and good and bad practices which have been adopted or are under discussion.
The French president will be present at the forum, which is one of a series of major international events to be held at Paris focusing on digital technology, along with the Paris Peace Forum and the GovTech Summit.


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Ahead of Sunday’s match, some Chelsea fans are distraught with the ‘turmoil’ their club is in.
I wish a typical end of January ‘turmoil’ for Newcastle fans was seeing their team third in the Premier League (and being current holders!), in the last 16 of the Champions League, hot favourites to reach the FA Cup fifth round for the 18th time in the last 20 years (having won the FA Cup six times since 1997) and having reached the semi-final of the League Cup.
Chelsea struggled to beat Norwich last week after playing an almost total second team and so much of the discussion is regarding what team they should play against Newcastle.
Good to hear that Chelsea fans see Conte in a quandary with some players looking tired, whilst the likes of Courtois, Morata and Willian are all out injured, with Fabregas having a late fitness test.
Rafa Benitez has only been handed one January signing so far as he waits on the Nicolai Jorgensen saga and Kenedy can take no part in this FA Cup run even if Newcastle progress to the fifth round for the first time under Mike Ashley, having already played for Chelsea in the competition.
‘I know what you are saying, but I still don’t like to devalue the FA Cup.
When people are suggesting a complete ‘B’ team except for Morata against Premier League opposition, I think it’s showing a lack of respect for both Newcastle AND the competition, regardless.
‘Goodness only knows which Chelsea will turn up for this one – I’m not even sure the player selection is that critical, it’s our desire to win and the way Conte sets us up that worries me.
‘Let’s hope he gives Musanda a run out and maybe a couple of the other kids. Rather have everyone concentrating on securing a top 4 spot than this cup competition given the turmoil we are in.
‘Want us to go as strong as possible for this one we can rest the big guns once the job is done.
‘I actually think Luiz is the answer here. Experienced, assured next to Christensen, likes to move forward and play good balls forward.
‘Alonso starting, he looks fatigued, Conte apparently not worried, everyone else is.


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Recently I’ve started using PyMC3 for Bayesian modelling, and it’s an amazing piece of software! The API only exposes as much of heavy machinery of MCMC as you need — by which I mean, just the pm.sample() method (a.k.a., as Thomas Wiecki puts it, the Magic Inference Button™). This really frees up your mind to think about your data and model, which is really the heart and soul of data science!
That being said however, I quickly realized that the water gets very deep very fast: I explored my data set, specified a hierarchical model that made sense to me, hit the Magic Inference Button™, and… uh, what now? I blinked at the angry red warnings the sampler spat out.
So began by long, rewarding and ongoing exploration of Bayesian modelling. This is a compilation of notes, tips, tricks and recipes that I’ve collected from everywhere: papers, documentation, peppering my more experienced colleagues with questions. It’s still very much a work in progress, but hopefully somebody else finds it useful!
First of all, welcome! It’s a brave new world out there — where statistics is cool, Bayesian and (if you’re lucky) even easy. Dive in!
If you don’t know any probability, I’d recommend Michael Betancourt’s crash-course in practical probability theory.
For an introduction to general Bayesian methods and modelling, I really liked Cam Davidson Pilon’s Bayesian Methods for Hackers: it really made the whole “thinking like a Bayesian” thing click for me.
If you’re willing to spend some money, I’ve heard that Doing Bayesian Data Analysis by Kruschke (a.k.a. “the puppy book”) is for the bucket list.
Here we come to a fork in the road. The central problem in Bayesian modelling is this: given data and a probabilistic model that we think models this data, how do we find the posterior distribution of the model’s parameters? There are currently two good solutions to this problem. One is Markov-chain Monte Carlo sampling (a.k.a. MCMC sampling), and the other is variational inference (a.k.a. VI). Both methods are mathematical Death Stars: extremely powerful but incredibly complicated. Nevertheless, I think it’s important to get at least a hand-wavy understanding of what these methods are. If you’re new to all this, my personal recommendation is to invest your time in learning MCMC: it’s been around longer, we know that there are sufficiently robust tools to help you, and there’s a lot more support/documentation out there.
For a good high-level introduction to MCMC, I liked Michael Betancourt’s StanCon 2017 talk: especially the first few minutes where he provides a motivation for MCMC, that really put all this math into context for me.
For a more in-depth (and mathematical) treatment of MCMC, I’d check out his paper on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
VI has been around for a while, but it was only in 2017 (2 years ago, at the time of writing) that automatic differentiation variational inference was invented. As such, variational inference is undergoing a renaissance and is currently an active area of statistical research. Since it’s such a nascent field, most resources on it are very theoretical and academic in nature.
Chapter 10 (on approximate inference) in Bishop’s Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning and this tutorial by David Blei are excellent, if a bit mathematically-intensive, resources.
The most hands-on explanation of variational inference I’ve seen is the docs for Pyro, a probabilistic programming language developed by Uber that specializes in variational inference.
Try thinking about how your data would be generated: what kind of machine has your data as outputs? This will help you both explore your data, as well as help you arrive at a reasonable model formulation.
Try to avoid correlated variables. Some of the more robust samplers (cough NUTS cough cough) can cope with a posteriori correlated random variables, but sampling is much easier for everyone involved if the variables are uncorrelated. By the way, the bar is pretty low here: if the jointplot/scattergram of the two variables looks like an ellipse, thats usually okay. It’s when the ellipse starts looking like a line that you should be alarmed.
Try to avoid discrete latent variables, and discrete parameters in general. There is no good method to sample them in a smart way (since discrete parameters have no gradients); and with “naïve” samplers (i.e. those that do not take advantage of the gradient), the number of samples one needs to make good inferences generally scales exponentially in the number of parameters. For an instance of this, see this example on marginal Gaussian mixtures.
The Stan GitHub wiki has some excellent recommendations on how to choose good priors. Once you get a good handle on the basics of using PyMC3, I 100% recommend reading this wiki from start to end: the Stan community has fantastic resources on Bayesian statistics, and even though their APIs are quite different, the mathematical theory all translates over.
First of all, hierarchical models are amazing! The PyMC3 docs opine on this at length, so let’s not waste any digital ink.
This hierarchy has 3 levels (some would say it has 2 levels, since there are only 2 levels of parameters to infer, but honestly whatever: by my count there are 3). 3 levels is fine, but add any more levels, and it becomes harder for to sample. Try out a taller hierarchy to see if it works, but err on the side of 3-level hierarchies.
If your hierarchy is too tall, you can truncate it by introducing a deterministic function of your parameters somewhere (this usually turns out to just be a sum). For example, instead of modelling your observations are drawn from a 4-level hierarchy, maybe your observations can be modeled as the sum of three parameters, where these parameters are drawn from a 3-level hierarchy.
More in-depth treatment here in (Betancourt and Girolami, 2013). tl;dr: hierarchical models all but require you use to use Hamiltonian Monte Carlo; also included are some practical tips and goodies on how to do that stuff in the real world.
At the risk of overgeneralizing, there are only two things that can go wrong in Bayesian modelling: either your data is wrong, or your model is wrong. And it is a hell of a lot easier to debug your data than it is to debug your model. So before you even try implementing your model, plot histograms of your data, count the number of data points, drop any NaNs, etc. etc.
You could even experiment with allowing use_centered to be between 0 and 1, instead of being either 0 or 1!
I prefer to use the pm.Deterministic function instead of simply using normal arithmetic operations (e.g. I’d prefer to write x = pm.Deterministic('x', y + z) instead of x = y + z). This means that you can index the trace object later on with just trace['x'], instead of having to compute it yourself with trace['y'] + trace['z'].
Have faith in PyMC3’s default initialization and sampling settings: someone much more experienced than us took the time to choose them! NUTS is the most efficient MCMC sampler known to man, and jitter+adapt_diag… well, you get the point.
However, if you’re truly grasping at straws, the more powerful initialization setting would be advi or advi+adapt_diag, which uses variational inference to initialize the sampler. An even better option would be to use advi+adapt_diag_grad, which is (at the time of writing) an experimental feature in beta.
Never initialize the sampler with the MAP estimate! In low dimensional problems the MAP estimate (a.k.a. the mode of the posterior) is often quite a reasonable point. But in high dimensions, the MAP becomes very strange. Check out Ferenc Huszár’s blog post on high-dimensional Gaussians to see why. Besides, at the MAP all the derivatives of the posterior are zero, and that isn’t great for derivative-based samplers.
You’ve hit the Magic Inference Button™, and you have a trace object. Now what? First of all, make sure that your sampler didn’t barf itself, and that your chains are safe for consumption (i.e., analysis).
Run the chain for as long as you have the patience or resources for. Make sure that the tune parameter increases commensurately with the draws parameter.
Check the traceplot (pm.traceplot(trace)). You’re looking for traceplots that look like “fuzzy caterpillars”. If the trace moves into some region and stays there for a long time (a.k.a. there are some “sticky regions”), that’s cause for concern! That indicates that once the sampler moves into some region of parameter space, it gets stuck there (probably due to high curvature or other bad topological properties).
pm.plot_posterior(trace): check if your posteriors look reasonable.
pm.forestplot(trace): check if your variables have reasonable credible intervals, and Gelman–Rubin scores close to 1.
pm.energyplot(trace): ideally the energy and marginal energy distributions should look very similar. Long tails in the distribution of energy levels indicates deteriorated sampler efficiency.
pm.densityplot(trace): a souped-up version of pm.plot_posterior. It doesn’t seem to be wildly useful unless you’re plotting posteriors from multiple models.
the values (a.k.a. the Gelman–Rubin statistic, a.k.a. the potential scale reduction factor, a.k.a. the PSRF): are they all close to 1? If not, something is horribly wrong. Consider respecifying or reparameterizing your model. You can also inspect these in the forest plot.
As a drastic debugging measure, try to pm.sample with draws=1, tune=500, and discard_tuned_samples=False, and inspect the traceplot. During the tuning phase, we don’t expect to see friendly fuzzy caterpillars, but we do expect to see good (if noisy) exploration of parameter space. So if the sampler is getting stuck during the tuning phase, that might explain why the trace looks horrible.
If you’re having computational problems, probably your model is wrong.
There were N divergences after tuning. Increase 'target_accept' or reparameterize.
Divergences in HMC occur when the sampler finds itself in regions of extremely high curvature (such as the opening of the a hierarchical funnel). Broadly speaking, the sampler is prone to malfunction in such regions, causing the sampler to fly off towards to infinity. The ruins the chains by heavily biasing the samples.
Remember: if you have even one diverging chain, you should be worried.
Increase target_accept: usually 0.9 is a good number (currently the default in PyMC3 is 0.8). This will help get rid of false positives from the test for divergences. However, divergences that don’t go away are cause for alarm.
Increasing tune can sometimes help as well: this gives the sampler more time to 1) find the typical set and 2) find good values for step sizes, scaling factors, etc. If you’re running into divergences, it’s always possible that the sampler just hasn’t started the mixing phase and is still trying to find the typical set.
Consider a noncentered parameterization. This is an amazing trick: it all boils down to the familiar equation from STAT 101, but it honestly works wonders. See Thomas Wiecki’s blog post on it, and this page from the PyMC3 documentation.
If that doesn’t work, there may be something wrong with the way you’re thinking about your data: consider reparameterizing your model, or respecifying it entirely.
It’s worth noting that far and away the worst warning to get is the one about divergences. While a divergent chain indicates that your inference may be flat-out invalid, the rest of these warnings indicate that your inference is merely (lol, “merely”) inefficient.
The number of effective samples is smaller than XYZ for some parameters.
Tweak the acceptance probability (target_accept) — it should be large enough to ensure good exploration, but small enough to not reject all proposals and get stuck.
The gelman-rubin statistic is larger than XYZ for some parameters. This indicates slight problems during sampling.
When PyMC3 samples, it runs several chains in parallel. Loosely speaking, the Gelman–Rubin statistic measures how similar these chains are. Ideally it should be close to 1.
Increasing the tune parameter may help, for the same reasons as described in the Fixing Divergences section.
The chain reached the maximum tree depth. Increase max_treedepth, increase target_accept or reparameterize.
NUTS puts a cap on the depth of the trees that it evaluates during each iteration, which is controlled through the max_treedepth. Reaching the maximum allowable tree depth indicates that NUTS is prematurely pulling the plug to avoid excessive compute time.
Yeah, what the Magic Inference Button™ says: try increasing max_treedepth or target_accept.
Countless warnings have told you to engage in this strange activity of “reparameterization”. What even is that? Luckily, the Stan User Manual (specifically the Reparameterization and Change of Variables section) has an excellent explanation of reparameterization, and even some practical tips to help you do it (although your mileage may vary on how useful those tips will be to you).
Asides from meekly pointing to other resources, there’s not much I can do to help: this stuff really comes from a combination of intuition, statistical knowledge and good ol’ experience. I can, however, cite some examples to give you a better idea.
The noncentered parameterization is a classic example. If you have a parameter whose mean and variance you are also modelling, the noncentered parameterization decouples the sampling of mean and variance from the sampling of the parameter, so that they are now independent. In this way, we avoid “funnels”.
The horseshoe distribution is known to be a good shrinkage prior, as it is very spikey near zero, and has very long tails. However, modelling it using one parameter can give multimodal posteriors — an exceptionally bad result. The trick is to reparameterize and model it as the product of two parameters: one to create spikiness at zero, and one to create long tails (which makes sense: to sample from the horseshoe, take the product of samples from a normal and a half-Cauchy).
Admittedly the distinction between the previous section and this one is somewhat artificial (since problems with your chains indicate problems with your model), but I still think it’s useful to make this distinction because these checks indicate that you’re thinking about your data in the wrong way, (i.e. you made a poor modelling decision), and not that the sampler is having a hard time doing its job.
Run the following snippet of code to inspect the pairplot of your variables one at a time (if you have a plate of variables, it’s fine to pick a couple at random). It’ll tell you if the two random variables are correlated, and help identify any troublesome neighborhoods in the parameter space (divergent samples will be colored differently, and will cluster near such neighborhoods).
Look at your posteriors (either from the traceplot, density plots or posterior plots). Do they even make sense? E.g. are there outliers or long tails that you weren’t expecting? Do their uncertainties look reasonable to you? If you had a plate of variables, are their posteriors different? Did you expect them to be that way? If not, what about the data made the posteriors different? You’re the only one who knows your problem/use case, so the posteriors better look good to you!
highly correlated posteriors: this will probably cause divergences or traces that don’t look like “fuzzy caterpillars”. Either look at the jointplots of each pair of variables, or look at the correlation matrix of all variables. Try using a centered parameterization, or reparameterize in some other way, to remove these correlations.
posteriors that form “funnels”: this will probably cause divergences. Try using a noncentered parameterization.
long tailed posteriors: this will probably raise warnings about max_treedepth being exceeded. If your data has long tails, you should model that with a long-tailed distribution. If your data doesn’t have long tails, then your model is ill-specified: perhaps a more informative prior would help.
multimodal posteriors: right now this is pretty much a death blow. At the time of writing, all samplers have a hard time with multimodality, and there’s not much you can do about that. Try reparameterizing to get a unimodal posterior. If that’s not possible (perhaps you’re modelling multimodality using a mixture model), you’re out of luck: just let NUTS sample for a day or so, and hopefully you’ll get a good trace.
Pick a small subset of your raw data, and see what exactly your model does with that data (i.e. run the model on a specific subset of your data). I find that a lot of problems with your model can be found this way.
Run posterior predictive checks (a.k.a. PPCs): sample from your posterior, plug it back in to your model, and “generate new data sets”. PyMC3 even has a nice function to do all this for you: pm.sample_ppc. But what do you do with these new data sets? That’s a question only you can answer! The point of a PPC is to see if the generated data sets reproduce patterns you care about in the observed real data set, and only you know what patterns you care about. E.g. how close are the PPC means to the observed sample mean? What about the variance?
Remember that how well the posterior predictive distribution fits the data is of little consequence (e.g. the expectation that 90% of the data should fall within the 90% credible interval of the posterior). The posterior predictive distribution tells you what values for data you would expect if we were to remeasure, given that you’ve already observed the data you did. As such, it’s informed by your prior as well as your data, and it’s not its job to adequately fit your data!

industry_corpus2: Math & Statistics


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In recent weeks both the federal Conservatives and the provincial Liberals have put forward their 2015 “balanced” budgets and in doing so both had to sell assets and/or withdraw from their contingency funds.
As a retired individual I too have to maintain a balanced budget where my expenses do not exceed my earnings. If I have to withdraw from my savings and/or sell my house to make ends meet can I really say I have balanced my budget? Likewise I have a lot of trouble accepting the “balanced budget” spin being provided by our two senior levels of government. One thing for sure is our national and provincial wealth is definitely less.
A little honesty might go a long way to restoring some credibility to both levels of government.


text: Meet Rev. Frank Ritchie. A few years ago, Frank went to Israel and Palestine as part of his work with an aid organisation. Through crisis, what was an intellectual curiosity in a different form of spirituality became a necessity through his experience. Frank is the minister of Commoners Wesleyan Methodist Community in Hamilton, New Zealand, a broadcaster co-hosting a weekly Sunday evening show on Newstalk ZB and serves as a chaplain to people who work in media. He is interested in contemplative forms of Christian spirituality, and has a love of coffee and amateur photography. You can find Frank on Instagram @frank_ritchie.


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There’s been a lot of commotion in the news lately over the treatment of farm animals — pigs in particular. Last month the Lombardy Fair (among many others across the country) was pressured by a farm animal advocacy group to cancel its pig scramble, which would have happened this past weekend.
I wrote a news piece about it on our website (hometownnews.ca/pigscramble if you want to read the article), talked to both sides involved, laid out the facts, let our readers weigh in on the topic and kept my opinions out of it.
Now, the same organizer of that petition has contacted me to inform me of another initiative she is undertaking: an attempt to get a pig roast in Carleton Place cancelled.
This time, I’m laying out my own opinions.
To start: the event is $60.75 a person and starts at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. It’s a licensed event so only those 19 or older are permitted. There will be no small children at this event.
That said, as a parent of two young girls, I would feel justified in saying that a pig roast is indeed a family-friendly event. Having a pig roasting on a spit may seem scary or violent to some but I see it as an opportunity to explain the circle of life to my kids. We eat meat in our house and what goes into getting the meat to our plates isn’t always pretty.
I think educating my children on where their food comes from is important. Making that connection makes them realize that this food was once alive. This animal died so we could eat. My goal is to teach them to not to be wasteful and to respect the animals that feed us by treating them well in life, and eating what is on their plates.
I know that the people behind this petition are, for the most part, vegans. So, of course they see this being an unfathomable event. But being a vegan is not a lifestyle I have chosen, and it is not the lifestyle that has been chosen by the organizers.
My motto is: to each their own. Eat what you want to eat, love who you want to love, raise your children how you see fit but don’t chastise other people for their decisions.
But for the record, through a simple phone call with one of the organizers to make sure I had my facts correct I found out that the pig being roasted is from a local farm, one that his restaurant has been shipping organic compost to since this pig was a piglet. As well, there will be non-meat options for those in attendance should a pork not be what you crave.
So it seems, that maybe this event is an “violent” as the petition makes it seem.
On the argument of tax-payer dollars going towards this, it is down right false.
For those who are worried about their tax dollars being spent on the processing of farm animals, take your concerns to Ottawa — not a community event in Carleton Place.
On the surface, it may seem like the petition is gaining lots of traction with it’s 2,500 or so signatures, but the majority of those people supporting this initiative are not local — or even Canadian.
There is a fine line we seem to be walking here. What’s next — no more charity BBQs because cows had to die to make the hamburgers and hotdogs? What about the wheat that was harvested to make the bread? Where does it stop?
Hi. I FULLY agree with you on this. It is ok to petition a cause, but be senceable.
Thank you for a balanced, thoughtful opinion article ‘I Eat Pork.’ I could not agree with you more… live and let live. Personally I love pork but that is beside the point. What I really wonder is how a person, in this case the promoter of the petition against the pig roast, believes they have the right to impose their views on others despite having done no research into the subject. Thank you for providing the facts, but I doubt someone like that would let a few facts interfere with their objective. I guess some people aren’t happy unless they are meddling in the lives of others.
Again, thank you for your research and candor.
What an interesting paper, never heard of it till today. I was given a copy. Excellent issue and I agree entirely with what you wrote. If people don’t want to eat the meat don’t go, let us poor individuals who want to enjoy what’s available do so. Thank you for your well written column.


text: As you are going through the reading for this week in Khan, A. (2006). Project scope management. Cost Engineering, 48(6), 12., I want you to think about some of the factors which may trigger a project and the various feasibility, specifically regarding technical and financial. If you take some of these factors and for example play the scenario of the latest Iphone or Android introduction and its marketing and technical strategy, what are some of your observations?

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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Thinking of making a major move?
Successfully joining, managing, buying, partnering or merging with an organization depends on a great many factors. Indeed, aligning the different forces and communities within any organization is a complicated task. We are often tempted to focus on the factors that have immediately measurable dollar values, but intangibles are often among the real causes of success and failure.
Culture, the human terrain of an organization, has real bearing on organizational success and performance. It affects communication, co-operation and learning.
It can help explain why changes will prompt some employees to quit even when compensation is not affected, why a talented leader may flounder in a cultural mismatch and why incentives and individual psychology alone don’t predict results.
As some of the most successful companies have shown, defining and delivering on the promise your organization’s culture can deliver tremendous internal and market-facing benefits.
In a previous post, we looked at how organizations view risk. Individualist cultures are entrepreneurial and fear missed or mismanaged opportunities and external constraints. Egalitarian cultures are enclaves and perceive mostly internal threats and global cataclysms. Hierarchical cultures are positional, and fear threats to the chain of command. Fatalist cultures tend to be balkanized, with a right and a wrong way of doing things for each group, and they stumble in the face of breaches of protocol, imprecision, or chaos.
What About The Individuals That Make Up A Culture?
The risk behaviours above may remind you in some ways of the behavioural styles of individuals, which suggests that we should explore briefly the connection between the two categories.
What does the rough alignment mean? Only that, for example, an Egalitarian organization, or an Egalitarian function within a given organization, will tend to attract and promote Relater-types, and that each side of the equation may provide indicia for the other.
But while the attributes of the Behavioural Styles are well-known, their relation to cultural factors, such as risk perception, are seldom considered.
Which programmes are the hardiest in the face of budget overruns and survive in times of austerity?
Corporate Rituals, Accounting or Reporting?
Can you eat, shower, play and live there around the clock? Does everyone have the same title?
Is every work station ranked by prestige?
Are there performance awards posted conspicuously?
Does inertia set in if policy is not explicit and clear?
In case you were wondering, each of the items listed above in each grouping correspond to an Egalitarian, Hierarchical, Individualist, and Fatalist culture in that order.
As with most rules-of-thumb, none of these litmus tests is infallible. Any organization will exhibit traits of more than one Culture Type, and in fact a balance of the four types is a healthy sign. And people who might be at home in one type of culture may lead as the exception within another. For example, an aggressive entrepreneur may be at home within an Individualist culture, seek to move within elite Hierarchical circles, and seek to create a bureaucratic, Fatalist culture in the ranks below. Again, a Socializer’s charisma may count as leadership within an Egalitarian enclave, because of the preference for values over rules which that type of culture tends to exhibit.
The exercise of mapping some of the dominant traits in any group or department typically aids significantly in developing systems that help personnel fit in, in communicating more effectively, and in setting and pursuing the right goals. It also helps identify the opportunities and limitations facing an organization.
In any engagement that tackles strategy problems, a focus on the intangibles as well as the bottom line is key because of the human element involved and what it means for the success or destiny of an organization.


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Capable of driving up to 4 individual coils.
ECU program stored in reprogrammable FLASH memory. ECU map data stored in permanent EEPROM memory but changes can be made to all maps via pc.
Fully adjustable revlimiter with soft and hard cut capabilities.
Digital tacho and shift light LED outputs.
Adjustable coil charge pulse length for use with different specification coils.
Can be used with a Throttle position sensor for load vs engine speed mapping or 2 and 4 position map switches for selecting different advance curves.
CAN 2.0B (active) interface for transmission of data between ECU and third party dashboard devices is also available.
Windows based Infinity mapping software.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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"Fox & Friends" convenes all-male panel to judge whether women are "covering up their lady-parts"
On "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning, a panel of men was convened to determine the "proper etiquette for wearing leggings," and they did so in the classiest way possible -- by parading young women in leggings before them so that they might critique their appearance.
The panel was responding to a video that went viral yesterday in which a woman, as Steve Doocy kept repeating, claimed that leggings "ain't pants." To determine whether this woman was correct, Doocy ushered three woman in leggings before "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson, Fox News legal analyst Arthur Aidala, and Andrew Sansone.
"Are you comfortable with the women in your life parading around in public in leggings?" Doocy asked Robertson.
"They ain't pants," Robertson explained, "but my girls, they wear long shirts to cover up their lady-parts."
Aidala replied that in his household there's a rule -- "if it's not worn in the monastery, they're not leaving the house."
Doocy then introduced them to "Kaitlyn," who strutted on stage accompanied by the kind of music you imagine grown men who dream of one day owning their own ice cream trucks listen to. "They guys are looking at Kaitlyn," Doocy said, although one of the panelists insisted "I'm not looking! For the record, I'm looking away."
"I think that's modest," Robertson said.
Doocy half-replied, saying that "earlier, you said you'd like to see something covering" and pointed at the model's "lady-parts."
"It's not so tight you can see a tattoo on her leg," Aidala interjected.
"You don't have tattoos?" Doocy inquired, "or is that too personal?" And from there the segment only became creepier, its awfulness culminating when the "inappropriately" dressed woman sauntered out.
"Oh my god," one of the off-screen panelists said. "I like the full effect."
"Steve, we all took our nitroglycerin pills before she came on set, just to make sure," Aidala opined.
"She looks great going to the gym," Sansone said, "but going to the mall?"
"Come on, step up!" Aidala implored him, but when Sansone failed to answer, Aidala turned to the model and said, "God bless you, your physique. You earned that -- but I wouldn't wear that to church on Sunday."
Watch the entire segment at your own peril below via Fox News.

industry_corpus2: Media & Journalism


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Great Lakes Shipyard is a full-service shipyard for new vessel and barge construction, fabrication, maintenance, and repairs in a state-of-the-art facility that includes a 770-ton mobile Travelift. The newly constructed shipyard facility is located in the Old River Channel on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio with a water front of approximately 2,000 lineal feet. An additional 3,800 lineal feet of water front is available on the Cuyahoga River proximate to the Shipyard.
The Shipyard specializes in every kind of marine construction, fabrication, conversion, refit, and repair for all types of commercial and government vessels, tugs, supply boats, ferries, barges, “truckable” barges, excursion vessels, dinner boats, research vessels, and large yachts, as well as both on-site and off-site topside work of every kind. The major competitive edge of Great Lakes Shipyard is the prompt, high quality, and cost effective products and services. As important, though, we understand your expectations and provide the same level of workmanship that we would expect ourselves as owners and operators of a fleet of vessels.

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Do you offer web-related services such as web design and development and are considering selling web hosting services to your customers? Learn about the ins and outs of reseller hosting with the help of this series of guides.
Reselling refers to the practice of companies using resources provided by a web hosting firm and selling these packages as their own assets. In reseller hosting, owners of accounts have the prerogative of using their hard drives and bandwidth to host sites supporting third parties. Resellers buy hosting services on wholesale terms and offer these to users for earnings. Affordable pricing is the main benefit of said approach although resellers may not have the capacity to provide technical support.
If your enterprise offers Internet-related services like website design and development, you can think about promoting hosting functions for additional revenue opportunities. You can opt for control panel software like cPanel as well as Plesk which make hosting less complicated. Look at the main difference between the two control panels. You can get Plesk from Linux and Windows Server while only Linux OS supports cPanel.
cPanel is a control panel for website hosting based on Linux which maintains a graphical interface as well as automation platforms that simplify hosting. It makes use of a three-layered structure providing capabilities for resellers, web administrators, and website owners. The system controls different elements of website and server administration via a regular browser. On the other hand, Plesk enables the server administrator to install new sites, email accounts, reseller accounts, and DNS (Domain Name System) entries using an online interface.
Compared to basic plans, web hosting providers will make sure the reseller controls his or her service offerings as well as clients’ accounts. Additional features of reseller plans facilitate this advantage. Resellers can set up their own outlets with different kinds of hosting products as well as gain access to information of clients including billing procedures, status of accounts, and contact details.
Majority of hosting plans come available at lower costs. It serves as enticement to buy these plans as they become capable of increasing the quantity of parent hosting patrons indirectly. Resellers promote their services autonomously although hosting firms guarantee a full service branding that allows users to catch sight of their services in multiple web pages. Aside from the simple business model, many parent companies provide resellers with tools to launch a web-hosting enterprise.
Compared to traditional plans, reseller options generate revenues because the user obtains income from management of data and servers for business owners who lack sufficient time as well as funds to perform these tasks. It follows the middleman concept where commissions are paid once new clients buy accounts from the mother company through resellers. Many people do not even notice if the host is simply a reseller or the original vendor. The reseller price is typically higher compared to the cost of the real hosting provider.
You need to become familiar with five principal areas to start your hosting enterprise.
Web Hosting – Web hosting services function by storing files in sophisticated servers connected to very quick networks. The user types the web address allowing the Internet to hook up to the host server which in turn stores files and transfers information to the desktop computer. Users can start browsing and looking at the web pages. Hosting refers to the required software, bandwidth, support, security, and speed.
Despite the factor of affordability, some people choose the dedicated version of VPS. The latter offers the same degree of adaptability as dedicated server at a small percentage of the cost. Even then, you cannot expect an inexpensive hosting plan to produce the same high-performance results achieved by a dedicated server. However, you can possibly increase resources such as disk space and Random Access Memory (RAM) to the Virtual Private Seller hosting as your enterprise continues to grow.
The downside of Reseller Hosting is inferior performance and more security problems as a result of sharing a single web server with numerous users. Besides, your services will become limited. In case a glitch takes place somewhere in the upstream provider, this could mean loss of your valuable customers. Reseller plans are pricier than shared hosting. Resellers are responsible for their services which means you have to handle all the requests and complaints of clients all the time.
Here are some useful recommendations from veterans in the industry.
Managed Hosting – You can count on a team of experts who monitor your server and respond to problems 24/7. With this kind of plan, there will always be support technicians who conduct maintenance and security updates for your server.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection – You are assured of protection against any DDoS attack that compromises server protection and data integrity. DDoS means many compromised computer systems hit a target server, website, or network source denying the required services to users. Surge of incoming messages, abnormal packets, and requests for connection forces the system to decelerate or crash and eventually shut down.
Back-up Service – Majority of web hosting clients presume their data is supported on a regular basis which seldom happens. You need excellent backup at all times such as the practice of some hosts that allow users to preserve images of their servers and restore the VPS to previous condition if a configuration or upgrade suddenly malfunctions.
Amount of data storage – A number of companies claim to supply unlimited storage. Conversely, be cautious about this dishonest marketing scheme. Review the fine print carefully. Storage is immeasurable until you go beyond average use.
Bandwidth – Storage and bandwidth team up. This means volume of data the host permits users to upload as well as download within one month. Try to stay away from a company that offers unlimited or huge amount of bandwidth. This will simply slow down your website once you go over a particular bandwidth limit. Hosting providers pay for bandwidth so it is not possible to give unlimited space and still make a profit. These providers make use of deceiving practices such as bandwidth throttling.
Email Accounts – Pore over features and number of email accounts the web host allows you to set up. Authenticate selections to receive emails. At the same time, make sure you have robust email accounts and secure webmail interface.
Domains and Sub-Domains – Taking care of one account for each website can turn out to be convoluted. Hosting a number of domains and sub-domain addresses this issue. There are limitations for each account. Choose a hosting package that meets your requirements. Most hosting provider offers upgrades or downgrades minus financial penalties.
Database and Technical Assistance – Most websites depend on databases at the back-end. Conduct research before you select one. The web host must demonstrate reliable support systems including 24/7 live chat, email support, and ticket system. Response time must be at the appointed time.
Website Backup – Backup is equally vital because data loss can cause a big headache unless the host maintains a backup system on-site and off-site for data retrieval.
Framework – Look for frameworks like Content Management Systems (CMS) that can be installed without difficulty.
Modern Control Panel – This type of panel ensures fast and easy management so you can secure your business website without any technical expertise required.
Savvy start-up entrepreneurs or small business owners must compare the fundamental features and prices of prominent web hosting companies. Nearly all hosting firms offer, in essence, the same services and pricing structures. Yet, these arguments tend to be confusing at times.
There are considerable differences for the most part among high-end plans, web hosting infrastructure consistency, overloading servers or having many clients; overselling; and using old servers that generate slow websites and discontented visitors. Practical business website owners must make it a point to check these concerns thoroughly.
New enterprises can start initially with shared hosting since traffic is still minimal before deciding to upgrade to the next level as the number of your visitors go up. Hosting is scalable so you will not really find it difficult to create a strong online presence in terms of marketing. Learn the ropes well before you make decisions and spend hard-earned resources for website upgrades.


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Electro magnets are engineered for use in high volume and deep burden applications. Their primary advantages are their "deep reach" and the ability to be turned on and off. Mounted over a vibratory bed or belt conveyor, these magnets set the industry standard for strength.
Electro Suspension Magnet consisting of aluminum or copper wound coils immersed in a transformer oil (for prevention of overheating or shorting) or air-cooled for extreme or dusty environments.All electro suspension magnet comes along with control panel. Operating height of Suspension Magnet range from 150 mm to 450 mm are available. Manually cleaned magnets can be supplied with a stripper mechanism. No power consumption, virtually maintenance free.
The ERBM Series magnet is a powerful oil-cooled electromagnetic plate magnet, suspended over the conveyed product stream. The Suspension Magnet should be located in an area on the production line that allows easy access for proper maintenance of the magnet and it should be operated in an area where no integral parts of the conveying system can become magnetized; such as idler rollers, pulleys or belt support plates.
Manual Clean (MC) Suspension Magnet must be periodically turned off in order to discharge iron accumulated on the face of the magnet. Suspension Magnets are suitable for applications where only occasional tramp iron is expected. These magnets are usually suspended from a travelling trolley so that they can be swung clear of the conveyor before the iron is released.
Self-Clean (SC) Suspended Electromagnets or Suspension Magnet provide continuous, automatic removal of tramp iron and feature a heavy-duty belt, a channel frame for supporting the pulleys, adjustable belt take-up and drive. Suspension Magnet are recommended where a large amount of tramp iron is expected or where there may be limited access to the magnet for cleaning purposes.
Suspension Magnet are rugged-all-welded construction & can efficiently prevent the coil from erosion of moisture, dust and harmful gas. Good environment and climate suitability, safe and reliable in operation and convenient maintenance.
The magnetic circuit of the Suspension Magnet is designed in optimization with deeper permeability,and its geometrical figure in the space magnetic field shaped semi-sphere so that will produce much stronger magnetic force compared with the other wares.
The Suspension Magnet has Field winding coil treated by vacuum desiccation and filled with special packing material to improve its mechanical and electrical performances and keep a long service life.
Suspension Magnets are Easy to form a complete set with other equipments to meet the different requirements under all kinds of circumstances.The relevant commutating equipments have complete functions available.
Star Trace Suspended Permanent Magnet Separator are designed for high separation performance in over-the- belt conveyor applications. These heavy duty permanent Suspension Magnets incorporate all welded construction are particularly effective in removing tramp metal in high volume applications.
Produces strong magnetic field attraction. The Suspension Magnet separator body adopts rare earth permanent magnetic materials featuring high remanence, high coercivity and high energy as magnetic source. The property is persistent with high temperature stability.
The steel for Suspension Magnet is chosen from the national famous material enterprise (national inspection-exempted product) with high purity material and advanced manufacturing process to ensure the property will not be affected by ambient temperature and mechanical vibration.
The material is electroplated on the surface, and assembled with particular clamp by special man, to minimize the difference and make strict anticorrosion treatment. This series links up with transportation equipments such as all types of belt conveyers, vibration conveyers and charging pipelines to form a complete set to remove the iron materials under weight of 0.1~0.5kg mixed among the non-magnetic materials to ensure normal & safe operation of the next-step equipment (such as muller, crusher, etc.).
Star Trace Pvt. Ltd. is a prominent manufacturers and supplier of suspension / suspended magnets , electromagnetic suspended Magnets , magnetic suspension system and magnetic suspended magnets used in various industrial applications.
We are manufacturers, suppliers and exporters of a wide galore of industrial equipments such as suspended Magnet, Electromagnetic magnet, suspension magnets and so on.We are Specialized manufacturers in fabrication of this equipment for 25 years and this enables us to be a leader in this field.we are manufacturers, suppliers and exporters having an iso 9001 2008 company and listed in D & B for confidence. our aim is to remove iron particles in process line to protect costly machinery and purify the process line for conveyors applications.we manufacturers to provide combination of several equipments to archive this mission for conveyors applications.
Star Trace manufacturers of electromagnetic suspension Magnets consists of aluminum or copper wound coils immersed in a transformer oil (for prevention of overheating or shorting) or air-cooled for extreme or dusty environments.All electromagnetic suspension magnet comes along with control panel. Suspension Magnets are engineered for use in high volume and deep burden applications. Their primary advantages are their "deep reach" and the ability to be turned on and off. Mounted over a vibratory bed or belt conveyor, these suspended Electromagnetic magnet manufacturers set the industry standard for strength.

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Typically, the Serengeti bush dinner takes place at a scenic location on the plains. Or it can occur at our own dedicated bush dinner site, which stands high on a hill overlooking the migration corridor. Timed to coincide with the setting of the sun, which on the Equator is around 6:00 p.m., the bush dinner will commence either with a game drive or a short stroll to our hilltop site.
Arriving at the chosen location with fabulous views across the plains, you will find that tables and chairs have already been set up. In addition, a campfire, lanterns and a bush kitchen await you.
Beginning with sundowners around the campfire, we are proud to entertain our guests with traditional marimba music while a five-course dinner is prepared on the blazing charcoal BBQ. The choice of meat, fish and poultry will be supplemented by vegetarian choices, salads, fruit and desserts from the set buffet. Also, a full safari bar will be provided.


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There are two important updates about His Royal Diaoness to share.
I have to clarify that the statements below were erroneously written but totally unintentionally at the time.
As such, I'm cancelling them out.
Jay did NOT win the APFF Award for Best Movie Music.
Jay Chou and Jason Huang Yuxun for The Rooftop!"
I was jumping with joy when I saw the update on my News Feed and wasted no time posting it on my Facebook Pages!
Will Liu was on hand to accept the award as Jay and Yuxun had a prior commitment which I'll share below.
As for Jay and Yuxun, they were at a concert with other Taiwanese artistes were in China for a concert viz Dreams Come True on 14 December.
I think it was in aid of either kids with special needs or other illnesses and Jay expressed his empathy for them as he, too has a chronic medical condition (ankylosing spondylitis) which afflicted him in his late teens.
All in, it was a most fruitful weekend for Jay.
But I know for a fact that he has been up to more engagements which shall probably be in my next post.
The APFF's nod to Jay Chou and the Rooftop make the Golden Horse judges look like a group of prejudiced critics at worst, or a bunch of clowns at best. Maybe they should have acted as props in the movie!
Watching the Rooftop again yesterday, I was struck by how vivid and uplifting the music and imagery were -- like so much else of Jay Chou's work, both sad and uplifting at the same time -- and also how much love its actors and director had lavished onto it. It deserves the APFF award. Jiayou Mr. Chou!
Absolutely with you about the GHA jury.
I think The Rooftop was ahead of its time and they just could not accept its somewhat outrageous mix of music, comedy, action and drama.
It is with much embarrassment that I have amended my post to reflect that Jay did not win said award.
But they still got nominated and that's good enough.


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HALETHORPE – “We’ve got a consecrated altar now,” Father John Williamson, exclaimed to a parishioner greeting him in the narthex of the Church of the Ascension after a Mass May 28 in which the altar was blessed and the new sanctuary was dedicated.
Archbishop William E. Lori remarked in his homily that a lot of things changed at the church since he had last celebrated Mass at the parish.
The $200,000 renovations were accomplished in about nine weeks between January and Palm Sunday, said Father Williamson, pastor of Ascension and St. Augustine (Elkridge) parishes.
A new altar and ambo were installed, with carved-wood fronts. The altar depicts the Last Supper and the ambo, from which the readings are proclaimed, depicts the Ascension of the Lord, which was also the reading for the day for the dedication Mass, on the parish’s patronal feast.
The orange carpet throughout the church was replaced with tile. The Stations of the Cross and statues of Mary and Joseph are the same as before, but their backgrounds were redone in blue to match the new color of the wall behind the altar and tabernacle. The tabernacle, which was originally from the Good Shepherd Sisters convent, was restored as part of the 2017 renovations.
The corpus for the crucifix was retained, but it is now on a new cross. New candlesticks and new sanctuary furnishings rounded out the interior renovations. Outside, the old bells remain in the bell tower, but they are now accompanied by a new carillon system that pealed both before and after the Mass.
In his homily, Archbishop Lori noted that the Risen Lord is present in all the sacraments, especially the Eucharist.
Catholics are called to make the Gospel known through their words and actions and to undergo what Pope Francis calls a “missionary conversion” so that they can share the joy of the Gospel, not just as individuals, but as a community of faith, he said.
“In other words, our parishes too must undergo a missionary conversion as we seek to reconnect those who, for whatever reason, are unconnected with the Lord and with his body, the church,” Archbishop Lori said.
As part of the dedication, the archbishop placed a stone in the altar that contains a relic of St. Genarius, which had been part of past altars at the parish, providing continuity to the past, Father Williamson said. The altar also contains relics that came from the Good Shepherd convent – of Saints Mary Euphrasia, John Vianney, Maria Goretti and Pius X.
Father Williamson said the parishioners have been overjoyed with the results of the renovations. “Everyone has been very happy,” he said.
He said the number of weddings scheduled has doubled now that the sanctuary looks better, which is a good sign that more young people are eager to be married in the church.
As of July 1, the parishes of St. Augustine and Ascension will be formally merged into a single parish, the Catholic Community of Ascension and St. Augustine. Father Williamson has been pastor Ascension since 2008 and also became pastor of St. Augustine in 2011. Since that time, the parishes have been working together.
The merged parish will be one of the pilot pastorates in the parish planning process that was announced in May. With 2,200 registered families at St. Augustine and 840 families at Ascension, the combined parish will be one of the largest in the archdiocese.


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The Qatar national team played its first official match on March 27, 1970 against hosts Bahrain, losing 1–2 as Mubarak Faraj scored the sole goal for Qatar. Soon after, Qatar were amongst four founding nations to play in the biennial Gulf Cup tournament.
The national team played its first FIFA World Cup qualifying match in 1977. Qatar’s Asian Cup debut came in 1980.
Qatar’s national team arguably reached its peak in the 1990s, when the team missed on two World Cup qualifications (1990,1998) in the final stages, attaining its highest-ever FIFA ranking (53) in August 1993.
In 1992, Qatar’s first major triumph came as the “marrons” won the 1992 Gulf Cup, a young squad centred around the team which managed to impress months earlier in the 1992 Summer Olympics, dominated the tournament to give Qatar the chance to finally win the long awaited regional title.
In the 2000s, it was the Gulf Cup once again that sparked a revival of a new generation of young Qatari footballers. In the back of a transitional period of doubt, Qatar seized the opportunity and became champions when Doha hosted the tournament in 2004.
2014 was without a doubt one of the most successful years for football in Qatar; in addition to becoming Asian U-19 champions that year, the senior squad won both of the West Asia Football Federation and the Gulf Cup championships.
Félix Sánchez is the head coach of the Qatar national team.
Sanchez, 42, is currently leading a young Qatar squad that has players from the team that won the AFC U-19 Asian Cup four years ago. The Spaniard has managed the national team at two events – the 23rd Gulf Cup in Kuwait and the International Friendly Tournament in Iraq – which Qatar won in March 2018.
The Spaniard – who has managed Qatar’s youth teams for a few years now – has considerable experience of handling the country’s impressive lot of young players now appearing for the senior side. Sanchez’s next target is to get the team off to a flying at the 2019 Asian Cup in the UAE.
He arrived in Qatar in 2006 after being a coach at the Barcelona youth setup. He joined the Aspire Academy. In 2013, he was appointed coach of the Qatar Under-19 team. Sanchez won the AFC U-19 Championship held in Myanmar as Qatar beat North Korea in the final.
In January 2018, he led Qatar to finish third in the 2018 AFC U-23 championship held in China.


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To give first year parents an opportunity to meet their child’s subject teachers, the class tutor, Year Head for first year and to become familiar with the format of the new Junior Certificate.
Presentation on the role of the tutor and how parents can help students manage the transition to second level.
Teachers will be grouped into subject areas. Parents can meet their child’s subject teachers and they can also get advice about subject choices.
The meeting will end promptly at 6pm.
Parents are encouraged to attend all or part of this forum to exchange information with teachers about their child and to familiarise themselves with the new Junior Cycle.


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Branded Bandits Band, rock, Friday-Saturday; Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club, comedians Daryl Felsberg and Brandon Davidson, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
2825 Sudderth Drive, 575-257-2273; Open mic night every Friday at 6 p.m. with host Trad Tidwell, sponsored by the Ruidoso News; free movie, Saturday, 6:30 p.m.; live music at 7 p.m.; jazz with Michael Francis, Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m.
301 Country Club Drive, 575-257-2733; live music, 6 to 9 p.m., Friday; live music, 6:30 to 9 p.m., Saturday; Karaoke with D.J. Pete, 6 p.m. Thursday.
119 Island Road, Capitan; 575-354-9202; Terry Bullard Band, 8 to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday.
2331 Sudderth, 258-3152: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Friday-Saturday, Dusty Low Band, variety; karaoke with Longhair Entertainment, Wednesday and Thursday, 7 p.m.; Elane and David, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday.
2629 Sudderth Drive, 575-802-2222: Craig Elliot, 7 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday; Nicky May, 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Live music, today and Saturday in the restaurant.
26225 Highway 70 East, 575-378-4431: every Friday night, karaoke with DJ Pete; Billy Mata, Saturday, 7 p.m.
2535 Sudderth Drive, 257-9535; DJ, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Friday; karaoke every Monday and Tuesday night; live music 2 to 6 p.m., Sunday.
2516 Sudderth Drive, 257-9982; Brendan Dawes, 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Sunday.
939 White Oaks Avenue, Historic White Oaks, 505-648-5583. The Graham Brothers Band, Saturday, 7 p.m.


text: Abstract: It has long been suggested that when trying to implement an unpopular policy, the politicians should delegate the task to an external agency to shift the blame to them. Such blame-shifting practices are widely observed in the political sphere and have recently been shown to be effective in the lab. However, field evidence of the effect is still missing. In this study, using data from China's one-child policy (OCP), we investigate people's mistrust in the government when the unpopular task was delegated to the citizens and when it was conducted by the government itself. Our main empirical strategy exploits the exogeneity of the gender of a couple’s first child. Due to the widely-shared ``at least one son" preference, Chinese couples whose first child is a girl were more likely to violate the One Child Policy than their counterparts. We find that when the enforcement of the policy was delegated to the citizens, by encouraging and incentivizing them to report their neighbors' violations of the policy and join the local enforcement institutions, the blame is shifted from the government to its citizens. In particular, the results show that people who were exposed more severely to OCP exhibit significantly lower trust towards their neighbors today. However, the exposure to the policy does not significantly undermine their trust in the local governments. The results are reversed when the policy was solely implemented by the government officials in an earlier phase. We find that people who experienced this period's OCP blamed the local government but not their neighbors.