That's one of the things Pam Serdar has observed time and again during the three years she's spent as superintendent of the Minnesota Conference's Big Waters District.
She's worked with churches worshipping anywhere from 15 to 450 people, some in rural settings, some in urban settings, and everything in between. "It's really a blessing to learn how people do ministry that serves the community they're in," she says.
Serdar says she has fallen in love with the people and churches within her district, but the past three years also helped her discern that her heart and passion are for local church ministry. She spent 17 years in banking before experiencing her call to ministry, and prior to becoming a district superintendent, she served as pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church in Mankato for 10 years.
Bishop Bruce R. Ough recently appointed Serdar to Richfield United Methodist Church, where she will begin Oct. 1—and Serdar affirmed that decision.
Last week, Bishop Ough appointed Susan M. Richey Nienaber to serve as the new Big Waters District superintendent, effective June 1. Since 2004, Nienaber has served under an extension ministry appointment as a senior consultant for the Alban Institute. In that role, she has provided direct intervention and organizational consultation, training, and education to pastors and congregations of all sizes and denominations in the areas of organizational health and vitality, conflict transformation, leadership development, governing structures, congregational growth, personnel issues, and pastoral transitions.
Nienaber experienced her call to ministry at a young age. When she was 13, her mother died of cancer. Before her mom became sick, Nienaber was "marginally involved" in her church, but she became an active member while going through that difficult experience. At 16, she felt a call to ministry that remained strong during the last part of high school and throughout college.
Nienaber earned a bachelor of arts degree from Central College in Pella, Iowa, and a master of divinity degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. She has completed additional graduate study at Luther Seminary and the University of Minnesota in pastoral care and counseling and family social science, respectively. She is also a licensed marriage and family therapist.
Both Serdar and Nienaber say the Minnesota Conference is headed in the right direction and that our collective efforts to revitalize churches and reach new people are critical.
• Something most people don't know: Since right around the time her golden retriever died about two years ago, she has volunteered at the Animal Humane Society, providing assistance with adoption support and surgeries.


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SANORD Central Office (SCO) received 15 applications by the due date and referred it to the Nominations Committee for perusal and recommendation. The committee selected three (3) projects based on the criteria, SANORD goals, objectives and the budget.
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Our oceans are dying: health of the world's ocean threatened by pollution
Posted on November 1, 2013	by The Extinction Protocol
November 1, 2013 – OCEANS – It was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it. Not the absence of sound, exactly. The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves still sloshed against the fiberglass hull. And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris. What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat. The birds were missing because the fish were missing. Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he'd had to do to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a baited line. "There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled. But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two. No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all. "In years gone by I'd gotten used to all the birds and their noises," he said. "They'd be following the boat, sometimes resting on the mast before taking off again. You'd see flocks of them wheeling over the surface of the sea in the distance, feeding on pilchards." But in March and April this year, only silence and desolation surrounded his boat, Funnel Web, as it sped across the surface of a haunted ocean.
North of the equator, up above New Guinea, the ocean-racers saw a big fishing boat working a reef in the distance. "All day it was there, trawling back and forth. It was a big ship, like a mother-ship," he said. And all night it worked too, under bright floodlights. And in the morning Macfadyen was awoken by his crewman calling out, urgently, that the ship had launched a speedboat. "Obviously I was worried. We were unarmed and pirates are a real worry in those waters. I thought, if these guys had weapons then we were in deep trouble." But they weren't pirates, not in the conventional sense, at least. The speedboat came alongside and the Melanesian men aboard offered gifts of fruit and jars of jam and preserves. "And they gave us five big sugar-bags full of fish," he said. "They were good, big fish, of all kinds. Some were fresh, but others had obviously been in the sun for a while. We told them there was no way we could possibly use all those fish. There were just two of us, with no real place to store or keep them. They just shrugged and told us to tip them overboard. That's what they would have done with them anyway, they said. They told us that his was just a small fraction of one day's by-catch. That they were only interested in tuna and to them, everything else was rubbish. It was all killed, all dumped. They just trawled that reef day and night and stripped it of every living thing."
Macfadyen felt sick to his heart. That was one fishing boat among countless more working unseen beyond the horizon, many of them doing exactly the same thing. No wonder the sea was dead. No wonder his baited lines caught nothing. There was nothing to catch. If that sounds depressing, it only got worse. The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a degree of fear. "After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead," Macfadyen said. "We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening. I've done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I'm used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen. In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes. Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it's still out there, everywhere you look. Ivan's brother, Glenn, who boarded at Hawaii for the run into the United States, marveled at the 'thousands on thousands' of yellow plastic buoys. The huge tangles of synthetic rope, fishing lines and nets. Pieces of polystyrene foam by the million. And slicks of oil and petrol, everywhere. Countless hundreds of wooden power poles are out there, snapped off by the killer wave and still trailing their wires in the middle of the sea."
"In years gone by, when you were becalmed by lack of wind, you'd just start your engine and motor on," Ivan said. Not this time. In a lot of places we couldn't start our motor for fear of entangling the propeller in the mass of pieces of rope and cable. That's an unheard of situation, out in the ocean. If we did decide to motor we couldn't do it at night, only in the daytime with a lookout on the bow, watching for rubbish. On the bow, in the waters above Hawaii, you could see right down into the depths. I could see that the debris isn't just on the surface, it's all the way down. And it's all sizes, from a soft-drink bottle to pieces the size of a big car or truck. We saw a factory chimney sticking out of the water, with some kind of boiler thing still attached below the surface. We saw a big container-type thing, just rolling over and over on the waves. We were weaving around these pieces of debris. It was like sailing through a garbage tip. Below decks you were constantly hearing things hitting against the hull, and you were constantly afraid of hitting something really big. As it was, the hull was scratched and dented all over the place from bits and pieces we never saw. Plastic was ubiquitous. Bottles, bags and every kind of throwaway domestic item you can imagine, from broken chairs to dustpans, toys and utensils." –The Herald
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Some of this stuff is from Japan and the earth quake although China has been accused of being a major polluter…….
The main stream media spends too much time on junk. Some of the public is aware of what is going on. If the main stream media covers it, it is only for a few short seconds. Too much coverage on screwed up celebrities. Much is happening world wide and when the breakdown reaches the dinner table, only then will the Acquatic situation it get the attention it should have gotten.
If the ocean dies, we die.
Also, I have read an advisory that sea food caught after the nuclear disaster in Japan is becoming highly radioactive. Also, if you are not aware, major toxic issues exist in the clean up of failed solar energy companies, so toxic, companies are hesitant in bidding for the jobs.
Based on what I have been reading on the internet, expect major changes in The pacific in both earth changes and military power and influnence. Watch the Hawaiian Islands.
We live in a world of changes we are not going to like………..
Have missed you Alvin………..
Reyna Lerma says:
Dude we need to do something about this…
Abundant Blessings,
Reyna Lerma
Irene C says:
Reading this made me want to cry. Just saying…
its sad,so many people have no clue anything is wrong,yet its all gone horribly wrong.
It is so heartbreaking, as a species we must become enlightened or our self focused struggles to survive will doom us.


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A powerful and secretive organisation with extreme views and deep roots in the country's power structure is trying to make the nation great again
Sunday, 14 August, 2016
David McNeill
Given the reputation of the organisation he chairs, it's hard to know what to expect before Tadae Takubo arrives – a whiff of sulphur, perhaps. Nippon Kaigi has been called an ultra-right cult and some say it wields a great deal of influence over Japan's conservative government. As he walks unsteadily into the room however, the 83-year-old chairman of Nippon Kaigi seems less like Lucifer than a crusty old uncle with laughably out-of-date views.
The impression is reinforced when he speaks. A former journalist, Takubo wants to revive "traditional" Japanese values and restore the powers lost by the emperor after the second world war. He believes Japanese people have grown soft and complacent, especially the young: one of the few moments of light relief during a recent press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan came when he advocated spanking naughty children.
Known in English as "Japan Foundation", Nippon Kaigi's charter lists six key goals, including building up the nation's military forces, instilling patriotism in the young and revising much of the pre-war Meiji constitution. Yet, Takubo bristles at accusations that he wants to take Japan right, or worse, back to the past. "We merely want this to be a normal country," he says. "We are pulling it from extreme left back to the centre."
In fact, Nippon Kaigi's charter is a shopping list of blatantly revisionist causes: applaud Japan's wartime "liberation" of East Asia from Western colonialism; rebuild the armed forces; inculcate patriotism among students brainwashed by left-wing teachers; and revere the emperor as he was worshipped before the war. Like followers of US presidential hopeful Donald Trump, they want to "take back" their country from the liberal forces they believe are destroying it.
The group's supporters say Japan's constitution, written during the American-led occupation of 1945 to 1952, has emasculated the country. They despise the victor's justice it meted out, and the famous pacifist clause, Article 9, that neutered the country's armed forces. China's turbocharged rise means revision can "wait no longer", says Takubo. At a Nippon Kaigi conference last year, speaker after speaker warned China's maritime expansion presented Japan with its worst crisis since the war.
After years of mostly flying beneath the radar, Nippon Kaigi is in the news. A book on its hold over Japanese politics has sold in excess of 130,000 copies and it is the subject of several television programmes. Takubo gave his first press conference to foreign media in Tokyo, partly to dismiss the wilder conspiratorial claims about the group.
On paper, the group's fee-paying membership is small: about 38,000 people spread over 230 local chapters. But they include the former directors of large corporations; university presidents, Self-Defence Force chiefs of staff, several party heads and at least one former chief justice. The newly-elected governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, is a card-carrying member, as is the new tough-talking defence minister, Tomomi Inada.
About a third of the Diet and well over half of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's 19-member cabinet support them. All belong to the parliamentary league of Nippon Kaigi. Abe is its "special adviser". Prominent supporters are also dotted throughout the media: Susumu Ishihara, chairman of NHK, Japan's powerful public broadcaster, admitted in July he was "honorary adviser" to a local branch.
The group was formed in 1997. Its small office in Tokyo shares a building with Seicho no Ie (House of Growth), a right-wing religious cult and a key tributary of one of the two organisations that merged to form Nippon Kaigi, the Society to Protect Japan (Nihon wo Mamorukai) – the other was the People's Conference to Protect Japan, or Nihon wo Mamoru Kokumin Kaigi.
Nippon Kaigi's signature drives have helped banish much "left wing" teaching from schools and revive the tradition of singing the national anthem and standing for the Hinomaru flag. A key supporter is former Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, who mandated punishment for teachers who refuse to stand, face the flag and sing the anthem during school ceremonies.
In Prime Minister Abe, the group believes it finally has someone with the clout to bring the changes it wants. Abe's Liberal Democrats (LDP) and a group of like-minded parties who support constitutional revision now control both houses of parliament for the first time since the war. "If I were in Prime Minister Abe's position, I would be putting all my efforts into changing the constitution," says Takubo.
A decade ago, the group collected 3.6 million signatures demanding revisions to the education law that made it compulsory to teach children patriotism. The group wants Abe to continue to visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, though such pilgrimages are seen in much of Asia as an endorsement of the leaders enshrined there and their war aims. Abe triggered a major diplomatic row when he last went there in 2012.
Abe has already partially satisfied a key demand of his Nippon Kaigi supporters – that Japan end the shameful apology diplomacy of the post-war years. The nation's gold standard mea culpa, issued by socialist prime minister Tomiichi Murayama in 1995, has been overlaid by a carefully worded but ambiguous statement in which Abe stopped short of offering his own words of remorse but said Japan "must not let…generations to come…be predestined to apologise".
Supporters have campaigned against anything that shows Japan's wartime behaviour in a bad light, bombarding exhibitions on war crimes with petitions and phone calls. They claim records of Japanese crimes are exaggerated or false and that China has used these claims to wage a long battle in America to distort views of the war, with the goal of weakening the US-Japan alliance.
Takubo will not be drawn into the specifics. "All countries that have gone to war – it is natural that they have different views of history," he says. He refuses to condemn Japanese war crimes, or even say the war itself – as most Japanese believe – was a monumental mistake. "Some parts were wrong and some parts were correct," he says. "You cannot say that one side is all good or all bad."
Critics say the influence of Takubo's group over the government undermines many of the key planks of Abe's platform. With great fanfare, Abe has declared a policy of putting more women into leadership positions. But many Nippon Kaigi supporters are anti-feminist and want women to adopt roles as mothers and homemakers. "Abe led the backlash against feminism and gender equality in the early 2000s," says Tomomi Yamaguchi, a cultural anthropologist at Montana State University.
The revisionist element of Nippon Kaigi's agenda, meanwhile, presents problems for the United States, which wants Japan to take a bigger share of its defence burdens. Washington issued a rare rebuke after Abe's Yasukuni visit. But otherwise, much of the far-right agenda slips past US politicians, says Tessa Morris-Suzuki, a professor of modern Japanese history at the Australian National University. "They don't really see how this will play out in East Asia because they need the US bases [in Japan]," she says. "The Abe administration doesn't think there was anything wrong that Japan did in the war – they just think it was unfortunate that they lost."
Abe's victory in last month's general election has moved him closer to his constitutional goal. He now has, in theory, the long-coveted super majorities in both houses required before asking voters for their approval to change the constitution. An LDP draft calls for rewriting Article 9 to recast the country's Self-Defence Forces as a conventional military. The draft also calls for sweeping changes to virtually all 103 articles of the 1947 constitution that would tip the balance away from "imported" individual rights and toward duties to the state.
Getting those changes past the public will be a struggle. For one thing, few Japanese seem to support them. Public polls consistently show most Japanese have little interest in the Nippon Kaigi agenda. Most show no appetite for abandoning Japan's pacifist stance, restoring the emperor's powers or instilling patriotism in the young. Over a decade ago, an attempt to push revisionist history and civic's textbooks, backed by Nippon Kaigi (and right-wing newspaper, the Sankei) into high schools failed miserably when fewer than 1 per cent of schools adopted it. Pacifism has sunk deep roots and there is little bedrock support for such a backward-looking agenda.
Abe ducked debate on the constitution during the election campaign, and for good reason. A pre-election survey by public broadcaster NHK found only 11 per cent of respondents saw it as a greater concern than bread-and-butter issues. Surveys consistently show that the pacifist constitution, which many Japanese believe has kept their country out of wars since 1945, is popular.
Even if the prime minister can herd a motley crew of political allies in both Diet chambers, he must put any changes before the country in a referendum, which he may not win. The LDP's coalition partner, Komeito, a Buddhist party, has already signalled it does not want to tamper with the pacifist clause. Many speculate, therefore, that Abe may try instead to reinterpret existing legislation – or simply leave the issue alone.
Ironically, it is Takubo who fears that the prime minister his group has championed is getting cold feet. "He's afraid of losing support and doesn't want to provoke China," he says. "But he must be strong, for the sake of his country." Whatever happens, history is on the side of Nippon Kaigi, he insists. "I believe the constitution will be changed. It is just a matter it time."
David McNeill teaches political science at Sophia University in Tokyo
http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/2003033/secretive-cult-shaping-japans-future
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Q: Why do my Forecast vs Actual Graph using ARIMA look weird? I tried using ARIMA method to forecast yearly Wind speed data, using Diky fuller test P-value is below 0.05 hence I use the original data instead of differential. The data amounts 730, 2 sets of data for 1 day.
from statsmodels.tsa.arima_model import ARIMA

# 1,0,2 ARIMA Model
model = ARIMA(df, order=(1,0,2))
model_fit = model.fit(disp=0)
print(model_fit.summary())

This code gives me
MA.L2.wind_speed: coeff= 0.1657, std error= 0.042, P>|z|=0
So I think I am good with this p, d and q value
model_fit.plot_predict(dynamic=False)
plt.show()

The actual vs fitting data does not look bad, but the issue comes from Out-of-time Validation graph

It looks too much different with the actual data. I use this code to for the forecast.
train = df[:620]

test = df[620:]

# Build Model
# model = ARIMA(train, order=(3,2,1))
model = ARIMA(train, order=(1, 0, 2))
fitted = model.fit(disp=-1)

# Forecast
fc, se, conf = fitted.forecast(110, alpha=0.05)  # 95% conf

# Make as pandas series
fc_series = pd.Series(fc, index=test.index)
lower_series = pd.Series(conf[:, 0], index=test.index)
upper_series = pd.Series(conf[:, 1], index=test.index)

What should I do to fix the forecast?
EDIT:
Below is the picture of ACF and PCF I used to decide P and Q Value

P comes from Partial correlation that while I could not see the significance line, lag 1 has shown to be above it and safe enough to be used, CMIIW.
Q uses Auto correlation, I simply chose 2 because there are several lags above the line, so if 2 does not give good error I would change it into other numbers.
The Estimates from ARMA models are as follow:
constant = 3.8709
ar.L1.wind_speed = 0.5320
ma.L1.wind_speed = -0.2129
ma.L2.wind_speed = 0.1657

A: It looks exactly as I would expect this kind of a model should forecast the mean.
This is an AR(1) model (ignoring MA terms here). It's of the form: $$x_t=c+\phi_1 x_{t-1}+\varepsilon_t$$
After a few steps its forecast becomes a straight line at $\bar\mu=\frac c {1-\phi_1}$ level. Even if you include MA terms the long run forecast is the same, only variance changes a bit. Information about the world at $I_{t-1}=x_{t-1}$ is lost at the rate of $(1-\phi_1)^h$ with $h$ being a  period of forecast horizon. After a few steps none of the past matters except the long run mean $\bar\mu$
ARIMA models are great for short term forecasting, and also are useful to handle strong seasonality. They don't have a lot of structure, and are generally boring in long term forecasts without seasonality

A: I'll be hand-wavy but your outputs are fine for an ARIMA.  The main difference between your two graphs of fitted and out of sample forecasts are that you are feeding actual past values in the top graph but your forecast uses past forecast values to forecast.  Simple ARIMA orders will never have the bips and bops that your actual data has in it's forecast in a long forecast horizon.  If there is some sense of seasonality or something you could:

*

*De-seasonalize it and fit arima then add back in seasonality

*Fit a SARIMAX which also comes with Statmodels

*Fit some other model like a holt-winters or fbprophet

I personally recommend number 3!
And if there is no real seasonality then what the ARIMA has done is essentially cut through the noise and shown you the level of your inputs which is a reasonable thing to do.

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All these questions with which I've been wrestling here over the last couple weeks—questions of how humans can minimize their harm in the world, commit to the land around them, build communities with both people and the larger ecosystem, and develop sustainable food systems—these are what inspired me to break ground in my backyard.
I don't want to turn a blind eye to my species' destructive systems and just keep consuming whatever's convenient regardless of the long-term consequences. I don't want to float along passively in the industrialized economy, just another part of the problem.
Instead I want to be part of the solution.
Can I help change the world?
Changing whole systems seems impossible in my lifetime. The question of where to begin as just one person is daunting. But, faced with that lifelong challenge, and all the frustration and despair that seem inevitable along the way, I can start by empowering myself with this practical, positive step: learning how to grow my own food from scratch, in ways that are healthy for the soil and the local environment, and therefore for me and those around me.
This much I know is possible. And who knows where this first step can lead on the journey toward sustainability for all? I sense a whole world of possibility out there.


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The Irish-British and American actor was once highest recognized for her portrayal of Jessica Fletcher within the drama collection Homicide, She Wrote.
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The Harry Potter and Cracker actor died elderly 72.
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The Emmy-winning actor, who was once highest recognized for his roles in Will & Grace and American Horror Tale, died elderly 67 after a automobile crash.
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Medico Industries Inc.'s Construction Equipment Division has named Katelyn Heller as the recipient of the 2006 Medico/Case Company Academic Scholarship.
Heller, of Shickshinny, PA, is a recent graduate of Lake Lehman High School and is currently attending Bloomsburg University majoring in elementary education.
Heller is the daughter of Dave and Karen Heller, Medico Industries Inc.'s office manager.
This annual scholarship award is based on SAT scores, financial need, and a demonstration of leadership through employment, community service, honors/awards, extracurricular activities, and an essay submission.
Medico Industries Inc. is headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, PA, where it has been doing business for 69 years.


UNITED NATIONS, July 16 -- Today the Egyptian government's information service reported that "President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has received a phone call from Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Sahel region Romano Prodi. They discussed the latest regional developments, specially the situation in Libya and the Horn of African, said Presidency Spokesman Ihab Badawy."
But there's a problem -- Prodi was replaced as UN envoy on the Sahel back on May 1, by Hiroute Guebre Sellassie, who briefed the UN Security Council in that capacity on June 19.
So in what capacity did Prodi call Sisi? Inner City Press is inquiring - watch this site.
Also, how or why did the Kuwait News Service, among others, "report" on July 16, 2014 that Prodi is the UN's enovy on the Sahel?
Back on June 26, 2013, Inner City Press reported how it took Romano Prodi more than eight months to complete the Sahel report he presented to the UN Security Council on Wednesday.


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I love this. Thank you for your wonderful idea Amy and Jessica! My late paternal grandmother had Alzheimer's. I know how important it was for our family members, her many caregivers at various periods in her later years, to stay connected in community and active. I've also seen the power of dance to strengthen the social network and mental health of my maternal grandma, who throughout her 80s has been a part of her local Chinese dance group and has at the same time taken care of my grandpa. I think this project could definitely help caregivers practice self-care and flourish in community! Keep up the great work!
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Great find Shari! I love the idea of local youth using a platform like this to build their own employment opportunities and provide authentic tourist experiences to those abroad. What if there were a way for those even without access to internet to get these same livelihood opportunities and share their experiences?
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Sarah, I really resonate with the idea of taking a "year-on" to more deeply explore career possibilities, revitalize, and reflect. And I think it would be really cool to consider how companies or organizations can partner with those taking time off to provide employment opportunities at the end.


Friday Harbor is a busy port with boats, ferries and float planes coming and going at a frantic rate. I sit in the Bean Cafe with other hyper-connected wayfarer's, tapping away at my quaint laptop, churning out this news dispatch from the Salish Sea.
I've dialed back on the barrage of bad news endlessly reported by the media industry to make my own, to shape these fragments– the discombobulated vessel of my prose– into some kind of order.
With the need for quick passages to make the San Juan's before the full moon I've had little time to pause and reflect on the true reason for the voyage.
Scattered among a pile of cheap, tattered composition books are fragments of my attempt to evoke, in written words, the ineffable impulse that draws me ever further toward a north only dimly seen on the drive-in movie screen of my dreams.
Old Hand voyages into the Sea of imagination, over the vertiginous depths of the unconscious. Her course is shaped by a vision glimpsed when I first beheld the vast azure expanse from my dad's early 50's station wagon as the Spencer family loudly tooled down Highway 101, fleeing the smog and squalor of L.A.
With my Brother Slim, I would practice the fine art of "body whomping." It was then I first felt the sea's loving caress, as well as the thumping shore-pound that handled my young person with all the tender ministrations of Freddy Blassie.
Yay, even Byron penned florid poesy to the green muse of body surfers in his epic Child Harold which, to this very day, remains blissfully unread by yours truly.
It is this same feeling of ecstatic immersion in the hylic element of Poisidon that pulls me toward a vaguely descried northern way-point. It is a lapis blue vision of eternity seen reflected on the whirling eddies of Deception Pass. Here and now, at this particular waypoint in time, I see the abysmal, turbid darkness overlaid by the counter-clockwise circulation of the divine light.
The 30 mile passage from Port Madison to Port Townsend is marked by the doleful names of voyages that came to grief on the Salish Sea. It is the saga of sunken tin-pot steamers who plied the vertiginous depths of Admiralty Inlet and now lie some fathoms deep among the fouled chain of time and memory. The place names along the first leg of Old Hand's forth-coming voyage to the San Juan Islands bear testament to historic, tortured founderings: Point no Point, Skunk Bay and Foulweather Bluff.
Perhaps the names are meant as caution to jaded yatchies who, besotted by the mirror calm of the convergence zone and assured by their virtual, abstract trajectories, sail blithely on over the sun-dappled main while toasting a lowering Margarita sky. What are these names but vague appellations foor that stubborn tyranny of tide and rock that mark this bewitchingly placid and, by turns, malevolent stretch of sea? And what are all our errant eastings, leewardings and embarkations but the the soul's recurrent flight into the dream time–the Homeric drive by which all voyages are undertaken–and part of the eternal, unquenchable drive toward the further, mythic shore.
My plan is to sail with the new September moon toward a not-too-adventurous landfall in the San Juan Islands and there to blithely hang amid the encantadas of the north; to seek, to groove, to go where no green lubber has gone before, that my soul might find solace, inspiration and release.
Who knows? Maybe even that old Miphisto of the sea, that horn-fisted coot with the line-squall scowl might loom again in the night, his gaunt profile etched against the thundering flash of doomsday. For none but Saturnius McWhirr can skipper Old Hand proper. None but he can set the serpentine track of this labored narrative on a course that is steady and true.
I finally made it home after being hammered by storms and held down in the lee of Port Hadlock for nearly a week. I've had little internet access and only able to make an occasional post. It's good to be back and have more time read and interact with my fellow bloggers.
I've been anchored in Port Hadlock for 5 days. Actually, after being pinned down here so long I've come to think of it as Port Headlock. As soon as I start to haul in rode, a sound rises from the far north, a deep rush of sound that gives me pause, and my hand is stayed from weighing anchor.
Since the Equinox, the weather has taken a nasty turn, with savage gusts from the Austral quarter of this turbid globe cast into the swirling cosmos. After long, night-watches, I see the gale steam the weather-glass a frenzied, vaporous scene of genesis. The glass is the vessel which holds the primordial spark and the damp, hylic goo of the Prima Materia in a seething, Hylic confluence. The torn north hangs rain-slanted like a black curtain fallen over the final act of a Doric sea tragedy.
Like I said, it was a nasty storm with gusts to 70. But now I pace the deck and see over the port beam, young men learning the old shipwright's trade at the Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building. A vessel went by that's based on the old longboat design of Vancouver's rowing/sailing launch and skipered by a young, pretty lass who calls from the bow with all the assurance of an old salt. Does my heart good to see the old tradition of working sail carried on by such eager hands.
We left Jones Island with the start of the ebb on a calm, overcast morning and headed south-east toward our first way point at Steep Point on Orcas Island's East side. I'd plotted our course through one of the San Juan Island's most treacherous passages the day before. Our track was to take us into the middle of the labyrinthine Wasp Islands, through Harney Channel to East Sound in time for our dance. I'd cross-referenced Captain Jack's and the Canadian Currant Atlas and, with a sharp pencil, drawn our course on the chart with the way points and estimated arrivals times.
I was actually a bit proud of my fore-sight, and hoped it might inspire in Lily a greater trust in my navigational skill. Lily had given me a T-shirt that said sharp and focused. Maybe she thought it might help.
When we reached Steep Point, the next way point appeared on the GPS screen directing us somewhere south-west into some nasty-looking rocks. Since our intended track was south-east, I knew something was wrong. Major anxiety set in.
The ebb was taking us east past a small Island to starboard, while ahead a few miles, was a small opening toward which a sailboat was motoring.
At Lily's suggestion (she was remaining unusually calm in all this,) I followed. As we neared, the pass actually appeared smaller. A torrent of green water flowed over the jagged rocks to starboard, when suddenly I saw a woman in the cockpit of a C-Dory next to us beckoning with a reassuring look and a gentle movement of her arms.
I'd gotten only a fleeting glimpse of her, but her radiant image will forever be etched in my memory. The waving motion with which she guided us rocked with her boat like a movements of a Sufi Zikr. It was an angelic vision guiding Old Hand's errant crew through the twisted channels of the world toward salvation; to chasten pride of seamanship and forgetfulness of the true purpose of our voyage-of which we might lose sight while navigating the labyrinthine island passes. Though our "navigation" of Pole Pass may have been unintentional, it reminded me of our deeper intention.
After all, we are emissaries of the Dances of Universal Peace, come to bring the message of unity as taught by Hazrat Inyat Khan and Samuel Lewis-to bring the wisdom traditions of all faiths into full body awareness through the ancient tradition of sacred dance.
Thank you bright Angel of Pole Pass. For you there shall always be an honored page in the tattered log of Old Hand.
Lily hurt her foot when we docked at East Sound for our dance. Then yesterday, a storm blew up from Southeast, blowing a good 35 knots with gusts to 40. Old Hand took a hammering at the public dock while Lily lay below getting seasick. But the local EMT team were there in no time to get her off the boat, up to the nearby Oddfellows Hall where we had a wonderful event despite Lily's injury. It was a sweet circle praying for peace in this stormy world.
In the mid 70's I had a studio in Eugene. Nearby was a pioneer cemetery where stood a tall, gray weathered tomb which housed an early patriarch of the Oregon Territory named Septembus Spencer. While I won't deny my memory may embellish the facts, this outlandish moniker has stayed with me all these years. Now I find that one of Willamette valley venerable line of Spencers had made his way further north to this stormy spit on Lopez Island's east shore.
As though by a master sculptor's hand, Equinoctial storms have carved cyphers into the rough stonework of the storehouse. Apples still fall from the trees he planted on the grassy knoll.
Septembus comes from Septentrio, which is Latin for North.
On this gravel spit formed with perfect symmetry by alternating currents are seen middens of a tribal fish camp that had been used for over 3,000 years.
Though I bear no relation to the Eugene and Lopez Spencers, I find it strange to arrive at the most northern outpost of those Northwest settlers-that venerable line whose family tomb I saw in my earlier days. It is their most, so to speak, Septentrionic point.
I take heart in knowing that the same northern, wayfaring spirit calling us toward these enchanted Isles inspired the peregrinations of T. W. Spencer-that the same pole star he set his course by is the way point toward which Old Hand shapes her course.
I was taught by a Cowlitz elder that the cardinal directions are more than physical points on the compass, but spiritual states which must be embarked upon with full awareness of all their various qualities.
The tide flows into the lagoon at full flood like the rushing green flow of the Willamette River by which I sat staring so long that, when I rose, the solid banks seemed to move with the same fluid motion as the water.
The sacred land is everywhere-is already won. It is somewhere in Harney Channel (Harney again!) The Center is in the old Odd fellows Hall on Orcas Island where we hold our Dance of Universal Peace on this Sunday. The universe revolves around Old Hand's keel as we voyage to the spiritual state of North; to honor the wisdom teachings of all faiths that ever points us toward the true polestar.
Lily and I have been making flyers and organizing our September 22nd Dance of Universal Peace in East Sound, Orcas Island. Our voyage has a direction beside that which the winds take us.
From the vantage point of the Doctor's Office coffee shop (it was an actual doctor's office), I watch all manner of craft and float planes enter and depart Friday Harbor. Old Hand lies anchored in 9 fathoms off the Oceanographic laboratories on the north east shore.
We are leaving later today for either Spencer Spit or Fisherman's Bay on the north end of Lopez Island before our event. it's not really our event, but part of a tradition-a spiritual community that exists all over the world.
Here's Lily leading a song/dance she wrote based on the Amitabha meditation. I may have gotten a little to free with the effects, but you can maybe get the jist of it.


In our current research on the vast hinterland of the ancient city of modern day Amman, Hellenistic Philadelphia, Biblical Rabbath-Ammon, we have been reading many travellers' accounts of exploring the ruins of the lands of Moab and Gilead.
Sketch of Rabbath-Ammon from L. Oliphant, 1880, The Land of Gilead with excursions in the Lebanon, William Blackwood and Sons (Edinburgh/London): 264. Digitised by the Internet Archive.
These historical accounts were mostly written in the 19th century. Some accounts seem to dwell on the flea-bitten sleepless nights in Bedouin accommodation, their finesse, or lack thereof, of dealings with the Arab tribes to secure guides and protection on the perilous journeys to isolated historical sites, and anecdotal commentary on the lifestyle of the 'Musselman', Christian and Bedouin they come across in these territories. Other accounts, such as that of Tristram, are overwhelming concerned with the flora and fauna of the region.
Most important for us, however, are the references to and reports of ruins they come across. Most accounts try and attribute the sites to those towns and cities mentioned in the Bible, but many also refer the sites to passages in Pliny the Elder, Josephus and other ancient writers.
Moreover, as these travellers were making their way through this area well before any urbanisation had occurred, they preserve, sometimes only in passing, the existence of ruins that have long since disappeared. These may be the only such reference to these sites, and it is from these accounts we can hope to reconstruct an idea of the hinterland of Amman - now completely covered in the urban sprawl of an increasingly expanding modern city. Many of these accounts are also accompanied by sketches and maps which further help us identify and locate these sites now erased from the archaeological record, or simply waiting to be refound.
Many of these works are out of copyright and can be found digitised and accessible for free in places such as Google Books, the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), and Hathi Trust digital library (http://www.hathitrust.org/).
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Q: chef error: "LoadError: no such file to load -- win32/open3" How can I resolve this error?  I get it when running chef-solo with a very simple node.json and configuration file, even though I'm not using Windows.
$ chef-solo -c solo.rb -j node.json
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[Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:21:03 +0000] FATAL: LoadError: no such file to load -- win32/open3

solo.rb is:
file_cache_path "/usr/local/var/chef-solo"
cookbook_path "/home/mjs/workspace/cookbooks"

node.json is:
{ "run_list": [ "recipe[greeting]" ] }

A: Opscode recommends that you not clone the entire cookbooks repository (for this reason and others), and instead download the cookbooks you need from the Chef Community site.
Mainly, that repository is in development, and individual cookbooks are released on the Community site. Further, not all the cookbooks are optimized for, or even work with, with Chef Solo. The latest README.md in the Cookbooks repository should make this pretty clear, too.
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Cookbooks
http://www.opscode.com/blog/2011/05/05/future-of-opscode-cookbooks/
http://community.opscode.com/

A: In my case, this was caused by /home/mjs/workspace/cookbooks containing all of opscode's cookbooks.  (i.e. I'd cloned their repo, and was adding a new cookbook.)  Even though the runlist specifies my recipe only, chef seems to be doing something to the other cookbooks in the directory, at least one of which assumes that some Windows-related gem is installed.

A: chef loads all the cookbooks in the cookbook path, and uses recipes that are listed on the run_list.
Because chef-solo is loading all of the cookbooks in the path, and not just the ones it downloads, like chef-client does, most of the time it loads (as in, includes the ruby script) stuff that you didn't mean for it to load.
For me it happened on the windows cookbook when I tested some recipe with Vagrant.
I just commented out the require line, as a work-around.
For testing recipes with chef-solo, I hold a git branch with a few commits that avoid these problems. Since these commits are usually small and are not related to the recipes I'm testing but just to make sure chef-solo is running, this is enough to work-around such issues.


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"We've got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion."
— Barack Obama on Thursday, February 20th, 2014 in a speech to Democratic governors
Barack Obama says Medicaid expansion has brought health care to 7 million who never had access before
By Louis Jacobson on Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 at 6:26 p.m.
After the troubled launch of President Barack Obama's health care law last fall, the numbers of health insurance sign-ups has increased -- and so has the spin.
Speaking at a dinner with the Democratic Governors Association on Feb. 20, 2014, Obama said the law had brought health care to millions of people. He provided a breakdown:
"Right now, we've already got close to 4 million Americans who have signed up for exchanges. We've got 3 million Americans who were able to stay on their parents' plan because of the law. We've got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion. So we've already got well over 10 million Americans just in the first few months, despite problems with healthcare.gov in the first month and a half, who suddenly have the financial security that in some cases they've never known before."
One of these numbers has attracted particular scrutiny -- the "7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion."
This refers to an expansion under the law of the federal-state Medicaid program. Obama's law lifted the income limits on who is eligible for Medicaid coverage, newly opening the program to those who had incomes that were very low but still too high to qualify. The federal government would initially pay 100 percent of the cost, with the federal share eventually dropping to 90 percent.
In its landmark decision affirming most of the law, the Supreme Court made an exception for the Medicaid provision, saying that states could opt out of the Medicaid expansion. So far, 25 states plus the District of Columbia have decided to expand their Medicaid program, and four more are still considering it. The remaining 21 -- mainly states with Republican political leadership -- have opted out.
Our friends at the Washington Post Fact Checker gave Obama's claim the worst rating on their scale -- Four Pinocchios. We thought we'd take a look, too.
We asked the White House if it would like to explain Obama's claim, but the press office did not offer any additional information. (The White House didn't talk to the Post's Fact Checker, either.)
But we think we have a pretty good idea where the president got his number from -- a report released Jan. 22 by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, titled, "Medicaid & CHIP: December Monthly Applications and Eligibility Determinations Report."
According to that report, the cumulative number of individuals determined eligible for Medicaid (or a related but separate State Children's Health Insurance Program) by state agencies during October, November and December 2013 was a little more than 6.3 million. That's not 7 million, but it's approaching that number.
However, the report notes some caveats about the 6.3 million figure. The number, according to the report, "includes those newly eligible under the Affordable Care Act and those eligible under prior law and, for some states, renewals."
In other words, the number includes people who were already eligible under the old, pre-Obamacare Medicaid rules and "came out of the woodwork," so to speak, during the last three months of 2013. This means they did not suddenly gain "access to health care for the first time" due to Obamacare, which was the standard Obama used in his speech to the governors' group.
The number also includes some people who simply renewed lapsed Medicaid coverage -- people who also wouldn't be getting "access to health care for the first time."
So how many people actually got health coverage due to the Medicaid expansion? That's a tougher nut to crack, because the data is scattered among different states and different categories.
Two private-sector efforts to estimate the number produced divergent figures.
Charles Gaba, a website developer and blogger in Michigan, has been tracking enrollment figures at his ACASignups.net site. His most recent estimate from late February shows 2.6 million Medicaid sign-ups once you subtract those falling into three categories -- those who signed up in states that didn't expand Medicaid, those who were previously eligible and who "came out of the woodwork" to sign up, and an estimate of the typical "churn" for Medicaid sign-ups in those states.
Meanwhile, Avalere, a health-care consulting firm, concluded that over the three-month period, between 1.1 million and 1.8 million people newly enrolled for Medicaid due to Obamacare. Avalere developed its estimates in part by comparing the CMS data on new enrollments to enrollment rates from the summer of 2013. The idea is to see how much of a "bump" in enrollments materialized due to the Medicaid expansion.
There's a significant difference between 1.1 million and 2.6 million, but the important factor for our fact-check is that both numbers are well short of Obama's 7 million figure (and CMS' 6.3 million figure).
Obama said, "We've got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion."
Obama's 7 million figure was a stretch even compared to his own administration's 6.3 million figure. But more problematic is a disconnect between what he said and what the administration data is showing.
The administration's 6.3 million figure includes a lot of the "churn" in Medicaid that has nothing to do with the new law's Medicaid expansion, as well as new sign-ups of people who were previously eligible for Medicaid -- and thus were not granted "access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion," in Obama's words.
The actual number is estimated to be between one-seventh and two-fifths of what Obama said it was. We rate the claim False.
Published: Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 at 6:26 p.m.
Researched by: Louis Jacobson
Edited by: Angie Drobnic Holan
Subjects: Health Care, Medicaid
Barack Obama, remarks by the president at a Democratic Governors Association dinner, Feb. 20, 2014
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, "Medicaid & CHIP: December Monthly Applications and Eligibility Determinations Report," Jan. 22, 2014
Avalere, "1.1M to 1.8M New Medicaid Enrollees as a Result of ACA," Feb. 5, 2014
ACASignups.net, "ACA Medicaid/CHIP Spreadsheet," accessed Feb. 25, 2014
Advisory Board Co., "Where the states stand on Medicaid expansion," Feb. 7, 2014
Washington Post Fact Checker, "Obama's claim that 7 million got 'access to health care for the first time' because of his Medicaid expansion," Feb. 24, 2014
Email interview with Gail Wilensky, former head of Medicare and Medicaid under President George H.W. Bush, Feb. 25, 2014
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Basketball notebook: Winthrop takes step forward with Capital City comeback
Also: Hall-Dale conquers unfamiliar opponent; Parlin finds shooting touch for Cony.
By Drew BonifantKennebec Journal
AUGUSTA — It was the kind of quarter Winthrop High School basketball coach Todd MacArthur has been waiting for, and it came right after one he could barely watch.
The Ramblers staged an impressive rally Saturday afternoon at the Capital City Hoop Classic, rallying from a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat Class B Winslow, 59-56, at the Augusta Civic Center.
"I'm just impressed. I think we're starting to learn things," MacArthur said. "Starting to figure out our compsure, starting to figure out our identity a little bit, and that's the thing. They tend to get away from what we want to do and start to do their own thing, but when we play our basketball, we're really good."
Winthrop, out of Class C, was trailing 44-36 when MacArthur called a timeout midway through the third, imploring his players to work more for free throws and high-percentage shots as opposed to settling for outside shots. The lead grew to 52-40 by the end of the quarter before the Ramblers began to follow their coach's advice, starting the fourth on a 10-3 run that got the lead down to 55-50 and featured five free throws and a basket in the paint.
"We had three good quarters, and one terrible quarter," MacArthur said. "If we can sustain consistent basketball, we're going to be a tough team to beat."
Winthrop continued to chip away, drawing within four on a Sam Figueroa drive, two on a Cam Wood basket and then pulling even at 56 on a Beau Brooks drive with 1:29 to go and taking the lead on Nate LeBlanc's short jumper with 40 seconds to play. All the while, the Ramblers got dirty in their attempt to hang on, scrapping for loose balls and rebounds and refusing to allow easy looks. Winslow didn't score in the last 3:49, and didn't hit a shot from the field in the last 5:45.
"That's our thing. We preach team," MacArthur said. "You can preach it all you want, but it's nice when one charge leads to five charges, one dive ball leads to five dive balls."
One of the gritty plays helped preserve the win, with LeBlanc going to the floor for a rebound and alertly calling timeout with 15 seconds left before it could be wrestled away.
"Once one person brings a lot of intensity, we all feed off of it," LeBlanc said. "We'll always grit and grind. We don't give up, whether we're down by 30 or down by one."
An afternoon contest for Hall-Dale proved to be an experiment in unfamilarity.
The Bulldogs tipped off against Amesbury, Mass. Saturday afternoon, and while Hall-Dale played like it knew everything about its opponent, coming away with a 73-51 win, coach Chris Ranslow didn't have much of a scouting report to offer his players.
"I think we were lethargic in the first half. I think some of it has to do with the uncertainty in playing a team you've never seen, you don't know anything about them," Ranslow said. "They could have come out full-court press or they could have played half court, 2-2-1, you just don't know."
It didn't take the Bulldogs long to find their footing. Hall-Dale stretched a 13-11 first-quarter lead over Amesbury, nearly twice its enrollment, to 26-16 in the second quarter, and though the Indians fought back to narrow the gap to 41-39 midway through the third, the Bulldogs put the game out of reach with a 22-1 run that lasted into the fourth quarter and featured six points from Alec Byron and eight points from Ashtyn Abbott.
"I don't think we reacted well in the first five minutes, certainly, but after we kind of figured out what they were going to try to do, their scheme, how they were going to try to break our pressure," Ranslow said, "we started to adjust and sort of reinvent the way we play."
Ranslow said the unofficial nature of the holiday tournament sets up well for unfamiliar opponents.
"It's hard to prepare a team. I just talk about platform skills. We're going to do what we do, and we're going to figure out if it's good enough," Ranslow said. "If you're trying to win, it's nice to know your enemy. As far as the Christmas tournament is concerned, it's nice to kind of have a litmus test with this group."
While Hall-Dale struggled at first to get a feel for its opponent, Amesbury struggled to get one for its environment. The Indians were called for 15 of the first half's 18 fouls, and coach Tom Comeau said the team was thrown off by the absence of a shot clock.
"It was straight foul trouble," he said of the reason his team fell off late in the game. "We were in foul trouble from the first three minutes of the game. We were constantly patchworking a lineup together."
The free-shooting Cony basketball team has one of its best guns in top form.
Austin Parlin scored 15 points on five 3-pointers in the Rams' 68-51 win over Boothbay Saturday, marking the third straight game he's knocked down five shots from beyond the arc. He also did it against Mt. Blue and then against Brewer, both wins that brought Cony back even at 3-3.
"He can do that, man. He can stroke it," coach T.J. Maines said. "He didn't shoot the ball well early on, but I think his teammates get him the ball because you have to kind of be careful of penetration with Jordan (Roddy) and some of the other guys, so it creates openings for him."
Parlin said the reason for his recent form is simple: He's finally healthy after a sprained ankle for the preseason.
"I was landing on my left foot, and that's not usual. Usually I go up on two, land on two," he said. "I noticed that, I started going up and coming down on two and that was mostly the thing."
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Presents a new window into the literary, philosophical, and theological concerns of this enigmatic thinker and writer.
Despite its relative rarity, and the condensed brevity of the poems themselves, poetry occupies a striking place in the literary and philosophical oeuvre of Georges Bataille. For Bataille, poetry had no meaning "except in the violence of revolt," which it could attain "only by evoking the impos...(Read More)
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A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche's importance to Bataille, and of Bataille's experience in Nazi-occupied France.
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Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.
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Asad Rauf, a former Pakistan umpire, died after a suspected heart arrest. He passed away at the age of 66. He was one of Pakistan's most illustrious umpires, among the likes of Aleem Dar. Rauf was named to the ICC's Elite Panel of Umpires in 2006, following which he officiated in 47 Tests, 98 ODIs, and 23 T20Is. He was at the top for seven years before being removed off the elite panel of umpires in 2013 after an annual performance assessment.
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Rauf's career took a turn for the worst once his name revealed in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing incident. Rauf was a well-known first-class cricketer in Pakistan, in addition to being an effective umpire.
Rauf scored 3423 and 611 runs in 71 first-class and 40 List A matches, respectively, with three centuries and 26 half-centuries. Rauf played for Lahore, the National Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan Railways, and Pakistan Universities during his career.
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Psalm Sings occur once a month. They exist to serve the entire congregation by offering an opportunity to learn new psalms and hymns, review less familiar music and old favorites, and equip the saints to sing with greater spiritual and musical understanding. All are invited to attend this time of singing, fellowship, and instruction.
The men of CREC meet every month to study, pray and fellowship together. This meeting is open to all men.
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La llamada Momia guanche de Madrid o Momia guanche del Barranco de Herques es una momia humana perteneciente a la cultura guanche (antiguos pobladores de la isla de Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España). Actualmente se encuentra expuesta en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid (España).

Características
Se trata de un individuo de sexo masculino, único por su excelente estado de conservación. La momia, de la que no se puede aún asegurar su antigüedad, aunque se cree que es de entre los siglos XI y XIII D.C., pertenece a un hombre de entre 35 y 40 años y se trata, según los especialistas, de la momia guanche mejor conservada del mundo, quizás sólo igualada por otra que está en Cambridge (Inglaterra). El individuo en cuestión, posee toda su dentadura muy bien conservada, sin ningún desgaste ni caries, posee "rasgos negroides" y sus manos no delatan que hubiera realizado trabajos físicos duros.

Por su parte, la Tomografía axial computarizada (TAC) que se realizó a esta momia desveló que no se le extrajeron las vísceras para momificarlo y que de hecho, conserva el cerebro, lo que contradice algunas crónicas históricas castellanas que cuentan cómo era el proceso de momificación o mirlado entre los guanches.

Historia
La momia fue encontrada probablemente en el barranco de Herques, al sur de Tenerife, entre los municipios de Fasnia y Güímar. Se cree que pertenecía a la gran cueva sepulcral en la que fueron halladas centenares de momias guanches. Llegó a Madrid en el  como regalo al rey Carlos III. Inicialmente estuvo en la Real Biblioteca, hasta que por orden del rey fue enviada al Real Gabinete de Historia Natural el 3 de octubre de 1776.

La momia participó en la Exposición Universal de París de 1878. En el Real Gabinete estuvo la momia en una sala reservada hasta que en 1895 pasó al Museo del doctor Velasco, hoy Museo Nacional de Antropología. Posteriormente, en diciembre de 2015, la momia fue trasladada de manera definitiva al Museo Arqueológico Nacional. La momia, es la pieza principal del espacio dedicado a la prehistoria canaria de dicho museo.

Del mismo modo que ocurre con otras piezas arqueológicas, como la Dama de Elche, la Dama de Baza o fuera de España con el Busto de Nefertiti, la Piedra Rosetta o el Friso del Partenón, tanto el Gobierno de Canarias como el Cabildo de Tenerife han reclamado sin éxito, desde 1976 y repetidas veces la devolución a Tenerife de esta momia.

En 2010, la Comisión de Cultura del Congreso de los Diputados aprobó el traslado de la momia a Tenerife, sin embargo en 2012, el mismo Congreso rechazó este traslado argumentanto el riesgo que se debería asumir para proteger la momia.

Véase también
 Momias guanches
 Guanche
 Aborígenes canarios
 Museo Arqueológico Nacional (España)
 Momia de San Andrés
 Momias guanches de Necochea

Referencias

Momias guanches
Colecciones del Museo Arqueológico Nacional (España)

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using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using FsCheck;
using FsCheck.Xunit;
using Maybe.BloomFilter;
using Xunit;

namespace Maybe.Test.BloomFilter
{
    public class BloomFilterTests
    {
        [Property]
        [Trait("Category", "Property")]
        public Property Contains_WhenItemHasBeenAdded_ShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            return Prop.ForAll(Arb.Default.Int32(), item =>
            {
                var filter = new BloomFilter<int>(50, 0.02);
                filter.Add(item);
                return filter.Contains(item).ToProperty();
            });
        }

        [Property]
        [Trait("Category", "Property")]
        public Property Contains_WithFreshFilter_ShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            return Prop.ForAll(Arb.Default.Int32(), item =>
            {
                var filter = new BloomFilter<int>(50, 0.02);
                Assert.False(filter.Contains(item));
            });
        }

        [Property]
        [Trait("Category", "Property")]
        public Property Contains_With5PercentFalsePositives_ShouldHaveLessThan5PercentErrors()
        {
            return Prop.ForAll(Arb.From(Gen.Choose(1, 5000)), Arb.From(Gen.Choose(1, 99)), (stepRange, errorRate) =>
            {
                var filter = new BloomFilter<int>(stepRange, errorRate/100d);
                foreach (var num in Enumerable.Range(1, stepRange))
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                    filter.Add(num);
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                var errorCount = Enumerable.Range(stepRange + 1, stepRange * 2).Count(num => filter.Contains(num));
                var highError = errorRate * stepRange;
                (0 <= errorCount && errorCount <= highError).ToProperty();
            });
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        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void FillRatio_WithNewFilter_ShouldBeZero()
        {
            var filter = new BloomFilter<int>(1000, 0.05);
            Assert.Equal(0d, filter.FillRatio);
        }

        [Property]
        [Trait("Category", "Property")]
        public Property FillRatio_WithOneItem_ShouldBeNumHashesDevidedByBitArraySize_Prop()
        {
            return Prop.ForAll(Arb.From(Gen.Choose(1, 10000)), Arb.From(Gen.Choose(1, 99)), (bitArraySize, numHashes) =>
            {
                var filter = new MyTestBloomFilter<int>(bitArraySize, numHashes);
                filter.Add(42);
                (numHashes/(double)bitArraySize == filter.FillRatio).ToProperty();
            });
        }

        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Contains_WhenItemHasBeenAdded_AndFilterHasBeenSerializedAndUnserialized_ShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
            {
                var filterOld = new BloomFilter<int>(50, 0.02);
                filterOld.Add(42);
                IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
                formatter.Serialize(stream, filterOld);
                stream.Flush();
                stream.Position = 0;
                BloomFilter<int> filterNew = (BloomFilter<int>)formatter.Deserialize(stream);
                Assert.True(filterNew.Contains(42));
            }
        }

        private class MyTestBloomFilter<T> : BloomFilter<T>
        {
            public MyTestBloomFilter(int bitArraySize, int numHashes)
                : base(bitArraySize, numHashes)
            {

            }
        }

        [Property]
        [Trait("Category", "Property")]
        public Property AddAndCheck_WhenItemHasBeenAddedBefore_ShouldReturnTrue()
        {
            return Prop.ForAll(Arb.Default.Int32(), testData =>
            {
                var filter = new BloomFilter<int>(50, 0.02);
                filter.Add(testData);
                return filter.AddAndCheck(testData).ToProperty();
            });
        }

        [Property]
        [Trait("Category", "Property")]
        public Property AddAndCheck_WhenItemHasntBeenAddedBefore_ShouldReturnFalse()
        {
            return Prop.ForAll(Arb.Default.Int32(), testData =>
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                var filter = new BloomFilter<int>(50, 0.02);
                return (!filter.AddAndCheck(testData)).ToProperty();
            });
        }

        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Create_WithZeroExpectedSize_ShouldThrowArgumentException()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => BloomFilter<int>.Create(0, 0.5));
        }

        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Create_WithNegativeExpectedSize_ShouldThrowArgumentException()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => BloomFilter<int>.Create(-100, 0.5));
        }

        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Create_WithErrorRateLessThanZero_ShouldThrowArgumentException()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => BloomFilter<int>.Create(100, -5));
        }

        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Create_WithErrorRateGreaterThanOne_ShouldThrowArgumentException()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => BloomFilter<int>.Create(100, 5));
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        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Create_WithValidParameters_ShouldReturnBloomFilter()
        {
            var filter = BloomFilter<int>.Create(50, 0.03);
            Assert.NotNull(filter);
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        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Constructor_WithZeroExpectedSize_ShouldThrowArgumentException()
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            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => new BloomFilter<int>(0, 0.5d));
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        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Constructor_WithNegativeExpectedSize_ShouldThrowArgumentException()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => new BloomFilter<int>(-100, 0.5d));
        }

        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Constructor_WithErrorRateLessThanZero_ShouldThrowArgumentException()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => new BloomFilter<int>(100, -5d));
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        [Fact]
        [Trait("Category", "Unit")]
        public void Constructor_WithErrorRateGreaterThanOne_ShouldThrowArgumentException()
        {
            Assert.Throws<ArgumentException>(() => new BloomFilter<int>(100, 5d));
        }
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}

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SINGAPORE - Those looking to join the maritime sector need not fear the current downturn as Singapore is a "multiple gold medallist" in the industry, said Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Transport Josephine Teo on Friday (Aug 12).
Speaking at the third annual Singapore Maritime Dialogue, Mrs Teo said Singapore continued to lead the world as a transhipment and bunkering port.
She likened Singapore's maritime sector to United States Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, adding that the country had to continue to stay ahead of the competition.
"We mustn't be fearful of economic cycles. What goes up must come down, the question is on the way down, what do you do to prepare for the time when you come up again," she said.
She said the Government has "a lot of confidence" in the maritime sector and is continuing to invest in the sector and encouraging people to join it.
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore chief executive Andrew Tan said the maritime sector here is also continuing to stay innovative by employing new technology, including remote-controlled cranes and automated vehicles that would eventually replace prime movers in ferrying containers.
The dialogue was organised by the Singapore Maritime Foundation to give students a better understanding of the maritime industry.
Held at PSA's Pasir Panjang Terminal, it was attended by 150 students from various institutions, including the Singapore Management University, Singapore Polytechnic and the Institute of Technical Education.


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