Verses 2 and 3 we know is talking of Jesus. But how was he introduced in verse 1? To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? It describes him. What is represented here by the arm of the Lord? An arm is an extension, an appendage of a person. God's extension to man his arm, is none other but Jesus Christ. We are to worship this appreciation of God. An arm is an appendage upon which we lean on to take the pressure of, to place dependence upon. That is an arm. In your experience, in your soul experience, in your torso experience, Jesus in his atonement with us is bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh and yet he is the divine God. The one we use to support us as a soul. Jesus is the arm of God.
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Jesus is in his human arm encircles us as he holds on to heaven. This is the arm of the Lord although human, intrinsically divine. Jesus is human but he is divine. The human Jesus is the arm of the Lord to attach to everyone who believes. In other words, you and I may be the body of Christ.
Did you notice that we have failed to cooperate with the divine agencies?
What was needed to save you and me? The divine and human.
Did you notice that the arm of the Lord being Jesus Christ, those who receive him as the arm of God, they will realise that humanity was needed to communicate God to us. It requires humanity to reach humanity. God needed humanity so that humanity can come to know him. The link provided for us, the arm of the Lord.
How can you get to know God unless God connected his understanding with your understanding through the human man Christ Jesus? He is the one mediator between God and man. He is the arm of God to us.
Without humanity God could not reach humanity. Humanity needs a human being according to what we have read.
The POWER of man becomes efficient.
Human beings like Jesus and the disciples work the works of God.
Those who have made their mistakes and are human beings who have a faulty background by themselves being in danger and then let out, they as humans are to do as Jesus as a human being did.
A friend that they can see in Christ's stead. In other words, when you can see that person, they are in Christs stead as a human arm.
Man needs man because man can only see with his eyes and he cannot see God or Jesus but he can see a man who is the arm of the Lord.
A human being will be working the works of God. You don't need to pity the one who has heavy responsibilities. The person who is in tune with God, who has years of experience of learning from God you don't have to pity when he has big responsibilities because he is working with the divine. The reality of Gods arm that we are studying and appreciating is the human arm of Jesus Christ which is human nature that God uses as his arm whether it is Jesus or any other human being who recognises the arm of the Lord. The angels are eagerly watching for opportunity for those who will tune in. There is power is within the ranks of Gods servants.
Human beings that you can see are the hand helpers. Do you need help? Where are you going to get the help from? What is heavens way? A human who will help you.
Have you ever been oppressed and distressed? What does God use? A friend who is the hand servants of the angels through whom omnipotent power flows.
If you have a whole team of Christs, remember what Jesus said? Greater works than I have done you will do. We see here that human visible beings are the arm of the Lord. Jesus was the first and his servants thereafter. Can it be truly stated and concluded that if Jesus is the arm of the Lord, those he sends as his servants are also the arm of the Lord? Is this conclusion we can draw?
Apostle Paul said he was chief of sinners. He was a murderer.
What did he just say they were? In Christs stead. What does that mean? That instead of Jesus being the arm, they are the arm. Is that right? Am I drawing a right conclusion here?
Since his ascension he is out of sight so he carries forward his work by men.
God is a watchman in his cause, through his ambassadors they are also watching. Did you know that what God can see he shows to his watchman? God's watchman can see things that only God can see because God reveals it to them because he has chosen them to do that work.
How important are those who are his ministers?
Who was Ananias? He was the church? He was the arm of the Lord who Saul who became Paul depended upon. He could have said no Jesus you talk to me, I don't want any human being to talk to me. Jesus said, go into the city and it should be told you what you should do. Who told him? A man. Therefore in receiving counsel from his servants, are we leaning on the arm of flesh? Think about it. There is a human being. You are relying on the human being for direction and guidance. How many people have said don't lean on the arm of flesh when they are dependent on the servant of God?
When you go to his ambassadors for counsel, are you leaning on the arm of flesh?
Through human delegates, they are the arm of the Lord. Right now Jesus is with those who are his delegated servants.
Is it a wrong conclusion to say that the servants of God that he has ordained as he did Paul and the disciples of which he said I'm with you right through to the end of the world, that his ministers are the very ones? To disregard what they are saying is to disregard the voice of God.
Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.
What is meant with this considering that God uses the human to be the arm of the Lord? Don't trust in man we hear. Can you see how people misunderstand scripture? Notice it said whose heart departeth from the Lord? What will happen if we don't listen to the servant of God if we trust in man? Have you ever gone through a parched experience in your life and you read, study and pray and you are still a parched desert? Why? Because you turn away from the one the Lord has sent. What did we read in our scripture reading?
Don't lean on your own understanding. How many of us feel natural in this way.
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Let us see what this really all means.
If you are reading carefully under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it said in Proverbs trust the Lord and not your own understanding. This is what is meant when people lean on human wisdom and human guidance when we depend upon the mind of the human.
When people rely on human exercises of mind, not on the Lord, when they need help to with their psychological condition, where do they go? I need help for my healing, where do they go? To the doctors. Human investigation, they don't go to the counsel of the Lord, they go to human agencies.
What are they to do? They are to connect with the heavenly agencies to help the people into Gods way of thinking. That is their work and if you are going to go to them, that is what they are meant to do. When you lean on the arm of flesh by relying on a minister, what is the problem if you rely on a minister who is simply an arm of flesh? When is it that you lean on the arm of flesh in such a case? Is it possible to go to a minster and think I'm being led of God when I'm really leaning on the arm of flesh? The disciples are identified.
If you are going to lean on the arm of flesh in a minister, what are you doing in reference to the decision you're making in who you are speaking to? It says a minister who does not speak according to the law and to the testimony is the arm of flesh.
If you go to a man who is not like John the Baptist, who is full of human invention in his own mind, he is a minister but he is not humble at heart before the Lord and does not give up his will to the will of God, Jeremiah 17 speaks of the man who can be a servant of God but can't be trusted.
Can you trust them? These men in high position in the church who are meant to have great wisdom and responsibility who are not in the valley of humiliation, who demonstrate their position by proclaiming they are Gods servants, how dare you disobey? They communicate and you pay attention to their office but these people are not in the valley of humiliation. We saw who was, John the Baptist, he could be trusted. We have an illustration of this to help us to make observation as to how this whole thing works.
What is this? Men in position of teaching had built up the work and then tear it down again. The old truths that once upheld them now begin to undermine them.
In what circumstance did Sr White use that statement? The murmurers, the insisters who have once built up and then torn down in the name of the Lord. They are once the favourite ministers who become an arm of flesh.
That was the context of the statement of people who rely on some favourite minister. In other words if you rely on some favourite insisters who has lost his bearings and is demonstrating something totally different to what he has demonstrated before then you are leaning on the arm of flesh if you find him comfortable to speak to.
The dress reform, the health reform that was upheld in the original of Gods church was being torn down by this brother. As he did that, what were the people doing?
Here is where we exalt man before God.
There are two classes of ministry in the ranks of Adventism. It's written in Matthew. We need to understand the ministry that has been delegated by God and Jesus Christ to recognise the arm of the Lord. Anyone else, minister, administrator or a whole group of them are identified.
Where does he say that? In his heart. He's still a preacher of the coming of Jesus. It is a servant in Gods advent church that begins to eat and drink with the drunken that is imbibing false teachings from the world. It is the same mentality as the ministers in fallen churches who teach doctrines but mingle with the world. These are identified as smiting the faithful servant who doesn't do that. Can you discern the arm of the Lord? Whom is whom in all this drama? May God grant us with a sound reasoning from on high that we gain in his word to know the arm of the Lord.
Posted on December 16, 2009, in Divine Service Sermons, Unity and Trust and tagged truth. Bookmark the permalink.	4 Comments.
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Located to the south of Vancouver, Burns Bog is one of the largest raised dome bogs in North America. It is globally significant and plays a key role in the ecology of the Fraser River delta. Its 3000 hectares provide habitat for numerous species of plants and animals found nowhere else in the Lower Mainland, including several threatened and endangered species. Over the past century approximately one quarter of the bog has been lost to development, and what remains has been seriously compromised by drainage ditches and peat mining.
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Public Interest Comment
Clarification of the Applicability of Aircraft Registration Requirements for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Before the Federal Aviation Administration
Former Senior Research Fellow
Samuel Hammond
Director of Poverty and Welfare Policy at the Niskanen Center
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing to implement a national registration system for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs), the details of which are to be recommended by a task force no later than November 20. The stated aim of the registry is to assist in identifying owners and operators of UASs that violate the law and endanger safety, thereby closing a perceived gap in enforcement. This comment highlights several major procedural concerns, followed by an examination of whether the safety benefits of a registry are likely to outweigh the societal and budgetary costs.
The Technology Policy Program of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is dedicated to advancing knowledge of the impact of regulation on society. It conducts careful and independent analyses employing contemporary economic scholarship to assess rulemaking proposals from the perspective of the public interest. As such, this comment on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) UAS registration task force does not represent the views of any particular affected party or special interest group but is designed to assist the administration as it carries out Congress's mandate to safely integrate UASs into the National Airspace System.
Procedural Concerns
We welcome the FAA's reversal on mandatory registration for all UASs. In its February notice of proposed rulemaking, the agency stated that unless explicitly exempted by statute, 49 U.S.C. 44101(a) provides that "a person may not operate a civil aircraft that is not registered," and therefore its hands were tied with respect to registration. As we pointed out in our comment, the FAA has a good deal more flexibility than it previously stated. We are glad to see the agency adopting our view in the current rule. Nevertheless, we have significant concerns about the process through which the FAA is examining the issue of registration.
The FAA's sudden creation of a taskforce that may produce unprecedented rules on recreational and hobbyist UAS operators raises questions about the legality of the action under the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (FMRA). Section 336 of the FMRA provides that "notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to the incorporation of unmanned aircraft systems into Federal Aviation Administration plans and policies . . . the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft" as long as certain conditions are met by those aircraft.
The FAA asserts that because registration has been exempted for model aircraft only through the use of its own discretion, prior law unrelated to the incorporation of UASs into FAA plans and policies, specifically 49 U.S.C. 44101(a), gives it the authority to require registration of model aircraft.
We question whether the current proceeding is truly independent of provisions of law "relating to the incorporation of unmanned aircraft systems" into the FAA's plans and policies. The FMRA is cited in the opening line of the present docket's background supplementary information. The stated justification throughout the docket for the expansion of aircraft registration and the creation of the task force is to accommodate an increase in UAS activity. The FAA's point of contact is the director of its UAS Integration Office. We therefore believe that the current proceeding relies quite directly on laws that by statute may not be used as justification for an expansion of the regulatory obligations of model aircraft operators. Unless the FAA reverses course and restarts the process without reference to its UAS integration mandate under the FMRA, there is a possibility that registration of noncommercial drones will be overturned if challenged in court.
The pace at which the DOT intends to implement the registry is also problematic. Secretary Foxx's statement to the press that he aims to have registration requirements in place by mid-December leaves no time for public notice and comment. Under the Administrative Procedure Act, federal agencies may only issue a direct substantive final rule when a notice-and-comment period is "impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest." In general, agency inaction leading to perceived deadline pressure does not constitute good cause to dispense with public notice and comment. As any requirement to register UASs potentially adversely affects numerous noncommercial operators, a public notice-and-comment period is necessary and in the public interest. The issuance of a final rule without notice and comment opens the registration requirement to reversal if challenged in court.
Finally, we believe that under Executive Order 12866, a rule on noncommercial UAS registration may be economically significant and require a cost-benefit analysis. FAA officials have estimated that 1 million UASs could be sold during this year's holiday season. As the recommendations of the task force may apply not only to those 1 million UASs, but also all existing model aircraft and future sales, the impact of a new rule could well exceed the $100 million annual threshold used by OIRA for economic significance. The DOT's regulatory evaluation should also consider the costs and benefits of all relevant alternatives, as required by Executive Order 12866.
A National Registry Is Impractical
If these procedural issues are rectified, the DOT task force will then need to determine criteria whereby small UAS registration makes sense given the DOT and FAA's limited internal resources. While the current FAA definition of small unmanned aircraft includes anything below 55 pounds, use of this standard would capture millions of multi-rotor helicopters typically considered to be toys. Yet such toys can still, in principle, violate restricted airspace and cause damage. Indeed, the model of small UAS that famously crashed on the White House lawn, the DJI Phantom, weighs less than 3 pounds. Another bestselling model, the Parrot Bebop Drone, weighs only 400 grams, or 0.88 pounds. This suggests that no matter what criteria are settled on, either the size of the registry will balloon and become unmanageable, or the criteria will be ill suited to the safety concerns the DOT claims the registry is meant to address.
Past experience with national registry systems suggests there will be dramatic implementation and compliance costs that the DOT may be systematically underestimating. Consider the Canadian Firearms Registry, which had cost overruns resulting in an estimated final bill of between $629 million and $2 billion, compared to a 1995 estimate of $119 million. This was the cost to register fewer than 8 million guns held by fewer than 2 million owners, before the bulk of the registry was scrapped.
The well-established issues with registry systems are only likely to be exacerbated in this event that the FAA adopts mandatory registration for a wide swath of UASs, for reasons that include but are not limited to:
The relative ease of constructing do-it-yourself UASs from basic components.
The difficulty of enforcing retroactive compliance.
The high sheer volume and speed at which UASs are being produced.
The ability of owners to modify every aspect of their UAS, creating a "Ship of Theseus" paradox.
The fast UAS depreciation and replacement rate.
The desire of consumers to resell or transfer UAS ownership, bypassing point-of-sale.
The multiplicity of foreign manufacturers and online sellers.
These enormous implementation difficulties are contrasted with the relative ease with which bad actors will still be able to evade the (at best) minor accountability a registration system provides. All these factors, combined with the historical experience of national registries, point to large costs relative to trivial benefits, and thus militate against instituting a registration system for recreational UASs.
Instead, the DOT and FAA should use this opportunity to define thresholds that liberalize most small UASs, requiring registrations for only the largest and highest-powered UASs, while continuing to focus on integrating all nongovernmental UASs within a framework based on the principles of permissionless innovation.
Instead of an impractical registration scheme, the FAA could adopt Transport Canada's model and require simple online notification for commercial operations within a middle weight class. Doing so would move the United States into greater harmony with a neighboring jurisdiction that is reaping major economic benefits from UASs. Canada's success is supported by its lack of a national registration system for hobbyists and its broad exemptions to permitting processes—both of which it maintains without sacrificing safety.
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Federal Aviation Administration: Unmanned Aircraft System Test Site Program
Jerry Brito, Eli Dourado, Adam Thierer
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Eli Dourado, Ryan Hagemann, Adam Thierer
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities, Barriers, and the Future of "Drone Journalism"
Avery E. Holton, Sean Lawson, Cynthia D. Love

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package com.webtrends.harness.component.cluster.communication

import java.net.{URLDecoder, URLEncoder}
import java.util.concurrent.{ConcurrentHashMap, TimeUnit}

import akka.ConfigurationException
import akka.actor._
import akka.cluster.ClusterEvent._
import akka.cluster.{Cluster, MemberStatus}
import akka.event.EventStream
import com.webtrends.harness.app.HActor
import com.webtrends.harness.component.cluster.ClusterManager
import com.webtrends.harness.component.cluster.communication.MessageProcessor.MessagingStarted
import com.webtrends.harness.component.cluster.communication.MessageSubscriptionEvent.Internal.{RegisterSubscriptionEvent, UnregisterSubscriptionEvent}
import com.webtrends.harness.component.cluster.communication.MessageSubscriptionEvent.{SubscriptionAddedEvent, SubscriptionRemovedEvent}
import com.webtrends.harness.health.{ComponentState, HealthComponent}

import scala.Predef._
import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
import scala.collection.{immutable, mutable}
import scala.concurrent.Future
import scala.concurrent.duration._
import scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ThreadLocalRandom
import scala.util.Try

/**
 * This is the main message processor
 * User: vonnagyi
 * Date: 3/7/13
 */
object MessagingActor {
  def props(settings: MessagingSettings): Props =
    props(FiniteDuration(settings.ShareInterval, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS), FiniteDuration(settings.TrashInterval, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS))

  def props(shareInterval: FiniteDuration, trashInterval: FiniteDuration): Props = Props(classOf[MessagingActor], shareInterval, trashInterval)
}

class MessagingActor(shareInterval: FiniteDuration, trashInterval: FiniteDuration)
    extends HActor
    with Stash {

  import MessageProcessor.Internal._
  import com.webtrends.harness.component.cluster.communication.MessageService._
  import context.dispatcher

  @SerialVersionUID(1L) case class Share()
  @SerialVersionUID(1L) case class InitialShareTimeout()

  def eventStream: EventStream = context.system.eventStream

  lazy val cluster: Option[Cluster] = Try(Some(MessageService.getOrRegisterCluster(context.system)))
    .recoverWith({
    case _: ConfigurationException =>
      log.warning("The config entry for ActorRefProvider is not 'ClusterActorRefProvider'. Not hooked up to any cluster")
      Try(None)
    case e: Exception =>
      log.error("An error occurred trying to hookup the cluster", e)
      Try(None)
  }).get

  lazy val selfAddress: Address = cluster match {
    case Some(clus) => clus.selfAddress
    case None => self.path.address
  }

  var shareTask: Option[Cancellable] = None

  // The list of global addresses
  val nodes: mutable.Set[Address] = ClusterManager.createSet[Address]()

  // The list of subscribers
  private val registry = (new ConcurrentHashMap[Address, RegistryEntry]() asScala).withDefault(a =>
    RegistryEntry(a, VectorClock(0L, System.currentTimeMillis), availableRemote = true, Map.empty))

  // The local registry of subscriptions
  private def localVersions = Map(registry.map {
    case (address, entry) => address -> entry.clock.counter
  }.toSeq: _*)

  override def preStart(): Unit = {
    super.preStart()
    registry += (selfAddress -> RegistryEntry(selfAddress, VectorClock(0L, System.currentTimeMillis), availableRemote = true, Map.empty))

    // Register for cluster information
    if (cluster.isDefined) {
      require(!cluster.get.isTerminated, "Cluster node must not be terminated")
      cluster.get.subscribe(self, classOf[MemberEvent], classOf[ReachabilityEvent])

      // Set a timeout so that we will not be stuck if there are no other nodes to gossip with
      context.system.scheduler.scheduleOnce(15 seconds, self, InitialShareTimeout)
      log.info("Clustering enabled and initialized")
    } else {
      log.info("Clustering is disabled so message handling will only operate locally")
      context.parent ! MessagingStarted
    }

    log.info("Message processor started: {}", context.self.path)
  }

  override def postStop(): Unit = {
    // Cancel our schedule sharing task
    if (shareTask.isDefined) {
      shareTask.get.cancel()
    }

    if (cluster.isDefined && !cluster.get.isTerminated) {
      // Un-register for cluster information
      cluster.get unsubscribe self
    }

    log.info("Message processor stopped: {}", context.self.path)
  }

  // If clustering is enabled then we need to go through the initialization phase first
  override def receive: PartialFunction[Any, Unit] = super.receive orElse (if (cluster.isDefined) clusterInitializing else standAloneProcessing)

  /**
   * If we are not running with the cluster then just handle the basics
   * @return
   */
  def standAloneProcessing: Receive = commonProcessing orElse pubSubProcessing

  /**
   * If we are running in a cluster then we need to make sure we that we have received
   * a gossip share or that we have sent one out to a remote node
   * @return
   */
  def clusterInitializing: Receive = {
    case cs: CurrentClusterState => // The initial sharing has completed so switch to processing mode
      log.info(s"Initial cluster state has been completed." +
        s"\nMembers: [${cs.members.mkString(",")}]\nLeader: [${cs.leader.orNull}]")
      context.become(mainProcessing)
      unstashAll()
      context.parent ! MessagingStarted
      shareTask = Some(context.system.scheduler.schedule(50 millisecond, shareInterval, self, Share()))
      updateNodeStatus(cs.members.map(m => (m.address, m.status)).toSeq)

    case InitialShareTimeout =>
      log.error("Initial share has timeout which means that there are either no other nodes in the cluster or we have not received a share")
      context.become(mainProcessing)
      unstashAll()
      // Continue on anyways
      context.parent ! MessagingStarted
      shareTask = Some(context.system.scheduler.schedule(50 millisecond, shareInterval, self, Share()))

    case _ => stash() // Stash everything else for now
  }

  /**
   * Once the service is initialized then this is the main processing unit
   */
  def mainProcessing: Receive = health orElse commonProcessing orElse clusterProcessing orElse
    shareProcessing orElse pubSubProcessing orElse {
    case CurrentClusterState(members, _, _, _, _) =>
      tryAndLogError(updateNodeStatus(members.map(m => (m.address, m.status)).toSeq))
    case InitialShareTimeout => // Ignore
    case msg =>
      log.warning("Unknown message type received: {}", msg)
  }

  /**
   * Process the pub/sub messages
   */
  def pubSubProcessing: Receive = {
    case message: Subscribe =>
      tryAndLogError(subscribe(message))
    case message: Unsubscribe =>
      tryAndLogError(unsubscribe(message))
    case message: Publish =>
      tryAndLogError(forwardToTopic(message))
    case message: Send =>
      tryAndLogError(forwardToTopic(message))
  }

  /**
   * Process the message sharing messages
   */
  def shareProcessing: Receive = {
    case _: Share =>
      tryAndLogError(shareSubscriptions)
    case Status(remoteVersions) =>
      tryAndLogError(verifyVersions(remoteVersions, sender.path))
    case Delta(entries) =>
      tryAndLogError(updateDeltas(entries))
  }

  /**
   * Process cluster specific messages
   */
  def clusterProcessing: Receive = {
    case UnreachableMember(member) =>
      tryAndLogError(updateNodeRemoteStatus(member.address, availability = false))
    case ReachableMember(member) =>
      tryAndLogError(updateNodeRemoteStatus(member.address, availability = true))
    case m: MemberEvent =>
      tryAndLogError(updateNodeStatus(Seq((m.member.address, m.member.status))))
    case Terminated(ref) =>
      tryAndLogError(terminated(ref))
  }

  /**
   * Process messages that are required either during initialization or actual running phases
   */
  def commonProcessing: Receive = {
    // ---- Subscription Event Registration ----
    case RegisterSubscriptionEvent(registrar, to) =>
      tryAndLogError(eventStream.subscribe(registrar, to))
    case UnregisterSubscriptionEvent(registrar, to) =>
      tryAndLogError(eventStream.unsubscribe(registrar, to))

    case GetSubscriptions(topics) =>
      tryAndLogError({
        var map: Map[String, Seq[ActorSelection]] = Map.empty

        topics foreach {
          topic =>
            val set = (for {
              entry <- registry.values
              if entry.content.contains(topic)
              sub <- entry.content(topic).subscriptions
            } yield context.actorSelection(sub.subscriber.path.toStringWithAddress(entry.address))).toSeq

            map += (topic -> set)
        }
        sender() ! map
      })
  }

  override def checkHealth: Future[HealthComponent] = {
    log.debug("MessageProcessor health requested")
    Future.successful(
      HealthComponent("processor", ComponentState.NORMAL,
        s"The message processor is currently running and managing ${context.children.size} topics",
        Some(s"Nodes in cluster: [${nodes.map(_.hostPort).mkString(",")}]"))
    )
  }

  /**
   * Add the subscription
   * @param message the Subscribe message
   */
  private def subscribe(message: Subscribe): Unit = {
    val lr = registry(selfAddress)
    val v = lr.clock.counter + 1
    val currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis
    val newClock = VectorClock(v, currentTime)
    val sub = Subscription(message.ref, message.localOnly)

    val content = message.topics.foldLeft[Map[String, TopicEntry]](lr.content)({ case (cMap, topic) =>
      cMap.get(topic) match {
        case Some(topicEntry) =>
          val newEntry = TopicEntry(topic,
            newClock,
            topicEntry.subscriptions ++ List(sub))
          cMap.updated(topic, newEntry)
        case None =>
          cMap + (topic -> TopicEntry(topic, newClock, Set(sub)))
      }
    })

    val newLr = registry(selfAddress).copy(
      address = selfAddress,
      clock = lr.clock.copy(counter = v, time = currentTime),
      availableRemote = true,
      content = content
    )

    registry += (selfAddress -> newLr)

    message.topics foreach {
      topic =>
        log.debug("The actor [{}] is subscribing to the topic {}", message.ref.path, topic)
        // Make sure we have a topic actor
        val encode = URLEncoder.encode(topic, "utf-8")
        context.child(encode) match {
          case Some(childRef) => childRef forward message
          case None =>
          // Do nothing since the topic actor does not currently exist and it will be created
          // whenever an actual message is send to it
        }

        publishSubscriptionEvent(added = true, topic, message.ref)
        sender() ! SubscribeAck(message)
    }

    context watch message.ref
  }

  /**
   * Remove the subscription
   * @param message the Unsubscribe message
   */
  private def unsubscribe(message: Unsubscribe): Unit = {
    val v = registry(selfAddress).clock.counter + 1
    val currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis

    message.topics foreach {
      topic =>
        val lr = registry(selfAddress)
        // Update the registry
        lr.content.get(topic).map {
          topicEntry =>
            val newEntry = selfAddress -> lr.copy(
              clock = lr.clock.copy(counter = v, time = currentTime),
              content = lr.content.updated(topic, topicEntry.copy(
                topic = topic,
                clock = lr.clock.copy(counter = v, time = currentTime),
                subscriptions = topicEntry.subscriptions.filterNot(_.subscriber == message.ref)))
            )

            // Now check to see if we have any remaining subscriptions for this topic. If not, then we
            // can remove the topic all together
            if (newEntry._2.content(topic).subscriptions.isEmpty) {
              registry += (selfAddress -> newEntry._2.copy(
                content = newEntry._2.content - topic))
            }
            else {
              registry += newEntry
            }

        }.getOrElse(log.warning("Received unsubscribe from topic {} which was not subscribed to", topic))

        log.debug("The actor [{}] is unsubscribing to the topic {}", message.ref.path, topic)

        // Send a message to the topic actor to remove the subscription
        context.child(URLEncoder.encode(topic, "utf-8")) match {
          case Some(g) => g forward message
          case None =>
          // Do nothing since the topic actor does not currently exist and it will be created
          // whenever an actual message is send to it
        }

        publishSubscriptionEvent(added = false, topic, message.ref)
        sender() ! UnsubscribeAck(message)
    }

    // If we have no more subscriptions for this actor then we should unwatch it
    val refs = (for {
      entries <- registry.values
      subs <- entries.content.collect {
        case m => m._2.subscriptions
      }
      sub <- subs
      if sub.subscriber.equals(message.ref)
    } yield sub).toSet

    if (refs.isEmpty) {
      context unwatch message.ref
    }
  }

  /**
   * An actor we have been watching has been terminated. We will now
   * update our internal registry for subscriptions that are related
   * to the given actor
   * @param actorRef the actor that has terminated
   */
  private def terminated(actorRef: ActorRef): Unit = {
    // Get all of the topics for this actor
    val topics = (for {
      content <- registry(selfAddress).content
      sub <- content._2.subscriptions
      if sub.subscriber.equals(actorRef)
    } yield content._1).toSeq.distinct

    log.info("The actor [{}] has been terminated and it's subscriptions will be removed", actorRef.path)
    unsubscribe(Unsubscribe(topics, actorRef))
  }

  /**
   * Forward the given message to the actor for the
   * given topic.
   * @param message the message to forward
   */
  private def forwardToTopic(message: MessageCommand): Unit = {
    val encode = URLEncoder.encode(message.topic, "utf-8")

    context.child(encode) match {
      case Some(g) => g forward message
      case None =>
        // If there is no topic actor then we need to "seed" it and then forward the message
        val refs = registry.values.flatMap { entries =>
          entries.content.collect {
            case m if m._1.equals(message.topic) => m._2.subscriptions
          } flatten
        } toSet

        // TODO - What if no subscribers
        if (refs.nonEmpty) {
          val childRef = context.actorOf(MessagingTopicActor.props(selfAddress, trashInterval, refs), name = encode)
          childRef forward message
        } else {
          log.warning("The message to the topic {} could not be pushed because there were no subscribers", message.topic)
        }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Share the subscription information with peer nodes.
   */
  private def shareSubscriptions: Unit = {
    randomNode match {
      case Some(node) =>
        log.trace("Sharing subscription information with {}", node)
        shareWith(node) ! Status(versions = localVersions)
      case None => // No need to log here
    }
  }

  /**
   * Get the reference to a remote peer to share state with
   * @param address the address of the remote peer
   * @return an instance of ActorSelection
   */
  private def shareWith(address: Address): ActorSelection = context.actorSelection(self.path.toStringWithAddress(address))

  /**
   * Select a random cluster node to share our subscription information
   * with.
   * @return the address of a random remote peer
   */
  private def randomNode: Option[Address] = {
    val otherNodes = nodes.filter(add => add != selfAddress && registry(add).availableRemote).toIndexedSeq
    if (otherNodes.isEmpty) {
      None
    } else {
      val randomIndex = ThreadLocalRandom.current.nextInt(otherNodes.length)
      Some(otherNodes(randomIndex))
    }
  }

  /**
   * Determine if the local state is newer then the remote state and then
   * act accordingly. If there are deltas then send those back to the caller.
   * @param remoteVersions the state from a remote peer
   * @param sourcePath the Path for the remote actor that is sharing this information
   */
  private def verifyVersions(remoteVersions: Map[Address, Long], sourcePath: ActorPath): Unit = {
    if (!nodes(sender().path.address)) {
      log.info("Ignoring received subscription information status from unknown node [{}] ", sender().path)
    } else {
      log.trace(s"Verifying versions from {}", sourcePath)

      // See if our data is "newer" then the remote service
      val delta = collectDelta(remoteVersions)
      val newer = remoteHasNewerVersion(remoteVersions)

      if (delta.nonEmpty) {
        log.debug("The subscription information for {} is newer then {} so we are sending the delta back", self.path, sourcePath)
        sender() ! Delta(delta)
      }
      // Now check and see if any of the remote data is newer then ours
      if (newer) {
        log.debug("The subscription information for {} is newer then {} so we are asking for the delta back", sourcePath, self.path)
        sender() ! Status(versions = localVersions) // it will reply with Delta
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Determine the deltas between the local state and one from a remote peer
   * @param remoteVersions the state from a remote peer
   * @return the deltas
   */
  private def collectDelta(remoteVersions: Map[Address, Long]): immutable.Iterable[RegistryEntry] = {
    // Combines the local and remote versions. If the local version does not exist then it
    // will be represented by a version of 0.
    val local = localVersions

    // Get the newer local nodes
    local.collect {
      // If the remote entry is missing or if our local version is newer then pull it out here
      case (add, v) if !remoteVersions.contains(add) || v > remoteVersions(add) =>
        val entry = registry(add)
        val remote = remoteVersions.get(add)
        if (remote.isDefined) {
          log.debug(remoteVersions.mkString(","))
          log.debug(s"Version {} for {} is older then the local version of {}", remote.get, add, v)
        } else {
          log.debug(s"The registry for {} is not present in the gossiped subscriptions. Adding it to the deltas.", add)
        }

        // Grab the non-local subscriptions for this node
        val nonLocal = entry.content.filter {
          case (_, value) => remote.isEmpty || value.clock.counter > remote.get
        } map { d =>
          d._1 -> d._2.copy(subscriptions = d._2.subscriptions.filter(_.localOnly == false))
        }
        registry(add).copy(content = nonLocal)
    }
  }

  /**
   * Update our internal state of subscriptions with the remote deltas
   * @param deltas The deltas
   */
  private def updateDeltas(deltas: immutable.Iterable[RegistryEntry]): Unit = {
    // Reply from Status message in the gossip chat
    // the Delta contains potential updates (newer versions) from the other node

    // Only accept deltas/buckets from known nodes, otherwise there is a risk of
    // adding back entries when nodes are removed
    if (nodes(sender().path.address)) {

      // Don't update local registrations
      deltas.filterNot(_.address == selfAddress) foreach { b =>
        if (nodes(b.address)) {
          val entry = registry(b.address)
          if (b.clock.counter > entry.clock.counter) {

            // Diff the existing subscriptions with the new version.
            val removals = (for {
              kp <- entry.content
              sub <- kp._2.subscriptions
              // If the topic is not in the new set or if the specific actor path is not then we know that is has been removed
              if !b.content.contains(kp._1) || !b.content(kp._1).subscriptions.exists(_.subscriber.path == sub.subscriber.path)
            } yield (kp._2.topic, sub.subscriber)).toSet

            val adds = (for {
              kp <- b.content
              sub <- kp._2.subscriptions
              // If the topic is not in the old set or if the specific actor path is not then we know that is has been added
              if !entry.content.contains(kp._1) || !entry.content(kp._1).subscriptions.exists(_.subscriber.path == sub.subscriber.path)
            } yield (kp._2.topic, sub.subscriber)).toSet

            // Merge the existing subscriptions with the deltas
            val newEntry = entry.copy(
              clock = entry.clock.copy(counter = b.clock.counter, time = b.clock.time ),
              content = entry.content ++ b.content
            )
            // Now update the registry
            registry += (b.address -> newEntry)

            // These were removed
            removals foreach {
              r => publishSubscriptionEvent(added = false, r._1, r._2)
            }
            // These were added
            adds foreach {
              r => publishSubscriptionEvent(added = true, r._1, r._2)
            }

            log.debug("There is a difference in subscription data so the system will update using the deltas sent to it from {}: {} [remote], {} [local]",
              b.address, b.clock, entry.clock)

            // Now we need to update the subscriptions for any existing topic
            updateTopicSubscriptions
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Update the child topic actors with the local copy of subscriptions
   */
  private def updateTopicSubscriptions: Unit = {
    context.children foreach {
      child =>
        val topic = URLDecoder.decode(child.path.name, "utf-8")

        val refs = (for {
          entry <- registry.values
          if entry.availableRemote // Only allow subscriptions for nodes that are currently available
          subs <- entry.content.collect {
            case m if m._1.equals(topic) => m._2.subscriptions
          }
          if subs.nonEmpty
          sub <- subs
        } yield sub).toSet

        log.debug("Sending the updated the subscriptions for the topic {}: {}", topic, refs.map(_.subscriber.path).mkString(","))
        child ! UpdateSubscriptions(refs)
    }
  }

  /**
    * Update the availability of subscriptions for a given node
    * @param address The node to update
    * @param availability Whether or not the node is available
    */
  private def updateNodeRemoteStatus(address: Address, availability: Boolean): Unit = {
    registry(address) match {
      case null =>
      case r:RegistryEntry => registry += (address -> r.copy(availableRemote = availability))
    }
  }

  /**
   * Update the availability of subscriptions for a given node
   * @param members a sequence of tuples with Address and MemberStatus.
   */
  private def updateNodeStatus(members: Seq[(Address, MemberStatus)]): Unit = {
    members foreach {
      case (address, status) =>

        status match {
          case MemberStatus.Joining | MemberStatus.WeaklyUp =>
            // Add the member to the list of nodes
            log.debug(s"Member $status: $address, won't come Up until akka.cluster.role is satisfied")
            //nodes += address
            //updateNodeRemoteStatus(address, availability = true)

          case MemberStatus.Up =>
            // Add the member to the list of nodes
            log.info(s"Member Up: $address")
            nodes += address
            updateNodeRemoteStatus(address, availability = true)

          case _ => // All other status are either from the node being removed or on it's way out the door
            // Remove the member from the list of nodes and registry
            removeNode((address, status))
        }
    }

    // Now we need to update the subscriptions for any existing topic
    updateTopicSubscriptions
  }

  /**
   * Remove the member from the list of nodes and registry
   * @param member Node designation
   */
  private def removeNode(member: (Address, MemberStatus)): Unit = {
    if (member._1 == selfAddress) {
      // If we are asked to be removed then just shut ourself down
      log.error(s"Message Actor asked to stop due to status update, member: ${member._1.hostPort}, status: ${member._2}")
      context stop self
    } else {
      nodes -= member._1
      // Notify listeners of the subscription removals
      registry(member._1).content.values foreach {
        c => c.subscriptions foreach {
          s => publishSubscriptionEvent(added = false, c.topic, s.subscriber)
        }
      }
      registry -= member._1
      log.info("The node [{}] is no longer available [{}] and it's subscriptions will be removed", member._1, member._2)
    }
  }

  /**
   * Publish the subscription command for all listening on the pre-defined topic.
   * @param topic the topic that changed
   * @param subscriber the actor ref that is involved
   */
  private def publishSubscriptionEvent(added: Boolean, topic: String, subscriber: ActorRef): Unit = {
    if (added) {
      log.debug(s"Publishing a subscription add event for the topic $topic")
      eventStream publish SubscriptionAddedEvent(topic, subscriber)
    } else {
      log.debug(s"Publishing a subscription remove event for the topic $topic")
      eventStream publish SubscriptionRemovedEvent(topic, subscriber)
    }
  }

  /**
   * Are the versions for the given remote addresses newer then the local version
   * @param remoteVersions the map of addresses and versions
   * @return true if the any of the remote versions are newer then the local copy
   */
  private def remoteHasNewerVersion(remoteVersions: Map[Address, Long]): Boolean =
    remoteVersions.exists {
      case (address, version) => version > registry(address).clock.counter
    }
}


Cell phones, tablets, wearables, and other mobile devices dominate our lives. I personally bring my trusty iPad to everywhere, and, like everyone else, have my phone with me at all times. The biggest attack surface for any enterprise, then, may well be these devices. How can we assess the threats? What are the components in need of protection? What are some key methods of protecting them?
We can start with the devices themselves, and then look at the infrastructure behind them. Mobile devices: same basic architecture as any computer: hardware (processor, storage, memory, input/output systems, and communications systems), firmware, operating system, and applications. Each has its own class of vulnerability. Much of the hardware is manufactured in countries that may view the U.S. in a friendly light, so supply chain risks are an issue. The same holds true for the software; some brands have software components from thousands of providers all over the world. In a more familiar experience, people lose their devices; the ability (and willingness) to wipe a device remotely is thus an important element in mobile security.
The operating systems and applications are also vulnerable, and the ubiquity of these devices makes exploits very lucrative for bad actors. Anti-malware software, then, is not just for computers.
Mobile devices also offer a wealth of communication options: WiFi, Cellular service, Bluetooth, near-field communication (NFC), and so on. Each of these offers an avenue of potential attack. Public WiFi is notoriously hazardous, so it makes sense to use a VPN for any type of Internet access. VPNs are not perfect, but they are better than operating "in the clear".
The infrastructure behind these devices is also vast, and presents a wealth of opportunities for the attacker: cloud storage services, the cellular network which integrates with geolocation systems, the Internet, WiFi networks, and the application stores we all use when we realize "there's an app for that".
1. Can you protect the data? Is it encrypted in place, and in transit?
2. Do you know what assets your users can access? Identify the assets and acceptable access, and protect them with both policy and technology.
3. Endpoint protection: anti-malware, secure browsing, strong access control to the device, and remote-wiping capability in case of a lost or stolen device.
Mobile devices are a huge component of an enterprise's attack surface. They should receive a proportionately large percentage of cybersecurity protection.


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by Henry Duru Friday, July 08, 2016
Deadly bug strikes in a day
New pathway discovered for bacteria
It's like something out of a horror movie -- a killer bug that goes through your nose and can kill you in 24 hours. What's worse is it could be lurking in your body without you even knowing it.
This is Dr James St John.
Credit: Griffith University
A deadly bacteria that can be picked up by a simple sniff can travel to the brain and spinal cord in just 24 hours, a new Griffith University and Bond University study has found.
The pathogenic bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the potentially fatal disease melioidosis, kills 89,000 people around the world each year and is prevalent in northern Australia and southeast Asia.
Previously, researchers did not understand how the bacteria travelled to the brain and spinal cord, or just how quickly.
The findings, published in Immunity and Infection this week, could mean further discoveries in how the common staphylococcus and acne bacterium also end up in the spinal cord, as well as how chlamydia travels to the brain in Alzheimer's patients.
It could also provide answers for common back problems where bacteria have infected the bone, causing pain that could be simply treated with antibiotics.
In Australia a person with melioidosis has a 20-50 per cent chance of dying once it infects the brain. The bacterium is found in soil in populated areas such as Darwin.
Dr James St John, Head of Griffith's Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research, said the scary bacteria could slip into your system without you even knowing it.
"Imagine walking around and you sniff it up from the soil and the next day you've got this bacteria in your brain and damaging the spinal cord," he said.
"It can be at a very low level, the body doesn't even know it's there. You could have it and don't know it, that's scary.
"It could just be sitting there waiting for an opportune moment, or it could just be doing small incremental damage over a lifetime. You could lose the function in your brain incrementally."
Together with Associate Professor Jenny Ekberg from Bond University and Professor Ifor Beacham from the Institute for Glycomics, the team studied mice to find that the bacteria travels from the nerves in the nasal cavity before moving to the brain stem and then into the spinal cord.
In Southeast Asia 50 per cent of the population may be positive for melioidosis and in places like Cambodia the mortality rate is as high as 50 per cent.
Associate Professor Ekberg, from Bond's Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, said it was frightening how easily and quickly the bacteria could get into the brain.
"But what are the long term consequences? Do the bacteria hide away until sometime later and do little bits of incremental damage, or do they immediately cause full blown infection? We are now working on these questions."
Dr St John said this could be a pathway for many other common bacteria.
"What excites me most is the idea that other bacteria could also use this route," he said.
"Bacteria have been implicated as a major causative agent of some types of back pain. We now need to work out whether the bacteria that cause back pain also can enter the brainstem and spinal cord via the trigeminal nerve."
By discovering the pathway, researchers will now work on ways to stimulate supporting cells that could remove the bacteria.
Dr St John said the work was important as the bacteria had the potential to be used as a bioweapon and knowing how to combat it was extremely important.
Professor Beacham said the olfactory mucosa, located in the nose, is very close to the brain and it had long been known that viruses could reach the brain from the olfactory mucosa.
"Our latest results represent the first direct demonstration of transit of a bacterium from the olfactory mucosa to the central nervous system (CNS) via the trigeminal nerve; bacteria were found a considerable distance from the olfactory mucosa, in the brain stem, and even more remarkably in the spinal cord," he said.
"These results add considerably to our understanding of this particular disease. It seems likely, however, that other bacteria may also transit from nose to CNS, although this has yet to be determined.."
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Відродження Реформація Доба великих географічних відкриттів Ганза

Геополітична ситуація

Османську державу очолює Сулейман I Пишний (до 1566). Імператором Священної Римської імперії є Карл V Габсбург (до 1555). У Франції королює Франциск I (до 1547).

Середню частину Апеннінського півострова займає Папська область. Неаполітанське королівство на півдні захопила Іспанія. Могутніми державними утвореннями півночі є Венеціанська республіка, Флоренція, Генуезька республіка та герцогство Міланське.

Іспанським королівством править Карл I (до 1555). В Португалії королює Жуан III Благочестивий (до 1557).

Генріх VIII є королем Англії (до 1547), королем Данії та Норвегії є Фредерік I (до 1533), королем Швеції — Густав I Ваза (до 1560). Королем Угорщини та Богемії є римський король Фердинанд I Габсбург (до 1564). У Польщі королює Сигізмунд I Старий (до 1548), він же залишається князем Великого князівства Литовського.

Галичина входить до складу Польщі. Волинь належить Великому князівству Литовському. Московське князівство очолює Василій III (до 1533).

На заході євразійських степів існують Казанське ханство, Кримське ханство, Астраханське ханство, Ногайська орда. Єгипет захопили турки. Шахом Ірану є сефевід Тахмасп I.
У Китаї править династія Мін. Значними державами Індостану є Імперія Великих Моголів, Біджапурський султанат, Віджаянагара. В Японії триває період Муроматі.

Іспанці захопили Мексику, імперію Інків.

Події
 Турецький султан Сулейман I Пишний знову ввів війська в Угорщину.
 18 березня англійським церквам заборонено робити виплати Риму.
 16 травня сер Томас Мор подав у відставку з посади лорд-канцлера Королівства Англія. Новим лорд-канцлером став Томас Кромвель.
 Франція остаточно поглинула Бретань.
 У Норнбергу укладено мир між протестантами та імператором Карлом V. Імператор згодився не застосовувати постанову Аугсбурзького рейхстагу в обмін на підтримку боротьби з турками.
 У Німеччині прийнято Constitutio Criminalis Carolina.
 Алессандро Медічі проголошено герцогом Флоренції.
 У квітні Атауальпа здобув перемогу над Уаскаром і став верховним правителем інків.
 16 листопада загін іспанського конкістадора Франсиско Пісарро біля перуанського міста Кахамарка захопив у полон верховного інку Атауальпу.
 Опубліковано книгу Нікколо Мак'явеллі «Державець», через п'ять років після смерті автора.
 Опубліковано книгу Франсуа Рабле «Пантагрюель».

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 17 листопада — Тулліо Ломбардо, італійський скульптор.

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Jul 25, 2013 • 11:00am
by mitchwaxman
The ironic thing is that you can't catch a train here. Yet.
The Sunnyside Yard opened in 1910, and was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The rail complex was the largest coach yard on Earth back then, occupying some 192 acres which carried nearly 26 miles of track that could accommodate a thousand train cars. In modern times, the busiest rail junction in the United States is found here, called the Harold Interlocking.
A fantastic overview of the history of rail in Long Island City — with maps — can be found at the website trainsarefun.com.
The Sunnyside Yard tends to insulate Long Island City from the rest of western Queens, forcing its residential and business traffic to pass through and around narrow or crowded choke points like Queens Plaza. Its borders are defined by Jackson Avenue and Northern Boulevard to the north, while the southern border is found along Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside. In the east, it's 48th Street and the west border is 21st Street.
There's a reason I use a lot of adjectives when describing the place — ones like "gargantuan," "cyclopean," or — a noun — "titan."
The traffic viaducts which cross over the southern part of the yard — Hunters Point/47th Avenue, Thomson Avenue, Queens Plaza South — are all oriented in a mostly easterly direction, while the 35th Street (or Honeywell Street) Bridge and the 39th Street (or Harold Avenue) bridge at Steinway Street offer rare and spread out pinchpoints of north south egress for automobiles across the facility.
All told, there are five vehicular crossings, six if you count the Long Island Expressway, but technically the highway crosses the LIRR tracks, not Sunnyside Yard.
Note: To see a much larger version of the panorama shot above, click over to this link at flickr.
This post is actually a result of having visited the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm at the corner of Steinway and Northern Boulevard, described earlier this week, which offered a spectacular overview of this brobdingnagian rail yard.
Sunnyside Yard is the property of Amtrak these days, and it's in the midst of flurry of construction in anticipation of the forthcoming East Side Access project, which will connect the Long Island Rail Road's Main and Port Washington lines in Queens to a new LIRR terminal beneath Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.
As a point of interest, not too long ago I managed to capture some shots of the tunnel boring machine used to open the new passage as it was being prepared for transit out of Queens. Check them out here.
Amtrak runs part of its high speed Acella service out of the yard, but lots of "ordinary" trains move through here as well. The LIRR tracks are to the south, and there is talk of creating a Sunnyside Station for commuter trains at the corner of Skillman Avenue and Queens Boulevard as soon as 2019.
The thinking handed down from those who understand such things is that building this station will help spur industrial, commercial and residential growth around Queens Plaza.
On any given day, excess capacity from Penn Station will execute a turnaround on the so called balloon track, which is found further east, near 48th Street, to re-enter Manhattan. It is not uncommon to find New Jersey Transit trains here, alongside the rolling stock which services Amtrak's Northeast Corridor or the ubiquitous LIRR trains. During Hurricane Sandy, every track here was filled with trains sheltering against flooding.
They repair and service damaged locomotives here as well, and there is also a train wash,
Every so often in the historical record, a plan is floated by some ambitious soul to "deck over" the yard and build a new neighborhood on top of it. The gargantuan factories which surround it, whether they be the Degnon Terminal to the south or the Standard Motor Products building (from which most of these photos were captured) to the north, are no longer connected to the rails or truly industrial, and the locales they sit in are transitioning from manufacturing to residential.
The plan to cover over the Sunnyside Yard was most recently advocated by former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding Daniel Doctoroff. A technical analysis his team compiled of the situation can be perused at nyc.gov.
Personally, I can't bear the thought of losing this view.
Newtown Creek Alliance Historian Mitch Waxman blogs at Newtown Pentacle.
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January 25th, 2023 by Anna Na Nokorn
As time goes by, the past fades into oblivion. Like other artists, Tawatchai Somkong combs through piles of dusty history and finds something invaluable. He often visits antique shops when travelling abroad. Century-old sepia paintings are used for lavish adornment, and some are high-quality for museum display. In 2014, he began to create a collection of works that personally resonated with him.
"I wanted to bring them back to the world of contemporary art," he said of his solo endeavour that concluded at the Matdot Art Centre last week. It was titled "Me And Them" in English or "Tawiphob" in Thai, a nod to a famous novel by Tomyantee. A playful punch was signalled by how the artist spelt the word phob in Thai differently to convey an intended meaning — an encounter between the past and the present.
"It is a collaboration based on respect for original artists. I have retained their characteristics as much as possible. At the same time, I put myself into their works to show how the contemporary thinks," he explained.
Alongkorn Lauwatthana with paintings of his late mother.
These works were reproductions by artists who learned by copying their teachers. But he partially painted fluorescent colours over them, something unimaginable at the time of creation. In those days, artists worked under the command of patrons. It was not until the Industrial Revolution that they were released from such bonds because mass production increased their access to cheaper art tools. Besides, the definition of art changes quickly
On view were a handful of religious artworks such as The Red Cross and One Last Touch, in which Tawatchai painted the cross and some unnecessary disciples red to foreground their message. Nearby, Romeo & Juliet was a rework of a very murky painting of William Shakespeare's tragic play. In the same way, he applied red colour to the tree, the poison and the cupid to contrast them with the surrounding environment.
"By interacting with artists from different generations, I think techniques and colour palettes have evolved a lot. Period works are characterised by sepia. Almost monotone. I have broken the mould by using graffiti colour to signify the contemporary era or adding some elements to tease them," he said. No More Lonely Night is a parody of a woman who is apparently waiting for someone, but Tawatchai gave her a chair and a cloud that looks like an eye so that she rests. A Dog, Fisherman And Artist was an adaptation of an untitled work by T.S. Benson. Tawatchai created his own avatar and a Thai ridgeback dog for a lonely fisherman in the original oil canvas. Besides bold imagination, the job requires skill because a mistake is irreversible.
It should be noted that Tawatchai included the eye-shaped cloud in these reproductions, such as The Surveiling Eye In The Garden and The Wandering Eye, to represent change.
Tawatchai with Everybody Is Someone's God, left.
"I have been fascinated with clouds. They are shape-shifting and indicative of a change in weather," he said. "It shows that areas in these paintings no longer exist due to urbanisation. Conceptual art allows me to explore, critique, or make original works complete."
His art rescue operation entailed challenging the Western dominance of art history. In Everybody Is Someone's God, he painted his own face over the newborn Jesus sleeping on his mother's lap to show that the child can be of other races, making the notion of love more universal.
"It is my favourite piece because mothers are like our gods. I am a Buddhist but embrace every religion. I just make an interpretation in my own way," he said.
His project ran in parallel with his friend's solo exhibition titled "Mother". Alongkorn Lauwatthana reconstructed his late mother through a collection of 28 portrait paintings. He kept her photos in various postures to capture her smile three years ago when she was still in good health. In 2022, she fell ill for six months and passed away later aged 93.
From left, The Red Cross, One Last Touch and Romeo & Juliet.
"She waited for everybody to gather around and smiled as if to bid a final farewell. Her heart rate gradually lowered to zero," he said.
When Alongkorn started the project, he planned to create 93 portraits according to her age, but eventually went for 28 due to his grief. In the process, he realised that he should be happy like his mother. He also felt that because her photos were similar, he shifted from a realistic to an almost abstract painting style. Some of them showed colourful smudges of unrecognisable faces.
"Because my mother already passed away, the person who appears in these portraits is not her. It is as if I am painting my mother, who is no longer my mother. She is a person in my memory," he said.
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Pinot Noir is one of my favorite wines, NO NOT because of sideways! I loved the wine long before that horrific cult movie hit the theaters. I love PN for what it stands for – complexity through things other than fruit! A well made Pinot Noir, in my humble opinion, needs to be of medium body, medium fruit structure, accompanied by mounds of dirt, mushroom, barnyard, and earthy goodness. The ultimate aspect of a great PN is the secondary flavors, not the fruit, not cherry cola, and for the LOVE OF GOD not OAK! It is all about the secondary and old age notes that come with time and love.
Sadly, look at that list. Four Gates is tough to get in quantity. The Gvaot Pinot is available, but they are more Cab and rich in nature than a pure ethereal wine, though very impressive. The landsman 2011 PN was impressive, as was the 2013 and now 2016, the others have been misses for me. The Eagle's Landing 2013 vintage is still available at the winery. The Makom was nice in the past and not many new ones recently. The real winners are the French options, but they are NOT cheap.
So, where are we? Clearly, that is a VERY short list. Some like the Galil Pinot and other such structured wines, but to me, they are just bad Cabernet in a Pinot's clothing. This is a short list. Heck, there are HUNDREDS of Cabernet, Merlot, Syrah, even many Cabernet Franc options. But say Pinot and numbers dwindle in the blink of an eye. Further, many of the options here are vintage based. For the true Pinot lover, Four Gates and France are your sure bets. Sadly, only the last one is pumping out wines consistently.
The shocker of the tasting was the 2013 Gush Etzion Pinot Noir, it was earthy and fun, and did not die after a day. It was quite a solid wine. Same for the 2013 Shirah Pinot Noir, that wine disappeared in no time, which is always a quality indicator of a wine. Beyond that, the obvious winner was the older Four Gates wine, the 2013 Hagafen was fun, sadly, the Prix of the same wine was an oak bomb.
There was also a bottle of the 2015 Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley. The 2014 vintage was my wine of the year, last year. The 2015 vintage, will not win that accolade this year, but it showed far better in my house than at the KFWE this year.
This wine is a perfect example of what California can create. It is a pure joy that shows hedonism in all the regal manner you can imagine it. Bravo my friend!
The nose on this wine is packed with blackberry, cherry, plum, eucalyptus, mad mineral, graphite, rich mushroom, and good hints of green notes, and dirt. The mouth on this full bodied wine is richly layered and extracted with waves of concentrated fruit, intense ripe raspberry, plum, cassis, and mouth coating still gripping tannins that all come together with bracing acidity, sweet oak, and lovely sweet dill, and mushroom. The finish is long and spicy with leather, spice, still searing tannin, sweet notes, espresso, chocolate, and hints of tobacco and cloves – BRAVO!!! This is a wine that is still going nowhere anytime soon with more acid and tannin to keep this alive for another 6 years. Drink by 2022.
The wine was full-bodied with layers of fruit, it showed beautifully and so old world with dirt and spice a wine that is complex and rich, a hedonistic experience which can only be described as both old world and yet truly rich and ripe. The black fruit was still kicking with cherry cola, deep and freshly rooted earth, mushroom, along with barnyard, and still impressive and velvety tannin, with layers and lovely menthol, green notes, and earth galore. The finish was long, with mineral, rich espresso, and still bright fruit that lingers. BRAVO!!! Drink NOW!
This wine was really fun, a long shot at best, in my mind, but I brought it back from Israel and it was nice. The folks at the table did not like it as the fruit was not screaming, but that was a plus to me. The nose was earthy and dirty, with a bit of fruit, showing nice raspberry, dark cherry, a hint of plum, and overall a nice version of Pinot Noir. The mouthfeel is not layered, but still nice and it is at its peak or a bit past. The finish is tobacco, tar, and dirt, my kind of wine! Drink up!
Lovely nose of oak that is commanding attention, with smoke galore, cherry and rich earth with spice and red currant fruit. The mouth on this medium bodied wine is nice, it shos Pinot in it real form, with red berry with nice acid, with sweet tannin, sweet dill galore, and green notes and lots of oak, showing nice spice nutmeg and cinnamon and sweet herb. Long and sweet and spicy finish with plum and spice, earth, and lovely coffee. Drink by 2020.
First off this wine is 100% Pinot and it was aged in 100% French, but 25% of that wine was aged in one of my favorite barrels of all time; Meyrieux barrels and it is a lovely scent indeed! The nose that it gives off is sweet and herbal and it sounds perfect for Pinot Noir, though I have only seen it on Chardonnay until now.
What a wine, this is such a joy to smell and drink. The nose on this wine starts off with dirt, real loam, and herb galore, followed by classic cherry notes, hints of raspberry, black fruit in the background, and lovely floral notes that remind me of rose. The mouth on this medium bodied wine is balanced, with searing acid, crazy herb and dirt, followed by searing tannin that is still punching hard, all the while being complex and layered, with saline, and earth, ripe cherry and raspberry, and sweet cedar that gives way to layers of black fruit, and mushroom. The finish is long and earthy with mineral, graphite, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, with basil and green notes. Bravo! Drink by 2021.
When we last tasted this at the winery it was on its way down, the oak had overpowered the wine and it was essentially oak juice, and very sweet. This was not far off from that, but even duller. Sad.
Sadly, the Gvaot was dead, oxidized and not fun.
I have this wine a few times, and while I think it is nice, it is not the crazy winner that the younger brother from 2014 was. The nose is nice, it shows ripe fruit, riper than 2014, but clearly also far more accessible than 2014, with ripe blackberry, anise, raspberry, with cherry, smoke, tar, and currant fruit. The mouth on this medium bodied wine is ripe, far ripper than the 2014 vintage and lacking all that crazy umami that 2014 had, still while the wine is far more accessible to start, it shows complexity, with some earth, but more dark plum, dark black fruit with nice draping tannin, rich fruit, good acid, more licorice, sweet fruit and graphite. The finish is long and green and sweet but balanced with rich milk chocolate, nice tobacco, and sweet red and dark fruit lingering long. Drink by 2028.
The best that can be said of this wine is that it is not flawed. Outside of that, the wine is like water, simple, but with time it opens a bit, to show a bite, and some acid and tannin. The notes are classical, showing nice cherry and raspberry, with hints of mushroom and nice dirt, with fruit, and balance. A nice quaffer.
This wine is yet another letdown, it is essentially oak, more oak, and then loads of vanilla, spice, and really no fruit.
This is fun, the nose on this wine is dirty, with lovely mineral, and spice, it reminds me of the 2013 landsman when it was first released. The nose shows the lovely fruit of dark cherry, raspberry, licorice, mint, and menthol galore. The mouth on this medium bodied wine is impressive, rich, layered, and richly smokey, with hints of mushroom, dirt, and lovely spice, the wine is not overly oaked at all, the wine shows nuance, red forest berry, soft yet very present tannin, and more dirt, really fun. The finish is long, green, red, and dirty, with ripe sweet strawberry, vanilla galore, nutmeg, and cloves. Bravo!!
The nose and wine started off cooked, and after I looked at the label it was clear, the wine is mevushal. Look, I have nothing against mevushal, Hagafen and Herzog do it very well, but Tura, not so much!
The nose starts off stunted and then opens to ripe plum, prune, and dark cherry, with earth and spice. The mouth on the light to medium bodied wine is where the wine really lets us down, it is cooked, but worse, after 10 minutes it is essentially water, showing little fruit, and too much ripeness, the tannin is almost non-existent, and the fruit while there and ripe, are hollow. The finish is ok, with more pomegranate, plum, dirt, and mineral. This wine in Israel may well be very nice, but the mevushal USA version is boring.
The nose on this wine is nice, showing saline, with rich tart fruit, sweet Oak and lovely cherry fruit. The mouth on this medium-bodied wine is rich and layered with lovely earth, spice, and rich textures, showing impressive tannin structure, with nice acid and mouthfeel, showing beautifully, with crazy green notes, and red fruit. The finish is long and mineral-driven with lovely spices, ripe strawberry, raspberry, nice smoking tobacco, and flint. Nice! Drink by 2021.
Nice jammy nose of ripe but not pushed fruit, with sweet oak, nice rose hips, and floral notes that give way to cherry and earth. The mouth on this wine is almost balanced, too sweet for me, rich and layered, with saline, and earth, with ripe cherry and raspberry, and sweet cedar that gives way to layers of ripe fruit, rich, and impressive that is ripe, with searing tannin, rich sweet fruit that never gives up. The finish is long and earthy with mineral, graphite, sweet spices, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, with basil and green notes. Drink by 2023.
The nose on this wine shows off lots of oak, with strong coffee notes, candied cherry, lifesavers, and fig. The mouth on this medium-bodied wine starts with cedar, sweet notes, candied raspberry, and dark fruit in the background, showing nice mouth coating tannin, good acid, but the fruit is uni-dimensional and not very complex. The finish is long and sweet, showing green dill, nice sweet spices, nutmeg, cinnamon, and earth. Drink by 2020.
This wine really takes time to open up, it needs to be decanted for a few hours. After the wine fully opened it was still a bit shy, but is lovely with dark plum cake, showing lovely rose, and floral notes, with anise, white pepper, and mounds of milk chocolate. The mouth on this medium bodied wine fills the palate with layers of dark plum, pomegranate, dark cherry, blackberry, with red fruit galore, all backed by lovely mouth coating tannin, and nice balancing acid, lovely campfire smoke, with sweet notes that abound, rich earth, mineral, and hints of lovely saline. The finish is long and green/lemongrass with caramel, milk chocolate, and a nice viscous feeling that gives way to tart fruit, mineral, slate, saline, and lasting floral notes. Nice! Drink from 2019 to 2024.
The nose on this wine is classic Pinot, rich dark cherry, with ripe raspberry, followed by green notes galore, and rich loam – nice! The mouth on this medium bodied wine is a letdown, the nose was lovely, but the mouth tastes cooked, with dark currant, elegant tannin, and non-balanced notes. The finish is long green, with red fruit, and off-tasting notes.
The nose and mouth are not a Pinot Noir, it is more akin to a Bordeaux or a Rhone style wine. The nose starts off with ripe fruit, mushroom, forest floor, with ripe blackberry, earth, and nice red fruit. The mouth on this medium-bodied wine is well balanced, with good acid, showing nice dirt, fresh loam, earth, and rich mushroom, that gives way to more great acid, ripping tannin focus, with great layers and nice concentration, a new world take on an old world wine, with great vanilla, cedar, lovely coffee, and spices, warm spices, cinnamon, cloves, with more rich barnyard and mushroom, and nutmeg. Bravo! Drink by 2021.
At this point, these wines are hit or miss. Some are good, most are not. DRINK UP!!! I must admit I was expecting more old world notes to start from this wine, it starts off more Cali in style than Burgundy, but as it opens it literally transforms within 10 minutes to a classically old world wine, insane, with clear sweet notes of dill, herb, and dried cherry, to start, but with time that changes to rich loam, dirt, earth, with mounds of saline, mineral, and lovely sweet juicy raspberry, dried red fruit, and lovely spice. The mouth on this medium bodied wine is clearly sweet, and Cali in style to start, but with time, it opens to classical Burgundy, old-world notes of hints of sweet notes, but far more balanced, with mushroom, hints of barnyard, candied lifesaver, all wrapped in mouth drying tannin, that flows into smokey oak, charcoal, and lovely tilled earth. The finish is super long, richly balanced with impressive acid, with more smoke and mushroom lingering long, with almost hints of smoked meat, spiced plum, and candied fruit. A fun experience and a crazy good price! Drink UP!
Posted on September 27, 2018, in Israeli Wine, Kosher French Wine, Kosher Red Wine, Wine, Wine Tasting and tagged 1er Cru, Alexander Valley, Butcher's daughter, Cabernet Sauvignon, Covenant Winery, Damien Gachot-Monot, Domaine Chantal Lescure, Domaine Roy, Dundee Hills AVA, Eagle's Landing, Four Gates Winery, Gush Etzion Winery, Gvaot Winery, Hagafen Winery, Hajdu Wines, Herzog Cellars Winery, La Colina, Landsman, Maison Roy & Fils, Makom, Merlot M.S.C., Pacifica, Pinot Noir, Prix Reserve, Shirah Winery, Tura Winery, Twin Suns, Vitkin Winery, Yarden Winery. Bookmark the permalink.	Comments Off on A Horizontal of 2013 Pinot Noirs and other top Pinot Noir to buy now.


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The study, which provides the first reliable evidence that female genital mutilation can adversely affect birth outcomes, was undertaken by African and international researchers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.
President Abdoulaye Wade has ordered his government to allow free treatment for women suffering from obstetric fistula - often a result of early childbirth that leaves young women incontinent and sometimes shunned by their communities.
A Swedish court has jailed a Somali man for four years for forcing his 13-year-old daughter to be circumcised (genitally mutilated).
مصر: توصيات مؤتمر " الختان والزواج المبكر من منظور ديني وقانوني "
On June 7-8, 2006, partners from 6 African countries and the UK met to prepare a plan to fight FGM and early marriage at the international conference on "FGM and Early Marriage from the Religious and Legal Perspectives."
La mise à jour félicite le gouvernement tanzanien pour leurs efforts à assurer que la police applique la législation contre les MGF, et relève plusieurs cas dans lesquels des filles ont échappé aux MGF grâce à l'intervention des autorités.
This update urges the government to continue its efforts to end the practice of FGM through education, enforcement of the law and disciplinary action against police officers and court officials who fail to implement the law appropriately.
In December 2005, West African religious and traditional leaders met with political officials and affirmed their commitment to eradicating female genital mutilation, saying that to abandon the practice is not to reject traditional or religious values.


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Q: Multithreading for loops in Swift 4 I need a bit of help on proper for loop multithreading for swift 4. Should I use a normal dispatch queue or should I use concurrent threading? Or am I thinking about this wrong? The specific instance I am looking at here is: say we want to do something to a list of objects, such as retrieve a user picture from a database for all users that are missing one in a local database on the device.
let utilityQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "com.company.utility", qos: .utility)
for i in 1 ... 10000 {
    utilityQueue.async {
        getMissingImage(user[i])
    }
}

The above seems to work for me, but I found another option in my reading, but using concurrency such as below
let concurrentQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "com.company.concurrent", attribute: .concurrent)
for i in 1 ... 10000 {
    concurrentQueue.async {
        getMissingImage(user[i])
    }
}

Which is correct or is there a better way to handle this that I am missing?

A: The attempt to start an unconstrained number of concurrent tasks, is dangerous, because GCD has a very limited number of worker threads and if you exhaust them, you can adversely impact other operations within the app.
So consider your example:
let concurrentQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "com.company.concurrent", attributes: .concurrent)
for i in 0 ..< 10_000 {
    concurrentQueue.async {
        self.getMissingImage(self.user[i])
    }
}

You might use OperationQueue which lets you easily constrain the degree of concurrency, in this example not more than 4 at a time:
let queue = OperationQueue()
queue.name = "com.company.concurrent"
queue.qualityOfService = .userInitiated
queue.maxConcurrentOperationCount = 4

for i in 0 ..< 10_000 {
    queue.addOperation {
        self.getMissingImage(self.user[i])
    }
}

You can accomplish something similar with GCD semaphores, but it's a little more fragile and I'd suggest the above.
Note, this assumes that getMissingImage runs synchronously (i.e. will not return until the task is completely done). If not, you'll have to pursue other patterns.

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Pepe Just afraid of ruining the card by pulling out while switched on. Presume you have no problems.
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Experienced in the use and application of Inspection tools and equipment, electronic test equipment, microscopes as well as computer skills in Microsoft Office programs to enter data and generate routine reports.
Laser Tracker and/or Radar Tracker experience a plus.
In job Description, Duration 6 months it is showing and the actual job is showing as Full Time.
If the job is full time, what is the salary range????
Else, if contract duration and rate range on C2C or 1099 ???


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