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The Dow Theorists (and yours truly) have always emphasized that the most profitable way to invest in the stock market for the average American is to invest in harmony with the primary trend. In Dow Theory terms, this would mean investing in a period of severe undervaluation and holding on to your stocks (or dollar cost-average into your portfolio) until the end of the bull market – such as September 1999 when the Dow Theory bear market signal was given -- and then stay out until the primary bear market has fully asserted itself. I myself sold all my stocks in January 2000, and since then, I have maintained that we are still in a secular bear market, despite the fact that I am still bullish in the intermediate term. When the current bear market bottoms, I believe that we will be seeing new lows in the major stock market indices -- such that stocks will be attractive from a valuation standpoint once again.
Dear readers, this particular commentary will be a little bit different. In the previous paragraph, I discussed the importance of recognizing and investing in harmony with the primary trend. Easy to say, difficult to do. Secular bull markets are notorious for shaking the average investor out, and conversely secular bear markets are notorious for keeping the average investor in (such as the market we are experiencing now) – that is, keeping them in until it has parted them with their money. Another secular trend that is or will not be difficult to recognize, however, is the super, secular trend of aging demographics around the world. We have all heard it from the media, but how deep and pervasive is the "problem," really? A good knowledge of this trend is very important. I will also use this forum to discuss the possible implications as well as other trends that I see happening in the future. I may well be wrong, but I definitely do not want to get caught off-guarded.
Henry To, CFA is the managing member of Independence Partners, LP, a SEC registered hedge fund. He is also editor of the investment website, www.marketthoughts.com.


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Finding Stanley Park's Mother Tree
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Are you sleep-deprived? Most of us would answer that question with a casual "yes," but 40 million Americans suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders each year, according to the American Sleep Association.
Sleep problems can lead to severe health problems, says Dr. Adam Posner, medical director of the Advocate Condell Medical Center sleep centers.
Sleep disorders and the resulting sleep deprivation interfere with work, driving and social activities. They also account for an estimated $16 billion in medical costs each year, according to the Sleep Association. The indirect costs from lost productivity and other factors are even greater.
"We can diagnose a variety of sleep disorders," says Christine McBride, supervisor of the sleep, EEG and EMG department at Condell, which operates two high-tech sleep centers. She notes that the sleep centers are staffed with expert technicians and board-certified sleep medicine physicians.
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A virtual private network (VPN) is a mechanism for providing secure, reliable transport over Internet[1].The VPN uses authentication to deny access to unauthorized users, and encryption to prevent unauthorized users from reading the private network packets. The VPN can be used to send any kind of network traffic securely, including voice, video or data.
VPNs are frequently used by remote workers or companies with remote offices to share private data and network resources. VPNs may also allow users to bypass regional internet restrictions such as firewalls, and web filtering, by "tunneling" the network connection to a different region.
Technically, the VPN protocol encapsulates network data transfers using a secure cryptographic method between two or more networked devices which are not on the same private network, to keep the data private as it passes through the connecting nodes of a local or wide area network.
2 Security mechanisms
2.1 Authentication
3 Routing
3.1 PPVPN Building blocks
4 User-visible PPVPN services
4.1 OSI Layer 1 services
4.1.1 Virtual private wire and private line services (VPWS and VPLS)
4.3 OSI Layer 3 PPVPN architectures
4.4 Plaintext Tunnels
5 Trusted delivery networks
6 VPNs in mobile environments
[edit]History
Until the end of the 1990s, networked computers were connected through expensive leased lines and/or dial-up phone lines.
Virtual Private Networks reduce network costs because they avoid a need for physical leased lines that individually connect remote offices (or remote users) to a private Intranet (internal network). Users can exchange private data securely, making the expensive leased lines unnecessary.[2]
Different VPN systems can include a lot of variation, such as:
The protocols they use to tunnel the traffic
The tunnel's termination point, i.e., customer edge or network provider edge
Whether they offer site-to-site or remote access connectivity
The levels of security provided
The OSI layer they present to the connecting network, such as Layer 2 circuits or Layer 3 network connectivity
Some classification schemes are discussed in the following sections.
[edit]Security mechanisms
Secure VPNs use cryptographic tunneling protocols to provide confidentiality by blocking intercepts and packet sniffing, allowing sender authentication to block identity spoofing, and provide message integrity by preventing message alteration.
Secure VPN protocols include the following:
IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) was originally developed for IPv6, which requires it. This standards-based security protocol is also widely used with IPv4. Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol frequently runs over IPsec.
Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) can tunnel an entire network's traffic, as it does in the OpenVPN project, or secure an individual connection. A number of vendors provide remote access VPN capabilities through SSL. An SSL VPN can connect from locations where IPsec runs into trouble with Network Address Translation and firewall rules.
Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS), is used in Cisco's next-generation VPN product, Cisco AnyConnect VPN, to solve the issues SSL/TLS has with tunneling over UDP.
Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) works with their Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol and in several compatible implementations on other platforms.
Microsoft introduced Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. SSTP tunnels Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) or Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol traffic through an SSL 3.0 channel.
MPVPN (Multi Path Virtual Private Network). Ragula Systems Development Company owns the registered trademark "MPVPN".[3]
Secure Shell (SSH) VPN -- OpenSSH offers VPN tunneling to secure remote connections to a network or inter-network links. This should not be confused with port forwarding. OpenSSH server provides a limited number of concurrent tunnels and the VPN feature itself does not support personal authentication.[4][5][6]
[edit]Authentication
Tunnel endpoints must authenticate before secure VPN tunnels can be established.
User-created remote access VPNs may use passwords, biometrics, two-factor authentication or other cryptographic methods.
Network-to-network tunnels often use passwords or digital certificates, as they permanently store the key to allow the tunnel to establish automatically and without intervention from the user.
[edit]Routing
Tunneling protocols can be used in a point-to-point topology that would theoretically not be considered a VPN, because a VPN by definition is expected to support arbitrary and changing sets of network nodes. But since most router implementations support a software-defined tunnel interface, customer-provisioned VPNs often are simply defined tunnels running conventional routing protocols.
[edit]PPVPN Building blocks
Depending on whether the PPVPN runs in layer 2 or layer 3, the building blocks described below may be L2 only, L3 only, or combine them both. Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) functionality blurs the L2-L3 identity.
RFC 4026 generalized the following terms to cover L2 and L3 VPNs, but they were introduced in RFC 2547.[7]
Customer edge device. (CE)
A device at the customer premises, that provides access to the PPVPN. Sometimes it's just a demarcation point between provider and customer responsibility. Other providers allow customers to configure it.
Provider edge device (PE)
A PE is a device, or set of devices, at the edge of the provider network, that presents the provider's view of the customer site. PEs are aware of the VPNs that connect through them, and maintain VPN state.
Provider device (P)
A P device operates inside the provider's core network, and does not directly interface to any customer endpoint. It might, for example, provide routing for many provider-operated tunnels that belong to different customers' PPVPNs. While the P device is a key part of implementing PPVPNs, it is not itself VPN-aware and does not maintain VPN state. Its principal role is allowing the service provider to scale its PPVPN offerings, as, for example, by acting as an aggregation point for multiple PEs. P-to-P connections, in such a role, often are high-capacity optical links between major locations of provider.
[edit]User-visible PPVPN services
This section deals with the types of VPN considered in the IETF; some historical names were replaced by these terms.
[edit]OSI Layer 1 services
[edit]Virtual private wire and private line services (VPWS and VPLS)
In both of these services, the service provider does not offer a full routed or bridged network, but provides components to build customer-administered networks. VPWS are point-to-point while VPLS can be point-to-multipoint. They can be Layer 1 emulated circuits with no data link structure.
The customer determines the overall customer VPN service, which also can involve routing, bridging, or host network elements.
An unfortunate acronym confusion can occur between Virtual Private Line Service and Virtual Private LAN Service; the context should make it clear whether "VPLS" means the layer 1 virtual private line or the layer 2 virtual private LAN.
Virtual LAN
A Layer 2 technique that allows for the coexistence of multiple LAN broadcast domains, interconnected via trunks using the IEEE 802.1Q trunking protocol. Other trunking protocols have been used but have become obsolete, including Inter-Switch Link (ISL), IEEE 802.10 (originally a security protocol but a subset was introduced for trunking), and ATM LAN Emulation (LANE).
Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
Developed by IEEE, VLANs allow multiple tagged LANs to share common trunking. VLANs frequently comprise only customer-owned facilities. The former[clarification needed] is a layer 1 technology that supports emulation of both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint topologies. The method discussed here extends Layer 2 technologies such as 802.1d and 802.1q LAN trunking to run over transports such as Metro Ethernet.
As used in this context, a VPLS is a Layer 2 PPVPN, rather than a private line, emulating the full functionality of a traditional local area network (LAN). From a user standpoint, a VPLS makes it possible to interconnect several LAN segments over a packet-switched, or optical, provider core; a core transparent to the user, making the remote LAN segments behave as one single LAN.[8]
In a VPLS, the provider network emulates a learning bridge, which optionally may include VLAN service.
Pseudo wire (PW)
PW is similar to VPWS, but it can provide different L2 protocols at both ends. Typically, its interface is a WAN protocol such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode or Frame Relay. In contrast, when aiming to provide the appearance of a LAN contiguous between two or more locations, the Virtual Private LAN service or IPLS would be appropriate.
IP-only LAN-like service (IPLS)
A subset of VPLS, the CE devices must have L3 capabilities; the IPLS presents packets rather than frames. It may support IPv4 or IPv6.
[edit]OSI Layer 3 PPVPN architectures
This section discusses the main architectures for PPVPNs, one where the PE disambiguates duplicate addresses in a single routing instance, and the other, virtual router, in which the PE contains a virtual router instance per VPN. The former approach, and its variants, have gained the most attention.
One of the challenges of PPVPNs involves different customers using the same address space, especially the IPv4 private address space.[9] The provider must be able to disambiguate overlapping addresses in the multiple customers' PPVPNs.
BGP/MPLS PPVPN
In the method defined by RFC 2547, BGP extensions advertise routes in the IPv4 VPN address family, which are of the form of 12-byte strings, beginning with an 8-byte Route Distinguisher (RD) and ending with a 4-byte IPv4 address. RDs disambiguate otherwise duplicate addresses in the same PE.
PEs understand the topology of each VPN, which are interconnected with MPLS tunnels, either directly or via P routers. In MPLS terminology, the P routers are Label Switch Routers without awareness of VPNs.
Virtual router PPVPN
The Virtual Router architecture,[10][11] as opposed to BGP/MPLS techniques, requires no modification to existing routing protocols such as BGP. By the provisioning of logically independent routing domains, the customer operating a VPN is completely responsible for the address space. In the various MPLS tunnels, the different PPVPNs are disambiguated by their label, but do not need routing distinguishers.
Virtual router architectures do not need to disambiguate addresses, because rather than a PE router having awareness of all the PPVPNs, the PE contains multiple virtual router instances, which belong to one and only one VPN.
[edit]Plaintext Tunnels
Main article: Tunneling protocol
Some virtual networks may not use encryption to protect the data contents. While VPNs often provide security, an unencrypted overlay network does not neatly fit within the secure or trusted categorization. For example a tunnel set up between two hosts that used Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) would in fact be a virtual private network, but neither secure nor trusted.
Besides the GRE example above, native plaintext tunneling protocols include Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) when it is set up without IPsec and Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) or Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE).
[edit]Trusted delivery networks
Trusted VPNs do not use cryptographic tunneling, and instead rely on the security of a single provider's network to protect the traffic.
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is often used to overlay VPNs, often with quality-of-service control over a trusted delivery network.
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)[12] which is a standards-based replacement, and a compromise taking the good features from each, for two proprietary VPN protocols: Cisco's Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F)[13] (obsolete as of 2009) and Microsoft's Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).[14]
From the security standpoint, VPNs either trust the underlying delivery network, or must enforce security with mechanisms in the VPN itself. Unless the trusted delivery network runs among physically secure sites only, both trusted and secure models need an authentication mechanism for users to gain access to the VPN.
[edit]VPNs in mobile environments
Main article: Mobile virtual private network
Mobile VPNs are used in a setting where an endpoint of the VPN is not fixed to a single IP address, but instead roams across various networks such as data networks from cellular carriers or between multiple Wi-Fi access points.[15] Mobile VPNs have been widely used in public safety, where they give law enforcement officers access to mission-critical applications, such as computer-assisted dispatch and criminal databases, while they travel between different subnets of a mobile network.[16] They are also used in field service management and by healthcare organizations,[17] among other industries.
Increasingly, mobile VPNs are being adopted by mobile professionals and white-collar workers who need reliable connections.[17] They are used for roaming seamlessly across networks and in and out of wireless-coverage areas without losing application sessions or dropping the secure VPN session. A conventional VPN cannot survive such events because the network tunnel is disrupted, causing applications to disconnect, time out,[15] or fail, or even cause the computing device itself to crash.[17]
Instead of logically tying the endpoint of the network tunnel to the physical IP address, each tunnel is bound to a permanently associated IP address at the device. The mobile VPN software handles the necessary network authentication and maintains the network sessions in a manner transparent to the application and the user.[15] The Host Identity Protocol (HIP), under study by the Internet Engineering Task Force, is designed to support mobility of hosts by separating the role of IP addresses for host identification from their locator functionality in an IP network. With HIP a mobile host maintains its logical connections established via the host identity identifier while associating with different IP addresses when roaming between access networks.


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"RuPaul's Drag Race" Queens Make The Scene At "Why Drag?" Exhibit: PHOTOS
It was a veritable RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars on Monday night, when a bevy of drag beauties descended on New York's Out NYC hotel for the opening of "Why Drag?" a new photography exhibit by master lensman Magnus Hastings.
Related: Bianca Del Rio, "Drag Race" Stars Are Works Of Art In "Why Drag" Exhibit
"Drag is the creative love of my life," says Hastings. "I view it as both a magical fantasy world and as an art form. In art, you can have a Picasso or a Matisse—you can also have a painting of velvet dogs playing poker. I like to think that my show is presenting a room full of Picassos."
Seen at the show were Courtney Act, Milk (in boy drag), Jiggly Caliente, Willam and many more Drag Race alum both in person and on the walls. "Why Drag" runs at the Out NYC through August 26, when it goes on a U.S. tour.
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Free Business Tool For A New World
June 7, 2020 southcapenetPress Releases
Johannesburg, Gauteng: Papillio is a Software as a Service Business Innovation Toolkit, that offers its users a complete value chain of workforce collaboration and productivity features, aimed at helping companies to continually innovate and improve their business operations.
The software is now being offered for free to businesses globally with the goal of helping them refine their operations to ensure sustainability in a market that has been radically changed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
"I hope that Papillio will inspire entrepreneurial trends for others during this time of flux." Says Dave Benjamin, Papillio's founder. "It is incumbent upon us as businesspeople to ensure we stay relevant. Otherwise the impact of the pandemic on our economies will be around far longer than the pandemic itself."
Papillio, a term roughly based on the French word for butterfly, is all about transformation.
Papillio will help you to create the best version of your business with essential tools that speed up your workflow, and game-changing features that take your change management strategy to the next level.
Some of the Papillio features include:
Persona design and journey mapping that will help you understand your customers and the new ways you need to service them. This will give you differentiation to remain relevant in a world that is going to become even more competitive with excessive supply and insufficient demand as a result of the recession.
Collaborative ideation features to enable you to crowd source innovation and improvement ideas from employees, suppliers and customers of the business. These can be recorded, fleshed out and analyzed to prioritize your change management initiatives.
Agile project management tools that enable you to drive the necessary change in your operations quickly and efficiently across multi-functional teams, even while they're working remotely. This feature promotes iterative continual improvements as a strategic imperative and allows for multiple project streams to be executed in parallel.
Our soon to be added operations design features that will help you extract the operational design characteristics required in your business to enable you to support the customer journeys both in terms of channel design and employee job role definitions.
While these features may exist independently in other software solutions, Papillio is unique in that it brings them together in a single cohesive platform allowing for integrative functionality, making the sum of the parts greater than the whole.
Other benefits like online chats, abilities to manage teams and upload attachments all add to the coherent nature of the tool. Additional features like channel design are currently being developed and expect to be available in May this year.
Papillio is thus a unique cloud-based business offering with collaboration at its core. It is an innovation, ideation, collaboration, and change management tool, all in one. The integration of ideation linked to personas, journeys and soon into channels and job roles makes our tool unique.
Throughout history, humanity has experienced a handful of events that have fundamentally changed the rules of business. Today's global Coronavirus pandemic may well be such an event. Much has been written about the long-term impact that we can expect the current recession to have on global markets and business trends. The reality is that the pandemic has totally unsettled business and world economies, but business does need to recover. And perhaps we can find a way to view the disruption as an opportunity for rebirth, reinvention and innovation.
Dave Benjamin
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Dave Benjamin has a career in business consulting specializing in User Experience (UX), Customer Experience (CX) and Market Research spanning 24 years. He built South Africa's first usability lab in 1997, and founded its first commercial UX consulting firm in 1998. In 2004 he started Interact RDT, currently one of SA's most prominent CX consulting and research agencies. The launch of Papillio marks a move into the software product space in an attempt to make CX and Change Management best practices more accessible to a broader market.
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Common air pollutants can cause cardiac arrest, study warns
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France — Air pollution typically contributes to various health problems in the lungs and even in the brain. However, a new study finds common particles in the air may also trigger cardiac arrest.
Sudden cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack, occurring when the muscle stops pumping blood to the body. Researchers says toxic chemicals from traffic and industry show a strong connection to increasing a person's risk of suffering a cardiac event.
"We studied seven common pollutants and found that as the concentration of each rose, the risk of cardiac arrest increased," says study author Dr. Francesca R. Gentile of the IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation in a media release. "The findings suggest that air quality should be incorporated into predictive models to assist health systems in planning service requirements."
Which pollutants are causing the most harm?
The study in the southern Lombardy region of Italy reveals a "dose-response relationship" between the number of cardiac arrest cases and levels of air pollutants. The findings identify specific pollutants for the first time, shedding fresh light on how air pollution impacts the heart.
These pollutants include tiny particles called PM10s and PM2.5s and gases such as nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and benzene. Researchers say the tiny particles enter the bloodstream from the lungs, potentially leading to cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, and other illnesses.
"The observed relationships between concentrations of individual pollutants and the likelihood of cardiac arrest could be used in future to predict the incidence of this life-threatening condition in specific geographical areas," Dr. Gentile reports.
The results come from a review of more than 1.5 million people living in urban and rural areas in Pavia, Lodi, Cremona, and Mantua in 2019. Dr. Gentile's team collected information on the daily incidence of cardiac arrest from the health registry Lombardia CARe, which they compared to Agency for Environmental Protection (ARPA) data on the chemicals. The study finds more cases than normal when concentrations of pollutants are significantly higher.
Heart problems worse in the cold?
The phenomenon applied to all pollutants in the study, after accounting for average daily temperature changes. Researchers included the greenhouse gas ozone, which also contributed to a rise in the risk of cardiac arrest. The risk also rose when temperatures dropped. Studies show that cold weather increases the risk of cardiac arrest.
"We hope that air pollutant monitoring can improve health service efficiency by being factored into ambulance forecasting models and warning systems. In addition to being a threat to the ecosystem, evidence is accumulating that dirty air should be considered a modifiable factor that contributes to cardiovascular disease." Dr. Gentile says.
Overall, 1,582 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occurred during the year-long study — an average of 0.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants a day. In January, the world's leading heart experts called for authorities to urgently find ways to combat the health implications of air pollution. Dirty air contributed to one in eight (12%) of all global deaths in 2019, with half of these related to cardiovascular disease.
Researchers presented their findings at the virtual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Tags: air pollution, cardiac arrest, heart health
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Watch Kanye West's 'DONDA' Listening Event
1 year ago Rogan Lyon
Two weeks after DONDA was supposed to arrive, Kanye West is still at work.
After deciding that he was not done with his 10th studio album, he took up residency at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, where he is finishing the project. He has also set up a live feed where fans can watch him while he works and sleeps. Friends including Fivio Foreign, Chance the Rapper, The LOX, and Lil Yachty have stopped by his modest living quarters at the stadium.
He is expected to present the finished product during tonight's event, which will stream live on Apple Music starting at 6:30 p.m. PT. It's unclear what Kanye has in store the second time around. There are reports that he has switched up the production and may even have some celebrity friends join him.
During his first listening event, he debuted new music featuring Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Pusha T, Travis Scott, and Roddy Ricch, as well as a surprise collaboration with JAY-Z. However, it's unclear which tracks will make the final cut.
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My first Mother's Day was completely heartbreaking. I had just lost my son, Gabriel, to stillbirth at 37 weeks. His due date was Saturday, May 10th. Mother's Day was Sunday, the 11th. He had died three weeks earlier, and I was completely devastated. I could barely go anywhere in public because my heart couldn't handle seeing all the little boys running around stores and restaurants, giggling, mischievous, and so full of life.
They were all very much alive, and my sweet boy wasn't. I not only missed the baby I had lost, but all the ages and all the stages I would never get with him. As for Mother's Day? I had dreaded it every day for the last three weeks. I despised its coming, and felt angry that the world could just move on with its happy little holiday, while my dreams were shattered, and my life felt hopeless. I begged God for a dream of my Gabriel in Heaven, for some sign that he was okay. For a sign that I would be okay. Not today, but someday. I cried out to Him for peace and understanding, for hope, to bring some joy from these ashes.
My husband and I had decided to go to South Carolina to visit his parents that weekend in May. I could not bear the thought of being at home for his due date and Mother's Day. I had to get away. How could I face those days at home with his nursery just upstairs, all prepped and ready, his clothes hanging in his closet, the bassinet sheets washed and waiting? When he died, we had just closed the door. It's all we could muster.
We headed down to my in-laws' on Friday and returned home Sunday evening. My mom and sister came over as soon as we got back; Mom said she had something for me. She said that she had struggled since Gabe's death with what to get me or how to commemorate Mother's Day. After all, I was still a mother, even if the world couldn't see it. She explained to me that she had been praying about this, asking God for the right words. She handed me a gift. "There is a story that goes with this," she said. It was a God story.
Very close to their moment of birth.
But please don't cry and fret or grieve.
Was the best place for me to be.
And there's a special room for you!
That your room is next to mine!
And angels on whom I can call!
As they look from here!
And I love you still!
You thought it would be!
When you enter the Pearly Gates!
Of holding our new baby's hand.
Were supposed to end with celebrating.
To hear the angels' songs.
No, I did not change the title or name in that poem. That is really and truly what is on page 46 of this book.
God spoke to me that Mother's Day, nine years ago. I had begged Him for a sign or a message to show me Gabe was okay. He loudly and clearly answered.
I want to tell you, if Mother's Day is hard for you (and even if it's not), you have a God who loves you, longs to hold you, and hears your every prayer. If you seek Him, He is faithful to answer your prayers and bring you the comfort and peace you long for. Whether you have a strained relationship with your own mother, have lost a child, or are longing and waiting to be a mother and wondering if it will ever happen, God is with you. Emmanuel. Hope in the hopeless, in the business of bringing joy from ashes.
Motherhood in all its forms is not for the faint of heart. From Genesis, when the very first mother endures the agony of living through one of her sons murdering the other to Mary who watches her own Son, tortured and crucified, as she stands at the foot of the cross, you can see that motherhood and heartache go hand in hand. Its gifts and benefits are countless, but I don't think anyone would say that motherhood is easy. It's an emotional, deep, profound refining. But despite its hardships, despite all the waiting, wanting, and hoping, God is still good. I pray that you believe that today, in the bottom of your heart and to the depth of your bones.
He is faithful, and He will restore. Be encouraged this Mother's Day, Friends. We have a God who is closer than a Friend, who loves our children (past, present, and future) more than we ever will or could, and answers our prayers. And even when those answers don't look like what we had in mind, they are sweet, precious, profound, and deeply personal. He is enough. Ask Him to prove it to you. He longs to make it known.


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State, Economy, & LGBTQ+ Civil Rights
By Joanna Wuest
Joanna Wuest (@joveest) is the Fund for Reunion-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton University Society of Fellows.
One struggles to make simple, straightforward observations on the relationship between twenty-first century capitalism and LGBTQ+ civil rights. On the one hand, recent years have witnessed some substantial and surprising victories. In Bostock v. Clayton County, Supreme Court Justice and Federalist Society darling Neil Gorsuch interpreted Title VII expansively to grant trans and gay workers' federal employment protections, a decision joined by the Chief Justice. Similarly, business lobbies and social justice-inclined CEOs have provided crucial support in successfully reversing blatantly discriminatory Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs) and anti-trans bathroom regulations.
On the other hand, revanchist social conservative forces appear more emboldened than ever. In 2021 alone, 8 GOP-dominated states have passed at least 12 laws regulating trans children's participation in athletics and their access to transition-related healthcare. And in another strange bipartisan opinion, a 9-0 Court granted exemptions to publicly-funded religious social service contractors that refused to certify otherwise qualified queer couples as suitable foster and adoptive parents. Often these assaults on civil rights are led by libertarian-funded groups like the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and cheered on in amicus briefs by groups like Charles Koch's Americans for Prosperity.
What are we to make of this strange mix of corporate power and civil rights? If we take seriously the premise that neoliberal governance is defined by diminished democratic inputs (e.g., mass membership civic groups, trade unions, responsive political parties) and increased influence for wealthy donors and business interest groups, we might attend to the ways that non-democratic, private entities determine the fate of civil rights. A political economic approach to LGBTQ+ rights conflicts would foreground the influence of corporate power—broadly conceived to include individual firms, activist CEOs, business lobbies, and billionaire libertarian ideologues—and reveal the undergirding goals and incentives that drive support for both civil rights expansions and rollbacks.
Probing this seeming paradox might also tell us something deeper about what Nancy Fraser has termed "the crisis of progressive neoliberalism." In other words, it may clarify the consequences of a condition in which capital drives significant social reforms while also undermining their impact and longevity by leaving destabilizing matters of economic inequality unaddressed. From this perspective, current LGBTQ+ victories are built on a shoddy foundation—the instability of the political order renders them potentially ephemeral.
Rainbow Capitalism & the Law
Corporate interests have long been aligned with LGBTQ+ ones, particularly since the 1970s. As gay and lesbian 503(c)(3) interest groups, litigation firms, and employee groups formed, they pressured companies including Microsoft and AT&T to eliminate companywide discriminatory policies. Later in the 1980s and 1990s, these and many other firms began to agitate outside of the office for local and state civil rights ordinances.
Throughout the past decade, such corporate support has compounded. National business coalitions like Freedom For All Americans and individual industry leaders like self-styled "compassionate capitalist" SalesForce CEO Marc Benioff have organized lobbying efforts and boycotts against states that have dared to pass discriminatory legislation. The threat of economic protest led former governors Mike Pence (IN) and Pat McCrory (NC) to reform and replace laws that had been passed by comfortable Republican majorities. Again in 2020, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was persuaded to oppose an anti-trans youth healthcare bill. This came after the South Dakota and Sioux Falls Chambers of Commerce warned that the state ran the risk of "triggering economic consequences that include the loss of conventions, tournaments, top-level entertainment and business investment from outside industries."
Underneath the shimmer of CEOs' inspired rhetoric and awards from LGBTQ+ interest groups lie some basic material incentives. For one, most businesses get involved at the level of signing onto activist letter campaigns. These are low-lift, high-reward PR maneuvers, which create goodwill with a targeted consumer base and contribute toward a diversity recruitment goal for hiring and retention (contemporary marketing research exalts the profit-generating value of a diverse employee pool). Others like the tobacco giant Altria Group have allied with LGBTQ+ organizations to help launder their reputation. Several amici briefs submitted in Bostock also point to the bottom line. There, a coalition of companies with a combined annual revenue of $5 trillion— including tech firms, retail giants, financial and insurance groups—asserted that civil rights protections increase productivity, reduce administrative burdens, and retain queer employees.
North Carolina's 2016 bathroom bill controversy provides a more in-depth look at how basic material inducements operate. As punishment, the state suffered the loss of nearly four billion dollars in revenue. A chunk of that came from companies like PayPal, Deutsche Bank, CoStar, and VoxPro, which had originally planned to bring new corporate campuses and hundreds of white-collar jobs to North Carolina. Some of these companies leveraged national outrage over HB2 to negotiate more favorable incentive packages, such as tax breaks, workforce training programs, and infrastructural investments elsewhere. This is not to suggest that business advocacy is always so reducible to a simple spreadsheet calculation. Such economic protests feature a swirl of firm-level motivations, attention-seeking CEOs, and reactions to weather reports on the "business climate" (that psychological element which plays a role in every boom, bust, or minor moment of frenetic speculation or panic).
Culture War as Anti-Statism
Conversely, another organized segment of capital has been responsible for bankrolling anti-LGBTQ+ rights litigation. Since the early days of the New Deal, longsighted-libertarian leaders have found cause to conscript social conservatives—most often Christian fundamentalists—in their attempts to roll back the regulatory state. Since the Reagan Revolution, these forces have consolidated in the GOP, most recognizably in the form of big business-backed ventures like the ultraright Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. Today, those in the Koch network and Bradley Foundation fund organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Becket Fund, the two of which now appear almost annually before the Supreme Court.
This is no simple marriage of convenience between purely religious actors and business interests. Rather, attacks on LGBTQ+ freedoms today are driven by a corporate money-fueled movement masquerading as a religious liberty one. As law professors Elizabeth Sepper and Amy Kapczynski have observed, this coalition has been quite successful at warping First Amendment case law in a distinctly neo-Lochnerian mode, one which privileges corporate rights over individual minoritarian ones and reinscribes an anti-statist, pro-market orientation back into constitutional doctrine.
Two recent LGBTQ+ rights cases illustrate how this social conservative front helps corporate libertarians advance their anti-statist agenda. On the surface, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia featured a dispute between queer would-be parents who wished to adopt and foster and a Catholic social service contractor (represented by the Becket Fund) that wished to flout Philadelphia's antidiscrimination ordinance. Although the ordinance applied to service providers generally (and so met the standard laid out in Employment Division v. Smith), Justice Roberts argued that it violated the Free Exercise Clause, thereby making it far more onerous for local, state, or federal laws and regulations to avoid charges of unconstitutional animus. Given the public-private nature of the American welfare state—itself a legacy of business efforts to fragment New Deal social welfare institutions from their inception—the Fulton decision has granted many taxpayer-funded contractors a new right to discriminate. On top of that, Justice Gorsuch has repeatedly invoked Fulton in his dissenting opinions that favor religious exemptions from vaccinate mandates. That such exemptions would severely undercut public health initiatives during a pandemic appears to be largely the point.
A second case, from the tail end of the Obama presidency, demonstrates how opposition to transgender rights can serve as a vehicle for undermining the federal regulatory state. In Gloucester County v. Grimm, the Department of Education came under fire for reinterpreting its own sex discrimination regulations to prohibit anti-trans bathroom policies in schools. The entirety of the conservative legal movement (among the involved parties were John Eastman and future SB8 author Jonathan F. Mitchell) put its weight behind a case that might curtail legitimacy of Auer deference, a doctrinal principle that allows administrative bodies to interpret extant agency rules. Social conservative groups like the National Organization for Marriage, Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, the ADF, and Becket joined forces with more single-minded opponents of the administrative state like the Cato Institute to forever tie the hands of all federal bureaucrats seeking to govern without strict instructions from Congress. Though Gloucester itself was rendered moot by the Trump administration's quick reversal on DOE policy, efforts to restrict administrative action have increased since, particularly as longtime critics of administrative power like Gorsuch and Thomas accrue more influence on the Court.
Wither the Diversity Regime?
The punchline to this all is that, while the neoliberal political economy has facilitated unprecedented flourishing and legal protections for sexual and gender minorities, the sky-high rates of economic inequality it has produced threaten to undermine those nascent guarantees by concentrating wealth (and therefore, political power) in the hands of the very few. The relevant question is not "have we achieved some modicum of social justice?" but rather, "how long could this possibly last?"
For several years now, a faction in the Republican Party has stoked populist rage against those political and business elites deemed responsible for the erosion of traditionalist norms. In the wake of the marriage equality win in Obergefell v. Hodges, former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal penned a New York Times op-ed demanding that GOP corporate donors get back in line. Responding to the Bostock decision, Senator Josh Hawley gave a similarly-themed speech condemning cultural accommodation and outlining an alternative path for the conservative legal movement. Just a few months ago, Senator Marco Rubio introduced the Mind Your Own Business Act, which would give shareholders the power to discipline overly-zealous activist CEOs. Soon after, Rubio gave a speech on the values of "corporate patriotism" and the ills of "cultural Marxism" to the National Conservatism conference.
If this kind of counterassault has legs, it may not be difficult to rein in companies that are, for the most part, realizing marginal returns on their social justice work. After all, most diversity-friendly corporations already exhibit a thin commitment to such causes, as evinced by the steady flow of donor dollars to the very same legislators they confront over anti-LGBTQ+ policies and the curbing of voting rights protections. Though liberal-left reformers typically criticize such actions as hypocritical (and indeed they are), the reality is that the contradiction is endemic to the profit motive and the requisite legislator-access one needs to realize those economic gains.
We are faced today with the potential demise of multicultural neoliberalism and the specter of a more authoritarian, culturally conservative variant. This form of governance could easily retain the underlying neoliberal mode of accumulation (e.g., deregulation and state-facilitated rent-seeking) while jettisoning free and fair elections, collective bargaining rights, and equal protection of the laws for minority populations. If business interests are confronted with a choice between protecting equal rights and what remains of our democracy, on the one hand, and siding with the crowd that promises tax cuts and novel plundering schemes on the other, then we ought not be surprised when they go mute.
Weekly Roundup: December 16, 2022
What the Telegraph Can Teach Us About the Moral Economy
By Evelyn Atkinson


Publishing Is only one issue I have, as I find it difficult to get sufficient (decent) perspectives on my uploaded videos. I always wondered, is there some hint that I am missing that's obstructing my expansion on YouTube.
A Few years ago, I came across that YouTube optimization tool known as VidIQ chrome addon that made me figure out what all is lacking in my channel and preventing its expansion. Today, you'll be learning about this wonderful tool I have started using lately, and I believe each Youtube publisher should utilize it.
VidIQ Is an enterprise-level tool you may freely use for fundamental features and pro features for a minimal price. Even though, I have a pro account; you could always start with their free chrome extensions and later on update when you find the excellent results as I did. More on this later, and for now let me show you the way this cool bit of tech will help you to raise your Youtube channel.
What VidIQ does is inform You what's wrong. How? It shows you all the facets of your movie, channel and competitors to show you exactly what's wrong. From here, you may then adjust your marketing plan based on what you find.
As It works this Way, VidIQ can be considered as a Youtube optimization instrument. It can help you analyze all the facets of your station (descriptions, videos, competitions, etc.) so you can adjust your plan when needed. It helps you to optimize your station for more views, subscribes and conversions.
The best part? VidIQ is Complimentary for the most part. This usually means that you can use it together with its Chrome extension for free. You will get to witness its power in analyzing your Youtube station without paying for anything.
How to utilize VidIQ to grow any Youtube station?
VidIQ Is Very Good for an Individual publisher just like you and me or to get electronic advertising and marketing services who manage Youtube channel to get their client. The majority of us are aware of fundamental Youtube video SEO hints like use Keyword from the post title, use detailed description and create the video participating. This is a frequent understanding that each Youtube publisher have, but there's more than that one can use to provide more visibility to their Youtube channel.
Let Me discuss their specialist version that starts at only $10/month. It may sound too much for entry-level Youtube publisher, but after learning about the attributes, you will also feel that $10 is a peanut price that we are paying for such awesome service.
Obtaining Started with VidIQ is easy, as you want to connect it with your YouTube account. It will import all of the videos to their dashboard, and out of here all of the magic starts. Have a look at the dash after it pulled information out of all my Youtube videos.
You Can form any column based on views, shares, likes and other parameters. This gives you a great summary of hot videos from the Youtube channel. The interesting part starts here, since you're able to click on any of the videos and create changes in descriptions, tags as well as the title.
This Is super handy when you're optimizing your YouTube station or your's client channel.
Personally, I bother less concerning the description part like I always insert it when uploading the videos. What I liked here is the YouTube tagging component, as this 1 thing might help you to get more perspectives on every video that you upload on Youtube.
Let Me also share a wise approach to benefit from VidIQ youtube tags feature. This one even works for users that are free, but you have to set up free VidIQ chrome extension. What this plugin does is, it automatically shows one of the tags used on any Youtube movie that isn't publicly accessible.
After Installing the aforementioned free Chrome add-on, all you need to do is search for videos related to the one you are uploading and open the movie with most viewpoints or based on the popularity.
This Free add-on will demonstrate the tags used from the video as well as the traffic source that you may use for further outreach. See this video screenshot for improved comprehension.
All You have to do is, use all the tags in your movies and it might significantly raise your video visibility. This is one of many uses of VidIQ.
In here, you are Allowed to produce your own campaign. This is where you create a hyperlink and append it to the description box of your movie. From here, the software will monitor the impressions and clickthrough rate through your own links. This is great if you would like to see the conversion rates or clickthrough levels of your movies.
NOTE. The tool also permit you to automatically add tags. It Will give you some of the most popular tags in your niche so you can add them automatically.
Its Google Chrome Extension is also quite strong. In fact, I believe that it is the only Youtube competitor research tool which lets you observe the tags and visitors insights of the competition. These are quite handy particularly if you would like to find out what your opponents are doing before you do any kind of marketing.
The first thing which Will grab your eye when you sign up for VidIQ is its own analytics. Although Youtube may have given you with the same sort of analytics, it is still not as organized as that of VidIQ.
First, you will be able To see the demographics of your viewers. You will see if they're male or female and what age they are. You'll also find them broken down into proportions so you'll have an accurate overview of your Youtube channel.
Then, you'll see a Chart which includes the following. Youtube views, Youtube search, implied opinions, vidIQ tags, minutes watched, Youtube likes, Youtube opinions and Youtube readers. This chart will show the daily fluctuations in number in every one these factors. This can allow you to understand why your audiences do what they do.
Afterward, these are additional Broken down into boxes that you can sort based on what you want to see. You are able to choose states, videos, URLs, videos and searches. These boxes may further form your information to get a clearer channel review.
From here, the application Will give you an overview together with top playlists and the ideal time to post (This can be derived from your data).
Next, you'll also see some analytics from the movies tab. This will show you all of your videos along with their corresponding characteristics like the date posted, tags, vidIQ score, and whether it is boosted, complete views, total likes and complete comments.
This is a fairly Interesting way to observe that the analytics of your videos. Plus, it's organized too that you are able to view everything from 1 dashboard.
Last, it has a SEO Tab that appears at your own videos on a channel-wide scale. It will look at thye tags which you are currently using and look at the keywords which you're currently optimizing it to get.
The Keyword Research Tool is the most popular part of VidIQ. This is where you may search for low competition keywords which will allow you to dominate the front page of the search engines in no time.
Now that we know what It can do, let us look at how to utilize it. Below are some steps which may help you maximize the program's potential.
Fortunately, the Software have a Subscribers tab that lets you peek into what your readers are seeing. This includes details such as the very best videos they saw, the top channels they follow and when they are online. These attributes allow you to have a peek at what your readers or viewers do. It gives you the ability to get to learn how they behave – that which makes them see a video and subscribe.
NOTE. This is a Pro feature. You might want to cover the monthly fee to get access to the but it is well worth the cost.
This Is one feature that will force you to catch this tool right away. How about you add a few lines of text with a link on all your video description?
You May be thinking that it is a tedious job to edit individual video description and you aren't erroneous. Any man in the ideal state of mind will think exactly the same, but that is where description feature of VidIQ makes this Youtube marketing tool remarkable.
You Can see the performance (Below) from one of the campaigns I conducted for 25 days.
Clicking On Stop effort will automatically eliminate your effort text and hyperlinks from all videos.
There Are many more features that I'm yet to research like competitors feature, where you could compare your Youtube channel growth with one of your competitors. Another attribute call enables optimization which I will be testing in coming days.
For At this time you can create an account on VidIQ and import your channel for free to start optimizing all your uploaded Youtube videos.
Every YouTuber knows the value of traffic and subscribers. Several studies have been performed on Youtube to determine why users subscribe to some Youtube channel or view a particular video. However, no study can give the exact same response for all channels in all markets.
Here's the facts. how Users will respond to your content will be dependent on the character of your traffic, content and market. It is a market where one size doesn't fit all. You want to learn what's going to work for you on your own.
That is where analytics tools come in handy. These tools allow you to know how users are currently behaving towards your videos or channel so that you may adjust your strategy accordingly. One analytics tool which has gained much fame is VidIQ, within this article, you'll find out more about this program and how it can help you on your Youtube journey.
VidIQ is a Wonderful tool That gathers data from Youtube about the most recent videos, keywords and tags used from the hottest Youtube channel owners. Because of this, you can use it by collecting data and then using that data to correct your marketing strategy. Here is the way I love to utilize the tool. You can use it in any way you desire. This is simply a suggestion.
One of the things that People love about VidIQ is its own automatic tagging system. It allows you to instantly generate a stream of tags for a movie with no trouble. But for me, I really like copying present competitor tags rather.
Doing so is easy. All You Have to do is visit the movie Of your competitor along with your Google Chrome plugin installed. From here, you'll have the ability to see the analytics of the video as well as the specific tags used by your competition. You can then use this for your videos.
Once you have a pair of Key words, it is the right time to launch your campaign. In the campaigns tab, then you'll have the ability to specify a description for your own videos and this can then include a hyperlink. When you record this as a campaign, you can now track the impressions and click through rate of your own descriptions. I'd suggest tracking and tweaking your descriptions depending on how well users react to it.
Then, use your key word Knowledge for SEO. After all, search engines continue to be the best source for video traffic for Youtube. VidIQ has a batch optimize option where you can just optimize everything for your target key word. If you may find keywords with little to no competitors, that's better. That is because it will allow you to rank immediately on front page of the search engines.
VidIQ is known for its analytics. It will give you a background on your readers. First, it will allow you to have a look at the behavior of your subscribers by looking at exactly what videos they are seeing or following. It is going to also monitor when your subscribers are online. Then, it breaks down your subscribers according to their demographic characteristics. This will let you know the person that you're speaking to in your videos.
How does this help you? This helps you in the words that you may use to your marketing strategy. In this manner, your advertisements will talk straight to your intended audience.
Now this approach will Only work if you've got one or two viral videos previously. If you would like to know what made them tick and why your existing videos are much less effective, it may be worth it to return and see how it removed. VidIQ offers some historic data on movies that could help you see what is special about that particular video.
VidIQ also has a trends feature. This allows you to observe the trending videos and keywords. Additionally, it allows you to syndicate your videos to Youtube for some extra traffic. However, this is only available in the Boost choice which sells for $49 a month.
What is the first thing We see if we look at Youtube movies? It's the views, right? Aside from that, we also observe the likes along with the remarks. Most Youtubers are contented with just seeing these. However, what if a software can provide much more?
VidIQ is more than simply A view, such as or comment tracking tool. In fact, you will get to see the subscriptions generated, Facebook comments, Tweets and Reddit votes, impressions and clickthrough rates of a particular video. It's that intensive. This is very useful especially if you want to see how successful your campaign is in creating traffic, traffic and visitors to your website.
And it doesn't stop there. It provides you with superior analytics including the behaviour and demographics of your target audience as well as give you a means to maximize your videos for better search engine rankings.
So If You Would like to take Your movie analytics to the next level and really use them as illustrations for your next video marketing plan, I recommend that you use a tool such as VidIQ. This will allow you to find the specifics so that you can move with the Youtube wave instead of against it.
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We have a leaving date - 8th September, if you're asking! - and that does funny things to you. It's a cut off, a full stop. It means that for somethings if they don't happen by then they won't happen. Explaining what exactly is going on in my head isn't that easy: I want to go but there is a huge cost to leaving some things behind. All of this means I'm leaving with a heightened sense of 'carpe diem'.
And so last night we were in London, listening to Christine Caine speak at Hillsong church, before taking in the delights of The Cans Festival in Leake Street. Christine's message couldn't have been more suited to our situation. She spoke about starting A21 because she saw a need, and of the continuous cost of choosing to step up into the next thing God puts in front of you. She spoke of long hours of unseen, unrecognised work and the character it builds. It was encouraging and inspiring.
But from one of the UK's most forward looking church we wound our way to a tunnel under Waterloo Station where Banksy - the UK's leading proponant of stencil art - and organised a stencil art street battle. The walls were plastered in polically-charged, stencilled social comment; the floor strewn with customised furniture and car-crash-as-art installations! There, opposite a piece of Banksy own art was a piano bearing the sign 'play me'. So I did. Next to a piece that morphed the Pope pronouncing a blessing with Monroe's classic dress-caught-in-an-updraft legs I played. More than one piece screamed 'religion kills'. Indeed in does. But I played for a God who is life.


The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center is getting ready to host its last two evening science lectures of the year. They're free, public-friendly, and give interested locals a chance to learn about major environmental issues impacting the Chesapeake directly from scientists.
Description: Learn about environmental issues on the Bay and in your backyard from Smithsonian ecologists working on the Chesapeake. This month, join Smithsonian ecologist Seth Miller in discovering what climate change may have in store for fish in Chesapeake Bay. Learn how laboratory experiments can simulate future climate scenarios, and what this could mean for forage fish in the Bay and how the Bay as a whole could look in the future.
The event is free—a curious mind is all you need to bring!


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	"github.com/containerd/containerd/content"
	"github.com/containerd/containerd/diff"
	"github.com/containerd/containerd/errdefs"
	"github.com/containerd/containerd/images"
	"github.com/containerd/containerd/mount"
	digest "github.com/opencontainers/go-digest"
	ocispecs "github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/specs-go/v1"
	"github.com/pkg/errors"
)

func NewFileSystemApplierWithWindows(cs content.Provider, a diff.Applier) diff.Applier {
	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
		return a
	}

	return &winApplier{
		cs: cs,
		a:  a,
	}
}

type winApplier struct {
	cs content.Provider
	a  diff.Applier
}

func (s *winApplier) Apply(ctx context.Context, desc ocispecs.Descriptor, mounts []mount.Mount, opts ...diff.ApplyOpt) (d ocispecs.Descriptor, err error) {
	if !hasWindowsLayerMode(ctx) {
		return s.a.Apply(ctx, desc, mounts, opts...)
	}

	compressed, err := images.DiffCompression(ctx, desc.MediaType)
	if err != nil {
		return ocispecs.Descriptor{}, errors.Wrapf(errdefs.ErrNotImplemented, "unsupported diff media type: %v", desc.MediaType)
	}

	var ocidesc ocispecs.Descriptor
	if err := mount.WithTempMount(ctx, mounts, func(root string) error {
		ra, err := s.cs.ReaderAt(ctx, desc)
		if err != nil {
			return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to get reader from content store")
		}
		defer ra.Close()

		r := content.NewReader(ra)
		if compressed != "" {
			ds, err := compression.DecompressStream(r)
			if err != nil {
				return err
			}
			defer ds.Close()
			r = ds
		}

		digester := digest.Canonical.Digester()
		rc := &readCounter{
			r: io.TeeReader(r, digester.Hash()),
		}

		rc2, discard := filter(rc, func(hdr *tar.Header) bool {
			if strings.HasPrefix(hdr.Name, "Files/") {
				hdr.Name = strings.TrimPrefix(hdr.Name, "Files/")
				hdr.Linkname = strings.TrimPrefix(hdr.Linkname, "Files/")
				// TODO: could convert the windows PAX headers to xattr here to reuse
				// the original ones in diff for parent directories and file modifications
				return true
			}
			return false
		})

		if _, err := archive.Apply(ctx, root, rc2); err != nil {
			discard(err)
			return err
		}

		// Read any trailing data
		if _, err := io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, rc); err != nil {
			discard(err)
			return err
		}

		ocidesc = ocispecs.Descriptor{
			MediaType: ocispecs.MediaTypeImageLayer,
			Size:      rc.c,
			Digest:    digester.Digest(),
		}
		return nil
	}); err != nil {
		return ocispecs.Descriptor{}, err
	}
	return ocidesc, nil
}

type readCounter struct {
	r io.Reader
	c int64
}

func (rc *readCounter) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
	n, err = rc.r.Read(p)
	rc.c += int64(n)
	return
}

func filter(in io.Reader, f func(*tar.Header) bool) (io.Reader, func(error)) {
	pr, pw := io.Pipe()

	rc := &readCanceler{Reader: in}

	go func() {
		tarReader := tar.NewReader(rc)
		tarWriter := tar.NewWriter(pw)

		pw.CloseWithError(func() error {
			for {
				h, err := tarReader.Next()
				if err == io.EOF {
					break
				}
				if err != nil {
					return err
				}
				if f(h) {
					if err := tarWriter.WriteHeader(h); err != nil {
						return err
					}
					if h.Size > 0 {
						if _, err := io.Copy(tarWriter, tarReader); err != nil {
							return err
						}
					}
				} else {
					if h.Size > 0 {
						if _, err := io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, tarReader); err != nil {
							return err
						}
					}
				}
			}
			return tarWriter.Close()
		}())
	}()

	discard := func(err error) {
		rc.cancel(err)
		pw.CloseWithError(err)
	}

	return pr, discard
}

type readCanceler struct {
	mu sync.Mutex
	io.Reader
	err error
}

func (r *readCanceler) Read(b []byte) (int, error) {
	r.mu.Lock()
	if r.err != nil {
		r.mu.Unlock()
		return 0, r.err
	}
	n, err := r.Reader.Read(b)
	r.mu.Unlock()
	return n, err
}

func (r *readCanceler) cancel(err error) {
	r.mu.Lock()
	r.err = err
	r.mu.Unlock()
}

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In this C++ tutorial, you will learn about standard input stream and standard output stream explained along with syntax and examples.
It is C++ programming language uses the concept of streams to perform input and output operations using the keyboard and to display information on the monitor of the computer.
A stream is the source or destination of a series of data, either characters, or in the case of binary files, a sequence of bytes that represent memory content. The standard input and output stream objects of C++ are declared in the header file iostream.
Generally, the device used for input is the keyboard. For inputting, the keyword cin is used, which is an object. The operator of extraction, >>, is used on the standard input stream, in this case: cin stream. Syntax for using the standard input stream is cin followed by the operator >> followed by the variable that stores the data extracted from the stream.
In the example above, the variable prog is declared as an integer type variable. The next statement is the cin statement. The cin statement waits for input from the user"s keyboard that is then stored in the integer variable prog.
In both of the above cases, two values are input by the user, one value for the variable x and another value for the variable y.
If a programmer wants to write comments in C++ program, the comments should follow after a pair of slashes denoted by //. All the characters after the // are ignored by C++ compiler and the programmer can choose to comment after the //.
In the above example, two integer variables are input with values. The programmer can produce input of any data type. It is also possible to input strings in C++ program using cin. This is performed using the same procedures. The vital point to note is cin stops when it encounters a blank space. When using a cin, it is possible to produce only one word. If a user wants to input a sentence, then the above approach would be tiresome. For this purpose, there is a function in C++ called getline.
A By default, the device used for output is the screen of the computer. For outputting values the keyword cout is used, which is an object. The insertion operator << is used on the standard output cout stream. The syntax for using the standard output stream is cout followed by the operator << followed by the value to be inserted or output by the insertion operator.
If a programmer chooses to use constant strings of characters, they must be enclosed between double quotes " " .
In the above, the first statement displays on the screen as exforsys. The second statement outputs the value of the variable exforsys. As previously explained, the extraction operator >> can be used more than once in a single cin statement. Similarly, it is possible to use the insertion operator << more than once in a cout statement.
The above concept is mainly used if the programmer chooses to print string constants followed by variables.
In this next example, the programmer chooses to display a combination of string constants and variables.
An important point to note from the above example is cout does not give a line break unless specified. If the programmer chooses to display output in a new line, it must be explicitly specified in cout by using the n which denotes newline character.
There is also another way for specifying newline that is by using endl manipulator (end line).


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The Shale Network Workshop team has decided that we need to cancel the Shale Network workshop for this spring because of the novel coronavirus. We make this decision based on the latest request from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to cancel events scheduled within the next two months (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/large-events/mass-gatherings-ready-for-covid-19.html). We regret to cancel because this year's lineup was to be terrific, covering many new and emerging topics including, ironically, aspects of issues around human health. We have chosen dates for next year, May 13-14, 2021, and we invite you to pencil this time in for the workshop, once again in State College, Pa. We worked very hard on the planning for this year and we very much hope that all of our speakers will commit to coming next year, perhaps for the same line-up for the agenda, but with, of course, updated talks. In addition, we hope to run the same (or better) field trip next year. In the meantime, please, please be healthy and safe.
Regards, The Shale Network Workshop Team
Susan L. Brantley
Distinguished Professor of Geosciences
Registration for the ninth annual Shale Network Workshop is now open. The theme of the 2020 workshop is "Shale Gas: Future and Developing Issues" and includes presentations on the health effects related to shale gas development by Donna Vorhees, director of energy research at the Health Effects Institute, and Joan Casey, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University. The workshop will be held May 14-15 at the Graduate Hotel in State College, Pa.
The 2020 workshop features a field trip to several alternative energy-related sites on the Penn State campus, including a gas-powered steam plant, solar array, nuclear reactor, and other available facilities. Participants who want to visit the nuclear reactor must provide their home address information when they register for the workshop. The tentative field trip schedule is as follows:
9:30 a.m. Meet at The Graduate
9:45 a.m. Depart for field trip
10:30 a.m. Visit the Sandy Ridge wind farm (tentative per company approval)
11:15 a.m. Depart from wind farm
12:00 p.m. Arrive on Penn State campus, lunch (pack your own) with discussion on PSU campus energy conservation initiatives
1:00 p.m. Break into two groups to tour the Brazealle Nuclear Reactor and East Campus Steam Plant
3:00 p.m. Tour the Penn State solar array
4:00 p.m. Arrive back at The Graduate
Shale Network is a collaborative effort between Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh and the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences Inc. (CUAHSI) to collect and analyze data on water quality in the Marcellus Shale drilling region. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection participates in organizing parts of the workshop. Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) has also provided funding in past years.
2020 Shale Network Workshop TENTATIVE Agenda
9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Field trip: Energy Choices, Energy Footprints: Toward a Decarbonized Future
***All sessions are in the 1855 Room and Coaly Ballroom at The Graduate unless noted otherwise***
1855 Room Ice Breaker
Poster presenters, put posters up for Ice Breaker in 1855 Room. Posters will be left up through Friday.
Coaly Ballroom
Group Discussion: Energy Transitions and their Environmental Impacts
Moderators: Jennifer Baka, David Yoxtheimer (Penn State University)
Representative from US Energy Information Agency (TBA), TBA (PA Governor's Office of Energy or DEP), Ken Davis (Penn State University), TBA (Shell Oil Company), Jim Pivirotto (Senior Energy Analyst and Project Manager, Envinity), Matt Mehalik (Breathe Project)
***All sessions are in the Coaly Ballroom at The Graduate unless noted otherwise***
Lower Lobby Registration
Breakfast located in Coaly Ballroom
Continental Breakfast and Poster Setup
Speakers, please upload talks before session starts
Poster presenters, put posters up before 8 a.m. and remove promptly by 5 p.m.
8:00 a.m. Introduction to the Workshop: Using Data to Promote Better Dialogue about Future and Developing Issues around Shale Gas Development
Susan L. Brantley (Penn State University); Jennifer Baka (Penn State University)
8:20 a.m. Title to be added
Denise Brinley (Executive Director at PA Governor's Office of Energy)
Challenges in Health-based Research Near Oil & Gas Development
Jim Fabisiak (University of Pittsburgh)
9:00 a.m. Community Perspectives and Responses to Pipeline Development and Public Health Risks
Kirk Jalbert (Arizona State University)
9:20 a.m. Health-based Evaluation of Ambient Air Measurements Near a Marcellus Shale Unconventional Natural Gas Well Pad Site and a School Campus
Christopher Long (Gradient Corporation)
9:40 a.m. Break for Coffee
Speakers, please upload talks for next session
10:00 a.m. Unconventional Natural Gas Development in the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale: The Current Public Health Perspective
Joan Casey (Columbia University)
10:20 a.m. A Closer Look at the Methods Behind Epidemiology Studies of Unconventional Resource Development
Judy Wendt Hess (Shell Health Risk Science Team, Shell Oil Company)
10:40 a.m. Approaches to Understanding Health Risks from Exposure to Shale Gas Development
Anna Rosofsky (Health Effects Institute)
11:00 a.m. -
Panel Discussion: Sorting out Real and Unreal Health Effects Related to Unconventional Resource Development: How do Different People Look at the Same Data and Come to Different Conclusions (and What Does It All Mean)?
Stephanie Hasanali (PA Department of Health), Joan Casey (Columbia University), Donna Vorhees (Health Effects Institute), Kirk Jalbert (Arizona State University), Judy Wendt Hess (Shell Oil Company)
12:10 - 12:30 p.m. One-minute "advertisements" by each poster presenter about their poster
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Reception-Style Lunch and Mill-Around Poster Session
Afternoon speakers, please upload talks
Coffee service located in 1855 Room
Coaly Ballroom A Coaly Ballroom B
1:30 p.m. TBA Pipeline development from the Regulatory Perspective
Domenic Rocco (PA Department of Environmental Protection)
1:50 p.m. Managing Produced Water in a New Decade
Loren Anderson (Marcellus Shale Coalition)
Jon Dufalla (Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC) Community Challenges and Choices Amidst Petrochemical Development
Matt Mehalik (Breathe Project)
2:10 p.m. Produced Water: Policy Considerations Concerning Disposal and Reuse Now and in the Future
Megan Garvey (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) Overview of Air Quality Monitoring Program for Shell's Petrochemical Facility in Monaca, PA
Jim Sewell (Shell Chemical Company)
2:30 p.m. Break for coffee, rooms opened back up for Final Plenary
2:50 p.m. Environmental Hazards and Local Investment: Evidence from Over Half a Century of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
Max Harleman (University of Pittsburgh)
3:10 p.m. A Legal Perspective on What is Happening with Abandoned Wells in Pennsylvania (exact title to be added)
Michael Brayme (PA Department of Environmental Protection)
3:30 p.m. Performance of Historical Plug Jobs: Methane Emissions from Plugged Wells
Harry Wise, Seth Pelepko (PA Department of Environmental Protection)
3:50 p.m. An Update on Quantification of Methane Emissions using Atmospheric Measurements
Kenneth J. Davis, Zachary R. Barkley (Penn State University)
4:10 p.m. Wrap Up Plenary Discussion: What Do We Need to Do Next?
Susan L. Brantley, Dave Yoxtheimer, Jennifer Baka
4:30 p.m. Assessment and Adjournment
Poster presenters, please remove your posters promptly
Attendees can receive:
Professional Development Hours for professional engineers, land surveyors and geologists.
Become a Shale Network member


It wouldn't be the holiday's without homemade candy so I have one last candy to share with you for my 12 days of Homemade Christmas, Caramels. Yes, Homemade caramels! These gems take a bit more patience to make but are well worth the time and effort. Do you still need some last minute gifts? These caramels are a perfect gift! Your family and friends will fall in love with the smooth caramel.
Line a 12x15 inch pan with parchment paper.
Stir in vanilla. Transfer mixture to the lined pan and let the mixture cool completely. When cooled cut the Carmel into small squares and wrap them in wax paper for storage.


Survivalists, Preppers and the others, Whats the difference?
About a year ago I wrote a post for the Canadian Preppers Network blog called Two Solitudes. The article was about a division I saw developing between those who consider themselves Preppers and those that consider themselves survivalists. Now, this divide seems to be growing. What's worse is that there is a whole new category being added to the mix that I call "others" for lack of a better, more polite term.
This week on The Prepared Canadian Broadcast, I'll explain what I see as the core differences between these three groups, a bit of the history behind them, and why I believe now, more than ever these groups want to separate and in many cases even disassociate themselves from each other.
Lately it seems we have all become a bit more complacent. Do we need another major incident to awaken us once again to the reason for being prepared? Who knows when we will see another major event that disrupts our daily routines reminding us why we prepare. We will never have sufficient warning to prepare for the earthquake, flash flood, power outage, or anything else that looms ahead. Always we should remain vigilant and work together in our quest to be resilient, self sustaining and prepared.
You can also listen to archived shows of all our hosts . Go to the show schedule!
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The Spirit of the Buddha
Martine Batchelor
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In this slim, enlightening volume, internationally recognized Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor presents the basic tenets and teachings of the Buddha through a selection of essential texts from the Pali canon, the earliest Buddhist scriptures. Viewed by scholars as the actual substance of the historical teachings (and possibly even the words) of the Buddha, these texts are essential to an understanding of the Buddhist faith, and Batchelor illuminates them with her lucid analysis and interpretations. Both accessible to nonpractitioners and helpful to scholars, The Spirit of the Buddha touches upon key themes, including dharma, compassion, meditation, and peace, among others, creating a panoramic view of one of the world's most widely practiced faiths that is deeply rooted in its most vital texts.
Martine Batchelor, a former Buddhist nun, studied Zen Buddhism under the guidance of Kusan Sunim and is the author of Let Go, Women in Korean Zen, Buddhism and Ecology, Principles of Zen, Meditation for Life, and The Path of Compassion: The Bodhisattva Precepts, a translation of the Chinese Brahma's Net Sutra. She lives in France.
"The series of texts translated at the instigation of the International Sacred Literature Trust will make the world's heritage of spiritual and ethical insights available to a much wider audience. I hope it will help to break down the barriers of suspicion and ignorance and encourage understanding and tolerance in this age of tension and conflict."—His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
"I welcome the work of the International Sacred Literature Trust in making available to so many people books revealing the great teachings of love, compassion and universal responsibility—themes that underlie all the world's great sacred traditions."—His Holiness The Dalai Lama
"For readers of poetic and inspired literature, as well as for those interested in international understanding on the deepest level, it is hard to imagine a publishing venture more radical, more imaginative, more desirable or more exciting."—Ted Hughes, former poet laureate
"Enlightening . . . The Spirit of the Buddha is a thoughtfully prepared summary of the life of an extraordinary man whose words exert tremendous influence still."—Cynthia Pauwels, Metapsychology
"It [The Spirit of the Buddha] creates a majestic, panoramic view of Buddhism that is deeply rooted in its most vital texts. This is an absolute, fundamental read certainly for all Buddhists, I am sure it would also appeal to interested non-Buddhists."—Dr Udayan Chakrabarti, The Middle Way: The Buddhist Society's Quarterly Journal
"As well as making those teachings broadly accessible, Batchelor brings them up to date. . . . The Spirit of the Buddha offers entry into the Buddha Way for readers of all faiths, and a wide vista for Buddhist readers of all stripes."—Patrick McMahon, Inquiring Mind
"…..a slim, illuminative and scholastic book."—Kate Harley, Spirit
Publishing Partner: International Sacred Literature Trust
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Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko
Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey
A Hermeneutic Reconsideration
Andrew Davison
Reconstructing America
The Symbol of America in Modern Thought
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Ethics in Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine
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Carson Strong
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text:
The Reed Case er en amerikansk stumfilm fra 1917 af Allen Holubar.

Medvirkende
 Allen Holubar som Jerry Brennon
 Alfred Allen som Bull Renfroy
 Fred Montague som Chief Grady
 George C. Pearce som Senator
 Sydney Deane som John Reed

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

Stumfilm fra USA
Amerikanske film fra 1917

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