A lot of stuff is going on–there has been lots severe weather to talk about, climate refugees, climate protests, and the potential of the fire at Note Dame as a metaphor. However, I'm rushing to finish a deadline right now, so I'll get into all of that next week and give you this post on Passover, which starts soon.
I wrote this some years ago when I noticed "climate change and Easter" turned up virtually nothing but "climate change and Passover" turned up some very interesting articles. Not being Jewish myself, I couldn't really add anything, but I compiled a short review of the material I found.
This year I've just edited it slightly.
This article uses the story of Moses as an illustration of how spiritual awakening can fuel action and then frames climate change specifically in terms of the themes of the holiday. Modern poetry and Biblical quotes give the short piece great emotional punch.
Signing on to an energy covenant as a family and as an institution becomes an ethical imperative and a sacred task. Passover shows the way — the reawakening of the Earth to new life, the reawakening of our spirit to new possibilities, the transformative recognition of self-empowerment — for we stand on holy ground…and our name is called.
This article treats the Exodus story as an allegory of our current environmental crisis. It is more literalist, less mystical, than the previous piece, but, interestingly, it refers to our dependence on fossil fuel as a form of slavery.
These past few days, I have been looking through the Passover Haggadah, preparing to lead my Passover Seder. As I sat there reading over some of the miracles of Passover, a slight shiver ran down my back. I have never looked at the ten plagues through the perspective of climate change. Could the Exodus be not just a celebration of our freedom from slavery, but a warning against our consumption of our resources?
This one is an outline of an event that is both an interfaith spiritual service and a political demonstration.
The people move into the streets. Chanting and singing as they go, carrying a portable large-sized globe of Planet Earth, waving the Palm branches, they walk toward a Pyramid of Power of our own day: perhaps an office of Exxon or BP, or a coal-fired power station, or a bank that invests in a coal company that is destroying the mountains of West Virginia, or a religious or academic or governmental institution which they could call on to end its investments in Big Carbon and invest in renewable energy companies instead.
This one is an essay on the human rights dimension of climate change, explored through the language of both the Christian and Jewish moral traditions.
In modern Jewish social justice ideology, tikkun 'olam (Repairing the World) has become a critical concept in inspiring people to act. It is the hope that the redemption of humanity and Creation can come through the human choices that we all make in our everyday lives. In the last part of the Passover Seder we look towards that ongoing redemptive process with hope and determination.
So while I am not myself able to write much that is coherent at the moment, plenty of other people have no such limitation.
Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: climate change, Passover | Permalink.
Next week is both Easter and Passover. I've therefore decided to post my Easter article today, leaving next week free for Passover.
The following article is a re-edited version of a post I wrote three years ago.
Easter is the commemoration of the death of a political prisoner at the hands of the State. I've always found the thought of Jesus-as-activist much more intriguing than the possibility of His resurrection–which might be because I'm not Christian, but I know dedicated Christians who seem to feel the same way. It's a fact that being a good person can be dangerous. It's also true that we keep having good people anyway.
I've decided to honor the incontrovertible miracle of bravery in the face of persecution by acknowledging climate change martyrs–scientists who are being harassed, even threatened, because of their work on climate. Some may be murdered, if the problem persists. They keep working.
The harassment goes back to the mid-1990's, but has been increasing in recent years. Examples taken from the various articles I read for this piece (and have linked to) include: threats to "see to it" that a scientist would be fired; vague threats on a scientist's children's safety; the deposit of a dead rat on a scientist's doorstep; the display of a noose by an audience member during a public talk by a climate scientist; and multiple, spurious accusations of fraud or other wrongdoing on the part of climate scientists.
Curiously, the problem is largely American. Australian climate scientists have also been harassed, but not on the scale of what their American counterparts have had to deal with. And while Canada has had a serious problem with high-level climate denial in the past, it never bubbled over into organized harassment of scientists. Britain and continental Europe and Japan have seen little of the problem, although scientists there are very concerned for their American and Australian colleagues. Climate-denial in general is specific to the English-speaking world, at least in part because organized climate denial is propagated largely by American organizations–that speak English. That the United States is at the center of the problem should, perhaps, not be much of a surprise. After all, the United States is key to global climate action–without American leadership, meaningful emissions reduction is unlikely to happen. With American leadership, we have a chance. And since the only way to accomplish meaningful emissions reduction is to stop burning fossil fuel, if I owned a boatload of stock in the fossil fuel industries and had no conscience whatsoever, I'd try to take out American interest in climate. Wouldn't you? And, clearly, attacking American climate scientists is part of that effort.
The recent rise in harassment dates to over ten years ago, when two events occurred in quick succession: the release of the 2007 IPCC Report, which seemed on the verge of triggering meaningful climate action in the United States; and the election of a black man as President of the United States. The latter made possible the rise of the Tea Party, a movement that is demonstrably fueled by racist resentment rather than ideological concerns about government and yet is funded by the Koch brothers (plus Rupert Murdock), oilmen whose personal racism (do an internet search on "are the Kochs racist?") is obviously less important than their investment in preventing climate action–they also fund the Heartland Institute, which is a major driver of American climate denial.
That the American version of hostility to climate action became deeply enmeshed with suspicion of government over-reach at the same time that the government was headed by a black man may not be a complete coincidence.
Some attacks on climate scientists–and by "attacks" I mean everything from threats to legal action to deliberate bureaucratic nonsense–have been perpetrated by individuals, others by organized climate-denier groups. Some of the most frightening, to me, anyway, come from government officials, including Lamar Smith, the (now former) Chair of the Science Committee of the US House of Representatives, and (now former) Virginia Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli.
I chose "Ideas Are Bullet-proof" as title for the original version of this post. It's a quote from the movie, V for Vendetta. The bad-guy has the hero riddled with bullets, and yet the hero does not fall but ultimately triggers the fall of the corrupt and authoritarian government–because while the hero is not personally immortal, ideas cannot be murdered. I had occasion to remember the quote recently–a friend of mine, a political organizer and activist and a deeply religious man, wrote something on Facebook that, knowing him as I do, reminded me of the ultimate futility of trying to erase ideas by attacking inconvenient people.
Categories: Human Rights | Tags: climate change, climate denial, courage, Easter, Heartland Institute, martyrs, Union of Concerned Scientists, V for Vendetta | Permalink.
The Power of Individual Action?
This past week, I saw an interview with a man who encouraged individual efforts towards personal sustainability, but also asserted that it won't do anything–but voting will.
I agree about the importance of voting, but why encourage the pointless? And is individual action pointless? I think not.
First, individual lifestyle choices, like individual votes, add up. If enough people decide to prefer certain business practices over others–less carbon-intensive practices–industry will follow suit. Such principle-driven market choices obviously can't solve the problem alone (or they would have already), but boycotts have changed history before.
Second, lifestyle choice can become an important point for discussion, both as a way to educate others and as a way to explore what kinds of policy changes might help. If low-carbon transportation is not a practical option in a given area, for example, perhaps sustainable public transit would be an important policy goal?
Third, trying to make one's own life as sustainable as possible is an important exercise, a way to practice commitment and a way to develop one's own environmental consciousness.
That has to be worth something.
But yeah, don't get distracted. VOTE.
Categories: Climate Politics, Climate Solutions | Tags: climate change, climate politics, lifestyle changes, vote | Permalink.


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In this episode of MarketFoolery, host Chris Hill and analyst Seth Jayson take a look at some of the market's biggest news.
Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK) falls again after more disappointing earnings, and the long-term picture looks pretty bleak. Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL) reported another rough quarter as the company struggles to gain its footing against market headwinds, a brand problem, and a lack of greener pastures.
And, of course, in light of fresh IPO details from Uber and Lyft, the guys analyze the business models, explain why we haven't seen a Ford ride-hailing service yet, speculate how e-scooters may come into the picture, tell investors what to watch in Uber's S-1, and more.
This video was recorded on March 18, 2019.
Chris Hill: It's Monday, March 18. Welcome to MarketFoolery! I'm Chris Hill. Joining me in studio today, Seth Jayson.
Hill: We both survived St. Patrick's Day.
Jayson: I didn't even know it was happening.
Hill: I was going to say, we weren't really at risk.
Jayson: I quit drinking, so I don't know any, since all holidays in the U.S. now seem to involve getting completely plastered.
Hill: Not all of them!
Jayson: Not all of them.
Hill: But, any port in a storm, I suppose. We're going to dig into some "earnings," earnings in air quotes. We're going to talk Uber and Lyft, which are gearing up to go public next month.
Jayson: [laughs] You need double, triple air quotes for earnings there.
Hill: Yeah. Let's start with Overstock. Fourth-quarter results were such that the stock is down around 12% this morning.
Jayson: Down a long way over the last couple of years.
Hill: When I first saw this, my first thought was, "Oh, I think I had forgotten that Overstock was still around." Overstock, once upon a time, had carved out an interesting at least attempt at a niche, which is, "Look, people are selling stuff online. People are buying stuff online."
Jayson: "Let's do that, too."
Hill: "We're going to do that and we're going to sell stuff at a discount because inventory management is hard, and you end up with stuff being overstocked."
Jayson: And it never really ended up being that business. That was a microsecond. It just turned into a regular online retailer. Third-party fulfillment is the way everyone has gone, so you're competing with, oh, I don't know, eBay, Amazon, AliExpress, Alibaba, everybody. That's a tough business. Not helping Overstock is Mr. Byrne, my good old friend. We have such a colorful history together.
Hill: [laughs] Patrick Byrne, CEO.
Jayson: He has attempted to destroy me for a long time. I can't wait for the email.
Hill: Let's not break that record today.
Jayson: He can't seem to decide what he wants the company to be. Now, he always tried to get points for direct communication. The "my fellow shareholders" from this release has earned some of that. Let's see... "Our retail arm lost money last year because I gunned things in an attempt to create a conventional high-growth, money-losing e-commerce business, but the losses were nauseating, and we reverted back to the philosophy of profitability." They're also trying to shop the online business. Maybe trying to gun the accelerator and sell more stuff and lose money on it was hopefully a way to attract a nice price for that. But it didn't work out very well. They spent a lot, if you go through the 10-K, on advertising. It didn't translate into very much of a top-end growth figure.
They're going back to trying to eke out some cash flow profitability. In the meantime, all of this Bitcoin-ish stuff they've been doing, blockchain-ish stuff...it's not even the trend anymore. That's all housed in something called Medici Ventures, which is, for those who aren't familiar, described in the filings as, the strategy is to develop and advanced the concept of government-as-a-service, a technological stack for civilization. Now, history note, the Medici were never so interested in government-as-a-service. [laughs] It's like government-as-our-service, but you don't really realize it. They've got some interesting ideas, and some of them even sound almost altruistic, about helping Peruvian indigenous people stay on the land and not let the mining companies have it. But in the meantime, it costs a lot of money, and doesn't make any money, and that's where Overstock finds itself right now. "Maybe we're going to sell a retail business, maybe we're not," it still says in the filings. If you buy Overstock stock, you really don't know what you're getting at this point.
Hill: So, they hired Guggenheim Securities to help them sell off the retail arm.
Hill: As you said, this is an online retail company that's trying to pivot to being a leader in blockchain technology.
Jayson: Which is so three years ago now.
Hill: [laughs] And oh, by the way, they also announced they're laying off 250 people, which may not sound like a lot, but it's more than 10% of their workforce.
Jayson: Yeah, it's a little bit of a mess, but some of us wouldn't have it any other way. It's good old Overstock. As an investor, it's more fun to watch than own, I'll bet.
Hill: [laughs] Do you think there's a price at which someone buys the retail arm? I wouldn't say Overstock.com is a tarnished name in the eyes of consumers. It might be, in the eyes of investors, and maybe a lot of investors, but to the eyes of consumers, I don't look at that as a tarnished brand.
Jayson: No, but what are you going to pay for an outfit that can return $10 million in operating cash flow a year? That's what they say they want to do in the retail unit in 2019. What's that really worth? Probably not growing $10 million in operating cash flow a year. Not free cash flow, operating cash flow. It sure ain't worth a few hundred million dollars.
Hill: Let's move on to Lumber Liquidators. Another fourth-quarter report featuring a loss.
Jayson: Yet another kick right in the you-know-what.
Hill: [groans] Expenses up 65%.
Jayson: Well, they have a whole lot of bad stuff going on. They put a lot of it behind them. Settled with the Department of Justice. Now the SEC settlement and another lawsuit. That's going to be $97 million total. Some of that's already, on the balance sheets. Not all cash, but it's still a big number. It's another $40-some million. They've got the liquidity with borrowings to cover it in cash. They should be able to get it through.
All this, you remember, comes because they were supposedly poisoning everyone with formaldehyde. The little tidbit you get in the latest call is that of 83,000 test kits sent out to test this formaldehyde exposure, guess how many of them came back as exceeding those World Health Organization standards for safety?
Jayson: 0! 0! So, you might say that this was much ado about nothing, except that the stock got killed because the brand got killed. It's still being killed. Nowadays, it maybe should be called Vinyl Liquidators, because that is the trend, apparently, in flooring. Vinyl plank flooring. Which I love, by the way. It looks like pergola laminate. It looks like that kind of stuff, but I think it's a little more durable. It's easier to put down.
Price points are lower. Luckily the margins are good, but they're selling a lot of that. In the meantime, you got a pretty crummy housing market, not helping. Home Depot not helping. Tariffs, you have a 10% tariff, maybe going up to 25%. I'm sure the folks at Lumber Liquidators are tired of all that winning. In the meantime, you've got really not much top-line growth at all. You got some installation services growth, but you have a drop in merchandise sales, and a drop in the comp. They're still opening stores. The story isn't good, there. They're trying to have a high-touch flooring model at a low price. For a while, they were doing great with it. Then everything fell apart. And maybe that's just not a business. Maybe you've got Home Depot and maybe you've got higher-end. They're trying to be higher-end as well, but it hasn't worked for a few years. My stock is way down. But sometimes things happen. Sometimes stuff outside your control happens like somebody sues you and claims you're poisoning people even though you're not. And sometimes a business just doesn't work. Maybe we have both here.
Jayson: Those are huge right now. You get rid of that, you should be able to eke out a small cash flow situation going forward. And they do a pretty good job selling this stuff when people come in the door. But folks aren't coming in the door for various reasons. The market, the reputation, all of those things. I don't see a lot of growth. I still own the shares, but they're just in the deep freeze.
Hill: Two quick questions. One, is opening more stores the answer? Two, how badly do they need a rebrand?
Jayson: Lumber Liquidators sounds like a terrible name, but people do know it.
Hill: Well, they know it, but it made more sense when the business was lumber.
Jayson: Well, it was never really that.
Hill: But, as they move to the vinyl option, maybe that's the move?
Jayson: I don't know. I think you have to keep the name because it's all you have left. I don't know, I think it's just on a very low simmer, and you see what happens. I certainly wouldn't be buying shares right now. It's tough for me to imagine that they're suddenly going to kick-start growth. I mean, who would you expect to kick-start growth in this segment? We had Tile Shop, that was another old Hidden Gems pick that was doing great for a while. Also just, [buzzer sound]. Flooring is a tough business. Lots of competition. You're competing with locals or you're competing with Home Depot. These chains that did well for a long time all just ran into a wall.
Hill: We talked a little bit about this on Motley Fool Money over the weekend. I wanted to get your thoughts on this. Presumably, in the month of April, we're going to have both Lyft going public and Uber going public.
Jayson: This is all we're going to talk about.
Jayson: Like one-fourth or one-fifth the revenue right now.
Hill: One-fifth. Uber is looking to go public at a valuation of $120 billion.
Jayson: Lyft is looking for around $20 billion.
Hill: Yeah. Look, God bless the people at Uber if they earn the valuation of being bigger than Costco or Amgen.
Jayson: While losing a lot more money.
Hill: Well, yeah. Also, as investors who like to see a runway, and hopefully a runway that goes for a long time, it's hard for me to get excited about any IPO that's already that big.
Jayson: It's tough for me to get excited about this business because so many others who have advantages along the lines have also been able to make cars have looked at this and said, "We can't really make a ridesharing service work economically," and they've gotten out of this business. So, you get this weird situation where you have large companies with some interesting technology and other advantages who are saying, "We're not going to touch this." And then you have these companies like Lyft and Uber that have been burning venture capital for years, and everyone's all excited to plow IPO money into them. The end of the cash-burning is nowhere in sight.
I mean, it's a pretty tough decision to make. I envision them as running a race in a fog. You can't really see in front of you. You don't know if you're going straight ahead and someone's going to hand you a wad of money, which will be great, or if you're just going to run off the edge of a cliff. That's what investing in one of these looks like to me.
To talk about Lyft, who has a registration statement out at least, you can get a few numbers at this point. Riders and revenue per active rider has been improving nicely. You're looking at like 18.6 million riders. That's just U.S. $36 a rider. Their revenue is about $2 billion. Uber's revenue, almost $12 billion in 2018. But they're both losing a lot of money, and those losses are getting bigger. They're both trying to get into this bike and scooter thing, which has its own challenges, not the least of which is, if nobody washes a rental car, you ought to take a look at what happens to these scooters.
I read somewhere that the average life of those scooters was 45 days or something. Hey, you environmentalists out there who are totally into that, if that's true, that is the biggest waste I have ever seen.
Hill: Let's put a pin in this for a second. Can I just say -- we've got, in the greater DC area, a bunch of these scooter rental things.
Jayson: And many have already pulled out.
Hill: Well, the thing that strikes me about them is, not to sound like an old man, but the lack of helmets.
Jayson: Yeah, apparently. And then you just proceed to ride it on the sidewalk with no helmet. I have never not seen somebody on the sidewalk with one of these things.
Hill: Well, to go back to how we started this episode, with St. Patrick's day yesterday, going down the main drag here in Old Town Alexandria, a guy who looked and sounded like someone who had had a couple of drinks on his scooter -- not on the sidewalk, right there on King Street.
Jayson: That's where he's supposed to be, at least.
Hill: One hand on the steering, the other hand holding the six pack that he was transporting.
Jayson: As a guy who builds a bike or two, I've never really liked scooters of any kind because they're really, really twitchy and easy to crash. So, I have to wonder about what's going to happen with those. They're trying to get an encompassing ecosystem. So while the goals that they put forward in the registration statement, speaking about Lyft here, sound laudable, at the same time Lyft is trying to democratize ridesharing, one corporate dictatorship at a time is what came to mind today. Of course, the founders are going to control 50% of the shares by having special shares that give them 20 votes. Everybody seems to just accept that, but it doesn't always work out great when your founders get to do whatever they want, because they fear no repercussions. I'm thinking about Under Armour, you had Kevin Plank steer that business into the dirt. You read later on, "He was making a rye distillery, he was petting racehorses, doing all this other stuff," and you go, "Wait a minute, I thought you were trying to make Under Armour a better company." I'm not really a fan of those kinds of arrangements.
Hill: Is Lyft doing the move that Evan Spiegel did with Snap, where they're going to go public with dual class shares?
Jayson: Got A and B, yeah. From what I understand from going through it quickly today, the founder shares will have 20 votes per share, and everybody else will get one vote. That equates to roughly 50% of the voting share to the two founders. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I saw. It's not as high as some, I would say.
Hill: Absolutely. Uber has not filed their S-1 yet, so we haven't seen their numbers. What is something that people should be looking for when that S-1 comes out? That seems like documentation that a lot of people are going to want to get their hands on. What is something, not necessarily like, "This would be encouraging," but what's one or two sections of the S-1 that people should check out?
Jayson: It'd be interesting if they broke out a little bit better how these new businesses, like the bikes and scooters, how much those are sucking out of the company. There's a couple of pretty large companies, including the largest food delivery outfit in China, that said, "We're not doing that scooter thing anymore," or bike thing, whichever it was. I would be interested in knowing that because I feel like that's a business that has to disappear eventually.
I like seeing the dollars per rider. I think that's interesting. What's missing is -- and it'll probably remain missing, but maybe you can find enough clues -- a road map to some kind of profitability. In other words, if you've got $2 billion in revenue, but it's costing you $800 million in advertising, that's not sustainable over the long term. Presumably, at some point, you don't have to advertise the rush for members. The market share grab will hopefully end at some point in time. But it shows no sign right now. The fight is still going on.
Then, in the future, it's easy to say, "Well, between the two of them, they've already split up the market." There's a couple of small competitors, but we're going to have Waymo and some others try to come out with autonomous rideshare programs which would conceivably get rid of one very large expense, which is paying drivers. So, there's an entirely different kind of competition on the horizon. I guess you'd argue for Uber that they have their own self-driving car initiative, but I think they're probably one of those last-place positions there.
Hill: Thanks for being here. As always, people on the program may have interest in the stocks they talk about, and The Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against, so don't buy or sell stocks based solely on what you hear. That's going to do it for this edition of MarketFoolery. The show is mixed by Dan Boyd. I'm Chris Hill. Thanks for listening! We'll see you tomorrow.
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Chris Hill owns shares of AMZN and UA. Seth Jayson owns shares of Lumber Liquidators. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends AMZN, COST, TTS, UAA, and UA. The Motley Fool recommends AMGN, EBAY, and HD. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


I have returned to the Delta a dozen times.
Always for the same reason: the people.
"People in the Delta have stories, music, love and deep care for their community, irrespective of the hardship they endure. I was drawn to the people I encountered. They were unlike most I had known. They allowed me to slip into their midst as if they had known me for a long time, and we could share stories, laughter, sorrow and silence. This didn't happen one time, it happened every day in every town."
"I always bring the people I photograph their pictures when I return. I met a man who had never held a picture of himself, and even though he had lost most of his ability to speak, he had a big warm laugh and a giant hug when I brought him his picture."
"Photography is recording images of others. Sometimes you are lucky and make a friend, but most often you arrive as an outsider and that is how you leave. The Delta refused to go along. I arrived as an outsider, but was drawn into its fabric until I felt like the family member who happened to have the camera. I was born in Spain, raised in Switzerland, lived my adult life in New York City, but the Delta and its people felt like home. I carry the deepest gratitude."
Magdalena Solé: The tonality in Magdalena Sole's images maps the experience of her work. Whether richly saturated or time worn, Sole uses color to encapsulate a range of feelings. She is known for her sensitive expressions of culture through distinctive color artistry.
Her work in the Delta was commissioned by The Dreyfus Health Foundation for a book titled, New Delta Rising: Photographs by Magdalena Solé, with an introduction by Rick Bragg (University Press of Mississippi, Fall 2011), and is part of her wider project, Forgotten Places, which includes images of Japan and Brazil. Magdalena has a Masters of Fine Art in Film from Columbia University.
I love the beauty of the Delta! thanks for sharing these photos. As a young child I had made many trips through this area and found the people to be very warm and kind.
These are wonderful photos - thanks for the link.
Wonderful images! It shows in Magdalena's work that she cares for these people and they respond to her. Not your usual pictures of angry poor people in the South.
These are wonderful images that capture the spirit of parts of the south. My students look forward to your book.
Very strong photos here and on her website but there's a part of me that wishes they were taken 50 years ago and that the terrible poverty no longer existed.
Each image is like a movie, building situations, developing characters, telling a story.
Love the Shacks near Tutwiler.
Your photographs are cool. loved the story too.


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8. I found some chocolate candies in the room of my diabetic mother – she claims one of the nurse's aides gave them to her. Can I file suit for neglect?
The nursing home's failure to prevent your mother's consumption of foods dangerous to her is a symptom of negligence or neglect. As a practical matter, however, an attorney will not pursue a negligence case against a nursing home if there has been no significant injury or damage to the nursing home resident.
When you discover that the nursing home is not honoring your mother's special diet, you should advise the administrator of your concerns in writing.


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Q: Copy Memory to std::copy I'm trying to convert all my CopyMemory functions to std::copy functions.
It works with copymemory and memcpy but not std::copy. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it?
template<typename T>
void S(unsigned char* &Destination, const T &Source)
{
    //CopyMemory(Destination, &Source, sizeof(T));
    std::copy(&Source, &Source + sizeof(T), Destination);      //Fails..
    Destination += sizeof(T);
}

template<typename T>
void D(T* &Destination, unsigned char* Source, size_t Size)
{
    //CopyMemory(Destination, Source, Size);
    std::copy(Source, Source + Size, Destination);
    Source += sizeof(T);
}

template<typename T>
void D(T &Destination, unsigned char* Source, size_t Size)
{
    //CopyMemory(&Destination, Source, Size);
    std::copy(Source, Source + Size, &Destination);
    Source += sizeof(T);
}

I've also figured that I could do the following to convert iterators to pointers:
std::string Foo = "fdsgsdgs";

std::string::iterator it = Foo.begin();

unsigned char* pt = &(*it);

How would I convert pointers to iterators then? :S
The code I use to test the memcpy/copymem vs std::copy is as follows (It prints 7 if it works.. and random numbers if it doesn't):
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <typeinfo>

using namespace std;

typedef struct
{
    int SX, SY;
    uint32_t Stride;
    unsigned long ID;
    int TriangleCount;
} Model;

template<typename T>
void S(unsigned char* &Destination, const T &Source)
{
    CopyMemory(Destination, &Source, sizeof(T));
    Destination += sizeof(T);
}

template<typename T>
void S(unsigned char* &Destination, const std::vector<T> &VectorContainer)
{
    size_t Size = VectorContainer.size();
    for (size_t I = 0; I < Size; ++I)
        S(Destination, VectorContainer[I]);
}

void S(unsigned char* &Destination, const Model &M)
{
    S(Destination, M.SX);
    S(Destination, M.SY);
    S(Destination, M.Stride);
    S(Destination, M.ID);
    S(Destination, M.TriangleCount);
}

template<typename T>
void D(T* &Destination, unsigned char* Source, size_t Size)
{
    CopyMemory(Destination, Source, Size);
    Source += sizeof(T);
}

template<typename T>
void D(T &Destination, unsigned char* Source, size_t Size)
{
    CopyMemory(&Destination, Source, Size);
    Source += sizeof(T);
}

template<typename T>
void D(std::vector<T> &Destination, unsigned char* Source, size_t Size)
{
    Destination.resize(Size);
    for(size_t I = 0; I < Size; ++I)
    {
        D(Destination[I], Source, sizeof(T));
        Source += sizeof(T);
    }
}

void D(Model* &Destination, unsigned char* Source)
{
    D(Destination->SX, Source, sizeof(Destination->SX));
    D(Destination->SY, Source, sizeof(Destination->SY));
    D(Destination->Stride, Source, sizeof(Destination->Stride));
    D(Destination->ID, Source, sizeof(Destination->ID));
    D(Destination->TriangleCount, Source, sizeof(Destination->TriangleCount));
}

long double* LD = new long double[25000];
std::vector<Model> ListOfModels, ListOfData;

void ExecuteCommands()
{
    switch(static_cast<int>(LD[1]))
    {
        case 1:
        {
            LD[2] = 2;
            unsigned char* Data = reinterpret_cast<unsigned char*>(&LD[3]);
            Model M; M.SX = 1; M.SY = 3; M.Stride = 24; M.ID = 7; M.TriangleCount = 9;
            Model K; K.SX = 3; K.SY = 21; K.Stride = 34; K.ID = 9; K.TriangleCount = 28;

            ListOfModels.push_back(M);
            ListOfModels.push_back(K);
            S(Data, ListOfModels);
        }
        break;
    }
}

void* GetData()
{
    unsigned char* Data = reinterpret_cast<unsigned char*>(&LD[3]);
    D(ListOfData, Data, LD[2]);
    cout<<ListOfData[0].ID;        //Should print 7 if it works.
    return &ListOfData[0];
}

int main()
{
    LD[1] = 1;
    ExecuteCommands();
    GetData();
}

A: There are so many things wrong with this code that it's almost impossible to know where to begin. And the errors are in many cases so basic that it betrays a gross misunderstanding of what you should be doing. The kind of code you're writing is dangerous for experienced C++ programers; the errors you've made in your code suggest that you're far from experienced.
Stop trying to do what you're trying to do.
But let's take your code.
std::copy(&Source, &Source + sizeof(T), Destination);      //Fails..

First, let's talk about pointers in C++.
If you have a pointer to some type T, let's say T *t, doing this t + 1 will not shift the pointer over one byte. This is basic pointer arithmetic stuff here; t + 1 will shift it over by sizeof(T); that's how pointers have worked since the earliest days of C, let alone C++.
Source is a T&, so &Source is a T*. Therefore, adding sizeof(T) to it will increment the pointer by sizeof(T) * sizeof(T). That's not what you want.
Second, std::copy is not memcpy. std::copy is for copying one collection of values (defined by an input iterator pair) into another collection of values defined by an output iterator. std::copy requires that the value_type of the input iterator is implicitly convertible to the value_type of the output iterator.
The value_type of a T*, the input iterator in question, is a T; T*'s point to Ts. The value_type of your char*, your output iterator, is char. std::copy is going to try to do effectively this:
char *val;
T *t;
*val = *t;

Even ignoring the fact that these two pointers are uninitialized, this makes no sense. Unless T has an operator char conversion operator, you cannot simply take a T and shove it into a char. Therefore, you get a compile error. As you should.
If you truly have some T and want to copy it into a char* array of the appropriate size (or vice-versa), std::copy is not the tool you need. The tool you want is std::memcpy. std::copy is for copying objects, not copying bytes.


Develop standard methods and tools to assess and compare the environmental interactions and characteristics of existing and planned marine aquaculture activities in PICES member countries.
The Working Group should contain expertise corresponding to the three terms of reference (TORs) outlined below. Working sessions on environmental interaction models of marine aquaculture, risk assessment case studies and infectious diseases will be held at PICES Annual Meetings (AMs) and when possible, at other times as needed. A symposium (likely in the third year) will highlight models and information generated from all three TORs to evaluate environmental interactions associated with aquaculture. Final results will be reported as a PICES publication and, hopefully, also in the peer-reviewed literature. The Working Group will maintain contacts and linkages with PICES Working Groups on Ecosystem-based Management Science and its Application to the North Pacific (WG 19) and on Non-indigenous Aquatic Species (WG 21) and two ICES Working Groups on Environmental Interactions of Marine Aquaculture and on Pathology and Diseases of Marine Organisms.
Examine a variety of institutional decision-making models that are used to limit the effects and associated monitoring and mitigation protocols.
Review and assess current risk assessment methods used to assess environmental interactions of aquaculture and determine what, if anything, should be changed for application in PICES countries to reflect ecosystem-specific aspects. Following the review and assessment, identify appropriate case studies to compare results among countries in the PICES region. This will be achieved by holding a workshop in the second year to compare and discuss possible standardization of methodologies and the selection of potential case studies for assessment with a standardized approach. Much of the information for this exercise can be derived from "item c" in TOR 1 above. Case studies may then be developed. Responsibilities and functions will be similar to the ICES Working Group on Environmental Interactions of Mariculture (WG-19), so the feasibility of holding a joint meeting with this group will be explored.
Assess methods to detect, identify, evaluate and report on infectious disease events and potential interactions between wild and farmed marine animals. If appropriate, develop a recommended standardized approach for detection/evaluation/reporting from wild and cultured populations. The focus of this activity will be on OIE-notifiable diseases and other infectious diseases of regional/economic importance. Discuss and document new and emerging infectious diseases in the PICES region, methods for their detection, and develop models to conduct risk assessments of their potential impacts on both endemic wild and farmed species. If resources are available it would be advisable to test these models by conducting risk assessments on a few (2-3) emerging pathogens. Responsibilities and functions will be similar to the ICES Working Group on Pathology and Diseases of Marine Organisms (WGPDMO), so the possibility of a joint meeting will be explored.
As a conclusion to all the above, we propose to hold a PICES session or separate symposium in the third year to present case studies and results, and submit for publication as a PICES document, in appropriate scientific journals, a summary paper that examines development and application of aquaculture-environment interaction models.
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Also, what about the changes they're doing. They've killed off Lex Luthor and are reportedly bringing him back as a Martian hybrid. To me that seems like a big development for the character, so how long will this change last? And will be a long term change? Plus, do you think Year of the Villain will effect the DC Universe in a massive way? What about the events of Event Levithan and Wally West after HiC?
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Elections Today
The State Shifts – Utah
By electionstodaynet6193 December 5, 2020
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The state shift will be an ongoing series examining the shift in presidential vote between 2016 and 2020 in each state.
Utah, a reliably red state with the most religious population in the country, experienced a swing 2.6% right from 2016. Donald Trump increased his margins in reliably red counties to raise his overall percentage in the state to 58.1% vs 45.1% in 2016. Joe Biden also increased the Democratic percentage of votes in the state to 37.6% vs 27.2% in 2016. One huge factor that did not play a role in this cycle was the absence of a legitimate third party candidate. Independent candidate and former CIA agent Evan McMullin came within 6% of claiming second place in the state in 2016, and the third party share of the vote plummeted from 27.7% to 4.2% in 2020.
County Flips
The only county flip this cycle as compared to 2016 was Grand County, which voted for a Democrat for the first time since 2008. Grand County, which has the lowest share of LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) members in the entire state, swung heavily toward Joe Biden. Grand County like much of Utah has been growing at a very fast rate at a clip of 15% since 2000, and currently has approximately 9,764 residents. The county seat of Grand County is Moab and the county is home to two National Parks in Canyonlands and Arches. Grand County voted for Donald Trump by 0.3% in 2016 and Joe Biden carried the county by 10.3% in 2020.
LDS Factor
Whenever you ask someone to explain the state of Utah in one word most people will say Mormon. The Church of Jesus of Latter Saints plays an important role in every aspect of the state from politics to the economy. The correlation of votes in the state when broken down by LDS affiliation is also clear. The only three counties that voted for Joe Biden during the 2020 election were all counties that do not have over 50% of residents that are LDS members. Salt Lake County, Grand County, and Summit County were the only counties that voted for Joe Biden, and the closest county that has over 75% LDS affiliation was Utah County, which is home to Brigham-Young University and the margin of victory for Donald Trump was 41.1%.
The future in Utah is incredibly uncertain as the state is growing at a very high rate. However, unlike other states Utah's rise has not come simply because of migration, but also because of the amount of children Utah residents continue to have which is the highest in the country. Utah has grown by around 1,000,000 residents since 2000 and the state is continuing to grow at one of the fastest rates in the country due to its high migration and high birth rates. The fastest growing areas of Utah are the Salt Lake City area and Utah County. Utah would seem to be a future Democratic Party target due to its high rate of education and being the youngest state in the union. However, for the state to turn into anything other than a reliably red state some major changes and inroads would have to take place for the Democratic Party to make up its huge deficit in the state. Democrats lost one of their surprise gains from 2018 in Ben McAdams-UT 4, who lost his race by 1%, and with the population gains in Salt Lake County and Utah County which a large portion of Utah's 4th Congressional district covers, Democrats would be wise to continue to compete for the seat in 2022. The reality is that most LDS members are not Democratic voters and until Democrats can find a way to reach these voters their efforts statewide will face long odds of ever succeeding.
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Historic Tsaina Bar and Dining The Tsaina kitchen more than satisfies lodge guests, and the public alike, with its locally sourced menus featuring fresh Alaska seafood and prime meats and game. The Tsaina Bar has a colorful history as the center of extreme and freeride innovation in the early 1990s. For any of you not familiar with Alaska bars, be warned. You ring that shiny bell and you just committed yourself to buying a round for the entire bar. Of course, after a day adventuring Valdez's world-renowned terrain, you may just want to celebrate with all your friends, old and new.
A single meal can delinitate an entier trip, while transfering you on a gastronomic journey. The Tsaina chef's celebrate the rich flavours and fine ingredients of Alaska's culinary offerings.


FINLAND: What happens if we ask the public in Finland to invite refugees and asylum seekers to their homes as photographers? Can artists help in the fight against an increased destructive nationalism and to counteract xenophobia in a local scale? Who is allowed to make a visual representation in a public space?
These and more questions was part of the project BRIDGING ZIP-CODE 65 (2016), which included an intensive, intimate and extended ten-day photo workshop with a number of activities: street photography during the spring festival Vappu and Labor Day, nature photography in Öjens Nature Trail in Sundom, environmental portraits during several home visits in the Vaasa region, editing sessions, producing images, setting up a public display of photography inside a wooden house structure built by the participants at the Spring Fair in Vaasa Square, setting up a dual photographic exhibition inside the Mikola gallery put up by the participants and the artists, two lectures and extensive use of social media. The photo workshop gave the participants the opportunity to develop their visual language as well as practical and technical skills. As a part of the project, the public was asked to invite a refugee to their homes. During these visits and other activities several thousands of pictures were taken of which a small part was shown in the Mikola gallery and a substantial number (266) was displayed outdoor. The exhibitions gave them a chance to appear in a public space together with the artists. Photography became a way to connect with people inside postal code 65 (Vaasa city including Korsholm/ Mustasaari), hence the title, Bridging Zip-Code 65. All these activities was a cooperation between me, the artist Maria Nordbäck (FI) and immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Vaasa (FI). The project led to three art different public display of photography.
The participants were: Marina Hokkonen (Russia), Anna Pettersson (Belarus), Ali Aljboory (Iraq), Khem Raj Pokharel (Nepal), Zuhair Qasm (Iraq), Ahmed Hakeem (Iraq), Othman Ibrahim (Iraq) and Mohammed Ameen (Iraq). Artists: Maria Nordbäck (FI) and Brynhild Bye-Tiller (NO).
The issue was how to create a space for aesthetic decisions from an artistic point of view while decentralizing authorship in a social art practice. How can I be usefully engaged with individuals or a community? How to work with other people in co-creation of a public outcome? What kind of challenges and possibilities does participatory methodologies and documentary photography offer? Is it possible to find a new context in the tension between documentary and participation, when photographic subjects also become participants and co-creators of artistic work? How can I use the social and practical situations that arise as a result of the photo workshop to invent art and to explore the social interaction behind an image?
Me and Maria both involve other people in our art practices. It's a way to relate to - and a way to exist in the world. We focus on various challenges that exist in today's society and attempt to facilitate an empathetic and user friendly involvement. At the same time we try to produce site specific and formally innovative art productions.
Maria Nordbäck (born 1957 in Vaasa, Finland) studied at Novia University of Applied Sciences in Nykarleby (1996-2000) and at Turku University of Applied Sciences (2006-2007) on the subject of community art. Her work is often site-specific and interactive with the community, to highlight art as a meaningful part of people's lives.
Brynhild Bye-Tiller (born 1968 Levanger, Norway) studied at the Art Academy in Trondheim, Norway (1990-1995) and Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland (1992). Her artistic practice explores the borders between camera-based art, documentary photography in particular and socially engaged art. Nordbäck and Bye-Tiller has previously participated in a Mid-Nordic workshop ÆØÅ (2010) and together they completed the project Forgo (2011). Bye-Tiller was an Artist in Residence at Platform and Nordbäck is a member of Platform and a resident in Vaasa.
Art work: 84 photo works indoor. 39 photo works made by me indoor. 45 photo works made by the participants.
Details: Different sized 39 colour photographies. Chronologically displayed with narratives strongly influenced by the social interaction during the project and a small shelf with two objects. One roll of greaseproof paper and one roll of aluminum foil.
9 series of small format photographies from 9 participants with portraits of Finns and Finnish nature. Each participants showed 5 photographies.
Art work: A house with 266 photo works outdoor made by the participants inside a wooden structure.
Details: Building a temporary wooden house (gallery) at the market square in Vaasa. Setting up 266 small format color photographies inside the house. Showing the exhibition during the two-day Spring Fair event.
Local partners were MIRA Centre, Welcome Office Vaasa, Vaasa Reception Centre.
LOCAL A Sculptural pavilon Felice Hapetzeder (SE) and Jenny Berntsson (SE).


We recently reported on an implantable nerve stimulator from Inspire Medical Systems that aims to help people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). During sleep the system monitors one's breathing and stimulates the hypoglossal nerve to help open muscles in the upper airway, to keep it open. We now learn that Apnex Medical out of St. Paul, Minnesota is conducting a clinical trial of a competing product, the Apnex Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation (HGNS™) System.
The Neurostimulator is implanted in a subcutaneous pocket inferior to the clavicle over the pectoralis fascia. A nerve cuff electrode on the distal end of the Stimulation Lead is implanted on a branch of the hypoglossal nerve (HGN) in the submandibular region. The proximal end of the Stimulation Lead is tunneled under the skin to the Neurostimulator. The Respiration Sensing Leads are tunneled under the skin from the Neurostimulator to the costal margins.
The Programmer System and Therapy Controller are wirelessly linked to the Neurostimulator. The Programmer System includes the following components: computer; programmer interface; and programmer head. The programmer system is used by the physician to control and program the Neurostimulator during surgery and therapy titration. The Therapy Controller is used by the patient to control limited aspects of therapy delivery, to meet their unique sleep needs.
The Apnex HGNS System is intended to work by restoring neuromuscular activity to the genioglossus muscle by stimulating the hypoglossal nerve synchronous with inspiration to mitigate upper airway collapse during sleep. This is similar to how the body's natural neuromuscular physiology functions in people without OSA. Stimulation is generated by the Neurostimulator, synchronized with inspiration as measured by the Respiration Sensing Leads using bio-impedance, and delivered to the hypoglossal nerve by the Stimulation Lead.


Adopting BIM and collabration has allowed design practice Constructive Thinking to take on work that is often in the realm of larger companies.
Jon Moorhouse, the founder of Constructive Thinking, describes his architectural business as "a small practice with big ideas". You bet. With just five full-time staff, the studio he founded 16 years ago harnesses much of the digital technology and business regimes that might be associated with larger operations.
Constructive Thinking has been a paperless office since 2004, has worked exclusively in 3D since 2007 and has developed a BIM template to enable bills of quantities to be extracted easily and accurately. Stuart Clark, their technical director, continues to break new ground in automated template development.
The fact that Moorhouse is director of research and development speaks volumes of the firm's forward thinking. He combines this role with that of an academic and is completing a PhD in affordable warmth.
The practice is based in Liverpool and has a wide portfolio of work including sustainable architecture, housing – both high end residential and social housing – retrofit, hotels and leisure, BIM and interior design.
What's different about Constructive Thinking?
One of the things that sets us apart is that we are sharing work with a practice of similar size in Vienna to cope with peaks and troughs in workload. The economies of the two countries are rarely in sync so it makes a lot of sense.
It can only work if the two practices trust each other and the software and hardware work together, so we can log onto each other's projects and work seamlessly. We've worked together for 10 years now having first met at an ArchiCAD summer school.
I am also a founding member of ACUA, the ArchiCAD user association, set up as a way to share best practice. It has user members from 12 European countries plus the US, Africa and Australia.
We've been virtually paperless since 2004 and since 2007 we've modelled entirely in 3D and generated 2D drawings from our 3D models. That makes us almost unique. Even larger practices find that difficult.
For us it was all about being able to do the work of a company twice our size without having to grow, by being uber efficient. So, we started looking at tech companies to see how they work. Quickly we saw that they outsourced, working as agile partnerships and drawing in the best talent for each task – in contrast to architects who tend to want to do everything in house.
As buildings become more complex, we're able to collaborate on certain elements with specialist suppliers such as the timber frame company or the cladding company.
Smaller architectural practices have generally been slow on the uptake on this, but we make our models available to builders using Graphisoft's BIMx to make communications easier.
BIMx models are viewable on mobiles and tablets and enable the contractor to view and move around the model, click on different elements to get detailed information and also access a list of drawings, documents and schedules.
Some contractors need convincing having never worked in that way, but we demonstrate to them how they can save money by using the model to view accurate bills of quantities.
It's not difficult to extract bills of quantities and schedules from the model if the template is set up right. And that's the secret of our success. So, if we choose a type of wall from a selection of pre-programmed options, the system will automatically calculate the number of bricks or blocks and the volume of render required and it also includes energy values.
It's set up in ArchiCAD and is our most closely guarded IP. All the information can be exported as BIMx, IFC or Excel files depending on the contractor's requirements, enabling better communication with our clients and other members of the design and construction team.
Can you talk us through an example of how harnessing technology has helped in your work?
A residential project we worked on in Malvern is a good example of how our approach allows us to tackle projects that would have been difficult for a small practice like ours. The project involved adding a pitched roof extension to a 1960s bungalow without the residents moving out.
We used ArchiCAD to design a steel frame that could be installed using a flat-bed crane. The steel frame had to be millimetre perfect and we only had one shot to get it right. We exported our model directly to the steel manufacturer as a Sketchup file, and they modelled the connection details before sending it back to us for clash detection.
Once we had the final model, the steel manufacturer used CNC technology to fabricate the steel frame within precise tolerances – it would have been too risky to attempt without this workflow.
Another project where we have harnessed software successfully to improve design productivity is for a 54-bed hotel refurbishment in Glasgow, where all the rooms are different sizes and layouts but need to look part of the same family.
We developed "smart" objects for the joinery elements of the rooms – such as wardrobes and cupboards. We carried out 3D scans of the rooms which were uploaded to the cloud before being processed and downloaded directly into ArchiCAD.
Our architects then "stretched out" the smart objects so that the designs fitted each of the rooms automatically. Once approved, the designs were sent straight to the manufacturer.
It meant that while we were scanning the rooms in Glasgow to the cloud – an architect was working on the same system in Liverpool and our clients were looking at the finished designs in London. It's a really nice way to work.
As a small practice how have you managed to invest in technology?
At the start it was a real leap of faith, which has paid off virtually every time. Now we're able to quantify the benefits. One of the cameras we bought for scanning paid back within just a few months.


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Science Technician
Burnham Road, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 3EE
The King Alfred School- An Academy
10th December 2021 12:00 AM
TKASA/STech/ML
22.5 hours per week, term time only plus 3 days, permanent post
TPLTSS 4 £10,544.37 - £11,413.44 (actual salary) pro rata per annum
The Priory Learning Trust is looking to recruit a Science Technician to work at The King Alfred School – An Academy in Highbridge.
This is a very exciting opportunity for an individual who would relish the chance to join us.
•	Work under the direction of class teacher(s), discuss timetables, equipment requirements and work plans and ensure that all required classroom, laboratory and workshop science resources and materials are available and ready for use when needed.
•	This responsibility includes the cleaning, preparation and assembly of technical materials, apparatus and equipment, their safe storage, and the disposal of used or waste products in accordance with school policies and procedures and, where appropriate, statutory regulations.
•	Assist with the preparation and organisation of displays of learning material or pupil's work under the direction of the classroom teacher(s). Also, use technical knowledge and skills to contribute to mounting of displays and exhibitions within the school, generally.
The successful candidates will have:
•	You will ideally have a City and Guilds or equivalent vocational qualification to Level 3.
•	Strong practical and organisational skills.
•	Good communication and teamwork skills.
About The Priory Learning Trust:
TPLT grew from an intent to bring the power of partnership and sharing to bear and provide a first-class education to a wide range of children, from all backgrounds.
At our heart is a passion to put 'Students First' and deliver exceptional education; beyond outstanding for every single child. We do this with a relentless drive for academic excellence, shared moral purpose and values combined with lots of fun and happiness. We believe that happy schools are also high-achieving, successful schools.
We strive for partnerships between students, families, staff and the wider community to create exceptional student outcomes. We also 'cherish' our staff. We believe they are amazing and are passionate to empower them through support, training, and career opportunities. With such brilliant people all aiming for the same goals, we are able to ensure every student achieves all that they are capable of and more, regardless of their background.
TPLT is also a successful Training School Alliance. This has been a great foundation on which to build for excellence. We know that this key focus on staff development will deliver exciting and effective learning to our children and.young people.
Neville Coles
For further information on the benefits of working with The Priory Learning Trust, please see the relevant page on our Careers Hub.
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
The Priory Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All paid positions which involve working regularly within academies are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You must declare all convictions (including convictions with Absolute Discharge), cautions or bind-overs you may have, even if they would otherwise be regarded as 'Spent' under this Act and where applicable any disqualifications under the Childcare Act.
The amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected' and are not subject to disclosure to employers, and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service filtering guide.
This role involves working with children on a daily basis and is therefore in regulated activity.
Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and Disclosure and Barring Service clearance
Closing date: 11 November 2021
Proposed Interview dates: Week commencing 15 November 2021
Science Technician TKASA Oct 21
The Priory Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment."
All paid positions which involve working regularly within academies are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You must declare all convictions (including convictions with Absolute Discharge), cautions or bind-overs you may have, even if they would otherwise be regarded as 'Spent' under this Act and where applicable any disqualifications under the Childcare Act. The amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975 (2013) provide that certain spent convictions and cautions are 'protected' and are not subject to disclosure to employers, and cannot be taken into account. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of these cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service filtering guide.
Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.
The Priory Learning Trust


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Portion of Book Sales to Support Maya Angelou Research Center
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will benefit from the sale of a new book by Craig Marberry, author of "Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats."
"Cuttin' Up: Wit and Wisdom From Black Barber Shops," is a book of essays and photographs of African-American barbers, their businesses and their customers.
"For years, the barber shop has been a community meeting place for African-Americans and not just a place to get a hair cut," said Kristy F. Woods, M.D., director of the Angelou Research Center. "Public health educators have found barber shops to be an invaluable resource for sharing information on health and wellness to hard-to-reach segments of the African-American community. We feel honored that Mr. Marberry chose our research center to benefit from the sale of his book."
The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health was established to close the gap in health, quality of life, and lifespan differences between minority populations and the general population.
Media Contacts: Jim Steele, jsteele@wfubmc.edu, Shannon Koontz, shkoontz@wfubmc.edu, or Karen Richardson, krchrdsn@wfubmc.edu, at (336) 716-4587.
About Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center: Wake Forest Baptist is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university's School of Medicine. The system comprises 1,197 acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and is consistently ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report.
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Günter Leonhardt (* 6. November 1927 in Münster; † 11. Oktober 2011) war ein deutscher Logistikunternehmer und Gründer des Luftfahrt-Museums Laatzen-Hannover.

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Günter Leonhardt interessierte sich schon als Jugendlicher für das Segelfliegen und meldete sich als Freiwilliger bei der Luftwaffe. Er wurde zu einer Luftwaffen-Felddivision kommandiert und nahm an der Ardennenoffensive teil. Dabei wurde er durch einen Unterschenkeldurchschuss verwundet und kam in Kriegsgefangenschaft.
Günter Leonhardt baute nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gemeinsam mit dem jüdischen Geschäftsmann Karl Nelke die Nelke-Spedition mit Sitz in Laatzen auf, deren Eigentümer er später wurde. 1994 verkaufte er sie. Neben seiner unternehmerischen Tätigkeit übte er zahlreiche Ehrenämter aus, unter anderem war er Vizepräsident des Bundesverbandes für Spedition und Lagerei. In den 1960er Jahren gründete er einen Förderverein für Hannover 96. Seine Leidenschaft galt der Luftfahrt, und er baute eine große Sammlung auf, die er 1992 zum Teil in das Luftfahrt-Museum Laatzen-Hannover überführte. 1986 ließ er für seine Sammlung mehrere Ju 52 aus einem norwegischen See am Polarkreis bergen, die dort um 1940 versunken waren.

Günter Leonhardt wurde am dem Jacobi-Friedhof in Hannover-Kirchrode beigesetzt. Er hinterließ seine Ehefrau Ursula sowie einen Sohn.

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 Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
 Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
 1987: Ehrenkreuz der Bundeswehr in Gold

Literatur
 Günter Leonhardt – ein Unternehmer zum Anfassen. In: Nelke. Ein Feuerwerk aus Ideen und Lösungen. 40 Jahre Nelke-Spedition, mit Fotos von Ilse Charlotte Kik und aus dem Firmenarchiv, hrsg. von der Nelke-Spedition GmbH & Co. KG, Hannover: Druckerei Josef Grütter, [o. D., 1988], unpaginiert, passim

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State of the Oregon Coast Agate Union: It Rocks Right Now
(Oregon Coast) – If there's one big hint about agate hunting along the Oregon coast, it's that storms are good for this endeavor. That's not to say you should go searching for agates during storms – as that's horribly unsafe – but rather that after a storm is when you're going to find them (above: photo by Joki).
And this season has had plenty of storms. Because of this, Lincoln City agate shop owner Laura Joki is gleefully proclaiming "This is agate hunting season!"
Joki, who runs Rock Your World in town, said recent spring storms have been keeping the agate-hunting conditions good. The last week and a half has seen lots of rocky action in sandy places.
"The gravel bars are shifting slightly but they are there more often than not, some days better, some days not so much," Joki said last week. "I drove by Moolack beach and the D River wayside today and they both have good sized gravel beds."
Above: the Cannon Beach area, such as here at Hug Point, can host plenty of gravel beds.
In late March, almost every beach in Lincoln City had a gravel bar exposed, Joki said.
"I would imagine that most of the beaches are starting to show good agate beds, from Cape Meares (on the Three Capes scenic loop) in the north, to Florence in the south," she said. "This is, however, the gravel bar season. The spring ocean tides bring a lot of force to the shores and any storm in which the weatherman warns there will be minor coastal erosion is good news for rockhounds."
On the north Oregon coast, gravel beds are also well known just south of Cannon Beach at spots like Hug Point and Arch Cape, at Oceanside and Tierra Del Mar.
These exposed gravel beds can be quite transitory, however, and some can appear and disappear in less than a day, literally coming and going with the tides (at right: photo by Joki).
For beginners, Joki suggested to walk into the sun and the agates should simply light up.
Other tips:
Wet rocks show their true colors better.
Walk into the sun for agates, look for the glow.
Big agates hang out with BIG rocks.
"Watch out for petrified wood, petrified palm tree, jasper, fossils and many more gems," Joki said. "Sometimes even a piece of wayward jade or grossular garnet shows up."
Agates come in all colors, but the rare ones are the blue-black, baby blue, pink, purple and green ones.
Check your agates to see if they are "clam bellies" - these are fossil casts made from agate of the inside of a fossil seashell. They will often have a bubble of carbon dioxide and water on the inside which produce a moving shadow when held against strong light. The bubble moves like the bubble in a level.
Joki said agates are just a rock, and like rocks they tend to congregate with other rocks.
Gravel beds at Tierra Del Mar, near Pacific City
"So your best chance to find an agate on the beach is to look where the highest concentration of rocks are," she said. "The agates, jaspers and petrified wood, gem materials which are highly sought after on the Oregon coast, are all about the same 'Specific Gravity,' meaning they have a similar weight to mass ratio. When the ocean waves scour through the gravel, they sort the rocks. Sand and lighter rocks tend to float towards the top. Rocks like agate, Jasper and petrified wood are heavier and tend to be left in patches along with other materials of a similar specific gravity."
She said it takes a pretty strong current to scour the beach enough to bring up gem material. But luckily for Oregon coast regulars, the storms have been frequent and powerful enough to do just that.
"If you are looking for bigger agates, they tend to hang out with other bigger rocks, you have a better chance of finding a whopper if you look amongst the courser gravel," Joki said.
As always, keep beach safety in mind first. Stay away from the beaches during still-unruly tide conditions and never turn your back to the ocean. Sneaker waves are notorious for injuring people or even washing them away.
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Pygmy goats are smaller than regular domesticated goats, but their general features are much the same with hooved feet and two small horns. Their coats can vary greatly in colour from caramel, grey, black and white. Pygmy goats are well known for climbing, and will hop up and down on anything they can find. In recent years, they have become popular household pets due to their friendliness and good-natured personalities.


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LeMay Museum Receives Sponsorship Gift from Track Developer
By Auction News on January 3, 2007 in News
(Tacoma, WA) – America's Car Museum, the LeMay Museum is delighted to announce the renewed sponsoring gift of $25,000 for 2007 made by Great Western Sports, developer of the proposed NASCAR racetrack in Kitsap County. A formal relationship was forged between the two organizations in 2005 when the major racetrack franchise made its first sponsoring gift of $25,000.
Great Western Sports is a division of ISC (International Speedway Corporation), which owns and operates 11 major race tracks in the United States. President and Chief Executive Officer of the Museum, David Madeira has been working closely with Grant Lynch, Vice President of ISC and President of Great Western Sports to urge the State of Washington to approve a race track to be built in the state. "I'm convinced that the Bremerton track will have a positive impact on our region in terms of increased tourism. I've attended a number of major races and visited a number of ISC tracks and am impressed with the quality of their operations. Government officials and track neighbors have been nearly unanimous in their positive opinions of the impact on their regions," said Madeira.
Madeira also noted that he has been in excellent discussions with representatives of ISC, NASCAR and Grand American racing regarding a number of potential collaborations with the Museum in the years to come. "I'm excited about the potential these partnerships hold for us and believe that together we can bring well over 1 million tourists to our region on an annual basis" he said.
Great Western Sports is moving forward with plans to build a racetrack in Belfair, in Kitsap County. The track would be designed but not limited for NASCAR and sports car racing events, and the facility would be available for community activities throughout the year. If the track legislation passes and is built, collaboration between the race track and Museum will benefit both organizations in areas such as advertising, web sites, special events and ticket sales. Studies have also shown the collaboration will add economic value to all of Kitsap, King and Pierce counties through the vast increase in tourism.


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Warm Mineral Springs
By: Atlas Obscura
This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries once believed to be the Fountain of Youth.
Where can you relax in warm mineral waters and bathe where archeologists have found the bones of an 11,000-year-old man, a giant sloth, and a saber-toothed cat? Florida, of course.
Warm Mineral Springs in North Port, Florida, is a sinkhole formed by the collapse of a subterranean cavern over 30,000 years ago. The primary source of the water is a vent found over 200 feet below the surface, which pushes out about 20 million gallons of warm mineralized water a day. Under great pressure, the geothermal water is heated to 97 degrees, but cooled to about 85 degrees from several small caves below the water's surface.
Ancient Burials and the Fountain of Youth
In the 1950s, an archeologist named William Royal found evidence of bones and artifacts from at least seven people in the waters, along with a partially burned log found that was carbon dated to 10,000 years ago. The archeological world originally dismissed his work because previous work found humans arrived in Florida only 7,000 years ago, but after subsequent studies, his findings became widely accepted. During a later excavation, a body was found that had been entombed behind stalactites, and is believed to be the oldest intentional burial ever discovered in North America.
In the 1960s, the warm springs site became a health spa, and many still flock to these extremely mineral-rich waters for their healing powers. In fact, it's widely believed that this was the legendary Fountain of Youth that the Spanish conquistador Ponce de Leon was searching for in Florida when he died. Today, the warm springs are still open as a natural spa facility, although protections have been put in place around the site due to its archeological importance.
Located about a mile north of U.S. 41. Take Interstate 75 to Exit 191, River Road. Take 41 to Ortiz Blvd, then follow Ortiz to San Servando Ave. The spa is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A day pass is 20 for non-resident adults and $15 for locals. There are also spa services that can be booked in advance. Be forewarned that there is a strong sulfur smell at the springs.
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The Ahlswede–Daykin inequality  , also known as the four functions theorem (or inequality),
is a correlation-type inequality for four functions on a finite distributive lattice. It is a fundamental tool in statistical mechanics and probabilistic combinatorics (especially random graphs and the probabilistic method).

The inequality states that if  are nonnegative functions on a finite distributive lattice such that

for all x, y in the lattice, then

for all subsets X, Y of the lattice, where

and

The Ahlswede–Daykin inequality can be used to provide a short proof of both the Holley inequality and the FKG inequality. It also implies the XYZ inequality.

For a proof, see the original article  or .

Generalizations

The "four functions theorem" was independently generalized to 2k functions in  and .

References

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Master planners sought for Liverpool's waterfront
National Museums Liverpool is on the search for planners to help them transform its waterfront estate.
The scheme – or masterplan – is to create a modern visitor attraction that connects Liverpool's historic waterfront with the city, the River Mersey and its architecture; integral features of Liverpool's iconic identity.
The affected area, around the Canning Graving Docks, is at the heart of Liverpool's World Heritage Site, taking in the Royal Albert Dock Liverpool on one side and the Pier Head and Mann Island on the other.
Mairi Johnson, National Museums Liverpool's Director of Estates said, "The masterplan is an ambitious undertaking that will dramatically change the visitor experience when it is complete.
"Liverpool's waterfront is not only a beautiful space but also one of huge historic significance to the city, the wider region and the rest of the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to create spaces for visitors to linger within this unique setting and to really engage with the spirit of the place.
"We're expecting this tender process to attract really creative thinkers and exciting plans, inspired by the beauty and potential of the area. We hope to see interesting ways in which we can open up the quaysides, currently not accessible to the public, with a strong, connected vision for how these spaces could be used to complement the amazing stories we tell in the nearby museums."
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The industrial city of Unnao in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh functions as the headquarter of the Unnao district. It has three industrial suburbs around it. Unnao is a part of Central Ganges Plain and the region falls under the Kanpur-Lucknow Counter Magnet Area. A new satellite town of Unnao by the name of Trans Ganga City is being built to develop Unnao as a major infrastructural and industrial and hub. Unnao was earlier known for its dense forest cover until the 12th century when Godo Singh of the Rajput clan cleared the forest and established a settlement in the area called Sawai Godo. This town went into the hands of the rulers of the Kannauj. A governor was appointed to look after the place, but he was killed by a Bisen Rajput called Unwant Rai Singh. Thus the area passed on to the usurper Unwant Rai Singh, who built a fort and renamed the place as Unnao after himself. Unnao is known for its leather, chemical industries and mosquito nets. Tanning is the biggest contributor to Unnaos economy, followed by the dye and printing of mosquito nets. The city has many historical buildings and structures apart from beautiful lakes and scenic landscapes.
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Cameron: 'At a time when people ACCEPT a pay freeze'?!
David Cameron said something today in Prime Minister's Questions that, even by his 'high' standards, was mindblowingly disingenuous.
This is deliberately misleading on so many levels it's untrue. Increasing benefits in line with inflation is not 'massively increasing', but simply maintaining benefits – which are anything but lavish – in real terms.
Capping benefit rises at 1%, as Osborne has done, is a real-terms cut, not any kind of increase. And remember, 60% of people receiving benefits are working people.
But the most staggeringly misleading part of the statement is the idea that people 'accepted' a pay freeze. The public sector pay-freeze was not 'accepted' by public sector workers – it was imposed by a government that left them with no choice and ignored their protests, even making plans to restrict union challenges to the cuts. Unions were livid about the freeze and did not 'accept' them by any stretch of the imagination, as even the right-wing Daily Telegraph acknowledged. Similarly, most private sector pay-freezes will not have been accepted by workers, but imposed by company boards.
It seems impossible, but somehow every time Cameron opens his mouth it becomes clearer and clearer that he's prepared to spout any lie, disinformation or hypocrisy for the sake of a soundbite or if it will help him avoid actually answering a question.