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Baysgarth School Prospectus 2021/22 (1.03 MB)
LEARNING SUPERVISOR
Grade 5 (Scale Point 9-14)
Actual Salary: £14,514-£16,025
Term Time plus Five Additional Days
To start as soon as possible
We are seeking to appoint a well-motivated, resourceful individual who will take on the responsibility of supervising students in a variety of situations, including covering lessons when teachers are absent, facilitating learning and assessing their progress.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Providing lesson cover for absent colleagues
Leading tutorial sessions, including registration
Team teaching and providing support to teaching colleagues
Developing a bank of work for curriculum areas to use in supervised lessons and activities
Providing 1:1 and small group academic support
The following qualifications and experience are essential:
GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent) Grade C or above
Experience of working with students, preferably within a secondary school
Experience of responding to and adjusting supervised activities to meet the needs of students
Experience of using various ICT packages and software (ideally Google Suite) to support students' learning
Utilising a range of behaviour management strategies confidently and effectively
Baysgarth School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to apply for enhanced disclosure from the DBS.
If you are inspired by the challenge and responsibility of this opportunity we would like to hear from you. Further details and an application form can be downloaded below. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the post, please feel free to contact Jade Driscoll (Deputy Head Teacher) at the school.
Please submit completed applications to vacancy@baysgarthschool.co.uk. Please note, we cannot accept CVs.
Closing date for applications is 12.00pm on Thursday 20th January 2022
Interviews will be held the following week
Learning Supervisor Application Pack (1.64 MB)
HEAD OF BUSINESS & IT/COMPUTER SCIENCE
Leadership (Scale Points 1-5)
To commence September 2022
We are currently looking for a dynamic, passionate, dedicated and highly motivated Head of Business & IT with the skills and experience to deliver successful outcomes at KS3 and KS4. The successful candidate will be joining a department of experienced staff including senior leaders. Business is one of the top performing subjects across the entire school in terms of outcomes and is consistently selected as the most popular KS4 option choice by students. I.T. is delivered to all students at KS3 and is a relatively new KS4 option, but has already established itself as one of the most popular subjects over the past two years.
If you are inspired by the challenge and responsibility of this opportunity, we would like to hear from you. Further details and an application form can be downloaded below. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the post, please feel free to contact Andrew North, Assistant Head Teacher.
Closing date for applications is 12.00pm on Monday 24th January 2022
Interviews will be held later the same week
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TEACHER OF MATHS
Main Pay Scale
We are currently looking for a passionate, dedicated and highly motivated Teacher of Maths with the skills and ambition to deliver successful outcomes in KS3 and KS4. The successful candidate will be joining a close-knit, established team at Baysgarth who are brilliantly led and who consistently achieve some of the highest grades in the school.
If you are inspired by the challenge and responsibility of this opportunity, we would like to hear from you. Further details and an application form can be downloaded below. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the post, please feel free to contact Andrew Cuthbert, Head of Maths via andrew.cuthbert@baysgarthschool.co.uk.
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Our students are amazing. They are intelligent, articulate, funny, welcoming and appreciative of great teaching. They deserve the best and we intend to make sure that this is what they receive, in every subject, every day of their school lives.
Our staff are phenomenal. They are dedicated, passionate, dynamic, caring and inspiring. We strongly feel we have a world class team and we firmly believe that in every department we have strong teams that are capable of creating the truly great school that this community deserves.
Our facilities are outstanding. With over a £1 million of investment, our school boasts state-of-the-art classrooms, fantastic IT facilities, an unrivalled on-site Sports Village which includes a full-size 3G football pitch, a skate park and a dance studio, along with a partnered Alternative Provision. This will be further enhanced over the next year, with the addition of another six-classroom building block.
Together, this makes Baysgarth one of the top performing schools in the Humber region, with six consecutive years of record breaking, outstanding results. Our high-ability students make more progress than in any other local school and our inclusive wraparound care for every single student nurtures them to believe in themselves and their potential and reach their ambitions, now and in the future.
We are oversubscribed in almost every single year group, which reflects the first-class facilities we have on site as well as our fantastic students and staff who make the school a great place to learn. We pride ourselves on achieving outstanding outcomes in a school with an inclusive ethos that has superb pastoral care and a strong commitment to staff mental health and work-life balance.
Ofsted visited Baysgarth in October 2017 and concluded that we are a Good school which 'has gone from strength to strength' and is making 'good progress on the journey to outstanding'. In terms of student achievement, Ofsted reported that 'Overall progress was in the top 10% nationally … [and] current pupils are making strong progress in all year groups.' The DfE have concluded that 'there is no better performing similar school within 75 miles of Baysgarth' and it is our mission to recruit the most talented staff to continue this progress.
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ROCKPORT, ME – Mythic Gear's new Matsu and Kiwa drysuits feature enhanced comfort and visibility while retaining the company's signature low prices. Both are front-entry unisex paddlesports drysuits made from breathable, three-layer nylon fabric. The Kiwa model features a relief zipper while the Matsu does not.
Priced hundreds of dollars less than other drysuits, Matsu and Kiwa have solid features. A new tailoring pattern provides greater freedom of motion and comfort while paddling, rowing or sailing. Improved fabric has a moisture vapor transmission rate—a measure of breathability—of 10,000 gm/m2/day (grams of water per square meter per day): this is an increase of 150% over Mythic Gear's previous models.
The handsome red fabric and a band of reflective material across the chest give high visibility in low-light conditions, and a layer of Oxford-weave nylon fabric protects the drysocks against leaks. Zippers and latex gaskets were sourced from SCUBA suppliers and are tough and reliable.
Mythic Gear was founded with a mission to make high-quality drysuits affordable to recreational paddlers. The Matsu is priced at $325 and the Kiwa at $395. The only lower-priced breathable drysuits from a North American company are Mythic Gear's own Sobek and Enki Relief, at $250 and $325, respectively. All Mythic Gear drysuits are covered by a one-year warranty.
For more information, visit www.MythicDrysuits.com or call 530-350-MYTH (6984).


A magical place, in summer as well as in winter.
The farm and the chalet enjoy a southerly view on the Puys de la Croix Morand, Tasche, Monne and l'Angle and on the Monts Dore.
Surely one of the most beautiful views of Auvergne!
Spend a few days with your family or friends?
Be alone to work better together?
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Organize a yoga or personal development course?
Rehearse, create, train, coach in a calm setting?
Sportspeople, party-goers, artists, motorcyclists, companies, all can enjoy an exceptional and isolated place, benefitting from the closeness of the Auberge, located at 800 m, and the nearby Mont-Dore.
The barn of the farm: an open space of 700 m², with a height of 6 m under ridge, is proposed to you for meeeting in groups: seminars, performances, creative activities, etc.
Please contact us directly for any request concerning the annexes of the Auberge du Lac de Guéry, a stone's throw from Mont-Dore.


I'm probably being thick as usual *g* but is there a difference between the two graphs? Both say average first month sales. Are they from different years?
Fiona, the first graph has Ellora's Cave, which sells so much more that it depresses all the other lines into a clump.
The second graph expands the clump.
Is it my or have EC and Samhain both taken real nosedives?
Is it my or have EC and Samhain both taken real nosedives?As for as Samhain, it's you :P Our sales are up.
One thing I've always wondered about the reporting, Emily, is if people are reporting first month sales direct from publisher or from all distributors. Ellora's Cave doesn't have distribution, so all of their sales occur on their website. On the other hand, many of our first month sales take place across a number of venues, many of which aren't reported to the author until 3 months have passed. So if an author is reporting first month sales to you at the end of the first month, rather than at the end of the fourth month, they'd be inaccurate.
Also, while I think this chart is correct in showing that EC still has better sales than other publishers, I don't think the graph can even be considered a good sampling of statistics for any of the publishers. We have almost 1000 books now released. Last time I looked at the #s of books reported, it wasn't much more than 2% and I'm guessing that's very true for most of the pubs represented there. I just don't think a sampling of 20 to 30 books is a good representation of any publisher's sales, and can be skewed in any direction.
I like what you're trying to do, but every time I see an update, I find myself frustrated by such a small sampling trying to represent the overall picture, and that's not me speaking as someone who works for a publisher, just me speaking as someone who's interested in the industry as a whole.
"Fiona, the first graph has Ellora's Cave, which sells so much more that it depresses all the other lines into a clump. The second graph expands the clump."
I agree with you, Angela, it is frustrating to not be getting the whole picture, or a fair picture. But until publishers themselves start reporting all of their sales info to the general public, Emily's graph is the best we authors have to look to.
Really, what I use the graphs for is to see where my sales fall in the scheme of things. I like to know if I'm doing worse or better or the same as those from the same publisher. Just out of curiosity, I guess.
But thanks for letting us know that the Samhain sales, in particular, are very skewed.
There is no way my samples could be said to be representative, and I hope people are able to take that into account--perhaps I need to add a disclaimer? It is a constant flaw with many sites like here, piers, Black Hole etc that the data we have is limited and not a random sample. I do have a lower threshold to preven compete outliers from getting in the mix, but it is a pretty minimal threshold--otherwiase there would be no publisher specific data. So is 'not so good' data better than none at all? I hope so but I need to keep looking at how to present it in the fairest light.
Emily, could you expand a little more on how we should read the graph? I'm seeing "Days" at the bottom, and it looks like you're counting between zero and a thousand days since release across the bottom--that for example, an EC book comes strong out of the gate and sells around 1100 at day 200, then jumps about fifty or a hundred on day 400, then plummets after day 400 to climb a little more conservatively, maybe peaking around day 800 for some reason, then falling off again. I'm not really sure how to read the graph.
One other thing that's been brought up is that the sales may or may not come from other distribution points--I know with LSB, the releases stay at LSB for a few months before going to Fictionwise or ARe, to give the authors a better chance of making more royalties off the book sold at the publisher's site. I know that not all publishers do that, and that not all books get into FW's database immediately upon release.
It is good to see a little data from TWRP, though. I'd love to see some data from Ravenous, too.
The very end of the lines is the current day. It shows the average sales for a book from that press within the first month--based on whatever numbers the author has knowledge of at that time. It shows all books reported within the last 365 days.
Early parts of the line relate to book over previous one year periods. So the idea is that the line with show trends changing over time--e.g. publisher selling better with time.
Well, to add Loose Id's (possibly even less than) two cents, we recently added some new resellers so number of books sold should be different once they are reported. However those e-publishers who sell primarily through resellers may actually be getting less money to authors even though they show higher numbers of books (vs. those who sell primarily through their own websites and don't have a middleman to pay.) Or maybe not. It's a mystery.
I meant to type "is it my imagination" but I lacked caffeine.
I send in first month sales, even for the value of "month" that equals 4 days. Then I send in 1 year and total sales to date.


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We have no idea what this year's Doctor Who Christmas special will be about. The new series hasn't even started yet. However, regardless of which villains are in the episode, we will be celebrating the holiday with this awesome Cyberman head ornament adorning our trees. At least this Cyberman head won't be shouting "Delete" at us hanging from the tree.
This glass Christmas ornament measures about 4 1/4-inches tall and if Santa is a Whovian as we suspect he is, he's gonna see this and leave a super amazing gift under the tree. How could a Doctor Who fan not deck the halls with a Cyberman head?


SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- CSA Travel Protection, a leading provider of travel insurance, has teamed up with Cheapoair.com, a top budget travel website to provide Cheapoair consumers with affordable travel insurance. This partnership gives travelers immediate access to purchase travel protection at time of booking flight arrangements with Cheapoair.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Eco Capital and Invest, Inc. of Michigan City, Indiana and Green Oil Technologies of Denver, Colorado have made next generation gasification systems available to the North American markets, using the patented German Technology called KUG Thermolysis. Gasification plants convert many types of waste products into gas and electricity cleanly and efficiently.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Benjamin Katz of CompleteCampaigns.com and Ravi Singh of ElectionMall.com announced today that they are forming a strategic partnership to offer campaigns a "one-stop-shop" online. "We saw that we could help campaigns get to the next level by combining what we each do best," said Ravi Singh, CEO of ElectionMall.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Tired of the bar scene? Not crazy about chatting online with people you don't know? FunQuest Adventures provides an alternative to the typical dating scene and offers active singles a fun and safe way to meet people. Internet dating is big business, but with so many predators out there people are becoming more concerned about safety.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Athletic-Minded Traveler LLC, a Southern California-based active lifestyle media company that operates the largest healthy travel site on the web, www.athleticmindedtraveler.com, released today its 2006 ranking of "The Best Hotel Gyms in the U.S." The Top 11 hotel gyms received the company's recommendation after in-depth research on over 3,000 hotels and anonymous personal tours by the editorial staff.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- The dating Web site, OnlineBootyCall.com, a division of Mobeze, Inc., is proud to announce that they have received only one confirmed report of marriage since their Web site's inception three years ago. "Reaching the one million member mark with only a single reported marriage is a tremendous accomplishment," Moses Brown, Founder and CEO said.
SAN DIEGO /California Newswire/ -- At 8:30 a.m. today, two Pilatus PC-12s will depart Lindbergh Field on a goodwill mission to Quito, Ecuador. The flight is scheduled to touch down in Quito on March 31, exactly 75 years later to the day that the first such flight was made in a 1931 Ryan Brougham piloted by Theodore Gildred, Sr. - who stayed in Ecuador following his epic journey to establish that country's first air mail service.


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Millsboro passes fiscal 2015 budget
Increased transfer taxes off set by needed capital expenditures.
Millsboro passes fiscal 2015 budget Increased transfer taxes off set by needed capital expenditures. Check out this story on delmarvanow.com: http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2014/07/09/millsboro-budget-transfer-tax/12400797/
Rachael Pacella, rpacella@dmg.gannett.com Published 9:57 a.m. ET July 9, 2014
Returning Councilman Joe Brady is sworn into office by Judge J. Coffelt. (Photo: Staff Photo by Rachael Pacella )Buy Photo
The Millsboro Town Council passed the fiscal 2015 budget July 7 during a regular meeting.
The version voted on was the third and final, based on previous committee meetings, said financial officer Bill Sauer. Residents can expect costs to stay the same — no rate increases have been proposed for the year, which goes from July 1 to June 30, 2015.
And as the area's population continues to grow, the tax base has increased 7 percent for 2015 to $340 million, adding an additional $131,000 in tax revenue. Even with the increase, general fund operations in the budget will exceed expenses by $738,031 because of several major capital projects.
The shortfall will be pulled from an accumulated transfer tax fund.
The Wilson Highway stormwater project will cost $355,000, the Monroe Street stormwater project will cost $20,000 and the Cupola stormwater project will cost $30,000. A street paving project will cost $100,000.
Items also include $75,000 for land acquisition, $158,500 for vehicles and mowers, $20,000 for fencing and $30,000 for kitchen repairs at Millsboro Town Center.
For the sewer fund, the budget has increased from $40,000 to $117,900 to reflect continued need for repairs.
"We again are projecting high expenses for repair and maintenance of the plant," Sauer said.
Capital items budgeted for the sewer fund include $40,535 for an influent motor replacement and $25,000 for M&T Pump station rehabilitation.
Money brought in through construction fees and permitting was strong in FY 2014, Sauer said.
In the 2013 calendar year, transfer tax reached a new record at $1,125,850. Transfer taxes collected from new home sales increased 73 percent to $439,000 for calendar year 2013. New home sales are close to matching the 2007 peak, Sauer said.
Water usage was down in FY 2014, making revenue for the water fund fall about $32,000 below budget, though the shortfall is somewhat offset, Sauer said, since operations were ultimately about $12,000 below budget.
For the sewer fund, a 6 percent rate increase last year combined with increased usage at the Stockley Center, due to an added day care service, has resulted in a 9 percent increase in revenue from FY 2013 to FY 2014, Sauer said.
During the meeting council member Michelle Truitt was sworn in to a new term, and former mayor Joe Brady was sworn on to the council.
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Ewing Irrigation & Landscape Supply named Tom Childers as its Eastern Division vice president.
Childers will lead Ewing's continued growth and expansion in the eastern U.S., leveraging his more than 26 years of experience in the landscape and green industry. Childers' experience includes business operations and development, sales and marketing.
Currently Ewing's geographic footprint in the east includes locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Prior to joining Ewing, Childers was the co-founder and president of Landscape Today, a sales and marketing agency serving green industry manufacturers, for nearly four years. Previously, he was the senior vice president of marketing at John Deere Landscapes for nearly 13 years. He also held leadership roles with Toro and Turf Care Products. Childers earned an MBA in marketing from Kennesaw State University and a bachelor's in finance from Auburn University.
Stephanie Jensen has joined the BASF Professional & Specialty Solutions (P&SS) business as its director for the U.S. business.
The P&SS business focuses on solutions for customers in the pest control, turf, ornamentals and vegetation management/forestry markets. Jensen has been with BASF for 16 years in a variety of roles including marketing, planning and mergers & acquisitions. Most recently, she served as the director of group controlling and data management for the North American crop protection division of BASF. She also represents BASF on the board of directors of WakeEd Partnership as chair elect and serves on its programs committee.
Stephanie graduated from Bentley University with a bachelor's in finance and later an MBA.
The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) promoted Jeremy Wishart to director of off-road business development.
In his new role, Wishart will lead propane application research and development and oversee market communication strategy and outreach in multiple outdoor power equipment market sectors that utilize propane applications, including commercial landscape, golf, sports turf, light construction and material handling.
Since joining PERC in 2005, he has worked in a variety of marketing roles. Since 2013, Wishart served as deputy director of business development for PERC. Prior to his time at PERC, Wishart worked in the resort and tourism industry as an events and marketing coordinator for Snowshoe Mountain Resort in Snowshoe, W.Va.
Wishart graduated from Shepherd University with a bachelor's in commercial recreation and tourism.
Davey Resource Group (DRG), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Davey Tree Expert Co., promoted John Platt to regional operations manager in the environmental consulting market in the New York and Massachusetts regions.
Platt joined Davey Tree in 2004. He started his career with the company's Baltimore residential/commercial office, and in 2005, he transferred to the Long Island, N.Y., office. He held a variety of roles in his time there including tree climber, sales arborist, plant healthcare coordinator and project arborist. In 2010, John transferred to DRG where he served as a project manager for the Asian Longhorned Beetle eradication effort.
Platt holds a bachelor's degree in forest and natural resource management from The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He is also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Platt is an International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Certified Arborist, an ISA Certified Arborist Municipal Specialist, a Tree Care Industry Association Certified Treecare Safety Professional and a 2006 graduate of the Davey Institute of Tree Sciences, Davey's flagship training program.
The Davey Tree Expert Co. promoted Nick Stutzman to district manager of the northeast Cleveland residential/commercial (R/C) office.
Stutzman started with Davey in 2007 as a landscape laborer for the west Cleveland office. In 2012, he was promoted to plant healthcare technician and then again to sales arborist in 2013. In 2015, Stutzman was promoted to assistant district manager for Davey's west Cleveland office.
"Nick's drive and passion to consistently provide excellent client service paired with his exceptional management skills leave him well suited for this new role as district manager," said Jeff Crites, market manager of Davey's eastern great lakes residential/commercial services.
Stutzman attended the Polaris Career Center where he studied horticultural science. He is an ISA Certified Arborist and a 2012 graduate of the Davey Institute of Tree Sciences.
Davey also promoted Robert Spartz to district manager of the Quad Cities (R/C) office.
Spartz joined Davey nearly 10 years ago as a plant healthcare technician/groundman in the west Chicago R/C office. In 2014, he was promoted to plant healthcare coordinator in The Care of Trees Lake Bluff, Ill., office. Most recently, Spartz was a sales arborist for The Care of Trees Glen Ellyn, Ill., office.
Spartz holds an associate's degree in general horticulture and turfgrass management from Kishwaukee College. He is an ISA Certified Arborist and a 2016 graduate of the Davey Institute of Tree Sciences.
Additionally, Davey promoted Matt Schaefer to district manager of The Care of Trees Barrington, Ill., R/C office.
Schaefer has been in the green industry for more than 30 years, with more than 25 of those years spent at Davey. He began his career in Davey's Wheeling, Ill., office, working as a foreman, PHC specialist and sales arborist. He then transferred to the East Dundee, Ill., office where he was a sales arborist and then the assistant district manager. Most recently, Schaefer was the assistant district manager of The Care of Trees Barrington office.
"Matt brings many years of experience and expertise to this new position, and I know he will deliver excellent service for the clients in this area that he knows so well," said Geoff Cowan, operations manager of Davey's north central residential/commercial operations.
Schaefer holds a bachelor's degree in urban forestry from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and is a graduate of the Davey Institute of Tree Sciences.
Nearly 50 Davey employees have graduated from the Davey Institute of Tree Sciences (D.I.T.S.).
The month-long training program includes classroom and field exercises in climbing and safety procedures, tree and plant care, disease and pest diagnosis, management practices and team building. This year's class also included sessions on how to lead effectively.
As part of the D.I.T.S. graduation banquet, Laverne announced that Joshua Bearman received the Golden Oak Award, which is earned by the student with the highest academic performance throughout the month-long program.
Attendees were drawn from Davey operations across North America and had to be nominated by their field managers and approved by corporate management to be admitted into the program.
This year's participants included: Tyler Andrews, Joshua Bearman, Greg Bennett, Dave Benninger, Jeff Blas, Troy Boughner, Brendon Brown, Margaret Burleson, Joshua Cook, Nuala Coulter-Hayward, Paul Dolan, Kevin Donner, Christopher Griffin, Aminadab Guerrero-Penaloza, Alec Hall, Derek Hausmann, Sam Heywood, Mitchell Hoffman, Shawn Huff, Justin Troy Irelan, Neil Irving, Michael Jurgens, Kevin Lamb, Bryan Layne, James Legge, Jacob MacDougall, Davy McAdams, Isaac Miller, Pasquale Monteleone Jr., Patrick Mounce, CJ Nichols, Josh Noe, Abraham Nunez, Kadyn Pack, Dago Padilla, Eric Phillips, Amanda Pipes, Josh Prochnow, Dustin Schaffer, James Scovil, Kyle Smedi, Michael Spaulding, Michael Sweeney, Matthew Teague, William Tomajko, Michael Wade, Travis Wellner and Erik Winter.
Ruppert Landscape promoted Damien Barber to region manager in the company's landscape management division and Mike Fleming to branch manager in the Baltimore, Md., landscape management branch.
As region manager, Barber will oversee operations at four of the company's landscape management branches: Baltimore and White Marsh, Md., and Toughkenamon and King of Prussia, Pa.
"As our northern region has grown, there was a need for additional management support to ensure the development of our teams and profitability in those branches," said Tom Barry, president of the landscape management division.
Barber has more than 20 years of green industry experience, is a landscape industry certified technician and holds a bachelor's degree in landscape management from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cobleskill. He first interned with Ruppert in 1998 and served as field manager, area manager and ultimately branch manager before the sale of the company. During his time away from Ruppert, he ran a successful landscape maintenance branch in Anne Arundel County before being promoted to vice president and general manager in Raleigh, N.C., where he oversaw revenues in excess of $30 million and led a team of over 450 people. He rejoined Ruppert in 2016 and, when the Baltimore operation split into two branches, became branch manager in the Baltimore landscape management branch.
Fleming holds a bachelor's degree in horticulture and turf management from Williamson College of the Trades and is a landscape industry certified technician. He has been with the company for 11 years and has worked in multiple branches during this time. He joined the company in 2006 as assistant field manager in the Toughkenamon, Pa., branch and was quickly promoted to field manager. In 2009, he was promoted to area manager in the Frederick, Md., branch and soon transferred to the Baltimore branch. In 2017, the Baltimore branch split to create the White Marsh, Md., location, where Fleming held a dual role as area and enhancement manager and was accepted into Ruppert's Associate Branch Manager leadership development program.
After nearly 38 years with Graham Spray Equipment, salesman Charlie Holloway is retiring. His last day will be April 26.
Holloway started out on the shop floor building spray units and worked his way up to sales.
Massey Services promoted Bill Cohn to irrigation technical & training director. In his new role, Cohn will be responsible for all training, research and development of the company's Irrigation Services program.
Most recently, Cohn served as a field training manager in the company's GreenUP Lawn Care division and worked closely with service managers and landscape specialists. He has been heavily involved in testing the company's smart irrigation program, which tailors watering schedules and run times automatically to meet specific landscape needs.
Cohn has been part of the Massey Services family since 1998, starting as a lawn specialist and working his way up to service manager. In 2006, he was promoted to general manager for his leadership excellence of the Service Center operations teams. In 2015, he joined the quality assurance team as a field training manager.
Canopy Lawn Care added Jason M. Stanley as the company's new chief marketing officer. Jason spent the last 12 years at the Raleigh, N.C.-based digital marketing agency, Coalmarch Productions, the last six years as managing director and CEO.
Before his leadership role at Coalmarch, he served as creative director and was responsible for the marketing strategies and creative production of the agency. He brings more than 20 years of digital and inbound marketing experience to Canopy.


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Microscopy (left) shows layers of the stratum corneum's waxy "mortar" in which keratinaceous "bricks" called corneocytes are embedded. The layers contain repeated short- and long-chain lipids. Molecular dynamics simulations (right) demonstrate that the long-chain fatty acids are crucial to keeping the skin barrier intact. Image credit: Michael Klein, Giacomo Fiorin, and Christopher MacDermaid (Temple University) and Russell DeVane (Procter & Gamble)
Procter & Gamble and Temple University scientists model skin's makeup
By	Dawn Levy	• 7 years ago
Microscopy (left) shows layers of the stratum corneum's waxy "mortar" in which keratinaceous "bricks" called corneocytes are embedded. The layers contain repeated short- and long-chain lipids. Molecular dynamics simulations performed on Titan (right) demonstrate that the long-chain fatty acids are crucial to keeping the skin barrier intact. Image credits: left, modified from Iwai et al., Journal of Investigative Dermatology 132, 2215-2225 (2012) and Bouwstra et al., Journal of Lipid Research 39, 186–196 (1998); right: Michael Klein, Giacomo Fiorin, and Christopher MacDermaid (Temple University) and Russell DeVane (Procter & Gamble)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory simulation predicts epidermal responses to compounds
Skin is the body's largest organ. It is a protective barrier, keeping microbes out and moisture in. It also regulates temperature, enables sensation, and makes vitamin D. But researchers don't fully understand at the molecular level how our skin performs its functions.
Companies developing products applied to skin, such as lotions, body washes, and cosmetics, need a deep understanding of how ingredients molecularly interact with this barrier. They need to know which chemical compounds are blocked by the skin, which are absorbed, and which compromise its structural integrity. Moisturizers are meant to permeate skin, for instance; cosmetics are formulated mainly for the surface.
So in 2013, researchers at consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Temple University began using the Titan supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), to better understand the three-dimensional structure of skin's outermost barrier, the stratum corneum. This barrier is composed of dead cells that are impermeable to some compounds and embedded in lipids like bricks set in mortar. No quantitative model existed that could predict with certainty the amount of a specific molecule that could cross the skin.
With Titan, the second-most-powerful computer in the world, the researchers achieved in a matter of weeks three milestones that would have taken years with their in-house high-performance computers. First, they simulated a 1-million-atom section of the stratum corneum's lipid mortar that revealed how skin can be simultaneously permeable and resilient when exposed to agents that transform it. Second, they used their molecular dynamics simulation to measure the quantity, rate, and pathway of chemicals permeating lipids of the stratum corneum to validate high-throughput models. Third, they gained important new insights into the mechanisms by which some compounds disrupt skin.
"The multilamellar, multicomponent structure of skin is one of the most complicated lipid systems one can study," said Temple's Michael L. Klein, a National Academy of Sciences member who led the project and has collaborated with P&G for 15 years. Russell DeVane of P&G and Giacomo Fiorin of Temple were his project partners.
"Skin lipids are complex mixtures in 3D arrangements that no one fully understands," Klein said. "Through modeling and simulation we aim to improve our molecular-level understanding of skin penetration."
Improved understanding of skin permeation is important to P&G, an $85 billion firm established in 1837 that started off in soap. (Ivory was among its first brands.) Today its product lines encompass beauty and grooming (e.g., CoverGirl and Crest), health and wellbeing (e.g., Pepto-Bismol and Vicks), and household care (e.g., Dawn and Tide). It has 25 brands with net sales exceeding $1 billion, including Olay, Pantene, Wella, and Head & Shoulders. "It's hard to think of a product that we have that doesn't come into contact with your skin at some point," said P&G's DeVane.
The company has long relied on research to innovate, but the process of testing its products is expensive and time-consuming, using skin from human cadavers, surgical patients, and pigs, as well as synthetic skin. Replacing these physical tests with computational tests that model human skin could significantly reduce costs and accelerate screening of ingredients, bringing new and improved products to market faster.
No-sweat screening
"We wanted to probe molecular-level interactions between compounds and the skin in order to understand how to build more detail into our models so we can do more accurate high-throughput computational screening," said DeVane. The screens would accurately predict how a compound permeates full skin.
Screening simulations use a model that Professor Jerry Kasting at the University of Cincinnati developed with experimental data. Two key inputs to the model are a compound's molecular weight and its octanol–water partition coefficient (a ratio of concentrations of the compound after it has settled into two immiscible phases). Both parameters are available in scientific literature.
"When you want to screen a large number of compounds through the Kasting model, the beauty is you don't have to do experimental measurements beforehand to characterize the compounds," said DeVane, who aims to screen thousands of compounds in mere minutes.
To help achieve this goal, he and his colleagues are using the Kasting model as a base to build a fuller model of skin by adding a more detailed representation of the stratum corneum lipid matrix, through which compounds must pass to enter skin. They are refining this more complex model by using large-scale molecular dynamics simulations to show with greater realism how chemicals permeate skin. Future simulations may allow them to accurately predict how specific compounds interact with skin lipids.
While existing models like Kasting's correctly predict a compound's skin permeation most of the time, according to DeVane, instances of incorrect predictions can happen for reasons not fully understood. Unreliable predictions typically underestimate permeation.
"If you want to use models to ensure zero risk [of unwanted skin permeation] and make some statement about exactly what makes its way through the skin, you don't want to underestimate permeation," DeVane warned.
"These large-scale molecular dynamics simulation are our best option for filling in the gaps in our understanding of skin permeation and explaining the deviations we observe in the current model. Those new insights will be built into an augmented Kasting model to improve the accuracy of its predictions," he added.
Super model meets supercomputer
P&G has owned several generations of supercomputers. Today the firm operates a 300-core hybrid cluster with traditional central processing units (CPUs) and accelerated graphics processing units (GPUs) in addition to larger CPU-only resources with more than 10,000 cores. Temple's capabilities are similarly impressive and include an 864-core cluster that also has eight GPU-equipped nodes. But the challenge at hand surpassed the capabilities of even those high-performance machines.
So the researchers turned to ORNL's industrial partnerships program, which provides companies with high-impact science or engineering projects access to the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a DOE Office of Science user facility. This access helps companies accelerate research likely to improve their success in competitive markets. The industrial partnerships program provides access through three means: the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, which supports large-scale projects; the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge, which supports projects of special interest to DOE; and the Director's Discretion program, which focuses on national needs.
Through INCITE, in 2013 Klein's team ran codes for 86.8 million core hours on the OLCF's flagship supercomputer. Computational scientist Arnold Tharrington, the project's OLCF liaison, ensured the collaborators made the most of Titan during several months of molecular dynamics simulations that each day mirrored the movements of skin molecules over 60 to 70 nanoseconds. The simulations also covered responses to ingredients applied to skin. The supercomputer divided the simulations into pieces for faster processing.
"Every node of Titan is GPU-enabled," DeVane said. "That acceleration was critical to meeting our needs." The INCITE allocation, which exploited Titan's 18,688 accelerated nodes, allowed the researchers to gain insights in 1 month that would have taken 8 years on Temple's 864-core cluster, Fiorin added.
To model the stratum corneum for the project, the researchers used the LAMMPS and NAMD molecular dynamics codes. With NAMD able to simulate biological systems in full atomistic detail and LAMMPS renowned for coarse-grained simulations of large systems, each code is well suited to make use of DOE's large supercomputers.
At ORNL the researchers predominantly used the GPU-accelerated NAMD code to track the movements of every molecule in the stratum corneum lipid model to see how it evolved over time. NAMD calculates a thermodynamically equilibrated arrangement—the most energetically "comfortable" configuration for atoms in a lipid molecule to assume.
Covering the findings
Access to Titan enabled three major achievements. The first was simulation of 1 million atoms of skin lipid matrix—four separate bilayers, each hundreds of square nanometers and made of ceramides (waxy compounds), fatty acids, and cholesterol in water. This skin simulation, extending over 2 microseconds, was far too large and complex to have been carried out without OLCF resources. After 600 nanoseconds at the temperature at which ceramides start to melt, the bilayers morphed into hexagons that segregated water inside. These watery pockets contribute to the formation of pores and may be one of the means by which hydrophilic (water-loving) ingredients penetrate skin. When restoring conditions to body temperature, the ceramides and other lipid molecules recovered order and cohesion, but the watery pockets remained. This phenomenon showed that ceramide melting is one way of making skin permeable while keeping it whole.
The second major achievement enabled by the INCITE allocation was providing validation to components of the Kasting model. In particular, the researchers used large-scale simulations to model the permeation of compounds through the stratum corneum, showing that assumptions in the Kasting model were valid for a broad range of compounds.
The researchers' third major accomplishment was modeling the contact between skin and large concentrations of selected chemical compounds to uncover the mechanism by which compounds disrupt the stratum corneum barrier. Skin's highly ordered lipids imbue its barrier property, and ceramide plays a key role. The mechanism showed how compounds could essentially melt this waxy substance, but chemically instead of thermally.
In addition to those achievements, the researchers are trying to get a handle on the molecular structure of skin. Lipid composition plays an important part in the stratum corneum's structure and consequently the skin's barrier properties. Experimentalists have shown that changing the composition alters the structure and, thereby, the barrier properties of the skin.
"We know the complex mixture of lipids is important for the skin barrier properties, but we don't know the role each lipid component plays," DeVane said. "Our simulations are attempting to shed light on why nature picked this specific lipid composition."
Radiant future
Before the project, skin had only been visualized microscopically or with simpler simulation models. Now because of this project, the researchers have investigated its structure in full atomistic detail. This new knowledge is a good foundation for molecularly probing what factors hold skin together and which ones threaten its stability.
To scratch the surface of those mysteries, Klein, DeVane, and Fiorin have received a 2014 INCITE allocation of 75 million core hours for computations using a combination of LAMMPS and NAMD.
Meanwhile, most of the information from the 2013 INCITE project will be published to benefit a global community eager to develop computational methods to replace costly, slow, inefficient experiments. Through the European Chemical Industry Council, P&G is working on a skin-penetration model with rival Unilever, chemical company BASF, the University of Warwick, and the University of Cincinnati. The benefits are likely to extend beyond the consumer-products industry. For example, a better understanding of skin permeation could enable the pharmaceutical industry to advance drugs that are administered through the skin.
P&G, along with Jerry Kasting and researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, have also received a National Science Foundation grant to study skin-modeling techniques. "We're looking at different modeling techniques besides molecular simulations to help us understand and get at longer timescale issues. The INCITE project's more realistic model will boost the success of these efforts," DeVane said.
The global skin-care business was valued at nearly $100 billion in 2012, according to Euromonitor International, and the global beauty market may reach $265 billion in 2017, according to Lucintel, a market research firm.
"If a better understanding of skin brings improvements that allow us to capture even 5 percent more of a market, that's a huge return on investment," DeVane said. "That's why P&G has skin in the game."
Related Publications and Presentations
Marketa Paloncyova, Russell H. DeVane, Bruce P. Murch, Karel Berka, and Michal Otyepka, "Rationalization of Reduced Penetration of Drugs Through Ceramide Gel Phase Membrane," Langmuir (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/la503289v
Talk delivered at the University of Pennsylvania April 1, 2013, downloadable as "MacDermaid_Fiorin_IRG" from https://www.copy.com/s/AOGe4syQ0Ud1/20140401_IRG2
Poster presentation delivered at a Temple University bioengineering symposium April 30, 2013, downloadable from
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DENVER, June 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerCom, Inc. has posted the list of oil and gas companies and energy sector experts who will be presenters at the 23rd annual edition of The Oil & Gas Conference®, coming August 19-22, 2018, to the Westin Denver Downtown.
Public and Private Company Presenters: The 2018 edition of EnerCom's The Oil & Gas Conference® will feature public and private oil and gas companies with operations spanning 40 countries and six continents, including all U.S. shale basins, the Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Latin America and Africa.
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This lesson shows two methods to update the Endian UTM Appliance: The first part of the lessons shows you how to check and install the updates from the Endian web GUI, while the second part explain how to do it from the CLI using SSH.
From the web GUI go to Menubar > System > Updates.
Here you find two buttons, Check for new updates and Start update process NOW! . To install the updates, the first step is to click on Check for new updates to verify the availability of new packages. After finished, your Endian UTM Appliance reports the list of new updates to be installed or if it is full up to date, as you can see in the next two screenshots.
If your Endian UTM Appliance finds upgradable packages, you should click on Start update process NOW! to start the automatic download and installation of the updates.
At the end of the process you see the message Your Endian Firewall is up to date! along with the date and time of the last check.
You first need to log in to the CLI using SSH or the serial console. If you don't know how to connect via console, please follow this guide.


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With Decisive Policy, Bank of England Stacks Odds in Its Favour
Look for very easy UK monetary policy to be with us for the cyclical horizon.
By Mike Amey August 2016
Earlier this month, the Bank of England (BOE) announced an aggressive monetary easing programme. Given the range of risks to the UK economy, and with interest rates already close to zero and inflation below target, a strong policy response appears to be the right policy response despite the lack of hard data at this juncture. We also expect a fiscal response later in the year.
If the UK economy performs better than expected, the BOE can now claim some of the credit, and if the economy deteriorates, then at least the BOE can say it tried.
At its 4 August meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England (BOE) sparked considerable excitement when it announced an ambitious programme of monetary easing via a wide variety of measures. The sharp market moves that followed indicate that the consensus did not expect the MPC to deploy such a wide array of policy options. The BOE also forecast the UK economy slowing to marginally positive growth rates and inflation rising to (slightly) above the 2% target.
At the press conference following the announcements, BOE Governor Mark Carney was at pains to suggest there is plenty of scope to augment the existing policy easing, but he was also clear that this was intended to be a significant and decisive policy response.
Given the lags in monetary policy and the fact that the BOE's own forecasts show growth returning to 2% (annualised) within two years' time, why did the BOE embark on such an aggressive monetary easing programme? And, given how low rates are already, will it make any difference?
Before we try to answer these questions and assess the market implications, let us remind ourselves of the breadth of the MPC's recently announced actions:
Cut the Bank Rate (policy rate) by 25 basis points to 0.25%, and indicate that the MPC expects to ease further towards but remain above zero (at which point they will cease further interest rate reductions).
Restart the quantitative easing (QE) programme by buying £60 billion of nominal gilts (UK sovereign bonds) over a six-month period, which according to PIMCO calculations equates to 120% of gross nominal issuance.
Restart term financing for UK banks via a four-year Term Funding Scheme (TFS) with interest rates close to the Bank Rate.
Initiate a corporate bond buying programme by purchasing £10 billion in sterling-denominated corporate bonds in the secondary market (out of an eligible universe of £150 billion, according to the Bank of England).
In conjunction with the BOE's Financial Policy Committee, ease capital requirements on UK banks and building societies.
Explaining policy decisions
One way to delve beneath the announcement into the thinking that culminated in these policy decisions is to look at the various strategies the BOE could have employed given initial conditions, and what their potential payoffs could be, as well as the associated risks. After all, we have very little hard data with which to gauge the scope of the post-Brexit growth slowdown, so I suspect that much of the MPC's debate centred on how much they should do now versus waiting to see the hard data. And clearly there was debate: Amongst the nine-person MPC, there were dissenters both on the corporate bond buying programme (Kristin Forbes) and on the increase in QE (Kristin Forbes, Ian McCafferty and Martin Weale).
Having access to the very same, very limited set of data ahead of the MPC decision, we at PIMCO believe the MPC was wise to go for an aggressive policy response.
Let's start with those initial conditions, and the BOE's central forecasts for the UK economy. In the run up to the historic June vote on the UK's membership in the European Union, real GDP growth had been running at a modestly above-trend 2% level (see Figure 1), whilst inflation remained stubbornly below the 2% target, both on the headline CPI measure (see Figure 2) and on an underlying basis.
Broadly speaking, UK monetary policy was on hold in the run up to the EU referendum. An above-trend growth rate was expected to raise CPI to target in due course, although the MPC was happy to wait for clear evidence of an upward push on prices before raising official interest rates. Then, in the aftermath of the EU vote, confidence slipped sharply: The widely followed purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to levels not seen since 2009.
Policymakers faced a thorny decision: Wait and see whether the fall in the PMI translates into a genuine fall in activity, or act quickly to try and stem any fall in future activity. One argument for the former is that the policy stance already appeared expansionary, as shown by the above-trend growth rate ahead of the EU vote. One argument for the latter is that inflation is already below target, and thus any material slowdown risks pulling down inflation further and putting downward pressure on medium-term inflation expectations, making the task of subsequently raising inflation (and inflation expectations) even harder than it already is. We believe the MPC was right to opt for the latter after weighing the potential risks and benefits. With interest rates already close to zero and inflation below target, the costs of subsequently dealing with any potential inflation overshoot seem very manageable when measured against the challenge of pulling up inflation if downward price pressures turn out to be stronger than expected.
There is also this added bonus: If the UK economy performs better than expected, the MPC can now claim some of the credit, and if the economy deteriorates, then the MPC can at least gain some solace from the fact that it wasn't as if they didn't try. In effect, we could say the MPC has stacked the odds in its favour!
Potential outcomes: monetary and fiscal
What is the likelihood the policy arsenal works as intended? For a start, we believe this monetary response will be supported by a fiscal response later in the year as the UK's new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, looks to reset fiscal policy. With the fiscal deficit currently at around 4% of GDP, there is not much scope to raise the deficit (unless growth deteriorates further), but there is still the ability to scrap the proposed tightening of up to 1% of GDP per year for the next four years (source: UK Office for Budget Responsibility).
There is also the scope to initiate some form of infrastructure programme, which may not provide much of a short-term boost, but it could generate much-needed medium-term productivity improvement and may support business confidence in both the short and the medium term.
As I wrote in last month's blog, "Brexit Aftermath: Outlook for the UK", our expectation is for growth to fall to just above zero over the next 12 months before recovering back towards the 1.5% to 2% levels we had ahead of the Brexit vote. This outlook was predicated on a protracted set of negotiations over the UK exit from the EU, a modest slowdown in consumer spending and a more significant slowdown in business investment. We expected a monetary response and got one, and we expect a fiscal response as well. We see little reason to change those assumptions or expectations.
Policy: next steps and investment implications
That does not mean that the MPC will sit on their hands in the months and quarters ahead. Certainly there remains a high degree of uncertainty over the path of real activity, and the MPC has already indicated that if the economy follows the forecast, the Bank Rate will likely be reduced again to close to but above zero. To my mind this suggests the Bank Rate will reach a terminal level of 0.1%, where it will likely stay for at least our cyclical (six- to 12-month) horizon. The BOE's current QE programme will be enacted over the next six months, and the fact that the BOE will be buying corporate bonds for the next 18 months suggests that if needed, the QE programme can be extended further. At this stage it is hard to estimate whether there will be further rounds of QE, but from an investment standpoint, what we can say is that very easy UK monetary policy will be with us for the cyclical horizon. That in turn suggests that despite their current low levels, UK gilt yields will remain at these very suppressed levels and indeed it is possible that long bond yields could fall further given the new source of demand coming from the QE programme. The BOE's highly accommodative stance should also enable the British pound to remain weak.
It's also important to ask what impact, if any, these measures will likely have on the banking industry. Lower rates and a flatter yield curve certainly put pressure on banks' profitability; however, the other policy measures – term financing operations (TFS) and easing of capital requirements – were designed to cushion the potential reduction in profitability. PIMCO's financials credit analysts also note that the underlying commercial banking businesses of the UK banks are still highly profitable, and as such the new monetary policy measures should not seriously hamper the functioning of the banking system.
In summary, I applaud the MPC for their policy response at the August meeting. Given the range of risks to the UK economy, a strong policy response trying to limit the slowdown in growth appears to be the right policy response, despite the lack of hard data at this juncture. To repeat the words of BOE Chief Economist Andy Haldane in a 30 June 2016 speech, "I would rather run the risk of taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut than taking a miniature rock hammer to tunnel my way out of prison". Whether it turns out that the policy sledgehammer does indeed crack the nut remains to be seen, but at least we know it won't be for want of trying.
Core CPI Inflation Beats Expectations, in Awkward Timing for the Fed
June inflation may have been boosted by the recent increase in import tariffs, while inflationary pressures from rising wages and tight labor markets remain notably subdued.
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Off‑Target: Central Banks and the Mystique of 2%
Perhaps it's time to ask whether the 2% inflation target has outlived its usefulness.
Scott A. Mather
UK Perspectives: Monetary Policy Stuck in the Mid-Atlantic


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Out on Mission Bay, lifeguards are alerted when fishermen find a mysterious looking object in the water. Unable to assess what the danger level is, they call in the fire department to contain what could seems to be potentially hazardous material. Later, at La Jolla Shores, a young boy is suffering from severe trauma after a terrible stingray attack. As the toxins rush through his bloodstream, the boy must rely on the lifeguards to save his leg. And finally, a fight between two transients on the boardwalk leaves one man bloody and the other in need of medical attention. Can lifeguards and police subdue the attacker before he harms someone else?
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A retired pro snowboarder from Vancouver believes his new company, Envia, can beat major auto manufacturers in the race to make electric vehicles commercially viable.
A retired pro snowboarder from Vancouver believes his new company can beat major auto manufacturers in the race to make electric vehicles commercially viable.
Jay Giraud, founder and CEO of Vancouver-based Envia, says auto manufacturers have been moving too slowly into the electric vehicle market. "I just noticed there had become this massive gap between where the auto industry was going and where the public wanted it to go, and I saw a niche."
Vancouver-based Envia specializes in converting Ford trucks into electric vechicles. ((Courtesy Envia))In the late 1990s, Giraud was one of the top snowboarders in the country, but in the past few years, he has shifted gears. About three years ago, Giraud decided he want to help change the auto industry and be part of the shift towards green technologies.
"Ever since I was a kid I thought cars should be electric," he says.
Giraud entered the auto industry, intent to learn all he could. He worked as a sales manager at a Honda dealership, while researching alternative energies. As owner of snowboard clothing company Athena, he also brought his knowledge of manufacturing and assembly to Envia.
"Going from a piece of clothing to a car sounds very different, but in fact, the process is not that different," he says.
A year ago he formed the privately funded Envia and has now partnered with Metro Ford Motors in Port Coquitlam, one of the largest fleet vehicle dealers in Western Canada, to convert gas-powered Fords to electric and hybrid-electric vehicles.
The partnership is only with Metro Ford, not Ford Canada, its parent company. Metro Ford commercial sales manager Ken Zutz says that Ford Canada was not interested in working with Envia because Ford is working on ideas for all of North America and at present this project is just for a local market, but Metro saw an opportunity.
"We're always looking for an extra step to get into a market where we don't see a lot of competition," says Zutz, who approached Giraud after he heard about Envia through a customer.
With the cost of electric vehicle technology still too high for the average consumer — a conversion can cost $25,000 or more - Giraud is taking aim at the fleet market as municipalities face carbon emissions mandates and budget constraints, and private companies look for ways to cut fuel costs. By focusing on only a handful of Ford models, including the Escape, Ranger, F-150 and Fusion, Giraud believes he can streamline the conversion process, making the technology more affordable for his clients.
Zutz adds that as municipalities struggle with fuel costs reaching into the millions of dollars each year, electric vehicles and hybrids have become more attractive options. "I was at a conference in Whistler with all the municipal managers and when we announced we were working on this project, they all went nuts. They were ready to place orders right there."
Giraud plans to convert 1,000 Ford vehicles to electric or hybrid models by the end of next year. He has already delivered a test model, a fully electric 2008 Ford Ranger, to Metro Ford and plans to have three more test models done by the end of 2008.
"So far I'm very impressed," says Zutz.
And that's just the beginning. At present, fleet owners can purchase new vehicles from Metro Ford Motors and then have them converted to electric at Giraud's facility, which has a staff of 10. But Envia is in talks with other facilities in Ontario, California and Oregon as part of its strategy to expand in North America. Giraud says that despite the current high price tag attached to conversions, there has been substantial consumer interest in his company's services and Envia hopes to start offering conversions to individuals in late 2009.
"You always have the early adopters who will pay for conversions no matter what the cost. Consumers are motivated by doing the right thing," he says.
In the meantime, Envia will also convert old Fords in fleets, which can add years to the life of aging models.
"Our opportunity really lies in converting all the old cars out there. It's a far larger market than the new auto market," Giraud says.
He adds that building a new electric or hybrid car produces a significant amount of carbon emissions, but converting an old one will not use as many resources. "This really is the highest level of reusing."
Giraud admits that switching vehicles from gasoline engines to electric motors is initially expensive, but by dealing in large quantities with fleet customers, he says the volume levels will reduce the costs. He draws a comparison to laptops and cellphones, whose costs have come down considerably over the years, saying the same thing will happen to electric vehicle technology.
"I think you will see a pretty major reduction in the price of batteries over the next few years," he says.
With new lithium-ion battery technology, Envia will also be able to customize the vehicles to suit different demands. For example, if a city's parks and recreation truck only travels 40 kilometres in a day, the battery's capabilities would be matched accordingly.
Giraud estimates the life of a fleet vehicle is about 10 years. In that time, an electric vehicle would earn back its cost in fuel savings two times over.
Vancouver's Angel Restoration is the first company to commit to a 10-conversion purchase order over the next year from Envia. Angel Restoration cleans up properties damaged by the elements and has about 40 Fords in its fleet.
"With the increase in gas prices and our desire to be more sustainable, we would really like to have the whole fleet changed over," says operations manager Cam McLeod.
McLeod says his company spends thousands of dollars per month on fuel, so the investment will pay for itself.
"It makes economic sense but we also want to be socially responsible, and the more commitment we have to this now, the easier it's going to be for all of us."
McLeod does admit that Angel Restoration's switch to hybrid and electric has required some planning in terms of how the company operates. "We have to look at logistics: does the person who is driving have the ability to charge the vehicle at various stops," he says.
Giraud says there is already a basic built-in electric infrastructure, especially in colder climates, where plug-in outlets are available in many areas for block heaters. There are also no concerns about starting electric vehicles in cold weather, as there are with gasoline or diesel engines, which could help build interest in electric vehicles, he says.
Bringing electric infrastructure to the point where recharging outlets are as available and convenient as gas stations will ultimately depend on the number of electric cars on the road, adds Giraud.


AFL Fans Association President Gerry Eeman was interviewed on SEN SA about the prospect of a change to the start time of the AFL Grand Final.
Gerry was clear in his statements: the AFL Fans Association follows the mandate of the fans which has been garnered through numerous polling. An overwhelming majority of fans want the time to stay at 2:30pm – i.e. 'the traditional time-slot'. He stated this position is not based on 'ideology', but rather a desire to articulate the interests and wishes of serious fans in a clear way: in this case, it is to prioritise the start time of the Grand Final staying as is.
Most fans are happy with when the game is held and Gerry sees no need for the AFL to follow the US-based NFL in their holding of their main game at night. Moreover, Gerry asserts that it is important for the AFL to respect the interests of its main stakeholder (the fans) rather than pandering to the interest of viewers who may only tune into the game once a year.
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Being one of the best earning pop stars has many upsides but being a lawsuit target is certainly not one of them. Taylor Swift, who is well known in the industry from being extremely protective of her brand, has now been sued by Jesse Braham (stage name: Jesse Graham) over the lyrics to "Shake It Off". The R&B star claims that its chorus: "Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play / And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate " was taken from his song "haters gonna hate, players gonna play." What's more, Braham claims that if he "did not write the song Haters Gone Hate, there would not be a song called Shake It Off." Given that "Shake It Off" won Favorite Song at the 2015 People's Choice Awards and received 2 Grammy Awards nominations, the stakes are rather high.
Whose side is the law on? What can be copyrighted?
There are already dozens of articles with professional comments stating that the Braham's lawsuit has no merits. Copyright arises automatically upon artistic work creation like a poem, book, film, music, picture, software or lyrics of a song. However, in order for any work to be copyrighted, it must exhibit a degree of labor, skill or judgement. Given that the phrases in question are quite common in every day language, it is highly unlikely that the case will hold up.
A mark needs to be new which means that not only must it not be already registered as a trade mark in any other country but also be used as an unregistered trade mark. Even if registration of such a mark was successful, the previous user would have a right to seek invalidation of the mark.
A mark cannot be descriptive for goods & services it is submitted for, e.g. "Apple" is a perfect mark for computers and electronics but it would be seen as descriptive if protection was sought for a grocery store.
A mark needs to be distinctive so it has to allow a potential customer to indicate origins of goods & services offered under that brand.
Given the above, Taylor Swift and her team made a brilliant move last year. They have filed more than 30 trade mark applications in her name with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a wide range of goods & services relating to entertainment services, toys, hair accessories, cosmetics, clothing and others. The protection is sought for the most catchy phrases from Taylor's 1989 World Tour album including: "This sick beat", "Party like it's 1989", "Swiftstakes" and more. None of them has been registered yet but once they are, they will certainly serve a bigger purpose: to create another stream of licensing revenue.
I followed actions of Taylor Swift's lawyers and advisors for some time now. Not only with curiosity, but almost admiration. Her team has never been afraid to pursue legal actions (see: Etsy case) or make unpopular decisions. Her fans were not particularly happy with the decision to pull Taylor's music from Spotify but it is hard to argue that streaming became a serious issue. It is significantly less lucrative from purchasing music so such a shift in creative industries has forced artists to seek alternative ways to protect and monetize on intellectual property. Taylor Swift and her team are not the only ones to realize this need but they are certainly working very hard to take the lead and become a flagship example of a successful and diverse intellectual property strategy.
Returning to Braham's legal action, even if he doesn't see a dime from the $42 millions he is seeking as compensation, he already got far more than that: priceless publicity.
Natalia Korek –LawBite Intellectual Property LawBrief. For further legal advice you can contact Natalia via our online legal advice portal.


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Surgeon faces attempted murder charges after she knocks out court-ordered chaperone, tries to abduct 12-year-old: Police
by Leigh Egan
California authorities extradited a surgeon back to the state after she reportedly fled to Montana in a private jet following an alleged attack on a court-appointed supervisor.
Santa Maria Times reports that authorities Dr. Theresa Colosi was captured in Montana following an incident at Zodo's Bowling and Beyond in Goleta. According to police, Colosi's 12-year-old son was at the bowling alley with a court-ordered chaperone on December 8. The chaperone was supervising a day visit between Colosi and the boy when Colosi allegedly struck her in the head numerous times with a metal object.
The chaperone told the 12-year-old to find help while Colosi reportedly followed the boy. Colosi then got into her car and fled the area before she had the chance to take her son.
A little before 11 a.m. on December 8, Colosi chartered a private jet to Glacier International Airport in Montana, police said. She booked the flight under a fictitious name. She previously listed her son as another passenger, using a fictitious name for him as well.
Colosi is accused of withdrawing $900,000 from her bank account and giving away all of her belongings. Police arrested Colosi on December 10 after she reportedly left her "hideout" in Whitefish, Montana, and called for a cab.
KTLA 5 reports that Whitefish officers stopped the cab and detained Colosi until she was extradited back to California. No information has been released about who has custody of her son or why she had supervised visits.
Colosi is behind bars at the Santa Monica jail facing charges of attempted murder, attempted kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon.
According to online records, Colosi is a licensed physician who specializes in oncology and orthopedic surgery.
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[Feature Photo: Theresa Colosi/Police Handout]


7 وَإِذَا بَاعَ رَجُلٌ ابْنَتَهُ أَمَةً، لاَ تَخْرُجُ كَمَا يَخْرُجُ الْعَبِيدُ.
8 إِنْ قَبُحَتْ فِي عَيْنَيْ سَيِّدِهَا الَّذِي خَطَبَهَا لِنَفْسِهِ، يَدَعُهَا تُفَكُّ. وَلَيْسَ لَهُ سُلْطَانٌ أَنْ يَبِيعَهَا لِقَوْمٍ أَجَانِبَ لِغَدْرِهِ بِهَا..
A primitive root; to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage), or figuratively (to surrender): - X at all, sell (away, -er, self).
A primitive root; to cover (with a garment); figuratively to act covertly; by implication to pillage: - deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress (-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful (-ly, man), X very.
Exo 21:8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Exo 21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
Exo 21:8 If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.


The student, who was said to be a new student, had been declared missing on January 25, 2017, after leaving her hostel to celebrate her birthday with some male friends at a popular bar in Ozoro, the administrative headquarters of the Isoko North Local Government Area.
Our correspondent gathered that the victim had left her apartment that Thursday with her mobile phone and had promised to return after the birthday party.
PUNCH Metro learnt that her remains were discovered in an open space close to a secondary school along Owhelogbo Road in Ozoro, with one of her breasts, eyes, heart and private parts removed by her killers.
A friend of the deceased's roommate, who did not want to be identified, told our correspondent on Monday that the Science and Laboratory Technology National Diploma I student was dating one of the Yahoo boys.
The source said, "When her roommate didn't see her around 7pm on the day she went for the party, she called to know her whereabouts and she (Happiness) said she was in Oleh and would soon return home.
"Her roommate called repeatedly around 9pm, but her number didn't connect. The same thing happened the following day. It was at that point that the roommate raised the alarm that she was missing.
A hostel mate, who also confirmed the incident, said the deceased's roommate had been arrested by men of the Delta State Police Command for interrogation.
The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Boniface Ogarayan, could not been reached for comment, as his two telephone lines indicated that they were not available.
Also, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Aniamaka, said he had not been briefed on the killing as of the time of filing this report.


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ART MARKET: Nicholson - look on the bright side
Colourful work with provenance back to artist's sister catches the attention in Kent saleroom
Alex Capon
The Dandelion Field by William Nicholson – £25,000 at Grand Auctions.
Even when it comes to major names, the way the market favours the 'right' sort of work was laid bare at Grand Auctions (20% buyer's premium) on July 4 when one early Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949) got away but two were left unsold.
The pictures came to auction in Folkestone, Kent, from a local source with a history of ownership that could be traced back to the artist's sister Mabel.
Believed to date from around the time the artist left Herkomer's Art School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in 1891, they had all featured in Patricia Reed's catalogue raisonné of Nicholson's paintings.
The first work on offer was the smallest of the three but performed best. The Dandelion Field, an 8 x 5in (21 x 13cm) oil on panel, benefited from being the brightest and most freely painted as well as having appeared at the dedicated exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2004-05.
Estimated at £15,000-20,000, it was knocked down at £25,000 to the London trade.
The other works were darker figurative compositions which were perhaps more difficult in terms of what the market prefers.
Girl in a Chair, dated to 1892, failed to sell against the same estimate while Woman by a Window, a work of the same date, also remained unsold against a higher pitch of £30,000- 50,000.
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Turtle Soup by William Nicholson – £60,000 at Woolley & Wallis.
A couple of later and more valuable works by Nicholson had also featured just over a month earlier at Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer's premium) in Salisbury.
A still-life that came as part of the collection that had descended through the family of Siegfried Sassoon was, by far, the leading light of the sale, selling at £440,000 to London dealer Richard Green and setting the second-highest price for the artist at auction (see ATG No 2546).
Another interesting Nicholson work at the May 31 auction was rather different in style, subject and approach. Consigned separately, Turtle Soup had been purchased by Beaumont Pease, 1st Baron Wardington, from the Leicester Galleries in London in 1938 and it came to auction via family descent.
The image of a livery dinner taking place at Goldsmith's Hall was a fairly unusual subject for the artist, although not unprecedented. The 17¼ x 12in (44 x 31cm) oil on panel from 1937 was signed with the initial N to the lower left. It came about after the artist was invited to the venue by Lord Wardington earlier that year.
Shortly after painting it, Nicholson said in a letter to Geoffrey Taylor: 'Turtle Soup' M.S. named it, with many elderly backbonesofoldoldEngland hidden behind a weight of decorations and, overhead, a chandelier that may descend on them any moment by its own paint weight…' MS refers to the novelist Marguerite Steen who was Nicholson's lover from 1935 until his death.
In terms of similar works offered before, the most comparable was a larger work from 1934, City Dinner, which depicts a dinner at the Drapers' Company and which sold for £82,000 at Christie's in 2005.
With Patricia Reed herself assisting the auction house with the cataloguing here, the work was pitched at £25,000-35,000 but sold at £60,000 to a private collector – a remarkably similar price to the Christie's picture per square inch.
Making a useful contribution to the bottom line, the sum added to the £494,000 from the 77 lots from the Sassoon collection, 70 of which sold, to bolster the total in Salisbury.
Favourite horse
Portrait of Siegfried Sassoon's hunter, Cockbird, catalogued as 'English School, early 20th Century' – £6000 at Woolley & Wallis.
While the lion's share from the Sassoon lots came from the above-mentioned Nicholson still-life, another picture from the collection bringing fervent competition was a portrait of the war poet's beloved horse Cockbird.
Siegfried Sassoon bought the hunter in 1910 and rode him in 11 point-to-points before the First World War. In his book Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, he wrote: "As for Cockbird, no words could ever express what we felt about him. He had become the equine equivalent of Divinity."
When war broke out, Sassoon initially joined the Sussex Yeomanry and gave up the horse to an officer, as Cockbird could not manage a trooper's heavy equipment. In the end, like Sassoon, the horse went to war in 1914-15 but unlike his owner Cockbird never returned.
The 13 x 16in (33 x 40.6cm) oil on canvas at Woolley & Wallis was by an unknown hand and was catalogued as 'English School, early 20th Century'.
It was estimated at £400-600, but the evocative subject and connection to Sassoon clearly inspired significant interest. With four bidders in contention, it was knocked down at £6000 and is now heading to a private collection.
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