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Potential marine traffic should be kept in perspective, says marine shipper

Captain Stephen Brown of the BC Chamber of Shippers says the Douglas Channel is straightforward and not a large risk to tankers.

If the Exxon Valdez ship had been built to modern specifications there likely would never have been an oil spill.

That’s what Captain Stephen Brown says, who is the president of the BC Chamber of Shippers.

Brown is a sitting member of the Enbridge-sponsored Community Advisory Boards.

Brown has an added layer of expertise for this area in that he sailed for 30 years in the Douglas Channel with the company that took most of Rio Tinto Alcan’s aluminium, and 80 per cent of Eurocan’s paper.

From his experience he said the Douglas Channel poses no unique challenges.

“The Douglas Channel is actually a very straight forward waterway by any national or international comparison. It’s very straightforward to navigate, its deep water, it’s well marked and the contours are very clearly visible by eye or by radar if it happens to be nightime,” he said.

He said technical changes to modern tankers and anticipated new tanker safety regulations means that Canada will have oil response and prevention capabilities which continue to improve already high capabilities.

And even if the Douglas Channel sees all proposed projects materialize, Kitimat won’t compare in riskto other ports as far as marine safety, even given the geography.

“If you…look at the busiest port on the coast of British Columbia today, that’s Vancouver. Vancouver receives around 3,000 ships a year,” also noting Singapore’s port which had 126,000 ships in 2013.

“That’s quite a narrow piece of water,” he said of Singapore. “In terms of traffic density we would actually have quite a ways to go to even begin to catch up with other parts of the world.”

He added, “I understand people’s concerns, I think they have to understand the Douglas Channel in the context of what is really a busy waterway. And of course those questions, when they come up, need to be answered…Even if every single one of the projects were to materialize, by no means could this be described as a busy waterway.”

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Two homeless people chased a woman and took a gun away from her early Tuesday morning in the area of Hope’s Kitchen on Cassells Street.

Surveillance video shows a woman walking past Hope’s Kitchen just after 2:30 a.m., pointing a gun at two people standing outside.

Chris Brown, co-owner of the homeless outreach centre, said the video does not show the homeless people chasing the woman and taking the gun away from her.

Brown was wakened at 3:30 a.m. by a call from a volunteer to inform him of the news.

Brown had closed one side of the building April 14 where the homeless enjoyed a meal, snacks and conversation while they were protected from the elements.

Brown said volunteers felt bad keeping the doors closed as the weather turned cold so they asked if they could open the doors.

Brown agreed.

He said after this incident the doors will remain permanently closed.

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I’m calling the owner. I don’t want that side. I’m going to look for another kitchen away from Cassells Street. This is the second incident in less than three weeks,” Brown told The Nugget.

For the safety of our staff and clients I have no choice but to permanently close.”

On April 8, Brown’s wife, Katie Valiquette says she called police several times requesting assistance following a ruckus about a bike that led to a physical altercation. Charges were laid.

In January, a guest smashed a front window, forcing Brown to close down for a few days while it was being repaired.

David Woolley, corporate communications officer for the North Bay Police Service, said around 3 a.m. members of the North Bay Police Service responded to reports of an armed individual threatening others at a business in the 1000 block of Cassells St.

Officers attended the scene where they arrested and charged one female individual and one male individual.

Annie Sutherland, 42, of North Bay, is charged with Possession of a Weapon for Dangerous Purpose, Pointing a Firearm, Uttering Threats – Cause death or bodily harm, Failure to Comply with Probation order, two counts of possession of firearm or ammunition contrary to prohibition order.

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For the first time in more than a decade, the United States Supreme Court will be reviewing a Second Amendment case that could change the landscape when it comes to gun right laws in this country.

On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to review a law in New York that sets extremely stringent limits on who can carry a gun outside of the home.

Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, argues that New York’s gun laws have made it nearly impossible for anyone to carry a handgun in public.

“We decided that we were going to try to change that and make sure that New York state residents who want a pistol permit or a concealed carry permit are given the same protections under the law that everybody else in the other 42 states are given,” King explained.

New York imposes some of the strictest gun laws in the country. It requires New Yorkers applying for a license to carry a concealed handgun in public to show they have “proper cause,” or in other words, a special need for self-protection.

At least seven other states, including New Jersey, California and Massachusetts have similar laws on their books.

Two men from Rensselaer County who were denied permits, along with the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, sued the state over this law in 2018.

Lower courts upheld New York’s gun laws, but in a historic decision, the Supreme Court announced it has now agreed to take up the case.

State Attorney General Letitia James will be representing New York in this case.

“We look forward to presenting the state’s arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court and to showing how New York’s laws protect public safety in a manner consistent with the Second Amendment,” James said.

"This NRA-backed case is a massive threat to that security," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. "Imagine someone carrying a gun through Times Square, onto the subway, or to a tailgate outside of a Bills game. The NRA's goal here is to shift the onus onto regular New Yorkers, police officers, security guards and first responders to determine whether an armed individual poses a threat or is simply carrying for self-defense. The streets of New York are not the O.K. Corral, and the NRA's dream of a society where everyone is terrified of each other and armed to the teeth is abhorrent to our values.”

The last Second Amendment Supreme Court ruling was 2008's District of Columbia v. Heller. By just one vote, the majority ruling determined that a person has the right to keep a gun in the home for self-defense. This ruling was then upheld again in 2010, in a challenge against Chicago's gun laws.

Since then, the Supreme Court has turned down numerous cases challenging state gun control laws.

However, with the three latest appointments by former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court now has a 6-3 conservative justice majority.

Albany Law Professor Vincent Bonventre said this case will have an enormously broad impact. It will decide if states and the federal government have the right to impose stringent gun control laws.

“So on the one hand, is the individual right to bear arms a fundamental right?” Bonventre questioned. “Which means that it's going to be very, very, very difficult for state governments or the federal government to restrict those rights? Or is it that other part of Heller, which is that long standing prohibitions reasonable restrictions are fine? We don't know. This case will tell us.”

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Far-left Michael Moore produces a new documentary that argues “renewable energy is not clean, not green and not practical,” according to Sky News host Chris Kenny.

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A flashing red light to the green power movement, “Planet of the Humans” offers disillusioning evidence that much of what’s currently promoted as renewable energy is ineffectual, wasteful and far from “clean.” Released to YouTube on the eve of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, it’s a provocative if straight-up depressing takedown of brand-name environmentalism that offers much bad news with scant constructive upside. This debut directorial feature for executive producer Michael Moore’s longtime producer and composer Jeff Gibbs is also the first documentary project under their Rumble Media banner. Both filmmakers will host a live discussion the evening of April 22 on the doc’s YouTube channel and other platforms.

Things start off somewhat unpromisingly with Gibbs assuming the first-person perspective that’s become a cinematic nonfiction norm since “Roger & Me” 31 years ago. Moore does actually have the innate showmanship and engaging personality to pull that gambit off, as much as he’s criticized for “starring” in his documentaries. But Gibbs’ dull monotone makes him a poor narrator, and we gain very little from getting his own thumbnail biography as a born “tree hugger” before wading into the bigger issues at hand. Fortunately, “Planet” doesn’t keep him in the foreground for long, later introducing more personable collaborator-author Ozzie Zehner as a sometime fellow guide.

After a brief recap of modern environmental consciousness, we leap forward to the Obama presidency, whose recession-necessitated stimulus package included nearly $1 billion for “green energy.” But everywhere Gibbs and company look, they find “well-meaning people being misled” by supposed “clean” alternatives that provide little offset from, and in many cases are heavily dependent on, the same old “dirty” fossil fuels and other non-renewable sources. This encompasses wind and solar projects whose virtues are often wildly exaggerated, particularly in proportion to the resources required for their construction and operation.

Some of this initially feels like an unwillingness on the filmmakers’ part to admit that the path forward must involve some compromises, and success by (one hopes) gradually rising degrees. But poking past the disillusioning actual results of many such much-ballyhooed ventures, Gibbs finds reason to doubt even the good intentions theoretically at work. He’s unable to find a single corporate entity worldwide whose claims of “100% renewable” energy usage are accurate.

Meanwhile, a greenwashing surface too often hides old-school environmental destruction, polluting and profiteering from the usual billionaires. In “Planet’s” cluttered survey, there ends up being dismayingly few degrees of separation between the actions of the ostensible “good guys” (Al Gore, Sierra Club, Tesla, environmentalist Bill McKibben, etc.) and such familiar baddies as the Koch brothers, Goldman Sachs and Big Oil. Indeed, a little digging often reveals they all appear to have signed on the same dotted line.

Gibbs doesn’t give those thus indicted much chance to defend themselves; the few times he does, he cuts away before they can stop awkwardly hemming and hawing to answer a difficult question. (The final credits are interspersed with text noting that several entities here hastily reversed public positions after the film’s first screenings, though their actual policies don’t seem to have changed much.) That could get “Planet” accused of “gotcha” journalism, which combined with its somewhat overpowering content sprawl and fast-paced but hopscotching editorial organization leave the viewer with little positive takeaway.

But that is the point, insofar as there is a clear one here: Gibbs says “the elephant in the room” isn’t climate change or any other individual factor, but humanity itself. With our species’ population having skyrocketed in the last 200 years, we are simply in denial that mankind’s needs are exhausting Earth’s resources. “Infinite growth on a finite planet is suicide,” he says, as bleak footage of rampant deforestation (in large part to supply the dubious “clean energy” source of biomass) provide just one vivid proof. There is no obvious solution, save a massive scaling-back that capitalism-driven societies don’t even want to think about.

There’s nothing particularly elegant about the way “Planet of the Humans” arrives at that downbeat thesis. Though well-shot and edited, the material here is simply too sprawling to avoid feeling crammed into one ungainly package even narrator Gibbs admits “might seem overwhelming.” Still, medicine is medicine, and if these 100 minutes leave a bitter taste, you’re still probably better off for having swallowed their dose of sobering awareness.

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I went out on the deck before breakfast to grab some air, and there in the horizon I could see our first sight of land since we left Safi.

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We in portside started the day at 7 with a quick breakfast before our guard between 8 and 12. On our guard we climbed in the rig and cleaned the deck. A lot of my classmates have contacted their near and dear ones today since they we finally got service and me myself had a phone call with my parents and I also contacted some of my friends back in Sweden.

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Colonial Pipeline incident reinforces value of managed OT system isolation

The cyberattack that compromised Colonial Pipeline serves as sobering reminder that operational technology (OT) system isolation must be consistently managed. Four lessons from the incident are highlighted.

By Jonathan Lang, Andrew Meyers, Leif Eriksen May 21, 2021
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The Colonial Pipeline downtime created by the cybersecurity attack on the operators’ information technology (IT) systems underscores the need for resilient, redundant and responsible processes that enable operations to persist in the face of digital disruptions. The incident serves as a reminder that preparedness for the unexpected requires review of technology and processes and is essential to mitigate the risks of data loss, operations disruption, and loss of critical infrastructure.

Background on Colonial Pipeline cyberattack

On May 6, 2021, the company that operates the Colonial Pipeline suffered an email phishing attack that resulted in a ransomware incident on roughly 100gb of extracted data through a customer portal. The resulting impact to operations has been to temporarily shut down the pipeline. The cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline underscores the vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the United States and the need for resilient business processes and systems. Ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure have increased more than fivefold since 2018.

The Colonial Pipeline runs across the southeast to the northeast of the country carrying refined petroleum products. It is considered the jugular of the nation’s refined petroleum transportation infrastructure. The company’s operational technology (OT) infrastructure had implemented controlled isolation from its IT infrastructure. Yet operational processes and IT transaction systems remain critically entangled by way of business process. Many states in the southeast were beginning to see fuel shortages after seven days. Fortunately, Colonial resumed operations. In the meantime, the national average price for gasoline has reached the highest level since 2014.

The attack was attributed to the Russia-based cybercriminal group Darkside by the FBI and other authorities. The group stole more than 100 GB of data to leverage a ransom demand from the company and has claimed over 40 other victims in the last nine months. In its own code of ethics, the group claims to be only interested in and making money and is not politically motivated. It was revealed by industry sources that Colonial has paid a ransom of $5 million to decrypt the systems and signed FireEye Mandiant to lead the investigation.

Four lessons from the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack

The news about the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack isn’t about the ransomware attack. Ransomware can happen to any organization, big or small, industrial or consumer. The news illustrates the importance of business resilience that extends beyond technology. Technology should enable and support resilience in processes. Process-based fail safes and redundancies must be accounted for in risk assessment. While isolation of IT and OT systems protected the pipeline infrastructure from direct threat, the interdependencies and lack of resiliency in the process resulted in disruption to operations. There are a few key learnings from the incident as it relates to the need for resilience as a core business strategy:

1. The ransomware attack was driven through the enterprise business systems, not through operations. The attack was not an attack on the operational technology (OT) systems which control the pipeline nor were they directly compromised. Still, process interdependencies resulted in the pipeline being shut down. It is important for pipeline operators in the United States to understand all of their cybersecurity risks, not just those related to operational systems, to be resilient. Many companies tend to view cybersecurity and resilience measure as a cost center that affects the bottom line. Yet the risk of disruption to operations threatens revenue in addition to the public health and safety impacts. To protect against attacks, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has mandatory standards for grid operators, however, does not have the same comparable standard for the network of pipelines. It is up to each organization to frame cybersecurity as a matter of business resilience and think holistically about processes and resultant impact.

2. Colonial’s OT infrastructure had controlled isolation from its IT infrastructure. This has been the modus operandi for operations for many years. The notion that IT/OT convergence requires seamless, two-way communication is a fallacy. The incident highlights the efficacy of network isolation and raises the issue of implementing network segmentation on the operations network in case future incidents occur on the OT network. Salient data can be exchanged without compromising operations, and resiliency in the network means being capable of mitigating spread and impact where a network is penetrated by bad actors.

3. Operations was still capable of delivering, but was starved of orders due to business systems being cut off. Those who spin this incident as a lesson in OT security are doing a dangerous disservice to the reality of the breach. The reality of OT cybersecurity is the biggest risks come from human vectors. In this case, it was an employee falling victim to a phishing effort. Nevertheless, the attack was a call to action for pipeline operators and other managers of critical infrastructure to understand the consequences of all of their cybersecurity risks, regardless of whether they are directed at OT systems or only IT systems.

4. Within two days, Colonial was already partially operating through manual intervention. The decision to shut down the pipeline was taken by the operator itself out of an abundance of caution and could have been overridden if there was indeed a national fuel emergency. The broader fuel supply system responded effectively through the mobilization of ships and trucks. Much of the resiliency of the response was not dependent on technology, an important reminder of how we must adapt in a world where we cannot depend on digital systems.

Not only is this a reinforcement of the discipline needed in IT security, but a lesson in resilience and ecosystems. Having all ecosystem partners aligned and moving in the same direction to make a potential national economic disaster into a weeklong disruption shows resilience. Even though a weeklong disruption pales in comparison to what could happen, a better and more secure decision-making process might have made this a day-long event. Lack of accurate and timely information is the archenemy of resilience. Looking to the future of operations in the industrial world means preparing for the worst while hoping for the best.  And a resilient decision-making process that brings all the data, knowledge, and information together allows any potential disruption to be pre-empted or addressed as quickly as possible.

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Oil Price Fluctuation: the US crude oil build-up drives the trend

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The oil price fluctuated much more than it did in  the previous week, purely owing to the news that US oil inventories have gone up, deviating from the existing trend.

The price has been moving upwards recently in inverse proportion to the build-up of the US crude stocks.

The development once agains shows the strong correlation between the US oil inventories and oil price.

Of course, there are other factors that affect the oil price directly. The discovery of new oil fields in Africa and the dawn of some form of stability in Libya and Iraq may have played a role too on the supply side of the equation.

The surging Covid-19 infections in the US will definitely push people off the pumps and will cast a shadow over the sentiments in the markets.

The good news from India and Australia on this front, however, will make the trend short-lived; the threat of Covid-19 infection can be kept at bay - by strict restrictions enforced during short periods.

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The oil rig count in the US went up by 12 this week, showing a steady growth for 8 successive weeks, reflecting the long arduous recovery of the oil markets - according to Baker Hughes.

Both WTI crude and Brent crude are above the crucial mark - $50. Although, the price fell slightly on Friday, there is no indication of a calamitous drop as it happened during the height of the pandemic.

It’s not just in the US where oil rig count has gone up; even in neighbouring Canada, the rig count went up by 44 this week.

The notable aspect of the recovery in the oil price is the fact that it has not been skewed by the rising pandemic infections, global death toll and the emergence of new variants of the Coronavirus.

Although authorities pin their hopes on the vaccines to see the light end of the tunnel, the public enthusiasm remains muted, apart from those who are in the vulnerable categories.

The new, more, strict lockdowns introduced in the Western cities inevitably lead to significant drop in demand for oil; that, however, has not affected oil price so far – a curious development.

In this context, there are other factors in play that eclipse the inhibiting causes of oil price recovery.

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This eighth episode in the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ’s) Just Science podcast series is an interview with DeMia Presley, the program officer for the National Forensic Laboratory Information Management System (NFLIS), who discusses the importance of the collection and sharing of drug-related data across law enforcement and public health agencies.

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Omidyar Network India’s ReSolve Initiative: Next phase of response to Covid-19 focuses on migration and MSMEs

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Omidyar Network India’s ReSolve Initiative: Next phase of response to Covid-19 focuses on migration and MSMEs
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The devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic will be felt for at least the next 12-24 months. So, after funding solutions addressing the urgent situation in the immediate aftermath through our Rapid Response Funding initiative, we are now shifting focus to longer-term issues that have got renewed focus due to the pandemic. We are calling this the ON India ReSolve Initiative.

As an investment firm focussed on social impact, our response to the pandemic and its consequent economic impact needs to recognise the new challenges they have created for our focus segment – India’s “Next Half Billion” (NHB), those in the lower 60% of India’s income distribution. The challenges themselves will change over time requiring us to have different responses over different time horizons.

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Under the ReSolve initiative, we have prioritised two longstanding themes that have got renewed focus due to the pandemic: (a) Supporting migrant workers; and (b) Empowering Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Both are long-standing national priorities with a large unfinished agenda. Both have faced devastating setbacks due to the pandemic. Both fit squarely within our focus segment – migrant workers and those working in the MSME sector predominantly come from the Next Half Billion.

110 million Indians help run micro and small businesses, and the size of India’s migrant worker population is estimated to be between 80 and 130 million. Together, they are the beating heart of the Indian economy. MSMEs and the phenomenon of migration allow millions of Indians to dream of better lives, earning more and creating a new future for the coming generation. Yet, despite, their deep seated importance, socially and culturally, both these national priorities have not been addressed systemically.

And now, with the onset of Covid-19, they are bearing the brunt of the socio-economic fallout of the pandemic with devastating consequences.

We believe it is time for India’s boldest and brightest minds – entrepreneurs, thought leaders, policy makers and citizens – to come together to reframe and resolve the issues plaguing these areas.

Our work in these two areas will aim to find the balance between the ambitious and the pragmatic, between the strategic and the tactical. Over the next 12-18 months, our goal will be to support and fund a few high-leverage lighthouse investments that can contribute to the transformation agenda in these two spaces. We define lighthouse investments as those that can ‘show the light’ to the sector. These could include seeding of new institutions or solutions and supporting investments with large demonstration effects. Hence, our preference will be to selectively fund projects in the range of Rs 3.75 crore ($500,000) to Rs 15 crore ($2 million) per project. The type of investments we would seek to initiate (or join coalitions of funding efforts) would thus include:

  1. New for-profit/ non-profit ventures with unique solutions
  2. Experiments with solutions that have not been tried before
  3. Seeding new properties like marquee surveys, databases etc
  4. Strengthening institutions, mechanisms, market infrastructure
  5. Creating digital infrastructure and ecosystems

An indicative list of focus areas for each theme under the ReSolve Initiative are:

Empowering MSME theme:

1: Amplifying the voice of MSMEs: High-quality data systems that capture MSME pain points, financial and operational health, and channel this into feedback loops for necessary industry action and policy interventions.

2: Stimulating capital in a risk-averse environment: Initiatives that look to build sector infrastructure to solve systemic challenges – dearth of wholesale finance, lack of risk capital, lack of sufficient data –  that would lead to substantial benefits for the MSME sector in the form of better access to cheaper capital.

3: Promoting digital infrastructure for MSMEs: Digital building blocks, platforms and ecosystems that address key problems the sector faces, like access to credit & government services, compliance and access to markets.

4. Pilot projects at a cluster or state level to seed system-level innovations: Sandbox/viable pilot solutions that aim to reimagine the business environment for MSMEs by seeding system-level innovations.

Supporting Migrant workers theme:

1: Evidence based narratives to inform public and policy: Amplifying data, research and evidence backed narratives, to make the scale and nature of the migrants’ problem more visible. This can support more informed public discourse, program design and policymaking.

2:  Pilot projects in ethical employment practices, worker welfare, safety nets and inter-state collaboration: Sandbox/ viable pilot solutions to support adoption of ethical employment practices, and improve access to welfare and safety nets. These are often unique challenges that migrants face in cities. Projects could also include enhancing coordination of migration support efforts between states.

3: ‘Ease of living’ for migrant workers: access to housing and civic services: Innovative models of housing and access to essential services (civic amenities) for migrant communities. This will lead to better economic, social and health outcomes and integration into our cities.

In both areas, we are keen to work in partnership with other funders and support coalitions that work on solutions.

If you’re looking to work on these issues of national significance and want to help resolve and reimagine these two sectors, we look forward to hearing from you and partnering with you to build resolve and resilience for a secure long term future for migrant workers and MSMEs.

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Florence powers clinical advancements by building the best operations workflow software for clinical research sites.

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Florence gathered knowledgeable programmers from Belgrade around a noble cause in 2017, and the progress they've made together is tremendous. At Florence, we're accelerating cures by bringing technologists and industry experts together. We're not just adding layers on top of a broken system, we're fundamentally re-thinking it. Join us and empower access to the most important research data in the world.

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We seek talented Scrum Masters to build the future for clinical trials by contributing new products in the eBinder™ platform.

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  • Remove impediments and coach teams to remove impediments by themselves.
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  • Establishing metrics for Scrum team process Reporting and proposing improvements on team process based on gathered data Leading implementation of process improvements

  •  3 years experience as a Scrum Master for a software development team.
  • Advanced knowledge and experience in using Jira Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment and contribute to on-going organizational improvements. Ability to multitask and context switch between low level detail and the ‘bigger picture’.
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At Florence, we’re passionate about making it easy for our customers to contribute to research and find cures. As a Sr Product Manager/Owner, you fill a critical position responsible for developing our world-class solution for managing regulatory documents for clinical trials. You will work closely with Customers, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering teams to construct product roadmaps and define detailed product specifications. To be successful you must be a creative problem solver with keen attention to detail, and craft detailed designs and effectively communicate with the Engineering, QA and UX peers. The successful candidate will collaborate efficiently and effectively with the current Product Management team. They will take the prioritized release plan from and provide direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and help create requirements and acceptance criteria.

  • Be the voice of the customer and work collaboratively with product development teams to design and deliver product capabilities that meet customer/market requirements
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering, UI/UX and Product Management peers to deliver high-quality, intuitive features
  • Author high-quality design specifications within an Agile Methodology based on industry and customer requirements
  • Lead the product release plans through Sprint cycles and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
  • Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
  • Evangelize products and become the subject matter expert for internal stakeholders
  • Work with Marketing and the Customer Experience Teams to ensure new product features and benefits are clearly communicated to customers
  • Educate Customer Experience and Sales Teams on the products through documentation and training sessions
  • Prioritize Sprint backlog, and plan and run Sprints and releases

  • 3+ years in software product management, Life Sciences software consulting, or comparable role
  • Has experience working in Healthcare or IT industry
  • Skilled, experienced, and certified in using Agile/Scrum or similar methodologies
  • Experience writing detailed user stories and managing a story backlog
  • Experience interacting with Customers, Development, and Customer Experience Teams, both local and remote
  • Understanding of design quality standards
  • Technical skills to translate business requirements into terms that developers can understand
  • Ability to understand and communicate architectural requirements, preferences, and limitations
  • Excellent communication skills: written, verbal and formal presentation
  • Good time-management skills to work in a fast-paced start-up environment

We’ll Be Extra Excited If You Have:

  • 5+ years of experience in the fast-paced organization performing as a Senior Product Manager/Owner role in the software as a service solution
  • B.S. degree in Business, Computer Science or a related technical field strongly preferred. MBA would be a huge plus
  • Healthcare information technology experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with the Pragmatic Marketing Framework is a plus
  • Experience with federal regulatory requirements, including 21 CFR Part 11 and HIPAA regulations is a HUGE plus
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Florence is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our Customer Success team as we continue to grow our customer base and expand our relationships, products and value for each. We strive to be considered a highly strategic partner and this role ensure we achieve that goal post-implementation.

  • Hands-on customer-facing support to reproduce, manage and confirm product/data defects
  • Gather technical information as needed to prescribe resolution steps for expected vs. actual outcomes
  • Develop tools and techniques to debug complex API integration issues
  • Create technical documentation to serve as a knowledge base for handling support issues and recurring data engineering tasks
  • Ensure customer inquiries are responded to within established timeframes and support service levels are achieved
  • Collaborate and communicate with internal engineering teams to measure, optimize and enhance our existing platform integrations, products, and processes
  • Collaborate with Customer Manager to drive continuous improvements

  • An intermediate or higher level of coding experience in Nodejs/Angular is required for this role.
  • Experience with AWS, Docker is a plus. Understanding of JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS is more than welcome!
  • Proven ability to solve complex problems while also being a master of simplicity
  • Ability to diagnose issues in source code and strong working knowledge of MongoDB in order to assist in issue resolution and prioritization
  • Strong collaboration capabilities – this role is customer facing and you will routinely work with multiple internal and external teams to solve technical issues
  • Growth mindset – you grow with new products, new technologies, new customers, new relationships, and are comfortable with frequent context switches
  • Proven ability to discover root problems by asking great questions and develop creative solutions to create value for our customers
  • Bias to take action using all resources available to help our customers create a world-class delivery experience
  • Fluency in English

 Technologies We Use

  • Our application stack runs entirely on Docker – frontend and backend
  • Our infrastructure is on AWS
  • Javascript is our language of choice for backend services
  • MongoDB is our database of choice
  • We have a modern Javascript frontend built on Node, Angular
  • Collaboration tools include JIRA & Confluence, Zendesk

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5.000+ Clinical Research Sites are obtaining their results with the help of the Florence Healthcare platform.

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Florence’s team main product is eBinders™ - which integrates all of clinical trial systems, automates regulatory processes, and more.

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Head of Student Recruitment: Helen O’Connor

Helen is in a unique position where she was a parent of two GS students first, before formally working at the school. She holds experience as an actor and educator, and has worked extensively as a corporate trainer in communications, emotional intelligence, and change management. One point of emphasis at GS is parent involvement. During her children’s tenure at the school, Helen ran Conscious Communications workshops for the parent community and as professional development sessions for the school staff. She ended up running the parents’ association and became increasingly involved in the intersection between the school and the parents of GS.

With Helen’s experience in education, communication and being a student-parent herself, she became sought after for the open position in admissions and decided to join the school. Due to the heavy online nature of their admissions process, Helen is now able to run the Admissions Office working remotely for half the year from Australia, after living in Bali for 5 years.

As a parent of the school first, how did you find Green School and decide to enrol your children there?

It was a pleasant accident in a way. I was not happy with the schooling they were receiving in Australia as I wanted a more progressive and co-educational approach to their learning. Our family went to Bali on a holiday and at the time were considering moving there. Our friends mentioned Green School to us and we decided to go see it during our holiday only as curious tourists.

We eventually decided to move to Bali and I told my reluctant children that they could choose the school they wished to attend. We visited other schools on the island but it soon became clear it was a no-brainer for them – they wanted to attend Green School. They moved to Bali originally under duress, so we had agreed we would only trial it for six months. After three weeks they sat me down and told me they intended to graduate from this school and would not be leaving! The type of engagement at Green School was something they had never experienced in a school setting and they knew it was where they wanted to stay. I eventually found this to be a common theme – where families would plan to come to Green School for only six months to a year, and end up staying much longer for the education. The kids practically chain themselves to the bamboo and refuse to go!

Can you tell us a bit about the daily life for students at Green School?

A typical day at Green School is broken into three parts that mirror the ‘Three Frames of Learning’: Thematic Frame, with a focus on research, inquiry, and communication skills in a group learning environment, Proficiency Frame, where the relevant core competencies are honed, often in a more structured classroom environment, and the Experiential Frame, where students are involved in activities related to the theme or project.

Students spend about 60% of their day outside of the classroom in ‘hands-on learning’ which creates an environment where a high level of engagement occurs. So when they return to the classroom, the more structured English, math or science classes are connected to something tangible, bringing the education literally to life.

One example is the Middle School ‘Bridge Project’ where the students were asked to build a bridge over the river that runs through the school to connect the main campus to a smaller section of the campus and the local village. As you can imagine the Bridge Project involves many disciplines math, science, physics, design, building techniques, and of course teamwork and collaboration. And vital realisations like building a bridge in Bali is different than other places in the world due to the climate and the culture. So the learning is vast.

The students have to figure out the mathematics and science and come up with the design and other essential plans before going out and putting it all into practice. This goes back to our main philosophy of high engagement of the child. When they are engaged, they don’t really notice they are learning. We are hiding the peas in the soup…and they don’t even realise they are eating the vegetables!

Another great thing about the Bridge Project was that a couple years ago there was a massive flood and the bridge collapsed. They had to go back to the classroom and figure out why this happened. The learning involved in that entire process to uncover mistakes and develop a stronger bridge was phenomenal. And most of that learning came from consulting the local Balinese builders on how they would have done it…all in Bahasa Indonesia!

What are some of the unique obstacles Green School encounters with this type of education?

I think it comes down to perception and getting parents to take a leap of faith when they first encounter this style of learning. One of the main fears of parents includes: “is my child going to learn the same things I learned?”

Most of us come from a traditional education system where we finish school and know how to write, read, add, subtract etc. Many parents want to make sure their child is going to leave the school with those same abilities, and ensure they could easily transition back to a traditional school if they need to, or indeed move on to University. They want to know that this is possible through the philosophy of learning by doing.

The biggest challenge is helping people understand that it is not what they learn, but rather how they learn it, that makes the difference. Green School continues to graduate kids that are going to Ivy League universities and studying all over the world. And the feedback we have from universities and employers where Green School graduates have ended up is that these kids have an extremely high level of critical and independent thinking, problem solving, and an ability to reason and argue, among other important life skills. They are as well educated as any other Grade 12 graduate; our educational approach is just a different way of getting them there, and one we believe better sets them up for future success. Our intention is to create a love of learning in an environment where students can explore their innate passions and realise that they have the ability to affect change in the world.

Can you touch on some of the amazing projects Green School is currently engaged in within the community?

Kembali, our recycling project, started as a simple way for parents to recycle items within their homes. It has now turned into a huge centre where people are taught about recycling and families can bring everything from their kitchen waste to recyclable goods and clothing to be processed. The project focuses on teaching people how to recycle properly and showing what can and cannot be recycled.

One of the incredible things that has stemmed from Kembali is a program called Trash-For-Class. Much of Bali is unfortunately filled with unwanted plastics and trash so we developed a program to help not only clean up the local community but also educate the local children in the process. Local children are eager to learn English and so we encourage them to engage in trash walks where they go and clean up the community and return their trash to GSB where they can redeem certain amounts of trash for free hours of English education at the school.

Five kilos of trash gives them one semester of English class which has made our community one of the cleanest places in Bali and has established a strong connection with the local community and our school. This is one thing John Hardy wanted to emphasise when he founded the school; he wanted to bridge the gap between expat families and the local Balinese people.

Operation Rain or Shine is another program that is endeavouring to have GSB 100% self-sustainable by developing an energy hub at the school. Former students who won the Zayed Energy Prize used their prize money to build the energy hub and work on increasing the usable and renewable energy at the school.

Overall our students are extremely active and we encourage them to pursue their passion to benefit the community. One student who excelled at biochemistry, was part of a student team that helped develop a program that turned used cooking oil into the bio fuel that GSB Bio busses currently run on. Having this type of unique and proactive experience resulted in him being courted by numerous Ivy League universities, where he is studying today.

As Green School celebrates its 10- year anniversary, what are you most proud of looking back over the history of the school?

I would have to say two things:

First, gaining the recognition that we have received has been incredible. Green School is becoming a world leader in changing people’s perceptions of education models, which I think is really important. We have gone from a point where we really had to work hard to convince parents that this style of education is equally if not more beneficial, to now having six years of graduating students proving this over and over. They are going out into the world after attending GS and excelling to great heights. The second thing I would say is the impact the school has in terms of creating a generation of thought leaders focused around sustainability. These kids have accepted a mission to go out and continue to have an impact on their environment and their community no matter how big or small their efforts are.

How has OpenApply assisted you and Green School in your overall school efforts?

Going paperless was of course one of the initial things that OpenApply allowed us to do. We used to print out applications and have parents fill them out manually which resulted in huge amounts of paper being used. OpenApply has definitely helped us along in the process of going green.

As you can see our mindset is all about sustainability and we actually did not realise how much we were also wasting in terms of time and also people’s skill sets. Through OpenApply, we have really been able to streamline our processes and our time is now used much more efficiently and effectively. We are now able to leverage our saved time on other things like engaging with parents more on Skype calls rather than spending time messing with spreadsheets, data entry and tasks of that nature.

When we first adopted the system, our goal was to be able to do everything in admissions through OpenApply and that is what we have done. If we weren’t using OpenApply to the extent we are now, working remotely from Australia would probably not be possible.

If you wish to learn more about Green School, please feel free to view their Ted Talk Video by founder, John Hardy, or check out the video CNN created in 2009 during the early days of the school.

About Green School Bali
Green School Bali is located just south of Ubud on the island of Bali in In- donesia. Founded by John and Cynthia Hardy, Green School takes a holistic approach to education and focuses on educating for sustainability and the philosophy of Entrepreneurial Learning – learning by doing.

The school has formed a nearly perfected blueprint for green schools across the world by demonstrating how education can be just as effective, if not more so, by impacting change locally and striving to implement change globally. The classrooms have no walls – a symbolic representation of the in- clusiveness and limitless approach to education Green School takes in order to make our world a better place.

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