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Changing world, changing curriculum
Unique courses help train tomorrow's environmental leaders
When you're a student in the Nelson Institute, your coursework transcends disciplinary boundaries. No single specialty can solve environmental challenges – innovation emerges by combining the sciences, business, history, international studies, art, resource management and more.
Hands-on experience is also crucial: Lessons are just as likely to be learned in the community as they are in the classroom.
As the world is changing, so too is the environmental studies curriculum at UW-Madison, which includes well over 300 course offerings from more than 50 academic departments. These eight courses – just a glimpse of those available to our students – demonstrate the variety of ways the Nelson Institute and the university are training tomorrow's environmental problem-solvers.
From Ecotopia to Ecopocalypse: Telling Digital Stories About the Environment
Environmental Studies 402/Communication Arts 609/Art 469
Instructor: Alex Rivera, Fall 2013 Artist in Residence
This course brings a cross-disciplinary approach to two questions: How can we understand the changes occurring all around us in our lived environment, and how can we speak powerfully about those changes?
Alex Rivera, a digital media artist and filmmaker, will engage students with readings and films that communicate pressing ecological realities. Students will also learn the basics of creative filmmaking and then produce a personal short film of their own around the theme of "Ecotopia and Ecopocalypse," to be screened at the Tales From Planet Earth film festival in November.
Domestic and International Dimensions of Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Development
Environmental Studies 600, Section 6
Instructors: Sarah Stefanos and Aleia McCord, master's students in Environment and Resources
One of six available sections of a required service learning course for environmental studies majors, this class introduces students to the domestic and international dimensions of renewable energy technologies and sustainable development.
Students will assist the Farley Center, a local organization dedicated to community partnership, sustainability and ecological justice, to identify and fill knowledge gaps about micro-scale biogas production. They'll investigate the implementation of this new renewable energy technology – leveraging the expertise of local and international experts and lessons learned from a field trip to the Milwaukee-based urban farming organization Growing Power – and then present their findings.
Climate Change and Natural Resources
Forest and Wildlife Ecology 375/875
Instructor: Benjamin Zuckerberg, assistant professor of forest and wildlife ecology
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This course spans the ecological impacts of climate change with an emphasis on adaptation, management and future impacts. Students explore the mechanisms, feedback systems and drivers associated with modern climate change, as well as the ecological and evolutionary effects on natural communities and wildlife populations. They also gain real-world experience, developing a climate change adaptation plan that could be implemented by a local, state or national conservation agency.
Climate Change, Human Rights and the Environment
Instructor: Sumudu Atapattu, senior lecturer, UW Law School
Students in this course explore the international mechanisms and laws applicable to global climate change, as well as the relationship between climate change and human rights.
Topics include how protected rights will be affected by consequences of climate change and how a human rights framework can inform discourse. For example, special focus is placed on the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities, including indigenous peoples and climate refugees, and the plight of small island states and their people.
U.S. Environmental Issues: Policy and Politics
Geography 475
Instructor: Morgan Robertson, assistant professor of geography
This new course offers a survey of American environmental policy, familiarizing students with the spectrum of major U.S. environmental regulations, how the policies affect daily interactions with the environment, the social issues influencing their interpretation and implementation, and the critical and geographic viewpoints scientists and academics often adopt in viewing issues of policy.
Social Perspectives in Environmental Studies: Nature, Faith and Community
Environmental Studies 402
Instructor: Michael Bell, professor of community and environmental sociology
This course takes a sociological look at the history and interrelationship of three of the most culturally powerful realms of reasoning: nature, faith and community. From Buddha to Darwin, from Lao-Tzu to Thoreau, from Mohamed to Einstein, from Gilgamesh to the Bible, students will consider the past, present and future and develop their own responses in dialogue with others.
People, Land and Food
Geography/Environmental Studies 309
Instructor: Holly Gibbs, assistant professor of environmental studies and geography
This class introduces students to how and why humans have transformed natural landscapes around the world, exploring different agricultural systems, the environmental impacts of food production, tropical deforestation and topics such as food security, land scarcity and bioenergy.
Students also go beyond the walls of the classroom – supported by an Office of Sustainability service-learning grant – to study the campus and city community and to work toward making change through group research and service-learning projects.
Agroecosystems and Global Change
Agronomy/Agroecology/Environmental Studies 724
Instructor: Chris Kucharik, associate professor of agronomy and environmental studies
In this course, students examine how global-change factors such as land use, climate and policy impact agricultural systems and the goods and services derived from them. Students also investigate related feedbacks; for example, how agricultural land management has contributed to emerging environmental challenges, while at the same time providing potential means, such as bioenergy, to mitigate further global warming.


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Animal health laboratories
Reviewing and preparing ANZSDPs
Editorial and approval process for ANZSDPs
Reviewing and preparing ANZSDPs Expand linksIn this section
Establishing the need for an Australian and New Zealand standard diagnostic procedure
Guide for authors writing an ANZSDP
This is part of a process to draft and review ANZSDPs by scientific experts, managed through a set of standardised procedures.
1. Background
The primary objective of the Australian and New Zealand standard diagnostic procedures (ANZSDPs) is to standardise test procedures to ensure consistency between laboratories using methods that are accurate, precise and fit for purpose.
Secondary objectives are to provide the methods to be used in external proficiency testing programs and to aid the development of documentation for quality systems.
The purpose of this procedure is to describe the editorial and approval process for the preparation and publication of ANZSDPs.
This procedure applies to terrestrial and aquatic ANZSDPs, including any associated procedural documents managed by the National Laboratory Task Group.
4. Procedure
4.1 Review of procedures and nomination of authors
4.1.1 Selection of procedures for drafting
4.1.1.1 The Animal Health Committee (AHC) National Laboratory Task Group, with administrative support from the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, is responsible for establishing the need for a new or revised ANZSDP based on the agreed criteria.
4.1.1.2 Laboratory task group members nominate a senior author and, if necessary, one or more co-authors (alternatively co-authors may be nominated by the senior author). The nomination may be completed either in-session or out-of-session. Where practicable, nominator/s should ensure prior in-principle consent from nominee(s) is obtained before the selection process.
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4.1.2.2 If the invitation is declined, repeat the steps in Section 4.1.1.
4.1.2.3 On receipt of written acceptance, the laboratory task group consults with the senior author to determine an anticipated completion date. The first draft is expected to be submitted within 6 months of acceptance.
4.1.2.4 Following confirmation of authorship, authors are referred to the guide for writing an ANZSDP on the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources website—see Guide for authors writing an ANZSDP. The laboratory task group will provide the nominated editor with the senior author's contact details.
4.1.2.5 Within 3 months of commencement the senior author will provide the laboratory task group with a progress report on the ANZSDP. If a progress report is not received, the laboratory task group will follow up with the senior author to help resolve impediments or seek an extension.
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4.2.1 The senior author submits the first draft of the document to the laboratory task group (as an email attachment). The laboratory task group forwards the first draft to the editor and advises the senior author that the document is now in the editorial process.
4.2.2 The editor works with the senior author to facilitate production of a second draft (within 6 weeks of completion of the first draft). This is a collaborative and interactive process with the aim of producing the best document possible at the time of writing. The editor provides feedback to the senior author on progress throughout the editorial process.
4.2.3 The editor consults with the senior author (and the laboratory task group if required) to provide a preliminary final draft.
4.2.4 The editor provides a copy of the preliminary final draft to the laboratory task group.
4.2.5 The preliminary final draft is circulated to laboratory task group members and 20 working days are allowed for a response. If members do have comments they should reply to all members. Members may also choose to respond to circulated comments from other members as appropriate. A lack of response after 20 days will be taken to indicate approval. All comments received are provided to the author and editor.
4.2.6 The senior author produces a final draft within 6 weeks of receiving comments from laboratory task group members. If members' comments are editorial in nature, assistance may be sought from the editor. The final draft will only be submitted to the AHC when those members who have requested changes are satisfied that their concerns have been addressed.
4.2.7 The author submits the final draft to the laboratory task group.
4.2.8 The laboratory task group invoices the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources for the agreed fee on behalf of the editor.
4.2.9 The laboratory task group forwards the approved final draft as well as a preamble to outline the scope and role of an ANZSDP to AHC for their endorsement either out-of-session or in-session, whichever is sooner.
4.2.10 If AHC does not endorse the final draft, the laboratory task group will present the draft and the AHC feedback to the senior author and laboratory task group members for a way forward.
4.2.11 Following AHC approval, the ANZSDP is placed on the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources website—see list of ANZSDPs. This constitutes publication of the procedure.
4.3 Document control
4.3.1 All AHC-approved ANZSDPs are maintained under document control by the laboratory task group. Only the laboratory task group, or delegate, will publish ANZSDPs on the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources website.
4.3.2 All published ANZSDPs carry an issue date at the bottom of each page. The issue date is the same as the publication date.
4.3.3 The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources website carries a revision history for ANZSDPs with the more recent revisions highlighted.
4.3.4 Superseded documents are maintained on the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources website for a minimum of 12 months. The department maintains an archive of all versions of published Australian Standard Diagnostic Techniques (ASDTs) and ANZSDPs. Ongoing maintenance arrangements of superseded and archived documents is subject to the relevant information management policies and procedures of the department.
4.3.5 The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources publishes the AHC-approved ANZSDP on its website under a Creative Commons Licence and retains the respective consent letter signed by the ANZSDP author for record purpose.


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The Patrick Collection,1904/5 Wolseley 12hp Twin-Cylinder Four-Seat Rear-Entrance Tonneau
Registration no. FF 13 Chassis no. 1052 Engine no. 234/12
Sold for £ 85,000 (US$ 116,515)
Veteran Motor Cars and Related Automobilia
2 Nov 2012, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Patrick Collection
1904/5 Wolseley 12hp Twin-Cylinder Four-Seat Rear-Entrance Tonneau
Registration no. FF 13
Chassis no. 1052
Engine no. 234/12
No British motor manufacturer at the turn of the century had more power, wealth or technological expertise behind it than Wolseley and the reputation enjoyed by their products was backed by the use of the very finest materials in their construction. Pioneer motorist, A.B. Filson-Young, noted in his 1904 book, The Complete Motorist, that Wolseley cars were 'typical throughout of English rather than of Continental engineering practice. They have earned golden opinions for their power, simplicity, and freedom from breakdown, while almost alone among motor cars constructed by makers of repute, they represent the really practical touring car which is sold at something like a moderate price.'
The Wolseley Tool & Motor Car Company had been absorbed into the mighty Vickers, Sons & Maxim empire in 1901 and their gifted senior engineer, Herbert Austin, was an advocate of the transverse horizontal engine as featured in this car. The 12hp Wolseley, introduced in December 1903 and replacing the 10hp model, featured a twin-cylinder engine, forward mounted and set between the bonnet sides which are the cooling elements for the radiator. The engine featured detachable cylinder heads containing the vertical valves (atmospheric inlets) and cast iron cylinder liners fitting into the aluminium crank chamber and water jacket. With bore and stroke recorded at 4½in x 5in the engine displaced 2.6-litres. Drive was through a cone clutch and inverted tooth Renold silent chain to a three-speed gearbox with final drive by side chains. The chassis frame was pressed from the highest quality Vickers steel and the car was famed for its 'excellence both in design and workmanship.' Production in this form continued until late 1905.
Chassis no. 1052 is first recorded in the Shop Order Book on 21st October 1904 where it is noted it was to be built for stock (Shop order no. 15042). The tonneau coachwork was fitted in January 1905 and finished in green and yellow livery and the recorded date of despatch from the factory was 24th February 1905, following final inspection the previous day. Factory fitted equipment included Michelin tyres on the front and De Nevers on the rear, Wolseley coil, self-locking change speed lever, brass fittings, plain bearings to back wheels, 10 tooth sprocket and flat steering wheel. It was destined for Wolseley Agent, Sir H.B. Robertson of Corwen, for his customer Lt.Col. Frank Kane of Fronheulog, Llandderfel, Corwen, and first registered in Merioneth on 2nd March 1905, the FF 13 registration number almost certainly being transferred from the Colonel's previous car. (The registration number is noted in the Factory Order Book). The Colonel is known to have owned the car until 1913.
An old buff log book tells us that the car was owned by Spark & Co. Ltd of Oxted, Surrey in 1931 and in 1946, while in the ownership of one F.L. Wiginton in Surrey, the car became known to The Veteran Car Club. It was dated in 1948 and a 1904 date was awarded (Certificate no. 98). The log book tells us that the car was regularly licensed in the 1960s. FF 13 was subsequently owned by noted collector and veteran motorist Roger Gates in 1970 and later by collector/ace restorer Tony Smallbone. It was acquired by the Patrick Collection some 25 years ago. The car has taken part in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run in the present ownership, failing to finish in 1990 because of two punctures but achieved a complete run in 1991. On these occasions the car was driven under its official 1904 dating and under current LBVCR rules would retain eligibility for the London to Brighton Run under 'grandfather rights' should a 1905 dating be determined in the future.
FF 13 is presented in maroon livery with black leather mudguards and is equipped with Kings Own oil side-lamps, a Halckel bulb horn, rear view mirror, P&H self contained acetylene headlamps and a Stepney wheel. It is furnished with black leather upholstery, some of which may well be original, and enjoys the benefit of a hood. Dashboard equipment includes a vertical tube fuel gauge and no less than ten oilers for the driver's careful attention, as well as the Wolseley switch and coil box as specified in the original order.
This highly original and relatively quick English veteran is offered with old and new type registration documents, current license and MoT, starting and running instructions, copy of a period handbook, a photocopy of a duplicate dating certificate and a British Motor Industry Heritage Trust Certified Copy of a Factory Record.
The balance of the Patrick Collection Part III, some 18 motor cars including a 1913 Austin 10hp Coquette, 1931 Invicta S-Type Low Chassis, and Cpl. Jones's 1935 Ford Model BB Butcher's Van from the TV-Series Dad's Army, will be offered by Bonhams at the December Sale on 3 December, 2012.
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Short-track speedskater Kim Boutin adds two silver medals to haul at World Cup stop
DORDRECHT, Netherlands - Canadian short-track speedskating star Kim Boutin added a pair of silver medals to her haul at this week's World Cup stop, while Charles Hamelin picked up a silver in the last race of his World Cup career.
Boutin, from Sherbrooke, Que., won silver in the women's 1,000-metres on Sunday and helped Canada's women's 3,000-metre relay team to a second-place finish.
"All season we have seen the Dutch dominated in the relay. We're at a point where we wanted the gold medal so badly that we are a little angry with our result," Boutin said. "We had a really good race, but I think we still need to fine-tune the timing of our exchanges and our relay order. That will be the focus for us in the coming months."
She leaves the World Cup stop with three medals after taking gold in Saturday's women's 500 metres.
Hamelin form Ste-Julie, Que., helped Canada to second place in the men's 5,000-metre relay.
"It was a really fun weekend. I was sharp in everything I did. My races have given me confidence and shown me what I can do, even at my age," said Hamelin, 37.
"I am still able to compete with anyone and I can win any race. I didn't necessarily get the results I wanted in some of my races, but that's not what matters. It's to be my best at the (Olympics) in a few months."
Hamelin finished his World Cup career with 142 medals (58 gold, 42 silver, 42 bronze).
Boutin finished the 1,000-metre race in one minute 28.51 seconds, ahead of World Cup leader Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands.
Choi Min-jeong of South Korea was first with a time of 1:28.417.
The women's relay team of Boutin, Florence Brunelle (Trois-Rivières, Que.), Courtney Sarault (Moncton, N.B.) and Alyson Charles (Montreal) finished in 4:06.102 behind the powerhouse Dutch team (4:10.251). Italy finished third and South Korea was disqualified.
The men's team of Hamelin, Pascal Dion (Montreal), Steven Dubois (Lachenaie, Que.), and Maxime Laoun (Montreal), which leads the overall World Cup standings, finished in 6:46.963. South Korea (6:46.940) was first and Hungary (6:47.076) was third.


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AJCC> Vol.1 No.1, March 2012
The Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Elodie Blanc
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
This study estimates of the impact of climate change on yields for the four most commonly grown crops (millet, maize, sorghum and cassava) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A panel data approach is used to relate yields to standard weather variables, such as temperature and precipitation, and sophisticated weather measures, such as evapotranspiration and the standardized precipitation index (SPI). The model is estimated using data for the period 1961-2002 for 37 countries. Crop yields through 2100 are predicted by combining estimates from the panel analysis with climate change predictions from general circulation models (GCMs). Each GCM is simulated under a range of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) assumptions. Relative to a case without climate change, yield changes in 2100 are near zero for cassava and range from –19% to +6% for maize, from –38% to –13% for millet and from –47% to –7% for sorghum under alternative climate change scenarios.
Climate Change; Crop Yield; Error Correction Model
E. Blanc, "The Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa," American Journal of Climate Change, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-13. doi: 10.4236/ajcc.2012.11001.
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It's easy to fall into clichés when writing about people we've never met and will never meet – so many of our silent film stars, for example, followed such a similar trajectory that it would be difficult to avoid commenting on the rags-to-riches stories, the trappings of fame, the ever-new heights of stardom reached as the movies rapidly became the most popular form of entertainment in history. But maybe the clichés can stop here, with Anita Page. She made, on average, less movies than her peers, and actually seems to have led a relatively "normal" life, away from the spotlight. Just like the rest of us? Not quite. It is a siren of the silent screen we're talking about here.
Anita was born on August 4, 1910 in New York and began her illustrious movie career fifteen years later, in 1925. Of course, most stars have humble beginnings, and her first role was uncredited, in the film A Kiss for Cinderella, which went on to become a classic film of the silent era. Her second and last uncredited role, in Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, was released a year later. It seems that her days as a stock player – in her case, for MGM – were coming to and end as her gorgeous blonde hair/blue-eyed looks helped her become an actress of tremendous appeal. After her lead role in the 1926 film Beach Nuts, she was a bona fide star.
It's anyone's guess who will catch the attention of audiences, who will enjoy months, or even years of fame. The talent of the studios of the silent era lay not so much in spotting stars, although they did this too with their many talent scouts, but in promoting the ones that had that ineffable mystique and show-stopping charisma. In other words, they helped make the famous even more famous, which helped the actor or actress in question, and obviously helped the studio itself. The primary way they did this was through offering long-term, exclusive contracts to their talent. MGM did just this with Anita in 1926.
The long-term contract worked well for some, and trapped others. Lucky Anita falls into the former camp, and she had a string of successes with MGM. Among these early hits were Telling the World (co-starring William Haines) and Navy Blues (both 1927); and  The Flying Fleet (1928). Also in 1928, she made the film that would make her an instant force to be reckoned with, and truly one of the most popular actresses of the day. She co-starred with a young Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters – the film was a smashing success, and Anita became the most talked-about starlet in town.
The reviewers loved her as much as the audience; this was clearly an all around positive film experience, with a great cast, compelling story and quality filmmaking (the film was directed by Harry Beaumont, who directed over 50 films in more than three decades of work). While Joan Crawford also received her fair attention, it was Anita the fans seemed to adore. At that time, she was receiving an astonishing 10,000+ fan letters a week, a number only topped at the time by Greta Garbo.
At this point, everyone wanted Anita, and she had the good fortune of working with some of the business's leading talents. She starred opposite Lon Chaney in 1928's While the City Sleeps (1928) and worked with Roman Novarro in The Flying Fleet a year later. But it was an odd time to be at the top of one's game – as we all know by now, this was a time of flux, change and confusion, as the grandiose gestures of the silent era gave way to the speech and voice of the sound era. Studios had to be very careful about who they were going to cast in their first-ever talkie: this could set the tone for their relative success or failure as producers of talkies for years to come.
It so happened that MGM had a lot of faith in their biggest star, and Anita was chosen to appear in their first "all-talking, all-singing" musical, the now-classic The Broadway Melody on 1929. While not the first talkie musical produced, it was the first real breakaway hit, and won an Oscar for Best Picture that year. Not a bad picture for Anita to be involved with! She now even had a song: the famous tune "You Were Meant for Me" was written specially for her, and was sung to her twice: in The Broadway Melody and in the Hollywood Review of 1929. Now there's a star for you: the song, like the actress herself, became a long-standing hit.
As we also know, once the talkies hit, there was no going back, and Anita managed to stay at the top of her game as the talkies became more assured and accomplished. She also continued to work with the best of best, making, for example, two films with Buster Keaton: Free and Easy (1930) and Sidewalks of New York (1931). In between both films, she worked hard, making Caught Short with Marie Dressler, Our Blushing Brides with Joan Crawford, Little Accident with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., War Nurse with Robert Montgomery, and Great Day with Joan Crawford (all 1930). Other successes following her second Buster Keaton film include Gentlemen's Fate, co-starring John Gilbert, The Easiest Way (for which she was Clark Gable's first ever leading lady) (both 1931) and Night Court (1932) with Walter Huston.
By 1933, after a tremendously successful run with MGM, her contract was up, and she had worked with nearly all the best talent in Hollywood. She was more than at the top of her game, and audiences wanted more. It was therefore a surprise to all when she announced that she had decided to retire from acting. The title of her last film with MGM before she made her announcement perhaps encapsulates her reasoning best: I Have Lived (1933). (Or maybe that's stretching things a bit).
In any case, her decision was made, and Anita left the business she moved to Coronado, California (the location of her film The Flying Fleet), where she lived with her husband, Admiral Hershel A. House for more than 40 years, until his death in 1991. Amazingly, her career in the movies wasn't over. After more than 50 years of not making movies, she was still a sought after actress, and she moved back to Los Angeles to make such films as Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood (2000), The Crawling Brain (2002) and Mumsie (2003). She was also the recipient of the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1997.
Anita page was loved, admired and was a true talent of the silent screen. Her name may not be as familiar to people today as those of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Crawford, but in her day, she was the actress everyone wanted to work with. Her fans were legion – it is even reported that she was offered a marriage proposal by one her greatest fans and most frequent fan letter writers, Benito Mussolini! Lucky for us, she's still creating work, so not only can you seek out some of her classic films of the silent era, but you can still watch this great talent at work today. Enjoy!
Tammy Stone is a freelance writer and journalist based in Toronto. Watch for her regular column on the greats of the Silent Screen in each issue of The Movie Profiles and Premiums Newsletter. Tammy invites you to write her at stonetamar@hotmail.com with any questions or comments on her column.


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Senior Tech Strategy Lead

CoLab is looking for a senior tech strategist to help usher this 7+ year tech co-op into the next era of technology development.

We are ready as an org to take a quantum leap forward as an organization; and we are hoping that you are likewise ready for a joyful shift! Prepare to roll up your sleeves to support our efforts to benefit the Common Good.

Our vision is to build upon our extensive history of work, thought, and relationship building at the nexus between co-operativism, community cultural and economic development, and technologies of collaboration.

We see emerging technologies such as blockchain technology and the decentralized autonomous organizations they support as offering a fundamental shift in the foundation of technical systems, a shift which redefines our ability to architect new co-operative systems of value exchange.  Decentralized collaboration coupled with advances in ethics and the emergence of a reconstituted civic virtue will we hope lead to more humane technologies and empowered communities.

If this vision resonates with you, with your sense of life purpose, please read on…

Principles

Have a passion for social and environmental justice.

See technology as a high leverage instrument for bringing about a more equitable and sustainable future.

Study philosophies, histories, and activities of positive change.  Or interested to learn.

Seeking a familial environment, where our core strength lies not smarts, but in togetherness Have realized a degree of leadership in your professional life.

See business relationships, and specifically co-operative economics, as a central pillar of efforts to better our communities.

Recognize that we are humans before we are of any particular gender, race, class, or religion.

Understand that our work is.collaborative, from the ground up: supporting agency, listening with empathy, speaking with balance, and cultivating unity.

Each is equitably valued for their contributions, regardless of their appearance, identity, or beliefs.

Sees that working in collaboration with peers as a duo is an inherent strength in most situations

Welcomes diversity of viewpoints

Welcome constructive feedback.  Don't easily take offence to respectful dissent or get defensive in challenging discussions.

Core Responsibilities

Establish relationships with partners that lead to new business opportunities including investment, strategic partnerships, and new contracts for technology services.

Work with Delivery to identify tech leads for projects needing proposals.

Architect solutions to large, complex, projects involving multiple stakeholders.

Complete technical estimation for large, complex, projects involving multiple stakeholders.

Co-author proposals for strategic partnerships, investment in CoLab, and/or new work contracts.

Work with legal team to finalize agreements as contracts and/or Memo of Understanding.

Co-lead innovation team in the process of evaluating, prototyping and launching experiments in emerging technologies of relevance to the platform cooperativism sector.

Ready to roll up your sleeves and contribute code towards the projects you are helping to architect while leading a team and reviewing the work of others.

Embrace and empathize with the strategic objectives of our partners and clients.

Are excited to contribute ideas and action to the overall trajectory of CoLab.

See yourself as a craftsmen or a poet of code for whom excellence is a standard.

Soft Skills

Experience bringing technology products to market

Experience in "mission driven" technology and the measurement of social impact

Experience working with, leading, and building teams

Experience designing work processes related to technology development

Work with marketing to coordinate strategy

Listen to and respect peer and client feedback.

Build client trust and goodwill in early stages of relationship

Support delivery team by providing all information needed for strong project kickoffs as we take on new work.

Maintain relations with clients or partners in a high-level 'account management' role

Set and manage expectations with client including regarding time, money, and impact.

Help to keep work 'on track' by being mindful of technical efficiencies and budgets.

Review pull requests, mentor teammates, and generally elevate the quality of work of all.

Communicate proactively and clearly when adjustments are needed in project plans.

Provide client and peer satisfaction.

Support project 'retrospectives' with insightful feedback.

Support reviews of peers and help to optimize org processes

Qualify new relationships through a discovery process

Manage the customer journey through strategic roll out of features and work deliveries.

Support allocation of resources to maximize client satisfaction and project impact.

Improve proposal writing process iteratively contributing to a body of work shared.

Comfortable sharing authorship and in working collaboratively via technological tools.

What is CoLab Co-op?

          We are a diverse band of globally minded humans. Founded in 2010 as a worker-owned cooperative web agency to help solve global problems through collaboration and innovation. Our work focuses on simple, purpose-driven solutions. Our clients benefit from working with dedicated, talented team members who have been growing together for many years and who continue to form long lasting relationships with fellow workers, partners, and clients.

          Through our work together, we hope to build a brighter future where cooperative work contributes to a more peaceful and just world.

Time Commitment

          This position requires about 5-10 hours/week. Our working hours are +/- 3 hours eastern time zone. This initial engagement starts in mid-June and lasts through December 2018, with strong potential for long-term work across a variety of clients. The ideal candidate is interested in pursuing membership with CoLab's cooperative structure, but this is not a requirement.

Location Requirement

          Position is open to applicants living outside of the U.S. or living in Alabama, California, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, or Washington State. Our working hours are mainly +/- 3 hours Eastern time zone.

Compensation

          Hourly, commensurate with experience.

Benefits

Flexible schedule

Friendly peers

Participate in mission-driven projects

Lots of room to grow

Educational resources

Stretch responsibilities that challenge you to level up!

Path to ownership

Value-aligned community

Respect for work / life balance

Application Close Date

          June 25, 2018

Ownership Candidacy

          A path to ownership is open for the candidate. Details are based upon current membership criteria and subject to approval from the Board of Directors.

Apply

Please email jobs@colab.coop with the subject line "Senior Tech Strategy Lead." Please be prepared to share the following: a brief cover letter about your background and why you are looking for this kind of work, resume/CV, portfolio or professional links, writing samples, availability to start, and any questions you might have for us. We look forward to talking with you!

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Oleksandr has 12 years of experience in translation management and software localization, both in the language services industry and on the client side. He holds an MA in Linguistics and Translation, and taught translation theory, practice and technologies courses at Chernivtsi University in Ukraine. Oleksandr managed translation services at bodybuilding and powerlifting sports federations of WPC, WPO, NABBA and WABBA Ukraine. Before joining Achievers, Oleksandr worked as a Localization Analyst at BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion), the designer and manufacturer of BlackBerry® smartphones, tablets and solutions. At Achievers, Oleksandr is in charge of all things related to localization strategy, software internationalization, localization project management, vendor relationships, localization technologies such as TMS, terminology management, etc., to make sure the product is world-ready and the company is strong globally. Oleksandr is an expert at building localization from the ground up at a startup. Also, he is organizing the Localization Unconference Toronto.


When pursuing a dissolution of a marriage or even a temporary separation, how much you and your spouse should each contribute to raising your children may be a high priority. A skilled child support lawyer could help you determine how the child support laws may affect your specific situation in Bolingbrook.
As of July 2017, the child support laws in Illinois have changed significantly. Previously, the Illinois Code provided a simple answer for how much child support a non-custodial parent—or the parent without custody of the child—should pay: 20 percent of net income for one child, 28 percent for two children, 32 percent for three children, and 40 percent for four children. Currently, however, the system follows the examples of over forty other states in the country and uses an "income shares model." This model utilizes the income of both parents when determining the appropriate level of support.
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Under the "income shares model" of child support, the children of two divorced spouses should receive the same level of support that they would have received if both their parents were still married. As a result, whether one parent has custody or not is mostly irrelevant. In practical terms, this means that you would be legally obligated after a divorce to contribute a specified amount per month towards raising your children, regardless of whether you are the child's primary caregiver.
If you currently have a child support agreement following the previous system—where a set percentage of a non-custodial parent's gross income is set aside for child support each month—you may want to modify your child support arrangement. In order for your child support order to be eligible for modification, it must be eligible under the law.
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Ali Z. Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring and anaesthetic implications. Indian J Anaesth 2019;63:81-3
Ali Z. Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring and anaesthetic implications. Indian J Anaesth [serial online] 2019 [cited 2019 Jul 16];63:81-3. Available from: http://www.ijaweb.org/text.asp?2019/63/2/81/251977
It was in 1973 that the intraoperative wake-up test was described by Pierre Stagnara along with the anaesthesiologist Mme Vauzelle.[1] Over a period of 65 years, the intraoperative wake-up test has been replaced by intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring, which has become a real-time monitor of the functional integrity of neural structures. If appropriate manoeuvres (such as correction of hypotension and hypoxia and timely decompression from surgical retractors, pressure from bony structures, or haematomas) are taken, there may be a reduction of the neurological ischaemia and decreased morbidity.[2]
Both sensory and motor evoked potentials (EPs) are used in the operating room to assist in the surgical decision making. In the operating room, both sensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and motor evoked potentials (MEPs) are used as surrogates for postoperative clinical endpoints of motor and sensory wellbeing, as their true endpoints (with the exception of the ''wake-up'' test or awake cranial surgeries) are not available in the operating room. Holdefer[3]et al. did a literature search to investigate the causal links between surgical events and EP changes. They found that although the monitoring of EPs was not fully validated, their continued use in the intraoperative period helps to avoid or reduce the neural injury.[3] The American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring came out with a position statement that evoked potentials are an established practice option for cortical and subcortical mapping and for monitoring during surgeries that may cause injury to the brain, brainstem, spinal cord, or facial nerve.[4] During monitoring of somatosensory, visual, and brainstem auditory EPs, the specific stimulations are applied to the peripheral sites and the desired responses are recorded from the central locations. MEP monitoring for intraoperative monitoring requires transcranial stimulation of the motor cortex by electrical or magnetic means to produce a descending response that traverses the corticospinal tracts and eventually generates a measurable response. The desired recordings may be obtained from the epidural space (D-wave) or from the distal muscle.
The amplitude (measured in microvolts) is defined as the distance from the peak to adjacent trough. The time from the stimulation to the peak in milliseconds is defined as the latency. Loss of or change in the waveform can indicate the need for modification of surgical strategy, patient positioning, or patients physiological management in order to prevent or minimise neurologic injury. Specifically, a 50% reduction in amplitude or a 10% increase in latency of SSEPs, MEPs, and brain stem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) is considered to be of pathological significance.
Anaesthetic Effects on Neuromonitoring
Most anaesthetic agents cause a dose-dependent depression in synaptic activity. It has been seen that all anaesthetic agents affect MEP muscle responses and cortical potentials. Inhalational agents affect the EPs to a greater extent than the intravenous (IV) anaesthetic agents.[5] The effects are much greater on cortical responses than on subcortical responses.[6],[7] Nitrous oxide (N2O) also causes a reduction in the amplitude and an increase in the latency of both cortical sensory responses and MEP when used alone or in combination with halogenated inhalational agents or opioids.[8] It has been observed that opioids cause mild depression of sensory and motor responses, with a loss of late sensory evoked response peaks (>100 msec) at doses, which cause sedation. Fentanyl, remifentanil, or sufentanil infusions are commonly used for TIVA to facilitate neuromonitoring. Koht et al.[9] observed the effects of etomidate, midazolam, and thiopental on median nerve somatosensory EPs. Etomidate increased both amplitude and latency. Thiopental decreased amplitude and increased latency, whereas midazolam had no effect on amplitude but increases the latency. Schubert and Licina[10] observed that ketamine enhanced the cortical SSEP and MEP amplitude and partially reversed the depressant effect of N2O on SSEPs. Hence, an anaesthetic regimen with induction of anaesthesia by ketamine (2 mg/kg IV) followed by continuous infusion at a rate of 30 mcg kg-1 min-1 may be desirable for neuromonitoring. Variable effects have been reported with dexmedetomidine during SSEP or MEP monitoring. Mahmoud et al. found that dexmedetomidine as an anaesthetic adjunct to propofol-based TIVA significantly attenuated the amplitude of transcranial electric MEPs.[11] However, Rozet et al. observed that there was no difference in SEPs (latency and amplitude) and MEPs (amplitude and latency) between dexmedetomidine versus placebo groups.[12]
A balanced anaesthesia approach may be followed using a low-dose inhalation anaesthetic agent (up to 0.5 MAC) and low to medium dose propofol (50 to 100 mcg kg-1 min-1 intravenously) with a relatively high-dose opioid (fentanyl, remifentanil). However, inadequate generation of EPs may need a modification of the anaesthetic techniques. There is still a paucity of ideal anaesthetic techniques, that can be utilised for the optimal generation of EPs.
Over the last few decades, there has been an increase in the number of centres using intraoperative neuromonitoring across India in an attempt to reduce the neurological morbidity. This issue of Indian Journal of Anaesthesia features two articles on intraoperative neuromonitoring.[13],[14] In a pursuit for an ideal anaesthetic technique for patients undergoing surgery for spinal cord tumours, Parthiban et al.[13] have made an attempt to study the effects of IV anaesthesia (propofol) and inhalational anaesthesia (isoflurane) on the intraoperative motor evoked potentials (iMEPs). Authors observed that propofol anaesthesia lead to the generation of more successful baseline iMEPs (74%) when compared with isoflurane anaesthesia (50%). In addition to the anaesthetic effects, the authors found interesting findings that age and duration of symptoms could have a significant influence on elicitation of baseline iMEP. These possible effects of aging may be a result of a decrease in nervous tissue mass, neuronal density, and concentrations of various neurotransmitters.[15],[16] In patients over 40 years under propofol anaesthesia, iMEP responses could be recorded in 60% of the muscles whereas under isoflurane group responses, it could be recorded in only 40% of the muscles. The correlation trend line shows that in patients with >12 months of duration of symptoms, 42% iMEP responses could be recorded under propofol anaesthesia whereas it is lesser under isoflurane (35%) anaesthesia. Lesser stimulus strength to elicit baseline iMEPs and less potential fading was observed with propofol as compared with isoflurane anaesthesia.
Before interpreting the changes in EP during intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, physiological factors such as hypoxia, hypotension, hypothermia, and anaemia should be corrected. Positional changes as extreme head position, peripheral nerve compression, spine flexion or extension, and technical faults (as lead failure and electromagnetic interference) should be ruled out before interpreting the EPs.
In another article published in this issue of Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, Nitin et al.[14] describe the rare experience of successful intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring during pregnancy with no adverse foetal or maternal effects. Normal foetal heart rate and viability was confirmed with continuous cardiotocography and foetal echocardiography during and after the completion of the surgical procedure. No significant changes in MEP amplitude were observed intraoperatively, with no new onset motor or sensory deficits in postoperative period. This case report is valuable as we have a limited experience of intraoperative neuromonitoring during pregnancy.
We hope that these two studies published in the present issue of Indian Journal of Anaesthesia may help physicians to better understand the use of IONM and to improve the safety of patients undergoing spine surgery. EPs may act as biomarkers of neurological injury in the same way as the blood pressure and pulse oximetry monitors are monitors of tissue perfusion and oxygenation. Although we do not have any level I evidence, favouring the use of neurophysiological monitoring, its judicious use as surrogate markers in the intraoperative period (to reduce the neurological morbidity) may be justified by its ability to detect the neural injury and the absence of "second best options" in such scenarios.
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