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The Lei Yue Mun Public Library is located on the first floor of the Lei Yue Mun Municipal Building. The area is relatively small and the collection of books is small. It...The Lei Yue Mun Public Library is located on the first floor of the Lei Yue Mun Municipal Building. The area is relatively small and the collection of books is small. It specializes in serving citizens in the area and is a small library.......
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Sam Ka Tsuen Recreation Ground is a playground at the junction of Cha Kwo Ling Road and Si Shan Street in Yau Tong, Kowloon. The facilities include two basketball courts, a...Sam Ka Tsuen Recreation Ground is a playground at the junction of Cha Kwo Ling Road and Si Shan Street in Yau Tong, Kowloon. The facilities include two basketball courts, a 5-a-side hard-court football field, a 7-a-side hard-court football field, a children's playground and an elderly fitness field, etc. ......
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Lei Yue Mun Stadium is located on the 2nd to 5th floors of the Lei Yue Mun Municipal Services Building in Yau Tong, covering an area of 2,328 square meters. The gymnasium is...Lei Yue Mun Stadium is located on the 2nd to 5th floors of the Lei Yue Mun Municipal Services Building in Yau Tong, covering an area of 2,328 square meters. The gymnasium is well-equipped and provides diversified recreational facilities for residents in the district. It is an ideal venue for recreational activities. The gymnasium has a comfortable environment and an open view, where the public can overlook the scenery of Lei Yue Mun Strait. In addition, the gymnasium holds different types of recreational and sports activities every month, and citizens are welcome to sign up to participate.......
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Yau Lai Shopping Centre is a public housing estate mall built by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. It is located in Yau Tong, Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong, adjacent to the MTR Yau...Yau Lai Shopping Centre is a public housing estate mall built by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. It is located in Yau Tong, Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong, adjacent to the MTR Yau Tong Station. It mainly serves residents of Yau Lai Village, Yau Tong Village and Yau Chui Court. The shops are mainly located in From the basement to the 3rd floor, shops operate various businesses, including Chinese, Japanese and Western cuisine, convenience stores, supermarkets, beauty shops, pharmacies, barber shops and medical clinics.......
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The "Domain" shopping mall has an eight-story building with a total area of 45,000 square meters. There are many restaurants and shops, a variety of food and shopping...The "Domain" shopping mall has an eight-story building with a total area of 45,000 square meters. There are many restaurants and shops, a variety of food and shopping options, which will surely satisfy anyone's taste and needs. The characteristic sky garden of the shopping mall is equipped with a number of entertainment facilities, including interactive game zones, open-air multi-purpose courts, etc., so that you can have fun in the "big model". The "Domain Mall" is adjacent to the Yau Tong Port Station, and the location runs through the entire community, extending in all directions regardless of distance.......
General parking spaces are provided, and the aisles in the drop-off parking area are wide and convenient for wheelchair users.
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Lei Yue Mun Shopping Centre is located next to the Yau Tong MTR station. It provides a one-stop shopping and leisure option for residents in Yau Tong Village, Yau Mei Court, Ko...Lei Yue Mun Shopping Centre is located next to the Yau Tong MTR station. It provides a one-stop shopping and leisure option for residents in Yau Tong Village, Yau Mei Court, Ko Cheung Court and the district, with shops, restaurants, supermarkets, markets and other services. Meet daily needs.......
The entrance and exit are equipped with manual doors, and the width is roughly suitable for wheelchairs to pass through, some of which may require assistance from others
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Si Shan Street Cooked Food Market is in the industrial buildings in Yau Tong. It is a place for workers to solve three meals. The Si Shan Street Cooked Food Market is a food stall...Si Shan Street Cooked Food Market is in the industrial buildings in Yau Tong. It is a place for workers to solve three meals. The Si Shan Street Cooked Food Market is a food stall full of authentic flavor. Therefore, there are many workers to help out on weekdays, but it is just an authentic. Food stalls. There are no barrier-free facilities at all, and wheelchair users are not recommended to go alone.......
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The Jockey Club Lei Yue Mun Creative Hall is located at 45 Waterfront Road Central, Lei Yue Mun, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a museum donated by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and...The Jockey Club Lei Yue Mun Creative Hall is located at 45 Waterfront Road Central, Lei Yue Mun, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a museum donated by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and operated by the Social Service Fund of the Kowloon Association of Societies. The Creative Hall has multi-purpose rooms, performing arts activity rooms, The pottery room and cafe, etc., the exhibition gallery displays the history of Lei Yue Mun, including early pottery and quarry industry development.......
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White Cube is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Christine Ay Tjoe. One of the most acclaimed Indonesian artists, Ay Tjoe's work has been widely exhibited throughout Asia. For this, her first exhibition in the UK, she has produced twelve paintings including two large-scale diptychs, the culmination of several series of work.
Ay Tjoe began her career as a graphic artist exploring the intaglio dry point printing technique and then moved into working with textiles. Now encompassing painting on canvas, works on paper, sculpture and large, room-sized installations, her work focuses on the human condition as filtered through her own subjective experience, and addresses themes of philosophy and spirituality.
Ay Tjoe's paintings are often misunderstood, seen as being purely beautiful. Although they are visually seductive, they deal with abject subject matter, attempting to connect with our most powerful emotions and deep psychological fears. Using delicately applied oil bar, images can range from tentative or suggestive figurative forms to intense, dramatic passages of abstraction, frequently with large areas of the canvas left blank. The importance of drawing, in particular the line, was learnt from studying printmaking and is central to her work.
In the new paintings, Ay Tjoe looks at our global, consumer age: its hyper-urbanity, density of population, information overload and inevitable greed and competitive drive. Colourful all-over compositions seem centrifugally driven, with visceral paint application expressing a sense of physical urgency. Strong, visible brushstrokes and erased or partially rubbed out areas of paint provide a sense of chaos and energy, as if beauty morphs into abjection and equilibrium dissolves into disharmony.
Powerful emotions are suggested through the use of strong colours, with a predominance of earthy browns and blood red. Ay Tjoe's choice of colour is always charged, relating to the idea of mind, body and soul and the essential balance between all three. Embracing the notion of physical and metaphysical levels within the works,figurative and partial animal protagonists or characters emerge 'by accident' from the painting process. Ay Tjoe has said that these forms are metaphors for figures of authority, suggesting powerful witnesses, figure heads or 'gods', all forces that influence and shape our behaviour.
Christine Ay Tjoe was born in 1973 in Bandung, Indonesia, where she studied and continues to live and work. Her work has been exhibited across the Asia region, including a major retrospective at SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul (2015). Ay Tjoe has also been featured in group exhibitions around the world, including shows at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung and Singapore Art Museum (2012); Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice and Saatchi Gallery, London (2011); Shanghai Contemporary (2010); National Gallery, Jakarta (2009); Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (2005) and the Beijing International Art Biennale, China National Museum of Fine Art (2003).


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Hype around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has always been high but, in the past few years, the coverage around AI in healthcare applications has seemed to reach a peak. AI could automate the process of diagnosing patients and selecting optimal treatments, while saving millions of dollars.
On the surface, it seems logical that AI could potentially augment or even replace some diagnostic processes, but there is a lot of potential for things to go wrong.
Consider the experience of the MD Anderson Cancer Center's work with IBM's Watson platform, which was expected to revolutionize clinical decision-making. Not only were there technical failures—Watson couldn't work with the electronic medical records system—but the system was never fully functional, and the entire project wound up being a multi-million-dollar boondoggle.
Last year, there were 53,000 patient monitoring devices using data to train AI models for predictive analysis. That number could reach 3.1 million in the next five years.
Outside reports on Watson-based work at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center indicate that the technology also produced inaccurate and even unsafe recommendations, in part because of poor training the AI system received from engineers and clinical staff.
The high-profile failures of Watson point to a key weakness in AI when it comes to healthcare applications: Despite the glut of medial information available, much of the data isn't very good. In the case of treating cancer, for example, oncologists are selecting among treatments that don't necessarily have comparable clinical trial data available. There is also much about how certain types of cancer operate in the body that isn't well understood.
In other words, it's easy to train an AI engine to recognize a dog from a selection of thousands of pictures because we already what a dog is. Applying that technology to cancer diagnoses is challenging, not because AI doesn't work, but because of the limits of the human knowledge required to train the system in the first place.
Still, there have been successes. At the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics, staff report that machine learning has led to a 74% reduction in surgical site infections in three years, potentially saving millions of dollars. The solution, developed with DASH Analytics, monitors electronic health record (EHR) data until it spots an opportunity where decision support can improve outcomes.
The clinician is then presented with decision support information during the regular EHR workflow. They are able to see the risk for a specific patient, and are given suggested actions that can reduce or mitigate the risk. In the case of the surgical site infection model, real-time data from the EHR is combined with patient history and the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist so that, during the closing checks after surgery, the nurse is given information that can help reduce infection risk during wound closure.
At the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics, staff report that machine learning has led to a 74% reduction in surgical site infections in three years, potentially saving millions of dollars. Image courtesy of: gettyimages/archy13.
Surgeons are able to use costlier interventions on a selective basis with those patients most at risk of post-surgery infection. The DASH technology hs also been chosen for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Epicenters Program, where it will be evaluated in a multi-center clinical trial. There are other projects underway as well, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are even part of a project that hopes to successfully deploy AI and supercomputers to help improve cancer treatment.
According to ABI Research, AI-based predictive analytics could save hospitals $52 billion by 2021. Last year, there were 53,000 patient monitoring devices using data to train AI models for these applications. According to ABI, that number could reach 3.1 million in the next five years.
Accenture estimates the potential savings could be as much as $150 billion annually in the U.S. healthcare system by 2026.
Availability of data directly affects the training of an AI system, which has an enormous impact on how successful these systems are in medical applications.
That was a key element in a recent study that looked at how well a neural network could accurately diagnose skin cancer. Researchers at the University of Heidelberg in Germany pitted AI against a group of 48 dermatologists to see who could more accurately predict the difference between cancerous skin lesions and benign ones. The dermatologists achieved 86.6% accuracy; the computer performed with 95% accuracy.
To train the the system (the convolutional neural network, or CNN), the team presented more than 100,000 images of malignant melanomas along with benign moles and nevi. After the training, the team selected 300 images (unknown to CNN). The AI system was not only able to better identify melanomas, but was less likely to misdiagnose benign moles.
Winterlight Labs developed a product that analyzes vocal recordings, examining length of pauses and other characteristics, and comparing them to markers that could predict if a speaker is likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or other conditions. The company claims an 80% accuracy in identifying individuals with Alzheimer's.
A researcher at the University of Toronto is using machine learning to help identify which patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome (a condition that makes it difficult for the body to suppress tumors) might be most likely to be diagnosed with cancer before age 6. This helps identify problems earlier, and could also act as an alternative to full-body MRI scans, which are difficult to conduct on children (and expensive as well).
MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital are looking at ways for AI to scan images of mammograms and potentially detect breast cancer earlier than human clinicians. The company PathAI was formed with this in mind as well.
Analytics 4 Life is developing an AI system for assessing treatment of coronary artery disease with radiation or exercise, or the use of drugs. Doctors use a handheld device to scan signals from the body, and then transmit the info for analysis.
Unanimous AI in San Francisco conducted a study of its own AI technology with Stanford University's School of Medicine and demonstrated that it could diagnose pneumonia more accurately than a team of radiologists.
According to ABI Research, AI-based predictive analytics could save hospitals $52 billion by 2021. Accenture estimates the potential savings could be as much as $150 billion annually in the U.S. healthcare system alone by 2026.
Armed with enough data, AI systems could do even more good. At Mt. Sinai in New York, for example, a team of researchers created a system called Deep Patient to evaluate the hospital's health data using unsupervised learning. Looking at data from hundreds of thousands of patients, the solution was able to improve disease prediction across a range of conditions.
Electronic health records are "noisy" when it comes to data quality, with inconsistent and difficult to characterize information. The Deep Patient approach used a deep neural network composed of a stack of denoising autoencoders in an unsupervised manner, and appears to be able to analyze that type of data more effectively than other approaches.
"My main goal was to show that it was possible to apply deep learning to health records more efficiently than other techniques and get more insight from the electronic health records," says Dr. Riccardo Miotto, data scientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and lead author of the study.
These neural network-based AI systems "learn" the way a human does — not through questions and answers, but by gradually testing themselves against data that has been classified according to whatever task the researchers want it to perform.
That's why image-based identification of, say, skin cancer or anomalies in mammograms are so well suited to this approach. The key, then, is utilizing AI systems that are backed by sufficient HPC resources, and then providing them with as much good data as possible.
According to Miotto, there are other obstacles that AI needs to overcome before it is adopted more broadly in healthcare.
Despite some high-profile setbacks when it comes to using AI to improve cancer treatment, there is still significant work being done to leverage high-performance computing and AI/machine learning to fight one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), more than 600,000 people die from some form of cancer annually in the U.S. During the Obama Administration, the U.S. healthcare industry was tasked with creating a new paradigm for cancer treatment as part of the so-called Cancer Moonshot.
To that end, the Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with the NCI and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to tackle three key cancer challenges: To find a way to better understand cancer; to use cancer data to build predictive models; and to provide guidance on more effective treatments.
The DOE is contributing HPC resources, along with its own machine learning/data analytics experience, to help advance these goals.
The Department of Energy (DOE) and National Institutes of Health have launched the CANDLE (CANcer Distributed Learning Environment) project to better understand cancer interaction. Image courtesy of DOE.
On the machine learning side, the initiative has launched a project to build a single, scalable deep neural network code known as CANDLE (for CANcer Distributed Learning Environment) that can help researchers to better understand the molecular basis of some key protein interactions present in many cancers, as well as to develop predictive models for drug response that can be used to optimize screenings and precision medicine, and to automate analysis of cancer data to determine optimal treatment strategies for different patients and cancer types.
CANDLE will use a mix of supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches. For example, researchers will use supervised machine learning methods to analyze the relationship between drug properties and tumor properties, and predict a response to treatment. This will enable the development of a model to provide better treatment recommendations for specific types of tumors.
CANDLE will run on the DOE's HPC infrastructure. All of the software developed as part of the CANDLE project will be made available as an open source product.
CANDLE has already gone through several major software releases, and the system is running at a number of major government laboratories, including Argonne, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the National Cancer Institute.
The models that result from the initial work will require exascale systems to tackle the problems CANDLE is being designed address. As such, CANDLE is one of the programs at Argonne National Laboratory that has been funded by the DOE's Exascale Computing Project. That project is aimed at creating a system that can operate 50 to 100 times faster than modern supercomputers.


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L'Albana di Romagna amabile è un vino prodotto nelle province di Bologna, Forlì-Cesena e Ravenna a cui nel 2011 è stato cambiato il nome per cui dovrà per il futuro essere commercializzato con l'etichetta Romagna Albana amabile rispettando il nuovo disciplinare.

I dati qui riportati vengono conservati per fini storici.

Caratteristiche organolettiche
colore: giallo paglierino, tendente al dorato per i prodotti invecchiati;
odore: caratteristico dell'albana;
sapore: fruttato, amabile, gradevole, caratteristico.

Vinificazione
Sono consentite la vinificazione, la conservazione e l'affinamento in contenitori di legno; in tal caso i vini, al momento dell'esame organolettico, possono presentare il caratteristico sentore di legno.

Storia

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Zona di produzione
L'intero territorio amministrativo dei comuni di Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, Meldola, Bertinoro, Montiano, Roncofreddo, Longiano e parte del territorio amministrativo dei comuni di Savignano sul Rubicone, Cesena, Forlimpopoli e Forlì della provincia di Forlì-Cesena.

L'intero territorio amministrativo dei comuni di Riolo Terme, Casola Valsenio, Brisighella e parte del territorio amministrativo dei comuni di Castel Bolognese e Faenza della provincia di Ravenna

L'intero territorio amministrativo dei comuni di Borgo Tossignano, Casalfiumanese, Castel San Pietro Terme, Dozza, Fontanelice e parte del territorio amministrativo dei comuni di Imola e  Ozzano dell'Emilia della provincia di Bologna.

Produzione
Provincia, stagione, volume in ettolitri
Bologna  (1994/95)  8847,01
Bologna  (1995/96)  5458,72
Forlì  (1995/96)  9599,23
Ravenna  (1993/94)  15405,17
Ravenna  (1994/95)  13154,5
Ravenna  (1995/96)  5797,12

Note

Vini della provincia di Forlì-Cesena
Vini della provincia di Ravenna
Vini della città metropolitana di Bologna
Vini prodotti con uva Albana

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One of my customers had an issue with it's software distribution, after deploying multiple secondary sites under the same primary he did send about a thousand packages to these secondary.
Unfortunately the primary was not properly configured and the wrong drive was used to store the compressed version of the packages. As a result the drive went full and the primary site started to fail.
The issue is that there is no "easy" way to change the drive, as it was the case with SCCM 2007 (could be done from the console).
In addition, once the folder has been created on the drive, SCCM will always use it either or not a NO_SMS_ON_DRIVE.SMS flag exists.
The only supported method to move this folder now is by using the SCCM 2012 R2 SDK.
Click on "Add" and in the "propertie" window look for "Props" then double click on it.
You will get a window with many embedded properties without a specific name.
Click on close, close, save Property, save object, close, save object, close, close, close and then exit the wbemtest window.
Restart the Distribution Manager thread or simply restart sms_executive service.
The next time you will send a package to a remote site you should see from the sender.log of the primary site an entry about the creation of the share on the new drive.
In my case I only have a local DP so I can see the entry into the distributionmanager.log.
After executing this process you will be able to delete the old SMSPKG folder.


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Enbi Global, Inc. Appoints Christopher Miller as CEO
Miller brings extensive global expertise and operational discipline to
lead Enbi through its next stage of growth
Shelbyville, IN and Lexington, MA– September 24, 2019 – Enbi Global, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-performance precision rollers, insulation, gaskets and sealing technologies, today announced the appointment of Christopher Miller as CEO. Miller is a global commercial leader with deep operational and technical experience, and previously served as Vice President of the North America and APAC regions of Esko (Esko-Graphics BVBA), a Danaher Company (NYSE: DHR), which is a leading software and solutions provider to the global packaging industry.
"I am thrilled to join the excellent team at Enbi, and passionate about driving results to ensure the organization reaches its next level of potential," stated Miller. "I was attracted to Enbi for its excellence in engineering and global manufacturing capabilities across the US, Europe and Asia, and I'm looking forward to building upon Enbi's globally collaborative approach to problem solving to continue to deliver innovative products that help our customers compete in their respective markets."
"Chris has the ideal combination of commercial, operating and leadership expertise to leverage Enbi's strengths and propel the company to its next stage of growth," stated Julia Karol, Watermill President and COO. "With Enbi's recent acquisition of Pierce Industries, and the new leadership that Chris will provide, we are enthusiastic for the company's future."
Prior to joining Enbi, Miller spent 17 years at Esko where he built and managed a wide variety of cross-functional areas from Customer Service, Channel, Sales, Inside Sales, Brands and more. He is a strong practitioner of the Danaher Business System (DBS), the process for driving continuous improvement throughout an organization, and while at Esko created a holistic commercial application of DBS.
Miller earned his Bachelor of Science in Packaging Engineering from Michigan State University and a Masters in International Management from the University of Texas. In addition, he has completed executive development programs at the Chinese European International Business School.
Interim Enbi CEO Tracy Streckenbach will continue to support the business as part of the Enbi Advisory Board. Streckenbach is a Partner at Watermill Group, which acquired Enbi earlier this year.
About Enbi Global, Inc.
A leading global manufacturer of high-performance precision rollers, insulation, gaskets and sealing technologies, Enbi serves best-in-class OEMs in digital printing, ATMs and cash handling systems, HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) as well as other industries in which exacting precision and quality are critical to end-product performance. The company serves a worldwide customer base from its headquarters in Shelbyville, Indiana as well as manufacturing facilities in the US, Europe and Asia. To learn more, visit enbigroup.com.
About the Watermill Group
The Watermill Group is a strategy-driven private investment firm that helps companies achieve their full potential through strategic transformation. For more than four decades, Watermill has been acquiring, operating and improving companies. Watermill looks for businesses in which it can apply a unique combination of strategic insight and management expertise to re-imagine their future and drive growth.
This article was originally published by BusinessWire.
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Potential Conflicts of Interest: None disclosed. Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M11-1186.
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Comparative effectiveness research encompasses both individual primary research studies and syntheses of the primary research, typically systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Before accepting the results of either form of study, decision makers must critically assess their methods to identify sources of potential bias.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2011;155(1):61-62.


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Perioperative and short-term outcomes of Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy stratified by gland size
Glen D.R. Santok, Ali Abdel Raheem, Lawrence H.C. Kim, Kidon Chang, Trenton G.H. Lum, Byung H. Chung, Young D. Choi, Koon H. Rha
Objective: To investigate the effect of preoperative prostate volume (PV) on the perioperative, continence and early oncological outcomes among patients treated with Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RS-RALP). Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of 294 patients with organ-confined prostate cancer treated with RS-RALP in a high-volume centre from November 2012 to February 2015. Patients were divided into three groups based on their transrectal ultrasonography estimated PV as follows: group 1, <40 mL (231 patients); group 2, 40–60 mL (47); group 3, >60 mL (16). Perioperative, oncological, and continence outcomes were compared between the three groups. Results: The median [interquartile range (IQR)] PV for each group was; 26.1 (22–31) mL, 45.9 (41–50) mL, and 70 (68–85) mL. Blood loss was higher in group 3 compared to groups 2 and 1; at a median (IQR) of 475 (312–575) mL, 200 (150–400) mL, and 250 (150–400) mL, respectively (P = 0.001). The intraoperative transfusion rate was higher in group 3 patients (P = 0.004), while the complication rate did not differ (P = 0.05). The console time was slightly higher but was not statistically significant in group 3 compared to groups 2 and 1; at a mean (sd) of 100 (35) min, 92 (34.4) min, and 93 (24.8) min, respectively (P = 0.70). Biochemical recurrence and the continence rate did not differ between the three groups (P = 0.89 and P = 0.25, respectively). Conclusion: RS-RALP is oncologically and functionally equivalent for all prostate sizes but technically demanding for larger prostates. We therefore recommend that surgeons initiate their RS-RALP technique with smaller prostates.
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Santok, G. D. R., Abdel Raheem, A., Kim, L. H. C., Chang, K., Lum, T. G. H., Chung, B. H., Choi, Y. D., & Rha, K. H. (2017). Perioperative and short-term outcomes of Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy stratified by gland size. BJU International, 119(1), 135-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.13632
Santok, Glen D.R. ; Abdel Raheem, Ali ; Kim, Lawrence H.C. ; Chang, Kidon ; Lum, Trenton G.H. ; Chung, Byung H. ; Choi, Young D. ; Rha, Koon H. / Perioperative and short-term outcomes of Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy stratified by gland size. In: BJU International. 2017 ; Vol. 119, No. 1. pp. 135-141.
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N2 - Objective: To investigate the effect of preoperative prostate volume (PV) on the perioperative, continence and early oncological outcomes among patients treated with Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RS-RALP). Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of 294 patients with organ-confined prostate cancer treated with RS-RALP in a high-volume centre from November 2012 to February 2015. Patients were divided into three groups based on their transrectal ultrasonography estimated PV as follows: group 1, <40 mL (231 patients); group 2, 40–60 mL (47); group 3, >60 mL (16). Perioperative, oncological, and continence outcomes were compared between the three groups. Results: The median [interquartile range (IQR)] PV for each group was; 26.1 (22–31) mL, 45.9 (41–50) mL, and 70 (68–85) mL. Blood loss was higher in group 3 compared to groups 2 and 1; at a median (IQR) of 475 (312–575) mL, 200 (150–400) mL, and 250 (150–400) mL, respectively (P = 0.001). The intraoperative transfusion rate was higher in group 3 patients (P = 0.004), while the complication rate did not differ (P = 0.05). The console time was slightly higher but was not statistically significant in group 3 compared to groups 2 and 1; at a mean (sd) of 100 (35) min, 92 (34.4) min, and 93 (24.8) min, respectively (P = 0.70). Biochemical recurrence and the continence rate did not differ between the three groups (P = 0.89 and P = 0.25, respectively). Conclusion: RS-RALP is oncologically and functionally equivalent for all prostate sizes but technically demanding for larger prostates. We therefore recommend that surgeons initiate their RS-RALP technique with smaller prostates.
AB - Objective: To investigate the effect of preoperative prostate volume (PV) on the perioperative, continence and early oncological outcomes among patients treated with Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RS-RALP). Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of 294 patients with organ-confined prostate cancer treated with RS-RALP in a high-volume centre from November 2012 to February 2015. Patients were divided into three groups based on their transrectal ultrasonography estimated PV as follows: group 1, <40 mL (231 patients); group 2, 40–60 mL (47); group 3, >60 mL (16). Perioperative, oncological, and continence outcomes were compared between the three groups. Results: The median [interquartile range (IQR)] PV for each group was; 26.1 (22–31) mL, 45.9 (41–50) mL, and 70 (68–85) mL. Blood loss was higher in group 3 compared to groups 2 and 1; at a median (IQR) of 475 (312–575) mL, 200 (150–400) mL, and 250 (150–400) mL, respectively (P = 0.001). The intraoperative transfusion rate was higher in group 3 patients (P = 0.004), while the complication rate did not differ (P = 0.05). The console time was slightly higher but was not statistically significant in group 3 compared to groups 2 and 1; at a mean (sd) of 100 (35) min, 92 (34.4) min, and 93 (24.8) min, respectively (P = 0.70). Biochemical recurrence and the continence rate did not differ between the three groups (P = 0.89 and P = 0.25, respectively). Conclusion: RS-RALP is oncologically and functionally equivalent for all prostate sizes but technically demanding for larger prostates. We therefore recommend that surgeons initiate their RS-RALP technique with smaller prostates.
Santok GDR, Abdel Raheem A, Kim LHC, Chang K, Lum TGH, Chung BH et al. Perioperative and short-term outcomes of Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy stratified by gland size. BJU International. 2017 Jan 1;119(1):135-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.13632


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Mini PH launches excise tax beater, the 2018 Mini One
Mini Philippines launches new 'entry-level' One; in 5-Door and 3-Door versions
by Marcus De Guzman
Say hello the 2018 Mini One, the brand's newest hatchback offering in the Philippines that slots below the 3-Door and 5-Door Cooper models.
It features the same go-kart-like handling and peppiness as its stablemates at a more affordable price. It also comes with the brand's signature hatchback design from which it became world-famous for. The circular LED headlights, distinct front grill and eye-catching roofline serves as a reminder that you are in a Mini. It also gets LED foglights, chrome door handles and grill surround, stylish alloy wheels, and black wheel lip moldings.
Like the Cooper range, the Mini One is available in either 3-door or 5-door body styles. The Three-Door measures 3821mm long, 1425mm tall and has a 2495mm wheelbase. Meanwhile, the Five-Door comes in at 3982mm long, 1425mm tall and comes with a 2567mm wheelbase. Both versions are 1727mm in width.
A combination of fabric and leather cover the seats which makes for a comfy and snug ride. Black trim pieces, as well as faux metal accents liven up the cabin of the Mini One. Placed at the center console is Mini's signature 8.8-inch entertainment display with LED ambient light. It supports AM/FM radio, Aux Bluetooth and USB. A multi-function leather steering wheel is also fitted as standard and comes with buttons for the audio system and cruise control. Available extras for the Mini One include navigation, Mini Connect, and a Harman/Kardon speaker system.
In terms of luggage space, the 3-Door version can carry 211 liters with the rear seats up (711 liters with seats down). The 5-Door, on the other hand, is capable of holding between 278 liters and 941 liters of cargo.
Pop the hood and there's a 1.2-liter TwinPower Turbo three-cylinder engine that is mated to a six-speed automatic transmission. It puts out 102 PS at 4000 – 6000 rpm along with 180 Nm of torque at 1400 – 3900 rpm. Mini claims it can go from 0 – 100 km/h in 10.1 seconds and hit a top speed of 192 km/h. For better fuel economy, the Mini One comes equipped with auto start/stop function.
Standard safety features present in the Mini One include: anti-lock brakes (ABS) with electronic brakeforce distribution (EBD), brake assist (BA), dynamic stability control (DSC), dynamic traction control (DTC), rear parking sensors, power-folding side mirrors and a host of airbags.
Pricing of the 2018 Mini One are as follows:
Mini One 3-Door – Php 2,080,000
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Why blockchain will innovate and grow the loyalty industry
Animesh Ghosh
Businesses recognise that a loyalty programme is an important tool; for some companies, it generates up to 20% of profits. What's more, customers love collecting loyalty points and getting rewards.
In the UK the majority of the population (77%) are members of a loyalty programme. Nearly half of them believe that the programme encourages them to be loyal to the brand.
Unfortunately, the industry has stagnated, and a large number of look-alike programmes mean that customers get bored.
Despite huge participation and increasing membership, one drawback with current loyalty points is the time it takes to reach the redemption threshold, with values too low to be exciting.
Moreover, the current methods of loyalty points exchange are very limited and expensive. As such, there is scarce opportunity for a customer to pool their points for a higher-value redemption.
As a result, over $360bn worth of points lie unredeemed worldwide, ?6bn in the UK alone.
What customers want
What customers are looking for are personalised, easy and hassle-free experiences. They want to feel truly rewarded for their loyalty and enjoy the power of choice and flexibility.
The good news for the loyalty industry is that there is plenty of scope for innovation and competition, and the opportunity for increased and improved interaction with the customers.
Customers want to manage all their loyalty cards in one place, to view their available offers, vouchers, and gift cards, and to exchange and pool points for a higher-value redemption; for something they really want, something that feels like a genuine reward for their loyalty.
To facilitate this loyalty, programmes need to go fully digital. Most of the small and independent businesses use paper cards and stamps, but customers tend to lose physical cards or forget they have one.
Additionally, paper loyalty cards don't generate any customer insights: what products they favour or how receptive they will be to various offers. However, A digital loyalty programme and/or loyalty app can.
Re-engaging customers
A potential way to re-engage customers through loyalty programmes is to provide flexibility and more options on redemption by allowing exchanging points between programmes.
For example, a small independent caf in Shoreditch allows its loyalty points collected from the purchase of coffee to be exchanged for Airmiles, a spa day, or money off supermarket shopping.
By allowing an exchange, this caf increases the perceived value of their loyalty points. This particular caf will be more appealing than a caf that allows customers to only redeem points internally.
However, exchanging loyalty points has, to date, been time-consuming and expensive meaning that customers have to sacrifice a lot of their points" value.
But with advancements such as blockchain technology, this will change.
Blockchain allows the creation of a secure network of loyalty programmes, facilitating the instant and effortless exchange of points.
For example, solutions like LoyalT use blockchain technology to cost-effectively integrate any business, of any size, from any industry into a single loyalty points exchange network.
These solutions allow businesses to extend more value to their customers with a real-time loyalty points exchange facility while marketing their business to customers beyond their own programme members.
Our Shoreditch coffee shop can essentially offer Airmiles, or points of another business by simply opening up to an exchange.
In return for offering an exchange of points, businesses will benefit from deep insights on customers" shopping habits, helping them generate more customer engagement through precision marketing.
SMEs especially can gain from being a part of an exchange solution for loyalty points.
Not only can they access a massive pool of customer data to help run precision marketing, but they can also set up quickly and easily, facilitating point exchanges with huge global businesses at a very competitive cost.
Small businesses, like our coffee shop, can set up a digital loyalty programme and almost immediately start offering loyalty points on every purchase and open up exchange to some of the highly-desirable loyalty programmes.
The beauty of a loyalty network running on blockchain is that businesses own and control the data of their customers, minimising privacy concerns. Blockchain is highly secure and the data is encrypted. Further, advanced digital contracts keep information secure and private. Since blockchain automatically creates an unalterable ledger and keeps points wallets incredibly secure.
With large companies using AI and Machine Learning to transform loyalty programmes small businesses need to rethink their own approaches to rewarding customers.
Integrating different programmes across brands into a single, consolidated loyalty network will provide aggregated data and an overview of customer spend and preferences.
The quid pro quo for customers is a choice of where to spend their points and exchanging points to meet a higher redemption value.
This transformation means that small business can deliver more value to their customers by setting up to an exchange, making the process easier for customers, and helping create exciting personalised offers.
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Devaux's Index of Project Performance (usually known as the DIPP) is a project management performance metric formulated by Stephen Devaux as part of the total project control (TPC) approach to project and program value analysis. It is an index that integrates the three variables of a project (scope, time and cost) into a single value-based index where:
 Scope is monetized as the value the project is expected to generate if it is completed on a certain date;
 Time is a plus or minus monetary value if the completion is earlier or later than the target date; and
 Cost is the cost estimate-to-complete (Cost ETC) of the project, the monetary units that will be needed for resources to complete the project (i.e., factoring out sunk cost).

As an index for project go/no go decisions

The DIPP was originally proposed as a value-based metric that quantified the key variables in the decision of whether to continue funding or terminate an ongoing project. It was introduced in the Sep/Oct 1992 issue of Project Management Journal and reprinted as a chapter in the 1999 book Essentials of Project Control. It was intended to lessen the emotions surrounding such a critical decision by reducing the value/cost aspects to a formula that removed sunk costs from consideration while focusing on opportunity cost, salvage value, and project termination costs. The formula is:

 where TPCM is the total project contribution margin from all sources, OC is opportunity cost, CW is cannibalization worth (salvage value), ETC is the cost estimate-to-complete (factoring out sunk cost) and PTC is project termination cost. If the DIPP is below 1.0, the project is expected to generate less future value than it will cost to complete it and should be terminated.

As a project progress tracking index

In 1999, a simplified form of the DIPP was introduced as a technique for monetizing and integrating all three variables of the traditional project "Iron Triangle" into a single value-based baseline for measuring what the project's expected return is scheduled to be at any given future progress reporting date. The Tracking DIPP baseline formula is:

 where
 EMV is a quantification of the scope reflecting the expected monetary value if the designated scope is delivered as of the target date. Changes in scope should be reflected by changes in the value breakdown structure (VBS) that would increase or decrease the EMV.
 acceleration or delay is the premium or cost due to change in the delivery date, which will usually impact the value of the scope (EMV). (In the rare cases where it won't, that fact is important information for the management team.) At the start, the project is usually scheduled to finish on its target date, so the $acceleration or delay is usually zero in the baseline DIPP.
 Cost is the planned cost estimate-to-complete (Cost ETC) of the project. This can usually be derived from earned value management planning by using the complement of the planned value (PV) (i.e., budgeted cost of work performed, or BCWS), which estimates what the sunk cost will be at key reporting points during the project. By subtracting the PV from budget, the expected sunk cost at any point during project execution is factored out.

As project work is performed and sunk costs accrue, the Cost ETC is expected to decrease at a planned rate. Since the planned Cost ETC is the denominator of the DIPP formula, the DIPP can be plotted to rise steadily during project execution, reflecting the fact that as a project nears completion, the return on the remaining investment becomes greater and greater (thus usually making it unwise to kill an ongoing project unless its Actual DIPP approaches 1.0 or less).

As the project is executed, the DIPP provides an integrated metric, reflecting the project's investment value, against which any changes in the three variables of scope, time and cost can be measured. Any changes in the expected value of the scope, any acceleration or delay in schedule, and any change in the planned Cost ETC can be reflected in the Actual DIPP. This can be measured against the Planned DIPP to produce the DIPP Progress Index (DPI), an extension to the project's expected business value of the earned value indices the schedule performance index (SPI) and the cost performance index (CPI). The DIPP Progress Index formula is:

 A DPI of less than 1.0 indicates that the rest of the project will generate less expected value per dollar to be invested than was originally expected, due to changes in the value of the scope or changes in schedule or changes in Cost ETC, or any combination thereof. A DPI of more than 1.0 indicates that the rest of the project will generate more expected value per dollar to be invested.
The DIPP baseline presents the project team with a planned metric against which to manage, and provides guidance for individual team members who seek opportunities to enhance the project's overall business value and expected project profit (EPP) by generating a DPI of greater than 1.0. This can generally be accomplished most easily through identifying schedule acceleration opportunities identified through critical path drag and drag cost computation.

Optimizing project portfolio selection

Changes in an organization's portfolio of projects often stretch limited resources and result in project-level delays or pruning of scope, both of which would be reflected in lower DIPPs for each impacted project and sometimes of the entire portfolio. The DIPPs of each project in the portfolio can be used to generate a portfolio-level DIPP. The portfolio-level DIPP is then tracked and maximized, and used to target resources to the project where they will add the greatest value. Additionally, no new project should be added to the portfolio without first measuring the impact on existing projects of any resource bottlenecks created by the new project's schedule.
Tomoichi Sato of JGC Corporation and Tokyo University has proposed the use of an "Extended DIPP" for setting project priorities, where the Extended DIPP is equal to the risk-based project value (RPV) divided by the Cost ETC. The contributed value of a task to the project is derived as the RPV increase between the start and finish of a task, thus enabling a risk- and value-based computation for earned value analysis for product development projects.

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Hey there, I have a Decklink 4k Extreme Card and I've just begun to capture games.
I've noticed that when capturing from the PS4 (using HDMI), the LFE and Center Channel seem to be switched. Now I know I can switch the channels after capturing, but the thing is the output coming from the card is also doing the same thing, meaning when I'm playing, I can't hear the stuff that should be on the center channel at all, which means all dialogue, many sound effects etc, which is a problem. If this was one of the surround channels I probably wouldn't have any issue with it, and fix it in post.
When my PS4 is connected to an AV receiver or TV, audio is perfectly fine, I can hear all the contents of the center channel, Decklink seems to be interpreting the 5.1 audio wrong. I tried capturing in stereo as well, but that doesn't fix the problem, and I've tried both the 7.1 and 5.1 options in the ps4.
This is through both Blackmagic Media Express and Adobe Premiere Pro CS 6.
I figured that maybe this was discovered already and updated, so I tried to update my desktop video version, but the thing is doing that seems to cause problems, and just shows a black screen for the ps4, but outputs the video to the tv okay.
So currently I'm using the latest version that allows me to capture video properly, which is Desktop Video 9.9.6.
So any way to adjust or fix this somehow.
Edit: Also for the heck of it, installed the new desktop video software, captured a clip (meaning a black screen) with the audio, the audio still has the same issue, LFE and Center channels are switched, and the output through Media Express also seems to have the issue since again I can't hear any dialogue (which I know is there when I can obtain it in Premiere by switching the LFE and Center channels).
I'd suggest sending an email to your regions support office so we can take a closer look into this.
I'm having this exact same issue while trying to capture video from my Xbox One. Center and LFE are swapped. I've emailed support and they just say that it must be coming out of the Xbox that way and my Denon receiver is somehow interpreting it correctly but the Intensity Pro 4k isn't. Seems fishy because if the Denon is hooked up to the Xbox directly, the audio is correct. If i connect the Denon to the HDMI-out of the Intensity Pro 4k, the channels are swapped. For now i'm using ffmpeg to remap the audio channels correctly but it's a pain in the process and the product should just work as advertised.
You could run it trough a decimator MD-HX. In this box you are able to swap audio channels in the hdmi or sdi..
Even can use this box to loop trough to your receiver and Go SDI Out to your decklink Card..
I'm having the same problem with a UltraStudio 4K and Media Express 3.5.7. After much searching, I found that I can use ffmpeg to create a new file with the LFE and C channels swapped (i.e. corrected).
- The input.mov and output.mov file names must be replaced by hand in the command.
- The command assumes output written by Media Express. If the file was manipulated and written anew by Final Cut X, change the -map 0:0 to -map 0:1. This is required because ME writes audio as stream 0, whereas FCX writes video as stream 0 and audio as stream 1.
- The command assumes a 5.1 input file, and will write out a properly ordered (L, R, C, LFE, Ls, Rs) file. The actual magic happens with the c2=3|c3=2 part of the --filter_complex flag.
On macOS, ffmpeg can be installed using Homebrew.


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Commercial Green Buildings
With green building on the hearts and minds of many American businesses and business people, the market for green commercial real estate still finds a place, despite the current economic recession.
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"Businesses benefit when buildings are built sustainably – operating costs decrease, payback periods are shorter and asset values can increase. It's important to note that healthier indoor environments are just as much of a motivator for sustainable building, too." (Buildings, May 1, 2019) E
Facts
Green buildings consume less energy and fewer resources. Standard building practices use and waste millions of tons of materials each year; green building uses fewer resources and minimizes waste (United States Green Building Council, May 24, 2019)
Total energy consumption for all commercial buildings in 2012 — 4,241 trillion Btu (Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey, United States Energy Information Administration, May 2016)
Sustainability Information From the National Association of REALTORS®
Nineteen percent of respondents reported that their Commercial Information Exchange (CIE) had green data fields, and the CIE green data fields were used to promote energy information and green features. A majority of agents and brokers (74 percent) said that energy efficiency promotion in listings was very or somewhat valuable.
REALTORS® & Sustainability Report (National Association of REALTORS®, Apr. 2020, p. 24)
What Is a Green Building?
Going 'Deep Green,' Office Buildings Give Back to the Planet (The New York Times, Jul. 14, 2020)
Sustainability Checklist for Buildings (Buildings, Jul. 1, 2020) E
Green Building Gains Territory (Commercial Property Executive, Jun. 18, 2020)
Greener Buildings are Part of a More Sustainable Future (Facilities Net, Apr. 22, 2020)
Commercial Buildings Need to Go Green (Treehugger, Feb. 3, 2020)
The Green Buildings Market
Debunking the Myth of Green Unaffordability (Forbes, Mar. 24, 2020)
Sustainability & Commercial Real Estate Investment (Utah Property Investors, Mar. 11, 2020)
Meeting the Demand for Greener Commercial Buildings (Boss Magazine, Jun. 24, 2019)
How Cities are Driving Growth in the Green Roofing Market (ThomasNet, Feb. 12, 2019)
Converting Existing Buildings to Green
The Right "Fit": New Research Shows Certain Factors Can Influence the Success of an Energy Retrofit (School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland, Aug, 21, 2020)
Adaptive Reuse: A Guide for Aspiring Developers (Millionacres, Jul. 22, 2020)
How to Make Old Buildings Green (And 5 Cities Doing It) (Green Building Insider, Apr. 2, 2020)
Guide to Making Your Building Eco-Friendly (Green Business Council, Nov. 4, 2019)
Here's How NYC Is Trying To Shrink Buildings' Big Carbon Footprints (Gothamist, Sep. 19, 2019)
Why Investors are Looking to Retrofitting to Future-Proof Assets (The Investor JLL, Aug. 29, 2019)
No Matter the Property Type, It Pays to Invest in Energy Efficiency (Commercial Property Executive, Jul. 23, 2019)
Are You a Quitter or a Retrofitter? (Urban Green Council, Jun. 26, 2019)
Smart Building Retrofits… What's Holding You Back? (Facility Executive, Apr. 1, 2019)
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Green Roofs or Green Buildings? (Tech Xplore, Jul. 29, 2020)
Why Green Leases Will Bloom After the Pandemic (Commercial Property Executive, Jul. 16, 2020)
Energy-Efficient and Green Strategies to Increase Value of Class B/C Buildings (BOMA 2020) (Buildings, Jul. 9, 2020)
Trend: Commercial Buildings Go All-Electric (GreenBiz, Mar. 2, 2020)
New Energy Trends for Green Buildings in 2019 (The Green Building Research Institute, Jul. 24, 2019)
As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green is This New Building Material? (GreenBiz, May 21, 2019)
Green Buildings (Visit Pittsburgh, Mar. 19, 2019)
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Top 11 Green Building Certifications That Can Increase Your Property's Marketability (SharpLaunch, Oct. 3, 2019)
When Office Buildings Go Beyond Green (The New York Times, Apr. 23, 2019)
Green Certifications: What Options Are Available And Why Do They Matter? (Cyclone Energy Group, Mar. 28, 2019)
BOMA 360 Performance Program (Building Owners and Management Association International, 2019)
LEED Rating System (U.S. Green Building Council, 2020)
LEED Zero (U.S. Green Building Council, 2020)
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How PACE Loans Work (The Balance, Jul. 31, 2020)
Kimco Realty Debuts Green Debt as It Boosts Focus on ESG Issues (Bloomberg.com, Jul. 7, 2020) E
Q&A: The Power of Green Financing (Commercial Property Executive, Dec. 5, 2019)
To Meet Demand for Green Buildings, Developers Get a Leg Up (The New York Times, Aug. 27, 2019)
The Case for a US Federal Green Bank (ClimateWorks Foundation, Jul. 18, 2019)
Freddie Mac Multifamily Green Bond Framework (Freddie Mac, Jun. 6, 2019)
An Overview of Green Finance (National Law Review, Jun. 4, 2019)
Green Bond (Investopedia, Mar. 9, 2020)
Useful Websites
Penn State Center for Green Roof Research — The Center, the only location in North America with small test green roofs on replicated buildings, characterizes and quantifies the performance of green roofs and promotes their discoveries through education and outreach.
Building Green — Our focus is on helping you design and build from a whole-systems perspective. We support teams that use an integrative process that reduces ecological impact—or even provides regenerative support for ecosystems—and that maximizes return on investment, both financially and in benefits to occupants.
ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings — When you achieve Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR, you get access to a suite of marketing materials to help you distinguish your building as designed to be a top energy performer … meaning it will use less energy, cost less to operate, and generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a similar building.
Greenroofs.com — Updated daily, Greenroofs.com is a dynamic interactive website, online media company, vibrant social network, and comprehensive resource Connecting the Planet + Living Architecture promoting People, Projects & Solutions.
U.S. Green Building Council (USBGC) — The USBGC, the leading organization for green building in the U.S., administers the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System®. Their website features information on LEED certification, publications, information on workshops and other events, and more.
To search the U.S. Green Building Council's membership community of over 12,000 business, organizations, and government offices that support green design, check out their Organizations Directory.
World Green Building Council — Green Building Councils are independent, non-profit organisations made up of businesses and organisations working in the building and construction industry. As members of WorldGBC, they work to advance green building in their own countries, as well as uniting with other Green Building Councils to achieve environmental, economic and social goals on a larger, global scale.
Green Building Initiative — A 501c3 nonprofit organization, the GBI is dedicated to accelerating the adoption of building practices that result in energy-efficient, healthier and environmentally sustainable buildings.
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The following eBooks and digital audiobooks are available to NAR members:
Green Building Through Integrated Design (Kindle, eBook)
Green Buildings A to Z (Kindle, eBook)
How to Design and Build a Green Office Building (Kindle, eBook)
Land Use Law for Sustainable Development (eBook)
Retrofitting Office Buildings to Be Green and Energy-Efficient (Kindle, eBook)
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The resources below are available for loan through Member Support. Up to three books, tapes, CDs and/or DVDs can be borrowed for 30 days from the Library for a nominal fee of $10. Call Member Support at 800-874-6500 for assistance.
Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate (Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2018) HD1390 .R684 2018
The Green Building Revolution (Washington: Island Press, 2008) TH880 .Y634 2008
The Philosophy of Sustainable Design: The Future of Architecture (Kansas City, MO: Ecotone Publishing, 2004) NA 2542 M35
Green Buildings Pay (London: Spon Press, 2003) NA 2542 G72
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The Innovator Group held the University of Hartford's first annual car show on campus on Saturday, April 25, inviting students and the campus community to showcase their vehicles to those in attendance.
The event itself took a semester to plan and was mainly put together by the Student Government Association, Student Centers Administration, Public Safety, and, most importantly, the students.
The car show took place in B Lot and featured many different cars such as Mustangs and even a Lamborghini. The event was free to attend, making it more community friendly.
Not only do the students in the Innovator Group have a say in what events go on on campus, but the student body as a whole. The Innovator Group pushes to involve the Hartford community as well with the events they put on. The car show itself is one of these events open to the student body and community.
The Innovator Group also gets the schools at the University of Hartford to work together on projects. They developed a project together called "Motion Glow," set around lighting systems, which took first place this year. It included students from CETA, the Hartford Art School, and the Barney School of Business.
With this event being a success the Innovator is in the process of planning more events to come. For more information on the Innovator Group, you can email them at Innovator@hartford.edu.


Liam, Gem, Andy, Chris, Jeff and Jay almost finished the recording this week of what will be the first album of "Oasis without Noel." After two series of recordings between April and June in London, the long awaited debut album by Beady Eye is already recorded and mixed in two weeks probably in the United States, with the producer Steve Lillywhite and engineer Daniel Blunt.
Invited to attend one of the tests, guitarist Steve Conte, who plays for the punk band New York Dolls, said the band was sounding fine in the studio. He said he saw Liam singing beautifully and with great footprint a new song: he, Gem, Andy and the whole band were great, something to be respected.
Another excited one was the legend Mani of Primal Scream, who was in studio this week in one of the last recordings of the band. He said he heard a lot: the sound is excellent, it's emerging as a pleasant surprise, said Mani, making a reference to 'Screamadelica', concept album discography and an icon of the Primal Scream. He said he never saw Liam so loose since 'Definitely Maybe', he's in great shape and people should prepare to be surprised.
Also he producer Steve Lillywhite seems to think positive about the outcome. After finishing the recordings that ended at a party in the studio last Friday, Steve said: he's loving the Beady Eye and he believes we will also like.
About the album, Liam was evasive and made up some mystery about the band name. "Just a name", he said, who spoke a bit of the vibe of the recordings, saying it's working very well, and they're having a lot of work, and it will be the best thing ever produced, he said, excited.
Liam's intent is to release two singles before the album. The first one should be in mid-September / October and the second from December / January, and the album to be released then.


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Talk doesn't mean action for vets
By Pioneer Press | news@pioneerpress.com
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2008 at 11:01 p.m. | UPDATED: November 14, 2015 at 8:48 a.m.
Judging by sheer numbers alone, this is most definitely the Year of the Veteran at the state Capitol. There are 122 bills introduced this session in the Senate and 83 in the House dealing with or mentioning veterans in some way. That's 205 for the simple-math-challenged like me.
"I would have to agree and say that the (number of bills) is a bit higher this year," says Tim Michaels, a veteran and chief administrator for the Senate Agriculture and Veterans Committee, which is conducting the bulk of hearings on veteran-related bills.
Says Jerry Kyser, a Vietnam War combat vet from St. Paul and chairman of the United Veterans Legislative Council of Minnesota, "We're the buzzword right now."
Credit the ripple effects of the largest deployment — and subsequent redeployment — of Minnesota troops since World War II. Credit a nationally recognized and much-modeled homegrown "Beyond the Yellow Ribbon" campaign addressing the reintegration needs of returning Iraq and Afghanistan vets.
Veterans are about as sizzling hot and in high demand in political circles as a Hannah Montana concert ticket is with the nation's prepubescent crowd. Check out Congress, which is flooded with more than four times the number of veteran bills than their Minnesota counterparts are dealing with this year.
The avalanche of bills ranges from the basic "no-brainers" — as Kyser calls legislation to designate special days or Silver Star or Bronze Star special license plates — to the more substantive targeting of the health care, education and employment of old or newer returning combat veterans.
The following is a sampling of the bills passed or working their way through the Legislature this year:
Vietnam Veterans Day designated as March 29. It was passed and summarily celebrated for the first time in Forest Lake this year.
Korean War Armistice Day passed and designated for July 27.
Free lifetime state park permits for disabled veterans.
Veterans Outdoor Reintegration Act of 2008 adopted, providing lifetime hunting and fishing licenses to eligible veterans without fees, and appropriating money.
Resident student definition expanded to include the spouse and children of a resident veteran for purposes of determining eligibility for state financial aid for higher education.
Minnesota GI Bill program for veterans established, and money appropriated.
Veterans Day paid day off provided to veterans employed by school districts; Veterans Day educational instruction required; and private employers encouraged to grant paid holiday to veterans.
A proposed expansion of community-based services for veterans who want to receive care at home or in less-intensive facilities than nursing homes.
A so-called PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) bill that would require the criminal-justice system at the onset of a combat veteran's arrest for a nonviolent offense to consider alternative treatment or sentencing if the violator suffers from such an ailment or other combat-related affliction.
"It's not a free pass," stresses Brock Hunter, a veteran and defense attorney. "It's an attempt to persuade the court to consider alternative sentencing methods rather than incarceration in some cases."
Hunter expects that the proposed legislation, attached to omnibus offender re-entry bills under consideration in both houses, will pass.
"Some people think this is giving defendants a pass," Hunter says. "It just gives judges more information to consider in order to make a determination whether someone who has served our country deserves treatment rather than incarceration."
STATE VETS HOME GOES WANTING
Although appreciative of the floodlight on veterans-related concerns and issues, Kyser and others caution against equating quantity with quality or effectiveness.
"There are people on both sides who use the veteran but in the end don't walk the talk," Kyser says.
One major bone of contention he and others raised was the defeat of more than $26 million in bonding legislation to demolish a condemned building within the 51-acre state veterans facility in Minneapolis and build a modern care center.
The proposal was part of several construction projects — including the Central Corridor light-rail initiative — that bit the dust as part of a political clash between the DFL-controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
Pawlenty and key legislators were negotiating possible restoration of the care center and the Central Corridor funding through the weekend.
The issue centers on Building 9, a more-than-70-year-old structure within the complex that housed mostly veterans afflicted with mental health or substance-abuse problems.
The building was declared a health and safety hazard and condemned by federally contracted construction engineers months ago, and about 50 veterans were displaced to another facility or sent to area nursing homes or relatives.
The $26 million proposal was eliminated in a dispute between Pawlenty and lawmakers in paring more than $200 million in proposed state bonding.
"Frankly, that was disappointing," says Gil Acevedo. The recently appointed deputy commissioner of the state's Department of Veterans Affairs was put in charge by executive order to oversee such facilities throughout Minnesota.
Which brings us back to Hannah Montana. Legislators recently passed a measure to prevent ticket gouging for such popular events.
The vets?
"The displaced vets in (Building 9) were essentially thrown under a bridge," Kyser says.
"Just because the word 'veteran' appears in some bill, it doesn't really mean anything," Kyser says.
"We have made some progress, and I applaud that," Kyser says. "But I agree with you. Some legislators are using veterans for political gain. It's easy to come up with a bill.
"It's hard to carry through on the bigger issues," he adds. "I'm optimistic. I want Minnesota to be more veteran-friendly. But I feel it's still behind the curve. There's enough blame to go around with both sides here on this."
Rubén Rosario can be reached at rrosario@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5454.
To learn more about veteran-related bills, go to www.leg.state.mn.us and type "veteran" in the topic-search field.
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Manchester photographic business Grey Box Studio Ltd has been awarded £100k of funding, £50k each coming from Barclays Bank and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, NPIF – BFS & MSIF Microfinance.
The £10m NPIF – BFS & MSIF Microfinance provides loans between £25k and £100k to SMEs across the North West and is managed by alternative finance provider Business Finance Solutions (BFS) and by MSIF.
Director of Business Finance Solutions Paul Breen said: "Grey Box is a highly innovative and ambitious company that was unable to secure the full amount of funding they needed from the bank. Our relationship with Barclays meant that we could partner with them to create a co-funded option with Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund that enables Simon and Lindsy to secure the investment and the confidence they need to build on their reputation and to grow in a local, national and global marketplace.


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Дмитрий Александрович Скум (род. 16 апреля 1961 года, Москва, СССР) — депутат Государственной Думы I созыва от партии ЛДПР.

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Дмитрий Александрович Скум родился 16 апреля 1961 года в городе Москве, СССР.

В 1982 году окончил Московский автомобильно-дорожный государственный технический университет по профессии инженер-механик.

После окончания института пошёл служить в армию до 1985 года.

В декабре 1993 года был избран депутатом Государственной Думы первого созыва от партии ЛДПР. В Думе входил в состав комитета по промышленности, строительству, транспорту и энергетике, занимал должность помощника заместителя председателя ЛДПР.

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