Figures are supplied assembled but not painted.Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Wash., will receive $25,000 in products and services as grand-prize winner in Siemens Industry Inc.'s 2011 Smartest Building in America Challenge.
Jackson South Community Hospital in Miami will receive $15,000 in products and services as runner-up.
“Having the facility managers of two hospitals win Smartest Buildings in America demonstrates the sophistication of building management in the health-care industry and their dedication to leveraging building-automation systems to improve their efficiency and environment,” Rich Lattanzi, vice president of Control Products and Systems, Building Technologies Division, Siemens Industry Inc., said.
Contestants were judged based in part on how innovatively they use their building-automation systems to achieve business, efficiency, and sustainability goals and how Siemens systems have contributed to making their buildings more efficient. Video submissions were evaluated for creativity and artistic merit and how well they articulated the innovations, features, and capabilities orchestrated by the building owner, facility manager, or consulting-specifying engineer to make a building “smart.”
Providence St. Peter’s "team highlighted how its building-automation system achieved greater efficiencies and cost despite a $102 million expansion project that doubled the building’s size,” Lattanzi added.  on Siemens’ Smartest Building in America contest and to view the winning videos, click here.With the concept of ‘entrepreneurship’ becoming more and more relevant for corporate, it is time that children need to be honed with entrepreneurial skills right from a very young age. To be successful an entrepreneur requires creativity, empathy,communication skills, problem solving ability,practical mathematics and a knack for spotting something at the right moment and having the confidence to act.
Raising a child with an awareness of entrepreneurship and associated skills can change the life for the better even if they don’t go and start a business. These set of skills will help them to grow up and be ready to take on the world. Being successful in the coming decades will be much harder as constant disruptions is fast becoming the new normal.
An entrepreneurial mindset will give them awareness of opportunities to create something of value to positively disrupt a situation,to collaborate towards an outcome or to make money in their own terms.Giving them a chance to develop skills like sales pitching, marketing, product creation, accounting, customer service, deal making,negotiation and leadership will change their life,no matter what they eventually do for work. Imbibing these qualities is not difficult. Often, understanding the traits of an entrepreneur will help in developing an entrepreneurial mindset.
Decisiveness: To succeed as an entrepreneur, one must gain the ability to look at a problem or situation, digest all available data and make confident decision to move forward. Decisive skills can be practiced and strengthened in our day to day life and it can start with the tiniest decision.
Confidence : To learn to act with confidence is one of the most important quality of an entrepreneur. It is important to understand that no one is born knowing what to speak,launch a product,how to start a blog and publish ideas to the world.
Accountability : The entrepreneurial mindset comes from taking responsibility for one’s actions and outcomes. An entrepreneurial mindset requires one to take complete control and hold oneself accountable to his/her outcomes—both good and bad.
Resilience : As an entrepreneur, one will have to deal with making mistakes and failing. They are inevitable and part of growth. Success rarely happens in a straight line. Taking wrong turns and making mistakes is something that happens to everyone. It is resilience that enables one to think, act and move iteratively—making small incremental corrections all the way.
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Along with humility comes coachability—the ability to be coached. To achieve big things in life,one needs to be willing to learn from others and nourish a growth mindset. To do big things, one needs to grow and to grow, one needs to learn.
Once a child acquires these traits, it will foster a lifelong desire to continue learning and connect with others in pursuit of a larger purpose.The entrepreneurial skills that is developed in a child will be the key to helping them have a great career, starting a game changing business or solving a meaningful problem at scale.Introduction to Adaptive partition scheduler abstract:
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Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 4 types of high-consumption masks were purchased in Baqiyatallah Hospital. Samples were tested separately by a sub-micron particle refining measuring device (GRIMM) according to ISIRI 6138 and American DOP. The efficiency and drop in air pressure in them were determined and the results were reported by.
Results: In this study, the efficiency of internal mask fabrics in particles with a range of 0.3 to 2 microns varies from a minimum of 41.5% and a maximum of 99.5%. The highest efficiency of fabric screening in the studied particles is related to the white cortex fabric of the masks. The highest pressure drop is related to the black cortex fabric of the masks and the lowest pressure drop is related to the mask fabric of N95 spunband and Mellat Blon three layers (I98-2710-2).
Conclusion: This study showed that white mask cortex fabrics (I98-2710-4) have better performance than other mask fabrics for corona virus protection, however, they still cannot provide the standard pressure drop.
The Oeksound Black Friday sale has begun. Soothe 2 is marked down from $219 to $149 ($49 for the upgrade from the original Soothe). This sale is only until November 29th.
Sonarworks has started their Black Friday sale. I use their SoundID Reference for headphones. It's a remarkable bit of software and really does elevate the quality of what you hear from your headphones. That software is on sale for $59, down from $99.
The list of supported headphones can be found here.
That sale brings the price of the BU87I C down to about $562 USD shipped from Australia.
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The Sound Radix Black Friday sale has started. This includes the Auto-Align plugin which is simple to use and will correct any phase issues you have with your tracks. I own it and it's worth every penny.
A few days back I listed the Klevgrand BF sale but I wanted to point out one particular plugin, Haaze 2, as something some of you might be interested in based on recent threads regarding turning mono into stereo. The plugin legs you pan frequencies to create a stereo effect. It's an interesting and simple approach and might be worth a look for some of you at only $29 during the sale.
Presonus' Black Friday sale is live. This includes their DAW, Studio One.
Nugen Audio is running their first ever Black Friday sale. I haven't used any of their plugins but I know there are some people who swear by them.
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If you're looking for some cheap plugins just to play around with, Hornet has a bunch that sell for less than $10.
Boz Digital Labs has some interesting plugins you don't see offered in too many places and their prices are great right now. I've used a couple of their plugins. They make good stuff.
Need a banjo accompaniment? Need someone whistling on a song? How about some background vocals? The folks at Realitone might have what you need. I own their Realibanjo plugin and it's a lot of fun.
If you need orchestral virtual instruments, the Chris Hein stuff is hard to beat.  They sound fantastic and the articulations are spot on.
I love to use cello as an accompaniment to acoustic guitar. It can cover the role of the bass or it can be used beautifully for a counterpoint melody. Emotional Cello is the most beautiful sounding virtual cello I've ever heard. I've owned this for a few years and it still blows me away. On sale for $119 at BestService.com.
The original Vidami hands free video looper pedal is 15% off today with free shipping with BLKFRIDAY15 entered at checkout. Mac/PC with Chrome. One can Pause, play, slow-down and loop internet video, hands free. The BLKFRIDAY15 code was sent in an email, so