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Are you looking for more meaning in your career? Are you driven by creating a culture of highly-engaged staff, collaborating to provide customers with exceptional services?
Our organization is growing through a reputation of being committed to the local community and serving patients through blood donation. We are the primary blood provider to over 20 hospitals in Northeast and North Central Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and are looking for a dynamic leader for our blood collection team.
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LYNN — A Swampscott resident, a retired North Shore Community College employee and students joined forces to help needy local residents stay warm this winter.
Well-known among fellow North Shore realtors, Patricia Davern reached out to generous friends and neighbors at The Residence in Vinnin Square to collect more than 60 coats along with gloves, mittens and hats for distribution.
Davern and student employees in the NSCC Student Engagement office on the Lynn campus handed out most of the coats last week, but more are available for distribution as donations come in.
"People have been so generous. Someone even dropped off two brand-new coats," Davern said.
Lynn resident Frederick Kamara picked up a warm, weather-resistant red coat to wear during the winter and thanked Davern for the collection drive.
"New coats are expensive," he said.
The coat drive grew out of retired NSCC learning specialist Ina Michelle Resnikoff's efforts working with Amanda Dooling, NSCC director of student engagement, to outfit Lynn campus students with warm clothes. Some could not afford winter gear, while others moved recently to the United States from tropical countries and had no concept of a New England winter.
"They were in the snow in flip-flops," Resnikoff recalled.
She credits Swampscott resident Dr. Ralph Epstein in 2015 with answering the call for coats for the college. Epstein urged his friends to donate used winter clothing.
"He donated about 100. He has the biggest heart of anyone," said Resnikoff.
Davern joined the coat drive after meeting students who stretched their college budgets to pay for winter clothing. She knew many friends and clients who were moving into smaller homes and needed to part with property, including winter clothes.
"I started telling people about the coat drive," she said.
The Swampscott coat lady's collection efforts resulted in 30 coats distributed in 2016. She recalled one man walking into the Student Engagement office in a T-shirt and other people who needed gloves and hats.
"I'm thrilled we have the coats for these people," Davern said.
Resnikoff said generous donors bring in baby blankets and other items to help students who balance work and childcare with school. She gave a coat last Thursday to Lynn resident Peter Vayeos, who needed it for his brother.
"The important thing is warmth and providing adequate clothing in the cold weather," she said.
Angelina Munoz works in the Student Engagement office and loves seeing the smiles on the faces of people picking up cold weather clothing. She collected a coat last week for her mother, Elina.
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Is Assisting With Assisting With Assisting With Potential Copyright Infringement Illegal?
from the perhaps-in-Sweden deptWith a Swedish court trying to shut down The Pirate Bay by forcing what it thought was the site's main ISP to block it, many folks are talking about how quickly the site came back, and the site's rather defiant response to the attempt. There's also some buzz about the fact that an antivirus company, Avast, has started blocking The Pirate Bay as being "malicious." While Avast defends the decision, it certainly makes me question Avast's competence as a security company (Update: Avast now says it was a false positive and has been fixed -- but that wasn't what the company said originally). It should be looking at actual malicious behavior -- not just blocking a site that you could go to where you might possibly if you did something dumb get some malicious files on your computer. Why not just do what a security product is supposed to do and stop the actual maliciousness from occurring, rather than blocking the entire site?
But, more to the point, this highlights one of the slippery slope problems with The Pirate Bay ruling and others. When you start to blame the tools for the problem, where do you stop? Peter Sunde made this point with a short Twitter message about the order against the ISP (I think that's what it's about):
It's now decided that Assisting with assisting with assisting of eventual copyright infringement is a crime.Indeed. This is the problem when you allow for some sort of "inducement" or "contributory copyright infringement" standard. Where do you stop? The Pirate Bay itself doesn't infringe on copyrights. It's the users who do. But, the courts blamed The Pirate Bay. And when that didn't work, it went after the site's ISP, who is so tangentially related to the actual infringement that it's ridiculous to put the burden on it. Who's next? Already we have the entertainment industry trying to get individual ISPs to block their customers from The Pirate Bay. Basically, it seems like anyone in the chain, no matter how loosely connected can now get pulled into this as potentially violating copyright law.
Update: A separate point raised in the comments: apparently the court only told the ISP to block access to a small list of specific content, but without being able to do that, it just blocked the whole site.
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Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by Melody Bot, Jan 11, 2016.
'Halloween' Rumor: David Gordon Green Returning to Direct Back-to-Back Sequels
Bring back Danny Glover
He's too old for this shit.
I'm oddly excited for this
finally seeing Midsommar tomorrow fuck yeeeeeaaa
The best approach to see it is expecting a dark comedy
New season of Scream is pretty terrible so far. Unsurprising, but was still hoping for a little bit of fun with it
You kids remember the 90's?!
Fuck, I just came here to post the same thing! Anyone else watched it when it aired? It totally hooked me and made me think the movie was real
I was very young (8), and it definitely was a turn for horror in how they advertised it. I remember seeing it at the Drive-In with my mom and older sister, and my mom was regretful for letting me see it then. I was so freaked out I couldn't even look out the windows of the car on the ride home. The "missing" merch signs and other memorabilia made it all very difficult to know if it was real or not at the time, until the actors were interviewed on TV which I saw online a bit of time later.
I remember watching the special when it aired and I honestly miss stuff like that in the internet era. A key part of the success of that film was that you just couldn't go look up information about it, the internet wasn't as prevalent yet so you could totally buy into the hype that it was real. I really love the fake 70's documentary about the witch dude in it, it totally nailed the cheesy, spooky music and cheap film look.
Yea I had internet 20 years ago and remember visiting the movie's website and they had all these clues and backstory to the legend. I didn't see it in theaters but by the time it came out I found out when Heather Donahue was interviewed on TRL
My aunt definitely thought it was real. Also, Joshua Leonard's had a pretty good career since then. Creepy as hell in Unsane
Sam Raimi Teases Return of 'Evil Dead' Film Franchise; "We're Working on Ideas Right Now" [Exclusive]
I've always wanted a sequel to the 2013 remake. *sigh*
I'd love a sequel to that
Yeah, what? The new Evil Dead is incredible, would love a sequel
Yeah, they exhausted Ash as a character with the show. I'd love more from the remake.
Man, Pet Semetary was fantastic. Perfect atmosphere, great performances, and some genuine scares. It even felt like a King story despite the changes, most of which worked in the film's favor imo. Enjoyed that so much more than I anticipated.
Well, I've avoided the thread until I could see Midsommar. Holy crap that was bizarre, funny, and beautiful. Amazing movie.
Very excited to catch it sometime this week.
maybe I need to revisit this movie. I enjoyed it but just felt like it was super rushed. I liked the changes, but wanted more from it.
I wanted to do a double feature of Child's Play and Midsommar this weekend but Child's Play is gone from every nearby theater already
Yeah I wanted to do a double feature of Child's Play and Toy Story 4 haha


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In fact, the design process in our discipline happens mostly through the medium of 3D software (Rhinoceros 3D, Maya, 3DSmax, AutoCAD). Might it be through CAD software(Computer-Aided Design), or today BIM engines (Building Information Modeling), Architects constantly translate their intention into lines and surfaces in 3D space. Suggesting relevant 3D objects, taken from exterior data sources, could be a way to enhance their design process.
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Project 1: Bounding and propagating observation uncertainty with interval mathematic (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Schön)
Intervals (Jaulin et al 2001) can be seen as a natural way to bound observation uncertainy in navigation systems such as GPS, IMU or optical sensors like LIDAR, since they are in principle free of any assumption about probability distributions and can thus describe adequately remaining systematic effects (Schön 2016, Schön and Kutterer 2006). In an ongoing project (Dbouk and Schön 2019) we used intersections of observation intervals to compute feasible positioning domains and to exclude large outliers, cf. Fig. 1. However, all results are based on - meaningful - assumptions about the respective intervals.
In this project, we intent to experimentally investigate in more details the actual size of observation intervals. To this end, the mapathon data will be re-analyzed and new dedicated experiments in urban environments as well as laboratory experiments in the new HITEC building, are designed and carried out with high-end as well as typical GNSS and IMU equipments. Special focus will be on the inclusion of remaining deviations in GNSS code and phase observations. For inertial sensors, methods should be developed to propagate the interval uncertainty through the strap-down differential equation without artificially blowing up the interval size.
(2019): Reliability and Integrity Measures of GPS Positioning via Geometrical Constraints. Proceedings of the 2019 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Reston, Virginia, January 2019, pp. 730-743. DOI: 10.33012/2019.16722
(2001): . Springer, London
Schön S. (2016): Interval-based reliability and integrity measures. Proc. ESA Navitec 2016
(2006): Uncertainty in GPS Networks due to Remaining Systematic Errors: The Interval Approach. Journal of Geodesy 80(3):150-162, DOI: 10.1007/s00190-006-0042-z
Project 2: Validation and quality assurance concepts for collaborative multi-sensor-systems (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Neumann)
Nowadays, the judgement of the quality of results (including integrity) for dynamic sensor networks is an important issue. This is of great importance when the results are used, e.g., in the context of (relative) positioning of autonomous cars. A typical example is the uncertainty of the mapped environment (point cloud) from a multi-sensor system (MSS) which is not homogeneous and depends on many different influencing factors.
Within this project a new methodology for the validation and quality assurance for collaborative interacting MSS shall be developed. Especially the gain by the collaboration for the uncertainty and integrity shall be judged. The starting point of this process is a reference product (e.g. 3D mapping information) and trajectory, which is compared with the results of the collaborative systems (backward modelling). The quality parameters of the interacting MSS are then obtained by an inverse global optimization. This includes the sensor properties, the trajectory and other relevant parameters. The obtained results can be later used for the forward quality modelling of the collaborative MSS.
The algorithms developed for the filtering of the trajectory from Sun et al. (2018) provides a basic input and the relevant quality parameters are numerically determined by the newly developed inverse method.
Stenz, U.; Hartmann, J.; Paffenholz, J.-A.; Neumann, I. (2017): A Framework Based on Reference Data with Superordinate Accuracy for the Quality Analysis of Terrestrial Laser Scanning-Based Multi-Sensor-Systems, Sensors 2017, 17(8), 1886. DOI: 10.3390/s17081886.
Sun, L.; Alkhatib, H., Paffenholz, J.-A.; Neumann, I. (2018): Geo-Referencing of a Multi-Sensor System Based on Set-membership Kalman Filter. In: 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 10-13, 2018, p. 889 - 896. DOI: 10.23919/ICIF.2018.8455763, ISBN: 978-0-9964527-6-2.
Sun, L.; Alkhatib, H.; Kargoll, B.; Kreinovich, V.; Neumann, I. (2018): A new Kalman filter model for nonlinear systems based on ellipsoidal bounding. Submitted to Journal of Optimization and Theory and Applications.
arXiv: 1802.0297
Project 3: Integrity measures for hierarchical and incremental map data acquisition (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Monika Sester)
Data acquired collaboratively by several traffic participants is characterized by different levels of detail, accuracy and completeness. Integrating and assembling this information to a consistent dynamic map requires integrating and propagating quality and integrity measures across the different levels of representation. The project involves the definition of multiscale representations of quality measures, as well as mechanisms for the propagation of those measures across the different representations. Methods from cartographic generalization, machine learning and optimization will be required.
Sester, M., Arsanjani, JJ., Klammer, R., Burghardt, D. & Haunert, JH. (2014): Integrating and Generalising Volunteered Geographic Information. Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World, Springer, 119‐155.
Schulze, M.; Brenner, C. & Sester, M. (2012): Cooperative information augmentation in a geosensor network, Advances in Geo‐Spatial Information Science, CRC Press
Hampe, M.; Sester, M. & Harrie, L. (2004): Multiple representation databases to support visualisation on mobile devices. In: Altan, O. (Hg.): XXth ISPRS Congress, Technical Commission IV, B4. XXth ISPRS Congress. Istanbul (ISPRS International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XXXV), S. 135–140.
Sester, M. (2005): Optimizing Approaches for Generalization and Data Abstraction, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, vol. 19 Nr. 8-9, pp. 871-897
Project 4: Collaborative Navigation: Being more resilient against outliers (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Schön)
In collaborative navigation, a group of dynamic nodes (vehicles, pedestrians, etc.) equipped with different time synchronized navigation sensors (GNSS, IMU, LIDAR, stereo cameras, odometer,...) increase the positioning quality by exchanging navigation information as well as performing measurements between nodes or to elements of the environment such as urban furniture or buildings (Garcia and Schön 2018). Using a centralised approach, a common filter can be set up that analyses all measurements of all participants together and estimates their states in an optimal manner. Urban areas are very challenging for navigation sensors, like GNSS multipath, diffraction and occlusions of satellite signals. Subsequently, the strength of the positioning geometry is significantly weakened and the data quality is restricted.
In this projects, the use and limits of collaborations for strengthening the reliability of positioning will be investigated. First, a new mathematical framework of reliability and integrity for collaborative sensor networks should be developed and tested in simulation studies. This includes partial GNSS observations (<4 visible satellites), use of atomic clocks, aspects of traffic flow and parked vehicles as anchors. As a result, general statements on the impact of collaboration on integrity should be derived as well as the driving quality factors. In addition, advanced concepts for outlier detection in collaborative scenarios will be developed (e.g. based on Consensus scores) and tested with real data.
Garcia-Fernandéz N., Schön S. (2018). Evaluating a LKF Simulation Tool for Collaborative Navigation Systems, Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS. DOI: 10.1109/plans.2018.8373539
Project 5: Detection and collaborative tracking of vehicles considering UAV based aerial images (apl. Prof. Dr. tech. Franz Rottensteiner)
In this dissertation project the contribution of aerial photographs taken by UAVs to the collaborative positioning of vehicles is examined. A UAV captures aerial photos of the street, depicting vehicles that can communicate with each other and with the UAV. The vehicles have stereo cameras and can thus position themselves relative to each other. Although these relative poses can increase the relative accuracy of the positioning, due to visibility restrictions, an unfavorable block configuration is to be expected. The aerial photographs can support the block geometry due to providing a better overview and linking multiple vehicles. The incorporation of UAV images requires suitable methods to recognize the vehicles in these images and to reconstruct the corresponding vehicle geometry. The corner points of the reconstructed vehicles can on the one hand serve as tie points for positioning the vehicle models in the object space; on the other hand, in this way the vehicle model can be consistently estimated from the total available information (stereo images from the vehicles, UAV images). At the same time, a collaborative tracking of the objects over time during which they can be observed by the UAV should take place. Compared to the vehicle reconstruction process already developed in the context of i.c.sense, the challenge lies in the absence of stereo information as well as in the unfavorable viewing direction for the use of pre-trained classifiers. Furthermore, the problem of collaborative tracking has to be solved. For evaluation, real-world data will be recorded at street intersections with a UAV and several vehicles equipped with stereo cameras as part of the central experimentation facility.
Molina, P.; Blázquez, M.; Cucci, D.A.; Colomina, I. (2017). First Results of a Tandem Terrestrial-Unmanned Aerial mapKITE System with Kinematic Ground Control Points for Corridor Mapping. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 60.
Coenen, M.; Rottensteiner, F.; Heipke, C. (2018). Recovering the 3D pose and shape of vehicles from stereo images.. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences IV-2, pp. 73-80, 2018.
Project 6: Collaborative positioning using imaging sensors (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Heipke)
In diesem Dissertationsprojekt wird untersucht, wie für die integre, kollaborative Positionierung mit GNSS und Bildsensoren in dynamischen Sensornetzen, in denen sich die Knoten gegenseitig erkennen und über ihren Zustand austauschen, die ursprünglichen Sensordaten (z. B. Grauwerte), daraus abgeleitete Größen (z. B. Bildmerkmale) und die relativen Posen am besten kombiniert werden können. Grundlage des Projekts sind Ansätze der photogrammetrischen Punktbestimmung mittel Bündelausgleichung, die geeignet zu erweitern sind. Dabei muss die Architektur der Gesamtlösung (zentral vs. dezentral) und die prinzipielle Bestimmbarkeit einer Lösung inklusive deren Qualität auch unter eingeschränkten Bedingungen berücksichtigt werden. Unter Nutzung der digitalen Karte ist durch Simulationen und mit echten Daten für verschiedene Szenarien der Experimentierstube, wie z.B. eine dicht befahrene Straße mit GNSS-Abschattung, zu untersuchen, in welchem Umfang durch die Kollaboration eine ausreichend genaue und zuverlässige Positionierung auch in Bereichen möglich wird, in denen kein ausreichende GNSS-Information vorhanden ist.
Molina, P.; Blázquez, M.; Cucci, D.A.; Colomina, I. (2017). First Results of a Tandem Terrestrial-Unmanned Aerial mapKITE System with Kinematic Ground Control Points for Corridor Mapping. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 60.
Yu H., Li H., Yang Z. (2019). Collaborative Visual SLAM Framework for a Multi-UAVs System Based on Mutually Loop Closing, Wireless and Satellite Systems. In: 10th EAI International Conference, WiSATS 2019, Harbin, China, January 12–13, 2019, Proceedings, Part I – LNCS, Springer.
Projekt 7: Integrity contained navigation based on vehicle data and constrained colaborative information (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Neumann)
The positioning and navigation of vehicles is usually based on the combination of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and additional inertial sensors (IMU). I.e. for long periods, the results rely mainly on the GNSS measurements. This means, that in case of GNSS interruptions and also outliers the positioning and navigation is not a process with integrity any more. This applies i.e. to difficult town environments and indoor application. To overcome this problem, a new methodology was developed which introduces constrained information to the vehicle data. Examples are vertical facades and horizontal street surfaces within a given tolerance zone. This information acts as inequality constraints in a trajectory estimation (Vogel et al. 2018). The determination of the facades and their geometric characteristic can e.g. be determined by high-end mobile mapping systems or by a collaborative mapping from a large number of autonomous vehicles. Furthermore, construction standards from ISO are available to judge the tolerance values of the buildings.
Within the new project, this methodology is extended to constrained collaborative positioning and navigation in difficult environments. Furthermore, the algorithms are transferred to mass date. The main extension lies in the integrity checking of the network. Each vehicle and their sensors together with their collaborative observations are checked within a constrained network. The methods and algorithms shall be applied to the Mapathon data. This implies the judgement of the usability of the façade information for the above task.
Schön, S.; Brenner, C.; Alkhatib, H.; Coenen, M.; Dbouk, H.; Garcia-Fernandez, N.; Fischer, C.; Heipke, C.; Lohmann, K.; Neumann, I.; Nguyen, U.; Paffenholz, J.-A.; Peters, T.; Rottensteiner, F.; Schachtschneider, J.; Sester, M.; Sun, L.; Vogel, S.; Voges, R.; Wagner, B. (2018): Integrity and Collaboration in Dynamic Sensor Networks, In: Sensors 2018, 18(7), 2400, p.21.
DOI: 10.3390/s18072400
Vogel, S.; Alkhatib, H.; Neumann, I. (2018): Iterated Extended Kalman Filter with Implicit Measurement Equation and Nonlinear Constraints for Information-Based Georeferencing, In: 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 10-13, 2018, p. 1209-1216.
Project 8: Localization and mapping using maximum consensus (apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Claus Brenner)
For mobile systems, robust localization and mapping is of great importance. Often, parametric distributions are used for the representation of uncertainties, both for the pose of the mobile systems and for the map of the environment. Although they can be computed efficiently, they are unable to model deviations from the chosen distribution function. A common source of such deviations are wrong associations in the context of localization and mapping problems, due to erroneous measurements, wrong assumptions about the ego position, or changing environments. If these are not detected as outliers, they will result in an erroneous estimate of the system state that is often difficult to detect.
Recently, maximum consensus techniques have been discussed for state estimation. They are very robust against outliers, but usually lead to a high computational effort. For systems with high integrity requirements, however, they can be an interesting solution, not only because of their robustness, but also because they allow the identification of erroneous information sources.
In this dissertation project, the applicability of such techniques for problems of filtering, smoothing and adjustment shall be considered, in particular with regard to the localization of mobile sensors using maps of the environment. To model the dependencies, probabilistic graphical models are a suitable tool, and for inference, message passing approaches may be used. As a computational model, the parallel computation, for example on massively parallel clusters or on GPUs, can be considered. The use of machine learning methods, in particular deep learning, can also be investigated, for example, to derive quality measures for consensus situations.
Li, H. (2009). Consensus set maximization with guaranteed global optimality for robust geometry estimation. In: IEEE international conference on computer vision (ICCV), pp. 1074–1080.
T.-J. Chin and D. Suter (2017). The maximum consensus problem: recent algorithmic advances. Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision (Eds. Gerard Medioni and Sven Dickinson), Morgan & Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, U.S.A.
Project 9: Combining probabilistic and interval-based error models for sensor fusion on mobile robots (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernardo Wagner)
Interval-based methods are used in the field of mobile robotics to put reliable bounds on the results of different approaches (e.g. localization, map building, obstacle detection, …). These methods return an interval (lower and upper bound) containing the true solution. However, often such an interval is not sufficiently precise as it does not provide a working point as input for a controller.
Nevertheless, methods relying on interval analysis have many advantages over probabilistic approaches (e.g. guaranteed results under given assumptions, ability to model systematic errors, no linearization errors, …). They can be used to eliminate definitely wrong results while making no explicit statement about the true solution, which is only guaranteed to reside in the resulting interval. Naively, the midpoint of an interval can serve as a point-valued solution.
On the other hand, probabilistic approaches are widely used for different problems in the field of mobile robotics. By design, they return point-valued results, which, however, cannot be guaranteed and may be significantly wrong due to systematic or linearization errors. The aim of this project is to combine probabilistic and interval-based methods for robot control to guarantee the integrity of the solution. On the other hand, this enables us to provide point-valued results for further computations.
L. Jaulin, M. Kieffer, O. Didrit, and É. Walter (2001), Applied Interval Analysis. Springer London, 2001.
R. Neuland, R. Maffei, L. Jaulin, E. Prestes, and M. Kolberg (2014). Improving the precision of AUVs localization in a hybrid interval-probabilistic approach using a set-inversion strategy, Unmanned Systems, vol. 02, no. 04, pp. 361–375, 2014.
M. Langerwisch and B. Wagner. Guaranteed mobile robot tracking using robust interval constraint propagation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 354–365, 2012. DOI:dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33515-0_36.


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1. One of my clients is converting its sales literature from inch-pound to metric (with inch-pound units also shown in parentheses).
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The various approaches represent the different market conditions confronting each organization.
In the first instance, the US-based firm is aggressively moving into international markets and needs to speak the lingua franca used for most of the world's construction. The change will not harm domestic sales, since the company uses digital-fabrication to make bespoke parts without regard for the designer's system of measurement.
CRSI, on the other hand, focuses on regional and national promotion. As a commodity product, little quantities of rebar is exported. The industry began marking its product in nominal metric sizes when it looked like the Federal government was serious about enforcing a 1991 Presidential Executive Order mandating metrication. However, the Federal Highway Administration (FWA) retracted the requirement in 2008, and most building construction in the US remains firmly inch-pound. (The primary exceptions Government agencies such as the Department of Defense.)
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Until then, each building product manufacturer will have to "weigh and measure" whether and when to embrace metric based on their unique marketing "metrics."
By the way:
"Metrication" is term for adopting metric measurements.
"Metrification" is term for using poetic meter.
Parliamentary Procedure is a Sales Tool
"Henry Martyn Robert was an engineering officer in the regular Army. Without warning he was asked to preside over a public meeting being held in a church in his community and realized that he did not know how. He tried anyway and his embarrassment was supreme. This event, which may seem familiar to many readers, left him determined never to attend another meeting until he knew something of parliamentary law." (Robert's Rules of Order website)
I am reflecting on this following the recent Annual Meeting of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI). A simple motion from the floor devolved into confusion that delayed the meeting and frustrated members. This would not have been the case if the meeting had been assisted by an able parliamentarian or if the members had a better understanding of the rules of order.
Rules of order are similar in function to MasterFormat's Division 01 - General Requirements; both describe administrative and procedural requirements to be followed in order to achieve a goal. Conducting a meeting is far easier than managing a construction project.
"The application of parliamentary law is the best method yet devised to enable assemblies of any size, with due regard for every member's opinion, to arrive at the general will on the maximum number of questions of varying complexity in a minimum amount of time and under all kinds of internal climate ranging from total harmony to hardened or impassioned division of opinion." (Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 10th ed., Introduction, p. xlviii)While CSI's meeting was tumultuous, the members were still able to approve the motion in question, with a substantial majority voting in the affirmative.
Familiarity with parliamentary procedures will enhance your participation in professional and trade associations and committees and in community affairs. To learn parliamentary procedures, I recommend reading Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised IN BRIEF, a clear, concise, and correct guidebook that is complete enough for use most meetings. I also recommend The A-B-C's of Parliamentary Procedures, a pamphlet that explains basic rules and is priced so that copies can be affordably provided to all members of an organization.
Roberts worked with the US Army Corps of Engineers, eventually becoming its Chief of Engineers. Among his many civil engineering works were improvements to waterways. Yet his greatest achievement was to improve the flow of group decision making and to drain the swamps of debate. It is altogether fitting that contemporary members of the construction industry follow his lead.
Journal of Advanced and High-Performance Materials
JMAT is one of three periodicals, along with the Journal of Building Enclosure Design (JBED) and Journal of Building Information Modeling (JBIM) published by NIBS.
While it is unlikely to become a major industry publication, it reaches industry leaders in government, research, and academia. It will also reach leading engineers and technical consultants working on advanced materials. These thought leaders will be interested in advanced materials and technologies being developed by building product manufacturers and their suppliers. It accepts contributed articles and advertising.
Green Advantage: Coming to a Job Site Near You
To meet this challenge, Green Advantage offers a personnel certification program by which a builder can demonstrate competency in these areas. Chusid Associates is providing marketing and technical support to the organization.
While the Green Advantage program has been gaining adherents since its launch in 1998, I believe it will soon gain critical mass and become part of the construction mainstream. One reason for this optimism is that USGBC has determined that a LEED Innovation Credit can be earned if 30 percent of a project's field supervisory personnel are Green Advantage Certified Practitioners. The Green Advantage Field Personnel Standard can also be embraced by building owners, designers, and contractors that are not pursuing LEED certification.
There are several ways by which building product manufacturers can take advantage of the Green Advantage program:
- Employees that go onto jobsites can become GA Certified Practitioners. This credential will enhance their professional stature and help establish their credibility.
- Having GA certified employees reinforces your brand's commitment to sustainable construction.
- GA certification can also be a criterion in the award of subcontracts since the 30 percent standard also applies to subcontractor personnel that provide services on the jobsite.
Finally, Green Advantage is a non-profit organization and needs corporate financial support to supplement its income from certifications. Support of the organization can provide PR and other benefits to your company. I encourage you to contact Liz to discuss this opportunity.
CSI Awards for Building Product Manufacturers
The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) gives several awards annually that may apply to building product manufacturers and their employees. The deadline for submitting nominations is May 6, 2011, and awards will be presented at CSI Convention during the CONSTRUCT tradeshow in September. Consider the following:
- Construction Technology Award
- Excellence in Construction Information (EICI) Award
- Technical Document Award
This award is presented for:
a) Development or use of new materials, methods, technology or project delivery systems used in the building lifecycle; or
b) Development or use of existing materials, methods or technology in a new or innovative manner for the building lifecycle.
Excellence in Construction Information Award
In the Product Documentation Category, the award recognizes excellence, originality or creativity in processes, tools, or documents used in development or construction of the built environment. Nominations may be submitted for, but not limited to:
- Manufacturers Website
- Guide Specification
- Or other Product Information that is used by a project team that contributes to a successful project.
- CSI standards as outlined in The Project Resource Manual – CSI Manual of Practice.
- CSI principle of the Four C's in preparing written documentation: Clear, Concise, Complete, and Correct.
Technical Document Award
Award is presented for a single outstanding accomplishment in technical writing other than project specifications.
Chusid Associates is available to help you take advantage of these or other award programs.
How Does CSI's Acquisition of BSD Affect Building Product Marketing?
- Does the format of a manufacturer's guide specs need to change in order to be more easily imported into BSD SpecLink-E by design professionals who use it?
- What does it cost to add a proprietary guide spec to BSD's SpecLink database?
- Can specifiers learn to create the logical checklist links for SpecLink-E in guide specs, and is it worth learning to do it in-house? Can a manufacturer's specifying consultant be cost-competitive with BSD's own writing service?
- What data should manufacturers offer for BIM interoperability with LinkMan-E?
- What data should manufacturers offer for spec and BIM interoperability with CostLink/AE?
- How will CSI's participation change BSD's pricing structure for CSI members?
- Will CSI include discounted BSD products and services in its corporate partnership program?
Recession Changes Where Designers Work
I began reflecting on this after receiving the following email from an architect that had closed his small office after 25 years of practice at the same location. While his direct impetus was a downturn in workload, he points out the shifting nature of practice as follows:
"We have seen the tools of the trade evolve from Phones, Pencils, Parallel Rules and Paper - to black and white computers, fax machines, and pagers - to color computers and mobile phones the size of bricks - to 3D CAD drawings, remote access, and multi-media cell phones. Over the past several years, staff and I have taken advantage of this technology to work more and more from homes where we have ready access to our server and speedy graphic communications. So we have now moved our operations into our home offices."Another friend, a construction specifier, opened a home-based consulting practice after being laid off by a large A/E firm. After getting use to more flexible hours and being more available to her children, I doubt she will ever again take a job that requires her to commute into the city.
These two examples are being replicated throughout the country. The recession is accelerating a fundamental shift in design. More online bandwidth allows easier and speedier collaboration among far-flung project teams. Even as the recession recedes, it is likely that corporate offices will remain leaner while more employees work from the field or from home.
In the past, a rep could visit four or five design offices in a day and potentially see dozens of architects and specifiers at each. It would be a challenge to have as many face-to-face contacts with people working out of home offices or remote locations.
Unless, that is, the sales rep embraces the same communication technologies that designers are using: email, social media, file transfer protocols, webinars, computer-to-computer video links, mobile applications, and the rest.
The other response available to a sales rep is to take advantage of professional society meetings and other events that attract large numbers of designers.
Happy Hunting!
A Green Virtual Trade Show
Hanley Wood (HW) proposes to find out. They have partnered with a digital technology group to promote GreenExpo365.com, an "online community and virtual trade show."
The website is clearly advertising driven. That in itself is not a bad thing as most trade shows try to part manufacturers from their money. But can such an online forum really form a "community" of users? USGBC, CSI, AIA, and other organizations already offer real communities. Their online components are adjuncts to committees, chapter meetings, and real trade shows.
Here is an excerpt from an HW press release:
Starting in 2011, the publisher... will provide GreenExpo365.com users with increased access to green building and design resources and top-tier design and building industry experts. "GreenExpo365.com's on-demand, community-focused platform is a natural extension of our green building information strategy," adds Peter Goldstone, President of Hanley Wood. "Through this interactive site, we'll be able to better help others increase their knowledge of environmentally responsible building practices and make well-educated decisions in the marketplace."The recession has reduced attendance at real trade shows, and some people wonder whether the large event format can survive. So I can't disparage HW, a large producer of trade shows, from hedging their bets.
The award-winning GreenExpo365.com site is a resource for architects, builders, remodelers, dealers, code officials, manufacturers and others interested in green building design and construction. It offers quarterly "live" events in an online trade show format that includes expert presenters and exhibitors, bi-weekly webinars on a host of green building topics, on-demand continuing education courses registered with the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and 24/7 interaction on blogs and forums.
Still, I think they would be better off exploring ways to build real online communities, forums that take advantage of the power of the web, rather than creating ersatz versions of trade shows.
Cutting out Cut Sheet? Don't hold your breath.
Proprietary product data sheets will continue to be required for as far as I can see into the future. I offer five reasons why this will take so long:
- Consensus standards always take a long time to develop.
- The user-interfaces (BIM systems and mobile platforms, for example) will continue to change faster than the consensus standards can be implemented.
- Retraining an industry takes decades, even generations.
- Consensus standards work by defining minimum requirements, but designers, code bodies, and other industry forces constantly create new requirements that go beyond the minimum.
- Unless you manufacture a commodity product, you will want to compete on unique features and benefits that are not expressed in a standardized database.
Here is the full text of their press release:
Cutting out the Cut Sheet? SPie Streamlines the Product Specification and Selection Process
It won't be long until product specification sheets are a thing of the past. A new, easier way to select products, the Specifiers' Properties information exchange (SPie), is helping manufacturers to deliver product information to specifiers and designers in an easy-to-compare, digital format. Specifiers and designers can witness a free demonstration of how SPie works on December 6 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm, during the National Institute of Building Sciences Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with Ecobuild America in Washington, D.C.
"Establishing a consistent definition and use of materials, products, equipment and assemblies is vital to the exchange of building information," said Nicholas Nisbet, director of AEC3 UK Ltd., who is assisting the Institute and industry trade associations to implement the SPie standard. "We're working with trade associations to define the minimum properties for their members' products so that designers and specifiers can compare product information directly against their requirements."
The demonstrations in December will show how adopting the SPie standard can improve the specification/selection process as well as other downstream processes, such as:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC), the Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice (SCIP), and the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) are spearheading the SPie project. Manufacturers and manufacturing associations, including the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), the Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industries (AWCI), the Woodwork Institute (WI), the Architectural Woodwork Institute (AWI) and the Architectural Woodwork Manufacturers Association of Canada (AWMAC) are active participants. During the December 6 demonstration, several industry associations will show how they are implementing the SPie standards and illustrate how SPie can extend into electronic purchasing, O&M, QTO and submittals.
- Lighting fixture specification and selection using standard specification software, allowing for the option of electronic purchasing,
- Electrical elements, including operation and maintenance (O&M) methods,
- Wall products and the impact of standard naming on quantity take-off (QTO) and estimating, and
- Cabinetry specification and the processing of submittals.
"The focus of NEMA and its partner IDEA is to facilitate matching specific needs of building owners and designers to specific products in the marketplace. First, for the electrical industry. But, given the flexibility of the NEMA/IDEA solution, to those in other industries as well," said Jim Lewis, NEMA's manager for high performance buildings. "Working in conjunction with the National Institute of Building Sciences and other organizations on the SPie initiative, we are looking forward to presenting our joint contribution to the next-generation of building information modeling (BIM) solutions on December 6th."
SPie extends and cross references the OmniClass™ product and properties tables. It applies the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard, which is already widely used for data sharing in building information modeling (BIM), to product specifications data.
To register for the free SPie demonstration, visit www.aececobuild.com/register, select the "Exhibits and Keynotes Pass," and enter promotion code NIBSIE to waive the fee.
A Durablity Index For Home Building?
"At the "Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) Annual Meeting being held in Orlando Florida on October 6-8, 2010, a group of government, industry, and corporate leaders as well as a variety of Subject Matter Experts will finalize ongoing work to define the features and performance standards for the Durable and Green house of the future."
This work is expected to eventually result in a Durability index, a result that could have major marketing implications if the index gains wide acceptance.
Read the whole post here.
FLASH is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization dedicated to promoting disaster safety and property loss mitigation.
Trade Association Antitrust Guidelines
Antitrust laws prohibit firms in the same industry from conspiring to restrain trade. There are potential civil and criminal penalties for violations under United States antitrust laws. Potential consequences of violating or appearing to violate antitrust laws can be severe for trade associations, member companies, and their employees.
When attending trade association meetings and other activities, you must follow general guidelines in order to avoid violations of antitrust laws.
Topics that must be avoided include:
- Pricing: This includes current or future prices or costs; what is a fair profit level; increases or decreases in price; standardizing or stabilizing prices; and pricing procedures.
- Sales Territories: Dividing customers or allocating sales territories or markets.
- Limiting Supply: Agreements encouraging or discouraging members from purchasing equipment, supplies, or raw materials from any supplier or from dealing with any supplier or restricting the volume of goods produced or made available for sale.
- Boycotts: Restricting the purchasing or dealing with particular outsiders.
- Discussions concerning specific agreements or disputes, past or present, between members.
Meetings must have an agenda that should be strictly followed. Minutes of each meeting should be prepared. The minutes should accurately reflect the subjects discussed and actions taken at the meetings.
Members should not hold informal gatherings. No substantive discussions should take place outside official meetings.
Association membership should not be arbitrarily awarded. It is assumed that members derive an economic benefit from being association members; therefore denial of membership to an otherwise qualified applicant can be seen as restraint on trade since it might limit the ability of the applicant to compete.
Specifications or standards developed shall not be based on any anticompetitive purpose. Adherence to specifications or standards shall be voluntary.
Please note that these guidelines are recommendations and are not comprehensive. Legal counsel should be contacted when potential antitrust issues arise.
Chusid Associates has worked with many building industry trade associations to develop promotional, technical, standards writing, educational, and marketing programs. We also serve on industry committees to serve our clients' interests. Contact Michael Chusid if we can be of assistance to you.
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Building Products Manufacturers Alliance Meeting
Construction Writers give Award to Chusid Associates
The Kneeland "Ned" Godfrey Award is presented for a body of work published in construction industry magazines and journals. It recognizes superior journalistic and writing skills over the course of a year.
The winning articles from Chusid Associates include:
- "The Building Brick of Sustainability" appeared in The Construction Specifier on behalf of our client Calstar Products.
- "Waterproofing Without Membrane" appeared in Post Tensioning Institute Journal on behalf of our client CTS Cement Manufacturing Corp.
- "Lightening Up on Concrete Cladding" appeared in Concrete Technology Today on behalf of our client Easi-Set Industries.
- "Conveys technical material with a clear and approachable style."
- "Dispels construction myths. These three articles are all excellent educational tools."
- "Presents new and vital tools of the trade."
- "Makes ideal use of sidebars and illustrations to highlight significant details."
- "Provides great case studies; provides but doesn't overly depend on statistics."
- "Tailors details and style for three different publications. That's impressive! Such an approach respects the intelligence and professionalism of each audience."
This year's award will be presented this fall at CWA's annual convention in Chicago.
Green Building Products Coalition
Welcome to the organizing site for a Green Building Products Coalition
- Has your company committed to achieving a sustainability leadership position?
- Are you struggling to understand what "green" really means for building products?
- Do you think innovation and transparency are getting lost in the green marketing frenzy?
- Are you frustrated by the proliferating number of product certification systems?
- Do you need help deciding which industry standards directly apply to your business?
- Are you confused about which product directory offers the best venue for your products?
- Do you lay awake at night thinking about PCRs, LCAs and EPDs? (We hope not!)
- Does your company have in-house expertise that could inform these discussions?
A Green Building Products Coalition would seek alignment through collaboration and leadership from withing the building products industry and its supply chain to address the industry's sustainability challenges and opportunities - head on!
Many organization are active in the area of building products and sustainability, and the Coalition invites collaboration. We seek to encourage constructive relationships that align our members' and other's activities to achieve hamonization of information and approach in support of long-term sustainability.
The GBPC would give building product manufacturers the opportunity to leverage their collective expertise and develop a common framework for innovation and implementation. Its goal is to create a credible forum for the building products supply chain in which to discuss, define, reach consensus, take action on, and communicate about how product-level attribute improvements can support system-level sustainability.
Practical Solutions
The GBPC would connect the building products industry and its supply chains with environmental and health experts, government agencies, standards and certification bodies and other key stakeholders to provide education and create the resources and tools required to help the industry make better informed decisions; innovate product design, manufacturing, and communications; and integrate with the building team.
Potential Projects
GPBC members would determine what the Coalition works on, but potential projects might include:
- Conducting research to identify and prioritize areas of environmental concern
- Developing responsible building product design and disclosure guidelines
- Creating/delivering workshops on relevant product assessment methodologies
- Researching and writing building product materials environmental technical briefs
- Developing product and enterprise level sustainability metrics and reporting formats
Path Forward
The Construction Specifications Institute, Environmental Protection and GreenBlue (founders of the successful Sustainable Packaging Coalition which would serve as a model of the GBPC) invite you to join us to explore the launch of a Green Building Products Coalition and determine its focus and direction.
Philadelphia Convention Center
Philadelphia, PA
March 12 - 14 2010
Sign up and register here.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, contact Chusid Associates to represent your interests there.


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Congratulations Jen and André! This gorgeous couple tied the knot on a beautiful yacht on the Detroit River! I cant begin to describe how amazing their day was! These two are so incredible and have the most loving family and friends! Here's a few sneak peeks from today!
2015 Senior Snow Session
Congratulations "J" on your senior year!
So grateful for the beautiful snow we had! We waited a whole month for it and it was so worth it! "J" did so great braving the cold! We took pictures at the park where his team trains for Cross Country and it was perfect with all its bridges and natural beauty. A special thanks to his mom for bringing hot chocolate (you're amazing!)! God bless you "J" as you begin the next chapter of your life, being true to who you are, and creating many wonderful new friendships and memories along the way!
The Pastor Family
Tall grass, bridges, and katydids all make for a very fun family portrait adventure! It was so great to see the Pastor family again and to experience Historic Bridges Park for the first time! Pastor Family, your kiddos are truly great! It was so fun to see them get excited at all the little games we played and looking for katydids with dad in the grass. You are both doing an amazing job of raising such sweet little ones! I love seeing how you enjoy them!
Here's a little look back at the last time I saw your beautiful family. It's amazing how fast they have changed in two years!