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“Pumpkin Spice is as Popular as Ever”
ABSTRACT Timestamp October 1, 2024: A team of faculty and students from the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University today released a new study examining 2024 conversations, trends and sentiment on social media about pumpkin spice. With Starbuck releasing its popular Pumpkin Spice Latte one week earlier than last year, consumers took to social media to discuss the polarizing flavor.
Lockers
A locker is a child's small private room inside a public institution—a place to keep possessions, secrets and the accumulated debris of becoming oneself. Today at the usual hour we will sort through the upper layers of the applicable standards. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Interiors
Today we unpack the latest in codes, standards, guidelines, recommendations and safety legislation that set the standard of care for the design, manufacture and maintenance of interior fixtures such as carpet, furniture, bookshelves and ceiling tiles, plumbing fixtures -- a large part of what construction industry professionals find in CSIGroup MasterFormat Division 12 -- Furnishings.
Classroom Furniture
Very often the cost of furnishing an occupancy in our industry is buried within a project budget as a lumped sum on a layer of a spreadsheet known only to a few "budgeteers". A visit to the university "Property Disposition" offers insight into the scale of education industry interior furnishing spend. A West Michigan ANSI-accredited standards developer.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Why You Need Standards
"When we talk about standards in our personal lives, we might think about the quality we expect in things such as restaurants and first dates. But the standards that exist in science and technology have an even greater impact on our lives. Technical standards keep us safe, enable technology to advance, and help businesses succeed. They quietly make the modern world tick and prevent technological problems that you might not realize could even happen..."
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
Iced Coffee: Summer Only or Year Round?
“Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat.” -- Johann Sebastian Bach (Coffee Cantata, BWV 211)