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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -- John A. Shedd
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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end." ~~ Seneca ('Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium' 65 AD)
Haggis
Scotland's ancestral meal: a pudding made from sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and encased in a sheep's stomach. The canonical version of it is served with mashed turnips and potatoes to bravehearts on Hogmanay (Scots New Year) with "whisky". The Scots spelling of whiskey without the "e" is a form of 'appellation d'origine contrôlée' thereby protected in common law.
Quadrivium: Winter
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Graduation, Dating, Engagements, Weddings, Births & Obituaries
Pairing young people with a lifetime bond may be the most enduring reason for educational settlements to exist; and one that has received subtle disregard by higher education administrators and marketers of the "college experience".
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
The Year Ahead 2026
Held over from yesterday's session: Our annual retrospective recap and map of oncoming year priorities.
Electrotechnology OEMS
In the consensus standards systems of the most advanced economies, the Producer Interest dominates standards setting because it builds the cost of its technology advocacy into the price of its product. Today at 16:00 UTC we examine the economic performance of the manufacturers with the largest footprint in electro-technologies that influence best practice discovery and promulgation in our domain. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Electrical Safety
Can local electrical inspectors effectively "harrass" data center developers by red-tagging (i.e. rejecting) a data center's certificate of occupancy? Today we explore the possibilities embedded in the NFPA stack.
International Zoning Code
"The purpose of the code is to establish minimum requirements to provide a reasonable level of health, safety, property protection and welfare by controlling the design, location, use or occupancy of all buildings and structures through the regulated and orderly development of land and land uses within this jurisdiction...." Today we explore how data center antagonists use zoning codes to impede the rollout of artificial intelligence.