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Cornbread & Coffee
Nebraska's Paleo-Indian and indigenous populations contributed to the evolution of cornbread. European immigrants, such as Germans, Scandinavians, and Czechs, brought their own baking traditions, which sometimes influenced the way cornbread was prepared and served.
Ædificare
Education community construction may well be the closest we come to a $100+ billion perpetual motion machine. As surely as people are born, grow wealthy and die with extra cash, there will be a home for that cash to sustain their memory and to steer the cultural heritage of the next generation in beautiful settings. Today we reflect upon the latest US Commerce Department data points released on May 1, 2024.
American Vitruvius
"The education of the architect is by far the most important, for it lays the basis of that culture which allows us to appreciate works of art and understand the beauties of our own civilization." -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. By design titles are unstable, time-sensitive and copyright protected. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Group A Model Building Codes
The largest share of safety and sustainability concepts relevant to our colloquium today today appear in ICC's Group A tranche of titles. Comments of the proposed revisions relevant to pediatric and child daycare facilities will be received until July 8th.
2028 National Electrical Safety Code
This title sets the standard of care for construction, operation and maintenance of power and telecommunication infrastructure on the supply side of the point of common coupling. It is the first title to reach for when disasters happen; with most public utilities bound to its best practice assertions by statute. Proposals for changes to appear in 2028 Edition will be received until 15 May 2024.
Recently in Washington D.C.
Access most recent coverage of lawmaking affecting education settlements: 118th Congress, Department of Commerce, Department of Education, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal Communications Commission.
Electrical Resource Adequacy
Link to the April 25th Open Meeting. Previous discussions linked here center on supply, transmission and distribution reliability. Our interest lies in closing a technical gap that exists upstream from the building service point and downstream from the utility supply point. Some, not all of it, can be accomplished with titles in the IEEE catalog. Given the strength of vertical incumbents in the electric power domain, it is time to expand reliability concepts into the ASHRAE, NFPA and ICC catalogs