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How to Make Grilled Cheese with a Clothing Iron
Butter both sides of bread. Load cheese. Wrap in aluminum foil. Iron at highest setting for four minutes on each side.
Summer Meals
This program ensures that children from low-income families continue to receive healthy food, preventing hunger and promoting proper nutrition. Meals are distributed at various sites, such as schools, parks, and community centers, often coupled with recreational activities.
Colloquy (June)
Open agenda; Not Too Organized. Whatever anyone wants to talk about. We do this once every month. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Summer Hours at our State Street Office: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM. Join us for lunch 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM every Third Wednesday of the month at the University of Michigan Golf Course.
AI Risk Management Framework
We list a few projects related to LLMs that demonstrate NIST’s role in advancing measurement science, standards, and guidelines for trustworthy AI systems generally The adoption of AI into building construction means and methods will accelerate.
Quadrivium: Summer
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. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. 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.
2024+ Student Paper Competition
ANSI's Annual Student Paper Competition was paused last year; perhaps to be resumed at some future date. The Society for Standardization Professionals paper competition remains active, however. Details about topic, award and deadline are linked here.
I-Code Group B Committee Action Results
We will sort through the results of last month's standardization action as it applies to health care facilities -- with particular interest in maternity and neo-natal intensive care technologies -- ahead of the follow up technical meetings in Cleveland in October.
Current Issues and Recent Research
Next: Approval by the NFPA Standards Council for release of the 2026 National Electrical Code this week at the Annual Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. IEEE Release of the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code on July 1. Sorting the electrotechnology concepts appearing in the recent release of the International Code Council's "Group B Complete Monograph" ahead of the follow up meetings in Cleveland in October.
Update Status
Happy to report progress. We continue sorting through anomalies with Godaddy Tech Support to resolve our requirement for frequent and timely updates across all of our platforms. Several plug-in compatibility issues have since been resolved after the Wordpress release. 6.8.1 on May 7th. Our normal course of business is not effected, A few janky visuals persist as third party developers update their plug-ins and widgets.