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Late Night Breakfast
The midnight breakfast tradition in U.S. colleges and universities is a special event held during the final exam period, typically on the nights before the first night of exams. It is designed to help students relax and de-stress during a particularly challenging time of the academic year
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During office hours today we break down consultations on titles relevant to education communities in the United States specifically; but also with sensitivity educational settlements in other geographies where thousands of like-minded organizations also provide credentialing, instruction, research, a home for local fine arts and sport.
Children’s Rights Management
Attached herewith is the First Draft of an Icelandic Standards Association proposal for a new technical committee. We have until December 10th -- today to submit our comments to the American National Standards Institute. During today's session we will review a draft of our recommendations which will include a summary of lessons learned from nearly 20 other ISO projects in which we have been involved.
Eurocodes
The Eurocode catalog was inspired by the shared desire for improving the European market for construction products and engineering services by eliminating the disparities that hinder their free circulation within the Community. They are currently at the stage of maintenance and evolution in order to address the variety of new methods, new materials, new regulatory requirements and new societal needs developing and to extend harmonization.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. 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.
Standards Australia
Standards Australia was established in 1922 and is recognised through a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian government as the peak non-government standards development body in Australia. It is a company limited by guarantee, with 73 members representing groups interested in the development and application of technical standards and related products and services.
Global Consistency in Presenting Construction & Life Cycle Costs
"All information is contained in price" -- 2013 Nobel Laureates Eugene Fama, Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller.
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). Next Tuesday we prepare proposals for Technical Committee CMP-2.
Smart Cities: Wicked Problems
We track research that enlightens the #SmartCampus agenda. Robert Goodspeed at the University of Michigan traces the #SmartCity concept back to urban cybernetics literature of the 1970s. He argues that viewing urban problems as wicked problems allows for more fundamental solutions than urban cybernetics, but requires local innovation and stakeholder participation.