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Garden Quadrangle
The late King Harald followed a family path. His father, King Olav V, had studied at Balliol in the 1920s and remained attached to the college. The choice also fitted the close British–Norwegian royal relationship (Harald was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II) and Balliol’s standing in history, politics and economics—the subjects he read from 1960 to 1962 after finishing the Norwegian Military Academy. He later became an Honorary Fellow.
Kokkekaffe
A traditional Norwegian boiled coffee; identical to "Cowboy Coffee" -- coarsely ground coffee added to boiling water and left to steep until the grounds settle at the bottom. No filtering; meant to be chewed, Alas, University epidemiological studies confirmed the relationship between consumption of boiled coffee and an increase in LDL cholesterol.
Nærmere Deg, Min Gud
In Lutheran memorial service the traditional hymn does not treat death as defeat or a meritorious climb but as the last stage of God’s gracious drawing. The quiet, stepwise melody and repeated refrain of this hymn make it especially suited to funerals: a humble prayer of trust rather than triumphant victory, ending in the hope of being “hjemme hos deg.”
LIVE: Bergen Studentradio FM 107.8 FM
"The Bergen Student Radio is Bergen’s oldest local radio, and it first started broadcasting in 1982. We broadcast commercial free radio every hour of every week, and we are the main concessionaire on FM 107.8 Mhz. Since spring of 2019, SriB has also broadcasted radio on DAB...."
Quadrivium: Summer
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.
Building Construction Management
The US education industry spends about $100 billion every year on building construction; some of it with products originating from all parts of the globe; most of the spend originating in value-add with on-site materials and labor. This high level best practice title, administered globally by Standards Norway, provides a template for wringing out management and technical inefficiencies. @StandardNorge
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.
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