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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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Time
"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.
Date & Time: Representations For Information Interchange
The potential for misinterpreting dates across national boundaries is the logic for ISO 8601. This format for dates represents year, month, and day from the largest unit to the smallest, most specific unit of time. The ISO date format is the date format used in SQL and is the default date setting on many computers.
Time & Frequency Services
Time is the most measured quantity on earth. The National Institute of Standards and Technology maintains the standards for time and frequency for most users in the United States; among them education communities that use coordinated time to guide all dimensions of academic activity. The signals are broadcast via several mediums, including high and low frequency radio, the Internet and telephone lines.
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.
What Is A Standard Drink?
“It’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning” – Jimmy Buffett
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.