ALWAYS ON
Cafes at Saint George
Tour of cafes and light snack spots within the university proper.
print (“Hello World!”)
Today at the usual hour we sort through consultations on titles relevant to our 'raison d'être' of making the essential works of educational settlements Safer-Simpler-Lower Cost-Longer-Lasting. We do so with sensitivity to the settlements in other geographies where thousands of like-minded organizations also provide credentialing, instruction, research, a home for local fine arts and sport.
System Aspects of Electrical Energy
This subcommittee oversees the vocabulary and best practice discovery processes for the system aspects of electricity supply; enjoining an acceptable balance between cost and quality. Italy is the Global Secretariat. Starting 2025 we change our approach for tracking, and participating, in the IEC catalog; anchoring on the work of the Standards Management Board.
Quadrivium: Autumn
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.
Bulletin Board
Curated list of open consultations and calls for information from state, federal and global agencies.
Education Management Systems
We follow development of an emergent standard for educational organization management systems – a project inspired by the ISO 9000-family of quality management standards. The global Secretariat is South Korea; with 60 nations participating. The US education industry is NOT participating; though Standards Michigan continues to make this opportunity visible to thought leaders in the US education industry.
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.
Canadian Parliament Debate on Standards Incorporated by Reference
In administrative law, incorporation by reference is a legislative drafting technique that enables federal agencies to give legal effect to materials that are already published elsewhere. It is most controversially used to incorporate privately authored voluntary consensus standards into health and safety regulations without infringing the standards developers' copyright. We find enlightened debate in Ottawa.