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"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." -- Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library | Dickinson State University Billings County North Dakota -
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"In this life you have to perfect one human relationship in order to really know God" -- Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen)
Missouri Southern University | Newton County
ALWAYS ON
Global Positioning System: A Generation of Service to the World
The United States developed the Global Positioning System for the world. Major Ben Calhoon, Chief of the Positioning, Navigation and Timing Branch within the Space Operations Division of Headquarters Air Force discusses the astonishing speed at which the world has accepted the global positioning system as the central element in time and space identification and measurement.
Technical Requirements for Weighing & Measuring Devices
In January 1790, President George Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, "Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to."
Flags
The flag -- a central fixture in educational settlements everywhere -- stands for a set of principles -- the reach for the ideals of a civilization -- not for the lapses of adherence to them. Here we have collected a few examples.
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. 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 15:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Code for Fireworks Display
We track but do not advocate in this code because while most educational institutions prohibit fireworks on campus, public safety departments are required to understand best practice when pyrotechnics and flame effects are used before a proximate audience in theaters and stadiums. Public input on the next 2030 Edition will be received until June 2, 2027
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.
Colloquy (July)
Open agenda. We do this once every month. Whatever anyone wants to talk about. Our Eisenhower Parkway office is closed but we will be present online. Technical standards setting lives in overtime, driven by innovation, competition, and necessity.
The Chemistry of Fireworks
Washington College Professor John A. Conkling shows how the familiar rockets and other neat products that light up the night sky all represent chemistry in action.