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Animal Care during the Holidays
In the first of a four part series on how to care for your animal during the holidays veterinary technician Erin Robben focuses on equine pets.
Horologiorum
The bells still ring when the students are away on holiday -- many of them on spring break -- and will ring when they return. A collection of campus clock towers and chimes from around the world.
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.
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 the 30th, we review the financial reports of Original Equipment Manufacturers that influence electrotechnology standards setting.
Christmas Rewind
“And so we sit here in the midst of the end of the year, waiting for the bell to ring.” – Thomas Hardy (The Return of the Native)
Watch & Night Operations
This group -- the "cat-eye shift" -- keeps campus secure and sustainable while most everyone is asleep or home for the holidays.
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".