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Readings: Moral Bearing of “The Student Life”
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Non-Euclidean Geometries
While we reflect upon the fundamental constant π that appears routinely in Euclidean geometry it is also time well spent recognizing other “standard” geometries:
- Hyperbolic geometry: In hyperbolic geometry, the parallel postulate of Euclidean geometry is replaced with a different postulate, which leads to the development of a non-Euclidean geometry. In hyperbolic geometry, the sum of the angles in a triangle is always less than 180 degrees, and there are no parallel lines. This type of geometry has important applications in areas such as non-Euclidean geometry, topology, and physics.
- Elliptic geometry: In elliptic geometry, the parallel postulate is replaced with a different postulate that leads to the development of a non-Euclidean geometry. In elliptic geometry, the sum of the angles in a triangle is always greater than 180 degrees, and there are no parallel lines. This type of geometry has important applications in areas such as geometry, topology, and cartography.
- Projective geometry: Projective geometry is a type of geometry that studies properties that are invariant under projective transformations. It is used extensively in areas such as computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning, as well as in the study of complex projective structures in algebraic geometry.
Each of these geometries has its own set of axioms, theorems, and properties that are distinct from those of Euclidean geometry. They have important applications in a wide range of fields, including mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, and many others.
Understanding non-Euclidean geometries is important for several reasons:
- Broadening our understanding of geometry: Non-Euclidean geometries expand our understanding of geometry beyond the traditional Euclidean model, which is limited to two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. Non-Euclidean geometries allow for the exploration of curved spaces, which can have practical applications in fields like physics, engineering, and computer graphics.
- Advancing scientific knowledge: Non-Euclidean geometries have played a crucial role in the development of modern physics, particularly in the study of gravity and the structure of the universe. For example, Einstein’s theory of general relativity relies heavily on non-Euclidean geometries to explain the behavior of massive objects in the presence of gravity.
- Challenging our assumptions: Non-Euclidean geometries challenge our assumptions about the nature of space and our perceptions of reality. By exploring these alternative models of space, we can gain a deeper understanding of the limits of our knowledge and the nature of the universe.
- Encouraging creativity and innovation: Exploring non-Euclidean geometries can stimulate creativity and innovation in fields like art, architecture, and design. By breaking free from traditional Euclidean constraints, designers can create novel and innovative structures that challenge our perceptions of space and form.
Understanding non-Euclidean geometries is important for expanding our knowledge of the universe, challenging our assumptions, and encouraging creativity and innovation in various fields.
Free Speech Week
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Design of Public Self-service Laundry System in College Dormitory
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— Leslie (@Hopeleslie1234) August 10, 2024
Community Risk Assessment
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We have advocated education community risk management concepts since 2007; primarily in NFPA Standard 1300 — Standard on Community Risk Assessment and Community Risk Reduction Plan Development (formerly NFPA 1600). The content of this title is close-coupled with FEMA’s National Incident Management System.
Recently the National Fire Protection Association Standards Council moved to consolidate its community risk management titles as described below.
“NFPA 1660 is in a custom cycle due to the Emergency Response and Responder Safety Document Consolidation Plan (consolidation plan) as approved by the NFPA Standards Council. As part of the consolidation plan, NFPA 1660 (combining Standards NFPA 1600, NFPA 1616, and NFPA 1620) is open for public input with a closing date of November 13, 2020.”
Thus, NFPA 1600 is being sunsetted as a separate consensus product, its substance rolled into the new NFPA 1660. CLICK HERE for the new landing page for NFPA 1660.
Two links below provide a sense of the back-and-forth in the technical committee meetings:
1600_F2018_EMB_AAA_FD_PIResponses
Discussion about school and university security are noteworthy.
As described on its title page, this product will be reconfigured as NFPA 1660 Standard on Community Risk Assessment, Pre-Incident Planning, Mass Evacuation, Sheltering, and Re-entry Programs. The title suggests that NFPA 1660 is being developed to meet market need for conformance and teaching tools. You may track movement in the concepts in the links below; many of them administrative:
Emergency Management and Business Continuity
Mass Evacuation and Sheltering
NFPA 1660 will likely require one or two more revision cycles to stabilize
Public consultation on the Second Draft (NITMAM) closes September 9th. You may submit public input directly to NFPA by CLICKING HERE. We will have hosted several Security colloquia ahead of this deadline during which we will drill into technical and policy specifics.
University of Tennessee
We maintain this title on our periodic Security, Disaster and Risk colloquia during which time our thoughts on the economic burden of the expanding constellation of risk management standards will be known. Thoughts that we are reluctant to write. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [13-58] and [18-151]
Category: Security, Risk
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Robert G. Arno, Jim Harvey, Richard Robben
MORE >> Disaster Resiliency and NFPA Codes and Standards
Biden v. Nebraska
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES | OCTOBER TERM 2022
Biden v. Nebraska | Docket Number: 22-506
Dept. of Education v. Brown | Docket Number: 22-535
The Federal Student Loan Forgiveness hearings at the Supreme Court today are significant because they involve a legal challenge to a government policy that could affect the lives of millions of Americans who have student loan debt. Student loan debt can indirectly affect college and university building construction in a few different ways:
- Reduced enrollment: High levels of student loan debt can discourage some potential students from enrolling in college or university, particularly if they believe that the cost of education will leave them with insurmountable debt. This can lead to reduced enrollment, which can impact a school’s budget and its ability to fund new building construction projects.
- Reduced state funding: State funding for higher education has declined in many states in recent years, as policymakers have shifted resources toward other priorities. As a result, many colleges and universities have had to rely more heavily on tuition revenue and other sources of funding to finance building construction projects. However, high levels of student loan debt can also impact state funding decisions, as policymakers may be less inclined to invest in higher education if they believe that students are already burdened with too much debt.
- Increased operating costs: High levels of student loan debt can also impact the operating costs of colleges and universities, particularly if they have to allocate more resources toward financial aid and student support services. This can make it more difficult to fund building construction projects, which may be viewed as a lower priority in tight budgetary times.
Overall, while student loan debt may not directly impact building construction decisions at colleges and universities, it can play a role in shaping the broader financial context in which those decisions are made.
Certiorari before Judgment: No. 22–535. Argued February 28, 2023—Decided June 30, 2023
Leviathan
“But one of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity, should act as if they were the entire masters; that they should not think it amongst their rights to cut off the entail, or commit waste on the inheritance, by destroying at their pleasure the whole original fabric of their society; hazarding to leave to those who come after them, a ruin instead of an habitation – and teaching these successors as little to respect their contrivances, as they had themselves respected the institutions of their forefathers. By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of summer.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
“City of Washington from Beyond the Navy Yard” 1883 George Cooke
Coming into the homestretch of the 24- month lifespan of the 117th Congress we find over 15,000 bills and resolutions. That’s nearly 30 per-Congressperson so far; though less than 10 percent will become law; whole cloth. Some of the concepts will be adapted and integrated into administrative practice in existing federal law.
We do not advocate in this domain; merely track the ideas running through the proposals and their effect upon the business and the culture of education communities; with special attention to the cost of safety and sustainability of its real assets.
We select relevant proposals from the stream of this activity and post a selection of them at the head of our Syllabus every day:
H.R. 4595: Repeal the Federal charter for the National Education Association
Our interest is generally limited to physical infrastructure which includes instructional spaces, athletic, healthcare, transportation, research, agricultural, food supply and arts facilities. Some universities own and operate churches, nuclear power plants and airports. In nearly every way, education communities are cities-within-cities and near-perfect study units for understanding civilization itself.
The education industry builds about $90 billion of new or renovated square footage it every year and, before the circumstances of the pandemic, required at least another $400 billion to manage it. The physical infrastructure of education communities is the largest non-residential building construction market in the United States. (CLICK HERE for our coverage of the monthly US Commerce Department report on construction activity).
We estimate total spend of the education industry to be $500 billion in 2022; even discounting the circumstances of the pandemic. Five-hundred billion running through any industry tills the soil for market-making by incumbent stakeholders (“niche verticals“). Here’s how they do it:
- Direct legislative influence — i.e. crafting new legislation, or revising legacy legislation, and submitting it to Congressional staffers who “sell it” to the representative to whom they report.
- Retain technical writing shops or non-profit staffers to write passages in codes and standards to be incorporated by reference into new or legacy legislation
- Executive action
In the process of scanning through technical details many federal proposals get “caught in the net” of our tracking algorithm; particularly social justice issues. We throw them back. There are several thousand social justice warriors for every technical domain expert trying to improve infrastructure standards best practice literature.
“The Consummation of Empire” 1836 Thomas Cole
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