Time has no beginnings and history has no bounds. The way we understand the past is always changing:
“The Historian Animating The Mind of A Young Painter” 1784 Thomas Rowlandson British
History never says “Goodbye”.
History always says “See you later”
“When Herodotus composed his great work,” Richard Cohen writes at the start of Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past, “people named it The Histories, but scholars have pointed out that the word means more accurately ‘inquiries’ or ‘researches.’ Calling it The Histories dilutes its originality.
I want to make a larger claim about those who have shaped the way we view our past—actually, who have given us our past. I believe that the wandering Greek’s investigations brought into play, 2,500 years ago, a special kind of inquiry—one that encompasses geography, ethnography, philology, genealogy, sociology, biography, anthropology, psychology, imaginative re-creation (as in the arts), and many other kinds of knowledge, too. The person who exhibits this wide-ranging curiosity should rejoice in the title: historian.”
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens when you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.
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One of the largest articles in the National Electrical Code deals with wiring safety for motors, motor circuits and controllers — Article 430 — which makes sense because rotating machinery present the largest watt load in building premise power chains.
Over our 30 year tenure on NEC technical committees we have had some modest success getting safety and sustainability concepts relevant to education facilities driven into this part of the NEC. Ahead of the January 4th deadline for submitting new ideas for the 2026 revision we will review what we did and what more – if anything — can be done to improve safety and sustainability. We usually begin with an examination of the transcripts of committee decisions in the previous revision cycle; linked below.
The CSA America Standards organization has launched a new best practice title — CSA T150 Connected & Automated Vehicle Code — that may, at the very least, guide the safety and sustainability agenda of many large research universities that have transportation service units. Many governments direct research funding toward transportation so this product may inform the practicality of academic research.
Project Need: To support innovation and deployment in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles by providing infrastructure requirements for the installation and safe operations of CAVs and corresponding infrastructure in the North American context.
Stakeholders: This proposed Code is being developed at the request of industry and manufacturers. It will provide the industry with the technical requirements and standards of safe operation of CAVs. This will meet the strategic needs of the following key interests:
(a) Ensuring that the latest innovative/technology/safety features are available for users,
(b) Addressing needs of regulators by providing suitable requirements;
(c) Supporting certification bodies.
The connected and automated vehicle (CAV) code specifies infrastructure requirements for CAVs operating or intended to operate in both on-road and off-road environments in order to address public safety, security, and privacy challenges. The code includes, but is not limited to, physical and digital infrastructure. Consideration is given to cybersecurity, interoperability, data management, data privacy, data integrity, human aspects, and accessibility. The CAV code is intended to primarily address issues related to public safety, security, and privacy in conjunction with detailed knowledge of the legal, regulatory, and technological landscape, and ensuring compliance with all relevant and applicable law. The CAV code is not intended as a design specification nor as an instruction manual for untrained persons.
This is an ambitious undertaking and certain to inspire competition among competitor conformance and certification organizations. Accordingly, we will follow the developmental path of the proposed “Code”. We encourage direct participation in the CSA Group’s standards development program by students, faculty and staff in the education industry.
Standards Michigan will continue to be a resource for education facility managers, academic researchers and any other final fiduciary (user-interest) in the public or private sector who need cross-cutting perspective. This title appears on the standing agenda of our periodic Mobility colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Photo Credit: Center for Digital Education
Issue: [19-146]
Category: Transportation & Parking
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Paul Green, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwBpic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
