Some colleges and universities offer loan programs or financial assistance to graduates to help them purchase a home. These programs are often referred to as “homebuyer assistance programs” or “faculty/staff housing programs.”
One example is the University of California, which offers a Home Loan Program to eligible faculty and staff members. This program provides financing for the purchase of a primary residence, including both first-time homebuyers and those who have owned a home before. The program offers competitive interest rates and a low down payment requirement.
Another example is Columbia University, which has a Homeownership Assistance Program that offers eligible employees forgivable loans of up to $60,000 to use towards the purchase of a home in select neighborhoods around the university’s campuses.
It’s worth noting that these programs are not available at all colleges and universities, and eligibility requirements and loan terms can vary. It’s important for graduates to research and inquire with their alma maters about any available homebuyer assistance programs.
Aamir Ahamed- Rubel Ahmed – Md. Iquebal Hossain Patwary – Shafayat Hossain – Sohan Ul Alam
Hasan al Banna
International Islamic University Chittagong Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract: With todays increasing technologies, people also are using robots in different sectors of human life to make life easier. Meanwhile, in the care of patients, robots are used in the medicare system. A nursing robot has the ability to carry out basic nursing care functions as expected by the patients like that a human nurse. But in our country patients do not get proper nursing care, accordingly, older people are suffered a lot. They always forget to take their medicine at the proper time. So, in this paper, it is our main concern about patients or older people to remind taking medicine in time and to provide pure drinking water at any time when the patients desired. We made a framework that is a line follower robot works with IR sensor and Arduino UNO microcontroller. RF receiver receives signals from respective patients. A real-time clock (RTC) is used to supply medicine in due time. IR sensor and Ultrasonic sensor sense the presence of water glass and the level of drinking water.
This is a significant ASHRAE achievement and we do not mind saying so.
The original University of Michigan standards advocacy enterprise began participating in ASHRAE 201 Facility Smart Grid Information Model as a user-interest from 2012 until the end of 2016. Other US-based accredited standards developers in electrotechnology — such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association — compete in the “smart grid” space. We follow them too; commenting when we can, collaborating with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.
As the largest non-residential building construction market in the United States, the education facility industry should contribute meaningfully (with data, insight, pilot-sites, faculty and staff support, etc.) to all standards developers to help them improve their products.
ASHRAE 201 is a solid product in a complex space noteworthy for its technical specifics); its purpose reproduced below:
“FOREWORD. The effort to substantially modernize and transform the national electric grid and create what has become known as a “smart grid” is an enormous undertaking that reflects both the size and importance of the electric grid. Viewed in its entirety, it is an international effort involving hundreds of organizations and companies, and it will impact billions of people. The standards infrastructure that will be needed to support this transformation may include over one hundred standards by the time that it is fully in place. This standard is one part of that infrastructure.
Almost all electricity is consumed in a building of some kind – homes, retail establishments, offices, schools, factories, hospitals – the list goes on. This standard attempts to capture the breadth and diversity of these consumers by using the term “facility.” A facility is any kind of building or collection of buildings, and all of the electrical loads or local generation sources contained within them or controlled by the facility owner.
Historically, electricity consumption has been viewed as a collection of dumb loads at the end of a distribution system. There has been almost no interaction between the “loads” and those responsible for electricity generations and distribution. The vision of the smart grid changes this picture radically. In a smart grid world, facilities become full partners in supporting and managing the electric grid. Facilities become generators using local renewable or other generation capacity. Facilities moderate electrical demand in response to fluctuations in the price or [availability]sp of electricity. Facilities communicate and negotiate with energy providers, sharing information about the facility’s projected electrical demand or ability to respond to the energy provider’s needs for maintaining grid stability and reliability.
In some respects all facilities have common characteristics and needs with respect to interactions with a smart grid, regardless of whether the facility is a commercial, institutional, or industrial building, or a private home. The Facility Smart Grid Information Model (FSGIM) standard attempts to capture this commonality and standardize the content of the information that a facility manager needs to have, or, in some cases, needs to exchange with the energy provider, in order to manage the facility. Energy providers benefit from the FSGIM standard because it enables interaction with all different types of facilities in a common way. Facility owners benefit because products can be designed for use in multiple facility types and products designed primarily for one type of facility, a home for example, can more easily be used in another, say a commercial building.
An information model is an abstraction, not an implementation. This abstract representation is a way to account for the reality that the technology used to manage a facility may be quite different depending on the type of facility. It is intended that the FSGIM will be used to develop or enhance other standards that define technology and communication protocol specific implementations of the model for particular markets.
The FSGIM was developed in the context of a much larger framework of smart grid standards. It builds on some of those standards in a way that is intended to maintain consistency and harmony with established and developing standards that impact the information needed to managing the facility, while at the same time capturing all of the key information needed in one place.
If the smart grid is to become a reality there must be smart facilities of all types that interact with it. The considerable time and talent that went into developing the FSGIM was invested in order to lay a solid foundation upon which to fulfill this vision.”
Campus environmental automation units — building automation and control staff — take note. Today, we simply identify the opportunity to review the updated 837-page document whole cloth and encourage our colleagues running building environmental units to participate directly on ASHRAE Public Commenting platform, linked below:
At the moment, as of this posting, this standard appears to be stabilized.
Comments are due December 16th.
All ASHRAE consensus products are on the agenda of our periodic Energy and Mechanical colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Colleagues: David B. Anderson, David Conrad, Mike Anthony, Jim Harvey, Larry Spielvogel, Ted Weidner
Each new generation of mobile communication technology brings significant improvements in terms of speed, reliability, and capacity, enabling new applications and services that were previously not possible. 6G is expected to be even faster, more reliable, and more efficient than 5G, with theoretical peak speeds of up to 1 terabyte per second (1Tbps), latency below 1 millisecond, and the ability to support a massive number of connected devices.
However, it is important to note that 6G is still in the research and development phase, and it will likely be several years before it is commercially available. Furthermore, the exact specifications and technologies that will be used in 6G are not yet defined, and different organizations and researchers may have different ideas about what 6G will look like.
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This study reconstructs the historical Pontius Pilate and looks at the way in which he is used as a literary character in the works of six first century authors: Philo, Josephus and the four evangelists. The first chapter provides an introduction to the history and formation of the imperial Roman province of Judaea. The following two chapters examine the references to Pilate in Philo and Josephus, looking at each author’s biases before going on to assess the historicity of their accounts. The next four chapters look at the portrayal of Pilate in each gospel, asking how a first century reader would have interpreted his actions.
Each chapter asks what this portrayal shows about the author’s attitude towards the Roman state, and what kind of community found this useful. The conclusion distinguishes between the ‘historical Pilate’ and the different ‘Pilate of interpretation’ preserved in our first century literary sources.
Scholars have studied a variety of aspects of Pontius Pilate’s life and career, including his political and administrative activities in the province of Judea, his relationship with the Jewish religious leaders of the time, and his role in the trial and execution of Jesus. Some examples of other academic research include:
“Pontius Pilate: A Political Biography” by Ann Wroe – a comprehensive study of Pilate’s life, career, and impact on Roman and Jewish history.
“Pontius Pilate: Portraits of a Roman Governor” by Warren Carter – a study of the historical and literary representations of Pilate in early Christian and Jewish texts.
“The Trial and Death of Jesus: Essays on the Passion Narrative in Mark” edited by David R. Bauer and Mark Allan Powell – includes several essays on Pilate’s role in the trial and crucifixion of Jesus.
During the time of Pontius Pilate in Judea, education was primarily provided through religious institutions such as synagogues and schools attached to them. The Jewish people placed a high value on education and saw it as a way to preserve their cultural and religious traditions.
Boys were typically educated in the Torah, which consisted of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, as well as in other Jewish texts and traditions. Girls, on the other hand, were not typically given formal education and were instead taught by their mothers in the home.
In addition to religious education, some Jewish boys may have received instruction in the Greek language and culture, which was prevalent in the region due to the influence of the Hellenistic world. However, this was not common among the broader population and was largely limited to wealthier and more privileged families.
Overall, the educational system in Judea during Pontius Pilate’s time was centered on religious instruction and the preservation of Jewish traditions and values. It was not until later in history, during the time of the Mishnah and Talmud, that a more formalized system of Jewish education emerged.
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