In addition to the astonishing size of the global garment industry, risk aggregations in the facilities that support the education and training of young professionals for careers in this field are among the most complex. Not only have we moved this topic from our Saturday stream (which has run about four years now) but starting 2023 we move it into our weekday curriculum further breaking the coverage down further. Join us today at 16:00 UTC as we begin organizing these topics separately.
We start with titles on our Fine Arts syllabus; putting aside the arguable difference between style and fashion which is largely outside our area of expertise. Keeping these spaces safe and sustainable is.
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Everyone would basically be 50% happier if everyone dressed a little better. Clothes are everywhere. Everyone doesn’t have to be a clothes hound, but if the girls looked pretty and the guys looked nice, people would be happier and even more optimistic about the future. pic.twitter.com/iQcNPL1cMl
This year’s Annual Fashion Show features 171 looks from 42 designers. Collections and single-submission garments were chosen by a panel of industry critics and jurors. The pieces include evening wear, market-ready, universal design and more. https://t.co/3shpSI9LdV
The School of Fashion had the pleasure of hosting students from Streetsboro Middle School. Students got the chance to gain a better understanding of fashion, design and knitwear by participating in a variety of educational activities.
Education communities in every nation provide a locus for community cultural art production, enjoyment and instruction. It is both a consumer and producer; with the expansion of massive open online curricula drawing from the best practices conveyed from the visual arts.
One of the first names in this domain is the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers that support the technical framework and global professional community that makes motion picture, television and professional media available for all humanity to enjoy for artistic, educational and social purposes. The landing pages for its standards development enterprise are linked below:
We maintain SMPTE titles on the standing agenda of our Lively Arts, Power, Fine Art and Infotech colloquia. We also collaborate with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets 4 times monthly in European and American time zones. See our CALENDAR for the next online meetings; open to everyone.
Issue: [Various]
Category: Academics, Seven Lively Arts Facilities, Electrical, Telecommunication
Contact: Mike Anthony, Sanne Clare Anthony, Jim Harvey, Richard Robben
Large Language Models have propelled the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, greatly expanding the boundaries of machine intelligence. Global tech giants and innovative enterprises are intensively deploying strategies around LLMs. As products based on LLMs are continuously launched and iterated, the evaluation of their capabilities has gradually become the focus of the industry. However, how to conduct a systematic, comprehensive evaluation and quantification of LLMs through unified evaluation criteria still requires in-depth exploration. Some enterprises and institutions have established relevant evaluation benchmarks and rankings for general large models in fields such as education and finance but there is still a lack of guidance for LLMs in the electric power industry.
The electric power industry, a key sector related to the global economy and people’s livelihood, is rich in professional knowledge and business logic. The evaluation of LLMs in this sector should focus on issues such as what power-specific capabilities large language models should possess, the level these capabilities should reach, how to construct industry evaluation datasets, and how to conduct objective evaluations, so as to form evaluation guidelines.
The aim is to use these guidelines to provide comprehensive, professional, objective, and scientific evaluation results for LLMs in the electric power sector, understand the boundaries of their professional capabilities, and guide the research, development, optimization, and application of LLMs. However, the existing evaluation standards for general LLMs are difficult to assess the capabilities of LLMs in the electric power sector comprehensively and thoroughly. Therefore, it is necessary to construct an evaluation system for LLMs in the electric power sector , tailored to industry-specific characteristics, and to formulate corresponding evaluation guide.
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One explanation for America’s low fertility rate is that some private women’s colleges place relatively little institutional emphasis on social environments that encourage long-term relationships leading to marriage and family formation.
Advocates of this view argue that these colleges often prioritize academic achievement, leadership development, professional careers, and personal independence over traditional courtship opportunities. They contend that limited interaction with male students, fewer campus traditions centered on mixed-gender social life, and cultural norms that delay marriage may reduce the likelihood of graduates forming families during their twenties. According to this perspective, colleges could contribute more to demographic renewal by fostering healthy, voluntary opportunities for students to meet compatible partners while respecting individual choice.
Critics, however, argue that fertility trends are shaped far more by broader economic conditions, housing costs, career pressures, cultural change, and personal preferences than by the educational environment of women’s colleges alone.
Today during our usual hour we sweep through standards action in building glazing, entrances and means of egress. The word fenestration (Latin: fenestra) has become a term of art for the design, construction, and placement of openings in a building, including windows, doors, skylights, and other glazed elements. While the word has sparse use in the International Code Council and National Fire Protection Association catalog it is widely used by the Construction Specifications Institute in its MasterFormat system for organizing construction standards, guidelines and building contracts.
The percentage of a building envelope “skin” that is comprised of doors and windows varies depending on the specific building design, function, and location. However, a commonly cited range is between 15% to 25% of the total building envelope. The actual percentage will depend on several factors such as the building’s purpose, orientation, local climate, and energy performance goals. Buildings that require more natural light or ventilation, such as schools, hospitals, and offices, may have a higher percentage of windows and doors in their envelope. In contrast, buildings with lower lighting and ventilation requirements, such as warehouses, may have a smaller percentage of windows and doors.
Fenestration presents elevated risk to facility managers. The education facility industry is a large target and a pattern of settling out of court. For example:
In 2013, a former student at Yale University sued the school over a broken window in her dorm room. The student alleged that the university was negligent in failing to repair the window, which allowed a burglar to enter her room and sexually assault her. The case was settled out of court in 2015 for an undisclosed amount.
In 2019, a student at the University of California, Los Angeles sued the school over a broken window in her apartment. The student alleged that the university was negligent in failing to repair the window, which allowed a swarm of bees to enter her apartment and sting her. The case was settled out of court for $4.5 million.
In 2020, a group of students at Harvard University sued the school over its decision to require them to move out of their dorms due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The students alleged that the university breached its contract with them by failing to provide suitable alternative housing, including functioning windows and doors. (The case is ongoing; best we can tell as of the date of this post).
These cases illustrate that colleges and universities can face legal action related to doors and windows, either due to alleged negligence in maintaining or repairing them, or due to issues related to student housing and accommodations.
Our inquiry breaks down into two modules at the moment:
Note 40 school-related entrance and egress concepts (Search term: “School”)
Doors have long since been a simple “opening” or “fenestration”. Doors are “portals”; nodes on the geometry of the Internet of Small Things. There are 100’s of thousands of these nodes on any single college, university or school district. First costs run from $1000 per door in a classroom to $100,000 per door in hospitals with maintenance and operation costs commensurate with complexity of the hardware and software needed to maintain integration of the door with building security and energy systems.
We find the bulk of best practice identified in the catalogs of the following accredited standards developers for the United States construction markets:
The US federal government and all 50-states adapt safety and sustainability concepts from the foregoing publishers; either partially or whole cloth.
Today at the usual hour we examine the moment in the standard of care for doors in education communities in the United States. Join the colloquium with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
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It’s all about those little details, folks! How cool is this hand-finished brass hinge??! It’s one of our favorites.
You can find at House of Antique Hardware in their antique-by-hand finish. You can thank us later 🙂 pic.twitter.com/7C0kxGe31N
We are in the 2024–2026 ICC code development cycle, which is producing the 2027 editions of the International Codes. The 2024 IBC is the current published edition (released in 2023/early 2024). Chapter 15 (Roof Assemblies and Rooftop Structures) in the 2024 edition includes updates on topics like roof drainage, underlayment, wind resistance, occupiable rooftops, and aggregate-surfaced roofs.
“Thammasat University has introduced an adaptive climate solution with Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm, the Thammasat University Rooftop Farm or TURF. Designed by LANDPROCESS, the $31 million TURF incorporates sustainable food production, renewable energy, organic waste, water management, and public space within its 22,000 square meters. A century ago, King Rama the fifth created the Rangsit rice plantations and a vast network of canals here, but it was paved over as Bangkok expanded. Integrating landscape architecture with the ingenuity of traditional rice terraces, the rooftop farm is an excellent example of cultural adaptation and reuse. Carved into the mountainous architecture, TURF maximizes the terrain to create multi-functional public spaces. Employing modern greenroof technology, diverse cascading plantations mitigate flood risks while growing food to feed the community.
Located at the main axis of the campus, the H-shape architecture stands for Humanity, divided into four equally-accessible sections representing a core element of democracy— people, liberty, equality, and fraternity. At the ground entrance a terraced amphitheater welcomes everyone, and a large sky amphitheater rewards those who climb to the top, offering a 360-degree panoramic view of Bangkok. As rainwater zigzags down the slopes, each level of TURF harvests runoff, forming unique micro-watersheds. At the end of its journey, four retention ponds at each wing mitigate and store excessive rainfall, capable of holding up to almost 3.1 million gallons of water once combined. And, the roof is equipped with solar panels which can produce up to 500,000 watts per hour to irrigate the urban farm from the retaining ponds and power the building beneath it.
TURF grows more than 40 edible species, including rice, indigenous vegetables and herbs, and fruit trees. Up to 20 tons or 80,000 meals of organic food are produced each year. TURF provides a platform to learn and share across various disciplines, and 12 individually designed areas on the slopes serve as oval-shaped outdoor classrooms. Through year-round workshops on sustainable agriculture, it leaves newfound knowledge for 40,000 campus residents and the surrounding community to use at home. Lessons on Thai agriculture, landscape, and native soil are embedded into the 1.7-acre Thammasat University Urban Rooftop Farm, educating future leaders to adapt and embrace climate challenges by building sustainable cities for generations to come.
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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
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