“One is dreadfully vulnerable through those one loves.”
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University of Michigan BSR/IEEE 1547-201x, Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of Distributed Energy Resources with Associated Electric Power Systems Interfaces (revision of ANSI/IEEE 1547-2003 (R2008)) This standard establishes criteria and requirements for interconnection of distributed energy resources with electric power systems (EPSs) and associated interfaces. The stated technical specifications and requirements are universally needed for interconnection and interoperability of distributed energy resources (DERs2) and will be sufficient for most installations. The specified performance requirements apply at the time of interconnection and as long as the DER remains in service. Single copy price: $145.00 (pdf); $181.00 (print) Order from: https://www.techstreet.com/ieee Send comments (with copy to psa@ansi.org) to: k.evangelista@ieee.org We will collaborate with IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee. Prepare public input for the next revision of the Group B Codes; the International Energy Conservation Code, among them. We will start by reviewing the existing editions of the Group B Codes and drafting proposals to advance our #TotalCostofOwnership agenda. https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/ Response Deadline: November 9, 2018 Please be advised that the ISO Technical Management Board (ISO/TMB) has agreed to create • Align work on accessibility issues within IEC, ITU and ISO in line with the ANSI is seeking two (2) U.S. experts to serve on the SAG as well as additional U.S expert to Experts interested in participating should contact ANSI’s Arpana Patel by email at NFPA Consensus Product First Draft Reports Due Today. We advocate in several of them. Feel free to click in any day at 11 AM to sort through the proposals most relevant to the education industry. An update on our collaboration with other like-minded units in the education industry. In most cases we conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union, particularly in The Netherlands and Italy. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Because a great deal of content is copyright protected by the ISO, IEC and the ITU, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda. BSR/UL 2572-201x, Standard for Safety for Mass Notification Systems (revision of ANSI/UL 2572-2016a) A proposal for the second edition of UL 2572 intends to include an alternative means utilizing adhesives to provide mechanical securement of parts. BSR/ASME A120.1-201x, Safety Requirements for Powered Platforms and Traveling Ladders and Gantries for Building Maintenance This Standard establishes safety requirements for powered platforms (scaffolds) for buildings where window cleaning and related services are accomplished by means of suspended equipment at heights in excess of 35 ft (11 m) above a safe surface (e.g., grade, street, floor, or roof level). Additionally, this Standard establishes safety requirements for permanent traveling ladders and gantries (TLG). Single copy price: Free https://share.ansi.org/Shared%20Documents/Standards%20Action/2018-PDFs/SAV4941.pdf BSR/ASAE EP282.2-1993 (R201x), Design Values for Emergency Ventilation and Care of Livestock and Poultry (reaffirmation of ANSI/ASAE EP282.2-1993 (R2013)) Many natural, man-made, and unexpected events (i.e., power interruptions, equipment failures, extreme weather condition, storms, and natural disasters) occur requiring temporary emergency ventilation and care of livestock and poultry. These events may require either short term (i.e., minutes to days) or long term (i.e., weeks to months) temporary emergency ventilation. The purpose of this Engineering Practice is to provide data and guidelines to assist designing emergency ventilation, feeding, watering, and lighting systems for livestock and poultry. Single copy price: 65.00 (non-members) / $44.00 (ASABE members) BSR/ASME A120.1-201x, Safety Requirements for Powered Platforms and Traveling Ladders and Gantries for Building Maintenance This Standard establishes safety requirements for powered platforms (scaffolds) for buildings where window cleaning and related services are accomplished by means of suspended equipment at heights in excess of 35 ft (11 m) above a safe surface (e.g., grade, street, floor, or roof level). Additionally, this Standard establishes safety requirements for permanent traveling ladders and gantries (TLG). Single copy price: Free https://share.ansi.org/Shared%20Documents/Standards%20Action/2018-PDFs/SAV4941.pdf BSR/ASAE EP282.2-1993 (R201x), Design Values for Emergency Ventilation and Care of Livestock and Poultry (reaffirmation of ANSI/ASAE EP282.2-1993 (R2013)) Many natural, man-made, and unexpected events (i.e., power interruptions, equipment failures, extreme weather condition, storms, and natural disasters) occur requiring temporary emergency ventilation and care of livestock and poultry. These events may require either short term (i.e., minutes to days) or long term (i.e., weeks to months) temporary emergency ventilation. The purpose of this Engineering Practice is to provide data and guidelines to assist designing emergency ventilation, feeding, watering, and lighting systems for livestock and poultry. Single copy price: 65.00 (non-members) / $44.00 (ASABE members) Agenda to follow — Do not delete or change any of the following text. — Join Webex meeting Join by phone An overview of the titles, scopes, revision cycles and public commenting opportunities presented by education industry consensus standards developers, trade associatins and government agencies involved in the finance of the US education industry. Use the login credentials at the top right of our home page.
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a new ISO Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) on Accessibility for an initial period of 2 years with
the following mandate:
recommendations from 2010, to address, decide and monitor key issues related to
accessibility;
• Map existing ISO standards related to accessibility;
• Map ongoing standardization work in ISO, IEC and ITU relating to accessibility;
• Take into account other relevant international initiatives;
• Develop recommendations on tools to assist the TC community in developing
standards that take accessibility into consideration;
• Liaise with CEN and CLC to exchange best practices and study results from CEN
Strategic advisory group on accessibility;
• Give recommendations to ISO on the development of new standards on
accessibility.
populate a U.S. Virtual Technical Advisory Group (VTAG). It is anticipated that this project will
start in December 2018 or January 2019.
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The calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family and community life, specifically. Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, food paths, daylight availability, and travel conditions.
In America educational calendars were nudged along by agricultural cycles. In the United Kingdom university calendars evolved into three major terms: Michaelmas in autumn, associated with arrival and beginnings; Hilary or Lent in winter, associated with discipline and study; and Trinity or Easter in spring, associated with examinations, outdoor rituals, music, rowing, gardens, and celebration.
Modern commencement traditions across the Anglosphere are descendants of medieval spring degree ceremonies. Academic gowns, hoods, processions, Latin phrases, formal dining, chapel music, and public recognition all preserve traces of the university as a scholarly guild and religious-civic community.
Before railways, electric lighting, and central heating, universities had to adapt to muddy roads, short winter days, limited candles, cold buildings, and agricultural obligations. Spring therefore became the natural season of culmination, reunion, athletic competition, courtship, and ceremony.
The medieval university was not merely a school but an educational settlement — a self-governing town of scholars, libraries, chapels, kitchens, workshops, residences, and dining halls. That settlement pattern survives in residential colleges, quadrangles, tutorial systems, common rooms, chapel choirs, and formal meals.
Anglosphere campuses retain this ancient emotional rhythm: autumn seriousness, winter inwardness, and spring release. That continuity helps explain why colleges and universities still feel culturally distinct from ordinary commercial society. (Relata: Gulliver Visits the Great Academy of Lagado)

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