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The Year Ahead 2025

“Time is a passionate sculptor of men, the sun stands over it, a beast of hope and you,

closer to it, embrace love with a bitter taste of a tempest.”

— Unknown

Standards Michigan Offices

Today we take a retrospective look at 2024 and a prospective look at 2025.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

 

“Life can only be understood backwards;

but it must be lived forwards.”

NFPA Second Draft Comments Due

Tyler Junior College

Several NFPA documents in the Annual Revision Cycle are due today.   Posts on those documents are linked here.

Electrical Safety

Ædificare

LIVE: Construction Cameras

“Etude pour les constructeurs” 1950 Fernand Leger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We follow the construction spend rate of the US education industry; using the US Census Bureau Construction Spending figures released the first day of every month.

We encourage our colleagues in the education facilities industry to respond to Census Bureau-retained data gathering contractors in order to contribute to the accuracy of the report.

 

Banished Words 2025

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University College Dublin “Auld Lang Syne”

 

Polar Bear Plunge Day

Polar Plunge

Tyme

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Seneca​ (On the Shortness of Life)

Today at 16:00 UTC we refresh our understanding of the technical standards for the timing-systems that maintain the temporal framework for daily life in education communities.  The campus clock continues as a monument of beauty and structure even though digitization of everything has rendered the central community clock redundant.

Most leading practice discovery (and innovation) is happening with the Network Time Protocols (NTP) that synchronize the time stamps of widely separated data centers.  In operation since before 1985, NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols in current use and underlies the Internet of Things build out.  NTP is particularly important in maintaining accurate time stamps for safety system coordination and for time stamps on email log messages.

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Down for Maintenance and Upgrades (Winter)

With activity at a low ebb in educational settlements so we will work on system maintenance, security upgrades, content organization, installing new widgets, plug-ins, etc.

“Down” for Maintenance and Upgrades

Down for Maintenance and Upgrades (Winter)

With activity at a low ebb in educational settlements so we will work on system maintenance, security upgrades, content organization, installing new widgets, plug-ins, etc.

“Down” for Maintenance and Upgrades

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost 1922

“Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Down for Maintenance and Upgrades (Winter)

With activity at a low ebb in educational settlements so we will work on system maintenance, security upgrades, content organization, installing new widgets, plug-ins, etc.

“Down” for Maintenance and Upgrades

Mince Pie & Tea

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