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“What’s Going On”

“Others, again, shall hammer out bronze more delicately, and bring living faces from marble;

plead causes better; measure the movement of the heavens with a wand, and name the rising stars:

Remember, Roman, these will be your arts, to impose the ways of peace, to spare the defeated,

and to crush the proud” — Virgil (Aeneid, VI.847-853).

Marvin Gaye wrote “What’s Going On” while he was at Motown, although the song initially faced resistance from Berry Gordy and other label executives. Motown had been known for producing mostly love songs and upbeat pop hits, and Gaye’s introspective and socially conscious lyrics were considered risky for the label’s commercial success. The song became an instant hit, and it went on to become one of Gaye’s most famous and enduring works.

What’s Going On | Marvin Gaye

Mother, mother
There’s too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There’s far too many of you dying
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin’ here today, yea
Father, father
We don’t need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin’ here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what’s going on
What’s going on
Ya, what’s going on
Ah, what’s going on
In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on
Father, father, everybody thinks we’re wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What’s going on
Ya, what’s going on
Tell me what’s going on
I’ll tell you what’s going on – Uh
Right on baby
Right on baby

Space Travel

“Illustration from Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon” Smithsonian Institution

International Standards in Regulating Space Travel: Clarifying Ambiguities in the Commercial Era of Outer Space

Juan Davalos

Emory University School of Law

Abstract. The era of commercial space travel and the rise of abundant spacefaring nations has led to an increase in space activity, which has outpaced international space laws—laws that were originally imagined for state-sponsored space travel in an arena with only two spacefaring states. International space law began with the creation of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in 1959 and the 1967 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, and has continued with conventions from the United Nations and treaties among nations, including the United States and the European Union, which have attempted to address the rise of commercial space travel. However, throughout this evolution in space law, significant ambiguities in terms and regulations have persisted. This Comment calls for a more uniform and clear description of the terms and regulations that govern international space law and leadership from the United Nations in establishing these regulations among the spacefaring nations of the world.

Specifically, this Comment discusses the importance of creating uniform and unambiguous definitions for terms of art within the field of international space law such as “space object,” the delineation of Earth’s air space, and “outer space” itself, as well as the importance of clarifying how a state becomes a launching state among several parties. Part I gives a history of the background of international space law from its inception in 1959 to the current day. Part II looks at the various national and regional attempts to codify and interpret domestic space law and the similarities and differences between these regulatory schemes. Part III analyzes the United Nations’ most recent attempts to clarify the ambiguities in international space law and how those recent attempts fall short of actual clarification. Finally, Part IV presents possible clarifications to the terms and regulations discussed in Parts I, II, and III.

Commercial Space Standardization

The Integration of a Smart Grid and Smart Buildings

Panelist: Thomas Lawrence, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, LEED® AP Chair: Tony O’Keeffe, ASHRAE Ireland Vice-Chair CTTC 2021-2022 Date/Time: Friday, October 15th 2021 (1:00 – 2:00 PM BST)

The smart grid is developing and moving forward, buildings and the built environment will be interacting more closely with the electric utilities. The communication will be in both directions, with the utility working to balance the grid supply and demand through methods such as signalling requests for demand response measures, real-time price adjustments, etc. This is an evolving field and, while there are some differences in the need for and how a smart grid might function in the various regions of the world, there are some common factors as well. This seminar provides an overview of the smart grid particularly as it relates to buildings and their systems, and includes material and topics outlined in ASHRAE’s Smart Grid Application Guide.

About the Speaker: Dr. Lawrence is the Mechanical Engineering program lead with the University of Georgia, and has nearly 40 years of professional experience. He spent the first 18 years in industry and after going back for his PhD at Purdue he has been at UGA since January 2004. He is the past chair of ASHRAE Technical Committee 2.8 and is a member of the committee that wrote and maintains ASHRAE Standard 189.1 for High Performance Green Buildings. As an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer, he gives seminars related to high-performance buildings at venues around the world. Dr. Lawrence was named an ASHRAE Fellow in 2017 and was a Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors for ASHRAE from 2016-2019. Dr. Lawrence has a B.S. with Highest Distinction in Environmental Science from Purdue University (1978), a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University (1982) and a second M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Washington University in 1989. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in the spring of 2004.

Energy Management Systems

We follow and participate in about fifty standardization projects administered from the Geneva-sister standards setting organizations; either through the US Technical Advisory Group Administrator assigned by the American National Standards Institute or through colleagues in educational institutions elsewhere in the world; mostly faculty in European colleges and universities engaged in research in electrotechnology.

Since 2013 we have been keeping pace with the product creation of International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 301 Energy Management and Energy Savings. The work of ISO/TC 301 provides a globally recognized standard of practice for managing energy over time and for calculating and reporting energy savings. A key deliverable — ISO 50001 Energy Management — unites, on a broad level, the concept and execution of energy management system standardization for a range of stakeholders, including, but not limited to: industry, buildings, energy efficiency organizations, standards authorities, energy service providers, government agencies, energy management practitioners, and conformance and energy auditing firms.

Link to ISO TC/301 Strategic Business Plan.

Working Area: Energy management and energy savings

Université de Genève

Of particular interest to us back in 2013 were the performance provisions — fairly typical for international standards — for adopting organizations and industries to set their own benchmarks (i.e. agree upon a rate of change, rather than an absolute target). We monitor about half of the standards action in ANSI accredited standards developers every day and decided to propose references to the work products of ISO TC/301 to US-based standards developers such as ASHRAE International and the International Code Council. They were rejected for the same reason: US-based standards developers prefer bright-line, prescriptive standards that can be enforced by the conformance and compliance industry.

Good minds will disagree upon whether performance standards promulgated by the Geneva standards-setting organizations are appropriate for all industries. Performance standards may be appropriate for the energy, manufacturing and financial industries in all nations but they may not meet the rather well-financed energy conservation interests tied to education communities in the United States. We find many, many energy conservation functionaries in these communities.

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Georgia Tech Energy & Sustainability Services (GTESS) is the US Technical Advisory Group Administrator for the American National Standards Institute. We maintain a collaborative workspace with experts in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers to respond to public consultation queries that originate from either GTESS or our colleagues at other universities in other nations

IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee

The energy domain is a relatively “crowded domain” in our view; characterized by relative weakness of the User-Interest which we describe in our ABOUT. In our experience, crowded domains require special sensitivities.

We encourage our colleagues in the energy conservation and sustainability community to communicate directly with Georgia Tech Energy & Environmental Management Center (GTESS); Deann Desai, 75 Fifth Street N.W, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30332-0640, (770) 605-4474, [email protected], OR melody.mcelw [email protected] to obtain review copies of these documents and to submit comments (with a copy to [email protected]). We will collaborate on energy issues separately with our colleagues at other universities in Europe through the IEEE Industrial Applications Society

All international standards that affect #TotalCostofOwnership and the safety and sustainability agenda of the education industry are on the standing agenda of our periodic Global and Energy standards teleconferences. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.