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“Washington money” 2012 Robert Silvers Today we pick through a few tax-free bond offerings that finance education community construction with a eye toward reducing construction cost and life-cycle maintenance through building codes and standards. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. https://standardsmichigan.com/tax-free-bonds/ Once median household income is adjusted for cost of living, Utah emerges as the wealthiest state in the nation and Mississippi yet again ranks last. Source: https://t.co/AN3JZqtNnF pic.twitter.com/kv8U3LZlvh — Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) January 3, 2025 Are you Overbuilding? “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. https://youtu.be/x613cyteWL4 The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which prohibits anticompetitive practices and monopolies, has an indirect but significant relationship with voluntary consensus standards (VCS). VCS are industry-developed standards created through collaborative, open processes to ensure interoperability, safety, or efficiency in products and services. 1. Antitrust Concerns in Standard-Setting: The collaborative nature of VCS development, where competitors work together to set industry standards, can raise antitrust concerns under the Sherman Act. If standard-setting organizations (SSOs) or participants engage in practices like price-fixing, market allocation, or excluding competitors, they could violate Section 1 of the Act, which prohibits agreements that unreasonably restrain trade. For example, if an SSO excludes certain firms from participating in standard-setting to suppress competition, it could face scrutiny. 2. Procompetitive Benefits: Courts and regulators generally recognize that VCS, when developed transparently and inclusively, promote competition by fostering interoperability, reducing costs, and encouraging innovation. The Sherman Act supports such procompetitive activities as long as they don’t involve collusion or exclusionary tactics. Guidelines from bodies like the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) emphasize that SSOs should adopt open, fair processes to avoid antitrust violations. 3. Legal Precedents: Cases like Allied Tube & Conduit Corp. v. Indian Head, Inc. (1988) illustrate the Sherman Act’s application to VCS. In this case, the Supreme Court found that manipulating a standard-setting process to exclude a competitor’s product violated the Sherman Act. This underscores the need for SSOs to ensure their processes are not abused to suppress competition. 4. Patent and FRAND Issues: VCS often involve patented technologies, requiring fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms. If patent holders abuse their position by demanding excessive royalties or refusing to license, this could be seen as monopolistic behavior under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which addresses unilateral conduct that harms competition. The Sherman Act ensures that VCS processes remain competitive and do not become vehicles for collusion or monopolistic behavior. SSOs must design their procedures to comply with antitrust laws, balancing collaboration with the prevention of anticompetitive practices. A selection of American Standards performed by elementary, high school and college students Whatever anyone wants to talk about. If no one has any suggestions, how about we poke at any of these new releases: ANSI RELEASES REPORT: STANDARDIZATION EMPOWERING AI-ENABLED SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE NIST: AI Standards: Federal Engagement IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence Happy Birthday, America. From Sea to Shining Sea still includes Ann Arbor 🇺🇸 ❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️ pic.twitter.com/qeS5RzAaYO — Anna Hoffman (@shoesonplease) July 5, 2026 Lorem ipsum | Language No, there is no universal token standard in the AI world. Each major AI model (and often each model family) uses its own tokenizer with its own vocabulary, rules, and token boundaries. This remains the case as of mid-2026. GreatLakes SuperiorCore PrairieForge How you know we haven’t had rain for awhile… pic.twitter.com/5zb84HeDUR — Allison farms (@Allisonfarms) August 5, 2024 Lightning flash density – 12 hourly averages over the year (NASA OTD/LIS) This shows that lightning is much more frequent in summer than in winter, and from noon to midnight compared to midnight to noon. https://youtu.be/zisnPchVYKs https://standardsmichigan.com/rain-2/ Good-quality cycling infrastructure makes cycling attractive in all weather conditions. The Dutch🇳🇱 aren’t made of sugar! (🎞️ by Carl Sveen—winner of the Most Dutch Picture 2025 of the Summer School Planning the Cycling City) pic.twitter.com/bYUipg5F1W — Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 (@fietsprofessor) July 13, 2025 Survey of transportation fundamentals that apply to K-12 school systems and college campuses. Exploration of the relevant standards, codes and regulations. Objectives: Understand how roadway systems function within society. Learn how roads are planned and built. Optimize the movement of people and goods. Parking Challenges ahead. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. https://standardsmichigan.com/transportation-parking/ "A Gaelic Blessing" Wells Cathedral School Music — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) March 19, 2023 "Pange lingua: Music for Corpus Christi" — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) June 12, 2022 I will never fail to be utterly amazed that these flavours come from soil, and sunlight and rain. pic.twitter.com/qTMx8jh8Zx — Holly Vickery PhD (@SkylarkHolly) July 27, 2024 “Spring Turning” 1936 Grant Wood, Overview of codes and standards relevant to the food service enterprises in K-12 schools, college and university student housing, athletic venues and university-affiliated healthcare systems. https://standardsmichigan.com/food-standards-monthly/ https://youtu.be/RGFTm_4uU20 American Christian kids in a Texas church. We still have hope. pic.twitter.com/WG2Sbr75A7 — RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) July 19, 2025 The annual sports moratorium week, often called Dead Week or the Summer Dead Period, is a longstanding tradition observed by many American high schools during late June or early July. Established by state athletic associations, it temporarily suspends organized practices, workouts, camps, and coach-directed activities. The tradition reflects the belief that interscholastic athletics should complement, rather than dominate, family and community life. During the moratorium, student-athletes are encouraged to rest, recover from the demands of summer conditioning, spend time with family, take vacations, or simply enjoy an unstructured week before preseason preparations begin. Coaches likewise receive a welcome pause before the demanding fall season. Coming just before football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country, and marching band practices begin in late July or early August, the moratorium serves as a symbolic transition from summer recreation to the disciplined routines of a new academic and athletic year. https://standardsmichigan.com/exploring-the-impacts-of-elite-youth-sports-on-family-life/ Morgensang (morning song) is a longstanding custom in Danish folk high schools (højskoler). Students and staff gather early to sing folk songs, hymns, and traditional tunes together before breakfast. This builds community and reflects the educational philosophy of N.F.S. Grundtvig, emphasizing song as part of “life awakening.” It has influenced similar practices elsewhere in the United States; in rural North Carolina, for example. “If you steal from one person that is plagiarism. If you steal from many people, that is research” Missed it live? We planned for that! At a recent USPTO Hour, America’ Branding Agency dives into how name, image, likeness (NIL) connects with branding and trademarks – on the field, off the field, and everywhere between. Catch the recording here: https://t.co/b3fh7aVOy7 pic.twitter.com/gvgn5HCJmH — USPTO (@uspto) February 25, 2026 Chronicle of Higher Education: The Campus Cold War — Faculty vs. Administrators Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Student Art Innovation – Standardization – Commoditization run along a continuum. Today we unpack some of the ideas that hasten (and prohibit) leading practice discovery; how quickly goods and services become a “human right”; why all of this is relevant to education communities and why some believe that commoditization is a myth. From the Wikipedia In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer’s point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest. Related: Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating After months of hard work, the top five teams met at USPTO headquarters today for the final round of the 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition. 🏆 And the winners are … ⬇️ 🥇 First place — @UofMNLawSchool pic.twitter.com/uwNSJR0oBy — USPTO (@uspto) April 4, 2025 From creating a race car safety device that protects drivers from injury to revolutionizing chemotherapy, Spartans have contributed to more than 3,300 inventions. #SpartansWill pic.twitter.com/dchCs0BFBx — MSU (@michiganstateu) February 21, 2025 For 58 years, 7-Eleven has been protecting its iconic semi-frozen soft drink, the Slurpee. But it doesn’t stop there. The store has more than 200 registered trademarks to protect its goods and services, including “Oh thank Heaven for 7-Eleven” in 1978 and “Brainfreeze” in 1993. pic.twitter.com/b9bkkcijGg — USPTO (@uspto) July 11, 2025 On Bastille Day, I have to say I really think that the French Revolution unleashed far more evil and horror on the world than it purported to solve due to class inequalities. pic.twitter.com/QVm3g0lICT — Don Shift (buy my books) (@DonShift3) July 14, 2025 ✨ Révision de la norme ISO 9001 : Saint-Denis, centre des échanges internationaux ! Nous avons eu le privilège d’accueillir dans les locaux d’AFNOR 45 experts venus des cinq continents pour coécrire la future version de la norme ISO 9001. pic.twitter.com/vyMBoMFHBX — AFNOR (@AFNOR) April 8, 2025 “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (From “The Gulag Archipelago”) Today we explain our collaboration with other education settlements in the US and other nations. We conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups to the International Organization for Standardization but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union who conform to the participation requirements of their own national standards bodies. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Because a great deal of content is copyright protected by the International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization and International Telecommunications Union. Around the world – André Henri Dargelas, 1860 pic.twitter.com/u9SgXbEHsU — Muse (@xmuse_) March 7, 2026 Don’t say ‘right-wing’, say ‘pattern recognizer’ https://t.co/0s5FNnlCOB pic.twitter.com/s0YuVy4jw6 — 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒶 (@classicspilled) November 3, 2025 Happy #WorldStandardsDay! 🎉 Standards connect people, systems and nations — building trust through quality. This year we focus on SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals 🤝🌎 Together, we raise standards for a better world.#BSJ #WorldStandardsDay2025 #StandardsInAction #SDG17 pic.twitter.com/vWKHGW75p4 — Bureau of Standards (@StandardsJa) October 14, 2025 New Modern Methods of Construction Toolkit from the NSAI! For helpful guides, practical resources and free tools, access NSAI’s #MMC toolkit for the Irish construction industry at https://t.co/X8zPrOoSaw In support of the government’s Housing for All strategy, the goal of… pic.twitter.com/Oyyt3LOq6z — NSAI (@NSAI_Standards) June 26, 2025 https://standardsmichigan.com/international-standards-teleconference-today-11-am-eastern/ 17 equations that changed the world pic.twitter.com/69jV97p8mM — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 21, 2024 https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-tc-309/ https://standardsmichigan.com/itu-academia/ d https://standardsmichigan.com/time-frequency-services/ d https://standardsmichigan.com/readability-of-design-standards/ v Playgrounds Morning Recess = A place of Kindness! pic.twitter.com/Q1KBO8UhqZ — Amy Alzina, Ed.D (@alzina_amy) April 9, 2025 https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/ https://standardsmichigan.com/history-of-the-english-speaking-peoples/ "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" | Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (Sting) 1976 — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) October 15, 2025 “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” Review of development in safety and sustainability best practice catalogs for education community outdoor environment. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” https://twitter.com/gmkov/status/1691080398200053762?s=20 https://twitter.com/gmkov/status/1691080398200053762?s=20 Scotland is the origin of The Industrial Revolution. A tendril of Old Scotland remains alive in the hills of Arkansas A tendril of Old Scotland remains alive in the hills of Arkansas The annual sports moratorium week, often called Dead Week or the Summer Dead Period, is a longstanding tradition observed by many American high schools during late June or early July. Established by state athletic associations, it temporarily suspends organized practices, workouts, camps, and coach-directed activities. The tradition reflects the belief that interscholastic athletics should complement, rather than dominate, family and community life. During the moratorium, student-athletes are encouraged to rest, recover from the demands of summer conditioning, spend time with family, take vacations, or simply enjoy an unstructured week before preseason preparations begin. Coaches likewise receive a welcome pause before the demanding fall season. Coming just before football, soccer, volleyball, cross-country, and marching band practices begin in late July or early August, the moratorium serves as a symbolic transition from summer recreation to the disciplined routines of a new academic and athletic year. https://standardsmichigan.com/exploring-the-impacts-of-elite-youth-sports-on-family-life/ “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T.S.Eliot 1818 ♫ American conservatives and liberals often disagree because they attach different meanings, priorities, and emotional associations to the same words. Political language evolves as society changes, and each movement seeks terminology that reflects its values and persuades others. Conservatives may emphasize continuity, tradition, and established definitions, while liberals may advocate revised language that reflects changing social norms or emerging perspectives and technologies. As new terms gain acceptance and older meanings shift, debates arise over whether language is clarifying reality or reshaping it. These disagreements extend beyond vocabulary, reflecting deeper differences about history, identity, law, culture, and the proper role of institutions — such as standards setting organizations — in defining and communicating public values. ♫ Popular music is one of the chief ways that American vernacular English is created, refined, and shared. A successful song can introduce a phrase, metaphor, or rhythm of speech that quickly spreads beyond its original audience into everyday conversation. Because songs are repeated on radio, streaming services, at sporting events, and in schools, their lyrics become familiar across generations and regions. Memorable lines are quoted in casual conversation, advertising, journalism, and even political speeches, giving them cultural authority. Songwriters pick up on the language of ordinary people while expressing it with economy, wit, and emotional force. As a result, lyrics preserve regional expressions, technical domains, idioms, thus reshaping older ones into forms that feel fresh and memorable. Over time, the most enduring lyrics become part of the nation’s shared vocabulary, enriching American vernacular English by providing common expressions, cultural references, and memorable turns of phrase that unite speakers from diverse backgrounds. Middle Georgia State University One hour overview of NEMA, SAE, IEEE, NFPA, UL and ICC public input and comment on safety and sustainability standards for electric vehicle charging stations. As usual, our focus is on marking up consensus documents, signing them and submitting them to the appropriate technical committee so that you may receive a formal response. https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/ https://standardsmichigan.com/ibc-education-facility-assembly-spaces/ We review best practice literature in the field of audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment greatly expanded in the Massive Online Open Online Course and #LearnFromHome zietgeist. These titles include specification of the performance, methods of measurement for consumer and professional equipment and their application in systems and its interoperability with other systems or equipment. Multimedia is the integration of any form of audio, video, graphics, data and telecommunication and integration includes the production, storage, processing, transmission, display and reproduction of such information. https://standardsmichigan.com/summer-solstice-around-the-world/ https://standardsmichigan.com/outdoor-amphitheaters/ https://standardsmichigan.com/outdoor-events/ Johnny Mandel at Berklee | Juilliard Jazz Orchestra ♫ The Korean War (which began on June 25, 1950) did not end with a formal peace treaty. Instead, it concluded with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, at Panmunjom. https://youtu.be/4cwb0LhdQEY?si=Yca6h8PMw7YIrys9 https://standardsmichigan.com/pennsylvania/ “Composition in red, yellow, blue and black” (1921) / Piet Mondrian “Washington money” 2012 Robert Silvers Today we pick through a few tax-free bond offerings that finance education community construction with a eye toward reducing construction cost and life-cycle maintenance through building codes and standards. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. https://standardsmichigan.com/tax-free-bonds/ Once median household income is adjusted for cost of living, Utah emerges as the wealthiest state in the nation and Mississippi yet again ranks last. 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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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