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"If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants," -- William Penn
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“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
St Paul Lutheran School | Washtenaw County Michigan
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Fashion Spring
Fashion Design Standards Lee Russell/Underwood Archives/Getty Images Boys on the Southside of Chicago on Easter morning, April 1941. pic.twitter.com/zc87lgN0xn — Edward Elderman (@edwereddie) April 17, 2025 “Canal Street, New Orleans 1954 | Juliette Kida Renault Esquire Magazinehttps://t.co/SCyWsTvUHZ@esquire 4D6F62696C697479https://t.co/Me02q5CZs8 pic.twitter.com/XnubCHq9sn — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) March 12, 2024 bb
Easter Bread & Yaupon Tea
"Easter bread, sweet and flavored with anise seed, is a holiday ritual in the Italian-American community here. With roots stretching back to Calabria, making Easter bread is a foodways tradition that now thrives in North Central West Virginia." Lori Hostuttler, Assistant Director at West Virginia & Regional History Center
Barbering & Cosmetology Academies
Codes and standards for barbering schools and cosmetology academies vary by location, as they are typically governed by state and local regulations.
“Down” for Maintenance and Upgrades
Through Monday, April 28h, we will run maintenance routines for this website and its affiliates in the other 49 United States: backups, security patches, SEO and plug in updates, database optimization, etc. Our "Evergreen" library will remain accessible; though the visuals may appear a little janky from time to time. Our State Street (Ann Arbor) offices re-open first thing Monday morning as usual.
Why You Need Standards
"When we talk about standards in our personal lives, we might think about the quality we expect in things such as restaurants and first dates. But the standards that exist in science and technology have an even greater impact on our lives. Technical standards keep us safe, enable technology to advance, and help businesses succeed. They quietly make the modern world tick and prevent technological problems that you might not realize could even happen..."
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
United States Standards System
The global standards system is a lonely place for the user-interest; not because of anything the standards federations have failed to do. The user-interest is lonely because of what the user-interest fails to do. The "iron law of oligarchy" states that regardless how democratic consensus systems are designed; oligarchies form as a fact of nature. Still, we soldier on. Academia is a natural home for obscurity and we are grateful for the University of Michigan giving us our start.
Retrodiction
By design, we do not provide a SEARCH function. We are a niche practice in a subtle, time-sensitive domain with over 30 years of case history. During this week of reduced staff we provide links to the most accessed topics in recent days. All queries presented during our "Open Office Hours" every work day, or via email, are gratefully received and prompt a near-immediate response.
Current Issues and Recent Research
The Joint IEEE Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Society Committee to which we belong has completed its work on the 2026 National Electrical Code Second Draft. Public consultation on ballot results will be received by NFPA until April 18th. While all the issues are fresh in mind it is never unwise to draft proposals for the 2029 National Electrical Code which will begin accepting new public input some time after release of the new edition in the fall.