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Watch & Night Operations
The Year Ahead 2025
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
— Louis Pasteur
Agenda
Technical:
Respond to client queries and retainers
Prepare new proposals for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code
Prepare comments on the IEEE 2028 National Electrical Safety Code
Recap of activity in the ISO and IEC catalogs. We are members of Healthcare Management. We coordinate our responses to IEC CDV’s with IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.
2025 “Wins” and “Losses”
“Wins”: All of the references to IEEE research and recommended practices that appear in electrical related titles in the NFPA catalog are the result of Standards Michigan advocacy in collaboration with the IEEE
“Losses”: Persist in getting Article 210 (Soon to be in Chapter 1) 180 VA per outlet requirement down to 150 VA instead of 120 VA in the ASHRAE suite from an energy conservation perspective. This will be the most meaningful and transformative code “win” since our 2014 code “win” in 2014 NEC Section 220.12.
Expansion of user-interest advocacy for the 2028 IEEE National Electrical Safety Code.
Follow up driving electrical safety concepts into the ASHRAE and ICC catalog that cannot, or will not, be incorporated into the NFPA catalog
Continue driving IEEE best practice literature into the NFPA, ASHRAE and IEEE catalog
Electric service reliability data gathering for point of common coupling of merchant utilities and schools, colleges, universities with emphasis on large health care systems. (Bob Arno’s IEEE 493 Gold Book update)
Break out coverage of ASHRAE 90.1 in its entirety in a dedicated content management system now that its scope includes outside/between buildings.
Break out coverage of Chapter 27 (Electrical) of the International Building Code as a “pivot” or “anchor” post for other relevant titles in the ICC catalog.
10-year retrospective on the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee at the May Technical Conference in Montreal
Administrative:
Expansion of our unaccredited for-profit educational mission to Michigan school districts, colleges, universities, trade schools. In the normal course of business we present educational opportunities to faculty and students administered by ANSI, ASME, AWS, ACI, ICC, IEC, IEEE, IEEE, NIST, SAE and others. List of Faculty & Student Standards Education Resources
New signage at our State Street office
Rollout the platform to at least two more states — we have only one now.
Re-organize web pages to track IEEE, NFPA, ASHRAE, ICC, CSA Group and TIA catalog action more effectively. ASTM and UL catalogs remain “problematic” because their titles are so deeply embedded in products and less so in systems.
List of ANSI Accredited Standards Developers
Other:
Our thanks for the collegiality and wisdom of Larry Spielvogel as he enters retirement
Continued mentorship of electrical engineering students in the IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section. Introduction to mentorship partner Nathan from private industry.
Social Page Rollout: Engagements, Weddings & Births
A few of the University’s Electrical Engineers
Roast Goose
Washington State University Net Position Increase of $162M | $1.452B revenue over $1.290B expenses
Dinner recipe for Advent Sundays from the School of Hospitality Business Management at WSU’s Carson College of Business. Executive Chef Jamie Callison developed the recipe for Washington State Magazine’s November 2019 issue. He was assisted by Chef de Cuisine Jason Butcherite and Student Culinary Lead Justin Walker. Recipe features local honey and seasoning.
It’s #FeatureFriday with @WSUPullman! The flagship campus was founded in 1890, and is nestled in the rolling hills of the Palouse. #WSUPullman offers more than 200 undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. ➡️https://t.co/KGU4RYcRiR #WSU #GoCougs pic.twitter.com/U68puWvO1M
— WSU System (@wsu) September 20, 2024
Eggnog
December is National Eggnog Month
Historians’ best guess as to the origin of eggnog dates back to the English Middle Ages, where a warm, milky ale called ‘posset’, was consumed. Posset was often consumed with eggs and figs; eggs, figs, dairy, and sherry were products that only the wealthy could afford to enjoy at the time. Eggnog was thought to have arrived in the U.S. prior to the revolutionary war. Whereas most of the eggnog consumed in Britain was by the upper class (with sherry), as eggnog advanced throughout the U.S. like a milky river of frothy delight, it was generally consumed with rum or bourbon.
Because the agricultural-based colonies were flush with chickens and cows, the consumption of eggnog was not limited to crusty upper class Brits, but rather a drink that most people throughout the American colonies could enjoy. In fact, food historian, Emelyn Rude (2015), author of “How Eggnog (Almost) Changed the World”, explains that consumption of eggnog was a popular holiday pastime of many, even including West Point cadets, such as Edgar Allen Poe and Jefferson Davis.
Makowiec
Makowiec is a poppy seed roll evolving from East European baking tradition that is commonly served during the Christmas season. It is a sweet pastry filled with a mixture of ground poppy seeds, honey, nuts, and sometimes raisins. The roll is often braided or shaped into a log and can be dusted with powdered sugar.
‘Makowiec’ (poppy seed cake), photo: Zbigniew Lewczak/Getty Images
University of Michigan Slavic Languages and Literatures: Polish
Incomprehensible link to University of Michigan Social Justice Movement
Anna’s Food Blog: Polish Your Kitchen
The Role of Work at the New England Literature Program
Related:
Two square miles: The Evolution of Hamtramck as “Little Poland”
Womb Army: “How Hamtramck, a small town within Detroit, became America’s first Muslim-majority city”
How Hamtramck, a small town within Detroit, became America’s first Muslim-majority city https://t.co/62HOvETkUd
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) May 27, 2025
All That Remains:
Christmas Bread & “Liberty Teas”
“Having visited my great grandmother, Omi, in Germany multiple times growing up, I’ve always had a special connection to German baked goods. While I have yet to find the perfect German pretzel in the U.S. or a recipe that yields a decent replica, I have discovered that stollen — a traditional German Christmas bread — is relatively easy to recreate in my own kitchen.” — Alison Tashima, Class of 2024
Click image for recipe
More:
Thomas Jefferson’s Masterpiece
Thomas Jefferson & the University of Virginia
University of Virginia Financial Report: 2023 Net Position $12.580B
University of Virginia Capital Construction & Renovations
2025 Security & Fire Safety Report
The recent tragedy inspires a need to review relevant safety standards. Today, a very brief examination and discussion about whether there is an enforceable standard solution that already exists, or is there an affordable solution to remediate a gap. Just a very cursory review today during our Open Office Hour.
2025 Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report
Holiday Leftovers
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Design Standard Readability
Fry readability formula
Shixiang Zhou & Heejin Jeong
Industrial and Operations Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Transportation Research Institute Driver Interface Group
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract. Research problem: Readability equations are widely used to compute how well readers will be able to understand written materials. Those equations were usually developed for nontechnical materials, namely, textbooks for elementary, middle, and high schools. This study examines to what extent computerized readability predictions are consistent for highly technical material – selected Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and International Standards Organization (ISO) Recommended Practices and Standards relating to driver interfaces. Literature review: A review of original sources of readability equations revealed a lack of specific criteria in counting various punctuation and text elements, leading to inconsistent readability scores. Few studies on the reliability of readability equations have identified this problem, and even fewer have systematically investigated the extent of the problem and the reasons why it occurs. Research questions:
(1) Do the most commonly used equations give identical readability scores?
(2) How do the scores for each readability equation vary with readability tools?
(3) If there are differences between readability tools, why do they occur?
(4) How does the score vary with the length of passage examined?
Method: Passages of varying lengths from 12 selected SAE and ISO Recommended Practices and Standards were examined using five readability equations (Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog Index, SMOG Index, Coleman-Liau Index, and Automated Readability Index) implemented five ways (four online readability tools and Microsoft Word 2013 for Windows). In addition, short test passages of text were used to understand how different readability tools counted text elements, such as words and sentences. Results and conclusions: The mean readability scores of the passages from those 12 SAE and ISO Recommended Practices and Standards ranged from the 10th grade reading level to about 15th. The mean grade reading levels computed across the websites were: Flesch-Kincaid 12.8, Gunning Fog 15.1 SMOG 12.6, Coleman-Liau 13.7, and Automated Readability Index 12.3. Readability score estimates became more consistent as the length of the passage examined increased, with no noteworthy improvements beyond 900 words. Among the five readability tools, scores typically differed by two grade levels, but the scores should have been the same. These differences were due to how compound and hyphenated words, slashes, numbers, abbreviations and acronyms, and URLs were counted, as well other punctuation and text elements. These differences occurred because the sources for these equations often did not specify how to score various punctuation and text elements. Of the tools examined, the authors recommend Microsoft Word 2013 for Windows if the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level is required.
ICYMI. The OED has recently been updated with:
new words, phrases and senses added
more than 1,000 entries revised
new audio files and pronunciation transcriptions from Northern England and North-Eastern England
and more!Learn more: https://t.co/JCLcZzTtEQ pic.twitter.com/FhdbPKxBVZ
— The OED (@OED) April 4, 2025
Virginia Woolf: pic.twitter.com/8IPw1Fmevk
— Dr. Maya C. Popa (@MayaCPopa) May 25, 2023
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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