— Virgil, Bucolics Eclogue IV
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Happy first day of school to all the Worcester Public School kids out there! I’ve been spending the morning with the staff at Heard Street Discovery School and they are so excited to welcome students and their parents 📚🚌✂️🎓 pic.twitter.com/LBv38hPavw — Penny Kmitt (@pennylikeacoin) August 25, 2025 https://standardsmichigan.com/first-day-of-school/ 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 Michigan State Fire Marshal Recognizes September as Campus Fire Safety Month NFPA and Center for Campus Fire Safety Ring the Alarm on Fire Risks https://standardsmichigan.com/campus-fire-safety-month/ @STCFireServices is at @BrockUniversity tonight spreading the word about practicing fire safety in your residence. Reminder to students to never charge anything on a soft surface & use listed products only #FireSafeSTC @St_Catharines @firefighters_st pic.twitter.com/KwNLWAVXjM — St. Catharines Fire Services (@STCFireServices) September 1, 2025 🔥 Keep hallways, exits, and stairwells clear at all times! In a fire, every second counts. Don’t block your way out. Your life could depend on it.#CampusFireSafety #StudentLife #FireSafetyFirst pic.twitter.com/XKSjV4P7DJ — Mississauga Fire (@MississaugaFES) August 27, 2025 September is Campus Fire Safety Month! Share vital information to help students reduce the risk of fires in dorms and off-campus housing. Learn how: https://t.co/3VgMY8nagZ pic.twitter.com/Blra1tTKJ1 — Sparky the Fire Dog (@Sparky_Fire_Dog) September 3, 2024 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 “September Morn” | Paul Émile Chabas — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 4, 2024 https://standardsmichigan.com/event/university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill-dance-september-2-2/ She puts her soul in her dancing 😍 pic.twitter.com/lPrlpvyWPo — 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 (@Hoang_HQ) November 10, 2025 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Ann Arbor | Local 252 The phrase “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” is commonly attributed to Mark Twain, who popularized it in his writings. Specifically, Twain wrote in his 1906 autobiography, Chapters from My Autobiography, published in the North American Review: “Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,’ is peculiarly applicable.” Twain credited the phrase to Benjamin Disraeli, the former British Prime Minister, but there’s no definitive evidence that Disraeli ever said or wrote it. Some scholars suggest the phrase may have originated elsewhere or been a common saying at the time. Despite this, Twain’s attribution to Disraeli is the most widely recognized source, and he’s often credited with popularizing it. https://standardsmichigan.com/zoning/ Beth Hoover Doraemon school bus in Japan [📹 fazza_op_]pic.twitter.com/Zc3K21uHMP — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 3, 2026 They destroyed art, — The Figen (@TheFigen_) August 22, 2025 Pre-First Draft Meetings of Joint Technical Committee of IEEE PES/IAS to the 2029 National Electrical Code m https://youtube.com/shorts/5n2MltVuZ-M?si=L1C8U4XkC-YtIIpv</p> University of Southern California An overview of the IEEE, NEMA, NFPA, IES, ICC, ESTA and other consensus documents that set the standard of care for special event facilities and venues. https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/ https://standardsmichigan.com/esta-outdoor-entertainment-events/ https://standardsmichigan.com/nfpa-70-places-of-assembly/ “I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.” — Billings Learned Hand (“The Spirit of Liberty”, 1944) “Fall Plowing” 1931 / Grant Wood 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, https://standardsmichigan.com/food-standards-monthly/ https://standardsmichigan.com/watersport/ University of Michigan Sailing Team | Great Lakes Can’t do this anywhere else. Your call 📱 pic.twitter.com/BtWCpbM87C — Bobby Guntoro (@bobbygunt) July 18, 2024 https://twitter.com/OtayMark/status/1687584197752537091?s=20 https://twitter.com/StandardsMich/status/1550752898740543489?s=20 https://twitter.com/SportSapienza/status/1687454976015020033?s=20 https://twitter.com/USASwimming/status/1687150046612250624?s=20 https://twitter.com/Vol_SwimDive/status/1687087529214844928?s=20 https://standardsmichigan.com/conditions-of-contract-for-building-and-civil-engineering-construction/ Every infrastructure project begins as someone else’s problem. Eventually it becomes everyone’s necessity. The excitement surrounding AI infrastructure continues to keep aloft the practical questions that have always interested Standards Michigan: How do we build it? How do we operate it safely? And how do we standardize it so that it remains reliable for decades? “Composition in red, yellow, blue and black” (1921) / Piet Mondrian Winter Solstice – all you need to know about visiting Stonehenge on the shortest day https://t.co/ooWiS3gEXO — Stonehenge U.K (@ST0NEHENGE) December 13, 2024 “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” | Robert Frost 1922 “Julmarknad” 1872 | Georg von Rosenhttps://t.co/pMrjBejy9Vhttps://t.co/YVfY8fhhTu — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) December 21, 2024 Lorem ipsum https://standardsmichigan.com/interior-furnishing-maintenance-monthly/ https://standardsmichigan.com/interior-finishes-2/ “He who does not speak foreign languages — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Daily Beast (August 22, 2025): Dems Ban These Words to Stop Sounding Like ‘Crazy People’ “The Tower of Babel” 1563 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder Here’s a rough breakdown of the top languages on the web: English: 55.4% – Russian: 6.6% – Japanese: 5.4% – Spanish: 5.2% – Chinese: 4.6% One of the most contentious aspects of best practice discovery and promulgation in any domain, and no less so in educational settlements, is an agreed-upon vocabulary and shared understanding. As we explain elsewhere in this history, when a counter-party disagrees with you, he simply switches out the vocabulary — i.e. changes definitions or adds or subtracts from the traditional meanings of things. So we approach this topic several times a year to confirm our bearing on the meaning of things. We observe National Poetry Month in the United States and Canada every year with an inquiry into changes in the (meaning of) definitions at the foundation of best practice literature; frequently the subject of sporty debate among experts writing codes and standards for the built environment of education communities. In the United Kingdom, National Poetry Month is celebrated in October, and it is known as “National Poetry Day” which has been observed since 1994. It is an initiative of the Forward Arts Foundation, which aims to encourage people to read, write and perform poetry. Other countries also have their own poetry celebrations, such as World Poetry Day, which is observed annually on March 21 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. In past years we used a Tamil mnemonic because Tamil is the oldest surviving language and remains the spoken language of 80-odd million people of South Asia. Alas, use of Tamil confounds our Wordpress content management system so in 2024 we began coding this topic in American English “The language of Europe is translation” — Umberto Eco https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/ Latin Phrases You Should Know. pic.twitter.com/Erq61gVW29 — Learn Latin (@latinedisce) May 5, 2024 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 Direct Current Distribution https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/3710.1/12521/ “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” — Paraphrase by Winston Churchill University endowments are comprised of money or other financial assets that are donated to academic institutions. Charitable donations are the primary source of funds for endowments. Endowment funds support the teaching, research, and public service missions of colleges and universities. In the case of endowment funds for academic institutions, the income generated is intended to finance a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution. Today we will pick through few reports where safety and sustainability claims are listed and described. https://standardsmichigan.com/schenkingen/
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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.
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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)
We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.
at a conference where you don’t have to present
— Peyman Milanfar (@docmilanfar) April 4, 2025
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