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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com
“Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you;
but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.”

Kohler School District | Sheboygan County Wisconsin

 

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  • 08
    08.December.Sunday
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    Westlake High School "Sleigh Ride"

    All day
    2024.12.08

    https://youtu.be/Rn_1Wpi15ns?si=VE06Q5R9qgVJ1b3b

  • 09
    09.December.Monday

    Intellectual Property

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.12.09

    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.

     

    https://twitter.com/StandardsMich/status/1318508254658502657?s=20

  • 10
    10.December.Tuesday

    Solar Electric

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.12.10

    Lorem

  • 11
    11.December.Wednesday

    Hello World!

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.12.11

    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, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/international-standards-teleconference-today-11-am-eastern/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-tc-309/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/iec-2021/

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/itu-academia/

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    https://standardsmichigan.com/time-frequency-services/

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    https://standardsmichigan.com/readability-of-design-standards/

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  • 12
    12.December.Thursday

    Elevators & Lifts

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.12.12

    Going Up: Uncovering the Art Deco Elevators of Landmarked Building Interiors

    Architectural Digest: Why The Chrysler Building is a New York City Icon

    University of Wisconsin Stadium Elevator

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The Elevator Consultants: Standards

    Many education communities have 100’s of elevators and escalators.   This is a difficult space for driving costs down

    (because of strong manufacturer and labor presence) but we will give the “old college try”

    https://youtu.be/Y2q8sbJDLEw

  • 13
    13.December.Friday

    Paraskevidekatriaphobia Mathematics

    All day
    2024.12.13

    The formal Latin name for the fear of Friday the 13th is “paraskevidekatriaphobia.” This term combines the Greek words “Paraskeví” (meaning Friday) and “dekatreís” (meaning thirteen), with “phobia” (meaning fear).

    Etymology:

    • Paraskeví (Παρασκευή): Greek word for Friday.
    • Dekatreís (δεκατρείς): Greek word for thirteen.
    • Phobia (φοβία): Greek word for fear.

    This term was coined to describe the specific fear of this particular date, which is considered unlucky in various cultures. An alternative term sometimes used is “friggatriskaidekaphobia,” which incorporates “Frigg,” the Norse goddess for whom Friday is named.

    For more detailed information, you can refer to the sources discussing the psychological and cultural aspects of this phobia:

     

     

    Luciadagen Hanseatics

    All day
    2024.12.13

    Lunds universitet | Skåne län

    Lunds universitet | Scania

    Lively 300

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.12.13

    you shall above all things be glad and young
    For if you’re young,whatever life you wear
    it will become you;and if you are glad
    whatever’s living will yourself become…

    — e.e. cummings

    “Actors from the Commedia dell’Arte on a Wagon in a Town Square” 1640 Jan Miel

    A walk through the status of best practice literature that sets the standard of care for safety and sustainability in the education facilities built for the performance arts.

    Readings: The Seven Lively Arts (1924) Glibert Seldes (Oxford Academic review)

    https://twitter.com/RoyalBalletSch/status/1651974785490878464?s=20

     

    https://youtu.be/DcXb9KWZtZU?si=2qeTsLy2bm1VAKiL

  • 14
    14.December.Saturday
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    Rogers Middle School "Miracle on 34th Street"

    All day
    2024.12.14

    https://youtu.be/x9qnnIRG9UY?si=HLmxOTXBeeHr7zU-


    https://youtu.be/BFFKlh0xWy8?si=rhmiS1X0jeg2jqRM

    https://youtu.be/Rn_1Wpi15ns?si=-L2AXJi2GzJNgm5D

    Army-Navy Game

    All day
    2024.12.14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Couple near Booksellers” – Bernard Boutet de Monvel, French (1881 – 1949)

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Standards Michigan | Time

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)

 

Quadrivium: Summer

We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.

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