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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

Michigan West

Black River Public School | Kent County Michigan

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August 04 - August 10
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  • 04
    04.August.Sunday

    "The Church's One Foundation" Duke University

    All day
    2024.08.04

    https://youtu.be/2ECY2IIeRg8?si=ovrKLKFA7aW9b84O

    https://youtu.be/1LZVz1guz2c?si=wZk0Dak1SwZlZji3

    https://standardsmichigan.com/university-affiliated-chapels/

  • 05
    05.August.Monday

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.08.05

     

    With emphasis on OB-GYN because educational settlements are where families begin and grow among the young.

    Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities.

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.08.05

     

    With emphasis on OB-GYN because educational settlements are where families begin and grow among the young.

    Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities.

  • 06
    06.August.Tuesday

    National Electrical Code Worksession

    All day
    2024.08.06

    https://standardsmichigan.com/event/nec-2026-public-comment-close-date/

  • 07
    07.August.Wednesday
    Michigan State University: Great Lakes Lighthouses

    Lighthouse Day

    All day
    2024.08.07

    https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-great-lakes/

    Student Housing

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.08.07

    Christchurch School Virginia

    https://standardsmichigan.com/housing/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-move-in/

    Student Housing

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.08.07

    Christchurch School Virginia

    https://standardsmichigan.com/housing/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-move-in/

  • 08
    08.August.Thursday

    Air Conditioning

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.08.08

    lorem

  • 09
    09.August.Friday

    Watersport

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.08.09

    Lorem

     

    Watersports are sports and recreational activities that take place on or in water. There are numerous types of watersports, and they can be broadly categorized into several groups:

    1. Aquatic Sports: These sports take place in water and include swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo, and artistic swimming (formerly known as synchronized swimming).
    2. Board Sports: Board sports involve riding on various types of boards on the water’s surface. Examples include surfing, stand-up paddleboarding (SUP), windsurfing, kitesurfing (also known as kiteboarding), wakeboarding, and skimboarding.
    3. Sailing and Yachting: This category includes activities that use boats with sails, such as sailing, yachting, and sailboat racing.
    4. Canoeing and Kayaking: Canoeing involves propelling a canoe with a paddle, and kayaking involves propelling a kayak with a double-bladed paddle. Both activities can be done in different water conditions, including calm lakes and whitewater rivers.
    5. Rowing: Rowing involves moving a boat forward with oars, typically with several rowers working in synchronization. It is a popular competitive sport and can also be enjoyed recreationally.
    6. Jet Skiing and Personal Watercraft: Riding personal watercraft, such as Jet Skis, Sea-Doos, or WaveRunners, is a popular watersport activity for recreation and thrill-seekers.
    7. Water Skiing: Water skiing involves being pulled behind a boat on skis while being towed on the water’s surface.
    8. Diving Sports: Diving sports encompass various activities, including snorkeling, free diving (diving without scuba gear), and scuba diving (diving with self-contained underwater breathing apparatus).
    9. Fishing: Fishing can be considered a watersport as it involves catching fish from various bodies of water.

    These are just some of the many watersports enjoyed by people around the world. Each of these activities offers a unique experience and appeals to individuals with different interests and skill levels.

  • 10
    10.August.Saturday
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    "Aime" Pure Prairie League Covers | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

    All day
    2024.08.10

    https://youtu.be/XRNe8yZj_9c?si=-LhYtg6z1HFSGf5M

    https://youtu.be/XBdZSPMnTPs?si=O-r3-Q9RtoT-3o8h


    https://youtu.be/ziowY7Sd_Hs?si=vpp5QuM-bZ8LhRSj

"In this life you have to perfect one human relationship in order to really know God" -- Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen) Its almost over, let's enjoy it properly

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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)

 

Quadrivium: Summer

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

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