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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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September 15 - September 21
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  • 15
    15.September.Sunday
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    "September Fifteenth" (Metheny-Mays Cover) | Alt Guitar School

    All day
    2024.09.15

    https://standardsmichigan.com/september-fifteenth-metheny-mays-cover-alt-guitar-school/

    "Michaelmas" Glasglow University Choir

    All day
    2024.09.15

    “Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise around.”

    — Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hurrahing in Harvest

    https://youtu.be/HzWf2DAIxeo?si=38z1IWLz3ptH5wzz

  • 16
    16.September.Monday

    Human Resources Michaelmas

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.09.16

    Famous People Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante

    Periodic walk-through of Human Resource best practice catalog for labor markets generally; and units within the education facility industry specifically.   We inform our discussion based upon today’s release on the Employment Situation Summary from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    Recommended Reading:

    “The Human Side of Enterprise” 1960 Douglas McGregor

    University of Chicago Press: Readings in Managerial Psychology

    Rutgers University: Organizational Design and Structure

     

    For an advance agenda send a request to bella@stanardsmichigan.com.   Use the credentials at the upper right of our home page to log in.

  • 17
    17.September.Tuesday

    Testing, Inspection & Certification

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.09.17

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    NETA

     

    Kurtosis might seem like a purely statistical concept, but it has practical applications in various fields that can be relevant to everyday life:

    1. Investment and Finance: Investors use kurtosis to assess the risk of asset returns. High kurtosis in financial returns can indicate a higher probability of extreme outcomes (both gains and losses), which is crucial for risk management and portfolio optimization.
    2. Quality Control: In manufacturing, kurtosis can help detect defects in products. High kurtosis in the measurements of product characteristics can indicate a high number of outliers, suggesting potential issues in the production process.
    3. Environmental Studies: Environmental scientists use kurtosis to analyze data distributions in climate studies, pollution levels, and other environmental measurements. Understanding the distribution can help in identifying extreme events or outliers that could be significant for policy and decision-making.
    4. Healthcare: In medical research, kurtosis can be used to analyze the distribution of health-related data, such as the occurrence of diseases or the effectiveness of treatments. It helps in understanding the variability and outliers in the data, which can be critical for clinical decisions.
    5. Marketing and Customer Analysis: Businesses use kurtosis to understand consumer behavior and preferences. High kurtosis in customer satisfaction scores, for instance, might indicate a small but significant number of highly dissatisfied or highly satisfied customers, prompting targeted actions.
    6. Education: In educational assessments, kurtosis can help analyze the distribution of test scores. High kurtosis might indicate a few students with exceptionally high or low scores, which could be important for understanding the effectiveness of teaching methods or the difficulty of the test.

    In essence, kurtosis helps in identifying the presence and impact of outliers in various types of data, aiding in better decision-making and understanding of the phenomena under study.

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  • 18
    18.September.Wednesday

    Hello World!

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.09.18

    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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  • 19
    19.September.Thursday

    Wood

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.09.19

    https://standardsmichigan.com/wood/

    https://awc.org/codes-and-standards/

  • 20
    20.September.Friday

    Fall Watersport

    11:00 -12:00
    2024.09.20

    https://standardsmichigan.com/watersport/

    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

  • 21
    21.September.Saturday
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    University of North Florida "That Sunday, That Summer" Kelly Green Cover

    All day
    2024.09.21

    Kelly Green | University of North Florida

    https://youtu.be/Bs5l4L8ccqI?si=Khl6vcuCjEO82ujP

    Nat King Cole Original

    “September Morn” | Paul Émile Chabas

    Universitäts München "Brahms - Im Herbst"

    All day
    2024.09.21

    https://youtu.be/q9F2I-KxtuY?si=BPaMnrHDyQuCvMa6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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