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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

Michigan West

Black River Public School | Kent County Michigan

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January 12 - January 18
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  • 12
    12.January.Sunday
  • 13
    13.January.Monday

    OSHA Accident Report Review

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.01.13

    OSHA Accident Report Review

     

    https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2024/10_sched.htm

  • 14
    14.January.Tuesday

    Orthodox Christian New Year

    All day
    2025.01.14

    Media

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.01.14

    We review best practice literature in the field of audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment greatly expanded in the Massive Online Open Online Course  and #LearnFromHome zietgeist.  These titles include specification of the performance, methods of measurement for consumer and professional equipment and their application in systems and its interoperability with other systems or equipment.  Multimedia is the integration of any form of audio, video, graphics, data and telecommunication and integration includes the production, storage, processing, transmission, display and reproduction of such information.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/summer-solstice-around-the-world/

  • 15
    15.January.Wednesday

    Prime Minister's Questions

    All day
    2025.01.15

    https://standardsmichigan.com/standards-january-language/

    Civic Education in the United States

     

    Leviathan And Its Enemies: Samuel T. Francis (2016)

     

    Hello World!

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.01.15

    Today we explain our collaboration with other like-minded units in education communities in the US and other nations.  In most cases 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/

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

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

  • 16
    16.January.Thursday

    Inglenook

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.01.16

    St. Olaf College | Dakota County Minnesota

    https://standardsmichigan.com/inglenook/

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of all that I have seen
    Of meadow flowers and butterflies
    In summers that have been
    Of yellow leaves and gossamer
    In autumns that there were
    With morning mist and silver sun
    And wind upon my hair
    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of how the world will be
    When winter comes without a spring
    That I shall ever see
    For still there are so many things
    That I have never seen
    In every wood in every spring
    There is a different green
    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of people long ago
    And people that will see a world
    That I shall never know
    But all the while I sit and think
    Of times there were before
    I listen for returning feet
    And voices at the door

    -J.R.R. Tolkien

  • 17
    17.January.Friday

    Nourriture Hiver

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.01.17


    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.

    https://youtu.be/g33C4D1QYis?si=r6Q_vrElPQ6bvbMi

    https://standardsmichigan.com/nourriture-hiver/

  • 18
    18.January.Saturday

    Sport News

    All day
    2025.01.18

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

    "Galveston" " Student Covers

    All day
    2025.01.18

"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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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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