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“Christmas divination” 1888 Mykola Pymonenko, Ukrainian

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“Time is a passionate sculptor of men, the sun stands over it, a beast of hope and you,

closer to it, embrace love with a bitter taste of a tempest.”

—Odysseus Elytis (Nobel Laureate 1979)

Today we take a retrospective look at 2025 and a prospective look at 2026.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

Our new office: Across State Street from our first South Athletic Campus office on Oak Valley Drive.  We will recode our footer to reflect this.

455 East Eisenhower Parkway Suite 300 | Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108

“Life can only be understood backwards;

but it must be lived forwards.”

Christine Graduates with her Ph.D

In Memory: Larry Spielvogel

Welcome: James R. Murdock

Mike honored in the NFPA “Quarter Century” Club & IEEE Student Mentor Award

“Auld Lang Syne” | Michigan State University College of Musichttps://t.co/4Mwyt9BfsDhttps://t.co/5EA3vrgYDd@michiganstateuhttps://t.co/hbMSBvpt9A
print(“Lunch Hour 1600 UTC”)\n weekday(2) pic.twitter.com/W2pk3netlT

— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) December 31, 2025

Standards Scotland

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
— Seneca​ (On the Shortness of Life)

Today at 16:00 UTC we refresh our understanding of the technical standards for the timing-systems that maintain the temporal framework for daily life in education communities.  The campus clock continues as a monument of beauty and structure even though digitization of everything has rendered the central community clock redundant.

Most leading practice discovery (and innovation) is happening with the Network Time Protocols (NTP) that synchronize the time stamps of widely separated data centers.  In operation since before 1985, NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols in current use and underlies the Internet of Things build out.  NTP is particularly important in maintaining accurate time stamps for safety system coordination and for time stamps on email log messages.

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How Do You Measure the Percentage of Alcohol in Beer, Wine and Other Beverages?https://t.co/WitMHCUKGdhttps://t.co/VS3p32cdGd@NIST pic.twitter.com/FPKBBSari9

— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) November 28, 2022

https://standardsmichigan.com/polar-bear-plunge-2/

Polar Bear Plunge Day https://t.co/TlUn5IWtuX via @natltoday

— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) December 30, 2023

Goal for 2024 pic.twitter.com/IL0lKf0DJO

— Dr. Catharine Young (@catgyoung) January 1, 2024

The Icelandic tradition of lighting candles and placing lights on graves in cemeteries during the Christmas and New Year’s period. These capture the serene, glowing atmosphere in the winter darkness, often in places like Reykjavík’s cemeteries.

illuminated gravestones in Iceland

https://standardsmichigan.com/time/

May she be kind .. 2026 🕊️ pic.twitter.com/DD4nOgqUc3

— Alison O’Neill ~ Shepherdess (@woolismybread) January 1, 2026

https://standardsmichigan.com/haggis/

Crazy how we spent the last few decades shaming young mothers. It’s natural and beautiful.pic.twitter.com/Ad86AeurWI

— MEMIS (@MemIngenjoeren) December 31, 2025

https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-8601-12019-date-and-time-representations-for-information-interchange-part-1-basic-rules/

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

https://standardsmichigan.com/what-is-a-standard-drink/

https://www.lssu.edu/lake-superior-state-university-unveils-2025-banished-words-list/

This is a simply delightful sketch animation of a ballet dancer. I was trying to get some different effects and style effects than usual.

(Prompt in following tweets.)
#Veo2 pic.twitter.com/fyznNWl3Mt

— Jason Baldridge (@jasonbaldridge) January 17, 2025

“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://standardsmichigan.com/college-bowl-games/