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mike@standardsmichigan.com

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  • Water 300

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.05

    https://standardsmichigan.com/water-300-2/

    https://youtu.be/fj1aSyzM8oA

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  • Wood

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.06

    https://standardsmichigan.com/wood/

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

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  • Winter Sport

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.07

    We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

    Frederick Bourchier Taylor (1906-1987)
    Hockey On Henri Julien Street At Pine Avenue East, Montreal 1948

    An overview of public commenting opportunities on proposed standards for sports and recreation equipment and athletic facilities.   Send email to bella@standardsmichigan.com for access to the agenda.

    US Wintersport Traditions:

    1. Basketball: Basketball is one of the most popular NCAA winter sports. The season typically starts in November and runs through March, culminating in the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments, commonly known as March Madness.
    2. Wrestling: Wrestling is another winter sport in the NCAA. The wrestling season usually begins in November and extends through the NCAA Wrestling Championships, which take place in March.
    3. Indoor Track and Field: Indoor track and field competitions take place during the winter months, with athletes competing in various events such as sprints, distance races, jumps, and throws.
    4. Gymnastics: Collegiate gymnastics competitions are held during the winter and early spring months. Both men’s and women’s teams compete in events such as floor exercise, vault, uneven bars, parallel bars, and rings.
    5. Ice Hockey: Ice hockey is a winter sport in the NCAA, with the season typically starting in October or November and continuing into the early months of the following year. Both men’s and women’s teams participate in NCAA ice hockey competitions.
    6. Skiing: Skiing competitions, including alpine and Nordic events, are part of NCAA winter sports. Athletes compete in skiing disciplines such as slalom, giant slalom, and cross-country.
    7. Swimming and Diving: Swimming and diving competitions take place during the winter months. Athletes participate in various swimming events and diving disciplines, with the season culminating in NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.
    8. Bowling: Bowling is considered a winter sport in the NCAA, with competitions taking place during the winter and early spring.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/zbbOw1KBpD8?si=BMQyFWAFWd_TWRBH

    https://twitter.com/ansidotorg/status/1676936533767487488?s=20

    https://twitter.com/BBPrepHead/status/1676982024135999489?s=20

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  • Language 200

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.10

    “He who does not speak foreign languages
    knows nothing about his own.“

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

     

    “The Tower of Babel” 1563 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder

     

    Here’s a rough breakdown of the top languages on the web:

    English: 55.4% – Russian: 6.6% – Japanese: 5.4% – Spanish: 5.2% – Chinese: 4.6%

     

    One of the most contentious aspects of best practice discovery and promulgation in any domain, and no less so in educational settlements, is an agreed-upon vocabulary and shared understanding.  As we explain elsewhere in this history, when a counter-party disagrees with you, he simply switches out the vocabulary — i.e. changes definitions or adds or subtracts from the traditional meanings of things.  So we approach this topic several times a year to confirm our bearing on the meaning of things.

    Attention Is All You Need | Ashish Vaswani, et. al

    We begin 2025 by breaking down this topic into four sections

    Language 100: Survey of vocabulary in the standards catalogs relevant to building and managing education settlement real assets; including legal terms.

    Language 200: Electrotechnology standard catalogs; including computer programming languages.

    Language 300: The English as the language of science and innovation; the birthplace of computing and programming, the internet’s native tongue, standardization & open source development; etc.

    Language 400: Reserved

    We observe National Poetry Month in the United States and Canada every year with an inquiry into changes in the (meaning of) definitions at the foundation of best practice literature; frequently the subject of sporty debate among experts writing codes and standards for the built environment of education communities.

    In the United Kingdom, National Poetry Month is celebrated in October, and it is known as “National Poetry Day” which has been observed since 1994. It is an initiative of the Forward Arts Foundation, which aims to encourage people to read, write and perform poetry.

    Other countries also have their own poetry celebrations, such as World Poetry Day, which is observed annually on March 21 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide.

    In past years we used a Tamil mnemonic because Tamil is the oldest surviving language and remains the spoken language of 80-odd million people of South Asia.  Alas, use of Tamil confounds our Wordpress content management system so in 2024 we began coding this topic in American English

    https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/

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  • Data Centers

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.11

    “Composition in red, yellow, blue and black” (1921) / Piet Mondrian

    Status check on open source consensus products — and practical applications —  evolving around distributed ledger technologies for financing, planning, design, operation & maintenance of the #WiseCampus.

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  • Hello World!

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.12

    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people.

    Let your memory be your travel bag.”

    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (From “The Gulag Archipelago”)

    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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  • Paint

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.13

    https://standardsmichigan.com/paint/

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  • Colloquy (March)

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.17

    https://standardsmichigan.com/colloquy-march/

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  • Transport & Parking

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.20

    University of Wisconsin

    Overview of transportation standards relevant to large research university campuses — from micro-mobility to parking.  Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email requesting an agenda.

  • Morrill Land-Grant Act | Veris sementis

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.20

    “The transformation of traditional agriculture is crucial for the development of an economy. It is the productivity gains in agriculture that can free up resources and labor to contribute to growth in other sectors.” — Theodore W. Schultz

    https://standardsmichigan.com/readings-morrill-land-grant-act/

     

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  • Naming & Signs

    All day
    2025.03.21

    https://standardsmichigan.com/naming-standards/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/welcome/

     

  • World Poetry Day

    All day
    2025.03.21

    World Poetry Day

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    https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/

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  • Kindergarten

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.24

    https://standardsmichigan.com/kindergarten/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/bruin-cafe/

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  • Illumination 300

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.25

    Illumination technologies have had a pattern of consuming about 35 percent of building electrical energy use.  That number has been pressed downward with the expanded application of LED luminaires and occupant responsive controls; much of the transformation hastened by the IEEE, IES and ASHRAE best practice catalogs.

    Today we run through the development status of these products with specific interest in exterior illumination best practice.  This topic also is covered in the 4 time monthly meetings of the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/illumination-400/

     

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  • Interiors

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.26

     

    “The Country School” | Winslow Homer

    Today at 11 AM EDT we review the status consensus products (codes, standards, guidelines, recommendations and safety legislation) that set the standard of care for the design, manufacture and maintenance of interior fixtures such as carpet, furniture, bookshelves and ceiling tiles, plumbing fixtures.  Waste management, laboratory fixtures, recycling amenities — i.e. things are not nailed down — are on the agenda.   Also we track elevated interest and market-making by conformity interests in the manufacturing and material recycling far up the value chain.

    In large research universities, it is common for building service personnel engaged in keeping facilities clean and tidy to constitute the largest proportion of permanent employees; thus some consideration must be given to occupational safety.

    Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

     

     

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  • Laboratories

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.27

    “Der Alchemist” 1908 / Max Fuhrmann

     

    Status check on standards action that guide laboratory safety and sustainability in all building disciplines.    There are about ten standards developers in this space and they do not all move in a coordinated manner among themselves; much less from state-to-state.  Anyone is welcomed to join this teleconference with the login information below.  For an agenda, please join our mailing list.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/standing-agenda-laboratories/

    https://youtu.be/zHAl1PHcQyU?si=LYF8wOYY9Lvqx_o1

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  • Fish Fry

    All day
    2025.03.28

    https://standardsmichigan.com/fish-fry/

  • Nourriture Printemps

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.03.28

    “Spring Turning” 1936 Grant Wood,

    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://standardsmichigan.com/food-standards-monthly/

     

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  • Mothering Sunday

    All day
    2025.03.30

    Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1963

    In the United Kingdom, Mother’s Day, often called Mothering Sunday, is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is tied to the Christian calendar rather than a fixed date like in the US. For 2025, Easter Sunday is on April 20, and Lent begins 40 days earlier (excluding Sundays), placing the start of Lent around March 5. Counting forward, the fourth Sunday of Lent will be March 30. So, Mothering Sunday in the UK in 2025 will fall on March 30. It’s a day with historical roots in the church, originally about returning to one’s “mother” church, but now it’s a time to celebrate moms with flowers, cards, and family gatherings.

  • Mothering Sunday

    All day
    2025.03.30

    Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1963

    In the United Kingdom, Mother’s Day, often called Mothering Sunday, is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is tied to the Christian calendar rather than a fixed date like in the US. For 2025, Easter Sunday is on April 20, and Lent begins 40 days earlier (excluding Sundays), placing the start of Lent around March 5. Counting forward, the fourth Sunday of Lent will be March 30. So, Mothering Sunday in the UK in 2025 will fall on March 30. It’s a day with historical roots in the church, originally about returning to one’s “mother” church, but now it’s a time to celebrate moms with flowers, cards, and family gatherings.

  • Fourth Sunday of Lent

    All day
    2025.03.30


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  • “Mack the Knife” Columbia University Uptown Vocal

    All day
    2025.03.31

    Reflection on the degree to which large research universities are Non-Government Organizations (Quangos, in the United Kingdom) or Hedge Funds with a side operation in education.

    “Mack the Knife” (original German title: “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer”) seems like a jaunty swing tune, especially in Louis Armstrong’s or Bobby Darin’s famous versions, but its lyrics are actually about a charming, elegant, and utterly ruthless gangster/criminal named Macheath (“Mack the Knife”) from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s 1928 play The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper).

    This popular jazz standard disguises the cynical statement about how money, greed, corruption, robbery, and murder are intertwined — and how the biggest crooks wear suits and are celebrated instead of punished. 

  • Schenkingen

    All day
    2025.03.31

    University endowments are comprised of money or other financial assets that are donated to academic institutions. Charitable donations are the primary source of funds for endowments. Endowment funds support the teaching, research, and public service missions of colleges and universities.  In the case of endowment funds for academic institutions, the income generated is intended to finance a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution.  Today we will pick through few reports where safety and sustainability claims are listed and described.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/schenkingen/

     

 

 

 

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