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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

Blair County Pennsylvania 814

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  • Ann Arbor Hash Bash 2025

    Ann Arbor Hash Bash 2025

    All day
    2025.04.05

    https://standardsmichigan.com/hash-bash/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-april-fools-day-pranks-2022/

  • Wake Forest University “Deacon Blues”

    Wake Forest University “Deacon Blues”

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    2025.04.05
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

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    The connection between Deacon Blues by Steely Dan and Wake Forest University comes from a lyric in the song that references the university’s sports team.

    In Deacon Blues, there’s a line that goes:

    “They got a name for the winners in the world / I want a name when I lose / They call Alabama the Crimson Tide / Call me Deacon Blues.”

    Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the core members of Steely Dan, explained in interviews that the “Deacon Blues” name was inspired by Wake Forest University’s football team, the Demon Deacons. At the time, Wake Forest’s football program was not particularly successful, and Becker and Fagen thought “Deacon Blues” sounded like the perfect name for a poetic, down-on-his-luck character who embraces failure with style.

    The song plays with the contrast between Alabama’s powerhouse football team (the Crimson Tide) and the struggling Wake Forest Demon Deacons, using it as a metaphor for a romanticized version of an underdog’s life.

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  • Language 300

    Language 300

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.04.07

    “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.

    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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  • Intellectual Property

    Intellectual Property

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.04.09

    Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Student Art

    Innovation – Standardization – Commoditization run along a continuum.  Today we unpack some of the ideas that hasten (and prohibit) leading practice discovery; how quickly goods and services become a “human right”; why all of this is relevant to education communities and why some believe that commoditization is a myth.

    From the Wikipedia

    In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer’s point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest.

     

    https://twitter.com/StandardsMich/status/1318508254658502657?s=20

  • Judge Maps

    Judge Maps

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.04.09

    Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges

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  • “Taxman” Covers

    “Taxman” Covers

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    2025.04.15
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    In 1969, UK government expenditure was approximately 42% of gross domestic product (GDP). In 1969, US government expenditure (federal, state, and local) was approximately 30.6% of gross domestic product (GDP).

    George Harrison’s income in 1969 was likely taxed at an effective rate of 70–85%, depending on its composition (earned vs. unearned) and tax planning. For an estimated income of £100,000–£200,000, he paid roughly £70,000–£170,000 in taxes, or $167,300–$406,300 USD (£1 = $2.39). The top marginal rate approached 91.25–96.25%, but reliefs and strategies like Northern Songs lowered his overall burden. Without precise income data, this is an informed estimate—his frustration, as voiced in “Taxman,” reflects the punitive rates faced by the ultra-wealthy

  • Utility Metering & Billing

    Utility Metering & Billing

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.04.15

    https://standardsmichigan.com/electric-services/

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  • Hello World!

    Hello World!

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.04.16

    “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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  • Prime Minister’s Questions

    Prime Minister’s Questions

    All day
    2025.04.23

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

    Civic Education in the United States

     

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

     

  • St. George’s Day

    St. George’s Day

    All day
    2025.04.23

    St. George Christian Martyr

     

    St. George’s Day — Patron Saint of England — is  celebrated on April 23 to honor England’s patron saint, St. George, a Roman soldier martyred in 303 AD for his Christian faith. His legend, particularly the slaying of a dragon, became emblematic of good triumphing over evil, resonating deeply in medieval England. By the 14th century, St. George was officially recognized as England’s patron, with his feast day marked by religious observances and chivalric celebrations.

    In UK educational settings, the day’s history reflects evolving cultural and pedagogical priorities. During the medieval period, schools tied to monasteries or cathedrals included St. George’s Day in religious curricula, emphasizing moral lessons through hagiographies. The Reformation diminished saintly feasts, but St. George’s Day persisted in schools as a symbol of English identity, especially in the 19th century amid imperial pride. Victorian-era schools celebrated with pageants, plays, and readings of patriotic tales.

     In USA educational settings multiculturalism and secularism reduced its prominence in schools, with observances often limited to assemblies or history lessons; most commonly observed in the American South and Midwest. 

     

  • Energy 300

    Energy 300

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.04.23

    Review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations regarding energy production and conservation relevant to the education facility industry.

    Faculty and staff in the education industry in all nations provide basic research, application research in energy technologies.  The “cities-within-cities” we call the #SmartCampus” also provide crucibles for new testing new technologies as well as provide energy load for utilities operating under all ownership regimes.

    Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/agenda-energy-standards-monthly/

     

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  • Arbor Day

    Arbor Day

    All day
    2025.04.25

    https://youtu.be/oXyB0TvA-vc?si=0Mfh34uU2k4M0yPC

    “Arbor Day” Grant Wood

  • United States Consumer Sentiment

    United States Consumer Sentiment

    All day
    2025.04.25

    Release Calendar 2025

    The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (MCSI) is released twice a month:

    1. Preliminary Report – Released mid-month (usually the second Friday of the month).
    2. Final Report – Released at the end of the month (usually the fourth Friday of the month).

    Both reports are published at 10:00 AM Eastern Time (ET).

    https://youtu.be/D0xSuqKoByQ?si=-pawPMfA1bnY3-FM

    https://youtu.be/GxbKuek88NQ?si=v249UC4EAG2qJXlh

    https://youtu.be/JkQauI15hlE?si=uAm42E0eGtSCtJPH

  • Home Economics

    Home Economics

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.04.25
    https://standardsmichigan.com/category/kitchen/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/home-economics-2/

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  • “O filii et filiae” | Adams State College

    “O filii et filiae” | Adams State College

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    2025.04.27
    Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    “O Sons and Daughters” (O Filii et Filiae) A traditional hymn attributed to Jean Tisserand from the 15th century, this piece specifically references the events of the Second Sunday of Easter, including the story of Doubting Thomas from John 20:19-29, which is a key Gospel reading for the day. The refrain “Alleluia” ties it to the joy of the resurrection.

  • Climate Change as Religion

    Climate Change as Religion

    All day
    2025.04.27

    Saturn, Roman god of time. From Phaenomena et Prognostica by Aratus. (Cologne, 1569).

    https://standardsmichigan.com/false-alarm-on-climate-hysteria/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/climate-science-what-does-it-say/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/dialectic-climate-change/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/climate-accounting-standard/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/centre-for-studies-of-climate-change-denialism/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/divine-climate/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/what-fine-madness/

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“Standard” History

 

 

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