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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

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Black River Public School | Kent County Michigan

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  • 25
    25.May.Sunday

    United States Navy "Sleep"

    All day
    2025.05.25

    https://youtu.be/6i_-5hA1Bl0

     

  • 26
    26.May.Monday

    American Folk Standards

    All day
    2025.05.26






    Memorial Day

    All day
    2025.05.26

    “Americans are fed up sacrificing its young to defend the borders of other nations;

    time to spend our precious blood and treasure defending our own”

    https://youtube.com/shorts/X7oYxpZE53M?si=gQLuBOWfyAAL6ctu

    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/YEfnmVYQfrTPNCV6/

    https://www.facebook.com/copperislandacademy/videos/1472248210165090

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/dahlgren-hall-coffee-stories/

  • 27
    27.May.Tuesday

    Scripps National Spelling Bee

    All day
    2025.05.27

    Scripps Spelling Bee Home

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

    District Heating, Cooling & Electrical Generation

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.05.27
    Yes, there are technical standards and guidelines for district energy systems, though they can vary depending on the region, country, or specific application. District energy systems (DES), which provide heating, cooling, and sometimes electricity to multiple buildings from a centralized source, often rely on a combination of international standards, national regulations, and industry best practices to ensure efficiency, safety, and interoperability.
    Some key examples of relevant standards and frameworks include:
    1. ISO Standards:
      • ISO 50001: This is an international standard for energy management systems, which can apply to district energy systems to optimize energy performance and efficiency.
      • ISO 52000: Focuses on energy performance of buildings, which can tie into district energy systems when assessing overall efficiency and integration with building infrastructure.
    2. ASHRAE Guidelines (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers):
      • ASHRAE publishes guidelines like the District Heating and Cooling Design Guide, which provides technical recommendations for designing, operating, and maintaining district energy systems. It covers piping, heat exchangers, and system integration.
    3. European Standards:
      • In Europe, the CEN/CENELEC standards (e.g., EN 15316 series) address energy performance in buildings and can include aspects of district heating and cooling systems.
      • The EU Ecodesign Directive and Energy Efficiency Directive also influence technical requirements for district energy, particularly in terms of efficiency and emissions.
    4. National Codes and Standards:
      • In the U.S., standards from organizations like the International District Energy Association (IDEA) provide best practices, while local building codes (e.g., based on the International Mechanical Code) may dictate specific requirements.
      • In countries like Denmark or Sweden, where district heating is widespread, national standards (e.g., from the Danish Standards Foundation) often set detailed technical specifications for piping, insulation, and system performance.
    5. Piping and Materials:
      • Standards like ASME B31.1 (Power Piping) or EN 253 (for pre-insulated pipes) are commonly used to ensure the safety and durability of piping networks in district energy systems.
    While there isn’t a single, universal “District Energy System Standard” that covers every aspect globally, these systems are typically designed and operated based on a combination of the above standards tailored to local needs, climate, and infrastructure. If you’re looking for a specific region or component (e.g., piping, heat pumps, or controls), I can dig deeper into that for you! Let me know.
  • 28
    28.May.Wednesday

    Move Out Recycling

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.05.28

    The Impact of E-Waste / Student Art Guide

    Moving from student accommodations presents challenges to host municipalities.

    Certain requirements must be met for recycling to be economically feasible and environmentally effective. These include an adequate source of recyclates, a system to extract those recyclates from the waste stream, a nearby factory capable of reprocessing the recyclates, and a potential demand for the recycled products. These last two requirements are often overlooked—without both an industrial market for production using the collected materials and a consumer market for the manufactured goods, recycling is incomplete and in fact only “collection”.

    Today at 11 AM/E we examine the state of best practice literature – including government regulations — that apply to education communities.

  • 29
    29.May.Thursday

    FinTech

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.05.29

    “Parable of the Rich Fool” 1627 Rembrandt

    Today we run a status check on public consultations released by ANSI-accredited and finance industry consortia whose involvement affects the cost of US education communities.   Ahead of quarterly county elections we examine a few tax-free bond referenda on ballots across the US for insight into the money flow through education communities.

    What is Financial Technology?

    https://twitter.com/GraemeK73/status/1643000411706589189?s=20

  • 30
    30.May.Friday

    Jacobs University Graduation Band "Freebird"

    All day
    2025.05.30

    https://youtu.be/wsCgRJvscmk

    Open-Air Audio

    11:00 -12:00
    2025.05.30

    Open-Air Audio

  • 31
    31.May.Saturday

    About Last Night

    All day
    2025.05.31

    University Of Exeter | Southwest England

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

    https://standardsmichigan.com/college-students-create-the-ultimate-hangover-cure/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/boris-johnson-reads-lucky-jim/

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

    "Appalachian Spring" | Sydney Camarata

    All day
    2025.05.31

    https://youtu.be/CJYVH_kZkOk

"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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