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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

University of California Davis Sheep Mowers

https://standardsmichigan.com/music-almanac-of-the-western-tradition-autumn/

 

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  • 25
    25.October.Sunday

    About Last Night

    All day
    2026.10.25

     

    Standards Utah

    Calendar Symbology in Playing Cards | Poker

    Snow College | Sanpete County Utah 435

    Snow College | Sanpete County Utah 435

    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/

    Fordham Worship Livestream

    All day
    2026.10.25

    https://www.fordham.edu/about/living-the-mission/campus-ministry/university-church-live-stream/

  • 26
    26.October.Monday

    Anatomical Donation

    All day
    2026.10.26

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.26

     

    With emphasis on OB-GYN because educational settlements are where families begin and grow among the young.

    Many research universities have large medical research and clinical delivery enterprises that provide significant revenue.   We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities.

  • 27
    27.October.Tuesday

    Critical Operations

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.27

    Critical Operations Power Systems

    Data Centers

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.27

    “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.

  • 28
    28.October.Wednesday

    Schenkingen 4Q

    All day
    2026.10.28

    “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man

    standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

    — Paraphrase by Winston Churchill

    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/

    Tax Exempt Bonds

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.28

    “Washington money” 2012 Robert Silvers

    Today we pick through a few tax-free bond offerings that finance education community construction with a eye toward reducing construction cost and life-cycle maintenance through building codes and standards.   Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/tax-free-bonds/

  • 29
    29.October.Thursday

    Signs, Signs, Signs

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.29

     

    Our first impression of a community is its visual environment, which is reflected from the pretty integration of built and natural forms.  College campuses are oases of beauty; or used to be were it not for sign pollution. With increase in education community construction + advances in sign-making technology + growth of the administrative state + hottened litigation environment, signage has become visual “pollution” to many and, to others, a likely permanent pandemic era cultural affinity to be controlled and told what to do.

    The education industry provides a natural home for “hall monitors”; personality types with close relatives in the standards conformance and compliance community.

    International students enrolling in U.S. colleges encounter Academic English — the formal register of lectures, textbooks, papers, and discussions. This variety often embeds assumptions that diverge sharply from the American Founding’s emphasis on limited government, individual liberty, natural rights, and skepticism of centralized authority.

    The Founders designed a republic of enumerated powers, checks and balances, and federalism to restrain government and protect personal sovereignty. They viewed government as a necessary but dangerous servant. Deference was owed primarily to law and reason, not to elites or the state.

    Modern university discourse, however, frequently frames issues through lenses that normalize expansive government. Terms like “equity,” “systemic oppression,” “social justice,” “sustainability,” and “public good” recur in required writing, readings, and class analysis. These presuppose that societal problems demand coordinated state or institutional intervention and expert guidance.

    International students, often writing in a second language, must master not only grammar but also these rhetorical conventions to succeed. Essays commonly reward framing arguments around collective victimhood, institutional reform, or government solutions, while skepticism of authority or defense of limited government can be marked down.

    This creates subtle acculturation. Students absorb a version of English that subtly legitimizes big government as moral progress — contrasting the Founding’s core warning: unchecked power threatens liberty. Proficiency thus includes ideological fluency in progressive norms dominant in humanities and social sciences.

    In short, many international graduates internalize habits of thought prioritizing collective authority and equity over the Founders’ individualism and restraint — shaping future global elites away from the Republic’s original limited-government ethos.

    How many signs are too many signs and how can leading practice discovery and promulgation among accredited standards developers contribute to solutions?  It may well be that there is no other industry on earth than the American education “industry” that is so replete with signage.   After Title, Scope and Purpose, and after Definitions, the topic of signage is found in a surprising number of titles and deserves a dedicated colloquium of its own.

    Join us today when we sweep through the surprisingly large catalog of titles devoted to signage.   Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/signs-signs-signs/

    Pathways 100

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.29

    Review of best practice literature for the design, construction and maintenance of campus pathways for pedestrians and vehicles within buildings, between them and along the boundary between campus and the “real world”.

  • 30
    30.October.Friday

    Playlist: Monster Mash

    All day
    2026.10.30

    Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus 1888| Mrs. Shelly. George Routledge and Sons

    https://open.spotify.com/track/0xxZY5C9xxij3D1HkzbnfC?si=0c583cd961504098
    https://youtu.be/_DfW654p5O0?si=QbWTW3tv8dJGMKDg

    https://youtu.be/6_tif-OZpuk

    • “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
    • “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.” (Chapter 8 – Creature)
    • “Learn from me… how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.” (Letter 4 – Walton)
    • “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.” (Chapter 17 – Creature)
    • “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
    • “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
    • “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)
    • “Man, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!” (Chapter 23 – Victor)
    • “Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition.” (Chapter 24 – Victor)
    • I am malicious because I am miserable.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
    • “My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy.” (Chapter 16 – Creature)
    • “All men hate the wretched.” (Chapter 10 – Creature)
    • “You are my creator, but I am your master.” (Chapter 20 – Creature)

    https://youtu.be/fqV5jJ1y5yM?si=Vv-mJOKgvQ0AJCQj

    https://youtu.be/THf1ULU0_cQ

     

    https://youtu.be/vNuVifA7DSU

    https://youtu.be/fqV5jJ1y5yM?si=Vv-mJOKgvQ0AJCQj

     

    Colloquy (October)

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.10.30

     

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

  • 31
    31.October.Saturday

    "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" Oswego High School

    All day
    2026.10.31

    .https://standardsmichigan.com/music-almanac-of-the-western-tradition-autumn/


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    "She's Not There" Stockport College

    All day
    2026.10.31


    Stockport College is located in Stockport, which is in the metropolitan borough of Stockport, in the ceremonial and historic county of Greater Manchester, England.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Scales Mound School District | Jo Daviess County Illinois 815

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: Autumn

We’re “organized” but not too organized; like the bookseller who knows where every book can be found.

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