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Today we review accommodations education settlements provide for students starting a family in high school and in college. “One of the Family” 1880 | Frederick George Cotman https://standardsmichigan.com/housing/ https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-move-in/ https://standardsmichigan.com/education-healthcare-sport-essential-works/ 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/ Travels of Marco Polo An update on our collaboration with other like-minded units in the education industry in the US and other nations. In most cases we conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union — particularly in The United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Italy — 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 ISO, IEC and the ITU, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda. ISO, IEC, and ITU October Listings of Work Items Published “Prometheus creating Man in the presence of Athena” (1802) / Jean-Simon Berthélemy Aperiodic nthly review of all consensus, consortia and open source codes, standards and regulations the set the standard of care for fire safety in educational settlements. We group them with fire protection standards because most of the compliance and enforcement expertise originates with fire safety expertise. Send bella@standardsmichigan.com an email for an advance agenda. Choir of King’s College | Cambridge — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) December 14, 2023 In Greek mythology Prometheus is the Titan god of fire & credited w/ creation of humanity w/help from goddess Athena & defying other gods by giving fire to hasten civilized Manhttps://t.co/SKtP0DHqgN@EmoryUniversityhttps://t.co/W9CeH5MeaN pic.twitter.com/DiAOzfiTy7 — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) April 14, 2021 “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 Biosafety Cabinetry NSF International Our ladies across from The Big House bring home home the clinkage! — MythoAmerica 🌲 (@MythoAmerica) August 31, 2024 Universiteit Stellenbosch Western Cape Keiser University College of Golf & Sport Management | Palm Beach County Florida It was a great day at Forest Akers East hosting our first Big Ten Cross Country Championship since 2012! pic.twitter.com/hYEyyaeUyD — MSU Track & Field/Cross Country (@MSU_TFXC) November 1, 2025 Happy Halloween 🎃#NCAAXC x 📸 @UWTrack pic.twitter.com/V72dkHqcxk — NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) October 31, 2025 “Rondel” 1892 / Louise Howland King Cox Small town Iowa is crowning your homecoming king and queen in front of a grain elevator pic.twitter.com/O228SR7Vd4 — Iowa Chill (@IowaChill) September 26, 2025 Hermann High School senior Jillian Fredrick is this year’s 2025 Fall Homecoming Queen. pic.twitter.com/cl0eOD2Q4q — Will Johnson (@wjwardpubsports) September 26, 2025 Burke Homecoming Dance was held Saturday, September 20. We recognized our Homecoming Court and Homecoming Royalty and we DANCED! #WeAreBurke 🖤💛🖤💛 pic.twitter.com/XRWPhYfnKO — Burke High (@OPS_Burke) September 21, 2025 👑 Presenting your 2025 HUHS Homecoming Court! — HUHS Athletics/Activities (@HUHS_Athletics) September 26, 2025
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The King & Queen will be crowned at the Homecoming Dance on Sat, Oct 4.
🎉 This year’s theme: Glow in the Dark
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On 9/11 the FDNY lost 343 of their own.
Not statistics. Sons, fathers, husbands from 75 firehouses across the five boroughs.
121 engine companies and 62 ladder companies answered the call. Every Rescue company in New York went in.
They knew the buildings were coming down and… pic.twitter.com/e4ArBUmfLq— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) September 7, 2026
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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)
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