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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com
“Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you;
but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.”

Kohler School District | Sheboygan County Wisconsin

 

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March 08 - March 14
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  • 08
    08.March.Sunday

    Campus Clocks

    All day
    2026.03.08
    November 2, 2025, marked the end of daylight saving time in the United States. Clocks were set back one hour (from 2:00 AM to 1:00 AM) on that Sunday, transitioning to standard time for the fall and winter. Daylight saving time will resume on March 8, 2026.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/how-daylight-savings-time-affects-your-body/

  • 09
    09.March.Monday

    Student Health Clinics

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.03.09

    Language 200 Electrxotechnology

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.03.09

    “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://youtube.com/shorts/iEhbwbUTukE?si=bUQHwT14GbxNL_5b

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

    Student Health Clinics

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.03.09

  • 10
    10.March.Tuesday

    National Electrical Code CMP- 16 & 17 & 18

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.03.10

    National Electrical Code CMP-16 & 17 & 18

    Data Centers

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.03.10

    “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.

  • 11
    11.March.Wednesday

    Joint Use

    All day
    2026.03.11

    Joint Use

    Hello World!

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.03.11

    “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.

     

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/international-standards-teleconference-today-11-am-eastern/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-tc-309/

     

    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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  • 12
    12.March.Thursday

    Disaster 500

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.03.12

    Today at the usual hour we review the literature that sets the standard of care for prevention, response and resilience of the education facility industry to storms, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and all other disasters.  We will examine a selection of court filings that should inform how facility managers should prepare and respond to disasters, but also identify gaps in best practice literature and (possibly) key in proposals for how those gaps may be removed.

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

     

    Modular Classrooms

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.03.12

    https://standardsmichigan.com/modular-classrooms/

    Dad Saves America: Why We Should Cut Legal Immigration In Half

  • 13
    13.March.Friday

    Right-of-Way

    All day
    2026.03.13

    Right-of-Way

  • 14
    14.March.Saturday

    3.1415926...

    All day
    2026.03.14

    https://standardsmichigan.com/international-day-of-mathematics/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Couple near Booksellers” – Bernard Boutet de Monvel, French (1881 – 1949)

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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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