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  • Lawn Care | First Mow

    Lawn Care | First Mow

    All day
    2026.05.07

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  • Disaster 500

    Disaster 500

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.07

    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.

     

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  • Victory in Europe Day

    Victory in Europe Day

    All day
    2026.05.08

    https://youtu.be/lq4rxkhDxP0?si=7ZhVLxZJ5qFAqpM9

    https://youtu.be/ioYLIUZ7B6A?si=JPiuPtd2XXny6viO

    https://youtu.be/QuwFD1YEopQ?si=rkmJlN58FEA6UYnW

  • Nourriture Printemps

    Nourriture Printemps

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.08

    “Spring Turning” 1936 Grant Wood,

    Overview of codes and standards relevant to the food service enterprises in K-12 schools, college and university student housing, athletic venues and university-affiliated healthcare systems.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/nourriture-de-printemps/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/food-standards-monthly/

     

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  • Health 400 | OB-GYN

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.11

     

    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.

  • Human Resources Trinity

    Human Resources Trinity

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.11

    “I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    — Franny and Zooey” (J.D. Salinger)

    Famous People Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante

    Periodic walk-through of Human Resource best practice catalog for labor markets generally; and units within the education facility industry specifically.   We inform our discussion based upon today’s release on the Employment Situation Summary from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    Recommended Reading:

    “The Human Side of Enterprise” 1960 Douglas McGregor

    University of Chicago Press: Readings in Managerial Psychology

    For an advance agenda send a request to bella@stanardsmichigan.com.   Use the credentials at the upper right of our home page to log in.

    They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad - William Shakespeare

     

    Trinity Term occupies a special place in the cultural life of some West European settlements in England, Ireland, and Italy among others. Occurring in late spring and early summer, it represents the season of culmination, ceremony, beauty, and transition.  Unlike the darker and more disciplined Hilary or Lent terms, Trinity Term unfolds amid long daylight, flowering gardens, rowing races, chapel music, examinations, and commencement rituals. The atmosphere is simultaneously scholarly and celebratory.  Culturally, Trinity Term symbolizes intellectual maturity and seasonal renewal. It evokes memory, friendship, romance, achievement, and the bittersweet awareness that another academic year — and often an entire stage of life — is ending.

     

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  • Illumination 400 (Outdoor Exterior)

    Illumination 400 (Outdoor Exterior)

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.12

    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/

     

     

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  • Home Economics

    Home Economics

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.13
    https://standardsmichigan.com/category/kitchen/

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

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  • Outdoor Special Events

    Outdoor Special Events

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.22

    University of Southern California

    An overview of the IEEE, NEMA, NFPA, IES, ICC, ESTA and other consensus documents that set the standard of care for special event facilities and venues.

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/open-door-teleconference-login-information/

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/esta-outdoor-entertainment-events/

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/nfpa-70-places-of-assembly/

     

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  • “The Call” Jesus College Cambridge

    “The Call” Jesus College Cambridge

    All day
    2026.05.24

    Post-Easter in spirit “The Call” is the fourth song in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs (1911). It sets a poem by the 17th-century English poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (from his 1633 collection The Temple).

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  • Language 200 Electrxotechnology

    Language 200 Electrxotechnology

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.25

    “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/

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  • Move Out Recycling

    Move Out Recycling

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.28

    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.

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The academic calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements quietly shapes life of the mind generally and family life specifically.  Its origins lie in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe between the 1100s and 1400s. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, daylight availability, and travel conditions.

The classic English university calendar 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: Spring

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

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