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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

Michigan West

Black River Public School | Kent County Michigan

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May 10 - May 16
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  • 10
    10.May.Sunday

    Mother's Day

    All day
    2026.05.10

    “You and Me Against the World” | Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher

    Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1963

    https://standardsmichigan.com/the-struggle-for-control-of-mothers-day/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/do-women-have-evolved-mate-preferences-for-men-with-resources/

    https://standardsmichigan.com/overcoming-the-feminization-of-culture/

  • 11
    11.May.Monday

    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

    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.

     

  • 12
    12.May.Tuesday

    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/

     

     

  • 13
    13.May.Wednesday

    Portable Fire Extinguishers

    All day
    2026.05.13

    NFPA 10: Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers

     

    The International Code Council (ICC) does not publish a standalone standard equivalent to NFPA 10: Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers. Instead, Chapter 9, Section 906 of the International Fire Code (IFC) (latest edition: 2021) governs the installation, placement, inspection, and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers in buildings and structures. This section directly references and incorporates NFPA 10 for detailed technical requirements, such as selection, distribution, and hydrostatic testing.The IFC is a model code developed by the ICC, adopted (with possible local amendments) by many jurisdictions. It focuses on prescriptive rules for fire safety systems, while deferring to NFPA 10 for extinguisher-specific standards.
    • IFC Section 906.1: “Portable fire extinguishers shall be provided in all occupancies… in accordance with this section and NFPA 10.”
    • Tables in IFC 906.3(1)–906.3(3) mirror NFPA 10 for hazard classifications and equivalents (e.g., two 2-A extinguishers = one 4-A).
    https://standardsmichigan.com/category/kitchen/

    Home Economics

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.13

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

  • 14
    14.May.Thursday

    Building Structural Maintenance

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.14

     

    https://standardsmichigan.com/building-structural-maintenance/

    Quotes About Roman Architecture. QuotesGram

    Elevators & Lifts

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.14

    Going Up: Uncovering the Art Deco Elevators of Landmarked Building Interiors

    Architectural Digest: Why The Chrysler Building is a New York City Icon

    University of Wisconsin Stadium Elevator

    Many education communities have 100’s of elevators and escalators.   This is a difficult space for driving costs down

    (because of strong manufacturer and labor presence) but we will give the “old college try”

    https://youtu.be/Y2q8sbJDLEw

  • 15
    15.May.Friday

    Summer Sport Camps

    All day
    2026.05.15

    Summer Sport Camps

    Radio 400

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.05.15

    Today we refresh our understanding of the regulations for Class D campus radio systems.  We review the literature for production technologies and FM transmission technologies through airwaves, cabling systems, the internet or a combination of all.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/radio-400/

     

  • 16
    16.May.Saturday

    Degree Ceremony Oration

    All day
    2026.05.16

    https://standardsmichigan.com/gallery-graduation-commencement-speeches/

"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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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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