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July 1, 1993
mike@standardsmichigan.com

Michigan West

Black River Public School | Kent County Michigan

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  • 28
    28.June.Sunday

    About Last Night

    All day
    2026.06.28

     

    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/

    "By All Your Saints Still Striving"

    All day
    2026.06.28

    Standards Indiana

    https://standardsmichigan.com/by-all-your-saints-still-striving/

  • 29
    29.June.Monday

    Campus Day Care

    All day
    2026.06.29

    Today we explore standards, codes, regulations and voluntary best practice literature covering the safety and sustainability of child care facilities for parents who attend or are employed by a school or college.Β  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

    “Kindergarten” 1885 Johann Sperl

    Organizations publish non-mandatory literature known as β€œindustry best practices,” β€œrecommended practices,” β€œguidelines,” or β€œvoluntary industry standards.”  These differ from ANSI standards because they are developed internally by the association without the formal ANSI-accredited consensus process.Β Β Key Characteristics:

    β€’ Voluntary and not legally binding (unless referenced in contracts or regulations)
    β€’ Focus on practical recommendations, safety, quality, ethics, or operational excellence
    β€’ Often called β€œself-regulatory” guidelines
    β€’ May later evolve into full ANSI standards

    Organizations:

    Health 400 | OB-GYN

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.06.29

     

    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.Β  Β We periodically scan public consultations for literature that sets the standard of care for the facilities and technologies in these enterprises in education communities.

  • 30
    30.June.Tuesday

    Municipalization

    All day
    2026.06.30
    Municipalization

    • Definition: The process by which a municipality (city, town, or sometimes public utility district) acquires ownership and operational control of an existing electric utility system from an investor-owned utility (IOU). This converts private service to public/municipal ownership and operation.
      brattle.com
    • It typically involves purchasing the utility’s infrastructure (poles, wires, substations, etc.) through negotiation/settlement or, more controversially, via condemnation (eminent domain).
      brattle.com
    • Goals often cited: lower rates, local control, better reliability, faster renewable integration, and greater accountability (vs. profit-driven IOUs).
      lsa.umich.edu
    • The opposite process is privatization (or demunicipalization), where a public utility sells to a private IOU.
      legislature.maine.gov

    This is the standard industry and legal term used by the American Public Power Association (APPA), regulators, academics, and utilities.

    publicpower.org

    Related or Supporting Terms

    • Condemnation / Eminent Domain Acquisition β€” The legal mechanism often required when the IOU resists selling. Municipalities exercise their power to take the assets for “public use” (with just compensation). Many municipalization efforts center on this.
      mckinneylaw.iu.edu
    • Public Power Takeover or Formation of a Municipal Electric Utility β€” Broader descriptive phrases used in advocacy and policy discussions.
      thenextsystem.org
    • Acquisition of IOU Assets β€” Neutral regulatory/financial language for the transfer.
      static1.squarespace.com

    Context and ChallengesMunicipalization efforts are relatively rare and difficult. Most recent attempts (over the past 25+ years) have failed due to high costs (valuation disputes, stranded costs, legal battles), voter rejection, or regulatory hurdles. Successful cases often take years or a decade.

    brattle.com

    Examples of discussions or attempts include Boulder (CO), various California cities, and others exploring local control over utilities like those owned by Xcel, PG&E, etc.These terms are well-established in utility law, public power literature, and state statutes. If you’re researching a specific city, state laws on municipalization authority vary significantly.

    Tax-Free Bonds

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.06.30

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

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

  • 01
    01.July.Wednesday

    Canadian National Day

    All day
    2026.07.01

    Education Bonds

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.07.01

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

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

    Γ†dificare | Renovation Standards

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.07.01

    Are you Overbuilding?

    “Etude pour les constructeurs” 1950 Fernand Leger

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    We follow the construction spend rate of the US education industry; using the US Census Bureau Construction Spending figures released the first day of every month.

    We encourage our colleagues in the education facilities industry to respond to Census Bureau-retained data gathering contractors in order to contribute to the accuracy of the report.

     

    https://youtu.be/x613cyteWL4

  • 02
    02.July.Thursday

    Sherman Act 1890

    All day
    2026.07.02

    The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which prohibits anticompetitive practices and monopolies, has an indirect but significant relationship with voluntary consensus standards (VCS). VCS are industry-developed standards created through collaborative, open processes to ensure interoperability, safety, or efficiency in products and services.

    1. Antitrust Concerns in Standard-Setting: The collaborative nature of VCS development, where competitors work together to set industry standards, can raise antitrust concerns under the Sherman Act. If standard-setting organizations (SSOs) or participants engage in practices like price-fixing, market allocation, or excluding competitors, they could violate Section 1 of the Act, which prohibits agreements that unreasonably restrain trade. For example, if an SSO excludes certain firms from participating in standard-setting to suppress competition, it could face scrutiny.

    2. Procompetitive Benefits: Courts and regulators generally recognize that VCS, when developed transparently and inclusively, promote competition by fostering interoperability, reducing costs, and encouraging innovation. The Sherman Act supports such procompetitive activities as long as they don’t involve collusion or exclusionary tactics. Guidelines from bodies like the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) emphasize that SSOs should adopt open, fair processes to avoid antitrust violations.

    3. Legal Precedents: Cases like Allied Tube & Conduit Corp. v. Indian Head, Inc. (1988) illustrate the Sherman Act’s application to VCS. In this case, the Supreme Court found that manipulating a standard-setting process to exclude a competitor’s product violated the Sherman Act. This underscores the need for SSOs to ensure their processes are not abused to suppress competition.

    4. Patent and FRAND Issues: VCS often involve patented technologies, requiring fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms. If patent holders abuse their position by demanding excessive royalties or refusing to license, this could be seen as monopolistic behavior under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which addresses unilateral conduct that harms competition.

    The Sherman Act ensures that VCS processes remain competitive and do not become vehicles for collusion or monopolistic behavior. SSOs must design their procedures to comply with antitrust laws, balancing collaboration with the prevention of anticompetitive practices.

    Air-Conditioning

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.07.02

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  • 03
    03.July.Friday
    Santa Clara University | β€œHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

    Summer Covers: Week 1

    All day
    2026.07.03

    A selection of American Standards performed by elementary, high school and college students

    Colloquy (July)

    11:00 -12:00
    2026.07.03

     

    Whatever anyone wants to talk about.Β  If no one has any suggestions, how about we poke at any of these new releases:

    ANSI RELEASES REPORT: STANDARDIZATION EMPOWERING AI-ENABLED SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE

    NIST:Β AI Standards: Federal Engagement

    IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

  • 04
    04.July.Saturday

"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

Harding University | White County Arkansas

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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.Β Β Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern β€œsemesters.” 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.Β  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 β€” 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.Β  (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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