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“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. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. https://standardsmichigan.com/tax-free-bonds/ Once median household income is adjusted for cost of living, Utah emerges as the wealthiest state in the nation and Mississippi yet again ranks last. Source: https://t.co/AN3JZqtNnF pic.twitter.com/kv8U3LZlvh — Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) January 3, 2025 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 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. A selection of American Standards performed by elementary, high school and college students Whatever anyone wants to talk about. 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: AI Standards: Federal Engagement IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence Lorem ipsum | Language No, there is no universal token standard in the AI world. Each major AI model (and often each model family) uses its own tokenizer with its own vocabulary, rules, and token boundaries. This remains the case as of mid-2026. GreatLakes SuperiorCore PrairieForge How you know we haven’t had rain for awhile… pic.twitter.com/5zb84HeDUR — Allison farms (@Allisonfarms) August 5, 2024 Lightning flash density – 12 hourly averages over the year (NASA OTD/LIS) This shows that lightning is much more frequent in summer than in winter, and from noon to midnight compared to midnight to noon. https://youtu.be/zisnPchVYKs https://standardsmichigan.com/rain-2/ Good-quality cycling infrastructure makes cycling attractive in all weather conditions. The Dutch🇳🇱 aren’t made of sugar! (🎞️ by Carl Sveen—winner of the Most Dutch Picture 2025 of the Summer School Planning the Cycling City) pic.twitter.com/bYUipg5F1W — Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 (@fietsprofessor) July 13, 2025 Morgensang (morning song) is a longstanding custom in Danish folk high schools (højskoler). Students and staff gather early to sing folk songs, hymns, and traditional tunes together before breakfast. This builds community and reflects the educational philosophy of N.F.S. Grundtvig, emphasizing song as part of “life awakening.” It has influenced similar practices elsewhere in the United States; in rural North Carolina, for example. On Bastille Day, I have to say I really think that the French Revolution unleashed far more evil and horror on the world than it purported to solve due to class inequalities. pic.twitter.com/QVm3g0lICT — Don Shift (buy my books) (@DonShift3) July 14, 2025 ✨ Révision de la norme ISO 9001 : Saint-Denis, centre des échanges internationaux ! Nous avons eu le privilège d’accueillir dans les locaux d’AFNOR 45 experts venus des cinq continents pour coécrire la future version de la norme ISO 9001. pic.twitter.com/vyMBoMFHBX — AFNOR (@AFNOR) April 8, 2025 https://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/ https://standardsmichigan.com/history-of-the-english-speaking-peoples/ "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" | Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (Sting) 1976 — Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) October 15, 2025 Scotland is the origin of The Industrial Revolution. A tendril of Old Scotland remains alive in the hills of Arkansas A tendril of Old Scotland remains alive in the hills of Arkansas “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T.S.Eliot 1818 ♫ American conservatives and liberals often disagree because they attach different meanings, priorities, and emotional associations to the same words. Political language evolves as society changes, and each movement seeks terminology that reflects its values and persuades others. Conservatives may emphasize continuity, tradition, and established definitions, while liberals may advocate revised language that reflects changing social norms or emerging perspectives and technologies. As new terms gain acceptance and older meanings shift, debates arise over whether language is clarifying reality or reshaping it. These disagreements extend beyond vocabulary, reflecting deeper differences about history, identity, law, culture, and the proper role of institutions — such as standards setting organizations — in defining and communicating public values. ♫ Popular music is one of the chief ways that American vernacular English is created, refined, and shared. A successful song can introduce a phrase, metaphor, or rhythm of speech that quickly spreads beyond its original audience into everyday conversation. Because songs are repeated on radio, streaming services, at sporting events, and in schools, their lyrics become familiar across generations and regions. Memorable lines are quoted in casual conversation, advertising, journalism, and even political speeches, giving them cultural authority. Songwriters pick up on the language of ordinary people while expressing it with economy, wit, and emotional force. As a result, lyrics preserve regional expressions, technical domains, idioms, thus reshaping older ones into forms that feel fresh and memorable. Over time, the most enduring lyrics become part of the nation’s shared vocabulary, enriching American vernacular English by providing common expressions, cultural references, and memorable turns of phrase that unite speakers from diverse backgrounds. Johnny Mandel at Berklee | Juilliard Jazz Orchestra ♫ The Korean War (which began on June 25, 1950) did not end with a formal peace treaty. Instead, it concluded with the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, at Panmunjom. https://standardsmichigan.com/watersport/ https://twitter.com/OtayMark/status/1687584197752537091?s=20 https://twitter.com/StandardsMich/status/1550752898740543489?s=20 https://twitter.com/SportSapienza/status/1687454976015020033?s=20 https://twitter.com/USASwimming/status/1687150046612250624?s=20 https://twitter.com/Vol_SwimDive/status/1687087529214844928?s=20
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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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