Today at 11 AM/ET we update our understanding of best practice literature relevant to the information and communication technology enterprises in education communities. Our online meetings coincides with the day of two IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee teleconferences at 14:00 Central European time and 2:00 PM Eastern time in the Americas. Open to everyone. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Today at the usual hour we review the consensus products that set the standard of care for nursing school instructional and clinical training facilities. Open to everyone. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Sixteen Dogs Cozying Up Next to the Fireplace
Status check on the catalog of best practice titles covering the management of education community snow and ice management during the coldest months in the Northern Hemisphere.
https://standardsmichigan.com/snow-ice/
"He who does not speak foreign languages
knows nothing about his own.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
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. Received Pronunciation
RE: National Debate and Speech Association
Come see 'Pygmalion' this weekend at Arno Gustin Hall on campus! University of Mary students bring this classic to life in a riveting weekend of performances. 🎬
Showtimes:
Friday – 7:00pm
Saturday – 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Sunday – 2:00pm#Lifeatmary pic.twitter.com/5w5MnEWk4K— University of Mary (@umary) March 21, 2025
We observe National Poetry Month (April) 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://standardsmichigan.com/%e0%ae%ae%e0%af%8a%e0%ae%b4%e0%ae%bf-2/
Latin Phrases You Should Know. pic.twitter.com/Erq61gVW29
— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) May 5, 2024
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
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."
— Seneca (On the Shortness of Life)
Today at 16:00 UTC we refresh our understanding of the technical standards for the timing-systems that maintain the temporal framework for daily life in education communities. The campus clock continues as a monument of beauty and structure even though digitization of everything has rendered the central community clock redundant.
Most leading practice discovery (and innovation) is happening with the Network Time Protocols (NTP) that synchronize the time stamps of widely separated data centers. In operation since before 1985, NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols in current use and underlies the Internet of Things build out. NTP is particularly important in maintaining accurate time stamps for safety system coordination and for time stamps on email log messages.
Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Status check on open source consensus products -- and practical applications -- evolving around distributed ledger technologies for financing, planning, design, operation & maintenance of the #WiseCampus.
"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."
-- Franny and Zooey" (J.D. Salinger)
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.
Alone is where the magic happens…apparently although I got so bored. This 10 mile run was the first time I’ve ran double digits since October 2021! The last two miles felt dreadful however, it’s done. I’m now going to smash a 🍕 #ukrunchat #training pic.twitter.com/fUP43c5yGi
— Lil Morris 🏃♀️ (@BlondeLilmo) February 3, 2024
My biggest wins come when I do things out of discipline even when I have no motivation. pic.twitter.com/ozSDYqdwiQ
— Travis Harrison (@TJHarrison22) February 9, 2025
Children should be proud that Whites in the West ended slavery worldwide, which had existed for thousands of years
pic.twitter.com/cf7EnWRKfh— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 8, 2025
Status check on open source consensus products -- and practical applications -- evolving around distributed ledger technologies for financing, planning, design, operation & maintenance of the #WiseCampus.
NESC 2028 EDITION REVISION SCHEDULE
Public consultation closes March 24, 2026
https://standardsmichigan.com/ieee-c2-2017-national-electrical-safety-code-content-transfer/