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Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

Chopin Nocturne C# minor

Santa Clara University | “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” https://youtu.be/q7pZVRIo05U?si=F_b51knk_sQfv009

“Hey Bulldog” (Lennon-McCartney) Luleå University of Technology

Luleå tekniska universitetSvenska institutet för standarder Standards Sweden



Mass Challenge: The Socioeconomic Impact of Migration to a Scandinavian Welfare State by Tino Sanandaji** (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020): In this book chapter, Sanandaji discusses Sweden’s “unique” experiment with large-scale third-world immigration, which has shifted its image from a model society to one facing exaggerated but real challenges like social issues and exclusion. As a Swedish author, he provides a data-driven critique without explicit policy calls in the intro, but the broader work argues for controls on low-skilled migration to mitigate economic and integration failures.

“Swedes and Immigration: A Mismatch?” by Tino Sanandaji (Fondapol, 2019): This paper analyzes Sweden’s shift from low immigration to high inflows from non-Western/third-world countries (e.g., Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan), noting that net migration peaked at 0.8% of the population in 2014–2015. Sanandaji, a Swedish economist of Kurdish-Iranian origin, argues that poor labor market integration (with foreign-born employment at 59.6% vs. 82.9% for natives) and fiscal costs (1.5–2% of GDP annually) make unrestricted immigration unsustainable for Sweden’s welfare state. He explicitly advocates for very restrictive policies, including tighter border controls, stricter asylum rules, and reduced family-based immigration to limit low-skilled inflows from developing countries.

“Sweden: Rape Capital of the West” by Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard. Gatestone Institute, 2015): Carlqvist, a Swedish journalist, co-authors this piece linking Sweden’s 1,472% rise in reported rapes (from 421 in 1975 to 6,620 in 2014) to mass immigration from Muslim-majority/third-world countries (e.g., Iraq, Syria, Somalia). It cites studies showing foreign-born men overrepresented in rape convictions (up to 19.5 times more likely) and attributes this to cultural differences. The article calls for policy changes to restrict such immigration to protect Swedish society and women, criticizing authorities for downplaying the issue

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Spring Sport

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Crawfish Day

National Today | Standards Louisiana

Nicholls State University | Ascension Parish Louisiana

Writing Boards

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS JONES (SCHOOL TEACHER), 1956

Chalkboards vs Whiteboards – A Comparison

Liebfrauenschule Cloppenburg

Writing Boards

National Electrical Code CMP- 14 & 15

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Language 300 & Received Pronunciation

“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.

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

 


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

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