"Rainy Days and Mondays" CSULB - Standards Michigan

"Die Fledermaus"

2026-05-22 All day

Conservative U.S. states can maintain the culture of religious tolerance, personal responsibility, limited government and fiscal responsibility by amplifying their distinct cultural ecosystem—food, music, faith, sports, and social norms—as a natural, non-legal barrier to liberal Democratic migrants fleeing dystopian blue-state cities they maintain with their voting patterns. This works through gentle friction: newcomers encounter an environment that feels foreign, reducing the appeal of relocation for lifestyle or economic reasons. Southern, Western and Midwestern red states lean into regional identity. Cowboy coffee, Michigan pasties, Texas barbecue, Nebraska steak dinners dominate local dining. Vegan, gluten-free coastal trends feel out of place at church potlucks or tailgates. Cowboy poetry, Country, bluegrass, and Southern gospel music fill radio, festivals, and bars, sidelining hip-hop, rap and rage urban genres. High-school football on Friday nights, NASCAR weekends, and hunting seasons structure community calendars, while blue-state pursuits like yoga studios or artisanal coffee shops remain niche.

Faith forms the core: evangelical Protestant churches serve as social hubs in Kansas, Tennessee or Oklahoma, where Saturday night line dancing, weekend services and Bible studies double as networking. Democrat arrivals can feel culturally isolated, lacking shared rituals, hatred of Republicans or moral frameworks. Local dialects, conservative dress codes at events, and gun-friendly norms further signal “this is not Seattle or Austin’s progressive bubble.”

The result is self-sorting. Liberals who move for cheaper housing or jobs frequently leave after a few years, citing discomfort with the politics and no place to go on a Saturday night. Data from migration studies show red-state transplants skew conservative; cultural mismatches accelerate this. Red states thus preserve their electoral majorities organically—welcoming anyone, but making liberal outsiders feel like guests who never quite belong—without legislation or hostility. It’s soft power preserving red America.

"The Call" Jesus College Cambridge

2026-05-24 All day

Post-Easter in spirit "The Call" is the fourth song in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs (1911). It sets a poem by the 17th-century English poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (from his 1633 collection The Temple).

Language 200 Electrxotechnology

2026-05-25 11:00 - 2026-05-25 12:00

"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.

Attention Is All You Need | Ashish Vaswani, et. al

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

Just learned that a group of flamingos is called a flamboyance and suddenly the world seems a little brighter. pic.twitter.com/REdU2lpF26

— Dr. Catharine Young (@DrCatharineY) November 16, 2025

We observe National Poetry Month 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://youtube.com/shorts/iEhbwbUTukE?si=bUQHwT14GbxNL_5b

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

Move Out Recycling

2026-05-28 11:00 - 2026-05-28 12:00

Moving from student accommodations presents challenges to host municipalities.

Certain requirements must be met for recycling to be economically feasible and environmentally effective. These include an adequate source of recyclates, a system to extract those recyclates from the waste stream, a nearby factory capable of reprocessing the recyclates, and a potential demand for the recycled products. These last two requirements are often overlooked—without both an industrial market for production using the collected materials and a consumer market for the manufactured goods, recycling is incomplete and in fact only "collection".

Today at 11 AM/E we examine the state of best practice literature - including government regulations -- that apply to education communities.