Water 300

2024-11-07 11:00 - 12:00

Water 300

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    Innovation - Standardization - Commoditization run along a continuum.  Today we unpack some of the ideas that hasten (and prohibit) leading practice discovery; how quickly goods and services become a "human right"; why all of this is relevant to education communities and why some believe that commoditization is a myth.

    From the Wikipedia

    In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers. It is the movement of a market from differentiated to undifferentiated price competition and from monopolistic competition to perfect competition. Hence, the key effect of commoditization is that the pricing power of the manufacturer or brand owner is weakened: when products become more similar from a buyer's point of view, they will tend to buy the cheapest.

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  • Language 300 & Received Pronunciation
    2025-12-22 11:00 - 2025-12-22 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.

    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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  • Tyme
    2025-12-31 11:00 - 2025-12-31 12:00

    "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.

  • Data Centers & NFPA Catalog
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    Status check on open source consensus products -- and practical applications --  evolving around distributed ledger technologies for financing, planning, design, operation & maintenance of the #WiseCampus.

  • Hello World!
    2026-01-14 11:00 - 2026-01-14 12:00

    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people.

    Let your memory be your travel bag.”

    -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (From "The Gulag Archipelago")

    Today we explain our collaboration with other education settlements in the US and other nations.  We conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups to the International Organization for Standardization but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union who conform to the participation requirements of their own national standards bodies.

    Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.  Because a great deal of content is copyright protected by the International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization and International Telecommunications Union.

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  • Human Resources Hilary
    2026-02-09 11:00 - 2026-02-09 12:00

    "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.

    They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad - William Shakespeare

  • Data Centers
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  • Schenkingen 3Q
    2026-03-25 All day

    “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man

    standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

    -- Paraphrase by Winston Churchill

    University endowments are comprised of money or other financial assets that are donated to academic institutions. Charitable donations are the primary source of funds for endowments. Endowment funds support the teaching, research, and public service missions of colleges and universities.  In the case of endowment funds for academic institutions, the income generated is intended to finance a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution.  Today we will pick through few reports where safety and sustainability claims are listed and described.

    https://standardsmichigan.com/schenkingen/

  • Bucolia 400 | Cherry Blossoms
    2026-03-27 11:00 - 2026-03-27 12:00

    Review of development in safety and sustainability best practice catalogs for education community outdoor environment.

  • Human Resources Trinity
    2026-05-11 11:00 - 2026-05-11 12:00

    "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.

    They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad - William Shakespeare

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