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I will never fail to be utterly amazed that these flavours come from soil, and sunlight and rain. pic.twitter.com/qTMx8jh8Zx

— Holly Vickery PhD (@SkylarkHolly) July 27, 2024

Overview of codes and standards relevant to the food service enterprises in K-12 schools, college and university student housing, athletic venues and university-affiliated healthcare systems.

https://standardsmichigan.com/food-standards-monthly/

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How you know we haven’t had rain for awhile… pic.twitter.com/5zb84HeDUR

— Allison farms (@Allisonfarms) August 5, 2024

https://youtu.be/zisnPchVYKs

https://standardsmichigan.com/rain-2/

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.

Related:

Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating

After months of hard work, the top five teams met at USPTO headquarters today for the final round of the 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition. 🏆 And the winners are ... ⬇️

🥇 First place — @UofMNLawSchool pic.twitter.com/uwNSJR0oBy

— USPTO (@uspto) April 4, 2025

From creating a race car safety device that protects drivers from injury to revolutionizing chemotherapy, Spartans have contributed to more than 3,300 inventions. #SpartansWill pic.twitter.com/dchCs0BFBx

— MSU (@michiganstateu) February 21, 2025

“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, please contact bella@standardsmichigan.com for an advance agenda.

https://standardsmichigan.com/international-standards-teleconference-today-11-am-eastern/

17 equations that changed the world pic.twitter.com/69jV97p8mM

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 21, 2024

https://standardsmichigan.com/iso-tc-309/

https://standardsmichigan.com/iec-2021/

https://standardsmichigan.com/itu-academia/

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https://standardsmichigan.com/time-frequency-services/

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https://standardsmichigan.com/readability-of-design-standards/

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

"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

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

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

There are written fine arts standards that have been developed by various organizations and educational bodies. These standards provide a framework for what students should know and be able to do in the arts at different grade levels. Here are a few examples of fine arts standards:

National Core Arts Standards: The National Core Arts Standards were developed by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards and outline what students should know and be able to do in dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts at different grade levels.

State Fine Arts Standards: Many states have their own fine arts standards that are aligned with the National Core Arts Standards but may be tailored to reflect the unique needs and priorities of the state; e.g., State of Ohio Fine Art Standards

International Baccalaureate Arts Standards: The International Baccalaureate (IB) program offers arts standards as part of their curriculum framework for the arts. These standards are designed to develop students' creative and critical thinking skills in the arts.

Arts Education Partnership National Standards for Arts Education: The Arts Education Partnership has developed national standards for arts education that cover the four major artistic disciplines: dance, music, theater, and visual arts.

Today at 15:00 UTC we drill into the technical specifics that contribute to the safety and sustainability of spaces used for the teaching, practice and

display of the fine arts.  These occupancies are typically at greater risk than classrooms because they usually contain volatile fluids for artistic painting

or biologic specimen preservation, kilns for pottery, fabrics and related machinery for teaching fashion design and practice.  

"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