Can’t do this anywhere else. Your call š± pic.twitter.com/BtWCpbM87C
ā Bobby Guntoro (@bobbygunt) July 18, 2024
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2026-09-18 11:00 - 2026-09-18 12:00"Fall Plowing" 1931 / Grant Wood
I will never fail to be utterly amazed that these flavours come from soil, and sunlight and rain. pic.twitter.com/qTMx8jh8Zx
ā Holly Vickery PhD (@SkylarkHolly) July 27, 2024
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2026-09-22 11:00 - 2026-09-22 12:00Every infrastructure project begins as someone else's problem.Ā Eventually it becomes everyone's necessity.Ā The excitement surrounding AI infrastructure continues to keep aloft the practical questions that have always interested Standards Michigan: How do we build it? How do we operate it safely? And how do we standardize it so that it remains reliable for decades?
The zeitgeist surrounding data centers in higher education embodies a fervent fusion of technological ambition, sustainability imperatives, and workforce evolution, driven by AI's insatiable hunger for compute power.Ā Today at the usual hour we examine three projects on US campuses with special attention to the safety and sustainability boundaries set by electrotechnical strandards. -
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2026-09-28 11:00 - 2026-09-28 12:00"He who does not speak foreign languages
knows nothing about his own.āā Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Daily Beast (August 22, 2025): Dems Ban These Words to Stop Sounding Like āCrazy Peopleā
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.Ā 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.Ā So we approach this topic several times a year to confirm our bearing on the meaning of things.
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.Ā Alas, use of Tamil confounds our Wordpress content management system so in 2024 we began coding this topic in American English
"The language of Europe is translation"
-- Umberto Eco
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ā 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
ā Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) January 3, 2025
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2026-09-30 All dayāFor 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.ā
-- 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.Ā 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.Ā Today we will pick through few reports where safety and sustainability claims are listed and described.
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2026-10-06 11:00 - 2026-10-06 12:00Illumination technologies have had a pattern of consuming about 35 percent of building electrical energy use.Ā That number has been pressed downward with the expanded application of LED luminaires and occupant responsive controls; much of the transformation hastened by the IEEE, IES and ASHRAE best practice catalogs.
Today we run through the development status of these products with specific interest in exterior illumination best practice.Ā This topic also is covered in the 4 time monthly meetings of the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.
https://standardsmichigan.com/illumination-400/
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2027-01-11 11:00 - 2027-01-11 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.Ā Ā We inform our discussion based upon periodic release on the Employment Situation Summary from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
University of Michigan Facilities & Operations Organization Chart
Recommended Reading:
"The Human Side of Enterprise" 1960 Douglas McGregor
University of Chicago Press: Readings in Managerial Psychology
The tradition of naming terms after religious feasts is rooted in medieval ecclesiastical calendars. The use of "Hilary" for this period originated in the English legal system during the Middle Ages, where the courts divided the year into four sittings: Hilary, Easter, Trinity, and Michaelmas. Universities like Oxford adopted similar naming conventions, reflecting their historical ties to the church and legal professions.§This naming has persisted as a tradition, even as modern calendars have standardized dates. At other UK universities (e.g., Cambridge), the equivalent January-starting term is called Lent term instead.Alone is where the magic happensā¦apparently although I got so bored. This 10 mile run was the first time Iāve ran double digits since October 2021! The last two miles felt dreadful however, itās done. Iām now going to smash a š #ukrunchat #training pic.twitter.com/fUP43c5yGi
ā Lil Morris šāāļø (@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
ā 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
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All because two ppl fell in love šš pic.twitter.com/sGWGIJyLdu
ā Catarina Senora Gatita (@WyattCatarina) January 17, 2026
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2027-02-08 11:00 - 2027-02-08 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.Ā Ā 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.Ā Ā Use the credentials at the upper right of our home page to log in.
Alone is where the magic happensā¦apparently although I got so bored. This 10 mile run was the first time Iāve ran double digits since October 2021! The last two miles felt dreadful however, itās done. Iām now going to smash a š #ukrunchat #training pic.twitter.com/fUP43c5yGi
ā Lil Morris šāāļø (@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
ā 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/cf7EnWRKfhā Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 8, 2025
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2027-08-12 11:00 - 2027-08-12 12:00
https://standardsmichigan.com/water-300/
Can't do this anywhere else. Your call š± pic.twitter.com/BtWCpbM87C
ā Bobby Guntoro (@bobbygunt) July 18, 2024
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August 15, 1914. The United States assumed and completed the Panama Canal after Franceās 1880s attempt collapsed amid bankruptcy, disease, and engineering failure. President Theodore Roosevelt secured the route by supporting Panamaās 1903 independence from Colombia and negotiating the HayāBunau-Varilla Treaty, which granted the U.S. control of a 10-mile Canal Zone. America purchased French assets for $40 million and paid Panama $10 million plus an annuity.
U.S. Army engineers, led first by John Stevens and then Colonel George Goethals, abandoned a sea-level design for a lock-and-lake system. They created Gatun Lakeāthe worldās largest artificial lake at the timeāand excavated nearly 240 million cubic yards of earth. Physician William Gorgasās sanitation campaign virtually eliminated yellow fever and malaria, slashing the death toll that had doomed the French. At a cost of about $375 millionāthe most expensive U.S. construction project to that dateāthe canal opened on 15 August 1914, linking the Atlantic and Pacific and transforming global trade and naval strategy.




