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Hot Dog University
Professor Bill Murphy explains the "Art of the Cart" and how to make a living with a campus hot dog stand.
Keeping Animals Cool
"We will identify and discuss what to do with heat stress. Tips on what to do about shade and not move all your soil nutrients to the woods" -- Russ Wilson. With links to other UNL sponsored research and recommendations.
“Mainely” Potato Salad
Ancestral summer favorite; part of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
Technical Requirements for Weighing & Measuring Devices
In January 1790, President George Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, "Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to."
Quadrivium: Summer
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Code for Fireworks Display
We track but do not advocate in this code because while most educational institutions prohibit fireworks on campus, public safety departments are required to understand best practice when pyrotechnics and flame effects are used before a proximate audience in theaters and stadiums. Public input on the next 2030 Edition will be received until June 2, 2027
I-Code Group B Committee Action Results
We will sort through the results of last month's standardization action as it applies to health care facilities -- with particular interest in maternity and neo-natal intensive care technologies -- ahead of the follow up technical meetings in Cleveland in October. Today we examine the back and forth on solar and wind farms located on actual animal, produce and grain farms. Many educational settlements are co-located on these convergent enterprises.
Flags
The flag -- a central fixture in educational settlements everywhere -- stands for a set of principles -- the reach for the ideals of a civilization -- not for the lapses of adherence to them. Here we have collected a few examples.
Current Issues and Recent Research
Next: Approval by the NFPA Standards Council for release of the 2026 National Electrical Code this week at the Annual Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. IEEE Release of the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code on July 1. Sorting the electrotechnology concepts appearing in the recent release of the International Code Council's "Group B Complete Monograph" ahead of the follow up meetings in Cleveland in October.