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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." — Charles Dickens (1860 'Great Expectations')
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"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." -- Anita Desai ('Journey to Ithaca' 1995)
County Clare High School | Central Michigan
ALWAYS ON
Ribollita (Tuscan Bean Soup)
"Ribollita" is a winter comfort delicacy made of anything lying around half-eaten; symbolizing Tuscan resourcefulness and tradition. In Netherland college towns it would be called "Dutch Student Stew" (with canned pineapple). In America it might be called "Slumgullion" or "Garbage Pail", but because the Italian word (meaning "reboiled") comes from Tuscany, American Garbage Pail morphs into a delicacy.
The Common Cup
Open every day since 2007: offering locally sourced coffee, teas, baked goods, and a welcoming space for studying or events. Across Linden Street from First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Angell Elementary School and footsteps away from Chi Omega and seven other sororities and fraternity houses on the oddly-shaped lot bounded by South University. Washtenaw and Hill Streets.
Six Week Priority
For the entirety of March, and until April 9th, we focus on preparing response to proposed changes to the IEEE 2028 National Electrical Safety Code, and to prepare fresh new ideas for the 2028 NFPA National Electrical Code. Topics coverage normally scheduled for this time of year will be accessible but our daily online meetings will start with work on those two standards. To join the "code-writing and vote-getting" use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Sport News
“Man’s life is brief, but through contests he touches the eternal.” -- Pindar, 'Nemean Ode 6.23-24'
Quadrivium: Winter
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
NESC & NEC Cross-Code Correlation
This post links to workspaces for drafting a detailed response to our most recent proposals. Open public consultation on the 2028 revision to the IEEE National Electrical Safety Code is very compressed -- only 90 days are open for a standard that is revised every 5 years. Public consultation on the First Draft of the 2028 NESC is open until March 24, 2026.
2028 National Electrical Safety Code
Today we review the proposed changes for the 2028 Edition that sets the standard of care for construction, operation and maintenance of power and telecommunication infrastructure on the supply side of the point of common coupling. The pre-print should be availably today but. alas, we're not seeing the package made available yet. Still, there is plenty to pick through ahead of its release. We have until 24 March 2026 to submit comments on proposed changes.
Campus Electric Bulk Distribution
College and university campuses distribute electric energy in tranches of 5 to 500 megawatts; typically at voltages above 1000 VAC and are generally regarded as load-side services. Part III of Article 110, large sections of Chapter 3 and Article 495 of the 2026 National Electrical Code. We examine them during today's colloquium on university-owned underground power distribution downstream from the merchant utility point of common coupling (service point).