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Trump did a 3 minute comedy set with Team USA after they won the gold medal.
“I’ve got to tell you I have to also invite the women’s team as well…or I’d be impeached”
— Jack Mac (@JackMac) February 23, 2026
“I want to thank our troops for allowing us to play this game.”
This means more than most folks realize.
Perspective. Appreciation. Patriotism. That’s all our troops ask for. Means everything.
Thank you @usahockey 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/rP41pGlQOC
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) February 22, 2026
Michigan Man Jack Hughes wins it for USA Hockey 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/yq0mTHtewm
— Blue By 90 (@bluebyninety) February 22, 2026
Ellen Hughes, birthed two Olympic heroes and was a consultant on the women’s team that won gold.
She’s lady liberty. pic.twitter.com/hiKOMBWEYv
— Flappr (@flapprdotnet) February 22, 2026
Jack Hughes’ social media post after scoring the game-winning goal in the gold medal game 🇺🇸🇺🇸
What a day for American sports fans 🙌
(via jackhughes/IG) pic.twitter.com/2bljbGhk5G
— ESPN (@espn) February 22, 2026
The beaming face of a woman who just found a man in the Olympic Village pic.twitter.com/aaODuXEwHI
— TastefulLindy (@LindyTasteful) February 16, 2026
The Spectator: Americans are erasing European culture
(And Many Americans Are Also Unhappy About It)
USA USA USA! 🇺🇸🥌 #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/c0nDoYehBq
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 14, 2026
JUST IN: Team USA’s Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin defeat Italy, the reigning Olympic gold medalists from 2022, to advance to the gold medal game.
The curling duo will face Sweden tomorrow.
So intense. pic.twitter.com/No3YLh0SLv
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 9, 2026
Olympics start tomorrow – 4 Yoopers represented
🇺🇸Nick Baumgartner, Iron River, snowboarding
🇺🇸Abby Roque, Sault St Marie, hockey
🇺🇸Deedra Irwin, Michigan Tech, biathalon
🇮🇹Alex Petan, Michigan Tech, hockey pic.twitter.com/xVyf2fquVw— Rust Belt Kid (@rustbeltkid1) February 5, 2026
We begin by celebrating Italian beauty and harmony. 🤝
The stadium has been transformed into a living museum with the myth of Cupid and Psyche brought to life for the world to see. 💘#MilanoCortina2026 | #OpeningCeremony pic.twitter.com/FGj8ih8yfz
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 6, 2026
Racing the clock… and maybe towards something more. ❤️😉
As Sophia Kirkby heads into #MilanoCortina2026, she’s targeting the podium and a little romance along the way.#WinterOlympics | #Luge | @milanocortina26 pic.twitter.com/737oW5PtTM
— The Olympic Games (@Olympics) February 6, 2026
Brown University Electrical Design Criteria | Information Technology Resources Policy
The University of Michigan has supported the voice of the United States education facility industry since 1993 — the second longest tenure of any voice in the United States. That voice has survived several organizational changes but remains intact and will continue its Safer-Simpler-Lower Cost-Longer Lasting priorities on Code Panel 3 in the 2029 Edition.
Today, during our customary “Open Door” teleconference we will examine the technical concepts under the purview of Code Panel 3; among them:
Article 206 Signaling Circuits
Article 300 General Requirements for Wiring Methods and Materials
Article 335 Instrumentation Tray Cable
Article 590 Temporary Installations
Chapter 7 Large sections of limited energy cabling for signaling and information technology
Chapter 9 Conductor Properties Tables 11A & B, Tables 12A&B
Public Input on the 2029 Edition will be received until April 9, 2026.
Public input on the 2029 Revision will be received until April 9th. Over the next weeks and months — typically meeting twice a day every Tuesday — we will pull forward our previous proposals and draft original proposals relevant to the education and healthcare electrotechnical infrastructure of educational settlements. Link to Proposed Reorganization.
Photo at 2723 State Street Office*
Mike was part of the National Electrical Code Quarter Century Club but was at another conference and not able to receive the award at the June conference. University of Michigan support began in 1993. IEEE support began in 2014.
*New Office (a short walk across the street) starting October 1: 455 East Eisenhower, Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Current Issues and Recent Research
Today we examine Second Draft transcripts of the Special Equipment Chapter 6 (CMP-12) and product inspection, testing and certification listings that appear Annex A (CMP-1).
Once every eighteen months we spend a week drilling into the National Electrical Code by submitting new proposals or comments on proposed revisions. Today we review the actions taken by the technical committees on the First Draft. Responses to committee actions will be received until August 26th.
Interconnected Electric Power Production Sources “Microgrids”
Blue and Gray Education | Standards Illinois
University of Michigan Abraham Lincoln Collection
"Lincoln the Railsplitter" 1964 | Norman Rockwellhttps://t.co/gud3D79Zuy@NRockwellMuseumhttps://t.co/B62jeA4KyJhttps://t.co/HjKBblcz8d pic.twitter.com/Tyq3Qzql8w
— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) February 16, 2026
What Presidents Are Celebrated on Presidents’ Day? https://t.co/GGKvlPYiWu
— Home Quirer (@homequirer) February 19, 2024
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s full speech today at the 2026 Munich Security Conference.
Excerpt:
“At the time of that first (1963 Munich Security Conference) gathering, Soviet communism was on the march. Thousands of years of Western civilization hung in the balance. At that… pic.twitter.com/YsE59U2dQU
— Paul Villarreal (AKA Vince Manfeld) (@AureliusStoic1) February 14, 2026
Illustration from 1913 showing Pythagoras teaching a class of women. Pythagoras believed that women should be taught philosophy as well as men and many prominent members of his school were women.Our practice is fairly structured as our Syllabus reveals. Once a month we like to break form and throw our agenda “open”. Unstructured. Completely determined by the interest of our clients, colleagues and followers. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
“Reflections on the motive power of fire: | Sadi Carnot
* Lyndon B. Johnson played a significant role in the passage of the Education Acts of 1965, which consisted of two key pieces of legislation: the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Higher Education Act (HEA).
As President of the United States, Johnson made education reform a priority of his administration and saw it as a means of addressing poverty and inequality in America. He signed the ESEA into law in April 1965, which was designed to provide funding to schools serving low-income students and aimed to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and their more affluent peers. The ESEA also provided funds for teacher training and other educational programs.
In November of the same year, Johnson signed the HEA into law, which provided funding for college and university education and sought to make higher education more accessible to all Americans.
Together, these Education Acts of 1965 were a significant achievement for Johnson’s administration and played a crucial role in expanding educational opportunities for millions of Americans. They marked a major shift in federal education policy and helped to establish the federal government’s role in shaping education policy in the United States.
National Institutes of Health (Library of Medicine)
Dr. Jill Jacobs-Biden: Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Student’s Needs
Michelle Obama: Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community
Dr. Claudine Gay: Taking charge: Black electoral success and the redefinition of American politics
Hilary Clinton: There is Only the Fight…
John Kennedy: Appeasement at Munich
John Nash: Non-Cooperative Games
Thomas Sowell on School Choice and the Price Our Children Pay for Bad Ideas
“Science advances one funeral at a time”
— Max Planck
Career & Technical Education Month | #CTEMonth
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica | 1686 Sir Issaac Newton
A Mathematical Theory of Communication | 1948 Claude E. Shannon (University of Michigan)
“White People Didn’t Invent Slavery They Ended It!? | Veli Xtreme – Candice Owens
1955 Polio Vaccine: Jonas Salk (University of Michigan)
Alexander Fleming
Born on: August 6, 1881, in Scotland.
Died on: March 11, 1955.
The Scottish bacteriologist known for discovering penicillin, revolutionizing medicine. His work paved the way for antibiotics, saving countless lives and earning him the Nobel Prize in Medicine. pic.twitter.com/jNkmKKNaJm— THE BIOGRAPHER (@DA_BIOGRAPHER) February 16, 2024
1439 – Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press.
Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925) was a self-taught English mathematician and physicist who reformulated James Clerk Maxwell’s original set of twenty equations into the four differential equations known today as Maxwell’s equations. pic.twitter.com/xYFJFa341G
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory) February 18, 2024
Heraclitus | Logos
Jordan Peterson: “No One is Ready for What’s Coming”
History of Western Civilization Told Through the Acoustics of its Worship Spaces
“The Great Archimedes”
Baylor University Presshttps://t.co/jbaGIt5tqW@Baylor_Press@BaylorECS pic.twitter.com/4FbcZqLPrQ— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) August 4, 2020

The Future of Cosmology | Roger Penrose
A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid | James Watson & Francis Crick
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 11 JANUARY 1922: First Use of Insulin in Treatment of Diabetes by Sir Frederick G. Banting at the University of Torontohttps://t.co/8emK7QL3rh@UofThttps://t.co/wFm1acWCHchttps://t.co/5n032GQOSp pic.twitter.com/qJWCMdXsa1
— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) January 11, 2021
Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Power system load flow analysis in an interconnected system focuses on various aspects of AC power parameters, such as voltages, voltage angles, real power and reactive power. #Newton-Raphson #Gauss-Siedel @IEEECampus https://t.co/xoyNZd36KS pic.twitter.com/1gfvcsrF3g
— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) October 5, 2021
Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Waveshttps://t.co/lsQtMoQ99v
@yaleseas pic.twitter.com/CJQV6SQK2k— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) September 17, 2020
In 1883 the Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company was established. Known commonly as “Ediswan” the company sold lamps made with a cellulose filament that Swan had invented in 1881. Variations of the cellulose filament became an industry standard, https://t.co/mmDHYKDTlq pic.twitter.com/t5fRFKCEyW
— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) August 11, 2020
We’re celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
Let’s look back on the life of Marie Skłodowska Curie: a Nobel Prize laureate who dedicated her life to science and became one of the world’s greatest scientists.#WomenInScience #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/urix0dUh9B
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) February 11, 2024
I drew this morpho butterfly with mathematical equations. pic.twitter.com/YEtf46K6UU
— Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (@naderi_yeganeh) February 4, 2024
“Who Invented Wireless? Marconi, Lodge or Tesla?”@ILuvePhysics @IEEECampus @IEEE_EMCS https://t.co/Khrw5sMSsQ pic.twitter.com/PRSAaNd8u7
— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) October 8, 2021
The Steam Engine: The invention of the steam engine in the 18th century by pioneers like James Watt revolutionized industry, transportation, and agriculture, powering factories, locomotives, and ships and driving the Industrial Revolution.
The Internal Combustion Engine: The development of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century revolutionized transportation and manufacturing, leading to the proliferation of automobiles, airplanes, and machinery that powered economic growth and globalization.
The Internet: Originating from research projects in the late 20th century, the internet has become a fundamental infrastructure for communication, commerce, education, and entertainment, connecting billions of people worldwide and enabling unprecedented access to information and resources.
Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits: The invention of semiconductors and integrated circuits in the mid-20th century paved the way for the digital revolution, enabling the miniaturization and mass production of electronic devices such as computers, smartphones, and microprocessors.
Agriculture: The transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to settled agriculture marked the beginning of civilization and allowed for the development of permanent settlements, leading to population growth, specialization of labor, and the emergence of complex societies.
The Wheel: Invented around 3500 BCE, the wheel revolutionized transportation, enabling the movement of goods and people over long distances and laying the foundation for subsequent advancements in engineering and machinery.
Writing: The development of writing systems, such as cuneiform in Mesopotamia and hieroglyphs in Egypt, facilitated the recording and dissemination of information, contributing to the preservation of knowledge, governance, and cultural expression.
Standards Pennsylvania | Edwin F. Durang, Architect 1883 | Sacred Spaces
We’re sharing Father Peter’s reflections and responses to the thoughtful questions he has heard throughout the year from Villanovans.https://t.co/Um2N5JgKcp pic.twitter.com/MqWOdB0NpG
— Villanova University (@VillanovaU) January 27, 2026

Villanova University | Montgomery County Pennsylvania
Related:
Villanova University General Counsel: Standard-Setting and Related Organizations
Love is the beauty of the soul. – Saint Augustine
Happy Valentine’s Day from us to you! pic.twitter.com/21UQensxDf
— Gillespie Cattle Company (@gillespiecattle) February 14, 2026
Purpose: This study explored the impacts of elite-level youth sport participation on family life.
Methodology: In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents of youth athletes (N = 17).
Findings: Parents extensively talked about the temporal demands of elite youth sports and necessity of time management. Three domains were found in parents’ accounts including, children’s time, parents’ time, and family’s time; temporal opportunities and challenges were identified within each domain. Time spent on sports was perceived positively, keeping children out of trouble and from video games/time online; however, it left no time for other activities. Although parents sacrificed their own activities to facilitate their child’s sports participation, they used the practice and tournament time to engage in personal interests, such as reading or exercising. Likewise, family’s time was restricted by youth sport schedules, but parents managed to turn car rides or tournament trips into quality family time.
Practical implications: Findings can be used by youth sport practitioners to enhance children and parents’ experiences.
Research contribution: Findings contribute to the literature by assessing the impacts of elite-level youth sports participation on family life.
Originality: The intricacies of how time-on task relates to parents’ relationship with their child’s sport have been understudied.
Wearing Their Faith: New Religious Movements, Dress, and Fashion in America
Lee Russell/Underwood Archives/Getty Images
Boys on the Southside of Chicago on Easter morning, April 1941. pic.twitter.com/zc87lgN0xn— Edward Elderman (@edwereddie) April 17, 2025
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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