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English Breakfast for Each Day of the Week

BOSTON WEATHER

English Breakfast for Each Day of the Week

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Food and Drink | Corpus Christi College Oxford

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Meals and Dining | St Peter's College Oxford

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Dining in Oxford: What to Expect, What Not to Miss – Campus Oxford

 

“How Can I Keep From Singing”

Michigan West | Essential Works

Perseid

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Colloquy (September)

Open agenda; Not Too Organized. Whatever anyone wants to talk about.  We do meet once a month like this.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

Evensong “Last Rose of Summer”

Join us for lunch 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM every Third Wednesday at the Postma Golf Course

University of Michigan Business School Executive Dining Room (Under construction until sometime in 2027) | University of Michigan Golf Course Dining Room

If we were running that upgrade of the dining facility at the business school — instead of Sodexo — we would complete it in six months.  Alas, by some strange bureaucratic configuration, the project is taking 24 months.  Until then we meet at the Golf Course on the South Athletic Campus where, admittedly, parking is easier.

 

Retrodiction

Education & Healthcare Facility Electrotechnology Committee

 

 

Le café infusé à froid expliqué

MONTREAL WEATHER

“An alleged scientific discovery has no merit

unless it can be explained to a barmaid.”

“Radio Transformations” 1906, Ernest Rutherford

Financial Statements 2023 | ($-14.834 M) Deficiency excess of revenue over expenses

Codes Canada

Art & Science of Cold Brew & Why


 

Frenglish

Danse de recherche sur le cancer

Backstage Tour

Before the Bell

USDA School Breakfast Program


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“The Crèche” (1890) | Albert Anker

Albert Anker Masterpieces

Readings

Michigan Department of Education Office of Nutrition Services: Back-to-School Quick Guide

“The Negro Family: The Case For National Action” 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell

“Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed” by Jason L. Riley

“Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America” by John McWhorter

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“The Stars and Stripes Forever” John Phillip Sousa 1896

Michigan Central: Summer Fall

Net Position 2025: $24.9B

Best Coffee Spots Near Campus

 

A couple smiles, standing together on the field of the Big House with the jumbotron screen and goalpoast behind them.

In an era of pronounced Democratic dominance in U.S. academia—where faculty political affiliations skew heavily left—John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” occupies a revealing position. Republicans continue to champion the 1896 march unreservedly as vibrant proof of American exceptionalism, military heritage, and cultural confidence, hearing in its brass and piccolo the triumphant spirit of national unity.

Democrats, shaped by academic environments that often frame traditional patriotism as bordering on nationalism or cultural hegemony, tend toward a more qualified appreciation. Many academics contextualize the piece historically as a product of Gilded Age optimism or imperial-era bravado, emphasizing its role in constructing identity rather than celebrating it outright. While still performed at public events, the march may be taught with deconstructive lenses—highlighting how such symbols can marginalize dissenting voices or overlook America’s complexities—reflecting broader campus skepticism toward uncritical flag-waving.

University of Michigan leadership shows a strong Democratic tilt, consistent with broader patterns in U.S. higher education, and reflected in donations toward anything that moves like a Democrat in the ~95% range.  International students easily pick up on this bias.

Yet the music’s infectious energy resists full domestication. Even within left-leaning institutions, its enduring popularity at commencements and civic rites reveals a persistent, cross-partisan pull. Sousa’s masterpiece thus highlights academia’s influence: Democrats may intellectualize its patriotism, yet the piece quietly affirms a shared American heartbeat that theory struggles to silence.  Amidst the widely diagnosed “Trump Derangement Syndrome” this Sousa magnum opus holds forth on a small sport of cultural common ground.

* The politics of sleeping (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Canteens, Cafés and Snack Points

ROME WEATHER

Patrimonio Netto totale = €1,127,765,617.14

 Marcello Piacentini – Gli architetti della Città Universitaria e Roma

Café @ Marco Polo Building

Un mondo fatto bene

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“Permanent Design Of Power Systems. The Joule Energy Impulse: a Characteristic Parameter” 2025 | Giuseppe Parise
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Past Collaborations:

Resilience of Hospital Power Systems in the Digital Age

Healthcare Management Journal: “If You Can Measure It, You Can Improve It” 

Building Electrical Wiring Based on Microsystem Criteria

A Procedure to Estimate the Energy Requirements for Lighting

 

Iced Americano

ANN ARBOR WEATHER

University of Michigan Net Position 2024: $22.335 billion

Michigan Central | Michigan West | Michigan Upper Peninsula | Michigan South East

Bert Askwith worked his way through college shuttling students to and from Detroit Metropolitan Airport until his graduation in 1931; when two semester tuition cost $300.  With no student debt he founded and grew Campus Coach Lines that still provides the same services at many other US campuses.  He donated part of his fortune to establish a cafe in the Undergraduate Library; which now serves an expanding and bewildering catalog of caffeine-based drinks found in educational settlements worldwide.

When new foreign national students arrive at U.S. colleges and universities, they often enter environments where a left-leaning worldview is prominent and pervasive. Many campuses today emphasize themes of social justice, equity, and systemic critique that align with a preference for larger, more interventionist government. Faculty and administrative messaging can reinforce these ideas, portraying government as the primary instrument for addressing inequality, redistributing resources, and regulating social behavior.

For many international students, this can be both eye-opening and disorienting. They may come from countries with different political traditions, including skepticism of state power due to experiences with corruption or authoritarianism. Yet, in the university setting, they encounter curricula and campus cultures that valorize activist government solutions while often criticizing markets, traditional institutions, or individual responsibility. Programs in the humanities and social sciences in particular tend to frame policy questions through a progressive lens that sees expansive government action as not just beneficial but morally necessary.

This immersion—some might call it a “marination”—shapes perspectives over time. Students adopt the language of social justice, climate policy, and identity politics, often without exposure to robust counterarguments. While this experience can broaden horizons and foster empathy for marginalized groups, it also risks narrowing intellectual diversity and suppressing debate about the limits and costs of government power. For international students, it can mean graduating with a worldview significantly more aligned with the American academic left than with the diverse political traditions of their home countries.

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