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September 9, 2026
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Seks mastestudenter har sommerjobb i Standard Norge. De studerer til daglig på NHH, NTNU, NMBU og UiO.

906 Day

September 8, 2026
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Michigan Upper Peninsula  | Agriculture & Rural Development

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September 6 is an “unofficial holiday” celebrating Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (the “906” area code). Northern Michigan University is in Marquette, right in the heart of the UP, so the day is a big local pride thing on and around campus.

Pasties are the classic UP food: handheld meat-and-vegetable pies brought by Cornish miners in the 1800s and now a Yooper staple. One of the most common ways people are told to celebrate 906 Day is simply to eat a pasty (along with things like playing cribbage or swimming in Lake Superior). Local shops often run 906-themed specials, such as a pasty + sides for $9.06.

NMU has its own pasty history that ties into this culture. In 1978, as part of Homecoming, the university baked what it billed as the world’s largest pasty (unofficial Guinness record): 12 feet by 6 feet, over 1,000 pounds of filling, baked for six hours, and served to more than 2,000 students. The school still highlights it on its achievements page.

So the connection is cultural rather than one single official NMU event: 906 Day = UP pride day in Marquette, pasties = the food that represents the UP, and NMU sits in the middle of both.

ICYMI:

  • Northern Michigan University has genuine institutional pasty history. NMU says its students produced the “world’s largest pasty” during Homecoming in 1978: 250 lb beef, 400 lb potatoes, 75 lb carrots, 25 lb onions and 250 lb of dough. It reportedly fed more than 2,000 students.
  • More importantly for your dinner-post purposes, an NMU history piece explicitly says NMU and Michigan Tech dining operations have long served pasties to students.
  • Michigan Technological University is even better documented. Michigan Tech has published the actual Cornish pasty recipe used by Dining Services—skirt steak, potato, onion and rutabaga—and its 2026 Alumni Reunion included a Pasty Dinner in the Memorial Union Ballroom.

There’s even a third Michigan angle: University of Michigan‘s U.P. Scholars program holds a 906 Day celebration where U.P. students gather over pasties. In one documented year they brought in pasties for more than 130 students.

Relata:

Cornish Pasties

Electrical Trade Labor Standards

September 8, 2026
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Allied non-profit organizations and unions play a critical role in training electricians, ensuring skilled, safe, and competent professionals. The National Electrical Contractors Association and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers offer structured apprenticeship programs combining classroom instruction with hands-on training. We review the basics today at 15:00 UTC. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

Michigan Electrical Administrative Act §338.883

 

Michigan’s 2024 Public Act 172 amended the Skilled Trades Regulation Act, the state law governing licensing and regulation of electricians, plumbers and other skilled trades. Among the subjects addressed by the legislation are the number of apprentices who may work under the supervision of licensed journey or master tradespeople.

For electrical work, Article 7, MCL 339.5717, continues to permit a ratio of one journey or master electrician to no more than three registered apprentice electricians. The requirement applies on a jobsite basis, rather than across the overall workforce of an electrical contractor. The enforcing agency or the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is responsible for enforcing the ratio.

The provision illustrates an important distinction between technical standards and labor standards. The National Electrical Code and related technical documents establish requirements for electrical installations. Michigan skilled-trades law separately establishes requirements concerning the people permitted to perform that work and the conditions under which apprentices may participate.

For large institutional owners — including school districts, colleges and universities — these requirements affect not only electrical safety and workmanship but also apprenticeship opportunities, contractor staffing, project scheduling, maintenance operations and the long-term availability of qualified electrical workers.

August 26, 2025

Free Journeyman Electrician Practice Test 2025 Study Guide

United States national electrical trade standards prioritize safety, reliability, and economic efficiency in electrical systems. Governed primarily by the National Electrical Code upon which the University of Michigan has had a vote since 1996.

The NEC outlines requirements for wiring, equipment installation, grounding, and overcurrent protection to prevent hazards like electrical shocks, fires, and equipment failures. Compliance ensures safe operation in residential, commercial, and industrial settings. Standards also promote energy efficiency, encouraging practices like proper insulation, energy-efficient lighting, and renewable energy integration to reduce costs and environmental impact.

Organizations like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) further enforce safety through regulations and product certifications. Adherence to these standards minimizes risks, ensures system longevity, and supports economic benefits through reduced energy waste and maintenance costs, fostering a safe and sustainable electrical infrastructure.

European Union electrical trade standards prioritize safety, interoperability, and economic efficiency across member states. Governed by the Low Voltage Directive (LVD) 2014/35/EU and harmonized standards from the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), these regulations ensure electrical equipment operates safely between 50-1000V AC or 75-1500V DC. Standards like EN 60335 address appliance safety, while EN 50110 outlines safe maintenance and operation practices. Compliance with CE marking requirements certifies adherence to safety, health, and environmental standards, facilitating market access.

For economy, the EU promotes energy efficiency through directives like the Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC, mandating efficient lighting, motors, and renewable energy integration to reduce consumption and costs. National regulations align with EU standards, ensuring consistency. These measures minimize electrical hazards, enhance system reliability, and support sustainability by reducing energy waste, fostering cost-effective, safe electrical infrastructure across the EU’s diverse markets.

Non-profit organizations and unions play a critical role in training electricians, ensuring skilled, safe, and competent professionals. Organizations like the National Electrical Contractors Association And unions such as the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Offer structured apprenticeship programs combining classroom instruction with hands-on training.

These programs cover electrical theory, National Electrical Code compliance, safety practices, and emerging technologies like renewable energy systems. Non-profits often provide certifications, scholarships, and continuing education to promote workforce development. Unions advocate for fair wages and safe working conditions, while their training centers emphasize practical skills, ensuring electricians meet industry standards and contribute to reliable, efficient electrical systems.

Join us today with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

 

Michigan Public Service Commission

September 8, 2026
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Agenda: August 6, 2026 Commission Meeting

 

Michigan Public Service Commission | August 6, 2026

1. Reliability-Plus / Utility Performance Incentives. The Commission advanced the second phase of its performance-incentive initiative, seeking comment on metrics that could tie utility earnings and penalties to reliability, safety and customer outcomes. Topics include distributed energy resources, hosting capacity, virtual power plants, 4.8-kV distribution conversions, advanced metering and grid modernization.

2. DTE Securitization. The Commission approved DTE Electric’s plan to securitize approximately $600.5 million of costs through lower-cost debt, with projected financing savings of about $62.5 million. The costs include Belle River transition expenses, coal-shipping wind-down and extraordinary tree-trimming expenditures.

3. Consumers Energy Storm Costs. Consumers Energy received authority to defer accounting for approximately $57 million associated with March 2026 storms. The storms caused more than 6,700 downed wires and required replacement of 515 poles and 1,330 crossarms. The decision did not itself authorize recovery of those costs from customers.

4. Rate-Case Restructuring Rejected. The Commission declined to separate revenue requirement, cost-of-service and rate-design issues into independent proceedings, concluding that the proposed structure could increase filings, costs and regulatory complexity rather than streamline the process.

5. Renewable-Energy Law Implementation. The Commission issued additional decisions implementing 2023 PA 235, including treatment of commercially sensitive information submitted by energy providers and further proceedings involving renewable-energy credits and behind-the-meter generation.

Clambake

September 7, 2026
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Clambake: A History and Celebration of an American Tradition |  Katherine D. Neustadt 1992 

“A Basket of Clams” | Winslow Homer 1873

Along the Atlantic coast of New England, the clambake became a seasonal rite built from the materials at hand. Stones were gathered along the shore and arranged into a hearth; driftwood and firewood were piled high and burned until the stones held an intense heat. Rockweed, cut fresh from the water, was spread across them, releasing clouds of salt steam. Clams, lobsters, fish, corn and potatoes followed, layered carefully and covered with more seaweed and canvas so that the whole feast cooked together.

The work itself was part of the occasion. Someone tended the fire, someone hauled the rockweed, others prepared the food, set tables or watched the children near the water. Hours of preparation ended in a meal eaten outdoors, often within sight of the tide that supplied it—a practical choreography of shore, fire, water, food and fellowship repeated through generations of New England summers.

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A Blockchain-based decentralised university

September 7, 2026
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We first posted this prospect in May 2022, months before generative artificial intelligence displaced blockchain as the principal technological anxiety of the education industry.

Blockchain has not disappeared; its ambitions have narrowed toward credentials, records and decentralized governance while artificial intelligence has raised the larger question of what the university—and perhaps the teacher—is for.

  • Blockchain threatened the university’s machinery.
  • AI threatens to interrogate its purpose.

The blockchain proposition asked: Do we still need a centralized institution to maintain records, confer credentials, distribute money and establish trust?

The AI proposition asks something considerably more uncomfortable: What are students paying the institution and faculty to do when machines can teach, explain, translate, draft, assess, search and increasingly conduct portions of research?

15 February 2025

Blockchain is a decentralized, immutable, and transparent digital ledger that securely records and verifies transactions across multiple computers or nodes. It operates through a network of participants who collectively validate and store each transaction, creating a chain of interconnected blocks. Each block contains a unique cryptographic hash that links it to the previous block, ensuring data integrity.

The distributed nature of blockchain eliminates the need for intermediaries, increases security, and fosters trust among participants. It has applications beyond cryptocurrencies, enabling efficient and reliable solutions in various industries such as finance, supply chain management, healthcare, education and accreditation.

John Domingue | TEDxOpenUniversity:

“I believe that with blockchain technology we can create a radically new type of university: a DAO University. A DAO is a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation which operates with no central control and no humans in the loop and are based on Smart Contracts: pieces of computer code on a blockchain which can represent and enact financial and legal contracts. ”

 

 

Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote): “Ladran Sancho, señal que cabalgamos”  

“Let the dogs bark Sancho, it is a sign that we’re moving forward.”

Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies

Blockchain is built so that the system keeps the data across several nodes that form a consensus on the exact position of the data. This storage method is different from the cloud, where data remains in one location and is easily accessible to an individual as a whole.

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Easy Beef Pot Roast

September 6, 2026
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Standards Indiana

Roast beef with potatoes. Roast beef with roasted potatoes and tomatoes

Purdue Memorial Union Dining Room

Memorial Union Dining Room

 

 

Bridges

September 6, 2026
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Watch & Night Operations

September 6, 2026
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Watch & Night Operations

Impedance Grounding for Electric Grid Surviability

Colloquy (September)

September 4, 2026
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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

 

 

 

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