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Professional Engineering Licensure

November 10, 2025
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. - Albert Einstein

Intuitive Machines

Electrical Engineering License: Example Questions

Short Circuit Calculations

Electric Machines Motors & Generators

Digital Electronics

Power Systems

Stability Analysis

Communication

Illumination

Cost Analysis and Project Economics

Python

Mechanical Engineering License: Example Questions

Civil Engineering License: Example Questions

Certifying the Certifiers

“Adagio for Strings” Samuel Barber

November 9, 2025
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Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings (1936) is a slow, lyrical orchestral piece adapted from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Premiering in 1938 under Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, it features a simple, ascending melodic line that builds through intensifying harmonies and dynamics, peaking in anguished dissonance before resolving into quiet resignation.

In Western classical music, the “Adagio” represents the pinnacle of 20th-century American romanticism amid modernism’s rise. Barber rejected avant-garde experimentation (e.g., serialism by Schoenberg), drawing instead from Bach, Brahms, and Sibelius for tonal accessibility and emotional directness.

Michigan Central | Oakland University School of Music, Theater and Dance

Barber’s Other Works:

Evensong “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”

Hare Family Sports Performance & Training Center

November 8, 2025
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Homeschool Uniforms

November 7, 2025
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Here are direct links to the articles and blog posts I mentioned (or very close matches where the exact title varied slightly but the content aligns perfectly):

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Fall Field Sport

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Today we continue drilling into the transcript of proposed changes the International Code Council Group B tranche of titles relevant to our safety and sustainability agenda with particular interest in places of assembly for athletic activity. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

Complete Monograph of the April 27 – May 6 Proposed Changes heard April 27-May6 in Orlando: Complete Monograph (2630 pages)

Results of the April meetings to be heard at the October 22-30 Hearings in Cleveland Ohio: 2025 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ACTION HEARING (CAH1)

Proposals of interest today:

S71-25 Table 1607 Minimum Uniformly Distribution Live Loads (for stadiums) – Page 1089

S74-25 1607.9 Loads on stadium handrails, guards, grab bars and seats – Page 1098

Video of spectator balcony railing collapse that killed 7 college students in Bolivia – Page 1102

Davenport University | Kent County Michigan

I-Code Group B Committee Action Hearings

Related coverage:

Sport Occupancies

Stadium & Arena Structural Engineering

Bleachers, Folding Seating & Grandstands

Keiser University College of Golf & Sport Management | Palm Beach County Florida


Gallery: Playgrounds

Gallery: Football Stadiums

ICC 300 Bleachers, Folding Seating, Grandstands

November 7, 2025
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COMPLETE MONOGRAPH: 2024 GROUP A PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE I-CODES

“View of the Colosseum” 1747 Giovanni Paolo Panini

 

Play is the making of civilization—how one plays the game

more to the point than whether the game is won or lost.

 

The purpose of this standard is to establish the minimum requirements to safeguard health, safety and general welfare through structural strength, means of egress facilities, stability and safety to life and property relative to the construction, alteration, repair, operation and maintenance of new and existing temporary and permanent bench bleacher, folding and telescopic seating and grandstands.  This standard is intended for adoption by government agencies and organizations setting model codes to achieve uniformity in technical design criteria in building codes and other regulations.

FREE ACCESS: Standard on Bleachers, Folding and Telescopic Seating, and Grandstands

We are tracking the changes in the transcripts linked below:

ICC 300-2020 edition Public Input Agenda – January 2022

ICC 300-2017 edition Public Comment Draft – October 2017

Consensus Committee on Bleacher Safety (IS-BLE)

This title is on the standing agenda of our Sport, Olahraga (Indonesian), رياضة (Arabic), colloquia.   You are welcomed to join us any day at with the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.

2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE

Virtual reality technology in evacuation simulation of sport stadiums

National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security

Code of Practice for Emergency Sound Systems at Sports Venues

 


Posted December 6, 2019

At the April International Code Council Group A Hearings there were three candidate code changes related to the safety standard of care for athletic venues:

E104-18 (§ 1017 regarding exit travel distances) | PDF Page 218 of the Complete Monograph

F9-18 (§ 304 regarding spaces under bleachers) | PDF Page 1021 of the Complete Monograph

F135-18 (§ 907 regarding communication systems for open air bleachers) | PDF Page 1296 of the Complete Monograph

These concepts will likely be coordinated with another ICC regulatory product — ICC 300 – Standard on Bleachers, Folding and Telescopic Seating, and Grandstands — covered here previously.   ICC 300 is a separate document but some of the safety concepts track through both.

The ICC Public Comment Hearings on Group A comments in Richmond Virginia ended a few days ago (CLICK HERE).   The balloting is being processed by the appropriate committee and will be released soon.  For the moment, we are happy to walk through the proposed changes – that will become part of the 2021 International Building Code — any day at 11 AM Eastern time.   We will walk through all athletic and recreation enterprise codes and standards on Friday, November 2nd, 11 AM Eastern time.   For access to either teleconference, click on the LIVE Link at the upper right corner of our home page.

Issue: [15-283]

Category: Athletics & Recreation, Architectural, Public Safety

Contact: Mike Anthony, Richard Robben, Jack Janveja

Link to our ICC Workspace

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Posted October 19, 2017

The International Code Council has launched a new revision cycle for its consensus document — ICC 300 – Standard on Bleachers, Folding and Telescopic Seating, and Grandstands.  The purpose of the effort is the development of appropriate, reasonable, and enforceable model health and safety provisions for new and existing installations of all types of bleachers and bleacher-type seating, including fixed and folding bleachers for indoor, outdoor, temporary, and permanent installations. Such provisions would serve as a model for adoption and use by enforcement agencies at all levels of government in the interest of national uniformity.

Comments are due December 4th.  The document is free.  You may obtain an electronic copy from: https://www.iccsafe.org/codes-techsupport/standards/is-ble/.  Comments may be sent to Edward Wirtschoreck, (888) 422-7233, ewirtschoreck@iccsafe with copy to psa@ansi.org)

* With some authority, we can claim that without Standards Michigan, many education industry trade associations would not be as involved in asserting the interest of facility managers in global consensus standards development processes.   See ABOUT.   

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