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Ice Hockey Arena Lighting
Athletic programs form a large part of the brand identity and community spirit for most educational institutions. Our focus has been on technology standards that govern the safety, performance and sustainability of these enterprises; electro-technology in particular. Field lighting supports the commercial enterprise but we also advocate #TotalCostofOwnership concepts for the reliability of power systems for video board mass notification and egress.
Sports Equipment & Surfaces
ASTM International is one of the first names in standards-setting for sport equipment and facilities in education communities which present at least as large a market as the private sector. Contingent upon the circumstances of the pandemic the parent committee responsible for its best practice bibliography meets again in November 2021.
H.R. 426 Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021
A BILL: To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Introduced January 21, 2021
Code of Practice for Emergency Sound Systems at Sports Venues
PREVIEW: British Standards Institute BS 7827:2019 Designing, specifying, maintaining and operating emergency sound systems for sports grounds, large public buildings, and venues.
Syllabus
Best practice titles relevant to education community safety and sustainability change at a rate of 100 to 1000 times per day. We break down this action every day, assign priorities, then schedule a separate time teleconference to respond to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics are shown on our CALENDAR.
2021 Student Paper Competition
On April 17th we host the last of our Saturday workshops for students and faculty with an interest in entering ANSI's annual Student Paper Competition (See our CALENDAR). The topic of the 2021 competition will be pandemic preparedness and recovery. Prizes (awarded in dollar terms) are non-trivial.
The Case Against Income Tax Exemption for Nonprofits
... "While many nonprofits do struggle with lack of funds and dire needs, there exists a group of tax-exempt entities for which profits regularly flow quite freely, often to the tune of more than $100 million, or even $1 billion or more. And yet, the public subsidizes each nonprofit in exactly the same manner..."
Python
Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level open-source programming language. It is useful for complex application development as it is for scripting the "glue code" that binds the Internet of Things. Open source standards development is characterized by very open exchange, collaborative participation, rapid prototyping, transparency and meritocracy. Python 3.9.2 is the stable release dated February 19th..
Standards Minnesota
We continue roll out of our user collaboration architecture to school districts, colleges, universities and university-affiliated healthcare systems in all 50-states. To lower #TotalCostofOwnership for the #WiseCampus every state is approached with sensitivity to its history, culture, governance regime, asset-base and network of expertise. #StandardsMinnesota