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"The Nearness of You" | Hoagy Carmichael 1950
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School | Montgomery County Maryland 240 -
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
St Paul Lutheran School | Washtenaw County Michigan 734 -
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We will be cheering your Men's Hockey team in the Frozen Four Championship tomorrow 2:30 PM PST in Las Vegas.
Architect students building a playground
Architect students build a playground in the suburb Bergsjön in Gothenburg. The playground design and building process is part of an architecture Master’s degree,
Sport News
“Man’s life is brief, but through contests he touches the eternal.” -- Pindar, 'Nemean Ode 6.23-24'
Spring Sport
We are consolidating over 10+ years of coverage of sport standards by the season now. This is our first cut breaking the topic into four separate seasons. Join us today at the usual hour when we sort through stabilized literature and the codes and standards open for public consultation
National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security
In in the Good Ole Days we developed safety standards for athletes. Now the spectators are at greater risk. Leviathan-scale sport enterprises in education communities are a significant profit center and a proven reserve for litigation possibilities -- hence an academic "center" developing around a familiar business model that gets perilously close to ruining the sport experience for fans and competitors alike.
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. Titles are time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 16:00 UTC. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
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.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
Canadian Parliament Debate on Standards Incorporated by Reference
In administrative law, incorporation by reference is a legislative drafting technique that enables federal agencies to give legal effect to materials that are already published elsewhere. It is most controversially used to incorporate privately authored voluntary consensus standards into health and safety regulations without infringing the standards developers' copyright. We find enlightened debate in Ottawa.