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The real-life sport of Quidditch was inspired by the Harry Potter franchise but has since changed its name to Quadball. Organizers hope the name change distances the sport from the social positions of author J,K. Rowling, perhaps growing the sport.
Quadball refers to the number of balls and positions in the sport; its playfield governed largely by field sport codes and standards.
Readings: The “30-30” Rule for Outdoor Athletic Events Lightning Hazard
‘The Barber of Seville’ by Luis Alvarez Catalá
Codes, standards and licensing for barbering schools and cosmetology academies are governed by local regulations; or local adaptations of national standards-setting organizations.
This Pennsylvania barbershop is helping children build their confidence, paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud while getting a haircut deserves unlimited retweets..
— Kevin W. (@Brink_Thinker) April 16, 2025
Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Bloodborne Pathogen Safety Standards
Westfield High School now offers a 4-year barbering program — first of its kind in Spring ISD. Read more about this pathway to career success at https://t.co/xLEvktuPWW pic.twitter.com/opBmeGGxhN
— Spring ISD (@SpringISD) October 4, 2021
Haircut at Santisimo Sacramento Trade School. Best cut ever! Bill at State Street Barber Shop remains N. America’s #1 pic.twitter.com/1OFajjBOs2
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) May 16, 2015
Hygiene
This teacher saw one of his students waiting to get a haircut and stumbled upon a simple solution: Reading.
Now, the Barbershop Books program is changing lives: pic.twitter.com/yiluRPhHPk
— The Root (@TheRoot) April 1, 2018
Discussion
Cosmetology (as time allows)
Posting this cause I passed all my tests and got my 1600 hours IM A COSMETOLOGIST/BARBER NOW 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/CmEXVtOrk4
— ᴊᴇss ʜᴇss🦥 (@jjesshess) June 8, 2019
Got my hair done from a friend who is in cosmetology school today & she did so good!! pic.twitter.com/KEtWWpNueZ
— Megan Groat (@megs_mohrhard) March 20, 2025
He changes his life by touching the desent and victimized disabled person.
— Enezator (@Enezator) April 7, 2025
For over two centuries we have been recognised as the finest #traditional gentlemen’s #barber and #perfumer in London, and have provided discerning #gentlemen with only the finest in #grooming products and services.https://t.co/4C9W4XbnwY#truefittandhill #since1805 pic.twitter.com/c58w1053jN
— Truefitt & Hill London (@TruefittHill) March 5, 2022
Student Membership | @ASTMStudentFans
Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sport programs, facilities and equipment support one of the most visible and emotionally engaging enterprises in the education communities. These programs are central to the brand identity of the community and last, but not least, physical activity keeps our young people healthy in body and mind.
ASTM International is one of the first names among the 300-odd ANSI accredited standards setting organizations whose due processes discover and promulgate the standard of care for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of the facilities that support these enterprises. The parent committee is linked below:
ASTM Committee F08 on Sports Equipment, Playing Surfaces, and Facilities
While ASTM bibliography is largely product-oriented, there are many titles that set the standard of care for sport enterprises and the accessories to these enterprises. To identify a few:
ASTM F1774 Standard Specification for Climbing and Mountaineering Carabiners
ASTM F2060-00(2011) Standard Guide for Maintaining Cool Season Turfgrasses on Athletic Fields
ASTM F1703-13 Standard Guide for Skating and Ice Hockey Playing Facilities
ASTM F1953-10 Standard Guide for Construction and Maintenance of Grass Tennis Courts
ASTM F1081-09(2015) Standard Specification for Competition Wrestling Mats
ASTM F2950-14 Standard Safety and Performance Specification for Soccer Goals
When the General Requirements of an athletic facility construction project indicates: “Conform to all applicable standards” then, in the case of an sport facility, the ASTM title is likely the document that defines the standard of care from a product standpoint. Interoperability of the products in a sport setting are quite another matter.
At the international level, we track action in ISO/TC 83 Sports and other recreational facilities and equipment administered globally by the Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. ASTM International is ANSI’s Technical Advisory Group for this committee.
The ASTM standards development process depends heavily on face-to-face meetings — typically two times per year – in different parts of the United States. The benefit of this arrangement lies in the quality of discussion among subject matter experts that results produced from face-to-face discussion. The price to pay for this quality, however, lies in the cost of attendance for the user-interest in the education industry. Relatively few subject matter experts directly employed by a school district, college or university who are charged with lowering #TotalCostofOwnership can attend the meetings. Many of the subject matter experts who are in attendance at the ASTM meetings from the education industry tend to be faculty who are retained by manufacturers, insurance, testing laboratories, conformity and compliance interests. (See our discussion of Incumbent Interests)
That much said, ASTM welcomes subject matter experts on its technical committees (Click here) We encourage participation by end users from the education industry — many of them in the middle of athletic facility management organization charts. The parent committee meets twice a year; after which we usually find public review redlines developed during those meetings to hit our radar. The link to the schedule of face-to-face meetings appears below:
Note that the August 2020 cancelled but the November 2020 meeting still appears on the schedule. It is likely that much of the committee work will be done online.



We are required to review draft ASTM consensus products with some care — owing to copyright restrictions — so we do it interactively online during teleconferences devoted to Sport. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [7-7] [10-32] [13-165] [20-156]
Category: Sport, Management, Risk Management
Contact: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, George Reiher, Richard Robben
Harvard upgrades stadium field | ASTM develops turf safety standards http://t.co/pObQduSg0Khttp://t.co/wRoCPDeVbZ pic.twitter.com/7gLp9tO3B1
— Standards Michigan (@StandardsMich) April 22, 2015
New York University Facilities Management
Washing in the Outer Hebrides 🎶 pic.twitter.com/3WbpVpviyg
— Fraser. (@frasercontra) August 10, 2023
Today we take a cross cutting review of all the literature (codes, standards, guidelines, laws) that informs safe and sustainability occupancy load, means of egress, illumination, ambient air, plumbing, electric, communication and acoustics in classrooms.
Keen on your thoughts… https://t.co/IqI87vuVTz
And I’d love to see your classroom layout/displays if you want to share! Tag with #CanvasForThought pic.twitter.com/qZwxAaa6jm— 𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 (@NathanielRSwain) July 17, 2024
1. Building Codes
2. Fire and Life Safety Codes
3. Accessibility Standards

4. Environmental and Health Standards
5. Structural Standards
6. Plumbing and Mechanical Codes
7. Electrical Standards
8. Educational Specifications and Guidelines
9. Safety and Security Standards
10. Sustainable Design Standards
11. Maintenance Standards
12. Other Relevant Standards
Local Considerations
Another public jubilation pic.twitter.com/dmQc6IBVbK
— Chelsea Finest💙💙😍 (@finest_che2325) July 20, 2024
“Big Brother is watching you.”
“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed—no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”
“At any rate, they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away.”
Hard upon conclusion of the fall semester, educational settlements ebb in population as students return to their home fires.
Today we pull together best practice in the systems — the people and the technologies — that sustain campus safety and stability during the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays.
Join us at 16:00 UTC with login credentials at the upper right of our home page.
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986:
Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association A156.25 – 2023 Electrified Locking Systems
Open Network Video Interface Forum
IEC 62676-1-1: Video surveillance systems for use in security applications
ANSI C136 Series – Standards for Roadway and Area Lighting Equipment
Park Point University Campus Security
Standards Michigan Upper Peninsula
The Finnish presence in Northern Michigan stems from mass immigration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1870 and 1929, over 350,000 Finns arrived in the U.S., with Michigan drawing about 40% due to its copper and iron mines, lumber mills, and farms.
Recruited from Norway’s mines starting in 1864, they settled in towns like Hancock, Calumet, Ishpeming, and Ironwood, drawn by the region’s harsh winters, long summer days, and forested terrain mirroring Finland’s.
By 1930, nearly 75,000 Finnish descendants lived there, forming the largest ethnic group in five northwestern UP counties (35% Finnish heritage per recent census). They built saunas, cooperatives, and Lutheran churches, including the Suomi Synod (1890) and Finlandia University (1896, since closed).
Cultural festivals like Heikinpäivä and pasties (adapted from Cornish miners) endure, sustaining a “Sauna Belt” legacy amid mining booms that rivaled California’s Gold Rush.
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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