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Yuletide Calendar 14
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Fandom: The Lord of the Rings, Fourth Age (after the War of the Ring)
Pairing: Legolas/Eowyn
Rating: G
Summary: A stranger arrives in Eryn Carantaur with a message for Haldir; Legolas and Eowyn embark on another adventure.
Disclaimer: The Lord of the Rings and its characters were created by JRR Tolkien and brought to the screen by Peter Jackson. No offence is intended and no profit is being made by borrowing them for use in this story.
Author's Notes: As usual, if you haven't read any of my earlier Legolas/Eowyn stories, this will be crack!fic :-)
* Haldir's first meeting with Ayleth
* Legolas' previous visit to Mother Cynwise

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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Exploring Communication
|Introduction | Finding the Area of Different Figures | Try It Yourself: Finding the Area of Dot-Paper Shapes | Summary | Your Journal
In order for teachers to increase their effectiveness, it is helpful to explore how communication relates to developing understanding of mathematical concepts. Our own experience with mathematics may have been driven by examples or formulas presented by a teacher and applied in a series of textbook exercises. Often we apply a formula without a real understanding of its origin or the meaning of the underlying mathematical concept.
In this section, we will concentrate on both your approach to a problem and how you communicate your thinking to others, using pictures, oral and written language, and numbers.
The following problem requires you to come up with a formula for finding the area of a given figure. As you work on the problem, think about how you are approaching it, what difficulties you are encountering, how you would communicate your thinking to others, and the strategy you ultimately use to solve the problem.
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- Michael and Thelma King were found dead Friday
- A suspect is detained and is being interviewed in the case
- "This was an ugly scene," an official says
Police on the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Maarten are investigating the killing of an American couple found stabbed in their home, authorities said Sunday.
The bodies of Michael and Thelma King of South Carolina were discovered Friday at their residence in Cupecoy, according to Taco Stein, St. Maarten's solicitor general, who described it as "an ugly scene."
An unidentified suspect was taken into custody early Sunday and is being interviewed, Stein said.
"It's too early to reveal any more details because we are in the early stages of the investigation," he added.
The killings occurred in an area popular with tourists, according to Stein.
"It's generally considered a safe area," he told CNN. "There are a lot of apartments there. This was an ugly scene. This is something that does not happen every day."
Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos told the island's Daily Herald newspaper that the victims appeared to have been stabbed to death. Thelma King was found tied to a chair and her husband was lying on the floor, Mos told the newspaper.
Topper Daboul, a restaurant owner on the island, said he was a friend and business partner of the couple.
"They were beautiful people," he said. "They were kind to everybody."
Daboul said he believes robbery might have been a possible motive.
"I'm shocked, I'm still in shock," he said, adding, "I break down and I'm back up and I break down again."


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Microsoft sets the price for a Windows 8 upgrade at $40
Offer extends through January 2013
For all those customers who can't wait to enjoy Windows 8's Metro UI, Microsoft has announced pricing and availability of an upgrade package for users of previous versions of Windows.
Customers running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 will be able to purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 for $39.99 during a promotional period that ends January 31, 2013. The upgrade will be available for download from Windows.com as soon as Windows 8 enters general availability.
Users who purchase the upgrade will be walked through the process of downloading and installing it by a Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant at Windows.com. The Assistant will also identify any device or application compatibility issues.
Just how many issues might crop up will depend in part on your current OS. Microsoft says Windows 7 users will be able to migrate all of their settings, personal files, and apps from their existing installation. Vista users will only keep their Windows settings and files, while XP users will lose everything but their files. On the other hand, users who prefer to wipe their drives and install the new version clean will be able to do that, too.
Although the Upgrade Assistant will automatically download and install the update, users will also be able to burn it to a DVD or to a bootable USB drive, if they choose. In addition, users who don't feel like burning a disc themselves will be able to order one from Microsoft for $15, plus shipping and handling. That's still a good deal, since a packaged DVD of the upgrade will cost $69.99 at retail stores during the promotional period.
Steve Sinofsky, vice president of Microsoft's Windows division, has hinted that Windows 8 may be released to manufacturers as early as this month, which suggests that it will arrive in the retail channel by late this year.
The newly-announced upgrade promotion applies to anyone with a current PC running a qualifying version of Windows. Microsoft earlier announced a separate promotion for new PC buyers, which allows them to purchase a Windows 8 upgrade voucher for $14.99. Still no definite word on what full, retail versions of the new OS will cost however. ®


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Millions of people have no idea about the WWF they think that they care about animals!!!!! Well they don't!
The WWF was the driving force in pressuring the U..S.. Congress to legislate the screening of chemicals for "endocrine (hormone) disrupting" effects and has subsequently been heavily involved in establishing the framework for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) massive chemical-testing program now under development. . As its Web site points out: "WWF invested substantial resources in the EPA's Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee," which "agreed upon a set of tests to form the foundation for the screening and testing program.." What the WWF neglects to mention, however, is that 10 of the 15 recommended screens and tests are animal-poisoning studies, some of which kill hundreds or thousands of animals at a time.. According to scientific estimates, the WWF-backed endocrine testing program will kill up to 1..2 million animals for every 1,000 chemicals tested, and with environmental organizations pressing for tens of thousands of chemicals to be retested under this program, the toll in animal suffering and death will be staggering.. The WWF is also pressuring government agencies in Europe to embark on a similar animal-testing program..
In addition to lobbying for more chemical testing, the WWF has teamed up with Procter & Gamble, S..C.. Johnson, and other chemical companies to create an institute to pursue "basic research" on endocrine disruptors.. On top of this, the WWF is now pushing the U..S.. Congress to pass a bill that would pour additional millions in public funds into endocrine research--much of which would likely be used to fund experiments on animals..
Unfortunately, the "endocrine disruptor" issue is not an isolated example.. The WWF has been a major force in pressuring the European Union to amend its Chemicals Policy to require companies to test and retest as many as 30,000 new and existing chemicals.. The British Institute for Environmental Health estimates that this process will kill upwards of 45 million animals if the standard battery of animal-poisoning tests is used.. The WWF's U..S.. and Canadian offices are also calling for more testing of pesticides, despite the fact that more than 9,000 animals are already killed for each pesticide product on the market.. The organization has called for certain pesticides to be tested for "developmental neurotoxicity" (DNT) using a test that kills upwards of 1,300 animals each time it is conducted.. This test has been heavily criticized by scientists, including the EPA's own Scientific Advisory Panel, which concluded that "the exposure of rat fetus/pups was not shown to be equivalent to human fetus/infant during equivalent stages of brain development" and that "the current form of the DNT guideline is not a sensitive indicator of toxicity to the offspring.." In other words, WWF is calling for thousands of animals to be killed in a test that scientists admit is not relevant to humans!
In its defense, the WWF says that "in the absence of effective, validated alternatives, WWF believes that limited animal testing is needed for the long-term protection of wildlife and people throughout the world.." However, there is nothing "limited" about the massive amount of animal testing that the WWF is endorsing.. Dr.. Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, pointed out in 1981: "It is simply not possible with all the animals in the world to go through chemicals in the blind way we have at the present time, and reach credible conclusions about the hazards to human health.." Now more than 20 years later, millions of animals are still dying in agonizing chemical toxicity tests, and we are no closer to getting dangerous chemicals out of the environment. . In fact, despite killing hundreds of thousands of animals in painful chemical toxicity tests, the EPA has not banned a single toxic industrial chemical in more than a decade!...
The WWF Endorses the Killing of Wild Animals, Too!!!
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) gives special meaning to the word "conservation. ." The organization, founded in 1961 by a group of wealthy trophy hunters, apparently believes that conserving animals means keeping them around long enough for well-heeled "sportsmen" to blast them out of the woods, oceans, skies, plains of Africa, and jungles of Asia.. Past WWF chapter presidents include C..R.. "Pink" Gutermuth, who also served as president of the National Rifle Association, and trophy hunter Francis L.. Kellogg, who is legendary for his massive kills.. In its early days, the WWF even used fur auctions to raise funds...
Since then, the WWF has learned that most people are appalled by hunting and trapping, so today, the organization veils its true stance under phrases like "sustainable development, " arguing that killing is acceptable under some circumstances. . When answering difficult questions about its policy on hunting, trapping, and whaling, the WWF is careful never to state outright that it approves of all these activities.. But don't be fooled, the WWF's intentions are all too clear and deadly!!
According to the Web site of the WWF's Canadian office, "WWF is not an animal welfare organization. . We support the hunting and consumption of wild animals provided the harvesting does not threaten the long-term survival of wildlife populations. . WWF has never opposed a sustainable seal hunt in northern or eastern Canada.." However, despite the WWF's portrayal of the situation, the Canadian seal hunt is anything but a "subsistence" hunt--it is the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world.. Quotas established by the Canadian government have soared to an all-time high: 350,000 seals per year for the next three years.. Not since the mid-1800s, when unrestricted slaughter saw a million seals per year killed, has so much blood been shed on the ice off Canada's East Coast...
Worse is that the Canadian government has stated in internal documents that having the WWF's support for any raise in seal quotas is important, and the WWF's position statement suggests that it had been working with the Canadian government before the quota was announced.. In other words, the WWF had the power to help avert the largest quota of harp seal pups in history but chose, instead, to let it happen without so much as a word of opposition!! !
While the WWF states that it opposes "commercial whaling," it does support the slaughter of whales by native tribes and under some other conditions.. When asked directly about its policy, WWF is vague, stating: "WWF's views on whether sustainable whaling should be permitted derive from its mission 'to conserve nature and ecological processes and to help build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature..'" In the past, WWF officials have clearly stated that "WWF International has the national WWF organizations behind it in the view that as soon as one can ensure a sustainable commercial harvest of the great whales under secure international control, then whaling will no longer be a WWF concern...."
Sport Hunting!!!
As one would expect of an organization founded by hunters, the WWF does not oppose the slaughter of animals with guns and other weapons for sport.. Rather than working to stop the killing, the WWF believes that hunting should be regulated, arguing that wealthy trophy hunters can bring income to poorer nations.. The WWF claims that it has no power to stop hunting, stating, "The decision to allow trophy hunting is a sovereign one made entirely by the governments concerned. -- We will continue to monitor governments' enforcement of important trade laws to ensure that trophy hunting is done within the legal standards of that area...."
The WWF believes that culling--another way of saying "killing"--elephants is acceptable, as is the trade in ivory, because the profits that it brings spur governments to keep elephants from going extinct.. In 2000, U..S.. News & World Report reported that WWF representatives traveled to Nairobi to ask the United Nations to lift the ban on the ivory trade in order to allow a "sustainable harvest of ivory for horns and hunting trophies..."
The WWF's bizarre view--that we must kill some animals now in order to save animals to kill later--has proved false time and again.. The trade in ivory has only encouraged rampant poaching, the senseless slaughter of elephants.. The WWF tries to duck the issue by falsely stating, "The decision to cull, or to select animals from the herd for removal or death, is indeed an agonizing choice, but it is one made entirely by the governments concerned and there is no international involvement in those decisions.."
As with hunting and whaling, the WWF refuses to condemn the massive killing of animals with steel-jaw leghold traps.. While calling itself a "preservationist" organization that "seek[s] to be the voice for those creatures who have no voice," the WWF stands back from the issue, stating that "the trade in furs, skins, and other products of animals that are not endangered isn't the focus of our campaign.."
But no matter how hard the WWF tries to "greenwash" its support of animal slaughter, its real message rings out loud and clear: Animals are ours to hunt, trap, kill, poison, and use as we see fit.. And although appeals to preserve genetic diversity, ecosystems, and the planet sound good on paper, they mean little if what the WWF is really advocating is more efficient killing fields...
Wolf Hunting!!!
Despite an ongoing international tourist boycott that was called in response to the wolf "control" program in Alaska, in which at least 100 wolves have been shot as of March 2004, the WWF is promoting several trips to Alaska throughout June, July, and August 2004 as part of "WWF Travel," an "ecotourism" program.. When asked why the WWF was sending its members to Alaska, effectively undermining efforts to save wolves in the state, the WWF travel desk representative stated that the WWF did not consider the matter of wolf-killing a priority..
Please write to the WWF and express your opposition to its involvement in the slaughter of millions of animals in laboratories. . Let the WWF know that you contribute only to organizations that oppose outdated animal-poisoning tests and that there is no such thing as conservation through killing..
James P Leape, Director General WWF-International
Ave du Mont-Blanc
1196 Gland
Fax: 41 22 364 5468
E-Mail: [email protected] org
Carter S Roberts, President and CEO WWF-US
1250 24th St NW
Washington, DC 20037
Fax: 202- 778-9637
E-Mail: patricia.. [email protected] . org
MJ Russill, President and CEO... WWF-Canada
245 Eglinton Ave E, Ste 410
Toronto, ON M4P 3J1
Fax: 416-489-3611. ..
E-Mail: [email protected] org...
Elizabeth Salter Green, Head...
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Boulder grad Riley Grabau is back in town tonight, coming with the Wyoming men's basketball squad that also features George Washington's Tyrone Marshall.
Grabau, a guard, has played in all eight games this season, hitting on 3-of-9 field goals, though he's 0-of-6 from 3-point — a rarity, for those who watched the All-Colorado player of the year in last season's state tournament. He also has eight assists and six rebounds.
"I feel excited to go back home and see the family," Grabau told the Boulder Daily Camera. "I'm a little nervous."


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Another protest against Sheriff Joe fails
Supporters of Arpaio, governor outnumber demonstrators 50-1
A protest against Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Gov. Jan Brewer organized by transplanted attorney-activist Randy Parraz yielded exactly one protestor today as the state legislature met in Phoenix to begin its 2012 regular session.
"Join Citizens for a Better Arizona as we send a message to our Governor and legislators that the Russell Pearce brand of divisive and extremist politics is over," Parraz posted on his Facebook page, calling for protestors to join him at the state capitol Monday morning. Pearce was the state Senate president and Arpaio ally on immigration recalled last year in a campaign led by Parraz.
Observers on the scene reported Parraz's group had a permit to assemble, and some 50 Arizona State Police were there.
The lone Parraz supporter, however, was outnumbered by some 50 counter-protesters carrying signs in favor of Arpaio and Brewer, including several who identified themselves as tea party members and a Hispanic supporter of legal immigration.
Arpaio, under fire for a Justice Department report claiming his office discriminates against Hispanics, plans to release results next month of his Cold Case Posse's investigation of Barack Obama's eligibility for Arizona's 2012 ballot.
Arthur Olibas, who identified himself as a "Latino legal immigrant tea party patriot," told WND he supported Arpaio because, "He's the only one who has the courage to enforce the laws of Arizona and the Constitution of the United States."
WND previously reported that Parraz is a leftist political activist now living in Arizona who has made his career applying Saul Alinsky "community organizer" skills. Parraz has worked with radical leftist "progressive" movements in the United States and Canada, including staff jobs with the AFL-CIO nationally and as Arizona state director.
After ousting Pearce – who championed the passage of Arizona's tough immigration bill, SB 1070 –Parraz has set his sites on Arpaio and Brewer, who both favor strict enforcement of Arizona and U.S. immigration laws.
Parraz is operating under the auspices of Citizens for a Better Arizona, a 501(c)4 organization that appears to be violating IRS rules by engaging in partisan political campaigns.
Parraz and his Citizens for a Better Arizona have announced their intention to pressure the upcoming Jan. 11 meeting of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to place the group's complaints against Arpaio on the agenda. Parraz wants to advance a motion requiring the board to ask for Arpaio's resignation.
WND has also reported Parraz and a group of ACORN activists were arrested in 2008 for disrupting a meeting of the Maricopa supervisors.
Professional political agitator
Parraz has a protest record stretching back to his days in the 1990s as a graduate student at Harvard and a law student at the University of California at Berkeley.
The first published report WND can find documenting his political activism was a protest of about 150 students and faculties and administrators he organized as a graduate student at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, reported by the Harvard Crimson on March 9, 1994.
According to the Crimson, the rally was attended by a coalition of Kennedy School student groups, including the Black Caucus, the Latino Caucus, the Women's Caucus and the Asian Caucus, demanding the Kennedy School meet the Department of Labor's recommended diversity levels by hiring more women and minority faculty.
Parraz next surfaced as the president of a Latino Civil Rights Task Force, a group the Washington Post reported on Jan. 23, 1997, was created to field complaints from Latinos and promote Latino concerns to city officials in response to unrest in May 1991 by Central Americans in Mount Pleasant, a neighborhood in the District of Columbia.
The Washington Post article described Parraz as "a self-confident, articulate Mexican American labor union organizer from California."
WND has reported Parraz, working as an AFL-CIO organizer, brought Canadian protestors through Vancouver, Canada, to participate in the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in which an estimated 40,000 protesters engaged in street violence, which in protest lore was subsequently tagged as the "Battle of Seattle."
The Orange County Register also reported on Dec. 8, 2001, that Parraz was arrested after protesters he organized to encourage national hotel chains to employ more Hispanics locally gathered in the middle of an intersection, disrupted traffic and refused to disperse as ordered by police.
Leftist blogger Bob Lord termed Parraz "a True Progressive Hero" in a DailyKos.com piece on Nov. 9, 2011, thanking Parraz for having "essentially dedicated his life to the cause [of recalling Pearce] for the better part of a year." Parraz supported Lord's candidacy as a Democrat for U.S. Congress in Arizona's third congressional district.


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Free People November 2012 Lookbook (Pictures)
Free People Sets the Stage For Impeccably Cool Holiday Style
Free People Sets the Stage For Impeccably Cool Holiday Style
Free People's latest lookbook fare, titled Stage Right, is just another excuse to keep the holiday styling inspiration at an all-time (dreamy) high, and we're more than OK with that. Here's the thing: we've come to expect nothing less than effortlessly cool combos from the bohemian-luxe brand, which regularly makes us wish we layered up in flowy maxi dresses, oversize cardigans, fringed skirts, and wool fedoras. This time around, though, Free People is doing what it does best — juxtaposing ultrafeminine silhouettes with a tougher tomboy attitude — with a timely holiday slant. And, without spoiling the prettiness ahead, let's just say, you'll be prepped with the essentials for any gorgeous cocktail party. Think metallics, lace, sequins, floral appliqué, and soft open-knit weave details. Below, find our top three picks — culled straight from the November lookbook — with our own styling tips, then click through for the rest.
- How fresh is this delicate white lace top, accented with black suspenders? It's a playful juxtaposition of sweet and airy (done the wintry way, of course) with just a hint of a tough-girl vibe. To us, this is Free People at its core, pretty and just a little undone. Our styling suggestion? Just add cropped black trousers and a point-toe pump.
- We're a little bit obsessed with the brand's just-debuted FP shoe collection, and these sexy lace-up moto boots are the cool-girl offset to your more festive feminine pieces. Pair these boots with a looser-fighting midi-length skirt and chunky bobbled knit sweater, or wear them over dark skinny jeans.
- Brave enough to don gold embellished pants? Then try on this statement-making pair if you dare. All you'll need to complete the look are a simple silky blouse and ankle-strap pumps.
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Encyclopedia Forensica
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Revision as of 03:56, 12 September 2013 by Dcowen (Talk | contribs) (An encyclopedia of computer forensic artifacts)
Encyclopedia is defined as - An encyclopedia is a type of reference work – a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge (Wikipedia). This page and its linked contents will attempt to divide into sections the known corpus of computer forensic knowledge in regards to operating system artifacts. Once competed, and likely during, the goal of this project is to define what is known and what is still unknown so that we can begin to map out those unknown areas for future research.


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Film Screening at The Empty Quarter - The Americanization of Emily
The Americanization of Emily will be screened at The Empty Quarter in Dubai this Friday, 25th March. The film screening is part Known as a great anti-war film, seems like a fitting movie to wac
The film is part of the The Embedded Eye film series that the gallery is screening in conjunction with its latest exhibition, The Spectacle of War. The Americanization of Emily is known as one of the great anti-war movies and although made in 1964, it is just as relevant today. Looking at the absurdities of war with some great lines, I am really looking forward to this. Read this review by Rick Gee if you need further convincing to watch this film.
I love this quote form the film said by Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison that I found on IMDB
I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe. In that order. I want to know what I am, not what I should be.
In wartime London just before D-Day, Lieut. Comdr. Charlie Madison (James Garner), an aide to eccentric Rear Admiral Jessup (Melvyn Douglas), specializes in supplying the top Navy officers with luxuries such as party girls. Madison is an exponent of cowardice as a virtue because he believes reverence of heroism promotes war. He falls in love with Emily Barham (Julie Andres), his British motorpool driver, a young woman who has lost her husband and brother in the war. Admiral Jessup is obsessed with the idea that the Army has a better image than the Navy and is determined that the first dead man on Omaha Beach on D-Day be a sailor. Jessup orders Madison to photograph the D-Day landing, and, despite his protests which alienate Emily, Madison is forced at gunpoint to be the first man to land on Omaha Beach. Running from the bombs, Madison trips a land mine and is reported to be the first man killed in the invasion. Photographs of his supposedly dead body appear in the newspapers, and he becomes a hero, but later he is found alive. Admiral Jessup then organizes a hero's welcome for Madison, but he threatens to confess the true story of his cowardice to the press. Emily, in a reversal of sentiment, promises to marry him if he will keep his secret, and Madison agrees to remain quiet. (Synopsis via TCM.com)
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Date and time: Friday, 25th March at 8pm
Venue: The Empty Quarter, DIFC, Gate Village, Building 2
Phone: +971 4 323 1210
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CSC pursues the development of systems and procedures which will improve the coordination and dissemination of information relevant to the construction process.
In addition to the development of industry related publications, CSC seeks to enhance the quality of the design and management aspects of construction activity. The enhancement is by way of education and professional development and certification programs, believing that by so doing CSC can best contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the industry as a whole
CSC provides a means by which you can continue to learn and develop your skills as well as share your own expertise and experience with others through education courses namely: Principles of Construction Documentation; Specifier Course; Technical Representative; and Construction Contract Administration. CSC courses are open to all individuals in the construction industry.
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A fourteenth excerpt from the recently released book published by Island Press called Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities. In this post, we look at some cities who have added parkland by extending daylight hours using lighted fields, synthetic turf, and video cameras.
If not enough parkland can be amassed in dense cities by using the three physical dimensions, there is always a fourth dimension: time.
Cities are finding that, through the use of technology, the time that parks are available to the citizenry can be extended. For sports and other recreational activities, buying time can literally be the equivalent of buying land.
The two principal time-extending approaches utilize sports field lights and artificial playing surfaces (synthetic turf). Both are growing in importance in crowded environments.
Lighting has the longer history, and most cities already have numerous lit facilities, including tennis and basketball courts and baseball, football, and soccer fields. Oakland has seventeen lit fields and a policy that all new fields will include lights. Atlanta has forty-four. Miami, which has an extreme park shortage plus a 365-days-per-year playing season (and which, during the summer, is much more pleasant at night) illuminates almost everything: twenty-six baseball diamonds; eleven soccer, six football, and five combination fields; and even one cricket pitch. On the other end of the climate spectrum, Minneapolis lights a golf course for nighttime cross-country skiing in the snows of winter.
Because of lights, usable playing time can be extended by about two hours in the height of summer and up to five hours in the depth of winter. (Most park agencies have an outdoor nighttime sports curfew of 10:00 or 10:30 p.m.) Even ruling out the very coldest months, the average city might pick up almost 1,000 hours of extra sports playing time for every lit field.
And, despite the energy crunch, night lighting is still economical in comparison to land acquisition–at least wherever land is expensive. Installing an illumination system on a field costs about $150,000 (or half that for tennis or basketball), to which must be added an hourly operating cost from about $5 to $20, depending on electricity rates in each city. Most cities tend to reserve the lit fields for permitted high school and league competitions, although they allow pick-up games at other times. Some allow free use, others don't. Miami charges $10 per hour, Atlanta has a sliding scale all the way up to $71 per hour, depending whether teams are nonprofit and whether they are composed of city or non-city residents. The lights have a variety of operating systems, from old-fashioned manual control by onsite custodians to the latest in cellphone-activated, passcode-protected remote electronic management.
Lights can be controversial with neighbors, depending on the location of the park and layout of the fields. However, new technology seems to be helping there, too, thanks to the invention of better methods to focus the beam and reduce ambient light and glare. Fortunately, on this score there are no trade-offs: the less light "spillage," the less the operating costs. A major sports illumination company, Musco Lighting, claims that it can cut both hourly costs and unwanted glare by 50 percent simply through the use of better designed luminaires, the bonnets that direct the light onto fields and away from others' eyes. (Reducing the cost means less electricity used and less pollution generated, although lights, of course, do have a somewhat negative environmental impact.) There are still issues of activity, noise, cars, and ambient nighttime light, but for every complainant, someone else approves of a park that is busy and activated in the evening and that does not serve as a dark gathering place for clandestine, antisocial uses.
Lighting can also extend the hours for other parkland uses beyond traditional competitive sports on fields. The Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis and the Lieberman Exercise Trail in Houston's Memorial Park are both lighted for bicycling and running, and both facilities are approaching round-the-clock use — the Midtown Greenway because it gets lots of purposeful transportation use, and the Lieberman Trail because parking at Memorial Park is so difficult that runners start showing up at 4:30 a.m. just to get a space.
Synthetic turf is a much newer development that can also dramatically increase a park field's usable hours. This is not "astroturf," the first-generation artificial material that was created to deal with the problem that grass wouldn't grow in the domed baseball stadium built for the Houston Astros in 1965. Early products were more rug-like and drew complaints for injuries, ambient temperature, ball handling, and water runoff. Several technological generations later, current synthetics come much closer to mimicking real grass, cause far fewer athletic injuries than older versions, and seem to be strongly supported by coaches, players, and park department officials. By allowing a field to be played upon continuously without any rest, artifical turf extends playing hours on a morning-to-night basis as well as month-to-month.
"Our natural grass fields are so old and so heavily used that in many places they've turned to bare dirt," explained Mark Oliver, special assistant to the director of the Oakland Department of Parks and Recreation. "In dry weather that means dust, in wet weather it means mud." Artificial turf has no such limitation. "We can use them twelve months a year," Oliver said.
In Boston, with cold and snow sometimes keeping players out of parks in the depth of winter, the season for artificial turf is a bit shorter–generally March through December. But again it is significantly longer than with grass. "Up here, grass fields are unplayable in the spring," said Stanley Ivan, director of design and construction with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. "March and even April are very iffy for us with the wet weather."
The hour-by-hour use is also extended.
"We are real happy with the FieldTurf as it is virtually maintenance-free," said City of Miami Park Manager Jose Leiva. "The high schools love it and we increased our number of games we can hold on the turf by almost four times compared to what we were able to accommodate with natural grass, which is incredible."
The downside is that synthetic turf is expensive–as much as $1.5 million per field, counting the price of preparation, materials, and installation. On the other hand, once the initial cost is covered, day-to-day maintenance is easier and cheaper. There is no mowing, no use of fertilizers or herbicides, and no irrigation (although the fields do need occasional hosing down and washing). Healthwise, the new technology seems to be a trade-off: more injuries due to foot-twisting, fewer due to falling into holes; more injuries from "turf burn," fewer from concussions. As for its environmental ramifications, the verdict is still out. The latest synthetics are designed to allow much rainwater to percolate through the matting to the ground underneath, although they are probably not quite as pervious as natural lawns. Not needing fertilizer and herbicides is a major bonus for clean water and human health; on the other hand, the dust given off by embedded pulverized rubber granules, or by painted nylon fibers, may be harmful to users, and several state health departments have been monitoring the air around some of these fields.
Another technology that is helping to extend the hours of park use, both daytime and evening, is the video camera. Obviously, cameras in parks are not an ideal solution, but their presence does help people feel more secure in rougher neighborhoods, and anything that keeps parks more populated begins a virtuous cycle of use and safety. In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, police credit the installation of cameras (plus a partial park renovation) with reducing drug dealing and crime and bringing more of the community into the famous and iconic park.
Almost every other aspect of city life is moving toward a "24/7" schedule, so it is not surprising that recreation and park use is, too (although we will probably never again see a time when thousands of residents grab pillows and sheets to sleep out in city parks on hot summer nights, as they did in the 1930s, and as was portrayed in the movie Avalon). The scarcity of land and facilities inexorably pushes park managers to maximize the efficiency with which scarce resources can be used, and adding hours to the day, and days to the year, is another way to please the crowds.
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PLEASANT HILL — Officials are hoping a $5,000 reward will entice a witness to come forward in the case of a Diablo Valley College police services officer who was injured by an unknown assailant while on duty.
Trina Gaines, a five-year veteran of the department, was posted near a parking lot off Golf Club Road around 9 a.m. Dec. 3 when she was suddenly struck in the face with a small metallic object, according to Timothy Leong, spokesman for the Contra Costa Community College District. She fell to the ground and was bleeding from the face, Leong added.
Pleasant Hill police responded and called an ambulance, which took Gaines to a hospital in Walnut Creek. She is recovering at home and is still off-duty, Leong said.
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Link is a minor character in Tron: Uprising. He is an employee at Able's garage. He is extremely mild-mannered and a very slow thinker, but is nonetheless a competent mechanic.
Link, who coveted the Light Roadster, was easily persuaded by Pavel to falsely testify that Hopper was the Renegade in The Reward, receiving the car in exchange.
As Link drove the Light Roadster, the Renegade appeared in the back seat. Outside the City, Beck, still in his Renegade disguise, attempted to convince Link to help him prove that the Occupation was arresting innocent programs, but Link had trouble understanding the plan, and kept asking for more explanations until Beck was exasperated. Finally, Beck heard that his friends were in danger, and drove back to town alone in the Light Roadster, leaving Link frantically shouting that he should drive carefully to avoid damaging it.
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