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By Peter Rovick Guest Columnist

Stop by the front yard of one home in Wellesley, and you will notice that something is different. There are no sprinklers, and in fact, there is no grass. The front yard at my home at 12 Appleby Road, in the Wellesley Square and Dana Hall areas, consists entirely of carefully planned landscaping, consisting of trees, bushes, and other plants, including ferns.

A local landscaper from Sudbury has helped us to design and implement a low cost, low maintenance front yard that actually saves us money and helps the environment.

Which brings us to the History of Lawns in America.

We didn't always have a love affair with our lawns,'' says this history of lawns. "In fact it wasn't until the industrial revolution that lawns became practical for most Americans. Lawns were seen as a luxury expense for only the wealthy who could afford grounds keepers to maintain the fine bladed plants using scythes. Not everyone wanted cattle or sheep grazing in the front yard to keep the green stuff at a manageable height as did Woodrow Wilson while occupying the White House.

It was not until the Tudor and Elizabethan times that the garden and the lawn became a place to be loved and admired,'' says a Wikipedia entry. "Created as walkways and for play areas, the lawns were not as we envisage them today.In the early 1600s the Jacobean epoch of gardening began. It was during this period that the closely-cut "English" lawn was born. By the end of this period, the English lawn was the envy of even the French; it was also seen as a symbol of status by the gentry.Toward the end of the 19th century, suburbs appeared on the American scene, along with the sprinkler, greatly improved lawn mowers, new ideas about landscaping and a shorter workweek.

A Grass Alternative at 12 Appleby Road: The carefully planned front lawn includes a dogwood, a magnolia, and several pine trees to one side. These are complimented by rhododendrons, holly, small evergreens, and other small bushes bordering the front exterior of the house. Additional ground coverings include ivy, ferns, multiple wildflower perennials, and assorted plants. In sum, these plantings provide shade and a unique defining aesthetic quality to the front yard.

Low Maintenance: A local landscape specialist visits once each spring and autumn to prune, provide minimal amounts of fertilizer, to suggest additional landscaping options, and to help with general maintenance. In the meantime, a layer of mulch (added every two to three years) locks in moisture from the rain, which helps to prevent the need for watering and to inhibit growth of unwanted plants like dandelions.

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Two engineers from Utah have developed a smart new alternative to traditional yard lighting. GlowLytes allow homeowners to change their lights using a smart phone or tablet.

"They operate like normal yard landscape lights most of the time. Then, for a special occasion or holiday they become colorful, glowing lights. It all happens with just a few presses on a smart phone app," explains Josh Leavitt, co-founder of GlowLytes LLC.

The GlowLytes system includes a controller and up to 32 lights. Each light can be adjusted to any shade of any color and conveniently, lights can be controlled individually or as groups. Color configurations can be saved as scenes and recalled later. GlowLytes can be programmed to turn on and off on any schedule.

"The electrical cost savings are big because GlowLytes are almost free to operate. They're only 1 watt per light. Compare that to around 20 watts for traditional yard lights. Traditional landscape lights cost about $15 a month to operate, GlowLytes can reduce that to about $1," Ross Mann another co-founder pointed out.

Production funding for GlowLytes is being raised through crowdfunding site Kickstarter, where backers can order GlowLytes systems. The GlowLytes campaign launched on December 3rd and will run for 45 days. Funding on Kickstarter is all-or-nothing. GlowLytes must meet it's goal of $90,000 by January 17 or they will not receive any funding.

Watch the GlowLytes video on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glowlytes/glowlytes-bring-color-to-your-yard.

Follow @glowlytes on Twitter. For more information, visit http://www.glowlytes.com.

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As we move into December, I ask, Is your landscape ready for the cold season? Although the list could go on with an assortment of things to be done, I offer a final four list. These things should be done before temperatures drop permanently for the winter.

1. Water all your plantings thoroughly.

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Following Auburn's win and Ohio State's loss, the final BCS matchup was met without controversy.

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A collective sense of relief seemed to wash over the college football world around 11:30 p.m. ET on Saturday night, when Michigan State tailback Jeremy Langford broke free for a 26-yard touchdown to ice the Spartans upset of previously unbeaten Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game. It wasn't so much that the Buckeyes lost -- though there are certainly plenty of anti-Ohio State zealots out there who took glee in Urban Meyer's misery -- but that the result spared us the headache of enduring one last BCS uproar.

For all the preemptive worrying and lobbying the past month -- first over the fear of there being too many undefeated teams; then over whether a one-loss SEC champion should potentially leapfrog the undefeated Buckeyes -- the final season of the BCS ended in surprisingly clean fashion. The national championship game pits 13-0 Florida State, this season's most dominant team, against 12-1 Auburn, the nation's hottest squad fresh off back-to-back victories over top-five foes.

"I've been saying all fall, hang on everybody, chill out, it's going to work out," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said on Sunday night. "I wasn't concerned going into this weekend. I just felt like we'd have the two best teams going into Sunday evening."

In fact, after years and years of maddening controversies, the soon-to-be-defunct BCS actually ended its run with universally accepted matchups in four of the last five seasons (Alabama-Texas in 2009, Auburn-Oregon in '10, Notre Dame-Alabama in '12 and Florida State-Auburn in '13). "We've gotten it right way more times than we've created controversy," said Hancock.

Of course, the one exception -- the widely panned LSU-Alabama rematch after the 2011 campaign -- was one of the instigators behind the sport's eventual move to a playoff format.

Which brings us to the irony of 2013. Two teams proved plenty in the final season of the BCS. Four teams, on the other hand, would have been an absolute mess.

BOWL SCHEDULE: Matchups, dates for every 2013-14 college football bowl game

Put yourself in the forthcoming selection committee's shoes. Who do you pick? The final polls and BCS standings are in agreement that the top-four teams, in order, are Florida State, Auburn, Alabama and Michigan State. There's no question, that field would make a lot of sense. The Seminoles and Tigers would be no-brainer selections, while the Crimson Tide were the season-long No. 1 until they lost the Iron Bowl in dramatic, unprecedented fashion. The 12-1 Spartans just knocked off an undefeated team to win the Big Ten.

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Following Auburn's win and Ohio State's loss, the final BCS matchup was met without controversy.

Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

A collective sense of relief seemed to wash over the college football world around 11:30 p.m. ET on Saturday night, when Michigan State tailback Jeremy Langford broke free for a 26-yard touchdown to ice the Spartans upset of previously unbeaten Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game. It wasn't so much that the Buckeyes lost -- though there are certainly plenty of anti-Ohio State zealots out there who took glee in Urban Meyer's misery -- but that the result spared us the headache of enduring one last BCS uproar.

For all the preemptive worrying and lobbying the past month -- first over the fear of there being too many undefeated teams; then over whether a one-loss SEC champion should potentially leapfrog the undefeated Buckeyes -- the final season of the BCS ended in surprisingly clean fashion. The national championship game pits 13-0 Florida State, this season's most dominant team, against 12-1 Auburn, the nation's hottest squad fresh off back-to-back victories over top-five foes.

"I've been saying all fall, hang on everybody, chill out, it's going to work out," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said on Sunday night. "I wasn't concerned going into this weekend. I just felt like we'd have the two best teams going into Sunday evening."

In fact, after years and years of maddening controversies, the soon-to-be-defunct BCS actually ended its run with universally accepted matchups in four of the last five seasons (Alabama-Texas in 2009, Auburn-Oregon in '10, Notre Dame-Alabama in '12 and Florida State-Auburn in '13). "We've gotten it right way more times than we've created controversy," said Hancock.

Of course, the one exception -- the widely panned LSU-Alabama rematch after the 2011 campaign -- was one of the instigators behind the sport's eventual move to a playoff format.

Which brings us to the irony of 2013. Two teams proved plenty in the final season of the BCS. Four teams, on the other hand, would have been an absolute mess.

BOWL SCHEDULE: Matchups, dates for every 2013-14 college football bowl game

Put yourself in the forthcoming selection committee's shoes. Who do you pick? The final polls and BCS standings are in agreement that the top-four teams, in order, are Florida State, Auburn, Alabama and Michigan State. There's no question, that field would make a lot of sense. The Seminoles and Tigers would be no-brainer selections, while the Crimson Tide were the season-long No. 1 until they lost the Iron Bowl in dramatic, unprecedented fashion. The 12-1 Spartans just knocked off an undefeated team to win the Big Ten.

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BERKELEY

Sculptor Bruce Beasley, with his piece Rondo II, before Mondays ceremony formally accepting the piece as a gift to BAM/PFA. (NewsCenter photo by Peg Skorpinski)

A cold winter wind couldnt defeat the warm feelings Monday afternoon as sculptor and alumnus Bruce Beasleys Rondo II sculpture was formally accepted as a permanent part of the UC Berkeley landscape.

Im thrilled its going to stay here, said Beasley, a 1962 graduate of world renown whos works are in museums worldwide. It feels like it belongs here.

Here is in the round pool at the center of the Mining Circle in front of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, where the sculpture was installed early in the summer, one of five from Beasleys Rondo series that the artist brought to campus as an outdoor gallery show.

Invisible underwater struts hold the sculpture just at the water level, giving its intertwined stainless steel rings the appearance of dancing on the surface.

Physics professor Frances Hellman was so taken with the Mining Circle sculpture that she and her husband, engineer and artist Warren Breslau, made a gift of it to the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.

We have public art, but not enough of it, said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer in formally accepting the gift Monday. So much of what we do on a university campus is a matter of leading with our minds; art makes us lead with our feelings, and then ask: Why?

Breslauer announced that the sculpture was being dedicated to the late Donald Glaser, who joined Berkeleys physics department as a professor in 1959 and won the Nobel Prize for his advances in particle-physics research. Glasers widow, Lynn, was on hand for the ceremony. Beasley was close to Glaser, Breslauer said.

Bruce Beasley with Lynn Glaser, widow of the late Berkeley physicist Donald Glaser, to whom the sculpture is dedicated. (NewsCenter photo by Peg Skorpinski)

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Its the awe-inspiring pride of the United States and it harbors a deadly power that could kill us all.

Yellowstone National Park is pristine wilderness, full of scenic landscape and iconic hot-pools and geysers that attract tens of thousands of visitors every year.

But its what lies beneath that has scientists scurrying.

Weve long known that Yellowstone is merely the skin on top of a supervolcano a giant pool of magma sitting just under the Earths surface.

Exactly how giant has been the subject of much speculation.

Until now.

A team from the University of Utah have told the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco that Yellowstones magama chamber is 2.5 times larger than previously thought.

It is an underground cavern measuring some 55 miles by 20 miles and containing between 125 and 185 billion cubic miles of molten rock.

If it blows it will wipe out America and have enormous impacts on the rest of the world.

The university researchers described their discovery as astounding.

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All these have long made the place a popular tourist destination, where nature lovers can feast their senses.

A recent draft version of the Special Area Plan (SAP), currently on display for public feedback, suggests that a coming change may or may not significantly alter the hill's landscape.

Chief among the SAP is the proposed cable car link which, as Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng reportedly said, will be from the Penang Municipal Park to the hill and possibly onwards to Teluk Bahang.

Penang Hill residents and vendors are a tad apprehensive and cautious over the plan which, in the words of one vendor, may end up being more of a hindrance than a benefit, with issues of traffic and over-population.

Several environmental interest groups, like the Malaysian Nature Society Penang chapter and the vocal Citizen Awareness Chant Group, have also expressed their concerns and objections over the proposed plan.

Even those in favour of the plan are cautious towards it, and are calling on the authorities to minimise the damage to the environment should the plan take off.

Such a call is not at all premature, as the hill's main attraction is nature, and losing that means pretty much nothing left for the hill.

While the plan may be well intended to boost tourism, perhaps it would be best for the relevant authorities to properly assess the need for such a facility, since there is already an existing train ride up and down the hill, in addition to the access road via the Botanic Gardens.

The authorities would also have to be mindful of the fact that a similar proposal was scrapped in the early 1990s. That said, it would also be imperative to note that these are, indeed, early days, and things are not yet set in stone.

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- Multiple industry firsts advances direct manufacturing landscape - Brings functional, vibrant, precision full-color plastic 3D printer - Delivers simultaneous multi-materials composite 3D printer - Enables high volume manufacturing with compact SLS printer - Redefines Fab-grade Performance with ProX 950 SLA 3D printer

ROCK HILL, S.C. and FRANKFURT, Germany - 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) today announced 3DPRINTING 2.0 anchored by multiple groundbreaking new 3D printing and scanning products that it is showcasing at EuroMold 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany, December 3 - 6, 2013 at the Frankfurt Messe. 3DS is exhibiting its new lineup of professional products at stand E68 and its extensive consumer products at stand B79, both located in hall 11.

Throughout this week the company is revealing a dozen new products that catapult its entire portfolio of design-to-manufacturing solutions forward, substantially advancing the 3D printing landscape.

"The cutting edge products we are launching today provide enormous value to our design and manufacturing customers, leapfrogs competitors and extends our first mover advantage in certain key verticals," said Avi Reichental, President and CEO of 3D Systems. "The exponential speed, size and capacity gains we are delivering together with advanced material options and new scan-to-design and inspection tools, defines the very essence of 3DPRINTING 2.0 and accelerates our customers' ability to manufacture the future "

3DS is showcasing 3DPRINTING 2.0, represented by its entire next generation 3D printing and scanning products and services at stand E68:

First and only full-color plastic 3D printer -- Immediate availability of the ProJet 4500 3D printer, the first and only continuous tone full-color plastic 3D printer available today. This category-defining 3D printer delivers ready-to-use vibrant, full-color durable plastic parts straight out of the printer for a wide range of modeling, functional prototyping and real-use products. The ProJet 4500 builds with a new class of sustainable VisiJet C4 Spectrum materials. This revolutionary printer delivers both flexible and strong parts, pixel by pixel, straight out of the printer, in high resolution CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) color with a superior surface finish.

High performance simultaneous multi-materials composite printing -- Immediate availability of the ProJet 5500X, a ground breaking multi-material 3D printer that delivers the highest quality, most accurate and toughest multi-material composites. The ProJet 5500X simultaneously prints and fuses together flexible and rigid material composites layer by layer at the pixel level in a variety of colors and shades including opaque, clear, black or white and numerous shades of gray. 3DS' printed multi-material composites result in stunningly realistic, functional, large and small prototypes and products for a wide range of manufacturers, designers and engineers.

Largest format production platform -- Immediate availability of the ProX 950 SLA 3D printer, the largest-format, highest-speed, greatest accuracy and greenest 3D printer available today. Utilizing 3D Systems' stereolithography technology, the ProX 950 is equipped with 3DS' newest PolyRay print head technology that can manufacture real parts at up to 10 times the speed of other 3D printers, drawing on the widest choice of proven high-performance engineered materials that are qualified for the most demanding aerospace, medical device and industrial use-cases.

High-volume functional parts manufacturing -- Immediate availability of the ProX 500 SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) 3D printer that delivers superior parts with greater precision, durability and quality in a compact production-grade system that is easy to own and economical to use. Designed for the manufacturing floor, the ProX 500 produces ready-to-use functional parts and complete assemblies for a variety of aerospace, automotive, patient specific medical devices, fashion products and mobile devices use cases. The ProX 500 is productive, reliably delivering parts with exceptional mechanical properties at production rates that are 7 times faster than comparable technologies. The compact ProX printer was developed in tandem with the revolutionary new DuraForm ProX material to produce smoother wall surfaces and injection molding-like part quality.

Industrial-grade direct metal printing -- Immediate availability of the ProX 300 direct metal printer, the only industrial grade direct metal platform that was specifically designed for the most demand manufacturing floor conditions, delivering high density, metal printed parts from a large choice of materials and to very accurate precision. The ProX 300 is the first Phenix system to be rebranded as part of 3DS' rapidly expanding DDMS 3D printers family. The company is also immediately beginning to ship its rebranded ProX 100 and ProX 200 DMS 3D printers at EuroMold.

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Lucid Stead

Imagine for a moment, a serene destination encased in and exuding light from every surface; a house that blends into the landscape seamlessly. The visuals of the house transform with the changing light of day and night, and this place seems to grow and modify with every new breath of air, with every new phase of the sun and moon. The quiet desert winds are the only soundtrack to this otherworldy experience . . . this is not just a place in your imagination, a getaway for your psyche, this is real, this is here in our beloved Inland Empire. This is Lucid Stead.

Artist Phillip K. Smith III is a desert native who hails from the Palm Springs area and still resides there today. However, with Lucid Steads nine-year journey into existence, Smith has been maintaining a residence just down the road and over the hill from Lucid Stead in Joshua Tree, to manage a hub for it, as well as spend as much close time with the project as possible. Phillip K. Smith III received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, a notorious and highly regarded institution. He often draws inspiration from the Californias Light and Space movement, as well as minimalist design and deconstructivism. Smiths innovation and exploration of new technologies keeps these ideologies current. He was honored as the 2010 Artist in Residence at the Palm Springs Art Museum and was included in the exhibition, Smooth Operations: Substance and Surface in Southern California Art, alongside Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, DeWain Valentine and Craig Kauffman at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, where he will have a solo show in January 2014.

Lucid Stead is truly a collaboration with the desert, and with the history of the area. Smith lives and breathes the desert, and that sense is truly felt in this contemporary, experimental homestead-art-piece. Driving around the Joshua Tree area, its not uncommon to stumble upon the sights of these tiny little abandoned shacks known as Jackrabbit Homesteads, strewn across the quiet landscape. Many artists find solace and inspiration in these homesteads, including Smith. After nine years of sitting with this land and this one shack of a house, Smith let the land and house speak to him and dictate the creativity of the property.

When people drive up to the house, the first thing they noticethat changes the whole experienceis the silence. The land out in Joshua Tree just has a different pulse than other places. It operates on a different timeline and a different world view. Out here at Lucid Stead, light and shadows interact with the sun. The house has become a part of the desert, a part of the land as it interacts with the light, the reflection, the landscape.

A lot of my work is about merging these highly precise developments, Smith says, like these rectangles, next to something thats highly organic, you know, something that falls through the fingers of your hands, you cant necessarily hold onto it. So I love that theres these very crisp visions pushed right up against the dry wood. The whole shack is an existing homestead shack, its been here for probably 70 years.

The house exists as it always had, the same wood, the same door frame, window frames and rooftop. Smith did not replace anything in the project, he only pulled away material and added light and reflection. It is covered in panels of mirrorin the daylight, the house seems to merge into the land, both reflecting itself and the desert it so generously adores. At night, though, its a whole different experience.

At night, its about projected light. The four windows and the doorway turn into fields of color, Smith explains. White light emanates from the inside out . . . and ultimately that last element was change. You know, this desert up here moves at an entirely different pace of change.

The nighttime lighting is almost like a psychedelic experience to say the least, a kind of performance. The moon and stars light up the ground, theyre so bright in this unpolluted sky, while the homestead performs its own little ritualistic celebratory dance of light. The colors move and shift around the house in a cyclical manner, but at a slow and steady pace thats hard to even notice. Its beautiful and peacefully satisfying to stand in its presence. With the quiet surrounding of Joshua Trees outer limits, with the peaceful slow-moving colors of Lucid Stead, night becomes the time for Lucid Stead to sing its quiet light song, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, but extremely vocal in its own way. The more time you spend with it, the more things reveal themselves, Smith says.

Smiths past work touches on similar styles, concepts and issues. His intense perfectionism is a gorgeous gift in his art practice. Giant, bright and mind-melding installations and sculptural experiences transform spaces, collections, whole buildings even. His love for the Light and Space movement is very apparent, but he takes that style to another level. Often working with light and experience, it seems his real passion is the pure experienceno words, no figures, no suggestions. Abstraction and creation based on the momentary whole body experience of art is a clear achievement for Smiths worktruly masterful.

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