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Before this turns into a micturation match, I thought I should post
some general information about "Good" versus "Bad" lighting.

Good lighting is lighting that puts the light on the ground where people
need it to see.  I doesn't shine light into the sky, or onto the sides
of buildings, or into neighbors yards and bedroom windows.  And, it
certainly doesn't shine light in people's eyes.  Shining a light in your
eyes helps you see the light, but it prevents you from seeing much else.

There is a lot of bad lighting out there.  Athletic fields, shopping
malls, ATM machines, goose-neck street lamps.  They do little to help
seeing.  Bad lighting creates glare and sharp shadows where people can
hide.  It is questionable that it does much to reduce crime, and they
make our cities look like the cheepest red light district in Nevada.

Finally, all of this bad lighting cost us money.  The International
Darksky Association estimates this country spends about 2 billion
dollars a year lighting up the undersides of birds and planes.  Their
web (http://www.darksky.org/~ida/) page contains examples of good and
bad lighting, and publications on lighting and safety.

Mike

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Michael D. Sofka                  sofkam@rpi.edu
CIS Sr. Systems Programmer        AFS, e-mail, usenet, ftp, NIS, NTP.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.  http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/