While my efforts
to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director
to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and
to use their power
to make sure that the programs using town - owned
facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced
to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I
returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home
Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents
to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was
to lobby their elected officials
to utilize that power
to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits
to programs that fail
to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
The
team analyzed seven samples taken during the Apollo missions and stored in a NASA curation
facility since
return to Earth, and found amino acids in all of them at very low concentrations (105
to 1,910 parts - per - billion).
In
return for their contributions, investors were
to be issued either Giga Watt tokens that would grant them exclusive rights
to use the company's
facilities rent - free for 50 years, or mining equipment and supplies
to be deployed and set up by the on - site project
team.