Designed specifically for interior sports and civic arenas, the ArenaLED produces optimal television and live audience viewing, as well as low-glare light for player comfort. The individually engineered LED optics of the ArenaLED provide the highest level of uniformity and distribution to playing surfaces and minimizes wasted angles of light typically emitted by traditional sources.

Unlike current sports arena lighting fixtures that require motorized shade options for the instant blackout effect, LED is a solid-state lighting solution that delivers immediate on/off capabilities. This eliminates both the uncertainty and maintenance of the shades for halftime events, theatrical effects for player introductions, or other venue shows.

Delivering 40,000 lumens at 92+ lumens per watt, the ArenaLED provides consistent and reliable light for a calculated 100,000 hours. With a total system wattage of 415W, the fixtures extruded, finned housing design allows for optimal heat dissipation and a remote driver enclosure offers increased thermal control and ease of maintenance. Additionally, the single piece aluminum housing is gasketed for dust and moisture resistance.

With the ArenaLED, energy consumption decreases while cost savings go through the roof. In a 10,000 seat arena, the typical lighting system consists of 70 1,000W HID fixtures. If replaced with the same number of 415W ArenaLED fixtures, there will be a 60% reduction in kW consumption and an annual savings of up to $18,000 (based on $0.10KWH).

The ArenaLED Series is also eligible for Hubbell Lightings innovative Cash Flow Positive program, which supplies funding opportunities for sports relighting projects. For information on financing options that keep dollars in your pocket, please visit: http://www.hubbelllighting.com/resources/financing/.

To learn more about Sportsliter Solutions ArenaLED Series, please visit http://www.sportslighting.com/.

About Hubbell Lighting Hubbell Lighting is one of the largest lighting fixture manufacturers in North America. The company provides a full range of indoor and outdoor lighting products serving the commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential markets. Hubbell Lighting brands include Alera Lighting, Architectural Area Lighting, Beacon Products, Columbia Lighting, Compass Products, Devine Lighting, Dual-Lite, HomeStyle Lighting, Hubbell Building Automation, Hubbell Industrial Lighting, Hubbell Outdoor Lighting, Kim Lighting, Kurt Versen, Prescolite, Progress Lighting, Security Lighting, Spaulding Lighting, Sportsliter Solutions, Sterner Lighting Systems, Thomasville Lighting, and Whiteway. Hubbell Lighting: one name, distinctive brands, limitless lighting possibilities. For additional information, please visit http://www.hubbelllighting.com and follow Hubbell Lighting on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

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DARTMOUTH UMass Dartmouth's Claire T. Carney Library architects were recently presented with a series of awards at design ceremonies for their work on the three-year, $48 million renovation project.

DesignLAB architects were winners in the education category at the 34th Annual Interior Awards, hosted by Contract Magazine. At the BSA Design awards, designLAB took home two awards: the Citation for Transformative Addition to an Existing Building and, with Austin Architects, received the Hobson award, which is the highest level of overall award given.

The revamped library refocuses on a broader understanding of the needs of students and the library itself - keeping the books and periodicals, but also including new computers and technology, as well as places to study, meet, and relax.

The renovation and addition has been recognized in prominent architecture and design publications, including American Libraries, Contract Magazine, Architectural Record, Metropolis, and American Architects Building of the Week.

Paul Rudolph, the original architect of the campus, was one of the leading architects in America in the 1950s and 60s. He designed UMass Dartmouth with a library at the very center of campus, which was in line with his overall vision of creating an academic utopia. The campus design was considered ground-breaking in its day and its spirit lives on in the reimagined Claire T. Carney Library.

The library houses computer labs, study spaces, lecture halls, conference rooms, the Congressman Barney Frank Collection, a student veterans reading room, the Grand Reading Room, and the very popular Living Room, which, like many spaces within the library, serves as an academic and social gathering place.

The renovation of the Claire T. Carney Library is part of a series of recent investments aimed at expanding opportunity for UMass Dartmouth students and faculty. Completed projects include the new and revamped Fitness Center, the Hall-Hildreth IDEAStudio, and the College of Nursing's Elisabeth A. Pennington Simulation Laboratory.

The Massachusetts Accelerator for Biomanufacturing is scheduled to open in the coming weeks. In October of this year, Governor Deval Patrick announced funding for a new academic building at UMass Dartmouth that will support the campus's growing enrollment. In addition, there are plans for expansion of the Charlton College of Business and the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST).

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When they moved to the Heights in 2012, Jeff and Blair Ainsworth were drawn to the charm, centralized location and sense of community.

After purchasing their home at 718 E. Ninth St., the couple started an eight-month renovation that transformed their 1920s two-bedroom, one-bath bungalow, adding a bedroom, bathroom, 10-foot ceilings, family room and an office that doubles as a playroom for their young daughter.

"We wanted to show people you could take a small house and make it livable and functional for a larger family," Jeff Ainsworth said. "We wanted to make sure it was a place we could live in for the next 10 years."

The Ainsworths' home will be one of six in this year's Houston Heights Association Spring Home & Garden Tour.

The tour will kick off with the 20th annual Candlelight Dinner and Auction on April 4. The tour, scheduled for noon to 6 p.m. April 5-6, will showcase a variety of traditional and contemporary homes.

The other homes of the tour are as follows:

The "vintage modern" home of Dr. James Flowers and Michael Beard at 401 W. Ninth St. is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1928, the red-brick building served as a neighborhood grocery store.

The 409 W. Eighth St. home of architect Palmer Schooley and his wife Mary has been redesigned to be modern but also blend with the neighborhood. The home has a solar porch at the entry and large garden in the back.

Bobbie Knox Echard's home at 1005 Oxford is a cottage built in 1896 that has undergone major renovations and in 2012 received a community improvement award for residential restoration from the Houston Heights Association.

Susan and Jeffrey Bell's home at 1448 Height Blvd. is known as "the house with the blue gate." Built in 1912, the two-story home was updated in 1993 and 1998 and has a wrap-around porch. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Homes.

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Joel Goyette and Margaret Cooley walked into the open house for a two-bedroom 1920s Craftsman in Berkeley, California, and knew theyd found their dream house. So did 10 other couples.

Having lost out in two bidding wars, the couple decided to try to connect with the sellers over more than money. Neighbors had told them about all the restoration work the owners had done, including five weekends stripping interior doors down to old-growth Douglas fir. They learned how close-knit the neighborhood was, with "meals shared, tools borrowed" and how "people overall looked after each other," says Goyette.

So when they sent the sellers their bid, they included a two-page personal letter. They wrote about how much they appreciated the home's character and the hard work the sellers had put into it, that it would be their first home, and how much they valued being part of a close community. Since Goyette had made a foodie connection with the sellers when they saw him ogling a bookshelf of cookbooks, "we couldn't resist sharing our plans to construct a masonry grill in the backyard and build a thriving social community with friends and neighbors," he says.

The couple raised their offer by $25,000 during the ensuing bidding war. It wasnt the highest bid, but it was the winning one. We were told that our letter made a big difference. The sellers felt a connection to us, says Goyette.

Goyette and Cooleys experience shows the value of writing a love letter when pursuing a home. These letters can be so effective that some sellers agents try to intercept them to keep the focus on price. Nearly four in 10 home buyers facing off against other bidders included a love letter with their offer last year, according to national real estate brokerage Redfin. In multiple-bid situations in 2013, Redfin found, bids with love letters were 9 percent more successful than bids without a letter.

For a buyer billet-doux to have the greatest impact, children may be pressed into service. Kris Paolini, a Redfin agent in Rockville, Maryland, recalls one bidding war in which his clients included not just a letter from themselves but a note from their teenage son. He mentioned how great it would be to live in the same neighborhood as his two best friends.

Including a picture can also help tip the odds. San Diego real estate agent Cheree Bray recalls one deal in which her clients beat out an all-cash offer after noting in their letter that the spacious backyard would be an ideal romping area for their two young boys, and included a family photo. The seller was choosing between an investor who wanted to tear down the home and build a new house, and my couple, who wanted to live in it just like she had, says Bray.

Just don't go too far, like the pregnant woman who offered her first-born child as a namesake.

Love letters arent solely for bidding wars. A few years ago, Seattle real estate agent Ryan Halset was helping a woman sell the home in which she had raised her family. The list price was $375,000. A single bid arrived from a young couple offering $350,000; it included a letter saying how much they hoped to be able to raise their family in the home.

The seller insisted on accepting the offer, despite Halsets advice that she at least counter. She wanted to give the family a leg up, says Halset. For some sellers its about being able to drive by every few months and feel good about whos in your home that gave you so many memories.

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