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Sage Consignment is among the new businesses to open recently on Howard Avenue in Kensington.
Michel Huebner lives in Bethesda, but her store is in Kensington, the same town where she shopped as a child with her mother, an interior decorator.
Sage, Huebners furniture consignment store, opened about six years ago in Kensington, but moved to the towns Antique Row downtown more than two years ago when a space opened up.
Our business went up 33 percent by moving onto Antique Row, Huebner said. Its just a different feel and community when you cross over Connecticut Avenue, because were centered right next to the neighborhood.
The grocery store and a Saturday morning farmers market draw hundreds of people to downtown Kensington, near the towns MARC train station. In October, Huebner launched Sage Style next door to her consignment store. Sage Style specializes in vintage clothing, jewelry and accessories from the 1930s through 70s.
Huebner said the young couples buying homes in the area like the Mad Men style, and others come in to reminisce about the mid-century era and maybe pick up a small piece that brings back memories. The store also offers some new pieces that mesh well with the vintage styles.
We really try and stock funky finds that you probably cant get anywhere else, she said.
Modern Mobler at Kensington, an outpost of a Washington, D.C., furniture store, sells vintage home goods and furniture out of a space it shares with Sage Style. The two are among about a dozen businesses to open in downtown Kensington in the past year, according to Monica Soladay, who does public relations work for the town.
On June 14, Urban Thrift became the latest business to open its doors in downtown Kensington. The upscale thrift store sells clothes, furniture, jewelry and other items to raise money for The Arc Montgomery County, a Rockville nonprofit that supports people affected by intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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JASPER, Ind. (AP) -- Love letters from a World War I soldier to his sweetheart have been found stuffed in the attic wall of a southern Indiana home.
An electrician pulled the yellowed letters from inside insulation while doing remodeling work in the Jasper home of Phil Mathies.
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The Palo Alto City Council on Monday night shot down a prominent developer's plan to expand the oversized University Art building, voting 8-1 to postpone consideration of his project to a later date if he returns with a revised proposal.
Vice Mayor Liz Kniss said although developer Roxy Rapp is known for doing "great buildings," his latest effort "doesn't seem to be a cooked project yet."
Rapp wants to remodel his historic four-story commercial building at 261 Hamilton Ave. and construct a three-story addition with 5,910 square feet of office space at the back. In exchange, he proposed to convert 6,305 square feet of basement space to an underground parking garage that would accommodate nine vehicles and up to 15 bicycles. The basement once was used by former tenant University Art for storage and space for such work as framing, according to city staff.
About a dozen residents spoke out against the plan, some saying the extra office space would bring in many more than nine employees. Others argued that staff misinterpreted a city ordinance to benefit Rapp's proposal.
The ordinance grandfathered in oversized structures built before zoning changes in the 1970s and 1980s that reduced the size of downtown buildings, but restricted any future remodeling to alterations that wouldn't increase the buildings' overall size.
Planning and Community Director Hillary Gitelman told the council that staff decided to allow an increase in the "buildable area" because the basement space was being eliminated.
A majority of council members disagreed with that logic, however.
"Is it correct that under staff's interpretation it's really about the floor area? That you can move basement floor area aboveground (and) it has not changed the envelope?" Councilman Patrick Burt asked. When Gitelman said yes, Burt replied that wasn't a "common sense definition."
Councilman Greg Scharff said staff seemed to be "twisting" the definition, and the result would be more office space without enough parking spots.
"This feels like one of those parking loopholes," he said. "That's a concern for the community and it's a concern for the council."
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Jun 23, 2014 The newly developed phosphor enhances the quality of color rendition by white-emitting LEDs. Credit: Professor Wolfgang Schnick, LMU Munich
Chemists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have developed a novel type of red phosphor material, which significantly enhances the performance of white-emitting LEDs.
In cooperation with Dr. Peter Schmidt of Philips Technologie GmbH in Aachen, a team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schnick, who holds the Chair of Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry at LMU Munich, has developed a new material for application in light-emitting diodes (LEDs). "With its highly unusual properties, the new material has the potential to revolutionize the LED market," says Schnick. The two teams report their results in the latest edition of Nature Materials.
Conventional incandescent light bulbs have a very low energy conversion efficiency, which has led the EU to order their withdrawal from the market. As a result, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have become the light source of choice for the foreseeable future. The light emitted by LEDs is generated by electronic transitions in solid-state semiconductors. In contrast to so-called energy-saving lamps, which contain toxic mercury, LEDs are environmentally friendly. Moreover, they are highly efficient and promise significant reductions in energy consumption.
A single LED can produce light of only one color tone. However, Schnick and his team had previously achieved a notable technological breakthrough by synthesizing innovative phosphor materials that allowed the blue light produced by conventional LEDs to be converted into all the colors of the visible spectrum in particular, those at the red end. Mixing of the different colors results in high-quality white light and this invention earned Schnick and his colleagues a nomination for the German Future Prize 2013.
A new material with great potential
LEDs that generate blue light can be converted into white-light emitters by coating them with various luminescent ceramics. These materials absorb some of the blue light and re-emit the energy at wavelengths corresponding to all the other colors of the visible spectrum from cyan to red. The combination of these color components with the unabsorbed blue light results in pure white light. The process sounds simple, but its practical realization is very challenging. It requires phosphors which display extremely high thermal stability and operate with very high efficiencies.
"The problem with commercially available white-light LEDs is that there is always a trade-off between optimal energy efficiency and acceptable color rendition" says Schnick. The red-emitting phosphor materials so far used are the principal factor responsible for this, because they have a particularly significant influence on the so-called color rendering index. There is also a growing demand in the industrial sector for new phosphors capable of emitting in the deep-red region because this would enable the conflicting demands of optimal efficiency and most natural color rendition to be reconciled.
The new material developed by Schnick, Schmidt and their colleagues is based on the nitride Sr[LiAl3N4]. When doped with an appropriate amount of europium, a rare-earth metal, the compound displays intensive luminescence over a very narrow range of frequencies in the red band. Peak emission occurs at wavelengths of around 650 nm and peak width (full width at half-maximum) is only 50 nm. The first prototype LEDs incorporating the new material generate 14% more light than conventional white-light LEDs and have an excellent color rendering index. "With its unique luminescence properties the new material surpasses all red-emitting phosphors yet employed in LEDs and has great potential for industrial applications" Schnick concludes.
Dr. Peter Schmidt and his associates at the Lumileds Development Center Aachen (Philips Technologie GmbH) are currently modifying the synthesis of the new red phosphor to optimize it for large-scale manufacture. Their goal is to open the way to the next generation of brighter and more efficient white-emitting LEDs with the best possible color rendition characteristics.
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