23-11-2010 06:07 This video describes what to look for when purchasing your first indoor plant as well as a general tutorial on watering and lighting requirements. For more information about plant care please visit http://www.exoticangel.com. Don't forget to add us to your YouTube subscriptions!
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01-01-2011 22:38 My plants growing under florescent light fixtures I have setup in the basement. Hoya, Pothos, Philodendron, Desert Rose, Jade, Euphorbia milii, Various Cactus, and Rosemary, among others. This indoor growing light setup has turned out to be very effective and the plants look great. I water almost all of these plants every other day. They are fairly dried out by the second day, though not too dry. Only a couple get really dry in 2 days, those are in small containers. Some of the jade and cacti I allow to go far longer than 2 days.
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LONDON, February 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Gaash Lighting, an innovative manufacturer and developer of high-quality lighting, will present advanced outdoor and indoor lighting solutions for the commercial and industrial sectors at the ARC Show, which will take place in London on 29 February-1 March 2012.
Gaash Lighting will showcase its lighting fixtures at the company's booth G2, at the Business Design Center.
All Gaash products are specifically designed to generate significant energy savings, high light efficiency and offer maximum flexibility.
Gaash will present, among others, the following solutions:
Decorative outdoor LED street lighting - the Venus, Polaris Top and Uranus LED are functional and stylish LED fixtures for illuminating main roads, streets, open public grounds, parks, public gardens, and more. Interior lighting - the Meteor MS LED line is an innovative luminaire, which provides both direct and indirect lighting. The advanced design concept and soft and restful ambiance makes it ideal for illuminating offices, boardrooms, hospital wards, etc. Interior lighting for industry, halls and sporting venues - the Pentalight Centro is a low profile luminaire for the illumination of high and low bay halls, warehouses, and more.
"The ARC show will provide European lighting distributors, OEM's and importers with an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with Gaash's advanced LED lighting solutions," said Asaf Cikman, general manager of Gaash Lighting. "It will also give us an opportunity to demonstrate our proven abilities to provide tailor-made high-quality lighting solutions at reasonable prices."
Gaash products are known for their reliability, ease of installation and maintenance. With most products predominantly designed and manufactured in-house.
About Gaash Lighting
Gaash Lighting is an innovative developer and manufacturer of high-quality lighting solutions for the commercial and industrial sectors. All Gaash's products are designed and manufactured in-house at the company's extensive, state-of-the-art facilities, which includes an on-site photometric laboratory.
Founded in 1964, Gaash sells its products worldwide. All of Gaash's products adhere to local standards and regulations in the Americas, the Far East and Europe.
For information about Gaash Lighting, visit http://www.gaash.com. To arrange a meeting with a company representative at the ARC show, email: info@gaash.com.
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Dotan Buchsweiler
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Gaash Lighting
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Award recognizes nLiGHT system as the top product in the lighting controls category.
ATLANTA - February 3, 2012 - Acuity Brands, Inc., (NYSE: AYI; "Company"), a market leader in innovative energy efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to announce that its nLiGHT® Network Lighting Control System from Sensor Switch® recently received a 2011 Top Products Award for lighting controls from Building Operating Management, the most preferred publication among building owners and facilities executives.
The Top Products Awards from Building Operation Management recognize the best products from manufacturers and suppliers from the past year as determined by building and facility executives who participated in a national survey. Top Products were selected based on the criteria of innovation and usefulness to facility managers. Winners were selected from a field of more than 500 possible products.
"It is a real honor to be selected for this award," said Ben Hahn, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and Value Stream Leader for Sensor Switch. "What makes this award even more credible is that professionals in the industry voted on the winning products. It`s very gratifying to know building operators, facility managers and design engineers chose nLiGHT as the top product in the lighting controls category. We are thrilled that nLiGHT is a valued solution for their lighting control needs."
First introduced in 2007, the nLiGHT system is a revolutionary digital architecture and networking technology that cost-effectively integrates time-based, daylight-based, sensor-based and manual lighting controls. Designed to function in an individual room or to be networked together across an entire facility or campus, the nLiGHT system is an easy-to-use and easy-to-install lighting control system. It significantly cuts energy consumption while enhancing user and occupant convenience. nLiGHT intelligence is also embedded in LED luminaires from Lithonia Lighting® -- offering a complete and customizable lighting solution with integrated controls.
For more information and to read more about the nLiGHT award, please visit http://www.facilitiesnet.com/buildingproducts/details.asp?ProductID=4501
About Acuity Brands
Acuity Brands, Inc. is a North American market leader and one of the world`s leading providers of lighting solutions for both indoor and outdoor applications. With fiscal year 2011 net sales of $1.8 billion, Acuity Brands employs approximately 6,000 associates and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with operations throughout North America, and in Europe and Asia. The company`s lighting solutions are sold under various brands, including Lithonia Lighting®, Holophane®, Peerless®, Gotham®, Mark Architectural Lighting(TM), Winona® Lighting, Healthcare Lighting®, Hydrel®, American Electric Lighting®, Carandini®, Antique Street Lamps(TM), Tersen®, Sunoptics®, Sensor Switch®, Lighting Control & Design(TM), Synergy® Lighting Controls, Pathway Connectivity(TM), Dark to Light®, ROAM®, RELOC® Wiring Solutions, and Acculamp®.
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From an office building in Kendal Square, two Boston University alumni have developed technology that can connect people with the businesses and environments around them through LED lighting.
Aaron Ganick and Dan Ryan , 2010 graduates of College of Engineering, will soon launch a company called ByteLight. Their startup focuses on transmitting information from LED light bulbs. While the technology remains in development, they plan to implement it into retail space and make it connect with mobile devices.
“We believe that mobile is the future of retail,” Ryan said.
Bytelight’s technology can determine the most effective display placements in stores, products and floor plans, Ryan said.
ByteLight’s LED lighting also has the potential to provide global positioning in large, indoor places such as airports, shopping malls and supermarkets, according to the January 2012 newsletter from the Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization.
Ganick and Ryan researched lighting as undergraduates in the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at BU, where they worked for several summers.
They said after taking a class entitled “The Business of Technology Innovation,” taught by School of Management professor Paul Levine, Ganick and Ryan started to consider pursuing entrepreneurial careers. They decided to take that route with the LED technology in 2010.
“We saw a big opportunity,” Ganick said. “Costs of LEDs were dropping and locational services were growing.”
Thomas Little, associate director of the Smart Lighting ERC, said locational lighting technology could be used for asset tracking in large indoor complexes such as hospitals and laboratories.
“It’s potentially as big an industry as outdoor location services,” he said.
ByteLight first operated out of a BU incubator and then moved to Dogpatch Labs, a venture designed to provide entrepreneurs with connections and launch startups, Ryan said.
While they hinted they may have found a lighting partner for the venture, neither one would name the potential partner, elaborate on their marketing plan or give a timeframe for an official launch.
“We’re in stealth mode,” Ganick said.
Though the specifics of ByteLight’s technology do not relate to or receive funding from BU, the venture has gotten support from BU faculty.
Babak Kia, an adjunct professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, called Ganick an engineer who “builds a better future” by fusing his technical vision and leadership skills.
“He and his team are driven by an unyielding passion to invent the future, and his startup – one of Boston’s hottest – will revolutionize indoor location in much [of] the same way as Google Maps has done for outdoor location,” Kia said in an email interview.
Little said the engineering degree at BU is designed to help students become analytical thinkers and problem solvers, which Ryan and Ganick demonstrate.
“To be successful once leaving BU requires the ability to adapt,” Little said. “[This is] especially true in the entrepreneurial world where the problems are much more diverse.”
Little said ByteLight exemplifies how Smart Lighting ERC helps students learn how to apply their analytical skills.
“Both Aaron and Dan have demonstrated the ability to adapt quickly to changing technology,” he said.
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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) -
Ohio already bans smoking in most indoor places but now some lawmakers want to make it illegal to smoke in cars when children are present.
The measure would prohibit smoking in a vehicle when youths 6 and under are present.
"Illegal is pushing it a little too far!" said one smoker.
"There's no need for a law like that!" said another Ohio smoker.
But some smokers actually agree.
"I have asthma so I already know what it can do to somebody's lungs," said Rachel Carpenter.
Sen. Tom Patton, chairman of the Highways and Transportation Committee, is heading up the committee which supports the ban. The bill, if passed, calls for fines starting at $500 for violators caught lighting up in a vehicle with young children in the car.
Smoking in vehicles while children are passengers is already illegal in both Canada and Australia.
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SAMANTHA BRIX PHOTO | Lorraine O'Fee, lighting sales associate, and Will Bunton, sales associate, at Revco Eletrical Supply Inc. in Southold with a display of LED and CFL light bulbs.
The switch to energy-efficient light bulbs is increasingly common on the North Fork as people recognize the move’s money-saving benefits and bask in the bucks saved on their electric bills.
Light-emitting diode, or LED, light bulbs are up to 90 percent more efficient than traditional incandescent bulbs, according to the Energy Star program, and compact fluorescent light bulbs, or CFLs, are 75 percent more efficient.
In 2009, the typical annual energy bill for a home with incandescent lighting was $2,200, according to Energy Star. About 12 percent of that, or $264, goes to home lighting.
With CFL bulbs, your lighting bill could be cut 75 percent to $66. By using all LED light bulbs, your bill could diminish 90 percent to $26.
“For homeowners, CFL is the way to go,” said Matt Ghosio, branch manager at Schwing Electrical in Riverhead.
That’s because LED bulbs are more expensive up front — a 12-watt LED lights costs about $40, while a 13-watt CFL bulb, its equivalent, costs about $30 and an equivalent 60-watt incandescent bulb costs just $2.
“LED is a bit on the pricey side, so people are slow to adopt it right away because of the initial investment,” Mr. Ghosio said. “But we are starting to see more and more people use them.”
CFLs have become more prevalent in North Fork homes, he said, but some people complain that it takes up to three minutes for the bulbs to reach their maximum brightness.
Some also don’t like the colder look of the light CFLs cast. While incandescent bulbs have a warm orange or yellow tint, which is most desirable in homes, LED and CFL lights emit colder hues of blue, green or gray. Incandescents make homes, and even people, appear more attractive, Mr. Ghosio said. Those bulbs can be found in many supermarkets, too, as they make food look more appealing.
But the downsides of incandescents can’t be ignored. Up to 98 percent of energy consumed by incandescent light bulbs is wasted as heat, not light, according to the Energy Star program. A 60-watt incandescent bulb will last about 1,000 hours, while an equivalent CFL will last 10,000 hours and an LED will last 25,000.
“You could save a ton by switching over to LED versus regular incandescent,” said Lorraine O’Fee, lighting sales associate at Revco Electrical Supply Inc. in Southold.
The Long Island Power Authority offers discounts and rebates to commercial establishments that use Energy Star-qualified LED replacement bulbs and fixtures.
Nearly 50 businesses across Long Island take advantage of the program, including the Home Depot in Riverhead and Revco in both Riverhead and Southold, according to LIPA.
Ms. O’Fee said Riverhead Building Supply recently replaced all its incandescent bulbs with LED lights.
The company “was burning 34,400 watts, and now they’re using 10,358 watts,” she said. “They’re saving a ton and they’re getting more light.
“Commercially, it makes a huge, huge difference,” she added, since many lights are on throughout the day.
Energy-efficient bulbs make a difference in all types of indoor spaces, since the average American spends 90 percent of his or her time indoors, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. There’s no doubt lights are on for much of that time.
Ms. O’Fee said homeowners and commercial operations alike are increasingly opting for CFL and LED lights — and even halogen lights, which use 10 to 40 percent less energy than incandescent.
“It doesn’t make sense not to,” she said
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PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, is pleased to announce that its Halo H4 LED Adjustable Gimbal Series has been named a winner in Electronic House magazine's 2012 Product of the Year competition. Announced this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the competition awards products based on their innovation, aesthetics, technological advances and lifestyle benefits to the customer.
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Winning in the Lighting – Fixtures/LED/Fiber Optic category, the competition recognizes new products and technologies in over 40 different categories that cater to the connected home. Winners were chosen by a panel of industry leaders along with the editors of Electronic House and CE Pro magazines.
"Technology moves at a fast and furious pace, so often consumers find it difficult to know what's really hot and what's not," says Lisa Montgomery, editor of Electronic House magazine.
This year's winner, the Halo H4 LED Adjustable Gimbals from Cooper Lighting, consists of a combined gimbal-style trim and LED light engine for use in Halo 4-inch LED recessed downlighting housings. The series is offered in both round and square trim choices and features a 35-degree adjustable tilt and interchangeable reflectors with beam distributions of 25, 35 and 50 degrees. The fixtures are available in three finishes (White, Satin Nickel, Tuscan Bronze), offered in four color temperatures (2700K, 3000K, 3500K, 4000K) and feature a clear glass lens, which may be interchanged with beam forming or colored lens media for added versatility.
"We are honored that the panel of industry leaders and editors have recognized the Halo H4 LED Adjustable Gimbals as a Product of the Year," said Mark Eubanks, President, Cooper Lighting. "With consumers becoming more receptive to LED technology and energy-efficient choices, we strive to offer the most innovative, high-quality, reliable products that are aesthetically-pleasing and provide cost savings to the homeowner."
Cooper Lighting has made a significant investment in people, resources and technology to ensure the company provides first-class solutions to its customers' lighting challenges. The Company offers a range of indoor and outdoor LED lighting products and controls, all of which are specifically designed to maximize energy and cost savings. For additional information on Cooper's LED product offering, click here.
About Cooper Lighting
Cooper Lighting, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE - News), is the leading provider of world-class lighting fixtures and controls to commercial, industrial, retail, institutional, residential and utility markets. As lighting technologies have advanced over the years, Cooper Lighting has been at the forefront of the industry in helping businesses and communities leverage the latest technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enrich the quality of the environment. For more information, visit http://www.cooperlighting.com.
About Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE - News) is a global electrical products manufacturer with 2011 revenues of $5.4 billion. Founded in 1833 Cooper's sustained success is attributable to a constant focus on innovation and evolving business practices, while maintaining the highest ethical standards and meeting customer needs. The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market positions and world-class products and brands, including Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products. With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety. In 2011 fifty-nine percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and forty percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States. Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 24 countries as of 2011. For more information, visit the website at http://www.cooperindustries.com.
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New camera line features flexible, stand-alone platform for recording and monitoring
IQinVision, market leader in high-performance HD megapixel IP cameras, recenly announced the unveiling of the IQeye 7 Series H.264 indoor camera series.
ONVIF and PSIA compliant, the IQeye 7 Series is a full-featured, multi-megapixel H.264 Main Profile indoor camera. With support for up to 5 MP resolutions, this next generation camera provides multiple, individually-configured H.264 and simultaneous MJPEG streams. Designed with the installer in mind, analog video out along with remote back focus makes for fast, easy installation. The One-Touch-Focus feature allows fine focus adjustment from a remote computer, eliminating the need for manual focus adjustments at the camera and resulting in trouble-free, crystal clear images.
The 7 Series camera supports Power-over-Ethernet or can be powered directly by AC or DC power. Featuring a moveable IR filter for day and night functionality, the new cameras provide image controls for optimization of video for any lighting condition. Two-way audio allows for interactive communication between the camera and monitoring site. The external on-camera SDHC memory expansion port, in combination with IQrecorder or Direct-To-Storage recording, makes the 7 Series a flexible, stand-alone recording platform ideal for motion-based recording or remote monitoring.
"The 7 Series represents a new ‘higher bar' with regard to megapixel IP cameras," said Ed Suski, IQinVision VP and Chief Technology Officer. "Along with a new exciting form factor, options like POE or direct power, day/night capability, two-way audio, on-camera storage combined with Direct-To-Storage, H.264 Main Profile, analog out, and remote back focus, make the 7 Series one of the most feature rich solutions for the price on the market today. And all that functionality is backed by IQinVision's industry-leading reliability, customer support, and unmatched ease of installation."
The IQeye 7 Series line of cameras will begin shipping on March 5th. See the 7 Series and all of IQinVision's HD megapixel solutions at the ISC West Conference and Exhibition, booth #5121, March 28-30 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
About IQinVision
Since 1998, IQinVision has been designing the quality engineered IQeye line of HD megapixel cameras. IQinVision is a world leader in IP network camera products, renowned for image quality, stability, and reliability in the most demanding network environments. IQinVision was first to market with megapixel IP cameras, HD cameras with on-camera recording, intelligent network cameras, and a long list of other industry firsts. IQeye cameras are integrated with all leading Network Video Recorders (NVR) and can also be used for fail-over recording, as stand-alone event recorders, and as distributed processing platforms for video analytics. The company's products are widely deployed in government, military, city center, property management, education, retail, casino, transportation, and multiple other vertical applications. IQinVision is a privately-held corporation headquartered in San Juan Capistrano, California with a regional office in Amsterdam, Netherlands. For more information, visit http://www.iqeye.com
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