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New Taipei, Taiwan FZLED, maker of high-performance LED lighting products, introduces the new collection of omnidirectional GU60 series of LED bulbs (GU60-02). The series uses 12 watts SMD LED, and fits standard E26, E27 sockets to conveniently replace traditional lighting source, used in different applications such as indoor, office, storage or residential usages.

With advanced three design concepts, the beam angle is 270 degree, the lumen performance is over 910 lm/w, and the CRI (Color Rendering Index) is greater than 80. This GU60 LED bulb series comes with two CCT (color temperature) 3000K (warm white) and 6000K (cool white). The warm white type achieves an efficiency of 910 lumens at 3000K, and delivers 1080 lumens at 6000K. Additionally, these energy-saving bulbs have lifetimes of more than 35,000 hours, an operation temperature range of -0 to 35 C as well as an input voltage range of AC 100-240V.

Emitting no harmful UV or IR rays and with very low heat emissions, the high-performance, energy-saving LED bulbs are an excellent lighting product to use for indoor, architectural, flood, mood, and spot lighting situations in both residential and commercial lighting.

The GU60 LED bulb series are available in Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore soon. FZLED is excited to build relationships with more distribution partners in order to provide consumers around the world with their innovative, energy-saving, and high-performance lighting solutions.

Applications Indoor Lighting Architectural Lighting Flood Lighting Mood Lighting Biological Lighting Spot Lighting

Features Energy Saving No heat, No UV, or IR light radiation Light source: SMD LED Ra>80 Long life time>35000 hours E26/E27/B22/GU10 socket compatible Power consumption up to12W for different length of FZL-GU60 High power driver efficiency > 90% Non-Dimmable CE, FCC Approved

Specifications of the FZLED GU60 LED Bulb Series

FZL-GU60-02-WW-12 (Warm White) & FZL-GU60-01-CW-12 (Cool White) Power Consumption 12Watts Luminous Flux (lm) 910(10%) or 1080 (10%) CCT 3000K or 6000K CRI >80 LED SMD Lens Frosted Input Voltage AC 110-240V Socket E26 / E27 Beam Angle 270 Operation Temp. +0 - +35 Dimensions 77.6 x 135.7mm Net. Weight 0.115(10%)

Product URL http://www.fzled.com.tw/products.php?KindID=3&CID=38

About FZLED FZLED is a Taiwan-based manufacturer and innovative designer of high-performance LED lighting products. As a sub-division of FZtech Inc., FZLED's products have superior mechanical and thermal designs, utilizing the expertise of FZtech. Committed to excellence, FZLED follows a strict TQC for the entire manufacturing process, and conducts R&D projects continuously in an effort to create LED lighting solutions that offer light-weight, high-quality, environmentally-friendly, innovative, and thermally-optimized products to consumers. For more information visit FZLED online at http://www.fzled.com.tw.

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Plants dont like freezing temperatures any more than we do. But many will be perfectly happy to grow indoors, encouraged by fluorescent lights. Under lights, you can grow plants, including vegetables, up to 10 inches tall. Success depends on choosing the right setup. Many systems are on the market, but not all are of equal quality. Beware of those made entirely of chrome-plated steel. They are susceptible to rusting from the fertilizers used for growing. Chrome-plated shelves and trays are especially vulnerable. Stainless steel or plastic-coated shelves and trays will outlast all others. Nearly all the lighting fixtures are designed to hold Grow-lux fluorescent bulbs. Grow-lux lights emit both the blue and red rays of light, and both are necessary for photosynthesis and flower production. For maximum effectiveness, the uppermost foliage of the plants must be placed within inches of the light source. Grow-lux lights are recognized for their light quality and not for their light intensity. To improve the light intensity of your growing chamber, consider including a warm white fluorescent bulb for every two Grow-Lux lights in the light bank. Adding warm white bulbs is especially important when growing tall plants or plants with varying heights. Only warm white fluorescent bulbs emit the red light essential for photosynthesis with sufficient intensity to penetrate the foliage to a depth of eight to 10 inches. Cool white fluorescent bulbs emit only low levels of blue light, which is not as essential for photosynthesis as red light. High intensity lighting fixtures can be built using a combination of power-groove fluorescent tubes and 60-watt incandescent bulbs. This sort of setup is used to supply lighting in commercial growth chambers. However, these power-groove fluorescent tubes generate so much heat that fans must be used to circulate the air. Meeting the irrigation needs of plants growing under artificial lights can be challenging. Plants growing under Glor-lux lights require less water than plants growing under warm white fluorescent lights due to cooler rooting media temperatures. Because the red waves from warm white fluorescent bulbs penetrate deeper, rooting media are warmer and dry out faster. Avoid overcrowding plants under artificial lights. As the plants increase in size, provide additional space for them. A good rule of thumb is to never allow the foliage of one plant to touch that of an adjoining plant. Allowing the plants to grow under crowded conditions will give you tall spindly plants with weak stems and yellowing leaves at the bottom.

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HARVARD -- Seeking to fit the existing Town Hall renovation plan or a revised version of it into the remaining $2.2 million left in the construction budget, selectmen agreed last week to sit down with LLB architects to review the design with that aim in mind.

When the Town Hall Building Committee brought a revised budget to selectmen last year that was $1 million more than the original $3.9 estimate endorsed by Town Meeting, voters were asked to up the appropriation by that amount. They said no, first at a Special Town Meeting and then at the ballot box.

Now, the challenge is to move the project forward with the money available.

Opening the discussion at their recent meeting, held at Volunteers Hall while Town Hall was closed for asbestos removal, Chairwoman Marie Sobalvarro said the task at hand is to "capture our intent ... in delineating what we want LLB to do" before meeting with the architects. The gist of it was they'd like one or two schematics that would keep the cost within the budget or at least in the "ballpark" and with about $25-$35,000 of the remaining budget still earmarked for schematic design, it's doable, she said.

Sobalvarro said her read of the contract indicates that asking LLB to scale back the existing design to fit the budget is not only a reasonable request, it shouldn't cost extra.

Selectman Leo Blair suggested they proceed on that premise, reminding LLB of its obligation to fix the current design to fit the budget, but also asking for a second version. "If they're smart," they'll agree, he said.

"We need to scale down the scope of this thing," Blair continued, but asking the architects to recreate the same design for less could be a "pointless task." The big cost drivers are the big changes, he posited, such as a pricey new HVAC system and interior makeover, both of which can be left out in a downsized re-do of the design. "I think they'll do it for nothing or very little," Blair said. "My hunch is they'll want to help."

With the contract due to expire in September, board members agreed it's time to act.

"Do we keep the addition or not?" asked Selectman Lucy Wallace. She noted a choice the board discussed previously between keeping the 1950s addition, fixing it as needed, versus removing the addition and either replacing it with a new one or simply making do without it, squeezing existing office and storage space into the original building footprint.

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Design demand ended 2013 on a low note, with the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) posting its first consecutive months of contraction since May and June of 2012. The December ABI score of 48.5 dropped from a 49.8 reading in November. New project queries, however, did see a bump to 59.2 from the previous months mark of 57.8.

What we thought last month was an isolated dip now bears closer examination to see what is causing the slowdown in demand for architectural services, American Institute of Architects (AIA) chief economist Kermit Baker, Hon. AIA, said in a statement. It is possible that some of this can be attributed to the anxiety in the marketplace caused by the shutdown of the federal government, but it will be important to see how business conditions fare through the first quarter of the new year when we no longer have end of the year issues to deal with.

The commercial/industrial and institutional sectors struggled with scores of 47.1 and 44.8, respectively, as mixed practice reported a 51.0 mark. The West (53.2) and South (51.2) came out ahead of the Midwest (47.0) and Northeast (42.8).

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CHANTILLY Thousands of the nations historic air and space artifacts including a Navy dive bomber from World War II and spacesuits from the Apollo era are slowly being moved from a cramped site in Maryland to a state-of-the-art Smithsonian conservation hangar in northern Virginia.

Faced with an ongoing shortage of suitable space to preserve its massive collection, the Smithsonian Institutions new air and space warehouse is a bright spot for the museum complex. The National Air and Space Museum opened its Udvar-Hazy Center annex in Virginia 10 years ago with a design to store thousands of artifacts on display. Now over the past year, the site has also opened a massive $79 million restoration hangar and conservation lab with additional storage space for artifacts.

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Visitors to the Udvar-Hazy Center look over the restoration area in February, 2013.

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Published: January 23, 2014

CHANTILLY, Va. Thousands of the nation's historic air and space artifacts including a Navy dive bomber from World War II and spacesuits from the Apollo era are slowly being moved from a cramped site in Maryland to a state-of-the-art Smithsonian conservation hangar in northern Virginia.

Faced with an ongoing shortage of suitable space to preserve its massive collection, the Smithsonian Institution's new air and space warehouse is a bright spot for the museum complex. The National Air and Space Museum opened its Udvar-Hazy Center annex in Virginia 10 years ago with a design to store thousands of artifacts on display. Now over the past year, the site has also opened a massive $79 million restoration hangar and conservation lab with additional storage space for artifacts.

Conservators will offer the public the first behind-the-scenes look at the facility during a free open house Saturday. Visitors can meet with curators and archivists and learn how aircraft and fragile pieces are cared for.

Last year, the Smithsonian's inspector general testified in Congress that the continued use of substandard facilities elsewhere posed a risk to important art and science collections. One site in Maryland was built in the 1950s and 1960s as a temporary holding site that became permanent.

Chief Conservator Malcolm Collum said Thursday that the museum now has a conservation lab to meet the highest standards of any aerospace museum.

"This is a huge leap forward," he said. "The space we're in now is approximately 10 times larger just in volume. But we've also increased our analytical capability immensely."

Apollo-era spacesuits, which are now 40 and 50 years old, are fragile, brittle and deteriorating, so conservators have been studying how to slow the decay. A special room in the new facility was designed as a cool, dark place to store the historic spacesuits.

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