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Larry West is our readers' choice as Best Decorator, so we decided to test his mettle with perhaps the greatest challenge of his 20-year career: re-imagining the Arkansas Times office. If you have never paid a visit to our humble home base, I will briefly paint a picture. The walls veer between drab grey, mustard-beige and off-white imagine a variety of skin tones of sickly men near death. There are stacks of papers and boxes close to the tipping point at every corner; dozens of unused dilapidated chairs; entire walls unadorned by decoration of any kind; a patchwork of well-stained carpets perhaps older than the Times itself; entire rooms used to store things that no current employee claims; fluorescent lights flickering between those familiar middle-school-classroom ceiling tiles. Everywhere: a faint muskiness.
When told of the idea to get an interior design consult from the Best Decorator winner, Times publisher Alan Leveritt said, "That's like taking a city planner to Berlin in 1945."
Upon arriving at Times HQ, West noted that the office environment seemed to be an odd fit with the spirit of the publication.
"When I think of the Arkansas Times, I think of fun, I think of interesting, I think of out of the box," he said. "When I walk off the elevators, that's not what I get. I feel like I'm maybe at the back office at Home Depot."
West noted that, but for one hallway with framed past issues of the Times (more of that, he suggested), the office had mostly blank walls. Meanwhile, he questioned what actually had been put up. A giant calendar ("boring," he said) was tacked to one wall in the meeting room, but was completely blank. "Do you need that?" he asked. I didn't have a good answer. Meanwhile, in our newsroom, West asked about a 4-by-7-foot white poster board, blank, attached to the wall with a mish-mash of tacks and packing tape. After some investigation, it turns out that Times editor Lindsey Millar put it up a year ago in order to project a power point presentation. It hasn't been used since.
"It's called editing," West said. "That's what we call it just like you would call it. Get all that riff raff out. Use the space that you have."
That also means getting rid of what has affectionately become known around the office as the "furniture graveyard": shabby chairs from various decades, the majority of them broken, most of them without owners.
"It just seems gloomy," West said. "Isn't it gloomy to y'all? You can admit it it's boring in here. I would want to work in a place that makes me excited."
For the walls, West suggested framed images classic Times covers, notable photographs from our archives. "I'd have pictures all over the place," he said. "Stuff that's fun. Stuff that's got Arkansas Times written all over it." One staffer's office features a dress that was made out of issues of the Times West heartily approved.
The whole place would get a paint job, West said. "The color is boring in this whole entire space, that's the first thing I think we should change," he said. West sent over suggestions, a vibrant array of oranges, purples, greens and pastel blues. "Something bright and fun and cheery not depressing. I feel like I'm going to jump out a window into the river."
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Scottsdale and Phoenix fire departments were dispatched to a house fire near 117th Street and Parkview Lane at about 3 p.m.
Scottsdale Fire Department Division Chief Jay Ducote said plumbers who were working on the exterior of the home called 911 to report the fire.
"When we got in here, we couldn't see anything. We had smoke all the way to the floor," said Scottsdale Fire Capt. Sean Cooney, who was one of the first firefighters to enter the burning home.
The fire got into the wall and attic. Crews aggressively pulled ceiling in the home to prevent the fire from spreading.
"The fire started at the west end of the house and within 10 minutes it was moving across the rafters of the roof at a very quick rate," said neighbor Vic Flanigan.
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July 31, 2014 - Designed to replace multiple F17 and F32 fluorescent lamps, LED Utility Wraps come in 2 and 4 ft LED models ranging from 2050 W. Dimmable units operate on 120277 V systems, offer CCTs of 4,000 and 5,000 K, and provide efficacies up to 107 lm/W. Constructed with heavy-gauge, 1-piece steel housing and full-length U-Wrap prismatic acrylic diffusers, fixtures deliver up to 10 fc from IES recommended heights for stairwells, and 710 fc at 8 ft installed heights for parking drive lane compliance. MaxLite, Inc 12 York Ave. West Caldwell, NJ, 07006 USA Press release date: July 29, 2014
West Caldwell, N.J. MaxLite unveils the DesignLights Consortium (DLC)-qualified LED Utility Wraps Series as an energy-efficient lighting solution that meets the latest building and safety codes for high-occupancy dwellings, parking garages, stairwells and other commercial utility applications.
Available in a newly simplified line-up of eight basic models, the LED fixtures qualify for rebates of up to $.50 per kilowatt-hour through select utility rebate programs nationwide. In addition to being DLC-compliant, motion sensor versions meet Californias Title 24 requirements for indoor lighting in commercial spaces.
Our new, DLC-qualified LED Utility Wraps are perfect energy-saving replacements for less efficient fluorescent wrap-around fixtures, said MaxLites Vice President of Product Marketing Pat Treadway. Our approach to thermal- and lumen-balanced LED engines provides substantial efficiencies using the latest technologies.
The LED Utility Wraps are designed to replace multiple F17 and F32 fluorescent lamps using two- and four-foot LED models ranging from 20 to 50 watts. The damp-listed fixtures can be surface or ceiling mounted in covered environments. LED Utility Wraps are dimmable and up to 30 of the 20-watt fixtures can be linked per 0-10-volt wall dimmer. Product versions include emergency battery back-up and occupancy sensors. Wire guards are also available.
These LED fixtures deliver up to 10 footcandles from Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) recommended heights for stairwells, and seven to 10 footcandles at eight-foot installed heights for parking drive lane compliance. Engineered with low-forward voltage drive rates, the fixtures thermal and lumen balanced light engines enable cooler operating temperatures resulting in less thermal heat sinks, better LED performance, increased lumen output and more efficient operation.
Available in 4000K and 5000K correlated color temperatures (CCTs), MaxLite LED Utility Wraps operate on 120- to 277-volt systems and deliver efficacies of up to 107 lumens per watt. Proprietary binned LM-80-rated LEDs enable superior color consistency, quality and long life. The economical fixtures are constructed with a white finish, heavy gauge, one-piece steel housing and full-length U-Wrap prismatic acrylic diffusers.
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Ottawa Canada (PRWEB) July 30, 2014
Financing makes the difference on a decision to implement energy-saving LED lighting solutions in a workplace, according to a new poll commissioned by Leapfrog Lighting. Only 16.5% of business owner and manager respondents had no intention of implementing LEDs, while a sizable 66.3% planned to implementif financing was available. 17.2% planned to go ahead with implementations without financing.
A previous survey question revealed that upfront cost is the leading reason for a delay in implementing LED lamps in their workplace, even though 81.9% ultimately will install.* Based on this response from 200 randomly-selected business owners and managers, financing makes a big difference to their implementation plans.
The actual question asked was "Does the option of financing upfront costs make a difference to your decision to use LED bulbs?"
Only 16.5% of respondents had no plans to implement LED, while 17.2% would go ahead without financing. The majority responded positively to the financing option, with 20.2% indicated yes unconditionally, 32.1% yes but dependent on the terms, and 14% yes, when the time was right.
This supports a previous poll from Leapfrog Lighting that indicated slightly more than half of business owner would delay based on upfront costs, although 81.9% would ultimately implement LED bulb solutions. The data implies that with a financing option, upfront cost is less of an obstacle to implementation.
I was not at all surprised with these findings, said Stephen Naor, CEO of Leapfrog Lighting, who commissioned the random poll of business owners and managers. In our experience, smaller business owners often do not have the time available, or balance sheet strength that would allow them to finance LED lighting upgrades. They then lose the opportunity to reduce their electricity costs. This is why we have arranged easy-to-obtain and affordable third-party financing for our clients." (Information here>>)
When the data is segmented by age, older cohorts were the most likely to finance unconditionally, with 25% of 55-64 year-olds most likely to choose "yes" to financing regardless of terms. 54.3% of 18-25 year-olds and 39.7% of 25-35 year-olds indicated "yes, depending on terms."
There are no significant trends in terms of age, although higher income tended to pull the response depending on the terms. or when we are ready.
Suburban business owners and managers were most likely to choose yes, depending on terms or indicated they were going ahead with LEDs without financing. Rural respondents were slightly more likely to unconditionally choose yes or indicated they were going ahead with LEDs without financing. Urban were the most likely to choose yes, when we are ready.
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