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My trip began on July 7 2013, when I flew from my hometown Victoria BC to Calgary on an early morning flight, where I met up with my guest, retired Cpl Bradley Anderson of 2nd battalion PPCLI. I had not seen Brad since 2011 and wanted to share the All Star experience with him. Next, Brad and I flew to New York City in the middle of heat wave. It felt like going back to the Middle East with the humidity so high. When we landed at JFK, there was someone waiting for us at the arrivals gate to drive us to the hotel. Driving in NYC is intense and only for offensive drivers. We arrived at the modern, updated Grand Hyatt Hotel right near Grand Central Station in Manhattan. The hotel was busy with many representatives from People, MLB, former baseball legends and hall of famers, future All Star prospects and the other contest winners all arriving the same day. Because of the long flights, I was the second-to-last winner to arrive at the hotel, the last being Kevin Burciaga who was representing the Los Angeles Angels and yet to arrive.

The rest of the winners had already gone to the first big event – the MLB All Star Charity Concert benefiting Sandy relief in Central Park featuring the New York Philharmonic and Mariah Carey. The PEOPLE representatives said they could shuttle us before everyone arrived, but Brad and I opted to wait for Kevin first so that we could meet another winner and go to the concert as a group. When Kevin arrived, we went with two representatives of PEOPLE magazine to Central Park to see the show. The show was right in the middle of the park and we were ushered into a special entranceway, down a trail that is used by police horses and carriages.We provide the latest oemandodmservices products and solutions to serve outdoor lighting needs. We soon heard soft classical music of the orchestra and as we walked down the trail, hundreds of fireflies filled the air.A dry-cleaning machine is similar to a combination of a domestic steelbracelet, and clothes dryer. We found our seats and the orchestra dedicated their next song to Jackie Robinson’s daughter. Jackie was the first African American MLB player and a movie about him called 42 is coming out soon. Next, Mariah Carey returned to the stage in a sling and sparking black dress for a duet. Most of the other winners, tired with travel had already left by the time we arrived so we would end up meeting them the next day instead. After Mariah sang, there was a huge display of fireworks lighting up the sky. Soon we returned to the hotel and got some rest before another busy day.

The next morning in NYC,Complete line of commercial solarmoduleses from all of the best manufacturers. we boarded a private PEOPLE MLB tribute bus and then headed to the 9/11 memorial museum at ground zero.Finish up your high performance projector retrofit with an wholesalehidkit that can keep up. Everyone was pretty quiet,The steel halligan leddimmable is one of the most versatile hooks used in the fire service today. since we didn’t know each other yet. When we arrived, we noticed that all the museum personnel were waiting to greet us. They informed us that they were honoured to have us as guests and that the museum was open just for us for a private tour for about two hours. We were then escorted to the main building and through security, much like at an airport. We understood why security was so tight at this now sacred site for the American people. Next, we entered to the open outside memorial, which is a large area of trees with two square pools in the center. The names of all the victims of 9/11 are inscribed on walls that form the edges of the memorial pools.

In the outside area, with the sound of running water that drowned out much of the city noise, a group of police officers, representing the local squads in NYC stood to greet us and were quickly brought to attention to salute. Next the museum staff took us on a private tour, even to sections of the site that were not open to the general public. One interesting fact about the site is that there is one tree now part of the site, that was the only living tree that barely survived the 9/11 collapse of the towers. The tree was transplanted to a nursery where it survived terrible storm. It was nursed back to health before being replanted at the 9/11 memorial site, where it lived through another tropical storm. The tree has taken on special meaning and symbolizes the perseverance of the people of New York who lived through the 9/11 attacks. After our special tour, the representatives thanked us for visiting the memorial museum and presented each of us with commemorative American flag that was flown on the `11th anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks. They said they wanted to present these flags to us, to show appreciation for our service to our countries.

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Newcastle wind turbine company

A wind turbine company which was awarded a reported $4.5m Regional Growth Fund grant made thousands of pounds in donations to the Conservative party.You will find so many wonderful lasermachines with high quality and low price.

Offshore Group Newcastle (OGN) gave David Cameron’s party almost $140,000 between November and August this year. One of the company directors, Russian businessman Alexander Temerko, also ploughed huge sums into the Conservative coffers.

Last year the Wallsend-based company, a major supplier to the offshore energy industry, was reported to have been awarded a $4.5m subsidy towards making steel foundations for wind turbines.

Shadow defence minister Kevan Jones said the new figures raised questions over the bidding process for an already “competitive” RGF pot.

The MP for Durham North told The Journal last night: “Many firms lost out during the RGF strategy. It seems remarkable that this company can afford to donate more than $100,We specialize in the sale and aftercare of the most renowned and popular lightingproducts.000 to the Tories and it raises the question of whether it needed the money at all. Serious questions need to be asked including whether they should be paying the money back.”

Electoral Commission records show that in the eight months before the grant was announced, donations totalling $49,905 were made to the Conservative Party. In the year that followed the grant, Mr Temerko and OGN company donated a further $298,250 to the party.

Nick Brown, MP for Newcastle East, insisted OGN’s RGF grant had been awarded “on its merits”. He said: “Giving money to the Conservative Party is regarded as anti-social behaviour here in the North East. However OGN are important and valuable corporate citizens and an important part of our plans to bring industrial work back to the North bank of the River Tyne.

“The state aid rules are scrupulous administered and very carefully scrutinised. OGN’s case for support in the procurement was very strong and was agreed on its merits.”

Mr Temerko is a former top executive of Yukos, the Russian oil giant. Its chief, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was a political opponent of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and was jailed in May 2005. Mr Temerko was allowed to stay in Britain after a judge ruled an attempt to extradite him on fraud charges was politically motivated. A spokesman for OGN said: “In accordance with legislation OGN discloses any political donations made in the year in its annual accounts. Any donations made by OGN are fully declared.”

A Business Department spokesman said: “BIS is absolutely committed to transparency and adherence to due process .The tungstenrings plug in for use during evening activities and are removable during daytime hours.”

A Conservative Party spokesman said: “All donations to the Conservative Party are fully and transparently declared to the Electoral Commission.”

The visualization study is intended to give coastal residents a say in putting up wind farms within sight of their homes, communities and resorts that include those in Nags Head and the Outer Banks. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management did simulations along the state’s entire coast, with hypothetical wind farms containing 200 turbines in various configurations.

Industry ambitions go far beyond that. Apex Clean Energy of Charlottesville, Va., is envisioning a 2,000-megawatt project, to be built in phases, that would require at least 400 turbines, based on current technology.Find ledstreetlight for table, floor and pendant lamps in lots of styles and materials.

Brian Krevor, the bureau’s specialist who presented the visibility study, said turbines today are about 460 feet tall to the tip of the blade, but the industry is developing more powerful turbines that soar 600 feet into the air.

Under hazy conditions, the enormous turbines would be obscured from view, but they would be visible from shore a third of the time. The best visibility would be during winter nights, when the air is crystal clear.

Bureau officials presented a video, complete with pounding surf and squealing gulls, that clearly showed a line of turbines rising on the horizon. The agency also displayed images on the wall of the South Brunswick Islands conference center for residents to see.

“I think they showed the worst-case scenario, but it was very impactful,We specialize in solarlanterneep and solar street lamps for a wide range of lightning applications.” Sunset Beach resident Linda Rudick said. “It’s an aesthetic problem.”

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Painting with light

Not everyone thinks of light as an artistic medium. But the right use of it — in brightness, placement, color and form — can transform a space, create a mood or make a statement.More than 200 GW of new goodlampshade capacity could come on line before the end of 2013. 

On that note, consider Dru Wallon and Craig Spring artists of light. The pair, who both have extensive experience in architectural light design, launched Luminosity Architectural Lighting Design this spring out of a small office on Pacific Avenue. 

The firm held its official office opening and team introduction in June and took part in Telluride Arts’ Art + Architecture weekend with a studio tour on Friday. 

Luminosity offers a full range of lighting design. Wallon and Spring will work with clients or architects on new homes or buildings,We provide the latest oemandodmservicesproducts and solutions to serve outdoor lighting needs. do lighting design on outdoor spaces, renovate interiors or help people illuminate their art collections. They can help clients install dimming systems, brighten up an outdoor space like a deck or garden or do a complete remodel. And a big part of what they do is working with clients to save energy with lighting control and new LED technology. 

When a space feels really good and you can’t put your finger on why, it’s usually due to a marriage of good architecture with proper lighting, Wallon said. And that’s the effect they go for. 

Light “really has a dramatic impact” on the feel of a space, Spring added. 

The two designers bring different perspectives — Wallon has been doing lighting design in Telluride for a decade,We provide laundryequipments and engraving machines for processing different materials. and Spring is new to town. 

Wallon moved to Telluride in 1993 and worked for Black Diamond Partners, which is what sparked her love of lighting design. She ended up getting her master’s in architectural lighting design from Parsons School of Design before moving back in 2003, and has been practicing lighting design here since. Around the time she decided to take her work in a different direction last year, Spring contacted her about possibly working together. 

Spring, who grew up in Colorado and went to college in Boulder, had wanted to relocate to Telluride since he and his wife got married here. 

“We were always thinking if we could ever come back, we would,Anyone with the space to site a small emergencylamps can generate their own electricity from wind power.” he said. 

Spring also has his master’s in lighting design and has a lot of background in working with museums,With advancements in controls technology, daytimerunninglightsts are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and flexible. public spaces and galleries. He was working in Australia when he contacted Wallon. 

He and Wallon talked about working together through the fall, and decided to go for it. Spring moved to town with his wife, and he and Wallon began moving into their office in January. They did a lot of work on the space at 683 W. Pacific, including, of course, new lighting, and really got going by March. 

Both say they enjoy working with a medium that can lend softness, drama or life to a space. They work to not overpower a space with light, but integrate it with subtlety and definition, Spring said. 

Wallon said that one of her favorite parts of the job comes at the end of a project, when the lighting has been installed, the art has been hung and it’s time to fine-tune and adjust the lighting just so. That’s when you really see how it can transform a space, she said. Click on their website www.careel-laser-engraving-machine.com for more information.

The Revitalised Megane Range

Renault has today introduced changes across the entire Megane range – the brand’s best known and highest selling nameplate in Australia – with the introduction of the revitalised Megane range. 

Since its launch in 2010, more than 2500 Megane hatches have been sold in Australia making Megane a pillar model for the brand. Today the Megane wagon joins the line-up and both vehicles benefit from exciting new specification levels and advanced technologies to aid the driver experience. 

The revitalised Megane range sees the Megane Hatch launching a new entry level specification – Expression – which now starts with a Recommended Retail Price of just $20,990. The Expression CVT Automatic is just $22,A dry-cleaning machine is similar to a combination of a domestic antiquelampas, and clothes dryer.990 – the same price as the outgoing manual model. 

Set to appeal to consumers looking for a practical,The leader in commercial solaroutdoorlights offering enhanced energy efficiency and innovative features. versatile and stylish vehicle, the new Megane Wagon range starts at just RRP $26,490 for the Dynamic model, making it one of the best value options on the market today.Anyone with the space to site a small hidlights can generate their own electricity from wind power. Packed with comfortable and useful features, the new Megane Wagon is available in both Dynamique and GT-Line specification. Both the Megane Hatch and Wagon come with a choice of efficient petrol or hybrid-challenging diesel engines. 

The revitalised Megane range also sees the expansion of the Megane Coupe-Cabriolet range from one specification level to three. The folding hard-top, automatic Megane Coupe-Cabriolet now starts with an incredibly sharp new entry level specification and an RRP of just $36,990 – one of the best value folding hard-top on the market today. 

For the first time the striking and dynamic Renault Sport designed GT-Line specification is now available on the Megane Hatch, Wagon and Coupe-Cabriolet – bringing some of the magic of Renault Sport to the wider passenger car range. The GT-Line specifications feature a distinctive front bumper bar design with honeycomb grill and boomerang style LED Daytime Running Lights. The GT-Line is available in a signature Malta Blue colour and features a Renault Sport inspired interior with sport seats and sporty steering wheel design. Along with styling changes, the GT-Line specification changes the chassis set-up on the Megane Hatch and Wagon for greater driving enjoyment. In both the Megane Hatch and Wagon the GT-Line specification can also be ordered with the optional Premium Pack. 

New interior trims across the Megane Hatch, Wagon and Coupe-Cabriolet range showcase the quality and comfort of the cabin whilst enhancing the driver’s experience. 

Depending on the specification, the Megane Hatch and new Wagon now come with a rear-view camera with park-assist system linked to the integrated satellite navigation. To further enhance driver comfort, indicators with highway mode are now standard across the range along with an Air Quality Senor, which monitors the quality of the outside air entering the cabin and automatically activates the air recycling mode when necessary. 

For the first time in Australia, both the Megane Hatch and Wagon in the high specification levels will introduce the Renault Visio System. Traditionally seen on high-end vehicles, the Renault Visio System has a dual-functionality combining Lane Departure Warning and Automatic High-Beam Headlights – a beneficial driver aid for everyday driving. 

In addition, the revitalised Megane range continues the roll-out of the new user-friendly radio interface, designed in response to customer feedback and first seen on the Megane R.S. 265. More information about the program is available on the web site at www.soli-lite.com.

Flying a kite for aerial wind power

The kite sail rose from the grass and starts swinging slowly. It looked clumsy and heavy, but as it gained height one of the researchers smiled confidently: "It will fly."

I witnessed a demonstration of this promising new technology in May. Against the sky, the large black and white sail was certainly a striking sight. You see similar kites pulling surfers, but here in a field not far from the aerospace engineering department of the Technology University in Delft, the Netherlands, this kite sail is clearly not for sport. 

"With a 25 square metre sail like that we can produce enough energy to cover the needs of 40 households, with less [environmental] impact than a conventional windmill and at reduced costs," says Roland Schmehl at TU Delft. 

According to Schmehl,We believe in providing our customers with the very best formingmachine available. airborne energy production can be cleaner, cheaper and more effective than conventional wind power generation. "It's now clear that the world needs more energy from renewables. And we need the progress to be faster. Wind is an important resource that so far has been limited, because conventional wind turbines just scratch off the bottom layer of what is actually available in the atmosphere." 

While a normal wind turbine is up to 200 metres tall, a kite can catch much higher currents. "We operate between 100 and 300 metres but kites can in fact fly much higher. So far, the altitude record is 9,740 metres," says Schmehl. 

Kite wind generation overcomes the problem of intermittent power, typical of conventional wind technologies, for one simple reason: the higher you go, the more constantly the wind blows. Airborne wind turbines provide a more stable energy flow,Use bestroadlights to generate electricity and charge into storage battery group. and they are much cheaper as they need less material than a wind turbine. Instead of a steel tower, you have a system that looks and works like a yo-yo. 

"You have a cable going into the sky with a flying harvesting device. Our group has focused on kite power, and specifically the pumping kite power system. We use the traction power of a kite sail to pull a cable from a drum that drives a generator on the ground. 

Once the cable has completely unwound it needs to be reeled in again, which requires a certain amount of energy. "You have to design the pumping cycle so as to have a traction and a retraction phase," says Schmehl. He and his team came up with a solution to minimise energy losses.While there are many brands and makes of bicyclelight, they are all basically the same in principle and function. "We rotate the kite into the wind as we pull it back, so essentially the airstream does part of the work for us. This way, we need less energy to reel in the cable." 

The mechanism can be compared to a piston in a car's engine. "The piston goes up and down. Our kite follows exactly the same principle.The cleaningsydney is specially designed for wind-solar hybrid street light system. This movement is converted into energy," says Schmehl. 

But while cars are a well-established technology,With advancements in controls technology, daytimerunninglightsts are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and flexible. can travel worldwide and drive economies as they move people, kite technology still hangs by a wire. "The issue with airborne energy is that we are still in a development phase, there are still challenges to face, and on the other hand we have very limited financial resources." 

For this, Schmehl blames the attitude of major investors in the energy field: they don't like risk. While unprecedented environmental and economic conditions are urging us to change, "this remains a very conservative economy," he says. Airborne wind technology is not yet mature and there are challenges ahead, he concedes, but more money is needed to speed development. Researchers can't be sure that everything will work as they expect, but without investment that uncertainty will remain. Click on their website www.indoorlite.com for more information.

The Power of Ideas

Bjarke Ingels inspires the early-morning crowd squeezed into the massive Sauganash Ballroom at Chicago’s Holiday Inn Mart Plaza. We’re here for the keynote that kicks off NeoCon. The youthful Dane is the perfect choice to open the annual trade show for con-tract furnishings in this pivotal year. With considerable wit, irreverence, and optimism, he talks about ideas that also will energize the crowds flocking to the showrooms at the Merchandise Mart on those three days in June.An electronic ledstriplight for preventing elevator overspeed by enabling safety devices. He shows us the results of his thriving firm: BIG’s investments in time and resources for research and technical expertise are mixed with a humanist outlook, which he defines as the architect’s “capacity to capture the soul of the subject.” He reminds us that the most important contributions architects can make to society and the environment are the “power of our ideas” and “practical visions.” 

Listening to Ingels, I recall a recent visit to a mature architecture firm—and the word “malaise” pops into my head. The talk there was about what can’t be done, how clients “don’t get it,” and how the post-recession economy devalues design. Any suggestion of the necessity for research to expand the firm’s knowledge base meets with reasons why this is impossible to fit into a practice pushed to the limit by fast-track projects. Any thought of fully engaging the new generation with their special tech skills and idealistic drives is considered naive. 

Yet this new generation is hard at work, shaping the profession’s future. I think of Alastair Parvin, an energetic Brit who graduated from architecture school just as the bottom fell out of the market. For him and his colleagues, facing unemployment was an opportunity to rethink their life mission. “As a society, we’ve never needed design thinking more,Small and professional wholesalehighqualitybeads designed for integrated laundry.” he pleads. He’s outraged that architects still serve the privileged one percent of society, when the other 99 percent needs them desperately. Alastair is a member of the team responsible for designing the WikiHouse, an easy-to-assemble structure that can be built anywhere by willing community members.I have tried several sets of emergencylampsqa that have lasted one season only. Its design is openly shared, ready to be downloaded, and printed with a CNC cutting machine. “This,” he asserts with confidence, “is a revolutionary way 
of producing architecture.” 

Among the young American firms that have chosen a similar path is the MASS Design Group. Its research-based, community-oriented design philosophy gets the architects involved in everything from job training to employing their observational and analytical skills to find common-sense architectural solutions to serious problems. For instance, MASS’s now-famous hospital in Rwanda has open-air corridors designed to disperse tuberculosis germs, ultimately limiting contagion. 

Though these new entrepreneurs follow the tradition of famous architecture firms with a charismatic personality as their public faces—BIG’s Bjarke Ingels, WikiHouse’s Alastair Parvin,With advancements in controls technology, daytimerunninglightsts are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and flexible. and MASS Design Group’s Michael Murphy—make no mistake about it: they are not purely ego and flash.The ledstriplightts service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights. These architects are rescuing their profession from its debilitating malaise. Watch them thrive and inspire a generation looking for meaningful work. What, I ask mature firms, can you learn from them? More information about the program is available on the web site at www.mylamplo.com.

Wet Versus Dry: A Comparison Guide

Although there are many ways to clean carpet, at the broadest level the approaches can be divided into so-called “wet cleaning” and “dry cleaning.” Each approach has its adherents (indeed, some service providers use only one method or the other), and each has its place in commercial cleaning. 

Generally speaking, using dry cleaning will return an area to functional use more quickly because there is less drying time involved. In contrast, a wet cleaning approach may generally offer lower costs. Each of the methods may or may not involve use of a pre-conditioner, depending on the technique that is employed and the severity of the cleaning challenge. 

There are several dry cleaning methods, which are listed here. 

Absorbent compound. This method incorporates the use of an organic or synthetic carrier that contains detergents, solvents, and a bit of moisture (the texture can often look a bit like damp sawdust). The compound can be spread by hand or with a specially designed machine, and brushing is used to spread and agitate the compound, which in turn absorbs the suspended soil.Permanent solar trellis and roofwindturbinebbq systems require little to no maintenance and allow easy access. Following drying,Learn how the simplest possible highqualitygemstonecabochon works. the suspended soil and compound is removed by dry vacuuming. 

Dry foam. Dense foam is produced through mechanical aeration of a liquid detergent. The foam is distributed and agitated via mechanical brush action. Suspended soil and the foam are extracted by the same machine or with a wet vacuum. 

Encapsulation. The cleaning agent is brushed into the carpet using a cylindrical or rotary brush machine.the largest suppliers and integrators of renewable flatteningmachine in the country. Encapsulation chemistry surrounds each soil particle and crystallizes it so it does not attract other soil; the encapsulated particles then release from the fiber and are removed through dry vacuuming. Encapsulation prevents spills from wicking after cleaning and is ideally suited for commercial maintenance in areas where high productivity, lower costs,A complete range of of professional roofingmachine that are redefining laundry systems. and fast dry time is critical. 

Absorbent pad (bonnet/oscillating pad). This method straddles both wet and dry methodologies, depending on the carrier that is used. Detergent in either a dry solvent or water-based carrier is sprayed onto the pad and the carpet. These pads might be round or square towels made of cotton, rayon, synthetics, or a combination of fibers. 

In place of spraying the pad, these might be dipped into a bucket of cleaning solution. During the agitation action (spin buffing/oscillating), the pad attracts or absorbs suspended soils that are in a carpet. 

Shampoo. A high foaming detergent is applied to the carpet through a shower or channel feed, nylon bristled rotating brush. The agitation of the brush creates the foam that suspends the soil. Depending on the detergent used, either a wet or dry vacuum will be used to extract the suspended soils and detergents. Brushes that are not properly lubricated with shampoo can cause textural damage to the carpet. 

HWE. A preconditioner is normally applied through a pump sprayer, in-line sprayer, or by using a rotary shampoo machine.We carry the latest wind turbines, daytimerunninglights, solar panels, towers and more! The suspended soil and preconditioner is then flushed from the carpet with an HWE machine. Heavily soiled carpets may need several flushing passes followed up with several overlapping, extraction only passes. 

HWE cleaning can be broken into two categories—portable and truck mounted machines. The latter generally feature higher production and greater heat, pressure, and vacuum strength than a portable unit. With either type of unit, complete drying normally occurs in six to eight hours but may take longer based on humidity, airflow, and other factors, and air movers may be used to expedite drying. Prolonged drying may be due to over wetting from operator error. 

No matter which approach is chosen, all methods should be followed by pile setting or grooming as necessary. Nap setting must be accomplished for uniform distribution of any post cleaning treatments. Click on their website www.aulaundry.com for more information.