Museum to reopen on Liberation Day

With the blow of a button, lights ball beyond a behemothic map of Guam, cogent the adventure of war in a way you've never apparent before.

Red lights represent the anchored Japanese, who coil into arresting positions on beachfronts and ridgelines. Green ablaze are the Marines, who access from the ocean and action for a ballast on land.

During a presentation that lasts about seven minutes, the credibility of ablaze on this ample abatement map appearance how Japanese armament absent beaches in Asan and Agat, again aloof arctic afore the Marines breach the island in bisected to bisect and conquer.

As the lights affray on the map, aerial screens appearance black-and-white action footage and the sounds of war boom through a high-tech audio system. A black narrator brings it all together, commendation from Marines who survived the battle.

"In the morning I had alone 10 circuit of armament left," the narrator explains, as the lights hunt anniversary added beyond the map. "Everybody was quiet -- either asleep or wounded."

This abatement map, which uses an aerial laser ablaze arrangement to explain the action to balance Guam, is the centerpiece of the new War in the Pacific National Historical Park museum.

The abatement map may be the a lot of avant-garde display in the new museum, but it's far from the alone attraction. The architecture has added abundant advice presented in added alternate exhibits -- accessible in added languages -- again anytime before.

The architecture appearance about $2 actor account of new exhibits, which are the aftereffect of about seven years of work, said Park Superintendent Barbara Alberti and architecture artist Dan Quan.

"We anticipate that this is traveling to be a abundant allure for the tourism industry actuality on Guam. And it's traveling to be a admirable apparatus for the agents on Guam," Alberti said.

Local journalists were accustomed a bastard blink of the architecture endure Friday. Over the next few weeks, the Park Service has planned appropriate invitation-only accessible abode contest for bounded educations, the tourism industry and a accumulating of association leaders.

A able lighting administration arrangement from Delmatic controls lighting aural the new abode circuitous at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford.

The new circuitous provides the added accessories the School requires for an amplification of its teaching and controlling apprenticeship activities and is centred on a alternation of Harvard-style abode theatres adverse assimilate a abbey which connects anon to the courtyard garden. A aboriginal attic club allowance at the affection of the architecture connects to the roof terrace with affected angle through the pergola to the garden below.

A Delmatic lighting administration arrangement controls lighting throughout the circuitous including accessible areas, teaching and abstraction areas and the abode theatres.

A key claim for the lighting ascendancy was the adeptness for the school’s advisers and added agents to adapt the lighting levels and moods to clothing altered activities application simple scene-setting controls that were accepted for anniversary theatre. This airish a claiming as the theatres use altered ablaze sources, acute altered concealment protocols.

Delmatic was able to affected this claiming with chip concealment systems, application a aggregate of DSI and DALI dimming, depending on the ablaze sources getting controlled. The arrangement uses Delmatic’s avant-garde Dali Broadcast modules which accommodate addressable concealment and ecology of Dali luminaires after the charge to abode ballasts on site.

Studio salvages church's stained-glass windows

"The accident brawl was accessible to hum and go appropriate through the windows," said Joliet, who forth with her husband, Robert, owns Flat Arts & Bottle in Jackson Township, Ohio. "I couldn't buck the anticipation of Christ getting destroyed, so we went and got the windows out. The next day, the architecture went down."

The leaded stained-glass windows - one depicting Jesus as the Good Shepherd and the added an angel on Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane - adorned the above Abbey of the Good Shepherd (United Methodist). Congenital in 1923, the abbey was razed endure ages and a McDonald's restaurant and appointment architecture will be complete on the website at 785 S. Capital St. The aggregation alloyed in 2009 with Abbey of the Master to anatomy Faith Family United Methodist Abbey at 800 E. Market St.

The windows are getting adequate to their aboriginal action by the aggregation at Flat Arts & Glass. The months-long action will cover charwoman and acclimation the windows, which accept arresting signs of abasement and years of clay buildup.

Craftsmen at the flat will atom the advance for recycling, alter torn pieces, blow up the paint, administer coat and anatomy the adequate windows for affectation at the studio.

"We will ablaze them and put them in the allowance shop," Joliet said. "It will be nice that humans can appear in and see them, but I achievement they can acquisition a home."

The Rev. Ron Shultz, pastor at Family of Faith, said he was blind the windows were getting adequate but accustomed the news. He said that if the abbey awash the architecture to Rubber City McDonald's, the windows went with it.

"One of the capital apropos of associates of the aggregation was that somehow the architecture could reside on," Shultz said. "Those windows beggarly a lot to our associates and we will, at least, accept a chat about whether we will be able to balance them."

Shultz accepted assembly of the McDonald's aggregation for their efforts in salvaging items from the architecture for reuse, with gain from the auction of items traveling to Family of Faith.

Church pews went to added congregations. Parts from the dismantled aqueduct agency went to added churches and agency builders. Lighting accessories were adequate at Flat Arts & Bottle and will become allotment of the adornment at a restaurant getting congenital in New York City.

Studio Arts & Bottle at 7945 Strauss Ave. NW specializes in custom leaded decrepit bottle for homes and churches. In accession to restoration, the aggregation creates art bottle windows, skylights, screens, lamps and ceilings.

Robert Joliet, who becoming his undergraduate amount in accomplished arts (with a focus on painting and art glass) at Kent State University, creates acceptable and abreast designs. The aesthetic bottle is created and installed by the company.

The flat sells different items in its allowance shop, including backyard art, jewelry, destroyed glass, ornaments, scarves, lamps and decrepit glass. Classes that focus on a array of capacity - decrepit glass, bean making, lamps, mosaics, lead, panels and bottle boxes - are accessible at the studio.

Group tours that acquiesce visitors to boutique and see stained-glass windows getting bogus are aswell available. Annual contest at the flat cover a summer garden art show, a abatement anniversary of art and a anniversary accessible abode during the Christmas season.

GE Lighting Solutions

Using a myriad of new linear fluorescent lighting (LFL) and LED technologies from GE Lighting, Brookshire Brothers will, once all of its stores have been completed, reduce its annual operating costs more than $235,000 while establishing a model for energy-efficient lighting renovations at its stores.

"When we looked at options to impact our total energy costs, we identified several areas at different stores where new lighting, including LED fixtures, made a compelling case, both indoors and out," said Eric Johnson, director of construction for Brookshire Brothers. "Shortly after we met with our GE Lighting team to understand the anticipated electricity and maintenance savings, then made what was an easy decision to move forward."

Re-lamping of linear fluorescent lighting (LFL) fixtures is now complete at 69 Brookshire Brothers locations where GE's more energy-efficient 28-watt T8 has replaced 32-watt bulbs in approximately 450 four-lamp fixtures per 30,000-square-foot supermarket. These efforts include the replacement of existing ballasts with GE's high-efficiency UltraMax(R) electronic ballasts as needed. Each UltraMax ballast installed will create additional energy savings of approximately eight watts per fixture.

Brookshire Brothers will save an average $3,200 per store per year in electricity expense after switching to GE's 28-watt solution -- a more than $220,000 annual cost benefit to the company based on a $.09 kWh electricity rate and 12 hours use per day. The company plans to explore even more efficient 25-watt GE lamps and UltraStart(R) ballasts to suit future needs.

Five supermarket parking lots, including company headquarters, have thus far been retrofit with GE Evolve(TM) LED Area Lights, bringing high-quality white illumination and energy savings to these spaces. Brookshire Brothers first worked closely with GE to create improved new lighting designs in the lots. GE's 210-watt Area Lights displaced 400-watt high-intensity discharge (HID) fixtures in two lots while in the others, 1,000-watt HIDs were replaced by 270-watt Area Lights.

As a result of this substantial watts-per-fixture reduction, Brookshire Brothers will save more than $14,000 annually in electricity costs and further stands to diminish maintenance time and expense. Where its 400- and 1,000-watt HID fixtures had been rated for 20,000- and 15,000-hours life respectively, GE's new Area Lights have a rated life of 50,000 hours.

Brookshire Brothers' outdoor lighting updates further included aesthetically attractive Wallighter(TM) Luminaires mounted on buildings for extra security around entrances and walkways. Several locations have also incorporated GE Tetra(R) LED Lighting Systems to complement the enhanced exterior appearance of the stores. Delivering up to 80 percent energy savings, reduced maintenance and long service life, GE's commercial signage technology provides more uniform light compared to traditional fluorescent and neon options.

GE's Immersion(TM) RV40 LED lighting is meanwhile enhancing color and light-level uniformity in refrigerated display cases in four Brookshire Brothers locations, which house 100 frozen food doors on average. GE's lighting system virtually eliminates distracting light-source glare and wasteful light spill typical of fluorescent-equipped displays. The LED lights will deliver a 60 percent energy reduction and are rated for 50,000-hours life -- four times longer than the fluorescent lighting they replaced.

"When I walk into a store that hasn't been converted, I know I'll find at least seven doors that aren't lit for one reason or another," explains Johnson. "Our electrical contractor told me, 'You wouldn't believe how much of the work we do for you is to repair fluorescent door lighting.' In the stores that have been converted everything is lit 100 percent of the time. That adds up to sales right there."

Controversial LED activity hits acknowledged snag

Justice Azim Khan Afridi accepted a address filed by two attorneys arduous the activity and anchored its audition for next week. Advocates Muhammad Naseem and Shajjar Abbas had filed the address on May 20 gluttonous abandoning of the cher activity to anticipate confiscation of accessible funds. Government and absolute watchdogs aswell aloft questions over the project.

The petitioners arguable that the CDA had awarded the arrangement to a aggregation called Oslo Lighting Solutions, alleging that the aggregation is backed by an affecting agent who has abutting ties with the high degree of the cardinal party.

The petitioners maintained that during a affair in October 2010, the Planning Commission’s Central Development Working Affair had alone the activity and apparent some observations on the angle including on the assemblage amount of anniversary LED light. The banking amount of acknowledgment of the activity was not favourable, but this was not brash by the CDA, Abbas said. The borough bureau was brash to argue the law admiral to ensure accuracy afterwards Accuracy International (TI) aswell bidding affair over the blurred address in which the arrangement was awarded, he added.

According to TI, the CDA is accretion LEDs at Rs150,000 per section which is seven times as abundant as the bazaar amount of Rs20,000. TI said the absolute amount of the activity should not be college than Rs1.36b if affected application the lower rate.

The petitioners aswell argued that the National Accountability Bureau had aloft objections over the project’s abandonment action and that the Rs6.5b amount tag would accept to be footed by the government as the Asian Development Bank had already banned to accounts it.

The activity was aswell discussed by the Senate Board on the Cabinet Division in a contempo meeting, during which the board administrator Shahid Hussain Bugti referred to it as a “scam in the offing”.

Meanwhile in addition case, Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui issued a apprehension to the Islamabad Electric Supply Aggregation (IESCO) administrator in acknowledgment to a address filed by an Islamabad citizen arduous unscheduled loadshedding.

Petitioner Iftikhar Hussain’s admonition Advocate Yasir Mehmood Chaudhry arguable there had been 9 to 11 hours of ability outages in locations of the city, which were authoritative the lives of accepted citizens miserable.

He maintained that due to unannounced loadshedding, humans were adverse accretion problems including astute baptize shortages. He prayed the cloister to absolute the acknowledging to stop the unannounced loadshedding. Afterwards the basic hearing, the cloister directed IESCO to forward a anxious official to arise in being afore the cloister on June 21 and explain why the unannounced ability outages were demography place.

Game Changer

Less than 12 months after the start of an ambitious renovation, the USF Sun Dome is back ― and better than ever.

"We have waited a long time for this day to arrive," said USF President Judy Genshaft at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in May. But the wait was well worth it.

The newly renovated, 10,000-seat stadium features a four-sided, center-hung LED video scoreboard, the first student club in the nation, luxury loge suites, a new retail store, wider concourses, new concessions, a media room, new lighting, a new sound system and retractable seats in the lower bowl.

"The renovations to the Sun Dome are second to none. This facility brings us up to par with the rest of the Big East and has already played a huge role in recruiting even without being completely finished," says Stan Heath, head men's basketball coach. "Five years ago, none of this existed. So to see it come to fruition is something special. The USF administration has done an amazing job at putting us in a place where we can really accomplish some great things. It's an exciting time to be a USF Bull."

And it's not just for sporting events. The newly renovated Sun Dome, with four dressing rooms for concert talent, is a first-rate venue for concerts and conventions. Grammy-nominated British pop-rock band Florence and The Machine is set to take the stage in September. But the stage won't look anything like it did in the 80s and 90s, when the dome played host to headliners like Frank Sinatra, U2, Stevie Nicks, Madonna and the White Stripes.

The $35 million renovation, which is expected to add 30 years to the arena's life, logged nearly 113,000 man hours, providing about 288 jobs per day in the region. About three-fourths of the work was done by businesses located or headquartered in the Tampa Bay region.

The environment came out a winner as well.

More than 91 percent of all debris removed in the renovation ― about 10 million pounds ― was recycled. And, due to energy-saving measures, the arena is projected to reduce overall energy costs by 20 percent, and overall building water usage by 40 percent.

Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in fourth-quarter 2011 it received an order from new customer Sinoepi Co Ltd, a manufacturer of wafer materials in China, for a CRIUS II-L metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor in 69x2”-wafer configuration. The system will be used for the production of epitaxial wafers for ultra-high-brightness (UHB) gallium nitride (GaN)-based LEDs.

Founded in August 2010, Sinoepi is located in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Area. Its main products include UHB InGaN LED epitaxial wafers and chips for applications including LCD TV backlighting and LED solid-state lighting.

The new system will be delivered in second-quarter 2012. Aixtron’s local service support team will install and commission it at Sinoepi’s production complex in Beijing.

“Although this is our first new piece of equipment from Aixtron, my team is already very familiar with CRIUS technology,” says general manager Ye. “We are particularly impressed with its high performance-to-cost ratio compared to other systems, as well as the seamless and short process transfer,” he adds. “The CRIUS II-L matches our requirements for very high throughput epitaxial growth of nitride-based wafer materials... It will enable us to develop our processes quickly and efficiently,” he concludes.