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The SunPower Foundation today announced that it is teaming up with One Million Lights, a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that provides solar lighting to rural communities globally, to launch a solar education program for K-12 schools called One Million Students. The program provides educators with grade-appropriate curriculum structured to increase student understanding of how solar works and how it is being applied to generate clean, renewable energy in locations around the world.

The One Million Students program features three, one-hour lesson plans which highlight real-life case studies on solar technology use worldwide along with interactive learning tools including solar-powered LED lights and solar electricity testing kits. Teachers can choose curriculum based on specific education levels: elementary school, middle school or high school. Plans can be integrated into existing environmental studies, math and science courses, and delivered by SunPower or One Million Lights representatives.

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“The One Million Students program has touched the hearts and minds of our 270 seventh-grade students,Shop for high quality wholesale rattan pendant lamp products on DHgate and get worldwide delivery.” said Curtis Schneider, a teacher at Egan Junior High School in Los Altos, Calif. “During a recent three-day lesson,Browse the UK’s best selection of light project, handpicked from the finest stores and designers. our students were taught the science of creating light with the sun and then learned how One Million Lights is bringing solar LED lights to those who live in an off-grid world. As a teacher, I value students learning how science can help the planet and those who are less fortunate. Two thumbs up and best wishes for the future of this program.”

“SunPower and our employees were pleased to pilot One Million Students in local schools and the positive results have encouraged us to make its valuable curriculum available more broadly,” said Doug Richards, SunPower Foundation chairman. “The program will help to educate the next generation of solar leaders about a pressing need for clean energy solutions while increasing their awareness of solar’s growing presence around the world.”

“We are delighted to be a part of this initiative,” said Anna Sidana, founder of One Million Lights. “One Million Students employs a creative approach to education and addresses the critical issue for renewable energy solutions in our lives. This program enables us to bring our global solar light programs full circle by sharing our experiences and knowledge with children here in the States.”

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In Cars.com’s $25,000 Family Sedan Shootout, the judges were impressed with the 2010 Chevrolet Malibu’s roomy backseat that could fit three child-safety seats.

For 2013, Chevrolet gives us the all-new Malibu Eco, a fuel-efficient mild hybrid with redesigned exterior styling and an interior that GM says is more comfortable and spacious than ever. Comfortable, indeed; spacious, I’m not so sure. Despite a few inches added to its width and 2 cubic feet added to overall passenger volume, the 2013 Malibu’s cabin felt cramped, particularly in the backseat. Some have speculated that the cramped rear is likely due to a shorter wheelbase. Whatever the reason, don’t expect to fit three child-safety seats across this Malibu’s backseat.

Despite this small decrease in family-friendliness, the 2013 Chevy Malibu Eco is worth a look when contemplated for what it is: a fuel-efficient, nice-looking and extraordinarily quiet midsize sedan at a decent price.

The Chevy Camaro served as inspiration for the Eco’s exterior looks, which is notable in its taillights and tight rear end. Despite my enduring belief that everyone looks better with a tight rear, it doesn’t quite work on the Malibu. Its aggression is a bit incongruous with the rest of the Malibu Eco’s clean, safe and abiding lines.Browse the UK’s best selection of light project, handpicked from the finest stores and designers.

The doors and step-in height are manageable for small children, and the trunk was light enough, though often finicky about closing, so two hands were needed more often than not. Daytime running lights, front fog lamps and halogen headlights are standard as are heated side mirrors and 17-inch aluminum wheels. The side mirrors are small and inflexible; I struggled for a few minutes to fold them in before entering a car wash.

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The Eco has a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine that has fuel-saving variable valve timing and eAssist technology in which a lithium-ion battery pack and small electric motor supplement the gasoline engine’s performance, thereby delivering greater fuel efficiency. The engine produces 182 horsepower and has a six-speed automatic transmission. The 2013 Malibu Eco uses regular gas.Buy table lamps, modern lamps and floor lamps from Heal’s, the home of modern, designer and contemporary table, floor and desk lamps.

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The Independent Grocers Alliance (IGA), Chicago, said it has joined forces with the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) in its second annual IGA exclusive brand national cause-marketing initiative. During this national campaign, which will run in participating IGA stores from Memorial Day Weekend (May 28) through Labor Day weekend, a number of WWP co-branded IGA exclusive brand products will be available for purchase in participating IGA stores, with portions of sales going to WWP. By fall of this year, IGA plans to donate up to $200,000 to WWP.Find quality swing arm led light bulbs, swing arm sconces, swing arm wall mounted lamps and more at the lowest prices with Arcadian Lighting.

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Like it did last year, Kraft Foods will be joining in with a contribution from water-enhancement displays placed in IGA stores. Kraft brands featured in the beverage shippers include MiO, Crystal Light, Kool-Aid and Country Time, IGA said.

“Last year we were overwhelmed with the support our independent IGA retailers and their IGA shoppers gave this Wounded Warrior Project cause marketing event, and we are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to work with our IGA retailers, Licensed Distribution Center partners, exclusive brand suppliers and Kraft Foods to raise money and awareness for WWP again in 2012,” said Dave Bennett, IGA senior vice president of procurement & exclusive brands. “We look forward to seeing how IGA’s innovative retailers will use this event to benefit WWP’s important mission to honor and empower our nation’s wounded service members.”

According to WWP, nearly 47,000 of our nation’s servicemen and women were physically wounded during the current military conflicts, with hundreds of thousands more estimated to be recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression and brain injuries. WWP assists injured service members and their families through a holistic approach to their recovery, providing programs and services to aid their physical rehabilitation and improving their mental health and well-being.

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Dell and IBM on Monday announced servers with Intel’s latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more complex workloads while reducing data center costs.

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Besides being faster and more power efficient, the new Xeon chips include support for technologies that enable faster data pathways for servers to take on high-performance computing workloads, both IBM and Dell said. The servers are denser and also carry more memory slots than predecessors, which allow for better database performance via more in-memory workloads.

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The new Xeon E5-4600 chips for four-socket servers and E5-2400 chips for two-socket servers are based on Intel’s Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, while the Xeon E3-1200 V2 chips are based on the new Ivy Bridge architecture and targeted at microservers, which are low-power servers for Web and cloud applications.

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Power consumption among the new Dell servers remains consistent compared to the previous generation, but customers will get better performance per watt of power consumed, Dell said. For example, the new PowerEdge R820 rack server with an E5-4600 chip is 43 percent faster compared to the previous generation PowerEdge R710 using comparable previous-generation Intel processors. That is important for customers concerned about reducing power consumption and related costs, Dell said.

Dell’s new R820 rack server supports up to 32 virtual machines in the same 2U rack space compared to the older PowerEdge R710, which supports up to six virtual machines, Dell said. The new server provides around 200 percent more performance on Java- or middleware-related tasks.

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Residents of Cathedral City may be paying a little more to help keep the lights on and medians manicured along city streets.

At Wednesday night’s City Council meeting, council members voted 3-0 to move forward with the process to increase Street Lighting and Landscape Maintenance District assessment fees.

Councilman Greg Pettis and Mayor Pro Tem Chuck Vasquez were absent.

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“With the city being in such financial straits, I guess they have to do what they have to do to keep the lights on. If residents don’t pay it, who else is going to?” resident Evan Kempter said.

Even though the increases are minor, some residents don’t realize they pay the fee since it is included in their property tax bills.

“Actually, I never look at my tax bill. My mortgage company pays my property tax, and all I worry about is that it gets paid,” resident Leslie Manor said.

“I guess maybe I should look at it to see what the heck I am paying for.”

In August 2001, city council adopted Resolution 2001-57, approving the formation of assessment district under the Street Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District Act of 1972.

The districts are supposed to help local governments offset the costs of running and improving public open space.

Under the act and Proposition 218, cities can levy assessments annually without district approval as long as the fees do not exceed the Consumer Price Index, Communications Officer Allen Howe said.

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Cathedral City isn’t the only Coachella Valley city asking homeowners to reach deeper into their pockets.

In April, Indian Wells officials endorsed a plan that would replace the varied fees some residents pay with a citywide $171 parcel tax. The proposal will be on the November ballot.

And in La Quinta, the City Council is studying whether to raise its lighting and landscaping rates in order to overcome a nearly $200,000 deficit.

Rancho Mirage has a uniform district, meaning every property parcel is assessed $26.42 a year. Residents who happen to live in one of five geographically defined zones pay even more for nearby landscaping.

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A bus/ferry day pass costs about $12 and — depending on traffic — the entire island can be covered in about an hour, with boat passage between the Royal Naval Dockyard and Hamilton cutting the return trip in half. Those unperturbed by traffic also get around by scooter, but the most popular leisure mode is biking some or all of the paths that trace the former Bermuda Railway.

Surprises await at every turn, an interactive dolphin show beneath the Dockyard’s fort, world’s smallest (56 cm) drawbridge, rustic 400-year-old Heydon Chapel and the winding cobblestones of St. George. Key points of Western history have Bermudian connections — the opening of the New World, British sea power, piracy, the American Revolution, Civil War and World War II.

But Bermuda’s star attraction is much, much older. The east end of the island has 1.6 million year-old limestone caves, nicknamed “Nature’s Jewelry Box.” The Crystal Caves — discovered in 1905 by two boys looking for their cricket ball — were first explored with just a bike lamp, but modern lighting and pontoon walkways now reveal each stalagmite, helectite and chandelier stalactite. Underneath a clear 17-metre lake, the cave floor glows turqouise. Our cave guide Eunico pointed out formations that resemble animals, mythological beasts, Bob Marley’s face and New York skyscrapers.

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The ideal panorama of the island is from the 185-step cast iron Gibbs’ Hill Lighthouse, down to the giant natural harbour of Great Sound. On either side are the bustling capital of Hamilton, the popular Dockyard development and golf courses sprinkled about. An imposing symbol of Britannia’s sea-faring muscle to this day, the Dockyard is where many cruise ships berth for dining, shopping, crafts and shipwreck museums.

The face of Main Street is changing — slowly — with work Wednesday on two gabion basket pillars at the corner of McCulloch Boulevard and South Smoketree Avenue.

Wednesday’s work by Lake Havasu City Main Street Association members with Mansell Welding Inc. workers, who were assisting, was the second phase of a three-phase project to set up an archway leading into downtown.

“This will be the second largest physical art piece (when it’s completed) in town next to the London Bridge,” said Eden Rudin Main Street Association member and co-owner of Scoops. “We’re real excited about it.Bellacor offers a large selection of マジコン for your yard or patio.”

Main Street members want the arch to offer a more welcoming and distinct presence to the area that is considered the downtown — McCulloch Boulevard between South Smoketree Avenue and Acoma Boulevard.

Wednesday, the gabion basket on the northern side of McCulloch and Smoketree was halfway filled before Mansell Welding Inc. workers were called away to another job, said Wayne Malone, Main Street member and owner of Neat Pool and Supply Co. He anticipated the work on the second phase with the rocks dumped into the basket pillars and the metal baskets welded shut would be completed today.

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The first phase involved setting up the rock base for the pillars on either side of McCulloch, Rudin said.

Rocks for the gabion basket pillars represented 18 yards and 27 tons, Malone said.

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Main Street members weren’t sure when the final phase of putting the arch in place would begin or how much it would cost.

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Another milestone with Arizona State University opening its new campus on Swanson Avenue will be represented next month in downtown banners.

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GE Lighting this week will illuminate a light-emitting diode replacement for the 100-watt incandescent light bulb—developed in its East Cleveland, Ohio, LED lab—that packages 27 watts of input power in a standard “A-19” bulb shape. The GE Energy Smart 27-watt LED bulb incorporates proprietary synthetic jet technology that was enabled by GE’s collaboration with ecomaginationSM Challenge winner Nuventix, creator of LED cooling technologies for energy-efficient lighting.

GE’s 27-watt Energy Smart LED bulb, on store shelves in the U.S. and Canada the first half of 2013 (MSRP to be determined), will debut on a global stage starting May 9 at LIGHTFAIR International in Las Vegas, the world’s largest lighting trade show. GE’s existing portfolio of LED bulbs includes a 13-watt LED (60-watt incandescent replacement) and a 9-watt LED (40-watt incandescent replacement), which was the first incandescent-shaped (A-19) LED in the world to earn ENERGY STAR qualification.

“Our innovation team has tackled a previously insurmountable technical challenge: cooling a 100-watt A-19 shaped replacement LED bulb without making it physically bigger,” says Steve Briggs, general manager of LED systems,Browse the UK’s best selection of light project, handpicked from the finest stores and designers. GE Lighting. “Each subsystem such as optics, electronics and thermals needed to be designed for miniaturization and cooperative performance. We explored the limits of what’s possible and pushed far beyond industry expectations and competitors’ thinking and product offerings.”

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“Our achievement does more than backfill for the 100-watt incandescent bulb,” adds Briggs. “We now have a clear path to attaining even higher light levels, which will give customers more energy-efficient lighting options in both commercial and residential settings. This product fills a real customer need and further extends GE’s LED lighting leadership.”

LEDs are semiconductors that produce light. They must be cooled to ensure long life. In collaboration with GE, Nuventix developed a method for moving air to cool LEDs using an oscillating membrane, called a synthetic jet (an alternative to a fan), which fits within the envelope of the A-19 bulb shape.

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It was harvest time at the Infinity Science Center in Hancock County, Monday. NASA technology is being used to grow specially-engineered lettuce in an indoor controlled environment.

It looks like something you’d pick up in the produce department at any grocery store. But this lettuce is grown with water and fog. Special LED lights provide the sunshine.

“We can grow a head of lettuce from seed to harvest size within about 35 days. It typically takes you between 50 and 60 days to grow the same lettuce outdoors,” said Joseph Graben with Innovative Imaging & Research.

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“The food the astronauts use now is freeze dried or packaged and processed. If you’ve looked at it, it’s not exactly what you’d like to say, ‘I’m going to spend my time for the next two years going to Mars eating this,’” explained Graben. “You might want something a little fresh and green.Pottery Barn’s floor lamp and wrought iron floor lamps feature vintage designs.”

Students from Mays Prep. School in New Orleans got a chance to harvest and put the space lettuce to the taste test.

“It was very good. It’s better than the lettuce at the stores,” said Destiny Pounds, age 9.

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Graben said the biggest benefit to growing food like this in space is it would save a lot of money. To lift food, or any pay load into space costs about $10,000 a pound.

“Instead of having to pay the cost to lift a head of lettuce into space, here all we have to do is fly up a light pack of seeds and then grow it up there. So a lot less cost if you grow it and produce it up there.”

He said the benefits and possibilities of this high tech growing method are endless for use in space and here on earth.

Infinity leaders say the growing technology is also being researched for future medical purposes. Officials hope to grow plants that produce vaccines and other medications faster than conventional methods.Shop Pottery Barn for expertly crafted drum Lamp shade, large lamp shades and linen lamp shades.