The headdress for Ordos women, commonly called "toudai" (literally, head wear), is the choice piece of Mongolian ornaments as well as the pride of the Ordos people. Toudai includes six parts: hair hoop, back shield, earmuff, ...
The dragon boat festival is a totem festival. Falling on the 5th of the fifth lunar month, it is close to the summer solstice. Pestilence, as a result of the heat and dampness, is at its worst, threatening lives of human community. Images ...
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Lighting makes up about 18% of the total electricity consumed in the U.S. and energy efficient lighting plays a major role in conservation efforts. Switching from fluorescent to LED has benefits including energy savings and longer life, ...
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Hairpins and hair clasps were everyday embellishments in old China. During the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911), women's hair ornaments expressed traditional Chinese thought and culture in exquisite, sophisticated techniques. ...
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The U.S.Department of Energy has completed Series 19 of testing through the DOE Solid-State Lighting CALiPER program.A summary of the results is now available for download. Report 19 reviews the independently tested performance of nine ...
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Facility utilizes efficient solutions to educate students on sustainable design. Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently ...
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Author(s): Miriam Berg Author(s): Lindsey O'Hern The Alliance’s Washington, D.C., LEED-CI Silver headquarters already is energy-efficient – but it recently became even more so with a new lighting upgrade! The first phase of ...
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Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, recently provided lighting solutions to the University of Kansas' Studio 804 design team to ...
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Rustic chic meets DIY and the Bike Culture edge,with a hint of upcycling brings you to the design aspects of the bicycle chandelier.A quick browse through the internet shows that these recycle bike chain junkies have utilized both ...
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WAC Lighting was honored recently by The Electrical Distributor(tED),the official publication of the National Association of Electrical Distributors,with a 2012 Best of the Best Marketing Excellence Award for its Custom Display Program in ...
LEDnovation introduces 75W-and 100W-equivalent A-lamps,warm-on-dim BR30 28 Sep 2012 LEDnovation has developed a 100W-equivalent A-lamp that produces 1600 lm and uses 19W,while its new 75-equivalent A-lamp uses 14W to produces 1150 lm.The ...
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Pendant lights...sure….they're nice. Terrariums...…Take'em or leave'em. Put the two together, it's true love! The designers at Bocci have taken their original 28 series design to a new echelon with the 38 Series terrarium ...
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Pendant lights...sure….they're nice.Terrariums...…Take'em or leave'em.Put the two together,it's true love! Images courtesy of Bocci The designers at Bocci have taken their original 28 series design to a new echelon with ...
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More than 40 exhibitors - including 17 new ones - in the furniture, bedding, lighting, rugs, wall art and decorative accessories categories at the High Point Market's Made in America Pavilion next month. The pavilion, in Suites at Market ...
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Remote-phosphor systems can yield uniform light from a large emitting surface,and can eliminate the need for a secondary optic to achieve the desired light distribution,as MARTIN SCHIEL explains. As high-power LEDs have proved their ...
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