| Museums Merge with Might and Muscle
ROCKLAND/ROCKPORT (April 19): Three Knowlton Moving vans pulled up to the Maine Lighthouse Museum in downtown Rockland on Thursday loaded with valuable treasure. It had been a tough journey for Rolf Winters' hard-working crews that had to deal with the Nor'easter that delayed delivery for two days and rocked the trucks on their way to Wells. .
Hella Supplies Exterior, Interior Lighting for BMW 5 Series
PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, Mich., April 11 -- Hella, a global supplier of automotive lighting and electronic equipment, is providing exterior and interior lighting for the 2007-model BMW 5 Series. Hella, working in collaboration with BMW engineers, has developed the 5 Series' front headlights and combination rear taillights. Hella also supplies the car's headlight power-washing system, interior lighting and reading lamps. Featuring a clear-glass look, the Hella supplied twin-round headlamps offer a striking, jeweled appearance to the 5 Series. The car's base model is equipped with H7 halogen bulbs for low- and high-beam lighting, as well as four light-guide rings. The 5 Series also can be outfitted with Hella's Bi-Xenon headlamps that generate low-beam and high-beam lighting from the same module.
Replace conventional light switches with dimmers
Replacing conventional light switches with dimmers can help you set a nice mood lighting. However, dimmer switches won't work with all light bulbs. Dimmer switches are available in several styles. The least expensive ones are dial-shaped knobs. They cost around $1.75. With knobs, "you have to adjust the light (level) every time you turn it on," said Doug Beach, the store manager at Lamps Plus in Fresno, Calif. "You also have to click it off to be sure the lights are off." There also are dimmers that look like standard light switches. Some allow you to gradually toggle up and down for different degrees of light. If your other switches are the standard-toggle ones, these dimmers will blend right in, he says. However, you still have to adjust the light level when you turn them on and make sure they're clicked off.
NHL value scout: This week's daily picks
Anaheim and Detroit haven't played over since March 21, 2004, a streak that goes back seven games. An under play looks strong here too with the Red Wings struggling to light the lamp. They've only scored five goals combined in their last four outings. Pick: Under 5 ½ Tuesday – Pittsburgh at Washington Putting Gary Roberts on the ice with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in extra-man situations has really sparked the Penguins' power play. Each had a power-play goal in the first period during Sunday's 5-0 trouncing of Boston. “They made the right decisions when attacking the net," coach Michel Therrien told reporters. “The execution was there." It's shaping up to be a death sentence for the Capitals, who've allowed eight power-play goals in their last six tilts.
Small army of sensors invades city
Rosario's got the ball, she passes it to Josh Bers . Then Racing has the ball and passes it to Bers. In this field, the ball is actually data, and Rosario and Racing -- named for two Argentine soccer teams -- are wireless sensors on the roof of BBN Technologies in Cambridge. The sensors are part of the world's first high-powered, fixed, outdoor, wireless sensor network, called CitySense. Right now the network senses only weather data, but researchers expect that to change once the entire 100-node network is in place throughout Cambridge. Bers, a senior engineer at BBN Technologies, heads the project with Matt Welsh, an assistant professor of computer science at Harvard University. Via the Internet, they can log on to the CitySense site and check the information being detected and transmitted by the two nodes atop BBN: wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure.
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