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from 'Florida Restaurant & Lodging Magazine Early Summer - May 2020'

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LED Lighting: That’s a Bright Idea! By BOB HORSWOOD, Director, LED Lighting Solutions

Stylishly designed LED lighting is an environmentally friendly energy solution that can bring huge savings to your property, enhance the look and feel of common spaces and provide additional safety and security.

The benefits of switching to LED include: » Durability: LEDs can last for 50,000 hours or longer with the ad...

There are gender disparities in how Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed and treated. Unlike males, females are diagnosed less often and go untreated for ADHD, although they may live with the chronic condition from childhood. Because ADHD is a common neurodevelopmental disorder for children, it is also — assumingly — an equal opportunity condition. While this should be true, the official diagnosis statistics tell a different story.

Of the 6 million children in the Unit...

Think back to mixing primary-color paint in grade school. Remember how mixing in yellow changes white, blue and red? Lighting is no exception. A problem too often overlooked is how the yellow-tinted light of high-pressure sodium (HPS) fixtures, which are typically found lighting streets and some parking lots, impacts your perception of the colors around you.
There are public safety benefits when true colors are visible. Imagine a crime has occurred and the police need a description of the car...

Light pollution is an area of concern to conservationists because natural light is a critical component of the survival of Florida’s protected sea turtles. Emerging from the ocean to lay eggs, the turtles are easily thrown off course by artificial light interference from residential and commercial properties along Florida’s coastal communities.
Most municipalities and local governments in the state of Florida have enacted lighting ordinances, to which these communities near the beach must adh...

'Florida Restaurant & Lodging Magazine Fall 2022 Food Issue'

Benefits of Fixed Pricing for Natural Gas

by RAY BUROW

Natural gas accounts for 34% of the energy consumed in the United States, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Commercial customers consumed 10% of the 30.48 trillion cubic feet of U.S. natural gas in 2020. Anyone working in the food industry already knows what the numbers prove. We need natural gas. However...

Florida has a southern charm all its own. Homeowners infuse southern style throughout their homes, but utilize what is unique to the Sunshine State. An updated touch of southern charm influences living room decorating.
Ray Burow Jun 27, 2013
Florida is the southern most state in the contingent United States, and yet most people do not connect southern decorating with Florida home interiors. Maybe it is because southern charm brings to mind large, stuffy, plantation homes. This is not associat...