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USA - Nexxus Lighting has entered into an agreement pursuant to which Advanced Lighting Systems (ALS) would be merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexxus Lighting. The consummation of the transaction is subject to certain closing contingencies, including the delivery by ALS of audited financial statements.

Under the terms of the agreement, the sole shareholder of ALS would receive cash consideration of approximately $1.1 million, 260,000 shares of Nexxus Lighting's Common Stock, and based upon certain future earn-out formulations, up to an aggregate of approximately 425,000 additional shares of Nexxus Lighting's Common Stock.

Paul Streitz, the president and sole shareholder of ALS, is expected to remain as president of the new, wholly-owned Nexxus Lighting subsidiary.

"We believe that Advanced Lighting Systems has significant opportunities for growth," stated

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USA - Over 100,000 people made their way to Riverfront Park in downtown Nashville last month for the annual July 4th fireworks show. Ranked amongst the 'Top 10 Independence Day Celebrations' in the country, the party at Riverfront Park included a day filled with entertainment and family fun and an evening fireworks display.

Sponsored by GAC, this year's music included pre-show live music from The Dirt Drifters, Dead Country, Chris Janson and Jeffrey Steele. Keni Thomas performed the National Anthem before a two-hour live show that featured Rodney Atkins, Van Zant and Taylor Swift, joined by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

Lighting designer Mark Carver chose to use ETC Source Fours, Gladiator 3k Followspots, Martin MAC 500s, 600s and 2000 washes, and Vari*Lite 3000 spots to light the show. Equipment was controlled by two Wholehog IIs and wings.

Carver said the surrounding s

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UK - The Barbican Concert Hall, the 2,000 seat concert hall at the Barbican Arts Centre in London, was recently equipped with one grandMA full-size, two MA NSPs and one MA mediaPC with the software grandMA video installed.

"With the MA system we got the flexibility we need. We have large range of productions here from bands which we 'busk' to opera where we use a more theatrical programming style. We are using LEDs and video a lot more. With the grandMA video and the MA mediaPC we are able to control these with the lighting desk," explains deputy technical manager Ingo Rheinhardt his choice of the grandMA system. Besides others the lighting rig consists of 16 Martin Mac 700, 24 Martin TW1 and 18 ADB Warps.

The Barbican Arts Centre, which recently celebrated its 25th birthday, is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue, presenting a year-round programme of ar

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UK - Richard Martin Lighting in Park Royal, London, has invested further in the Clay Paky Alpha range of moving head luminaires.

The company has taken stock of Alpha Spot HPE 575s, Alpha Wash 575s and Alpha Wash 1200s adding to an already large and varied stock of moving and LED lights.

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USA - The ZZ Top Hollywood Blues Tour 2007 is using a grandMA and grandMA light to control lighting and video displayed on a big, soft LED drape onstage. The Texas band began their tour in March, will be joined by The Pretenders and The Stray Cats for the summer and then continue solo through October.

"I'm a grandMA guy through and through," says lighting designer/director Christopher Stuba. "The band wasn't really into IMAG but had been wanting to do video. So we bought a Catalyst system a couple of years ago. We're running the soft LED drape with it and using the grandMA through the Catalyst. The grandMA is wonderful and easy to manipulate. Troy Eckerman is our grandMA programmer; we've been working together on and off for 15 years - he's the best there is."

Currently, the grandMA controls an array of moving and conventional light fixtures, includi

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USA - The new Antari M-5 Fogger from Elation Professional is a versatile 1,500-watt stage fogger that's designed specifically for stage and touring use, the M-5 Fogger combines heavy-duty, rugged durability with a high-capacity tank and a stage-friendly case design, all in a portable unit that's quick and easy to set up, says the company.

Featuring a low-profile level rectangular case, the M-5 Fogger is designed to lay flat on a stage floor securely and unobtrusively. Two oversized handles allow for easy mobility and positioning. Another feature is its high-capacity 10-litre tank.

"With the M-5, Antari has created a truly one of-a-kind fogger designed uniquely for staging and touring," said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional. "Now bands, stage shows and touring productions can have all the incredible features of Antari's top-notch fog machin

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UK - Clay Paky will launch three small moving body projectors for professional use designed with "the big features of the whole Alpha Series" - the Alpha Spot HPE 300, Alpha Spot 300 effects projectors and the Alpha Wash 300 washlight.

The Alpha Spot HPE 300 is compact, light, silent, easy to install and extremely bright, with superior graphic and optical performances, says the company. It features a wide Zoom, CMY, 8+1 Colour Wheel, 15 gobos (of which eight are rotating), rotating prism, linear frost, smooth frost, 0-100% dimmer on dedicated channel, iris and stop/strobe. It has electronic ballast as standard.

With the same optical, lighting engineering and constructional qualities as the Alpha Spot HPE 300, the Alpha Spot 300 is fitted with two 8+1 colour wheels combinable together, 15 gobos (of which 8 rotate), rotating prism, 0-100% dimmer on dedicated channel an

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Estonia - The Athena Conference and Incentive Centre in Tartu is undergoing a major renovation programme. Although the renovations are yet to be fully realised, the venue is completely booked up for the next year with cultural event and conference organisers eager to take advantage of the state of the art in-house theatrical lighting, sound and video equipment on offer.

Athena has two theatres. The first holds 275 seated; and if all the seats are removed this increases to a 700-person limit. The second is black-box style seating 150 patrons.

Lighting equipment for both theatres includes over 150 Selecon luminaires including Rama 175 High Performance PCs with Fast Focus Technology yokes, Arena 2kW PCs, white Acclaim Axial 18º -34º Zoomspots, Pacific 12º-28º and 23º-50º Zoomspots with 80V 1200W power systems, Pacific Followspots with 80V 1200W power systems, Acclaim Fresne

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UK - Stage Electrics and White Light recently supplied a range of LED lighting, truss, control and sound equipment to what is believed to be the world's first performance powered solely by a fuel cell, which was held at the Arcola Theatre.

The theatre in Dalston, North East London, aims to become carbon neutral following an ambitious seven-year plan known as Arcola Energy. It has installed energy efficient stage lighting, biomass heating, solar panels, fuel cells and state of the art energy saving technologies throughout the building.

The Arcola Energy launch event took place during monsoon type rain and included a performance from Golden Globe winning actress Cathy Tyson, who coincidentally read from The Flood. During the performance Tyson was lit by a range of low-energy LED lights, solely powered by a 5kW PEM fuel cell.

For the launch performance, Stage Electrics s

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Singapore - The first Robe DigitalSpot 5000 DTs in the territory have been supplied to leading Singapore lighting company CSP, which took delivery of four units immediately after the PALME Asia exhibition from Robe SEA.

CSP's MD Kenny Heng says: "We've been closely watching the growing convergence between conventional and digital lighting, and the time is absolutely right for us to invest in this new technology and bring it to Singapore."

CSP works extensively throughout Singapore, Malaysia and other south east Asian countries, traversing several market sectors including live events, TV productions, theatre shows and corporate and industrial presentations.

CSP's Robe hire stock is the largest of any rental company in Singapore, and now includes 56 ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 16 ColorWash 1200E ATs , plus the new DigitalSpot 5000 DTs.

Recent CSP projects using Robe ha

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UK - A.C. Lighting has been confirmed as an Official Car Sponsor of the Arden International racing team for this year's GP2 motor racing series.

The Championship is designed to equip every member of every team with the experience, knowledge and determination to succeed in Formula One and features cars running at speeds only a few seconds shy of F1 pace. For this season Arden opted for rookie drivers Adrian Zaugg and Bruno Senna, nephew of the triple F1 Champion Ayrton Senna.

A.C. provided the Arden GP2 team's innovative 'bullet-shaped' garage lighting pods, which feature the latest LED colour-changing technology and were custom designed to be in keeping with the cars' cutting-edge aesthetic and functional design.

Phill Capstick, the company's UK sales director, comments: "A.C. Lighting is extremely proud to be sponsoring the Arden International GP2 racing team. Their tr

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Germany - In celebration of its 10th year in business, Look Solutions has launched its new website in advance of PLASA 2007. The new website is designed to be faster, easier to use and more organised than its predecessor, says the company.

"After 10 years we decided it was time for a new updated look," says managing director Kirsten Eicher. "The new website carries full details of all our entire product range and downloadable data sheets for each unit, in addition to news, references and a list of our extensive international dealer network. PLASA will prove an ideal forum for our customers to tell us what they think of the new format."

The latest products to be listed on the website are the new Tiny F07 and the Tiny CO7 battery operated foggers. These are the modified successors to the Tiny Fogger and the Tiny Compact respectively, with the design of each b

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Australia - LSC Lighting Systems, has appointed Dejan Deletic to the role of research & development software engineer based in its Melbourne Head Office.

Deletic comes to LSC with global experience in software design, having worked at Kvaerner Oilfield Products in the UK and Pupin Holdings in the former Yugoslavia. Most recently he has been working with Australian Arrow as their software developerHe will be working as part of the EKO R&D team; developing new software and giving the EKO range more flexibility to further expand its use into the 'archi-tainment' marketplace, says the company.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Batmink, one of PLASA's original members, will introduce a spread of new products at this year's show. International companies will be showcased alongside an extensive range of own brand LED and generic light fittings.

The Visage LED Video Floor Module is a new stage and club lighting product utilising RGB LED as a light source. Using advanced digital and video technology it can reproduce stunning motion effects as well as real time video, driven through PC DVI. A fully modular system, each floor panel measures 500mm x 500mm and inter-connect, allowing for total flexibility in both size and design. The panels use 12mm toughened glass as a faceplate, ensuring safety and durability.

This combination of form and function make this product suitable, not only for conventional dance floors but more unusual shapes such as catwalks and walkways.

Also debuting is the LED Truss P

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UK - HSL is once again supplying C Venues with lighting equipment for its seven main venues - incorporating 17 theatre spaces - at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

C Venues is presenting over 200 shows performed by 140 companies from all over the world across the three-week festival period.

HSL's Mike Oates project managed, working closely with C Venues' production manager Julie Rawlins. The supply has included over 350 lighting fixtures, desks, dimmers and several kilometres of cable.

It's the third year running that HSL has supplied C Venues at Edinburgh. Mike Oates says: "We're really pleased to be involved with C-Venues and the Fringe again. HSL has a history of working with all types of theatre shows, and it's great to support all the energy and enthusiasm - not to mention some cutting-edge performances - of the Fringe."

Each C Venues space has a 'standar

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USA - Hard Rock Park, billed as the world's first rock 'n' roll theme park, has broken ground as the first new major attraction to be built in the United States in nearly a decade. Slated to open in Myrtle Beach in May 2008, Hard Rock Park will celebrate the spirit of rock 'n' roll through "a myriad of unprecedented rides and attractions", marking the single largest tourism investment in South Carolina's history, say the developers.

GearSource's sales team worked with lighting designer, Bob Shultz and Hard Rock staff to provide the package they needed, This includes 20 Studio Color 575, 26 Studio Spot 575, Wybron Scrollers, ETC Source 4's and a Hog iPC and began shipping within days of receiving the final order from Hard Rock.

This new package will be used in a venue called the Ice House Theatre which features a country music themed ice show on a 50' x 50' real ice s

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USA - Elation Professional has introduced the Design Spot 575E, a larger 575-watt version of its popular Design Spot 250 "hybrid" effect, which functions as both a spotlight and a colour wash.

Like its more compact cousin, the Design Spot 575E is a professional-quality moving-head fixture that offers both Frost and Iris capabilities in one unit. The Frost feature is what allows it to function as a hybrid, taking away the hard edges of a spotlight and converting it to a wash-type fixture. The Frost is variable type, so users can control how much edge is taken away, from hard edge to soft to no spotlight edge whatsoever. The Iris allows users to pinpoint performers at any distance and is also capable of creating an eye-popping pulse effect.

Now in its brawnier 575W version, the 24-channel Design Spot 575E is designed for stage productions, churches, theatres, concert h

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France - Jean Louis Pernette, managing director of Avab Transtechnik France, has been connected with the Avignon Festival for the past 25 years, and each year the amount of technology involved increases.

The festival, which has been running for over 60 years and runs throughout the whole of July, showcases French and foreign contemporary drama as well as dance creations. In addition to the official festival venues, some 900 performances by 300 troupes are held as part of the fringe festival.

The centre of the festival, as far as Pernette is concerned, is the Cour d'Honneur (Courtyard of Honour) at the historic Palais des Papes - the Palace of the Popes which has walls up to 5.5m thick, which explains why it is in such a good state of repair - it was virtually impregnable to attack. It also explains why one of the pieces of technology which lighting director Philippe Catalano c

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Germany - The Red Flowers of Baudelaire at the Russian Embassy in Berlin, was a spectacular light show for the Hugo Boss party held during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Lighting designer Gert Hof commissioned A&O Lighting Technology to act as technical service providers for the event.

A&O delivered 77 Alpha One Falcon Beam 3,000W xenon lights for the show, arranged in four concentric circles with an external diameter of 12m. Behind this ring formation, 16 alpha one Falcon Beam 7,000W luminaires were arranged in a line. Also, 90 Sky Falcon Arc Colour 1,200W metal halide fixtures illuminated the front façade and the interior courtyard. A&O Technology also supplied the requisite controllers for the system, as well as 30sq.m of VersaTile LED panels and media content.

A&O's in-house media department, A&O Vision, carried out the technical planning, visualisation and pre-pr

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USA - Nexxus Lighting has announced financial results for the second quarter and first six months of 2007. During the period the company completed its Orlando facility relocation, relocated its corporate headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina and announced the signing of non-binding letters of intent to acquire two advanced technology lighting companies. The company (formerly Super Vision International) changed its name to Nexxus Lighting Inc in April as part of its new strategic plan to connect advanced technology with lighting products and control systems.

Total revenues for the six months ended 30 June, 2007 were approximately $4,975,000 as compared to approximately $5,814,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006. Over $690,000 of the approximately $839,000 decrease was attributable to a decrease in sales to the pool and spa market, which are down over 26% year over year

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UK - The VIP entrance leading from the Queen Elizabeth II Pier to the O2 is a stunning saunter over the river Thames, with views anyone who experiences it will not easily forget.

Architen Landrell have helped shape this striking part of the venue with their design, manufacture and installation of a weatherproof tunnel leading visitors to the Arena from the waterfront.

After being awarded several projects as part of the old Millennium Dome's redevelopment, they presented clients O2 and venue owners AEG with a range of options for the proposed lighting scheme at Riverwalk, with Tryka being the winning option.

35 Tryka Module 36 IP67 with oval optics are installed inside the custom-built 150m long tunnel, with Tryka's IDS-4 rack Intelligent Drive System controlled by a Pharos LPC DMX system. The luminaires offer a wide beam angle for illuminating the vast area.

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Australia - Clifton Productions, a major player in the lighting production industry, has announced the creation of a newly formed company within their ranks - Moving Light Rentals (MLR).

MLR has had a flying start with a sizeable investment in 300 Robe moving lights, bringing their total Robe inventory to over 450 units. The luminaires - a 50/50 split of Spot and Wash fixtures from Robe's 700, 1200 and 2500 E AT ranges - have been delivered via Robe Lighting's Australian distributor ULA Group P/L.

MLR is designed to offer industry rate prices to its clients enabling them to re-rent the units. The new lights are now available for hire to other production companies throughout the Asia-Pacific region. MLR will also be used to service Clifton's many upcoming productions.

(Jim Evans)

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France - Le Pont du Gard is a very old and famous roman aqueduct which spans the Gardon River in Southern France. Every year a summer festival is staged in the huge national park which incorporates Le Pont du Gard - to celebrate the aqueduct and the region of Nimes.

Lighting designer Jean Marc Bouaniche specified an entire PixelRange rig for the occasion including 110 PixelLine 110s, 20 PixelLine 1044s, 36 PixelPars and 12 PixelBricks. Bouaniche enthused: "I didn't want to mix generic lights with LEDs. I wanted the aqueduct reflecting in its own colour - not lightening it with HMI or MSR lamps."

The PixelLine 110s were positioned in each of the arches on the second and third levels whilst PixelPars were on the ground facing and lighting the first level. The PixelLine 1044s and the PixelBricks were on the river banks - simulating volcano craters in red beating like he

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UK - Portsmouth-based dance school, KateEllen Movement & Dance's production of Dance Through Time was held at St Johns College in Southsea in July of this year and the ChamSys MagicQ PC Wing was there too.

The house rig of conventional lighting, with Zero 88 Betapack dimming supplemented by additional dimming and DMX switch packs, PAR cans, UV Tubes, Jem ZR24/7 Hazer, CCT followspot and the 6ft tall hand-built Tardis - was controlled using a single laptop with external monitor and a ChamSys MagicQ PC Wing - an affordable and portable method for lighting designer and operator Matt Lemon of Eastleigh-based ML Lighting who also works in development for ChamSys.

"The new multiwindows feature in the software is great," says Lemon. "It allowed me to spread the screens I was using across the laptop and external monitor without having to open up another programme

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