Latest lighting technology would help realise aspirations for New Zealand stadiums

Wellington, August 14, 2014 New Zealand stadiums have the opportunity to become world leaders in pitch lighting, with Philips release in New Zealand of LED floodlights as part of its ArenaVision range.

Sports lighting technology has developed considerably in recent years, with LED floodlights now able to provide the high lumen output required for high-definition broadcasting standards, while also providing control and flexibility to manage light spillage onto neighbouring roads and properties, says Gordon Wiffen, General Manager of Philips Lighting New Zealand.

The new ArenaVision LED range provides high quality light output and greater control capabilities than standard metal halide floodlights. ArenaVision LED floodlights also use up to 34.7% less energy than ArenaVision metal halide floodlights, while the inherently longer lifetime of LED reduces maintenance with longer periods between lamp changes. Typically, metal halide floodlighting lamps should be replaced every three-seasons to maintain the lighting levels required, whereas the Philips LED system is expected to last in excess of 10 seasons.

ArenaVision LED technology allows a quick re-start compared to the warm-up time of Philips metal halide floodlights, making it faster to continue events in an unforeseen power outage, or switch between optimal lighting configurations for specific sports.

The ArenaVision LED control system can also be used to create entertainment lighting effects that would normally require dedicated stage-lighting luminaires. At the push of a button, the user can switch between fixed lighting configurations that fulfil sports codes requirements, and pre-programed special lighting effects.

Lighting is critical for sports venues, not only to give the high definition needed for both players and broadcasters, but also to enhance the sense of spectacle, anticipation and emotion that comes with competitive sports, including giving stadiums that extra wow-factor through colourful light displays, says Mr Wiffen.

Philips has already lit up a number of New Zealand sporting venues such as Eden Park, Nelsons Trafalgar Park and Dunedins indoor Forsyth Barr Stadium with its high intensity discharge ArenaVision range. Philips ArenaVision has also lit up major stadiums around the world, such as Old Trafford Stadium, the Guangzhou Olympic Stadium and five of the football stadiums recently used in Brazil.

With Philips ArenaVision LED now successfully implemented in sports stadiums such as Ekinox at Bourg-en-Bresse, France and Chelsea Football Clubs Stamford Bridge, there is an opportunity for New Zealand stadiums to take advantage of the latest developments in lighting technology, which would benefit broadcasters, players, bill payers and spectators alike, says Mr Wiffen.

About Royal Philips Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving peoples lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips posted 2013 sales of EUR 23.3 billion and employs approximately 113,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. The company is a leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as male shaving and grooming and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at http://www.philips.com/newscenter.

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HersheyPark has announced it will be adding its first indoor, spinning glow-coaster. It's also the first in the United States.

Set to debut in May 2015, "Laff Trackk" will be the 13th roller coaster at Hersheypark.

Officials at the theme park says the coaster will feature fun house images lighting the way.

The coaster is set to travel up to 45 miles per hour, has a 50-foot drop and lasts a little more than a minute for the full ride.

Designers say the newest addition will keep up with Hersheypark's tradition of "family friendly."

The ride will be housed in the Midway America section of the park.

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VOLT Lighting, a direct-to-consumer manufacturer and distributor of premium-quality lighting products, announced today the introduction of LED PAR Lamps (Bulbs) to their growing line of LED light sources. This addition is a continuation of VOLT Lightings strategy to provide homeowners and contractors with affordable high-performance LED versions of all commonly used bulbs.

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In a 90,000-square foot warehouse not far from Chicagos Midway Airport, the future of urban farming has taken root. Long shelves thick with fresh herbs and salad greens sit beneath hundreds of fluorescent grow lights. Theres planters of basil, watercress and kale stacked in neat rows reaching to the ceiling, afloat in a nutrient-rich stream of water fed by large blue tanks filled with tilapia. Its an eerily beautiful scene, interrupted only by the occasional worker driving an aerial lift through the aisles, stopping to pluck handfuls of greens ready to be packaged and distributed throughout the city.

Welcome to the world of vertical farming.

A tilapia fish tank that provides nutrient-rich water to plants at Chicago's FarmedHere. FarmedHere

As the demand for fresh, locally-grown food has increased among urban consumers, businesses like FarmedHere, which runs the Chicago warehouse, have stepped in to compete with conventional farms. Using advanced hydroponic and aquaponic methods, theyre growing fruits and vegetables year-round in facilities that are often in the same neighborhood as the restaurants and retailers they supply. Proponents like to call it ultra-local farming.

We can grow 200 percent more food per square foot than traditional agriculture, and without the use of chemical fertilizers, said Mark Thomann, chief executive officer of FarmedHere.

According to the Association for Vertical Farming, an industry trade group, vertical farms use 98 percent less water and 70 percent less fertilizers on average than outdoor farms. Weather fluctuations arent a factor, and neither is soil management. They can harvest crops as often as 20 times a year, and with their stack-it-high layout, occupy a fraction of the land traditional agriculture requires.

So efficient is vertical farming that many believe it could move beyond a niche market and become a solution for food insecurity in the United States, which affects nearly 15 percent of households, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some believe it could even be the future of agriculture altogether, with climate change negatively affecting rural farmland while the global population continues to swell. By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates, there will be 9 billion people on Earth, with 70 percent of them residing in urban areas.

An underground World War II bomb shelter in which London's Growing Underground will begin operating in 2015. Zero Carbon Food

But before vertical farming can conquer the world, it has to prove it can scale up and be as environmentally sound as its backers claim. Of the many questions surrounding these ventures, the most important one may be whether it is a good business model to begin with.

Thomann certainly believes so. In the two years FarmedHere has been in business, it has expanded distribution to dozens of supermarkets throughout Chicago, including all of the citys Whole Foods locations. The company packages its own herbs and salad greens, which are certified organic, and can deliver to stores within 24 hours of the product being harvested.

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April Blizzard has been letting her lights shine for 25 years, and her daughter Kelly has carried on the torch for the past couple of years.

Blizzard and her husband Thomas, a Deep Run native, own The Lighting Gallery a subsidiary of her husbands 55-year business, Blizzards Building Supply.

Kelly Blizzard has worked for her mother at the lighting store since the early 1990s, and has been managing it since her mother took semi-retirement.

April Blizzard said she still works there every other Saturday morning and when shes needed.

She grew up in Idaho and met Thomas in Utah when he was in the U.S. Air Force.

When she graduated with a nursing degree from St. Benedicts Hospital School of Nursing in 1961, she and her husband moved to Kinston where she continued her studies at ECU and taught nursing at Lenoir Memorial Hospitals then-School of Nursing.

Im in my second career now, Blizzard said about the lighting business. In the late 1970s, she worked part-time at her nephews lighting store, The Lamplighter Shop, until a disaster occurred.

There was a fire in 1987 that leveled the whole shopping center, she said, and we were out of business for the whole year.

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Kelly earned a degree in interior design and took a seasonal job in Moorehead City. When she came back to Kinston, she began working in the flooring business next to The Lighting Gallery until a vacancy opened up in her mothers shop.

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Thursday, August 7, 2014 | 9:38 p.m. CDT; updated 10:58 p.m. CDT, Thursday, August 7, 2014

COLUMBIA Missouri freshman wide receiver Lawrence Lee streaked toward the end zone. Overhead, the football floated under the lights.

Lee made a quick adjustment with his body and reached out his hands. The ball grazed his fingertips and bounced on the turf, tumbling toward the end zone.

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Lee pursued the pigskin, scooping it up and veering off his route at the last second saving himself and the ball from careening into the offensive linemen who were practicing blocking drills in the Devine Practice Facility end zone.

On Thursday, rain forced the Tigers' practice indoors. In the tighter confines, players had to maintain spatial awareness. As Missouri assistant coaches explained, safety is a concern in such close quarters. Quarterbacks can't throw the ball deep as often. And receivers must adjust to the lighting and the fact that offensive linemen are tussling in the end zone.

The indoor facility houses a 90-yard field with a single true end zone including a goalpost at one end.

It's apparent the loss of space can create some hazards.

Aside from Lee's close call with the offensive linemen, there were two other near collisions during the first 45 minutes of practice. On one occasion, redshirt freshman Eddie Serrano fell over fellow defensive lineman A.J. Logan during a defensive pass-catching drill. Logan, a Rock Bridge graduate and also a redshirt freshman, was retrieving a football when Serra back-pedaled into him.

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