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Kim Kardashian was the best plus-one ever for beau Kanye West at Wednesday's Cannes Film Festival premiere of Cruel Summer, the rapper's new art film/art installation.

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The reality star, 31, wore a jaw-dropping gold-and-cream Balmain dress with a plunging neckline and super-short hem, paired with sexy ankle boots. (The frock has already been worn by Katy Perry, Zoe Saldana and other stars.) West, 34, complemented his love of nearly three months in a white shirt, cream jacket, denim and black loafers.

According to a source, the couple "were inseparable" at the afterparty for Cruel Summer, one of the first projects of West's Donda creative firm. The twosome were "kissing in the back the whole time." (West's buddy Jay Z, sans wife Beyonce, showed up to support his frequent collaborator.)

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On Tuesday, Kardashian told Us Weekly that she's having a blast at this year's star-studded film fest. "It's my first time to cannes and it's amazing! I love it here!"

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Construction crews and maintenance workers continue to work on the Wayland Baptist University campus in preparation for what could be record enrollment in the fall of 2012. The last two years have seen an increase in student enrollment on Waylands Plainview campus, and indicators show that the 2012-13 school year may be no different.

In an attempt to meet the needs of the students, several projects are taking place at Wayland this summer, including the completion of Jimmy Dean Hall. Along with the dorm, the University Center also is being renovated to make it more accommodating to students. Also, the Wheeler Building will be remodeled to add locker rooms for athletics teams.

The new mens dormitory, which was officially named Jimmy Dean Hall at a special announcement March 22, will take the place of existing McDonald Hall, which has fallen into disrepair. Wayland officials looked at the cost of renovating McDonald Hall, but determined that bringing the aging building up to code would not have been cost effective. Vice President for Enrollment Management Dr. Claude Lusk said the cost per square-foot to renovate McDonald would have been more than the cost per square-foot to build the new dorm.

Dean Hall also will provide an additional 250 beds. The added space for male students will allow Ferguson Hall to revert to a womens dorm, accommodating the growth of Waylands womens population.

Construction of the dorm is taking into account green technologies in all electrical and plumbing fixtures. The outdoor area also will be ecologically friendly. The courtyard of the dorm features four collection pools and tanks that will collect rain water as it drains. The water then will be used to assist in irrigation around the structure. The dorm also will feature increased security, making use of coded keyless entry systems and other precautions.

Although McDonald Hall will not be used as housing next fall, the historic dorm is providing much-needed office space during the summer. As part of the renovation and remodeling plans, Waylands University Center has been gutted and will be reconfigured to become more user-friendly for students. Due to construction in the building, all of the offices housed in the UC, along with the university store, moved to McDonald for the summer.

The University Center renovations include an updated cafeteria, giving students easier access to food and drink stations. The long table seating will be replaced by more intimate round tables to better simulate a dining experience. While changing the seating structure will remove some seats, the cafeteria will increase the number of operating hours throughout the day, allowing more flexibility in eating times for students.

Other changes to the University Center will include the remodeling of the student lounge area. Petes Place, located in the basement, will reopen as a coffee shop, serving Starbucks products to students.

The area also will house a grill and a stage area with lighting and sound systems. The south portion of the basement will be turned into offices for student activities and student government.

The courtyard area also will be remodeled, and actions will be taken to control the bird population in the outdoor area.

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Acuity Brands Lighting 1 Lithonia Way Conyers, GA, 30012, USA

Acuity Brands Launches the ROAMview Lighting Control System, Extending the Company's ROAM Roadway Technology into Site and Area Lighting

The ROAMview system provides property owners and small municipalities the ability to efficiently manage outdoor lighting using a wireless monitoring and control system.

ATLANTA - Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI; "Company"), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and controls solutions, introduces the ROAMview(TM) lighting control system, an expansion of the Company's ROAM suite of industry-leading wireless outdoor lighting monitoring and control systems. ROAMview features a pre-configured server and software package that can be easily deployed in smaller site, area or roadway applications such as car dealerships, shopping malls and campuses.

The ROAMview system allows property owners and small municipalities to efficiently operate and maintain their outdoor lighting by taking advantage of the optimal lighting performance, energy savings and reduced maintenance costs that the ROAM technology suite offers. With its pre-configured server and gateway, the ROAMview system simply connects to a user's existing computer network, enabling control and monitoring from any computer within the user's organization.

The intuitive, browser-based portal provides ease of control for grouping outdoor lighting fixtures, and easily applies customer-defined schedules for precise on/off and dimming. Events or holidays that require specific lighting patterns are conveniently accommodated in the ROAMview portal's simple drag-and-drop time-clock scheduling screen.

"With the addition of the ROAMview system to our product line, we can now offer all property owners a powerful suite of capabilities and features similar to those used by large municipalities," said Terry Utterback, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and ROAM Value Stream Leader. "Without trenching a single foot of wire, they can go from circuit-based control to individual fixture control. The system tracks and reports individual fixture performance, and reports outages so that they can be quickly addressed. It eliminates the need for night-time audits, the waste of day-burning lights and the elevated risks associated with lighting outages."

The ROAMview system is simple to install and commission. Wireless ROAM nodes are installed on each fixture, attaching to an industry-standard NEMA twist-and-lock receptacle. As soon as the pre-configured server and gateway are energized, the system can begin to form its self-configuring, self-healing mesh network. It takes only a few hours to set up fixture groups and begin controlling lights.

For more information about Acuity Brands' line of lighting and controls solutions, please visit Acuity Brands on the web.

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Posted May 24, 2012

SATELLITE BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTCBB: LSCG), one of the world's leading LED lighting manufacturers, announced the appointment of Steve Marton as its interim Chief Executive Officer following the resignation of CEO and Chairman James Haworth on May 18, 2012. The Board also announced that it has retained an executive search firm to help identify and secure a permanent CEO.

Mr. Marton has served as a Senior Operating Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. since April 2008 and has been actively involved in Lighting Science Group's operations, in a consulting capacity, since February 2012. He has spent over 20 years in general management, new product development and brand leadership in the consumer packaged goods and pet care industries. Prior to joining Pegasus, from 2004 to 2008, Mr. Marton served as Group President of the Office Products Division of Newell Rubbermaid, and earlier served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Hill's Pet Nutrition. He is currently Chairman of Halo, Purely for Pets as well as a board member of iGPS, Hain Pure Protein Corporation and PetSmart Charities. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors to the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

About Lighting Science Group

Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTCBB: LSCG) designs, develops, manufactures and markets LED lighting solutions that are environmentally friendlier and more energy efficient than traditional lighting products. Lighting Science Group offers retrofit LED lamps in form factors that match those of traditional lamps or bulbs and LED luminaires designed for a range of applications including public and private infrastructure for both indoor and outdoor use. Lighting Science Group's Advanced Projects Group business unit designs, develops and manufactures custom LED lighting solutions for architectural and artistic projects. Lighting Science Group is headquartered in Satellite Beach, Florida; the Company's European operations are based in Middelburg, The Netherlands; and the Company has a sales office in Sydney, Australia. Lighting Science Group employs approximately 1,000 workers building lighting products from domestic and imported parts. More information about Lighting Science Group is available at http://www.lsgc.com.

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SATELLITE BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Lighting Science Group Corporation (LSCG.OB), one of the world's leading LED lighting manufacturers, announced today the appointment of Steve Marton as its interim Chief Executive Officer following the resignation of CEO and Chairman James Haworth on May 18, 2012. The Board also announced that it has retained an executive search firm to help identify and secure a permanent CEO.

Mr. Marton has served as a Senior Operating Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. since April 2008 and has been actively involved in Lighting Science Groups operations, in a consulting capacity, since February 2012. He has spent over 20 years in general management, new product development and brand leadership in the consumer packaged goods and pet care industries. Prior to joining Pegasus, from 2004 to 2008, Mr. Marton served as Group President of the Office Products Division of Newell Rubbermaid, and earlier served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Hills Pet Nutrition. He is currently Chairman of Halo, Purely for Pets as well as a board member of iGPS, Hain Pure Protein Corporation and PetSmart Charities. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors to the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

About Lighting Science Group

Lighting Science Group Corporation (LSCG.OB) designs, develops, manufactures and markets LED lighting solutions that are environmentally friendlier and more energy efficient than traditional lighting products. Lighting Science Group offers retrofit LED lamps in form factors that match those of traditional lamps or bulbs and LED luminaires designed for a range of applications including public and private infrastructure for both indoor and outdoor use. Lighting Science Group's Advanced Projects Group business unit designs, develops and manufactures custom LED lighting solutions for architectural and artistic projects. Lighting Science Group is headquartered in Satellite Beach, Florida; the Company's European operations are based in Middelburg, The Netherlands; and the Company has a sales office in Sydney, Australia. Lighting Science Group employs approximately 1,000 workers building lighting products from domestic and imported parts. More information about Lighting Science Group is available at http://www.lsgc.com.

Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the performance of Lighting Science Group and its products and/or use terminology such as "anticipate," "assume," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "intend," "plan," "project," "seek," "target," "soon," "will," "first of many" and variations of such words and similar expressions. Such statements reflect the current view of Lighting Science Group with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. In evaluating these statements, you should carefully review the risk factors detailed under "Risk Factors" in our most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that may cause our actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements.

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GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Hubbell Lighting (www.hubbelllighting.com), a market leader in innovative lighting technology, design and manufacturing for over 120 years, announced the launch of its new website, substantially improving the usability of the site while refreshing the look and feel with an updated progressive design.

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The company invites readers to visit the new website at http://www.hubbelllighting.com.

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Hubbell Lighting is one of the largest lighting fixture manufacturers in North America. The company provides a full range of indoor and outdoor lighting products serving the commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential markets. Hubbell Lighting brands include Alera Lighting, Architectural Area Lighting, Beacon Products, Columbia Lighting, Compass Products, Devine Lighting, Dual-Lite, HomeStyle Lighting, Hubbell Building Automation, Hubbell Industrial Lighting, Hubbell Outdoor Lighting, Kim Lighting, Kurt Versen, Prescolite, Progress Lighting, Security Lighting, Spaulding Lighting, Sportsliter Solutions, Sterner Lighting Systems, Thomasville Lighting, and Whiteway.

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FARMINGTON, Conn., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information Inc. is pleased to announce two significant new reports on Indoor Positioning, and its impact on Location-based Services:

Indoor Positioning: Mapping, Technology & ServicesGPS-based LBS (Location-Based Services) face a significant hurdle: 90% of people's time is spent indoors. As such, Indoor positioning offers significant potential for the LBS market.

While GPS remains the technology of choice for many of the outdoor location-based services, there are a number of technologies vying to become the solution of choice indoors, from Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, to 'terrestrial' GPS, and acoustic or lighting-based solutions. A new Indoor Positioning: Mapping, Technology & Services market research report looks at each of the components of the indoor positioning ecosystem, including the market for indoor mapping, the technologies proposed and currently available, and the location-based services that can be offered.

Indoor maps are a prerequisite for providing context to the positioning offered by the various solutions mentioned above. This study analyzes this section of the ecosystem, providing an estimate of the number of maps available in 2011, and forecasting growth through to 2020, as well as providing market share information of the leading map suppliers.

This study also discusses the current abilities of various technologies proposed for use as part of a location system, before analyzing the positive and negative attributes associated with each one. Further to this, existing and forecast penetration of these technologies in smartphones and tablet PCs is provided from 2011 to 2016, along with data on notebooks.

An Executive Summary for this report and a free sample of the full document are available at http://www.giiresearch.com/report/iz241107-indoor-positioning-mapping-technology-services.html

Indoor Location Positioning: Research Pipelines, Start-ups and PredictionsIn a related report, Grizzly Analytics gives an up-to-date analysis and comprehensive overview of the state of the market for indoor location positioning R&D. Research activity at the major mobile companies including Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, Nokia, RIM, Cisco, Qualcomm, Broadcom, STMicroElectronics, Sony Ericsson & others is discussed. Also examined are more than thirty start-up companies that are actively bringing indoor location services to market.

A summary for this report and a free sample of the full document are available at http://www.giiresearch.com/report/griz241082-indoor-location-positioning-research-pipelines.html

Location-Based Advertising and MarketingLocation-sensitivity releases the full potential of the mobile channel. Targeting by location in combination with other contextual and behavioural segmentation greatly enhances the relevance and the effectiveness of mobile advertising. In their new Location-Based Advertising and Marketing research report, Berg Insight estimates that the total global value of the real-time mobile LBA market was 192 million in 2011, representing 5.0 percent of the total mobile ad spend. Growing at a compound annual growth rate of 90.9 percent, the real-time LBA market is forecasted to be worth 4.9 billion in 2016, corresponding to 28.3 percent of all mobile advertising and marketing. Key drivers for LBA include the growing attach rates of location technologies in handsets, as well as the increasing consumer acceptance of LBS in general.

Location is only one of many components in successful targeting, and marketers must also strive to leverage other contextual and behavioural information. High-precision real-time geotargeting is today sparsely used, and rightly so as most campaigns do not require targeting with an accuracy of a few meters. Hyper-local campaigns are nevertheless becoming more common. C. Berg Insight anticipates that geotargeting gradually will become ubiquitous and available across the entire mobile channel.

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In a move likely to inflict a sudden pang of inadequacy in bicycle clubs the world over, NL Architects has cooked up a concept both radical and supremely simple: a bicycle club with a velodrome on the roof

In a move likely to inflict a sudden pang of inadequacy in bicycle clubs the world over, NL Architects has cooked up a concept both radical and supremely simple: a bicycle club with a velodrome on the roof.

Architects are under increasing pressure, it seems, to come up with innovative uses for the roofs of the buildings they design. Where once it was perfectly acceptable for building tops to merely keep out the rain, or perhaps, at a push, prop up an air conditioning unit or two, they are now expected to combat climate change, generate energy, and if possible, provide functional living space.

Asked to come up with a design for a bicycle club to be built in a large resort somewhere in Southern China, NL Architects have arguably gone one better, proposing to site a fully functional velodrome on the roof. Sitting on top of a bike rental shop and a cafe, if built it will be perfectly possible for people to hire a bicycle and ride it for a few hours without ever leaving the building.

The Netherlands-based designers compare their concept with a traditional pagoda, with the steeply banked bends of the bicycle track forming upward-curving eaves from the point of view of outside observers. NL Architects also claims the high, protruding roof could be "very welcome" in South China's tropical climes, presumably for the shade casts in the immediate exterior.

Architizer reports that the bicycle club-cum-velodrome could be built before the year's out.

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BUDAPEST, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GRAPHISOFT, the global leader in Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions for architects, has announced an update for its BIMx application. The BIMx 1.2.455 update for iPhone/iPad app provides native support for the iPad 3 Retina display, resulting in crisper images and stunning virtual reality.

The new iPad's Retina Display offers stunning graphics and a new level of mobility to professional, high-end visualization. At the same time, the quadrupled pixel count makes the application of interactive 3D apps like BIMx a difficult task. GRAPHISOFT was the first in the AEC space to combine performance with high quality, 3D navigational capabilities. "It is worth noting that architects operate with true, detailed BIM models and not only simple, image-mapped surfaces," said Gabor Horvath, Director of Mobile Developments at GRAPHISOFT. "Our biggest challenge -- and competitive edge -- is the way we approach a great user experience through uncompromised performance in all our applications." With BIMx and GRAPHISOFT's ArchiCAD, architects and designers can explore their project designs in a 3D environment that supports real-time 3D navigation identical to mainstream computer games. The Retina Display-compatible BIMx is available new and as an update (1.2.455) in the App Store and is free of charge.

About GRAPHISOFT GRAPHISOFT ignited the BIM revolution with ArchiCAD, the industry first BIM software for architects. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as the revolutionary GRAPHISOFT BIM Server, the world's first real-time BIM collaboration environment, and the GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner, the world's first fully integrated building energy modeling application. GRAPHISOFT's innovative solutions have fundamentally changed the way architects around the world design and collaborate. GRAPHISOFT has been a part of the Nemetschek Group since its acquisition in 2007.

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CoStar Forecast Predicts A Couple More Years Of Flat Absorption As Supply of Shopping Center Space Remains In Sync With Demand

However, the expected moderate demand for shopping center space should stay in check with the very low levels of new supply expected over the next couple of years, according to the report presented by Senior Real Estate Strategist Suzanne Mulvee and Real Estate Economist Ryan McCullough.

"Its been a long slog for the last couple of years, but the retail market is getting healthier from a fundamentals standpoint," McCullough said in a recent presentation. "Were not seeing a lot of dynamic demand and absorption in retail today, but were also not seeing the [development] that got out of hand during the last cycle."

The modest absorption figures mask the deeper story of a retail market divided into haves and have-nots. With little new retail space under construction, centers blessed with strong demographics in constrained urban areas are likely to lease up quickly, while properties in less desirable areas will experience difficulty filling their vacancy holes, McCullough said.

Theres hope that the recovery is broadening, however, with retail chains starting to shed their aversion to risk and look beyond the safest areas in hopes of getting ahead of the growth curve over the last year in western and southern metros, where housing bust markets such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and South Florida are again showing signs of life.

The U.S. retail market recorded about 10 million square feet of absorption in the first quarter, a low level compared with the same point in past recoveries, especially given the limited new supply and strong rebound in retail sales over the last two years, McCullough said.

One reason for the modest absorption in recent quarters is that demand has slackened for space in power centers, by far the strongest sector in retail emerging from the Great Recession. While malls, strip centers, community centers and neighborhood shopping centers have consistent trailed power center, traditional anchors like Kmart and Best Buy are repositioning their stores in light of rising competition from Internet sales and other changes in buying patterns.

CoStar forecasts that power center demand will remain flat for 2012 as store closures and downsizings by some retailers partially offset the growing number of store chains that are aggressively expanding their footprints. Chains such as Kmart, Best Buy and OfficeMax are returning an estimated several million square feet of store space to the market through closures in 2012.

Many other leading chains, however, such as Wal-Mart, Dicks Sporting Goods, Target and Burlington Coat Factory, are aggressively leasing up space to take advantage of attractive rents at the trough of the market. Larger stores like Best Buy are shrinking their footprints to fit urban infill centers, while other fast-growing chains like Ross, Marshalls and Burkes Outlet take advantage of the lower rents to expand into larger spaces.

Another trend in recent years has been the emergence of outlet centers as a rival to regional malls. Even as vacancies in outlets have trended higher than either malls or power centers since mid-2010, however, publicly traded and private operators continue to compete for a share in the outlet space, headed by the worlds largest mall operator, Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG).

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