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Among the fixtures Elation will be displaying at PLS are the Design Spot LED, E Spot LED and Platinum Spot 5R -- the first two powered by LED light sources, and the third featuring Philips MSD Platinum 5R Lamp Technology. "All three of these products represent exciting technological breakthroughs. They provide the power and brightness typically associated with a much larger fixture in an amazingly small and energy-efficient package," said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional.

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M-Pro managing director, Mario Clabots comments: "Many of the best business brains will tell you that a recession is the best time to invest. To be honest it wasn't the recession that affected our timing, but the opportunity of excellent brands and people that arise as our business grows. Our portfolio today enables us to offer a more complete range of solutions for pro-audio, AV and commercial install."

M-PRO was started by Clabots in 2004 and exclusively represents Astatic, Audica Professional, Community, DécoUS, InOut, MTSi, Quad Industrial and in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (BeNeLux) and APB Dynasonics, Australian Monitor, Symetrix, Xilica in Belgium and Luxembourg (BeLux).

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The new European team is led by Gilles Albaredes, former Autodesk vice president of sales for EMEA and chief marketing officer at Lectra, the IT provider for the fashion industry. Albaredes is the managing director and will work alongside former International Olympic Committee marketing director and strategic advisor to the sport and entertainment industry, Michael Payne, who will serve as Crystal CG's non-executive chairman.

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Tanya Noble started her career working for PRG in 2002. Following a spell as a moving light technician, she went freelance, later taking a position with production company Banana Split, where she managed and designed the lighting for a range of projects.

Adam Power has been working for Essential for three years, developing his technical and design knowledge working onsite across a range of events, acquiring experience and respect along the way.

Martin Lubach, Essential's managing director, commented, "We are delighted that our policy of looking to

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"Childhood blindness, hearing loss, heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes type two, obesity and many other health problems are caused by this horrible disease," says Staddon. "Providing support and advice to those who have to live with this illness, Alstrom Syndrome UK (ASUK) is a small family-run charity which has been fantastically helpful to my own family and our wonderful daughter Chloe.

"Chloe lost her battle to Alstrom Syndrome last year, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, just after her 16th birt

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"There's been nothing but positive vibes using Meyer since we started back in 2007," Chris Zakoor, 3DG's FOH engineer says. "Both Milo and Mica are powerful, great-sounding rock boxes with lots of headroom for vocals - and plenty of edge if you want it."

The Meyer Sound system is at the core of a complete touring package supplied by Rainbow Production Services of Atkinson, N.H. It centres around main hangs of 14 Milo and two Milo 120 line array loudspeakers per side, with visceral low frequency support from 22 700-HP subwoofers. The balance of the system comprises 16 Mica and 12 M2D line array loudspeakers for out- and side-fill respectively, plus four UPA-1P loudspeakers f

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Pagel, a director of the Belfast based lighting rental and sales company, says: "With health & safety issues increasingly topping all rigging agendas, and our commitment to offering clients the very best and highest quality services, industry driven and recognised qualifications like this are vitally important."

PLASA's National Rigging Certificate demonstrates that individuals have reached a professional standard within their chosen rigging discipline. The NRC is not yet a compulsory scheme, but increasingly major UK venues are requiring it for riggers working in their spaces. PSI undertakes a lot of rigging projects in both Irela

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The company's extensive range of wood, foam and fabric-covered acoustic solutions includes its flagship Wave Wood panel, the innovative Vari Panel, portable acoustic solutions such as Flexi Screen Lite, Flexi Wall and Flexi Kick Drum, plus a growing number of isolation products for use in construction projects and workplace noise reduction. The creation of separate company divisions will enable the development of products that focus more specifically on the different needs of each particular market sector.

Cesar Carapinha, Vicoustic's CEO comments: "Over the past year we have seen a growing demand for products within the home cinema market, often linked to interior desig

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Just a week after ISE2010, Russian company Big Screen Service put in an order for 108 MicroTiles. Eugene Marinichev, BSS's technical director, explains, "Our industry relies on products and display solutions that can be easily set-up, deliver impact, and broken down quickly to be shipped on to the next job. Our business model, costs and profits are directly affected by this. So when a solution like MicroTiles comes along, we see a great opportunity. Here is a solution that has all these characteristics and is ultimately reconfigurable permitting it to be used again and again in fresh and exciting ways."

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The organizers were keen to make the events and official ceremonies at the Games the best ever. They hired Australian producer and director David Atkins, who put on the opening ceremony at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Atkins banked on the expertise of the same team of worldwide-active laser specialists from Bochum, Germany, who had made impressive contributions to the opening ceremonies at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2006 Paralympics in Turin to come up with some attention-getting laser sequences.

Preparations for the opening, victory, and closing ceremonies, which went on for 15 months, took place under the strictest secrecy. Following a reconnaissance visit to Vancouver and rehearsals conducted on a test setup in the company's own facilities, tarm S

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Cygnus, one of the only LED luminaires on the market to employ an integrated RGBW quad die, greatly eliminates rainbow shadows caused by other LED lights. It also employs in-lens colour-mixing, meaning that the colour seen on the fixture is the same seen on the stage.

"We've finally achieved output levels and color rendering quality that allow LED fixtures to become something more than a novel wall wash," says Wybron director of technologies John Sondericker III.

Before they are shipped, each Cygnus is individually colour calibrated using an advanced proprietary process.

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As the Bethany Manyar Church is located in an old building in Manyar Street, Surabaya, the system was ground stacked and not flown. The system consists of 12 dV- Dosc modular line source cabinets (six per side), four dV-SUB subwoofers (two per side) and four SB28 subwoofers (two per side), powered by five LA8 amplified controllers.

The installation also included a monitor system of two 115XT HiQ active stage monitors powered by an LA8 and a distributed system of four 12XT coaxials driven by an LA4. The system was installed by L-Acoustics' Indonesian representative Tri Tunggal Abadi in just three days, working closely with the church's engineers.

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"We've recently bought a new set of legs to build a three-metre high tier with a boxed in, enclosed space attached," says Harrison. "Also, our lighting and sound control is operated from tall Metrodeck structures.

"In the past we have also built a two level 'in the round' space, seating about 200 people. The year previously, we extended our proscenium arch stage to incorporate a catwalk for our production of We Will Rock You. The flexibility and sizing of the system allows us to easily design stages and seating plans with little training required, and only a couple of spanners."

Future plans at Canon Slade Schoo

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The two-channel amplifier DA 230 is equipped with comprehensive DSP features including matrix router, six fully parametric equalizers, with two crossover networks, delay and dynamic processor per channel. Factory and user presets may be stored inside the unit; an SD- card reader is implemented and can be used to easily transfer preset and system information to other units.

All parameters as well as user navigation can be managed using a simple five-key navigation pad together with four rotary encoders. The sophisticated user interface is completed by a graphic LCD display and four RGB LEDs showing relevant operation parameters and state of the single channels.

On the inputs side are two analogue o

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The DN-X1700 is Denon's new flagship mixer and one of the most advanced high quality DJ control product currently available. While the DN-X1700 is pitched at the top of the market, the mid budget DN-X1600 - being shown in Europe for the first time - is cut from the same cloth. Offering much of the same quality, performance and a comparable feature set to a wider market, the X-1600

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Introduced at NAMM 2010, the new iLive-R72 rack mountable Control Surface is the most compact iLive surface to date, providing 72 control strips, arranged in six layers of 12 faders across two banks. The latest software release supports the new hardware, including full compatibility with the virtual control Editor software.

The most significant new feature in v1.6 is the Dual-Rack system expansion, allowing up to 128 input channels to be used simultaneously. Two MixRacks can now be linked together via the Port B sockets, expanding the number of channels feeding the 32 mix buses, and enabling both racks to b

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The Tensioned Descender Electrol ensures the flattest possible viewing surface for a retractable screen thanks to its tab-tensioning system, says the company. The projection screen surface is tensioned in all four directions by a teardrop shaped aluminium extruded slat bar and nylon tensioning cables on each side to match with the parabolic curves of the screen. The end result is a projection viewing area that is evenly tensioned and suitable for all critical viewing projection.

The Tensioned Descender is available as either a standard 220v configuration or with a radio frequency controlled motor with Projecta's proprietary front projection screen surfaces.

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"We are very proud to have contributed to the success of another Olympic Games," says Scott Gilman of RTS, "and to have helped our broadcast partners achieve greater levels of communications performance and flexibility than ever before for an event of this size. RTS systems of all varieties and sizes deployed at every level at every site, from the smallest venues all the way up to the main broadcast centre.

"Our proven IP trunking platform proved itself invaluable once again, considering venues like Whistler are about a two-hour drive from the main CTV studios, for example, and with many more venues scattered around Vancouver. Some of the adjacent towns like Richmond even set up their own Cronus (DSP matrix intercom) strings to coordinate the large amo

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Taking place over a two-week period, the 14 x 4 panel (14.22m x 3.04m) Rn7-ER 7mm screen was suspended from a crane in the city's Potters Fields Park, near Tower Bridge. Mounted in a frame forming a giant arrow, it provided a different form of interactive entertainment.

Passers-by were encouraged to send a text message, which would be displayed on the screen along with the sender's distance, calculated by Ovi maps positioning technology. Also using that technology, the crane would be instructed to rotate and point the arrow in the direction of the sender.

Pod Bluman of Bluman Associates devised the technical solution from an original idea

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He helped start Disco International magazine in October 1976 at a time when the word 'disco' had scarcely been invented. And when the following month the inaugural meeting of the trade association now known as PLASA took place, David was on the founding committee.

Yet by this time he had already spent several years galvanizing the nascent sound and lighting companies, in pop weekly Record Mirror's burgeoning Disco Mirror supplement ... laying down the cornerstones which helped to shape today's great global industry.

Born in Maidstone, Kent, David went onto become a vigorous campaigner and outspoken commentator - particularly during his second term of office at PLASA (né BADEM), his Sabatier-sharp wit striking fear into fellow committee members.<