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Stardraw Control has been developed to create customised user interfaces that can control any product from any manufacturer over any protocol including TCP/IP, Infra-Red, RS232, DMX, UDP, EtherSound and CobraNet The interfaces created are compiled to a single .exe file that can be deployed and run on any windows device, from touchscreen to TabletPC to PC, while support for multiple interface devices (that offer, for example, TCP/IP to IR, RS232 to IR, TCP/IP to RS232 etc) allows users to select from a wide range of components

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At ESTA's annual dinner on 10 November in Orlando, ESTA's past and current presidents gathered to honour the only Treasurer ESTA has ever had. Glenn Becker, ESTA's first President, told the assembled crowd: "For most of us, life, as we have become accustomed to, is about to end. Our Treasurer for Life is hanging up his Stetson and riding his motorcycle off into the sunset. Frank Stewart will be sorely missed. Frank is the epitome of what this Association stands for, the mutual benefit of its members. No one has volunteered more of his or her time, talents and personal funds than Frank Stewart. No one i

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Stage Electrics' Ed Gamble worked closely with Dan Adams, production manager for the event to provide a host of showcase equipment to complement the event including Mac 700 fixtures and Atomic strobes from Martin Professional, an ETC AVAB C

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People interested in working on a project (besides simply commenting during public review, which is also helpful, say ESTA) need to join the working group for the project. Information about joining working groups and about the need for voting members in under-represented interest categories in the groups is available at he

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The company aim to raise standards in Health & Safety across our industry and have worked closely with many other agencies to establish a recognised series of training courses, suitable for technicians and managers alike held at partner venues across the UK.

On 8 December a Safe and Practical Rigging course is also being held at the New Theatre, places are very limited and more courses are cu

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A team of chartered accountants is on hand to answer business queries; the company says the online service is fast, transparent and easy to use. Any PC with internet access can be used to securely enter transaction detail from the usual source documents such as invoices, receipts and chequebooks. Starting from a little as £20 per month for sole traders and £60 per month for limited companies, users can have a full set of year end accounts, payroll bureau, dividend administration, professional dealing with HMRC and Companies House, calculation of

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"We are thrilled to have this opportunity to once again operate a world class business under the Fleetwood name, and are confident we have the right team in place to provide the best service for our customers' needs," says Dyckhoff. "Our aim is to continue to provide clients with the best location recording in the industry."

In its new incarnation, Fleetwood Mobiles retains all assets of Sanctuary Mobiles as well as the existing mobile recording team - en

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A 16-year-old worker's legs were broken less than two hours into his first day at work as he fell from the footplate of an 18-ton refuse lorry. He was riding on the outside of the vehicle because there was not enough room in the cab for him and the three other workers. A 17 year-old girl lost part of a finger only one hour of starting her holiday job. Her fingers were crushed in a machine at the bakery where she worked.

Figures from the UK Health and Safety Executive show that Men in the 20-24 age group suffer the second highest total incidence of non-fatal work place accidents. Women in the same age group are the fifth most vulnerable group.

Accidents like these are a daily occurr

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As White Light's 'senior communicator' King is the cheerful voice that greeted telephone callers and, unlike the computerized systems favoured by so many organizations these days, welcomed regulars by name. He's put their call through to the appropriate team while figuring out how stressed they've sounded and greeted new callers as long-established friends, while working out which member of the company could best assist them.

A former car salesman, King first met White Light's co-founder and chairman John Simpson through their local amateur theatre company. He joined White Ligh

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ARX's managing director Colin Park says: "PT Citra Intirama is very well known throughout the South Asian Pro Audio and M.I Industry as a well established and very professional Company. PT Citra Intirama's Eric Haslim and I recently finalized a distribution agreement after an initial meeting at the Frankfurt Pro Light and Sound earlier in the year.

The Indonesian Audio Industry is entering another growth phase and the company is looking forward to working with PT Citra Intirama which, with 12 Company owned stores and 300+ dealers spread across the Indonesian Archipelago, is the largest music and audio products distributor and dealer in Indonesia.

Alongside ARX, Jakarta based PT Citra Intirama

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David Srba, well known as Robe's highly proactive head of marketing, becomes the new MD of Robe UK with immediate effect, and will now be based in the UK. Srba also continues in his role of co-ordinating Robe Show Lighting's worldwide marketing.

Ian W Brown, who joined Robe UK in August 2004 continues as head of sales, working closely with his colleague Bill Jones as sales manager and Nathan Wan as Robe UK's head of technical services. All other aspects of the sales, office and support organization in the Northampton UK HQ remain the same.

The move is a key element in Robe Show Lighting's ongoing global expansion strategy. It also completes the restructuring of ROBE UK which be

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The seminar is suitable for beginning and advanced riggers. It is for riggers, venue staff, stagehands, universities, production companies, consultants, engineers, and contractors. It can be used as preparation for some sections of the ETCP Rigging Certification test.

Rigging Seminars is the longest established entertainment rigging training program. It has trained thousands of riggers and is highly respected in the industry for the extensive knowledge of the teachers. Classes are taught by Harry Donovan and Jay O.Glerum, both working professionals with more than 40

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George Horton has been promoted to sales manager for the U.S. Western region, Mexico and South America. Horton moves over to sales after 16 years as an SSL service engineer and manager. His SSL career began at the company's UK headquarters; he then traveled the world as service engineer with brief stops in Singapore. Horton took over as SSL Los Angeles service manager in 1998. He will continue to work from the Los Angeles office, reporting to Phil Wagner, president, SSL Inc.

"We are extremely pleased to have George involved in Western U.S., Mexico and South American sales," commented Wagner. "George is an incredibl

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The UK has long been acknowledged as a creative hub, leading the world in the design of entertainment and events. The new award will be one of the few that actively champions the work of designers in this field, creating much needed wider recognition for the art and practice of lighting design.

For the last few months, PLASA has been working with the Lighting Design Awards team to develop the new category to ensure it reflects the innovation to be seen across the country. The judging

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In the product awards, Strand Lighting's C21 Dimmer range won Lighting Product of the Year. C21 and EC21 dimmer racks are designed for global operation and provide a number of advances in technology, say Strand. In addition to providing support for conventional SCR dimmers including Quad, Dual and single modules with ratings up to 12kW, sophisticated Sinewave dimmers are also available. Dual Sinewave modules can be mixed and matched with standard dimmers in the same rack for full flexibility.

Altman Lighting collected the Lighting/ Architecture Product of the Year Award for its Smart

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The draft standard is a suite of protocols offering needed services in network management, device management, device description, and device control with reliable multi-cast transport on data networks that use the common Internet Protocols. There are 17 documents that describe various aspects of the suite of protocols, and they are all contained in the approximately three megabyte compressed file ACNDraft3.zip. The public review materials for this draft standard and all the draft ESTA standards currently available for public review are at

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The team who have previously worked together have so far secured distributorships with several major manufacturers. Marketing Director, Simon Beer said: "For a long time we have worked well together, we share the same values and want more than anything else to give our customers hassle-free, old-school customer service whilst still being able to offer the keenest prices. Production Gear is supplying a wide range of products, basically if it goes on or near a camera then we sell it.

"Our team brings a combined total of over 65 years experience o

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Showsec's northern development towards the end of 2005 saw them working in partnership with the Academy Music Group for the opening of the Carling Academy in Newcastle, training a new, local crowd management team to work at the venue. Simon Sinclair has been appointed as area manager, where he will use 10 years' expe

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The meeting will discuss photonic technologies, which have the potential to be used in both the generation of energy and its efficient use: in particular, photovoltaics have the potential for micro-generation of electricity without the use of carbon and solid state lighting technologies have the potential to make very large reductions in energy consumption.

The DTI says there are major opportunities for UK companies and other stakeholders in Energy Photonics. These opportunities include device development,

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It is a serious attempt to avoid offering a cook-book description of a fire safety curtain system and, instead, to specify how a fire curtain shall perform. That is, it doesn't tell you what kind of fabric to use for a fire safety curtain, for example, but instead tells you how strong whatever fabric you use must be and what abrasion and fire tests it must pass. The document may be accessed by visiting http://www.esta.org/tsp/documents/public_review_do

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Born and bred in Ipswich, Antony moved to London in 1982 to study Physics at Imperial College in South Kensington. He rapidly immersed himself in the Drama Society there and within a year was one of the main "techies". His involvement with Dramsoc resulted in an 'unplanned' gap year during his course which he spent working for Theatre Projects Lighting, then at Blundell Street. He ultimately returned to Imperial to finish off his degree before re-joining TP for a further 18 months.

From there he joined Strand Lighting's service department in 1990, spending the next five years travelling the world, commissioning new installations or servicing existing installations of Galaxy, Gemini, EC90 and LP90. His expertise in LP90s resulted in a two-year stint at S

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Well known throughout West End theatreland where he spent most of his working life, Nick van Wijk placed great emphasis on passing on his stage technical knowledge to the next generation of theatre technicians and these bursaries pay tribute to that enthusiasm.

The bursaries are available to sponsor two participants in the ABTT Bronze Award. To support the professional development of practitioners in technical theatre, each bursary of £550 covers the tuition fee for the certificated ABTT Bronze Award. This course includes: electrical fundamentals, portable appliance testing, kno

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Over the last few months Rycote has been creating a more dynamic and bold image for the company and its products. Barneys Strategic Communication has been working with Vivienne Dyer, Rycote MD, to create a new look which marks a new phase in the company's plans for the future.

"We have new and exciting plans for the future, both through continued innovative product development and in the way we will be raising our profile in the year ahead," says Dyer. "Endorsed by the new strapline Sound Sense, we are actively planning new initiatives that will raise our Rycote brand image and which will directly benefit our distributors. Similarly, we will be supporting our valued customers with more new pr

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"Many educational institutions now offer courses in music and video technology, which means they have an ongoing requirement for cable for their recording studios and edit suites," says VDC Trading's commercial director Nigel May. "However, there is also significant demand for cable to support AV installations in lecture theatres and seminar rooms - and that's an area where we have seen a marked increase in business."

Among the many customers VDC Trading supplies is the Media and Learning Technology Service (MALTS) of the University of Edinburgh, which has over 40 lecture theatres an