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The Netherlands - JBL Professional will be holding a two day JBL Intellivox training close to the JBL/Duran Audio R&D and manufacturing facility in Zaltbommel, The Netherlands on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March 2016

The training course will cover all the basics required to get started with JBL Intellivox. In addition to this there will be demonstrations of a wide range of JBL Intellivox and JBL AXYS products as well as a factory tour.

To receive additional details about the event and to receive a registration form, contact Anja Stapper (Anja.Stapper@harman.com) who will be co-ordinating the registrations for the event.

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - Movie Park Germany is a film and amusement park in Kirchhellen that offers visitors a taste of Hollywood through a host of rides, shows and attractions including functioning movie studios. Popular since opening in the late '90s, the park is divided into five areas, each with its own character and collection of attractions. In one of the most popular areas, Hollywood Street Set, multi-functional Elation Platinum SBX fixtures have been installed to add an extra layer of excitement to a 4-D cinema experience based on the animated movie Ice Age: No Time for Nuts.

The 3D film Ice Age: No Time for Nuts takes visitors through a sensory experience that includes physical effects in synchronization with the film such as shaking seats or wind effects. Eight Platinum SBX hybrid moving head fixtures installed in the cinema's ceiling project film-supporting special e

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UK - This week the Current RMS Team is celebrating hitting the 1,000-user mark with close to 700 rental businesses worldwide now relying on the system to manage their hire processes.

Launched just 15 months ago, Current has experienced rapid growth, illustrating the need for AV, lighting and production hire businesses to be able to work on the move, raise quotes on the fly, check stock availability and generate invoices from any device and location.

"Current has been so well received across the UK and we are now seeing significant growth across USA, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East - that's the beauty of the cloud, businesses can sign up within 60 seconds online and receive the same level of support from us, no matter where in the world they are," says business manager Lisa Kenward.

Since launch, Current has heavily invested resource in development, building

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USA - True variety shows have all but disappeared from American television, but if anyone can revive the genre it's Neil Patrick Harris who headlined the eight-episode Best Time Ever live variety series on NBC. Lighting designer Matt Ford of Magic Lantern Creations in Woodland Hills, California selected Clay Paky Mythos fixtures for the rig.

Featuring live performances, mini game show segments, sing-a-longs and pre-recorded pranks, "It was incredibly important to have a rig that was extremely flexible because it was a live variety show," Ford explains. "On most reality competition shows there is a lot more predictability, but Best Time Ever had a lot of unknown variables that you had to adjust to on the fly. We had to react to whatever was thrown at us. Most of the acts were new, things were shot from many different angles and one time we had to reblock a couch s

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The Netherlands - The first four-day Integrated Systems Europe exhibition came to a close on 12 February with a final count of 65,686 registered attendees. This represents a 6,338 (10.7%) increase on the 2015 edition and officially positions ISE as the world's largest AV and systems integration tradeshow.

"The volume of attendee traffic and its spread over the four days confirms our belief that the extra day was necessary and that it adds value for visitors and exhibitors," stated Integrated Systems Events managing director, Mike Blackman. "I'm delighted to say that the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and I would like to thank everyone who attended and contributed."

With 1,103 of the world's leading AV manufacturers and service companies filling the RAI's exhibitions halls, visitors had the opportunity to view the latest products and technologies. Members of the

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World - Sound designers are specifying the Meyer Sound Leopard linear sound reinforcement system to support a growing number of musical theatre productions in America and Europe alike. With support of six productions on three continents, Leopard is making an impression in the world of musical theatre with its level of clarity, power, and precision.

For Motown: The Musical in London, noted sound designer Peter Hylenski chose to deliver the soulful sounds of this West End hit musical at London's Shaftesbury Theatre with 28 Leopard line array loudspeakers and six 900-LFC low-frequency control elements, supplied by London-based Autograph Sound. "Motown is an extremely dynamic show," says Hylenski. "With Leopard, the low-level dialogue is crisp and articulate, while the full musical numbers have punch and clarity."

"Leopard was the right choice for this tour," says Poti

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UK - PSCo has announced that they will be distributing Samsung's much anticipated portfolio of LED in the UK and Ireland. PSCo has placed the first order for Samsung's 1.5mm ultra fine pixel pitch LED as a demonstration unit for its Reading showroom, demonstrating its commitment to both Samsung and channel partners.

Mark Taylor, LED business development manager at Samsung is responsible for the 'go to market' strategy on this product line. Announcing this news, Mark commented, "PSCo has been extremely successful in LED, and are the first distributor with a full product and support offering for the channel. We have strict criteria for our LED distribution partner to meet and I am delighted that PSCo met it all! We are very much looking forward to the future with the team at PSCo."

"We've always prided ourselves on the levels of operational and technical support we can offer

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USA - DPA Microphones has promoted Christopher Spahr to VP of sales and marketing, USA, James Capparelle to marketing manager, USA, and Gabriel Antonini to national sales support/business development manager.

"We are delighted to announce these three well-deserved promotions," says Niels J°rgen Øhrgaard, EVP of sales, DPA Microphones. "DPA has enjoyed tremendous growth and success over the past few years and it is no coincidence that Christopher, James and Gabriel have all been a part of it. Their pride and passion in our products are the driving force behind everything DPA does. We look forward to their continued contributions and hard work as DPA continues to build upon its reputation as the industry's best."

As VP of sales and marketing, USA, Spahr's new role will include managing the dealer network in the East and increasing overall sales. Spahr will also be

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USA - PixelFLEX has introduced the reFLEXion LED video display. The freestanding and WI-FI enabled reFLEXion is a lightweight, portable and customizable LED video display solution that allows you "to promote your message wherever needed throughout any commercial, hospitality, retail or entertainment environment".

"Understanding that our clients often need to relocate their messaging to better serve their business and promotions, we are very excited to announce the reFLEXion LED video display," said David Venus, PixelFLEX director of marketing. "A breathtaking addition to our line of award-winning LED video products, the reFLEXion LED video stand is a truly redefining product for the consumer retailer, restaurant and entertainment industries. By giving our clients the opportunity to move and customize their messaging wherever needed, we have created complete, indoor mobile mark

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UK - MCS has announced that MCS-rm, its leading rental software solution, now offers a comprehensive integration to the popular cloud-based online accounting software package, Xero.

With more rental companies choosing to move their entire software solution to the 'cloud', MCS has met this demand by integrating MCS-rm with the Xero accounting software solution for those clients who wish to host all of their key business applications remotely. The technology union will help businesses to work smarter and faster, improve team collaboration and give a holistic view of their operations and finances.

With the integration of the two systems, users can automatically sync and seamlessly transfer financial transactions such as invoices, credit notes, cash payments, depreciation and client details from Xero to MCS-rm and vice-versa. In addition, they can view aged debt, any outstandi

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USA - In 1807, New York Governor DeWitt Clinton proposed an audacious plan: to build a 363 mile (584 km) canal that connected New York City's Atlantic port to America's burgeoning Great Lakes. Despite a chorus of initial scepticism (President Thomas Jefferson dismissed the idea as "a little short of madness"), Clinton's vision became reality 18 years later with the opening of the Erie Canal that ran from Buffalo on Lake Erie to Albany on the Hudson.

The canal turned New York City into a great metropolis and transformed Buffalo into a centre of commodities trading, as evidenced by the proliferation of grain elevators that lined its canal side. Although Buffalo's grain trading days have long since receded into history, one remnant of its past, the Connecting Terminal Grain Elevator, has taken on new life as a popular attraction, thanks to an ever-changing lightshow that draws on

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UK - Production company, Nub Sound recently carried an Allen & Heath dLive digital mixing system on the UK tour of British singer songwriter, Jamie Lawson, to manage FOH sound.

Last year, Lawson was signed by Ed Sheeran's new record label, Gingerbread Man Records. The tour coincided with the release of Jamie's second UK single release from his self-titled No. 1 album. Nub Sound managed audio production for the tour, selecting the smallest dLive system, the S3000 Control Surface and DM32 MixRack.

"We have Allen & Heath iLive, GLD and Qu mixers in our hire stock, so naturally I have been excited about trying out dLive as soon as I heard it was in development," comments FOH engineer, Rob Simpson, from Nub Sound. "There was no production rehearsal time available before the tour and I did not get my hands on the dLive system until the night before the first show. However, withi

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Nigeria - Over 500,000 people attended Africa's largest concert - The Experience - a mega concert at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria. The Experience is an interdenominational gospel concert and word-based gathering organized in Nigeria by The House On The Rock, a vibrant, multi-ethnic church.

The organizers chose an Outline audio system to ensure that the spoken word and inspired music by the numerous artists such Don Moen, Donnie McClurkin, Fred Hammond, Micah Stampley, Kim Burrell, Hezekiah Walker, Jessica Reedy and Sonnie Badu, were heard loud and clear by the huge crowd.

Cytech World Communication was called in for the third consecutive year to handle sound production for the huge event that featured 11 hours of non-stop prayer and live music.

The main FOH Outline audio system was comprised of 30 GTO C-12 line arrays, two GTO-DF down-fills, 16 DBS 18-2 s

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Australia - Professional wireless sound solution specialists, Raycom, were asked in summer 2015 to specify, supply and commission a substantial new RF wireless distribution system for ITV's popular reality television show, I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!.

The show is set in 500,000sq.m of dense Australian jungle. The celebrities competing are filmed in various settings and locations across the whole area making wireless belt pack microphones the obvious solution. It was down to Raycom to create sufficient RF architecture to make sure their every word was heard loud and clear even if they weren't screaming "get me out!"

Through experience with other geographically challenging applications, in the world of motorsport, Raycom turned to Italian manufacturer Wisycom, who they represent in the UK, knowing they would have the equipment and technology required to get

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Belgium - As well as providing excellent facilities, sound quality and ease of use, Yamaha professional audio equipment is renowned for its reliability and long life. The oldest of five Yamaha digital mixing consoles owned by the Thé

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UK - Lighting designer Olly Suckling presented a novel solution and lighting effect using 28 of Robe's CycFX 8 LED battens to create a giant illuminated M-A-X-I-M-O sign upstage on UK alt rockers Maximo Park's most recent tour. This celebrated 10 years since the release of their seminal debut studio album, A Certain Trigger in 2005, which was also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.

This high impact visual effect was part of Olly's first design for Maximo Park, for which he toured a neat and flexible floor package comprising 59 fixtures, 46 of which were Robe, all supplied by rental company R & M Productions from Stokesley, North Yorkshire.

The Maximo letters utilised six CycFX 8s for the two Ms and the O, four for the A and the X and two for the L, all of which were outrigged from aluminium pipes standing in heavy-duty tank trap bases.

In addition to the Cyc

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UK - PLASA has 39 years of experience in providing business events for the live entertainment technology industry, attracting a high calibre of attendees with more than £3billion spending power for the PLASA Show, £340m for PLASA Focus Leeds and £130m for the newest edition, PLASA Focus Glasgow.

PLASA prides itself on delivering a targeted audience for each show highlighted by the small audience crossover between events, with only 350 Leeds visitors and 52 Glasgow visitors attending the flagship London show. This unique audience is not just limited to shows organised by the PLASA Events division, but also includes competitor shows with 41% of PLASA Show 2015 visitors not having attended any other show in the past year.

Christopher Toulmin, director of Events Division says: "Engaging face-to-face is still the fastest and most effective way to build relatio

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Canada - Richard LaBerge has joined Calibre, the British manufacturer of audio and video scaling and switching technology, as VP international sales.

LaBerge has more than 20 years' experience in business management, leadership and product development globally. LaBerge co-founded Sensio Technologies Inc., where as VP he spearheaded the company's success in licensing, business development and delivery of technologies to market. Prior to this LaBerge developed commercial marketing and lending at Desjardins. He started his career in computer programming.

Based in Montreal, Canada, LaBerge will expand Calibre's business into new markets. He will focus on increasing market share and presence in corporate AV and Calibre's existing customer base as well as growing OEM and own-label business particularly in Asia.

"LaBerge has the perfect mix of talent to lead Calibre's interna

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UK - Baldwin Boxall has been granted certification by the Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) for their entire range of VIGIL2 voice alarm products. LPCB certification is considered by many to be the highest mark of quality and reliability available in the industry today, and it has worldwide recognition. Baldwin Boxall has always claimed that it manufactures a high quality product and now, with LPCB approval, this claim is reinforced.

Amongst the products that have been approved is the company's VIGIL Eclipse3 - a self-contained, wall-mountable voice evacuation system. The Eclipse3 is already popular and this certification is expected to open up new markets for the system.

Popularity for the Eclipse3 is not only due to its convenient size but also to its modular design, making it incredibly flexible. The Eclipse3 uses the same DSP-controlled routeing technology as

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USA - Clear-Com has announced that its DX410, two-channel 2.4 GHz digital wireless intercom system is now shipping. The new system which features 7 kHz wideband audio for exceptional audio clarity is the first DX Series wireless intercom system to offer this level of audio frequency range. Easy to set up and configure, the DX410 also features lightweight yet rugged beltpacks and All-in-One wireless headsets.

Each BS410 base station can support up to 15 registered BP410 wireless beltpacks and/or WH410 all-in-one wireless headsets. In a single-channel operation, any four beltpack users can engage in simultaneous, full-duplex (talk-listen) communication, while three users may be in full-duplex mode in a dual-channel operation. The BP410 and WH410 have rugged, reinforced casings and long-lasting keypads with no mechanical switch, proven to withstand harsh production environments.

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