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UK - AV installation specialists, Sound Division, have recently supplied a state-of-the-art 61-inch NEC plasma screen into London's Jesuit Centre in Mount St, in the heart of London's Mayfair.

The Mount St Jesuit Centre is both a teaching facility and a retreat where Christians may come and explore their faith via the many courses and activities that are run by the centre. The AV system, which also includes a DVD player and sky box and is connected into the existing PA, is designed to bring presentations to life and add a much-needed visual element to seminars and lectures. The room is also used for social activities, in particular the cinema club.

Sound Division's David Graham reported that the installation was welcomed by the client. "The Jesuit Centre, like many other te

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Lifting, and rigging sales specialists Lift-Turn-Move (LTM) - celebrate their second birthday at PLASA 06.

Visitors can expect a warm welcome from the LTM team who will have a special cake on the stand to help celebrate the occasion, as well as a selection of their wide range of Lodestar hoists, motor control systems and other rigging equipment and accessories.

The LTM team will also be on hand to discuss their latest training initiatives, an element that key individuals in the company have pioneered in the industry for the last 12 years.

LTM offers a range of lifting and rigging equipment including the Lodestar and Prostar electric chain hoists, which are being highlighted at the show. High integrity hoisting systems are also available including equipment to BGV C1 German safety standard. Special features include double brakes, load sensing and multiple limit switches. Variable sp

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UK - GSL Power Distribution has been launched by Garry Lodge to offer the entertainment industry in general and rental operations in particular a fresh approach to providing power solutions to suit the different demands of today's venues from large-scale outdoor events to concert halls, theatres and even intimate cabaret settings.

Based on his experience of more than 20 years working with Avolites and some of the largest companies in the lighting industry, Lodge believes that his new GSL Power Distribution company will bring something unique to the event marketplace. "We have developed (and are currently working on) a selection of new products and services that we know the leading rental operations are demanding," he comments. "They want easily customised products that are robust and reliable and GSL Power Distribution will provide practical solutions and developm

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UK - Sophisticated digital Public Address and Voice Alarm (PA/VA) technology from Bosch Security Systems has been selected by Advance Integrated Systems (AIS) for the new Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth scheduled to open in Autumn 2006.

Central to the installation is Bosch's proven Praesideo technology - the world's first fully digital public address and emergency sound system characterised by the flexibility in the system configuration, simplicity of installation and high-quality audio reproduction. Its high output power and ability to be configured for many different zones makes it ideal for a shopping centre environment, say Bosch.

As well as the PA/VA system, AIS has also chosen technology from Bosch Security Systems' CCTV range, including EnviroDome (for outdoor surveillance) and FlexiDome XT (impact resistant) dome cameras, both with innovative motion tracking c

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USA - The science-fiction television series Stargate Atlantis is utilizing FogScreen in an upcoming episode of its new season. Stargate Atlantis, seen around the world, is about a team of military and scientific explorers who travel to a distant galaxy through the Stargate in search of the lost city of Atlantis. FogScreen is used in episode three of the show's third season, Sateda.

A Finnish invention, FogScreen generates a thin, dry fog that delivers an ideal on-screen look for live events, film and television productions. It enables people to actually walk through an image projected in mid-air. FogScreen uses ordinary water and does not contain any chemicals. "We chose FogScreen for its quality and its proven advanced technical characteristics," explains N. John Smith, executive producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. "

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UK - Summit Steel is enjoying a hectic summer of SmarTmast supplies. This is the highly practical answer for rigging PA, lights, video elements or anything else that might need to be flown at height on a wide variety of sites.

For the Commemoration of the First Anniversary of the London Bombing on 7 July in Regent's Park, Summit supplied the Department of Culture Media and Sport with a 13 metre high ground support system for a BBC hot-head camera, plus four SmarTmasts for the stage area. The Masts were used to support the VDosc PA arrays supplied by Delta Sound. Production manager was Chuck Crampton.

At Leeds Castle, Summit deployed four SmarTmast 1s and two SmarTmast 2s - a two legged goalpost format structure constructed from 20.5 cm SuperTruss - plus two SmarTmast 3s. The 3 is also a goalpost construction - made from 52 cm truss, designed for heavier duty applications like

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UAE - On 15 July, the newest project of Martin Professional Middle East was the opening of the Chanel Studio, located in Harvey Nichols in the Mall of the Emirates, Dubai. This studio is the sixth of its type worldwide after London, Moscow, Tokyo, and Seoul.

Martin offered a solution that provides the whole studio with basic colours used for makeup, which allows shoppers to have the same mood and colour recreated, of candle light, fire light, day light etc...

Fidaa Baddour, the marketing manager of Chanel - UAE says: "The Basic element and the main focus of makeup is lighting. In Chanel we say, 'Chanel Masters the Light'." Baddour continues: "The lighting in the studio is unique, that shows [the] professionalism of makeup depends on light directly. We trust that Martin is able to demonstrate all the colours we need and all [the] applications required."

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Australia - Adelaide airport's new $260 million state-of-the-art terminal features no fewer than 98 Turbosound loudspeakers. The 75,000sq.m terminal will initially cater for more than five million passengers a year, but has been designed to cope with up to eight million users within 10 years. The terminal is equipped to handle up to 27 aircraft simultaneously, and process 3,000 passengers an hour during peak periods.

Turbosound Qlight TQ-230 was the principal loudspeaker chosen to deliver these services. The TQ-230 is a compact cabinet comprising dual 5" woofers and a 1" compression driver on a rotatable horn, with a wide dispersion pattern. All 98 loudspeakers in the Adelaide terminal were custom-fitted with a high quality 100V line toroidal transformers and powered by a combination of Australian Monitor and Lab.gruppen amplifiers.

The system was jointly designed by

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USA - Madama Butterfly is one of the most-loved works in opera. In fact, it was the favourite of its composer, Giacomo Puccini, out of all of his operas. Clearly, Madama Butterfly is a work with broad appeal, which made it an obvious candidate for an outreach effort by the San Francisco Opera. "It's a very expensive proposition to stage an opera," explains the opera's master audio engineer, Max Christensen. "Ultimately if we don't get what we do out of the opera house and make it more accessible to a larger audience, we put live opera at risk."

Recognising this, new San Francisco Opera general manager David Gockley is championing free performances by the opera in the city's parks, and recently created "Opera Vision," a programme to simulcast live performances from the War Memorial Opera House. The performance is transmitted to an outdo

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UK - Serious Stages supplied one of their 20m 'standard leg' Space Roof stages, complete with their new Super Deck decking, to Live Nation for a series of Summer Concerts at Harewood House near Leeds. Artists performing across two high-profile weekends of events included Simply Red, Westlife, The Who, James Blunt and others.

The 4-Bay Space Roof was supplied complete with 12m x 6m goal post PA and video wings, ramp, handrails and disabled platform. It also featured Serious's new improved anti-slip steps and a new solid handrail design. The roof offers 14m of headroom - plenty of height for lighting - and a distributed SWL of 11 tonnes per arch, with a centre load of 6 tonnes.

Serious also took care of the decking, using a combination of their standard Black Deck as well as their new Super Deck. The Super Deck ran at a 6m depth across the front of the stage. This is specially d

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UK - For the second year running the Canary Wharf Group turned to Hawthorn to assist in their Summer Gala events. With nine days of activities in July, held at Canada Square Park, with both lunchtime and evening performances the gala attracted over 10,000 spectators over the two week period.

The varied programme included: film screenings, a comedy night, an evening of dance, and classical music recitals. Hawthorns were commissioned to provide entrance, stage and garden lighting.

"This years event was an interesting project," said Matt Oscroft the Hawthorn project manager, "with it being our second year working for this event, we realised we had to keep our designs and specifications fresh. This was achieved by using new configurations of Prolyte truss, which allowed us to use the maximum height of the Orbit structure. In addition, as the Clay Paky Alpha Spots we

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UK - London's T Bar now benefits from a new sound system, recently installed by Kelco. The Shoreditch venue had been renting in a Funktion One rig and were so impressed that they decided to buy one. Their enquiries soon led them to Kelco.

Special attention had to be paid to the audio design to achieve the required effect. Jason Bacon of Audio Projects, London undertook the design. Kelco was able to advise on the scheme to meet the client's exacting demands. The system needed to be zoned to feed the venue's four distinct areas, but still have the ability to offer the same music into any or all areas.

The main dance arena required a full on system so the obvious choice was Resolution 4 boxes coupled with F-218 subs. Resolution 1s were specified for the restaurant area and some seating areas, all driven by Full Fat Audio (FFA) amplifiers. This was the first major installation to

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USA - FiberPlex, an audio fibre optic supplier to the systems contracting and integration industry, announced that its LightViper fibre optic digital audio transport system has been installed in Crane's Roost Park, a multi-use venue located in a rejuvenated green space in the city of Altamonte Springs, FL. Audio/video systems integrators Teer Engineering recently completed the first phase of a large-scale, sophisticated audio/video system installation including the upgraded venue's 900-seat amphitheatre that features a 100' X 60' "floating stage" on the park's 37-acre lake.

Cranes Roost Park sits at the centre of Altamonte Town Centre, a 25-acre, 1.5-million-square-foot, master-planned development connected to a larger 1,400-acre business and residential district.

John Teer, president of Orlando-based Teer Engineering, commented on technical aspects of the cutting-ed

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UK - J&C Joel have supplied an award winning (PLASA 2003, Award for Design Excellence) Unibar lifting system for the newly opened €14 million Mill Theatre in Dundrum Town Centre, Dublin 14, on the site of Ireland's largest shopping centre.

J&C Joel's project manager Tony Griffiths co-designed the Unibar with Slingco's Nick Dykins, and Maurice Power Theatre Consultants specified it for the Mill Theatre. J&C Joel worked closely with its premier Irish distributor, Stage Lighting Centre, on the installation and commissioning of the system.

The nine 4-line Unibars - eight over the stage and one advanced bar in the auditorium - are each designed to raise and lower up to 400kg on 10m long suspension bars, The Unibar system allows the quick and easy raising/lowering of suspension or bars for scenery, lighting and AV equipment with a motor-driven unit.

Unibar was seen as the ideal s

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UK - "Common-Sense is one of those products that you don't need every day, but when you do - it's the only solution!" say Artistic Licence of their new product. As the name suggests, it is a common point for sensors and interfaces in the world of show control and systems integration.

Common Sense provides a wealth of input and output functions including opto-isolated contacts, keypad readers, analogue sensors, real time clock, DMX512, MIDI, MIDI Timecode, RS232 and RS485. A Windows software package, Sense-Edit, is used to configure the relationship between all of the inputs and outputs. This can include up to 350 discrete events such as 'When DMX channel 3 passes 50% send this serial data string'.

Common-Sense has recently been extended to provide even more functionality. The optical inputs can now be combined using Boolean equations to provide even greater triggerin

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USA - Prelite NY and Prelite SF often provide support for a variety of events, but recently they each were involved with two large-scale endeavors where time and budget were big factors. Prelite NY's studio space was used to support LD Philip Rosenberg's design for the Broadway Bares fundraising event for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) while Prelite SF provide a Prelite Onsite system to LD John Featherstone to help him realize his design for the Opening Ceremonies for the Gay Games VII in Chicago.

For the second year in a row, Rosenberg lit Broadway Bares. The revue is one of the many Broadway charity events coordinated by BC/EFA and took place at Roseland Ballroom. This year's theme was New York Strip. Rosenberg explained that the show was "a dance concert of 200 actor/dancers that came together under several different choreographers; each number

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UK - What started as a PC control package for the XTA DP100 Delay Processor in 1996, has grown into an audio management system. "We had no idea just how far AudioCore would go," says XTA's Andrew Grayland. "10 years on, AudioCore is almost unrecognisable," he continues. "With hindsight, it was a fairly simple package, designed to access the three bands of parametric EQ in the DP100, via a remote computer. As we added features to the units, DP200 then DP202, we added in the requests from engineers and sound companies about what they wanted AudioCore to do. DP200 became DP226, which became DP448 and AudioCore just continued to evolve along with the units - every useful idea we were given became written into code and part of the program.

"10 years later, we have matrixing control, phase filtering, crossover slopes and control of the DP4 Series processi

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UK - Following their successful launch earlier this year, Tryka L.E.D. will show for the first time at PLASA its array of new luminaires. The fixtures include the Easy-Link Module 3, Module 6 and Module 12, as well as the powerful IP rated Module 36 for all large interior and exterior installations.

The family of Intelligent Drive Systems (namely the IDS-4 and IDS-12 offering a variety of built-in functions to run up to 144 LEDs) will be completed by the launch at the show of the IDS Wall Control and IDS Wall Control DMX. The two compact units - which can be either recessed or surface mounted - will remotely run up to 32 IDS Drivers by recalling the same functions also available on the Drivers themselves.

Furthermore the IDS Wall Control will offer a master dimmer for dimming all channels, whilst the IDS Wall Control will also offer the added advantage of individually dimming

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UK - Orbital Sound - the UK distributor for Telex's advanced wireless intercom range- has announced record sales for both the single channel BTR 700 and its sister dual channel version - the BTR 800.

As a wireless solution these systems augment on-site operations on a number of levels allowing greater flexibility and enhanced communications in line with HSE issues. Both systems have made an impact in theatre, broadcast and corporate presentation application markets.

Recent sales include four BTR 700 systems to The Barbican, which were integrated into their existing wired RTS comms system. In addition systems have been acquired by a number of hire companies including, The Wireless Works, Metro Staging and Tech Comms and the BTR 700 belt pack system features as part of a substantial systems up-grade in The Guildhall School of Music.

The Barbican's senior technical manager, Ste

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USA - Audio-Technica is pleased to announce that On the Road Marketing has been presented with Audio-Technica's President's Award. The announcement was made by Glenn Roop, Audio-Technica director, professional product sales. John Cheese, A-T territory manager, professional products, joined in congratulating On The Road for their achievement.

On The Road Marketing principal Doug Brown and sales manager John Krupa accepted the President's Award, which recognises a leading manufacturer's representative for outstanding commitment and dedication during the Audio-Technica 2005/2006 fiscal year. The firm is responsible for the territory including New York City and surrounding suburbs, as well as parts of New Jersey. The award was given in a ceremony held in Orlando, on June 7, concurrent with this year's InfoComm Expo.

Marc Lee Shannon, Audio-Technica vice president, sales, says: &qu

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UK - GSL Power Distribution has announced what it says is "a breakthrough in power management" with the launch of its new interchangeable power distribution modules. Designed for the rental market, to give ultimate flexibility in power distribution, the Revolution Range will receive its UK debut at PLASA 06 (10-13 September, Earls Court, London).

With the Revolution, the company says, the need to predict future power requirements will no longer be necessary, as the rack-mounted modules are easily interchangeable by simply unplugging the Veam snap-locks (mini power locks). "Basically," says Garry Lodge MD of GSL Power Distribution, "you decide what outputs you require on the 3U module and we translate your ideas into practical reality. Probably the two most important aspects of this new development are that it is truly cost-effective (you only have to inv

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