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USA - The Nevada Cancer Institute's (NVCI) Bond for the Cure fund-raising event, held at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, was as stunning and glitzy as the world of the legendary Agent 007. More than 1,170 guests attended the James Bond-themed event, where they were treated to an advance showing of Casino Royal and got to bid in a silent auction for goodies like the DBS Aston Martin model used in the movie and a luxury vacation at the resort where it was filmed. Hosted by CNN's Larry King with special appearances by James Caan, George Hamilton and Olivia Newton-John, the event raised more than $5.3 million for the NVCI.

One of the attractions of the evening was the colour-changing floor. Located at the entrance and surrounded by three video walls, the floor was comprised of d

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Argentina - Recently on tour throughout South America, Colombian-born singer Shakira performed two sold-out shows at the Velez Sarsfield stadium in Buenos Aires. D.A.S. Aero powered line array systems were used to provide sound reinforcement for the more than 80,000 fans that filled the stadium.

For the South American leg of the tour, twin Digidesign Venue boards for FOH and Monitor mixes, effects, in-ear monitoring and microphones were supplied directly by Clair Bros. At the FOH console was engineer Brad Madix who has worked with bands such as Psychedelic Furs, Def Leppard, Queensryche and Marilyn Manson. For monitor engineer Vish Wadi, this was his second tour with Shakira after previously having worked with Sting, Mariah Carey, and Madonna. Buenos Aires based sound reinforcement company Teddy Goldman supplied the PA composed of 48 Aero 38A along with 18 Aero 28A powered line

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Canada - Located in the former British Columbia pavilion for EXPO 86, Edgewater Casino is one of Vancouver's most prominent casinos, offering slot machines, gaming tables and bingo terminals. Overlooking one of the city's stunning coastal inlets, False Creek, the location has been matched by a creative renovation of the 21,300sq.m building.

To light the new casino, architect Patrick Cotter was appointed with a brief to rejuvenate the pavilion. The pavilion's glass structure meant Cotter had the added challenge of making the inside dark enough for a casino while taking care not to ruin the appeal of a the renowned glass building.

To achieve the desired effect, Cotter chose to create a second environment within the glass structure. This created a housing suitable for the internal casino lighting, while enabling the exterior to be lit in a way that attracts strong visual interest

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

Read more about the Indochine tour in the latest issue of LSi

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UK - Following a successful tender bid, the communication systems company ADC was recently contracted by easyJet airlines to provide a localised paging system for its check-in facilities at London Luton Airport.

London Luton Airport generally has a 'silent terminal' policy and discourages excessive paging calls in its buildings. ADC's brief was therefore to supply and install a powerful but localised paging facility, situated within the specified area of the airport's main check-in hall. Additionally the Airport's own public address and voice alarm had to maintain priority over this paging system.

ADC chose the highly efficient Community R.25-94TX loudspeakers for their power and tightly controlled dispersion characteristics. Four units were installed at high level, set for 100V line usage and driven by a TOA amplifier with a TOA paging panel. The TOA amplifier is also interfa

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UK / Belgium / Russia - Audica Professional, the Cambridge, UK-based audio system manufacturer, has appointed two new distributors, for the Benelux and Russian markets.

Located in Mechelen, M-Pro BeNeLux has been appointed exclusive distributor for Belgium and Luxembourg. Currently handling Community, Quad Industrial, Symetrix, MIPRO, KV2 Audio, Kind Audio, Australian Monitor, Xilica, Astatic, InOut and Violet Audio, M-Pro managing director, Mario Clabots, commented: "We are very happy to be appointed distributor for Audica Professional and feel this will be very complementary to our existing brands. The unique design and outstanding audio quality of MICROseries is perfect for our AV and BGM-focussed business where aesthetics, flexibility and ease of use are really important."

For distribution throughout the Russian Federation, Audica Professional has appointed Arsenal

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UK - Robe Show Lighting moving lights - including the first ColorSpot 575 ATs in a Glasgow club - have been installed upstairs at the Classic Grand in central Glasgow, by locally based installation and sales company Flashlight. Flashlight's Andrew O'Neill completed the new lighting design as part of a recent refurbishment for the 750 capacity club which is independently owned by local entrepreneur Michele Pagliocca.

Pagliocca wanted to embrace good production values and was prepared to allocate a decent budget on lighting and sound. O'Neill was given a blank canvass in terms of design, and has produced an elegant lighting design to match and complement the contemporary interior created by Burns Design, also based in Glasgow.

The Classic Grand is located in Jamaica Street and houses two spaces (250 downstairs/550 upstairs), which present live music and club nights. The site has

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USA - P.L. Travers' beloved story and classic Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins, is playing at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre in New York with lighting design by Howard Harrison. A transfer from London's West End, the Broadway show opened in November 2006 with a lighting rig that includes Martin MAC 700 Profiles and Atomic strobes along with a variety of other automated luminaires, LEDs and conventionals. Lighting supply is by Hudson Sound & Light of Yonkers, New York.

Associate lighting designer is Daniel Walker with Kristina Kloss as assistant lighting designer and Rob Halliday handling the lighting programming. "Generally, we were very pleased with the decision to use the MAC 700s," says Walker, "Especially once we put them in 'studio mode', which made them much quieter."

Rob Halliday, who has worked on both the London and Broadway productions, say

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USA - Underscoring the importance of system solutions to its growth strategy, the Harman Pro Group has announced the creation of a new strategic marketing position focused on integrated systems and coordinated multi-brand communications. Industry veteran Michael MacDonald has rejoined the company to assume the newly created position of executive vice-president of marketing, based at the Group's Northridge, California headquarters.

"This new strategic position has been created specifically to strengthen and expand the Group's systems marketing and communications programs," Augsburger said today. "As our brands continue to strengthen their individual leadership positions, we need to build systems and processes that tightly couple product and brand offerings and leverage the full breadth that Harman offers. Michael's extensive industry experience uniquely qualifies h

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UK - Allen & Heath has recently added remote control capability to one of theEden Project's two iDR DSP systems, installed to manage audiodistribution in the Time of Gifts temporary ice rink.

The original installation took place in 2004 when Eden first launchedthe Time of Gifts concept, a series of seasonal events, which includedmusical performance and the creation of an ice rink for visitors toenjoy. An iDR-8 digital mixing processor was selected for its ability toprovide both sophisticated processing and mixing capabilities.

"The rink is a semi open air structure which posed two problems,"explains Steve Yelland from SPS Systems, who assists Eden with its soundand light requirements. "Firstly, the acoustics are difficult to manageas audio bounces off the ice and the sides of the dome. Secondly, therewere restrictions on the position of the speaker

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USA - Jands' Vista lighting control system has won Best Automated Lighting Controller and Best Overall Lighting Product at the recent WFX 2006 New Product Awards in Dallas, Texas. The awards program is part of the annual Worship Facilities Conference & Expo, the leading event for church facilities and technology teams, and is designed to recognize the most innovative new technology products to hit the worship market.

Fred Mikeska, US sales and marketing manager for A.C. Lighting Inc, the exclusive North American distributor for the Vista range, received the two awards on behalf of Jands from conference co-chair Brian Blackmore.

Brian commented: "The Jands Vista was selected for the two awards based on input from an expert panel of judges. Houses of worship present a unique set of circumstances that the Jands Vista feature set directly addresses. The console is a time-save

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UK - Britannia Row Productions recently used their new Butterfly line array, from Italian manufacturer Outline, for the largest children's choir ever assembled. The Young Voices tour, which took place throughout December 2006, saw Brit Row use the Butterfly system at all of the UK venues on the tour.

The show is an assembled choir of 5,000 school children (and 8,000 in Manchester) who are celebrating music in schools; concerts were staged at the NIA Birmingham, Sheffield Arena, MEN Manchester, Belfast Odyssey and ended at The Royal Albert Hall in London.

System technicians were Davide Lombardi and Adam Smith, who say: "This system never [fails] to amaze us, we are really putting it through its paces from rock and Roll with artists such as the Foo Fighters to 5,000 kids in the Royal Albert Hall assembled as a choir, the dynamics are absolutely fabulous."

Maur

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USA - Aviom, the manufacturer of personal monitor mixing technology, is now shipping its "ground-breaking" new Pro64 Series of audio networking products. Aviom says that the Pro64 kicks off a new era at the company, and the product line represents a sea change in how audio will be transported in applications such as corporate AV, broadcast, education and more. Pro64 products deliver the flexibility of a digital network, combined with the audio performance and simplicity of an analogue wire. All Pro64 products deliver audio with super-low latency, the company says, via its A-Net audio transport protocol.

The Pro64 products with A-Net "have been designed from the ground up for audio networking without compromise, breaking through the inherent limitations of Ethernet to deliver unsurpassed fidelity, performance, and flexibility", say Aviom.

The company says: &

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UK - The Midlands branch of Rigging Services has re-located to larger and more central premises in Birmingham. The move of the business from its previous premises in Dudley, took place over the Christmas break and now offers an improved service, with easy access, more space, more Rental and re-sale stock immediately on hand.

Located directly on Junction 5 of the M6, the ease and speed of transport to the local venues and beyond to the motorway network was a major factor determining the choice of site.

Director Paul Fulcher states: "The re-location was an inevitable and overdue requirement for the Midlands branch which is an excellent local service provider but will also prove to be a 'hub' location for further planned Rigging Services branches in the NW and SW of the UK, complementing the main office in London."

The new contact details are: Rigging Services, Unit E

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UK - Bandit Lites supplied DJ Shadow's latest UK tour with full lighting production and crew - as specified by lighting designer, Jason Hyne. The tour culminated with two sold-out nights at Brixton Academy.

Bandit UK's executive officer, Lester Cobrin says: "DJ Shadow was an interesting show that involved great teamwork between lighting and video crews, which is becoming increasingly common. It was one of the very diverse selection of tours that closed a tremendous 2006 for us."

Hyne has been lighting DJ Shadow since June of 2006 when The Outsider was released, with the touring schedule ramped up for the second half of the year. The show is heavily visual-based. Hyne's lighting was thus designed to let the visuals have their place, while simultaneously complimenting and illuminating both artist and the stage set.

"The visuals are unique and extremely we

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UK - Stage Electrics has added to its £10 million hire stock with the purchase of the ChromaFlood 200 TC from Pulsar - and claim to be the only hire company in the world to offer "this exciting new product".

The ChromaFlood 200 TC is a high output solid state wash light containing 66 RGB tri-colour LEDs with an 8° beam angle. The tri-colour LEDs prevent split shadows and offer the user a possible 16 million colours. The unit can be powered directly from a 100-240v AC supply and has full remote DMX control of RGB levels to allow remote control of its colour mixing, internal sequences provides operation of the fixture without the need for a separate control system. The LCD menu system allows for quick fixture configuration and it's IP65-rated, therefore suitable for outdoor or indoor use.

Adrian Searle, head of hire from Stage Electrics said: "This is a

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USA - The Recording Academy will present the 2007 Technical Grammy Award to Yamaha Corporation at a special ceremony prior to the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, on 11 February 2007 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The award, which is part of the Special Merit Awards category ceremony, is voted on by The Recording Academy's Board of Trustees and its Producers & Engineers Wing. It is presented to individuals and/or companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance in the recording field.

This year's Technical Grammy Award presentation to Yamaha Corporation recognizes the company's long tradition of highly-successful recording products, including the REV series digital reverbs; the NS-10M studio reference monitors and recently launched HS monitors, as well the Yamaha DMP7, DMC1000, ProMix01, 02R and DM2000 digital mixing consoles.

"Yamaha has been

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UAE - This year's PALME Middle East expo takes place on May 20-22, at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre, set within five halls and hosting three distinct vertical exhibitions. Organisers IIR Entertainment & Installation Technology Group have embraced a wide universe of technology applications, spanning architectural lighting and audio visual contracting, live event technology and staging, home automation and musical instruments.

Install @ PALME will be staging the inaugural Middle East Lighting Design Awards (MELDA), which represents a unique opportunity for the region to recognise and celebrate the achievements of the world's leading lighting designers. Winners of MELDA (which includes the Middle East Lighting Designer of the Year), will be presented at an extravagant Gala dinner held at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel in Dubai on May 21.

MELDA is endorsed by the world ren

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USA - ESTA's Technical Standards Program has announced that three draft standards have been posted on the ESTA website for public review through to March 12, 2007. The draft standards, BSR E1.22, Entertainment Technology - Fire Safety Curtain Systems; BSR E1.35-200x, Standard for Lens Quality Measurements for Pattern Projecting Luminaires Intended for Entertainment Use; and SR E1.36-200x, Model Procedure for Permitting the Use of Tungsten-Halogen Incandescent Lamps and Stage and Studio Luminaires in Vendor Exhibit Booths in Convention and Trade Show Exhibition Halls, can be accessed atwww.esta.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php.

BSR E1.22 - 200x, Entertainment Technology - Fire Safety Curtain Systems, describes the materials, fabrication, installation, operation, testing,

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UK - 2007 is shaping up to be a year of new entertainment lighting products - and entertainment lighting supplier White Light is offering chance opportunities to see some of those products at a series of hands-on open days during January and February.

On Monday 22 January and Tuesday 23, White Light will be showing products from the ranges for which they are the exclusive UK distributor: Robert Juliat, LSC, ELC, Rainbow, Look Solutions, LDDE and Wireless Solutions. In addition, Isac Alkstrand from Wireless Solutions will be on hand to explain the advantages of Wireless Solutions' range of wireless DMX products, as featured in The Great Wireless DMX Shoot-Out in the July/August 2006 issue of Lighting&Sound Internationalmagazine.

The two open days will run from 10am-4pm at White Light's West End office at 52 Shaftesbury A

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UK - Projected Image Digital has supplied a Catalyst version 4 system to ITV Productions at The Manchester Studios, makers of the popular Make Your Play game show. This is broadcast live on ITV1 and the ITV Play channel on Thursday Friday and Saturday nights between midnight and 4.30 a.m., presented by Ben Baldwin and Alex Kramer.

The Catalyst was specified by Neil Breakwell, the show's executive producer. He sought a flexible, cost-effective method to giving the show high production values and a contemporary, feel that provided an interesting background. He also wanted to be able to quickly introduce light, shade or other visual moods to the show whilst integrating with the music bed. Catalyst was initially recommended to him by TV LD Chris Rigby.

Breakwell approached PID to advise on and supply the Catalyst software, and they also provided a customised Macintosh compu

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UK - When the Mela came to Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre, PSL, one of the UK's leading production services suppliers, was pleased to let a bit of the Bollywood magic rub off. Billed as the Ultimate Asian Experience, the huge three-day event occupying three halls of the NEC represented a fresh challenge for PSL.

Contracted by Clarion Events, PSL's Birmingham team, based at the NEC itself, provided all of the technical production for three main stages, from creating the specification for the stage areas and building them, to designing and providing all lighting, sound, and projection.

In the Bollywood Cinema area, which was run by BAFTA, some of Bollywood's leading stars were appearing, and PSL set up a 20ft x 15ft screen, using twin projection producing 24,000 lumens of brightness. In the vast space of the NEC's Hall 3a, capable of housing crowds of 5,000, PSL also fl

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