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The show is being staged by Kevin Wall, who told BBC News he has been "overwhelmed" by major artists wanting to get involved. "That's unusual, normally it's the other way round," he added. He admitted he will have to turn down some big name acts: "We are going to have a lot of the major African artists and really it's going to be about Africa so the slots for international artists are a rarity."

Wall believes the show could reach an even bigger TV audience than Live 8 and Li

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Rental director Mike Nield comments: "This is another addition to the ever developing rental fleet and comes in response to clients looking for access to these very high powered projectors from a trade partner. We have invested in the two most advanced products available to the rental market at the moment and the initial uptake has been phenomenal."

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"The solutions that GSEO is developing can bring great benefit to the cities that adopt and implement the new street lights," said Alvin Tse, VP Asia Pacific Sales at Philips Lumileds. "We expect that their design will deliver high quality, reliable street lighting for many years to come."

"GSEO's approach to creating new solutions is to choose the highest quality LEDs and to implement an optimised system design to ensure that the new luminaire is the best overall solution for its designated application," said Calvin Chen, director of LED Lighting BU at

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The mammoth logistical exercise will involve the company transporting a variety systems, from LCD screen to video walls, tens of thousands of miles between October and December.

DB's European shows include EXPOMIL 2009, in Bucharest (18-21 October), which will showcase military technology, as well as Food Ingredients Europe 2009, in Frankfurt, (17-19 November), a global event for the food and beverage industry.

Meanwhile, in the Middle East, DB will be at the Dubai Airshow, (15-19 November), which will include supplying AV systems for the BAE Systems, as part of its ongoing contract with design company RapierGroup.

Furthest to travel for DB will be two shows in South East Asia - Seoul Airshow 2009 (20-25 October) and LIMA 2009

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The Blue Note Mystery is a visual extravaganza that transports spectators into a magical realm of sound and music, taking place every evening, in front of a 5,000-seat open-air amphitheatre at Futuroscope's lake. The 25-minute show, which takes place on a 7,000sq.m aquatic stage, includes an array of technical features including pyrotechnic effects, water effects, lasers, shrouds of mist, a multitude of twinkling lights, gigantic flames and more. During the show, giant images are projected onto two 25m and one 35m high water screens.

One Medialon Manager PRO and one Medialon Manage

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Featuring a bar/restaurant and live entertainment, the club measures around 22m long by seven wide. As the building is listed and nothing was allowed to touch the walls of the old church, architect Italo Rota built the club within a freestanding iron structure. The main bar and circulation area is downstairs, with a smaller first floor dining area above part of the main space.

The audio system was designed by Pierluigi Pecchenini of Direct Field Engineering. He needed a system that was compact enough not to visually intrude on either the historic fabric of the building or the club's plush décor. To achieve this, Alcons VR8, TS7 and LR14 loudspeaker

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Philips Selecon's new Wing range of performance wall washer floods was being demonstrated at Northern Light's festival showcase in August and Jim Ewen, Arts Centre technician for project ability at Trongate 103, was one of NL's invited guests.

Ewen said: "Trongate 103's official launch was coming up on 8 September and I was looking for some architectural lighting to illuminate the exhibits. After consulting with the team from Northern Light and seeing the fixtures in action, I realised that the Selecon Wing 35W metal halide model would be absolutely perfect for our needs."

Northern Light provided a total of 142 Selecon Wing Wall Washers in architectural white for the client to install across a range of spaces within the six storey former Ed

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The company, established in 1996 by owner Sándor Elek, which has used Renkus-Heinz loudspeaker systems in Hungary for many years alongside Trantec and Accusound, took delivery of its system last month. The firm has grown in size to 20 employees and is expanding its client base in live music, theatre and television.

"We have worked with Renkus-Heinz system to establish the brand in Hungary," commented Elek. "We began with rental basically and after a year or two sold some systems to theatres. We also started working with pop bands and with television, and became involved with the regular two-month-long series of summer concerts at the Dom Square

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Independently tested for compliance to ATEX standards for use in Zone 2 and Zone 22 environments, the EXP series is manufactured from a tough high grade UL94V-0 rated Polycarbonate material. Similar in construction to Bulgin's 900 Series Buccaneer, the connectors are environmentally sealed to IP68 to provide protection for the most severe of dust and water borne environments. Ambient temperature range is from -20°C to +55°C.

Compact in design, the connectors are available in 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 10 pole variants and in four body styles - cable, in-line cable, panel and flange fixing. Each contact insert is available with either pin or socket contacts and either can be used with any of the body styles to give the maximum choice of combinations.

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The event attracted tens of thousands of people who gathered to attend the shows at this year's festival where the cast included some of the best bands in the Italian alternative rock scene including, Afterhours, J-Ax, Calibro 35, Le Luci Della Centrale Elettrica, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti and Ministri.

Rental Company Airone S.r.l. chose RCF TT+ Series as the main PA system. TTL33-A Line Arrays coupled with TTS28-A Subwoofers were used for the sound reinforcement while TT25-SMA stage monitors were deployed on stage.

"The thing that impressed us the most was the incredible sound definition and the versatility of the system. In fact every night we had to amplify a very different kind of music and the system worked out just perfectly, commented V

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Wukesong Arena was built in west Beijing for the 2008 Olympics specifically to host basketball. Privately financed by developer Bloomage International Investment Group Inc, the venue was managed by AEG and then closed post games for a total refurbishment.

The refurbishment maintains the basketball heritage, with regular appearances by the American NBA teams - basketball having a huge following in China. However, it now works as a major world class concert venue, the first in a planned series of 11 across China, all managed by AEG.

The venue's roof, covering some 14,400 m2, was designed for sports use rather than concert rigging and so the owners went to tender for suitable solutions for rigging. Bidding against worldwide c

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Both the Mid/High and LF enclosures are built with common dimensions to facilitate easy installation in vertical or horizontal arrays and are constructed of heavily braced, 15mm concert tour-grade plywood. In addition, 16 M10 attachment points-per-enclosure are provided for safe and easy suspension.

The DCS SC-424-8F also features a coax HF/VHF diaphragm, which has less mass than traditional diaphragms, resulting in "exceptional dynamic range, extended high frequency response and lower distortion".

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The Linea Focus systems incorporate either eight (LF-120/LFi-120) or 16 (LF-220/LFi-220) high-performance 4-inch speakers, each equipped with a separate, integral Class D DSP amplifier that produces 100 watts of direct path power. The systems can be remotely controlled and monitored from a central location using a PC/laptop. Up to 255 separate speakers can be connected and steered using the manufacturer's sophisticated networking technology.

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The Los Angeles location has been strategically selected, placing GLP in the densely populated industrial district of Torrance, a traditional West Coast heartland for show production and event staging.

Elation Professional will remain GLP's distributor for the Impression range. But this development will enable the company to offer Elation much closer support, emphasises Ravenhill, who in addition to heading up the operation will retain his position as GLP's director of global key players.

Ravenhill says he is relishing the challenge. "It is a great opportunity to further exploit the enormous success of the expanding Impression range and at the same time reu

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This system upgrade was specified by Jeff Sanderson and Todd Gathany of Onpoint Designs and installed by Morgan Sound. The system also features EV's latest XCS312 cardioid pattern subwoofers.

"Our EV rep Kevin Johnson (Left Coast Marketing) introduced us to the EV-Innovation family at the InfoComm trade show," says Gathany, "and we came away really impressed with their sonic characteristics - very smooth and warm-sounding. Add that to their clean aesthetics and attractive price point, we knew they would be solid choices for house of worship installations like Snoqualmie."

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Staged between Newcastle and South Shields, this year was no exception. And although the event has regularly attracted over 50,000 runners, the production requirement has changed over the years, and the infrastructure grown accordingly.

"We started out in the early days supplying a 100V line public address communication system - but over the years it has evolved into a full fun-run event, and recently we have supplied a JBL VerTec line array," says Nitelites director, Jamie Moore.

The infrastructure they supply includes full platforms, staging, mobile rigs and ground support for the start and finishing lines, with an interim point at 10km.

The specification for the 2009 event was again for VerTec, and with the runners lining up ov

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Using a new front-loading design, the Brickhouse from TSE makes operation ergonomic and convenient for users. Traditional counterweight arbors are difficult to load due to their side-loading design; operators are required to stretch and twist to load weights from the bottom up. With TSE's Front-Loading arbor, a series of weight shelves eliminates the need for bottom loading and allows counterweight bricks to be front-loaded at the most convenient position. Operators are no longer required to stretch and bend repeatedly to load weight bricks from the side. TSE counterweight bricks also feature bu

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A recent workshop was held - jointly organized by Outline's Brescia, Italy HQ and the branch office in Farmingdale (NY), where the network of US representatives officially took shape. The States are all now covered except Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Outline's Giorgio Biffi chaired the workshop. After providing training for the 60 original products in the company's catalogue, he introduced a pre-release version of OpenArray, the avant-garde control and 3D simulation software, written by the Italian R&D team. This conveyed to the American attendees the philosophy and key principles on which Outline has been based since its foundation in 1973.

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BSc (Hons) Lighting Design & Technology Award Leader Stuart Green commented: "Philips Lighting has been very generous in agreeing to donate a substantial amount of architectural lighting equipment to support our courses. International Project Consultant Simon White from BEGA also gave a guest lecture to students and donated a number of luminaires for student use."

The BSc (Hons) Lighting Design and Technology and BSc (Hons) Live Event Technology awards are already supported by equipment from some of the leading industry players, which are essential to give students exposure to the latest industry standard hardware and software. However,

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The competition was launched by the NRM to encourage students to consider the importance of lighting design in museums in the lead up to its re-development plans for the Great Hall.

Helen Ashby, acting director of the NRM, explains, "We're always looking to involve different groups of people in our various projects and we've really enjoyed watching the designs come together. It's been great to have the students bring so many new ideas to the table."

The winners of the competition were Jonathan Jewitt, Chris Farncombe, Craig Kilmartin and Oli Downton from Rose Bruford College in Kent. One of the judges, Belinda Morris, display content manager at the NRM said, "The scheme designed