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The Tribeca Film Festival celebrates a year of films, education and community. International film stars including Robert De Niro, Kevin Spacey and Salma Hayek, who all graced the red carpet for the event.

The complex event site was split into several key production areas, each of which needed to be treated as a separate entity with its own needs and considerations. The central point to it all was red carpet area and other areas such as the Festival Esplanade, Family Area, the Lacombe Gallery and a huge outdoor theatre where 2,500 people could be seated in an 82m wide dome, constructed by Al Laith. The buildings and streets of Katara cultural village and amphitheatre were illuminated with architectural lighting designed by Adam Basset and supplied by PRG.

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No expense has been spared on expert advice and the best technical solutions in the refurbishment of this prestigious cultural venue in Peru's capital. One of the city's most important theatres, it was home to the metropolitan opera, ballet and drama companies before the fire in 1998.

Art and architecture experts, as well as the best Peruvian artisans, have lovingly executed the restoration, using pictures and design drawings from the original 1920 house, even decorating 350 ornaments in gold leaf. Now equipped with state-of-the-art acoustics, vis

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The Dungeness project features customised microphones connected to the client's voice information consoles with toggle switching that triggers digital voice announcement (DVA) messages. The four-zone monitored PA system covers much of Dungeness A which is a legacy Magnox power station.

Areas where access to the public address system can be obtained by microphone include the central control room, emergency indication centre, emergency control room and reception.

Following a successful first phase, ASL's rack-mounted Intellevac voice information network was installed to BS 5839-8:2008-compliant standards in the nuclear facility's accommodation block which has been created so tha

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Trott says, "We pride ourselves on the levels of quality and ingenuity across our businesses but we also have a mantra of continuously improving everything we do; however large or small that improvement might be. It is Alan's role to drive the business on all fronts of quality, ISO, process improvements and Green initiatives; we consider these to be business imperatives, hence why this function reports directly to me."

Wright joined Harman in 1995 with BSS Audio then moved to Soundcraft under the same roof in Potters Bar. He has an MBA from the University of Hertfordshire.

"During the past few years

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"The QSC retail amplifier customer expects a truly professional solution at a value price point." states Ray van Straten, QSC director of marketing communications. "Our customers continually reinforce their message to us that they consider three key feature/benefits to be of utmost importance in a power amp - Clean, high-output power, maximum portability, and bulletproof reliability.

"In deve

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CRMX Nova Flex won the PLASA Award for Innovation 2010 with a revolutionary new approach combining protocol conversion and wireless signal distribution; allowing easy cross-use of equipment from multiple manufacturers.

"The interest in and demand for CRMX Nova Flex after winning the PLASA Award for Innovation have been huge; far exceeding our expectations," says Anders Ardstål, VPO at LumenRadio. "By the time we wrapped up beta testing, every beta tester wanted to keep their systems and we also had a very long list of orders from excited distributors and dealers. We are rapidly ramping production to mee

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Founded by brothers Davide and Luigi Lombardi, ModsArt provides Italian distribution for a select group of lighting and equipment including Jands lighting consoles and Outline loudspeakers. They also provide training classes for audio professionals including Outline's Certified System Engineer course and, in the future, Rational Acoustics Smaart Training Classes.

Davide Lombardi comes from a successful career as a sound engineer and system technician, having worked extensively with UK-based Britannia Row over the past 8 years on such tours at Oasis, Amy Winehouse and James Taylor. He is currently on tour with opera star Andrea Bocelli. Luigi Lombardi comes from an equally successful career in lighting design.

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"The film, entitled Who do you think you really are? features a film making technology allowing Sir David Attenborough to take the audience on a virtual journey back through our evolutionary past, to where extinct creatures will appear to roam around in the studio," says John Smith, managing director, IVC Media. "By simply moving the interactive hand held touch screen, individuals in the Attenborough Studio auditorium can effectively interact with the environment from their perspective. The

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Sennheiser UK's team of Mark Saunders, Andy Lillywhite and new addition Tim Sherrattt once again worked closely with audio provider Britannia Row and the event's sound designer Derrick Zieba to ensure the smooth execution of this technically challenging production. Magnetron, Sennheiser's presence in Spain, also provided valuable local support.

Equipment supplied included a significant number of SKM 5200 Mk I and II microphones, with extra 'bling' by Crystalroc for Eva Longoria's handset, plus ew 300 in ear monitors for

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Receiving his medallion at a White House dinner on Saturday, Sir Paul said "great things just come in bundles." The ex-Beatle was at the US President's home in June to receive another award. "I am a big fan of this president, and I think he's a great man who's got some difficulties," Sir Paul said at Saturday's event, hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Sunday night's concert, held at Washington arts venue the Kennedy Centre, was filmed by US network CBS for broadcast later this month.

In The Money - Susan Philipsz

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An all-star cast included Ellie Goulding, Tinchy Stryder, The Saturdays, Mark Ronson, N-Dubz and Pixie Lott, who became immersed in a galactic-themed world of comets and asteroids, brought to life by heavy use of CT London's modular Flyer 12mm pixel pitch semi-transparent LED display.

Misty Buckley, who also designed the set for last year's Channel 4 show, said that because of budget restrictions and concept uniformity, this year's event was set to follow a similar design model - until CT London stepped in. "Last year we used MiTRIX to produce vertical solid blocks of colour; but CT were so accommodating that we were able to increase the production values this year, and

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The National's senior lighting programmer John McGarrigle says, "We had just four weeks before the beginning of tech to convert the entire show - and one of the consoles we were moving from has no export function. We had no option but to sit in front of it for two weeks, reading all levels and parameter information from its displays, and painstakingly enter the data into Eos. We then had two weeks of visualisation with ESP Vision, where associate designer Paul Hackenmueller and I had a full 3D model of the Olivier, and worked our way through the show cue by cue."

With just a few days for tech, the lighting team made good use of the Eos sy

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The conference will bring together the backstage and offstage industry to network, take part in practical seminars and look at the changing landscape of the industry.

Confirmed Speakers include Paul Latham of Live Nation, Melvin Benn of Festival Republic, Alison Wenham from the Association of Independent Music and John Northcote of the Academy Music Group.

Seminar sessions will include: Maximising your resources - practical session for staying on top; Industry & Education - Effective 2-way communication; Apprenticeships - How can your business benefit?; National Training Vs In-house training - what works for you?;

Delegates will also have the opportunity to attend th

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With sustainability high on the agenda and the need for environmental performance measurement, DPL's technical director, Pete Watts, specified PixelRange PixelPars. "The requirement was for low current fixtures with the ability to colour change, so LED units were obviously the way to go - and PixelRange is the brightest and the best quality you can get."

The project came about following a very successful installation completed by DPL, at another shopping centre. When the centre manager moved to Touchwood he picked up the phone to DPL and asked for their help again.

The brief was to enhance three outside are

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The new system vastly improves the audio quality, intelligibility and coverage and integrates with the stadium's life safety systems in the eventuality of an emergency evacuation.

VSI has completed a number of stadium audio installations. Specifically in Wales, audio systems have been installed at Llanelli RFC's Parc y Scarlets stadium and the Cardiff SWALEC stadium.

Along with the new audio system, the Millennium Stadium has undergone major technological improvements over the summer carried out by the technology services company CAE. This includes the installation of two 90sq.m LED big screens for each end of the pitch and over 400 h

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The Asian Games, held every four years, are the second largest sports event in the world after the Summer Olympic Games. Guangzhou is the second Chinese city to host an Asian Games following Beijing in 1990. A record number of nearly 14,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions participated in 476 gold medal events in 42 sports.

The organizer and director of the opening ceremony, Chen Weiya explained that the ceremony was designed to include a conventional light show, a pyrotechnics display, plus a show that Chen described as a "k

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Alpha Beam 700s were also supplied to the Hop House at St James Gate Brewery for the main show. Arthur's day is a global televised event, seen by a worldwide audience and featured such acts as Snow Patrol and Paolo Nutini.

The various studio venue lighting directors had great praise for the Alpha 700 range and the units worked flawlessly throughout the week. Production for the studio venues was handled by EQ Audio and Events.

Garrett Hanley,

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Fusion is SpinetiX's new digital signage software application designed to dramatically simplify the implementation of small-scale signage projects. Now installed within every SpinetiX HMP Hyper Media Player, Fusion allows content to be managed via a web browser interface and can therefore be accessed either locally or remotely using a PC, Mac, Linux or iPad platform or indeed any combination of these. Once connection to the Player has been achieved, content can be uploaded, edited and published with minimal technical skill and in record time.

"In the world of digital signage, small-scale and single-location rollouts are very different from one another," says Serge Konter, marketing manager, SpinetiX. "Our objective with Fusion was to

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"We were thrilled when we were told the VLX Wash had been chosen as a finalist, but when we heard it had actually won the award, we were exhilarated," said Nacho Acha-Orbea, president of EES. "We are delighted to know that both the lighting industry and voting jury members are as enthusiastic about the VLX Wash as we are. With no doubt this was a memorable night and it was our sincere pleasure to accept the award on behalf of Philips Vari-Lite."

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"With the Hoist & Rigging workshops, Tomcat has established a reputation as a worldwide leader in safety training. The curriculum is regularly enriched in response to the changing needs of the industry as well as the feedback provided by participants," stated Tomcat's instructor Will Todd.

The hoist segment of the Hoist and Truss workshop features complete teardown and rebuild of a one ton Lodestar and a quarter-ton Prostar.