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South Africa - A two day Protocol Training course was hosted at DWR Distribution in Strijdom Park, Randburg on 3 and 4 September.

This year, Nick Britz from DWR has taken Training under his wing and is running with sessions that will benefit technicians and interested parties in the industry.

The Protocol Training covers everything from the basic DMX 512, RMD, Artnet, Ethernet and Wireless Networking. It includes fault-finding techniques, addressing fixtures, monitoring units in the rig, configuring networks and the ins and outs of some of the most commonly used protocols.

September will be a busy time at DWR Distribution, and other courses include the Avolites Titan 6 Training on the 10 and 11 September and Robe Training on the 17 & 18 September.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Roland Systems Group (RSG) are hosting a series of 'Hands On Live' Sessions for visitors to the PLASA show - taking place on their stand number 1-F34. Designed to give a truly interactive experience with live, recording and video product, five 'Hands on Live Sessions' will take place each day, with up to 12 places available at each. Each person will have the opportunity to mix an exciting four camera shoot in HD of a live recorded band (V-Topia) including immersive visuals on the Roland V-800HD Multi-Format Live Video Switcher as well as mix up to 40 channels of audio on the Roland M-480 Live Mixing Console.

The sessions require pre-registration online and you also get a 'goodie' bag and a product discount voucher for attending! So make the most of your PLASA visit and register for a 'Hands On Live' session by going to the web address below.

(Claire Beeson)

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UK - LED Engin, Inc., a leader in high lumen density LED products, will be demonstrating emitters and LED modules that enable the size of entertainment lighting products to be significantly reduced, on Stand 2-S11 at PLASA 2012.

The company's LuxiGen platform of white and multi-colour compact emitters generate the high luminous flux density demanded in entertainment lighting, particularly for spot beams, distance lighting effects and in dynamic lighting scenarios.

Patented thermal management technology allows the LED die to be driven to higher current levels and in a denser configuration than industry standards, without adversely affecting operating life. LED emitters are up to 80% more efficient than traditional tungsten lighting and this combination of features in LED Engin products enables lighting fixture designers to at least halve the size of their products, and in some

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UK - At the end of an unrivalled summer of success, PLASA 2012 opens its doors for the very last time at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre on Sunday 9 September and with pre-registration figures already way ahead of last years, it's time to celebrate!

As PLASA announce a new home for the PLASA Show, the final event at Earls Court promises to be a glorious celebration of the industry's involvement in the Diamond Jubilee and London 2012 Olympics. The Olympics Uncovered sector of the Professional Development Programme is close to a sell-out and joining Backstage at the London 2012 Ceremonies will be Making it all Possible! presented by Riedel Communications; Landscape Video, a seminar from Tait dedicated to those transforming LED panels that turn stadiums into vast video screens and Scott Burges from Creative Technology delivering From a Wobbly House to the

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UK - Robe lighting continues to celebrate its popular theme of 'Working With Winners', as CEO Josef Valchar donates an authentic Olympic torch - used on one of the torch relay legs for the London Games - for auction at the PLASA exhibition taking place next week at London's Earl's Court Exhibition Centre.

The torch, 800mm high with stylish conical design and featuring an attractive shiny gold finish, will be on display on the Robe Stand Hall 1 F47 on Sunday and Monday of the exhibition for all to admire.

The auction will take place during the PLASA Innovation Awards, presented at the end of the day on Monday in the Central bar area. A professional auctioneer will be on hand to conduct the proceedings and help find the lucky winner!

All funds raised will be distributed to leading industry charity, Light Relief.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Watched by a global audience of four billion, the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony has been hailed as a spectacular success - and Huntingdon based specialist flooring company Le Mark played a vital role by converting an original design into a printable format, producing and then installing the 'reveal' floor which featured so prominently in the 'Pandemonium' section of the ceremony.

Linda Gibbons, Le Mark, sales director, explains, "We had been working on this major project for over four months but, along with all other ceremony suppliers, we were asked to 'save the secret' by Danny Boyle - but now we want to tell the world.

"We have also been collaborating with UK Trade & Investment to try and find overseas markets for our products and services and we were hoping that as the opening ceremony was the biggest shop window we could possibly ask for it would br

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Spain - Around 5,000 people attended the 20th Night of the Habaneras on Cura Beach (Playa del Cura) in the Spanish seaside town of Torrevieja recently, with seven groups in the town taking part.

The event, which served as a prologue to the 58th Certamen Internacional de Habaneras y Polifonía, featured powerful sound projected along the beach by an RCF TT+ line array, provided by rental house Orecam.

Orecam, who provide sound reinforcement each year, fielded five TTL33-A elements each side of the stage, with four TTS28-A subwoofers to achieve the required SPL and reproduce the sound of choral singing, along with Spanish and Cuban habaneras, with absolute clarity.

With around 300m of beach to cover, the production company took no chances and provided four delay masts, with four TTL33-A enclosures on each. They also provided a further six tiny RCF TT08 precision monitors as st

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UK - Based on its innovative technologies, Appotronics has developed a series of light source products for entertainment lighting applications. Utilising the company's proprietary brightness enhancement technology, Appotronics' LED light source is designed to "meet the demands of the industry in high brightness, accurate colour control and ultra-long lifetime".

"For ultra-high brightness lighting applications, Appotronics' patented Laser Phosphor technology is a perfect choice to replace UHP lamps with the same brightness and more than 20,000 hours lifetime.

Appotronics has developed cost-effective, high power, high brightness illumination modules for various entertainment lighting fixtures, such as white LED spot, multi-colour LED spot, white profile, multi-colour profile, high CRI studio lamp. We also provide reference design or customized service of thermal m

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UK - Simon Blackwood has joined digital console manufacturer DiGiCo as business development director.

"It's great to be able to welcome Simon to the DiGiCo team," says managing director James Gordon. "He is going to bring a new dimension to our expertise base and will be instrumental in taking us into new areas. It's an honour to manage a great company where smart people want to come and work and we're delighted that Simon is going to be a part of that. We believe DiGiCo is a real professional audio oasis."

Blackwood comments, "I've long admired the way the DiGiCo team have pioneered the evolution of professional digital mixing. In the past I've regarded them as strong and creative competitors and now feel privileged to be joining the team at such an exciting time."

(Jim Evans)

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UK - The Chroma-Q stand at PLASA 2012 (1-E8) will see the official worldwide launch of the new Studio Force Phosphor LED lighting range alongside the brand's other recent LED, control, data distribution and lighting accessory solutions, which are designed for a wide range of entertainment, broadcast and architectural applications.

Chroma-Q will also unveil a new-look corporate logo, brand identity and revamped website, underscoring their continuing transformation into one of the industry's leading innovators of LED lighting solutions.

A nominee for the 2012 PLASA Awards for Innovation, the new Studio Force Phosphor range utilises innovative LED technologies to provide an equivalent soft edge output to a fluorescent fixture - up to 7,000 lumens - developed specifically for use in TV, film and broadcast studio environments, says the company.

There's a choice of standard daylig

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UK - The ShowTex Acoustic Baffle has been nominated for a Theatres Trust People's Choice Award and a PLASA Innovation Award.

This new flexible fabric panel is proof that stage technology and the environment can go hand in hand.

Independent laboratory research confirms the Acoustic Baffle from ShowTex achieves better sound absorption of very low frequency sound levels than any other baffle on the market today with just half the fabric thickness of other systems.

Made from 100% recycled material, the flame retardant baffle provides an ecological solution for sound absorption.

An in-house recycling program for fabric cut offs in the ShowTex sewing workshop was the first step towards developing the baffle.

Ongoing research into acoustic properties of ShowTex fabrics led to the combined matting and cover quality that would produce the best acoustic results. Finishing and modu

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UK - Building on the ever-converging technologies of lighting and video, Blitz has seized the opportunity to greatly expand its offering to clients through a £320,000 investment in new lighting stock and the recruitment of a full- time lighting designer.

Blitz welcomed Simon Brockwell to its team at the beginning of August as a full-time lighting designer. He has a wealth of experience as a freelance engineer, having graduated from Rose Bruford. Brockwell is developing Blitz's lighting design and project management offering so it can offer a more bespoke service to both direct clients and freelance designers. As a trained operator, he is experienced with a range of lighting consoles and media servers, and is helping Blitz further integrate its video and lighting departments.

To enhance the pre-production and visualisation offering, Blitz has installed a new WYSIWYG studi

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USA - Provident Bank Park is home to the Rockland Boulders minor league baseball team as well as the St. Thomas Aquinas College baseball team. Opened in June of 2011, the stadium is also undergoing its first season as a summer concert venue. Featuring a variety of well-known acts, including Gavin DeGraw, Colbie Caillat, Gretchen Wilson, REO Speedwagon, and Smashmouth, among others, Provident Bank Park has rapidly become an important destination for sports and entertainment.

To ensure the best possible audio quality for its patrons, stadium management wanted a world-class sound system. They found it with a collection of loudspeakers drawn from the Aero Series 2 catalogue of Valencia, Spain-based D.A.S. Audio.

Dynamic Productions, a full event production, sound, lighting and staging company headquartered in Orangeburg, NY, was contracted to provide staging, lighting, sound, vide

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UK - Ambersphere Solutions has announced that Matt Cowles has joined the company as technical sales effective Monday 3 September.

Most recently he has been a business development manager for Stage Electrics, having previously built his knowledge as account manager in the live events division for the same company. Prior to that he was a product manager at Martin Professional.

"We are delighted to welcome Matt into his role as technical sales here at Ambersphere. This is a newly created role to ensure that as our business expands, we continue to provide excellent customer care and technical support countrywide," comments managing director Glyn O'Donoghue.

"I'm really pleased to be joining the Ambersphere team. There really isn't a better time to be getting out on the road representing Ambersphere with the array of products that MA Lighting and Clay Paky currentl

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UK - Meet The Parents is a new reality comedy show, where in each episode a poor unsuspecting guy has to try and last the whole night at his girlfriend's parent's house. What he doesn't know is that he is being recorded by 30 hidden cameras.

Martin Kempton designs the lighting show which includes MAC 500s, MAC 600s, MAC TW1s and Pixel Par 90s, supplied by Richard Martin Lighting (RML).

Meet The Parents is filmed for Objective Productions. The first episode is currently scheduled to go out on Wednesday 12 September at 10pm on E4.

(Jim Evans)

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Sweden - For the 36th time, Stockholm's classic fans assembled for the traditional picnic outside The Maritime Museum in the Gärdet district where the annual classical prom was presented by The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (RSPO) conducted by Marc Soustrot.

For at least 20 of those concerts the sound has been mixed by DM Audio's Lars Wern. Fielding their new Martin Audio MLA Compact system, the leading production company ensured that not only the orchestra but also famous Swedish soprano Malin Byström were heard as never before by the 25,000-30,000 people who attended.

Presented by actor Samuel Fröler, the comprehensive programme, including popular works by Bizet, Gershwin, Schubert, Wagner and more, was played out through 12 MLA Compacts, rigged on each side of the stage, with three DSX subs set up in a cardioid pattern on each side (with the centre sub turned ar

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Switzerland - XL Video supplied LED screens, media servers and control for the special Freak Out All Night Dance Party event at this year's Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

Curated by producers Nile Rodgers and Mark Ronson, the show's theme traced the evolution of disco music into today's electronic dance music.

The line-up included both Rodgers and Ronson, who were joined by a host of stars including Grace Jones, Anita Baker, Alison Moyet, Johnny Marr, Elly Jackson from La Roux, Chic, and Dimitri from Paris.

For the show, XL Video specified their versatile Pixled F-11 LED which formed the flown screens above the stage and a front piece for the DJ booth. In total over 70 square metres of F-11 were used.

For the screen content, XL Video was granted access to the extensive Montreux Jazz Festival and Chic archives.

The crew employed two Catalyst media servers a

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UK - The BFI restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's silent masterpiece Blackmail was shown for the first time at a special outdoor screening at the British Museum, the location of the film's chilling chase sequence. The film was accompanied by an ensemble of 18 musicians, conducted by Timothy Brock, performing Neil Brand's specially arranged score.

With the programme commencing before sunset the projection challenge was to ensure that the screen images were sufficiently bright to be seen in almost full daylight conditions, and also that this glorious BFI restoration could be fully appreciated by the sell-out audience of over 1,000. Thus four of QED's new Christie WU20K-J projectors were quadruple stacked in order to produce astonishing high brightness images of exceptional quality.

This three-chip WUXGA DLP 18,000 lumen digital projector delivers superior performance and qua

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South Africa - This year 20,000 people gathered for the Oppikoppi Sweet Thing Festival held from 9 to 11 August 2012 on the Oppikoppi Farm near the mining town of Northam in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. For the ninth consecutive year, rental company Stage Effects were one of the technical suppliers at the music festival, lighting up six of the seven stages. Avolites controlled all six stages and a grandMA was used for two international acts.

The very first Oppikoppi was held in 1994 and has become a tradition ever since. Thousands camp out in the bush and enjoy an enormous line-up which now features well over 120 different bands, DJs and artists. International acts included Bullet for my Valentine, Enter Shikari and Babylon Circus.

Theo Papenfus and his crew from Stage Effects are no strangers to the dust and tough terrain at Oppikoppi, but each year as clock-work, they

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UK - Zero 88 will be celebrating their 40th anniversary at this year's PLASA show.

There will be celebrations on the Copper Controls stand 1-E38 with cakes and bubbly from 3pm onwards on both Monday and Tuesday afternoons during the show.

PLASA also sees the culmination of the 'Me and My Zero 88' photo competition, run as part of the 40 year celebrations. It has been a great success with many interesting and exciting images submitted. The lucky winner of an ORB XF lighting console will be announced during the show. There will also be a large photo wall of some of the Zero 88 team's favourite photo entries on display.

Zero 88 are launching ZerOS 8.0 operating software at the show, which will be shown operating on the ORB XF and Solution lighting consoles. The show stand will also feature a hands on display of RDM and Moving light control with a wide range of consoles availabl

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UK - Clear-Com will highlight the latest additions to its line of professional headsets, the CC-300 and CC-400, at PLASA 2012 (Stand I-F29). The CC-300 and CC-400 offer extra comfort, better performance and more flexibility for users who are constantly employing intercoms for long hours. The headsets are compatible with Clear-Com's wide range of wired and wireless intercoms.

Continuously wearing headsets, while communicating with other team members over the intercom, can easily and quickly exhaust a user. The new Clear-Com CC-300 single-ear headset and CC-400 double-ear headset were designed to reduce fatigue while accommodating individual preferences, by offering a clear and comfortable audio experience, says the company.

The CC-300 and CC-400 headsets' microphone booms can rotate 300 degrees, allowing the microphone to be worn on the right or left side of the head. Users can

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