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Lighthouse Technologies was selected as a finalist from a pool of 1,800 eligible companies that have made outstanding achievements in the global technology industry.

"We have put in much effort to ensure that we provide technologically advanced products that truly meet the needs of the marketplace. It is a great honour to have been selected as an award finalist, " comments Lighthouse's managing director, Mark Chan.

Red Herring was founded in 1993 and is a media company dedicated to the coverage of innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activities.

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Gordon Addison, of Fibre Optic Systems states: "the North of the UK deserves its own independent networking forum and evenTech Scotland 2008 has identified this market opportunity and fills the gap." He adds: "Fibre Optic Systems recognise the potential that evenTech Scotland 2008 can do for our business in the North and is exhibiting in February in Glasgow."

Companies including Goboland, High End Systems, Martin Professional, Zero 88 and Rosco are among confirmed exhibitors. evenTech Scotland is the first of Scattered Media's portfolio of entertainment and installation technology exhibitions including eve

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The Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business Showcase Series is a student production run by Belmont University students. The students assist in all aspects of the showcase, from lighting and sound, to stage design and the acts performing.

Bandit lighting designer and Belmont instructor Chris Lisle commented, "The shows are pretty much student run, so I more or less serve as an advisor for the showcase, but it's exciting to watch the students apply training from my two classes to help put on the show."

"We are very excited to be involved with the music industry's future leaders at this develop

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"We are very proud to become DPA's partner in Poland," says Dygasiewicz. "We are sure that our market position and DPA's expertise will benefit both parties. Our main focus will be to develop a client base for DPA microphones within TV and broadcast as well as the film and theatre industry. We're also planning to focus on the recording market, which demands high quality mics and accessories for professional instrumental and vocal recording."

DPA's area manager Nikolaj Rudyk, who is himself Polish and was recently recruited by the company to handle

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Events manager and sound specialist Mario Klein says, "Working day to day in the pro audio business, one is aware of a widespread knowledge deficit. With the EVI Audio-initiated Vocational Schools Tour, we have set about redressing the deficit, beginning where any such initiative should begin: with the technicians of tomorrow."

The workshops stick as closely as possible to practice within the industry.To make it easier for budding events and entertainment technicians to understand the principles underlying the technology, Klein travels with a truck packed with the most modern pro audio sound reinforcement systems,

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The renowned lectures have taken place annually since 1825, and are designed to introduce science to children, and further their appreciation of the subject.

Entitled Back from the Brink, Hugh Montgomery's 2007 lectures dealt with human survival. He needed a visual means to represent the amount of power consumed by the body's organs in normal operation and came to Crockford to provide an innovative solution. He suggested the Pixi-Web - as a portable, transparent modular screen for displaying complex lighting effects or live video images.

The Pixi-Web was rigged on a catenary wire in front of the stage set, so it could be swept on and off accordingly. Crockford then converted the 'power' of the body organs Montgomery was spea

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d&b systems have now been installed in seven FE venues. BabyFace NingBao opened in December with a d&b audio system. Club Face Cafe in ShenZhen was totally refurbished in November when Ci7-TOPs, Ci-SUBs, B2-SUBs and MAXs for DJ monitors were installed and commissioned.

(Jim Evans)

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"The research presents valuable information on what marketing and promotion strategies industry stakeholder groups are using to help differentiate their company from the competition and to gain new business." said senior director of member services, Jodi Montgomery.

Many topics are detailed in the report, including member responses regarding their top market initiatives, tracking methods, marketing infrastructure and most effective marketing tools.

Overall, the most popular way to deploy marketing plans was to

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The Venue Technology Day will consist of a programme of presentations throughout the day from leading equipment manufacturers including Strand, ETC, Sennheiser and RCF, together with guided walk around tours and the opportunity to 'have a go' in the mini studio.

RCF will be introducing visitors to the new Wyvern sound system, which includes RCF Acustica speakers and HC amplifiers. Phil Price explains: "With such a prestige venue as the Wyvern, we were only too pleased to be able to demonstrate the system."

RCF will also be hosting a special student session, which will enable students see for themselves what goes into a professional sound system.

(Jim Evans)

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Litestructures was commissioned to build an unusual stage - a 48ft (15m) by 44ft (13m) vertical wall used to rehearse an aerial 'wall walk'. Working with production manager Simon Barrington and opening events team manager Nick Birkinshaw, the rehearsals took place in the Litestructures Studios in November.

The rehearsal wall proved so successful it was decided to replicate them for the actual event. The result was two walls used as screens (40ft x 40ft) for the ceremonies using over 100 LiteDeck. Being used as screens, all the decks had to be colour matched to a specific sample provided by the show

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The event takes place on 29-30 April in the Saviles Hall at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, which is adjacent to the original location and now the city's largest exhibition venue.

As well as accommodating the show's expansion plans, the improved facilities also enable the organisers to provide the main exhibition, complementary theatre seminars programme and buffet lunch with a bar and dining area all within the same hall.

The A.C. North Show has become an essential industry event for buyers in the Midlands, the North of England and Scotland, providing these regions with a definitive showcase of today's entertainment technolo

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The Lloyds TSB commercial conference is the annual gathering of the commercial team to focus on business strategies they are working to achieve from now until 2012 and beyond. After winning a place on Lloyds TSB's events roster in April 2007, Logistik have worked closely with Lloyds TSB on a number of events and conferences which include a further large scale conference and the Lloyds TSB Marketing Conference planned for 2008.

Logistik and Lloyds TSB worked together to reduce waste throughout the conference such as: recycling the carpet into polypropylene pellets, re-using the bespoke set including the vinyl and panels for future Lloyds TSB conferences, using biodegradable packaging for food and drink, and

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99 years later a second, adjacent, venue was added - the Derngate. Designed as a multi-purpose space, it complemented the Royal's status as a 'producing' house by being a versatile venue in which a wide range of touring productions could take place - theatre, opera, live music, dance, sports, live music and more.

Despite sharing a foyer and other facilities since the Derngate was built, it was only in 1999 that the two theatres merged in terms of organisation and artistic strategies. Then, between 2005 and 2006, both closed for a £15m redevelopment, including restoration of the Grade II listed Royal to its original Victorian splendour, but wit

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The Mentone is a busy venue in close proximity to the beach of the same name, located in one of Melbourne's most desirable suburbs. It's owned by Open Door Pubs, one of Australia's best known pub chains, and lighting, sound and AV was designed and supplied by Adam Dullens of Pulse Audio Visual.

After the initial installation, Dullens was asked to specify a flexible visual solution to liven up the upstairs floor for their popular Wednesday disco evenings, which sees the first floor regularly packed to its 700 capacity.

The Mentone was initially considering an LED screen display for the upstairs to create a banner effect around the walls of the quirkily shaped landing, which forms the main dance floor. However,

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When it opened in October 2007, L.A. Live was billed as the beginning of a "new era" in live entertainment. As a $2.5 billion improvement of the downtown Los Angeles area the development incorporates new ESPN studios, restaurants, a 50-storey hotel, office towers, a cinemaplex and the $120 million, AEG-operated Nokia Theatre.

The first venue in the new complex to open, the 7,100-seat Nokia Theatre has the largest stage in Southern California, measuring 180' x 80' (55m x 24m), and a performance area of over 14,000 sq.ft. IPR Services designed the audio system for this venue with the idea that world class acts would be able to book the theatre with the knowledge that it would be able to meet their stringent rider requirements, offering a f

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Bob Sandon, technical director for The Colosseum said: "Tait was the natural choice for this project. Their long term relationships with artists combined with their technical expertise provided the synergy we required to make this new stage exactly what it needed to be. Their smart design makes better use of the space and has added much needed additional seating to the venue."

Tait Towers engineers worked with Bette Midler and her design team to transform The Colosseum to suit the singer/actress/comedienne's desire to perform in a traditional, technologically subtle, theatre setting.

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Front-of-house engineer Ian Laughton ordered up an Electro-Voice X-Line array system from Britannia Row for the arena shows. He says, "I first heard this PA in Wembley Arena and I was just astounded. To be honest, I was never really happy with line array systems until I got the X-Line. It just seems to fill the whole area. EV subs are the best I've heard in a line array, they're just phenomenal."

Laughton first worked with The Verve in 1993. "With this band, their concert programme starts off with the racket of the post-punk era and moves to the orchestrations of the Bittersweet Symphony, culminati

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The Jung-Ang church (Dae-Gu city) project was handled by Soundus partner, Media House, who designed and installed the system using E15, E25, E45, T1000 and T4-250 amps to power Funktion One Resolution speakers. A similar but smaller system using E15 and E25 amps with Resolution series speakers, successfully fulfilled the requirements for the refurbishment of the worship hall at Dong-Kwang church (Seoul city).

Soundus provided a total audio-visual package, including acoustic de

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Show director, Sergio Carrubba (also the director of Danny Rose), came to ETC Paris with his concept Maximage Experience, a system based on 'total immersion' that he has developed with associate Paola Ciucci in which the stage, actors and audience are all surrounded by "dynamic giant image projection".

For Giulietta e Romeo, Carrubba has transposed this experience to popular opera by "enriching it with the charm and mystery of three-dimensional projected sets" fusing his passion for the two very different visual art forms of theatre and film.

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This is the second year for the event, but it has grown exponentially, and now uses the listed buildings of the Council House as the backdrop for 400ft (122m) scenic projections of animation and moving images. The event has been put together by Bristol Media, the city's creative networking and support organisation, and the West of England Design Forum, who invited a team of 14 of the city's leading creatives from companies including Aardman Animations, E3, Beef, Oakwood DC, Thirteen and MCcann Erickson to work alongside each other on the project.

"Designers tend to spend our lives working on a 19 inch monitor, so to

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The cost includes all training and a full set of instruction manuals, Certificate of Attendance, lunch for two days and light refreshments during the course hours.

The Motor School will be presented by LTM's Dave Ward and John Jones in the company's specially designed Training Room. The format is "no-nonsense hands-on and practical", designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the CM Lodestar hoist. It will familiarise users and specifiers with operational theory, design philosophy, safety aspects, internal workings and trouble-shooting methods of the Lodestar.

It also offers the chance to get dirty and completely strip a hoist down to its component parts - and then re-build and operate i

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The lighting was designed by Fares Aljunied with the exception of Shaggy and Whitney Houston, whose lighting designer Bobby Budall created the two shows. Both designers relied on two grandMA full-size, three MA NSPs and two grandMA video media servers. Additionally, two laptops ran in full-tracking backup mode with grandMA onPC and grandMA 3D. The lighting equipment was provided by Showtec and Sudha Sound and Light.

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The TC Group, headquartered in Risskov, Denmark, has a number of premium brands of pro audio technology and produces amplifiers, speakers, digital processors, guitar pedals and other pro audio and MI products. TC Group's customers include top musical artists, recording studios, television and radio/TV stations, prominent theatres, commercial installations, and home entertainment.

"This merger will revolutionise the music industry for many years to come," said Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and C

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James Allison of JHA Entertainment commented: "Harveys is a smart, 400-capacity late-night bar, and the single pair of Void's Airten systems, together with their Impulse sub, provides plenty of powerful coverage throughout the venue. This was a very pleasant surprise for the owners, who were initially expecting to see rather more loudspeakers. The Void Acoustics systems are ideal for this type of install, needing very few enclosures to produce dance-