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Europe / North America / Middle East - A.C. Lighting Ltd reports that there are just a few more days left to enter the company's online competition to win a Jands Vista S3 lighting control system. The competition runs until midnight (GMT) on this Friday 1 December and is open to participants living in Europe, North America and the Middle East, say the company.

Entrants have the chance to win a 1024-channel Vista S3 (with a list price of $9,244 / £4,200) or one of 100 free one-day vista training vouchers. The Vista S3 puts all the revolutionary features of the full-scale console into a desk that can fit under an arm. Jands provides the control surface and Vista software. Users install the software on their PC, connect it to the S3 via USB cable and it becomes a fully operational Vista console.

Entry to the competition is free. For full details and to submit your entry, vi

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UK - When the county of Northumberland decided to use lighting to add colour and intrigue to long winter nights, it was to entertainment lighting supplier White Light that they turned to for help realising lighting designer Phil Supple's vision for the project - now known as Northumberland Lights.

An epic lighting project spanning multiple sites across the country, including the nine wind turbines that stand at sea off the shore at Blyth, a Winter Wonderland Show at Kielder Water, the Woodhorn Museum and Country Park, the hillside area of Simonside, Bamburgh Castle and a 'Guerrilla Lighting' team intended to make surprise appearances at other sites around the country on its own initiative and responding to suggestions from the public, Northumberland Lights runs from late October 2006 through to late March 2007.

White Light are supplying the lighting equipment and

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UK - Northern Light offered their services to assist the Edinburgh Clubbing Community Forum (ECCF) to host a charity club night in aid of Edinburgh's Sick Kids Foundation and the event was a resounding success.

Over 550 clubbers attended the atmospheric event where Northern Light had provided a complete club sound system, as well as lighting design and production and several crew members to ensure that the whole experience went off with a bang.

Neil Numb, events manager for ECCF, says: "I am overwhelmed with the support that we received from our sponsors Northern Light and from the Edinburgh club scene as a whole. This is definitely one of the best gigs we have done for charity and I am speechless with the final total raised of £10,000."

For a separate project, Northern Light worked with Eastern Exhibition and Display to win 'Best at Show' for the exhibition

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UK - Design and communication company Imagination has continued its Christmas tradition of 'Lighting up London' by decorating the Edwardian façade of its five-storey headquarters with a dramatic lighting scheme.

This year's yuletide theme features a giant white and blue Christmas star, which spans the width of the impressive red-bricked building (located on Store Street, just off Tottenham Court Road). The glittering star is made up of over 32 strobe lighting strips, which radiate sparkling light from a large-scale centrepiece star. As well as the metres of white and blue strobe lights, there are also a number of blue lights located at ground level, which bathe the building in a shimmering blue wash of light.

The eye-catching lighting scheme took a team of 16 people working over a total of 380 hours to design, create and build - and so great was the engineering feat for the e

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UAE - IIR Exhibitions, organiser of the annual PALME Middle East exhibition in Dubai, reports that the success of the 2006 event has led to another surge in expansion for the PALME 2007 event. Initially planning to increase the 2007 event from three to four halls of the DIEC, IIR has now announced its decision to increase the size of the show to five halls.

The main objective of PALME is to allow for manufacturers, suppliers and installers to meet with Middle Eastern buyers and specifiers from a wide range of industries who have a need or requirement for professional sound, light, music, audio-visual and systems integration equipment and solutions. The latest major companies to sign up for PALME 2007 include EVI Audio, Indu Electric, Martin Professional, RCF Spa, Prolyte, Projectiondesign, Audioprof and BG Franck Bichon to name but a few, say IIR.

The 2007 PALME Middle East sh

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Belgium - The Eurospot Range, ADB Lighting's most economical solution for high quality lighting, has recently been improved and up-rated to allow each luminaire in the range to be fitted with a 650W GY9.5 lamp - an increase of 30% over the previous version.

Until now, the Eurospot luminaires have been rated for maximum wattages up to 500W, but as a result of increasing market demand for higher light output from existing fixture sizes, ADB's engineers have developed a new design that provides enhanced ventilation of the fixture's body, and the range is now approved to use lamps with the higher wattage of 650W.The Eurospot products to benefit from this upgrade are: the F51 fresnel, the C51 PC, the DS54 zoom profile, and the DW54 zoom profile.

The product range has also been streamlined by replacing the Zoom Profile DS51 with the DS54, which has the same zoom range of 18º - 38º

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UK - Lester Cobrin, recently appointed MD at Bandit Lites, will be marrying Kim Carson this Sunday 3 December, at Langshot Manor in Surrey. Kim and Lester were childhood sweethearts. "We met at the age of five," said Cobrin, "but somehow it didn't work out at the time. Now, after a 28-year hiatus, the time seems right for both of us."

Prior to the wedding, Cobrin will be hosting a stag night at a large West London venue: "All the girls from the Pussy Cat Dolls will be there" he said lasciviously, "and I expect about another 10,000 guests to turn up." Watch the press for announcements.

We wish Lester well.

(Steve Moles)

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UK - Stage Electrics recently ran a moving lights master class for BECTU members in The South West. The course was held at The Princess Theatre in Torquay and was attended by staff from four South West theatres.

The course was delivered by two theatre electricians; they ensured that the delegates achieved the training objectives by splitting the course into theory lecture and practical demonstrations. At the end of the course, delegates were given the opportunity to apply their new skills with hands-on experience supervised by Stage Electrics' Liam Welsh.

The course covered an introduction to moving lights, changing lamps, changing gobos, identifying faults, assigning addresses and DMX control.

BECTU is committed to improving the learning and development opportunities of its members and felt that Stage Electrics, with their wealth of experience and expertise in the industry,

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Italy - The steering committee of the SILB (Italian Dancehall Owners Syndicate) has formally authorized chairman Renato Giachetto to officially sign an agreement with Rimini Fiera SpA for the SIB biennial international exhibition for event and entertainment technology, which will see the SIB exhibition remain in Rimini for the next 14 years.

Contrary to what was previously reported, following the 2006 event, the next edition of SIB is scheduled to be held at Rimini expo centre from 6-9 April 2008. Rimini Fiera chairman Lorenzo Cagnoni commented: "Yesterday we announced the important agreement with TEN, a network of 50 large companies in this sector (lighting, audio and video, décor and theatre stage equipment and sets, musical instruments, industrial design firms, design studios, training, research) which has officially chosen SIB for developing its members' business

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Germany - The District Court of Düsseldorf / Germany has ruled in favour of OCOerlikon Balzers AG (Oerlikon) in a patent infringement case against Prodisc Inc. Prodisc Inc had filed for a declaratory judgment of non-infringement of the German patent DE 197 089 49 C2 at the District Court of Düsseldorf.

The patent in question covers such species of segmented colour wheels and used for projection apparatus. Prodisc has furnished this color wheel arguing that it is not within the scope of Oerlikon's patent claims. Oerlikon in return has filed a counter claim at the same court in order to convict Prodisc of patent infringement.

In its judgment the District Court of Düsseldorf has recently dismissed Prodisc's action and decided that the German Patent is indeed infringed by Prodisc's colour wheels. This judgment is appealable.

"These efforts emphasize Oerlikon's firm deter

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USA - New software enhancing High End Systems' DL.2 digital light and Axon media server has been released today. Software v1.3 is now available for immediate download from the HES support website.

Axon is High End Systems' new media server, offering all the graphics engine capabilities of DL.2 but in a rack-mount version. The new v1.3 software includes all the new features of DL.2 and Axon shown at the LDI 2006 trade show including Enhanced Collage Generator, expansion of the Collage Generator up to 8x8 arrays with increased resolution, and a number of new effects. It also includes many software improvements including a number of networking improvements for the DL.2 and the Content Management Application (CMA), the company says. All new DL.2s and Axon media servers will ship from High End Systems with this new software release.

Scott Blair, HES director of digital lighting dev

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Spain - Martin's MAC TW1 Tungsten washlight was recently awarded the 'Best Product' accolade in the illumination category at the 2006 Professional Production and Audio Production Awards hosted by Spanish magazine Producción Audio.

The TW1 fixture won the award "due to its surprising combination of classic Tungsten source with advanced moving head technology". Nearly five hundred professionals from the entertainment technology sector attended the fourth annual awards ceremony held at the Juan Carlos I Trade Fairground (Madrid Trade Fairs Institute - IFEMA) on 7 November. On hand in Madrid to accept the award on behalf of Martin Professional's Spanish representative, Ecler, was Luis Barrado.

The MAC TW1 is a powerful 1200W Tungsten wash fixture with features such as a twin lens zoom system, full CMY colour mixing, motorised zoom and choice of internal or external elec

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Australia - Luxeon LEDs from Lumileds have been used to light the InterContinental Executive Club Lounge on the 32nd floor of the InterContinental Hotel in a project which provides a lounge for guests along with a viewing deck of Sydney's Botanical Gardens and Harbour.

NDYLight specified Megabay Lighting Enterprises, a certified member of the Luxeon Lighting Network, to create a relaxed, stylish environment through the creative use of light, while taking advantage of the stunning views of the city.

As the new lounge is surrounded by glass on three sides, lighting design director, Susan Lambert, had the challenge of minimising the amount of interior light being reflected back into the lounge. To achieve this, NDYLight's solution for the Executive Lounge incorporates Luxeon LEDS on both the interior and exterior. These are used to highlight individual elements of the design.

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UK - Dynalite will be unveiling the new DTP160 LCD Colour Touchscreen at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam, in January, and at ARC07 in London, in February.

The new DTP160 offers a powerful 640 x 480 resolution 160mm graphical user interface. The device incorporates the Windows CE operating system and display graphics are easily created using standard HTML authoring tools such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver, providing design flexibility of custom user pages.

The Touchscreen is a part of Dynalite's Revolution range, and incorporates an innovative clip-on cover facility, the DTP160 will accommodate fascia options of virtually any architectural surface medium, providing designers with unrivalled décor matching capability.

Also new is Dynalite's powerful suite of PC software DLightIII, which combines intuitive user control features with monitoring and reporting faciliti

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UK - Bandit Lites is supplying full lighting production for The Pussycat Dolls' first production tour, with lighting designer, Scott Warner. The show plays UK arenas and an extensive European section, promoting the 'Dolls first album PCD. It is also the first time that Bandit has worked with Warner and production manager, Bryan Cross - who also mixes both FOH and monitors.

Bandit UK's chief executive, Lester Cobrin, says: "The initial contact was made in August and the lines of communication between myself, Bryan and Scott were so good that this tour was wrapped up, finalised and put to bed quicker than ever. It's been an absolute pleasure and privilege working with the PCD's production team and I'm already looking forward to the next opportunity."

Warner wanted to make the stage resemble a disco in keeping with the up-tempo pace of the PCD's set. A veteran of

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UK - Leading UK lighting rental specialist HSL has supplied lighting equipment for a number of high profile shows and events for Electric Fly Productions, headed by LD Nick Jevons.

The first significant show uniting the two companies was back at the start of the 2006 festival season in May - for the BBC's Radio One Big Weekend in Dundee, where HSL supplied most of Electric Fly's lighting hardware requirements. Jevons says: "I was really impressed, so we've continued to develop a very fruitful working relationship" . He works closely with HSL's live music project manager, Mike Oates.

This was followed by MTV's Pimp My Ride in Manchester, where HSL supplied all lighting fixtures - moving and generic, rigging and control as a dry hire.

"Well prepped gear is absolutely essential when you're working like this with a supply company," says Jevons. "W

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USA - For Chicago-based rock band Disturbed's Music As A Weapon tour of the East Coast, South and Midwest, lighting designer Travis Shirley has chosen to use Martin MAC 2ks, 600s, 500s and 250s, Martin Atomic Colors, Atomic 3000 strobes, Color Kinetics Colorblast and Coemar Infinity spots. Control is via two Whole Hog II's.

Shirley says that the Coemar Infinity lights play a substantial role ion lighting the backdrop scenery. By operating the lights with the zoom open, the Coemar Infinity lights provide an even, soft zoom. Shirley adds that "the colour-mixing abilities are phenomenal."

The atomic strobes are placed asymmetrically, enabling very intricate chases top be performed. The Martin Atomic Colors and Color Kinetics Colorblasts also prove to be beneficial by adding texture and colour to the drum kit.

This is the second collaboration this year between B

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Denmark - For seven days in November, the seaside town of Frederikshavn in Denmark hosted Light Visions, an international symposium and light workshop arranged with cooperation of the international lighting design organization ELDA.

Students of architectural lighting from around the world teamed with prominent lighting designers to create six intriguing architectural lighting environments around the city. Martin Architectural, whose manufacturing facility is located in Frederikshavn, was strongly represented, both in terms of personnel and lighting fixtures. The six lighting environmentsare outlined below.

Kattegat Silo - lighting design by Jesper Garde Kongshaug (Denmark): The recently renovated Kattegat Silo is the first building you see when entering Frederikshavn. Triggered by the arrival and departure of ferries, a range color mixing Exterior 600 and Exterior 1200

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USA - Lighting design for The Fray's world tour is a collaborative effort by independent LD Tory Stubby and Joel Wojcik of The Opera Shop, Inc. of Denver. The pair have specified Martin's MAC 700 Profile along with Atomic 3000s, Robe LEDBlinder 148 LTs, 4, 6 and 8 ft MR 16 ministrips. MAC 600s and lekos join the gear list when the band hits the road again in January. All lighting gear is being supplied by The Opera Shop.

"Besides looking for a new fixture we were looking for something that is less power consuming than the 2K," says Joel Wojcik. "It's basically half the power draw with almost the same output. And the speed is incredible."

Of the 18 MAC 700 Profiles only two grace an overhead truss with the rest on staggered T's two, four and six feet below the truss. "It gives the multi layer look without the trouble," Wojcik says. "All our li

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UK - Entec Sound is supplying a d&b J-Series line array system for the current Tool UK and European arena tour, which FOH sound engineer Ian Hopkinson says is "the best system I've ever used".

Entec's systems engineer Stef Serpagli confirms that the system has been pushed to astonishing limits with the exceptionally high SPL levels demanded by the Tool sonic experience, "It's basically on 11 all the time, and it's holding up really well!"

The most common configuration for the arrays is 12 J-8 tops and four J-12s a side for the main hangs, plus six C4 tops, flown two wide, and four C4 subs per side as the side hangs to give 180 degree coverage. For Wembley, the main hangs were increased by four J-8s per side - adding up to the most J-Series that Entec has hung to date. Sub bass is provided by 14 J-Subs and 12 B2s, run in cardioid mode, arranged in a delayed

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UK - The first Robe DigitalSpot 5000 DT's in the UK have been delivered to Leeds-based Zig Zag Lighting, with one immediately dispatched on tour in Europe with Pink Floyd tribute band, Off The Wall. The DS 5000 DT is rigged at the centre of the front truss, and is used to project all the band's visuals onto a 5-metre diameter circular screen positioned centre-stage.

A carefully selected assortment of video clips, graphics and animations are critical to the show. Off the Wall's video designer and manager Paul Barker has produced a full show's worth of material.

The DS 5000 DT is being looked after by LD Paddy Sollitt and his crew, and Zig Zag is also supplying all of the lighting equipment and lasers. In addition to projecting the video (stored on a separate video machine with VGA signal sent to the DS5000), the DigitalSpot 5000's onboard digital media server is also being util

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USA - Color Kinetics Incorporated and Super Vision International, Inc. have announced a joint settlement agreement ending all pending litigation between the two companies. Through the agreement, Super Vision will pay Color Kinetics a set fee as settlement for all past claims Color Kinetics has against Super Vision, including the amount awarded to Color Kinetics by the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Super Vision will drop its pending claim of infringement against Color Kinetics with respect to US patent #4,962,687, known as the '687 patent, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Color Kinetics will drop its declaratory judgement claim of non-infringement of the '687 patent filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Color Kinetics will grant Super Vision a royalty bearing license to its worldwide patent portfolio,

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Germany - The PUR tour Es ist wie es ist (It is like it is) marked the return of the German band after a break. Two concerts, including the official dress rehearsal, in the Gerry Weber Stadion, Halle/Westfallen, marked the start of the tour. Other dates included Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg, Dortmund and Basel in Switzerland.

During the pre-programming phase, lighting designer Günther Jäckle and his team used grandMA 3D. For the actual shows, 3 x grandMA full-size, 1 x grandMA ultra-light, 2 x grandMA mediaPC with grandMA video and 7 x NSPs were employed. Connected via fibre optic cable they controlled the complex network. In total 24 x VL3500 and VL3000, 24 x VL2416, 8 x Robert Juliat Aramis, 15 x 8-Light Blinder with Rainbow Colour Changers, 6 x Publitec beaMover and a wide range of high-class LEDs were used.

The set consisted of two centre-stages connected b

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UK - Lamp sales operation Just Lamps has been recognised by the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 listing, which placed the company seventh in the prestigious list. With sales at £387k in 2003 and at £9,926k in 2006, the projector lamp distributor achieved an outstanding 195% annual sales growth in this period, making them the fastest-growing company in the audio-visual sector. Published on Sunday 3 December, Fast Track 100 run in conjunction with the Sunday Times and Virgin Atlantic, ranks Britain's hundred fastest-growing unquoted companies by 2003-2006 sales growth. Established in 2002, Just Lamps identified a niche in the market, to meet the fast-growing and ever-urgent demand for replacement projector lamps. The company has fully exploited this niche, offering a high level of service via its award winning website. Over the last four years, the company has built a rep
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