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Denmark - Silkeborg hospital has recently decided it needed to improve conditions for staff and patients, and commissioned lighting designer Rune T°nnes to help - starting out in the radiology department.

"One of the challenges," says T°nnes, "was that, being south facing, the x-ray and MRI rooms were flooded with bright daylight. Clinicians had to pull the blinds down in order to work, but were then left with poor artificial lighting. I spoke to the operators about their needs and examined the machinery, to see how I can make their jobs easier."

In the control rooms, a certain level and temperature of lighting was necessary to ensure the monitors could be seen easily while also providing a comfortable working environment for the department, which is in use 24 hours a day, seven days a week. T°nnes specified a mixture of primary red and blue for

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Vietnam - Lantern and followspot manufacturer Robert Juliat reports a successful experience exhibiting at the first PALME Vietnam trade show, which took place in Saigon Exhibition & Convention Centre, Ho Chi Minh City.

The stand was manned by Robert Juliat Asia's Jamie Boey and his team. They showcased spotlights, profiles and followspots from the Robert Juliat range. These included RJ 306 (Lutin), RJ 310, RJ 329 and RJ 325 Fresnels & PCs; profiles including the RJ 614SX, RJ 424SX Quincy, RJ 711SX and the new LED profile spot, the Aledin RJ 631SX which was released this year.

Two 1800W MSR Victor and 2500W HMI Cyrano followspots, completed the exhibits on show which gave visitors an indication of the wide range of top quality products available from Robert Juliat.

"It is our very first time participating at an exhibition in Vietnam and we are very pleased that our prese

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies has confirmed its status as an official sponsor of the Jack Goff racing team for the 2010 ELF Renault Clio Cup with Michelin Championship.

For this year's Championship, Jack Goff is sponsored by several entertainment technology companies, including Avolites, Fibre Optic Systems, GLP, HSL Group, Litestructures, Pixel Range, Robe, Rope & Rigging and SES.

Jack Goff and his Renault Clio racing car will be appearing in the JG-Motorsport Lounge at PLASA 2010. Visitors to the lounge have a chance to enter a free prize draw to win an exclusive track day experience with Jack.

AC-ET's UK sales director, Phill Capstick comments, "Further to AC-ET's sponsorship of the BRDC's exclusive Rising Stars Programme supporting promising young British racing drivers, it was a natural progression to sponsor a talented up and coming driver from the local ar

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USA - There is still time to earn 12 ETCP renewal credits and save with the early registration rate for Tomcat USA's Safely Building the Beast workshop at the 2010 LDInstitute. This new workshop will take place on 20 &21 October 2010 in conjunction with the LDI Show in Las Vegas.

This day and a half, ETCP recognized workshop features training from industry experts. Day one consists of a half-day course on fall protection led by Bill Sapsis, president and founder of Sapsis Rigging, Inc. as well as a half-day course on truss design, use and theory taught by Will Todd, product support manager for TomcatUSA.

For the morning of day two, Will Todd and Keith Bohn of Tomcat USA will lead a session on ground supported and outdoor structures which includes an overview of design elements and safety consideration of these structures, examples of real world scenarios from the Tomcat

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USA - When Barry Manilow moved his hit show from the Las Vegas Hilton to the Paris Las Vegas for a new two-year residency, the production team wanted to make a few changes to better reflect and adapt to their new home. To do so, they brought in lighting designer Chris Medvitz of Lightswitch to create an intimate yet powerful lighting design. Lightswitch then enlisted the assistance of PRG and 65 Vari*Lite luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite.

"When the production was moved from the Las Vegas Hilton to the Paris Las Vegas, everyone wanted to create a new look and feel for the show so that they could really compete against the larger Vegas shows that were established on the strip," says Medvitz. "Barry had never done a theatrical-type show before, so they felt this was a great opportunity to capitalize on the intimate 1500-seat Paris Théâtre."

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UK - Artistic Licence will be supporting PLASA 2010 with a presence on three stands at the show. Several examples from the Artistic Licence range of Art-Net to DMX / RDM converters, along with a selection of Artistic Licence DMX/RDM Splitters, will be on the RDM 'Compatibility Corner' stand (Stand 2-P37) where visitors can put questions to RDM experts and gain hands-on experience of using the products.

Artistic Licence's latest releases, Rail-DMX-DALI and Rail-DALI-DMX, will be on AC Entertainment Technologies' New Product Section (Stand 1-E10) where members of AC's technical team will be on hand to answer questions about these new installation must-haves.

Flexi-Strip, the new flexible, fully encapsulated, self-adhesive LED strip from Artistic Licence will be adorning the Zero 88 stand (Stand 1-E32).

For more information on any of these products visit www.ArtisticLicence.com

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UK - Production Resource Group (PRG) will be demonstrating its innovative proprietary products along with debuting new products and highlighting its integrated services in an immersive exhibit that represents a fully integrated production environment at PLASA 2010.

PRG will be debuting the new V476 control console which provides the same powerful, flexible control of the V676 control console in a smaller size hardware package with all the same programming capacities and capabilities. It is 2/3 the size of the V676 which allows it to be used in spaces that would prove too tight for the larger console. The V676 control console will also be demonstrated on the PRG stand.

Also debuting at PLASA on the PRG stand will be the PRG Bad Boy CMY automated luminaire with seamless colour crossfading technology. Allowing designers to fade between colours easily and simply while still having

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UK - White Light, exclusive UK distributor for the ArKaos range of media servers, will host the UK launch of the new MediaMaster Express at PLASA 2010 in the White Light Zone. An intuitive and powerful media server software, MediaMaster Express is described as the 'perfect solution for quick media management and playback from a DMX or MIDI controller'.

Aimed at the concert/touring, film/TV, leisure/attractions, night venues, theatre/performing arts and architectural markets, MediaMaster Express allows anyone anywhere to exploit the possibilities of a powerful media server, combining ease of use and high performance for an affordable price, making it the perfect solution for quick media management and playback from a DMX or MIDI controller.

Built on ArKaos' latest generation of technology, MediaMaster's multi-threaded engine delivers "blistering performance", by takin

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UK - For the second consecutive year, a team of LED lighting specialists named Team Easily LED and made up of employees from Architainment Lighting Ltd, EcoSense Lighting and Philips Lighting will hike a gruelling 20 miles across London at night in order to raise money for the charity Maggie's Centres.Maggie's Centres provides care and support to those affected by cancer, including sufferers, their family and friends. The charity helps to enable people to cope with the emotional stress and feelings of helplessness that cancer diagnosis brings. It provides courses in managing stress, relaxation and nutrition to boost the immune system and aid recovery. The centres give reliable advice and sources of information for anyone affected by cancer, in a caring environment. This invaluable service is provided free of charge and therefore the charity needs your help to raise money for its c

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UK Architainment Lighting will be showcasing the new Philips Color Kinetics ColorBlast TRX, the latest generation in the ColorBlast family, at PLASA 2010.

Over the last seven year, the ColorBlast range has established itself as an industry standard lighting tool, being used extensively in the concert, theatrical and production rental sectors worldwide. Now, with additional colours and enhanced features, the ColorBlast®TRX builds on this pedigree. This fully-featured RGBAW LED wash/flood/spotlight offers an enhanced colour range, light output of up to 1577 lumens, and onboard addressing and configuration features.

Key features of this technology include five-channel RGBAW in/out, three-channel RGB in/out, and three-channel RGB in mapped to five-channel RGBAW out modes. Amber and neutral white LEDs blend with red, green, and blue LEDs to produce a significantly expanded colo

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UK - At PLASA 2010, Christie will present a new product series - Christie Nitro Solutions digital luminaires. The modular series of motorized moving yokes can provide up to 20,000 ANSI lumens of video projection, creating high brightness imagery on any surface from anywhere, says the company. With the optional Xenon or LED lighting heads, the system can produce up to 50,000 lumens of lighting. Nitro Solutions can be installed at ground level or rigged to a truss, and are suitable for building projection, architectural lighting and cityscapes, houses of worship, theme parks, and live events such as concerts and theatre presentations.

"No other solution on the market gives you the ability to use up to a 20,000 ANSI lumens video projector on a moving yoke,"" said Joel St-Denis, product manager for business products at Christie. "Currently, none of our competitor

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UK / Sweden - LumenRadio will introduce the CRMX Nova Flex and CRMX 2.4/5.8 GHz Cognitive dual band at PLASA 2010.

"CRMX Nova Flex is the Swiss Army Knife of wireless lighting control; user configurable as a transmitter or receiver and it receives, transmits, and converts all the protocols commonly used in today's entertainment and architainment systems," says Anders Ardstål, VP of operations at LumenRadio. "We designed CMRX Nova Flex for the demanding lighting professional who wanted one configurable wireless product that can handle any application and environment. Initial customer response has been overwhelming, especially welcome has been the ability to support Ethernet protocols such as Streaming ACN, ETCNet, ShowNet and Art-Net."

CRMX Nova Flex is part of the award winning CRMX Nova product line with features including Automated Cognitive Coexistence,

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UK - Robert Juliat's new LED profile, the Aledin, was put through its paces by a succession of technicians at the Edinburgh Fringe this year at C venues C aquila in the Roman Eagle Lodge on Johnston Terrace.

C venues is one of the largest of the Fringe's venue producers and C aquila its latest venue. Like many of the Fringe venues, C aquila is a 'made' space so operated off very limited power supplies. Two theatre spaces, a box office, catering and bar facilities had to run off only one 63A single phase.

A team, consisting of head of hire and events for Northern Light Nick Read, artistic director and lighting designer Hartley Kemp, journalist Sara Rushton-Read and C venues production manager, Richard Williamson, approached the design for lighting the spaces with a special purpose in mind - to run the entire venue from low energy sources which would in no way restrict the creat

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Australia - Queensland's Coorparoo State School has recently unveiled its new multipurpose hall which seats up to 500 people and everyone is delighted with the results.

"We are very proud of our new state-of-the-art performing arts hall and we are extremely grateful to have our new performance space fitted out with professional stage lighting equipment installed by an expert team," remarked Jo Young, music co-ordinator for Coorparoo State School.

That expert team was Performance Lighting & Sound, specialists in supplying audio visual requirements to educational facilities.

"Our limited knowledge of lighting equipment meant we had to rely on the team at Performance Lighting & Sound to guide us as we configured equipment to suit our specific needs," says Young. "It is early days for our operating team but we are already reaping the benefits of our Jand

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UK - Wybron is giving the first-ever large-scale viewing of the Cygnus VN line at PLASA 2010. Wybron launched Cygnus in the autumn of 2009 and reports the growth of the family, which now includes MF (Medium Flood; formerly the 200W Wash) and VN (Very Narrow) lines. The VN line builds upon Cygnus' strengths - its vibrant colour and whites, intelligent thermal management system and lauded intensity - and adds an even tighter, more intense beam, says the company.

Jim Koza, Wybron's regional sales director covering Europeis present at PLASA to debut Wybron's newest Cygnus line of LEDs luminaires. "I'm excited to help promote our Cygnus VN line to our dealer partners in Europe," says Koza. "It's great to know that they're not just another 'me-too' product and truly are ahead of the curve in today's bloated LED market. The whole Cygnus family is truly amazing."

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UK - Leading entertainment industry associations The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD) and Women In Stage Entertainment (WISE), and the lighting charity Light Relief are present at this year's PLASA Show. The three organisations are sharing stand M-14; the stand is located immediately behind the White Light Zone in Earls Court 2.

WISE, an organisation established to address the representation of women in the entertainment technology sector, will step from their stand onto the White Light Stand from 4pm to 6pm each day to host Tea O-Clock. A WISE spokesman says, "Each day WISE members from all sectors - sound, AV, lighting, rigging - will offer PLASA Show visitors a calm oasis from the frenetic show floor. We will be providing refreshing mugs of scalding tea, fabulously tasty home baked cakes, an empathetic ear and some scintillating conversation."

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UK - PLASA 2010 sees Cooper Controls showing a host of new products from its UK brands, architectural LED manufacturer Cogent and lighting control manufacturer LightProcessor.

The main new architectural orientated products from Cogent are a selection of VXT in-wall lights, VXB wall-mounted up and down lights and a new high brightness architectural down-light, the DL11.

The VXT 1 is a recessed Wall light offering a discreet recessed solution with the ability to provide a dynamic decorative edge to a space, to light pathways or to provide low level lighting. The VXT range is available in a choice of round (-1), round with eyelid (-2) or square (-3) options for focused downward illumination.

The bodies of these fixtures are made from die-cast aluminium with a white enamel finish, and the stylish fascia plates are die-cast aluminium with a silver plated finish. The polycarbonate

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UK - Jands will unveil their FPX touring dimmer system at PLASA 2010 on the stand of A.C. Entertainment Technologies (1-E10).

Jands has been designing, building and operating lighting equipment since making its first dimmer in 1970. Featuring the popular Jands FPX dimmer, these 24, 36 and 48 way touring systems continue the tradition of offering exceptional quality at an affordable price. The models provide fully featured, reliable, rugged and hardworking racks, to be with users for years to come, says the company.

All models are housed in Amptown flightcases, fully patchable and feature auxilliary mains connections. Dimmer channels are protected by a double pole breaker and there's the option of either Tourmate Multilock (Socapex compatible) or 19 pin Contact (Harting compatible) output connectors.

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UK - Hot on the wheels of this year's highly successful, inaugural First Night Riders' (FNR) sponsored motorbike ride, comes the announcement of the next exciting, high octane adventure.

Having already raised £10,000 for The Theatrical Guild (TTG), many of this year's participants, along with some new bikers from the industry, will trade their blacks and hard hats for leathers and helmets and hit the open road. Riders will boldly go where no First Night Rider has been before, as they visit even more of the UK's most significant and historic theatres and opera houses.

The 2011 ride will depart from the National Theatre on Saturday 18June 2011, and finish on Friday 24 June. The exact route and places FNRs will visit will be confirmed later in the year.

Lending their support to the cause are familiar faces from stage and screen including: Peter Benson, James Fleet, Cyril

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UK - After a record breaking 2000 visitor registrations in the final week alone, the opening day at Earls Court on Sunday 12 September has been packed with activity, as over 350 companies launch more than 500 new products.

A major strength this year has been the return of several leading audio brands and over 60 new exhibitors overall, including Ateis, Avid, Baldwin Boxall, Bosch, Bose, EAW, Electro-Voice, Intertek, Korg, Mackie, Martin Audio, Penton, and SCV/ Turbosound, as well as over 250 loyal exhibitors.

In one of the show's numerous innovations for 2010, visitors were able to watch the PLASA Awards for Innovation judges assess this year's exciting nominations in a series of live presentations on the interactive Innovation Gallery at the entrance to Earls Court 2.

Video of those presentations will be screened in the Innovations Gallery throughout the show, allowing othe

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UK - Midas has launched the VeniceF, a new 'digi-log' ultra-compact mixing console designed by Alex Cooper, complete with FireWire multi-channel digital audio interface, XL3 EQ and Propellerhead recording and processing trial software bundle. The VeniceF can be seen on Stand 1-F19 at PLASA 2010.

The VeniceF is the first all-new Midas product to be unveiled following the Music Group's acquisition of Midas Klark Teknik. It features the full functionality and sound quality of the Midas XL3 EQ and filter section, Midas mic preamps, 100mm faders, increased channel and input count, a dual 7x2 matrix and a reorganised master section layout.

The VeniceF's 32x32 FireWire capability adds 32 channels of multitrack recording and playback (VeniceF 320) using any suitable FireWire-equipped computer, without the need for additional costly interfaces. This also offers the possibility of virtu

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UK - Winners of the 2010 PLASA Awards for Innovation, and the 2010 Gottelier Award, were announced yesterday evening in a special presentation at PLASA 2010 in Earls Court, London - after a hotly contested nomination process that saw 62 products entered and six contenders for the Gottelier Award.

The Awards for Innovation, for the first time, were judged 'live' at the Innovation Gallery by an independent panel of 16 expert judges, in front of show visitors and a camera team on Sunday 12 September. Show visitors are able to watch the judging process replayed on large screens in the interactive Innovation Gallery for the rest of the show.

Seven Awards for Innovation and one Gold Award were presented by PLASA CEO Matthew Griffiths, while ETC founder Fred Foster was honoured with this year's Gottelier Award in recognition of his work on such legendary products including the compan

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Help For Heroes - Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow have performed live together for the first time in 15 years. The Take That pair, who announced this year they were working together again, performed their new single Shame at a Help For Heroes concert in London.

Earlier, Barlow and Williams said: "It's great that people like Shame so much and we can't wait to perform it live for the first time." Also in the line-up were Tom Jones, Alexandra Burke and Pixie Lott. The concert, which took place at Twickenham Stadium also featured comic talent including Bruce Forsyth, Peter Kay, Michael McIntyre and Jack Dee.

Some 60,000 people were at the event - including 150 personnel injured in combat who attended the show free of charge. Proceeds will go to the Help For Heroes charity, which raises funds for wounded troops and their families.

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Tunisia - The 46th International Festival of Carthage, Tunisia's largest arts event, took place over a six-week period this summer in the picturesque open-air Carthage Roman Theatre.

Once again, a wide range of world-renowned artists made up the programme - each leaders in their own artistic fields. And once again SGM lighting fixtures, supplied by local sales and rental company, Sybel Light and Sound, formed part of a complete technical package designed to turn the stage into a spectacular performance space.

Under the artistic eye of lighting designer Elyes Guizani, whose ideas were turned into reality by the Festival of Carthage contractors, pop artists such as Seal, Johnny Clegg and Héléne Ségara were joined by Arabic artists Sabeh Fakhri, Lotfi Bouchnak and Zied Gharsa. Increasing the international flavour were dance troop Fire of Anatolia, the

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