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The opening and closing ceremonies were held at the site of the Float at Marina Bay, the world's largest floating stage located in the heart of Singapore. A live audience of 27,000 plus the 3,500 athletes and an estimated 2bn television viewers watched a spectacular light, video, laser and fireworks display with the Singapore skyline serving as a backdrop.

The floating stage was surrounded by a ring of shipping containers, a reference to Singapore's prominence as South East Asia's largest harbour. In front of the containers a 5000 m2 floating 'lake' was created; at the rear a 32m high lighthouse, which held the cauldron for the Olympic flame. Lighting and video were positioned around the ring to create the pe

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Martin Werner, CEO of Laserworld says, "We plan to integrate this solution as 'standard' and free of any extra charges for the customer. Apart of the new laser systems pre-equipped, we plan to offer transmitter upgrade options for older systems."

Laserworld currently offers W-DMX as an option for the SwissLas, Purelight, Purelight Blue Beam, Moving Head and Revolution product series. W-DMX will be unveiled as standard at Prolight + Sound 2011 in Frankfurt.

Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of Wireless Solution adds, "We're proud to add yet another OEM partner to our growing list, but especially laser technology for the first time. And Laserworld makes some phenomenal products. Lasers always wow audiences but the addition of wireless capability just give

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Orkelbog-Andresen moves from the position of market manager architectural for the Nordic countries where he has successfully developed Martin's project market since August 2008.

Villads Thomsen, VP for Martin EMEA, states, "With his proven track record from the Nordic countries, Leif will bring valuable insight and guidance to our European sales team, increasing the success of Martin in the project market."

(Jim Evans)

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ENTECH 2011, which takes place at SCEC on 19 - 21 July 2011, will now include a new stream in its educational program featuring international speakers from PLASA's extensive global membership base.

Over 4000 visitors are expected to register for ENTECH 2011, and attendance at the seminars will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Visitors will be able to secure their seats for a seminar via the ENTECH website in the coming weeks.

PLASA's CEO, Matthew Griffiths said: "We are pleased to be involved in one of the premium industry events in Australia. We see this alliance as a great opportunity to support the future development of our indust

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Don't Scare The Hare is a new game show produced by Endemol which will be aired in April on BBC1's 5.30 p.m. Saturday slot. Lighting designer is Tom Kinane, with whom HSL has worked on numerous past projects. The show sees two teams of contestants pit their wits and their physical agility in a series of games which involves not scaring a large animatronic hare.

Lighting and colour psychology plays a key role in the production - if the hare takes fright during any of the games, the whole environment turns red for danger.

HSL's Sean McGlone project managed the supply of the equipment which includes Vari*Lite moving lights, white lights, LED sources, cyc lighting and follow spots. He

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The company's owner (and lighting designer), Ammar Jano, knew that the white marble façade of the six-storey building would be a suitable projection surface for SGM's IP55-rated Palco 5 architectural LED fixture - and that it would provide a dazzling wash which could clearly be seen from the nearby Damascus-Beirut highway.

In total 18 Palco 5's were mounted - either on the ground, or positioned at roof level - to deliver a stunning crossfade colour wash.

Ammar Jano, who has been working with SGM products for almost a decade, then turned his

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The Lighting designer for this sensitive production was Ben Cobham of Bluebottle, a design firm that worked collaboratively to achieve the best results.

"Whilst I was the lead designer I had a whole team of talented people working with me including Tom Rogers as assistant designer and he produced plans, concept drawings and looked after technical bump in," says Cobham. "Jen Hector looked after the design realization plotting the show - she is a long time friend and although not a full time employee, she comes to play from time to time. Frog Peck was production manger and Blair Hart was assistant production manager."

The lighting rig consist

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The two year refurbishment programme of the top London venue, cost an estimated £220m and saw the hotel re-open to the public in October. IVC Media's sound systems have been installed in the Riverside, Lower Thames and Lincoln rooms, the Riverside Restaurant and Lancaster Ballroom. Some of the rooms have featured in blockbuster films such as Notting Hill in the past.

As well as providing audio for major events such as live stage performances, the sound systems are also set up to provide background music, voice evacuation and audio for corporate conferences and events. IVC also supplied and installed RGB lighting in the

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Says Jean Louis Pernette, sales director at ETC's French distributor, Avab, "The brief was to supply all the equipment they need, with an emphasis on high spec and ease of use. We were also told that they needed the equipment fast - in fact, we only had a couple of weeks from the time we received the quote request to the delivery date."

Because ETC keeps all its major products in stock in Europe, Pernette was confident the delivery schedule wouldn't be difficult - the entire 42 pallets making up the delivery could come straight out of the warehouse.

"We supplied two Congo and two Congo jr control desks across the three festival venues, to make sure they had enough backup. Ea

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"TubeFlexL (Asia) is well-established in the Southeast Asia market and, as such, the company is in the ideal position to help us continue to expand our reach into the region," says Lighthouse's general manager, Mr Peter Chan. "We are extremely pleased to be working with TubeFlexL (Asia). They are a highly experienced and professional company and we are sure that our partnership will help us towards fully implementing our global growth and development strategy for the coming year."

"We are very excited about representing Lighthouse in the Southeast Asia market," says Mr James Lim, managing director of TubeFlexL (Asia). "Lighthouse's reputation precedes it and we know the

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The lighting in the venue, designed by Matthew Marshall and including around 50 moving lights and a collection of LED fixtures along with generic theatrical lights, was programmed and operated by Peter Rubie who opted to use a Vista T4 running the V2 Byron software for control. "After beta testing Vista Byron in its early stages I was impressed by its feature set and vast improvements on Vista 1," remarked Pe

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Political Moves - A hip hop musical based on Nick Clegg's role in forming

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Martin EMEA Vice President Villads Thomsen commented on the change, "It is unfortunate that a highly valuable partner like EVDV could not overcome the economic challenges, however I am confident that with our new sales structure for Belgium we will be able to develop the Belgian market further and grow business together with our customers."

Taking over sales responsibilities in the Belgian market is Martin Professional South Europe commercial director Martin Fournier, who will work

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The Sapphire Touch is targeted for full production launch from PLASA 2011 along withV6 of Avolites' signature Titan operating system. As the next generation in the Titan brand it is equipped with the latest technology and numerous special features that make it fit for festivals, theatre and show touring. The Sapphire Touch harnesses the power of 45 motorised and automated faders, massive dual touch wide screens, tricolour tracker ball with Z axis control, plus the Avo 'Quicksketch' tool to create custom palettes.

Avolites' sales director St

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Richard will take over as technical editor of LSi from James Eade, who has helped the PLASA Media team steer the technical content of LSI for the past nine years. Although Richard officially started with PLASA Media on 1 March, there will be a longer hand-over of duties with James. Both the March and April 2011 issues of LSi will see James's input as technical editor, and Richard's first contribution to the magazine will appear in the May issue.

Lee Baldock, editor of LSi since 2004, said: "James has made a huge contribution t

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A key feature of the LED-powered LightStar is that it produces an output comparable to, or greater than, a fibre optic illuminator using a 150-watt metal halide light source. In a white colour mix, the LightStar is equivalent to the 150-watt metal halide powered illuminators. By using an LED light engine there is no transmission loss with a colour filter, so in deep, saturated colors, the LightStar has a greater output that is equivalent to 250-watt illuminators.

"By using LEDs as the light source, we have significantly decreased the power draw for the illuminator sin

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DMX-Buffer is an inline DMX & RDM line booster / buffer with a choice of Ethercon or XLR connections. It is designed "for those times when you need more distance than the maximum 300m, or more than 32 devices on a single DMX cable".

DMX-Buffer RJ45 has Ethercon connectors allowing easy use of Cat 5 cable. DMX-Buffer XLR uses standard 5-pin XLR connectors. This provides a more rugged, robust option that is suitable for touring purposes.

Rail-Contact is a DMX Trigger with eight Opto-Isolated Inputs and a cascade option, developed for applications requiring a level of integration between external switches and DMX control. Rail-Contact converts eight contact closures to eight consecutive DMX c

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Scott Rowland, general manager comments, "We're really looking forward to working with NGI and the Convention Bureau again this year. Working on the members meetings is a great opportunity for us to meet and speak with other members and give them a taste of what we do. Following the success of last year's AGM at Northumbria University's Sport Central we can't wait to transform the venues chosen for this year's meetings.

"Hi-Lights has worked with NGI on many events in the past including Bambuco, the World Cup H

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MA Lighting was chosen after a comprehensive two-year evaluation period, which included extensive 'field trials' and involved the RSC's head of lighting Vince Herbert plus his departmental team of 18, including programming specialists, operators and technicians.

Three of the new consoles are deployed in the RST and The Swan. In both venues, the first one is the active desk, the second is for backup and media server programming, and the third is located in the stalls, used for focussing and tech sessions plus for offline work during non-technical period

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The two-day Education & Learning Programme proved a major success last year and this year PLASA Events have added a new strand of product demonstrations and training to the popular mix of case studies and seminars. The sessions run alongside a two-hall exhibition of new technology and are free to attend.

Kicking off the case studies is the RSC. The RSC's Vince Herbert, Jeremy Dunn and Adam Harvey - responsible for lighting, sound and stage automation respectively - will be joined by Jonathan Porter-Goff from Stage Electrics in a session entitled Build a Theatre, Rebuild Another and Refurbish a Third. This will be an opportunity to learn

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"We are very excited to take on the CRMX wireless lighting controls as they perfectly complement our other brands. The superior reliability, as well as the features offered by the CRMX technology, will allow our customers to take their indoor and outdoor installations to the next level," says Rick Jannink of Rolight. "We are especially enthusiastic about CRMX SuperNova and its RDM controller functionality which brings wireless bi-directional control and feedback to many of our current products. We believe RDM is the future of both Entertainment and Architainment instal

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It is a see-through display, with a structure consisting of thin horizontal bars alternated with gaps which give it an approximately 50% transparency ratio. It is designed for use in a wide variety of applications including small and large events, live shows and in TV studios.

(Jim Evans)