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Belgium - ADB Lighting systems are at the heart of two highly flexible theatres within C-Mine, a e new €300m cultural development on the site of an abandoned coalmine, in Genk, Belgium.

ADB supplied a total of 275 luminaires and 564 ways of Eurorack dimming to the project. A key aspect of the lighting installation design was the near-silent running of the Eurorack 60 dimmer. This feature enabled the design team to wall-mount the dimmers just a few metres from the main lighting bridge, thus significantly reducing the typical cable runs between dimmers and lighting fixtures and, as a result, the cost. The extra budget was then deployed to specify more dimmers, thereby greatly increasing the lighting flexibility of both theatres. "This aspect of the Eurorack dimmers has brought a big benefit to us," commented C-Mine technical director Winand Van Lil.

After the mine clo

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Australia - LSC Lighting Systems has announced the release of the new Redback Wallmount range previewed at PLASA last year. The new Redback sports a number of features including, optional relay channels, RDM, various output connector configurations, external wallplate control and a 'slim figure'.

A Redback Wallmount may be specified to be a combination of conventional dimmers and/or relay channels to power LEDs and intelligent lighting fixtures. For example, a 24-channel 'combo' unit provides 18 channels of dimming as well as six channels of relay in the same chassis.

In addition, the relay modules can be configured to be switched on or off using DMX512, auto-powered - to improve energy efficiency - or controlled via a number of other methods in the same fashion that the standard dimming channels may be controlled.

The relay outputs provide direct power by utilising physical

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UK - The first of Artistic Licence's training days, initiated and sponsored by Artistic Licence's Wayne Howell, took place on 9 February 2011. The DALI Training was deemed "a great success and attended by industry leaders, from a wide range of disciplines, working at the forefront of DALI and DMX installations". Artistic Licence Engineering MD, Simon Hobday, led the training and answered questions on this comparatively new, but ever more frequently used, protocol.

In addition to the training, the day provided a good discussion forum and delegates came away feeling they had learnt valuable points. "DALI and DMX are being pushed as major protocols and it is important that we should be up to date on the methods and means of DMX / DALI conversion and also the problems, limitations and compensation methods of doing so," says Paul Simson of Enliten.

"It was

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UK - Entertainment lighting specialists White Light collaborated with students from the Central School of Speech and Drama for the second successive year to create a showcase of the latest in lighting technology for an audience of lighting designers, technicians, consultants and others.

Held in late January, the event once again presented the equipment in a real theatrical setting, Central's Embassy Theatre. There, the equipment was set up and programmed by students from Central's lighting courses to create introductory shows that showed off the potential of the equipment. The students were then on-hand to respond to requests from visitors to demonstrate particular products or features.

The day featured early appearances for Robert Juliat's new Aledin LED Fresnel, the PixelRange PixelSmart LED washlight, Pulsar's new UV LED Chromaflood, the Galaxia LED washlight newly distribu

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UK / Italy - When controversial artist Damien Hirst revealed his latest creation - For the Love of God (FTLoG) - at the famous White Cube Gallery, London, it was a dead cert that images of it were going to beam worldwide.

And, when the artwork concerned consists of a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond centered in the forehead, it was also going to demand well considered illumination.

Douglas James, from architectural lighting design company Mindseye, was challenged with the task of sourcing a solution to Hirst's brief - to create the impression that the piece was suspended in thin air.

"This meant absolutely no light pollution or spill," James explains: "Sometimes the simplest of briefs can be the most challenging. Of course, we weren't able to use the actual piece to develop the l

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China - Due to growing sales of their LED lighting systems, Multiform Lighting has moved into a new 24,000sq.ft manufacturing facility in Guangzhou province, S.E. China. With 70 enthusiastic staff members the company is about to commence manufacture of the new IP65 rated MultiSpot GII luminaires which provide higher light output and more sophisticated DMX control facilities than the current products.

In addition to the assembly line, the factory includes soak testing, quality control, engineering, warehouse and administration departments.

To ensure that Multiform's reputation for build quality and reliability in operation is maintained, after full functional testing, all luminaires are burnt in for 72 hours before being packed for container shipment to their international distributors.

In addition to the Multiform brand, the factory produces a range of budget lighting produc

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UK - Italian lighting manufacturer Clay Paky has announced the first in a series of dates for its forthcoming new product tour, which will feature its latest product introductions, Sharpy, Alpha Profile700 and Shotlight Wash.

The first date will be Wednesday 2 March at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the Elgar Room. The session will start at 11am and continue through to 2pm. Drinks and a buffet lunch will be provided. Everyone with an interest is welcome to attend: please RSVP to janemonk@monkey.biz by Friday 25th February.

The tour will be visiting six venues across the UK. The next event will take place in Ireland on 4-5 May - venues to be confirmed.

(Lee Baldock)

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Sweden - On 10 December, 2010, Clay Paky played a major role in one of the highest profile events in the world - The Nobel Prize Banquet. Held since 1934 in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall annually on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, the banquet follows the esteemed Nobel Prize Awards. The event is attended by the King and Queen of Sweden and the other members of the Royal Family, plus approximately 1300 guests, including Nobel Laureates, politicians, dignitaries and other VIPs, as well as seen by the viewing audience of a High Definition television broadcast by Swedish Television (SVT).

Lighting designer Per Sundin has been in charge of lighting the event for the past 10 years, but this was the first year Clay Paky fixtures were brought in for it. Interlite AB supplied eight Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500 fixtures for the banquet. The lighting was designed to be eleg

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South Africa - Robe moving lights took centre stage for the New Age Friendship Celebration Concert in Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban,, a Bollywood spectacular following the Standard Bank International Pro20 international cricket tournament between India and South Africa.

This visual extravaganza was the first ever such post cricket match entertainment event, and also celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indians in Africa. Over 40,000 cricket fans saw India narrowly beat the Proteas (South Africa), simultaneously making history as the biggest live crowd ever to watch a cricket match on the African continent. The concert was televised live worldwide on ESPN, opening up the potential audience to several million.

Lighting, stage set and visuals were designed by Tim Dunn and full technical production for the concert was supplied by Gearhouse South Africa, working for p

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UK - Northern Light has announced the appointment of Simon Cooper - affectionately known as "Scoops" - as projects director for the company. Cooper, previously Northern Light's head of projects, has joined the board of the company in a specifically created role.

Managing director Colin Cuthbert explained: "As has been previously reported, Northern Light is performing extremely well in spite of the current economic climate and the board felt that the time was right for the expansion of our strategic management team."

Cooper has been with Northern Light since 2002 and has been responsible for the successful delivery of some of the company's most high profile projects including the Young Vic, Wexford Opera House, the Roundhouse, the London Coliseum and Aylesbury Waterside Theatre.

Cuthbert continued: "We felt it was imperative that project delivery, as

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Czech Republic - Architect Karel Jan?a decided on a fresh and vibrant approach when he was asked to design a completely new interior scheme for the Duel Sports Bar in the town of Zubri, Czech Republic.

An Anolis LED lighting scheme is an integral part of the new look and feel for the popular bar and eatery, owned by local entrepreneur Rene Doricak and frequented by sports enthusiasts and a lively young crowd from the local area.

Duel is adjacent to a busy sports hall run by the city of Zubri, located in-between two bustling Moravian towns - the historically significant and beautiful Rožnov pod Radhošt?m and the buzzing commercial centre of Valašské Mezi?í?í.

Jan?a approached Anolis's Czech & Slovak Republic sales manager Petr Kolma?ka, and together they discussed the best possible LED lighting solution.

Jan?a wanted to use power-efficient 'green' lighting to ad

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Sweden / USA - Wireless Solution Sweden AB has signed an agreement to now offer Wireless RDM for sales in the United States, making them the first company outside of the US to do so. W-DMX G4 is covered by US Patent #7,432,803, which covers Wireless Solution and its distributors as well as W-DMX OEM Clients.

The license applies to W-DMX G4 BlackBox F-1, BlackBox F-2, WhiteBox F-1, WhiteBox F-2, Micro F-1 and ProBox F-2500. All units are standard with RDM. The license also covers the Micro OEM PCB and PRO OEM PCB for W-DMX OEM manufacturers. OEM partners are "very happy" with the new license agreement, say Wireless Solution.

Wireless Solution is the only company to offer dual band 2.4 and 5.8GHz with RDM and adaptive frequency hopping in both OEM single PCB or Standard Transceivers with FLEX function to change a unit to be both transmitter and receiver. All F-Models a

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USA - The Miss America pageant celebrated its 90th anniversary on 15 January at the Theatre for the Performing Arts at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

Employed as the primary source of back lighting for the beauty contestants were 16 Martin MAC III Profile moving heads, specified by lighting designer Allen Branton. Chosen for their lumens output, gobo selection and big aperture for a hard-edged fixture, the 1500W MAC IIIs provided full coverage from up-, mid-, and downstage positions, says Felix Peralta, who served as lighting director on the show.

"We were really impressed by their compact size and their output, and they looked fantastic on camera," Peralta stated. "They were consistent in colour, output, and overall performance - we were extremely pleased."

The MAC III Profiles featured in the opening performance number involving all of

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UK - 20 February saw the winners of the 2011 Whatsonstage.com Awards announced at a star-studded ceremony at London's Prince of Wales Theatre. These awards, run by theatre news website WhatsOnStage, represent the voice of theatregoers: all of the categories have entries nominated and then voted for by the public, from all of the shows that have opened in the West End over the last year.

Entertainment lighting specialist White Light sponsored the Best Lighting Designer award once again; this year it was presented to James Farncombe for his design for Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith and then at the Duke of York's theatre, where the show continues to surprise and scare audiences nightly. His fellow nominees in the category were Neil Austin for The Prince of Homburg and Women Beware Women, Paul Keogan for Novecento, Paule Constable for Bl

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USA - Luxury Swiss watchmaker Breitling hosted a VIP event for the grand opening of its flagship store. The event, organised by global Marketing and PR agency Centigrade, saw a host of celebrities and Breitling enthusiasts come together to celebrate the launch of its New York boutique. The 4500sq.ft store is located a stone's throw from 5th Avenue and showcases over 900 timepieces.

Three hundred guests, including brand ambassadors John Travolta and Wayne Gretzky as well as hockey player, Mark Streit and NFL star and broadcaster Boomer Esiason attended the event in Manhattan on 15 January.

The sidewalk outside of the boutique was transformed in to a VIP reception area. Truss structure provided by PRG was erected housing a red-carpet area for staff to meet and greet VIP guests and the media. GDS LiteWare UL wireless battery uplighters were incorporated in to the design of the st

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USA -TMB and LumenRadio have announced the immediate availability across North America of the entire range of CRMX wireless lighting control products.

LumenRadio's proprietary CRMX products are available in a variety of form factors and feature levels to meet the requirements of the entertainment and architectural lighting markets alike. All products provide Lumen's proprietary automated cognitive coexistence; error correction; synchronization; encryption; deterministic latency of 5ms; and outstanding range and reliability.

Protocol support includes DMX, RDM, DALI, Art-Net, sACN, ETCNet2, ETC Net3, Strand ShowNet, and Pathport. Two consecutive PLASA Awards for Innovation and accolades from industry experts and the industry at large, as well as a very impressive reference list of high profile installations and events, have firmly established LumenRadio as the undisputed wireles

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UK - Dermot Murnaghan is back to host another season of the prime time quiz show Eggheads.

Lighting designer Martin Kempton continues to originate the show, lights are provided by Richard Martin Lighting and supported by TSL Glasgow. This season was operated by BBC board operator Julia Smith.

The design specification includes Stage Zoom 1200s, Stage Profile Plus's, MAC 250s, MAC 600s and Chroma Banks.

(Jim Evans)

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UK - Clay Paky's Alpha Beam fixtures featured on Squeeze's UK Spot the Difference tour which covered venues ranging from the 100 Club in London to the O2 Manchester Apollo.

Lighting designer Daniel Bocking designed the production with video projections and a rig dominated by 18 Alpha Beam 700s positioned in clusters of three to create a classic rock and roll feel for the band. The lighting was designed and programmed around bespoke video footage developed by content designer Colin Rozee of R2 Digital Productions and projected onto sails suspended from the rear truss.

"I needed really tight beams because I didn't want to throw too much light around and risk washing out the video," says Bocking. "The Alpha Beams were brilliantly effective - just so narrow in the beam. The fixture creates highly defined, parallel beams that are clearly visible against other

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UK - High Wycombe-based industry distributor, A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd is launching a training programme to find new recruits for its expanding sales teams, aimed at individuals currently working in the entertainment sector, or with previous sales experience and looking for a change of career.

The three-week paid training programme will give candidates a thorough induction to some of the most popular and industry-standard lighting, audio, rigging and video entertainment technologies stocked by AC-ET, which supplies over 200 brands to dealers, distributors and end users in 80 countries worldwide.

Successful candidates selected from the training course will then follow a development programme over the next 12 months, depending on their individual level of industry experience.

Originally launched in 2003, the training programme has proved extremely successful, with 6

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Australia - LSC is proud to announce the release of a new range of Ethernet / DMX512 converters.

Nexus provides the ability to convert between the two most popular Ethernet protocols namely ArtNet and Streaming ACN (SACN) and DMX512. Nexus allows users to: merge two universes onto a single port on an LTP or HTP basis by universe or by slot (channel); softpatch across multiple universes; autoswitch between two assigned universes for redundancy purposes and merge two universes and resend these as new ArtNet or SACN stream.

Three models are available - a single port portable Ethernet / DMX converter, a five-port rack-mount Ethernet / DMX512 converter and a five-port truss-mount Ethernet / DMX512 converter. Powercon power input connectors are available as an option on the five-port units. The single port unit is powered via Power over Ethernet (PoE).

The units are supplied with

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USA - Winners of the third annual Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) awards were announced 23 February 2011 at the Strategies in Light Conference in Santa Clara, California. Sponsored by the US Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the International Association of Lighting Designers, the competition was launched in 2008 to promote excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED luminaires for general illumination in commercial lighting applications.

This year, 42 commercial LED lighting products were recognised for excellence. Out of 138 entries from 61 different lighting companies, 33 were chosen as 'recognized' winners and four were chosen as 'best in class'. An additional five products were deemed 'notable', a new category created for those NGL entries that might not yet be considered specifiable but nevertheless have at least one out

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UK - Two projects that were supplied by Architainment Lighting are hoping to win an award at the upcoming Lighting Design Awards in London this March. Lighting Design International has been nominated for its work on premier office building, The Peak, and Jason Bruges Studio has also been shortlisted for its interactive lighting installation on at Sunderland Station.

Lighting Design International's (LDI) work on premier office headquarters, The Peak, in London's Victoria, has been shortlisted in the Exterior Lighting category. Along with architect, Shephard Robson, and installers, Emcor, Architainment supported LDI as it worked to transform the site's identity. Following a bespoke mock-up of the cladding, LDI specified approximately 700 fixtures of Philips Color Kinetics iColor Cove MX Powercore to light up the outside of the building.

LDI Design associate, Nishi Shah, commente

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Sweden - Erik Nordlander of Nordlander Produktion has used 18 Martin Professional Tripix 300 LED (RGB) striplights to illuminate a newly rebuilt pedestrian bridge in Kramfors, Sweden in warm shades of white light and occasionally in dynamic colour.

Mill Bridge, a charming wooden bridge used by cyclists and pedestrians alike, is located just outside the city centre of this northern Swedish town. The Municipality of Kramfors sought not only to secure the bridge at night and increase safety across the popular pathway but looked to reveal the beauty of the bridge with an aesthetic nighttime illumination.

Nine 300mm IP66-rated Tripix luminaires are mounted on the underside handrail on each side of the bridge. The Tripix 300 uses single lens tricolor RGB color mixing - a colour wash system that projects a more uniform wash of colour across a surface.

"The Tripix has exception

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USA - City Theatrical reports that on 19 January 2011, SHoW DMX transmitters and receivers and SHoW DMX equipped PDS-750 TRX power/data supplies were used in the first ever installation of a wireless DMX system at the White House to light the State Dinner for President Hu Jintao of China. The dramatic and innovative lighting design was created and implemented by Al Crawford and his company, Arc3design.

Arc3design's lighting incorporated CTI's new PDS-750 TRX for controlling many of the Philips Color Kinetics ColorBlast 12 TRX LED fixtures used in the system, and he complimented these with battery powered CTI PDS-50 and MasterBlast units driving additional individual ColorBlast 12 TRXs. The SHoW DMX wireless technology provided in these systems allowed Arc3design to locate gear wherever it was needed, and the fully featured SHoW DMX Receivers built into the PDS-750 TRX Power/Data

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