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14 March 2016

Farm Aid 2007 hosted a unique musical collaboration: Gregg Allman performed a special acoustic set with Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews. Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds and The Allman Brothers Band all played full festival sets. Other performers included Counting Crows, Guster and Montgomery Gentry.

The first Farm Aid concert was organised by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp in 1985. They wanted to increase awareness about the loss of family farms and raise funds to keep family farms in business. Dave Matthews joined the Farm Aid Board of Directors in 2001. Farm Aid has raised more than $30 million dollars to

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"We are very pleased to help sponsor one of the premier sources for new musical theatre material and talent," said Larry Turner. "Our goal is to offer the world's stages lighting products that help lighting designers and engineers both fulfill their artistic vision and flawlessly run every show."

Herrick Goldman, lighting designer for three of the NYMF shows, states: "I have worked with Wybron's CXI colour changers for more than a decade and have always been impressed with the company's products. The CXI line has improved greatly over the years. Working with these RDM-controlled lighting devices allows the venue technicians to easily maintain the fixtur

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Although - unusually for 2007 - the weather managed to stay fine for the entire duration of the build, festival and load out, the site of this chilled-out event provided Star Events Group with a number of challenges.

Bestival takes place at Robin Hill Country Park, a well-known local tourist venue that nestles in a scenic valley, featuring woodland, lakes and winding paths. This year the event expanded to take in part of an adjacent farm, but a major concern for Star Events Group team of 12, led by Andrew 'Bomber' Phillips, was the undulating nature of the terrain.

"All the structures we built were on sloping sites. There wasn't one that was on flat ground," says project manager Phil Addyma

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Both sound companies agreed that the main XLC and XLD systems offer remarkable versatility, with the coverage and power handling capacity to precisely address a wide range of applications, from small indoor venues to large outdoor festivals like this, and always with a tidy footprint. Since both companies handle SR for a continuous stream of large scale events, it was important the new XLC127DVX system proved itself at Last Summer Fantasy.

"We are very happy with the XLC system we

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16 JBL VT4888 mid-size line array elements have been installed by Camden based electrical contractors RAG Support, as part of the upgrade of the venue's sound system with a view to provide full, even coverage throughout the venue. To complete the latest Harman package, iTech 4000 and 6000 amplifiers from sister company Crown were also chosen.

Tim Hamper, head sound engineer at Koko, explains the decision: "Buildings of this age are often irregular shapes, which is part of their charm. When it comes to setting up an audio system however, this has its drawbacks as the sound can b

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Reinforcing this position has been the recent opening of the Wellcome Collection, a £30 million visitor centre in London's Euston Road which combines three exhibition galleries, the Wellcome Library, a conference centre, public events forum, club, café and bookshop.

Installed by Sarner Ltd, a specialist audio visual systems integrator, Ampetronic induction loops form a vital part of the project, being provided in the main circulation area, conference centre auditorium, forum and three seminar rooms.

With the close proximity of several loop systems, minimising crosstalk between each one was of the utmost priority, so Sarner invited Ampetronic to design low s

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The concert, held on the grounds of the American Battle Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten, the Netherlands, was highlighted by a performance of Verdi's Requiem, accompanied by the Vocal Collective, a 60-member choir from Belgium.

Stock Audio, based in Geleen, the Netherlands, worked with the concert's front-of-house engineer, Jo Smeets, to assemble a system providing enough headroom to reach a coverage area spanning beyond 150m, while also capable of presenting a very natural sonic signature.

The sound team responded with a main system featuring dual line arrays, each comprise

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In the last 12 months it has hosted such prestigious events as the BBC Electrical Proms (which this year features Sir Paul McCartney, the Kaiser Chiefs, David Arnold and Mark Ronson), as well as a regular programme of 80 high profile concerts.

Showsec is to be sole provider of crowd management and backstage security services to all concerts at the venue.

"We are delighted to be renewing our relationship with the Roundhouse," says Showsec's London area manager, Steve Reynolds. "The new contract is

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Sigma AV Ltd were contracted by Qube Productions to supply an Outline Butterfly line array for the event. Two hangs of 10 CDH483s, coupled with two Outline Subtech subwoofers per side were used; while the in-fill was provided by Outline 'Doppia' 9075s. Engineer was Kevin Swain using a Yamaha M7CL 48. On stage Outline's HARD 212 SPs and 115 SPs were used for stage monitoring.

"This was my first outing with Butterfly," says Swain. "The first thing that amazed me was the size and ease of rigging, then there is the performance. I can say this system has no competition, it's very powerful. We had 6,000 people attend this sho

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Headquartered in London, UK, Cambridge Audio has been at the forefront of British hi-fi for more than thirty five years. Since its inception in 1968, Cambridge Audio has brought some of the most innovative and technologically advanced products to market.

"We are pleased to be a part of D-Tool's MVP Programme," said Daniel Jacques, president of Audio Plus Services, exclusive north American importer for Cambridge Audio. "We are excited to have our product information available to the D-Tools user base and have the opportunity to specify our products for their client projects."

The D-Tools Manufacturer Vantage Point (MVP) pro

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Audiomotion is a multi-award winning studio specialising in the provision of motion capture services to the game development, film and television industries. It has a string of high-profile production credits, including work on the Gladiator motion picture and Citroen C4 Alive with Technology TV commercial.

The company had been using a scaffold system to position 50 motion capture cameras in their 6,000sq.ft studio, but was looking for a more practical truss solution as they expanded into full performance capture for the next generation of high definition gaming, film and television content.

Audiomotion's Matt Rank comments: "In the studio, we're constantly changing the camera setups for different jobs, so having the Litec grid makes it m

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Industry suppliers Allen & Heath, Avolites, ETC, Le Maitre, Lee, MA Lighting, Martin, Pulsar, RCF, Roland, Rosco, Selecon, Sennheiser, Strand, Yamaha and Zero 88 will be exhibiting their latest products, offering demos and providing expert advice.

The show is a free event, open to everyone and no tickets are required. Stage Electrics staff will also be presenting products at the show including the Apollo Right Arm and products from Prolyte, Prolyft, Stage Dex, Teclumen, San-Ei & Swisson.

Visitors can take the opportunity if they wish to pre-register via the Stage Electrics website to be entered in the prize draw and to receive a goody bag on the day.

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Blitz project manager, Stephen Rickard comments: "The QinetiQ stand was particularly noteworthy as it involved the use of the highest resolution widescreen, soft edge projection system yet supplied by Blitz, creating a 15.5m wide display by using four Panasonic DW10000 projectors plus the Watchout GFX system to create an image of 6666 x 1080 pixels."

Blitz also provided 18 LCD screens, 13 plasmas screens and a quantity of laptops displaying various QinetiQ products throughout the stand.

Andy Bowen from 2LK comments: "The DSEi Global Defence Conference was established to provide delegates with insight into the latest approaches to acquiring and supporting capability,

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The projectors were supplied by Iain Ambler, product manager at UK distributor RGB Communications via theatre system specialist Kaurus, and installed by MPC in conjunction with Kaurus.

Martin Parsons, head of imaging at MPC, says: "We use a wide range of projectors here and it's not cost-effective to have the big digital cinema projectors in all our visual effects (VFX) review suites as they will be too big for the rooms concerned and too expensive for the tasks we use them for. So we were looking for something smaller and more cost effective, but not compromised on technology."

Anders L°kke, marketing & communications manager at projectiondesign, notes: "The cineo3+ 1080

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The newly inaugurated campus will host the third annual SAE Alumni Convention on 18 and 19 October. The two-day event, organised by the SAE Alumni Association, brings together representatives from the local media and arts community, industry, and society at large.

An extensive event schedule features workshops, panel discussions and lectures. Leading companies such as Apple, Sennheiser and Roland will present their newest products at the convention trade show and in their demo suites.

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Gordon Routledge, managing director at Dialight Lumidrives, says, "The ELFA catalogue is known as 'the' reference book of the electronics business. Over 134,000 copies are distributed across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Poland. Associates also supply into the Baltic States, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

"Our agreement with ELFA covers the entire Dialight Lumidrives' product range, with the ELFA catalogue now incorporating Dialight Lumidrives' LED drivers, a wide variety of single and multiple LED light engines, both single colour and RGB, optics, linked LEDs and even retrofit LED units.

"The ELFA agreement follows on from our success in the UK in marketing through established catalogue su

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Field Day brought together the best of London's alternative live music and club promoters for a day of music and dancing, with bands such as Mystery Jets, The Aliens, 1990s, Bat For Lashes, Pull Tiger Tail and James Yorkston, and DJ's Andrew Weatherall, Erol Alkan and Jo Jo De Freq, as well as those village fete favourites such as hog roasts, tugs of war, tombola, barn dancing, hoedown tent and a largest marrow competition.

Underage Festival, meanwhile, was hailed as "the world's first credible festival

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14 March 2016

The Federal Circuit's decision clears the way for US Customs and Border Enforcement to enforce the limited exclusion order. The exclusion order prohibits importation of Epistar's infringing OMA I, OMA II, MB I, MB II, GB I, and GB II LEDs, as well as any other Epistar LEDs that infringe Philips Lumileds' US Patent No. 5,008,718.

The exclusion order also prohibits the importation of packaged LEDs containing the infringing Epistar LEDs and boards consisting primarily of arrays of such packaged LEDs. Companies that use, import, or sell these unlicensed infri

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Carluccio's aim is to provide great quality and authentic Italian food at sensible prices, and now has over thirty locations nationwide. They have just returned to Covent Garden. Good quality audio and specially selected music is a feature of the Carluccio's experience.

ADC designed and installed the system, which is divided into four zones covering each of the main areas; ground floor café, ground floor shop, first floor restaurant and first floor private dining. Centrally supplied from multi-CD and media-player sources, each zone has separate Toa amplification driving a total

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Liam Feeney, managing director of TSM (The Sound Man), commented: "We were contracted to provide a sound re-enforcement system for up to 60,000 people, which is fine for a normal arena/stadium with sufficient equipment and the right people, but when we saw the venue and the circumstances we knew it would require something very special, so we turned to K.M.E."

Feeney added, "We made contact with Kerst Glass of K.M.E. and discussed specifications. We were aware of the difficulties involved including the audience area being merely the width of the street (approximately 10m), t

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"We are very committed because we're not just talking about lighting desks anymore - our products have grown into highly sophisticated control systems, and for a user to fully grasp their potential, they need good quality training from our experts. This is something we're keen to develop here," says MA Lighting managing director Michael Althaus.

The new office, MA lighting Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, is located in Block 10 Ubi Crescent, #06-28 Ubi Techpark (Lobby B) Singapore 408564. Jens Poehlker takes ov

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The giant digiLED screen featured performances from both international and regional artists, all celebrating Divac's career and contribution to international basketball.

Further, a short movie in which several of Divac's friends and colleagues, including NBA stars Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Bobby Jackson, Yao Ming, coach Phil Jackson, rapper Snoop Dog, Red Hot Chili Peppers, actor Billy Crystal and many others, praising his efforts and career, was show on the huge screen.

A total of 128 modules created a giant 99.12m©˜ screen. Measuring 14.08m high x 7.04

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The company says that this restructuring proposal, which would impact plants in Mexico, Brazil and the US, is a continuation of structural changes that have occurred over the last year and included facility closures, work transfers, employee reductions and the sale of operations at GE sites in Europe, China, Indonesia, the US, Latin America, and India that have impacted more than 3,000 positions.

The objective of the proposed restructuring is, GE says, to help the business better respond to customer and industry demands - particularly the global market move to more energy-efficient products - and invest in, and deliver, the high-tech lighting products incr

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As a continuation of the tour, the band returned to Europe this year, taking in shows from late June to late August and making stops at various cities and summer festivals along the way. In July they performed three shows in three different cities (Paris, London, Copenhagen) in just 24 hours.

As for their previous world tours the sound specification revolved exclusively around L-acoustics equipment. Long time RHCP FOH Engineer Dave Rat, founder and President of Rat Sound Systems, relied on the European V-Dosc Network to provide V-Dosc systems for the majority of their run.

Dave Rat comments, "I