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Japan - Geo-E-Site, a major hydroelectric power station, is sited in the Gunma Prefecture, 100km north-west of Tokyo, and covers most of the energy needs of the surrounding area.

Aiming to create an exhibition which would illustrate the processes that lead to the production of hydroelectric power, the owners have built a subterranean environment, about 300m below the level of the power station. The site hosts many Japanese and foreign tourists, including many school trips.

Six Clay Paky CP Color 150-E projectors are used through the exhibition, both to make the visit more pleasant and to highlight some of the fundamental parts of the power station. "The use of projectors with IP65 protection became indispensable since the place, by its nature, is very damp and dusty," said architect Keiko Yonezawa, president of Strise, the company which implemented the project. "

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UK - Glam New York rockers the Scissor Sisters are currently on tour promoting their new album titled Ta-dah. Lighting designer Dave Ross first met the band over two years ago when they headlined their first ever show in the UK at The Scala London. Dave specified numerous PixelLines 1044s for the gig, which started an 18-month stint of touring. The 1044s soon became a big feature of the show, especially in the US where 1044s where relatively new to the market.

For this tour Ross, works alongside show and set designer Roy Bennett. An integral part of the design is a flat wall of 144 PixelPar 90s - 16 fixtures wide by 9 fixtures high upstage behind two Kabukis. Ross explains: "The band has very set ideas concerning the use of lighting and video and they are always keen to build their show gradually. And although the PixelPars are only really used for the last two songs

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The Middle East - If your organisation has been involved in the design of a lighting project, within the Middle East region in the last five years, then you may want to submit an entry to the Middle East Lighting Design Awards.

The awards presentation will be held at a Gala dinner on the 21 May 2007 at the Al Murooj Rotana Hotel in Dubai. The Awards are fully supported by Jonathan Speirs, of Speirs and Major Associates, who believes this event will further encourage and stimulate creativity in the field of lighting design.

The eight award categories, including the prestigious Middle East Lighting Designer of the Year, will be judged by a broad based panel of industry experts, including Barry Hannaford IALD director of independent lighting design company dpa lighting consultants.

For full details of the event, award categories, sponsorship opportunities, and how to ent

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UK - Dialight Lumdrives has launched its new Linkled IP range based on its originalLinkled RGB system. Offering the ability to control a line of LEDs extendingover a considerable distance, Linkled IP brings new benefits including IP ratingto IP67 and multichip technology which enables colour mixing at source. It issuited to cove lighting, interior and exterior feature lighting.

New Linkled IP expands the flexibility and performance of the original Linkledsystem and is compact, faster and easier to install than previously, and isdesigned for OEMs who require a simple plug and play solution.

Benefits include less fringing, it is ideal for direct view applications, stripsof six or 12 modules can be supplied preassembled, an integrated heatsink fordirect mounting to any surface is standard and cabling spacing can be suppliedat 100mm or 200mm.

Linkled IP is supplied ready to use

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World - Lighting director/programmer Graeme Nicol is using the grandMA console on Shakira's Oral Fixation tour now wrapping up the year in the singer's native Colombia, Chile and Argentina.

"I find you never stop learning on the grandMA," says Nicol. "There's always something new to learn to use the console to the max. Shakira's tour is more of a rock show than I've been doing lately with a lot of flash and boom. We have an interesting set up of 134 moving lights run via SMPTE. The keyboard tech runs tracks, which are striped with SMPTE. He starts his tracks, which sends SMPTE out to me, and the grandMA runs the lighting cues. It's a very interesting concept."

The show's complement of moving lights consists of 34 Clay Paky Alpha spots with custom gobos, 40 MAC 2000 washes, 48 PC beams, and 12 Vari*Lite VL2402/2500s. Eight Atomic 3K strobes and hundre

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Greece - For the second time, Glass Page's events management team turned to Leicestershire-based Hawthorns to provide the technical solution in terms of lighting, sound and set for drinks giant Diageo's recent Global Finance Conference held in Athens, Greece.Two 45ft trailers were used to transport over 200m of stage trussing, 40+ Martin MAC lighting fixtures and a D&B sound system from Hawthorn's base in Old Dalby to Athens.

A dedicated seven-man project team was deployed by Hawthorn for the week-long conference, which included such events as an Opening Dinner, Conference and a Team Building activity room for the 200+ delegates. Matt Oscroft, the Hawthorn project manager said: "One of the most demanding aspects of the project was to create a stunning lighting effect at the entrance of the venue."

Diageo took the opportunity at the conference to highlight its sponsor

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UK - The development of modern, fully-featured performance spaces in both state-run and privately-funded educational facilities, has become something of a mission for Stuart Graham's company Clarity in Sound, Light & Vision. But even he would be surprised at the progressive approach taken by the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) to the construction of a new theatre at Blackheath High School in south-east London this year.

The GDST is a group of 28 independent schools operating in England and Wales and Blackheath High School was founded in 1880 as part of the Trust.

The school's business manager Tony Sutherland says the project appeared on the radar soon after the Senior Department relocated to its new premises in 1994, and by 1999 a decision to build a £1.5 million, 345-seat auditorium - principally to be used for performing arts, ballet and school assembly - was rubber sta

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USA - Indiana-based Apollo Design Technology Inc, a leading manufacturer and distributor of lighting effects products and accessories for the entertainment industry, was granted an occupancy permit for the recently completed 5,000sq.ft building expansion at its headquarters in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The space will be used for additional glass gobo production and warehousing for its growing lines of gel and motion effects products and accessories.

"Everyone at Apollo welcomes the additional space," states company founder and president Joel Nichols. "Not only can we expand and breathe, it will also allow us to pursue additional opportunities within the entertainment industry."

(Lee Baldock)

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UK - The British Bridal Exhibition is now firmly established as Europe's premier bridal trade show. For bridal retailers and buyers, it offers a fantastic opportunity to browse and buy from over 145 of the finest bridal manufacturers and designers across the world. It attracts over 8,000 visitors every year and takes place in Harrogate International Exhibition Centre.

Rick Lawson of Funtime AV was given the challenge of lighting the main catwalk. He explains the design of the lighting, "The brief was to build a set incorporating lighting and effects from a basic design. Our aim was to achieve balanced coverage of white light on the catwalk with a pallet of sometimes dramatic backdrops to create a very different scene for each designer in the show."

The lights used for the event were MAC 700 Profiles, MAC 550s and MAC 250 Washes and Kryptons, plus the usual PARcans an

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UK - The first Avolites Pearl Expert is on tour with Paul Weller - specified by LD Pip Rhodes. When Weller told Rhodes he wanted the show to be operated 'live', rather than pre-programmed or replayed in a cue list style, this seemed an ideal opportunity to road-test the new console, which is designed for even more flexible 'hands-on' operation than the original Pearl.

"He wanted a real authentic 'feel' thing going on with the lighting, in line with his music" explains Rhodes, who is very happy to run the show in this spontaneous manner.

Rhodes has always been an Avolites fan - and the Pearl has always been the ultimate 'live' operational desk. The start of the Weller tour coincided with the launch of the Pearl Expert which offers additional live operational features, and so Rhodes thought this was an ideal opportunity to thoroughly road test the desk.

The desk is c

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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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