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Chainmaster Gear Handling Heavy Lifting at Winter Olympics Venues

Bolshoy Ice Dome

Chainmaster Gear Handling Heavy Lifting at Winter Olympics Venues

SOCHI, Russia — Several venues to be used Feb. 7-23 for the 2014 Winter Olympics have been equipped with hoists made by Chainmaster. Among the largest: the Bolshoy Ice Dome (pictured here) and the Iceberg Skating Palace, each of which can accommodate 12,000 spectators. Chainmaster, based in Eilenburg, Germany, has been active in Russia and its neighboring countries since 1998. The company opened its Chainmaster Consulting Office Russia in 2004.

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Impact NYE Concert Rig Includes Chauvet Professional Gear

Impact NYE Concert Rig Includes Chauvet Professional Gear

NASHVILLE, TN — For the five-hour Impact New Year’s Eve concert, which took place at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena and featured a lineup of well-known faith-based artists, LD Mark Carver included 8 Legend 230SR Beams from Chauvet Professional in the rig. The event was also featured at churches and youth centers as a streaming broadcast.

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a 70-minute set for a special New Year’s Eve VIP Party that MGM Grand staged for high-rolling guests Dec. 31. Photo by Carrie Fedewa/Amazing Industries.

Robe Rocks New Year in Las Vegas with Fleetwood Mac, Maroon 5

LAS VEGAS — Fleetwood Mac and Maroon 5 were among the standout acts on hand in Las Vegas to help ring in the New Year. VER provided Robe fixtures for both gigs, at the MGM Grand Casino and Mandalay Bay Resort Events Center, respectively, including Robin Pointes, LEDWash 1200s and LEDWash 600s. Fleetwood Mac performed its regular touring show Dec. 30 and a 70-minute set for a special New Year’s Eve VIP Party that MGM Grand staged for high-rolling guests Dec. 31.

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ADJ Monster Beam RGBWA Fixtures

ADJ Monster Beam RGBWA Fixtures

ADJ’s new, higher-powered Monster Beam 25W LED Moonflower fixture promises thicker beams in red, green, blue, white and now amber. In all, there are 25 LEDs: 5 red, 5 green 5 blue, 5 white and now 5 amber. Each LED uses a powerful 1-Watt source. All LEDs are rated for 50,000 hours of use.

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PLSN Editor Justin Lang

101 Resolutions, 1001 Days

Welcome to 2014! I trust that everyone had a wonderful holiday season and kicked off the New Year in style, working or not. Every New Year, people make resolutions, usually by picking one bad habit or quirk that they want to change. It makes sense: a New Year, a New You.

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Set designer John Lee Beatty and LD Japhy Weideman collaborated to bring Sharr White’s script to life.

The Snow Geese: Inside Looking Out

After years of focusing on her hit cable TV series Weeds, the talented Mary-Louise Parker returned to the Broadway stage last fall in The Snow Geese, a dramatic tale of a family fraying at the seams. While gathering for their annual shooting party to mark the start of hunting season, the family copes with the death of their patriarch, their dwindling financial resources, and rising tensions with a German couple staying with them during WWI, for which the eldest son is soon to be deployed overseas.

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Fleetwood Mac 2013 LIVE tour photo by Steve Jennings

Fleetwood Mac LIVE Tour

Fleetwood Mac’s 2013 Live tour, marking the 35th anniversary of the release of Rumours, combined the talents of original band members Mick Fleetwood and John McVie — the “Fleetwood” and “Mac” namesakes for the band’s formation in 1967 — with those of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who joined the band in 1975.

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Level 2 Nightclub in Harrisburg, PA

Level 2 Nightclub in Harrisburg, PA

It does not take a large budget or ambitious design to revitalize a local lounge into a dynamic new space. It just takes ingenuity and know-how. A case in point: Ian Hoffer’s transformation of the interior look for the Level 2 nightclub in Harrisburg, PA. “It’s an upscale restaurant and lounge,” he tells PLSN. “But it just had gotten stale and needed a fresh look.”

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Grand Central Terminal architectural lighting installation

Marking 100 Years at Grand Central Terminal

To mark 100 years and celebrate the holiday season, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)’s Metro-North Railroad subsidiary and partner Toshiba contracted with designer Michiru Tanaka and Babylon, NY-based Bestek Lighting & Staging, Inc. to add a festive seasonal touch to the west side windows of the Main Concourse at Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Bestek handled engineering, custom hardware, installation labor, programming, technical direction and logistics for the project, and the company’s president, Van Allen Rice, served as project manager onsite.

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Justin Timberlake 20/20 tour photo by Ralph Larmann

Justin Timberlake 20/20 Experience World Tour

Well beyond his boy band days in ‘N Sync, actor/singer/dancer Justin Timberlake has emerged as one of the most versatile stars of his generation. Following a nearly six-year hiatus from music to focus on his acting career, Timberlake was back in the studio and on stage in a big way in 2013 with two album releases and two high-profile tours.

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Vickie Claiborne

Edge Blending with Media Servers

As media servers evolve, many are adding features that until recently have been reserved for separate, dedicated hardware packages. Creating a video blend is one of these features that typically has been reserved for display presentation switching systems like the Barco Encore, Dataton Watchout or Vista Spyder. These types of switchers allow you to combine multiple displays together to increase the total resolution possible for the image being displayed.

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