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W2 vs. 1099

W2 vs. 1099

By the time you’re reading this, you’re already deep in to prepping your information to ship off to the accountant in anticipation of April 15. But there’s a big change that took place last year regarding one of the trickiest aspects of tax law, and it’s one that affects those in the staging business directly.

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Tools of the Trade

Working as an automated lighting programmer, there are many tools that have been extremely useful to me over the years.  Of course, the very nature of my job is to work with technology, including computers, consoles and automated lights.  As technology evolves, the tools I carry with me continue to change.  However, there are some essential tools that I always have with me on every gig.  The use and maintenance of these tools helps me to achieve top-quality lighting programming.

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Dale Doucette

An LD with Heart; Beach Boys Crew Reunion; Not His First Rodeo; Quick Cues and More

An LD with Heart

On Feb. 19, Dale Doucette was just days away from the start of Heart’s 2012 tour as their lighting and set designer. But he had his own event to run. On this night, he was in charge of a separate benefit concert that he conceptualized and organized to benefit Vermont’s Wilmington Memorial Hall, damaged in the floods of Tropical Storm Irene last August.

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Illustration by Andy Au

An LD and His iPad

My wife was concerned that our three-year-old wants to spend all his time with the iPad. Then I mentioned that someone told me the first word spoken by his 18-month-old daughter most mornings is “iPad.” I don’t know right from wrong when it comes to kids and mobile devices. But I do know that if we are playing with a toy and I get an important business call, I can hand my child the iPad and he will stop whining immediately.

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Daktronics handheld maintenance pendant

Daktronics Control Pendant

Daktronics’ new maintenance and limit-testing pendant, which works with the company’s Pro Series control system, responds to user requests for a convenient way to prove during commissioning that hoists stop in the correct position. The handheld pendant verifies that there are fewer than six inches between the normal hard struck limit switch and the hard ultimate overtravel limit switch, according to rigging operations manager Dave Rossi, who calls this “a huge advantage during commissioning.” The pendant will be featured at Daktronics’ USITT booth #770.

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Elektralite LED Pancake fixtures

Dorsett Uses Elektralite LEDs for Indoor/Outdoor Corporate Event

Farmingdale, NY — Dorsett Productions handled the holiday event for a Mississippi vessel builder at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center. Dorsett used a number of Elektralite fixtures to light the interior party area as well as the exterior – including the shipyard doors of its corporate headquarters across the Mississippi River from the convention center.

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