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WorldStage Supplies Adobe Summit

SALT LAKE CITY – WorldStage supported keynote presentations during the recent Adobe Summit: The Digital Marketing Conference. The Kenwood Group hired WorldStage to provide Adobe with a full complement of audio and video services for the Keynote Room.  There, four “acts,” each 90-120 minutes long, played out with attention-grabbing visuals on mammoth screens supporting a roster of speakers and a number of different product demos.

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Heather Marie Short

XSF Expands Sales Team

SULPHUR SPRINGS, TX – Xtreme Structures and Fabrication (XSF) has expanded its sales team with the addition of Heather Marie Short and Billy Phillips. Short’s entertainment industry background includes a stint with Tomcat USA. Phillips has worked for Tomcat as well, along with Texas Scenic and Phillips Rigging.

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Michele Hessman-Ross and Stuart Ross

In Memoriam: Michele Hessman-Ross, 48

LOS ANGELES — Michele Hessman-Ross, wife of Stuart Ross, died April 17 after a long battle with cancer. Stuart Ross, with Red Light Management, is a founding member of the Event Safety Alliance (ESA). He noted that Michele and he were at Michele’s sister’s house in Stow, OH when she died. Michele and Stuart are pictured here at their wedding, on March 29.

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ANSI Documents Now Available as Free Download

NEW YORK — ProSight Specialty Insurance and PLASA are working together to make industry standards normally accessible as a fee-based PDF download from the ANSI web store available at no charge. The program is offered in a bid to boost industry knowledge and safety.

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Regal Entertainment Group's conference

Bandit ‘Crowns’ Regal Entertainment Conference

KNOXVILLE, TN – Movie theatre company Regal Entertainment Group recently held its General Manager Conference at the Knoxville Convention Center. Bandit Lites supplied lighting for the three-day event. One of the challenges was creating different looks for each meal – breakfast, lunch and dinner – all taking place in the same room.

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Symantic booth

Riverview Systems First to Use UDC Timecode

LAKE ORION, MI – Corporate event production company Riverview Systems Group Inc. of Milpitas, CA, was the first company to use UDC Timecode, a new feature in the Protocol Translation portion of High Resolution Systems’ UDC Pro Plus package.  UDC Timecode enables users of the UDC (Universal Device Controller) software to sync with external timecode or turn UDC in to a timecode generator itself. The product made its debut at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco for Riverview’s client, Symantec.

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8mm outdoor LED

CT Stocks Up on 8mm Outdoor LED Product

LONDON – Creative Technology (CT) will be the first customer to take delivery of the new 8mm outdoor LED product recently launched by Barco’s specialist LED division, LiveDots. The C8 investment follows CT’s introduction of the C5 and specially developed C16 as its mainstream indoor LED platform in early 2012. The new product is expected to arrive at CT in May. It is expected to be put into service soon afterward at key sports events.

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Sharpy Wash 330

Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330

Clay Paky’s Sharpy Wash starts with Philips’ MSD Platinum 16R 330W lamp as a light source and adds features including a CMY color system, color wheel, mechanical dimmer, rotating beam-shaper, motorized top-hat and 6.5°-48° zoom. It also offers two frost filter choices, a Fresnel lens and speed of movement comparable to the original Sharpy. The light source produces 16,000 lumens of output in the 8,000K color temperature range and the fixture operates at 550W as a whole.

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Elation EZ6

Elation EZ6

LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional’s EZ6 is a high-resolution 6mm indoor LED video display panel. Its light weight and modular quick assembly make it suited for visual displays at nightclubs, concert venues, live stages, exhibit halls and public spaces. It features 6mm pixel pitch, 1,800-nit brightness and 960 Hz refresh rate, producing high-definition graphics, text, logos or images. Panels may be linked together and can be floor or wall-mounted.

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Max Hamilton

Stage Crew Expands Financial Team

LAS VEGAS – Because of its growth and volume of business, Stage Crew’s financial staff has expanded with the promotion of Max Hamilton as account manager. Hamilton, with the company for five years since its start-up, was formerly its director of finance. He will now provide more hands-on supervision for the clients’ objectives. Prior to joining Stage Crew, Hamilton was a retired Las Vegas hotel executive with more than 30 years of experience.

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