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Designing for the MDA Telethon; Gambling on Casino LDs; Quick Cues

ABC’s MDA Show of Strength aired as a two-hour special Aug. 31. Photo by Design Partners

Designing for the MDA Telethon; Gambling on Casino LDs; Quick Cues

Children in wheelchairs not only have special needs, they need special design consideration when they’re part of a show. Getting them in and out of the audience, getting them onto the stage requires ramps, elevators and other accessibility features. While the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has recently swept social media to raise funds for ALS, the MDA Telethon has been raising money for ALS, muscular dystrophy and other neuro-related diseases since 1966, traditionally during Labor Day weekend.

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Illustration by Andy Au

Taking What They’re Giving

I successfully spent the summer as a fill-in LD. Running shows for various friends who couldn’t cover their own gigs during a particular time period. The size or particulars of the gig don’t really matter to me. What I found amazing was this turn-around cycle I am experiencing. Many of my friends that I had hired at some point during their careers were suddenly calling me up, looking for somebody to cover for them. This is nothing new, except this summer I took these gigs myself.

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Screen shots from the Nemetscheck (above) and Bluebeam (below) website home pages

Nemetschek AG Acquires Bluebeam

COLUMBIA, MD — Nemetschek AG, corporate parent to Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., announced that it will acquire 100 percent of Bluebeam Software, Inc., headquartered in Pasadena, CA. Bluebeam is a leading provider of PDF-based workflow solutions for digital processes and collaboration in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry with more than 650,000 users worldwide.

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Seventh Knight of Illumination Awards Winners Announced

Seventh Knight of Illumination Awards Winners Announced

LONDON — The seventh Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI), held at the at the Troxy Theatre here on Oct. 5, honored the creative achievements of lighting and video professionals working on shows across the U.K. The awards, organized by The Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), Clay Paky and Ambersphere Solutions, included touring, television and theatrical lighting and video design categories. LD Mark Jonathan served as host at the event.

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Ed Pink Racing Engines, an auto racing engine building, rebuilding, testing, design and development facility based in Van Nuys, CA, updated their previous lighting system with 13 LED high-bay luminaires fro LEDtronics. The new system, comparably brigh to the one it replaced, uses only a fraction of the energy. Pictured here, a before (left) and after (right) look at the facility.

Auto Racing Engine Shop Installs LEDtronics’ LED Luminaires

VAN NUYS, CA — Ed Pink Racing Engines, an auto racing engine building, rebuilding, testing, design and development facility based here, updated their previous lighting system with 13 LED high-bay luminaires fro LEDtronics. The new system, comparably brigh to the one it replaced, uses only a fraction of the energy. RTM Lighting & Electronics oversaw the installation.Pictured here is a before (left) and after (right) look at the facility.

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NFL Eagles’ Home Stadium Relies On Click Effects, Vista Systems Spyder for Smooth Flow of Digital Content

NFL Eagles’ Home Stadium Relies On Click Effects, Vista Systems Spyder for Digital Visuals

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Lincoln Financial Field, home of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, is one of the sports venues that have been turning to Click Effects for their digital content delivery system. Click Effects, a division of Nashville-based Sound & Video Creations, has been relying, in turn, upon Vista Systems’ Spyder for live multiple-destination video and data mixed signal switching with real-time windowing and composition.

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LumenRadio Names Lars Fabian Paape Senior Research Engineer

LumenRadio Names Lars Fabian Paape Senior Research Engineer

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — LumenRadio named Lars Fabian Paape to the company’s R&D team. Paape, who founded his own consulting company in 1998 and has worked ever since in the scientific field of mass spectrometry developing data evaluation algorithms for Thermo Fisher Scientific, will now serve as LumenRadio’s senior research engineer.

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