ROGERS, AR – Russell Mears, an AV coordinator for Swank Audio Visual, recently returned from overseas active duty with the Air National Guard. He so grateful for the support that he and his family received while deployed that he nominated Swank AV for The Freedom Award, the highest recognition given by the U.S. Government to employers of Guard and Reserve service members.
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BELFAST – Production Services Ireland has noted that its latest round of three 2-day Rigging Awareness Training courses were completely sold out. They were held at PSI's Belfast HQ, where an area of the warehouse has been designated, complete with a full training truss structure set up.
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Osram Opto Semiconductors' compact Multi ChipLEDs, now being built into new 150-inch-diagonal LED video displays offered by FormoLight Technologies Inc., are the smallest RGB LEDs currently available (1.6 mm x 1.6 mm and 0.9 mm thick).
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PAYNESVILLE, MN – Intermedia Systems Group provided a complete AV system for Grace United Methodist Church that included high definition video displays, a Vaddio HD PTZ remotely controlled camera system and a digital audio system to back it all up.
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REDWOOD CITY, CA – In the last several years Shinnyo-en Buddhists have conducted the Saisho Homa fire rite ceremony in Taiwan, Paris and Berlin. This year, the prayer ceremony for world peace was brought to the U.S. for the first time and documented by Gorilla Production Group with AV technical support from Video Applications Inc. (VAI).
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ORLANDO – J. Thor Productions, Inc. and Jacobs Incentive Travel teamed up to support an annual event attended about 300 executives associated with The Melting Pot Restaurants chain.
Read More »WINTER PARK, FL – Full Sail University has expanded its media server curriculum recently and acquired an assortment of Hippotizer media servers to give its entertainment technology students hands-on experience. The new gear includes seven GrassHopper media servers, five ZooKeeper software packages and one Hippotizer HD unit.
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LONDON – It may have been the 10th consecutive year that XL Video has provided support for the Brit Awards, but the 2011 edition was anything but the same-old same-old.
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NASHVILLE, TN – Christie Lites named Steven "Creech" Anderson, a 30-year industry veteran, account executive. Based in Brentwood, TN, near Nashville, Anderson also coordinates with Christie Lites staff at the company's 11 locations across North America to support the needs of concert touring clients.
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BERLIN – LD Markus Weitkamp is gearing up for the 2011 touring season for Circus Roncalli with newly-purchased Robe Robin LEDWash 600 moving lights. Weitkamp acquired the fixtures just prior to the circus' seventh annual Christmas series of shows, which were staged at the Tempodrom Möckernstrasse.
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LONDON – The First Night Riders, a group of motorbike riding theatre professionals and their friends, will don their leathers and helmets to raise funds for The Theatrical Guild (TTG) once again in 2011.
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FREDRIKSTAD, Norway – Projectiondesign named Åsmund O. Fodstad executive vice president. Fodstad has 15 years of sales, marketing, management and operations experience in the energy, software and telecom industries. His previous positions include vice president of Asia Pacific at Tandberg (now being merged with Cisco); senior vice president, sales & marketing at REC Solar AS; and managing director with the Norwegian CRM software company, SuperOffice AS.
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