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New Nonprofit: Institute for Feedback Excellence

We received a press release on the announcement of a new Nonprofit organization called the Institute for Feedback Excellence.  The Institute was organized by join ventures from Enttec, Martin Professional and Wybron to Harmonize the use of feedback protocols in entertainment lighting.  The IFE was established to standardize the RDM or Remote Device Management protocol [...]

Education & Labor Committee Hearing Review

Yesterdays we covered the Education and Labor Committee Hearing on “The Economic and Employment Impact of the Arts and Music Industry“. Today we have a recap of what was said at the hearing. The hearing was held to examine how the economy is affecting jobs in the arts and music industry and the roles these [...]

Committee Hearing Live Feed

An update from yesterdays post about the House Committee hearing on Economic and Employment Impact on the Industry. The hearing is still underway at the Rayburn building in Washington, DC.  You can watch the hearing live via the internet by clicking here.  We will have a recap of the hearing later today. The image to [...]

Committee Hearing on Economic and Employment Impact on the Industry

We received a message today that tomorrow, March 26th, the House Committee on Education and Labor, lead by Chairman George Miller (D) Cal., will be holding a hearing on “The Economic and Employment Impact of the Arts and Music Industry” at 10am in the Rayburn office building in Washington, DC.  The Committee is holding this [...]

Update: Help the Arts With The Stimilus Bill

We have received more information regarding how to respond to the stimulus bill that can effect the arts. A good friend of iSquint have put together a listing of each of the members of the senate that will overlook the final version of the bill before it goes to President Obama for his signature or [...]

Update: No Funds for the Arts in the Stimulus Bill

We recently received a message for a friend within the industry about the situation that the Arts are in with regards to the Stimulus bill laid out by congress. Please read the entire message and let your voice be heard about how this bill can harm, not help our industry. On Tuesday afternoon the US [...]

Campaign Defends Funds for Arts in Stimulus Package

This past week we wrote about Sentor Tom Coburn (R-OK) introducing an amendment to the $800+ billion stimulus package before Congress that would deny any “community park, museum, theater” or “arts center” from receiving any money to use for “renovation, remodeling, construction, salaries, furniture” or “rotating pastel lights,” among other items. The amendment, introduced before [...]

Senate Amendment to Bar Entertainment Industry From Any Economic Recovery Funds

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has introduced an amendment to prohibit any funds in the economic stimulus bill from going to museums, casinos, aquariums, theaters, art centers. As such, it thus would bar from Federal Economic Recovery funding many potential projects that would create jobs for our members, invest in lasting products, and support the cultural [...]

Wybron Issues Tech Bulletin

Wybron issued a Technical Bulletin today regarding the circuit boards on the Coloram IT, CXI IT as well as the all weather-resistant counterparts, the Aquaram IT and the Mariner IT.  All new units shipped from Wybron are now being built without an RFID board, but instead they are being built with a new main circuit [...]

ETC Warns about unlicensed HPL lamps

In a recent press release from Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC), they warn end users about using cheap Chinese knock off’s of the HPL lamp with in the source four fixture. Recently, an unlicensed, six-filament Chinese-made lamp has appeared in the U.S., marketed as an HPL source. One distributor is advertising this lamp under the name [...]