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Hope

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Hope

Reading the daily paper is not only dispiriting, but also seems to be an exercise in futility. Watching the news on television is arrantly dismal, and made worse due to the overwhelmingly insipid magazine-style reporting and filler commentary by a surfeit of the so-called experts. The news is depressing enough without a slew of vapid analysts trying to make sense of the rampant senselessness and lunacy of man’s inhumanity to man as well as logically trying to explain the inexplicable enigmas that plague us on a daily basis. The mysteries I refer to are oddities such as the story of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the economy and, of course, our foreign policy, to name a few.

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QSC Realigns Euro Distribution Partnerships

QSC Realigns Euro Distribution Partnerships

COSTA MESA, CA — Following the company’s recent restructuring into global, channel-specific business units, QSC Audio Products LLC is announcing a realignment of its distribution in the UK and Germany, effective November 1, 2014. The company’s systems business unit, serving the integrated systems channel, will continue to be represented by Shure Distribution, the QSC distributor for all the company’s Pro and Systems products in the UK and Germany since 1992 and 2007 respectively.

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Diablo Digital's Brad Madix

Millennia Preamps Capture Strictly Bluegrass Festival

SAN FRANCISCO — Forty-eight channels of Millennia HV-3R preamps were used to capture the main stage performances at the recent Hardly Strictly Bluegrass event in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, October 3 through 5, 2014. Diablo Digital provided the live recording systems for the event. The company selected Millennia Media’s HV-3R preamps as the front-end.

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The Invictus Games’ five hour Jaguar Land Rover Invictus Games Closing Concert combined a celebration of medallion presentations to the wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women who competed in the Games, backed by a full concert line up with Foo Fighters headlining and supporting acts Kaiser Chiefs, Ellie Goulding, Ryan Adams, Bryan Adams, The Vamps, Rizzle Kicks and James Blunt.

Invictus Games + Proms in the Park = Big Weekend for Martin Audio MLA

LONDON — Martin Audio’s MLA (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array) PA system had its busiest weekend of the year, with two important events coinciding on both sides of London in mid-September. While Capital Sound provided 170 enclosures for Proms in the Park (Hyde Park), the closing celebrations for the inaugural Prince Harry-inspired Invictus Games also featured MLA at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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Community Reformed Church in Zeeland, MI Installs Adjacent L-Acoustics Systems

Michigan Church Installs Adjacent L-Acoustics Systems

ZEELAND, MI – Working with Parkway Communications’ Gary Zandstra, who is also a church member, Community Reformed Church here added ARCS WIDE and ARCS FOCUS to the main sanctuary and adjacent gymnasium overflow space. The system is designed to provide congregants with a sonically consistent worship experience.

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