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Welcome to the IFEA's Event Insider-your location for up to date news in the festivals & events industry.
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Register Star Exclusive: On the Waterfront festival ends its run
Rockford Register Star
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On the Waterfront is no more. The group that staged Rockford, Ill.’s largest music bash in downtown Rockford for 29 years is $344,000 in debt. The board of directors of On the Waterfront Inc. decided in late November that it no longer could afford to stage the festival, Tom Walsh, chairman of the board and president of Northwest Bank of Rockford, told the Register Star.
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Music festivals are ripe for hacking
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Have you been to a music festival in the past 10 years? If you have, I'm sure that even while you were having a great time with your friends, at some point you likely suffered one of the many pains of the experience. Whether it was shoddy cell signal, the inability to find your friends, long lines or scheduling mishaps, one of your days at the festival (usually the first), was open for betterment. That is, of course, if you were even sober enough to notice.
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London 2012 — final sustainability report details successes and learnings from hosting the Games
Event Industry News
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London 2012 has published its Post-Games Sustainability Report, presenting results and highlighting the key learnings, from integrating a sustainability program in the world's largest event. The report is intended as a resource and knowledge transfer tool to help future Olympic and Paralympic Games and global events organizers embed sustainability into event planning.
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Fireworks done in proximity to people or objects for stage or screen productions. Experts and unique needs and conditions for safe and impressive effects.
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Helium balloons could cause world shortage, claims British chemist
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Helium balloons may add a certain festive touch to parties — but a British scientist claims that the decorations could potentially set off a world helium shortage. That's considerably less fun. Helium has a wide range of scientific applications, including slowing down atoms, running super-cool refrigerators and conducting MRI scans. It's often mixed with oxygen in hospitals to make it easier for extremely sick patients and newborns to breathe, says the Telegraph — among many other crucial applications.
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Bankrupt Kodak ending Disneyland sponsorship
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Kodak — one of three remaining founding sponsors of Disneyland — is ending its advertising at the theme park when this year comes to a close. For decades, at Disneyland and then at California Adventure, the company sponsored "Picture Spots" — locations worthy of snapping Kodak moments. And that wasn't all.
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Increasingly affected by adverse weather, Julie's Bicycle survey finds UK festivals consider weather now an essential part of planning process
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With 57 percent of festivals claiming weather worse than last year, 77 percent list extreme conditions as essential part of contingency planning to prevent the loss in ticket and bar sales and poor audience experience seen this summer. After starting the year facing a severe drought, the U.K.'s summer 2012 turned out to be the wettest on record in a century. This summer rainfall was 370.7 mm compared to a typical summer rainfall of 226.9mm — 60 percent higher than average. With this in mind, Julie's Bicycle, a not for profit working on sustainability within the creative industries, surveyed thirty seven festivals and outdoor events taking place across the U.K. in the summer of 2012.
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Despite closing, Ichthus Festival legacy lives on with those who attended
Lexington Herald-Leader
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There really wasn't supposed to be a second Ichthus Festival. As Judy Lyon, widow of festival founder Bob Lyon, and her sons remember it, the only reason there was a second festival was that they made some money on the first one in 1970 and didn't know what to do with it. So they had another one.
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Related Story: Ichthus Festival organizers prepare to sell equipment, other assets to pay debt (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games security cost up 200 percent
BBC News
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The Scottish government said additional costs have been identified following a review of the 2012 London Olympics. It will add £37.7 million to the current £27.2 million budget, with an extra £25.1 million coming from the contingency budget. The extra cash will be spent on securing the athletes' village, hotels and training venues and providing additional CCTV and perimeter fencing.
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Olympics and Jubilee 'boost international opinion of UK'
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The Olympics, Paralympics and Diamond Jubilee have improved how the U.K. is viewed by other countries, a survey for the British Council has found. About two-thirds of 9,000 adults polled in 11 countries said Britain had done a good job of running the Games and 44 percent said it had a greater world influence. A third of people said the Games had made them more likely to visit the U.K.
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X Games Real Series expands
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X Games announced the addition of three new disciplines to its Real Series, the all-video medal events featured in tandem with each of the on-site action-sports competitions. Along with the global expansion of the X Games, for which three new international events — in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, Munich and Barcelona — will be staged in 2013, Real Ski Backcountry, Real Surf and Real Women will join the current lineup of Real Street, Real Snow and Real Snow Backcountry as medal events at X Games in 2013.
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