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The main park, located just 20 minutes from the airport in the Oleri village, will reflect the culture of the area while providing "a place of escapism, enjoyment and fun" and is set to include a water park, hotels, luxurious chalets, casino, golf course, historical attractions, family entertainment centre, children's area, sports facilities, spa and retail stores. The Oleri bridge, which is currently under construction, will link the park to the main road network for ea

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Tsutomu Katoh was born in Showa-ward, Nagoya City in Japan on 28 August 1926, and after graduating from Nagoya Shogyo commercial high school in 1943, joined the navy and served among the crew of the submarine 'Koryu' (meaning dragon) during WWII.

After the war, he held a position at a trading company, and eventually went on to become the proprietor of a nightclub in the early 1960s. Tadashi Osanai, a noted Japanese accordionist, performed regularly at Katoh's club. Katoh told Osanai, who was also an engineering graduate from Japan's prestigious Tokyo Imperial University, that it would be nice to have a rhythm machine to keep the beat. Katoh and Osanai teamed up to create and market the world's first disk rotary rhythm machine. While working on the proje

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MA Lighting's managing director Michael Althaus comments: "With Glyn, we are aiming to further develop and strengthen our market position and to enter the next level of customer support."

On 22 March MA Lighting also saw the first working day for its new technical sales colleague, David Baldwin, who replaces Callum Howie. Also new to the MA UK office, Elke Kemper switched her working office from Paderborn, MA's headquarters, to London at the beginning of March to support

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Showtec will operate under its own brand-name, as a full member company of the PRG group, with Wilfried Schiefer and Ralf Richrath continuing in their present leadership roles.

Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Cologne, Germany and subsidiaries in Berlin and Munich, Showtec is a leading supplier of state-of-the-art lighting, audio, plus a broad range of LED equipment to a wide range of market segments including trade fairs and expositions, public and corporate events, concert tours and television productions.

"Showtec has an excellent reputation in the industry for maintaining the highest standards of quality for its

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The Sharp team will be part of the larger Gran Corsa d'Italia event, conceived by Sharp UK managing director and veteran fundraiser, Paul Molyneux. Overall 60 riders are taking part in the Gran Corsa, raising money for Sharp UK's official charity partner, The Prostate Cancer Charity, to fight the most common cancer in men in the UK.

However, in light of the recent devastating events in Japan and the company

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The company's ice rink installation packages have grown enormously in popularity in recent years. Venue operators range from sports arenas to local authority leisure centres and gardening centres - and, in the 2010-11 season, a stellar triple bill of the 02, the London Eye and Westfield Shopping Centre in the capital.

John Burgess, account manager in the live events department for Stage Electrics, said of the 2010-11 season, "We've developed a complete one-stop package which is very flexible in terms of the size and the site requirements, using ice rink technology that's very well proven and energy efficient, and this year it proved its worth quite spectacula

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To publicise the launch of Marie Curie Cancer Care's 2011 Great Daffodil Appeal, Black Light's events team lit the columns of the National Monument on Calton Hill and Queen Victoria's statue on the Royal Scottish Academy at the foot of the Mound. The assignment used Robe CitySkape 48's and highlighted Black Light's expertise at this kind of work, gained on projects such as Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations.

The Marie Curie illuminations generated a lot of publicity for its appeal, including a photograph in The Scotsman newspaper captioned 'Golden fun: Monument lit up for charity launch'.

"Black Light have been extremely supportive in lending us their time and expertise to help light up

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A standard EDID library is supplied or, alternatively, the user can capture, edit or create their own EDID profiles from scratch. Profiles can then be permanently saved as computer files which can be copied, emailed, archived, etc. Libraries can be imported and exported to share and manage EDID settings. Multiple Parrots are supported for devices with multiple outputs. The product is dual-link DVI-I compatible for high bandwidth digital and analogue functionality, says TMB.

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PLASA FOCUS RA-C1

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The new ROBIN MMX Spot is the first in a new generation of 1200 Series fixtures offering a neater, smaller, lighter and brighter more energy efficient package. Using the innovative Phillips MSR Platinum 35 lamp combined with a sophisticated optical system, the MMX Spot is billed as "a true equivalent of any 1200W spotlight moving head on the market today". In some features, the MMX is as bright as a 1500W spotlight and simultaneously energy saving - consuming about 30% less power than the current 1200W products.

The super-slim ROBIN 600 LEDWash is Robe's fastest selling fixture in the last 10 years. It features 37 x 10 Watt RGBW multichip LEDs each individually controllable. These are arranged in 3 concentric rings designed for cr

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Christie Nitro Solutions now offer further motorised yoke options: a dual-arm yoke for larger video projectors ranging from 12,000 to 20,000 ANSI lumens, and a single-arm yoke for projectors ranging from 5,700 to 15,000 ANSI lumens.

The company says the modular approach of Nitro Solutions expands the effectiveness of the moving yoke platform by allowing the user to deploy the yoke with either a video projector or light head. Other features include DMX512 control and a quick lock attachment system for easy set up and take down.

The Christie MicroTiles will also feature on the stand, in relevant configurations. Christie M

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the Titan Mobile, a firm LD favourite since its production launch. The Sapphire Touch is targeted for full production launch from PLASA 2011 along with V6 of Avolites' signature Titan operating system. As the next generation in the Titan brand, it is equipped with the latest technology and numerous special features that make it fit for festivals, theatre and show touring. The Sapphire Touch, adds the company, harnesses the power of 45 motorised and automated faders, massive dual touch wide screens, tricolour tracker ball with Z axis control, plus the Avo 'Quicksketch' tool to create custom palettes.

Avolites' Sales Director Steve Warren says: "We're taking the largest Avolites team to demonstrate the new version 5

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Because no cables and stands are required, this 'plug-and-play' system is designed to be quickly and easily set up and dismantled. By combining a PA and monitoring system in one, Adam Hall aim to provide the same sound experience for both audience and musician.

Andrew Richardson, Managing Director of Adam Hall UK, comments: "With its outstanding features, the exciting new Wave 28 is sure to be a winning solution for all performers. It is extremely portable and given its amazing price, represents one of the most exciting products we have released to date."

Frequency-response-based 4.1 five-way amping results, adds the company, in a clear, dynamic and balanced sound throughout the system's frequency range. The array configuration is

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The Showtec Indigo 6500 is an LED moving spot head with a 120W LED chip light source, which the company says gives similar light output to a 400W discharge lamp. The fixture features two gobo wheels, two colour wheels (one fixed and one rotating and indexable, along with iris, rotating prism, shutter and strobe functions.

An LED RGB single colour wash light, the Showtec Expression 5500 employs 38 3W RGB LEDs, giving a tight 10 degree beam with fast smooth movement. The unit also offers Dim4 technology to provide a dimming curve like that of a halogen lamp, and includes pre-programmed colour temperatures.

The Expression 550's big brother, the Expression 33000 Zoom has a wide zoom function from 8 degree to 40

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On display will be the latest Apex NEO XD wedges from Radian, including the Apex NEO 1200XD & 1500XD. These two-way monitors use Radian high-powered Neodymium coaxial 12" & 15" speakers respectively, with 3"diaphragms and 2" exit compression drivers. Including new XD technology, LMC says the new monitors yield a very high quality frequency response, adding that they are designed for live and installed sound applications that require a high performance, portable monitor system solution.

In addition, a selection of Radian Audio diaphragms will be on display. Designed and manufactured to have equivalent or better performance than the original, state LMC, these diaphragms are available for a wide variety of JBL compression drivers.

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The stand (S-A11) will have multiple Si Compact consoles for visitors to experience with specialists from both Sound Technology and Soundcraft on hand to demonstrate the desks.

The Vi1 console, now well established in venues and the hire stock of the UK's leading PA rental companies, will also feature on the stand.

Positioned as the digital mixing solution for all sizes of sound company or user, the Si Compact Series brings all the experience of Soundcraft's digital mixing platforms to a very affordable price level for tour sound, corporate event, house of worship and theatre applications, amongst others.

With full DSP functionality built-in to a small-footprint c

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At PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011, Nicolaudie Group will launch what it calls "the dimmer switch of the 21st century", in the shape of its brand new range of DMX touch sensitive controllers, the Nicolaudie STICK2, LumiDesk Touch and Daslight Pad, with sleek, glass-fronted designs.

The controllers feature 128 DMX channels and come preloaded with RGB effects. The top button allows for the unit to be switched on and off. The Dimmer, Color and Scene selection can be made using the left and right arrow buttons, and effects can be quickly modified with the easy to use included control software.

PLASA FOCUS S-E8

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The Event Backdrape system has been specifically designed, says Maltbury, "to transform a simple venue into a sophisticated and beautiful area on a budget". Event Backdrape comes with shimmering ivory drapes, suiting it to backdrops for weddings, parties and other special events. The Event Backdrape can b

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A database-driven resource for videos from across the industry, the LSi Video Hub aims to become a one-stop location for LSi Online's 20,000+ global audience to source and view industry-related video content. Visitors to the site can search by category, tag and keyword to refine their searches.

Beginning with almost 100 videos, the site will grow as more companies put their video content directly in front of LSi's regular online audience. With more than 20,000 regular users making an average of 240,000 page requests at LSi Online each month, and a wide-ranging global appeal, LSi Online is ideally placed to present video resources for product training, demo

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Pop Music - Pet Shop Boys have been confirmed as the main support for Take That's record-breaking summer Progress tour. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe will join the reformed boy band for the series of gigs starting on 27 May in Sunderland. Pet Shop Boy

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Despite an energetic and high profile campaign co-ordinated by BEIRG (British Entertainment Industry Radio Group, whose sponsors include many leading pro audio manufacturers and PLASA) and the Save Our Sound Campaign, the impending changes in frequency allocations are set to lead to a vast proportion of wireless equipment currently in use becoming redundant. Meanwhile, the Government's proposed compensation for this has been denounced as both inadequate and over-complicated, with the need to provide proof of ownership a particularly thorny issue.

With London 2012 and the digital switchover itself rapidly approaching, the im

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PLDA UK co-ordinator Sarah Adams approached ACSP's managing director Peter Keiderling to ask if the company would be willing to stage a Workshop for its members. After consulting PLDA member and former president, Paul Traynor of Light Bureau, who suggested that control would be a topic of much interest to the members, this set the theme for what turned out to be a somewhat cold but enjoyable evening at Somerset House.

Traynor contacted Somerset House director Gwyn Miles and lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe - who the company had worked with on providing the architectural lighting scheme for the venue's Edmond J Safra Fountain Court - to request permission to use the ins

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The Redback Wallmount Dimmer was first shown in prototype at PLASA last year and is now in full production. Sporting a new colour LCD touch screen display, these new units offer world class performance including 6,12 and 24 channels models, RDM and the option of mixing relay channels and dimmers in the same package.

To supplement the Redback Wallmount units, LSC are also showing for the first time anywhere, the new Redback control plates for architectural control. These plates interface simply to a Redback Wallmount unit and come in single, two or six button varieties. Within the Redback these plates can be configured to

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Adapted to standard entertainment mounting and rigging systems, Mobile Air Wall enables an exhibitor to create a quality meeting space in noisy environments like tradeshows.

Mobile Air Wall is the latest addition to Event Acoustics' range of sound isolation solutions, which includes the TexLNT sheep wool baffles that have been deployed to great effect at venues such as the Ahoy in Rotterdam for the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Designed to be hung from standard entertainment mounting and rigging systems, Mobile Air Wall enables an exhibi

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The I-Motion Basic S show controller is recommended for setups with up to 60 drives. It offers the comfortable control and operation of all systems involving D8, D8 Plus and C1 drives at both fixed and variable speeds as well as supporting mixed configurations of all kinds. Depending upon the drives and controllers used, entire systems can be realized from SIL1 to SIL3. The option also exists of integrating existing drives and other stage machinery.

The controller corresponds in its basic