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support) led a tour around the facility and gave a presentation about how it came to be set up, including his dealings with the various local


Here’s another item of InfoComm-related ramblings that we didn’t have space for last month. The Midas PRO1 console was launched to a select group of press and customers at parent company the Music Group’s new HQ in Las Vegas. Jay Easley (associate VP, customer


You can buy pretty much anything at airports these days, can’t you? Not just the traditional duty-free staples of cigarettes, alcohol and perfume; in a modern airport you can purchase goods from laptops and smoked salmon to giant teddy bears and posh pens. So, when a female friend of Installationwas passing through Heathrow Terminal 5 – you know, the nice modern one that everyone raves about


authorities in Clark County. One thing he didn’t mention, but which was on display in the window in the reception area, was a licence (cost $25) allowing the company to store… household appliances. Could it be that someone had in mind the wrong kind of mixer?


– she thought she would have no difficulty stocking up on underwear. But she was wrong. After walking the full length of the terminal, she had to compromise by buying a bikini. Why has such a situation come about? I think we should be told. (Incidentally, we can report from personal experience that men who find themselves in a similar predicament can purchase underwear at Jack Wills…)


Clocks indicating the time in a company’s different offices around the world are a common enough sight – but surely there can only be one company that resides in these three locations. No prizes for guessing which one it is…


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Here’s another picture from the rather impressive ‘Big O’ installation at the World Expo in Yeosu, South Korea (see News, page 4). We don’t suppose this face is meant to look like anyone


we know, but it’s nagging at us rather. Recently knighted lyricist and musician Richard Stilgoe? Country singing legend Kenny Rogers? Jesus? Suggestions welcome.


For ISE’s press conference about its 2013 event, the press corps were accommodated at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, on Amsterdam’s George Gershwinlaan. The Gershwin theme is extended through the hotel, with photos and posters relating to the composer (and his lyricist brother Ira – including a


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photo of the two of them sitting at a piano with Fred Astaire). We don’t have a picture of that, but here’s a slightly artistic shot (we think, anyway) taken looking down the hotel stairwell. In fact Gershwin isn’t the only composer to have lent their name to a street in this part of town. Nearby there are also ‘laans’ or ‘straats’ bearing the names of Mahler, Copland, Schonberg, Britten and Debussy, as well as Dutch composers Leo Smit and Peter Schat. I wonder who the person is – from any walk of life – to have the most streets named after them in the world?


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