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USA - Martin US has already logged hundreds of miles on the first leg of its 2011 Engineered for the Eye road show and has thousands of miles and months to go.

The 2011 road show includes a newly revamped truck and trailer full of the latest Martin Professional dynamic lighting and visual effects products for the entertainment, commercial and architectural lighting markets.

Over the next several months, the Engineered for the Eye road show will cover an impressive 15,000 miles while hosting some 110 events in 33 cities. As a first, the schedule also includes stops in Canada.

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Mexico - Keeping alive the Doors spirit, two of its original members Robby Krieger and Ray Manzareck, are still active and touring under the name of Ray Manzareck and Bobby Krieger of The Doors.

When The Doors were visiting Mexico on their Latin America concert tour, one of the dates was at the Art Palace in Morelia, Michoacan, where the company Soundset Productions was in charge of the production and supplied the event with a large scale RCF TT+ System supported by Mexican RCF distributor Hermes.

Professional advice was provided by RCF product specialist Oscar Mora and local sound

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USA - Located in New York's Broadway Theatre district, the New Victory Theatre has installed a Midas PRO3 live audio system. New York's oldest working theatre, The New Victory was built in 1900 by Oscar Hammerstein and seats 499 patrons in a traditional proscenium style layout. Reopened in 1995 after a period of non-activity, the venue is the city's first and only full-time performing arts theatre for kids and their families.

"After 15 years, it was time for us to update our systems and enter the 21st century," states David Jensen, director of production for New 42nd Street

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UAE - A major service provider throughout the GCC countries, Dubai-based Resources Stage Technologies (RST) have boosted their inventory of Christie projectors, with the purchase of four Roadie HD+35K 1080 HD DLP devices.

With a sister company, Wide Angle Production, operating from Beirut, the company collectively services events throughout the UAE, as well as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria and Jordan.

Specialists in large-scale events, RST has been buying Christie products on a regular basis for the past five years and already owned a Roadie HD25K and HD

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Fraud Busters - Two of the biggest live event organisers in the UK have agreed to a police idea to protect people from fraudulent ticket websites. Festival Republic and Live Nation will send out tickets as soon as possible, rather than waiting, sometimes for six months, until just before performances. Police say the delay makes it difficult to prove fake sites did not have the tickets to sell in the first place. The National Fraud Authority says £168m is lost annually through ticket scams.

Genuine ticket sellers claim the delay in sending out tickets is meant to limit the time c

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