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Scott Johnson, President and CEO, Tomcat

Tomcat Names Scott Johnson President, Will Todd COO

KNOXVILLE, TN — Milos Group’s Tomcat subsidiary named Scott Johnson president/CEO. Johnson joined Tomcat in 2011 as a project manager before being promoted to VP of Design. Prior to Tomcat, Johnson served 11 years at James Thomas Engineering. He takes over for Mike Garl. Will Todd, who had been named a project manager for the company in 2000 and has served for the last five years as product support manager, was named COO.

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LA ProPoint provided the 23-foot steel wheel that the protagonist is strapped to during much of

“Prometheus Bound” Features Giant Wheel from LA ProPoint

MALIBU, CA — The staging focal point for Prometheus Bound, which is being performed through Sept. 28, 2013 at the Getty Villa here by the CalArts Center for New Performance and Trans Arts Production, is undeniably the colossal 23-foot steel wheel that the protagonist is strapped to during much of the show. LA ProPoint provided the wheel for the production.

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Pete's Big TVs is providing all the LED visual elements. Photo: Matt Ellar

Million Second Quiz Counts on Pete’s Big TVs

NEW YORK – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs is supplying the set of NBC’s new prime time interactive TV game show, The Million Second Quiz, with a multitude of broadcast-quality video screens, flexible digital signage, monitors and a video crew. Premiering Sept. 9, the show clock runs the competition for one million seconds nonstop until Sept. 19.

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Concerts Canceled by Flooding in Colorado, Drug Fears in the East

DENVER — Mother Nature issued a wallop to Colorado’s Front Range, pounding many communities with more than half their usual annual rainfall in the span of just a few days in mid-September. With some roads blocked by rock slides or washed out completely, some late-summer outdoor events were postponed or canceled. Affected venues included Mishawaka Amphitheatre, northwest of Fort Collins, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO. In the East, a different scourge — a drug called Molly — canceled some EDM concerts.

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