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The inaugural Blohk Party can put the city firmly on the international music festival map, writes Charley Lanyon
MUSIC FESTIVALS ARE HARDLY new to Asia, but in recent years Hong Kong has had to watch as the music scenes in other cities - Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo, to name a few - have passed us by. Asian cities are hosting more festivals, with bigger names and larger turnouts than ever before. With the exception of Clockenflap, our home-grown event that in six years has put us on the global music festival map, Hong Kong has long been behind the trend. Now another festival, Blohk Party, hopes to change all that.
Blohk Party, the brainchild of concert producer Alex Ng and fashion and lifestyle entrepreneur Kevin Poon, wears its Hong Kong identity proudly - note the HK in its name. Ng says the idea is to "bring a New York block party" to Hong Kong. "I've spent a lot of time in Manhattan and I see a lot of similarities with Hong Kong. It's an urban thing. We're not Glastonbury."
Ng, who has more than 20 years' experience in producing concerts in Asia, handled the logistics - a task made easier because she is also producing Clockenflap the weekend before, so she can use some of that festival's infrastructure for Blohk Party - and Poon used his considerable industry connections to entice big names.
Ng first reached out to her friend Pharrell Williams. Williams is a busy man these days, having appeared on this summer's two biggest hits - Blurred Lines with Robin Thicke and Get Lucky by Daft Punk - but he jumped at the opportunity to put something together in Hong Kong. "[Hong Kong is] awesome," he gushed when we spoke. "It has a unique energy compared to the rest of the world. I'm grateful every time I visit."
In terms of music, Blohk Party was expressly conceived for young Hongkongers who both Poon and Ng agree are underserved. Clockenflap was already bringing the big names in rock music to Hong Kong, and both Ng and Poon are long time fans of hip hop and electronic dance music. "After 25 years of doing other peoples' shows I figured … I can only do so many Air Supplys and Elton Johns," Ng says, laughing, "I do have my own musical interests."
Together with Williams and Poon, she envisioned a festival that would be more than just an exhibition of big names from America and Europe. Taking into account Hong Kong's history, they designed Blohk Party as a bridge between East and West. When we spoke to Williams, he said he was in the process of listening to a stack of records from Hong Kong's best-known hip hop acts and, with Poon's guidance, they were able to put together a veritable Hong Kong hip hop summit.
With Hong Kong giants such as 24 Herbs and Fama alongside some of the biggest names in the game, the line-up is enough to make a hip hop fan boy squirm. The possibilities are endless: imagine Hong Kong hip hop pioneers LMF sharing the stage with the grandfather of the genre Grandmaster Flash, or MC Yan and American rapper Pusha T trading verses. That's the most exciting thing about Blohk Party for Williams. "The idea that people are communicating," he says, "bringing people together. What's better than that?"
For those who have followed Williams' career, a concert such as this is a long time coming. He has repeatedly professed a love of Asian fashion and music culture. "The Asian community has amazing style. They're purveyors of so many different fashion histories. It's just awesome," he says. He says he has a special affinity for Hong Kong. Where other people complain the city lags behind others in the region culturally, Williams sees opportunity. "Hong Kong is the next hub ... on the rise. This city is on the come up right now."
It would be impossible to talk about Blohk Party without mentioning the controversy that surrounds it and Clockenflap. Rumours have swirled that there is bad blood between the organisers, who fear Hongkongers don't have the stamina to attend two weekend music events in a row. At least publicly, both parties have distanced themselves from any drama and taken a more-the-merrier approach.
"Competition is healthy," says Ng. "Hong Kong people always complain there's nothing to do and now we're giving them things." As for fears that the two festivals will cut into each other's ticket sales, Ng isn't worried. "When I was young I had the energy to go out every day of the week … anyway, we're not trying to vie for too many of the same customers."
Even Williams weighed-in on Clockenflap saying, how much he regretted not being able to come to Hong Kong a week earlier to check out the show. "I heard that it's supposed to be a great experience."
Even with huge names such as Steve Aoki and the Ed Banger crew, HK$888 may seem a lot of money to pay for one day of music. But Ng says the event will be even bigger than what we see on the poster. The late addition of Grandmaster Flash is not the last surprise Blohk Party has in store. Ng confirmed that after the festival ends, some artists will make their way into the city and perform at after-parties at some of Hong Kong's best venues. "After 10pm, we'll go to all our nightlife partners and carry on in the nightclubs," says Ng. Details won't be announced until the day, but Ng said both Dragon-i and Volar would be involved.
If all goes according to plan, Blohk Party may come to represent a turning point for Hong Kong's reputation on the festival scene: a moment when we not only played host to some of music's greatest talents but also proudly showed the world our homegrown culture, music and sense of style. "There's very much a sense of pride from being from Hong Kong." It's time, says Ng, "to show them what we've got."
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A company from Tampa that has developed an electronic catheter stethoscope has been named the third Cade Museum Prize winner. "eCath" edged three other finalists during a gala program at the Santa Fe College Fine Arts Center Friday night.
More than 100 entries were received this year from inventors and start-up companies that work in high tech industries. Two rounds of judging ended with The Final Four, which included two entries from Gainesville. Another round of judging was supplemented by voting at the Gala.
eCath takes away a $50,000 prize and $10,000 in legal services.
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Seeing people using a tripod to take self-portrait mightn't surprise you. However, if you see a naked man taking pictures of himself, while at the same time doing a single push-up on the street, won't you be shocked? So what drives Ou Zhihang (歐志航) to take pictures in the nude?
Ou Zhihang (歐志航) is a Guangzhou-based artist, TV producer, and anchor. He took up photography in the 1970s and won the title of "China's Best Fashion Photographer" in 2003. In the same year he began to work on his conceptual performance "Ou-styles Push-up".
People may wonder why he has to take pictures in such a unique way. Is he an exhibitionist? The real reason is, he wants to draw the public's attention to different social issues. His pieces are full of metaphors as his naked body represents the quest for the naked truth. He selects national landmarks as the locations of his photos such as the ruins of the May 12, 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
After solving the question of "why" a naked body, then the question about his pose arises. Why a push up? Well, it's not only because the private parts of his body won't be exposed, but also it looks like a caterpillar at first glance, building up a link between him and society!
Feeling amazed by Ou Zhihang's works already? The most inconceivable part is what's to come! Ou works alone and his pictures are all self-portraits! He's able to complete a shot within 8 seconds. He is often patient in waiting for the best moment to capture his shot. Once the ideal moment arrives, he takes off his clothes and runs into the scene!
Other than just appreciating Ou's bravery, we can actually learn from him. Oh, don't get me wrong! I am not asking you to take a naked picture of yourself, like what Ou Zhihang does. What we can learn and strive towards is the idea that photography isn't only a way to capture what has happened but as well as expressing your ideas towards certain issue.
Ou Zhihang has his own way of presenting his thoughts, so do you! There is no right or wrong in the area of creativity, so, just go for what feels right!
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A quilt my mom and I are tying and a second one of her working on one
The quilts are nearly as beautiful as Mom!!!!
Lovely quilts. What fun to do a project together as well as individually. I would love a room that large to spread out in. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful mother and daughter. beautiful quilts, too.
Reminds me of Mama when we would do that together. Oh, how I wish I could do it again. I miss her so much.
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Woodward Women's Camps
A day out in the barn and on the mountain with the Woodward at Copper Women's Camps. It was fun, it left us soar, but it was forever rewarding.
A day out in the barn and on the mountain with the Woodward at Copper Women's Camps. It was fun, it left us soar, but it was forever rewarding.
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There comes a time in some women's lives, when they must do a backflip. For a group of adventurous women, that time was Saturday. I had the wonderful opportunity of tagging along with the last of this season's Woodward Women's Camps.
When it comes to anything in the terrain-park, it seems a lot of women hesitate to participate. There are plenty of reasons for this, including trepidation, lack of anyone to go with, and the idea of injury lingering in the back of the mind. Upon sitting down to stretch, these were the most common themes, with the most overwhelming being that maybe learning from the boyfriend wasn't such a great idea after all. I couldn't agree more considering the stories I've heard of bad days and not wanting to give it a second shot.
(A little warm up, safely since a lot of us forgot how.)
We are an amazing sex, capable, and independent, but we seem to forget this when we are asked to try something new. We need to remember that there are TONS of resources for us to learn, with or without the men. Woodward at Copper offers one of these resources for women interested in pushing themselves a bit further. You may think that it would be filled with the younger generation, which can and does happen, but it really is an all age program—an all ability program. I was in the presence of wives, girlfriends and daughters—skiers and snowboarders.
(Everyone had a blast flipping and jumping into the foam pits--the tramps were great too.)
(The Snowflex took a bit of time to get used to, but soon enough they were shredding it like snow.)
One of the most inspiring moments of the day was seeing the first big spill. Barbara, one of the snowboarders of the group, fell pretty hard onto her back while getting used to the Snowflex. She lay there for a moment, grasping what had just happened. We all stood with worried faces as Sandra, our coach for the day, ran to her aid. In the world of action sports, there seems to be one very key thing that so many of us forget when we feel that we're being watched; there is a huge difference between being hurt and being injured. Getting hurt means you get right back up and do it again. As she shed a few tears, the other 7 of us consoled her and told her she would get it next time. Sure enough, a few minutes later, she was strapped back in and ready for another go.
(A victorious drop.)
One of the reasons the Women's Camp at Woodward is so successful is because of moments like that. We saw some tears, but everyone was encouraging; there was nothing to be embarrassed about. The only audience was filled with enthusiasm and an eagerness to learn. I even got up the nerve to try my first backflip, off of anything, ever. There is something to be said about a coach that can get a 25-year-old to backflip, a 30-something to do a nose press on her third time sliding a box, and a skier to keep trying 360's after tears and frustration.
(Getting outside was just as fun. Worked on our switch riding, even for the skiers, and doing ollies.)
(Boxes were easy... after some coaching)
The progression of women in skiing and snowboarding is inevitable. It will happen regardless of trampolines, coaches, and Snowflex. But what Woodward at Copper has to offer is something entirely different; it's progression that is more fun, more forgiving, and more rewarding.
(It does take some effort. We hiked for a WHILE.)
(And at the end of the day... Awards time!)
(It was an amazing group and an amazing time thanks to Woodward and our coach Sandra.)
For more information about Woodward at Copper and the programs they have to offer, check out www.woodwardatcopper.com.
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Steamboat Springs It's time to begin a new Independence weekend tradition — call it the July Nordic kickoff. All you need is a pair of battered cross-country or Telemark skis you don't care too much about.
After skiing in the vicinity of Walton Peak on Rabbit Ears Pass on Sunday afternoon, I'm confident that we can count on incorporating skiing into our three-day celebration of the Fourth of July.
Why would anyone go skiing on a summer day meant for picnics, ball games, parades and concerts? Because we can!
This is a history-making spring and summer in terms of snow, and the opportunity to indulge in legitimate skiing during the first week in July could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all we know.
Even if you don't typically go cross-country skiing, you should look for a pair of garage sale skis and boots just to give it a go. But you might prefer digging your Telemark skis and skins out of the gear closet so you can climb up some of the sun-cupped slopes and crank a few turns.
Hey, the snow ain't pretty this time of year, but it's darn sure solid.
We got a late start Sunday afternoon and headed up the pass with our expectations in check.
I had to look at my instrument panel twice to confirm the temperature was 44 degrees. After we parked the car, I quickly pulled an anorak on over the tropical shirt I wore over a thin technical long-sleeved shirt. It sure didn't look or feel like June.
Despite the persistence of the snowpack, there have been very few mornings during the course of this protracted spring that have offered the optimum crust skiing that Nordies dream of. I hadn't been up on the pass since returning from Oregon in late May, and I was expecting the snowpack to be mushy and rotten.
I left my skate skis at home and instead brought along an antique pair of Fischer Europa 99s with fish scale bottoms, metal edges and a ridiculous amount of camber.
Well, the snow wasn't what I expected — I could have skated on the firm surface had I wanted to — but the Europa's weren't a bad call, either. The snow was dirty with dust blown in from either Moffat County or Utah. And it was littered with pine needles and cones.
The U.S. Forest Service has closed some of roads on Rabbit Ears that are free of snow and asks skiers to use designated trailheads for June skiing this year.
Snowcats entered parade
Historically, I've always measured the Fourth of July snowpack by conditions on Storm Peak. Most years, there is a slim strip of snow hanging on just to skiers' right of the Storm Peak Express.
If you've been hanging around Steamboat's Fourth of July parades for a couple of decades, you remember the good old days when Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. entered two or three of its snow grooming cats in the parade. They would stop at Eighth Street and execute a couple of ungainly pirouettes before Ski Corp. employees tossed snowballs at the crowd.
Heck, if we were ambitious enough this year, we could haul enough snow onto Lincoln Avenue for the Fourth of July to allow Steamboat's famous skiing band to take part.
Now that would be a first.
There was a cold wind blowing on Rabbit Ears on Sunday afternoon, and July 4 is only 14 days away. Do you know where your skinny skis are?
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star Santorini aparthotel in Fira, walk to Archaeological Museum
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Located in Fira, this aparthotel is within a 10-minute walk of Petros M. Nomikos Conference Centre and Archaeological Museum. Museum of Prehistoric Thira is 0.7 mi (1.1 km) away.
Property Features
An outdoor pool, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli are available at this aparthotel. Free continental breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a children's pool, and concierge services are onsite.
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Agali Houses features an outdoor pool and a children's pool. Dining options at the aparthotel include a coffee shop/café and a snack bar/deli. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
This Santorini aparthotel also offers a library, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. For a surcharge, the property provides an area shuttle within 50 km and a roundtrip airport shuttle at scheduled times.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
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- Total number of rooms - 30
- Number of floors - 6
- Coffee/tea in common areas
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- Free WiFi
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Multilingual staff
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- Free parking nearby
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- Year Built 1990
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
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- Premium bedding
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- Air conditioning
- Access via exterior corridors
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Television
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- In-room massage available
- Shower/tub combination
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
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An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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A study released Jan. 28 by Meritalk highlights the pros and cons of federal cloud adoption since the Office of Management and Budget's "Cloud First" policy mandated just over three years ago that agencies begin migrating services.
The study is full of interesting tidbits from 15 federal IT leaders who have executed cloud migrations, but the general consensus is that while change is a challenge, cloud computing is the real deal in terms of savings and efficiencies improvements.
But cloud success and mastery – as with any other IT challenge –comes only from hard work and intelligent management practices.
"If we had defined our expectations when we started, it would be easier to answer whether the benefits from our cloud computing initiative were less than or greater than expected," said Daniel McCrae, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Services Delivery Division.
NOAA was an early and successful adopter, moving its email and emergency messaging system to the cloud. The move cut costs and improved communication at the agency. The report puts hard numbers to some cloud projects, too. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved its email to the cloud, resulting in $1 million in annual savings, according to CIO Rick Holgate.
Shawn Kingsberry, CIO of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, said RATB migrated to infrastructure-as-a-service on a public cloud, with a direct savings of $854,800 over two years. The Department of Agriculture's combination of private and public cloud adoption has it primed to save $75 million over three years.
Even with successes, CIOs and other federal IT leaders said lessons learned over previous experiences will shape how they handle more intensive cloud efforts.
"Do the math, do the science, do the engineering. Develop a real business case. Start with functional requirements related to the mission. If the numbers don't make sense, don't do it. You won't see real economies of scale or efficiencies, you will just be checking off a box," McCrae said.
Cloud isn't a buzzword anymore, but it's not easy, either. As agencies go beyond removing the low-hanging fruit in IT, cloud projects will only get tougher. Yet some of the early successes provide a roadmap for what works and what doesn't. And don't expect evolving technology to do the work for you, as many of the federal IT leaders remarked.
"Take a good, long, hard look at the service you are looking to move," said Walter Bigelow, chief of the IT Systems Management Division at ATF. "Do a full legitimate audit of that service so you know what's involved – and how much it really costs you. Do a comparison to the cloud offerings that are out there and make an informed management decision. Speak to your peers."
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The Modernizing Government Technology Act passed the House of Representatives on a voice vote, but the Senate outlook is less certain.
The revised IT modernization bill will cost $500 million to implement, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The head of U.S. Cyber Command told senators that the Trump administration is looking to speed up the tempo of cyber operations.
As the Census Bureau stares down a critical and jam-packed 2017 schedule, Director John Thompson announced his retirement, effective June 30.
Concerns about the Trump administration's plans for the 2018 budget and slow pace of appointments are showing up in contractor earnings calls.
Unexpected cost overruns to critical systems and decisions to cancel or suspend various programs risk eating into the $5 billion in savings proposed by Census Bureau for its 2020 count.
"If the numbers don't make sense, don't do it." Yeah right. That's not how it works in the federal government. It will be a government wide directive that won't allow deciding whether or not it makes sense. Someone in the government will want a promotion and spearheading the headlong push to the cloud could provide just the boost. Then we will all be forced to move to the cloud and the report to the media will be a resounding success. It is preordained. Seen this movie before.
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A former Datasouth Group director who spent more than $1 million on "various female companions'' has admitted a $103 million fraud.
Gavin Clifford Bennett, 53, today pleaded guilty in Christchurch District Court to six representative charges relating to 900 separate incidents of dishonestly using a document, and two charges of false accounting.
The charges were brought by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and related to a $103m fraud involving a Ponzi-style scheme.
Bennett set up Datasouth Group to provide information technology-related services, including network design, consultancy and hardware leasing, in the mid-1990s. The group went into liquidation last year.
It was the hardware leasing, which involved finance through South Canterbury Finance (SCF), which led to the SFO charges; Bennett would falsify agreements between Datasouth Finance and its customers, and then present them, as if genuine, to SCF to secure funding.
He also submitted false financial statements to SCF in order to retain the ongoing finance facility.
Bennett used his ill-gotten gains for a high-flying lifestyle, including:
* $A463,000 ($NZ595,290) to rent two luxury residential apartments in the Rocks, Sydney;
* $A900,000 in regular payments to female companions;
* $A429,000 on food and beverages, a "significant amount'' of which was spent at Hemmesphere bar and restaurant Sydney;
* $A161,000 on international air travel for Bennett and, on occasions, companions, including to Argentina, New York, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, New Caledonia, Rio de Janerio, San Francisco, Paris and London;
* $A16,000 on jewellery and flowers, including purchases at Tiffany & Co;
* $A53,000 on corporate taxi expenses; and
* $A163,000 on clothes and apparel, including purchases at Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Barney's and Bloomingdales New York, Victoria's Secret, Paul Smith, Gucci, Jimmy Choo and Harrods London.
SFO chief executive Adam Feeley said the resulting financial losses to SCF were at least $23m. That cost would ultimately be met by the taxpayer as SCF was part of the Government Guarantee Scheme.
Datasouth went into liquidation in March last year, leaving 31 staff without jobs.
"The collapse of Datasouth was a significant event in the Christchurch business community and caused widespread losses,'' Mr Feeley said.
"Mr Bennett's guilty plea brings to a satisfactory end one of SFO's largest investigations in recent times.''
Bennett was remanded in custody for sentencing on May 3.


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Burning Man 2011 Rite of Passage
Trip Start May 11, 2005
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Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self reliance. This is directly from Wiki. I felt like I need to explain a little bit about this party because it is so different.
To further my plagiarism I will now quote from the Burning Man site.....Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind. To truly understand this event, one must participate.
As you can see from the pictures, Burning Man looks quite odd...I would also say if your a conservative person then LOOK AWAY! You can chalk it up to a bunch of hippies playing in the desert.
For me Burning Man had something for everyone! Tons of art, oodles of theme parties, multitudes of art cars, contest, workshops, seminars, raves, hashes, yoga and the list goes on and on! When we arrived at the gate we were given a program with activities for every hour of every day. The activities/parties never stop for 7 full days. 24 hours a day there is something to do...and not just one thing..hundreds of things! To give you an example of a typical day here is sample of what a program looked like.
7:00-8:00 Coffee and Spanking at Scarbutts Cafe
8:00-9:00 Hot Yoga to Death Metal at Slasher Camp
10:00-11:00 Bloody Marys in your Underwear at Camp Dingle-Berry
12:00-1:00 Experiencing Ayahuasca and what it can teach you at Center Camp
1:00-2:00 Free Vegan Coconut Ice Cream during naked limbo contest at Camp Loki
2:00-3:00 Beer Olympics at Camp Grog
3:00-4:00 Orgasmic Workshop at Camp Orgy Dome
4:00-5:00 Pole Dancing lessons with a Hula Hoop at Camp Strips-a-lot
5:00-6:00 Pick up Ultimate Frisbee on the Playa
7:00-8:00 Circus Boot Camp on the Trapeze at Camp Clown
9:00-10:00 Body Painting in the Buff at Camp Long Duck Dong
11:00-1200: White Party with White Russians at Camp Communist
1:00-2:00 Wash and Get Washed at Camp H2O
3:00-4:00 Techno in a Tutu at Camp Club head
5:00-6:00 Swinger Switcharoo at Camp Fur Trader
7:00-8:00 Sunrise gathering to Ambient Tunes at Camp Hangover
And the list goes on
Art Cars: Many people contribute by building a crazy looking art car that drives around the desert blasting beats, looking generally out of place or spewing fire. At night, all these cars were lit with clever lighting that made for a surreal sight in the middle of the dark desert.
Bikes: You must have a bike because Black Rock city is massive (50,000 people) there are miles and miles of camps, parties and desert to explore. People decorate their bike with fur and all sorts of random things. At night the desert is pitch black and the bikes are adorned with all types of lights ranging from functional to insane! I'm pretty sure everyone crashes at least once during the festival. (See photo of Rob!)
Art: The art there was amazing and it was everywhere
Costumes: Nobody dresses normal there! That's for the real world. The day time is scorching hot so peoples costumes range from birthday suits to everything else under the sun! Night time in the desert is bitter cold and that's when the fake fur comes out. Raver gear with furry boots and vests seemed to be very common but that was due to the the ungodly amount of Dub Step parties.
Red Dress Hash Yes! A hash at Burning Man! American Hashers know how to party so it makes sense that they would put on a run at one of the best festivals in America. Since the desert is freaking hot and showers don't exists this event turned out to be a bike hash. Our first stop was at Camp Glitter where while we were fed vodka and Gatorade (got to stay hydrated in the sun) while our bodies were being smeared with glue and glitter! Glitter is the herpes of the craft world, and for the rest of the week everyone we met became glitterfied!
The Naked Water Truck Dash: Since showers don't really exists at Burning Man, one must improvise in order to avoid smelling like a homeless hippie
Dave, Pat, Ivory, Dan and me all had a insanely fun time and despite the cost, I'm pretty sure most of us will be back! We are no longer virgins we are Burners!


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Bruno Joins Swimming And Diving Staff
Iona College men's and women's swimming and diving head coach Nick Cavataro announced the appointment of Anthony Bruno as assistant coach for both squads. Bruno comes to Iona after spending the last three years at Division III Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
"I am very excited for the opportunity to be a part of the Iona College family," said Bruno. "I am also excited to work with a veteran coach like Coach Cavataro and am looking forward to helping the program continue to be one of the best in the MAAC."
Coach Cavataro commented, "Tony has worked with some great coaches and athletes and has a wealth of knowledge and recruiting skills, as well as an energy level and enthusiasm that will fit in will with our program goals."
During his time at Wesleyan, the Cardinals broke multiple individual records for on both sides and every relay record on the women's side.
The team also went from one individual NCAA provisional qualifier to having seven women record NCAA "B" time standards in 2013. Coach Bruno worked with all groups during his time at Wesleyan but focused primarily on the sprinters. Coach Bruno was also apart of recruiting efforts during his time with the Cardinals as both squads climbed to the top the conference the last three seasons.
Coach Bruno has also been active on the club level as a member of the Cheshire YMCA/Sea Dog Swim Club staff. At Cheshire, Anthony worked with multiple Olympic trail qualifiers, YMCA national champions and multiple swimming top 16 athletes.
Before coming back to his home state of Connecticut, Bruno served as assistant swim coach and assistant aquatics director at Gulliver Prep in Miami, Florida.
Bruno is a 2009 graduate of Springfield College where he was a school record holder and a two-time honorable mention All-American selection. Earning honorable-mention All-America honors as part of the Pride's 200 medley relay and 400 free relay, Tony was part of two school-record performances and came through with first-team and second-team all-NEWMAC honors at the conference meet during his career. He also was a team captain as a senior.


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Actress Kate Mulgrew is on a different sort of star trek in Tea at Five, the one-woman show in which she hauls film legend Katharine Hepburn from her Philadelphia Story incarnation to her lioness-in-winter one. Best known as Captain Kathryn Janeway of UPN's Star Trek: Voyager (in which capacity, promoted to admiral, she has a cameo in the upcoming film Star Trek: Nemesis), Mulgrew used to resent the Hepburn comparisons that came her way. " This whole relationship between Katharine Hepburn and myself has certainly had its odyssey, " she says candidly (snapping out the movie queen's name, as she does in the show, " Heppern " ). " For many years I never particularly liked her. I was compared to her so often that I began to resent that. The voice, there's a little bit in the face, there are similarities. But it's happened to me a lot in my life, and you begin to think, I'm Kate Mulgrew. But when I undertook this, not without some trepidation, it wasn't long before I found myself falling in love with her. "
She's not the only one. Matthew Lombardo's Tea at Five debuted last winter at Hartford Stage, more or less in Connecticut native Hepburn's back yard. From there it moved to the Cleveland Playhouse (in the state where Mulgrew's husband, Tim Hagan, is campaigning for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination). The show begins a two-week Cambridge engagement, which will be hosted by the American Repertory Theatre, beginning September 8. Its hoped-for goal is Broadway, where no one is likely to say of Mulgrew, as Dorothy Parker famously did of Hepburn, that she runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. The actress's portrayal of the much-imitated star ( " The calla lilies are in bloom again " ) is uncanny in its duplication of physical and vocal mannerisms but more than mimicry-deep.
As for the opportunity, it dropped into her lap. " It came to me serendipitously, as all good things in life do, " Mulgrew purrs through the phone from Cleveland. " My best friend knew a guy by the name of Matthew Lombardo. I had not encountered him over the 30 years of our friendship, so it was very strange that they had this close friendship I knew nothing about. Anyway, he was sitting with her one day. She just died of cancer, so they were lying on her bed watching an episode of Voyager, and he said, 'You know, that woman has to play Hepburn.' He went home and he wrote the play in three days. It was just one of those moments of alchemy. He put me together with her and a sort of magic took place in him. He sent it to me, in my trailer at Paramount, and I read it and I instantly understood that it was excellent. "
A virtuoso turn for Mulgrew, Tea at Five takes its name from what was apparently an inviolable ritual in the Hepburn home, where the tomboyish Kate grew up with a doctor father, suffragette mother, and a gaggle of siblings that included a beloved older brother who committed suicide as a teenager. (He hung himself, and it fell to the nascent movie star to cut the body down.) Lombardo sets the play at the Hepburns' summer home in the Fenwick section of Old Saybrook, Connecticut (to which the subject, now 95, has retired). He fits most of 1938, when Hepburn was 31, into tea time of act one: the actress, having been recently declared " box-office poison " in Hollywood, is nonetheless lobbying by phone for the role of Scarlett O'Hara and being romanced by Howard Hughes. Before the cups are drained, she's gearing up to see the family manse blown away by a hurricane.
Mulgrew explains that " Matthew has tinkered around with the first act, not insignificantly, since the Hartford run. He feels, and [director] John Tillinger and I agree, that we need to see more of Hepburn's vulnerability in act one. Let's see what drove her so hard. The curtain opens on this very agitated, feral cat pacing back and forth wondering whether or not her career is over. 'Will she be saved by Scarlett O'Hara?'
" But of course all of that is only interesting in so much as it supports deeper feeling. And now, with this rewrite, we see that it's not about Hollywood. It's about who she saw herself as being, what she thought she needed to achieve in her life. It goes back to dad and mom, the suicide of her beloved brother Tom. She was 14 when she cut him down. This all defines the young Hepburn, whose adolescence was, to put it nicely, truncated. She was catapulted into a world of maturity, responsibility, and forced to accept the Hepburn mantle regarding grief, which was suppression.
" I think people who have a lot of suppressed grief are driven to excel in the world. Certainly she was. Her parents made no bones about it. 'It's one thing to be an actress, but you must be great, Kate.' In Hepburn's mind, this translated into movie stardom. Although she was no fool, which is why we still so admire and love her. Just as one would think she was about to walk the plank in Hollywood for the last time, she'd take off and do a tour of As You Like It. So she was always confounding, always a maverick; she was very complex. She defines herself as a kind of fascinating, spartan Yankee woman who says it like it is and says it very clearly. Well, that's just the tip of the iceberg. "
Tea at Five's second act once again finds us guests at Fenwick, but it's now 1983. To start things off, the 76-year-old Hepburn, her hair a tangled gray upsweep, her leg in a cast following a car accident, shows us pieces of her mother's tea service that have been dug up out of the sand following the 1938 hurricane that whistled in just before intermission. The 47-year-old Mulgrew reports that this limping, railing, reminiscing Hepburn is actually the easier to play. She says of her second-act turn, complete with cane, cast, Parkinson's tremor, and recollections of Spencer Tracy: " It's not so much bravura as kind of an uncanny, very lucky, natural fit, which happens, I think, when you get as intensely involved with a character as I have become with her. "
Indeed, Mulgrew watched all of Hepburn's films in preparation for Tea at Five, read " every piece of literature I could find, " and has, to some extent, sacrificed her larynx on the altar of the part. In Hartford, some performances had to be cancelled because of the star's vocal difficulties. But this, too, says Mulgrew, puts her in communion with the subject. " You know, Hepburn was always losing her voice, because she rode her vocal cords, and in order to affect this transition I have to do the same thing. Or shall I say I choose to do the same thing. I have to trick my voice. I travel about three octaves in this play. I'm very high and in my hard palette in act one, and then I go to the larynx in act two, and all of that within 10 minutes. I've worked with enough coaches, and they're not all of the same mind. Some of them told me to forget it. But if I forget it, I lose the whole flavor of what takes me into her old age. "
About some Hepburn family members' objections to the play, Mulgrew has this to say. " It was Katharine Houghton who rocked that boat, her niece [and the actress who played Hepburn's daughter in the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]. She loved her Aunt Kate and championed her cause and probably had every intention of writing the quintessential biography or of playing her herself as an older Kate Hepburn. She wrote a letter to the Hartford Courant. She was critical of the text but praised me. I think she just felt we had taken theatrical license. And we have — it's a play. I'm sure they [the family] don't want to discuss Tom's suicide. They don't want that Pandora's Box opened. They have closed it so summarily. But this is her life. This is the story of what defined her as a young girl. And then the truth about her relationship with her father, which was less than pretty, evolving into this extraordinarily complex, one could even say diabolical, relationship with Spencer Tracy, to whom she was both lover and wet nurse. Dr. Hepburn was not what we would call a warm man but, boy, did she want his love. And that's where I'm coming from in creating this. It's all about love. "
And what about Hepburn on the screen, as opposed to Hepburn on the couch? " I think she got better and better, " says Mulgrew of the actress's long film career. " But the thing she had, the thing that has caught fire, or certainly did in Hartford, she had true grit. She had real grit. You don't see that anymore. She was fascinating because she believed she was fascinating. "
Mulgrew, of course, has a different kind of fanship, and Trekkies are more than welcome in the audience of Tea at Five. Having recently returned from communing with the faithful at a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, the actress reports: " They're not stupid. They're quite bright, in fact, and they've been so supportive of this undertaking and have come, indeed, from all over the world. What could be more gratifying? When I say they're not stupid, I mean to suggest that, actually, they're quite devoted to the actor. They know that Janeway is just a character and that Kate Mulgrew is playing her. And what they are, first and foremost, is behind me as an actress, and they'll come back and see it again, and those that haven't seen it will come, and I suspect they will come from the nether regions of the world. "
Tea at Five will be presented by the American Repertory Theatre at the Loeb Drama Center September 8 through 22. Tickets are $32 to $62; call (617) 547-8300.
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TMF: Can you explain to investors learning about BroadVision for the first time what your company does?
Chen: We provide personalized portals and Internet applications to help companies manage their extended enterprise relationships. In other words, a company has lots of participants -- employees, suppliers, customers, and partners -- much more than its own employee base. How do we get them to become self-sustained?
We want to put all the services, interactions, and transactions online so people can help themselves. And to do that, you need a lot of business logic, data modeling, and process automation. That's very different from the traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) system or customer relationship management (CRM) system -- although we do integrate with those two systems -- but this is a very different set of capabilities, and that's really what BroadVision does.
TMF: Some time ago, I remember reading an analyst report which stated BroadVision had lost ground to Art Technology (Nasdaq: ARTG) because it lacked a J2EE [Java] offering. I was under the impression that you didn't compete with them as much as had been reported, given that you sell a packaged set of applications and Art Technology sells the components. Is that true?
Chen: Yes, those are two different orientations. Art Technology is very focused on hyping this notion of J2EE. So, let's dissect that whole issue and try to understand exactly what that means.
"People who are telling you to build yourself, it's kind of like selling you sheet metal and screwdrivers and saying 'Hey, build your own car.' "
We think that's a very noble goal, but it's very important for software components to be able to talk to each other. On the other hand, it has lots of different pieces in there. There are 13, as I said. So when you say J2EE, it really could mean different things to different people. All I'm saying is that this is about an objective, but the world today is definitely not written this way, so it's a forward-looking thing.
Every time I see an investor, they don't talk about our real value, which is to create this whole suite of applications, personalized portals, and so on. They just kind of basically spend a whole hour talking about this J2EE thing. So it's just a lot of education that we have to do, which is fine. All I'm trying to say is that the important thing about BroadVision, in terms of getting our message out, is that we are trying to provide more value than just J2EE.
The issue, as you said, is are you planning on building this stuff yourself, or would you be better off just to buy from somebody who's already got seven years of experience and over a thousand customers? And hopefully able to extract the essentials out, so that you don't have to do it yourself? In other words, people who are telling you to build yourself, it's kind of like selling you sheet metal and screwdrivers and saying "Hey, build your own car yourself."
We're saying, "No, no, no, you don't want to do that." There are a lot of issues about safety, performance, and comfort. We know how to do that for you. You can tweak it. You can say "I want the car to look like this, look like that, steering wheel on the left, steering wheel on the right," and that's fine. And you can do that today. You can do that in the J2EE way, but tomorrow if its XYZ, well, what we want to say is we will guarantee we will support XYZ.
TMF: I don't want to try and beat a dead horse, but some have voiced concern over your architecture transition saying it takes multiple releases of a new product to gain traction with new and existing customers. However, I know Version 6 will be available to early adopters early next year and with free upgrades. Therefore, what kind of response have you received from customers and integrators?
Chen: This is not like our first release in the whole Java process. As I said, we've been partnering with the Java king, Sun Microsystems, for over a year. For the early adopters, we're going to handpick maybe 12 customers in early January, end of the year. This is not the first time that we've done this, and furthermore, we also guarantee, since it's the same code base, whatever you are doing today on our 5.5 is going to run totally compatible without any change whatsoever when you receive the 6.0. You just flip the switch and we guarantee that it would work immediately, and we put that in writing.
TMF: Is that going to have any effect on the sales cycle?
Chen: There are two reasons why we haven't experienced any hold up. One, anybody who buys BroadVision really wants to get live, get the job done, time to market, get-out-of-the-box functionality rather than kind of splitting things from scratch. They don't really buy this just because they wanted to build something and therefore J2EE, to them, is an insurance policy, but not the thing that they intend to go and do and start from just a drawing board.
"I always say that mind share equals market share. The more you get out of [customers], the less they will have available to your competitors."
TMF: Recently you announced a partnership with BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) and you've announced plenty of others. I'm wondering how these partnerships, particularly the BEA relationship, enhance the value proposition for your customer and what's the impact on the end user?
Chen: BEA is very critical because, as I mentioned earlier, J2EE standards consist of 13 different specifications. BroadVision has a lot of experience in building these things we call the interaction manager, which is how objects get rendered into a page or to a cell phone, whatever it is. That requires us to really build it in a way that is highly optimized. So out of the 13, BroadVision is basically only interested in doing one piece of that. The other 12 pieces, we've been looking at whom to partner with
So we've looked at essentially everyone... over the last several months, and finally selected BEA as our technical and strategic partner for several reasons. One, they have the biggest footprint in the industry. Two, they really understand our business very well and can partner with us technically very well. And three, I know the executives there. In doing so, that would make our product entirely J2EE compliant and that would basically erase or remove the issue of any objection or any competitive issue with our competitors.
TMF: And how do these partnerships create value for your shareholders? How do you see that improving stock-price performance?
Chen: It give us sort of an "In the World" partnership. I always say that mind share equals market share. The more you get out of [customers], the less they will have available to your competitors, so as a result, it is really important for us to work really hard with them and that we can really get them to think about us, work with us, and so on.
As a result, our shareholders will benefit from our better growth and bigger market share, or for that matter, penetration into new markets, like manufacturing, in which we as a company have not been very present in the past. As a result of this, we will gain new business. In this case, we will also create new products and, all in all, it will reflect in our top-line growth and bottom-line growth -- and certainly, then, be reflected in our stock price.
TMF: Could you provide an example of a company that uses your e-business platform and discuss the benefits as well as the return on investment that is expected from implementing these types of applications that you sell?
Chen: Sure, there are lots of them, of course. A Silicon Valley technology company came to me just this week, their CEO, and the example there is very common. They now have a couple of thousand applications in their whole company and to maintain all these things has become extremely expensive.
What they are trying to do is boil that down into four primary enterprise applications. The first is ERP, which obviously BroadVision doesn't do. The next is for their CRM cost center and another for their human resources. Finally, as a unifying force, BroadVision has been selected to be this personalized portal, so that everyone touched in the extended enterprise can do a lot of things in the self-service spaces, whether it's about service, transaction, interaction, and so on and so forth.
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I need to keep up with my routine of washing and folding 1 load of laundry. I need to hunt for an apartment for my dh so that he's set up on October 1st. (long story short, he got transferred to a city 3 hours away and I'm refusing to yank my kids out of their perfect school as well as try to sell our house in a sluggish economy)
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From the South China Morning Post this week in 1953
Although it wasn't known yet, history was being made as Edmund Hillary's team attempted to climb Mount Everest. Though relegated to the inside pages, the Post's reports expressed fascination with the large number of Sherpas, 50, carrying the expedition's supplies up the Himalayas. They were referred to as coolies.
Less spectacular were British premier Winston Churchill's futile attempts to persuade the superpowers to get around a table 'to stabilise East-West differences'. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower scotched the idea, saying there was not sufficient evidence of Russia's good faith to justify such a meeting.
In a burst of pro-British fervour, communities in the New Territories and Outlying Islands organised theatrical performances, lion-dancing, street processions and school athletics meetings to celebrate the June 2 coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Royal fever was also reportedly in full swing in Japan, with fashion houses enjoying a boom as sales of red, white and blue blouses, skirts and scarves soared. Royal blue ties with crown and sword motifs were best-sellers in Tokyo menswear shops and a replica display of the crown jewels stopped pedestrian traffic outside a downtown department store.
Little happened in Britain that was not reported in Hong Kong, so the colony knew it had been a bad week for England's 25-year-old motor racing champion Stirling Moss. Not only had he crashed while practising for Sunday's big race at Silverstone, he went on to suffer a defeat and then returned home to his London flat to find he had been burgled.
Mass air travel was still in its infancy, so much so that visiting tourists were faithfully recorded, along with noteworthy cruise-liner passengers and the guests coming and going from the Gloucester Hotel. The average length of stay has increased little: 'A group of 28 Americans on a sight-seeing and educational tour arrived yesterday by PAA from Manila. The party will visit Macau during their two-day visit here.'
It wasn't April 1 but there were some strange stories around. 'Girl who claimed Dracula bit her' went one headline. The chief medical examiner of the Manila police said the 18-year-old girl who claimed a black-cloaked Dracula figure was biting her in her jail cell was in fact an epileptic.
Bites on the girl's arms and back were self-inflicted, he insisted, without explaining how she could have done this. But reporters and photographers remained unconvinced, claiming to have seen saliva and bite marks spontaneously appear when she suffered fits.
Meanwhile 'Mouse at the Ball' was an odd tale from the first debutantes' ball of the London season. The Duchess of Gloucester could hardly believe her eyes, it was reported, 'when a debutante walked up to her and curtsied prettily, while sitting on top of her head was a white mouse, calmly washing his face'.
This prank was even more shocking since organisers had been on alert to prevent such japes following the previous year's event when a prankster had stuffed a three-tier cake with fireworks.
Disgraced deb Caroline Combe said she had smuggled in the mouse 'to liven things up a bit'.
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JAN EVERITT brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 26 Designs von 10 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
My name is Jan I'm the 5th generation to run a family campground that needs a facelift and brought into the future. I would like a logo that catches your eye and incorporates (Mosquito Lake) camping,cabins and my name Jan . It sit s on 40 acres in northeast Ohio its home sweet home . For years it was called YE OLD FARM CAMP GROUNDS and this got me nowhere . I'm very whimsical,not to serious open to all ideas. Thanks for Looking
All Campers across the US looking for a family enviroment where everyone know your name....... I really do leave the light on..
go for it...... im open


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