Events
The 6th China (Beijing) Int'l Glass Industry New Tech. Expo 2009
Time: 9 October 2009 - 11 October 2009
Description: China (Beijing) Int'l Glass Industry New Tech. Expo has been hold for five years successfully and its focus is the advanced technology and equipments with high content of science and technology. it attracts the close attention and warm welcome from professionals from home and abroad.
City: Beijing
Venue: China Int'l Exhibition Center
Address: 6 Dong Bei Sanhuan Lu
Contact tel: +86 10 6863 9549
Contact email: arksales@bjsjjy.com
Contact fax: +86 10 8868 0811
Links: www.bcige.com
Water & Membrane China 2009
Time: 14 October 2009 - 16 October 2009
Description: Opportunities beckon in China
WMC-Water & Membrane China is organized by Acevision Exhibition Co. ,Ltd, and was held annually in Beijing since 1998. With the rapid development of China water market. WMC as the top level Water & Membrane show has provided a platform for enterprise to develop the market, demonstrate brand image and display the most advanced products, equipments, technologies and the solutions.
City: Beijing
Venue: China Int'l Exhibition Center
Address: 6 Beisanhuan DongLu, Chaoyang
Contact name: Jessica Fu
Contact tel: +86 10 8580 6841
Contact email: cevision@vip.163.com
Contact fax: +86 10 8580 6841
Links: www.wmc-china.com
Aviation Outlook Asia 2009
Time: 27 October 2009 - 29 October 2009
Description: Aviation Outlook Asia 2009 returns as a Pan-Asian gathering of C-level and senior decision makers from full service and low cost airlines, airports, governments, tourism and travel organisations, to provide exclusive insights and to discuss the strategies, plans and developments that are needed to ensure that the aviation industry will be better-positioned to meet future challenges and new possibilities when the market recovers.
City: Beijing
Venue: The Great Wall Sheraton Beijing, China
Address: 10 North Dongsanhuan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Contact name: Chua Yee Ling 蔡忆琳
Contact tel: +65 6322 2757
Contact email: yeeling.chua@terrapinn.com
Contact fax: +65 6226 3264
Links: www.terrapinn.com/2009/avasia/
The 11th China Int'l Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Exhibition
Time: 27 October 2009 - 29 October 2009
Description: 11th China International Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Exhibition，as Asia's first-choice event for food processing and packaging machinery ever since its establishment in 1989, gets enthusiastic support from ASSOFOODTEC, UCIMA, KPMA, PPMA, PMMI, JFMA, Dutch Manufactures of Machinery for Food Processing and Packaging and Taiwan Food & Pharmacy Machinery Manufacturers' Association. In the past 22 years, China Foodtech brought together with over 170,000 trade visitors from 46 countries and regions.
City: Beijing
Venue: China Int'l Exhibition Center
Address: 6 Beishanhuan Donglu, Chaoyang
Contact name: Ms Sun Jing, Miss Nancy Wang
Contact tel: +86 10 8460 0167
Contact email: sunjing@ciec.com.cn, wangxing@ciec.com.cn
Contact fax: +86 10 8460 0325
Links: www.foodtechchina.com
When: 8 - 10 Oct 2009 (annual)
Where: Tyler Rose Museum and Gardens
The Texas Rose Festival at the Tyler Rose Museum and Gardens provides a series of colourful and fragrant events, celebrating the rich heritage and tradition of the town. Highlights include the Queen's coronation.
Other notable events include the Rose Show, a doll and toy sale, an arts and crafts fair, the Queen's Tea and the spectacular parade featuring a variety of floats - all with a backdrop of beautiful roses.
Contact Details
Name: Texas Rose Festival Association
Address: PO Box 8224, Tyler, Texas 75711, USA
Venue Information: Tyler Rose Museum and Gardens
Full Name: Tyler Rose Museum and Gardens,Tyler,USA
Cost: US$3.50; children US$2
Address: 420 Rose Park Drive 75702
Directions: On Highway 31 West at Rose Park Drive, just outside the town of Tyler.
Contact Details: Tyler Rose Museum and Gardens
Email: info@texasrosefestival.com
Phone: +1 903 597 3130
Fax: +1 903 597 3031
Other Information: Tyler Rose Museum and Gardens
Website: Tyler Website
The Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th of the 8th lunar month. It's also known as the Mid-autumn Festival. Chinese culture is deeply imbedded in traditional festivals. Just like Christmas and Thanksgiving in the West, the Moon Festival is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese.
The Moon Festival is full of legendary stories. Legend says that Chang Er flew to the moon, where she has lived ever since. You might see her dancing on the moon during the Moon Festival. The Moon Festival is also an occasion for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poems. With the full moon, the legend, the family and the poems, you can't help thinking that this is really a perfect world. That is why the Chinese are so fond of the Moon Festival.
The Moon Festival is also a romantic one. A perfect night for the festival is if it is a quiet night without a silk of cloud and with a little mild breeze from the sea. Lovers spend such a romatic night together tasting the delicious moon cake with some wine while watching the full moon. Even for a couple who can't be together, they can still enjoy the night by watching the moon at the same time so it seems that they are together at that hour. A great number of poetry has been devoted to this romantic festival. Hope the Moon Festival will bring you happiness.
The moon cake is the food for the Moon Festival. The Chinese eat the moon cake at night with the full moon in the sky. Here are a few pictures of the typical moon cake.
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is a yearly balloon fiesta that takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA during early October. The balloon fiesta is a nine day event, and has around 750 balloons. The event is the largest hot air balloon festival in the world.[1] In addition, it is widely considered the most photographed event in the world.
The balloon fiesta began in 1972 as the highlight of a 50th birthday celebration for KOB Radio. Radio station manager Dick McKee asked Sid Cutter, owner of Cutter Flying Service and the first person to own a hot air balloon in New Mexico, if he would fly his balloon \"Roadrunner\" as part of the festivities. The two began discussing ballooning, along with conversation and help from Oscar Kratz, and McKee asked what the largest gathering of hot air balloons to date had been. 19 balloons in England, Cutter replied. Kratz asked \"Can we get 19 here?\" Cutter agreed to try. He got commitments from 21 pilots, but bad weather kept some of them from arriving in time. The first fiesta ended up as a gathering of 13 balloons on April 8, 1972, sponsored by KOB. The first event was located in the parking lot of the Winrock Shopping Center with 20,000 spectators and with balloonists from Arizona, California, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada and Texas taking part. McKee, Cutter, and Kratz are the three men who had origninally started the balloon races.[3] The first fiesta was actually a \"Roadrunner-Coyote Balloon Race\", with 1 balloon being the \"Roadrunner\" and the others being \"Coyote\" balloons. The winner of the race was the Coyote who landed closest to the Roadrunner. This race has continued as part of the Balloon Fiesta today.
The next year Albuquerque hosted the first World Hot-Air Balloon Championships in February and the fiesta became an international event. In 1975 Albuquerque was looking at hosting the World Championships again, but the event was scheduled for October. So the fiesta was moved to correspond with the championships. To maintain interest in Albuquerque\'s bid to host the championships, a balloon rally was held in February of that year.
The Balloon Fiesta has grown each year, and today is the largest balloon convention in the world. The number of registered balloons reached a peak of 1,019 in 2000, prompting the Balloon Fiesta Board to limit the number to 750 starting in 2001,[4] citing a desire for \"quality over quantity\". On any given day during the festival, up to 100,000 spectators may be on the launch field where they are provided the rare opportunity to observe inflation and take off procedures. Countless more people gather at landing sites all over the city to watch incoming balloons.
source: wikipedis.org picture:balloonfiesta.com
"The People's Central Government of PRC is the only legal government to stand for all people of PRC. Our government is willing to establish diplomatic relationship with any foreign government that agrees to abide by the principles of equality, mutual benefit, mutual respect for territorial integrity..."
-Chairman Mao Zedong from the Announcement of the People's Central Government of PRC
The PRC's National Day was declared at three o'clock on October 1, 1949, in front of 300,000 people during a ceremony in Tian'anmen Squeare. Chairman Mao declared the founding of the People's Republic and waved the first five-star PRC flag.
In past times, the day was marked by large political gatherings and speeches, military parades, state banquets and the like. Since 2000, as China's economy developed, the national holiday lasts seven days and most workers are given time off to visit relatives and take time for traveling.
source: about.com, picture: people.com.cn
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Western Legends Round Up
Aug 26 -Aug 29, 2009
Kanab, Utah
Utahs Biggest & Best Wild West Cowboy Fest. Hollywood Stars & Entertainment!
Call for ticket information (435)644-3444!
Qi Xi (Chinese: 七夕; pinyin: qī xī; literally "The Night of Sevens"), sometimes called Chinese Valentine's Day or Magpie Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar; thus its name. It also inspired Tanabata in Japan and Chilseok in Korea.
Chinese Valentine's Day is on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month in the Chinese calendar.
In China time zone,
Year 2009 is on August 26, 2009
Year 2010 is on August 16, 2010
Year 2011 is on August 6, 2011
Year 2012 is on August 23, 2012
Young girls traditionally demonstrate their domestic arts, especially melon carving, on this day and make wishes for a good husband. It is also known by the following names:
- The Festival to Plead for Skills (乞巧節; qǐ qiǎo jié)
- The Seventh Sister's Birthday (七姐誕; qī jiě dàn)
- The Night of Skills (巧夕; qiǎo xī)
Source: http://www.lostlaowai.com
The 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar is celebrated by Chinese around the world as the Mid-Autumn Festival or 中秋节 (Zhong Qiu Jie). The holiday always coincides with a bright full autumn moon.
Like many Chinese holidays, food plays a prominent role. On this day, Chinese will eat nian gao or glutenous rice cakes and mooncake, made up of bean paste or lotus-seed paste packed inside a pastry layer. There is sometimes even a salted duck egg inside.
Many Chinese will admit that they don't really like eating mooncake, but like the fruitcake at Christmas, giving the gift of mooncake seems to be a case of tradition beating out taste.
The Fable of the Woman in the Moon:
The holiday is all about tradition. And like so many festivals, it begins with a fable. The story has many, many versions, but the one I was taught as a child goes like this:
In ancient China, there wasn't just one sun in the sky. There were ten. The ten suns burned so bright that no crops would grow and the people began to starve. In this time of crisis one man, rose to the challenge. The archer Hou Yi was well known for his skill with a bow and arrow. With support from his wife Chang'e, he shot down the suns, one by one. Just as he was about to shoot down the last one, his wife stopped him. The people and plants still need light to prosper, she said.
People across the land were so happy that their suffering had ended and they crowned Ho Yi their king. At first, Ho Yi was a very good king, ruling fairly and with heart. But he soon became despotic, killing without cause and ruling tyrannically, to the dismay of Chang'e.
Hou Yi's ultimate fear was death and he became obsessed with immortality. So he sought out a witch doctor, who provided him with a pill that would allow him to live forever. When Hou Yi's wife, Chang'e found out about his plan, she knew she had to stop him.
At night, as Hou Yi slept, she crept to the place where the king had hidden the pill. Just then, her husband awoke and demanded to know what she was doing. Without a thought, Chang'e swallowed the pill and suddenly began to fly up into the twilight, until she reached the full moon. And that is where she remains today.
If you look closely at the autumn full moon, you will see her there, a pure and shining example of personal sacrifice for a greater purpose.
Some Truth Behind the Tale:
It's an old tale, depictions of Hou Yi shooting down the suns has been found on Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 9 CE) tomb murals. The story is both a parable about the dangers of gaining power and the heroism of sacrifice. But Dartmouth College professor Sarah Allan believes it may be based in some reality.
In her 1991 book The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art and Cosmos in Early China Allan posits that the myth of the ten suns was a strong beliefs of the Shang Dynasty (1600 BCE - 1046 BCE).
Allan hypothesizes that the Shang Kingdom's ruling group was organized in a totemic relationship with these ten suns. The myth became synonymous with their rule. When the Shang fell to the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BCE - 771 BCE), which believed in one single sun, the archer myth of Hou Yi was used to illustrate an end to Shang rule.
It's a fascinating hypothesis. And great food for thought as we watch the Mid-Autumn full moon fade away.
Source: chineseculture.about.com
Winchester Bay, Oregon, USA
7/29/2009 - 8/2/2009
Description
"The Most Fun A Family Can Have In The Sand." DuneFest is an exicting, fun filled ATV Rally helf in the heart of the Oregon Dunes National Recreations Area. ATV enthusiats participate in activies throughout the five-day event. Kids and adults will have fun seperatly and together competing in sand drag racing. Moto Cross/ Grand Prix racing, treasure hunts, show and shine, and more. Vendor Row offers ATV accessories, cloething, and food.
Venue: Salmon Harbor Drive
Website: http://www.reedsportcc.org
Infophone: 541--271-3495
Email: reewbycc@charterinternet.com
