Live Streaming for Events: Colorado Fashion Week at The Oxford Hotel
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Recently, I had the supreme pleasure of broadcasting several days of events live online during Colorado Fashion Week 2013.
Wait... WHAT?... Colorado fashion week? I didn't know that Colorado had a Fashion Week!
Colorado Fashion Week's Founder and Creative Director Justice Kwesi Kwarteng begs to differ. Justice is a Denver resident with a passion for fashion, and he is intimately involved with the fashion industry in Colorado.
Justice is originally from Ghana, Africa but he has lived in New York and now he calls Denver home.
I came here to get my masters degree, but I fell in love with Denver and I decided to stay, says Justice.
After moving to Denver, Justice began to feel the need to help give the fashion industry in Colorado a boost. So he founded Colorado Fashion Week in 2010 and has been heading up the shows and events as Creative Director ever since.
The mission and vision of Colorado Fashion Week is to create an economically sustainable and respected fashion industry in the state of Colorado and the city of Denver, Justice says.
In 2013, Colorado governor John Hickenlooper declared October 1st through 7th to be Colorado Fashion Week every year. So this year, Justice held rehearsals, parties, runway shows, trunk shows and other events every day from October 1st through 7th. The theme for this year's Colorado Fashion Week was Fashion Is Art; Art Is Life.
It is easy to feel Justice's passion when talking with him. Fashion is very, very, very captivating, he says.
He's right. I'm hooked.
I wanted to be a part of Colorado Fashion Week, and share it with others, so I called Justice and offered to broadcast the fashion shows and other events live online to a worldwide audience. I thought this could be good exposure for Colorado Fashion Week and for the state of Colorado. Justice said yes immediately. He had been thinking about live video streaming the event for some time.
I had designers showing out of town and I thought it would be a good opportunity for the designers, for their fans, their customers, clients to be able to experience the show live, he said. We had a designer from Casper, Wyoming, and The Casper Journal specifically called to ask if the event was going to be live streamed, and I told them yes it was. And I know that the editor may have watched.
The digital video industry is something that is really up and high right now, and anybody who really understands its power should really see the need to always get it involved with what they are doing.
Streaming the events at Colorado Fashion Week was a great experience. Local media professionals who couldn't be at the Panel Discussion were able to watch from their mobile devices on the go. Out-of-town designers who showed at the event were able to share the stream with friends, family and members of the media from their hometowns. Colorado Fashion Week was able to successfully expand their reach and audience because of live video streaming.
Live streaming, what I like about it is the very raw, unedited, here-and-now experience, said Justice. I think it benefitted my event in so many ways. We were able to share the experience with those who did not get the chance to make it to the event.
We launched the careers of a few designers during Colorado Fashion Week 2013, said Justice. I think it went extremely well.
Monmouth County's Tourism Attractions
On this segment of Monmouth in Focus, Freeholder Director Thomas A. Arnone talks to host Cynthia Scott about some of the great tourism attractions that Monmouth County has to offer.
Dallas - City Video Guide
Dallas, Texas, is located along the Trinity River. The famous landmark of The Big D, as Dallas is often called, is the Reunion Tower.
The region's cattle herding history is captured in the Heritage Village and on central Pioneer Plaza. Another must-see is The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which documents the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. In the Arts District, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center are popular with visitors.
The Dallas Zoo is great for children and the Dallas World Aquarium also has a jungle walk with monkeys. Families will also love the interactive displays in the Perot Museum Of Nature And Science or the Six Flags Over Texas theme park in Arlington.
Many visitors head out to Southfork Ranch, the mansion out of the famous soap opera Dallas. Don't leave Dallas without tasting a Texas BBQ in Uptown, the nightlife district.
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HSMI Senior Fellow Steven Bucci: Defend & Reform - Defense Spending Panel
HSMI Faculty of Senior Fellows - Steven P. Bucci, Ph.D.
Dr. Steven P. Bucci, who has served America for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer and top Pentagon official, is Associate Professor at Homeland Security Management Institute, focusing his teaching, research and writing on issues of cyber security, domestic and international counter-terrorism, and defense support for civil authorities across the homeland security enterprise. Dr. Bucci also studies and writes about cyber security and special operations as the Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies and Senior Research Fellow for Defense and Homeland Security at The Heritage Foundation.
As Commanding Officer of 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces, Bucci led deployments to eastern Africa, South Asia and the Persian Gulf -- including Operation Desert Thunder in 1998 in response to Saddam Hussein's threats to violate the no-fly zone over Iraq. Dr. Bucci was a seasoned leader in the 82nd Airborne as well as 5th & 7th Special Forces when, in July 2001, he assumed the duties of Military Assistant to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Little over nine weeks later, Bucci witnessed the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. He worked directly for Secretary Rumsfeld daily for five and a half years. He continued to serve the Defense Secretary in a succession of posts until retiring from the Army in 2005 with the rank of Colonel and stayed on at the Pentagon as a civilian appointee with the title of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Bucci's military and government service makes him a recognized expert in the interagency process and defense of U.S. interests, particularly with regard to critical infrastructure and what he calls the productive interplay of government and the private sector.
Prior to joining Homeland Security Management Institute as Associate Professor, Dr. Bucci served as an HSMI Senior Fellow and Board of Advisors member, and was a lead consultant to IBM on cyber security policy, publishing numerous articles on related issues and regularly contributing to Security Debrief, a leading national security blog. He is a highly regarded national security and cyber security policy expert, and a sought-after speaker at conferences on cyber security.
Dr. Bucci, who grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., graduated in 1977 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in National Security. He received his Master's and doctoral degrees in International Relations in 1986 and 1987 from the University of South Carolina. He also is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, the Hellenic Army War College in Greece and the Senior Seminar of the Department of State.
Dr. Bucci completed graduate studies, language training and regional orientation in the Balkans. He taught European studies, foreign policy and international relations at the JFK Special Warfare Center. He conducted many development and anti-drug missions across Latin America, served as Defense Attaché in Sarajevo and became the first resident Defense Attaché in Tirana, Albania.
As the War on Terror unfolded, Secretary Rumsfeld dispatched Bucci to lead a team of 25 military experts to Baghdad to assist the Coalition Provisional Authority. After his retirement from the Army in 2005, he continued to serve as Staff Director of the Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Dr. Bucci's next assignment was as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Defense Support to Civil Authorities, responsible for overseeing policy issues involving the Defense Domains (air, land, maritime and cyber), National Guard domestic operational issues, domestic counterterrorism, readiness exercises and response to natural and manmade disasters. He was the primary civilian overseer of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).
As part of IBM's Public Sector Team, Dr. Bucci was a top strategist in the global computer giant's cyber security campaign, his advice sought by several major federal departments. He was a member of the Cyber Coordinating Committee and an original deputy director of the IBM Institute for Advanced Security. Dr Bucci has been adjunct professor of leadership at George Mason University, he serves on the advisory board of the MIT Geospatial Data Center, and is an advisor to the Prince of Wales/Prince Edward Fellowship program at MIT and Harvard. He also holds the Homeland Security and Defense Education Consortium Association's (HSDECA) Subject Matter Expert (SME) credential.
Bucci and his wife, Suzanne, currently reside in Alexandria, Va. They have two grown sons -- one a psychologist, the other an Army Captain.
50 AMAZING BRAIN ELEVATING HISTORY PHOTOS YOU NEED TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
Collection of the Best Rare Photos Taken around the world from long distance Past
Twelve Collection
1. Chesley Sully Sullenberger: the airline pilot, who in 2009, successfully landed a U.S. Airways Airbus A320 on the Hudson River. Here he is pictured with an F-4 Phantom fighter jet while serving as a pilot in the Air Force (c. 1975-1980)
2. An American tourist in Havana, 1950s
3. The Empire State Building as seen from New Jersey in 1941... photo by Andreas Feininger
4. An elderly female field hand coming home from working in the cotton fields. 1860s.
5. Jewish Market New York, Upper Eastside, 1895
6. German stormtroopers assaulting French positions at Verdun, 1916,
7. Bonnie and Clyde in Joplin Missouri shortly before they were shot dead. 1934.
8. Lucky British soldier shows off his damaged helmet, 1917
9. Adolf Hitler meets King of Thailand, 1934
10. A British soldier checking out a “dud” artillery shell in Wytschaete, Belgium. 1917.
11. Marine Sgt. Frank Praytor feeding a two-week old kitten he named 'Miss Hap' using a medicine dropper after its mother was killed by a mortar barrage near Bunker Hill. Korea, 18th of October 1952
12. A messenger dog with a spool attached to a harness for laying out new electric line on the Western Front (September 1917).
13. A view of Boston, the oldest surviving aerial photograph ever taken. October 13th, 1860.
14. President Harry Truman stands in voting booth during the elections of Independence, Missouri. 1950
15. Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, the three young brothers that would go on to form The Bee Gees just four years after this photo was taken in 1956.
16. A Bosnian Serb woman mourns over the remains of her son killed in 1992 after it was found in a common grave, in Bosnia during the Balkan Wars.
17. Charles (Lucky) Luciano, Sicily, Italy, 1949
18. Military officers and politicians climbing over furniture to watch the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in the aftermath of World War 1. - June 28th, 1919.
19. Canadian soldiers pose by their Bren carrier, shortly after 8am when the World War II ceasefire came into effect, 5th May 1945.
20. Lyndon B. Johnson cries as he listens to his son-in-law describe conditions in Vietnam. 1968
21. In 1921, U.S. Marines were deployed as mail guards to prevent theft or robbery of precious cargoes. Mail robberies declined significantly after Marines began guarding the U.S. Mail
22. Colored entrance in Mobile, Alabama 1956
23. One Times Square under construction, 1903
24. Wall Street in November, 1918 when Germany surrendered
25. Two man head to Los Angeles fleeing dust storm devastated Oklahoma, during the period known as Dust Bowl. March 1937
26. Patrick Cloutier, a 'Van Doo' perimeter sentry, and Anishinaabe Warrior Brad Larocque, staring each other down during the Oka Crisis, a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, in Canada, on September 1, 1990 in a photo by Shamei Komulainen.
27. Tsar Nicholas II, 1899.
28. Soccer team of British soldiers with gas masks, World War I, somewhere in Northern France, 1916
29. An operation being conducted in the Boston City Hospital operating theater, Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1890
30. Dora Ratjen, a German Olympic athlete, who was arrested at a train station on suspicion of being a man in a dress, 1938
31. This is possibly the first ever photograph of a ‘recording studio’. It was taken some time in 1898 at 31, Maiden Lane, London, where the Gramophone Co set up their first permanent recording room.
32. USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90) transporting planes to NAS Alameda, California, 8 July 1944
33. Sherman overlooking Atlanta, Autumn 1864.
34. The entire British Concorde fleet in one picture, January 21, 1986, at London Heathrow Airport
35. A young Vietnamese girl escorts an American POW after his plane was shot down near Hanoi. October 5th, 1967.
36. The LZ 129 Hindenburg flies over Lower Manhattan a few hours before its destruction in Lakehurst, NJ May 6, 1937
37. Young couples rejoice outside the White House during the broadcast of President Nixon's resignation speech. August 8, 1974
38. Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov playing chess during a visit to Maxim Gorky in Capri, Italy
39. National Guardsmen surround a Vietnam war protester during the People’s Park Riot, May 15th 1969
40. U.S. President Ronald Reagan meeting with Afghan mujahedin leaders in 1983.
41. The battleship Nagato , August 1942, Kure
42. A boy sells lemonade from his front yard stand on Main Street in Aspen, Colorado 1973.
43. De Beer mine workers are X-rayed at the end of every shift before leaving the diamond mines. Kimberly, South Africa. 1954.
44. Lincoln's deathbed at Petersen House, taken shortly after the President's body was removed, April 1865
Contemporary Modern Custom Estate: 10 Rockcrest, Rancho Mirage
Located in the prestigious gated community of Mirada Estates, this striking contemporary showcase estate offers a wide array custom features. While privately situated in on a quiet Cul-de-sac, the interior of the home opens towards its large outdoor space and almost 180 degree city view.
Designed for indoor/outdoor living and entertainment, this spectacular estate offers a bright and open setting, floor-to-ceiling pocket sliding doors, covered patio, fire pit, infinity-edge pool and spa, built-in BBQ and much more.
The interior of the property is tastefully designed and executed with much attention to detail. The fully outfitted double-island gourmet kitchen and wine closet feature Bertoni Italian custom-cabinetry.
The grand-scaled Master Suite highlights a stunning Master Bathroom with freestanding, programmable Bain Ultra bathtub and large walk-in his and hers closets. The fully equipped theatre room seats 10 people.
This property is a true statement of modern design tastefully blended with old-world custom craftsmanship.
Mona Hinton Interview by Milt Fillius and Michael Woods - 3/4/1995 - Scottsdale, AZ
Mona Hinton describes her role in the career of her husband, bassist Milt Hinton. She speaks about traveling with the Cab Calloway Orchestra, and Milt's important presence in the New York City studio scene.
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Comedy Legend, James Gregory
This video, an excerpt from Beef Stew for the Brain shows comedian legend, James Gregory at his genius best. He inhabits the very essence of our favorite overweight relative after a large dinner. The one that has had way too much to eat... and might just eat some more. James Gregory's physical comedy, narrative, and timing in this bit show just why James Gregory is a favorite theater, club and corporate comedian.
Barbara Block, Kyle Van Houtan, et al: Fixing the Engine that Powers the Planet | Talks at Google
We are connected to the world through modern technology networks, but as human beings, we are connected to one another by an ancient network that powers quite literally the entire planet: the ocean. This vast ecosystem is currently at risk, and if we are to protect it, we first need to understand our connection to it.
This panel explores the ways in which our consumption and economic activities impact the oceans, the unintended and strangely interconnected consequences of those patterns and activities, and what we can all do as people and employees to turn things around.
Panelists (left to right):
Ana Blanco
Dr. Kyle S. Van Houtan
Dr. Barbara Block
David Helvarg
Birgitte Rasine
Moderated by Michiel Bakker.
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Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Closes His Term
Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera celebrated the conclusion of the first term of his laureateship with a reading at the Library.
Speaker Biography: Juan Felipe Herrera is the 2015-2016 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. In 2012, he was named poet laureate of California. Herrera is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Half the World in Light and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1990, Herrera was a distinguished teaching fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and he has taught elsewhere, including in prisons. He is the author of more than 25 books of poetry, novels for young adults and collections for children, most recently Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes, a picture book showcasing inspirational Hispanic and Latino Americans. Herrera's most recent collection of poems is Senegal Taxi.
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