This would have turned off all traditional Chinese collectors, despite their passion for Song celadon and the universal Chinese reverence for all things connected with the emperor.
The festival is a celebration of all things connected with Brazil and culminates in a carnival parade through the city centre.
The idea for a Festival of the North East, celebrating all things connected with the region, has been around for some time; the question has been finding a suitable time to hold it.
Near Redcar, where tens of thousands of people used to work in the steel works, Newcastle's Theatre Royal is organising Salamander, a celebration of all things connected to the steel industry, featuring 500 participants, an audience of around 5,000, and music, dance, visual arts, poetry, storytelling and a male voice choir of steel workers.
"Not only is the Internet of Services bigger than the sum of all the connected devices in the world, it's more valuable financially to enterprises, developers, hardware vendors and ultimately to the consumers of all things connected".
Google also just acquired Dropcam with its Nest division, which is quickly becoming a hub for all things connected home, and we'll probably see them talk more about this push and its growing orbit of devices and services.
As the series unfolds, Lex's curiosity about Clark and all things connected to Clark ultimately destroys their friendship.
For anyone who has never heard of Deepak Chopra, he is the author of 65 books, a doctor of internal medicine and endocrinology, and a worldwide speaker on a diverse range of topics dealing with health, philosophy, science, spirituality and all things connecting mind, body and spirit.
