When news arrives that Apple is interested in a particular product or service, small celebrations often erupt.
When I visited again, this summer, Smith and Watkins took me to the riverfront mezzanine area, where celebrations often take place.
Even military parades in the capital were carefully planned, with the dates of the celebrations often being shifted at the last moment to thwart any plots.
The symphony is regularly called to play for political celebrations, often on short notice, making it difficult to maintain a regular training schedule or plan a season.
Celebrations often include a performance of the lion dance, in which two men hold a giant, colorful replica of a lion's head attached to a long fabric body and dance through the restaurant to the sound of a drum.
In both villages and cities, music and dance celebrations often mark important life-cycle events such as birth, death, initiation, menarche, economic transactions (even the opening of a roadway), peacemaking, and religious observances.
Japan is particularly rich in such public festivals, with each city and many towns having their own particular and individualized celebrations, often involving processions of carriages and boats, effigies and shrine cars, contests, and colourful costumes.
In France, May Day celebrations often expose bitter divisions in the the far-right party Front National, with former leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter and party chief, Marine, holding rival rallies.
College students' 21st birthday celebrations often involve consumption of extreme amounts of alcohol as well as alcohol-related risks.
