Burke Soccer stalwart, Romy Hernandez was featured in last week’s Northwest Current. The article highlights his role on his travel team, the Baltimore Bays Chelsea, which just won the National Title in their age bracket. But, just as importantly, it also focuses on why Romy, who had his pick of schools, chose to play and study at Burke. Read the whole thing here.
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The Traveling Players Ensemble
This is the first of what is hopefully a series of posts about 
what everyone is up to this summer.*
Last Friday evening, Burke.Word fled the sweltering sidewalks of DC for the theater among cool grass and shady trees near Great Falls. Close to the banks for the Potomac under the setting sun, three acting troupes from the Traveling Players Ensemble performed 2 plays by Moliere (The Miser and The Learned Ladies), as well as Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
TPE is a non-profit professional theater company whose mission is to “bring great theater into the great outdoors.” As part of its mission it has a summer camp for kids where they learn, produce, rehearse and perform plays 
in a theater of trees and grass. TPE also promotes the ‘ensemble’ as a way to teach and promote creativity and community. As the evening went on, including the finale which was a riverside s’more fest, you saw how close and supportive the kids, and counselors and staff had become.
A number of Burke kids played big roles this summer at TPE, both on and behind the stage, including Jeffrey (’10), Lawrence (’11), Ellie (’12), Julianne (’16) and Kate (’16). The good news is that there are 
more performances, including Love’s Labor Lost, which begins on July 27. You can find the schedule and locations here.
You can also see lots more photos at BurkePix.
* Are you doing something cool this summer? Yoga Camp, or a cruise, or trip to Sweden, perhaps (you know who you are)? Then you need to do a little show & tell for the rest of the class. We’d love to hear what you’ve been up to! You can share your summer stories and photos with Burke.Word by sending them to ramaz57 [at] gmail.com and we’ll get them posted to the site. Thanks!
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To experience the amazing Theatre that has invaded DC since july 9th.
Shows are only $15 and there is really so much great work to see.
There are tons of reviews of the shows at great places like:
THE WASHINGTON POST fringe reviews
FRINGE AND PURGE – the City Paper’s Review Site.
and DC THEATRE SCENE – a great site for all theatre reviews.
The Festival only comes around once a year – and is a great chance to see theatre cheep – and see things you won’t ever see during the regular theatre season in DC or elsewhere.
visit www.capitalfringe.org for more info or to purchase tickets. Or you can stop by the box office at 6th/NY ave NW!
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You can read all of The Organization Comics by clicking here
The Organization is Copyright ©2010 Jeffrey Robb
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I wrote my first and last blog about 455 days ago. Random fact, I know. The content, I must confess, was equally random, but something about writing it sure felt good. So, I’m not sure why I never wrote again. I guess maybe it’s like exercising-you just have to keep doing it until it becomes part of your routine and you begin to reap the benefits. Or, if you have never gotten that far with exercise, then I guess maybe that is a bad analogy. Or, maybe it is like exercising–you tried it and thought “what’s the point of this?” And, the next thing you know, 455 days have gone by. See, this is why I never blogged a second time. I just go into one big, rambling, monologue. Oh, somebody did say I should talk about my summer plans. Next time.
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Sam R. might recognize this
After attending Burke’s recent graduation ceremony, I came across the commencement address that Jeff Bezos gave this Spring at Princeton. Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon. When he started work on Amazon, most people didn’t know what the Internet was. Even the people who were aware of the Internet thought that he was crazy to think that people would want to buy books with their computers – especially since the majority of people didn’t have computers. Even after Amazon started to get some traction, people again thought Bezos was nuts to keep raising huge gobs of money to fund exponential growth of its infrastructure and product offerings.
In hindsight it’s easy to see that Bezos is a uniquely smart, creative, thorough person who had a brilliant, well thought-out idea. But, he told Princeton’s graduates that these characteristics weren’t the keys to building Amazon. For Bezos the truly important and lasting thing was that he made the choice to start Amazon, even though it meant leaving a very successful job. Our individual gifts aren’t really what make us who we are. They don’t define what we stand for, they don’t point to where we want to go, they don’t leave an enduring map of where we have been. Our choices do.
He closes his speech by asking:
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?
Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?
Will you follow dogma, or will you be original
Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?
Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?
Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you apologize?
Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love?
Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?
When it’s tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?
Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
Good questions for graduates of all ages. Read the whole thing: We Are What we Choose.
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Recently, many people have asked me, “Mystery Organization Member, why did you decide to move the comic to the blog from the Cageliner?” Well, there are a couple of reasons, and thanks for asking.
One: Burke.Word offers a lot more freedom to the strip in terms of space and subject matter. Knowing that the Cageliner comes out only four or five times a year (not including the Valentines issue) gives a cartoonist a headache when it comes time to decide what your strips are going to be about. Are they going to connect at all? Are they going to be meaningful and timely? You can’t go and write a comic about the student outrage over the grinding ban when you know that people will be reading it two months later, when the whole issue has died down. Well, you can, but then people will read it and roll their eyes, muttering to themselves about how the Cageliner should just run Garfield reprints if they want a comic so badly.
Two: They promised that they would give me the whole back page for one of my comics and then did not deliver. And no one reneges on a promise to The Organization without facing the consequences!
Three: I kind of graduated.
So, yeah. Here’s the first all new, all totally rad The Organization comic made especially for Burke.Word. As a tribute to our new home, we’ve started out with a special Edmundification featuring three out of five members. Enjoy!
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You can read all of The Organization Comics by clicking here.
The Organization is Copyright ©2010 Jeffrey Robb
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Students, Faculty, Staff and Parents – the Capital Fringe Festival is looking for volunteer box office folks – You work 2(ish) hour shifts, and for every shift you work, you get to see a FREE Fringe Show!
Contact me for more info – coryryanfrank@gmail.com
The festival opens in just ONE DAY!!!
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Recently on Reddit.com bloggers asked some google employees anonymously what it’s really like to work for them. It’s a pretty interesting interview – definitely worth a read. Check It Out Here
Rumor has it that google is developing a site to rival facebook – check out the article here on cnn.com
Have you heard about the google.cn drama? Basically, China has asked google to censor it’s search results, something that goes against everything google stands for. You can read about the latest in that saga here.
In addition to the rumors about a facebook rival, google is also in development for a music download service.The rumors are pretty huge – and when the wall street journal is reporting it, it must be true.
also check out: 10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google
And Finally…Like all those fun google Logo images that happen throughout the year? Want to see them all? Well then you should click popeye and check em out!
There is so much info our there about google – so go google it (ba dum ch)
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Ever Seen Cory or Eddie driving around the building in the scissor lift?
Ever thought to yourself – I wonder what it would be like if we owned two of them, and created a dance piece using the two scissor lifts?
Well, now you don’t have to wonder anymore, here’s what it might look like:
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Nice Couple
The Annual Fourth of July Palisades Parade demonstrates that independence has less to do with where you are than where you’re going and how you travel there!
American Folkswagon
Imperial Road
Cherry Red White & Blue
Mustang on Wheels
Mustangs & Wheels
Young Pioneers
March of the 17-76 Trombones
Bolivia Says Happy Independence Day!
Lot’s more Independence Day photos at BurkePix.
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This summer the featured exhibition at the National Building Museum is, LEGOs!! According to the website: “Piece by piece, brick by brick, this (Adam Reed Tucker) LEGO Certified Professional (one of 11 worldwide) creates large-scale artistic models of some of the world’s most famous structures including the Empire State Building, St. Louis’ Gateway Arch, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece Fallingwater. The simplicity and nostalgic quality of LEGO affords viewers a new, detailed look at familiar buildings. Visitors can lean in close to see the complexity of a building’s intricate design and engineering or take a step back to appreciate its stunning sculptural form in full.”
“Trained as an architect, Tucker rekindled his childhood interest in LEGO® bricks and began experimenting with LEGO as a medium for his art in 2003. The result of his vision—15 buildings from around the world made entirely from LEGO bricks—will be the centerpiece of the exhibition LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition.”
Go Check out this pretty freekin cool exhibition at the National Building Museum, running now through Sept. 5, 2011 (yea, you have a lot of time)
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If you’re not taking a summer school science class, or even if you are, your next best option is to check out Fake Science. The masterminds behind the site, combine vintage 1950′s -60′s scientificy-looking poster graphics, with fake pseudo-science proverbs.
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