Cloud Gate's international prestige is such that Lin was recently offered the directorship of one of Europe's major dance companies.

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The jaunty founder of the Cloud Gate Dance Theater is part of the modern history of the island and one of its most ardent admirers.

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The Bishop of Birmingham, the Rt Rev David Urquhart, said he wanted to see something like Chicago's Cloud Gate sculpture, which he said would represent nature's influence on world faiths.

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Founded in 1973, Cloud Gate (it gets its name from China's oldest dance, dating back 5, 000 years) is on a nonstop voyage through world cultures, fusing tai chi, meditation, Chinese opera, modern dance and ballet into an art form that has captivated international audiences.

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Cloud Gate tours extensively.

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By the age of 14, he was studying Chinese opera movement and paying for his first ballet lessons with money earned by writing. (He later published two novels.) The turning point came when Lin studied with modern dance pioneers Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham - influences that could be detected flitting through his early work with Cloud Gate.

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Use of a gate-driven cloud adoption process designed to terminate failed projects early in the project lifecycle and deliver measurable capabilities within a quick timeframe (weeks not years) is highly recommended.

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It is a guess based on the size of the storage that has been purchased, the fact that video consumes far more data than audio, and the introduction of a simple audio locker or cloud-based version of iTunes is unlikely to require this much storage and capability out of the gate.

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