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Online Parking Pass Sales Closing at midnight on Sunday June 29th
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

Attention Fireflies! Online sales of parking passes will end at midnight on June 29th. After that they will be available for purchase at the gate for $40 (bring cash in case the online payment system is down). Parking passes will be handed out at the gate when you check in. Any other questions let us know: parking(a)fireflyartscollective.org. - Rhonda Parking Core

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PSA #6: POP QUIZ!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

MEDICAL PSA #6: POP QUIZ!!!!! Surprise! It's pop-quiz time! What would YOU do in the event of an emergency? 1) Find a Ranger with a Radio! 2) Go to Ranger HQ at Mercurial and Verdant! C) Go to the Ranger Outpost at the top of the hill behind Sanctuary and Steam Bath! 7) Head to Diode, Camp Lamp, Totenkitten, or Carnivore Carnivale (aka Meat Camp)! $) None of the Above! ?) All of the Above! 8) Freak the Fuck Out! !1) Embrace the Cool Composed Certainty of Death! x) All of the Above. Again! Answers due today! Quizzes will be graded on July 7th, 2014! These PSAs have been brought to you by Firefly's medical team (not the Board, or the somewhat-clunky Announce list administrators). You might not get your life saved, but you'll die trying.

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Breakdown Volunteers Needed
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

Breakdown Volunteers STILL Needed (DPW has 4 so far and need about 20). To Signup during event, look for posts on Kiosks and Infrastructure Trailer. Or, just show up Sunday at noon in front of the Kitchen. AND/OR show up in front of Infrastructure Trailer Sunday at 3pm Sunday at (noon to 3:00 pm) and/or (3:00 pm to 6:00 pm) —In Front of Kitchen (noon) AND/OR —In Front of Firefly Infrastructure Trailer (3:00 pm) SHIFT ONE—noon to 3:00 pm (show up in front of Kitchen at noon for instructions from Lead) • 10 People—Kitchen, Main Ranger Station, Sub Ranger Station Breakdown • 3 People—Kiosk Breakdown • 1 Person—Collect Path Lights • 2 People—Collect Pedestrian And Vehicle Traction Mats • 2 People—Take Down Snow Fence SHIFT TWO—3:00 pm to 6:00pm (show up in front of Infrastructure Trailer for instructions from Lead) • 1 to 2 People—Put Away Bridge Over Stream on John’s Land AND Pickup: Stations; Kiosks; Snow Fences; Mats; etc and Bring to Trailer if still up in Woods • 4 People—Put Away Ramp Over Stone Wall Near Steam Bath • 2 to 4 People—Re-Assemble Stone Wall By Diode • 2 People—Re-Assemble Stone Wall On John From Main Street • 2 People Trailer Load Master THANSK! DPW CREW

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MEDICAL PSA #5: INTOXICATIONS!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

MEDICAL PSA #5: INTOXICATIONS It's fun to let loose and have a couple drinks, right? That's what I used to say before I went on a bender one night and woke up in a Mexican jail with El Salvadoran gang tats on my neck, missing two fingers, and no recollection of how I got there. It was only then that I realized I may have a problem. How could I have prevented this, I wondered...? 1) Stay Hydrated Alcohol (as well as your beloved caffeine) is a diuretic. This means it increases the filtration of blood by your kidneys, thereby causing an increased urinary output and potential subsequent fluid volume deficit. (Say Whaaaaaaat?) Worse still, alcohol-induced vomiting (also known as puking, tossing cookies, reading rainbow) and/or diarrhea (also known as those next-morning post-beer shits Bukowski was always talking about) will worsen your dehydration. Dehydration is dumb. It makes you feel weak, tired, and generally lousy; it can also cause you to faint. Fainting is also dumb. Who wants to faint and risk smashing their head on a rock, causing an intracranial hemorrhage - or even worse, cause you to miss all the evening's fun and festivities? 1b) Certain perspiration-inducing activities can also cause or worsen dehydration. Activities like dancing, heavy physical labor, and 18 hour marathon orgies all require an increased intake of water and/or non-alcoholic, non-caffeinated beverages to sustain you. Also be sure to take an appropriate amount of salt and protein to increase the oncotic pressure of your blood and thus maintain an adequate fluid volume status! Pro-tip: If you find yourself low on salt and protein, Orgy Dome may be a resource you can utilize. 2) Know Your Limits I totally love spending the evening hunched over the porcelain god praying that if I live through tonight I'll never drink so much again and then when I pass out my friends laugh and draw penises around my mouth in sharpie and take pictures of me with their balls on my forehead! Not! Believe me, being too inebriated is waaaay less exciting than I make it sound! On top of that, vomit is MOOP and your hangover is going to suck doubly so when you're scooping up your own fetid emesis into a smelly trash bag the next morning. Add to that, no one wants to have to tell your royal drunkenness for the 5th time to stop talking too close, stop leaning on the DJ table, and please stop hitting on me... I mean, maybe if you were sober enough to get it up... but, no, just no. You are not a child, please do not get so wasted that others have to set limits on your behaviour and then skulk away in secret when you're not looking so they can escape your buzz-kill, chick-repellent of a presence. 3) Take Care of Your Friends If your friend is too fucked up and is alternating between making an ass of his/herself and leaving a trail of vomit-scented psychedelic art installations in his/her wake, be a stand-up human, step up, and take care of them. -Take them for a walk in the woods to distract and destimulate them. -Talk calmly to deescalate their drunken belligerence. -Take them back to camp so they can vomit all over their own stuff (or better yet, in their own contractor bag!) -Give them food and water (only if not vomiting) to soak up the alcohol and help them sober up. -Put them to bed with a bucket so they don't wake up covered in mosquito bites with the worst hangover of their life. -Talk to Rangers/Sanctuary if you need assistance calming the situation. -Talk to the Blue Dots if you are concerned for your friend's safety, that they may stop breathing, aspirate on their own vomit, injure themselves because they are too drunk and confused to realize they can't fly, etc... And hopefully your friends will do the same for you, were you ever to find your amateur self in the same amateur pair of over-indulged amateur shoes, Amateur.

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MEDICAL PSA #4: PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, EPI-PENS and FIRST AID KITS!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

****hi hi hi!* *please send this at 2pm on thursday!* *please and thannnnnnnk yooooooooooouuuuuuuuuu!**** MEDICAL PSA #4: PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, EPI-PENS and FIRST AID KITS! The Blue Dots do not dispense prescription medications of any kind: not antibiotics, not Lactulose enemas, not Cialis, and not Plan B. If you are on a prescription, be sure to bring it! The woods are risky enough without you taking a medication holiday and having a stroke/asthma attack/psychotic break all over us. Do you have a life threatening allergy? While our crack team of volunteers are knowledgeable in the techniques necessary to maintain a decompensating life, we would rather not give you a cricothyrotomy in the woods because your airway has swollen shut making CPR impossible while EMS isn't going to arrive for another 15 minutes. Volunteering is all the rage here at Firefly 2014 - would you like to volunteer for a cricothyrotomy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wodB2S0uc (Sign up with the Gnomes!) No. Wait, that's a terrible idea. You don't want that. And we don't want to consider risking our professional licensure in order to save your life by performing one on you. Please do us Blue Dots a favor, spare us the difficult decision of choosing between your life and our livelihoods, and bring your life-saving prescriptions. As mentioned in Tuesday's PSA, we recommend using your judgement. Don't forget to pack your judgement! It fits nicely inside your first aid kit! Bust it out whenever you need it! Having your judgement on you at Firefly, along with your own supplies, means you don't need to walk all the way to the Medical Station at Mercurial and Verdant, radio for a Blue Dot, and then wait for a Blue Dot to arrive. Hell, if you use your judgement, you may never penetrate your foot on that giant, hot, throbbing piece of wood, nor will you need a morning-after pill the next day. However, though we do try to stem the tides by empowering you to care for yourself, we are absolutely here to help you. If you are concerned about an injury or illness you are experiencing, please come see us! It gives our hearts joy and our lives purpose to assist you in your time of need! Please use us! We like to feel used! And remember kids, you can't spell "event" without "prevention!"

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MEDICAL PSA #3: FUCKING EMERGENCIES OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

****hi guys!please send this one out at 2pm on wednesday!* *thank you!**** FUCKING EMERGENCIES OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you, a friend, relative, ex-boyfriend, acquaintance, or even someone you've never met before is dying, please come find a Blue Dot. Where the fucking bloody fucking hell fuck am I going to find a Blue Dot, my fucking friend is dying right now, you ask? Blue Dots can be found with any official Firefly radio (also known in some regional dialects as a "Walkie-Talkie"), which means you can reach out and touch us anywhere, anytime! RADIOS CAN BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: 1) Rangers! Any wandering Ranger will have a magic radio on their person which they can rub to summon a Blue Dot who will grant you 3 wishes! 3 fucking wishes! 2) Ranger HQ! There are radios at Ranger HQ! Granted, most of them may be charging but at least 1 will be in working order... hopefully! Ranger HQ is at the intersection of Mercurial and Verdant. 3) Ranger Annex! There will be a 2nd (and thus secondary) Ranger Outpost behind Sanctuary, at the top of the hill behind steam bath. So come on by in your time of emergent need, stop by the steam bath* along the way, and then give us a call. We'd love to hear from you! *neither steam bath camp, the blue dots, nor the rangers recommend or condone dying in the steam bath. please do your dying elsewhere, k thx. 4) Theme Camps! Some of the bigger theme camps will have a radio at their location, in the vicinity of their DJ booth and equipment. Those theme camps include: Diode Carnivore Carnivale (aka Meat Camp) Totenkitten and Camp Lamp Are you dying? Just follow the untz-untz-untz to the nearest radio. It should be really easy to hear the responding lead ranger (AKA Kahki) when you're standing right next to the speakers! NEED TO CALL 911? If you believe you need 911, please call the Blue Dots. We are your first responders and will help you out with that whole dying thing. This is for a handful of reasons: 1) The Blue Dots can start treatment before 911 arrives. Not breathing? Want to not breath for 20 minutes while you wait for 911? Bleeding to death? Want to bleed to death for 20 minutes while you wait for 911? The Blue Dots are set-up with resources to handle your issues. Utilize us! We get the job done. We will help you. 2) We can assist you down the hill so that you are at the location 911 will arrive. This is much preferable to EMTs lugging you down a muddy hill on a hand-carried stretcher for 15 minutes. On top of that, no EMT in Vermont is going to know where your tent in the fern patch up the hill from Diode is. 3) We can notify Kirk and the board that 911 has been called. It's hard to imagine a universe where a surprise visit from an ambulance, fire truck, and/or the police would be a pleasant experience. ALSO, we would like to be at the gate to greet and assist emergency response in their efforts to assist us. 4) Maybe you don't actually need to go to the hospital! Wouldn't that be fucking rad? Who in their 'right' mind wants to leave paradise to go sit in a flourescently-lit emergency room for 5 hours in a muddy tutu and smeared face paint? The Blue Dots have resources. We will help you breathless. We will help your flipping brains out. We will help the fuck out of you. Our number's on all the bathroom stalls' bathroom walls. Call us, maybe? ;)

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MEDICAL PSA #2: SHOES AND SCRAPES!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

SHOES AND SCRAPES! 1) Prevention Do you know that the number 1 complaint treated by Blue Dots in 2013 was foot injuries? This includes scrapes, punctures, splinters, and stubbed and broken toes. All of these injuries could have easily been prevented by WEARING YOUR FUCKING SHOES, HIPPIES! There are a myriad of traps the forest has set for you; buried beneath the opulence of mud can be found roots, rocks, fanged demons, sticks, that one guy who got lost in the mud last year and never found, tent stakes, guy wires, and more! So bust our your fancy shoes with the 17 inch platform cleats that you bought specifically to peacock all around Firefly while stilted high above the mud, and flaunt the fuck out of those fuckers! Put some fucking lights on them things! Fuck yeah! Then people will be afraid to be barefoot around you and will put their shoes on, too! Be part of the solution! 2) Immediate Treatment Sure, you can come to the Blue Dots every time you break a toe nail. We might laugh derisively at you (just kidding! [not actually kidding! {totally actually kidding!}]) while we tell you to wash it off in soap and water so we can bandage it. But you could also participate in the spirit of the event and DIY! You wouldn't go to the hospital every time you stub your toe at home, right? Use your judgement. The Blue Dots are a resource at your disposal; utilize your resources efficiently. If everyone comes to us for every splinter, then everyone will wait an hour to be taken care of. That said, we Blue Dots are here for all of Firefly and we *delight* in assisting you. Please come see us if you think something is bad, are unsure if something is bad, or if you just want your hand held while we pet your head and tell you that you are not dying any faster than the rest of us and everything is going to be more-or-less ok. 3) Risk Management -If you do scrape your foot, you're going to be wearing shoes for the rest of the event to prevent infection (so you may as well just wear them in the first place, right?) -Moist, dirty wounds are ripe for infection, so keep your feet clean and dry. -Wash your wound daily. -Apply Bacitracin, or another topical over-the-counter antibiotic ointment daily (or twice a day) after washing. -Cover with a bandage so the ointment remains on the wound. While caring for your wound, you will also want to keep an eye out for signs of infection: -redness -swelling -pain -nasty (thick, opaque, yellow and/or green) drainage -a red streak from the wound towards your torso -fever Any of these signs and symptoms may indicate a potentially serious infection is developing. Please come see us Blue Dots so we can check it out! With love and foot fetishes for all, The Blue Dots of Firefly, your local medical monopoly

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Early Arrival requests - list closing soon!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hello Fireflies, If you require early arrival and have not yet made your request, act now - we will not be accepting applications after Wednesday the 25th 23:59EST - that's tomorrow night at midnight. You must apply through the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NPSO0vF3PahC7dyz5MMR9hv0WGEyI6TOE2AiZ2zb4Q… As a reminder, requests are not handled automatically. Each request is reviewed by the Early Arrival Core. Permission is granted on a case-by-case basis. If you have already applied, we are in the process of reviewing applications. You'll receive a confirmation email in the next few days. Questions or changes, drop us a line at early(a)fireflyartscollective.org We'll see you in the woods! Love, FF Early Arrival Core

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Volunteer Gnomes need you!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

This time next week, we'll be in the woods! Volunteer Gnomes are yet another great volunteer opportunity. Want to volunteer but don't want to sit at a station for 3 hours? Want to walk around in the woods with a radio without being a Ranger? Many shifts, you'll be able to spend most of your shift hanging out wherever you want with a radio. To sign up, go here: http://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/join-a-core/gnomes/ Volunteer Gnomes are responsible for making sure volunteering is going smoothly throughout Firefly. As a Gnome, your primary duty is to run a systems check near the beginning of each shift. Equipped with your GnomePhone (ie radio) to solicit help if needed, you visit each of the volunteer base-stations about half an hour after each shift starts. (Gate, Greeters, Parking, Kitchen, and Rangers). You make sure everyone has shown up for their shift, find out whether the station needs anything, and generally make yourself available to ensure the station’s volunteers are happy. Take a trip around to make sure all the fires are tended. Check that there is enough toilet paper. Depending on the need, you can either take care of it yourself, solicit help from others, or get an organizer or core leader. If all has gone smoothly, you're basically done. Hang on to your radio for the rest of your shift, then hand it over to the next Gnome at the beginning of the next shift. Occasionally, there are unanticipated demands for volunteers. For example, last year we needed to move the greeter station on short notice because the parking lot filled up. You are the recruiter in the woods if the need arises. Ideally, a handful of people should be able to form the Volunteer Gnome Troupe for the entire event. Ready to help? Take a look at the schedule, pick an open slot (or two! or three!), and fill out the signup form. Bask in the knowledge that you are one of the people who Gets Shit Done, and watch as your Firefly is magically showered with good karma. Carolyn

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Firefly Parking Passes - YOU need one!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List via Announce 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Firefly is one week! Have you got your *Parking Pass* yet? Every vehicle entering Firefly NEEDS to have a Parking Pass linked to the driver or passengers in the vehicle. Parking Passes must be purchased prior to entering the event. Parking Passes will be available for purchase at the gate at DOUBLE the price - $40. Buy yours in advance and avoid the $20 penalty. Parking Passes can be purchased online through the Firefly ticket page. 1. Log into your account on the Firefly ticket page <http://tickets.fireflyartscollective.org/>. 2. Click on the “Ticketing Sales” tab. 3. Select "Click here for parking passes". 4. Purchase Parking Pass. Parking Pass fees (Prices DOUBLED if purchased at the gate): - $20 – Car ($40 @ gate) - $10 – Designated transport vehicles (advance purchase only) - Free – Motorcycles, bicycles, pogo sticks Please contact parking(a)fireflyartscollective.org to transfer your Parking Pass to someone else. If you don’t use your Parking Pass the fee will be refunded. Questions, please let us know at parking(a)fireflyartscollective.org. Rhonda, Parking Core

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