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The Brilliant Idea
At PEC we try to work with our vendors and identify what it is they do, what they do well, and encourage them NOT to go outside their scope to try to please random requests. For example, if a catering vendor does not cook Japanese food….don't ask them to cook Japanese food. You will be left with a lack luster product, an un-satisfied client, and a hostile vendor! Never a good combo!
That said sometimes we (the PEC team) seem to forget this general guideline and ultimately end up re-learning a lesson that we thought we had mastered! A couple of years ago we had an event coming up that wanted to do some cool lounge furniture and create this swanky lounge. Typically we would hire this out and manage the details. However, during this particular event we had a very good vendor that was hosting a fund-raiser and also thought it would be cool to have a lounge at their event. That's when we had a brilliant idea! What if instead of renting the furniture from our normal vendor we purchased a bunch of furniture from Ikea, used it for our big event and then donated it to our vendor's event? We would donate our time and set everything up for the fundraiser…it would be perfect!
Fast forward three weeks…….
All of the furniture arrived on time at our warehouse but as you know required assembly. We put all of the furniture together at our warehouse. We allotted three hours; it took many, many, many more than that! We were dirty, disheveled, sporting box cuts, hungry and laughing about our recent endeavor. Overall we were still in good spirits and were quite pleased with our purchases.
The fundraiser came and went and was a great success! It looked beautiful and we were happy to have been able to help. However, we were a bit shocked at how much work it was to load up the furniture into the U Haul, schlep it to the event, unwrap it, set it up, re-wrap it, re-box it, re-load it, and schlep it back to the warehouse for the second time. But hey, all in the name of charity right?
Now we just had to do it one more time for the big event. Imagine our shock when a few days later we heard from our client that they wanted to cut out the lounge and would not be renting furniture….days before the event. Uh oh! We did not see that one coming! Now we had a few thousand dollars' worth of furniture in our warehouse…assembled! At this point it was a scramble to find out what we could return. We made arrangements for pick up and back to the warehouse we went for dis assembly!
We had to take all of the furniture apart and re package it for return. Thankfully we had some great plastic wrap from Home Depot, unfortunately for some unknown reason there was a freak pile of sawdust outside of our warehouse. There are a couple hundred warehouses in the complex yet for some reason on that day there was sawdust in front of ours…just ours! The wind kept kicking up and it would stick to the cling wrap. It was a NIGHTMARE!
Ikea would not pick it up at the warehouse so we had to haul it to my house for pick up. We secured another U Haul and loaded up the furniture for the fifth time. However, this U Haul, for some reason was much larger than the previous U Hauls, and was missing the side mirrors on the right hand side….not to mention that neither of us on staff that day had ever driven anything larger than an SUV! Here we are dirty, hostile, cursing the project and heading down the boulevard.
I have my head hanging out the window trying to see if we can move over while still keeping the truck in my lane and avoiding rear ending the vehicle in front of me. We finally decide it will be best to stay in the right hand lane and travel a path that only requires right hand turns. (Really?! We weren't even sure this was possible.) It's at this point when we are laughing so hard at the hilarity of the situation that we sit back and ponder how we even got into this situation in the first place.
We finished the project, ended up with a couple of furniture pieces to our name that could not be returned, poured some wine and reflected on what had gone so awry. It all circled back to the same old lesson….Don't do what you don't do!! Had we just said "We're sorry, PEC is not a furniture rental company" we could have saved ourselves of hours of time, trouble, stress, and money. But hey….I guess we walked away with a hilarious memory and that's worth something….. (I think….)


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Are you ready to continue the revealing of the special guests at the upcoming Twelve Writers of Christmas Facebook Party on December 12th!?
I hope so because I am so excited to be introducing the seventh special guest, Ashley Bogner! She is sooooo sweet and can't tell you how excited I was when I learned she is seeking to go into the Christian publishing industry.
Plus did I mention she self-published an epic Christian dystopian? 😉
About the Author
When Ashley Bogner was in third grade, she decided she would be a published author when she grew up. Ashley is a homeschool graduate and has lived in seven different states. She completed a year of Bible college and in the fall will begin pursuing a degree in Communication Studies. After college, her plan is to work in the Christian publishing industry. When not writing, she can be found baking, posting book reviews on her blog, and watching her favorite movies over and over to the point of memorization.
Website/Blog — Facebook — Twitter — Goodreads
Let's Chat!
– For those who don't know you, can you share three words to describe yourself?
This question took me the longest to think about! Instead of three separate words, I'm going to use a three-word phrase I think works fairly well. 🙂
"Great big dork".
– I love it! 😀 (I'm totally a dork too, so dorks unite!) What's the best thing about being a writer?
What's the best thing about being a writer? That I can do something I greatly enjoy and say I'm "working." 🙂 Writing is, for me, as much a hobby as it is something I hope to have a job doing someday (I'm an English major in college). It's also been pretty fun to see how excited my friends and family get when they read my writing. So many people have been really supportive and have given me fantastic encouragement.
– Haha! That is so true and is definitely one of the funniest jobs ever. 😉 How has your spiritual walk influenced your writing?
My faith influences a lot of my writing. I started writing because I was frustrated with the lack of hope and Christian values in the books I was reading. I wanted to write a story in a genre I loved, but write one that pointed people to Jesus. Stories are such powerful things, and I love that power they have. Writing allows me to ponder and work through deep questions and I enjoy getting to use that medium to incorporate Christian themes.
– Yes, yes, yes!! This! If you had the ability to jump into any story and live there for a week, what book would you choose?
Just one book? There's so many I would love to visit, but if I had to pick just one….I would choose the Chronicles of Narnia. Narnia sounds like a pretty amazing place to visit (although preferably not when the White Witch is around).
– Well said as I wouldn't want to visit if she was around either. 😉 Thanks so much for chatting with me Ashley! I am thrilled to have you as one of the special guests at the party and can't wait to chat again real soon.
*Ashley will be chatting from 9:10-9:25 PM EST. Wonder what she is going to talk about?*
You'll have to stop by the party on December 12th to find out! 😉 (But don't worry! It's going to be a lot of fun!)
Before you go, be sure to check Ashley's book online!

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I hope this encourages her, cause it sounds like she like plumbing and can make a fine living with it. Additionally, it will make her happier and more satisfied with her life than sitting in an office 8 hours a day. I came to the same crossroads in my life, although a little later in age than your daughter. After finally learning how to sew, when I had to go back to work, I had the choice of doing the 8 hours-a-day-in-an-office or doing what I loved, and chose the latter, much to the chagrin of my family ("Oh no!!! You're going to take in sewing?! This is so humiliating!" – humiliating for them not me.) But I loved it so much that I did it anyway. When I started getting the swells of society as clients, THEN it was OK!!! But by that time I had already established my company and had a reputation for being expensive, but very good.
If there's a shortage of tradespeople where she is, she should also remember her value and charge accordingly. Her work is just as good as anyone working in an office with a 4-year college degree!!! And of course, after she gets established, she should revisit her price schedule!
I have two brothers who are blue collar tradesman, each incredibly good at what he does. Each is recognized as THE "go-to" man when colleagues can't fix a problem themselves, sometimes after days of trying. Each also has the social skills of a wounded water buffalo. This is a completely common problem with tradesmen. Psychologists are not sure which is the chicken, which is the egg. Miserable social skills causes a man to take up working solo, or working solo causes a man to have no need for social skills on a day by day basis? Tradesmen "do not play well with others in the sandbox." Tradesmen simply are NOT "team players", UNLESS THERE IS AN EMERGENCY. In fact, "team player" is THE reason corporate America INSISTS on a college degree for jobs where not a thing about the job is learned in college at all. TEAM PLAYER is a given in college. (Not all learn it, in fact many don't.) I knew a machinist once who could play a magnificent piano, and an economist who mounted a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower muffler on a forty year old Montgomery Ward's motorcycle because that was all he could find. It took me once two hours to explain to a woman with four college degrees how to calculate — to the fourth decimal place — compound daily interest on the back of an envelope. (I estimated the interest in my head in two seconds [quite easy, just divide interest rate into 0.72 to get the number of years — approximately — to double your money], but she wouldn't accept that.) Problem-solving is actually quite easy. Knowing WHAT to fix, that's THE skill. College teaches just two things. One, How To Be A TEAM PLAYER, and Two, how to remember three thousand pages of how other people solved what MIGHT have been a similar problem. Original work is NOT taught in college, nor in trade school for that matter. Thomas Edison — in grade school — made himself electric insulators from the necks of broken bottles, said insulators used for his home-made telegraph system. Tradesmen are different, some dramatically skilled. None get invited to the Debutante's Ball, even though a tradesman might have fixed the Gala Event Hall air-conditioning three hours before with a Bobby Pin. Apollo 13 was saved — in space — using a cardboard box taped into place.
You may be right about tradespeople having at least wounded if not missing social skills because a lot of them do work alone. However, I guess my experience is that most of the tradesmen I know have marvelous social skills and very level heads. They ask very insightful and thoughtful questions that get to the heart of an issue, fix it and go on their way. That's sort of the way I work with my clients and I suppose I appreciate that clear and succinct form of communication and handling the task at hand.
For me what I miss about the preponderance of tradespeople in our population, is the inventions, gadgets, and devices they create to make our life easier. As well, these sorts of creations make us independent of other outsources. But by far the most important aspect I miss that our population doesn't seem to understand is the job that these people do – the lack of appreciation of what they do and what they add to our community and to our life. People who don't understand sewing, have no idea how to pick out well-made clothing – result: there hardly any well-made clothing available in stores these days. People who don't appreciate fine craftsmanship or carpentry or electrical work or plumbing work, have no idea about how to pick out a good plumber from a bad one. It's the lack of appreciation and therefore the lack of value that bothers me the most. If our population is more interested in living with their heads in the crowd, then our feet are going to be swept out from underneath us and all these people out there who think that plumbers, carpenters, and electricians are people that grow a dime-a-dozen, are going to be up a creek without the proverbial paddle.
This is timely as my 15 yo son wants to be a plumber but his Dad who is a teacher is pushing him to do subjects he doesn't want to do due to what he used to do when he was young. He's got plenty of time to choose. I'm practical, his father is practical and it shouldn't be a surprise he would like to do something practical. I'm in Australia and due to the money foreign students bring in education has gotten more expensive and they underfunded TAFE (technical colleges) for years and destroyed the vocational arm of it too. Now they wonder why no one is a tradesperson. I don't care what my son does as long as he is happy doing it and he never stops learning. He'll change his career a few times no doubt but should he have to choose and be made to feel like he doesn't know what he wants just because he is 15. It's right for him now, when it's not he will change. Just like we all have. Funny I stumbled on this the every evening I had a discussion with my son about this. Thanks.
Our schools have stopped teaching auto mechanic,woodworking, home economics and other useful skills. They are pushing the students to attend a 4 yr college. I am in the automotive field and have seen the shortage of mechanics. Shops are willing to pay top dollar for trained techs.
Sandy, Thanks for your comment – it's such a shame because it makes us at the least a woefully prepared consumer. As such, consumers today have no idea what well-made clothing is, and don't know even what to look for. What's worse is that this has been with us for a solid generation of shopping, so there's a whole slew of folks out there who have no idea about sewing and what it takes to make a great garment. That goes for any sort of basic repair work from carpentry to mechanical engineering. The consumer has no idea what they are paying for and therefore are most likely getting ripped-off almost all the time. I've sewing my wardrobe for 40+ years now and I've never had cheap/fast fashion in my closets that have never been over-stuffed. I've only heard about it.
I love this article, Claire. I, too, was pressured to attend college but hated it and dropped out after a year. Worried, my parents guided me to enroll in secretarial school which I did and it provided me with good jobs my whole working career. But, sewing has always been my love and I supplemented my income sewing for hundreds of clients. By the time I was in my 30s I realized that I should have gone to New York and studied pattern making skills. It was too late as I was raising my family. I wish I had lived in a different area and not had the stigma of the 60s that young girls should either be teachers, nurses or secretaries. I raised my 2 daughters to believe they could do anything. Karen
Karen – it's never too late. I was in my late 20's and early 30's when I started and then apprenticed with my mentor. I've been thankful ever since that I did this, cause every day I get to have fun playing in my studio – although I have to keep it on a schedule and have client's designs done on time, still it's a lot of fun!
Where I live, there is NO stigma against tradespeople. In this area, we know what is needed, and unions are respected.
There is a vocational high school that is open to high school kids their jr and sr year, and our son took advantage of what it had to offer, and then he furthered his education at a local community college.
All 3 of my kids went into the workforce college debt free, and all had a house when they were 30. They were raised with a Grandpa and a Dad that were blue collar, and did well, so assumed it was a path they could take too.
As parents, it was not our job to see that they got rich, only that they could support themselves, getting rich was on them!
That is so fabulous and even better that you encouraged them. It's that there could be many more out there who's choice it is to go into a tradecraft vocation, and aren't allowed to because it might be considered to be less educated, when in reality, it's just as much (consider how much your Grandpa and Dad learned while on the job and how that made their work that much more valuable as they grew older).
There seems to be so much emphasis made on make a "lot" of money, when in reality that not only doesn't bring you guaranteed happiness but also brings a lot of extra headaches and baggage that no one tells you about when you're "encouraged" to make all that $$$!.
We have much the same situation in Australia,except that tradespeople OFTEN earn a lot more than all but the highest flyers in society.Still people encourage their children to go to university,even though the drop-out rate is quite high after just 1st year!!
My husband was the senior school coordinator in a private college(high school) and one year the boy who was a school captain AND Year 11 Dux asked for an appointment to talk about his future.The young man really badly wanted to be a green keeper (at a large metropolitan golf club) but his parents wanted him to finish high school (one more year).My husband asked many questions,and it came out that the young man was being offered an apprenticeship. He went with my husband's blessing,because he was convinced this young man really wanted to be a greenkeeper and being happy in your chosen job is so important. In another case, the school Dux of Year 12 (a girl) was headed right for medicine or law, but she chose primary school teaching(considered to be the fall-back job for even average students!!!).She excelled and is a very happy and proficient teacher to this day!!


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Ethiopia: At least 22 killed in recent violence in Amhara region Oct. 3 /update 1
Fighting between security forces and minority ethnic group in Amhara region leaves at least 22 people dead as of October 3; further violence possible
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Several engagements between regional security forces and an ethnic minority group have taken place in Amhara region between Friday, September 27, and Thursday, October 3. The first incident occurred on September 27, when unidentified armed men ambushed a minibus traveling to the city of Gondar, killing ten people. A military convoy was also attacked on the following day, leaving at least 12 soldiers dead. As of October 3, at least 17 militia members have also reportedly been killed in the fighting. On Wednesday, October 2, the US Embassy in Addis Ababa ordered all US government personnel to defer travel to the region due to the ongoing unrest and violence.
Further clashes are possible in the near term in Amhara region.
According to a government report released on September 25, at least 1000 people have been killed across Ethiopia in the last 12 months as a result of inter-ethnic conflicts. An additional 1.2 million people have been displaced due to the uptick in violence, which has largely occurred in the regions of Oromia, Amhara, and Tigray. Self-administration and statehood demands by Ethiopia's disparate ethnic groups have caused great tension since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed assumed office in April 2018.
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Introduction: How to Make a Pull Pin Airsoft Grenade
first of all what you need is:
baking soda
plastic wrap
container or bottle
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drill a hole in the center of the lid or cap so that a piece of string can get through so i recommend the 1 8th drill bit
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Then measure out enough string to math where my finger is then take some wrap and make it so that it goes inside the cap but enough so that you have room to make it come out oh and put string through the center of the wrap to make sure it fits but also feed it through the hole in your cap and tape it at the top so that the string won't fall through.
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it should look like this and now put a piece of tape on the bottom of the string
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then pour vinegar into your bottle
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next make a baking soda ball with kleenex
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then put the wrap on the top of the container (cap off) and rest the baking soda ball on it then leave the wrapand put the lid on making sure the string goes through the hole in the wrap
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now your done if you made it right when you pull the string a reaction will occour causing it to create c02 gas thus blowing the cap off or exploding the bottle and if its for airsoft pour some bbs in the vinegar with your speed loader now go test it!
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Could have been clearer. Quite interesting though!
yah i guess it could have been but i was out of time
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Great idea for a non-explosive airsoft grenade. Some of the cqb fields my team plays at prohibits the use of explosive powered grenades. If I can get the aprroval of the other teams and of the officials I would make this my standard for grenades.
I like making these minus the bbs to just throw around. the downside to using this for airsoft is the fact that not every one wants to smell like vinegar after a battle.
dude thats amazing but i live in spain i dont now wats bakin soda in spanish but prety god i wil give you a 8 out of 10
Cool i live in spain too, what part are you from.
BTW is called bicarbonato sodico, or just bicarbonato.


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When you first become a mama, the thought of putting on makeup or even having a shower seems daunting. Eventually you get a handle on your new life and suddenly you want to feel and look human again. Then you worry (or at least I did), about what is really in those products you slap on your body and face. I purged everything after researching what was safe and what was not. Thankfully, cosmetics companies have listened up and we have options. Pure Beauty by Terra Firma Cosmetics has you covered from skincare to body care and cosmetics that are safe. It is a one-stop super shop for all things pretty and more importantly safe.
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A sponsorship scheme with Portsmouth Hospitals Charity is one of the most effective ways of supporting us, no matter how big or small your company.
Choosing Portsmouth Hospitals Charity as your organisations sponsored charity will not only benefit those being treated within Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, but will also be of benefit to your company too.
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Partnering with Portsmouth Hospitals Charity for a cause related marketing campaign is a fantastic way to associate your company with a well-loved charity brand.
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Research shows that 86% of consumers will buy a charity branded product over a non-charity branded one.
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Follow Loveland man's ascent of Mount Everest via Facebook
If you think the weather here is bad, consider this.
Loveland resident and adventurer Matt Brennan is making his ascent up Mount Everest. On April 11, Brennan arrived at basecamp near the famous Khumbu Ice Fall, elevation over 17,000 and temperature lows of 10 degrees.
Just over one month ago, Brennan was in Loveland making final preparations and celebrating with friends and family the adventure ahead.
More:Loveland business owner prepares for Mount Everest climb: 'Mind over matter, pushing through it'
From the relative comfort of basecamp, Brennan prepares for his assault on Mount Everest while using Facebook to keep folks here at home informed of his exploits and expressing gratitude. In an April 15 post, Brennan honored students, teachers and Principal Peggy Johnson from Loveland High School.
In the post, Brennan showed the poster and bandanna students sent with him.
The day prior Brennan honored his son Blake's Loveland High School classroom, teacher Sarah Denier and aide Mike. The post included a photo of Brennan holding a poster the class made for the trip with the advice "don't fall." "Sound advice," Brennan noted.
Lest you think it's all fun and games in the Mount Everest basecamp, Brennan offers perspective in another April 14 post where he talks about a hike to 18,500 feet for some harness training. The post includes a couple of photos including one of him relaxing in a chair and another showing, off in the distance, the mountain peak he plans to summit in six weeks.
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Trust no one. Photo: Gopen Rai At a time when the four major parties are shaping Nepal's fate and future by scripting a new constitution, more than half of the population seems to think there is no political leader who is fit to be prime minister.
Nearly half the respondents in the Himalmedia National Public Opinion Survey 2015 that polled 3,517 respondents across 35 districts from 3-10 August said none of the political parties can be relied on to build a peaceful and prosperous democratic country. Nepal Earthquakes 2015: Desk Review of Existing Information with Relevance to Mental Health & Psychosocial Support - Nepal. Executive summary Why was this desk review done?
(Section 1.1) This document describes a desk review started after the April 25 and May 12 earthquakes in Nepal. 10 charts that capture how Nepal is struggling to survive after the earthquake. Antwerp's diamond business had long been controlled by its orthodox, largely Hasidic Jewish community.
Although 65% of the Jewish population of the city was exterminated during the Second World War, those who had remained, their ranks swelled by others fleeing former Nazi-occupied countries in Eastern Europe, had been able to regain control of the centuries-old diamond trade. In the popular European imagination, diamonds remain inextricably linked with the Jews. When I'd told a group of Julio's colleagues in Brussels my plans for a story on the Indian community's role in the trade, they'd expressed surprise. Open Mic Nepal. Open Mic Nepal is a project that tracks perception and rumours circulating on the ground among earthquake-affected communities.
Iinformation is collected from volunteers and partners who work extensively on the ground, verify the information and present it in these reports to support the work of humanitarian agencies and local media. Open Mic Nepal is presented by Internews and #quakehelpdesk implemented by Accountability Lab and Local Interventions Group. Current: Issue #2 - July 13, 2015 The information was provided this week by #quakehelpdesk volunteers and frontline workers from partner organizations based on face-to-face conversations with over 250 individuals in 10 of the 14 priority districts. Based on the prevalence, we reviewed the following topics:
Npl_eq_snapshot_150707.pdf. UN Digital Repository in Nepal: View Document. Rasuwa Relief Coordination. How does one assess the structural integrity of a home/building after a huge earthquake (7+ on Richter scale) without having a background in engineering/architecture? - Quora. REACH Resource Centre. Final damage of Nepal Earthquake stands at Rs 706 billion. The final damage and loss count of Nepal Earthquake 2015 stood at Rs 706 billion (US $7 billion), an executive summary of post disaster needs assessment issued by National Planning Commission (NPC) on Friday said.
Around 76 percentage (Rs 517 billion) represents the total value destroyed physical assets while rest (Rs 184 billion) reflects the losses and higher costs of production of goods and services arising from the disaster, the report added. Source: Myrepublica. 10 charts that capture how Nepal is struggling to survive after the earthquake. DAP-NepalReport-Final-June162015-2mb.pdf. Kathmandu Valley declared 'Disaster Area' for a year, some civil rights to be curtailed. 'Disaster Area' declared based on Natural Calamity (Relief) Act, 1982Some civilian rights can be curtailed for the period of one yearForeign nationals and agencies may have to take government's approval to enter for any purposeExtension possible if work not finished or situation not brought under control during the period Nepali students wait for their school bus in front of a collapsed house as thousands of schools across the districts worst hit by two major earthquakes in Nepal reopened Sunday, May 31, 2015, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Photo: AP Sports Nadal sent packing at Queen's, Wawrinka and Murray win Just when it seemed safe for Rafa Nadal devotees t... Fashion Shorn or hairy: Female underarms having a mainstream moment On social media and red carpets, from New York to ... Kathmandu Taking stock of the future of financial sector Having dream is one thing, achieving that dream is... Moreover, the Act allows the authorities to control the foreigners' entry or mobility in the area. Mofa. OCHANepalEarthquakeSituationReportNo.20%283June2015%29_Final.pdf.
Nepal Earthquake - Humanitarian Data Exchange. How to Rebuild After an Earthquake Like Nepal's. Why did so many buildings crumble in Nepal's recent earthquakes, even those that were built under modern building codes?
Lax enforcement fueled by corruption and indifference probably played a part, but so did a lack of public awareness about how to build structures that can sway and shake in an earthquake and absorb some damage without collapsing. Nepal is not a wealthy country, and its residents must rebuild with whatever materials are available to them — reinforced concrete in the cities, fieldstone and bricks in the countryside. Even so, there are ways to build in an earthquake-prone area that can make homes less likely to fail. For those living in remote, inaccessible regions, however, some of these steps may be impractical.
Mr. "Our people are building their homes themselves," Mr. National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering - IIT-Kanpur-INDIA. The Republic Day earthquake of 26 January 2001 in Gujarat clearly demonstrated the earthquake vulnerability profile of our country.
It created a considerable interest amongst the professionals associated with construction activities in any form, as well as the non-professionals regarding the earthquake safety issues. While the subject of earthquake engineering has its own sophistication and a lot of new research is being conducted in this very important subject, it is also important to widely disseminate the basic concepts of earthquake resistant constructions through simple language. With this objective, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) and the Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), a constituent of the Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation, Government of India, launched the IITK-BMTPC Series on Earthquake Tips in early 2002. Professor C. Building blocks of rebuilding. Replacing bricks with alternatives that are safer, cheaper, cleaner and faster to build One of the looming challenges in post-earthquake Nepal has been, and will continue to be, reconstruction of the estimated 600,000 homes that were destroyed.
There are many rebuilding methods that have been proposed using mud, bamboo, and even empty beer bottles. Across the 14 hardest hit districts many who lost their homes are already salvaging bricks and roofing material to rebuild their houses before the rains. In the longer-term, there is expected to be a trend towards reinforced concrete structures since most such buildings survived the quake, while the mud mortar and brick buildings collapsed. Nepal: Building earthquake-proof homes from local materials - BBC News. Nepal quakes: Could the country learn lessons from India? - BBC News. Rescue and Relief Operations. Rescue and Relief Operations. Choosing Shelter Plans. Earthbag is an inexpensive building method that can work well with many available resources.
This guide explains how to choose simple plans that use locally available materials and can fit a culture as well as resist hazards well. Shelters for Hazardous Areas In many parts of the world disaster-relief shelters need to survive earthquakes and hurricanes. Structures should also function well during the different seasons. But shelters must be inexpensive and quick to build. Earthbag is an inexpensive but very strong building technique. A strong bond or ring beam helps to keep buildings together during earthquakes. The strength of an earthbag wall is, like adobe, related to its shape. Curving walls of earthbag are the strongest shapes with little or no reinforcement. OCHANepalEarthquakeSituationReportNo.19(29May2015).pdf.
National Seismological Centre. Nepal Earthquake 2015. Email List Sign-up for Shelter Cluster Nepal The Shelter Cluster would like to advise our partners that due to the flight cargo delays, the cluster pipeline is currently unable to attend to all the requests for Shelter/NFI items received from partners. Until the flight delays and the pipeline matters are resolved, the Cluster would like to encourage partners to look into direct material imports or local procurements in line with the technical guideline.
Abari Adobe and Bamboo Research Institute. Glacier change in the Everest region. 27 May 2015 By Joseph Shea A new open-access paper on modelling glacier change in the Everest region is now out in The Cryosphere ( and a press release from the EGU about the paper can be found here ( The paper, written by an international team of researchers, presents the first detailed modelling study of all glaciers in the Dudh Koshi basin in the Everest region of Nepal. This blog post aims to provide a bit of background on modelling glaciers and glacier change, explain the methods we used, and discuss the main results.
The building blocks of reconstruction. Replacing bricks with alternatives that are safer, cheaper, cleaner and faster to build One of the looming challenges in post-earthquake Nepal has been, and will continue to be, reconstruction of the estimated 600,000 homes that were destroyed. There are many rebuilding methods that have been proposed using mud, bamboo, even empty beer bottles. Mikeldunham. Earthquake Resistant Earthbag Building Guidelines PDF. Earthquake resistant earthbag building guidelines are now available for free in a new PDF. Earthen buildings are strong in compression, but need help against tension or bending stresses.
The barbed wire and vertical rebar in earthbag add important tensile strength. More than 50 earthbag buildings in Nepal have recently survived 0.5- >0.7g of earthquake motion. This same motion destroyed poorly reinforced and unreinforced masonry buildings around them, mud block and brick alike. But existing earthbag is not magic. Owen Geiger and Kelly Hart have been instrumental in developing these guidelines. HumanitarianResponse. Logistics_cluster_nepal_services_overview_150515.pdf. Nepal Earthquake - Fact Sheet #16 Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 (as of May 22, 2015) - Nepal. Nepal earthquake: Before and after - BBC News. Nepal earthquake: Before and after - BBC News. USGS says predicting earthquakes impossible, scientists have no way of knowing when the next one will strike-WNews. New Delhi: The devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks that have rocked Nepal along with parts of North and East India have led to panic among the general public.
To add to their woes several rumours are doing the rounds claiming massive quakes will hit India soon. But scientists who study earthquakes say there is no method at present which can predict the time and intensity of this natural calamity. Aftershock-statistics. DigitalGlobe opens access to satellite data to support disaster response efforts in Nepal. In response to the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Nepal on April 25, DigitalGlobe has made high resolution satellite imagery of the affected areas freely available online to all groups involved in the response and recovery effort.
This imagery can be accessed via. Gender is Central to the Nepal Earthquake Response. A practical resource for field-based practitioners, policy-makers, donors, researchers, advocates and reporters to ensure a more effective and accountable response to the Nepal Earthquakes. Index. A site to help coordinate efforts in Nepal in response to the 2015 earthquake. How to Rebuild After an Earthquake Like Nepal's. Problem loading page. Nepal Earthquake 2015: Key Findings and Maps. Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) Who's doing What, Where and When (4W) Knowing Who is doing What, Where and When (4W) is a critical element to help coordination of relief efforts during any humanitarian crisis. Such information can help to alliviate duplications, identify possible gaps, better inform decision makers, and allow everyone to ask better questions.
Late last night, the humanitarian clusters consolidated their respective data and kindly submitted everything to OCHA. With that data, OCHA then created an 18 page inter-cluster 4W (see below for the first page). MapAction is busy at work creating one map per cluster per district which can help with understanding operational presence and on-the-ground coordination. Below are other interesting products that have been added to the Nepal HumanitarianResponse.info site in the past 24 hours that we thought you might find interesting.
Temporary Shelter Manual in Nepali May 8.pdf. Post Disaster map of Earthquake Affected Districts. Nepal Disaster Risk Reduction Portal. National Seismological Centre. Extent of the Damage From the Nepal Earthquake. Who-sitrep11-6-may-2015.pdf. Nepal EarthQuake Safety and FundRaising Campaigns. Government of Nepal contact information. [live] 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake near Kathmandu. Nepal Earthquakes 2015. Additional information for relief efforts. Rock Your Paper.


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The bohemian lifestyle of Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, Carson McCullers and Gypsy Rose Lee in the artistic community at 7 Middagh Street starts to unravel as World War II becomes a brutal reality.
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Adoption Home Study Checklist
The home study process can be overwhelming for some parents, but Binti has created the following adoption home study checklist to help you prepare.
Note that state-by-state regulations may slightly vary; however, the following home study checklist should provide broad coverage for the types of documents and clearances you'll need. If there are any safety concerns, your social worker will typically inform you about the issue and give you a chance to fix them before finishing the home study.
- Autobiographical statement
- Parenting plan statement
- Driver's license(s)
- Birth certificate(s) of everyone who lives in your home
- Social security card
- Marriage certificate if applicable
- Divorce decree(s) if applicable
- Military discharge(s) if applicable
- Past adoption decree(s) if applicable
- Green card(s) if applicable
- Financial information
- Latest income tax return and tax returns for the last 2-3 years
- Verification of employment (most recent pay stub, letter from your employer, or a statement stating that you are not working)
- Proof of insurance: (home, health, life, auto)
- Physician statement(s) of health status for applicants and everyone living in the home
- Immunization records
- Passport(s) if adopting internationally
- Pet vaccination records if applicable
- Criminal background check
- Child abuse and neglect clearances for every state/country you've lived in for at least the past 5 years (if applicable – depends on country you are adopting from)
- FBI clearance
- Sex offender clearance
Household Items and Safety Considerations
- First-aid kit
- Working carbon monoxide detector
- Working smoke detectors on every floor and near or in the child's room
- Medications, vitamins, cleaning products, other toxic substances out of child's reach
- Screen covering a fireplace or wood stove
- Covered kitchen trash
- Fire extinguisher near the cooking area of the home
- Covered outlets
- Gates for stairs
- Windows have secure screens and locks
- Household heating equipment has appropriate safeguards
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- Emergency telephone numbers visible
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The art of giving and receiving
In a season of giving and receiving, where do you put the weight? In the act of giving? In the act of receiving? Both are practices of generosity and of equal value to this well marketed materialistic season. At the heart of this time of year are qualities of joy and peace. These qualities are brought to life with family traditions, celebrations with friends, caring for our community. All of this brings both meaning and purpose to our life with a heightened awareness over the holidays.
Giving becomes stressful when the weight of it is held in the belief that it comes in materials goods and objects. It is essential to transform this belief and remember that the root of generosity comes from heartfelt offerings of kindness and care. Giving from the heart is a practice of generosity. Many traditions would call this act of generosity an act of selfless service. Giving without any expectation of the fruits of your offering. The best way you can do this is to remember that every act of kindness and every gift is one that is given for the sake of something bigger.
When you give kindness, kindness gives back. Kindness mirrors kindness. There is an element of trust placed in the act of generosity. Giving provides meaning and purpose to our lives, and ultimately, it feels good.
In a culture where giving is often easier than receiving, it is important to remember that to receive from the heart is also an act of generosity. It is a willingness to say yes to someone else's selfless service. Giving and receiving is cyclical and one is dependant on the other.
The attitude of gratitude
Gratitude is the practice of receiving. It is an emotion and an attitude. I remember attending a seminar with William Mahoney, a Religious Studies professor at Davidson College and receiving his teaching, "If you practice anything at all, practice gratitude." This has resonated with me for over eight years. If you forget all else, remember gratitude. Receive everything as a gift, then you can choose how to use that gift. Perhaps it does not serve you and you throw it away, or reuse it for another time (this applies to both words, actions, and objects), or keep giving it because it has brought you great joy and fulfillment.
Gratitude is as much about generosity as kindness. They rely on each other. Receiving kindness warmly and remembering to give it away helps to elevate our sense of community and connection with others. It helps us see ourselves in others.
I recently attended an event that was introduced by acknowledging that we are gathering on the land of the Indigeneous People. This welcome and acknowledgement was followed by an invitation to pause for the opportunity to feel gratitude. This feeling anchored the room and connected everyone as if a thread was being woven amongst the hearts of all. The invitation sparked a willingness, gratitude sparked an emotional quality shared amongst everyone in the room.
Practices of gratitude
Gratitude is a practice that creates a shared experience of respect in the art of giving and receiving. It is an intentional practice of remembering the interconnectedness of all for the sake of our physical, emotional and social survival.
You can begin a practice of gratitude anytime. Here are a few suggestions to get started during this holiday season.
1. Gratitude Journal. Begin and end your day with writing 3 notes of gratitude both morning and evening. Notice the impact in the morning and at night.
2. Gratitude Meals. Before eating a meal, consider where the food came from, the efforts of growing, packaging, selling and preparing that it may have taken to arrive on your plate. Silently extend gratitude to all those who may have contributed to the process.
3. Gratitude Rituals. Use gratitude as a ritual to connect you and your friends or family. When you return home from work, school, swimming, soccer, or any activity, take the time to pause and feel gratitude.
4. Attitude of Gratitude. When all else fails and frustration kicks in, pause, feel, and shift your attitude to gratitude. Be the beginning of the mirroring impact of gratitude.


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Often times, people ask who speaks on behalf of group Y. Now group Y can anything, such as representatives of a nation, religion, city, minority, etc. It's an on-going conflict between people who have different ideas and who has the to say "this is what group Y thinks." Why is this relevant? I'll get to that in a bit.
Three people convicted in connection with the infamous Bali Bombing of 2002 have been executed. For reference, here's an article on the matter:
Fury grips bombers' villages
Islamic leaders have condemned the Bali bombers in a bid to quell religious tensions after the three militants died together at the hands of elite Indonesian police snipers in Central Java yesterday.Indonesia was last night on high alert for terrorist attacks and mob violence as hundreds of hardline followers gathered in the bombers' home villages in East and West Java to bury the men responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings.
Authorities fear reprisals as news of the executions reverberates around the archipelago and world, and Australia has warned travellers to reconsider their plans to visit the world's most populous Muslim nation.
The head of Indonesia's top Islamic body, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia, denounced Amrozi, his brother Mukhlas and Imam Samudra, saying they had not died as martyrs as the three wished.
The head of the organisation, Umar Shihab, told website detik.com, "To die as a martyr is impossible: people who kill cannot be said to be martyrs unless it is war.
"I think it's not right. We are not at war.
"We are in peace and what they did, they killed Muslims."
The three bombers died immediately and opted not to be blindfolded before their execution by firing squad, officials said.
Police were on high alert across Indonesia, particularly at shopping centres and embassies, which have recently been subject to bomb threats.
Hundreds of supporters chanted and tried to break through police lines in Tenggulun, East Java, to get close to the bodies of Amrozi and Mukhlas, which arrived by helicopter before being placed in two ambulances.
Hundreds of heavily armed police could not control the 500-strong crowd which surged around the ambulances.
Clashes broke out and the police were driven off the road amid shouts of "Jihad!" and "Get out!"
Similar scenes greeted the arrival, in the West Java town of Serang, of Imam Samudra's body as it was paraded through the streets between his local mosque and graveyard, shrouded in a black cloth bearing a Koranic inscription in Arabic.
Members of a radical group headed by hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the co-founder of Jemaah Islamiah, who was jailed on a conspiracy charge related to the bombings before being released, pushed people aside to make way for the body.
Westerners in both villages were abused as "infidels" and told to leave.
Earlier, as the bombers were taken from their isolation cells where they had lived for the past three years and been held under special conditions for the past week, they shouted "Allahu Akbar!" or "God is Great!"
Heavy storms cleared as the men were handcuffed and placed in separate trucks for the 6km journey to their execution site, an orange plantation in a disused prison on Nusakambanan Island, known as Indonesia's Alcatraz, off Central Java. It is not yet known what their last words were as they were chained to separate 2m-tall poles, several metres from each other, and a doctor placed a marker over the exact position of their hearts.
Then groups of 12 specially trained police snipers lined up facing each of them. After receiving the final order from their commander, they simultaneously peppered the bodies with 5.6mm bullets.
Only one sniper in each group had a live bullet, a spokesman for the Indonesian Attorney-General's Office, Jasman Pandjaitan, said.
The three condemned men did not put up a fight before their executions, he said.
"They were very cooperative," Jasmine said of the convicted terrorists.
"They died immediately, a few moments after they were shot."
The men had asked not to be blindfolded but did not give a reason for the request, he said.
Prosecutors informed the men last Wednesday about their impending date with the death squad, and they were moved into complete isolation on Friday.
"The three of them were asked if they had anything to convey: they didn't convey any message," Mr Jasman said.
After the three were pronounced dead, their bodies were taken to a health clinic for autopsy, and their bodies prepared for burial, in line with Islamic custom.
A brother of Amrozi and Mukhlas, Ali Fauzi, brought two 20m-long pieces of fabric from his home village in which to wrap his brothers' bodies. The execution was said to be the most elaborate yet in Indonesia, with up to 1000 mobile brigade police on the island for security purposes.
Reaction was swift across Indonesia, and the world, after the state-sanctioned deaths of the men who killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, when they organised twin bomb attacks at nightclubs in Bali on October 12, 2002.
In Bali and Australia, the news brought relief to some survivors and families of Bali bombing victims but others feared reprisal attacks.
Former Adelaide magistrate Brian Deegan, who lost his son Josh in the bombings, said, yesterday, "I have [a sense of] trepidation as to what might happen as a result of this."
Reading that article, one might walk away thinking that Indonesia as a whole supports the people who were executed, and the execution might have been done to appease the "West". Reading the article carefully, however, revels this little blurb:
The head of Indonesia's top Islamic body, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia, denounced Amrozi, his brother Mukhlas and Imam Samudra, saying they had not died as martyrs as the three wished.
The head of the organisation, Umar Shihab, told website detik.com, "To die as a martyr is impossible: people who kill cannot be said to be martyrs unless it is war.
"I think it's not right. We are not at war.
"We are in peace and what they did, they killed Muslims."
The article also mentions 500 people were there to receive the body. To put things in context, Indonesia has a population of ~237 million. Of the ~237 million, 204 million are Muslim. Also note that these 'Ulama' are the religious leaders of Indonesia, and it's likely they represent the majority of the country.
Now, on to my point.
Here, you have a spokesperson who represents the majority of the population, and issuing a statement (which was stated before and was one of the reasons they were sentences to death), and it gets a little blurb in the article. While the rest is the article is about how this small group of supporters ran amok with the funural (noting that the government gave strict conditions to allow the families to bury the bodies, and the government was willing to recind that privilage when threats were made).
I find it ironic that some groups are allowed to be branded, while others get a free pass. No one can deny that Muslims were the responsible parties on 9/11, 3/11, London bombings, etc.. On the same token, other groups can't deny what was attributed to the group that affected the public at large (Guatamal Contra, Operation Ajax in Iran, Colonial rule in N. Africa, etc.). Being human means we have a human history, and human history is wrought with very tragic things.
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To be creative, to be innovative, a person needs inspiration. We call it the fire in the head, with reference to Yeats. For much of my adult life, it's been a given – a head full of ideas and a heart full of a passion for creating. What happens if it isn't there, or if it goes away?
When finding the words for a blog post, or a simple email takes considerable effort.
Last summer, I decided to change tack and try to sort out more of my general body and mental health issues rather than worrying about where my inspiration had gone. My theory was that fixing those things might well solve the awen issue anyway. I can't say it has. I take more time off, rest more, I've tried to increase the amount of stuff I'm exposed to that could inspire me, but the fire in my head is just old, cold ashes.
A few observations on life for this blog is the best, and often the only writing I do in a day. I'm not often motivated to get out an instrument, or to learn new music. I've written a couple of poems in the last six months. Nothing comes. Nothing sparks. Nothing flows.
I know if I was talking to anyone else about this, I would tell them that inspiration is something we're all entitled to, and so is creativity. I'd tell them that their creativity mattered, and was wanted and needed.
Part of the trouble is that I know that fiction and poetry are the least helpful things I can do with my time. There are so many creative people struggling right now, because the creative industries are an exploitative mess. The world has more writers than it needs, by factors of a lot. It needs more reviewers and book bloggers and readers and people who support the idea of creative culture. Doing that has become my day job, and I do it well.
Being a creative person can make you the centre of attention, make you feel important, and valued. That's attractive, and it's part of why so many people want to write books and so forth. Giving up on the idea that my vision (now absent) my creativity (now lacking) is important is part of the process I'm in. I think what I can make as a creative person is less useful, less needed than what I can do by spending my time and energy on blogs and social media supporting other writers and creative people.
How do I justify giving time over to writing, when I could be helping other people? And that's without opening the can of worms that is activism and the need to change and fix so many things in the world. Fiction is the least useful thing I can do right now. I think it's this awareness, beyond all else, that has cost me my creative inspiration. Nothing has come into my head that seemed big enough, powerful enough, intense enough, passionate enough to be more important than any of the other things I could do with my time.
Maybe, if I push the other way, I can make it more feasible for other creative people to create. I do believe that has worth, and the more I can do there, the more worth it will have.
Last autumn I thought long and hard about rededicating to the bard path, but am increasingly thinking that what I need to do is dedicate myself to other people's bardistry instead.


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3 Tips To Reduce Slipping On Dance Floors
There's nothing more nerve-wracking for a dancer than a slippery dance floor. The most popular dance flooring is vinyl, or marley, while other common surfaces include hardwood and laminate. There are a few ways to decrease the risk of slipping and falling. Follow these three tips to help keep you steady, and give you peace of mind.
1. Rosin
Rosin is a solid tree resin, or sap, found in pine trees and other plants. It is used to increase friction and grip. You can purchase powdered rosin from your local dance store or online. Sprinkle a quarter-sized amount of rosin on the floor. It may be slightly chunky. Break these chunks up by lightly pressing them with your heels or the balls of your feet. The rosin will coat the soles of your shoes and become engrained in the fibers, increasing traction against the floor.
This is my favorite method of reducing slipping, but it has its pros and cons. Sometimes, classrooms will already come equipped with a rosin box, a large shallow square you can step in. However, it can also be messy, and even damage marley dance floors.
2. Water
If rosin is unavailable or not allowed, you can try using a damp paper towel. It's cheap, easy, and zero clean up. I used this method all the time, and it works best with canvas shoes. Wet a sturdy paper towel and wring out any excess water. Do not use tissue since this shreds and makes a mess. Step on the paper towel and dampen the soles of your shoes. This moisture will help you stick to the floor a little better. Just make sure not to leave puddles where you first stepped on the paper towel. You can leave the paper towel by your place at the barre and step on it again whenever the need arises. After class, make sure to wipe the area clean and throw it in the trash.
3. Scoring
If neither of these options is available to you, try scoring, or scraping, the soles of your shoes. This is particularly helpful if you're wearing pointe shoes. With your pointe shoes on or off, scrape the bottoms of your shoes with a cheese grater, fork, or box cutter. Do not attempt this while wearing technique shoes. Creating minor grooves in the leather material will reduce the slippery texture and help you grip the floor. Just be sure not to make serious gashes. If in pointe shoes, you can also take a razor blade and slice off the satin tip of the platform. This will expose the canvas, making it less slippery when dancing on pointe.
Always check with your teacher before attempting any of these tips. Do NOT use soda as some dancers do. It leaves a sticky residue, which your teacher will definitely not appreciate. Whichever method you use, do not indiscriminately leave these materials in different spots throughout the room. Find your place at the barre, and perform the process in your spot. This keeps things clean and tidy, and reduces the risk of harming your peers.
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Underlying principles are reviewed along with common optical solutions and practices. Our newly upgraded Optical Networking Series includes Examples, Implementation and Trade-offs. The Optical Networking Training Overview course also explains and provides practical tips on how to design and implement Networks for Optimum Performance. Hours of Real-life case studies are used to demonstrate key concepts. The optical networking seminar provide the Rock-Solid foundation of optical systems.
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Duration: 2-3 days
This course provides you with a comprehensive technical foundation in optical networking and its services and applications development.
Course Content:
Overview of Optical Networking
◾What is the different type of fiber optics?
◾What are the differences between SONET/SDH and DWDM?
◾GMPLS, MPLS-TP, Seamless MPLS and OTN
◾What is a all-optical network?
◾Will optical networks mean the end of the existing telecom structure?
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◾What does the future hold for photonic switching?
◾Will we ever have the photonic equivalent of the Pentium chip?
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I saw REM at the UIC Pavillion back in the 80's just when they were moving from college radio airplay to some more mainstream airplay. This is before Michael Stipe started looking like a refuge. It was the Document tour. The One I Love was on the radio and It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine was gaining popularity.
I'd been to the Pavillion before. My first concert was there. Madonna's Like a Virgin Tour. The Beasty Boys were the opening act. They were booed off the stage.
Later, my graduation ceremony from college was there.
It's not one of my favorite places to see a concert. The acoustics are not the best but I had to see R.E.M.
Once I knew they were coming to Chicago I called Ticketmaster to find out when the tickets would go on sale. The person on the other end of the phone asked me R.E.M, how do you spell that?
Pardon Me? R period, E period M period.
The night of the concert. Angel and I, along with another friend stopped somewhere to eat something before we made it to the Pavillion. After we got back in my car I discovered that my purse and jacket had been stolen. Luckily my tickets were not in either place but I did lose a really cool leather box purse from Banana Republic that I miss to this day. Along with the ticket stub to my first U2 concert at the University of Illinois.
We get to the concert and our tickets were on the main floor. On folding chairs. I broke mine while Michael Snipe sang I am Superman!
We got a flat tire on the way back from the concert, too.
I did mention that Angel and I were Thelma and Louise, right? When we did something together, we went all out!


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Facebook Commerce Platform Payvment Brings Lish.com Out Of Beta, Adds Branded Storefronts
Social commerce platform Payvment announced Thursday that its Lish.com product discovery destination, which launched in beta in August, is now open to the public, complete with a new feature for its clients on the retail side: branded seller storefronts.
Lish.com features the products from Payvment's 180,000 or so sellers that generate the most buzz on Facebook and Twitter, in real-time, combined with the simplest of ratings systems: a smiley face, a "meh" face, or a frown. Users can change their reactions to products if, for example, more colors are made available, or prices are changed. One-click payment is available after users input their information once.
Payvment said Lish.com has doubled daily visits when compared with its previous Facebook commerce iteration, and the emoticons are driving three times more engagement than the want and own buttons it tested earlier this year. On the mobile front, Lish.com is generating six times more mobile traffic to Payvment stores than its previous product.
And on the seller side, branded storefronts allow retailers to enjoy an ecommerce presence without having to create their own dot-com storefronts, with features including:
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- No transaction fees charged by Payvment, as sellers can use their PayPal accounts to accept orders and collect funds.
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Branded storefronts give sellers a well-designed ecommerce presence without the hassle of creating their own dot-com storefront. Our customers can now manage both their ecommerce stores and their Facebook storefronts from their Payvment dashboard — all for free. Sellers asked us for an ecommerce solution that worked across Facebook, Twitter, and mobile devices, and branded seller stores deliver just that solution.


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Tuff-n-Uff: Mayhem in Mesquite VI
Thursday March 12, 2015– Tuff-N-Uff returns to GFL on March 14 as it presents "Mayhem in Mesquite VI" from the Casablanca Resort Hotel Casino in Mesquite, Nevada. Tuff N-Uff is one of the premier proving grounds for amateur MMA and always has stacked cards featuring the rising stars from the most famous gyms around the West. Tune in to see the stars of tomorrow compete today.
For the Tuff-N-Uff Lightweight Title, Champion Michael Hobby (6-1) battles Joshua Rodda (5-1). Hobby has won 6 fights in a row with the last 3 being title fights. Hobby is a big lightweight and has shown to have endless cardio when he is in the cage. Hobby is well-rounded and can finish a fight with his standup or grappling. Hobby is close to transitioning into a pro, and this fight might be his last as an amateur. Rodda, who is riding a 3 fight winning streak, is a formidable force who always brings an aggressive style into his fights. Rodda never backs up in the cage and is always putting the pressure on his opponent either by throwing strikes, going for takedowns or working on the mat. Look for Hobby and Rodda to have a huge collision in the opening round as each man tries to impose his will. For the winner, he will walk away a champion.
Caleb Contreras (4-1) fights Derrick Brown (10-6). This could be a de facto #1 Contender fight for the main event winner. Contreras holds a 155lb title already and a strong showing here will put him in line for another title shot. Contreras has only one loss to his record, a split decision, and many observers feel he should have won that fight out right. Look for Contreras to control the spacing in the standup and work a takedown against the cage if he can find an opening. Brown is on a 5-fight winning streak, 3 via stoppage and looks to continue his ascent up the ladder with a highlight reel win over Contreras. Brown is a grinder who is constantly on the attack. Brown also packs quite a wallop with his strikes. Look for his fists to be flying.
Kaytlin Neil (3-1) takes on Brieta "Tank Girl" Carpenter (4-1). Neil is a rising star in the womenâ??s division who breaks away in the score cards as her style of constant force and assertiveness overwhelms her opponents. She looks to build on that by mixing up her attacks more and going for a finish this time around. Carpenter who hails from California has 3 wins in the first round, two by KO and one by submission so she is ready to finish this fight in record time. Don't blink.
Don't miss this stacked card on March 14 featuring The Future Stars of MMA fighting today and representing themselves and some of the top gyms around at Tuff-N-Uff's "Mayhem in Mesquite VI". Watch all of these fights LIVE on pay-per-view only at GFL.tv. Order it now!!
Mar 14, 2015 10:00 PM EDT
Venue: Casablanca Resort Hotel Casino
Location: Mesquite, Nevada
TYLER NAAS vs. VLADIMIR MARTINEZ
"CONCRETE" CAMERON OLSON vs. CHARLES WEAST
RICKY WRIGHT vs. CORY OSBORNE
CHEYENNE HINSEY vs. CHLOE WATERS ALLEN
PATRICK BRANCH vs. LEE CORDOVA
BRONSON SABADO vs. RASHEED CURRY
JORDAN LEAVITT vs. AJAI SMITH
RODDICK SHARPE vs. RUDY ORUE
MARC SORIA vs. VANCE ELROD
JUANCAMILO RONDEROS ALVIS vs. MELVIN GAITEN
KAYTLIN NEIL vs. BRIETA "TANK GIRL" CARPENTER
MILORAD NELICA vs. BRANDON SCHNEIDER
CALEB CONTRERAS vs. DERRICK "THE SHERIFF" BROWN


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closing of the aquarium
Today's last day to go to the Belle Isle Aquarium brought forth masses of Detroiters looking to catch a last glimpse of the aquarium. There was still some protest to keep the aquarium open today with the passing of flyers. The aquarium's closing date has been stalled already and I wonder if the huge crowds will buy the landmark some more time.
Next to the aquarium sits the conservatory which is a site to see if you haven't been there. It is like stepping into a jungle of exotic smells and lush greenery. Definitely check it out if you haven't been there!
This palm was crazy tall!
I didn't know that banana trees had such huge flowers!
The line wrapped around the building! Tons of families came out to support this historic building.


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The excitement of a date can be enough to give you butterflies. But what if the date doesn't show? Check the top 3 tips for handling this sticky situation.
I owe this week's topic to the loyal tribe of Modern Manners Guy readers and listeners. Of all the questions I receive, dating and relationship conundrums seem to be on the top of everyone's list. One area of concern that's come up lately is how to handle being stood up. So today, I'll tackle this incredible act of unmannerly behavior.
Dating isn't easy, and being stood up on a date can surely cause your manners to go out the window in favor of rage and embarrassment. You feel angry, embarrassed, enraged. But why? Why should you allow someone – who obviously isn't ready to be an adult – the chance to get under your skin?
So before you sit down at your table for one (sorry, too harsh?), check out my top 3 Quick and Dirty Tips for how to properly handle being stood up:
Tip #1: The King/Queen of Cool
Steve McQueen is known as the "King of Cool," which is pretty much the most badass nickname in Hollywood history. It's also a good lesson for our purposes. It reminds us not to let our boiling tempers get the best of us. We can't pull off the calm swagger like the King himself, but there's a lot to be said about someone if they can keep their ego in check when faced with an embarrassing situation like being stood up.
You probably spent all day thinking about your date, from the clothes you'll wear to the conversation. But then, you find yourself waiting at the restaurant bar for 10 minutes too long…then 15…then 20…then 30! You check your phone and get nothing. You check your email – nothing. Then as much as you wished it wasn't so, you realize you've been stood up. So, do you stay at the bar, get wasted and rant the no-show's name to anyone who will listen?


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Second stop on Food Adventure Day with Yoni was Jamroc Jamaican Jerk Chicken. With a 90% rating on Urbanspoon and having never tried jerk chicken, we were looking forward to it.
What is jerk chicken? From their website, "Infused with a secret blend of herbs and spices, our chicken is marinated for 24 hours and char-grilled to succulent perfection."
Jamroc is convenient to get to but doesn't really have a dine in atmosphere. There are probably less than 15 seats scattered indoors and along a bench outdoors, so not really convenient for grabbing a bite with friends and hanging out.
Service was friendly and the staff was happy to provide suggestions. We opted out of a combo, going to for a burger/wrap + drink instead.
I chose the Rasta Wrap with marinated chicken breast pieces, garlic mayo, tomato, onion & lettuce. Super fresh wrap and vegetables. The chicken was indeed succulent and nicely char grilled, however, I found the garlic mayo overpowered the seasoning of the chicken. For the level of spiciness, I chose "Chilled Out (Mild)" which was way too mild, I didn't taste a hint of heat. Would definitely go at least one step up next time to "Traditional Spice (Medium)"
Yoni got the Negril Burger with marinated chicken breast, smokey BBQ sauce, tomato, cheese, onion and lettuce. Nice bun, toppings and chicken, but he too felt the sauce overpowered the chicken and not enough spiciness.
We also grabbed some yummy tropical fruit juices ($2.50 each), mainly because I missed having soursop… and we were thirsty.
Personally, I find the prices comparable to Grill'd and the (chicken) burgers overall tastier. I would definitely return but only if I'm with no more than a few friends due to lack of dining space. And definitely up the level of spiciness on my chicken. Until next time!