Rants and Raves of a Bum: 2019

Your last party did not meet guests’ expectations. You realize changes must be made in your party entertainment strategy. Thoughtful planning will be necessary to make your next party an epic event. Every party needs a theme. Your party crew wants a breathtaking atmosphere and outstanding entertainers with a convenient location. You are also going to need great tasting food and beverages. Do not feel overwhelmed with all these suggested improvements. You are going to be the ruler of your next party.

Great Party Location: Location is key to your next party’s entertainment. Safety and convenience are a necessity. Your party may have great entertainment, but your guests do not want to travel far distances to an unsafe location. Partygoers want easy access to your venue while feeling safe in that environment. People will remember you as a strategic party planner once you pay special attention to safety and convenience.

Choose a Party Theme: A party theme should not be bland. Your party crew will realize when your party theme is generic. Party themes are not intimidating to conceptualize. You could have an 80s theme or maybe a science fiction theme. If you need guidance, ask your crew for help. This is your opportunity to become that extraordinary party planner.

Party Atmosphere: True party planners need to be passionate about the atmosphere. Creativity is that much needed electric spark taking your party’s entertainment to the next level. Music and live entertainment specific to your audience’s tastes are also great party ideas. You want people having a great time. Remember, you are the creator of a lively party atmosphere.

Celebrity Lookalikes: There are a variety of choices to create the best party experience. Do you really desire to improve your next party’s entertainment? Professional celebrity look-alike entertainers could be the answer to produce an unforgettable evening. These celebrity look-alikes have natural talents providing a great time for you and your party guests. They know their celebrity characters well. You will almost believe these entertainers are the actual celebrity performing at your awesome party. When you hire a celebrity look alike, you will not be disappointed in the results. Your party guests will crown you the creative ruler of happening parties.

Great Food and Drinks: The ideal party location is chosen with an atmosphere reflecting your party’s theme. Also, you took the necessary time hiring a celebrity look alike. You are almost there hosting the greatest party of all time. Are you forgetting something? Great food and drinks will complete your outstanding party. Your local grocery store offers the highest quality meats to cook a steak or seafood to satisfy the most discriminating pallets. I also suggest to understand the drinking tastes and preferences of your audience. Great food and drinks shall improve your next party’s entertainment.

The process of improving your next party’s entertainment should not be an ordeal. These are easily manageable steps requiring only thoughtful consideration. A safe and convenient party location combined with a great theme is a tremendous start. You will also need to add creativity to your atmosphere to liven your party. Your party crew is your support aiding you with choosing a party theme as well as its atmosphere. A great celebrity look-alike shall add more flash to your next party’s entertainment. Great food and drink are compared to a nicely decorated bow on your perfectly packaged present. You are guaranteed that your next party is going to be epic.

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Championing the ‘power of play’ for National Children’s Month

HOW PLAYING LEADS KIDS TO LEARN AND CREATE BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES

More than the fun that playing brings, its power extends to creating bond within families, developing new friends, learning new things, and reaping happy memories, and for National Children’s Month, the kids’ right to play takes center stage, reminding everyone that this physical activity has incredible benefits and is truly vital to a child’s development.

This power of play has always been at the heart of KidZania Manila, not only by letting kids aged 4 to 17 years old take on multiple, real-life ‘jobs,’ but also encouraging them to learn new skills, grab exciting opportunities, and embark on memorable adventures.

Imagine their delight on being a pilot, a firefighter, a news reporter, or a runway model for a day. Yet beyond the fun are key learnings—safety measures inside an aircraft, the value of putting out fires instantly, the discipline and composure of a reporter, and the creativity in every runway performance—plus lasting memories that they can treasure for life.

As BGC’s premier play city continues to provide a safe space for kids to learn through fun and purposeful experiences, Bantay Bata 163 beneficiaries were reminded of how comforting and uplifting play is as they explored various KidZania establishments and created fun memories last Sunday (November 24).

The eyes of young visitors are also opened about real-life events and social situations inside the kid-sized city, making them learn the value of helping out in their own little ways. During the National Play Advocacy Week (Nov. 19 to 24), hundreds of kids got to share their books, toys, and KidZos (the KidZania currency) at the KidZania Donation Hub for the benefit of those who have been affected by the quakes in Mindanao. The experience even brought student visitors to keep coming back to donate their hard-earned KidZos and encourage their classmates to do the same.

KidZania Manila is one of the world’s most inventive and fastest-growing kids’ educational entertainment concepts. It operates under ABS-CBN Themed Experiences Inc., a subsidiary of the country’s leading media and entertainment company that seeks to bring unique Kapamilya experiences in engaging and interactive themed attractions.

Embrace the power of play in a child’s life! KidZania Manila has tons of establishments from which they can discover the fun in learning and develop essential values along the way. For updates, visit ‪manila.kidzania.com or follow the Play City’s social media accounts (Facebook & Instagram) @kidzaniamanila.

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Every generation has offered new advancements in technology to improve life for the next ones. Because of this, writers would raid every hot scientific study to create a condensed version of the future. The rise of smart devices clued them into the concept of smart homes. From there, smart home technology would give way to smart communities before moving to inevitable smart cities.

The smart city is the current proposal for “efficient” urbanization. Since cities are already growing in size, the need to accommodate its citizens will be quite the undertaking. In Britain, for example, local municipal governments have seen a 40% cut in daily civic spending. These changes will not come cheap, so it’s best to understand the benefits these modifications already have in the present. That way, when you’re shopping for houses for sale in Los Angeles, you can decide how much you want to factor the presence of smart technology into your moving decision.

Energy Grids

In order to run all this smart technology, there needs to be careful energy conservation. Cities already account for 65% of global energy use and 70% of human carbon emissions. The first experiments in smart energy consumption are being achieved in Japan.

The Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town connects a thousand homes to a solar-powered smart grid. These implementations have enabled a reduction in the community’s carbon footprint.

Waste Management

Any busy city is bound to accumulate more than a few overflowing trash bins. What if there was a device that could measure the amount of waste inside the trashcan? In cities like Boston and Baltimore, they’re doing just that.

The “Big Belly” smart receptacles use sensors to gauge waste levels in real-time. Each receptacle is part of a network that can be accessed by municipal computer systems. Alerts are sent out when a “Belly is full, or near to filled, thus allowing local municipalities to better schedule their trash pick-up times.

Police Drones

Rampant urbanization could provide a nightmare scenario for police and first responders. This creates many variables where disaster could strike, and there’s not enough help to go around. Big data is already stepping in to help public safety agencies detect problem areas before they even arise.

Most U.S. cities have seen an 82% uptick in surveillance drone activity. Data collected from these drones goes toward resource budgeting for law enforcement and emergency services. Police departments in Orlando are also experimenting with facial recognition technology for the city’s public surveillance cameras. Through machine learning-enabled software, public safety departments can prioritize personnel for any given incident.

Data Tourism

Visitors to a new area can have a better grasp of the landscape when they have a clear agenda. Otherwise, it’s all based on free time and opportunity. For smart cities, this means making all attractions and accommodations worth the tourists’ money.

Any tourist who engages with a smart city’s public transportation, restaurants, or other functions creates a data trail. These trails can be used to build custom guides for tourists to use. Such technology is already being tested at campuses and island communities. Visitors can access their personalized data through kiosks or wearable devices like smartwatches and phones.

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Image Credit Pixabay.com License CC0The environment is a significant concern. The news is filled with stories about the climate crisis, and we all inevitably need to make changes within our daily lives immediately. We only get one planet, and although there are seven billion of us on this planet, we all need to take responsibility for our own individual actions.

But you may just see yourself as one person out of seven billion, and you may ask yourself what difference you can make on your own. But, the more of us on the planet that are continually asking this same question, the more chance we will have at making a difference and turning the tide of the climate crisis.

Many of the changes that you can make will be minor and may come down to making different decisions as a consumer. They might involve a small sacrifice in your time, or a fundamental change that once established will have little effect on your life. There are of course much more significant changes that you can make too

Stop Wasting Water

Wasting water can have a detrimental effect on the environment. We all need water to survive, but at the rate that society is using it, experts believe that by 2025, 1.8 billion people on this planet will live in areas affected by severe freshwater shortages. You may look around and assume that because the world has a two-thirds ocean, that it won’t run out of water anytime soon. Fresh, drinkable water accounts for a small fraction of just one per cent of the total in the world.

Having water tanks fitted can be a great way to catch rainwater. If you have are someone who uses water for your garden, or even if you are a farmer, having the means of capturing and recycling rainwater can help to reduce the amount that you are using.

Think about how much water you use for bathing or showering. Showers use less water, and if you spend less time in there, it can be reduced even further. If you are in the habit of leaving taps on while you brush your teeth, try to stop doing this.

Conserve Energy

Many of the major energy suppliers still burn coal to produce power. This creates a considerable amount of C02, which goes into the atmosphere. But there are much cleaner energy options available, and you don’t need to wait for your energy supplier to come on board with a more environmentally effective solution.

You can choose to vote with your feet. Leave your current supplier because their power is contributing to the climate crisis. There are plenty of newer companies starting up that have the means to produce renewable energy that we can all enjoy the benefits of. Many companies will manage every aspect of your switch over, so there is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Another option to enjoy clean energy would be to get your own solar panels fitted on your roof. This will help you to produce much of the power that your home needs meaning that not only will your energy bills be lower, but you will also become self-sustainable and more environmentally friendly.

There are little things that you can also do, such as turning off the lights when you are not in a room. Unplugging your electrical items when you are not using them will also help.

Reduce The Amount Of Meat And Dairy That You Eat

A UN climate report along with the findings of several environmental scientists have advocated for a reduction in meat and dairy production. The animal agriculture industry is one of the most significant pollutants on the planet, and if everyone cut down on the amount of meat and dairy that they consumed, or even stop altogether, it could have a massively beneficial impact on the environment.

Animals need several things to be kept alive. They need food, water, and space. As the human population grows rapidly, so does our appetite. Added to that, the shift in consumer attitudes toward meat, and we are now consuming record amounts. This means that more crops need to be grown to feed the animals, and this often means deforestation. Removing swathes of woodland will have a terrible effect as trees help to turn C02 back into oxygen. We need them to keep our balanced ecosystem in order. The overuse of water in farming animals is also an issue. The amount of water that goes into producing one single hamburger, for example, is enough for you to have a bath each day for a month.

Adopting more of a plant-based diet will greatly help to minimize your impact on the environment. As more and more people adopt this lifestyle, stores and restaurants alike, are waking up to the demand for meat and dairy-free alternatives. There have never been so many readily available and tasty plant-based options available as there are right now.

Change Your Driving Habits

Another major factor in our carbon footprint is transport. While it is unavoidable and also important that we can travel around as we need to, there are ways that we can make choices that will help to reduce our own impact on the health of the planet.

If you are buying a new car anytime soon, consider getting an electric or hybrid car. If this is not an option for you, opt for a smaller, and more environmentally friendly model that has lower emissions.

If you only need to make a short journey, ask yourself if you can walk it. If you drive to work each day, is there anyone else that you know that drives the same way as you? You could start a car share. If you live close enough to cycle, see if your employer has a cycle to work scheme. You may get help with buying a bike. Think about taking public transport too to minimize the number of cars that are on the road.

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If you like large crowds and flashy clothes, dancing all night and loud music, you'll love a rave. A rave is a huge dance party, usually held in large warehouses or underground venues. The clothes are a big part of the rave experience.

Here are some ideas for the best, most outrageous party looks.

Head Gear and Accessories

You will see some unique head gear at a rave. Girls have a number of different headbands decorated with such things as animal ears, bows, spikes and pom-poms that light up and blink.

Hoods that are made from shimmering, glittering, and sparkling fabrics in bright colors. Every move changes the look.

Guys can wear LED sunglasses, headbands with flashing lights, hoodies that make a statement, to name a few

Toppers

Gals can layer outfits starting with a crazy tank or dress covered by a long, sheer, shimmery top. A brightly colored leotard covered by a beaded fringe cover-up is another choice. Wings are also an awesome addition to any look.

Dudes can show off arc-reactor shirts that can be purchased online. Again, bright colors and patterns are a must have. Tank tops are also popular for the guys. Embellish with glow in the dark fabric paint or tape.

Bottoms/Legs

Girls leg options include skirts, short-shorts, pants, jumpsuits. You can decorate with colorful Washi tape in interesting patterns such as zigzag, stripes or squares. Keep it simple yet unique. You could also tie some colorful ribbons on your skirt that will swing and shimmer when you move.

For the guys, it's time to scrap the jeans. Outrageously designed joggers are more suited for the rave party. The brighter the better. Or you could try some of the wildly colorful shorts that are available for purchase or take a pair of your own shorts and get crazy with paint or LED light strips.

Hands

Yes, there are even items to use on your hands. One of the coolest pieces are the gloves that flash to the beat of the music. A group of people wearing these gloves and other blinking accessories makes the rave festival an awesome light show.

Feet

Last but certainly least are the feet. They actually sell plasma LED shoes specifically made for rave events. Girls can take a pair of sandals and embellish with rhinestones and glitter.

Rave clothes are only limited by your imagination. So get some old clothes and go crazy fashioning them for that rave festival that's coming. Or if you aren't crafty, you can go to multiple websites and find just about anything for a rave night out.

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The trends in kitchen design have made dramatic changes this year, taking a new direction in both form and function. As more homeowners embrace open concept living, they want their kitchens to be that gathering place for friends and family, with warm, comfortable, easy spaces to prepare food and entertain. Kitchen interior design allows for some bold choices as well as simplicity to reflect your taste and needs. Here are some of the top tips and inspired ideas for updating the look and feel of your kitchen.

The Dark Side

While white was the height of fashion for the past few years, cabinetry is shifting to a more sophisticated, luxurious look, with dark matte paint or wood stain. Black cabinets, especially with gold hardware, is also taking off, giving an elegant, glamorous feeling to your space. Paired with lots of natural lighting and an open floorplan, the darker finishes work well for a neo-retro feel.

Make It Minimal

While modern, clean lines are nothing new, today’s kitchens take it to another level. An interior design firm Los Angeles may recommend foregoing your hard-to-reach top cabinets for open shelving to display the essentials. You may also want to say goodbye to your pot rack and pare down your countertop appliances and clutter for a simpler feel.

Use Your Smarts

Technology continues to reign supreme in today’s kitchens. From refrigerators that can keep track of your grocery list to hands-free faucet sensors to turn on automatically, your kitchen can work smarter so that you don’t have to work harder.

Custom Countertops

The granite of the past ten years has given way to quartz, which is easy to maintain as well as stylish. Other materials are also making waves, including wood and concrete, for practicality and durability. Any of these counters can give you a more custom look that is anything but cookie-cutter.

Floors With a Flourish

Hardwood floors aren’t going out of style, but they do have some major competition. Ceramic tiles are making a comeback, but the real style trend that is taking off is statement floors, bold patterns that have both a contemporary and vintage feel. Talk to an interior designer Palm Desert, Hollywood, or Santa Monica to see what options exist in tiling to grab your attention.

Up to the Ceiling

Backsplashes used to be just that: a section of material on a wall to catch either the splash of water from a sink or cooking spills behind a stove. Nowadays, backsplashes are another way to express your individuality, and the current trend of tiling to the ceiling takes this practical design to new heights. Don’t expect to see these high-rise backsplashes in subway tile either; sleek, neutral tiles or different patterns can take a backsplash and make it into an accent wall or focal point in the room.

Don’t be afraid to try one or more of these trends when you update your kitchen design. By working with an interior designer, you can get a better sense of how your room can function and blend with the style you want to achieve.

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We all make mistakes in life. Some of them come and go without any repercussions, while others stick around for much longer than we’d like. Take a messy financial situation, for example. It’s so easy to fall into an unhealthy financial state, and once it’s there, it seems like there’s no clear path out. The mistakes we made when we were younger seem destined to hang around our necks forever. It’s important to remember, however, that there are always ways to get your financial situation back on track. We take a look at a few steps below.

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A Clear Overview

It’s more comfortable to bury your head in the sand, but it’s not going to help anything. Even though it might be a little daunting, it’s essential that you have a clear overview of your financial situation, so you can know precisely what it is you’re trying to get out of. This will involve assessing all of your incomings and outcomings, your monthly expenses, and how much debt you’re carrying. It’ll be horrible to begin with, but you’ll feel more in control and more positive once it’s done.

Paying Down Debt

There are some aspects of your financial situation that will be doing more damage than others. Your debt, for example, will be doing a lot of harm. In some cases, you’ll be paying a lot of money each month for this debt, but it won’t be going down -- you’re just paying the interest. It’s better to clear that debt as quickly as possible. Look at getting a loan from https://www.hittasmslan.com/sms-lan-utan-uc/, and pay off the debt in one fell swoop. The alternative debt you assume will likely have better interest rates, which will make it a lot more affordable in the long run.

Extra Sources of Cash

One of the main gripes with all things financial related is that we just don’t seem to have as much money coming in as we’d like. But here’s the thing: most people have more sources of cash than they realize. You don’t have to solely rely on your wage from your job. Could you rent out a room in your house? Could you sell your unused goods, or offer lessons in a skill? Have a think, and you might just find that you can bring in more money than previously thought.

Cutting Down

As well as having access to more cash than previously thought, many people spend more money than they think each month. Scrutinize where you’re spending your money, and you could discover that you’re spending far too much money on, say, takeaway coffee. This is an easy thing to get rid of, and you’ll see a difference in your bank balance.

Long-Term Goal

Finally, remember the number one rule: stay patient! It can take years to have a healthy financial setup, so you need to have faith that you’re moving in the right direction, even if it’s not as quickly as you’d like. You’ll get there eventually.

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