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Aids or HIV or
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InepdMercedes |
One hour to go be
fore start of "Aids or HIV or both are very Dangerous" campaign
charity event. Crescent Club, Kensignton with Phil Collins |
5:55 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Live tweets from
our Charity event in 30 minutes. |
6:31 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Just finishing up
preprations here will be live tweeting in 10 minutes. |
6:50 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Here we go with
the live tweet of "Aids or HIV or both is very dangerous!" Campaign
launch charity event. |
6:56 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Just doing the
final preprations here at the Crescent Club in Kensignton. Stop by if
you get the chance. |
6:56 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Interns doing
great job setting up the venue with some help from HR, Marketing and
Comms. |
6:56 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Program staff all
but abscent, always feel uneasy about charity events until the bar
opens. |
6:57 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Interns all in a
flutter, I guess this will be the highlight of their stay with Inepd
and gives them a really good feel for the work we do. |
6:57 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Most guests and
celbrities are here now. Our few celelbrities are mostly friends of
Phil's. |
6:58 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Just enough celebs
to get us overline for Hello. They have really gotten picky since the
crisis. |
6:58 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Here are our main
celebrities tonight. Rick Allen, Paul Flannagan, Ali Score, Jon Moss
and Cindy Blackman; |
6:59 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Guests mostly
musicians and large donors. |
6:59 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
I arranged for the
Hello and Ok photographers to arrive in 1 hour. They promised to stay
for 30 minutes. |
7:00 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
We really need
celebrities on their feet and smiling when the photographers arrive.
Until then we have a packed programme to get through. |
7:00 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Interns over
decorated this morning and had to get them to remove alot of posters.
We need clean lines for the photographers. |
7:01 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Have managed to
get the Program,ICT and Logistics staff situated between the side bar
and the toilet. |
7:03 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
That way they
shouldn't need to have any interaction with other guests. |
7:04 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
One or two
program/ICT/Logs might manage to make it onto the dance floor. |
7:04 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
But this is
usually late into the night in the 1/2 hour window of drinking between
completely sozzled and comotose. |
7:04 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Kelvin is off
tonight to Ethiopia so Annabel head of the Public Health department is
going to be the master of ceremonies. |
7:05 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdKelvin |
@InepdMercedes Wishing you all the best Mercedes. Hope all goes well
tonight. I am just about to go through customs. Talk tomorrow. |
7:06 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Felt a little bit
unsure if Annabel could keep it snappy. |
7:07 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
But Kelvin thought
it would be a great opportunity to give more profile to the PHD in the
organisation. |
7:07 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Annabel is opening
the night. |
7:07 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Oh Phil has just
arrived, great. |
7:08 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
He has gone out
the back and is dressed in a coffee Nautico single beasted jacket with
black polo shirt, black slacks and coffee loafers. |
7:08 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Back to Annabel
missed the first bit. She is giving a lot statistics. She just said
Aids is an illness!!. |
7:10 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Can someone please
tell me whether Aids is an illness, disease, infection or something
else. She seems to be all over the place on this. |
7:10 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
More statistics. |
7:10 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
33 million people
living with HIV |
7:10 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
25 million died
since 1981: People are already starting to shift in their seats. She
is really losing people!!! We have to get her off. |
7:11 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
She has more
statistics!! 11.6 million AIDS orphans in Africa. |
7:12 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
It is getting
worse: Now she is going on about the poor and aids and Sub-Saharan
Africa. |
7:13 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Now this woman is
impossible. I took that Aids or HIV or both test for nothing because
she said anyone can get it not just poor people. |
7:13 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
I didn't even
touch that GPs son or that boy on a scholarship at my formal. |
7:14 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
I did date a
Barclays' Banker last year who drove an Audi. He may have been
technically poor but with expensive assets. |
7:14 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
I only found out
later he lost his bonus. |
7:14 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
My friend Casandra
beside me from Cleo says an Audi driver is usually travelling on a
road to or from poverty. I should've listened to her. |
7:15 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Where were we.
Still Aids facts. Oh no she is starting to talk about our own
programs. |
7:17 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
I have slept
through many of these type of presentations in the senior management
group. |
7:18 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
She's getting very
emotional now that we all have to play our part and stop this enormous
tragedy that is enfolding all around the world. |
7:18 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
She's now saying
Aids is a disease that knows no boundaries, doesn't care of your race,
ethicity, gender or whether you are rich or poor. |
7:19 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
This woman is
mad!!!! |
7:19 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
She contradicted
herself again over the aids and poverty thing and called Aids a
disease. |
7:19 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
I think she has
been using from the expat health medicine cabinet. |
7:19 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
She's finished,
divine intervention, and now she is introducing Phil Collins whooo!!! |
7:23 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
We are over the
moon that we managed to get a real A-list celebrity finally for Inepd. |
7:23 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Phil will do a
little talk. Showbiz people always know lots of people affected.They
really should have called it the musicians or actors disease. |
7:24 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Then he will do
two songs Another Day in Paradise and Two Hearts |
7:25 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Then followed by
You'll be in My Heart with the South Kensington Primary School choir. |
7:25 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Here's Phil.
Talking about the heart break all the suffering and lives lost. |
7:27 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Talking now about
Aids how simple it is to prevent and that we should stay safe. |
7:27 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Great stuff so
emotive the way he speaks. |
7:28 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Now asking us to
imagine what it would be like to be a single mother with a small child
in abject poverty with Aids. |
7:28 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
What choices would
she have to make to get through each day. Phil leaves us to imagine as
the music starts. |
7:28 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Me and Casandra my
best friend Cleo are now trying to imagine. |
7:28 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
No can't really
imagine it, Casandra said she did for a few seconds but she's lost it. |
7:29 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
She's onto her
third glass of Chanpas though. So it could be the booze. |
7:29 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Some of the
interns are really affected and have been able to imagine it. They
probably live off campus in shared housing with student loans |
7:30 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Phil's really
getting into it. I will tweet back after the first two songs just want
to sit back and enjoy. |
7:30 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Two Hearts really
got the crowd going. Probably a good thing to slow things down now
with the kiddies and Phil. |
7:37 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
The ICT and
logistics department were actually on the dance floor getting a bit
carried away. I didn't think they still made KT26s. |
7:38 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Here we go with
You'll be in My Heart beautiful song, one of our large donors produced
Tarzan, heard it is fantastic!! |
7:38 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
The kiddies are
getting a bit over excited the soundperson should really tone them
down a bit, earsplitting actually. |
7:39 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
She is a consumate
professional she has switched them off, you can hardly hear the
kiddies now. |
7:39 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Kiddies volume up
at bit at the end. Just beautiful and all smiles with Phil and the
Kiddies. The large donors loved it. |
7:41 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Phil off stage and
will be back for drinks in twenty after a bit of a rest. |
7:42 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Now for the
fundraising part of the evening. We are going to have a Celebrity
Slave Auction. Each Celebrity will represent an Inepd program |
7:42 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
As well each
celebrity will have a special gift for the buyer. Here are the
celebrities and the programs they represent. |
7:43 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Rick Allen: Andean
school feeding program; Paul Flannagan: Perinatal HIV/Aids
preventention program Uganda |
7:43 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Ali Score:
Anti-indentured labour program Gujarat; Cindy Blackman: HIV/Aids Sex
Workers program Cambodia. |
7:43 PM |
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InepdMercedes |
This will go on a
for a few minutes. |
7:44 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Hold on!!Looks
like we have a bit of problem here. The side bar beer taps are not
working. |
7:46 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Oh God the
program/ICT/Logs staff are moving away from their corner already and
starting to mingle. We have to get these beer taps working! |
7:46 PM |
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InepdMercedes |
Celebrity Slave
Auction over |
7:47 PM |
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InepdMercedes |
Bit of
disapointment over the special gifts for the buyers. |
7:47 PM |
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InepdMercedes |
Not a lot of
variety Rick Allen and Cindy Blackman both gave drum lessons and Ali
Score gave a night out at his local Sheffield pub. |
7:48 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Hello and Ok
photographers arrived early 10 minutes ago. |
7:48 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Celebrities
standing. Phil's talking to all the celebrities bit of a huddle. |
7:49 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Hopefully Hello
and Ok photographers can work around this. |
7:49 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Calamity!! Annabel
from Public Health has gone upto Phil wants an autograph. |
7:49 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
We need her out
she has a horizontal striped white and lime green dress. Fashion
disaster. |
7:50 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Hello and OK won't
be able to take a shot if Annabel is within 5m of a celeb. |
7:50 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Beer taps still
not working. Even the ICT section have heard of some of these
celebrities and want autographs. |
7:51 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
We need some young
attractive interns in shot but they just can't get past ICTs grip on
the celebs. |
7:51 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
The horror!! The
celebs are about to sit down. |
7:52 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Now Phil and
celebs are sitting in a huddle with Annabel. They actually looked
interested in what she has to say. Very polite or sozzled. |
7:53 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
@celebrityfoxcom '@InepdMercedes |Celebrity Slave Auction over> Yes it
just finished. |
7:55 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Hello and OK
photographers look like they are leaving. Ok I have to go. Casandra is
going to take over. |
7:55 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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Casandra for
InepdMercedes |
Hello everyone I'm
Casandra. Mercs in a bit of Tizz. |
7:56 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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Casandra for
InepdMercedes |
She is really
tearing strips off these poor fellows and standing in the door and
won't let them leave. |
7:56 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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Casandra for
InepdMercedes |
They've gone they
found a side entrance into the kitchen. These paparazzi types are very
cunning. Heres Merc she's back. |
7:56 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Hi I'm back I am
going to sue this bloody club. They knew how important it was to have
the side bar beer taps working. |
7:57 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Hello and OK not
sure if they got any good shots. |
7:57 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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InepdMercedes |
Well what a great
night and thanks to all that followed tonight. They are playing I Wish
it Would Rain Down, I have get up for this. Ciao. |
7:58 PM |
14-Aug-09 |
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tiesmellema |
@InepdMercedes do you guys keep working with Collins? |
6:01 PM |
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InepdMercedes |
@tiesmellema RT do you guys keep working with Collins?>Yes we have a
few things lined up. We are also trying to get him on a field visit. M |
8:20 PM |
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