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The poor in spirit are blessed. There are different levels of material poverty. Why some are moderately Poor, others are wretchedly poor.
whether one is fairly poor or miserably poor,one thing is sure ;poverty is not usually a comfortable state.
The poor in our society are never associated with blessings; therefore,many people are happy to do various things,both good and evils,in other to get out of poverty.
Many prosperity preachers are often quick to proclaim that poverty is a curse. Not many people are willing to associate with those who
are poor and downtrodden in the society ,but many people are very happy to associate themselves with those who are rich and powerful ,even when it is clear that their ways are full of evil deeds.
There are people who suffer material poverty because they cannot afford their basic needs; they neither have good food nor good shelter.
In some cases, some people are poor because of the constraint inherent in our oppressive
and exploitative social structures, where the hard work of many people are not adequately rewarded by many of the social institutions that benefits from their services.
A critical investigations into the root causes of most material poverty could reveal that poverty is a criminal invention of humankind through greed, selfishness and wickedness.
This is because in the original state, at creation, God blessed the earth with sufficient resources to sustain her population .
God-blessed humankind and order it to be fruitful and increase its number .if a link is carefully and critically established between human greed ,wickedness and material poverty.
Then one May rightfully claim that material poverty today is not necessarily a product of increased human population in the world as some people may claim.
It is rather more of a reflection of the consequences of human disobedience to God, which greed and exploitation are some of its manifestations.
Though God cursed the Earth, yet he planned that humankind working in obedience to his precept will be comfortable, through the level of his hands, which God promised to bless.
Let us consider a country like Nigeria. when you say that most of her citizens are in abjects material poverty, it should sounds strange and unbelievable .
God has blessed it with crude oil and gas deposits. It has good soil for agriculture in most parts of the country, soil which
produces not only food crops to suspend the nation but also cash crops that can be exported to other countries.
Further God bless Nigeria with many other mineral deposits apart from crude oil. these are provided by God for those who will be destined to live in this country, God divinely planned it.
But one wonders why people who live in such a big country where there is abundance of God’s blessings, are very poor.
The reasons are obvious. Greed,wickedness selfishness, exploitation, oppressive regimes, squader – mania etc are both the remotes and immediate causes of poverty in Nigeria.
What I consider as a positive concept of material poverty is what I call poverty in solidarity.
This poverty can be used to challenge the impact of material poverty, which is caused by man’s inhumanity to this follows.
This is a kind of poverty where individuals or groups of people living in a community are concerned about the suffering of people who
have been made to live in abject poverty through various forms of oppression or disaster .
There are people who are poor today not because it is their choice, but because the society has deprived their parents the
resources which they should have used to train such people and give them a good start in life so that they will have equal opportunities with their follows.
Poverty in solidarity involves identifying with others and sharing their burden. Such sharing
could involve the redistribution of wealth so that the basic necessities of life are provided for those who are living in abject poverty.
It could also involve training and providing a good environment that would encourage the future flourishing of those children who have been born into abject poverty.
In poverty in solidarity, individuals or groups of people willingly sacrifice some of their pleasure in order to Foster the well-being of others.
For example, those who would have loved to build several houses can build few in order to redistribute some of the wealth they have at accrued from the well-being of those who do not even have a shelter .
At different times, some people have manifested great heroic acts by identifying with those who are poor.
Some will their life and go to distant places to help others and to alleviate their suffering.
This activity is often motivated by the missionary Spirit . some have devoted themselves to care for others not for gain but to relieve the sick and the poor.
Some will their wealth to alleviate the sufferings of others. Poverty in solidarity will help us to appreciate some sacrifices made
by the early missionaries who gave up the comfort of their families and countries to
suffer in the hinterland under the excruciating c conditions just to bring the riches of Christ Jesus to such people.
A glaring example of a missionary who stood a solidarity with the Poor was Francis of Assisi.
He was the son of a wealthy Italian cloth merchant, a popular youth who led a carefree life and destined to be a knight until his conversion through illness.
He had a peculiar vision and understanding of the words of Jesus in Matthew 10 verse 7 to 10. He interpreted the gospel to mean that goods should be freely given to the poor.
Living home in a ragged cloak and a rope belt taken from a scarecrow, he wandered the
countryside with a few followers begging from the rich,and giving to the poor and preaching.
His charm humility and kindly manner many followers.
Francis did not turn to nature as a refuge from the world, as many monks did ,but rather saw created things objects of love that pointed to their creator.
For this reason, he enjoyed a solitary life and it is reported that even birds and animals enjoyed his sermon.
He spent most of his time preaching the gospel while living in alter poverty among ordinary people .
Francis turned his back on accommodating worldly goods, though his family background afforded him much of them.
He rather devoted his life and goods to the services of the poor. He redistributed is
massive inheritance, which he should have maximized for his pleasure for the well-being of those who live in abject poverty.
He is revered by many Christians as one of the noblest Christ – like figures who ever lived.
Below is a prayer and meditations:
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace
where there is hatred, let me so love
where there is injury, pardon
where there is doubt, Faith
where there is despair, hope
where there is darkness, light
where there is sadness, joy
Oh divine master Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console
not so much to be understood as to understand
not so much to be loved as to love
for it is in giving that will receive
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
it is in dying that we are awake to eternal life
Francis safe the basement in his devotion to the poor and is comfortable in the society is both challenging and frightening.
It is challenging in the sense that someone has demonstrated a high level of disparagement for the sake of the gospel, and hence, sets a PACE for us to follow.
The instructions of Jesus to the rich young man who came to ask him what he must do to inherit the kingdom of God (Matthew 19 16 to 24), was here fulfill by someone who lived many years after his death.
Jesus had instructed the rich young man in the gospel, to sell all he owned and give the proceeds to the poor so that he will have treasure in heaven.
The man was alarmed at such a directive. He went away grieving, on willing to part with his riches and hence unable to perform this last
act that would have enabled him to enjoy everlasting bliss in God’s kingdom; even though he had kept all the other laws prescribed by the prophets.
Francis self humiliation is frightening in the sense that not a handful of people can take such pains in caring for those who are poor and debased in the society.
Why should one be discomfited in order to make another comfortable ?what is the rationale behind it?
what game is there to be made by such on wise living? if one redistributes his wealth in such a way that he becomes poor ,has he any
guarantee that those for whom he made painful sacrifices in order to change their lives will use the resources well?
will they emulate his self debasement and do the same for others in the society? The experiences of many are that many people do not remember the painful sacrifices made by many people others for their well-being.
And after others have suffered for them so that they may enjoy material riches they use the same riches to suppress those who have made painful sacrifices for them
in spite of the above dilemma ,the Bible encourages us to do good without seeking reward.
we do not necessarily need to go the extent Francis went in order to show our solidarity with the poor, but Jesus life challenges us and points out the need for us to stand in solidarity with the poor.
To stand in solidarity with the poor, oppressed, victimized and the subjugated, we must not just be sympathetic with their sufferings but to empathize with them.
Empathy is the ability to put ourselves in another person’s position. We rise up, not minding the consequences, and alleviate the suffering of others.
By such did, we honour God for whoever is kind to the needy(poor) honour God Proverbs 14 verse 31.
This is real sacrifice as it is not motivated by the anticipation of any gain or reward. It is quite different from colonialism and neocolonialism where people exploit others under the guise of helping them.
Jesus set the example. He left his throne in heaven in order to stand in solidarity with mankind to save it .
In the words of Paul ,Jesus was made poor that we might become rich :for you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ ,that
though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor ,so that by his poverty you might become rich( 2 Corinthians 8 verse 9)
Pauls word make a link between standing in solidarity with the poor and deeper understanding of Jesus paradoxical maxim that the poor are blessed .
what does Jesus really mean when he proclaimed that the poor in spirit are blessed?
The answer may lie in the virtuesof being contentedly poor, and willing to empty worldly wealth, if God orders that to be oir lot.
It is to be loosely attached to all worldly wealth and not set our heart on it . this is done, not pride or pretense to make ourselves Poor by throwing away what God has given us.
when God has blessed us with the riches of the word as he proclaimed we must be poor in Spirit by submitting all to God and being
gracious towards the poor ,sympathizing with them and being touched by the feeling of their weaknesses.
Poverty in spirit is expressed in our willingness to be poor, especially when it comes upon us for keeping a good conscience .( Hebrew 10 verse 34).
Job is a credible example of one who is poor in spirit. He blessed God in taking away all he had as God has given.
But all these were also restored in immeasurable folds by God. The poor in spirit
are those who have humble thought of themselves, being humble and lowly in our eyes and not haughty.
It is to be like little children in our own opinion of ourselves. The super apostle Paul, though rich a spiritual insight and excelling in most gift and Grace was also Poor in the spirit.
His claims was that he is the least of the apostles, less than least of descent and nothing in his own account (1 Corinthians 15 verse 8 to 10).
It is our willingness to make ourselves to be cheap and humble that we are able to do
good and become all things to my humankind in order to win them for Christ as well as help them improve their well-being.
When we are poor in spirit, we can sincerely and fully acknowledge that God is Holy while
we are sinful; that God is all while we are nothing; at that God is the ultimate, while we are insignificant.
Then we are able to shun the confidence of our own righteousness and strength so that we may depend only on the merits of Christ.
The tax collector took this kind of spirit. when he went to pray and worship God,
onlike the pharisee, he had a broken and contrite spirits and cried for mercy as a poor sinner (luk18:9 to 14).
We must know that we are poor, because we are always in need of God’s grace, begging at God’s door ,always depending on his sustenance.
Poverty in spirit is put first by our Lord Jesus among the Christian Graces The foundation of all our Grace is led in humility and those who want to build very high must begin from very low.
It is the poor in spirit that realises their weakness and boarding and therefore Cleave to God to lift them up (Matthew 11 verses 28).
The poor in spirit are blessed even while they are in this world, for God looks graciously on them.
They are blessed in things to come for the kingdom is prepared for them. The great and
high spirits expire with the glory of the kingdom of earth, but the humble minds and yielding souls obtain the glory of the kingdom of heaven.
This promise is for both the rich and the poor in this world, who become contentedly poor in
the Spirit by yielding themselves to God ,in his son Jesus Christ and abiding in him all the days of their lives.
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President Trump on Thursday said he would officially declare the opioid crisis “a public health emergency.”
One way to prevent opioid addiction: Stop people from being unnecessarily prescribed powerful pain medication for non-cancer ailments in the first place. Over-prescribing opioids does not help what has become a national epidemic. President Trump vowed to tackle the prescription pain medication crisis with a stronger response from federal law enforcement, although his administration has not yet allocated more federal funds to address the problem.
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
The insurance company says it reduced medical expenses by 50% by helping to reduce the number of surgeries by one-quarter. Dr. Adam Seidner, global medical director at Travelers, said the algorithm identifies potential triggers among a massive trove of case files of workplace injuries that might predispose certain people to chronic pain. “Lower back is the No. 1 high-risk injury,” he says. “We also see it with shoulder and knee injuries.”
Injured workers could, for instance, be predisposed to complications in their recovery if they had vascular diseases, diabetes or other conditions that interrupt blood flow. The type of injury is also a potential trigger for chronic paint that, if not treated early, could result in more expensive surgery and opioid use. The manufacturing, services, health care and construction industries are also higher risk for the kind of chronic pain that results in opioid prescriptions.
Such a strategy could help when dealing with a high volume of patients, which has been linked to over-prescribing opioids. Case in point: Doctors who started their training at Harvard Medical School are less likely to write an opioid prescription, according to a new study distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based research group. But not because they were trained at an Ivy League college — but because they may treat a smaller number of patients.
“When people get injured for the first time they may delay going to a doctor or may go to the wrong kind of doctor,” he adds. They need to be vigilant about their own bodies and options: Non-opioid alternatives include Nsaids — or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Ibuprofen and Aspirin — some anti-depressant medications and even anti-convulsive seizure medications, Seidner says. Physical therapy, yoga and tai chi also help patients improve flexibility and blood flow.
The good news for workers (and the insurance companies that pay for their coverage): Official government data suggests there are fewer workplace accidents than there used to be, but they remain a major nationwide problem. There were around 2.9 million work-related injuries and illnesses in the private sector in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, down from 6.6 million two decades ago, due to increases in safety and health practices.
Lifting, carrying and lowering a material account for nearly one-third of workplace accidents, according to an analysis of more than 1.5 million workers’ compensation claims released last year by Travelers. Work-related injuries and illnesses cost companies and taxpayers $250 billion a year, according to research by J. Paul Leigh, a professor of health economics at the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research at University of California, Davis.

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Guidelines 2021 have been developed as the result of a continuous process over the last 5 years led by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). The process used to produce the Resuscitation Council UK Guidelines 2021 is accredited by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The guidelines process includes:
- Systematic reviews with grading of the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. These reviews formed the basis of the of ILCOR Consensus on Science with Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR) summary publications and the CoSTR postings on the ILCOR website (https://costr.ilcor.org).
- The involvement of stakeholders from around the world, including members of the public and cardiac arrest survivors.
- Collaboration with the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and adaption of the ERC Guidelines for use in the UK. Details of the guidelines development process can be found in Resuscitation Council UK’s Guidelines Development Process Manual.
The main changes in the Guidelines 2021 are summarised at the beginning of each individual Guideline and are described in the section below.
Accredited life support courses are recommended as they can improve patient outcomes.
Faculty development is important to improve education.
Every person should learn to provide the basic skills to save a life.
This section presents epidemiology and outcomes of cardiac arrest data drawn from UK studies including both in-hospital and out-of- hospital settings.
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)
The annual incidence of OHCA is approximately 55 per 100,000 inhabitants, half of which are witnessed events. Bystanders attempt resuscitation in 7 out of 10 cases and NHS ambulance services attempt resuscitation in approximately 30,000 people each year. Public access defibrillators are used in less than 1 in 10 OHCA.
There is an initially shockable rhythm in approximately 1 in 4 OHCA (22-25%).
A return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is achieved in approximately 30% of attempted resuscitations in the UK. In the Utstein comparator group (presumed cardiac origin, bystander witnessed, initially shockable rhythm) the rate of ROSC is 54%.
Overall, when resuscitation is attempted, fewer than one in ten (9%) people survive to hospital discharge following OHCA (29% in the Utstein comparator group).
There is evidence of health inequality in the incidence of cardiac arrest, bystander CPR and distribution of public access defibrillators. Deprived areas and those with a greater proportion of residents from minority ethnic backgrounds have a higher incidence of cardiac arrest, lower incidence of bystander CPR, and poorer access to public access defibrillators.
In hospital Cardiac Arrest (IHCA)
The annual incidence of IHCA is 1 to 1.5 per 1,000 hospital admissions. Most cardiac arrests (85%) occur on wards and in patients admitted to hospital for medical reasons. ROSC is achieved in half (53%) of those who are treated by a hospital’s resuscitation team for IHCA and almost a quarter (23.6%) of those survive to hospital discharge. Of these, most (83%) have a favourable neurological outcome.
Guidelines 2021 continue to highlight the importance of integrating decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation in overarching advance emergency care treatment plans (e.g. Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) process). The importance of communication strategies and interventions to support discussions with patients and their family members is recognised as is the need for support for offering family members who witness resuscitation attempts. Health systems monitoring outcomes following cardiac arrest are required to help reduce variability in patient outcome.
This is a new section for Guidelines 2021, and describes a number of system-level factors that can improve the management of cardiac arrest patients. The intended audience includes governments, managers of health and education systems, healthcare professionals, teachers, students and members of the public.
Social media and smartphone apps should be used to engage the community.
Community initiatives (e.g. Restart a Heart) are critical for the promotion of CPR, and it is recognised that children of all school ages should receive CPR training each year.
The ambulance service dispatcher plays a vital role in the recognition of cardiac arrest and provision of instruction to bystanders.
The evolution and importance of cardiac arrest centres is recognised.
There are no major changes in the 2021 Basic Life Support Guidelines.
Cardiac arrest recognition remains a key priority as it is the first step in triggering the emergency response to cardiac arrest.
When ringing 999, the ambulance call handler will assist with instructions for confirming cardiac arrest, starting compression-only CPR, and locating, retrieving and using an AED (automated external defibrillator).
Chest compressions should commence as soon as possible after cardiac arrest is confirmed. Someone must fetch an AED and bring it to the scene of the cardiac arrest. The British Heart Foundation database, “The Circuit”, serves as a national resource for the location of AEDs.
There are no major changes in the 2021 Adult ALS Guidelines. High-quality chest compressions with minimal interruption and early defibrillation remain a priority. There is a greater recognition that patients with both in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have premonitory signs, and that many of these arrests may be preventable.
If, following a stepwise approach to airway management an advanced airway is required, only rescuers with a high tracheal intubation success rate should use tracheal intubation. The expert consensus is that a high success rate is over 95% within two attempts at intubation. Adrenaline should be given as soon as access is achieved when the cardiac arrest rhythm is identified as non-shockable. For a shockable cardiac arrest rhythm, adrenaline should be used after 3 defibrillation attempts. Thereafter, adrenaline is given every 3-5 minutes.
This section aims to ensure identification and appropriate treatment of potentially reversible causes in situations outside the usual cardiac arrest due to ischaemic heart disease. There are no major changes in the 2021 Special Circumstances Guidelines.
New topics include obesity, mass casualty incidents and cardiac arrest in sport - all of which are becoming increasingly frequent.
The recent national update on anaphylaxis has been incorporated into these guidelines.
There are relatively few changes in the Post-resuscitation care Guidelines in comparison with those published in 2015.
They are now aligned with European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the indications for immediate coronary angiography in post-resuscitation patients without ST-elevation on their 12-lead ECG.
Following return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), aim to maintain a mean arterial blood pressure of > 65 mmHg. Over this threshold optimal blood pressure targets are likely to need to be optimised.
Levetiracetam and sodium valproate are preferred instead of phenytoin for the treatment of seizures.
Targeted temperature management (TTM) is recommended for adults after cardiac arrest (OHCA or IHCA) with any initial rhythm who remain unresponsive after ROSC. Maintain a target temperature between 32 and 36 °C for at least 24 hours, and avoid fever for at least 72 hours after ROSC.
The multimodal prognostication guidelines have been updated. In a comatose patient with a Glasgow Motor Score of M ≤ 3 at ≥ 72 h from ROSC, in the absence of confounders, poor outcome is likely when two or more listed predictors are present:
- no pupillary and corneal reflexes at ≥ 72 h
- bilaterally absent N20 SSEP wave at ≥ 24 h
- highly malignant EEG (suppressed background or burst suppression) at ≥ 24h
- NSE > 60 mcg L-1 at 48 h and/or 72 h
- status myoclonus ≤ 72 h
- or a diffuse and extensive anoxic injury on brain CT/MRI.
Greater emphasis is placed on screening cardiac arrest survivors for physical, cognitive and emotional problems and, where indicated, referring for rehabilitation.
This guideline applies to all infants and children except newborn babies (unless there is no other option at birth). There are no major changes for 2021.
In the paediatric basic life support sequence, rescuers should perform assessment for signs of life (circulation) simultaneously with breathing assessment and during the delivery of rescue breaths. If there are no signs of life, chest compressions should be started immediately after rescue breaths have been delivered.
Use of mobile phones with speaker function is emphasised to facilitate bystander access to dispatcher guided cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and to summon emergency medical services (EMS) without leaving the child or infant. Ensuring high quality CPR is emphasised.
This guideline applies to all infants and children except newborn babies and includes a number of changes of which the following are the most important.
During the management of a paediatric cardiorespiratory arrest, once a tracheal tube is in place, continuous chest compressions should be given. In this case, ventilations should approximate to the lower limit of normal rate for age:
- Infants: 25 breaths per minute
- Children 1-8 years old: 20 breaths per minute
- Children 8-12 years old: 15 breaths per minute
- Children > 12 years old: 10-12 breaths per minute
Capnography should be used in all intubated children and infants for early detection of mal- or displacement of the tracheal tube.
In children and infants with shock, use a 10 mL kg-1 fluid bolus. There is an emphasis on smaller bolus volume with careful re-assessment after each bolus to enable early identification of signs and symptoms of fluid overload (hepatomegaly, bilateral basal lung crackles, and jugular venous distention). Use balanced isotonic crystalloids as first choice of fluid bolus, if available. If not, normal saline (0.9%) is an acceptable alternative. In haemorrhagic shock, keep crystalloid boluses to a minimum (max 20 mL kg-1). Consider early blood products in children and infants with severe trauma and circulatory failure, using a strategy that focuses on improving coagulation.
Children and infants with a febrile illness and no signs of shock should not receive fluid bolus therapy. In children and infants with persistent decompensated circulatory failure after multiple fluid boluses, vasoactive drugs should be started early, as a continuous infusion via either a central or peripheral line.
Use either noradrenaline or adrenaline as first line vasoactive drugs (dopamine is no longer recommended but can be used if adrenaline and noradrenaline are not available). Paediatric ALS providers should be competent in the use of these drugs during the first hour of stabilisation of a child or infant in circulatory failure.
Whilst there are no major changes for 2021 there are a number of minor alterations and changes in emphasis for practice which are summarised here.
In the management of the umbilical cord, it is recommended that clamping does not occur until after at least 60 seconds, but if this is not possible, cord milking is an option in babies > 28 weeks gestation. In non-vigorous infants born through meconium, immediate laryngoscopy with or without suction after delivery is now not recommended. In order to support ventilation, a laryngeal mask may be considered in infants of ≥ 34 weeks gestation (> 2000g) if face mask ventilation or tracheal intubation are unsuccessful. Absence of a response to initial inflations despite an open airway should prompt consideration of increasing the inflation pressure. The initial pressure when supporting ventilation of premature babies (< 32 weeks gestation) should now be 25 cm H2O.
The initial delivered oxygen concentration now varies according to gestation with those at term starting in air and those < 28 weeks starting in 30%.
In the rare situation requiring emergency vascular access, the intraosseous route is an acceptable alternative if umbilical access is not possible. The initial and subsequent doses of adrenaline are now rationalised at 20 micrograms kg-1 (0.2 mL kg-1 of 1:10,000 adrenaline (1000 micrograms in 10 mL)). In the absence of a response, this is repeated every 3-5 minutes.
Stopping resuscitation should be considered and discussed if there has been no response after 20 minutes and exclusion of reversible problems.
It is intended that there will continue to be a Guideline summary and update for courses every five years, however, the ILCOR evidence evaluation process will be continuous as evidence evolves. It is intended that Resuscitation Council UK Guidelines will only change within the five-year cycle if there is a significant resuscitation intervention identified through the ILCOR process which affects outcome into a significant degree. These Guidelines 2021 will be implemented in courses from July and August 2021.

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JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - The Jonesboro Finance and Administration Committee agreed to move the 2020 budget for the City of Jonesboro to the city council for consideration during their meeting Tuesday.
Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin said this budget will prioritize a commitment to public safety, fire protection, and other essential services.
That means there is a proposed 7.3% increase in funding for the Jonesboro Police Department, along with money for one new fire engine and three new firemen.
The budget allows for 165 full-time employees with the department, including 114 offices, which is down one from last year, and 2 more sergeants bringing their numbers to 24.
There was a list of concerns presented during the meeting, including how the population of Jonesboro is outgrowing the revenue being collected.
“In the last four years, we actually are down 5.8% revenues on a per capita basis,” Chief of Staff Mike Downing said.
The budget also for $615,150 dollars to be spent on things for the police department like nine white SUV’s, 40 toughbooks, 24 police radios, and five body armors.
The committee voted to forward the budget to the full city council. It will be discussed for the first time by the council on December 3.
An ordinance was also walked on to the finance committee’s agenda that would allow the police department to buy 10 new SkyCop Cameras.
The $165,119 for the cameras, related technology support, and annual support for the cameras will be added to the police department 2019 budget and the money would come from the unappropriated funds in the general funds if approved.
Police Chief Rick Elliott told the committee that the new camera would come with license plate readers.
Elliott also said that the money for new technology would also allow the department to buy technology that would allow cameras at certain intersections in town to be recorded.
Elliott said that video, along with the SkyCop video would only be stored for 30 days.
The committee also forwarded that ordinance to the full city council as well.

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Sunday Summary: Brooklyn Beep: Down With ULURP!
In case you haven’t heard, New York needs more housing. Like, a lot more.
So it was refreshing to hear Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso not mincing words about what he views as the source of the problem: “The Uniform Land Use Review Procedure process has not been producing the amount of housing necessary to get us to a place where we’re kind of building our way out of this housing crisis.”
Reynoso went into greater detail in his Sit-Down with Commercial Observer for last week’s cover story.
But it’s not as though nobody is tending to the borough’s (and the city’s) housing needs. REITs and bigger companies are stepping in to fill the affordable housing void.
It’s only too bad that the e-commerce revolution hit when it did because Brooklyn’s waterfront (now teeming with industrial and logistics space) could have been ideal for cheap housing … and it still could be.
“In some ways, it’s the last frontier of the waterfront and the most potential to generate dense housing in a relatively near term,” David Lombino, managing director of external affairs at Two Trees Management, told CO. “There’s been a decades-long fight between those who see a future in dense housing and those who want to preserve manufacturing and an industrial working waterfront.”
South Florida has its own housing crisis, unless you’re rich — in which case your choices are only going to get more outlandishly good.
That’s not all that Related has been up to by any means. In addition to sewing $60 million-penthouse seeds, they’re reaping, too. Lincoln Property Group just put down $194 million for the 297-unit Manor Broken Sound in Boca Raton from Related and Rockpoint. (Oh, and did we mention that they’re trying to build a casino at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards with the Wynn Resorts? Well, they are!)
Of course luxury in Miami is not merely about housing. It straddles hospitality and office, too. On these ledgers Michael Shvo secured $147 million in financing for the legendary Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach, and, while he was at it, Shvo submitted plans for a 68,794-square-foot boutique office also in Miami Beach.
First week numbers are in …
A lot of landlords had been waiting anxiously for some kind of post-Labor Day data on return to work, and we saw one marker last week when a survey came back that was put out by the Partnership for New York City and the MTA.
It suggested 49 percent of the city’s office workers had returned to their desks.
“Forty-nine?” you say. “That sounds bad.”
It’s actually an uptick from the 38 percent share that was back as of April. So that’s good. The Wednesday after Labor Day ridership on the subways hit 3.7 million, the highest it’s been since the pandemic began and a 30 percent increase from last year.
The survey also confirmed other less hopeful trends, like the fact that the return is not five days a week — only 11 percent of office workers are expected to come back the full five days.
Whatevs. Good news is good news! Even if real estate mandarins like Barry Sternlicht are making us nervous.
With the fall comes leasing
If anything signals a cold, hard “return to normalcy” it’s the gargantua 100,000-square-foot lease, and we saw four of them last week.
Truist Financial, a North Carolina-based bank, scored 100,000 square feet at 50 Hudson Yards.
Blue Owl Capital, an alternative investment firm, took 137,660 square feet at RFR Holding’s Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue. (And that wasn’t the only big bit of real estate news Blue Owl made last week. Their division, Oak Street, joined GIC to purchase the REIT Store Capital for … $14 billion!)
Law firm O’Melveny and Myers is taking 142,000 square feet at 1301 Avenue of the Americas.
And, biggest of ’em all, Cohen & Steers, the real estate investment manager, is grabbing a 15-year, 160,960-square-foot lease at 1166 Avenue of the Americas.
Plus, a couple of major tenants decided they needed extra space, after all.
The Carlyle Group upped its already sizable office presence (they have some 194,702 square feet at One Vanderbilt) and added on another 40,542 square feet at RXR’s 340 Madison Avenue.
The software maker Asana likewise added 44,000 feet to the 17,000 square feet it currently has at 3 World Trade Center.
Law firm Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas signed a 12,000-square-foot expansion — bringing its footprint to 45,000 — at 444 Madison Avenue.
And some companies decided it was simply time to move. In Midtown, the National Bank of Egypt (sounds like a pyramid scheme, but it’s legit) decided to ditch its current headquarters at 40 East 52nd Street for 12,278 square feet at Durst’s 825 Third Avenue. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based fintech firm Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is leaving 340 Madison for a 25,488-square-foot office in One Vanderbilt. And farther south, the German-based tech investment firm Picus Capital said farewell to the Empire State Building, which it is cashiering for 6,520 square feet at 60 Charlton Street. Genpact, a professional services firm, is leaving 1166 Avenue of the Americas for Savanna’s 521 Fifth Avenue, and software company Tethys Technologie is leaving 989 Avenue of the Americas for the same address.
We wonder if any of these buildings have lured tenants in by making themselves smell nicer. Because that’s a thing!
Potholes along the way
Of course, New York’s office market isn’t all 50 Hudson Yards and 3 World Trade Centers. Much of the stock is considerably older, and those buildings are having greater and greater trouble refinancing their debt in the current climate.
They weren’t the only properties with dark lending and bankruptcy clouds forming overhead.
Owners of the Bowery Savings Bank, the Lower East Side party venue, staved off a forced sale (they owe Wells Fargo $12 million) by filing for Chapter 11. And loans backing two properties that have Cipriani restaurants as the tenant narrowly escaped foreclosure when they had their loans modified.
They still make movies in Hollywood, and they still need studio space to do it.
CMNTY Culture — led by Thomas St. John and eight-time Grammy winner Philip Lawrence — secured the financing this week to build out half a million square feet of studio and creative office space to be designed by L.A.-based HKS Architects. You can read all about it here.
See you next week!


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- The house that Thom built
The house that Thom built
The Vancouver Courier
by Jennifer Van Evra
There is something mysterious in the trees by the side of the road overlooking Howe Sound and Marine Drive, at the entrance to UBC. Some say it looks like a nuclear reactor; others say it resembles a silo that houses secret military missiles. The less imaginative say it looks like an enormous can or a grain elevator. It’s made of 6,500 cubic metres of concrete, and houses 200 miles of cable and 100,000 feet of concrete. Although the university is not shifting into the realms of nuclear experimentation, amidst all of the whisperings and misgivings, it is ready to unveil the new Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, “affectionately known to some as “Chan-obyl.”
The centre is principally a teaching space for the School of Music and for the film and theatre departments, but it will also be available to community and visiting arts groups for rent or co-production.
For award-winning architect Bing Thom, the major obstacle was ensuring the Chan looked impressive but not flashy. “It had to be a dignified and appropriate space for ceremonial occasions, and yet it could never appear to be sumptuous or wasteful of money. Everything had to have a reason. So that forced me to work a lot harder.”
His team comprised 200 designers and 500 workers from the acoustic and communication design company Artec Consultants of New York, and the British performance space designers Theatre Projects Consultants. Plans of external, internal, and invisible spaces were bounced between the three of them, and each one based designs on the work of the other two.
“It was unlike other architectural commissions where the architects have a lot to say,” says Thom. He was thrilled to be asked to design the Chan, because, in addition to being an architect, he loves music and has played the clarinet for years. “In this case, it’s like playing jazz. There were two other musicians who were playing on their own, and then I had to kind of catch up after they started. Once I got going, they supported me. But at the beginning phases, I was supporting them. So it was a trio, really, and we were all improvising, and we were all interacting with each other. It was wonderfully creative.”
Many on campus, however, particularly those whose view of Howe Sound is obscured by the Chan, aren’t thrilled about the look of the new addition. Consequently, this $25 million performance centre has received as much attention for its controversial exterior as for the acoustic and visual wizardry inside.
THE CHAN CENTRE came about because of the philanthropic tradition of Chan Shun and his family, including his sons Tom and Caleb. As devout Seventh Day Adventists, they believe strongly in giving to their community. When the Chans moved here in the late ’80s, they fell in love with Canada. To show their appreciation, they decided to give Vancouver a much-needed performance venue. The Chan Centre for them is an ideal endeavour: it combines their support of education, the arts and their community.
The Chan family’s foundation, which earmarks money for educational and projects such as the new centre, donated a record-breaking $10 million toward the $25 million building. The government matched the donation, and BC Tel and the Royal Bank handed over the remaining $5 million, in exchange for a theatre and cinema bearing their names. Thus the Chan centre boasts three pans: the 200-seat BC Tel Theatre, 150-seat Royal Bank cinema and the 1,400-seat eponymous Chan Shun concert hall.
The elliptical hall is “ears down” the central attraction. Its interior is shaped like the inside of a cello, where the audience sits in what is essentially the reverberation chamber. Sound is scattered rather than focused at the centre, as it would be if you were sitting in say, a banjo.
The walls have been bush-hammered to create dents in the wall that scatter the sound back to the room in little pieces. Motorized velour banners drop from the ceiling to mask the walls, depending on the type of performance and the number of audience members soaking up the sound. A 50,000-pound acoustic canopy that looks like a spaceship ready to beam the musicians up hangs from the ceiling, and can be raised or lowered for fine tuning. (Music students who are a little nervous about performing under a 25-ton chandelier, can take heart knowing it is counterweighted by an equal amount of concrete.)
Thom says his experience with visual boredom during musical performances inspired him to make the gold and silver-leafed canopy, and the cables that suspend it, interesting to look at.
“I have always felt in these concert halls that there is nothing to look at except the ceiling. You are hearing the music, and watching the back of the conductor, so I have always wanted to have something up in the ceiling for people to look at. So the cables were inspired by the strings of a musical instrument, and we designed the canopy as a chandelier,” says Thom, explaining that the more than 400 light bulbs in the canopy are both decorative and functional. We designed it as a light fixture, and that hasn’t been done before.”
The drama theatre is equally revolutionary. It’s the second in North America in which all the seating rowers are movable, so they can be configured around a thrust stage, proscenium, or theatre-in-the-round. Even though each tower weighs 12,000 pounds, they can be reorganized with only a handful of people because of the air castor technology developed by a division of Boeing Aerospace. The devices force compressed air under the tower, and lift each one an inch off the floor. “I am sure the theatre department will invent new configurations that we haven’t even thought of,” says Thom. “It goes as far as the imagination will take it.”
WHEN THE UNIVERSITY told him they planned to build the Chan Centre at the main entrance to the university, Thom knew that it would loom large over the campus landscape. He tried to convince the university to move it closer to the music building and the students, but the campus planners’ minds were made up. Thom struggled to make the centre appear as small and unassuming as he could, even though the building’s designs were necessarily dictated from the inside out. “As an appropriate site for an important building like this, it’s probably correct, but this is a very lumpy and big complex. I don’t think anybody envisaged how big and lumpy it would be except the architect, but I knew from the beginning.”
Thom put all his architectural savvy to work to make the building look smaller – no easy task considering every dollar from the relatively low budget for the extremely high-tech hall went to functional rather than aesthetic ends. Initially, the university wanted to cut down century-old trees surrounding the building to open up the view of Howe Sound and showcase their newest pride and joy, but Thom convinced them not only to retain the existing trees but to plant more. (Not one tree was cut down to build the centre.)
“So many architects just concentrate on the buildings, but I concentrate on the landscape,” he says. “I think if you do well on the landscape, the buildings will take care of themselves.”
He says he wants audiences to feel that they’re part of the natural surroundings, even when inside. On the exterior, Thom opted for curved walls rather than a traditional box in order to throw off any sense of scale. The walls are coated with diamond-shaped zinc tiles to give the illusion of an inward curve to the cylindrical shape.
A professor in the Buchanan Building (the tower that overlooks the Chan), who refused to be named for fear of political reprisals, argues that although the interior of the facility is quite impressive, the exterior could use some work. “It looks like a silo or a rocket launching cylinder. Again, if you saw that structure on a gentle rise with sweeping grounds, it would really make a unique statement. Right away, you would think ‘I want to go into that building, that’s exciting.’ But where it is now, you think ‘sanitary facility.’ Does it have something to do with the steam plant?’ I just don’t think it works,” he says.
”UBC, like most universities in North America have basically organized their building layout by going out into the fields, driving a fork into the ground, and saying ‘this is where we’ll put it.’ It’s a little disappointing in this day and age. UBC is still following that basic procedure.”
The professor admits, though, that increasingly lush landscaping has improved the look of the building considerably.
Jesse Read, director of the School of Music, does not seem to share his colleague’s concern. He looks forward to bringing student productions to the Chan in the evenings and rehearsing during the days, and having the opportunity to expose the UBC symphony to the public in such an acoustically and visually rich space. “The idea that the university symphony orchestra can play here, do unusual repertoire sometimes, and play in such a beautiful space – that’s a big advantage. And we’ll be offering lots of free concerts. So even someone on a limited income can go to an evening concert for nothing, sit in this beautiful hall, listen to a good symphony orchestra play great music, look at these great smiling student faces and be really uplifted. I don’t think you can get that anywhere else.”
Read is afraid, however, that those benefits can also become problems. Because the Chan is intended to be home to students, but also a space for community groups to rent, as well as big-named musicians and speakers, he’s concerned the money-making potential of the commercial interests will outweigh students’ needs when booking decisions are made.
Already, one major factor has been overlooked: the music hall and theatre are unable to house full-sized opera, because neither room has an orchestra pit, even though opera is one of the School of Music’s largest programs. Although the old auditorium was inadequate in other ways, it was inexpensive to run, and the school had unlimited access to it. The auditorium was slated to be demolished the day the Chan opened, but now a movement to restore it has been launched to ensure a flexible space for academic interests.
“So all of this has kind of fallen domino-style away,” says Read, “and I believe that they have recognized that they can’t just tear the old auditorium down and leave us without space. With limited use of the Chan Centre, along with the outside demand there is going to be on it, we would be in very big trouble,” he says, adding that a balance of academic and community use is an excellent idea, as long as the dollar doesn’t tip the scales toward more reliable revenue-generating endeavours.
THE RESPONSIBILITY of maintaining this academic-community balance rests heavily on the shoulders of Michael Noon, director of the Chan and former director of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto. At first Noon was reluctant to make the cross-country move late in his career, bur he was intrigued by the new centre and by Vancouver after several preliminary visits. Since he arrived, he has been liaising with the film and theatre departments, the School of Music, community groups and campus planning, trying to meet everyone’s needs fairly. But that is nothing new, says Noon.
“Most universities in North America have a facility of this type, many even better equipped than this one, where it is used for the academic but it is also used as a revenue producer,” he says. “In fact, in smaller locations, the university theatre or concert hall is really the only game in town for the public to come to, so it’s not as if it’s an unusual thing to have happen.”
Noon is responsible for programming, and if the spring festival that runs from May 11 to 24 is any indicator, the venue will please many more than exclusively symphonic fans. Everything from classical guitarist Christopher Parkening to Spirit of the West, from the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to a Timothy Findlay reading from Piano Man’s Daughter, are on the list for the first week alone. In scheduling the festival, Noon kept in mind that the audience would he a mix of students and civvies, and that Vancouver audiences tend to have a broad scope of musical tastes.
“It is very much designed as a hall for classical music, because there are choir stalls and so on, because the school of music is mostly classically oriented. But I don’t believe in focusing on one type of artistic endeavour, because people’s taste is changing constantly. The Cultch is a very good example, on a small scale. They go from Kokoro Dance to Vancouver new music to opera. That appeals to me, and as an audience member, too. It would be nice to know that what is on this week is something completely different to last week or the week before. That’s my current philosophy.”
So far, his philosophy seems to be working. Even before its official opening, several student and guest presentations (including a jazz performance by Clarke Terry, cancelled because he called in sick) have sold out. Once they got past the name-calling on the exterior, and got inside, people have been raving about the theatre’s interior, the acoustics, and even the hyper-industrial women’s washroom. Most importantly, it’s generating new interest in the campus and in artistic performance.
Writer/performer John MacLachlan Gray, whose stage version of the tree. the tower. the flood. (a musical originally aired on CBC), looks forward to working in the malleable BC Tel Theatre. “I am not blessed with a mind that works well with conventional staging,” says Gray. “I usually end up doing something that is unusual, and the theatre is built for that. It’s that interesting combination of mediaeval and contemporary that means that you can do interesting things.”
Gray hopes that the new centre will avoid internal wranglings that seem to be a part of university projects, and move on to become an exceptional local venue. “The question, too, is whether the university can overcome its internal politics to perform some external function. You know what they say about universities: the politics are furious because the stakes are so low,” he laughs, adding that he believes they are on the right track. “Every so often there are people who have an idea, and put their money to work in an interesting way as opposed to a stupid way. This seems to be what’s happening here. It’s going to be a good space to go to, and that’s rare.”


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Any film by Shin’ya Tsukamoto isn’t going to be an easy watch. I recently had to endure Tetsuo, The Iron Man and its sequel Tetsuo II: Body Hammer for the first time (look out for the reviews later on this week), films that I’d originally stumbled on as a teenager and found too disturbing to sit through.
Now, when I say endure I don’t mean this in a negative way. Tsukamoto’s style has traits shared by some of my favourite directors, Lynch, Cronenberg and Aronofsky (to name but a few). His ability to put the viewer through their paces by use of extreme camera work, hideous bodymorphing effects, and just plain old-fashioned gore are masterful. It’s as if the director is setting the audience a challenge NOT to look away.Kotoko starts off as a relatively simple film. Leading actress Cocco developed the story along with the director, and it tells the tale of single mother, Kotoko, who has a rather unique condition: she sees double. That’s not to say she has double vision, her condition causes her to see two of everybody – usually a good version and an evil version. The evil “doubles” she sees tend to try and assault either her or her baby son. She reacts in the way any mother would, by brutally defending herself by any means necessary.
Because of her condition, she has no idea whether the person she’s just savagely beaten in self-defense is real, or exists in her mind, so following a particularly nasty incident she decides to pack up and leave town. Turns out she moves around a lot, such is her condition.Eventually, she reaches breaking point, and decides to stay indoors at all times, attempting to create an environment that’s suitable for her young son.
Then, one day she walks into the living room, and sees her son’s double. This proves to be the final straw, and results in a desperate act that see’s her son taken away from her to live with her sister.
There are some truly disturbing scenes from hereon in, with almost unwatchable depictions of brutal sadomasochism, but at its heart Kotoko is a very simple, and very well constructed film about the struggles endured by a lone parent. Like Fight Club, the film adopts the use of first person voice-over to allow the audience to gain an insight into Kotoko’s thought process, and like Fincher’s aforementioned film, she proves to be quite the unreliable narrator. It’s very unclear at times whether what we are seeing on screen is reality, or a construct of Kotoko’s mental state.
There are far too many Hollywood movies depicting the plight of a single parent as yet another device to shoe-horn into romantic comedy (I don’t need to name names, as there are countless to choose from).
Kotoko has taken a darker route, depicting the unrelenting stress of it all, how a person can be driven to and over the brink of madness when they’re all alone and have a child that, despite their best efforts, will not stop crying.
It’s not a film for the faint hearted, and I suspect many people won’t be able to get through it, as the music, camera work and events in the film all conspire to create a truly disturbing atmosphere. I’d say that it’s even harder to sit through than Lynch’s Eraserhead, as there are no moments of dark comedy to break the tension.
That’s not to say that there aren’t flashes of hope throughout, just be aware that this film is not for the faint-hearted.
Kotoko IS OUT NOW on Blu-Ray by Third Window Films
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Sigma Introduces Integrated Lysis and Affinity Purification Columns
Sigma, a division of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, has launched a HIS-Select™ iLAP™ 5 ml Column (Product code H9913).
The HIS-Select iLAP column is a patent-pending method that combines cell lysis and histidine- tagged protein purification steps into one step, allowing fast, efficient and non-denaturing protein extraction directly from microbial cultures.
The HIS-Select iLAP column consists of a single-use, disposable column designed for the one-step purification of histidine-tagged proteins directly from a 5 ml bacterial culture.
This product is designed to maximize the speed and efficiency of recombinant protein extraction while eliminating sample loss.
The column contains specific HIS-Select™ nickel chelate matrix and highly efficient CelLytic™ Express, both present in a convenient tablet format.
The column is designed for the simultaneous, direct lysis of a 5 ml bacterial culture and affinity capture of the target histidine-tagged protein without any additional manipulation required (such as centrifugation).
As the culture is lysed in the column, the target protein is captured on the same highly selective HIS-Select Affinity Gel.
The relatively high capacity feature of these columns enables capture of at least 1-2 mg of histidine-tagged protein per column, making them ideal for confirming expression of a histidine-tagged target protein, for performing protein:protein interaction assays, or for rapidly screening colonies or multiple constructs (cultures).
The resulting purified protein is compatible with protein assays, SDS-PAGE, Western blotting and MALDI.
"The HIS-Select iLAP technology has dramatically simplified purification of histidine-tagged recombinant proteins directly from bacterial cultures," said Michael Hadjisavas, Global Strategic Marketing Manager, Proteomics, at Sigma-Aldrich Corporation.
"This new 5 ml column format allows for the rapid screening of recombinant clones for protein expression and subsequent protein characterization," he added.
"Since this technology allows for simultaneous cell lysis and protein purification, it will significantly reduce purification time as well as sample handling, minimizing the potential for protein loss or damage."
"As a leader in protein purification, we have taken efficiency one step further by introducing a technology which improves the speed and efficiency by which recombinant proteins can be purified."


Wulf F., Rimini-Doering M., Arnon M., Gauterin F. (2013) Approaches of User-Centered Interaction Development for Highly Automated Vehicles in Traffic-Jam Scenarios. In: SAE-China, FISITA (eds) Proceedings of the FISITA 2012 World Automotive Congress. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 200. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
In the recent years one of the goals of driver assistance systems has been to disburden the driver of parts of the driving task. Current developments are able to take over full control of the vehicle in specific use cases. One of the main challenges is to maintain the driver’s ability to take back the responsibility while being driven by the car. As it is assumed that the driver’s main benefit of such systems is the possibility to perform secondary tasks, a target conflict comes up. This paper describes a systematic approach to derive new ways of interaction between the driver and the automated vehicle. Traffic jam situations are chosen as the example situational context for this paper since they are one of the first expected use cases for automated driver assistance systems. By incorporating knowledge of experts of interdisciplinary fields in an innovation workshop, multiple points of view towards the given problem are enabled. For good rated ideas the generalized functional principle is formulated which describes how the user is kept aware of his supervision task. The resulting functional examples are decoupled from the initial ideas by deriving them only from these principles.
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Wear comfort on your sleeves. The women's Laurel Mountain 3/4 Sleeve Tee is the perfect fabric blend of Merino and synthetic fabric, for offering a luxurious feel, improved stretch recovery, and moisture control. All while keeping the odor resistance that merino provides. Our three-quarter-sleeved jersey works for both ends of the thermometer, wicking moisture on hot days or stiff climbs and providing extra coverage on brushy or chilly descents.
Expert tailoring and premium materials make this tee indispensable for multi-day, multi-sport performance. It’s built for the bike but it’ll have your back everyday.
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WWE used to give us a lot of spicy ingredients back in the days of non-PG Era. There was a cutting-edge factor of the programming which is missing these days. A locker room filled up with gorgeous Divas used to give the fans a lot of pleasing treatment to their eyes. Candice Michelle was one of them who earned fame for being an eye-candy Diva.
Debuting in 2004 on the Raw roster, Candice Michelle used to feature in a lot of bra & panties matches, pillow fights and more. Later, Vince McMahon made her even a better Diva figure by forming the Vince’s Devils faction. A lot of things happened between Vince McMahon and Candice Michelle in the backstage area. This earned her the fame of being a sex symbol on WWE TV.
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It is certain from the above comments that Candice Michelle career had tons of controversial things. WWE built her character like that so that she can always be a raunchy figure on live TV. She did it effectively to make a net worth of more than $1 million from a successful career. Here are top 5 of those controversial things from Candice Michelle career span,
Candice Michelle was also known as Go Daddy girl
Candice Michelle became an internet sensation by featuring in an ad for Go Daddy. The company provides internet domains for other organizations hired her for an ad in 2005. It aired during 2005 Super Bowl XXXIX garnering a national attention from the fans. The ad with sexual intentions was a parody of the 2004 “wardrobe malfunction” (where model Janet Jackson exposed her right breast) had tremendous popularity.
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This made Candice Michelle a face of the Go Daddy brand. People used to call him as “Miss GoDaddy.com” and the “Go Daddy Girl”. She earned more Go Daddy ads after this during 2006 NFC playoffs of SuperBowl XL. It continued till the fourth consecutive Go Daddy commercial for Super Bowl XLII, entitled “White Light” in 2008.
Sri Lankan Cricketer Shehan Madushanka Detained Due To Possessing Heroin
The 25-year-old Sri Lankan right-arm pacer Shehan Madushanka has been detained by the Sri Lankan police for possessing heroin. According to the AFP report, a police official has confirmed this news on Monday (25th May). According to the AFP, the official has stated that Shehan…
Bastian Schweinsteiger Backs Mario Goetze To Succeed After His Dortmund Departure
Former Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger has backed Mario Gotze to be a success at his next club after it was confirmed he will leave Borussia Dortmund this summer. Dortmund’s sports director Michael Zorc confirmed on Saturday that Mario Goetze will end his run with the team after the…


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On1 Culture is a community created by artists for artists around the world. Our mission is to create a united movement presenting art as one root through culture created by us (the artists).
On1 is where all artists from every background is noticed for their creativity. We are a deeply planted seed throughout many cities, communities, and growing, organically through art globally.
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Geoffrey Canada, Van Jones Among Visionary Speakers Just Announced for Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit
The Summer is quickly whizzing by, which can only mean one thing: Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit is right around the corner! The timing couldn’t be better.
We’ve been hearing from so many of you interested in registering and finding out more on workshops, panelists, special events, and all other great things you can expect to see at the Summit, taking place Nov. 8-11.
Now this week, we’re happy to finally share with you the very FIRST confirmed speakers – and boy are they good!
Visionary Speakers for Equity Summit 2011 include:
- Geoff Canada, President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone
- Van Jones, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Senior Policy Advisor, Green For All
- Alejandro Echeverri Restrepo, Architect; Former Director of Urban Projects, Medellin, Colombia
You can now also visit us on the Summit website to view and download the Agenda-at-a-glance. But don’t forget – early bird registration ends this coming Monday, August 15th, so be sure to tell friends and colleagues in your network so they can register for as low as $175!
We look forward to seeing you there!


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The Hazelton Hotel is an excellent choice for travelers visiting Toronto, offering a quaint environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
Rooms at The Hazelton Hotel offer a flat screen TV, air conditioning, and a minibar providing exceptional comfort and convenience, and guests can go online with free wifi.
A 24 hour front desk, room service, and a concierge are some of the conveniences offered at this hotel. A pool and breakfast will also help to make your stay even more special. If you are driving to The Hazelton Hotel, parking is available.
Nearby landmarks such as Graffiti Alley (1.6 mi) and St. Lawrence Market (1.9 mi) make The Hazelton Hotel a great place to stay when visiting Toronto.
Toronto has plenty of French restaurants. So when you’re here, be sure to check out popular spots like ALO RESTAURANT, Scaramouche Restaurant, and GEORGE Restaurant, which are serving up some great dishes.
During your visit, be sure to check out popular attractions like Casa Loma (0.9 mi), Kensington Market and Spadina Avenue (1.2 mi), and The AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario (1.2 mi), which are all within walking distance of the hotel.
Enjoy your stay in Toronto!
Couldn’t say enough good things about the Hazelton hotel! The staff treat you like royalty, the room was amazing, and location was perfect! Everyone was so accommodating to what we wanted. A must stay
I have stayed here before, and had a reservation to stay here again because the first stay was wonderful. This time we had dinner reservations and we were running a bit late, so we went straight to the restaurant. As we were walking past the front doors towards the restaurant, the 2 staff working the doors were making fun of our outfit choices. This is completely unacceptable. We ended up going to another hotel for the night.
The service was impeccable!! Exceeded all my expectations. The rooms are modern, clean and very spacious. The staff went out of their way to assist you in anyway they could. One of the best hotel stays.
I surprised my husband with a weekend stay at the Hazelton Hotel to celebrate our wedding anniversary. It's the same hotel where we stayed for our wedding many years ago. I was blown away by the level of personalized service we received by all the hotel staff, who not only knew our names but also knew the small details. Some examples include: they knew what room we stayed at on our wedding night which is impressive considering how long it's been; without me asking, they set up the screening room with treats for my children & our guests; they took care of our guests and escorted them to the screening room without me asking; and the list goes on and on... Our room and the hotel were not only beautiful but exceptionally maintained & clean. The screening room was very impressive, definitely one of the highlights of our stay. The food at the One was delicious, we loved people watching on the beautiful patio. It was such a nice welcome to be able to relax and enjoy traveling again during these complicated times with COVID-19. A special thank you to Gaurav Dutta, Director of Sales & Marketing and Karan Kapoor, Sales Manager for making our anniversary so memorable! I look forward to returning to the Hazelton Hotel very soon.…
I had the opportunity to stay at one of my favorite properties in Toronto as I was traveling for work and it was the best choice I made. I have always had an exceptional experience at the Hazelton however even with the transition of opening in these times their service was still at the upper opulence and excellence. The team took care of all my needs during my visit and my room was nothing less than gorgeous as I had the chance to stay in one of the newly renovated rooms. Hazleton will now always be my second home when I am in Toronto.

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Made in China and crafted from quality natural wood, this wooden chopsticks set features the traditional Japanese motifs of lines and hashes in a classic royal blue and white set beautifully against the honey brown shade with fine natural wood grains.
With five lovely pairs of chopsticks, this wooden chopsticks set is an ideal way to serve your dinner guests at your next sushi dinner party. Showcasing a simple, yet elegant design that features a simply palette of blue and brown, and minimal and clean designs of lines and hashes, this chopsticks set
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I sometimes forget that the New York Times likes to hide certain articles in the Fashion & Style section which, had they appeared in the news section, might be judged overly anxiety-producing.
I didn't find this one until alerted by the User is Content blog a few weeks after it first appeared. Right at the outset of Alex Williams' "Duck and Cover- the New Survivalism", we read that Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, writes in his new book "Wealth, War and Wisdom," that people should "assume the possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure."
"Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food," Mr. Biggs writes. "It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down."
That's pretty scary. As you might guess from the emphasis on 'riot and rebellion' rather than say, floods and famine, Mr. Biggs represents the 'conservative' survivalists, the more traditional ones. But the article makes a point of the emergence of a new left-wing and green survivalist contingent, who are more concerned with the floods and famine side.
Williams quotes Alex Steffen, executive editor of WorldChanging.com
"The 'where do we land when climate change gets crazy?’ question seems to be an increasingly common one..." such questions have "really gone mainstream."
Greens like us all want to live locally and sustainably, generating our own energy, food, and warmth by the sun and natural systems, in harmony with nature and the cycles of life. We don't flourish among mammon and condos and cars, we want to be with Nature and Natural Spirituality, that is what nourishes us. We want to make our Edens. We know it can be done. We don't really want most of the things this ADD society holds as desirable anyway. We want simpler, deeper lives, naturally enriched.
We know we can do it. But we are all part of a sprawling matrix of accumulated connections to many other agendas, and few of us have broken free and begun their Edens. The thought that this kind of living may in the future be the only tolerable way of living, or even the only way of living- period, well, this might just get the ball rolling a little faster.


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Cable Chronicles: Sundance Selects; Discovery Goes Public; ESPN Turns 30
By Tom White
Rainbow Media, the parent company of the Sundance Channel, IFC, AMC and WEtv, announced this week the launch of Sundance Selects, a new Video On Demand service that will be made available to cable and satellite operators in early 2009. The service, for which Sundance founder Robert Redford will play an advisorial role, will offer both fiction films and documentaries. Sundance Selects follows the lead of sister channel IFC, whose day-and-date models On Demand and Festival Direct have helped define the Rainbow brand.
"The launch of Sundance Selects is an exciting next step in our mission to bring the art house to the viewer's house," said Rainbow President and CEO Joshua Sapan in a statement. "Many of the markets we now reach have never had a theater that plays these films, but our experience shows that there are independent film fans everywhere. We believe that the transactional gross for many of these independent films will surpass even DVD grosses within a few short years, because of the economics of releasing a film theatrically."
"The hallmark of the Sundance brand is creating an environment of discovery, for both artists and for audiences," added Redford. "Sundance nurtures new, independent voices in the creative realm, and works just as hard to bring their work to larger audiences in new ways. Sundance Selects' VOD is a perfect complement to this mission and I am really energized about working with Sundance Channel and Rainbow Media on this venture."
Let's see...The week opened with two financial giants, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch being, respectively, spurned by the US government for a takeover and bought for less than a song by Bank of America. Then the US government agreed to take over AIG. Wall Street saw its worse plunge since 9/11/01. And pundits were prognosticating Great Depression II. What a great time to go public! And that's exactly what Discovery Communications did, when Founder/Chairman John Hendricks and President/CEO David Zaslav rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange Thursday morning, Discovery's first day as a public company. Discovery Holding Company and Advance/Newhouse Communications are major stockholders in Discovery Communications, Inc.
ESPN, the venerable 24-hour sports channel, celebrates 30 years in the business next year, and to commemorate that special anniversary, the programming execs are ramping up their documentary slate, enlisting such leading lights as Barbara Kopple, Jon Alpert and Spike Lee to produce works under the channel's proposed "30/30" initiative, which calls for 30 one-hour programs by 30 different filmmakers. This project is under the ESPN Films initiative, launched this past March, which also includes the Tribeca ESPN Film Festival. Here's an interview from RealScreen with executive producer Connor Schell.


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Review By Brian and Sharon - Toronto, Ontario - CA (October 2011)
Third visit even better than the first two!
Every time we return, there has been something new and exciting to enjoy
|Brian and Sharon
|Toronto - Ontario - CA
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|Soriano - Olive Harvest
Why go back to tour with the folks at Culture Discovery again and again? Maybe it's the great food, good fun and exciting touring. Or maybe it's the genuine warmth and friendship of Michael, Paola and the CDV team. Every time we return, there has been something new and exciting to enjoy: This time it was the Chestnut Festival, the delightful medieval town of Spello and the new outdoor grill and wine cellar at the villa.
What's next? Maybe we'll go to Barolo or join the gang in Sicily. Michael goes to enormous lengths to find events and locations he knows we'll love. My only advice is "Sign up right now - these tours fill up fast".
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