{"id":2225,"date":"2018-12-12T05:55:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:27:00","slug":"december-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2018\/12\/december-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"December 12, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54690 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/09\/ef794108-cksy_5_things_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"46\" height=\"90\" \/>The monthly <a href=\"https:\/\/blood.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blood Donor Clinic<\/a> is today at the Spirit and Life Centre from 1-7.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1075 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/10\/063719a8-canadian-blood-services.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Book your appointment now at <a href=\"https:\/\/blood.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blood.ca<\/a>, 1-888-2-DONATE, use the apps or just walk in!<\/p>\n<p>New donors are needed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54691 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/09\/fd341b29-cksy_5_things_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"90\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2229 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/12\/0e8e8b9b-manwhoinventedchristmas_homeweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"125\" \/>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamcapitoltheatre.com\/eventDetail.php?event=598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movie Night at the Capitol<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Come by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamcapitoltheatre.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chatham Capitol Theatre<\/a> tonight to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6225520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Man Who Invented Christmas<\/a> at 7.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is welcome, $5 cash at the door. Concessions are available.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54692 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/09\/3acb2f67-cksy_5_things_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"58\" height=\"90\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time<\/a> magazine chose its Person of the Year. They went with &#8220;The Guardians&#8221; a.k.a. journalists who are fighting the &#8220;war on truth&#8221; and standing up to governments that are trying to delegitimize them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2230 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/12\/401b0adf-time-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"40\" \/>They particularly chose to honor those who&#8217;ve paid a price for speaking truth to power. Including Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who was butchered, most likely by the Saudi government, back in October.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump was the magazine&#8217;s runner-up for Person of the Year.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BrQ47BvgUa5\/\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54688 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/09\/63a1a3cf-cksy_5_things_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"90\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcsymphony.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Symphony<\/a> set a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guinness record<\/a> for World&#8217;s Largest Tuba Ensemble last Friday, when 835 players performed O Tannenbaum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1792 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/11\/ff023655-guinness-world-records.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>The previous record was 502.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, the song had to last at least five minutes. It was part of the Symphony&#8217;s annual TubaChristmas event, and the musicians ranged in age from 11 to 86.<br \/>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DmJC58JAOU8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-54689 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/09\/3a9171bb-cksy_5_things_5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"89\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitaminwatercanada.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitamin Water<\/a> is offering $100,000 to the first person, who can last 365 days without using their smartphone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2231 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/bri-web-app-wordpress\/2018\/12\/5b2430f9-vitamin-water.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"50\" \/>The company will select one contestant in January to use a &#8220;dumb phone&#8221; for an entire year. The individual will be awarded $10,000 for lasting six months and $100,000 for lasting the full year.<\/p>\n<p>Vitamin Water has not announced how they will monitor the contestant to prevent cheating. Applications are being currently accepted on Vitamin Water&#8217;s Twitter and Instagram pages.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">we tried to get Brandon to make this deal, but he is too busy \u2013 will you turn off your phone for a year instead? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoPhoneForAYear?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoPhoneForAYear<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/contest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#contest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RVTF0gytnv\">https:\/\/t.co\/RVTF0gytnv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wFFTXl0PBX\">pic.twitter.com\/wFFTXl0PBX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vitaminwater\u00ae (@vitaminwater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vitaminwater\/status\/1072498614142976002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The monthly Blood Donor Clinic is today at the Spirit and Life Centre from 1-7. Book your appointment now at Blood.ca, 1-888-2-DONATE, use the apps or just walk in! New donors are needed. It&#8217;s Movie Night at the Capitol! Come by the Chatham Capitol Theatre tonight to see The Man Who Invented Christmas at 7.","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,133,35,26,50,492,90,491,134,489,490,493,494],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-things-you-need-to-know","tag-5thingsyouneedtoknow","tag-blood-donor-clinic","tag-chatham-capitol-theatre","tag-ckmornings","tag-guinness-word-record","tag-kansas-city-symphony","tag-movie-night-at-the-capitol","tag-person-of-the-year","tag-spirit-and-life-centre","tag-the-man-who-invented-christmas","tag-time-magazine","tag-tuba","tag-vitamin-water"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 22:49:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/943cksy.com\/blogs\/5-things-you-need-to-know\/2018\/12\/december-12-2018\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cksyfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}