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In Patricia's suicide note, she asked that their children 20-year-old Isabella and 19-year-old Joseph be taken care of after they die.

Pictured, the ninth floor window which they jumped out.

Public records showed that Glenn owed about $213,000 to the federal government and nearly $42,000 to the state in unpaid taxes dating back to 2003.

But they still managed to sent their two kids to private school, at the elite Loyola School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Tuition at the Jesuit-run Catholic school is $8,905 for the current year.

The couple who jumped to their deaths from a 17-story New York City office building Friday morning, after struggling with debt, have been identified.

Chiropractor Glenn Scarpelli and his wife Patricia,ages 53 and 50, are the victims in the early morning suicide.

They lived close to Wall Street with their two children, Isabella, 20, and Joseph, 19.

But they traveled uptown, to Glenn's recently closed chiropractic practice, just a block from theEmpire State building, to commit suicide.

They jumped from a window of the ninth-floor office around 5:45am, dying as they fell on the hard asphalt of East 33rd Street, near Madison Avenue.

Police covered their bodies with white sheets when they arrived on the scene, shutting down the entire block to investigate.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4739512/Couple-commit-suicide-health-care-costs.html
Lalasticlala, mynd44

Norway

So bad.

Person wey get head no get cap.

Waoh.....This is cool.

Nice ride.

ng

A duplex

Another apartment, fresh fish can be seen on a table in the kitchen/toilet.


Another kitchen.

oz4real83:
Ajegunle looks better than this. My impression of Hongkong has always been sprawling skyscrapers with beautiful landscapes.

Yes, there are two sides of countries.

That's the slum, though Asia slums are scary

Donald Trump speaks on TV while this Hong Kong tenant reads a book and others in their coffin apartments.

Peopla washing, cooking and eating in their tiny flat.

Food and a rice cooker loom over a bed.

Kids doing their homework

Toilet and kitchen together.

From different homes.

Lalasticlalal, Mynd44

Living room, different apartments.

They've been condemned by the UN as 'an insult to human dignity', but so-called 'coffin homes' still house around 200,000 people in jam-packed.

According to the Census and Statistics Department, those people are being housed in around 88,000 subdivided apartments.

These shocking pictures, which form part of a new exhibition by the Society for Community Organisation, reveal desperately cramped living spaces where toilets are feet away from chopping boards and rooms are the width of a single-bed mattress.

Because of long waits for public housing and sky-rocketing rent costs, many poor people in Hong Kong are forced to simply accept their tiny living spaces.


One occupant said 'The most difficult thing about living here is not being able to breathe in fresh air.

It’s suffocating.'



Pictured: An exterior shot of a slum in Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong, where some residents live in the tiny 'coffin apartments'







https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/jun/07/boxed-life-inside-hong-kong-coffin-cubicles-cage-homes-in-pictures?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C3551406765

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4585230/Shocking-pictures-reveal-tiny-Hong-Kong-coffin-homes.html

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Climbing instructor




Swapping a desk for sheer rock face, mountaineering instructors are born with a head for heights.

Their work involves teaching people to climb and hike on mountains.

This can take place in the great outdoors or in an indoor facility.

Fatalities can occur in harsh environments, with Mount Everest a notorious graveyard for mountaineering pros.

Skyscrapers window cleaners.




Window cleaners recruited to polish skyscrapers must have a head for heights along with a love ofwashing and buffing.

The high rise cleaners are often suspended hundreds of feet in the air, where they carry out their work from narrow platforms or swinging seats.

Thanks to an emphasis on safety training, deaths remain rare.

According to the International Window Cleaning Association, in the U.S. there was only one high-rise fatality per year from 2010 to 2014.





Pictured


Workers cleaning the windows of Dubai's Burj Khalifa building, the world's tallest tower.

Skyscraper construction worker.




Construction workers recruited to build skyscrapers must have the ability to carry out tasks hundreds of feet up.

In the early days of construction there were no hard hats or safety ropes and accidents were common place.

During the break neck construction of the Empire State Building in New York, five men died in accidents.

And continuing the incredible building boom of the early 20th century, it was said that crew foremen could expect one man to die for every $1million spent on a skyscraper.

Nowadays, strict safety regulations are in place to prevent fatalities from occurring as the buildings continue to get higher and higher.

The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia measuring 3,307 feet high is currently under construction and it is set to be the tallest structure in the world when it is finished.

Sky diving instructor.




There's no room for a fear of heights as a sky diving instructor.

To qualify, the aerial teachers must go through rigorous training and complete hundreds of jumps.

The standard jump altitude is 12,000 feet above ground level and this height provides one minute of free fall.

The scary part is no survival, is death when the chute won't open.

Bridge painters.




They have to spend hours teetering hundreds of feet above the ground, ocean with a paint brush to hand.

During the recruitment process, they must pass aseries of tests to demonstrate their high altitude artistic capabilities.

Many fatalities involve falls, with some workers losing their balance or others victims of structural collapses.

Ultra-high crane operator.


Wang Hua has worked on some of China's most impressive buildings, from the China World Trade Centre, 1,083 feet to the Tianjin Radio, 1,361 feet.

His typical working day involves walking up hundreds of steps up a ladder to a tiny cabin less than two square metres in size.

When Wang recalls his early days as a crane operator he recalls the fear he had.

'My trainer didn't really care about me.

He just told me not tolook down,' he says.

At that time there were few high-rise buildings in China and his first crane was a modest 300 feet high.

Communication tower technician.



Working on transmission towers is a high-risk job.

According to a report in T&D World, a utility trade magazine, around 30 to 50 tower workers in every 100,000 are killed every year.

Risks include falls, electrical shocks and mechanical trauma.

One radio tower technician decided to give some insight into his perilous profession by photographing one of his jobs.



Imgur user, a technician, posted images of himself hundreds of feet up in the sky as he went about changing a radio tower beacon bulb.

He said he was around 1,500 feet at the time, after he took an elevator to 1,400 feet and climbed the rest of the way.

In his photo journal he notes that his climbing carabiners are his 'life lines' and he must stay '100% alert at all times' in a bid to prevent an accident.

Wind turbine technician.


Teetering way up high about 250m above fields or the ocean, wind turbine technicians are tasked with keeping the giant pieces of kit in check.

Their work involves maintaining, testing and repairing mechanical and electrical equipment and monitoring daily performance.

In 2011, the wind energy industry admitted that 1,500 accidents had taken place on wind farms over a five-year period.

These employees are quite literally high flyers, with one prerequisite on their CV being able to handle heights.




Repair work had to be carried out on Rio de Janeiro's famed Christ the Redeemer statue after two fingers and its head were chipped during lightning storms back in 2014.

Brave workers had to abseil down the 125 foot-high statue in a bid to fix its right thumb, right middle finger and a spot on its head.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4651566/The-jobs-head-heights-must.html

Lalasticlala, mynd44

smithsydny:
Cc explorer if ur the one that blur that twitter name of what use?


When its showing on Twitter already.. I don't understand y covering information?

Na true, no mind me.

Lalasticlala

Dexema:
That is the effect of the "my case will be different" syndrome.

Lol

Protesters outside the White House held signs which went against the president's earlier tweet in which he described the cost of the healthcare of transgender servicemen and women as a 'burden'

.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer was among those who joined the protesters on Wednesday night.

Transgender Army veteran Tanya Walker addresses the crowd in Times Square with a megaphone.

'There are 15,000 patriotic transgender Americans in the US military fighting for all of us.

What happened to your promise to fight for them?' Jenner asked her 3.9million followers.



New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer was among those present at the protest on Wednesday.

He addressed the crowd with a megaphone and used his speech to poke fun at the president who he said had skipped enlisting in the 1960s so that he could 'hang out at Studio 54'.

The president dodged the draft to serve in the Vietnam war because he had bone spurs in his heels.

Four other deferments were given so that he could pursue his education.

Angry protesters took to the streets of New York City and Washington DC on Wednesday night after the president announced his ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces.

Crowds gathered outside the famed US Army Recruitment center in Times Square with signs bearing slogans including 'resist' and 'rise up' in a show of defiance against the president's announcement.

Others marched on foot outside the White House bearing signs which read 'we're here, we're queer,we hate the f****** president'.

The demonstrations were in response to an announcement he made earlier on Wednesday in which he described the cost of transgender healthcare in the military as a 'burden'.

'After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.

'Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail,' he said.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4733888/Protests-Trump-bans-transgender-people-military.html

Lordshola:
African leaders really need to step up their game in making sure that this continent is habitable for its citizen. God help Africa.

This is quite disheartening and embarassing.

God help us.

But most of these leaders dont give a fk.

The more they inflict pain on the citizens, the richer they become.