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NBA star LeBron hits town for Nike promo
THIS BASKETBALL-CRAZY nation is getting a glimpse of one of the sport’s biggest star today.
Two-time NBA champion LeBron James finally made his much-anticipated arrival in Manila yesterday afternoon in his first trip to the country, whose passion and devotion for the sport is unlike any other in the globe.
A four-time NBA Most Valuable Player and winner of two Olympic gold medals, James, who arrived on a private jet at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, is in the country for a promotional tour dubbed “Witness History” and organized by global footwear and sports apparel brand Nike.
James is coming off another grueling yet successful NBA season, where he powered the Heat to their second straight title at the expense of the San Antonio Spurs, who dragged them to a seven-game series. James won regular season MVP as well as finals MVP.
The 6-foot-8 Miami Heat forward will be at the Mall of Asia Arena this afternoon for the promotional show, which drew a mad rush for tickets at Nike’s flagship store at Bonifacio Global City.
Fans lined up as early as two days for free tickets that were distributed last week in a clear indication of James’ pull in the country.
James’ visit signals a rush of arrivals from current NBA stars for the next three months.
James Harden of the Houston Rockets and Eric Gordon of the New Orleans Pelicans are also arriving Thursday for the three-day NBA 3X event, while Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls will be in the country on Sept. 12 to 16.
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What if we buy turf fertilizer 6 months before we need it,
What is the opportunity cost ?
The return that we could earn on the money had we decided not to store.
If you borrow money to buy corn or fertilizer to store, the interest cost is an accounting cost.
Well, if you buy turf fertilizer for the golf course 6 months before you are actually going to use it, that means you have pulled money out of the bank to pay for the fertilizer. Fertilizer does not pay interest. So when you pulled the money out of the bank, you started losing interest (an opportunity cost).

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K9 Tracks Down Teens in Stow After Kent Shooting; Youths Cleared of Any Involvement
The following information was supplied by the Stow Police Department. Turns out it was a "wrong place, wrong time" situation for three 17-year-olds.
Kent Police received a call at 12:21 a.m. Wednesday for a report of shots fired. They discovered a male, 17, at 782 Silver Meadows Blvd. with multiple gunshot wounds. According to police radio traffic, the victim had been shot in the head.
The suspect fled westbound on foot armed with a handgun, said Kent Police. Officers were looking for a white male in his mid 20s, approximately 5-feet 8-inches tall, heavy build, who was wearing a white sleeveless T-shirt.
Two Stow officers got a call from Kent that the suspect was seen headed toward Stow and they began to patrol the area of Graham Road and Fishcreek Road.
An officer was on Graham Road when he saw a man in light-colored clothes running from behind a doctor's office, according to a police report.
The K9 helped track down a 17-year-old male in the tall grass behind Burger King. Two other juveniles, both 17, were also found in the grass.
After further investigation, the teens "did not match the description of the suspects," said Stow Police Chief Louis Dirker. The three boys were cleared by Kent Police, he added.
All of the teens were released to their parents. One teen was examined by EMS for an injury to his back from Nero and another teen was examined by EMS for passing out on scene, said police.
According to a Stow Youth Services report, the juveniles were out past curfew and obstructing official business.
Dirker said "the three youths had nothing to do with the shooting in Kent. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Kent Police are still looking for the suspect.
Again, the suspect is described as a white male in his mid 20s, approximately 5-feet 8-inches tall, heavy build, who was wearing a white sleeveless T-shirt at the time.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Kent Police Department by calling 330-673-7732 or sending an email to KPDTips@kentohio.org.

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Pulse Secure successfully progresses EMEA expansion strategy
May 2015 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Pulse Secure announces details of its ongoing EMEA expansion strategy to meet increasing demand from organisations keen to benefit from its Secure Access solutions.
Ahead of its debut at InfoSec Europe this June, for the last year Pulse Secure has been successfully executing a strategy to extend robust technical and pre-sales support to its partners and customers across the region. From new offices in the UK, Pulse Secure has appointed country managers in four key European countries as well as Dubai and created a local language technical team to deliver true 24/7 multi-lingual mission critical support.
The EMEA expansion includes the imminent launch of a new channel program to support its 500 partners across the region with training courses in multiple locations and technical workshops for customers delivered by partners and the Pulse Secure regional team. Pulse Secure technology is used by over 6000 customers within EMEA including progressive organisations such as Data Center Finland and Santa Monica Networks.
This July, Pulse Secure will also release Pulse One, a central policy manager that enables secure access of all endpoint or mobile devices to corporate applications that may be located on-premise or in the cloud.


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People of many different age groups and circumstances take advantage of part-time employment opportunities provided by the fast food industry. Given the wide variety of different fast-food vendors, the industry is fiercely competitive, as is the unskilled labor market. In each of the following circumstances, indicate whether the proposed changes in government policy are likely to have an increasing, a decreasing or an uncertain effects on employment in this industry.
A. Elimination of minimum wage law coverage for those working less than 20 hours per week
B. An increase in spending for education that raises basic worker skills.
C. An increase in the employer portion of federally-mandated FICA insurance costs.
D. A requirement that employers install expensive new worker-safety equipment
E. A state requirement that employers pay 8 percent of wages to fund a new national healthcare program.
A: This will increase the demand of labor thereby increasing the equilibrium wage rate. However, because the minimum wage floor is removed, the actual wage rate will probably be less than the earlier wage rate.
B: Increasing basic worker skills will reduce ...
The solution answers the question below in great detail.
Q.1) If you were the finance Minister of Never-Never Land, how would you estimate the long-run exchange rate of your currency? Defend your choice as well as discuss its possible failings.
Q.2) What are the positives and negatives of protectionist trade policies on the part of the federal government? Which policy do you think is best right now?
Q.3) How do changes in interest rates, inflation, productivity, and income affect exchange rates? Is a strong U.S. dollar always good for the U.S. and global economies? Why or why not?View Full Posting Details


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Using tax dollars to bailout farmers hurt by President Trump’s tariffs is not the way to strengthen the economy.
As an economist who shares President Trump’s belief that we should be cutting taxes and shrinking government, I might be expected to be enthralled by his policies. But that is not the sentiment I and many other libertarians feel when it comes to his decision to impose tariffs on steel, aluminum and a host of other products made overseas, particularly in China.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump and the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said they had reached an agreement to step back from a trade war and to discuss ways to lower tariffs and other trade barriers, and possibly increase European imports of American soybeans. But the outcome of those talks is far from certain, and trade tensions between the United States and China remain very high.
What is driving the president’s apparent eagerness to impose tariffs is a simple and wrongheaded idea that plays to a large part of his base: A trade war will spur job growth in America. He is trying to use tariffs to give a leg up to American industries against countries that manufacture the same products that we do — whether steel, aluminum or cars — but more efficiently. And who could be against that if it creates more jobs?
In reality, however, creating jobs alone does not make for a strong economy. What we really want is to increase production. And to achieve that, we need to allocate labor as efficiently as possible. One way to do that is to ensure that if other countries can make certain goods more efficiently than we can, we trade with them for these items, rather than manufacture them ourselves. The result is cheaper goods, which is to our advantage.
But tariffs do nothing to improve this efficient allocation of labor. They also do not increase or decrease employment. They just shift jobs around, and almost always in a manner that hurts the economy.
As an illustration, assume Mr. Trump is the governor of New York. He is devoted to making the Empire State “great again.” Right now, both New Yorkers and Iowans raise pigs — but Iowa produces far more than New York. So Governor Trump sets up a protective tariff against the importation of Iowa-raised pork. Will this make New York great again?
Hardly. There is a very good reason the Empire State does not produce a huge amount of this product: economic efficiency, the true path toward economic greatness. Of course, pork product jobs will increase in New York thanks to the Trump tariffs. But this is the way to ruin the state’s economy.
Surely, New Yorkers would be far better off continuing to produce goods and services in which they have a comparative advantage (Broadway shows, dairy products, financial services, jewelry, maybe even newspapers) and trading them for pork, rather than trying to grow more of it locally. Ditto for the Iowans. They, too, would be well advised to stick to what they do best and trade for what they want.
There are good reasons the United States is such a prosperous country, one of which is this: The country is a gigantic free-trade zone among the states. Yes, every once in a while a state legislature will get in the way. Wisconsin may try to reduce the importation of wine from California. But this only interferes with the specialization and the division of labor that maximizes output. Happily, the Supreme Court has typically given the back of its collective hand to all such attempted interferences with interstate economic freedom.
We would do well to apply the same principles to American trade with other countries. That is why Milton Friedman urged a unilateral declaration of free trade with all nations, regardless of their own restrictions on international trade.
The negative consequences of a trade war will soon be felt, if they aren’t already. Even if the United States avoids trade conflict with Europe, tariffs on steel and aluminum from China, Mexico and Canada will raise domestic prices, hurting consumers. And the administration is likely to find itself subsidizing voters who purchase these items or who are hurt when other countries slap tariffs on American goods in retaliation — mainly farmers, manufacturers and builders.
That is one reason Mr. Trump went to Iowa on Thursday: The state’s farm industry could be severely hurt by taxes or tariffs on American farm exports imposed by China and other countries in retaliation for Mr. Trump’s tariffs. So the president heralded a plan to provide as much as $12 billion in emergency relief to farmers caught in the trade crossfire. That is a $12 billion bailout using taxpayer funds for a problem the president himself created.
There are other, longer-term consequences of a trade war. After the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, announced in May that tariffs would be imposed on steel and aluminum imports from Mexico, Canada and the European Union, our European allies embraced greater trade relations with, of all places, Russia. Canada is sidling up to China. This will only hurt American exporters.
Maybe we should be happy that the president hasn’t yet kicked Hawaii out of the union and imposed a tariff on pineapples to strengthen the weak pineapple industry in other states. Absurd, yes, but hardly less bizarre than thinking tariffs on foreign goods will make the American economy great again.
~Walter E. Block is a professor of economics at Loyola University in New Orleans and the author of, among other books, “An Austro-Libertarian Critique of Public Choice,” with Thomas J. DiLorenzo.


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In 1853 citizens living outside the Brighton area petitioned for the establishment of a post office in Moorabbin. Sheehy, writing in 1979 reported, "This petition, although successful only after three years of discussions, was signed by practically every pioneer in the Cities of Moorabbin, Sandringham and Mordialloc. The names form something of a comprehensive pioneers’ register covering those who took up residence here within two years of Victoria gaining severence (sic) from New South Wales, and many of them are known today merely as street names." The listing below of the petitioners is in the same order as they originally appeared.
It was in 1857 that the Postmaster agreed to establish three post offices in the district to the east and south of Brighton. Robert Hitchen was distributing mail from his boot and shoe store on a site diagonally opposite the current site of the Cheltenham Post Office in Nepean Highway. William Peel was carrying out similar duties at the ‘Double Lagoon’ general store opposite the municipal buildings in Nepean Highway, Moorabbin and E Aitchison was handing out mail from a tiny annex of his small home in East Bentleigh.
"Prior to the establishment of these post offices people had to walk or ride a horse to the General Post Office in Flinders Street, Melbourne, to pick up their letters and parcels. Normally they would call at the small Brighton Post Office on their way as mail at that time played something of a game of hide and seek with those who anxiously awaited deliveries. … Each month, page after page of unclaimed letters were listed in the Government Gazette, clearly indicating that the mail delivery service left a lot to be desired." Sheehy (1979).
A M Betties (late Lieutenant to H M 35th Regiment)
Benjm Meeres (Sth Brighton)
Charles G Knight
Charles Miller (Beaumaris)
Charles Torrers (late Lieutenant to H M 35th Regiment)
Edward Earnes (Moorabbin)
Henry Ebeneser Shedland (Sth Brighton)
Henry Hilliar (Beaumaris)
John Barlow (Beaumaris)
John Bertram Skinnards
John F Backhouse (Sth Brighton)
John Miller Junior (Sth Brighton)
John Miller Senior (Sth Brighton)
John Tyler (late Lieutenant to HM 35th Regiment)
Josiah Preston (Moorabbin)
Mary Ann Tilley
Nicholas Le Page
Thomas Middlemiss (Cheltenham)
William Thomas Robinson (Sth Brighton)
William Wraight (Beaumaris)
W'm Bally (Beaumaris)
Barrie Gregg’s South Brighton Hotel, c1888 on the corner of South and Nepean roads.
- Sheehy, T., 1979 Pioneer Settlers, Mooroobin Vol 1 No 4.
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Kinshasa seems, for some time, food cravings divorce his pathetic reputation of the” most dining capital in the world.” That, since the launch of remediation through some actors under the paw of the current government. In the main streets, sweepers are now visible day and night. Almost everything is done to drive unsafe.
However, this is far from reality in some suburbs, like Mombele.
Rubbish out of sight, gutters clogged, pothole, crowded … the Mombele this area face a public trash can. Execrable is the living conditions in this environment. The worst of all is that municipal authorities do not give the appearance of being challenged by this situation.
According to some people, one of the major causes that promote this unhealthy, there is a lack of litter on the streets of Mombele and no gutters can direct water from the river Kalamu.
But aside from these major causes, there are those within the mentality of the population. Is itself confuses the gutters in the garbage by throwing garbage and is not involved in maintaining the environment.
No thank you after a fight against “Kuluna” Mombele the district still has a hard struggle to lead. This time, against the unhealthiness.

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It’s easy to think depression and anxiety are problems of the young, but statistics show that at least 20 per cent of Australians over 65 will experience one or the other. It is often not well recognised and can manifest differently.
The problem is less visible in seniors, in part, because they are more likely to accept it as a natural sign of getting older, says the General Manager of Brightwater at Home, Jenni Gamble.
“It's very easy for older people to think that sadness, lack of sleep, loss of appetite and mood changes are a ‘normal’ part of getting older,” she adds. “But they are not a normal part of ageing and could be indicators of depression.”
Jenni has been leading a project to address the issue, after she was awarded Brightwater’s Don Hutchison Scholarship to investigate how to recognise, manage and prevent depression.
She and her team have seen first-hand that depression and anxiety could be significant issues for their at-home clients.
“I often hear about loneliness which many of our clients experience, and with loneliness come a greater risk of depression,” she says. “I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to explore this further through the scholarship.”
As a result, Brightwater at Home now has the tools and systems in place to help identify when clients may need support, and to help them do something about it.
Mental Health Screening Program introduced
From the beginning of this year, mental health screening will be integrated into the onboarding process for new clients and become part of the regular care plan review for existing clients.
Brightwater at Home’s Mental Health Clinician Jasmine Trethewey (pictured above) says it is about flagging potential concerns and creating an opportunity to engage and support clients on their terms.
“Through this, we can advocate further action, including visiting the GP,” she says. “Or we might be offering something like social support to improve connection within the community and ideas around decreasing loneliness.”
In addition, Brightwater’s Community Support Workers are being educated about what they can do if a client begins to talk about their mental health, or if they notice changes that could signal something may be not right.
“Community Support Workers spend a lot of time with our clients and are in a good position to have conversations around mental health, even just gently asking: ‘is everything okay?’ And then being able to speak with the client’s support coordinator and highlight the shared concern,” Jasmine explains.
Jasmine says the goal is to provide a safe environment for clients to open up about how they are feeling and provide support on the client’s terms. At that stage, Brightwater at Home will now have the resources and referral pathways to provide assistance.
“Identifying a mental health change is one part of the story,” she adds. “Actually engaging with meaningful care is an equal part of the story.”
Getting help at home
The new screening program represents an important step in addressing the mental health of older Australians, which was highlighted as a priority by the Royal Commission into Aged Care.
An increasing number of people are expected to stay in their own home for longer, and this will mean more services will be needed to support them, says Jasmine.
“There are now a number of different health disciplines visiting clients in their homes,” she explains. “Adding mental health professionals into that is a really important part. I want the clients to know that we're here for all of their care, and this includes their mental health.”
Start of a brighter future
Brightwater at Home’s Mental Health Screening Program will begin rolling out in early 2023. It could be the start of a brighter future for many at-home clients, says program manager Jenni Gamble.
“For me, measuring the success of the program would include someone waking up in the morning thinking about what the day is going to bring,” she says.
“It could be anything from being out in the garden, making a phone call, going to church, being a volunteer. It’s about somebody who can see that even though they're at a different stage, they are still enjoying their life.”

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- Environmentally friendly
- High quality product
- Need separate mattress protector
- Pricey but an investment buy
Rebecca Hayward and her 16-month son Louis tested out this Little Green Sheep Cot Mattress to how it measured up against other brands.
This cot mattress has lots to recommend it. Firstly, it made from all-natural products so doesn’t have the chemical, plastic-y feel that you get elsewhere; it also has dual sides so can be flipped over from the firmer, newborn side to the softer toddler side once your baby turns 18 months. Our tester Rebecca was impressed by its firmness and breathability, which are something she values highly when choosing a mattress.
This mattress is all-natural but, because of this, it’s on the pricey side at £219. You also need to budget for a mattress protector as this doesn’t come with it and, if you opt for the Little Green Sheep version, comes in at an extra £29.95.
Available sizes: 140 x 70 cms and 120 x 60 cms| Type: Coir | Price: £219
The Little Green Sheep Twist Natural Cot Mattress uses only natural ingredients, including coconut, cotton, latex and wool. These natural products help give the mattress breathability which Rebecca said is her number one priority in looking for a newborn mattress. She even went as far as implanting her own face on the mattress to test how much oxygen she could get before popping Louis down.
Its natural credentials also make this mattress temperature-regulating. ‘My baby slept very well on this mattress and was neither too hot nor too cold, so I think the temperature regulation is great,’ she said. ‘I am reassured that my baby isn’t lying on synthetic polyester, and it gives peace of mind for our planet too, especially if baby mattresses can’t be re-used and recycled in the way some other baby items can be.’
Comfort and features
One of the extra features that comes with this mattress is that it has a softer side for toddler age. Rebecca admitted that she hadn’t thought about buying a second mattress for Louis as he got bigger but saw the value in a mattress specifically designed for toddlers. ‘It’s great to know it can offer a better comfort level for a slightly older baby,’ she said. As Louis is under 18 months, he slept on the ‘newborn’ side, which Rebecca found ‘nice and firm for a newborn baby’.
This mattress doesn’t come with its own mattress protector but it’s recommended you use a waterproof one and Little Green Sheep have its own version (for £29.95). For accidents, cleaning the mattress is relatively straight-forward, spot with damp sponge with mild detergent then fully air dry.
Value for money
At £219, this cot mattress is on the expensive side, but Rebecca thought the extra cost was justified. ‘The quality is great, which makes the price worthwhile,’ she said. You can get cheaper alternatives, in terms of breathability and firmness, but they wouldn’t come with the natural, quality materials that you get from this Little Green Sheep product. The fact that it has been designed for both newborns and toddlers also gives it a longevity that you don’t get from all cot mattresses.
Rebecca thought this product would suit those with a premium budget who are also environmentally conscious and value high quality. ‘The price is high,’ Rebecca admitted. ‘But I can’t fault anything else.’
‘The material composition is worth the extra expense, combined with the fact that it's dual-sided.’


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The AAP recommends that all small children (birth through adolescence) receive four hundred IU vitamin D daily. Canada has similar recommendations (with larger quantities advised in Winter season for the people in more northern areas). Vitamin D suggestions in European nations around the world vary.
For babies who're completely breastfed, a minimal day-to-day ingestion of 400 IU/day really should be released inside of a few days immediately after delivery.
Do you might have any solutions for speaking about a vitamin D supplementation prepare Together with the mom’s and baby’s overall health care companies?
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Also, baby ought to have 400IU/day. It is determined by the dosage of no matter what Vitamin D liquid you’re employing. For this certain brand name, your baby would only need to have 1 fall.
Aboriginal communities that has a substantial incidence of vitamin D deficiency have an affiliated superior prevalence of caries (twenty), Though no scientific tests of induce and influence are already performed.
Your son or daughter's medical professional may additionally prescribe cod liver oil supplements. How is vitamin D deficiency in babies dealt with?
Tanning in a very tanning booth routinely would almost certainly Provide you with adequate vitamin D levels (but this comes here along with its very own health challenges). Most discover that taking a nutritional supplement is simpler.
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Vitamin D deficiency also carries on to become a problem among Aboriginal mothers in the course of pregnancy. This really is underlined in a new report by Weiler et al (5).
Victorian legislation ensures that medicines and poisons are Protected. Healthcare specialists ought to be familiar with the applicable laws for his or her profession.
Despite the fact that lanolin comes from sheep’s wool, the animal will not be harmed. All Ddrops® are categorized as vegetarian products, suitable for ‘lacto-ovo’ vegetarian use
Other kinds (Vitamin D2, alfacalcidol, and calcitriol) don't show up to obtain any useful effects regarding the risk of death. Large blood degrees appear to be connected to a reduced hazard of Demise, but it's unclear if supplementation may result in this benefit.

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Aveny was obsessed. Everyone said so.
They weren’t wrong.
She reduced her hours at work and dropped all voluntary commitments. Every spare moment was dedicated to cleaning up the sound (and a few not-so-spare ones too).
When she wasn’t orchestrating Budd Inlet cleanups, she was caught in a strange mania – writing like her life depended on it. She penned an unending stream of editorials – some under her name, some under pseudonyms – and canvassed every paper, politician and publication she could find. She learned how to write grants and offered this skill free of charge to any organization who would help. She continuously churned out requests for more funding, more aid, more support.
Brand worried about her. It wasn’t healthy. But he struggled to argue against what was obviously a good cause. And he hesitated to pick a fight with the cornered wolverine that his wife had suddenly become.
Instead, he and the kids joined her whenever they could. Miriam contributed by performing blessing ceremonies over the sound (and each article draft or grant application when Aveny happened to leave her laptop out on the table).
“Where did you learn to do this?” Brand asked one day, standing beside Miriam on the rocky shore next to Percival Landing Park. He pulled his knit cap lower over his ears, bracing against the Pacific Northwest chill.
“From the water,” Miriam replied. “It will tell you what it needs, if you just ask.” She gently extracted a peacock feather from her bag, unscrewed the lid of a small mason jar, and dipped the feather inside.
“Oh…kay,” Brand said. “What’s in the jar?”
“Curdled cream with just a hint of lemon,” Miriam replied, setting the peacock feather adrift. The thick white substance radiated oily tendrils from the feather’s edge as the tide pulled it away from shore. Then the whole creation sank with a gurgle.
“Oops,” Brand observed.
“What oops?” Miriam asked, pulling out another feather. “She got what she wanted. May we all be so lucky.”
“Ahh, yes,” Brand said, then went to find his wife, who was orchestrating a team of volunteers nearby.
Cleaning up the sound was an uphill battle that might never be won – but he couldn’t tell Aveny that. Failure simply wasn’t an option. Truth be told, he couldn’t tell her much since the accident. She was on fire.
Aveny’s normally docile tendencies had been consumed by some strange beast inside her. It wasn’t just the sound. She snapped at everything and fought back against even the tiniest of grievances like a wounded animal.
Her Rosacea, which she hadn’t even realized was gone, returned with a vengeance, her skin boiling up in hot, angry bumps. The rash scorched across both cheeks and poured down her neck. She started taking routine antibiotics again just to quell its rage. They barely contained the spread. It was like her body was burning from the inside out.
At night, Aveny sat alone in the dark silence of her home. She couldn’t sleep. So, she wrote until her fingers ached, then sat frozen, numbly listening to the soft sounds of her slumbering family. Only then, did she retrieve the skin. She cradled it softly, longing for the strange humming that once ignited at her touch.
There was nothing.
Aveny concocted various schemes to mend it. She tried stitching it together, but the attempt only resulted in pin cushion fingertips and a Frankensteinian repair. The roughly-bound gash remained inanimate. She tried coating it with invisible stitches. The glue connected the severed flesh but she doubted it would hold in the sea. And what good would it do if she couldn’t transform? Even if she could, the water might seep in through the hole and drown her in her own flesh.
Every night, when the clock was nearer to morning than dusk, she tucked the skin secretly beneath her pillow and dreamed of freedom punctuated by horrific nightmares. She could almost taste the saltiness lingering in her breath.
Sometimes, after a volunteer beach cleanup, she’d wander the shore and stare out at the horizon, her eyes savoring the tantalizing sparkle of the waves. She buried the yearning by driving herself relentlessly toward her impossible goal.
Slowly, bit by bit, day by day, the gash in her own arm healed. Two months later, the scar running down her forearm felt soft and flat. To celebrate, she allowed herself one small treat – a kayak trip to Hope Island with Brand.
It was a bastardized homecoming, but a homecoming nonetheless. Bald eagles soared overhead and harbor seals followed in their wake. Brand paddled ahead while Aveny explored the coast, searching for familiar sights.
The shoreline was populated with healthy growth, each tree wielding a bounteous emerald spray. Their fallen compatriots littered the shore, their bulk extending out into the sound like strange dead-end bridges.
One fallen tree caught Aveny’s attention. It would have been regal in its day. But now, it had left its post and succumbed to the sea. Its barnacle encrusted hull danced with eerily drifting seaweed. Its branches extended out like spindly hunks of coral, waving submerged banners of aquatic undergrowth. The only hint it had ever dwelt on land was the short section of trunk still stretched across the beach, eroding more with each passing day.
That’s it, Aveny thought. Land or sea – you can’t have it both ways.
The idea filled her with sadness. But she quickly shoved it aside. It was what it was. There was no sense dwelling on it. She felt foolish for ever thinking she could have both. And now that she finally understood, it was time to let go.
She needed to bring the skin home – here, to the water’s edge – to relinquish its empty form back to the sea. It was over. Lifeless as the skin was, this was the one thing she could do – should do – to honor it. It was time to let go.

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Queen Latifah Marries Couples during Grammy Awards 2014
Posted on January 27 2014
Over thirty gay and straight couples were married at the Grammy Awards this year while Queen Latifah officiated. Madonna, Mary Lambert, Ryan Lewis, and Macklemore performed to the couples during the ceremony. The stage was transformed into a beautiful, makeshift church with stained glass windows for all to see.
Afterwards, Latifah was quoted backstage as saying, “I look forward to the day when presiding over a historic wedding ceremony like this is the norm. I can’t wait to dash off and sign their marriage certificates.”
Katy Perry posted a selfie on Instagram after Sunday’s nuptials. The “Roar” singer was lucky enough to snag one of the bouquets that was tossed after the ceremony. Her caption read, “Congrats to all the #samelove couples tonight. You had me in tears of joy for y’all! Also… Look who caught the bouquet #okuuuurrrr!!!” If superstition is true, then Katy Perry and John Mayer may be the next celebrity couple to walk down the aisle and exchange wedding rings.
The Grammys wedding ceremony has been received with mixed reviews. Many found the display of love moving, while others were more critical of the event. Did you catch the Grammys last night? What was your favorite part?


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News and notes on health, medicine and fitness
Everything you wanted to know about a parasitic worm
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have decoded the genome of the parasitic worm that causes trichinosis. Trichinosis is a common infection caused by eating undercooked meat that contains cysts of a roundworm called Trichinella spiralis.
Reporting online in the journal Nature Genetics, researchers said their investigation of the worm's genome turned up unique features of the creature that could provide potential targets for new medications to fight the illness. Worldwide about 11 million suffer from the infection.
"It takes less than two weeks for larvae to travel from the intestine to muscle where they live," explained lead author of the new paper Makedonka Mitreva, an assistant professor of genetics at Washington University's Genome Center.
"Once the worms invade the muscle, drugs are less effective. While the disease is rarely deadly, patients often live for months or years with chronic muscle pain and fatigue until the worms eventually die."
The work on the trichinosis-causing worm could help scientists learn about other parasitic roundworms that infect about 2 billion people worldwide.
In the following video, Mitreva describes trichinosis and the applications of her genomic work:


Google's latest Nexus phones: What are the key features?
Google revealed the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X phones at a media event on Tuesday. Both phones include redesigned camera sensors, fingerprint scanners, and USB Type-C connectors for super-fast charging.
Google revealed two new flagship Android phones at a media event today in San Francisco: the Nexus 5X and the Nexus 6P. The two phones – the first made by LG, the second by Huawei – will be the first to ship with the latest Android operating system, 6.0 “Marshmallow.”
Nexus handsets have never been quite as popular as Samsung’s Galaxy series or HTC’s One phones, but for those who want to live on the bleeding edge of Android, they’re as good as smartphones get. Unlocked Nexus phones can be bought directly from Google, so they run “pure” Android, rather than slightly modified versions with additional software available from wireless carriers.
The Nexus 6P could be mistaken for an iPhone 6 Plus at first glance: its body is made of anodized aluminum and is just 7.3 mm thick. The phone’s 5.7-inch display takes up nearly the entire front of the device – there’s almost no bezel around the edges. Rather than the traditional micro-USB port, the Nexus 6P uses a reversible USB Type-C port (the same kind found on the 2015 Macbook), which, Google says, will allow it to charge twice as fast as an iPhone 6 Plus.
The Nexus 6P also includes a built-in fingerprint scanner called “Nexus Imprint.” Once the scanner has been calibrated, it’s able to recognize fingerprints in just over half a second, Android exec Dave Burke announced at the event. Fingerprints can be used to unlock the phone or authorize purchases from the Google Play Store.
The Nexus 5X is a slightly smaller handset with a 5.2-inch display, but it also has the Nexus Imprint fingerprint scanner and a USB Type-C port. The cameras in both the 6P and the 5X have been optimized for indoor and low-light photography, Google said, by including sensors with huge 1.55 micron pixels. Larger sensors mean the phones’ cameras should be able to take photos with better dynamic range and less noise, though real-world performance depends on a host of factors. The cameras in both phones include laser-detect autofocus, and can take video in super-high-definition 4K resolution or in slow-motion.
The Nexus 6P and 5X include a new feature called Android Sensor Hub, which uses information such as orientation and speed to detects what the phone is doing without having to draw on the main processor. Android Sensor Hub knows when the phone is picked up, for example, so it can quickly display notifications and turn on necessary sensors, without having to go into full-power mode. Android Sensor Hub should help the phones save battery power, Google said at the event.
The Nexus 6P and 5X will ship running Android 6.0 “Marshmallow,” which introduces a few nifty improvements that were shown earlier this year at Google’s I/O conference. Apps now ask for permissions on an as-needed basis, rather than presenting users with a single long list of permissions when they’re installed. Android 6.0 Marshmallow also includes a “Doze” mode that tells apps to hibernate when the phone hasn’t been moved in a while. Google says that in its tests, Doze mode resulted in 30 percent longer battery life on existing Nexus 5 and 6 devices.
In some ways, Marshmallow copies iOS software – a-la-carte app permissions have been available on iPhones and iPads for years, and the fingerprint reader found on the Nexus 6P and 5X is similar to the one found on the iPhone 5S, 6, and 6 Plus – but in other ways, it improves upon it. Google Now On Tap, for example, interprets input within the context of whatever app is open, allowing users to quickly find out information about a currently playing song or a restaurant that's open in a web page.
Marshmallow will roll out next week to all Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 phones, the Nexus 7 and Nexus 9 tablets, and the Nexus Player streaming media box.
Both new phones are available for preorder starting on Tuesday in the US, UK, Ireland, and Japan. The Nexus 5X starts at $379 and comes in Carbon Black, Sports White, and Ice Blue colors, while the Nexus 6P starts at $499 and comes in Frost White, aluminum, and graphite finishes. The phones will be sold unlocked, so they can be used with any major wireless carrier’s network, including Google’s own Project Fi service.


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Hey everyone! Hope you're all doing well and enjoying the parts of my first full length metal concept album! From when I'm posting this, it will be available in about fourteen hours' time on all digital services. I will admit, it certainly could have been stronger, but I think it only suffered just because of how many songs it included. I've pretty much never found an album that has 12 full length songs that hasn't had a few meh points. Of course, I'm only going to get better as time goes on. Maybe I'll try and revisit Zodiac someday, in some capacity.
Also, today is my birthday! One more year older, and one year closer to death. For multiple reasons, mainly privacy, I won't say my age, even though in various places on the internet, you can actually find what my exact age is.
Finally though, and most importantly, Pisces became my first song to reach front page! I think anyway. I mean, I've had songs get into the thousands of listens and get featured and not reach front page, but it's always possible I missed something. Even so, the fact that Pisces got Frontpaged at all is entirely why I'm posting this at such a dead hour of night for me when I should be sleeping. So, whatever qualities Pisces possessed for it to get Frontpage, I am honoured and happy about it!
Thank you for all the support you showed on all the songs for Zodiac! It's been a real dream come true. I've been trying to make a full length heavy metal album for three years, so the fact I finally got good enough at recording to make something half-way decent that people seem to have enjoyed, as I said, is a real dream come true. My past projects like this have focused on one genre or theme, which fell through due to my inexperience or just unforeseen factors, but this didn't have an underlying theme except being based around the Zodiac star signs and was an independent album.
I hope you've enjoyed listening to Zodiac as much as I did making it! Unfortunately for me for now, this may be the last time I post with any amount of consistency on Newgrounds, as I don't have any stockpiled original songs. I want to make my Newgrounds page exclusively original stuff (with the exception of my Sonic Blaster remix), so, whenever I have a finished product later down the line, I'll be sure to release it here! In the meantime, my metal covers of video game songs will continue starting on Sunday of next week at 2 P.M. PST on YouTube, so if you want to hear more of my playing, head over to my YouTube page and keep an eye out every Sunday!
I wish you all the best, and I love you all! Take care!

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The journalist drew attention to the fact that those who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the United States are under great public pressure, but information about potential risks is practically not disclosed.
Data provided Carlson obtained from a System of reports of adverse effects of vaccines (VAERS) administered by the Centers for control and prevention (CDC) and Management on sanitary inspection behind quality of foodstuff and drug administration (FDA).
“In the period since the end of December 2020 for the last month, a total of 3 362 apparently died after receiving the vaccine from COVID in the United States. 3 362 is, on average, 30 people every day. By the way, the reporting period ended on April 23,” said the presenter.
In the absence of data for the period starting from April 23, Carlson estimated that 360 more people died in 12 days after that, and the total number of deaths after vaccination in the United States is 3,722. The journalist added, “the actual number is almost certainly much higher.”


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Introduction to GASB 87 LeasesBy Warren Ruppel | May 29, 2018
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is not the only standard-setting body to address updates to lease accounting procedures. State and local governments and governmental entities need to be aware of a similar standard that was issued by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Similar in concept to the FASB standard (discussed on page 4), GASB 87 Leases contains some significant differences.
The new GASB lease standard will be effective beginning with calendar year 2020. While that seems a long way off, implementation of this standard will be extremely challenging and time-consuming for governments that have even a moderate number of leases. By far the largest impact will be on the government-wide financial statements and financials prepared on a proprietary basis. The purpose of this article is to help readers understand why this standard was issued and to encourage a sense of urgency in preparing for its implementation.
The GASB views all leases as financing transactions. The best way to understand why the GASB (and for that matter, the FASB) addressed lease accounting is this very simple example of buying or leasing a car. Let’s say you buy a car and take out a loan to finance the purchase. Most agree that recording the car as an asset and the loan (net of any down payment) as a liability is sensible accounting. Now let’s assume you lease the car for three years. Under current Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the only accounting recognition is for the monthly lease payment, which is recorded as an expense. But think about it – are you any less obligated to make the monthly lease payments than you are to make the monthly loan payments? Of course not. So, why isn’t this liability recorded? Good questions – hence, GASB 87.
Under GASB 87, all the monthly lease payments, discounted to reflect the time value of money, would be recorded as a liability. But what would be the debit? It doesn’t seem logical to record an expense in the period that you signed the lease, since you get to drive the car for the next three years. Under GASB 87, you would record a “right-to- use” asset which would be amortized over the life of the lease. Since you are amortizing the asset and paying down the liability, at the end of the lease, both the asset and liability accounts would be zero.
Now let’s say the government is the car leasing company (lessor) in this transaction. The lessor government would record a receivable for the present value of the lease payments that it will receive, along with a corresponding amount as a deferred inflow of resources. And the lessor would also keep the car on its books as asset. Keep in mind that this lessor accounting is a significant departure from the FASB standard. The good news is that, unlike the FASB, the GASB does not distinguish between financing and operating leases, so governments will not need to make that distinction.
HERE’S WHERE IT GETS COMPLICATED
The above requirements seem very straightforward and unlikely to stir a sense of urgency in preparing for implementation. However, there are additional circumstances covered by GASB 87 that increase its complexity, such as:
• If the lease term has a renewal option, should the renewal period be considered part of the lease term in calculating the liability or receivable?
• If the lease has a termination clause, should the lease term be the shorter period?
• What if there is a fiscal funding clause that allows the government to cancel the lease each year?
• What if there is a bargain purchase option at the end of the lease?
What if certain payments under the lease are variable?
• What if there are negotiated changes that occur during the lease term? Should the balance sheet accounts be adjusted?
• If interest rates increase, should the discount rate used to calculate present value be adjusted?
• How should lease incentives, such as free rent periods or build-out allowances, be handled?
• If the lease contains multiple components, such as an office lease that includes an amount for maintenance, should the multiple components be accounted for separately? (Yes)
• If maintenance is provided but an amount for maintenance is not specified, how would the contract price be allocated?
Future editions of the Marks Paneth Nonprofit & Government Times newsletter will discuss various aspects of these implementation questions, but readers should read all 84 pages of GASB 87 before implementation begins.
Before governments embark on a full scale implementation project, it would be wise to take a representative sample of the various types of leases that the government enters into, perform the calculations required by GASB 87, and then let the government’s independent auditor “audit” these calculations to make sure both parties are on the same page as to how the calculations are being done and whether they take into account all the required considerations.
About Warren Ruppel
Warren Ruppel, CPA, is a Partner within the Nonprofit, Government & Healthcare Group at Marks Paneth LLP. He has over 40 years of experience in accounting and auditing services for governments and nonprofits. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Ruppel served as the Assistant Comptroller for Accounting of The City of New York, where he was responsible for all aspects of the City’s accounting and financial reporting. He was also the Secretary of the City’s... READ MORE +


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Godflesh - Streetcleaner review
|Release date:||November 1989|
01. Like Rats
02. Christbait Rising
04. Dream Long Dead
05. Head Dirt
07. Mighty Trust Krusher
08. Life Is Easy
10. Locust Furnace
11. Tiny Tears [CD bonus]
12. Wound [CD bonus]
13. Dead Head [CD bonus]
14. Suction [CD bonus]
Disc II [2010 Remaster re-release]
01. Like Rats [Original Unreleased Mix]
02. Christbait Rising [Original Unreleased Mix]
03. Pulp [Original Unreleased Mix]
04. Dream Long Dead [Original Unreleased Mix]
05. Head Dirt [Original Unreleased Mix]
06. Streetcleaner [Live In Geneva 1990]
07. Head Dirt [Live In Geneva 1990]
08. Pulp [Rehearsal May 1989]
09. Dream Long Dead [Rehearsal April 1989]
10. Christbait Rising [Rehearsal April 1989]
11. Deadhead [Original Demo Guitar & Machine 1988]
12. Suction [Original Demo Guitar & Machine 1988]
Godflesh really hates humanity and Streetcleaner is the example that shows you the many failures of humanity. Seriously, if someone came up to me and said which is the evilest, heaviest, and nihilistic album ever made two albums come to mind: Slayer's Reign In Blood, and this album. This album is so unbelievably punishing that it makes even the most satanic death metal band at the time sound like fringe bands compared to this album.
For an album made in 1989, this was ahead of its time and one of a kind. It breaks the conventional characteristics of heavy metal and does something different. There is no technicality, no guitar solos, no long pieces of lyrics, and most distinctively no real drums and that's what makes Streetcleaner so distinct. The rhythm section is the biggest driving force in the music with G.C. Green's heavy bass playing, and the use of a powerful drum machine is the reason for this album's punishing nature. Just listening to "Locust Furnace" sounds so incredibly heavy for something that has little to no guitars. It has no verse-chorus pattern typical in regular music, the whole album is also about being repetitive so that the music continues as if the listener was a punching bag. Justin Broadrick's guitars are another distinct style. With the aforementioned lack of guitar solos, it relies on guitar squeals and sustains to bring disorientation towards the music. The guitars show you what hell sounds like when it's not relying on cliched satanism.
Speaking of hell, the vocals are the very definition of hell. In addition to Justin Broadrick's shouts, chants, and extreme vocals, he utilizes vocal effects to bring a disturbing atmosphere to some songs. One of the best examples of this is the title song, where the vocals sounded as if satan was speaking to you with reverb and deep extreme vocals. Incredibly haunting, and that's all I can say about the vocals.
The lyrics are incredibly short and to the point. It doesn't need a paragraph of lyrics to make this album extreme. With only a few lyrics written in each song Godflesh not only made something extreme, but it was also incredibly bleak. While the themes include overpopulation, greed, religious cultism, and corruption it goes beyond those themes. It's all about misanthropy. "Like Rats" is one of the most misanthropic songs of all time, same can be said about "Pulp", "Streetcleaner", "Locust Furnace" and so on. The album is bleak because it hates humanity and it does so with simplistic structures lyrically and musically.
As I mentioned before, Streetcleaner was ahead of its time and sounds otherworldly. This is one of my favorite metal albums in the 1980s and arguably one of the heaviest albums I've ever heard. Not only the album that defined industrial metal, but it's perfect for scaring off the most religious person, and a great escape for anyone who feels that humanity is a failure.
If you want to show anyone interested in metal what hell really sounds like, show them this album.
|"Streetcleaner", to cut right down to it, is a thoroughly crushing, punishing, unforgiving, and unrelenting album.
The album cover itself foreshadows the content within - about a dozen bodies strewn up on crosses against a napalm-colored haze background. The music within is every bit as bleak as that image.
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Could it be true that the couple who dresses together, stays together? Seems to be so in the case of Kimye. The reality star and rapper have always been in synch with their fashion choices (even before they were dating!). In honor of their big day, check out their best coordinating moments
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Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
The following are prayer points and a prayer for Israel, from “Christian Friends of Israel” based in Jerusalem:
1. Pray for God to continue to perform His Word and to bring it to pass as He has already told us it will definitely be. Pray that His Messiah/Son will be revealed in order that an immeasurable number from the nations of the world will see who He is.
2. Call out to God for many souls of the nations, for a humbling of their spirit before the One True God of Israel, the Almighty is his Name–the Great I AM. There is no other God like Him. He is the King of the Universe and all knees will bow before Him (Philippians 2:10) even if their wills are very stubborn and evil.
Nearly a dozen ancient holy books have finally made their way to Israel from Syria, following a multi-continent, James
An Israeli librarian inspects a rare holy book before it goes on exhibit at the National Library in Jerusalem (photo: AP)
Bond-style operation. They traveled from Damascus to New York and finally to Jerusalem, where they are being kept at the National Library, according to www.standforisrael.org.
The 11 holy books, some dating back 1,000 years, were written by copyist of the Scriptures around the world and arrived in the Syrian capital in different periods. The Jewish community took pride in them and guarded them meticulously, helping them survive the political upheavals that took place in the city over the years.
The Damascus books are considered the world’s most ancient Bibles after the Aleppo Codex, which compared to them is torn and shabby.

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In Syria, the prime minister is appointed by the president. The prime minister heads the Council of Ministers and answers to the president as they serve as the executive arm of the government. Unlike the presidency, which is limited to a 7-year term, there are no term limits on the position of prime minister. When Syria seceded from the United Arab Republic (UAR) in 1961, Maamun Al-Kuzbari became the first prime minister of the Republic of Syria.
Prime Ministers Of Syria
Maamun Al-Kuzbari (1961)
Maamun was the first prime minister of the Republic of Syria after they broke away from UAR following a coup by Syria in 1961. He was a lawyer by profession but was also a literary personality and had a stint as a professor at Damascus University in 1948. Maamun joined politics in 1953 by becoming an ally to military ruler Adib Shishakli. Besides, Maamun was also the Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs. His term as a prime minister was short of three months when he resigned on November 20, 1961. His legacy was re-establishing an elected democratic government through free elections. After the December 1961 elections, he remained the speaker until September 12, 1962.
Khalid al-Azm (1963-1963)
Azm served as a prime minister in six different regimes in Syria, mostly before the UAR. He became politically dormant during the period of the union but returned to help draft the secession document when the union was dissolved. He was arrested alongside Nazim al-Kudsi after a March 28, 1962, coup but a counter-coup on April 2 saw them released, and he then became prime minister under Kudsi. When the Ba’ath party came to power in March 1963, both Kudsi and Azm fled to exile. Azm was from a wealthy background born of a prominent political family to an Ottoman minister for religious affairs.
Yusuf Zuayyin (1965)
Zuayyin was a member of the Ba’ath party and served as a prime minister in 1965, and again from 1966 to 1968. He died in Sweden on January 10, 2016, due to a longterm illness.
Mahmoud Zuabi (1987 - 2000)
Zuabi is the longest serving prime minister of Syria, going for 13 years from 1987 to 2000 under President Hafez Assad. When the president started showing signs of ill health, his son Bashar Assad was groomed to succeed him. Both the father and son seemed to be done with Zuabi, and he was replaced as prime minister by Mohammed Mustafa Mero on March 7, 2000. Zuabi’s administration oversaw a shambolic economic system that was only kept going by revenue from oil. He was expelled from the Ba’ath party on May 10, 2000 by Hafez and was to face prosecution over illegal procurement of passenger jets for the Syrian Arab Airlines. The Syrian government also froze his assets. He committed suicide while under house arrest to avoid facing trial.
Imad Khamis (Incumbent)
Khamis began his term as the Syrian prime minister on April 14, 2011. His appointment led to speculation of Russian interference in Syrian affairs as the names of the new ministers had earlier been leaked by Russian state broadcaster Russia Today and the appointments also came shortly after a meeting between Russian defense minister and President Bashar Assad in Syria. Khamis has been placed under sanction by the European Union since March 2012 because he shared responsibility for the government’s repression of its people due to power cuts when he was the Minister for Electricity.
Perception of the Position
Under Bashar, the prime minister has come under harsh criticism for his role in the government’s suppression of protesters in Syria.


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For our group project on curating visualisations, my team and I decided to look at the various Disney animation movies (excluding Pixar movies), all the way back to ‘Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs’, and see what made different movies successful over others. To achieve this, we set out to look at three different areas of Disney films – the different characteristics, the profits that were made and their ratings, and the effect that stereotypical gender roles in Disney characters had on a movie’s performance at the box office. We used IMDb as the main database of all the Disney animation movies from 1937 to the present day. After spending a few grueling hours studying and sorting through each film, we created a spreadsheet on Google Sheets that contained the necessary information: movie names, year released, the estimated budget, gross income for the United States of America (we only included the income from the United States of America as some of the films did not all include worldwide gross income), and calculated the profit made. For the sections on characteristics, we added genres, whether or not a film is a musical, the targeted audience, the gender of the protagonist, and rating from IMDb. We also colour-coded the spreadsheet to represent the different eras of the movies. Here is the link to the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W8oQCrIKaaBH_oemHewlIcqcR6R9BZBl84AsijRKjOY/edit?usp=sharing
In viewing of the difference between the budgets and the profits made over the course of nearly eighty years, we used the chart tools in Google Sheets to create a basic barchart of the budgets and profits.
In the beginning of Disney’s empire of childhood dreams, there was the Golden Age. This was the burst of popularity to animation films. The company gained much profit from ‘Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Pinocchio’ but suffered greatly when ‘Dumbo’ was released to the public. It is barely visible in the chart. Disney quickly regained profit during the animated films of the Silver Age, which brought along the beautiful movies ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Sleeping Beauty’. Its profits halved during the Bronze Age with the likes of ‘Robin Hood’ and ‘The Fox & the Hound’.
However, with the rising budgets for new animation techniques, the Renaissance Era’s profits skyrocketed with ‘Beauty & the Beast’ and ‘Aladdin’. It is during this era that we see ‘The Lion King’ being the most profitable of Disney’s animated movies. This was the last film that Disney saw such income. As the Post-Renaissance came to light, the budgets were increased while the profits decreased. In the United States, Disney started to undergo serious losses as their profits went below zero. It struggled for several years until a new era began. This Revival Era carried Disney into a new age. As the company adapted their techniques to 3D animation, their profits soared and ‘Frozen’ brought in massive numbers in the USA alone, second to ‘The Lion King’.
Top 10 Most Profitable Movies
Taking out the top 10 most profitable movies and comparing them with their ratings, we can see which movie is the most successful. While ‘Frozen’ has a profit of nearly $250,000,000, it only has a rating of 77%. This evidently makes ‘The Lion King’, with 87% the most successful Disney animation movie based on its profit and rating.
There is a significant difference between the rating of ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Frozen’ even though they are both almost equally successful in terms of profit. Observing the 2016 film ‘Moana’, we can see that it is the least profitable movie but is rated higher than ‘Frozen’. Why is this the case? We need to ask ourselves if IMDb are basing their ratings on statistics or perhaps biased opinions.
Having looked at the top ten movies that have had the most profit from their original budget, we can try and articulate why these movies were so popular among the public. With ‘The Lion King’ taking lead and ‘Frozen’ closely following, do these movies have anything in common that Disney could use to make future successful movies? Actually, studying at all these successful movies, we can observe what they all have in common.
These movies show a clear indication that having catchy, empowering music can have a dramatic impact on the success of the movie. The majority of these top-ten movies have compositions of music included and has proven that music is an ideal characteristic to have within a movie.
However, when we look at ‘Bambi’ and ‘101 Dalmatians’, they do not include their own music but still were successful. Maybe it’s because they are both “animal based” movies? But if we go back to the original dataset, the movie ‘Dumbo’ (which is an animal based movie without music) only made a $650,000 profit, which in comparison to these movies, is quite low compared to the other animal-based films.
From analysing the dataset, a pattern has formed. In nearly every era, there is at least one substantially successful movie with music and one without. In the Golden Age, it was ‘Snow White’ and ‘Bambi’. In the Silver Age, it was ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘101 Dalmations’. ‘The Lion King’ swept the floor in the Disney Renaissance Era and ‘Lilo & Stitch’ in the Disney Post Renaissance Era. Finally in the Disney Revival Era, ‘Frozen’ with it’s most popular song ‘Let it Go’ and ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ without the need to include original music compositions to still be successful.
One important characteristic that every movie has a form of, is love. Love has without a doubt made Disney the root of all it’s success. Disney has evolved as time as went on, showing the world that love comes in all shapes and all forms. Going from the classic and traditional prince and princess love, to forbidden love, to friendship, and to family. Looking at this pattern, we can see that Disney is trying to change to meaning of what “love” is as time goes on and has shown it is appealing to the public at a very successful level. We can see in the below visualisation that the top 10 most profitable movies are dominated by the genres romance and family, perhaps this pattern will be the way Disney strives on for the future.
Effects of Gender Roles
Some of the most popular Disney classics starting with ‘Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs’ right up until the 1990’s with ‘Aladdin’ having its same plot revolving around gender stereotypes. In a lot of these movies there is a female lead, usually a princess who is portrayed as a damsel in distress. From being cursed, poisoned, and being held captive in a tower, it is only ever handsome strangers that free these princesses from their predicaments. These stereotypes tell young boys that they had to be strong, brave, and above all else handsome in order to be loved by a girl.
On the contrary girls were told that to be a like one of the Disney princesses you generally had to be naive, passive, and incomparably beautiful. As time moved forward people began to break away from these stereotypical ideologies about gender roles.
Then there was a change in the way male and female characters were portrayed in Disney movies. The first and most brazen movie to cater this change was ‘Pocahontas’. ‘Pocahontas’ who is the lead role takes on a slightly different version of a princess; she is the chief’s daughter of a Native American tribe. Throughout the movie we see Pocahontas as a stubborn and independent young woman. This was a drastic change from the princesses before her. At the end of the movie she is also shown saving the life of her true love. Before ‘Pocahontas’, princesses always had to be saved by a man. The period in which ‘Pocahontas’ was released was known as the Renaissance Era. During this period, Disney saw a huge growth in company profits and Disney began making movies that were targeted towards everyone in their fanbase, not just for girls.
In the Post-Renaissance Era, Disney lost millions on almost every movie they released. During this period it seemed that Disney was making movies targeted mainly towards a male audience.
Disney is now in their Revival Era, where there is a focus on creating more gender-neutral movies and they are once again earning profits at a supernormal rate. They also break down the old gender stereotypes as they create emotional male characters showing that it’s okay for boys to need help too, and create strong female characters that show how strong women truly are.
From studying the data represented to us from IMDb, we can see the rise of Disney from the year 1937 to the present day. In looking at the the movie rating compared to the overall profit from each movie, we can assume that ‘The Lion King’ is the most successful film.
With their ideologies changing with the current generation, Disney is reforming the meaning of love – going from the all too familiar prince and princess romance to the love that only lingers in family. Also with the changing of gender roles, Disney is showing awareness that men don’t need to be ‘handsome’ and ‘strong’ and women don’t need to be ‘beautiful’ and ‘passive’. With these stereotypes changing, children are becoming more accepting to different traits.
In more recent films, Disney has included more gender-neutral protagonists, such as ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ and ‘Zootopia’. They are breaking down the outdated stereotypes by introducing strong female leads and emotional male characters.
Not only were we able to analyse the data and create visualisations of Disney’s overall success, but we also saw patterns that Disney is making by the obvious trial and errors they have attempted over the years. We can see that they are learning from their mistakes and is now on the rise once again.


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Getting obese? Blame it on burgers, pizzas and french fries
FAST food may be trendy and tasty, but it is certainly not healthy, if we go by what doctors, nutritionists and the courts have to say. On March 31, 1999, British Courts came down heavily on McDonald’s, the biggest fast food chain in the world. The court ruled that “various of McDonald’s advertisements have pretended that their product has a positive nutritional benefit which their food did not match” and that “customers who eat McDonald’s food several times a week will take the very real risk of heart disease if they continue to do so”. The court also stated that “McDonald’s exploit children with their advertising strategy”. The company did not object to the ruling. According to Dave Morris, one of the two activists who appealed to the UK court, a study conducted by Jim Lobstein, co-director of Food Commission, a consumer group in UK, revealed that eight of McDonald’s “meal combinations” were imbalanced with regard to their nutrient content. He said that “they are excessively fatty and salty” and correspondingly low in several essential nutrients such as vitamins. “McDonald’s claims on their food as ‘balanced diet’ is meaningless,” Lobstein said. “Even their salad had a ludicrously high fat content (50 per cent calories were from fat).” McDonald’s UK president Paul Preston also admitted that its products are low in fibre content. Verner Wheelock, a consultant engaged by the company since 1991, also admitted that a typical McDonald’s meal is high in fat and sodium content. “Carcinogenic mutagens were also found on the surface of grilled and fried meat,” says Neal Barnard, president of the US Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine and an expert on health and nutrition. The problem is no less in India where hamburgers and pizzas have become the younger generation’s favourite meal. S C Manchanda, head of the department of cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, pointed out that the pamphlet called “Good Food and Nutrition” released by McDonald’s in India with its “nutritional facts” reveals that its vegetable burger contains 418 calories.
According to McDonald’s
own sources, fat and
carbohydrate content in a
vegetable burger is 550 and
150 per cent more than in
their non-vegetable burger
This is almost double the amount in the non-vegetable McBurger, which has 225 calories. The vegetable burger also contains 22 gms of fat which is five times more than that in the non-vegetable McBurger. “This is misleading and dangerous,” says Manchanda. This shows that weightconscious customers are misled into believing that they are consuming low fat vegetarian diet when they are actually consuming more fattening food. Interestingly, the pamphlet with “nutrition facts” does not disclose the amount of salt or oil (saturated or nonsaturated) used. There are nine McDonald’s outlets in Delhi and six in Mumbai. “We are planning to open more centres in India,” says one of the staff at a McDonald’s outlet. McDonald’s in India defend their stand claiming that they use only mutton which is not as fattening as beef. “Using mutton is surely less fattening, but that’s not an excuse. It does not make much difference,” says Manchanda. Besides the multinational giants, there are a few domestic outlets like Nirula’s, which has 37 outlets in and around Delhi, and Wimpy, with 15 outlets across India. Teenagers are their main customers. “They often prefer ‘western food’ like burgers, pizzas, fries and the different varieties of ice creams,” says Samir Kuckreja, the corporate officer at Nirula’s.
Obesity and fast food
This dependence on fast food could be the reason for the rise in obesity and heart diseases among the young generation. According to a book, Awareness of adolescent obesity, published by Vandana Luthra’s Curls and Curves (VLCC), a slimming and beauty centre in Delhi, a staggering 100 million Indians are obese and what is even more dangerous is that the number is increasing among adolescents. “The number of obese children visiting our centre has gone up in the past few years,” says Veena Jain, nutritionist at VLCC and a former consultant at Nutrition Foundation of India (NFI). This is mainly due to the sedentary lifestyle combined with the type of food they consume. The book stated that a study conducted by the NFI in Delhi revealed that an increasing number of teens are developing blood pressure and elevated cholesterol besides 50 per cent of females and 32.2 per cent males in the high-income group are obese. Obesity is linked with heart diseases, diabetes, hypertension and complications in child birth. “A recent survey in public schools of Delhi revealed that the number of obese children between the age of 11 and 16 is increasing,” says Jain. According to Jain, most fast foods lack vitamin B complex and iron. “Buns used in burgers contain no vitamin B complex, and the cutlet sandwiched in between contains potato which has limited nutrition and fibre. Pizzas too lack vitamin B complex, and are even high in fats when excess cheese is added. They are not metabolised, so they accumulate as fats.” The more fat deposited in the body, the more the craving for it. This increases hunger and leads to obesity, explains Jain. According to Manchanda: “Most fast foods are unhealthy, they have high levels of cholesterol, calories and salt — culprits responsible for the increase in incidence of heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes and other chronic diseases.” Bani Tamber, a nutritionist at Nutrition Foundation of India, says, “Most fast foods have plenty of salt in them. High salt consumption leads to hypertension (high blood pressure). Oedema (swollen tissues) symptoms also start appearing.” Two hundred milligrams of salt, the amount required by an average person per day, is a negligible amount when compared with 1,362 mg of salt in a chicken sandwich at Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), another fast food chain. “Many fast food outlets use saturated oils though they claim they use only unsaturated fatty oils. Moreover, most of the fast foods have little or no fibre in them. Vegetables like potatoes used for chips and fries have no fibre,” says Tamber. According to Manchanda, the total amount of calories required by a normal person is 1,800, but a single meal at fast food joints consisting of a vegetable burger with cheese, regular french fries and a chocolate milk shake adds up to three-fourth of the total amount of calories required. Besides the calories and fats, the additives also pose their own dangers (see table: Shady ingredients). KFC uses mono sodium glutamate (MSG), which causes headaches besides burning sensations in the forearms. In their book The Fast Food Guide, Michael F Jacobson and Sarah Fritschner say KFC refuses to stop the use of MSG which, it claims, is used worldwide in their preparations. Sulphites are also used as preservatives in many restaurants. Doctors found that it causes allergic reactions in asthmatics and occasionally in nonasthmatics and has killed at least a dozen people in the 1980s. Manchanda feels the government should impose strict restrictions on these fast food giants and make it mandatory for them to disclose the ingredients. He also feels that people should be made more conscious. “McDonald’s in the US have changed their recipes. For instance, it used to fry burgers in beef lard, but have now switched to vegetable oil. Some have also introduced a low-fat salad bar,” says Manchanda.
Ronald goes veggie
Geoffrey Giuliano, the former
Ronald McDonald of Canada, quit
his job after working with the giant
fast food chain for two years.
Guiliano, who feels he’s just not
“McDonalised” enough, apologised
for participating in helping to
brainwash North America’s young
people into doing something that
he feels is contrary to the purpose
of life. Initiation into the Hindu religion
and increasingly strong vegetarian
convictions led Giuliano to
quit the job.
Giuliano plans to create a new,
non-profit character promoting
non-violent vegetarian values and
document his experiences in a book
to be titled “Confessions of a
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Theo nguồn tin trên mạng thành phố Arlington ở tiểu bang Texas
We’re calling on the dog owners in Arlington to protect our waters and community by pledging to Doo the Right Thing. Owners who pledge to Doo the Right Thing and pick up after their dogs have the chance to enter them in the North Central Texas Council of Governments Public Education Task Force’s 2017 Calendar Photo Contest. That means your dog could be featured in next year’s calendar!
Don’t delay. The contest ends Thursday, June 30.
Be a Good Neighbor and Doo the Right Thing!
Besides being messy and unsightly, dog waste is a health risk for pets and people. Pets, kids playing outside, and adults who garden are most at risk for infection from the bacteria and parasites found in dog waste.
Dog waste affects our water quality. When dog waste is left on the ground, rain or sprinkler runoff can wash the waste down our storm drains where the water runs directly into creeks, rivers, and lakes. These water bodies are the source of our drinking water and where we swim, fish, and boat.
When the waste decays in water, it uses up dissolved oxygen and releases nutrients that causes algae growth, harming fish and other aquatic life.
An estimated 1.5 million dogs live in the North Central Texas region, producing more than 500 tons of waste each day. While one pile of dog poop may not seem like a big deal, many piles can add up to a substantial problem. It’s up to the entire region to be part of the solution—and your personal commitment makes a huge difference.
So take this opportunity to pledge to Doo the Right Thing by picking up after your dog on walks, picking up droppings in your yard regularly, and properly disposing of the waste. If you submit your dog’s photo in the calendar contest, your pup could even be our next cover dog!
Tips for dealing with pet waste:
Always carry a couple of bags to pick up after your dog on walks. Plastic bread bags, plastic newspaper sleeves, and plastic produce bags work great.
At least once a week, clean up droppings around your yard.
Toss bagged waste in the trash. (If it’s not bagged, you can flush it down the toilet.)
Visit www.dfwstormwater.com/petwaste to learn more about the impacts of dog waste, take the pledge, and submit your dog’s photo. People who have pledged in prior years are welcome to take the pledge again.

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I’m back from a few weeks traveling in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore (for a friend’s wedding in Bali first, then just for some traveling, since once you’ve gone that far, you’ve got to make the most of it), and my body is in that strange and very rare place where it thinks that being up at 2:30 a.m. is a very good idea indeed. A few random thoughts on my travels before we get back to the business of the blog:
1) The election. Everywhere I went, everyone I met had an opinion on the election. And what I pointed out in a previous post certainly held true—the vast majority (in fact all people whom I met in the three countries I visited, whether they were cab drivers, hotel staff, food vendors, fellow travelers, or random folks on the street) supported Barack Obama. This did not surprise, but it was striking to experience the phenomenon in person and only further reinforced for me the direction our country needs to head.
I found out that Obama had probably officially won the election from a newspaper vendor on the streets of Penang, Malaysia.
It was November 5 at around noon in Malaysia and while I had been able to catch up on a few of the returns on CNN International earlier that morning, at that point I knew things should be wrapping up but had no way of knowing what was going on. I stopped at this news vendor’s stall to check out of a few of that day’s newspapers (his periodical offerings came in Malay, Chinese, Hindi, and English), not because they were going to tell me anything about what was going on, but simply because I was intrigued to see that each one had on the cover a picture of Obama and McCain and news about the fact that Americans would be heading to the polls that day. The news vendor saw me looking and said quite matter of factly, in English, “Obama won.”
“Are you sure?!” I asked.
“I think so,” he said. “I just heard it on the radio.”
This news was officially confirmed about two hours later when I walked into a random convenience store to buy a bottle of water and got to talking with the owner. When he found out I was from the U.S., he asked if I was happy about my new president.
“Do I have a new president for sure?” I asked.
He said, “Yes. It’s Obama.” And he turned up his radio and we listened together to the second half of Obama’s acceptance speech from Grant Park in Chicago.
“Are you happy that Obama won?” I asked him after the speech was over.
“Yes,” he responded. “Now maybe there will be peace and no war.”
A tall order, for sure. We have a new president and that is a huge step in a new and right direction. But now it is up to him and to all of us to be sure we don’t squander the opportunity.
2) Multicultural Malaysia. Much like the United States, Malaysia is made up of people from everywhere, meaning from a great variety of ethnic backgrounds. Malay, Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi. Malays are “from” everywhere, which was unlike any other Asian country I’ve traveled in before, and it was striking to note how everyone in the country looked and sounded so very different.
I was wandering through a random market in Penang and stopped to talk to a few guys who were busy slaughtering chickens (they incidentally asked me if I’d like to see them perform their handiwork and, before I could even answer, were slitting chickens’ throats for my picture-taking amusement). One of them asked me where I was from, so I asked him where he was from.
“Kedah,” he said, which is the Malaysian state just to the east of Penang island. “But now I live in Penang.”
I nodded like this was no surprise to me and we continued to watch one of the dead chicken writhe and bleed. But I know deep down I had expected him to say that he was an immigrant. These guys looked to me like they might have been from India or Bangladesh, and maybe their ancestors did come from somewhere on the sub-continent. But they were born and raised in Malaysia, like so many other Malays who looked and sounded nothing like them.
It was a good exercise for me as an American to experience another place that is so very multicultural. I’ve found it’s always been easy for me to express shock and disbelief when I meet some one in another country (it happens often in China and Korea) who can’t quite get his or her head around the idea of Americans who aren’t white, especially Asian-Americans. Yes, they look different than me, no, they can’t speak Chinese or Korean, and yes, they’re American. It’s easy for me to be a bit self-righteous on this point.
But when it was flipped on me, when I was forced to reconcile someone’s nationality with “what they look like ethnically,” it wasn’t quite as easy.
3) International travel. It is awesome. We should all do it as much as humanly possible.