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From providing for organizational efficiency, to creating opportunities for teachers to better understand student performance, to its central role in helping students learn in a "real" and engaging environment, technology is necessary for success in all aspects of School District 21.
In School District 21, we believe that our students must engage with technology, generally, as a means to greater and deeper learning of reading, mathematics, and writing as well as of the knowledge and skills required across the traditional academic disciplines. At the same time, we understand that the pace of technological change requires that students and staff members remain technology learners since the rapid development of new products requires such flexibility.
Because School District 21 is committed to providing robust access to technology for all students, we have continued to increase our 1:1 program. All Middle Schools are 1:1 with Chromebooks, which students take home each day. 8th grade utilizes the Lenovo 11e model, while 6th and 7th grades utilize the HP x360 11 G1 model. Beginning 2018-2019, 3rd-5th grades are also 1:1 with Chromebooks. 5th grade utilizes the HP x360 model, while 3rd and 4th grades utilize the Dell 11 3120 model. Additionally beginning 2018-2019, grades K-2nd have a 3:4 student to Chromebook ratio. Kindergarten utilizes the HP x360 model, while 1st and 2nd grades utilize the ASUS Flip C100 model. Elementary school devices remain at school.

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The SureFlap microchip pet door's tunnel is 70mm (2 3/4") long and each tunnel extender adds 50mm (2") to the length of the pet door's tunnel.


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OK, maybe that's an uncharitable remark, but I am not sure that this dreaded economic 'down turn' on the horizon is really such a bad thing. Seems like some of the most visible people feeling this crunch right now are some of our more ostentatious neighbors. Obviously energy costs have skyrocketed and of course, everyone is affected by the cost of energy. But the big news right now is the 'crisis' in the housing market and all the foreclosures on those luxury homes. There seem to be plenty of reasons for this, not the least of them being fallout over the current mortgage 'crisis'. But let's take a look at what's been happening;
1.) Across the country, people have been buying super-sized homes that are both impractical and terribly expensive. Here in central Maryland the typical 4 person family lives in a home bigger than the one that sheltered Jed, Granny, Ellie Mae and Jethro. Last year the median price of houses in my home town shot well beyond half a million dollars and Million Dollar plus homes are very common. Remember, this isn't Beverly Hills.
2.) Apparently people could buy these giant homes because of all the creative variable-rate lending schemes the banks came up with to get folks into houses that no sane person would have considered just a few years ago. It seems that many of these buyers were more interested in real estate speculation than long term shelter because they were always trading up. Everyone was making big profits off of the insane inflation of home prices.
3.) When the new loan rates kicked in the money was not there – the price ceiling had been hit, hard. The anticipated equity was not realized, people could not sell their expensive homes at the much needed profit so loans were being defaulted on. Not only that, in some cases the cost of heating and cooling these big houses doubled. The American dream had become an albatross around the necks of many.
4.) Housing prices in our area (at least for the very expensive luxury homes) are falling like rocks. Houses have been sitting on the market for months and months when only last year offers were being made before the FOR SALE signs were up on the lawns.
Now this is bad news, for people who paid too much for their homes as well as for realtors, home builders, mortgage lenders and those businesses that service them. It's not necessarily bad news for teachers, police and emergency personnel, nurses, restaurant and retail managers, pastors and many other people who make up what we call the middle class. In my county very few of the people who serve the community can afford to live in the community. And for a young couple starting out (like my daughter and her fiance' plan on doing in a couple of years ) there are very few places within 30 miles that even offer affordable rents. With this "recession" on the way there is a glimmer of hope that some of these people might finally be able to buy a home that they can afford. Perhaps not, we may have already let loose a genie that cannot be rebottled.
The talk of my town is how everyone's property rates are falling and how this has hurt our financial portfolios. My family is being 'hurt' here as well. But if we move, it will be to trade down, in attempt to make our lives more affordable. (If we hadn't bought our house 15 years ago we would never have been able to live in what is a fairly modest town home.) We may lose money on this end but then whatever we purchase will also be less expensive.
Naturally, we are all concerned about losing any of the financial investments we have made in our homes. But I wonder if we have done this investing at the cost of our communities.


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Past activities
- Sep 9-11, 2009: Humanitarian aid logistics track at Logistics Research Network Conference, Cardiff/UK
- Jun 10-12, 2009: Humanitarian logistics track at NOFOMA, Jönköping/Sweden
- Mar 25-26, 2009 2nd CCHLI symposium, Faringdon/UK
- Dec 4/5, 2008 Military Logistics Symposium, Stockholm/Sweden (proceedings can be obtained from Per Skoglund)
- Oct 15, 2008 HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT workshop "Carbon footprints of humanitarian logistics?" in combination with Transportbrukerkonferansen, Oslo/Norway
- Jun 5-6, 2008 Humanitarian logistics tracks at NOFOMA, Helsinki/Finland - the proceedings is obtainable from the Finnish Association of Logistics
- Nov 19/20, 2007 International Humanitarian Logistic Symposium in Faringdon/UK (proceedings can be obtained from Peter Tatham directly)
- Oct 10/11, 2007 HUMLOG track "How the most important logistics became the best" at the "Transport og Logistikk 2007" conference in Oslo/Norway
- Sep 5-7, 2007 Humanitarian / emergency response logistics track at LRN 2007, Hull/UK
- Aug 22/23, 2007 HUMLOG International Conference in Ghana in Kumasi/Ghana. Theme: The Challenges of Humanitarian Logistics in Ghana
- Jun 2007 Two humanitarian logistics tracks at NOFOMA 2007, Reykjavík/Iceland
Research workshops
- Mar 6-7, 2008 MILLOG research meeting at the Norwegian Defence Command and Staff College, Oslo/Norway
- Sep 12-13, 2007 MILLOG Logistics network meeting at the National Defence University of Finland, Helsinki/Finland
- Mar 21-23, 2007 MILLOG meeting, Stockholm/Sweden
MSc courses:
Present Masters level courses can be found in WebOodi, in the Study handbook of the subject Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility.
- Apr 11-20, 2010: Nordic course in humanitarian logistics, HUMLOG Institute, Helsinki/Finland
- Apr 20-29, 2009 joint MSc course Nordic course in humanitarian logistics in Jönköping/Sweden
- Sep-Oct 2007 MSc course on Logistics Management (with module on humanitarian logistics) at Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Sep 2007 MSc course on Geographic Information Systems at Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Apr-Jul 2007 MSc module at Cranfield University, Swindon campus/UK
- 2006/07 a series of guest lectures in different courses at Hanken
PhD courses:
- Spring 2013 Supply Chain Risk Management, Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Jun 2012 Theories and Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Turku/Finland (KATAJA course)
- Fall 2011 Supply Chain Risk Management, Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Apr 2011 Corporate Responsibility, Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Oct 2010 Supply Chain Environmental Management, Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Jul 2010 Supply Chain Management in Development Aid, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg/Canada
- Aug 21-30, 2009 joint PhD course Supply Chain Managemend in Disaster Relief, Helsinki/Finland (EIASM/KATAJA course)
- Sep-Nov 2008: joint PhD course in military logistics (modules in Oslo, Helsinki, Jönköping)
- Fall term 2007, Relief Supply Chain Management, Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Sep-Oct 2007 PhD course on Geographic Information Systems in Humanitarian Logistics at Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
There is also a Reading Club as well as research seminars for doctoral students at the HUMLOG Institute.
Co-ordination meetings
- Jun 2009 combined with NOFOMA, Jönköping/Sweden
- Mar 2009 combined with CCHLI, Faringdon/UK
- Oct 2008 combined with Transportbrukerkonferansen, Oslo/Norway
- Jun 2008 hosted by Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Dec 2007 hosted by Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Nov 2007 combined with the CCHLI conference, Faringdon/UK
- Sep 2007 hosted by JIBS, Jönköping/Sweden
- Jun 2007 combined with the NOFOMA conference, Reykjavík/Iceland
- May 2007 hosted by BI, Oslo/Norway
- Mar 2007 hosted by IFRC, Geneva/Switzerland
- Dec 2006 hosted by Hanken, Helsinki/Finland
- Jul 2007 "The Humanitarian Supply Chain - challenge or role model?" at HUBS, Hull/UK


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Different Types of Wrinkles and How to Prevent Them
Did you know that there are several different types of wrinkles? In fact, there are four common ones that almost everyone will get at some point in life. Wrinkles are a natural part of the aging process, yet men and women alike fear aging. As some patients begin to see these changes taking place on their body, they may even find themselves feeling stressed and with low self-esteem. Here are different types of wrinkles you should know about:
Atrophic Crinkling Rhytids
This type of wrinkle is better known as fine lines or crinkles. They aren't full blown wrinkles at this stage, but they are the first to form on the face and are found all over the body. The average age when fine lines begin to show up is 30, but heavy sunbathers can expect to see them much earlier. The good news is fine lines are the easiest to prevent and treat.
How to treat them:
Most importantly, limit the amount of time spent under the sun and be sure to apply an SPF 30 Broad Spectrum sunscreen daily. Moisturizing helps diminish the appearance of fine lines. Using Alpha Hydroxy Acid will help speed up your skin's natural exfoliation process. Don't skip washing your face each morning and night. Be sure to eat green leafy vegetables and colorful fruits. The more color on your plate the more anti-aging nutrients and antioxidants you're feeding your body.
Permanent Elastic Creases
Over time fine lines turn into permanent elastic creases. They are a direct result of too much time in the sun and are caused by smoking. These wrinkles show up around the eyes, upper lip, cheeks, neck, and decolletage.
How to treat them:
Strive to kick the smoking habit and limit sun exposure. Slather your skin with sunscreen from head to toe and don't forget the tops of your hands too! Moisturize daily using products that contain hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, and peptides to help boost collagen. At this point, an ideal moisturizer is one that contains retinol. Prescription retinoids are also excellent for combating the signs of aging. Laser therapy and chemical peels are a great way to increase cell turnover and will bring a youthful glow back to your face by removing dull, gray skin. Laser therapy is great for making broken capillaries retreat, diminishing redness, erasing liver spots and other forms of hyperpigmentation that are caused by sun damage. Some patients, not all, who suffer with melasma might also be a candidate for laser treatments.
Dynamic Expression Lines also called Expression Wrinkles
Repetitive muscle movement is the cause of dynamic wrinkles. If you are prone to making a certain facial expression like squinting your eyes hard while looking at a computer screen, try to refrain. As facial muscles move, skin moves and creases begin to develop, growing deeper into the epidermis until one day it is permanently etched into the skin. Genetics can be blamed for many dynamic lines but smoking is another significant cause of them too. Dynamic wrinkles predominately show up around the eyes as crows feet, frown lines, and forehead wrinkles.
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Botox® is the best treatment for most wrinkles, and it can be used preemptively to prevent them as well. Fillers, like Juvederm®, plump up deeper lines, so they are no longer visible when the face is at rest. While it's impossible to stop all muscle movement in your face, it is a good idea to resist excessive squinting and brow furrowing.
Gravitational Folds
Like the name says, these wrinkles form as a result of gravity pulling skin downwards. Over time skin begins to sag which causes folds to look more pronounced. Losing a substantial amount of weight, as seen with crash dieters, is another contributor as well. An example of this type of wrinkle is the nasolabial fold; parallel lines that run along each side of the nose towards the mouth, commonly called marionette lines or parentheses.
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Wrinkles seldom occur in isolation, but many of them are preventable and treatable. The most important takeaway from this is that with a good skincare regimen and avid sun protection, most wrinkles are easily prevented. You and our team at Elias Dermatology will work together to keep wrinkles and the signs of aging at bay.. Schedule an appointment at one of three offices today. You're in good hands with us. We look forward to seeing you soon.


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Claims by the European Court of Human Rights to set judge-made law on a widening range of social issues is threatening to undermine the sovereignty of Parliament, one of Britain's most senior judges has warned – but critics have said Judges Should Not Make Political Statements while still on the bench.
Lord Judge, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, said that Parliament needed to decide for itself how much power it was willing to cede to the Strasbourg-based court.
His intervention came as the President of the Court, Judge Dean Spielmann, warned Britain's refusal so far to implement the court's ruling that the blanket ban on prisoners voting must end was a breach of international law.
At the same time, he said that any attempt by Britain to pull out from the European Convention on Human Rights could set the UK on the path to leaving the European Union altogether.
However, Lord Judge expressed concern that Judge Spielmann was claiming too much power for a body of unelected judges whose decisions could not be overruled.
"This is a court which is not answerable to anybody," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
"If it's right, it can't be overruled by anybody. I genuinely don't think that a body of judges – however distinguished – should have that sort of power."
Lord Judge, who described himself as a supporter of the convention, said the court's claims had implications for the sovereignty of every nation in Europe – not just the UK – and he urged the Government to seek allies in trying to rein it in.
"His (Judge Spielmann's) view means that the court in Europe is entitled to tell every country in Europe how it should organise itself," he said.
"He refers to it as a living instrument. Of course the convention isn't a dead instrument, but it means that legislation can be made by judges on all sorts of societal issues – binding legislation – and if that's the position there is a very serious problem with sovereignty.
"It's not a UK problem, the sovereignty issue affects every single country in Europe."
He added: "It is time for us to recognise that it is a very important time. My own view is: stop here."
Judge Spielmann, however, insisted that the UK should not defy the court's ruling on prisoner voting rights.
"This would be clearly inconsistent with the international law obligations of the United Kingdom and also the obligations under the convention," he told the Today programme.
He said that if Britain sought to pull out of the convention – as some Tory MPs are demanding – it would mean leaving the Council of Europe, the body which created the European Court of Human Rights, and ultimately the EU.
"I cannot see how the United Kingdom could remain a member of the Council of Europe while at the same time withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights," he said.
"All the members of the European Union are also members of the Council of Europe. I can hardly see how a member of the European Union could withdraw from the Council of Europe. I see a problem there.
"I think from a political perspective it might be very difficult to stay in the European Union."
Lord Judge acknowledged that there were differences among British judges as to what extent the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights were binding on the UK which MPs now needed to resolve.
"My very strong belief is that this issue now needs to be resolved by Parliament," he said.
"The issue that is in play here is not the convention, it's sovereignty .The most fundamental principle of our unwritten constitution is parliamentary sovereignty.
"Our elected representatives have ultimate sovereignty not only over our own unelected judges but in my view over the unelected judges of any other jurisdiction, including Europe, unless we choose to give them sovereignty."
Mark Leech, editor of Converse the national newspaper for prisoners criticised Lord Judge for making 'what are in essence political statements'.
Mr Leech said: "It's a bit rich for Lord Judge to criticise Judges in the European Court for not being elected – he is not elected either and unlike European Judges who play no part in the formal legislative process Judge is also a member of the House of Lords.
"Lord Judge is a political appointee in reality, appointed by the Queen but only on the recommendation of the Prime Minister – he should be apolitical and he would have done better to have criticised the Government for failing to implement the ECHR ruling on prisoner voting, instead of openly supporting the Prime Minister who put him where he is.
"Our senior Judges should not make what are in essence political statements while sitting on the bench – if he wants to become political resign from the bench and stand for parliament – until then he should button his judicial lip and not bring the judiciary into disrepute."


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ABF is aimed at diversifying the provincial economy and accelerating growth of Alberta's bioindustrial sector by taking advantage of emerging opportunities.
The bioindustrial sector is also at the leading edge of clean technology. As such, ABF is focused on increasing sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint by promoting use of Alberta's renewable resources.
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Alberta Bio Future (ABF) was launched on March 12, 2015. Its purpose is to expand a competitive, sustainable and profitable bioindustrial sector (materials, chemicals and energy) through an integrated program with a strong industry focus.
ABF provides funding in three strategic priority areas: research and innovation, product and technology commercialization, and equipment utilization.
It focuses primarily on projects that add value to biomass in agriculture and forestry, and create new and improved bioindustrial products and bioindustrial technologies. Food, feed and pharma products are excluded from the ABF program.
This initiative also has been designed to encourage and support collaborations and partnerships – between industry, the academic community, government ministries and other funding agencies.
Alberta Bio Future is the name of the overarching program. It includes eight ongoing sub-programs launched at different times, with projects at various stages. Applications are currently under review in several newer sub-programs.
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Ok, so I admit, on a daily basis I am one of those people who talks on the phone while I am driving and texts/emails from time to time as well. Over the years, I have tried to do it less and less, because I know it is not a good thing, but I find myself still being drawn to my iphone in the car. Not enough hours in the day, to much to do, whatever the reason, I seem to be on the phone in one way or another at a very dangerous time.
The buzzing, incoming emails, phone calls, messages, they never stop.
More than a handful of times I have looked up just at the last minute and hit the brakes, only to stop inches from the car in front of me. Why? Because I am driving and not paying attention to the road as much as the communication device in my hand. I make a promise that I won't do it again and 2 days later, I am caught back in the habit.
Someone that I met with today mentioned Oprah's No Phone Zone to me and invited me to visit a video clip online.
I viewed it tonight and wanted to share it with anyone who has ever talked on the phone or texted/emailed while driving.
It is a moving video and I believe it has finally hit the message home for me.
Let's be honest, is that email/phone call/text message really THAT important?
Interested in your thoughts on the topic. Are you guilty? Did you feel that this clip provided you with a real understanding on the impact that your busy life may have on someone else's family or future?
Let me know.
In the meantime, I am going to lock my iphone in the trunk while I am on the road.


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Beds of cover crops are visible in the background. These will be either tilled in or removed and composted before planting next spring. Meanwhile, I graze on some of them, particularly mustard greens and Swiss chard.
With only minimal protection, there are several vegetables that can be grown in winter. I'm in climate zone 6b. If you are in a colder zone, you may need to provide more serious protection, perhaps an insulated cold frame - or none at all if you're in a warmer zone.
Lettuce and snap peas are more likely to suffer from frost than mustard or kale, so be ready to cover them with reemay or similar, or grow them in plastic covered low-tunnels. Root crops like parsnips and carrots tend to store very well left right where they are - just pull them up when you need them.
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Amina will be reading at 7:00 pm on March 14 at Gallery 210. She is the author of three award-winning short story collections: The Loss of All Lost Things, which won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction and received the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award, Now We Will Be Happy, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the USA Best Book Award in African American Fiction, the International Book Award, a Silver IPPY Award in Multicultural Fiction, a Florida Authors and Publishers Association Award Gold Medal in Short Fiction, and was Long-listed for The Chautauqua Prize in Fiction, and At-Risk, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and received an Eric Hoffer Legacy Award and a First Horizon Award. Gautier has published a record number of short stories. More than eighty-five of her short stories have been published and her fiction appears in African American Review, African Voices, Agni, Antioch Review, B&A: New Fiction, Cicada, Chattahoochee Review, Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, Iconoclast, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Opium.com, Pindeldyboz, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Quarter After Eight, Red Rock Review, River Styx, Salt Hill, Shenandoah, Southeast Review, Southern Review, Southwest Review, Storyquarterly, Studio Magazine, Sycamore Review, Timber Creek Review, Today's Black Woman, Torch, and Yemassee among other places. Gautier's work has been extensively reprinted, appearing in All About Skin! Women Writers of Color, Best African American Fiction 2009, Best African American Fiction 2010, Discoveries: New Writing from The Iowa Review, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2008, The Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years, The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Women Writers on Forerunners in Fiction, 25 Provocative Women Writers and Voices.
Donika will be reading at 7:00 pm on April 18th at Gallery 210. She is the author of BESTIARY (Graywolf 2016), winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, long listed for the National Book Award (2016), and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award (2017), and the chapbook AVIARIUM (500 Places 2017). Donika is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and recipient of a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center. She received her MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. She is an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University, where she teaches creative writing.
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The five highest-grossing animated films of all time are from this decade – 2013's Frozen, 2015's Minions, 2010's Toy Story 3, 2017's Despicable Me 3, and 2016's Finding Dory – which means that Hollywood is not slowing down on its production of movies in this genre. On the contrary, it is only inscreasing.
With that said, 2019 and beyond is shaping up to become one of the busiest periods in the history of animated movies. There are dozens of animated films currently in development, including projects from Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation, and other studios. Despite the various sequels, reboots, and spin-offs to already established franchises, there is also a fair share of original stories coming soon to theaters.
Fans of the genre are in for quite a ride, as the current lineup of animated projects in development are going to revisit old and beloved characters as well as introduce brand-new ones. With all the hard work that is involved in the production of any animated feature, it's a safe bet that these films are being made with the intent of being highly successful, surpassing all expectations set forth by previous installments.
These are 20 Animated Movies Currently In Development.
Since 1995's Toy Story, Pixar has solidified itself as one of Hollywood's most prominent animation studios, constantly surpassing even the Walt Disney Animation Studios in terms of quality, cultural relevance, and box office numbers. After two highly successful sequels, it certainly seemed like the franchise was going to end as a trilogy. However, in 2014, Disney announced that Toy Story 4 was going to be produced, giving it a tentative release date for 2017.
Despite being late, Toy Story 4 is certainly in development and will be released in 2019.
The film was initially going to be penned by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, who later withdrew from the project and made way for a new writer, Stephany Folsom. Josh Cooley, who has worked in several other Pixar movies in the art department, was selected to direct this fourth installment, making it the first Toy Story movie to not be directed by either John Lasseter or Lee Unkrich, both of whom are veteran directors at Pixar.
The most updated premise of Toy Story 4 teased a movie involving the romantic relationship between Woody and Bo Peep, as well as a rescue mission that involved Buzz Lightyear. However, ever since the switch in the film's writing team, Pixar has kept details of the project closer to its chest.
Co-directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and co-lyricists Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez are all coming back for Frozen 2, a sequel to the highly successful 2013 animated blockbuster Frozen.
Despite experiencing some level of success with Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph, it was only with Frozen that Walt Disney Animation Studios finally found its footing after more than a decade of releasing movies with lukewarm reception and low box office numbers. Frozen made a billion dollars worldwide and launched a franchise that has already spun several theme park attractions, merchandise, video games, and even two short films – 2015's Frozen Fever and 2017's Olaf's Frozen Adventure. With the 2019 release date for Frozen 2, this is poised to become an even bigger property for Disney as a whole.
Starting with 2018's Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, Walt Disney Animation Studios is going to release one animated movie per year during every month of November. Frozen 2 is the studio's 2019 release, but other films have already been slated for the 2020, 2021 and 2022 release dates, such as a Big Hero 6 sequel that is still in the early development stage.
If the second Frozen installment proves to be successful, perhaps this can become a trilogy that matches the numbers Disney has achieved with its Marvel and Star Wars projects.
2014's The Lego Movie single-handedly rebooted the Warner Bros. Animation studio, solidifying the careers of the directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – also known for 21 Jump Street and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – and proving that the Lego company could find an appeal on the big screen.
Since then, the franchise has spun two other films, both of which premiered in 2017: The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie. However, both of them failed to perform at the critical and commercial level that The Lego Movie did in 2014.
To the surprise of no one, The Lego Movie Sequel was announced for a 2017 release date. However, the project got pushed back, eventually landing on a 2019 release. Part of the pushback had to do with the several changes in the writing and directing teams that took place throughout the years.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – the writers and directors of The Lego Movie – originally signed on to write the sequel's script, then got replaced by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, who then left and made way for Lord and Miller to return. Chris McKay was originally picked to direct the film, then was replaced by Rob Schrab, who was then replaced by Mike Mitchell.
Famous for the Despicable Me franchise and the Minions spinoff, Illumination Entertainment likely did not anticipate that it would have another major property on its hands with the release of 2016's The Secret Life of Pets.
Budgeted at $75 million, the movie went on to gross more than $800 million at the box office and became the sixth highest grossing movie of 2016. It even managed to surpass the gross earned by the first Despicable Me installment, which at the time was considered a major hit for the studio.
Only a month after its release, a sequel had already been announced by Illumination Entertainment.
The Secret Life of Pets 2 is poised to be released in 2019.
After allegations of misconduct surfaced against Louis C.K., who voiced the main character in the franchise, Illumination Entertainment announced that the actor would be replaced by Patton Oswalt. The rest of the original cast, as well as director Chris Renaud and writer Brian Lynch, are set to return for the sequel, which is still in development at the studio. Additionally, The Secret Life of Pets 2 has added legendary actor Harrison Ford, who will lend his voice to an animated character for the first time.
Truth be told, a lot of the success behind the Despicable Me franchise had to do with the popular appeal of Gru's minions, who instantly became pop culture references and made children and adults around the world laugh. It was only fitting for Illumination Entertainment to announced that they would get their own film, Minions, in 2015. Thus, it was not very surprising when the movie crossed the billion-dollar mark and became one of the highest grossing animated movies of all time - earning more than any of the Despicable Me installments.
As if the franchise could not get any bigger, 2017's Despicable Me 3 also crossed the billion-dollar mark at the box office and, despite failing to gross more than Minions, went on to become the most successful installment of the Despicable trilogy. With all of that success, it was also only fitting that Minions 2 would eventually be announced, with writer Brian Lynch and director Kyle Balda signed on to return for the sequel.
The Despicable Me property is now the highest-grossing animated franchise of all time, as well as the first and only animated franchise to have had two movies crossing the billion-dollar mark at the box office.
MGM is currently producing an animated The Addams Family movie based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938. The Addams franchise saw some success on the big screen in the 1990s, as the live-action movies The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values (1993), and Addams Family Reunion (1998) yielded a somewhat positive critical and commercial reception. However, the family has not been back to theaters since 1998, and talks of a stop-motion reboot involving Tim Burton did not go anywhere.
Pamela Pettler, known for her work in Monster House, Corpse Bride, 9, and 2005's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was picked to write the MGM animated reboot of The Addams Family, which is set to be released in 2019. Additionally, Sausage Party director Conrad Vernon is set to direct the movie.
Oscar Isaac, who has long been championed by fans of the property to play Gomez Addams, is in talks with the studio to voice the character.
However, besides the release date and some information about the team behind the project, not much else is known about the upcoming The Addams Family, such as the premise of the film or who will actually voice Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, and Fester.
The third How to Train Your Dragon installment, titled The Hidden World, is all set for a 2019 release. A franchise produced by DreamWorks Animation, which is a studio also known for Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and Trolls, How to Train Your Dragon has been a consistently lucrative property that managed to also reach a level of critical appeal during its second installment.
Dean DeBlois, who wrote and directed the How to Train Your Dragon sequel, is set to return as the writer and director of The Hidden World. Additionally, Cate Blanchett is set to reprise her role as Valka, Hiccup's mother, in the third installment.
In two movies, the franchise has grossed nearly half a billion dollars at the box office, which makes it one of the most lucrative properties in the current roster of DreamWorks Animation.
Universal Pictures, which owns both DreamWorks Animation and Illumination Entertainment, has two highly anticipated animated movies to be released in 2019, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and The Secret Life of Pets 2. Universal will face off with Disney's own big animated properties lined up for that year: Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4.
Fans of the genre can already anticipate how tough the battle for that year's Best Animated Feature category will be at the Oscars.
A partnership between Sony Pictures and Rovio Animation, The Angry Birds Movie brought to life a series of characters that many casual mobile gamers were already familiar with due to the popular game franchise called Angry Birds, which was created by Rovio Entertainment. After grossing over $300 million at the box office in 2016 with the first film, the studio immediately began to work on a sequel.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 is slated for a 2019 release and set to bring back all of the actors that voiced characters in the previous installment, such as Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, and Peter Dinklage. However, on the production side, Sony and Rovio made substantial changes. For the sequel, co-directors Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly have been replaced by Thurop Van Orman and John Rice. Jon Vitti, who wrote the screenplay for the first movie, is not returning to pen the sequel, which is instead being written by Peter Ackerman.
On the TV side, the Angry Birds franchise has already spun several shows, such as Angry Birds Toons, Piggy Tales, Angry Birds Stella, and Angry Birds Blues. On the big screen, Rovio and Sony are certainly looking forward to making an even bigger splash with The Angry Birds Movie 2, and exploring the possibility of a third installment.
If The Lego Movie brought the Lego toys to life, why can't an animated movie do the same for Playmobil, Lego's longtime competitor?
French studio ON Entertainment, most notable for 2015's The Little Prince adaptation, has secured the rights to produce a Playmobil animated feature to be released in 2019. Lino DiSalvo, who was a key figure in the production team behind the making of Frozen and Tangled, is set to direct the film, with Greg Erb, Blaise Hemingway, and Jason Oremland penning a script. However, as of yet, only Wendi McLendon-Covey and Jodi Larratt have been mentioned as part of the cast.
Founded in 1974 in Germany, the Playmobil plastic toys have long competed with Denmark's Lego in the free-form play and customization market around the world.
In 2019, Playmobil will not only compete with The Lego Movie Sequel, but also with a wide range of other highly anticipated animated films.
The company previously attempted to create a TV show, called Super 4, which aired on Netflix in the United States and was canceled after two seasons. However, the jury is still out regarding whether Playmobil will earn its rightful place on the big screen, just as The Lego Movie did.
From Blue Sky Studios, the creators of the Ice Age franchise, Robots, Rio, and Ferdinand, comes a new animated property that follows the world's greatest spy and a gadget inventor.
The spy, Lance Sterling, will be voiced by Will Smith. The inventor, Walter, will be voiced by Tom Holland.
Despite having changed its release date twice, Spies in Disguise is all set for an April of 2019 release, currently in development at Blue Sky Studios. The studio, which is mostly known for its five Ice Age movies, has been trying to venture out to different properties through the years, with mild success. The latest Ice Age installment, Collision Course, is the lowest grossing sequel of the entire franchise, which has forced the studio to look for new stories to tell and characters to explore.
With Spies in Disguise, Blue Sky is finally focusing on humans and pivoting from its main specialty: animated movies featuring talking animals or creatures.
However, 2019 is shaping up to become an incredibly crowded year for the genre of animation, and Spies in Disguise will have to compete with the likes of Frozen 2, Toy Story 4, The Secret Life of Pets 2, and The Lego Movie Sequel.
Created in 1969, Scooby-Doo and his gang of friends have been a staple in popular culture for various decades. In 2002, a live-action Scooby-Doo movie was released, written by a then mostly unknown James Gunn, who would later bring Guardians of the Galaxy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, was released in 2004, but the franchise failed to reach the financial and critical incentive to keep bringing those characters to the big screen.
That was until Warner Bros. announced its plans in 2016 to launch a Hanna-Barbera animated cinematic universe that would start with a tentatively titled Scooby movie. Hanna-Barbera, the studio also responsible for The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Johnny Quest, Wacky Races, and Yogi Bear, certainly has a significant amount of intellectual property to populate a massive cinematic universe, but since 2016, little has been known about Scooby or the plans for this overall franchise.
As of now, Scooby is in development and aiming for a 2020 release. Tony Cervone, Dax Shepard, and Simon J. Smith are all names that have floated around in regards to directing duties, and Dax Shepard and Matt Lieberman were picked to write the screenplay. However, no actors have been officially attached to the project.
The fantasy/sci-fi comic book Nimona was initially published on Tumblr by creator Noelle Stevenson and went on to become one of the most prominent webcomics of this decade. So it's only natural that Fox acquired the rights to turn the property into a movie in 2015.
Slated for a 2020 release, the Nimona animated feature will be directed by Patrick Osborne (known for his work on Disney's short film Feast) and written by Marc Haimes (who co-wrote Kubo and the Two Strings).
Nimona's protagonist is the title character. She is a shapeshifter and a sidekick to the villainous Lord Ballister Blackheart. Together, they clash in opinions but fight for a good cause against Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin.
The webcomic has since been published in print as a graphic novel and became a worldwide phenomenon despite the creator having no such intentions. Stevenson has gone on to write for Marvel, on Runaways and Thor, and to win an Eisner for both Nimona and her other comic, Lumberjanes.
Under Fox and its Blue Sky Studios, Nimona may also find a place on the big screen, extending the reach of this property even further. No actors to voice Nimona, Blackheart, and other characters have been attached to the project as of yet, but the film is well on its way for an expected 2020 release.
Lin-Manuel Miranda became a household name after the breakout hit Broadway musical Hamilton, but truth be told, Miranda had already been hard at work for years, having earned a Tony Award for his 2009 musical In The Heights and landed a deal with DreamWorks Animation to produce an animated feature, Vivo. However, it wasn't until Hamilton that Hollywood became truly invested in other stories that Lin-Manuel Miranda had to tell.
With so much momentum behind Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sony Pictures Animation decided to pick up Vivo from DreamWorks and gave the film a 2020 release.
While working on Vivo, his very own animated feature, Lin-Manuel Miranda has had plenty of opportunities to practice his transition to the big screen. He has written songs for Disney's Moana, is starring in the Mary Poppins Returns sequel, and is involved with the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid alongside the legendary lyricist Alan Menken. On top of it all, a cinematic adaptation of the In The Heights musical is also in the works.
Vivo is the story of a capuchin monkey who is passionate about music and travels from Havana to Miami. With the success of Pixar's Coco, it seems like Hollywood is finally ready to embrace more Latin-centered stories in the animation genre.
The Lego Movie Sequel is not the only Lego animated film currently in development at Warner Bros. Animation. There is also The Billion Brick Race - a Lego Movie spin-off that focuses on cars and racing, and a project that has been facing several obstacles during its production.
When it was announced in 2015, The Billion Brick Race was going to be co-written and co-directed by Jason Segel and Drew Pearce. Then, in 2017, the directing duties were suddenly given to Jorge R. Gutierrez, who was better known as the director of The Book of Life. However, in 2018, Gutierrez announced that he would be stepping down as the movie's director, and no further update has been provided in regards to the movie.
While it is somewhat safe to assume that The Billion Brick Race is still in development and still happening at some point in the near future, Warner Bros. Animation has yet to come out with news of a new director being attached to the project.
Despite having been planned for a 2019 release, that date now seems unlikely, as production was certainly halted after Jorge R. Gutierrez stepped down as a director and no one has replaced him yet.
The Uglydoll brand of plush toys was first introduced to the market in 2001 and has since become a quite successful merchandising property. In 2011, Illumination Entertainment acquired the rights to turn the toy brand into an animated feature, but eventually gave up on moving forward with the project. Then, in 2017, the project gained new life as director Robert Rodriguez (known for Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Sin City, and Machete) signed on to direct and produce the movie under his company, Troublemaker Studios. Reel FX Creative Studios, which has released Free Birds and The Book of Life was contracted to animate the Uglydolls feature, and Pitbull was brought in to voice a character and create an original song for the soundtrack.
From the involvement of Robert Rodriguez and Pitbull, one can assume that Uglydolls will focus on a Latin-centered story, despite no premise or synopsis having been released from the production team. The movie has a tentative release date of 2019, but from the lack of updates regarding the project, it would not be surprising if it was pushed back for another year or two.
With 2019 already being such a crowded year for animated movies, it might actually be a good idea for Uglydolls to wait for 2020.
2016's Trolls proved to be a success story for DreamWorks Animation, a studio that had been struggling to launch new franchises in recent years. The Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake-starring animated movie spun an animated TV series on Netflix called Trolls: The Beat Goes On! and a holiday special on NBC titled Trolls Holiday. Additionally, the film featured Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop The Feeling", a song that, in many ways experienced a similar success to Pharrell's massive pop song "Happy," which was made for the soundtrack of Despicable Me 2.
Trolls 2 was announced in 2017, a year after the first installment, with a 2020 release date already on the horizon. Co-writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger are set to return for the sequel, and Walt Dohrn is set to return as a director. Besides the original cast, other actors and musicians were signed on to be featured in the sequel, such as Chance The Rapper, Sam Rockwell, Jamie Dornan, and Karan Soni.
With the involvement of DreamWorks Animation and so much investment behind this project, it is unlikely that the film will not be released as scheduled on 2020, despite having been moved a couple of months to make room for Fast & Furious 9.
Besides The Secret Life of Pets, Illumination Entertainment had another success in 2016: the feel-good musical comedy Sing, featuring several animated animals belting out pop music hits. To the surprise of no one, Sing 2 was promptly confirmed, and was slated for a Christmas of 2020 release date.
Budgeted at $75 million, Sing featured Matthew McConaughey as an entrepreneurial koala, Reese Witherspoon as a motherly pig, Seth MacFarlane as a street musician mouse, Scarlett Johansson as a rocker porcupine, Tori Kelly as a shy elephant, and Taron Egerton as a soft-hearted gorilla.
The film went on to gross over $600 million worldwide, most of which came from foreign markets. Despite having issued no official reports regarding its cast, Sing 2 is expected to bring back the original cast and feature new popular songs on its soundtrack. While not yet confirmed, writer and director Garth Jennings is also expected to sign on for the sequel.
Sing and The Secret Life of Pets have brought in new life to Illumination Entertainment outside of the Despicable Me and Minions franchise. Thus, the studio (and its parent company Universal Pictures) has been keen on investing in those properties in order to diversify its intellectual property.
Based on a book by Marla Frazee of the same name, DreamWorks Animation's The Boss Baby was met with somewhat negative reviews but grossed enough money at the box office in order to earn a sequel. In 2017, DreamWorks announced that The Boss Baby 2 would be released in 2021, and that a television series titled The Boss Baby: Back in Business would come to Netflix sometime in 2018.
Starring Alec Baldwin as a businessperson who happens to be a baby, The Boss Baby has been a somewhat successful attempt from DreamWorks Animation to launch new successful properties during this decade. Alongside Trolls, The Boss Baby experienced more success than other recent original movies by the studio, such as The Croods, Home, and Turbo. Despite still being far from its 2000s heyday with the releases of three Shrek films, two Madagascar movies and the original Kung Fu Panda, DreamWorks has shown signs of recovery ever since Trolls, and The Boss Baby allowed the studio to continue riding on that wave of success.
There are still no reports confirming the return of Alec Baldwin as the title character in The Boss Baby 2, and director Tom McGrath has yet to sign on for the sequel.
Jackie Chan, a martial artist turned Hollywood star, has been somewhat out of sight from Hollywood since the early 2010s. Instead, the actor and creator has been focusing on developing projects in China, where he is deemed an even bigger superstar than he is in the United States.
In Wish Dragon, an animated feature co-produced by the U.S. and China, Jackie Chan is poised to return in full grandeur.
Chris Appelhans, who has done extensive animation work in the likes of The Princess and the Frog, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline, and Monster House is set to write and direct Wish Dragon. In China, the film will be developed by Base Animation in partnership with Jackie Chan's Sparkle Roll Media. In the United States, the movie is being distributed by Sony Pictures Animation. In addition to Chan, the film's cast will also feature Constance Wu (Fresh Off The Boat, Crazy Rich Asians), Nico Santos (Superstore), and Bobby Lee (Pineapple Express).
Set in contemporary China, Wish Dragon tells the classic story of a boy who finds a genie in a bottle, but the legend is going to be adapted to fit the Chinese culture. The movie is slated for a 2019 release date.
Bob's Burgers is an animated sitcom that has been running on Fox for eight years, yielding over a hundred episodes that follow the Belcher family while running their business: a hamburger restaurant. Unlike sister shows such as The Simpsons and Family Guy, Bob's Burgers has not yet ventured out to the big screen - but that is about to change in 2020.
A full-length Bob's Burgers movie is currently in development and eying a release date during the summer of 2020.
Loren Bouchard – the creator of the series – will write the screenplay, and all of the actors that voice characters in the show are reportedly on board for the film. Upon announcing the animated movie, Loren Bouchard said, "We know the movie has to scratch every itch the fans of the show have ever had, but it also has to work for all the good people who've never seen the show." Thus, longtime fans and new audiences alike will be taken into consideration and are intended to enjoy the Bob's Burgers feature.
The one caveat? After Disney's purchase of Fox, all future films produced by the studio entered uncertain terrains, and Bob's Burgers is certainly not an on-brand property for Disney audiences.
What upcoming animated movie are you most excited for? Let us know in the comments!


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Jon Hein: Acting Innocent on the Air
Howard played a clip of Jon Hein claiming on yesterday's "Wrap Up Show" that he rarely went to strip clubs, and that he "couldn't remember" the last time he pleasured himself.
Despite this, Howard thought Jon was lying and was just embarrassed to admit certain things about his life, but Jon came into the studio and claimed he was telling the truth.
Jon then explained that, whenever he was feeling "the urge," he had sex with his wife, and again noted he didn't masturbate unless his wife was away for "a long period of time."
Howard next got to a tape from Greg Fitzsimmons' show last night on Howard 101, where he and his guest, Andy Richter, discussed having their wives insert a finger into their rear ends during sex and how much they liked it.


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I remember one time a few years ago, when I was insanely pregnant and my husband had to attend a law enforcement training session, that my brother came over to check on me.
Probably to make sure that I was not curled up in the fetal position on the carpeted floor, crying over a Hallmark commercial. Bless his heart for being so brave.
So once he arrived, like any good brother does, he raided his sister's kitchen cabinets to see what loot she was hiding. (Little did he know I used to hide the Reese's Cups where I stored the aluminum foil. No one takes a pregnant woman's chocolate — nobody.) When he got to the fridge, he began to laugh uncontrollably at a juice container I had inside. What was so funny? Was it past the expiration date? Was it growing new juice?
He flipped it over on the back and read, "Seriously? This juice is from Belize? You are feeding your baby juice from Belize?" The thought had never occurred to me before then, that this juice came from overseas where regulations on food were most likely not the same as they were in the United States. That was years ago, and we still joke about the juice from Belize, how large I was as a pregnant woman, and how I now have to change the hiding spot for my secret stash of candy.
Once we moved to a farm, I knew planting a garden was in order. I shared with you a few weeks ago that not only did I successfully not kill this garden, but in fact, it actually grew vegetables. So much so that I had no clue what to do with them and wondered if being a cucumber farmer was really a thing.
Here's a little known secret about our town: we have a farmers' market. It is true. And no, I am not talking about the flea market where I once sold a racy Jenny McCarthy book to my best friend's grandmother by mistake (True story. And I never read it, just so we are clear.). But LaFollette has an actual farmers' market, where fresh produce, fruits, salsa, jellies, jams, cookies, and coffee are sold weekly and it is home grown by people who reside just miles from you. You can literally eat from farm to table and not have to worry about it being shipped from across the country in a giant truck with questionable packaging methods. These people see growing good, healthy food as an art, and take pride in what they offer to the townsfolk.
So come by and see us every Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon. We will be across the street from Bowman Jewelers in LaFollette in Freeman Park with the giant clock and pretty shade trees, playing horseshoes and Old Maid and selling jars of pickles and fresh cookies. And while you are there, visit with the farmers, hear their stories and be sure to try their corn on the cob and coffee. It is just too good.
And there may just be a little girl there with a lemonade stand and a smile. Shop small and buy locally. And no, her juice is not from Belize.
Christie Elkins is a Campbell County native whose columns appear on the Lifestyles page of the LaFollette Press. She's a mother of three and a full-time blogger at lettersfromthenest.com.
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Please suggest me the best way to take good photographs of aquascape.
rajivzee wrote:Tripod yes, but flash for aquarium photography?
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hamza wrote:rajivzee wrote:Tripod yes, but flash for aquarium photography?
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You are doubting the pro here.
Basically the thing is you need lots of light to get crisp shot of everything in a FTS. The most effective way of doing it is by using a couple of flashes over the tank that burst out light equivalent to thousands of watts of aquarium lighting within a fraction of a second, enabling faster shutter(to freeze moving fish) and smaller aperture(to focus on every detail front to back).
All the amazing crisp pictures you see online, on international forums, contests, etc are all shot by same technique.
SCORPIO wrote:I am already using Tripod. What if you use more powerful light just for photography time? Then I need flash or not?


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Susan Griffin's voice is spare, even when the poems are composed in long, lush, rhythmic lines. Griffin's poems achieve a clarity which lies beyond the "rational" Cartesian tradition, each fragment rescued from a realm of wider understanding—that "unremembered country" of the soul. For Susan Griffin, poetry is not a passive, cloistered activity, but a fully conscious presence, a consciousness that partakes of the inevitable union of all beings.
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(Darius Shahtahmasebi) People are rightly outraged that President Donald J. Trump took so long to condemn white supremacy and attempted to equate both the right and left before flip-flopping, eventually appearing to condone the neo-Nazi elements of America's political landscape; he said there were "very fine people" on both sides. Even world leaders and prominent political figures condemned Trump for his statements.
Related: Charlottesville Protests - Don't Be Divided by the Media
Source - Anti Media
by Darius Shahtahmasebi, August 21st, 2017
Conversely, the world has had a fawning wet dream over Barack Obama's tweet on the subject, in which he quoted Nelson Mandela to state "no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…" This has become the most liked tweet in Twitter history. How beautiful.
Obama can tweet eloquently and Trump can tweet like a buffoon, but at the end of the day, what difference does it really make?
During his presidency, the Obama administration propped up known anti-Semitic neo-Nazis in Ukraine and was even caught red-handed picking these neo-Nazis to lead Ukraine after Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in 2014. Apparently, this isn't important to millions of Twitter users, so long as Obama says nice things that resonate with their inner desire to see the good in people.
Despite strong approval from the black community regarding Obama's performance as president, the economic situation for African Americans went steadily from bad to worse under his presidency. When Obama was elected, the black unemployment rate stood at 11.1 percent. In 2010, it rose sharply to 16.1 percent, roughly twice the rate of white unemployment.
The number of black people killed by police under Barack Obama was through the roof, so to speak, and Obama continued many of the policies that unfairly target black communities and increase their incarceration rates, like the ill-informed drug war, which he allowed to rage on "pointlessly," as Time put it, for most of his time in office.
A report published in June 2016 found black Americans were incarcerated in state prisons at an average of 5.1 times that of white Americans during Obama's time as president.
As the Guardian's Gary Younge explained last year:
"Obama will leave office during a period of heightened racial tension over police shootings. 'His presidency was supposed to pass into an era of post-racism and colour blindness,' Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton professor and author of From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation, tells me. 'Yet it was under his administration that the Black Lives Matter movement erupted. In many ways, it's the most significant anti-racist movement in the last 40 years, and it happens under the first black president. The eruption of this movement can be interpreted as a disappointment in the limitations of the Barack Obama presidency. And some of those limitations can be explained externally, by the hostility with which he's been met by the mostly Republican congress. But some of it lies in the limitations of his own policies.'" [emphasis added]
Other groups and parts of the world suffered under Barack Obama's presidency, as well.
In just a few short years in office, Barack Obama became the world's leading arms dealer, providing at least $115 billion worth of weaponry to Saudi Arabia. These transactions were made with the full knowledge that Saudi Arabia directly sponsors ISIS, is rumored to directly sponsor terrorists who commit crimes in Western nations and that they are committing a host of war crimes in Yemen, repeatedly killing civilians and destroying vital infrastructure.
Under the Obama administration, the CIA was spending over one fifteenth of its entire budget arming and training fanatical jihadists in Syria, teaching them techniques that can only be described as terrorist tactics.
It's one thing to tweet about hate, love, skin color and religion, but it is something wholly other to put that into practice. A Pew Research Center poll found only 7 percent of Pakistanis viewed Barack Obama favorably, which is unsurprising considering he spent most of his presidential career drone striking their grandmothers and children.
No one is born hating another person, but they will be more likely to grow up to hate you if you choose a war path that involves murdering their family members.
Similarly, what would have happened if Trump had taken to Twitter or a televised address to say what we so desperately wanted to hear? Would he have stopped boasting about his exaggerated arms deals to Saudi Arabia, a country he once accused of committing the 9/11 terror attacks? Would he have stopped the United States' current Ukraine policy, which we know has benefitted neo-Nazi elements of Europe?
Donald Trump has reportedly killed thousands of civilians already in less than a year in office. He ramped up the wars in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia and is still trying to ramp up activities in Afghanistan, the never-ending quagmire. Considering that since the start of the year, 500,000 Syrians have returned to their homes in areas liberated by the Syrian Arab Army, it is becoming increasingly clear that Washington-led wars in the region have not only directly contributed to the refugee crisis – they have completely exacerbated it. If you don't want an influx of refugees, the simple solution would be to drawback on these current conflicts.
Yes, Donald Trump could and should have denounced white supremacy in his statements, and in particular, should have condemned the violence its movement has incited. But don't we require more from these "elected" leaders, other than just words and tweets?
Would praise-worthy tweets have been enough — even as the world crashes and burns around them? Surely, the human race can demand a lot better than tweeted platitudes. If we don't, the world's most prolific mass murderers will continue to absolve themselves of their crimes by writing 140 characters or less of inspirational nonsense.
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RUNAWAYS's Second Season Debuting This Fall, Will Bring in More MARVEL Characters
The currently in-production Runaways season 2 will bring in some new characters from the comic books, according to executive producers and co-showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.
"There are some characters who appear in the book who are appearing in Season 2," Schwartz told Deadline during a set visit. "They are really popular, exciting characters," added Savage, though the pair could not reveal who the new characters joining the show would be.
Additionally, the upcoming season will "accelerate" the journey of the show's titular young heroes, putting a ticking clock on their parents' hunt for them.
"It's going to accelerate. We are now running with our kids. Our focus shifts to these kids and trying to survive in the streets… there's a greater sense of tension and momentum in keeping with where we are in this part of the story," explained Schwartz. "In the real world, young people are dealing with adult themes. The world the adults are leaving young people, there's a responsibility on young people to fix this world. It feels so broken in so many ways. That is also a theme for our characters and for the show."
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In Reply to: Please Help!!! ASAP posted by mad_molly on May 12, 2003 at 16:05:26:
If you think it's brumation, you should have a fecal check done to make sure there is no parasites present and multiply while the beardie sleeps, kinda difficult if you can't get him to poop though. None of my beardies dig for 2 weeks before they brumate, not saying that isn't what is happening, but unusual. Normally when they begin to brumate they slow way down and and don't move around much. It sounds as if yours is still pretty active. I suppose eggs could be a possibility , but again, unusual for 9 mo.
Since he/she hasn't pooped, I would stay away from mealworms and anything else that is hard to digest.
How long has it been since he/she has pooped? If it's been more then 3-4 days, I would continue warm water soaks while gently massaging his belly. Try to make him be active in the water and swim to get his metabolism in gear.


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You may be down today,
but GOD's hand's are beneath you.
Keep your faith in GOD,
even if you deliverance is not immediate.
Where the seems no way,
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GOD words are the medicine
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GOD will fight for you,
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put all your faith and trust in Him,
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Do not doubt,
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Turning away from sin,
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The Girl Gang Brings Safe Space For ADL Women
Alexia Frangos
We've all felt the pressures of social media at one time or another, whether from trying to upload the perfect selfie, get that perfect lighting, or just coming up with a witty-but-not-trying-too-hard caption. For teenage girls especially, this pressure to obtain a perfect self image is at an all time high, and founder of The Girl Gang Wellness Danielle Demourtzidis knows this for a fact.
With Danielle's background in counselling and Bachelor of Psychology, she understands exactly the kind of headspace some girls and women can find themselves trapped in, trying to 'fit in' on social platforms and in real life.
That's why Danielle founded The Girl Gang Wellness workshops – to create a safe, welcoming space for girls and women to empower each other, while discussing the trials and tribulations that is being a woman in 2018. The workshops are about educating and inspiring these girls and women in any circumstances they might be going through in life; from school pressures to relationships, work matters to hormonal changes.
Danielle says "We focus on building the coping mechanisms needed to deal with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, body image and more". The Girl Gang Wellness workshops are aimed at girls aged 13 years and over and will be held monthly at various locations around Adelaide.
A support group like this is exactly what girls and young women in Adelaide need, especially in an overwhelming environment where we see Instagram influencers boasting images where their skin is strangely smooth, makeup is always professionally done, and not a hair out of place (meanwhile there's about 300 photos that look identical to the uploaded image).
While most of us are guilty of this, myself included, it's important to find a group of likeminded people who you can discuss these issues with – it is integral to our mental health to be able to open up about your doubts and anxieties, because someone in the group may be feeling the exact same as you and is able to offer support.
Danielle plans to expand her workshops to eventually cater to women of all ages and offer a program that supports open communication, self-validation and encourages positive relationships.
Sounds like a workshop you're interested in? Danielle will officially be launching The Girl Gang Wellness on June 3rd with headlining guest speaker, Insta-famous personality and 2017 Cosmo Woman of the Year, Elle Ferguson, who is no stranger to social media pressures.
Elle says "It is so important to talk about what you are feeling and going through. You have to build a support network that you can rely on and this is what I love about The Girl Gang Wellness Workshops - it's a safe place for teens to realise they aren't alone".
Come to the event and feel the support of so many inspiring, talented women at Palace Nova Prospect Cinema, Sunday June 3rd from 1-4pm. You can purchase your tickets here.
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