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The Rosetta Disk Preserving The World’s Languages

It is estimated that there are some 7,000 spoken languages in the world, of which nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in the next hundred years. Most of these endangered languages have less than a few thousand speakers left, and with no documentation. Nearly five hundred languages have fewer than ten speakers and are very likely to vanish very soon. Other languages are lost gradually when they are overwhelmed by a more dominant language at school, in the marketplace and on television.

The Rosetta Project is an effort to preserve all of these languages—numbering some 1,500— that have a high likelihood of extinction before this century is over. Inspired by the original Rosetta Stone, the idea of the Rosetta Project is to create a key that would allow future generations to decipher the lost languages.

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photofun4ucom Pada June 15, 2019 Komentar

Coco de mer The Forbidden Fruit

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In the islands of Praslin and Curieuse, in the Seychelles, grows one of the most exclusive palm trees in the world. The coco de mer (Lodoicea maldivica) has tall slender trunks that rise more than 30 meters above the ground. At its crown is a mass of fronds, with leaf blades fanning out nearly five meters across. On mature individuals, the leaves are often fringed at the edges. Their withered ends hang from the palm below the vibrant, healthy green crown.

Possibly the most renowned feature of coco de mer are its enormous seeds—the largest and heaviest seeds in the plant world. But it is the shape and not the size of the seeds, that makes coco de mer famous; the seeds bear an uncanny resemblance to a woman’s butt. Indeed, one of coco de mer’s archaic botanical name was Lodoicea callipyge, where callipyge in Greek means “beautiful buttocks”.

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photofun4ucom Pada June 12, 2019 Komentar

How War Drove to Extinction The Wake Island Rail

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The day Japan bombed Pear Harbor, many American outposts in the Pacific, such as Philippines, Guam, Midway, Wake Island, Malaya, Thailand, and Shanghai also came under aerial attack. These raids took place within a few hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor’s naval base had begun.

One of the targets, Wake Island, was a tiny atoll located strategically between two other American possessions, Guam and Midway islands. Message of the attack on Pearl Harbor was received by the garrison on Wake Island at 6:50 AM local time; but the date was December 8, 1941—a full 22 hours ahead of Pearl Harbor because Wake Island was situated on the other side of the international date line. Without wasting much time, Wake Island’s commander, Marine Corps Major James Devereux, ordered his men to prepare for combat, and four of the twelve Wildcat fighter aircraft on the island’s airbase were sent up to keep watch.

photofun4ucom Pada June 10, 2019 Komentar

Fake Tree Observation Posts of World War 1

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Camouflaging has always been a part of warfare, but it was only during the two world wars that things got really creative.

During the First World War, both sides kept constant watch of the enemy lines for movement, but that was not an easy task. Anyone who stuck his head above the trench parapet for more than a few seconds was shot. So the French started disguising observation posts as trees. Then they taught the British how to do it. Later, the Germans started using them too.

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photofun4ucom Pada June 05, 2019 Komentar

The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides, Dagen H

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Few traffic jams are as organized and coordinated as the ones that took place nationwide in the morning of September 3, 1967, on the streets of Sweden. That day, at exactly five in the morning, all traffic came to a standstill. Then slowly and cautiously, motorists and cyclists steered their cars, bikes and cycles across the road to the other side. Sweden had decided that they are no longer going to drive on the left side of the road.

Chaos unfolded across the country as million of motorists, who had been driving on the “wrong” side of the road all their lives, adjusted to the new rules. Daily commutes became profoundly unfamiliar. The hardest part was unlearning many of the things they had committed to muscle memory, which constitutes much of driving itself.
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photofun4ucom Pada May 30, 2019 Komentar

World’s Oldest Confirmed Person, 116-Year-Old Kane Tanaka

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At 116 years and 85 days old (as of March 28, 2019), Kane Tanaka from Fukuoka, Japan has been officially confirmed by Guinness World Records as the oldest person living.
Kane was born prematurely on 2 January 1903, the same year the Wright brothers became the first to achieve powered flight! Check out the video below from Guinness World Records.

photofun4ucom Pada March 31, 2019 Komentar

The World’s First Cyber Attack Happened Nearly Two Hundred Years Ago

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Many say that the world’s first cyber attack happened in 1988, when Robert Morris, a 20-something graduate student at Cornell, inadvertently set loose a computer worm that quickly clogged up large sections of the internet. Morris’s intentions were not malicious—he just wanted to gauze how big the internet was, but the program he created to achieve that had the characteristic behavior of a worm—it replicated itself. Morris was sentenced to three years probation and 400 hours of community service along with a large fine for his recklessness, thus becoming the first person to be successfully charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

photofun4ucom Pada March 29, 2019 Komentar

Bookwheel, The 16th Century Forerunner to The eBook Reader

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For many of us, the ebook reader was the next best thing to happen since Gutenberg’s printing press. The printing press made books widely available, and the ebook reader conveniently shrunk the same to such compactness that we can carry a thousand of them around wherever we go without discomfort. Such a concept would have been fantastic for someone born in the 16th century, but nevertheless, the idea did cross their minds—especially the mind of Agostino Ramelli.

photofun4ucom Pada February 09, 2019 Komentar

Walt Disney’s Backyard Railway: The Carolwood Pacific Railroad

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Even before Walt Disney drew up plans for the first Disneyland Park, he knew what to include in it—a rideable miniature railroad. Indeed, he had one in his own backyard at his home in Los Angeles.
Walt Disney was a rail enthusiast, whose love for trains goes back to the time when he was young boy—and it came from family. Disney's father worked as part of a track installation crew for the Union Pacific Railroad, and his uncle, his father's cousin, was a locomotive driver for the Santa Fe Railway. Naturally, Disney was drawn to trains. As a teenager, he worked as a news butcher on the Missouri Pacific Railway, where he sold newspapers, candy, cigars, and other products on trains. Sometimes he would climb into the locomotive itself where he would bribe the engineer and fireman with chewing tobacco to allow him to stay and watch them operate the locomotive.
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photofun4ucom Pada February 04, 2019 Komentar

Scams Targeting Tourists in Asia

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Scams Targeting Tourists in Asia
Traveling in Asia is out of this world. The culture is alien, and the food is far removed from what people eat in the west. And no, we’re not talking about fortune cookies (which were actually invented in San Francisco). And of course, there is so much more to Asia that’s incredible to explore. When you’re overseas getting lost and rubbing elbows with the natives, it’s the best way to experience new cultures… but it also opens you up to scams as some of these same locals try and suck out the hard earned cash from your money belt.

10. Buy Baby Formula for Mothers’ Kids

In many countries, there is real poverty that is present everywhere – even around many tourist hotspots. Tourists are usually savvy about avoiding giving money to beggars as they are likely professionals or being exploited by others into begging. Understandably, foreigners still want to help, especially when it comes to young children. So when they are approached by a poor mother who refuses money but rather asks them to buy baby formula instead, they jump at the chance because “it’s for her baby! Not for drugs!” Right? Wrong.
The whole baby formula setup is a scam. The baby formula is indeed purchased, often at inflated prices, and handed over to the mother but as soon as the generous tourist rounds the corner the mother returns it to the store for cash. In worst-case scenarios, the child is rented by the poor “mother” and often drugged to be quiet and cute.

9. Tigers be Trippin’ at the Tiger Temple

In Thailand there existed the Tiger Temple – a magical place where some of the most dangerous predators on the planet, Indochinese Tigers, lived peacefully in harmony with people. Its slogan was “You too can partake in the harmony”… for a price. Tourists handed over huge amounts of money to get that perfect picture of them posing with, or even touching, the giant tigers. The mystical orange-clad monks claimed that only through their care were the animals peaceful.
This tiger utopia was all lies. The only reason the very big predators weren’t ripping open the throats of every tourist nearby was that they were drugged into a stupor, so high they could barely move. When the Zoo/Temple was finally raided in 2016, Thai authorities found dozens of lifeless, plastic wrapped tiger cubs in huge freezers. Other finds of animal horns and pelts implied that some sort of trade in illegal animal parts was ongoing by the so-called altruistic monks. Facing these charges, the tiger center shut down, but it is due to reopen under a new name.
Much like the old temple, the new temple will merely be a tiger circus. Tiger shows in Thailand and throughout the world should be avoided. Senior wildlife advisor at World Animal Protection, Dr. Jan Schmidt-Burbach, says that “Tiger farms have nothing to do with conservation – they just bring extreme suffering to these wild animals whilst living in appalling conditions… These venues need to be stopped in their tracks.”

8. Border Crossing Scams

On many of the borders in Asia there are fees as you attempt to cross. On the Thai-Cambodia border, there is an entire industry of people who try and insert themselves between you and the border officials for one of these fees. They will make all sorts of claims, including that you need help to fill out forms (you don’t they have simple English forms), or that you can visit a special store to fast-track your VISA (you don’t just walk 100 meters to the border yourself).
Do your research for the borders you will cross and be prepared for what you do and don’t have to pay.

7. Drugged in Japan

For travelers, Japan is one of the safest countries in Asia and the world in general. Its capital, and the largest metropolis in the world, Tokyo, was also ranked the safest in the 2015 Safe Cities Index. Of all the special districts that make up Tokyo, Roppongi is one of its larger entertainment centers. Catering to foreigners and the large amount of American military personnel stationed in the country, Roppongi is also one of the rowdiest places to party. But with Tokyo being such a safe place, people tend to let their guard down.
Recently, aspiring criminals have been taking advantage of this. Hundreds of men report being approached by gorgeous women who offer them drinks that are, unbeknownst to them, spiked. Flattered at this hospitality the men agree and down the drink only to wake up the next day passed out on the street without their belongings and thousands of dollars in credit card charges racked up on their accounts. The problem got so bad that the US embassy in Japan had to issue an alert for the district.

6. Closed Attraction Scam

This scam is common throughout Asia. A tourist armed with a map or Lonely Planet guide will be walking down the street on their way to a local famous attraction. A helpful local will come and ask where they are going. Excited to be interacting with the locals, the visitor will say they are going to such and such attraction. The helpful local will then explain that the attraction is actually closed that day, or under construction. But don’t worry – there are many other temples that are close by and off the tourist track.
The tourist will thank the local for their valuable advice and visit these other “undiscovered” hotspots of culture, which more often than not turn out to be gift stores or high-pressure kitsch shopping areas where people are pressured into buying crap. Always check yourself to see if the temple or attraction is indeed really closed.

5. Tea Ceremony Scam

At popular tourist spots in China and southeast Asia, local young people (usually cute girls) will greet tourists and strike up conversations. They will make a bond and offer to show the tourist the local sites under the guise of practicing English or training for a future tourism job. The tourist will be excited at experiencing authentic culture with some really nice people, and the young “students” will charm their way into their confidence and once trust has been gained suggest going to a tea ceremony shop (some places it will be craft beer, or just any bar). The traveler agrees, thinking, “how much could a few drinks of tea/beers be? Pennies? Or a few dollars at most.”
Then, after an elaborate demonstration of tea or local beers or crafts, they are given a huge bill amounting to hundreds of American dollars. At that point, you’re trapped. You can and refuse to pay but police will be called and most likely side with the owner. Be suspicious! Ask up front how much things will cost.

4. Win a Free Prize … to Listen to a Hard-Sell for Timeshares

This is one of the most common scams in the world, as illustrated by the video above. Timeshare companies around the world have notoriously offered “prizes” or “free holidays” to unsuspecting people who didn’t even know they had entered a contest. When they show up to claim their prize, they only have to listen to a quick 90 minute (which is really often as long as six hours) hard-sell for timeshares. When they finally get through this ordeal they find that the prizes they were promised are non-existent or have so many hoops to jump through that the prize isn’t worth it.
These scams have moved to Asia, where groups of young locals will approach tourists with scratch tickets. When scratched, the unsuspecting visitors “win” a prize or holiday package… if they sit through a hard-sell sales pitch.
If they do get the timeshare, customers are often locked into contracts that are incredibly hard to break and they pay huge annual maintenance costs even if they don’t ever visit.
Now there is a new double-dip scam where companies guarantee to get the customer out of the timeshare agreement for a small fee of a few hundred dollars. Then when once the money is handed over, the very official sounding company disappears off the face of the earth.

3. Credit Card Number Scams

These take many forms, but when you’re on vacation perhaps the most common is the fake wakeup call. This is where someone will call pretending to be from the front desk, asking for your credit card details and more of your personal information. Another common method is the card skimmers at ATMs that not only get your number, but your PIN, too.
Always look around for people watching you type in your PIN or trying to help you with the ATM. The only thing they’re trying to help you with is expediting the loss of money from your wallet.

2. Bird Poop Scam

Common throughout the world, as well as Asia, be on the lookout for the bird poop people. Visitors will be walking around, checking out the sites of a new city, when all of a sudden a “bird” will empty its bowels upon them. It turns out in many cases, this is really just a scammer behind you squeezing goo onto your head and backpack. The bird poo is probably just mustard and food coloring but it looks real enough.
Embarrassed at the sudden presence of the poo, tourists will gladly welcome friendly locals that magically appear with moist toilettes or a water bottle to clean the poo off. While the visitors are focused on the poo, the helpful locals will help themselves to whatever they can pickpocket from your person.

1. Orphanage Scams

Recently it has become common to integrate more socially responsible activities into trip itineraries. Instead of days of drinking on the beach, people are opting for a trip to support a local arts program or conservation effort. In this vein, an entire industry for visiting orphanages has been created. On the surface it seems like a good idea; the children get to experience adult figures in their life while at the same time experiencing different cultures. The money the tourists pay or donate helps cover the children’s cost of living.
As the orphanage industrial complex evolved it morphed into basically a zoo for children or a cat cafe for babies. Instead of the local community adopting the children into their families, the orphans are forced to stay in the orphanage, and some aren’t even orphans. Instead, they are kept there for the sole purpose of attracting more paying tourists. This creates a cycle of exploitation that would horrify the foreign visitors if they knew about it. Also, while it feels good to hug a child and walk away, the rotating door of loving strangers can actually harm the vulnerable children’s developing mind.

photofun4ucom Pada September 26, 2017 Komentar

10 Dark Moments from Disney’s Past

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Disney is known for being one of the most family-friendly companies you could imagine, and spends an incredible amount of money to maintain that illusion and appear as one of the most squeaky clean companies in the world. Disney is the company that bought Star Wars, and immediately banned the appearance of smoking in films – villain or otherwise – because of the children. However, while today Disney tries their hardest to be the most non-offensive thing possible, this wasn’t always the case. In the past, Disney hasn’t always been entirely family-friendly, and their past is checkered with racism and other abuses. Disney himself may not have necessarily been a racist or a misogynist, but he was certainly not progressive for his time, and his attitudes were reflected in the culture of his company and the products they produced.

10. Walt Disney’s Song of the South Was Not Just a Product of It’s Time

If you haven’t heard of it before, Song of the South is a Disney movie made back in the 1940s that has caused such controversy that Disney has kept it in the vault for decades now and has no intention of ever allowing it to see the light of day again. The movie has caused trouble since it was first released because of its depiction of African American characters. The movie is set on a plantation in the south, and it seems that it is post Civil War, but it’s very ambiguous. There are still a lot of black people working on the plantation, and while they are not called slaves, they have very subservient attitudes and speak in a way that seems designed to make them look less intelligent – not only that, but they seem very happy about their lot, which is working for white people. Disney only really likes to release movies from the vault when they can celebrate it, and show off an image of squeaky cleanness. Song of the South not only doesn’t allow that, but it creates unnecessary controversy and potentially lost customers and image. Of course, there will always be people who defend the actions of Walt Disney to make this movie back in the day, and say that he was just a product of his time. However, those who knew Walt at the time understood that he knew full well all the possible controversies he could create, but he wanted to go ahead and make it anyway. Some accounts even say Walt actually downplayed the racial stereotypes some from what he originally planned because he didn’t think it would go over well. This doesn’t necessarily paint him as racist, but it does show he cared more about telling a story than any kind of racial sensitivity.

9. Disney Underpaid His Employees, Causing Them to Go On Strike and Changing Animation Forever

In the early days of the Disney company, things were not really very well organized, and Walt was just trying to get as many good ideas as possible, and move things forward at a brisk pace. He had hired on a lot of animators to do creative work, and the company expanded faster than he really knew how to deal with. This led to a very serious issue where Walt’s disorganization and greed really got him in trouble. He underpaid most of his animators to begin with, and then would give raises in very arbitrary ways. People would randomly be given more pay with little reason or explanation, and no one really knew what you exactly had to do to earn more. After dealing with this for a bit, the animators started to get tired of having their creative talents abused, and went on strike. Walt was not really interested in negotiating with them, and instead tried to beat it out and fight them on it. The animators formed a guild to protect themselves, and after several weeks of intense picketing and the like, Walt was forced by a lot of outside pressure to give in and pay people fairly. However, laws for dealing with employer retaliation were not very good back then, and Walt held a very serious grudge. He was pretty awful to be around if you had been part of the strike, and before long he was firing people when possible, and many just departed on their own. This actually led many to create their own studios, and many other talented artists to go into comics. The Looney Tunes and many comics and other animation were designed by animators who left Disney, and likely would have never had their designs properly see the light of day under Walt’s leadership. In the end, his hardline stance against fair pay actually indirectly helped change the world of animation for the better.

8. The Yippie Invasion of Disneyland in the 1970s Caused the Disney Company to Overreact

In August of 1970, a group of radical hippies known as yippies had a plan to invade Disneyland on the 6th of the month. They passed out hundreds of thousands of flyers and the rumors started flying around that 200,000 of the counterculture youth intended to invade the park. Disneyland reacted to this by asking the local police to show up, and they arrived that day in full riot gear expecting a huge crowd. Instead, only a couple hundred of the yippies actually showed up, but they still caused quite a bit of a problem. At first they were just doing silly things like smoking marijuana while climbing on things, but they started to get restless and get into fights with some of the park guests. As the day wore on, they “took over” Tom Sawyer Island, by standing on Castle Rock and doing drugs. Near the end of the day they disrupted the Disney marching band, and raised a gigantic flag with a pot leaf on it next to the American flag. This caused things to spiral quickly out of control between the yippies and regular guests, causing Disney management to be so upset with the situation that they shut the park down early for the first in their history. As an overreaction to the entire situation, Disney instated a dress code for men that they kept for years – if you had long hair or otherwise looked like a hippie, you would be barred from entering the theme park. Disney may be the first major company to ever actually ban all hippies from their property.

7. The Original Pirates of the Caribbean Ride Had Real Human Skeletons

Pirates of the Caribbean is a successful movie franchise that has now long overstayed its welcome; however, it was all based on the popular ride at Disneyland that was originally designed back in the 1960s. Walt Disney was very pleased with the ride itself and loved what they had done with it. However, some of the designers were disappointed that despite how realistic the rest of the ride looked, the skeletons just didn’t look real enough to them. In order to solve this problem, they contacted the UCLA medical center and managed to get their hands on some real human skeletons to decorate the ride. As time has passed, the ride has been regularly renovated and Disney claims all human remains have been removed and given proper burials in their country of origin. The technology for fake skeletons is good enough now that they can make them as realistic as the real thing, so it really isn’t necessary or in good taste to have real human remains lying around anymore. However, some people are not convinced. People have gone through the ride looking at the skeletons in an attempt to armchair sleuth which ones might still be real, and some employees claim they are certain some of them are. If there are any real bones still lying around the ride, we may never really know the truth for sure.

6. In the Early Days, Walt Disney Didn’t Allow Women to Do Full Animating Work for the Company

A letter that has been passed around the internet shows a rejection in Snow White stationary, answering a young woman who had applied to Disney in the hopes of working in their creative department. This letter has been verified as the real deal, and shows just how behind the times Disney was, even for the era in which it was written. The form letter states that women are not allowed to do any of the creative work at Disney, and that all of that is done by “young men.” The letter further goes on to explain that women can work at Disney, but only doing inking and tracing. As if to add insult to injury, the form letter explains that a young woman who wishes to apply for inking or tracing should bring samples of their work to show, but actually discourages her from applying, stating that so many women apply for the inking and tracing positions that she likely would not be selected anyway. While some would say this was only a product of the times, it’s really hard to defend this at any time. Even back then, while women may not have gotten the fair pay or respect they deserved, most people were well aware that women could do creative things just as well as men could.

5. Disney Would Like You to Forget About the Wizard of Bras

Disney loves being known for their squeaky clean image, so they really don’t want you to know about some of the things they tried in Disneyland in their early days. They would especially love it if you didn’t remember that they once had a shop in Disneyland that sold bras and corsets. Not only that, but it had 3D exhibits that showed women off in a way that was scantily clad for the time, and gave people a general history on undergarments. It also had a section of the shop called a corseteria where you bought all of the undergarments. And in the middle of all this chaos was an animatronic sorcerer dubbed “the Wizard of Bras.” It should probably be no surprise that Disney did not keep this abomination around long and it was gone in about six months. However, it was not the only time Disney allowed an attempt at a sexy lingerie store on the Disneyland grounds. In the 1990s they allowed a store called “Jessica’s” to set up shop. This was a store dedicated to selling Jessica Rabbit-themed merchandise, especially underwear and night wear – it also folded after a short time, lasting just three years. Since then, Disneyland has not attempted any more sexy lingerie stores on the park grounds.

4. Disney Doesn’t Want You to Know How Long They’ve Been Covering Up the Alligator Problem

Last year there was a huge controversy after a 2-year-old boy died at Disney World following an alligator attack. Disney came under fire for not warning people properly of the alligators, and people cried out that Disney should have put up warning signs at the very least, since they had some idea that alligators could potentially make it to certain spots in the park. Disney caved and put up warning signs, and most people have forgotten about it. However, the truth is that Disney wouldn’t do the bare minimum to warn people because they didn’t want to break their illusion, when they know the problem is much worse than most people realize. As of last year, Disney had removed 240 nuisance alligators – alligators four feet or longer with the potential to cause harm – from their Disney World resort properties. This is an average of 24 alligators per year, or two per month, and that’s just the ones they actually catch. Florida is basically a swamp and with so many waterways, it’s very easy for them to find their way into Disney World. If Disney were being responsible, they should have warned people much sooner of the dangers, and maybe even put up stronger fencing in certain areas. Unfortunately, their commitment to maintaining the sense of illusion for their customers sometimes overwhelms their common sense.

3. Walt Disney’s Involvement with the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals

In the late 1930s the fear of communism was starting to take hold in the average American, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities had been formed. This committee existed to check into the backgrounds of Americans suspected of having communist ties or sympathies, and has been denounced in history as a witch hunt that was often racist in nature when selecting what people to go after. It was in this political environment that in the mid 1940s, a bunch of famous movie stars and filmmakers, including Walt Disney, got together to make their own group called the Motion Picture Alliance For The Preservation Of American Ideals. The group was basically the film guild version of the House Committee On Un-American Activities, and before long people from the film industry were, indeed, being inspected by the house committee. This led to a backlash where a counter group of others in the film industry created their own guild called the Council Of Hollywood Guilds And Unions to protect themselves against the attacks from the Motion Picture Alliance, often called the MPA for short. The new guild accused the MPA of being racist and just looking to inflame tensions and cause trouble – an accusation that has stuck in most people’s minds to this day. It is hard to say whether Walt was really being racist here or if he was genuinely concerned about communism and overreacted, as many did at the time. However, he was deeply involved in the group, as he was their vice president when they formed.

2. Disneyland in Paris has had a Recent History of Mistreating and Underpaying Its Employees

Disneyland Paris is supposed to be the happiest place in Europe, as the Disney vision goes, and for many tourists it is indeed a very fun attraction. It’s known so well for fulfilling that promise to guests that it is the single most popular tourist attraction in Europe, despite all the rich history that is available to see on the continent. However, while it is great for the tourists, the employee experience is anything but, and over time that will degrade the guest experience as well. Back in 2010 the Independent did a piece on Disneyland Paris, and found some very alarming issues. Two employees had recently committed suicide, and one of them killed himself in a rather disturbing way. He had been sick and missed work as a cook at Disney and was supposed to go back. Before killing himself, he scrawled on the wall in French “I don’t want to work for Mickey anymore.” The parent company, Euro Disney, has been criticized for huge staff and budget cuts, while continuing to take in an even bigger influx of guests. And to make matters worse, the staff members who are expected to do more with less every year have essentially no opportunities for advancement. Not only that, but most people are being paid only barely above minimum wage, and are expected to work six days a week and very long hours. For many who work for Disney, the fun is being part of the Disney family. However, for those working at Disneyland Paris, they are being treated as anything but.

1. Disney’s Fantasia has a Character Named Sunflower Who is a Breathtakingly Racist Stereotype

Most of you have probably heard of Fantasia, but many people are really only familiar with the segment where Mickey is the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, unless they are a big Disney buff. And even those who have watched Fantasia in full may have missed Disney’s most blatant racism if they watched a more recent revision. A lesser known segment of Fantasia is called “Pastoral Symphony” and was a brief story where mythological creatures and others are preparing for a festival involving some of the Greek gods. The story starts out showing some female centaurs being beautified by cherubs to prepare them for the arrival of the male centaurs and it just goes downhill from there. There is one female centaur who is not being prepared by the cherubs, and is instead acting like a servant to the other female centaurs – brushing their tails, etc. This female centaur is black, and is half donkey instead of half horse. She has incredibly exaggerated features, and dreadlocks that stick out at odd angles, as if the animators were doing their best to mock people of African descent. To make matters worse, this character is called Sunflower – a flower whose nicknames include “n**gerhead.” While sunflowers do have a lot of other nicknames, it seems a little too strange to just be a coincidence. Also, in a later scene, the Greek god of wine, Bacchus, shows up flanked by two black centaur servants, who are half zebra and half Amazon looking – their purpose is to fan him and keep him cool. In revisions of Fantasia, these racist elements have been removed, but you can see a brief clip of Sunflower brushing a pretty, white female centaur at the top of the entry.

photofun4ucom Pada September 23, 2017 Komentar

Unbelievable Ways To Predict Your Baby’s Gender or sex

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The most anxious period for a woman: Am I having a boy or a girl? Your husband must be saying ‘I hope it’s a girl, I hope it’s a girl’, while you’re neutral, maybe. But that curiosity can be put to rest without the medical equipment. Parents are eager to know the sex of the baby during pregnancy itself and are not interested in waiting for the big surprise.

We have a few signs that could help you figure out what you need, and you’d be thankful!
Relate to each sign and you might arrive at the right answer by the end of this article.

1 Chinese Gender Charts

The Chinese gender charts are the oldest ways to predict the sex of a baby, and mothers have said that it was accurate in most cases. How it works is by tallying the month of conception to the mother’s birthday, which will both be expressed as dates in the Chinese charts. This helps in knowing whether it’s a boy or girl that is to be conceived.

2. Wedding Ring Test

The wedding ring test is the cutest and easiest test, although the accuracy is unknown. The test is to tie the wedding ring to a piece of thread or strand of hair and to let it dangle over the mother’s stomach. If the ring moves in a strong circular motion, a girl is to be expected. Whereas, if the ring swings back and forth, a boy baby is a result as they say.

3. Upper Stomach or Lower Stomach

This can be noticed while just taking a look at the stomach. The mother needs to stand upright, and if the bump is mostly on the upper part of the stomach, it is supposed to be a girl. If the stomach bump is more towards the lower stomach, it is a boy. Also, this theory is sometimes baseless as it isn’t backed by any proof, and the baby bump could also depend on the build of the mother.

4. Baby’s Heart Rate

According to gender prediction theories, the heartbeat of a boy baby would vary from that of a girl baby significantly. This theory could help identify the sex of the baby. If the heartbeat of the baby is less than 140 beats per minute, it is said to be a boy, and anything above 140 per minute is a girl.

5. The Mom-To-Be Guesses

As it is said, instincts never go wrong. In the case of a baby, it has been noticed that the mother’s instincts never go wrong about guessing what the sex of the baby is. The strongest intuition is supposedly never to be wrong.

6. Sweet or Sour Cravings?

As vague it may seem, your cravings can determine or may determine the sex of your child. Sweet cravings imply that the baby is most probably a girl whereas sour and salty cravings imply the sex of the baby as a boy. Keep a watch on what you feel like having all the time. That might be your clue.

7. Morning Sickness Frequency

The frequency of morning sickness is excessively more when you are expecting a girl child. So the prediction is based on the theory that if it is a girl child, the mother’s body is loaded with too many girl hormones that find it difficult for the body to adjust, causing sickness.

8. Skin Breakouts

Skin breakouts are common during pregnancy, but there’s a belief that if you are pregnant with a girl child, the breakouts tend to be much more throughout the period. This is because the baby is stealing the mother’s beauty. In most cases, the predictions based on this have turned out to be right too!

9. Ultrasound

The Ultrasound test involves a screening of the baby’s body while inside the stomach. It is best to get an Ultrasound Test between 18-24 weeks and it mostly gives reliable information. While the requirement for the test is the proper scan of genitals with a gel put on.

10. The Drano Test

The Drano test is supposed to be one of the simplest tests. The mother-to-be has to collect a bit of urine in a cup. Now to this sample of urine, add a spoon of drano into it. It might fume a little, but what’s important here is the colour that forms as a result of mixing both. If the colour is more towards the green side, then it’s a girl. Else if the colour formed is blue, be sure that it’s a boy.

11. The Garlic Test

This one is not for garlic haters. Eat a clove of garlic. If your skin stinks for a long time, you are going to have a boy. If you don’t emit any smell at all a few days later, then you are going to have a girl.

12. Baking Soda

Take urine in a transparent cup containing two tablespoons of baking soda. If the mixture fizzes out like soda, you’ll have a boy. If it remains flat, it means you are going to have a girl.

13. Red Cabbage Test

Buy some red cabbage. Chop it. Put the pieces in a bowl. Pour boiling water in the bowl containing the chunks such that it the water covers the whole stuff. Let it settle for 10 minutes. Decant the water into a transparent glass. Now add few ounces of pee in it. If the color changes to purple, you are going to have a boy. If it changes to pink, you will have a girl!

14. The Key Test

Too simple to be called a ‘test.’ All you need to do is to ask family or friends of moms-to-be to ask their pregnant friend to pick up a house key. If she takes the key by the narrow end, it’s a girl. If she picks it up by the rounded end, it’s a boy!

15. The Acne Test

It is said that if you have a little girl inside you, she steals all your beauty. It’s why some pregnant women become darker, have patchy skin, or acne during pregnancy. On the other hand, if your skin remains smooth, then you are going to have a boy.

16. The Mayan Test

The Mayan way of predicting the gender of the baby took the woman’s age during conception, and the year of birth into account. . If both the numbers are odd or even, it’s a girl. If one is odd, the other is even; it’s a boy.

These 16 ways are fun and easy ways to keep an idea of the sex of the baby! The surprise when conceived might not be a surprise anymore!
Congratulations to all mothers!

photofun4ucom Pada June 29, 2017

Girls Vs. Boys How they differ

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photofun4ucom Pada May 09, 2017

Your Eyebrows Say A Lot About Your Personality

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Before we even open our mouths, we can actually telegraph an enormous amount about our personalities simply by the way we look.
Whether other people get a sense of our personalities from the hair color we choose, or the manner in which we dress ourselves, so much can be revealed before a single word has been spoken.
Naturally, this is because a large amount of our personality goes into our decision making when it comes to how we present ourselves. So it makes total sense that the faces — and eyebrows — we show to the world can speak volumes about us.
While many people just let their eyebrows grow, many more pluck, shape, and sculpt them to look exactly how they want.
Scroll through this exclusive list below to see what your eyebrows are actually telling the world about you. The answers can be quite surprising!
What are your eyebrows revealing? Let us know in the comments.