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A miscommunication resulted in an unusual birthday cake for a Milledgeville woman. Kensli Davis is a huge fan of Disney's animated movie, "Moana." Her mother ordered a cake for Davis' celebration. They were surprised to see the cake decorated with a marijuana design. She says the cake came from Dairy Queen. The mishap didn't stop her from eating it. "I was very shocked and it was hilarious to me," said Davis. Davis posted the picture of the cake on Facebook. It went viral with more than 11,000 shares. "I was very impressed by the artistic capabilities of them to be...

In what could be the dumbest article in a season of idiocy, Cosmopolitan magazine ran a piece originally published in Redbook (who knew either of these rags still existed?) informing parents they should not allow their white children to dress up as the Disney character Moana for Halloween because that character is Polynesian. Allow me to, politely, suggest they and everyone who thinks like this drop dead.First, it’s Halloween, Redbook and Cosmo, so go play in traffic. It’s the one time each year kids, who aren’t the weirdos in school, get to play dress up – leave them alone. Dress...

<p>In America's war between cultural sensitivity and free expression, Halloween is a familiar battleground.</p> <p>The holiday, which originated with people dressed in costume to ward off evil spirits, has morphed into a day that celebrates all kinds of creative self-expression. It means not only do people dress up as witches and monsters, but also as one another. This is where things get complicated, and why you keep hearing the term "cultural appropriation" in a heated debate each October.</p>

The scariest thing this Halloween for New York moms isn’t zombies or ghouls — it’s politically incorrect costumes. An article on raceconscious.org by Sachi Feris has been making the rounds on mommy Facebook groups. Feris writes that her 5-year-old daughter declared she wanted to be Polynesian Disney character Moana, which she worried would be “cultural appropriation.” Her daughter’s other choice: Scandinavian Queen Elsa from the Disney movie “Frozen.” “I had some reservations regarding both costume choices … about cultural appropriation and the power/privilege carried by Whiteness, and about Whiteness and standards of beauty,” she wrote. Feris went on to describe...

'Moana' won't have any trouble beating 'Fantastic Beasts,' while returns for 'Allied,' starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, and Billy Bob Thornton's 'Bad Santa 2' are mixed so far. Disney's homegrown animated family film Moana continued to dominate at the Thanksgiving box office, grossing $10 million for a five-day holiday debut of $85 million $91 million, according to early estimates.

<p>You may have heard that there’s a new Disney princess coming and her name is Moana and basically everybody thinks she’s going to be totally awesome — and that Disney was getting early props for bringing some diversity to the princess landscape with its first Polynesian royal daughter.</p>

Salesa calls Maui’s depiction “obese,” and thinks children might get the wrong message about their bodies. “The environment our kids grow up in and what they are exposed to have a role to play. Disney movies are very influential on our children. It is great that Moana is the lead. However, it is disappointing that Maui, one of our beloved historical ancestors from hundreds of years ago, who was a very strong man [and] a skilled navigator, is depicted to be so overweight in this kids’ movie.”

WMO/IAEA Experts Meeting Boulder 19-22 September 2005 Revision of the international calibration scale for CO2-in-air: WMO-X2005. Pieter Tans1, Conglong Zhao2, and Kirk Thoning1 1 Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, NOAA 2 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder The fifteen Primary Standards that define the current MO Mole Fraction Scale for CO2-in-Air have been in existence since early 1991. They became the basis of the WMO Scale during the WMO CO2 Experts meeting in 1995. The first calibrations of these cylinders were carried out by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the WMO Central Calibration Laboratory...