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Welcome to the third issue of Black Girl Perfume Club! Let’s dive right in. I’m not a marijuana smoker by any means, mostly because I hate the smell that it leaves on my clothes and hair. Weed smells just have a bad habit of sticking to me, even if I’m not the one smoking th… ncG1vNJzZmianJawrLPIq6OpnaKbwq6xwqWsm2ajqq%2B0wMCcomebn6J8sXvCmqWnmZKewG68xKudrqWV

I was tasked with coming up with a way to rank the club performance of every male American soccer player. To do so, I relied on my two favorite metrics for player performance: 1) Are you playing? And 2) is your team any good? Christian Pulisic is no. 1. Read the rest to get numbers 2 through 50: In the past, there was this idea in data analysis that if you're creating a kind of player rating for soccer and Lionel Messi isn't No.

Source: Business Financing Fannie Mae is the world's largest debtor, carrying $4.232 trillion in debt. U.S. companies make up 60.13% of the $10.8 trillion owed by the top 100 global companies in debt. Toyota holds the title of the world's most indebted company outside the financial industries, with a debt of $221.13 billion. Amazon ($138.91 B) and Apple ($109.28 B) top the list of the world's most indebted tech companies.

The National Theatre on Monroe Avenue in downtown Detroit, photographed Dec. 1, 2023, during its deconstruction. The National Theatre has got to be one of the longest-running historic preservation sagas in Detroit. This shit has cosmic sweep!   We can turn the clock back nearly 50 years and land in the middle of an already drawn-out conflict. Here’s Beulah Groehn, a mother of the historic preservation movement in Detroit, speaking to the Detroit Free Press for a story that appeared in print on Jan.

You might not know this, but I’m a hardcore introvert. Yes me: a spokesperson for well-being at the company where I work, and in the world at large. Yes me: someone who speaks to large crowds, who attends everything from conferences to dinner parties with friends. I’m outgoing, but I’m definitely introverted. What does that mean exactly? Many people mistakenly assume introverts are shy, quiet weirdos who don’t like the company of other people.

By now you know we have complaints about design culture. One big one for us is how design books assume readers have great power and just needs design knowledge. This is rarely true! In the real world designers often don’t get to make many decisions, far less than many of us want. This raises the question for us authors: if we’re complaining so much about design culture, which books do we recommend?

The ’80s in 40 revisits the decade of the 1980s choosing four movies a year, one from each quarter. This entry covers the first quarter of 1982. In retrospect, it seems like it ought to have been easy to predict Porky’s would become a phenomenon. If anything, it ought to be surprising that four years divided 1978’s Animal House and Bob Clark’s film, which went into wide release in March 1982 after a test run in a few cities the previous year.

As a native Buckeye and naturalized Hoosier, I have an immigrant’s love for—and curiosity about—our state. I grew up in hilly Northwest Ohio, home to that state’s highest point, and at the base of Mad River Mountain, which is, as you may suspect, not really a mountain. When I traveled a few hours or so to Marion, Indiana, for college, I was struck by the yawning flatness of the land, and just how far I could see over the horizon.

It’s crazy that evangelical Christians are so bad at entertainment considering that their entire religion is based on the best-selling book of all time, a lurid, pulpy, blatantly moralistic potboiler called the Bible.  Have you read the Bible? I haven’t but it’s apparently full of gnarly shit: sex and violence and incest and talking snakes and unspeakable perversion and God whipping the Devil’s ass and vice versa.  You’d think a crazy-ass book like that would inspire some righteous b-movies but Christians have proven consistently and hilariously incapable of making entertainment that is not deeply embarrassing on every level.