One massive amount of odd accessories are available in the wild today – so many that a company like the one making GOkey’s biggest goal is to reduce the amount of devices you need. GOkey is an accessory that has several functions, all inside a package that’s small enough to fit on your keychain. With GOkey, you’ll be able to … Continue reading
The first iPhone 6 rumor video has been released, showing what appears to be a finished rear cover straight off the production line. the video also shows mock-ups of the 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch models for scale and comparison, with the cover looking to have come from the 4.7-inch variety. This is not the first leak we’ve seen, but is the … Continue reading
It might not have the immediate impact of Android L or Android Wear, but Project Tango is certainly nearing graduation point with the news today that LG is working with Google to release a consumer device sometime next year. Explaining exactly why someone might want a 3D mapping phone or tablet isn’t quite as straightforward as a smartwatch, though, and … Continue reading
I am a fan of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and other related initiatives. I spent my undergraduate years studying gender in media and firmly believe we need a wide spectrum of female representation in media to provide role models for girls and young women. Appropriately, the Geena Davis Institute’s motto is; “If she sees it… she can be it.”
Additionally, I think that the same female spectrum is equally important to boys and something we need to pay more attention to. I briefly touched on this in my blogs “Minor Mind Molding” and “Frozen,” but essentially my point is that we would benefit from adding “If he sees it… he believes she can be it” to the above motto. Not only do we need girls to believe in themselves, but we need boys to believe in them, too, in order for the girls to succeed. Why? Those boys will be men some day. Yes, stating the obvious I know!
Men are our brothers, sons, fathers, friends, husbands, boyfriends, partners, coworkers, staff and bosses. They are an integral part of our social tapestry. How they perceive our capabilities matters as it will drive how, and if, they support and encourage us. Furthermore, since men still hold the majority of decision-making positions, we need them to be on our team in order to propel and accelerate change.
This brings me to Johnny Test, a Cartoon Network TV show that my son enjoys. Johnny himself does not excite me much but the interesting and over-the-top cast of characters in life his do. His older twin sisters, who are science geniuses and inventors of… well… anything, his very busy career-oriented mother and his cleaning-obsessed stay-at-home father. Not a run of the mill family, which yields interesting theme exploration opportunities.
The mother, who is chronically overworked, aches for an uninterrupted bubble bath and work/life balance, the smart twins pine for the handsome but not very smart boy living next door and the father longs for someone to love his meatloaf. In fact, the father gets so disgruntled by the lack of appreciation that he goes back to work. Back to a fake job created by the twins, only to find himself missing his former life much to the relief of the family, who are entirely dependent on him as the primary caretaker.
Yes, it is an exaggerated slice of life, but a slice none the less and I want my son to be exposed to all the slices, especially those he does not experience firsthand at home. I want him to see and value the wonderful diversity within the female population because that way, as he grows, he will continue to be an equality advocate and we can never have enough of them!
“If he sees it…he believes she can be it.” -Luise Meyer
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In the world of action figures, it’s slim pickings for female characters. As for the girl action figures that do exist, they tend to be hyper-sexualized, with enormous breasts and unnatural hip-to-waist ratios.
Frustrated by these toys that seem to be more for grown men than little girls, moms Julie Kerwin and Dawn Nadeau decided to fill the female action figure void. Their solution? IAmElemental, a new line of characters that promises to be “More Heroine, Less Hooters.”
According to the official IAmElemental website, the first series of action figures will feature seven characters that each embody the “Elements of Courage” — Bravery, Energy, Honesty, Industry, Enthusiasm, Persistence, and Fear.
The IAmElemental action figures have strong bodies, and their superpowers stem from the positive character traits they encompass. For example, Persistence has the power “to push through any obstacle with super strength.”
In May, Kerwin and Nadeau launched a month-long Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of the IAmElemental action figures, and by the end of the 30 days, they raised more than four times the amount of their $35,000 goal.
As they state in their press release, the entrepreneur moms behind IAmElemental have designed “fierce, strong females worthy of an active, save-the-world storyline that fosters creativity in kids.”
Here’s hoping these fierce female action figures hit store shelves soon. In the meantime, the whole set is for sale on IAmElemental’s online shop. Check out the seven super-powerful ladies below:
Inspired by Mother Nature, Sisterhood Agenda’s Sisterhood Empowerment Academy (SEA) empowers women and girls as a female resource center. It is a place of knowledge, support, self-determination and healing. ts global sisterhood network includes over 3,500 agencies in 34 countries who put sisterhood on the agenda. But more than a physical space and global network, it a spirit and a way of life.
Just as the world is united by sea waters, the SEA can unite us as empowered sisters. It’s about love for ourselves, love for one another, love for our environment and empowerment. Empowerment is a process by which people, organizations and communities gain mastery over issues of concern to them. Like the ocean, the SEA is vast and wide, strong and nurturing, fluid and guiding, brutal and cleansing, always moving, always healing, life-generating, life-affirming. Let’s use the power of the SEA to maximize our positive social impact in the world.
Women and girls need the SEA because the Sisterhood Empowerment Academy is a space of feminine energy and power that is our own. We need this energy to do the work that needs to be done. Sisterhood is a place to be, a place to be loved in and a place to love. The SEA is a place where girls learn about who they are, where women heal and where sisters empower each other.
Sisterhood Agenda’s SEA is coming. We are building the eco-building with vast ocean vistas in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands as we speak. Leading by example, we hope that others will see what we create and join our sisterhood movement for increasing sustainability, honoring our ancestors, and gaining individual and collective consciousness. Maybe the SEA can be the source of inspiration that encourages you to empower women and girls in your community. With the SEA and other initiatives like it, we can advance, thrive and survive.
For Sisterhood Agenda, the SEA is its organization headquarters, a centralized location to house its innovative and holistic public health strategies and host its online initiatives. However, it also is an opportunity to serve responsibly by protecting the habitat, wildlife, and the ocean that surrounds it. While services nourish our emotional and mental selves, organic fruit, vegetable, and herb gardens, help nourish our physical selves bringing the holistic experience of oneness together.
I love the sea! Do you also love the SEA? Is there a SEA is your community? What are your SEA plans this summer?
Well that certainly didn’t take long. Just two weeks after California’s kids celebrated their victory vs. bad teachers, the kids vs. tenure lawsuits are hitting the road. And that’s great news, reader. Because just as the California case produced lots of winners that weren’t exactly, ahem, pint-sized, round two of the civil rights cause of our time seems certain to be a win/win/win for everyone involved. From Campbell Brown who’ll be enjoying more screen time since, well any time in recent memory, to the Obama administration alums who won’t have to lobby for for-profit colleges after all, everyone’s a winner! Well, make that almost everyone…
Campbell Brown
The fresh face of kids vs. lemons is none other than Campbell Brown, who is, well, who exactly? Whoever Campbell Brown was, her new, expanded screen time is great news, for Campbell at least, because wherever it was you can’t quite remember seeing her before (MTV VJ? that ’90s sitcom about Alaska?), you’ll be seeing a lot of her again now.
Dirty Dancing Lemons
No doubt you’re familiar with the Dance of the Lemons, in which bad teachers, who can never be fired thanks to their union protections, are passed around from school to school, blighting the prospects of poor minority students. Well get ready for Dirty Dancing Lemons, because the fresh face of kids v. lemons, Campbell Brown (see entry above, Campbell Brown), wants you to know that our schools aren’t just filled with bad teachers, but with sexual predators. If you are asking yourself *what is the evidence for this?* you are on the side of the predators. The evidence is the anecdotes that Campbell will be sharing with us during her expanded screen time opportunities. (See entry below: anecdotes).
Public Relations
Allow me to take this opportunity to PRepare you for the public conversation that we are about to have, reader. No doubt you noticed that the PR in PRepare is capitalized. That’s because public relations is at the heart of the public conversation we are about to have. I know this because Campbell Brown helpfully explains here that the kids vs. bad teachers lawsuit for which she will serve as the fresh face will hinge less on what the case is actually about than what her PR team will tell us it’s about. Which, as she also helpfully explains, is how civil rights are won, and also lucrative PR work down the road after the PR team is done winning the civil rights.
Obama Administration Alums
It’s not easy being an Obama Administration Alum these days, reader. After all, the other civil rights *space* of our time, lobbying for the for-profit college industry, is increasingly crowded. Which is why I was so relieved to hear that at least two OAAs have agreed to lend their public relations heft to kickstart the public relations conversation that we are about to start having.
Anecdotal Evidence
Here’s a question for you, reader. What’s the plural of anecdote? If you answered *anecdotes,* you should probably consider updating your LinkedIn profile and exploring careers other than teaching. That’s because everyone who is anyone knows that the plural of anecdote is *data.* And *data* will be at the very heart of the public relations conversation that we are about to start having, thanks to our host Campbell Brown (see entry above, Campbell Brown; Dirty Dancing Lemons).
Mass Confusion
Is it pronounced *tenYEAR* or *tenYUR*? Why do teachers want to establish a caliphate in upstate New York anyway? Who broke the status quo? And when we fix it, will it still be the status quo? How many anecdotes does it take to make data? What exactly is the Levant? And is there any problem that *grit* can’t solve?
Nonsequity
You might think that ignoring vast financial imbalances between rich school districts and poor districts would prove challenging in states like California and New York, both of which have vast financial imbalances between rich school districts and poor districts, but you would be wrong. That’s because we are so over the old, tired age of equity. Who cares if there is sizeable and growing body of rigorous empirical literature validating that state school finance reforms can have substantive, positive effects on student outcomes, including reductions in outcome disparities or increases in overall outcome levels? No one, that’s who, because we’ve entered a new age of *nonsequity.* Note: If you are playing along at home on your kids vs. tenure lawsuits play-at-home scorecards, you’ll want to strike through *equity* with your Sharpie now. And while you’re at it, go ahead and cross off *poverty,* *facts* and *rigorous empirical literature.*
Hillary
Oh sure Hillary can go all the way in 2016 — if she’s willing to run against teachers. Like the shiv that keeps on shivving, the extended Obama family’s decision to bet big on kids vs. bad teachers means that Hillary must now bet even bigger or go back to the house that not only isn’t white but where Bill is even now leaving his vegan dishes in the sink. In other words, she must run against the very constituency that rallied behind her in 2008: women of a certain age, about to be offloaded for someone fresher and with less attitude.
This post appeared originally on Edushyster.com
Russell Brand’s scorching critique of Fox News sparked a heated debate between Whoopi Goldberg and guest co-host Will Cain about using offensive words on Thursday.
The tense exchange started when Goldberg brought up Brand’s response to Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s recent rant about President Obama. Pirro said that Obama didn’t have “the balls” to try terror suspects in Guantanamo, and also advised the United States to “bomb” and “keep bombing” Iraq. Brand later excoriated Pirro and Fox News over her comments.
Speaking on Thursday’s “View,” Cain said that Brand’s reaction was the latest example of people being overly offended by words.
“We elevate words to the most harmful thing in society,” he said. “How dare you say something that could offend somebody? How dare you something that could hurt my feelings? Why have we gone to this place where words are the worst thing?”
“Because we have a history of utilizing words to harm people and hurt people and the people who have been on the other side of it, I think are at the point where they’re saying, this is not okay anymore,” Goldberg countered. “And you got to roll with it because at some point, we all have to grow up.”
She cited different groups who she said have the right to ask people to stop using words that offend them.
“We’ll all be out of business, we’ll all stop talking,” Cain said. “Everybody’s offended all the time, from the Fighting Irish to the Redskins. Everyone’s offended.”
“That is spoken like a true white guy,” Goldberg quipped.
“And I don’t mean it in a bad way,” she continued. “But have you had the experience where … your [ancestors] said, you know, when I first came here this is what they did to me and this is how they treated me and this what they said to me and this is what called me?”
“No, I’ve not had that experience,” Cain said.
“That’s the difference,” Goldberg said.
Watch the segment in the clip above.
The first thought in most people’s minds when I say I am going to this year’s STIHL Tour des Trees in Wisconsin usually involves one of the following: cheese curds, cheese heads and beer. Followed by attempts to sing the themes songs from “That 70’s Show,” “Laverne and Shirley” and “Happy Days.”
I know a different Wisconsin. One covered in plush green or white — depending on the season — rolling hills kept perfectly groomed by thousands of dairy cattle. The North Woods, a place of beautiful solitude filled with the biggest maple trees I have ever seen and wildlife of every kind. A Wisconsin that comes alive in a local tavern in the middle of nowhere at six o’clock on a cold winter night.
I’m looking forward to seeing some different places in Wisconsin during the weeklong STIHL Tour des Trees, where I’ll be cycling nearly 600 miles through the state. I’m excited to learn about the culture in the industrial and cultural centers. Our trip begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city, one that abounds with Midwestern pride and culture. We are arriving a day early to ride in a parade during GermanFest. Fitting for STIHL right? This city has one of the largest German American populations in the country. So, Day One is all about beer and bratwurst and getting to know the wonderful people of Milwaukee.
From there we head to Madison, the center of Wisconsin’s politics, culture and education. It also appears to be one of the most bike friendly cities in the USA, with miles upon miles of bike paths and designated bike lanes throughout the city. This wins big points with me anytime! To paraphrase Gandhi, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals (and bikers!) are treated.” I’d say Madison is headed in the right direction.
On Day Two we leave the two largest cities in Wisconsin behind and head for the less populated area of Wisconsin Dells. According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 46 percent of the state is forested land, of which the majority is Maple, Basswood and Oak hickory forest. I can’t wait for my fellow riders to see these beautiful forests while we cycle further into Wisconsin’s interior. Once in The Dells, we can see what has attracted tourists for more than a century. And after a century of our own, don’t be surprised if you see a few bikers jumping off the Duck Boats into the cool waters of The Dells July 28.
From The Dells, we travel to Stevens Point in Central Wisconsin. From what I understand, this is where we will experience some of Wisconsin’s best small town charm. With a quaint downtown area full of shops, restaurants and cafes, this should make a nice place to rest before traveling to Green Bay.
That’s right I said it: Green Bay. I’m hearing rumors that we are going to be partying at Lambeau Field! Can’t beat that! I’m not the biggest football fan, but I am a fan of a fan-owned team that has a history of success in the world of big money sports!
From Green Bay, we’ll skirt the West side of Lake Michigan stopping in Sturgeon Bay and Port Washington. I hope the wind is from the north and the sun is high in the sky as we head back down to Milwaukee.
I’m looking forward to riding the rolling hills through the hardwood forest and along the shores of Lake Michigan. Anything else I should try to see? I’d love your comments on the best of Wisconsin.
A man in Kingman, Arizona, was jailed Tuesday after police say he assaulted his girlfriend because she wasn’t cooking dinner as quickly as he wanted.
Dustin Eric Green, 27, allegedly first threatened the 22-year-old with a rubber mallet, then put his hands around her throat until she couldn’t breathe, according to the Kingman Daily Miner.
Deputies say the woman then grabbed a knife and stabbed her boyfriend in the leg, and he responded by beating the back of her head, ABC 6 reports.
Green allegedly told deputies that his girlfriend grabbed the knife first, and that he choked her in self-defense. However, the woman “said that Green, her boyfriend, became upset with her because she didn’t cook dinner fast enough,” Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Trish Carter told the Daily Miner.
Green was charged with aggravated assault.
Dreamin’ Demon discovered that Green was convicted of assault and domestic violence in 2012 and spent a year in jail.
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