“When I read Harry Potter in school I identified with Harry, but now reading it as an adult, I fear I may be the girl who cries in the toilet.”
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
This Coloring Book For Adults Celebrates The Beauty Of Natural Hair
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“I hope that I Love My Hair encourages others to start by saying something they love something themselves.”
I Love My Hair: A Coloring Book of Braids, Coils, and Doodle Dos is a new coloring book for adults that highlights the beauty of different hairstyles.
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Andrea Pippins, the book's author and illustrator, wants to inspire women to "love and embrace their natural hair."
Dfinney Photography & Design
In this trailer for the book, Pippins explains that celebrating your hair is one way to feel self-empowered.
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And coloring in these illustrations of diverse hairstyles is also a form of self-expression.
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16 Times 2015 Proved "Harry Potter" Will Never Die
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, December 02, 2015
The series that lived forever.
JK Rowling
And shortly after she let us know that it is DEFINITELY NOT A PREQUEL, thank you very much.
JK Rowling / Via Twitter: @jk_rowling
JK Rowling / Via Twitter: @jk_rowling
Which Hogwarts Teacher Should You Get It On With?
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, December 02, 2015
Who should be in your Chamber of Secrets?
Warner Bros.
This Feminist Author Is Publishing The Details Of Her Online Abusers
Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, December 02, 2015
Feminist writer Clementine Ford recently reported a man who abused her online to his employer. In the end, the man was fired and the company asked Ford to inform her readers of the turn of events.
Christine Pobke / Clementine Ford / Facebook
As a result, Ford has been facing wave after wave of unending abuse on both her Facebook and email. Today she hit back, posting dozens of screenshots of what she says is the abuse she receives on a daily basis.
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It's not the first time Ford has faced abuse online. In June, she was banned by Facebook after publicly sharing the abusive messages she had been sent by men online.
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“It’s not just inconvenient to me personally, it demonstrates exactly how backwards Facebook and its investigation processes are,” she told BuzzFeed News at the time. “I have reported numerous misogynistic posts in the past only to be told they were acceptable under Facebook’s guidelines.
“So to have them turn around and ban me for the fourth time for merely showing what kind of vitriol is routinely sent to me by cowards determined to hide behind a defence of ‘rights to abuse women privately and not be held accountable for it’ is actually deeply upsetting and enraging.”
Facebook has defended its anti-harassment policies in the past, saying page owners have a number of tools to fight online abuse at their disposal.
“We give page owners a wide range of tools to proactively moderate and control who contacts them,” a Facebook spokesperson said earlier this year. "Page owners can set profanity filters, control who messages their page through the Privacy Settings, delete comments and block people who send unwanted messages."
The company also pointed to its real-name policy and reporting tools throughout the site as ways to combat harassment.
Read all of Clementine Ford's post about her recent experiences with trolls here.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
31 Pressing Questions I Have For Nursery Rhymes
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Bo Peep, what’s good?!
1. Jack is nimble and quick, sure, but why is he jumping over candle sticks in his free time?
2. Has Jack ever been injured while performing these reckless feats?
3. Did the dish run away with the spoon because they were in an illicit love affair?
4. How the hell did the cow jump over the moon?
5. Dear Littler Old Lady In The Shoe, how was this the best place to raise a family?
6. Seriously, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?!
7. Why ask on the black sheep for wool in Baa Baa Black Sheep? Did the white ones run out?!
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8. Why did Goldilocks think breaking and entering was OK?
9. Why didn't the Three Little Bears eat her?
10. In the story of the three little pigs, why was only one of them intelligent enough to use bricks to build a home?
11. Did Humpty Dumpty really think it was cute to sit on a wall knowing how fragile he was?
12. Also, why did the townspeople think they'd be able to put an egg back together?
13. We're supposed to believe that The Ginger Bread Man was smarter than a fox?
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21 Amazing Holiday Books You Need To Read ASAP
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, December 01, 2015
What better way to celebrate the holidays than reading a book by a warm fire?
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express is so beautifully illustrated. I’ll never forget hearing it read aloud to us in elementary school. I love it still today!
— lindseys45601a394
Houghton Mifflin
The Donkey's Dream by Barbara Helen Berger
The Donkey's Dream is one of my favorites. It's a very simple, yet lovely picture book focusing on the donkey who carried Mary to Bethlehem.
— Morgan Pulitzer, Facebook
Philomel Books
The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan
It has romance, it's dark enough that age only makes it better, and it's full of AWESOME. Think Princess Bride, but Christmas.
— Michaela Gomes, Facebook
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
The 24 Best Fiction Books Of 2015
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, December 01, 2015
These are the novels and short story collections that we absolutely loved in 2015. (Ranked in no particular order.)
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Harper
Graham Webster
New Book: Rand Paul's Chief Strategist Was Writer Behind Senator's Plagiarism
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, December 01, 2015
According to a new book by BuzzFeed News’s McKay Coppins, Doug Stafford was the author behind work under Rand’s name that came under scrutiny in 2013.
Doug Stafford, the chief strategist for Kentucky senator Rand Paul's presidential campaign and a former senior staffer in his Senate office, was the culprit behind most of the plagiarized writings that went out under the Kentucky senator's name.
That tidbit comes from The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House a new book to be published Tuesday by BuzzFeed News reporter McKay Coppins. (Disclosure: I was interviewed for the book.)
Coppins's book also provides a sometimes damning minute-by-minute account of how the senator and his office respond to a series of plagiarism accusations that came out over the course of a week in fall of 2013.
It started on Oct. 28, 2013, as Coppins notes, when MSNBC's Rachel Maddow revealed a speech Paul at the gave evangelical Liberty University cribbed heavily from the Wikipedia entry for the movie Gattaca. The next day, BuzzFeed News posted a story noting the Kentucky senator had again lifted almost word-for-word the plot summary of the Wikipedia article for the 1988 movie Stand and Deliver.
Paul had yet to understand the seriousness of the charges, Coppins reports.
"But while Rand's advisers understood the seriousness of the charges, the senator himself was convinced he was the victim of a fevered witch hunt," he writes. "He thought the evidence of his supposed lapse in ethics was outrageously thin and nitpicky. He'd been recapping movie plots in these speeches, not reciting Tolstoy and calling the words his own. He felt certain that if he could just explain this in a neutral setting, his attackers' petty animus and partisanship would be laid bare."
In an interview with Fusion's Jorge Ramos, Paul said the problem was merely about footnoting— leaving aside the fact the speeches were not footnoted on his website. At the time, a spokesperson similarly said to BuzzFeed News that "only in Washington is something this trivial a source for liberal media angst."
Politico then ran a story alleging Paul's 2013 State of the Union response had taken language from a Associated Press article. And as Paul raged, Doug Stafford, a senior aide to Paul began to panic, Coppins reveals. Stafford had been with Paul since he launched his political career and wrote much of writing that went out under his name, including ghostwriting Paul's second book Government Bullies.
"He wrote at home and on weekends, in between meetings and during dull conference calls, on trains and planes and all throughout the long daily commute from and to his far-flung Virginia suburb," Coppins writes. "From speeches to essays to op-eds to books, Stafford was in charge of it all — and his corner cutting was now costing them."
Stafford invited Trygve Olson, another Paul adviser, in for a meeting, according to Coppins. Olson questioned whether Paul's bomb-throwing response on the Sunday shows would be a good idea. Olson warned it would be a horrible move for Paul if there was more plagiarism.
There was.
BuzzFeed News posted on the Saturday night before Paul's appearance that three pages of Paul's book Government Bullies were lifted nearly word for word from a 2003 Heritage Foundation study. Subsequent BuzzFeed News stories would show he plagiarized in his Washington Times column and in Senate testimony. The Times would end Paul's columns over the allegations.
The press would eventually die down, and Paul, clearly annoyed if not humbled by the turn of events would pledge to do better.
"It annoys the hell out of me. I feel like if I could just go to detention after school for a couple days, then everything would be okay," he told National Review. "But do I have to be in detention for the rest of my career?"
Still, as Coppins later reveals, the incident didn't dash Paul's faith in Stafford, who ghostwrote Paul's next book Taking A Stand.
"Many in the senator's orbit had privately urged him to find a different ghostwriter for his upcoming book after the egregious cribbing in his last title set off a media firestorm," Coppins writes. "But Rand, defiant and loyal as ever, stuck with repentant plagiarist Doug Stafford as his chief scribe. Stafford labored over the manuscript as if it were his own masterpiece: researching, writing, rewriting, carefully — very carefully — compiling citations, submitting the drafts to Rand, and then starting all over again once the senator returned the pages with handwritten notes scribbled across the margins."
Reach for comment, Stafford told BuzzFeed News that Coppins's book was "fiction."
"I love fiction, so I am looking forward to reading more Washington media machine stories from 'sources,'" wrote Stafford in an email. "Also I lived on Capitol Hill from 2011-2014 with a four block commute. And I avoid conference calls like the plague."
14 "Game Of Thrones" Trivia Questions Every True Fan Should Be Able To Answer
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Contains spoilers from Season 1-5 if you haven’t watched already.
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