Sunday, July 24, 2011

Genderless Preschool

Genderless Preschool

What would you think if your preschool started to address all the children as "Friends" instead of words like "him" or "her". The centre has been extremely well designed to ensure that all toys and colors are carefully selected to to make sure the children don't think along the lines of gender stereotypes.

A spokesperson from the Egalia kindergarden says, "Society expects girls to be girlie, nice and pretty and boys to be manly, rough and outgoing," says Jenny Johnsson, who is a 31-year-old teacher. "Egalia gives them a fantastic opportunity to be whoever they want to be."

 

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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Depressed woman looses benefits over Facebook Photos

Depressed woman looses benefits over Facebook Photos

Nathalie Blanchard, a woman living in Quebec who was receiving long-term sick leave stopped receiving these monthly benefits after she posted fun filled Facebook photos of herself having fun. In 2008 the woman was granted leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, because of a depression diagnosis and was receiving sick-leave benefits every month by The Manulife insurance company. .

However, the pictures posted on the networking site showed her frolicking on a beach, having fun at a Chippendales show and enjoying her birthday party made her look rather happy. So, the insurance company assumed she was no longer depressed and stopped paying the benefits. The woman said that she informed Manulife about the trip and that the pictures are not a proof that her overall mood had improved.

Missouri family has their Facebook photo stolen and used as advertising in the Czech Republic

Missouri family has their Facebook photo stolen and used as advertising in the Czech Republic

Can you imagine having such a great Facebook Photo that it is stolen and used for Advertising! well this actually happend to a Missouri family as they had a photo they used for their Christmas card stolen and used in the Czech Republic.

I am sure they did not expect the photo would end up somewhere else than their profile. However, a billboard version of the image was spotted by a friend of them on a food store in Prague, the Czech Republic. The photo was being used as an advertisement without any authorization. Grazie store in Prague's owner, Mario Bertuccio said he took it from the internet and he had no idea it belonged to a real family.

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Introducing the pedal powered police car

Introducing the pedal powered police car

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any crazier in England, the British Police have just released their latest weapon in the fight against crime, the pedal powered police car.

Police believe that their new vehicle with a maximum speech of 20mph, complete with a siren, will help them combat anti-social behaviour which is a large problem in Britain. The battery assisted vehicle also has a roll bar to protect the driver in the event of a crash. The police spent approximately 40 hours building the car with a children’s school.

The aim of creating the car was to teach young children that there are many other enjoyable activities they can do in their spare time and helps to stop children from turning to anti-social behaviour. The building of this car has also helped the police look more approachable.

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Lactating Criminal

Lactating Criminal

A heavily intoxicated American woman was arrested after allegedly spraying police with her own breast milk when they attempted to arrest her.

Delaware County Sheriff's deputies were responding to calls about a domestic dispute early Saturday adjacent to a hall in Powell, Ohio, which is locatged just north of Columbus, WBNS-TV reported. A witness at the location informed police his wife, 30-year-old Stephanie Robinette, had gotten drunk during a wedding at the hall and had hit him several times before locking herself in a car.

Sheriff Walter L. Davis III told the station that the woman refused to cooperate. "When deputies attempted to remove Robinette from the vehicle, she advised the deputies that she was a breast feeding mother and proceeded to remove her right breast from her dress and began spraying deputies and the vehicle with her breast milk," Davis said.

The deputies eventually removed Robinette from the car and she was charged with domestic violence, assault, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, WBNS-TV reported. Robinette, who is a teacher at a charter school, pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released from custody yesterday after a video arraignment. Robinette had apologised for her actions before she was released. "I have no criminal record; I take these charges very seriously and I absolutely intend to seek help for substance abuse with alcohol because alcoholism does run in my family," she said.

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