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In a couple of weeks I will heading to Toronto to speak at the “Mega MIRCI Conference.” The Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) is an academic based organization that publishes books, papers, and hosts conferences around various topics surrounding motherhood. For the conference later this month, I’ll be speaking under the umbrella of “Communicating Motherhood / Mothers Communicating “High Culture” to Pop Culture to New Social Media” and you know I have a few things to say about that.

In fact, my talk will be focusing on the Good Mother Myth (what else?) and since I’ve been steeped in the final stages of editing my book (it heads to layout next week!!!!!!!!), I figure I’m pretty well versed on this topic. Yet, that still doesn’t prevent me from feeling like I’ve been slapped in the face when I come across things like this:



The latest cover of Star “magazine” basically writes my MIRCI talk for me. This is what we’re up against. This is why the Good Mother Myth prevails. We continue to pit women against each other in order to fill pages, make profit, and fuel these unrealistic notions of motherhood.

The entire cover is absurd. They’re using random snapshots of women, framed by stories from “unidentified sources” to score mothers? If I wasn’t boiling over in anger I’d laugh it’s so absurd. But the worst part of it all? There are people that buy it. They don’t just buy the magazine, but they buy into the idea that we can score women based on how they tackle motherhood. The judgment dripping off of this cover – unfortunately – does seep into the minds and thoughts of women reading it, causing them to question their own choices and mothering skills. It also seeps into the minds of others who then feel validated in calling out or judging other mothers for things that – in the grand scheme of things – don’t really matter.

What matters is that we’re able, somehow, to make it work everyday. That we manage to balance life and work and family and everything, despite not having the best support system to see us through. We shouldn’t be grading each other, we should be providing support to do as best we can without fear of judgment, shame or ridicule. But that’s not going to happen if covers like this continue to be published.

Join me in raising your voices against exploitative and shameful covers like this one. Because really? This bs has got to end.

WOOD R4 V1.58 Released. (2013-04-21)

WOOD R4 V1.58 Released,please download for your R4i GOLD card (for Both R4i Gold 3DS and R4i gold Non-3DS cards)... [Download Now]

Change log (WOOD R4 V1.58):
Core:
- fatfs updated to 0.09b.

Compatibility:
- sound fixed after exit from gameyob.
- 'cooking mama world combo pack vol. 2 (europe)' fixed.

R4i specific:
- rts still in beta stage.
- improved rts state saving/loading.
- fixed bug that cause freeze after leaving rts menu in following games:
  rune factory - a fantasy harvest moon
  speed racer - the videogame
  final fantasy tactics a2 - grimoire of the rift nameless game, the soul bubbles
  rayman - raving rabbids - tv party
  flower, sun and rain - murder and mystery in paradise
  phantasy star 0
  fighting fantasy - the warlock of firetop mountain
  dragon quest ix - sentinels of the starry skies

(Note:Normally It might take a while (5~15 seconds) during the save and load game...)

Firmware Update about R4/r4i/3ds/gold/dsone/dstwo and so on

Product	Download Page
R4 DS	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4-ds/
R4i TT V1.6	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4itt/
r4i sdhc	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4i-sdhc/
R4i SDHC 3DS	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4i-sdhc/
R4i SDHC 3DS RTS	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4i-sdhc/
R4 SDHC	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4i-sdhc/
R4i Gold	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4i-gold/
R4i Gold Plus	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4i-gold-plus/
R4i Gold 3DS	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4i-gold-3ds/
r4i gold 3ds RTS	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/r4i-gold-3ds-rts/
dstt	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/dstt/
DSTTi v1.4.1	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/dstt/
M3 Ds Real	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/m3-ds-real/
M3i Zero	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/m3i-zero/
Acekard 2i	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/acekard-2i/
Supercard dsonei mini	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/dsonei-mini/
Supercard DS One	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/ds-one/
Supercard Ds Two	http://www.r4-ds.net/index.php/ds-two/

the more:http://www.r4-ds.net/

4i Gold 3DS can support the newest 3DS Ver.5.0.0-11 directly!

R4i Gold 3DS can support the newest 3DS Ver.5.0.0-11 directly(as long as your card support V4.5.0-10 before)...
Watch Video here...

Eve Online change ses plans pour 2013

Alors qu’il ne va plus tarder à fêter ses dix ans, le MMO Eve Online héberge toujours une large communauté de fanatiques. Il faut dire qu’avec son univers immense et la profondeur de ses nombreux aspects, une seule vie ne semble pas suffire à faire le tour du bébé de CCP. Bien sûr, le jeu ne s’est pas fait en un jour et il a fallu de nombreuses mises à jour et plus d’une demi-douzaine d’extensions pour faire de New Eden un univers aussi riche. Contre toutes attentes, le studio islandais décide de revoir ses plans de développement pour marquer dignement la dixième année d’existence du MMO.
Ainsi, le studio a décidé de restructurer ses équipes dans le but de renouveler la façon d’aborder le nouveau contenu. Tandis que les développeurs avaient l’habitude de mettre à jour Eve Online en abordant chaque aspect au cas par cas (telle mise à jour pour le PvE, telle autre pour la politique…), dorénavant, les ajouts de contenu seront thématiques (Retribution, par exemple, exploite le thème des chasseurs de primes), et étalés sur de plus longues périodes. En bref, des updates moins fréquents mais plus conséquents afin de satisfaire tous les types de joueurs.
Qu’est-ce qu’une carte R4 ?
Une carte R4 pour Nintendo DS vous permet de copier vos jeux originaux et tous autres documents sur une carte mémoire micro SD et ensuite de l’utiliser directement sur votre console Nintendo DS ou DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL ET 3DS. Donc plus besoin de se promener avec tous vos jeux sous le bras, dans la voiture…

WOOD R4 V1.45b Released.

WOOD R4 V1.45b Released,please download for your R4i GOLD card (for Both R4i Gold 3DS and R4i gold Non-3DS cards)… [Download Now]
Change Log (WOODR4 V1.45b)
Core:
-Hardware version and system version is added.
-Please click “help” and you can get the hardware version of this card, which is showed as “HW”.
-The latest system version this card can support is showes as “Sys:”

WOOD R4 V1.46 Released.

WOOD R4 V1.46 Released,please download for your R4i GOLD card (for Both R4i Gold 3DS and R4i gold Non-3DS cards)… [Download Now]
Change Log (WOODR4 V1.46)
compatibility:
- ‘club penguin – elite penguin force (germany)’ fixed.
- ‘inazuma eleven 2 – tempete de glace (france)’ fixed.
- ‘inazuma eleven 2 – tempete de feu (france)’ fixed.
- ‘pokemon plus – nobunaga no yabou (japan)’ fixed.
- ‘inazuma eleven 2 – blizzard (europe)’ fixed.
- ‘inazuma eleven 2 – firestorm (europe)’ fixed.
- ‘inazuma eleven 2 – ventisca eterna (spain)’ fixed.
- ‘inazuma eleven 2 – bufera di neve (italy)’ fixed.