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Don't Want Your Teenager to get Pregnant? Talk to Her About School [Kids Today]

Everyone's got their own idea about what works when it comes to preventing teen pregnancy. Some believe in teaching abstinence, some believe in providing facts and birth control. But is reminding girls about the importance of school an effective prophylactic?

In a piece for Psychology Today, Michael Ungar, Ph.D. writes: "On her 16th birthday I gave my daughter a big basket of condoms." But he goes on to admit that every family is different and parents have to do whatever works for them. He cites doctoral research by Alejandra Diaz at the University of Texas at El Paso: Diaz interviewed teenage Latina girls who — despite having serious risk factors, like an older boyfriend, a mom who'd had kids young or being part of a low-income family — had not gotten pregnant. The girls were also good students.

In the case of preventing pregnancy, Diaz expected that the girls who had succeeded and not become pregnant had better sex education, or at the very least, were speaking about sex with their mothers. That was not often the case, and when it was, neither factor provided much of an explanation for the girls' success. In fact, Diaz found that when a parent, usually a mother, said goodbye to their daughters as they were off on a date with their boyfriends, the mothers told their daughters that they fully expected them to finish school. College if possible. Not a word about sex. Instead, they expressed their hope that their children would make great futures for themselves.

The daughters understood this was a coded, culturally appropriate message that meant "Don't have a child" until you can support it yourself.

An interesting technique, since, if memory serves, often teenagers hate being told what to do, and act like they aren't listening, but hear everything their parents say.

How to prevent your daughter getting pregnant [Psychology Today]

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Hunger Games Archery Expert Competed in the Olympics Today [Olympics]

Aug 2, 2012 6:20 PM  

Khatuna Lorig, who trained Jennifer Lawrence in archery for The Hunger Games, competed today in London. She did not win a medal, but she has a great attitude about it:

Yeah, there are nerves, but if I miss, I'm not going to die. This is my fifth Olympics. You just shoot your best shot, try to make it as best you can, and hope for the best. Maybe the wind blows, maybe something happens, you can only control what you can control.

In addition to teaching Katniss how to shoot, Lorig is keeping archery in the family: Her 19-year-old son Levan is looking to enter the 2016 Olympic games.
[The Mary Sue, WaPo]

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If You Shame One Thing Today, Let it Be This Bed & Breakfast Owner's Hateful Letter about AIDS and Queers [Rights And Rites]

Sometime between Will & Grace and Glee, America collectively decided it would stop being grossed out by same sex marriage. But that memo didn't reach everyone, especially the crazy old assholes who own a Bed & Breakfast called Camp Whitebriar in New Jersey. After a lesbian mom took to Facebook to voice her dismay over a pro-Chick-fil-A, anti-gay sign outside of its doors, the proprietor of the inn responded with a long winded, barely coherent screed about how lesbians are just jealous of her hotass straight marriage, gays are ruining The Children, AIDS is awesome because that means that she doesn't have to serve queers. Bonus: the letter "overused" quotation marks "so" much that it "almost" hurts to "read it." ALSO THERE ARE ALL CAPS TO DENOTE EMPHATIC, CRAZED SHOUTING. It's a little treasure of haterade.

The sign that prompted the original complaint was one of those cheap looking yellow light up deals with the interchangeable letters that Camp Whitebriar's owners had customized to say "CHICK FIL A APPRECIATION DAY AUG 1 WEDNESDAY MARRIAGE ONE MAN ONE WOMAN ONE GOD." Fellow Jerseyan, lesbian, and mom Joanne Fraschilla got an ooky feeling from the sign and wrote the following totally respectful but firm complaint on Camp Whitebriar's Facebook page:

This is somewhere my son loves to pass by and we have been excited to visit. Not anymore. I'm sad to see a local business anti LGBT marriage.

In response, she received this note:

Isn't it wonderful Joanne Fraschilla, that you and your son can enjoy the animals here because I have a traditional marriage with a husband who works with me 90 hours a week to take care of these animals, and the summer camp....we're 66-68 years old....there were no gays or queers in our time.....if two old ladies chose to live together..so be it, let them deal with God when they get there...but to have the "face sucking" thrown in my face of two gay lesbians who are totally destroying the "normal balance in a child's life" as you claim your son...where is the role model that your son needs to know how to act like a man? or will he only see the "one sided selfishness" of a "single parent"...and end up an out cast in society by being "gay" himself because he didn't have a father as a role model. I'll pray for you....remember what the bible says: "Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas".....guess that's why God invented aids.... THIS LOCAL BUSINESS WILL BE ONE MAN ONE WOMAN ONE GOD MAKES MARRIAGE....AND PROUD TO DO SO....YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY TO OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS

Ostensibly, that idiot opus was penned by Carole Lokan-Moore, proprietor of the place and, from the sound of it, New Jersey's angriest and most reality-challenged closeted lesbian. The letter is filled with sparkling fact-free gems — Really? There were no gays or queers back in the olden days? Gay parents make kids into gay adults? And it doesn't say "Lay down with the dogs, get up with the fleas" anywhere in the Bible; that's a very dumbed down version of a quote from Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack — but I suppose facts have no place among homophobic Chick-fil-A supporters who believe that eating trans fat-filled chicken one sweltering day in August will somehow stop the march of social progress. Anyway! As many things in the LGBT world do, this story Gets Better.

According to Joe My God, Lokan-Moore isn't just a B&B owner — she's also a failed politician who only received 416 votes in the GOP primary when she ran for New Jersey State Senate last year. Her campaign's motto? "Good Old Fashion Common Sense." She's also a member of the NRA, the Daughters of the Confederacy, and, confusingly, a high ranking Girl Scout. Basically the human version of a comment on Fox Nation. Here's part of her platform:

N. J. needs legislators who will "think outside of the box" to get control of spending. NJ needs legislators who will not "spend tax payers money on private interest groups like Planned Parenthood" Our Governor Vetoed Diane Allen's Bill to waste 7 million of tax payers money, but she attached it, to another bill, and it passed. As a Christian, I do not want my tax money payed to the Largest Abortion Clinic in the Country. It is time for the "Career politician to go back home". It is time to shrink our Government spending by half. It is time to let "new Ideas" spring forth to stimulate this economy. Let's cut the Regulation and make N.J. ‘ready for Business" & welcome back the entrepreneurship of tomorrow.

Ten bucks she's a birther! Any takers?

Fraschilla has since started a petition to get Lokan-Moore to apologize, but I say we let Carole Lokan-Moore continue to be an unapologetic bigot, loudly and in the open. We've only got a short window of time left before these people begin to understand how the internet works and stop writing idiotic things on Facebook for the world to ridicule. Don't apologize, Lokan-Moore! Keep up with the "unnecessary" quotation marks AND SHOUTING and use of the word "queers" like it's still something that hasn't been all but completely reclaimed.

Besides, sans apology, Fraschilla has an excuse to focus her attention on that easy-to-playfully-vandalize sign in front of Camp Whitebriar. With a few letters left over, she could have made the sign spell "A HYPOCRITICAL DICK" and taken hilarious pictures next to it giving the thumbs up symbol. That would have at least made the front page of Reddit.

[Joe My God]

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Seven Notable Facts About Modeling Camp NYC [Kids Today]

Jul 30, 2012 5:00 PM  

There's a short piece about something called Modeling Camp NYC in the new issue of The New Yorker, and writer Rebecca Mead reveals six interesting facts:

12-year-old Luciana, the youngest camper, was also the shortest: "I'm five-four," she said, then reconsidered. "I mean, four-five. I always get that mixed up."Instead of archery, scavenger hunts or sack races, Modeling Camp activities include "runway walking, makeup application, and camera engagement."Heather Cole, the camp's founder, a former model from Surrey, England says: "It's modeling camp, not modeling school. To me, this camp is about life skills, and just walking away with confidence."When asked what she'd learned, fourteen-year-old Amanda said: "You've got to go bam! when you come out." As she said this, she was "planting a hand on one hip and jutting it out dramatically."Most of the camp activities took place in a hotel conference room."The girls did get outside every day; they walked a block to get lunch at a pizzeria on Second Avenue."
And here's a fact not in the story: Four days in New York City costs $999. That includes activities, a photo shoot, a portfolio, lunch and a T-shirt. But, you know, life skills.

WORK! [The New Yorker]

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Vizio Tablet Pre-Orders Starting Today, Shipping July 18th

Vizio is more widely known for their beautiful TV’s that many of us watch our favorite NFL games on, but they are now heading into the Android tablet market with the Vizio Tablet. The tablet should go on sale sometime in July but you can pre-order now and they should ship on or around July 18th.

This information coming from the official Vizio Tablet Page the 8″ Android tablet is starting at just $399 and it comes with the Folio Case and a 16GB MicroSD card. Recently the tablet was shown off a bit and you can see that here.

For all the news as of late regarding the Vizio Tablet check out our portal by clicking here. Recently we got a look of the tablet in action with NBA All-Star Blake Griffin playing with the tablet in his home, you can see that video below.

The Vizio Tablet should launch for $349 at places like Walmart and the price at the Vizio site of $399 is a bundle deal for pre-orders. Will you be ordering one?

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