Texas has placed a dubious first in another ranking.
The state already leads the nation in births to teenage girls ages 15 to 19 (63 births per 1,000 females), according to a study by KIDS COUNT released earlier this year.
Now, a new study released last week reveals Texas also ranks first in teen repeat births.
Nearly one in four Texas teen girls who have given birth once, will become a mother again as a teen, according to the study by Child Trends, a nonpartisan social science research group. The group used 2004 data — the most recent available — from the National Center for Health Statistics for its report…
…In a Lufkin High School class for pregnant students, the curriculum includes information on birth control, something required by law, said Superintendent Roy Knight. “Our primary focus is on abstinence; however, we still work to be proactive to prevent further unplanned pregnancies,” Knight said.
Yep, they provide information on birth control for students who are ALREADY PREGNANT, but continue to focus on abstinence. WTF?
Yeah that abstinence thingy is working out so well for the educators now isn’t it. The idea of young teen girls having not one but two kids when they are kids themselves makes me just want to cry. I just see an unbroken cycle of poverty and disaster in all their futures.
A nap a day may keep the heart doctor away — at least that’s what recent research suggests. Now, a new British study reports that the first few minutes before you doze off might be an especially restful time for your heart.
Blood pressure dropped during those minutes but not when the study participants simply rested or stood for an hour, according to the study. But a co-author of the study cautioned that the findings shouldn’t be enough to send anybody off for a midday snooze.
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Midday naps may boost heart health, at least according to a recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine that was the first to consider the influence of other factors like diet and exercise on the heart.
I saw this article and knew I had to post for you in the news bucket. Now you can save the link and post it all over the intertubes to show what a wise guy you are. 😀
still hasn’t paid for the Valdez spill, 18 years after the fact. And now, the SCOTUS is going to hear their reasons why they shouldn’t ever pay damages: Alternet
The Supreme Court’s recent decision to hear ExxonMobil’s reasons to void the $2.5 billion punitive award in the Exxon Valdez case hit the town of Cordova, Alaska, hard. This small coastal fishing community — my hometown — along with the Alaska Native villages in Prince William Sound have borne the brunt of the largest crude oil spill in America’s waters; a spill that took place more than 18 years ago, but one that continues to hold the region hostage.
The second painful blow was the high court’s decision to not even hear our reasons why the award should be restored to the full $5 billion that a jury of peers decided was necessary to punish the corporate giant back in 1994.
While media pundits, lawyers, and scholars play the Supreme Court’s decisions back and forth like a ping-pong ball, people in Cordova share a completely different perspective of this story. It’s not about whether the Supreme Court should hear the case. To us, it’s about justice and reparation — making us whole, a promise Exxon made to the community five days after the spill. A promise that Exxon broke before the trial even started five years after the spill.
Of course, we’ll all just forget that Exxon has had it’s most profitable years under BushCo, and could easily pay those damages with the money they’ve gouged out of us all at the pump…
I was actually thinking abut this last night, and found this article this morning:
Ever wonder how much electricity your household appliances use when they’re supposedly off–in “standby” or “ready” mode? Think of the clock on your microwave, your DVD player that’s on but not playing a movie, or the little sensor on the bottom of your TV that waits for a signal from your remote control.
It turns out that these “vampire” loads are gradually sucking away power–a lot of power.
An estimated 13 percent of household electricity use, according to a recent study published by the California Energy Commission, is from appliances in low-power mode (which is to say, not performing any of their primary functions).
I feel like I have a million things around the house that are always “on”.
Actress Milla Jovovich, 31, and her fiancé, director Paul W.S. Anderson, 42, have welcomed their first child. Daughter Ever Gabo was born on Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, a day before Milla’s due date of Sunday, weighing in at 7 lbs, 8 oz. According to a source,
Ever Gabo? Were they going for a play on Eva Gabor?
Norway’s largest biogas plant will be ready in the municipality of Hå by 2010, giving 1,500 local farmers that chance to turn their muck into energy.
The project aims to help Norway meet its climate goals, but also solves a surplus manure problem on the farms of Jæren, newspaper Aftenbladet reports on its web site.
About 120,000 cubic meters (4,237,760 cubic feet) of animal manure, plus another 40,000 cubic meters of wet organic waste, is needed to produce 50 gigawatt hours of climate neutral methane.
The plant will reduce CO2 emissions by up to 70,000 tons and the 50 gigawatt hours is enough to cover the annual energy use of about 2,750 average homes.
I know a great location for another power plant like this; just on the steps of Congress – a neverending supply of crap is always guaranteed.
Alistair Darling warned this morning that the UK has entered “an unparalleled period of financial uncertainty” following the departure of Charles Prince from Citigroup.
The chancellor called on the banking community to be candid about the damage caused by this summer’s credit crunch and the crisis in America’s sub-prime mortgage market.
“We need to get to a far better situation where there is a great deal more transparency, more openness, so people understand the risks to which these banks have become exposed and they can avoid being so exposed in future,” Mr Darling told the BBC’s Today programme.
…with a renewed debate over war funding coming next week, he said they were committed to passing a war funding bill that would require a troop redeployment begin immediately and have all but a “limited number” of troops out of Iraq by June.
“We’re not going to give him a blank check on that, believe me,” Reid vowed. “We’re going to put conditions [on] any money that is given. … We’re going to fight as we have every step of the way.”
Democratic leaders in Congress are quietly preparing to give President Bush essentially everything he wants to keep the Iraq war going for at least another six months without forcing any change in course.
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“Sure we have the power on anything to stop the money … but the thing we have to do is make sure we do it the right way,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on a liberal radio show last month. “It’s not a question of all or nothing; it’s a question of making sure we do the right thing.”
Congress approved billions in extra funding and stopgap spending resolutions after Gen. David Petraeus’ testimony on Capitol Hill in September. Next up is the regular Defense spending bill, which Democrats are crafting to allow funding to be diverted from regular Pentagon accounts to fund the war, according to Roll Call. Appropriations Chairman John Murtha (D-PA) told the paper that the Defense Department would be able to maintain the war “until May or June” with the extra flexibility.
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…an aide to a Democratic member of the Out of Iraq Caucus told the paper.
“As long as leadership is not willing to challenge the way the president is hiding behind the troops, they’re going to continue to get rolled.”
I just can’t quite get my head around the fact that 76% of the country wants a significant turnaround in our current government policies, and yet the Dem leadership keeps pushing for the status quo.
Then I remember the corporations funding their campaigns. ‘Nuff said.
woo. hoo. LufkinDailyNews
Yep, they provide information on birth control for students who are ALREADY PREGNANT, but continue to focus on abstinence. WTF?
Yeah that abstinence thingy is working out so well for the educators now isn’t it. The idea of young teen girls having not one but two kids when they are kids themselves makes me just want to cry. I just see an unbroken cycle of poverty and disaster in all their futures.
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Hah! Double Hah and Tripe Hah!
What have I been preaching for the last year or so. 🙂
Finally, some well-deserved vindication for FamilyMan’s methods. 🙂
I saw this article and knew I had to post for you in the news bucket. Now you can save the link and post it all over the intertubes to show what a wise guy you are. 😀
Thank you both for the vindication!
Now to take it globally. Think of all the war, strife and the healthy benefits, if everyone would just slack and take a nap.
Then again, taking it globally sounds like a lot of work. 🙂
still hasn’t paid for the Valdez spill, 18 years after the fact. And now, the SCOTUS is going to hear their reasons why they shouldn’t ever pay damages: Alternet
Of course, we’ll all just forget that Exxon has had it’s most profitable years under BushCo, and could easily pay those damages with the money they’ve gouged out of us all at the pump…
I was actually thinking abut this last night, and found this article this morning:
I feel like I have a million things around the house that are always “on”.
you decide: CBB
Ever Gabo? Were they going for a play on Eva Gabor?
Do you suppose her middle name is Wonder?
tsk. People are strange.
Manure power in Jæren
I know a great location for another power plant like this; just on the steps of Congress – a neverending supply of crap is always guaranteed.
Maybe the White House could be a satellite location…or the DOJ…damn, all of DC could be used to power the world, couldn’t it?
True; global warming solved.
Keep the power going – no more recess for congress!
Chancellor makes credit crunch warning
And check Jerome a Paris’ take over at European Tribune:
Financial meltdown – more to come
No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/04/4th-amendment_email_privacy/
and harry gets caught lying:
oct. 25, ed schultz show:
today:
the right thing done the right way, and we just keep rolling along.
welcome to the new democRAT sponsored FU v.2.0.
lTMF’sA
I just can’t quite get my head around the fact that 76% of the country wants a significant turnaround in our current government policies, and yet the Dem leadership keeps pushing for the status quo.
Then I remember the corporations funding their campaigns. ‘Nuff said.