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January 21, 2011
STAND FOR SOMETHING AND BE THE CHANGE.....
http://www.fallingwhistles.com/store/
Falling Whistles is a non-profit organization campaigning for peace and the rehabilitation of child soldiers in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Falling Whistles sells whistles for $34 to $104 to raise money for Congolese organizations rehabilitating child soldiers. Children who are too young to carry weapons are sent into battle armed only with whistles. By wearing replica whistles, the campaign wants to raise awareness of the situation in Congo and raise money. As of September 2010, $500,000 has been raised.
Falling Whistles does not publish the names of its partner organizations to protect their safety.
In September 2010, Failing Whistles volunteers started a tour of 30 cities, visiting universities and organizations including Google, MIT and Tufts University.
January 20, 2011
12 MYTHS AND FACTS ON BEING GAY....
MYTH #1: "I don't know any persons who are gay."
FACT: You may not know any
persons who are out to you as being gay. In a classroom of 30
persons, for instance, there are probably 2-3 persons who are gay.
Estimates are that 1 person out of 10 is gay. Using one widely
accepted estimate, there may be over 20 million gay or lesbian
persons in the United States alone.
MYTH #2:"Being gay is a form of illness."
FACT: The American Psychological
Association says, "It is no more abnormal or sick to be gay than to
be left-handed. There is, in fact, a growing body of evidence to
indicate that sexual orientation is determined before birth by some
combination of genetic and biological events. Since it is not an
illness, it needs, nor has, no cure.
MYTH #3:"Gay persons are child molesters and recruit children to their
lifestyle."
FACT: By far, the majority of child molesters are
heterosexual men. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in
the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, found that over 90%
of all child abuse is committed by straight men on minor females.
Furthermore, one does not choose to be gay just as one does not
choose to be straight. One only decides whether to act on his/her
orientation.
MYTH #4:"Men who are gay and women who are lesbians want to be the opposite
sex or have simply not found the right person."
FACT: Almost all of the males enjoy being men and almost all of the women enjoy being
women. They simply are attracted to, and fall in love with, persons
of their same sex.
MYTH #5:"Persons who are gay cannot maintain long-term relationships. "
FACT: Just like heterosexual people, persons who are gay form a variety of
relationships that last a short time or many years. Heterosexuals
even have a divorce rate of 50% while nobody knows about the length
of relationships of gay persons since they are not allowed to marry.
MYTH #6:"People who are gay could change if they wanted to do so."
FACT: Almost all studies show that no one, gay or straight, can change
their sexual orientation. Our orientation is almost certainly
determined sometime between conception and the first years of life.
Gay and straight people might be able to change their behavior but
not their underlying orientation. We do not, however, choose our
sexual orientation. Dr. George Weinberg writes in Society and the
Healthy Homosexual, "From what I have seen, the harm to the
homosexual man or woman done by the person's trying to convert is
mutifold...First of all, the venture is almost certain to fail...In
trying to convert, you will deepen your belief that you are one of
nature's misfortunes. "
MYTH #7:"Persons who are gay do not understand how to make a good family."
FACT: One in every four families has a gay or lesbian person within
that family several studies suggest. Studies also show that there is
no difference between gay and straight persons in their quality or
ability to care, love or raise children.
MYTH #8:"Persons who are gay are protected and granted equal rights."
FACT: Only a few states and a few cities and organizations include gay
persons in their policies of nondiscrimination. Gay persons are not
allowed to get married, are not given the same financial rights as
straight couples, do not have to be allowed in to see their partner
who is ill in a hospital and so forth
MYTH #9:"You can identify someone as being gay or lesbian by their mannerisms
or physical characteristics. "
FACT: Gay people are as diverse as are
straight persons. Only a small percentage of gay persons fit the
stereotypes.
MYTH #10:"In a gay relationship, one person plays the husband (butch) and the
other plays the wife (femme) role."
FACT: Since laws, churches andsociety have typically condemned, or at least ignored, the relationships of gay persons, most gay persons do not feel an
obligation to follow "the rules" of what a relationship is to look
like. Most gays and lesbians, therefore, create very different
relationships based on equality and who each person is, rather than
upon societal roles. In fact, since most gay and lesbian persons run
their relationships without a model, the look of each relationship
varies greatly from that of other relationships.
MYTH #11:"Gay and lesbian persons are promiscuous. "
FACT: Some are and some aren't, just as the same can be said for straight persons.
MYTH #12:"Being gay or lesbian is something new."
FACT: Homosexuality appears
across time and place, and even across animal species. In a 1951
study by Ford and Beach, they found even then that many cultures
consider homosexuality a normal variation of sexual behavior.
FACT: You may not know any
persons who are out to you as being gay. In a classroom of 30
persons, for instance, there are probably 2-3 persons who are gay.
Estimates are that 1 person out of 10 is gay. Using one widely
accepted estimate, there may be over 20 million gay or lesbian
persons in the United States alone.
MYTH #2:"Being gay is a form of illness."
FACT: The American Psychological
Association says, "It is no more abnormal or sick to be gay than to
be left-handed. There is, in fact, a growing body of evidence to
indicate that sexual orientation is determined before birth by some
combination of genetic and biological events. Since it is not an
illness, it needs, nor has, no cure.
MYTH #3:"Gay persons are child molesters and recruit children to their
lifestyle."
FACT: By far, the majority of child molesters are
heterosexual men. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in
the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, found that over 90%
of all child abuse is committed by straight men on minor females.
Furthermore, one does not choose to be gay just as one does not
choose to be straight. One only decides whether to act on his/her
orientation.
MYTH #4:"Men who are gay and women who are lesbians want to be the opposite
sex or have simply not found the right person."
FACT: Almost all of the males enjoy being men and almost all of the women enjoy being
women. They simply are attracted to, and fall in love with, persons
of their same sex.
MYTH #5:"Persons who are gay cannot maintain long-term relationships. "
FACT: Just like heterosexual people, persons who are gay form a variety of
relationships that last a short time or many years. Heterosexuals
even have a divorce rate of 50% while nobody knows about the length
of relationships of gay persons since they are not allowed to marry.
MYTH #6:"People who are gay could change if they wanted to do so."
FACT: Almost all studies show that no one, gay or straight, can change
their sexual orientation. Our orientation is almost certainly
determined sometime between conception and the first years of life.
Gay and straight people might be able to change their behavior but
not their underlying orientation. We do not, however, choose our
sexual orientation. Dr. George Weinberg writes in Society and the
Healthy Homosexual, "From what I have seen, the harm to the
homosexual man or woman done by the person's trying to convert is
mutifold...First of all, the venture is almost certain to fail...In
trying to convert, you will deepen your belief that you are one of
nature's misfortunes. "
MYTH #7:"Persons who are gay do not understand how to make a good family."
FACT: One in every four families has a gay or lesbian person within
that family several studies suggest. Studies also show that there is
no difference between gay and straight persons in their quality or
ability to care, love or raise children.
MYTH #8:"Persons who are gay are protected and granted equal rights."
FACT: Only a few states and a few cities and organizations include gay
persons in their policies of nondiscrimination. Gay persons are not
allowed to get married, are not given the same financial rights as
straight couples, do not have to be allowed in to see their partner
who is ill in a hospital and so forth
MYTH #9:"You can identify someone as being gay or lesbian by their mannerisms
or physical characteristics. "
FACT: Gay people are as diverse as are
straight persons. Only a small percentage of gay persons fit the
stereotypes.
MYTH #10:"In a gay relationship, one person plays the husband (butch) and the
other plays the wife (femme) role."
FACT: Since laws, churches andsociety have typically condemned, or at least ignored, the relationships of gay persons, most gay persons do not feel an
obligation to follow "the rules" of what a relationship is to look
like. Most gays and lesbians, therefore, create very different
relationships based on equality and who each person is, rather than
upon societal roles. In fact, since most gay and lesbian persons run
their relationships without a model, the look of each relationship
varies greatly from that of other relationships.
MYTH #11:"Gay and lesbian persons are promiscuous. "
FACT: Some are and some aren't, just as the same can be said for straight persons.
MYTH #12:"Being gay or lesbian is something new."
FACT: Homosexuality appears
across time and place, and even across animal species. In a 1951
study by Ford and Beach, they found even then that many cultures
consider homosexuality a normal variation of sexual behavior.
GAY TEENS ON TV AFFECTING TEENS IN THE "REAL WORLD"....
When Rickie Vasquez came out to his family on a 1994 episode of My So- Called Life, he ended up bruised, bloodied, and living in an abandoned warehouse full of homeless teens, afraid to tell even his closest friends why his uncle had kicked him out of the house just before Christmas. He didn’t even utter the word “gay” on screen until the season finale, which became the show’s final episode—and that was only to console a girl he’d rejected.
No wonder Rickie felt the need to keep his sexual orientation painfully tucked away—he was completely alone when it came to gay teens on television. He was the first on a primetime network show, and he’d be the only one for another five lonely years. In fact, there would be just a handful more in the next 10 years. “It was cathartic in some ways and painful in others,” says the man who played him, Wilson Cruz, now 37, whose real life inspired many of Rickie’s story lines. “The biggest part was the acknowledgment of our existence and our pain, which we hadn’t seen at all on television before that.”
If only Rickie could see Glee’s Kurt Hummel now. The breakout character (played by Chris Colfer) on TV’s most buzzed-about network show has won an Emmy nomination, a Golden Globe, and viewers’ hearts with an at times poignant, but often, well, gleeful depiction of a modern gay teen. It took Kurt only four episodes to say the words “I’m gay” to his dad, to which his father shrugged and said, “If that’s who you are, there’s nothing I can do about it. And I love you just as much.” He sealed it with a hug, and a new kind of gay hero was born: one who’s loved as much for his boa wearing as he is for fending off bullies and forming a touching stepbrotherly bond with his former crush.
Kurt, incidentally, spent his Christmas episode duetting on a wildly flirtatious version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with his new dreamy male idol, Blaine (Darren Criss). “That was by far the gayest thing that has ever been on TV, period,” Colfer says. “Forget AbFab, forget Beautiful People and Will & Grace.” The song became the most downloaded track off the Glee Christmas album—and ubiquitous on the radio during the holidays. “I was proud of that,” Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy says. “I think it pushed the envelope a bit.”
Unlike Rickie, Kurt and Blaine are far from alone in their boundary pushing this TV season. Gay characters have gone from one-time guest stars, whispered tragedies, and silly sidekicks to not just an accepted but an expected part of teen-centric television. The change reflects real teens’ lives: The percentage of schools with gay-straight alliance clubs is up from 25 percent in 2001 to 45 percent today, indicating the increasingly visible role that gay kids are playing in the high school landscape. With the average coming-out age now 16 (down from 19–23 in the ’80s), according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, it only makes sense for teens on TV to tackle the issue. “With our millennial audience, it’s what they expect to see,” says ABC Family exec VP of programming Kate Juergens. “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was such a vestige of an older generation.”
January 19, 2011
January 18, 2011
January 17, 2011
FOOD FOR THOUGHT....
Everybody has the right to change his or her mind....Love sometimes DOES NOT last forever and sometimes shit just doesn't work out
It takes a real man to step up and make a grown man decision if he ais NO longer committed to a relationship....Why hate on Al Gore and Swiss Beatz when they made decisions to leave a sit...uation they didn't want to be in INSTEAD of keeping a side women?
It takes a real man to step up and make a grown man decision if he ais NO longer committed to a relationship....Why hate on Al Gore and Swiss Beatz when they made decisions to leave a sit...uation they didn't want to be in INSTEAD of keeping a side women?
January 16, 2011
HOLD YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE...
Blaming others for the pain we feel each time someone fails to live up to our expectations is no different than burning our tongue on coffee that's too hot to swallow, and then calling our cup an idiot!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT...AND THIS APPLIES TO PEOPLE AS WELL....
If it's not beautiful, useful, or loved...Get rid of it!
January 14, 2011
CHECK THE STATISTICS...LET'S DO BETTER IN AREAS WE CAN.....
-Blacks die of heart disease much more often than whites, and die younger, despite the availability of cheap prevention measures like weight loss, exercise, blood-pressure and cholesterol drugs, and aspirin. The same is true for strokes.
-Overdoses of prescription drugs now kill more Americans than overdoses of illegal drugs, the opposite of the pattern 20 years ago. Overdose death rates are now higher among whites than blacks; that trend switched in 2002, after doctors began prescribing more powerful painkillers, antidepressants and anti psychotics — more easily obtained by people with health insurance.
-More than 80 percent of all suicides are committed by whites, but young American Indian adults have the highest suicide rates by far — 25 per 100,000 population at age 21, compared with 14 for whites, 10 for blacks and 8 for Asians and Hispanics.
-American Indians and Alaska Natives are twice as likely to die in car crashes as any other group.
-Babies born to black women are up to three times as likely to die in infancy as those born to women of other races.
-High blood pressure is twice as common among blacks as whites, but the group with the least success in controlling it is Mexican-Americans.
-Compared with whites, blacks have double the rate of “preventable hospitalizations,” which cost about $7 billion a year.
-Blacks, Hispanics and American Indians, whether gay or straight, all have higher rates of new infection with the AIDS virus than whites, and the situation is getting worse for blacks and Indians. Asians have the lowest rate.
-Binge drinking — defined as five drinks for men and four for women — is increasing. In a switch from the norm for health problems, it is more common among the better-educated and more affluent, including college students. But poor people, and especially American Indians, drink much more heavily when on binges.
-Teenage pregnancy is holding steady or falling for all ethnic groups, but is still three times as common among Hispanic girls as among white girls, and more than twice as common among black girls as among whites
-Overdoses of prescription drugs now kill more Americans than overdoses of illegal drugs, the opposite of the pattern 20 years ago. Overdose death rates are now higher among whites than blacks; that trend switched in 2002, after doctors began prescribing more powerful painkillers, antidepressants and anti psychotics — more easily obtained by people with health insurance.
-More than 80 percent of all suicides are committed by whites, but young American Indian adults have the highest suicide rates by far — 25 per 100,000 population at age 21, compared with 14 for whites, 10 for blacks and 8 for Asians and Hispanics.
-American Indians and Alaska Natives are twice as likely to die in car crashes as any other group.
-Babies born to black women are up to three times as likely to die in infancy as those born to women of other races.
-High blood pressure is twice as common among blacks as whites, but the group with the least success in controlling it is Mexican-Americans.
-Compared with whites, blacks have double the rate of “preventable hospitalizations,” which cost about $7 billion a year.
-Blacks, Hispanics and American Indians, whether gay or straight, all have higher rates of new infection with the AIDS virus than whites, and the situation is getting worse for blacks and Indians. Asians have the lowest rate.
-Binge drinking — defined as five drinks for men and four for women — is increasing. In a switch from the norm for health problems, it is more common among the better-educated and more affluent, including college students. But poor people, and especially American Indians, drink much more heavily when on binges.
-Teenage pregnancy is holding steady or falling for all ethnic groups, but is still three times as common among Hispanic girls as among white girls, and more than twice as common among black girls as among whites
January 13, 2011
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