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  1. Seven Tips for Mixing Business and Pleasure

    2/14/12 6:15am by avflox
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    Sergey Peterman (Shutterstock)

    Like any well-executed covert liaison, the office romance is both incredibly exciting and entirely mundane, depending on who is looking at it. And like any covert liaison, it is a very, very risky proposition. The number one rule, if it can be said that there is such a thing, is to avoid it. But if you're like most people in the workforce, you know that's not always entirely possible. Here's how to make minimize some of the risk associated with office romance.  Read more >

  2. What's All This about Catholics Having to Provide Birth Control?

    2/13/12 6:00am by avflox
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    Bogdan Migulski (Flickr)

    On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which contains provisions that started taking effect that same year and will continue until 2017. One of these provisions -- which involves eliminating co-payments and deductibles for preventive care -- came under fire last week when the White House announced that as part of preventive care, employers would be covering the cost of birth control in employee health plans.  Read more >

  3. Does Valentine's Turn a Woman into a Despotic Venus in Furs?

    2/12/12 3:00pm by avflox
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    Alessandro Allori (Flickr)

    He and I don't feel cherished because of the flowers he sends, the meals he makes or the little gifts that I get him. It's about the time we spend arranging those flowers in a vase, sharing those meals, and playing with those little gifts. Valentine's Day isn't about stuff and it shouldn't be. It should be about reminding ourselves that our relationships matter.  Read more >

  4. Google Plus Welcomes Minors, Still Has Issues to Resolve

    2/11/12 12:02pm by avflox
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    Google Plus

    At the end of January, Google's social network Google Plus quietly opened the doors to minors ages 13 and over. This is something that anyone managing a Google+ Page already suspected, based on the choices when creating the page to make it 18 and over. What users didn't expect was that Google+ would open its gates so soon, with so many issues still left to address.  Read more >

  5. Alarm Clocks and Heart Attacks: Tell Me Why I Don't Like Mondays

    2/8/12 11:33pm by avflox
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    Alan Cleaver (Flickr)

    Voldemort, the Joker, the Decepticons. We've had some decent villains in our time. But no villain is as persistent and reviled as the one that sits right next to our beds: the alarm clock. Oh, that wicked little instrument of cruel and unusual torture. There is no escaping it. No matter how hard or how often we slam that snooze button, the dreaded sound is back again the following morning. And then the morning after that. And the one after that. Is that dramatic? Why else do you suppose so many heart attacks happen on Monday mornings?  Read more >

  6. Go Red for Wear Red Day and Help Raise Heart Disease Awareness

    2/3/12 12:21pm by avflox
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    Wear Red Day

    In an effort to raise awareness about the importance of cardiovascular health, the American Heart Association is kicking off American Heart Month with National Wear Red Day. Since its inception in 2002, the red dress has become a symbol of heart disease awareness among women, and through Wear Red Day, participants continue to spread awareness, reminding themselves and those in their lives that heart disease doesn't care who you are or what you wear: it is still very much the number one killer of women.  Read more >

  7. "Forever" Dies Hard

    2/1/12 3:18pm by avflox
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    Jessica Diamond (Flickr)

    I didn't want to sell my engagement ring -- more out of obstinate pride than any sentimental reason. When my husband and I got a divorce, I did the tasteful thing and offered to return the ring to him. He told me to keep it. Leaving a cushy executive job made sense if one was going to be a wife. But surely I didn't think this silly notion of supporting myself as a writer was going to work out? "Keep it," he said. "You'll probably need to pawn it before the year's out."  Read more >

  8. Does Your Child Have an Eating Disorder?

    1/30/12 9:06pm by avflox
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    Photo by Leonid Mamchenkov (Flickr)

    Eating disorders affect five to ten million young and adult women and one million men in the U.S. What is a parent to do when we suspect our child may be exhibiting symptoms of disordered eating? Come to think of it -- what are symptoms of disordered eating? To answer these questions, I called up Liza Feilner, a licensed professional counselor and senior therapist at the Eating Recovery Center's Child and Adolescent Behavioral Hospital.  Read more >

  9. Slacking on Your Resolution? There's an App for That

    1/19/12 4:00am by avflox
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    Three weeks ago, you told yourself that you were going to get fit in 2012. You even joined a gym to show how serious you were about making that change. How's that working out for you? Yeah, I'm not doing that hot, either. Lucky for us, there's an app for that.  Read more >

  10. Are Georgia's Shocking Anti-Obesity Ads Going to Work?

    1/5/12 11:00am by avflox
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    Kid on a scale (Shutterstock)

    Georgia is trying to address the childhood obesity epidemic plaguing the state with an ad campaign that features obese children and lines such as, "Obesity takes the fun out of being a kid," "It's hard to be a little girl when you're not" and "Big bones didn't make me this way, big meals did." These billboards and television spots, created as part of Strong4Life, an awareness initiative by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, have generated a great deal of controversy. Will they work?  Read more >

AV Flox

Full Name
AV Flox
Member Since
August 2008
About Me: 

AV Flox is a Peruvian transplant living in Los Angeles. She is the editrix-in-command of Sex and the 405, a site that shows you what your newspaper would look like if it had a sex section.

She champions understanding materiality while acknowledging the
cathartic properties of the overshare and believes in being as polite on the internet as we were taught to be IRL. Her life goal is to see all the world’s Foucault’s pendula.

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relationships, love, sex, dating, marriage, cheating

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