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Even before you meet her, you can guess that Sue Johnson is a very powerful, successful businesswoman.

The reception area of Futura Industries, a Clearfield Freeport Center company of which Johnson is president, is full of awards - trophies, plaques and letters, even an article taken from Forbes magazine naming Johnson as one of the 100 most powerful women of 2011.

Today in our society we are seeing many rising problems. We see murders, robberies, drugs ... the list is endless.

But one particular issue has caught my attention recently -- bullying and suicide. Many different types of people are bullied for various reasons, but right now, bullying based on sexual orientation is taking place in our schools, even here in northern Utah.

Everyone remembers their sexual education experience, if they actually got one.

Your teacher walks in front of the class and says, "All right, boys and girls, today we are learning about sex."

The people in the back of the room snicker, other students have their heads down or are red-faced. Some kids are scared and some just want to run away.

Typical feelings, but what most kids don't understand is what they will learn may be the difference between getting pregnant or not, or contracting a sexually transmitted disease or not.

Background ninjas make sure the high school show goes on

As show time is nigh at hand, call time approaches. Actors get in hair and makeup and head to warm-ups. After participating in many long-standing good-luck traditions, be it singing or chanting, the actors take their places effortlessly and the show starts.

Prom is the moment every girl and boy looks forward to, from the time they are in kindergarten all the way up to the night before it happens.

It's going to be the best night of your life right?

Well, that depends on how you do it. There are things you need to do for prom, and things that you absolutely, under no circumstance, should do.

Everyone loves a good animated movie; most of us have grown up with them. We cheered on our heroes as they tackled the obstacles in their lives, we felt for the characters when they went through extreme hardships, and we may have even cried or felt sad when characters passed away.

We encouraged our favorite animated characters as they tried new things, burst through barriers and escaped what was holding them back. We were not only entertained, but we also picked up a few good lessons along the way.

You feel a tight ball of anxiety in your stomach just before you take off the lid of the little pink wand. There's only one red line; you let out a sigh of relief -- you're not pregnant.

If that has happened to you, then you know what a pregnancy scare is like. Many girls have at least one in their teen years.