Report here. Excerpt:

'Knox, 23, broke down several times as she addressed the court for almost twenty minutes in an emotional and quivering voice, as she stressed she had nothing to do with Meredith's brutal murder.

The American also dismissed the prosecution's view of her saying she was not the "dangerous, diabolical, jealous and uncaring" person she had been described as at her original trial, telling the court: "That girl is not me."

Knox also expressed her sympathy towards Meredith's heartbroken family and friends and said: "I am very sorry that Meredith is no longer here.'

Video here. Caption: "Woman Drops Powder in Date's Drink. 'If you saw a woman apparently drug her date's drink, would you warn him?'"

Article here. Excerpt:

'While there were several good points made in Friday’s article, “PSU addresses disparities,” one of the main focuses of the article — the number of tenured men and women — should not be the basis for determining equality. There are interest disparities between genders that lead to a numerical equality in some positions to be unreasonable. This seems to be overlooked in most situations. If there were 100 positions available in a field, and 150 men and 100 identically qualified women applied for those positions, the equal outcome would be that 60 men and 40 women get positions.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Both Seminary and Mifflinburg maintain they never recruited boys to play, but that they did not want to deny an opportunity to boys who were clearly interested in the sport.
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“We cannot prohibit boys from playing on girls’ teams, or girls from playing on boys’ teams,” said assistant executive director Melissa Mertz. “The local schools set the policies, and the PIAA can’t overrule that. These are things we wouldn’t choose to get involved in.”

But the issue is a polarizing one, and in the wake of Seminary’s state championship run, it’s become a hot button topic in the field hockey community.

Everyone generally agrees that having a boy on a girls’ team is a competitive advantage, even if the boy isn’t as skilled as Seminary’s Tietze or Mifflinberg’s Catherman.
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The inherent physical advantage has led coaches such as Penn Manor’s Matt Soto to establish a rule against letting boys play on his girls’ field hockey team.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'But while workplace sexual harassment is very real, Browne says there is also a predilection for women to equate hostility as harassment. Roughly 12,000 sexual harassment charges filed each year in the U.S., according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Browne’s work on sexual harassment is controversial, and the basis of his argument is this: Women seek to be treated equally to their male counterparts at work. In fact, the federal law Title XII, which is invoked in sexual harassment cases, interprets harassment as a form of sexual discrimination—of treating women differently than men. And while some women have had to endure foul, crude or sexually raw working conditions in the form of language, intimidation or degradation, Browne argues that men have long subjected each other to the very same abuses at work.

Story here. Excerpt:

'A teacher has been jailed for 20 months after she had an affair with her 15-year-old pupil.

Yeoman engaged in a 14-month affair with the pupil after initially contacting her through an internet chat website.

The pair exchanged text messages and eventually embarked on a sexual relationship when the girl was 15.

Louise Yeoman, 29, admitted carrying out 10 offences against the teenage pupil while working at a school in Wakefield, England in 2009 and 2010.

The English teacher admitted three charges of sexual activity with a child involving touching the girl, including one using a sex toy and two charges of inciting the teenager to engage in sexual activity with her.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Merthyr Crown Court heard how the 16 year old girl had consensual sex with a 20 year old man after a night out in a nightclub, but told police that she had been abducted and raped by three men.

All three men were arrested as a result of the girl’s claims.

In court the girl admitted lying and perverting the course of justice and Judge Mr Recorder Jeremy Jenkins QC sent the teenager to a young offender’s institution for six months.

The judge also ordered that the girl was not to be named and as part of her rehabilitation her anonymity should stay intact, although all three men were named in court.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A Reading woman has been convicted of making false rape claims.

Emma Blunden, 21, told police she had been raped in a Newbury hostel in 2008, and, in February 2010, alleged an attack by three men at a Reading house.

A total of four men were arrested following her allegations.

Det Con Clare Larkworthy said: "False reports of rape distract officers from dealing with victims of genuine crimes."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The father of a missing 6-year-old girl last seen in Toronto is asking the public for help after new concerns about the child’s safety were brought to police.

Police say a Toronto healthcare professional who treated Pearl Rose Gavaghan da Massa — known in Toronto as Belle Flaherty — said the child showed “signs of trauma, social isolation and continued upheaval.”

The news confirmed the desperate father’s fears about the wellbeing of his child, who he hasn’t seen in over two years.

An international arrest warrant remains in effect for Helen Gavaghan, the girl’s mother.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'A former assistant deputy minister in Saskatchewan's ministry of Social Services is lashing out against his former employer, claiming the department is dysfunctional and children are routinely placed in risky environments.

"I can tell you, from a person who had access to every document [and attended] every meeting .... that it is a ministry out of control," Tim Korol told CBC News Thursday.

Korol was a top official in the ministry for just under 12 months before he left in June of 2009. He was originally hired, he said, to provide advice on how to improve the province's child welfare system, especially family interventions and placing children in foster homes.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'5. Mr. Tight Wad

Being cheap is so not sexy. Taking her out on a first date? Try this: pay. Who cares if it's politically correct and if she reaches for the bill. It doesn't have anything to do with money. It has everything to do with generosity. Chicks like it when you pay for stuff. Go figure.
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8. Our toilet, our rules

If you come over to our house, spend the night, and leave the toilet seat up, we will get up in the middle of the night, sit on the toilet, and fall into the cold, wet water. After that moment, we will always associate you with that moment of falling in the toilet.

This is not the message you want to send. Put down the toilet seat. It's better than sending roses.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The scholars at the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM), a division of the American Psychological Association, have for some time been asserting a simple philosophy about violence and all other manner of social woes. It comes in two parts.

Men are the problem. Men are the solution.

Most recently, they posted an article tellingly titled, “Violence is a Men’s Issue,” to goodmenproject.com. It is another in a continuation of efforts on their part to promote the idea that “toxic definitions of masculinity,” are the root culprit of much of our cultural violence, and that we must band together as men and confront each other till the problem is ameliorated.

All the article does, in reality, is provide a prime example of an egregiously thoughtless worldview, driven not by concern about violence, but by a mandate to promote a blind and sexist political ideology.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Ultimate Relationship Deal-Breaker for Men: False Allegations and Threatening to Call the Police discussed why false allegations of abuse and threats to call the police by your wife or girlfriend are abusive, why some high-conflict and personality disordered women engage in these behaviors and why it should be a clear sign that you need to protect yourself from further abuse and most likely end your relationship.

If your partner has threatened to call the police as an intimidation/control tactic, don’t kid yourself. You’re in an abusive relationship and, as the image to the right states, false allegations of abuse ARE abuse. The following list includes some basic precautions you may want to consider if you’re the target of these kinds of threats and behaviors.'

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'TUCSON - A former beauty queen and University of Arizona law school student accused of orchestrating the kidnapping and torturing of her ex-boyfriend is going to prison.

Pima County prosecutors say 28-year-old Kumari Fulbright was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison and six years' probation.

She pleaded guilty last December to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and aggravated assault as part of a plea agreement that stipulated the prison sentence. The Arizona Daily Star says it was up to a judge to decide how long Fulbright should be on probation following her release.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Posters warning of the alleged cab rape threat have also been plastered around the streets, pubs and clubs of London. Online ads have been created and leaflets are being distributed to members of the public in ‘hotspot areas’. In the coming weeks, everywhere you turn in London, there will be a reminder that the office Christmas party or a night on the town with your mates could end in a nightmarish sex attack.

Since its launch in 2003, the Safer Travel At Night initiative has targeted diverse groups of women who might be at risk of having too much fun - from professional women going out for Christmas dos to newly arrived students in London. The campaign deploys the politics of fear in the most impertinent way, exploiting women’s fear of sexual assault. The end result will likely be that women feel more unsafe, nervous and suspicious when they go out.'