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'The physical standards portion of the Army’s approach is just one part of the deliberate effort to expand women’s participation in the Army. The second component of the Army’s process is a gender integration study of “institutional and cultural factors” and seems to be composed of a series of surveys being administered to service members. This is where the Army’s approach becomes even less clear. In October, all infantrymen were asked to complete an online survey regarding their “thoughts” on the possibility of opening the infantry to women. The survey asked infantrymen to agree or disagree with such statements as:

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'A woman who cried rape has been handed a fixed penalty notice for wasting police time.

She had claimed two men had grabbed her and dragged into a house in Moss Side in broad daylight before being sexually attacked.

It prompted a huge police investigation and patrols were increased in the area.

But police have now confirmed the incident she described at a house on Adscombe Street on May 14 last year never happened.

The three men who were arrested on suspicion of rape have now been released without charge.

And the woman who had made the allegation has been handed a fixed penalty notice for wasting police time.'

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'Highlighting the need for a culture change, Sen. Kevin de Leόn and Legislative Women’s Caucus chairwoman and vice chairwoman, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal and Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, announced Senate Bill 967, which will require California colleges and universities to address campus sexual violence by requiring them to adopt consistent victim-centered sexual assault response policies and protocols that follow best practices and professional standards.

Sarah Yang, co-founder and president of the Women’s Health Initiative at UC Davis, said: "In some cases, students do not even know what campus resources exist or where to turn for help. Student activists, like me, can help change the culture on campus, but the schools, themselves, must support student survivors."
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SB 967 Legislative Proposal

» Require California colleges and universities, as part of their policy regarding campus sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking, to include all of the following:

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'Marine Corps Officer Captain Lindsay Rodman is a lawyer for the Pentagon and questions their "2012 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Media" survey saying it is replete with "bad math," according to a Navy Times story.

Capt. Rodman, a Harvard-educated lawyer, penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in 2013 questioning the Pentagon's survey. In her piece, Capt. Rodman said she received an email request to take the online survey, as did most of the other females in her office, but curiously, none of the males did. She said the exact number of male and female respondents to the survey can't be known, but what is known is that only one out of five responded at all.

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'A shopping centre security guard has been hailed as a 'hero' after smashing the window of a car to rescue a baby locked inside during scorching heat.
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Onlookers called police who arrived and spoke with a woman who claimed full responsibility for locking the baby in the car.

Police said the woman had taken the baby out because the boy's mother was at home ill.

The boy was taken to Lyell McEwin Hospital for a check-up but was unharmed.

No charges have been laid against the woman.'

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'Women of all ages should pay more attention to the risk of stroke than the average man, watching their blood pressure carefully before they think about taking birth-control pills or getting pregnant, according to a new set of prevention guidelines released Thursday.

Women are also more likely to have risk factors associated with stroke, such as migraines, depression, diabetes and the abnormal heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation.

The guidelines from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association were the first such recommendations aimed at preventing strokes in women. Stroke is the fourth-leading cause of death for all Americans and a leading cause of disability. It’s the third-leading cause of death for women, after heart disease and cancer.'

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'Maybe I'm misremembering, but I don't think so. I still recall the spew of misandry and the cold, machine-like chewing out I received from family court judges who had little if any use for divorced dads. Mine was a mild dressing-down by comparison. As a trustee for my children's estate I was only reprimanded with a black glare and a coarse word or two for not filling out my guardianship papers properly, or for daring to (gasp!) question a judge's faultless insight.
This went on for 10 years, my annual accounting sandwiched between heated child custodial battles and sad fathers pleading for time with their children. There was always a sense of utter powerlessness in the courtroom, a creepy sense of resigned doom that came from the judge's sharp-edged, vitriolic comments. Like the other men, I was just another untrustworthy dad who needed to be taken down a few notches.

I always left the courthouse feeling torn apart, as though I had just tussled with a school of sharks.

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'Kenneth Braswell shot his documentary, "Spit'in Anger," an examination of the violence spawned by fatherless sons, with inexpensive equipment and a shoestring budget.

He buttonholed experts on adolescent anger during breaks at conferences he attended around the country. He poured his own painful life experiences into the project.
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Braswell will premiere the one-hour independent film Thursday at Spectrum 8 Theatres, followed by a question-and-answer period. He hopes to generate a constructive conversation about a contentious topic in the African-American community: that absent fathers are exacting a terrible toll on black youngsters, whose deep sorrow causes them to act out in destructive ways.

"I'm not being critical of black men as much as urging accountability and trying to get them to recognize a problem, to step up and to tell their story as a way of being able to release the pain and begin to forgive and to heal," he said.

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'Kahal, a community group for Israeli parents with intact sons is active and counts thousands of Israeli Jews among it’s members.

Intactivism—the movement to end circumcision—continues to win social acceptance worldwide, including in the Jewish state of Israel. Jews in the holy land are increasingly open to questioning circumcision, much more so than in the United States. In recent years, Jewish Intactivists have published articles and essays in some of Israel’s largest papers including Haaretz (Israel’s largest and most influential daily paper), 927mag, and the Jerusalem Post. A variety of active Intactivist groups such as Gonnen (Protect the Child), The Israeli Organization Against Genital Mutilation/Intact Son, and Kahal (a community group for parents of intact sons) have sprung up. The leaders of Kahal say that thousands of Israeli Jews are choosing to keep their sons intact.

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'By a 77-14 vote, the Ohio House passed a bill (HB 307) designed to ease adoptions in Ohio. Unfortunately, HB 307 not only doesn’t adequately protect the rights of birth parents, it significantly curtails the rights that birth parents currently have in Ohio.

Children deserve loving parents and adoption is often the best option. But children deserve first to be raised by their biological parents if those parents are fit and willing. Streamlining the process for adopting newborns is not necessary to ensure that all newborns who are put up for adoption find good homes. There is already more demand than supply for healthy newborn adoptees. And streamlining the adoption process in ways that curtail the rights of biological parents to raise their children is wrong. HB 307 is a flawed bill.

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'Just as I was feeling defeated, I found a website that lists over 100 rabbis and celebrants who perform brit shalom, an alternative to brit milah. (Brit shalom contains the symbolic elements of the covenant ceremony, but without circumcision.) At the time, there was only one rabbi listed for all of British Columbia… but he just so happened to be in my city, Vancouver! I later discovered his name had been added about three weeks before I’d found it. I believe this was the universe rewarding us for following our hearts.

I connected with Rabbi David Mivasair in such a deep, meaningful way. I grew up going to Jewish school, attending synagogue--and yet I had never met a rabbi whose words inspired me the way his did. If I wasn't convinced before that we had made the right decision, I was now.

We hope to see you at our June conference.

We're sure you'll enjoy keynote speakers Jim and Nancy Petro. Jim, former attorney general of Ohio and Nancy are authors of False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent.

Back by popular demand, Gordon Smith. You can expect a riveting presentation by Gordon, who was falsely accused, wrongfully arrested, and recently exonerated.

We also have U.S. Senate candidate Erick Bennett. Erick, victim of a falsely allegation, founded the Maine Equal Rights Center to raise awareness on the loss of our Constitutional rights and liberties,

More speakers: http://www.prosecutorintegrity.org/schedule/

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'“Nearly one in five women have been raped in her lifetime,” according to the White House Council on Women and Girls. Is that a fact? Or is it allegation or an estimate based on self-reporting surveys?

Interestingly, the White House asserts that the same number of women, one in five, “has been sexually assaulted while in college.” Is that a fact? Not exactly: It’s a statistic derived from “a web-based survey of undergraduates,” which means that one in five women has reported suffering a sexual assault. Maybe their reports are absolutely, unassailably accurate. Maybe not.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that one in five women has been sexually assaulted on campus or “in her lifetime,” and I shouldn’t be surprised that the administration, with its dismal record on civil liberty, is oblivious to the difference between allegations, estimates and facts.  Still it’s a little shocking to read a White House report that effectively assumes all accusations or reports of rape are true, and all of the accused are guilty.

These assumptions are implicit in the language of the report: “Despite the prevalence of rape and sexual assault,” (“apparent prevalence,” I’d have written) “many offenders are neither arrested nor prosecuted.” Then how can we be sure they were offenders? All we can say with certainty is “many alleged offenders are neither arrested nor prosecuted.” In fact, since only 36 percent of sexual assaults are reported to the police (according to a National Crime Victimization Survey) and since reporting rates on campus are described as “very low,” we can’t even talk about “alleged offenders,” while so many remain unidentified.
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'After serving nine months in prison for stealing, Jacqueline McDougall’s future was on the line. A parole board would decide whether she would be locked up for an additional three years.

But her fate was not the only one hanging in the balance. If denied parole, McDougall’s young son Max, who grew up behind bars with her, would be sent home if he became too old.

“Nightline” spent a year following McDougall and Max at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Bedford Hills, N.Y. They are part of the small, but growing number of inmates raising their babies behind bars.

The vast majority of the 2000 or so inmates who give birth in American prisons are separated from their babies shortly after birth. Bedford is one of the handful of women’s prisons that allow some incarcerated moms to keep their newborns with them, in some cases until the babies are 18 months old.'

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'German listed companies will be granted no exceptions to a 30 per cent women's quota for supervisory boards by 2016, said Manuela Schwesig, the minister responsible for drafting the legislation.

Schwesig, 39, a Social Democrat and the youngest member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's third-term cabinet, dismissed industry pleas for exemptions in fields that are a traditional preserve of men, such as metalworking or engineering.

"It's an argument often advanced that certain sectors don't have enough women available to fill the supervisory-board posts," Schwesig said last week. "I don't buy it."'