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'DURHAM — A jury found Crystal Mangum guilty of second-degree murder Friday for stabbing and killing her boyfriend, Reginald Daye, in 2011.

After Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway sentenced Mangum to 14 years and two months to 18 years in prison, deputies immediately led her handcuffed out of the courtroom.

Mangum’s attorney, Daniel Meir, said she will appeal.

The case was unusual because, unlike most murder cases, the jury heard the victim’s side of the story.

Mangum, 35, stabbed Daye on April 3, 2011, and an investigator spoke with him twice before he died April 13, 2011.
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Mangum took the stand in her own defense and said it was Daye who attacked her with knives by throwing them at her. She stabbed him, she said, after he dragged her out of the bathroom by the hair, straddled her and began strangling her.

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'On November 25, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Catherine Russell will host a panel discussion marking the 14th annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which launches the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. This year’s discussion will address intimate partner violence and linkages between the domestic and international contexts, with a focus on marginalized and indigenous women. Tina Tchen, Executive Director for the Council on Women and Girls, will provide opening remarks.

Other invited panelists include Bea Hanson, Acting Director of the United States Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women; Layli Miller-Muro, Executive Director of Tahirih Justice Center; Nivia Monica Da Silva, Public Prosecutor, Coordinator of the Center for the Promotion of Gender and Racial Equality in Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Juana Majel Dixon, Co-Chair of the National Congress of American Indians Task Force on Violence Against Women.

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'Testimony
Catherine M. Russell
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
Washington, DC
November 20, 2013

Good afternoon,

I am honored to be here with all of you to discuss the critical importance of preventing and responding to gender-based violence globally. I would like to express my appreciation to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for your commitment to promote and defend international human rights, including women’s rights.

It is fitting that we gather now to discuss these issues, as Monday marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the first of the 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence, which concludes on Human Rights Day, December 10. My job as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s issues is to promote the principle that advancing the status of women and girls is essential to achieving America’s diplomatic goals – that peace, security, prosperity, economic growth cannot be achieved without the full and equal participation of women, and that men and boys are important partners in this effort.

Violence against women and girls is a global epidemic. It crosses every social and economic class, ethnicity, race, religion, and education level, and transcends international borders. It takes the form of early and forced marriages, sexual violence, and traditional harmful practices, among others. Violence occurs both inside and outside the home, and often increases with instability.

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'It never stops.

Next week you’re tin-pot, politically correct police force are running yet ANOTHER ‘Domestic Abuse’ drive.

The papers will be full of it.

And as usual – it’s all balls.

They’ll call it ‘cyber-stalking’ – (they think that’s a new and convincing angle) – and you’ll hear thickasabrick Pirate FM presenters lisping words copied from Devon and Cornwall police press releases, probably with a thirty second segment with some magically un-named woman about her ‘Hell’ being ‘stalked online’ by some fairy tale chauvinist psycho.

Wait for buzzwords like ‘Facebook’ ‘abuse’ ‘bullying’ bla bla bla bla bla.

Of course the truth is – the anonymous ‘victim’ is straight out of central casting supplied by some state handout dependent ‘domestic abuse’ agency you’re paying for.

She’ll also most likely be a regular feature on some scumbag ‘family lawyers’ books, and the ‘cyber-stalking’ is likely to have consisted of some shat on furious father trying to see his own kid.'

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'Natasha Foster, from the Ballymoney Road in the Co Antrim town, was said by her defence to be "a woman scorned" when she appeared before Antrim Crown Court on Friday.

Her lawyer Michael Smith told Judge Desmond Marrinan that the false accusation had been made out of "anger and revenge".

He explained that Foster had desperately wanted to get back with a former lover and had consensual sex with him.

But he later texted her saying that he was not interested in getting back into a relationship.

The lawyer told the court: "After he sent the text, she was distraught and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

He further revealed that Foster later went to her doctor and admitted that she was a "compulsive liar" and that she was prescribed medication.'

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'So what’s up with there being no men’s soccer team at Clackamas?

Part of the issue stems from a limited budget. A small community college is not able to afford as many large athletic programs as larger colleges or universities. The bigger problem to get around is an issue of legality. Clackamas Community College cannot add a men’s soccer team because of Title IX restrictions.
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“We added women’s soccer 10 or 11 years ago to get us back into [Title IX] compliance,” said Jim Martineau, CCC Athletic Director. “Currently our split of six female sports and five male sports keeps us at the compliance we need.”
Currently the female sports offered at Clackamas are soccer, volleyball and softball while wrestling and baseball are offered for the men. Basketball, cross country and track and field are offered to both genders. Adding a men’s soccer team alone would upset the balance and require CCC athletics to expand female athletics as well to stay in compliance.'

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'Oh, to be in Sweden, a feminist paradise on Earth! Gender equality is baked into the nation’s DNA. Swedish women have advantages we can only only dream of – free universal child care, for example. Mothers and fathers get 480 (!) days of parental leave. An extensive welfare system makes it easy to balance work and family life.
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The result is that nearly 80 per cent of Swedish mothers are in the work force. (In the United States and Canada, it’s about 73 per cent.) Women also make up 45 per cent of Sweden’s parliament, the Riksdag.
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Sweden and the other Nordic nations always seem to lead the rankings of the world’s best countries for women. (Canada is lucky to crack the top 20.) So they’re an ideal laboratory for finding out what women really want. What choices will women make when the playing field is as level as social policy can make it?

I’m afraid the answers will disappoint a lot of people. That includes Sheryl Sandberg, the famous author of Lean In, who wrote, “A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies, and men ran half our homes.”

The trouble is that the world’s most liberated women aren’t leaning in – in fact, many are leaning back. They work fewer hours and make less money than men, just as Canadian women do. In fact, Swedish women are much more likely to have part-time jobs and far less likely to hold top managerial positions or be CEOs. On top of that, Scandinavian labour markets are the most gender-segregated in the developed world.

Women do make up 25 per cent of Swedish corporate boards, but only because of quotas. The greatest concentration of senior managers, CEOs and other highly paid power women isn’t in Scandinavia. It’s here in North America, where working women’s lives are much tougher.

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'One of my first thoughts when I started liberal arts college was: Where are all the dudes? In high school, they whistled at me in the hall. They blasted Jay-Z from their cars. They wore tank tops to showcase their biceps.

On campus I felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole and ended up in no man’s land: guys wore tie-dye onesies, had shaggy hair and preferred to smoke pot rather than funnel beer. Most disappointing was that they didn’t seem at all interested in my pink spandex jumpsuit and high ponytail. No, Toto, I wasn’t in a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie anymore.

My university was where masculinity went to die.

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'“The destruction to the male genitals is absolute,” says Brother K. “Total. You’re left with a fraction of what God and nature intended. It’s appalling.”

It’s Sunday morning on Hope Street in Providence and cars are whizzing by. Some honk their horns in solidarity; others carry passengers clearly confused as to the necessity of a demonstration against circumcision featuring men in white jumpsuits with large red bloodstains on their crotches

“This is meant to shock the conscience of Americans,” says Brother K, referring to his attire and accompanying signs like, “CIRCUMCISION HORROR BLOODSTAINED MEN.” He pauses frequently to pose for passing cars. “They don’t understand that a man is carrying around a bloody wound for the rest of his life. It doesn’t repair. It doesn’t self heal. It’s as devastating as if they’ve done the same thing to a woman and removed her entire clitoral hood.”'

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'On Tuesday, November 12, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the selection of four family courts to participate in the “Family Court Enhancement Project.” The purpose of the Family Court Enhancement Project is to alter family court practice and procedures when domestic violence and/or child abuse is alleged in child custody proceedings. The courts are located in Illinois, Oregon, Minnesota and Delaware.

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'Since the 1970s, family life in the UK has changed dramatically. Increases in relationship breakdown, remarriage and repartnering have seen us move away from the traditional, two-parent nuclear family and towards more diverse forms of family life.

As a consequence, there are more children living apart from a parent than ever before. ONS figures show that the number of single parent families has increased from 8% in 1971 to 26% in 2011. It is estimated that up to 97% of single parents are mothers, which means that a large number of fathers are non-resident.

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'The Monmouth MP, who chairs Westminster's Welsh affairs committee, spoke of his experience meeting some of the losers from the policy for a recent BBC Wales programme.

Today, he told the House of Commons: "I think it's absolutely outrageous that so many young men in our society feel they can go out, get women pregnant, allow them to have children, make them bring them up by themselves often on benefits and then just disappear.

"It is utterly shocking and I hope that the ministers will take note of this and get hold of some of these feckless fathers, drag them off, make them work, put them in chains if necessary, make them work and make them pay back to society for the cost of bringing up the children they chose to bring into this world."

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'Westminster College announces a generous $1 million gift from Ann and Anthony (Tony) Merritt to establish the Tony and Ann Merritt Single Mother Scholarship Fund, the Merritt Athletic Excellence Fund and the Merritt Endowed Athletic Fund.
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Throughout his career, Merritt truly believed that educating women and mothers provided benefits for everyone in the family. “Tony wanted to help single moms achieve their dream of an education because he believed that helping the mother positively impacts the children,” said Ann Merritt. “Additionally, we also wanted to provide a gift that would help Westminster grow its sports programs to a level of excellence that mirrors its academic programs.”

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Children of single mothers will not be required to mention the name of the father in government forms in Maharashtra, once the women's policy is approved by the state. Ujjwal Uke, principal secretary of Women and Child Development Department said the draft policy says that in government forms, children of single mothers will have the option of mentioning the name of father or mother or both.

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'Juneau Police are looking for a 36-year old woman who allegedly stabbed a boyfriend early on Monday morning. The incident happened in a travel trailer on Sherwood Lane in front of at least two witnesses. The woman was apparently upset about the end of a domestic relationship and immediately left the scene after the stabbing.

Juneau Police Lieutenant Dave Campbell says they’ve recovered the knife, but they’re not publically identifying the woman since she has not been arrested or charged yet.

The 46-year old Juneau man went to the hospital for treatment of a 1 1/2 inch stab wound to his left forearm. The injury was not considered to be life threatening.

Alcohol is believed to be a factor in the case.'