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'Hera Hub, a shared workspace community of several hundred like-minded entrepreneurial women, announces the launch of the third ‘coworking’ space in Carlsbad at 5205 Avenida Encinas. The other two locations are in Sorrento and Mission Valley.

The 4,000-square-foot facility offers a large conference room, several private meeting rooms, and a large, shared workspace.

“We had significant demand for a North County location, with over 170 people on the interest list,” said Felena Hanson, Hera Hub founder. “Memberships will go fast, as we’ll cap at 120. Five days after our July 15th soft launch, we’re already one-third full.”

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'One lawyer's quixotic fight for men's equality suffered yet another legal setback when a judge ruled his human rights were not violated by a Chelsea nightclub that made him buy a $350 bottle of vodka to get in.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alexander Hunter wrote this week that Roy Den Hollander was not the victim of age and gender discrimination in 2010 when a bouncer at Amnesia nightclub told the 66-year-old to pay up, while letting a young lady in for free at the same time.

"They all pull the same thing: 'These guys got gray hair, let's charge them some money,'" said the crusading barrister. "They're doing the same thing they did in the Deep South back in the 1950s. Having to buy a $350 bottle of watered down vodka – that's the 'sitting in the back of the bus' for us!"
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He also sued several Manhattan hot spots including the Copacabana for organizing "ladies’ nights" drink specials. The suit was thrown out by federal appeals court in 2010.

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'Television news anchor Adrienne Alvarez was arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of domestic violence, officials said.

Alvarez, 28, allegedly was involved in a fight with her husband at about midnight on the 100 block of Desert Garden Drive in Santa Teresa, Doña Ana County Sheriff's officials said.

She was arrested on suspicion of battery against a member of a household, officials said.

She was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center. She was released on a $1,000 bond later that day.'

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'Girls are the perpetrators of some form of dating violence nearly as often as boys, surprising new studies show.

More girls – 43 percent – than boys – 28 percent – reported committing an act of physical dating violence, said researchers who are presenting their findings beginning Wednesday at the American Psychological Association’s annual meeting. Slightly more boys – 23 percent – than girls – 18 percent – reported perpetrating at least one act of sexual violence.

For her study, Dorothy Espelage, professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her colleagues conducted a longitudinal study among 625 students starting in grades 5, 6, and 7, and followed them over a period of four years. Researchers interviewed the students at intervals over that time.'

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'My mother’s brand of feminism went from wanting equal rights to wanting to smash the patriarchy, which she defined for my brother and me as “men’s historical oppression of women, which they continue to do today.” No man could escape complicity, not even little boys, she said. Suddenly, men were the root of all of women’s problems and since they had all the power, we had to fight them.

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'NEVER MIND the “war on women:” According to growing numbers of bloggers, activists, and authors — some of them women — it’s males in modern Western society who are under siege and whose rights need defending. Is this the next frontier for gender justice, or a woman-hating backlash? Men’s advocacy raises important and worthy issues that often draw unfair ridicule. Unfortunately, it is also prone to toxic rhetoric that subverts its valid points and alienates potential supporters.

To many, the very notion of “men’s issues” or men’s rights seems laughable. But consider: If women were dying in 90 percent of workplace fatalities and three out of four suicides, would we not see such numbers as troubling—and as legitimate women’s issues? Yet, reversed, the disparities go unnoticed.

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'What particularly galls me is the mealy-mouthed dishonesty practiced by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which oh-so-carefully crawls a tightrope spun of silken shite:

"New scientific evidence shows the health benefits of newborn male circumcision outweigh the risks of the procedure, but the benefits are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all newborn boys."

The procedure? Ritual genital mutilation. Yes, I have a son, and when he was born, I hired a mohel to cut him. What a dolt I was. An ignorant fundamentalist, nothing more. My wife, born and raised Catholic, had to quash the urge to seize the boy and vanish into the woods behind our house before the mohel began. I wish she had.'

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'A former Judson school district kindergarten teacher accused of rallying students to line up and hit a disruptive schoolmate could now end up behind bars following her indictment Tuesday for official oppression.

Cynthia Ambrose, 43, was an 11-year veteran at Salinas Elementary in May when authorities said a less experienced kindergarten teacher sought advice for disciplining a 6-year-old student accused of bullying other children. Ambrose's solution, the colleague later told the school district's police department, was to have other students bully the alleged bully.

Official oppression — a charge often applied to police officers who abuse their positions — is a Class A misdemeanor carrying a maximum sentence of a year in jail.

At least seven children struck the targeted student as Ambrose encouraged them, saying “Hit him harder,” and “Teach him why bullying is bad,” authorities alleged.'

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It’s more than a little confusing. One minute feminists are taking to the streets in their hundreds, on so-called slutwalks, to defend their right to be scantily clad. The next they are insisting that lads’ mags’ covers, featuring, er, scantily clad women, should be covered up in pre-sealed ‘modesty bags’ when sold in supermarkets.

Predictably, the first supermarket to cave in to the anti-lads’ mags campaign has been the holier-than-thou Co-op, which yesterday declared that titles such as Zoo and FHM had six weeks to start concealing their products in burqa-style black plastic. In the meantime, the Co-op has already put these ‘lewd’ magazines in hard-to-reach positions, and concealed them with opaque shelving.

But surely this is a violation of press freedom, an attempt to dictate the content of particular publications? ‘Think of the children’, feminists respond. Apparently, the nation’s young are being damaged by the presence of lads’ mags ‘next to the sweets at children’s eye-level’.

If you've been following our efforts regarding Asst. DA Mary Kellet in Maine, you know that the case started with a false allegation of abuse. Ligia Filler had falsely accused her husband Vladek Filler of abusing her and their children.

In reviewing the Filler case, the court found:

December 3, 2009 - Responding to Ligia's allegation that Vladek had molested their children, the Ellsworth District Court concluded the accusation was "false and known to be false. She [Ligia Filler] has shown a capacity to manufacture claims." (Determination of Ellsworth District Court. Findings at Page 4, Paragraph 1.)

Not only was Ligia a known liar, but Vladek had a serious back problem at the time of the alleged incident, Ligia refused a rape kit examination, and she had no injuries to support her claim.

While we are not happy about Kellet's so-called punishment, it's time to turn our attention to the accuser. People who lie about abuse, like Ligia, rob true victims of their credibility.

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'Pennsylvania just eliminated the Parenting Coordinator role that it began five years ago. According to The Legal Intelligencer, its demise is related to a couple of high profile cases.

Pennsylvania was one of eleven states with legislation governing parenting coordinators. The other ten states that still have legislated parenting coordinator programs are: Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Texas. As with other areas of family law, the laws and regulations vary by state.'

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'A woman who took a 14-year-old boy to a hotel for sex and got him high on cannabis has been jailed for more than two years.

Natalie Williams, of Darlington, was told by a judge yesterday she had preyed upon the teenager and failed to appreciate why what she had done was so wrong.

The 22-year-old used a bank card he had stolen from his family to pay for the overnight hotel stay and drugs, and regularly withdrew money on it.

Teesside Crown Court heard that after she was arrested, she deliberately got pregnant with a new boyfriend - thought to be an attempt to stay out of prison.

But Judge Simon Bourne-Arton, QC, told her that would not dissuade him from locking her up - because a man who preyed on a young girl would face jail.

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'The last 100 years have been marked by the declaration and protection of universal human rights, and a marked increase in the quality of life, both in America and worldwide. With these improvements, higher expectations regarding a child’s right to bodily autonomy have become socially accepted and legally mandated. Many argue that since female children in the U.S. are protected by a 1996 law banning female circumcision, this law should be expanded to include the protection of male children as well. The groups Jews Against Circumcision, Jews for the Rights of the Child and the Israeli Organization Against Genital Mutilation have all endorsed laws that would outlaw child circumcision.

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'Cradling a twin in each arm, the photo of Jill Dudley tells a deceptive story. A former debutante and distant relative of post-war British prime minister Clement Attlee, she appears the epitome of a contented Sixties upper middle-class housewife and mother.

Other photographs of her identical twins Alex and Marcus confirm the impression of a seemingly idyllic, innocent childhood growing up in a beautiful Elizabethan home in Sussex.
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But hard though it is to believe, their seemingly loving mother was nothing of the sort. Monstrously, she was sexually abusing her little boys.

Today, Alex and Marcus Lewis - now 49 - are still coming to terms with this dark secret, which was for so long buried within the heart of their family.
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'It would be easy to label her as mentally ill or a monster, but it's not that simple. You could put any label on her and it wouldn't be enough.'

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'SUFFIELD — A woman who police say lied about being raped by a masked intruder had actually slashed her body and choked herself with a dog collar in an effort to create "convincing" injuries, according to an affidavit for her arrest.

The woman, Kelly M. Wilson, 29, of 611 Thrall Ave. was arrested July 3 and charged with second-degree falsely reporting an incident, second-degree making a false statement, and misuse of the 911 emergency system. She is free on $50,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned in Enfield Superior Court on July 16.

The incident occurred on April 14 when Wilson called police and reported that a man had attacked her in her home, according to the affidavit.'