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'In a video released by the court, Ms. Campione tosses a toy to the floor — a Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal Serena was filmed dancing with seconds before. Her tired face crumples as she sinks into a couch and unleashes a venomous tirade against her former husband just moments after she held her baby girls under water in the bathtub until they drowned.

“Leo, there, are you happy?” she spews at the camera. “Everything’s gone.… The idea that you could actually have my children — God believes me and God’s taking care of them now.”

Campione was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years, for the murders of her two daughters, Serena, and Sophia, 19 months.'

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'MPUMALANGA - The Mpumalanga Health MEC should be fired over her circumcision comments, according to the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union.

Candith Mashedo-Dlamini last week said tradition forbids her (as a woman) to get involved in the deaths of 23 young men who lost their lives at the start of the circumcision season in Mpumalanga.

Nehawu says the MEC's reluctance to take action amounts to a dereliction of duty.

It's the second organisation to condemn the MEC’s comments.

The Public Service Accountability Monitor on Friday lashed out at the lack of adequate safety measures at circumcision schools.

“This is a tradition... this is a tradition... so in other traditions whether there are deaths or what - but a woman can't come closer to that. But because there are police now, we're relying on the police so that they can give us reports," Mashedo-Dlamini said.'

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'When Labour MP Diane Abbott claims British blokes are facing a “crisis of masculinity” she is barking up the wrong trouser leg.

The way Diane tells it, British men are a bunch of homophobic, women-hating, porn-addicted, Viagra-quaffing, Jack Daniels-slurping brutes.

This is not an accurate portrait of British men – it is a grotesque cartoon.

Abbott says British men are incapable of talking about their problems.

“It’s all become a bit like the film Fight Club,” she sighs. “The first rule of being a man in modern Britain is that you’re not allowed to talk about it.”'

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'On average, men aren't as healthy as women.

Men don't live as long, and they're more likely to engage in risky behaviors, like smoking and drinking.

But in the past decade, global health funding has focused heavily on women.

Programs and policies for men have been "notably absent," says Sarah Hawkes, from the University of London's Institute of Global Health.

She and a colleague published a commentary in The Lancet Friday calling for more gender equality in global health funding.

"If you look at the top 10 health problems around the world, they are much more common in men," she tells Shots. "But the current focus is predominatly on women's health."'

Story here. Apparently the "father" of ADHD admitted in the last year of his life that it was a "fictitious disease." And which sex is diagnosed with it most often? Boys, of course. Excerpt:

'That amounted to interference in the child’s freedom and personal rights, because pharmacological agents induced behavioral changes but failed to educate the child on how to achieve these behavioral changes independently. The child was thus deprived of an essential learning experience to act autonomously and emphatically which “considerably curtails children’s freedom and impairs their personality development”, the NEK criticized.

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'Six hundred women gathered today for the Go Red for Women annual luncheon to put an end to the number one killer of women in America, heart disease! Did you know women have a much greater chance of dying from heart disease than all forms of cancer combined, according to the American Heart Association. Heart disease and stroke are the number one killers of women in this country. One in three women will be impacted by heart disease; you could be one of them.

It's a shocking number but much better than where we were 10 years ago before Go Red for Women was founded to educate women about this very real killer.

Today's event is a major fundraiser for the programs across our region to educate women and help fund events to get information to those at risk. More than $500,000 dollars was raised and another $12,000 on the "Pursonality Auction".'

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'You might think from the sudden outbreak of discussion about suicide that the problem had recently become worse. In fact, our suicide problem has – in particular aspects – been deeply serious for two decades.

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'Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) questioned the Republican Party's commitment to women after Senate Republicans boycotted a vote for Gina McCarthy, the president's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, and showed no indication they'll show up for a rescheduled vote this week.

Boxer, chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has scheduled a second committee vote on McCarthy for Thursday. "So far, they haven't suggested that they're going to be there, which is quite irritating," Boxer told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon. "She's probably the most qualified person ever nominated for the EPA. She's worked for four Republican governors. She's answered more than a thousand of their questions. And they've all voted for her before for other positions. It just makes no sense to me. This woman deserves a promotion.

"They say they're for womens' advancement," Boxer continued. "Here's a clear case where they ought to prove it."'

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'Participation is the objective of federal Title IX and other rules that have opened innumerable opportunities for girls and women in academics and sports.

Now, a growing movement in Pennsylvania threatens to turn that idea on its head by limiting girls' participation through a side door in the legal framework for high school girls' sports.

Only one in 27 girls competed in high school sports when Title IX was adopted in 1972; now two in five are on high school teams.

In 1975, the Commonwealth Court rejected a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association rule that had barred girls from practicing or competing against boys. Then, such competition often was the only means for girls to even attempt to compete in interscholastic sports, and the state's equal rights law, also passed in 1972, forbade gender-based discrimination.'

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'This week Labour staked its claim to be the country’s most father-friendly political party.

Jon Cruddas, the party’s policy co-ordinator, claimed that “the Conservatives have dominated debate about the family with their stereotype of a feckless underclass of absent fathers”.

According to Cruddas, “the majority of men feel fathers are undervalued,” but not for much longer, because “Labour will value the role of fathers”.
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But if Labour is to achieve its ambition of becoming “the daddy” of all political parties, then it needs to understand why it has historically had an uneasy relationship with dads.

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"Look into the eyes of many of the troubled and often unhealthy young men leaving school early," she said, "who are at one with anthems of hyper-masculinised music lyrics, and YouTube clips of bullying. Look into the eyes of many of the men sitting in the cubicles of bureaucratic English offices, with a disintegrating family life. Look into the eyes of men sitting in the plush offices of the top City firms, with little of note to show for it but a nice car and often shallow relationships. Do you see clear sense of pride?"

Seen this one? Nothing funny or cute about it. Kia is perhaps trying to dodge criticism by making the "woman" a robot. Sorry, that doesn't pass. Contact Kia here ("Sales and Products" seems the best choice; country is US and possibly also Canada, if indeed it's running in that market) and let them know you won't be considering buying one of their cars as long as they try to sell them with "humorous violence"-- and would they have dared produce such an ad with the characters' sexes reversed?

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'The Justice Department put its contempt for the First Amendment on full display with its snooping on journalists at The Associated Press. It's a display of contempt for freedom of the press equaled only by the administration's disdain for freedom of speech, another of the essential First Amendment protections. The military has lately demonstrated a similar contempt for freedom of religious expression.

The Justice Department is making common cause with the Department of Education to renew the push for "speech codes" on campus. The sordid scheme was revealed in a letter of May 9 to President Royce Engstrom at the University of Montana, where the federal government proposes to limit free expression as a "blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country."
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The Constitution recognizes freedom of speech and of the press as necessary to sustain a free society. Americans should speak up against the administration's attack on the First Amendment — while they still can.'

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'Approval of this legislation would allow alimony payers to: modify their existing agreements; determine the recipients’ alimony by preset formulas based entirely upon the length of the marriage, regardless of specifics such as disability of a spouse or child, ages of the parties, inheritance, attorney/judicial review and more; grant alimony for no longer than about half the number of years of the marriage; and eliminate the word “permanent” from any alimony award, with such support ending at the latest by the time the payer retires.
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National Organization of Women (NOW) New Jersey president Jennifer Armiger said that NOW opposes this legislation as “it advances the interest of alimony payers — a majority of men and a small handful of women — who are seeking to overturn their alimony payments while disregarding the economic circumstances of the recipients.”'

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'Tawana Brawley, who falsely accused six men of raping her 25 years ago, was celebrated at a fundraising event in New Jersey, officials said.

Attendees paid $50 for the Sunday event at Integrity Masonic Temple in Paterson, the New York Post reported.

While proceeds from the event went to fund a kids camp run by the Freedom Retreat for Children, some attendees also filled envelopes with cash for Brawley. It wasn't known how much she received.

When Brawley was 15, she was found in a trash bag in Dutchess County with slurs written on her body. She alleged she had been raped by six men, including former Dutchess County prosecutor Steven Pagones and a police officer. However, a grand jury found Brawley's accusations to be false.'