Article here. Excerpt:

'A North Carolina father is embroiled in a legal battle with a hospital that wants to assume guardianship of his comatose son.

A hearing was held on Tuesday to determine who will make the medical decisions for Freddie Lempe, 18, of Smithfield, N.C. The teenager has been in a coma since a car accident on March 6, 2011.

Lempe was in the passenger seat of a car that spun out of control on Highway 39 in Johnston County, N.C., throwing him out of the car. While the driver walked away with only minor injuries, the accident left Freddie with both brain and spinal cord trauma.

Now, WakeMed, the Raleigh hospital in which he has been receiving care for over a year, has filed a suit in Wake County Courthouse to replace Lempe's father as his legal guardian to ensure that the overwhelming amount of paperwork is completed so that the teenager is eligible for Medicaid.'

Press release here. Excerpt:

'WASHINGTON / June 26, 2012 – One month after revelations of Wanetta Gibson’s false rape accusation, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) is charging Los Angeles County prosecutors with unacceptable delay in filing perjury charges against Gibson. A vigorous prosecution of Gibson is critical to restoring the credibility of true rape victims, who often complain investigators with growing case loads don’t take their claims seriously, SAVE says.

Rape is No Joke, a victim advocacy group, has charged that “Enormous damages are done by making a false allegation of rape.” New York Post Andrea Peyser columnist laments that false accusations represent a “huge problem for future rape victims.” And Justice Enriques has decried that “False complaints of rape necessarily impact upon the minds of jurors trying rape cases.”'

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Story here. Excerpt:

'The ex-wife of NBA star Dwyane Wade was arrested and charged with “child abduction” in Chicago over the weekend.

According to the Associated Press, Wade has asked a judge to terminate Siovaughn Funches-Wade’s visitation rights with their two sons.

The couple divorced in 2010 and Wade was awarded custody of the boys in March 2011 due to Funches-Wade’s erratic behavior in court.

Wade’s attorney, James Pritikin, filed an emergency motion today to terminate Funches-Wade’s visitation rights, just hours before the Miami Heat were to take on the hapless Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 4 of the NBA Finals in Miami.'

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'A Cambridge graduate who described herself as the “office cougar” has been jailed for falsely claiming she was having affairs with her married male colleagues.

Software engineer Jeevani Wickramaratna, 44, spun a web of deceit, bombarding the men with sexually explicit messages, emailing their wives and even falsely claiming one man had HIV.

She was found guilty of sexual harassment and jailed for 26 weeks by District Judge David Parsons, who blasted her "complete fantasy world".
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Christine Hart, prosecuting, said: "She claimed that Mr Stokes was having an affair with the office 'cougar', and many of the messages were sexually explicit and caused great distress to both him and his family.

"Wickramaratna then began sending him a series of messages saying she was setting him free and said she had told his family about their affair and that he loved her."

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'Title IX is controversial with some men’s coaches and male athletes.

For instance, in order to close a $2 million shortfall in their athletic budget earlier this year, Slippery Rock University dropped two women’s sports and five men’s sports. After some female athletes filed a lawsuit in federal district court earlier this year, the university was required to reinstate the two women’s sports, swimming and water polo, because their elimination violated Title IX regulations. The school did not have to reinstate the dropped men’s programs.

Pecora explained that Title IX has been very positive for women’s athletics. However, the rules do have an impact on some men’s programs, although not at Pitt-Johnstown.

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'When Clay McEldowney saw the Princeton University wrestling program get pinned to the mat in 1993, he wanted to do something about it.

Eventually, the Pittstown resident and former Princeton grappler spearheaded a movement that enabled the sport to remain on the campus at Old Nassau, although struggling mightily at times. And along the way, McEldowney learned plenty about sometimes messy athletic politics and, more specifically, Title IX, a law Congress implemented in June 1972 as a means to prohibit sex discrimination against students and employees of educational programs and activities at both public and private institutions that receive federal funds.
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“I’ve been working on the national level but my mission is to alert people to the very high likelihood [Title IX] could impact scholastic activities as it relates to boys who participate in high school sports.'

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'(JTA) -- A Norwegian political party said it will seek to outlaw circumcision in Norway.

“Circumcision on religious grounds should be a criminal offense,” Jenny Klinge, a spokesperson for Norway’s Centre Party, said in an interview earlier this month with the newspaper Dagbladet.

Klinge added that “Fortunately, circumcision is already illegal in females. The time has come for boys to receive the same legal protection."

The Centre Party, a member of the Norwegian coalition, occupies 11 seats out of the 169 in parliament.

Ervin Kohn, president of the Jewish Community in Oslo, told JTA that he considers the issue “an existential matter” for the community.

“Banning circumcision would send a loud message that the Jewish minority is not wanted here,” he said. Norway has a Jewish community of about 700.'

Article here. But to be fair, they don't seem to like gay women, either. Excerpt:

'Just a few months after anti-gay group One Million Moms launched a campaign to remove Ellen DeGeneres as JCPenney’s spokesperson because of her sexual orientation, the group is boycotting the department store over a new ad featuring a same-sex couple. The Father’s Day ad shows real-life dads Todd Koch and Cooper Smith playing with their children, Claire and Mason.
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The last time One Million Moms and JCPenney locked horns, the store responded by standing behind its partnership with DeGeneres, stating that “Ellen represents the values of our company” — and with this kind of proequality advertising, JCPenney is “continuing to reinforce its progressive values.” It’s not the first fight for either of them; in February, JCPenney distributed a Mother’s Day ad featuring two lesbian parents and their daughters; One Million Moms also took a stance against Urban Outfitters after the store featured two women kissing in its catalog in April.'

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'Parents having their sons circumcised can be brought before a judge for causing bodily injury, even if they did so for religious reasons, a regional court in Germany has ruled.

The recent landmark decision will likely draw the condemnation of Jewish and Muslim communities, although official representatives have refrained from commenting so far, saying they first want to study the reasons given for the judgment.

Following the judgment by the District Court of Cologne, neither the rights of parents nor the constitutional freedom of religion can justify interventions such as circumcision, according to Financial Times Deutschland, which first reported the story.'

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'Bowling Green, OH, June 25, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The free, pre-recorded lecture is given by Dr. Richard Zeller, a sociologist who developed an online course for Yorktown University on Political Correctness and authored articles such as "Gender Bias Paranoia" and "Political Correctness: Sociology's Achilles Heel." Dr. Zeller was active in promoting Yorktown University in Press Conferences at the National Press Club in 2000. Dr. Zeller had noted that a survey at the university in Ohio where he taught found many students complaining that their classes were too politicized by left-leaning faculty. In response, he proposed a course that would examine political correctness. His department rejected the course proposal and Dr. Zeller accepted Yorktown University's invitation to offer his course online.

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'Living in London can seriously damage men’s health, a new study reveals today.

It points to shocking disparity across the capital, with life expectancy in some areas up to 17 years shorter than in others.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism study shows that the NHS is failing to improve the chances of men surviving heart disease and cancer — key factors to blame for early death.

Both conditions can be triggered by poor diet, smoking, drinking and lack of exercise. Suicide is another leading cause of death, especially among young men.

Experts blame health chiefs for failing to invest in initiatives targeted at men to help them improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Only a handful of health trusts in the capital commission services specifically for the male population, according to the Bureau’s findings.'

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'Attorney, TV legal analyst, and author Lisa Bloom is out with her new critically-acclaimed book "Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture" and she's here to give a wake-up call to parents raising young boys. From failing schools to an economy of incarceration, Lisa explains the major threats hindering our boys ability to succeed in today's world and offers up real solutions to these urgent issues.

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'A recent study has shown that children of lesbian parents do not suffer from the lack of a prominent male role model. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and UCLA’s Williams institute have rebutted the common accusation, often pitted against lesbian families.

The results throw doubt on recent research conducted by conservative sociologist Mark Regenerus that claimed to find same sex children fare worse than their straight-parented contemporaries.
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The lack of a male role model has been used as an excuse to bar lesbian parents from adopting. It is hoped this new research will go some way to ending issues of discrimination around gay parenting.'

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'The day was about finding a reason to like yourself, finding support and finding friends. It was also the largest culminating event yet held by Girls Only, an HWDSB program that develops high self-esteem, mentoring and positive role models for female students.

On Friday, 700 girls from elementary school clubs across HWDSB gathered at Dofasco Recreation Park. They enjoyed physically active games, they shared a lunch, they heard inspirational speeches and they were both entertained and entertaining in the lead up to a group dance finale. The girls in grades 6 to 8 were also meeting secondary school students who will help with their transition to Grade 9.'