Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2011-12-22 01:09
Article here. Excerpt:
'EAST BROOKFIELD — A 44-year-old Sunday school teacher from Oakham pleaded guilty yesterday to lying to police, telling them she’d been raped, and she was sentenced to 2 years’ probation.
Christine Drolet went to Spencer Police Detective Michael Shea earlier this year and reported that William Domey, a paramedic who worked with her husband, had raped her.
She went to a hospital for treatment, called police several times to check on the status of the case and never recanted until Detective Shea questioned her version of what had happened, prosecutor Courtney Sans told the judge in Western Worcester District Court yesterday.
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Judge Timothy M. Bibaud sentenced Mrs. Drolet to one year concurrent sentences at Framingham state prison on the charges of filing a false crime report, criminal harassment and witness intimidation. She was sentenced to two years on a second witness intimidation charge. All of the sentences were suspended for two years, during which time she will remain on probation.
Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2011-12-22 01:00
Article here. Excerpt:
'One of first-wave feminism’s great achievements in the 1970s was to end the denial surrounding wife abuse in even the “best” homes. Resources for abused women proliferated. Traditional social, judicial and political attitudes toward violence against women were cleansed and reconstructed along feminist-designed lines.
But then a funny thing happened. The closet from which abuse victims were emerging had, everyone assumed, been filled with women. But honest researchers were surprised by the results of their own objective inquiries. They were all finding, independently, that intimate partner violence (IPV) is mostly bidirectional.
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2011-12-21 22:22
Article here. Excerpt:
'A veteran of the Iraq war has had his parental rights terminated despite having in no way wronged his child or the mother. Read about it here (Booneville Democrat, 12/8/11).
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2011-12-21 22:20
Article here. Excerpt:
'HARARE - Male circumcision is becoming a canal for new HIV infections as men are now reluctant to use condoms on the basis that they are 60 percent safe, a government official has said.
MDC deputy spokesman and legislator for Bulawayo East Thabitha Khumalo said while circumcision was good in reducing the risk of HIV infections in men, the emphasis should be on the use of condoms than circumcision in order to save both men and women.
Circumcision and the use of condoms, Khumalo said, should be used together if Zimbabwe’s goal of Zero to new HIV infections and Zero to HIV related deaths by 2015 is to be attainable.
“We have a huge challenge where male circumcision has created a canal to those who do not want to use condoms.
People should understand that circumcision is not a cure, it is just a way to help reduce the risk of infections, together with the use of condoms, said Khumalo.
Khumalo said women will be the most affected because they have limited methods of protecting themselves.
Submitted by Minuteman on Wed, 2011-12-21 15:56
Submitted by Broadsword on Wed, 2011-12-21 03:44
Article here. Excerpt:
'A secret laboratory growing new human skin from baby foreskins has been hailed a medical breakthrough by scientists at Europe's biggest research organisation.
The process - dubbed the Skin Factory at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, Germany - takes cells from foreskins donated to the project and grows swatches of skin for use in testing cosmetics and other consumer products.
Its creators claim that one day their process could replace all animal testing, explained project spokesman Andreas Traube.
Scientists extract a single layer of cells from each foreskin and then grow on layers of collagen and connective tissue in the Skin Factory, a sealed growing environment just seven metres, by thee metres, and three metres high and kept at a constant temperature of 37 degrees centigrade.
The project uses foreskins taken from boys up to just four years old, said Traube.
'The older the skin is, the worse it performs,' he explained.'
Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2011-12-21 03:29
Article here. Excerpt:
'Men have long been outnumbered by women in higher education in the U.S., going back to the 1980s. What's drawn less notice is they are also less likely to earn bachelor's degrees.
Graduation rates across nearly all University of Wisconsin System schools are consistently higher for women. Last year, 62 percent of the females who entered the UW System in 2004 had graduated, compared with 58 percent for men.
While there's lots of talk of improving overall graduation rates and getting more minorities to earn degrees nationwide, few colleges have sounded the gender alarm. Some experts say it's time.'
Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2011-12-21 03:22
Article here. Excerpt:
'High school hates boys. Wait, before you count me out as just another disillusioned student who wants an excuse to rant against the system, take a look at these statistics: according to an article in The New York Times, the average high school grade point average for males is a 2.86, the average GPA for a female is 3.09. 64 percent of National Honor Society members are girls; boys are about 25 percent more likely to drop out and the American Association of School Administration reports that boys make up only 44 percent of college attendees (some colleges now use affirmative action to try to solve this problem).
As a male who has attended high school for nearly four years, earned a decent GPA and was accepted into a college, I cannot claim to be a victim of the system. However, I believe in equality and it bothers me when any group of people is ignored for political correctness, ignorance, ambivalence or whatever other reason.
Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2011-12-21 03:07
Story here. Excerpt:
'Mont Alto, Pa. — The old saying, ‘What goes around, comes around’ fits nicely in this story.
That’s because, after a 35-year absence, wrestling is back at Penn State Mont Alto. Boy, how things have changed.
Back in 1970, when wrestling was first introduced as a sport at the campus, the college did not even have a gymnasium. Hence, wrestling and basketball contests were held at the old East Junior High School, which was demolished years ago.
Several years later, logistics — and Title IX — prompted Mont Alto to drop wrestling in the mid-1970s, a difficult decision that landed squarely on then-athletic director and wrestling coach Duane Thomas.
“We needed to balance our programs. We started women’s volleyball when we stopped wrestling,” said Thomas, referring to the landmark legislation that forced colleges to increase opportunities for female students, sometimes at the expense of male sports.'
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2011-12-21 02:31
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
December 18, 2011
A majority of Americans worry about the federal government extending its reach into citizens’ everyday lives. Now, following release of a Centers for Disease Control report, critics of big government have a new cause for alarm.
Rape is personal tragedy and a societal anathema, and victims of rape deserve our protection and support. Fortunately, the number of rapes has tapered off dramatically in recent decades, along other types of violent crime.
But to the Centers for Disease Control, much more needs to be done. So the CDC devised a radical approach.
This past week the CDC released its long-awaited survey called the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf. The study was widely publicized in the traditional media with startling headlines that blared, "Nearly one in five U.S. women has been a victim of sexual assault."
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-12-21 02:12
I spent time in prison for theft. I can say I would have never gone if I had been granted the same benefits women are granted in America. I have placed petitions online for Fathers And Men That Are Ex-Felons at http://www.scribd.com/hdignity.
In America, over 65 million men have a felony record. We are banned from virtually every single apartment area. We have to beg others to live with them and in many cases we see people lose their masculinity and even their pride. This results in further problems like drug abuse and other serious social problems. We are already seeing just the beginning of the effects. As prisons are forced to release more people and more people get a criminal record, people start to see the injustice of a lifetime ban on obtaining housing.
Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2011-12-20 20:59
Article here. Excerpt:
'Research in Papua New Guinea on circumcision as a means of prevention of HIV transmission has brought to light the number of men undergoing unsafe penile modification, often with disastrous consequences.
Professor John McBride of Australia’s James Cook University was one of a number of researchers presenting their work to the PNG government and non-governmental organisations in a recent two-day policy forum in Port Moresby.
He says most men are amenable to being circumcised, with almost 60 percent having had either full or partial circumcision, known in PNG as the straight cut.
Professor McBride says all the research groups were concerned about the potential adverse effects of that informal type of circumcision and other forms of penile cutting.'
Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2011-12-20 20:57
Article here. Excerpt:
'Activists at the Sonke Gender Justice Network, a non-profit organisation focusing on men's responsibilities in creating a just and democratic society, see MMC as carrying benefits in addition to its significant HIV-prevention potential. They see it as nothingless than an opportunity to promote gender equality.
"MMC is an opportunity to engage men on sexual reproductive health. That means an opportunity to engage to say they must reduce their sexual partners, they must use condoms correctly and consistently, and they must seek consent before sex," said Leo Mbobi, Cape Town Coordinator for Sonke's flagship One Man Can programme.
The first phase of the effort to use MMC as a platform to promote gender equality has come in the form of raising awareness. Through posters, brochures, and a door-to-door campaign, Sonke is focusing on educating people not only about the health benefits of MMC, but also on the importance of women's participation in conversations around MMC and sexual decision-making in general.'
Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2011-12-20 20:54
Article here. Excerpt:
'(BOSTON) - An article in the December Journal of Law and Medicine cites numerous flaws in three African studies that claim male circumcision reduces transmission of HIV. (see: the article here)
According to the article, the studies, which are being used to promote the circumcision of up to 38 million men in Africa, had selection bias, inadequate blinding, problematic randomization, experimenter bias, lead time bias, supportive bias, participant expectation bias, time-out discrepancy, and lack of investigating of non-sexual HIV transmission among other confounding factors and problems.
Submitted by Minuteman on Tue, 2011-12-20 09:11
Link to download here (.doc file, 60kb). From an ARCLAW mailing-list email:
'ARC is proud to announce the release of our "know your rights" brochure for potential litigants, entitled "Circumcision: Your Legal Rights."
It is available through a link from our home page at http://www.arclaw.org.
ARC Secretary (and Intact America Director Georganne Chapin) worked closely with us to develop this document.'
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