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Equine Life Stages: Senior Horses
Old horses spend their lifetimes earning our love and respect. Learn how to keep them healthy and comfortable.
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Is It Okay to Feed My Horse Whole Oats with his Supplements?
September 29, 2014
Find out from an equine nutritionist if oats are a good choice for making supplements more palatable for your horse.... Read More
Poll Recap: Supplement Expenses
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Equine Life Stages: Senior Horses
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Old horses spend their lifetimes earning our love and respect. Learn how to keep them healthy and comfortable.... Read More
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Age-Defying Donkeys
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Meet Tessa, a 49-year-old Donkey living out her golden years at The Donkey Sanctuary, in Sidmouth, Devon, England.... Read More
How Can We Tell if Hay is Providing Enough Nutrition?
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Equine nutrition consultant Dr. Clair Thunes explains how hay analysis can help you provide your horse a balanced diet. ... Read More
Does a Horse Need Supplements if You're Feeding Quality Hay?
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Find out how supplements can help provide your horse important trace minerals that might be lacking in hay. ... Read More
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Obesity
September 08, 2014
Researchers went looking for the cause of Great Britain's growing equine obesity problem. Here's what they found.... Read More
Understanding Senior Horse Feeds
September 01, 2014
Get the skinny on what goes into feeds designed for senior horses and how they can benefit our aging equids.... Read More
Common-Sense Equine Nutrition
August 28, 2014
Do supplements, concentrates, and forages have you confused? Learn what your horse needs from an equine nutritionist.... Read More
5 Things You Need to Know: Senior Horse Dental Care
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Dr. Dominic Dawson explains common old horse dental issues and makes recommendations for care.... Read More
Malinowski Delivers Presentation on Senior Horse Health
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Karyn Malinowski PhD, presented "Ensuring Good Health and Well-Being of the Aging Equine Population."... Read More
What Your Senior Horse is Telling You about His Diet
July 20, 2014
How can your senior horse's appearance indicate he's in need of a diet change? Learn what to watch for.... Read More
Can Fodder be Included in a Horse's Feeding Program?
June 29, 2014
Fodder is plant material grown hydroponically and used as livestock feed. Find out if it's good for horses.... Read More
Making Peace with Senior Feed
June 24, 2014
If your older horses eat grain, what kind? When did you make the switch to senior feed, and why?... Read More
How Much Grain Should I Feed My Colic-Prone Horse?
June 18, 2014
An owner with a colicky horse is worried that grain could be the culprit and wants to know how much to feed.... Read More
Assessing Protein Levels in Horse Feeds
June 11, 2014
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Understanding Protein in Horses' Diets
June 10, 2014
Protein is probably the most misunderstood component of horse diets. Here's what you need to know.... Read More
Forage Options
June 09, 2014
My horse will not eat any hay in his stall. What are my options for forage in his stall at night?... Read More
Treats for Toothless Seniors
May 20, 2014
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Diagnosing and Managing Endocrine Disorders in Senior Horses
May 11, 2014
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Prebiotics and Probiotics
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Fall Activities on the Outer Banks!
From Currituck to Hatteras this week on the Outer Banks are bursting with fall activities – great events, competitions and activities. Whether you want to watch or participate there is everything you can imagine – kiteboarding, surfing, a 5k and fun run, storytelling, chili and chowder cook-offs, kayak fishing, wavesailing, live music and so very … Continue reading
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A Pittsburgher on the Outer Banks
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Yeah I know what you mean about the composition - although it's based on a promotional photo shoot they did, and I remember thinking the same thing - but, that said, it spoke enough for me to want to give it a shot in paint
Yeah, really beautiful work. I actually really like the composition. It's a great portrait of the sexual power she has. The looming architecture in the background creates a dark and structured environment. She is a flame gliding through that, She knows how she attracts men and she enjoys the power that gives her. You have her in the centre of a triangle of men and she is in complete control of all of them. The characters are hyper real, totally believable. I like your rendering style too. It's reminding me of those great painted movie posters for Indiana Jones and Star Wars from the 80's. The whole thing is great.
Thank you Scott. Saying the rendering style reminds you of those things is a massive compliment as they have always been a huge inspiration to me!! Made my day - Thank you
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I think this should be read by all. The sexual entitlement idea is latent in many comments when there is news of a rape. As long as the public thinks so, a female has to try her best to protect herself
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Rachel Jewkes. Photograph courtesy Chris Palethorpe
Published September 14, 2013
One in four men surveyed for a United Nations study in Asia and the Pacific admitted raping at least one woman.
The UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific surveyed over 10,000 men at nine sites in six countries: Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. At the survey site in China, 23 percent of men admitted to at least one rape. In Papua New Guinea, that figure was 61 percent.
To understand what's behind such startling figures, National Geographic spoke with Rachel Jewkes, the lead technical adviser for the study.
You've studied rape extensively in South Africa and now across Asia and the Pacific. How did you get involved in this kind of research?
I moved out to South Africa from England in 1994. I had a job to set up the women's health research unit in the South African Medical Research Council. I was told that the key issues in women's health were things like teenage pregnancy, so I said, "Okay, I'm willing to do research on teenage pregnancy, but as part of this work I want to talk to teenagers about how they got pregnant." We interviewed 24 pregnant teenagers. Twenty-three out of the 24 told us stories about being raped. I had absolutely no idea that sexual violence was a phenomenon that could have this sort of prevalence.
What have you learned about why men rape?
Sexual entitlement is the most common motivation across all of these countries. I think that very, very strongly points to the root of rape in gender relations, and the fact that rape is really legitimized in so many of these countries.
What do you mean by sexual entitlement?
Sexual entitlement means feeling that you ought to be able to have sex with a woman—essentially, if you want it, you can have it. The flip side of that is [the idea] that it's a woman's responsibility to make sure that she doesn't have sex when she doesn't want it. If a woman is raped, she would be blamed for putting herself at risk for being raped.
How did you select the countries that you studied?
It certainly wasn't because we knew that rape or violence against women was more common in those countries. We wanted to get a range of different parts of Asia, so we wanted south Asia, southeast Asia, and east Asia as well as the Pacific. Then we wanted countries where we had a UN partner that would fund the study and was committed to using the results for developing prevention programming.
How did you get the men who were surveyed to participate, let alone answer the questions honestly?
Well, there were two things. The first is that we didn't say, "Look here, we're doing a survey on rape," because that would not have been a winning line. In most countries, this is a survey about family health and relationships, which is true because the questionnaire has a lot of health questions in it, and there were lots of relationship questions.
The second thing is that we used partial self-completion for this survey. Questions were administered by a field worker of the same sex as the person we were interviewing, but there was one schedule of questions for men that was self-completed. We did this because we felt that men would be much more happy about providing information about illegal activities—rape, gang involvement, drugs, homosexuality—if they didn't have to actually verbalize the answer to a fieldworker. We set it up using an app on an iPod touch.
Why is the incidence of rape so high in Papua New Guinea?
I think it's the confluence of a culture that is extremely patriarchal and a culture that is extremely accepting of the use of violence in a whole range of different circumstances. It's not just gender-based violence, but also very severe and frequent use of violence in childrearing, and a lot of fighting in the community between men.
Why is rape comparatively less common in other countries that you studied?
I think that they may be slightly more peaceable countries. The two countries that really spring to mind are Bangladesh and most of Indonesia. Alcohol use is much lower in Bangladesh and in Indonesia, too. They are both Muslim countries, they both have relatively strict social mores around sex, and one way or another child abuse is less common in those countries. Child abuse really is strongly associated with rape and violence later on.
Nearly 4 percent of the men surveyed said they had participated in gang rape. Are there differences between perpetrators of single rapes and gang rapes?
Gang rape is associated more with poverty. There's been quite interesting research to argue that men come together in gangs and then get involved in a whole range of violence and antisocial activities as a way of trying to assert their masculinity, to make themselves feel like strong and powerful men. The conditions of poverty that they live in prevent them from having access to more traditional manifestations of manhood, such as being a provider. Their energies get directed rather into demonstrating sexual success with women, demonstrating dominance and control over women, and fighting with other men.
What issues do public health officials immediately worry about when they see a high prevalence of rape?
A very high proportion of women who are raped develop mental health consequences. Some research suggests that nearly all of them develop some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some stage. PTSD is very debilitating because it severely interferes with social relationships. Mothers with PTSD are much less able to look after their children, and they're much less able to keep a job.
In circumstances where you see lots of non-partner sexual violence, you are also likely to see a lot of child abuse that needs to be addressed and lots of other violence used in other ways in the society. It really is a big job trying to program ways to reduce exposure to violence overall in society.
Do you think the process of answering the survey questions made the men who had raped reconsider their actions?
If you ask men if they made their wife have sex even if she didn't want it and they say yes, at the end of the interview you ask, "What was the most severe consequence? Did you get arrested? Did you get jailed?" At [that] point ... they sit up and say, "You mean, I've just told you I've done something I could get arrested or jailed for?" It certainly made them sit up and think. We actually know that that's the case from work in South Africa, because we've gone back and interviewed people after they've been asked questions.
What do you hope happens now as a result of this study?
I've got two hopes. The first is that there is a political commitment in the countries where we worked to develop a proper program of action for violence prevention and to actually implement it.
The second hope is that at a global level people sit up and think about violence perpetration in a different way. I would like to see us in a place where we say: Our goal is going to be to end violence against women. That would be an incredibly powerful development agenda. We know that violence against women is not only incredibly harmful to the individual women, but it [also] has an impact on women's involvement in the economy and education.
In order to end violence against women, we have to end violence against children. If we end violence against children, we have a huge impact on violence of all kinds perpetuated across the globe.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
I am really glad this survey was conducted. The study highlights that "sexual entitlement" and a complex array of cultural and social factors play a role, as do material and economic conditions:
"Rape perpetration also was associated with men's own victimization, particularly abuse in childhood. Low socioeconomic status, indicated by current food insecurity and low educational attainment were associated as was alcohol abuse and drug use." Pg14 of the Summary report HERE.
Having said that, there are serious problems with the way this report has been REPORTED IN THE MEDIA, not specifically NatGeo but more widely across other news sources.
There is a data visualisation report on the research website linked at the beginning of this article. First page: "The UN Multi-country on Men and Violence was conducted in nine sites across Asia and the Pacific. The findings are representative of the study sites but not representative of the entire Asia-Pacific region."
The number of times that important disclaimer was reduced to "1 in 4 Men in Asia Rape" in Western media was pretty appalling, particularly when you consider violence against women stats in Western countries.
Perhaps the most important part of the summary report - that I haven't seen reported to the same degree as those inflammatory "1 in 4 Asian men" headlines - were WHAT THE FINDINGS MEAN IN A BROADER SOCIAL CONTEXT (pg 16) AND THE IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS (pg 17).
I think human being is the only creature who practice rape. Or somebody can tell me an example ?
...... and at midnight little girl and boys scream silently in their heads when they hear their bedroom door slowly open...... foot step...foot step...... "wake up sweetheart,but don't make a sound...... night after night...... dirty little secrets....
Very shocking, however I wonder what definition of rape they were using, how the question was asked and what percentage were non-partner vs partner.
These would have a very significant meaning to the results.
In my opinion, this article so far was not informative and useful for me at all.
They used an ipod touch? How many of the men were illiterate and just pushing random buttons?
"In order to end violence against women, we have to end violence against children."
Paul Rogieri apparently is a male--because he thinks that "no" does not mean
"no." For old-world, dogmatic, black-white males, "no" or not being fully conscious to give consent means "no." And if sex is coerced ("seduced"?) after a "no," or without being given a "yes" in words or kind, IT IS RAPE. There are no grey areas, thank goodness, and the sooner all males realize that (including some judges), the better for this world. And also women--to have the strength to say "no" because if they don't, then unfortunately the law says they have given consent.
It is also interesting that the reader herein implied that sexual harassment is not "rape." True, there are categories of any offense however, one must also realize that some women can be especially vulnerable (by way of genetic predisposition or childhood abuse) to even the slightest sexual affront--and develop PTSD, phobias, etc. that prevent normal, daily functioning.
(I am sure that any research paper would delineate definitions and criteria for their phenomenon of study, and National Geographic would benefit from defining exactly what the authors' criteria of rape was.
I proposed doing a qualitative research study on the "rape" question on students from an Asian country to the US. However, both University of California and a less-known trauma center in northern California also associated with UC were lethargic in providing me with the ethical permission necessary to conduct research with people.
Results of such a study would augment the amazing study by Rachel Jewkes, above, for people from the countries she studied, to the US. It is not only the perpetration of rape by immigrants when in their country, but their opinions as educated people, and the subjectivities of women immigrants on the topic.
I think in some cultures rape is something natural it is like applying to marriage. By example in Burkina Faso et North Cote d Ivoire you can t marry a girl before raping here, it is in their culture. You have to Kidnap her et rape her .I am African from theses countries I know what I am saying.
The ambiguity surrounding "consent" or "when 'yes' means 'no' " is nothing new, but for a supposed academic to conclude that sex - "unwanted" at some point - always equates to rape is ridiculous.
The shrill indignation expressed by feminists at the low conviction rate for rape will only escalate unless/until they get serious and define terms- and unless feminists consider men to be lesser forms of humanity - then defining terms is OWED to men if they (feminists) want to accuse men of crime.
Why won't they define terms?
They won't define terms because that wouldn't serve their purpose, which is to deny men happiness by placing women unquestionably ABOVE them where expressing desire, including sexual desire, is concerned.
As the feminists would have it, the only sex that a man can engage in without unreasonable guilt feelings or fear of a rape implication is sex that she, and ONLY she, intitiates. ANYTHING else, when considered in a legal, objective way is suspect, unless feminists agree to define terms.
Hell will freeze over before they do that.
OMG if the statistics are this high for men who admit to raping, you know that the statistic of rape period is astronomical for the men who din't admit it & weren't even polled!
When will men respect and love women as an equal. Violence is all about power.i am bigger,and better than you. Your voice doesn't count!
This is ridiculous. I live in Hong Kong, i don't believe 23%of men in China did rape.
Which cities did she do the survey? Do these cities represent whole China?
I am wondering how does Ms. Shea differentiate rape. Does it include sexual harassment?
If yes, I would consider to believe her survey.
'' If a woman is raped, she would be blamed for putting herself at risk for being raped. '' You wrote this in answer one question, but is the most horrible idea, when women loss freedom and right.
Has anyone raised the question that perhaps those teenagers, 23 out of 24, who claimed that their pregnancy was due to raped, were allegedly claimed and maybe less then truthful in order to get out of trouble. Could it be, they say that to shift responsibilities or guilt of wrong doing away from them out of fear of being judged harsly? Also, to draw compassion and to solicit help. Telling lies can be contagious among teenagers as they are more likely to learn and pickup habits from each others. We know that South Africa had a high rate of rape in comparing to other countries, but 23 out of 24 is just way suspectingly high. I am guessing the numbers are somewhat lower; but not to make light of the matter, rape is a serious and problematic subject in all societies.
As a female in China, I have to say that this really doesn't reflect the reality I see around me. Either the truth is hidden well, or there's a significant demographic division, or the study is exaggerating the reality.
To be clear, I am the proverbial bleeding heart liberal, and I object to this study on scientific grounds pure and simple.
There were two measures for partner rape. The first refers to using "force," which I can accept as reasonable. The second, refers to having intercourse when "he knew she did not want it but believed she should agree because she was his wife." No doubt, this can involve cases where there is true abuse. But this can just as easily involve Debra Barone rolling her eyes, and saying with a smile "OK, Ray, let;s get it over with."
My objection: it is unlikely that every person flagged by this question is in fact abusing his spouse. So this overstates the number of marital "rapes" in Asia.
Look if one wants to collect statistics to help protect Asian women, I'm all for that. But, let's do it in a way that we can defend. Otherwise, we have no tools to argue against the positions held by those who oppose us.
(As an aside, this question is a no-no in social science research: it conjoins too many items. A man who gets unwanted sex, but not because of any beliefs about marital roles would answer "no" to this question. Moreover, the study authors report finding a relationship between "rape" and a sense of entitlement. Well, if this rape variable contains within it beliefs about entitlement, have you in anyway found a causal relationship? No, you have a tautology.)
It's already given me quite a shock! About the figures in China, where I live now. I have to say, the women in China have not been treated with men's respect yet. They work, raise the children, put money on the table,and so on, do the same resposibility as men, but never been treated fairly like men.
Just reading the comments here makes it clear that many males don't understand that "making" someone have unwanted sex is rape. The myth of the stranger jumping out of the bushes is what keeps males from acknowledging and changing their sexually abusive behaviors. They rationalize, "Yeah, I physically overpowered her but she's my wife/girlfriend, I was drunk, I have needs, she wasn't physically injured...blah...blah...blah..." never thinking of themselves "I'm a rapist".
A fascinating study. I do, however, take issue with this bit.
< If you ask men if they made their wife have sex even if she didn't want it and they say yes,>
As a man I have also engaged in sex when I didn't want to, too tired, whatever, and do not consider myself to be raped. So, the question comes to mind, does this imply this part of the questionnaire is flawed?
Raped is abhorrent, but it does not serve the cause of righting this horrible truth by being vague as to what rape represents. Outright violence is clearly rape, but there is rape of coercion, threat, etc.
Being in a relationship and insisting upon sex from one's mate is a rather unpleasant, maybe pathetic situation but I do not believe it is necessarily a cause for a partner to feel violated. It is at least a far cry from rape.
It's quite clear from this study that religion does NOT make people act better overall (the countries surveyed are VERY religious). In fact, it teaches men about their 'right' to dominate and subjugate woman. Rape is just one of many by-products of the religious, entitled-male mind.
To find the lowest rape rates, look at countries with the lowest church/mosque attendance.
Religion poisons EVERYTHING.
I am agnostic on what the true rate of rape is in Western society or otherwise. The truth is that these are events that are unseen, hard to verify, and dependent upon definition.
What I do object to is shoddy work. It is a disservice to us all.
One of the two primary measures used for rape within the marriage is whether a spouse engages in sex that he suspects his wife may not want, regardless of consent or quality of consent. Moreover, the question is worded in a form that is difficult to understand.
Hey, if you want to believe a study merely because it suspects what you want to believe. Why do the study? Just announce your predisposition and be done with it.
I find it interesting the comments on this Article. The Men do not know or fully understand what is violence against a women. I Canada 1 out of 4 females are subjected to violence of some type in her life time. This are NATIONAL stats here not from this Article.
f you want to find agreement among men in western countries and their enemies in the Middle East and Asia, all you have to do is tell them (including me) that "rape is a huge problem and men must drastically change their behavior."
No matter how much you hate your fellow man, you'll ALWAYS be in agreement that violence against women is "blown way out of proportion." Israeli and Palestinian men; U.S. men and those in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc., etc., will all agree and argue that "things are not as bad as they seem." In fact, they'll never agree on anything EXCEPT for this point of view.
While it's further proof that all men are related and belong to just one human family, IT'S OH SO VERY WRONG.
We men have a big problem. We just don't like being accused of having one and will always deny the enormity of the hellish horror we've created for our sisters and daughters; an evil horror we could stop if we truly wanted to.
I see that many commenters disbelieve this study because the percentages seem too high.
It is already well-known that PNG and South Africa (together with parts of central Africa) are the worst areas of the world when it comes to rapes, and it's also well corroborated that the more patriarchal a society is the more prevalent rape is. Earlier studies by e.g. the UN have come to similar conclusions to this study.
I do however admit I was a bit surprised by China.
@doudou mayram Not true. It's been observed in a number of mammal species. Do some research on your own. I can immediately recall reading reports of it among dolphins and orangutans, but that's hardly the limit of it.
@Amirpouria Dargahi An interview with a world authority on the subject, and you couldn't find anything useful? That makes no sense to me. I've found this so useful that I'll be writing about it on my blog. (I'm a professional who treats PTSD and DID. Rape is a common experience of my clients.)
@Daniel Grubbs You should really consider that the people who do this kind of research are not idiots. You're not going to outthink them, or find a problem with their method they haven't already thought off. All such field research is run through a pilot study before it's actually launched. I know this from personal experience, having done social science research in the field.
@anna krygier I think we can go further: "In order to end violence against anyone, we have to end violence against children."
What about my saying "when 'yes" means 'no' " could possibly be construed as "no" not meaning "no"? Please explain that.
The entire " yes meaning no" (NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!)conundrum, where consent for sex is concerned, is an invention of feminists.
By that, they have implied that if HE asks repeatedly, then HER "yes" is really a "no" - to which I would have to ask: Is there a time interval here, or is asking again, after a NO, "asking repeatedly"? Is it the same if he asks in five days as if he asked in five minutes? Women may think this to be an obtuse way of questioning, but these things ought to be clarified if we're going to accuse someone of a CRIME for getting it wrong.
Of course, if she says "yes" because she fears he'll end the relationship otherwise, then it's really a "no".
In no way is a man in a relationship entitled to sex, but he IS entitled to end the relationship if the "no"s are repeated to his dissatisfaction. She is not entitled to the benefits of the relationship any more than he is entitled to sex.
Drunk or drugged women for sex? Who needs that? If you want to call it rape, I'll go along, though you should expect lots of legal challenges. Not everyone is a good judge of when someone is drunk or stoned. Along that line of thought, I'd hope that a guy would get some consideration if he himself is drunk or stoned - though I don't expect much from you misandrists.
@doudou mayram
You wrote: "I am African from theses [sic] countries I know what I am saying."
You may well be, but in this context you are a faceless person on the Internet, and people would be correct to regard your comment as dubious, with the absence of actual proof.
You have inspired me, however, to fact check your claims.
@Hermione Pan You can read my reply to Lady Maginat Lee. That is also my response to you, my dear.
@iceberg surfing The privileged, one-child generation has now reversing the situation of gender inequality. As a 80's man, I strongly feel it from the next generation. Nowadays, it is hard to say that who 's taking advantage from whom :)
@iceberg surfing Oh! are you kidding? as a citizen in China , I can tell you the truth responsibly, women in CHINA ,especially in urban place like Shanghai, they have a very high standing in life! If U live in CHINA today ,you'll see a civilized country, where man and woman in equal place. No investigation have no voice !
@Patrick Quon The study did not use the words 'physically overpowered'. The study mostly did not ask about force, but rather about want and desire.
The number of men who replied that they used violence or threats of violence to get sex was very small.
It wasn't scary enough to only count 7% of men as rapists(my estimate), so they added questions that were poorly worded and had nothing to do with consent or quality of consent so they could get a higher number, so they could scare people into oppressing men even more.
Don't fall for the propaganda.
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@Den Harwood If a 6-foot-tall male "makes" a 5 foot four inch female have unwanted sex, that's not "unpleasant". That's rape. The question wasn't "did you persuade/seduce someone who was initially reluctant into having willing sex". The question was "did you MAKE them have [unwilling] sex". Being seduced when not initially in the mood is a far cry from being made to do something against one's will. The fact that males almost always have a physical, financial and social power imbalance over females makes is mandatory that ethical males recognize this power imbalance and NEVER "make" a female have sex against her will.
@Den Harwood Depends, Is your wife physically capable of using violence or a deadly weapon to coerce you into having sex? Can she beat you to the point of putting you into the ER for weeks if you don't comply? Better yet, has she every pulled a gun on your and told you to have sex or else?
No? Then your comment about having sex when you "didn't want to" is SOOO not the same thing. Take your mansplaining and go elsewhere.
@Peter Ateo Actually, only faith can prevent people doing evil things, religions can not, laws either.
@Peter Martin What do you mean, "our enemies in the Middle East and Asia"? I have no enemies there. Who do you mean? Also, are you suggesting perhaps, as radical feminists have long suggested, that all men are rapists, it's just a question of under what circumstances they will rape? If so, I think that's insulting nonsense. Sexism is okay when directed at males, I know that. But still when you say "we men have a big problem," you are only right in saying "we" don't like being accused of having one. I have no problem of this sort whatsoever, so speak for yourself, and think twice before you paint all men with your very broad brush.
@Wilf Tarquin As a citizen in China , I can tell you the truth responsibly, women in CHINA ,especially in urban place like Shanghai, they have a very high standing in life! If U live in CHINA today ,you'll see a civilized country, where man and woman in equal place. I disbelieve this percentages in CHINA
@Wilf Tarquin Did you bother reading the study? Some of the questions were designed to count as 'rape' things that no sane person would count as rape.
The definition used for 'rape' was 'unwanted sex', not 'nonconsensual sex'.
Frankly I'm surprised that only 25% of men admited to it. It happens in any half decent relationship regularly.
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@Paul Logieri If your wife keeps saying no you need to talk with her and improve your relationship.
@Paul Logieri If your wife keeps saying no then you need to find out why; i.e. work on the relationship. Otherwise, don't get married.
@iceberg surfing @Hermione Pan
Iceberg, how presumptuous and condescending. Do you always engage in ad hominen attacks when you do not like what other people report about their experiences? How do you have the monopoly on truth?
@Allen HuEven now the one-child policy has been relaxed, mandatory termination of pregnancy happens all the time. Many low income families can not afford two kids, that is to say, they can not afford the risk of having a female baby. And you guess what? The much more ironic thing is, meanwhile,there are also plenty of mandatory pregnancy! Too many women who are diagnosed by gynecologist in no condition to carry a baby, have to be pregnant as their husbands demand, of course they want a son. Accordingly, the marital rape rate rises, for many men want to have unprotected sex with their wifes (you know what I mean *0*)There are so many women suffering from the male domination but some native ladies just look at the world through a fancy mansion' window, which pisses me off, even though I am not a feminist. By the way ,I am a millenia generation too.
@Maginat lee @iceberg surfing
I live in Shanghai and lead a relatively rich, comfort life, which doesn't mean I know little about the living condition of the underclass, or the poverty-striken regions in this country. Let me guess, you are a Chinese citizen,and you can talk, write and argue in English, in another word, you are living in literate class and at least, economically self-sufficient. Maybe, a delicate rose grown in a garden secured by strong fence can not understand how toughly the wild weed is living outside the fence. In China, many women now are suffering form family violence, marital rape, mandatory abortion ( many husbands demand the wife terminate the pregnancy just because the baby is female),and the love affair of their husbands, the most part of who come from working class and are undereducated. So, go on living in the beautiful garden secured by income stability and high education. You would never see the world outside the wall. P.S, hypothetically, now you are a young charming female, as you are aging, you would find the men around you might not be so gentle again \(^o^)/~
@Xira Arien You are not entitled to sex. You are not entitled to sex from your wife or from anyone else. By asking the males if they had MADE someone have unwanted sex, the authors are exposing attitudes just like yours, attitudes of sexual entitlement which ignore the needs/feelings/wishes of the smaller/weaker/less-powerful sex partner.
The propaganda which you have fallen for is the propaganda that there are these scary feminist researchers running around trying to guilt-trip innocent males into feeling bad about themselves. I don't buy that for a minute. No one can build a career as a published, peer-reviewed social scientist with that kind of bias. I think these researchers are trying their best to expose the reality of sexual violence which they have found during their research:
"We interviewed 24 pregnant teenagers. Twenty-three out of the 24 told us stories about being raped. I had absolutely no idea that sexual violence was a phenomenon that could have this sort of prevalence."
She didn't go in there with an agenda; she was as shocked as anyone at the prevalence of sexual violence perpetrated against women.
@iceberg surfing Faith is EXACTLY what it takes to DO evil things. No one flies planes into buildings, eradicates neighboring tribes, stones women for "adultery" after they've been raped, or mutilates their daughter's genitalia --- without FAITH.
@Xira Arien @Wilf Tarquin I feel sorry for the people you are in relationships with if you TRULY believe your last sentence.
@Janna M @Xira Arien @Wilf Tarquin You feel sorry for my wife because I occasionally agree to have sex with her even though I don't really feel like it because I care about her sexual needs?
Frankly you are loony and out of touch.
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1.Activities and Impact of Afghan Institute of Learning 1996-2013
Since its inception in 1995, AIL has positively affected the lives of millions of Afghans. More than 70% of the beneficiaries have been women and girls and most of the men trained in pedagogy, human rights and leadership teach girls or work with females. Years have been spent developing AIL's basic foundational programs of providing academic and skills-based education in diverse, community-based Learning Centers, training teachers in interactive, critical thinking methodologies, training members of civil society in human rights, women's rights, leadership, and peace, and provides health education and health care through its clinics and Community Health Workers. AIL's innovation is in its holistic approach to providing the basics of health and education to bring those Afghans who are at a basic survival existence into healthy, literate individuals as one package. As Afghans become more educated and healthy, they are able to move forward and rebuild lives and communities. In order to significantly impact the lives of Afghans, AIL has:
2. AIL and the Millennium Development Goals
AIL works to achieve progress in Afghan society towards the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating poverty and hunger and gender equality and empowering women. Each of its Learning Centers is allowing women to become literate, to open up a whole new world to their learning about their own human rights, gender equality, and leadership capabilities. They are learning to think for themselves, therefore empowering them to be able to move forward. Learning Centers are also providing courses in employment skills which are opening the door to families having an income that was impossible in the past. The ability of these women to bring money into families is also helping break the cycle of no education. The income generated by the wives helps the husband understand the importance of both of them, and their children, having an education that will open doors to financial independence.
The skills of AIL's teachers and teacher trainers are consistently gaining strength. AIL teacher trainers continue to add new curriculum gained through their own teaching experience and outside sources. AIL recently added curriculum that teaches students how to handle their own money and save for the future, as well as hands-on learning about their native, natural environment. Teacher trainers are also adding new experiential learning opportunities to expand on critical thinking skills.
Teacher training is held that brings students into the training so that the teachers could try their hand at the new methodologies they were learning in a classroom setting before implementing them in their own classes. It allowed them to get a true feel for how these new methodologies would work in the real world. It's this forward thinking of the teacher trainers that making such a great impact on the overall educational system in Afghanistan.
AIL was able to respond to a request from the remote Nooristan Province to train their teachers who had never had the opportunity to be trained. Those teachers were able to return and train more teachers and impact students who had never received anything close to quality education. The Afghan government consistently requests AIL to train its public school teachers as well. It has requested that AIL add more teacher training in the refugee camps in Pakistan so that when the Afghans return home there will be an adequate number of highly qualified teachers ready to help them.
AIL is also making significant progress in the MDGs of reducing child mortality and maternal health. It is currently in the process of expanding its pilot Expectant Mother Workshop program where patients are referred to the workshop by the clinic or Community Health Workers. The workshop takes less than 3-hours on one day and provides expectant mothers and their birth attendants with detailed health education relating to pregnancy, normal and complicated delivery, breastfeeding and signs of high risk factors for mother or baby. The training is aimed at mothers who have limited access to deliver at clinics or hospitals. The goal of the Expectant Mother Program is to reduce maternal and infant injuries and deaths during childbirth and the immediate aftermath through access to information on proper care and encouragement to go to a clinic or hospital for delivery if possible. Following the workshop, a basic delivery kit is given to each pregnant woman and a scarf to each caregiver.
Since the Expectant Mother Program started in November 2010 only a few mothers have given birth did so at home. The vast majority have had their babies at the clinic or hospital. This is remarkable in a society where home birth is the norm and where today's mothers were most likely born at home and have mothers themselves or mothers in law who believe home birth the accepted practice as they themselves experienced it. These women have little or no access to women who have had births at clinics or hospitals so they are stepping out of the known in choosing a clinic birth.
AIL is indeed making significant progress toward the MDGs. It's basic education, health, and health education programs are the basis for Afghans moving forward. It is important to remember that Afghanistan is still a place where it needs to take the very first baby steps. There are so many people to reach to build that first layer of building block toward self-sufficiency. People must become healthy and literate, and must understand their most basic rights before they can move into AIL's leadership programs and take action.
3. Evidence of AIL's Overall Effectiveness
With many years educational and health work in a devastated, war-torn area of the world, AIL has been able to continue serving Afghan women and children despite insufficient or nonexistent clean water, housing, employment, roads, buildings, health clinics, hospitals, schools, medicine, and food. AIL has been able to successfully introduce programs and services that have historically ignited controversy including women's and girls education, Learning Centers as meeting places for women, women's human rights training, underground home schools for girls, and family planning education and services. By working together with community leaders, AIL has been able to expand the reach of these programs to benefit hundreds of thousands of women and children despite ongoing insecurity in the region and during the oppressive regime of the Taliban. AIL has also trained Afghan women to perform key management and administrative roles in government and civil society organizations. For example, the current governor of Bamyian Province is an AIL Leadership Workshop participant and former employee.
Recognition for AIL
AIL has received financial support from hundreds of individual and organizational donors, including 38 private foundations/charitable organizations and the United Nations Population Fund. With this support, AIL has been able to dramatically expand the scope and reach of its services. See pages: AIL Donors | AIL Awards
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Next time some pop star tweets about how great a product is, she's going to have to be clear if she's getting paid for it.
The next time your favorite celebrity mentions some product via Twitter or other social media, she's going to have to let you know if she's being paid for that endorsement.
Twitter's hundreds of millions of users mean one endorsement, made innocently or otherwise, can dramatically boost a product. No wonder, the microblogging service's advertising revenue is expected to reach $540 million next year, according to statistics compiled by the British firm SBW Advertising. Several months ago, MSN Money cited an example of how pop star Justin Beiber's turnaround on Uggs boots -- and his tweet about how he liked them -- may have helped that company's fortunes.
With all that in mind, the Federal Trade Commission just updated its guidelines for mobile and other online advertisers, on how to make those disclosures clear, conspicuous and deception-free.
The challenge, it appears, involves Twitter and other, short-form messages consumers get on social media. To illustrate that challenge, the FTC created a fictional celebrity, "JuliStarz," and had her issue the following fake Tweet:
"Shooting movie beach scene. Had to lose 30lbs in 6 wks. Thanks Fat-away Pills for making it easy. Bit.ly/f56."
The FTC says that tweet wouldn't hold up to its standards for several reasons. First of all, it doesn't disclose that JuliStarz is a paid endorser for Fat-away. It also doesn't specify that the amount of weight Ms. Juli supposedly lost isn't the standard result for the product.
And there's another issue: Given the nature of tweets and streamed messages, having a separate tweet from JuliStarz with a disclaimer (that she's a paid endorser and her results are not the standard for the product) would be "problematic," according to the FTC, "because unrelated messages may arrive in the interim." And by the time the subsequent, disclosure message did show up on a consumer's Twitter feed, that person might have gone elsewhere or not realize the link between the two messages.
The new regulations also says advertisers using "space-constrained" ads on social media platforms should avoid making any disclosures via pop-ups, since they're often blocked by the consumer's computer software.
As L.A. Biz points out, the new guidelines will probably be most upsetting to marketers "who have stealthily infiltrated Twitter celebs to sell their products."
"Many celebrities may not want to be exposed as selling out," it notes, "and may forgo the extra cash rather than add the hashtag #PaidEndorsement on a tweet."
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1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
4 tablespoons cornstarch
1-1/2 pounds Idaho potatoes (about 4 medium), scrubbed
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup beef or chicken broth
1/2 cup prepared basil pesto
1 cup cooked, shredded chicken
1 red bell pepper, seeded and cut into rings
4 ounces crumbled feta cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
8 to 10 fresh basil leaves, torn into pieces
Move oven rack to its lowest position. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a small bowl, stir together salt, pepper and cornstarch; set aside. Using a food processor, slice potatoes thinly and place them in a large bowl. Sprinkle half of cornstarch mixture over potatoes; toss potatoes, then sprinkle them with remaining cornstarch mixture and toss again.
Brush 1 tablespoon of olive oil over a 12-inch round pizza pan. Layer potatoes on the pan, overlapping slices (cover pan completely). Sprinkle potatoes with broth; brush them with remaining oil, then press down firmly to compact them into a crust. Bake potato crust for 20-30 minutes or until edges are browned and potatoes are tender.
Remove potato crust from oven and spread pesto over potatoes using a rubber spatula. Top pizza with cooked chicken, pepper rings, feta and Parmesan cheeses. Return pizza to oven for 10 minutes or until feta is softened and pizza is heated through. Remove from oven, sprinkle with basil and cut into wedges.
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One of the 12 jyotirlings of Lord Shiva, Omkareshwar Temple is located an island in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. Cradled between the Vindhya hills to the north and Satpura hills to the south, the island called Mandhata or Shivapuri, appears in the form of sacred Hindu symbol 'Om'.
It is believed there were 64 jyotirlings of which 12 are considered very sacred.Each of the 12 jyotirlings are considered a different manifestation of Shiva. The jyotirling shrines are places where Shiva is believed to have appeared as a fiery column of light.
According to Hindu beliefs, the Shiv ling at Omakreshwar is made of two parts. One half is called Omkareshwar and the other Mamaleshwar or Amareshwar. The Omkareshwar temple is the main temple and is also called Omkar Mandhata temple.
There are several legends associated with Omkareshwar. According to one of them, Lord Shiva appeared as Omkareshwar to defeat Asuras (demons) who had trounced the Devas (gods).
Pilgrims visit in large numbers at Omkareshwar. The parikrama or circumambulation at Omkareshwar starts from the ghats of the Omkareshwar temple and ends at the cave of Guru Govindpada. Pilgrims also take a dip in Narmada river to wash away their sins and get blessed.
While performing parikrama, visitors also visit Amareshwar temple, the other half of the jyotirling. The temple is situated on the bank of Narmada river opposite the Omkareshwar temple.
Pilgrims visit the island on large numbers. Number of visitors increases during the festival of Mahashivratri.
Somnath and Nageswar in Gujarat, Mallikarjun at Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh, Mahakaleshwar at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, Kedarnath in Himalayas, Bhimashankar, Grishneshwar and Trimbakeshwar in Maharashtra, Viswanath at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, Vaidyanath at Deogarh and Rameshwar in Tamil Nadu are the other jyotirlings.
Where to stay
There are few accommodation options in Omkareshwar. You will find budget and mid-range hotel in the city. These hotels provide only basic facilities. Visitors mostly visit the city during October to April, so it important to book room in advance as accommodation options are few.
Where to eat
There are few eating options in Omkareshwar. Restuarants in Omkareshwar are multi-cuisine in nature. Most of the restaurant only offers vegetarian food. Bhojanalayas near the temple serve food items like puri-sabzi, samosa, pakodas, etc.
Best time to visit
The best time to visit the city is during the festival of Maha Shivratri between February and March.


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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Provides New Features
The second beta of Firefox 3.1 has arrived with a new JavaScript engine, data security mode and web worker threads.
Mozilla Foundation just released the second preview of its upcoming Firefox 3.1, code named Shiretoko (Japanese for "end of the earth"). It serves primarily for testing the newly introduced features and enhancements.
With its new Private Browsing mode (lovingly called Porn Mode by some), Firefox no longer stores your browser history so that you can remove all traces of your surfing. You can also do a more targeted cleanup of your cookies, for example, by removing the last hour's worth or over a particular timeframe.
The Firefox beta also provides a quicker processing of JavaScript code through the TraceMonkey engine already introduced in October. Same goes for the Gecko layout engine, now available in version 1.9.1. Its faster rendering time is partially due to its use of speculative parsing.
Web worker threads are also supported for the first time. Still part of a yet-to-be-released specification, web worker threads allow the browser to do computation-intensive work in the background while better using multikernel processors.
Negative user feedback to the prerelease ended up striking tab-switching and preview mode from the feature list for good. To make up for it, the Shiretoko beta supports the video and audio tags of the new HTML5, a W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS2.1 and CSS3, SVG transformations and offline applications. An extra sweet is that the new version promises 54 languages.
An initial quick test of this magazine's showed the Firefox beta to be truly faster, especially with JavaScript-heavy pages. The Acid3 test proved a bit less successful, with just a few points shy of 100. (The new Opera has meanwhile shown a perfect score.)
The Mozilla team asks users to give the beta a comprehensive look-see, while staying clear of suggesting putting the release into production. Interested parties can follow along the progress at the Firefox 3.1 Planning Center (including how to pronounce the word "Shiretoko").
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Officials at the West Virginia
Brownfields Assistance
Center at Marshall
University announced its
partnership with the West Virginia Division of Energy's Office of Coalfield
Community Development to explore the potential reuse and redevelopment of land
that has been surface mined.
The two organizations have worked together throughout the
past several years to demonstrate and evaluate renewable energy applications on
former surface mined properties. The projects have included assessments of
wind, solar and biomass energy, as well as hydropower. The announcement
includes two initiatives that will further the efforts and add a new project to
study redevelopment opportunities.
According to the center's director, George Carico, the
Division of Energy and Appalachian Regional Commission will provide $355,000 in
funding for three new projects, which will be completed throughout the next two
"Our efforts in recent years with the West Virginia Division
of Energy have produced multiple renewable energy demonstration and research
projects, and we've gained valuable knowledge about a number of surface mined
lands available for redevelopment," Carico said. "We continue to play a primary
role in reuse and redevelopment of West Virginia's
surface mine lands for progressive and innovative new purposes, and welcome the
opportunity to expand our efforts in bringing new life to these properties
after mining activities have been completed."
Carico said the first project will use state-of-the art
Sonic Detection and Ranging, or SODAR equipment, to continue wind measurement
studies designed to help identify promising wind energy sites. Carico said six
sites were evaluated in a previous phase and the new funding will allow them to
add three or four additional sites to the study.
The second initiative will allow the Brownfields
Assistance Center
to administer a grant program to support renewable energy projects on
surface-mined land.
The West Virginia Brownfields
Assistance Center
at Marshall University
is a program of the university's Center for Environmental, Geotechnical and
Applied Sciences.


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An Arizona teen accused of multiple sex crimes against underage girls in the San Tan Valley area has been arraigned on a third indictment filed by the Pinal County Attorney's Office.
Tyler Kost, 18, of San Tan Valley, was in Pinal County court on Wednesday when the court denied a motion filed by the defense to change the venue.
Pinal County Attorney's Office spokesman Jim Knupp said there are 13 victims and Kost faces 30 charges from the three indictments.
Nearly all of the victims are high school students, according to PCSO spokesman Sgt. Pat Ramirez. Sheriff's investigators said they discovered one girl was 13 years old. The oldest girl is 17. Each encounter happened within a three-year period.
Kost was a student at Poston Butte High School. After he was apprehended the first time, he was booked into the Pinal County Jail on two counts of sexual assault and two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor related to one of the cases. A spokesman with the Florence Unified School District said Kost was suspended from school.
In one case, Kost threatened, harassed and told one of the victims to kill herself, deputies said. The girl followed through and attempted suicide and was hospitalized, Ramirez said.
While in the hospital, she allegedly got a message from Kost, threatening that if she returned to school he would "make her life a living hell," Ramirez said. Fearful of returning, she packed up and moved out of state, Babeu said.
In another case, a victim became pregnant after she was allegedly raped, PCSO said.
"One of the victims actually became pregnant because of the sexual assault, and she subsequently had an abortion," Babeu said. "These are horrible crimes that cannot be tolerated in our community."
The arrest came after a Pinal County sheriff's detective assigned to the Persons Crimes Bureau got a tip. Initially, the tipster told PCSO that there were five victims.
Around the same time, officials with the Florence Unified School District say Kost came into the office to report being bullied. At that time, he was not aware there was a simultaneous investigation of the sex assaults with Kost as a suspect, as well as the bully allegations.
School officials said the thinking was that Kost was being bullied in relation to rumors among students that he was involved in the alleged assaults.
Detectives opened an investigation and identified eight other girls who claimed they had been sexually assaulted, sexually abused and molested by Kost, Ramirez said.
The alleged attacks happened at several places.
"He would assault these young female victims in their own bedrooms, in his bedroom, in the desert, at a community pool, at community parks," Babeu said.
Detectives said because he looked young and innocent, many people didn't perceive him as a threat.
Gentry Gillespie lives just two doors down from Kost. The father of four said he planned to have a talk with his kids as soon as they got home from school.
He also expressed words of encouragement for the victims.
"They're brave and if there are more of them out there then they need to come out, too, so this kid gets justice and maybe a little closure for them, too," he said.
Kost's pretrial conference is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Sept. 29.
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ATLANTA, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Apartment Guide, the leading digital marketing solutions partner in the apartment industry, today launched its new Room Planner application and 3D Floor Plans for clients listing apartments for rent on ApartmentGuide.com. 3D Floor Plans are also available on the mobile site and apps for iPhone and Android devices.
All client listings will be equipped with Room Planner free of charge, while all Diamond and Platinum package listings will feature 3D Floor Plans at no cost to the client. The new applications are a product of Apartment Guide's investment in redrawing more than 200,000 client floor plans.
The Room Planner provides prospective renters with an interactive tool to help arrange furniture in various floor plan layouts on a client's listing. 3D Floor Plans automatically convert two-dimensional and HD Floor Plans into a more realistic three-dimensional view of what a floor plan looks like furnished and unfurnished.
"Our new and innovative Room Planner and 3D Floor Plans empower prospective renters to better visualize the living experience at an apartment community without ever visiting the property," says Scott Asher, vice president of marketing and operations for RentPath, Apartment Guide's parent company. "These additions further underscore our commitment to innovation and providing the best possible experience for prospective renters and apartment companies alike."
According to Apartment Guide internal data, prospective renters are more likely to remain engaged with an apartment listing when it has Room Planner and 3D Floor Plans. Longer engagement time typically results in more qualified leads.
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