Woman stabbed husband for friending woman on Facebook

A Mesa woman who assaulted her husband after finding out he was friending woman on Facebook and using online dating services answered the door with her hands held in front of her and said “take me to jail, I stabbed him.”

Mesa police arrested Brenda S. Batista, 48, at her home near Main Street and Extension Road around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, court documents state.

The victim then came to the door, showed police a small cut on his arm, and said he had been stabbed.

He told police his wife thinks he is using online dating services but said they are old accounts he used before he married her, documents state. He then showed police two 12-inch kitchen knives used by his wife.

The man told police he was in the bedroom when his wife came at him with a knife in each hand.

After a brief quarrel, he was able to get the knives from his wife, reports state.

Batista told police she became extremely angry and grabbed the knives but blacked out in rage and didn’t mean to stab her husband.

Police recommended charges of aggravated assault and she was booked into Mesa Jail.

Police seek cyber Romeo in Internet dating women

Dating site Launches Blog Dedicated to Helping Singles In Dating: Dating Women

The most thriving online dating site for Russian, with nearly millions of unique visitors, knows a thing or two about bringing their loyal readers together in a quest to find their true love. Now all singles can benefit from the latest advice, tips, articles, and even topics on interracial dating that can be found in one click of a mouse: Dating Women.

“Don’t let the name fool you. We’ve catered this dating site to not only women and men, but also to anyone who has an affinity towards singles. We are leveraging our position as the foremost online dating site to provide value to our readers and the community,” said Arais, Executive Directory.

The nation’s prospering online dating site devoted to singles, has launched Dating Women– the revolutionary new blog designed to serve the needs of singles in the community.

Dating Women is unique in its own way. Unlike most online dating site on the internet,  is not owned by a conglomerate that owns the majority of the dating real estate. Instead  is solely owned by the same people in the community, trying to help others of similar interests find their true love.

The blog, Dating Women, is designed to deliver real world dating advice that can be applied immediately in your dating life. Featured articles invoke inspiration, motivation, and thought to help navigate singles through the tough world of online dating site.

Dating Women has made the lifelong commitment to always be free and require no membership to access the material. They promise to provide value to singles trying to find love and the right relationship.

“As the rising online dating site for singles, has made a deep commitment to providing service, education, and amusement to their loyal  singles, without ever asking for a penny in return,” said Smith.

“Nobody else is providing the level of information that we are, updated several times a day, so that you have everything in your arsenal to learn about dating, love, relationships, and even intimacy,” Smith added. “We are constantly striving to help singles.”

The blog is published online and updated frequently to provide the freshest content in:

• Featuring new articles on dating , love, intimacy in the bedroom, and relationships.
• Expert guest writers from dating site authorities and encouragement to our readers to engage in the conversation.
• Interviews with celebrities, authors, dating advisors, and life coaches. These interviews will help steer you in the right direction — whether or not you are trying to be in a relationship or if you are already in one.
• Advice and tips from real world people who have used Dating Women to find their true soulmate.

Princeton women fall to Delaware, 81-70, in battle of the unbeatens

The Princeton women basketball team was seeking the program’s first victory over a Top 25 team tonight to validate its undefeated start to this season and claim a place among the nation’s elite teams.

After back-to-back Ivy League titles and appearances in the NCAA Tournament, the Tigers were hungry for more.

Instead, Princeton received a rude awakening and a first-hand look at one of the top players in the game as No. 24 Delaware shot a sizzling 62.3 percent and cruised to a not-nearly-that-close 81-70 victory at Jadwin Gym before 1,824 fans, the Tigers’ biggest crowd of the season.

The loss halted the Tigers’ 26-game home winning streak and dropped them to 6-1.

“Once the sting of a missed opportunity is gone, we’ll get back to work,” Princeton coach Courtney Banghart said. “We hope that come March we’ll be better prepared than we were tonight. The more chances we get to play in an environment like this, the better we’ll respond.”

The Blue Hens’ smooth-operating 6-5 junior swing forward Elena Delle Donne had 32 points (13-of-19 shooting), nine rebounds and three assists to pace Delaware (5-0), which is ranked for the first time in school history.

Three other Delaware players were in double figures as the Blue Hens led by as many as 23 points in the first half. Their speed and athleticism overwhelmed the Tigers at the outset.

Delle Donne, a Wilmington, Del., native who originally committed to Connecticut but left after just two days because of homesickness, entered the game as the nation’s leading scorer (30.3 ppg). She has the ball-handling skills of a point guard and 3-point shooting range.

“After the last game against St. Bonaventure (11-of-26, 25 points), I spent extra time in the gym,” Delle Donne said. “I needed to work on my arc. My shot was flat. I was pretty confident it was going to be a good game for me tonight.”

Lauren Edwards led Princeton with 23 points. Niveen Rasheed added 20 points.

‘‘We kind of weren’t ourselves,’’ Princeton center Devona Allgood said. ‘‘It’s something we had hoped to learn from being in the (NCAA) Tournament last year. It’s early, so that’s good. We can make the adjustments.’’

Princeton women Delle Donna’s height and dribbling ability were keys against the Tigers’ signature press as she repeatedly helped break it. Princeton entered the game forcing 23.5 turnovers per game — among the most in the nation. Delaware finished with 18 turnovers but had only four in the first half as it raced to a 46-28 lead at intermission.

“We played well in the first half,” Delaware coach Tina Martin said. “We were definitely clicking on all cylinders. We were sharing the ball and we did a nice job defensively on Rasheed. I thought overall it was probably the best half we played all year.”

Princeton women shot 39.3 percent (11-of-28) and was never able to slow down the pace. The Tigers were repeatedly beaten in transition by the quicker Blue Hens.

Delaware came out of the gate with a 14-0 blitz. They swarmed Princeton on the defensive end and blew by the Tigers on the offensive end. Princeton missed its first six shots and committed three turnovers in its first seven possessions.

The Blue Hens got contributions across the board with all five starters scoring a basket in the game-opening run. Delaware hit seven of its first eight shots.

Undaunted, the Tigers remained patient and chipped away at the lead. They put together a 13-5 run to climb back into the game at 21-15 on an off-balance left-handed scoop shot by Edwards in the lane.

The good times were short-lived, however. The Blue Hens responded with a furious 17-3 spurt, sparked by seven points from Delle Donne.

Date Women still live longer, but men are closing the gap.

Men are catching up with date women in the longevity sweepstakes, according to a new analysis of census data, which show that the U.S. is the oldest it’s ever been.

The population of Americans ages 65 and older increased by 15.1 percent from 2000 to 2010, far outpacing population growth as a whole, at 9.7 percent, according to the data, which were released this week.

One of every 7.6 Americans, or 13 percent, is now in that group, the highest ratio the census has recorded since it began collecting age data in 1790.

While date women and men alike are living longer, men are closing the gap in the historical date women have had. Twenty years ago, there were 83 men for every 100 women ages 65 and older; now there are 90.5 men.

Carrie Werner, the statistician who compiled the analysis, said the data “will provide some unique challenges for the data users.”

Your odds of reaching 90 keep getting better

They’re more like a “whack over the head with a 2-by-4,” said Paul Downey, president and chief executive of Senior Community Centers, which offers senior services to low-income residents in the San Diego area.

“This should be a wake-up call for our elected officials to start focusing on aging policy now,” Downey told NBCS “Otherwise, we’ll be dealing with it in crisis mode.”

Downey said the numbers raise a red flag for the solvency of Social Security solvency, which he said will rely on a smaller proportion of the population to provide funds for a growing population of seniors.

“We risk people falling through the cracks,” Downey said. “We need to acknowledge now that we are a graying nation.”

Who lives where
As you might expect, given its reputation as a retirement haven, Florida is the oldest state, with 17.3 percent of its 19 million residents 65 or older, according to msnbc analysis of the data, which didn’t rank the states.

Aging in place: Most in U.S. want to stay put

But there are some surprises at the top of the list. For example, the cold-weather states of Maine (15.9 percent) and Pennsylvania (15.4 percent) are third and fourth, a reflection of the Northeastern U.S.’s status as the region with the highest percentage of older residents.

The 10 oldest states, with the percentage of their populations 65 and older:

1. Florida 17.3
2. West Virginia 16.0
3. Maine 15.9
4. Pennsylvania 15.4
5. Iowa 14.9
6. Montana 14.8
7. Vermont 14.6
8. North Dakota 14.5
9. Rhode Island 14.4
Tie Arkansas 14.4
Tie Delaware 14.4

Other arthritis-friendly states popularly considered to be retiree magnets didn’t crack the top of the list. Hawaii did make it to a tie for 12th, with an older population of 14.3 percent, but Arizona was all the way down in a tie for 19th (13.8 percent).

By region:

1. Northeast 14.1
2. Midwest 13.5
3. South 13.0
4. West 11.9

American women view Clinton withdrawal with sorrow, pride

The win by Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has left American women both sad and elated — that a woman came so close, but ultimately missed making history.

“It’s a shame,” said Cincinnati nurse Nicole Jones, 32. “I can’t help but think her being a strong, powerful woman has played a role — I’m not sure the general public is ready for a strong, powerful female. It’s very disappointing.”

While Clinton has not yet conceded defeat, Illinois Sen. Obama captured enough delegates on Tuesday to clinch the Democratic nomination, becoming the first black American to win the presidential nomination of a major U.S. party.

Obama will face Republican John McCain in the November race for the White House.

Clinton, 60, a New York senator and former first lady who entered the Democratic race as a heavy favorite, said she would consult party leaders and supporters about her next move.

Some women said Clinton should run again in 2012.

“I would like to have a American women as president. The country is almost there, some people just have to get used to the idea,” said Julie Miller, 34, manager of a Cincinnati coffee shop. “She should definitely try to run again.”

Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American women and Politics at Rutgers University, said there will be a grieving process for those who believed Clinton was the best chance to see a female in the Oval Office any time soon.

“For women of a certain age, and a lot of working class women, that real core of her support, these women never actually thought before there might be a woman president in their lifetime and they started to believe it could happen. And now that’s gone. That’s the disappointment,” Walsh said.

But while some American women voters said they were saddened that 2008 is not the year the first woman U.S. president will be elected, others said the historic nomination of an African American took some sting out of the loss.

“I’m not putting my female side first. It’s also amazing that we have the first black man who is going to be the candidate. It’s historic on both sides,” said Heidi Henning, 42, a manager at a trade association in Chicago.

SEXISM, INSPIRATION

Others hoped it could still be a historic year for American women.

“I heard (Clinton) could be the vice president, and that would be great,” said Cincinnati marketer Nikki Smith, 25. “It’s awesome that she ran and got as close as she did. It’s important for women to be in these positions.”

Marie Wilson, president and founder The White House Project, which trains women for political leadership, said women may look at Clinton’s campaign with some sorrow because she did not win — but will also be inspired.

“It’s a continuum. It’s be an agony at first that she got this far, then it will shift,” said Wilson. “Women have latched onto her persistence and courage rather than the fact that she’s had a hard time. (We’re seeing) more young women saying they are motivated because they have seen her persist.”

As the long battle between Clinton and Obama wore on, many American women began to believe sexism — particularly in the media — was hurting Clinton’s chances.

But Rosemary Camposano, communications director of the WomenCount political action committee formed to fight for Clinton’s right to continue her campaign, said even that could ultimately be beneficial.

“What it has done is energized a lot of women to get into the process, because American women have taken it personally when she is called a bitch … because that is not about her policies, that is an attack on her as a woman,” said Camposano.

“She has sparked what will be the second generation of — I don’t want to say the women’s movement — but women have found a voice with this process that will not go away.”

Feminist and author Naomi Wolf said that while she was frustrated by the sexism in the media coverage of Clinton, her loss perhaps had less to do with Clinton being a woman than the fact she faced such a strong opponent in Obama.

“(Women) will give her credit for being up against formidable new product, a fresh, charismatic visionary leader exactly in sync with the times,” Wolf said. “There is a lot to be proud of and a lot to regret …. She’s already made issue of ‘Can a woman run?’ much less important.”

Cincinnati architect Jane Goode agreed.

“I think people have trouble hearing American women, hearing what we have to say. When we’re tough they don’t like,” Goode said as she stopped for coffee at Starbucks. Still, while Clinton ran “an admirable race,” Goode did not base her vote on gender.

“I’ve been an Obama supporter for quite a while.”

Rutgers women block Imus’ shot with classy stand

How do we explain how 10 college women, none of them particularly well-known nor even remotely as recognizable as the now-radioactively infamous “I-Man,” completely outclassed and outsmarted a man who has spent nearly 40 years in the public eye?

How do we explain what these women did for themselves, for their team, for their school, for their sport and for the nation’s perception of female athletes in the face of one of the most withering media firestorms any athlete, male or female, pro or amateur, will ever have to face?

As the Rutgers Scarlet Knights stepped to the microphone at their nationally televised news conference, one by one, to introduce themselves, say a polite hello or answer a question — in complete, comprehensible sentences, we might add, hardly typical jockspeak — Don Imus looked worse by the minute, didn’t he?

Just how out of touch is this man, to say the disgusting things he said about this group of young women, of all people — the young women we as a nation saw and were so impressed with on our TV screens all day?

“These young ladies who sit before you are valedictorians of their classes, future doctors, musical prodigies and, yes, even Girl Scouts,” Rutgers Coach C. Vivian Stringer said at the news conference, and she wasn’t kidding. One of them, team captain Essence Carson, is a music major who plays four instruments, which would be a news flash to Imus, who last week called Carson and her nine teammates “nappy-headed hos.”

“These young ladies are the best the nation has to offer,” Stringer said, “and we are so very fortunate to have them here at Rutgers. They are ladies of class and distinction; they are articulate, they are brilliant. They are God’s representatives in every sense of the word.”

If Imus doesn’t lose his job over his reprehensible comments, he should be fired for being so clueless that he apparently has no idea what kind of women we as a nation are producing through competitive sports.

“They are 18-, 19-, 20-year-old women who came here to get an education and reach their gifts for all to see,” Stringer said. “These are young women little girls look up to. … There is a bigger issue here, more than the basketball team. It’s all women athletes, it’s all women.”

When an issue like this explodes in our culture, the first outrage usually is racial, the second, gender-related. And so it is in this case. First came Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, weighing in loudly, metaphorically shutting down the factory. Then came the women’s voices, not quite so full of force. Their reaction appeared more muted because the mainstream sports media rarely pay as much attention to women’s issues as they do to African-American issues, at least in part because equality in women’s sports has been a national topic only since the passage of Title IX in June 1972.

In the Imus case, the racial component has helped give voice to the gender issue: The fact that the nation’s No. 2 basketball team has been treated with such utter disregard by a national media powerhouse. Imus thrives in a male-dominated, trash-talking world, where it’s often open season on women. While Imus uttered repulsive words that others certainly would not use, let’s not kid ourselves. On every college campus, there’s a male athlete or coach who under his breath has made fun of a female athlete in the last week or two, guaranteed.

So how important was that appearance by the Rutgers team on all those cable channels during the day, then leading the network news at night?

“They spoke with such dignity, as the decent, respectable, upstanding student-athletes they are,” said Women’s Sports Foundation President Aimee Mullins. “They showed the ability to be bigger than their attacker. That was so uplifting.”

There are steppingstones that link the short history of women’s sports after Title IX. There’s Billie Jean King, the U.S. women stars of the Olympics, the 1999 U.S. World Cup soccer team, the Williams sisters — and now this. A group of 10 female athletes, standing tall and proud, as the nation turns its head to look.

A slam-dunk? On second thought, it was even better than that.

Women’s basketball hosts two-day tournament

ASU is looking to protect its house for the weekend.

The ASU women’s basketball team welcomes schools Eastern Washington, Illinois State and Arkansas State to Tempe for the ASU Classic.

Junior guard Deja Mann said that it is very important to the team to defend their home court.

“We talk about defending home court every week,” Mann said. “We haven’t lost a (home) tournament, not since I have been here. It will be huge to win our home tournament.”

Coach Joseph Anders said that in the past, ASU has defended home court well.

“If you look at our track record over the last eleven years, it’s been pretty good on our home floor,” Anders said. “Any time you get an opportunity to play at home, we want to represent well.”

The Sun Devils come in to the weekend having just played two very close games in Puerto Rico. ASU played very composed as the game wound down last weekend.

Anders said that the performance in the close games does give the Sun Devils a little bit of confidence, but most of their confidence comes from excellent work in practice.

Senior forward Kali Bennett said that the close games did bring the team together.

“It caused our team to be a little bit closer; we trust each other and I think we believe in each other a lot,” Bennett said. “I think those games solidified our beliefs.”

ASU will take on Eastern Washington Friday and will face either Arkansas State or Illinois State on Saturday.

All three teams will be a challenge for ASU defensively. The three ASU opponents have all averaged over 40 percent field goal percentage this season.

The three opponents coming to Wells Fargo also have strong scorers.

Arkansas State sophomore forward Jane Morrill had 19 points in her last game.

EWU senior guard/forward Ryan Brianne has been putting up 20.7 so far.

ISU senior guard Katie Broadway has an 18.2 average per game.

The ISU Redbirds are lethal so far this season behind the three-point line. As a team they average 45.5 percent beyond the arc.

Broadway does most of her scoring from behind the tape. Women’s has shot 33 threes this season and has made 48.5 percent of the shots.

Mann said there are many tactics to defend a strong three-point shooting team.

“Usually good shooters are not as comfortable driving so make them drive and chase them off the three-point line,” Mann said.

Both players and coach have the same simple goal in mind going into the tournament this weekend. The team wants to sweep the competition and protect their home floor but also continue to improve as a team.

“We want to play good basketball; we want to make sure that through our practice efforts we are prepared to take the floor and play to our best possible level,” Anders said.

Unlike in the past, the games for the ASU Classic will take place early in the day. ASU’s first matchup on Friday tips off at 10:30 a.m. and action gets underway Saturday at noon.

ASU scheduled the early times earlier last summer to adjust to the possibility of ASU hosting the Pac-12 football championship at Sun Devil Stadium.