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'More men who need prostate-cancer surgery are choosing minimally invasive techniques because these surgeries typically lead to shorter hospital stays and decrease many types of complications, including pain. This type of surgery, which often includes the use of a robot, is heavily advertised to consumers.

Minimally invasive techniques increased from 1% to 40% of all radical prostatectomies from 2001 to 2006 and may be as high as 75% of all prostate cancer surgeries today.

But here's a detail men should know about: The most serious complications -- including incontinence and erectile dysfunction -- appeared more often in men who underwent minimally invasive surgery compared to traditional surgery, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. '

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'More worrying is the fact one in five black men are currently unemployed - more than double the employment rate for white men.

The male unemployment rate is expected to rise above 10% by the start of next year and peak at 11% (1.9 million men).

According to research launched today by the CIPD, male unemployment currently stands at 9% (compared with a female unemployment rate of 6.9%). But the number of men unemployed has increased by 50% during the recession, while the number of women unemployed as increased by a much lower 33.4%.
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John Philpott, CIPD's chief economist, said: "A focus on the relatively hard impact of the recession on men should not detract from the absolute deterioration in the labour market situation facing both sexes. Indeed, it is likely that the relative position of women will itself deteriorate in the coming decade as real cuts in public expenditure have an adverse impact on public sector employment.'

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'First, the good news: On the whole, domestic violence is down between 1993 and 2008. But unsurprisingly, women remain over five times more likely than men to be victims of both fatal and non-fatal domestic violence, including assault, rape, stalking, and homicide. One of the most interesting findings is that although fewer than 1 of every 1,000 American men has been the victim of domestic violence -- compared to 4.3 of every 1,000 American women -- male victims are more likely than female ones to go to the police: 72 percent of self-reported male victims filled out a police report, compared to 49 percent of female victims. This points to a number of problems familiar to advocates: that female domestic violence victims are especially wary of law enforcement, fearful of reprisal from their abusers, and must battle a cycle of shame and self-doubt before they seek help. About half never do.'

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'Raleigh, Fayette, Summers, Wyoming, Monroe and Nicholas counties have joined a statewide, online domestic violence registry.

The new database was created as a way to secure the safety of domestic violence victims and recognize ongoing disputes. It was launched in March after receiving an $815,000 federal grant to compile court records from each county in West Virginia and download them into a nationwide database.

“The Domestic Violence Registry gives law enforcement officers access to protective orders that have been ordered in court,” said Tonia Thomas, team coordinator for the West Virginia Coalition against Domestic Violence.

They will be able to be accessed electronically, avoiding the delay they may have with paper orders.

“If they don’t have a data terminal in their car, they can call the State Police detachment or their emergency operations center and be able to obtain those orders right away,” Thomas added.'

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'Police statistics show that child abuse has a new face: drunken mothers. Police say they get around 400 reports of domestic violence against children each year; these days around two-thirds of the cases point to intoxicated mothers.

The recession has apparently had a lot to do with the spike in the number of inebriated women who turn abusive.

"The typical case is a single mother who has an alcohol problem and who's become exhausted by work," explains Police Sergeant Pekka Hätönen, who's in charge of the child abuse unit at the Helsinki Itäkeskus police department.

"She might have recently lost her job. All these pressures become focused on a misbehaving child, and the mother becomes easily enraged and lashes out physically, violently."'

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'Last week on Tuesday, October 6th, Boys & Girls Club teens attended Take Back the Night to help raise awareness about domestic abuse.

Previous to the rally, Club members created their own special signs to show support for domestic abuse survivors.
“Domestic violence affects everyone, including kids,” said Club Education Director Tiffanie Bolling. “A lot of the kids that we work with have been victims themselves or know someone close to them that has been a victim. An event like Take Back the Night encourages strength and perseverance to individuals that have gone through horrific situations.”

“We teach our young girls to spot the signs of something wrong before it ever even gets to a violent situation,” said Bolling. “We teach them that love does not hurt and that no amount of hitting is ever okay. Getting help before it's too late is key.”

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'The campaign against domestic violence is recruiting what might seem like unlikely new foot soldiers these days: animal lovers.

In an effort to protect potential victims of domestic violence, Harbor House — Orange County's only domestic-violence shelter — is reaching out to veterinarians, animal-cruelty investigators, law enforcement and neighbors to watch for signs of animal abuse that may indicate a deeper pattern of family violence.

"I think it would change the face of domestic violence if people understood how close that relationship is between animal abuse and domestic violence," said Harbor House CEO Carol Wick. "When you start getting people angry about pets being victimized, it may create a lot more awareness and protection for the people involved."

"Abusers use that bond between humans and animals as a weapon to coerce and control and humiliate their victims and to keep them trapped in abusive relationships," he said'

At her recent keynote address at the annual conference of the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Amanda McCormick, an employee of Praxis International, showed overt disdain for male victims of domestic violence. As reported by Trudy Schuett, McCormick announced, I think I know a lot of men who deserve to be beaten."¹

Praxis International, according to their website, "is a nonprofit research and training organization that works toward the elimination of violence in the lives of women and children.... Since 1996, [they] have worked with advocacy organizations, intervention agencies, and inter-agency collaborations to create a clear and cooperative agenda for social change in their communities."²

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'ST. LOUIS — Circumcision has long been a personal decision left up to parents. Doctors say the risks and benefits are negligible. The American Academy of Pediatrics does not take a stance.

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'Shaikh Ali Abu al-Hasan, the former head of the Fatwa Council at the Islamic Studies Institute (ISI) in Cairo, said although it was not required by Islam for women to cover their faces, Al-Azhar University should allow women to chose what they want to wear.

"No official has the right to order a young lady to remove a form of dress that was sanctioned by none other than Umar ibn al-Khattab, except for the purposes of identification for security reasons," he said.'

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'On Saturday, scores of female university students protested outside al-Azhar university dormitory calling for the repeal of the decision banning fully veiled women from entering. There were similar demonstrations at Cairo University.'

So...how come we're led to believe that Islamic women everywhere are forced to wear these things?

A major victory for disabled military parents in family law policy has just occurred in California in the United States. The following announcement can be linked to at the following Web page for the California Alliance for Families and Children (CAFC):
http://www.cafcusa.org/news/2009/10/cafc-wins-major-victory-for-californias.html

CAFC Wins a Major Victory For California's Disabled Veterans

Sacramento, October 11, 2009: The California Alliance for Families and Children (CAFC, online at cafcusa.org) is announcing another victory for military service personnel and veterans. Today Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 285, a bill to protect disabled veterans disability compensation from illegal attachment and garnishments.

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'Today’s statistical foray is into the field of 'Survivorship'. One key way that we measure the relative treatment and condition of the different races is by their relative survivorship over time – how quickly they die off as opposed to the average, and as compared to other races. Black men, for instance, are about 1/3rd less likely to make it to age 80 than white men, and that indicates to us that black men are doing about 33% less well in our society than white men.

And the same logic reasonably applies to the differential in survival rates between men and women – a black male is 50% less likely than a white woman to make it to age 80, and about 35% less likely than a black woman to achieve that age.

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'In a July 28 search warrant, Los Angeles Police Department investigators said they were told that the woman who made the allegations had gone out with friends on a pub-crawl July 10 in the downtown area. She told police she was drugged and that she awoke the next morning as she was being sexually assaulted by a man she later identified as Adelman, according to the affidavit.‬‪

Prosecutors cited several factors for their decision not to seek charges. They included a surveillance video and an interview with a cab driver who drove the pair to Adelman's car that evening. Neither the video nor the cab driver suggested that the woman appeared drugged.'

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'But NOW, without having heard from any of the women with whom Letterman had sex, using this opportunity to address the issue is classless, and most importantly, shows it doesn't truly care about the individual experiences of women, but rather, will readily write them off to achieve an end goal.

In this instance, NOW attempts to speak for all women, represent all women, without them asking NOW to do so. In this instance, it is NOW making victims out of women who otherwise are empowered women who just so happened to have had sex with Letterman.

It seems NOW does not think women can make decision on their own as to with whom to have sex, nor does it trust women enough to think that they can have sex without having been coerced into it.