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'The four "poster boys" for the first Men's Night haven't forgotten the lessons they learned from the February 2008 event. While their experiences didn't drastically change their lives, they did have a lasting impact and spur them to be more health-conscious.

The four — Buzz Lundeen, Joel Myhre, Rick Schara and Mick Siems — agreed in December 2007 to go public with a healthy competition to promote Men's Night, an evening of speakers and information focused on men's health....
The success of the event — close to 300 men braved the blustery weather on a cold February night to attend — inspired organizers to make plans for the 2009 Men's Night. It's scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 26, on the Fergus Falls campus of Minnesota State Community and Technical College.
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Siems, the community health outreach manager for Lake Region Healthcare and organizer for Men's Night, said the keynote speaker will be Bud Grant, former coach of the Minnesota Vikings and a well-known outdoor enthusiast.'

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'A 63-year-old Inkster woman will face murder charges stemming from an arson at the home of her ex-boyfriend which claimed the life of his new girlfriend.

The fire, at 28000 block of Rosewood Street, claimed the life of homeowner Larry Lee’s 52-year-old girlfriend, Denise Robinson, who was overcome by smoke in the upstairs bedroom, according to reports.

Zilpah Ann Warmack was charged with one count of felony murder, one count of assault with intent to murder, and an additional count of arson Wednesday at the 22nd District Court in Inkster.

The felony murder charge carries a mandatory life sentence behind bars, the assault charge carries a penalty of any number of years in prison up to life, and arson is punishable by 20 years in prison.'

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'A Timonium woman was arrested Thanksgiving Day and charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Timothy Lekin, also of Timonium.

Keri Schneider, 36, of Thornhill Road, is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center, in Towson.

Police responded to a call at 3:05 p.m. Nov. 26 about a man slumped over the steering wheel of his car at the end of Sparks Valley Road, in Sparks, said a police spokesman, Cpl. Mike Hill.

Police found Lekin, 35, of Cormer Court, had been shot and was dead in his car. Evidence at the scene linked Schneider to the killing, police said. She had been having a relationship with the victim, police said.'

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'Obama introduced Clinton first, saying of his former presidential rival, "She possesses an extraordinary intelligence and toughness, and a remarkable work ethic. ... She is an American of tremendous stature who will have my complete confidence, who knows many of the world's leaders, who will command respect in every capital, and who will clearly have the ability to advance our interests around the world."

Clinton will give up her seat as a senator from New York to join the Obama Cabinet. Her appointment was preceded by lengthy negotiations involving her husband, the former president, whose international business connections posed potential conflicts of interests.'

Of course the Senate has to confirm her first. Undoubtedly they will do so. I would be very surprised indeed if they didn't.

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'Embarrassed Carleton students are getting closer to ousting the members of their student council responsible for a cystic fibrosis gaffe that garnered national attention.

Frustrated by their student council's recent decision to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser because the disease "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men," Carleton students are attempting to clear their school's name with a petition to impeach their union president
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CUSA president Brittany Smyth said she was "very sorry for the confusion" and stated that an emergency meeting of the association's council is planned for next Monday evening and she'll be personally trying to rescind a decision to pull CUSA support for the annual "Shinerama" fundraiser.

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'There have been a number of cases on university campuses of late in which it appears that political correctness is trumping free expression --and even common sense.

The Carleton University Students' Association voted to drop giving money to a cystic fibrosis charity because the disease "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men." Under a barrage of criticism, the student council reinstated the charity as a beneficiary.

At Queen's University, in Kingston, Ont., the school administration hired six students whose jobs as "dialogue facilitators" involves intervening in conversations among students encourage discussion of such social justice issues as race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. (The program is now being subject to early review.)'

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'The new improved Girly Men are marching, (mincing) in lockstep in front of anyone who will watch, patting themselves on the back for having ‘evolved’. These men have swallowed whole the feminist mantra that This Is What Women Want. A new, sensitive man. A man not afraid of feelings, a man in touch with his inner self who has the, yes, the raw courage, to shed the shackles (whew) of masculinity.
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Nail polish and hair spray will become the new weapons in the battle of the sexes. And millions of men are rushing to re-invent themselves in the new, socially ordained and politically acceptable way. They have become ‘empowered’. Metrosexuals are the new flavor of the day.
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Girly Men have claimed the moral high ground and traditional methods of male behavior are to be considered déclassé. Feelings trump facts, intentions trump outcomes and tears trump fists. Men have evolved to a higher plane and they’re loving it.

So are our enemies.'

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'Blaming male suicide on mental health issues and depression is “too simplistic”, says one of the nation’s new men’s health ambassadors.

Societal factors such as job loss or relationship failure also play a major role and should not be overlooked in efforts to curb the nation’s suicide rate, says Sydney-based Professor John Macdonald.
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“It’s often a combination of social factors, not initially mental health problems, which cause five men a day in Australia to kill themselves,” Mr Macdonald said in Sydney today.

“However, strangely, little research to date has been conducted on the role social factors, such as separation from children and partners and unemployment may have in determining suicide risk.”'

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'A group is seeking $500,000 in donations to build a unique park at the Fort Douglas Military Museum in honor of female veterans.

Utah Military Veterans Advisory Committee chairwoman Su Richards said several women in her group came up with the idea because they felt females needed a memorial of their own.

"They were getting the respect but not the honor," said Richards, a research archivist at the museum. "As near as I can tell, there are very few memorials for women that have bronzes."

Sculptor Jerime Hooley will create two life-sized bronze sculptures. One will feature four women in different period uniforms running across a map of the United States. A second piece will depict a World War II nurse and a "woman warrior" lacing up her combat boots, Richards said. Workers will also build a gazebo for the memorial.'

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'Programs that receive state funding to help victims of domestic violence must provide equal services to men and women, under a state appeals court decision that took effect this month.
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"We applaud the ruling," said Protima Pandey, a board member for San Bernardino's Option House, which provides services including emergency housing, transitional housing, counseling and assistance with getting a restraining order.

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"Most of the men who came to us didn't come because they were afraid for their life or feared being put in a hospital," Evey said. "Their fear was abuse against the children."
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Web sites for agencies and organizations that offer services to domestic violence victims predominantly feature photos of women and their children.

A Web page with information about spousal abuse on the California attorney general's Web site refers to "she" and "her" exclusively.

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"A study of hundreds of families has found that mothers are far more likely to feud with a daughter-in-law than a son-in-law.

Nearly two-thirds of daughters-in-law accused their husband's mother of 'unreasonably jealous maternal love'.

A similar proportion of mothers-in-law complained they had been isolated and excluded by a female addition to the family.
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She said: 'As they struggle to achieve the same position in the family as primary woman, each tries to establish or protect their status, each feels threatened by the other.

'Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict often emerges from an expectation that each is criticising or undermining the other. But this mutual unease may have less to do with actual attitudes and far more to do with persistent female norms that few of us manage to shake off completely.'"

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'Most readers will already have choked on the revelation that the worthies on the student union wanted to give up on cystic fibrosis, after nearly a quarter of a century of Carleton's supporting the charity, because - in homage to that stern god, Diversity - the disease wasn't "inclusive" enough.

The telling phrase in the motion, a monument to the caring and scrupulous intellect of that most delicate of mechanisms - the politically correct sensibility - was that "cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men."

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What is finally interesting about the episode is that it's almost a casebook example of how political correctness, the attempt to purge every thought, word, or deed of its ideological impurities, almost always ends up like the fabled serpent that devours its own tail. Of committing greater sins than the ones it seeks to proscribe.

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'A Freeport woman was charged with attempted murder after she stabbed her boyfriend in the neck with a broken beer glass at a Manhattan nightclub early Sunday morning, according to New York City police.

The boyfriend, 22, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center in critical condition. Police withheld his name.
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An owner of the nightclub, Ariel Palitz, said the couple were arguing near the coat-check area when the woman hit her boyfriend in the neck with a pint beer glass. It wasn't clear whether she broke the Stella Artois beer glass first, then slashed him, or whether the glass shattered from the force of hitting his neck, Palitz said.'

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'The privileged, often therapeutic relationship between hairdressers and clients has long been the subject of magazine articles and movies. A growing movement in New York and across the nation tries to harness that bond to identify and prevent domestic violence, a pervasive problem that victims are often too ashamed to reveal to law enforcement or other public officials.
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The initiative joins similar efforts that have been sprouting across the nation; perhaps the best known, called Cut It Out and based in Chicago, has trained 40,000 salon workers in all 50 states to recognize signs of domestic abuse. In the past few months, the Cut It Out program was also adopted by the Empire Education Group, which has 87 cosmetology schools, and endorsed by the American Association of Cosmetology Schools, the trade organization representing another 800 schools.'