Still, those who had an abortion had a higher overall readmission rate both before and after the procedure than women who gave birth.Some researchers — as well as political opponents of abortion — have suggested that aborting a fetus can take a serious psychological toll on women, although doctors who do the procedures argue that’s generally not the case.We’re not saying that this group of women is necessarily doing really, really well. What we’re saying is that the procedure itself doesn’t seem to be associated with a higher risk of readmission, said Trine Munk-Olsen, from the University of Aarhus, one of the study’s authors.It does seem to be a more vulnerable group of women, she told Reuters Health.Munk-Olsen pointed out that her study only took into account psychiatric episodes that were severe enough to require intensive treatment, so it can’t give any clues into whether abortion might have an effect on more mild depression, for example.Feelings of sadness and loss around the time of an abortion are temporary and appropriate, said Dr. Anne Davis, an ob-gyn at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York.There are going to be normal emotional reactions to that type of stress, Davis, who wasn’t involved in the new study, told Reuters Health. That’s not the same thing as saying women are likely to have serious mental health issues as a result of the procedure, she added.The new data come from records of Danish women with a past psychiatric facility stay who had an abortion or gave birth between 1994 and 2007. In each of those cases, the researchers tracked the woman’s chance of being readmitted for any psychiatric disorder in the nine months before the abortion or birth and the year afterward.Of the 2,838 women getting a first abortion, 11 percent were readmitted sometime during the study. That compares to just five percent of the 5,293 women who gave birth. However, women who had an abortion were no more likely to be sent back to a psychiatric facility around the time of the abortion or afterward than in the months before the procedure — including before women became pregnant. That suggests that some of these women may have in part decided to have an abortion because of psychiatric problems and related life stressors — not that the abortion itself worsened their mental illness, Munk-Olsen and her colleagues wrote Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry. By comparison, rates of readmission were higher after having a baby than before in women who gave birth, peaking in the first month after their babies were born. That’s consistent with prior research, Munk-Olsen said, and may be due to a mix of genetic risks and sleep deprivation, biological changes and hormone swings that happen after childbirth. She said that the generally higher rate of psychiatric readmission in the abortion group, up to nine months before and a year after the procedure, might explain why some previous studies have suggested abortion does increase the risk of mental health problems. Though there’s still some controversy in the field, one expert not involved in the new research said the findings are consistent with past high-quality studies.All the things that make women think this is not the time to have a baby are risk factors for having mental health problems, said Dr. Nada Stotland, a psychiatrist at Rush Medical College in Chicago.The best predictor of your mental health after an abortion is your mental health before an abortion, she told Reuters Health. Abortion may be linked to mental health problems, but it does not cause mental health problems.The new study was partially funded by the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, the charitable organization founded by Warren Buffett.Munk-Olsen said it’s impossible to be sure whether the findings would be consistent in another country such as the United States. In Denmark, she said, abortion is free, legal and not highly stigmatized.SOURCE: http://bit.ly/vZdwDFbit.ly/vZdwDF Archives of General Psychiatry, online February 6, 2012.
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U.S. attorney Robert Pitman said that in many cases, the Texas purchasers were paid a couple hundred dollars for buying a weapon and handing it to a smuggler, he said.Firearms smugglers employ individuals in the United States with no criminal histories to purchase firearms, often assault-style weapons, and those weapons are then smuggled into Mexico, Pitman told reporters in San Antonio on Wednesday.The consequences of that smuggling can be seen every day in the murders which take place south of the border.Los Zetas, which are led by Mexican Army deserters who started as enforcers for Mexico’s Gulf Cartel and later branched out on their own, are blamed for much of the violence in Mexico, which is believed to have taken the lives of more than 40,000 Mexicans since President Felipe Calderon began an offensive against the cartels in 2006.The 21 people indicted in the scheme are not typical drug gang suspects with violent criminal histories, said Crisanto Perez, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He said most were otherwise law-abiding young adults who were tempted by easy money.There were originally 22 defendants, but one died since she was indicted in connection with the operation, which took place in the summer of 2010, officials said. Eight of the 22 people indicted were young housewives, Perez said.There are people out there from the criminal element who are trying to recruit our young people to be straw purchasers, Perez said. One hundred dollars to buy a gun for someone is not worth ruining your life.One straw purchaser bought one weapon while another bought 20, according to Assistant U.S. attorney Ben Seal.The nine men and women sentenced so far have been handed federal prison terms of one to six years. The others face similar sentences if convicted. The 203 weapons seized in the operation included handguns, AK-47 and AR-15 style assault rifles, and a . 0 caliber sniper rifle. Pitman said all of the weapons were purchased legally from licensed dealers, and that if any of the dealers knew the buyers were buying for cartels, they would be charged. If the dealer doesn’t know that this weapon is being purchased for someone else, and they follow the rules, there’s not anything we can do about that, Pitman said, adding that many of the gun dealers tipped off investigators to purchases that seemed out of the ordinary. Jerry Robinette of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that squeezing off the straw purchasers was an effective way of cutting down on the violence in Mexico. That’s where it starts, he said. If you don’t have straw purchasers, you don’t have the guns to turn over to smugglers to get them into Mexico. Seal said none of the guns in the operation were allowed to enter Mexico so they could be traced to cartel leaders, a tactic that has led to widespread criticism of the Justice Department’s actions in the Fast and Furious gun-walking sting in Arizona. In that operation, which ran from 2009 to 2011, U.S. government agents lost track of many of the weapons. A congressional panel is investigating Operation Fast and Furious, which was the subject of a heated hearing last week.
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The vote was the last chance for the church’s parliament, or synod, to influence the draft legislation in its long legislative process before it heads to the House of Bishops for consideration in May.If the bishops make no changes, the draft will return to synod in July for a final vote – 20 years after it voted in favor of women priests.That women will get to wear the mitre is in little doubt. What the synod had to consider was how much extra provision traditionalist Anglo-Catholics and conservative evangelicals would get and how much more authority liberals should cede.The consecration of women, along with homosexual bishops and same-sex marriages, is among the most divisive issues facing the 77 million members of the Anglican Church round the world.Other Anglican provinces already have women bishops, including the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.Traditionalists and evangelicals, who say they represent 1,000 of the 13,000 parishes in England and Wales, wanted to strengthen the legal position of male bishops ministering in dioceses where parishes objected to women bishops.They backed a motion which in effect resurrected a proposal put forward by the two most senior Church of England clerics, the archbishops of Canterbury and York, in July 2010, but which was rejected by the synod at the time.It would have provided for a so-called nominated bishop, working alongside the female bishop under a system of a co-ordinate, or shared, jurisdiction, drawing his authority from the church rather than diocesan bishop.Traditionalists argue that as Jesus Christ’s apostles were all men, there is nothing in the Bible or church history to support women bishops. Had the synod voted for their proposal, it could have held up the legislative process by a year. As it is, traditionalists have asked the House of Bishops to provide properly for those unable in conscience to accept the oversight of women bishops. Liberals argued they had made enough concessions already, and any further compromise would create second-tier women bishops. The synod voted in favor of the liberals’ stance, that the draft legislation should go forward unchanged. We want to honor the efforts of all those who have gone before and allow the current measure to go forward to final approval and see what happens at that stage, the Reverend Rosemarie Mallett told synod. The vote could see more traditionalists move over to Rome. About 60 Anglo-Catholic priests and 1,000 parishioners have already taken up an offer by Pope Benedict to convert and form an ordinariate within the Roman Catholic Church while keeping some of their Anglican traditions. Nearly a third of the Church of England’s working priests are female.The synod vote is not binding and the House of Bishops can choose to accept it or ignore it.The draft legislation will need a two-thirds majority in each house of synod – bishops, clergy and laity – before it can go before the British parliament, with the first woman bishop unlikely before 2014.
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A three-person ( see http://BingPeople.com) panel ruled for the Dominican Republic native after Miami offered $1. 5 million following Bonifacio’s breakout season in 2011 when he had a team-high . 96 batting average with 40 stolen bases and a 26-game hitting streak.Bonifacio, 26, earned $425,000 last year.The decision is the second in three days to go against the Marlins as a panel ruled on Monday that pitcher Anibal Sanchez should make $8 million this year.
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* Becomes Latin America’s No. 1 independent investment bank* Billionaire Andre Esteves, partners own 80 pct of BTG* Looking for more advisory deals in Chile, Peru, ColombiaBy Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Aluisio AlvesSAO PAULO, Feb 8 (Reuters)- WireNews – BTG Pactual, the
Brazilian securities firm owned by billionaire financier Andre
Esteves, is buying Chilean rival Celfin Capital in a
cash-and-stock deal as it seeks to win more investment banking
and capital market advisory business in South America.Under the terms of the deal, Esteves and his partners will
pay $245 million in cash and give Celfin’s owners a 2. percent
stake in BTG Pactual. The takeover makes BTG Pactual
the largest independent investment bank in Latin America,
further extending its reach into fast-growing economies like
Chile, Peru and Colombia.Since it was formed it 2009, BTG Pactual has been on a
deal-making frenzy in Brazil and abroad as Esteves, a
43-year-old financial wunderkind, strives to turn the firm into
the largest investment bank in emerging markets by the end of
the decade.The global agenda for Latin America is gaining relevance in
terms of investment inflows, and our goal is to become regional
leaders, Esteves told reporters at the bank’s headquarters in
S\’e3o Paulo’s financial district.BTG Pactual has become a symbol of Brazil’s growing economic
might, competing neck-and-neck with big global investment banks
in a region with bustling capital markets and booming demand for
wealth management services.The bank has muscle to undertake bigger takeovers than
Celfin as a $1. billion stake sale to a group of investors led
by sovereign wealth funds late in 2010, a low payout ratio and
swelling trading and dealmaking profits, have beefed up cash
holdings, Esteves said. We have enough capital for acquisitions, he said, without
elaborating. Esteves spoke besides senior partner Persio Arida,
a Brazilian economist credited with helping the government break
hyperinflation in the mid-1990s. According to Exame Magazine, BTG Pactual agreed to pay $600
million for all of Celfin, which would value the stock portion
of the deal at about $355 million. The magazine did not cite any
sources in its report. Based on the Exame report, the Celfin deal would value BTG
Pactual at about $14. billion, almost 50 percent more than the
$10 billion valuation it got in December 2010, when investors
led by buyout firm JC Flowers – Co, the two largest Asian
sovereign wealth funds and the largest Middle Eastern sovereign
wealth fund, bought 18. percent of BTG Pactual. 4BANKING PRODIGY5Esteves, a mathematician who started as a computer
technician at Banco Pactual at age 21 before rising through the
ranks to become its managing partner, sold the firm to UBS AG
in May 2006 for about $3. billion. He and some
partners bought back Pactual for about $2. billion in 2009.Esteves, alongside senior partners and some of BTG Pactual’s
1,300 employees, will own 80 percent of the shop after the
Celfin deal. Forbes Magazine calculates Esteves’ net worth at
about $3 billion.He and his partners have long considered an initial public
offering to bulk up the bank’s capital, but postponed the plans
because of volatility in global markets.Last December, he said an IPO was still possible in the
medium term, without elaborating.At the news conference, Esteves said that BTG Pactual is
growing regionally because a flatter and more integrated world
is demanding regional banks to gain a global character. The
ability of BTG Pactual to lure more investment inflows into
Latin America will depend on us building up a strong regional
franchise with global reach, he said.The deal, which has been in the works since at least August,
may give BTG Pactual the proximity it needs to win
investment-banking and capital markets advisory mandates in
Peru, Colombia and Chile – thanks to Celfin’s contacts with
companies and governments there, Arida said.TOP BRAZIL M-A ADVISORThe purchase still requires regulatory approval. Once the
deal is completed, Celfin’s 15 main shareholders will become BTG
Pactual partners.Once the transaction closes, BTG Pactual will have 129
billion reais ($75 billion) in assets under management and
handle about 49 billion reais for wealthy investors.In 2011, BTG Pactual topped merger and acquisitions advisory
rankings in Brazil for the second year in a row, as its focus on
retail and other fast-growing segments resulted in $24. 5
billion worth of announced deals, according to Thomson Reuters
data. The firm advised on 52 deals last year. About $78. 4 billion
worth of deals were announced in Brazil last year, down from
$120. 1 billion in 2010, while the number of agreements rose to
745 from 698. BTG Pactual’s investment-banking unit helped the controlling
shareholders of brewer Schincariol sell a 50. 5 percent stake to
Japan’s Kirin Holdings for $2. billion. The bank also advised Italian-Argentine giant Techint Group
on its $2. billion purchase of a 27. percent voting stake in
Brazilian steelmaker Usiminas.
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Paulson, Hartford’s largest shareholder, grew increasingly agitated and impatient on a conference call with the company and financial analysts, ultimately shouting that management had a responsibility to do more to improve shareholder value.I would say that Hartford needs to do something drastic because the stock is the lowest valuation relative to book value of any major insurance company, said Paulson, whose Paulson – Co invests some $28 billion for funds and wealthy clients.The exchange quickly drew attention in the investment world, not only because the normally cool Paulson became so obviously irritated, but because it illustrated how one of the industry’s most powerful managers was flexing his muscle to benefit shareholders’ bottom line.How long do we have to wait to hear if there is going to be a positive recommendation to separate these two businesses, he asked a few seconds later, referring to the possibility that Hartford’s life and property insurance units would be split.Shares climbed 9. percent to $20. 9 in early afternoon trading. At that level, the stock was up nearly 29 percent for the year while the broader S-P insurance index .GSPINSC was 8. percent higher.That gain is sure to help the performance of Paulson’s investments, but it does little to erase the anger felt by Paulson’s own investors last year, after poorly timed bets on Hartford and financial stocks wiped out more than 50 percent of one of his biggest portfolios.In past years, Paulson was lionized for his call on gold and his bet against the overheated housing market, earning him a personal payout of roughly $8 billion.DEPRESSED VALUEDespite the stock’s recent strong run, Hartford still trades at a ratio of 0. 3 times its book value, according to Thomson Reuters data, less than half of the sector median of 0. 0 times book (which itself is a depressed figure by historical standards). For Paulson, who owned an 8. percent stake in the company at the end of the third quarter, the interest was evident. Hartford Chief Executive Liam McGee seemed surprised to hear Paulson himself on the line, after someone else at the hedge fund firm was announced as being up to ask a question. The call came after Hartford on Tuesday reported a profit that beat expectations, even though earnings were actually down sharply and the company had to take a series of charges to boost its reserves. Many of the company’s peers are still reducing reserves, to the benefit of their bottom line, rather than increasing them. McGee said the company had looked at the possibility of splitting itself into life insurance and property insurance businesses but found there are significant challenges to making a split possible. McGee, a former Bank of America (symbol_BAC.N_2BAC.N) executive who became CEO during the financial crisis — when Hartford was one of three insurers to receive a government bailout — has said before that it was hard to make a case for a split. But McGee was pressed on the point by Paulson. What I would like to see is how you will overcome those obstacles to result in a more fair valuation for Hartford, Paulson said, his voice rising.Paulson’s questioning sharply contrasted to his own conference calls, where he has delivered even bad news in a calm and measured way in the last months, never raising his voice to sound aggressive or defensive.Pushing McGee further, Paulson insisted that management needed to present a better explanation of what it was doing. What we need you to do is overcome the obstacles to enhance the valuation for your shareholders, not merely to point out that there (are) obstacles, Paulson said.Insurers have been on the receiving end of investor outrage before. In late 2010, hedge fund manager Steve Eisman threatened the management of Hartford peer Genworth Financial (symbol_GNW.N_3GNW.N) on a conference call, saying he would launch a proxy fight unless it improved returns. Eisman never made good on the threat.
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Researchers found that teachers at schools with the behavior program reported fewer displays of aggression, teasing and rejection among their students.Catherine Bradshaw, who worked on the study, said the decreases in undesirable behaviors were modest, but that they come at an important time in kids’ development.If we wait until the rates of bullying are their highest, say, in middle school, we might have missed a developmentally sensitive time for intervention during the elementary school years, Bradshaw, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, told Reuters Health.We expect the benefits will continue to increase as children move on to junior high school, she added.About 16,000 schools have been trained to implement School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, a program supported by the U.S. Department of Education that provides a framework for discipline and for encouraging good behavior.The program involves a few days of training for those who will educate teachers and staff, and Bradshaw estimated that it costs a school about an extra $1,000 to buy posters and other supplies.Bradshaw and her colleagues asked 37 schools in Maryland to participate in their study; they randomly assigned 21 of the schools to implement the behavior program and 16 schools not to.Over four years they collected teachers’ ratings of their students’ behaviors — whether kids harmed each other or fought and whether or not they were liked or rejected by their classmates.By the end of the study, both the signs of bullying and rejection increased at both groups of schools. Bradshaw said she wasn’t surprised. This is consistent with the trend that bullying picks up toward the middle school years, she said. But the schools that adopted the behavior program had a smaller uptick in bullying and rejection than the schools that didn’t use the program. What we’re seeing here is with relatively modest changes in how the school is managing discipline, it really makes a significant difference in bullying behaviors, Bradshaw said. David Smith, a professor at the University of Ottawa, said the findings are positive, but he cautioned against interpreting them as reducing bullying outright. He said that the questions focused more on aggressive behavior among the kids, and didn’t include the more subtle, verbal and social types of bullying.The other thing is because it’s only teachers who respond, they only see the half of what’s going on with regard to bullying, said Smith, who was not involved in the study.Still, it’s better than (these behaviors) going in the other direction, he told Reuters Health.Bullying has become an increasingly salient problem for school-age children, and in rare cases has ended tragically with victims committing suicide.One study found that bullying via text messages affected eight percent of kids in 2008, up from six percent the year before (see Reuters Health report of November 21, 2011).Bradshaw and her colleagues write in their report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine that they were not able to pick out which elements of the program were responsible for dampening the bullying behaviors.But they say positive reinforcement of desired behaviors coupled with consistent discipline, and consequences for inappropriate behaviors likely made a difference.SOURCE: http://bit.ly/wVEkwpbit.ly/wVEkwp Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, February, 2012.
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Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland will not be appearing on our air for the time being, the TV news network said in a statement.Martin on Sunday made a series of Twitter remarks that poked fun at British soccer player David Beckham’s new underwear ad for fashion retailer H-M and at a New England Patriot football player for wearing a pink suit.Martin tweeted: If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H-M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl, as well as, Who the hell was that New England Patriot they just showed in a head to toe pink suit? Oh, he needs a visit from #teamwhipdatassHis remarks provoked protests by gay and lesbian activist group GLAAD, which said Martin was advocating violence against gay people.CNN today took a strong stand against anti-LGBT violence and language that demeans any community, GLAAD spokesman Rich Ferraro said in a statement following CNN’s decision to suspend Martin.
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Analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) found women at all levels of literacy tend to earn less than men, but it’s at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most striking.Women with low literacy are twice as likely as men at the same skill level to be among the lowest earners, bringing in $300 a week or less, the report said.Because women start off so low in terms of wages, having higher literacy and more skills really makes a big difference, said Kevin Miller, a senior research associate at IWPR and co-author of the study.Women need to go further in their training and education level to earn the same as men, Miller said.The analysis was based on 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the most recent data available, and focused on reading skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That data was collected from a nationally representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and older, living in households or prisons.Data showed about one-third of American adults have low literacy levels, and more than 36 percent of men and 33 percent of women fall into that category, the institute said.
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No one was reported injured in the accident, which occurred about 8 a.m. local time along a truck route used by commercial vehicles to pass through the town of Walsh, a ranching and farming community of about 700 people.The axle of a pickup truck that was pulling two tanks of the fertilizer snapped, and the tanks slid off the trailer near town, said Riley Frazee, director of emergency management for Baca County.One of the tanks went nose first into the pavement, Frazee said by telephone from the scene.Valves on one tank broke off, and vapors seeped from the damaged container, Frazee said. The 500-gallon tank contained anhydrous ammonia, which if inhaled can be fatal, he said.Winds blew a plume of toxic gas into the town, prompting the evacuation order, authorities said.By about 12:30 p.m., the rupture had been plugged, the tank was secured and hauled away and the evacuation order was lifted, Frazee said.
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