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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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'Mommy Wars' are American phenomenon, says feminist French author
'Mommy Wars' are strictly American, says feminist French author Elisabeth Badinter whose recently-released book, 'The Conflict,' argues that natural motherhood hinders women from fulfilling their full potential.
Elisabeth Badinter, the French author of recently-released 'The Conflict,' argues that 'Mommy Wars' are an American phenomenon and that mothers in France do not openly criticize others parenting choices.
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It's also that Badinter, who specializes in provocative books about feminism and motherhood ? including "The Conflict," just released in the United States ? has never heard the expression "Mommy?Wars."
"Ah, quelle horreur!" is her succinct response upon hearing the term (Translation: "How awful!") In France, she explains in a telephone interview, mothers don't judge each other's parenting choices quite so much ? at least not publicly. The unspoken corollary: the Mommy?Wars are a very American phenomenon.
And they are very much in the news these days. The confluence in less than a month of a campaign-trail scuffle involving Mitt Romney's wife, Ann; Badinter's new book; and most of all a provocative magazine cover ? conveniently tied to Mother's Day ? has led to a burst of online chatter and a renewal of those "Mommy?Wars" headlines.
But it has also led to reflection, and calls for a cease-fire in those same wars, as well as a jettisoning of the phrase itself. Aren't we finally ready, some are asking, to give it a rest, and acknowledge what many already feel ? that there are lots of ways to be a good mother?
"It's time to end the Mommy?Wars," wrote Jen Singer recently on her blog, Mommasaid.net. "How about we all stop arguing over which mom works harder and whether or not Ann Romney worked at all and who bakes a better cookie, Hillary Clinton or Barbara Bush?"
"So who's with me?" wrote another prominent "mommy blogger," Katie Allison Granju. "Who will join my proposed campaign of non-violent resistance against the mommy?wars?"
The term "Mommy?Wars" has been around for at least two decades ? it appeared in a 1990 Newsweek piece on the struggle between working and stay-at-home mothers. But the term seems to have expanded to encompass any divisive parenting issue, and it's recycled every time a new motherhood controversy arises.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Walsall Has Specialized Electrical Suppliers That Offers The Best ...
It is that people have become much aware regarding the different aspects that affect heath and hygiene. Most of us are in habit of cleaning our hands before having meals and doing any dirty work. If, you observe carefully, you might be washing your hands several times throughout the day, and you might have felt the need to dry your hands under automatic hand dryers, especially when you are using the public toilets. You will even feel better to install them at home and office, as they blow hot air that helps drying your hands within a minute and it will be an added advantage to use them to warm your hands during winters. If, you have been avoiding the purchase of hand dryers for your personal use due to bad experiences with the electrical appliance during the past, then you must check the brand of hand dryer you are going to buy this time, as the quality matters a lot.
Fortunately, it is easy to find the best electrical suppliers in Walsall that is capable of offering some of the high class electrical appliances from the reputable brands. You can use them for buying the exceptionally good quality of products from Redring, including hand dryers, hand wash units, oversink water storage, SB range water boilers, and unvented water storage. All these products will help you to make your life full of comforts and you will not have to worry about the occurrence of unexpected breakdown of their machinery, as the company takes care of ensuring the each product is passed through tight quality check procedure before delivering them to the suppliers.
No wonder, your newly purchased hand dryers will be easy to use and help you to maintain hygienic values among your family at the domestic front, and staff members at the work place. You can find them at the modern hotels, rest rooms, railways stations, bus stands, airports, corporate offices. They help saving the usage of hand tissues, and towels. You will not have to carry the damp towel after drying your hands, if you have got an ultramodern facility that helps removing the traces of moisture from you hands under the pressure hot air coming from the nozzle of hand dryer. It will be a fun experience for your kids to put their hands beneath the nozzle, which starts blowing the air automatically, as it detects the presence of hand with the help of inbuilt sensors.
Interestingly, the big and small companies are focusing on increasing the scope of reaching their customers through Internet, and most of them have described their businesses through their websites that helps to mark their web presence. Some of them provide their services to the local people as well as those living at far off places. Thus, you can use the website of electrical suppliers based at Walsall, regardless of your location. It means that it will not be tough to buy the high quality hand dryers from such electrical stores, as online purchase has removed the obstacles of remaining dependent upon the local stores, even if they do not support you in getting the branded products for your use.
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Screening for Lung Cancer Might Benefit Those at Highest Risk
SUNDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Using low-dose CT scans to screen for lung cancer might save the lives of patients at the greatest risk for the disease, a new analysis suggests.
However, the risks of screening for others aren't clear, the researchers added.
"We have insight into risks, but they are hard to weigh and estimate," said lead researcher Dr. Peter Bach, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
"It's clear that when you screen you find cancers that otherwise wouldn't appear, and that leads to overtreatment," he said. "It is clear that CTs find lots of things that aren't cancer. About one in five people have something found that will require some sort of follow-up."
There is also an excess radiation risk. In one trial, screening prevented about three deaths per 1,000 people screened, while one in 2,500 might develop cancer from the CT scan, Bach said.
However, in the right population it could theoretically prevent thousands of deaths a year, he explained.
Namely, that population is the heaviest smokers, those who smoke for 30 pack-years or more. A pack-year is the number of cigarettes smoked over time. This means at least a pack a day for 30 years or two packs a day for 15 years.
"For these patients, we recommend that doctors might suggest screening and discuss the risks and benefits," Bach said. "But, no one should be telling people that they must have this test or advertise that it's a lifesaving procedure that will prevent you from dying from lung cancer."
In the end, "there is no substitution for smoking cessation in terms of health benefits," Bach noted.
The report was published online May 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
For the study, Bach's team reviewed 21 studies about the benefits and risks of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer.
One of the studies, the National Lung Screening Trial, included more than 53,000 people and found that screening reduced deaths from lung cancer by 20 percent, the researchers said.
The results of that trial were published last June in the New England Journal of Medicine.
However, the other, smaller trials found no benefit from screening, Bach's team noted.
The study authors found that, overall, 20 percent of patients had a scan that needed follow-up, but only 1 percent had lung cancer.
The studies were done in teaching hospitals with experienced radiologists and cancer doctors, Bach noted.
This report is the basis of the screening recommendations adopted by the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The recommendations state that heavy smokers aged 55 to 74, and those who have quit in the past 15 years, should be offered screening.
But screening should only be done at hospitals that do a lot of this kind of screening. These are usually large or teaching hospitals, because the value of this screening at community hospitals is not known, Bach added.
Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer at the American Lung Association, called the new study a "thoughtful analysis of an important topic."
The American Lung Association conducted a similar review and came to similar conclusions, he said.
The data suggest that screening heavy smokers is likely to reduce death from lung cancer by about 20 percent and all-cause mortality by about 10 percent, he said.
"Given the large cohort to which it pertains, this would be a significant public health achievement," Edelman stated.
However, there remain many unsettled issues, he said.
"One major issue is whether the same results would be observed in the community as opposed to the controlled academic settings in which the study was done," Edelman said. "Accordingly, the American Lung Association report emphasizes the need for screening to be done in centers which can provide low-dose CT screening and a comprehensive multi-specialty environment, so that finding of suspect nodules can be followed up with appropriate [care] rather than undue risk."
Robert Smith, director of cancer screening at the American Cancer Society, said, "These recommendations are consistent" with screening guidelines from similar medical groups.
However, he believes these guidelines will be refined over the years as new data become available.
"The question remains, who else might you endorse lung cancer screening for," Smith said. "Suppose someone had a 35 pack/year history and they were 35 years old, or what if they were 45 years old and had started smoking at the age of 12."
There may be other levels of risk where screening might be beneficial, Smith said: "We will probably learn a lot from trials that are currently under way."
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For more on lung cancer, visit the American Lung Association.
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Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC
BEIJING (AP) ? A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest takeover of an American company to date.
Dalian Wanda Group Co.'s purchase reflects the global ambitions of a wave of cash-rich Chinese companies that are using acquisitions to speed their expansion by obtaining foreign skills and brand names.
Wanda said the deal will create the world's biggest movie theater operator. The Beijing-based company said it will invest an additional $500 million to fund AMC's development. AMC operates 346 cinemas, mostly in the United States and Canada, and says it has 23 of the 50 highest-grossing U.S. outlets.
"We support AMC becoming bigger, not only in the United States but in the global market," said Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin at a signing ceremony for the acquisition.
The deal reflects rising Chinese investment in U.S. corporate assets despite disputes between the two governments over trade and political issues such as this month's diplomatic standoff over a blind Chinese legal activist.
The deal is the third-largest Chinese corporate investment in the United States, according to financial research firm Dealogic. It ranks behind investments by Beijing's sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corp., of $5 billion in Morgan Stanley and $3 billion in Blackstone Group LP, both for minority stakes in 2007.
Chinese companies had invested $34.8 billion in the United States by the end of 2011 in industries including auto parts, agriculture and steelmaking, according to data compiled by Derek Scissors, a China analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
Globally, outbound mergers and acquisitions by Chinese companies total $16.8 billion so far this year, up 6 percent from the same period last year, according to Dealogic.
Wanda said AMC's American management will remain in place and the headquarters will stay in the Kansas City area. It said staff numbers were not expected to affected. The company employs some 18,500 people.
Wanda, founded in 1988 and privately owned, operates hotels, department stores, tourism and other businesses and says it had 2011 revenue of $16.7 billion. The company employs 50,000 people and its assets include 86 theaters in China.
AMC's owners include Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group, CCMP Capital Advisors and Spectrum Equity Investors.
AMC has reported losses for the past three years but its CEO, Gerry Lopez, said it has returned to profit this year due to strong ticket sales.
Wang, the Wanda chairman, said AMC's financial problems were due to the cost of servicing high debt. He said conditions should improve once an injection of Wanda's cash allows it to pay off some of that.
"We are confident that after the merger, AMC will turn positive," he said. "We have absolute confidence in the future of the company."
The acquisition comes as Hollywood is looking to China both for its fast-growing audience and for production partners.
Walt Disney Co. has said its next "Iron Man" movie will be co-produced with a Chinese partner and "Chinese elements" will be added to the story to increase its local appeal. DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. unveiled a venture in March with three Chinese companies to make animated and live action material.
Wang said Wanda has applied to China's government for a license to import movies, a right held now by two state-owned companies. But he said the AMC acquisition concerned only film exhibition, not production or distribution.
"We have no plans to promote Chinese films in the United States," Wang said. "Mr. Lopez will decide what movies will be shown" in AMC theaters.
Wanda's investment will allow AMC to speed up renovation of some cinemas and install more 3-D and IMAX technology, Lopez said.
Wang and Lopez said the two companies plan to share experience in the film business and will have executives from each country visit the other. Lopez said they have not made detailed plans about such things as a possible exchange of staff.
Lopez is to join the board of directors of Wanda's cinema unit, while a Wanda executive will join AMC's board, Wang said.
Wang said Wanda is considering more acquisitions abroad for its entertainment, hotel and retail units. He said it might try to buy into a global hotel brand or a hotel management company but gave no details.
"We want to be a big company, not just in China but in the world," he said.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Sri Lanka president orders release of jailed rival
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered the early release from jail of his highest-profile political rival Sarath Fonseka, the president's spokesman said on Sunday, in an apparent bid to quell international criticism of the government's human rights record.
The authorisation for Fonseka's release will be sent to the justice ministry on Monday, spokesman Bandula Jayasekara said. The former general is expected to be free soon afterwards, but will not be able to leave the country.
"(The) president signed the papers on Friday evening enabling the release of Sarath Fonseka," Jayasekara said.
The United States calls former army general Fonseka, who was detained in February 2010 after challenging Rajapaksa for the presidency, a political prisoner, and has repeatedly said he should be freed.
Many Sri Lankans regard Fonseka as a hero for helping to end the 25-year civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels, and his case has gained prominence as international scrutiny of the Rajapaksa administration's human rights record has intensified.
At a meeting in Washington on Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Sri Lanka's foreign minister to address human rights issues.
In March, the U.S. sponsored a United Nations resolution calling on the Colombo to investigate abuses alleged to have taken place in the final months of the war, a move which strained ties between the countries.
Rajapaksa has until now defied the U.N. and U.S. criticism of his handling of the war's aftermath. Local analysts says Fonseka's release is partly aimed at distracting from local complaints about poor economic management.
Last week, news of his impending liberation was welcomed by investors who hoped it would improve Sri Lanka's international image, and prompt more foreign inflows.
His health has deteriorated in prison, and for the last few weeks he has been under guard in a hospital where he is being treated for respiratory problems stemming from war wounds.
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Economic woes pushing up the cost of living have dented the government's popularity ahead of local elections this year, and Rajapaksa's decision could increase his party's chances by dividing the bickering opposition.
Fonseka leads the Democratic National Alliance, which has seven seats in a 225-member legislature, and some lawmakers from other opposition parties have said they are ready to back him, citing his popularity and strident criticism of Rajapaksa.
He trailed Rajapaksa by 17 points in the last presidential election. With the next one not due until 2016, he is not seen as an immediate political threat, although he remains a popular leader. His poor health has increased pressure on Rajapaksa to set him free.
In Washington on Friday, Clinton told foreign minister G.L. Peiris that Sri Lanka should demilitarise the former Tiger strongholds in the north of the country. Rajapaksa responded by saying he would not be dictated to on matters of national security.
Fonseka and the president's brother, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, led the army to victory in the final stages of the war, but they fell out in peacetime. The general complained he was sidelined by the president, who grew concerned Fonseka was plotting a coup.
Fonseka is serving two separate jail terms, one for misappropriation of funds and another for giving an interview in 2009 in which he said he was informed that Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered troops to kill surrendering rebel leaders.
Rights groups say both Fonseka and the president are implicated in shooting Tamil fighters as they sought to surrender. In recent months, rights workers and journalists have been targeted by a government media campaign against "traitors" it says helped the defeated guerrillas.
(Writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)
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Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Lawyers for Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges rejected their request for evidence for his defense.
The development underscored Tariq al-Hashemi's claim that he will not get a fair trial on the charges he denies and says are politically motivated.
The case threatens to paralyze Iraq's government by fueling simmering Sunni and Kurdish resentments against the Shiite prime minister, who critics claim is monopolizing power.
"It became clear that there is a hidden political decision to incriminate me," al-Hashemi said in a statement after the court adjourned Sunday afternoon. "The judge became my adversary."
He said his "basic rights and guarantees of the defendants" have been violated.
At the outset of the trial's second day, al-Hashemi's defense team demanded to be allowed to pull his phone records and appointment calendars to help refute earlier testimony that the vice president and his son-in-law had ordered bodyguards to kill security and government officials. Their aim was to prove that al-Hashemi, one of Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni officials in the Shiite-led government, had either been out of the country or not in communication with the bodyguards at the time he allegedly ordered the assassinations.
But a three-judge panel rejected the request, and ruled that last week's testimony by three bodyguards who swore they were given money to kill al-Hashemi's enemies was strong enough to negate any further evidence.
The judges also said al-Hashemi could have arranged for the attacks while he was outside the country.
With that, al-Hashemi lawyer Muayad Obeid al-Ezzi and the rest of the defense team walked out.
"We do not want to be part of this unfair trial," al-Ezzi said over the telephone after leaving the courtroom. He said he would return if the evidence is allowed and the judges agree to transfer the case to a special tribunal appointed by parliament.
Last week, three of al-Hashemi's former bodyguards testified that they were ordered and paid to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs. They said the orders either came from al-Hashemi's son-in-law, who worked as his office manager, or from the vice president himself.
Three more bodyguards, three relatives of victims and a tribal sheik were among the witnesses called Sunday to testify against al-Hashemi.
Dressed in traditional robes, tribal leader Sheik Khuder Ibrahim Hassan said he was paid up to 105 million Iraqi dinars (about $90,000) to carry out bombings against Iraqi police and army forces between 2009 and 2011 in Tarmiyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
He said each attack was filmed and copies were sent to al-Hashemi, and that he was paid once directly by the vice president. Six other payments came from al-Hashemi's aides, Hassan said.
"He used to say that Sunnis were marginalized, faced arrests and suffered from unemployment and these operations would help them," said Hassan in nearly an hour of testimony.
Hassan and all the bodyguards who have testified in the trial so far are facing murder charges for killings that allegedly have been linked to al-Hashemi, who could face the death penalty if convicted. Judges on Sunday appointed two new lawyers for al-Hashemi and his son-in-law, and the next hearing is set for May 31.
The case has strained relations between Iraq and several of its mainly Sunni neighbors, including the Gulf states and Turkey where al-Hashemi took refuge. On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan maintained he has no intention of extraditing al-Hashemi to Iraq.
"Until the day that the Iraqi vice president, who is our friend and brother, desires to return, he will be hosted in our country," Erdogan told reporters.
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Associated Press Writers Sameer N. Yacoub, Mazin Yahya and Lara Jakes contributed to this report.
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