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Dr. Howard Novick discusses Texas abortion restrictions at his Houston office Tuesday, July 9, 2013. The new abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature could force Novick to close the Houston abortion clinic he opened in 1980 because, he says, he does not have $1 million to $1.5 million to convert his run-of-the-mill medical office into a fully loaded surgical center with wide corridors and sophisticated air-flow systems. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
Dr. Howard Novick discusses Texas abortion restrictions at his Houston office Tuesday, July 9, 2013. The new abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature could force Novick to close the Houston abortion clinic he opened in 1980 because, he says, he does not have $1 million to $1.5 million to convert his run-of-the-mill medical office into a fully loaded surgical center with wide corridors and sophisticated air-flow systems. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
Dr. Howard Novick discusses Texas abortion restrictions at his Houston office Tuesday, July 9, 2013. The new abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature could force Novick to close the Houston abortion clinic he opened in 1980 because, he says, he does not have $1 million to $1.5 million to convert his run-of-the-mill medical office into a fully loaded surgical center with wide corridors and sophisticated air-flow systems. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
Abortion rights advocates voice their opposition to HB2 from the area outside of the Senate Chamber in the State Capitol in Austin, Texas on Friday night, July 12, 2013. Republicans in the Texas Legislature passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the nation, but Democrats vowed Saturday to fight in the courts and at the ballot box as they used the measure to rally their supporters. More than 2,000 demonstrators filled the Capitol building in Austin to voice their opposition to the bill, including six protesters who were dragged out of the Senate chamber by state troopers for trying to disrupt the debate. The Republican majority passed the bill unchanged just before midnight, with all but one Democrat voting against it. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)
Texas State Troopers block the entrance to the State Capitol rotunda after abortion rights advocates filled it to capacity in Austin, Texas on Friday night, July 12, 2013. Republicans in the Texas Legislature passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the nation, but Democrats vowed Saturday to fight in the courts and at the ballot box as they used the measure to rally their supporters. More than 2,000 demonstrators filled the Capitol building in Austin to voice their opposition to the bill, including six protesters who were dragged out of the Senate chamber by state troopers for trying to disrupt the debate. The Republican majority passed the bill unchanged just before midnight, with all but one Democrat voting against it. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)
Abortion rights advocates protest HB2 from the area outside of the Senate Chamber as anti-abortion rights supporters pass them in the State Capitol in Austin, Texas on Friday night, July 12, 2013. Republicans in the Texas Legislature passed an omnibus abortion bill that is one of the most restrictive in the nation, but Democrats vowed Saturday to fight in the courts and at the ballot box as they used the measure to rally their supporters. More than 2,000 demonstrators filled the Capitol building in Austin to voice their opposition to the bill, including six protesters who were dragged out of the Senate chamber by state troopers for trying to disrupt the debate. The Republican majority passed the bill unchanged just before midnight, with all but one Democrat voting against it. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)
HOUSTON (AP) ? Dr. Howard Novick winces as he recalls treating two and three women a week for infections and complications from botched abortions. It was the early 1970s, before the procedure was legalized, and the experience persuaded him to devote his life to this area of medicine.
Now, more than 40 years later, new abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature could force Novick to close the Houston abortion clinic he opened in 1980 because, he says, he does not have $1 million to $1.5 million to convert his run-of-the-mill medical office into a fully loaded surgical center with wide corridors and sophisticated air-flow systems.
"I have saved some women's lives. They are so grateful we're here for them and nonjudgmental," Novick said. "I really feel a kinship for this."
The legislation, passed early Saturday following weeks of mass protests and a high-profile filibuster, allows abortions only in surgical centers, requires doctors who perform them to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, dictates when abortion pills are taken and bans abortions after 20 weeks unless the woman's life is in imminent danger.
Abortion-rights advocates argue the costs associated with converting clinics into surgical centers are so high they will force more than 35 clinics to close, possibly leaving only a handful of facilities across the vast state. In rural areas such as the farthest reaches of West Texas or the Rio Grande Valley, that could put the closest facility 300 or more miles away.
The law could also create a backlog so great in the remaining clinics that women seeking abortions will miss the 20-week deadline, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman's Health, a company that runs five clinics in Texas.
Abortion opponents insist, however, that the new rules are designed to guarantee the best health care.
"All we're asking for is better surgical care for women seeking these procedures," said Christine Melchor, executive director of the Houston Coalition for Life.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst posted on Twitter a link to a map of facilities that would be affected and implied that any shutdowns would be an added benefit. The timeline for closures isn't immediately clear; opponents have vowed to sue to block the regulations from going into effect.
Texas already has stringent abortion laws. Two years ago, the Legislature passed a rule requiring women to get a vaginal ultrasound and a full explanation from the treating physician 24 hours before an abortion. Opponents of that rule say it adds travel costs to the expense of the procedure, and in some cases means women also have to stay overnight.
For Melissa Bradshaw, all of it seems absurd. She spent the past year going through a bitter divorce and readjusting her children to a new life. An unplanned pregnancy was the last straw. So after heart-wrenching deliberation, she decided to terminate the pregnancy, calling Novick's AAA Concerned Women's Center in Houston just as Texas lawmakers held an angry debate over the new restrictions.
"Your mind is made up when you pick up the phone to call ... nobody feels good about it," Bradshaw said, noting the desperation women or teenage girls often feel.
The new requirements may not survive a court challenge. They conflict with the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established a woman's right to get an abortion until her fetus could viably survive outside the womb at about 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Federal courts have already struck down parts of similar laws in other states.
Novick says the law is medically unnecessary. The Texas Medical Association, the Texas Hospital Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology agree.
"It's been years and years since we had to send someone to a hospital," Novick said of his clinic.
For Houston, though, the bigger problem may be that its two remaining surgical centers will have to treat women from areas that will no longer have their own clinic.
Rochelle Tafolla, a spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood Center for Choice in Houston, said between the travel, the 24-hour waiting period and the lack of available clinics, the 20-week deadline could create time constraints.
"I don't think it's unreasonable to think that it's going to have a significant impact on when women can get the care that they need," she said.
About 72,500 abortions are performed annually in Texas, according to the state Health Department. The busiest clinics do up to 4,000 a year. Now the remaining surgical centers will have to conduct about 14,400 each year.
Some, such as the four-bed facility Hagstrom Miller runs in San Antonio, cannot accommodate those numbers.
"With more restrictions, we see more abortions happening later in the pregnancy," she said, adding that since the 24-hour waiting period was implemented, more terminations occur in the second trimester, and now some may miss the 20-week timeline. "It happens already."
The situation will be most dire for women in remote areas, she said.
In McAllen in the Rio Grande Valley, Hagstrom Miller said she will likely close her clinic because architects have estimated it would cost $1.4 million to retrofit a 4,000-square-foot facility to meet all the requirements that come with transforming it into a surgical center. Since the clinic across is not large enough, she would have to move. To build a new facility would cost $3 million, she said.
Women treated under the soft-lighting in the purple rooms in the McAllen clinic already face significant challenges, said Andrea Ferrigno, Whole Woman's Health director of service excellence. They struggle to pay and to arrange for transportation, childcare and days off from work.
After the 24-hour waiting period was instituted, the facility saw a spike in women trying to end their own pregnancies by purchasing prescription drugs at Mexican pharmacies across the border, Ferrigno said.
"I'm pretty sure we're going to see a lot more of that," she said.
Another facility owned by Hagstrom Miller in the southeast town of Beaumont is the only clinic between New Orleans and Houston and serves a 350-mile radius. It will close because the patient load does not justify the cost of moving the facility, which cannot be renovated, she said.
In West Texas, two clinics in Lubbock and Midland serve a population of more than 656,000 people in a 300-mile-wide area. The Planned Parenthood Women's Health Center in Lubbock sees women who travel from New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma to the one-story building behind locked wrought-iron gates.
The clinic normally performs about 60 procedures a month. Most of the women are poor and a trip to San Antonio, Dallas or Houston ? each more than 350 miles away ? would be too expensive, Director Angela Martinez said.
The clinic estimates the cost to retrofit just one room would be as much as $500,000, more than it can afford.
"People are really discouraged," Martinez said.
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Associated Press writers Betsy Blaney in Lubbock and Christopher Sherman in McAllen contributed to this report.
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Taking a glance at this year's program prompts one to raise an eyebrow perhaps even more so than usual, as the 2013 slate covers some pretty dark territory, and most of it does not fall into fantasy genres. Chalk that up to cinema being a mirror of the greater reality and one remembers how troubling and harrowing a time the Japanese people have had these past few years. Although one could make the argument that Japanese cinema has remained so vital and potent on the world stage merely because its never shied away from putting the absolute hard truths on screen in riveting and engaging ways.
To give you a taste of what you can expect during the festival, which starts tonight and runs to the 21st, Peter Gutierrez, Dustin Chang, myself and guest contributor Steve Kopian from the undoubtedly cool Unseen Films, weigh in on a handful of this year's selection -- enjoy, and be sure to keep an eye out for full reviews from Japan Cuts 2013 in the coming days.? ? ?
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Audiovisual technology and home TV equipment company Technicolor has restructured its debt and financing costs. The move extends the group?s debt maturity profile to 2020 and gives it more flexibility in its covenant with creditors. Special purpose investment vehicle Tech Finance has accepted all notes tendered and all loans submitted pursuant to its offers to purchase. It has funded the purchase mainly through an aggregate principal amount of EUR 838 million borrowed under a new term loan at an average nominal interest of 7.3 percent.
Tech Finance purchased an aggregate principal amount of EUR 905 million of Technicolor?s outstanding senior debt in the offers to purchase, corresponding to almost all of the outstanding notes and 61 percent of credit agreement participations. The average nominal interest of the purchased debt amounted to 8.4 percent, while the average nominal interest of the total existing senior debt amounted to 8.2 percent.
As of 12 July, the remaining existing senior debt not held by Tech Finance, amounts to EUR 282 million with a bullet debt maturing in 2017 in the amount of EUR 218 million (compared to EUR 890 million before the refinancing). Technicolor and Tech Finance have paid all consideration to which Technicolor?s creditors are entitled.
As a result of the refinancing transaction, the total consolidated amount of senior gross debt bears interest at an average nominal rate of 7.4 percent, an 80 basis point improvement, leading to a pro-forma reduction of EUR 14.8 million in overall annual interest charges. The company?s debt structure is now based almost entirely on loans and the final maturity of the majority of debt has been extended to 2020.
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The head of the company whose train exploded, devastating a small Quebec town, says the disaster may be due to crucial hand brakes not set properly.
A lone engineer failed to set brakes properly on a train that derailed and exploded in a small Canadian town, killing at least 15 people, the railway's chairman says.
"Adequate hand brakes were not set on this train and it was the engineer's responsibility to set them," Edward Burkhardt, the chairman of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, said while visiting the scene of the accident.
Mr Burkhardt previously blamed firefighters in Nantes for the disaster, saying they unwittingly unlocked the train's air brakes when they shut down the locomotive's engines to douse a small unrelated fire hours before the Lac-Megantic disaster.
The town of Lac Megantic lays in ruins after the runaway freight train derailed and exploded in the middle of the night on July 6. Photo: AP
He clarified on Wednesday that the shutdown of the air brakes "was an important causal factor in this whole thing."
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But he added, "The fact that when the air brakes released on the locomotive the train ran away would indicate that the hand brakes were not properly applied."
Mr Burkhardt faced angry residents when he arrived in Lac-Megantic to survey the devastation
The massive blaze sparked by the crash on Saturday tore through homes and businesses, razing part of Lac-Megantic, a town of 6000 located east of Montreal near the US border.
The blaze forced about 2000 residents to flee their homes, though many of them started returning on Tuesday.
The freight train had been stopped for a crew change in the nearby town of Nantes when it began to roll downhill without a conductor towards Lac-Megantic, several kilometres away.
It derailed at a curve in the tracks and several cars exploded.
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Today, Microsoft moved the chairs around in its executive suite, rejiggering the way it organizes itself and its businesses.
Microsoft?s Steve Ballmer got on the horn at 12:30 pm PT today to explain it all for us. He had already done so at a meeting of employees earlier, where he told the crowd that he was doing what had worked at the company for big engineering groups.
It?s not the easiest thing to talk about, but Ballmer tried to decomplexify it all by noting earlier in a memo that there is ?One Microsoft.?
It is the theme of the day, doubtlessly dreamed up by strategery guy Mark Penn, the former political guru of varying degrees of success (and not so much success). In fact, it sounds exactly like what you?d put on a bumper sticker or poster.
Personally, I had never thought that Microsoft was two or three companies, just a single gigantically large one with a whole lot of politics.
Not so anymore! It?s one! Namaste! Also, vote for Ballmer!
Here we go:
12:30 pm: Ballmer started pretty much on time to talk about the news that he was shifting around the company?s management and structure.
?This is certainly a big day for all of us,? he said, noting Microsoft was ?excited to deliver more? with the new set-up.
He basically went over the highlights of the long strategy memo and also email to employees, concluding his opening remarks by declaring, ?We are one Microsoft.?
12:38 pm: Time for Q&A comes up quickly and questions started off asking about how financial reporting would change. It?s an obvious query, since it could cover over big losses at places like the Bing search service. But when you?re one, everyone gets a little pain.
CFO Amy Hood noted that it will not for now change its financial reporting, including when Microsoft reports next week. But, according to sources, it most certainly will, just not yet.
Ballmer had his new team ? which is pretty much the old team at Microsoft, but with new titles ? there to answer his questions for him, so they did.
That included marketing head Tami Reller and COO Kevin Turner.
But they were all careful to speak without calling a lot of attention to themselves, with no one saying much of anything really as yet. After all, what can you say when you don?t know how this is going to shake out?
12:47 pm: In fact, Ballmer sounded a bit tired on the call, rather than the pugnacious and overstimulated tone those who cover him are used to. No monkey-boy dance in sight.
There?s a question about where the device portfolio will expand. Ballmer demurred, but touted existing products such as the 82-inch Windows tablet that apparently knocks people?s socks off.
I want to ask a question about how exhausting it must be to overhaul such a behemoth in this day and age and still have those imps at Google run circles around Microsoft with their goofy Glasses and loony Wi-Fi balloons that invariably enchant the media.
How does anyone enchant these days without a gimmick?
Suddenly, I am tired too, especially as Ballmer handed off to yet another exec. Hardware head Julie Larson-Green, then OS head Terry Myerson, then Apps and Service head Qi Lu.
It felt like some sort of collective at this point, as if I have landed on a planet where there is an alternate Microsoft, ruled by a council of elders. (Elders is probably not a good visual for an aging tech giant, but I just saw the new ?Superman? movie and they had one of those.)
Contemplating this, I completely missed the dull question about Azure. I needed a council of elders right then to take over this blog.
12:55 pm: Okay, a good question is asked on infighting at Microsoft, which is legendary. (To be fair, it?s legendary at most tech companies, but the software giant is Olympic at it.)
Ballmer noted ? with an assist from Qi Lu ? that Microsoft now has to be more like a football team, which has to coordinate plays, rather than a baseball team, where it is more about individual achievement. As many are aware, I know zip about sports, so this is lost on me.
?We need the whole group to be involved in the management,? he said, rather than just a few powerful players.
It is a collective! I suddenly miss the old days when co-founder Bill Gates just yelled and everyone jumped.
Ballmer then got another financial question about how Microsoft was going to account for all this.
That too is going to go to a one kind of thing, although Hood noted that accountability will still be in force, even if the company decides ? and it will ? to mash all its numbers together a whole lot more.
But these are details, in which the devil is.
And then it was over, with very little pomp or circumstance, given the big nature of the moves today.
Message of the day: There can be only one, apparently, but with many voices, which might prove to be Microsoft?s biggest challenge of all going forward.
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20130711/call-ballmer-on-how-there-can-be-only-one/
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