Traumatized moms avoid tough talks with kids

May 6, 2013 ? Mothers who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences show an unwillingness to talk with their children about the child's emotional experiences, a new study from the University of Notre Dame shows.

According to the study, which was presented at the Society for Research in Child Development 2013 Biennial Meeting in Seattle, a sample of low-income mothers who had experienced their own childhood traumas exhibited ongoing "traumatic avoidance symptoms," which is characterized by an unwillingness to address thoughts, emotions, sensations or memories of those traumas. This avoidance interfered with mothers' ability to talk with their children about the child's emotions, leading to shorter, less in-depth conversations; those mothers also used closed-end questions that did not encourage child participation.

"Traumatic avoidance symptoms have been shown to have a negative impact on the cognitive and emotional development of children," said Kristin Valentino, Notre Dame assistant professor of psychology who specializes in the development of at-risk and maltreated children. Valentino conducted the research with Notre Dame undergraduate Taylor Thomas.

"This research is important because it identifies a mechanism through which we can understand how maternal trauma history relates to her ability to effectively interact with her child. This finding also has implications for intervention work, since avoidance that is used as a coping mechanism is likely to further impair psychological functioning," Valentino said.

In a related study published recently in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect, Valentino found that maltreating parents, many of whom had experienced childhood trauma, could successfully be taught to use more elaborative and emotion-rich reminiscing with their preschool-aged children, which has been linked to a children's subsequent cognitive abilities in a number of areas including memory, language and literacy development.

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Family: Dead Referee Risked Violence for 'His Passion' | KTXL FOX40

Ricardo Portillo died about a week after being punched in the face by a soccer player.
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TAYLORSVILLE, Utah (CNN)-

A referee who died after being punched by a teenage player knew well the violence that too often surfaced in his recreational soccer league. But neither he nor his family thought it would turn deadly, his heartbroken daughter told CNN Monday.

?The first time he got attacked was like 10 years ago. He was a player. He got a broken leg,? Johana Portillo said on CNN?s ?Starting Point.?

?And then the next time it was about five years ago I think. He had a broken rib, being attacked by a player, too. ? I was like, ?Why do you keep doing it? You just keep just hurting yourself.? He said that that was his risk because that was his passion.?

She worried often about her father, she said. But she was shocked by the call she got days ago. ?I never thought it was going to be this serious.?

Police: Teen punched ref in the face

On April 27, Ricardo Portillo, 46, was refereeing a game of Fut International, a Hispanic soccer league for children between ages 5 and 17, in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville.

He cited a player for an infraction and issued him a cautionary ?yellow card.? A second infraction would result in the player?s ejection from the game.

The 17-year-old player, police say, turned around and punched Portillo in the face.

At first, authorities thought Portillo suffered only minor injuries. But at the hospital, doctors discovered serious internal head injuries.

For seven days he remained in critical condition.

On Saturday night, Portillo died from his injuries.

Player in juvenile detention

The teenager, who has not been named publicly, is in juvenile detention.

Police initially charged him with aggravated assault. But with Portillo?s death, authorities expect to upgrade the charges.

League president Mario Vasquez told CNN affiliate KUTV he did not know the suspect personally, and was not aware of other incidents involving the player.

The league has a no-tolerance policy and kicks out players if they engage in violence toward each other, referees or parents, Vasquez said.

Family in shock

Portillo had three daughters and three grandchildren, who live in Mexico. He moved to the United States 16 years ago.

?I just need time to heal. It?s a lot of pain that this kid caused my whole family, especially my sisters and I,? Johana Portillo told CNN, adding that they?re in shock.

?I will forgive this kid because it?s only in God?s hands. ? But right now, it?s too soon for me to forgive.?

Similar incident in the Netherlands

There was a similar attack in the Netherlands in December. Police charged two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old who beat a 41-year-old linesman during an amateur soccer game.

The linesman?s son was playing in the game when the incident occurred.

The linesman, Richard Nieuwenhuizen, fell into a coma and died the next day.

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Intel names current COO Brian Krzanich as new CEO, starts May 16th

We've known when current Intel CEO Paul Otellini would be stepping down for some time now, and we now finally know who will be replacing him. The chipmaker announced today that Brian Krzanich, an Intel veteran of nearly 30 years, will assume the top job at the company's annual stockholders' meeting on May 16th. That tenure has included a range of technical and executive jobs over the years, most recently being Chief Operating Officer, a position he was just appointed to in January of 2012. Renée James has also been elected president by Intel's board of directors, and will take on her new role on May 16th as well. You can find the company's official announcement after the break.

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New Kenyan lawmakers vote themselves free luxury car perk, worth $60,000

Barely a fortnight into their jobs, Kenya?s new lawmakers have forced through a change to their salary that includes a perk of $60,000 for a luxury car.

Under a review of legislators? earnings agreed in Kenya before the March national elections, salaries were agreed to be cut from $120,000 a year to $75,000, and perks including interest-free loans for vehicles and houses were to be scrapped.

The measures were necessary because under a new constitution that made structural changes including a new senate, the older wages for public servants were predicted to be unsustainable.

But part of those cuts are already being reversed. Kenyan budgetary officials were this week forced to backtrack and agree that the 416 new legislators will each be handed $60,000 for a new car.

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Rates for mileage driven while on official business have also almost doubled, to between $2 and $3.70 a mile, depending on the vehicle's engine size.

The move has been met with weary resignation ? and some anger ? among Kenyans who elected new members of parliament, hoping they might achieve a break from the pork and excesses of the past.

?Sometimes I wonder if we Kenyans are stupid truly to believe any new parliament will be different from the last one,? says Beatrice Mathenge, an office cleaner in Nairobi, Kenya?s capital. ?Each time they reach office, the very first thing they do is award themselves more salary. Meanwhile we are all struggling even to make ends to meet.?

Originally the lawmakers were to be offered loans of up to $82,000 to fund vehicle purchases, and to be repaid over five years at 3 percent interest.

Even though this interest rate is a fraction of the average 19 percent that Kenya?s commercial banks offer to account holders, members of parliament said they would not be able to afford to pay the loans back.

This was despite their salaries ? even at reduced levels ? being 42 times higher than an average Kenyan would expect to earn in a year. In March when announcing the lower pay, Sarah Serem, head of the salaries commission, said, ?We are trying to instill a sense of fiscal prudence by letting the MPs own and maintain their own cars or homes."

This week, one parliamentarian complained that Ms. Serem ?wanted MPs to go and buy cheap cars like a [Toyota] Probox,? a small Japanese station wagon popular with ordinary Kenyans.

?What type of car does she think we can buy with $60,000,? Mithika Linturi asked in Kenya?s Standard newspaper.

Financial analysts calculate that Kenya?s $5.5 billion public sector wage bill has doubled in the last four years and now consumes half of domestic revenue.

Legislators have also warned that they plan to enact new laws that will overturn the pay cut instituted by the salaries commission, and return their earnings to $120,000 a year or more.

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Settlers and Palestinians clash after killing

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's military says soldiers have dispersed settlers and Palestinians who were throwing rocks at each other in the West Bank following the killing of a settler there.

The military said dozens of settlers and Palestinians scuffled early Wednesday near the city of Ramallah.

Vandals sprayed "price tag" on a Palestinian house. Some extremists use the term to protest Israeli policy they view as favoring Palestinians.

Nablus governor Jebril Bakri said settlers also smashed cars and windows in villages near the northern West Bank city. The violence came after a Palestinian stabbed a settler to death at a bus stop in the area the day before.

Tensions are high in the West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by Palestinians as part of their future state.

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AEG warns of "ugly stuff" in Michael Jackson wrongful death trial

By Alex Dobuzinskis

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An attorney for the concert promotion company AEG Live warned jurors they would see a very different view of the charismatic Michael Jackson as the company seeks to prove it was not liable for the pop star's death.

Marvin Putnam, making his opening statement in what is expected to be an emotional wrongful death trial, said AEG officials had no idea that Jackson was taking the surgical anesthetic that led to his death.

He said the three-month civil case would bring to light "some ugly stuff" about the singer's private behavior.

"The public Michael Jackson was very different from the private Michael Jackson," Putnam said. "He erected a wall between himself and his family. Even his family wasn't sure what was going on at the house. He kept those who might have been able help him at a distance."

He said Jackson had been using the powerful anesthetic propofol for years to help him sleep "and almost no one knew."

"AEG, like everyone else, was an outsider," Putnam said. "They had no idea. It was going on behind locked doors."

The "Thriller" singer's mother, Katherine, is suing privately held AEG Live, promoters of a never-realized series of comeback concerts by Jackson, for negligence in hiring Dr. Conrad Murray as his personal physician.

Murray, convicted in 2011 for the involuntary manslaughter of Jackson with a propofol overdose, was caring for the singer as he rehearsed in Los Angeles for a series of 50 "This is It" shows in London in 2009.

Brian Panish, representing Jackson's family, said AEG Live ignored red flags when it hired Murray and should have been aware that the singer had addiction problems years before he agreed to perform the concerts.

Jackson, 50, drowning in debt and seeking to rebuild a reputation damaged by his 2005 trial and acquittal on child molestation charges, died in Los Angeles in June 2009.

In his opening argument, Panish said AEG Live failed to do proper background checks on Murray, who asked for $5 million to care for the singer. Background checks would have revealed Murray was in debt and was a cardiologist even though Jackson had no known heart issues, Panish said.

"When a red flag comes up, do you turn away or do you look into it?" Panish said. "AEG ignored the obvious red flags and they hired Dr. Murray."

AEG Live contends that it did not hire or supervise Murray, saying that a proposed contract with him was never executed. The concert promoters also have said they could not have foreseen that Murray posed a danger to Jackson.

"This case is about the choices we make and the personal responsibilities that go with that," Putnam said on Monday.

Katherine Jackson, 82, along with her children Randy and Rebbie, were among family members attending Monday's packed opening of the trial. Jackson's three children, who could be called as witnesses later, were not there.

Panish said Jackson had known problems with prescription drug addiction dating back to use of the painkiller Demerol following a burn injury when he was shooting a Pepsi commercial in 1984.

Jackson in 1993 announced he was canceling a world tour to seek treatment for his painkiller addiction.

In the days before the trial began, Panish denied the Jackson family is seeking $40 billion in damages from AEG Live, as some media had reported this month.

The final amount will be determined by the jury should it hold AEG Live liable for negligence.

A handful of Jackson fans gathered outside the court, saying they were hoping for justice for the "King of Pop."

Jackson fan Julia Thomas, 40, an office worker from Colton, California, said she hoped the trial would demonstrate what she said were the wrongs AEG Live committed against Jackson.

"They're about to be exposed because they bullied Michael, they stressed him into the grave to the point that he needed sedatives to sleep," Thomas told Reuters.

(Editing by Jill Serjeant, Andrew Hay, David Gregorio and Bill Trott)

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Mo. GOPs at odds over what to do with extra money

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- After coping through several lean years, Missouri's Republican legislative leaders now are at odds over whether to save or spend an apparent excess of money.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Kurt Schaefer says he expects Missouri will end its fiscal year on June 30 with about $400 million more than had been projected. He wants to spend more than $200 million of that to replace an aging state mental hospital in Fulton.

But House Budget Committee Chairman Rick Stream, R-Kirkwood, prefers to save the money as cushion for next year's budget while waiting to see if the economy continues to improve.

The difference of opinion among Missouri's top legislative budget writers will have to be resolved soon. Lawmakers face a constitutional deadline of May 12 to send a budget to Gov. Jay Nixon for the fiscal year that starts July 1.

Schaefer, R-Columbia, has been pressing House members to revise the revenue projections agreed in December ? upon which the budget is based ? because tax revenues have been better than expected. But Stream and other House leaders have refused to do so.

"Being momentarily ahead of the consensus revenue estimate is not a good enough excuse to me to engage in a new large amount of additional spending," House Speaker Tim Jones, R-Eureka, told reporters Monday night. "I just don't see that that's fiscally prudent, fiscally conservative or anything the House has done in the past."

Schaefer contends House members are acting as if the excess revenues do not even exist.

"It's some kind of alternate reality in this building where generally accepted accounting principles don't seem to apply," Schaefer said.

Missourians should get an update soon about state revenues. Tuesday was the final day of April, and monthly revenue figures typically are released a few days after the close of the month.

Linda Luebbering, the budget director for Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon, has said previously that revenues are running ahead of projections, but that may diminish in coming months.

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