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Eurozone recession is now longest in currency bloc
A man holds a ten Euro note on as he walks through a market in Paris, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. France's economy has fallen back into recession, spelling trouble for the region. The national statistics agency, Insee, said Wednesday that gross domestic product fell 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of the year. The agency also revised its data for the fourth quarter of last year, saying GDP fell 0.2 per cent, up from a 0.3-per cent retraction. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
A man holds a ten Euro note on as he walks through a market in Paris, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. France's economy has fallen back into recession, spelling trouble for the region. The national statistics agency, Insee, said Wednesday that gross domestic product fell 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of the year. The agency also revised its data for the fourth quarter of last year, saying GDP fell 0.2 per cent, up from a 0.3-per cent retraction. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
People collect onions distributed by Greek street fruit and vegetable market vendors during a protest in Athens, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The union of Greek farmers markets went on strike, Wednesday, as protesters set up stands and started distributing vegetables to a fast growing crowd. The market vendors are the latest professional group in Greece to protest a sweeping market liberalization drive demanded by rescue creditors, and timed their protest to draft legislation due to be voted in parliament to implement the new guidelines. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
People push each other to get fresh produce as Greek market vendors hand out free food during a protest in Athens, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, as the union of Greek farmers markets went on strike Wednesday. Protesters set up stands and started distributing vegetables to a fast growing crowd. The market vendors are the latest professional group in Greece to protest a sweeping market liberalization drive demanded by rescue creditors, and timed their protest to coincide with draft legislation due to be voted in parliament to implement the new guidelines.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici, reacts as he walks toward the media after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The French national statistics agency, Insee, said Wednesday that gross domestic product fell 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of the year, effectively moving France back into recession, and with eurozone's second-largest economy, the French economy is likely to exacerbate problems throughout the euro region.(AP Photo / Michel Euler)
PARIS (AP) ? The eurozone is now in its longest ever recession ? a stubborn slump that has surpassed even the calamity that hit the region in the financial crisis of 2008-2009.
The European Union statistics office said Wednesday that nine of the 17 EU countries that use the euro are in recession, with France a notable addition to the list. Overall, the eurozone's economy contracted for the sixth straight quarter, shrinking by 0.2 percent in the January-March period from the previous three months.
Though the contraction is an improvement on the previous quarter's 0.6 percent decline, it's another unwelcome report for the single-currency bloc as it grapples with a debt crisis that has prompted governments to slash spending and raise taxes.
"The eurozone is facing a double blow from necessary restructuring of its domestic economy and somewhat disappointing growth in world trade, in particular demand from emerging markets," said Marie Diron, senior economic adviser to Ernst & Young.
This recession is not nearly as deep as the one in 2008-9, which ran for five quarters, but it is now the longest in the 14-year history of the euro. A recession is typically defined as two straight quarters of negative growth.
Austerity measures have inflicted severe economic pain and produced social unrest across the eurozone, where the average unemployment rate is a record 12.1 percent and higher in some places. In Spain, it's 26.7 percent and in Greece 27.2 percent.
Wednesday's report also brought bad news for the wider 27-country EU, which includes non-euro members such as Britain and Poland. The EU too is now in recession after shrinking by a quarterly rate of 0.1 percent in the first quarter, following a 0.5 percent drop in the previous period.
With a population of more than half a billion people, the EU is the world's largest export market. If it remains stuck in reverse, companies in the U.S. and Asia will be hit. Last month, U.S.-based Ford Motor Co. lost $462 million in Europe and called the outlook there "uncertain." McDonald's saw its sales in Europe, the hamburger chain's biggest market outside the U.S., fall 1.1 percent of in the first quarter.
Other major economies have faltered this year but none are in recession. The annualized contraction in the eurozone, based on this quarter's figures, of around 0.9 percent contrasts with the equivalent expansion of the U.S. of 2.5 percent. Meanwhile, China, the world's No. 2 economy, is growing around 8 percent a year.
For many analysts, that discrepancy highlights Europe's flawed economic approach since the end of the financial crisis. Instead of keeping the spending taps on ? as the U.S. has largely done ? the region concentrated on austerity even though companies and consumers weren't able to plug the gap left by the retrenching state.
However, there have been some recent indications that Europe's leaders are willing to ease up on their adherence to cuts and tax increases at a time of recession. Some countries, for example, are being given more time to meet certain economic and financial targets.
Also, the European Central Bank cut its benchmark interest rate this month a quarter-point to a record low of 0.50 percent. President Mario Draghi has said the ECB was prepared to flex its muscles further if needed.
Despite the latest relaxation of some deficit-reduction targets ? and an easing of concerns over the debt crisis in financial markets ? most economists think the eurozone will remain in recession in the second quarter.
Growth is expected to emerge in the second half of the year, but it isn't likely to amount to much. Many economists warn of a lost decade ahead for the eurozone similar to the one endured by Japan, which, like the eurozone, has zigzagged in and out of recession over the past few years. In the fourth quarter of 2012, the last set of available figures, Japan's economy was flat.
The eurozone has been in recession since the fourth quarter of 2011. Initially it was just the countries at the forefront of its debt crisis, such as Greece and Portugal that were contracting.
But the malaise is now spreading to the so-called core countries. Figures released Wednesday showed Germany, Europe's largest economy, grew by a less-than-anticipated quarterly rate of 0.1 percent, largely because of a severe winter.
"The Achilles heel for the German economy right now is the weak demand for investment goods" such as industrial equipment and factory machinery, said Ralf Wiechers, economist for the German Engineering Association.
"No one knows where things are going in Europe."
Germany's paltry growth still allowed it to avoid a recession after orders for the country's high-value goods from its struggling euro neighbors declined.
However, France, Europe's second-largest economy, has not avoided that fate. On the first anniversary of Francois Hollande becoming president, figures showed that the country's economy contracted by a quarterly rate of 0.2 percent for the second quarter running.
"The eurozone countries are our main clients and our main suppliers," French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said.
This marks the third time that France has been in recession since 2008, when a banking crisis pushed the global economy into its deepest contraction since World War II.
Guillaume Cairou, CEO of the consultancy Didaxis and president of France's Club of Entrepreneurs, said the news that the country is in recession merely confirms the difficulties its businesses have long experienced.
"The situation of companies on the ground is grave and more serious today than in 2008," Cairou said in a written statement.
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Pylas contributed from London. Geir Moulson in Berlin and David McHugh in Frankfurt also contributed to this story.
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Michael Burns: Too Great to Fail
The sharks are circling JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon in the wake of the London Whale, and all the bureaucrats who have felt the sting of his criticism of Dodd-Frank have their harpoons at the ready.
It is an ironic turn of events for an iconic leader of U.S. banking who has built JPMorgan Chase into the largest and most profitable bank in America, a paragon of everything a 21st century financial institution should be. Dimon was named CEO of the Year by Institutional Investor magazine just 18 short months ago.
Let me state at the outset that I am not impartial in this matter. I have known Jamie for more than 30 years as a mentor, a boss and a friend. He is a visionary CEO, an erudite and eloquent champion of our free market economy and a true titan of American finance, one of the few bankers whose name can be spoken in the same breath as Rockefeller, Morgan and Walter Wriston.
And he possesses an even rarer attribute that transcends all his achievements and accolades -- he is a good man.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should also note that Jamie was one of a handful of investors who shared the vision and saw the potential of a little company called Lionsgate back in 1999, the company where I've served as Vice Chairman for 13 years.
I am also a shareholder of JPMorgan and, if Jamie Dimon is forced to relinquish his Chairmanship and resigns from the company, I will sell all of my JPMorgan stock. And I am not alone.
Jamie has been on the right side of every crisis and controversy he has ever encountered. When the rest of the world abandoned failing banks like they were lepers, Dimon orchestrated the bailout of Bear Stearns. If his peers had showed similar vision and courage, another great financial institution, Lehman Brothers, could possibly have been saved as well.
Under Dimon's leadership, JPMorgan has invested in states from New Jersey to California and fledgling Eurozone economies when other financial institutions shrugged their shoulders or turned their heads. And during the London Whale crisis, Dimon manned up and took full responsibility, the appropriate parties were held accountable and the Board clawed back more than $100 million in stock.
London Whale was a chink in an otherwise formidable suit of armor. Most CEO's would salivate at the prospect of making a mistake and still walking away with a record $21.3 billion profit -- the largest in JPMorgan's storied 200-year history and one of the biggest annual profits in the annals of American banking.
Dimon won back investor confidence -- JPM stock closed just shy of $50 yesterday, up more than 50% since the London Whale revelations and near the company's five-year high. But the long knives have been out since he committed the heresy of breaking partisan ranks and becoming an outspoken critic of big government, excessive spending and overregulation embodied in the misguided Dodd-Frank legislation, a classic example of a cure more draconian than the problem it was designed to correct. And now the proxy advisory services have piled on in typical fashion.
Make no mistake -- the crusade to strip Dimon of his chairman title has a political, not a financial or corporate governance agenda. Dimon's critics aren't about to let record profits, a surging stock price and a quarter century of leadership stand in their way.
There is ample precedent for a society turning on its heroes, and it's never a pretty sight. The British people turned Winston Churchill out of office in 1945 after he led them to victory in World War II, and Americans have an equally frightening propensity for building our leaders up only to tear them down from the pedestals on which we put them.
But bad cultural habits are no excuse. JPMorgan's Board shouldn't play the role of apologist for Jamie Dimon's political detractors, and JPMorgan's shareholders should do a true reckoning of Dimon's assets and liabilities ahead of their fateful vote next week.
At a time when our economy is under siege by skeptics, idiots and ideologues alike, America's financial community should cherish its heroes, not chastise them. We should celebrate our globally competitive financial institutions, of which JPMorgan is the most illustrious and formidable, not strip them of the leadership that made them great.
To paraphrase former President Ronald Reagan, anyone who doesn't recognize that our financial community still has heroes, even in this troubled and cynical era, isn't looking in the right place, and Jamie Dimon at the helm of JPMorgan is foremost among them.
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May 13 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $5,849,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $3,388,064 3. Kevin Streelman $2,572,989 4. Billy Horschel $2,567,891 5. Matt Kuchar $2,493,387 6. Phil Mickelson $2,220,280 7. Adam Scott (Australia) $2,207,683 8. D.A. Points $2,019,702 9. Steve Stricker $1,977,140 10. Graeme McDowell $1,910,654 11. Jason Day $1,802,797 12. Webb Simpson $1,759,015 13. Dustin Johnson $1,748,907 14. Hunter Mahan $1,682,939 15. Charles Howell III $1,561,988 16. Russell Henley $1,546,638 17. Martin Laird $1,531,950 18. ...
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Starting a Business in China: 13 Steps to a Successful Incorporation ...
When you are starting a business in China there is plenty of legal and bureaucratic red tape that you have to deal with. Using the following information as an outline you can get an idea of what the procedures will be, how long it will take, and what the costs are. From this you can begin to plan your business start-up and be incorporated to take full advantage of the burgeoning Chinese market.
1 Obtain a notice of pre-approval of the company name
The first step in the process involves filing an application for company name pre-approval with the local Administration of Industry and Commerce (AIC) office, which can also be downloaded from the AIC?s website. If the application is made through mail, fax, email, then it be approved or rejected within 15 days, however, it can be performed in 1 day by going into the office. There is no financial cost for this step beyond time and postage.
2 Open a preliminary bank account
As of 2006, you are required to open a bank account, deposit at least CNY 30,000, and obtain a certificate of deposit as proof. After paying this initial amount the shareholders have up to 2 years to pay off their remaining capital contributions. The required initial capital contributions must be at least 20% of the proposed company?s registered capital. The registered capital, however, can be comprised of ?nonmonetary assets that can be monetarily valued and legally transferred.?
3 Obtain capital verification report from an auditing firm
An auditing firm has to prepare a report verifying the capital at an average cost of CNY 350, and usually takes about 2 days for them to complete this report.
4 Apply for registration certification ?business license of enterprise legal person? and register for taxes for both local and federal tax agencies
All of this can be easily completed by downloading and filing with SAIC. In one window they are able to get the business license and apply for all of the necessary tax accounts and numbers. Once the business license is approved the other information is provided instantly and you can be notified of the approval online. This process takes about two weeks and there is no fee for micro and small cap companies, or it is a fee of .08% of registered capital.
5 Obtain the approval to make a company seal from the police department
All of the shareholders that are individual investors, then they have to file this registration with a duplicate of the business license. It takes 1 day and cost nothing except time.
6 Make a company seal
Once you have the approval from the police department you need to have a company seal made, which will run CNY 70-300, depending on design and quality, and take 1 day.
7 Pay the fee for the organization code certificate issued by the Quality and Technology Supervision
Picking up this certificate is a simple matter of paying the CNY 102 fee.
8 Register with the local statistics bureau
Within the first month (30 days) of obtaining the business license, the company must file with the local statistics bureau with their application, including business license and organization code certificate.
9 Open a formal bank account of the company
Opening a formal business bank account that is properly funded with the registered capital is the next step, and varies from bank to bank.
10 Apply for the authorization to print or purchase financial invoices/receipts
After registration with the tax bureau and obtaining a tax registration certificate a company must apply for authorization to purchase and issue financial invoices and receipts. The taxation authority will issue the invoice purchasing book, and the process can take up to 10 business days if all of your papers are in order.
11 File for recruitment registration with local career service center
Within 30 days of recruiting employees, a company is required to register with the local career service center. This can be performed online or at the center and can be accomplished in the same day.
12 Register with Social Welfare Insurance Center
Within the first 30 days, a company must register for payment of employee social insurance with the local social insurance office by submitting a completed social insurance registration form.
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World wide web Advertising Tips For Your Good results | DO WE HIT ...
How do you feel about website marketing? Have you done enough research into Website marketing to figure out whether or not it?s a viable business opportunity for you? Information regarding affiliate marketing is available in videos, books, magazines, and online. There is so much. Where do you start when it comes to making your own marketing plan? The tips below may be a good start.
Making customer participation voluntary is an Online marketing strategy that can keep website visitors happy and improve their opinions of a website. Most web surfers are fiercely protective of their personal information ? as they should be ? and a website that respects their privacy stands out as one that cares about them.
Customers like numbers. Be as specific as you can when telling a consumer how well a product performed for others, such as saying ?97% of people were completely satisfied.? Don?t lie. Using statistics can satisfy a customer?s concerns for product ratings, and greatly increase your sales, if you use them correctly.
For better results, promote products that are unique. If you are promoting the same thing as a thousand other sites, you?ll find less results coming from those items. Your customer may be interested in your product, but they?ve probably already gone to it from a different site. Find items that are unique and less heavily promoted by other sites. Set yourself apart and see bigger results.
When you are attempting to market a product or business using a website, it is important that you be constantly adding new content to the site. The newer your relevant content, the higher your search engine rankings for those keywords. Also, new content will draw repeat visitors to your site, who are then more likely to buy your product.
One new idea for marketing a product online is to include a real-time chat room on your website. If you have the staff to man this chat room at least during the busiest hours of traffic for your site, you are likely to see an increase in sales and traffic. Site visitors will feel a personal connection to your site and your business.
Offer different language options for both the videos and text on your website. Do not confine your website to simply English, as this will lose potential customers and lower your profit ceiling. The Internet is worldwide, so you will want to appeal to all languages across all countries and continents.
Starting a blog will give a big boost to your Internet marketing efforts. It seems like everyone has a blog nowadays, and your business should be no exception. Blogs give you increased visibility and provide many opportunities to incorporate your keywords into yet another web page. Customers love it, too, because it makes them feel like they can actually interact and have a conversation with you.
The emails you send are vital to your efforts made in Online marketing. Just make sure the emails are protected! Avoid using those free email services since they tend to delete all the old messages. You might try finding separate email archiving solutions, especially if your business involves sensitive material being communicated between customers or consultants using email.
In an attempt to improve the look of your site, do not throw all of the information and material into clusters. Try to use subheadings to organize the plethora of information you have, to make it easier and more convenient for your customer to navigate and find the product that they want.
On the website that you create, make sure that you give a clear description of the product, which will aid your visitors. This will help potential clients to get a clear understanding of what they may want to purchase. Never create a website that just links up to the product you are promoting.
Create a blog and offer an RSS feed. Blogging is an effective way to market your business and you can quickly and easily add new content without having to learn any HTML. An RSS feeds allows you to syndicate your content to other websites so that you can increase your business?s exposure.
Find out your hosts uptimes before putting your site live. Everyone will have some down time occasionally, but you need to watch out for sites that are down more often that they are up. If a site is down then the crawlers can?t find it. If the uptime is really bad then eventually the engines will stop searching for your site and remove the URL.
Choosing the right color schemes can have a huge impact on your Internet promotion. Researchers have looked into how users perceive colors, and studies have shown that some colors will engage users to visit sites, while other colors will drive them away. Depending on your website and marketing campaign, this could greatly affect your results.
Whether you?re selling your own product, someone else?s, or are simply driving traffic to your blogs, affiliate marketing can be extremely lucrative if you follow these steps and work hard to market your brand to your respective niche. Remember, that information plays an important role in your success and that the most successful businesses out there, took years to build. internet marketing seo
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Will Disney's new Tonto be any better than past efforts?
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) ? The Hollywood image of Tonto once had the Lone Ranger's sidekick wearing a thin headband and lots of dangling fringes. The latest Disney version has a shirtless Johnny Depp adorned with feathers, a face painted white with black stripes, and a stuffed crow on his head.
The character in the upcoming "The Lone Ranger" still speaks broken English and chants prayers. But Depp has said he's less subservient, honors the proud American Indian warrior and displays a dry sense of humor seen throughout Indian Country. The production even hired a Comanche adviser, making it decidedly a Comanche story, and received the blessing of other tribes through ceremonies during filming.
Yet Disney has caught flak for what some say is the perpetuation of stereotypes through a character that lacks any real cultural traits. Moviegoers will have to wait until July 3 to see how all this plays out on screen. For now, they're getting a glimpse through movie trailers that have left them both optimistic and angry, and wondering to what extent the new Tonto portrays actual American Indians.
What has most people scratching their heads is the black crow that appears to hover over Depp's head, and the black stripes that run vertically down his painted face. The inspiration came from a painting by artist Kirby Sattler, who said his work isn't specific to one tribe but is modeled after nomadic Plains tribes of the 19th century.
Depp took the image to the film's Comanche adviser, William "Two-Raven" Voelker, to ask if it was far-fetched. His answer: It's not.
"There are a lot of people out there screaming who are not Comanche, as in this story Tonto is supposed to be," Voelker said. "They know nothing of bird culture. When we wear or use those feathers, we're calling on the energy of the entire bird."
Depp's elaborate costumes ? as seen in "Pirates of the Caribbean," ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Edward Scissorhands" ? are nothing new. Voelker said he never would have agreed to be a consultant on the movie had he not been assured the production team would be sensitive to American Indian culture and committed to at least some historical accuracy.
The teepees used in the movies, for example, have four poles to reflect the way the Comanche built them, not three more commonly seen in movies and that trace back to Cheyenne and Sioux tribes. The production also visited Oklahoma to hear the Comanche language being spoken and worked with Voelker and others to give Depp Comanche lines in the movie.
The story of westward expansion as told from Tonto's perspective isn't entirely accurate historically. Some of the scenes are filmed in Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation, with trains curving around the spires that Navajos believe are petrified deities, and Depp and co-star Armie Hammer looking out beyond the cliffs. Voelker had sought out the sweeping expanses of the southern Plains, home to the Comanche Nation.
Hanay Geiogamah, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma who advised Disney on "Pocahontas," said Depp's Tonto comes off as a mystical, radical modernization of the character played by Jay Silverheels in the 1950s, which is by far the most recognizable.
"You can say, 'well, American Indians are going to like this one more,'" Geiogamah said. "Are they going to respond more positively to the Johnny Depp Tonto? You're still responding to a non-Indian, stereotypical image."
Eileen Maxwell, a spokeswoman for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, said Depp has a tall order to fill if he wants to turn Tonto into a more positive image.
"All of its past iterations have not been good for Native Americans," she said. "They've been stereotypical, one-dimension and not true depictions of the westward expansion, which was devastating to Native America."
Ernest Tsosie of the Navajo comedy duo, James and Ernie, is looking forward to seeing the movie.
One scene has Tonto and the Lone Ranger atop a train, being held at gunpoint by an outlaw who asked if they're going somewhere. The Lone Ranger says no; Tonto insists they are. His straight-face turns to a smirk as the two are picked off the train by a hook that catches the chains that tie them together.
"It's a real quick moment where I caught it and I kind of chuckled," Tsosie said. "From what I saw, there's some moments in there that are meant to be funny but not outwardly funny. I think most Natives will pick up on it."
Tsosie said other tribes have teased the Comanche for making Depp an honorary member but doesn't believe Depp is ignorant of American Indian culture. Depp was inquisitive about the Navajo language during filming, and the tribal president gave him a Pendleton blanket. T-shirts that Depp has worn have pictures of American Indian warriors in the 1492 version of homeland security and with the letters "AIM" for American Indian Movement, Tsosie said. "I think he knows what's up."
Disney's remake of the "Lone Ranger" has Tonto in the role of coach to John Reid, the idealistic law school graduate played by Hammer, who finds himself out of his depth when he returns to his hometown and eventually becomes the Lone Ranger.
Michelle Shining Elk, a member of the Colville Tribes of the Pacific Northwest who works in the film industry, said the latest depiction will give the wrong perception of American Indians, "that we are uneducated, irrelevant, non-contributors to society living in teepees out on the Plains." She expected Depp to deliver his lines in a more realistic and modern manner, "not like a caricature from a John Wayne movie, or 1920s cartoon," she said.
But as John Wayne was a Hollywood creation, so is Tonto largely.
"I just hope that the other rabble-rousers out there can just sit back and take this in as a piece of entertainment," Voelker said. "It's not ever supposed to be an end-all to our Comanche culture. If they have problems, they can come to us, and I take that responsibility."
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US unveils Arctic strategy, but is it keeping pace with other countries?
The National Strategy for the Arctic Region focuses on security, environment, and international cooperation. But with retreating sea ice creating opportunity as well as potential conflict, the US is seen as lagging.
Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background is shown in this picture taken during an Operation IceBridge survey flight in April 2013. IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. The Obama administration released new priorities for policy in the region on Friday.
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EnlargeThe Obama administration on Friday unveiled its National Strategy for the Arctic Region ? three broad priorities it plans to pursue, as opportunities open to drill for oil and gas, harvest minerals, and increase other forms of economic activity at the top of the world.
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The priorities in the 13-page document include beefing up defense and other national security activities in the region, as well as the infrastructure to support them; working to safeguard the region's environment; and working with other Arctic nations one on one and through multicountry organizations, such as the Arctic Council, to manage activities in the region in ways that reduce the potential for conflict. In addition, the strategy calls for a push for ratification of the UN's Law of the Sea Treaty, which failed to clear the Senate last year.
Participation in the treaty regime would give the US standing in disputes that might arise with nations that have ratified the treaty over conflicting claims of sea-floor sovereignty.
Given the rising interest in exploiting the region's resources, particularly on the sea floor, the new strategy hits specific themes ?we need to focus on to make sure that can happen in a safe and responsible manner,? a senior administration official said at a briefing Friday morning.
The announcement comes at a time when carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are flirting with a level that last existed on Earth 3 million years ago, when global average temperatures were from 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than today's temperatures.
At that time, the Arctic was far warmer. Forests of Douglas fir and hemlock reaching all the way to the shores of an Arctic Ocean. The ocean likely was ice free in the summer, according to a study of the region's ancient environment published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
No one expects to see hemlock on the shores of the Arctic Ocean any time soon. But the extent and thickness of summer sea ice has been declining dramatically over the past 34 years, when satellites have been gathering consistent records of the ice.
The Arctic Ocean's Northeast Passage, which skims the northern coast of Russia, opened for the first time on record in the summer of 2005. Two German cargo ships with Russian icebreaker escorts took advantage of another opening in 2009, sailing from South Korea to Rotterdam across the top of the world.
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Lyme disease vaccine shows promise in clinical trial
May 10, 2013 ? The results of a phase 1/2 clinical trial in Europe of an investigational Lyme disease vaccine co-developed by researchers at Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and at Baxter International Inc., a U.S. based healthcare company, revealed it to be promising and well tolerated, according to a research paper published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The vaccine was shown to produce substantial antibodies against all targeted species of Borrelia, the causative agent of Lyme disease in Europe and the United States. Baxter International conducted the clinical trial of the vaccine.
Since the early 1990s, Benjamin Luft, MD, the Edmund D. Pellegrino Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and the late John Dunn, Ph.D., a biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, spearheaded the initial development of the original vaccine antigen concept, and together with researchers at Baxter International helped bioengineer the formulation used in the clinical trial. Through the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Brookhaven National Laboratory, The Research Foundation of the State of New York licensed intellectual property of the Lyme vaccine technology to Baxter International. Baxter International researchers in collaboration with Luft and Dunn developed further innovations employed in the Lyme vaccine used in the clinical trial.
In the article, "Safety and immunogenicity of a novel multivariant OspA vaccine against Lyme borreliosis in healthy adults: a double-blind, randomized, dose-escalation phase 1/2 trial," Principal Investigator P. Noel Barrett, PhD, of Baxter, Biomedical Research Centre, and co-authors evaluated the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine in a range of doses in 300 people living in Austria and Germany. Study participants received three primary immunizations and one booster immunization. All doses and formulations, some of which included an adjuvant, an additive to stimulate immune response to the vaccine, induced substantial antibody titers against all species of Borrelia. The vaccine demonstrated predominantly mild adverse reactions and no-vaccine related serious events occurred in the sample population.
"The results of the clinical trial conducted by Baxter are promising because the vaccine generated a potent human immune reaction, covered the complete range of Borrelia active in the entire Northern hemisphere, and produced no major side effects," said Dr. Luft, a co-author on the paper. "We hope that a larger-scale, Phase 3 trial will demonstrate not only a strong immune response but true efficacy in a large population that illustrates protection against Lyme disease."
Dr. Luft said that for years, one of the main challenges of developing a Lyme disease vaccine was to discover a method that could produce a vaccine effective on all Borrelia species. With the aid of technologies and expertise at Stony Brook and Brookhaven, Drs. Luft and Dunn focused vaccine development on the most abundant Borrelia outer surface protein found when the spirochete bacteria reside in ticks, which commonly transmit the disease. Using the scaffold of this protein, called OspA, they, in collaboration with researchers at Baxter, bioengineered a set of unique OspA proteins not found in nature. These new OspAs share different parts from different species of Borrelia. The new proteins are called chimeras.
"After a series of experimentations and refinements, formulations consisting of these new OspA proteins were shown to protect against a broad spectrum of Lyme disease spirochetes," said Dr. Luft, summarizing the research results.
The vaccine used in the European clinical trial is based on these newly created OspA proteins and is therefore designed for broad based coverage.
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Pakistan marks democratic milestone in close-fought election
By John Chalmers and Michael Georgy
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan goes to the polls on Saturday for an election that will bring the first transition between civilian governments, but the milestone's significance may be lost on some voters who have lost faith in politics after years of corruption and misrule.
Widespread disenchantment with the two mainstream parties appeared this week to have brought a late surge of support for former cricket star Imran Khan, who could end up holding the balance of power if there is no clear-cut winner.
If that happens, weeks of haggling to form a coalition will follow and raise the risk of an unstable government in a country ruled by the military for more than half of its history.
That would only make it more difficult to reverse the disgust with politicians felt among the country's 180 million people and drive through the reforms needed to revive its near-failed economy.
Power cuts can last more than 10 hours a day in some places, crippling key industries like textiles, and a new International Monetary Fund bailout may be needed soon.
Dozens of people have been killed in the run-up to the vote by the al-Qaeda-linked Pakistan Taliban, which regards the poll as un-Islamic and has vowed to disrupt the process with suicide bombings.
"The problems facing the new government will be immense, and this may be the last chance that the country's existing elites have to solve them," said Anatol Lieven, a professor at King's College, London, and author of a book on Pakistan.
"If the lives of ordinary Pakistanis are not significantly improved over the next five years, a return to authoritarian solutions remains a possibility," Lieven wrote in a column in the Financial Times on Friday.
The army stayed out of politics during the five years of the last government, but it still sets the nuclear-armed country's foreign and security policy and will steer the thorny relationship with Washington as NATO troops withdraw from neighboring Afghanistan next year.
The party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif looks set to win the most seats in the one-day vote, which gets under way across the country at 8 a.m. (0300 GMT).
However, Khan's dark-horse challenge could deprive Sharif of a majority and dash his hopes for a return to power 14 years after he was ousted in a military coup, jailed and later exiled.
Pakistan's best-known sportsman, who led a playboy lifestyle in his younger days, Khan is seen by many as a refreshing change from the dynastic politicians who long relied on a patronage system to win votes and are often accused of corruption.
THREAT OF ATTACKS
Voters will elect 272 members of the National Assembly and to win a simple majority, a party would have to take 137 seats.
However, the election is complicated by the fact that a further 70 seats, most reserved for women and members of non- Muslim minorities, are allocated to parties on the basis of their performance in the contested constituencies. To have a majority of the total of 342, a party would need 172.
Khan appeals mostly to young, urban voters because of his calls for an end to corruption, a new political landscape and a halt to U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani soil.
The 60-year-old is in hospital after injuring himself in a fall at a party rally, which may also win him sympathy votes.
Early opinion polls had put the share of votes for his Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) party as low as single figures. However, a survey released on Wednesday showed 24.98 percent of voters nationally planned to vote for his party, just a whisker behind Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N).
The Herald magazine poll showed Sharif's party remained the front-runner in Punjab, which, with the largest share of parliamentary seats, usually dictates the outcome of elections.
It also pointed to an upset for the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which led the last government, placing it third. Pakistan's politics have long been dominated by the PML-N and the PPP, whose most prominent figure is President Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto.
"The PPP didn't take care of the poor masses and always engages in corrupt practices whenever they come to power," said Sher Nabi, a banker from Peshawar.
"So we've decided to vote for the PTI candidate this time and test Imran Khan to see if he proves as honest as he claims."
In the violence ahead of the election, militants mostly targeted secular-leaning parties in the PPP's outgoing coalition and largely spared more conservative parties that question Pakistan's participation in the U.S.-led campaign against militancy, including those of both Khan and Sharif.
Many Pakistanis still plan to vote despite the bloodshed.
"I want to go out and vote but my parents are scared there will be a bomb or a shooting," said 21-year-old Nargis Fatima, a student in Quetta, one of Pakistan's most volatile cities.
"This is the first time I'm old enough to vote and I'll try my best to go out there and feel that I am part of whatever new set-up comes into place."
(Additional reporting by Mehreen Zahra-Malik in ISLAMABAD, Gul Yousafzai in QUETTA, Mubasher Bukhari in LAHORE and Jibran Ahmed in PESHAWAR; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-marks-democratic-milestone-close-fought-election-190346455.html
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Employers can't be forced to display pro-union posters, court rules
A federal appeals court in Washington has struck down an Obama administration rule that required nearly 6 million businesses to display posters announcing that their employees have rights to organize or join a labor union.
The rule, enacted in 2011 by the National Labor Relations Board, said failure to display the notice in the workplace and on a company?s website would be deemed an unfair labor practice.
The three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted unanimously on Tuesday to invalidate the measure.
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Labor leaders said the decision was a setback that would undermine workers? rights. Business groups hailed the opinion as an important victory.
?The poster rule is a prime example of a government agency that seeks to fundamentally change the way employers and employees communicate. The ultimate result of the NLRB?s intrusion would be to create a hostile work environment where none exists,? said Jay Timmons, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, which challenged the rule in court.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka denounced the decision. ?In today?s workplace, employers are required to display posters explaining wage and hour rights, health and safety and discrimination laws, even emergency escape routes,? he said. ?The Court?s twisted logic finds that ?freedom of speech? precludes the government from requiring employers to provide certain information to employees.?
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Mr. Trumka added: ?This is absurd: when workers know their rights, the laws work as intended.?
Though the rule was enacted, it never took effect, because lawsuits against it resulted in an injunction against the posters.
Critics see the measure as part of an aggressive effort within the Obama administration to use the rulemaking authority of federal agencies to bypass congressional inaction or opposition in key areas, including immigration and health care.
The judges said the poster rule violated a section of the National Labor Relations Act written to uphold the free speech rights of employers to engage in an open, noncoercive exchange of ideas concerning labor relations and workplace issues.
That section of the statute says in part: ?The expressing of any views ? whether in written, printed, graphic, or visual form, shall not constitute or be evidence of an unfair labor practice under any of the provisions of the [Act], if such expression contains no threat of reprisal or force or promise of benefit.?
Senior Judge A. Raymond Randolph said in the main opinion that the provision bars the labor relations board from finding noncoercive speech by an employer to be an unfair labor practice.
The First Amendment protects not just the right to speak, but also the right not to speak, the judge said. The government may not dictate a message and then punish those who refuse to deliver it, he said.
Government lawyers had defended the notice requirement, saying the poster featured the speech of the labor relations board, not of any employer.
The provision was passed by the NLRB out of concern that American workers may not be aware of their rights in the workplace. The board expressed concern that unions currently represent only 7.3 percent of the private workforce in the US. It also said that immigrants and high-school students about to enter the workforce are not familiar with labor laws.
Trade associations and business groups complained that the poster was one-sided, favoring unions. It did not advise employees of their right to decertify a union or their right to refuse to pay union dues in a right-to-work state, they said.
Two of the judges said they would go even further than Judge Randolph and declare that the NLRB is without any legal authority to force employers to display such signs in the workplace.
The federal labor relations law ?simply does not authorize the Board to impose on an employer a freestanding obligation to educate its employees on the fine points of labor relations law,? wrote Judge Karen Henderson in a concurring opinion joined by Judge Janice Rogers Brown.
Judge Henderson said although federal agencies enjoy broad rulemaking powers, the NLRB went beyond its authority in enacting the new rule.
The so-called poster rule was not ?necessary and proper,? to carry out the congressionally-enacted provisions of the labor relations act, she said.
?Such general rulemaking authority, although facially broad, does not mean that the specific rule the agency promulgates is a valid exercise of that authority,? she wrote.
?An agency ? is bound not only by the ultimate purposes Congress has selected, but by the means it has deemed appropriate, and prescribed, for the pursuit of those purposes,? Henderson added.
Trumka noted that all three judges on the panel had been nominated by Republican presidents. ?The Republican judges of the DC Circuit continue to wreak havoc on workers? rights,? he said.
The case is National Association of Manufacturers v. National Labor Relations Board (12-5068).
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Making Your Walls as Sturdy as Your Foundation - Toronto Home ...
Posted on May 7, 2013
There are walls found throughout our home. A wall is a protective structure, that keeps rooms and the outside separated. The wall should be built strong in order for steady support to be offered. The walls also serve as a decorative element to our home. For this reason it is also important that the walls be sturdy. Only then can you hang all of your pictures, wall paper and other decorations that you desire.
This is something that most any individual can do without the help of a professional, although this is certainly an option if you do not want to do it on your own. If you decide to take the steps to make your walls stronger on your own, it may not take as much time as you would think, nor will it cost you as much money. ?All you need is a bit of determination and make a plan and stick to it. Before you know it your walls will be built and you?ll be filled with confidence that they will be sturdy and ready for your life.
How to Ensure That Your Walls are Sturdy
The best way to ensure that your walls are sturdy is to carefully select the type of material used to make them. There are certainly a number of choices available, but not all of those choices are going to provide you with the study, long-lasting abilities that you want.
Avoid Plywood or Drywall Walls
These are the two thinnest of all wall types. The material that is used is also easy to break. Even the slightest thing could cause big damages to come your way.
Along with the type of material being used to make the wall, also look at the things that are being used to build the wall with. Make sure that it is always quality nails and other pieces being used when the walls are being build. Believe it or not these things also play a large role in your walls sturdiness.
Another tip that you will value to keeping your walls as strong and sturdy as possible- know where to nail or hang. There are areas? of the wall that should be free and clear no matter what type of material they are made of.
Conclusion
As you can see there are certainly a number of things that you can do to ensure that you have sturdy walls. It is in your best interest to use these tips and keep your walls sturdy. When you do you can be certain that you get the longest lifetimes out of the walls as well as the best use out of them. It is simple and easy and well-worth the time and investment to use these tips. Your home is your most prized possession- keep it that way for longer.
About the Author:
Ziad Nasrallah is the General Manager of Ottawa Foundation Contractors. He is involved in the day-to-day operations and speaks directly with customers who contact OFC looking to repair their home?s foundation because of a crack or a leak. When it comes to your home?s foundation, Ziad is truly an expert and lives by the motto that ?trust is our Foundation.
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Video: Monkey math
Monday, May 6, 2013
Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait?the ability to understand numbers?also is shared by man and his primate cousins.
"The human capacity for complex symbolic math is clearly unique to our species," says co-author Jessica Cantlon, assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester. "But where did this numeric prowess come from? In this study we've shown that non-human primates also possess basic quantitative abilities. In fact, non-human primates can be as accurate at discriminating between different quantities as a human child."
"This tells us that non-human primates have in common with humans a fundamental ability to make approximate quantity judgments," says Cantlon. "Humans build on this talent by learning number words and developing a linguistic system of numbers, but in the absence of language and counting, complex math abilities do still exist."
Cantlon, her research assistant Allison Barnard, postdoctoral fellow Kelly Hughes, and other colleagues at the University of Rochester and the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, N.Y., reported their findings online May 2 in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology. The study tracked eight olive baboons, ages 4 to 14, in 54 separate trials of guess-which-cup-has-the-most-treats. Researchers placed one to eight peanuts into each of two cups, varying the numbers in each container. The baboons received all the peanuts in the cup they chose, whether it was the cup with the most goodies or not. The baboons guessed the larger quantity roughly 75 percent of the time on easy pairs when the relative difference between the quantities was large, for example two versus seven. But when the ratios were more difficult to discriminate, say six versus seven, their accuracy fell to 55 percent.
That pattern, argue the authors, helps to resolve a standing question about how animals understand quantity. Scientists have speculated that animals may use two different systems for evaluating numbers: one based on keeping track of discrete objects?a skill known to be limited to about three items at a time?and a second approach based on comparing the approximate differences between counts.
The baboons' choices, conclude the authors, clearly relied on this latter "more than" or "less than" cognitive approach, known as the analog system. The baboons were able to consistently discriminate pairs with numbers larger than three as long as the relative difference between the peanuts in each cup was large. Research has shown that children who have not yet learned to count also depend on such comparisons to discriminate between number groups, as do human adults when they are required to quickly estimate quantity.
Studies with other animals, including birds, lemurs, chimpanzees, and even fish, have also revealed a similar ability to estimate relative quantity, but scientists have been wary of the findings because much of this research is limited to animals trained extensively in experimental procedures. The concern is that the results could reflect more about the experimenters than about the innate ability of the animals.
"We want to make sure we are not creating a 'Clever Hans effect,'" cautions Cantlon, referring to the horse whose alleged aptitude for math was shown to rest instead on the ability to read the unintentional body language of his human trainer. To rule out such influence, the study relied on zoo baboons with no prior exposure to experimental procedures. Additionally, a control condition tested for human bias by using two experimenters?each blind to the contents of the other cup?and found that the choice patterns remained unchanged.
A final experiment tested two baboons over 130 more trials. The monkeys showed little improvement in their choice rate, indicating that learning did not play a significant role in understanding quantity.
"What's surprising is that without any prior training, these animals have the ability to solve numerical problems," says Cantlon. The results indicate that baboons not only use comparisons to understand numbers, but that these abilities occur naturally and in the wild, the authors conclude.
Finding a functioning baboon troop for cognitive research was serendipitous, explains study co-author Jenna Bovee, the elephant handler at the Seneca Park Zoo who is also the primary keeper for the baboons. The African monkeys are hierarchical, with an alpha male at the top of the social ladder and lots of jockeying for status among the other members of the group. Many zoos have to separate baboons that don't get along, leaving only a handful of zoos with functioning troops, Bovee explained.
Involvement in this study and ongoing research has been enriching for the 12-member troop, she said, noting that several baboons participate in research tasks about three days a week. "They enjoy it," she says. "We never have to force them to participate. If they don't want to do it that day, no big deal.
"It stimulates our animals in a new way that we hadn't thought of before," Bovee adds. "It kind of breaks up their routine during the day, gets them thinking. It gives them time by themselves to get the attention focused on them for once. And it reduces fighting among the troop. So it's good for everybody."
The zoo has actually adapted some of the research techniques, like a matching game with a touch-screen computer that dispenses treats, and taken it to the orangutans. "They're using an iPad," she says.
She also enjoys documenting the intelligence of her charges. "A lot of people don't realize how smart these animals are. Baboons can show you that five is more than two. That's as accurate as a typical three year old, so you have to give them that credit."
Cantlon extends those insights to young children: "In the same way that we underestimate the cognitive abilities of non-human animals, we sometimes underestimate the cognitive abilities of preverbal children. There are quantitative abilities that exist in children prior to formal schooling or even being able to use language."
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Hill aides: White House recalculates spending cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House budget office is recalculating how to apply automatic spending cuts for a handful of agencies, freeing up almost $4 billion for the Pentagon and another $1 billion or so for other agencies like the Homeland Security Department and NASA.
Capitol Hill aides familiar with the White House changes say the administration has identified almost $5 billion in cuts that can be restored under its reading of the arcane budget rules governing the across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration.
The calculations differ from earlier ones because a partial-year funding bill was replaced in March with a more detailed measure. After administration number crunchers redid their math they were able to restore about $5 billion of the scheduled $85 billion in automatic sequestration cuts under a complicated, previously unused mechanism that dates to a 1985 budget law.
An administration official confirmed the calculations Friday but declined to comment further because the process is ongoing. The official and congressional aides spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the changes publicly.
The move comes amid increasing public pressure to find ways to lessen the impact of sequestration. Federal agencies are warning that the mandatory cuts could mean cutbacks in services. Last week, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed legislation giving the Federal Aviation Administration the ability to avoid furloughs that were causing flight delays by tapping money in other accounts.
The cuts officially began in March after Congress and Obama could not reach an agreement on a broader budget deal. The automatic cuts had been imposed under a hard-fought 2011 debt and budget pact. They require a 5 percent cut to domestic agency operating budgets and an 8 percent cut to the Pentagon. Social Security was exempted and cuts to Medicare were limited to a 2 percent cut to health care providers. Safety net programs like Medicaid, food stamps and school lunches for the poor were exempted, too.
The cuts have so far failed to live up to the dire warnings issued earlier by agencies, in part because agency budget officers working with Congress have been permitted to transfer money between accounts. That allowed the Justice Department, for instance, to avoid temporary layoffs called furloughs. But budget experts warn that the grip of sequestration will grow tighter as weeks and months pass, leading to teacher layoffs, reduced funding for infrastructure and economic development projects, and a host of other cuts across the budget.
Many liberal activists were infuriated when Congress last week swiftly moved to address problems with air traffic control that led to widespread flight delays while leaving other problems like cuts to preschool for the poor and Meals on Wheels for the elderly unaddressed. Most lawmakers are frequent fliers.
At issue in the latest recalculation are accounts that were cut more deeply under a full-year funding bill enacted in March than they would have been under the across-the-board cuts. They get funds restored. It's up to the White House Office of Management and Budget to calculate the across-the-board cuts.
The recalculation surprised many people on Capitol Hill, but Republicans atop the budget committees declined to criticize the move. Republicans like Sen. John McCain of Arizona have sought to reverse cuts to the Pentagon ? and it benefits the most from the new math.
The State Department was a big winner and said Friday that it would be able to avoid furloughing workers, in part because of the new calculations.
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it would not have to curtail inspections of food processing plants. It had earlier warned that 2,100 plant inspections would have been cancelled.
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Solar Impulse sets off on its journey across the US (video)
Early this morning at Moffet Air Field in Mountain View, California, Solar Impulse finally took off on the first leg of its barnstorming tour across the US. Of course, this isn't the first time the sun-powered plane and its pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, have flown long distance, but it is the first time it's taken wing through American airspace. Why has it come across the pond? To raise pubilc and political awareness about the benefits of going green and increasing energy efficiency -- and perhaps pick up an additional sponsor or two for its second-gen aircraft (currently in development) meant to fly around the world in 2015. "With the technologies we have onboard, we can divide by two the energy consumption of our world, and produce half of the rest [energy we need] with renewable sources" according to Piccard.
This first portion of the journey will end in Phoenix, and it'll take around twenty hours to get there, as the plane's meager output limits its average speed to around 40MPH. Should any of you want to join along with Piccard and Borschberg as they fly across the country, you can hit the Solar Impulse Across America website to see a livestream from the cockpit, along with real-time altitude, air speed and battery status of the aircraft. And, you can watch a video of Solar Impulse taking off on its North American journey and hear Borschberg talk about learning to fly it after the break.
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Regular, moderate exercise does not worsen pain in people with fibromyalgia
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., May 2, 2013 For many people who have fibromyalgia, even the thought of exercising is painful.
Yet a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that exercise does not worsen the pain associated with the disorder and may even lessen it over time. The findings are published in the current online issue of the journal Arthritis Care & Research.
According to Dennis Ang, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist and senior author of the study, doing light to moderate exercise over a prolonged period of time improves overall symptoms, such as fatigue and trouble sleeping, while not increasing pain.
"For many people with fibromyalgia, they will exercise for a week or two and then start hurting and think that exercise is aggravating their pain, so they stop exercising," Ang said. "We hope that our findings will help reduce patients' fear and reassure them that sustained exercise will improve their overall health and reduce their symptoms without worsening their pain."
To evaluate the relationship between long-term maintenance of moderate intensity exercise, defined as light jogging or brisk walking for 20 minutes a day, the research team enrolled 170 volunteers to participate in a 36-week study. Participants received individualized exercise prescriptions and completed baseline and follow-up physical activity assessments using the Community Health Activities Model Program for Seniors (CHAMPS) questionnaire at weeks 12, 24 and 36.
The study found that participants who engaged in moderate intensity exercise for at least 12 weeks showed greater improvements in clinical symptoms as compared to participants who were unable to achieve higher levels of physical activity.
More importantly, Ang said, the findings showed that long-term physical activity at levels consistent with current medical recommendations is not associated with worsening pain symptoms in fibromyalgia.
Approximately 10 percent of the adult population in the United States has fibromyalgia or fibromyalgia-like conditions. The disorder is characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by sleep disturbance, fatigue and memory issues. Experts believe that fibromyalgia is a disorder of pain processing due to abnormalities in how pain signals are processed in the central nervous system.
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The study was supported by grant 1RO1AR054324-01A1 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Co-authors are Anthony Kaleth, Ph.D., Chandan Saha, Ph.D., and James Slaven, M.S., of Indiana University; and Mark Jensen, Ph.D., of the University of Washington.
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336-716-2415
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., May 2, 2013 For many people who have fibromyalgia, even the thought of exercising is painful.
Yet a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that exercise does not worsen the pain associated with the disorder and may even lessen it over time. The findings are published in the current online issue of the journal Arthritis Care & Research.
According to Dennis Ang, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist and senior author of the study, doing light to moderate exercise over a prolonged period of time improves overall symptoms, such as fatigue and trouble sleeping, while not increasing pain.
"For many people with fibromyalgia, they will exercise for a week or two and then start hurting and think that exercise is aggravating their pain, so they stop exercising," Ang said. "We hope that our findings will help reduce patients' fear and reassure them that sustained exercise will improve their overall health and reduce their symptoms without worsening their pain."
To evaluate the relationship between long-term maintenance of moderate intensity exercise, defined as light jogging or brisk walking for 20 minutes a day, the research team enrolled 170 volunteers to participate in a 36-week study. Participants received individualized exercise prescriptions and completed baseline and follow-up physical activity assessments using the Community Health Activities Model Program for Seniors (CHAMPS) questionnaire at weeks 12, 24 and 36.
The study found that participants who engaged in moderate intensity exercise for at least 12 weeks showed greater improvements in clinical symptoms as compared to participants who were unable to achieve higher levels of physical activity.
More importantly, Ang said, the findings showed that long-term physical activity at levels consistent with current medical recommendations is not associated with worsening pain symptoms in fibromyalgia.
Approximately 10 percent of the adult population in the United States has fibromyalgia or fibromyalgia-like conditions. The disorder is characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain accompanied by sleep disturbance, fatigue and memory issues. Experts believe that fibromyalgia is a disorder of pain processing due to abnormalities in how pain signals are processed in the central nervous system.
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The study was supported by grant 1RO1AR054324-01A1 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Co-authors are Anthony Kaleth, Ph.D., Chandan Saha, Ph.D., and James Slaven, M.S., of Indiana University; and Mark Jensen, Ph.D., of the University of Washington.
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