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EU INVOLVEMENT IN MALI

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<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWFJFd9k3HppRKjnoe2L-x4ERZu5dHB2ib3zwTr-yus0qcxFQoFzLP-MBSkCIQ6RbtZpGQcwlo6J0Cnbn4l-nU87PdcXsqQUsprysRwwiZOhAGfmCL6IlWaP3Bm2B_3CRyRa6cKMdAkYAR/s1600/4mali_flag_Hemera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWFJFd9k3HppRKjnoe2L-x4ERZu5dHB2ib3zwTr-yus0qcxFQoFzLP-MBSkCIQ6RbtZpGQcwlo6J0Cnbn4l-nU87PdcXsqQUsprysRwwiZOhAGfmCL6IlWaP3Bm2B_3CRyRa6cKMdAkYAR/s320/4mali_flag_Hemera.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHY THE SAHEL IS CRUCIAL TO EUROPE'S NEIGHBORHOOD – AND ITS SECURITY STRATEGY </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The ongoing crises in SYRIA and EGYPT have marginalized the conflict in MALI in the WESTERN media. But the FRENCH-led military intervention in that country is facing a complex and challenging transitional period. UNITED NATIONS Special Envoy for the SAHEL Romano Prodi recently warned the international community to “not forget the SAHEL, or you will have more MALIS if you do.” That is a prospect that EUROPEAN countries — including FRANCE — will certainly not relish, yet they lack the political will or the capacity to ensure a favorable outcome. Transatlantic actors now, more than ever, need to rethink their cooperation in the region and strengthen their alliances with local powers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FRENCH MILITARY INTERVENTION IN MALI ALSO REVEALED THE RELUCTANCE OF COUNTRIES TO SHARE THE BURDEN FOR PROVIDING SECURITY IN THE SAHEL</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOUvFkdquNoOD59uw50fAf2KJzLxlzU2jXrdyHgMrn2ww2yUw8u40E-alHngJAQNejyPlVVH8YmViIJbabPCQ6fAbL2iSwmSLiLUEGmRyUUT5qerTrUejXI5ACT7xNnRObGuo28eUXA0H/s1600/FCB71F5A-F9E8-451A-BCEB-CC99F2BD6907_w640_r1_s.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOUvFkdquNoOD59uw50fAf2KJzLxlzU2jXrdyHgMrn2ww2yUw8u40E-alHngJAQNejyPlVVH8YmViIJbabPCQ6fAbL2iSwmSLiLUEGmRyUUT5qerTrUejXI5ACT7xNnRObGuo28eUXA0H/s320/FCB71F5A-F9E8-451A-BCEB-CC99F2BD6907_w640_r1_s.png" width="320" /></a></b></div><br />  <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The two main challenges facing the transatlantic partners are their ability to assume responsibility for regional security and their securing local support for their efforts. Despite receiving official backing from allies on both sides of the Atlantic, the FRENCH military intervention in MALI also revealed the reluctance of countries to share the burden for providing security in the SAHEL. The problem stems mostly from the divergence of perceptions within EUROPE on the relevance of the SAHEL to its immediate security concerns.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See also: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">QUEST FOR AFRICA</span></b><span style="color: blue;"> at:<a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/12/usa-china-and-africa.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/12/usa-china-and-africa.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SAHEL: NEW SAFE HAVENS FOR TERRORISM AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN THE REGION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A THREAT TO ALL EUROPEAN NATIONAL INTERESTS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first step should therefore be to redefine the scope of EUROPE’S neighborhood strategy in order to include the SAHEL area as a whole. For obvious historical reasons, FRANCE will continue to be more involved in the stability of this part of AFRICA than other countries, but the development of new safe havens for terrorism and transnational crime in the region should be considered a threat to all EUROPEAN national interests, just as instability in the CAUCASUS should concern WESTERN EUROPEAN countries. At this point, FRANCE has neither the political will nor the capacity to assert sole leadership in a vast region stretching from SENEGAL to the HORN OF AFRICA. A U.S. interpretation of FRENCH assertion in region as a reason for its disengagement would therefore be a miscalculation. Once a common EUROPEAN vision is built, the path for a genuine transatlantic approach to security in the SAHEL and a division of labor can then be charted, with the UNITED STATES possibly assuming responsibility for technical and logistical support and for training. The training of AFRICAN troops should eventually become the centerpiece of transatlantic operations in the region, keeping in mind the lessons learned from the previous failed experience in MALI pre-2012.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">USA INCREASES ITS PRESENCE IN AFRICA "THE RISING CONTINENT", WHILE EUROPE KEEPS ON UNDERESTIMATING IT. At: </span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/africa-and-usa.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/africa-and-usa.html</a>and<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> </span></b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/chinas-winning-strategy-in-africa.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/chinas-winning-strategy-in-africa.html</a><b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COOPERATION WITH AFRICAN NATIONS SHOULD GO BEYOND THE SCOPE OF SIMPLE MILITARY INTERVENTIONS AND SECURITY PARTNERSHIPS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhidKeKw43ZqJMS6sSuuifbBuWSXgLUulBKtJGmQt6441aPCWYZskHO6F_5wAZzOqueLS5rDCIYPbFX7xA5OUmX2CRV5Jtt88hMvTiJeCLudJQOHEc2teiwmEzmPLh2yqdhT4-ghdNzTU9W/s1600/Eutm-mali.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhidKeKw43ZqJMS6sSuuifbBuWSXgLUulBKtJGmQt6441aPCWYZskHO6F_5wAZzOqueLS5rDCIYPbFX7xA5OUmX2CRV5Jtt88hMvTiJeCLudJQOHEc2teiwmEzmPLh2yqdhT4-ghdNzTU9W/s320/Eutm-mali.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That objective goes hand-in-hand with the second challenge: establishing strong and durable security partnerships with local partners in order to ensure the operability of a transatlantic strategy in the region. The gradual diminishing of power-projection capabilities in EUROPE and the UNITED STATES has reinforced the necessity of establishing strong regional partnerships in the context of the struggle against terrorism. Although some transatlantic actors have recently strengthened their defense partnerships with countries in the region — for instance, FRANCE with CAMEROON, the IVORY COAST, DJIBOUTI, GABON, SENEGAL, the CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, and TOGO, and the U.K. with ALGERIA — this type of cooperation should go beyond the scope of simple military interventions, as the struggle against transnational crime and terrorism in the region will inevitably involve EUROPE’S long-term engagement. During U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to his country, SENEGALESE President Macky Sall outlined the expectations of leaders in AFRICAN and EUROPE for stronger triangular cooperation in support of counterterrorism efforts in clear terms.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">SEVEN ECONOMIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ARE EXPECTED TO BE AMONG THE TEN FASTEST GROWING ECONOMIES IN THE WORLD. At: </span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/04/africa-forgotten-and-underestimated.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/04/africa-forgotten-and-underestimated.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidTlWyO5p-NtcLYN1L1zkHiGc4va3otzpLfEpEkPGqx8_HbjqQ7PEYcFikhMSd0KUcX3Co70v9qpzAe6VqWnSl5av8BOuJptSKkmLqHIRL4Qk48K5PCn1pcg-yq49Z45kAcyjDt8emVkPk/s1600/Sub-Saharan-Africa-2013-GDP-Growth-Forecasts-640x492.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidTlWyO5p-NtcLYN1L1zkHiGc4va3otzpLfEpEkPGqx8_HbjqQ7PEYcFikhMSd0KUcX3Co70v9qpzAe6VqWnSl5av8BOuJptSKkmLqHIRL4Qk48K5PCn1pcg-yq49Z45kAcyjDt8emVkPk/s320/Sub-Saharan-Africa-2013-GDP-Growth-Forecasts-640x492.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Sub-Saharan Africa: 2013 GDP Growth Forecasts</span></strong></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cooperation between the FRENCH and CHADIAN military in MALI serves as a model here, having proved to be both effective on the ground and recognized as legitimate by international institutions. But security partnerships between EUROPEAN and AFRICAN states need to go beyond the establishment of military bases, and should aim to address the main weakness of EUROPEAN militaries today: a lack of effective cooperation in intelligence and surveillance in this sparsely-populated region. The recent U.S.-FRENCH negotiations over the purchase of 16 Reaper drones for surveillance have highlighted EUROPEAN shortcomings in this domain. In this context, developing coordinated operations with AFRICAN armed forces<i> </i> is crucial in ensuring that these new capabilities will be used efficiently.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although unintentional, the U.S. re-balance to ASIA has made the issue of transatlantic cooperation in the SAHEL resurface to the top of the agenda, as EUROPEAN capitals question the real extent of U.S. “strategic retrenchment,” both globally and in the region. In parallel, the evolution of the SAHEL should also be used in EUROPE to highlight the necessity of reassessing its security strategy, and undertake a true assessment of the capabilities that are attached to it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Martin Michelot and Martin Quencez <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>via Stratrisks </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div>

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Woot! New Calif. law protects jobs

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California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill yesterday that scraps the state's $750-million-a-year bad-business boondoggle known as the enterprise zone program. The program killed scores of good-paying union jobs to create minimum-wage jobs elsewhere in the state.<br /><br />California Teamsters have long opposed enterprise zones. Earlier this year, <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/03/workers-pay-to-lose-their-jobs.html">Teamsters were laid off</a> when two companies --  building products distributor Blue Linx and laboratory supply and distribution company VWR -- moved to enterprise zones in California. Our brothers and sisters were told the law forbade them from following their jobs.<br /><br />In place of enterprise zones,<a href="http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/07/jerry-brown-signs-california-enterprise-zone-overhaul-legislation.html"> the law</a> establishes the <a href="http://business.ca.gov/">Governor's Economic Development Initiative</a>, meant to create good jobs. A statewide sales tax exemption will apply to manufacturing equipment or research and development equipment purchases for biotech and manufacturing companies.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-5y3IxkzPke4Z61wM1OikpqE_JyRwbM5b1bJijzQ0cctXFbgophrQ_4Q42zakxohDSE3reCBcYfqYFKprfyt6VTkjyn61BMema5jgM3PwXdvUh_lOiIr8Yy-1SGoV8kFM-T2jH86DK91N/s1600/7.12.13gov.brown.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-5y3IxkzPke4Z61wM1OikpqE_JyRwbM5b1bJijzQ0cctXFbgophrQ_4Q42zakxohDSE3reCBcYfqYFKprfyt6VTkjyn61BMema5jgM3PwXdvUh_lOiIr8Yy-1SGoV8kFM-T2jH86DK91N/s320/7.12.13gov.brown.png" width="320" /></a></div>Brother Doug Bloch from <a href="http://www.teamstersjc7.org/">Joint Council 7</a> in San Francisco witnessed the signing and called it a "great moment for the state's workers."<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Under the new program, money that was originally directed toward companies like Walmart and FedEx to create minimum-wage jobs will now go to manufacturers who create new jobs that pay at least $12 an hour. Hiring credits could go to Teamster employers in food processing, dairy, breweries, beverage and more. They'll also be eligible to get tax credits for equipment investments, including any retrofits they do to their plants to comply with AB 32, the Greenhouse Gas initiative.  And employers who want to transfer jobs now need to offer people the right to move with their job at their current rate of pay.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In short, this is a big win for us.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Californians can now be more secure that corporations will not eliminate their jobs by moving their plants just to pad their bottom lines. Teamster strong!</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br /><br />

Woot! New Calif. law protects jobs

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill yesterday that scraps the state's $750-million-a-year bad-business boondoggle known as the ent...

'Let's keep the gamblers out of banks'

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw4Om_c568L7zvC4_m0xHaY3r4K3pkzhwuhgODDVF7xFRV0UEAurV6T1u-jjnJ4fs1RHeCs3RHP9rumD1Nyx_RBRahSC9ji4lufO_MljA_rW9Y1Jgh1jVaLT2a_PfzJ3ZxBABVH2YaNriV/s1600/elizabeth+warren.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw4Om_c568L7zvC4_m0xHaY3r4K3pkzhwuhgODDVF7xFRV0UEAurV6T1u-jjnJ4fs1RHeCs3RHP9rumD1Nyx_RBRahSC9ji4lufO_MljA_rW9Y1Jgh1jVaLT2a_PfzJ3ZxBABVH2YaNriV/s320/elizabeth+warren.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren dropped a bombshell -- actually two -- on federal bank regulators yesterday.<br /><br /><a href="http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/07/senator-warren-drops-a-bombshell-in-senate-hearing-bipartisan-bill-to-restore-glass-steagall-being-introduced/">Wall Street on Parade</a> reports they were probably expecting a pat on the back because they're requiring banks to keep more money on hand in case they get into trouble (as they did in 2008 when they crashed the economy). Instead, Warren scolded them for failing to put bankers in prison.<br /><br /><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/finance/310479-warren-hammers-regulators-on-trials-for-firms-who-skirt-financial-rules">The Hill</a> reports Warren asked why they chose to fine banks accused of wrongdoing instead of prosecuting them for crimes. She asked for more information about bank violations and the agreements reached with the banks.:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Then the public could evaluate for themselves if you’re really out there fighting on their behalf.</blockquote>(We have an idea...)<br /><br />Warren also announced she and three other senators, including Arizona's John McCain, were introducing a bill to restore <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act">Glass-Steagall</a>. That's a Depression-era law that separated risky gambling on Wall Street with traditional banking. It worked to keep the financial system stable for decades, until the banks managed to get it repealed.<br /><br /><a href="http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/07/senator-warren-drops-a-bombshell-in-senate-hearing-bipartisan-bill-to-restore-glass-steagall-being-introduced/">Wall Street on Parade</a> reported the regulators stared in silence as Warren described why she was sponsoring the legislation. (They represented Treasury, FDIC, Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.) She told them:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">“…the four largest banks are now 30 percent larger than they were just five years ago and they have continued to engage in dangerous, high-risk practices. So, later today Mr. Chairman, Senators McCain, Cantwell, King and I will introduce a 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act. For half a century after the Great Depression, Glass-Steagall kept this country safe by separating the risky activities of investment banks from the basic checking and savings accounts that consumers rely on every day.  </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“The banks lobbied for weaker regulations and eventually the regulators started unraveling Glass-Steagall and finally in 1999 Congress repealed what was left of it. So now we propose a 21st Century Glass-Steagall so that we can return to the basics and try to keep the gamblers out of our banks.  </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“Now, based on what the regulators did to Glass-Steagall over the past 30 years, I don’t expect that anyone on this panel will jump up and endorse the new Glass-Steagall bill; even so, we’re going to keep pushing for it.”    </blockquote>Stay tuned...<br /><br />

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A Personal Trainer Cupertino Provides 4 Outdoor Activities That Will Help You Stay In Shape

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<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Tammy Walker</div><br /><br />  <div class='uawarticle'>Cupertino is a little town within the Santa Clara County in California. It's situated on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley and some parts of the town have extended towards the foothills of the mountains in Santa Cruz.<br />  <br />  Because of this, people in Cupertino are fond of outdoor activities, like trekking, hiking and mountain climbing and in fact, the towns are surrounded with bike lanes and bicycle traffic is typically heavy. So here's a list of 4 outdoor activities that can help you to stay fit, as shared by a personal trainer Cupertino.<br />  <br />  *	Swimming<br />  <br />  If you have a pool in your house outdoors, then swimming is the perfect outdoor exercise for you. If you don't have a pool, then you can check out some of the hotels and resorts in Cupertino and see if they have a pool where you can swim.<br />  <br />  Experts say that swimming can help you to burn up to 900 calories especially if you do it more frequently. The personal trainer Cupertino would recommend that you also try a variety of strokes, such as back stroke, freestyle and butterfly.<br />  <br />  *	Hiking<br />  <br />  Hiking will not only help you to stay fit but is also a great opportunity for you to explore the beauty of your surroundings. So schedule a walk in the park daily and enjoy the beautiful national parks and forests all over Cupertino.<br />  <br />  The personal trainer Cupertino says that hiking can help you to burn as much as 700 calories, although this will also depend on your pace and on how much weight you have. Ask your kids or other family members to join you for a more enjoyable hike. But don't forget to bring bottled water to keep you hydrated.<br />  <br />  *	Biking<br />  <br />  For those who yearn for a more adventurous activity, visit some of the nearby beaches in Cupertino and rent a kayak. You can have your fellow adventurous friends to join you as well, because kayaking is more enjoyable when done in a group. This activity can make you to burn up to 400 calories in one hour, depending on your pace and your weight too.<br />  <br />  *	Biking<br />  <br />  Biking is also another outdoor sport activity that is guaranteed to help you to burn calories, so invest on a good bike and spend a few hours of your time each day for biking. You can bike in the park or on some other safe places in Cupertino. The personal trainer Cupertino stated that biking for at least an hour each day can help you to burn up to a thousand calories. Again, this will pretty much depend on your speed and your body weight.<br />  <br />  So these are some of the outdoor sports that a personal trainer Cupertino will highly recommend to those who would like to burn calories in a fun and relaxing way. Do these activities every weekend and you'll certainly be surprised to see a great improvement on your body in only a few months.<br />  <br />  </div><br />  <div class='uawresource'><br />  	<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br />  		About the Author:<br />  	</div><br />  	<div class='uawlinks'>Getting in great condition with the assistance of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-cupertino/">Personal Trainer Lafayette</a> not only enhances your own entire body but furthermore your well being as well. The advantages that you can get from <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-lafayette/">Personal Trainer Cupertino</a> are countless.</div><br />  </div><br />

A Personal Trainer Cupertino Provides 4 Outdoor Activities That Will Help You Stay In Shape

By Tammy Walker Cupertino is a little town within the Santa Clara County in California. It's situated on the western edge of the San...

Happy Friday!!!

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Hi everyone!<br /><br />It's Friday - what can be better than that?  I am looking forward to the weekend.  I plan on doing some menu planning and a little cooking for the week.  I am also going to get some swimming in!!!!  I love to swim and I want to get more work done on my tired limbs that support this big body of mine!!  So, water will accomplish that.  <br /><br />My bestie Ashley and I are talking about doing a trip next May to Cancun or somewhere like that. I have never been anywhere like that ever.  I hardly get out of Houston, let alone Texas.  I kind of got excited thinking how GREAT I will look next May.  Hopefully my tax refund will be enough to cover it!!!!  YAY so excited!!!<br /><br />Ok, so last night on the radio talk show was unreal.  I am truly humbled, overwhelmed (in a good way) and inspired to push through.  This was really the magic I needed to keep motivated, to keep pushing through.  Thanks Spencer and Demian for being such kind hosts.  It was a lot of fun.  My friends all listened in.  Today, when I got to work, one of my co-workers said the moment I walked in the door, "Can I just give you a hug?"  Caught off guard for sure, but it was so sweet.  She said that I truly was inspiring to her and she also wanted to just lose 10 pounds that would make her feel so much better.<br /><br />I posted the archive at the top right for everyone to listen too.  It is two hours long.  You can go on the website and download it at:  <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/playgroundradio/2013/07/12/arena-pharmaceuticals-belviq-the-ellie-wenker-story">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/playgroundradio/2013/07/12/arena-pharmaceuticals-belviq-the-ellie-wenker-story</a><br /><br />I want to thank Pam Skaar and Karen Mann for texting me and encouraging me through out the show and for Karen calling in.  It made me tear up!!  I love both of those women and their husbands for believing in me and encouraging me.  <br /><br />So, what's on the menu today?  I am craving fresh veggies.  So for lunch I will have assorted fresh raw veggies.  Sounds boring, but I just can't get enough.  I am also going to have a chicken breast plain for a hair of protein.  Haven't decided dinner yet.  We'll see what I'll cook up, maybe post a picture!!!!<br /><br />Follow me on twitter @ewenker and on my facebook fan page Belviq Daily Personal.  Thanks so much for believing in me.  I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!<br /><br />xoxox<br />Ellie<br /><br />

Happy Friday!!!

Hi everyone! It's Friday - what can be better than that? I am looking forward to the weekend. I plan on doing some menu planning and a...

The Joy of Old Age (No Kidding) - Oliver Sacks - NYTimes.com

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Last night I dreamed about mercury — huge, shining globules of quicksilver rising and falling. Mercury is element number 80, and my dream is a reminder that on Tuesday, I will be 80 myself.<br><br>Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. At 11, I could say "I am sodium" (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold. A few years ago, when I gave a friend a bottle of mercury for his 80th birthday — a special bottle that could neither leak nor break — he gave me a peculiar look, but later sent me a charming letter in which he joked, "I take a little every morning for my health."<br><br>Eighty! I can hardly believe it. I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over. My mother was the 16th of 18 children; I was the youngest of her four sons, and almost the youngest of the vast cousinhood on her side of the family. I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.<br><br>I thought I would die at 41, when I had a bad fall and broke a leg while mountaineering alone. I splinted the leg as best I could and started to lever myself down the mountain, clumsily, with my arms. In the long hours that followed, I was assailed by memories, both good and bad. Most were in a mode of gratitude — gratitude for what I had been given by others, gratitude, too, that I had been able to give something back. "Awakenings" had been published the previous year.<br><br>At nearly 80, with a scattering of medical and surgical problems, none disabling, I feel glad to be alive — "I'm glad I'm not dead!" sometimes bursts out of me when the weather is perfect. (This is in contrast to a story I heard from a friend who, walking with Samuel Beckett in Paris on a perfect spring morning, said to him, "Doesn't a day like this make you glad to be alive?" to which Beckett answered, "I wouldn't go as far as that.") I am grateful that I have experienced many things — some wonderful, some horrible — and that I have been able to write a dozen books, to receive innumerable letters from friends, colleagues and readers, and to enjoy what Nathaniel Hawthorne called "an intercourse with the world."<br><br>I am sorry I have wasted (and still waste) so much time; I am sorry to be as agonizingly shy at 80 as I was at 20; I am sorry that I speak no languages but my mother tongue and that I have not traveled or experienced other cultures as widely as I should have done.<br><br>I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever "completing a life" means. Some of my patients in their 90s or 100s say nunc dimittis — "I have had a full life, and now I am ready to go." For some of them, this means going to heaven — it is always heaven rather than hell, though Samuel Johnson and James Boswell both quaked at the thought of going to hell and got furious with David Hume, who entertained no such beliefs. I have no belief in (or desire for) any post-mortem existence, other than in the memories of friends and the hope that some of my books may still "speak" to people after my death.<br><br>W. H. Auden often told me he thought he would live to 80 and then "bugger off" (he lived only to 67). Though it is 40 years since his death, I often dream of him, and of my parents and of former patients — all long gone but loved and important in my life.<br><br>At 80, the specter of dementia or stroke looms. A third of one's contemporaries are dead, and many more, with profound mental or physical damage, are trapped in a tragic and minimal existence. At 80 the marks of decay are all too visible. One's reactions are a little slower, names more frequently elude one, and one's energies must be husbanded, but even so, one may often feel full of energy and life and not at all "old." Perhaps, with luck, I will make it, more or less intact, for another few years and be granted the liberty to continue to love and work, the two most important things, Freud insisted, in life.<br><br>When my time comes, I hope I can die in harness, as Francis Crick did. When he was told that his colon cancer had returned, at first he said nothing; he simply looked into the distance for a minute and then resumed his previous train of thought. When pressed about his diagnosis a few weeks later, he said, "Whatever has a beginning must have an ending." When he died, at 88, he was still fully engaged in his most creative work.<br><br>My father, who lived to 94, often said that the 80s had been one of the most enjoyable decades of his life. He felt, as I begin to feel, not a shrinking but an enlargement of mental life and perspective. One has had a long experience of life, not only one's own life, but others', too. One has seen triumphs and tragedies, booms and busts, revolutions and wars, great achievements and deep ambiguities, too. One has seen grand theories rise, only to be toppled by stubborn facts. One is more conscious of transience and, perhaps, of beauty. At 80, one can take a long view and have a vivid, lived sense of history not possible at an earlier age. I can imagine, feel in my bones, what a century is like, which I could not do when I was 40 or 60. I do not think of old age as an ever grimmer time that one must somehow endure and make the best of, but as a time of leisure and freedom, freed from the factitious urgencies of earlier days, free to explore whatever I wish, and to bind the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime together.<br><br>I am looking forward to being 80.<br><br><i>Oliver Sacks is a professor of neurology at the N.Y.U. School of Medicine and the author, most recently, of "Hallucinations."</i><br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-old-age-no-kidding.html?src=me&ref=general">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-old-age-no-kidding.html?src=me&ref=general</a>

The Joy of Old Age (No Kidding) - Oliver Sacks - NYTimes.com

Last night I dreamed about mercury — huge, shining globules of quicksilver rising and falling. Mercury is element number 80, and my dream is...

Anxiety Lingers Long After Cancer - NYTimes.com

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<div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">From the shock of the cancer diagnosis onward, depression can take its well-documented toll on patients. Even patients who appear to pack away their fears during the grinding treatment journey to becoming cancer-free concede that when the regimen ends, they unspool emotionally.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">There has been less attention paid to the disease's emotional impact on spouses. They, too, can become depressed. But with the roles of caregiver and cheerleader thrust upon them, they may feel constrained about expressing their darker feelings.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Now a new analysis finds that within two years of a cancer diagnosis, the pervasiveness of depression in patients and their spouses tends to drop back to roughly the same levels as in the general population, only to be replaced by another mind-demon: anxiety, which can even intensify as time passes.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">The analysis, which looked at 43 studies involving 51,381 patients with a range of cancers, found that over all, nearly 18 percent of patients experienced serious anxiety two to 10 years after their diagnosis, compared with about 14 percent of the general population. But in a cluster of studies that looked at couples, anxiety levels in that time frame grew to as high as 28 percent in patients and 40 percent in their spouses.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">"Anxiety is a persistent problem long after the cancer has been diagnosed," said Dr. Alex J. Mitchell, the lead author of the study, which <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23759376" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none;" class="">appeared in The Lancet Oncology</a>, and a senior lecturer in psycho-oncology at the University of Leicester in England. Psycho-oncologists, often based at cancer centers, look at the psychological and social effects of cancer on patients during and after treatment.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Unlike depression, anxiety has not been looked at extensively in the long-term cancer population, and even less so in partners. "It appears to be at least equal and perhaps more of a problem for spouses than patients," Dr. Mitchell said. "But at least in the U.K., we're poor at helping family members when the patient is affected."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">People who have not confronted a life-challenging illness may be perplexed by the residual anxiety in patients, long after they have successfully completed treatment.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">"They think that when it's over, it should be over," said Jane Hyman, 66, a retired elementary school principal from Sharon, Mass., who was treated for breast cancer 16 years ago. "But the downside to being further out is that I've known many people who have had cancer more than once. "</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Her body works like an unconscious calendar. In early June, she becomes edgy and nervous and begins staying awake till 2 a.m., reading. Then she and her husband check their real calendars and, sure enough, her annual checkup is just a few weeks away.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Dr. Laura B. Dunn, a professor of psychiatry and director of psycho-oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, said that although cancer is increasingly labeled a chronic illness, "it's different from arthritis in that it's more of a chronic threat. Some of us are wired to be attuned to threat." The anxiety is understandable, she said, because "no one can guarantee you a cancer-free survival."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">"Some people can say, 'Yeah, it might recur, but I can't control that,' and they live their life anyway," she continued. But others, because of genes, past experience or temperament, have more difficulty doing that, she said, and "the anxiety may not decrease over time."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Dr. Mitchell said that in his clinical practice, key predictors of anxiety in family members included whether a caregiver felt out of control and unable to participate in the patient's care; witnessed an unexpected or unpredictable deterioration of a loved one; and "transitioned from being in an equal relationship to being a caregiver, a role you didn't ask for."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">In at least two of the studies, more women than men turned out to have greater rates of anxiety. In a prostate cancer study, more spouses than patients experienced it, while in a study of gynecological cancers, the patients tended to be more anxious than their spouses.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">But those results may reflect, in part, that so many men are raised not to be forthcoming about feelings like depression or anxiety. "My husband keeps his game face on," said Casey Malanga, of Milton, Mass., who is 33 and was treated for breast cancer in 2010. "He was never one to gush about his emotions. I think he does worry, but it calms his worry to say, 'I know what they've done is still working, and they are always monitoring you.' "</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">A couple's ability to manage anxiety may be more challenging when men are the patients, said Dr. Dunn, because the husband "doesn't want to worry his wife with every ache and pain, so he doesn't mention them. And he doesn't want to be micromanaged over every little symptom. But if the wife finds out, she'll worry even more because he didn't tell her."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">The analysis did not identify certain cancers as having more psychological impact than others. Rather, the burden of the disease on an individual patient, including symptoms and treatment complications, was more telling than the type of cancer, Dr. Mitchell said.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Although the Lancet Oncology study did not look at the effects of cancer on children, other studies have noted the considerable emotional turmoil they can experience. Risk factors were variable, including the severity of the parent's disease, the depression exhibited by the parents themselves, and the age of the child — teenagers tended to have more psychosocial problems than younger children.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">There were drawbacks to the current analysis. Most of the studies had little information about the precancer mental histories of the patients, for example, and they used variable methods to screen for depression and anxiety. But the findings underscore the need to address the long-term consequences of anxiety and other mood disorders among patients and those closest to them.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">"Even in an era of scarce resources, hospital-based psycho-oncology programs should probably not be exclusively reserved for patients," said Dr. Ilana M. Braun, chief of the adult psychosocial oncology division at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston Such programs, she says, should "be made available in some capacity to those in remission and to loved ones impacted by cancer in their family."</div><br class=""><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/anxiety-lingers-long-after-cancer/?hp&pagewanted=print">http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/anxiety-lingers-long-after-cancer/?hp&pagewanted=print</a>

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