Job insecurity affects health, Michigan study finds

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2012) ? Workers who perceive their jobs aren't secure are more likely to rate themselves in poor health and have increased symptoms of anxiety and depression, reports the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

Sarah A. Burgard, PhD, and colleagues of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, analyzed data on about 440 working-aged adults living in southeast Michigan in 2009-10. The analysis was part of a larger study to assess the impact of the recent economic recession and ongoing recovery on the lives of workers in the Detroit area, which was hit particularly hard by the "Great Recession."

Nearly 18 percent of workers perceived their job was insecure -- they felt it was at least "fairly likely" that they would lose their job or be laid off within the next year. Workers with job insecurity rated their health lower than workers who perceived their jobs as more secure -- they were nearly three times more likely to rate their health as fair to poor.

Workers with job insecurity were nearly four times more likely to report symptoms of anxiety attacks, and close to seven times more likely to have symptoms suggesting minor or major depression. These effects were significant after adjustment for other characteristics.

The study adds to previous research linking job insecurity to poorer health. This could have a major impact on population health in the wake of the recent economic recession -- especially with the "jobless recovery" and continued high unemployment rates.

"The study provides some of the first available evidence on the extent and distribution of perceived job insecurity and its association with health in the wake of the Great Recession," Dr Burgard and coauthors write. They call for interventions targeting the large number of people who may be suffering the mental and physical health effects of job worries. Especially with the slow recovery, they add, "perceptions of job insecurity may persist for some time."

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1. Sarah A. Burgard, Lucie Kalousova, Kristin S. Seefeldt. Perceived Job Insecurity and Health. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2012; DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182677dad

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Eric Church leads CMA nominations with five

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Eric Church performs at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas on April 1.

By Reuters

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Singer Eric Church, whose career has rocketed over the past year, swept the 46th annual Country Music Association nominations on Wednesday with five nods, including one for best album for his hit, "Chief."

Church, 35, also scored nominations for best male vocalist along with best song, single and video for "Springsteen," which tells the story of a couple who met at a Bruce Springsteen concert.

Country music couple Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton each drew four nods, sharing one for song of the year for "Over You." They are also up for female and male vocalist.

Shelton will compete in the male vocalist category against Church, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and Keith Urban.

The female vocalist category pits Lambert against Kelly Clarkson, Martina McBride, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.

Jason Aldean, singers Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift and the group Little Big Town each earned three nominations.

The CMA nominees included several crossovers from other genres, including pop star Clarkson and rapper Snoop Dogg, who was nominated for musical event of the year, an award for a collaboration by artists who don't normally perform together.

Snoop Dogg was nominated for "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die," which he recorded with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Jamey Johnson.

It was a return to the country scene for both Clarkson and Dogg. Clarkson previously recorded "Because of You" with Reba McEntire, and Dogg recorded "Kentucky Jelly" with Brad Paisley and remixes on the album "Johnny Cash Remixed."

Another crossover pop star, Lionel Richie, and country star Darius Rucker, were nominated for musical event for "Stuck On You."

Paisley and Underwood will host the CMA Awards for the fifth straight year on Nov. 1, to be broadcast on ABC television from Nashville.

Singer Lee Brice, who recently scored a hit with "A Woman Like You," was nominated for best new artist, vying against singers Brantley Gilbert, Hunter Hayes and country music duos Love and Theft and Thompson Square.

"I'm so grateful for the nomination," Brice told Reuters. "I'll try not to be too nervous but I'm sure when the day comes I'll be biting my nails off."

Little Big Town, whose song "Pontoon" has been a mega-hit this summer, was nominated for vocal group of the year as well as best music video and single.

"We grew up watching the awards and I can so visualize my living room, me watching that show as a kid with my popcorn," Karen Fairchild, one of the band's singers, told Reuters.

"That we get to stand up on that stage, it's such an honor," she said.

Little Big Town competes against the Eli Young Band, Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry and the Zac Brown Band for best vocal group.

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Feuds a concern as children inherit Moon's empire

GAPYEONG, South Korea (AP) ? Unification Church patriarch Sun Myung Moon leaves behind children who have been groomed to lead a religious movement famous for its mass weddings and business interests ? if family feuds don't bring down the empire.

Moon, the charismatic and controversial founder of the church, died Monday at age 92 at a church-owned hospital near his home in Gapyeong County, northeast of Seoul, two weeks after being hospitalized with pneumonia, church officials said.

Flags flew at half-staff at a Unification Church in Seoul as followers trickled in, some wiping away tears, some wondering what would happen to a movement defined for decades by the man who founded it in 1954 and proclaimed himself a messiah.

The Rev. Moon and wife Hak Ja Han have 10 surviving children, and, in recent years, the aging Moon had been handing them power over the church's religious, charitable and business entities.

There have been reports of family rifts. One son sued his mother's missionary group in 2011, demanding the return of more than $22 million he claimed was sent without his consent from his company to her group. A court ruled that the money was a loan but ordered it returned, the church said.

The son, known as Preston, is still in charge of a church organization in the United States, but church officials said they have asked him to leave the job.

Moon's death could expose further rifts within the church, said Kim Heung-soo, who teaches the history of Christianity at Mokwon University in the central city of Daejeon.

"There is a high possibility that internal discord will deepen," Kim said.

The church has amassed dozens of businesses in the United States, South Korea and even North Korea, including hotels, a ski resort, sports teams, schools, universities and hospitals.

One expert said the church's business prospects appear brighter than its religious future. Tark Ji-il, a professor of religion at Busan Presbyterian University, described the church not as a religious organization but as a corporation made up of people with similar religious beliefs.

The church won't give details about how much its businesses are worth, other than to describe them as part of a "multibillion-dollar" empire.

Many new religious movements collapse after their founders die, but Tark said the Unification Church would likely survive. Its success as a religious entity, however, will depend on how smoothly it resolves any family feuds and how well Moon's offspring rise to fill their father's charismatic role, he said.

There has been tragedy in the family. One son committed suicide in 1999, jumping from the 17th floor of a Reno, Nevada, hotel, officials said. Two other sons reportedly also died early, one in a train wreck and another in a car accident.

Key to the church's religious future is the Rev. Hyung-jin Moon, the U.S.-born 33-year-old who was tapped to succeed his father several years ago as head of the church.

Known as "Sean" back at Harvard, where he studied, he is more fluent in English than Korean and has signs of his father's charisma ? but with an American sensibility. His sermons, delivered in English, are designed to appeal to the next generation of "Unificationists," the name followers prefer over the moniker "Moonies."

He told The Associated Press in 2009 that he questioned Christianity when he was younger. But his father stood by him throughout the phase, and asked followers not to criticize him when he turned to Buddhism briefly after his brother's death in Nevada.

An older brother, Kook-jin Moon, a 42-year-old also known as Justin, runs the Tongil Group, the church's business arm.

The church has amassed dozens of business ventures over the years, including the New Yorker Hotel, a midtown Manhattan art deco landmark, and the Yongpyong ski resort in South Korea. It gave the University of Bridgeport $110 million over more than a decade to keep the Connecticut school operating. Moon also founded the Washington Times newspaper in 1982.

The church also owns a professional soccer team, schools and hospitals. It operates the Potonggang Hotel in Pyongyang and jointly operates the Pyeonghwa Motors automaker in North Korea.

"Unification of South Korea and North Korea was a long-cherished ambition of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon," church official Kim Kab-yong said in Seoul. "He invested a lot in this. We are so heartbroken that he could not accomplish this."

Sun Myung Moon, who was born in a rural part of what is now North Korea, founded the movement after migrating south during the Korean War. He wrote in his autobiography that as a teenager he received a personal calling from Jesus Christ to carry out his work on Earth.

The church's doctrine is a mixture of Christian, Confucian and traditional Korean values, emphasizing the importance of the family unit but also encouraging multicultural unions.

Moon conducted his first mass wedding in Seoul in the early 1960s, and the "blessing ceremonies" grew in scale over the years. He encouraged his followers to call him and his wife their "True Parents," and often paired up the newlyweds himself before the mass ceremonies.

Richard Panzer, president of the Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, New York, called Moon "a historical figure in the history of religion." He said Moon made an "enormous contribution to understanding of the suffering heart of God and a lot of contributions toward world peace."

The seminary, established by Moon in 1975, is an interfaith institution with Buddhist, Christian and Muslim professors, Panzer said.

The Unification Church claims 3 million followers, though ex-members and critics put the number at no more than 100,000.

Joo Seung-ja, 64, said news of Moon's death was hard to accept.

"I don't know how to express this feeling," she said. "Since he taught us true love, we will live our lives by preaching true love throughout the whole world till the end."

Church officials said Moon's funeral will take place Sept. 15 after a 13-day mourning period, with a massive new sports and cultural center built recently on the church's sprawling campus accepting mourners starting Thursday.

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Associated Press writers Kim Hyun-ah in Gapyeong and Hyung-jin Kim and Foster Klug in Seoul contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/feuds-concern-children-inherit-moons-empire-135452188.html

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Three Kyrgyz parties agree new coalition government

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Three Kyrgyz political parties agreed on Monday to form a coalition to run the volatile Central Asian republic, two weeks after the government collapsed under the strain of a shrinking economy and graft allegations.

The new coalition was made up of three of the four parties in the previous administration - the Social-Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan, Ata-Meken and Ar-Namys.

It excluded the Respublika party of former prime minister Omurbek Babanov, who resigned on Saturday.

The last government collapsed on August 22 after Ata-Meken and Ar-Namys walked out, protesting against economic contraction and accusing Babanov of not doing enough to tackle widespread corruption.

Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia's only parliamentary democracy, is backed by the United States but viewed with suspicion by former imperial master Russia. Both countries have military air bases in the country.

The divided and impoverished former Soviet republic lies along a major drug trafficking route from Afghanistan and has suffered periodic bouts of ethnic violence.

Coalition members said they had identified Zhantoro Satybaldiyev, head of the presidential administration and free from any party affiliation, as their chosen candidate for the premiership. A parliamentary vote on his candidacy is expected this week.

The Social-Democratic Party has been a leading proponent of the parliamentary system that replaced two decades of failed authoritarian rule since independence from the Soviet Union.

The coalition members did not outline any new policies on Monday, but have previously stated their ambition to stamp out corruption and attract investment.

Kyrgyzstan's economy relies heavily on output from the Kumtor gold mine, owned by Canadian miner Centerra Gold, and remittances from migrant workers. Per capita GDP is less than a tenth of that in oil-rich neighbor Kazakhstan.

When they withdrew from the previous coalition, deputies from Ata-Meken said Kyrgyzstan risked defaulting on its $2.8 billion foreign debt.

The new three-party coalition will make up 67 of the country's 120 parliamentary deputies. Ata-Meken leader Omurbek Tekebayev said he hoped another 15 deputies from the two opposition parties in parliament could be persuaded to join.

(Writing by Robin Paxton; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/three-kyrgyz-parties-agree-coalition-government-110141402.html

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Iraq wary over sectarian pull of Syria crisis

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Wary of its own fragile security and sectarian make-up, Iraq wants to avoid getting dragged deeper into Syria's crisis, seeking a tricky balance in the regional power struggle evolving over its neighbor, Iraq's foreign minister said.

Iraq's Shi'ite leaders fear a collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government could splinter Syria along sectarian lines, and eventually lead to the rise of a hardline Sunni regime hostile to Baghdad.

Growing violence from the 17-month Sunni-led rebel revolt against Assad's rule also risks unsettling Baghdad's own fragile balance among Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish parties and drawing Islamist fighters back across the border into Iraq.

"We are concerned about spillover of militias, armed groups, of fundamentalism, undermining our political system," Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. "There is a Sunni Shi'ite fault in the whole region. We don't want to be dragged there."

Where other Arab and Gulf nations have called for Assad to step down, actively backing Syrian rebels, Iraq has taken a more muted approach. It resists calls for Assad to go, and instead urges reform to end to the country's one-party Baathist rule.

With Shi'ite Iran backing Assad, who is from the Alawite minority - an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, and rival Sunni power Saudi Arabia supporting the fighters opposing him, Syria risks a civil war that will destabilize its neighbors.

Caught up in its own crisis among Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish parties paralyzing its power-sharing government, Iraq finds itself in a delicate position, even more so after the withdrawal of the last American troops in December.

Though close to Iran, Iraq's government dismisses claims it supports the Syrian leader because of Tehran and says it seeks an independent foreign policy. Yet, Baghdad abstained in an Arab League vote to suspend Syria and has resisted calls for Arab sanctions on its neighbor.

"The Arab League should have a role to play and if it is part of the problem, it will have no role," said Zebari, a Kurd, explaining Iraq's position. "If we take sides, we either have to go to war or to arm something we don't support."

BAATHIST BACKGROUND

Syria's crisis has already complicated Baghdad's tense ties with the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, which is helping Syrian Kurdish opposition groups across the border to aid their push for more self-rule from the Assad regime.

Iraq says Sunni Islamist fighters are also crossing from Iraq into Syria, and security experts say Iraqi insurgents are gaining a boost in funds and morale as Islamists enter neighboring country's conflict.

Baghdad has had a complex relationship with Damascus even before the U.S. invasion ousted Saddam Hussein.

Assad's and Saddam's Baath parties had some common, secular roots though Syria backed Iran during the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s. After Saddam fell, many Iraqi Baathists and ordinary Iraqi refugees crossed over into Syria to take shelter.

When U.S. forces fought al-Qaeda and Sunni Islamists after the 2003 invasion, Iraqi leaders criticized Damascus for sheltering insurgents who often slipped across the porous border to bomb American troops.

But Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a member of the Shi'ite Islamist Dawa party who took refuge in Iran and Syria during Saddam's era, has since developed a more pragmatic relationship with the Assad regime.

He won support not only from Tehran, but also Damascus for his coalition government after an indecisive 2010 Iraqi election. Even as late as August last year he hosted Syrian ministers and called Iraq and Syria "brother" nations.

But at the end of last year, Maliki called for an end to Assad's one-party rule and urged reforms.

Shi'ite leaders in Iraq acknowledge in private that while not supporting Assad, they fear more what might come next. They also fret over a return of former Baathists, who may join Sunni Islamist groups to destabilise the country.

"Iraq has stated from the beginning it stands by the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people to gain their freedom, democracy, a political process," Zebari said.

"But Iraq has its own concerns about developments in Syria, security concerns, sectarian concerns, terrorism concerns. We don't know the outcome, what will happen."

(Editing by Louise Ireland)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-wary-over-sectarian-pull-syria-crisis-213645953.html

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Russia asserts Pacific power at APEC summit

Russia, which hosts its first annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this week, is seeking to assert its presence in the fast-growing region during troubled European economic times.

President Vladimir Putin championed hosting the summit not in Moscow or Saint Petersburg but in the Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok, in what the Kremlin hopes will be a symbol of Russia's status as a major Pacific power.

Key members of APEC include China -- with whom Moscow has had historically tricky relations -- and Japan which is embroiled in a bitter territorial dispute with Russia. But the Kremlin is hoping for major economic gains by playing a bigger regional role.

"Russia's share in total regional (Asia-Pacific) trade is around one percent. Clearly this neither corresponds to Russia's political profile nor its economic interests," said Gennady Ovechko, Russia's envoy to APEC.

The potential is huge -- Russia is looking to diversify its exports of natural resources at a time when the expanding Asian economies are hungry for oil and gas imports.

Russia has long looked on Europe as its main foreign commercial partner and turned its back on Asia, considering players like China to be a threat and expressing concern about Asian labour migration to its de-populating Far East.

But the woes afflicting the eurozone appear to have made Russia rethink its stance and realise that a rebalancing towards the east was indispensable.

From now on, "the rhythm of economic growth in Russia will depend on that of APEC," Russian Finance Minister Anton Silunaov said last week ahead of the APEC leaders' summit on September 8-9.

In a sign of the summit's importance, Russia has pulled out all the stops to host the event, investing $20 billion and building two bridges spanning the port, an airport terminal and a new airport railink.

"Russia will try and use the chance of the Asia-Pacific Cooperation forum summit to change its image and appear not only as a European country but as an Asia-Pacific state," said Vasily Mikheyev of the Institute for the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO).

Russia is hosting the summit in newly-built facilities on Russki Island just off Vladivostok after a massively ambitious project that troubled some officials who would have preferred to see the event hosted in more developed Russian cities.

But "holding the summit in Vladivostok is a symbolic choice," said Dmitry Trenin of the Carnegie Moscow Centre.

"It's a sign not just of a desire to increase the quality of life on Russia's eastern borders but also a desire to consider its eastern territory as an interface between Asia, the Pacific and Russia."

According to the Vedomosti daily, the cost of hosting the summit itself has now risen to 6.3 billion rubles ($194 million), with 275 million rubles ($8.5 million) being spent on a gigantic summit fireworks display alone.

According to Vladislav Inozemtsev, director of the Centre for Post-Industrial Society Research, the ambitious logistics displayed are the most that Russia will be able to offer its partners at the summit.

Writing in the Ogonyek weekly, he noted that in the last decade, no APEC summit had taken place on specially-built premises or has cost more than $100 million.

But, he added, Russia must also show the qualities of transparency, industrial modernisation and global cooperation that characterised Asian growth.

"To try to return Russia to the status of a great Pacific power, we need a widescale project of new development of Siberia and the Far East," he said.

Russia's economy still holds few attractions beyond energy resources and its Far East is also battling to reverse a population drain of people who have headed to the west of the country in search of better lives.

But Putin has now created a new ministry dedicated to the Far East and the Kremlin appears intent of turning Vladivostok from a ramshackle port into a showpiece political capital.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-asserts-pacific-power-apec-summit-062116207--finance.html

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