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MAYWOOD, Il. Physical activity significantly extends the lives of male cancer survivors, a new study of 1,021 men has found.

During the period while the men were followed, those who expended more than 12,600 calories per week in physical activity were 48 percent less likely to die than those who burned fewer than 2,100 calories per week.

Kathleen Y. Wolin, PhD, of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, is co-author of the study, published in the Journal of Physical Activity & Health, the official journal of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health.

Many cancer survivors are living longer, due to earlier diagnosis and better treatment, and their numbers are increasing rapidly. "Thus physical activity should be actively promoted to such individuals to enhance longevity," researchers concluded.

There has been extensive research showing that among generally healthy, cancer-free populations, physical activity extends longevity. But there has been relatively little such research on physical activity among cancer survivors.

Researchers examined data from the Harvard Alumni Health Study, an ongoing study of men who entered Harvard as undergraduates between 1916 and 1950. Researchers looked at 1,021 men (average age 71) who previously had been diagnosed with cancer. In questionnaires conducted in 1988, men reported their physical activities, including walking, stair-climbing and participation in sports and recreational activities. Their physical activities were updated in 1993, and the men were followed until 2008.

Compared with men who expended fewer than 2,100 calories per week in physical activity, men who expended more than 12,600 calories per week were 48 percent less likely to die of any cause during the follow-up period. This finding was adjusted for age, smoking, body mass index, early parental mortality and dietary variables. (By comparison, a 176-pound man who walks briskly for 30 minutes a day, five days a week burns 4,200 calories.)

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Years of debate on how to assist high schools struggling to fill out their eight-game football schedules will end Thursday.

The Minnesota State High School League's board of directors is scheduled to decide once and for all the best way for schools to find and schedule football games.

The board will adopt a district scheduling concept created by the MSHSL staff ... or do nothing, which would maintain the current format of schools fending for themselves -- and effectively end the debate. Changes would be implemented for the 2015-16 school year and affect regular-season games only.

"This has been a topic of discussion since I started this job seven years ago,'' said Matt Percival, Eastview's activities director.

"It's really hard to say at this point what the board is thinking," said Kevin Merkle, the MSHSL associate director in charge of football. "A lot of our schools, coaches and ADs who haven't been around for a long time, maybe they don't have an appreciation for the history of the problem. They may be thinking: We don't have a problem with scheduling, so why are we changing everything? What we're trying to impress is that this has been a struggle for different schools at different times."

Most of the schools struggling to fill out their eight-game schedule are outside the Twin Cities area, in rural areas. But the five teams in the west-metro Lake Conference -- Eden Prairie, Edina, Hopkins, Minnetonka and Wayzata -- have problems, too.

With only four conference games, each school has to scramble to find four nonconference opponents every season. Eden Prairie, which won the Lake Conference and the Class 6A state championship in 2013, was able to find only seven regular-season games last fall. In 2010, the team had to travel to Winnipeg for two games to fill out its schedule.

The district scheduling concept, introduced last year, would divide schools into groups of 10 to 16 schools based on location, size and competitive balance, with an emphasis on preserving or renewing natural rivalries.

Such a concept could bring back storied rivalries like Cretin-Derham Hall vs. St. Thomas Academy, assuming those schools are placed in the same district.

"That would really be an interesting possibility," STA acting activities director Jason Sedlak said. "I think our alumni and school community would really enjoy that."

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VOL. 129 | NO. 15 | Thursday, January 23, 2014

The former Motel 6 at 1321 Sycamore View Road in Northeast Memphis has traded hands for $1.4 million.

An entity called P & S Hospitality LLC bought the 27,232-square-foot motel in a Jan. 14 special warranty deed from G6 Hospitality Property LLC, which had bought the property in 2012 for $1.4 million from Motel 6 Operating LP.

Built in 1985, the hotel sits on 2.4 acres on the west side of Sycamore View Road south of its intersection with Macon Road. The Shelby County Assessor of Propertys 2013 appraisal was $1.2 million.

In conjunction with the purchase, P & S Hospitality LLC filed a $1.1 million deed of trust through Argent Bank. Jetal R. Shah signed the deed as managing member of the borrower.

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Belz Enterprises has established a new venture, Peabody Hotels & Resorts, that moves the company into asset and brand management within the luxury hotel space.

The transition has been in the works for a few years, and through it, the new venture will begin researching and evaluating properties that could become Peabody-branded hotels.

Under the management of Belzs new venture, properties would take the Peabody name and adopt its core standards, values and traditions. And like the flagship Peabody property in Memphis, each hotel would serve as the home for its own group of five North American mallard ducks, continuing the Peabodys 80-year tradition of the March of the Peabody Ducks.

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Yeshiva University lost about $100 million when Bernard Madoff, a trustee, was revealed to be a fraud in December 2008.

While Madoff left the board and is in prison, Yeshiva is still struggling. The school warned that its chronic budget deficits may worsen after failing to produce an annual financial report on time. The move led Moodys Investors Service to cut its rating this month to an unprecedented four levels below investment grade, spurring investors to sell Yeshiva debt.

Its about their management, said Emily Schwarz, an analyst at Moodys in New York who focuses on higher education. I dont see the market being the main concern. They really have a real niche. They are the Jewish university of New York.

Much is at stake for Yeshiva, which was founded more than 100 years ago and is central to the Modern Orthodox community in the U.S., with top-rated medical and law schools as well as a rabbinical school. The university was in the midst of ambitious growth when Madoffs Ponzi scheme unraveled, adding faculty and expanding campuses around New York. It is still seeking to meet fundraising campaign goals.

The university has been unable to control operating costs, particularly at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and it encountered delays deploying a system-wide accounting network common at other nonprofits, Moodys said. Management has sought to cut spending, stirring some faculty discontent by freezing salaries. Yeshiva generated annual deficits of $107.5 million in 2010, $46.7 million in 2011 and $105.9 million in 2012.

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You might be able to get enough donors to write some checks to fix this problem, but people dont like to back institutions that have problems -- they like to back winners, said Howard Cure, municipal research director at Evercore Wealth Management in New York. The company, which oversees about $4.9 billion, liquidated its investments in the schools debt last year. Yeshiva has a lot of problems.

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Deerfield Beach, FL (PRWEB) January 21, 2014

After providing addiction treatment for countless patients, the Florida House Experience has pledged to publish stories written by alumni who have successfully completed recovery programs at Florida House. The goal is provide hope to others seeking help. Florida House looks forward to finding stories from patients in each of the 50 states in the US. So far, Florida House has helped patients share their stories of rehab success in seventeen states. For instance, Matt, a Florida alumni, has offered his story of substance abuse.

Matts story is both tragic and evidence of the recurring problem in Florida, said Dr. Albert Castellon, M.D., Medical Director at Florida House Experience. Thousands of people die from drug abuse in Florida every year.

According to Matt, he had everything anyone would want in life as a boy: a nice home and neighborhood with loving parents. Unfortunately, he had trouble finding acceptance and fell into substance abuse. With Florida Houses pledge, Matt relates his heart-wrenching story of his substance addiction and the process that started when a community judge ordered him to get substance abuse treatment before he had even finished high school.

Matts story is one of despair because he became an addict at such a young age. After years of unsuccessful drug treatment, Matt finally discovered Florida House Experience. After weeks of intensive treatment, he gained enough of a foothold to pursue a sober living program and finally Matt joined a halfway program.

The Event at the Florida House Experience is a way to share other success stories that resulted from the Florida House Experience approach. Florida House is not like 28-day treatment approaches. Florida House starts with a safe but effective medical detox followed by a gradual transitions to lower levels of care to help the individual ultimately try living sober on their own. The personal story event is important because it focuses on the programs approach and material in achieving success. These stories make Florida House Experience stand out because of its strong record of success with addiction treatment in Florida.

To summarize the programs offered at the Florida House Experience, it helps to look at them. Beginning with drug and alcohol detox, patients join programs like resident rehabilitation, day treatment, outpatient treatment, sober living programs, gender-specific programs, trauma programs and alumni programs. It would be constructive to describe them as individualized, gender-specific programs for the treatment of young adults, professionals, baby-boomers and patients struggling with trauma and substance abuse. Each program is designed to provide comprehensive therapy and involve the family in the patients recovery.

Assets that cause the facility to stand out include many things. Consider their enlightened approach: They understand that the commitment to treatment scares people. What were really proud of is taking the scare factor out of treatment, said Dr. Castellon. We provide a safe and comfortable facility and program regimen.

Patients enjoy upscale living while at Florida House Experience. They advertise the 800-count thread bed sheets and the plush towels in the showers. Each room is equipped with a large flat screen television.

If you want more information about Florida House experience, please call 866-421-6242. Confidential help is available 24/7.

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GREENBACK (WATE) - The new Greenback School is scheduled to open next Tuesday.

The long awaited Pre-K through 12th grade school replaces the old one, originally built in the 1930s.

School officials are asking for volunteers to help move teachers, their supplies and other items needed to prepare the new school. They say the volunteer effort will be greatly needed so the school can open on time.

All week, 650 Greenback students and teachers had a chance to tour and get familiar with the new building before starting class next week.

"When I first walked in here, I didn't know what to expect. I didn't even know what to say, it was huge," said Greenback third grade student Folson Silver.

It's all work and no play, especially for the teachers.

They have to move from the old school to the new one by next Tuesday. There's not much time to finish the job.

"We're not starting the first week of school. We're in the middle of the year, and we need to be ready to go on Tuesday and not waste a teacher day," said third grade teacher Marty Sindlin.

Students were helping teachers on Friday carry their supplies and help unpack their classrooms.

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Four Harrisonville High School graduates will become the tenth class inducted into the Distinguished Alumni Wall of Fame during winter Homecoming activities at the high school Friday, Jan. 24.

William Mills, Victor Blaine, Shaun Holden, and Kelli (Wolf) Moles will be formally inducted during a banquet Jan. 24 and will be introduced to the community prior to the varsity basketball game at approximately 7 p.m. that night.

The Wall of Fame induction is sponsored by the Harrisonville Public School Foundation.

Mills graduated from Harrisonville High School in 1972. He has been a business and civic leader in Harrisonville ever since.

Mills owns and operates Family Center with four locations including Harrisonville, Butler, Paola, Kan., and Winterset, Iowa. He also was the developer for Mill-Walk Mall in Harrisonville.

Mills served as the mayor of Harrisonville from 1993-1995. During his tenure, he started the Mayors Christmas Tree fund to support the Ministerial Alliance. Today, he continues his governmental involvement as chair of the Planning and Zoning Board on which hes served for 20 years. Hes also a director of the TIF Commission for the improvement of 291 Highway.

Within the community, Mills has volunteered and led several organizations. He is the past president of the Harrisonville Public School Foundation and continues to serve on that board. He was a Founding Donor and continues to give to the organization through personally matching the donations made in the Mill Walk Mall Fountain.

He is the past president of the Harrisonville Rotary Club. Through Rotary, Mills participated in an international service project traveling to Ecuador to bring clean water to schoolchildren. Hes also organized the annual Casco picnic and hosted three foreign exchange students.

He is past president of the Harrisonville Area Chamber of Commerce. He was also a founding member of the Chambers Ambassadors program.

Mills also serves on the Harrisonville Schools Financial Advisory Board and has actively supported and served on steering committees for district bond and levy campaigns.

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Newswise New research from David Westaway, PhD, of the University of Alberta and Jiri Safar, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has uncovered a quality control mechanism in brain cells that may help keep deadly neurological diseases in check for months or years.

The findings, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation (http://www.jci.org/articles/view/72241), present a breakthrough in understanding the secret life of prion molecules in the brain and may offer a new way to treat prion diseases, said Westaway, Director of the Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases and Professor of Neurology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta.

Prion diseases lead to incurable neurodegenerative disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. The diseases are caused by the conversion of normal cellular prion proteins into the diseased form.

For years, scientists have been perplexed by two unexplained characteristics of prion infections: vastly differing asymptomatic periods lasting up to five decades and when symptoms do arise, greatly varying accumulation of the diseased proteins. In striking contrast, test tube prions replicate rapidly, and in a matter of days reach levels found in brains in the final stage of the disease.

Our study investigated the molecular mechanism of this intriguing puzzle, said Safar, Co-Director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center and Associate Professor in Departments of Pathology and Neurology in Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

In probing these mysteries, Westaway, Safar, their teams and other collaborating researchers in the U.S., Italy and the Netherlands studied a molecule called the shadow of the prion protein.

Dramatic changes in this shadow protein led us to expand our view to include the normal prion protein itself, said Westaway. This is a crucial molecule in brain cells because it is pirated as the raw material to make diseased prion proteins.

The production and degradation of the normal prion protein had previously received little attention because it was assumed its production pipeline did not vary.

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