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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Alcohol Causes 20,000 Cancer Deaths in the U.S. Annually

Smoking often gets the attention, but new research shows alcohol is one of leading causes of preventable cancer deaths in the U.S.

A new study published in the April 2013 issue of the American Journal of Public Health shows that about 20,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. a year -- about 3.5 percent of all cancer-related deaths -- are caused by alcohol consumption.

"The relationship between alcohol and cancer is strong, but is not widely appreciated by the public and remains underemphasized even by physicians," senior author Dr. Timothy Naimi, an associate professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, said in a press release. "Alcohol is a big preventable cancer risk factor that has been hiding in plain sight."

The World Health Organization has labeled alcohol as the world's third largest risk factor for disease burden, saying it can cause neuropsychiatric disorders and other chronic diseases such as heart diseases, cirrhosis of the liver and various cancers. It added that 30 percent of cancer deaths are caused by five behavioral and dietary factors, including high body mass index, low fruit and vegetable intake, lack of physical activity, tobacco use and alcohol use.

Previous studies have shown that drinking alcohol can increase risk factors cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and breast, the study authors noted. Other worldwide statistics show that alcohol is a cause for about 4 percent of cancer deaths worldwide, but before this study, not that much research has focused on the U.S.

The study authors conducted their analysis by looking at sales-based data on per capita alcohol consumption and two national surveys that looked at alcohol usage. They also considered U.S. mortality data from 2009, specifically looking for deaths from the seven cancers known to be associated with alcohol use that were listed above.

They found that 18,178 to 21,284 alcohol-attributable cancer deaths occurred in 2009, making up 3.2 percent to 3.7 percent of all cancer deaths.

Researchers determined that alcohol-related cancer death took away an average of 18 potential years from a person's life. Average consumption for the group was 1.5 drinks a day or less, and those drinkers made up 30 percent of the reported deaths. Larger amounts of alcohol led to higher risks of dying from cancer. Forty-eight to 60 percent of the deaths were attributed to people who drank three or more drinks a day.

"When it comes to alcohol consumption and cancers, clearly excessive drinking is the riskiest type of drinking," Naimi said to CBS station WBZ in Boston. "But when it comes to cancer, there is no safe level of alcohol consumption."

In addition to figuring out how many cancer deaths were related to alcohol, researchers also determined that breast cancer was the most common type of drinking-related deaths in women. This form of cancer alone made up 15 percent of the alcohol-related deaths, amounting to 6,000 women annually.

For men, mouth, throat and esophageal cancers were the most common alcohol-associated deaths, making up about 6,000 deaths annually.

Naimi recommended to Prevention that people not start drinking, and if they do they should definitely cut down "plain and simple."

"The purpose of this study is not to stigmatize moderate drinking, and I apologize if this makes people feel bummed out," Naimi said to Prevention. "But it is important for people to know that yes, alcohol is a carcinogen, and it does increase your risk. That's the bottom line."

Source: http://www.ktva.com/news/local/Alcohol-Causes-20000-Cancer-Deaths-in-the-US-Annually-191532811.html

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Fire Forces Family From Home | WNEP.com ? Scranton / Wilkes ...

Posted on: 5:41 am, February 15, 2013, by Mike Vojtko, updated on: 09:00am, February 15, 2013

JACKSON TOWNSHIP?? The Red Cross is providing shelter for a family after a fire late?Thursday night?in Monroe County.

Firefighters rushed to the home on Mountain Road in the Tannersville area?just before midnight.

The chief said the flames started in the chimney and spread to the second floor.? The heat melted some of the siding.

Six people, including four children live in the home.

No one was hurt.

Source: http://wnep.com/2013/02/15/fire-forces-family-from-home-2/

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Syria: Hundreds taken in tit-for-tat kidnappings

This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a caricature placard during a demonstration, at Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. Heavy fighting for control of the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and a major military air base nearby has killed some 150 rebels and government soldiers over the past two days, activists said Friday. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Pro-government gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 people in northwestern Syria in retaliation for the abduction of 42 Shiite Muslims this week, a move that could fuel more sectarian violence in the country, an activist group said Saturday.

The tit-for-tat kidnappings point to the dark sectarian overtones of Syria's civil war, which pits a predominantly Sunni Muslim rebellion against a regime dominated by President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. The country is also home to Christian, Kurdish, Armenian and Shiite communities, all of whom have been swept up in the conflict.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the spate of kidnappings this week took place in the northern province of Idlib, which borders Turkey.

While many of the details remain murky, the abductions appeared to have a sectarian bent. Kidnapping for ransom has been widespread across Syria since the crisis began in March 2011, but sectarian and political abductions have been rare.

The Observatory said the 42 Shiites, mainly women and children, were snatched Thursday from a bus that was traveling from the Shiite villages of Foua and Kfarya to the capital Damascus. Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman, said it was not clear who took them, adding that Shiites have refused to give the names of those kidnapped or details about the bus.

Idlib-based activist Fadi al-Yassin Al-Yassin said Foua and Kfarya are being used by the regime to bombard nearby villages and towns, saying the regime has turned them into "castles of shabiha," referring to pro-government gunmen.

In retaliation for the bus kidnappings, members of the pro-government Popular Committees set up a checkpoint around the two Shiite villages and on Thursday and Friday were taking people from cars they stopped, the Observatory said. It added that most of the people abducted were from the Sunni villages of Saraqeb, Binnish, Sarmin, Qimnas, Maaret al-Numan and Maaret Musreen.

Al-Yassin confirmed the kidnappings on both sides but added that the 300 figure is high. He said few dozens of people have been abducted in the area.

Abdul-Rahman and al-Yassin said such acts could incite sectarian clashes between Shiites, who have largely sided with the regime, and majority Sunnis in Idlib, where the sects have coexisted for decades.

The high number of women and children allegedly taken prompted the U.N. Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura, to issue a statement calling for their release.

"Allegations of abduction and rape of women and girls by armed groups have been received," she said. "I am deeply concerned about the well-being of these women and children and would like to remind the armed group responsible for this abduction that acts of sexual violence will not be tolerated."

In the nearby province of Aleppo, rebels and troops fought fierce battles around the military air base of Kweiras, which opposition forces have been trying to capture for weeks, the Observatory said.

In the city of Aleppo, Syria's largest urban center and commercial capital, rebels and troops battled around the international airport and the nearby air base of Nairab, said the Observatory and the Aleppo Media Center.

Fighting also raged in parts of Damascus, where troops bombarded rebel-held southern neighborhoods, according to the Observatory. It said at least one person was killed in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk by sniper fire.

In the southern region of Quneitra rebels briefly controlled a military checkpoint in the town of Khan Arnaba and captured five officers before they withdrew, the Observatory said. It added that the rebels captured a tank then blew it up.

Quneitra is on the cease-fire line between Syria and Israel, which controls most of the Golan Heights after capturing the strategic territory from Syria in the 1967 war.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/apdefault/cae69a7523db45408eeb2b3a98c0c9c5/Article_2013-02-16-Syria/id-763ff090b4e948059ddc33367e047913

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Vatican raises possibility of early March conclave

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The Vatican raised the possibility Saturday that the conclave to elect the next pope might start sooner than March 15, the earliest date possible under current rules that require a 15 to 20 day waiting period after the papacy becomes vacant.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said that Vatican rules on papal succession are open to interpretation and that "this is a question that people are discussing."

Any change to the law itself would have to be approved by the pope before he resigns.

But if Vatican officials determine that the matter is just a question of interpreting the existing law, "it is possible that church authorities can prepare a proposal to be taken up by the cardinals on the first day after the papal vacancy" to move up the start of the conclave, Lombardi said.

The 15 to 20 day waiting period is in place to allow time for all cardinals who don't live in Rome to arrive, under the usual circumstance of a pope dying. But in this case the cardinals already know that this pontificate will end Feb. 28, with the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, and therefore can get to Rome in plenty of time to take part in the conclave, Lombardi said.

The date of the conclave's start is important because Holy Week begins March 24, with Palm Sunday Mass followed by Easter Sunday on March 31. In order to have a new pope in place in time for the most solemn liturgical period on the church calendar, he would need to be installed by Sunday, March 17, because of the strong tradition to hold installation Mass on a Sunday. Given the tight time frame, speculation has mounted that some arrangement would be made to start the conclave earlier than a strict reading of the law would allow.

Questions about the start of the conclave have swirled since Benedict stunned the world on Feb. 11, by announcing that he would retire, the first pontiff in 600 years to abdicate rather than stay in office until death. His decision has created a host of questions about how the Vatican will proceed, given that its plans for the so-called "sede vacante" ? or vacant seat ? period between papacies are based on the process starting with a papal death.

"In this moment we are not prepared," said Cardinal Franc Rode, the former head of the Vatican's office for religious orders who will vote in the conclave. "We have not been able to make predictions, strategies, plans, candidates. It is too early, but we will get there. In two or three weeks things will be put in place."

Meanwhile, a German journalist who has published several long interviews with Benedict over the years suggested that the pope strongly foreshadowed his retirement during an August conversation.

Peter Seewald said in an article for the German weekly Focus published Saturday that the pontiff had told him that his strength was diminishing and "not much more" could be expected from him as pope.

"I am an old man and my strength is running out," Seewald quoted the pope as saying. "And I think what I have done is enough."

Asked by Seewald whether he was considering resignation, Benedict responded: "That depends to what extent my physical strength will compel me to." The summer interview, as well as another in December, were for a new Benedict biography.

Seewald's 2010 book-length interview with Benedict, "Light of the World," laid the groundwork for a possible resignation.

In it, he quoted Benedict as saying: "If a pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right, and under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign."

He stressed then, however, that resignation was not an option to escape a particular burden, such as the scandal over sexual abuse by clerics which had erupted earlier in 2010.

In Saturday's article, Seewald recalled asking the pope in August how badly the 2012 scandal over leaks of papal documents, in which the pope's ex-butler was convicted of aggravated theft, had affected him.

Benedict said the affair had not thrown him off his stride or made him tired of office. "It is simply incomprehensible to me," he said.

The journalist said that when he last saw Benedict about 10 weeks ago, his hearing had deteriorated and he appeared to have lost vision in his left eye, adding that the pope had lost weight and appeared tired.

Benedict, however, appeared in good form on Saturday for some of his final audiences. He met with the Guatemalan president, a group of visiting Italian bishops, and had his farewell audience with Italian Premier Mario Monti.

"He was in good condition," Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina told reporters afterward. "He didn't seem tired, rather smiling, lively ? and happy and very clear in his decision to resign."

Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan and a leading contender to succeed Benedict, said several of the visiting bishops noted at the end of their audience that they were the last group of bishops to be received by the pope. "'This responsibility means you have to become a light for all,'" he quoted Benedict as saying.

Lombardi also gave more details about Benedict's final public audiences and plans for retirement, saying already 35,000 people had requested tickets for his final general audience to be held in St. Peter's Square on Feb. 27.

He said Benedict would spend about two months in the papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo south of Rome immediately after his abdication, to allow enough time for renovations to be completed on his retirement home ? a converted monastery inside the Vatican walls.

That means Benedict would be expected to return to the Vatican, no longer as pope, around the end of April or beginning of May, Lombardi said.

He was asked if and when the pope would meet with his successor and whether he would participate in his installation Mass. Like many open questions about the end of Benedict's papacy, Lombardi said, both issues simply haven't been resolved.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-raises-possibility-early-march-conclave-124446100.html

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iPhone 4S Battery Headaches Persist for iOS 6.1.1 Users

A Monday iOS update specifically designed to address battery and cellular connectivity issues for iPhone 4S owners looks to be leaving many still struggling to get through the day on a single battery charge.

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Brunswick church's youth group leaders hope to Ignite passion for proper path

Ignite! That?s the buzz at Hope Church in Brunswick.

Youth Pastor Tom O?Connell explains that Ignite is meant to convey the idea of ?Lighting the way for students to know Christ, to follow him and to live for him in a fun, safe environment.?

It was O?Connell?s own experience with a youth group that took him into the ministry, he said. ?I grew up in Massachusetts and my parents brought me and my sister to church. I was probably in seventh grade when the church hired its first youth pastor and he had a profound effect on my life. I was not the easiest teen to be around,? he said, ?but for six years he spent time with me and helped me.?

He pointed out that there are about 4,000 middle and high school students in Brunswick. ?It?s our desire to reach out and help them become ?different,? from others. We don?t treat each badly other the way other people might ? we live like Jesus would want us live. We want to affect their decisions and the way they use their time and talents.?

Ignite meetings are from 7 to 8:20 p.m. Wednesdays, and except for special occasions, the sixth- through eighth-graders meet in the modular units adjacent to the church at 1905 Pearl Road, while the young people in ninth through 12th grades meet at a rented office at 1930 Pearl Road, Suite 3 in the Rito?s Bakery Plaza. Right now, each group has about 25 regular attendees each week.

Ignite meetings are coordinated by O?Connell and the newest pastor on the Hope staff, David Trainer, with the help of 18 adult volunteers. They plan trips ? the middle schoolers are going to a conference in Cincinnati this month and the high schoolers are headed to St. Louis for a conference in July. They attend retreats, have parties and help out in the community.

The youth ministers of several of Brunswick Churches meet each month to share ideas and plan events. Four times a year, O?Connell said, the young people get together at one of the churches for a special event. Each of the past three years on a Saturday in October, the pastors coordinate a ?community Plunge? where groups of students and adult supervisors head out to provide help in different areas of the community. It?s become one of Brunswick?s most anticipated activities.

Ignite members also have helped at the Brunswick Food Pantry, The Oaks, and some of Cleveland?s inner city churches. In addition to Wednesday meetings, smaller groups meet for Bible study and other activities.

O?Connell?s journey here took a slightly different turn than he expected, however.

Because of his own youth pastor?s influence, in high school, he decided that was what he wanted to do, and began looking for a Bible college. He attended Nyack College with the intent of going into youth ministry. It was there he met his wife, Laurie, a native of Canal Fulton. When they graduated and married, they were asked to help start a church in Lodi. After praying about it, they decided to give it a try and for the next nine years, he was senior pastor at that church.

Then came a call from the Rev. Gordon Meier, senior pastor of the fairly new church in Brunswick. Meier told him that Hope was hiring a youth pastor. ?Gordon and I were friends,? O?Connell explained, and the youth ministry was what he had been trained for since his own youth pastor was such a great role model. In January 2011, he joined Hope as its youth pastor.

Hope Church is one of the most recent additions to the religious scene in Brunswick. In the fall of 2007, the congregation of Grace Church in Middleburg Heights decided to reach out to Northern Medina County by ?parenting? a church in Brunswick as part of the Christian & Missionary Alliance, which has 20,000 churches around the world.

The official launch of Hope Church here was Sept. 20, 2009 at Brunswick High School. In that relatively short period of time, Hope Church not only has its own worship center and office complex, it now has more than 700 members. There are three services: 5 p.m. Saturday, 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday and there are now four pastors on the staff. The church is in the former meeting hall next to St. Stephen?s Church and the offices are just north of St. Stephens.

The O?Connells have four children: Lilly, 9, Thomas, 8, Nathan, 7 and Elsie, 3. They and the other ministers live in Brunswick.

?We welcome all students to come to Ignite,? O?Connell said. More information about the church, its history, staff and Ignite is available at hopechurch.org.

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/brunswick/index.ssf/2013/02/brunswick_churchs_youth_group.html

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LEAN Frog President Achieves Master Six Sigma Rank

LEAN Frog President Achieves Master Six Sigma Rank ? (February 16, 2013)

Huntsville, Alabama (PRWEB) February 16, 2013

Lean Frog Business Solutions has one more achievement to add it its long list of credentials. President of LEAN Frog Byron Headrick has recently been awarded his Master Six Sigma Certification.

According to the American Society of Quality Control (ASQ), the Master Six Sigma Certification is a significant achievement, stating certification is a mark of career excellence and aimed at individuals who possess exceptional expertise and knowledge of current industry practice. Master Black Belts have outstanding leadership ability, are innovative, and demonstrate a strong commitment to the practice and advancement of quality and improvement.

Started in 2009 by founder Byron Headrick, LEAN Frog is a Huntsville, Alabama-based company that utilizes Lean Six Sigma tools to help organizations strengthen, streamline and grow their companies by making efficiency easy.

Byron Headrick has over 20 years of experience using LEAN Six Sigma tools. His areas of concentration include manufacturing, small businesses, medical professions and recently School Districts in Alabama. He has, to date, completed assessments and made recommendations in many non-instructional School District departments throughout Alabama -- Huntsville City Schools; Madison City Schools; Madison County Schools; Morgan County Schools; Chambers County Schools; Tallapoosa County Schools; Fayette County Schools; Phenix City Schools. Most notable is Byrons on gong work with Huntsville City Schools where in 2012, LEAN Frog helped to save the school system over $7 Million.

Byron was recently nominated for Executive of the Year for the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce and his company was named a Finalist for the Madison Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year. He was named to the Presidential Who's Who Among Business and Professional Achievers of 2009-2010, and Calhoun Community College awarded him recognition for contributions toward the Center for Manufacturing Innovations Initiative in 2008.

For more information on Byron and Lean Frog Business Solutions, visit their web site at http://www.theleanleap.com or on their Lean Frog Linkedin page.

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/lean-frog-huntsville/prweb10433104.htm.

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