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All week there have been fun and silly activities organized by the Homecoming Steering Committee. I myself am gravely disappointed I missed the free bagel offer at CTB, but I suppose you can’t win ’em all. Regardless, the committee has put together an awesome Friday night at the Schoellkopf Stadium featuring a firework... |
The event only goes until 9:15, so it will undoubtedly be just the start of the night for most of you. Remember to dress warmly, though — we don’t need anyone catching a cold before the real festivities start on Saturday. |
If you thought you could sleep in and nurse your fatigue (and hangovers) Saturday morning, you thought wrong. The Big Red Tailgate Zone starts at 10 AM Saturday morning. Class tee-shirts will be handed out in the Crescent Lot of the Schoellkopf Stadium, as well as free food and drinks. So grab a tee shirt and a hot dog... |
Faces should be painted, though, to what extent, I give you liberty to decide. Girls are allowed to rock the Cornell caps, and boys are permitted to paint their chests (however, should it be hot and sweaty, I am requesting coverage). For your game day needs, check out the Cornell Store, as well as Bear Necessities next... |
OK, so we win the game, and you leave the stadium proud to look so ridiculously decked out in red. Now go home, and remove the red gear, and shower off that paint, because for the lucky few of you, it is time for Avicii. To the rest (and basically, all) of you, relax, I haven’t forgotten you. But you may rest for a bit... |
The concert is not only, well, a concert, which in itself constitutes a certain dramatic and rave-y dress code, but this is an Avicii concert. Therefore, nylon, spandex, prints on prints, leather and rainbows are all allowed. I’m serious. That does not mean each of you should attempt every one of those trends, but, whe... |
Check out Urban Outfitters downtown if you need some inspiration; they have a sale on the wildest leggings that are perfect for the show, as well as other great concert gear. Boys, you may feel a bit awkward when deciding what to wear, but don’t stress: a tank or printed tee and a little bit of (neon!) color will be ju... |
After Avicii, there are sure to be some great after-parties, so those of you who couldn’t attend the concert will still get to have a fun night, and will feel so normal next to your fellow students walking the streets of Collegetown in spandex. Rock your typical night-out style, but step it up a bit…you won’t be going ... |
So now you should all have a firm grip on what to wear this weekend. Oh, and I didn’t forget about Sunday. I’m expecting to see each of you shuffling to either Starbucks or CTB in sweatpants, last night’s mascara, and clutching a large coffee. Don’t worry, I won’t judge. |
“We preach [that] if a guy goes down, the next guy’s got to step up,” said Cornell junior quarterback and offensive co-captain Jeff Mathews. On Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field, just about everyone stepped up for the Red (1-1, 1-0 Ivy League) as it dominated Yale (1-1, 0-1) in all three phases of the game to dow... |
A forged email sent Friday impersonating and mocking President David Skorton is “outrageously offensive” and could constitute “criminal behavior,” a University spokesperson said Saturday. While the identity or identities of those responsible for the email remain unknown, it resembled in form and substance previous mess... |
A preliminary study from Switzerland, published this month in the Annals of Neurology, proved the effectiveness of a new method of non-invasive brain surgery: using a newly-developed operating device that relies on ultrasound, in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), allowed neurosurgeons to precisely remo... |
A patient undergoing treatment with the new HIFU system, under surveilance by an MRI machine. |
“The groundbreaking finding here is that you can make lesions deep in the brain–through the intact skull and skin–with extreme precision and accuracy and safety,” says Neal Kassell, neurosurgeon at the University of Virginia, not directly involved in the study and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation. |
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is not the type of ultrasound used for diagnostics, or parental screening. Rather, the focused, high-intensity ultrasound beams are used to heat up and destroy pieces of diseased tissue. Currently, HIFU is used to remove small benign uterine tumors, known as fibroids, and it’s b... |
Drill a hole in the skull, and insert an electrode intro the brain — a method known as radiofrequency ablation. |
Deliver a beam of focused, ionizing radiation into the targeted tissue — a method called radiosurgery. |
Now, unsurprisingly, most patients choose option number 2. Kassell says that the HIFU method has several advantages over radiosurgery, as the effects of radiation on tissue can take weeks to months to manifest, whereas the thermal approach is immediate. |
“The precision and accuracy [are] considerably greater with ultrasound, and it should be in principle safer in the long run,” he adds. |
One downside of HIFU is that, compared to more invasive electrode neurosurgeries is that it cannot functionally test if the treated area is the correct one. With radiofrequency ablation, neurosurgeons can stimulate the cells using the electrode to verify if he or she has identified the piece of the brain responsible fo... |
“Not every functional neurosurgeon will accept this [method], because you cannot do a test before the lesion is made,” says Ferenc Jolensz, director of the Division of MRI and Image Guided Therapy Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. |
Jolensz and collaborator Seung-Schik Yoo are currently trying to develop methods to use HIFU to modulate brain activity in a localized area, which would enable functional testing of the target area before it is destroyed. Jolensz is also studying HIFU for brain surgery and has tested the technology on four patients wit... |
The biggest development challenge designers had to overcome was figuring out how to focus the beams through the skull bone — its structure attenuates sound vibration and distorts their path, making the method at least ineffective, and at its worst, dangerous for the patient. InSightec’s solution was to build an array o... |
Focused ultrasound beams heat a target in the brain, while real-time images captured by the scanner give the neurosurgeon immediate feedback on the procedure. |
“You take a CT scan of the patient’s head and tailor the acoustic beam to focus through the skull,” says Eyal Zadicario, head of InSightec’s neurology program. |
The device also has a built-in cooling system to prevent the skull from overheating from the vibrations. |
Depending on the condition being treated, the ultrasound beams are focused on specific points in the brain which absorbs the energy and converts it to heat — about 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.5 Celsius) of heat, to be precise, killing the cells in a region of about 10 cubic millimeters around the treated point. To ensur... |
“Thermal images acquired in real time during the treatment allow the surgeon to see where and to what extent the rise in temperature is achieved,” says Zadicario. |
“Two patients had a glass of Proseco [wine] with us,” says Ernst Martin, director of the Magnetic Resonance Center at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich and lead author of the study. |
Apart from a feeling a few seconds of tingling or dizziness, and one reported case of a brief headache as the targeted tissue heated up, there were no side effects after the surgery. |
“This will give a lot of impetus for manufacturers of focused ultrasound equipment to get interested in the brain,” says Kassell. |
An experimental version of InSightec’s ultrasound device is currently being tested in five medical centers around the globe. In addition to using it with Parkinson’s patients and those who suffer other movement disorders, scientists plan to test the technology as a treatment for brain tumors, epilepsy, and stroke. |
One downside of HIFU compared to the more invasive neurosurgeries performed with an electrode is that surgeons are unable to functionally test whether they have targeted the correct part of the brain. During traditional surgery for Parkinson’s, for example, the neurosurgeon stimulates the target area with the electrode... |
In more than 30 years coaching high school basketball in Southwest Florida, Don Stewart considers himself fortunate to have coached more than his share of talented point guards. |
One of the best – certainly Stewart’s favorite for clear reasons – was his son, Scott, who graduate from Lely in 1989 and went on to play at Florida. But this season Stewart is watching another point guard lead his team on a playoff run and compete for the No. 1 spot in the old coach’s heart. |
First Baptist Academy enters the Class 3A regional finals on Tuesday playing its best basketball of the season thanks in large part to Isaiah Stewart. The junior point guard is the grandson of Don Stewart and son of Scott Stewart. |
Don Stewart uses the first-person pronoun “we” because, after 26 years leading the Lely basketball program, he’s an assistant at First Baptist. He came on board six years ago to help that point guard who helped him win so many games at Lely – his son, Scott. |
Scott Stewart has been the only varsity coach the Lions have ever had, taking the program from a middle school team to varsity when First Baptist added high school sports in 2010. A year later, after Don Stewart retired from Lely in 2009, Scott asked his dad to join him on the bench. |
Now there are three generations of the family, rich in basketball tradition, driving the Lions toward their first regional championship. First Baptist (20-7) hosts Canterbury (22-7) in the regional championship game, the winner moving on to Lakeland and the state semifinals next Monday. |
The only other team left playing in Collier County this postseason is Naples High School. The Golden Eagles (20-7) play at Lehigh (25-3) in the 7A regional semifinals on Tuesday. |
Isaiah Stewart has been learning basketball from his dad since he was born. However, the young Stewart’s education has been more than other kids who played for their dad. |
Isaiah Stewart spent the first seven years of his life in Portugal, where his dad played professionally. Following his final season at Florida in 1993, Scott Stewart played professional basketball for 12 seasons around the world. |
While playing in New Zealand, Scott Stewart met his wife, Margaret. The couple now has five children, Isaiah being the oldest, with No. 6 on the way in June. |
Isaiah Stewart spent his early years attending practices and shoot-arounds for his dad’s pro team in Portugal. That’s also where Isaiah started playing basketball. |
For his part, Isaiah said he doesn’t feel the pressure. He said his dad isn’t harder on him, nor does he favor him because he’s his son. And he sees Don Stewart mostly as Grandpa – Isaiah wasn’t in Naples while the coach became a longtime legend at Lely. |
In his second year starting, Stewart has become a valuable asset for the Lions this season. He averages 7 points per game and, more importantly for a point guard, 8 assists. |
Perhaps the biggest measure of Stewart’s contribution is the scoreboard. The point guard missed about five weeks with a leg injury in the middle of the season. Five of First Baptist’s seven losses came while Stewart was out. |
Two of the losses came to Canterbury, the Lions’ opponent in the regional championship. After Stewart returned, First Baptist beat Canterbury 81-62 in the district championship, which is why the Lions get to host Tuesday’s game. |
Naples at Lehigh, 7 p.m. |
Canterbury at First Baptist, 7 p.m. |
Most people know that healthy diet and exercise are key in cancer prevention and survivorship, but, until recently, it’s not been exactly clear how or why good habits play such a role. |
However, Yale Cancer Center researchers have found an explanation in the tiny protective ends of chromosomes called telomeres. The findings will be presented Dec. 11 at the 2015 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. |
According to a news release put out by Yale, researchers used a previously published Yale weight-loss intervention study called LEAN to examine how body fat and weight loss through lifestyle changes are associated with telomere length in breast cancer survivors enrolled in a weight-loss trial. Telomeres shorten with ce... |
This study was funded by American Institute for Cancer Research and Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). |
These residences have 9 3 " floor to ceiling windows, washer/dryer, solar and black out shades .Kitchens are complete with polished Silestone countertops and backsplash, modern bright white custom cabinets, a stainless steel Blomberg refrigerator and Kitchen-Aid Slide in range, dishwasher and microwave. Bathrooms featu... |
The funeral for PC David Rathband is being held in Newcastle on Saturday. |
Newcastle City Centre will come to a standstill this weekend as police and the public come together to celebrate the life of Pc David Rathband who died last week. |
The heroic officer, blinded by gunman Raoul Moat, will be mourned at St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle, at midday on Saturday (10th March). |
Arrangements were being made to invite top level politicians and senior dignitaries to the memorial, which organisers have called "a celebration of Pc David Rathband's life''. |
His wife Kath, 42, and children Mia, 13, and Ashley, 19, have been invited to the ceremony, which has been organised by the officer's twin Darren. |
He will be laid to rest in his home town of Stafford on March 17th with a public service which will be followed by a private burial. |
"Anyone who has shown any interest in David's life and what he stood for is welcome to come to the service and show their respects. |
Pc Rathband, who was 44, will be buried in his uniform, with his hat and gloves on top of the casket. The funeral will not be a full police service, as this was not what Pc Rathband wanted. |
It will be a Humanist ceremony, in line with the officer's wishes. |
A US-led coalition airstrike bombed and destroyed a T-72 tank threatening coalition forces in the Euphrates River Valley in Syria on Saturday, according to Col. Ryan Dillon, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve. |
This was the second strike by the coalition against suspected pro-regime forces in the area in recent days. |
In Saturday's strike, "the tank had been maneuvering with coordinated indirect fire on a defensive position occupied by Syrian Democratic Forces and Coalition advisors," Dillon said. Indirect fire generally refers to artillery or mortar fire. The coalition position was within range of the attackers' weapons. |
"The defensive position was within effective range of the hostile weapons systems," Dillon said. |
For now, the coalition cannot confirm who the pro-regime forces were, Dillon said. He added that there were no coalition or SDF casualties and explained that coalition forces maintain "regular" contact with Russian counterparts using established telephone lines to avoid miscalculations that could endanger each other's ... |
Saturday's incident follows an initial strike on February 7, when the US-led coalition conducted air and artillery strikes, killing an estimated 100 pro-regime fighters, according to a coalition statement. |
The coalition described its action as being carried out in "self-defense." |
Some 500 pro-regime troops carried out the attack using artillery, mortar fire and Russian-made tanks "in what appears to be a coordinated attack on Syrian Democratic Forces," US Army Col. Thomas Veale, a spokesman for the US-led coalition, told CNN. |
An absolutely horrifying incident was reported by TLS on Monday morning. |
A Lakewood father awoke during the night to hear his 4-week-old daughter screaming, and then suddenly stopping. He ran to the door of the newborns bedroom, where he listened from outside. He heard silence, and then suddenly heard shrieking “as if she was under the covers”. |
The father barged into the room to find their nanny standing over the the child with a pillow on her face. |
The nurse responded “it’s not what it looks like”. |
The father ordered the woman to leave the home immediately, and offered to drive her to a bus station. |
TLS who spoke to the father exclusively said that he was wondering why the baby monitor wasn’t working properly, and now has reason to believe that it was tampered with. |
The woman came from a reputable agency that provides live-in nannies. The agency is investigating the incident. |
But who said it is .. maybe she was really not doing what it looked like ?.. |
Lets think about this… You hear screaming from your child’s bedroom. You walk in and see your non-Jewish nanny suffocating your 4 month old with a pillow and then what do you do? YOU DRIVER HER TO THE BUS STOP!? |
never thought about calling the police? |
B”H they found caught the “nurse” in the nick of time! |
Poor baby, who knows why she was screaming prior to being smothered! |
I would never trust a stranger! Always make sure you have hidden cameras if you do have to resort to a stranger caring for your child or elderly parents. |
Investigated only by the agency? Not the prosecutor’s office? I’d be more calm knowing that the distinct possibility that there is crime involved (as in attempted murder or at least physical abuse) was addressed. The agency is not empowered to do that. |
Or maybe the really disturbing part of the story is that heimishe people hire goyim to watch over their children. I do not understand how anyone could have a non-Jewish babysitter, ever, for any reason. We don’t go to non-Jewish barbers for similar suspicions. Why would you entrust them with your children??? |
Should have called the police. |
Ari111- you can hire her, to confirm. |
A lot of comments on Lakewood Scoop are – why didn’t he call the Cops? |
Answer – I guess – the Frum baby nursing agency hires Illegals. |
Um… why not call the police? |
@ari111 what was she doing…. |
drives her to the bus? whats wrong with people. thats your child. |
drive her off a cliff. |
Are you for real? This is Lakewood! Women in Lakewood do not belong at home. They belong in the workplace. They are the Zevuluns of the current era. We all know that Rav Aharon Kotler ZT”L never intended for the Men learning – Women working thing to become a lifestyle followed universally by all. But that’s how the gam... |
This is example why it’s not a good thing. At least get an online job. |
It was in middle of the night!! Both parents were home. Everyone stop judging others. How do u know what else is going on??? |
Totally not the working issue.lots of ppl in lakewwod dont have parents,inlaws or their whole family nearby and it became easier and cheaper to have a nanny for a while as opposed to mother going away after birth(the article says baby is 4 weeks old) but these nanny stories are becoming too common and sickening somethi... |
You can only call the cops if u have proof. Most likely it would be thier words against her, so they just wanted her out of thier home. |
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