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Bob Gaudet's brand of clean, disciplined hockey puts Dartmouth among nation's least-penalized teams. |
Captain Guilien Smith ’19 is the only senior on the men’s basketball roster this season. |
The women’s hockey team scored a major upset on Friday, defeating defending-national champion Clarkson in OT. |
The women’s basketball team fell to the defending Ivy League champion Princeton Tigers on Saturday night. |
Drew O'Connor '18 fired a slapshot in Friday's game against RPI. O'Connor scored the game-tying goal late in the third period. |
Ian Sistare ’20 drove into the lane against Cornell on Friday night. He scored 10 points in both games this weekend. |
Tanguy Nef '20 skis on the World Cup circuit as well as the Dartmouth alpine team. Courtesy of Tanguy Nef. |
Monik Walters was a member of the "Chicago" cast in 2016. |
Scientists in Singapore have uncovered an immune system defect behind inherited recurrent skin cancer, another breakthrough in understanding the pathways leading to the disease. |
They found that mutations in the gene, NLRP1, cause the immune system in the patients' skin to misfire, dramatically increasing the risk of developing skin cancer. |
The mutations make the NLRP1 protein hyperactive and prone to abnormal activation, leading to a detrimental, misdirected immune response in the skin. |
The gene was not previously known to cause human disease, and its discovery provides an attractive drug target to treat chronic skin inflammatory conditions that are also related to the immune system, such as eczema and psoriasis, as well as aggressive skin cancer that is resistant to surgery, the team said. |
The finding by Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*Star) researchers was published in the scientific journal, Cell, in September. |
"This is a significant illustration of how studying rare diseases can benefit the research on common ailments afflicting the general population," said Dr Bruno Reversade of A*Star's Institute of Medical Biology who led the study. |
This is a significant illustration of how studying rare diseases can benefit the research on common ailments afflicting the general population. |
DR BRUNO REVERSADE, who led the study, on how the discovery could help in treating chronic skin inflammatory conditions that are also related to the immune system. |
Dr Tan Wee Ping, consultant and head of the Skin Cancer Clinic at the National Skin Centre, said skin cancer research has progressed significantly on all fronts over the last decade, translating into better surgical, medical and topical treatment and care. |
Skin cancer is the sixth most common cancer in men in Singapore, and the seventh most common in women. Between 2010 and 2014, it afflicted 3,100 people here. It is, however, considered to be less deadly than other cancers here. |
The most common form of skin cancer here is basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a slow-growing non-melanoma skin cancer that damages skin tissue and causes scarring, but rarely spreads to other sites. It usually appears as a pearly or waxy bump, or a flat, flesh-coloured or brown scar-like lesion on sun-exposed areas of the bo... |
"Fortunately in Singapore, most patients come to us early enough for surgical management of their BCC and surgery offers the best chance of cure in suitable patients," said Dr Tan. |
The second most common type of skin cancer is squamous cell carcinoma, also a non-melanoma skin cancer, which is considered more dangerous as it can metastasise. |
Melanoma, the most serious and aggressive form of skin cancer, is fortunately much less common in Asians than Caucasians because of their darker skin, which has more melanin and natural protection against the sun's UV rays. |
Advances in treatment for skin cancer include drugs which block specific proteins in pathways that cause skin cancer to develop, as well as topical medications. |
Topical medication allows superficial skin cancers to be treated effectively without surgical treatment, said Dr Tan. One example is 5-fluorouracil, which is applied directly on the skin to kill tumour cells on or near the skin surface. As it does not spread throughout the body, it does not have the same side effects a... |
Another promising area of research into skin cancer is immunotherapy, which primes the immune system to recognise cancer cells and destroy them. |
•For enquiries regarding skin cancer, call the National Skin Centre on 6253-4455. You can also contact the National Cancer Centre Singapore on 6225-5655 or e-mail it at cancerhelpline@nccs.com.sg. |
A-C Central/Virginia fell to host Williamsville in the first round of the Williamsville Holiday Tournament on Saturday. The game was even going after the first quarter but Williamsville outscored the Knights 17-6 in the second quarter to gain the advantage and never let it slip away. The Knights were led by Will Edge w... |
Quay Quinn-Settle of Slowdance, onstage at Neurolux. |
I like The Helio Sequence's new album. But I love it's older stuff. Young Effectuals remains one of the most unexplainable records I've ever heard more than a decade after it was released. Every time I put it on, I come back to the phrase "futuristic space bubbles." But if I said that to someone and they understood wha... |
The band's sound was so thick, so layered, that it never seemed strange to see band members with a laptop playing some of the backing tracks and effects onstage. But the new material that comprised most of the band's set at Neurolux on Oct.13 isn't the same shimmering mindwarp of sound. It's more focused and controlled... |
That feeling was offset by watching the ludicrous drum faces and exaggerated strikes of drummer Benjamin Weikel. The complexity and ferocity of his strikes are underplayed on recordings and his attack gave the new songs the band played more of an edge than on the album. |
The band had no such reservations about the packed house, however. |
"You all are awesome," said guitarist Brandon Summers. "This is the last night of this crazy tour we're doing for our new record and I can't imagine a better place to spend it. " |
However, the most pleasant surprise of the evening was the opening set from Slowdance. |
The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band dished out oodles of retro synths and melancholia, using elements of The Smiths and Siouxsie and the Banshees with a modern bent to find a sound somewhere between French existentialism and film of John Cusack smoking outside an '80s prom—which makes as much sense as futuristic space bubble... |
In straight prose, Slowdance had tom-heavy, four-on-the-floor beats with watery guitars and melodic synth lines beneath somber and dark, slightly pouty female vocals. Imagine a brunette version of The Sounds. But brunette in tone, as well as appearance. |
Finding out the band didn't have an album for sale at its merch booth, just an EP and a 7-inch, made this rock 'n' roller as blue as Elvis' Christmas, though singer Quay Quinn-Settle divulged that the band is currently recording, so a full-length may be on the way next year. |
Like he did with Coachellea and fake band names, Jimmy Kimmel sent "Lie Witness News" team to New York's Lincoln Center as Fashion Week wraps to dupe aspiring fashion know-it-alls into saying they like designers that are actually just pop culture figures (Betsy Ross, Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, Supreme Court Justice... |
A housewife, whose maids were spotted last year perched on a two-storey scaffold while working on the facade of her Cluny Park house, was fined $46,000 on Wednesday (Aug 8). |
Singaporean Willow Phua Brest, 46, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four counts of failing to provide safe working conditions for her two Indonesian helpers, Ms Karsinah, 39, and Ms Dati, 43. She also admitted that she had unlawfully asked Ms Karsinah to perform tasks as a scaffolder and maintenance worker, the court heard... |
The Straits Times understands that this is the first case in which a person is convicted for breaching work pass conditions involving the work safety of maids, after the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act was amended in 2012 with enhanced penalties. |
Ministry of Manpower (MOM) prosecutor Shanty Priya said that the scaffold was erected at Brest's house on Oct 9 last year so that the second-storey windows could be cleaned. |
The housewife then allowed her two maids to climb onto the structure and stand on it to clean the windows. |
The Indonesians performed the task on Oct 11 and 13, with the help of safety belts, masks, gloves and an extended wiper. |
However, Ms Shanty told District Judge Adam Nakhoda that the safety belts Brest provided were not sufficient to prevent or reduce the severity of injuries to the maids if they slipped off the scaffold. The prosecutor also stressed that the Indonesians were not trained to work at height. |
That same month, Brest asked contractors to set up another scaffold at the back of her house for maintenance work. They declined to do so and instead, delivered to her home components for an unerected scaffold. |
Investigations revealed that Brest then asked Ms Karsinah to perform tasks as a scaffolder and maintenance worker. However, the maid's work pass did not permit her to perform these tasks. |
On Oct 20 last year, Brest asked Ms Karsinah to help her erect the scaffold and they took about three hours to set up the structure which was about 4.5m high. |
After assessing that the scaffold was stable, the housewife asked Ms Karsinah to stand on it to sand, varnish and paint a wooden wall at the back of her house. |
Ms Shanty said that the scaffold did not have required features such as proper guardrails. |
In mitigation, defence lawyer Shashi Nathan told the court that there was no evidence that his client had forced the maids to step onto the scaffold. He also said that Brest had a good relationship with the maids. |
The two women are no longer working for Brest. Ms Dati has since returned to Indonesia while Ms Karsinah is now working for another household here. |
Four years ago, the prospect of another Netanyahu government meant perpetuating the status quo. This time, the opposition is offering the status quo — and Netanyahu something far worse. |
The short distance between resignation and despair is the difference between knowing that things aren’t going to get any better and the fear that they could very easily get worse and there’s nothing to do about it. In many ways, that feels like the theme of the upcoming Israeli elections — at least for the small minori... |
Four years ago, the last time Israelis went to the polls, I wrote that the only thing that could have possibly defeated Benjamin Netanyahu was hope and vision: hope for change, vision of a better future, anything really. Nobody was offering such a vision. And absent an alternative worth taking a risk for, there was not... |
This time around, things seem far bleaker. Without any vision of their own, Netanyahu’s main challengers have adopted a platform that is basically just a more palatable version of the status quo. Continued occupation. No lifting the siege on Gaza. More collective punishment and oppressive policies. No push to resolve t... |
The only discernible difference between the current administration and the “Blue and White” alternative is a few less radical right-wingers in the government, and an ostensibly less corrupt prime minister. In other words, this time around it’s the challengers who are offering the status quo as their vision — resignatio... |
Netanyahu, meanwhile, is taking huge strides to the right, leaping over lines many thought even he would not cross. Faced with corruption charges and a cadre of generals vying to replace him, the prime minister has paved a political future for himself that, if he is tasked with forming a fourth consecutive government, ... |
In the nearly 10 years that Netanyahu has consecutively occupied the Prime Minister’s Office, each of his governments — and the accompanying political climate — have been more nationalist and right-wing than the one that preceded. The Israeli right’s wish list of laws, policies, and actions has slowly but steadily move... |
Laws were passed to limit speech that challenges Zionist narratives, to restrain and harass human rights and anti-occupation groups, to keep critics out of the country, to legalize the theft of Palestinian land, to delegitimize even the most nonviolent acts of Palestinian resistance. This government ordered the army to... |
The ideological undercurrents that drove all of those policies and legislative decisions will only be reinforced, emboldened, and untethered if Benjamin Netanyahu forms his next government with the most extremist lineup of right-wing parties he has ever assembled. Which is to say, further to the right than the current ... |
For the sake of reference: the current Israeli government includes a deputy minister who called Palestinians sub-humans, a minister who threatened Palestinians with a “third Nakba,” ministers who tried to shut down foreign news outlets for being too critical and have shut down Palestinian networks just for existing. Th... |
And all of that was without the openly Jewish supremacist Kahanist party, “Jewish Power,” to whose ideas Netanyahu will be beholden if he needs them to form a government, something to which he’s already admitted will be the case. |
At that point, it wouldn’t take much to remove the constraints that have held back the flood waters so far. The next government will not have a Moshe Kahlon powerful enough to block a change to Israel’s non-constitution giving the Knesset the power to override the Supreme Court, as Ayelet Shaked and much of the Likud d... |
Analysts have been warning for years that the status quo of occupation is unsustainable. Those alarms were usually sounded to increase the perceived urgency of reaching a two-state solution and ending Israel’s undemocratic military rule over millions of Palestinians. But the danger here is far greater than simply issui... |
The real danger lies in what an empowered right-wing Israeli government, having proven to its people that a negotiated peace isn’t an option, is willing to try in its stead. The real danger is what a government, whose power is reliant on parties with ideologies that call for expelling Palestinians, will do the next tim... |
As political despair has come to envelope the anti-occupation camp in recent years, particularly in the Trump era, I’ve often drawn hope from the knowledge that some of the biggest changes in the world, like the fall of Apartheid and the Berlin Wall, came with little, if any, warning. Nowadays, that same knowledge has ... |
Egyptian popular author and preacher Muhammad Hussein Ya’qub. Televised sermon in 2009. |
If anyone told you that Israel’s sitting justice (!!!) and education (!!!) ministers would cut an ad where fascism and democracy were likened to purely subjective impressions one might have while smelling a perfume — until what year would you have accused me of being completely detached from reality? |
Unfortunately, wherever there are situations in which one group exerts power over a weaker group, a type of warped eroticism develops – see Blumenthal’s book “Goliath”. |
When will our dear leftists, who are essentially financed from abroad and influenced by theories opposed to Judaism, understand that for a majority of Israelis, there is no occupation, but rather a liberation full of hopes according to the promises of our prophets, hopes being fulfilled. The Jewish people return to the... |
Everyone knows that in Ariel Sharon’s final years, the guy became totally corrupt. His family became involved in shady deals like the “Greek Island Affair”. Under pressure from the Israeli Supreme Court, Sharon started to follow Leftist Appeasement policies. Thus, most of Sharon’s statements in his final years should b... |
These preening displays of cultism are instructive. As Bruce points out, Sharon certainly realized it was an occupation and admitted it frankly. Your Kookism, Halevy, is already a known historical failure, a crushing disappointment, a last gasp crisis movement given emergency life support by the secular-judeo-neo-fasci... |
You are in my mind essentially a plain ordinary neo-fascist hypernationalist, Halevy, dressing this up in kookist religious messianism but the majority of Bennett and Shaked’s nascent marching shock troops are not religious in a genuine way and simply draw on religious-historical mythologies to justify baser motives. P... |
You speak the language of “disappointment” versus “happiness.” This is cult-speak. Cleansed from your glazed, wide-eyed talk is any sense of right and wrong, justice and atrocity, or really, of any modern education that I can discern. That too is nationalist cult-speak. You pretend all this is something higher and bett... |
Always the same logorrhea repeated over and over again. I believe more in the words of our sages of the past or the present than in the words of the leftists, who have been deceiving themselves for decades. Whether you like it or not, Judaea and Samaria have been miraculously freed following a war of aggression against... |
Halevy, I am not writing talmudic commentary and this is not a faith-based dialogue, so you give away the flawed argumentary ground you stand on, the ahistorical, anti-rational, anti-modern fundamentalism your whole world view is rooted in, by supposing this is a matter of “belief,” yours or mine. You remain the champ,... |
Of course we do not have the same argument. Mine is heavy and solid that has proven itself. Yours is full of beautiful words, but it’s wind .. |
But before June 1967, there was no occupation, no settlements, no checkpoints etc. Judea and Samaria were “Judenrein”. Yet even then, the Arab bastards were attacking and killing us. |
How do you explain all that, Ben ?? |
It’s a mystery isn’t it ? |
It’s no mystery at all. I’ll explain it. (1) Your account of the pre-67 conflict is selective, sanitized and twisted. (Somewhere Tommy Goldberg explained this to you.) (2) The conflict and both parties with it have evolved. No conflict on Earth gets settled otherwise. The vast power imbalance between the parties means ... |
I have never seen a right winger actually engage the thinking of Tomer Persico on Feiglism, Kookism, or anything else. They drop it, scurry on. This is interesting. |
No real explanation from Ben. |
More waffle from a lunatic who creates his own version of history to explain the murder of Israelis before 1967. |
I hope you realize just how little of a f**k most Jews who live in civilized countries give about Judaism, let alone the misbegotten version you people have farted out (involving bastardized Orthodox mumbo-jumbo and early 20th century irredentist euro-nationalism). Most Jews are more than happy to live normal, peaceful... |
Facebook has been accused of blocking an ad for a new film about the Roe v. Wade case which legalized abortion across America. |
The film was made in secret to avoid backlash by Hollywood liberal elites, yet features an impressive cast. According to the Hollywood Reporter Loeb “even lost a director and other key staffers once they realized the movie did not favor the pro-choice side of the argument.” It stars Jon Voight, Stephen Baldwin, and Sta... |
Loeb, was recently involved in his own personal court battle with former fiancee Sofia Vergara over the fate of the two frozen embryos they made together, and is now considering taking legal action against the big tech giant for censoring his film. |
“They have even blocked people sharing the ads I paid for,” Loeb commented to World News Daily. “This is stealing or fraud.” This is not the first time Facebook has clashed with this film. Last year the company allegedly blocked access to the movie’s crowdfunding page. |
The filmmakers also claimed that Facebook previously “banned us from inviting friends to ‘Like’ our page and from ‘Sharing’ our PAID ads.” Facebook eventually lifted this ban, claiming in an email to The Christian Post that this original removal was was done in error. |
A brief teaser for the film will premiere at the March For Life event in Washington D.C. this Friday. |
MORE than 500 locals will lace up and take to the track at Gladstone Relay For Life in an effort to create hope for a cancer free future. |
Relay For Life is an 18-hour event involving teams of up to 15 people keeping a baton moving in a relay style walk or run overnight, to raise vital funds for all Queenslanders affected by cancer. |
The Cancer Council Queensland event will kick off at Chanel College Oval at 3pm on Saturday, followed by 18 hours of fun and festivities, before the event comes to a close at 9am on Sunday. |
The official opening ceremony with survivors and carers walk will start at 3pm on Saturday, with a candlelight ceremony at 7pm. |
Cancer Council Queensland Relay For Life coordinator Ashlee Hansen said everyone who took part created hope for cancer survivors. |
"Hope lives in all of us - so this weekend, join us as we rally together to raise funds for Cancer Council Queensland's vital work in cancer research, education and patient support programs." |
More information about Relay For Life is available at www.relayforlife.org.au or by calling 1300 65 65 85. |
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