Comets fall after late rally

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UTICA The Utica Comets mounted a third-period comeback by erasing a two-goal deficit but were unable to steal a win away in the shootout and wound up falling to the Hamilton Bulldogs, 4-3, on Saturday at the sold-out Utica Memorial Auditorium.

Alexandre Grenier, Darren Archibald and Henrik Tommernes each scored a goal for the Comets, as Tommernes late third period goal sent the game to overtime.

Comets goaltender Joe Cannata, who was named the games third star, made 37 saves, including 16 in the first period, in the defeat.

Nicklas Jensen and Grenier scored in the shootout for the Comets, the second of the season for each.

After a hooking minor by Jerred Tinordi with 21 seconds left in the frame, Grenier knocked one in just 10 seconds into the man advantage to put Utica in front by one in the first period.

Hamilton would go on to score three unanswered goals from the second to third periods. Gabriel Dumont collected a loose puck in the offensive zone and fired past Cannata to level the score at 1-1 just 27 seconds into the second period.

The two teams traded chances for the majority of the second, with just a 12-10 shots on goal advantage for the Bulldogs, before Louis Leblanc put Hamilton ahead 2-1 off a ricocheted shot got past Cannata.

The Bulldogs added one more tally to the scoreboard when Greg Pateryn made a slapshot from the point, 47 seconds into the third.

The Comets rally began when Archibald cut the deficit in half at the 4:27 mark after he beat three Hamilton defenders and fired a wrist shot past Tokarski.

In a dramatic finish to regulation, Tommernes unloaded one to tie the game with just 1:04 on the clock.

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Comets knock off Aquin for second time this season

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STERLING The Newman Comets matched up with the Aquin Bulldogs for the second time this season Saturday night. The result was similar as the Comets defeated the Bulldogs 70-63 to capture the KSB Newman Christmas Classic.

Right off the bat, Newman (12-0) came out swinging. Senior John Payan, who scored 33-points Friday night, hit back-to-back 3s to give the Comets an early 8-2 lead.

Aquin (10-3) junior Aiden Chang, who was the Tournament MVP, rallied for eight straight points to help the Bulldogs secure a 16-11 lead after the first quarter. Chang finished with 28 points.

"I thought we did a nice job of keeping our composure," Newman coach Ray Sharp said. "We started out pretty good, and then they went on a nice run and took the lead on us. After that I think we settled down. We were rushing and weren't executing our offense, but once we started executing it really helped us."

In the second quarter a balanced Newman attack brought the Comets back into the game.

In a 5-minute stretch in the middle of the quarter, senior A.J. Sharp and sophomore Noah McCarty combined to score 11 points.Payan also chipped in a pair of 3s to add to the Comets' cause.

WIth time winding down before halftime, Aquin dialed up a man-to-man press.

Sharp received the ball and proceeded to wave everyone so he could go one-on-one to bring the ball up.

At half court, he dribbled behind his back to get around one defender, just in time to see another Bulldog flying at him. Once again, a smooth behind the back dribble got him around that defender. Finally, a spin move to get around a third defender led him to find an open man in the corner.

Payan was the open man, who hit nothing but net on the 3. Payan finished with 21 points. He made seven of his nine 3-point attempts.

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Le psoriasis (du grec ruption galeuse, psore ayant aussi autrefois dsign la gale en France) est une maladie auto-immune de la peau d'origine inconnue et non contagieuse. Cette affection dermatologique touche 1 3% de la population mondiale.

Dans sa forme bnigne et typique, le psoriasis se caractrise par des lsions rouges et squameuses du cuir chevelu, des genoux et des coudes, associe une atteinte des ongles. Dans les cas graves, l'atteinte cutane peut tre gnralise (rythrodermie) et il peut exister des atteintes des articulations. Cette dermatose volue de faon chronique avec des pousses entrecoupes de priodes de rmissions de dure variable au cours desquelles les lsions sont minimes. Aucun traitement permettant la gurison n'est connu; le traitement propos permet uniquement de contrler l'volution de la maladie, en permettant la rgression transitoire plus ou moins complte des lsions. Le traitement est adapt en fonction de la gravit et du retentissement sur la qualit de vie des patients.

Les causes prcises en sont inconnues bien que, dans prs de 30% des cas, une prdisposition familiale existe, surtout si des facteurs externes viennent se rajouter. La maladie aurait des composantes gntiques, auto-immunes[1], microbiologique et environnementale ou alimentaire (l'arrt de la consommation de produits laitiers ou certaines autres denres reviennent souvent dans les tmoignages de personnes ayant russi s'en dbarrasser sans faire intervenir un traitement en parallle[rf.ncessaire]).

L'piderme se renouvelle trop rapidement, en seulement quatre six jours, au lieu des trois semaines habituelles ce qui engendre des inflammations localises. Les cellules pidermiques s'accumulent la surface de la peau et forment une couche de pellicules blanches appeles squames. Parfaitement inoffensives, celles-ci ont pourtant le dsavantage d'tre inesthtiques. La prsence de nombreux leucocytes dans le derme a suggr le rle du systme immunitaire.

Comme indiqu prcdemment, il existe pour un petit tiers des personnes atteintes une composante familiale au psoriasis (restent dterminer les autres facteurs entrant en jeu): prs de 30% des patients atteints ont un membre de leur famille ayant galement la mme maladie[2]. Un certain nombre de gnes ont t identifis comme marqueurs potentiels de risque, dont le PSORS. Le plus important semble tre le PSORS1 situ sur le chromosome 6 et qui serait responsable de prs du tiers des psoriasis familiaux[3]. Seize gnes (en 2012[4]) ont des mutations pouvant favoriser cette maladie.

Les pousses de psoriasis sont parfois lies au stress. Elles peuvent aussi avoir pour origine un facteur infectieux (infection streptococcique, par exemple). Leur frquence est trs variable et, d'une manire gnrale, le facteur dclenchant de la pousse n'est pas identifiable. La consommation excessive d'alcool est un facteur d'aggravation du psoriasis.

Certains mdicaments exacerbent parfois le psoriasis mais leur arrt doit tre discut au cas par cas, celui-ci pouvant comporter d'autres risques, cardio-vasculaires en particulier. Ce sont essentiellement ceux de la classe des bta-bloquants. D'autres molcules ont t rapportes comme potentiellement aggravantes, avec un risque cependant moindre. Ce sont les sartans[5] et l'nalapril[rf.souhaite].

Au contraire, l'exposition solaire a un rle protecteur net. Durant la grossesse, une diminution des pousses avec une aggravation par contre la suite de celle-ci est gnralement observe. Le mcanisme invoqu est celui d'une immuno-modulation par les taux levs de progestrone et d'strognes qui entranent une stimulation de l'immunit dpendant des lymphocytes B mais une diminution de l'activit immunitaire des lymphocytes T. La progestrone est reconnue comme ayant un rle immuno-modulateur cl durant la grossesse[6].

Certaines formes peuvent se dvelopper la suite d'un traumatisme articulaire.

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Psoriasis of a fingernail

Psoriatic nails is a nail disease. It is common in those suffering from psoriasis, with reported incidences varying from 10% to 78%. Elderly patients and those with psoriatic arthritis are more likely to have psoriatic nails.[1]:7812

The Nail Psoriasis Severity Index (NAPSI) is a numeric, reproducible, objective, simple tool for evaluation of nail psoriasis.[3] It evaluates several signs separately, each on a 13 scale: pitting, Beau's lines, subungual hyperkeratosis and onycholysis. A 2005 study proposed a modified NAPSI scale for persons with psoriasis and named the title of their publication "Modification of the Nail Psoriasis Severity Index".[4] Then, in 2007, a study found that there was a high level of inter-rater variability of the 2003 NAPSI scale and proposed another index which was, like the 2005 article, a modification of the 2003 article, and was named modified NAPSI.[5] A 2008 study found that Cannavo's qualitative system[6] correlated with NAPSI (P<0.001) and is less time-consuming.[7]

There is a risk of misdiagnosis with onychomycosis.

The causes of nail psoriasis are unknown. It has been suggested that fungi may play a role.[8]

There exist numerous treatments for nail psoriasis but there is little information concerning their effectiveness and safety.[9] Treatments include topical, intralesional, radiation, systemic, and combination therapies.

Available studies lack sufficient power to extrapolate a standardized therapeutic regimen.[9] As of April 2009, an assessment of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of the treatments for nail psoriasis is in progress.[20]

Active clinical trials investigating nail psoriasis:[22]

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Gay hero super-boffin Turing ‘may have been murdered by MI5’

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Legendary code-breaker and computing boffin Alan Turing - seen by many as the father of modern computing and credited with a huge contribution to the Allied victory in World War Two - may have been murdered by the British security services, it has been claimed.

The government should open a new inquiry into the death of gay war-time code-breaker, mathematical genius and computer pioneer Alan Turing, including an investigation into the possibility he was murdered by the security services, LGBTI*-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell stated last week in a press release.

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Although there is no evidence that Turing was murdered by state agents, the fact that this possibility has never been investigated is a major failing. The original inquest into his death was perfunctory and inadequate. Although it is said that he died from eating an apple laced with cyanide, the allegedly fatal apple was never tested for cyanide. A new inquiry is long overdue, even if only to dispel any doubts about the true cause of his death.

Turing was regarded as a high security risk because of his homosexuality and his expert knowledge of code-breaking, advanced mathematics and computer science. At the time of his death, Britain was gripped by a MacCarthyite-style anti-homosexual witch-hunt. Gay people were being hounded out of the armed forces and the civil and foreign services.

In this frenzied homophobic atmosphere, all gay men were regarded as security risks - open to blackmail at a time when homosexuality was illegal and punishable by life imprisonment. Doubts were routinely cast on their loyalty and patriotism. Turing would have fallen under suspicion.

Mr Tatchell suggests that the "security services" would have feared that Turing might pass critical information to the Soviets, and would have sought to kill him for being homosexual and thus a security risk subject to blackmail. The reference to "security services" and counter-espionage suggests that he has specifically in mind the Security Service itself, also known as MI5 - or perhaps the Secret Intelligence Service (aka MI6), though that organisation is more focused on carrying out espionage abroad rather than preventing it at home.

The idea that British intelligence operatives can or do deliberately set out to assassinate British citizens with official sanction would seem to be poorly supported, other than in the case of certain military operations during the fighting in Northern Ireland. Even those latter would normally have been characterised for the record as combat operations rather than targeted killings. However such accusations are often made: for example by biz kingpin Mohamed al-Fayed, who alleges that MI6 orchestrated the car crash in which his son Dodi and Princess Diana were killed.

Ironically perhaps, at the time when Mr Tatchell speculates that MI5 may have been murdering Alan Turing for being gay and possibly a Soviet agent, MI5 itself genuinely had been infiltrated at a high level by a ring of Soviet agents, some of whom were in fact gay.

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Study ties thicker brain sections to spirituality

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NEW YORK -- For people at high risk of depression because of a family history, spirituality may offer some protection for the brain, a new study hints.

Parts of the brain's outer layer, the cortex, were thicker in high-risk study participants who said religion or spirituality was "important" to them versus those who cared less about religion.

"Our beliefs and our moods are reflected in our brain and with new imaging techniques we can begin to see this," Myrna Weissman told Reuters Health. "The brain is an extraordinary organ. It not only controls, but is controlled by our moods."

Weissman, who worked on the new study, is a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University and chief of the Clinical-Genetic Epidemiology department at New York State Psychiatric institute.

While the new study suggests a link between brain thickness and religiosity or spirituality, it cannot say that thicker brain regions cause people to be religious or spiritual, Weissman and her colleagues note in JAMA Psychiatry.

It might hint, however, that religiosity can enhance the brain's resilience against depression in a very physical way, they write.

Previously, the researchers had found that people who said they were religious or spiritual were at lower risk of depression. They also found that people at higher risk for depression had thinning cortices, compared to those with lower depression risk.

The cerebral cortex is the brain's outermost layer made of gray matter that forms the organ's characteristic folds. Certain areas of the cortex are important hubs of neural activity for processes such as sensory perception, language and emotion.

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Parts of the brain's outer layer, the cortex, were thicker in high-risk study participants who said religion or spirituality was "important" to them versus those who cared less about religion.

"Our beliefs and our moods are reflected in our brain and with new imaging techniques we can begin to see this,"Myrna Weissmantold Reuters Health. "The brain is an extraordinary organ. It not only controls, but is controlled by our moods."

Weissman, who worked on the new study, is a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology atColumbia Universityand chief of the Clinical-Genetic Epidemiology department at New York State Psychiatric institute.

While the new study suggests a link between brain thickness and religiosity or spirituality, it cannot say that thicker brain regions cause people to be religious or spiritual, Weissman and her colleagues note in JAMA Psychiatry.

It might hint, however, that religiosity can enhance the brain's resilience against depression in a very physical way, they write.

Previously, the researchers had found that people who said they were religious or spiritual were at lower risk of depression. They also found that people at higher risk for depression had thinning cortices, compared to those with lower depression risk.

The cerebral cortex is the brain's outermost layer made of gray matter that forms the organ's characteristic folds. Certain areas of the cortex are important hubs of neural activity for processes such as sensory perception, language and emotion.

For the new study, the researchers twice asked 103 adults between the ages of 18 and 54 how important religion or spirituality was to them and how often they attended religious services over a five-year period.

In addition to being asked about spirituality, the participants' brains were imaged once to see how thick their cortices were.

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Spiritual Enlightenment – Definitions of Spiritual Enlightenment

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Listed here are highlights from a discussion thread in our forums regarding the question "What does it really mean to be spiritually enlightened?"

To me, enlightenment means (at least right now) expanding your consciousness to infinite proportions, with the goal of understanding/becoming one with God/dess/Divine etc. etc. - Smonikee

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Enlightenment to me is that point in my life when I understood that everything is connected. Once that understanding came then my way of being changed for I understood that there is more reason to all the creator created than it was simply there. Through seeing that each being that the creator made has reason for being, I can learn what the creator is and what my place within creation is. - whorse

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For me this is a path, one that will go on for ever and ever. Each step on that path brings me closer to understanding the things I can't 'touch', or 'see', or 'understand' with my brain, and yet they are all there. I think if I'd ever come to the end of that path I'd be God, so all I can do is keep on walking and staying on that path, learning with each step, including falling off the road now and then and stumbling through the bushes till I find my way back to the road. - inni

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My perception would be liberation from suffering (according to vedic shamanistic tradition suffering is the spawn of ignorance.) Mukti is a Sanskrit word used for enlightenment. One meaning of mukti is liberation. The ancient pattern of enlightenment in many traditions is first realizing ones condition as the journey begins from where you are not where you want to be. There is generally the realization that at the core of your being is suffering. Thus begins the nightmarish task of confronting oneself. - Fire888

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I would describe enlightenment as clarity in reference to your life and the meaning of it. When there is no cloudiness about your purpose, your goals, morals, everything seems clear and your feeling about life is a secure feeling. - Nancy

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