October 16, 2019
Make-A-Wish recently announced the recipients of several awards the organization presented at their 35th Anniversary Global Conference last week in Anaheim, Calif.The wish-granting organization took time to celebrate some of their most passionate and devoted ambassadors as part of their Evening of Excellence awards reception.Make-A-Wish and Disney celebrated the 100,000th Disney-related wish during a special event emceed by Disney Channel “Girl Meets World” star Ben Savage, marking a momentous milestone in the organization’s 35-year relationship with Disney. Nearly 8,000 Disney wishes are granted globally every year – including experiences at Disney Parks, voyages on Disney Cruise Line, and visits to TV and movie sets. From the first wish 35 years ago to the 100,000th wish together, Disney and Make-A-Wish have brought comfort and smiles to wish kids and families when they need it most.Each year, some of the world’s most famous celebrities provide inspiration to thousands of wish kids — meeting them on sets, at concerts, in their hospital rooms and everywhere in between. Make-A-Wish honors four of these celebrities annually with the Chris Greicius Celebrity Award. These celebrities, despite their hectic schedules and never-ending demands, have been dedicated to creating meaningful, life-changing experiences for wish kids. The 2015 Chris Greicius Celebrity Award recipients are:• “Disney Channel”: For many wish kids, the characters they watched every day — passing the time in hospitals as they sit through treatments, recovering from surgery or waiting on test results — became their best friends, and the chance to meet them in person inspired them to keep fighting. • Bruno Mars: The internationally known singer, songwriter, record producer, voice actor and choreographer has been granting wishes since 2012 for children all over the world. Bruno has quietly but enthusiastically brought joy to the lives of more than 16 children. • Norman Reedus: Known most recently for his role in the mega hit, The Walking Dead, the long-time actor has granted 10 wishes, even flying out to meet a wish kid in the hospital with less than 24 hours’ notice. Norman also designated Make-A-Wish as the charity beneficiary of his OMAZE campaign. • Shaun White: Born with the same congenital heart condition as many of our wish children, the highly decorated American professional snowboarder and skateboarder’s drive and life achievements speak to wish children in knowing that they, too, can do whatever they put their heart into. Shaun has granted 17 wishes, starting in 2008, and continued to grant wishes every year since.Make-A-Wish also celebrated a historic milestone: the granting of 500 wishes by one individual. WWE Superstar John Cena started granting wishes in 2004, and this summer, granted his 500th wish. As his popularity as a WWE Superstar quickly soared, so did the number of wish requests. His motto, Never Give Up, serves as a rallying cry to hundreds of sick kids and a commitment that he’ll keeping fighting right alongside them.Make-A-Wish honored ESPN’s “My Wish” series with the Douglas Kiker Award for excellence in media. The award, accepted by ESPN commentator Chris Connelly, recognizes individuals and media organizations for their extraordinary efforts to extend Make-A-Wish stories to the public. Since 2005, ESPN has told 53 stories of wish children and the athlete heroes who made their wishes come true through the ESPN “My Wish” and “Mi Deseo” series.To cap off the festivities, Make-A-Wish presented The Walt Disney Company with the 100,000th Wish Award, which was accepted by Spencer Neumann, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts chief financial officer and executive vice president, Global Guest Experience, and Make-A-Wish America board member.“A wish-come-true helps wish kids feel better and in some cases get better,” said Make-A-Wish America president and chief executive officer David Williams. “Corporations like Disney and WWE, celebrities, like John Cena, Bruno Mars, Shaun White and Norman Reedus, can make a very real, lasting impact on wish kids’ ability to handle and overcome the medical challenges they face.”
NEW DELHI — An Indian court has declared tycoon Vijay Mallya a fugitive economic offender, a ruling that empowers authorities to confiscate his properties and assets.Judge M.S. Azmi’s decision on Saturday comes less than a month after a British Court ruled that Mallya should be extradited to India to face financial fraud allegations. Mallya remains free on bail in London and can appeal the ruling.Mallya, who left India in 2016, is accused of money laundering and cheating Indian banks out of hundreds of millions of dollars. He has denied wrongdoing.He was declared a fugitive economic offender under a new Indian law that applies to a person accused of financial fraud of over 1 billion rupees ($14.2 million) and who has fled India to avoid prosecution.The Associated Press
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – A local resident has been recently recognized on a national level for their backyard garden.Carla Demers, of Fort St. John, was the recent recipient for the grand prize of the Communities in Bloom 2019 Canada’s Backyard Contest.Demers says, back in July, she came across the contest on Facebook and, not having much of a horticultural background, decided to enter it on a whim with no thought of actually being a finalist or of even winning it. “I entered the contest on a whim one day, while I was drinking coffee in the morning, and actually I never thought much about it until I got the phone call saying that I was a finalist. I just thought “what the heck, I’ll give it a try” and never really thought about it again.”Demers had entered three photos into the contest and was up against about 400 other entrants from across Canada.As being a top winner, Demers received a $1,000 Home Hardware gift card, which she says will be put to good use for the next garden season.
New Delhi: Mid-sized IT firm Mindtree Wednesday said its consolidated net profit grew 8.9 per cent to Rs 198.4 crore for the March 2019 quarter, from Rs 182.2 crore in the year-ago period. The Bengaluru-based company’s revenue also increased by 25.6 per cent to Rs 1,839.4 crore in the said quarter, as compared to Rs 1,464 crore in the year-ago period, Mindtree said in a regulatory filing. Mindtree, which is facing a hostile takeover bid by infrastructure giant L&T, said its board has also declared an interim dividend of Rs 3 per equity share, and recommended a special dividend of 200 per cent (Rs 20 a share) to “celebrate the twin achievements of exceeding $1 billion annual revenue milestone and 20th anniversary of the company” subject to shareholders’ nod. “Mindtree has delivered exceptional performance for both the fourth quarter and the full fiscal year as we cross the historic $1 billion milestone. Over the course of two decades our strategy of being expertise-led and backed by a unique culture continues to help us attract world class people and create customer successes,” Mindtree CEO and Managing Director Rostow Ravanan said. He added that the company is “well-poised to continue delivering industry leading returns for all our stakeholders, the best is yet to come”. Mindtree’s FY’19 net profit grew 32.2 per cent to Rs 754.1 crore, while revenue was up 28.5 per cent to Rs 7,021.5 crore from the previous fiscal.
Mr Markley told the court he only learned later that Ms Cristea was alive when she was taken to hospital.The first aid trained licensed skipper said: “We don’t bring dead bodies aboard the boat.”Mr Patterson suggested Ms Cristea “immediately started breathing” when she was pulled from the water.He said: “Perhaps with hindsight you might have approached things differently and at the very least tried to raise her face to see whether she might start breathing?”Mr Markley replied: “With hindsight yes. I would have loved to have gone down into the water and done that. We did what we thought was appropriate.” 
Mr Patterson continued: “Mr Cooper, there was nothing stopping her being lifted by a matter of inches to see if she was alive, to lift her face out of the water?””I don’t know,” Mr Cooper replied.Mr Cooper told the inquest he had past experience of fishing unconscious people out of the water, but had no training on how to do it on the high-sided clipper. The inquest heard London Fire Brigade’s Fire Flash boat arrived on the scene and used a specialist piece of equipment to bring Ms Cristea on board. She died in hospital on April 6 last year.Giving evidence, Mr Markley denied making a “death gesture” with his hand to the fire boat as he was handing over Ms Cristea.He insisted there were “no signs of life” and he presumed she was dead. But as he got closer, he began to harbour doubts on seeing a “vast amount of blood swirling around the body”, he said.Jonathan Hough, QC, for the coroner, asked: “Was there any way you could have got the body onto the boat safely?” 
Andreea Cristea on Westminster Bridge moments before she was hit by Khalid Masood’s carCredit:PA/Metropolitan Police The captain said he thought lifting her one-and-a-half metres up the side of the boat risked causing “more damage”.He said he flipped a piece of paper out of the water, thinking it had come out of Ms Cristea’s backpack. Andreea Cristea pictured on CCTV just two minutes before the attackCredit:PA/Metropolitan Police Vital time was lost in the battle to save a victim of the Westminster terror attack who was left face down in the river for five minutes because a passing boat captain wrongly thought she was already dead, an inquest has heard.Andreea Cristea, 31, had plunged into the Thames after being hit by Khalid Masood’s car as she walked on Westminster Bridge with her boyfriend, Andrei Burnaz.Mr Burnaz was desperately searching for his partner as Michael Brown shouted and gestured to alert a passing tourist boat to her floating face down in the water.Despite an emergency distress signal, along with shouts from Mr Brown and passengers on the City Cruises tourist clipper, Skipper Danny Cooper initially thought Ms Cristea’s body was “garbage”.CCTV footage captured Captain Gordon Markley asking if it was a “wind-up” before heading outside with a boat hook.Mr Cooper said he and his colleague assumed the Romanian tourist had been in the water for hours or days and believed it was “impossible” to fish her out using the hook. Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings.
Facebook Twitter: @NeosKosmos Instagram Four months after the end of the PanHellenic Games held in Melbourne in November last year, a significant number of winning athletes have yet to receive their medals. It is estimated that about 34 athletes who competed in the Games are still waiting for either gold, silver or bronze medals. One 15-year-old athlete from Queensland who won three gold medals in discus, shot putt and javelin respectively, two more athletes from Victoria and the rest from NSW have been put on hold. However, some confusion still exists as to what is the exact number of people who will finally receive the long belated medals.According to a spokesperson from SAE Oceania the medals fiasco was generated because some athletic events were scheduled last minute. “There were younger athletes under 16 who wanted to compete in additional sports from what they were scheduled and we couldn’t refuse them that prerogative,” the SAE spokesperson said to Neos Kosmos.It should be noted that this is the second consecutive Games after the one hel=d in Adelaide that the same problem of a shortage of medals has been experienced by the SAE organising committee. When asked why SAE had not anticipated such issues, and in response ordered extra medals the SAE spokesman said that they had arranged for 40 extra medals. He went on to defend SAE’s organisation, claiming that an added problem was created with the unanticipated number of team officials who were also awarded with a medal each.He added that the members of the winning water polo team, who also have not received their medals, “were more than what originally reported” causing a further medals shortage. When pressed by Neos Kosmos to say if SAE thought that an apology was due to the athletes who have yet to be awarded with their medals, he said “SAE is not denying them of what is theirs and the athletes will get their medals” so no apology was due. The SAE spokesperson did say that “the Games were a cultural event so the medals were not the core objective per se.” He did, however want to apologise for the “extended delay” now close to four months. When asked why such a delay occurred he claimed “problems with the supplier”, arguing that SAE placed the order for the extra medals shortly after the Games. He refused, however, to produce documents showing exactly when the order was placed. The SAE spokesperson did commit that the medal situation will be resolved at the latest by the end of next week.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The San Diego Association of Governments and Caltrans will begin three nights of overnight closures of northbound Interstate 5 Tuesday evening after completing overnight work along southbound I-5 ahead of schedule.Work crews will close northbound I-5 from state Route 52 to Genesee Avenue from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night though Thursday, according to SANDAG. The closures are necessary to remove wooden structures that supported the recently completed construction of a trolley overpass at Voigt DriveNeither agency expected to begin closures of northbound I-5 until later this month or early July due to similar work on a trolley overpass spanning southbound I-5 at Nobel Drive, which began June 9. Those closures were expected to last until June 28 but concluded early last Tuesday morning. SANDAG expects to conduct additional closures of northbound I-5 June 23-27.The closures are part of the $2.17 billion Mid-Coast Trolley Blue Line Extension, which includes a planned 11-mile extension of trolley service by San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System from Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego to University City. The extension will add trolley stops in Mission Bay Park, UC San Diego and Westfield UTC. SANDAG is receiving $1.04 billion in funding from the Federal Transit Administration to complete the project.The extension and related projects are intended to reduce traffic congestion as the county’s population increases. Construction on the extension began in 2016 and is scheduled to be completed in 2021. KUSI Newsroom KUSI Newsroom, Posted: June 18, 2019 SANDAG to Begin Three Nights of I-5 Closures at Voigt Drive June 18, 2019 Categories: Local San Diego News, Traffic & Accidents FacebookTwitter
CORAL GABLES, FLA. (WSVN) – Police said one suspect is in custody while a second is at large in connection to a break-in at a Coral Gables home, Monday afternoon.Streets were blocked off near Granada Boulevard and Mariana Avenue, as K-9 units and armed officers searched for the suspects.Related: Suspected home invader strikes homeowner, tries fleeing policeThe home was unoccupied at the time.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.Copyright 2019 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Press Play: Shawn James Shares Folksy Blues & Soul shawn-james-shares-his-folksy-southern-blues-soul-press-play Email NETWORK ERRORCannot Contact ServerRELOAD YOUR SCREEN OR TRY SELECTING A DIFFERENT VIDEO Dec 27, 2018 – 1:15 pm Shawn James Shares Folksy Blues & Soul: Press Play Twitter Facebook News The Chicago-born singer/songwriter performs his latest release, “Burn The Witch,” letting his aptly self-described sound of “ecstatic joy and painful anguish” take you on a journey on the latest episode of the Recording Academy’s video series, Press PlayAna YglesiasGRAMMYs Dec 27, 2018 – 1:15 pm Growing up in the South Side of Chicago and performing from a young age, starting with church choir, Shawn James has soulful music running through his veins. You can hear the influence in his sound today, in his sound which he describes as “ecstatic joy and painful anguish,” blending blues, folk and soul. James gives you a taste of this in the fourth episode of the Recording Academy’s latest video series, Press Play, which will let you discover, get to know and love artists you may not have heard of yet through original performances. Shawn James Shares His Folksy Southern Blues & Soul For Press Play PlayIn this episode James performs “Burn the Witch,” which he wrote and recently released as the lead single for his upcoming third full-length solo studio album, The Dark and The Light. The song is about discrimination and those who stand up against it. James offers powerful emotion with his guitar, whistling and stirring lyrics. With a powerful conviction he sings: “What they don’t understand, they condemn/ What they can’t comprehend, must meet its end/ But I won’t scream, won’t give them that satisfaction.”RewindMusic has always played a big part of the artist’s life, surrounded by soulful sounds growing up in Chicago, where, in addition to singing in his church’s choir, he studied orchestra and voice in high school. He initially moved to Nashville, Tenn. to pursue a career in music, then to Fayetteville, Ark., where he now resides, although he spends a lot of time on the road, playing over 200 shows a year.RecordIn addition to his solo recordings and shows, James also performs and records delta blues style rock with his band the Shapeshifters. His passion and talent for music hasn’t gone unnoticed, as he gained viral success with songs featured on numerous hit TV shows and video games, including in 2016 when his song “Through The Valley” was featured in the trailer for the Sony PlayStation game “The Last Of Us Part II.”James was also the first artist featured in the latest season of the Recording Academy’s ReImagined series, offering his take on Macy Gray’s GRAMMY-winning hit song from 2000, “I Try.”Fast-forwardJames’ upcoming solo album which features “Burn The Witch,” The Dark and The Light, is due out March 22. Stay tuned to find out which cities he will be visiting in 2019 in support of the new album. Given his love of performing and 200-plus annual show date record, he may very likely be visiting a city near you.Damien Escobar Showcases His Sultry Violin Sounds For Press PlayRead more
The Alutiiq Museum in the city of Kodiak preserves and exhibits many Alaska Native artifacts from the Kodiak Archipelago region and other areas, and now the State of Alaska’s Division of Libraries, Archives & Museums has designated it as the state’s first natural and cultural history repository.Marnie Leist is the Curator of Collections at the Alutiiq Museum and says the recognition is especially significant because they’re the second nationally accredited tribal museum in the United States.They play a part in keeping and protecting Native history.“Almost 80 percent of our collections are on loan to the museum,” says Leist. “It is our responsibility to help care for other tribal organizations, federal state agencies, to care for the collections in perpetuity. And, because we have a dedicated, professional staff, maybe a 1000 years from now those 7000 year old artifacts are still around for future generations.”She says that takes physical upkeep of the objects.“I try to put things in micro climates if they’re sensitive to help preserve them. Large objects, we do dust them and we actually just had a great workshop with the conservators from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from Boston come and teach us more about how to vacuum objects, like kayak frames and other types of skin objects,” says Leist.Part of maintaining artifacts is making sure they can survive in their environment. Here’s a very Alaskan example.“Right now, we’re doing a paper test, so in our long, sunny, bright summer days we have lots of light. Well, UV damages objects, so I created this little test really quickly and here in another couple of weeks, we’ll see how much the paper bleached out in just those few weeks,” says Leist.Scott Carrlee is the Curator of Museum Services at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau and says granting the Alutiiq museum repository status was easy. He says that’s because it’s one of the seven institutions in the state accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.“That means that they’ve been through a review process. A very rigorous review process,” says Carrlee. “What we are concerned about is this designation is really strictly the collection’s care, collection’s management portion of what the museum does, so the fact that the Alutiiq Museum is already accredited, that gave the committee a comfort level with designating them as a repository.”Amy Steffian is the director of research and publication for the Alutiiq Museum and refers back to the year she first joined the staff.“I’ve been with the museum since it opened in 1995 and I’ve seen the repository grow from a young organization learning professional practices, and to see us achieve both national and now state recognition for our practices is really lovely,” says Steffian.The Alutiiq Museum’s collection holdings range from bone and ivory objects to photographs and historical documents.The Museum will hold its annual Community Archaeology dig from July 13 to 31where volunteers from around Kodiak can work on an archaeology site to build that collection.
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This hands-on workshop will give you the tools to authentically connect with an increasingly skeptical online audience. Ah, competition. It inspires us to work harder, to develop new tools and features that customers will drool over — not to mention give you a leg up on the guy who’s trying to steal those customers from you.Competition also gets us fired up. Sometimes with entertaining results.Like many of us, I’ve been reading all the “inside stories” on the founders of WhatsApp, the mobile messaging company that was just acquired by Facebook for an astounding $19 billion in cash and stock. A passage in one of those stories gave me a good laugh.In a feature in Wired magazine, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton goes off about Snapchat, another messaging service that Facebook tried to buy. Oh, right, you might recall that Facebook offered $3 billion to buy Snapchat last November, but was turned down.Related: This Is the 23-Year-Old Entrepreneur Who Just Turned Down $3 Billion From Facebook”I don’t give a shit about this,” Acton told Wired when asked about Snapchat. But that’s not all he had to say. Here’s the excerpt from that article. It’s worth a read (and a chuckle):”It’s not 100 percent clear to me what’s working about Snapchat,” Brian Acton says. “Great, teenagers can use it to get laid all day long. I don’t care. I’m 42, essentially married with a kid. I don’t give a shit about this. I’m not sexting with random strangers. I send the ‘I love you’s in text. She’s sending me photos of our baby. These are memories. It’s not clear to me that being goofy with Snapchat necessarily creates that level of intimacy. Clearly [Snapchat cofounder] Evan Spiegel only has his pulse on one part of the world. We have a whole wall of stories about people who got to know each other long distance and eventually got married. You’re not going to do this over Snapchat. And people want chat histories. They’re a permanent testimony of a relationship.”Related: Facebook Buys WhatsApp in Whopping $19 Billion Deal
How to remove DarkMatter Certificates from Firefox by Martin Brinkmann on February 24, 2019 in Firefox – Last Update: February 27, 2019 – 108 commentsCyber-security company DarkMatter, based in the United Arab Emirates, applied to become a top-level certificate authority in Mozilla’s root certificate program recently.Certificates are a cornerstone of today’s Internet; HTTPS ensures that communication is encrypted. A company in control of a root CA could potentially decrypt traffic that it has access to.A Reuter’s article links DarkMatter to the United Arab Emirates government and surveillance operations. One such operation, called Karma, saw the team hack iPhones of “hundreds of activists, political leaders, and suspected terrorists” according to Reuters.The EFF notes that DarkMatter’s “business objectives directly depend on intercepting end-user traffic on behalf of snooping governments”.DarkMatter has an intermediary certificate already issued by QuoVadis. QuoVadis is owned by DigiCert which means that there is some oversight in place currently but that it would be lost if DarkMatter would get the root certificate.So, the chain is DigiCert > QuoVadis > DarkMatter currently. It is possible to remove root certificates in Firefox. Note that doing so would impact any certificate issues by QuoVadis. In other words, any site you visit that uses such a certificate won’t load anymore.Note: As some readers have pointed out, certificates get restored with every update. You may also need to clear a site’s cache if you run into loading issues. See this guide.Removing the certificatesHere is how you can remove certificates from Firefox:Load about:preferences#privacy in the Firefox address bar to open the Privacy & Security settings.Scroll down to the Certificates section on the page.Click on the View Certificates button.Firefox lists all authorities in an overlay. Scroll down until you find the QuoVadis Limited listing (or any other listing you want to remove).Select a certificate, it does not matter which. Tip: Hold down Shift to select multiple certificates.Click on “delete or distrust”.Select ok to remove the certificate from Firefox.Repeat steps 5-7 for all other certificates that you want to remove. until the QuoVadis Limited listing is no longer there.You can follow the discussion and integration of the root certificate on Mozilla’s Bugzilla website and the Firefox Dev Security Policy group on Google Groups.SummaryArticle NameHow to remove DarkMatter Certificates from FirefoxDescriptionCyber-security company DarkMatter, based in the United Arab Emirates, applied to become a top-level certificate authority in Mozilla’s root certificate program recently.Author Martin BrinkmannPublisher Ghacks Technology NewsLogo Advertisement
Video Player is loading.Mark Ibrahim explains what EPs need from CT imagingPlay VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 5:23Loaded: 3.08%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -5:23 Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions settings, opens captions settings dialogcaptions off, selectedAudio Trackdefault, selectedFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. 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Videos | CT Angiography (CTA) | August 07, 2019 VIDEO: Walk Around of a GE Cardiographe Dedicated Cardiac CT Scanner This is a quick walk around of the GE Healthcare Cardiographe dedicated cardiac CT system on display at the… read more Video Player is loading.Arthur Agatston explains the history of CT calcium scoring Play VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 9:54Loaded: 1.67%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -9:54 Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions settings, opens captions settings dialogcaptions off, selectedAudio Trackdefault, selectedFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. 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Videos | Radiation Therapy | July 30, 2019 VIDEO: Use of Radiotherapy to Noninvasively Ablate Ventricular Tachycardia Pierre Qian, MBBS, read more The CT scanner might not come with protocols that are adequate for each hospital situation, so at Phoenix Children’s Hospital they designed their own protocols, said Dianna Bardo, M.D., director of body MR and co-director of the 3D Innovation Lab at Phoenix Children’s. Sponsored Content | Case Study | Radiation Dose Management | August 13, 2019 The Challenge of Pediatric Radiation Dose Management Radiation dose management is central to child patient safety. Medical imaging plays an increasing role in the accurate… read more June 3, 2010 – Positron emission tomography (PET) combined with computed tomography colonography (CTC) may provide a suitable alternative for detecting polyps and cancer in the colon and does not require sedation or bowel preparation, according to a study published in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Authors of the study, “Nonlaxative PET/CT Colonography: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Pilot Performance in Patients at Higher Risk of Colonic Neoplasia,” researched the effectiveness of using a combination of CTC, an imaging technique that is less invasive alternative to the standard colonoscopy test, and PET scans without any bowel preparation to detect significant abnormalities in the colon. The current study is the largest to date investigating combined PET CTC in patients without any bowel preparation.Fifty-six patients agreed to undergo a one-hour CTC and PET scan without the use of laxatives two weeks before their scheduled colonoscopy. Patients then completed a questionnaire to see how they tolerated the tests and which one they preferred.The colonoscopy results were then compared with the CTC scan on its own and with the CTC and PET scans combined. The study found that the combined PET CTC scans detected all the important larger polyps found by the invasive colonoscopy technique. In addition, most patients found the combined scan technique more comfortable and preferred it to colonoscopy.“The work has shown that combined PET CTC is technically feasible, well tolerated by patients and capable of achieving high diagnostic accuracy,” said Stuart A. Taylor, M.D., University College London, and lead researcher of the study. “This test would be mainly used in patients less able to tolerate invasive investigations or the preparation required if physicians want to exclude any major pathology in the colon and abdomen.”Reference: Taylor, S., Manpanzure, L., et al. “Nonlaxative PET/CT Colonography: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Pilot Performance in Patients at Higher Risk of Colonic Neoplasia.” The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. June 2010.For more information: www.snm.org FacebookTwitterLinkedInPrint分享 Videos | CT Angiography (CTA) | August 07, 2019 VIDEO: Walk Around of a Siemens Go.Top Dedicated Cardiac Scanner This is a quick walk around of the new Siemens Somatom Go.top cardiovascular edition compact computed tomography (CT) read more Video Player is loading.GE Cardiographe cardiac CT scanner at SCCT19Play VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 0:38Loaded: 26.15%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -0:38 Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions settings, opens captions settings dialogcaptions off, selectedAudio Trackdefault, selectedFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. 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Brett JardineCATO Former cruise industry association leader, Brett Jardine, is stepping into the role of Managing Director of the Council of Australian Tour Operators (CATO). Jardine was at the helm of Cruise Line International Association (CLIA) for close to a decade and in 2017 set up Cruise Boss where he has been consulting on projects with Viking Cruises and the Intrepid Travel Group. CATO is on a mission to raise the profile of the organisation, and Chairman Dennis Bunnik believes Jardine is the ideal candidate to steer a fresh new direction.“For the past two years CATO has been working on planning for the future by increasing its profile and better engaging with members. Brett coming on board allows us to continue this journey and fast track a number of priorities,” Bunnik said. “Brett is a proven leader in the travel industry and we are delighted to have him onboard. The CATO committee and I look forward to working with Brett in the coming months and years to grow CATO and realise the organisation’s full potential.” Jardine takes over from Peter Baily, who after some 25 years with at the helm of CATO, will retire at the end of March. “Peter has been with CATO from the very beginning, first as its inaugural chairman then as General Manager,” said Bunnik.“He has been the heart and soul of CATO and now becomes our first Life-Member. Peter’s contribution to CATO and the touring & wholesale sectors of the industry has been outstanding and we look forward to celebrating this with him at a special function in April.” 
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