Poll Did you stick to your Lent plan
Poll: Did you stick to your Lent plan? How’s that sweet tooth of yours? Short URL Image: Shutterstock/won-sang kim Apr 15th 2017, 7:30 PM Yes, strictlyEh, kind of but I fell off a few timesNo, not at allVote*Go on, give us more details in the comments. 17,355 Views http://jrnl.ie/3340407 Share Tweet Email1 Eh, kind of but I fell off a few times (1460) Saturday 15 Apr 2017, 7:30 PM
FORTY DAYS WITHOUT chocolate? Over a month off the fags? More than five weeks without a drop of alcohol?Did you decide to give up something over Lent?Or maybe you took a more positive slant and tried to add something to your routine – a run every day? Or a book a week?Now that you’re on the final hurdle, we want to know how it’s been going for you.Did you stick to your Lent plan?* Yes, strictly (2263) No, not at all (5017) Poll Results: By TheJournal.ie Team Image: Shutterstock/won-sang kim 56 Comments Tweet thisShare on FacebookEmail this article
SIDA : un gel microbicide pour bloquer l’infection par le VIHDes chercheurs du CEA, de l’Université Paris-Sud et du CNRS ont réussi à mettre au point un gel microbicide capable de bloquer l’infection par le virus du sida. Depuis plusieurs années déjà, les scientifiques travaillent à l’élaboration d’un procédé permettant de réduire le risque de transmission du virus du sida. L’application d’un gel microbicide a ainsi fait son chemin et semble aujourd’hui aboutir. En effet, des chercheurs du CEA, de l’Université Paris-Sud et du CNRS ont réussi à mettre au point un gel composé de peptides qui trompent le virus en imitant le récepteur (CD4) qu’il vise à la surface de ses cellules cibles.À lire aussiMaladie de Charcot : symptômes, causes, traitement, où en est on ?D’après les scientifiques, les miniprotéines utilisées permettraient d’améliorer l’efficacité des gels microbicides en bloquant l’entrée du virus dans les lymphocytes T (cellules du système immunitaire) grâce à cette supercherie qui détourne le micro-organisme de ses véritables cibles. Ces peptides miniCD4s ont ainsi pu neutraliser la transmission du virus lors de tests cellulaires in vitro. Testé sur des primates par les chercheurs, le gel composé de 0,3% de miniCD4s a permis de protéger 5 femelles macaques sur 6 de l’infection alors qu’une forte dose de virus (10 fois la dose nécessaire pour provoquer l’infection dans 50% des cas) leur avait été administrée.Aucune trace de virus n’a été retrouvée chez ces dernières et la protection a été confirmée par une absence totale de séroconversion (les animaux ne sont ni séropositifs, ni malades), rapporte un communiqué du CNRS. Ainsi, ces travaux, publiés dans le journal Plos Pathogens du 6 décembre, montrent que les peptides miniCD4s en gel peuvent constituer une alternative intéressante pour protéger efficacement l’organisme contre l’infection par le virus du SIDA lors de rapports sexuels. Un espoir qui pourrait permettre de faire baisser encore davantage le nombre de nouvelles infections. Le 10 décembre 2012 à 14:45 • Maxime Lambert
Michael Dubke (Facebook photo)The Wall Street Journal and other national news outlets are reporting that Mike Dubke is about to be named as President Trump’s new communications director. The Washington-based political strategist has worked on several Alaska campaigns. He helped Sen. Lisa Murkowski win re-election last year, and in 2014 his firm was the lead strategist behind Dan Sullivan’s election to the U.S. Senate.Listen nowSen. Sullivan said in a written statement he could think of no one better for the communications job than Dubke. He also said Dubke has a lot of experience advancing pro-growth issues and knows Alaska well.Dubke founded Crossroads Media and also co-founded Black Rock Group, a political consulting firm. He is something of a pioneer in the use of so-called “dark money” tax-exempt groups in politics, and one example of that took place in Alaska.Dubke worked with Alaska financier and lodge-owner Bob Gillam on an effort to stop the proposed Pebble mine in 2008. Dubke was accused of helping to route a $2 million donation from Gillam through an advocacy group to disguise the funding source for the anti-Pebble campaign. Alaska Public Offices Commission dismissed the case against Dubke as unfounded. The advocacy group paid a fine with no admission of guilt.As of Friday evening, the White House had still not announced his hiring. A communications director typically works behind the scenes to hone a president’s message and craft ways to deliver it while the press secretary –Sean Spicer – faces reporters.
The authorities of Bangladesh Railway start selling advance train tickets on Friday at Kamalapur station. Photo: Prothom AloThe authorities of Bangladesh Railway have started selling advance train tickets on Friday ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, reports UNB.Several hundred holidaymakers standing in long queues were seen collecting tickets for 10 June journey at Kamalapur railway station on the first day of advance train tickets sale.Each passenger will be able to buy a maximum of four tickets.Tickets for 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 June will be available on 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 June respectively.Besides, the return tickets for the journey of 19 June will be available on 10 June and that for 20 June on 11 June, for 21 June on June 12, for 22 June on 13 June and for 23 June on 14 June and for 24 June on 15 June.
News | February 05, 2009 CCTA May Expose Patients to High Radiation Dose Reports JAMA News | CT Angiography (CTA) | August 06, 2019 Artificial Intelligence Improves Heart Attack Risk Assessment When used with a common heart scan, machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), does better than… read more Video Player is loading.Cynthia McCollough explains new advances in CT technologyPlay VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 13:56Loaded: 1.17%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -13:56 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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Medical imaging plays an increasing role in the accurate… 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. Video Player is loading.Pierre Qian explains radiotherapy to ablate VTPlay VideoPlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 7:34Loaded: 2.19%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -7:34 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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News | Artificial Intelligence | August 05, 2019 Montefiore Nyack Hospital Uses Aidoc AI to Spot Urgent Conditions Faster Montefiore Nyack Hospital, an acute care hospital in Rockland County, N.Y., announced it is utilizing artificial… read more February 5, 2009 – Use of the imaging technique known as cardiac computed tomography (CT) angiography (CCTA) has the potential to expose patients to high doses of radiation, and methods available to reduce radiation dose are not frequently used, according to a study in the February 4 issue of JAMA. The 64-slice (able to scan 64 images per rotation) CCTA has emerged as a useful diagnostic imaging method for the assessment of coronary artery disease and has been proposed to be useful for evaluating patients in emergency departments with chest pain. “With the constantly increasing number of CCTA-capable scanners worldwide, the volume of CCTA scans performed is likely to show substantial further increase,” the authors write. They add that the clinical usefulness of CCTA for the assessment of coronary artery disease has to be weighed against the radiation exposure of CCTA and the small but potential risk of cancer. Many clinicians may still be unfamiliar with the magnitude of radiation exposure that is received during CCTA in daily practice and with the factors that contribute to radiation dose, according to background information in the article. Jörg Hausleiter, M.D., of the Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Klinik an der Technischen Universität München, Munich, Germany, and colleagues investigated the magnitude of radiation dose of CCTA in daily practice, factors contributing to radiation dose and the use of currently available strategies to reduce radiation dose. The trial, the Prospective Multicenter Study On Radiation Dose Estimates Of Cardiac CT Angiography In Daily Practice I (PROTECTION I), an international, multicenter study (21 university hospitals and 29 community hospitals) included 1,965 patients undergoing CCTA between February and December 2007. Analysis was used to identify independent predictors associated with radiation dose, which was measured as dose-length product (DLP; equals the average radiation dose over a specific investigated volume multiplied by the scan length), which best mirrors the radiation a patient is exposed to by the entire CT scan, according to the authors. The researchers found that the median (midpoint) DLP of the patients in the study was 885 mGy-cm (a measurement of absorbed radiation), which corresponds to an estimated radiation dose of 600 chest x-rays. A high variability in DLP was observed between study sites (range of median DLPs per site, 331-2,146 mGy-cm). Independent factors associated with radiation dose were patient weight (relative effect on DLP, 5 percent); absence of stable sinus rhythm (type of heart rhythm; 10 percent effect); scan length (a 1-cm increase in the scan length was associated with a 5 percent increase in DLP); the use of electrocardiographically controlled tube current modulation (resulting in a reduction of DLP of 25 percent, applied in 73 percent of patients); 100-kV (kilo volts) tube voltage (46 percent reduction of DLP, applied in 5 percent of patients); sequential scanning (78 percent reduction; applied in 6 percent of patients); experience in cardiac CT (1 percent reduction); number of CCTAs per month; and type of 64-slice CT system (for highest vs. lowest dose system, 97 percent effect). “… the study demonstrates that radiation exposure can be reduced substantially by uniformly applying the currently available strategies for dose reduction, but these strategies are used infrequently,” the authors write. “… an improved education of physicians and technicians performing CCTA on these dose-saving strategies might be considered to keep the radiation dose ‘as low as reasonably achievable’ in every patient undergoing CCTA.” “As CCTA is being used more frequently worldwide for diagnosing coronary artery disease, all strategies for reducing radiation exposure will finally reduce the patient’s lifetime cancer risks. Although the associated risk is small (estimated lifetime attributable risk of death from cancer after an abdominal CT scan is 0.02 percent) relative to the diagnostic information for most CT studies, this risk needs to be realized especially when repeated CT scans are being performed.” Source: JAMA. 2009;301[5]:500-507 For more information: jama.ama-assn.org FacebookTwitterLinkedInPrint分享 Videos | Cardiac Imaging | July 30, 2019 VIDEOS | EP LAB | JULY 26, 2019 VIDEO: What Electrophysiologists Need From CT Imaging Prior to AF and VT Ablations Mark Ibrahim, M.D., F read more Videos | Radiation Therapy | July 30, 2019 VIDEO: Use of Radiotherapy to Noninvasively Ablate Ventricular Tachycardia Pierre Qian, MBBS, read more 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 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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Windstar President to join season’s first San Juan sailing, announces agent & client incentives Share Travelweek Group Tags: Windstar Cruises Posted by
SEATTLE — To emphasize the fact that the Caribbean is open for business following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Windstar Cruises President John Delaney will be sailing on the cruise line’s first cruise departing from San Juan this season on Nov. 25.“Although areas of the Caribbean are still rebuilding after the recent hurricanes, so much of the Caribbean is open and welcoming visitors to their wondrous islands,” Delaney said. “Travellers should not be concerned about beginning or ending a cruise in San Juan, where the cruise terminal has been operational for weeks, along with the airport. I’ll be personally making the trip, arriving the day before my cruise to enjoy time in Old San Juan, giving updates on my Twitter account, and sharing first-person stories on Windstar’s Facebook page.”To encourage clients to book the Caribbean, Windstar is offering a special ‘Caribbean Is Open Cruise Package’ that includes significant savings, a US$200 shipboard credit and free onboard Wi-Fi, with rates starting at $1,499 per person.More news: AMResorts has a new Sr. Dir. of Cdn. Sales & Consortia Rel’nsMoreover, for travel agents, Windstar’s ‘Caribbean Take 5’ offer awards agents with a complimentary cruise when booking five staterooms or suites on any Caribbean voyage.With smaller yacht-like vessels (some of which still boast sails), Windstar can avoid overcrowded waterfronts and bring the much-needed vacationer to smaller islands and more intimate ports of call, contributing to the greater economy of the region. For example, Windstar just announced it will call at Anse Mitan in Martinique and Deshaies in Guadeloupe. While many ships will chart a course towards familiar harbors in the Western Atlantic and Western Caribbean, Windstar is going in the other direction to smaller, rarely visited jewels of the Caribbean islands.“Windstar can offer experiences and destinations others logistically can’t,” said Delaney. “We also do things many travellers think are long gone, like our open bridge policy, private beach barbecue experiences, and a water sports platform to jump right into the blue waters the Apollo astronauts swooned over from space. Not everyone has to chart the same course.” << Previous PostNext Post >> Friday, November 10, 2017 
Source = MSC Cruises The magnificent setting of London’s Guildhall was an appropriate venue for her royal highness, Princess Anne, to present MSC Group owner and president, Gianluigi Aponte, the Seatrade Personality 2011 Award for his outstanding achievements in international shipping..The award was presented at the 23rd Seatrade Awards before leading figures from the world’s maritime industry, a spectacular annual event celebrating the outstanding contributions to safety, efficiency and environmentally friendly shipping.Speaking at the awards, Seatrade chairman Chris Hayman said it was not often that a private ship owner would start a company from scratch and, without outside investment, was able to build it up into one of the leading forces in the shipping world.“It is even less so when that happens in not just one shipping sector but several,” he said.In acknowledging the special award, MSC Cruises’ managing director Australia and New Zealand, Lynne Clarke, said it came as a result of many years of hard toil and planning.“The recognition given to Mr Aponte is well deserved and unsurpassable,” she said from her Sydney office. “It’s a great moment, not only for the cruise line but for the management and staff which has seen the rise of a formidable family-oriented company.”Born in Sorrento, Italy, Gianluigi Aponte began his career as a captain in the family company, which operated a fleet of sailing boats on the Mediterranean.After a few years in banking, Mr Aponte set up the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in 1970 with the purchase of a single ship.Under his leadership, MSC has since grown to become the second-largest container ship operator in the world, employing more than 40,000 and operating a fleet of 441 cargo vessels serving 306 ports across five continents.Mr Aponte has overseen similar growth in the group’s cruise business since its modest entry into the industry in 1988. MSC Cruises is now the world’s fourth-largest cruise company, boasting an ultra-modern fleet of 11 cruises ships and market-leading positions in the Mediterranean, South Africa and Brazil.Despite its spectacular growth over the past 40 years, MSC remains a family-owned business, and its founder remains dedicated to the company and to his family. Mr Aponti receiving prize from Princess Anne HRH
Share Ernst Publishing Company Settlement Services Companies TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule TRID 2016-02-26 Staff Writer in Headlines, News, Technology When the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rules advanced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) went into effect last October, many worried that compliance concerns would force larger lenders to suspend all activity with smaller settlement agents and title companies.According to Ernst Publishing Company, a provider of technology and closing cost data for the real estate and home finance industries for the past 26 years, that crisis was averted by technology.”Having the nation’s largest lenders boycott smaller firms over the fear that they would not be able to comply with TRID was a very real threat last year and could have changed the entire landscape of the lending business,” said Gregory E. Teal, President and CEO of Ernst Publishing. “We’ve been working with many of these companies for over 26 years and there was no way we were going to allow that to happen.”Ernst’s answer to TRID was its Settlement Agent Gateway, a collaborative fee management system the company launched last spring. The technology allows settlement agents to work with lenders to negotiate fees and then manage these fees in a web-based tool through which they certify the accuracy of their fees and then make them available to lenders who need to provide Loan Estimates required under the new requirements. This ensures full TRID compliance, protects the lenders from having to re-disclose later for quoting the wrong fees and protects smaller settlement agent firms from being pushed out of the market due to non-compliance concerns.The technology is simple to use and uses MISMO data standards to allow the settlement agent to enter pre-negotiated fees into a spreadsheet that includes cells for the required services by geography, and then certify that the fees are accurate with a single click.Teal pointed out that Ernst’s Gateway is not a closing portal. “Fees must be disclosed accurately to borrowers long before they get to the closing table. Both lenders and settlement agents needed a tool that will allow fees to be negotiated far in advance of the close and then locked into the lender’s closing cost search engines. Our software makes that possible,” Teal said.”Lenders under TRID must have 100 percent accurate fees for compliance purposes creating challenges when working with fees from many providers. TRID could have put a lot of good companies out of business,” said Jan Dalton Clark, VP of Sales and Marketing for Ernst. “This would have been disastrous for smaller industry firms, but it would have also put lenders at a competitive disadvantage because it would have dismantled their local business referral networks across the country.”
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in Daily Dose, Data, Government, Headlines, News It’s no secret that inventory is on the scarce side in the housing market, which is causing a domino effect of issues for homebuyers trying to purchase a home. The mortgage industry is now anticipating where new single-family home sales will fall, following existing-home sales major feat against supply challenges last week.New single-family home sales and the median home price began the year on weak note in terms of the monthly changes, but there were some optimistic signs behind the data.According to data estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and HUD, new single-family home sales in January 2016 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 494,000, down 9.2 percent from the revised December rate of 544,000 and 5.2 percent below the January 2015 estimate of 521,000.The decline in the median home price “is not because of widespread discounting but rather a result of builders offering more affordably priced entry-level homes,” said Realtor.com Chief Economist, Jonathan Smoke.Here is the lineup for the week:Monday, April 25, 2016 U.S. Census Bureau & HUD New Single-Family Home Sales10:00 A.M. (EST)Tuesday, April 26, 2016Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Meeting BeginsS&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index (HPI)9:00 A.M. (EST)Wednesday, April 27, 2016National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index10:00 A.M. (EST)FOMC Meeting Announcement2:00 P.M. (EST)Ocwen Financial’s First Quarter EarningsThursday, April 21, 2016U.S. Bureua of Labor Satistics GDP8:30 A.M. (EST) The Week Ahead: Wishful Thinking for New Home Sales April 24, 2016 480 Views 
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The payment of compensation to farmers to the tune of €2.6m was approved on Wednesday by the council of ministers following a proposal tabled by Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis.The compensation sum will be distributed among farmers whose crops were damaged by mildew during the previous growing season. Payments are expected to begin immediately.During the period 2018-2019, the state has supported Cyprus farmers through compensation and aid sums amounting to €117m.You May LikeSUVs | Search AdsThese SUVs Will Take Your Breath Away. Research 2019 Luxury Crossover SUV DealsSUVs | Search AdsUndoPopularEverythingColorado Mom Adopted Two Children, Months Later She Learned Who They Really ArePopularEverythingUndoLivestlyChip And Joanna’s $18M Mansion Is Perfect, But It’s The Backyard Everyone Is Talking AboutLivestlyUndo Concern over falling tourism numbersUndoPensioner dies after crash on Paphos-Polis roadUndoCypriot tycoon launches ‘Bank of Cannabis’Undoby Taboolaby Taboola