Monday, 8 September 2008
Friday, 29 August 2008
Siemens To Showcase Innovative Radiotherapy Solutions At ESTRO 27
The ARTISTE Solution is Siemens' innovative additive accelerator that offers a full accompaniment of sophisticated imaging tools to optimise workflow. Featuring a small, 5mm thickness over the full-field, the 160 MLC� Multileaf Collimator provides targeted treatment to the tumour shape independent of its size. MVision� Megavoltage (MV) Cone Beam Imaging utilises one beam, one source and one detector to provide first-class target imagination in 2D or 3D. ARTISTE's 550 TxT� Treatment Table is designed to ensure exact patient locating, providing an efficient and stable platform with the mechanical forcefulness to hold even large patients.
Siemens' oncology intervention systems are also complemented by the comprehensive syngo� suite for Oncology, offer integrated workflow solutions for radiation therapy. Providing user-centric workspaces, the syngo suite facilitates work flow in image review, 2D, 3D and 4D patient positioning and radiation delivery. The range includes syngo RT Therapist, a root for reliable, efficient and secure memory access to all patient data at one and only convenient localisation.
Siemens will also be demonstrating the benefits of its MR, MI and PT Planning consoles as well as the IM-Confident treatment provision system that reduces IMRT treatment time.
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About Siemens Healthcare
The Siemens Healthcare Sector is one of the world's largest suppliers to the health care industry. The company is a famous medical solutions provider with core competency and forward-looking strength in diagnostic and therapeutic technologies as well as in knowledge technology, including info technology and system consolidation. With its laboratory diagnostics acquisitions, Siemens Healthcare is the number one integrated healthcare company, delivery together tomography and laboratory diagnostics, therapy and health care information applied science solutions, supplemented by consulting and support services. Siemens Healthcare delivers solutions across the total continuum of care - from prevention and early detection, to diagnosis, therapy and care. Additionally, Siemens Healthcare is the globular market drawing card in advanced hearing instruments. The company employs more than 49,000 masses worldwide and operates in 130 countries. In the fiscal class 2007 (Sept. 30), Siemens Healthcare reported sales of �9.85 billion, orders of �10.27 gazillion, and mathematical group profit of �1.32 billion.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Initiatives Seek To Reduce Salt Intake Among Blacks, Offer Health Benefits Assistance To Hispanics, Examine Caring For People With Alzheimer's Disease
Baltimore: The city in September will launch a six-month cognisance campaign about salt intake associated with high rakehell pressure, particularly among blacks, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the Sun, "In a city that is nigh 65% black, the risks of high blood pressure, which privy lead to heart onrush, kidney failure and stroke, are especially high." As part of the feat, health department officials volition collaborate with health and research professionals to break recommendations on how urban center officials and food suppliers can shrink salt usance (Brewington, Baltimore Sun, 8/12).
Delaware County, Pa.: The County Office of Services for the Aging, Senior Community Services and the Hispanic Resource Center in Chester have partnered to offer help roger Huntington Sessions to elderly Hispanic residents that focus on available health fear benefits, the Delco Times reports. The sessions will help elderly Hispanic residents complete paperwork to apply for benefits, as well as inform them about Medicare, the state's Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly and other programs (Brisson, Delco Times, 8/8).
Miami: The University of Miami's Center on Aging is launching a two-year project that will examine the effects of caring for a family member with Alzheimer's disease in minority communities, the Miami Herald reports. The project will involve at about cc Hispanic, Haitian-American and opprobrious family caregivers in South Florida. As part of the program caregivers will be given video monitors to connect with other caregivers, social workers or medical experts and keep an eye on pre-recorded videos about caring for an Alzheimer's disease patient. According to the Alzheimer's Association, nationwide, 9.8 billion people in the U.S. were providing unpaid care for soul with Alzheimer's in 2007. There are few studies available that examine how caring for a person with Alzheimer's affects nonage communities, the Herald reports (Beras, Miami Herald, 8/12).
Fresno, Calif.: The Family Health Care Network and the Consulate of Mexico throw partnered to establish a health imagination center for Mexican residents in the Central Valley, the Visalia Times-Delta reports. The inwardness, Ventanilla de Salud, testament offer health care advice and referrals, provide information on health education and wellness, and connect individuals to seize community-based resources (Visalia Times-Delta, 8/12).
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Saturday, 9 August 2008
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Nelly, Scott among guests at BET Awards pre-party
Beneath towering arches in an old cathedral downtown, a 20-member choir welcomed guests at the BET Awards pre-party with a rousing gospel tune.
Nelly, Ashanti, Jermaine Dupri and Jill Scott were among those who gathered Monday at Vibiana - a majestic church built in 1876 - for a private dinner hosted by Black Entertainment Television chairman Debra Lee.
As preparations for Tuesday's BET Awards, which recognize the best in black entertainment in 15 categories, continued at the nearby Shrine Auditorium, nominees, sponsors and industry executives dined and danced in honor of the occasion.
"This night gives us a reason to celebrate," Lee said. "We're truly honored to be able to recognize the artists who are so important in our community. Not just the music, but the actors and athletes."
Nominee Soulja Boy said he was glad to be included.
"I hope I win," the 17-year-old rapper said. "The BET Awards represents me, where I come from and everything."
He was especially excited about seeing fellow nominee Lil Wayne perform on the show.
Dupri, a producer who has worked with Mariah Carey and Usher, said he still gets a thrill from seeing celebs at the BET Awards.
"You get all the stars under one roof," he said. "And it continues to grow."
The historic cathedral took on a tropical vibe, thanks to bouquets of pink and purple orchids atop lime green tablecloths. Partygoers, including MC Lyte and Tyrese, boogied on the dance floor before sitting down to a dinner of lobster-and-grapefruit salad followed by a grilled veal chop.
Scott, who is set to perform a tribute to lifetime achievement award honoree Al Green on Tuesday's show, kept things cooking into the night with a spirited set backed by an 11-piece band.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Osamu Kitajima
Artist: Osamu Kitajima
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Christmas Through The Gateway
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Beyond the Circle
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Behind The Light
Year: 1991
Tracks: 7
The Source
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
Passages
Year: 1987
Tracks: 11
East meets west through the compositions of ambient multi-instrumentalist and composer Osamu Kitjima. Working with long time collaborator Christopher Mancinelli, Kitajima has combined solo recordings, moving-picture show soundtracks and production figure out at his twenty little Joe track parallel and ogdoad cart track digital recording studio, East Quest Studios, in Woodland Hills, CA.
Kitajima's soundtrack compositions have been heard in Japanese films such as Chugoku Kiko, Kokushimuso and Cathay รข€“ The Unveiled Highlands, American films such as Samurai Cowboy and Captive Hearts and PBS documentaries such as Faces Of Japan, Japan Today and Voices From The Land. As a producer, Kitajima has overseen albums by Masakuzo Yoshizawa, Sayuri Ishikawa, Nobuhiro Ikehata and Mari Henmi.
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Lohan 'Turns Down $1 Million To Come Out'
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Ted Nugent - Nugent To Play 6000th Show In Detroit
Rock legend TED NUGENT will celebrate America's Independence Day (04Jul08) in style by performing his 6,000th concert.
Nugent will head home to Detroit, Michigan for the landmark show - part of his 50th tour.
The rocker says, "I was born and raised in Detroit in the shadow of the mighty Funk Brothers and I was taught the ropes of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Mose Allison, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.
"I started playing back there under the guidance of Joe Podorsek, my guitar teacher from the Capitol School of Music on Grand River Avenue, in 1957.
"My first performance was at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in the summer of 1958 with Joe Podorsek and the Capitol School of Music Revue. I don't remember such a level of fear in all my life, as I wasn't quite 10 years old.
"To return on Independence Day is rather demonstrative of my American dream firestorm for almost 60 years. The feeling will be indescribable."
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Actress Cyd Charisse, 86, danced into the spotlight
LOS ANGELES — Cyd Charisse, who with her long-legged beauty brought sizzle and sophistication to dance in classic movie musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "Silk Stockings," died Tuesday. She was 86.
Ms. Charisse died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering an apparent heart attack Monday, publicist Gene Schwam said.
Ms. Charisse captured moviegoers' attention in a quick succession of films, starting with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1952, in which she partnered with Gene Kelly in a steamy ballet.
She was strong, lithe and "drop-dead gorgeous to look at," said Larry Billman, a dance/film historian and author of her breakthrough performance. She partnered with Kelly again in "Brigadoon" in 1954 and "It's Always Fair Weather" the following year.
Fred Astaire, who danced with her in "The Band Wagon" and "Silk Stockings," said of Ms. Charisse in 1983: "She wasn't a tap dancer, she's just beautiful, trained, very strong in whatever we did. When we were dancing, we didn't know what time it was."
Ms. Charisse's other star-maker roles of the 1950s included "Deep in My Heart" (1954), in which she danced a sexy duet with James Mitchell.
Unlike many top female dancers in the era of movie musicals, Charisse was trained as a ballerina in the Russian tradition.
In interviews, Ms. Charisse said her acting roles were like a vacation compared with the hard work of dancing, but she was not tempted to change her priorities. "If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing," she said in a December 1952 interview with the Saturday Evening Post.
In the '60s, Ms. Charisse performed cabaret shows while she continued working in Hollywood in films such as "Two Weeks in Another Town" (1962). She made frequent guest appearances on popular television series, including "Hawaii Five-O" and "The Love Boat" in the 1970s and "Murder She Wrote" in the 1980s.
She also worked in theater, performing in "Charlie's Girls" in London in the 1980s and making her Broadway debut as an aging Russian ballerina in "Grand Hotel" in 1992.
She had one son, Nicky, with her first husband, dancer Nico Charisse, before their marriage ended in divorce in 1947. Ms. Charisse then married singer and nightclub entertainer Tony Martin in 1948; they had one son, Tony Jr.
She is survived by her husband, sons and two grandchildren.
Information from The Associated Press is included in this report.
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Fists Fly Over Britney at LAX -- Cops Respond
A mad crush turned violent at LAX just minutes ago, as Britney Spears returned to Los Angeles.Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that as Britney made her way through the terminal swarmed by more than 30 photogs, a fight broke out between one of Brit's bodyguards and a photographer. Several uniformed officers, who happened to be in the area working crowd control on the snappers, immediately responded to the fight.
After the skirmish, we're told the two men shook hands and made up. No arrests were made.
Video to follow shortly.
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Chenoweth Sends Kidman Good Luck
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Eli's Wifey: Needs to Call a Fashion Audible?
Super Bowl champ Eli Manning and his prom date wife, Abby McGrew, showed up to an event in New York City this week, looking content. Fashionistas are sniffing about her get-up, saying it's "too short, too tight, and doesn't fit well. The zipper doesn't zip and she's bursting out of it."
Wait, is that a bad thing?
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DJ Spen
Artist: DJ Spen
Genre(s):
Other
House
Discography:
Essential Mix
Year: 2007
Tracks: 1
Sax At Midnight (STRC001) Vinyl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
Angelina Jolie - Jolie Cut Her Lines
Alternative Control
Artist: Alternative Control
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Unreleased Tracks CDS
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
51 Times (CDS)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Akimbo