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- The Green Bay Packers were hoping for the best while fearing the worst Sunday on knee damage suffered by left tackle Bryan Bulaga.Sources said Bulaga was hurt at some point during the intra-squad scrimmage Saturday night at Lambeau Field.He was walking afterward and was seen in the middle of the team's huddle after the scrimmage. However, Bulaga reported a problem with one of his knees while in the locker room and received treatment. The players were off Sunday, when the medical staff continued to run tests in an attempt to determine the extent of the damage. Sources said the Packers had concern that the injury was a torn ligament and would turn out to be season-ending.Bulaga played 30 snaps from scrimmage during the full-contact practice. He took a nasty fall on the first series and got up slowly, and he appeared to be a bit gimpy and limped to a degree at various other times.Still, Bulaga didn't miss a turn with the No. 1 offensive line.Late in the practice, he lined up as the right wing on the field-goal protection team for one kick before tight end D.J. Williams replaced him for the bulk of the competition between Mason Crosby and Giorgio Tavecchio.Bulaga, 24, has been performing well at left tackle, his new position after being shifted there from right tackle during the off-season.If the injury is significant, the Packers would have two options.They could move right tackle Marshall Newhouse back to left tackle, where he played all 1,103 snaps in 2012 and started 13 games in 2011.Or they could keep Newhouse at right tackle and start rookie David Bakhtiari, their impressive fourth-round draft choice, at left tackle. Bakhtiari alternated with Newhouse at right tackle in the scrimmage and didn't have an obvious bad play in his 31 snaps.Don Barclay, the late-season starter at right tackle a year ago, has focused on center and right guard in the last week. Andrew Datko, a second-year tackle, doesn't appear to have made much progress this summer.Tackle Derek Sherrod remains on the physically unable to perform list with a leg injury dating to December 2011. The coaches say Sherrod is close to being able to practice, but he has done nothing on the field yet.Bulaga suffered a sprained left knee in September 2011 and sat out two games. Three months later, he suffered a sprained left kneecap and missed two more games.Last season, Bulaga suffered a small fracture in his left hip capsule and was sidelined for the final nine games.
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ASTD Education Simulation Survey
Results from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) August 2005 survey of almost 300 readers concerning their development and use of educational simulations.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Teaching) is a community composed of members from academia, business, and professional organizations, that enhances the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed materials available online.
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
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The Case Method is becoming increasingly more applied in higher education, as it enables students to discover and develop their own unique framework for problem-solving.
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June 22, 2011
The Alzheimer's caregivers' story is often one of sustained stress, exhaustion and isolation. Rates of depression, poor nutrition and chronic disease among caregivers of Alzheimer's patients are higher than for non-caregivers. In our special series, Facing Alzheimer's: The Caregivers' Challenge, WGBH's Sean Corcoran explores the challenges of caring for Massachusetts' more than 120,000 Alzheimers' patients.
CENTERVILLE, Mass. — The goal of many people with Alzheimer's disease and their families is to find a way for the person to spend their final days in their home. But oftentimes the burdens associated with the disease makes that impossible. About two-thirds of people dying with dementia do so in nursing homes.
Ruth Mauterstock is 90 years old, and she knows there's something wrong with her memory. She looks at the pictures on the wall of her studio-style apartment, and they seem to confuse her.
"I don't have too much remembrance. Because I've gotten…what was it I had?" she asks her son, Bob.
"Well, you've forgotten some things," Bob says.
"I've forgotten some things."
"As you've gotten older. And that's why I have the pictures," Bob says.
"He has all these pictures."
Bob Mauterstock visits his mother twice a week at the assisted-living facility Harbor Point at Centerville on Cape Cod, and he often brings his IPad. It's loaded with pictures of graduations and birthday parties that date back to when Ruth was just a girl. Bob says the photos help her remember.
"That's me in college," Bob says. "That's when you took me to college."
"Where did you go to college again? I can't remember."
"Princeton," he says.
"Oh! Ha ha. How could I forget that?" Ruth exclaims.
When Harbor Point opened 11 years ago, it was the first assisted living facility on Cape Cod specifically for people with Alzheimer's and memory impairment. It used to be that the only option outside the home for people with Alzheimer's was a nursing home. But over the past decade, the elder industry has reacted to the growing number of Alzheimer's patients, creating assisted-living facilities where almost all patients can spend the duration of their lives.
"People don't come here to get better, but they come here to live well within the disease process," says Sandra West, Harbor Point's executive director. "The perception in this generation has been, don't move me to a nursing home. Well, we're not a nursing home, and it takes a visit to come in and look around and get the feel of the community."
West says Harbor Point feels more like a bed and breakfast than a long-term care facility. And she's right. It has thick carpets and art-covered walls. Residents attend yoga classes and tea parties. Workers can assist with everything from bathing to eating, but unlike nursing homes, skilled nursing care is not provided. And the difference from a traditional assisted-living facility is that everything is geared towards making things easier for the memory-impaired.
"There are a lot of things that make a big difference in this community. Things like non-glare glass on the art work. Darker walls behind the commode in the bathroom, with a dark seat to help raise it up so that a person with memory impairment can actually see behind them. We use red dining plates to help with the amount of food that will be eaten because they can see better with the red plates. Wider hallways. Brighter lighting. Easy access to the outdoors. No thresholds; everything level. Things like that."
Before arriving a year-and-a-half ago, Ruth lived in a traditional assisted living facility in Longmeadow, about three hours away. But she began having trouble caring for herself, and bringing in home health aides only confused her. She didn't need skilled nursing care because she's generally healthy, and Bob was relieved to find an assisted-living facility near his home on Cape Cod that specializes in memory-impairment.
"All of us fear we are going to put them in a place where, number one, they are going to hate. And number two, they're not going to be taken care of and will be left alone. And that is why you need to visit some of these places and talk to families before you make your decision where you want them to be," Bob Mauterstock said.
One of the biggest obstacles families face is financial. Under current law, an individual's assets must be nearly depleted before the federal government will step in under Medicaid. The qualification criteria is complicated, and many loopholes that previously allowed people to give away assets in order to qualify have since been closed. The reality is that very few people can afford care costs for the duration of the disease. In 2009, the national average for a year at an assisted living facility specializing in dementia care was about $55,000. A nursing home was about $87,000. In Ruth Mauterstock's case, Bob says she pays $250 a day, which is based on the level of care she needs.
"It's so complex," Bob said. "It's incredibly complex, and most families have a real difficult time dealing with it. The sources of funding, where you get funds, what you can do and can't do, is very complicated and very difficult."
When it comes to sorting out all the finances, Bob has a leg up. He was a certified financial planner before he retired. Since then, he's taken an interest in long-term care issues, even writing a soft-cover book called, "Can We Talk? A Financial Guide for Babyboomers Assisting Their Elderly Parents."
"I learned for myself being an only child, or just a child, how difficult it is to tell your parents or parent what to do. It is a reversal of roles that is very hard to take on," he said.
People who work with and advocate for Alzheimer's patients and elders commonly recommend buying long-term care insurance, which pays for both institutional and home care. But premiums are expensive. Tom Grape is CEO of Benchmark Senior Living, which operates 44 senior living communities in New England. He says the industry is prepared to handle the growing number of Alzheimer's patients — a population expected to reach 140,000 people in Massachusetts alone in the next 15 years — but cost will continue to be an issue for most families.
"Personally, I think long-term care insurance is a great solution for the whole longer timer issue of funding elder care, but it's simply not widely held," Grape said. "It's growing, but I think we have four, perhaps five percent of our residents are paid for through long-term care insurance."
Bob Mauterstock, who is now 65, purchased an extensive long-term care policy more than a decade ago after it saved several of his former clients from financial ruin. But it was too late to buy such insurance for his aging mother. And once she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's seven years ago, talking about anything related to finances or end-of-life care became impossible.
"For the first time, yesterday she repeats to me, 'I lost my memory. Does this happen to everyone? Does everyone experience this?' And for the first time yesterday she mentioned the word Alzheimer's," Bob said.
The most recent census numbers show that about 54,000 residents of Cape Cod are aged 65 or over, which translates into an estimated 9,000 people living with Alzheimer's here. There's about 120,000 state-wide. Bob Mauterstock says he didn't expect that his mother would be one of them, but he didn't leave it to chance. Ten years ago, when she was still clear-headed, he sat down with his Mom to talk about her final wishes. He says it may have been the most important conversation they ever had.
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Grand Options
Efforts to trade options tied to a larger number of shares have fizzled in the past. The American Stock Exchange offered contracts based on 1,000 shares of the SPDR S&P MidCap 400 ETF Trust in the late 1990s, according to Michael Bickford, who was senior vice president for options at Amex before NYSE Euronext bought it in 2008. The so-called grand options weren't popular and were de-listed around 2000, he said. They traded on what is now known as NYSE Amex Options alongside S&P MidCap 400 ETF contracts based on 100 shares.
Since then the options business has changed. Most options are now listed on multiple exchanges and can be traded on any venue. New rules oversee electronic linkages among markets and dictate how orders must be handled by an exchange.
"I'm not saying the product will be successful, but I think people would be interested to hear what the value proposition is," Peter Cecchini, global head of institutional equity derivatives at New York-based Cantor Fitzgerald LP, said in an interview. "I'm interested."
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The strike prices, or levels at which a contract can profitably be converted into shares in the underlying ETF, and the bids and offers will be the same for the jumbo and regular- size contracts to limit investor confusion, BOX said. The larger product will use the symbol SPYJ.
Approval for the jumbo contracts follows the introduction of mini versions of higher-priced options to cater to individual investors. Exchanges began offering products one-tenth as large as regular-size contracts for Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., SPDR Gold Shares and the S&P 500 ETF in March. Those contracts are based on 10 shares of the underlying stock or ETF.
Mini options traded 1.24 million contracts in April, or more than 56,000 contracts per day, according to data compiled by OCC. They averaged 1.5 percent of the volume in the options that have mini versions, the data showed.
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No Justice for Trayvon Martin: Twitter Reactions to George Zimmerman Not Guilty Verdict
On Saturday, July 13, George Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, even though he blatantly said he shot the unarmed teen, albeit in self-defense.
America expressed their shock on Twitter. Celebrities from Rihanna to A-Trak to Mac Miller to Ice Cube to Jennifer Hudson shared their feelings on the social media site as hashtags like #NoJustice and #RipTrayvonMartin began trending.
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By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday formally dismissed a closely watched housing case that settled earlier in the week.
The move was expected after the township council in Mount Holly, New Jersey, voted on Wednesday to settle the case, less than a month before the high court was due to hear oral arguments.
The settlement, which has been approved by the township and the citizen group that originally filed the lawsuit, marks the second time in two years that civil rights advocates and others have worked to keep a housing-discrimination case away from a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives.
In June, the court agreed to consider whether Mount Holly's plan to demolish lower-income housing and replace it with new units, some available at market rates, violated the 1968 Fair Housing Act because it would be less affordable for minorities.
The lawsuit had been closely watched because of its possible effect on other cases involving so-called "disparate impact" claims, which target seemingly neutral practices that have a discriminatory effect.
The Obama administration had asked the court not to take the Mount Holly case, just as it had asked the court not to take another housing discrimination case which involved a dispute between landlords and the city of St. Paul, Minnesota. That case also settled before the high court could rule.
The case is Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 11-1507.
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Today, the Iranian box office is dominated by commercial Iranian films. Western films are not commonly shown in cinemas, but classic and contemporary western films are shown on state television in censored versions, and uncensored versions are easily available in markets. Iranian art films are often not screened officially, and are viewable via illegal DVDs which are easily available. Nevertheless, some of these acclaimed films were screened in Iran and had box office success. Examples include Rassul Sadr Ameli`s "I'm Taraneh, 15", Rakhshan Bani-Etemad`s "Under the skin of the City", Bahman Ghobadi`s "Marooned in Iraq" and Manijeh Hekmat`s "Women's Prison". Post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has been celebrated in many international forums and festivals for its distinct style, themes, authors, idea of nationhood, and cultural references. Many excellent Iranian directors have emerged in the last few decades, such as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi. Kiarostami, who some critics regard as one of the few great directors in the history of cinema, planted Iran firmly on the map of world cinema when he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Taste of Cherry in 1997. The continuous presence of Iranian films in prestigious international festivals such as Cannes, the Venice Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival attracted world attention to Iranian masterpieces, as Iranian films have repeatedly been nominated for or won prestigious prizes at those festivals. In 2006, six Iranian films, with six different styles, represented Iranian cinema at the Berlin Film Festival, and critics considered this a remarkable event in the history of Iranian cinema. An important step was taken in 1998 when the Iranian government began to fund ethnic cinema. Since then Iranian Kurdistan has seen the rise of numerous filmmakers. In particular the film industry got momentum in Iranian Kurdistan and the region has seen the emergence of filmmakers such as Bahman Ghobadi, actually the entire Ghobadi family, Ali-Reza Rezai, Khosret Ressoul and many other younger filmmakers The cinema of Iran (or Persian cinema) is a flourishing film industry with a long history. Many popular commercial films are made in Iran, and Iranian art films have won many international film awards. Iranian film Festivals are held annually around the globe. Along with China, Iran has been lauded as one of the best exporters of cinema in the 1990s. Some critics now rank Iran as the world's most important national cinema, artistically, with a significance that invites comparison to Italian neorealism and similar movements in past decades. World-renowned Austrian filmaker Michael Haneke and German filmmaker Werner Herzog, along with many film critics from around the world, has praised Iranian cinema as one of the world's most important artistic cinemas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Iran
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I usually despise columns that start off with catchy song verses or a song title. It almost always means the writer had no idea how to start off.
But in this case, a song title kind of works. Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" (yes, it's "Sound of Silence," not "Sounds of Silence" - thanks YouTube) fits perfectly.
So, of course, today we're talking about NFL football. Let me explain. Way back (for some of us), 32 years ago, the NFL televised a football game with no announcers.
The New York Jets and Miami Dolphins, two teams going nowhere, had a game in Miami with nobody to talk about it.
NBC, which broadcast the game, had a young Bryant Gumbel, circa 1980, give some introductory remarks to let folks know what was about to happen and then he walked away before kickoff.
Yes, it was a publicity stunt, and it did give a nothing game some juice, but others also believed that some announcers talked too much.
Regardless, NBC filled the screen with all sorts of graphics and spliced in taped interviews with the coaches to fill time.
Obviously, the no-talk game didn't catch on, but my question is, what would happen if it was tried again today?
Not that it will, but, boy, it would be a lot easier than 32 years ago when television graphics were horrendous.
What else do we need that the screen doesn't give us now?
We have the score.
We have the game clock.
We know halftime lasts 12 minutes (plenty of time to go to the bathroom and feed the dog).
We have markings that tell us how many timeouts each team has left.
We have instant score updates from every other game running on a continuous crawl along the bottom of the screen.
And for fantasy football players, we get stat updates for every player and every scoring play.
Last but far from least? The yellow line. The greatest football on television innovation since the instant replay. Think about it, nothing else is even close.
With the yellow line, we know exactly how far a team has to go for a first down. And you have to chuckle because each time a team is close to a first down, the television talking head will say in a deep baritone, "Remember, the yellow line is not official."
Well, have you ever seen the yellow line be wrong? I haven't, either. That thing is on the mark every time, without fail.
So, all of this stuff leaves us wanting what exactly? I can't think of anything else (well, no commercials would be nice) that we need.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the best ways to watch an NFL game is by yourself, with the door locked, the telephone hidden and the kids at the park with mom.
It's not exactly a fancy man cave, but you get the idea. Let me be. Let me be alone to cheer and to complain. To curse, if need be, and pump my fist when things go right. Do I need a play-by-play guy and a color commentator telling what a nice tackle the strong safety just made? Nope.
The only person needed to enjoy a game is me. Sound selfish? OK, it's selfish, but it's the truth.
Tell me, if your team makes it to the Super Bowl, do you want your wife throwing a big party to celebrate the occasion? Absolutely not. Trust me, that happened to me a few years back and it was dreadful.
You're more worried about there being enough ranch dip and not whether your team can convert on third down.
The next time it happens, and I hope it's soon, I'm vetoing the Super Bowl party idea and locking the door and pulling down the shades. And turning off the volume.
Drew Markol has been a sportswriter and columnist for several Philadelphia- area newspapers for over 25 years.


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Dr. Phyllis Hornes (left), Dr. Marti Engelke (center), and Dr. Maura McAuliffe (right) at the AAN induction ceremony in Washington, D.C. in October, 2013. Hornes and McAuliffe are both previously inducted AAN Fellows.
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Dr. Martha "Marti" Engelke, professor and associate dean for research and creative activity in the College of Nursing at East Carolina University, will be inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in October.
The academy announced June 27 that Engelke will be one of 172 nurse leaders inducted at the AAN's 40th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
"Selection for fellowship in the academy is one of the most prestigious honors in the field of nursing," said Joanne Disch, president of the AAN. "I congratulate all of the new fellows and look forward to honoring their accomplishments and welcoming them into the academy."
Selection criteria include evidence of significant contributions to nursing and health care and sponsorship by two current fellows. Applicants are reviewed by a panel of elected and appointed fellows, and selection is based, in part, on the extent the nominee's nursing career influenced health policies and the health and wellbeing of all.
Engelke's research interests include school nursing and school-based case management of children with chronic illness, and clinical research focused on patient outcomes.
"This is a well-deserved honor acknowledging Dr. Engelke's outstanding contributions and achievements in nursing," said Dr. Sylvia Brown, dean of the ECU College of Nursing. "We are so pleased to have this honor bestowed upon Dr. Engelke and appreciate her many contributions to the college and our profession."
Engelke received a bachelor's degree in nursing from Michigan State University, a master's degree in public health nursing from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate in sociology from N.C. State University. She serves as the Richard R. Eakin Distinguished Professor of Nursing and received the Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Nu Chapter Excellence in Research Award and the Outstanding Research Award by the National Association of School Nurses. In 2012, she received the ECU Teacher/Scholar Award.
Engelke has secured more than $1.2 million in funding, has published more than 40 articles, written four book chapters and made numerous national and international presentations, and has chaired several doctoral dissertations, student research projects and served on dozens of master's theses committees and research projects at ECU.
New fellows will be eligible to use the credentials FAAN (Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing) after their induction in October.
The academy is composed of more than 2,000 nurse leaders in education, management, practice, policy, and research. Fellows include hospital and government administrators, college deans, and renowned scientific researchers. With the new class, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 19 countries are represented.


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Live Concert Broadcast and Webcast Fridays At Noon
From NPR Music and WXPN, hear a live mix of roots rock, folk, country and more.
Made possible by XPN Members, and Comcast.
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The Holmes Brothers
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XPN Free at Noon at the World Cafe Live.
A co-production of WXPN and NPR.org/Music.
Serving up a satisfyingly loaded dose of blues, gospel and soul, the Holmes Brothers take the stage this Friday at noon for a free concert.
Since their initiation in 1967, the multi Blues Music Award winning trio has released a solid 10 albums, working with a seamingly endless list of top artists including Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springstein, Odetta and more. And while they stand as an unbeatable musical force in today's industry, they began with humble beginnings in Virginia. Taking their strong background in gospel to New York, brothers Sherman and Wendell Holmes became a local feature in a variety of top clubs. After a chance meeting with drummer Popsy Dixon, the two brothers invited him into their circle of brotherhood, and in 1979, they officially christened themselves The Holmes Brothers. By 1989, the trio had four critically acclaimed albums and was the first American group to record to Peter Gabriel's Real World label in 1992.
We can continue to list the countless number of accomplishments they have achieved in the past 30-plus years, but none of them quite tops their recent success story. When Wendell Holmes was diagnosed with cancer in 2008, the brothers fought hard to overcome the hardship, and with a victorious end to the battle, the brothers have emerged with more vitality than ever before.
Filled with rich three-part harmonies and bluesy guitar, their 10th album (fourth for Alligator Records), "Feed My Soul" is victoriously energetic and digs right into the soul. Produced by Joan Osborne, the album features a few flavorful covers including The Beatles' "I'll Be Back" as well as a number of originals, which are likely to be featured this Friday. You do not want tomiss the amazing opportunity to catch The Holmes Brothers live!
Website: http://www.theholmesbrothers.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/theholmesbrothers
Recent Release: Feed My Soul
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Label: Alligator Records
Origin: New York, NY
Free At Noon Setlist
1. Feed My Soul
2. Dark Cloud
3. You're the Kind of Trouble
4. Edge of the Ledge
5. Rounding Third
6. I Saw Your Face
7. I'll Be Back
8. Take Me Away Lord
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PARKING NOTICE and Directions
Due to the construction in the area, free parking is no longer available for XPN Free At Noon shows. Metered parking on 31st street is no longer available, and metered parking on Walnut Street is extremely limited as a result of the closure and reconstruction of the South Street Bridge, and the rerouting of traffic onto Walnut Street.
Public transportation to XPN Free At Noon is recommended. For more information on parking in the area visit World Cafe Live.
Find more information on directions and public transportation here.
Serving People in Need - Help Drive Hunger from Our Communities
When you come to XPN's Free At Noon Concerts, bring a can of food to support Philabundance, Delaware Valley's hunger relief organization. We have drop-off boxes to collect canned goods for the needy. Current priority items include: canned pasta, chili, beef stew, tuna, mac & cheese, ready to eat cereal, pork & beans/ baked beans, green beans, corn, fruit cocktail, creamy peanut butter and/ or grape jelly (plastic containers only), and boxed sugar. Thanks!
WXPN and NPR Music Live Friday Free At Noon Concert Archives Include:
Dr. Dog, Carrie Rodriguez, Annuals, DeVotchKa, Adele, Angel Taylor, Winterpills, Sharon Little, Ollabelle, Andrew Lipke, The Low Anthem, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Sean Lennon, Chris Smith, California Guitar trio, Joan Osborne, Disco Biscuits, Damien Rice, Cold War Kids, Marc Broussard, The Slip, Arlo Guthrie, Alice Smith, The Dears, Barenaked Ladies, and more...
WXPN Free at Noon Photo Gallery at Flickr
Click to visit our gallery for photos of the Free At Noon Concerts! Previous concerts include Hall & Oates, O.A.R., Citizen Cope, Old Crow Medicine Show, Kaki King and many more!


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Central Connecticut senior Alasia Griebel captured the individual title at the 2011 Northeast Conference Cross Country Championships on Saturday morning. Griebel topped the field with a time of 18:42.10 over the 5k course at Holmdel Park. Her performance helped push the CCSU women's cross country team to a fourth place finish.
Griebel finished five seconds ahead of Eimear Black of Bryant to earn the victory in her first NEC Championship meet. Griebel transferred to Central Connecticut this fall as a fifth year senior and graduate student.
The Blue Devils earned 99 team points to finish in fourth place. Quinnipiac, Sacred Heart and Monmouth took the top three spots in the meet, with the Bobcats posting a team score of 44. Central was only nine points behind Monmouth for third place.
Sophomore Krisztina Dearborn finished 13th in the race with a 19:31.40 performance. She was followed by classmate Elizabeth Eberhardt, freshman Shannon McBride and senior Amanda Asaro who completed Central's score card. Eberhardt posted a 19:50.30 to finish 23rd, McBride a 20:09.50 to place 32nd and Asaro took 34th with a 20:13.60.
Displacing for the Blue Devils were senior Sara Larkin with a time of 21:04.80 and sophomore Megan MacBryde who ran a 21:43.30 to finish 71st.
The Blue Devils improved one spot over their 2010 performance at the NEC meet.
Trailing Central in the team results were St. Francis (PA), Robert Morris, Bryant, Mount St. Mary's, Wagner, St. Francis (NY), Fairleigh Dickinson and Long Island.


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|For further debate, see Psychiatric Times' Point/Counterpoint: "Toward Credible Conflict of Interest Policies in Clinical Psychiatry: A Debate," by Lisa Cosgrove, PhD and Harold J. Bursztajn, MD and David J. Kupfer, MD and Darrel A. Regier, MD, MPH
After some members and mental health writers criticized the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for "secrecy" surrounding the development of DSM-V, the Board of Trustees of the APA voted to make public regular DSM-V reports as well as summaries from work group chairs on the Web site at www.dsm5.org.
"We are aware of efforts to portray the DSM-V process as unnecessarily and counterproductively secretive," said APA president Nada Stotland, MD, MPH, in a November 7 response to a letter to the editor.1 "On the contrary, it is more open than any previous DSM process. . . . The DSM is a diagnostic manual used in much of the world. Its development must include consideration of the broadest possible range of views and the full range of available or obtainable data."
"It's a balancing act between transparency and giving the DSM-V groups space and time to do their work," said Ronald Burd, MD, speaker of the APA Assembly and a psychiatrist with MeritCare Health System in Fargo, ND. "It is my understanding that progress reports from the groups will be posted on an ongoing basis."
Dr Stotland acknowledged in her presidential address published in October's American Journal of Psychiatry that controversy surrounding the DSM-V process has increased in the past few years.
"We are in the midst of a revolution caused by public and legislative concern about the influence of the for-profit sector on the entire field of medicine," she said. "We have anticipated and addressed questions about conflicts of interest in the DSM process. The abolition of conflict is a myth. . . . what we can do is to be very clear what those interests are."
Part of the debate emanates from research by Cosgrove and others2 who investigated the financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry of 170 panel members who contributed to the diagnostic criteria produced for the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR. Of the 170 panel members, 95 (56%) had 1 or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry. In 6 of 18 panels, more than 80% of the panel members had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies.
For DSM-V, due out in 2012, the leadership of the APA pledged to take a stringent approach to selecting appointees for the task force, work and study groups, and advisors. The task force includes work group chairs and representatives from the APA, the NIH, and other organizations. They represent a broad spectrum of different fields of science, clinicians, and advocates. The 13 work groups and their subgroups focus on specific categories of mental disorders (eg, mood disorders and neurocognitive disorders), while 5 study groups examine crosscutting issues (eg, diagnostic spectra, assessing impairment, and psychiatric/general medical interface). More than 45 advisors work with the task force and study and work groups to assist with such issues as literature reviews and diagnostic criteria. David Kupfer, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, chairs the task force; and Darrel Regier, MD, MPH, director of APA's Division of Research and executive director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE), serves as vice chair.
Principles and disclosures
All work group and task force members have been asked to abide by a set of established principles posted on www.dsm5.org.
• Members are to serve without remuneration for their services, with the exception of the DSM-V task force chair).
• They agree to receive no more than $10,000 annually in aggregate from industry sources (excluding unrestricted research grants).
• They must not hold stock or shares worth more than $50,000 in aggregate in pharmaceutical companies/device makers/ biotechnology companies and similar health care–related commercial ventures or receive more than $10,000 annually in aggregate in dividends from such sources. (Exceptions are made for mutual fund shares and similar arrangements.)
• Members agree to abstain from participating in any capacity in industry-sponsored symposia at an APA annual meeting during their task force and/or work group tenure after 2007.
1. Stotland NL,Scully JH,Kupfer DJ,Regier DA.Letters to the editor:response. Psychiatr News.2008;43:23.
2. Cosgrove L, Krimsky S,Vijayaraghavan M, Schneider L.Financial ties between DSM-IV panel members
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Wednesday night's Game One of the World Series was a strong start for the Boston Red Sox, and it looks like it was an improvement in the ratings for Fox too.
According to very approximate preliminary numbers from Nielsen, which are not adjusted for time zones, the game drew an average of about 13.7 million viewers in prime time, up 25% from last year's early Game One numbers. In the advertiser-desired 18-49 age demographic, the game appears to be up 28%. Compared with last year's final numbers, which increased, the game was up about 12% in total viewership and 14% in the demo.
Keep in mind that the 2012 series, a four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers by the San Francisco Giants, ended up the least-watched on record.
PHOTOS: Cable versus broadcast ratings
More accurate final numbers will be out later Thursday, but it looks like Fox was the top-rated network of the night. The Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-1, taking an early lead in the Fall Classic.
In non-baseball ratings, ABC's "Super Fun Night," starring Rebel Wilson, increased 5% from last week's episode to a 2.2 in 18-49, drawing 5.96 million viewers against competition from the World Series. "Modern Family," which slipped 7% to a 3.8, was the top non-sports telecast of the night. "The Middle" fell a tick from two weeks ago to a 2.2 while the freshman comedy "Back in the Game" dropped 11% to a 1.7. "Nashville" was flat at a 2.0.
CBS was the second most-watched network, with "Criminal Minds" and "CSI" delivering their biggest audiences of the season. "Survivor" fell 12% to a 2.3 in 18-49.
On NBC, the recently canceled "Ironside" unsurprisingly lost a fifth of its young adult audience, finishing at a 0.8. "Revolution" was flat, while "Law & Order: SVU" fell 22% to a 1.4, the same rating as "Revolution."
TV ratings: Colts vs. Broncos wins Sunday night for NBC
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This is the second installment of My Farm Roots, Harvest Public Media's new series chronicling Americans' connection to the land. Click here (http://harvestpublicmedia.org/myfarmroots)to explore more My Farm Rootsstories and to share your own.
It's not every day that a trip to the drug store can change your destiny.
For 20-year-old Nan Arnold, it was a day in 1956 in Ashland, a small, dusty dot on the open range of western Kansas near the Oklahoma border.
Nan had landed her first job as a music teacher at the Ashland school just a year before. She lived with the store's owner because her parents thought she was too young to live alone.
Henry Gardiner, just back from the service, was in the drug store that day to buy film for his camera, as his family was getting ready for a trip to Kansas City to the American Royal Livestock Show. The store's owner brought the two young people together
"And she kept saying 'I want you to meet this nice young man,'" Nan said. "When he called me that evening he said, 'Miss Arnold,' because she introduced me as Miss Arnold and she didn't givehim my name. So he called me up and asked me for a date."
I love a good get-together story and Nan's was especially poignant. I found her way out there in Ashland, population 855, just 50 miles south of Dodge City, when I was doing a story on the local hospital(http://harvestpublicmedia.org/article/984/selling-doctors-in-rual-communities-through-service/5). The doctor there told me that the Gardiner family was legendary in cattle country and that I should meet up with Nan.
So I met her one morning in the Ashland Health Center's long-term care unit, where her husband of 55 years now lives, his memory fading even as his wife's was as clear as the big blue skies out there.
I asked her about their first date and here's what she said:
"He came to get me in his mother's Packard convertible. We went to Sitka, Kansas, and bought gas and then we drove to Adobe Springs, down in Oklahoma, which is a little golf course down in the country. We just went for a drive.
"We came back and danced to the radio on the cement slab. And that was our first date.
"I decided that night I was going to marry him but he didn't decide that for a year and a half."
Nan laughed as she remembered that night, recalling that she called her parents and said, "I think I've met the right one."
More than 50 years later, Nan told me the story of how she became a Gardiner, part of a family that championed the Angus breed when Kansas was still Hereford country. Listen in to Nan's story and hear how the business that started in her kitchen became an internationally known Angus breed company(http://www.gardinerangus.com/).
And hear how a 20-year-old girl put down her roots on the Kansas open range.
"This is my home and I love it," she said. "I think it's a very unique place."


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BEIJING (AP) — China's auto sales rose 13 percent in April despite concern about a weak economic recovery and Japanese brands suffered less severe declines, an industry group reported Thursday.
Customers in the world's biggest auto market bought 1.4 million cars, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said. It said total auto sales showed "clear improvement" at 1.8 million vehicles but gave no details.
Global automakers are looking to China to drive revenues but competition is increasing after sales growth that spiked to 45 percent in 2009 declined to more sustainable rates.
"The data are a bit better than I expected but within a normal range. Demand in China is huge, so there is no problem with consuming capacity," said Jia Xinguang, an auto analyst in Beijing.
The sales gains came despite a decline in Chinese economic growth to 7.7 percent in the first three months of the year from 7.9 percent the previous quarter. Analysts say the recovery from the country's deepest slowdown since the 2008 global crisis is being shored up by state-led investment and bank lending.
Japanese automakers that have been hurt by tensions over a territorial dispute between Beijing and Tokyo suffered a 4.9 percent decline in overall sales from a year earlier. Still, that was an improvement over the previous month's 17.8 percent decline.
General Motors Co. reported earlier that April sales of GM-brand autos by the company and its Chinese partners rose 15.3 percent from a year earlier to 261,870 vehicles.
GM said this week its main Chinese joint venture, Shanghai GM, received government permission to build an 8 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) factory to build Cadillacs. The company has said it will make a priority of increasing Cadillac's share of China's fast-growing luxury car market.
Japan's Nissan Motor Co. said its April sales rose 2.7 percent to 102,800 vehicles, breaking a series of monthly declines. However, Nissan said sales for the first four months of the year were down 11 percent from the same period last year.
Ford Motor Co. said sales of Ford-brand vehicles by the company and its Chinese partners rose 37 percent over a year earlier to 75,331 vehicles. It said year-to-date sales were up 49 percent at 261,927 vehicles.
AP researcher Fu Ting in Shanghai contributed.
China Association of Automobile Manufacturers: www.caam.org.cn


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Given a moment's thought, most of us can almost certainly think of questions for which we've not yet discovered a fully satisfying answer. Most of us can identify significant issues that have no obvious resolution. Join us as we consider a variety of relevant topics in an atmosphere that facilitates an exchange of ideas ... the sharing of alternative points of view. If you think you MIGHT have an answer worth considering, come share it with us. If you KNOW you have THE one and only answer, this might not be the group for you. The "With an Open Mind" Discussion Group uses a "moderated" discussion format. The discussion leader will keep the discussion focused and encourage adherence to established ground rules that give EVERY participant the opportunity to share his or her thoughts in a non-confrontational manner. No advance preparation is required. No political or religious perspective is assumed or excluded. The expectation is that all who participate will, during the course of the discussion, further develop their own, personal views through publically voicing their current thinking and respectfully listening to the thoughts of others.


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High Island Migration: Apr 18—24, 2019
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Departs: Houston
Tour Limit: 14
Operations Manager: Margaret Anderson
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One of the finest and best-known spectacles of spring songbird migration in North America, with dozens of warblers and other songbird species, plus loads of shorebirds, marsh birds, and Southeast pine wood specialties like Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
Every spring, millions of birds migrate north from the American Tropics to the forests of the eastern United States. They take off from Central America just at sunset for the long journey over the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Typically they are riding a south wind, so that when they reach the Texas/Louisiana coast, most of them continue inland before putting down. But if the migrants encounter north winds and rain during their flight, they are forced down into isolated groves along the upper Gulf coast of Texas. The result can be a staggering phenomenon, a fallout, as thousands of migrants converge as they reach the safety of the coast. The greatest of these fallouts occur only once or twice a spring when conditions are just right, but some birds put down along the coast every day, and a great variety can always be seen over the course of the week.
This tour is designed to focus on spring migration along the upper Texas coast. Most nights will be spent near High Island, where isolated groves of live oaks and other trees may attract large numbers of migrants in a fallout, and where some migrants occur regularly. Each day's activities will depend on the weather, and our schedule will be flexible. If fallout conditions occur, we will bird High Island and other migrant traps. If the weather is good, with a south wind, we will concentrate on the rice fields for shorebirds, the extensive marshes for wading birds, and the great Bolivar Flats for coastal shorebirds, terns, and wading birds. We will visit Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, which is famous among birders as a good place to observe such notoriously secretive marsh-dwellers as Least and American bitterns, King Rail, Purple Gallinule, and Sora. Fulvous Whistling-Duck, White-faced Ibis, and lots of alligators are also seen at Anahuac. When rice fields are flooded for cultivation in April, migrating shorebirds may swarm to them. Sometimes thousands of shorebirds in glorious spring plumage are present, including such scarce species as Hudsonian Godwit, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, American Golden-Plover, White-rumped Sandpiper, Wilson's Phalarope, and Stilt Sandpiper. We will make a special trip into the pine forests and bayou country farther inland to look for Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Red-headed Woodpecker, Brown-headed Nuthatch, and other specialty nesters, such as Swainson's and Prairie warblers. Regardless of the weather, every day on the Texas coast in late April will be an eventful one.
Good accommodations; all but one night at one location; mostly easy walking on trails, boardwalks, and beaches; midday breaks some days; warm, sometimes humid conditions.


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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua has inaugurated a solar farm that the government says will benefit 1,100 homes.
The state-owned National Company of Electricity Transmission, or Enatrel, says in a statement that the array includes 5,880 solar panels. It says that Japan donated $11.4 million to build the solar farm and that Nicaragua invested $530,000.
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Did you know?
Aliwal Shoal was named for a ship that was nearly wrecked on the reef in 1849.
Ask a local diver what his or her favourite marine protected area is, and the answer is very likely to be Aliwal Shoal.
The Aliwal Shoal Marine Protected Area conserves a strange ocean anomaly. There is a reef here, but not one made out of coral. Instead, this is a piece of ancient fossilised coastline or sand dune. Adding to the diversity of this tropical reef are the wrecks of two ships, the Nebo and the Produce, which lie in relatively shallow waters (less than 30 metres deep).
But the true wonder of Aliwal Shoal is that it is a congregation area for ragged-tooth sharks. Between July and December, it's not unusual to see 50 or 60 at a time.
No-one has quite figured out why they gather here. They are no threat at all to divers, and despite their ferocious appearance, are very calm.
On the subject of sharks, you may also see hammerheads, Zambezi sharks and the occasional stately and enormous whale shark. This is one place divers regularly swim with sharks, and there has never been an incident of aggression.
Aliwal Shoal lies just off the quiet little coastal town of Umkomaas in southern KwaZulu-Natal, which is often buzzing with divers. It's hard to overstate the appeal of Aliwal Shoal as a diving destination. Down in the deep you encounter (apart from sharks) various kinds of corals and sponges growing on the wrecks or ancient coastline, a world of tropical fish, moray eels, the occasional sea turtle, and almost certainly a gigantic potato or brindle bass.
The warm Agulhas current sweeps briskly over the reef, which is about 1.5km long and 5km away from the beach. The reef itself lies between 5 and 25 metres deep.
From the land, you'd never guess how special this undersea area is. Divers brought it to the attention of conservationists, and it was declared a Marine Protected Area in 2004.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Aliwal Dive Centre
Tel: +27 (0)39 973 2233
How to get here
Umkomaas is a short drive south of Durban. Take the N2, and you'll get there in under half an hour.
Around the area
You could visit the Empisini Nature Reserve near Umkomaas, or ramble along the rocky coastline. Angling from the beach is popular, and there is also a tidal pool.
How to get around
Divers are taken to the reef, about 5km from shore, by boat.
Length of stay
If you're a diver, stay for at least two days. There is so much to see on this reef you just can't do it all in one dive.
Where to stay
There are a number of guest houses in Umkomaas, including some geared specifically for divers.


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3£299BARGAIN Peugeot 207, 2008 Black Hatchback, Manual DieselBradford 35 milesBought a new car, hence selling my beloved 2008 BlackPeugeot. 3 door 1.4 HDi, Only £30 road Tax, cheap insurance. 132K+ miles part service history, MOT until 1st April 2019, Only 2 previous owners. Inside is clean and has been valeted. Body work D/S and P/S wings...
4£3,500GREAT VALUE Peugeot 5008, 2011 (11) Grey MPV, Manual DieselNewbury 188 milesPeugeot 5008 ACTIVE 1.6 HDI Excellent condition inside and out, Very economical, 1 Previous Owner, Insurance Group 16, 7-Seater, Power Steering, Electric Windows, Electric Mirrors, Drivers Airbag, Passenger Airbag, Air Conditioning, Traction Control, ABS, Side...Posted 2 days ago
8£1,600Peugeot 107, 2007 (07) Yellow Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 52,085 milesNewcastle Upon Tyne 80 milesYellow Peugeot 107 from non smoking home 12 months mot yearly tax £20.00 nice little runaroundPosted 2 days ago
9£1,950Peugeot 407, 2007 (56) Blue Estate, Manual Diesel, 103,734 milesNorwich 181 milesHere I am selling my Peugeot 407 Estate 2L Diesel This car is top of the range executive and has all the comfort. This car has a FULL SERVICE HISTORY. Full tank will give you 700 miles. MOT March 11th 2019. Since last MOT I have driven only 2000 miles.I work...Posted 5 days ago
7£1,295Peugeot 206 1.1 Zest 2005 (54) 3 door 1 previous owner full history manual petrol 98,000 miles May 2019 motBournemouth 226 milesHPi clear, £155 a year tax, group 7 insurance, up to 58 mpg, cambelt done, power steering, remote central locking, electric windows, abs, airbags, 3 x 3 point isofix rear seat belts, peugeot radio cd player, keycard code, full peugeot book pack, service book with 7...
5£435Peugeot 106, 2001 (Y) Silver Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 65,000 milesBargoed 156 milesNice little runner. Good mile per gallon. Cracking for back and fro to work. Drop the back seats and you can put anything in the back (bar a giraffe). Good for going up the skip. Where you can't go with a van
7£10,000Peugeot 3008, 2015 (15) Grey Hatchback, Manual Diesel, 17,700 milesOldbury 106 milesSelling my car because the wife has just retired and we do not need two cars now. This a great reliable and clean car that has is always kept in the garage when not being used. When I bought the car I purchased two extra years warranty which has only just started in June...
10£675Peugeot 206 1100cc mot june 19 drives fine.Chatham 225 milespeugeot 206 zest 2004 1100cc 90k miles with part history mot june 2019 starts & drives fine. 3 door hatchback 5 speed manual petrol. power steering remote locking e/windows airbags c-d stereo height adjust seat immobaliser. decent interior not been abused. jet black...
8£1,495Peugeot 307 S, 2004 (54), Manual Petrol, 54,000 milesSheffield 71 miles2005 Peugeot 307cc 2ltr sport 120 bhp in electric blue Dab radio/ CD player Full power hood Timing belt and water pump done last year Fully serviced Remote central locking Parking sensors Lovely alloy wheels Comes with wind defector 10 months mot Low mileage We had this...
4£3,350Peugeot 107, 2013 (63) Red Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 49,000 milesSwansea 171 milesPEUGEOT 107 ALLURE! 1.0 Litre Smart and zippy little run around and very economical. Good condition in and out must see perfect first car Low Insurance and Free Tax. Four good tyres all round. New MOT, Full service history, 2 Owners from new Bluetooth, Air...
3£1,295Peugeot 207, 2009 (09) Blue Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 89,000 milesSheffield 65 milesfor sale, Peugeot 207 sport 1398cc, mot march next year 89000 miles,some scratches on back door,
7£1,300Peugeot 207, 2007 (07), Manual Petrol, 78,000 milesSwansea 170 milesPeugeot 207 1.4 petrol for sale , low 78000 miles , very clean do have odd little mark as expected for age , fresh 12 months mot !! 4 owners, no problems cars sweet £1300!!!
9£200Peugeot 206, 2003 (53) Black Coupe, Manual Petrol, 131,000 milesSpalding 139 mileseugeot 206 cc. This vehicle is being sold for spares or repairs due to not having an MOT and an ABS fault illuminated on the dash (See pics). The car starts, drives and the roof is in perfect working order. There is general wear and tear marks around the bodywork...
1£2,985Peugeot 207 1.4 Verve, Black, Only 1 Previous Keeper, Low Cost Insurance with the 1.4 EngineInverness 250 milesJust Freshly Arrived in to Stock. More Photos and Details to Follow.... For Your Peace Of Mind All Our Cars & Vans Come With a Comprehensive Warranty, Are All Fully HPI Checked, and a Multi Point Service Check. Dealer Facilities: Finance | Warranty | Part...
7£1,500Peugeot 308, 2009 (59) Grey Hatchback, Manual I need a swop for a AUTOmaticHexham 59 milesSince purchasing this lovely little car I have spent over £600 on the suspension and Brakes. It is a very high spec car tow bar reversing aids, new tyres 3 month ago, on board computer, air con, arm rest. A 1.6 vti engine no cam belt. Alas I have now had a spine injury...
10£899Peugeot 107, 2006 (56) Red Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 94,000 milesRotherham 64 milesROAD TAX £20 FRESH MOT TILL 13/09/19 NEW HANDBRAKE CABLE COVERED 94K VERY TIDY FOR AGE CLEAN INTERIOR 4 SEATER, THIS CAR COMES WITH Electric Front Windows, Stereo Radio/Mono CD Player Aux Socket for MP3 Player, central locking...
8£4,295PEUGEOT 308King's Lynn 158 milesPEUGEOT 308 1.6 DIESEL, 92K, ELECTRIC WINDOWS/FOLDING MIRRORS,SAT NAV, BLUE TOOTH, PARKING SENSORS, ALLOYS, NEW MOT,ROAD TAX £20 PER YEAR
Member5£1,795Peugeot 207, 2006 (06), Manual Petrol, 49,000 milesBarnsley 54 milesPEUGEOT 207 1.4 LITRE PETROL 2009( 09) PLATE MOT till March 2019 49,000 MILES SERVICED EVERY MOT. ALLOY WHEELS BRAND NEW TYRES FITTED 5 DOOR 2 KEYS FULL ELECTRIC SYSTEM LOT'S OF SPACE Overall a fantastic car! Very easy to drive...
3£450Peugeot 206 CC, 2005 (05) Grey Coupe, Manual Petrol, 40,000 milesGainsborough 85 milesCheap car, low insurance, long mot. Only selling due to baby being on the way and not practical. There is a slight dent to door, from a supermarket incident, but otherwise this cat is in great condition for age. It is a fun little car, with low mileage that is cheap to...
5£2,500Peugeot 207, 2010 (10) Red Hatchback, Manual Diesel, 38,700 milesSwansea 163 milesLow mileage Cheap tax New MOT Small dent and key mark to rear bumper/ wing 1.4 hdi diesel
3£1,000Peugeot 206, Good condition only 2 owners. Full service history 12 months MOTTorquay 244 milesFull history service. New clutch,discs & brakes! Safe,clean car 68,500 Miles. Daughter has moved abroad hence sell.
0£150Peugeot 206, 2001 (Y) Silver Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 120,000 milesPenarth 177 miles7 months mot. Good condition all round. Non runner due to electrical fault.
5£2,795Peugeot 107, 2013 (13) Blue Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 68,000 milesBo'ness 146 miles68000 Mls WARRANTED WITH HISTORY ZERO ROAD TAX VERY CLEAN EXAMPLE SELL/SWAP/EXCHANGE
5£2,700Peugeot Partner Tepee, 2009 (09), Manual Diesel, 92,000 milesHuntingdon 152 miles2009 1.6 diesel 92k mot March 2019 good condition lots of space 5 speed
6£2,995Peugeot 207, 2007 (07) Silver Coupe, Manual Petrol, 63,411 milesWadhurst 240 milesABS, Power Steering, Twin and Side Air Bags, Remote Locking, Electric Windows, Electric Mirrors, Electric roof, Air Conditioning, Front Fog Lamps, Alloy Wheels, MOT April 2019
6£1,250Peugeot 206, 2004 (53) Green Hatchback, Manual Diesel, 29,000 milesSawbridgeworth 189 miles2004 Puegeot 206 LX 1.4cc hdi diesel just 29,000 plus miles, 2 previous owners was a cat s look at picture 2 which was taken in the insurance yard it shows a dent on the o/s front wing also has a crease and dent on the bonnet . Car is basically not even run in and with...
7£2,595Peugeot 207, 2010 (10) Grey Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 73,000 milesDeal 254 milesPeugeot 207 1.4 75 Verve 5 door hatchback, 73,000 miles 2010 10 reg, metallic grey paint, two tone cloth interior, brand new clutch just fitted, new cambelt kit, Alloy wheels, electric windows, ac, central locking runs and drives really well, long MOT service history...
6£1,995Peugeot 206, 2006 (06) Grey Hatchback, Automatic, Petrol, 92,888 milesWadhurst 240 milesABS, Power Steering, Twin Air Bags, Air Conditioning, Remote Locking, Electric Windows, Electric Mirrors, Stereo CD, Front Fog Lamps, Alloy Wheels, MOT January 2019
4£995Peugeot 207, 2009 (09) Blue Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 89,000 milesSheffield 65 milesPeugeot 207 sport 1398cc, 2009 reg Motorcycle march 2019, some scratches on back door, lady owned Sale due to company car Tel
5£700Peugeot 206, 2002 (02) Black Coupe, Manual Petrol, 115,985 milesReading 186 milescar has had 12 months mot put on new starter motor and cat 2 new tyres/wipers part service history need a bigger car
1£2,200Peugeot 107, 2011 (61) Silver Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 56,000 milesGlenrothes 157 milesExcellent condition inside and out, MOT'd Jan 2019, road tax £20 per year, cheap to insure and very economical.
2£400Peugeot 307 S HDI, 2004 (54), Manual Diesel, 138,000 milesIpswich 198 milesPeugeot 307s 1.6 hdi diesel Good runner no smoke 5x new tyres 4x new springs Few cosmetic scratches and sings but nothing major! Great on fuel Mot 23 March 2019 Collection only Ipswich area Mark
6£1,995Peugeot 308, 2008 (08) Grey Hatchback, Manual Diesel, 112,000 miles 12 MONTHS M.O.TSpalding 135 milesPEUGEOT 308 1.6 HDI SPORT 110HP 5 SPEED MANUAL 112,000MLS FULL SERVICE HISTORY RECENT SERVICE + C/BELT & WATERPUMP. 12 MONTHS M.O.T VERY CLEAN & DRIVES VERY NICE. £110 PER YEAR TAX. £1995 ONO
0£650Peugeot 206, 2001 (Y) Orange Coupe, Manual Petrol, 1,000,000 milesSittingbourne 227 milesLovley little car has mot until July next year has had new brakes but has got general wear and tear but really good for age am only selling due to needing a bigger car !
4£1,250Peugeot 307, 2004 (04) Silver Estate, Automatic Petrol, 95,000 milesAbergavenny 149 milesPeugeot 307 electric windows, music system sun roof lovely big boot drives beautifully immaculate car, driver wing mirror slight damage but works perfectly first to see this amazing car will buy it its fantastic
7£795Peugeot 307, 2003 (52) 12 month MOT Diesel, 127,480 milesSwansea 171 milesSelling my Peugeot 307 Style HDI 12 MONTH MOT £795 Mileage 127,480 52Plate 2003 Engine size 1996 Brand new MOT 5 doors 5 seats Electric windows in front. Central locking Stereo with USB/Phone Port £795 Perfect as a run around or first time buyer. Message or...
2£1,650Peugeot 207, 2009 (59) Red Hatchback, Manual Petrol, 65,000 milesExeter 230 milesGreat looking car, few scratches on from bumber but drives like a dream and looks good too.
Member9£2,350Peugeot 107, 2009 (09) SUPER LOW MILESCaerphilly 166 milesPeugeot 107 Urban Date of first reg UK 01/07/2018 Super low miles under 20,000 The car is from Jersey and was registered in the UK by myself on the 01/07/2018 I Bought it for my partner as a first car as she is learning to drive, but she has decided to go down the...


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Intraoperative 3D-reconstructed and contrast enhanced ultrasound in brain tumor surgery
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|June 4, 2012
Objective: Complete tumor removal in the surgical treatment of malignant brain tumors is associated with a longer overall survival. For intraoperative resection control a convincing imaging modality is needed even instead of brain shift makes the neuronavigation vague. We investigate the application of 3D reconstructed and contrast enhanced ultrasound in brain tumor surgery.
Methods: Until November 2011 we investigated 34 patients suffering on a Glioblastoma (GBM, n=18), Astrocytoma WHO Grade II (n=1) and III (n=2), Oligodendroglioma Grade II (n=1), Meningeomas (n=3) and Metastasis (n=9). The navigation was performed with a LOCALITE® navigation system with a deviation less than 1.5 mm. The transdural ultrasound scans were implemented via DVI® before and after contrast agent application (SonoVue by Bracco®). After resection navigated biopsies were taken from the resection boarder referred to the 3D ultrasound data after contrast agent application. The postoperative MRI was matched on the 3D datasets after resection and the resection boarders were compared with regard to residual contrast agent uptake.
Results: The different tumor entities showed different contrast agent uptake behaviour. Malignant brain tumour showed uptake regularly in a high number of cases (16/18 patients with GBM 89%, 1/1 patient with Atrocytoma III, 7/9 patients with Metastasis 78%) while benign tumors often showed no contrast agent uptake (patient with Meningeoma 1/3 with uptake, patients with Oligodendroglioma II or Astrocytoma II no uptake). No pharmacological incidence was observed after application of 4.8 ml SonoVue® in each case. In case of residual tumor the contrast enhanced ultrasound demonstrated this tissue reliable. Also the biopsies showed high correlation with residual contrast agent uptake in the resection boarders and positive tumor verification in the histopathological examination.
Conclusions: 3D reconstructed and contrast enhanced ultrasound seems to be a convincing resection control technique in the treatment of brain tumors. Even in malignant tumors this application is a confident tool in the neurosurgical intraoperative setup.


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