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Erie Otters rookie RW Hayden Hodgson has been suspended for 10 games – the final seven games of this season and the opening three games of the 2013-14 season – for his five-minute interference penalty and game misconduct in Sunday's loss to Kingston at Erie Insurance Arena.
The Otters already have two other players, defenseman Adam Pelech and forward Dane Fox, serving league-imposed suspensions. Pelech, who has been suspended twice this season, will serve the final two games of a five-game suspension this weekend. He was given a five-minute, cross-checking penalty and game misconduct Feb. 18 against London. Fox completes a two-game suspension by missing Friday's home game against Plymouth. He was given a game misconduct for instigating a fight in the last five minutes of last Friday's loss in Sarnia.
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He is a child of the Depression who once wore a cassock and surplice in a Brunswick church choir. Des Brooks was the second youngest of four boys, and the family needed the two shillings and sixpence he could earn singing Here Comes The Bride at weddings.
At 75, he sports a black bow-tie and sequinned cummerbund, shifting his weight rhythmically as he sings in public still.
You made a vow that you would ever be true, the retired accountant croons, big hands at his sides. But somehow that vow mean't nothing to you. Now my broken heart aches . . .
Widowed seven years ago, he has turned up on a fine, chilly night at the Banyule Community Health Centre in West Heidelberg for a weekly rehearsal of a troupe of mostly senior citizens intent on reviving musical memories.
For more than a decade, Des Brooks and his friends have tap-danced, sung and performed routines at nursing homes, senior citizens clubs, retirement villages and day-care centres around Melbourne.
The Cee Cee Variety Group was born in the late 1980s after locals who had attended a weekly weight-loss session lost interest in losing kilos and sought an activity of benefit to the community.
Accompanied by keyboards and drums, 81-year-old Teddy Cohen, oldest in the group, sings a song he heard his sister play on piano when he was just 10. Yvonne, my Yvonne, what am I to do now you're gone? he laments unrequited love. For it's Spring and all the birds are ma-ting. Say how long you'll keep me wai-ting.
The Cees Cees sometimes feature hits from youngsters - from Kylie's I Should Be So Lucky to Madonna's Into The Groove - but mostly, says Cohen, a retired businessman, "we play the music of the '30s, '40s and '50s; their music and our music".
Les Grundy, 69, a retired newspaper proofreader now in gold lurex waistcoat and bowtie, plays keyboards or tap-dances with four of the women in rehearsal for a program featuring Yankee Doodle Dandy, I'm In The Mood and Bye Bye Blackbird.
They had lessons with Dawn Lennon from the Keith Collins Dancing Studio. "It's a tap-dance routine that we can manage at our age and agility," Grundy says.
The group does not charge but takes donations to help with costs, including an estimated $2000 a year for costumes. When Shirley Hickey, 71, and Valerie Steele, 68, sang a duet once, they each wore thigh-high splits in their skirts. The women sang Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend and, mingling with the crowd later, "a chap shook my hand", Shirley Hickey says. "He said, 'Hello, Sonia McMahon.' "
Valerie Steele has cooked for husband Frank before leaving for rehearsal. She shows a photo of herself and a former Cee Cee with whom she would perform a comedy routine based on an early Australian TV sketch on The Bobby Limb Show."We did that for years, Jean and I," she says, "and then she passed away."
Jim Rhyder, 70, has been recruited recently as drummer. "I'm the new boy," he says. "We were at the Darebin Community Centre the other day and over on the far table there were some intellectually handicapped younger people. Two or three of them got up and were dancing. I became that emotional I could hardly play my drums. I thought, I'm a part of this and that's a real privilege."
Cee Cee performers travel at their own expense to venues from Rye in the south to Whittlesea in the north, Sunshine in the west to outer-eastern Croydon.
Gwen Hodgkinson, 74, first sang for pennies in back yard concerts in the Depression. There were 14 siblings in the family. "My father used to take us to the church because he knew we'd be getting some afternoon tea. He used to push me out and say, 'Sing the loudest.' "
These days she takes a special pride in the response of audiences to the Cee Cee shows. "There was one lady that never uttered a sound for three years. Never spoke. And the matron said when she heard the singing, she started singing. It was marvellous."
When Des Brooks was a boy, two cousins were excellent singers - "Ah, they had medals galore" - and such was his untrained soprano he prided himself on being able to fill in when either the boy or girl were not around.
Now he is in a group whose name is short for "community centre". "This chap said to me, 'The show you've put on today would excel any show I've seen at the Tivoli,' " he says. "I walked about three foot above the ground on the way home."
Members received Australia Day awards in 1994 for community service.
Once there were 18. Now they are 10, aged 58 to 81. Some are widowed. "My husband passed away 11 years ago," one woman says, " and if I hadn't had this group I don't know where I would have been."
They have performed nearly 300 shows. "We're just like one big family here," Des Brooks says.
For further information phone Shirley Hickey on 94591460.
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A chilled, hibernating turtle that hasn't taken a breath for two weeks still notices light, a new lab study shows.
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I had originally predicted that the sale would be like their previous ones around this time (with much of the year's leftover selection being on sale) but the sale instead only featured Masters of the Universe Classics, Voltron, JLU, and some con offerings. Most of the Masters figures were discounted by 30% right off the bat, but the rest of the items were their original prices. The standard Sorceress I was hoping to buy never even got listed nor did any of the DC Universe figures.
Cyber Monday brought with it a 30% discount off all remaining items (excluding the con-exclusive Temple of Darkness Sorceress variant), an additional 15% off at check-out (excluding Castle Grayskull pre-orders), and half on on USPS ground shipping (again, excluding Grayskull). This would be a great deal had the Voltron lions been among the remaining stock, but four sold out almost immediately with the Green Lion apparently going as well sometime last night... thus ending my hopes of picking up a cheap Voltron lion.
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Enjoyment will be Arsenal's main motivation on Tuesday evening, according to Arsène Wenger.
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At his pre-match press conference, the Arsenal manager was asked if he needed to inspire his side after a lacklustre performance at Old Trafford last week. Wenger responded by suggesting the occasion would offer more encouragement then any team-talk.
"The players' dream is to be in the Final, so you don't need the motivation," said the Frenchman.
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"Every football player who plays at the top level wants to be a super player and wants to win big trophies – and we have a great opportunity to do that."
It is entirely typical of Wenger to talk of "opportunities" rather than problems before a massive game. Despite the display in Manchester, he would argue that Arsenal are halfway into the Final rather than halfway out of the competition.
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"No matter what happens on Tuesday I believe this team will make a big impact in the game and that is what we want to continue to develop.
"The progress this team has made since the start of the season has been remarkable. We are on a fantastic run in the Premier League - 21 games unbeaten - we are in the Semi-Final of the Champions League and we were in the Semi-Final of the FA Cup. I am convinced we can make it to this Final.
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Situated about an hour north of Detroit, is the tiny town of Hell, Michigan - consisting of a three stores, and a population of 72.
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Hell in a Handbasket, the local store, includes Hell's Kitchen for main meals, serving up "sandwitches", and a coffin-shaped ice cream bar where people can buy "Grave Digger" sundaes.
The shop is also home to the town's post office, which sells and sends between 500 and 600 postcards a week.
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A Screams souvenir shop offers a huge array of Hell-themed merchandise. As well as the usual t-shirts, coffee mugs and key rings, people wanting something a bit different can purchase their own piece of Hell - $6.66 buys you one square inch of the town.
The man behind the businesses, and the unofficial mayor of Hell, is John Colone - someone worth visiting Hell for by himself.
Looking around the town, Colone's good nature is apparent, but as a Vietnam War veteran, he has clearly seen more hellish sites than those on display in Michigan.
In 1968, Colone was shot five times, including once in the head, when his platoon was attacked.
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Colone takes a great interest in visitors to the town, stopping to chat to everyone, and find out where they are from.
During my visit, he came across a couple from Holy, Toledo, a source of great amusement. Holy Hell!
Another surprise in Hell was its wedding chapel. The six-seater chapel, complete with a question mark where one would expect to see a cross, hosted nearly 100 weddings last year.
The town was settled in 1838 by George Reeves, whose tendency to pay farmers with whiskey led many wives to say "he's gone to Hell again" when asked where their husbands were during harvest time. The name stuck, and the area was officially titled Hell in 1841.
While I was there, the temperature was an appropriate 41degC, however, I'm told that Hell does sometimes indeed freeze over.
Two years ago, when the water ways surrounding the town froze over, national television crews arrived to mark the occasion.
It was not the first time the town hit headlines: In 2006, Colone caused a stir when, in a news interview, he invited everyone to come to Hell to celebrate June 6 - (6/6/06).
More than 24,000 tourists descended on the tiny town - some having to park three miles away and walk in.
Last year the town made it into the Guinness Book of Records when it set the record for the longest parade of hearses - 51.
Colone said there were some who objected to the town, but for the most part people appreciated the humour.
"Even good people go to Hell."
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As California marks the first anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, actor/activist George Takei introduces California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom in conversation with co-authors David Boies and Theodore B. Olson of newly published "Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality."
The event, hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California, is to take place at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel on June 26, 2014, exactly one year after the court's ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California.
About the presenters
Takei is well-known for his appearances on the television series Star Trek is an activist for gay rights and same-sex marriage. With more than seven million followers on Facebook, the California-based star appears on MSNBC and via other media outlets as an expert guest.
Newsom is the former mayor of San Francisco who gained national attention in 2004 as an early advocate for same-sex marriage. He was elected as lieutenant governor in 2010.
Both co-authors were selected by Time magazine in 2010 as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
David Boies is the most prominent trial lawyer in the United States and has litigated some of the highest profile cases in recent history, including Westmoreland v. CBS, United States v. Microsoft, and Bush v. Gore. Boies is Chairman, Boies, Schiller, and Flexner LLP.
Theodore B. Olson is the premier appellate lawyer in the country. He has argued 60 cases before the United States Supreme Court, including Bush v. Gore and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Olson is Partner, Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher.
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In an interesting twist, Boies and Olson argued against one other in the case of Bush v. Gore, all the way to the Supreme Court, before joining forces on the matter of same sex marriage to forge the unique legal argument that would carry the day.
They will discuss the story of the five-year struggle to win the right for gay couples to marry, from Proposition 8's adoption in 2008 to its defeat before the highest court in the land in Hollingsworth v. Perry in 2013.
Attendees may arrive from 5:15 p.m. to check in for the 6 p.m. program, which is followed by a book signing in the Fairmont's Grand Ballroom, 950 Mason Street, San Francisco. Tickets are $25 for members of the general pubic or $15 for members of the Commonwealth Club, $10 for students (with valid ID). Premium tickets which include priority seating and a copy of the book are priced at $60 non-members, $45 members.


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Prazmowska, Anita J (2000) Eastern Europe and the origins of the second world war. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312233525
In this book Anita Prazmowska examines, from an Eastern European perspective, Eastern Europe's apparent political and military failures in the face of Nazi aggression. Until now, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and the Baltic States have generally been seen as powerless victims. Prazmowska suggests an alternative view, namely seeing them as states which had to grapple with complex economic, political and military dilemmas.
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France -- University of Michigan men's tennis player Evan King (Chicago, Ill./Kaplan) was a member of the American National Team that won the 2012 Master'U BNP Paribas Championship with a 5-2 victory against Germany on Sunday (Dec. 9). The United States won three matches over a five-day span to capture the title in the eight-team international competition.
The U.S. defeated Belgium 7-0 in the quarterfinals and secured a 6-1 victory over Russia in the semifinals. In the final against Germany, Team USA jumped out to a 2-0 advantage with consecutive wins in women's singles competition. With a two-point lead heading into men's singles action, King and Virginia's Jarmere Jenkins posted back-to-back victories over their opponents to clinch the team victory for the American squad. It marks the third time in four years that Team USA claimed the title, as the Americans defeated France in 2009 and 2011.
King, the fourth-ranked singles player in the country, was one of only six student-athletes selected to lead the United States in the competition that included college and university players from around the world. Jenkins and USC junior Ray Sarmiento joined King as representatives on the men's side, while Arizona State's Jacqueline Cako, Florida's Lauren Embree and USC's Zoe Scandalis were the women's participants.
The team was coached by Boise State head men's tennis coach Greg Patton and Cal head women's tennis coach Amanda Augustus. The U.S competed for the fifth consecutive year against a field that included Belgium, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and Russia. The teams competed in a best-of-seven format consisting of two men's and two women's singles matches, one men's and one women's doubles match and one mixed doubles match.
King finished last season with a career-best 34-7 record. He was named the 2012 Big Ten Athlete of the Year after posting a perfect 11-0 conference dual record from the No. 1 singles position. King went 3-3 in singles competition this fall and posted a 3-2 doubles record with teammate Shaun Bernstein (Plainview, N.Y./Plainview HS).Michigan returns to action following the New Year, heading to the Key Biscayne Individuals Jan. 6-8 in Key Biscayne, Fla. U-M opens its dual-match season on Saturday, Jan. 19, when the Wolverines host TCU at 6 p.m. at the Varsity Tennis Center.
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ASEAN nations bridge rural digital gap
(VNA - 22/09/2011) - The digital gap between rural and urban areas remains a challenge for people in the rural communities of ASEAN member countries, who struggle to get better access to key services such as education and healthcare.
The challenge prompted information and communication technology (ICT) experts from ASEAN member countries and IT groups to gather at a conference on Sept. 21 in Ha Noi to examine ways in which ICT can bring more efficient key services to people living in rural areas.
The three-day ASEAN rural connectivity conference for education and development also highlights the building of ASEAN-US public-private partnerships to facilitate the financing of underserviced rural areas of ASEAN.
Dr Somsak Pipoppinyo, Director of Finance, Industry and Infrastructure Directorate of the ASEAN Secretariat said rural information and communication technology (ICT) needed to be promoted in rural areas by increasing access, improving quality of services and availability of applications. This will help narrow the digital gaps between urban and rural areas and offer more digital opportunities.
ASEAN leaders in October last year ratified a master plan on ASEAN connectivity which encompasses three key elements of physical connectivity (energy, ICT, transport), institutional connectivity and people-to-people connectivity, he said.
Regarding financial issues, Jun Labadan from the ASEAN-US Technical Assistance and Training Facility said challenges were numerous. Challenges include raising the amount of infrastructure required, providing Internet access, upgrading facilities and training manpower for use and support.
He suggested solutions such as stimulating local Government financing, private public partnerships with local telecommunications companies and banks, grants and tie-in services that generate both service and income.
Regarding strategies for rural connectivity and technology in Viet Nam, Vice President of the National Institute of ICT Pham Manh Lam said the Prime Minister in October last year approved projects for development of information and communications in rural area during the 2011-15 period.
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Kenning: A kenning is a poetic metaphor. For example, the fishes' bath means the sea.
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Kenning: A word or phrase used by druids, bards, and poets to describe in highly symbolic language people, places, or things. (e.g. "the Plain of Tethra" is a kenning for the ocean. "The Cattle of the Plain of Tethra" is a kenning for fish and "The Man who tends the Plain of Tethra" is a kenning for a fisherman.)
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South Beach Hostel is on the main avenue of the Art Deco district of South Beach, just five minutes' walk from the beach.
South Beach Hostel is on the main avenue of the Art Deco district of South Beach, just five minutes' walk from the beach. The hostel is surrounded by bars, clubs and restaurants and has an onsite bar which stays open until 5am. Hostelworld guests have told us 'if you want to party this is the place to go'. Many travellers say this hostel offers good value for money, with one guest saying 'the location of this hostel for the price cannot be beat'
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UPDATE: June 15, 2011, 2 p.m. Voting is now CLOSED. Stay tuned for an update on the burger play-in match-ups.
UPDATE: June 14, 2011, 9:45 a.m. Fans of Patty Shack Burgers have been on our case, saying that we havent give the Grand Prairie eatery the chance that it deserves to shine in the play-in round. Well, Pattys partisans, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that were adding you to our list of Burgers on the Bubble. The bad news is that you only have until Wednesday at noon to vote, and youll need to garner a lot of votes and overcome some mighty burger forces before then if you want a place in the play-in. So put down that Patty Shack Burger and start voting.
UPDATE: June 13, 2011, 4:30 p.m. Last chance to vote your favorite burger joints into the play-in round. Burgers on the Bubble voting ends at noon on Wednesday, June 15.
UPDATE: June 7, 2011, 3:20 p.m.:
After listening to the suggestions in the comments section -- not to mention the nagging of our colleagues and friends -- we're adding two new burger joints to the Burger Bubble: Magnolia Motor Lounge in Fort Worth and Myrtle's in Burleson. In order to make the final bracket, though, you'll need to vote for them to earn a place in the play-in round. They have some catching up to do, so if you're a fan of either Magnolia or Myrtle's, time to get the word out.
The 2011 DFW.com Battle of the Burgers
Ladies and gentlemen, start your appetites. The DFW.com Battle of the Burgers is back.
Our first Battle of the Burgers took place during the summer of 2009, when 32 area burger joints squared off against one another, bracket-style. Week after week, we ate oh, boy, did we eat gradually whittling the competition down to a truly thrilling Final Four: Freds vs. Pappas Bros. and Five Guys vs. Jakes.
When the grease finally settled, Freds emerged as the ultimate champion.
Much has changed in two years: Recently-opened gourmet-style burger spots like H2 Burger Co. in Fort Worth, Chop House Burgers in Arlington and Maple and Motor in Dallas have made a quick and vivid impression. National chains like Heart Attack Grill and Smashburger have planted their beef flag in North Texas.
Oh, and lets not forget the 800 and ¼-pound gorilla in the room: In and Out Burger, the beloved California chain which just opened its first North Texas location in Allen and plans to add a dozen more in the coming months.
The 2011 edition of the Battle of the Burgers will kick off in late June.
First, though, we need your help finishing the bracket. Weve already selected thirty of the burger spots that will be competing. To see that list, go here.
But weve also left open two play-in spots and we're giving you the chance to pick the final competitors.
Heres how it works: From the list below, vote for up to four burger joints that you think deserve to be included in the final 32. The four highest vote-getters will advance to the play-in round, squaring off against each other. The two winners of the play-in round will each secure a spot in our final bracket.
Oh, if you think theres a burger joint weve left out, you can make mention of it in the comments section. If it secures enough mentions, well consider moving it onto the bubble.
The bracket
As for the 30 burger joints that have already made the cut, heres the list, in alphabetical order. We will be revealing the official ranked bracket in the coming weeks, when well also invite you to vote for a Readers Favorite burger.
Als Hamburgers, Arlington
Charleys Old Fashioned Hamburgers, Fort Worth
Chop House Burgers, Arlington
Chubbys Burger Shack, Fort Worth
Dutchs, Fort Worth
Five Guys Burgers and Fries, multiple locations
Freds Texas Café, Fort Worth
Fuddruckers, multiple locations
Grumps, multiple locations
H2 Burger Co., Fort Worth
Heart Attack Grill, Dallas
In-N-Out Burger, multiple locations
Jacksons Grocery and Grill, Arlington
Jakes, multiple locations
Johnny Bs, Southlake
Kellers Drive-In, Dallas
Kincaids Hamburgers, multiple locations
The Love Shack, Fort Worth
Maple and Motor, Dallas
M & O Station Grill, Fort Worth
OC Burger, Euless and Watauga
Pappas Burgers, Fort Worth
Pops Burger and Grill, Fort Worth
Red Robin, multiple locations
Smashburger, multiple locations
Steak and Shake, multiple locations
Tommys Hamburgers, multiple locations
Twisted Root Burger Co., Dallas and Roanoke
Whataburger, multiple locations
Wingfields Breakfast and Burger, Dallas


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The vision of our conference is to transform communities through healthy, Christ-centered churches that reach the lost for Jesus, develop godly leaders and multiply churches around the world.
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We all know the mantra when it comes to buying a new house or property - location, location, location. When you're in the business of healthcare, most would agree the mantra, or priority emphasis, should be customer satisfaction. No one can deny its importance.
That's why members of the Customer Satisfaction Task Force at The Chester County Hospital (TCCH), West Chester, PA, are so enthusiastic about their role in improving patient satisfaction throughout the 238-bed facility. And nurses are front and center in that ongoing effort.
The task force is one of some 16 implemented as part of TCCH's Hospital of Distinction Campaign instituted 3 years ago. While each task force is charged with improving the care provided to patients and families, the Customer Satisfaction Task Force is the most interdisciplinary. And judging by the hospital's recent Press-Ganey scores on patient satisfaction, it is accomplishing its goal - and earning accolades.
"Our core measure scores have increased," said its principal cheerleader and facilitator, Carli Meister, MSc(A), BA, RN, chair of the task force since its inception.
Meister, whose dual title is risk manager and director of customer relations, said the hospital's front-line nurses enthusiastically "bought into" the various initiatives instituted by the task force to build patient satisfaction. Those initiatives include fairly simple things such as leadership and staff hourly rounding, department "vows" posters and focus groups. Others with catchy names (Yacker Tracker and Fresh Eyes) were no more difficult to institute.
Why the Need
The Hospital of Distinction Campaign and subsequent development of the various task forces had their beginnings in 2005 when a senior core group of administrators saw the need for improvements in all areas of the hospital, including patient perceptions of satisfactory care and service, Meister explained to ADVANCE. The senior officials also wanted to put things in place to eventually seek Magnet status.
The campaign promotes increased efforts in specific performance areas to produce improved quantitative data through qualitative efforts. In other words, said Meister, the more the hospital does to raise patients' perceptions of their care through memorable experiences is usually reflected in higher customer satisfaction scores. "But you have to start with patient experience first - the front line between the patient, staff and hospital."
For example, nurses' rapid response to patient call bells - and doing more for the patients so there is less need to use the call bells - is memorable to the patients even after discharge when filling out patient satisfaction surveys.
Striving for Stellar
"Our Press-Ganey scores were relatively flat back in 2005," Meister continued. "Not bad, but on a 1-5 scale, the scores were surfacing at about 4. We wanted to move to 5s, to be more dynamic. We needed improvements that felt more measurable to the front-line staff. It's all about making the patient's memory a personal story of their relationship with nursing staff as opposed to betting on nurses getting excited solely about group data."
The Customer Satisfaction Task Force's goal is to have the nurses and staff in all departments of the hospital - including billing, housekeeping and nutrition - think about what the customer response data says to them and to question what part they can play in making a better impression on the patients.
Through staff meetings and making an extra effort to spend time with the staff "where they live" in their departments, the task force helps them see where they can make a difference that would be reflected in the Press-Ganey data.
"Improving patient satisfaction is our overall mission," Meister emphasized. "When our task forces were first established the emphasis was on establishing quantitative goals because that's what the world is all about. So we had to get to the point where we could reach for goals that could be measured."
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Early Detection of Polyps and Colon Cancer by Fluorescence Imaging - a Dose-finding Study
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Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
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|Early Detection of Pre-malignant and Malignant Conditions in the Colon by Means of Fluorescence Endoscopy Using Local and Oral Sensitisation With Hexaminolevulinate (HAL) - a Dose Finding Study
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|July 2006
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|November 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Colonoscopy is regarded as the "gold standard" for diagnosis of colorectal cancer. The sensitivity is uncertain but proposed to be (75-95%), however flat adenomas which are easily missed, are often not recognised. Fluorescence imaging may increase the sensitivity of standard white light colonoscopy by identifying more polyps and flat adenomas which will make the resection of adenomas more complete.
In this study hexaminolevulinate (HAL) will be administered locally as a photosensitiser, using different doses to find the optimal imaging conditions as well as making patient safety assessments.
Both standard white light and blue light (fluorescence) inspection will be performed.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Senior)
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- Patients with suspicion of colorectal cancer
- Written informed consent
- Data protection consent
- 18-85 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- Liver cirrhosis
- Hepatitis
- Abnormal liver function
- Porphyria
- Patient non-compliance
- Coagulation disorder
- Contraindication to colonoscopy
- Pregnancy and lactation
- Participation in another study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00285701
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|Brigitte Mayinger, MD, PhD
|Endlicher E, et al. Hexaminolevulinate-induced fluorescence endoscopy in patients with rectal adenoma and cancer: a pilot study. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2004;60:449-454
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|NCT00285701 History of Changes
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colorectal Neoplasms
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
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A homeless man who returned an engagement ring that fell into his collecting cup has been rewarded with £95,500 from well-wishers.
But Billy Ray Harris said he was only doing the decent thing and asked "What is the world coming to?" to have sparked such a response.
Engaged Sarah Darling accidentally dropped the diamond ring into the cup when it fell out of her purse. The next day she returned to the bridge in Kansas City and told Mr Harris she thought he might have her ring.
When he produced it, her fiance Bill Krejci set up an online fundraiser for Mr Harris, hoping to fetch $1,000. It went global - and the campaign raised nearly 15 times more.
It is thought Mr Harris will return to Texas, where he is from, after staying away because he thought he was a burden to his family.
Mr Krejci said: "We talked about what he plans to do. He has a very solid plan and a very solid way of making it happen." Mr Harris admitted: "I had that little devil on my shoulder saying, 'keep the money.'" But he resisted the temptation to pawn it.
"My grandfather was a reverend," he said. He raised me from the time I was six months old and, thank the good Lord, it's a blessing, but I do still have some character."
He added: "I don't deserve it. What I actually feel is, 'what is the world coming to when a person returns something that doesn't belong to him and all this happens?'"Reuse content


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The next day we got up early and sped off in a taxi to the Orang utan Rehabilitation Centre at Semengok National Park. Orang utans who have been saved from poachers have been rehabilitated and released into the park and are now successfully breeding. They get fed a percentage of their diet at 9am at various platforms which is why we had set off so early to try and see them. At the first platform fruit and veg was put down and we heard the trees begin to shake. We looked up to see Manap swinging slowly in. They are very graceful and cautious animals and seem to love hanging by their arms and not moving! He had been born wild in the Park and was 6 years old - he was tiny. He was closely followed by his 20 year old mother Minah.
We were SUPPOSED to get up the next day and do a 5 hour hike around the national park in preperation for the mountain we are going to climb (and im not speaking metaphorically here...gulp!) but when our alarms went off at 6am it was thundering so we promptly decided to leave it and slept in till 10am instead! We got up and hired a little 2 stroke motorbike - 125cc, a bit of grunt compared to the little hondas.
On Saturday morning we went to the pitcher plant and orchid nursery just out of town - amazing plans surrounded by big mossies! On the way back to the hotel the clutch went on our little bike and we had to push it up the hill, only 10 minutes but it was midday and very hard work! After much needed showers we made our way to the airport. It was time to move on to Sabah.


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Lbo Frenzy On The Continent
In August, Franz Scherer was thinking about working less and spending more time sharpening his bridge game and lowering his 16 golf handicap. Then the 56-year-old executive, who had just finished up a 10-year stint in top executive positions in Germany and France with Rank Xerox Ltd., got a call from a headhunter. So much for semi-retirement. Scherer is now CEO of Sirona, a maker of dental products that Germany's Siemens spun off on Nov. 3 in a leveraged buyout put together by Britain's Schroder Ventures. Laments Scherer: "My golf and bridge are really going to suffer."
Then again, Scherer, who plans to buy into the company, could pile up a tidy nest egg for his real retirement if the Sirona deal pays off by going public in the next five years. And he's hardly the only European exec dreaming of LBO riches. An unprecedented LBO boom is sweeping the Continent. Three deals in the range of $1 billion or more have been done since Jan. 1 (table). Another is planned by yearend, when the Italian telephone company is due to spin off its yellow pages in a projected $2 billion leveraged deal. With the price of deals skyrocketing, the value of LBOs done in the Old World this year will vastly exceed last year's $7.3 billion total for 90 deals, predicts Mike Stevens, head of management buyout services with KPMG Corporate Finance in London.
WINDFALLS. The $900 million March LBO of Geberit, a Swiss toilet-equipment maker, kicked off the European buyout boom. It was the first Continental LBO to approach $1 billion and the first to include a high-yield offering in a Continental currency. If dealmaking continues to escalate as it has since then, European competitiveness may increase dramatically.
That's because the deals are giving European conglomerates a new, profitable way to slim down and shuck off nonessential businesses. They are also giving many managers big windfalls. Take Nutreco Holding, a Netherlands-based LBO that was spun off of British Petroleum Co. in 1994. The producer of fish and animal feed went public in Amsterdam on June 3 and now has a market value of about $575 million. Some 70 managers still own a 10% stake, with about 6%, worth $34 million, held by Nutreco's top 10 executives. With such success stories all around, executives are now increasingly ready to jump when LBO firms call. In September, two top Adidas honchos took the helm of Norwegian sportswear maker Helly Hansen after Bahrain-based Investcorp acquired a 70% stake in the company for $112 million in an LBO.
A major impetus to the LBO wave is the revolution in debt markets as Europe moves to a single currency. Government bond rates across Europe are converging--at under 6% for 10-year debt, for instance--in advance of the January, 1999, monetary union. To earn higher yields, investors are searching for riskier credits. And LBO junk debt, with yields ranging from 9% to 13% on 10-year notes, is just the ticket.
"You can raise any amount of money for the LBO market," says Claes Dahlback, president of Investor, the holding company of Sweden's Wallenberg family, which has a $350 million LBO fund and plans to create a larger one.
Indeed, with institutional investors expecting 25% to 35% annual returns, London-based LBO funds have raised $7 billion in new money since January. The funds generally put up the equity while debt is covered by bonds and bank borrowing. Increasingly, major European insurers, such as Germany's Allianz, and pension funds invest in Continental LBO funds. "This has all happened in the last 12 months--and it's going to get a lot bigger," predicts Alan Jones, Morgan Stanley & Co.'s London-based European leveraged-finance chief.
Morgan Stanley, which has expanded Jones's operation to 20 people from 2 in March, isn't the only U.S. firm eager for a piece of the action. One reason London LBO funds are so hot is that U.S. institutional investors, turned off by sky-high U.S. LBO prices, are pouring money into Europe. CalPERS and other U.S. pension-fund managers are investing more aggressively in European LBO funds. And U.S. LBO firms, including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Carlyle Group, and Advent International, are expanding in Europe to take advantage of the opportunity. J.P Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Salomon Brothers, and other U.S. investment banks are also beefing up their European leveraged-finance operations. "The potential here is enormous," says Timothy J. Grell, Merrill Lynch & Co.'s managing director for European leveraged finance.
Europe provides fertile ground for LBOs. That's partly because numerous family-owned companies are looking to sell out as the post-World War II generation ages. Many big European conglomerates are also horribly inefficient. A recent J.P. Morgan & Co. study found that in 10 out of 14 industries, units of German conglomerates earn less than freestanding rivals. The situation isn't much better in other Continental markets. "Most of the big European conglomerates are on the investment bankers' hit lists," says one top London LBO fund manager. Possible targets: Germany's Siemens, Daimler Benz, and Mannesmann, and France's Pechiney, Generale des Eaux, and Saint-Gobain.
LITTLE TURMOIL. European LBOs, however, tend to be softer and gentler than their U.S. counterparts. Cost-cutting is far less extensive because labor laws and public opinion prohibit the wholesale sacking of employees. In the three years since its LBO, Nutreco has actually increased the number of its employees by 200, to 5,600. CEOs at most of the big Continental LBOs being done this year say they are counting on faster growth, not cost-cutting, to boost earnings and pay off debt. "This is a different style of LBO from the the wild ones in the U.S., where the new owners cut the company to pieces and laid off people," says Jean Paul Villot, CEO of French postal equipment maker, Neopost, a recent LBO.
Given the lack of tough cost-cutting and the escalation of prices, skeptics wonder how many of the Continental deals will pay off as expected. A number of firms say they passed over the Sirona deal because the price, rumored to be about $450 million, was too rich. Gordon Bonnyman, who heads London's Charterhouse Development Capital, says that it's now common for Continental LBOs to fetch 16 to 18 times earnings--a lot, given that most of them involve companies in mature, slow-growth industries. Bonnyman contends many LBO funds will have a hard time cashing out deals in two or three years unless European bourses continue to boom. "They're making a huge bet on European stock markets," he says.
Still, no doubt a massive amount of dealmaking is about to occur on the Continent. Its nascent LBO market isn't even as big as Britain's. And Europe's entire leveraged-finance market is still only perhaps 15% of the $110 billion U.S. market. "This is an emerging market that is one day going to rival the one in the U.S.," predicts Cecile Belaman, head of J.P. Morgan's London-based financial sponsors group. That day is probably still a long way off. But as recently as a year ago, such a prediction would have been barely imaginable.


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Janet Read's recipe for Corn Casserole
Janet Read lives in Woodstock, Ga., but she grew up in St. Joseph and was kind enough to send me this recipe for my Heaping Harvest of Recipes series.
"This recipe was given to me by my aunt, Jane Dowling, who lives in Okeechobee, Fla., but grew up in St. Joe also," Janet wrote. " She made this when I visited her for Thanksgiving in the late '80s."
Janet's sons love this dish, and request it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and other times during the year, Janet said.
"The leftovers are also delicious when reheated in the microwave," she wrote. "I have shared this recipe with friends throughout the U.S. and everyone agrees it is an awesome side dish.
Source: penniesonaplatter.com via Louise on Pinterest
Corn Casserole
1 can (15.25 ounces) whole-kernel corn, about 3/4 drained
1 can (14.75 ounces) creamed corn
1 box (8.5 ounces) Jiffy corn muffin mix
1 stick margarine, melted
8 to 10 ounces of sour cream
Combine all ingredients and pour into a 9x13 baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. The top will look like cornbread when done.
If multiple items are in the oven, this usually takes a little longer. To determine if it is done, Janet jiggles the pan. If the center still moves, it needs to cook a little longer.
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Springstowne girls a wrestling power
VALLEJO , Calif. -- The pictures hanging on the concrete walls of Jason Guiducci's gymnasium office tell the story of the Springstowne Wildcats. The team photos from the past 15 years include more and more ponytailed girls over time, until you get to last year's picture, which has so many they can barely be contained in the margins of the frame.
In fact, all of the walls in the office, which sits just off a cozy mat room on this converted high school campus at Hogan Middle School, are a hanging history of the country's largest girls' school wrestling program.
There are the citations from the mayor's office, newspaper clippings from the team's visit to the California State Assembly, homemade photo collages from team trips.
Just outside the office door sits a collection of trophies and a large U.S. map filled with circles drawn in black marker, showing all of the states where the girls have gone to compete.
Guiducci, the founder and coach of the program, is sitting at his desk for a moment, taking a quick breather.
He has already ushered a practice gym full of nearly 100 girls, jockeying for warm-up space on the mats, into two different gyms for competition. He's running the Northern California girls' wrestling championships, supervising volunteers and referees, checking on the snack bar, and shouting instructions at his wrestlers as he dashes past their mats on his way to putting out the next fire.
"Up, straight up!" he yells at Jamie Carino, an eighth-grader who is the third girl in her family to wrestle for what is now the Springstowne Wrestling Academy. Her sisters, Clarissa and Jennifer, have come over from their spots at two different scorer's tables to coach their sister from the corner of the mat.
The older Carino sisters came back on this sunny Sunday morning to help out with the meet. Their mother, Christina, is taking photos for the team.
"It's like a family," Christina Carino said.
Guiducci will tell you it's the only way he can run the program -- by getting help to coach nearly 90 middle school girls in a sport that Christina Carino admits she didn't think was appropriate for her daughters at first.
"My oldest came home and said she wanted to wrestle, and I said, 'What?'" Christina said. "After watching her that first time, I'm still screaming the same way I did that day."
Yes, wrestling for girls
Kent Bailo, director of the U.S. Girls' Wrestling Association, is in town for the meet. He calls Springstowne Wrestling Academy "a cult of good."
"There's nothing else like this in the country," Bailo said. "The girls love it. They tell their friends and they bring them here."
Girls' wrestling is among the fastest-growing high school sports; more than 7,300 girls competed across the country in 2010-11, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.
Five states currently hold sanctioned high school championships: Washington, Hawaii, California, Texas and Massachusetts. But middle school wrestling for girls is a hit-and-miss proposition, the opportunities varying widely from place to place. Springstowne is an aberration, not only for its size, but its success.
Springstowne has won 12 Vallejo City titles and six California championships. The program has sent dozens of girls into high school wresting programs and produced a handful of state medalists.
Four former wrestlers went on to Cal, where they are honor students.
Finding a base
The program wasn't always a hit at Springstowne.
Guiducci started it at Springstowne Middle School in 1996. The first two girls didn't join until 1999, and they had to wrestle against boys. It was a trickle compared to the flow he now has coming in. Guiducci has an "open door" policy. Girls can come in and join at any time during the year. A few arrived only last week.
"I can't seem to keep them from coming," Guiducci said.
Not that he's trying.
Hazel Solar is a seventh-grader, the fourth girl in her family to wrestle for Springstowne.
"It's in my blood," Solar said. "I can't explain it, but I really love it. It's my favorite sport."
Jamie Carino used to come to meets with her mother to watch her older sisters and work in the snack bar. Now it's her turn. She is one of the team's most experienced wrestlers. When she is not competing, she is mat-side cheering for and coaching her teammates. Guiducci can't be everywhere.
"I love how we all support each other," Jamie Carino said. "When you lose, there's always somebody there to make you feel better. There are so many of us."
No place like home
And after they wrestle here, they keep coming back.
Many, like the Carino sisters and 19-year-old Brenda Luke, return to help with coaching, scoring and mentoring. Luke, who graduated from high school in 2011, wrestled at Springstowne starting in the sixth grade after trying it in Guiducci's physical education class.
"I've been coming back to help since freshman year of high school. I've never really left, I guess," Luke said. "This program was such a big deal to me. It was always more than wrestling; it was about morals and respect."
When Luke joined the team, there were about a dozen girls and 30 to 35 boys.
"These girls mean so much to me," Luke said. "I will always come back."
Two dozen boys also compete at Springstowne. Guiducci credits them with being true teammates.
"This program is not successful without the boys," Guiducci said. "They have shared the spotlight, even surrendered it for the attention that goes to the girls. I can tell you for certain that in some mat rooms, even in the Bay Area, that when the girls come in, the boys run out. But this is a great group of boys. Some of them have sisters who wrestled here."
Enrique Mata, who wrestles for Springstowne, had an older sister who wrestled. He remembers attending meets when he was younger and wanting to do what she was doing.
"Some girls, they like to get out and do what they want," Mata said. "I remember watching it and thinking it looked really fun."
Accentuate the positive
Guiducci is set on making sure his program is a bright light in a community. Vallejo, 20 miles northeast of San Francisco, has the kinds of distinctions that no city wants. In 2008, it became the largest American municipality ever to declare bankruptcy. The working-class port city of more than 100,000 saw its violent-crime rates jump as its police force took huge cuts. Firehouses and libraries also closed.
Forbes has twice ranked Vallejo on its list of Most Miserable Cities in America. This year it is No. 6.
Guiducci has tried to generate positive media coverage for the girls, who he believes are an antidote for what's wrong in Vallejo. He invited the media to campus for a press conference when the team won a state championship. On the day the reporters were supposed to come, an ice cream driver was murdered within sight of the school grounds. They covered the shooting instead.
"It's hard. I don't really want to get into all the negativity around us," said Guiducci, a married father of two who has been teaching middle school physical education in Vallejo for 15 years. "We are here to do something positive in this community. Most of our kids are honor roll students, in a district with a 50 percent dropout rate. Wrestling is an individual sport, but we have really tried to make this a team. The truth is, we might have kids that don't even like wrestling that much, but they like being part of the group. It's a support group, and the kids feel better about themselves for being a part of it."
Guiducci's wrestlers do community service projects: collecting goodies to send to troops overseas, working at charity walks for breast cancer research, helping to build a neighborhood playground.
"I'm trying to teach them that the community needs them," Guiducci said.
The ringleader
Bailo says Guiducci is "like P.T. Barnum."
Guiducci herds 90 girls into wrestling practice and tournaments while finding enough uniforms and shoes. Yes, that certainly looks like a circus.
There were so many girls in Guiducci's program this year that he ran out of girls' singlets, so he had to give boys' uniforms to some of the girls. Then he ran out of those. There was no money to purchase more, as the program runs on donations, with no school funding.
Former wrestlers leave their shoes behind for the next group of athletes, sometimes putting their names and years in the shoes as if they were old school textbooks, their history recorded for posterity.
Some of the pairs date to the days when Springstowne Middle School was open, a few blocks from the Hogan site. When budget cuts and declining attendance forced the Vallejo Unified School District to close schools, Springstowne was on the chopping block -- Guiducci's program along with it.
"I was worried, the kids were worried," Guiducci said. "We stuck our necks out there."
The students on the team went to the school board and got petitions signed.
"First it was 'Don't close our school,' and then it was 'Don't take our name,'" Guiducci said. "We had raised funding to pay for warm-ups and mats, tens of thousands of dollars, and everything said Springstowne. We had one school board member who advocated for us. She told us she didn't want to see the program end in her boardroom."
An advocate
Adrienne Waterman first met Guiducci before she was a school board member. She had fought successfully for the construction of a playground at a local park, and it was to be a community project, the work done by volunteers.
Guiducci and a group of his girls were among those who came out to help.
"Here he comes with a team of 90-pound skinny girls whose T-shirts all looked too big for them," Waterman said. "That was my introduction to Springstowne girls' wrestling. And these darling little girls were using hammers and nails and pulling wheelbarrows. It leaves an impression."
Waterman has been a dedicated fan since, showing up at meets to cheer them on.
"What we have here is so distinctive," Waterman said. "Jason is Hercules as far as I'm concerned. He really is. He has pure respect for the kids. It's serious business for him. This isn't quaint for him. He's holding this thing up all by himself with his drive and his passion."
Springstowne is a national name in some respects. In wrestling circles, people know what's happening here. But in Vallejo, where crime and poverty are the more pressing issues of the day, Waterman believes there is not enough recognition or support. There are high-ranking officials in the school district who don't know much about the program.
"This program does not have the star power it deserves," Waterman said. "We were in a state of chaos for a long time, trying to keep programs alive, and this one has been kept alive because of Jason and the power of what he's doing, because there wasn't a tremendous amount of support. Our local newspaper doesn't cover this. I would love to tell you that they all look like superheroes in this city, but to be quite honest, I think Springstowne is better-known outside of Vallejo than it is here."
Waterman said she is intent on changing that.
"This program has done things we will never be able to quantify. How many girls didn't get pregnant, decided to go to college, didn't fall into things they shouldn't have?" Waterman said. "It's a magnificent thing."


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Britney Spears Arrives In Las Vegas To Celebrate Jason Trawick's Birthday
Britney Spears was spotted getting off her private plane last night (December 16th) to celebrate fiance Jason Trawick's brithday. The newly engaged couple are due to dine at the Sugar Factory before celebrating Trawick's 40th Birthday. The couple and their friends will then celebrate at Chateau Nightclub.
Britney updated everyone on how happy she is about getting engaged yesterday. She tweeted, "Still glowing! About to jump on a plane to Planet Hollywood in Vegas. Throwing a Bday Party for Jason at Chateau Night Club. So fun. Xxoo"
Brit posted the cutest message on Twitter yesterday morning: "OMG. Last night Jason surprised me with the one gift I've been waiting for. Can't wait to show you! SO SO SO excited!!!! Xxo"


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The quality you'd expect from a five-star establishment
Front and side airbags, and stability control to help keep you safe in a swerve
Feels solid as a rock; mixed reliability reports
Great for two people with limited luggage: the kids and dog will have to take the train
Alloys and climate control are standard, upgrade for sat-nav and parking sensors
Driving an Audi TT Roadster is like having a head-to-toe makeover: it'll make you feel fabulous. Even roofless the car feels as solid as the coupe, and grips fearlessly to the road. Avoid the bigger wheels if you want a smoother, quieter ride.
Better still, we reckon the two-wheel drive 2.0-litre engine with 208bhp is the pick of the range, so theres no need to splash the cash on a more powerful version. If you don't like grappling with gearboxes, try the six-speed S Tronic direct-shift which acts like an automatic.
With the roof down you'll need to raise your voice at higher speeds, but why not enjoy the sporty engine note instead?
Everything's geared towards making you feel glamorous, right down to the sporty flat-bottomed steering wheel and sumptuous faux-suede and leather seats. There's plenty of space up front, but don t try to squeeze anyone in the back seats - this car's definitely meant for two.
Tiny mirrors and windows don't help the view out, but you can improve matters in seconds by dropping the roof - a swift and elegant performance. And the good news is that the boot space isn't reduced by folding the roof. If you're tall you may have to sit low to avoid a dramatic hair restyle, but an electric wind-blocker keeps the worst draughts at bay. Every TT comes with alloy wheels and climate control.
The TT was Audi's best-performing model in the 2012 What Car? reliability survey, but Audi wasn't a strong performer and owners rated it below average for reliability in the JD Power customer survey.
Safety kit is decent, with stability control and four airbags on all models. However curtain airbags aren't even an option. The latest TT hasn't been crash tested.
The Audi TT isn't too expensive to insure or drive - provided you don't put your foot down too hard. Fuel consumption could be as good as 51.4mpg, but push it and you'll get through both fuel and tyres all too quickly. Contract hire costs are reasonable, too. If you can bear to part with it, there will be plenty of takers so you shouldn't lose too much money.