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3 months follow-up developed double bubble in both breast. Was put on anti-depressent to stop the pain in my breast (2 months) have come off of it. My breast still hurt where the crease of the implant and breast meet underneath nipples. 6 month out, hasn't improved, I didnt have any sagging or dropping in my breast. My right breast was constricted, surgeon said he had to stretch the hell out of it. Need advise on what I need to ask my surgeon, and do I need pay for any other surgery?
Pain and Double Bubble 6 Months Post-op
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Without examining you it is difficult to make recommendations.
If you are having pain, and developing a double bubble, I think the pain can be associated with the movement of the implant to a lower position as it lifts and stretches the tissues. It can be fixed, but there are usually fees. Many surgeons waive the surgeon's fee, but the patient will pay for facility and anesthesia. In our area the cost to the patient would be around $1500 for our patients.
Treatment of "Double Bubble" after Breast Augmentation?
Although best to give you advice after direct physical examination, I think you may benefit from revision of the breast implant pockets (capsulorrhaphy and/or use of acellular dermal matrix). Capsulorraphy involves the use of permanent internal sutures to reconstruct the lower poles of the breasts; this procedure may help to improve the contour of this area.
Consultation with plastic surgeons well-versed with revision breast surgery may be helpful.
Costs of revising a double bubble deformity after implants for constricted breast
Without a consultation or photos it is difficult to provide you with specific advice. However, it is quite common for a surgeon to offer complimentary surgical fees while the patient covers operating room. implant and anesthesia fees.
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Regarding: "3 months follow-up developed double bubble in both breast. Was put on anti-depressent to stop the pain in my breast (2 months) have come off of it. My breast still hurt where the crease of the implant and breast meet underneath nipples. 6 month out, hasn't improved, I didnt have any sagging or dropping in my breast. My right breast was constricted, surgeon said he had to stretch the hell out of it. Need advise on what I need to ask my surgeon, and do I need pay for any other surgery?"
Cosmetic Surgery is largely a visual endeavor. Despite your description, it is impossible to render professional advice without an examination, much less photographs. As a result, I will have to confine my comments to generalities.
Tuberous / constricted breast is a challenging entity which presents with a spectrum of partial to complete classical manifestations. Its correction rests fundamentally in complete release of the constrictive fibers that give such breasts the appearance of roots (IE tubers) and led it to be described as a Snoopy Dog Deformity. with all due respect, stretching these fibers does not always work. The surgical cutting and release of the fibers during surgery change the shape of the breast from a tuber to a hemispheric dome which can further be molded and enhanced by a well-chosen breast implant placed underneath it.
The appearance of the deformity at 3 months is most likely a function of the disappearance of swelling and unveiling of the incompletely released breast fold and breast constriction. A revision procedure may be in order.
Dr. Peter Aldea
You have experience "bottoming out" of the implants. This occurs sometimes when the orignal inframammay fold had to be substantially lowered (as in your case). A bottomed out implant not only looks bad, it often feels bad. If your breasts feel a lot better when you support them with the palm of your hand, revisional surgery will likely make them feel much better. The procedure you likely need is a casulorraphy where the bottom part of the pocket is closed off by stitching the capsule shut in the area of the desired inframammary fold.
Discuss this with your surgeon. Whether or not you need to pay all the costs depends on the financial policy of your surgeon. This should have been discussed prior to your implant surgery. Good luck.
Lisa Lynn Sowder, M.D.
Double bubble concerns
It is difficult to assess your situation without photographs of both the preoperative and postoperative views of your breasts. Correction of a constricted breast deformity is a difficult operation and revisions are common. The tight band deformity is usually a result of incomplete release of the constricted breast parenchyma. In a constricted breast (or the more severe tubular breast deformity), correction may require lowering of the inframammary fold, reducing the areolar size, and transecting the constricting bands in the breast. If there is a lack of skin in the lower half of the breast, a two-stage reconstruction using an expander followed by an implant may be required. These operations, although cosmetic in appearance, are reconstructive breast operations at their core.
The term "double bubble" is technically reserved for implants that have fallen below the inframammary fold and create two separate breasts mounds - the native breast, and the lower implant. Correction of this deformity requires properly resetting the location of the implant and reconstructing the inframammary fold. A much different operation.
Things to ask any plastic surgeon before breast surgery are:
- Are you board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (Not the unrecognized Board of Cosmetic Surgery)
- Do you have a lot of experience with constricted breast/tubular breast deformity or revision breast surgery?
- What are the realistic goals that I can expect from surgery?
- If I need a revision, who pays, how much, and what is the office policy?
I wish you the best in your revision. In any revision breast surgery, I recommend getting a second opinion. Many times, this second opinion is the same as your primary surgeon but it may help to improve your confidence in the surgical plan.
Deflating the Double Bubble
Sorry to hear your issue. Whether you have to pay for an revision surgery depends on your plastic surgeon's policy regarding revisions. Pictures would be helpful. The implant may have to be removed and replaced and the breast tissue where it is constricted will have to be reshaped internally. If pain is the main issue two thoughts: (1) consult with a pain management physician or (2) total removal of implants. These are some starting points to discuss with your surgeon.
Double bubble contour irregularity after breast augmentation
Without before and after pictures, it is hard to assess what the problem is. If you had any degree of tubular breast deformity, (constricted lower pole of breast), results can sometimes result in flat lower pole banding at the location of the high, tight inframammary crease. Release of this area is typically done from the inside during pocket creation, but sometimes a flat contour there results which may stretch and improve with time. In addition, oftentimes nipple lift and tightening is performed, and that can correct the double bubble appearance as well. I would have an open, honest discussion with your plastic surgeon, as I am sure they would like a good result for you. It could require a minor touch up in the office or something more involved in the operating room. As far as costs, it depends from surgeon to surgeon on their revision policy. Usually minor touch ups in the office setting can be written off. I can't explain the pain you are having.


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THE DOCUMENTARY : THE ART OF TESTIMONY
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Bibliotheque in Paris opens with the FID Marseille International
Documentary Film Festival as of 19 February.
A review of the 13th FID Marseille and previously unreleased films will be presented in the new MK2 complex until 5 March 2003.
“The documentary film is an art of testimony. Why testify? Because, whether wordy or silent, discreet or outrageous, unjust or marvellous, the world needs to recognise itself in moving figures that are arranged for it to see, at sufficient distance to disentangle their confusion or increase their richness, to contemplate them and to be moved by them. Testify for whom? For everyone. Testify to what? “Things, peoples, zones, regions, gradients, heat intensities, speeds”, as Deleuze says. But also beauty, terror and enigma. This is the evidence that the documentary gathers from the world. In order to gather such evidence, one must venture to be receptive. Therefore this requires the careful attention of an art. There is no ready-made formula for generosity, respect, and attentiveness to others. Accepting responsibility for the disarray of the unknown is a perilous exercise indeed, and testifying on the behalf of others is a sensitive task. Such a decision can only find its strength, i.e., its appropriateness, through a combination of the patience and inventiveness that are essential to all art. The FID Marseille International Documentary Film Festival invites you to witness and share countless adventures that may be austere or joyful, but which always raise awareness”.
deadline for the 14th festival: 15 March 2003
If you are waiting for our mail concerning registration of films for this year's festival, don't wait any longer!
All registration applications for the 14th festival must be submitted on-line through our Web site at www.fidmarseille.org
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We are please to announce the arrival of a new member of the Management Committee: Dominique Wallon who recently joined Gérald Collas, Henri Dumolié, Solange Poulet, Laurent Carenzo and Emmanuelle Ferrari, chaired by Michel Trégan.
on films and film-makers featured during the 13th FID festival
Claire Simon's documentary “La vie de Mimi”, now renamed “Mimi”, is to be released in France on 9 April 2003.
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Jayasundara's latest film has been officially selected for the Cannes Film
The world première of his first film, “The land of silence”, was presented at the 13th FID Marseille International Documentary Festival. He was also awarded a grant by Cinéfondation, which hosts young film-makers in Paris every year who are working on their first or second full-length feature film project.
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During my career as a breast augmentationspecialist in New Jersey, I’ve treated a number of women with breast asymmetry, meaning one breast was larger or shaped differently than the other. In cases where the difference was a cup size or more, the women were quite self-conscious about the appearance of their breasts. It clearly was more than a cosmetic issue for them.
So I wasn’t surprised when I read the conclusion of a recent studyfrom Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery that showed breast asymmetry can have a significant mental health impact on adolescent girls. The study of 59 adolescent girls whose breasts differed by at least one bra cup size showed the condition affected self-esteem, emotional well-being, and social functioning.
In fact, the researchers demonstrated that the negative emotional impact was similar to that measured in girls with overly large breasts — and in boys with gynecomastia (overdeveloped breasts). But while the costs of breast reductionsurgery for adolescent girls and boys is almost always covered by health insurance, breast asymmetry is considered a cosmetic issue only and a patient’s family often has to pay the entire bill.
Early surgical intervention
Early surgical intervention can actually minimize the psychological impact for teens and young women with severe breast asymmetry. For individuals whose breasts have stopped developing, breast enhancement surgery combined with mental health counseling can be beneficial.
In fact, cosmetic surgery patients who I see at my practice often tell me later how much more confidence they have after their procedures. When patients have long felt unhappy about their bodies, they tend to be very fulfilled and empowered by the results.
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Council job cuts hit 66,000
Wednesday 08 December 2010
The number of job losses announced or threatened by councils in Britain because of the Government's spending cuts has reached 66,000, research revealed today.
The GMB union said 64 local authorities have plans to axe posts in the wake of the Government's austerity measures.
The latest cuts will hit Suffolk, Aberdeen, Plymouth, Merthyr Tydfil, Cleveland, Derbyshire and Barnet, said the union, which has been tracking the series of job loss announcements since the Comprehensive Spending Review in October.
GMB national officer Brian Strutton said: "Every day brings new announcements of job losses. The latest batch is for 4,421 jobs under threat at 10 councils to bring the total so far to over 66,000.
"Council workers up and down the country are being asked to pay the price for the bankers' recession and for the bank bailouts that cost taxpayers £850 billion.
"The Government has sought to cut services and jobs rather than target the tax dodgers who avoid £50 billion in taxes each year.
"Council workers are not to blame, so why is the Government targeting lollipop staff, school dinner staff, cleaners, social workers and home care assistants? It is totally unfair.
"GMB officers are meeting with members to seek their views on what they want the union to do in this unprecedented situation."
Local Government Minister Grant Shapps said: "It is very sad that Labour and their union barons have resorted to trying to scaremonger public sector workers on a daily basis.
"Regularly the unions are confusing job cuts with a reduction in posts in local government, which can be delivered through natural wastage, mutualisation and early retirement.
"They also pretend that reviews of terms and conditions through Section 188 notices are the same as issuing P45s. Yet scaling back perks actually saves taxpayers' money which can protect jobs.
"We have been quite clear that if councils cut out excessive chief executive salaries, share back office services, join forces to procure and wipe out non jobs, they can protect frontline services."
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- 2 The BBC has just done more to eradicate ‘terrorism’ than all our wars since 9/11
- 3 Saudi preacher who 'raped and tortured' his five -year-old daughter to death is released after paying 'blood money'
- 4 Presidential optical illusion offers clues to how brain processes faces
King Salman: Just five days in, Saudi Arabia's new king has already overseen a beheading
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Saudi preacher who 'raped and tortured' his five -year-old daughter to death is released after paying 'blood money'
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Chilling drone footage captures Auschwitz ahead of 70th anniversary of liberation
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French court convicts three over homophobic tweets, in case hailed as a 'significant victory' by LGBT rights campaigners
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I know that by now, a deeper level of acceptance has set in. I have, in many ways, grown accustomed to my new life. I feel more at ease with it than I expected to be, but in all honesty, most of the time I choose to just power through...to work, hang with the cats, watch TV, run errands, and see friends without actually reminding myself of the reason why this is my new life.
When I recall that the suicide of my husband is the reason for this new life, I am startled. My mind knows all the facts. I have actually, for the most part, adjusted to this widowed life. But my heart hasn't quite caught up to it all.
I can do this. I can live this life. Sometimes I am okay with it and sometimes I'm not. But either way, I can do it. Acceptance has found its way to all the parts of my mind. The blurriness is gone.
I have begun waking up without sadness. It now feels normal to wake up in bed alone. I have begun listening to different music. It now feels normal to hear things I was afraid to hear before. I still have a list of things I can't listen to yet, but the list of what I CAN hear is growing.
There's a certain sadness in this. There is a dull ache that comes with knowing that waking up in bed alone is now normal. I still talk to Rick. Sometimes I whisper. Sometimes I yell. Sometimes I tell him funny things. Sometimes I cry to him. Sometimes the loneliness is almost unbearable. And it's the kind of loneliness that nothing seems to fix.
I still feel very out of place in the world around me. I have grown accustomed to my life at home, to new routines, to me. But I don't feel that way with the rest of it. I still don't feel on top of my game. I still feel out of sorts at times. I still get caught off guard with little things.
I have a lot of fear about what's to come. I actually have more fear than I expected. My mind knows Rick is gone, but my heart says, "Are you sure?"

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"Why on Earth would you go shopping in New York?" Charlotte, a 30-something finance professional is exactly the sort of person who you would expect to be off to New York for a bit of pre-Christmas retail therapy, credit crunch or not. "It's insensitive and the exchange rate is terrible," she says.
Last year, many of us knew people who had taken advantage of the strong pound and jumped on a flight to America and the chance to pick up Christmas bargains alongside the usual tourist attractions. Now the picture has changed; tens of thousands have lost their jobs on both sides of the Atlantic, the property crash is throwing potentially millions of us into negative equity, and 2009 looks bleak for UK plc. Suddenly the idea of making a quick dash to the Big Apple seems, well, crass. And the exchange rate is certainly not in your favour.
A year ago a pound bought you more than $2; now you get just $1.51. Mark O'Sullivan, a director at Currencies Direct, says the falling pound has made a trip to New York "less of a 'take an extra suitcase' occasion". However, he says against the dollar the pound has traditionally traded around the levels we are seeing today. "Furthermore, bargains can still be had as US retailers slash their prices, which could see savings of 30% compared with current UK prices," he adds.
However, shoppers have to be canny to find a good deal. Allison Phillips, a public sector investment adviser who recently holidayed in New York, said all was not lost. "There are still some bargains on American stuff like Banana Republic … and there seem to be sales on in most places, so it is making up for the exchange rate."
So is it worth making a special trip? Not really. Currently a 120GB iPod Classic costs £179 in the UK Apple store, but £168 ($249) in the US. Last year the exchange rate meant you could save more than £50; this year the saving is just £11. A 50ml bottle of Yves Saint Laurent Opium perfume costs £57 on the UK high street, while in the US it retails at £50.10 ($75.50). Last year the saving would have been around £20; this year it is less than £7.
Some things are still substantially cheaper: the Wii Fit is £79 in the US and £109 in the UK, for example. And you could buy a pair of Levi 501s for £22 ($46) in America last November, while in the UK the same jeans cost £60. This year the saving is smaller, but it is still cheaper by around £30. Once you add in the fact that hotel rooms, transport and eating out have all risen in relative cost as a result of the exchange rate, you realize there really is no value in going to New York simply to do you Christmas shopping.
In north London, David Ash is equally gloomy about his area of shopping expertise - nipping across the Channel for bargains. He runs day-tripper.net, a website dedicated to cross-Channel bargain hunting.
"It is a very difficult time at the moment," he says. "Speed Ferries has gone under and Eurotunnel isn't operating at full capacity." Following the recent fire in the Channel tunnel coaches carrying shoppers from north England have simply "stopped", he says - the extra time needed for the ferry crossing makes the daytrip unfeasible. "And then of course there is the exchange rate." The incredible shrinking pound is now only worth €1.18 compared to €1.40 this time last year - a drop of more than 10%.
The effect has been immediate. Auchan, the French hypermarket chain, saw a one-third drop in British footfall through its Calais store in October, says Ash. "Normally they get 65% of their customers from the UK. That has dropped to 45%." And Ash has seen three companies that rely on UK shoppers to France or Belgium go bust in the past two months with "more on the verge".
For a certain type of shopper, however, it can still pay to make the trip, he says. "Wine is 25% to 35% cheaper, the range is good, and the quality better." And while tobacco is still the main reason many make the journey ("if you do smoke the savings are enormous"), Christmas food and wine shopping can be cheaper, particularly for specialist items.
"Wines, specialist beers, cheeses, pulses, dried food - they are all better priced and there is a much wider range." Fish too: "Prawns are half the price." And posh chocolate in Belgium is a bargain: "A kilo in London will cost you £34. In Adinkerke, 40 minutes from Calais, it is £15. Great if you are buying presents for your staff."
However, it is not worth it for the weekly shop, no matter how close you live. "If you're buying bog standard, own-brand or loss leaders, UK supermarkets are cheaper."
The good news is that if you do go shopping online you can benefit from an upcoming change in the law. As of December 1, shoppers will not have to pay import duty on goods bought outside the EU up to the value of £105. Import VAT, payable at up to 15% on goods that cost over €22 (£18), and excise duty do still apply however, so it will pay to do your overseas online shopping calculations carefully. Postage costs have to be considered too.
What's more, high street Britain has a sale on too. "Retailers are responding to the downturn by introducing promotions and discounts the like of which I've never seen," says Krishan Rama from the British Retail Consortium. "It is a good time to grab a bargain at home," says Rama. "It doesn't make sense to go to the US with the exchange rate as it is."
This has yet to lead to a reverse of what we saw last year - US and European shoppers are not coming to the UK to bag a bargain, according to Rama. "Our [October] London retail survey didn't pick up people coming from Europe or the States," he says. "Although there was a rise in visitors from the Middle East after Ramadan."
Still fancy making the trip to America?
Flights and hotel
£583 a head: three nights (room only) at the four-star New Yorker Hotel based on two sharing a metro room. The hotel is one block from Macy's department store - apply in store at the Visitor Centre for a Macy's International Savings Card for a 10% discount. Includes return flights with British Airways from London Heathrow on December 11.
£599 a head: includes three nights (room only) at the four-star Hudson, a Philippe Starck boutique hotel two blocks from Fifth Avenue. Flying direct from Gatwick on December 5.
Getting to France
P&O Ferries offers £10 one-way day tickets for a car and up to five people.
· This article was amended on Monday December 2 2008. The paragraph underneath the heading 'Duty free' originally neglected to point out that import VAT, payable at up to 15% on goods that cost over €22 (£18) and excise duty do still apply to those shopping outside the EU. This has been corrected.


Singapore: a model for China?
The city-state is slowly relaxing tight social controls as its wealthier citizens push for freedoms.
A prosperous city-state famous for micromanaging both its economy and its people is beginning to relax the reins.
Last month, Singapore promised to revise a raft of rules and practices in response to public calls for greater freedom. Singaporeans are no longer expected to fly the national flag, and citizenship restrictions have been relaxed. Other changes include workplace rights for the disabled and the creation of an arts school and a philanthropy award.
As the government tweaks its social policy, civil society groups are sprouting here, airing views on gay rights, artistic freedom, and the environment. Their mild dissent has resonated among youth raised on a global diet of pop culture and consumerism.
For observers trying to gauge the spread of democracy in Asia, Singapore's cautious steps show how a maturing economy can embrace social and political change. While there's no exact correlation between prosperity and freedom, social scientists posit that democracy usually blooms after economic development creates a stable middle class that demands a greater say.
No where does this idea matter more than in China, where the Communist Party has unleashed an economic dynamo that threatens to undercut its long-term grip. Free-traders argue that bolstering China's middle class is more likely to bring political change than bashing Beijing's repressive rule, citing the Party's growing emphasis on its legitimacy as a provider of economic growth. Some China-watchers say members of the Communist hierarchy are taking note of Singapore's model of tightly controlled democracy and economic efficiency.
"Singapore is an ideal scenario in the eyes of the [Communist] Party elite who realize they have to be more responsive to the public," said Joseph Chang, professor of political science at Hong Kong's City University.
However, Chang and others caution against applying a formula used in a city-state of 4 million people to China, where sheer size and provincial disparities weigh against a neat solution. In recent months, China has shown its displeasure with Hong Kong's democracy push.
In Singapore, those hoping for a political transformation say the latest moves amount to little more than tinkering. Proposals to relax restrictions on free speech in public forums and arts venues were rejected, along with changes to an electoral system that gives opposition parties almost no chance of taking power. Local media are overwhelmingly pro-government and are shielded from foreign takeovers.
"We need political party competition, and this is something that no govern ment committee can give us," said James Gomez, an activist and co-founder of the opposition Workers Party.
Members of the Remaking Singapore Committee, which spent over a year drawing up recommendations and holding public hearings, say the steps adopted are broadly in line with local wishes. Many Singaporeans don't crave radical change, says Warren Fernandez, foreign editor of the Straits Times newspaper and a committee member.
Singapore censors arts and culture, banning foreign imports with sexual or political content.
But public spending on the arts has risen steadily - two new arts centers have opened since 2002 - and local arts groups have been allowed slightly more latitude to probe social taboos. Plays like "Bent," an award-winning British portrayal of gay oppression under Nazi rule, have been staged to local acclaim. While the government outlaws homosexual acts and gay and lesbian associations, it has begun hiring openly gay people and a small gay sommunity has taken root.
Issues of race and politics are more sensitive and will often raise the hackles of government censors, say performers.
"For every production that seems to be making headway in pushing forward the boundaries, there's another that gets its wrists slapped or funding pulled," says Beatrice Chia, artistic director of Toy Factory, a theater group. "It feels like we are still on negotiating ground."
Some observers reckon that Singapore's gradual easing of social controls will eventually spur political reforms, even if the government seems reluctant to let go for now. Fernandez says the public is more willing now to criticize government policy - particularly if it hurts their pockets. His paper was flooded last year with letters bemoaning a fare hike on city buses, forcing flustered bureaucrats to defend their actions. Fares have held steady this year, he notes.
"Our politicians realize that politics in Singapore will change and they have to adapt to a new generation," he says. "People are more educated, they travel more, and they are exposed to the world."
This idea of a slow political evolution guided from above strikes a chord with many Asian leaders, who argue that Western models of democracy don't always work well. Economic prosperity doesn't necessarily mean that people will agitate for US-style electoral politics, provided leaders earn legitimacy by performing well in office.
However, analysts point out that the spread of democracy in Asia hasn't followed this evolutionary trend. Authoritarian governments have fallen after popular pressure forced the pace of change, often fueled by bloody revolts. In the Philippines, dictator Ferdinand Marcos stepped down in 1986 amid massive demonstrations, and Indonesia's Suharto made a similar exit in 1998.
"Countries like Taiwan and South Korea have moved in the direction of multiparty politics and dynamic democracy, and we're still left with one-party dominance," says Russell Heng, a senior fellow at Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asia Studies.


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Community is important to us so when we set up the company we wanted to support a registered charity that shares our values and interests.
The Northern Lights Wildlife Society was a natural fit. Its shelter is located in Northern BC, where dedicated staff and volunteers rescue and rehabilitate wildlife for release back into the wild, including Black and Grizzly bears. And we do like bears.
From the sale of every Bear Sentry we are pleased to donate $5 to the Northern Lights Wildlife Society.


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"The Israeli tanks ... blocked the main coastal road linking the north of Gaza and the refugee camps south of the city," they said.
Israeli soldiers searching for militants in the West Bank killed a Palestinian gunman in an exchange of fire in which a bystander was also shot dead. The gun battle, outside a fire station in Jenin, coincided with an open-ended Israeli sweep that began yesterday in another West Bank city, Hebron, a frequent flashpoint of violence in the 28-month-old Palestinian uprising for statehood.
While the army pursued militants, final results of Tuesday's Israeli parliamentary election gave Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's victorious right-wing Likud party 38 seats in the 120-member Parliament, one more than in earlier tallies.
Short of a ruling majority, Mr Sharon faces a battle to create the unity government that he says is needed to confront what he calls terrorism and the prospect of a US war on Iraq that could draw Iraqi missile attacks on Israel.
He invited for talks a prospective coalition partner, Yosef "Tommy"
Lapid, pugnacious leader of the centrist Shinui party, which came in third in the election with 15 seats.
Mr Lapid, who opposes state subsidies and military service exemptions for Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews, has said he would not join a government that includes their political parties.
Likud's main rival, the centre-left Labour Party, was battered at the ballot box, dropping from 25 seats to 19 in the new Parliament.
In talks yesterday with Mr Lapid, Labour leader Amram Mitzna again pledged not to join a Sharon-led government.
In the Jenin shooting, soldiers killed a man identified by Israeli military sources as a senior operative of the militant Islamic group Hamas, which has carried out dozens of suicide bombings in Israel.
Sources said that troops surrounded the city's fire station and ordered everyone out.
"The firemen came out but one man started shooting from inside. No troops were hit, but a Palestinian was killed by his fire before troops shot him [the gunman] dead," one of the sources said.
Palestinian witnesses said the bystander was hit by Israeli gunfire.
At the other end of the West Bank, army engineers blew up two houses in Hebron. One belonged to a Palestinian convicted of the shooting death of an Israeli baby nearly two years ago.
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According to InStyle, every year hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with breast cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that last year, about 252,710 new cases were diagnosed in women. The organization also estimated that about 40,610 women died from it.
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer found in women in the United States. The hereditary nature of this cancer means that lifestyle can oftentimes have little effect on the development of the disease. However, a regular mammogram can increase the chance of finding the signs early and in time for successful treatment.
Below you can find 15 well-known women, who have had breast cancer and overcame it, and what they had to say.
1. Christina Applegate
The American comedy actress was diagnosed in the year 2008 at the age of 36. She underwent a bilateral mastectomy after finding out she carried the ‘breast cancer gene’, meaning the BRCA gene. Her malignant tumor was found via an MRI after her doctor claimed that the mammogram wasn’t sufficient because of the denseness of her breasts. During an interview on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’, she said:
I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s… This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.
2. Sheryl Crow
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and has now overcome the disease. She spoke to Health Magazine in 2012, talking about how to ‘allow yourself to experience your emotions’. She said:
As Westerners, we’ve gotten adept at suppressing them. It’s always ‘Try not to think about it’ or ‘Keep yourself busy.’ You push all that stuff down, and it manifests itself in other ways, whether it’s stress or disease. So my attitude was to grieve when I felt like grieving, be afraid when I felt like being afraid, and be angry when I felt like being angry. It also helped me to learn to say no to people. That’s been really liberating.
3. Cynthia Nixon
“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon was diagnosed in 2002 and privately treated her cancer with a lumpectomy and radiation, and then announced her diagnosis.
“Get your mammograms and don’t delay,” she said.
4. Kylie Minogue
She was diagnosed in 2005 at the age of 39, after being misdiagnosed initially by her doctor, as she claims. She had surgery four days after her diagnosis and began chemotherapy. She is now cancer free. She told Ellen DeGeneres in 2008:
So my message to all of you and everyone at home is, because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesn’t necessarily mean they are right.
5. Olivia Newton-John
She was first diagnosed in 1992 and became cancer-free for 25 years. Unfortunately, in May 2017, her cancer returned metastasizing in her sacrum, with symptoms of back pain. She, then, began receiving photo-radiation therapy. In a press release published on her Facebook page, she said:
I decided on my direction of therapies after consultation with my doctors and natural therapists and the medical team at my Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
6. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The American actress announced her diagnosis on Twitter in September 2017, at the age of 56. She wrote:
1 in 8 women get breast cancer. Today, I’m the one.
7. Carly Simon
The American musician had the cancerous lumps in her breasts removed, after being told they were nothing to worry about for years. Luckily, cancer hadn’t yet spread to her lymph nodes. She told an interviewer at Independent that ‘it really changes an awful lot of things,’ saying:
It allows you to grow a great deal because it makes you accept what’s new and different and maybe a little misshapen or not having testosterone and feeling hot flushes.
8. Dame Maggie Smith
She was diagnosed with cancer during the filming of ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’, at the age of 74. However, she continued filming even during the chemotherapy. She told an interviewer at The Telegraph:
The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I’m beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back. S*** happens. I ought to pull myself together a bit.
9. Suzanne Somers
She told the DailyMail that getting cancer was the ‘beginning of a new life’ for her. Instead of following her surgery with chemotherapy, she declined treatment and used Iscador, a medicine made from mistletoe, instead. She injected the medicine daily for 10 years, and she now attributes her unwavering health to it. She grows her own organic vegetables and has a fitness routine. She said:
My success was and is self-evident. I’m alive. I’ve lived. I’ve thrived and have grown as a person. I’m now healthier than ever. Who can argue with that?
10. Gloria Steinem
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1986, after which she had a lumpectomy. She discussed the effects of cancer with Dave Davies on NPR’s “Fresh Air” in 2016, saying:
It made me realize several things. One was – this may sound strange if I try to say it short – but that, actually, I wasn’t – I was less afraid of dying than of aging – or not of aging, exactly. I didn’t know how to enter the last third of life because there were so few role models because when I first heard this diagnosis, first, I thought, ironically, oh, so that’s how it’s going to end, you know? And then I thought to myself, as if it was welling up from the deepest part of me, I’ve had a wonderful life. And I treasure that moment. You know, it meant a lot to me.
11. Robin Roberts
After recovering from breast cancer in 2007 with a partial mastectomy and chemotherapy, she developed a rare blood disease brought on by the cancer treatment known as myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). She told an interviewer at Good Housekeeping in 2012:
I’m not one of those people who say, ‘Cancer is one of the best doggone things that ever happened to me.’ I was appreciating life. But [the disease] has made me far more patient than I’ve ever been in my life. And I’m more in the moment with people.
12. Judy Blume
She revealed the diagnosis in a blog post, writing:
Revealing her diagnosis in a blog post, renowned children’s author Judy Blume wrote of the received news of her biopsy from her routine ultrasound:
Wait – me? There’s no breast cancer in my family (recent extensive genetic testing shows no genetic connection). I haven’t eaten red meat in more than 30 years. I’ve never smoked, I exercise every day, forget alcohol — It’s bad for my reflux — I’ve been the same weight my whole adult life. How is this possible? Well, guess what — it’s possible.
She received a mastectomy 6 weeks after her diagnosis at the age of 74, and claimed that is was quick and cause very little pain.
13. Kathy Bates
She was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in 2012. According to Healthline, she said:
I’ve joined the ranks of women who are going flat, as they say. I don’t have breasts — so why do I have to pretend like I do? That stuff isn’t important. I’m just grateful to have been born at a time when the research made it possible for me to survive. I feel so incredibly lucky to be alive.
14. Wanda Sykes
She was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in her left breast in 2011. She went for a double mastectomy. Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres in 2011, she said:
I had both breasts removed, because now I have zero chance of having breast cancer.
15. Tig Notaro
She performed a transgressive comedy set in 2012, in which she admitted she had cancer to the audience, although she, herself had found out earlier that day. However, now she’s cancer-free, after a double mastectomy. She said on the stage:
Is everybody having a good time? I have cancer.


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When can we debate what the Daily Mirror has described as the “gravy train” of 25 former Ministers in the previous Government who are enjoying lucrative jobs in areas that they once regulated, and of the five former Select Committee Chairs who have jobs in firms on which they once adjudicated? Is that gravy train not bringing this House into disrepute, because of the feeling that people are hawking their insider knowledge to the highest bidder? Last week, the right hon. Gentleman said that he was happy with the situation and that all is fine. Previous holders of his office have led in making reforms in the House. When will he, as Leader of the House, start to lead?


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Gordon Elliott will look to defend his Troytown Handicap Chase crown this Sunday at Navan with Frontal Assault the bookies' favourite, writes Tom Masters.
A five-time winner of the race, Elliott’s most recent success came in last year’s event when Run Wild Fred eased home ahead of Farclas in an Elliott one-two.
This year Frontal Assault will be his frontline competitor, with Farclas also among the bookies favourites, as Elliott looks to visit the winners’ enclosure for the sixth time.
The Gigginstown seven-year-old finished second in the Irish Grand National last year behind shock winner Lord Lariat and has enjoyed success at Navan before.
There is a further good omen for Elliott too, with the favourite winning each of the past three renewals – Run Wild Fred (2021), The Jam Man (2020) and Chris’s Dream (2019).
Frontal Assault is priced at 3/1 but after a late change from running at Newbury, Thomas Gibney’s Velvet Elvis has emerged as a frontrunner to challenge the County Meath trainer.
Gibney’s six-year-old had been scheduled to run in the Coral Gold Cup on Saturday, but opted for a change of plan due to the ground soft at Navan.
Velvet Elvis comes in at 8/1 as the second favourite, with Gibney looking to win his first Troytown Chase at the fourth time of asking.
He said: “He just needed the run, we were really hoping to go to Newbury but the ground went against us completely - luckily we had the back-up plan of Navan.
“Training where we are, the Troytown is always a race I've had my eye on if we had a suitable horse for it.
“It's great to be going there this year – we have high hopes for Velvet Elvis this season so hopefully he can go in the right direction."
Jessica Harrington’s Lifetime Ambition will hope to pick up where she left off, having recorded an impressive second-placed finish at Punchestown in April, while Willie Mullins’ Eggality Mans and Fighter Allen are two of four horses given 12/1 odds.
Elliott’s Farclas will be looking to go one better than last year with Peter Fahey’s The Big Dog the other two coming in at 12/1.
Davy Russell and Rachael Blackmore take the ride on two more Elliott horses, with Russell riding Death Duty and Blackmore on Glenloe (both 16/1).


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1 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 package (4.67 ounces) foil-wrapped rectangular chocolate mints, unwrapped
Heat oven to 350°F. Beat sugar, butter, vanilla and egg in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt.
Reserve 3/4 cup dough for topping. Press remaining dough in bottom of ungreased 13x9-inch pan. Place 4 mints end-to-end on dough across narrow end of pan. Continue adding mints to make 7 rows of 4 mints each. Press mints lightly into dough. Crumble reserved dough over mints.
Bake 20 to 23 minutes or until light brown. Cool completely to set chocolate, about 45 minutes. For bars, cut into 7 rows by 4 rows.
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InfraTech Germany has gained a firm position among the German trade exhibitions. The third edition of this exhibition for infrastructure, which was being held from 10th until 12th January last, attracted 26% more exhibitors and 20% more visitors than the last edition in 2016. The adjoining knowledge programme was highly appreciated as well. InfraTech covered the entire scope of infrastructure and focused on Ground Works, Road construction, Hydraulic Engineering, Utilities and Waste Management, Public Space and Traffic and mobility. From day one, there was an optimistic vibe. This was strengthened through the positive political signals, expressed by Henrik Wüst, Minister for Transport and Highways of North Rhine-Westphalia. Wüst stated during the official opening of InfraTech Germany, that until 2030 there will be 20 billion Euros available on infrastructural projects in this region.


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It mainly includes compressor oil, lubricating oil used by large pumps and refrigeration oil (whether it is corrosive, copper or iron).
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(3) Water supply section: transformer oil (with single-stage oil filter) is mainly for large-scale railway bureaus.
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Because the use of general filtration equipment with the usual filtration method, it is impossible to remove such small impurities. In order to achieve a very precise filtering effect of more than 5 μ m, the company has taken the lead in developing and producing a brand frying oil filter at home and abroad, focusing on the thorough filtration of suspended particulate impurities. It not only meets the requirements of high precision, but also is suitable for operation at 185 ℃ - 200 ℃, and meets the needs of large industrial production filtration.
In the filtration operation, with the increase of the filtration pressure difference, the channels of the compressible filter slag will be narrowed and the fluid resistance will be increased. Sometimes, the channels will be blocked due to too small particles, which will affect the smooth filtration process.
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Louise Page is a local Memphis musician making strides in the music scene by just being herself.
She started playing music in the summer of 2016, and now she is recording her second EP and working on her first music video.
I met Louise through friends of friends, and I always admired her spunk and personality. It was not until I saw her first performance that I recognized her raw talent. Her songs sound like poetry mixed with piano, and each song has imagery more beautiful than the last. Needless to say, I have been keeping up with her musical endeavors ever since.
However, what I have admired the most about Louise is her ability to perform within such a male-centric music scene. As a result, I decided to ask her what life as a Memphis musician has been like since she started in 2016.
Choose901: Tell me a little bit about your time in the Memphis music scene.
Louise Page: My background in music is total band-geekdom. I started out as a classically trained pianist and was in the marching band in high school. I’ve been playing live original music in Memphis since the summer of 2016. It started out with me just playing a little solo pop-up shop on my crappy plastic keyboard, and has bloomed into me playing venues like the New Daisy, the HiTone, Growlers and Minglewood Hall with an eight piece band comprised of some of the most talented musicians in the city.
I feel extremely blessed and lucky for every opportunity that’s come my way – from recording my first EP last summer at Young Avenue Sound, to playing Grrl Fest, Za Fest, the upcoming Lucero Block party, and too many other rad shows to count. I can only attribute this growth to a genuine love of music and performance – it is like air to me, it is my joy, and I’ll never stop – combined with how beautifully Memphis supports local musicians, and the insanely dedicated, hardworking, talented people I’ve been lucky enough to work with and collaborate with such as my bandmates and the other people I have recorded with, Annalisabeth Craig, Eva Brewer, Jawaun Crawford, Victor Sawyer, Michael Laurenzi, Michael Todd, Calvin Lauber, Blair Davis, & Daniel Quinlan.
I can only attribute this growth to a genuine love of music and performance – it is like air to me, it is my joy, and I’ll never stop – combined with how beautifully memphis supports local musicians.
C901: What serves as your biggest source of inspiration?
LP: I’m constantly inspired by other musicians. A couple of my favorite artists are St. Vincent and Fiona Apple. I’ll play their songs over and over again to try to study how they got that mood, what the form of their song is, what instrumentation they used, and pick apart and store away the pieces that felt effective.
I’m also really inspired by all my sweet friends in Spaceface, local psychedelic rock phenomenons. They’ve been my friends for over 5 years now and have really pushed me to dream bigger and supported me. Love them forever.
I’m inspired by poetry. I’m inspired by literature. I’m very inspired by nature and animals. I’m inspired by visual art and my friends who create it. I’m very inspired by my own personal experiences – the ones that wrench all the way down to my gut. If I can cut to the core of that experience and extract the seed of emotion that is universally human, and implant that feeling into a song or a lyric, that’s when music becomes truly transcendent and effective. It’s a difficult thing to achieve, but it’s what I’m always reaching for.
I’m very inspired by my own personal experiences – the ones that wrench all the way down to my gut.
C901: How does it feel to often times be the only female musician to play at a show?
LP: It is so noticeable to me. Thankfully, I have two other rad, female musicians in my band, Eva and Anna! So, I’m never truly alone. However, it sticks out to me when I’m the only woman on a bill.
As a woman, I’ve had venues try to get away with not paying me, or not respecting business agreements – and for all I know, they treat men the same way, but that’s not the vibe I usually get.
It does feel that I’m expected to be this complacent, happy-go-lucky fairy princess; people don’t expect me to have any sort of business acumen. It has all been a learning process, but I do feel that I need to work harder, smarter and better, to garner the same respect and positive attention.
C901: What are some other female musicians in Memphis you love and look up to?
LP: I love Magnolia forever and always. Look up her stuff! It’ll break your heart and heal it again. I always get inspired listening to her. I love Nots. I love Sweaters Together. My friend SJ is doing some really unique stuff with her band The Outcry. My friend Allison Kasper has just started releasing her beautiful music and I’m so excited to be playing with her at her first official show at Growlers on February 26. Alyssa Moore is a complete badass constantly recording songs that make my head spin.
There is so much talent in Memphis, and I know I’m missing some people. Come out to Grrl Fest this year if you wanna catch some of the best female acts in the city. It was a complete blast last year!
C901: What upcoming shows are you looking forward to?
LP: So many! I’m really looking forward to playing the Lucero Block Party on April 14. I’m so honored to be on that bill and to be a part of such an iconic show. Check out my website for a full list of upcoming shows! Definitely come see us play this Thursday, 2/8, with Monticello and Rock Eupora at the Hi Tone!
C901: What has been the biggest challenge for you?
LP: My biggest challenge has always been believing in myself, but I’m making strides on that front. Just last month I quit my full-time, city government job that was preventing me from booking all the shows I wanted to. I finally had enough faith and confidence in my passion, drive and talent to pursue music more whole-heartedly. I believe confidence is my only true hurdle to fully realizing all my schemes and dreams.
C901:What are your goals for this year?
LP: I have such an exciting year ahead. I kicked off January by recording a new single at Young Avenue Sound, and we’re going to begin filming my first music video to accompany it this March. I’m back in the studio this April to record my second EP – I’m so excited to showcase how far my songwriting abilities have come in just one year.
Most exciting of all, this summer I’m taking this show on the road for an East Coast tour! Stay tuned for dates!
To anyone who has ever come out to a show, downloaded my music from Bandcamp or iTunes, or just streamed one of my songs on Spotify, you mean the entire world to me. Thank you for listening. Love to all.


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Leningrad chronicles 1970 № 26
Availability of videosources
Needs clarification of possibility of digitizing.
Annotation1. "Hello, school!" Celebration of the first bell at the new school. The first lesson about Volodya Ulyanov. A teacher with a globe. 2. Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Students get off the tram, to lectures, in the park near the institute. 3rd labor semester in the fields of the Leningrad region, loading boxes with vegetables. Lunch: milk with a loaf. With a guitar on the riverbank. 3. "Towards the 24th Congress of the CPSU" Knitting factory "Red Banner", knitter Eremenko. At a meeting of party groups of precincts. 4. "When a comrade is in trouble ..." The plot is about the brigade from the Upper Svir lock: trouble came - they gave their blood. 5. "Welcome to the Supermarket. Opening of the country's first supermarket "Vitebsk" on Bucharest street. Trading floor, counters, cash registers, customers. 6. "From 3 to 80". The plot of the BTK (Bolshoi Puppet Theater, directed by Sudarushkin).
1. A man takes his daughter to school on September 1.
A girl in a school uniform and a white apron with a bouquet of flowers.
Children with flowers go to school.
Children in front of the entrance to the new school.
A girl cuts a ribbon before entering the school.
Children come to school in pairs.
A lesson in the first grade.
The teacher tells the children about Volodya Ulyanov, there is a portrait of Volodya Ulyanov on the blackboard.
A teacher with a globe in her hands explains something.
2. A sign on the building of the Polytechnic Institute.
The teacher writes formulas on the blackboard.
Freshmen in the field harvesting beets.
A snack in the field.
3. Knitting factory "Red Banner".
The drummer of communist labor knitter V.Eremina.
V.Eremina trains a young worker.
4. The doctor at the patient's bedside.
A team of workers of the Verkhne-Sivrsky lock.
The dispatcher receives a call by phone.
The ship passes the lock.
5. Kupchino residential area.
The building of the new Supermarket.
Packaging and packaging of goods.
Opening of a new Supermarket.
6. Children's letters and drawings.
Fragment of a puppet show (synchronously).
Artists are puppeteers.
The main director of the theater V.Sudarushkin among the audience.
Adult audience in the theater.
Artists with dolls on stage, came out to bow.
Education; Industry; Health; Scope of Service; Theater; Culture and Arts Social life; Sectors of the economy

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Presentation on theme: "We Have The Information, Now What??? What can we do with all of the information that we collect? zCrop History (Varieties, Herbicides, Weed Pressures,"— Presentation transcript:
What can we do with all of the information that we collect? zCrop History (Varieties, Herbicides, Weed Pressures, Manure Applications, Past Field Divisions, Yield Data) zFertility Data (Phosphate, Potassium, pH, Buffer pH) zPlanting Data (Planting Date, Fertilizer, Seed, Herbicide, Insecticide Rates) zSoil Characteristic Data (O.M., CEC, Soil Type, Tile Lines, Compaction) zTopography (Elevation from Yield Monitor or the Geological Survey) zWeather History (Rainfall Data, Heat Units, Soil Temperatures) zYield Information (Yield, Moisture, Harvest Dates, Elevation, Normalized Yield) What Do I Do Now? Collectible Information
Let’s take a look at the process of sorting through the data. zStart with a plan zNeed to have an end goal in mind zCollect the Data zInterpret the Data zDecision Making zImplementation zEvaluation Don’t let this happen to you! Develop a plan.
What your plan should include. zWhat do you want to obtain with Precision Ag? zDecide which technologies you will provide you the most benefits. zDevelop a time line for each process. zDecide how each step will be best accomplished. zDecide who will be responsible for each step. zDevelop on farm tests to measure your progress. zKeep accurate records of anything that could affect your yield.
Start With Grid Soil Sampling zCorrect any yield limiting factors. yFertility recommendations are based off of the CEC, Crop Removal, Years to Build, Years to Apply, Row Starter Used and any Manure Applied. yLime Applications are based off of the Buffer pH, Type of Lime, Desired pH. yUse VRA either through the Mount Vernon Farmers Exchange or on your own equipment to bring your fertility levels up to their optimum levels. zBy correcting these yield limiting factors you will receive the maximum return on investment for your crop inputs.
Field Survey zDetermine the acreage of each soil type within a field. zDocument any environmental concerns. yWells, point of entry of an intermittent streams, gardens and landscaping close to the field boundary zDocument any known crop history. zDocument any known drainage and weed problems.
Plant with a plan zAs always use good agronomics. zChoose the proper seed varieties, population, row starter and crop protection. zRecord planting date, population, variety, seed size, seed treatment, starter rate, tillage, soil condition, and herbicide application. zPlant several yield trials to help you make sound agronomic decisions in the future.
Variable Rate Chemical Application zThe formula for variable rate herbicide application is calculated from O.M., CEC and past weed pressure. zWe have a Ro-Gator equipped for variable rate application. zWith variable rate herbicide application will provide optimum weed control with minimum crop stress.
Field Scouting zScout your fields in a timely manor. zDocument any weed, disease or insect pressure, stand counts and soil conditions. zIf any economic thresholds are met treat as necessary. zTake pre-side dress nitrate test to determine if additional nitrogen is needed. zWe will be taking pre side dress nitrate test on different soil type this summer to help determine the proper rate of nitrogen for each soil type.
Record Yield Information zKeep track of yields trough weights or a yield monitor. zEvaluate the information and determine what happened and why. zUse that information to make better informed decisions.
Lets Take a Look at a Yield map zThe yield in this field varies from 105 - 192 Bu. per acre zThe field average was 151.7 Bu. per acre. zWhy does it Vary?
Lets look at the fertility levels Phosphate Levels Potassium Levels
What about the pH? zFertility and pH are not Yield limiting factors in most of this field.

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MANCHESTER CITY HAVE been fined £35,000 after admitting they breached the FA’s anti-doping guidelines, according to a governing body.
As part of the rules, clubs are required to provide information so that they are available for testing at all times. They must provide details of all training sessions and player whereabouts.
Manchester City failed to comply with this rule, providing inaccurate information on three occasions, BBC Sport are reporting.
It is understood that training details were not updated following a change to their routine.
As a result, the fine was handed out an an independent regulatory commission hearing, and the club have been warned on future conduct.
An official statement from the FA read: “Following an independent regulatory commission hearing, Manchester City have been fined £35,000 and warned as to their future conduct after admitting a breach of the FA’s rules on anti-doping. “City were charged with failing to ensure their ‘club whereabouts’ information was accurate, contrary to Regulation 14(d).”
City will not be commenting on the matter, according to Sky Sports.
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Pooja Hegde is a fitness freak. The actress hits the gym very frequently and she spends hours together in the facility. Well, all the hard work is clearly showing now.
In the latest snaps of Pooja Hegde, the star actress is seen putting on a tempting show in a gym wear outfit that puts all her delightful curves to a scintillating display.
Pooja has sculpted a beautiful physique and the actress has made it a point to show off the same more often than not. Her sizzling show in the latest snap is enough to leave glamour lovers drooling for more.
The beautiful glamour feast from Pooja is not to be missed. There are very few sights more gorgeous than a slender diva flaunting her curves in a tight outfit and Pooja Hegde proves this right.

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- Alvord Unified School District
- State Mandated Assessments
- Federally Mandated Assessments
State Mandated Assessments
- California Assessment of Student Performance Progress (CAASPP)
- English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC)
- Early Assessment Program (EAP)
- California Standards Test/Modified Assessment (CST/CMA)
- Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
- California Science Test (CAST)
- Physical Fitness Testing (PFT)
Locally Administered Assessments
- Reading Inventory / Phonics Inventory (RI/PI)
- Common Formative Assessments (CFA)
- Content Area Reading Indicators (CARI)
- Mathematics Assessment Collaborative (MAC)
- Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
- Preschool Early Literacy Indicators (PELI)
- Indicadores Dinamicos del Exito en la Lectura (IDEL)
California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress better knows as CAASPP releases regular updates to our district. You can check here for upates that relate to state mandated testing and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Digital Library.
CAASPP Update 9-23-15Posted by Mark Rasmussen on 9/23/2015
In this issue:
- Countdown to Test Operations Management System (TOMS) Downtime
- Digital Library Spotlight Webinars and Forums Series—Supporting Students with Disabilities and Illustrative Mathematics
- Interim Assessment Hand Scoring Workshops
Countdown to Test Operations Management System (TOMS) Downtime
TOMS will be offline October 1–14. During this downtime, LEAs will not be able to access the following features:
- Interim Assessment Test Delivery System
- Interim Assessment Hand Scoring System
- Summative assessment downloadable student data files, student score report PDFs, and aggregate report files
- Online Reporting System, including viewing score reports and completion status
- Update users (i.e., add/delete) in TOMS
TOMS is scheduled to be back online Thursday, October 15, offering new system enhancements that will make the 2015–16 version of TOMS easier to use.
Digital Library Spotlight Webinars and Forums Series—Supporting Students with Disabilities and Illustrative Mathematics
On September 30, 2015, Smarter Balanced will begin a “Supporting Students with Disabilities” spotlight Webinar and forum series through the Digital Library. This series, which will take place over approximately four months, will highlight three Digital Library resources for supporting students with disabilities. For each highlighted resource in the series, a Webinar will be conducted to provide an overview of the resource materials and highlight formative assessment strategies that can be used to support teaching and learning. A forum will follow each Webinar to provide viewers with the opportunity to share their experiences. Each Webinar and forum will be facilitated by the resource author. The first resource to be highlighted in this series is titled Maximizing Access to Instruction and Testing for Students with Disabilities to Improve Achievement and will be facilitated by resource author Stephen N. Elliott, Ph.D. A second spotlight Webinar and forum series titled “Illustrative Mathematics” is already under way and follows the same format.
All Webinars are recorded and available through the Digital Library. Further information about both series is available on the CDE Spotlight Webinars and Forums Series Web page. Registration is required.
Interim Assessment Hand Scoring Workshops for Teachers
In October, the CDE, through its CAASPP contract with ETS, will provide eight workshops on the hand scoring of interim assessments. These half-day workshops will be conducted throughout the state and will focus on processes and materials for hand scoring constructed response-items from Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments. The workshops are divided into English language arts/literacy and mathematics sessions; attendees must choose which content area they wish to attend.
The target audience for the workshops is teachers. Other educators will be placed on a wait list and notified if space is available. Each workshop will begin at 1 p.m. and conclude at 4:15 p.m. Registration is available on the CAASPP Web site.


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It was a colourful summer. Maybe not hot and hazy, but colourful.
I usually like to bring a craft to do with the girls during our cottage holiday. It’s one time that I have a captive audience, so I like to take advantage of it. Not that the girls don’t like doing craft projects – they do, absolutely. But being teens, they have busier lives, and tie dying with mom isn’t as far up the list as it used to be in the old days. I find if I think of a craft that appeals to them, and do some of the initial set up so they can get involved in the fun and easy part, then it’s a great activity for the 3 of us and we all have a good time.
So here’s my advice if you want to do craft-bonding with your teens: remember IT’S ALL ABOUT THEM. Which probably applies to most things that have to do with teens. If you just accept this, then things go well. And tie dying some of the old odds and ends hanging around their closet to see what comes out the other side on a lazy summer day meets the criteria perfectly. So we had a great time, and wound up with a lot of colourful additions to our closets.
I’ve done tie dying with the girls in the past, when they were young. I always used the Rit or Tintex fabric dyes you can find at the drug store, the ones that come in the little boxes. But these colours tend to fade in the wash, and I wanted to try something a little more professional-grade. I headed over to G & S Dye for my advice and supplies.
These people know their fabric dyeing stuff. I chose a cold water fibre reactive dye called Procion MX, perfect for immersion dying. It’s a little more complicated to use than the packaged Rit dyes, but the colours are intense and amazing. And G & S will give you a kit with all the ingredients and supplies, making it all very easy.
I tend to take an experimental approach to my crafts and this one was no exception. We broke a number of tie dying rules, and in this case everything turned out fine. Obviously, following the directions carefully is the best way to ensure perfect results. But if you want to cut loose a little, here’s what we did, so you know what might work for you.
How To Bend The Tie Dye Rules
1. Most dyeing instructions specify cotton fabrics only. I used some cotton blends for this project and the dye worked great.
2. The dyeing instructions will specify how much dye you need to use for each pound of fabric. We dyed way more fabric than recommended. What happened was the shades got lighter as we went along. I didn’t mind the lighter colours and so this wasn’t a problem for me. Just make sure you first dye the items that you want coloured intensely.
3. For pure colours, you should dye white cotton items. But you can over-dye coloured items as well. This will change the final colour, but that’s all part of the fun.
4. You don’t have to buy new items to dye. The girls ended up pulling all kinds of older clothes out of their closets that they weren’t wearing any more. This is a great way to rejuvenate dingy or stained items.
Some of the things I dyed for this project were previously, and unsuccessfully, dyed with natural indigo. That was an example where I followed all the rules, and it still didn’t work out – go figure. These pieces had a light blue base, and the final results were great when I overdyed them with the new colours.
You’ll also notice that some of the things I dyed here were lengths of cotton fabric. I used these as sarongs, which I practically live in during the summer. This is a throwback to my backpacking-in-Asia days, when a sarong was your best friend. You could use it to make a dress, a short or long skirt, a bed sheet, a towel for the beach, and to carry your belongings. I don’t live in grass huts any more, but I still love to wrap a sarong around me on hot days. Obviously no one needs THAT many sarongs, but I got a little carried away.
Here’s a cute sports bra the girls made:
A fun crop top:
And a tank and some tees:
Fun, right? This is going to make for a pretty psychedelic household.
Here are my tie dye tips and tricks. So now you’ll know how to rip up a few bedsheets and make your family a set of sarongs.
How To Tie Dye
1. Gather your dye, elastics, and buckets for the dye bath. I used Procion MX cold water fibre reactive dyes in 4 colours – black, yellow, turquoise, and fuchsia. In addition to the dye, you need sodium carbonate, and salt. G & S Dye will sell you a kit with all the required supplies. We followed the directions on their website for immersion dyeing.
2. Wash all your fabric. G & S Dye recommends T.N.A. soap, a Synthropol-type detergent, but we just used regular laundry soap.
3. Tie your fabric using elastics to create patterns. There are all kinds of directions on the internet for tying specific patterns. We just like to do it randomly. Here’s one way that’s quick and easy, and gives you a circular pattern. Just pinch the top and wrap an elastic around the fabric, 1 or 2 inches below the top, depending on how big you want your circles to be. Work your way down the fabric, adding elastics at regular or random intervals.
We also sometimes pinch and tie with just one elastic to make polka dots. And sometimes we just gather the fabric and add elastics randomly. Don’t worry too much about getting it perfect – I find with tie dying, it all looks great in the end. Here’s what our fabric looked like.
4. Mix up your buckets of dye. Use 2 cups of salt for every 25 grams of dye (50 grams for intense black or navy blue), and about 7 liters of tap water. It helps to dissolve the dye in 2 liters of hot water before adding the rest. Dissolve 4 tbsp sodium carbonate in 3 cups of water and add to dye bath.
5. Dip your fabric. We just dipped random sections to mix several colours on one item, finishing with a final dip of the entire piece in the lightest colour to make sure all the white areas were dyed. Some pieces were dyed with just one colour. The longer you left the fabric in the dye, the deeper the colour was. After dyeing several items in one dye bath, the colours began to fade.
6. We let the fabric sit a while to help set the colour. Since our supply kit from G & S Dye included a bottle of Raycafix, a dye fixative, we gave it a try. We added the 120 ml bottle of Raycafix to a bucket of hot water, and gave our fabric a 5 minute soak. After that we rinsed everything well in buckets of clean water, until the water looked fairly clear. To finish up, we ran everything through the wash with the bottle of T.N.A. soap they gave us. All done!


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Freedom of speech. Is it being violated at our state universities? According to the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, thirteen out of sixteen universities in the public system have at least one policy that restricts students’ freedom of speech. That includes East Carolina University and Elizabeth City State University.
ECU officials have made it clear they understand how important this issue is. ECU Assistant Vice Chancellor Corey King says, "We received a copy of the report and we're moving ahead and this really gives us an even greater jump start in redeveloping our policies that fall in with the first amendment rights and that people feel are more conducive with free speech policies on campus." For a complete look at the report, click on the following link.

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