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Adventure World (India) Pvt. Ltd., is dedicated to maintaining the highest ethical standards in the travel industry. This dedication is formalized by our membership to the following international and national organizations:
IATO : Indian Association of tour operators
TANZ : Travel Agents Association of New Zealand
As one of the leading operators, Adventure World offers host of travel services to the foreign tourists visiting India. Attractive and carefully planned tours of the Indian sub-continent for both groups and individuals - are prepared and executed meticulously with professional and personalized service. They include all facilities based on choice of hotel accommodation, excellent cuisine, well informed guides and escorts, air, train and surface transportation, direct fax, e-mail and internet links will all its Indian & overseas associates also help us to maintain a rapid two-way communication, very essential in the travel industry.
We�ve enjoyed the finest reputation in the travel industry for many years. Our clients know us and like us so well that each year over half our passengers are people who have travelled with us before. These satisfied travellers are the basis of our reputation. We are pleased to welcome them back, and work hard to keep their respect. We are also proud of the long-term relationship we enjoy with the numerous companies and hotels with which we do business. Our clients are always accorded a warm and enthusiastic reception.
At Adventure World all your questions are answered. We have an experienced and dedicated team of professionals looking after all the inbound tours, once you put yourself in our hands you can sit back and relax while the magic of India unfolds before your eyes, the whole operation goes spot-on. To further personalize the services we have created separate department within the Inbound Tours.
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Trekking in Himalayas, Bicycle Tour, Camel Safari, Horse Safari, Jeep and Elephant Safaris, Wildlife Tours, Skiing, Rafting, Sailing Down The Ganges and Other Allied Activities.
A reward is the best form of motivation, and what can be more rewarding than a perfect holiday. That�s what we at Adventure World believe in and deliver with that personal touch to make each individual more comfortable and at home. Operating a successful special interest tour means using the services of a ground operator who understands both the nature of the motivation business and the local logistics. That is where the expertise of Adventure World comes in.
India is a conference country and venue of many international congresses. We at conference division give valuable support right from the planning-stage, site selection till the actual time of the conference with pre-and-post conference tours.
travel is an incentive has increasingly become an important marketing tool, realizing its tremendous potential in attracting visitors to India, we arrange incentive tours to the exotic and luxurious spots that India has to offer. Form a ceremonial welcome with caparisoned elephants and camels, classical and folk dance programmes to traditional Indian banquets in fairy-tale palaces and fun -filled cocktail parties in plush hotels and private homes. All looked after to the minutest details.
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Labels: Marta, Quaker Samplings, With My Needle
At 22 June 2007 at 22:28, Tanya
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Wow the color you chose made this design very radiant! Congrats :)
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That turned out so pretty! Do like the color you used.Marianne

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Last views of Quebec
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sifting through all of your memories and sightseeing photos i fell in love with quebec.ReplyDelete
quebec looks great!ReplyDelete
schedules changing
the weather is changing
like you it will take me
some weeks to get settled
but today
I will enjoy an other day
of sun!
Patrice A.
Dear Kristen,ReplyDelete
my sister is living next to Quebec in Montreal. For me its amazing how different the landscape is in summer and in winter. And, how native this landscape is with the many 'Native American' names, mixed with the language of 'foreign' settlers.
That power! These energy... nature!
You've captured this in a very beautiful way. Both is fantastic, the City and the nature. LOVE the first image here!
All the best for you and your family.
Nothing is more constant than change...
Love! Ariane.
Your photos of Quebec have peaked my interest in travelling across Canada again. We talk about doing it but never have.ReplyDelete
All the kids in the neighbourhood are getting ready to go back to school on Sept. 7. I hope your horizon looks promising to you! x
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2012 at 7:42 AM
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.Calibrators :)ReplyDelete
All your Canada photos are absoulutely impressive, my favorite is the 1st one - love it. Good luck with your new expanded time!ReplyDelete
thank you for sharing your beautiful journey - great pictures!ReplyDelete
I wish you a creative time when your son goes to school! :-) mano
Beautiful pictures. Enjoy some creative time.ReplyDelete
hi kristen, i dare to come and ask you,ReplyDelete
i'm on the prowl for talent to play.
i hope you'll find the time and urge,
and be very welcome any which way.
next weekend's drawing challenge!
and enjoy your weekend already! x
hope you are allright, xReplyDelete
i really enjoyed your quebec pictures, but now i miss you!ReplyDelete
xx, julia
Thanks for the information... I really love your blog posts... specially those on Local Tamil NewsReplyDelete


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Gorran Haven
At low tide Gorran Haven has a good sized beach of golden sand. East facing Gorran Haven lies on the South coast of Cornwall near Mevagissey. It is sheltered by a pier and Maenease Point to the southwest and Little Perhaver Point to the north.
There is a post office and the Barley Sheaf Inn in Gorran Churchtown village for refreshments and a car park a short walk away.
Areas of interest nearby include the fishing village of the Eden Project at Bodelva near St. Austell, the fishing village of Mevagissey, the Lost Gardens of Heligan near Pentewan and fine walks southwest along the coast path towards Dodman Point and on into Veryan Bay and the Roseland Peninsula or northeast around Chapel Point into Mevagissey Bay.
Dogs are permitted all year round.
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OS Explorer Map 105: Falmouth and Mevagissey, Truro and St Mawes
This map is part of the Ordnance Survey's Explorer series designed to replace the old Pathfinder map series. At 1:25,000 scale this detailed map shows a host of attractions including gardens which are open to the public, nature reserves and country parks as well as all official footpaths, bridleways, roads and lanes. Other facilities covered include: camping and caravan sites, picnic areas and viewpoints, selected places of interest, rights of way information for England and Wales, National Trail and Recreational Path routes, and selected tourist information. The series is aimed mainly at the experienced map user but can be used by tourists and locals alike.
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There is a great choice of cottages for rent in the local area. Take a look at the beautiful cottages in Gorran Haven, Mevagissey, Charlestown and Truro.
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Stay at a nearby Holiday Park and keep the kids amused all day! Parks in the vicinity include those at:
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In the vicinity is a choice of camping and caravan sites offering high quality, affordable holiday accommodation. Consider camps in Mevagissey, St Austell, Fowey and Roseland.
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Blink, blink
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 at 5:13 pm by Wally
Like bunnies caught in the headlights… today we have been able to venture outside, blinking in the cloudy day. The first time in 2 weeks where the temperature has been under 33 – and most of those 2 weeks we've had 37 to 46 degrees. I think there were two days under 37 (and above 30).
A consequence of the heat is the grapes have ripened a lot earlier than usual. I did a quick sugar test this morning from the poor, pathetic shrivelled things. If it's possible to ferment out, this should yield a red with 16% alcohol. This is the highest sugar level EVER, and one of the earliest harvests.*
We picked today, a whole 6 1/2 buckets. A simlilar amount had to be dropped on the ground, or just left, because whole bunches are so dried there is no juice left to get. What we picked is now crushed and the juice is hard to find. The fermenter is under half full – and that includes the seeds, pulp and so on. The heat has taken its toll, the berries that looked good had very little juice in them either.
Still, we'll get the ferment started soon, and might scrape in 4 to 6 bottles this year. In a more normal year, we would make somewhere around 30 bottles per row… this year I donated a row to the birds and a row for ourselves. So much for generosity to the birdies!
(The eye, by the way, seems to be just fine… and must be if I'm out picking grapes and making wine all day).
* when the sugar level is too high, the little yeasties die before they can ferment all the sugar… the alcohol they make kills them. So making a wine with an alcohol level above about 14% to 15% is very difficult. A few winemakers can get up to about 16% or even a tiny bit higher, but it's not the norm. So in this case, we'll probably end up with a red of about 13% or 14% with some residual sweetness.


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Triple Treat
Of course her powers are actually tremendously useful. It's just she never gets a mission that would take proper advantage of them. Imagine how great she'd be in a covert operation: she can be in two or three places at once! She could be having a conversation with the evil overlord, while at the same time rifling through his panty drawer. And eating pizza.
There are great stretches of Legion stories I haven't read yet, so it may be that someone did get around to writing her well, but there's not much sign of it in the two Showcase volumes so far available.
And it gets worse. In volume two, one of her selves is killed! One third of her being is destroyed! And so we get a touching little scene in which she says "Oh, guess I'll need a new name, then." You can almost feel the entire lack of emotion. By complete coincidence, the day I read the story, I also saw the episode of the Legion cartoon where T-Girl #3 gets offed, and they at least gave her a couple of minutes to be upset about it before changing her name to Duo Damsel.
And then to cap it all, in a recent storyline (mostly Countdown) she loses her second self, and renames herself Una. She now has the super power of being able to be one girl. I'm not sure if this technically counts as a super power anymore.
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Kaufman died of heart failure Saturday, two days after his birthday, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his son, Frederick Kaufman.
A former newspaperman who launched his screenwriting career after serving in the Marines during World War II, Kaufman quickly made a mark on pop culture by writing the screenplay for "Ragtime Bear," the 1949 cartoon short directed by John Hubley that introduced the near-sighted Mr. Magoo.
The character, which was voiced by actor Jim Backus, was modeled in part on Kaufman's uncle.
"My uncle had no problem with his eyes," Kaufman said in a 2007 National Public Radio interview. "He simply interpreted everything that came across his way in his own particular manner, and he could at times be a little bit difficult, but he would only see things the way they existed highly subjectively to him."
Kaufman wrote the screenplays for "Unknown World" and "Aladdin and His Lamp" before spending more than a decade as a writer at MGM, where he was known as a top script doctor.
His first screenplay for the studio -- "Take the High Ground!," a 1953 movie about Army basic training starring Richard Widmark -- earned him the first of his two Oscar nominations.
Then came his Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Bad Day at Black Rock," the 1955 suspense-drama starring Spencer Tracy as a one-armed World War II veteran who finds more than he bargained for when he gets off the train at a tiny desert whistle-stop.
Other Kaufman film credits are "Raintree County," "Never So Few," The War Lord," "Living Free" and "The Klansman." Among his TV credits are "Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb."
Early in his Hollywood career, Kaufman fronted for blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on the 1950 film-noir crime classic "Gun Crazy."
Kaufman didn't know Trumbo, but they shared the same agent, George Willner. When Willner asked Kaufman if he'd be willing to put his name on the script, Kaufman later recalled, "I had sense enough to say, 'Let me talk it over with my wife.' "
"But we discussed it and we believed it was rotten that a man couldn't write under his own name," Kaufman told Daily Variety in 1992, the year Kaufman officially requested that the Writers Guild of America West take his name off the credits and replace it with Trumbo's name.
"Any time I had speaking engagements where they included that film in my credits, I always set the record straight anyway," Kaufman said.
Christopher Knopf, a screen and TV writer who met Kaufman at MGM in the early '50s, said that "the greatest facility for him was he was absolutely unafraid to face a blank page with no guarantee of anything."
"A lot of writers today cannot write unless somebody will call up and say, 'You have an assignment,' and that was not Millard; he wrote," said Knopf.
Kaufman had a major screenwriting assignment at age 86, but then the project fell through.
"I decided, knowing that nobody my age gets work in movies, and that I had to do something, otherwise I'd get into terrible trouble, that I would try writing a novel," he told The Times in 2007.
That was the year "Bowl of Cherries," which a New Yorker writer described as "equal parts 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'Die Hard,' " was published.
Kaufman's second novel, "Misadventure," is due out this fall.
Born March 12, 1917, in Baltimore, Kaufman spent two years as a merchant seaman after high school.
After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1939, he moved to New York City and worked as a newspaperman for the Daily News and Newsday.
In 1942, he joined the Marine Corps and saw action on Guadalcanal, Guam and Okinawa.
In his later years, Kaufman wrote the screenwriting book "Plots and Characters: A Screenwriter on Screenwriting."
Said Knopf, who met with Kaufman and other Hollywood veterans for weekly lunches at a Santa Monica restaurant: "When you were around him, he elevated you about the craft that you were in and made you want to do the very best you could possibly do."
In addition to his son, Kaufman is survived by his wife of 66 years, Lorraine; his daughters, Mary Carde and Amy Burk; and seven grandchildren.
Services will be private.
Instead of flowers, donations may be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund.


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Name: True name unknown, has had many titles throughout history. Commonly referred to as "Ketsuron."
Age: Unknown
Faction: None
Deck Name: Unknown
Deck Description: Unknown. Reports say he is accompanied by the "Dracoslayer" monsters.
Character Skill: "Genesis 0" - Effects Unknown
Personality Description: Existing as the final judge of humanity, Ketsuron is mostly silent. An embodiment of the world's justice, he has little personality to speak of, beyond his pride and hatred. He seems to have something against those associated with the woman known as "Tsubasa" in this day, and seeks to prevent them from achieving any goal.
Background: A "hero" who exists beyond the realms of space and time, Ketsuron appears in this world when humanity has begun to stray from its intended path. It may be possible he predates the existence of mankind, being a judge for all life in the universe. He appeared in this world most recently several decades ago, at the beginning of the massive conflict that has reached Tsularia. His goals are unknown, though he seems to know of an impending event that the world itself does not. Currently, he acts as a mere observer beyond his indirect interference in the actions and lives of Tsubasa, Muse Ryuusei, and Sho Arizaki.
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Dress to Press Persuasion - As a rule, people resist being sold. They love to buy, but hate sales pressure. Succumbing to persuasion pitches implies you've allowed your weaknesses to ...
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In the research paper "Peacock, Porches and Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous consumption as a sexual signaling system, researchers (Jill M. Sundie, Douglas T. Kenrick, Vladas Griskevicius, Kathleen D. Vohs, and Joshua M. Tybur) have examined the link between spending and mating strategy. Conspicuous consumption is a form of economic behavior in which self-presentational concerns override desires to obtain goods at bargain prices. Showy spending may be a social signal directed at potential mates. Researchers investigated such signals by examining which individuals send them, which context triggers them and how observers interpret them. Three experiments demonstrated that conspicuous consumption is driven by men who are following a lower-investment mating strategy, and is triggered specifically by short –term mating motives. A fourth experiment showed that observers interpret such signals accurately, with women perceiving men who conspicuously consume interesting in short-term mating. Furthermore, conspicuous purchasing enhanced men´s desirability as a short-term (but not as a long-term mate) mate. Overall, these findings suggest that flaunting status-linked goods to potential mates is not simply about displaying economic resources. Instead conspicuous consumption appears to be a part of a more precise signaling system focused on short-term mating. Read the full 56 page research paper here.
More on spending or projected spending capability and sexual attraction in The Science of Sex Appeal in the YouTubeclip here, where attractiveness depends on income rather than lookso
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A recent Uber court case has seen the Federal Court dismiss Uber's appeal of GST inclusion.
For the many individuals who use Uber for both business and private travel, the Federal Court has recently dismissed Uber's appeal of the ATO's inclusion of ride-sharing as a 'taxi service' for the purposes of GST.
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What goes vroom, screech,vroom, screech, vroom, screech….? A new driver going through a flashing red light!
Ahhhh! Remember how exciting it was to finally get a bonafide driver's license? Do you know someone who has just passed his or her driver's test? Why not help mark that special occasion by sending a little something from Mirth in a Box?
We think any combination of these would be quite fun and functional:
- Filler Up Bank– As the coins pile up the gas gauge inches towards full!
- Dashboard Monk-A calming influence for the agitated driver!
- Dashboard Zombie–Perfect for someone who tastes run towards the macabre!
- EARring- I love the look and feel of this silicone ear!
- Diamond Bling- This key ring looks like a giant diamond ring but doesn't cost as much!
- Mr. Tap Water Bottle– One of our 20 oz. aluminum water bottles that fits nicely in to the average cup holder.
- Eco Ceramic Cup-I use this all the time! Fits in to my cup holder, ceramic is thick enough to keep my coffee warm and the silicone sleeve keeps my hand from burning!
- Recoil Rewinder- Keeps cell phone cords (both hands on the wheel!) stored neatly so there is never and excuse to be without!
- Popcorn Scented Air Freshener- A riffs on the ubiquitous pine tree air freshener!
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House was among the top 10 series within the United States from its second by fourth seasons Distributed to sixty six nations, House was essentially the most-watched tv program in the world in 2008. It seems that an artful arrangement of fruit also offers you plenty of bang for your buck, in terms of oohs and ahs and… nicely… some Instagram likes This fashion of tart, with contemporary fruit atop a cheese or custard filling can also be highly adaptable to season; top the goat cheese interior with no matter fruit you might have readily available, and time of the 12 months, and it ought to serve you well.
When I was a lady growing up within the late Nineteen Fifties, my Auntie's row home still had a coal bin and a basement kitchen that was warm within the winter and funky in the summer. His mother was out of state with his dying father, and he told me that she agreed i might dwell at the home (he was watching it for them) and was imagined to be dwelling out of state even after the daddy handed away.
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As you know this month has been all about colors! To add to this I have been specifically working on two word phrases (color + object) with several of my kiddos. My go to resource when working on two word phrases for colors and objects is Mr. Potato Head (ex. blue nose, green hat, etc.) but I also put together some interactive flip books too! These flip books have been great to expand new vocabulary of nouns and colors. Check them out below! You can click on any picture below to check it out on TPT too! (Sorry for the glare, lamination just doesn't photograph well!)
App Review {Smarty Spell}
I was so excited when I saw Smarty Ears was looking for bloggers to review their new app, Smarty Spell. I LOVE the Smarty Ears apps for speech and language therapy and use many of them in my therapy sessions each day. I was even more excited because this one seemed more geared towards teachers with the spelling theme. I don't work on spelling with my speech kiddos (there may be SLPs that do, I just don't have any kiddos on my caseload with spelling goals). So, when I reviewed this app I looked at it purely from a teacher stand point. First, the price of the app is $3.99 and is available in the iTunes App Store. I think the price is definitely fair.
Here's what the icon looks like. Such a smart little hippo!
Here is the opening screen. Very easy to navigate and begin using right away,
Setting up players is super easy too. You simply put in a name and add an avatar or a picture. I choose an avatar. I like that it doesn't ask for a birthday. Many of the other Smarty Ears apps ask for birthdays and I usually don't have the birthday right in front of me and I don't like to put that much patient information into an app. I am super cautious about HIPAA!
Here's the page of spelling lists to choose from. I played around with the custom lists so you'll see my short /a/ list I began creating. I would really like to see pre-loaded lists by phonics pattern. Whenever I taught spelling in the classroom we always went by phonics pattern.
Here's what the actual spelling page looks like. Very clean and simple. I like the letter tiles for kiddos that struggle with spelling but to use this app with the on grade level or advanced kiddos I'd like a keyboard instead of the letter tiles to make it more challenging or as close to a real spelling situation as possible.
Here's a breakdown of what I believe are the strengths of the app and a few wishes I'd like to see in the future of the app. : )
In the end I would recommend this app for struggling spellers in the classroom but not with my class as a whole. It would a great app to include in an RTI plan. With a few updates I think it could definitely be a whole class option to use instead of the traditional spelling test on Fridays!
*Please note I was not paid for my review of this app but I was given the app for free to review.*
Vocabulary Parking Lots
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Things at work have been ridiculously busy and my sweet husband's baseball season has started so I apologize for being so MIA. I just wanted to pop in real quick and share a new FREEBIE! I have a few little kiddos who LOVE cars and we are working on naming and identifying vocabulary. So, I while trying to combine the two I came up with vocabulary parking lots! You ca download them for free by clicking on either picture below!
Here's the parking lot in action! You can also connect mats to make one long road as kiddos get more and more comfortable with the vocabulary.
What can you use these for? Here are some ideas!
•Following Commands: Say "Drive to the ___".
•Naming Vocabulary: Say "What's that?"
•Identifying Vocabulary: Say "Can you find the __?".
•Two-step directions: Say "Drive to the __ then go to the __".
•Object function: Say "Find something we __ (wear/eat/ride, etc)".
•Qualitative Concepts: Say "Find something that is ____ (yellow, small, etc.)".
•Non-speech/Environmental Sounds: Encourage imitation of animals sounds, make a car sound "vroom" as you drive.
All About Color!
Happy March! March brings one of my favorite themes to teach, colors!! During the month of March we did anything and everything to do with the rainbow when I was in the classroom! So, in speech this month I wanted to incorporate colors into therapy. With my little ones we will be sorting objects by color and practicing our two word phrases for colors+object and with my bigger kiddos I have some crafts to incorporate more difficult articulation or language goals! I plan on doing all of this with my new packet, All About Color!
This packet was created for speech and language therapy but also for kindergarteners too! I know those kinder kiddos work on identifying and naming colors throughout the school year and there are many activities in here that would work great with kinders! I think I am most excited about the crafts, I am a sucker for crafitivities. There are three crafts with templates included in the packet.
I had to throw in a pot of gold for St. Patrick's Day. I plan on reading several Leprechaun books with my sweet kiddos this month too!
I cannot get enough of these 3D rainbows! They are just awesome. All the crafts were created with the speech and language strips included in the packet. I also used colored copy paper for each craft. I bought the rainbow pack of colored copy paper from Walmart. I used the /k/ and /g/ strips for my examples but there are MANY different goals covered. I hope March decides to be a little warmer than February has been! Have a great week!
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The body of this crab spider is white, yellow, light green, or tan; it is darker along the sides. In some specimens, there are red markings on the carapace and legs. This specimen has three pairs of brown spots on its back. The first two pair of legs in the male are red or brown. Males, at 2 - 3 mm, are much smaller than females, at 5 - 11 mm in length.Habitat:This spider lives on flower heads, where it catches insects. It can change its color to match its background. It is found throughout the United States.
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Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo watched the Patriots beat the Texans, and he wasn't impressed.
Ayanbadejo, whose Ravens will travel to New England on Sunday for the AFC Championship Game, wrote on Twitter during the Patriots-Texans game that he thinks the Patriots' offense is a "gimmick," and that the Patriots do things that he views as cheap shots.
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Although Ayanbadejo plays linebacker, he actually won't see much of the Patriots' offense on Sunday: Ayanbadejo is almost exclusively a special teams player, and he didn't get a single snap on defense on Saturday against the Broncos. But Ayanbadejo didn't only talk about the Patriots' offense. Ayanbadejo also brought up the Spygate scandal, when the Patriots and coach Bill Belichick were disciplined by the league office for taping opposing coaches in violation of league rules, and the fact that New England cut wide receiver Tiquan Underwood the day before the Super Bowl last year.
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It's surprising that Ayanbadejo, an intelligent man who's well respected around the NFL, would choose to give the Patriots bulletin-board material heading into the AFC Championship week. Perhaps Ayanbadejo was trying to fire up his own teammates. He has certainly assured that the Patriots will be fired up to see him on Sunday.


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Welcome to Gaia's Dreams. This book-in-progress concerns how we humans think about the future — and how that influences our path to achieving global sustainability.
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Gaia's Dreams is also the third book in a trilogy that began with Believing Cassandra (1999, updated 2011). A bestseller when it came out, the book is still used in university courses. Cassandra, the prophet of ancient Greek myth, predicted the future. Believing Cassandra, the book, looked to the past: how we came to find ourselves with a global sustainability problem, despite the warnings of many scientific Cassandras; and what happens when we start to take those warnings seriously.
The second book, The Sustainability Transformation (2008, updated with a name change* in 2010), looks at the present: what we can do, now, as sustainability change agents. (When you are trying to make change happen, there is always, and only, Now.) The book also introduces theories, methods, ethics, and tools for sustainability. The Sustainability Transformation is also used in courses and training programs, and it also provides the background for my company's Accelerator tools.
Gaia's Dreams is best explained by its working subtitle: "How the way we think about the future determines our fate." This work-in-progress is not a book of forecasts and visions and scenarios, but rather a book about them — how we create them, from the personal level to the global scale. How we relate to the fact that the future does not yet exist, but is always coming at us, relentlessly and unavoidably.
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- Research article
- Open Access
Gender differences in hemispheric asymmetry for face processing
- Alice M Proverbio1, 2Email author,
- Valentina Brignone†1,
- Silvia Matarazzo†1,
- Marzia Del Zotto1, 2 and
- Alberto Zani2
© Proverbio et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2006
- Received: 23 January 2006
- Accepted: 08 June 2006
- Published: 08 June 2006
Current cognitive neuroscience models predict a right-hemispheric dominance for face processing in humans. However, neuroimaging and electromagnetic data in the literature provide conflicting evidence of a right-sided brain asymmetry for decoding the structural properties of faces. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether this inconsistency might be due to gender differences in hemispheric asymmetry.
In this study, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded in 40 healthy, strictly right-handed individuals (20 women and 20 men) while they observed infants' faces expressing a variety of emotions. Early face-sensitive P1 and N1 responses to neutral vs. affective expressions were measured over the occipital/temporal cortices, and the responses were analyzed according to viewer gender. Along with a strong right hemispheric dominance for men, the results showed a lack of asymmetry for face processing in the amplitude of the occipito-temporal N1 response in women to both neutral and affective faces.
Men showed an asymmetric functioning of visual cortex while decoding faces and expressions, whereas women showed a more bilateral functioning. These results indicate the importance of gender effects in the lateralization of the occipito-temporal response during the processing of face identity, structure, familiarity, or affective content.
- Face Processing
- Hemispheric Asymmetry
- Right Hemisphere
- Face Identity
- Fusiform Face Area
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Kanwisher and coworkers [1] found an area in the fusiform gyrus that was significantly more active when the subjects viewed faces than when they viewed assorted common objects. The authors concluded that this area, hereafter called the fusiform face area (FFA), might be specifically involved in the perception of faces, not ruling out that other structures might be play a role in this process.
Indeed, Haxby et al. (2000) provided evidence that face perception involves a distributed and hierarchically organized network of the occipito-temporal regions. In this model, the core system consists of the extrastriate visual cortex (FFA), which mediates the analysis of face structure, while the superior temporal sulcus (STS) mediates the analysis of changeable aspects of the face, such as eye gaze, facial expression, and lip movements.
Interestingly, the Kanwisher et al. study [1] showed an activation of FFA only in the right hemisphere in about half the subjects (both men and women), whereas the other subjects showed bilateral activation. These results raised the possibility of functional hemispheric asymmetry in the FFA. Studies addressing this possibility have provided conflicting evidence: several human [2–6] and animal studies [7] found stronger activity in the right hemisphere, while other studies failed to support the notion of a strict right-lateralization (e.g. [8] performed in 5 men and 7 women).
Closer examination of several studies offers more details, but no consensus, on hemispheric asymmetry in areas devoted to face processing. Yovel and Kanwisher [9] found significantly higher fMRI responses to faces than to objects in both the left and right mid-fusiform gyrus regions, although this effect was slightly greater in the right than the left FFA. In another fMRI study [10], a region that responded more strongly to faces than to objects was found within the right fusiform gyrus in 8 subjects (both women and men); however, in 6 of these subjects the same significant pattern was also found in the left fusiform gyrus. Recently, Pourtois and coworkers [11] performed an fMRI study on face identity processing on a group of 8 men and 6 women. Results revealed a reduced response in the lateral occipital and fusiform cortex with face repetition. Specifically, view-sensitive repetition effects were found in both the left and right fusiform cortices, while the left (but not right) fusiform cortex showed viewpoint-independent repetition effects. These findings were interpreted as a sign of left hemisphere dominance in terms of the ability to link visual facial appearance with specific identity knowledge. In line with this, a case has been reported of hyperfamiliarity for unknown faces after left lateral temporo-occipital damage in a female patient [12], suggesting a possible role of the left hemisphere in identity processing. Again, a recent fMRI study [13] carried out on 8 women and 7 men provided evidence of a significant activation of right fusiform and occipital gyrus (2260 voxels), left fusiform gyrus, left inferior, and middle temporal gyrus (3022 voxels) for a face familiarity effect during gender classification, thus providing a complex lateralization pattern for processing face structures and properties.
Recent ERP and MEG papers reporting P1 and N170 topographic distributions. ERP components were recorded in response to faces and other visual objects over the left and right occipital/temporal areas.
Papers (Authors and year)
# Ss
P1 and N1 distribution and effects
Right asymmetry for face processing
[14] Batty & Taylor (2003)
P1 larger over the RH but not sensitive to emotions or face-specific. N1 emotion-specific but bilateral.
Yes (Not face- specific)
[43] Bentin et al. (1999)
Prosopagnosic patient with right temporal abnormality and not face-sensitive N170.
[44] Caldara et al. (2004)
N1 larger over the RH to both Asian and Caucasian faces.
Yes (not race-specific)
[45] Campanella et al. (2000)
Face identity sensitive N170 larger at right posterior/temporal site.
[46] Esslen et al. (2004)
N170 to neutral faces activates the right fusiform gyrus (LORETA).
[47] George et al. (2005)
Mooney faces. P1 bilateral not modulated by face inversion. N1 larger on the right hemisphere to both inverted and upright faces.
Yes (to both inverted and upright faces)
[48] Gliga et al. (2005)
N1 larger over the RH to both bodies and faces.
[15] Halgren et al. (2000)
Overall, laterality greater on the right than the left in fusiform face-selective activity, but a high level of individual variability.
[20] Harris et al. (2005)
2 female prosopagnosic patients. For NM M170 not face-sensitive. Face selectivity effect (faces vs. houses) for KL >LH (RH = 17.3 fT, LH = 26.9 fT).
[20] Harris et al. (2005)
3 male prosopagnosic patients. For EB and KNL M170 not face-sensitive. Face selectivity effect for ML > RH. (RH = 57.6 fT, LH = 35.6 fT).
[20] Harris et al. (2005)
M170 larger to faces than houses and tended to be larger at LH (p < 0.08).
[18] Henson et al. (2003)
Face sensitive N170 was larger at superior temporal area.
[49] Herrmann et al. (2005)
Bilateral P1 and N1 larger to faces than buildings.
[50] Holmes et al. (2005)
Not specifically mentioned. From inspection of Fig. 2. P1 much larger on the RH to both faces and houses. N1 larger on the RH to faces only (unfiltered stimuli).
Yes (Not face- specific)
[51] Itier & Taylor (2004)
Face specific P1 was bilateral. N170 was larger over the RH at parietal/occipital sites.
[52] Itier & Taylor (2004)
N170 to upright faces is bilateral
[53] Itier & Taylor (2004)
Face-specific P1 is larger over the RH. N1 was bilateral at occipital sites. It was larger at right parietal sites to objects, inverted faces, and upright faces.
Yes/no (to objects, inverted and upright faces.)
[21] Jemel et al. (2005)
No hemispheric asymmetry for P1 or N1 to faces.
[54] Kovacs et al. (2005)
Face (vs. hand)-specific N170 was larger over the RH.
[55] Latinus et al. (2005)
Mooney faces. Bilateral or left-sided P1 not sensitive to face-inversion. N1 larger on the RH to upright faces.
[19] Liu et al. (2000)
M170 larger to faces than animal and human forms at bilateral occipital/temporal sensors.
[22] Meeren et al. (2005)
Face-body compound images: lead main effect (p = 0.04) for P1 amplitude with O1>O2>Oz, but post hoc tests failed to reveal significant differences. ERPs to isolated faces: P1 and N1 to angry and fearful faces were not right-sided.
[16] Pizzagalli et al. (2002)
N1 larger over the right fusiform gyrus and affected by face likeness.
[17] Pourtois et al. (2005)
Unfiltered faces: P1 affected by emotional content (fear vs. neutral) in both hemispheres. N1 strongly right-lateralized to upright vs. inverted faces. LAURA source estimation for P1 and N1 topography in the left extra-striate visual cortex
Yes (but LH generator for source estimation)
[23] Righart & Gelder (2005)
N170 amplitudes were more negative for faces in fearful contexts compared to faces in neutral contexts, but only significantly for electrodes in the left hemisphere.
[56] Rossion et al. (1999)
N1 larger at posterior temporal sites to inverted faces.
Yes (not upright specific)
[6] Rossion et al. (2003)
N170 for faces compared to words in the right hemisphere only.
[57] Rousselet et al. (2004)
P1 larger on the RH for both objects, animal and human faces. N1 much larger on the RH for face than objects, but asymmetry found for objects as well.
Yes (Not face- specific)
Yes/No (Not face- specific)
[24] Valkonen-Korhonen et al. (2005)
Control group: N1 Larger at T5/T6 in an emotion detection task (happy upright faces).
[58] Yovel et al. (2003)
N1 to symmetrical and left or right hemi-faces was larger at right temporal site.
It is of great interest to note that face-specific N170 responses were found to be bilateral or even left-sided in studies involving a sample in which women were the majority [20–24]. Equally interesting, in a recent paper on prosopagnosia in which both male and female patients were considered [20], 2 out of the 3 male patients showed an M170 response which was not sensitive to faces (as opposed to houses) while the third patient showed a right-sided sensitivity to faces. As for the two female patients, one of them showed a lack of sensitivity to faces at M170 level, while the second one showed a left-sided sensitivity.
Many face processing studies using MEG, ERP, neuroimaging, or neuropsychological data do not take subject gender into account as a variable that might affect asymmetry in brain activation. The specific goal of this study was to investigate the timing and topography of brain activity in men and women during processing of neutral and affective faces in order to detect whether there are gender differences in lateralization. To address this question, early face-sensitive P1 and N1 responses over the occipital/temporal cortices to neutral and affective expressions were measured in strictly right-handed men and women.
Behavioral data
A repeated-measures ANOVA was performed on mean response times (RTs), but showed no significant gender effect on response speed (F[1,38] = 0.617; p = 0.44; females = 658 ms, males = 672 ms). Men and women subjects also did not significantly differ in accuracy; however, error percentages were too few to be statistically analyzed. The emotional valence of faces affected RTs (F[1,38] = 191; p < 0.000001), which were faster to negative expressions (613 ms) than to neutral expressions (717 ms) for all viewers.
The emotional content of facial expressions significantly affected N1 amplitudes, as proved by the significance of "emotion" factor (F[1,38] = 6.91; p < 0.015) indicating larger N1 responses to distressed faces (-3.22 μV, SE = 1.1) than to neutral faces (-2.67 μV, SE = 0.84).
This effect might be due either to sensory or cognitive factors. Since all stimuli were faces, in this experiment the asymmetry cannot be ascribed to a generic effect of face processing. Indeed, the literature on face recognition does not support the evidence of a right lateralization for the P1 response, but, rather, a bilateral distribution is often reported (when P1 is considered, see Table 1). Furthermore, in studies involving visual-spatial or selective attention tasks, the P1 component is often described as larger at the right than the left occipital lateral sites both for space orienting (e.g., [29]) and processing of global configurations (e.g., [30]). In addition, P1 is always right-lateralized in response to low spatial frequency patterns even in passive viewing conditions [31, 32]. For these reasons, we cannot discuss the P1 right lateralization as an index of a hemispheric dominance for face processing.
Our results are also in line with many studies that show gender differences in the degree of lateralization of cognitive and affective processes. Considerable data support greater hemispheric lateralization in men than women for linguistic tasks [33] and for spatial tasks [34]. Gender differences have also been found in the lateralization of visual-spatial processes such as mental rotation [35] and object construction tasks [36], in which males are typically right hemisphere (RH) dominant and females bilaterally distributed. More relevant to the present experiment are the data provided by Bourne [37], who examined the lateralization of processing positive facial emotion in a group of 276 right-handed individuals (138 males, 138 females). Subjects were asked to observe a series of chimeric faces formed with one half showing a neutral expression and the other half showing a positive expression in the left or right visual field, and to decide which face they thought looked happier. The results showed that males were more strongly lateralized than women in the perception of facial expressions, showing a stronger perceptual asymmetry in favour of the left visual field. There are also a number of studies that have found different degrees of lateralization in the cerebral response of men and women to emotional stimuli [38–41]: men tend to demonstrate an asymmetric functioning, and women a bilateral functioning [42].
Our study found a lesser degree of lateralization of brain functions related to face and expression processing in women than men. Furthermore, these results emphasize the importance of considering gender as a factor in the study of brain lateralization during face processing. In this light, our data may also provide an explanation of the inconsistencies in the available literature concerning the asymmetric activity of left and right occipito-temporal cortices devoted to face perception during processing of face identity, structure, familiarity or affective content.
40 healthy individuals (20 women and 20 men) with normal or corrected-to-normal vision volunteered for this study. All participants were strictly right-handed as assessed by the Edinburgh Inventory [43] and had a strong right-eye dominance (as attested by practical tests, such as looking inside a bottle or alternately closing each eye to evaluate parallax entity). They were of similar age (average = 33.7 years) and socio-cultural status. Experiments were conducted with the understanding and the written consent of each participant and in accordance with ethical standards (Helsinki, 1964). The study was approved by the CNR Ethical Committee.
Materials and procedures
Participants sat about 120 cm from a computer monitor in an acoustically and electrically shielded cabin. They were instructed to focus on a small cross located in the centre of the screen and to avoid any body or eye movements. Stimuli were randomly presented in the centre of the screen for about 900 ms with an ISI of 1300–1900 ms. The stimulus set consisted of 160 high resolution black and white photos of infants expressing neutral or affective (distressed) emotional states. The electroencephalogram (EEG) was continuously recorded and synchronized with the onset of picture presentation. The task consisted of deciding on the emotional content of the picture. The responses were to be made as accurately and quickly as possible by pressing a response key with the right index finger of the right or left hand (to signal distress or well-being). The hand and experimental run orders were counterbalanced across subjects.
The EEG was continuously recorded from 28 scalp electrodes mounted on an elastic cap. The electrodes were located at frontal (Fp1, Fp2, FZ, F3, F4, F7, F8), central (CZ, C3, C4), temporal (T3, T4), posterior-temporal (T5, T6), parietal (PZ, P3, P4), and occipital scalp sites (OZ, O1, O2) of the International 10–20 System. Additional electrodes were placed halfway between anterior-temporal and central sites (FTC1, FTC2), central and parietal sites (CP1, CP2), anterior-temporal and parietal sites (TCP1, TCP2), and posterior-temporal and occipital sites (OL, OR). Vertical eye movements were recorded using two electrodes placed below and above the right eye, while horizontal movements were recorded from electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the eyes. Linked ears served as the reference lead. The EEG and the EOG were amplified with a half-amplitude band pass of 0.01–70 Hz. Electrode impedance was kept below 5 kΩ. Continuous EEG and EOG were digitized at a rate of 512 samples per second.
Computerized rejection of artefacts was performed before averaging to discard epochs in which eye movements, blinks, excessive muscle potentials, or amplifier blocking occurred. The artefact's rejection criterion was a peak-to-peak amplitude exceeding ± 50 μV and the rejection rate was about 5%. ERPs were averaged offline from 100 ms before until 1000 ms after presentation of the final word. ERP trials associated with an incorrect behavioural response were excluded from further analysis. For each subject, distinct ERP averages were obtained according to infant's facial expression. ERP components were identified and measured with reference to the baseline voltage averages over the interval from -100 ms to 0 ms. P1 and N1 peak amplitude and latency values were measured at lateral occipital sites (OL, OR), where both components reached their maximum amplitude, in the time window between 90–140 ms and 145–175 ms. The McCarthy-Wood correction, sometimes used to normalize ERP amplitudes, was not applied to our data, in line with recent findings in the literature [60].
ERP data of amplitude and latency were analyzed by means of 3- and 4-way repeated measure ANOVAs; the P1 and N1 component were analyzed separately. For P1, there was one between-group factor, "gender" (women and men) and two within-group factors, "emotion" (neutral, distress) and "cerebral hemisphere" (left and right). For N1 there was the extra within-group factor "electrode site" (lateral/occipital, posterior/temporal). Behavioural data were analyzed by means of a 2 way repeated-measures ANOVA performed on mean RTs according to "gender" of viewers and emotional valence of stimuli ("emotion" factor).
We thank Roberta Adorni for her kind support. The study was supported by MIUR 2003119330_003 and CNR grants to AMP and AZ which were used for data collection and analysis and writing of the manuscript.
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The Freedom Forum is a nonprofit organization which runs the First Amendment Center and the Newseum Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Freedom Forum is also the creator and parent organization to the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
The Freedom Forum was founded in 1991 when the Gannett Foundation, started by publisher Frank E. Gannett as a charitable foundation to aid communities where his company had newspapers, sold its name and assets back to Gannett Company for $670 million. Retired Gannett chairman and USA Today newspaper founder Al Neuharth took the money and the shell of the foundation and formed the Freedom Forum. Its mission was to foster "free press, free speech and free spirit."[1][2]
Neuharth's daughter, Jan A. Neuharth, is chief executive officer and chair of the Freedom Forum.[3]
The financial losses of the Freedom Forum and Newseum have been controversial from the beginning, leading to criticism of high salaries[4] and some unusual proposals.[5]
- ^ "The Freedom Forum's Shrinking Endowment". American Journalism Review. November 2001. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
- ^ "About the Freedom Forum". Freedom Forum. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
- ^ "Freedom Forum's new chair has a familiar name; quiet board reshuffle keeps a Neuharth in control". December 8, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
- ^ "As Freedom Forum posted another $48M deficit, non-profit paid retired CEO Overby nearly $1M; new documents disclose a comical money trail". November 17, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
- ^ "Heavily in debt, Newseum considered risky strategy to improve finances". July 1, 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
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|The Marks Network provides strategic consulting services primarily focused on the development of public policy and government relations in Oregon.
The Marks Network President, Steve Marks, worked with Oregon Senate President and then Governor John Kitzhaber for 18 years.
Marks served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor and as the Governor's Chief of Staff.
This experience provides the Marks Network with an unmatched depth of understanding legislative and executive policy development and enactment.
The Marks Network currently is engaged in work across a number of issue areas including: agriculture and food processing; public safety policy and public safety communications; environmental stewardship and sustainability; and health policy.
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ON THIS PAGE: You will find a list of common tests, procedures, and scans that doctors use to find the cause of a medical problem. Use the menu to see other pages.
Doctors use many tests to find, or diagnose, breast cancer. They also do tests to learn if the cancer has spread to a part of the body other than the breast and the lymph nodes under the arm. If this happens, it is called metastasis (See the Metastatic Breast Cancer guide for more information). Doctors may also do tests to learn which treatments could work best.
For most types of cancer, a biopsy is the only sure way for the doctor to know if an area of the body has cancer. In a biopsy, the doctor takes a small sample of tissue for testing in a laboratory.
This list describes options for diagnosing this type of cancer. Not all tests listed below will be used for every person. Your doctor may consider these factors when choosing a diagnostic test:
The type of cancer suspected
Your signs and symptoms
Your age and general health
The results of earlier medical tests
The series of tests needed to evaluate a possible breast cancer usually begins when a woman or her doctor discover a mass or abnormal calcifications on a screening mammogram, or a lump or nodule in the woman's breast during a clinical or self-examination. Less commonly, a woman might notice a red or swollen breast or a mass or nodule under the arm.
The following tests may be used to diagnose breast cancer or for follow-up testing after a breast cancer has been diagnosed.
Imaging tests
Imaging tests show pictures of the inside of the body. The following imaging tests of the breast may be done to learn more about a suspicious area found in the breast during screening.
Diagnostic mammography. Diagnostic mammography is similar to screening mammography except that more pictures of the breast are taken. It is often used when a woman is experiencing signs, such as a new lump or nipple discharge. Diagnostic mammography may also be used if something suspicious is found on a screening mammogram.
Ultrasound. An ultrasound uses sound waves to create a picture of the breast tissue. An ultrasound can distinguish between a solid mass, which may be cancer, and a fluid-filled cyst, which is usually not cancer.
MRI. An MRI uses magnetic fields, not x-rays, to produce detailed images of the body. A special dye called a contrast medium is given before the scan to help create a clear picture of the possible cancer. This dye can be injected into a patient's vein or given as a pill or liquid to swallow. A breast MRI may be used after a woman has been diagnosed with cancer to check the other breast for cancer or to find out how much the disease has grown throughout the breast. Breast MRI is also a screening option, along with mammography, for some women with a very high risk of developing breast cancer (see Risk Factors and Prevention).
A biopsy is the removal of a small amount of tissue for examination under a microscope. Other tests can suggest that cancer is present, but only a biopsy can make a definite diagnosis. A pathologist then analyzes the sample(s). A pathologist is a doctor who specializes in interpreting laboratory tests and evaluating cells, tissues, and organs to diagnose disease. There are different types of biopsies, classified by the technique and/or size of needle used to collect the tissue sample.
Fine needle aspiration biopsy. This type of biopsy uses a thin needle to remove a small sample of cells.
Core needle biopsy. This type uses a wider needle to remove a larger sample of tissue. This is usually the preferred biopsy technique for finding out whether an abnormality on a physical examination or an imaging test is cancer. Local anesthesia, which is medication to block pain, is used to lessen a patient's discomfort during the procedure.
Surgical biopsy. This type removes the largest amount of tissue. Because surgery is best done after a cancer diagnosis has been made, a surgical biopsy is usually not the recommended way to diagnose breast cancer. Most often, non-surgical core needle biopsies are recommended to diagnose breast cancer. This means that only 1 surgical procedure is needed to remove the tumor and to take samples of the lymph nodes.
Image-guided biopsy. During this procedure, a needle is guided to the location with the help of an imaging technique, such as mammography, ultrasound, or MRI. A stereotactic biopsy is done using mammography to help guide the needle. A small metal clip may be put into the breast to mark where the biopsy sample was taken, in case the tissue is cancerous and more surgery is needed. This clip is usually titanium so it will not cause problems with future imaging tests, but check with your doctor before you have any imaging tests. An image-guided biopsy can be done using a fine needle, core, or vacuum-assisted biopsy (see above), depending on the amount of tissue being removed. Imaging tests may also be used to help do a biopsy on a lump that can be felt, to help find the best location.
Sentinel lymph node biopsy. This procedure is a way to find out if there is cancer in the lymph nodes near the breast. Learn more about sentinel lymph node biopsy in the Types of Treatment section.
Analyzing the biopsy sample
Analyzing the sample(s) removed during the biopsy can help your doctor learn about specific features of a cancer that help determine treatment options.
- Tumor features. Examination of the tumor under the microscope is used to determine if it is invasive or in situ, ductal or lobular, and whether the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. The margins or edges of the tumor are also examined and their distance from the tumor is measured, which is called margin width.
- ER and PR. Testing for ER and PR (see Introduction) helps determine both the patient's risk of recurrence and the type of treatment that is most likely to lower the risk of recurrence. ER and PR are often measured for DCIS as well. Generally, hormonal therapy (see Types of Treatment) works well for ER-positive and/or PR-positive cancers. Learn about ER and PR testing recommendations from ASCO and the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
HER2. The HER2 status (see Introduction) helps determine whether drugs that target the HER2 receptor, for example the antibody treatment trastuzumab (Herceptin, Ogivri), might help treat the cancer. This test is only done on invasive cancers. ASCO and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) recommend that HER2 testing is done when you are first diagnosed with an invasive breast cancer. If the cancer has spread to another part of your body or comes back after treatment, testing should be done again on the new tumor or areas where the cancer has spread, especially if results would influence your treatment options.
HER2 tests are usually clearly positive or negative, meaning that your cancer has either a high or low level of HER2. If your test results are not clearly positive or negative, testing may need to be done again, either on a different tumor sample or with a different test. Sometimes, even with repeated testing, the results may not be conclusive so you and your doctor will have to discuss the best treatment option.
If the cancer is HER2 positive, HER2-targeted therapy may be a recommended treatment option for you. If the cancer is HER2 negative, HER2-targeted therapy is not a treatment option for you, and your doctor will give you other options for treating the breast cancer. Learn more about recommendations from ASCO and CAP, found on ASCO's website.
Grade. The tumor grade is also determined from a biopsy. Grade refers to how different the cancer cells look from healthy cells, and whether they appear slower growing or faster growing. If the cancer looks similar to healthy tissue and contains different cell groupings, it is called "well differentiated" or a "low-grade tumor." If the cancerous tissue looks very different from healthy tissue, it is called "poorly differentiated" or a "high-grade tumor." There are 3 grades: grade 1 (well differentiated), grade 2 (moderately differentiated), and grade 3 (poorly differentiated).
Molecular testing of the tumor. Your doctor may recommend running other laboratory tests on a tumor sample to identify specific genes, proteins, and other factors unique to the tumor. If you have locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, your doctor may recommend testing for the following molecular features:
PD-L1, which is found on the surface of cancer cells and some of the body's immune cells. This protein stops the body's immune cells from destroying the cancer.
Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or DNA mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR). Tumors that have MSI-H or dMMR have difficulty repairing damage to their DNA. This means that they develop many mutations or changes. These changes make abnormal proteins on the tumor cells that make it easier for immune cells to find and attack the tumor.
NTRK gene fusions, which is a specific genetic change found in a range of cancers, including breast cancer.
Results of these tests can help determine your treatment options.
Genomic tests to predict recurrence risk
Tests that take an even closer look at the biology of the tumor may be used to understand more about the breast cancer. These tests can help estimate the risk of cancer recurrence in the years after diagnosis. They can also predict whether a treatment can reduce the risk of cancer recurrence. This helps some patients avoid the possible side effects of a treatment that is not likely to work well.
The tests described below are typically done on tissue removed during surgery. Most patients will not need an extra biopsy or more surgery. For more information about genomic tests, what they mean, and how the results might affect your treatment plan, talk with your doctor.
- Oncotype Dx™. This test evaluates 16 cancer-related genes and 5 reference genes to estimate the risk of the cancer coming back within 10 years after diagnosis. The test is typically used for women with stage I or stage II (see Stages) ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who will receive hormonal therapy. Results are mainly used to help make decisions about whether chemotherapy should be added to a person's treatment with hormonal therapy. This test is typically used for people with breast cancer that has not spread to the lymph nodes. But recent research suggests that this test may be useful for some people with breast cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes.
- Breast Cancer Index™: This test may help make decisions about how long a woman should receive endocrine therapy.
- MammaPrint™. This test uses information from 70 genes to predict the risk of the cancer coming back for early-stage, low-risk breast cancer. It estimates the risk of recurrence in early-stage breast cancer. In addition, it can help determine if chemotherapy could an option along with hormonal therapy for patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who have a high risk of the cancer returning.
- PAM50 (Prosigna™). This test uses information from 50 genes to predict if a cancer will metastasize.
- Additional tests. Other tests are being researched and may become additional tools to guide treatment options in the future.
Blood tests
The doctor may also need to do several types of blood tests. These tests may be done before or after surgery.
- Complete blood count. A complete blood count (CBC) is used to measure the number of different types of cells, such as red blood cells and white blood cells, in a sample of a person's blood. It is done to make sure that your bone marrow is functioning well.
- Blood chemistry. This test evaluates how well your liver and kidneys are working.
- Hepatitis tests. These tests are occasionally used to check for evidence of prior exposure to hepatitis B and/or hepatitis C. If you have evidence of an active hepatitis B infection, you may need to take a special medication to suppress the virus before you receive chemotherapy. Without this medication, the chemotherapy can cause the virus to grow and damage the liver. Learn more about hepatitis B screening before treatment.
After diagnostic tests are completed, your doctor will review all of the results with you. If the diagnosis is cancer, these results also help the doctor describe the cancer. This is called staging. Depending on the stage of the cancer, additional imaging tests may be recommended. If there is a suspicious area found outside of the breast and nearby lymph nodes, you may need a biopsy of other parts of the body to find out is it is cancer.
The next section in this guide is Stages. It explains the system doctors use to describe the extent of the disease. Use the menu to choose a different section to read in this guide.


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