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As just announced on the PlayStation Blog, the next Gran Turismo 5 software update is coming on September 25, and will bring with it three new cars available to purchase as DLC for $0.99 each.
Software update 2.08 brings with it the following new features, in addition to correcting bugs and other issues:
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Could be worse,as it stands they wasted months of development time on GTA, have not been updating or giving any of the DLC like they promised, and have basically ditched a game that too forever after less than 2 years of it being released, but hey, they aren't actively releasing content to make it worse, so let's be thankful of that.
This person is an obvious troll, sensitive fans please ignore him.
Actually, in the past their changes to tire wear upset many of the fans, myself included, there are several instances if you check back the responses to release notes of patches where more than a few people didn't like how PD had altered the game.
I want to buy the Weider HSV with a different PSN account that has funds in, will it work with my main PSN account? They are both European, and my disc is Euro region, too. Please answer.
I know I'm not official or anything, but I'm pretty sure you should.
Yes you can as long as it's cars and tracks. The gear and paint packs you can't because you can only download those once.
Purchase the car with the account that has funds, and download it. Then go into the game and hit downloadable content in the game profile you want the car in. You can download the car in every profile on that PS3.
Thanks a lot guys!
WOW! We get more DLC and look, more crying. Pff. This is why I said PD needs to forget about GT5 all together and fully focus on GT6. When it comes to DLC for GT, it all goes downhill. I think it's time that PD should not bother giving out any DLCs for this game anymore, it'll never cheer anyone up no matter how hard PD tries…
But overall it takes PD forever to create DLC anyway so why waste their time making any for this game if everybody will compain about it? Honestly.
Nissan GT-R N24 GT Academy '12: Well DUH, they raced it at Nurburg, so obviously it'll be in GT5 because it had a good reason to even be in it. "Kaz himself of course."
Subaru BR-Z S '12: Some people's been begging for this for sometime now, so hurray its in GT5. What's with all the hate on it? It was so obvious it'll come to GT at some point, so get over some of yourselves please. Its not meant to be, "OHHH ALL FAST." Its purpose is to perform well just like both the 86GT and FR-S.
Honda Weider HSV-010 (SUPER GT) '11: Others seem happy about this one, cus its new to the series so no big deal.
Like the HSV, I think a lot of people just want something completely new for the DLCs, especially if they're going to cost us.
I, however agree, that they need to get GT6 out asap. The DLCs have been indications that they're probably, really trying to save all the good, DIFFERENT, cars for GT6, rather than GT5 DLC.
Yeah they really need to bring out GT6 now. What could they be doing with that game? I believe it's better to have a fresh new game, other than to waste with this one. I also agree with you about having new car into the series. PD should stop pissing everyone off.
@ Toko u reckon GT6 will come out around end of 2013 or early 2014?
I don't I'm guessing 2013? It should release at some time on its own with games around its date. :)
*don't know. lol >_<
When GT6 comes out and DLC for it released there will be more of the same complaining and bellyaching about the content. What is PD going to do then? Release GT7 to stop the complaining?
This DLC is unique as it brings a totally new car to GT5 (Weider Honda HSV).
I agree with the endless complaining about the DLCs for GT5. It's just that PD should look into fourms to see what their actually want in their games. It'll motivate them to do more and more.
I'm with you Toko! GT6 for 2013… PS3.
I believe.
Toko, forget about the dlc for a second. You say PD should look in to forums…? …Adjusted the changes in control characteristic when altering vehicle height from standard height….Amount of air resistance change when altering aerodynamic wing settings has been increased…Rate of tire wear in endurance races has been slowed …Response of the clutch pedal when using the steering wheel controllers… All those things where highly demanded by the comunity, Do they not listen? Sure?
Sweet!!! I finally get to drive that GT-R & Honda HSV-010 :D it would've been better if the HSV-010 had better looking decals.
i mean different looking decals or have no decals at all…
lolwut? GT5 still gets updated?
It looks like it, lol. X)
Yes! It comes out on my Birthday! :D
well happy early birthday to u & hope somone gets u a psn top-up voucher as a gift lol
That'd be unexpected. And thanks!
the engine sound of the honda HSV looks awesome, there are many few videos of them, the sound likes a f1 car engine, i hope that sound will be presented in gt5, not poor sounds like the other super gt race cars. must see the video of the engine sound of that car, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxKogppTYio
Sounds nothing like an F1 engine to my ears. F1 has an incredibly distinct tune.
In saying that though. It does sound GLORIOUS, unfortunately, I fear PD are going to murder it =/ but still, one can hope
YAYYY more Japanese cars, this game definately needs more of them lol
all we get is just 1 JGTC CAR and the ANOTHER NISSAN and Toyota and Subaru partnership to make the same exact looking car with different symbols and there both slow yup GT5 is dying just sayin
Well, if you don't like it go play other game. Just saying…
Can't just people be happy when new cars are added?
HSV for me. Can't wait to see what the difference in the clutch will be. I screw up a gear change at least once a race as it is right now.
Can't wait to see what PD's going to do with HSV-010 sounds…
Praise the gods, our prayers (and whining) has been answered!
Worth it for the BRZ. I know it is the same thing as the Toyota 86-GT and the Scion FR-S, but the Subaru emblem makes it 10 times better for me. I efffing love Subaru!
It has a different suspension setup.
Love the HSV… I'll buy it for that alone.
I like the BRZ.. Just don't know how necessary it is to give us another re-badged car.
BRZ has a softer suspension set up compared to the FR-S/86GT.
If they included the last two, they might as well include the BRZ. Only what's confusing is that other two cars were added in for free.
sumbrown, the PSblog said the suspension is set up to make the car more stable than the other two. I guess that could mean softer, but more stable to me is stiffer.
Good Call, finally, exactly what we wanted, more realistic tire wear, crash your car severely enough, your done,,,thank you finally,, good car choices as well, glad to see you all are listening….
Eh, 3 cars. Was expecting more DLC cars for this long period of waiting. Or either more RM/TC cars.
I hope the HSV is paintable atleast..(probably NOT)…meaning that's all you'll be seeing on the track for a lil while.
Atleast they're doing BUG fixes. Something is better than nothing.
Question is…… Is this the LAST DLC/Bug fixes??? THE END?
no buy
If you guys hate the GTR so much then you are playing the wrong game. If you hate alcohol then don't hang out at a bar. Jesus
That doesn't make sense.. You go to a bar to consume alcohol. You don't play Gran Turismo 5 to drive GTRs. You play GT5 to race and drive cars..
I'm talking about in terms of how much attention PD gives to the Nissan brand over the other brands.
Granted, I was a little stoned when I posted that, but I still stand by it.
the HSV-010 GT is absolutely awesome!
however, another N24 GTR and another toyobaru? no buy for me.
Gosh, you can buy the each car by itself for $.99 each, quit complaining.
"• Rate of tire wear in endurance races has been slowed (excluding formula cars)."
They just don't get it… What about online!!!!?
I'd rather have short tire life online to make the racing more unpredictable.
I can't find my very first post here on GTPlanet (it only seems to go back 100 posts), but it was in a thread about what cars we thought might be in GT5.
On my list of guesses, IIRC I had the Mclaren MP4-12C (which at the time was only an unnamed prototype), Mercedes SLS AMG, R35 GT-R, Evo X, 3rd-gen STi, and a bunch of others that I can't remember, but all made it into the game. That is, all but one. I was sure the HSV-010 would be in at launch. It's about time!
They already have the Scion FR-S and the Toyota 86 and now the Subaru BRZ?!? I would get it…..If it was free…
I was thinking it was free too. Ooh well it's not like you have to buy it. Just get the other 2 cars
Thanks for individual purchase option PD, i will be buying only one car this time, since i have enough GT-Rs and obviously Toyota/Scion……
very disappointing… i love GT5 but c'mon…
Supporting a game almost 2 years after a release is disappointing? Go away. Cry more.
We're being told to go away for posting our opinions? And he even said he loved GT5.
Oh, man…either love what PD does no matter what, or be told to get out.
they're not the only one supporting the game ! everybody here is supporting gt5. like i said i love gt5, but they couldve payed more attention to what people want, and bring more variation in the dlc's. i mean they are releasing these dlc's anyway so why not make it a good one ? why always the same cars, but whatever… i only give my opinion like everybody else here, and you come and give me crap ? you're acting like you made gt5! maybe you should cry more..
I saw pretty much every post on GTPLANET that PD has finally dropped GT5 & now just working on GT6,
well…MUHAHAHAHA!!! do not underestimate polyphony digital guys! its still rolling :)
Rolling with garbage like this that should have already been in the game.
wooaaaw, i mean:
Nissan GT-R N24 GT Academy '12
Subaru BR-Z S '12
Honda Weider HSV-010 (SUPER GT) '11
should already have been in the game since last year even before they were made…
there is somin wrong with u guys in the head…
u moan if theres no DLC or update,
u complain when there is,
have you ever heard of the word 'grateful'???
i would define it on Google or look it up in the dictionary if i were u
Oh boy. The "greatful" argument. Have you heard of the fact we gave up our hard-earned moneyed to get this game? PD should be greatful to the 7 million people who bought GT5.
I would be grateful if PD stuck to there promise. And they did for how long? Like 4 months. Even then it was crap. They try to justify the several month absence by giving 5 cars with stickers on them.
You should hear what it sounds like! > here's a clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkcpZBuKNVg&list=LP0ouDBUBaThs&index=27&feature=plcp
HSV awesome news !
Finally they released a super cool race car, keep up the good work PD, give us more HSV and the possibility to select the opponents, people want to create their own SuperGT events
Yay they finally fixed the clutch issue! Good job PD I love you!
What was wrong with the clutch? Sorry I have never used it and I'm curious.
Another Skyline/GTR… Really Kaz? It's made up for that HSV-10 though… :drools;
Honda Weider HSV-010 (SUPER GT) '11 GOD DAMNIT THANK YOU
Well, just at the moment I don't have my GT5 copy :/
Ok its nice to see dlc but give us a beak enough of the Nissan gtr I'm so sick off that car this is one of the reasons a lot of people don't play the game anymore STOP RAMMING THAT STUPID CAR DOWN OUR THROUTS !!
OH YEA! Can't wait!
Just 1 new GT500? Get out PD
HSV-010 joygasm.
I could care less about the brz but the gtr and the honda i likey i likey. And to all you complainers forza 4 will be having a price drop for the holiday season this year so maybe look into that.
thanks for the tip :)
Anytime hehehe.
Subaru BR-Z S '12 should be free imo. But the price is fine. Probably will buy all of them coz they cheap.
IfO more cars that are already in the game.. O cool thanks..
ok pd so where is the rest of the 2012 super gt cars? This includes 300s!! What a tease this is
2011* either way alot more nice ones in 2012
Great news a better, improved GT5 and the abilty to buy 1,2 or 3 additional cars. Thank you. :-)
YEAH!! No Collisions. So it will be ghost mode like in F1:CE?
Just a question, can I continue my suspended
Race after the update?
Update is 5 days away you have enough time mate
Hmm, I also have a 24 'ring running with 7 hours left, and I dont have time the finish it the next 1½ weeks – So what happens when I resume the race in 1½ weeks?
Dont have a clue sorry
Even though were getting a new DLC. At least theres an update that comes along with it. How long till the next DLC or something? Wish GT6 appeared. :(
I wish for that too.
Can't wait to drive all of them, especially the BRZ.
Ever sense PD updated GT5 and added the toyota 86 gt, I have been looking forward to it's subaru counterpart. Of the 3, it's my favorite.
I don't know that much about Super GT or JGTC, but that new Honda Race Car looks pretty cool, I'm curious now on how different it is from the NSX.
As for the new N24 GT-R, it looks a lot different than the 2011 version, it probably performs different too since it looks more like a tuned GTR rather than a race car.
nice update, but no special dlc cars! =/
Nissan GT-R N24 GT Academy '12 – stop enough GTR!
Subaru BR-Z S '12 – like is same Toyota FT-86 why!
Honda Weider HSV-010 (SUPER GT) '11 – nothing happy!
I want that new GT-R in my garage, along with both Honda HSV-010 and Subaru BRZ. :)
Others should relax though. You should by now that PD would make little DLC like this. Mind as well take it or leave it, and stop comparing it to Forza's DLC please… We know which game has bigger DLCs.
Like some parts in that update btw.
But agree with the GT-Rs though. >_>'
So how many BRZ's do they plan on selling?
to be honest, PD does not know how long i have been waiting for collisions off!!!!!!!
How much is one car in the U.K?
i think 0.80 pounds
Thats reasonable
can't wait to purchase the HSV-10
nice finally some dlc. not the cars i wanted but ill take em.. thax PD
Only one car worth buying, im going a bit off topic because one of my mates told there's a ps3 superslim coming soon! Woooooo
Check this out,
software update the 25 sept.
Probably available in PS store 2 weeks later.
They should gave them free to apologizes for not having A new DLC car since january. .
A couple of stickers or switching names is not considered new btw.
I'll take what I can get. The game came out nearly 2 years ago so I'm thankful for any new content.
Damn my lil brother called me and he told me about this and he said some new japanese race car is in the picture (he dont like cars but wanted to tell me) and I was like OMG Toyota TS030 Hybrid it gotta be…but :/
"Response of the clutch pedal when using the steering wheel controllers "G25 Racing Wheel", "G27 Racing Wheel", "T500RS" and "TH8RS" has been adjusted."
The Honda HSV 010 is BEAUTIFUL. Finally!!!
Finally we get HSV
Sure, I'll take this. Although, I wish we had the Event creator. :)
Thanks for the updates and DLC.
So anything on GT6??? I'm pretty much convinced GT5 is done.
2 better words for you…..who cares…….
Well I also have both console. I will take 1 GT5 Premiun over 500 Forza 4 cars. I do speak with an open mind.
I also have to wonder another thing… does the X2010/2011 count as a "formula car"?
I doubt it, I think it means cars that conform to real Formula regulations (e.g. F10, F2007) or are inspired by them, even if they aren't necessarily accurately adhered to (FGT). GT5 normally refers to the FGT/F10/F2007 as Formula cars for those reasons. The X2010/X2011 falls into neither category, so I would guess not.
Hmm.. anybody else concerned these changes to aerodynamics and suspension behavior will effect tuning significantly? it doesn't really outline /how/ much it's changed so I'm not too sure
I'm expecting disappointment but hoping for improvement.
On a side note, zero stuffs are given by me about the GTR and the Subaru, as I doubt either of them are different enough from the similar cars already in the game, but that honda.. I'm afraid I'm going to cave and buy car DLC after all
the brz is disappointing, but the other to are great!!
ok, we got the HSV-010… Now where's our NSX we got teased about a while back? lmao
Those are nice cars, and those are nice software changes – what about more track maps?
Surprise!! japanese cars..
I wrecking well see more HSVs in future gt5 DLC, I wreckon they seen the impatient comments about DLC and just put this together but I'm happy.
Great news, something to keep me occupied for 1 night. I wonder if the HSV will blow every other GT500 away? Or will new regulations make it lag behind its older siblings?
Also, is the new Ring GTR less powerful than the 2011 version? Sure looks like it.
Just Had Heart Attack This HONDA FINALLY:P
Really? 3 cars of which 2 are already in the game for .99? I pass this one…
nono. 99 cents /each/. So if you only want the new honda just grab that. At least, that's my plan.
Haha, I'm OCD when it comes to GT5 content. MUST HAVE IT ALL >:). Except for the stealth cars im missing D':
I can relate, I'm OCD on completing all events. Even the ones I hate like the Kei car ones. But the DLC.. idk I'm not feeling it, the content to price point ration just isn't worth it to me. I spent 70 odd dollars on project C.A.R.S so yeah, that kind of killed GT5s chances of dragging me in for DLC.. however.. Super GT cars are a soft spot with me :P
Honda looks great, but why did they adjust tire wear only in endurance races? The tire wear needs to be adjusted back to where it was for the entire game.
Took my breath away seeing the HSV-010. Thank you PD, thank you
No sign of the good old tracks tho…was childishly hoping they'd appear before too long
About time they fixed the tyre wear in indurance races, only being able to do 3 laps in an LMP car on a set of racing softs around le mans was ridiculous
The other changes i like too, plus that Honda looks great
I'll buy it.
PS: ウイダーinゼリー, "Weider in Jelly", made me curious… :-p
Wonder how tunes are going to be affected. Also, I'm a bit disappointed about the BRZ. I don't need to point out why….I'll still get the DLC though because the other 2 cars look sick.
DLC isn't really worth the buy unless you really want a rebranded GT86, another GT-R or a Super GT Honda.
Yes really happy and excited :)
I expected the BRZ to be free, but oh well, 99 cents in actually not bad.
I want to buy the Weider HSV with a different PSN account that has funds in, will it work with my main PSN account? They are both European, and my disc is Euro region, too.
;) ?September 26th in the EU
Sounds great, especially the aerodynamic fix.
Hooray !!! DLC & a update!
Sit back and watch the rage about the BRZ clone
Yay for longer tire life.
Looks quite nice, cars are well priced too! Still, cue the flaming…
Wow!!! TYhis is great news! Viva GT5!!
The new Honda looks good! Good to see about the tyre deg as well in Endurance race. All in all happy! Nice to see they're working on it still.


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The Hitzer heats our 3000 square foot home and generally does a great job unless it is trying to cope with endless days of very low temps. In those days, I tend it 3x rather than 2x and this helps a lot, but does chew through more coal. Also on those days, I try to use coal that is as free of fines as possible to get more air through the fire. The fines are very helpful in fall and spring when I try to slow the heat output.
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Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
I am really excited to be doing this DVD article review on the Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1. Jason Otter inventor of the Otterbasketball efficiency of movement basketball training system is widely consulted by the top Division I and High School coaches in the country today. His attention to detail, emphasis on efficiency of movement, and driving passion to teach is what makes many coaches consider him the best trainer in the market place today. Coach Otter continues to train players of all ranges from the NBA to Elite High School players. He also currently directs Otterbasketball Training events and camps across the country.
I. Point Guard Philosophy and Mentality | Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
– Put team first
– The only success is team success
II. Point Guard Qualities | Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
– Don't draw unnecessary attention to yourself
– Always encourage your teammates
– Take the heat, but not the credit
– Be a student on and off the court
– Study great point guards: Steve Nash, etc…
– Pay attention to detail
– Know coaches system inside and out
– Stay a play ahead in games
– Scout opposing teams
– Know your teammates strengths and weaknesses
– Be a vocal leader
– Be a great example
– Be at all pre and post season workouts
– You must be mentally tough
– Be competitive
– Keep your composure under stress
– Be a great shooter
– Be consistent, credible and under control
– Get teammates involved
– Control the tempo of the game
– Bring enthusiasm to practice
– Be selfless and hold yourself accountable
– Respect
– Take care of your body
– Earn it, don't expect it
III. Form shooting Drills | Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
• Top Half Form Shooting
• 1 Click shooting drill (Read it, elbow, T, Straight line, Track)
• Floor to fingertips
• Catch, track, Shoot drill
IV. Jump Rope Workout | Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
Stick ball of foot in floor acceleration and change of direction. The players will do these drills from sideline to sideline
– High knees
– Butt kicks
– Knees out
– Right foot, knee drive
– Left foot, knee drive
– High kick
– Carioca
– Lateral slide
– Rope throw
– Lateral slide alternate
– Shooting gait
– Knee tucks
V. Defense drills | Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
The following drills are used to teach point guards how to slide, sprint and change directions:
– Lane slides
– Triangle slides
• Sprint to slide
• Slide to sprint
• Slide to slide
• Closeout
• Denial drill
VI. Ball Handling Drills | Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
6 Reasons to dribble:
• Advance the ball up the floor
• Create shot opportunities self
• Create shot opportunities teammates
• Create pass angles
• Escape pressure
• Escape 5-second count
1. Straight V front
2. Straight V Side
3. Crossovers
4. In and out
5. V Between the legs
6. Straight behind back
7. Point guard dribble
8. Step Back dribble
9. Step back behind
10. Stick N Square
11. Slide dribbles
12. Blow By
Resistance Belt Drills | Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
The players will put on the belt with one in front and one behind both connected. There are 4 cones lined up about 12 feet apart. The player in front will push the ball to the next cone, stop and then explode to the next cone.
– Crossover
– In and out
– Between the legs
– Stick and square
Points of Emphasis | Jason Otter Point Guard Elite Series Vol. 1 Review
– Ball on outside hip
– Touch the floor with inside hand
– Punch explode
– Chatter your feet
– Defense: sit back, push chest out, butt down, dig hand, pass lane hand, use hands for momentum, swing elbow and swing hips
I strongly recommend this DVD to gather some great individual technique drills to use with your point guards. The Defensive "Triangle series" are the best drill that I reviewed.
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Unpredictable weather is something of an occupational hazard in the aerospace industry.
But, when you are a town that markets itself on being an ideal destination for airplane manufacturers seeking a place to conduct cold-weather testing, unpredictable weather is more of a problem.
Not that it wasn't cold in Iqaluit this past weekend when 48 Airbus technicians arrived in the northern Canadian city aboard one of the aerospace firm's A350-900, a model expected to compete with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Thermometers at the time testing was to begin registered -19 C, a full six degrees too warm to test the plane's winter survival equipment.
Temperatures did eventually fall enough for the crew to complete their tasks. But, in an ironic twist of events, the crew had to scamper off early ahead in order to avoid being delayed by a blizzard that hit the area on Sunday.
SEE VIDEO: Airbus Arctic test of A380 (at end of article)
Despite the unseasonably warm weather, this will not be the last time an new Airbus airframe touches down in Iqaluit.
Since the 1990s, Airbus has used the airport and its 2.7km runway for testing, including a 2006 visit by an A380, the world's largest airliner. In all manufacturers including Boeing, Dassault and Eurocopter have arrived in Iqaluit 25 times since 1996 for cold-weather testing.
Iqaluit is blessed with a cold, dry climate that is (normally) perfect for testing engines, cabin comfort and cold weather safety. But it also has city official who have understood that being a successful destination has requires a bit of travel of their own.
The city set aside C$40,000 ($35,000) this year for its promotional efforts, an amount it calculates comes back 30-fold in terms of direct payments from manufactures testing their wares, as well as related income from ground service and hospitality providers.
Familiarity breeds confidenceCity officials are regulars are major air shows, including Paris, London and Dubai, where they can thump other qualities other than extreme cold and a long runway. For example: their proximity to major flight paths, hotel availability, hospital and medevac capacity makes Iqaluit an ideal site to for an emergency landing.
More importantly, though, they are hoping that testing of full-size airframes will just be the start of what they hope will be an Arctic aerospace industry.
"We have the right mix of products and geography that's very attractive to (manufacturers)," Mark Morrissey, a city councillor who led a delegation to the Paris Air Show in June, told Nunatsiaq Online, a regional news website.
He pointed to component testing – parts of an aircraft, instead of the whole thing – as one area. Another one, he said could be unmanned aerial vehicles – best known as drones.
In December Nasa, the US aerospace agency, and group of other organisations, conducted the first flight of a civilian-use drone over Arctic territory. The flight was a success, and others from the city's aerospace businesses said manufacturers of unmanned planes have expressed an interest in conducing tests in Iqaluit.
As for the technicians who escaped the blizzard, their next destination was Qatar, for warm weather trials. They had just been in Bolivia, for high-altitude tests.
Airbus airframes, according to the company, must pass testing in a number of extreme environments – but they must also survive merciless technicians.
"We have no limitations, we just come and we see how the aircraft reacts," Pedro Dias, the crew's flight operations manager, said.
As it turns out, the A350's recent visit to Iqaluit showed there are, in fact, two limitations to their work: time and weather. Which makes them not unlike anyone else who flies.


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Name: 김동욱 / Kim Dong Wook
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Birthdate: 1983-Jul-29
Height: 176cm
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Education: The Korean National University of Arts
Hobbies: Soccer and gymnastics
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Cheo Yong 2 (OCN, 2015)
House Maids (jTBC, 2014)
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I Believed in Men (MBC, 2011)
Dandelion Family (MBC, 2010)
Hometown Legends (KBS2, 2009)
Partner (KBS2, 2009)
Unstoppable Marriage (KBS2, 2007)
The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (MBC, 2007)
Three Summer Night (2015)
The Concubine (2012)
Countdown (2011)
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Romantic Heaven (2011)
Finding Mr. Destiny (2010, cameo)
Happy Murderer (2010)
Take Off (2009)
Cafe Seoul (2009)
Five Senses of Eros / Ogamdo (2009)
National Athlete (2009)
Living Together, Happy Together (2007)
No Regret (2006)
My Lovely Week (2005)
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After more than a year of complicated, painfully slow negotiations with media companies and sport organisations, Communications Minister
Many of the changes to the regime, which gives the free-to-air television networks first bite at 1300 events in 12 sports, have been hinted at over the past year.
Some events in sports such as tennis and golf will be removed from the list, enabling pay TV companies to bid for them directly rather than wait for the free-to-air networks to pass on buying the rights. Other events will be added to the list, including some from Conroy's favourite sport, football.
The use-it-or-lose-it system, which takes rights away from the free-to-air networks if they do not use them, will be tightened.
In a move that will infuriate pay TV operator Foxtel and its three owners – Telstra, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and James Packer's Consolidated Media Holdings – the free-to-air networks will be allowed to run some listed events first on their digital channels. Under the existing regime, listed events have to run first on their main channels.
Conroy has sorted out what to do with most of the sports covered by the anti-siphoning list, with two significant exceptions: the Australian Football League and National Rugby League competitions. The lack of clarity on how the two most watched sports on TV will be treated is making the free-to-air networks nervous.
At the moment, four of the AFL's eight weekly matches are shown on free-to-air TV and four on pay TV. Three NRL matches a week run on free-to-air TV and five on pay TV.
But Foxtel and Fox Sports producer Premier Media Group (which is owned by Murdoch and Packer) cannot bid directly for the AFL and NRL TV rights, as both competitions are on the anti-siphoning list. The rights are held by the free-to-air networks, which on-sell some rights to the pay TV sectors.
Free-to-air TV executives are worried Conroy has listened to the arguments of people such as AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou and decided to remove the majority of the AFL and NRL weekly matches from the anti-siphoning list (the finals will stay on the list).
Until the digital channels came along, the free-to-air networks could not show all weekly AFL and NRL matches. Now they can, assuming Conroy does not change the rules.
Conroy has faffed about with anti-siphoning for months and months, creating an unnecessary mess, but there is no evidence the government has thought about how it will sell the changes to the public.
Conroy knows that if the free-to-air networks are not happy with the changes Conroy takes to cabinet, they will launch a massive advertising and public relations campaign. The message will be simple: the Gillard government is denying sport-mad Australians free access to their favourite sports.
A key issue working in the free-to-air networks' favour is the government's aim of switching off analog TV signals by December 2013.
Conroy wants to collect the "digital dividend" – the $1 billion or so the government expects to raise by selling the spectrum the TV networks now use for analog broadcasts – which means encouraging people to switch to digital TV. Making the content of free-to-air digital channels more attractive by adding popular sporting events is one way to achieve that.
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I'm booked for breast augmentation next week, but I'm still unsure what size I want. I'm 5'11" and a 36B currently. I'd like to be a D cup, but not the fake look. The surgeon said 325cc round silicone implants over the muscle. Should I opt for slightly bigger? My friend who is only 5'5" got 380cc and they don't look that big. Also, she got hers put under the muscle and was told that's how they look the most natural. Is this true?
Breast Augmentation Advice for Size and Placement
Doctor Answers 6
Tough to know without an exam or a photo
Picking the right implant for each patient requires good communication between the surgeon and the patient, and a thorough discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of several options, including:
type of implant (saline or silicone)
profile of implant (denotes the shape of the implant and how much projection it has)
size of implant
implant pocket (subglandular (in front of the muscle) or subpectoral (behind the muscle)
Every woman has different goals, different anatomy, and as surgeons we all have slightly different tools and styles to determine which implant will not just look the best for each patient, but more importantly, will meet their individual goals. Let me give you a few tips that may help you decide what you want done for your procedure:
In general, I think silicone implants for most women look the most natural, especially if you are very thin. Now, some surgeons would disagree with this, but I think that if you're planning on placing the implant above the muscle, you should strongly consider silicone implants, because salines will look very unnatural and you will likely see the rippling of the implant over time.
I will often place the implant behind the muscle, unless the patient is very, very active, has a little bit of droop to their breasts, or has a strong preference for this placement. I think the muscle hides the implant a bit more and prevents visualization of the edge of the implant, in particular along the cleavage line.
Picking the right size can be difficult, and I will usually use a temporary sizer during the procedure, so that I can pick the proper implant for my patients. This adds a few minutes, but I think it goes a long way toward achieving the size, look, and symmetry that my patients are looking for.
I hope this helps-- the key is to have a detailed discussion with your surgeon during your consultation so that he understands what it is you want and gets you those results on the day of surgery.
Good luck!
Dr. Salemy
Web reference: http://www.drsalemy.com
Breast implant size and placement advice
Yes breast implants placed under the muscle tend to look more natural (see my realself articles). However there are consequences. See video below. IF you are set on a D cup breast I would go with a larger implant.. Try sizers on.
Web reference: http://www.bodysculptor.com/breast-surgery-chicago/
You will need a bigger implant
I have many patients in the 5'11" to 6' plus range and on this frame, a 325 implant will give you a full B or small C result. Most of these patients need an implant in the 400-450 range to get a reasonable size for their heights and frames. The base diameter of the implant should match the base width behind your breast and this dictates the volume that is best for you.
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Things are apparently done differently in England. Actually, there is some practice variation here in the states as well. Most plastic surgeons in the U.S. use a technique known as biodimensional planning, in which measurements are taken of your breasts and chest and coupled with your height, weight and personal goals to give a narrow range of implant sizes. I will have 3 (an extra one, just in case) of each of the implants in that range available for the surgery. During the surgery, while you are anesthetized, you are placed in a sitting upright position with a temporary breast sizer inserted under your breast. The sizer is then inflated to a size that fits your personal goals (D cup) and the final implant volume is chosen based on that process. Perhaps your surgeon has a similar practice, but on the surface, you are exactly right. A 325cc implant does not sound right for your D cup expectation. Good luck!
In my experience at least 375-400 cc is required to produce a D cup in a Victoria Secret
Bra sizes vary by manufacturer. For most average women with B cup breasts I have found that 350 cc implants usually crreate a C cup and 400 cc is required for a D cup using the Victoria Secret Bra cup sizes.
I am also talking about round low profile or moderate profile gel implants. I have not found that submuscular versis subglandular implant location makes much difference with regard to final size.
Web reference: http://drseckel.com/surgical-procedures/result-oriented-breast-augmentation-breast-enlargement/
You are not ready for breast augmentation....
You are clearly unprepared for your surgery if you do not know the exact plan and your surgery is next week. No surgeon on a forum is able to tell you what size implant and where to have it placed without examining you.
A 350cc implant looks very different on a lady who weighs 100lbs at 5 feet tall versus a 6 foot tall lady who ways 180lbs.
You need to see your doctor and have a long discussion explaining your goals and asking your questions. Why are you going above the muscle vs under the muscle?
Did the surgeon explain why or just say "do it this way." You can't just show up on the day of surgery and hope it goes well. The #1 reason in the United States that women have revision surgery is for a size change. Thus, you need to know you goals beforehand.
Call your surgeon on Monday and find out how they size people.
- Do they have sizers to try on?
- Do they do digital imaging?
If you wait until after surgery to ask questions it will be too late...
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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News & Events
Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Statement of
Deborah M. Autor, Esq.
Deputy Commissioner for Global Regulatory Operations and Policy
Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
Before the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
United States Senate
September 14, 2011
Good morning, Chairman Harkin and Members of the Committee. I am Deborah Autor, Deputy Commissioner for Global Regulatory Operations and Policy at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the safety of the American drug supply.
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the modern FDA in 1938, the percentage of medical products imported into the United States was minimal. Today the landscape is reversed. Nearly 40 percent of the drugs Americans take are made elsewhere, and about 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) used in drugs manufactured in the United States come from outside our borders—from more than 150 countries, many with less sophisticated manufacturing and regulatory systems than our own. In addition to the sheer volume of imports and foreign facilities, there has been an increase in the variety of sources, shippers, methods of transportation and supply chain complexity of imported products, and our current authorities have not kept pace with the challenges of the current global marketplace. Combined, these factors create great challenges to FDA and industry in ensuring that all drugs are high quality and travel safely throughout their complex supply chains. These factors also provide opportunities for criminals to adulterate drugs for economic or other malevolent reasons.
When we refer to the drug supply chain, we are talking about the increasingly complex path that medical products travel, from raw source materials to finished products for consumers. At every stage in this process, opportunities arise for the product to be contaminated, diverted, counterfeited, or otherwise adulterated. The Internet presents an additional layer of complexity by introducing more players into the system and more opportunities for criminals to reach consumers. Our efforts to secure the supply chain both in the United States and abroad include minimizing risks that arise anywhere along the supply chain continuum, from sourcing a product's raw material, ingredients, and components through the product's manufacture, storage, transit, sale and distribution. A breach at any point in this continuum could lead to dangerous and even deadly outcomes for consumers. Supply chain safety threats also impact manufacturers' bottom lines due to costs associated with both recalls and decreased public confidence.
As Members of this Committee well know, this threat is not purely hypothetical. Recent incidents of adulteration, counterfeiting, and cargo theft have posed serious threats to public health. The consequences, throughout the world, have been tragic. In recent years, glycerin in fever medicine, cough syrup, and teething products was adulterated with the highly toxic solvent, diethylene glycol (DEG), resulting in the deaths of adults and children in Panama, and children in Haiti and Nigeria. Over the last 20 years, drug products containing glycerin contaminated with DEG have caused an estimated 570 deaths worldwide. Also in 2007, pet food adulterated with the industrial chemical melamine and cyanuric acid sickened several thousand pets in our country. The same contaminant was added to infant formula in China, fatally poisoning six babies and making 300,000 others gravely ill. And Members of this Committee are well aware of the 2008 heparin contamination crisis that resulted in several deaths and cases of serious illness.
Counterfeit drugs raise significant public health concerns, because their safety and effectiveness is unknown. A counterfeited drug could be made up of a substance that is toxic to patients. But even a non-toxic counterfeit drug with a substitute or no active ingredient could prove harmful to patients who take it, thinking that they are taking a lifesaving or life-sustaining medication. In 2003, over $20 million in illegally imported and counterfeit Lipitor, a popular cholesterol-lowering drug, was distributed throughout the United States. The source and manufacturing methods of the product were unknown and had the potential to endanger patients.
Cargo thefts of prescription drugs also pose a significant public health risk. In 2009 alone, an estimated 46 drug cargo thefts occurred, valued at a total of $184 million. These incidents are concerning to companies and consumers alike. Cargo thefts can cost drug manufacturers millions of dollars. They can also put consumers at risk because the stolen drugs may not have been stored or handled properly or may have been tampered with while outside of the legitimate supply chain. In March of 2010, thieves broke into a warehouse and stole $75 million worth of prescription drug products, including chemotherapy, antidepressants, and blood-thinners. These products have not yet been recovered, and we fear they could be distributed, in spite of public warning. In 2009, stolen insulin was reintroduced into the drug supply and caused adverse events in patients. The stolen insulin, which requires refrigeration, lost its potency and did not provide the needed glucose control.
In our increasingly complex and globalized world, additional authorities could be important tools to help support FDA's efforts to protect the safety of imports and the health of our citizens. New regulatory authorities may also help ensure that industry takes principal responsibility for the security and integrity of their supply chains and the quality control systems they use to produce medical products for the American people. FDA's efforts are also critical to ensuring product integrity. As such, we intend to further transform FDA over the next decade from a predominantly domestically focused Agency, operating in a globalized world, to an Agency fully prepared for a regulatory environment in which product safety and quality know no borders.
In June, FDA published a special report, "Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality," our global strategy and action plan that will allow us to more effectively oversee the quality, safety, and efficacy of all products that reach U.S. consumers in the future. The Agency is developing a new, more global operating model that relies on strengthened collaboration, improved information sharing and gathering, data-driven risk analytics, and the smart allocation of resources, leveraging the combined efforts of government, industry, and public- and private-sector third parties. Toward this goal, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg created a directorate focused on grappling with the truly global nature of today's world—food and medical product production and supply, as well as the science that undergirds the products we regulate—so that FDA can move from being a regulator of domestic products to one overseeing worldwide enterprises. She appointed me as Deputy Commissioner for Global Regulatory Operations and Policy to provide broad direction and support to FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs and Office of International Programs, with a responsibility to address the challenges of globalization and import safety a top priority in the years to come and to ensure that we fully integrate our domestic and international programs to best promote and protect the health of the public. I appreciate the opportunity to testify before you in my new role and look forward to working together to address the challenges we face in protecting our nation's health in this increasingly globalized world.
Steps to Secure Our Nation's Drug Supply Chain
FDA has undertaken a wide range of activities aimed at addressing the challenges and opportunities of globalization, including efforts to harmonize scientifically rigorous standards internationally, to share scientific and technical expertise with our fellow regulators, to provide training around the world in crucial regulatory disciplines, to strengthen detection, surveillance and assessment systems, and to design innovative risk-modeling systems.
We now have permanent FDA overseas posts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China; New Delhi and Mumbai, India; San Jose, Costa Rica; Mexico City, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; Brussels, Belgium; London, England; and Parma, Italy. This year, we have opened posts in Amman, Jordan and Pretoria, South Africa. These offices enable us to have a regional presence around the world and serve as important hubs for improved coordination with regulatory authorities and industry in other nations. They also conduct and facilitate inspections and other on-the-ground activities in foreign sites. We have more than 30 agreements with foreign counterpart agencies to share inspection reports and other non-public information that can help us make better decisions about the quality and safety of foreign products.
When governments collaborate to strengthen safety standards, the results are safer, higher-quality products and enhanced economic development through a productive industry and a strong, reliable export market. The arrangement is mutually beneficial. To a large extent, our success or failure in this effort will be contingent on the relationships we establish with our foreign partners. That is why we are working closely with our sister regulatory authorities, international and national organizations, and industry to leverage resources to accomplish FDA's mission. Especially in the area of good manufacturing practices for drugs, we already have agreed with major foreign counterparts on some harmonized international standards. By using the results of their inspections to assure us that their manufacturing plants are adhering to our agreed standard, we free up our inspectional resources to help ensure that such manufacturing practices are being followed in other, higher-risk parts of the world. This also lessens the regulatory burden on industry, by allowing companies to manufacture to a common standard and to undergo fewer inspections by multiple authorities.
After Heparin
The 2008 heparin contamination crisis is a case study in the vulnerabilities of the global supply chain. Heparin is a widely used injectable anticoagulant, derived from the mucosal tissue of pigs. In early 2008, contaminated heparin from China was associated with an increase in deaths in the United States. Whatever was contaminating this imported heparin could not be identified by the tests used at the time. After launching a far-ranging investigation, FDA scientists, working closely with academia and industry, developed a test methodology that identified a previously unknown contaminant in Chinese-manufactured heparin. The contaminated heparin contained oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS), an intentionally added adulterant. An outbreak of blue ear pig disease had killed off a large portion of China's pig population, creating an incentive for criminals to seek an alternative that mimicked the chemical makeup of heparin but, tragically, proved dangerous to consumers.
FDA publicly referred to the heparin contamination crisis as a "wake-up call." It was an alert not only for FDA, but also for U.S. citizens, industry, and lawmakers about our dependence on a globalized drug supply and the key vulnerabilities in our drug supply chain. FDA has taken a number of significant steps to safeguard the U.S. supply of this medically necessary drug. The Agency invested considerable resources to inspect heparin manufacturing and testing facilities related to the supply of heparin in the United States. Additionally, the United States Pharmacopoeia, a standards-setting organization upon which FDA relies, now calls for the testing of heparin to detect the presence of OSCS, the contaminant that sickened patients in 2008. FDA has also implemented heparin-specific import surveillance including an import alert and multiple warning letters to ensure that adulterated heparin does not enter our borders.
But our efforts have not stopped there. The heparin crisis was a crime of opportunity, and we need to minimize these opportunities. We are committed to putting preventive measures in place that will protect American consumers from adulteration of all imported drugs. We combine risk-based approaches with sound scientific evidence to protect the public from adulterated and unsafe drugs. The Agency takes several factors into account in determining whether a particular drug ingredient may be at risk for adulteration. For example, when a drug ingredient depends on raw materials that are particularly expensive, criminals may have extra incentive to find a cheaper alternative to the expensive ingredient. If the cheaper alternative can mimic the chemical activity of the product and thereby go undetected by standard testing, as was the case in the heparin and melamine incidents, the risk of adulteration is higher. To date, FDA has systematically ranked more than 1,000 APIs in order of their respective risk of adulteration, based on a multi-factorial, risk-based model we developed. A subset of these higher-risk ingredients is targeted for additional sampling and special testing at the border. In addition, FDA is working to reduce the risk that counterfeit or adulterated drug products reach consumers in the U.S. market by developing standards for a track-and-trace system that would enable the identification of these products and facilitate efforts to recall them.
Through the creation of my position and other activities at the Agency, we have made addressing the challenges of globalization a top priority. To support this effort, FDA can benefit from new legislative authorities that are, at a minimum, commensurate with those of its major global counterparts.
Drug Safety Authorities
In general, new regulatory authorities may help ensure that industry takes principal responsibility for the security and integrity of its supply chains and the quality control systems it uses to produce drugs for the American people. In an era of globalization, new authorities can help to level the playing field between domestic and foreign manufacturers, ensure product safety and provide FDA with the information it needs to protect consumers. Those authorities may include:
Leveling the Playing Field
- Refusal of product admission to the United States if inspection of the manufacturing facility is delayed, limited, or denied – this authority is critical to providing a strong incentive for foreign facilities to allow FDA to perform inspections and to permit FDA to exclude from domestic commerce products whose foreign manufacturers or facilities try to avoid subjecting themselves to the same requirements as domestic manufacturers and facilities. This authority is not currently explicit in FDA's law for any product other than foods.
- Require information upon importation – the Agency can refuse entry of an import that appears from examination of samples or otherwise to be adulterated or misbranded, but FDA lacks authority to require certification or other assurance of compliance with applicable standards or requirements as a condition of importation, consistent with FDA's standards and requirements for the domestic drug supply. This is the opposite of the approach taken by many other countries, which place the burden on the importer or product owner to prove that its drug is compliant with country requirements.
- Quality management systems – FDA currently works with industry to ensure that individual companies have effective quality management systems in place; however, additional statutory authority could place greater responsibility on manufacturers to account for the quality and provenance of the materials that go into their products. This would level the playing field between the companies that work diligently on their quality management systems to provide high quality products, and those that do not.
- While FDA does not seek to interfere with regulatory authorities outside the United States, having express authority to address threats to U.S. consumers, whenever and wherever they may arise, is critical.
Increasing Drug Safety
- Mandatory recall authority – while in most instances firms eventually agree to voluntarily recall drugs that FDA believes pose a risk, FDA lacks the authority to compel such recalls and critical time can be lost in negotiations between FDA and a firm, leaving the public exposed to potentially serious health risks. The Agency currently has mandatory recall authority for medical devices, infant formula, and now many other foods, but not for drugs.
- Administrative destruction at the border – absent this streamlined authority, FDA is often forced to return violative products to their senders because the current process for destruction requires a hearing, which is time-consuming and costly. Foreign drugs can then find their way back to U.S. ports of entry several times, posing a potential threat to consumers and wasting critical resources that could be better spent identifying new threats. This authority would level the playing field for those who produce compliant products, whether located in the United States or abroad.
- Administrative detention – while FDA has the authority to administratively detain illegal foods and medical devices in U.S. commerce, it does not have a similar authority for drugs. Currently, we cannot immediately detain dangerous drug products when we find them. Absent this immediate tool, consumers can be exposed to unnecessary risks.
- Enhanced criminal and civil penalties for foreign and domestic suppliers – statutory changes could help to deter would-be criminals from targeting drug products, and bring FDA's penalties in line with those for other serious federal health and safety violations.
Increasing Information
- Modernization of drug registration and listing – revising these statutory provisions may improve the timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of FDA's current registration and listing information, making sure FDA has accurate and up-to-date information about foreign and domestic parties involved in medical product manufacture.
- Notification to FDA – this authority would permit FDA to require foreign and domestic companies to provide complete information on threats such as counterfeiting, theft, non-compliance with regulatory standards, mislabeling or misbranding, or other threats to the security of the drug supply chain. Among other things, this would allow FDA to better spot emerging risks and trends across companies and then inform industry or take other proactive, preventive steps.
- Unique facility identifier – the absence of a system of unique drug facility identifiers, such as a D-U-N-S number, submitted to FDA both as a condition of registration and import, makes it difficult for FDA to properly follow threats up the supply chain and makes it more difficult to get different systems, including at different agencies, to properly cross-reference.
- Authority to share certain non-public information with other regulatory agencies and foreign governments – this authority would allow FDA to share certain information that could lead to timely identification, prevention, and resolution of emerging threats. Our ability to form global coalitions of regulators will be hampered if we cannot share critical information with our trusted partners.
- Track and trace – requiring a cost-effective track-and-trace system for all drug products throughout the supply chain would improve the security and integrity of the drug supply and ensure transparency and accountability of product manufacturing and distribution, whether the product is manufactured domestically or internationally.
In our increasingly complex and globalized world, these additional authorities represent important tools to help support efforts to protect the safety of imports and the health of our citizens.
Given the challenges and threats posed by an increasingly globalized marketplace, we must modernize our approach to drug safety. We appreciate the comments of Chairman Harkin and Ranking Member Enzi in July in support of including legislation in the reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) to address the challenges of globalization. We look forward to continuing to work together to achieve our shared goal of protecting American consumers. I would be happy to answer any questions.


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How to Manage Pests
UC Pest Management Guidelines
Crown Gall
Pathogen: Agrobacterium tumefaciens
(Reviewed 12/07, updated 4/09)
In this Guideline:
Crown gall appears as rough, abnormal galls at or below the soil surface on roots or trunk. Live galls are not hard but soft and spongy. The centers of older galls decay. Young trees become stunted. Older trees often develop secondary wood rots.
Crown gall is caused by a bacteria, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, that survives in soil and gall tissue. Bacteria enter primarily through wounds. Crown gall is most damaging to trees that are 1- to 8-years old. Paradox rootstock is especially susceptible.
The incidence of crown gall can be reduced by planting noninfected, "clean" trees. Before planting, make sure trees stay moist and the roots do not dry out. It is also important to carefully handle trees to avoid injury as much as possible, both at planting and during the life of the tree in the orchard. Although preplant, preventive dips or sprays with a biological control agent are available, their effectiveness can be variable on walnut trees.
Look for and treat crown gall during the growing season when the orchard is not wet because moisture favors the bacterium. When established orchard trees are infected with crown gall, you can use a combination of surgery, flaming, or a bactericide to treat the tumors. The best time to treat is in the spring because with rapid tree growth occurring, new callous tissue is formed relatively quickly.
The treatment is most effective for small galls on young trees. The procedure, however, can be expensive and difficult to carry out, depending on the size and location of the galls. If trees less than 4 years old are severely affected with galls, it is more economical to remove the trees and replant. If galls develop on trees after they are 7 or 8 years old and the trees appear healthy otherwise, then treatment probably is not necessary. For trees between 4 and 7 years old, the decision whether to treat galls or remove trees depends on the severity of galling and the cost of treatment relative to the cost of replacing trees.
To treat crown galls, first remove soil away from the crown and roots to completely expose the gall. Soil can be safely removed using pneumatic equipment such as air compressors or hydraulic excavation with fire suppression equipment or water washers. To flame the gall, use a propane cylinder or bottle and slowly move the torch tip around the margin of the gall, creating a red-hot zone that is about 1 inch wide. It may be advantageous to surgically remove the gall in order to gain access to all parts of the gall margin. If surgery is used, be sure to sterilize the tools with heat before advancing to the next tree. Leave the treated areas uncovered for a year and re-treat if galls begin to regrow. Treatment success is about 80%.
As an alternative to flaming, galls can be treated with a bactericide such as Gallex, but treatment success is dependent upon complete removal of the gall first.
When replanting a previously affected site, remove as many of the old tree roots as possible, grow a grass rotation crop to help degrade leftover host material and reduce pathogen levels, and offset the new trees from the previous tree spacing to minimize contact of healthy new roots with any infested roots and soil that may remain. Before placing the tree in the planting hole, line the hole with clean soil and then fill the hole with clean soil at planting. Keeping the crown area dry may help reduce disease severity.
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