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16 February 2015: The road at the start of the Killdevil Track has been closed to vehicles due to fire danger. Visitors wishing to access the track will need to walk or bike an extra 500m to reach the start of the track.
Mountain bike - AdvancedMountain bike - Expert
You can mountain bike on part of the Kill Devil Track in Kahurangi National Park. It is part of the Anatoki/Waingaro Circuit.
The Kill Devil is a "there-and-back" one day or overnight ride for advanced (Grade 4) and expert (Grade 5) riders. It is technically challenging, on rough, remote terrain, and you may need to walk or carry your bike at various points.
This part of the track is on a former stock route (unformed legal road outside the national park). It is mostly of benched construction with a rock base. Climbing up to the Lockett Range the track is mostly in good condition with minor areas of erosion.
On the Lockett Range the track is characterised by rough rocky sections mixed with short lengths of smooth packed dirt. The track is generally well drained and follows a mixture of moderate to steep gradient along the ridge top. It is a technically challenging ride for an experienced mountain biker with a high level of fitness.
The track can be ridden in a day or you can overnight at either Riordans Hut or Waingaro Forks Hut. Riordans Hut and the branch track to it are on conservation land outside of the national park.
There are spectacular views from the ridge tops of the Lockett Range including west towards the Devil River Peak, Devil Range and down into the Waingaro River Valley. The track featues historic huts and shelters.
The track starts and finishes in Upper Takaka, Golden Bay.
This is a basic 3-bunk hut in the Golden Bay area.
This is a basic 4-bunk hut in the Golden Bay area.
Created in 1996, Kahurangi is one of New Zealand's newest and the second largest national park. It's located in the northwest corner of New Zealand's South Island.
You can ride mountain bikes on part of the Kill Devil track (as identified above):
You are not permitted to take a mountain bike:
Signs and other markers clearly identify where mountain bikes can be ridden and where they are not allowed. At the Uruwhenua Road end there are several side roads and tracks coming off the legal road across private land. Please stay on the marked track and respect private land.
Park your motorised vehicle at the designated vehicle parking area off Uruwhenua Road (see the map for the exact location). There will be clear on-site signage indicating vehicle parking areas.
Remember that this mountain biking track is shared with walkers and trampers, and with other bikers who may be coming the other way.
It should be ridden in accordance with the mountain bikers code.
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*Peter Mansell explores how forecasters are developing new methods and new metrics to enable them to make better guesses*
Peter Mansell explores how forecasters are developing new methods and new metrics to enable them to make better guesses
Forecasting for pharmaceuticals is never going to be the most exact of sciences.
Informed, intelligent guesswork is one practitioners definition of long-term forecasts.
So, uncertainty is the forecasters natural habitat: addressing markets in flux, prone to political expediency and with different regulatory requirements, pricing and reimbursement systems, distribution structures, demographics, epidemiologies, income levels, and competitor activity.
If its to make an investment decision, you know youre going to be precisely wrong, so you need to be roughly right, comments Nick Guthrie, head of forecasting at AstraZeneca in the UK.
Nor are the conditions for being roughly right getting any easier.
In what has traditionally been a rather sluggish and conservative industry, the last few years have seen a sharp acceleration of radical change.
This extends from the way industry discovers and develops its products to its sales and marketing strategies, global reach, reliance on outsourcing, and relationships with patients and payers as well as the pressures on healthcare systems that are ushering in new conceptions of drug value.
Most health authorities realize that, with ageing populations and limited resources, treating the disease is no longer really going to be an option in the long term, points out Nic Talbot-Watt, managing director of Black Swan Analysis.
There is a corresponding shift to preventive healthcare and to medicines premised on longer-term outcomes and health economic arguments, such as heading off expensive hospital stays.
Dynamic forecasting
What this means for forecasters is that they start to see the wider disease maps, Talbot-Watt adds.
And that starts things moving from the static, prevalence-based disease models that weve been used to for the last 12 years and into something slightly more dynamic, where youve got events that can really disrupt the patient population and were never really considered before.
Among the key disruptive elements are the growing importance of emerging markets in pharmaceutical business strategies; the increasing prevalence of health technology assessment and its impact on pricing, reimbursement and market access; and the gradual emergence of technologies that are nudging the market, at least in developed countries, towards stratified medicine and niche segmentation.
Aggravating the inherent uncertainties of emerging markets is a basic lack of data, particularly on new drugs.
As a result, forecasting is heavily reliant on primary research.
Further complications include a larger proportion of patients funding their medicines out of pocket (which muddies pricing strategies) and, in some cases, the need for special distribution channels.
While a market such as China is potentially huge on the basis of population alone, there may be a marked discrepancy between the subset of that population actually buying a Western brandmore than likely in the private marketand the total opportunity. (For more on China, see Cracking the Chinese pharma market.)
As Guthrie observes, the level of exposure to emerging markets will also depend on what stage of its lifecycle a drug has reached.
If youre sitting in a brand thats on the market and trying to grow then things arent that much different, he says.
The US is still a big market and its important to do well there. Europe is still quite important, as is Japan.
If, however, youre sitting in a mature brand, something where growth in established markets has been achieved, then youre going to be very much looking at new marketsthe Brazils, the Chinas, the Mexicos and the Russias. And lifes very different there. (For more from Nick Guthrie on emerging markets, see Strategic approaches to emerging markets.)
One difference is working out how the brand fits into the local pricing and reimbursement infrastructure.
If you go to Brazil or Mexico, youve got to think, Am I accessing the whole market or just part of it? Am I playing the public-pay market or the private-pay market? Or am I going to try and play in both and, if so, how?
With China, Guthrie adds, Youre looking at a private-pay market unless youre going to try to get on an essential medicines list. Am I then prepared to price to get on thatwhich is a very different gameor am I going to charge a premium and go for private pay? Then what is the impact of the inevitable generic going to be?
(For more on the emerging markets, seeGetting into the Indian pharma market, The Middle East: A pharma market in the making, Reassessing Russia's pharma market; Breaking into the Brazilian pharma market; and How to get ahead in 'pharmerging' markets.)
Compensating for lack of epidemiological data
All of this has to be managed with limited access to what, in other markets, are the raw materials of forecasting.
The way weve always done new opportunities is to look at the epidemiology and say, How many people have got the illness? How many are diagnosed? How many are treated? How many of those treated am I going to get? How many are my competitors going to get? Guthrie notes.
And thats fine unless youre talking about markets like Russia or Brazil, and to some extent China, where you actually dont know how many patients there are, you dont have good sources of epidemiology.
There also need to be additional lines within that cascade. That may be the number diagnosed, but how many of those can actually afford my therapy?
How the forecaster compensates for lack of epidemiological data will vary according to the therapeutic area and size of investment, Guthrie says.
If there is current treatment, then there are market data. If theres not even current therapy, then whats my best surrogate? Is the Spanish epidemiology that weve got close enough?
HTA and the need to show a viable cost-benefit equation is something else forecasters need to be thinking about, although not so much in emerging markets, which are more of a price-volume equation.
(For more on HTAs, see Market access: How to meet both marketing authorisation and HTA needs and HTAs go global: What it means for market access.)
In Europe, though, where there is growing price contraction, or in the US, where comparative effectiveness is starting to seep into the mix, assumptions that a new product with better efficacy and/or safety will automatically command a premium price or be taken up as the standard of care may no longer hold water.
As companies try to incorporate HTA earlier in the R&D cycle, that further complicates projections of what will come out of the pipeline, how it will perform in the marketplace, or whether it can even satisfy more rigorous internal or external demand for cost-benefit advantages.
I think companies are now aware they need a strong health economics package when they get to pricing and reimbursement, Talbot-Watt says.
The trouble is that health economists can only workand I wouldnt call it forecastingin a very defined way. Traditionally, they tend to work with clinical trial data and basically run probabilities, various different factors, through models based solely on those data. But you cant extrapolate outside that clinical trial.
(For more on comparative effectiveness, see How to build value through comparative effectiveness research and Health data and comparative effectiveness.)
New value equations
Even forecasters, though, may find the new value equations difficult to pin down.
I think what has changed is our definition of a meaningful benefit, Guthrie comments.
That meaningful benefit just used to be clinical efficacy, and it was determined by the physician. Now were talking more about the benefit being defined by the payer, including the customer whos taking the medicinesthe patient as payer.
Moreover, Guthrie says, it has always been difficult to anticipate the future interpretation of benefits. We can do market research analysis but the payer environment can change rapidly, because governments can intervene. And whereas peoples values tend not to change quickly, government values and government intervention can.
Also on the horizon, if not already carving out new market segments in categories such as oncology, is the trend towards personalized medicine.
One overarching uncertainty is how, and to what extent, personalized therapies will develop beyond what is still largely a conceptual stage.
As Guthrie points out, currently available targeted medicines are largely blockbuster oncology products using mechanisms that cut across tumour types.
By contrast, if you look at the truly personalized medicine, theyre modest products. (For more on personalized medicine, see Personalized medicine: A kick-start for innovation?.)
And adding in companion diagnostics creates a parallel track for forecasters.
If youre thinking about personalized healthcare, youve got two uptake curves: the uptake curve for the diagnostic and the uptake curve for your product.
(For more on companion diagnostics, see Personalized medicine: Regulating companion diagnostics.)
What is also unclear is how much these new dynamics open up space for progressive forecasting tools that go beyond traditional order-of-entry models to incorporate new markets, stratified medicine, HTA, or shifts in therapeutic strategy within categories.
New models as a strategic imperative
It may be some time yet before vendors and consultants can persuade mainstream pharmaceutical companies, at least, that new models are a strategic imperative.
Its not about models, comments one forecasting manager, who stresses instead the fundamentals of understanding the market, factoring in key uncertainty drivers and making your best guess.
Moreover, he notes, forecasts are only useful if they support business plans.
In that respect, they must be transparent and easily communicated to management, whose interest levels may otherwise dip very quickly.
Guthrie shares this wariness: Essentially, what we do is try to find an existing trend, which we project into the future, and then we add intelligence, events, all the things that are going to happen to change or disrupt that trend, he says.
When youre looking at a new opportunity, the epidemiology is the trend youre using as the basis I havent seen any new tools that do anything other than that in a different way.
For Talbot-Watt, though, industry is now at the tipping point of where these new sorts of techniques are needing to be used, because people are seeing that, especially with things like critical care forecasts, the models they have arent actually able to cut it anymore.
Niche players, diagnostics companies or the larger biotechs are paving the way, she adds: Theyre the ones that are actually seeing their models breaking down and theyve already been wrestling with some of these problems for quite a while.
These companies are starting to move towards dynamic flow models. Theyre looking at better patient segmentation and data identification. And those two things together are really helping them drive their business case. Because they dont have large pharma budgets, they have to be very specific, very agile, and very reactive to get whats going on in their markets.
(For more on dynamic flow models, see Forecasting: How to get patient flow analysis right and Forecasting: Patient flow modeling comes of age.)
Big pharma, with its traditional focus on primary care and chronic disease, hasnt needed these techniques yet, but I think in the next couple of years they will start to turn, Talbot-Watt says.
One driver is the need to value new types of products either moving through pharma pipelines or absorbed through acquisition.
She also believes the knowledge base for forecasting has stagnated.
While the big platform engines took some of the legwork out of forecasting, knowledge dropped away because people didnt have to produce forecasts anymore. And these days its quite hard to find people who are experts or know a good forecast when they see it.
Communicating to senior management
While new approaches such as dynamic patient models are starting to make their mark, the challenge is communicating their value to senior management, Talbot-Watt says.
They are used to prevalence-based models and are inclined to say, Why do we need to do anything different? It just means people have to dust off their brain cells and think very logically about whats happening in their market.
When Ive built dynamic models in areas where the patients are very tightly defined, she adds, if you communicate that properlyrather than just saying, Actually, your patient population is only half what you thought it was, you say: This is how your label is developing, this is the patient group that is now eligible, and you explain exactly why that is. Then they actually do understand.
Whether and to what extent these new techniques catch on, the pharmaceutical market is becoming increasingly polarized in a way that will continue to throw up challenges for forecasters.
I think one of the bigger differences is that we have a current market thats very big and whose growth is uncertain, Guthrie comments.
And we have some future markets that are not currently huge but whose growth is forecasted to be quite significant. So the today versus tomorrow dynamic is probably bigger now than its ever been.
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Another alternative title could be, The Rockies or: How I learned California isn't the Single Greatest State and Fell in Love with Colorado. It's a work in progress.
SouthWest was having their cheap flight deals, so when I found some fairly cheap flights to Denver I jumped at the chance. I stayed with some family I hadn't really spent time with before, and had a blast getting to know them better.
Here are the microbrews I tried when in Colorado. Now I live in California, so I'm no stranger to microbrews, so when I heard about all of the great beer in Colorado I just had try as many as I could get my grummy paws on. I'll give you the rundown from right to left on what I thought of each drink.
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The Modus Hoperandi by Ska Brewing Co. is another one I was too full to try, and I'm really disappointed because I'm a big lover of Indian Pale Ales. I got it because the beer man that helped me pick it out was very enthusiastic about it, and it comes highly rated from Beer Advocate.
Face Down Brown Ale by Telluride Brewing Co. is one of my new favorite brown ales. If you like Newcastle or other brown ales, buy this. It was silky smooth that tasted like toffee, nuts and chocolate. Delicious!
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I'm sure that you will notice that there aren't any New Belgian beers on this list, and that's because while they are Colorado based, you can get New Belgian pretty much anywhere in California. But yes, New Belgian is absolutely delicious and highly recommend any of their beers.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The Patriots will take the field at Gillette Stadium on Sunday for the time during the 2012 regular season, and tight end Rob Gronkowski says he's fired up for the home opener.
"I'm excited right now. I've been excited all week. Always excited," he said of playing in front of the home crowd. "It only gets closer to game day every single day. Just excited to get out there, especially that it's our home opener, it's always great to see our fans all fired up when we're running out [of] the bubble helmet. It's going to be a blast."
The confines of Gillette Stadium have been kind to Gronkowski during his first two seasons, as the Patriots have amassed a 15-1 regular season record since 2010. But Gronkowski knows that the Cardinals will present a unique challenge on Sunday, and one that is predicated upon collective speed and size on defense.
"Their safeties, their corners, they all have speed. And they don't just have to speed, they have size on them too in the secondary," he said. "Same with their defensive line, they've got some size on them and they're really athletic. You've got be ready for their speed, you've got to be ready for all their stunts and you've got to be able to pick them up."
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- CVS Caremark (CVS - Get Report) was rising 2.69% to $68.74 on Tuesday afternoon after the second-largest drugstore chain in the U.S. raised its first-quarter guidance despite the company's recent announcement that it would stop selling tobacco products.
CVS said that the removal of tobacco products would cost $2 billion in annual revenue, along with an earnings per share reduction of six to nine cents per share in the fiscal year 2014, according to The Associated Press. But the company also said business is healthy enough that these hits would not necessitate lower guidance; in fact, it raised its first-quarter guidance to a range of $1.03 to $1.06 per share from a range of 96 cents to 99 cents a share. This surpassed analysts' expectations of 98 cents a share, according to FactSet.
The company also posted EPS and revenue for the fourth quarter that edged analysts' expectations. Net revenues increased 4.6% to a record $32.8 billion, while adjusted EPS increased 15.8% to $1.12. Analysts had expected EPS of $1.11 on $32.67 billion in revenue.
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- Powered by its strong earnings growth of 30.37% and other important driving factors, this stock has surged by 29.02% over the past year, outperforming the rise in the S&P 500 Index during the same period. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, CVS should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
- CVS CAREMARK CORP has improved earnings per share by 30.4% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, CVS CAREMARK CORP increased its bottom line by earning $3.03 versus $2.61 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($3.96 versus $3.03).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has exceeded that of the S&P 500 and greatly outperformed compared to the Food & Staples Retailing industry average. The net income increased by 24.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $1,006.00 million to $1,254.00 million.
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Several years? Where did they get that from! Last I heard it was to be released by the end of 2006. More like a couple of years :)
This certainly is a very bizarre story and it would seem that either the Mozilla trials failed or some deal was done with Redmond in light of the recent IE vunerabilities...
Right now they got their site carrying all the commercial weight.
If they were to include heavy loads of commercial nignag, nobody will ever use it. If they don't why would I prefer it over the regular IE?
Am I THAT stupid?
No, probably not, but other AOL users are not renowned for their tech saviness.
Personally, I don't understand it. I think Mozilla currently has a much better product than Internet Explorer, but I AOL may just be on the path of least resistance...IE, since it's already coded into their client.
AIM is a given, but there are lots of people who have used AOL for years and like the news, keywords, chat rooms, etc. This may be an attempt to keep these users on their properties as the users migrate to broadband or cheaper alternatives. Take IE, add lots of buttons and crap from AOL and keep at least some of your revenue.
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Should side bones be trained after the get really long.....
Imo, train side shoots only to keep them from encroaching on an adjacent plant (and even then, if it's the same strain I might not bother). One goal of the plant is to blot out the sun, so it's going to send shoots off looking for open space to bask. Training tends to defeat that goal. Might be frustrating to the plant, who knows Cheers!
A few of my plants have side arms that are 3' + in length. It would get way to cumbersome & clustered to attempt to train them all.
For some reason, your thread title made me think of this...
I'll cut back anything near the ground, and train or trim anything that is trying to encroach on neighboring plants (different variety), but other than that I let the side arms do what the want. Of course, I'm not a pro, but I did harvest 18 wet oz of Zeus today.
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I keep the first few inches from the ground leaf free a well and there is a strict 6 bine rule. No more then 6 bines are allowed to actually grow from the dirt or leaf free area. Anything past that gets rigorously trained. The entire length is about 15 feet high.and I've got side shoots so I try to tuck them in as well. Imba first time grower but all that I have done seems to be great for the plant.
Here are my questions with side bines: 1) If i have 2 first year plants with virtually no burs/cones, one is a bushy centennial at about 4 ft, the other a single tall nugget bine over 11 feet; wouldn't it promote more shoots to come up from the crown if i snipped the tips and/or side bines at this point in the season. i.e. the plant would refocus it's energy for next season with crown development? 2) I have a first year cascade with 9 side bines that went ~9 ft. and it will be a small but useful crop. My cones are approaching the 1-2 inch size, but recently there have been a lot of small side bines shooting out and up from about 1-4 feet off the ground. Again, wouldn't it be for the benefit of sending resources to the cones (or crown) if i snipped these seemingly useless late season side bines? Thanks for the help in advanced!
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I think the fact that they're throwing sidearms at this point probably indicates that they've already accumulated a ton of energy in the crown. It seems to me that some time after the plants have been busy flowering and once the days begin to get shorter, lots of excess growth begins to accumulate lower on the plants. I don't know if this is just excess energy being released after the majority of the growth has occurred or if it's a response of the excess energy being produced at this time being sent back down toward the crown. I have a graph somewhere that shows carbohydrate production throughout the season and seem to remember that it maintains a plateau for a while after flowering ~ can't find it at the time. I'd just leave everything 'as is' for the time being and allow them to die back naturally this Fall. You'll be really surprised next year when you see what, and how much comes up compared to this year. Forgot to mention, any foliage that's still green at this time is working hard to make more food to store for later. It's a pretty cool thing!
My grow set up is a little different than most peoples trellis, but Ive found pretty much all the cones I have are from sidearm growth. Id train the sidearms you have and clip any new sprouts the crown sends out. I have plenty of pics of it in the thread in my signature if its any help.
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Let your little one shake to their hearts content or until the pine cone is covered in glitter.
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KPMG has recruited the senior London tax partner of international law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf to head its European practice.
Fred Gander, a tax lawyer who joined legacy Dewey Ballantine in 1986 and led the firm's London office prior to its 2007 merger with LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, is joining KPMG's US arm to head its US tax practice for Europe and the Middle East.
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He is also the head of Dewey's European supervisory committee and is known throughout the firm as one of its most successful tax lawyers, Accountancy Age's sister publication Legal Week reports.
He recently stood down from the firmwide executive committee as a part of a wider group of partners leaving the committee in protest at the way management has been dealing with the firm's issues, according to partners within the firm.
The latest departure, which has taken total partner losses this year past 70, has also seen Washington DC project finance partner Gregory Smith leave to join Allen & Overy's (A&O's) recently launched based in the US capital.
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With partner losses mounting and questions swirling about its finances, Dewey is weighing up various options for its future, with the filing of a so-called prepackaged bankruptcy reportedly under consideration. Greenberg Traurig, meanwhile, has confirmed that it has held preliminary talks about taking on an unspecified number of Dewey lawyers.
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A Closer Look At Fixation For Fifth Metatarsal Fractures
The most common fixation technique the lead author uses is a tubular plate with 2.7 mm cortical screws. Surgeons can accomplish reduction via distraction of the fifth toe to restore the length and applying a bone clamp to reduce the medial displacement in the diaphysis. One can use fluoroscopy to confirm reduction. The problem with the bone clamp is that it blocks lateral application of the plate so the lead author will insert a 0.062 K-wire through the fracture to maintain a reasonable degree of reduction and in a direction so it does not interfere with plate application.
One subsequently removes the clamp and applies the plate laterally, ensuring enough distal placement so the surgeon can insert at least one screw through the head depending on the characteristics of the fracture. The plate should also extend proximal enough so one can anchor at least two screws proximal to the fracture. You can usually accomplish this with a five- or six-hole plate. T-plates or L-plates also provide the ability to insert additional screws into the metatarsal head. Locking plates also enable the surgeon to insert two or even three screws distally, and locking plates are indicated in soft osteoporotic bone.
Many times, the fracture spike is so narrow that one cannot use an interfragmentary screw. Sometimes, the surgeon can use a smaller diameter 2.0 mm or 2.4 mm cortical screw to achieve interfragmentary compression but one should insert this screw prior to plate application. The tubular plate will function as a neutralization plate.
Essential Insights On Treating Jones Fractures
The Jones fracture occurs 1.5 to 3.0 cm distal to the tuberosity and at the articular surface of the fourth and fifth metatarsals.4 Given the poor healing or refracture that can occur with Jones fractures when clinicians opt for immobilization only, surgery is often an initial treatment, especially in active patients and athletes.
The Jones fracture lends itself to surgical repair because good exposure is easy to achieve and there is adequate bone both distal and proximal to the fracture to secure fixation modalities.
There are two likely options when surgery is the primary initial procedure. The first option is closed reduction with percutaneous fixation. We have found it easy to work with cannulated systems for these fractures. After reducing the fracture, insert a wire from the cannulated set through the base of the metatarsal across the fracture into the medullary canal. To avoid inadvertent perforation of the cortex, tap the wire and slowly advance it in the medullary canal with a small mallet. One can perform overdrilling as needed.
Proceed to make a small incision at the base of the metatarsal and insert the cancellous screw. The screw diameter is up to the surgeon. However, in a clinical and biomechanical study, Reese and colleagues determined that surgeons can achieve the best results when using the largest diameter screw that can fit in the medullary canal.5 This can be in the range of 4.0 mm to 6.5 mm, depending on the size of the bone.
Prior to surgery, one should measure the width of the medullary canal on the X-ray to determine the appropriate diameter screw. Also bear in mind that many fifth metatarsals have lateral diaphyseal bowing, which may not lend itself to using a long screw. In these cases, the tip of the screw may contact the distal medial surface of the metatarsal, resulting in displacement of the lateral portion of the fracture as one advances the screw. In the presence of lateral bowing, the lead author uses the shortest, widest screw possible for the Jones fracture.


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On this page >> Write-up Comments Results General Classification Photos Stage 4 Castelnaudary 107km T-Mobile protected Judith Arndt's race leader's jersey with a spirited display of work in the peloton on Stage 4. Often a lead-out rider for sprinter, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, Arndt saw the favour returned today with Teutenberg at the front of the bunch and the break, forcing the pace. The powerful German was also instrumental in driving chases of the significant breaks made by firstly Trixi Worrack and then her team-mate, Andrea Graus (Équipe Nürnberger). Worrack managed to gain an advantage of over 40 seconds before being reeled back in by the chasing T-mobile squad. She had broken away at around the 35km point and built a solid lead before a long climb and narrow descent on the course. She created enough reaction in the bunch that it split. As Worrack's advantage increased, it became clear the selection for the stage had been made. Once Worrack had been caught, the breakaway stayed together, although the T-Mobile team maintained the pace at the front. Teutenberg, the sprinter, slipped backwards on the final two climbs of the day, including out of the back of the breakaway group on the climb to Fanjoux. Such is her strength, that a few kilometres later, she was at the front of the group again, chasing the solo attempt by Adnrea Graus. Graus was caught in the closing kilometres by the group. This set up a mass sprint for the win in the wide finishing straight in Castelnaudary. The sprint was fast, with many top sprinters involved. Judith Arndt seemed to be slightly ahead with 200m to go, but then the green points jersey of the World Champion, Marianne Vos began to overtake the race leader. In the final 50m, Vos came past and had time to celebrate her third stage win in the 2007 Tour de l'Aude. The young Dutchwoman gave a three-fingered (3 stage wins) wave to the photographers and the crowd and then punched the air. Judith Arndt was second and protected her race lead. She gained some bonus seconds for finishing second, which helped to open the gap slightly on the new second-placed rider : Susanne Ljungskog (Team Flexpoint), who slipped to 18 seconds behind. Jo Kiesanowski (Raleigh) was third and moved from 8th to 6th overall. When asked whether she was confident in retaining her yellow jersey through the race, Judith Arndt replied "The high mountain stage is tomorrow. When that is complete, we will know more." Marianne Vos : "Another stage win may not be possible - my wheel is marked. But, I have three stage wins already!" Results - Top 10 - click here to see full result
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November 18, 2013
The (Alton) Telegraph
Ethanol sputtering as public policy
The golden promise of ethanol's early years is running headlong into the laws of supply and demand.
Illinois is second only to Iowa in corn production, so it's no surprise the administration of President Barack Obama, the state's former junior senator from Chicago, staunchly supports the biofuel. As a candidate, Obama made ethanol a key part of his plan to combat climate change.
Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, signed the Energy Independence and Security Act in 2007, which required that 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel be produced by 2022. Each year, refineries have to blend ever-increasing amounts of biofuels into the nation's gasoline.
When that law was written, gasoline consumption was rising. Since then, for reasons ranging from higher fuel efficiency standards to changing driving habits, gasoline consumption has fallen and is projected to continue to decrease until 2040.
The result is that ethanol is approaching the "blend wall," the point at which the amount of ethanol required to be added to the gasoline supply exceeds the limit of 10 percent available at most service stations and recommended by auto manufacturers.
A push by ethanol backers to move to a 15 percent standard has met resistance from consumer groups and business associations, which argue that consumers would be forced to pay higher prices at the pump and the grocery store.
Corn prices are slowing production at ethanol plants because producers are having difficulty turning a profit. Since the federal law passed, corn prices have soared from $2 and $3 a bushel to $7, according to the Institute for Energy Research.
Besides ethanol's economic shortcomings, there's an environmental cost to planting so much corn. A series of Associated Press articles found 5 million acres of land set aside for conservation have been turned into farms during Obama's administration. Fertilizer has contaminated rivers and created a lifeless zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Digging up grasslands releases greenhouse gases, and ethanol factories usually burn coal or natural gas.
Corn-based ethanol was supposed to be a bridge to next-generation biofuels that require less land and energy. But with those technologies still in the nascent stages and the nation in the midst of an energy boom, it may be time for the federal government to take its foot off the ethanol accelerator.
November 18, 2013
The (Champaign) News-Gazette
Always a job for a friend
Need any more proof of the divide between the taxpayers and elected officials who promise to protect the public interest? If so, read on.
Did you hear the one about the political payroller who had nine aliases and was paid for working two state jobs at the same time?
Unfortunately, that's no joke; it's just more of the same in Illinois, a state where political connections routinely land unqualified people in important public jobs.
That's what happened in the case of Marlene Liss, a 36-year-old woman who converted her personal friendship with Secretary of State Jesse White into an $80,000-a-year position as chief deputy director of securities in White's office.
It was Liss' job to protect the public from those touting unscrupulous investment schemes. But it turns out that it's Liss from whom the public should have been protected.
The inspector general in White's office recently reported that Liss sought payment for her time in the secretary of state's office while she was simultaneously being paid for working five hours a day as a home health care provider.
The inspector general also found that Liss falsely claimed to have bachelor's and master's degrees, reported a phony address as her residence and used nine different aliases on various public documents.
The U.S. attorney's office, according to news reports, is investigating, so the chances appear good that Liss will be held accountable in the courts.
But who's to be held accountable for hiring Liss?
White reportedly hired Liss in June 2010, assigning her a few months later to work in the secretary of state's securities department, which is charged with regulating the securities industry and protecting investors. White's office indicated that White met her at a print shop she operated and hired her after they became friends.
It's understandable that White may not have known about her unsavory background. But what kind of background check was performed before she was put on the public payroll? Obviously, there was no adequate vetting. But then it's only tax money.
On the scale of Illinois' political sins, this ranks pretty low. But that's only because so many worse things occur with disturbing regularity. Nonetheless, the Liss case shows once again how far removed our elected officials are from those they purport to serve.
November 17, 2013
The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan
Voice of The Southern: Pension reform needs action now
State of Illinois retirees and those nearing retirement from state jobs are fearful of what might happen when lawmakers finally get serious about pension reform.
The state's unfunded pension liability is estimated at the $100 billion mark, the result of years of financial neglect and mismanagement. Money that should have gone into state workers' pension plans was instead applied to other government expenses.
That doesn't sit well with pensioners and those on the verge of retirement. They kept their end of the pension agreement by making steady contributions from their paychecks. They expect to receive the retirement benefits they were promised by the state.
At the same time, the state simply cannot let the pension debt continue ballooning at the $5-million-per-day clip Gov. Pat Quinn described in summer. It's not as terrifying a prospect as a debt increasing by $17 million per day, as Quinn earlier warned, but it certainly warrants attention. And fast.
Unfortunately, the recently concluded veto session of the General Assembly failed to produce any movement toward pension reform.
The pension committee's latest working proposal reportedly would reduce the 3 percent annual compounded cost-of-living adjustments in retirement benefits to half of the rate of inflation. It also would reduce employee contributions by 1 percent. Elements such as raising the retirement age and moving to a 401(k)-style plan still are being negotiated.
House Speaker Michael Madigan recently said in media reports he's prepared to pass a "meaningful" pension reform bill and hopes it will happen before the end of the year.
Let's hope for a workable and constitutionally sound reform package to be passed into law before the end of the year — one that honors commitments made to retirees and those nearing retirement. It might not be enough to be considered a Christmas miracle, but a reasonable plan to pay down and eventually eliminate the pension debt would be a great gift to taxpayers who continually wonder where their money goes.
November 17, 2013
(Arlington Heights) Daily Herald
It's time for bipartisan solutions on health care
You may remember Joe Walsh. A flamboyant populist conservative from the suburbs, he ran for Congress in 2010 because, he said, he was worried about his country. He served for two years before Tammy Duckworth and redistricting turned him out of office.
He's now a radio broadcaster, doing what he does best — talk and refer often to himself by name, Thursday night, his primary topic was the new federal health care law and its mounting problems. The gist of what Walsh had to say: Republicans should take time to "enjoy" the debacle, "laugh" at the Democrats, "laugh" at the news media that he sees as complicit in propping up "our black president," and "laugh" at the American people who presumably weren't critical enough of the health care legislation.
Over and over, Walsh emphasized that the Republican response should be laughter.
So much, apparently, for being worried about his country.
We are, this morning, frustrated by the inept implementation of the health care law and outraged by the disingenuous rhetoric its supporters including President Barack Obama used to promote it.
But we are, this morning, frustrated even more by the lack of public spirit on the part of our so-called public servants.
The jobs of the people we elect are to solve problems. Yet, we have, this morning, no confidence that that is what our elected representatives will strive to do. And we doubt most of the public has much confidence about that either.
The nation suffocates under the toxic partisan atmosphere in Washington. Instead of solving problems, the people we elect war in constant political campaigns.
This is true of both parties — Democrats and Republicans.
The response to the problems with the rollout of the new health care law ought not to be laughter. It ought to be fixing the problems.
This affects real people.
There is no better time for Obama to reach across the aisle in a spirit of genuine collaboration. And there is no better time for Republicans of good will to genuinely be receptive.
The jobs of the people we elect are to solve problems. When it comes to health care, it's time they start solving them.
November 15, 2013
Belleville News-Democrat
Teaching teen minds to think
Martha Warren could have found an easier path than teaching youngsters in a poverty-wracked community. She could have found an employer with a better track record than East St. Louis School District 189.
But she has spent a decade where she is most needed.
Warren was among about 30 metro-east teachers recently awarded the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award. The fact that she received one for working in an environment that has defeated so many is especially impressive.
We also got a chuckle from the fact that she considers herself "a nut," yet in the next breath sums up what we see as the essence of common-sense teaching: "I'm not here to be their friend. I'm here to help them think, not tell them what to think."
Teens have plenty of people ready to tell them what to think, whether it be peers pushing easy answers, self-destructive behaviors and anti-education sentiments or adults furthering their own aspirations and agendas.
We celebrate the Warrens who follow the road less taken and teach youngsters to navigate their own paths. Thank you, and congratulations on much more than the award.


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You know who they are: They're white people. And they're here, and you're gonna have to deal. Fortunately, here's a book that investigates, explains, and offers advice for finding social success with the Caucasian persuasion. So kick back on your IKEA couch and lose yourself in the ultimate guide to the unbearable whiteness of being.
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"Bland simply bland!!!!"
This book was simply bland. It felt forced and uninspired. The main joke was the only joke and the author just beat it to death. I didn't even finished the book I had to put it down and wake myself from the numbness in my brain. Don't waste your money or precious credits on this book.
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"Drivel - don't waste your time or money"
Not from this author. The narrator suffered from working with bad material.
I would never listen to this author again. Work is plagged with platitudes and absolutely no wit.
Dry reading without much artistry. Mind you, consider the material.
I am disappointed. I had hoped for something that would get me laughing at myself and at the target community or maybe even teach me something.
"1st 5 min is funny. After that...Boringgggg"
Truely the first 5 min is very funny. I found myself chuckling and hoping that his book was going to go somewhere really funny. NO. If you listen to the first two minutes it sets the same format and tone for the entire book. Its someone reading a list of what white people do, thats it.
"You can get most of this stuff on the website"
This is not a bad audiobook. If it was all original material I would have given it a higher raiting but 99% of this material came from the writer's Stuff White People Like blog so I kind of felt ripped off after listening to it.
The material itself is rather funny by 'White' people the writer means educated, upwardly mobile, middle class types. There are some geniunely funny observations about modern middle class culture and "hip" culture. And the entries are all rather short so it is not exactly "Deep" or serious but a lot of fun.
If you have not read the blog or just want some light background noise you could do much worse.
"Whiney and Boring"
List to Lander whine about white people for several hours. As a white person, I don't even understand half of the supposed "all white people do this" references. I've never even met the weird white people he describes which makes it neither funny nor observational. If the people described here are stereotypical it must be of such a small slice of the population that they aren't even identifiable.
There is no deep insight here. Shallow finger pointing and rather offensive without anything meaningful to offer.
"No, not really..."
Don't be misled by the catchy title--this is really an anti-liberal screed. The author's real target is a relatively narrow category of educated, urban, white middle/upper-class liberals. If you're not in this category but happen to be white, you might be surprised to learn that, as a white person, you disdain Budweiser, are a wine-snob and have a penchant for organizing "awareness" campaigns while having no interest in actually solving the problem. You may even be surprised to learn such things if you ARE a member of that particular class.
"Listen to the sample"
Listen to the sample. Kinda funny? possibly entertaining? Well, it gets real old after 30 minutes.
"Stuff White People Like"
This book was a hilarious guide to today's politically correct white culture. I laughed out loud the entire time!
"Entertaining Book, Great Reader"
This book is a good companion to the blog, but it really stands out because of the reader! Victor Bevine is the perfect voice for this droll subject and makes the pseudo-sociological study work really well in audio.
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"Read David Brooks Instead"
As a just left of center white person, I thought this would either be funny or have some insights about our culture. It is neither entertaining nor informative. For a truly engaging account of the people and culture Mr. Lander describes, read Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks instead. This "pseudo-documentary" style is meant to by satirical I assume, but is really just boring.
Also, the author neglects to include the enormous fraction of the white population who are not college-educated liberals in his characterizations.
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