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Ireland always perform well at younger levels, whilst England have a hell of a lot of talent at their disposal.
seeing how lucky we were to get the draw against Spain.
I saw England play Moldova at the start of the season and it was embarrassing. Most of the Moldovans played for tiny clubs in Russia or their own country and yet technically they were miles better than the English players, who apart from Nugent all played for Premiership clubs.
Granted, I have only watched one under 21 game this season
and that was the second leg of the play off against Germany. It was very impressive. I wish Walcott took some of the confidence he showed there onto the pitch for us.
Well that's just media overhype again.
Now the Swiss have a good team.
This sin't really interesting at all
I thought this was the grouping for the under 21 world cup this summer. Ah, bollocks to it!
england won't have a good team at any level
until the coaching is fully sorted.
we want kids with skill and techniche, as that is what the premiership is about now.
rooney is an exception but even gerard looks scared to take on his man.


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- Methodology Article
- Open Access
A new model calling procedure for Illumina BeadArray data
- Gengxin Li1Email authorView ORCID ID profile
© The Author(s) 2016
- Received: 11 February 2016
- Accepted: 16 June 2016
- Published: 24 June 2016
Accurate genotype calling for high throughput Illumina data is an important step to extract more genetic information for a large scale genome wide association studies. Many popular calling algorithms use mixture models to infer genotypes of a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms in a fast and efficient way. In practice, mixture models are mostly restricted to infer genotypes for common SNPs where their minor allele frequencies are quite large. However, it is still challenging to accurately genotype rare variants, especially for some rare variants where the boundaries of their genotypes are not clearly defined.
To further improve the call accuracy and the quality of genotypes on rare variants, a new model calling procedure, named M-D, is proposed to infer genotypes for the Illumina BeadArray data. In this calling procedure, a Gaussian Mixture Model and a Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Model are integrated to infer genotypes.
Applications to Illumina data illustrate that this new approach can improve calling performance compared to other popular genotyping algorithms.
- Dirichlet Process Gaussian mixture model
- Gaussian mixture model
- Genotype
- HapMap
- Single nucleotide polymorphism
- Rare variants
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been designed to discover many causal genetic variants contributing to human diseases [1, 2]. The success of GWAS relies heavily on the International HapMap Project where millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been widely identified on SNP arrays [3, 4]. With the rapid development in biotechnology, a leading producer, Illumina [5], is capable of offering SNP arrays with tremendously wide coverage of genetic variants in a fast and cost efficient way. A number of high dimensional intensity data are generated by this manufacturer, and various powerful genotyping algorithms are imperatively needed to accurately infer genotypes. Recently, several popular calling algorithms have been designed for Illumina platform, such as: BEAGLE with BEAGLECALL software [6], CRLMM [7, 8], GenCall [9], GenoSNP [10], and Iluminus [11]. In general, Illumina chip catalogs millions of SNPs and processes a large number of parallel samples, and the genotyping algorithms for the Illumina data is of the main interest.
With the application of single base extension (SBE) biochemistry technology [12], the Illumina data measures the pair of intensities with two alleles (A and B) at every SNP for each individual. Typically, a SNP with alleles A and B makes three possible genotype clusters, named AA, AB, and BB, and all possible genotypes of each SNP are called by various genotyping algorithms. One strategy is the population-based approach through which genotypes of all individuals within a SNP are inferred at one time, but its calling performances highly depend on the size of population. Thus, this method is not applicable for rare SNPs with low minor allele frequency (MAF). Another approach, GenoSNP, is designed to infer all SNP genotypes within one individual simultaneously, and is referred to as a SNP-based calling method. The applicability of this algorithm [10] relies on the assumptions that response features of all probes are similar. Compared to the population-based method, it would be unnecessary to collect a large number of samples for rare SNP calling due to the availability of high density SNPs. Unfortunately, this method leads to a larger proportion of SNPs breaking the Hardy-Weinberg (HW) principle which violates the assumption that commonly occurs in practice.
Most of the predominant calling algorithms employ the mixture models [13–15] to infer three genotype clusters. In particular, the mixture models developed from the population-based strategy work well for common SNPs but gradually lose their effectiveness for rare variants. To improve calculation accuracy, the mixture models need a sufficient number of observations in each genotype cluster to precisely estimate parameters. However, rare SNPs always contain a small number of individuals in one or two genotype clusters, and some rare SNPs with extremely small values of MAF may lose one or two clusters. This phenomenon creates two problems: (1) the number of components for rare SNPs is uncertain; (2) the boundaries of some genotype clusters are not clear for rare SNPs with sparsely populated observations. The problem about developing better inference for rare SNPs motivates the use of the Dirichlet Process (DP) Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) [16–18]. One popular application of DP is clustering in the fields of brain imaging, information retrieval and genetics. To successfully perform a cognitive task, DP has been applied to analyze activation structures in functional magnetic resonance imaging [19]. DP has also been used to model relationships among documents in the field of information retrieval [20, 21]. For better understanding of ancestry history in the genetic study, DP was smoothly adopted to identify the sets of haplotypes corresponding to subpopulation [21]. Due to its good characteristics in clustering, this paper extends DP model to the genotyping area. Specifically, a DP prior plays a critical role in clustering data through defining a mixture model with a variable number of components. More importantly, its clustering and discreteness properties allows an easy partitioning of the data into different groups, even though some observations lack clear cluster membership. Besides, empirical studies have showed that GenoSNP can improve the genotyping quality for rare variants through calling a large number of SNPs within one individual. However, the genotype clusters implemented by GenoSNP may be in a shift away from their expected positions, which could result in many SNPs breaking the HW principle [5]. For a DP Gaussian Mixture Model (DP-GMM), its model selection procedure is based on a rich-gets-richer phenomenon [17], which indicates that the cluster with an extremely small number of observations is still toughly estimated. A reference SNP selection step [22] is incorporated here to infer genotypes of rare SNPs with extremely low MAF, and this new method may solve the HW principle problem.
In this paper, a new model calling procedure (M-D) is an approach that is made up of two models and one SNP selection procedure, namely Gaussian Mixture Model, DP Gaussian Mixture Model, and reference SNP selection. In brief, this method partitions SNPs into three groups in terms of the SNP's MAF and the sample size of each cluster. In this method, three models are applied in three groups individually. The performance of M-D is evaluated through comparison with other genotyping algorithms for Illumina BeadArray data.
Illumina BeadArray data
The Illumina Omni BeadArray chip collects over one million SNPs per sample, and increasingly covers the newly identified variants. In the probe design, every beadtype that is capable of assaying two SNP alleles represents a SNP [12]. A large number of beadpools that include millions of beadtypes results in the ultimate production of the Illumina microarray. Here, Illumina data measures the pair of raw intensity at each beadtype for every sample, and the genotype clusters are estimated at this scale.
Statistical models
Model I: Gaussian mixture model (GMM)
where n s is the total number of individuals observed at the sth SNP, and S is the total number of SNPs. Ψ denotes a normal density with mean μ ks and variance-covariance matrix Σ ks in the kth component at the sth SNP; all pairs of raw intensity within the sth SNP are measured by x s =(x 1s , x 2s ,..., \(\mathbf {x}_{n_{s}s}\)); the unknown parameters of the GMM is denoted by Θ s =(π s , μ s , Σ s ) where π s =(π 1s , π 2s , π 3s ), μ s =(μ 1s , μ 2s , μ 3s ), and Σ s =(Σ 1s , Σ 2s , Σ 3s ).
Note that P(x is |k) is a conditional probability of the ith individual given that this subject is assigned to the kth cluster, and n ks is the sample size of the kth cluster at the sth SNP.
Model II: Dirichlet Process Gaussian mixture model (DP-GMM)
Model I is a fast and efficient genotyping model for SNPs having large values of MAF. In real experiments, many SNPs with low MAF may result in the disappearance of one or two genotype clusters. Also even though some SNPs with low MAF display three genotype groups, some clusters may lack sufficient data to support and recognize. In this case, Model II, DP Gaussian Mixture Model, is motivated by the need to carry out the model selection for SNPs with an uncertain number of genotype clusters [24]. Generally speaking, this is a nonparametric Bayesian method that potentially allows a flexible number of mixture components and also provides estimates for the mixture component parameters and the relevant mixing proportions.
where α is the DP concentration parameter and can be thought as the inverse variance of DP. The distribution of the reciprocal of α follows a Gamma distribution with 1 degree freedom and mean 1. K is the maximum number of clusters, then π s is distributed with a symmetric Dirichlet distribution with parameter \(\frac {\alpha }{K}\). m and r are hyperparameters being the mean and relative precision of μ ks , and the hyperparameters ν and S −1 are degrees of freedom and inverse mean of R ks where R ks follows a Wishart distribution with parameters ν and S −1, respectively.
Note that p(x is |μ ks ,R ks ) and p(μ ks ,R ks |m,r,ν,S) are the likelihood function and the joint function of parameters (μ ks and R ks ), respectively. Once the optimal genotype clusters and their relevant component parameters are obtained, two measurements Posterior Rate (PR) and the Average Posterior Rate (APR) measuring the quality of the sth SNP can be calculated in the similar way.
Model III: Dirichlet Process Gaussian mixture model with reference SNP selection (DP-Ref)
A DP Gaussian Mixture Model with reference SNP selection step (DP-Ref) combines the benefits of the population-based method with the SNP-based approach. In this context, the reference SNP selection plays an important role in determining the effectiveness of Model III. A reference SNP is referred to as a good quality SNP providing sufficient information about three genotypes clusters, thus each SNP in the third group will be called with assistants of the carefully selected reference SNP. Practically, the final reference SNP is selected by a three-step procedure [22]. Through out this section, each SNP in the third group is denoted as the "T-SNP" that needs to be called with the support of a reference SNP, and the final reference SNP having good quality is defined as "R-SNP"
Step I. High MAF SNPs are selected as candidate reference SNPs. In fact, SNPs with large MAF (> 0.15) before the T-SNP are selected as R1-SNPs.
Step II. Good clustering property SNPs from R1-SNPs are further selected (denoted as R2-SNPs). This step requires three genotype clusters of R1-SNPs to contain at least 10 % of entire observations individually.
Empirical studies show that the initial cutoffs dividing the univariate variable y s = (\(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}y_{1s},...,y_{n_{s}s}\)) T into three clusters can be fixed as 0.5 and −0.5. The cluster label of each individual would be roughly determined by the above equation.
Note that Ξ is the set of R2-SNPs selected for the T-SNP; x kt and Σ kt are the raw intensity vector and variance-covariance matrix in the kth cluster for the T-SNP; μ kd and Σ kd are the mean and variance-covariance matrix of the dth R2-SNP; In brief, The final R-SNP will provide sufficient clusters information to assist the testing T-SNP.
where d∈Ξ, and the second model DP-GMM (Eqs. 6–9) will be applied to the combined raw intensities to identify the genotype clusters through the aid of the reference SNP.
Application of new model (M-D)
Note that n ks is the sample size of the kth cluster at the sth SNP. The first group (g 1) collects SNPs with high MAF (≥ 0.05), and a large proportion of SNPs is in this group. The second group (g 2) includes SNPs with low MAF (< 0.05) and a certain number of subjects in either existing genotype clusters. In this study, b 1 and b 2 are fixed as 3 and 10 to determine the number of SNPs recruited in g 2. The last group (g 3) collects the rest SNPs with low MAF and a small number of observations in one or two genotype clusters. In fact, SNPs in g 1 can display three genotype clusters (one major homozygote, one minor homozygote and one heterozygote) with a large number of subjects in each cluster. The rest poor SNPs with low MAF are contained in g 2 and g 3 where some SNPs may not display three genotype clusters, either one or two clusters disappear and the existing cluster may contain very few observations. In particular, the classification between g 2 and g 3 is not fixed, and scientists can easily manage the allocation of SNPs between g 2 and g 3 through adjusting the values of b 1 and b 2.
In the first group, Model I (GMM) is applied to genotype SNPs. A sufficient number of observations are observed in three genotype clusters, which will greatly help the genotyping procedure identify the boundary of each cluster. In the second group, SNPs with low MAF, Model II (DP-GMM) can implement the model selection to search the appropriate number of clusters for each SNP, and DP's clustering and discreteness properties assures the optimum partition of observations, even for a small number of observations in a genotype cluster. In the third group, the number of genotype clusters for each SNP is uncertain and an extremely small number of observations are observed in either one or two clusters. In this case, applying a DP-GMM alone for clustering is not enough due to a rich-gets-richer phenomenon [17] where the larger genotype cluster can greatly attract sparsely populated observations that originally belong to another cluster. In view of this situation, the reference SNP strategy [22] is applied to help DP-GMM call rare SNPs (DP-Ref). More importantly, the selection of models can be determined through adjusting b 1 and b 2 in Eq. 12. For example, when b 1 takes a large value, a smaller proportion of rare SNPs may enter g 2 and more rare SNPs are allocated to g 3, thus GMM and DP-Ref will become major methods. If b 2 takes a large value, a larger proportion of rare SNPs may be assigned to g 2, then GMM and DP-GMM will become main methods. This flexible option provides more solutions for scientist who are interested in this genotyping method.
Results and discussion
Illumina BeadArray data description
The proposed method M-D is applied to an Illumina data consisting of 1 million SNPs and 3258 samples. Specifically, there are 38 different HapMap samples [3] measured multiple times to produce 141 repeated HapMap samples in this data. SNP calls from the chromosome 22 are analyzed. The performance of M-D is compared to those of GenCall representing a population-based method and GenoSNP standing for a SNP-based approach. The compatible cutoffs of all three calling algorithms are carefully selected, such as: GenCall score (GC score ≥ 0.15) is used to filter good quality SNPs; GenoSNP and M-D collect good quality SNPs and samples through the posterior probability (≥ 85 %).
The comparisons of call rate and concordance rate among GenCall, GenoSNP and M-D
Algorithm 1
Algorithm 2
Call rate (%)
Concordance (%)
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The comparisons of call rates and accuracy on HapMap samples for overall SNPs
GenCall (%)
GenoSNP (%)
All SNPs
Call rate
Comparisons of call rates and accuracy on HapMap samples for three SNP groups
g 1
88.60 %
Call rate
g 2
4.03 %
Call rate
g 3
7.37 %
Call rate
Comparisons of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium test among GenCall, GenoSNP and M-D
# of failed SNPs
The principle of a DP Gaussian Mixture Model is to run a model selection procedure to explicitly estimate the number of components for rare variants. The concentration parameter measures the inverse variance of DP, which suggests that a larger concentration parameter implies an increasing number of components [17]. It brings a new problem of how to select the appropriate strength of the prior to control the number of components. In particular, this parameter is sensitive to SNPs where sparsely populated observations are in one or two components. There might be better ways to define this parameter to help the DP Gaussian Mixture Model more efficiently call genotypes for rare variants.
The DP mixture model incorporates the reference SNP selection step to take advantage of the population-based strategy and the SNP-based strategy for improving the missing rate and call accuracy for rare SNPs. The successful application of M-D is also based on the selection of the reference SNP across the genome. In practice, it is difficult to search the reference SNP from the entire genome due to the heavy calculation burden. In these cases, the instrumental SNPs before the testing SNP are picked out. When some probes break the assumption about identical probe responses for various SNPs, searching the best reference SNP is still challenging. In particular, the method about accurately measures the similarity between the testing SNP and the reference SNP still needs to be improved.
One classical genotyping approach is the population-based method, GenCall, and it requires a large number of observations to achieve a nice call accuracy. When the increasing number of rare variants are commonly identified on the large scale Illumina array, it is extremely difficult to successfully call genotypes for rare variants. A SNP-based method, GenoSNP, was designed to solve this challenging problem, but many more SNPs inferred from GenoSNP break the HW principle. In this paper, a new model calling procedure (M-D) is proposed to take benefits of a model selection step of a DP and the advantage of GenCall and GenoSNP to improve the quality of rare SNP calls. In brief, the new model calling procedure partitions SNPs into three classes in terms of MAF and the sample size of each cluster, and a DP Gaussian Mixture Model with or without reference SNP selection are applied to rare SNPs with low MAF. The finest performance of M-D is evaluated by comparing genotypes inferred by each discussed calling method to those from the HapMap project. Compared to GenCall and GenoSNP, M-D performs better on genotyping rare SNPs, and it also infers better quality of SNP calls than that from GenoSNP.
APR, average posterior rate; D t , cluster measure; DP, Dirichlet Process; DP-GMM, Dirichlet Process Gaussian mixture model; DP-Ref, Dirichlet Process Gaussian mixture model with reference SNP selection; GMM, Gaussian mixture model; GWAS, genome-wide association studies; HW, Hardy Weinberg; MAF, minor allele frequency; Multi3, a multinomial distribution; M-D, a new model calling procedure; PR, posterior rate; R-SNP, final reference SNP; SBE, single base extension; SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms; T-SNP, a SNP in the third group
I sincerely thank Dr. Hongyu Zhao and Dr. Joel Gelernter for providing the raw intensity data and valuable advice.
This study was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants RC2 DA028909, R01 DA12690, R01 DA12849, R01 DA18432, R01 AA11330, and R01 AA017535, the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Mental Illness Research, Educational, and Clinical Centers, and Wright State University start-up.
Availability of data and materials
Dr. Gelernter Lab at Yale university generated the raw intensity data, and the availability of this data needs to get the lab's permission.
Authors' contributions
Conceived of the study and proposed the method: GL; Analyzed the method and interpreted the results: GL; Wrote the manuscript: GL.
Competing interests
The author declares that there is no competing interests.
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The study was approved by the Human Investigations Committees at Yale University, and all subjects signed written informed consent before participation.
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CalSTRS dumps firearm investments
2012 gun massacres prompt pension fund's move.
BY Caroline Cakebread | January 10, 2013
Following a year that witnessed some of the worst gun massacres in U.S. history, The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) Investment Committee has voted to pull its investments from firearm companies that manufacture weapons that are illegal in California. The public pension plan released the following statement on its Web site yesterday:
"I think we've taken appropriate action, given the unspeakable and tragic loss of life that occurred in Connecticut last month-the latest in an ongoing line of similar incidents involving assault weapons and mass casualties," said Investment Committee Chair Harry Keiley. "This latest incident, which occurred at a school and involved fellow educators and the children we cherish, is a tipping point for CalSTRS and speaks to the correctness of our actions. This is not only the right thing to do but positions us to deal with the financial pressures we anticipate this sector of the industry will face."
The decision followed a call by CalSTRS board member and California State Treasurer, Bill Lockyer, to divest from companies that manufacture firearms that are illegal for sale or possession in the state of California.


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text: Private sector lender ICICI Bank on Thursday urged the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to initiate insolvency proceedings against Punj Lloyd as the infrastructure developer had defaulted on loans worth Rs 853 crore. However, other lenders to the engineering company, led by State Bank of India (SBI), objected to the plea. Punj Lloyd owed banks Rs 5,640 crore at the end of March 2018. Lenders argued Punj Lloyd currently owns only a few assets from which they can recover the dues. The initiation of the insolvency process, they said, could halt the completion of the company\u2019s 20 ongoing projects, resulting in smaller recoveries for banks. The counsel appearing on behalf of SBI also pointed out the six-month period granted to the corporate debtors for debt resolution outside Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), as per the Reserve Bank of India\u2019s (RBI) February 12 circular, was yet to expire. ICICI Bank said it has extended Punj Lloyd a total of Rs 853.83 crore through working capital, term loan and other facilities since 2010. However, the company started defaulting on payments of both the principal and interest components since 2015. In 2016, ICICI classified the account as a non-performing asset (NPA). ICICI Bank was earlier a member of the joint lenders' forum(JLF), but has now stepped out of the JLF to move the insolvency petition against Punj Lloyd. The NCLT's principal bench, led by president justice MM Kumar, has agreed to hear ICICI Bank's plea on July 24 and has issued a notice to Punj Lloyd. Punj Lloyd figured in RBI's second list of NPAs. After incurring losses for three years in a row since 2014-15, Punj Lloyd posted a net profit of Rs 317.37 crore in 2017-18. The company's shares on Thursday closed at `14.85 apiece, down 11.08% over the previous closing on the BSE.


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Hiking in Doucki, The Fouta Djallon part 2
I have published my first print book!
The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina
The hiking with Hassan near Doucki, Guinea continues to be amazing, and I will continue to let the photos do the talking!
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Don't let Nature suffer for our inaction on climate change
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James Robinson, RSPB Regional Director of the East of England, considers the overarching message from the latest State of the UK's Birds report.
Yesterday, the 2017 State of the UK's Birds report was published. A report that has provided an annual overview of the status of bird populations in the UK and our Overseas Territories since 1999. It provides a one-stop shop for annual, on-going and one-off bird survey results; data gathered by a partnership of government bodies and charities and collected by many thousands of volunteers, who give their time for free.
Waiting for it to land on my desk, pre-empting some expected and unexpected headlines – good news and bad news, overcome obstacles and continued challenges - curiosity led me to question how much progress have we made?
Rewinding 17 years, and dusting off my filed copy of the 2000 report, it was striking how many of the headlines that marked a new millennium still resonate. Bitterns, stone-curlews, illegal raptor persecution, declines in widespread farmland birds, changes in populations of migratory waterbirds and climate change dominated.
Now with the 2017 report splayed out in front of me for comparison, it is easy to see that while some messages have changed, species and themes remain. Not all of the 2000 headlines mirror those of 2017, but each of them gets a mention in the report itself.
Bitterns and stone-curlews continue to make a comeback due to determined conservation action while raptor persecution endures despite public outrage. Specialist farmland birds continue to decline except where targeted schemes have been taken up by farmers and those migratory waterbirds that come here to spend the winter or re-fuel for journeys elsewhere experience mixed fortunes.
The most significant change, however, comes in the form of climate change impacts. Back in 2000, the report stated: "Climate is known to have a considerable impact upon both breeding and wintering birds, and climate change will pose a very significant challenge to the conservation of species and their habitats."
This we still know to be true, but now, after collecting 17 years' worth of data, the effects of climate change on different species are the headlines. We are beginning to see which birds are adapting and thriving, and which are suffering and declining.
We anticipated these changes. The predictions are captured in writing, nearly two decades ago. Despite the knowing, the science, the good-meaning, very little has been done to halt these potentially catastrophic changes. As a society, we have not been acting, we have just been reporting.
The want, the will, and the need to change are all there. It is the strong decision-making, leadership, cooperation and coordination which needs to step up. However, we must not lose hope. There is still time to turn around the fortunes of our beloved birds, mammals, insects and plants that are tainted by the future of climate change.
Clearer direction and decisions need to come from government, but equally, we must make individual waves. Our consumption in all its different forms has an impact. The energy you use to supply your house, the purchases you make in the supermarket, and the transport you take there and back.
Luckily with a new year, comes a new you. Let's make 2018 the year that we all start to take climate change seriously.
James Robinson is RSPB Regional Director of the East of England


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Dear Editor,
The agony of the public meeting at Hoverspeed, Manston, last Thursday evening was plain for all to see. It was, at the same time, tense, cynical, threatening, comic, and despairing. In a less charged atmosphere, many of the misunderstandings could have been cleared away – but there and then it was always going to be tough.
Timescales became very confused, ranging from the early 90's to the 2015's. Intention became very confused, mixing the Councils quasi – judicial role in planning, with its policy for economic development of the area, and the government's plans for housebuilding in the South East.
So, perhaps now in a calmer moment, can I suggest we all ponder the following points?
- The allocation of this area for housing was indeed put out for public consultation in the year 2000 (as a matter of record, no more, under the previous labour administration of TDC). Since then, of course, Westwood Cross has opened and residents around it and travelling past it, feel blighted by the traffic volumes and seemingly ineffective highways planning for its development. In plain terms, the original consultation and current anger stem from different baselines of experience.
- This comes at a time when other 'pinch points' – chiefly the Victoria Road traffic lights in Margate – are already causing huge frustration across the island. This leads to more and more vehicles using side roads as rat runs to avoid the queues.
- In light of this, Roger Gale, Thanet District Council and KCC members have worked to bring forward the final connecting phase of the East Kent Access Road – which will assist. However, to residents this still appears to feed into inadequate and ill thought out road arrangements around the new development, Manston Court Road and Star Lane.
- It is accurate to say that the government has demanded high housebuilding volumes across the South East. It is also true to say that Thanet, with its housing waiting list and growing economy, needs new homes. It is equally true to say that over the last 20 years or so, many people, perhaps especially around Manston, moved to Thanet because they did not want to live in ''suburban roundabout hell'…and now it is pursuing them here.
- What residents don't want to hear, but is almost certainly true, is that housing development will take place because of these pressures. The key issue for residents in my KCC division – in Star Lane and Gordon Road – is that traffic should not be diverted through or around this formerly quiet residential area, already suffering with Westwood Cross overflow, frustrated rat runners, and a sheer inability at times to get onto the main roads at all.
- Restricting access was hardly mentioned on Thursday night, but may well hold many benefits. Restricting access to Manston Court Road for lorries; to the Star Lane and Gordon Road area, to the new development from the Westwood Cross roads at all. These are neither complicated nor expensive partial solutions, but would be seen by many as at least swift actions to try and lessen the impact on their daily routine.
We need some truly inspirational thinking from our housing and highway planning teams if this is not to be a running sore in relations with local residents to Westwood for many years. Time to pause and think it all calmly through.
Yours sincerely
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It's easy to stop and moan about work or discuss a work related project but how often to you ever stop and just have a little chit chat with your work colleagues on a more personal level?
At HR Rev we like having a bit of office banter, finding out what our colleagues did during their holidays or at the weekend, we think it's important to remember that we all have interesting lives outside the workplace. Establishing a conversational comfort level with your colleagues will allow you to talk to them about anything and make it easier to share your ideas.
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Be the first to speak. It doesn't pay to be shy, so just go ahead and ask a question to get the conversation started. They might be pleased that someone has stopped to talk to them.
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The chairman of Leader Technologies, Michael McKibben, alleges that as a young Harvard student Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole software technology that later formed the basis of the social networking behemoths platform.
Michael McKibben, founder of Ohio-based Leader Technologies, said that his son attended Harvard the same time Mark Zuckerberg was a student there. He alleges that Zuckerberg got access to a white paper dealing with certain technological advances that McKibben emailed to his son. I believe when Zuckerberg hacked into servers at Harvard, he got a copy of the white paper, McKibben told CNBC.
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12 years later this would be more accuratley named "the muddy grass verge of hope". I walk past this most mornings and find it sets a depressing tone for the day to come – I'm hoping that in the spring it wil be a riot of daffodills…
Martin Boyce came to give a talk about his work. I loved his ideas about ventillation grills as "Thresholds to the guts of the building"
Its Christmas at the local pub / Chinese resturant highbred
Miniature hide-aways – student work by Tazmym Rowley, ticking my Moonrise Kingdom obsession box. Speaking of which…
Catherine's impressive collection of Brownie and Girl Guide Badges from the 1980s and early 90's, all well earned. I loved Brownies but we spent most of our time skidding around polished wooden floors in our socks and seeing how shiney we could get our emergency telephone 10ps – I somehow manage to get a hospitality badge, a collectors badge and an entertainer badge.
Mel's Rural Idyll cushion covers – rescued from the dump.
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02 May 2018, 05:58 | Bibiana Flor
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the truce village of Panmunjom
"The core achievement of the South-North summit was that Chairman [of the Workers' Party of Korea] Kim Jong Un expressed an intention for 'complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, ' in his own words, and signed a document".
In a joint statement the two countries said that one of the purposes of strengthening cooperation between Pyongyang and Seoul is to work on meetings for Korean subjects involving the United States and China.
South Korean officials will continue to closely coordinate with the Americans, and Moon will provide details of his meeting with Kim, said Moon Chung-in, a special adviser to Moon for foreign affairs and national security.
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Buoying prospects for the Trump-Kim summit was a North Korean announcement on Sunday that it would close its main nuclear test site next month. "Donald Trump at 2/1 to win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize", Trump Jr. tweeted on Friday.
During their summit at a truce village on the border, Moon and Kim promised to work toward the "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula but made no references to verification or timetables.
Trump said the Peace House carried symbolic value that having the summit in a third country would not have.
The move returns North Korea to Korea Standard Time, which runs 30 minutes ahead of Pyongyang Time. According to South Korean officials, he told Moon that he's going to shut down his country's only known nuclear testing site and allow experts and journalists to observe. But as usual, the president left open the possibility of pulling the plug on talks, saying: "If it's not a success, I will respectfully leave".
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South Korea says it will remove propaganda-broadcasting loudspeakers from the border with North Korea.
"Moon will be collecting information for Trump when he visits Washington in mid-May", he said.
In response, Moon named Trump. The White House said they "agreed that the unprecedented pressure" put on North Korea by international sanctions "led to this significant moment".
Kim Dae-jung championed the so-called Sunshine policy of engagement with North Korea, and won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize after engineering the first inter-Korean summit with former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. At a rally Saturday in Michigan, Trump discussed Korea and was interrupted by a chant of "Nobel!"
The meeting was rightfully garnered global attention, and it was the first time a sitting North Korean leader had stepped foot in South Korean territory since the Korean War began.
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Moon orders implementation of summit declaration
The opulent award ceremony is held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of the Swedish industrialist who created the prizes. And indeed, the emerging pundit consensus seems to be that the summit was long on principle and symbol, but short on detail.
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Corey Dickerson doubled and scored when first baseman Jose Martinez misplayed Colin Moran's groundball for an error . Zobrist walked home, when Arcia hesitated on his throw back into the infield Heyward broke for home.
Irán engañó a Obama pero no puede engañarme a mi — Trump
La primera cena de Estado de la era Trump fue la que se ofreció al presidente de Francia y esposa, Emmanuel y Brigitte Macron . Puede ser tentador para nosotros como un remedio temporal a nuestros temores. "Recononozcámoslo, no hay planeta B ", exclamo.
Liverpool Legend: Not Just Alisson, Loris Karius Is Excellent
Fans of the Anfield club slaughtered Lovren for the error but Klopp's interpretation is certainly interesting. And former Red Warnock reckons Coutinho's departure was the best thing to happen to the Anfield club.
Super Mario Odyssey Sales Surpass 10 Million
Overall, the sales of Nintendo for the fiscal year ended on 31 March came out to ¥1.05 trillion, up sharply from the last year . However, he's also contributed to developing software and , like Yoshiaki Koizumi , was involved in creating the Switch .
Semifinals, Leg 1 — Champions League Reactions
Liverpool wanted more than a point from this fixture but so too did Stoke , who need wins to have any chance of survival. At least half a dozen Liverpool fans were stabbed when the club played Roma in the UEFA Cup in February 2001.
Moto Z3 leaks lovely looks in one shot
From the looks of it, it seems like a logical and realistic design, but take the image with a pinch of salt, until more pop up. The Motorola Moto G series has proven one of the most popular series of Android phones since Android became a thing.
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What a morning it's been.
For whatever reason, as i was getting ready, I decided to go through my purse and clear some stuff out, make sure I had everything. I realized I couldn't find my keys. This is unusual. I put them in the same 2 places always. I check my pockets, check the shelf. Pockets. Shelf. Pockets. Shelf. Kitchen. Garbage. Bathroom. Living room. Pockets. Shelf. Pockets…
I start to freak out a bit, being that I have to head off to work with a new client today. After some circling around, I decide I should check my car. I had developed the suspicion that I had locked my keys inside last night.
Well, I was right. There were my keys, right in the ignition. ARG.
THEN I realize I just signed up for AAA service no more than 2 weeks ago. YES!!!
So I called, and boom boom boom, 20 minutes later the entire problem is solved. Keys are retrieved. Thank you and smiles happen! …and I'll be at work on time too!
This is a huge deal to me. You see, I don't like needing help from others much. I don't like making stupid (silly!) mistakes, and then having to admit them to others in order to ask for their assistance.
I've been humbled, and I am so pleased and thankful for it. I learned an important lesson today (a lesson I keep learning, forgetting, and relearning, thanks to the kindness of others).
There is value in paid services! YEEHAW!
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Alright, so on to DAY 5 of the Freedom Plan Blog Challenge.
(can I say again how proud I am for making it to the half-way point, for keeping with my goal of writing every day?? YES I CAN)
Today's challenge post is about figuring out our "daily success plan"–steps to take every day that will bring us toward our goals. In other words, time management. This is something that I've been really excited about these past few months.
I feel like I've got some hacks figured out that might be helpful to some. This is what I've found useful:
-Calendars. Lots of Calendars. Wall calendars, personal calendars, phone calendars, computer calendars. One is for work stuff, one is a log of exercise, one for personal events, etc.
-White boards. I wrote down a list of things that I want to accomplish daily, and then when I get it done, I put a (very satisfying) checkmark next to it. I don't usually get 100%, but on my best days, I'm really close. Some of the things on my list include exercise, working on my courses, writing, meditating, reading, spending time outside.
-I send myself an email at the end of the night with my next day's to-do list (most important tasks) It helps me relax, knowing that I won't forget any important thing I've suddenly remembered right before bedtime.
So I'd say I'm off to a good start. In order to improve, I'd like to implement a system that will keep me accountable. This blog has been serving that purpose to some extent, though I'd like to check in with a mentor or find some incredibly motivating forces to keep me doing those things that I tend to drag my feet about.
Ideally, I'd like to set aside at least an hour a day (maybe in 15 minute chunks?) to attend to interpersonal matters. I feel I don't do enough concentrated socializing. I need to respond to emails in a more timely manner, make long term projects come to life by following through. The only real way to do it is to put the time aside for it.
I'd also like to put time aside for creative pursuits. I will be taking a pottery class starting next week, so I figure that will fill my creative void, at least for some time.
What I'm really coming to realize in writing this post is that I need to make more broad time management plans than I have been. In other words, I need to make a master calendar and delineate a time for all my major goals to be met, even if that goal is "relaxation." I printed an hour-by-hour weekly planner that I'll get around to filling out.
I'll post about how it goes in more detail in the coming weeks…
This blog post is in response to Natalie's 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 5


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Over the years several people have either come forward and confessed
to being D B Cooper or have been fingered by others as D B Cooper. This list
includes Duane Weber a
The FBI has investigated over 1400 individuals as possible suspects. To this date none have emerged as a likely candidate for D B Cooper. Many people have their favorite suspect, who do you think D B Cooper really was? You can express your feeling about the identity of the "real D B Cooper" at the NORJAK Forum.
After the Northwest Airline Flight 305 Skyjacking on November 24, 1971 (NORJAK), the FBI and other law enforcement received many tips from the general public about someone who was believed to be D B Cooper.
In some cases, the "fingered" individual was
already deceased. In some cases, the individual made a confession before dying.
All but a few have been eliminated as a suspect. The FBI
has entertained leads both incredible and plausible. A
Another Cooper claim involved a
This page contains a discussion of some of the more notorious suspects and some of the facts that made others suspect they were D B Cooper.
List was arrested for shooting his mother, wife, and three
children in 1971. In 1971, mass-murderer John List was
considered a suspect in the Cooper hijacking, which occurred just after he had
killed his family in
On April 7, 1972, four months after Cooper's hijacking,
Richard McCoy, Jr., under the alias "James Johnson", boarded United Airlines Flight 855
during a stopover in
Police began investigating McCoy following a
tip from Utah Highway Patrolman Robert Van Ieperen, who was a friend of
McCoy's. Apparently, after the Cooper hijacking, McCoy had made a reference
that Cooper should have asked for $500,000, instead of $200,000. Van Ieperen
thought that was an odd coincidence, so he alerted the FBI.
Married and with two young children, McCoy was a Mormon Sunday school teacher
studying law enforcement at
On April 9, following the fingerprint and handwriting
match, McCoy was arrested for the United 855 hijacking. Coincidentally, McCoy
had been on National Guard duty flying one of the helicopters involved in the
search for the hijacker. Inside his house FBI agents found a jumpsuit and a
duffel bag filled with $499,970 in cash. McCoy claimed innocence, but was
convicted and received a 45-year sentence. Once incarcerated, using his access
to the prison's dental office, McCoy fashioned a fake handgun out of molding
material used by dentists. He and a crew of convicts escaped in August 1974 by
stealing a garbage truck and crashing it through the prison's main gate. It
took three months before the FBI located McCoy in
In 1991, Bernie Rhodes and former FBI agent Russell Calame coauthored "D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy," in which they claimed that Cooper and McCoy were really the same person, citing similar methods of hijacking, a tie, and a mother-of-pearl tie clip, left on the plane by Cooper. Neither Rhodes nor Calame were involved in the original Cooper investigation, but Calame was the head of the Utah FBI office that investigated McCoy, and eventually arrested him for the copycat hijacking that occurred in April 1972. The author said; "McCoy never admitted nor denied he was Cooper." When McCoy was directly asked whether he was Cooper he replied, "I don't want to talk to you about it." The agent who supposedly killed McCoy is quoted as saying, "When I shot Richard McCoy, I shot D. B. Cooper at the same time." The widow of Richard McCoy, Karen Burns McCoy, reached a legal settlement with the book's co-authors and its publisher.
D. B. Cooper is alive and well and living in
Ralph Himmelsbach's book, "NORJAK, the Investigation of DB Cooper", notes that Mayfield was phoned in as a Cooper suspect by at least a half a dozen people on the night of the hijacking. Despite this, Himmelsbach, who personally knew Mayfield from an earlier dispute at a local airport, never took these leads seriously, since Mayfield phoned the FBI to offer assistance approximately two hours after Cooper jumped from the plane. Himmelsbach argued that there wasn't enough time to land and make it to a telephone.
This has been disputed by Dvorak and Myers, as well as a few professional skydivers, who have argued that any trained diver could have landed, hitched a ride and made it to a telephone within that time frame. They even speculated that, given that Cooper gave the pilot the flight pattern, the speed, and altitude, an experienced skydiver could have stashed a vehicle along the flight path, and used dead reckoning, navigational aids, or simply searched for a landmark and jumped within a predetermined area. They also note that Mayfield had the necessary background.
According to a local newspaper in Sheridan,
Oregon, Mayfield owned a skydiving school for several years
before the Cooper heist, and has national medals for skydiving accuracy. Court
records in
In an interview with Inside Edition, Dvorak and Myers released some of the evidence of what they say is a strong circumstantial case. When asked for comment, Mayfield noted that the FBI called him for assistance five times while Cooper was still on the plane.
Dvorak and Myers say that they confirmed with two separate FBI sources, including Ralph Himmelsbach, agent in charge of the case, that Mayfield was never called by the FBI on that night.
In a KOIN TV interview, Himmelsbach collaborated their account, indicating that Mayfield called the FBI well after Cooper had jumped, and that the FBI never called Mayfield that night. Mayfield still lives in Sheridan, Oregon where he builds kits for Ultra-Light Aircraft.
Lyle Christiansen of
"I'm not getting any younger," Christiansen wrote to the FBI in January 2004. "Before I die I would like to find out if my brother was D.B. Cooper. From what I know I feel that he was and without a doubt."
Kenneth Peter Christiansen was born Oct. 17, 1926, deceased
July 30, 1994 from cancer. Lived in his own home in
In 1944, Kenny enlisted in the Army, and chose an elite,
and dangerous specialty: the paratroops.
Kenny trained with the 11th Airborne Division, the Angels, which had been sent
to the Pacific. After the war he took all sorts of jobs. He traveled once with
a carnival, selling tickets. Then he'd leave for warmer climes:
According to property records, Kenny was able to purchase a
house and some land. In October 1972, about a year after Cooper's jump,
Kenny paid $14,000 for a modest ranch in
On his deathbed, Lyle remembers, his older brother pulled him close. He then said something that didn't make sense to him then. It does so now. Kenny said, "There is something you should know, but I cannot tell you!" Lyle didn't want to know. "I don't care what it is you cannot tell me about. We all love you."
The FBI knew there were many specific traits Cooper needed to pull off the jump. Cooper had to know how to parachute, and in tough conditions. Maybe he'd been in the Army. Better yet, they figured the paratroops. Also, he had to be familiar with planes (10,000 feet, fifteen-degree wing flaps) and the area ("Looks like Tacoma down there"). They also knew what Cooper looked like. They had a detailed sketch that Florence Schaffner helped create. And there was his personality. "He seemed rather nice," said Tina Mucklow, another attendant on the flight. "He was never cruel or nasty. He was thoughtful and calm."
When shown photos of Kenny, Florence Schaffner said that the images were closer in resemblance to Cooper than any of the suspects she's ever seen, she said. But? "But I can't say 'Yay.'
In February 2007, the radio show MJ Morning Show released pictures of who the
show's producers think may be the real D. B. Cooper, noting similarities in
facial features from the Cooper composite sketch. The man's family came
forward after his death and are currently working with the FBI
to ascertain if their relative is the real D. B. Cooper. Attorney Galen Cook is investigating the man (in
conjunction with the FBI) and has stated that the suspect had night jumping
experience as a military paratrooper. Cook has speculated further that
the man might have known Richard
McCoy, Jr. through the military or connections in
The suspect's name, William Pratt (Wolfgang) Gossett
was released May 28th, 2008 in an article in "the Depoe Bay (OR) Beacon Online". According
to the article he officially changed his name to "Wolfgang" and
became a priest in the Old Catholic Church, SLC Diocese, in 1988. Gossett
retired to
The photo on the left was taken in 1973 during award
ceremony at
Note the medal located directly above the ribbons (over suspect's heart). This is the suspect's "Jump Wings," a medal depicting a deployed parachute with wings. There was no HALO (high-altitude, low-opening) uniform insignia in the 1960s or 1970s, however, the suspect's son distinctly remembers his father practicing military HALO jumps at night.
Because of its timing, many amateur NORJAK investigators feel that release of information about this suspect is just a ploy (by Cook) to sell his forthcoming book. However, others believe he is one of the best suspects yet. Only time (and the FBI) will tell.
Materials courtesy of Galen Cook,
Attorney at Law.
In July 2000, U.S.
News & World Report ran an article about a widow in Pace,
was March 1995, and Duane Weber was in a
The name meant nothing to Jo Weber, she had met Duane in
She put the information out of her mind. Her husband was likable and friendly, she says. And as he lay in the hospital in 1995, her thoughts were only on his condition. But when she didn't respond to his statement, Duane became upset and shouted so loudly the nurses heard his words: "Oh, let it die with me!" Moments later Duane was sedated; he died soon after.
It was only weeks later, after she learned the infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper had actually called himself "Dan Cooper," that Jo Weber began to understand what she now believes her husband was trying to tell her in his confession: that he was D.B. Cooper.
Although he always has believed D.B. Cooper most likely did not survive his jump from the rear stairs of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, retired FBI Agent Ralph Himmelsbach says "If he did make it, it would have been someone that fits the profile of Duane Weber. He appeared to me to be a credible suspect, and when Jo first contacted me (five years ago) I told her I thought it should be brought to the attention of the FBI right away. She granted me permission to contact the FBI, and they did initiate an investigation."
are photos of Duane that bear such a resemblance to the FBI composite of Cooper
that a forensic expert who has worked with the FBI told US News & World Report recently,
"It's about as close a match as you can get." Jo had Weber family records that
indicated Duane had served time at the federal McNeil Island Corrections Center in
There were receipts and photographs of a vacation Duane and Jo took to the Northwest in 1979. On it, Duane took Jo on a side trip along the Columbia River. Duane knew the area well. "He told me what was up that logging road, or up on that hill." A short while later, Jo says her husband pointed and said to her, "That's where D.B. Cooper walked out of the woods." "I said to him, 'How do you know that?' And he says, 'Maybe I was on the ground.' I just took it as a joke."
On the way back, Jo says, Duane stopped the car along the Columbia River, about three miles east of Vancouver. "He told me to stay in the car, that he'd be about 10 minutes. He opened the trunk; I don't know if he got anything out."
Months later, a Vancouver, Wash., boy discovered a bundle of D.B. Cooper's ransom money buried in the sand along the river, about thirteen miles downstream of where Duane and Jo had stopped.
Then there were the intangible pieces of evidence that never before had made sense to Jo. Shortly before his last trip to the hospital, Duane told Jo his chronic knee injury had been caused "by jumping out of an airplane." He once had told her it was possible to make flares resemble a bomb.
In 1994 she had discovered an old plane ticket from Portland to Seattle in Duane's tax papers. After she asked Duane about the ticket, it disappeared. Another time, she'd looked inside a cooler Duane usually kept locked up; inside was a "grayish wheat colored bag made out of heavy, coarse material. It had some printing on it." D.B. Cooper was given the ransom money in a canvas bank bag.
After Duane's death Jo never found the bag or the ticket.
But about a year later, when she went to the
Jo Weber is disappointed that the FBI has chosen not to pursue its investigation of her late husband. But she is determined to continue her own. There are other pieces of evidence she won't reveal, things that led Ralph Himmelsbach to say, "She has a lot of points that would stretch your imagination at the possibility of coincidence." D.B. Cooper was a chain smoker who drank bourbon; Duane Weber was, too.
"All I want is the truth," says Jo. "I want it over. I have a very curious mind and I've never been able to put anything down until I've completed it. I'm not obsessed by this, I'm not crazy, I'm not making this up. But it is a passion, to get to the truth.
"I held that plane ticket in my hand," she says. "And Duane must have told me this for a reason. Evidently he wanted the story told."
The FBI has declared that Duane is no longer a suspect, based on DNA evidence found on the tie left on the aircraft. Many amateur investigators are skeptical of this determination, because of the possibility that of the four individual's DNA found on the tie, none of them are from Cooper. Another shadow on the FBI's DNA determination is that the samples of personal items submitted to the FBI years after Duane's death had been contaminated by other individuals.
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Have you noticed that the medial arch of your foot is becoming flatter when you walk? You may be developing adult acquired flat foot. This condition is typically caused by a problem with a tendon on the medial side of your foot called the Posterior Tibial Tendon that is not functioning well. You may experience pain in the inner side of your foot when you walk. The affected foot appears to roll outwards (the sole of the foot is trying to face outwards) when you walk. This is called over-pronation of the foot. The back of your heel may start to point outwards (heel valgus). Over time you may lose the ability to tip toe on that foot as the posterior tibial tendon stretches out and it may eventually tear.
Women are affected by Adult Acquired Flatfoot four times more frequently than men. Adult Flatfoot generally occurs in middle to older age people. Most people who acquire the condition already have flat feet. One arch begins to flatten more, then pain and swelling develop on the inside of the ankle. This condition generally affects only one foot. It is unclear why women are affected more often than men. But factors that may increase your risk of Adult Flatfoot include diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
As different types of flatfoot have different causes, the associated symptoms can be different for different people. Some generalized symptoms are listed. Pain along the course of the posterior tibial tendon which lies on the inside of the foot and ankle. This can be associated with swelling on the inside of the ankle. Pain that is worse with activity. High intensity or impact activities, such as running and jumping, can be very difficult. Some patients can have difficulty walking or even standing for long periods of time and may experience pain at the inside of the ankle and in the arch of the foot. Feeling like one is ?dragging their foot.? When the foot collapses, the heel bone may shift position and put pressure on the outside ankle bone (fibula). This can cause pain in the bones and tendons in the outside of the ankle joint. Patients with an old injury or arthritis in the middle of the foot can have painful, bony bumps on the top and inside of the foot. These make shoe wear very difficult. Sometimes, the bony spurs are so large that they pinch the nerves which can result in numbness and tingling on the top of the foot and into the toes. Diabetic patients may not experience pain if they have damage to their nerves. They may only notice swelling or a large bump on the bottom of the foot. The large bump can cause skin problems and an ulcer (a sore that does not heal) may develop if proper diabetic shoe wear is not used.
Although you can do the "wet test" at home, a thorough examination by a doctor will be needed to identify why the flatfoot developed. Possible causes include a congenital abnormality, a bone fracture or dislocation, a torn or stretched tendon, arthritis or neurologic weakness. For example, an inability to rise up on your toes while standing on the affected foot may indicate damage to the posterior tibial tendon (PTT), which supports the heel and forms the arch. If "too many toes" show on the outside of your foot when the doctor views you from the rear, your shinbone (tibia) may be sliding off the anklebone (talus), another indicator of damage to the PTT. Be sure to wear your regular shoes to the examination. An irregular wear pattern on the bottom of the shoe is another indicator of acquired adult flatfoot. Your physician may request X-rays to see how the bones of your feet are aligned. Muscle and tendon strength are tested by asking you to move the foot while the doctor holds it.
Non surgical Treatment
In the early stages, simple pre-fabricated orthotics can help improve the heel position to reduce the mechanical load which is contributing to the symptoms. In advanced stages or long term orthotic use, a plaster of paris or foam box cast can be taken and specific bespoke orthotics manufactured. If the condition develops further a AFO (ankle foot orthotic) may be necessary for greater control. In more advanced stages of symptomatic Adult Acquired flat feet, where the conservative methods of treatment have failed there are various forms of surgery available depending upon the root cause of the issue and severity.
Surgical Treatment
For more chronic flatfoot pain, surgical intervention may be the best option. Barring other serious medical ailments, surgery is a good alternative for patients with a serious problem. There are two surgical options depending on a person?s physical condition, age and lifestyle. The first type of surgery involves repair of the PTT by transferring of a nearby tendon to help re-establish an arch and straighten out the foot. After this surgery, patients wear a non-weight bearing support boot for four to six weeks. The other surgery involves fusing of two or three bones in the hind foot below the ankle. While providing significant pain relief, this option does take away some hind foot side-to-side motion. Following surgery, patients are in a cast for three months. Surgery is an effective treatment to address adult-acquired flatfoot, but it can sometimes be avoided if foot issues are resolved early. That is why it is so important to seek help right away if you are feeling ankle pain. But perhaps the best way to keep from becoming flatfooted is to avoid the risk factors altogether. This means keeping your blood pressure, weight and diabetes in check.
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