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Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) is working on the draft final report into the November crash on landing of a Dornier 328 turboprop aircraft in a remote part of eastern Indonesia.

NTSC's chief investigator into the accident, Frans Wenas, says he has already issued the factual report and is now working on the draft final report.

The accident, involving an Expressair Dornier 328 turboprop registered PK-TXL, occurred on 6 November at around 10:30 local time.

Expressair is an Indonesian domestic airline that normally operates Boeing 737-200s. This accident occurred just a few days after the airline started operating 328s.

There were 32 passengers and four crew on board the aircraft but no injuries were reported.

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With high food and energy prices across the country, everyone's feeling the pinch from inflation. Yet while stocks typically give your portfolio some inflation protection, some particular stocks perform really badly when prices are rising.

How stocks fight inflation
In general, stocks resist inflation's impact on purchasing power far better than bonds do. With bonds, you're stuck with whatever interest rate your bond is paying. Typically, inflation forces rates higher, making your relatively low interest payments less valuable. Also, because bonds offer only a fixed payout when they mature, inflation devalues your eventual payout as well.

Stocks, on the other hand, feature something bonds don't: the potential for growth. Rising prices mean that companies can charge customers more for their products, increasing profits. In particular, companies with relatively fixed costs can benefit greatly from inflationary periods, because any price increases fall directly to their bottom lines.

The value of pricing power
Not all companies, however, are lucky enough to have their internal costs insulated from inflation's effects. If higher prices for raw materials force companies to pay more to make their products, then their profits will suffer -- unless they can immediately pass those costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. That pricing power translates into how well a stock can handle inflation.

Many companies have good pricing power. Strong brands like Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) can count on loyal customers to bear price hikes. In addition, businesses that sell necessities, such as Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT), can often leave customers with no choice but to pay higher prices.

In particular, several sectors of the economy are having a lot of trouble with lack of pricing power right now:

  • Despite higher energy prices overall, refiners like Valero (NYSE: VLO) and Frontier Oil (NYSE: FTO) have suffered, as crude oil costs have risen much faster than gasoline.
  • Airlines like AMR's (NYSE: AMR) American and UAL's United have tried to pass on higher fuel costs to passengers through baggage fees and fuel surcharges, but competition prevents them from simply hiking fares to compensate fully.
  • In a down housing market where we continue to see new lows for home construction, building materials suppliers like USG (NYSE: USG) and Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC) have little ability to charge struggling homebuilders more for their products.

Without pricing power, higher costs lead to narrowing profit margins and lower earnings growth. In turn, deteriorating financials often cause share prices to drop, as investors see slower growth and reduce the earnings multiples they're willing to pay for a stock.

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To protect your portfolio from inflationary troubles, it pays to keep your eyes on quarterly reports for your stocks. Although the reduced demand from higher prices may cause falling revenue growth, that by itself isn't necessarily cause for alarm. If, however, lower revenues are accompanied by tighter margins and more substantial drops in earnings, it should become clear that your company isn't responding to inflation in a healthy way.

It's clear that with current low yields, bond investors are vulnerable to continuing inflationary pressure. Yet just because you own stocks doesn't mean you're automatically protected from inflation. Only by owning businesses that can pass rising costs through to customers can you count on steady increases in the value of your stock portfolio.

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The third time isn't the charm for Medivation (Nasdaq: MDVN) and Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE) Dimebon -- not that anyone thought that it was.

Nearly two years ago, Dimebon failed to show an effect in Alzheimer's disease; patients actually fared worse for some measures.

Last year, the drug failed again, this time in Huntington's disease, another neurological disease.

Back to Alzheimer's disease today, in a trial called CONCERT, with the same result. Combining Dimebon with Aricept, sold by Eisai and Pfizer, didn't help patients any more than Aricept alone. No melding symphony in this CONCERT.

Maybe Medivation and Pfizer should have ended Dimebon's development earlier, but this trial was already ongoing when the first trial failed. As I said when Dimebon failed in Huntington's disease, the CONCERT trial acted as a call option for investors with a huge upside and very little downside. Everyone was expecting it to fail; Medivation's value is entirely tied up in its prostate cancer drug MDV3100, which has seen much better success than Dimebon.

Unfortunately call options often expire worthless. So do partnerships; the companies are cutting their losses -- finally -- shutting down the Dimebon program, and going their separate ways.

For better or worse, Pfizer still has a hand in Alzheimer's disease. Bapineuzumab, its most advanced Alzheimer's drug, was acquired in its purchase of Wyeth; Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) and Elan (NYSE: ELN) split the other half. There are higher hopes for bapineuzumab than there were for Dimebon, but only mildly so.

Alzheimer's disease is hard to treat in large part because we really don't know what causes it. Bapineuzumab is supposed to work by inhibiting the formation of amyloid plaques, the same basic theory, although through a different mechanism, as Eli Lilly's (NYSE: LLY) semagacestat, which failed to help Alzheimer's patients. Lilly has another phase 3 Alzheimer's drug in development, so it has another shot to succeed (and another shot to fail).

Failing is a theme with Alzheimer's drugs, making them appropriate only for very risk-tolerant investors or those that like the rest of the pipeline and assign zero value to the Alzheimer's programs. If you're looking for something a little more stable -- something more appropriate for a retirement account perhaps -- check out the Fool's new free report, "3 Stocks That Will Help You Retire Rich."


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With the rate at which horrifying examples of widespread moral bankruptcy and fraudulent misdeeds are coming to light in the financial industry today, one can scarcely afford a moment's rest for fear of missing the dastardly disgrace du jour.

Already this week, even as investors continue to wrap their heads around the monumental LIBOR rate-rigging debacle, the dramatic implosion of futures brokerage PFGBest amid a reported shortfall in customer-segregated accounts has shattered hopeful notions that the MF Global disaster would remain an isolated event.

According to a suit filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday, the customer accounts of PFGBest parent company Peregrine Financial Group face an apparent shortfall of at least $200 million, and there is now evidence that shortfalls of a similar scale have persisted since at least February 2010. Reuters reports that PFG's sole-owner and chairman, Russel Wasendorf Sr., may have "intercepted and forged bank documents for more than two years to cover up hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money."

After discovering the shortfall Monday, the National Futures Association took immediate enforcement action by freezing PFGBest's brokerage accounts. In addition to the CFTC, the FBI confirmed it is also involved in the ongoing investigation. PFG filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection Tuesday, and clearing services provider Jefferies Group (NYSE: JEF) began liquidating all open trading positions held by PFG clients.

Cruelly, some of the same futures traders that were victims of the MF Global collapse have now been denied access to their funds for the second time in less than a year. The bankruptcy trustee in the MF Global case transferred some of those client accounts to PFGBest, leading some traders on a second involuntary journey through financial hell.

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In an excessively dramatic subplot to a story that didn't need one, Wasendorf is currently comatose and listed in critical condition at an Iowa City hospital following a failed suicide attempt. According to the Huffington Post, he was found in his car Monday at PFG headquarters in Cedar Falls, Iowa, "with a tube connecting its tailpipe to the interior." Bloomberg reviewed a police report revealing that a suicide note "was found in the vehicle that indicated possible discrepancies with accounts at Peregrine Financial Group".

In the combined wake of Wasendorf's apparently routine submission of forged bank documents to regulators, and his attempted suicide, the prominent heading beneath his photograph within PFGBest's corporate brochure reads with a bone-chilling irony: "To succeed you must first survive."

But the bitter irony does not stop there. Wasendorf himself lost some money when futures broker Sentinel Management Group declared bankruptcy back in 2007, and his reported reaction at the time was: "It's disbelief that someone could get away with this kind of shell accounting." Today, of course, his outraged clients are experiencing that sense of disbelief firsthand.

And tipping the irony meter into the red zone, PFGBest's own website contains an entire page dedicated to awards that the futures commission merchant (FCM) has received over the years. For 13 years straight, Futures magazine named PFG among the top 50 U.S. futures brokerages based upon CFTC data for customer assets on deposit. If only the CFTC had bothered to call PFG's bank directly when the regulator performed a joint review with the National Futures Association of the 70 largest FCMs in January and found "no material breaches of customer funds protection requirements." Believe it or not, in June 2011, PFG received an award called the Iowa Character Award, honoring those that "consistently demonstrate and promote the six pillars of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship." I wonder whether we'll see a claw back to have that plaque returned.

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Of course, the primary victims of these unfortunate events are those with capital invested either directly with PFG or through another broker who sent trades through PFG on their behalf. As with the MF Global case, there can be no ascertaining the timing of when some portion of customer funds may be released, or indeed whether they may somehow see their capital returned in full. But the complete list of victims here stretches clear to the horizon. PFG employees, minus any individuals who may have been aware of Wasendorf's fraud, are obviously victims here as well.

Also among those affected by PFG's sudden collapse are the separate victims of a $194 million Ponzi scheme operated by one Trevor Cook. PFGBest served as a broker for some of Cook's own nefarious dealings, and a lawsuit filed by the court-appointed receiver in that case sought to recover $48 million from PFG, alleging that PFG permitted Cook to maintain accounts "in the face of overwhelming red flags of fraud or insolvency." With PFG in bankruptcy, any hope for those folks to see a return of their capital grows increasingly dim.

If you have investment exposure to commodities, you may find yourself affected by the mass liquidation of commodity futures contracts. I saw it clearly in the aftermath of MF Global, and although PFG is smaller in scale, futures prices can indeed be affected by such a sudden liquidation, much the way an increased margin requirement might force liquidation of speculative positions with an observable impact on prices. In the midst of an extremely challenging year for commodity investors, in which major metal miners BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) and Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX) are trading near 52-week lows, any such impact will feel like lime juice squeezed onto a paper cut.

Ultimately, every single investor is a victim of this latest example of the rampant misconduct and outright fraud that seems to have infected our entire financial system like a plague. The list has grown far too long, and it may have reached a critical mass to begin scaring investors straight out of the markets. The unsettling macroeconomic outlook and the structural shortcomings like those exposed by the 2010 flash crash are sufficient obstacles for retail investors to contend with. With the addition of Madoff, LIBOR-gate, the muni-bond-rigging cartel, MF Global, Lehman, gold-price suppression, and the long list of hugely disappointing scandals in recent years, it's a wonder any of us are still sticking around.

But stick around I will, and I suspect many of you will likewise remain engaged in the enduring practice of buying stocks for profit. I am a stock investor, and I will not be scared out of my long-term strategy for investment success by the likes of Russel Wasendorf or Jon Corzine. I will hold fast to my positions in Teck Resources (NYSE: TCK) and First Majestic Silver (NYSE: AG) even when commodity markets face widespread manipulation and sudden mass liquidations. I will continue to highlight deep value resource stocks as I see them, and leave the leveraged play in futures markets to speculators with a far higher risk tolerance than my own. After all, and I mean this with no disrespect to the clients of PFG, "to succeed you must first survive."


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Buying and holding great businesses usually produces higher after-tax returns than trading in and out of average businesses. Therefore, it behooves investors to seek out and buy the best businesses, such as PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP), McDonald's (NYSE:MCD), and J&J Snack Foods (NASDAQ:JJSF), and own them forever.

These are businesses that have earned exceptional profits doing one thing very well for a long time and will continue doing that one thing well for decades into the future. Notice you will not find Apple or BlackBerry on this list, but you will find proven and predictable businesses that can compound shareholder value at a high rate for years to come.

Unbeatable brands - PepsiCo
PepsiCo(NYSE:PEP) is the first stock you should consider owning forever and it is not hard to see why. The company is the No. 2 global soft-drink company and the No. 1 global snacks company. It owns more iconic brands than any other company in the food and beverage industry, including Pepsi, Cheetos, Doritos, Tostitos, Ruffles, Aquafina, and Gatorade.

PepsiCo derives half of its revenue from snacks and the other half from beverages. It has a durable competitive advantage in both businesses but has a better foothold in the snacks business. According to Morningstar, PepsiCo controls 64% of the U.S. salty snack market and 40% of the global market. Such enormous scale enables it to defend its market position from smaller competitors.

As a result of the company's large and stable share of the markets in which it competes, shareholders have been rewarded with steadily growing free cash flow per share. The key metric has compounded at an annual rate in excess of 8.5% since 2003.

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In addition to dividends and share repurchases, the company is boosting shareholder return by expanding into emerging markets and by changing its portfolio to include healthier brands. Investors who buy and hold PepsiCo forever will reap the rewards of slow and steady value creation.

Consistently golden - McDonald's
McDonald's(NYSE:MCD) is the second stock that all investors should consider owning forever. Ray Kroc championed the idea of consistency across all restaurants so that a customer could walk into a McDonald's anywhere in the world and expect the same meal. This idea enabled McDonald's to grow into the world's largest restaurant chain, now ubiquitous in nearly all developed countries.

The company's unmatched scale enables it to earn a much higher operating margin than competitors -- its operating margin exceeded 30% in recent years while Yum! Brands, Wendy's, and Jack in the Box earned less than half of that.

In addition, the company is perennially ranked as one of the top restaurant franchises, enabling it to easily recruit qualified franchisees to expand its store base at relatively little expense.

As a result of its unrivaled scale and broad consumer appeal, McDonald's nearly quintupled earnings per share since 2003.

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Moreover, the company still has room for growth. With fewer than 2,000 stores in China, McDonald's has a long runway for growth in the emerging economic superpower. As China, Brazil, and other nations join the economic elite, McDonald's earning power will continue to grow.

The best business you never heard of - J&J Snack Foods
The next business is the most exciting on the list because it is the most boring. J&J Snack Foods(NASDAQ:JJSF) sells ICEE, SUPERPRETZEL soft pretzels, and Parrot-Ice, among other snack foods commonly found in movie theaters and convenience stores. It is a simple and boring business -- the best kind to own forever.

Demand is stable, its profit margin hardly moves from year to year, and it typically holds an inordinately large amount of cash on its balance sheet. Despite these things, J&J consistently increases revenue and earnings per share by making prudent acquisitions of small snack companies.

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The trend of increasing earnings per share suggests that past acquisitions have generally been accretive to earnings. Moreover, longtime CEO Gerald Schreiber owns 18.5% of the company, providing ample incentive to continue making prudent acquisitions that accrue to shareholders.

Bottom line
Great companies compound shareholder value at a high rate over time. The longer an investor owns a stock, the more closely the total return approximates the company's rate of increase in value per share rather than the initial earnings yield at which the stock was purchased.

Therefore, dare I say it, it hardly matters what price you pay for a great business if you plan to own it forever. Investors who buy -- and never sell -- PepsiCo, McDonald's, and J&J Snack Foods will likely earn a higher return than if they had used a more active strategy buying average businesses. Think hard and consider doing just that.

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The world, it seems, has rediscovered the simple pleasure of drinking whiskey. If there was one area of Brown-Forman's (NYSE:BF-B) second quarter earnings report that deserved a toast, it was the distiller's Jack Daniels brand, which saw sales jump 10% from the year ago period all across its price points and brand extensions.

From its Tennessee Honey to Gentleman Jack, the distiller saw smooth, double-digit growth in whiskey, while its super premium bourbons Woodford Reserve grew sales 27%, and sales at Old Forester rose 16%.

Unfortunately, the rest of Brown-Forman's spirits products couldn't keep up with the pace whiskey set. Its Herradura tequila might have risen 7%, but the segment's ready-to-drink offerings tumbled 16%, Finlandia vodka was up only 1%, and Southern Comfort fell 4%.

The distiller's efforts would likely have been even better but for the toll a weak economy exacted on consumer confidence, which led drinkers to pull back from dining out. Brown-Forman said that despite its off-premise sales remaining strong, on-premise drinking at bars and restaurants lagged, negatively impacting trends.

That's not surprising since the industry analysts at Technomic say on-premise channel volume grew just 0.7% in 2012 and was expected to decline this year and next. At the same time, though, they found that drinkers wanted to tap new, complex flavors leading them to try premium products, but they've chosen to drink them at home.

While Brown-Forman's results would seem to confirm that, Technomic further suggests trends that could prove worrisome. For those willing to pay up at the bar, people were ordering Irish whiskey more than any other adult beverage, followed by craft beers and vodka.

When it reported interim results back in October, organic sales growth for Diageo (NYSE:DEO) came in below analyst expectations largely because of market changes in China, a decline in Europe, and a disappointing wine portfolio, but it was still able to see its largest division, the U.S. spirits business, power on with better than 5% growth in North America.

In particular Ciroc and Ketel One vodkas led the way, heavy favorites anyway since Diageo owns 25% of all vodka production, representing one of the fastest growing drink niches. Additionally, its Scotch whiskies like Johnnie Walker, Buchanan's, and Talisker maintained market dominance.

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Diageo also plans on introducing two new ultra-premium bourbons, Orphan Barrel and Blade & Bow, which mimics the trend seen in the "browns" market and other distillates. Beam's (NYSE:BEAM) Maker's Mark saw a heady 17% spike in comp sales as well this past quarter.

Further proof the Technomic data is on course is the change in fortune Boston Beer has witnessed in its flagship Samuel Adams craft beer. After years of seeing depletions fall quarter after quarter, it's put together two straight periods of rising sales.

For Brown-Forman then, it's become heavily reliant on its Jack Daniels brand to carry the weight of its operations, and while a formidable opponent, it faces considerable challenges from Diageo, Beam, and Pernod Ricard.  With the distiller's stock having already bounced some 25% off its 52-week lows investors may want to consider going on the wagon for awhile.

Fool contributor Rich Duprey has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Beam, Boston Beer, and Diageo plc (ADR). The Motley Fool owns shares of Boston Beer. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) is a long-standing leader in HIV treatment, but its sales of its hepatitis C drug Sovaldi that's driving the company's revenue surge.

While Sovaldi's sales are soaring, investors are right to wonder if the drug's break neck revenue pace can continue. If it can't, then investors will need Gilead to maintain its dominance in HIV treatment.

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In the following slideshow, you'll read three quotes from Gilead's top management that offer insight into the company's hepatitis C and HIV business and learn why those quotes may matter to investors.

Todd Campbell owns shares of Gilead Sciences. Todd owns E.B. Capital Markets, LLC. E.B. Capital's clients may or may not have positions in the companies mentioned. Todd owns Gundalow Advisors, LLC. Gundalow's clients do not have positions in the companies mentioned.The Motley Fool recommends Gilead Sciences. The Motley Fool owns shares of Gilead Sciences. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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The club remained in the Tercera division until 1970 when the club decided to revert back to regional football in 1970 where they remained until 1978. The return to the Tercera division in 1979 did not reap instant rewards. However, they finally achieved promotion to the Segunda B league in 1989 after becoming champions of the 4th tier. They remained competitive but uninspiring in the league for several years until they made their mark on the country in 1995 with an epic cup run that saw three La Liga teams knocked out. They even took the lead against Barcelona in the quarter finals but were eventually defeated.

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Club Deportivo Numancia are a Spanish football club who were founded in 1945. The team are named after the ancient Celtiberian town of Numantia and spent the majority of their early years playing in the bottom divisions. Their first professional season was in 1946/47 when they competed in the Tercera division (4th tier). After three seasons, they completed promotion to the Segunda B division in 1950. However, they only lasted two years before suffering relegation back to the 4th tier of Spanish football.

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This run seemed to be the catalyst for Numancia as they were promoted to the Segunda division in 1997. They narrowly survived relegation in 1998 before remarkably finishing 3rd the following campaign to earn promotion to La Liga. The team's remarkable rise continued in 1999 as the team survived relegation with a 17th place finish. Nevertheless, the fairytale ended the following year as Numancia finished bottom and were relegated back to the second tier of Spanish football.

The club has since been promoted back to La Liga twice. However, they have been relegated immediately back to the Segunda league with 19th place finishes on both occasions.

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Top Tech Execs: Larry Ellison

The descriptions of Oracle Founder and Chief Executive Larry Ellison Larry Ellison are getting cliché. He’s almost always described as a swashbuckler, a risk-taking flamboyant playboy, the anti-Bill Gates software executive who fancies racing yachts and flying airplanes.

He’s a guy who clearly wants to be in control and, like his activities outside the boardroom, he’s not afraid to dramatically shift gears to get what he wants. Ellison’s decision to write all of its software for the Internet, for example, has helped push Oracle to the top of the heap in business-oriented Internet software. Its flagship database software has more than 40% market share, double that of its nearest competitor, IBM .

Along with Sun Microsystems , EMC and Cisco Systems , Oracle is considered one of the four pillars of the Internet infrastructure.

First fiscal quarter 2001 profits were up a whopping 111% to $501 million. Quarterly top line grew, albeit more slowly, to $2.3 billion. With its Internet software strategy firmly in place, Oracle is undergoing another metamorphosis, this time to a provider of integrated enterprise application suites.

It’s a risky strategy but one that Oracle is confident will lead to enormous growth. Applications sales were $923 million last year–less than 10% of the $10 billion total–but at 42%, they are growing faster than the database business.

The stock’s been on a downward slide since September, off more than 25% to yesterday’s close of $31.50, but overall it’s up 61% in the last 12 months. And by year’s end, the stock will have split twice. That’s a lot more than what most Net companies can claim.

While Ellison can take credit for shifting Oracle’s strategy to the Web and now to applications suites, his autocratic management style is driving away key executives, which has negatively affected the stock and some analyst’s price targets.

Chief Operating Officer Ray Lane Ray Lane and Executive Vice President Gary Bloom Gary Bloom have quit since the summer. Lane says Ellison pushed him out, diminishing his duties and assuming them himself. Bloom, a 14-year veteran, says there was no room left to grow at Oracle since Ellison was not going to cede the top spot anytime soon. This despite the fact that Lane’s COO position was never filled and no one holds the title of president at the company.

“One thing about Larry is what you see is what you get,” says Marc Benioff, a 13-year Oracle executive who left last year to start . “He doesn’t hide anything. He says, ‘This is my nature, love me or hate me,’ and that’s it.”

Will it matter in the long run? His personality probably will not overshadow Oracle’s dominant market position. Its software is used in many of America’s largest companies, both brick and mortar and the Internet. Its entrenched databases will give it leverage to sell applications, and it will no doubt use its tight partnerships with the leading hardware companies to sell the whole package.

That said, analysts say he needs to cede more control to the other 11 officers on Oracle’s executive committee. For Ellison, that will be a bitter pill.

“Larry’s had to make the ultimate sacrifice to focus on Oracle and nothing else for 25 years,” says a longtime associate of the thrice-divorced Ellison. “That’s what it takes to be in this position. He has manifested his life as Oracle, not as a philanthropist or politician, not as husband or father.”

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2/02/2011 @ 12:00PM

America's Most Miserable Cities

Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the governor of California at the end of 2003 amid a wave of optimism that his independent thinking and fresh ideas would revive a state stumbling after the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.

The good vibes are a distant memory: The Governator exited office last month with the state facing a crippling checklist of problems including massive budget deficits, high unemployment, plunging home prices, rampant crime and sky-high taxes. Schwarzenegger’s approval ratings hit 22% last year, a record low for any sitting California governor.

California’s troubles helped it land eight of the 20 spots on our annual list of America’s Most Miserable Cities, with Stockton ranking first for the second time in three years.

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Located in the state’s Central Valley, Stockton has been ravaged by the housing bust. Median home prices in the city tripled between 1998 and 2005, when they peaked at $431,000. Now they are back to where they started, as the median price is forecast to be $142,000 this year, according to research firm Economy.com, a decline of 67% from 2005. Foreclosure filings affected 6.9% of homes last year in the Stockton area, the seventh-highest rate in the nation, according to online foreclosure marketplace RealtyTrac.

Stockton’s violent crime and unemployment rates also rank among the 10 worst in the country, although violent crime was down 10% in the latest figures from the FBI. Jobless rates are expected to decline or stay flat in most U.S. metro areas in 2011, but in Stockton, unemployment is projected to rise to 18.1% in 2011 after averaging 17.2% in 2010, according to Economy.com.

“Stockton has issues that it needs to address, but an article like this is the equivalent of bayoneting the wounded,” says Bob Deis, Stockton city manager. “I find it unfair, and it does everybody a disservice. The people of Stockton are warm. The sense of community is fantastic. You have to come here and talk to leaders. The data is the data, but there is a richer story here.”

There are many ways to gauge misery. The most famous is the Misery Index developed by economist Arthur Okun, which adds unemployment and inflation rates together. Okun’s index shows the U.S. is still is in the dumps despite the recent gains in the economy: It averaged 11.3 in 2010 (blame a 9.6% unemployment rate and not inflation), the highest annual rate since 1984.

Our list of America’s Most Miserable Cities goes a step further: We consider a total of 10 factors, things that people gripe about around the water cooler every day. Most are serious issues, including unemployment, crime and taxes. A few we factor in are not as critical, but still elevate people’s blood pressure, like the weather, commute times and how the local sports team is doing.

One of the biggest issues causing Americans angst the past four years is the value of their homes. To account for that we tweaked the methodology for this year’s list and considered foreclosure rates and the change in home prices over the past three years. Click here for a more detailed rundown of our methodology.

Florida and California have ample sunshine in common, but also massive housing problems that have millions of residents stuck with underwater mortgages. The two states are home to 16 of the top 20 metros in terms of home foreclosure rates in 2010. The metro area with the most foreclosure filings (171,704) and fifth-highest rate (7.1%) last year is Miami, which ranks No. 2 on our list of Most Miserable Cities.

The good weather and lack of a state income tax are the only things that kept Miami out of the top spot. In addition to housing problems (prices are down 50% over three years), corruption is off the charts, with 404 government officials convicted of crimes this decade in South Florida. Factor in violent crime rates among the worst in the country and long commutes, and it’s easy to understand why Miami has steadily moved up our list, from No. 9 in 2009 to No. 6 last year to the runner-up spot this year.

California cities take the next three spots: Merced (No. 3), Modesto (No. 4) and Sacramento (No. 5). Each has struggled with declining home prices, high unemployment and high crime rates, in addition to the problems all Californians face, like high sales and income taxes and service cuts to help close massive budget shortfalls.

The Golden State has never looked less golden. “If I even mention California, they throw me out of the office,” says Ron Pollina, president of site selection firm Pollina Corporate Real Estate. “Every company hates California.”

Last year’s most miserable city, Cleveland, fell back to No. 10 this year despite the stomach punch delivered by LeBron James when he announced his exit from Cleveland on national television last summer. Cleveland’s unemployment rate rose slightly in 2010 to an average of 9.3%, but the city’s unemployment rank improved relative to other cities, thanks to soaring job losses across the U.S. Cleveland benefited from a housing market that never overheated and therefore hasn’t crashed as much as many other metros. Yet Cleveland was the only city to rank in the bottom half of each of the 10 categories we considered.

Two of the 10 largest metro areas make the list. Chicago ranks seventh on the strength of its long commutes (30.7 minutes on average–eighth-worst in the U.S.) and high sales tax (9.75%—tied for the highest). The Windy City also ranks in the bottom quartile on weather, crime, foreclosures and home price trends.

President Obama’s (relatively) new home also makes the cut at No. 16. Washington, D.C., has one of the healthiest economies, but problems abound. Traffic is a nightmare, with commute times averaging 33.4 minutes–only New York is worse. Income tax rates are among the highest in the country and home prices are down 27% over three years.

And it does not get much more miserable than the sports scene in Washington. Beltway fans should be grateful for the NHL’s Capitals, their only major pro team to finish out of the basement in the last two seasons. The Nationals (MLB), Redskins (NFL) and Wizards (NBA) have all finished in last place in their respective divisions the past two years.

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The most important man in Major League Baseball right now is Steve Cohen. The hedge fund titan is the man MLB commissioner Bud Selig is genuflecting in front of, praying Cohen will bail him out for permitting the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers and cash-strapped New York Mets to pile insane amounts of debt onto their balance sheets.

Dodger Stadium - April 29, 2011

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Over the past two months, as Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz have been slashing their team's payroll and looking for nickels and dimes in every nook and cranny, the only investor not affiliated with the Mets who has offered to help keep the team afloat has been Cohen, offering $20 million for a 4% stake. The Mets are praying that their season ticket sales will look good enough by the end of April that they can restructure $430 million of debt due in two years. If not, two sports bankers familiar with the team's finances I have spoken with believe it is likely the Mets will follow the Dodgers into Chapter 11. But at least Cohen is offering the Mets a temporary lifeline. Selig owes Cohen one for that.

During the next few weeks Cohen is also going to set the bar on the sale price for Frank McCourt's Dodgers. In doing so, Cohen will be sending a signal on the value of many of the new local television deals struck recently. The Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Angels and San Diego Padres (pending) have received equity stakes in regional sports networks as part of their new media deals. Several other teams, like the Chicago Cubs, are likely to do the same thing over the next couple of years. Cohen's bid for the Dodgers, which is largely based on his reckoning of the value of the team's next media deal, beginning in 2014, is going to influence the value of a lot of RSNs.

Other than St. Louis Rams owner Steve Kroenke, Cohen is the only person currently bidding for the Dodgers with the cash to pay over $1 billion for the team. There are several bidders offering $1.5 billion for the Dodgers. But who has the cash? Remember when Rick Caruso bailed? That wasn't about the parking lots not being included, as Caruso so meekly claimed (how many teams own their own parking lots?). It was about Caruso not having the cash. MLB kicked out Jared Kushner because he didn't have the cash either. He wanted to buy the Dodgers with too much debt. Been there, done that.

Sure, there are still a lot of serious, interested bidders for the Dodgers, including some big private equity funds and networks. Why not? The Dodgers are an iconic brand in the second biggest market. But the broadcasters and funds are not looking to be majority owners. And yes, some who didn't make the money cut earlier have come back. Michael Heisley, who owns the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA, and Tony Ressler were booted a couple of weeks ago but then subsequently joined forces and reentered the bidding. But the more partners, the more complicated the deal becomes for MLB. Selig does not want complicated right now. He needs simple.

Dodgers owner Frank McCourt must name a winning bidder for his team by April 1 and sell it by April 30 so he can cut his ex-wife Jamie a $130 million check on May 1. As one high-ranking MLB executive familiar with the Dodgers vetting process told me, "Cohen can write checks." The question for Selig and all of baseball is, how big?


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It ain't easy being a startup. Without a massive marketing budget, smaller companies often find themselves relying on the media to get the word out. While this is no easy task for even the biggest and most polished companies, for shoestring operations, it can be absolutely daunting—especially if none of the founders have any experience dealing with the press. Fortunately, if there's one thing I've learned from my years as both a technology journalist and a startup founder, it's that most common PR mistakes are pretty easy to prevent. So whether you're able to hire a a PR pro—or have to DIY the job—here are 10 of the most common PR mistakes that all startups should seek to avoid.

Going Too Big With The Launch Party

The startup world is riddled with memories of great parties thrown by now-dead companies. Press aren't stupid. If you're a no-name company (and don't happen to be backed by Sean Parker), coming out of the gates with a Gatsby-esque rager will likely make you look like you're overcompensating for something. Go too big, and you can expect cocktail chatter to shift from "These guys have a pretty cool product" too "I wonder how much seed funding they have left after this shindig?" And while liquid nitrogen-infused drinks and aerialists are certainly fun things to have at your event, you want people to walk away with the product itself on top of mind—not the fire-breathing stilt-walker. "Yeah, press generally like events—especially if it's in a cool location and all their other journalist friends are attending," says Elliot Tomaeno, founder of startup-focused Astrsk PR. "But a big party won't make your product suck less. If it needs work, no launch party, no swag, no celeb can make it cool."

Following Up More Than You Should

Oh, the dreaded follow up to the follow up. Take it from me—there's nothing more irritating to a journalist than seeing the same pushy name pop up in their inbox over and over again. Don't mistake annoyance for persistance: Such behavior may even prevent journalists who might otherwise want to cover you in the future from doing so. "Sometimes founders and PR pros forget that it's not a journalist's job to answer email," says Courtney Boyd Myers, founder of and a longtime technology journalist. Effective PR is essentially inception: It's your job to plant the seed of an idea in a writer's head. Whenever the appropriate story comes along for them to cover you? Well, that's up to them and their editors. While that may be at launch, if there isn't a huge hook to drive pageviews (such as a celebrity founder or investor), you might have better luck waiting until they inevitably get to a future roundup of similar products that fit into a burgeoning category. The moral: Don't push too much.

Making One Of These Simple Email Mistakes

I think I'll just list a bunch of the deal-breakers I've recently come across in press releases:

1) Writing emails or press releases that include simple grammar or spelling mistakes.

2) Using a different font or format to write a brief personalized message above an obviously cut-and-pasted form pitch.

3) Addressing the email "Dear [insert name]" (I've seriously gotten this one more than you can imagine).

4) Sending emails with massive, unsolicited attachments. Not only does it make your message more likely to lose a battle to spam and virus filters, but bloated attachments can seriously irritate journalists who might have to deal with stingy IT departments' storage limits.

(Hat tip: For many more simple email mistakes, check out the Twitter feed @DearPR.)

Making It Difficult To Find Your Contact Info

It never ceases to amaze me how difficult some companies make it for journalists to find the best media contact. It should be incredibly obvious within 15 seconds of visiting your site how to reach you for press-related information. And while companies love to use web forms to take incoming emails, I can say from experience that many journalists view these as black holes from which their under-deadline message will never be read. And do I need to rant about companies that require passwords to reach a "press" section of their site? Deadlines are tight, and a journalist may not be willing or able to jump through such hurdles in order to cover your company. Let's put it this way: If Apple can put its high-resolution images on its site without requiring a password to access them, you can.

Hoping An Outlet Will Pick Up Its Competitors' Scraps

"You can't give a story to a smaller outlet and then hope their larger, perhaps more desirable competitor will pick up that same story even though its already been covered," says Mallory Blair, co-founder at Small Girls PR. Exactly.

Not Understanding Lead Times

While it can be hard for a startup to have all their moving parts planned months in advance of launch, it can be even harder for a monthly magazine writers—who need to prepare stories many months in advance—to cover a product that will be old news when the issue hits stands. If you can give a long-lead writer an advance scoop (even under embargo or NDA), then doing so greatly enhances your chance of coverage.

Launching At A Bad Time

While all companies run the risk of some big unexpected event crashing their launch date's news cycle, there are some simple steps you can take to decrease the likelihood that a bigger story will suffocate your launch. Basically, no startup should be competing for attention with Tim Cook or Larry Page. So if half the tech press is busy covering an Apple keynote or Google IO, it's a fair bet that these are terrible times to launch. "If you try to set your launch without knowing about these big events, then you may miss opportunities," Tomaeno says. The takeaway: Try to launch on a date that doesn't coincide with anything that will predictably suck up newspaper ink and reporter hours.

Going Negative

Journalists are servet full buffets of sour grapes more than you can imagine. "A big mistake is to focus on what competitors are doing wrong or speaking negatively about competitors over highlighting what makes your startup interesting on its own," says Bianca Caampued, co-founder of Small Girls PR. "Startups just need to spread positive vibes about what they're doing and why they're doing it, not inadvertently make enemies in the space—especially if they're still a little fish in the sea." Not only is it unprofessional and unsightly to go negative on a competitor, it could also have serious repricusions down the line. Startups often need to collaborate, and the startup world is full of miniature games of musical chairs, with talent (and even founders) hopping between companies on a fairly regular basis. In other words: Your current competitor could be your future collaborator, and you'd be foolish to burn any bridges you might someday want to cross.

Mistaking Enthusiasm For Endorsement

In the off chance you're lucky enough to run into Ashton Kutcher in an elevator and get a polite smile and "sound's cool" in response to your pitch, be careful about making too much of it. "We have seen excitement take over and cloud judgement when founders who might get positive feedback from someone of influence have jumped the gun and implied to others or potential investors that this person is formally involved when they are not," says Brooke Hammerling, founder of Brew Media Relations. Hammerling also cautions founders against announcing partnerships with companies they might not have formalized relationships with: "'We should work together' is not a formal partnership."

Assuming Conversations Are Off The Record

"Founders sometimes make the painful mistake of assuming that just because press aren’t in the room, their comments won’t go beyond the group they are addressing," says Dena Cook, managing partner at Brew Media Relations. "Not true.  In today’s world of social media, everyone can share quotable quotes and videos."

Seth Porges is a writer and co-creator of Cloth for iOS. For more fun,  follow Seth on Twitter at @sethporges, or subscribe to him on Facebook or Google+.


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Women who plan to give birth outside of the hospital have a considerably lower risk of cesarean deliveries and other obstetric interventions than women planning hospital births, but home-birthing mothers’ babies have a slightly increased likelihood of dying, according to a new study of Oregon births in the New England Journal of Medicine. Thanks to a change in the information recorded on Oregon birth certificates, this study is the first to reliably estimate outcomes for U.S. mothers and their newborns based on the setting where a woman chooses to give birth.

“The long-range goal of our research is to make birth safer for women and babies in all settings,” said co-author Aaron Caughey, MD, PhD, chair of the Oregon Health & Science University’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “We believe that improved communication between out-of-hospital and in-hospital birth providers to facilitate safer transitions between those two birth settings may reduce prenatal risk,” he told me.

Until recently, Oregon birth certificates recorded only where a baby was born, not where the mother intended the baby to be born. Therefore, women who planned out-of-hospital births, either at a home or at a free-standing birth center, but who required a transfer to a hospital to give birth would have their child classified as a “hospital birth,” and women who planned a hospital birth but didn’t make it there in time were classified as out-of-hospital births — all of which made it difficult to accurately compare the risks of birthing across different settings. Now Oregon, whose 4% out-of-hospital rate is the highest in the nation, is the only U.S. state to ask women where they planned to have their baby. The question is important because home births have been rising in the U.S. Although just 1.4% of U.S. women had home births in 2012, that’s a quarter higher than in 2008. Even in 2008, home births had risen 20% since 2004.

“The assessment of risk is complicated and is a very personal choice for a lot of women,” Caughey said. For some, the increased risk of fetal/newborn death more strongly influences their preferred birth setting while others may have greater concerns about cesarean deliveries or other interventions. It gets more complex in comparing the very different likelihoods of these outcomes. In this study, 500 women would have to deliver at the hospital instead of outside the hospital to prevent one baby’s death during delivery, but just 5.2 women would need to deliver outside the hospital to prevent a single cesarean delivery. Even then, each woman’s risk isn’t equal: one who lives 10 minutes away from a hospital that can provide an emergency cesarean section takes on less risk than a woman who lives an hour from such a hospital. And women with a previous uncomplicated vaginal birth are at lower risk for problems than healthy women giving birth for the first time, Caughey pointed out.

“Because risks of out-of-hospital births are unique, women who are interested in an out-of-hospital birth should evaluate their specific risks within each potential birth setting during a frank conversation with their maternity care provider and then should select the birth setting that is most congruent with her preferences and values,” he said.

Not Assigning Blame

Caughey and his colleagues analyzed the outcomes of nearly 80,000 deliveries in Oregon in 2012 and 2013. All the births involved a single fetus/newborn who was head down at the time of delivery. Among these women, 2.5% planned and completed a home birth, 1.5% planned and completed birth at a birth center, and 0.8% planned a birth outside the hospital (home or birthing center) but delivered at a hospital after a transfer. Overall, deaths of the fetus/baby, newborn seizures and mothers’ blood transfusions were higher among women planning out-of-hospital births while cesarean births, labor induction, labor augmentation and instrument-assisted deliveries were more common among women planning hospital births.

Those who planned out-of-hospital births were more likely to be older, white women who had private insurance or paid out of pocket, but they were also less likely to have pre-existing conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, gestational diabetes and preeclampsia. The women who planned an out-of-hospital birth but ended up birthing at a hospital were more likely to have those medical conditions or pregnancy complications than those who finally did deliver outside the hospital.

Before getting to the nitty gritty numbers, it’s important to know that Caughey’s study cannot assign responsibility for outcomes, and they have no interest in assigning “blame” for outcomes. Too many factors—birth provider, distance from hospital, policies and logistics of transferring births from out of hospital to the hospital, mother’s health, baby’s health, other complications, etc.—play a role in how births turn out. Some obstetric emergencies require a cesarean section within 10 to 15 minutes, a harder feat when starting out-of-the hospital, but these only occur in 1 or 2 out of 1,000 deliveries, Caughey said. Another concern might be how transfers from out of the hospital to the hospital take place, especially if this transition isn’t optimal. Further, if women—or their providers—had a previous bad experience at the hospital after a transfer, such as rude or judgmental nurses or dismissive doctors, that experience make them more reluctant to transfer for a possible complication until the situation becomes such an emergency that they have no choice—and it may have become too late.

“We could have said people having home birth are trying to kill their babies, but that’s not going to improve outcomes,” Caughey said. “I’m interested in women having the best information possible in their hands. We want women to know we value their preferences.” By the same token, he points out that the OB floor is the only one in a hospital with healthy people instead of sick ones. “If we’re going to take well people and put them in a hospital, we better have a damn good reason—I need to be improving the chances she will have a good outcome,” he said, and that includes reducing obstetric interventions when possible.

What the Study Found

Before considering characteristics of the moms, such as their age, race/ethnicity, income, existing pregnancy complications and underlying health conditions, the raw numbers for a baby’s death during birth (perinatal death) were 3.9 per 1,000 for planned out-of-hospital births and 1.8 per 1,000 for planned hospital births. After adjusting for mothers’ medical conditions and other characteristics, women who planned out-of-hospital births had more than double the odds of having their baby die during birth—but the absolute risk of death was still very, very low: 1.5 more babies per 1,000 died during planned out-of-hospital births than during planned hospital births.

Newborn death (neonatal) was also higher among infants whose mothers planned to deliver out of the hospital, with nearly three times greater odds of death than infants whose mothers planned hospital births. However, the difference in absolute risk of neonatal death between the two settings was, again, still very low, just 0.6 deaths per 1,000 deliveries. Put another way, if 10,000 women planned a hospital birth and 10,000 women planned an out-of-hospital birth, six additional newborns would die in the second group.

The risk calculation for home births and hospital births is not a simple one. Photo by Carin Araujo.

The risk calculation for home births and hospital births is not a simple one. Photo by Carin Araujo.

The other significant risks for planned out-of-hospital births were seizures among newborns—the odds were more than three times greater among planned out-of-hospital births—and blood transfusions among mothers, whose odds were nearly twice if planning out-of-hospital births, most likely due to postpartum hemorrhages. Still, these absolute risks remained extremely low. 6 of every 1,000 women planning out-of-hospital births needed blood transfusion, compared to 4 of 1,000 mothers planning hospital births. Just 0.4 of 1,000 newborns from planned hospital births had seizures, compared to 1.3 per 1,000 newborns from planned out-of-hospital births.

For women who strongly value an unassisted vaginal delivery, planned home births definitely beat out planned hospital births: 94% of out-of-hospital birthing moms and 72% of hospital birthing moms gave an unassisted vaginal birth. The cesarean rate was 24.7% among planned hospital births and 5.3% among planned out-of-hospital births, though women who planned hospital births also had a higher rate of pregnancy complications (gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, etc.) from the get-go. Similarly, nearly a third of women planning hospital deliveries (30%) were induced for labor, compared to 1.5% of women planning out-of-hospital births, and just over a quarter of planned hospital birthing moms (26%) received labor augmentation, compared to 1.1% of those who chose non-hospital births.

What the Numbers Mean—And Don’t Mean

Past research had already compared hospital and out-of-hospital births in other countries, but they had little relevance for the U.S. because our healthcare system is so different and fragmented.

“The rate of neonatal death is high in the United States overall, compared to other developed countries, and this is true of all birth settings in the U.S.,” said Caughey, whose PhD is in healthcare economics. “The relative safety of birth settings is informed by larger healthcare systems issues. The U.S. ‘healthcare system’ is an oxymoron—a healthcare system has interconnected parts that work together, but we have a bunch of little fiefdoms.”

This disconnectedness of care is partly why our health outcomes fall short of those in other developed nations. Access to care, including preconception and prenatal care, is a major contributor to neonatal death in the U.S. Another contributing factor is the heterogeneity of our population, including a much more diverse population in terms of race/ethnicity and especially socioeconomics. The difference between the rich and the poor today in the U.S. is the greatest it’s been since the 1920s, Caughey said.

Even within the U.S., it’s unclear how much these findings from Oregon would apply to births in other states, especially given different populations, differences among the moms who choose out-of-hospital births, different resources available and even different laws and policies governing what different birth attendants can legally do. (Some types of birth providers are prohibited from participating in home births in other states, for example.) These Oregon findings definitely tell us a lot more about other states than findings from Canada or England would, but the risk will vary greatly from state to state, county to county, hospital to hospital, woman to woman and baby to baby.

The evidence doesn’t yet tell us who the “ideal” out-of-hospital birth candidate is, nor the categories of pregnant women who should never have an out-of-hospital birth, Caughey said. Women with higher-risk pregnancies (multiples, previous cesarean delivery, pregnancy complications, etc.) are more likely to have birth complications, so a hospital is the safer plan, but “there must be hospitals available to provide the ability to have a vaginal delivery if one is desired,” Caughey said. Women considering a home birth should ask their provider what kinds of situations might need a transfer to a hospital, which hospital it will be, what transfer protocols exist there and who will care for the mother there.

Caughey also had advice for those at the hospital receiving a home birth transfer, pointing out that improving the lack of communication between in-hospital and out-of-hospital providers is key to improving the health of mothers and their babies:

“You’re seeing a woman who is disappointed, who had intended one thing and it didn’t go her way,” he said. “She and her birth provider have reasonably decided that they needed to come to the hospital and they need your help. We all are trained to help women, and we’ve all taken an oath to do so. Honor that oath and do so in a really respectful way. That would go so far in the divide between in-hospital providers and out-of-hospital providers.”

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  1. MDs may ask for a specific protocol. Here's a basic one, 3 phases, Goldestein's - the aims for each phase ...
    • Phase I: restore alignment & muscle balance
    • Phase II: good alignment + functional integration
    • Phase III: good alignment, functional integration, + total body ("real life"activities and problem solving)
  2. 4 ways a pt can do auto-mobilization (specifically on the shoulder) - name the motion, and then a method of doing it
    • distraction: wrap a scarf around your foot, hold it in your hand, pull (pulley, strap)
    • elevation: fingers climb up a wall - can bend knees for more stretch when arm's already up
    • rotation: hold a towel behind your head, one arm pulls the other down
    • DTM: bicipital tendon friction (to break up scar tissue and help it flow freely)
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    • electrotherapy
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    • later: maintain the exercise program!
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  6. sprain should last how long?
    24-72 h
  7. acute muscle strain (grades 2-3) w huge inflam + muscle tears, how long?
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  8. bone break or torn tissue - how long?
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    • (you can have pt do exercise at site or at least at prox + distal points)
  9. what's the sole bony strut connecting the shoulder girdle to the trunk?
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    abd to 90 degrees (per Pivko)
  11. AC joint close packed pos
    • 90 degrees abd
    • (per dutton & magee)
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    • converts the scapular notch (medial to the base of the coracoid) into a foramen
    • the suprascapular nerve runs thru this foramen
  13. costoclavicular lig - where?
    holds the clavicle to the first rib, which is just inf to it, at their medial ends
  14. interclavicular lig - where?
    connecting the sternal ends of both clavicles, and also attaching to the sup end of the manubrium
  15. two pars of the coracoclavicular lig
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    • trapezoid
  16. basic dif btwn two parts of the coracoclavicular lig?
    • conoid: is more medial, and tapers down to a narrow end
    • trapezoid: lat to the conoid, guess its shape
  17. sternoclavicular ligament
    connects the clav to the stern, running inferomed - it looks as tall as the clavicle
  18. subclavius attachments & action
    • first rib & cartilage  --> inferolat clavicle
    • runs almost horizontally

    • draw clavicle down
    • elevate first rib
    • stabilize SC jt
  19. pec major attch
    Medial Half Of Clavicle, Sternum, Cartilage Of Ribs One Thru Six --> hum greater tubercle
  20. actions of pec major
    • As A Whole: Adduct, Medially Rotate The Shoulder Joint,
    • May Assist In Elevating The thorax in forced inspiration
    • Upper Fibers: Flex, Medially Rotate, Horizontally Adduct The Shoulder Joint
    • Lower Fibers: Extend, Adduct The Shoulder Joint
  21. sternohyoid muscle attch & act
    • post med clavicle --> up to the hyoid bone
    • depress the hyoid
  22. 2 big players that pass right behind the clavicle, and therefore are at risk of damage if the clavicle gets jarred?
    • brachial plexus
    • subclavian artery
  23. what kind of joint is the SC? anatomically, mechanically, functionally?
    • anatomically: complex - bc it has a disc!
    • mechanically: bi-axial saddle jt
    • functionally: ball and socket bc of a lax capsule & flexible disc
  24. __ subdivides the SC jt into 2 secondary cavities
    the disk
  25. attachments of the SC jt disk?
    • upper & post borders of the articular surface of the clavicle
    • -->
    • cartilage of the first rib, and circumferentially to the fibrous capsule
  26. describe the articular surface of the sternal end of the clavicle
    and the cavicular facet of the manubrium?
    • clavicle
    • sup/inf: convex
    • ant/post: concave

    • manubrium
    • sup/inf: concave
    • ant/post: convex
  27. what surrounds the sternal end of the clavicle, with some fibers from SCM reinforcing it?
    • jt capsule
    • but it's lax enough to allow motion
  28. attachments of ant sternoclavicular  lig
    upper ant sternal end of clavicle --> upper part of manubrium & first costal cartilage
  29. attachments of posterior sternoclavicular lig
    post aspect of sternal end of lig --> down and med to --> back of sup manubrium
  30. which SC lig has two laminae?
    what are they?
    which way do they run?
    what's between them?
    • costoclavicular
    • anterior fibers: run superolat
    • posterior fibers: run superomed
    • there's a bursa between them
  31. degrees of freedom of the SC jt?
  32. what motions are usually paired in the SC jt?
    • elevation & retraction
    • depression & protraction (the slump)

    debated btwn her and magee - she says it's the opposite of above, but that we're not looking at conjoint motions for now anyway
  33. clavicular elevation - how many degrees?
    clavicular depression?
    • 45-60 up
    • 5 down
  34. pro/retraction at the SC jt - how many degrees?
    15 in each direction
  35. rotation of clavicle about its own longitudinal axis - how many degrees?
  36. what kind of rotation do you get of the clavicle when you elevate your arm in any direction?
  37. SC jt restion pos?
    arm at side
  38. capsular pattern at SC jt?
    pain at extremes of range/motion
  39. what joints to include in passive movement testing?
    • the joint, and
    • the joints above and below the affected joint
  40. hand placement for passive movement testing, be cautious around what 3 areas?
    • areas of tenderness
    • unstable bony segments (recent fractures, ORIF, etc)
    • osteoporosis
  41. strictly speaking, when you're doing inferior glide on the SC jt, what's the direction?
  42. how to do a SC sup glide
    • thumb on inf clavicle, index on sup, press up and med
    • other hand's thumb is medial to the first, on the joint line
    • yr standing beside the pt, pushing up
  43. how to do SC mobs w pt seated
    • pt's head resting against your arm & chest (else SCM will hold clavicle)
    • pt seated in a "semi-reclined" position
    • do thumb-on-thumb clavicular depression
    • AP & PA glides w someone else holding the head
  44. what monitors the movement in the SC glides?
    index finger
  45. angel btween scapular plane and clavicle?
    should be 90 degrees

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