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Fear over Gulf oil spill: What happens if they can't stop it?
WASHINGTON — With a quick solution ominously uncertain, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is on track to become an unprecedented economic and environmental disaster with millions of gallons of oil destroying an ecosystem as well as a way of life.
BP America said Monday that it would take another 75 days to finish one of two relief wells it's drilling to shut down the flow. By then, if the spill doesn't worsen and the relief well stops the leak, some 20 million gallons of oil will be swirling in the gulf, nearly double the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
Unlike the Alaska spill, which coated a rock-strewn bay, BP's oil will cling to a sponge-like coast, entering the pores of mangrove forests and sea-grass beds and the breeding grounds for crabs, shrimp and oysters.
Already some of the richest fishing grounds of the gulf are off-limits, idling thousands of commercial fishermen. Some restaurants in New Orleans and elsewhere are either out of homegrown oysters or are down to less than a week's supply.
In Mississippi, charter boats and hotels are reporting declines in business.
"It's going to be unbelievably bad," said Jeremy Jackson, a professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. "This is a problem that won't go away for a decade."
The prospects are unsettling for residents.
Ryan LaFontaine, a spokesman for the city of Gulfport, Miss., said gulf leaders were in almost constant contact with federal and BP officials, including a daily conference call with people at the White House. LaFontaine said these were just "daily updates," however. Besides putting out booms, which everyone agrees won't work in anything but the lightest chop in shallow water, LaFontaine said no one seemed to have much advice.
"The best protection right now, aside from booms and underwater fencing or everybody linking hands along the beach and trying to blow the oil back out, is to get this thing shut off," LaFontaine said. "Just stop it. That's the protection we need."
Further, whatever happens in the gulf could spread.
Scientists say they can't predict more than a few days in advance where the oil is heading. If it slips into the powerful Loop Current, it could spread toward South Florida, get picked up by the Gulf Stream and head up the East Coast before it turns at Cape Hatteras, N.C., toward the open sea.
That could prove disastrous for Florida's enormous tourism industry, with 80 million visitors drawn yearly to its pristine beaches.
A growing slick could cut into a commercial fishing industry that produced about 1.27 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2008 with a dockside value of more than $659 million, according to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council.
Beyond that, more than 3.2 million people fish for fun in the gulf each year.
Damage to the wetlands could cost society billions of dollars in lost natural filtration of water and protection of property from storm surges. The coastal areas also are important habitat for birds, shrimp and many other forms of life.
There's still hope that a new strategy will work. BP failed over the weekend to get a 78-ton cofferdam over the leaking pipe. This week it plans to try what's been called a "top hat," a smaller device treated with hot water and a solvent that would capture the oil so that it could be pumped to a barge. Another possibility is the "junk shot" _ using shredded tires, golf balls and knotted rope to clog the leak.
Meanwhile, thousands of workers kept up efforts to hold the spill back from land: spraying chemical dispersants, skimming, laying booms and burning oil on the surface.
Jackson, however, thinks it's highly likely the oil will hit, and that's something he saw up close once before. He was in charge of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama in 1986 when a tank ruptured at a refinery, dumping oil on the Caribbean coast.
"What we learned was never, ever let oil get into a mangrove coast. You'll never get it out. It's like a sponge you rub on a greasy bacon pan. You need very hot water and a lot of soap, and you still might just give up and throw away the sponge."
The gulf's coastal sea-grass beds and mangroves are full of burrowing animals that make millions of holes. Oil works its way out of the holes eventually and then storms flush it back into the water, creating what amounts to a new spill.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., an opponent of offshore drilling, said it would be his "worst nightmare" if the oil flowed for nearly three months more until the relief well was complete.
"It's going to cover up the Gulf Coast and the wind is eventually going to keep it going south and it's going to get into the Loop Current, and the Loop Current comes south and comes through the Florida Keys, where 85 percent of the live coral reefs in the country are," Nelson said.
"We're talking about massive economic loss to our tourism, our beaches, our fisheries, and very possibly the disruption of our country's military testing and training in the eastern gulf," he said.
Keith Overton, the chief operating officer of TradeWinds Island Resorts, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday that Florida's $57 billion tourism industry was its biggest employer, with 900,000 workers.
Overton said that the weak economy and unseasonably cold winter had made the industry fragile, and "I fear the affects of this oil spill will be devastating and similar to those Florida's tourism industry experienced after the multiple hurricanes of 2004."
The Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association was putting out the word that everything was still fine: Beaches are clean, charter fishing boats are running, seafood is safe. Likewise, the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board said that state and federal officials would monitor the waters and close contaminated areas, but that seafood in stores was from unaffected areas and was safe.
"What it will mean long-term is hard to say," because it's impossible to predict how the damage now to organisms such as blue crab larvae will affect future populations, said Nancy Rabalais, the executive director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
"Anything that's trying to live in that upper water column is being exposed to highly toxic contaminants," she said. Small creatures "would definitely be affected," including the shrimp, blue crab and fish larvae that are in the gulf now.
Another concern is the possibility that the spill will get much worse. If the wellhead gave way entirely, the amount of oil would increase greatly, said Larry McKinney, the executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi.
When storms blow up _ hurricane season begins June 1 _ the oil will be driven into the marshes and "then the problem will build up more and more, because you just can't stop it," McKinney said.
"We've never been in a wetland situation like this," he said. The 173-million-gallon Ixtoc spill in 1979, in the Mexican side of the gulf, hit sandy beaches in Texas, which recovered more quickly than wetlands can.
(Mark Washburn of The Charlotte Observer in New Orleans, Geoff Pender of the Sun Herald in Biloxi and Maria Recio in Washington contributed to this article.)
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The increasing fragility of the Earth's environment was highlighted yesterday and today by two annual global events, events in which Taiwanese have participated in growing numbers in recent years.
Yesterday was the 10th World Water Day, following the designation of March 22 by the UN General Assembly in 1993 as an international day to celebrate fresh water. Earth Hour, which takes place today, was initiated by the WWF seven years ago as a way to encourage public support for efforts to protect the environment by showing that simple changes in behavior can have a positive effect. Both days see events and activities aimed at raising awareness about what individuals, organizations, businesses and governments can do to help preserve this planet.
World Water Day took on extra importance this year because in 2010 the UN General Assembly, at the instigation of Tajikistan and several other countries, declared this year to be the UN International Year of Water Cooperation.
According to Greenpeace, only 2.5 percent of this planet's total water supply is fresh water. It is a resource for which demand is rapidly growing, but one that is under threat from growing urbanization, environmental pollution and climate change. Managing water demand requires finding ways for collaboration and cooperation among competing interests.
On a global scale, one of the eight Millennium Development Goals set in 2000 on health and poverty was halving the number of people with no access to fresh water by 2015. That goal remains a distant dream. The UN would like to set a new deadline of 2025 to reach the target, but some experts have said it could take until 2075. That is unacceptable.
In Taiwan, water management is a key issue this year as the nation battles a drought that has already seen three northern counties, Greater Kaohsiung and at least one district in New Taipei City (新北市) implement the first stage of water rationing this month, reducing water pressure by 10 percent to consumers between 11pm and 5am. Officials have warned that second-stage rationing could begin in some areas by the middle of next month.
The drought has been caused by a scarcity of rainfall in recent months and the shorter-than-usual typhoon season last year — the Water Resources Agency said Shihmen Reservoir (石門水庫) received only 10 percent of its average rainfall last month — but it is a scarcity that has become an increasingly common problem. Two years ago, the nation suffered its worst drought in nine years.
Every time there is a drought in this nation, government officials urge the public to implement conservation measures and encourage businesses to develop more water recycling technology. However, in between droughts there is often silence. For example, the Taipei City Government this week began free distribution of water-saving kits for household faucets and toilets, but why are these not available year-round and nationwide? Two years ago, the central government began talking about possibly raising water rates, but such talk faded with the rains that eventually eased the drought.
If a difference is to be made in preserving and protecting the environment, every day should be treated as a day to save water, not just when rainfall is scarce.
This is true for reducing wasteful usage of electricity as well. Lights will go off between 8:30pm and 9:30pm tonight at prominent locations around the nation as part of Earth Hour, including Taipei 101, but think of all the bright signs that light up cities every night and the appliances that are left plugged in when not in use. It will take more than an hour a year to make a dent in the amount of electricity wasted in this nation and others.

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Good work Chip! This is a really nice improvement.
There's an error though (looking at rev 3). The is_tax() conditional isn't true for category and tag archives as the diagram states. The "Taxonomy Archive" block should be removed, and the "Category Archive", "Tag Archive", and "Custom Taxonomy Archive" blocks should be moved up to the same level as "Date Archive", "Author Archive" and "Custom Post Type Archive".
Also the "Custom Post Type Archive" block can have "post-type-archive post-type-archive-$posttype" added for its body classes.
Nice work there! That looks far better than the 'running' chart I had on a word doc. That's going to be very helpful, I reference people to the old diagram very frequently… with much further explanation. I'll definitely appreciate the update!
Great enhancements Chip!
How would Post Formats be accounted for in the revised hierarchy?
I'm increasingly using get_template_part and finding it's a really smart way of loading different post format templates with minimal code (e.g. )
Does get_template_part belong in your hierarchy at all?
Thanks chip for taking time to draw these images. This is really useful for beginners and me 🙂
thank you for this.
btw, is it necessary to put another template file in there?
like header.php footer, sidebar, etc,
with get template part or something..?
I guess for comments template, you can add is_comments_popup(). Thanks for the work 🙂
Hm. And I think paged.php is triggered before archive.php? Would wonder if the fallback really is the paged.php file and doesn't override archive.php.
First: You can delete my comments as the will (maybe) target "old" revisions. Two things: Below is_attachment() you got one arrow that's leading to nothing. And for CPTarchive it's missing the arrow.
I updated Codex to link to this page too – in case you want to blame someone for re-routing codex traffic 🙂
Kaiser, thanks for updating the Codex. I've been working on templates and didn't recall seeing a link to Chip's work here… so I had to check it out immediately.
Thanks, Chip. I know how much work goes into these types of diagrams, people who haven't done it rarely realize that.
As it turns out, I'm working on a theme which implements every permutation of template listed in the Codex diagram. This is just for learning and "proof testing" for anyone digging around in the template system. It's not a "public" theme in the sense that it will be submitted to the WordPress theme repository. Rather it's open sourced on Github. I'll definitely be using your diagram here for more in-depth reference.
The synchronicity on this material is awesome… once something decides it needs doing, many people come to the same conclusion, independently!
Nicely done, This one'll be printed and sitting up next to my desk. Cheers!
Hi Chip!
Thanks for your effort, it is really useful for template makers! Don't you think that wordpress template hierarchy y too complex and has nosense checks in it?
For example: paged templates is useless if it is called after archive template.
And attachements templates go from the more general to the more specific one ¿??
I think WP should review it template selection system, and I'm thinking about creating a theme with a more comprehensible hierarchy.
Is there a reason this doesn't just take the place of the image on the codex?
Should have led that with:
Great Job! This is a GREAT way for people to better understand what's happening behind the scenes.
Hi Chip,
Great job on the new template hierarchy.
I would like to make modifications to it but your license says No Derivative Works. Could you modify it to support Derivatives? I basically want to make it nicer(different fonts and boxes) and make it fit into a landscape A4 or Letter size page so it's easier to print 🙂
I like the way it's looking now, just that I also like pushing pixels now and then and this looks fun. I never designed a diagram before 🙂
Sorry to be contrarian, but I don't agree this is a clearer diagram than the old one on the codex. It probably would be if I could read it, but it's far too small for all the print to be legible.
Also a legend to explain what the different colours mean would help.
Personally I'd rather have a simpler diagram with perhaps a link to something more detailed, like this, assuming it can be made large enough to read all the text.
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thanks ! it's great construct, make a theme for wordpress is so easy !
Thanks for your contribution! One thing that this chart doesn't seem to answer is how multiple conditional tags triggered. For example, is_singular() and is_front_page() seem to be mutually exclusive, but they're not, as I have a page that returns both as true. Any direction on this would be helpful. (Are is_front_page() and is_home() just two special cases?)
This is awesome. I set it as the background on my second screen. Is there anyway you can email me the svg or post it somewhere? I'd like to better format it for 22inch widescreen.


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Miley Cyrus is heading to "Sex and The City 2," Access Hollywood has learned.
The teen pop sensation, 16, will film a cameo in the second big screen installment of the HBO series, a source close to Miley told Access.
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Gossip Cop reported on Friday that Miley will appear in a scene with Kim Cattrall's character, Samantha Jones.
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual to shrubs, generally aromatic
Leaves entire to ± lobed, glabrous to densely hairy; hairs glandular (resin-filled) or T-shaped, hollow
Inflorescence: generally panicle; heads generally discoid or disciform, in racemes or panicles; involucre ovoid to hemispheric, generally concealing flowers; phyllaries in several series, margins scarious; receptacle conic, generally naked
Pistillate flowers 0many; corollas generally < 2 mm
Disk flowers 4many, generally forming fruits, sometimes staminate; corollas < 2 mm, pale yellow; anther tips acute to awl-shaped; style branches flat, fringed or blunt (sometimes simple, tack-shaped in staminate flowers)
Fruit < 2 mm, obovoid or fusiform, ribbed or smooth, glabrous, hairy, or resinous; pappus generally 0 or minute crown
Species in genus: ± 300 species: especially n hemisphere
Etymology: (Greek: Artemis, goddess of the hunt, and noted herbalist, Queen of Anatolia)
Reference: [Keck 1946 Proc Calif Acad Sci (4)25:421468; Shultz 1983 PhD thesis Claremont Graduate School]
Biennial or perennial herb 14 dm, mounded, light green, unscented
Stems erect, ± silky, reddish
Leaves mostly basal, 27 cm, 23 cm wide, 23-pinnately divided into linear lobes, ± glabrous to densely silky; cauline widely spaced, 35 cm, entire to pinnately lobed
Inflorescence spike-like, < 17 cm, 23 cm wide; heads < 5 mm diam, generally erect; phyllaries ovate to widely elliptic, glabrous to loosely tomentose, margins widely scarious, midrib prominent
Pistillate flowers 1025
Disk flowers 1530, staminate
Fruit < or = 1 mm, glabrous
Chromosomes: 2n=18, 36
Ecology: Meadows
Elevation: ± 2200 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges
Distribution outside California: to Alaska, Canada, n Eurasia
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DescriptionThe Count of Monte Cristo was eventually consumed entirely by his drive for revenge. Count Cristo, on the other hand, is merely the victim of a Voodoo curse an enemy hexed him with... an external plague more possible to reverse. Starting the game standing over his coffin, you wander the length and breadth of his castle in pursuit of a recipe and the verbal and material components needed to cast an antidote to counter his occult menace. It contains good-luck charms, the sorts of mad scientist chemical concoctions that might well yield a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation, a flighty medium and her crystal ball, and no small quantity of juju, useful for all sorts of voodoo applications. All that and a chimneysweep trapped in the flue! The player will navigate all these and more with the trademark Adventure International VERB NOUN two-word text parser.
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The study found that although trust in financial institutions and advisors is on the rise, a growing number of investors appear willing to leave their current financial advisors and move their assets elsewhere.
The second edition of the Northstar/Sullivan Rebuilding Investor Trust study sampled 1,290 individual U.S. investors with investable assets of at least $100,000; 15% of those polled had investable assets exceeding $1 million.
The comprehensive market research study was conducted to help financial services companies better understand the mindset of today's affluent investors, Barbara Sullivan, managing partner of Sullivan, said in a telephone interview with AdvisorOne. Four risk-tolerance themes emerged from the study, she said, one of them a surprise.
Investors are becoming less conservative, but have a long way to go to reach prerecession levels. Whereas 22% of people in 2008 perceived themselves as somewhat or very conservative, in 2009 when the first study was conducted, it jumped to 54%. It then fell back to 41% in the most recent study.
Investors become more conservative as they grow older. Among four age groups surveyed, the youngest people were the least conservative and the oldest people the most. Specifically: 26% aged 25 to 45 viewed themselves as somewhat or very conservative up to 52% of people aged 65 and older.
Women are more conservative than men. Fifty percent of women saw themselves as somewhat or very conservative, versus 34% of men.
And in something of a surprise, according to Sullivan,attitude toward risk varies with marital status. Divorced and widowed people were more conservative than single or married (or partnered) people. This was true for both men and women. Sullivan said there probably was some age overlay in this finding, but the study turned up insufficient data to break out the age differences.
The survey findings affect investments in two major ways, Sullivan said.
One is unexpected. "Although people are becoming less conservative, they have buckets of money in cash, and most surprising, those with the most money in cash are the youngest people," she said. Forty-four percent of those surveyed aged 25 to 45 have at least half their assets in cash, compared with only 25% for people aged 65 and older who have half or more of their assets in cash.
Sullivan said this was surprising because one would expect younger people who are less risk averse to have more money in noncash assets, yet they have the most money in cash. Her analysis: "We know that the people who don't have an investor relationship are much more apt to have more money in cash. Twenty percent of
people who don't have an advisor relationship have three-quarters or more of their entire portfolio in cash. That's an incredible amount of money."
In comparison, only 7% of people with an advisor have three-quarters or more of their money in cash. There are gender differences as well. Thirty-eight percent of women have half or more of their portfolios in cash, compared with 25% of men.
The second effect on investments was less surprising, Sullivan said. "Retirement remains the number one concern." Only one-fifth of those polled said they were very confident about meeting their financial and retirement goals. Among those with less confidence, 84% said they were uncertain about where things are going, and 90% were concerned about being able to retire comfortably.
"The top things they're looking for are a big-picture financial plan and an estate plan," Sullivan said. "Of all products and services, those are the two that have the greatest demand among people who haven't retired."
Investor loyalty at risk
The survey found that firms are at greatest risk of losing investors who are least impressed with their service: women, younger investors and those with assets in the $250,000 to $500,000 range.
Sullivan said that of people considering moving their assets away from a current advisor in the next year, 40% work with a bank advisor, and only 20% work with an investment advisor/firm advisor. She said satisfaction is least strong among regional and national banks, where service tends to be less personalized.
"People want to feel their investor is there for them," she noted. "Regular contact does seem to mitigate the desire to move assets. Forty-two percent of investors with a once-a-year advisor contact might move assets in the next year, versus 22% to 36% of those with more frequent contact. And it gets even worse, depending on the performance of their portfolio."
Sullivan said the study is "actionable" for financial advisory firms, and laid out five main conclusions:
- The role of the advisor is becoming even more important as people become less worried and angry, less conservative. This is influencing portfolio selection and asset allocation.
- It is important for advisors to think about and have dialogue around a comprehensive financial plan and potentially an estate plan if they are a full-service firm—not just talk about immediate asset allocation, but the future.
- With investors' concern about retirement in mind, advisors should emphasize the long-term nature of the relationship.
- An opportunity exists to focus on the underserved population, primarily younger people who don't have an advisor relationship and aren't making good decisions.
- Honest, straightforward and transparent communications are of utmost importance.


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Military events and parades mark this public holiday that commemorates the start of the 1821 uprising against Turkish rule.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Four different players finished in double-figures, led by junior Mitchell Kates (Colts Neck, N.J.) with 22 points, as tenth-ranked MIT defeated visiting Suffolk Universtiy, 81-59, in non-conference men's basketball action on Saturday afternoon in Rockwell Cage. Junior Will Tashman (Atherton, Calif.) had his third straight double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds to help the Engineers improve to a perfect 5-0 to start the season.
Junior Chris Torres (Brockton, Mass.) led all players with 23 points for the Rams (2-3) on 11-of-16 shooting. Junior Matt Pepdjonovic (Quicy, Mass.) was also in double-figures with 14 points while Jevic Muteba (Revere, Mass.) had a team-high seven boards.
The Cardinal and Gray jumped out to an early nine-point lead with less than five minutes gone by, as a Tashman put-back made it 13-4 Tech. Suffolk would battle back, thanks in large part to Torres, who canned a three-pointer to bring the Rams back within one at 20-19 with just under 10 minutes remaining in the half.
But the Engineers would score six straight points over the next 2:16 to extend the advantage to seven. A late trifecta by senior Jamie Karraker (Morgantown, W. Va.) and a layup from freshman Dennis Levene (Weston, Conn.) would put the hosts on top by 11 at the intermission.
After trading baskets to start the second half, Tashman had a key stretch where he converted a traditional three-point play and found Karraker for a layup to give Tech its largest lead of the afternoon at 58-40. The Engineers led by as many as 24 during the second half en route to the 22-point win.
Kates was extremely efficient, making seven-of-nine shots from the field and was a perfect eight-for-eight from the line. Karraker had 16 points to go along with six assists.
The Engineers took advantage of 22 Suffolk turnovers, converting their opponent's miscues into 23 points. MIT also enjoyed a 34-28 edge on the glass, scoring 20 second-chance points.
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Every so often, I try to update you with the details of my life, beneath the writing, and the subtext behind poems. I don't think I've done this since the end of February, so I'd like to share a bit about my life lately.
One of the biggest areas in life I'm working on is my health. Those of you who have been with me a while know I suffer from a mood disorder (depression) and from that depression, excessive amounts of fatigue.
Psychiatric drugs are evil little pills. I started with Invega which stopped an initial psychosis (which has never occurred again) but also made me 'flat;' caused a great deal of pain in muscles of my back, shoulders, and neck; as well as resulted in a weight gain over ten pounds. After switching to risperidone, I gained another ten pounds and using a medication to help me sleep called Gabapentin, added twelve pounds or more. The antipsychotic I'm on now works a great deal better for me then any of the ones I was on before, but as usual, I gained another ten pounds.
Experiencing fatigue most of the time makes it difficult to exercise and do cardio. I have been feeling well enough to walk for twenty to thirty minutes three or four times a week. And on off days, I have been trying to do yoga for twenty minutes.
My big change lately has been a diet and supplement overhaul. I use supplements from a
system called the 'redbox.' It is a system of health focused not only on losing weight but living a healthy lifestyle. Different supplements in the system have helped many people lose weight; stop feeling chronic pain such as fibromyalgia or arthritis; given people a ton more energy; and aided people in maintaining a fitness level at the gym or otherwise.
Using the supplements you start with an Eight Day Ignite, a detox in which your body gets rid of bad toxins and resets your metabolism so you can lose weight and function better. In my first Eight Days, I lost 5 lbs and 8.5 inches. I was pleased with my initial result, especially losing inches in my hips, waist, and thighs. Many women lose much more then I lost initially. I'm continuing on the ignite plan for the rest of the month (the detox part is finished) and I'm hoping to be able to lose 9 lbs by the end of this month, to reach my first weight and health goal. After, I will continue on some of the supplements on the weight loss plan.
A meal plan is provided, and the plan includes eating well in small meals throughout the day focusing on eating protein and green vegetables. One day I get to eat carbohydrates such as fruit, rice, whole grain bread (etc.) and on Sunday I can eat what I like, it's a cheat day. The plan also includes exercise of about thirty minutes a day and using some of the supplements. Many people have had great results on these products. So I'm excited to see where they can take me, especially since losing weight without significant cardio has been a challenge.
Besides my health, I have been up to many other things. I have been working a lot on developing short stories and other pieces for submission. I was excited to submit one of my first short stories developed off a Flash Fiction piece I wrote in the past. And I'm looking also at submitting some pieces of poetry in the future. I keep discovering new ideas and new topics that I would like to write short stories to submit. It's a bit of a challenge as many of you probably know because each place you submit to has different submission guidelines and wants stories of specific length. Short story for instance, vary widely from 800 words to as many as 40, 000 in some of the places I've been looking at.
Work on my novel continues, albeit, at a slower pace then I have been doing. Working on
the novel and working on pieces in-between, often results in the novel being left for a week or two. I do plan to write up a couple of chapters this week if possible. The book is at an exciting part so I have to move onward. I thought initially, I was writing long chapters and would have plenty of length for a full book. But PJ asked me if I was doing a novella or novel, and I thought about it a bit and I think I might have to add some parts into the novel, or weave in a second storyline. I will see where I am at the end of the first draft which is rapidly coming to a close. I'm thankful to have a blogger friend Martin, offering to go through and help edit my book once I have all the chapters together on word, and I will do the same for his book. Then, I suppose I will be doing a whole bunch of rewriting.
My blogging schedule has been hectic. Since I'm not in a course so I can write, I don't mind it at all. Although, sometimes commenting and writing takes a great amount of time. So you know, my blogging schedule is as follows: Sunday – Sunday Photo Fiction with Alistair Forbes, Monday – Moral Monday's with Nortina S from Lovely Curses and La Duchesse D'erats Lists, Tuesday – Flash Fiction for the Aspiring Writer with Priceless Joy, Wednesday – Literary Lion with Laura from I Smith Words ( every second week) and 3LineTales with Sonya from Only 100 Words, Thursday – Echoes of My Neighbourhood with Jacqueline from A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales, Friday – Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner with Roger Shipp at It's All In Finding The Right Words, Saturday – Free Day.
In-between this all I'm still working through different forms of poetry, doing the one word prompts provided by The Daily Post , as well as my novel. I will not be doing The Daily Post prompts in April due to National Poetry Writing Month. But, you will still find I do the odd beauty post and other topics that come to my mind.
I'm not sure how completing the POPSUGAR booklist will end up. I read here and there but have only been able to get through two or three books lately. I know when spring finally arrives (in appearance), and I can see the flowers and not see it snowing outside, I will be in much more of a reading mood.
In addition to writing and health, I'm going to movies, catching up on my favourite shows such as Scandal (my favourite right now), watching movies on Netflix, seeing friends whenever I can, doing a bit of dating, and fitting everything else in when I can. Hope all is going well for you.
I know there is an A to Z challenge going on with some bloggers in April but I also wanted to bring up another fantastic challenge I'm doing in April. April is National Poetry Writing Month or NaPoWriMo. It is similar to Blogging 201 Poetry except for you're writing a poem with a prompt provided on the website, everyday for the month of April. You can check it out and add your blog to the list of bloggers participating here if you want to join me for the challenge.
Thanks for reading!
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Uta von Schwedler, 49, was found dead in the bathroom of her Salt Lake City home on Sept. 27, 2011. She was a research scientist and mother of four children.
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Uta loved the outdoors and was very active. Hiking, biking, skiing and camping were some of her favorite activities.
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The Medical Examiner's Office reported the cause of death to be drowning, but the manner of Uta von Schwedler's death "could not be determined."
Pelle Wall, Uta's eldest son, believes he knows who is responsible for his mother Uta's death: his father, Johnny Wall.
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Johnny Wall and Uta von Schwedler were married for almost 16 years before divorcing in 2006. Uta's affair with another man contributed to ending the marriage.Wall, a well-liked and well-respected pediatrician in Salt Lake City, got primary custody of the couple's four children. This photo is of the couple in happier times in 1992.
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On the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, Uta's boyfriend, Nils Abramson, went to her home expecting a quiet evening together. Instead, Abramson discovered his girlfriend dead in her own bathtub. He immediately called 911.
Johnny Wall and Uta von Schwedler in 1990.The night Uta's body was discovered in Sept. 2011, police picked up her ex-husband, Johnny Wall, for questioning. Wendy Wall, Johnny's sister and Pelle's aunt, says that Johnny was awakened in the middle of the night by police and questioned for four hours before he was released.
Wendy Wall says nothing made her brother happier than being a father and that he wanted the mother of his children involved in their kids' lives. Here, Johnny Wall, baby Liam, and Pelle are seen camping in 2000.
Wendy Wall, shown with Johnny and his son, Liam, in 1999, believes her brother is innocent and that her nephew, Pelle, is swept up in a misguided crusade started by others.
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While Syracuse guard Michael Carter-Williams played in the NCAA Tournament on Saturday night in San Jose, Calif., his family home was destroyed by fire across the country in the Boston area.
According to WCVB in Boston, the home belongs to Carter-Williams' mother, Mandy Carter-Zegarowski. She was in San Jose to attend the game, but the rest of her family was inside the Hamilton, Mass., house watching the game on television when the fire started around 10:30 p.m. ET.
No one was injured. The cause of the fire, believed to be a wood stove outside the home, remains under investigation.
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Eddie Murphy's model daughter Bria has revealed some of her peers are so desperate to lose weight they eat nothing but orange juice-soaked cotton balls.
The stunning 23-year-old, whose mother is Murphy's ex-wife Nicole Murphy, insists she's one of the healthier glamour girls simply because she refuses to starve herself for a job.
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Laid-back summer for reform's foes
Anti-immigration forces were so effective in 2007 that on the eve of a critical Senate vote they mobilized thousands of angry callers and shut down the Capitol switchboard — effectively killing the bill.
But this time around members of Congress are under much less pressure from the opposition, even as the pro-reform movement has kicked into high gear in the final weeks of the August recess before lawmakers return to the immigration debate in Washington.
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Anti-immigration groups aren't drawing large, loud crowds to their rallies — only about 60 people showed up to hear headliner Rep. Steve King in Richmond, Va., last week. And the tea party groups famous for turning out supporters and firing up town halls ahead of the 2010 midterm elections are much more focused on Obamacare than immigration.
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The anti-reformers say opposition is still alive and well. It's just that conservatives feel little need to show their force, since they believe the GOP-controlled House would never accept the immigration bill passed by the Senate this spring.
And while many observers agree prospects for a big bill look unlikely in the House, momentum has been picking up in corners of the Republican Party. If pro-immigration forces can harness the softening Republican line, they just might breathe new life into their cause — leaving anti-reformers regretting not spending August on offense.
"The people on our side, right now, they aren't all that terrified," Roy Beck of the anti-immigration reform group NumbersUSA said. "The day after the Senate bill passed, the storyline in the media was this thing is dead on arrival at the House. For six weeks almost all the media stuff they've been seeing is they are not going to let the Senate bill come forward. It's very inside baseball about what Cantor and Boehner are up to. It's not an in-your-face kind of threat for most people."
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But while the anti-immigration forces have lain low this summer, a number of conservatives have begun to change their line on the issue.
GOP Reps. Daniel Webster of Florida and Aaron Schock of Illinois said this month they support an eventual pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. California Republicans like Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy are showing signs of support for at least some legal status for immigrants. And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is back making the case for an overhaul on conservative talk radio, which anti-reformers dominated for years.
So far, the megaphone over how to overhaul the country's immigration laws this month has been pretty much one-sided, with pro-reformers organizing hundreds of rallies, putting operatives on the ground and making sure lawmakers are hearing from local leaders who support the effort.
Outside groups worried that anti-immigration reform activists would make a big push to persuade House Republicans to remain steadfastly opposed to an overhaul to the country's immigration laws say their fears haven't been borne out.
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"We've got over 400 events taking place in August — we thought we would at least have some competition," said Frank Sharry of the pro-reform group America's Voice. "So far, we haven't seen it."
Numbers USA and the Federation for American Immigration Reform argue that the small Virginia rally isn't reflective of the size or intensity of their movement.
"Rallies and demonstrations have never really been the cornerstone of the lobbying effort on our side," said FAIR's Ira Mehlman. "It's more constituent pressure through the normal channels — phone calls, emails, those sort of things. … The street demonstrations are more the hallmark for people pushing amnesty than the people on our side."
And the opposition hasn't been entirely silent.


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wooot wooot! a blast from the past.. =) ID4 comes to life again ! wahaha! see you guys @ Megamall WorldsOfFun again. it was fun !hahaha!
BUZZ: WOLF , TOFU , KHEL , HABOL etc...
anybody else wanna play? =)
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Posted: Dec 13 2012, 02:35 AM
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Finally!! had the time to register.. is there somebody who will play id4 this saturday?
right Migz!! REUNION RUN!?!
@ Wolf- yeah! just a few players we had for id4. I think its not just about the id6aa but much of the cab which is really old.. WOF in megamall should do proper maintenance I may say. So that, id4 players should start playing regularly again..
I had noticed that the brake is late of about Milli sec. the seat is loose, The gas pedal not responding sometimes. the steering is somewhat annoying also..
I went to SM Valenzuela earlier today noticed that there are people who still plays id4 ( of course as if they have a choice? that's the only racing game they have aside from battle gear2. ) Noticed same problems as what they have in megamall. ( I think those in SM Valenzuela is better. )
I am wondering if WOF will have the id6 or id7 ( I think id7 will be available next year? ) I want to play those version if they have it in WOF!! ( cost efficient!!! HAHA!! )
do we have players here from sta mesa manila??
anyone from nrs team?? thanks!!
Posted: Dec 13 2012, 08:36 PM
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haha! finally registered huh? =) noticed you posted @ 2am ? wahahaha!
i was thinking of going to megamall tomorrow to shop for xmas gifts, might as well play ID4 =) just text me what time you guys are going to wof =)
Posted: Dec 14 2012, 06:24 PM
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Battled N-R-S yesterday in megamall.. i dunno if his the one in TA.. arguing in the technician about the gas pedal.. and the steering wheel.. ahaha
i loosed in irohazaka reversed
but i won in Tsukuba and akina
he used Trueno(Ae86) (ID4card)
his a weird guy!
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Reducing CO2 emissions benefit of energy policy. An op-ed in the Bangor Daily News by Dave Edson and Steve Kahl
Recent reports that carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. have fallen by 10 percent — to about 1992 levels — is good news. But the really great news is that this decline is caused by a more energy-efficient economy and increasing use of alternative fuels, including the astonishing drop in the percentage of our electricity generated by coal, from 50 percent to 34 percent in just five years. Replacing coal with natural gas has decreased carbon emissions, reduced acid rain, improved air quality and human health and decreased the cost of electricity.
As The Associated Press reported, the rapid decrease in carbon dioxide was unexpected, pointing out a shortcoming of regulating carbon dioxide. Regulation of carbon dioxide isn't effective because average residents can't relate to reducing the emissions in their day-to-day lives. Instead, a proactive energy policy can phase in sustainable energy sources, which reduce carbon dioxide without actually focusing directly on it.
The U.S. has needed to develop an energy plan since the first oil embargo in 1973, yet it hasn't done so. How can the country improve energy economy, while reducing carbon-dioxide emissions? The answers are already available. With some tweaks to public policy to create incentives, we can change the prevalent cultural norms.
Within 10 years, everyone should expect to heat their home for no more than a few hundred dollars a year. Within 10 years, most families should own at least one electric car that operates at a fraction of the cost per kilowatt compared to the price of gasoline. Why do people consider pre-buying their heating oil to save money, but virtually no one considers pre-buying electricity using solar power? We need a new cultural norm.
Here are some specific steps for Maine:
1. Reduce upfront costs for energy projects. Property Assessed Clean Energy loans allow property owners to fold the cost of energy improvements into their property taxes. Alternatively, the costs can be incorporated into a mortgage. Either way, these financing methods pay for themselves by reducing energy costs immediately. If a PACE home is sold, the new owner takes over the payments, while saving energy costs immediately. One hundred and fifty Maine municipalities have passed ordinances authorizing PACE loans. If yours hasn't, ask it to.
2. Encourage Power Purchase Agreements in which an energy company pays the upfront costs of an alternative energy system and then sells the power back at a reduced rate. This financing mechanism works best for public buildings, such as schools and municipal buildings. Imagine reducing the energy bills for your town's schools by 10, 25 or even 50 percent with no upfront costs.
3. Raise the cap on privately-generated electricity from solar or wind and require utilities to carry net-metered credits forward indefinitely. Better yet, if utilities pay homeowners for producing more power than they consume, micro-generation will flourish and everyone will want solar panels. These minor tweaks to current policy would remove significant disincentives for generating renewable power in Maine and lessen the pressure on the electric grid.
4. Develop incentives for conversion from oil heat. Maine's reliance on heating oil is a major economic drag and potentially economically catastrophic in the event of an oil shock. Geothermal and air-source heat pumps can heat homes cost-effectively with locally produced electricity. (Maine is already a net electricity exporter and can produce more from sources including solar, biomass, tidal and offshore wind).
Bangor Hydro Electric and Central Maine Power already have incentives for efficient electric heating devices that can reduce heating oil use by 60 percent to 90 percent. Look to Efficiency Maine for other incentives for your home or business. We can keep our energy dollars here in Maine and make our state the most economically competitive state in the region.
Dave Edson is president and CEO of Sewall Co. in Old Town. Steve Kahl is director of environmental sciences for Sewall and a former environmental research director in both the University of Maine and University of New Hampshire systems.


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Ozzie Guillen accused White Sox players of quitting,
and he meant even before Wednesday's regularly scheduled choke against Detroit.
Quitting is a serious charge, maybe the worst thing you can say about a player, other than "He'd be a perfect Cub.''
Quitting. Man, where do kids learn such things?
Perhaps Sox players learned it from their manager who spouted off two weeks ago that he'll likely quit on next year's contract unless he gets an extension.
You want players to follow their manager's lead, but do the Sox want that type of leader --- the kind who is with you win or extension?
Or maybe it's just extension. Or maybe it's just fighting for the front seat on the Career Suicide Rollercoaster.
Because it's hard to figure out who Guillen is trying to get fired.
Everytime he says something critical, it sounds cryptic. There's the actual statement, and then there's the subtext. For a verbose, loquacious, honest and available guy, Guillen certainly prompts a lot of reading between the lines, like it's a game show. Certainly, it's a more enjoyable show than Sox baseball, so let's play the feud.
Running down the suspects whom Guillen might be trying to get fired, we need to start with himself.
Guillen has spent most of the season talking about not coming back, although that hardly seems like a threat when his team couldn't play in April, still can't play at home, and chokes the big series on a regular basis.
There's always the thought that Guillen craves the Marlins job, and really, who wouldn't crave the chance to work for a bad owner in a bad baseball town?
Or maybe the interpretations give Guillen too much credit for scheming. I'm not a psychologist, I just play one on the Internet, and it sounds like Guillen requires constant approval and money. Like they are two of his four major food groups.
OK, so if Guillen is just needy, then is he trying to get his players fired?
After Wednesday's choke against Detroit,
He was disgusted, and had a right to be. Bad baseball is one thing. Heartless is unacceptable.
Guillen wasn't saying it was all of his players. Not Mark Buehrle or Paul Konerko or Juan Pierre --- lord knows, never the great Juan Pierre. But some of them. He wouldn't name names, which is surprising for a guy who prides himself on honesty. If Guillen believes what he said, then finger the guilty. If Guillen was frustrated and embarrassed simply by bad baseball, then he damned even the legit players, which leads to questioning his motives, which leads to the next suspect: his general manager?
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That has been a recurring theme, but sorry, I can't see Ken Williams getting whacked, no matter how much Guillen might want to win the battle of the favorite child of Chairman Reinsdorf.
When you think about all the overpaid, underachieving players and apparent lack of flexibility, Guillen's wish might actually be Williams' Get Out of Jail Free card.
Given Guillen's sometimes screwy logic, maybe he wants Williams gone not only so he can win the favorite kid contest that he has dreamed up, but also wants to win with Williams' disasters but without Williams in order to cement his legacy in the Nyah-Nyah-Nyah Hall of Fame.
Those are the likely targets, seeing as how Guillen can't fire the Chairman and won't sacrifice his coaches. I don't know how this turns out, but I do know this Guillen schemin' stuff can wear out a fan base, even a fan base as shrunken as the Sox's. I sure hope somebody gets fired soon, if only because I can't find my Ozzie Guillen Secret Decoder Ring.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida grand jury has indicted a man on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a teenager following an argument over loud music coming from the teen's car.
The Florida Times-Union reports officials in the state attorney's office said Thursday they won't be seeking the death penalty against 46-year-old Michael David Dunn. He was initially charged with second-degree murder.
Dunn is accused of the Nov. 23 shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
Officials say Dunn parked next to the vehicle where Davis was sitting with three other teens. Dunn complained about the loud music and they stared arguing. Dunn told police he thought he saw a gun and fired eight or nine shots into the vehicle.
Grand jurors also added three counts of attempted murder.
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Once again, in his speech Wednesday at the United Nations, President Obama revealed the reduced importance of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict on his agenda. He also revealed just how out of touch his entire country is with respect to reality.
The Israel-Palestine conflict was the last specific global issue mentioned by Obama in his address to the UN General Assembly, and his wording was straight out of the playbook. It was also only mentioned briefly and without any hint that the United States would be taking any action at all on the issue. Read more at LobeLog.


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The award categories, honored projects and consulting engineering firms are:
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He ended up in basically the same place I did, though starting from a different perspective:
Anyone who has been through this annual exercise at the White House would recognize the tell-tale signs. The phrase "I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take," which came quite early in the speech in relation to energy and environmental policy, is the policy staffer's worst nightmare in a State of the Union address. It's your boss saying you failed. It means that after months of meetings and dozens of memos, the White House, OMB, and the relevant cabinet agencies couldn't even agree on executive actions to take, let alone on a proposal to include in the budget or to press for in Congress. I thought it was strange that Obama would put that declaration of failure so early in the speech. Why not raise your key 2014 budget proposals first—that's generally what the State of the Union is for—and then do cleanup on the issues that some constituencies want to hear about but that you weren't able to pull off? If you look at State of the Union addresses from the past few decades, that's usually how they work.
As the speech went on, though, the reason became clear: There were no 2014 budget proposals. The president didn't even mention his forthcoming budget—again, that's usually a big part of what this speech is for. And he didn't make any significant proposal for reforming any government program, for launching any new one, ending any old one, or doing much of anything in particular that he hasn't been pushing unsuccessfully for years. It was like an eighth-year State of the Union address, not a fifth-year one.
You have to try to cover up such things, of course, especially if you're a Democrat, and so the president did speak of all manner of obnoxious federal micromanagement initiatives with fancy names—manufacturing hubs, a "partnership to rebuild America," a challenge to "redesign America's schools," an "Energy Security Trust," and so on. But you know what these things are? They're nothing. They're the headings that the wonks in a Democratic White House put at the top of otherwise blank memos at the beginning of a process that, months later, is supposed to end up with a budget and a State of the Union address. And here they were at the end of that process with barely more meat on their bones than when they started. Some of these proposals might "happen" and some of them will not, but there won't be any difference between the two.


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White Line Disease in the Hoof
Look up "white line disease" in your equine veterinary book, and you might not find it. This name for the condition was first coined in 1990, and the disorder is also known as seedy toe, hoof or stall rot, hollow foot, yeast infection, Candida, wall thrush, and (incorrectly) onychomycosis. But when white line disease came to be recognized as a unique condition what it's called is of no consequence if a serious case of the disease puts your horse out of commission. In its worst stages, white line disease can leave a horse with little hoof wall and can cause permanent loss of athletic ability.
Opportunistic Invasion
Simply stated, white line disease refers to hoof wall separation within the hoof's non-pigmented layer. Explains Tracy A. Turner, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, professor of Large Animal Surgery at the University of Minnesota, "White line disease is characterized by progressive hoof wall separation that occurs in the non-pigmented horn at the junction between the stratum medium (middle layer of the hoof capsule) and laminar horn. The separation is usually progressive and typically involves most of the toe and quarters. The name is a misnomer, as the white line is not actually involved, but rather the deepest layer of the non-pigmented stratum medium."
The cause of white line disease is unknown, but it's thought to be a multifactorial condition linked to an invasion into the area by infectious organisms such as bacteria and/or fungi. Stephen O'Grady, DVM, MRCVS, of Northern Virginia Equine in The Plains, Va., says these organisms might be secondary opportunists that invade the area after some sort of hoof wall trauma.
"One researcher hypothesizes that bleeding from laminar tearing—which can be caused by bruising, a long toe, etc.—may set up a very, very good medium for bacteria to grow in," he says. "In other words, white line disease may occur from the inside and work its way out. This theory makes sense to me, as opportunistic bacteria and fungi live within the foot."
Other causes that have been linked to the disease include environmental conditions, mechanics, and nutrition.
"Most commonly, white line disease is seen in times of moisture changes," Turner states. "Moisture—or lack of it—causes weakening of the weakest part of the hoof wall. As the hoof is weakened, mechanical factors such as long toes, clubby feet, or any condition that increases the stresses on the toe or quarters can cause the wall to break apart or separate. The subsequent crevice that forms is perfect for bacteria or fungi that normally inhabit the ground to invade this area. The microorganisms further digest the keratin in the wall, which exacerbates the weakness. Poor nutrition or diets that do not have enough biotin or sulfur-containing amino acids may result in a weaker wall that is further predisposed to this condition."
O'Grady says the disease is very common, almost to epidemic proportions.
Clinical Signs
Indications of white line disease are numerous and varied. In mild cases, the horse might remain sound and show no discomfort; in severe forms, the horse will be lame with the hoof wall displaying massive undermining and separation. Says O'Grady, "White line disease offers no threat to the soundness of an animal until damage is sufficient to allow mechanical loss of the attachment between the laminae and the inner hoof wall, resulting in displacement of the coffin bone in a distal direction (rotation). Only then does the horse begin to show discomfort. In many mild cases, the horse isn't off at all and his owner is unaware the animal has the disease."
Early clinical signs include:
Small white or grey crumbly or powdery area along the hoof wall-sole junction;
Tender sole via hoof testing;
Heat in the foot;
Increasingly flat foot;
Formation of concavity along one side of the hoof and a bulge on the opposite side directly above the affected area at the coronary band.
As the disease worsens, hoof wall growth might slow and the hoof wall becomes weak, chipped, or shelly. A hollow sound might be heard when the outer hoof wall is tapped with a hammer, and lameness can develop. Wall separation between the hoof wall and sole at the white line becomes apparent.
The disease can occur in one or more feet and affect the toe, quarter, heel, or any combination thereof.
Often, white line disease is first discovered during routine hoof trimming. "The farrier or veterinarian can take a knife, explore around the white line or sole wall junction, and it will look absolutely normal," O'Grady says. "He takes a few more passes with the knife, and all of a sudden uncovers an unexpectedly separated area."
Closer examination of the solar surface of the hoof should confirm diagnosis. "Exploring the inner hoof wall that lies dorsal to the white line will generally reveal a separation filled with a white/grey powdery horn material," he says.
"Further exploration with a probe will give the depth and extent of the cavitation (formation of cavities). There might be a black serous drainage from the separation."
Lameness might not be present. "If lameness exists, a thorough lameness examination should be performed, including diagnostic nerve blocks and a complete radiographic examination of the hoof," Turner states. "Radiographs may allow visualization of the wall separation. This will be seen as an air density between the hoof wall and third phalanx. Pedal osteitis or third phalanx rotation may also be noted on some occasions."
Treatment consists of several steps geared toward providing support while the affected hoof area grows out. The entire undermined outer hoof wall is removed to expose the diseased area, and the affected areas of the horn are debrided until good horn attachment can be identified.
"Thorough exploration and debridement of any remaining tracts should take place at 10-day intervals," O'Grady says. "Some form of dye marker can be placed on the resected area to highlight the remaining tracts or fissures. When all tracts are removed, a thorough examination is indicated at re-shoeing intervals every four to five weeks. A wire brush is used daily to keep the resected area clean."
The most important treatment is to correct or eliminate the primary cause that led to the disease. "If you have a long toe or a club foot, treat the condition," O'Grady instructs. "If there's an old abscess, clean up the area. If there is chronic laminitis, give the horse the best foot conformation you can by shoeing."
Provide therapeutic shoeing to support the frog and weakened hoof wall. "If the defect is small, the hoof can be shod accordingly," says O'Grady. "If the toe is involved, fit the shoe so breakover is moved back under the toe toward the apex of the frog. This will remove pressure on the resected area of the toe. If the resection is extensive and/or if rotation of the third phalanx is present, a heart bar or egg bar-heart bar combination shoe can be used to provide support to the heel area.
"An alternative method would be to use a bar shoe or open shoe combined with some type of impression material, with or without a pad," he continues. "The impression material can be applied to the entire solar surface of the foot as long as it is molded thicker at the heels to provide the necessary support."
Turner notes that glue-on shoes of other alternatives should be used if nailing a shoe is too painful for the horse. "For major loss of hoof wall," he says, "large clips can be welded to the shoe and short screws used to attach the clip to the remaining hoof wall. Alternatively, fiberglass casting tape can be used to create an artificial wall so that a shoe may be applied."
Experts disagree on the effectiveness of topical medications. O'Grady says there was no difference in a group of 10 horses which he debrided and treated with topical medication versus a group of 10 which were just debrided. "The hooves in all of them grew out just fine," he says.
Turner observes that some experts report good results with topical medications such as povidone iodine solutions (undiluted or mixed with dimethyl sulfoxide), copper sulfate, Venice turpentine, and merthiolate. He notes, though, that phenol, formaldehyde, and strong tincture of iodine can damage sensitive tissues and lead to permanent hoof damage.
Both Turner and O'Grady warn against covering the resected area with acrylic. "Microorganisms can become trapped under the repair and continue to destroy the hoof wall," O'Grady states. "There is no medication in the acrylic that is effective for fungi or many of the causative bacteria."
However, the need to get into the show arena might cause an owner to ignore that advice, in which case Turner recommends covering the hoof wall with an antibiotic hoof acrylic. "I caution the horse owner that covering it could make it worse," he says. "To date, we have not seen this happen while utilizing the medicated Equilox under these conditions. The medication is an antimicrobial that is most effective against anaerobes (bacteria that proliferate in a non-oxygenated environment); I feel that it provides an environment that prohibits these microorganisms from proliferating."
As the hoof grows out, the affected area will continue to need debridement and treatment. "Maintain a shoeing schedule of four-week intervals," O'Grady recommends.
During this recovery period, the feet should be kept as dry as possible. Avoid turn-out in rain-soaked and dewy pastures, and keep bedding clean and dry. "A well-balanced diet with the addition of biotin and methionine can also be helpful," O'Grady adds.
Exercise during recovery is permitted, depending upon the severity of the damage.
Prognosis and Prevention
In most cases, prognosis for recovery to full soundness is excellent, although it may take up to 10 months for the undermined area to grow out, depending on the amount of hoof wall removed. The only reason that a horse might have a poor prognosis is if rotation is involved. Also, O'Grady notes that white line disease can return in some horses, even those with strong hoof walls and no signs of separation. Therefore, horses which have had white line disease need careful monitoring for future episodes.
Try to minimize risks by avoiding large moisture changes to the feet and turn-out in wet pastures. Keep the toe short to avoid stressing the hoof wall-sole junction. Maintain a proper trimming and shoeing schedule in order to preserve hoof integrity and to catch small problems before they become big problems.
Marcia King
Marcia King is an award-winning freelance writer based in Ohio who specializes in equine, canine, and feline veterinary topics. She's schooled in hunt seat, dressage, and Western pleasure.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — About a dozen senior campaign staffers for Rudy Giuliani are forgoing their January paychecks, aides said Friday, a sign of possible money trouble for the Republican presidential candidate.
"We have enough money, but we could always use more money," contended Mike DuHaime, Giuliani's campaign manager and one of those who now is working for free. "We want to make sure we have enough to win."
At the end of December, he said the campaign had $11.5 million cash on hand, $7 million of which can be used for the primary. He disputed the notion of a cash-strapped campaign, and said Giuliani continues to bring in cash; several fundraisers are scheduled this week in Florida.
DuHaime and other aides stressed that relinquishing pay was voluntary and was limited to senior staffers.
"I want to do everything I can to make sure Rudy's president, and I speak for a lot of the campaign when I say that," DuHaime said. "None of us joined this campaign for money."
Still, the move raises questions about whether Giuliani's bank account is as flush as he needs it to be to cobble together wins in enough states to secure the party nod.
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