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Climate Action: What Will it Take to Avert Disastrous Climate Change?
For nearly any major disaster—natural, economic, or military—there was a moment when tragedy could have been prevented.
In just the last decade, experts warned that a subprime mortgage bubble could lead to financial collapse and that a hurricane could devastate New Orleans. But our leaders failed to head off disaster, and the public knew little until it was too late.
Now we face the largest potential Katrina the world has ever seen, an imminent catastrophe we refer to blandly as "climate change." Neither your mayor, nor your senator, nor certainly, your president has declared a climate emergency. But in the time since you may have watched An Inconvenient Truth, global emissions have worsened, and the scientific predictions have become much more frightening.
The carbon dioxide that we have already put into the atmosphere makes it a near certainty that our oceans will become steadily more acidic, eventually destroying coral reefs and sea life. Glaciers will continue to melt year by year, eventually threatening the water supply of as much as 25 percent of the human population [1]. Sea levels are already rising, and will continue to rise for hundreds of years.
In many parts of the world, the climate emergency has already arrived. An estimated 26 million people have already been displaced by the increases in hurricanes, floods, desertification, and drought brought on by climate change [2]. In the North Atlantic, Category 5 hurricanes, the most destructive kind, occur three to four times more often than they did a decade ago [3].
While no single weather event can be tied directly to global warming, droughts, dust storms, and wildfires are becoming more common worldwide, and climate models predict that trend will accelerate. Southern California's worst wildfire in 30 years scorched 20,000 acres last spring [1]. And in September, Sydney, Australia, choked on its own version of the Dust Bowl: More than 5,000 tons of orange dirt swirled around the city during one of the region's worst droughts.
We're no longer talking about future generations; it's about us.
Why haven't our leaders responded? They have been relying on old, conservative estimates of global warming effects. The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections used baseline scenarios from the 1990s, when scientists and government leaders assumed that by now, popular and political support would have led us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions [4]. That means politicians and the people they represent have been looking at optimistic projections based on improvements that didn't happen.
In fact, global fossil-fuel and industrial carbon emissions have grown by 3.5 percent a year since 2000, faster than the worst-case scenario predicted by the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC [4]. Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are now at their highest levels in the last 15 million years, since before humans walked the earth [5].
U.N. senior official Luc Gnacadja recently told the press that by 2025, 70 percent of the world's land could be suffering from drought [6]. In the United States, a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists says that in just a couple of decades, average summers in the country's bread basket, Illinois, could be hotter than the 1988 heat wave that wiped out $40 billion worth of food crops [7]. In the next 12 years, there's a 50-50 chance that a combination of climate change and overuse will dry up Lakes Mead and Powell, say scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography [8]. Mead and Powell supply 90 percent of Las Vegas' water, along with irrigation and drinking water for more than 20 million people in Los Angeles and across Nevada and Arizona.
The vast majority of scientists agree that if we keep the Earth's temperature from rising 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels, we have a fighting chance of avoiding the most civilization-shaking impacts of climate change. The G8 leaders agreed to that target at their July meeting.
Shoot past this limit, and the planet's ecosystems may enter a point of no return. We push the Earth into vicious spirals of feedback loops that make things even hotter. Sea ice melts, and the dark, open ocean absorbs more heat. The Amazon rainforest burns and releases even more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Weather patterns like El Niño transform from occasional to annual hurricane-brewing phenomena [1]. Grain crops fail [4]. One to 3 billion people face water shortage. The basic systems that support us, our societies, and life on the planet start breaking apart.
We have the wherewithal
We have a choice to make. According to a consensus of hundreds of climate scientists, we can avert crashing the planet only if we make a sharp global U-turn by 2015: Level off emissions worldwide and bring them back down in the next few decades [4].
To do this, we must switch to much more efficient transportation, manufacturing, and buildings, and to solar, wind, tide, and biomass energy. Agriculture must make a rapid switch to organic and ecologically sound practices. The Worldwatch Institute estimates that livestock are responsible for more than half of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide. We have to stop destroying forests for cattle ranches, palm oil plantations, and paper pulp, so we can preserve their ability to soak up carbon.
We need the world's governments to form ambitious and binding agreements at Copenhagen and beyond. These agreements need to regulate and put a high price on emissions, and create incentives for a transition to a clean energy economy. The agreements must include help for the Global South in making the transition to a green economy.
We can afford to do this. The Economics of 350, recently released by the Economics for Equity and the Environment Network, says the cost of reducing CO2 to 350 parts per million—the amount necessary to avoid a 3.6-degree temperature rise—would be between 1 percent and 3 percent of world GDP. It will cost far less than the 3.3 percent of GDP spent globally on insurance or the 4 percent-plus of GDP the United States spends on its military. And it will do more than either of those to increase our security.
Investments in renewable energy, building retrofits, and efficient mass transit will put people to work and create whole new industries, kick-starting an economic recovery that immediately benefits ordinary people.
The low-carbon culture we need to prevent climate catastrophe is not a culture of deprivation. We can move away from consumption for consumption's sake, gaining time to enjoy our lives more fully, and creating a world where our children and grandchildren have the opportunity to thrive.
What's Holding Us Back?
Contrary to popular perception, the scientific community has reached a broad consensus that global warming is happening and that humans have caused it. So why has the United States been so slow to react to the warnings?
The misinformation sown by industry-funded climate deniers, the lack of national leadership, and the chronic failure of U.S. media to report the story leave many Americans confused about what to think.
Then there's the convenient excuse that those of us in developed nations should wait until those in the developing nations, particularly India and China, agree to act at the same speed. That argument ignores the fact that the vast majority of the CO2 currently in the atmosphere came from industrialized nations. U.S. carbon per capita emissions are more than four times China's and almost 18 times India's. There's a fundamental fairness to requiring wealthy nations to clean up the mess we created and to help the poorer ones avoid making the same mistakes. More to the point, the nations of the Global South will only be able to sign on to an agreement that allows them to secure food and an economic future for their citizens. If the deal isn't fair, it won't happen.
A Climate Justice Mobilization
How do we muster the political will to make the changes necessary?
The American people effectively mobilized in the buildup to World War II. When we faced a war emergency, we didn't take half measures: We converted automobile factories to tank factories and learned to recycle everything. The unemployed got jobs—even those previously excluded from the workforce, like women and people of color.
The war mobilization was the organizing principle of life, and many believe it not only got us out of the Great Depression, it also launched us into decades of sustained prosperity. Think about the sense of shared purpose that resulted from that mobilization, and you begin to see the potential.
Today, a 21st-century people's movement is building, motivated by the climate crisis coupled with the opportunity for a clean-energy future. Youth from rich countries are supporting climate justice for the poor. Scientists like James Hansen are risking arrest along with social justice advocates. Union officials are standing with greens.
Like other social movements that have changed our world, the climate justice movement is getting traction by taking the high ground. It is sticking to strategies that are nonviolent and inviting ordinary people to be part of creating a clean and prosperous world. And it is insisting on a fair shake for all the world's people.
Economic Change
People are energized by the prospect of a green economy and new, clean technologies, and they want the opportunity not only to avert a climate catastrophe, but to help build a better future. Seventy-seven percent of those polled by Public Agenda say "investing in creating ways to get energy from alternative sources like solar and wind" is the best way to get the economy going, while just 16 percent believe "investing in finding more sources of oil, coal, and natural gas" is the answer.
This excitement is especially evident among those who were left out of the last wave of economic growth and today are sidelined by the so-called "jobless recovery." Among the supporters of green jobs and clean energy are urban youth, steelworkers, solar developers, architects, farmers, and all sorts of people who see the prospects for a green economic recovery that actually puts people to work.
The climate movement is demanding action in Washington, but not waiting for Congress to act. Businesses are adopting green practices and walking out on climate-denier associations, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (See Who´s Polluting the Climate Conversation?)
Workplaces, homes, places of worship, and schools are being upgraded to become more climate-friendly and less costly to operate. Communities are making serious commitments to reducing their carbon emissions, restructuring their economies, and making neighborhoods green, resilient, and inclusive (see Towns Rush to Make the Low-Carbon Transition).
Buy-local campaigns are cutting down on long-distance transport and climate emissions. The strengthened local economies offer diverse livelihoods that meet people's immediate needs while weaving together the relationships that help people weather anything from an economic downturn to climate catastrophe.
Cultural Change
From "No Impact Man" to "The Story of Stuff,", a different idea about our way of life is taking hold. Simple living, green lifestyles, buying local are becoming mainstream. Large majorities are prepared to change their lives to make a difference (see Public Attitudes, Knowledge, and Values Around the Climate).
We'll have to ramp up those changes to address the climate crisis in the time and at the scale we have available, and many Americans know that won't be easy; 48 percent of those polled by Public Agenda say reducing the effects of global warming will require major sacrifices.
No social movement gets everyone on board. But movements succeed when thousands change their attitudes and practices, and then speak out and influence others. A climate-friendly life is becoming "cool," even heroic.
In the old economy, the heroes were the ones who made lots of money even if it was at the expense of other people or the planet. The new heroes are those who defend the planet. They restore land that is degraded and poisoned, clean up sources of climate-altering pollution, rebuild soil, and plant trees and vegetables. And they aren't afraid to get arrested when it's time to take a stand.
Rebuilding our economy will mean more people will have meaningful work. A more frugal society means less waste, less time devoted to "stuff," and more time for things that make for genuine happiness (see Fight Climate Change: Live the Good Life). And we can create well-being that isn't reliant on someone else sacrificing their own.
When we learn to live within our ecological means, we won't need to fight wars over resources like oil or water. Men and women in uniform can be redeployed to the critical tasks of restoring damaged ecosystems, coping with the inevitable natural and climate-induced disasters, and revamping infrastructure so it can withstand the coming storms.
There Is Still Time
We can still avert the extreme droughts, floods, storms, and displacements that could result if climate change reaches critical tipping points. It's still possible to save ourselves and generations to come from a climate so unstable that it can no longer support civilization as we know it. But we can't leave it to our leaders to fix it; the possibility only exists if we rise up and act now.
Sarah van Gelder, Madeline Ostrander, and Doug Pibel wrote this article for Climate Action, the Winter 2010 issue of YES! Magazine.
United Nations Environment Programme, Climate Change Science Compendium, 2009.
Global Humanitarian Forum, Human Impact Report: Climate Change: The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis, 2009. www.ghf-geneva.org/OurWork/RaisingAwareness/HumanImpactReport/tabid/180/Default.aspx
Greg Holland, "Climate Change and Extreme Weather," IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2009.
International Alliance of Research Universities, Synthesis Report from Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, and Decisions, 2009.
"Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report." ScienceDaily, October 9, 2009.
Marianne Bom, "Close to 70 Percent of the Earth's Soil in Risk of Drought," United Nations, COP15 online coverage,
Union of Concerned Scientists, Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Midwest: Illinois, 2009.
Tim P. Barnett and David W. Pierce, "When Will Lake Mead Go Dry?" Water Resources Research, 2008.
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The Neolithic revolution occurred a number of times over the course of human prehistory. It involved the switch from nomadic hunting and gathering to an agricultural lifestyle, with all the economic, technological, societal, and architectural switches that went along with it. With agriculture came food processing and a softer, more homogenous diet than the one enjoyed by hunter-gatherers.
Hunter-gatherers tend to have longer, narrower lower mandibles, or jawbones, than agriculturalists. It has generally been assumed that the difference in chewing style accounts for the differently shaped mandibles, but this has never been tested. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel at the University of Kent has now done so; her results are published in this week's issue of PNAS.
Most of the differences in the shape of human skulls are the results of neutral evolution, of mutations that spread through genetic drift rather than responding to any type of external selective pressure. Not so the mandible. Dr. Cramon-Taubadel demonstrated that the mandible changed shape in agriculturalists because of the decreased mechanical stresses exerted by their chewing.
By analyzing skulls from eleven populations, six agriculturalists and five hunter-gatherers, she showed that mandible shape splits along these lines and does not correlate with geographical location, climate, or the neutral genetic patterns in their respective population histories. This finding raises an interesting question: does the softer food eaten by agriculturalists constitute a selective pressure acting upon the mandible, or does the mandible develop differently in response to dietary stresses? The later case would be an example of what's called "phenotypic plasticity," where development ends up different despite similar genes.
The paper further points out that mothers in contemporary hunting and gathering societies usually wean their children later than those in agricultural populations, so young children don't start their chewing until later in development. Might this play a role in the different shapes of their mandibles?
Dr. Cramon-Taubadel also notes that the "reduced duration and intensity of mastication" required by our soft, processed foods have been blamed for the increased rate of dental crowding seen in postindustrial urban populations. Stress promotes bone growth, and our pathetic chewing needs are insufficient to stimulate even enough mandible growth to accommodate our teeth. So to avoid hefty orthodonture bills, maybe we should plan some foraging expeditions.
PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113050108 (About DOIs).

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Reports find military buildup at Sudan's north-south border
JUBA, Sudan — Offering grave signs that Sudan may slide back into war, the southern Sudanese military is repositioning its forces toward the country's tense north-south border, and it alleges that the north is building up its troops on the other side, according to internal United Nations documents obtained by McClatchy.
The documents appear to provide the strongest indications yet that the planned split of Sudan into two separate nations in July — after a January referendum in which the south voted overwhelmingly for independence — won't go peacefully.
The Arab-led northern government has promised to recognize the new, mostly African southern state. But relations between the sides — which fought a devastating two-decade civil war until a U.S.-brokered 2005 peace deal — have deteriorated badly in recent weeks, with clashes over the disputed Abyei district and a messy conflict on the northern side of the border.
The confidential documents — internal daily reports compiled by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan — also seem to show a northern army poised to move into disputed lands at a time when it knows the south is unlikely to retaliate, for fear of risking its July 9 independence date. The reports describe alleged troop buildups on the northern side of the border and aggressive posturing toward contested boundaries by the better-equipped northern military.
For its part, the southern Sudanese military — which still goes by its rebel moniker, the Sudan People's Liberation Army — denied deploying more units to the border area, but the U.N. documents, which cover the week of June 4 through last Friday, tell a different story.
According to those reports, southern Sudan is rapidly repositioning its forces northward. Over June 7-9, 38 T-55 tanks were seen during the middle of the night heading out of the southeastern portion of the southern region toward its capital, Juba.
"In both these movements, there has not been prior notification to UNMIS" — the United Nations Mission in Sudan — "for compliance with verification as provided for" in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which set the stage for January's partition vote, one of the reports reads.
A separate U.N. report says that "it is believed they (the tanks) are headed to Abyei," a disputed border district.
Southern Sudan army spokesman Philip Aguer confirmed that units from the south's Eastern Equatoria state were heading northward through the capital, but said they were bound for Lakes and Warrap states to provide security in order to contain rampant deadly cattle-raiding. He denied that they were deploying near the border.
Abyei sits at the northern tip of Warrap, a border state.
"SPLA is moving to Lakes and Warrap because of the communal fighting in that area," Aguer said. "These are internal movements only."
The U.N. documents also report a convoy of 12 pickups labeled as police vehicles heading north in Warrap state on June 5 in the direction of Abyei.
Last month, northern forces invaded Abyei, but so far southern Sudan hasn't launched a major counterattack. After July 9, however, some fear that the leaders of the new nation, which will be called South Sudan, may not show the same restraint.
On the other side of the White Nile river — which splits South Sudan in two — the southern army seems to be sending more security to its oil fields.
One U.N. report cited a "large number" of southern troops on June 5 in Malakal, the capital of the border oil-rich Upper Nile state. Three army companies also were seen en route to oil-producing Maban county, on the border. On June 6, an unknown number of reinforcements arrived in Melut county, according to the U.N. documents.
Aguer accused the northern army of planning to grab the oil fields in the Unity and Upper Nile border states but said that the southern army was merely "monitoring" the northern movements, not reinforcing defensive positions.
He also said that some new security might have been sent to the oil fields to replace a joint north-south force that's expiring in July, but he couldn't say for sure whether that's what the past week's movement was about.
On one particularly contested boundary — running between the north's South Darfur state and the south's Western Bahr el Ghazal state — a southern official near the border told the U.N. that the north recently had deployed 50 trucks and 36 Toyota Land Cruisers filled with heavy machine guns and northern troops were recently deployed toward the disputed area.
In Upper Nile, the southern army reported a northern buildup along its border. A reported buildup in neighboring northern Sennar state sent residents there fleeing into Upper Nile.
The northern army spokesman, Al Sawarmi Khaled, called reports that additional troops had been deployed to the southern border of South Darfur "not true."
"We have no plans to enter into any southern province," he said.
At one disputed border point in Upper Nile state, the northern army is reported to have moved in and set up a checkpoint in Kuek South. In another border area, called Magennes, local officials accuse the northern army of conducting nightly raids on southerners.
Aguer accused the northern army of using its forces to create "de facto" borders across the south.
"They are bringing more forces to different places, especially the contested zones, over past two months," he said. "These are areas in the past that had no forces."
He said that northern soldiers and tanks had built up particularly on the border of Western Bahr el Ghazal and South Darfur, as well as the disputed oil-producing area of Heglig.
Aguer also accused the north of sending more troops toward Blue Nile. That state, though on the northern side, is governed by an opposition politician who sided with the south during the civil war. South Kordofan, a northern border state that also largely sided with the southern rebels, erupted into renewed violence June 5.
(Boswell is a McClatchy special correspondent.)
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NY Pastor: All Creative People Struggle With 3 Things
There are three things that all creative people struggle with, says Pastor Sam Luce, who is the Utica Campus Pastor of Redeemer Church in Utica, N.Y.
Luce, who was the children's pastor for the past 14 years at Redeemer before becoming a campus pastor, wrote recently in his blog that his church began a Creative Community Night.
"It's a time where the creatives in our church can join in community and grow in relationship and in their various gifts," he writes. "The format is basically small groups based around relationship and skill development, followed by a creative service where we worship and receive from the Word, lastly we work on creating a flow for the weekend service."
In summarizing his message during the church's first gathering of this type, he began by sharing Matthew 25:14-30. The section of the book of Matthew includes the well-known verse, "His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'" (Matthew 25:21)
Below is the list of things Luce wrote in his blog about what he believes "creatives" struggle with.
1. [They] have a wrong view of our creator – We don't see Him as who he is. We see him as harsh and demanding. Our father is filled with wrath but that wrath was satisfied in Christ Jesus on the cross. When we understand our master it changes how we invest the talents we are given. We gladly lay down our lives in gratitude understanding that we deserve the wrath of God but have been given new life in the work of Christ.
2. Fear – It's easier to bury your talent and to not put yourself out there. It's easy to do what you are comfortable with because that doesn't take faith. You never put yourself in a place where you need to trust Christ more than anything else. Fear comes from an improper view of your master.
3. Laziness – As a creative it's easy to be lazy and to use what you have been given by God. The problem with laziness is that doesn't bring glory to God. When we leverage the gift we have been given by God and grow and multiply that gift we draw the attention of others and deflect the glory that is God's alone. It's easier to rest in our God-given talent than to do the work necessary to bring the gift you have been given to maturity.
Redeemer Church, which currently meets in four locations, was founded by Pastor Mike Servello and is led by his son, Mike. The church describes itself on its website as a "redemptive community on a journey. People from all walks of life, imperfect and messy lives, are pursuing and experiencing a transformational relationship with Jesus and each other. Redeemer is a place for everyone, regardless of questions, doubts, backgrounds or struggles."
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I love cigars and I love cigars that have intriguing names - they get me so much more excited before I smoke them for the first time - 5 Vegas (of course), La Vieja Habana, CAO Black, Free Cuba, etc. They create a drama into what I might be smoking and the flavor begins to embody that name. When I think of 5 Vegas Series 'A', I can almost taste that rich maduro flavor and strength of body that'll set me back on my heels. I've been struggling with this one though lately, R4. Luckily it has the Rocky Patel qualifier, otherwise it wouldn't mean anything to me. So generic, so uninviting, so...so...so boring.
Took me awhile to pick one up until a few of my faithful readers (Keven and JB) said "Dude, you gotta try the R4, it's got Gonz written all over it." Ayyt, I'll give it the old college try. First, and most importantly, it passes the Gonz cheapskate test - $2.40 per stick - excellent. With the exception of the RP Vintage Seconds, tough to find an economical one in the Rocky Patel line. So that's nice. Finally, the darn thing looks nice enough to be smoked - no odd shapes or sizes. I chewed on the Corojo for a few days before finally sparking it up. Firm and solid with a nice toothy Corojo wrapper.
Starts off gentle with no corosive flavor, it fills the palate nicely from the get-go, and the firm roll doesn't allow any annoying cheap lighter fumes through (only the best for Gonz of course). The next 4 inches smoke exactly like the first inch, a soft unintimidating finish but enough "wow, that's nice" to keep you puffing for more. I get a lot of cedar from this cigar, mellow-to-medium, and chomp-able all day, it stays firm down to the last 2 inches. The ash is a bit flakey and annoying here at the desk, but the flavor makes it worth it. I never thought I'd say this, but there's a ginger-y spice (Ginger Spice, wasn't that one of the Spice Girls?) that I get in the aroma of the smoke. It disappears quickly, but makes my office smell rather nice.
So, after a few 4-5 browbeatings on this cigar, I give it a solid Gonz recommendation. For the price it's a homerun, for more than an everyday, I'd tend to something a bit stronger. But while I'm working furiously on the table saw in the garage trying to finish off my basement, it's perfect. Yum. I just wish it had a better name, so maybe I'll just call it the Renegade 4 or something. Yeah, that's better. RP Renegade 4, I'm sure that'll make it sell better!
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Zeb Johnson Scholarship Donation made to McNeese
The Badge of Honor committee recently donated $25,000 to the McNeese State University Foundation for the Zeb Johnson Scholarship. The Badge of Honor committee made the donation in honor of Johnson, chief investigator in the Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office, for his dedication to local law enforcement and McNeese. The committee is made up of local law enforcement officials and friends of Johnson. On hand for the donation are, from left, Richard H. Reid, vice president for university advancement and executive vice president of the McNeese Foundation, John DeRosier, Calcasieu Parish District Attorney and Badge of Honor committee chair, and Johnson.


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(Reuters Health) - Unvaccinated youngsters were nine times more likely to contract whooping cough during a recent outbreak in California than those who had received the entire five-shot series, researchers found.
However, the effectiveness of the vaccine waned as more time elapsed since a child's final dose of the so-called DTaP vaccine for whooping cough, also known as pertussis.
"Pertussis vaccines are still our best tool to prevent pertussis," said Lara Misegades, the lead researcher on the study at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But the study, she said, "reinforces the importance of getting the adolescent DTaP booster."
A DTaP booster was recently added to the vaccine schedule for 11-to-12-year-olds, on top of the five doses traditionally given between the ages of 2 months and 6 years. The combination vaccine also protects against diphtheria and tetanus.
During the 2010 whooping cough outbreak in California, more than 9,000 cases were reported and 10 infants died, the researchers wrote on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The new study included 682 children aged 4 to 10 in California with whooping cough and another 2,016 children who never came down with the disease.
According to their medical records and immunization registries, 7.8 percent of the kids who developed whooping cough had not received any DTaP vaccines, compared with 0.9 percent of their pertussis-free peers.
Children who recently had finished their vaccine series were the least likely to become infected. Just 2.8 percent of kids who became ill had received their fifth DTaP dose in the past year, compared with 17.6 percent of those who did not come down with whooping cough.
And with each year that passed since a child's last vaccine dose, the odds of that child developing pertussis rose.
"The message should clearly not be, âDon't get the vaccine because it doesn't work,'" said Dr Eugene Shapiro, a pediatrician and infectious diseases researcher from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
"It works, but we need to continue to work to improve it," said Shapiro, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study. "The problem is we don't really know what should be done."
He said one strategy might be to give an earlier DTaP booster dose, or to consider a different type of pertussis vaccine. Each of those ideas, however, will require more research.
To prevent the most serious whooping cough cases including deaths, both researchers emphasized the importance of vaccinating pregnant women and anyone living with an infant. Babies are the most likely to become seriously ill in a whooping cough outbreak, and "cocooning" could prevent them from being exposed in the first place.
Misegades said the CDC also recommends catch-up vaccination for everyone who has not received the entire DTaP series. Whooping cough cases for this year have already topped 36,000 in the United States, she added.
SOURCE: http://link.reuters.com/qan34t
Journal of the American Medical Association, online November 27, 2012.
(Reporting by Genevra Pittman in New York; Editing by Ivan Oransky and Matthew Lewis)


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De Buyer's Viper is the first mandoline on the market that tackles the challenge of slicing tomatoes with ease. The tool's efficient blade design ensures that even the softest fruits and vegetables are cut safely and precisely – no tearing. Interchangeable blades slice in a variety of styles from diamond cuts to julienne, while the safe, easy-to-grip pusher protects your fingers and allows you to make quick work of large batches.
- Specially designed V-shaped blade cuts produce precisely without crushing.
- Interchangeable blades for cubes, diamond cuts, julienne, strips, sticks and rounds.
- Quickly adjust the thickness of slices from 1mm to 8mm to suit your recipe.
- Specially designed pusher maximizes safety while cutting and provides a firm grip for even the smallest hands.
- Nonskid feet add stability and extra leverage and fold away for compact storage.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by DCBaker from Great mandoline! This is the third mandoline I've owned and by far the best. Excellent quality and had no trouble with the attachments as others had mentioned. It slices through veggies like butter!Date published: 2017-01-08Rated 1 out of 5 by AnthonyA from Not Sturdy Enough Used for Beets and Potatoes but there are some small plastic pieces which did not hold up well. Once broken, the whole unit is of no use. I will try to contact WS to see if they can help but I would not recommend this plastic version especially at this higher price point.Date published: 2016-11-26Rated 3 out of 5 by ccr213 from works great... until it BREAKS! first off, i love this slicer! it has everything i've been looking for. had a Pampered Chef one for years and always felt it was cheaply made and flimsy. so when i finally decided to buy a new one, i knew i was going to invest in a higher end model. i thought this was it! first use, i minced onion and was absolutely DELIGHTED with the results! very easy... beautiful and even! today when i went to use it to slice beets, i noticed the piece that attaches the plane of the blade to the "dicer action" was BROKEN! fortunately, i just called WS and they are already sending me my replacement. i hope this isn't a common issue with this product (i guess i will have to wait and see!), but am SO glad i purchased through WS since they are so diligent with their customer satisfaction! TY WS!Date published: 2014-07-06Rated 5 out of 5 by PatMc from Sturdy, well built I have had no difficulties inserting blades or adjusting the machine. I like the handle because it allows me to really bear down when I push the vegetable holder down the slide. I wore a protective glove but did not need it. This machine is sturdily built out of thick plastic which does not flex or warp during use. I bought another brand at the same time for comparison---and sent the other one back. The difference in quality was evident.Date published: 2012-10-18Rated 2 out of 5 by lovestocook247 from Very hard to remove and insert blades This mandoline sliced, diced, and julienned everything beautifully. It was very easy to figure out how to use the different blades and set the height. Inserting and removing the blades was another story. I read the book, watched the video, and still had a huge problem. The v-slicer was the worst to insert. The plastic frame seemed to be slightly too small to insert the blade easily. I had my husband try it, as well as the salesperson at William Sonoma. Neither one of them was able to remove the blades or insert them. I was able to do it eventually, but it took a long time, and more effort than it was worth. Maybe a metal frame would be better. It's a shame because once the blades were in it worked better than any mandoline I've ever used. Unfortunately I had to return it.Date published: 2012-09-07


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Atlanta Braves court controversy with 'Screaming Indian' caps
The Atlanta Braves have not used their controversial "Screaming Indian" logo in any official capacity since 1989, but the team plans to bring it back next season as part of its new batting practice hats.
And so far, the reaction on the Web has been less than positive.
"Unfortunately, it turns out that the logo hasn't been permanently mothballed. Disappointing," wrote Paul Lukas of ESPN's Uni Watch, who published an exclusive article previewing all 30 new batting practice hats. "Grade: F."
The Braves first started using the logo in 1954 when they were based in Milwaukee. It was used in various capacities until 1989. The team stopped using it at least in part because of pressure from groups that find the use of Native American imagery on sports uniforms offensive and dehumanizing.
Other reactions:
"It really is a wonder that the Braves are going with these caps. As far as I can tell, there was no real groundswell to bring this logo back, which is saying something in an age where fans of several teams hold a deep affinity for their old-school looks." — Yahoo!'s Big League Stew
"For reasons that completely escape me given how the team has slowly eliminated native American iconography from their uniforms (i.e. getting rid of the tomahawk on the alternate jerseys, etc.), the Braves have unveiled a hideous BP cap with that old "screaming Indian†logo. Most of us had thought that they had canned that thing, but apparently not. Poor, poor form, Atlanta." — Hardball Talk's Craig Calcaterra
"Maybe somebody in the team's marketing department incorrectly surmised that the city of Atlanta loves stereotypical depictions of entire races of people. Perhaps ownership was sick and tired of the Washington Redskins and their culturally insensitive name remaining the most offensive rendition of Native American culture in this country. Why did the Braves screw this up so badly?" — Bleacher Report's Timothy Rapp
"Hands down, the worst (of the 30 new batting practice caps). The team had appeared to be getting away from some of its use of Native American caricatures, avoiding using a similar "screaming Indian" from its throwback alternate introduced last year, but the folks who don't see anything wrong in the tomahawk chop, probably won't mind this." — CBSSports.com blogger C. Trent Rosecrans


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text: Unique among Power Ranger series, Operation Overdrive has the Rangers exploring, operating and fighting in many different countries around the world, rather than focusing only on their home city of San Angeles. In search of the jewels, the Rangers have been to Atlantis, unnamed islands in the Atlantic and Pacific, Saint Lucia, Istanbul, London, Portugal, Indonesia, Norway, Mexico, Egypt, and Florida. To specifically battle villainous attacks, they have visited Rotuma Island, Australia, Brazil, and Stonehenge.


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LONDON (Reuters) - British and European Union officials will try to work out on Wednesday how to contain a scandal over horsemeat sold as beef which has shocked consumers and exposed flaws in European systems of food safety control.
The scandal, affecting a growing number of European countries and retailers, began in Ireland when its food safety authority discovered horsemeat in frozen beef burgers.
The revelations raised questions about the food supply chain and prompted governments to send out an EU-wide alert.
Owen Paterson, Britain's Environment Secretary, told parliament on Tuesday he would meet EU officials in Brussels on Wednesday to work out an action plan.
"It is clear from my conversations with European ministers and Commissioner (Tonio) Borg that the European Commission recognises the urgency of the current incidents," he said
The issue first came to light on January 15 when during routine tests the Food Safety Authority in Ireland discovered horsemeat in frozen beef burgers produced by firms in Ireland and Britain and sold in supermarket chains including Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer.
It has caused particular anguish in Britain, where eating horse flesh in virtually taboo.
Concern grew last week when the British unit of frozen foods group Findus began recalling its beef lasagne on advice from its French supplier, Comigel, after tests showed concentrations of horsemeat in a range from 60 to 100 percent.
Food experts say globalisation has helped the industry grow but has also given rise to a complex system which has raised the risk of adulteration, either by those looking to fraudulently pass off cheaper products, or by neglect.
Mark Woolfe, a former senior food safety official, said the European Commission's decision to reclassify a product which closely resembled mince as "mechanically separated meat" had forced suppliers to seek cheap alternatives elsewhere.
"The FSA (Food Standards Agency) bullied by the Commission issued a moratorium on desinewed meat, which was a perfectly good ingredient for value products," he told reporters.
"Manufacturers who were using that for value products had to leave the UK food chain and go and look at overseas suppliers at a price similar to desinewed meat or even lower."
Paterson has said Britain would consider import bans if any health risk was found, although officials have stressed the contaminated products posed no immediate danger to the public.
More cases are expected to emerge during tests on processed beef products in Britain, with results due on Friday.
Paterson, who is meeting senior figures involved in the food chain and Britain's Food Standards Agency later on Tuesday, said it was vital that consumers had confidence in the food and drink industry, the largest manufacturing sector which contributed 90 billion pounds gross value to the British economy in 2010.
However, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents 80 percent of Britain's retail industry, said public attitude did not appear to have greatly changed, although people were being more selective in their choice of beef burgers.
On Sunday, French supermarkets pulled several products supplied by Findus and Comigel. Tesco said it had found horse DNA exceeding 60 percent in some of its own-brand frozen spaghetti bolognese meals withdrawn from stores last week.
Both France and Britain have said the mislabelling was a result of criminal attempts to defraud customers and they will punish those responsible.
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Mega Fun-Size Bar Recipe
Quirky, cute, sometimes controversial, always delicious recipes from Jessie Oleson.
Every year around this time, I feel the need to rage against Fun-Size candy bars. I mean, come on people! There is nothing fun about a teeny-tiny candy bar.
But then, I had the most incredible idea to make the tiny bars more fun: I'd melt together about 100 of the mini bars to form a monstrous Mega Fun-Size Bar! Now that sounds like fun.
After practically breaking a five-minute mile running to the store to pick up a bushel of bags of the tiny bars, I set to work. I lined a 9- by 13-inch pan with a patchwork of small Snickers, Nestle Crunch, Butterfinger and Baby Ruth bars, gently heated it in the oven until it melted together, smoothed over the top with melted chocolate chips to make it a cohesive chocolatey mass, and decorated it with some festive sprinkles. I consider it a masterpiece: the different textures and flavors of the candy bars meld together in your mouth to form a treat that is mega-fun to eat. Say hello to the new fun-size.
Note: Feel free to use any mix of fun-size bars you'd like, but be smart about choosing harmonious flavors. For instance, if you choose to use Almond Joy, just know that it's going to give the entire thing a coconutty flavor!
- Yield:Makes 1 Mega Fun-Size Bar
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:1 hour, 15 minutes
- 4 bags (approximately 12 ounces each) Fun-Size candy bars; about 80-90 bars
- 2 cups (about 12 ounces) milk chocolate or semisweet morsels
Preheat the oven to 300°F. Line a 9- by 13-inch pan with aluminum foil. Unwrap all of your fun-size candy bars. This may take a while.
Line the bottom of the pan with your unwrapped candy bars. To keep things interesting, alternate the styles so that the different flavors are mixed up, forming a sweet sort of chocolate patchwork.
Once you have lined the bottom of the pan with candy bars, make a second row, aligning the candy bars perpendicular to the ones below. This will help things melt fairly evenly.
Place the pan in the oven until things start to get shiny and melty, about 10 minutes.
Remove from the oven and scatter the chocolate morsels evenly on top of the candy bars. Return the pan back to the oven until the morsels have begun to melt, about 5 minutes longer.
Remove the pan from the oven and place it on a towel or heatproof surface. Very gently, so as not to burn yourself on the sides of the pan, use a butter knife or spatula to evenly smooth and spread the chocolate. You'll want to do this gently but fairly quickly.
If desired, garnish with sprinkles. Let cool completely before serving (otherwise it will be very messy). Enjoy!
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Around this time of year I look for the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy. Do you watch it also? There must be many of us who do, since I can usually find it on television at least twice around the first week of July. For those of you who don't know about this movie, it stars James Cagney as George M Cohan, the songwriter, actor, dancer and producer.
I don't consider myself especially patriotic, and yet I get chills, goose bumps, or whatever you want to call it, when I watch it, particularly the last 30-40 minutes. The songs aren't what many of us consider as patriotic, and they aren't played regularly at patriotic functions, or even at other times of the year.
The songs that particularly move me are Over There, You're a Grand Old Flag, and I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy. Over There was published in 1917 and was an inspiration to those who joined the military. The lyrics include an encouragement to enlist and to make your mother proud. I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy is a light-hearted comment on being born on July 4th. But I think You're a Grand Old Flag is my favorite song. I love the images expressed in "Forever in peace may you wave" and "You're the emblem of the land I love." As I said earlier, I don't consider myself especially patriotic, but I often get tears in my eyes when I hear these lyrics.
If you haven't watched this movie, I hope you will try it. Also, I think we each need to write about what moves us or what causes strong emotions. These stories, even if they are short, allow our descendants to know more about us than just the facts of dates and locations.
Happy Independence Day, Citizens of the United States of America! Wherever you are.


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Occupy the Dream: MLK's Legacy in the Age of Occupy
What would Martin Luther King, Jr. have made of the worldwide social movements of 2011?
"The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
What would Martin Luther King, Jr.—whose message was about economic inequality as well as racial inequality—have to say to today's occupiers?
Color of Change and Rebuild the Dream are encouraging people to hold meet-ups to discuss King's message to the ongoing fight for social, economic, racial, and political equality. This video, "What Would MLK Do?" is part of their toolkit.
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Robert Shetterly's remarkable collection of portraits reminds us of the dignity, courage and importance of America's truth tellers. This portrait: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Georgia regulators are planning to investigate an apparent brawl that broke out in front of babies at a daycare last year in light of a video of the incident that resurfaced in recent news reports.
The video shows a tussle between a parent holding a baby and at least two daycare workers at McGarity School of Prep in McDonough, Ga. The workers told police that the man, David Gray, attacked them during a December 2012 disagreement with the owner of the child care center, an Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA reported. Gray's attorney, Darryl Scott, told the station his client was using his arms to defend himself as he attempted to exit the room with his child.
Gray was arrested following the fight, WXIA reported, but the charges were eventually dropped. The Department of Early Care and Learning said the incident had not been reported to the agency before the video aired. Regulators there now plan to open an investigation.
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For the first time since 2009, the U.S. government said Wednesday that it will raise Social Security benefits with a cost-of-living adjustment, up 3.6%, and the announcement was immediately followed by praise—and criticism.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., who noted that the increase will grow the average benefit by $516 to $14,748 each year, said the COLA increase "is welcome news for seniors facing high prices for everyday items like gas, food and medicine."
But others, including the AARP and the Insured Retirement Institute, pointed out that after two years of not receiving a cost-of-living adjustment in their Social Security checks, a majority of retirees will not see the full 3.6% increase in their 2012 checks. This is because an expected increase in Medicare Part B premiums will be deducted from recipients' Social Security payments.
"This will affect the approximately 75% of Social Security recipients who were exempted from Part B premium increases in 2010 and 2011 when there was no COLA," warned the IRI in a news release.
"Unfortunately, the increase announced today will not completely ease [retirees'] burden," said AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond in a statement on Wednesday. "Medicare premiums are also expected to rise for many. And with the decline in housing values, deep losses to retirement and savings accounts and skyrocketing health and prescription drug costs, millions of older Americans continue to struggle to make ends meet."
The announcement of the COLA increase comes as congressional members of the bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction look for ways to slow Social Security's growth. Meanwhile, the annual rate of inflation, also reported on Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, stands at 2%, not including the volatile food and energy components.
"Ironically," said LeaMond, "some in Washington are calling for permanently reducing Social Security checks for today's seniors and future retirees. As part of a deficit reduction deal, many are calling on the 'super committee' to consider a new way to calculate the COLA, which would cut Social Security benefits by $112 billion over 10 years. This so-called 'chained consumer price index,' through compounding, would cut seniors' benefits by thousands of dollars over their lifetimes–and the older one gets, the larger the cut."
As costs continue to rise, retirees are especially worried about the growing cost of health care. According to data released Thursday by S&P Indices, U.S. health-care costs rose 5.73% over the 12 months ending in August.
These include the average per capita cost of health-care services covered by both commercial insurance and Medicare programs. This was a marginal increase over the 5.69% annual growth rate posted in July and the fourth consecutive increase since the index hit its lowest annual growth rate of 5.32% in April.
Medicare claim costs, however, have hit a new low, rising at an annual rate of just 2.16% as measured by the S&P Healthcare Economic Medicare Index. The Medicare index recorded its highest annual growth rate of 8.02% in November 2009. "It has consistently and sharply decelerated since then, by about 5.86 percentage points in under two years," S&P said in a news release.
Overall U.S. inflation also remains low.
According to the labor statistics bureau's Thursday report on the consumer price index for September, the cost of living for all urban consumers over the last 12 months increased 3.9%. But the main causes of the yearly increase were rising energy and food costs, and without those two volatile components, inflation held at 2% for the second straight month.
"The main take-away from today's CPI report is that the angst from earlier this year in regard to monetary policy spinning a hyperinflation event for the ages should be duly relegated back to the dark corners where most angst resides," wrote Steve Blitz, senior economist with New York-based ITG Investment Research, in an analyst note.


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I just can't figure this one out yet, after three years, and in the same location in Kentucky near the Cincinnati border, I continue to find this situation in spite of the rules that are included in Article 525 - Carnivals, Circuses, Fairs and Similar Events.
Someone may have missed this, but in the real world it's a problem, and no matter how hard we try to enforce the rules, there will be someone who has some problem with enforcement. Sometimes politics are the reasons; other times low standards of behaviour are the norm.
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This question has been on my mind ever since the birther and teabagger movements were co-opted by mainstream Republican politicians and popular far-right pundits. Perhaps some of the less educated across America (like this woman pictured here) genuinely have no idea what socialism means. I can accept that. However, I tend to think that many of those funneling money into the movement, using it to further their own political agenda, or simply to boost their ratings know full well that Obama's policies are not even remotely socialist. My hunch is that there is a much simpler explanation for why we continue to see accusations of socialism.
I suspect that what we are seeing here is that those pushing the socialist label know full well than much of their base has no idea what socialism means other than that it is "bad" or "un-American." We saw the same thing happen during the Cold War. Many Americans had no idea what Communists actually believed; it was enough simply to know that Communism was associated with "the enemy."
And if I am even somewhat close to being right about this, then it is a truly sad commentary on the state of education in the United States. Deprived of good education, which can help to inoculate people against propaganda and idiocy, more and more of us fall prey to those who seek only to manipulate us to enhance their own status.
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Every person on the planet walks around with opinions based on what they think they know, and those opinions direct how all of us act and react. But very few ever question the substance that forms those crucial opinions. From the very nature of truth to how our world began, from morality to religion, from population control to political correctness, from Israel to Islam, from atheism to God … our entire world runs on what we believe.
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White Line Disease in Horses
When bacteria and fungus creep into the living layers in the horse's foot, they can cause extensive damage known as white line disease.
The many layers of the hoof make it a living, growing, highly functional, powerful structure capable of supporting the weight of the entire horse. Unfortunately, this construction also puts the horse at risk of hoof infections within the layers. One of the most common of these is white line disease.
Despite its name, white line disease does not actually affect the true "white line" of the hoof, which can be seen on the sole where it joins the hoof wall and appears more yellow than white, according to Stephen E. O'Grady, DVM, BVSc, MRCVS, a farrier and veterinarian specializing in equine podiatry at Northern Virginia Equine in Marshall. White line disease occurs when bacterial or fungal infections creep into the inner nonpigmented space within the inner hoof wall's stratum medium layer. The infection slowly eats away the tissue, which turns into a chalky powder that spills out when scraped with a hoof pick.
"You can hear that hollowness behind the hoof wall wherever there's separation just by tapping lightly with a farrier hammer," O'Grady says.
Without treatment, white line disease continues to travel up through the layer, sometimes causing lameness, and it will eventually reach (but not involve) the coronary band. At that point the laminae, which attach the hoof wall to the coffin bone, can separate and cause the coffin bone to rotate downward.
"If rotation occurs, the prognosis of white line disease-induced mechanical laminitis is very bad," O'Grady says. "It's critical to address the problem before it progresses that far, because the good news is that it can be successfully treated."
How is it Treated?
Every treatment plan should begin with collaboration between a veterinarian and an informed farrier, according to Klaus Mäurer, a master blacksmith, nationally accredited farrier instructor in Germany, and education chair at the European Federation of Farriers Association (EFFA). As white line disease is often misunderstood, he notes it's best to work with professionals who have had continuous training with knowledgeable experts.
Radiographs should be taken to locate precisely the extent of the disease's progression and to verify the angle of the coffin bone, Mäurer says. The farrier and veterinarian should then design an immediate shoeing strategy to support the hoof during treatment.
Treating white line disease requires resection, or removal, of the hoof wall wherever the disease has spread. "The fungi and bacteria responsible for white line disease are anaerobic (they grow best without oxygen), so what we have to do is get that area completely exposed to the oxygen in the air," says Denis Leveillard, international farrier trainer, vice president of the French farriers' association, and a former president of the EFFA.
A support shoe should be applied immediately before resection to prevent unequal pressure on the remaining hoof wall. "I like to use a bar shoe to help the sole handle the horse's weight and his force when he takes a step," Mäurer says. Rubber or synthetic soles can hold antibiotics and antifungal creams in contact with the white line, and silicone can be used for sole support. Nails should be as small and few as possible, he says, and they can be substituted with special glues if the hoof wall is unable to hold nails.
Resection of the nonsensitive outer hoof capsule can be carried out painlessly with normal farrier tools in most situations, O'Grady says. However, the farrier should not reach blood or live tissue.
Once the wall has been cut away, the newly exposed layer should be debrided (dead tissue removed), or thoroughly cleaned, to get rid of all bacteria, fungi, and powdery residue.
Cracks can be filled with appropriate fillers, Mäurer says. But under no circumstances should the resected area be covered with acrylics or other chemicals, as maintaining exposure for treatment is vital in order to cure white line disease.
What is the Healing Process?
It takes approximately one year for a hoof to grow out completely from the coronary band to the end of the toe, our sources note. Thus, healing time can be calculated according to how high the wall was cut to treat white line disease.
Special hoof care is necessary until the wall has grown back completely. "It's essential that the horse owner and the stable personnel understand how important it is to have a special cleaning management plan for that horse," Mäurer says.
Debriding should be performed at least twice a month, and the hoof should be kept dry, according to O'Grady.
If the resection does not go higher than halfway up the hoof wall, and if sufficient support has been provided by appropriate shoeing, you can continue to ride the horse and give him light exercise during healing, O'Grady says.
How Does it Happen?
No one really knows why horses develop white line disease. The disease is common worldwide in mares, stallions, and geldings of all breeds, ages, and conditions.
Even so, it does seem that trauma or poor conformation could open the door–or more literally the hoof–to disease. Opportunistic bacteria and fungi find their way up into the hoof through separations and cause a secondary infection, which then becomes white line disease. Humid conditions might make white line disease more likely, or they can make a case worse.
White line disease tends to reappear in horses that have had it previously, according to O'Grady. So if you've had to treat one hoof, make sure you have all hooves on that horse checked regularly for any signs of disease.
Take-Home Message
For all horses, have well-trained, qualified farriers maintain regular trimming and hoof care. They can shape the hooves to help prevent separations and recognize white line disease in its early stages, leading to quick, minimized intervention and rapid recovery.
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
Christa Lesté-Lasserre is a freelance writer based in France. A native of Dallas, Texas, Lesté-Lasserre grew up riding Quarter Horses, Appaloosas, and Shetland Ponies. She holds a master's degree in English, specializing in creative writing, from the University of Mississippi in Oxford and earned a bachelor's in journalism and creative writing with a minor in sciences from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She currently keeps her two Trakehners at home near Paris. Follow Lesté-Lasserre on Twitter @christalestelas.
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Taylor and Rider Earn Final NAIA Cross Country Runners of the Week Honors
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - IU East's Justin Taylor has been named the NAIA National Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week and Carlie Rider has been tabbed the NAIA National Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Taylor and Rider selected based on their performances from Oct. 25 - 31 and were chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated group runners of the week selections. The IU East duo is the final NAIA National Runner of the Week honorees for the 2010 season.
Taylor posted the eighth-fastest 8K time in IU East's history, posting a 29:02 en route to a third-place finish at the Kentucky Christian University Late Knight's Run in Grayson, Ky., on Oct. 30. Taylor, a sophomore from Waynesville, Ohio, helped the Red Wolves to their best finish at any invitational in school history, taking second in the five-team field with 35 points.
Running at the same event, Rider placed second in a field of 36 competitors, finishing the 5K with a time of 21:15. Her clocking was the fourth-fastest in the program's history and Rider's runner-up performance matched the highest-ever individual placing at IU East. A freshman hailing of Eaton, Ohio, Rider helped to propel the Red Wolves to their first-ever team title with 35 points.
Men's Nominees: Gary Cantrell, Concordia (Mich.)
Women's Nominees: Marion Rodriguez, Concordia (Mich.)
2010 Composite Award Winners (Men's; Women's) (Schedule)
Week 1: John Gilbertson, The Master's (Calif.); Poppy Lawman, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
Week 2: Kennedy Kithuka, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Amy Pierson, Southwestern (Kan.)
Week 3: Kennedy Kithuka, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Stephanie Lucas, Illinois Tech
Week 4: Paul Chelimo, Shorter (Ga.); Justyna Mudy, Shorter (Ga.)
Week 5: Sam Vazquez, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Poppy Lawman, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
Week 6: Paul Chelimo, Shorter (Ga.); Justyna Mudy, Shorter (Ga.)
Week 7: Kennedy Kithuka, Wayland Baptist (Texas); Kelsey Klettke, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)
Week 8: Justin Taylor, IU East; Carlie Rider, IU East


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The Asihatu Stone Forest is located at the north mountain northeast of the Keshiketeng Banner of Chifeng. Asihatu granite is a rare stone forest landform. The stone forest was created because the rock mass of the region has rare horizontal proterozoic rock joints and vertical rock joints. Magma, glaciers, thawing ice, wind erosion and landslip due to gravity formed it.
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