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VCS Responds to AP: PTSD is Real, PTSD Fraud is Not
Written by VCS – Republished on Veterans Today by permission from Veterans for Common Sense. Monday, 03 May 2010
|May 3, 2010 (updated May 8, 2010), Washington, DC (VCS)
On May 1, the Associated Press printed an incomplete and inaccurate article about veterans who file disability claims against the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Without citing a source, AP wrote, "The problem: The [VA claims] system is dysfunctional, an open invitation to fraud. And the VA has proposed changes that could make deception even easier."
AP is wrong, and VCS asked AP to correct the story.
As of May 8, AP has not responded to our request for a correction.
Here are two very important facts AP overlooked. If AP had included these two facts, then readers would understand more about VA and veterans suffering with PTSD after deploying to the brutal Iraq and Afghanistan wars, sometimes two or three times.
POSTED BY: ROBERT L. HANAFIN, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired, Veterans Today News Network
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Fact Number One – There is no Fraud Problem
There is no widespread fraud problem at VA. Out of more than one million claims per year, less than a score are ever investigated for fraud.
Furthermore, in November 2005, VA auditors randomly selected 2,100 approved PTSD claims. After an exhaustive investigation, VA issued a press release confirming VA found zero cases of fraud. VA has extensive methods to prevent fraud, contrary to AP's baseless assertion. AP should have mentioned VA's investigation and findings.
VA's 2005 investigation began when a reporter at the Chicago Sun Times observed VA pays different average amounts in disability benefits based on a state-by-state comparison, according to VA's own statistics. The true culprits for the different ratings? The Veterans Bernefits Administration (VBA), the agency within VA responsible for processing claims suffers from poor leadership, staff shortages, insufficient oversight, and a lack of consistent training, leading to poor quality decisions that are often prematurely denied.
Recent audits of VBA indicate VBA makes a mistake in one out of every four claims, a tragic and catastrophic quality failure most often harming veterans. VA Secretary Shinseki is taking bold steps to address VBA's systemic challenges, and he has broad support among veterans' groups. There is a huge difference between a VA error and an allegation of fraud against veterans, and AP appears to have confused the two.
Fact Number Two – PTSD is Very Real
AP asserted the standards for reviewing PTSD claims will be "loosened," an assertion made without attribution. In contrast to AP's speculation, VA's proposed new standards will be based on scientific evidence.
VA and independent scientists overwhelmingly agree the diagnosis of PTSD is very real. Our goal at VCS is for the scientific evidence to match VA's rules for obtaining disability benefits and healthcare. That's responsible, and that's fair.
Here's a briefing for returning service members showing VA knows PTSD is real. VA's guide also offers practical information on what to expect and what to do when a service member returns home from war.
Here's what independent scientists found. On November 15, 2007, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the National Academy of Science reviewed scores of peer-reviewed and published scientific studies and validated the diagnosis of PTSD is associated with deployment to a war zone. In their review, "Gulf War and Health, Volume 6," IOM concluded:
The epidemiologic literature on deployed vs nondeployed veterans yielded sufficient evidence of an association between deployment to a war zone and psychiatric disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), other anxiety disorders, and depression; alcohol abuse; accidental death and suicide in the first few years after return from deployment; and marital and family conflict, including interpersonal violence (page 319).
AP should have reported on the IOM's scientific findings.
The escalating suicide epidemic among active duty service members and veterans represents clear and convincing evidence of the tremendous psychological impact of war. Repeated deployments into war zones where car bombs and roadside bombs are daily and deadly events killing and maiming our troops as well as innocent civilians underscore the exposure to enormous psychological trauma of our service members.
PTSD is not new.
According Thomas Childers, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, "1.3 million American troops were hospitalized for what were referred to as 'neuropsychiatic' symptoms" among the 16 million total service members during the war. That means more than eight percent of our troops were hospitalized for serious mental health problems while still serving in uniform. Childers' research also found "VA duly reported that the divorce rate for veterans was twice as high as for civilians." Unemployment for veterans was triple the civilian rate, Childers wrote.
PTSD often lasts a lifetime,
concluded Childers. "In the 1990s, older veterans were beginning to turn up at the VA – men who had made a successful readjustment to civilian life after the war. Yet they still suffered from recurring nightmares, problems with close relationships, or anger" (VFW Magazine, April 2009).
Good News on the Horizon for Veterans
After years of joint efforts by Congress and veterans' groups, including Veterans for Common Sense, this month VA is expected to publish responsible and reasonable regulations expanding disability compensation benefits and healthcare to veterans who deployed to war and who are subsequently diagnosed with PTSD. The new regulations are based on science, a policy improvement fully supported by VCS. The importance of these regulations is underscored by the lasting adverse physical consequences of PTSD.
VA's action may bring medical treatment sooner for our Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. This may mitigate the number of broken families, unemployed veterans, and psychological suffering. Of the two million U.S. troops deployed to the Iraq and Afghanistan war zones, VA physicians have already treated 508,000 veterans. Of those, 144,000 recent combat veterans were diagnosed with PTSD as of September 2009, according to VA reports obtained by VCS.
In contrast, only 67,000 of the same veterans were approved for PTSD disability benefits by VBA. The fact only half of the veterans diagnosed with PTSD receive disability payments and lifetime access to mental healthcare is a strong indicator VBA claims system is overly restrictive and not properly serving our veterans. In order to continue receiving free medical care more than five years after leaving the military, recent war veterans usually need an approved VBA disability claim.
PTSD is a very real and very serious problem increasing in scope the longer the current wars continue.
The scientific challenges understanding PTSD are similar to the many years scientists and VA took to recognize disabilities associated with Agent Orange / dioxin poisoning among Vietnam War veterans. Science is now catching up, and many diseases are now scientifically associated with toxic exposures.
This important regulatory victory for veterans, based on decades of peer-reviewed, published scientific research, represents a bold, pro-veteran improvement by VA Secretary Erik Shinseki to open the doors for benefits and treatment to hundreds of thousands of deserving veterans suffering years or decades with PTSD who earned and who need VA assistance.
Previous Attacks on Veterans and PTSD
There have been attacks on veterans and veterans with PTSD in the recent past. Our VCS July 2007 Congressional Testimony describes how the previous Administration fought against PTSD healthcare and benefits for our veterans. Unfortunately, a few people are opposed to healthcare and benefits for our veterans, just as there are some people who still think the world is flat or that dinosaus walked the earth at the same time as humans. The web site VA Watchdog wrote an op-ed about attacks on PTSD. The Boston Review newspaper published a article on this subject as well.
The AP article was a disservice to veterans as it may perpetuate stereotypes of veterans with PTSD as frauds, when the science clearly shows they are not. At VCS we encourage our veterans with PTSD symptoms to seek care from VA. They may have to wait and wade through red tape, yet veterans groups and VA are working hard to fix that, too.
PTSD is Real; PTSD Fraud is Not
Most veterans return home from war and readjust well, yet a recent Stanford University study estimated up to 35 percent of returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans may develop PTSD.
We ask AP to cover the real challenges facing many of our veterans, such as unemployment, waiting for claims, timely access to care, stigma, and more. In our view, PTSD is real, and charges of PTSD fraud are not. AP should be reporting about success stories among veterans, about how to identify veterans at risk, and where veterans and families can get help, especially factual information from VA.
AP should correct their story and apologize for stigmatizing veterans. We are still waiting for a reply from AP.
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13 Responses to "PTSD is Real, PTSD Fraud is Not – Veterans rebuttal to AP"
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how is someone not investigating this??
The 'greatest generation" says: "All dese kids is frauds!"
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Anyone who says PTSD is a fraud has not been to war. What effects some does not effect others.
Today we have IED's. In Iraq most victims from what I read are truck drivers, not from what the Army calls combat arms. Being a survivor of one of these short time events and coming home has to be extreme. How do you adjust back home?
I am an ex Marine Vietnam grunt. What I went through was severe. For instance in one day two Marine grunt companies ceased to exist because of a day long fire fight with the NVA, and the amount of casualties. To Marines like me in Vietnam this was not an isolated experience.
What the Russian soldier went through was pure hell. In the week during the fighting for and fall of Berlin the Russians had more killed then the US has in all it's wars. I am sure to Americans even veterans this is hard to imagine.
What I would like to see is how German and Russian survivors of combat experience adjusted after WW 2. I have a feeling in many cases it was easier. It was easier because in their countries they were not isolated from society because all the people knew what the pain trauma of was was all about.
Not so in the United States. In the US war is a bumper sticker where you support the troops.
The American Holocaust (Population Control): The Gov't has an App for that
It's called the D T Y D – deny til you die app. Deny everything – social security, earthquakes, justice, healthcare, jobs, religion, va benefits (PTSD?), 911, agent orange, Collusion etc. Create a climate in which you either kill one another or self-destruction. Free Dumb? The National Goal (Executive Order 12871)is reduce gov't (we the people) and gov't spending (expenditures).
In – God (Government of Deceivers) you trust?
Economics over Justice equals terrorism
Waking up Sleepers………
CooN by YA(YHVH)
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Join me as I try to reengage society again so that I may chase the dream of finishing college with Combat PTSD.
Thanks so much for your insight Scott,
You can do it Bro, I did.
In fact, I went to college on the Vietnam GI Bill not knowing I had bi-polar (a cognitive disorder folks are born with). Hell had the Army known I was bi-polar I would have never gotten in.
I take that back I enlisted under Robert McNamara's Project 100,000 (Google it). The other Regular Army (RA) types called us the Dummy or Retard Division, because the Army went beyond lowering standards to accepting folks who were nearly off the measure on any Intelligence test and I don't mean Genius. I was a high school drop out.
When I returned from the war, I had an Army rubber stamped high school GED that most colleges, even those lowering their standards for admission laughed at.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County send me to night school to earn a GED that colleges would accept.
Anyway, I got into U of M, and Vietnam Vets formed our own fraternities so to speak through the official VA office. One way to look at it was if we couldn't beat the VA join the VA.
You'd be amazed the crap GIs come up with when we unite on any college campus then or NOW.
For my generation it was same as you:
1. How to get our frigging VA ed checks on time. I waited sic frigging months and damn I worked for the VA. Took contacting my Congress critter in B-more to get paid.
That's one problem most GIs face then as now, in the Army or Marines what have you, we are brainwashed into believe YO-you don't go to Congress to initiate a Congressional for no reason no way, even if ya knew how to. When it finally dawns on ya that the Pentagon (or your former service) can't slam ya for it boom hit the Congress with all the ammo you've got.
2. We had a network on campus of just Vets. First was getting our GI bill on time, and second was how to get an edumaction ON THE CHEAP!
Voila, Community Colleges (2-year colleges) were just being born in the 1970s, hell George Mason in DC began in a store front as a community college back in the day. Near us was Catonsville Community College, so word quickly spread among the GIs at U of M that YO, we could finish our first two years of college on the cheap in Junior college then transfer credits. This was a brilliant idea given that what the VA paid you to go the school was nothing to live on even if you were single.
Well nuff of MY WAR STORY, suffice it to say that my wife who works at Wright State University here in Ohio told me that the Iraq and Afghanistan Vets on her campus are having a hard time getting organized, dealing with the VA. or encouragement to stay in college as they fight PTSD or whatever else ails them.
I plan on becoming a volunteer and mentor to help these guy and gals get on their feet as we did back in the day.
You youngsters have begun to organize on quite a few college across the nation, but still have quite a way to go. Those of us Vietnam and Gulf War Vets able to take advantage of the Vietnam GI Bill should fall out to help you young Vets get set up and running then turn ya loose.
Bobby Hanafin
The Mustang Major
Thanks Bobby, it is tough to make people understand the mental feats that I have to accomplish within my head and have people look at me like I'm crazy. Either way it is uncomfortable to be considered a malinger when your sanity is closely escaping.
I'm glad they didn't delete you too, Texas Grunt. I've never been to war. I was in the military during peacetime. I got my PTSD from another job. Even after six years, I'm still having bad dreams (I don't call them nightmares because the nightmares are worse and haven't shown up yet). I do know three and four tours in Iraq or Afghanistan is too much. And you can't recreate the pain and horror of war by sitting in a chair with a joystick. Where's the heat and the dust and the smells? Where's the loneliness, the concern for loved ones left behind. The concern for what's going to happen to them if something happens to you. No, you can't recreate these things and it's impossible to get over them. It just becomes another battle to try to become whole again.
Brother Gilmore, we don't delete comments without cause or because the lingo is colorful, only if it is BULLSHIT.
Bobby Hanafin
The Mustang Major
It is hard to believe that out of all those millions of sperm, Allen Breed swam the fastest!
Except where did you get the handle Musashi – love it.
Yep, I do know who the great swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is.
Bobby Hanafin
The Mustang Major
"Support Our Troops." Used early in the invasion and occupation of Iraq as a counter to the growing anti-war movement, this patriotic slogan has since undergone a metamorphosis. As the scores of mentally disturbed soldiers return from the battle fields to their home-towns and try to re-integrate into society, their friends and families are learning that no amount of support can ever heal the psychological wounds that soldiers suffer. I invite you to my political discussion blog: http://pltcldscsn.blogspot.com/
Will check out your website when I'm not manic Bro.
Seriously, I want to relate better to what my younger brothers and sisters are feeling and fighting during their War at Home if I intend being an effective voluntary adviser and mentor.
Bobby Hanafin
The Mustang Major
I agree with Texas Grunt. You can turn the VIRTUAL display on and off, get up and walk away. There is no switch, nor is there any place to go. You can run but you can't hide. I've spent 39 years trying. I suppose it is possible to fool the system from time to time. It is also quite possible most of those applying for PTSD disability have suffered some type of situation in service that has haunted them and will continue to haunt them the rest of their lives. The beauracratic system we face is sometimes as bad as previous encounters on foreign soil. The major difference being, this was suppose to be "Our Country" and not a place that puts more effort into proving you to be a liar and cheat than those efforts put forth to help. I spent 26 years working for VA. I know first hand that at least two facilities have denied qualified vets a job in their workforce and placed an ex-convict with no military service in that job. I have this gut feeling about how much effort was put into investigating this travesty of justice. Much less than put forth in denying vets claims!!! We've got such a long way to go,
Thank you Major Hannifan, good post by you AND VCS. My personal experiences might be trivial compared to many Vets, yet, they would be nearly impossible to duplicate. I consider myself more than competent at virtual reality and simulation. However, there is no "program" that can simulate or emulate 1) the actual experiene and accompanying feelings of seeing flame come out of an enemy's gun barrel (fortunately slightly off line) and actually seeing a bullet blur passing over my right shoulder/ear area — no less the mental results of my response (try diving and rolling an unsuspected way with a joystick — then the experience of returning deadly fire and watching another human flop helplessly 2) try simulating looking down at a buddy with the whole back of his gone, sightless eyes flopping desperately in front of the pink emptiness, the stink of defacation and urine. I could go on, but you got the point, at least some readers do. The older I get the more vivid these and other memories become. Recreating them virtually or with talk sessions only increases the headaches because it refreshes everything. Enhances it. Makes it more vivid. Makes the dreams more devastating, my night sweats increase, my heart race. And I'm just an average grunt who witnessed death and destruction up close and personal over 50 times; avoided it myself two major hospitalized times … I'm not talking any more about this. It is so depressing. The end of the rope is getting ever closer — I'll have to face it all soon.
And what is so stupid, is I did it all for these unreliable, untrustworthy people who call themselves the modern Americans. PTSD or whatever you want to call it, is real. SO REAL. You wimps of the world, you so-called jounalists, you so-called debunking researchers have no idea.
Texas Grunt.
Bob, you can delete the above post if you want. I should never have let the wimps peek into my private hell. I apologize on Mother's Day. Other than that, screw them all. And don't screw with anymore Vets. We'll come back and haunt you until the end of your days, and beyond. Trust me, it's doable.
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Mine is # 13. It is 7 inches! am considering putting it in a corner & making my sashings smaller. maybe I will let it alone for a while and eventually take it apart again
Ohhhhh, I love the Christmas blocks. I have 15 blocks done. I think I will do a couple more today, it's dark and rainy and I have finished reading another book by Cookson.
I am going home now and tonight I'm once again attempting #7. I'm going slowly and using Honchey's ideas above.
Will let you know how it goes tomorrow.
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I looked at 18. That is a draw on graph paper and pp for me.
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St. Cloud Metro Unemployment Rate Dropped in May
UNDATED – The unemployment rate for the St. Cloud metro area dropped last month.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development says the local unemployment rate was at 5.1 percent in May, down from 5.8 percent in April.
The local unemployment rate dipped slightly below the statewide average of 5.3 percent. It's also well below the national average of 7.6 percent.


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Hayden senior Jorge Valdez waits for his chance to go up with a shot Thursday as the Tigers scored a 72-57 victory against Green River in the opening round of the Steamboat Springs Shoot-Out at Steamboat Springs High School. The win put Hayden in the tournament semifinals. The team plays Montrose at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
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i want to know why my kids teacher is GONE
It's none of your damn business why she's not there.... for all you fricken know she's suffering from some form of cancer... Is your child learning? Being protected while at school and treated with respect? If you answered yes to all of the above then btfo..
Wow...you totally overstepped.
It is none of your business. I'd been mad too.
Your child is getting an education......have some compassion.
You were out of line calling the teacher at home. You called the school. If they didn't tell you then it is personal and none of your business. If you have concerns they need to be directed at the school, not the teacher at home.
If the school is fine with it then there must be a valid reason.
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Sociobacteriology: Small Cells Talking And Listening -- And How It May Affect You If You Go Under the Knife
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In the early 1980s, I was fortunate to observe that lab strain E. coli colonies are organized structures displaying spatially differentiated expression of their genomes. Each colony was a flower. This observation immediately told me that the bacteria grew as interactive populations capable of coordinating their activities.


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NJ Undocumented Students About to be Eligible for In-State Tuition
Tears streamed down Silvia Huerta's face. The 19-year-old had just stood at a news conference and listened as Democratic leaders announced a compromise with Republican Gov. Christie on a bill giving in-state tuition to undocumented students.
"To think back at all the opportunities that are hopefully soon going to open up for so many students...it really gets me excited to think of all my friends who may go to school now, and pursue of their dreams," she said. "So it's really just exciting — and emotional."
For weeks, it was unclear if the so-called Dream Act was going to pass. The governor had recently been critical of the bill, saying he didn't like a provision that would make undocumented students eligible for financial aid. Democrats relented, agreeing to approve a bill without that provision, but they vowed to get the financial aid piece passed when Christie leaves office in four years.
"Or sooner," said Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a reference to Christie's expected presidential run.
Christie won 51 percent of the Hispanic vote in his re-election after promising to sign the bill. But when he began to criticize it, critics accused him of selling the group out. He said he now expected an "apology letter" from those critics.
"Shame on you for accusing me and others of playing politics on this issue," Christie said at a news conference. "You were wrong. And I hope you admit you were wrong."
New Jersey become the 14th state to pass such a bill. California, New Mexico and Texas go a step further, making undocumented immigrants eligible for financial aid.


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Awesome progress ^^
hay thexs ;)
judging by the pictures i would say your not new to costume making , absolutely amazing !
Cute <3
Omg that's so cute ;A;~
Great job, it looks amazing~
this is fantastic! you will look sooo cute ^_^
this looks amazing :)
thexs every one, im a fashion graduate but im a bit of a newbe at cosplays, its realy fun thou xxxxxxxx
Wow, that's really beautiful! >w<
So much detailing!
Looks awesome so far!! ^^
Thexs, can't wait to see what you come up with for next years expo x
I Love this dress and you looked a natural in the masquerade! Really beautiful! :)
Dress pwiddy. O,O<
Is there one photo of the actual cosplayer wearing it?
I remember seeing this! You looked very pretty~ So cute! I love how you did all the ruffles~ (I do have a picture of you from the masquerade but will probably take a while for me to get them onto photobucket D: )
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Esti this is an amazing piece of work! just beautifull.
We NEED to cosplay together one day!!!^^
:) wow I'm flaterd, iv always wanted to group cosplay, yes we def have to do something together, just let me know wen you have time. The cosplay your making at the moe must be taking you time it looks real hard to make espeshuly the tail
Would be great fun cosplaying together i think ^^.
And yeh Adiane is taking me a while, and suprisingly the tail is the first thing i am making and has been easy so far because of the way i am doing it ;)
Although Chii has been cosplayed loads of time, you were simply the best Chii I ever saw in real life. The costume is so pretty and well made!
Btw, it was nice to see you and chat to you backstage at the masquerade ^^
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There is one administrator assigned to Wasuma School. All learning opportunities at Wasuma School are based on California Standards. Teachers utilize a wide variety of approaches and strategies to help meet individual student needs across all curricular areas. Instructional assistants work with students who are having difficulty mastering important concepts or who are not having success in meeting grade level standards. A student study team process is in place to assist students who are making little progress. Teachers are encouraged to collaborate on a regular basis about assessment strategies and instructional techniques. Regular assessment providing a great deal of information about student learning is a part of each student�s experience at Wasuma School.


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Sometimes you just need a moment to stare off into the universe despite the sun's cycle or weather conditions.
Lose yourself in color in these landscapes around the world, from pink lakes in the Caribbean to the neon lights of Tokyo.
Photographer Jeff Miles was taking photographs of the night sky in Western Australia on Tuesday when he witnessed a bright purple lightning bolt.
The worst air turbulence could become more common because of climate change, according to a new study out of the University of Reading published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.
A rainy winter has made for incredible displays of flowers throughout Southern California.
Baseball season is officially under way — a sure (and welcome) sign of summer.
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A week before the regular season starts – with the Vancouver Canucks hacking along, losing most of their preseason outings – a new-and-improved, or at least calmer, John Tortorella has emerged.
Calm. An adjective that rarely finds itself in the same sentence, paragraph, or even story as the 55-year-old coach.
Tortorella has kept his temper and profanity-spiked spiels completely corked, so the only bits of umbrage sighted have been tiny scraps: a dislike for his players preening on Twitter or an irksome arched eyebrow over an accidental ringing mobile phone at a news conference.
Thursday morning in Vancouver, it was more good feelings ahead of the team's last preseason game, against the New York Rangers, the team that fired Tortorella last spring, his temper and tenuous relations with players being a factor in the exit.
Preparing his Canucks during a 45-minute morning film session, Tortorella assembled a set of 40 clips, not from the 5-0 loss in San Jose on Tuesday night but instead from the team's 6-1 victory on Monday night at home against Phoenix. It was praise the positive. Tortorella described the game as the closest the Canucks have come to playing in the spirit of his system, one heavy on puck protection, work on the boards and fore-checking.
Among the plays circled was a clip of rookie Bo Horvat, who, along with Hunter Shinkaruk, looks like he will make the opening-night roster, if only sticking around for several games. Horvat, in the first period against Phoenix, was in his own zone with the puck, shielded it against pressure and pushed it across the ice to a defenceman to start the team's move out of the zone.
"He's been awesome," said Horvat after practice of Tortorella. "He brought the positives out of everything. There was no negativity whatsoever."
Daniel Sedin reported no news to report.
"I haven't really seen too much from Tortorella yet," said Sedin. There's been no shouting, per se, though the volume on and off the ice is a little bit louder than with Alain Vigneault, fired from Vancouver and returning in an official capacity for the first time this week.
"So far," said Sedin of his new coach, "it's been calm."
It is the result – we will have to see how long it lasts – of an intense introspection, the period during which Tortorella burrowed after being fired and assessed himself, his failings. He rued that he became to be known as "that lunatic." On Thursday, with Rangers beat reporters seeing the man they had known for several years, many of the same questions were broached. Tortorella parried a question on his feelings of getting fired so swiftly after the playoffs – "I'm not going to get into that. I'm not going to go back to what happened" – and spoke generally of "adjustments" he's made, basically being kinder/gentler with the veterans.
"Yeah, yeah, I am trying to be a better coach," Tortorella said.
The team, however, does not look as though it's about to be any better than it was last year. Some sort of injection seems required among the bottom-six forwards, if general manager Mike Gillis can make something happen in the next several days. The power play remains weak and the Canucks are still figuring out how to play in the style of Tortorella. The result, often, has been confusion on the ice and, against San Jose, numerous odd-man rushes and a 5-0 loss. A lot of "mistakes," said Tortorella.
It is not yet time for industrial language or bulging veins. After the Rangers game Thursday night, the Canucks have four practices scheduled – Friday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday – before next Thursday's opening night on the road, in San Jose. The Thursday film session was part of the effort to quickly shape the team in Tortorella's image.
"We're trying to instill how we want to play," the coach said. "It's not the fighting, it's not the banging, it's protecting the puck, it's sustaining the fore-check."
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Canada Income Inequality: Trickle-Down Tax Policy Is Alive And Well In The True North
NDP leadership hopeful Brian Topp launched the latest salvo in the clash between rich and poor Monday. Declaring growing income inequality to be today's central economic issue, Topp detailed a series of proposed tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy aimed at narrowing the earnings gap.
Topp's proposals would see a rollback of some $18 billion in tax breaks enacted under successive Liberal and Conservative governments. His ideas come as many on the left in Canada have begun to question the direction in which Ottawa's tax policies have taken the country. Pointing to the income gap, they argue tax policy simply isn't as good at alleviating income inequality as it used to be. And new tax breaks — Tax-Free Savings Accounts and the proposed expansion of income-splitting to families— may only make things worse.
More on income inequality at Mind The Gap: Living In Unequal Cities A Health Risk.. Canadians Earning Less As Inflation Outstrips Wage Gains.. How The Income Gap Raises Home Prices For All Of Us.. Full Coverage..
Though the ideas are timely, they are part of a wider, generations-long ideological conflict.
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan declared that "There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it."
More than 110 years later, the struggle continues between those who believe lower taxes will lead to increased investment and greater prosperity and those who argue the wealthiest in society should pay for measures to help lift the least fortunate out of poverty. Proponents of low taxes, however, are getting their way in Canada.
Those who argue against the tax-cutting agenda point to the fact that wealth in Canada is increasingly concentrated among the wealthiest few.
During the period from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, the richest one per cent took home just 8 per cent of growth in total income. Between 1997 and 2007, before the financial crisis cooled the nation's hot economy, the richest one per cent of Canadians took home 31.8 per cent of the growth.
The wealthy aren't just taking more of the growth, they are taking more of the total income pie as well.
"[From] 1980 to the present, the top one per cent's share changed from about 8 per cent of all income to about 14 per cent of all income," says McMaster University economist Michael Veall.
While those at the top are taking home more than they have in 100 years, real wages are actually falling at the bottom of the income spectrum. Between 1980 and 2006, according to Statistics Canada, median income for the bottom 20 per cent fell by $4000, or around 20 per cent once adjusted for inflation. During the same period, the top 20 per cent saw their median income grow by $12,000, or more than 16 per cent.
But this trend isn't swaying the Conservative government's steadfast belief in low taxes as the way to stimulate the economy.
"We've got one of the lowest tax regimes in the world now and we have businesses coming to Canada specifically saying 'We came here to open a business because it's a low-tax environment.' When they come here they hire people. It's simple," says Minister of State for Finance Ted Menzies, pointing to the "120 different taxes" the Tories have reduced since 2006.
And not everyone agrees that income inequality really is growing -- or that it should be seen as a problem.
"The whole notion of income inequality and that it's growing is a complete myth," says Neils Veldhuis, senior economist at the Fraser Institute.
"When you think about income inequality you've got to bring in mobility. Most of us at one point in time … were in the bottom 10 per cent or 20 per cent of income earners. So we were going to school, trying to make ends meet, working one or two jobs. We get out of school … you have a low paying job, you get some experience, you save some money. Twenty years from now you're no longer in the bottom 20 per cent of income earners."
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Yet there is no doubt wealthy Canadians are paying less tax than they did in the past. In 1948, the top marginal tax rate was 80 per cent on incomes over $250,000, or $2.37 million in today's dollars. The top rate in 2009, averaged across Canada to account for different provincial rates of taxation, was 42.9 per cent for incomes above $126,264. The last time wealthy Canadians faced a tax burden this light was in the roaring 1920s.
The income tax system has become less progressive over time. In 1948 we had 19 tax brackets, we now have four, says Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Today, the top federal income tax bracket of 29 per cent kicks in at $128,800. There are no further brackets for higher earners. The United States' system is actually more progressive, with six federal income tax brackets and a top rate of 35 per cent, kicking in it at $379,151.
"We've turned a progressive income tax system more and more into one that is becoming increasingly regressive," says Peter Julian, the NDP's finance critic. Taking into account all taxes, Julian argues a lower-middle class secretary can now end up paying a higher percentage of income in taxes than her wealthy boss. "I mean that's an absurd situation."
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story indicated there were 17 tax brackets in 1948. There were actually 19.
While decreases in taxation may correlate with increases in inequality, most economists agree that changes in tax law aren't the cause of the widening gulf between rich and poor.
"I don't think tax policy has created inequality, I think that has happened through the marketplace and how people in different types of occupations have had their work valued over time," offers Yalnizyan. "But I don't think recent trends in tax policy have worked to minimize the gap as much as it could."
Critics of current policy point to the decline of the welfare state as an explanation for rising inequality.
"Through the gradual gutting of social programs and the cutbacks that we've seen and massive corporate tax cuts, we've now turned back the clock on income inequality to where it was prior to the Great Depression," argues the NDP's Julian.
The Conservatives maintain low taxes are the best way to stimulate the economy.
"Forbes Magazine put us number one as best place to invest, lowest tax environment for the world. So that's what grows the economy," says Menzies.
One of the most controversial, and popular, of these low-tax initiatives is the Tax-Free Savings Account, which some critics suggest contributes to the growing income gap.
The Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) came into effect on January 1, 2009. Any Canadian aged 18 or older can invest $5,000 each year in the account and any capital gains earned on the money will not be taxed. Money can be withdrawn from the account at any time.
The measure has been popular, but who is benefitting most has become a matter of fierce debate. In just under three years, 41 per cent of eligible Canadians have opened a TFSA. Nearly half, 46 per cent, of those who earn more than $100,000 per year have opened one, more than in any other income group, according to a survey recently conducted by Angus Reid for ING Direct. How much money has been deposited by each earnings group remains a mystery. "I think the evidence shows that that's the kind of tax change, that while it's sold to the public as providing more choice and opportunities and everything else, really the only people who can benefit from it are the ones that have enough disposable income," says Charles Beach, an economist at Queen's University. "Someone who's unemployed or living on low income, they simply don't benefit from that. So that's the kind of tax cut that I think favours those with the higher income."
The Fraser Institute's Niels Veldhuis points out data on the TFSA remains scarce and that we shouldn't rush to judgment. That said, he argues that any vehicle which leads to more savings must be good for the economy. "It is positive regardless who is using it. The more savings we get, the more investment we get, the better off we all are." It's a matter of "fundamental economics," asserts Conservative Minister of State for Finance Ted Menzies. "Investments put in a bank are utilized by the banks to lend out to grow other businesses."
Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives (CCPA), questions the supply-side argument that savings will translate into investment and investment into jobs and economic growth, especially since the TFSA was introduced during the "nadir of the economic meltdown." She argues consumer demand is more important than investment for stimulating growth. "In the middle of this economic calamity, the federal government introduces a measure that does the opposite of what every other nation around the world is trying to do, which is to stimulate aggregate demand. Instead the government is favouring a program that tells people to pull money out of the economy. Stop spending, start saving. That is lunacy, there is no other word for it."
Soon, Canadians will likely get the chance to put away even more money into their TFSAs. The Conservatives promised during the last election campaign to increase the annual contribution limit to $10,000 per year once there is a return to balanced budgets.
The increase in the TFSA limit isn't the only tax shelter expansion the Tories are planning to introduce once deficits are a thing of the past. They also plan to extend income splitting — a measure currently only available to pensioners — to parents:
In 2007, the Conservative government introduced pension-income splitting for seniors. The measure allows a senior to combine his or her pension income with their spouse or common-law partner and then divide incomes equally for tax purposes. It benefits couples in which one partner is taxed at a higher rate than the other.
The expansion of the program to families -- which the Conservatives have promised to introduce once the country returns to balanced budgets -- would allow parents with children under 18 years of age to split their incomes, up to a maximum of $50,000 each year, for tax purposes. According to the Tories, this would allow one parent to stay home or work part-time in order to help raise children. There is a strong element of family values in the Tory plan. "Call me old fashioned, but I think [it's] wonderful ... if one of the parents is able to stay home and raise the kids, even if it's just in their early ages. So it's not high-income earners, it's actually middle-income earners that have chosen quality of life, that want to spend time raising their kids, those are the people that I see using income splitting," says Minister of State for Finance Ted Menzies.
Estimates made by the Library of Parliament on the effects of income splitting for families found the relatively well-off would get the lion's share of the benefits. In 2007, it estimated the total cost of the program to be roughly $2.16 billion. Of that money, around $1.33 billion, or nearly 62 per cent, would go to families making more than $90,001 per year before taxes. Families earning $60,001 - $90,000 would get $661 million in breaks, those making $30,001 - $60,000 would collect $166 million and those making less than $30,000 would receive $12 million. A C.D. Howe study released last month concluded 40 per cent of total benefits from the measure would go to families with incomes above $125,000. According to StatsCan, the median family income in Canada in 2009 was $68,410. The authors of the study have argued in The Globe and Mail that the measure is "irremediably flawed."
Minister of State for Finance Ted Menzies denies that income-splitting will largely benefit the wealthy. "A lot of those families tend to have two high-income earners, so there's no benefit to splitting," he says. "It's the ones where there's a great deviation, maybe one of the parents is only working a very part-time job two days a week and the other one is working full-time, it allows them to split that and spend more time with their family."
With the Occupy Movement making headlines around the world, the debate about what measures should be implemented to address income inequality is heating up.
While increasing taxes on the rich is perhaps the most talked about proposal for mitigating the effects of the income gap, it is only one among many.
Another idea is to bring back an estate tax, or, as critics often call it, a "death tax." The measure could come in many different forms, but the essential idea is for the government to tax inheritance at a very steep rate, perhaps as much as 100 per cent, above a certain threshold.
Canada had just such a tax until 1972, when it was replaced with the capital gains tax.
"The only people that are complaining are the people that didn't make the money in the first place. So you could put a limit on an estate of a million or million and a half dollars and tax above that," says Yalnizyan. "We're looking at trillions of dollars passing between the generations as the Boomers die, we've got to get that sucker in place if we want to be able to fund a decent world for the next generation."
The CCPA economist isn't alone in supporting such a measure. Queen's University economist Robin Boadway argues an estate tax would help to make Canada's system more progressive overall. "The only element of progressivity in the system is the income tax … We don't have an inheritance tax which even the U.S. has, although it's a bit moribund."
Estate taxes traditionally face vehement opposition from the super-rich, and the lengths some wealthy people have considered to escape them are shocking.
In 2009, a fumble by the U.S. Senate allowed the estate tax to lapse. As of January 2010, it ceased to exist in the United States. However, due to a sunset provision, it was set to return at the start of 2011. This gave a temporary incentive for the wealthy to commit suicide before the tax came back, a potential strategy made famous in an article in The Wall Street Journal.
Besides an estate tax, Boadway points to an expansion of Canada's existing system of refundable tax credits as a way to mitigate inequality. Currently, Canada has three such credits: the Working Income Tax Benefit, the Child Tax Benefit and the GST/HST tax credit.
Because the poorest Canadians often pay no income tax at all, these credits are a way to help the poor in the simplest way possible: by giving them money.
"Even if you don't owe any taxes … you get a refund from the government," Boadway explains. "Making all credits refundable would effectively turn the tax system into a negative income tax system … I would really emphasize people at the bottom end of the income distribution and not make transfers to people in the middle that don't need it."
Another suggestion for mitigating income inequality which has picked up steam since the financial crisis is a global tax on financial transactions, a proposal which was opposed by Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty at the G20.
Minister Menzies argues such a tax would be passed onto consumers. "I think you know as well as I do who pays the tax. It'll be you and I." Citing the strength of Canada's banks compared to their U.S. counterparts, Menzies asks why we should "punish the good."
The NDP's Julian says it's these sorts of regulations that allowed Canada's banks to escape relatively unscathed in the first place.
"For the Conservatives to then go overseas and say 'No, we don't want to see any sort of regulations or any sort of braking system in place for international financial speculation,' it is just highly irresponsible and it shows they just don't understand what kinds of policies need to be in place to support ordinary working families."
While there are numerous proposals for mitigating inequality through taxation, it's the notion of raising income and capital gains taxes on the rich that has recently captured the imagination of the press, protesters and politicians around the world.
In a recent paper, picked up on by Paul Krugman, economists Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez suggest 76 per cent is the optimal marginal income tax rate for top earners to maximize government revenues. Any higher and behavioural responses, such as avoiding taxes or working less, actually reduce revenue.
It is these behavioural responses which some economists point to as a reason not to increase taxes on the wealthy.
"The most damaging impact of raising taxes on high income earners is not on current high income earners … the biggest damage is on incentives," assert the Fraser Institute's Veldhuis. "Doing that you create a disincentive for young Canadians to become the top income earners in this country. If you increasingly take away the profits from the hard work, from the investment, from entrepreneurialism, you're going to get less of it."
Charles Beach, an economist at Queen's University, argues tax avoidance is a more pronounced effect when raising taxes on the wealthy. "It's not so much they will suddenly become lazy and slovenly. It's more that in a small, open economy, people at the very top end who can afford fancy tax lawyers will find ways to evade the taxes."
Rather than increase the progressivity of the tax system, Veldhuis maintains we should flatten it outright. Asked what tax policy would be best for creating broad-based prosperity, he says "There's no question that it would be to move to a flat tax, single rate income tax to remove the disincentive that's in the current tax system." While it wouldn't happen overnight, he says such a system would stimulate economic activity and ultimately lead to higher government revenues.
Lowering taxes on the rich is an argument Armine Yalmizyan disagrees with fiercely. "We've tried every rate of exemption under the sun on capital gains under the assumption that if you let rich people keep their money they'll invest and create jobs. Well, we've had … 40 years of trickle-down theory when it comes to capital gains and at the end of those 40 years the evidence points to one undeniable conclusion: Trickle-down is a joke. Sadly, the punch line goes something like this: Trickle-down would work if it wasn't for the sponges at the top."
Raising taxes on the wealthy seems destined to remain a hypothetical as long as the Conservatives remain in power.
"I know you're going to be shocked by this, but I'm not a fan of raising taxes," says Menzies. "We think we've been very successful with the low tax plan that we've put in place."
The argument that economic prosperity rises from investment in social programs, education and infrastructure, rather than tax cuts, went viral earlier this year when a video of Elizabeth Warren, the former head of the panel which oversaw the implementation of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), hit the Internet. Watch as Warren explains why paying taxes is good for business.


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ESPN's Buster Olney checked in with Mut & Merloni on Wednesday for a Hot Stove update and a discussion about David Ortiz's future.
Ortiz has one more year remaining on his contract, and he recently said he would like to get an extension.
"From a cold-hearted, sitting-in-the-front-office point of view, it's a no-brainer. You let it play out, and you see what Ortiz does this year before you make the next deal," Olney said. "And then the reality is, I'm sure the Red Sox, they certainly value David. And they're always going to be the team that brings him in after he retires for all the old-timers days and different days and throw out the first pitch, and he'll do all that. But I'm sure that, again, if you're a cold-hearted Red Sox executive you're probably thinking, too, 'You know what, he's as tied to us as we are to him. And we're probably going to offer him the best deal of any team because of the history.' So, you're going to want to wait and see what happens.
"Now, midseason 2014, if he's raking still, then yeah, at that point you probably engage and talk about an extension. But I'm guessing they're going to want to see, just because of the fact that just a few years ago they were talking about releasing him in May, internally."
Added Olney: "I can't remember which year it was, but I know that they were concerned about at that time his performance against left-handed pitching. '¦ I think it was the time he was platooning with Mike Lowell as the DH, and he was struggling really badly and his performance was going down. I remember that May that there was a conversation in the organization about whether or not that was the right thing to do. And then he bounced back and he started hitting the ball to left field."
Olney compared Ortiz's situation to that in New York, where Derek Jeter's value is higher to the Yankees to any other team.
"The Yankees have a parallel situation going on with Derek Jeter, where in their negotiations, and just like with David, there have been some tense moments between the team and the player," Olney said. "I'm sure David feels the way that Derek does, where Derek can't really imagine that he's ever going to leave the Yankees; he's said that. Ortiz I'm sure envisions that he's going to finish his career with the Red Sox. And the reality is '¦ there are not a lot of teams right now that are employing full-time DHs. So, they would probably pay him more."
Olney explained that Jeter was able to get a boost in his last contract by making his case directly to the team's owners. Olney said Ortiz might be wise to take the same approach, because the bottom-line baseball ops staff likely won't give in to sentimentality.
"I think that's what it will come down to. If David's going to make his plea for an extension before 2014, I think his best case would be made directly with the owners," Olney said. "Because I think you're the baseball ops, you do the smart thing and you recommend that you wait to see what he is in 2014."
The market has mostly been quiet regarding starting pitchers, and Olney said it likely will stay that away until the situation with Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka gets some clarity.
"I think in general, the starting pitching market is being held up by what's going on with Masihiro Tanaka, because he's the No. 1 guy on the board," Olney said. "So, if you're in the group of second-tier guys, you're Ervin Santana, you're Ubaldo Jimenez, you need his situation to be resolved.
"I'm sure that for Tampa Bay, marketing David Price, the teams they're talking with, some of them are probably saying, 'You know what, we want to take out shot with the free agent Tanaka rather than trade some prospects away. So, I think some of that is being held up.
"Now, on the position player side, [Shin-Soo] Choo's out there, and Nelson Cruz is out there, Stephen Drew, Kendrys Morales are out there. I think it's kind of what you see is what you get. And the question is how many teams are willing to spend money.
"I had a GM say to me yesterday that it's interesting that it's almost like when you leave the winter meetings — you've got Christmas coming up and you have New Year's coming up — there are some teams that go into hibernation for a couple of weeks, and that can be frustrating for the agents."
Tanaka appears to be in line for a huge payday, more than initially anticipated, with Olney saying he hears the pitcher would prefer to play on the West Coast.
"I was surprised," Olney said. "Based on what I heard during the summer, I was hearing No. 2-type starter, I was thinking [$]80 [million], $85 million dollars. But I had some GMs say to me yesterday they think he's going to get over $100 million."
To hear the interview, go to the Mut & Merloni audio on demand page. For more Red Sox news, visit the team page at weei.com/redsox.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (May 3, 2010)—The American Council on Exercise (ACE), America's leading authority on fitness and one of the largest fitness certification, education and training organizations in the world, joins a coalition of experts to announce today its involvement with and support of The National Physical Activity Plan, a sweeping initiative to improve public health by motivating people to become and stay physically active, and to remove the barriers that may stand in their way.
"We believe in the need for a united front to inspire and empower Americans to lead more physically active lifestyles," said Scott Goudeseune, ACE president and CEO. "We agree that the National Physical Activity Plan is an initiative that will help us educate and support our communities, and that this is moving us one substantial step forward toward our ultimate goal."
The Plan, originally called for during a multi-organizational roundtable in 2006, is, in part, an answer to America's alarming rates of adult and childhood obesity and decreasing levels of physical activity. Research has shown that physical activity can help prevent and treat obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, depression, bone disease, cancer and myriad other diseases. If implemented, measures called for in the National Physical Activity Plan could significantly improve public health, cut health care costs and reduce health disparities.
"We are encouraging a new way of thinking about lifestyle, activity, mobility and general physical fitness," said Russell Pate, Ph.D., chair of the National Physical Activity Plan. "It's well established that physical activity brings manifold health benefits, but we need to change people's behavior. The Plan provides a roadmap for change, addressing everything from the education of health professionals to zoning laws, school policies and workplace wellness programs."
Leaders in public health, transportation, education, business and other fields today announced the Plan at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Following this launch, the National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity is facilitating implementation, working with ACE and the supporting organizations to coordinate teams focused on each of the sectors to implement the plan at the national, regional and grassroots levels. According to Pate, they will collectively promote public policy, track results and launch a cause-related marketing campaign to engage all audiences.
"In alignment with ACE's mission, this plan contains the strategies needed to best execute our long-term vision of creating a more-fit America," continued Goudeseune. "We are honored to be involved with such an initiative and have high expectations for a very positive outcome."
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Over 1,000 people enjoyed the wine and food at the SLO Vintners Harvest Celebration Grand Tasting at the Avila Beach Golf Resort. Twenty-seven wineries and twenty-six restaurants from the
Vintners were part of the party as they poured wine from their booths and participated in the live auction. Becky Gray, the Executive Director of the SLO Vintners Association was pleased with the day stating, "This was a big success with a record crowd and a record amount of wineries and restaurants participating. The venue here at the Avila Bach Golf Resort couldn't be better. We had sun, cool breezes, ocean views, plenty of food and wine and a great crowd."
Wineries poured new releases as well as plenty of older vintages. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Viognier, Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc were in abundance. Also to be found was a dry white Verdelho from Kenneth Volk Vineyards, the 2006 Reserve Pinot Noir and the Pinot Naturale from Salisbury Vineyards and Sextant Wines' Reserve "Nightwatch", a rich heady Zinfandel, Petite Sirah and Syrah blend.
Under the tent the auction was a lively affair and raised over $50,000. Many wine lots went for thousands of dollars. Lifestyle packages were also included with, gourmet dinners and unique trips. The Cal Poly Viticulture Department, who released their first ever student made wines, were also a recipients of generous donations of $9,000 during the auction.
Weekend activities including winemaker dinners, and open houses at wineries through out the
Participating Wineries
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Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), which results in a baby having a low weight at birth, has been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. It has been suggested that this is because the expression of key genes is altered during fetal development and that this affects disease susceptibility later in life.
Evidence to support this hypothesis and indicating that the changes in gene expression might be permanent has now been provided by Rebecca Simmons and colleagues, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, using a rat model of IUGR.
Pervious studies using the rat model of IUGR have shown decreased fetal expression of the gene Pdx1, which is critical for the development and function of the cells that become defective in type 2 diabetes (pancreatic beta-cells), and adult onset of diabetes.
In this study, expression of Pdx1 was found to be reduced in pancreatic beta-cells throughout life following IUGR. The molecular mechanisms (known as epigenetic mechanisms because they affect gene expression without altering the information in the gene) that reduced Pdx1 expression in pancreatic beta-cells were found to change during development. One mechanism was observed in the fetus, one following birth, and one after the onset of diabetes in adulthood.
Of interest, the mechanisms reducing Pdx1 gene expression in the fetus and following birth could be reversed, whereas those reducing Pdx1 gene expression in the adult were irreversible. These data provide new insight into the mechanisms by which diabetes develops in adulthood following IUGR.
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