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Ben Stein's Ideological White Out
Posted by TrumanDem at 5:44 PM 2 comments
Labels: Ben Stein, CBS This Morning, economics, Nixon
The GOP Gets Away With Another One
Posted by TrumanDem at 9:25 AM 3 comments
Labels: Democrats, Q and A, Republicans
U.S. 4th Lowest Taxed Country In The World
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Posted by TrumanDem at 10:51 PM 0 comments
Labels: conservatives, liberals, taxes, tea baggers
President Obama & Misplaced Liberal / Progressive Optimism
Friday, January 22, 2010
Posted by TrumanDem at 10:51 AM 1 comments
Air America And Its Faux Progressive Programming Shuts Down
Thursday, January 21, 2010
I felt the liberal perspective was being watered down to a more moderate/centrist dynamic with the gradual disappearance of each component of its original lineup. It finally reached the point around 2007 after bankruptcy filings and ownership changes where its progressive perspective was no longer viable as a liberal network outlet. The final nail in the coffin was when Al Franken left to run for the U.S. Senate and a self described raconteur named "Lionel" dropped into the future U.S. Senator's prime slot from 3 – 6pm. The first pronouncement by this waste of airtime was he was not a liberal or progressive but a critic at large of all things political. In other words he presented a so called moderate view within the context of conservative framing of each issue he brought up or covered. It was at this point I decided I was done with the entire network.
By then I was rooting for its demise because of its continuous use of a false label of progressive programming under the guise of self-serving non-political personalities such as Montel Williams and others. I just wanted to blow the thing up and start over with a real network that served the liberal/progressive cause.
Currently former Republicans Ed Shultz and Stephanie Miller are the recognizable faces representing the liberal/progressive perspective. Both aren't quite my cup of tea personality wise but I know the market has room for a such voices as Tom Hartman and Mike Mallory that would go along way toward moving some segments of the media away from right wing conservative issue framing and give the public a fresher view of progressive ideas and policy solutions.
Posted by TrumanDem at 11:45 PM 1 comments
Labels: Air America, issue framing, talk radio
Democratic Leadership In Full Retreat With 59 Seat Majority
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
And the reason for the Senator's almost devilish smile you might ask? The driving force of Mr. McConnell's mile wide Republican smirk can be found in his hand: a staff memo on the minority party's office letterhead condensing the current list of the post Massachusetts special election Senate race talking points from the Majority party. There, dancing across the bone white paper lightly balanced in his hand, is a line that is the source of his beaming Kentucky smile:
"It is mathematically impossible for Democrats to pass legislation on our own. Senate Republicans to come to the table with ideas for improving our nation and not obstructionist tactics."
Ok, that's not what's really taking place right now, but the dynamics of the fictional picture above being painted and presented by the MSM along with the panicky public persona of the Democratic leadership in the wake of Martha Coakley's loss in Massachusetts is. And in politics all perception is real. Even though the scenario I painted above is fictional the talking point isn't. This talking point is not only real you can find others in a similar frame by the Democratic leadership here.
Let's make this clear. The public perception of the electorate since the upset victory by Scott Brown of a panicky Democratic leadership is the frame being presented. The MSM's picture they are painting of the above fictional relationship is real. And finally the MSM's frame is as real as it gets as they continue to talk about how the Democratic leadership will now have to come to the Republicans with legislation that will get McConnell's condescending nod of approval. In other words its all about what the Democratic leadership has to do, not the Republicans. Every issued tackled by the majority party will be within the context of conservative framing in the MSM regarding all fiscal matters connected with each initiative that will include tax cuts (what a surprise), spending cuts, deregulation, the funding and non funding mandates and so on. All of this with a 41 seat minority. That's not only quite a feat, it one of stunning proportions. As a matter of fact that's a feat unprecedented in our 220+ yr. History. Nice going Harry.
There is a running joke in the progressive blogosphere that all news no matter what is good news for the Republicans. The MSM's conservative/GOP framing of the issues make it that way. Until the Democratic Party figures out how to change that landscape with an aggressive public posture and push their own issue framing they are in for a long painful ride as the opposing party no matter what status they are in. Harry Reid's leadership to date has been a disaster perception wise. At this point and with his weak position in Nevada I don't see a chance for it ever changing. I can't recall ever being this disappointed in the Democratic Party. To make matters worse and even more infuriating the rogue Senator from CT, Joseph Lieberman, finds himself in a similar position of low popularity and high unfavorables back home (upper 30's in some reports). Despite all this he has still managed to position himself as literally the most powerful man in the Senate. Yet, another historically unprecedented feat.
Until we somehow come up with new leadership I have a final suggestion for the beleaguered Harry Reid. Go out and find Robert Caro's third volume book about Lyndon Johnson's tenure as Majority leader: "Master of the Senate." Mr. Reid should then use it like a "Majority Leadership For Dummies." If ol' LBJ were alive today in his prime and running the Senate his agenda would not only get passed he would make the Republicans like it with a smile. LBJ would make Mitch McConnell look like a red headed stepchild wondering how to please to get attention while he ran circles around him.
If only.
Posted by TrumanDem at 7:52 PM 2 comments
Labels: Harry Reid Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, perception, power
A Few Words On The Massachusetts Senate Race
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The MSM meme of course will be the Democrats have to shift further right. They will still use GOP talking points to frame the issues to look "fair & balanced" and tell their viewers that if the Democrats don't follow suit on a host of issues with a shift to the right policy wise they are doomed. I'm still wondering why the GOP reaction to any win or loss is the same: to shift further right. The Democratic party seems to have the same reaction: shift rightward no matter the circumstances.
Finally, here's my suggestion for the DNC: try shifting to more progressive policy solutions for once. Then maybe, just maybe there won't be anymore Martha Coakley's. And to the MSM and the Democratic partisan hand wringers: we've won three of the last four special federal elections since 2008: NY-20, NY-23 and CA-10. The Democratic party still has the power to control the debate if they would just use it. Call your Democratically elected official now and ask them to actually use the power they were handed in Nov. 2008. If not, get out of the way and let a progressive candidate do it.
Posted by TrumanDem at 10:27 PM 0 comments
Labels: Brown, Coakley, Massachusetts Senate Race, Special Election
Wesley Clark's Future Up For Speculation
Snyder, you'll recall, recently announced his retirement from Congress, with the speculation being that he'd been driven from the race by poor polling.Great. So now we have Wes Clark thinking about running instead. If that happens, well, thanks a lot, you moron "firebaggers!"
Of course, we don't really know where Clark's head is at right now. And is a House seat really the thing for him? There's already talk about a primary challenge to Blanche Lincoln from someone like Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (granted, we're the ones doing a lot of the talking), but it should also be noted that Halter lives in AR-02, and it's not like it hasn't been said that he's mulling that race instead
What about a little switch 'em up? Keep thing interesting?
Here's just a quick example of the kind of progressive mind and thinking we need in the U.S. Senate from Clark's own piece for the September, 2002 edition of the Washington Monthly on post 9/11 policies and the run up to the invasion of Iraq:
"Soon after September 11, without surrendering our right of self defense, we should have helped the United Nations create an International Criminal Tribunal on International Terrorism. We could have taken advantage of the outpourings of shock, grief, and sympathy to forge a legal definition of terrorism and obtain the indictment of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban as war criminals charged with crimes against humanity. Had we done so, I believe we would have had greater legitimacy and won stronger support in the Islamic world. We could have used the increased legitimacy to raise pressure on Saudi Arabia and other Arab states to cut off fully the moral, religious, intellectual, and financial support to terrorism. We could have used such legitimacy to strengthen the international
coalition against Saddam Hussein."
Posted by TrumanDem at 1:53 PM 2 comments
Labels: 9/11, Blanche Lincoln, Vic Snyder, Wesley Clark
Marco Rubio On Twitter: It's A Gas
This brings me to the tea-bagger wanna be and current Republican candidate for Mel Martinez's Senate seat Marco Rubio and his twitter feed. If one is to make a comparison with his rival, Gov. Charlie Crists' twitter feed, you get quite a discrepancy between the mundane and the colorful. The interesting thing about Rubio's tweets is his response to "attacks" from liberal bloggers (ahem…) and lefty Dems. I'm not writing this post to to do a serious piece on Rubio's thinking process or deconstruct his right wing stances. Whenever he opens his mouth publicly he takes care of that. What I'm looking for is the comedic value. Let's take a look at what possible comedic possibilities Rubio's tweets might offer us:
"liberal bloggers and DEM operatives attacking me 4 opposing Obama bank tax "Never mind what haters say ignore them till they fade away #tcot"
Awww…until we fade away? How will that happen? Perhaps the next tweet might give us some insight…
"Will be @ gun show @ Lakeland Center at 12:15 today. Then Tea Party in Citrus County @ Old Ct House in Inverness @ 3. #sayfie"
Guess there is some wishful thinking on his part…at least for those supporters at the event and those tea baggers…and what's the best way to get connect with these supporters? Why how else…not through the liberal media? No way, better pick some "fair & balanced" coifs to do that…
"Check out my interview w/CNBC's Kudlow: http://bit.ly/8mDlLa 3:35 PM Jan 14th "
"I will be a guest on the Glenn Beck radio show today. You can listen @http://www.glennbeck.com/content/radio/ after 11 a.m. Eastern #sayfie 10:24 AM Jan 14"
"Will be on Kudlow Report at 7:40 on CNBC #sayfie 6:40 PM Jan 12th from Echofon "
"Will be on Fox Biz channel at 6pm with Cavuto. #sayfie"
I'm sorry I missed these. I'm wondering if Beck cried for him on the show. Better yet, wonder if ol' Beckaroo could get Marco to cry with him…
Ah, yes. Then there is that you tube video from his supporters:
"Heard about youtube video using Hitler. It's offensive & grotesque I ask supporters not to forward & hope msm does not promote it. #sayfie 9:14 PM Oct 27th, 2009 from Echofon"
C'mon Marco! Republican big tent…remember? Oh that's right, that's a Crist meme. Can't be like that. And besides with the # of non-white faces at those tea bagger events you should have no problem fitting everyone under your one size fits all tent.
Posted by TrumanDem at 10:43 AM 1 comments
The GOP & The Middle Ages: A World View
Monday, January 18, 2010
What prompted this post was Digby's piece over at Hullabaloo citing FDL's Blue Texan discussion of Scott Brown's anti evolution stance in the Massachusetts Senate Race. Back in 2005 Digby wrote a piece about how the GOP was being held hostage by the rank and files' European Middle Ages' world view of a literal theological doctrinaire belief of the book of Genesis and its creationists story:
"[…] Ben Adler asked a bunch of leading conservative intellectuals whether they believed in evolution. As far as I can tell only about half of them have any intellectual integritywhatsoever, and only one is definitively honest in my opinion: Charles Krauthamer, if you can believe that. Richard Brookheiser and William F Buckley get honorable mentions.Remember, these are highly educated people. The problem is not that they may believe in God or have a religious view of the origins of the universe. That is quite easily explained. It's the weaselly, mushy way they try to divert the question elsewhere or explain what they know is a ridiculous position. It's as if they are all terribly afraid that James Dobson might read TNR and berate them for not having a religiously correct fundamentalist view. William Kristol, as always, is the slickest guy around.
[…]And these are the people who railed against campus political correctness. What do you suppose it's like to be intellectually held hostage by people who you know for a fact are dead wrong on something? It must be excruciating."
One has to wonder why evolution is still denied by such a large body of citizens in light of the Catholic Church's record on the denial of scientific truth (i.e. Galileo). If one believes in the literal interpretation of Creation in the book of Genesis then one must also deny Galileo's view of the universe where the Sun is not the center of the universe where the Earth actually revolves around the Sun and not vice versa. I am appalled that a large percentage of the American electorate still wants to hold these Middle Ages' beliefs at the expense of scientific advancement (i.e. stem cell research). It just doesn't seem logical to me to accept these other scientific truths while denying others that are based on the same scientific research methods.
This isn't even the most bothersome thing about this. Let me conclude with a quote from a commenter on Digby's post about intelligent design:
"I recall years ago reading some statistic about how like 80% of the Chinese believed in evolution like 40% of Americans.
It's probably more like 95/25 these days.
I await the arrival of our Chinese overlords any day now."
Posted by TrumanDem at 3:59 PM 2 comments
Labels: creationism, evolution, religion, science
The GOP: the "Party of Life" - With A Price
Sunday, January 17, 2010
This is what makes the health care reform debate even more infuriating. Forget the argument that along with South Africa we were the only two nations left in the world without a national/universal health care system. Now that South Africa finally threw the towel in on that one we're all that's left standing. Forget that entire line of argument for it means nothing to the conservative mind. According to the "Party of Life" or the "Party of Family Values" the only good ideas in the world come only from the conservative American mind. So the idea that the rest of the world is on to something isn't open for discussion. The thing that continues to leave me open mouthed in amazement though is why the GOP or rabid conservative proponent isn't called for what they are if you take the logic of their argument to its logical conclusion: they are the "Party of Life / Family Values"…with a price. For some reason liberals or progressive will not call them on this with the exception of a lone elected official or two who is immediately labeled as a loon or extreme. Rep. Alan Grayson comes to mind.
If their argument is health care is a privilege and not a right then what they are saying is your life has a monetary price or value affixed. The longevity of your life is based on weather or not you get sick or ill and have the means to pay for care. Otherwise, you are expendable to the community at large. The comical thing about this is the Darwinian view of natural selection based on good health and the means to pay for health care they have in a party that doesn't believe in evolution. If one would like to connect this to their "pro-life" frame in context of the argument of being anti abortion then it becomes even more insane. Have the baby. Then the Darwinian view of natural selection will kick in. You can live as long as you can afford it medically. In other words your life is a commodity like something you find on a shelf in a mall. That's some "Party of Life" value they have there.
I'm still trying to reconcile 43 million Americans being without health care and untold millions that have health care coverage that is inadequate and based on a pre-existing condition trapping them in a job that may not pay as well as a job they could be getting putting more money into an economy based on consumer spending. The logic here is insane. Not only that with this many uninsured Americans and people trapped in a catch 22 situation with regards to the flawed coverage they do have how is it the body electorate isn't feeling the pressure to do something about universal health care. Will it take a larger crisis and a more bankrupt system to move it toward fruition? My only conclusion is yes. But my final question is how many people will have to die unnecessarily before that happens? Apparently, a lot.
Liberals and progressives will continue to try to find candidates to run for office that believe otherwise. Then maybe, just maybe, they will have the wherewithal to finger and label the GOP for what they are: the party that puts a price on human life. Meanwhile us "bleeding heart" liberals will continue to look at human life for what it is value wise: priceless.
Posted by TrumanDem at 7:13 PM 0 comments
Labels: conservative, health care reform, liberal, universal health care
Halperin & Heilman's Excerpts From Game Change Epitomizes A Vacuous Press
Saturday, January 16, 2010
The most unsurprising aspect of what we have been teased with is just how much of a hack both Halperin and Heilmen seems to be. Their writing style comes straight out of the Maureen Dowd School of heavy handed and churlish dependence on a high school worldview of personalities. One can only imagine if Theodore White or Hugh Sidey were still alive today to see the road their profession has taken. They would both be reaching for Kevorkian's work on painless suicide to escape the pain and crushing disappointment over how the profession they devoted their whole lives to is now pilloried with talentless hacks with juvenile deductive abilities and an appetite for the prurient.
Let's take a look at two examples we've been teased with so far: John & Elizabeth Edwards and Sarah Palin. To be fair about my own prejudices and bias I was an Edwards supporter. He was my first choice over both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. There is no doubt there is some truth to the assertions Halperin and Heilman make. My question to both of these low life night crawlers is this: how really hard was it to attack and sully Elizabeth Edwards' public persona? We are presented with a woman who has been handed a potential medical death sentence with the type of cancer she has and this was followed by revelations her husband was a philanderer. I'm not sure how hard it was to dig up dirt on a woman whose life and family are falling apart right before her eyes. How was she supposed to react to all of this? With dignified stoicism and emotionless aplomb? Not everyone is made the same way and we all have different ways dealing with life and death situations when we have been handed one. The question you will never hear from Chris Matthews or any of his ilk is how the deconstruction of the Edwards marriage gives us insight to the political dynamic that leads to electability and/or governing?
As for John Edwards, is it really news that he might have a somewhat phony public persona and isn't really the humble southern lawyer he presented to the public? For students of the American political process and the junkies that follow this stuff its not news or a revelation that having a certain level of phoniness is inherent to the political profession. One might delve into the degree and level of phoniness the candidate possesses but is it really news? As a supporter of John Edwards I expected two things. First, that he had a progressive agenda he would follow through on if elected. Second, that he be as informed as possible about world affairs with some original ideas and the history of the American political process indicating an awareness of who and what we are as a people. He was fulfilling those requirements I was looking for. When it was revealed that the flaws he is endowed with not only made his electability problematic but would interfere with his ability to govern I was ready to move on. Yeah, I was disappointed and hurt but that's part of being engaged in the political process and putting an emotional investment in a candidate.
John Edwards' relationship with his wife isn't for me to sit in judgment of. Everyone's marriage is different and personal not open to public approval. These two guys write as though they are two junior high school students delighting and smirking over an intimate personal relationship and the fragile dynamics that take place when they don't live up to the expectations between the two people involved. Again, writing about this stuff says volumes about who they are and who they want to appeal to.
Then there is Sarah Palin. If one is to take some of the things about the Edwards' with a grain of salt the same has to happen regarding the right wing Wasilla Queen of the low informed voter. The picture they paint of her as being ignorant of basic American history and the political process is not news. I sure as hell didn't need these two sewer dwellers to tell me she was the epitome of an incurious amalgamation of right wing cliché's with little understanding of what they all mean coupled with an uninformed background of basic world affairs. The problem Steve Schmidt found himself with is it didn't matter how much information they jammed her head with, it was all out of context for her because she never bothered to find out how the world works and how we as a people all arrived to where we are today. This is news? The Katie Couric interview alone revealed all of that in spades. I didn't need these two dimwits to pile on more evidence. The descriptions reserved for her inside the dynamics of the McCain campaign would be easy to believe for anti Palinistas such as myself. But really, McCain's campaign came to despise her and we should believe everything that comes out of their mouths?
Posted by TrumanDem at 10:52 AM 1 comments
Labels: book review, Edwards, Game Change, Palin, What It Takes
The Decade Of Conservatism
Sunday, January 03, 2010
"Here's the thing about the naughts: there was nothing magic about the numbers. It wasn't because of a double-zero in the middle of the dates that we launched an invasion that's cost the lives of thousands of Americans, the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and a trillion dollars plus out of the pocketbooks of taxpayers. We launched into that still unresolved idiocy because of bad policy based on the conservative
philosophy of smash things first, think never. We went there because of a extreme version of American exceptionalism, one that views America as above the the rules of law and exempt from questions of morality. A view that says not only if the president does it, it's not a crime, but that if America does it, it can't be wrong.
It wasn't the decade that caused the economy to come down in tatters. It was a conservative approach to the marketplace that views government as the enemy, greed as the only acceptable motivation, and the only solution for disasters brought on by a lack of regulation as still less regulation.
It wasn't the calendar that brought down the banks, or American manufacturing, or American's influence around the world. It wasn't the date that added torture to the list of growth industries while erasing our budget surplus.
Don't forget the naughts, because this decade, no matter what anyone on the right might say, was conservatism on trial. You want less taxes? You got less taxes. You want less regulation? You got less regulation. Open markets? Wide open. An illusuion of security in place of rights? Hey, presto. Think we should privatize war by handing unlimited power given to military contractors so they can kick butt and
take names? Kiddo, we passed out boots and pencils by the thousands. Everything, everything, that ever showed up on a drooled-over right wing wish list got implemented -- with a side order of Freedom Fries.
They will try to disown it, and God knows if I was responsible for this mess I'd be disowning it, too. But the truth is that the conservatives got everything they wanted in the decade just past, everything that they've claimed for forty years would make America "great again". They didn't fart around with any "red dogRepublicans." They rolled over their moderates and implemented a conservative dream.
What did we get for it? We got an economy in ruins, a government in massive debt, unending war, and the repudiation of the world. There's no doubt that Republicans want you to forget the last decade, because if you remember... if you remember when you went down to the water hole and were jumped by every lunacy that ever emerged from the wet dreams of Grover Norquist and Dick Cheney, well, it's not likely that you'd give them a chance to do it again.
And they will. Given half a chance -- less than half -- they'll do it again, only worse. Because that's the way conservatism works. Remember when the only answer to every economic problem was "cut taxes?" We have a surplus. Good, let's cut taxes. We have a deficit. Hey, cut taxes even more! That little motto was unchanging even when was clear that the tax cuts were increasing the burden on everyone but a wealthy few. That's just a subset of the great conservative battle whine which is now and forever "we didn't go far enough." If deregulation led to a crash, it's because we didn't deregulate enough. If the wars aren't won, it's because
we haven't started enough wars. If there are people still clinging to their rights, it's because we haven't done enough to make them afraid.
Forget the naughts, and you'll forget that conservatives had another chance to prove all their ideas, and that their ideas utterly and completely failed. Again."
"I don't deny that the corporate Democrats are screwed up too. But they didn't invent this political world. As I
quipped before, they just learned to stop worrying and love the money. This world of graft and corruption and unfettered greed was the conservative movement's idea of utopia. And they got it.
Posted by TrumanDem at 10:55 PM 2 comments
Labels: Conservatism, the naughts
Maureen Dowd: Irrelevance As A Virtue
Posted by TrumanDem at 4:56 PM 2 comments
Labels: Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Little Movement In Duval County Registered Voter Gains & Party ID's
A 1% gain for the Democratic Party here over this 18 month period is nothing to write home about. In fact if there is any news in this comparative at all, it would be how the Duval County Republican party has managed to stave off disaster by avoiding a tsunami of voter registration discontent and it translating into a widening shift in the gap of party ID and growth. If the last eight years could not drive a widening gap in this regard then I'm not sure its possible to make it happen under any circumstances. George W. Bush by any stretch of imagination was an unmitigated disaster of a President and for Republicans in general. There is not doubt that this led to a loss of both houses for the Republicans but just barely when one takes the time to analyze the numbers for real world impact.
The Democrats still have a lot of work to do to redeem themselves. At this point in the game redemption would only mitigate losses to a minimum, not stop them. Let's hope the Democrats have it in them. Only time will tell.
Posted by TrumanDem at 3:59 PM 1 comments
Labels: 2010 Midterm Elections, Democrats, party ID, Republicans
A Decade With Few Intact Dignities
When the mainstream media decided in the first Presidential debate of 2000 that Al Gore's sigh(s) determined the suitability of who would make a better President it turned out the joke was on the voters. Its as if Bush was representative of all the intrusive advertising practices of the last fifty years that Madison Ave. could dream up was forced upon us with an election result that wasn't quite what it seemed. Even though most of us didn't buy the bill of goods that was being marketed to us we still wound up with the lemon. Buyer's remorse for those who bought into the product's promises got the true meaning of what a lemon tastes like. Especially the families of the military who's loved ones were either killed or maimed. As for the Nobel Laureate Al Gore it turns out that he was as advertised: a deliberate intellectual who wasn't the guy you wanted to have a beer with but the guy you wanted running the country. Though the MSM kept pushing the "who would you rather have a brew with" meme as a criteria selection for the leader of the free world I thought it was an odd theme to run with since the guys I do have beers with on occasion would be the very individuals I wouldn't want anywhere near running a government. I'm still looking forward to his contributions for the next decade.
President Obama, who rolled into office with a wagon load of promise still has a long road to travel. Though he was not my first candidate of choice for 2008 I still felt I was casting a vote for the things I was hoping he would do, not for things I was certain he wouldn't do. I am very disappointed so far with his handling of health care reform and his, to date, awkward and lumbering governing abilities. Hopefully, he will regain the graceful stride he showed during the campaign and give me a promising reason to vote for him again instead of casting a vote for for the things I'm sure he won't do.
The legacy of Edward Kennedy is something that will seemingly take care of itself despite the failure of Democrats to enact the reforms Ted Kennedy envisioned. He was the last of a dynasty that literally gave their lives for what they believed.
We need more to hope for than intact dignities. Let's hope the next decade brings it to us.
Posted by TrumanDem at 10:59 AM 1 comments
Labels: Al Gore, Edward Kennedy, President Obama


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Broadway's Top Do It Yourself Halloween Costumes: Charlie Chaplin
TheaterMania's favorite DIY Broadway Halloween costumes, Part III.
Mustaches are big this year, making Charlie Chaplin, the iconic central character in the new bio-musical Chaplin at the Barrymore Theatre, a hip and low-maintenance look both dapper men and ladies going drag can tramp around in. In this costume installment, TheaterMania's Creative Director Kimberly Kaye picks up Charlie's famed bowler.
Beyond the simplicity of the get-up, there are definite advantages to being the lovable little celluloid vagabond -- since you're a silent movie character you won't be expected to make small talk at the party, and you'll get to carry an umbrella while wearing actual clothes in case the late October weather gets raw (sorry "sexy cat/mouse/dog/Real Housewife" costumes). Plus you get to wear THE mustache! Just remember not to take it personally if someone calls you a "little tramp."
The 'stache is the quintessential Chaplin costume piece. Josh suggests using synthetic hair rather than just drawing it on. "If you draw it on you can really tell it's been drawn on," he explains. For our Chaplin Josh simply snipped a bit of hair from the black wig we used for Hipster Elphaba and attached it over the lip.
"I'm loving the mustache," Kimberly says, "but I'm gluing the bowler hat to my head. Without it I'll look like Hitler." The devil is in the details.
Click here to see our DIY Cyrano costume.
Click here to see our DIY Hipster Elphaba costume.
Items Needed (click on the links below to buy everything you need online):
-Oversized pants with suspenders
-Dress shirt, tie (vest optional)
-Tattered blazer
-Pros-Aide Adhesive, liquid latex, or eyelash adhesive
1. Apply a thin line of eyeliner to highlight your eyes.
2. Color in your eyebrows with Mehron black or a basic eyebrow pencil to make them stand out.
3. Cut ½" from a cheap black wig or Barbie you no longer get along with to create the moustache.
4. Apply Pros-Aide Adhesive (liquid latex or eyelash adhesive are also acceptable) to your upper lip with a q-tip.
5. Attach the moustache to your upper lip.
6. Trim hairs hanging over upper lip until the moustache is the appropriate length.
7. Fill in any bald spots with the eyebrow pencil.
8. Put on your Costume. Menswear items already in your possession (or immediate "borrowing" range) will probably suffice: big pants, suspenders, a dress shirt, black tie, and old black blazer will do it for apparel; don't forget the bowler hat.
Check back tomorrow for our first child's costume of the series!


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Thanks gi. very nice to hear from you. Where is the polyp? Hope everything goes well for you. Between my 2 ivf's they found 2 cysts in my left ovary which was taken out.Will keep praying for you.
Faith: I have heard good success stories on the circlage. At least you will now have the comfort of not worrying about your cervix. "Hang tight"...is probabily a right word made for you!!
Def: We had planned similarly as we had to pay out of pocket. We had thought of doing 2 only. In the first one we couldnt freeze any fertilised eggs....in the second we were able to keep 3 for future...May be it will be less expensive if no retrieval is involved
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From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports.
Tag, you're busted: On Oct. 3, Terrell County Game Warden Saul Aguilar walked into the camp of a group of archery hunters. Focused on the skinning rack, Warden Aguilar worked his way over to review three properly tagged mule deer heads. As he made contact with the group to check hunting licenses, a more than generous hunter greeted him with everyone's license in his hands. Identifying all but one of the hunters, Warden Aguilar decided to further discuss what she said was her first deer hunting experience. When she was unable to describe what type of equipment she had used, the warden separated husband and wife. After talking with the husband, Aguilar finally determined the husband had harvested both deer and used his wife's tag to avoid using his only mule deer buck tag. Citation issued.
Gift of a lifetime: Antelope season has arrived in far West Texas. Hunters, families, and guides are wearing their jackets against the morning chill, and the summer rains have beautified the arid lands. Some nice bucks are being harvested and at least one youth has a huge smile. The 11-year-old boy was on his first big game hunt and took what might be the biggest antelope buck taken in Hudspeth County this year (87 4/8). It was made even more special because an adult hunter, who first spied the buck, unselfishly passed on his chance to take it and radioed for the young man to come to his location to give him his first chance at an antelope.
Watch for blood on your boots: Angelina County Game Warden Tim Walker received an Operation Game Thief call Oct. 5 about an archer witnessing two men dragging a doe while carrying a firearm. Unable to get to the area in time to make a case, Walker theorized that the violators would have to come to Zavalla to get ice. After a two-hour wait, Walker observed the reported vehicle drive through town and pull into the ice house parking lot. Warden Walker made contact with the violator, who denied everything, while standing there with blood on his boots. The other violator and deer were located later. Cases pending.
A 9mm will punch a hole in your tire: San Augustine County Game Warden Kevin Wilkinson was watching the edge of the Angelina National Forest on Oct. 6 when he observed a small white truck driving down the road. The truck accelerated and the driver began to rapidly discharge a firearm. Wilkinson followed the truck to a residence and talked with the driver, who ended up being charged with discharge of a firearm from a public road. A 9mm handgun was seized as evidence. While the driver was firing the handgun, he had also somehow managed to shoot the left front tire of his own truck. Case pending.
Bait catches hunters: Uvalde County Game Wardens Rachel Kellner and Javier Fuentes teamed up the first weekend of October to check dove hunters. The duo found two different groups exceeding their daily bag limit and seized approximately 70 birds. The wardens also located three hunters in a field baited with milo. Wardens wrote 31 citations throughout the weekend for violations such as exceeding daily bag limits, hunting migratory birds over bait, exceeding possession limit, unplugged shotgun, no hunting license, no migratory game bird stamp and no hunter education. Zavala County Game Warden Chris Stautzenberger and Frio County Game Warden Michael Morse filed on 12 hunters for hunting mourning dove in a baited area on a Zavala County ranch. The night before the cases were made, the ranch was checked for bait, and milo was found spread in numerous sections. Each hunter received a citation for hunting over a baited area. The landowner was filed on for placing the bait, and 317 mourning dove were seized.
Two pronghorn antelope hunters try to "buck" the system: On the morning of Oct. 3, opening weekend of pronghorn antelope season in the Panhandle, Ochiltree County Game Warden Mike Wheat and Floyd County Game Warden Mark Collins received information from a landowner regarding a possible poaching incident. According to the rancher, two individuals had disregarded an explicit verbal denial to hunt antelope on the caller's property. Once located, the suspects were quizzed. Additionally, one trophy pronghorn antelope buck with no permit attached was located. After a brief interview, the primary suspect admitted he shot the antelope from a public roadway on property he had no permission or permit to hunt on and had no intention of tagging. Charges were filed, and the illegal antelope was removed from the suspect's possession.
Dog or deer? Henderson County Game Warden Shawn Smith received information Oct. 2 that a man had just killed a deer out of gun season near the Cedar Creek area. Upon arrival, Warden Smith observed a man walking out of a barn. When asked about the deer, the subject said he had shot it with a .22 rifle from about 50 yards away thinking it was dog. Citations pending.
Jumping the gun…literally: Van Zandt County Game Warden Steve Stapleton received an Operation Game Thief call the night before opening day of bow season about a deer camp where the occupants were intending to gun hunt the next morning. Warden Stapleton was familiar with the camp and hid nearby that morning. A short time later a truck entered the camp with a dead deer draped over the tail gate. The truck stopped and the driver got out and cautiously walked back down the road. When he saw Stapleton approaching, the subject pitched his rifle into the brush and took off running back into the camp with the warden close behind. The subject grabbed the deer from the tailgate and took off running with it, later trying to hide it in a nearby creek. Unsure of where the subject went or who else was in the camp, Warden Stapleton took up a position back on a hill where he could see the camp and wait for backup. Before backup could arrive, the subject returned to camp and Stapleton apprehended him. Charges of evading arrest, waste of game, illegal means and methods, and no hunting license were filed.
Photo finish to trespassing case: Coryell County Game Warden Andrew Alexander and Hill County Game Warden Mark Hammonds responded to an in-progress Operation Game Thief call in McLennan County Oct. 2. The complainant had located a game camera on his property and downloaded the pictures. Though the suspects were in the pictures, the complainant was unable to identify them. However, the game wardens located the subjects on the property. They claimed they had been given permission three years ago, though they were never given a key. The subjects and their equipment were removed from the scene and citations issued.
What's in your wallet? Erath County Game Warden Zach Havens and Somervell County Game Warden Joni Kuykendall patrolled Lake Granbury for water safety, fishing and duck hunting violations Oct. 3. Three subjects were contacted in a fishing camp as they were loading their car to leave. Despite having numerous fishing poles, all three subjects could not recall having done any fishing. When the wardens discovered a cleaning board covered with fish slime they recalled catching, cooking and eating a flathead catfish. Three citations issued for fishing without a license.
Tip to illegal dumpers: Don't include your driver's license in the trash: Travis County Game Warden Jeff Hill found more than a dozen bags of trash thrown into the brush along a remote county road on Oct. 3. The first bag he opened revealed a photocopy of the violator's driver's license and personal mail. When Hill contacted the subject to tell him he would be receiving a citation his response was, "I knew better than to do that and as soon as I get my tires aired up I'll pick it up." The trash was indeed picked up. Case pending.
What shotgun? Responding to a trespass and hunting violation in progress call on Oct. 2, Willacy County Game Warden Robbie Robinson saw a subject shooting from the access road of U.S. Highway 77 south of Sebastian. The subject was very close to an irrigation canal bridge. The warden turned around and ordered the subject to stop. But the subject continued back under the bridge in an attempt to hide. He also tossed his shotgun into the rushing water of the canal. Robinson then took the individual into custody, though the subject claimed he never had a weapon. Meanwhile, several friends of the shooter stood around watching and laughing. In an effort to refresh the man's memory about firing from a roadway, the warden pointed out the spent shells on the ground and found several unused shells in the subject's pockets. He also found a small bag of marijuana in the subject's shirt pocket. The subject was issued numerous citations and released. The shotgun that was in the water belonged to one of the friends at the scene, the only one not laughing – other than the violator.


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A different slice profiled each day.
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You probably remember pizza bagels from your youth. I know I do. Slap some canned pizza sauce on a bagel half, grate some mozzarella over it, shake a little Parmesan and oregano on it (if you're gettin' fancy), and nuke it in the radar range. Hear that beep? Your after-school snack is ready.
Then you grow up, realize you're bastardizing two noble foods, and you put away childish things. But, feeling old as dirt after having just made another trip around the sun, I wanted to revisit days gone by. I knew Ess-a-Bagel deigned to make this unholy hybrid ($2.95), so instead of making one at home I dropped by the location on Third Avenue and 51st Street in Midtown East.
Just as I remember it. A pizza bagel, almost always a sloppy affair, is satisfying neither as pizza nor as bagel. It's a shame, too, since I like the Ess-a-Bagel in its proper form. I'm not recommending it — just letting you know it's there. Sometimes a pleasant memory should remain just that.
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Bialik brings brainpower to 'Express Written Consent'
While we haven't looked at every Wikipedia page that's out there, let's go out on a limb and assume that there's only one person who is introduced as: "An American actress and a neuroscientist."
That would be one Mayim Bialik, who blossomed from a kid actor in the 1980s and '90s to become a Ph.D. as an adult. Bialik is also an author of two books, the most recent being a cookbook titled "Mayim's Vegan Table," featuring more than 100 plant-based recipes.
While we haven't looked at every Wikipedia page that's out there, let's go out on a limb and assume that there's only one person who is introduced as: "An American actress and a neuroscientist."
That would be one Mayim Bialik, who blossomed from a kid actor in the 1980s and '90s to become a Ph.D. as an adult. Bialik is also an author of two books, the most recent being a cookbook titled "Mayim's Vegan Table," featuring more than 100 plant-based recipes.
Bialik is also a baseball fan, having been raised by parents who were born in the Bronx during World War II and grew up, as Bialik described it, "spitting distance from Yankee Stadium."
With all this in mind, it comes as no surprise that her conversation with MLB.com host Jeremy Brisiel during a recent taping of "Express Written Consent" was one of the more ... cerebral exchanges in "EWC" history.
"You're really funny," J.B. said to Bialik from a booth at Dodger Stadium. "And very smart."
True on both counts. Bialik, who first appeared on screen as the kid version of Bette Midler in "Beaches," and a few years later starred as the title character in the teen hit "Blossom," created a niche for herself in quirky roles that perfectly complemented her comedic timing.
Consider her most recent role as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler on the hit show "The Big Bang Theory." That performance earned her Emmy Award nominations in 2012 and '13 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. In the show, Bialik plays, ironically enough, a neuroscientist.
In real life, though, it's likely Bialik relied more on her brains than her sense of humor. Consider the title of her dissertation: "Hypothalamic regulation in relation to maladaptive, obsessive-compulsive, affiliative, and satiety behaviors in Prader-Willi syndrome."
So what does this have to do with baseball? Well, admittedly, not much, but Brisiel seemed to be enjoying himself as he steered the conversation toward breaking down a ballgame through the eyes of a neuroscientist.
Bialik may see things a little differently than we do, but she did provide a fascinating theory on why baseball is based so much on superstition, probably more than any other sport.
"The set of things to do to make things right," Bialik began. "The sort of compulsive actions you'll see going on with signals being thrown. Certain pitchers will have a lot of pomp and circumstance with everything they do. There's a lot of emphasis on precision, because there is so much time in which to wait to try and zero in on things.
"You will see a tremendous amount of compulsive behavior, which we assume is operating from the obsessions involved in baseball."
In other words, ballplayers are creatures of routine, who do the same thing when they're batting, or pitching, or waiting on deck.
(At least that's what we think she meant.)
Take Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval, for example. Bialik noticed him stepping out from the plate between pitches to retighten his batting gloves and, noting that there was probably no need to readjust, labeled it as: "a fixed action pattern he's designed."
Watching outfielder Brandon Belt bend down after being hit by a pitch, Brisiel asked, "Does squatting help you with pain?" To which Bialik answered, "Making yourself into a small position when you are wounded is something most animals do, yes."
That's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of cool things we learned during this episode of "EWC." There's more:
• Did you know that if you soak any nut -- almonds, walnuts, cashews, for example -- in a bowl of water for six hours and put them in a blender, they whip up to a cheese consistency? "Add garlic and herbs," Bialik explained, "and it would taste like ricotta."
• Bialik's younger son started talking a little later than most kids. In fact, he learned to sing before he learned to speak. His first song? The old baseball standard, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame."
• Bialik finds it fascinating that every ballpark has different dimensions and are different sizes from the others. She also loves that baseball is a sport where the manager wears a uniform, too.
Mostly, she enjoys the slower pace of baseball, referring to it as a "tedium."
"It's not like a fast-moving game," she said. "It's a sit and have a beer kind of game."
That's one theory we can all agree on, even without a dissertation to back it up.
Alyson Footer is a national correspondent for MLB.com. Follow her on Twitter @alysonfooter.


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The lawyer for Maori activist Tame Iti is confident his application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against his conviction and sentence will be successful.
Yesterday, Iti was welcomed on to Hukanui Marae in Gordonton just a couple of hours after he was released from Waikeria Prison having served nine months of a 2-year sentence on six firearms charges.
The charges stemmed from a police raid in the Urewera Ranges in 2007 that led to the arrest of 18 activists and saw Iti found guilty in the High Court at Auckland over alleged military-style camps.
His lawyer, Russell Fairbrother, yesterday said he had applied for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.
"There are two considerations; one is an important point of law and public interest and we think we cover both bases," Mr Fairbrother said.
"I think it's quite a complex decision for them and I expect it will take a bit of time. I will be disappointed if they don't accept it. I do think they will, though," he said.
Iti responded to questions in both Maori and English, saying he had received letters of support from throughout New Zealand and England, New York, Hawaii and Mexico.
Flanked by his son Wairere, Mr Fairbrother and Mana MP Hone Harawira, Iti said he was looking forward to returning to his Ruatoki home to see his wife and small dog and to have a feed of mutton birds.
He said prison had been enjoyable and he had used his time constructively, painting, reading and contributing as a kaumatua in the prison's Te Ao Marama Maori focus unit - where he was considered a model inmate.
He also kept himself fit in preparation for the Iron Maori event being held in Hawkes Bay this year, began writing a book about political prisoners and wrote a number of recipes for a cookbook.
But he wanted to discuss with the Parole Board and Government his ideas to help curb the numbers of young Maori men going to jail.
"I'm really sad that a large amount of young Maori men are in there; they are supposed to be our future," he said. "It's a failure of the system why we have so many young men down there."
When a reporter asked if he was in possession of firearms or if he planned to get any more, Iti replied that his relationship with weapons was an integral part of Tuhoe customs and often misconstrued.
"It's not a new thing ... it's an intricate part of my culture of my tikanga and kawa, so what's the crime about that?
"But if you're talking about Tame Iti carrying and walking with a gun on Queen St then you have something to talk about. That's another issue altogether. You didn't see Tame Iti with a gun in the middle of Christchurch or Wellington. I don't do that, that's not my culture."
Shortly before Iti and his whanau left for Rotorua to meet supporters en route to Ruatoki, Wairere Iti said his father's time in jail had been a "small part" of a six-year saga.
"Even though there's been a sentencing and an appeal, it feels like we are getting near the end ... We are hopeful for an end and a resolution to this," he said.
Tame Iti remains on parole until October next year.
His co-offender Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara will be released next week.
Urs Signer and Emily Bailey were also found guilty of firearms charges and were sentenced to nine months' home detention at their dwelling in Parihaka, Taranaki.


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The victim said the black male with the gun said to him "you know what time it is." Two of the black male suspects took the keys to the victim's vehicle and left. A third suspect left in the perpetrators' car.
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I was taught to think of generalized cohomology theories as the homotopy category of (symmetric) spectra. But is there also a category of 'invariants', that is, some category of contravariant functors from a suitable category of topological spaces to a suitable category of algebraic objects, which has a model category structure such that the homotopy category gives the category of generalized cohomology theories, without referring to spectra?
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RESIDENTS across North Yorkshire will see their council tax bills rise next year - but councillors have today voted not to give themselves a pay increase.
North Yorkshire County Council has approved financial plans at a meeting at County Hall in Northallerton which could also see some libraries, children's centres and waste recycling sites close.
The authority has rubber-stamped a budget containing about £20 million of cuts. It has made or drawn up plans savings totalling £170 million since 2011, saying this has cut its spending power by more than a third.
The 1.99 per cent council tax rise - just below the level at which a referendum is needed - will see average Band D bills increase by about £21 a year. The council's library service will be reviewed, and libraries which are not taken over by communities may shut, while some children's centres are also likely to close.
However, councillors voted against awarding themselves a one per cent rise in their allowances, despite the increase being recommended by the authority's independent panel on members' remunerations. The panel had said it would be in line with national pay awards to civil servants.
An amendment tabled by council leader John Weighell that allowances should not rise was voted through, meaning they will not have increased since 2009/10.
Coun Weighell said: "At a time when the authority is being forced to make significant savings across the board - some of which will inevitably impact on frontline services - it would be wholly inappropriate to award ourselves an increase."
Under the 2014/15 budget proposals approved today, the way household waste recycling centres operate will be looked at, which may see new charges introduced or closures.
The council's winter maintenance budget will drop by £750,000, although it said this will not mean fewer roads being gritted.
A "significant" number of jobs will be lost "over time", with the number not being specified.
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It's 11 pm Pacific Time, so I'm making it in just under the wire. It just so happens that today is my 7th blog anniversary. Seven years since my very first post, in which I deliberately decided not to say, "Well, I'm starting a blog!"
It also just so happens that this is post number 1,000. I didn't plan it this way, but that's how things lined up. Inadvertently beautiful.
It was a full day, with kids visiting our house, and sunshine, and a walk to the store up the hill (with five kids in tow!), and dishwashing, and vacuuming, and dinner guests, and way too much food, and a post-supper card game that lasted two-and-a-half hours, and then bananas wrapped in rice paper and deep fried and sprinkled with cinnamon and icing sugar and drizzled with maple syrup. That kind of day. The belly-overfull and cup-overflowing kind of day.
And with a full belly and a sleepy head, I am not particularly up to being witty or eloquent. It's just enough to acknowledge this inconsequential milestone. And to thank you for being part of the journey. I know lots of people who say they blog for themselves, and I do that, to a point. But I wouldn't continue, because the experience wouldn't be nearly as rich, if you weren't here to be part of the conversation with me.
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In June of 2013, Kubiak received the Athletics Department's Meritorious Service Award.
Kubiak, who also holds the Harold C. Urey Endowed Chair in Chemistry, received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his PhD from the University of Rochester. He was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT and later a professor of chemistry at Purdue University from 1982 to 1998, when he joined the faculty at UC San Diego.
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You've heard rumblings all year long that the NFL is ready to move from a 16-game season to an 18-game season, and now Colts GM and big NFL mucky muck Bill Polian says the transition is all but inevitable:
"I think that the owners, and principally the commissioner, have decided that it's the way to go, and so the debate, such as it was, is over," Polian said. "I've heard recently, and I'm sorry that this didn't get more coverage earlier, some really, really interesting commentary on it. ... I wish some of that dialogue had taken place earlier…"
…The format change hasn't been approved by either the owners or the NFL Players Association. Polian believes that is just a formality.
I don't believe it's merely a formality at all. The NFL is on the verge of locking out all their players in March of next year, so I hardly see how the NFLPA is a shoo-in to go along with a plan they have already spoken out against.
But let's go ahead and assume Polian is right, and that an 18-game NFL season is in our future. You've already heard a lot of handwringing from the likes of Peter King and Bill Simmons over this issue. The main gist of their argument against an 18-game regular season is that it's bad for the players' health.
To which I say: When have fans ever really cared about the health of NFL players? Playing in the NFL is statistically proven to take years, if not decades, off the lives of former players. And that's with a 16-game season.
Maybe you think this is a tragic fate, but it certainly hasn't stopped you from watching football. I know it hasn't stopped me. Is there a chance 18 games will cause more injuries? Of course. It's a mortal lock. But the truth is that, deep in my heart, I'm just happy to have more meaningful football in my life, and less meaningless preseason football cluttering everything up.
Even with two extra weeks of the regular season (not including an expanded playoff field, which seems a logical next step), the NFL season is still much more brief than that of the three other major sports leagues. It's not as if the league is adding two months to the schedule. That would cause the NFL to end up like the NHL, where the least injured team straggles to the end to pick up the Stanley Cup in a numbing battle of attrition. I doubt two extra games will seriously dilute the product as much as some of the doomsayers may think.
Besides, it's more football. More fantasy football. More money to lose gambling. Are we sure 18 games is even enough? Let's make it an even two dozen, Billy Boy.


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Type 2 diabetes gene predisposes children to obesity
Pediatric researchers have found that a gene already implicated in the development of type 2 diabetes in adults also raises the risk of being overweight during childhood. The finding sheds light on the genetic origins of diabetes and may present an avenue for developing drugs to counteract the disease, which has been on the upswing in childhood and adolescence.
Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine published the study Nov. 23 in the online version of the journal Diabetes.
"It has been a bit of a mystery to scientists how or even if these adult diabetes genes function during childhood," said study leader Struan F.A. Grant, Ph.D., a researcher and associate director of the Center for Applied Genomics of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "This finding suggests that there may be genetic activity during childhood that lays the foundation for the later development of type 2 diabetes."
Type 2 diabetes occurs either when the pancreas produces too little insulin, or when the body cannot efficiently use the insulin that is produced because the cells have become resistant. Formerly called adult-onset diabetes and still most common in adults, type 2 diabetes has been increasing sharply among children and teenagers.
Grant and study co-leader Hakon Hakonarson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for Applied Genomics at Children's Hospital, investigated 20 gene variants, known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), previously reported to be associated with type 2 diabetes. The researchers drew on a cohort of nearly 7,200 Caucasian children, aged 2 to 18 years, in an ongoing genome-wide association study of childhood obesity at Children's Hospital. Dividing the cohort randomly in half allowed the team to follow their discovery study with a replication study.
Researchers continue to unravel the complicated role of different diabetes-related genes in influencing body weight toward both lower and higher ends of the scale. The risk of developing type 2 diabetes in adulthood is often influenced by factors in the first year of life, including lower birth weight, as well as by higher body mass index (BMI) during childhood. Obesity is a well-known risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
A previous study earlier this year by the same study team found that another type 2 diabetes gene, CDKAL1, affects fetal growth and increases the likelihood that a baby will be underweight at birth.
The current study found that the gene HHEX-IDE does not affect birth weight, but makes it more likely that a child will become obese during childhood. The gene does not appear to predispose to obesity in adults, although by contributing to childhood obesity, it may set the stage for type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
Grant cautioned that HHEX-IDE accounts for only a small proportion of the genetic contribution to the risk of type 2 diabetes, so many other gene variants remain to be discovered. However, he adds, HHEX-IDE may represent an important underpinning of the disease. "Previously we thought that this gene affects insulin production during adulthood, but we now see that it may play an early role in influencing insulin resistance through its impact on body size during childhood," said Grant. "One implication is that if we can develop medicines to target specific biological pathways in childhood, we may be able to prevent diabetes from developing later in life."
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Rox face tall order in Padres' Young
Trying to build on their breakout offensive game against the Dodgers on Sunday, the Rockies faced 6-foot-10 Padres pitcher Chris Young tonight at chilly Coors Field. Young is 3-1 with a 4.20 ERA at Coors Field, where the Rockies hit just .243 against him. The Rockies will be tempted by his high heat, but they'd do well to lay off it and wait for a better pitch.
Young's stature, and the steep plan of his pitches, makes him tough, especially on left-hander. Todd Helton, for instance, is 5-for-24 (.208) against Young.
Garrett Atkins' .280 average vs. Young isn't great, but it's the better than most of the Rockies.
Young faces a Rockies lineup without Troy Tulowitzki. Tulo was benched for tonight's game – and possibly for a few more – while he works to get out of a deep slump. He's hitting just .167 and has struck out 17 times in 54 at-bats.
Here are tonight's lineups:
CF Jody Gerut
2B David Eckstein
RF Brian Giles
1B Adrian Gonzalez
LF Chase Headley
3B Kevin Kouzmanoff
C Nick Hundley
SS Luis Rodriguez
RHP Chris Young
CF Dexter Fowler
LF Ryan Spilborghs
1B Todd Helton
3B Garrett Atkins
RF Brad Hawpe
2B Ian Stewart
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CRUISING WORLD- "J/133: J Is For Juice!"
In setting the pace for the current crop of racer/cruisers, the J/133 assigns a high priority to speed.
By Ralph Naranjo- CW's Technical Editor
Lifting cabin-sole boards, peering into the bilge, and looking in lockers, I found evidence of sound engineering practices and adherence to the systems-installation guidelines of the American Boat & Yacht Council.
A fast, agile, big-mainsail sloop, like other high-performance Js, the J/133 has a retractable sprit. It's both simple to use and a real turbo boost for those cruising in areas like Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay during light, summertime conditions. An asymmetric spinnaker is easier to handle than a conventional chute and ups the performance and fun factors for a shorthanded crew.


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Sun Tree LLC Recalls 12oz Packaged California Grown Shelled Walnuts
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of California Grown Shelled Walnuts because of a possibility of contamination of Listeria monocytogenes.
The product comes in 24 count 12oz produce bags, Lot No. 42720, Best by 12/11/2014 UPC code, 69887507806.
These products were sold to retailers in Kansas City, KS in March of 2014.
The full recall can be found at: www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm398734.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.