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For those who are busy: EXXON "allegedly" knew about the climate change, pollution and "Greenhouse Effects" very many years ago. EXXON "allegedly" lied about it and financed everybody who can help them to do it. If you would like to know how it is connected to EU Corruption, cancer hazard toxic emissions and Tesla, I have a few links to share with you.
Tesla: Auto Lobby Delayed Fuel Economy Improvements In The U.S. By 20 Years.
"The same goes to the toxic carcinogenic emissions and not only in the U.S. - this corruption is without borders or party limits and has spread world-wide. I am not surprised, unfortunately. Do you know who still holds the majority of lithium batteries patents? Exxon. What I am surprised is that even after Volkswagen scandal autos have guts to lobby … to increase toxic emissions standards as nobody can really meet them in a real driving conditions tests! Where is your outrage? When will you stop buying that rubbish? To pay yourself to poison your kids with cancer hazard pollution is quite stupid after all."
How It's Done: DieselGate, Volkswagen And Exxon Climate Change.
"It looks like all this is coming together now. Volkswagen DieselGate is spilling into the PetrolGate and Exxon Climate Change has changed quite a while according to this very interesting discussion at The Energy Gang. While Oil is so desperate now to keep the status quo is on the links below. Read more."
Big Oil: Exxon Has Known About Climate Change Since The 70s And Is Still Trying To Block Climate Action.
"Here comes another deception from the Big Oil's play book. What will they pull over this time to keep the status quo? Another War? Read More."
AutoGate: It's Not Only NOx, But CO2 As Well. It's Not Only Diesel, But Petrol As Well And It Is Not Only Volkswagen.
I have been discussing this subject for quite a while here and was even censored by Twitter, which I take personally as a compliment. A lot of information is already available on the web about all these touchy subjects and just waiting for mass media to pick it up. It is impossible to swipe it under the rug any more.
In 2012 WHO has reported about the Diesel Pollution As Cancer Risk, last week EU governments have pushed to DOUBLE toxic cancer hazard diesel emissions limits and postpone their implementation. All North American readers should watch Europe closely now. Which shoe will drop next? It is all there on the links below with names.
Latest news from Volkswagen has just moved us from DieselGate to a full blown AutoGate: It is not only NOx cancer hazard diesel emissions, but CO2 as well, it is not only Diesel, but Petrol as well and it is not only Volkswagen … Just wait for the new revelations to come and watch how Electric Cars are taking over in the largest auto market in the world in China first and then spread like a wild fire all over the world. Who will benefit and who will fade into oblivion? You can make your own decisions with the facts on the links below.
Volkswagen DieselGate Fallout: VW Emissions Scandal - US Regulators Find More Cars With Cheat Tests.
There is no surprise here, unfortunately. I guess, that nobody can really comply with emissions standards under the real test drive conditions. As we have discussed before:
"Joe Lowry shares with us today another brilliant article about the state of Lithium Supply and Demand in the days when, finally ALL Auto-makers know that they cannot meet standards limiting toxic cancer hazard emissions. The ICE based technology just has reached its thermodynamic limits. Auto-makers not only know it, but they have admitted it in Europe this week in the most disgusting fashion by lobbying their dirty friends among politicians to DOUBLE toxic cancer hazard emissions from Diesel Cars and to delay their implementation.Electric Cars have reached The Point Of No Return. How many people will we save before The Silicon Valley economics will make all cars electric is up to all of us now. We need cheaper and better electric cars, we need mass market for EVs. We need volume. Where the lithium will be coming from to make it possible? Joe Lowry has his insider knowledge about it. We are just making it happen at International Lithium with our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium $1.7 Billion market cap giant from China.The future is electric and if you would like to know more this weekend, you can find links below and Joe will be your guide in his "Opaque Kingdom of Lithium". Joe Lowry estimates 88% increase in lithium demand in 5 years and "The Industry is approaching a full blown shortage situation" - according to him. Stay tuned as I will cut out a few tracks this weekend and maybe even some serious staff will be on our AC/DC digital waves soon. Read more." BBC article is here.
DieselGate And Corruption: EU Governments Double And Delay Air Pollution Limits For Diesel Cars.
Erik Jonnaert, ACEA Secretary General
"Exhaust from diesel engines contributes to air pollution and is a cancer hazard to humans," said Dr. Kurt Straif. Forbes.
EU governments have demonstrated today one more time that corruption is without borders and party limits. It is the very bad decision and totally diminish our politicians, who has lost today any credibility, to the status of corporate puppets on payroll. The only good news is that this act of treason on part of politicians against the public health just demonstrates that ICE technology just can't deliver any more, it has reached its limitations. Fossils are not only among fuels. Now you all will be sold even more polluting rubbish and our streets will be even more dangerous filled with cancer hazard toxic emissions. Your hard earned money will go to support those dirty politicians killing your kids. Just stop buying it and spread the word. Donate your RT.
Volkswagen, DieselGate And Now AutoGate: Car Emissions Testing - "The Whole System Is Corrupt"
"London smog: 'We spend billions per year on tests in a lab. Useless … We want to clean up the environment, not the labs' (Photo: stu mayhem)" - euobserver.
No surprises, here for me unfortunately. Peter Teffer reports straight from the heart of "EU Capital" in Brussels:
"Volkswagen is not the only car company that used illegal devices to cheat emissions tests, said Axel Friedrich, a German emissions testing expert who is a co-founder of the NGO that notified US authorities something was wrong with VW's test results."You will see tomorrow night on German television the next case", Friedrich said on Wednesday (21 October) in the European Parliament."It's not only diesel, it's also gasoline. The whole system is corrupt", he added."
WHO: DieselGate Is A Cancer Problem - Auto Industry Calls "Not To Jeopardise Diesel As One Of Its Key Pillars."
Dear Mr Erik Jonnaert, Secretary General of UN, sorry … of ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers' Association), please be careful, couple of NRs like this one and those "pillars" can hit you on the head very hard! "Clean Diesel" Dream is dead, unfortunately with thousands of people killed by it. It is time to move on, not just to pretend that autos are changing, but embrace that change for real. I love all those articles now how Volkswagen moves so fast into electric cars space. I would like to believe it, but why are they signing this NR asking for delay in emissions standards implementation and lobbying in EU for The Toxic Emissions Limits to be INCREASED? On behalf of all what is left of the brain-healthy population, I tell you that we will not buy all that killing us last century oil thirsty rubbish any more. My dear girls and boys, please, do not let me down here and stay for a bit to find out why I am breaking into this smoking party here.
I can understand Auto-makers very well: they have invested Billions in the "Clean Diesel" scam and related technology. Can you imaging for them to admit now that all those plants, equipment, all that already produced cancer hazard spitting rubbish is a total waste? They do not care about you or your kids for real: just read the News Release from ACEA below. But shareholders are the different story: they will tear them apart. This is where the real worry comes and this is where is your power. All that rubbish has to be sold to somebody. I do hope that not to you any more. Just do this one thing: do not buy it - the rest we will do for you and your kids, there is the solution.
Mass media is very slow to react to this scandal, but how could they? Auto sector must be one of the largest advertisers for the mass media. There are reports that the first thing Volkswagen did was, no not EV announcements there ones came later, but their Ad Agency has threatened to pull out all advertisement from the papers reporting on Volkswagen scandal. Advertisement is going on-line now where "They" are censoring you once you start talking about the real things. By the way, I cannot really read that article on the link above on Forbes, I found it in another place and the WHO report is below for your kind attention.
So girls and boys it is all up to us. Will you allow "Them" just to take over your iPhoneor Twitter account or can they mess up with all your life? That report from WHO "Diesel Engine Exhaust Carcinogenic" is … from 2012! All we have to do now is just not to allow this BS happen around us any more, technology is here to help us. Educate yourself and help to educate others. Donate your RT, do not suffer in silence. Everybody who is still talking about more pollution coming from Electric Cars, please, do not bother - enjoy the fumes, apparently brain damage from the air pollution is the very serious issue as well now.
International Agency for Research on Cancer
World Health Organisation.
DieselGate: Auto Industry Calls For More Time To Properly Poison Our Kids With Increased Deadly Emissions.
After all sorry, apologies and our dreams about Good Uncles all come together and push for clean air for all of us we have the answer from European Automobile Manufacturers' Association to all my questions yesterday. It begins, European Auto Industry is lobbying not for electric cars, but for more time to poison us all properly with increased levels of toxic emissions. Have you heard about ENRON? Yes, these guys are even smarter: they are auditing their emissions themselves and paying money to EU in order not to have a proper limits on toxic emissions which are carcinogenic and your kids are breathing it. Can somebody tell ACEA about Electric Cars, please? Will we blow our chance to push them to come Clean again?
"We are fully aligned with the need to better measure the emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from diesel cars and vans under normal driving conditions," stated Erik Jonnaert, ACEA Secretary General. "However, it is important to proceed in a way which allows manufacturers to plan and implement the necessary changes, without jeopardising the role of diesel as one of the key pillars for fulfilling future CO2 targets."
Translation: "Nobody In Auto Industry Can Meet The Toxic Emissions Standards Even After We Have Spent Millions To Lobby All Possible Politicians In Order Not To Make It."
ACEA represents the 15 Europe-based car, van, truck and bus manufacturers: BMW Group, DAF Trucks, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Ford of Europe, Hyundai Motor Europe, IVECO, Jaguar Land Rover, Opel Group, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault Group, Toyota Motor Europe, Volkswagen Group, Volvo Cars, Volvo Group.
Few links for Mr Erik Jonnaert and other Good Uncles in the boardrooms. RT, please, maybe they do not know it, maybe some of them can still read and will think about their own grandchildren.
The Statistics About Diesel Are Crystal Clear. It's Deadly … Automakers Asking About 70% Emissions Increase.
BBC On DieselGate: Air Pollution Second Only To Active Smoking - The 'Invisible Killer' Of The Air On Our Streets.
It's Not Just Volkswagen: Mercedes, BMW, Mazda And Ford Break Up To 7 Times Toxic Emissions Limits.
DieselGate: They ALL Are Here - Volkswagen, Ford, Mercedes, BMW, Mazda, Honda, Mitsubishi Break Emissions Limits.
Brussels, 12 October 2015 - Following the 6 October meeting of the European Commission's regulatory committee (TCMV) with the member states, the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) understands that the European Commission has come forward with a proposal for some of the essential elements needed for legislation on real driving emissions (RDE). The automobile industry agrees with the need for emissions to more closely reflect real-world conditions, and has been calling for proposals for years.
ACEA supports a robust but realistic RDE package that will address the key environmental issues under a two-step approach, as already agreed by the member states. ACEA fully understands the need for Step 1 of RDE to commence from September 2017 for new vehicle types, and has always been committed to this.
ACEA continues to stress the need for a timeline and testing conditions that take into account the technical and economic realities of today's markets, allowing for reasonable transition time to apply RDE to all new vehicles. "We are fully aligned with the need to better measure the emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from diesel cars and vans under normal driving conditions," stated Erik Jonnaert, ACEA Secretary General. "However, it is important to proceed in a way which allows manufacturers to plan and implement the necessary changes, without jeopardising the role of diesel as one of the key pillars for fulfilling future CO2 targets."
Without realistic timeframes and conditions, some diesel models could effectively become unaffordable, forcing manufacturers to withdraw them from sale. This could have repercussions upon consumer choice as well as employment in the wider automotive sector. This will affect not only passenger cars but also lighter commercial vehicles, where diesel is presently the technology of choice for operators.
"Our industry is committed to contributing constructively to the efforts of the Commission and member states to upgrade emissions testing," explained Jonnaert. "Clarity and predictability will enable manufacturers to continue investing in technologies that meet even higher standards and contribute to the fight against climate change."
About ACEA
ACEA represents the 15 Europe-based car, van, truck and bus manufacturers: BMW Group, DAF Trucks, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Ford of Europe, Hyundai Motor Europe, IVECO, Jaguar Land Rover, Opel Group, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault Group, Toyota Motor Europe, Volkswagen Group, Volvo Cars, Volvo Group. More information can be found on www.acea.be or @ACEA_eu .
For more information, please contact Cara McLaughlin, Communications Director, firstname.lastname@example.com, +32 2 738 73 45 or +32 485 88 66 47."
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Governments double and delay air pollution limits for diesel cars
EU governments have agreed to new limits for nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from diesel cars that are double the 'Euro 6' levels agreed back in 2007. They have also delayed the implementation of new limits for all new cars until 2019. From 2021, all new cars will still be allowed to emit 50% more NOx than the Euro 6 limit of 80mg/km.
The decision was taken today by national experts in the Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles (TCMV) after the European Commission unexpectedly agreed to substantially weaken its proposals. TCMV is supposed to agree only technical changes to regulations.
Greg Archer, clean vehicles manager at Transport & Environment, said: "Citizens will wonder why their governments would rather help carmakers that cheat emissions tests than give them clean air to breathe. This disgraceful and legally questionable decision must be rejected by the European Parliament. It seems governments would rather citizens die as a result of diesel exhaust emissions than require carmakers to fit technology typically costing €100."
Changing EU air pollution legislation by this closed-door 'comitology' process is highly questionable legally. The Commission has argued that uncertainties in the testing method justify setting a higher long-term limit but this is likely to be legally challenged. The decision will also be scrutinised by the European Parliament that could reject the proposed limits as going beyond the powers of the Commission and member states.
Earlier this year the Commission started infringement procedures against the UK, Germany, France and Spain, for failing to meet NO2 standards. Yet these governments, plus those of Italy, Romania and Sweden among others, pushed for the Commission to weaken its proposals. It is now unclear how the countries will meet the required air pollution limits. Failure to do so may result in substantial fines. Only the Netherlands voted for stronger limits.
Greg Archer added: "For carmaking countries Dieselgate has never happened. Nitrogen dioxide pollution, mainly from diesel cars, causes premature deaths, asthma and birth abnormalities. It is shocking that governments are so keen to please carmakers and ignore the health effects of this invisible killer of over half a million citizens annually."


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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed injustices that African Americans had long endured, but it did not fully erase the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
Smart contracts are a digital innovation that could fuel transactions without the need for State enforcement mechanisms.
Utilitarianism equates morality to acts that maximize overall human happiness. Different theories find it both compatible and incompatible with libertarianism.
Destutt de Tracy was a social and political theorist known for coining the term "ideology," though he used it to explain liberal philosophy.
Alexis de Tocqueville was a scholar and statesman known for his analysis of the French Revolution's failures and the problems of government intervention.
Term limits played a crucial role in early US state governments. While a standard for executives, term limits are still debated for members of Congress.
Thomas Szasz was an influential writer who opposed involuntary or coercive hospitalization for those deemed "mentally ill," a label he challenged.
William Graham Sumner was an economist and sociologist. He is known for his staunch opposition to American imperialism and dedication to individualism.
Max Stirner was a German writer who presented a case for egoism and freedom that influenced many individualist anarchists after him.
George J. Stigler was a Nobel Prize winning economist who wrote on a number of topics, including prices, regulation, and information theory.
Thomas Sowell is an economist and social theorist who has written and taught on the topics of human achievement, free markets, race, and culture.
Nassau William Senior was an important British economist who contributed to theories of utility, political economy, and value.
Most libertarians view self-interest as crucial to individual behavior. In this entry, Lester Hunt outlines differing philosophies of self-interest.
Wilhelm Röpke was a German economist who wrote in favor of a decentralized economy and held a strong anti-Keynesian and conservative position.
The right to bear arms, though vaguely written and often debated, is a Constitutional guarantee that protects the right for self-protection.
Personal freedom and personal responsibility go hand-in-hand. An over-reliance on the government due to the welfare state corrodes both.
Richard Price was a British philosopher who supported American Independence and the French Revolution and whose work focused on reason in ethics.

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Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, said to be in grave condition at UCLA Medical Center, was "resting comfortably" this morning, the school reported.
UCLA is to provide an update this afternoon, but at the request of his family, no other information regarding his condition was being released.
A family member told NBCLA that the coaching legend's health has been failing for many weeks, but this week has been special for the family. Wooden, 99, has been in frail health for the past couple of years. According to media reports, he has not been eating on his own and has been on a morphine drip.
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Known as the "Wizard of Westwood" for leading the Bruins to 10 NCAA championships, Wooden coached at the school from 1948 to 1975.
UCLA dominated college basketball from 1967 to 1973, with seven championship wins in a row.
"He established a goal that is unreachable in college sports," Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said last night before the Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the NBA finals at Staples Center. "His coaching has been an inspiration to all of us coaches."
The Bruins won 88 consecutive games from 1971 to 1974 and 38 consecutive NCAA tournament games from 1964 to 1974, both records.
Wooden said he was most proud of is his team's 19 conference championships.
Last year, Wooden was hospitalized for about a month with pneumonia. In 2008, he fell in his Encino condominium, suffering a hairline fracture in his left wrist and a fractured left collarbone. He spent about three weeks in a hospital recovering.
In addition to his championships and 620-147 record as UCLA's coach from 1948 to 1975, Wooden was acclaimed for the values he espoused. He had three rules for his players -- don't use profanity, be on time and never criticize a teammate.
"A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring with John Wooden," a book co-written by Wooden and Don Yaeger, was released on the former coach's 99th birthday. He also wrote a book about the Pyramid of Success, philosophincal building block for winning on the court and in life.


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COLUMBIA - The St. Louis Cardinals spent the last few innings of the National Championship Series counting down their time to a World Series berth. Meanwhile, the Missouri Cotton Exchange was preparing their T-Shirt machines to commemorate the Cardinals' National League Championship.
All they needed was the final score.
At 10:29 p.m. Cardinals reliever Trevor Rosenthal struck out Dodgers' second baseman Mark Ellis to close out a 9-0 win and the Cardinals' second trip to the World Series in three years. A few minutes later, the score went final and 13 employees at the Missouri Cotton Exchange got to work. They had a long night ahead of them; 6,500 shirts were to be made and shipped out to St. Louis overnight.
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God, she needed air. Erin Williams lay in bed, her lungs aching with each long, excruciating gasp, and still she couldn't get enough. Her heart was racing, pounding against her small chest. And she was so thirsty. She'd been up only an hour before to greedily gulp down water before falling back into bed and succumbing to a restless, uneasy sleep. Now she was awake again, her bladder unbearably swollen. Williams pulled herself from the bed, so dizzy she could hardly stand.
She reached in the dark for her purse, which held the drug she so desperately needed — insulin. She rummaged through her makeup and car keys, fumbling until her fingers encircled one of the cool glass vials. Merely looking at the bottle filled her with dread, knowing it held the medicine that had become so hated. She drew back the syringe, her shaky hands measuring out just enough to pull her back from the edge of a diabetic coma. Never a full dose, never enough to feel well...
Williams, now 24 and an account coordinator for an advertising agency in Palatine, Illinois, remembers that autumn night eight years ago as the worst of her life. "I was so scared to sleep in my room alone," she recalls. "I was afraid I was not going to wake up in the morning." Barely breathing, she curled up on the floor beside her parents' bed, too ashamed to wake them and tell them the secret she'd been carrying. A type 1 diabetic, she had been skipping insulin injections for months. Many of her diabetic peers were, too, and would struggle with the impulse well into adulthood, destroying their body and risking their health. All for a reason that, at the time, seemed more important than life itself: to be thin.
The dangers of diabetes
When a young woman develops type 1 diabetes, she will experience sudden and dramatic weight loss; it's one of the telltale signs that her body is no longer producing insulin and has lost its ability to use food for energy. Normally, most of what you eat is broken down into glucose, the sugar that fuels your cells. Insulin, meanwhile, is the hormone that unlocks cells and allows them to take glucose in and either burn it or store it as fat. But in as many as 1.4 million Americans diagnosed with the autoimmune disease known as type 1 diabetes, this process has gone haywire. Their pancreas has lost its ability to make insulin — and without it, the body begins to starve and unused glucose floats uncontrolled into the bloodstream, raising blood sugar levels.
Left unregulated, high blood sugar can damage the blood vessels that support organs all over the body, perhaps by binding to proteins and gumming up the works. The result can be blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage. The other extreme is as dangerous: Too little glucose can sap the brain of energy, causing symptoms from light-headedness to coma and death. Insulin shots — though they can't completely replicate the intricacies of a working pancreas — allow those with type 1 diabetes to seek a balance between running too high and too low, as the body was meant to do naturally. (The more common form of the disease, type 2 diabetes, tends to strike later in life than type 1, and patients can often control it through diet, exercise and oral medication.)
When insulin saved the first human life in 1922, the world rejoiced — up until that point, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes had been a death sentence. In the past 15 years, studies have proved just how effective insulin is at staving off complications, and doctors have honed treatment regimens using increasingly precise measurement of blood sugar and "designer" forms of insulin. Yet for many young women with type 1 diabetes — a significant chunk of whom are diagnosed just as they are growing into their curves and nearing a prime age for eating disorders — this lifesaving serum has become a hated substance. It's not just that patients gain back the weight they had lost before diagnosis. They sometimes gain more, as insulin injections alone can pack on extra pounds.
Insulin underdosing
And because diabetics have the unique power to control the amount of insulin they give themselves, they have a tempting — and dangerously easy — way to shed these unwanted pounds. One in three type 1 diabetics reported skipping or underdosing their insulin to lose weight, according to a study by researchers at the University of Toronto. "A lot of women avoid intensive insulin management, even though it has tremendous health benefits," says Ann Goebel-Fabbri, Ph.D., a psychologist at Joslin Diabetes Center and Behavioral and Mental Health Unit in Boston. "This behavior is like playing Russian roulette with your health. It's almost like they're turning back the clock to a point in history when we didn't know that the consequences of diabetes were preventable."
The problem is widespread enough that physicians now see insulin underdosing as a form of purging, making it a close cousin of the eating disorder bulimia. Some doctors even call it "diabulimia." Unlike disorders such as anorexia, in which a person severely restricts calories, a person omitting insulin can eat whatever she wants. Pizza, beer, ice cream — none of it can be processed by the body. Nor do diabulimics have to go through the pain of self-induced vomiting. All they have to do is skip shots and watch their weight spiral drastically down, calories purged from the body in a sugar-filled stream of urine.
Most people outside the diabetic community have never heard of diabulimia, and it's not in the DSM-IV, the text outlining recognized mental illnesses. But over the past few years, the term has found its way online, where women have picked it up, finally able to give a name to their disorder. Frustrated with a medical community that seems shockingly unaware, sufferers have filled message boards and blogs, searching for answers. "There's virtually no treatment programs that specialize in this," says Ovidio Bermudez, M.D., immediate past president of the National Eating Disorders Association in Seattle. "And yet the problem is growing. This can rob somebody of their eyes, their kidneys, their liver and even their life."
Dealing with a diagnosis
Erin Williams was only 11 years old when her pancreas shut down and stopped making insulin. It seemed at first like a 24-hour bug: She became ill late at night, throwing up after attending a concert with her family. But the next day, she was still feeling sick. She sat at the kitchen table and stared blankly at the bowl of cornflakes in front of her, gagging from the smell of the cereal and milk, while her parents contemplated whether to take her to the pediatrician.
A simple blood test showed that Williams's blood sugar was nearly eight times the normal level. "Erin," the doctor told her brusquely, "you are going to have to take shots for the rest of your life." Then he sent the crying girl straight to the hospital, where she passed out from sheer exhaustion. "I was hysterical," she remembers. "I didn't understand why I got diabetes and nobody else in my family had it. I felt like I had done something to deserve it."
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For the next week, beneath the sterile glare of the hospital's fluorescent lights, Williams and her family were given a crash course in type 1 diabetes. She learned to gauge how much sugar she was eating and practiced injections by piercing oranges and sponges before pressing the needle through her own fragile skin. "It was overwhelming to have all those training sessions crammed into one week after your life has just been changed forever," Williams says. She says her parents, terrified they would lose her with one false move, began obsessively watching her diet. In order to determine the amount of insulin that would best resemble the pancreas's natural response to food, the family counted every carb, weighed every piece of meat, measured every cup of cereal and monitored each sip of juice. The emphasis on food and weight in diabetes treatment is necessary, but as Goebel-Fabbri notes, it also "has the potential to mirror an eating disorder mind-set." No longer could Williams eat whenever she felt the urge. Her entire schedule rotated around food, her glucose meter and a syringe.
'These are your fat shots'
It wasn't long before her reflection began to change, too. Newly diagnosed diabetics have been starved and dehydrated by the body's malfunctioning; as they reintroduce the first, sweet dose of insulin, the body quickly takes on water weight. At the same time, the adrenal glands pump out aldosterone, a hormone that causes the body to store even more salt and water. Although this weight typically dissipates within a few weeks, it can be traumatic. Williams had checked in to the hospital wearing a favorite pair of white shorts with yellow daisies; when she was released one week later, they no longer fit. "It's hard to put on 10 or 15 pounds in a week. I thought it was never going to stop," she says. "When you're first diagnosed with diabetes, you're used to being underweight. Insulin becomes your enemy. You don't even want to have it anywhere near you. You feel like these are your fat shots."
Given the country's ever-more-skeletal beauty ideal, many young women already struggle to accept and love their body. The heightened attention to food and the sudden weight gain that occurs after starting insulin therapy can put diabetic adolescents at an even greater risk. "Some of them feel that they've lost a basic sense of control over how their body works or how they can live their life," says Patricia Colton, M.D., medical director of the Day Hospital for Eating Disorders at Toronto General Hospital and assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Feelings of anger, coupled with the shame and frustration that many patients feel each time they see a too-high result on their glucose meter, can lead to depression and isolation. "Some people, even years after they are diagnosed, are still really grieving that they have diabetes," Dr. Colton says. Like all eating disorders, diabulimia becomes a way to regain control. Sufferers may even give up treating the disease altogether — the ultimate form of denial.
Vulnerable to eating disorders
For the same reasons, a high proportion of diabetic women fall prey to anorexia, bulimia and laxative abuse, compounding the physical and psychological risks of insulin omission. The University of Toronto researchers found that type 1 diabetic girls are two to three times more likely to develop an eating disorder than their nondiabetic peers. Gwen Malnassy, a 22-year-old student and nanny for a special-needs child in San Diego, started treatment for type 1 diabetes at age 9 and began purging only one year later, feeling guilty when she ate forbidden sweets and pining for how thin she had been in the months leading up to her diagnosis. She swung between periods of bulimia and anorexia, when she subsisted solely on water and Diet Coke. Even so, Malnassy says she tried for years to keep up her shots and be a "good diabetic." But by age 17, she became depressed and began to skip her insulin, too.
The disorders fed each other: The less insulin she took, the hungrier she was and the more vulnerable to bingeing. "I would binge and purge over and over again until I would fall asleep, exhausted, at some early hour of the morning," she says. When she tried to get her diabetes treatment back on track, her weight inevitably went up; then she would begin to skip her insulin again and the cycle would continue. "I felt trapped," remembers Malnassy, who has been doing better since her most recent inpatient stay at an eating disorder clinic in the fall of 2005. "Only when I felt I could no longer breathe would I allow myself the poison lifesaver of insulin," she adds. "And even then, I felt like I had been defeated."
Of course, such behavior is incredibly risky. James D. Walker, M.D., a diabetes specialist at St. John's Hospital in Livingston, Scotland, spent more than a decade tracking 14 women with type 1 diabetes who also had eating disorders. The results were grim: After 12 years, five of the women had died, two were blind and three were on kidney dialysis or had received a kidney transplant. The youngest of the women who had died was only 25; the oldest 42. Most unsettling is that by the end of Dr. Walker's study, most of the survivors "no longer fulfilled the criteria for diagnosis" — they were back on full doses of insulin and eating better. But the damage to their body had already been done.
Skipping doses
Williams felt awful as soon as she began cutting back her insulin at the start of her freshman year of high school. "I was nauseated and sick all the time," she says. But she was seeing drastic results on the scale: In one month, she lost 30 pounds. "It's so tempting," she says, like eating each meal knowing that there's "a magic little pill that could make it go away."
Within two years, she was taking as little as four units of insulin a week — her recommended dose was up to 50 units a day. The feeling became almost addictive, as extremely high blood sugar produces a calm, spaced-out sensation that Dr. Colton likens to a drug high. "It was almost like being on Valium," Williams says. When she did take insulin, the swing back to a normal blood sugar level left her anxious and nervous, suddenly full of energy she didn't know how to use. And she became terrified of the immediate weight gain she saw each time she went back on her shots. Just as when she was first diagnosed, she developed insulin-induced edema: fluid retention so extreme that she would wake up in the morning with her eyes swollen shut. Her limbs became so puffy that if she touched her calf, the pressure mark would remain for hours.
At her lowest point, Williams was sleeping 20 hours straight on weekends and weighed a mere 89 pounds. "My friends obviously knew that I was struggling with something," she says. "But they couldn't put their finger on it. It wasn't anorexia or bulimia, so what the hell was going on?" Although her parents suspected she was skipping doses, she denied it. She rigged her glucose meter by placing a drop of alcohol on the test strip, producing readings hundreds of points lower than her real blood sugar. Desperate to help, her parents began marking Williams's insulin bottles with a pen to see if the levels sank. Late at night, as she slept, they sometimes sneaked into her bedroom to make sure their daughter was still breathing.
By the time Williams curled up on her parents' floor that night in October 1999, she had fallen into a state called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening complication that can develop within 24 hours of omitting insulin. As Williams slept, a molecular war was taking place inside her body. Unable to use the sugars in her bloodstream, her cells began a desperate search for other sources of fuel in muscles and fat. The body released hormones that break down fat stores, releasing by-products called ketones. That made things even worse: The spike in ketones upset the body's pH levels and turned her blood acidic. In essence, Williams's body had become toxic to itself.
If Williams had not given herself a shot of insulin, sending a rush of relief to every cell in her body, she might have fallen into a coma or even died that night. "Many of the women omitting insulin are walking the fence by giving just enough insulin to prevent this cascade of events," says Christopher Marx, M.D., an endocrinologist at Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California. "But they can slip past the point of no return, where an ER or hospital care is the only thing that will save them."
Help hard to find
Unfortunately, when diabulimics are finally ready to seek help, it can be hard to find. Suzanne Schaffner, a 28-year-old marketing director from Escondido, California, has struggled with diabulimia since age 15 and has been hospitalized three times with DKA. And yet she says no doctor ever confronted her about what was triggering these episodes. After years of having to eat around a strict schedule, she had lost all touch with her hunger cues and began eating to quell her emotions. But she did not raise her insulin dose in accord with her overeating. "I'd give myself insulin for what I should have eaten," she explains. "If I had an extra piece of something, I'd just deny to myself that I ate it."
Schaffner felt that her physicians were judging her when they saw that her blood sugar levels were out of control. "It's a pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps mentality," she says. "I think [doctors] dismiss the fact that our health depends on how our head is taking it all in." Endocrinologists should be more willing to refer patients with insulin-management problems to mental-health practitioners, says Deborah Mangham, M.D., assistant medical director of the Park Nicollet Eating Disorders Institute in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. "The mental-health part of diabetes can't be ignored," she says. "Patients feel shameful about omitting the insulin and about eating. It takes them so long to trust somebody and tell them what's really going on."
Conventional eating disorder centers are also ill-equipped to handle the unique needs of diabetics. A woman suffering from both diabetes and an eating disorder "can't be treated by one single practitioner," says Dr. Mangham, who helped develop one of the first programs in the country to specifically target these patients. Diabetic patients at Park Nicollet work with a collaborative team of doctors, nurses and therapists who understand both issues. Once blood sugar levels are under control, women are able to meet face-to-face with other patients like themselves. "They all feel they are the only people in the world with this. So it's nice that they've got people in the room that have exactly the same problem," Dr. Mangham says.
Doctors and nurses who work with diabetic girls have also hesitated to screen those at risk for diabulimia because they fear that, instead of preventing the disorder, they might plant a seed. Still, Dr. Colton says, "There are ways you can ask about these things without necessarily giving someone a tip on how to omit their insulin. Every time someone comes in, [doctors should ask] questions about how she feels about her weight." From the day doctors diagnose women with diabetes, Goebel-Fabbri says, they should encourage patients to seek out a treatment team that includes both a nutritionist and a personal trainer who will work with them to reach a healthy weight while also maintaining ideal blood sugar levels. "We need to emphasize that managing your weight doesn't require this kind of extreme and dangerous behavior," she says.
The temptation to be thin
Certainly, not talking about diabulimia has done little to prevent women from picking it up. Christie Plourde, a type 1 diabetic and registered nurse from Marquette, Michigan, says she first learned about the dangerous weight loss trick during her freshman year of college, from a friend she had met through diabetes summer camp. "Don't do your shot," her friend told her. "You'll get thinner, you'll drop off the weight and you'll look great." Now 28 and a single mom, Plourde tries to stay healthy for her 6-year-old daughter, Shaylyn. She keeps a Post-it note by her bed that reads "Remember to do your shot. Your daughter counts on it." Every once in a while, though, the temptation to "erase" a cookie or a piece of cake surfaces, and her friend's advice crosses her mind again. "Summer comes around, and there are weddings to go to," Plourde says plaintively. "Or you want to look good in a bathing suit."
Erin Williams has spent the past nine years struggling against her self-destructive habit. After her frightening bout with DKA, Williams's parents admitted her to an eating disorders program in Illinois. But without any other patients with whom she could relate, she felt misunderstood and alone. "I was shocked to listen to some of these girls who were anorexic or bulimic say to me, 'Wow, you're so lucky. I wish I could do that,' " she says. Since then, Williams has gone in and out of treatment, picking up bits and pieces of information from eating disorder clinics, psychologists, endocrinologists, nutritionists — left to sift through it alone, searching in vain for a program geared specifically toward her disorder. "I would have gotten in control so much faster than in all the years it's taken me to learn all this on my own," she says.
Williams looks and sounds too young to be listing all the complications diabulimia has cost her: kidney damage, liver damage, nerve damage. Her nerve-damaged hands and feet burn as if they're on fire, and her bones are so brittle that earlier this year she broke a foot in five places simply by walking on it. It's a warm, sunny day at Delavan Lake, Wisconsin, where she's vacationing with her family. She's wearing a cast on her foot, frustrated that she can't swim with everyone else. She sits on the water's edge, soaking up the sun.
These days, Williams says she tries to care for her body, striving to eat a balanced diet and stay active by swimming, skiing and jogging. Yet she still struggles with the temptation to skip her insulin. "Every single day, it's a battle," she says. "But I don't want to be 40 years old and be blind or on dialysis. I want to have kids and get married. What I was doing before was not a life at all." She exhales slowly and lowers her voice. "You're not invincible forever," she says softly.
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For me, a complete Washington Early Music Festival experience includes a midweek concert at which I don't know what to expect. The concert by Fasch and Friends on Tuesday at the All Souls Memorial Episcopal Church fit that bill: Johann Friederich Fasch is a fairly obscure German Baroque composer, and potentially his friends would be even more obscure. Plus the program had a unifying and alliterative theme, "The Many Moods of the Minor Mode," in which the Fasch-ists (too much?) would refute the modern idea that minor key => sad by exploring the different characters of the minor mode in the Baroque. Sold!
On Tuesday, the super Friends did best championing Fasch and (as hoped) two little-known contemporaries. The group's namesake was represented by one of his quartet sonatas, which as you might guess had one more melodic part than a trio sonata. In this case, two oboes, played by Sarah Weiner and guest Meg Owens, and William Sherfey's bassoon joined the continuo, composed of Thomas MacCracken on harpsichord and Yayoi Barrack on viola da gamba. In this D minor quartet, Fasch played around with the distribution of the melodic material among the three soloists; sometimes the bassoon would dialogue with the oboes playing in unison, and sometimes the oboes would chatter between themselves as the bassoon provided support. With Sherfey sitting across from Weiner and Owens, the dialogic effect came across nicely, and the melodies sounded fresh as a consequence.
A trio in G minor by Georg Philip Telemann for two recorders (Weiner and Sherfey, in another of their many roles on Tuesday) and continuo received another affectionate, stylish performance. But when Weiner took up the oboe for another Telemann trio (this one in A minor) that also featured Sherfey's recorder, Weiner had trouble compassing the more virtuosic flourishes, starting slightly late and then rushing through to keep up. Barrack had trouble getting her melodies lined up correctly and intoned properly in her solo number, which came in a reconstruction of a trio in E minor by some guy named Johann Sebastian Bach, though as a continuo player she provided strong support in the rest of the concert.
Passing through all the common Baroque minor keys, one could draw few broad conclusions about their various characters; as MacCracken noted, a single minor key can sound very different even within a work. But the various ways a minor key can sound — melancholy, energetic, stately, tranquil — certainly came across, and the minor mode never became monotonous. The diversity of instrumentation helped, and the most notable diversity came in a trio for three recorders and nothin' else by the Baroque composer and theorist Johann Mattheson. (For those of us who enjoy attempting to pronounce German names in an exaggerated fashion, this concert was pure gold.) Here Weiner, Sherfey, and MacCracken teamed up without the support of basso continuo and kept the music aloft with sparkling interplay, especially in a Gigue finale that induced my foot to tap.
All Souls Church is a handsome space but not the best concert venue; a bird chirped from somewhere in the rafters for the entire evening (though the winds of the Fascians were louder, thank goodness), and the HVAC system apparently would have drowned out the performers, meaning we did not have air conditioning on Tuesday night, which made the church as stifling as you would imagine. Still, a quartet by Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, featuring the most interesting of all the instrumental combinations on Tuesday's program — flute, oboe, viola, and basso continuo — made it worthwhile to sweat it out until the end of the concert. (The WEMF program makes a very handy fan.)
To play it, Sherfey switched to the harpsichord, MacCracken manned the baroque flute, guest Leslie Nero handled the viola, and Weiner stayed fast on the oboe. After a concertful of sturdy harpsichording, MacCracken made the flute dance nimbly with the other instruments, Nero tossed off her lines with her usual élan, Weiner helped the unusual texture come together, and Sherfey and Barrack anchored the whole thing. I can't say I had ever heard the name Johann Gottlieb Janitsch before Fasch and Friends introduced his music to me, but I'll remember this performance — just what you're looking for when you don't know what to expect.
This is what I thought of when I first read the group name "Fasch and Friends."
Also, when MacCracken announced that he was grateful for Sherfey agreeing to play the concert even though it was his birthday, I was hoping that the other instrumentalists would play "Happy Birthday" and MacCracken would get us all to sing. Either that or 50's "In Da Club." Maybe Sherfey was sad because he apparently does not have a decent bio page on the Internet that I can link to in this review.


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Sestak said he had to clean up the mess left behind by irresponsible spending and tax-cutting under President George W. Bush. "We'd been torpedoed and had to caulk the holes," he said.
The two actually agreed that the tone of their race had grown negative, but neither accepted blame for it. Both defended their ads as issues-based and accurate.
In closing remarks, Sestak repeated his people approach in this election. "It is we the people. Not we the corporations; nor we Wall Street."
"They hold so much of our reserves. If they dumped them on the stock market--imagine what would happen. Remember, it really is a strong economy that undergirds our military. That undergirds our education, that undergirds our health system," said Sestak.
His rival agreed with him on that one.
Sestak's ads have targeted Toomey as far to the right. One uses Toomey's own words, saying his record is "indistinguishable" from staunchly conservative former Sen. Rick Santorum's. Ads from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee rip Toomey for his support of free trade and votes for policies the group says have shipped American jobs to China.
The free-market advocacy group Club for Growth, which Toomey once led, bought $1 million worth of advertising time in the Philadelphia media market Thursday for a new ad attacking Sestak as "just another liberal" dancing to the tune of President Obama and the Democratic leadership. "Yes, Joe Sestak served honorably in the Navy," the new 30-second spot says. "His service in Congress is the problem."
Sestak counters that Toomey's aversion to government regulation poses short- and long-term threats to the environment and the economy. Sestak has endorsed legislation that would bring Marcellus Shale drilling under the oversight of the Safe Drinking Water Act. He has echoed President Barack Obama's call for a strict moratorium on offshore drilling. Before the Deepwater Horizon spill, he expressed reservations about the administration's decision to expand the areas available for offshore drilling.
Those issues have provided ammunition for persistent sniping: "Toomey sides with Big Oil in the wake of BP disaster," Sestak charged in a press statements. "On energy, Sestak to the left of many Democrats," a Toomey statement contended.
Toomey claims Sestak's voting record is more liberal than the views of his state on energy as on other issues. On cap and trade, for example, Toomey notes that four of Sestak's colleagues in the House Democratic delegation voted against the bill.
Defending his vote in favor of cap-and-trade, Sestak counters that it would actually increase the number of jobs in the state in the longer term. Sestak invokes a a 2009 estimate that the bill would add more than 70,000 jobs in Pennsylvania. Sestak maintains that the carbon curbs would help protect the state's $4.7 billion agriculture industry. He concedes its emissions controls could lead to residential electricity price increases in the short term.
Toomey acknowledges that global warming exists but he is an agnostic on the crucial question of whether it is a product of human activity. "There's no question that the Earth's surface temperature has increased," he said in a statement. "There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming."
Sestak said global warming is principally man-made, citing a series of scientific findings on the matter. "I know Congressman Toomey is quite extreme, quite radical, but the vast majority of the mainstream says yes, it is man-made," he said.
In keeping with those positions, the opponents split this week on a closely watched Senate bill, sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, that would have stripped the EPA of the ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Sestak's campaign said he would have opposed the measure. Toomey supported the bill.
Sestak ignored the requests, called his service honorable and aggressively worked to tie Specter to the policies of former Pres. Bush. "There is no record except the Republican record for Arlen Specter," Sestak said.
Specter countered that he had stood with Democrats on their top priorities, even during his 28 years as a Republican. Specter switched parties last year.
Sestak has said he was reassigned in 2005 because the newly appointed chief naval officer wanted his own team in charge. Specter has cited a report in the Navy Times that said Sestak was reassigned from his job as deputy chief of naval operations for creating a poor command climate--a term for morale.
"I learned in the Navy to expect what you inspect," said Sestak, a retired admiral who served for 30 years in the Navy before being elected to Congress in 2006. "Even little league football has a referee on the field. He [Toomey] removed the referee from Wall Street."
Toomey said he admired Sestak's creative mind, but said his opponent did not understand the financial system. The real threat to the economy, he said, is in the billions of dollars spent on bailouts for banks and the auto industry, along with the economic stimulus and now a health-care regime that he said were all pushing the deficit to stratospheric levels. "Some people believe if you are productive and successful you should get soaked and get soaked hard. I just don't believe in that," Toomey said.
Toomey lashed back saying he would work to repeal health care reform and replace it with other measures such as the purchase of insurance across state lines.
The two candidates found some common ground on questions geared toward the economy. Both said federal spending needs to be reduced.
"When I was (in Congress) I was fighting against the spending that was going on," said Toomey.
Sestak said he would like to see the government extend help to the group he says drives the economy--"The working family, not Wall Street"--by getting tax cuts to that group.
Sestak said he does not support the flat tax as he said Toomey does, and the government should look to guarantee community bank loans to entice borrowers.
Toomey said he believes in strengthening the economy through lower taxes, less spending and increasing domestic energy production.
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Defendant tells jury she was too ashamed and frightened to be truthful
By Brian Skoloff
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PHOENIX (AP) — Jodi Arias' numerous versions of how and why she fatally stabbed, slashed and shot her lover have been center stage this week as a prosecutor in her death penalty trial picked apart her stories in painstaking detail.
She spent days trying to explain away her lies, first telling authorities, friends and family she knew nothing of Travis Alexander's death, then later blaming it on masked intruders before eventually settling on self-defense. She was too ashamed and frightened of the consequences to be truthful, she told jurors.
Alexander, she has said, was a cheating womanizer, an angry man with a violent temper who once choked her into unconsciousness, while simultaneously a caring, loving boyfriend who bought her surprise gifts, took her on trips and loaned her his car. He coaxed her into raunchy sex acts she didn't enjoy, she said, though text messages shown to jurors indicate she was at times as much an instigator as he was.
Her testimony was set to resume Wednesday, as prosecutor Juan Martinez continues his aggressive cross-examination of Arias. He has worked to poke holes in each of her stories and noted the duplicity of her portrayal of Alexander as both a beautiful person who blessed the world and a violent, womanizing sexual deviant, aiming for a first-degree murder conviction and the death penalty.
"Travis, I thank you for being such an amazing friend. You are a rock, a light and an inspiration," Arias wrote in one text message displayed for jurors. "I love you dearly."
Martinez remarked how these messages were sent after Arias says Alexander had beaten her.
"This is not in line with the person you have been talking about, is it?" Martinez prodded.
"Yes, it is very consistent with how he was," Arias replied.
"You've been telling us before how he was mean?" Martinez remarked.
"Yes, he also was that," Arias said softly.
Martinez kept hammering at her, repeatedly mentioning how she began planning an alibi immediately after killing Alexander, even attending his memorial service about 10 days later. She previously testified she had been working on an alibi to throw off suspicion and avoid being charged, and she was too scared and ashamed to tell the truth.
At the service, Arias wrote in an album for Alexander's family how he was "beautiful on the inside and out."
"This world has been blessed because you have been here," she wrote.
Testimony at times has turned into a one-sided shouting match between Arias and Martinez over memory problems, with Arias calmly saying his aggressive demeanor was causing her to forget crucial details.
It was a stark contrast to her testimony under questioning by her own lawyers, during which she alternated between poise and tears and recalled precise details of practically her entire life dating back to being abused by her parents at the age of 7.
Arias recalled virtually nothing under questioning by Martinez.
Their barbs have led to numerous private conferences between attorneys and the judge as defense lawyers repeatedly objected to Martinez's aggressiveness, accusing him of badgering the witness.
Arias is charged in the June 2008 death of Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home. She says she dated him for about five months before breaking up but continued to see him for sex up until the day she killed him. She was forced to fight for her life after Alexander attacked her, she said, but police say she planned the killing in a jealous rage.
Arias has said Alexander invited her to his Mesa home on the day of the killing for sex. His body was found about five days later. He had been shot in the head, suffered 27 stab and slash wounds and his throat was slit.
Of the day of Alexander's death, Arias says he was in a rage, body-slamming her and chasing her around his home.
She said she grabbed a gun from his closet, and fired it as they tussled, but doesn't recall stabbing him. She said she remembers putting a knife in the dishwasher and disposing of the gun in the desert as she drove from Arizona to see a man in Utah, where she spent the night in his bed kissing and cuddling as she worked to create an alibi and avoid suspicion.
Arias' grandparents reported a .25 caliber handgun stolen from their Northern California house about a week before the killing — the same caliber used to shoot Alexander — but Arias says she knows nothing about the burglary.
She says she brought no weapons to Alexander's home on the day she killed him, undercutting the prosecution's theory of premeditation.


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GRB 090429B as seen by Swift. (Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler).
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Jun 21, 2012 5:36 AM GMT
Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- I wonder if black people would be still in the fields picking cotton today if the 13th Amendment -- the one abolishing slavery -- was placed on the ballot back in 1865.
I wonder if Hillary Clinton would be at home baking cookies instead of serving as secretary of state if women's suffrage was put to a vote back in 1919.
In other words, I wonder just how far along we would be as a society if the oppressive majority held all of the legislative and judicial power over the oppressed minority, essentially yanking the teeth out of Congress and the Supreme Court.
I'm sure you've heard a lot about the gay agenda, but may not know what's in it. Here's what you do: Download a copy of the United States Constitution, read it. Everything the LGBT community wants is in there.
Sounds like an oversimplification?
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There's not a single issue regarding the LGBT community that has been covered in the media or deliberated in courts that is counter to the articles of the Constitution. On the other hand, the fact that in 29 states it is legal to fire someone just because they're gay flies in the face of the 14th amendment, particularly the passage that says "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
That may not be consistent with one's religion, and that's fine. But the Bible and the Constitution are not the same thing.
I can't think of a single major civil rights victory that came by way of a general election and so I am not surprised that all 32 states that have voted on marriage equality, voted against marriage equality.
It is human nature to resist change, especially change that may bring significant inconvenience to the vast majority of the people, those who are enjoying the spoils of the status quo. "If it's not broke, don't fix it," was never said by the community that was demanding their rights.
It was always the mantra of those who liked their slaves; who liked their women barefoot and pregnant; who felt uncomfortable working next to someone with cerebral palsy; who get squeamish at the thought of two men falling in love.
We elect members of Congress to lead us, not appease us. This is why our history has so many civil rights victories come by way of Congress or the courts and so few if any civil rights victories by election. When it gets right down to it, culturally we're like children who have to be forced to eat our vegetables.
We like the Constitution when it can be used to endorse life the way we think it ought to be and we ignore it, or vote against it when the Bill of Rights or the various amendments challenge our world view or force us to make accommodations -- however big or small -- for others.
This week election officials in the state of Washington announced that a referendum seeking to nullify the recently passed law legalizing same-sex marriage has qualified for the November ballot.
Washington joins Maryland, Maine and Minnesota as the next round of states that will put the civil rights of some of their citizens to a vote. Early polls indicate that at least one of them will indeed vote in favor of marriage equality, which is a victory for the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Though it's a bit of a shame that the Constitution needs such victories and that history has taught us nothing.


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HONOLULU -- A military jury convicted a Hawaii-based Army officer of unauthorized possession of classified documents and giving a document with classified assessments of Cambodia to a person not entitled to have it.
A jury sentenced Maj. Seivirak Inson to 10 years confinement, along with dismissal from the Army and forfeiture of pay, the Army said.
A panel of seven Army officers returned the verdict against Inson on Friday after a four-day court-martial at Wheeler Army Airfield.
The jurors convicted Inson, who was born in Cambodia, of possessing a U.S. Pacific Command maritime strategy document and other military intelligence documents that he wasn't authorized to have.
They found him guilty of failing to report to his chain of command contacts he had with Cambodian military and government officials.
His other convictions were for adultery and fraudulently signing a bank document.
Inson was acquitted of collecting information on servicemembers of Cambodian descent with the intention of giving the information to Cambodian military and government officials.
He was also found not guilty of unlawfully striking an individual and choking a person.
Inson was assigned to the U.S. Pacific Command at the time of the alleged crimes, from 2008 through 2012. Inson is currently with the 8th Theater Sustainment Command at Fort Shafter.


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6401.0 - Consumer Price Index, Australia, Sep 2008 Quality Declaration
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All categories of housing recorded price rises this quarter at the weighted average of the eight capital cities level. The main contributors were rents (+2.1%), water and sewerage (+12.3%), house purchase (+1.3%), electricity (+4.6%) and property rates and charges (+6.1%). This is the largest quarterly increase for housing since the September quarter 2000.
Rents rose in every capital city, with the highest increases in Perth (+3.2%), Darwin (+3.0%) and Brisbane (+2.9%). Hobart showed the lowest rent increase of 0.9%.
Annual reviews of prices by State and local government authorities and utility providers led to a number of price rises. Water and sewerage prices rose in all capital cities, with increases ranging from 3.5% in Darwin to 17.7% in Melbourne. Electricity prices rose in six capital cities, with the highest increases in Sydney (+8.9%), Brisbane (+8.3%) and Canberra (+6.7%), were unchanged in Perth, and fell in Melbourne (-1.4%) due to the Winter Energy Concession. Property rates and charges rose in all capital cities, ranging from 3.5% in Sydney and Hobart to 8.7% in Melbourne.
Increases in house purchase prices were recorded in all capital cities, with Canberra (+3.7%) and Brisbane (+2.2%) being the highest and Melbourne (+0.6%) and Sydney (+0.9%) the lowest.
Over the twelve months to September quarter 2008, the housing group rose 6.8%, which was the largest annual increase since the June quarter 2001. This rise was mainly due to rents (+8.2%), house purchase (+5.4%) and electricity (+10.1%).
Food prices rose in most categories in all capital cities. The most significant contributors to the increase in food prices this quarter were fruit (+4.5%), bread (+4.6%), take away and fast foods (+1.3%), restaurant meals (+1.3%) and vegetables (+1.3%).
The rise in fruit prices was mainly due to price increases for bananas across all capital cities as cooler weather conditions in North Queensland resulted in reduced supplies.
Over the past year, the food group rose 3.4%, with strong positive movements in all capital cities. The increase was predominantly due to rises in take away and fast foods (+6.9%), restaurant meals (+4.5%), bread (+10.9%), milk (+10.9%) and cakes and biscuits (+9.1%). Fruit (-16.8%) provided the major offsetting decrease, driven by falls in the prices of bananas and apples.
The rise in financial and insurance services this quarter is a result of increases in deposit and loan facilities (+1.9%), insurance services (+2.9%) and other financial services (+0.7%).
Over the twelve months to September quarter 2008, financial and insurance services rose 9.5%, with increases in the prices of all components - deposit and loan facilities (+16.0%), insurance services (+9.0%) and other financial services (+1.6%).
The rise in recreation prices this quarter was mainly due to overseas holiday travel and accommodation (+4.9%), domestic holiday travel and accommodation (+2.4%) and sports participation (+2.7%). The major offset was provided by audio, visual and computing equipment (-3.9%).
Through the year to September quarter 2008, the recreation group rose 1.6%, the fifteenth consecutive annual rise. This rise was mainly due to overseas holiday travel and accommodation (+7.8%), other recreational activities (+5.9%) and domestic holiday travel and accommodation (+2.6%). Rises were reported in six capital cites ranging from 0.1% in Canberra to 2.4% in Brisbane and Adelaide. Hobart (-3.0%) and Darwin (-0.3%) recorded falls.
The increase in transportation costs this quarter was mainly due to the rise in the price of automotive fuel (+2.0%). There were increases in most other categories of transportation, with other motoring charges (+2.7%) and motor vehicle repair and service (+1.3%) being the most significant. There was a small offsetting fall in the price of motor vehicles (-0.7%).
Automotive fuel prices rose in April (+2.7%), May (+3.3%), June (+7.5%) and July (+0.3%), fell in August (-6.7%) then rose in September (+1.1%). The automotive fuel expenditure class contributed 0.16 index points to the increase in the All groups CPI in September quarter 2008 and 1.64 index points to the through the year change.
The following graph shows the pattern of the average daily prices for unleaded petrol for the eight capital cities over the last fifteen months.
Over the twelve months to September quarter 2008, the transportation group rose 8.7%, with the main contributors being automotive fuel (+25.4%), motor vehicle repair and servicing (+3.7%), other motoring charges (+5.4%), motor vehicle parts and accessories (+5.5%) and urban transport fares (+4.4%). There was an offsetting fall in motor vehicles (-1.9%).
The alcohol and tobacco group recorded a rise of 1.4% in the September 2008 quarter. All components in the alcohol and tobacco group rose this quarter, with price increases in spirits (+4.8%), tobacco (1.6%), beer (+0.8%) and wine (+0.1%).
The rises in spirits, tobacco and beer prices were mainly due to the effect of the increase in Federal excise from 1 August 2008. Spirits also incurred an additional tax in the previous quarter, which also impacted on prices this quarter.
Through the year to September quarter 2008, the alcohol and tobacco group rose 5.8%.
The major contributor to the fall in household contents and services this quarter was child care (-22.9%), with a less significant fall in furniture (-1.3%). The largest offsetting rise came from other household services (+2.2%), which recorded rises in all capital cities.
The drop in the net price of child care was due to the increase in the Child Care Tax Rebate (CCTR) from 30% to 50% that was implemented as of 1 July 2008. This resulted in a decrease in out-of-pocket expenses for consumers of these services. The changes to the CCTR and their impact on the CPI are discussed in further detail in the Appendix to this issue.
Through the year to September quarter 2008, the household contents and services group rose 0.9%, with increases in all capital cities. The increase was mainly due to rises in other household supplies (+4.1%) and other household services (+7.2%). Child care (-17.5%) provided the major offsetting fall, due to the increase in the CCTR implemented this quarter.
The fall in prices of clothing and footwear this quarter is mainly due to widespread specials for winter season lines across a number of categories. The only significant rise was in clothing services and shoe repairs (+1.0%).
Over the twelve months to September quarter 2008, the clothing and footwear index remained flat (0.0%) due to falls in men's footwear (-5.4%), children and infants clothing (-1.7%), men's outerwear (-0.7%) and women's outerwear (-0.7%) being offset by rises in accessories (+3.4%), clothing services and shoe repairs (+3.2%) and children's footwear (+1.6%).
The 2.4% fall in education was entirely due to the increase in child care benefits flowing from the changes to CCTR that apply for children in pre-school and primary school. Through the year to September quarter 2008, the education group rose 4.7%.
The decrease in the health costs was largely due to a fall in the net cost of pharmaceuticals (-3.9%). This was partially offset by increases to hospital and medical services (+0.9%) and dental services (+0.7%).
The net cost of pharmaceuticals fell mainly due to the cyclical effect of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme safety net, with more consumers exceeding the PBS safety net and receiving subsidised prescription pharmaceuticals.
The net cost of hospital and medical services rose as a result of increased gross prices across services, falls in the percentage of bulk billed services, offset by the cyclical effect of the Medicare Plus safety net.
Through the year to September quarter 2008, the health group rose 5.1% due to increases in hospital and medical services (+6.5%), dental services (+4.6%) and pharmaceuticals (+2.0%).
The rise in communication costs was due to increases in the cost of telecommunication (+0.2%) and postal services (+2.8%).
Over the twelve months to September quarter 2008, the cost of communication rose 0.2%.
The non-tradables component (see table 8) of the All groups CPI rose 1.6% in the September quarter. This component includes goods and services whose prices are largely determined by domestic price pressures and represents approximately 58% of the CPI. Within non-tradables, the services component rose 1.2%, mainly due to rents, deposit and loan facilities, property rates and charges, domestic holiday travel and accommodation and insurance services. The only significant offsets was provided by child care. The non-tradable goods component rose 2.2% mainly due to price increases for water and sewerage, house purchase and electricity.
The tradables component of the All groups CPI rose 0.7%. This component includes goods and services whose prices are largely determined on the world market and represents approximately 42% of the weight of the CPI. The tradable goods component rose 0.4%, driven by increases in automotive fuel, with less significant contributions from fruit, spirits and tobacco. Pharmaceuticals, audio, visual and computing equipment and motor vehicles provided the most significant offsetting falls.
Over the twelve months to September quarter 2008, non-tradables rose 6.1% and tradables rose 3.4%. This compares with rises of 5.6% and 2.9%, respectively, for these components through the year to June quarter 2008. The main drivers in non-tradables were deposit and loan facilities, rents, house purchase, hospital and medical services, take away and fast foods, electricity and insurance services. A fall in the net cost of child care provided a significant offset. Automotive fuel was the main contributor to the rise in tradables, with less significant contributions from overseas holiday travel and accommodation, spirits and tobacco. There were significant falls in fruit, audio, visual and computing equipment and vegetables.
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