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The Color of the Chameleon, Bulgaria's Submission for the Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. U.S. : None Yet. International Sales Agent: Peripeteia
Like most other countries that were under Communist control, Bulgaria clearly struggles with a past of secrecy, isolation, and a bizarre national identity
that surely makes for unique and interesting cinematic sensitivities. In The Color of the Chameleon, director Emil Hristow weaves a plot
that will reward the patient viewer who can take in all the puzzling small details and complex philosophical ideas. Deliberately unorthodox, the narrative
utilizes political satire to comment on the Bulgarian society's transition into a semi-functional democracy.
Growing up believing himself an orphan, Batko (Rushi Vidinliev) has struggled to fit
into the system his entire life. A lover of scientific magazines, frequently reprimanded for pleasuring himself as a young boy, he has now discovered
the aunt who raised him is actually his mother. When he is misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, Batko is released from his military duties and decides to go
back to school. He is soon recruited by the secret police as an informant to spy and collect information on a subversive group that operates from his
campus. It seems as if he has finally found a purpose in life; he diligently moves into a house owned previously by an amateur filmmaker and takes a job
making prints. Mentioned in the film as an underground forbidden title, the book Zincograph – upon which the film is based – is the text that the Anti-Communists he must spy on are using as their mantra. Logically Batko gets deeply familiar with the book whose central message is the fact that
secrecy is both the source of power and the reason for the demise of the omnipotent Communist government.
In spite of the fact that he has devotedly performed above and beyond the call of duty, Batko is unjustifiably fired due to a silly mistake committed by his overly sexual landlord. Out of a job and simultaneously dealing with his mother's death, the protagonist concocts a slow-burning murderous revenge plot that will equally punish both those in charge and their opposition. Using the skills he learned during his brief run with the secret police, he devices a fictitious web of spies from the
world's leading secret organizations: CIA, MI5, and the KGB. Living up to the film's title, he takes on a chameleonic role pretending to be all of them,
manipulating, and planting information that will pay off in the riveting conclusion. Through Vidinliev's amazingly unsettling performance, deranged Batko
represents the lack of certainty and disconnection from the outside world that an entire generation of lost youth endured, not only in Bulgaria, but also
in many Eastern European countries.
Even while dissecting the nation's troubling past, the film has a lighter side and the comedic elements often shine thanks to their contrast to the irreverent darkness of the film. Batko has his very own love story with a local handicapped beauty Pravda (Lilia Abadjieva), who, ironically, is in charge of the local movie theater. She is obsessed
with the classic film Casablanca, which fittingly includes a scene in which Humphrey Bogart helps a Bulgarian couple escape. That scene
rings true to Pravda and Batko's romance and it's depicted in several beautifully photographed black-and-white dreamlike sequences that strangely fit in
with the overall mood of the piece.
There are numerous references to Communist-era iconic art like the prominent use of the painting "My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love" as a symbol
of the toxic pacts that helped spread the ideology in the region. However, for all the historical tokens, there are many other efforts to mock and
ridicule the system, like Batko's bizarre fake plan to regulate orgasms and sexual behavior for the benefit of the majority. Stylistically the film
resembles the earlier works of French director Jean Pierre-Jeunet as it carries a distinctively obscure tone and a gloomy, yet vivid magical realist visual
aesthetic. Hristow cleverly infuses his film with the country's own preoccupations with the lack of privacy and creates an impressively original cinematic
statement. In this, his feature debut, the director captures a chapter in his country's history and revises it with a compelling story that demands
rigorous attention. The Color of the Chameleon is one of the most original European films in recent memory; its multicolored themes are
universally relevant, yet authentically Bulgarian.
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Fernandez-Lorenzo, José R.*†; Cocho, José A.*; Rey-Goldar, M. Luz†; Couce, Mariluz*; Fraga, José M.*†
*Service of Neonatology and Metabolic and Nutritional Laboratory, Hospital Xeral de Galicia; †Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital, University of Santiago Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Received September 25; revised July 9 and September 10, 1998; accepted September 14, 1998.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to J. R. F. Lorenzo, Division of Neonatology, Hospital Xeral de Galicia, C/ Galeras s/n 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Background: Aluminum toxicity is well documented and contamination of milk formulas has been implicated as the source of accumulation in bone and brain tissues. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the aluminum contents of human milk, cow's milk, and infant formulas.
Methods: Aluminum contents were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry in samples of human milk in the colostrum, intermediate, and mature stages; infant formulas from eight manufacturers; and various types and brands of commercially available cow's milk.
Results: Mean aluminum concentration was lowest in human milk (23.4 ± 9.6 µg/l), and did not differ significantly between colostrum, intermediate-stage and mature-stage milk. Mean aluminum concentration was 70 µg/l in cow's milk, and 226 µg/l in reconstituted infant formulas. Aluminum concentrations in infant formulas differed markedly among manufacturers; concentration in milk from one of the manufacturers was particularly high (mean, 551 µg/l; range, 302-1149 µg/l). These values are for milk reconstituted with aluminum-free water under laboratory conditions; formulas prepared with tap water in the University Hospital's infant-feeding unit had even higher aluminum content. Experiments showed that aluminum concentration in the high-aluminum milk could be reduced by more than 70% at the manufacturing stage, by using low-aluminum components.
Conclusions: The results of the present study support the recommendations for infant formula manufacturers to strive to reduce aluminum concentration in their products.
Aluminum may interfere with numerous processes in cells of the nervous system and other tissue (1). Neonates and nursing infants are at particular risk, notably because of the immaturity of the renal apparatus and consequent poor excretion of aluminum (2).
For many years aluminum was considered harmless. The first indication of toxicity came in 1962, when McLaughlin et al. (3) reported an association between prolonged exposure to aluminum and encephalopathy. In 1969, Kerr et al. (4) reported a high incidence of bone fractures in patients undergoing hemodialysis and attributed this finding to aluminum toxicity. Investigators in subsequent studies have reported several effects of excessive aluminum levels, including severe neurologic disorders, cardiac disorders, osteomalacia, anemia, and immunodepression (5). Such disorders are particularly common among patients with renal insufficiency or subjects receiving phosphate-fixing drugs with high aluminum content. Baluarte et al. (6) and Foley et al. (7) reported severe neurologic disorders and osteomalacia in children with congenital renal disease treated with high-aluminum phosphate-fixing agents. In 1984, Sedman (8) observed high aluminum concentrations in blood, urine, and bone of preterm neonates who had been supported by parenteral feeding and suggested that aluminum poisoning may be one of the causative factors of osteopenia in the premature infant. In 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended that aluminum concentration in parenteral feedings not exceed 25 µg/l (9). High plasma levels of aluminum have also been reported in children receiving antacids (10).
In 1985, Freundlich et al. (11) reported aluminum poisoning in two neonates with renal insufficiency, suggesting that it may have been because of aluminum in the formula milk that the infants had consumed. To date, however, no other evidence has been produced to support the possibility that aluminum poisoning can be caused by infant formula.
The aluminum content of infant formulas and commercial cow's milk is rarely stated on the package. Studies of the concentration of aluminum in human milk and infant formulas indicate a high variability (12-16). The Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics has recently called for continuous efforts to reduce aluminum content in infant formulas (17). We report an investigation of aluminum content in a wide range of milk samples, including human milk in the colostrum, intermediate, and mature stages; infant formulas from eight manufacturers; and commercially available cow's milk (whole, semiskim, or skim).
Aluminum content was determined in 189 samples: 45 samples of human milk (14 of colostrum, 22 from the intermediate stage [7-10 days after birth], 9 from the mature stage [more than 10 days after birth]); 64 samples of infant formulas (17 samples of starter formulas, 47 samples of continuation formulas; formulas from eight manufacturers); 78 samples of commercial brands of cow's milk (53 whole, 10 semiskim, 15 skim); and 2 samples of a commercial brand of soy milk.
Possible effects of the preparation step were investigated by determining aluminum content in infant formulas after reconstitution in the laboratory using aluminum-free water and after reconstitution in our hospital's infant-feeding unit. Aluminum content was also determined in commercial ready-to-use formulas. In addition, we monitored aluminum content in tap water and formula milk from the infant-feeding unit daily for 1 week.
Samples were taken directly from the package or the mother's breast, and stored at 4°C until analyzed. The instruments used for sampling were either polyethylene or polypropylene (tubes and syringes) or stainless steel (needles). All pipettes and containers used in sample handling and analysis were prewashed in 10% nitric acid for at least 48 hours. Plastic instruments were kept under cover until use.
Preparation of samples and analysis were performed in the atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) area in clean, controlled conditions. The plastic material was always stopped or under 10% nitric acid. The room was kept dust and draught free. In our experience, an absolutely clean room is not necessary at these aluminum levels.
Ultrapure water, obtained with the Elgastat system (ELGA, Bucks, England), was used throughout. Calibration standards were prepared by dilution of a stock solution (1000 mg/l aluminum; Titrisol 9967; Merck, Darmstadt, Germany). The nitric acid was Suprapur quality (Merck 441). Triton X-100 (Scintran, ref. 24630; BDH Chemicals, Ltd., Dagenham, Essex, United Kingdom) was used as a surfactant for the preparation of samples and standards.
Aluminum contents were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry in an apparatus with electrical heating in a graphite chamber (model 1100B; Perkin-Elmer, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.), using graphite pyrolysis tubes and a L'Vov platform (Perkin-Elmer). The optimized temperature program and the instrumental parameters used are summarized in Table 1.
Samples were diluted in double-distilled water containing 0.2% nitric acid and 0.2% Triton X-100. The dilution was adjusted so that the concentration in the sample fell within the most reliable part of the calibration curve. In all cases, the cited aluminum content of a sample is the mean of two determinations.
Reference materials from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were used as internal quality controls. Our laboratory has participated from the outset in the Worldwide Interlaboratory Quality Control for Aluminum program conducted by the Societé Franĉaise de Biologie Clinique. Accuracy data are reported in detail in Tables 2A and 2B. Only information values for aluminum are provided for the reference materials from the IAEA and NIST.
In every batch, two or three samples from the External Quality Control Program were included; precision and accuracy results for four levels of aluminum, are summarized in Table 2B. Results were always close to the mean values and are included in the mean ± 1 SD interval.
Aluminum contents in the different sample groups were compared by the Wilcoxon test, applying the Bonferroni correction when more than two groups were compared. Unless otherwise stated, statistical significance was set at p < 0.05.
Aluminum contents in the human milk samples are listed in Table 3. Mean concentration was 25.7 µg/l in colostrum, 23.3 µg/l in intermediate-stage milk, and 21.5 µg/l in mature-stage milk; none of the pairwise differences was statistically significant. The overall mean (± SD) was 23.9 ± 9.6 µg/l, and the overall range was 7 to 42 µg/l.
Considering all 64 samples together, mean aluminum concentration was 225.9 µg/l (range, 8-1149 µg/l; Table 4). Mean aluminum concentration was somewhat higher in the 17 samples of the continuation formulas (245.8 µg/l) than in the 47 samples of the starter formulas (218.6 µg/l), although this difference was not statistically significant (Table 4). When the different infant formulas were considered separately (Table 5), mean aluminum content was less than 100 µg/l in three formulas, between 100 and 300 µg/l in six, and more than 300 µg/l in three.
We also investigated whether aluminum content is affected by the reconstitution procedure. Specifically, aluminum was determined in formula milks reconstituted with aluminum-free water under laboratory conditions, in commercially available ready-to-use formulas, and in formulas reconstituted in our hospital's infant-feeding unit. The results are summarized in Figure 1. Aluminum content in milks reconstituted with aluminum-free water was significantly lower (p < 0.001) than in ready-to-use formulations and milks reconstituted in the infant-feeding unit. There was no significant difference between aluminum contents in the latter two sample groups.
With the goal of further investigating the effects of aluminum content in the water on the final concentration of this element in reconstituted formula milk, we monitored the aluminum content in tap water and in reconstituted milk from the infant-feeding unit daily over a 1-week period. The results (Fig. 2) clearly show that final concentration varied considerably depending on aluminum concentration in the tap water supply.
Considering all 80 samples together, mean aluminum concentration was 70.1 µg/l (Table 6). Mean aluminum concentration was 69.0 µg/l in the 53 samples of whole milk, 58.7 µg/l in the 10 samples of semiskim milk, 64.8 µg/l in the 15 samples of skim milk, and 152.5 µg/l in the two samples of soy milk. aluminum content did not differ significantly between any pair of sample groups, although content in the soy milk was more than double that observed in the other groups.
We also investigated possible effects of type of packaging on aluminum content (results not shown). Tetrabrik-packaged milk showed a mean concentration of 74.7 µg/l, versus 57.5 µg/l for milk sold in plastic bags and 42.6 µg/l for milks sold in plastic bottles; none of these differences was statistically significant. Mean aluminum content in ultra-high temperature milks (73.5 µg/l) was significantly higher than in pasteurized milks (49.9 µg/l; p < 0.01; Fig. 3).
The results of the present study indicate that the aluminum content in human milk (mean, 23.9 ± 9.6 µg/l) was significantly lower (p < 0.001) than in commercially available cow's milk (mean, 70.1 µg/l) and infant formulas (mean, 225.9 µg/l; Fig. 4). The difference between the cow's milk mean and the infant formula mean was likewise significant (p < 0.001).
In addition, investigators have found that human milk has the lowest aluminum content: For example, a report by the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics (17) states that the mean aluminum content of human milk has ranges from 4 to 65 µg/l in different studies. In a previous study in Spain, Ballabriga et al. (18) obtained even lower values (mean, 6.5 ± 5.0 µg/l; range, 0.9-19.8 µg/l) than in the present study. To date, the only workers to find high aluminum levels in human milk are Coni et al. (12) and Mandic et al. (19), who reported means of 167 µg/l and 380 µg/l, respectively.
In general, trace element concentrations in human milk decline with time after birth. This pattern was observed in the present study (colostrum mean, 25.7 µg/l; intermediate-stage mean, 23.3 µg/l; mature-stage mean, 21.6 µg/l), although the differences in question were not statistically significant. In 1983, Feeley et al. (20) reported that aluminum levels were higher in early and intermediate human milk than in late milk. However, Tanaka et al. (14) found no significant difference between milk samples taken 1 week and 1 month after birth.
In the present study, the mean aluminum content in commercially available cow's milk (70.1 µg/l) was about 3 times higher than in human milk. UHT milk had a higher aluminum content (mean, 73.5 µg/l) than pasteurized milk (mean, 49.8 µg/l). These differences were probably caused by the sterilization procedure, because in the preparation of UHT milk some polyphosphates are added as a stabilizer. The product used in several milks studied was the Turrisin ST (BK Giulini Chemie GmbH Co. OAG, Ladenburg, Germany), and the aluminum level found in this product was 31 µg/g (n = 11, mean, 31.0 ± 1.2 µg/g). This amount produced an increase of 31 µg/l (Fig. 3). Previous studies have reported mean aluminum contents of 27 µg/l (15), 40 µg/l (18), and 95 µg/l (21) in pasteurized cow's milk.
We did not detect significant effects of packaging on aluminum content in commercially available cow's milk, although packaging materials with high aluminum content can clearly be expected to have such effects (22). Previous investigators have indicated that aluminum levels in bottled albumin for perfusion are affected by the aluminum content of the glass (23).
Similarly, we did not detect a significant variation in aluminum content in whole, semi-skim, and skim cow's milk. However, aluminum content was markedly higher in vegetable-fat milks (mean, 152 µg/l), possibly because of the relatively high aluminum contents of the vegetable oils used.
As in previous studies, we found aluminum content to be highest in infant formulas: Depending on the manufacturer, mean aluminum content was between 3 and 23 times higher than in human milk and up to 8 times higher than in cow's milk. If we assume daily milk ingestion of 200 ml/kg, the mean value determined in the present study (225.9 µg/l) implies a daily aluminum intake of approximately 0.045 mg/kg per day, considerably lower than the provisional World Health Organization-recommended daily maximum intake of 1 mg/kg per day (24). Indeed, even considering the very high aluminum content in one of the infant formulas milk samples (1149 µg/l), daily aluminum intake would still only be approximately 0.23 mg/kg per day. Nevertheless, it is clearly appropriate to take a conservative approach when estimating maximum permissible daily intake.
Our results regarding aluminum contents in infants formulas are almost in agreement with those of previous studies (12,16,21,25-27). However, mean aluminum contents were particularly high in the Blemil, Adapta, and Modar milks (see Table 5). We thus investigated whether this might be because of contamination during packaging of the product. However, we detected no significant difference in aluminum contents before and after packaging in these milks (results not shown). We then attempted to identify the components of the milk responsible for the high aluminum content. The results (Table 7) show that the fat concentrate, lactose, and mineral mix all made a major contribution, and that total aluminum content in the finished product could be reduced by 72% by replacing these components with low-aluminum equivalents.
Formula milks prepared in the infant-feeding unit of our hospital and ready-to-use formula milks had higher aluminum concentrations than milk prepared with aluminum-free water under laboratory conditions. In the case of milk prepared in the infant-feeding unit, this appears to have been largely because of the high aluminum content of the tap water (see Fig. 2). Similar results were obtained by Semmekrot et al., (16) who found that aluminum concentration in formula milk prepared under noncontrolled conditions was 3 to 100 times that in milk prepared with aluminum-free water under laboratory conditions.
In conclusion, the results of the present study support the recommendations of the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics (17) regarding the need for infant formula manufacturers to strive to reduce aluminum concentration in their products and the desirability of printing the maximum aluminum content on the package, stating the possible dangers particularly in nursing infants with renal insufficiency or other in disorders or characteristics that might favor accumulation of this element.
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Look; i don't know; and there's not a whole lot of info you gave; but think about this:
1-that shaking and mean face just kinda happened, right? spontaneously?
2-you were in a pretty extreme situation; with some guy tryin to pick a fight with you. that is a rare occurrence, right?
3-the guy saw what you had going on and backed down. that was good, right?
i don't know; it seems like everything worked perfectly.
what do you want to overcome?
the involuntary response seemed to indicate to the provoker that you were full-on ready to rock and roll; and he thought the better of it; as he was about to get the WHOLE and ENTIRETY of *you* all over *him*.
your body and mind were engaged, 'ON' and ready to bang.
Q: What is there to overcome?
Q: Why overcome it?
Q: Didn't things take care of themselves?
Q: It was all natural and spontaneous. And brought about a peaceful ending.
now; if you're planning on getting into a lot of fights then yeah; you may want to hone these responses; and try to master handling adrenaline dumps...but in general, for like...99.3% of all the situations this was absolutely freaking perfect.... wasn't it?
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SIAM names 2014 Class of Fellows
Each year, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) designates as Fellows of the society members who have made outstanding contributions to fields served by SIAM.
This year, SIAM is happy to recognize 32 members of the community for this honor. Fellows are nominated by peers for their distinguished contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science and related disciplines.
The Class of 2014 Fellows, listed below in alphabetical order, will be recognized at the 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago in July.
Mark Ainsworth, Brown University
John S. Baras, University of Maryland, College Park
Lorenz T. Biegler, Carnegie Mellon University
Åke Björck, Linköping University, Emeritus
Alfred M. Bruckstein, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Suncica Canic, University of Houston
Inderjit S. Dhillon, The University of Texas at Austin
Vladimir L. Druskin, Schlumberger-Doll Research
Leah Edelstein-Keshet, University of British Columbia
Donald Estep, Colorado State University
Bengt Fornberg, University of Colorado Boulder
Omar Ghattas, The University of Texas at Austin
Philip E. Gill, University of California, San Diego
Solomon W. Golomb, University of Southern California
Jan S. Hesthaven, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Masakazu Kojima, Tokyo Institute of Technology and JST CREST
Jeffrey C. Lagarias, University of Michigan
Jean B. Lasserre, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Institute of Mathematics, University of Toulouse
Tai-Ping Liu, Academia Sinica
Mitchell B. Luskin, University of Minnesota
Nancy K. Nichols, University of Reading
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Yuriko Yamamuro Renardy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
L. Ridgway Scott, University of Chicago
Mikhail Shashkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, X-Computational Physics Division
Christine A. Shoemaker, Cornell University
Valeria Simoncini, Università di Bologna
Zdeněk Strakoš, Charles University in Prague
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Skip to comments.Marriage fight divides state's Catholics (Minnesota)
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***Those who oppose the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage are organizing, putting them at odds with bishops.***
......Groups of lay Catholics and former priests have spoken out against the bishops' campaign. Some parents and students also have criticized the church's move to talk about marriage in [archdiocesan] high schools. Active Catholics have met in Protestant churches to talk about how to defeat the amendment.
Catholics and other faith groups have held meetings in their homes, like the one at Burg's house, where representatives for the anti-amendment Minnesotans United for All Families encourage them to hold conversations with friends and family.
Kate Brickman, a spokeswoman for the group, said anti-amendment Catholics feel like they have to meet in their homes and other non-Catholic spaces because bishops aren't tolerant of their views.
While Catholic leadership has supported similar marriage amendments in other states, it's been particularly "ardent" in Minnesota, according to Laura Olson, a political science professor at Clemson University, who's written about marriage amendments.
Olson said bishops may believe the amendment has a good chance of failing and are putting a lot of energy into trying to get it passed, although such actions could have the opposite effect with some, who'd rather see church money used for "social justice issues."
"Among Catholics, and this would be true in Minnesota and nationwide, you've got about a third who are pretty ... traditional in their interpretation and adhere to what the bishops say. What the remaining two-thirds do is really the issue."
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"So far this year, Catholic leadership has been one of the biggest financial backers of pro-amendment forces, directing close to $500,000 in support of it. Minnesota voters will decide Nov. 6 whether the state's Constitution will define marriage as a union between a man and a woman." Per the linked article.
It appears the homosexualists within the Catholic layity are following Satan. I, for one, hope the amendment passes.
I am not a Catholic—but I am a Christian -and a Patriot. and near as I can figure "marriage" under American Law from the time when James Wilson taught American Law at the College of Philadelphia and said one consequence of "marriage" under our law is the two become one. ...until Mass. violated Law and Reason to allow same sex marriage— I don't know of any State that recognized the fraud of same sex marriage. The State will do what it will but it seems to me as well having studied to become a Pastor —the Holy Bible is very clear "marriage" as defined by Moses in Genesis 1:27/2:24 ;Jesus of Nazareth Mark 10:6-8/Matthew 19:4-9; and the apostle Paul 1 Cor.6;8-11, 15-20 How is it they three all used the same definition of "marriage" and if ours differs from theirs by what authority do we change scripture?—or turn from it?
"It appears the homosexualists within the Catholic layity are following Satan"
I guess they are not really Catholics. In that event, why not simply leave the church and head for one that embraces this travesty of natural and God given laws?
This one will pass. But Maine, Maryland, and Washington are another story. I think there is a good chance the gay agenda will score its first referendum victory this November.
But the real battle is not in the realm of politics, it is in Christian witness to the sinners. If every Christian brought even one homosexual to Christ, the problem would solve itself. Share the good news with a homosexual, it will have a bigger result than any vote.
This November the silent majority will be rising up to address a lot of issues.
>>>"There are many faithful Catholics who deeply believe gay couples and gay parents pose absolutely no threats to heterosexual families.">>>
Then those faithful Catholics are totally unaware that gay couples adopt (or go the meat baster route) to have children. It is totally possible for gay couples to raise such children to believe that being gay is fine. And the numbers of gays increases incrementally. Of course the gays and the unaware Catholics will be against this amendment. WAKE UP, CATHOLICS.
No surprise that the Red Star Tribune would write an article trying to create a divide between Catholics and the Roman Catholic Church.
The quote from the Church spokesman says it all: Catholics who actually attend mass regularly support traditional marriage (and, I would add, the right to life), while "Catholics" who aren't truly part of the Church (and only attend mass maybe twice a year, on Easter Sunday and Christmas Day) may take socially liberal positions and will skew polling.
The Red Star Tribune wants (i) the marriage amendment to be defeated and (ii) to create a greater rift between "cafeteria Catholics" and the Church. Their concern-trolling articles, much like their ridiculous polls that—year in and year out—oversample Democrats and end up being proved terribly incorrect, should be ignored.
The marriage amendment will be approved in Minnesota, and it could have the secondary effect of defeating Obama in the state.
More psyops. Divide Catholics? If you're familiar with excommunication no formal act is needed on the part of the Church. Your behavior, beliefs and activities are the driver. You excommunicate yourself.
The only state I'm really worried about is MD, although the marriage anendment just might get defeated thanks to the votes of black Democrats. As when California approved traditional marriage in 2008, Obama's presence on the ballot and the corresponding increase in black voter turnout could save marriage in MD.
MA is a state with a long history of thought policing, force and witchcraft. They're diabolical in their belief in the rightness of their cause. They believe it unto death...yours that is.
MD has huge black pop, it relatively safe. Washington is probably the most vulnerable state, Seattle will approve for sure and the rest of the state may be too small to outweigh it. Maine is also vulnerable.
Lefties first, Catholics second.
Doesn't matter what any single state does with its own constitution on this issue...it's only a matter of time...if Obama is reelected... that the SCOTUS will grant this a 14th Amendment "right" 5-4.
Wish it were not so.
"Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division"
Can you imagine MD, the original Catholic state, going pro-homosexual marriage?
Lots of wonderful Catholics out there that are working hard against gay marriages, HHS mandate, etc.
Thought you should know.
Blessings to you.
StonyBurk: your comments touch upon something I noticed quite a while ago - there is really nothing in the U.S.Constitution regarding marriage. Religion has the authority to decide what is marriage in this country, not government. The deciding factor in Federal government interference was polygamy practiced by the LDS.
Now the state governments, that is another story. The Federalists meant for the individual states to be "laboratories" for social, cultural, and governmental change.
If a person or group didn't like what was happening in one state, they could always move to another.
So, in effect, the decisions over homosexual marriage should be decided in the several states.
(I suspect that after a few years, any such amendments approved will be rescinded. Just a hunch.)
freeangel: you're correct about pro-homosexualists no longer being Catholic. In truth, they are no longer Christian, either.
Mass did not vote it in the Court decide the people were never allowed to vote on it by the Super Democratic Majority. There were enough signature to bring it to referendum but the legislator did not allow it twice. But it is also there faults for not having a 2 party system
........" The federal government's tally of same-sex couples, which is being released on a rolling, state-by-state basis, is especially significant for Maryland because of this year's emotional General Assembly debate over gay marriage.
A same-sex marriage bill cleared the state Senate this year, but was pulled from the House floor after leaders determined that they were a few votes shy of the number needed for passage.
Opposition to gay marriage in Maryland is largely due to strongly held religious beliefs. Black churches from Prince George's County and the Baltimore area led the push against the 2011 bill. Roman Catholic leaders also have opposed the measure, and Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien recently urged Gov. Martin O'Malley not to promote "a goal that so deeply conflicts with your faith."
But the governor said several weeks ago that he would throw his weight behind the legislation, renewing supporters' hopes for the 2012 General Assembly session. O'Malley is following in the footsteps of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who helped push a similar measure through his state's legislature this year......
Del. Heather R. Mizeur, a Montgomery County Democrat who is gay, said the new census information shows that gay people live in all corners of the state. Every county in Maryland, as well as the city of Baltimore, showed double-digit growth in same-sex households over the past decade.
....Gay couples account for about eight of every 1,000 households in the state, according to the census data, collected in the spring and summer of 2010."..
I know...I'm one of them.
Forgive my misunderstanding.
Our parish just lost a tremendous priest to another parish in our recent diocesan shake-up. Our new priest is much more liberal and there's concern about what direction our parish is headed in the coming election.
We will wait out the election period to see how strong of an advocate he is in regarding church teachings and doctrine concerning abortion, right to life issues, HHS Mandate, etc. It pains me to think that.
Our former priest didn't mince words and was strong in Catholic values.
Time will tell...
ping, Catholic meetings
BINGO, Freeangel.
They are NOT "Catholics".
They are some sort of "social justice" worshipping sect that puts their own views and prejudices ahead of God's.
It is human arrogance of the first order. It is NOT Catholicism.
BINGO, Freeangel.
They are NOT "Catholics".
They are some sort of "social justice" worshipping sect that puts their own views and prejudices ahead of God's.
It is human arrogance of the first order. It is NOT Catholicism.
But that isn't what they want. They want to turn the Catholic Church into, at least, a hollowed-out opponent of their political agenda if they can't turn it into an active supporter.
Let them go to hell!
Regarding the chances of the amendment passing: here is a poll from July 22nd - looks promising:
The poll by SurveyUSA, a public polling firm that partners with local TV stations, had 52 percent of voters saying they would vote for the amendment to 37 percent against it. Six percent were unsure; 5 percent would not vote.
James Chapter 5, verse 20:
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins
I can tell you for a fact that this is not just a Catholic problem. We have our own Easter Sunday and Christmas members too. If every person who says they are Christian attended church regularly, new churches would have to be built to accommodate them. My own little church lists over 300 members, we do well to have 50 in church on Sunday morning. That's a very sad assessment.
My 13 year old daughter is sick this morning and my wife is staying home with her but my 12 year old son and I are getting ready to go to Sunday school and church. That doesn't make me better than anyone else but it is an outward manifestation of dedication to Christianity.
Jesus went to "Church" even taught there, he died for me, it's the least I can do, attend church and importantly take my family with me.
This fight the bishops because they are bishops mentality is a control/power trip issue that I have observed since I was a kid with the leftist laity thinking they know better than the bishops on everything. These leftist laymen do not read the Bible, unless it is the Marxist Bible. They are a continual thorn in the side of Catholics.
Over the last yeajr I have really started to question my faith. Being raised
a Catholic and still technically one, these battles over social justice, gay marriage
and the rest of the issues that really go against what were my religious beliefs(soial justice meaning let's give aour
cash to help illegal immigration and such things that divide us. I have stated to take a hard look at whether I even want
to reamain a Catholic. When Dolan came out to express his exception
to being told he must fund healthcare for all in the Church's organizations even
if that meant contraceptions, well I was happy that he took his
stance, but excuse me, where was he when they were putting Obamacare
together and he was all for it at the time including the mandate? It only served his purpose to speak out when we were forced
to eat Obama's crap with the Contraceptives. The hypocrisy made me sick.
I have started to search out those with beliefs as mine, follow the 10 commandments and live them. Satan and politics be damned.
I just had to get that off my chest... I am re-born as a Christian now and fully awake to Jesus Christ's true words.
Mary don't be misled. Stay Catholic and fight against the enemy within. The Catholic church has been infiltrated by homosexual priests bent on destroying the church. There are also sincere and good priests. There are depraved and homosexual bishops and cardinals There are also good cardinals. But the Catholic church needs its true Catholics not to fall victim to the disinformation of satan that the Catholic church itself is depraved. Stay and fight satan who would love to see you quit.
Marriage fights divides Catholics — yeah, into Catholics and non-Catholics.
Let them go to hell!
Carefully examining many of the traps, I saw that each bore an inscription: Pride, Disobedience, Envy, Sixth Commandment, Theft, Gluttony, Sloth, Anger and so on. Stepping back a bit to see which ones trapped the greater number of boys, I discovered that the most dangerous were those of impurity, disobedience, and pride. In fact, these three were linked to together.
Bad companions, bad books, and bad habits, my guide exclaimed, are mainly responsible for so many eternally lost.
What a torture to think that they could have been saved so easily, yet now are irredeemably lost, and to remember the many good resolutions made and never kept. Hell is indeed paved with good intentions!
In this lower cavern I again saw those Oratory boys who had fallen into the fiery furnace...I drew closer to them and noticed that they were all covered with worms and vermin which gnawed at their vitals, hearts, eyes, hands, legs, and entire bodies so ferociously as to defy description. Helpless and motionless, they were a prey to every kind of torment...I drew even closer but no one spoke or even looked at me. I then asked my guide why, and he explained that the damned are totally deprived of freedom...
I took a few steps forward and saw that many of those poor wretches were savagely striking at each other like mad dogs. Others were clawing their own faces and hands, tearing their own flesh and spitefully throwing it about. Just then the entire ceiling of the cave became as transparent as crystal and revealed a patch of Heaven and their radiant companions safe for all eternity.
The poor wretches, fuming and panting with envy, burned with rage because they had once ridiculed the just. The wicked shall see, and be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth, and pine away. . . (Psalms 111: 10) Why do I hear no sound? I asked my guide,
Go closer! he advised.
Pressing my ear to the crystal window, I heard screams and sobs, blasphemies and imprecations against the Saints. It was a tumult of voices and cries, shrill and confused. --Excerpts from "Prophetic Vision of Hell of St. John Bosco"
I have really started to question my faith.Mary, if you deny yourself the Real Presence in the Eucharist, you will be "falling" right into the devil's plan. As Mother Teresa of Calcutta said, the Church will always have its problems, but the faith itself is without flaw.
My feelings exactly. Go join the Episcopagan church then they may have all the homo marriages they want.
Not just the Catholic church. We had a discussion about the ELCA in our LCMS Bible study group today.
It will take boldness in the Spirit for priests and Bishops to speak out on this subject, rejecting the 'fairness' or 'civil rights' notions. They need to speak more about the argument that one man-one woman marriage is best for building and retaining stable civilizations, since many listeners will reject any religious ideas.
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examine the various issues relating to implementation
of the Kelkar Committee recommendations
stated above, the RBI constituted a High
Power Committee in February 2003, under
the Chairmanship of Shri B. Swarup, Member
(Inv.), Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
to recommend suitable measures in this regard.
Chairman, IBA was a Member of this Committee.
High Power Committee under the aegis of
the RBI constituted a Sub-Group on Business
Processess Designing for the OLTAS, under
the Chairmanship of Shri C.B. Bhave, Managing
Director, NSDL, Mumbai and Chief Executive,
IBA as one of its members. The Group recommended
that a Single Copy Challan should be adopted
for payment of taxes as recommended by Kelkar
Committee for simplifying the process for
the tax payer. Accordingly, Single Copy
Challan has been introduced in place of
4 Copy Challans from 1st June 2004.
High Power Committee constituted a Technical
Sub-Committee, chaired by Shri R.N. Ramanathan,
Dy. Managing Director (IT), State Bank of
India and with representatives from Income-tax
Department (Systems), Controller of Accounts,
CBDT, RBI and IBA, to address all issues
for conducting pilot studies on On-Line
Tax Accounting System (OLTAS). The Technical
Sub-Committee held several meetings in the
IBA and finalized the record structure and
file format for the On-Line Transmission
of tax information from the collecting banks
to the TIN (Tax Information Network at NSDL)
and the Income Tax Department. The Technical
Committee also finalized the modalities
for conducting pilot studies on OLTAS and
three pilots were launched between June
2003 and April 2004:-
measures were taken to ensure smooth operations
under the OLTAS. A crack team was setup
in the IBA with members from CBDT, RBI,
NSDL, SBI and banks for resolving problems
immediately before and after the launch
of the OLTAS project. A central technical
help desk was setup at every bank to attend
quickly to technical problems at the bank
level. Additional arrangements for receipt
of tax challans and help desks were setup
at collecting branches to clarify the queries
that may be raised by the assesses at the
branch level during peak time. Declared
under the Mission Mode, the OLTAS project
is monitored at the highest levels.
of funds under OLTAS:
Originally, the OLTAS Project covered only
the tax information data. The funds collected
by the bank branches followed the manual
mode and was reconciled with the paper scrolls
sent to the ZAO. However, from 1st April
2005, the OLTAS Pilot Project was commercially
rolled out and the settlement of funds was
also migrated to on-line mode. Thus, from
1st April 2005, the banks had to reconcile
funds collected on a day to day basis with
the electronic data reported by banks to
over 12000 branches reporting tax data,
there were several issues related to quality
of data being uploaded to TIN. For overseeing
all such issues, the High Powered Committee
has constituted a Monitoring Group under
the Chairmanship of Member (Revenue), CBDT.
The Committee meets regularly and addresses
areas of concern. At its recent meeting
held on 30th January 2006, the Group discussed
the following issues among others:
a) Of the 12000 total number of branches
collecting taxes, 60 were found not to be
reporting to TIN. These were found to be
mainly those that had nil collections over
several months/ years and had applied for
b) While number of challans with missing
PAN / TAN were negligible, the number of
records with fictitious / non-existent PAN
/ TAN continued to be approximately 10%.
For addressing this issue, various measures
were discussed and agreed upon. These included
introducing bar-coded pre-printed challans,
verifying PAN / TAN entry against a regional
database provided by the Income-Tax department,
using the bulk query facility of the Income
Tax department, etc. It was decided that
in certain cases, the banks could also request
for a copy of the PAN / TAN card from the
tax payer.
c) Reconciliation of the funds settled with
the RBI and the OLTAS data transmitted by
banks on day-to-day basis. The difference
for January 2006 was found to be only 2.46
crores while the total tax collection was
Rs.7327.40 crores.
concerted effort from the CBDT, RBI, the
banks and the IBA, the On-line Tax Accounting
for the Direct Taxes has become a reality.
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Spoil Yourself at the Spa: Better than a Single-Malt Scotch
by Paul Kennebeck
Editor's Note: With Valentine's Day approaching, The Docket thought it would be fun to go beyond the standard "what to get your sweetie" article and explore the world of self-indulgence and pampering through the eyes of unlikely suspects. With some arm-twisting, four of our male Docket writers agreed to step up to the challenge and visited a local spa for a treatment assigned to them. Learn about their experiences, which explore spa treatments both men and women can enjoy. Thanks to Bella Fiore Day Spa, Revive Spa, Indulgences Day Spa and Spa Universaire for donating their services for the sake of a good story.
I have to admit, I was a bit apprehensive about the request for me to get a massage, but after some desperate pleas from my editor I acquiesced. I rarely feel like I have the time to get away from the office, so I opted for the "mini-massage" at Revive Spa, located right by the DBA offices on the southeast corner of 19th and Pennsylvania.
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While there's probably no such thing as a bad massage — unless you're in Abu Ghraib or Gitmo — the delicious sense of relaxation and calm that resulted from my visit lasted all the way back to the office, right up until the time the phone started ringing again.
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Alumni joined junior high and high school singers Wednesday night in a holiday concert that is a 28-year tradition.
The Los Banos High and Junior High students and graduates kicked the show off with "Hope for Resolution," a carol inspired by a civil rights leader and president.
"That was written about 20 years ago for (Nelson) Mandela, at the end of Apartheid in South Africa," director Tom Faria said. "It really is a lot of fun."
The carol was accompanied by a djembe, a goblet-shaped drum. Other carols and hymns were intermittently backed by guitars, piano, violin, trumpet and tuba.
Singers performed a number of lesser known holiday songs, like the Basque "I Saw a Maiden," and "Jazz Gloria" and "The Clouds." However, the concert was replete with Christmas standards, like the Junior High rendition of "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin.
"He wrote on the lower east side of Manhattan," Faria said. "He was Jewish, and it was interesting to have a Jewish person writing a song about Christmas."
The graduates, who performed the Basque carol, were from classes going back to 2002.
"We have a number of students who just can't get enough choir, which is why we do this," Faria said.
To close the performance, the more than 100 singers united to perform a medley of the holiday classics that hadn't yet been heard.
Students presented Faria with a gift bag on stage after the show. It held a T-shirt depicting a large mustache.
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Backers of an attempt to inject more competition into Ohio's legislative and congressional elections finally found a prominent Republican to support them this week - in California.
A spokesman confirmed yesterday that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports Ohio's Issue 4, which would transfer the power to draw political boundaries from politicians to an independent commission if voters approve it Nov. 8.
No prominent Ohio Republican has publicly backed the measure. The Ohio Republican Party will likely vote this week to oppose it, a party spokesman said.
Mr. Schwarzenegger is pushing a similar, but not identical, proposal dubbed Proposition 77 on California's fall ballot.
Polls have shown the approval ratings for the action star-turned politicia waning in California since he won the governor's office in a 2003 election to recall Gov. Gray Davis.
Issue 4 supporters hope he is more popular in Ohio, where President Bush tapped him to help rally his campaign in the final days of the 2004 presidential election.
"I know he's got some problems in California," said Steve Fought, a spokesman for Reform Ohio Now, which is working to pass Issue 4, "but I think Ohio voters would respond as positively now [to Mr. Schwarzenegger] as they did when Bush brought him to Ohio."
Mr. Fought said he did not expect Mr. Schwarzenneger to campaign in Ohio for Issue 4. The governor's spokesman said Mr. Schwarzenegger has not announced any out-of-state trips before the November election.
Opponents of Issue 4 have accused Reform Ohio Now of pushing the measure - and three others on the fall ballot - to benefit Democrats politically. Democrats have called Proposition 77 in California a power-grab for Republicans.
A leading Ohio Republican said yesterday that Mr. Schwarzenegger should "worry about California" instead of Ohio.
"I think they've got more problems of their own that he might need to attend to," said Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted (R., Kettering).
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Collaborating with Composers01/17/2012
Before he graduated the Eastman School of Music, Brian Langsbard had already scored his first feature film and numerous student projects with a live orchestra. Immediately following his studies Brian returned to Los Angeles where he began work on such shows as Batman: The Animated Series and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles working for other composers. It wasn't long before Brian started getting his own work scoring 4 more feature films and numerous cable TV series for the A&E and History channels. Brian has composed the opening ceremony music for the MLB All Star game for 4 years in a row including a special presentation in 2009 which featured a scored video message from all 5 living U.S. presidents for which he received an Emmy nomination. Brian is currently working on the 8th season of the hit show "Snapped" for the Oxygen network and recently completed scoring a feature documentary about Gene Roddenberry titled Trek Nation. Brian currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Monthly Archives: November 2012
The Berkeley Wire: 11.30.12
Comal: A restaurant with adjustable acoustics (Popular Science)
Berkeley police investigate Telegraph Avenue stabbing (Daily Cal)
Berkeley Lab is part of $120m effort to build super-efficient car batteries (LBNL)
Chancellor-designate discusses his vision for Cal (Daily Cal)
Measure B1 backers to pay for partial recount (Express)
Berkeley studying electrical power options (Mercury News)
Stephen Kaus appointed Superior Court judge (Daily Cal)
Berkeley's Crowden School to host South American evening (Mercury News)
Young Berkeley composer unveils work for quartet (Mercury News)
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'We're going on a Berkeley business scavenger hunt'
By Pete Rosos
You may know Pete Rosos as 2812 Photography; you will almost certainly have seen many of his photographs on Berkeleyside, including his wonderful Snapshot series, in which he takes the pulse of some of the most interesting, not necessarily high-profile, people of Berkeley, accompanied by gorgeous photographic portraits. Last weekend, Rosos embarked on an interesting Berkeley scavenger hunt orchestrated by Looking Glass Photo. He picks up the story:
It didn't come as much surprise to me when my daughter of 10 started jumping for joy after I asked her whether or not she'd like to join me on a little scavenger hunt. What did raise my eyebrows was her reaction when I told her that it was a photo scavenger hunt. She has never really expressed much of an interest in photography before but, after explaining the details of the hunt, she was bounding across the house to ask her mother if she could borrow her digital camera. I had found out just a couple of days before that Looking Glass Photo was putting together the hunt to help drum up attention for Small Business Saturday. … Continue reading »
ID theft may affect 931 Berkeley ambulance customers
A total of 931 people who used Berkeley's Fire Department ambulance services have had their personal information accessed inappropriately and are susceptible to identify theft, according to the City of Berkeley.
Advanced Data Processing (ADPI), the ambulance billing vendor for Berkeley, told the city on Oct. 1 that patient account information from the ambulance billing system had been illegally accessed by an ADPI employee.
Berkeley has begun notifying people that information including their name, date of birth and social security number may have been stolen from an agency that collects bills for ambulance services carried out by the Berkeley Fire Department. Medical records were not accessed. … Continue reading »
This week on NOSH: Japanese fare, cocktails, croissants
Bites: What's new, what's hot, what's happening Our regular round-up of East Bay food news includes a new ramen spot to be opened by ex-Chez Panisse maître d' Sam White, and a new bakery coming soon from Michael Jackson's former personal chef.
Sipping an Airmail at Flora Restaurant and Bar The house favorite at Flora is a cocktail called Carter Beats the Devil. But Ms Barstool opted for the Airmail, which moves you from where you are to a mellower place, post haste.
A sneak peek at new French-style Berkeley bakery La Fournée Award-winning baker Frank Sally is set to open his new Claremont neighborhood venture in January. … Continue reading »
The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
SHOP, SHOP, GIVE Now that Thanksgiving is over, let the holiday shopping begin! Berkeley is filled with craft and art shows in the coming weeks. We've wrapped up our pick of five of them into one It List package:
OPEN STUDIOS One of the longest-running and best-known is the Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios. During the next four weekends, 100 artists will open their studios to display and sell blown glass, ceramics, furniture, garden art, floor cloths, textiles, jewelry, leather bags, recycled art, sculpture, photography, paintings and more. The studios are scattered around Berkeley and will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Dec. 24.
POP UP ART Ten friends who are artists are banding together this holiday season to open a pop up store in the space below the Delaware Apartments at 1800 San Pablo Ave. at Delaware. They named it fancy too: The De La Ware. The artists are hosting an opening party Friday Nov. 30 from 6-9 p.m. and will also be open Dec. 1, 2, 8 and 9 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. … Continue reading »
New waste bin pick-up plans: Impossible in Berkeley?
A recent city announcement about a new approach to waste pick-up in Berkeley has left some readers perplexed and concerned.
The city has begun using automated one-person trucks to collect waste bins using a mechanical side-arm; in the past the trucks needed a second body in the rigs to pick up the bins. The city has said the new trucks will increase efficiency, but a number of readers have questioned the logistics of the new procedures.
As outlined in the brochure below, bins should be set one foot apart — in the gutter or driveway, with wheels against the curb — three feet from parked cars. On street cleaning days, or when the previously noted placement is otherwise impossible, bins can be set in the 'parking strip' between the sidewalk and gutter. … Continue reading »
Storm fells tree as rain pounds Berkeley, more to come
A tree limb heavy with leaves was felled by the storm Thursday night on Channing between 9th and 10th streets. Michael O'Heaney shot the photos here and said how impressed he was that the city was out at 7:15 a.m. Friday morning cutting the branches and clearing them away. "Good job Berkeley!" he wrote.
The National Weather Service forecast is for rain to continue almost without stop through to Sunday night, thanks to the so-called Pineapple Express (not the stoner movie, but the meteorological phenomenon). … Continue reading »
Sheila Jordan: An improvised life
If Sheila Jordan made a deal with the devil, she seems to be getting the best of the bargain. At 84, jazz's most intrepid vocalist sounds like a woman half her age. She's come through just about everything that life can throw at you: grinding rural poverty, thuggish police who harassed her for hanging out with black men, decades of scuffling for gigs in obscurity, and her own alcohol-driven demons. Nothing deterred her, and today she stands virtually alone as a survivor of the bebop era who literally sings praises for her late friend Charlie Parker at every gig.
Jordan makes a rare Bay Area appearance Monday at Freight & Salvage as part of a Jazzschool concert in her honor featuring Laurie Antonioli, Madeline Eastman, Kitty Margolis, and Ed Reed. The concert is a fundraiser for the Jazzschool Institute Mark Murphy Vocal Scholarship, which is awarded to a highly promising student (Jordan is also conducting a workshop at the Jazzschool on Sunday afternoon). … Continue reading »
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Airmail at Flora: Rum, lime, honey, a dash of bubbly
Flora Restaurant and Bar, located in the 1930s Oakland Floral Depot building on Telegraph Avenue, combines Art Deco ambiance with Uptown panache. While a likeness of stage magician Carter the Great dominates the dining room, behind the bar the magic begins with Liam, bartender and teacher.
A barstool is the perfect place to observe some bartender sleight-of-hand and pick up a few tricks of the trade. So, notebook out, pen at the ready. Better still, Liam had an apprentice on a recent evening, so two bartenders fielded a series of questions about cocktails and techniques.
The house favorite is a concoction called Carter Beats the Devil which Liam describes as a smoky, spicy Margarita. But we opted to go top of the menu: the Airmail. … Continue reading »
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The Berkeley Wire: 11.29.12
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Berkeley Police investigate gunshot at Ed Roberts Campus
The Ed Roberts Campus near the Ashby BART station has been locked and closed for the day following a report of a gunshot inside one of the building's public restrooms.
A sign on the doors as of about 3:15 p.m. informed people that the campus, at 3075 Adeline St., will re-open tomorrow. Those inside will be able to leave but people not on campus have been emailed not to come to the site. … Continue reading »
Cannabis collective 3PG closes its Berkeley operation
The sign for Perfect Plants Patients Group is still in the window of 2840-B Sacramento Street, but the cannabis collective has closed up shop, according to its owner, Eric Thomas.
The collective shut its doors on Nov. 14, the day after the Berkeley City Council held a public hearing that determined the collective was a nuisance and was in violation of zoning laws, according to Thomas. While he moved out his product, many files, and some furniture that day, the landlord changed the locks on Nov. 15 when Thomas did not pay the next month's rent. He has been unable to get inside to retrieve the last of his possessions and take out the sign, he said.
Thomas has no firm plans to reopen the collective, which has been operating since September 2011. He runs another 3PG in Vallejo and he is offering Berkeley clients a 25% discount on medicine purchased there, he said. 3PG is also doing Berkeley deliveries from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. … Continue reading »
New Sproul, design ideas provide optimism for Telegraph
The future of Telegraph Avenue was the focus of a special work session of Berkeley's City Council on Tuesday evening. Where most discussions of Telegraph concentrate on the many problems of the area — declining retail sales, vacant lots, troubling street behavior — Tuesday was filled with positive images and ideas for the avenue.
At the center of the discussions was one concrete project — the University of California Berkeley's Lower Sproul Plaza redevelopment — and one ambitious series of new ideas, created by Berkeley Design Advocates following their design charrette last April. … Continue reading »


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Okay. This is an idea that is prevalent in a couple of parenting books out there, the idea being that baby will sleep through the night by 8-12 weeks of age. You need to know that this is a dangerous practice, sometimes recommended by people who have no medical degrees or formal training about babies. Putting baby on a feeding schedule can be harmful to your milk supply. http://www.lalecheleague.com/FAQ/schedule.htmlTo PP asking about why we feed every 2 hrs during day... we do feed when baby cues, but if he has been sleeping more than that during day, we wake him to feed, hoping that the more he consumes during the day the less he may need at night. since night time is when he seems like he can't get enough, we hoped we might off set it.
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From the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
Correspondence to Pirjo Lindfors, MD, PhD, Eestinkalliontie 12 C, 02280 Espoo, Finland Tel: +358 40 723 9089; e-mail: email@example.com
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Rama-Maceiras P, Parente S, Kranke P. Job satisfaction, stress and burnout in anaesthesia: relevant topics for anaesthesiologists and healthcare managers? Eur J Anaesthesiol 2012; 29:311–319.
In an article published in the present issue of the European Journal of Anaesthesiology, Rama-Maceiras et al. draw attention to the importance of well-being of anaesthetists and discuss both personal and organisational development and specific intervention plans.1 One issue which emerges from that article is that, when studying occupational health including bio-physical, psychological, social and cultural problems, it becomes necessary to co-operate with experts of each area such as occupational health physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and social scientists.
Individuals react very differently to stressful stimuli. Many factors may at the same time act negatively or positively depending on the situation and the personal background. Well-being is a systemic phenomenon in which it is difficult to separate causes from effects. This is why I would like to emphasise the following definitions regarding well-being.
The human mind and body can be understood holistically, and the well-being of an individual may be seen as the net effect of positive and negative bio-psycho-socio-cultural factors. 'Sense of coherence' proposed by Antonovsky2 can widen our understanding of health. According to this hypothesis, an individual's health is determined to a great extent by how they experience the world as meaningful, comprehensible and manageable. It encourages an individual to strengthen the healthy aspects of their organism even when suffering symptoms of illness. It also emphasises the importance of culture – especially one's own value system – for well-being and health. Health can also be seen as a person's ability to fulfil their roles in society.3 Health may be considered as a multidimensional concept including positive body feeling, absence of excessive complaints or signs of disease, joy, happiness, job and life satisfaction, performance, self-realisation and sense of meaningfulness. Health depends on the existence and on the perception of stress and strain, and on the means of dealing with it.4
The concept of 'stress' is complicated, with differing definitions based on stimulus, response, interaction or transaction. Most studies on work stress have considered the presence of stressors, the evaluation process and the response. However, there is still no consensus as to the definition of stress or as to the work stress process. In the transactional approach by Lazarus and Folkman,5 stress can be understood as a process: 'Stress is a misfit between an individual and his particular environment'. Individuals, according to this theory, make a cognitive evaluation of threats vs. strengths that come from the environment. The degree to which people evaluate stress as a serious threat while activating their coping methods reveals the level of their perceived stress. When modelling our stress process, it is important to take into account the whole environment of the anaesthetist including organisation, patients, family, social life, life events and personal demands.6
Adaptation in stressful situations involves activation of neuro-immuno-endocrinological mechanisms. This adaptation is called 'allostasis', meaning that an organism has regained a new stability through change.7 When these adaptive systems are turned on and off efficiently and not too frequently, the body is able to cope effectively with stressors that it might not otherwise manage. However, in excessively high and longstanding stressful situations causing strain, allostatic systems may become overstimulated and fail to function normally. This disturbance is called 'allostatic load'.8 Allostatic load leads to disturbances in the defence system of the organism, causing changes in neuro-immuno-endocrinological and pain pathways, which over time may lead to disease.9 However, the deleterious effects of chronic stress can be counteracted by supporting the coping acts of the individual, allowing them to function according to their own value system enhancing positive expectations, increasing social support, promoting healthy behaviours (psychotherapy, mindfulness, physical exercise, stretching, pause gymnastics, optimal nutrition, sleep and rest, moderate drinking, no smoking), optimising ergonomics and reducing strain related to psycho-socio-cultural aspects in the workplace.6
Burnout refers to a negative consequence of chronic work-related stress.10 Theoretical models of burnout range from individual to interpersonal, organisational and societal. Many share the assumption of a chronic discrepancy between the expectations of a motivated employee and the reality of unfavourable working conditions. Neuroticism (enduring tendency to experience negative emotional states), alexithymia (a state of deficiency in understanding, processing or describing emotions), fragility and low sense of coherence are related to vulnerability to burnout.11 Physicians with a demanding personality appear to be more prone to burnout. Kalimo et al.11 have further developed the three-dimensional Maslach burnout index and formed a 'Finnish burnout index' which makes it possible to assess burnout with one measure. Lately, the focus has been also on engagement, the positive antithesis of burnout, which gives new perspectives on interventions to alleviate effects of stress.
Working conditions can be characterised as physical and mental conditions relating to the work environment. They are known to be potential sources of stress, health hazards and disease, but they may also enhance well-being, work ability and job and life satisfaction. Furthermore, they can shape health behaviours. However, individual differences – linked to sex, genetics, life environment, life events, learned models to cope with stress and actual life situation – are crucial in the aetiological chain between working conditions and well-being and health. Moreover, individual factors can either make a person prone to strain or can protect them from it.
Three models defining stressful psycho-social factors affecting health appear to be promising: the job strain (demand–control),12 the social support13 and the organisational justice14 models. The job strain model focuses on situational factors of work and arrangements, the social support model on the quality of co-operation and social interaction at work and the organisational justice model on decision-making procedures, managerial practices and distribution of resources. The widely tested effort–reward imbalance model refers to the latter dimensions of organisational justice.
Our studies showed that job control and organisational justice together with workplace relationships were the most important correlates of work-related well-being among anaesthetists.6,15,16 Job control involves employees' authority to make decisions concerning their jobs and the use of skills regarding task variety and options to develop and learn new things. Organisational justice refers to the extent to which employees are treated in a just way at their workplace. It includes a procedural component (the extents to which decision-making procedures include input from the affected parties, are consistently applied, suppress bias and are accurate, correctable and ethical) and a relational component (polite, considerate and fair treatment of individuals).
Interventions for improving the well-being of anaesthetists can be focused on professional issues, occupational health, organisational factors and at an individual level.6 In the future, the focus should be on the effectiveness of the different types of interventions.
The author wants to thank Professors Kari Nurmi, Marko Elovainio and Raija Kalimo for their useful comments. There are no conflicts of interest and there was no financial support.
This article was checked and accepted by the Editors, but was not sent for external peer-review.
© 2012 European Society of Anaesthesiology
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Antimicrobial concentrations at the site of infection are an important predictor of antibiotic efficacy. Pharmacokinetics is a subdivision of pharmacology that describes how drug concentrations change as a function of absorption, distribution, and elimination. As a result, pharmacokinetic concepts can be used by practitioners to prescribe and adjust antibacterial dosage regimens so that concentrations are optimal for the treatment of infectious diseases. This article reviews basic pharmacokinetic principles. It also illustrates through practical application the pertinence of pharmacokinetics to antimicrobial therapy.
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