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Speaking as they do to equal access to a sacrament, last Sundays verses from Acts 10 might have seemed, to those fixating on the question of same-sex marriage, like something of a rebuke to the Catholic church and her bishops:
Then Peter proceeded to speak and said,
In truth, I see that God shows no partiality.
Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly
is acceptable to him. . . Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people,
who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?
Here we see Peter endorsing inclusivity; following the example of the Christ who interacted with all, the churchthrough the authority of Christ and the workings of the Holy Spiritoffers Life-in-Christ to all. If all proclaiming Christ are accepted to baptism, one might wonder, then why not all to marriage?
I think it comes down to offices, and the equality to be found therein. We talk about vocations and ones state in life, but I wonder if we would not better serve both clarity and charity by considering that beyond baptism we are called to an Office. Since all Offices are callings, then all servants are equal within them and each office is lived within the fundamental calling of all baptized people, which is to chastity, first and foremost.
This brings home the barely-recognized fact that, except for those called to the Office of Marriagewho are themselves meant to be chaste within that Officethe rest of the world, the majority of humanity walking about, gay or straight, are meant to resist sexual concupiscence, whether within the Office of Singleness or Religious Consecration.
From a Western perspective, that sounds severe, but Eastern religions teach similarly, that all are called to sexual continence. Buddhists and Taoists understand that sexual energy has a right and wrong use. I know a Taoist couple who have sexual relations only for procreative purposes and during rare seasonal occasions. As the church calls homosexual activity disordered, Taoist understanding of Yin (feminine) and Yang (masculine) energies calls same sex activity unbalanced. In his book Beyond Dogma, the current Dalai Lama clarifies the Buddhist view: A sexual act is deemed proper when the couples use the organs intended for sexual intercourse and nothing else . . . homosexuality, whether it is between men or between women, is not improper in itself. What is improper is the use of organs already defined as inappropriate for sexual contact.
Despite differences in origin of understanding, the Dalai Lamas pronouncements are remarkably similar to Catholic teaching, and next to the Taoist couple, Catholic sexual teachingparticularly Blessed John Pauls teaching on the Theology of the Bodyseems quite free. And yet gay activist Dan Savage is not attacking the Dalai Lama to cackling, appreciative crowds; no one is calling the Taoists haters or homophobes.
From a religious perspective, therefore, it does seem that in our nation of 300 million people, only a distinct minority of about 120 million (even less, discounting non-sacramental unions) are meant to be gifted with the duty of delight that is the sexual expression of love, within marriage.
Why does this Office get all the fun? Because, while all offices are equal, the Office of Marriagefar from being for everyone or a simple expression of a mood subject to changeis one of especial humility and sacrifice. The essentials of procreation residing within us are so powerful that unless one ardently works to prevent it, new life will come (a recent study found that 54% of abortions stem from contraception failure). The little bang of sperm and ova are the microcosmic reflection of the macrocosmic big bang of Creation; co-operating with God in the continuance of that creation means humbly acceptingfor the rest of ones lifeinvolvement and responsibility for specific human beings of varied gifts and challenges. There are no days off; if you dont like your job, you cant just move away; you cant re-staff. Parenthood contains moments of surreal bliss countered by a lifetime of work, self-abnegation, stress, and anxiety. Besides procreation, sexual tenderness in marriage brings a depth of consolation meant to balance out the fullness of that burden orfor a childless couplethe pain of longings unfulfilled.
For the rest of the worldthe majority who are called to chastitywhat are they meant to do within their Offices? Serve God and others by helping the helpless and companioning the lonely; feeding the hungry; comforting the frightened; really listening to another, even when wed rather not. In other words, precisely the same things the married folks do, but without the extra gifts, responsibilities, and stresses of children, and without the consolation (and life-creating complications) of sexual intimacy.
Can this idea of Office and Calling exist in a secular society that promotes an earth-bound worldview informed less by transcendent dogmatic principles than by transient democratic ones? Perhaps it can. Making a secularist argument against gay marriage, economist Adam Kolasinski writes: Homosexual activists protest that they only want all couples treated equally . . . [but if] sexual love becomes the primary purpose [of marriage, as opposed to procreation], the restriction of marriage to couples loses its logical basis, leading to marital chaos.
I once heard a young nun say that being in a monastery was like being married to 25 people; by that she meant that her particular Officeas a consecrated religiouscalled her to pray for the world, but also to put others before herself, in service to the whole monastic organism. It is, once again, precisely what the Married and Single Offices are called to.
In terms of service, then, we are each married to 300 million others.
The Human Offices, then, are Offices of true equality.
Elizabeth Scalia is the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos and blogs as The Anchoress. Her previous articles for "On the Square" can be found here.
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Beyond the duties and privileges, if you will, of the Office as described in the article, the Office of Marriage, in the Catholic understanding, is ordained toward the salvation of others (as is Holy Orders). Described in the Catechism, secs 1534-5, this startling statement is made: if these sacraments also contribute to the salvation of those on whom they are conferred, then it is through service to others that they achieve it. (paraphrased) The common assumption that each marriage is the sole "possession" of the couple, to do with as they will, is turned on its head!
How to communicate a sacramental understanding of a state in life to a secular Culture of Death is a difficult challenge. I applaud the author for proposing a means of doing so, but am not optimistic that this attempt will persuade anyone bought into our Culture of Unchastity.
However, people who push for same-sex unions live in a legal-soaked culture where relationships are defined less by personal responsibilities, and more by rights--what oppressors cannot deny to a free person. The foundation of the US springs from people who self-defined by what they weren't going to allow others to do to them. And as you know from colonial history, it goes back two centuries before the Revolution.
Your line of reasoning, for Americans, is a kind of bait-and-switch. We live in a nation that has Law as one of its major cultural anchor points. What you're suggesting here is that we change the rules of the game to alleviate our personal distaste or disagreement with what goes on not only in the bedroom of a same-sex couple, but in their whole defined life as a citizen.
The irony of it all is that the legal protections sought for same-sex unions are, for the most part, eminently moral and responsible and service-oriented things. Isn't it really only the sex we object to? And, of course the thought that someone is horning in on our zero-sum exchange of privileges.
What does this have to do, however, with contemporary civil marriage in the United States?
Ms. Scalia's theory ignores the many families built upon a same-sex relationship. These families--many with children--have the same rights and need the same protections as mixed-sex couples.
We do not enforce Ms. Scalia's definition of chastity upon married couples (pornography, adultery, and contraception are all quite common), divorce and remarriage are available in every state, and the rights and duties of marriage are not limited to those who can and do procreate.
If those against marriage equality were seeking the elimination of divorce laws, changes in the availability of contraception, and a limitation of the rights and duties of marriage to lifelong couples with children, then their arguments would be consistent, if retrograde. Seeking to enforce restrictions and limit the rights of a small minority while refusing to enforce them upon the majority, however, can only be classed as bigoted and hypocritical.
Acts 11:18c "The to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life." Repentance is while not explicit is implicitly assumed as an integral part of the experience recounted. And provokes the question: "repentance from what?". Or to continue your analogy - there are qualifications for the Office, one of which must be a recognition of the purposes for which the Office exists.
Our Natural Rights pre-exist the state and man-made law. The state can either secure these rights or abridge them. Our Creator entrusted us with these rights as one is given authority when assuming the responsibilities of an Office. The State can either respect the authority of our individual Offices of liberty endowed to us as free, rational beings, or it can oppress them.
It is rational for a man and a woman to make babies as there is no other combination that can procreate. And as children, and their childrens' children, last a lifetime, it is rational and natural for their union to last a lifetime. These relationships, the marriage and the family, pre-exist the state. We were endowed with the responsibility and Office of raising children as we were endowed with our other natural rights and Offices.
As our natural authorities and responsibilities are inalienable, we cannot redefine them away, even if we pass a law. Nor can we arbitrarily define our own artificial offices by refuting them.
Too many of the arguments against gay marriage seem to boil down to a merely definitional matter: it violates the purpose of sex and the meaning of marriage. If somehow the violation of these roots (what Kolasinski calls the logical basis) inevitably bore wicked fruits (what he calls chaos), it would be a whole lot easier for people like me to continue to oppose gay marriage. My children go to school with three kids who were seriously neglected and abused, and eventually sent to separate foster homes; one of them was then adopted by a gay couple, and when the couple found out about the others, they adopted the rest. This couple goes above and beyond the call of duty as parents; and its been a joy to see these children steadily flourish under their care. If this couples only problem is that they violate a definition of marriage, then Im inclined to say that marriage was made for man (and mans children!), not man for marriage.
Should I say to this gay couple, I appreciate all youve given to these children, but you should be celibate and stop raising them; it turns out that, despite your stupendous results, youre just not called to have the extra gifts, responsibilities, and stresses of children, nor the compensating consolation of sexual intimacy - dont worry, what Im saying is all based on logic and definitions? First of all, there would be a beam in my eye. Second, Id be depriving their children of an exemplary upbringing.
If the Church wishes to show forth a better way of being, then I would like to see her expend her energies on getting her flock to live up to her principles (perhaps this is what Scalia is getting at in trying to redevelop a concept of office). If indeed theres a better model for folks like these gay parents, then work on fostering it and offering it up to them as a living option. Why should the Church care if gay marriage or gay sex is legal or illegal? If she opposes it on moral grounds, she should work on maintaining herself as a serious - or at least seriously less hypocritical - alternative.
Myself, I think those gay parents are blessed.
This is such a silly argument. Imagine if we applied such standards to judges, or police, or teachers, or authority figures of any kind: make sure you're beyond reproach before you pronounce judgment on the actions of another. Though come to think of it, it does seem to be the way many parents parent these days . . .
That aside, just because one cannot always live up to objective Truth does not mean one cannot recognize and proclaim objective Truth. After all, Truth exists whether we believe it and follow it, or not. It is certainly not dependent upon our actions or thoughts.
The Church cares about gay marriage and gay sex because the first is a mockery of a sacrament - no matter how noble and good the participants - and the second is a disordered desire that thwarts our fulfillment in the ultimate good, which is God.
This is just not an argument for gay marriage and it totally denigrates the rights of the children. All children, proceed from a mother and a father. As we know from all children but especially adopted ones, these kids have a natural need to know where they came from, ie, their biological parents. Yet in the case of gay parents, some children are specifically 'manufactured' to satisfy the parental needs of the gay couple and this need ignored.
The fact that some biological parents do a poor job of parenting is irrelevant to the moral value of gay marriage.
Any analysis of civil marriage, as a legal institution, must take account of the fact that the state goes out of its way to facilitate marriage "in extremis." What purpose is served by death-bed marriages? Not procreation, certainly. I can think of only one - the legitimation of issue.
If we apply this more generally and conclude that establishing the juridical bond between fathers and their children is the purpose of civil marriage, we can give a clear and consistent account of it that distinguishes marriage from civil unions (for same-sex or opposite-sex couples), domestic partnerships and unregulated cohabitation. It accounts for the rule that the child conceived or born in marriage has the husband for father, it explains the delict of adultery and it makes sense of the husband's undertaking, given during the celebration of marriage, to raise the couple's children, all specific to marriage.
I know of no other principle that does so and I have yet to come across anyone who could suggest one.
Todd's statement is also interesting, that "people who push for same-sex unions live in a legal-soaked culture where relationships are defined less by personal responsibilities, and more by rights". Isn't the widening of the rift between rights and responsibilities precisely the problem we face with same-sex unions (and IVF for that matter), regardless of whether some right is actually being denied?
And I agree somewhat with Brian -- heterosexuals are not without their own problems in regards to chastity within and without marriage. And he also calls to mind the question as to what degree laws should enforce morality. That's a good question that I'm not sure how to answer, but the fact is laws do enforce morality. Some things are pretty much impossible to enforce, such as chastity. But just because we can't enforce a virtue and must tolerate vice, it doesn't mean our laws have to promote and protect vice.
I must say it is the further diffusion and debasement of cultural meaning that I most object to in "redefining" marriage; the sort of debasement already apparent in your use of the expression "mixed sex" to refer to what should properly be understood as "complementary sex.
The simple truth is that everyone is already guaranteed access to marriage, even in the RC. The question is should the definition be changed and imposed on everyone, not should people who are only attracted physically to members of the same sex be allowed to marry members of the opposite sex.
I can understand why this doesn't cut it emotionally but strictley speaking let's be clear Christian marriage is already open to all.
All persons who are not prohibited by law can contract marriageCan. 1058
Of course, as is the case with all rights, marriage has responsibilities and it requires certain dispositions. So just as I have a "right" to exercise freedom of speech, I must have the "ability" to speak in order to exercise it (the right disposition). And I must speak in a responsible manner, or I lose my right to do so. (E.g. We can't yell "Fire" in a crowded theater and claim "freedom of speech.") So too, marriage requires that the consenting parties have the "ability" to marry (must be a man and a woman, free from impediments), and it requires that the two exercise their right to marry responsibly (agree to accept children lovingly, and raise them in the faith). The point is though, marriage is indeed a true right. The Church will not, and legally cannot deny the Faithful the right to marry. This of course does not mean that the Church must recognize illicit and invalid expressions of marriage. But it does mean that marriage is not simply a vocation or office. It is, but unlike Holy Orders or Religious Life, Marriage is an office that we have a right to possess. No one has a right to be a monk, a priest, or a nun. However; "All persons who are not prohibited by law can contract marriage."
There are several ways to think about where rights come from (at the time of the American Revolution)
1) rights were granted by a King -- the US soundly rejected this idea
2) rights were granted by God -- noted in the Declaration of Independence, but not the constitution
3) rights were inherent to those who were white men, predominantly, and to a lesser degree rights were granted by these men to women, slaves, and Indians -- noted in the Constitution
In our largerly secular society now, I think a 4th view of rights has emerged and largely superceded (at least from a legal perspective) #2.
4) rights are inherent to all men/women by virtue of one's having been born
THJ: ...The state can either secure these rights or abridge them. Our Creator entrusted us with these rights as one is given authority when assuming the responsibilities of an Office. The State can either respect the authority of our individual Offices of liberty endowed to us as free, rational beings, or it can oppress them.
Though I believe that gays should be married, I believe, in the spirit of pluralism, that the Catholic Church, among other institutions, should maintain their opposition to it, for she has a powerful, longstanding, consistent position on sexuality. (Along similar lines, I disagree with, but respect, the Catholic Churchs position on women in the priesthood.) But I think that the Church should work to model a powerful alternative with regard to sexuality, not a selective one. I have personally known nuns who did just that. But I dont feel that the Catholic Church in America particularly models that alternative. Thus, the opposition to gay marriage often seems more like identity politics than religious truth. Moreover, I think that the Catholic Church will benefit, as she always has at her best, from considering serious objections to the position.
"The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival."
If you'd like to radically redefine what "civil rights" mean in this country by removing marriage as a civil right, I think you have a long row to hoe.
If those who argue for gay marriage wants to have something parallel , what type of god are they calling as witness - seems it would be blasphemy , to the God of revealed truth of almost all cultures and thus possibly reflecting more of St.Paul's words of pagan sacrifices to the demons !
Homosexuality as it is , is known to have origin in fear / hatred , often related to paternal neglect or abuse ; while The Church is compassionate towards those who have not found freedom from such, asking the community to bless and approve those who jubilantly proclaim the total intent to negate the power of The Holy Spirit to heal and make into new, to be conformed into holy children of The Father - that is worse than the pork feeding of Jews or Muslims !
Resisting what is evil include deep groanigs of the spirit ..approval by the culture is to negate same, thus , to let this leaven do its job at even more widepread level !
May be allowing all single men and women, to be eligibel to name someone as a benefits partner would diminish the lure of money as the reason for the militant activism !
Yes, but define husband, define wife. Just because husbands traditionally have been men and wives traditionally women doesn't mean that that always has to be the case. Surely it is the right of any married couple to define who plays what role in their marriage? And surely that's the only thing that establishes what a wife is, what a husband is? These terms delimit one's role, not one's sex.
And of course this is why there is no difference between "same-sex (non-complementary-sex) marriage" and "mixed-sex (complementary-sex) marriage", because in fact marriage has nothing to do with sex any more; it's all about roles: husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. So get progressive will you. You don't want to be casually dismissed as a bigot do you?
I have yet to be in a Catholic parish that does not have a policy---usually printed prominently in the bulletin---that only allows the sacrament for registered parishioners who undergo six months or more of preparation.
I am currently a parishioner at a beautiful, historic church which is apparently---based on frequent comments in the bulletin and occasionally from the pulpit---the desired venue for many a prospective bride and groom. if they are not registered parishioners, they are out of luck.
I think Church policy is reasonable in these cases, an opinion not shared by my disappointed acquaintances who thought they had a "right" to get married in the church and noisily and obnoxiously let us all know. None of them really understood the Catholic understanding of the sacrament at all.
The principle though is that the Church CAN bar a couple from marriage if it deems the grounds are not sufficient. The bar is higher these days but there are provisions for such.
Marriage is not a civil right, since you insist on using that word to mean a right extended to everyone. In that case, I could marry my son, or the comatose man down the street, or the mentally retarded dude with the HUGE trust fund. We restrict marriage to protect the children from the marriage (denying marriage between blood relatives), to protect one of the parties of the marriage, because they are (1) underage or (2) unable to form the proper intent to marry.
"But we LOVE each other!" they will say. On your basis, they should be able to marry, because it's a "right." But it's not, never has been.
A man in his right mind, of legal age, not already married, can marry a woman, in her right mind, of legal age, not already married. That carries a lot of restrictions that protect them, and the children that can and probably will come from the unique physical intimacy their two bodies can achieve.
(Just how do two men legally, LEGALLY consummate a marriage? Law from the beginning of time recognizes the marital act as the consummation, the point at which the contract is joined, or the convenant is sealed, depending on your way of thinking.)
"Isn't it really only the sex we object to?"
Actually, above all it's allowing them to have custody of children.
But I do agree with you: it's not just a legal-soaked culture but a rights-soaked culture. And rights language and rights claims are powerful trumps now in the public square.
Christians constantly take for granted that the "why" of Buddhist moral views is the same as their own. It isn't. Buddhists generally think that human suffering is the result of our incorrect but strongly habitual view that there is some essence inside us, a "me", a "self", or a "soul", which is permanent, unchanging, and eternal. Buddhism not only denies this, it straightforwardly asks anyone who believes in such a "soul" What color is it? What shape is it? Where does it reside in the body? When you actually look at your direct experience what you find is merely a running stream of constantly changing perceptions and thoughts. All the rest is mere hearsay.
The habitual illusion of any kind of a permanent "self" leads inevitably to what the Buddhist teachings call "conflicting emotions"--dullness, anger, craving, jealousy, and pride; and these emotions result in "unskillful" actions such as killing (killing anything and not just anyone), stealing, lying, and oppression and harm to others and to yourself. Eventually, over time, the effect of all this on anybody's thoughts and perception degenerates into sheer pain and utter terror.
There is one serious moral question only for any Buddhist: does an action, thought, or belief sustain the illusion of a permanent self. ALL sexual activity, in or out of the missionary position, married or not, sustains such an illusion through the conflicting emotion of craving. Put the Buddhist context back into the Dalai Lama's remark and what he is essentially saying is that sex outside the missionary position makes you crave more than sex inside it. Perhaps this is so. But for most of the lamas I personally have heard teach this is a distinction of difference in degree and not kind, if it even exists at all.
Now I am not trying to make anybody here Buddhist. But I make no apologies for writing in such detail. When Christians quote what prominent Buddhists say, it would be nice if they investigated in more detail what Buddhists mean by what they say, particularly when Christians use such quotations in support of agendas that are at best tangential and at worst irrelevant to what Buddhists mean by what they say.
I see someone has read Popcak's book, "Holy Sex".
"The Human Offices, then, are Offices of true equality."
That is heresy. Council of Trent, Session XXIV, Canon 10: "If anyone saith that it is not better and more blessed to remain in virginity, or in celibacy, than to be united in matrimony, let him be anathema". Can't believe how many orthodox Catholics today have embraced this heresy without realizing that is what it is.
I can see you're making an argument that marriage is not a "right," by making it an "office" but I don't think that argument's going to get us very far. I think we need to tackle and understand the nature of desire better before we try living as if we don't have desires. My argument against same sex marriage would be simply that there's no possibility of a "lovely third" emerging from the union, so it can't very well imitate the Trinity in any fashion.
"Marriage is not a civil right, since you insist on using that word to mean a right extended to everyone."
No, I insist on using that word in the legal sense, the way the US supreme court uses the term. The US supreme court ruled that marriage is a civil right.
"Just how do two men legally, LEGALLY consummate a marriage?"
There is no legal requirement to consummate a marriage; it doesn't matter if your religion requires it, that's irrelevant to a legal, civil marriage.
Michael S writes:
"Brian, could you kindly explain how the union of two men or two women - a union which is biologically incapable of producing children - is "fundamental to our very existence and survival"?"
You'll have to ask the supreme court to explain, as their ruling also covered e.g. post-menopausal women and other sterile people who can't have children but still hold a right to marry.
You'll have to ask the supreme court to explain, as their ruling also covered e.g. post-menopausal women and other sterile people who can't have children but still hold a right to marry.
True, the Supreme Court ruling covered the people you mention... but it operates under an assumption for what the word "Marriage" means. Whatever that definition may be, it is clearly qualified as "fundamental to our very existence and survival".
The operating definition of marriage strictly as a contractual relationship between "a man and a woman" has been intrinsic to marriage law within the US of A. With the exception of anti-polygamy and contraception laws, a majority of legislation acts to enfranchise a woman who would otherwise have rights removed and given to her husband when married. Such legislation obviously assumes something about the genders of such contractual partners.
The challenge is not--as you proposed--to the Supreme Court to explain why "post-menopausal women and other sterile people" still have the right to marry. To ask this question assumes something about marriage (the necessity for childbearing) which is historically unsupported as a definitional requirement.
Rather--similar to what Michael S. initially proposed--the question is "why should a union between two people of the same gender be considered 'fundamental to our very existence and survival'?". Any other question assumes a definition of marriage which is unsupported by American legal history. Lack of such historical support is evidenced by the need for this very debate. Considering that no such institution was recognized in the US until very recently in its history, the argument that same-gender marriage contracts are "fundamental to our very existence and survival" is a difficult one to support.
Before you begin to bash on me for being "anti-gay" or discriminatory, you should first know that I agree with you on the major point: heterosexuals should be no more entitled to benefits from the government than homosexuals. Should I rephrase? Heterosexuals and Homosexuals should be treated equally under the law and by society.
In fact, I think that it would be more constitutionally sound for all marriage "benefits" to be removed. Such benefits by their very definition and implementation are discriminatory against unmarried individuals. The only defense for their discriminatory implementation is to say that "should a single person decide to marry, he/she would receive the same benefits." This validation assumes nothing about that individual's sexual preference or even a need for romantic interest in the contractual partner in the marriage. Therefore, the current system equally discriminates against all people unmarried to the opposite sex, and I reiterate: this discrimination is independent of sexual orientation.
To redefine marriage as any contractual relationship between two people while maintaining the benefits of such a union would in fact create more discrimination against a large percentage of Americans (~50% of adults I believe, but admittedly too lazy to get the exact number) who--by either preference or circumstance--are unmarried. These individuals currently get paid less, pay more for car insurance, get looked over by land lords and real estate agents, have more financial hardship when raising children, and perhaps worst of all their social security benefits go back into the system if they don't have surviving parents or children (why not let these benefits go to a chosen co-worker, a best friend, a brother/sister, etc?).
On the flip side, singles volunteer more and are otherwise more likely to be involved in the community. In spite of this clearly positive role in society, unmarried individuals are currently and would continue to be treated as second class citizens.
Not for the last few years it hasn't. Six states now recognize same-sex marriage, plus DC.
"The challenge is not--as you proposed--to the Supreme Court to explain why "post-menopausal women and other sterile people" still have the right to marry. To ask this question assumes something about marriage (the necessity for childbearing) which is historically unsupported as a definitional requirement.
Rather--similar to what Michael S. initially proposed--the question is "why should a union between two people of the same gender be considered 'fundamental to our very existence and survival'?""
How is that any different? A post-menopausal woman could marry a male or a female, and why should the state care one way or the other?


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Mitchell Gold stopped by the lounge once complete to talk about his vision behind the decor. "We started with recognizing Mercedes-Benz's new introduction of the great SLS AMG," Gold told Luxist. "We thought it was very cool looking, very sleek, and yet when you're sitting in the cockpit you're enveloped in comfort." The resulting lounge mixed modern and classic elements with a white vinyl tufted bar with silver buttons, white Lucite coffee tables, gunmetal vinyl ottomans, and insanely soft white faux suede loveseats.


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Public transportation plays an important role in confronting environmental challenges. Public transportation can:
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Public transportation can help metropolitan areas meet national air quality standards by reducing overall vehicle emissions and the pollutants that create smog.
Air quality is often the poorest in urban and suburban areas where traffic congestion is the worst. This has meant that residents of these areas, especially those living in close proximity to major thoroughfares or highways, confront much higher health risks due to poor air quality.
Public transportation can reduce the need for many separate trips by private vehicles in dense urban areas, replacing many separate emissions-producing vehicles with fewer transit vehicles that generally emit less pollution on a per person basis.
Most rail transit vehicles emit little or no pollution, as they are powered by electricity. Other transit vehicles, such as buses, use alternative fuels such as compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas or fuel cells which produce fewer pollutants. Many other buses, traditionally fueled by diesel, are being replaced with hybrid-diesel or bio-diesel buses.
The Federal Transit Administration supports improvement of air quality through the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program, which is jointly administered with the Federal Highway Administration. Through 2005, the program has supported nearly 16,000 transportation projects targeted to reduce congestion and improve air quality across the country. Many of these projects are public transportation projects, recognizing the important role that public transportation can play in improving local air quality. Over 8.6 billion is authorized over the five year program (2005-2009), with annual authorization amounts increasing each year during this period.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Transportation accounts for 29 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. By moving more people with fewer vehicles, public transportation can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. National averages demonstrate that public trans¬portation produces significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions per passenger mile than private ve¬hicles. Heavy rail transit such as subways and metros produce on average 76% lower greenhouse gas emissions per passen¬ger mile than an average single-occupancy vehicle (SOV). Light rail systems produce 62% less and bus transit produces 33% less (Public TransportationÆs Role in Responding to Climate Change). Transit can also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by facilitating compact development, which conserves land and decreases the distances people need to travel to reach destinations. Moreover, by reducing congestion, transit reduces emissions from cars stuck in traffic. Finally, transit can minimize its own greenhouse gas emissions by using efficient vehicles, alternative fuels, and decreasing the impact of project construction and service operations. For more information, see Climate Change.
Facilitate compact development, conserving land and decreasing travel demand
Public transportation can support higher density land development, which reduces the distance and time people need to travel to reach their destinations, meaning fewer emissions from transportation. Compact development also leaves more land in the region for parks, wildlife preserves, forests and other uses such as agriculture. Finally, it reduces the need for pavement, meaning less run-off that degrades the water supply.
Transit-oriented development (TOD) is compact, mixed-use development near transit stations. A recent report, Transit-Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects, by the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) found that by encouraging in-fill and accommodating small lot projects, TOD can reduce pressures to convert farmland and environmentally sensitive areas into housing and commercial development. Another TCRP report, Costs of Sprawl ¢ 2000, concluded that compact development could save the United States nearly 2.5 million acres of land. That TCRP report also found that compact development through TOD can improve water quality through reducing the amount of impermeable surface runoff and preserve biodiversity through reducing fragmentation of natural habitat.
Sharing rides through public transportation can save fuel. It also decreases the need for constructing more transportation infrastructure, manufacturing new vehicles, and extracting more fossil fuels, meaning further energy savings and fewer environmental impacts. Congestion relief from transit also saves fuel as vehicles stuck in gridlock waste fuel and generate emissions.
The transportation sector is one of the primary users of energy in the United States. With the growth in energy usage by many emerging world economies, the demand for scarce resources is increasingly outstripping available supply.
Petroleum use in private vehicles and growth in vehicle miles traveled are among the main drivers of the growth in energy usage in the United States. Public transportation encourages energy conservation, as the average number of passengers on a transit vehicle (10 for bus, 25 for a rail car) far exceeds that of a private automobile (1.6). Even as a single transit vehicle consumes more energy than a private vehicle, the average amount of energy utilized per passenger is far less.
In fact, a study by ICF International found that in 2004, taking transit saved 947 million gallons of fuel that would have been used if transit passengers had driven cars instead.
Congestion relief through the use of transit also saves fuel as vehicles stuck in gridlock waste fuel and generate emissions. The Texas Transportation InstituteÆs 2007 Mobility Report estimates that if public transportation service was discontinued nationwide and the riders traveled in private vehicles instead, urban areas would have suffered an additional 541 million hours of delay and consumed on the whole 340 million more gallons of fuel in 2005. The value of the delay and fuel that would be consumed if there were no public transportation service would be an additional $10.2 billion congestion cost, a 13 percent increase over current levels.
In addition to its environmental benefits, transit serves several other public purposes, including affordable mobility, congestion relief, and economic development. [More]
In addition, FTA grantees are working to minimize the impact of their operations and construction through environmentally sound practices, both through required environmental mitigation and going above and beyond requirements.
FTA works to ensure that our grantees' transit projects minimize the negative impacts on their surroundings and in their communities through environmentally sound practices. The FTA's environmental impact regulation (Environmental Impact and Related Procedures (23 C.F.R 771)), issued jointly with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), describes two types of mass transit projects that normally have significant effects on the environment:
1. New construction or extension of fixed rail transit facilities (e.g. heavy rail, light rail, commuter rail and automated guideway transit); andOther types of mass transportation projects may also require anĀEnvironmental Impact Statement (EIS) based on FTA's review of the proposed project and whether its impacts are judged to be potentially significant.
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For the first time in more than a decade, an American Society of Anesthesiologists taskforce has updated its chronic pain guidelines. Richard Rosenquist, MD, from the University of Iowa Hospital, Iowa City, led the 12-member taskforce of anesthesiologists in both private and academic practice from various parts of the United States. The group also worked with members of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. The new guidelines appear in the April issue of Anesthesiology. The recommendations apply to patients with chronic noncancer, neuropathic, somatic, or visceral pain. The taskforce focused on interventional diagnostic procedures including diagnostic joint block, nerve block, and neuraxial opioid trials. Focus on Interventional Diagnostic ProceduresThe team agreed that findings from the patient history, physical examination, and diagnostic evaluation should be combined to provide an individualized treatment plan focused on optimizing the risk-to-benefit ratio. Treatment should progress from a lesser to greater degree of invasiveness. "Whenever possible," the taskforce reports, "direct and ongoing contact should be made and maintained with the other physicians caring for the patient to ensure optimal care." The new guidelines advocate for multimodal interventions for patients with chronic pain. The taskforce suggests that a long-term approach that includes periodic follow-up evaluations should be developed and implemented as part of the overall treatment strategy. In addition, when available, multidisciplinary programs may be used. The new guidelines detail
The taskforce defines chronic pain as pain of any etiology not directly related to neoplastic involvement associated with a medical condition or extending in duration beyond the expected temporal boundary of tissue injury and normal healing and adversely affecting the function or well-being of the individual. Drugs for chronic pain include anticonvulsants, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists, nonsterioidal anti-inflammatories, opioid therapy, skeletal muscle relaxants, and topical agents. The taskforce discusses each in detail and recommends strategies for monitoring and managing adverse effects and patient compliance. The new guidelines cover a range of advances not included in the initial version published in 1997. As a result, the number of pages has more than doubled in the new publication. The complete guidelines are available online. Financial disclosures for the 12 members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists taskforce were not provided. Anesthesiology 2010;112:810-833. Allison Gandey, April 1, 2010 Medscape Medical News © 2010 Medscape, LLC |


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AMD might be a little sore that its "Zambezi" FX processor family based on its much-hyped "Bulldozer" architecture didn't quite meet the performance expectations of a ground-up new CPU architecture, but it doesn't want to take chances and build hype around the architecture that succeeds it. From various sources, some faintly-reliable, we have been hearing that the next-generation of high-performance desktop processors based on "Piledriver" architecture, codenamed "Vishera", will pack five modules or 10 cores, and will be structured essentially like Zambezi, since Piledriver is basically a refinement of Bulldozer architecture. The latest leak comes from the Software Optimization Guide for AMD 15h family (read here), which was picked up by CPU World while most of us were busy with CES. CPU World compiled most of the features of what it suspected to be AMD referring to its future processors based on the Piledriver architecture, that's "Vishera" (desktop high-performance), "Terramar" (high-density server), and "Sepang" (small-medium business server) parts. The three are not the first chips to be based on Piledriver, AMD has a new mainstream desktop and notebook APU in the works codenamed "Trinity", which is en route for a little later this year. Trinity basically has an identical CPUID instruction-set as Vishera, Terramar, and Sepang, confirming their common lineage compared to today's "Bulldozer" architecture. The most catchy detail is of Vishera featuring 4 DDR3 channels. The plot thickens where "HyperTransport Assist feature" is listed as being supported on Vishera. HT Assist is a feature found on AMD's enterprise socket G34 processors, which facilitates better inter-die communication between the two dies of a typical socket G34 Opteron processor. The G34 (LGA1972) package is a multi-chip module of two quad-core, six-core, or four-module dies, which combined have four DDR3 memory channels, and a number of HyperTransport links to communicate with neighbouring sockets and the system's chipset. Could this be the first indication that AMD wants to take on Intel LGA2011 HEDT (high-end desktop) using Vishera chips in the G34 package? It will be a while before we find out. Apart from using common silicon between client and enterprise platforms, AMD does have a history of colliding the two. Source: CPU World
Well unless Vishera's IPC increases by about 50% over Bulldozer, they may as well not bother, no matter how many cores they shove into it to try and disguise it's shortcomings.
instead of adding more cores they must improve preformance per clock or this is all going to be another amd joke , a deadly joke to the future of amd's cpu market
Given that Bulldozer's IPC is between 5-10% slower than the Phenom II, increasing Vishera's IPC by 15-20% will only make it about 10% faster than Phenom II (on average)...clock for clock. Like i said, unless you approach an IPC increase of 50% or so, it's going to be seen as a failure, and even with a 50% increase, that will still only bring it up to par with a 2500k (perhaps a little faster).
I disagree. Bulldozer's issues are boil down to single thread/single core performance and issues with code using older instruction sets. Those are a result of less than optimal core design due to their switch to an automated layout system. They need to increase L2 cache speed, improve memory throughput more, and bring up low thread count/single core performance by at least 35%. The latter being the most important. Bulldozer is a great chip when all cores are being utilized and scales well. When you through tasks at it that only use 1 thread, or half the available threads with older instruction sets, it chokes. I have no issues gaming on my Bulldozer except for the whole Deus Ex HR BSOD my rig due to BIOS issues. That is GIGABYTE's fault mostly. What is AMD's fault is when it was working on the older BIOS versions, my FX-8150 came in well behind my 1100T cause the game (for me) ran on 1 thread/core. Insert BF3 (runs at least 4 threads) and the FX-8150 will go toe to toe with a i7 2600. Its that strange behavior and wild swings in performance due to thread count that need to be addressed, not bring quad-channeled memory to desktop space.
im bored of hearing how AMD need to trounce intel with their next cpu, what rubbish, it needs to be good enough to play games and surf plus a bit of transcodeing ,now and again for me and hence BD as it is would do so PD/vishera weva dosnt require 50%(daydreaming improvement),ive given up playing most of the games that run shit on it anyway (single threaded's so last decade), all these people winging about BD better be folding or cryunching 24/7 as if your pc sits doing nowt while you workin then is only on to game and surf and your still moaning about BD your not right in the head, its like a cyclist moaning about car insurance going up wtf is the point do these moaners have a CRAY in their bedroom NO, just an intel 2600K ,no doubt wasted on em
BIOS BSOD on a game? ORLY...... The BD architecture is completely memory dependent, thats why the tests with higher speed memory fared better than those with memory speeds equaling the Intel systems. Intel has at least 50% of their lead due to much better branch prediction and internal data management, the easiest way to make up for this is more cache at faster speed, and more memory bandwidth as it cuts down the number of idle cycles in soft fault.
is this saying that vashira is going to be 4-4170 bulldozers on a single chip using hyper transport to aid it???
In short for those that don't want to read. I want AMD to not take the easy way out and refine their new architecture, not hide behind tricks to drive competition. They need to turn Bulldozer/Piledriver into something software developers want to utilize to optimize software due to its design. If they could say because are chip is built this way, you could do this and that to reduce instruction fetches or executions or whatever to make your software run faster. Good enough, fine for what i use it for, I am a gamer and it doesn't matter should not be statements we use to defend the purchase of AMD. They need to first refine the architecture to remove weaknesses and level out its performance across the board. Why? Because not every piece of software is going to follow the more threads the better trend. Some stuff don't need more than 1 or 2 threads and Bulldozer should run those just as well as a program that uses 6 or 8 threads. Once they have done that they need something, anything they can market as, "With AMD you can do this task much faster" I don't even thing it matters what that one thing is at this point as long as they have a benefit to pick them over Intel to market. Intel has Quick Sync on top of being the big dog. AMD needs to be able to say, "Our chip is more than good enough. It is just as good across the board as Intel and with AMD Super Awesome all single thread applications run 35% faster thanks to blah blah blah." In short, then need to stop trying to build a faster sports car and concentrate on improving/innovations on their entire vehicle line up from the cheapest compact to the most task specific 3.25 ton truck.
AMD bulldozer is no joke when it comes to serious multi thread and gets even better as you push it, only problem is single thread stuff and whos buying an 8 core cpu for single thread these days.
Increasing performance per clock is ideal, but considering adding two extra cores will still compensate and bring performance more inline to Intel. The multi threaded performance will be off the chain. And remember Piledriver is going to be upto 30% faster ontop of this. As far as I'm concerend this is a good thing, if the price is right. Why should AMD dumb down their architecture, when the problem is obviously the sofware developers, more specifically the games developers. Edit: I'm curious to find out whether quad channel memory will improve performance. Many have said AMD in general lacks memory bandwidth. We shall see. Does that mean we have to move away from AM3+ to enjoy quad channel? Piledriver is definitely on AM3+, its on the old roadmap. But will the quad channel Piledriver be on AM3+ or is that on the new socket?
piledriver better be on am3+ as its the reason i picked up a 990fx board, i was about to get a 8150p for myself but was holding off as there was rumours of another BD Revision coming and PD is very soon.
All you need to know about bulldozer is SSE4.1, AVX and FMA. Intel has always had ICC make AMD use SSE2 (along with unoptimized libraries), now it's more important than ever. Read up how bulldozer performs when using those instructions
Wow, it doesn't matter if it can make you look like superman with those instructions if no one uses them for anything that matters. Adding two more cores and the energy consumption will raise by that factor, and there is only so much heat it can stand before electromigration destroys it, before the power supply pins start to detach as the solder softens, before the cooling solution no longer provides the thermal dissipation needed to cool the package.
With refinement of 32 nm manufacturing process at Global Foundries and AMD's better understanding of operation of Bulldozer at 4+ GHz (it is their first chip clocked that fast aftrerall) they are more likely going to be able to reach the targeted clockspeeds so some IPC gains and some clockrate gains could translate into significant gain. Granted, AMD needs to improve IPC rate of their new architecture in order to be able to keep up with Intel but the architecture itself was devised to be a "speed demon" so it makes sense to expect higher clock rates.
The reason why bulldozer is a joke is because on the same clock with the same number of cores it has worse preformance than a phenom ii not better how can a new 32nm cpu with the same number of cores be worse than 45nm cpu, amd had to be really stupid to do something like this.
rubbish im on a 1090t @4ghz 3ghz Nb htt 2600 and i built a system for a customer the other day 8120p on cheaper 970 chipset overclocked to 4ghz on stock volts no other tweaks and the BD smoked mine , the main tests were 3dMark11 abit of memory testing etc. no single thread tests tho.


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Brazilian jazz vocalist and pianist Tania Maria's career has spanned over three decades, starting when she was just 13 and she fronted a band of professional musicians organized by her father, who was a metal worker and gifted amateur musician. He had encouraged her to study piano so that she could accompany him on his weekend jam sessions, but her musical talent grew beyond those small performances. Maria's four sisters also had musical talents, but they eventually grew from their impoverished roots to become professionals, a path that Maria was on herself as well. She attended law school for two years, then married and had a family. The pull of music was too strong, however, and in 1971 she released her first album in Brazil, Olha Quem Chega. In the late '70s she moved to Paris and expanded her career, touring internationally. A date in Australia brought her to the attention of guitarist Charlie Byrd, who hooked her up with Carl Jefferson, head of Concord Records. The label provided her with her first international commercial success with her 1984 album Come With Me, and continued to record her music and issue it to an international audience. Based in New York since the '80s, Maria still sings the pop and blues-influenced music that brought her fame, releasing several albums in the '90s. Her first album of the new millennium, Viva Brazil, was also released by Concord Records. ~ Stacia Proefrock, Rovi
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This music is so wonderful it's so in lighting and enjoying it makes me want to be Brazilian ,Refreshing like a tall cool drink on a hot summer night
I was lucky enough to hear her live 20 times and more, I was surrounded by excellent 1st class music through from late 70's to early 2000's. She and her different band configuratio n s were always at the very top. How I miss seeing/heari n g her, luv, ya.....
I've loved her music, but never got the opportunity to see her in concert
I regret not seeing her in 1987. My and her cousin saw her, said it was the best concert she ever saw and she have seen a lot of concerts over the years.
I have loved this artist for many years. I got to see her in New Orleans, one jazz fest I think. SUPER
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Absolutely perfect track for crusin' down the highway..!
Now here is a lady that deserves a standing ovation from every one that hears her. Tania, you are the best of the best in this whole wide world. I wish I could say that in Portuguese. I will love your music for ever. Gracias. Obrigado.
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One of the best Brazilian imports - I first saw her playing at a small Village loft - she not quite as well known then. She is such a lively, enthusiastic performer. I just love Brazilian music!! Samba on!
omg! I have found Tania Maria at last!....I have been a long time fan of hers...she was my very first taste of Brazilian music on my first date in the US where I have just arrived prior to few months...I was taken to her concert...wh a t an experience that was!! several years later in the Village in New York, I attended her concert again and met her back stage...thsn k you for playing her songs...Khin Khin
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She is AWESOME. I am so hooked on Brazilian Jazz. There is nothing as classy as Brazilian Jazz... OMG!
I'm hitting a gold mine today. I think I need to look into more Brazilian stuff because this kind of groovy sound was exactly i've been looking for recently.
WOWWW! I just listened to Azymuth and loved it. Now this song has me hooked!! The bassline sounded so groovy and her vocal melodies are really hypnotizing. She is a really nice vocalist.
i was listening to wrti out of philly one night back in 95' and she was doing vocals on an album by some old school jazz great and iwas hooked evr since
I saw her at Hampton Jazz Festival in the mid 80's. She had filled in for some cancelled artist and she moved the crowd with "Come With Me". Some 15 - 20 years later my neighbor and I was listening to her and he spoke of the same concert, when the audience thought it was intermission , taking restroom breaks, and suddenly, everyone stopped and began dancing in the aisles. Unbelievable that we had attended the same concert. We have been a huge fan of hers ever since.
her album "Lady From Brasil" was the first time i ever heard her, and i've been enamored ever since!


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Dermatomyositis (DM) is a connective-tissue disease related to polymyositis (PM) that is characterized by inflammation of the muscles and the skin. While DM most frequently affects the skin and muscles, it is a systemic disorder that may also affect the joints, the esophagus, the lungs, and, less commonly, the heart.[1]
The cause is unknown, but it may result from either a viral infection or an autoimmune reaction. In the latter case it is a systemic autoimmune disease. Many people diagnosed with dermatomyositis were previously diagnosed with infectious mononucleosis and Epstein-Barr virus. Some cases of dermatomyositis actually "overlap" (i.e. co-exist with or are part of a spectrum that includes) other autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren's syndrome, lupus, scleroderma, or vasculitis. Because of the link between dermatomyositis and autoimmune disease, doctors and patients suspecting dermatomyositis may find it helpful to run an ANA - antinuclear antibody - test, which in cases of a lupus-like nature may be positive (usually from 1:160 to 1:640, with normal ranges at 1:40 and below).[citation needed]
Several cases of polymyositis and dermatomyositis were reported as being triggered by the use of various statin drugs used to control blood cholesterol. Muscle biopsies of these patients showed rhabdomyolysis, and degeneration and regeneration of muscle tissue.
High blood levels of creatine kinase (CPK) showed greater than 5 times the normal levels also supporting the rhabdomyolysis findings[clarification needed]. CPK is an enzyme found mainly in heart, brain, and skeletal muscle that tends to rise when inflammation occurs during normal exercise. When these levels rise in excess of the normal level (less than 200), and become more than five times higher, severe cell damage to the muscles, brain, and heart ensue[clarification needed]. The higher the CPK, the greater the cellular damage done[clarification needed]. Extremely high levels of CPK cause rhabdomyolysis to these muscles and organs[clarification needed]. Without treatment, kidney damage occurs and death in the more severe cases. Confirmed polymyositis with the skin signs is known as dermatomyositis.
Some cases of dermatomyositis are a paraneoplastic phenomenon, indicating the presence of cancer.[2] In cases involving cancer, the cancer is usually pre-existent, with removal of the cancer resulting in remission of the dermatomyositis. The onset of a rash in patients with pre-existing myositis requires investigation of the neoplastic possibility.
In his 1988 article, Clinical pathologic correlations of Lyme disease by stage, noted Lyme disease researcher Dr. Alan Steere observed, "[...] the perivascular lymphoid infiltrate in clinical myositis does not differ from that seen in polymyositis or dermatomyositis. All of these histologic derangements suggest immunologic damage in response to persistence of the spirochete, however few in number."[3]
Before the advent of modern treatments such as prednisone, intravenous immunoglobulin, plasmapheresis, chemotherapies, and other drugs, the prognosis was poor.[4] Now there are numerous treatments and immunomodulatory drugs. Fortunately, more than 90% of patients today will do well for many years, with remission being a possibility. However, it is still important that treatment begin as soon as possible.
Dermatomyositis occurs more commonly in female patients. It presents as a proximal symmetrical muscle weakness with vasculitis affecting the skin, muscles and internal organs. Patients find it hard to raise their arms to comb their hair or walk up the stairs due to the proximal muscle weakness. It can be severe enough to affect the muscles needed for speech and swallowing and is also known to cause respiratory compromise. Calcinosis can occur in the skin, joints and tissues. Upon investigation, characteristically one would find an elevated ESR and CPK along with typical EMG findings of spontaneous muscle fibrillation and short polyphasic muscle potentials.
Gottron lesions, scaly erythematous eruptions or red patches overlying the knuckles, elbows, and knees are a characteristic feature of Dermatomyositis. Other skin manifestations involve periungual telangiectasias and a heliotropic (purple) rash over the upper eyelids.
X-ray findings sometimes include dystrophic calcifications in the muscles, and patients may or may not notice small calcium deposits under the skin. Many do not have any calcium deposits of any kind. The rash also may come and go, and may not be dependent on the severity of the muscle involvement at the time. "Gottron's papules" (pink patches on the knuckles and other extensor surfaces) and priapism are associated with this disorder.
Dermatomyositis is a type of autoimmune connective tissue disease.[5] It is related to polymyositis and inclusion body myositis.
There is a form of this disorder that strikes children, known as juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM). For the most part juvenile dermatomyositis is the same as the adult form, but the relationship with cancer is far lower, or non-existent.[citation needed]
Signs and symptoms[edit]
The main symptoms include skin rash and symmetric proximal muscle weakness which may be accompanied by pain. The pain may resemble the type experienced after strenuous exercise. Some dermatomyositis patients have little pain, while in others (esp. in JDM), the pain may be severe. It is important to remember that this condition varies from person to person in many ways. Also in many cases muscle may deteriorate and render the patient temporarily paralyzed unable to walk, run, get out of bed, or even swallow food and liquids.
Skin findings occur in dermatomyositis but not PM and are generally present at diagnosis. Gottron's sign is an erythematous, scaly eruption occurring in symmetric fashion over the MCP and interphalangeal joints (can mimic psoriasis). The heliotrope or "lilac" rash[6] is a violaceous eruption on the upper eyelids and in rare cases on the lower eyelids as well, often with itching and swelling (most specific, though uncommon)[clarification needed]. Shawl (or V-) sign is a diffuse, flat, erythematous lesion over the back and shoulders or in a "V" over the posterior neck and back or neck and upper chest, which worsens with UV light. Erythroderma is not a flat, erythematous lesion similar to the shawl sign but located in other areas, such as the malar region and the forehead. Periungual telangiectasias and erythema occur.
Mechanic's hands (also in PM) refers to rough, cracked skin at the tips and lateral aspects of the fingers forming irregular dirty-appearing lines that resemble those seen in a laborer (this is also associated with the anti-synthetase syndrome). See: sclerodactyly. Psoriaform changes in the scalp can occur. Centripetal flagellate erythema comprises linear, violaceous streaks on the trunk (possibly caused by itching pruritic skin). Calcinosis cutis (deposition of calcium in the skin) is usually seen in juvenile dermatomyositis, not adult dermatomyositis. Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) is another feature, occurring in as many as 33% of cases.
The diagnosis of dermatomyositis can be confirmed by muscle biopsy, EMG,and blood tests. It should be noted, however, that only muscle biopsy is truly diagnostic; liver enzymes and EMG are relatively non-specific. Other enzymes, specifically creatine phosphokinase (CPK), are the major tool in assessing the progress of the disease and/or the efficacy of treatment. On the muscle biopsy, there are two classic microscopic findings of dermatomyositis. They are:
- A mixed B- and T-cell perivascular inflammatory infiltrate
- Perifascicular muscle fiber atrophy
Dermatomyositis is associated with autoantibodies, especially anti-Jo1 antibody.[7]
Microscopic findings[edit]
Cross sections of muscle reveal muscle fascicles with small, shrunken polygonal muscle fibers on the periphery of a fascicle surrounding central muscle fibers of normal, uniform size.
Aggregates of mature lymphocytes with small, dark nuclei and scant cytoplasm are seen surrounding vessels. Other inflammatory cells are distinctly uncommon. Immunohistochemistry can be used to demonstrate that both B- and T-cells are present in approximately equal numbers.
The mechanism is conjectured to be complement-mediated damage of microscopic vessels with muscle atrophy and lymphocytic inflammation secondary to tissue ischemia.[8]
Differential diagnosis[edit]
Dermatomyositis must be differentiated from other common, lymphocyte predominant inflammatory myopathies. If present, the characteristic perifascicular atrophy makes this distinction trivial.
There is some overlap in the microscopic appearances of different inflammatory myopathies, but some helpful differences are often present.[9] The rimmed vacuoles of inclusion body myositis (IBM) are absent in dermatomyositis. Polymyositis is characterised by diffuse or patchy inflammation of the muscle fascicles, a random pattern of muscle atrophy, and T-cell predominance with T-cells seen invading otherwise viable appearing muscle fibers.[1] Dermatomyositis has been associated with cases of Lyme Disease.[10]
This disease has no known cure. Specialized exercise therapy may supplement treatment to enhance quality of life.
Medications to help relieve symptoms include:
- Prednisolone
- Methotrexate
- Mycophenolate (CellCept / Myfortic)
- Intravenous immunoglobulin
- Azathioprine (Imuran)
- Cyclophosphamide
- Rituximab[11]
- Acthar Gel
Notable people who suffered from dermatomyositis[edit]
- The actor Laurence Olivier (1907 – 1989) suffered from dermatomyositis from 1974 until his death.[12]
- Tim Rooney (4 Jan. 1947 - 23 Sept. 2006) Actor. Rooney was the son of actor Mickey Rooney.
- The American football running back Ricky Bell (1955 - 1984), the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 1976, and the number-one choice in the NFL draft in 1977, died at the age of 29 from heart failure caused by this disease.[13]
- Rob Buckman (1948 - 2011) a doctor, comedian, author, and the president of the Humanist Association of Canada.[14][15]
- Maria Callas (1923-1977) Opera soprano. Following an extensive 2010 study of the singer's vocal recordings from the 50's to the 70's, Italian voice specialists Franco Fussi and Nico Paolillo helped to confirm what physician Mario Giacovazzo had determined after a visit with Callas in 1975. This, combined with the singer's early 50's weight loss, has been agreed on as the primary cause of Callas' deteriorated voice and eventual downfall of her career.
Gottron's papules. Erythematous plaques overlying the elbows in a patient with juvenile dermatomyositis. In some patients, small erythematous plaques may overly the extensor aspects of larger joints, such as the elbows, knees, and medial malleoli. This is considered to be an extended part of the spectrum of Gottron's papules.
Gottron's papules. Erythematous plaques overlying the elbows in a patient with juvenile dermatomyositis. In some patients, small erythematous plaques may overly the extensor aspects of larger joints, such as the elbows, knees, and medial malleoli. This is considered to be an extended part of the spectrum of Gottron's papules. Note in Figure, a focal area of dystrophic calcification at the site of Gottron's papules, which is indicative of damage, as discussed below.
Heliotrope is often associated with periorbital edema and telangiectasias of the upper eyelids. In the resolution stage, atrophy or dyspigmentation (hypo- or hyperpigmentation) may be apparent. Heliotrope. Subtle erythema and minimal edema involving both upper eyelids, with extension to the lower eyelids.
See also[edit]
- ^ Jeffrey P Callen (12 October 2011). "Dermatomyositis". Medscape reference. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ Scheinfeld NS (2006). "Ulcerative paraneoplastic dermatomyositis secondary to metastatic breast cancer". Skinmed 5 (2): 94–6. doi:10.1111/j.1540-9740.2006.03637.x. PMID 16603844.
- ^ Duray PH, Steere AC, "Clinical pathologic correlations of Lyme disease by stage."
- ^ Page 285 in: Thomson and Cotton Lecture Notes in Pathology, Blackwell Scientific. Third Edition
- ^ "Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis: Autoimmune Disorders of Connective Tissue: Merck Manual Home Edition".
- ^ Page 151 in: Mitchell, Richard Sheppard; Kumar, Vinay; Abbas, Abul K.; Fausto, Nelson (2007). Robbins Basic Pathology. Philadelphia: Saunders. ISBN 1-4160-2973-7. 8th edition.
- ^ Ghirardello, A; Zampieri S, Tarricone E et al. (May 2006). "Clinical implications of autoantibody screening in patients with autoimmune myositis". Autoimmunity 39 (3): 217–221. doi:10.1080/08916930600622645. PMID 16769655.
- ^ Benveniste, O; Squier W, Boyer O et al. (November 2004). "Pathogenesis of primary inflammatory myopathies". Presse Médicale 33 (20): 1444–1450. doi:10.1016/S0755-4982(04)98952-X. PMID 15611679.
- ^ Nirmalananthan, N; Holton JL, Hanna MG (November 2004). "Is it really myositis? A consideration of the differential diagnosis". Current Opinion in Rheumatology 16 (6): 684–691. doi:10.1097/01.bor.0000143441.27065.bc. PMID 15577605.
- ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Dermatomyositis+lyme
- ^ Scheinfeld N (2006). "A review of rituximab in cutaneous medicine". Dermatol. Online J. 12 (1): 3. PMID 16638371.
- ^ "Laurence Olivier Dies: 'The Rest Is Silence'". People Magazine. 24 July 1989. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ^ "Forgotten: Ricky Bell". Pro Football Weekly. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
- ^ "Rob Buckman obituary". The Guardian Newspaper. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ^ "Dr. Robert Buckman, renowned oncologist, comedian and Star columnist, dead at 63". The Toronto Star Newspaper. 10 October 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
External links[edit]
- The Myositis Association [2]
- Muscular Dystrophy Association [3]
- The American College of Rheumatology's patient education page on myopathy
- Illustration of Gottron's papules at University of Iowa
- The Johns Hopkins Myositis Center [4]
- Myositis Support Group


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