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German news reports that Ratzinger's German fall guy may be ready to reverse on taking blame for reassigning predator priestIn a report from Malta today, John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter, citing German news outlet Der Speigel, reports that Gerhard Gruber, the cleric who took blame away from then Munich Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger for reassigning a predator priest, may be ready to change his story.
"In statements released both by the Munich archdiocese and by the Vatican, Gruber said that he had been responsible for personnel decisions and that Ratzinger was not informed of the details of the Hullermann case.
"Now, however, Der Spiegel is reporting that Gruber has privately told friends that he felt pressure to act as a scapegoat. According to the account, he was sent a fax with the details of the statement already prepared and felt pressure to sign off on it.
"Der Spiegel does not cite any sources for its account. Asked about it tonight, (Vatican spokesman) Lombardi declined comment because he had not yet seen the article."
Read John Allen's full report in today's NCROnline ...
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Cardinal claims John Paul II approved praising felon bishop for witholding rapist priest information from policeCardinal Dario Hoyos, retired head of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy - the office in charge of priests and bishops in the Roman Catholic Church -- has claimed that Pope John Paul II approved a letter signed by Hoyos praising a French bishop convicted of shielding a convicted pedophile-rapist priest.
Reporting from Malta today, NCROnline's John Allen writes:
"In Spain, a defiant Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, now 81 and retired, insisted that he had the approval of Pope John Paul II when he sent a letter to a French bishop in 2001 applauding him for not reporting an abuser priest to the police."
Speaking at a press conference in Spain earlier today, Hoyos said:
"After consulting the pope, I wrote a letter to the bishop, congratulating him as a model of a father who does not turn in his children," he added.
"The Holy Father authorised me to send that letter to all bishops in the world and we posted it on the Internet," he added in a reference to Pope Benedict XVI's predecessor, John Paul II who died in 2005.
Read the full story in the NCROnline today ...
Read the press conference report in the Times of India today ...
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Vatican confirms Congregation for Clergy official's letter praising bishop convicted for shielding priest rapist from justiceAn Associated Press and Reuters story published yesterday reports that four days after a bishop was convicted for shielding a priest-rapist, the bishop was praised by a high ranking Vatican official in charge of priests and bishops.
Priest Rene Bissey was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2000 for raping 11 minors in the 1990's. In 2001, the priest's bishop was convicted for shielding him. Four days later, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, then the head of the Vatican office in charge of priests, praised the convicted felon bishop for his acts. Hoyos lauded French bishop Pierre Pican of Bayaeux-Lisieux for risking prison time to defend one of the Vatican's "son-priests."
"I congratulate you for not having turned in a priest to the civil administration, and I am delighted to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and all the other bishops of the world, will have preferred prison rather than to turn in its son-priest." -- Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, 2001.
Hoyos is the Vatican official who conducted the talks that led to the January 2009 decision to readmit four excommunicated bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X to the Church. One of those re-admitted bishops was Richard Williamson, convicted yesterday, April 16, 2010 in Germany for denying the Holocaust.
"We know what will happen next: The Vatican will either ignore this incredibly revealing and disturbing letter, or try to explain it away in some bizarre way. None of the worlds 5,000 bishops will chastise the Cardinal. No Vatican official will either. When pressed about this, church managers will gently try to distance themselves from this irresponsible move and claim that abuse is now handled differently in the church." -- Barbara Dorris, National Outreach Director, Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests."
Read the Reuters News story ...
Read the AP story in the Taiwan News ...
Read the "Embarrassing letter" story in the Ethiopian Review ...
Read "Bishop sentenced for not exposing paedophile priest" in The Tablet ...
Read the outrageous story and SNAP's full response on the SNAP national Website ...
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Ellie Laks, a lifelong lover of animals, founded the Gentle Barn Foundation a decade ago and has given a permanent home to over 14 species of animals that were rescued from abuse or neglect.
After rehabilitating the animals, the Gentle Barn brings them together with abused and troubled adults and teenagers for therapy.
"Abused people, animals find healing in each other" on the Voice of America Website ...
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Pope speaks up on sex abuse: since church is "under attack from the world ... it is necessary to repent"; SNAP respondsAn AP article in today's Washington Post reports that the pope, in an apparantly impromptu sermon, broke his silence on the worldwide outcry concerning sexual abuse by priests.
"But now under attack from the world, which has been telling us about our sins ... we realize that it's necessary to repent ..." -- Benedict XVI
"Factual disclosures are not 'attacks' and 'penance' protects no one," said Mark Serrano, a spokesman for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the U.S. group.
"When the Pope can't bring himself to utter the words 'pedophile priest' or 'child sex crimes' or 'cover-ups' or 'complicit bishops,' it's hard to have faith that he is able to honestly and effectively deal with this growing crisis," Serrano said in a statement.
Read the story and the SNAP Response in today's Washington Post ...
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All 32 UK Catholic bishops denounce Vatican's Bertone for statement linking paedophilia to homosexualityA statement from Marcus Stock, general secretary to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said there was no empirical data to conclude that paedophilia had anything to do with homosexuality. His statement bears the authority and approval of all 32 Catholic bishops in England and Wales.
His statement bears the authority and approval of all 32 Catholic bishops in England and Wales.
This strong resistance, together with that of the French Government, to Vatican second-in-command Tarcisio Bertone's attempts to blame the church's systemic pedophilia on homosexuals is oddly resonant with the protests of Gay rights campaigners and victim support groups worldwide who also denounce this latest Vatican insult.
Read "Vatican Climbdown" in today's UK Guardian ...
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AP investigation finds 30 more convicted or credibly accused priest molesters, transfered and still working for the churchLate yesterday, a shocking new Associated Press investigation found that 30 child molesting Catholic clerics are now working in new countries for the church, often near kids, despite having been convicted or having faced credible child sex allegations in a previous country.
"A priest who admitted to abuse in Los Angeles went to the Philippines, where U.S. church officials mailed him checks and advised him not to reveal their source. A priest in Canada was convicted of sexual abuse and then moved to France, where he was convicted of abuse again in 2005. Another priest was moved back and forth between Ireland and England, despite being diagnosed as a pederast, a man who commits sodomy with boys." -- Associated Press
It is not unusual practice in the church for predators such as these to be quietly shipped from more wealthy nations to the Third World, where kids are even more vulnerable.
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"Holy" See forgives "satanic" Beatles, "degenerate" homosexual Oscar Wilde, and "dangerous" heretic Galileo; maintains icey silence on Harry PotterIn the midst of global outrage at the true depth and breadth of the horrendous sexual abuse of children by priests, subsequent diabolical coverup by pope and bishops, and the violent verbal abuse of society and "the press" by the deeply corrupt Roman Catholic hierarchy under Joseph Ratzinger -- aka Benedict XVI -- comes a ludicrous moment, darkly comic in the face of the profoundly tragic. Jim Watkins of The Huffington Post says that this farcical timing "could well be the worst attempt ever to change the subject!"
The official Vatican news outlet, L'Osservatore Romano, has added the Beatles to the Holy See's long "forgiveness" list of notorious 'evil secularists," once condemned by the morally aloof Roman church. The absolution was given to honor the 40th anniversary of the break-up of the Fab Four.
"This Beatles-is-beautiful revelation in the face of ongoing allegations of sexual abuse by priests worldwide is sadly illustrative of the Vaticans handling of the matter. Irrelevant. Disconnected. And once again, decades too late." -- Commentary, ChronicleHerald.ca
Similarly, Wilde, who was once sent to prison for acts of "gross indecency" with Lord Alfred Douglas and later converted to Catholicism, and who was regarded by the Roman Church in the century since his death as a "dangerous degenerate and dissolute nonconformist" -- was just last year given Roman Catholic absolution as well. L'Osservatore published the holy office's turn-around saying that Wilde was "one of the personalities of the 19th century who most lucidly analyzed the modern world in its disturbing as well as its positive aspects."
But despite the ludicrous "forgiveness" of these notorious sinners, there is still this kind of memorial to commemorate:
"You want to talk anniversaries? Heres one for the Catholic Church: 20 years ago, the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. Johns, N.L., was closed for good. That was 1990. The allegations of sexual and physical abuse by Christian Brothers and staff dated back to the 1950s. The official coverups started in earnest in the mid-1970s." -- Chronicle Herald
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French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero Wednesday said the remarks linking the abuse to homosexuality was "unacceptable." He said France is committed to the struggle against discrimination and prejudice linked to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Gay rights groups also condemned the remarks by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
Read the whole story on the Voice of America Website ...
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"The passage of this legislation could potentially have a devastating financial effect on the Catholic dioceses of Connecticut, including parish assets and those of other Catholic service organizations," said the letter to pastors from Archbishop Henry J. Mansell of Hartford, Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport and Bishop Michael R. Cote of Norwich.
The bill that would eliminate the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits in cases of sexual abuse.
Catholic News Service today reports that the bishops' letter was distributed in churches April 10 and 11. In it the bishops said H.B. 5473, which "also targets the Catholic Church across the state ... has potentially disastrous fallout for all of us" The measure could be voted on in the General Assembly within two weeks.
Read the story on the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Website ...
Read the CNS article in today's National Catholic Reporter ...
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Atlantic columnist calls Ratzinger letter protecting pedophile priest instead of victims "The Third Strike"
"But it's clear that the age of the priest is of far more importance to Ratzinger than the age of the minors he raped. All the sympathy and concern is with the rapist, not the raped. This is a document about protecting the powerful even when they rape the powerless." -- The Atlantic, 10 April 2010
Read the full story in The Atlantic ...
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Former priest, and author James Carroll calls for church rescue from Vatican "fundamentalist-in-chief" Joseph Ratzinger
"Vatican II was a step toward the democratizing of the Catholic Church, which is why Catholic fundamentalists have been seeking to undo it ever since. Fundamentalist-in-chief has been Joseph Ratzinger. ...
An example of what must happen now came from the American nuns who recently defied the Rome-obsessed bishops to support President Obamas health reform bill. The nuns acted as if the reforms of Vatican II are real. Now priests and lay people must do the same, rescuing the Catholic Church from its fundamentalists, including the present pope." -- Former priest, and columnist for the Boston Globe, James Carroll.
Read Carroll's "Rescue Catholicism from Vatican" in the Boston Globe ...
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Read the entire story in today's Boston Globe ...
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SNAP President says "long secretive, convoluted policy" for defocking priests will change nothing by merely posting the already public document
"History and commonsense tell us that ancient, rigid, secretive cultures change very slowly, especially when the basic structure causing and sanctioning hurtful behaviors doesnt change at all. A dictator abuses power because he can. He can promise reform, but if he remains a dictator, its naïve to expect real change." SNAP President Barbara Blaine
Read the entire SNAP statement on the SNAP National Website ...
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Italian bishop says Jews are Roman church's "natural enemies" and are behind public outcry against popeAccording to a reporter for the Italian Roman Catholic website Pontifex who interviewed Italian Bishop Giacomo Babini, the bishop said during the interview that Jews do not want the Church, they are its natural enemies. He added: Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are deicides [God killers].
Babini denied he had made any anti-Semitic remarks, and was backed by the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), saying: Statements I have never made about our Jewish brothers have been attributed to me.
However, Bruno Volpe, who interviewed Babini for Pontifex, confirmed that the bishop had made the statement, which was reported widely in the Italian press today. Pontifex threatened to release the audio tape of the interview as proof.
Read the entire article in the British publication TimesOnline ...
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Vatican's "belligerent, resentful, paranoid response" to sex abuse by priests calls for radical change, say three Catholic authorsThree Catholic authors speak out on the urgent necessity of radically changing a Catholic Church government that has taken its moral codes and orthodoxy to hideous extremes, and with impunity.
"The Vatican must realize that the churchs belligerent, resentful and paranoid response to the global scandal is not working because it now says it will cooperate with secular justice systems and that the pope will have more meetings with victims. It is too little, too late." -- NY Times, April 11, 2010
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Vatican letter shows Ratzinger protecting the church, the pedophile and the hierarchy, while ignoring victimsVatican spokesperson Ciro Benedettini, said a letter published in the NYTimes, signed by Ratzinger, and which clearly shows that Ratzinger delayed the defrocking of a pedophile priest for 2-6 years, showed no attempt at a cover-up, but merely showed "the need to study the case with more attention, taking into account the good of all involved."
Here is the paragraph from the letter, translated from Latin by the Times, in which Ratzinger listed "all involved" who would benefit from his judgment. They are:
- "The Universal Church;"
- "The petitioner" (in other words, the pedophile asking for laicization); and
- The church hierarchy, fearing "that granting the dispensation can provoke the community of Christ's faithful."
"This court, although it regards the arguments presented in favor of removal in this case to be of grave significance, nevertheless deems it necessary to consider the good of the Universal Church together with that of the petitioner, and it is also unable to make light of the detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke with the community of Christ's faithful, particularly regarding the young age of the petitioner." -- Joseph Ratzinger
Nowhere in the Ratzinger list, or in any other place in the letter, are the victims mentioned.
Read the letter, and follow the entire document trail in today's NYTimes.
Read the AP article reporting Vatican responses.
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Vatican spins Ratzinger's protection of pedophile priest as not understanding "the context in which it was written"; Times publishes "the context"Vatican spin specialist, Federico Lombardi, commenting on the report yesterday that documents confirm Ratzinger was directly involved in protecting a convicted pedophile priest, said it was wrong to draw conclusions based on one letter, without carefully understanding the context in which it was written.
Its evident that its not an in-depth and serious use of documents, Lombardi said.
Judge for yourself, then, says the NYTimes:
Follow the document trail for this Vatican cover-up letter signed by Ratzinger in today's NY Times.
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Ratzinger delays defrocking of convicted pedophile priest for 2 years in signed letter; for" the good of the Universal Church"In a signed 1985 letter received by the NY Times, Joseph Ratzinger, later Benedict XVI, ordered delaying the defrocking of an Oakland, California priest convicted of pedophilia in 1978. The priest was finally defrocked in 1987.
"Bishop Cummins had first petitioned the doctrinal office to defrock Mr. Kiesle in 1981. He also wrote directly to Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Ratzinger requested more information, which officials in the Oakland Diocese supplied in February 1982. They did not hear back from Cardinal Ratzinger until 1985, when he sent the letter in Latin suggesting that his office needed more time to evaluate the case." -- NYTimes, 09 April 2010.
According to records published today by the NYTimes, Kiesle was convicted of sexually abusing young boys between the ages of 11 and 13 in 1978. His bishop wrote the Vatican to have him defrocked -- which Kiesle himself demanded -- in 1981. Ratzinger responded in 1985, and Kiesle was defrocked in 1987.
Here are longer excerpts, followed by a link to the entire article and to SNAP's response.
"In August of 1978 he was arrested by the police and charged with having taken sexual liberties with at least six young men ranging from eleven to thirteen years of age during the period of November 1977 through May 1978. When he appeared in court, Father Kiesle pleaded "nolo contendere" (no contest) to the charges."
... "Given all the circumstances surrounding this case and Father Kiesle's irrevocable decision to leave the active ministry, it would seem to me most prudent that his petition be granted.
"Therefore, since all of these things are attested to in the Acts of the case, it is our opinion that this case should be submitted to you with the petition that Father Stephen Kiesle be relieved of all of the obligations of the priesthood."
-- John S. Cummins, Bishop of Oakland, 19 June 1981.
"This court, although it regards the arguments presented in favor of removal in this case to be of grave significance, nevertheless deems it necessary to consider the good of the Universal Church together with that of the petitioner, and it is also unable to make light of the detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke with the community of Christ's faithful, particularly regarding the young age of the petitioner. "
-- (signed) Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, November, 1985.
Kiesle was defrocked in 1987, 2 years after Ratzinger's reaction to the case, and 9 years after Kiesle's conviction as a pedophile.
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Guardian commentator claims pope has no diplomatic immunity from prosecution for "crime against humanity"A British news commentator, writing in the Guardian this week, claims that the Vatican, and the pope can no longer ignore international law, which now counts the widespread or systematic sexual abuse of children as a crime against humanity. Therefore, the claim of the Vatican to be a state and of the pope to be a head of state and hence immune from legal action cannot stand up to scrutiny.
But the commentary goes even further, suggesting that the diplomatic immunity of the Vatican "state" itself is in question.
Former Bush administration lawyer John B Bellinger III, in 2005, had certified that Pope Benedict the XVI was immune from suit "as the head of a foreign state" when the pope and his entourage came to America. Bellinger is now notorious for his defence of Bush administration torture policies. His opinion on papal immunity is even more questionable. It hinges on the assumption that the Vatican is a state.
"But the papal states were extinguished by invasion in 1870 and the Vatican was created by fascist Italy in 1929 when Mussolini endowed this tiny enclave 0.17 of a square mile containing 900 Catholic bureaucrats with "sovereignty in the international field ... in conformity with its traditions and the exigencies of its mission in the world."
Read the full story in the Guardian.
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"The popes reluctance to take a firm stance on sexual abuse by priests is expanding into a crisis for the Catholic Church and fueling outrage over his papacy. Some Catholics are now even calling on Benedict, who has committed a series of gaffes since becoming pope in 2005, to resign." -- German Newspaper Der Speigel 06 April 2010
Read this explosive and detailed 7 segment critique of the current papacy on the Der Speigel Germany website.
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Re: Help needed, please
Reply #20 on:
October 20, 2011, 07:34:00 AM »
I am somewhat new to the business of printing - a week to be precise!
However I carefully investigated the art (and science) of colour management for some months.
This was to allow me to use the printer first thing up.
It is true that my printing is still in the experimental phase with me taking an iterative approach with certain photographs through the process of soft proofing and printing on only two types of papers and then going back to the files and tweaking them in either CS5 or LR3. I have practiced printing through both LR3 and PS5.
Only one "disaster" so far that was easily fixed by carefully retweaking a raw file where an original post=processing was far too exuberant - gave a rainbow I photographed the wierdest colours.
The point I really want to make is that the business of colour management while really important is not impossible to understand. I am a newbie to printing yet successfully set and ran an Epson 7900 and am already in a position to be able to predict (to a point) what results I might get with the limited range of papers I am using.
I used two books: Martin Evening's Adobe Photoshop for Photographers, and the collabarative effort between Martin Evening and Jeff Schewe. I highly recommend both these titles.
In addition I also used the LuLa guide: Camera to Print and Screen, which is still incomplete however all the colour management segments have been covered (I think).
With the information gained from these sources as already stated I have been able get my printing into a functional state within a few days.
But this did not happen by accident:
I bought a high end NEC with built in hardware profiling (the same model demonstrated in one of the LuLa tutorials I think),
Months ago already I downloaded ICC profiles for a several papers I thought I might like to use for the printers I was contemplating (Epson 7900 and 4900) as well the printer drivers for these printers and practiced softproofing and printer setup to get familiar with the process. (By the way I also have QImage.)
I can only reiterate that the process is iterative, theory to practive, and back to theory.
The frustration I detect in certain senior members posts is due to the fact that the information is all out there and easily accessable.
I have to confess that even with my admittedly still limited knowledge of the whole printing process many of the options you allude to in your setup are decidedly illogical.
A quick and easy way forward would be be to buy Michael and Jeff's guide Camera to Print and Screen.
I heartily endorse this product and if you won't accept a plug from Jeff I hope you will accept a plug from me.
A couple of hours viewing will allow you to logically approach your colour management setup.
I promise you this is not particulary hard - especially as Michael and Jeff are exceptional, if somewhat wacky, teachers.
Good Luck!
Tony Jay
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Re: Help needed, please
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October 20, 2011, 09:44:28 AM »
Quote from: ErikKaffehr on October 19, 2011, 02:24:09 PM
Something that is absolutely wrong is setting printer profile to Adobe RGB, printer profile must be a profile specific for Printer/Ink/Paper.
What you say is normally true, but in his color management tutorial (C2PS_15_CM) Jeff Schewe uses a trick to sent data directly to the printer without color management for printer profiling. He assigns AdobeRGB to a file and then prints it with AdobeRGB selected as the printer profile. Since the source and destination profiles are the same, no change in the data numbers of the file is needed.
However, the OP is not doing proofing and this method would not be appropriate for her situation.
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Re: Help needed, please
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October 20, 2011, 10:06:35 AM »
Quote from: bjanes on October 20, 2011, 09:44:28 AM
What you say is normally true, but in his color management tutorial (C2PS_15_CM) Jeff Schewe uses a trick to sent data directly to the printer without color management for printer profiling. He assigns AdobeRGB to a file and then prints it with AdobeRGB selected as the printer profile. Since the source and destination profiles are the same, no change in the data numbers of the file is needed.
I may be wrong since it's been a while since I saw that video, but I believe Jeff was explaining how to send profile target patches to print through CS5(since Adobe took 2 steps back on this) in order to print the targets with no color management. I don't think he would recommend this for normal printing.
The destination is our goal but its the journey that educates us.
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Re: Help needed, please
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October 21, 2011, 08:25:01 AM »
Quote from: KeithR on October 20, 2011, 10:06:35 AM
I may be wrong since it's been a while since I saw that video, but I believe Jeff was explaining how to send profile target patches to print through CS5(since Adobe took 2 steps back on this) in order to print the targets with no color management. I don't think he would recommend this for normal printing.
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March 31, 2013, 11:40:50 PM »
thank you for all responses. We have found the answer! so, i write to those who are in trouble with printing and found this tread in hope for the answer. Maybe this will help you. Our problem was Photoshop CS3.
Here is our story: we bought Epson PRo 9800 and couldn't achieve good prints with good photos. The colours were darker, and 'dirtier'. Then my husband took private lessons . That didn't change printing results. (yes, our monitor was calibrated, yes, photos were good, yes, my husband understands color management) After that i decided myself to see all those video lessons together with my husband, one by one, that didn't help us either! (no, we were not stupid, we were naive, because we believed( I believed) that we dont' know enough of color management, like many of you are saying here)
Since all the LL color management didnt work for us, i started to search internet about color managment on PS and follow all kinds of the advises, which didn't work either. That was the time when i posted my question here, where tread exploded with suggestions to learn color management!
I read all your answers, thank you!
Remember, our problem was that our prints were dark, like with a grey tint on it. We could see it even on Photoshop when we were soft proofing the images.
I was already thinking to sell this printer, but then we decided to get a grip and FIND what is wrong.
We decided to eliminate every possibility than can cause the problem with printing, one by one.
1.Fist we checked how printer driver works, we printed colour table with only print driver involved. Colours were clean and saturated.
2.Second, to eliminate any possibility that our photos were not good, we started to print an image I made in PS with primary colours from photoshop palette. but they were dark again.
3.Next we decided to eliminate and possibility that Photoshop is at fault.(Remember, with color management we tried different theories including LL color management, none of the worked, so we were not paying attention to it at that moment, but we kept LL color management color settings). So, we printed from another computer with Photoshop CS6, and grey tint disappeared!
With right profile and color settings our prints are now clean and saturated and happy
We are printing now from Photoshop CS6 and with soft proofing we can see almost exactly what is going to be printed.
Happy ending finally...
If you have problem with printing eliminate every possibility that can cause a problem one by one, that could be your printer driver, quality of photos, colour management, image software (driver/profiles/etc).
Dont be stuck in color management for few years, like us! Good luck!
And to Jeff :
I apologize for my harsh words they came out of frustration, because we already knew all the color management by heart.
To Geraldo Garcia for saying this: "I would say that nothing stated here or anywhere will help you as, most likely, it won´t be understood either"
You look at the problem with too shallow angle. You have to be higher to see deeper.
But thank you anyway.
And to everybody who replied -Thank you for your time and support!
Tony Jay
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Re: Help needed, please
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April 01, 2013, 06:20:47 AM »
Well I am glad that you sorted finally Elena!
Tony Jay
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MONTHLY PREMIUM COSTSMarion County currently pays $1,346.00 toward the monthly premiums for MCEA, ONA, MCJEA, Unit 12, and management health plans and $1,454.00 toward the monthly premiums for FOPPO health plans. The employee's premium share depends on which medical and dental plans are selected. Please go here and refer to the chart at the end of the Marion County Health Plans Comparison and Summary for premium share amounts.OPT OUT INCENTIVEEmployees who choose to opt out of medical/vision and dental coverage will receive a $200 per month incentive split between the first two paychecks of the month. If employees have other medical coverage, they are eligible to opt out and can do so at any time during the year. Proof of other coverage must be provided.
WEBSITE RESOURCES AND TOOLS FOR HEALTH PLAN MEMBERSMarion County's health plans have excellent resources on their websites that allow members to search the provider networks, review their plan documents and handbooks, and access helpful information, such as health and wellness resources and medical encyclopedias.
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Why People Get Depressed at Christmas
Christmas season brings depression for some
Published on November 28, 2010 by Ray Williams in Wired for Success
We are told that Christmas, for Christians, should be the happiest time of year, an opportunity to be joyful and grateful with family, friends and colleagues. Yet, according to the National Institute of Health, Christmas is the time of year that people experience a high incidence of depression. Hospitals and police forces report high incidences of suicide and attempted suicide. Psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals report a significant increase in patients complaining about depression. One North American survey reported that 45% of respondents dreaded the festive season.
Why? Is the Grinch in full force during the season? Is it because of the dark winter weather that increases the incidence of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? Certainly those may be some reasons, but it appears to have more to do with unrealistic expectations and excessive self-reflection for many people.
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For some people, they get depressed at Christmas and even angry because of the excessive commercialization of Christmas, with the focus on gifts and the emphasis on "perfect" social activities. Other get depressed because Christmas appears to be a trigger to engage in excessive self-reflection and rumination about the inadequacies of life (and a "victim" mentality) in comparison with other people who seem to have more and do more. Still others become anxious at Christmas because of the pressure (both commercial and self-induced) to spend a lot of money on gifts and incur increasing debt. Other people report that they dread Christmas because of the expectations for social gatherings with family, friends and acquaintances that they'd rather not spend time with. And finally, many people feel very lonely at Christmas, because they have suffered the loss of loved ones or their jobs.
So what should you do, if you're among those who get depressed at Christmas? Mental health professionals who treat people with this problem suggest the following:
•First, if the depression is serious, seek out the help of a qualified mental health professional;
•Set personal boundaries regarding the money spent on gifts and the number of social events;
•Don't accept any "perfect" representation of Christmas that the media, institutions or other people try to make you believe. Lower your expectations and any attachment to what it should look like; be present and enjoy each moment as best you can;
•Become involved in giving in a non-monetary way through charities and worthwhile causes that help less fortunate people;
•Be grateful for what you have in your life, rather than focusing on what you don't have;
•Avoid excessive rumination about your life;
•Take action and do interesting and fun things;
•If you are religious, take part in church activities that focus on the bigger meaning of Christmas;
•Focus your thoughts on all the good things about Christmas--the opportunity to engage in loving kindness, generosity of spirit, and gratitude for others in your life.
The Christmas season has become a difficult time for many people in our society. For those of us who don't have difficulties at this time of year, it's an opportunity to reach out to those who become depressed. For those who are depressed, it's an opportunity to take action to think, feel and act in ways that breaks free from the past.


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Alice and Louise: Taken on its own, this title might well refer to a flashy Hollywood movie. Instead, Alice and Louise actually refers to a relatively new catering company/cooking school in Chantilly. There, sisters Nichol Alice Chancler and Shelly Louise Modes run what is becoming the go-to place for creative cooking and healthful recipes.
As Nichol—or Alice—explains it, they are named after their two grandmothers—Alice Young and Louise Rush—who helped raise them and teach them the basics of good home cooking. �We were latchkey kids,� she says, �so we spent a lot of time with our grandmothers, Alice and Louise. Alice was a huge baker, and she baked all the time. I baked with her. I got her name and her talent.�
Indeed, as Nichol adds, Alice was a native Virginian, born on a farm in Purcellville and the former owner of the Bluemont Country store, a venue that still operates.
Nichol�s sister, Shelley Louise, on the other hand, spent time with Grandmother Louise, who was renowned for her high-end cooking. As Nichol explains, �Louise Rush was born in Tennessee. She learned some great southern cooking there and moved here to Virginia in her twenties. She lived in Clifton with our grandfather.� When the girls� grandfather passed away, Louise lived with them in Fairfax, until she remarried Colonel Benjamin Rush, III.
�She married a descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence,� says Nichol, �so she prepared really good dinners, and went to very fine markets.
Thus the die was cast: Nichol focused on her baking, and sister Louise stayed with savory cooking. And as they grew up, married, and started families, they both entertained and loved to cook. Friends urged them to pool their talents and start some food-oriented business. That happened with the official opening of Alice and Louise Catering and Cooking School last fall.
As the business has developed, explains Nichol, her sister runs the catering end and she runs the cooking school. �The cooking school is right up my alley,� she says. �We feature healthy eating for families, and we do seasonal classes. Our clients really love our Four Frantic Nights.�
These classes are geared for the working moms whose families keep them on the run, so the point is to demonstrate how to maximize marketing time, take advantage of sales, and cook healthful meals, she explains. �We teach people how to cook,� she says, �so they don�t go to the �drive-throughs.� We stay away from packaged and processed foods, but we do fun recipes, like whoopee pies.�
Likewise, as the cooking school segment flourishes, so does the catering end of the business. �The catering section is growing greatly: we prepare healthy, good-tasting meals. We also do weddings and birthday parties,� she says, adding that they are gearing their meals towards different dietary needs and including wheat- and dairy-free dishes.
Indeed, the sisters promote not only healthful eating but also local vendors and sources, showcasing as many local farmers and producers as possible in their business. �We want not only to educate but also to give back to our community,� Nichol says. �We are really excited to be pairing up with other companies and cookbook authors that have the same belief of �local� support and �better health� from younger ages on up.�
If this is a business you still haven�t heard of, relax. The sisters are media savvy, and have busily marketed on Groupon and Facebook—the latter just went from 7 to 257 Facebook friends, says Nichol. If locals are really lucky, they also may end up presenting at area farmers� markets this summer. �All that marketing really pays off,� says Nichol.
RecipeSpicy Chicken Bowtie Pesto Pasta
�This recipe is adapted from my favorite dish at restaurant in Santa Monica California. We are all a little Cali at heart,� says Nichol. Serve with crusty bread, a Caesar salad and enjoy!
From The Very Popular Four Frantic Nights class
Serves 42 whole grilled, roasted or leftover chicken breasts, marinated in a mixture of fresh lime juice, olive oil, fresh cilantro, and red pepper, chili powder, and fresh garlic
1 pound bowtie or farfalle pasta, cooked according to package direction
Fresh pesto (recipe below)
� cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese (not from the tin)
Dash ground cayenne pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
Chop the chicken or pull it apart with your fingers and add to the hot pasta. Stir in the prepared Pesto sauce. Grate the fresh Parmesan over the pasta mixture. Add a dash of cayenne pepper and the fresh cilantro. Stir it all together and warm in a large saucepan until the chicken is heated through.
Fresh Basil & Spinach Pesto
1 1/2 cups baby spinach leaves
3/4 cup fresh basil leaves
1/2 cup toasted chopped walnuts
4 cloves garlic, peeled and quartered
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Combine the spinach, basil, and walnuts in a food processor, and pulse a few times. Add the garlic, and pulse a few times more. Slowly add the olive oil in a constant stream while the food processor is on. Stop to scrape down the sides of the food processor with a rubber spatula. Add the grated cheese, lemon juice and lemon zest and pulse again until blended. Add salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.


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To go along with our snacks, we read The Littlest Pilgrim. My three year old really liked this one. It's about Mini, who is the smallest pilgrim in her village. She wants to help, but everybody tells her she's too small. I think it's easy for preschoolers to identify with the main character. At the end of the book, she discovers that she's not too little to make a friend. It's a really sweet story.


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They say that 'a picture is worth a thousand words', and nowhere is this more true than in the world of design. Oftentimes it doesn't matter how brilliant an idea is, if it can't be visualized effectively it is often hard to convince people of its merit. Readers who are familiar with Inhabitat will know that we are guilty of this visual bias as much as anyone: we are suckers for sleek, glossy, eye-candy renderings. Imagine our surprise then, when we realized that some of the best ideas submitted to our Reburbia Design Competition were the ideas with the least visual punch. In fact, one of the most powerful (and certainly the most workable and cost-effective) idea submitted to the Reburbia Competition isn't a design proposal at all, but instead a policy proposal — called Entrepreneurbia — to get rid of the idiotic zoning laws which led to most of the major problems in suburbia in the first place. Makes a lot of sense, right?
Current zoning laws in most suburbs make it illegal to operate a business out of a building in a residential area, and vice versa. Basically, the law necessitates that people live far away from their jobs — forcing people to commute to work. It also means that people have to drive long distances to go to the grocery store, pharmacy, coffee shop to pick up the staples of their day; ensuring that people in suburbs have to spend several hours a day in cars, thus decreasing quality of life. These idiotic zoning laws are what has lead to massive sprawl, 2 hour long commutes, 'neighborhoods' with no basic shops or amenities, and the demise of small businesses in favor of big-box stores.
So what to do? The smart designers behind the Entrepreneurbia project propose this: abolish poorly conceived zoning laws to attract forward-thinking small business owners and start-up companies, creating a community of entrepreneurs who will naturally transform inefficient single-family dwellings and purely decorative landscape spaces into intelligent home-based businesses.
What we love about this idea is how simple, efficient, and elegant it is. No expensive, energy-intensive, massive overhauls needed! Simply allow enterprising people to do what they do naturally, and the suburbs will gradually and organically become more dense, vibrant, and sustainable – much like their urban counterparts.
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This sounds like a wonderful idea. I live in the burbs and must agree that the way we have been doing things here just doesn't work. Recently I visited my local zoning ordinance about the legality of keeping a few, three chickens, in my yard. The answer is simply not unless I have two acreas of land to devote to three chickens. One would be hard pressed to find two open acres of land in my town. Great article and I'll keep following.


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Can you make up for the lack of sleep?
First part of this question is quite obvious:
- with naps or sleeping in on the weekends, can I make up some of the sleep I lack at night since most of us have those dreadful 9-5 workdays?
second part (which is harder) is if I realize I have been sleep deprived my whole life (teenage years, and early twenties) (but TONS during college years)
is it possible to make up for those damages later on or has it already set in and is going to permanently effect me?
Gord G
Aug 23 2013: If you had a good time, you weren't deprived. If the experience broadened your understanding, you weren't deprived. If you regretted it the next day, you weren't deprived.
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It seems to me, sleep is a self regulating biological imperative subjugate to individuation. In other words ... you didn't sleep because you were captivated by life.
I think physiological deprivation only occurs when we attempt to regulate our cycles artificially. Pay the piper for your night of revelry ... and the body adjusts.
...or maybe I'm rationalizing my college years. ;-)
Aug 26 2013: ..it would be a self-regulating biological imperative if we did not have lightbulbs, TV, coffe, 'keep-awake pills' etc..........
Gord G
Aug 26 2013: True Christina. That's what I meant by pay the piper. The body will adjust naturally if we don't artificially force ourselves to stay awake the next day to compensate for the lack of sleep.
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Modern life allows us to extend waking hours indefinitely. But our bodies have a very short tolerance for lack of sleep.
To clarify: If the day after a late night party a person listens to their body and rests, I think there is little harm done. But I think habitual artificially induced wakefulness can cause health problems over a lifetime. The trick is knowing when to rest. And since our physiological needs vary, the best approach is paying attention to our natural rhythms.
Fritzie -
Aug 14 2013: While there may be some things that you cannot somehow retrieve now from having gone through many years not as alert as you might have been, there is everything to gain from going through the rest of your life alert!
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Aug 15 2013: That sentence made sense, but I had to read it a couple times before it did. Maybe I need more sleep.Aug 19 2013: I guess Lisa, the answer depends on what you have been doing while awake.
Russell Foster's talk was great in my opinion and he surely explained the importance of sleep very clearly so, all the things we have been doing, maybe all our lives could have been done better, may have been done differently, might not have been done at all. I wonder. So while I know you were referring or at least I thought you were referring to the self inflicted bodily damage we bring on ourselves, there is a no less serious issue of the accrued consequences of habitual sleep deprived behavior as a society.Aug 18 2013: There is such a thing as 'sleep debt' which can, indeed, be caught up on. However, how much of this 'debt' can accumulate is something you'd need to study further. For during sleep. the brain creates serotonin, repairs cells and runs through 'system checks' of all your physiology (hence the morning stiffy guys wake up with - reproductive check).
So, it's only logical to presume that 'too' much sleep deprivation - i.e., deprivation of the required bodily processes only accomplished during sleep - would have repercussive effects that may not be fixed by merely catching on a bit of shut-eye. For example, if you're an athletic and exercise regularly, destroying muscle cells in the process, if you do not get adequate, consistent rest, your body cannot sufficiently repair the cells you break down in your exercise routines. Thus, you'll likely get injured more easily and inevitably won't be getting the benefits of the work you're putting in. I'm sure this rule applies to any and all the other reparative process that take place during sleep.
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Aug 19 2013: One thing's for certain: the benefits of napping during the day are scientifically proven. Some companies even implement policies to promote employees taking afternoon naps.
John Mauren
Aug 15 2013: I'd imagine that there is little making up for what benefits you missed from lack of sleep. Part of sleeping is the increase of melatonin from the pineal that is responsible for removing free radicals, as an anti-oxidant it protects cells and mtDNA from being destroyed or altered. All of which helps prevent increased neurodegeneration levels from natural aging.
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Although, some have suggested that high and low oscillatory waves in the brain activate plasticity and in return recording and/or improving information stored in neural assemblies. Of which neurogenisis in the hippocampus allows for strengthening of pathways, even old ones if I'm not mistaken. So, you may have lost something, but you can rebuild.
There's a chance you've increased the odds of experiencing health issues stemming from a lifetime of being sleep deprived of which I don't believe can be reversed with sleep. But I could be wrong.
Aug 15 2013: Karoshi.
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Aug 14 2013: I am the queen of naps. I also get eight hours of sleep. I really, really, really like sleep.
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To answer your question, I believe that being asleep through several sleep cycles is key, meaning being asleep for an extended period is preferable. I don't think you can take a bunch of cat naps and still have the same quality of rest as a nice long night of slumber...
Secondly, you can always make up for it! Start now my friend!Sep 5 2013: For the time ---Yes, possible. For the quality---- maybe not really if it's too late.
We need sleep to relax and keep healthy.Sep 2 2013: I try, regardless of the possibility. I think more than anything, restful sleep is require to "make-up" those lost hours. If you can get restful sleep over the course of 5 hours, that is more restorative than 8-12 hours of "restless sleep." Just from my own experience. Now, how can you get your sleep to be restful? I don't know. No medicine has been able to produce it, in my experience. I've had luck occasionally with alcohol, but not consistently, and like he said, it's not a long term solution. More than anything... I've found being satisfied with your day makes for satisfying sleep. Days when I get a lot done, where I get some exercise, and have some fun are prime examples. If I leave work unfinished, my sleep is not restful until it's concluded. Just my experience, not really anything super scientific, just my own observations. Alarm clocks are the bane of my existence.Sep 2 2013: Sleep Less Live More Book
This book was great for me. The method described to reduce the amount of sleep you need may not work for everyone, but I definitely had great results with it. For three years (until I got into my hectic college schedule) I slept exactly 5-and-a-half hours per night, by the book's method, and I had more energy and was more productive than ever. When I get back to having a normal schedule, I am going to start using this book's method again.
Be aware however, that the change doesn't happen over night. It took me almost a year to get down from 8.5 hours of sleep to 5.5 per night. You also need to practice a pretty rigidly defined lifestyle (with a set bed-time and no snoozing the alarm clock) to have any success.
http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Less-Live-Everett-Mattlin/dp/0345290372Sep 2 2013: What I am really curious about is what exactly happens in our cells when we sleep that is different than when we are awake. Is it that cellular respiration occurs at a different rate in our mitochondria when we are asleep? Do we truly have less energy because we have not made enough? What is going on at a cellular level?
Sep 2 2013: Lisa T.,
Good question, so I googled it....what happens on a cellular level when we sleep? There's quite a bit of information available, and here are the links to the first 3 sites that popped up:>)
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sleep-newzzz/201007/why-do-we-sleepSep 2 2013: I have been a 3-hour sleeper since I was a baby! I am now 62 and still don't need a lot of sleep. I am grateful for my computers! If I miss a day (usually one or two a week, I have no problems the next day. However, after 3 days, I need to rest and, sometimes, it is hard to do. I do not sleep at night, so I sleep in the morning or early evening. Am I sleep deprived? Every now and then, yes. However, with all of this extra time, I have been able to do more, read more, see more and such than most people are able to! during my university years, I slept only 2 hours each day, 4 days each week. I survived, but I would definitely say that I was sleep deprived at that time. However, I did this for 3 years during graduate school.Sep 1 2013: Hi Lisa,
From what I've learned, it doesn't matter when we sleep (weekends, naps, etc.) and it is important to get enough sleep to support the body/mind systems. The body/mind rests, recharges and heals with sleep.
There are several contributing factors to good health, so it may not be possible to predict if one can "make up for those damages later on". My choice is to be as healthy as possible at every stage of the life adventure.
I don't understand how the "dreadful 9-5 workdays" interfere with sleep. There are still about 16 hours left for other activities and enough sleep....yes?
Here is one article about sleep and health, and there is a ton of information on this topic.
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/features/important-sleep-habitsAug 31 2013: i think its like you take care of your (computer) now the best you can and make wiser decisions now knowing you havent been taking care of your self like you should sooooo i would say yes you can make up for the lack of sleep depending on your circumstancesAug 29 2013: Well, I often chose music to wake me up, or something really offensive :vAug 28 2013: Sleep is hard for people to comprehend as Russell states. We take it for granted because we think it can be last on the list. I agree with Russell - it can't and if it is - it comes at a cost. We need to take sleep seriously.Aug 26 2013: how about starting to heed his advice preparing for a good night's sleep RIGHT NOW and keep to it?! I am quite sure that some damage can be halted and even reversed by starting the 'good sleeping habits' now, the sooner, the better. I pledge to do so myselfAug 25 2013: I Am Wakeup Wen Yours ARE Sleep To Week Up Yours Mind's Touch From My Soul Wake Up Call From .. Me...
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Aug 24 2013: Hi Tali, could you tell me what makes you say "One cannot make up for chronic sleep loss" please?
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Sep 1 2013: OK, thanks. :)Aug 23 2013: The amount of sleppness is different from individual. Actually, I spend a little hour sleeping because I want to enjoy my awaken hours! To spend more time studying or meeting, chatting with my friends and family, I do not feel sleep lackness:) Something attracts me to wake, keeping me in those wonderful and exciting situations B-)Aug 17 2013: Can you make up for the lack of sleep?
Hm. As a perpetually sleep-deprived human being who has gone through clinical insomnia and had her melatonin balance destroyed by pills that she shouldn't have received in the first place and who is on a waiting list to spend some nights at a neurophysiological lab at a university hospital - I really do hope so.
I've never had a natural sleep pattern before that, a pattern that is now described as a 8-hours block in a period of darkness. I've always had the tendency to get drowsy at least 1-2 hours after everybody's gone to bed, usually around 2 a.m. Then I would sleep for 5-6 hours if I had the opportunity. This allowed me to study at two departments while having two jobs and still party, but that was some time ago.
You're mentioning dreadful 9-5 workdays. Most of my study and work-life I envied this dreadfullness, I had to work for over 10 and wasn't given possibility to retire after that with incessant phone-calls and e-mails that I had to answer to prevent a chain reaction of work and business disasters. That was one of the factors that contributed to sleep problems.
If this conversation is still up after my brain activity is measured and tested and results are there, I'll write an update.
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Just sleep about 12 hours each night.
And then, one will create much more, be health much more, ...Aug 15 2013: AHA! I haven't even watched the video yet....Karoshi. Saw a bunch of sleeping people during a documentary today. Not on TED, not even online, but on an old-fashioned DVD! In one 'chapter' it had lots of pictures of Japanese people sleeping EVERYWHERE, on trains, on buses, in public places, in parks, everywhere, because they were overworked and under...slept? Undersleeped? Under-the-sheets deficient? Whatever the term, they were regular, hard-working (if that is not a contradiction in terms) people and they were exhausted to the point of death!!!Aug 15 2013: i have lived my life for the last 55 years of my life sleeping 3 to 4 hours a night. I do not think it affected me other than a lot of people calling me crazy. I admit that about every so many months I would crash and sleep for 12-16 hours.
I have to admit I love naps and can sleep almost anywhere at anytime
Aug 15 2013: Karoshi.Aug 15 2013: Lisa, Yeah it an old guy with a answer ... you say " those dreadful 9-5 workdays? " That is eight hours out of 24 hours that supports everything else you do and enjoy. You want to party go to bed at 6 PM and get up at ten to party. To do all of the other things (not including work) really is a option. I guess work is also a option depending on what you are willing to sacrifice.
Might I suggest that you align you priorities ... if your work is interfering with your night life ... make a choice or a adjustment. If you truly feel like these options have caused "damage" then the choice should be obvious.
Fritzie said it a lot nicer.
Fritzie -
Aug 15 2013: I suspect that Lisa isn't bothered by needing to work eight hour days but rather is one of those natural night owls who has trouble shifting her natural sleep cycle to wake up at 7:30 or so.
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Some people never quite adjust, even over a career, to 9-5 but would have been fine working 10-6.
And then there are those of us who were quite happy getting in to work at 6:15!
Aug 15 2013: Perhaps. I wake up at about 4 AM everyday. I am a morning person. As you say some are not. If this is true then she should attempt to find a job compatible with her body clock like working the grave yard shift.
There is always a chance that there is a medical reason and going to a sleep study center may answer those questions.
Thanks for presenting options to my thoughts.
With respect, Bob.
Aug 15 2013: I've worked first, second, third shift. I've gone without sleep and with too much sleep for a whole host of different reasons. I haven't even watched the talk yet, but beyond whatever percentage of 'need for sleep' is in our genetic make-up, I think it only a small fraction is our life circumstance (when we sleep) and most of it is our intentional activity (meaning what kind of respect for and importance of sleep do we assign it?)
By the way..."Thanks for presenting options to my thoughts" has already been trademarked as my company's default automatic response to troublemakers. JK.Aug 15 2013: And then there are those of us who were quite happy getting OFF OF work at 6:15!
Aug 15 2013: I am sure it is true, but I believe people working swing shifts have more health challenges than those working more common shifts precisely because of sleep issues.
By the way, when Robert says "thanks for presenting options to my thoughts," he means it.Aug 15 2013: You're preaching to the choir, sister. I know from experience that people working swing shifts have more health challenges, physically and mentally.
And I was definitely just kidding with Bob. I like him and his comments and I felt comfortable enough to make a J-O-C-i mean, K!-E with him...


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Wine Cellar Sorbet
Wine-Based Sorbets Are "Vintage Desserts"
CAPSULE REPORT: And now for something completely different—serious sorbets made of vintage wines. Sweetened but barely sweet, these are not sugary frozen desserts but sophisticated refreshments and palate cleansers. The most special of specialty foods, they're just what the gourmet doctor ordered! The products currently are in limited distribution. We urge you to have your local stores call up the manufacturer and have it shipped in to your area posthaste!
Occasionally when we have elaborate dinners, we will make a sorbet or granita as a palate cleanser between fish and meat courses, using marc, grappa* or an eau de vie. As much as it's a hit with guests, we say occasionally because this extra course takes time and focus from preparing the main meal.
*French marc (pronounced mar) and Italian grappa are essentially the same product; potent and a somewhat harsh variety of eau de vie distilled from the pomace (grape residue) left over from making brandy.
Thankfully, Wine Cellar Sorbets has come to our aid, launching the first-ever line of wine sorbets that will do perfectly as palate-cleansers. The sorbets are not simply wine-flavored, but are wines frozen into sorbets, with just the tiniest amount of sugar plus a stabilizer and pectin for consistency.
Carded For Sorbet
The container—lid and base—advise that one must be twenty-one years age to buy the sorbet, and the register scan advises the cashier to verify our age. We roll our eyes. How inebriated can any minor get eating sorbet, even though the pint is up to 5% alcohol by volume, as much as beer (wine is typically 10% to 14% alcohol, with fortified wines like Port higher)?
When we get home and taste the sorbets—woo hoo! It is like drinking frozen wine. Who knows what might happen to kids foolish enough to freeze their mouths numb by eating an entire pint to see if they get a buzz. We did eat the equivalent of a pint at each sitting. While we may have gotten a tad tired, it could have been from lack of sleep, or from an overload of eating all those carbs in the space of half an hour.
Wine Sorbet Flavors
Like most sorbets, these are low in sugar and have no fat. Unlike most sorbets, they are not particularly sweet (see the note about the red wine sorbets below), but are serious gourmet products that make excellent palate cleansers between courses, as well as sophisticated desserts. We would serve them with cheese. They also can be used as frozen cocktails.
We found most of the flavors over a two-week period at our local Whole Foods Market. Since the store only gives shelf space to four flavors at a time, we'll have to keep checking back to update this review. Plus, since we first reviewed this line, the company has revised its offering, discontinuing some of the original flavors and adding new ones. We haven't tasted the new flavors yet, but here's the current lineup along with our original tasting notes, and pointers to recipes on the company's website:
The Reds
The Whites
The Blush
Some caveats: These sorbets are fragile. If not well-handled by the retailer or in your own home, flavor components can migrate—e.g., sugary components can sink to the bottom of the pint, leaving the top less sweet. It doesn't mean that the sorbet isn't delicious—just that each bite might not be consistent. Still, we think the product line is spectacular: If it had national distribution, we would have named it a Top Pick Of The Week. (Hopefully, the online ordering mechanism will go live one of these days.)
Another thing to watch out for is that the first spoonful, especially of the reds, may taste exotic or unusual to many people, because one anticipates a sweet frozen dessert. The reds have sweetness, but are not "sweet." After consuming the entire dish, however, everyone will be hooked. The whites are more of an easy transition.
Serving Suggestions
The wine sorbets are versatile products that clamor to be served in a variety of ways. We wouldn't even tamper with them, although one might be tempted to make concoctions with vodka, cognac, framboise, et al. The beauty of this product is that the manufacturer has done all the work, and all you need do is dish it out and take the compliments.
For starters, think of it as:
Do check out the recipes on the website.
We, who enjoy a bit of something cold and sweet after dinner every night, will not be purchasing "regular" sorbet for our personal consumption anytime soon. In vino veritas.
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