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Dear IMRC, Affiliates, Associates, and Friends,
On March 8th, the global community celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and reflects on the progress yet to be made in moving towards gender equality. We would like to honour this occasion by highlighting the significance of migrant women and their development potential, and by sharing some of the gender-focused work of the IMRC.
Women constitute almost half of the 247 million people who live and work outside their countries of birth, ranging from 52% in the global North to 43% in the global South. Contrary to popular discourse, which has painted women as passive actors who either migrate alongside their families or stay behind in the country of origin, there has been an increasing feminization of migration, driven in part by the lack of decent work for women in countries of origin, and the increase in the demand for labour, particularly that which subsidizes care deficits in destination countries.
While women migrants face gender-specific vulnerabilities, like discrimination, violence, health risks and exploitation at various stages of migration, they are increasingly being recognized for their potential to contribute to development. For instance, it is reported that by sending a higher proportion of their often lower wages, migrant women are responsible for half of the World Bank's estimated $582 Billion in global remittances.
Through ongoing research and collaboration with international organizations and partners, IMRC affiliates and associates are working on a number of projects and initiatives focused on gender and migration.
Within the last year, the IMRC participated at the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in the Third Thematic meeting— "Recognizing the contributions of women migrants to economic and social development in countries of origin and destination and addressing their specific needs", particularly concerning respect for their human rights. (Read the Director's Closing Remarks here).
The IMRC collaborates with UN women on the "Promoting and Protecting Women Migrant Workers' Rights and Human Rights" project which aims to strengthen international human rights mechanisms by including a gender focus.
Stay tuned for more forthcoming material on our work with UN Women at imrc.ca/un-women also to be made available on empowerwomen.org.
Many of our Associates and Affiliates currently are conducting research which examine gendered dimensions of migration including one of the emerging researchers at the IMRC, Dr. Bree Akesson, who focuses on the experiences of pregnant refugee women from Syria.
IMRC Student Affiliate and Vanier Graduate Scholarship recipient, Bharati Sethi, draws on her personal experiences to study the linkages between employment and mental health in terms of immigrant women.
The topics of other ongoing projects led by IMRC associates and students include highly skilled migration (led by Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts), internationally educated nurses, care work, migrant worker health and immigrant women and mental health.
Best wishes,
The first annual Dr. Kerry Preibisch Global Social Justice and Migration Lecture
Dear Affiliates, Associates, and Friends,
We are pleased to announce the first lecture of the annual Dr. Kerry Preibisch Global Social Justice and Migration Lecture Series organized by the International Migration Research Centre.
Dr. Kerry Preibisch was a prolific scholar in the area of social justice and migration, who died of cancer in January, 2016, at the height of her career. The intention of this annual memorial lecture will be to add to the myriad ways that scholars and students can keep her research and vision of promoting migrants' human rights alive into the future. Invited speakers must bring a global social justice perspective to their lecture pertaining to migration, and are encouraged to engage directly with Kerry's work.
Our first lecturer will be Dr. Janet McLaughlin, an Assistant Professor of Health Studies and a Research Associate with the International Migration Research Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University. For over a decade her research, community work and scholarship have focused on health and human rights issues facing migrant workers, primarily from Jamaica and Mexico, who labour in Canadian agriculture. Dr. McLaughlin is also co-founder of the Migrant Workers Health Project, which aims to raise awareness and improve health care access for migrant workers across the country.
This year's lecture will be taking place on March 31st; further details on time, location, and registration for this event will be made available on social media and email in the coming week. We encourage all to attend.
Update: Dr. Kerry Preibisch
A short piece about Dr. Kerry Preibisch was recently published in the Guelph Mercury. It is written by colleague, and IMRC Associate, Dr. Janet McLaughlin. Please follow the link to read the article: http://www.guelphmercury.com/opinion-story/6253101-honouring-dr-kerry-preibisch/#
In addition, there has been a graduate scholarship created in Kerry's honour at the University of Guelph with her friends and family. This scholarship will be awarded to a graduate student in any department at the University whose research involves fieldwork and will have a demonstrated benefit to the migrant worker community in Canada, and especially women. Read here for more details: http://uofg.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1994&pg=entry
Honouring Dr. Kerry Preibisch
Dear IMRC Affiliates, colleagues and friends,
It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to a dear friend and esteemed Guelph professor, Dr. Kerry Preibisch. After a brave battle with cancer, Kerry passed away the morning of January 28.
We want to honour the memory and legacy of Kerry Preibisch, a feminist sociologist and an internationally recognized scholar. Throughout her successful career, Kerry contributed actively to vast areas of research, such as: gender, migration, and rural livelihoods; temporary migration programs, migrant rights, and development; migration and social change, as well as ethical food production. This work was published in countless distinguished scholarly journals, and shared with colleagues and students. During her life, Kerry tried to transform the world through her research and outreach by engaging with migrant communities and working diligently to shape migration policies through engagement with national and international actors. Her work in these areas awarded her the César E. Chávez Black Eagle Award in migrant rights. She has shaped knowledge, influenced policy and directly contributed to the social movement in Canada aimed at improving the rights of migrant workers. She was an exceptional mentor, engaging collaborative scholar, and a wonderful friend.
We are all lucky to have known her – her heart, her ideas and her strength.
We will notify our network of any upcoming initiatives aimed at continuing Kerry's legacy.
Jenna Hennebry
Director, IMRC


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Composition of Expansions
Bf[f_] := Sum[f[i/100]B[i,100,x],{i,0,100}]
gives the Bernstein expansion of f.
Df[f_] := 1-Bf[f]
is a function of interest. I want to work with
Df[Df[Df[...[Df[g]]...]]] for some g[x_] := ...
i.e Bernstein expansions of Bernstein expansions.
As a simple example, suppose g[x_] := x^2 and try
Plot[Composition[Df, Df[g]], {x, 0, 1}]
Composition[Df, Df[g]] does not compute.
Thanks for any insight.
Cheers, Scott


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Groups and projects
Our community includes many self-organizing groups and projects. If your group or project isn't listed and you think people would be interested to know more about it, please add it to the list!
- Aging group – thinking about getting older
- Arts Council – Contemplative Arts and Practices
- Bodhisattva Path Study Group – A twice-a-month gathering to read and discuss Shantideva's "The Way of the Bodhisattva."
- Drala Hikes – Contemplative community hikes
- Heart of Recovery – A social support group for anyone in Recovery
- Ikebana Practice – Weekly 2-3 hour practice to clean up and prepare new materials
- Mindful Families Program – Activities for families and children
- Queer Dharma – LGBTQI monthly gatherings
- Shambhala Prison Program – Supporting prisoners at Oregon State Penitentiary
- Young Meditators – Weekly gathering for practice and discussion for 20- and 30-somethings
- The Shambhala Climate Practice/Action Group
- Portland Diversity Working Group
Heart of Recovery, Deleks, Kids Club, and No Longer Alone are currently dormant. Would you be interested in helping revive them? This "currently dormant" page has details on these groups, including who to contact to help with their revival.
Community members often organize informal study groups and community gatherings as well as these scheduled ones.


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Monoclonal Antibody Therapy and Colony- Stimulating Factor in Treating Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
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RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies can locate tumor cells and either kill them or deliver tumor-killing substances to them without harming normal cells. Colony-stimulating factors such as G-CSF may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood, and may help a person's immune system kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of monoclonal antibody therapy plus G-CSF in treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer that has not responded to treatment with fluorouracil.
|Colorectal Cancer
|Biological: edrecolomab Biological: sargramostim
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Study Start Date:
|July 1995
OBJECTIVES: I. Assess the response rate, duration of response, and survival after treatment with monoclonal antibody 17-1A and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor in patients with colorectal cancer metastatic to nonhepatic sites and refractory to fluorouracil. II. Describe the toxicities associated with this regimen. III. Assess the quality of life in these patients.
OUTLINE: Biological Response Modifier Therapy. Colorectal antigen 17-1A murine monoclonal antibody, MOAB 17-1A, NSC-377963; Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (Immunex), GM-CSF, NSC-613795.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: There will be 30 evaluable patients accrued into this study over approximately 1 year.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed carcinoma of the colon or rectum with radiologically confirmed metastases or clinically confirmed incurability No hepatic or CNS metastases Progression following fluorouracil (5-FU) alone or with a modulator (e.g., leucovorin, PALA, levamisole, interferon) Measurable disease outside prior radiotherapy fields The following are not considered measurable: Pleural effusion or ascites Osteoblastic lesions or evidence of disease on bone scan alone Progressive irradiated lesions alone Bone marrow involvement Brain metastases Malignant hepatomegaly by physical exam alone Chemical markers (e.g., CEA)
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 and over Performance status: Zubrod 0-2 Life expectancy: At least 16 weeks Hematopoietic: Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,800/mm3 Platelet count at least 125,000/mm3 Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL Renal: Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL Other: No concurrent infection Afebrile for at least 3 days prior to treatment unless fever due to tumor No known HIV infection No other medical condition that precludes protocol participation No second malignancy within 5 years except: Nonmelanomatous skin cancer Curatively treated in situ cervical carcinoma No pregnant or nursing women Negative pregnancy test required of fertile women Effective contraception required of fertile women Blood/body fluid analyses within 7 days prior to registration Imaging/exams for tumor measurement within 21 days prior to registration
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior mouse-based vaccines or monoclonal antibodies Chemotherapy: At least 2 weeks since prior 5-FU or at least 1 week past the AGC nadir, whichever is later No other prior chemotherapy except irinotecan Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: At least 6 months since radiotherapy Surgery: Not specified
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00002664
|United States, District of Columbia
|George Washington University Hospital
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20037
|Study Chair:
|James D. Ahlgren, MD
|George Washington University
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|NCT00002664 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 1, 1999
|Last Updated:
|February 6, 2009
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
recurrent colon cancer
recurrent rectal cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colorectal Neoplasms
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Rectal Diseases
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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This correction appears on today's Times op-ed page:
In some editions of his column on Monday about the presidential forum at Saddleback Church in California, William Kristol said that there seemed to be no basis for charges that John McCain was not in a "cone of silence" during Barack Obama's interview with the Rev. Rick Warren, and could therefore have heard questions posed first to Senator Obama. Senator McCain was in a motorcade for part of Senator Obama's interview. A statement from his campaign said that he "never heard or saw any of Senator Obama's appearance."
Have Arthur Sulzberger and Andy Rosenthal noticed yet that their genius hire always makes his myriad mistakes in the same direction -- the way, say, an informal McCain adviser who had no allegiance to journalistic mores and practices might. I explained all this here, but do they listen? Sad, sad, sad ...
Have you heard that Obama's running mate will be announced soon? You must have, if you've been watching television news, which is going all-out with feverish speculation. Campbell Brown told CNN viewers last night that, for Obama, "the front-runners are Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware." Of course, The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza told viewers of MSNBC's Countdown that "I have been told... from pretty reliable sources that have been pretty good in the past that it's down to three names -- Governor Kaine of Virginia, Senator Biden of Delaware, Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas." Candy Crowley speculated on CNN that "Obama would love to put New Mexico in the Democratic column this fall. And Bill Richardson, the governor, standing there with Obama, might be able to deliver it." Molly Henneberg noted on Fox News that Obama mentioned the name of Sen. Sam Nunn over the weekend, so "throw his name into the mix as well." David Shuster told Hardball viewers that "we hear in Washington some very high-profile supporters of Hillary Clinton saying, you know what, if Barack Obama wants to put this thing away, and guarantee his election, he's got to choose Hillary Clinton." But Bill Kristol, on Fox News, says that a Democratic source told him "You can't pick a woman whose first name isn't 'Hillary.' " Oh, and Harry Smith, on CBS' Early Show, said that "Walking the dog last night, friend of mine says, 'Chuck Hagel, Chuck Hagel, Chuck Hagel, Chuck Hagel.' "
There were a few caveats thrown in, by the way -- Cillizza noted vaguely that "there's very few people who know exactly how these things are going to roll out." And Crowley, at the end of her lengthy report, said that "despite all those names out there -- and, repeatedly, we have heard the same names, Campbell -- I am told not to be surprised if we are surprised. So, that's what we know." So, it could be any of the names they discussed. Or none of them. Got it?
The truth is that Harry Smith's fellow dog-walker probably does know about as much as the vaunted "sources" that are being cited everywhere. Nobody but Obama and a few staffers know who it's going to be -- The New York Times reports the prospective vice-president him/herself doesn't even know yet. All this television noise is just that -- noise. By the way, according to Lexis, nowhere on cable or network news last night were the words, for example, "al-Maliki" or "global warming" mentioned.
Editor & Publisher catches The Washington Post's Tom Shales criticizing an HBO documentary about veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas, which he said unfairly ignored Thomas' "stridency in criticizing Israel and defending its enemies." Shales offered no evidence on that point, but went on to say that "other than a passing reference to Thomas's parents as having been Syrian immigrants, the film never hints at Thomas's anti-Israeli rhetoric." So, Syrian heritage equals anti-Israel? If it weren't Arabs we were discussing, that'd be called racism ...
The extent of Shales' "evidence" is this: noting that Thomas asserted that, because of the strong stands taken by Obama and McCain, "the Israelis have no worries about the November election." (As E&P asks, "Is there anyone in the mainstream media or politics who would argue with Thomas on this?") Next: "Especially during the current administration, her 'questions' at press briefings have been more like tirades, on one occasion prompting Tony Snow, the late journalist who was then press secretary, to respond, 'Well, thank you for the Hezbollah view.' " Ah, well, q.e.d. Finally, Shales writes, "Not for nothing was Thomas recently hailed as 'the epitome of journalistic integrity for over 57 years' -- by the Arab- American News." (Again, E&P: "Imagine an Arab American group hailing one of the most prominent Lebanese-Americans.")
The only evidence I could find of even alleged anti-Semitic comments by Thomas, albeit conducted briefly over Google, was a year-old NewsBusters link slamming Thomas for saying of Jimmy Carter's book Peace Not Apartheid, and Carter's criticism of AIPAC, that "I think that the fact that it's starting up is good. Good. People should hear both sides of the story," and that "I don't think the Palestinian side has ever been told in a way that people might accept it. So I think he's done a good thing.... It's open for debate, and I think he started a good trend." The only other even remotely relevant item I found was a quote from none other than Ann Coulter, referring to Thomas as an "old Arab." If Shales doesn't want to be too closely associated with that kind of rabid, baseless smear, he might want to either strengthen his evidence or retract his charges.
Rosanne is sick of people using her dad to support their political positions and asks that they stop. (He did oppose the invasion of Iraq, though.)
Tim Bella at ProPublica has taken up the story of Aafia Siddiqui, the woman who we noted last week is kinda-in-the-news for either being an imminent New York City suicide bomber, "the most significant capture in the past five years," with connections to the 9-11 architects -- or, rather, an MIT grad who spent years in secret captivity at Bagram and Guantanamo after being "disappeared" by the Pakistani government at the behest of the United States.
The story concerns itself with a key question: "Where has Siddiqui been for the past five years?" The story reveals that Siddiqui has told her lawyers she was at Bagram for this time, "and she was held in American custody; her treatment was horrendous." Also:
Joanne Mariner, director of terrorism and counterterrorism at Human Rights Watch, speculated that Siddiqui may be a detainee known as "Prisoner 650" or the "Gray Lady of Bagram" -- allegedly the only female prisoner at Bagram.
"Obviously, this is a rare occurrence," Mariner said. Siddiqui "was the only woman on our list of disappeared people. Just the fact that this was a Pakistani woman suggests that this is Siddiqui. It's not proof, but it raises the possibility."
Notably, the government hasn't actually even filed charges against Siddiqui for any of the terrorism-related things that it publicly alleges; and it claims she only came into U.S. custody last month. ProPublica is saying they've placed calls to Bagram and Pakistan's Interior Secretary, and will stay on the story, so I'd stay tuned to that site. Whatever Siddiqui is - dangerous threat or victim of a horrid abuse of justice - the U.S. media still isn't paying much attention.
George Zornick writes: Michael Tomasky has started up a blog at the Guardian, here, and it's worth regular checking. On the matter of Swift-Boater Jerome Corsi, now out with The Obama Nation book, he writes:
I've done a few posts now about scumbag author Jerome Corsi, so it occurs to me that I should devote some attention to his respectable counterparts who've written books on McCain.
There are three: The Real McCain, by Cliff Schecter; Free Ride: John McCain and the Media, by David Brock and Paul Waldman; and McCain: The Myth of a Maverick, by Matt Welch. All three were reviewed positively by this particularly sagacious critic in The New York Review of Books not long ago (all right, it was me).
I would recommend all three books and Tomasky's article. Last week, I wrote that Obama (and public discourse) still kind of lose in this situation, even if Corsi is successfully rebutted. His goal isn't really to convince people that Obama did cocaine in the Senate, but just to have that be a topic of discussion in the first place.
So what's the solution then? Well, as I said, battling Corsi's obvious falsehoods is still the best of available options. Besides that, though... I'm not sure what one would do to stop it, other than hope for a rapid evolution of America's (and the media's) sensibilities. There are these anti-McCain books, but they don't get as much play -- as Tomasky writes, that's "because of the very fact that they're more serious. If they accused McCain of beating his first wife or something salacious and unprovable (and un-unprovable by McCain himself, which is the stock-in-trade of right-wing 'books'), they'd have been all over cable tv." But that's ultimately, of course, a worse option, not a better one. So, sit back and take it, I suppose ...
(Tomasky also notes one can get these three books on McCain through the Progressive Book Club, where, I must add, Why We're Liberals is also available...)
I saw this silly post appeared under Tomasky's name on the blog, and thought we might have a mini-Altercation symposium. Nobody took my position, however. In fact, Siva begins by mocking it. Ahh well, at these prices ...
Tomasky writes:
The egghead-baseball connection, a long established fact of life in America, is renewed and deepened with the publication in The Boston Review of a letter John Rawls wrote to a friend in 1981 offering a six-point exegesis (the points were actually another's friends, and he was passing them along in obvious assent) on the superiority of baseball to all other sports.
It's been a long time since I've read Rawls. He's usually called America's greatest philosopher, and I have no quibble with that, although I do remember thinking back when I used to give these questions more thought than I do now that some of his theoretical notions had proven problematic in political practice (surely through no fault of his, I should note).
But he's wrong wrong wrong here. Football is superior. By which I mean American football, about which you'll be hearing a fair amount from me come the fall. For example, Rawls's first rule claims some special equilibrium for the baseball field (pitch, you would say). One hears this from intellectual defenders of baseball all the time; the "beautiful symmetry" of the diamond and so on. But a football field, and the arrangement of the players on it, is no less in equilibrium to my eye. Nor basketball players on a court. Nor soccer players on a pitch, I suppose, although that's a sport I don't really follow except to support my good friend in London who loves the struggling (last I checked) Spurs.
At any rate, the first Saturday of the college football season is a mere 16 days away. Stay tuned -- like it or not!
Siva Vaidhyanathan writes:
In reviewing John Rawls' letter about baseball and Michael Tomasky's response anointing football to be superior I would only add that this is a dumb argument. It's like arguing that broccoli is superior to asparagus ... or something else just as silly.
Like most Americans, I love both these sports. I also love basketball, hockey, soccer, and tennis. And my life is richer for all of it. Baseball and football barely compete for our attention -- at most eight weeks, yet only on weekends. The essence of America can be defined and described by its invention and embrace of its native games: football, baseball, and basketball. Well, I should probably add lacrosse only because it predates the European invasion and subsequent genocide of the original Americans. But now lacrosse is almost exclusively played by rich white kids at elite high schools and colleges. So it can't capture the spirit or interest of the greater nation (them's fightin' words here in the ACC, BTW).
Among the few things I dislike about baseball is the Ken Burns/George Will/Stephen J. Gould position that baseball is somehow the "thinking person's sport." Please. That whole intellectual/baseball connection is silly and wrong. Only people who have never tried to figure out the triangle offense or somehow think that the double switch requires complex math believe that.
When highbrows talk baseball as if it's their domain, I just gag. Look, this is a game in which doofuses like Ty Cobb excelled beyond belief and goons like John Rocker earned a decent living. I mean really. Baseball is the domain of savants like Ted Williams and polymaths like Alex Rodriguez. But it ain't poetic. It ain't complicated. It ain't elite. It ain't rocket science, even to the Rocket.
All kinds of folks can talk together for hours about baseball and football. I remember back in the early 1990s I went to a lunch event at the University of Buffalo. I sat next to one of the vice presidents of the university and discussed the injury situation afflicting the Bills' secondary. The next day I was riding a subway to downtown Buffalo and had the same conversation with a mentally retarded man on the train. That's what's so cool about sports. American sports tend to be democratic in the Whitmanesque sense. And that's why Rawls is so wrong.
This is a big, noisy world. And it's a big, noisy country. And that's OK. William James (who was actually America's greatest philosopher, in the sense that he defined the philosophical position -- pragmatism -- that would actually infuse American culture with a vocabulary and a method) would take strong issue with Rawls' abandonment of his professed respect for pluralism.
Rawls wrote in A Theory of Justice (1971): "... no particular interpretation of religious truth can be acknowledged as binding upon citizens generally; nor can it be agreed that there should be one authority with the right to settle questions of theological doctrine."
That includes, I would add, the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. A Theory of Justice is Rawls' gift to us. And reading it sincerely would dissuade anyone of such claims as to the superiority of baseball over any other theology.
Rawls wrote his tome as the first serious, sustained correction to the dominant Anglo-American political-philosophical position of utilitarianism. We should be grateful to Rawls for his attempt to undermine utilitarianism and replace it with a rigorous yet non-theistic theory of rights-based justice. Alas, Rawls failed all the way around. Utlitarianism rules. Still, Rawls is a great argument starter, in life as he is in death.
In the aforementioned letter about baseball, Rawls' points about the exclusive virtues of baseball are in serious error.
- Baseball fields are not expressions of geographic equilibrium as a rule, especially in Rawls' home town of Boston, for heaven's sake! Maybe in Oakland, but not in a real baseball park!
- Baseball does not afford a role for a broader array of physical "types" than football does, as an examination of the long and successful careers of kicker Tom Dempsey or Rawls' homeboy Doug Flutie would attest.
- Baseball does not have a monopoly on "all parts of the body" or "all kinds of strategies." One never intentionally applies foot to ball in baseball as one does in hockey, soccer, or football. And soccer players use their hands all the time. They use their whole bodies when they flop to draw a yellow card on an opponent. How about that?
- In Boston, "all parts of the game" are not open to view, as Rawls attests. Every third seat at Fenway has an obstructed view. Where was this Harvard guy watching baseball? Oakland?
- Baseball is not the "only game in which the scoring is not done with the ball." Cricket, my dear dead philosopher, has the same feature -- yet no one would argue that this is a virtue that raises cricket to the top of any list of distractions. Rawls anticipated my invocation of cricket in the next stanza of the letter, so I am not sure why he retains this on the list.
- The time thing is great. Baseball has no clock (neither does cricket, although it needs one desperately). But this does not make baseball better than a timed sport. It just makes baseball baseball. It's great on its own, sans comparison.
George Carlin, surely America's third or fourth greatest philosopher, has much more intelligent things to say about both sports. America is the land of diamonds and gridirons. And it's better for it.
The great Charles Pierce writes:
Doc --
I tend to side with Siv, although I suspect that his opinion might be different if Joba's arm hadn't turned to spaghetti a couple of weeks ago. (And, anyway, I'm fencing-giddy right now after the tremendous performance by our lads 'n lassies in Beijing. USA! USA!) I'm loath to compare sports and why I watch them, but it should be noted that, by any reasonable measure, American football is the national pastime. It engages passionate interest at all levels of the game. There are high-school games that draw 40,000 people. When was the last time you saw a high-school baseball game? It rises spontaneously from the communities in which it is played - be that high school (Midland, Texas) , college (LSU) , or pro (Green Bay) -- whereas baseball has been generally imposed upon communities since the demise of the town teams and the industrial leagues 50 years ago. Baseball is an entertainment. In most places, football is something more.
It was a dream of a media story. Bruce Ivins, an anthrax specialist working in a U.S. military bio-war lab, commits suicide by Tylenol and the FBI promptly accuses him of being the anthrax killer of 2001. What a field day the media had -- the questions, the doubts, the disputed scientific evidence, the lurid quotes, the "rat's nest" of an anthrax-contaminated military lab he worked in, the strange emails he sent!
You would never have known that these attacks -- the only actual WMD attacks on American soil in 2001 (or any other time) -- had long fallen off the American radar screen. Once it became clear in late 2001 that the anthrax in the attacks had come not out of Baghdad or the backlands of Afghanistan, but from the U.S. Army weapons labs, there would -- unlike 9/11 -- be no ritualistic reminders of the anniversaries of those attacks. No victims, or survivors would step to podiums and ring bells, or read names, or offer encomiums. There would be no billion-dollar (or even million-dollar) memorial to the anthrax dead for the survivors to argue over. There would be little but silence, while the FBI fumbled its misbegotten way through an endless investigative process.
As Tom Engelhardt read through reams of recent coverage, however, a few questions came to his mind on matters that are so much a part of our American landscape that normally no one even thinks to ask about them -- and in his latest post at TomDispatch.com, he considers six of them, including why the Bush administration didn't apply it's own modus operandi in the President's Global War on Terror to the case.
He writes, in part, for instance: "Whatever the pressure on Ivins or [Steven] Hatfill [another suspect], neither was kidnapped off a street near his house, stripped of his clothes, diapered, blindfolded, shackled, drugged, and 'rendered' to the prisons of another country, possibly to be subjected to electric shocks or cut by scalpel by the torturers of a foreign regime. Even though each of the suspects in the anthrax murders was, at some point, believed to have been a terrorist who had committed a heinous crime with a weapon of mass destruction, none were ever declared 'enemy combatants.' None were ever imprisoned without charges, or much hope of trial or release, in off-shore, secret, CIA-run 'black sites.' "
He also considers why Army special ops teams and CIA "death squads" were not called in, given the reigning paradigm of the Bush years: Police work was not enough when the homeland was threatened. He explores why the FBI and the media both took as blanket fact that, in the Anthrax case, there could only be a lone killer, no accomplices, no "sleeper cells" in sight; why the military labs, and the history of their essential Cold War work producing bio-weapons, has played such a non-role in this story; whether the anthrax attacks were really less important than the attacks of 9/11; and finally whether "the terrorists" -- especially the anthrax killer or killers -- have so far triumphed in the Global War on Terror.
Last Wednesday, I made the traffic-filled trek from the deepest reaches of the East End to Jones Beach to partake in one of humankind's greatest rituals: a joint Ratdog/Allman Brothers Band Concert in the open air. It had all of the trappings of a Dead show, which, if you don't put yourself in the place of the parents of one of these largely unbathed kids hanging around in the parking lot, is tons of fun. People give each other "miracle" tickets without even asking for a nickel. They get hugs and kisses and sometimes a veggie burrito -- and who knows what else -- instead. Everybody is as nice to everybody else as any place I've ever been.
The Ratdog part of the show was more subdued than usual. Though the Dead did any number of odd shows at odd times in odd places, one gets the distinct feeling that starting strictly at 7:00 was not the usual thing for Bobby and the boys and it took them a while to get warmed up. The set list was eclectic and the jams lengthy, which meant that even with a nearly two hour show, you didn't hear that many songs. Some took off. Some stood still. I still enjoy hearing Bob sing "Jerry" songs but there were fewer of these than usual. For me the highlight was a slow, sultry "Knocking on Heaven's Door," and a rocking "Slip/Frank" to close, which felt like they were just getting started, alas. Had it been anyone else but the Allmans in the on-deck circle, this would have felt like a tragedy, but you know, I'll be dead and in my grave before you hear me complain about these guys onstage. I was concerned beforehand, regarding Greg's illness that forced the cancellation of this year's Beacon run, but they were in fine form, as great as they have ever been in any ABB lineup, as great as Duane may have been and as much as I miss Dickey's mellifluous playing and soothing voice. The closer was a wonderful "One Way Out," which smoked sufficiently to confirm its place as the song to follow "Jungleland" when they lay yours truly to rest.
Ratdog came on at 7:00 and the Allmans ended just before midnight. There's only one value in music that can compete with this, and well, he played just across the river a couple of weeks ago and so it's been a helluva summer. (I see that if we all stayed over for the weekend in Denver, we could see this show at Red Rocks. How great would that be?)
Back in the city for a night after the Ratdog/Allmans show, the kid and I took a "blues cruise" on the Hudson with Raul Malo. Raul is operating right now at close to the highest level of talent/lowest level of fame vector I can think of. He's got a magnificent voice, and unique sense of rhythm, and a real ability to rock a room -- or a boat, even one that's floating around in storm where (virtually) nobody can see him and the sound system is still not so hot -- and he can still rock the house with a "Gunatanamera/Twist and Shout " and get this -- we were getting rained on. Dancing in the rain on the Hudson to Raul Malo (with the kid, I might add). How are things in your city? Seriously, it's probably a better show on dry land, but you can't have a bad time with this (genuine) maverick. Go see him if you get the chance.
Name: Steve Thorne
Hometown: Somewhere in California
As the presumptive DCI appointee in the Bateman/Pierce administration, let me disclose my opinion on the "surge" with respect to al-Sadr's militia:
Our troops were clobbering his militia in the field and killing them by the score. He declared a cease fire in order for his militia to reorganize, retrain and recover. Instead of continuing to clobber his militia until it was destroyed as a military force, as we should have done, we instead declared the surge a success.
There were probably secret pay-offs or power deals made as well, but the presence of al-Sadr and his merry men on the Iraqi political scene continues to be worrisome. When it benefits al-Sadr, he will unleash his militia again. They will much harder to deal with the next time around, especially if rumors about their being trained by Iranian Revolutionary Guards are true. I hope our company and battalion level commanders near al-Sadr controlled areas have contingency plans for that day. I would like those plans to be packed up with the rest of the gear and brought home as soon as we can safely do so.
Name: USinLondon
Hometown: London
An additional response to your query, "What reporters, and what phone records?"
Not long after the initial stories of domestic spying came to light, there were insinuations (quickly hushed up) that Christiane Amanpour's phone might have been tapped. Of course, the fact that her husband is Jamie Rubin and was an advisor to John Kerry's campaign ... well, I'm sure that was just a coinkidink.
Name: J DAlessandro
Hometown: Crestwood, NY
I take your message on the consummate awfulness of a neocon like Ledeen, but "spaghetti with butter sauce and water"? Sounds like the Evil-doers are the recipients of retribution in this world after all.
Name: Bill Dunlap
Hometown: Lake Oswego, Oregon
Hi, Eric:
Danny Goldberg's piece on Jerry Wexler was great stuff. I had a brief encounter with Wexler that reinforced all the good things Danny had to say.
I did a radio show with Chuck Berry in about 1980 in which Mr. Berry said he'd love to do some big band versions of his greatest hits, because he always liked the role of the guitarist in those bands, "comping chords," as he put it. I tried to pursue it on his behalf, without any resources to make it happen. His attorney, Bill Krasilovsky, put me in touch with John Hammond, who was running a little independent label then, and one of them got Jerry Wexler to meet with me about the project.
Jerry had an apartment on Park Ave. in New York then and he was a gracious host to a guy who, he must have known, was on a fool's mission. He treated me seriously, got me in touch with Pee Wee Ellis (Van Morrison's musical director at the time) to pull the band together, and was totally encouraging. I think I won him over when he asked me what kind of band I envisioned behind Chuck. Without any pandering I told him what I truly believed - something like the old Ray Charles big band, with Fathead Newman and all.
Even though the session never came together, I'll always remember that Jerry dealt with me seriously and only encouraged me to pursue the project.
Name: Ken Castro
Hometown: Los Angeles, Left Coast
RE: Kurt Weldon's posting mentioning Robert Hillburn of the LA Times, wherein he posts "...which is why I stopped reading anything by Robert Hillburn". Yes, Hillburn had/has an obsession about U2 and Springsteen. I'll never forget his other obsession about Duran Duran, comparing them to the Beatles ..... Duran Duran(!), gimme a friggin' break....
No one reads the MSM for cutting insight into the music scene anyway ...
Name: Matt Shirley
Hometown: Ewa Beach, HI
Dr. A,
I understand your point about the MSM deemphasizing Iraq, but c'mon man, give us swimmers a little love. We only get noticed for one week every four years. Prior to Superman, er... Michael Phelps, the only two swimmers to break out of the Olympic sports ghetto in the MSM are Mark Spitz and Amanda Beard (and she's noticed mostly for modeling and taking her clothes off).
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Daily Reading for Monday, June 2nd, 2014
Reading 1, Acts 19:1-8
1 It happened that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul made his way overland as far as Ephesus, where he found a number of disciples.
2 When he asked, 'Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?' they answered, 'No, we were never even told there was such a thing as a Holy Spirit.'
3 He asked, 'Then how were you baptised?' They replied, 'With John's baptism.'
4 Paul said, 'John's baptism was a baptism of repentance; but he insisted that the people should believe in the one who was to come after him -- namely Jesus.'
5 When they heard this, they were baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus,
6 and the moment Paul had laid hands on them the Holy Spirit came down on them, and they began to speak with tongues and to prophesy.
7 There were about twelve of these men in all.
8 He began by going to the synagogue, where he spoke out fearlessly and argued persuasively about the kingdom of God. He did this for three months,
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 68:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
2 You disperse them like smoke; as wax melts in the presence of a fire, so the wicked melt at the presence of God.
3 The upright rejoice in the presence of God, delighted and crying out for joy.
4 Sing to God, play music to his name, build a road for the Rider of the Clouds, rejoice in Yahweh, dance before him.
5 Father of orphans, defender of widows, such is God in his holy dwelling.
6 God gives the lonely a home to live in, leads prisoners out into prosperity, but rebels must live in the bare wastelands.
7 God, when you set out at the head of your people, when you strode over the desert,
Gospel, John 16:29-33
29 His disciples said, 'Now you are speaking plainly and not using veiled language.
30 Now we see that you know everything and need not wait for questions to be put into words; because of this we believe that you came from God.'
31 Jesus answered them: Do you believe at last?
32 Listen; the time will come -- indeed it has come already -- when you are going to be scattered, each going his own way and leaving me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 I have told you all this so that you may find peace in me. In the world you will have hardship, but be courageous: I have conquered the world.
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A Phase III Safety and Efficacy Study of L-Glutamine to Treat Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle βo-thalassemia
This study has been completed.
Emmaus Medical, Inc.
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The number of occurrences of protocol-defined sickle cell crises that occur from Week 0 to Week 48 will be used to evaluate the efficacy of oral L-glutamine as a treatment for sickle cell anemia and beta-0 thalassemia.
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|A PHASE III, PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, PARALLEL-GROUP, MULTICENTER STUDY OF L GLUTAMINE THERAPY FOR SICKLE CELL ANEMIA AND SICKLE ß0-THALASSEMIA
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|The purpose of this research is to test the effects of L-glutamine on red blood cells of patients with Sickle Cell Anemia or Sickle ß0-Thalassemia. Glutamine is a part of protein and is a part of a person's normal diet. It is often used as a nutritional supplement or as medication for various medical problems such as intestinal problems. The benefits of participating in this study may be a decrease in pain and other problems caused by sickle cell disease.
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It was a classy way for the Boston Bruins to move on.
They had just eliminated the Toronto Maple Leafs in an insane Game 7, rallying from down 4-1 with 11 minutes to play to score three late goals and ultimately win in overtime.
With the Leafs players still sitting stunned on the team bus in the bowels of the arena, Bruins coach Claude Julien took the podium down the hall and noted just how impressed he was with the Leafs in this series.
"You can't walk away from here without honestly and sincerely giving the other team credit," Julien said. "They had us on the ropes – we're not going to sit here and lie, they had us on the ropes. They're a team that believes in themselves. I saw a team with a lot of players getting out of their comfort zone and doing what it took. I have no doubt they'll grow from that.
"The run that they gave us was unbelievable. At the same time, we talk about the respect of that team, we finished fourth, they finished fifth – they weren't that far away from us. I think for people who thought it would be lopsided, they were certainly a team that proved that it wasn't going to be a lopsided series."
Julien finished with some praise for the job done by Leafs coach Randy Carlyle, who he had sparred with briefly earlier in the series over complaints about how the officials were treating faceoffs.
"I saw a team grow; I think Randy will tell you the same thing about his team," Julien added. "As an opposing coach, I saw that team get better and better. We're glad that we've gotten rid of them because they kept getting better."
The Bruins players also offered some unprompted kudos to their opponents, with Milan Lucic admitting they had taken the Leafs for granted after going up 3-1 in the series.
"You've got to give Toronto credit for what they did in the series," Lucic said. "I don't think anyone really gave them that big of a chance and the way that they played, especially the last three games, they have a lot to be proud about. They've got to hold their heads up high.
"It kind of reminds me of where we were at [as a young team] in 2008 against Montreal, and we pushed them to Game 7. They're going to have a good team in the future and I think that team and organization and city have a lot to be proud about."
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Are you loving enough? There is some one dear,
Some one you hold as the dearest of all
In the holiest shrine of your heart.
Are you making it known? Is the truth of it clear
To the one you love? If death's quick call
Should suddenly tear you apart,
Leaving no time for a long farewell,
Would you feel you had nothing to tell---
Nothing you wished you had said before
The closing of that dark door?
Are you loving enough? The swift years fly---
Oh, faster and faster they hurry away,
And each one carries its dead.
The good deed left for the by and by,
The word to be uttered another day,
May never be done or said.
Let the love word sound in the listening ear,
Nor wait to speak it above a bier.
Oh the time for telling your love is brief,
But long, long, long is the time for grief.
Are you loving enough?
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When I discuss the Christian life with a sense of challenge to it, there are always those who say such commitment is unrealistic to ask of people. I'm told that people can only do so much, and we can only expect so much ... that you have to take things slow, not push people ... blah, blah blah ... The end result is a lot of nonsensical rationalizing for mediocre "Christianity."
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Do you share the same feelings as Paul writes about above? Do you long to be with the Lord, but if you have to be here on this earth you see your existence here as being all about fruitful labor for Jesus Christ? Do you yearn to serve? Some would think such questions are silly and over the top ... but aren't they actually quite right?
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Pat Laffaye of Westport, Connecticut has beaten the high score for the arcade game Frogger — the real one, and also the fictional one set by George Costanza on a famous episode of Seinfeld, scorekeepers at Twin Galaxies announced on Monday.
The fictional record of 860,630 points was set on April 23, 1998 — that's when the episode of Seinfeld titled "The Frogger" originally aired. Laffaye's score of 896,980 is a new world record, at least until the next fictional character comes along and bests it (we're watching you, Sheldon Cooper).
"Even though it was imagined by television writers, Pat has broken one of the most famous scores in pop culture," said a Twin Galaxies representative in a statement. "Pat's amazing score will now forever be attached to not only Twin Galaxies history, but pop culture trivia as well."
Pat Laffaye also holds a record score for Paperboy. He and rival gamer Donald Hayes have been embroiled in a King of Kong-style duel for the top Frogger ranking for some time.
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Her unit processed six suicides. The suicide notes, she told me in an interview, almost always cited hazing. Marines who were overweight or unable to do the physical training were subjected to withering verbal and physical abuse. They were called "fat nasties" and "shit bags." They were assigned to other Marines as slaves. Many were forced to run until they vomited or to bear-crawl—walk on all fours—the length of a football field and back. This would be followed by sets of monkey fuckers—bending down, grabbing the ankles, crouching like a baseball catcher, and then standing up again—and other exercises that went on until the Marines collapsed.
Goodell's unit was sent to collect the bodies of the Marines who killed themselves. They usually blew their faces off with assault rifles in port-a-johns or in the corners of abandoned bunkers or buildings. She and the other members of the Mortuary Affairs unit would have to scrape the flesh and brain tissue from the walls.
Goodell fell into depression when she returned home. She abused drugs and alcohol. And she watched the slow descent of her comrades as they too tried to blunt the pain with narcotics and self-destructive behavior. She details many of her experiences in Shade It Black, a term that refers to the missing body parts of dead Marines, which she colored black on diagrams of the corpses.
In a poignant passage, she talks about what it was like for her and a fellow Marine named Miguel to come home and see all those yellow ribbons:
Stateside "support" not only reflects the myths of war, but it also forces Goodell and her comrades to suppress their own experiences:
Those who return to speak this truth, like Goodell or Millard, are our contemporary prophets. They struggle, in a culture awash in lies, to tell what few have the fortitude to digest. The words these prophets speak are painful.
As a nation we prefer to listen to those who speak from the patriotic script. We prefer to hear ourselves exalted. If veterans speak of terrible wounds visible and invisible, of lies told to make them kill, of evil committed in our name, we fill our ears with wax. Not our boys and girls, we say, not them, bred in our homes, endowed with goodness and decency. For if it is easy for them to murder, what about us? It is simpler and more comfortable not to hear, to wish only that they would calm down, be reasonable, get some help, and go away. We brand our prophets as madmen. We cast them into the desert. This is why so many veterans are estranged and enraged. This is why so many succumb to suicide or addictions. Not long ago Goodell received a text message from a Marine she had worked with in Mortuary Affairs after he tried to commit suicide. "I've got $2,000 in the bank," the message read: "Let's meet in NYC and go out with a bang."
War comes wrapped in patriotic slogans; calls for sacrifice, honor, and heroism; and promises of glory. It comes wrapped in the claims of divine providence. It is what a grateful nation asks of its children. It is what is right and just. It is waged to make the nation and the world a better place, to cleanse evil. War is touted as the ultimate test of manhood, where the young can find out what they are made of. From a distance it seems noble. It gives us comrades and power and a chance to play a bit part in the great drama of history. It promises to give us identities as warriors, patriots, as long as we go along with the myth, the one the war-makers need to wage wars and the defense contractors need to increase their profits.
But up close war is a soulless void. War is about barbarity, perversion, and pain. Human decency and tenderness are crushed, and people become objects to use or kill. The noise, the stench, the fear, the scenes of eviscerated bodies and bloated corpses, the cries of the wounded all combine to spin those in combat into another universe. In this moral void, naïvely blessed by secular and religious institutions at home, the hypocrisy of our social conventions, our strict adherence to moral precepts, becomes stark. War, for all its horror, has the power to strip away the trivial and the banal, the empty chatter and foolish obsessions that fill our days. It might let us see, although the cost is tremendous.
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Bookkeeping: Short Greenhill & Company (GHL)
At this point it is difficult to short anything, and whatever is to be shorted cannot be on fundamental reasons since some of what I consider the most troubled sectors of the economy are the areas roaring the most. So it is not like 2007 or 2008 where you can say the consumer is shot and go short Harley Davidson or a retailer, or las vegas casino at will. Hence I will just be looking for weaker charts...
We have not done an individual short in an equity in a while, but Greenhill & Co (GHL) has a nice entry level, where if we are wrong we can exit with a smallish loss. I am shorting a 4% allocation in the $76.40 area. With the 200 day moving average just above at $77.30, I will use that as my stop loss and give HAL9000 a little area of buffer so as to not take my order away, and place the stop loss around $78.20. This will limit our loss to 2.4%.
The chart tells the obvious story of why this is being shorted; in fact any stock that has not jumped over at least its 200 (or 50 day) moving averages in the past 2-3 weeks has to be questioned. I actually like this company - we were long last year on this name but it's a technical call; hopefully we can revisit recent lows closer to $70, which would be a decent place to cover.
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Having low carb cocktails in your stable of party tricks is a worthy skill to have. Being able to say yes to the question of a low-calorie dieter being able to drink cocktails and other mixed drinks is invaluable for parties or just gatherings with friends. The unfortunate truth about "regular" cocktails is that these drinks often pack quite a lot of sugar and calories that is a no-go for low carb dieters. Other than the alcohol, almost all of the calories come from sugar in cocktails. But we're here to help you concoct sugar-free versions, and relieve much of the calorie and sugar burden in cocktails. For example, my Low-Carb Cosmo has half the calories and 1/8 of the carbohydrate as a regular cosmopolitan. Here are the most common components of cocktails and how to cut the carbs in each.

Distilled Spirits

Gin, vodka, tequila, whiskey, and rum are distilled spirits that by definition have no carbohydrate. For more information, see Alcoholic Beverages on a Low-Carb Diet.

Carbonated Mixers

Carbonated mixers are either naturally carb-free and calorie-free (club soda, sparkling water, plain water) or come in diet versions (tonic water, ginger ale, cola, lemon-lime soda such as 7-Up or Sprite). Note that tonic water does contain sugar unless it is a diet-type. "Highballs" (mixed drinks which are mostly mixer) made with just these mixers and liquor are easy to make sugar-free. For example:

Gin and tonic (or vodka tonic)

Jack and Coke (made with diet cola)

Scotch and soda

Seven and Seven (Segram's 7 and Diet 7-Up)

Rum and diet cola

Rye and Ginger (rye whiskey and diet ginger ale)

Other Non-Alcoholic Mixers

Fruit juices are common mixers. The most popular are citrus juices. Lemon and lime juices usually don't contribute too much sugar simply because usually there is not too much in any one drink. Interestingly, orange juice doesn't have much more sugar per ounce than lemon or lime juice (3 grams vs 2 grams). However, a Screwdriver (vodka and orange juice) could easily have 24 grams or more, depending upon the size.

Other popular juices for cocktails are pineapple juice (4 grams of carb per ounce), cranberry juice cocktail (4 grams per ounce for regular, 1 gram for light, and .2 grams for diet) and occasionally apple juice (3.5 grams per ounce) and tomato juice (1 gram per ounce).

Simple syrup is often used to sweeten cocktails. Simple syrup is a solution of sugar in water. Although some simple syrup is equal parts sugar and water, the type used in cocktails is often two parts sugar to one part water. This means that an ounce (two tablespoons) of simple syrup has four tablespoons of sugar dissolved in it, which is about 50 grams of carbohydrate and almost 200 calories. Substituting artificial sweetener, particularly in liquid form, is the only good way to get around this.

Simple syrup is often combined with lemon juice and/or lime juice to make sweet and sour mixer. You can make your own sugar-free sweet and sour mixer. Crystal Light lemon flavor can also be used, although it doesn't taste as good.

Cutting Carbs in Liqueurs

Liqueurs are sweet flavored alcoholic beverages which are commonly used in cocktails. Liqueurs come in an array of flavors. Examples are Benedictine, Crème de cacao, Crème de menthe, and Cointreau. They always contain sugar, and often quite a lot of it.

Sometimes the flavors of liqueurs can be mimicked by using other flavorings, although of course it won't taste exactly the same. For example, a drop or two of orange extract can substitute for an orange liqueur such as Grand Marnier or Cointreau. Peppermint extract can take the place of peppermint schnapps, and so forth. A sugar substitute will then be added to replace the sweetness and enough water to make up for the amount of liquid needed.

Another possibility is using sugar-free syrups such as Da Vinci or Torino brand. The amount of sweetness in them is about equal to the volume -- for example, a tablespoon has about the sweetness of a little less than a tablespoon of sugar. These syrups come in an array of flavors, even including some liqueurs -- Amaretto, Kahula, Creme de Menthe, and Irish Cream.

Still a third possibility is adding flavor by using flavored spirits such as citrus-flavored vodka.

Cut Carbs in These Other Ingredients in Cocktails

Bitters are often used in cocktails, but usually in very small amounts of much less than a teaspoon. A tablespoon of bitters usually contains 5 to 7 grams of carb.

Vermouth is a flavored-fortified wine which comes in sweet and dry varieties. It is in the classic martini and other cocktails. Dry vermouth contains about 1 grams of carb per ounce, whereas the sweet type contains about 4 grams per ounce.


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Welcome to the enchanted Land of the Magic Stones where a mischievous dragon has wreaked havoc on nearly everyone in the land! Your job as a magic sorcerer is to visit the different places in the land and restore order. In return for your services, you will earn valuable ingredients you need to create magic stones in your laboratory. These stones will help defeat the dragon and allow you to live in peace once and for all!
When your child opens the app, they are given the opportunity to create their own profile and create the character that will represent them as a Magic Sorcerer in the game. That character must search the land for the ingredients he or she needs to create magic stones. Pictures of the ingredients are shown in the laboratory and corresponding pictures appear in the land where you must go to find them. In order to earn the ingredients, however, your child must complete a series of puzzles, quizzes or games. These activities get increasingly more difficult as your child successfully completes each level. Once you have completed the activities and earned your ingredients, you must return to your laboratory and put the appropriate ingredients into your magic cauldron to create a magic stone. Once you have created all of the stones you can face off against the dragon and restore peace to the land!
This app is packed with fun and engaging puzzles and activities that are sure to keep your children entertained. All of the activities are fully interactive. They get increasingly difficult so as to keep your child challenged but not discouraged. The games utilize skills such as problem solving, logic, and math. The characters you encounter are silly and fun which make them very likable for children. I really appreciated that this app did such a great job of explaining what was expected and giving verbal cues when needed so that my children could navigate through the app on their own. The only gripe I have about this app, is there seemed to be a bit of a delay when moving around the app. It took a few seconds each time I entered a new area for the app to load the new scene. It was a minor inconvenience but it did slow the flow of the games a bit. Land of the Magic Stones is sure to provide hours of entertainment for your children. The characters are funny and cute, the games are fun and innovative, and the skills practiced are educational and valuable.
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X-rated opera garners first night cheers
By Jonathan Lynn
GENEVA (Reuters) - A new production of Alban Berg's opera "Lulu," which Geneva's Grand Theater warned was unsuitable for people younger than 16, delighted a packed first-night audience with not a boo or cat-call to be heard.
The warning referred to a brief sequence of out-of-focus pornographic film in the last scene, when the heroine Lulu is reduced to working as a prostitute in a London slum.
But nudity and sexual mimicry on stage raised few eyebrows Thursday night in an opera depicting a depraved society without values, and were hardly out of place in its relentless story of seduction and death.
The audience were taken with the dazzling performance by French soprano Patricia Petibon in one of opera's most demanding roles and the stunning production by French director Olivier Py placing the opera in a world between cartoon-like circus and 1960s art installation, with neon lights and consumer clutter.
Previous productions in the staid Swiss city by Py, who heads the prestigious Theater de l'Odeon in Paris, have brought out the sex and violence which is not far from the surface in some of the most lyrical operas.
Lulu, based on two dramas by German fin-de-siecle playwright Frank Wedekind, tells the story of a sexually attractive dancer who several men and women become obsessed with, often dying as a result, and who ends up as a prostitute murdered by Jack the Ripper.
Py reflected Berg's modernist 12-tone music in a bright palette of changing colors and lights, while massive sets trundling slowly across the stage suggested the characters caught up in a machine, out of control of their lives.
"In Lulu all you can do is to plunge into the depths of a nightmare of colors," Py told the Tribune de Geneve newspaper. Continued...


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A few months back we reported that God Bless America and World's Greatest Dad director Bobcat Goldthwait was working on a found footage Bigfoot movie called Willow Creek.
Having recently premiered at the Boston Independent Film Festival, the official trailer has just been unveiled giving us our first ever look at the found-footage Bigfoot thriller.
While there's no actual synopsis yet, here's the festival's breakdown…
"Jim and his girlfriend Kelly are in Willow Creek, California, to retrace the steps of Bigfoot researchers Patterson and Gimlin, who, in 1967, recorded the most famous film of the legendary monster. Kelly is a skeptic, along for the ride to spend time with her boyfriend between acting gigs. Jim, a believer, hopes to capture footage of his own, so his camera is constantly rolling.
The small town is a mecca to the Bigfoot community; sasquatch statues guard the local businesses, murals of the missing link line the roads, and Bigfoot burgers are the town delicacy. The couple interview locals who range from skeptic to believer and from manic to completely menacing. Some of the stories they hear are of chance encounters with a gentle creature, while others are tales of mysterious eviscerations.
On the day that Jim and Kelly plan on hiking into the woods to look for proof, they are given a simple warning: "It's not a joke. You shouldn't go there." Despite the ominous message and Kelly's own reservations, they head deep into the forest to set up camp. The events that follow will make them wish they had simply spent the night at the Bigfoot Motel."


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Easter Shopping Stats!
A new survey by Asda reveals that moms will spend 13 hours cleaning, cooking and preparing for Easter. Other findings:
- 21% of people will argue over stolen Easter eggs
- 12% of people will argue about broken Easter Eggs
- 11% of people will complain about not getting enough chocolate for Easter
- 13% of people will complain about cleaning up on Easter
Did you know....
A new survey by the National Retail Federation reveals that the average person will spend $137.46 on Easter this year. That's down from $145.13 last year. Other findings:
- total Easter spending is expected to reach $15.9 billion
- 43% of people will purchase a new outfit for Easter
- 89% of people plan to buy Easter candy
- families will also spend on gifts ($2.4 billion), flowers ($1.1 billion), and decorations ($1.1 billion)
The National Retail Federation says more than 1 billion Easter eggs are hunted in the United States each year. Other Easter stats from the NRF:
Wait! There's more....
An estimated 60 million chocolate bunnies are sold each Easter.
The most popular Easter candy is chocolate eggs.
The most popular Easter candy, after chocolate, is Peeps. An estimated 700 million are sold each year.
Easter is second only to Christmas in candy sales and ranks behind that holiday and Mother's Day in flower sales.
Hershey sells enough Cadbury Creme Eggs to fill over 100 million Easter baskets.
over 16 billion jellybeans will be eaten this Easter.


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Highlighting the plight of four recent Latin American immigrants in the United States, the site tells stories of loss, love, frustration, hope, and the struggle to build their lives, communities, and their dreams.
By investigating the lives and events recorded in newspapers, official documents, and personal correspondence from this collection, students will immerse themselves in the past and discover the fears, friction, and turmoil that shaped these tumultuous times.
Enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search view, clip, and save newspaper pages from 1836 through 1922, as well as find information about American newspapers published between 1690 and the present.
A database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and 1911 CE. CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use in spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps.


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Starring: Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Will Forte, Billy Crudup, Mel Rodriguez, R. Lee Ermey, Erin Moriarty, Doug Jones, Nicholas Braun, Joe Nunez.
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Rating: R (for some strong sexual content including references, pervasive language and violent images.)
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Home Video Release Date: TBD
North American Box Office: $33.5 Million
21 Laps Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Written by: Jared Stern, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg.
★★ 1/2 (out of 5 stars)
A nightwatchman gets skinned alive and obliterated at a Costco in a suburban town and store manager Evan (Ben Stiller) assembles a neighborhood watch group to find his co-worker's killer in The Watch, a science-fiction/comedy which, in fits and starts, is an amusing movie. Proudly crude and vulgar, The Watch tells an aliens-attacking-Earth story with an underlying mix of subplots which take the film down tangential paths that never truly lead anywhere. The film lacks a focal point, unless that focal point is to simply throw a little graphic violence, graphic humor, and star power at the wall and see what sticks. And the problem is, little really does.
Seeing Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade riff with one another has intermittent hilarity, but ultimately The Watch suffers mightily from its poorly constructed story which incorporates way, way too much. As a result, the screenplay by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Jared Stern delivers moments too scattershot to mean anything once the film, or in some instances the scene, comes to an end.
Once Evan's co-worker is decimated, we meet the three individuals who respond to Evan's pleas for assistance when the local police refuse to do much of anything. Bob (Vince Vaughn) is married, the father of a teenage daughter (Erin Moriarty) he feels is entrenched in a culture of drugs, partying, and rebellion. Franklin (Jonah Hill) is a young vagabond who has still not recovered psychologically from being rejected by the police academy, and Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade) is a recently divorced guy who seemingly stumbles into the group looking for something to do. While Evan was hoping for lots more, he becomes the leader of this motley crew, determined to root out crime in their neighborhood, but also find who, or what, is terrorizing their little town of Glenview, U.S.A.
While it is readily apparent that improvisation was the expectation from director Akiva Schaffer (Hot Rod), the mandate from Schaffer was apparently to have these actors also just do what they normally do. As a result, Ben Stiller plays the serious-tinged straight man, Vince Vaughn instantly becomes the brash, fast-talking, sarcastic soul we see in every time he is in a comedy, Jonah Hill is yet again slightly off-center, mumbling pithy and well-timed one-liners under his breath, and Richard Ayoade just delivers goofy, off-the-wall line readings, appearing effortlessly funny. Acknowledging Ayoade is a new face and exempt from the same criticisms, if you love seeing these actors trot out their standard movie role characters, then you will likely find The Watch hilarious and wonderful. For me, this was quite a letdown.
Rare is the film that finds actors appearing to both be trying too hard and not trying at all. Throughout The Watch, I simply could not tell if Stiller, Vaughn, and Hill were just going through the motions, or trying really hard to be funny. For guidance, they should have simply followed the hilarious Richard Ayoade's lead because his is the only performance which feels comfortable and natural.
Director Akiva Schaffer is likely best known as one-third of The Lonely Island, the comedy trio who, along with Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg, achieved fame for their Saturday Night Live Digital Short segments and their Grammy and Emmy-nominated comedy recordings. Frustratingly, Schaffer never seems to stay focused on anything for any significant time, a characteristic which may allow for his Digital Short segments to click and whirl effectively for 2-4 minutes on television, but falls desperately short on the big screen.
Of course, he gets no help from the screenplay either. Originally conceived as a PG-13-oriented teenage comedy, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg reworked the film into R-rated territory, but subplots involving Bob's daughter, Franklin's unsettling anger and hostility, a character's impotence, a neighbor's true motivations, and another character's real identity, all gets lost in the shuffle. We have an "aliens-among-us" film, with about a dozen or so other things happening, and all of it is largely meaningless.
Real-life events in 2012 caused Twentieth Century Fox to change the name of this film from Neighborhood Watch to The Watch and seeing a character pull up his bed mattress to reveal a staggering amount of weaponry which he easily acquired on the internet, simply does not seem all that funny anymore.
So some will find The Watch to be a mindless, fun, sophomoric diversion from more serious fare. I get that. Midway through the film, I simply grew tired seeing Ben Stiller deliver monotone lines to set up Vince Vaughn's impulsive zingers and then have Jonah Hill simply mutter about them under his breath. Save Richard Ayoade's effortless comedic work, there is next to nothing to truly recommend with this disappointing and ill-conceived misfire.
- Fans of the four leading actors will be drawn to see them together on screen. Richard Ayoade is hilarious here and if you like the formulaic and standard comedic performances from Stiller, Vaughn, and Jonah Hill, then maybe this will be a terrific film for your sensibilities.
- The crude, go-for-broke humor and occasional graphic violence easily earn this film its R-rating and that will appeal to those who feel PG-13 comedies are too safe and restrained.
- For those tired of superhero films, animated children's movies, and for those who have already seen Ted, there really isn't anything like this in theaters. So, at least it is something different.
- There is no focus on anything happening here, which feels like a result of Akiva Schaffer not being in control of his own film or just giving into his stars indulgences far too much.
- The timing of the film will rub some people the wrong way. After the Trayvon Martin tragedy and recent Aurora, Colorado theater shooting, this whole project, even with its origins existing all the way back to 2008, feels badly timed and poorly conceived.
- All of these actors have delivered better results and been fresher and more spirited in better quality work.


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Complete Men's Basketball Postseason Release 4 in pdf format
Brackets: NCAA | CIT | CBI
Live Coverage: Live Stats
Game Notes: Yale | VMI
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The record-setting run of five Ivy League men's basketball teams in the postseason has come down to one as Yale sits one step away from playing for the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) title.
Rebounding from two losses to close the regular season, Yale has put together a three-game winning streak to reach the CIT semifinals and a matchup with VMI on Tuesday, April 1. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. on the CBS Sports Network. The Bulldogs' postseason run has included three close wins over Quinnipiac in the first round, Holy Cross in the second round and Columbia in the quarterfinals. Yale and Columbia joined Brown to make up an all-time high of three Ivy League teams in the CIT. Yale is in the postseason for the sixth time (3 NCAA, 1 NIT, 2 CIT), while Brown made its fifth appearance (2 NCAA, 1 NIT, 1 CBI, 1 CIT) and Columbia enjoyed its fourth appearance (3 NCAA, 1 CIT) playing beyond the regular season.
In the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, No. 12 seed Harvard answered the predictions of various pundits with a near wire-to-wire win over No. 5 seed Cincinnati in a second-round game in Spokane, Wash. The victory made the Crimson the first Ivy League team to win an NCAA Tournament game in consecutive seasons since Princeton did so in 1983 and 1984 and the first time since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Harvard gave No. 4 seed Michigan State all it could handle in the third round, rallying from a 16-point deficit to take a 62-60 lead with 7:12 to play, but the Spartans proved to have the answer down the stretch and escaped with an 80-73 victory to advance to the Sweet 16 at Madison Square Garden.
Over in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI), Princeton advanced to the quarterfinals for the third time in five years. The Tigers opened with a 56-55 first-round win at Tulane before dropping a 72-56 decision at Fresno State in the quarterfinals to cap their 21-win season. In the win over the Green Wave, Princeton fought off a 7-0 run in the final 90 seconds to hold on to the one-point victory. In the loss to the Bulldogs, the Tigers began the second half with an inspired rally to climb out of an eight-point deficit but could not sustain that momentum to pull out the victory. League teams now stand with a 5-5 (.500) record in the CBI in five appearances.
Ivy League men's basketball is in the midst of its greatest postseason run in its 58-year history with six total wins so far, thanks to an impressive 4-1 start in its first five games. The Ivy League boasts a record five teams in the postseason and multiple teams in the postseason for the fourth time in five years. The League has three or more teams advancing to postseason play for the fourth time in conference history (2001-02, 2009-10, 2011-12 and 2013-14). The League's previous high was four postseason teams -- Harvard (NCAA), Penn and Princeton (CBI) and Yale (CIT) -- just two seasons ago.
Tuesday, April 1
CIT Semifinals
Yale at VMI, 7 pm [CBSSN]
Pacific at Murray State, 9 pm [CBSSN]
Thursday, April 3
CIT Championship [CBSSN]
CBSSN – CBS Sports Network (DirecTV 613, DISH 158, Verizon FiOS 94, Comcast 854, AT&T U-verse 643 [SD]/1643 [HD])