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My reasons for thinking the war will end in failure are not complicated either. To me, it seems the inevitable consequence of attacking a country that posed no threat, of trying to create a government of our choosing for people we do not like or understand, of defining those who fight back as terrorists, and of ignoring the elementary fact of war that killing people makes enemies of their relatives, friends, and neighbors. How many Iraqis have we killed so far? Ten thousand? Fifty thousand? Is anyone keeping count?
From the day Saddam Hussein disappeared in Baghdad nothing has gone as the administration expected, and our ability to manage the chaos has grown steadily weaker. In the end the Iraqis will decide what comes next, but not until they have fought it out, and that will be impossible until we quit interfering. When is that likely to happen? Not while Bush remains in office, and I suspect that his successor—Kerry next year or somebody else in 2009—will also find it hard to face up to the failure, but will go on from month to month and year to year hoping that a little more blood and sacrifice will make it all come right. But maybe not. Maybe this time around a quick, harsh dose of pain and failure will be enough to bring a halt.
If President Bush were defensive about his failure in Iraq, American voters might feel safer in calling him to account, but he is not defensive. He is so self-assured, defiant, and determined, and those waging his campaign are so aggressive and insulting in their attacks on Kerry personally, that voters are in danger of being swept away by the drama of the President's defiance. This High Noon brand of politics is apparently the brainchild of Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove. The idea is to raise the temperature of campaign rhetoric beyond norms of civility, in the hope of driving all the thousand important public issues into the background, and thereby forcing voters to see, and compelling them to accept or reject, only the image of the grinning Texan standing tall in his shirtsleeves, spitting on his hands, and challenging the flip-flopper, as he challenges the world, to step up or run home to mama. Some might describe Rove's High Noon politics as the gamble of a desperate campaign running on empty, but Rove could quote H.L. Mencken in defense, who said that no man ever lost a nickel by underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
Victory by such means, on a matter of such consequence, is a troubling prospect. But I do not think that voters on election day will forget everything else—the failure to restore lost jobs, a ballooning of the national debt that threatens Social Security, the watering down or outright repeal of regulations on business and the environment, the failure to fund the No Child Left Behind Act, the spreading loss of health benefits for ordinary Americans, above all the blunder of the unnecessary war. I can't think of any significant category of voters won over by Bush since he squeaked through in 2000, and I can't see why the country would vote for more of the same. So I think that Rove's gamble will flicker briefly in the polls before sputtering out, and that Bush will lose.
That is what I think. But what I fear is that a different dynamic is at work—that voters may share a gut sense that the Iraq adventure will end in failure, but are too angry and distracted to admit it, want to feel good about High Noon America for a few moments longer, and will vote for Bush in order to put off the inevitable bitter day.
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I have read in the British press that George Bush will win the November election because the "soccer moms" who voted for Bill Clinton have turned into "security moms" who will vote for the President. The rest of the world shares these mothers' anxieties, but draws a diametrically opposed conclusion. The British ambassador to Rome summed up the prevailing sentiment when he observed that President Bush is al-Qaeda's most successful recruiting sergeant.
The claim that reelecting President Bush will make the world safer—any part of the world, including the United States—would be laughable if the Iraqi civilian death toll was not 15,000 and rising, if peace for Israelis and Palestinians was not further away than ever, and if international cooperation on everything from global warming to fighting AIDS had not been deeply damaged by the last four years of a know-nothing presidency. If it is a joke, it is in the worst possible taste.
From almost anywhere outside the United States, it is impossible to understand how Mr. Bush has even a remote chance of reelection. In most of Europe, two thirds of the population has never weakened in its opposition to the war in Iraq—not out of affection for Saddam Hussein, but out of a well-founded understanding that Iraq was irrelevant to the war on terrorism until President Bush turned the country into a terrorist's playground.
Even in Britain, it was only in the immediate aftermath of the invasion that a majority was in favor of war; support is now 40 percent. Seventy percent want a date set for the withdrawal of British troops; and 80 percent think the United States has no idea how to bring peace and stability to Iraq. These 80 percent of Britons share the global view that President Bush is a threat to world security. Unsurprisingly, so do Americans' neighbors—Canadians and Mexicans.
It's not as though President Bush has done anything to offset the idiocies of the war on terror; Tony Blair is as unpopular as his war, but he survives as prime minister because he has presided over a steadily growing economy, rising employment, improving schools, and an improving health care system. And there has been a small but real redistribution of income toward the poorest fifth of the population.
Under President Bush, the US economy has shed jobs; there are fewer Americans employed today than when he took office; fewer Americans have guaranteed health care than when he took office; his tax cuts amount to the organized looting of the public purse for the benefit of his friends and funders; and his fiscal irresponsibility makes Ronald Reagan look a model of prudence.
President Bush says repeatedly that al-Qaeda and its allies wage war on the United States because they hate American freedom. All the evidence is that this is complete nonsense, and that they wage war on America because the United States props up regimes in the Middle East and elsewhere that they detest. All the same, it is true that American freedom is an issue in the election; and it is true that American freedom is at risk from fundamentalists and from out-of-control nationalists.
The fundamentalists in question are Christian and American nationalists, taking in John Ashcroft and a good many of the members of Congress who voted for the Patriot Act as well as those members of the judiciary who have connived in the denial of the constitutional and human rights of Americans and foreigners detained without trial or counsel.
The President announced immediately after September 11 that "those who are not with us are with the terrorists"; his fans' habit of treating foreign critics as either idiots or terrorists-in-waiting is one more ugly feature of contemporary politics. But it is the friends of America who most fear what four more years of Mr. Bush will do; if you think the United States is the Great Satan, you are unlikely to regard the separation of church and state and attention to the rights of the accused as matters of the highest importance.
Those of us who think that they are, and who think that getting into misguided wars is invariably bad for civil liberties, think that the election is first about bringing the Iraq folly to an end, second about reversing the erosion of civil liberties, and third about restoring respect for intelligence in the formulation and implementation of policy. Underpinning all this, it would help to have a president who could tell the truth—and who could distinguish it from fantasy.
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The present administration has been astonishingly successful in getting the American public to accept its very idiosyncratic version of events—for example, that while the polar icecap is melting and the snows of Kilimanjaro are vanishing, the threat of global warming is not an immediate concern; that Saddam Hussein assisted Osama bin Laden in the September 11 attacks, so that the invasion of Iraq is part of the war on terrorism; that vast increases in the budget deficit and the national debt are unimportant and can best be solved by tax cuts; or that, regardless of an increasingly violent and spreading insurgency, Iraq is well on the way to reconstruction and democracy. Such fantasies, however successful at home, have had the opposite effect abroad.
Like many people all over the world, I had long taken for granted the unprecedented international position of the United States. History's most powerful state, lacking conventional imperial ambitions, was widely accepted as leader and mentor, and was respected as a generous source of aid and support in times of trouble. Since World War II, in spite of one or two notable aberrations, the United States has been a source of hope and a vitally important contributor to stability and progress for most of the world.
Guided by Franklin Roosevelt's vision of a world of collective security, justice, and law, his successors, despite the constraints of the cold war, worked with other governments to build a structure of international agreements and institutions that would eventually make such a world possible. This emerging international structure provided a setting for America's leadership.
With the end of the cold war it seemed, briefly, that Roosevelt's dream of a working international community might once again be developed systematically. In the new millennium, however, events moved quickly in a very different direction.
In striking contrast to the pragmatic internationalism of FDR, Harry Truman, George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, and the leaders that followed them, the ideology of the George W. Bush administration is basically unilateralist, exceptionalist, and anti-internationalist. Its worldview first manifested itself in the rejection of important international agreements like the anti-ballistic missile and nuclear test ban treaties, the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, proposed conventions on chemical warfare and the limitation of small arms, and the recently established International Criminal Court. A world accustomed to farsighted American leadership was, not surprisingly, distressed by these tendencies.
The Bush administration, apparently as a matter of policy, did not follow up the efforts of its predecessor on several vitally important issues. Of these the most consequential was the Israeli-Palestinian question. Allowing that situation to sink further into violence and despair while publicly favoring one side over the other has made the prospect of peace far more remote for both Israelis and Palestinians. It has also provided a powerful anti-American boost for the forces of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism that are now our most immediate threat.


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NEW YORK -- First it was Williams (WMB), and now the natural-gas bulls are looking to Questar (STR).
OptionMonster's tracking programs detected heavy buying in the April 22 calls about halfway through Friday afternoon, with some 2,000 contracts initially bought for 25 cents. Traders continued to pile in later in the session, pushing total volume to 3,964 at the strike --almost triple the previous open interest, indicating that this was new activity.
Calls lock in the price where investors can purchase stock, so they can generate some nice leverage if the shares rally. That's exactly what happened on Friday as those calls inflated to 35 cents by the end of the session, a gain of about 40% versus a much smaller move in the share price.Questar, which focuses on pipelines and storage in the western United States, closed the session up 2.34% to $20.97. Earlier in the week, its much larger peer Williams saw heavy activity in the August contracts as an investor looked to generate big leverage from a steady gain in the share price. Total option volume in Questar was 15 times greater than average in the session. Calls outnumbered puts by a bullish 112 to 1. Russell has no positions in STR or WMB.
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The gardens of Norwich Castle were filled with the sounds of acoustic music last night, thanks to funding aimed at spreading the benefits of the London 2012 Olympics around the country.
The Somewhereto_ Jam Unplugged event featured performances from local musicians Phoebe York, a 19-year-old singer-songwriter, and Jade Murray, a 19-year-old ukelele player, at the Whiffler Theatre in the castle's gardens.
The event was one of the first of this year's Lord Mayor's Celebrations was supported by Creative Arts East and Norwich City Council as part of the Somewhereto_ project, a nationwide initiative aimed at matching young people aged 16 to 25 with the space they need to do the things they love within sport, culture and the arts.
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The Flyers picked up their first win of the season under new head coach Craig Berube by defeating the Florida Panthers on Wednesday. Having started the year 0-3-0, now seems as good of a time as ever to pick get closer to .500 by playing a team coming off of a back-to-back situation in Phoenix.
By Lukas Hardonk (@LukasHardonk)
Toronto Maple Leafs GM Dave Nonis got the NHL off-season going on Sunday with one of the first big trades of summer 2013. The trade market is just one way the Maple Leafs plan to improve this summer with a free agent crop that is also full of appealing players set to open up.
With July 5 only eight days away, it's time to look at who the Maple Leafs are likely to consider as free agent options when the signing period begins.
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Ribeiro is a 33-year-old NHL veteran who, with more than 600 points in 785 career regular season games, knows how to produce. Not onl...
At most, the 2013 NHL season has two games remaining. The Chicago Blackhawks have the opportunity to send the Boston Bruins home without any new hardware, as a win tonight would make them this year's Stanley Cup Champions.
With that being said, the New York Islanders organization has been preparing for the NHL Entry draft, as well as free agency.
As we jump ahead to July 5th, there are a handful of players that the Islanders might consider for the 2013-2014 roster that may make them a better contending team for next season's playoff run.
Sometimes, coaches get a little more out of certain players than they hope for in certain situations.
For head coach Peter Laviolette, he wanted to neutralize Washington's top scoring tandem of Alex Ovechkin and Mike Ribeiro. By doing so, he put forechecking specialists Sean Couturier and Ruslan Fedotenko out onto the ice.
Laviolette wound up getting more out of Fedotenko in that situation than he had hoped. Fedotenko got himself in the right position, scoring the game-winning goal to seal a comeback win for the Flyers, stealing an important two points in the process.
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The Flyers look to ride off the momentum of a huge 3-1 win over Boston. But they host a hot Washington team that comes in winning four of its last five games. Both teams are on the outside looking in right now. They will be desperate for these two points.
The Islanders opened up their four game road trip with a big win against the Capitals in D.C. This victory put them, if only temporarily, tied for the last playoff spot. They played with desperation, taking the play to the Capitals immediately.
Around the four minute mark, Marty Reasoner, standing alone in front misses a point blank shot. The Isles kept up the pressure and at 6:25 of the first Grabner nets a beauty on a nice play from Keith Aucoin. Isles 1 Caps 0
If anyone knows how to not win a game, it's the Washington Capitals.
Despite being outshot through the first two periods, the Caps led the New Jersey Devils 2-1.
Then they took six penalties in 11 minutes, allowed themselves to be outshot 15-2 in the period and flushed an easily winnable game down the toiled in what would be a 3-2 win for the Devils.
The Devils led the Capitals 30-12 in even-strength shots in the game, and the Caps still led.
Winning comes in different shapes and sizes. Stealing a game is winning. Dominating it from beginning to end is winning. Steadily plugging along and being better than the other team is winning.
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It might have come against another one of the worse teams in the league, but who gives a damn.
Half price pizza from Papa John's will always taste sweet.
The Capitals recorded their third win of the season and their only shutout of the year against the Florida Panthers with a 5-0 win (Caps win by 4+ goals and Papa Johns in the DC/MD/Northern VA area give you half price on your slice, look up the deal, y'all).
Last night was the first time that all that phantom 'better play' became tangible.
Alexander Ovechkin looked like a new player--better yet, the Ovechkin of old, who flew around the ice as fast as he could. And he didn't just stick to the on...
Welp. That was ugly.
The Capitals visited the Consol Energy Center Thursday evening struggling to get any momentum going this season. They did nothing to buck that trend.
The Caps came out of the gates strong. Mike Ribeiro continued his hot streak, scoring his fourth goal of the season in a sequence that saw Marc-Andre Fleury dramatically fall to the ice, losing his helmet in the process. The first period ended 1-0 in favor of the Caps.
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What's strange is that this was written in 1996—by then, Wallace had completed his genre-impacting second novel, Infinite Jest, as well as the stories, a couple already considered classic, in the collection Girl with Curious Hair. It's hard to believe he didn't know that he was indeed among the hundred best at a particular thing, namely imaginative prose, and that there were serious people ready to put him among an even smaller number. Perhaps we should assume that, being human, he knew it sometimes and at other times feared it wasn't true. Either way, the false modesty—asking us to accept the idea that he'd never thought of himself as so good and had proposed the experiment naively—can't help reading as odd. Which may itself be deliberate. Not much happens by accident in Wallace's stuff; his profound obsessive streak precluded it. So could it be there's something multilayered going on with sport as a metaphor for writing—even more layers than we expect? It does seem curious that Wallace chose, of all the players, one named Joyce, whose "ethnic" Irishness Wallace goes out of his way to emphasize, thereby alluding to an artist whose own fixation on technical mastery made him a kind of grotesque, dazzling but isolated from healthful, human narrative concerns. Certainly Wallace played textual games on that level.
Here's a thing that is hard to imagine: being so inventive a writer that when you die, the language is impoverished. That's what Wallace's suicide did, two and a half years ago. It wasn't just a sad thing, it was a blow.
It's hard to do the traditional bio-style paragraph about Wallace for readers who, in this oversaturated mediascape, don't know who he was or why he mattered, because you keep flashing on his story "Death Is Not the End," in which he parodies the practice of writing the traditional bio-style paragraph about writers, listing all their honors and whatnot, his list becoming inexplicably ridiculous as he keeps naming the prizes, and you get that he's digging into the frequent self-congratulating silliness of the American literary world, "a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, [...] a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters...a poet two separate American generations have hailed as the voice of their generation." Wallace himself had many of the awards on the list, including "a 'Genius Grant' from the prestigious MacArthur Foundation." Three novels, three story collections, two books of essays, the Roy E. Disney Professorship of Creative Writing at Pomona College...
When they say that he was a generational writer, that he "spoke for a generation," there's a sense in which it's almost scientifically true. Everything we know about the way literature gets made suggests there's some connection between the individual talent and the society that produces it, the social organism. Cultures extrude geniuses the way a beehive will make a new queen when its old one dies, and it's possible now to see Wallace as one of those. I remember well enough to know it's not a trick of hindsight, hearing about and reading Infinite Jest for the first time, as a 20-year-old, and the immediate sense of: This is it. One of us is going to try it. The "it" being all of it, to capture the sensation of being alive in a fractured superpower at the end of the twentieth century. Someone had come along with an intellect potentially strong enough to mirror the spectacle and a moral seriousness deep enough to want to in the first place. About none of his contemporaries—even those who in terms of ability could compete with him—can one say that they risked as great a failure as Wallace did.
People who've never read a word he wrote know his style, the so-called quirks, a bag of typographical tricks ripped from the eighteenth-century comic novel and recontextualized: the footnotes and skeptical parentheticals, clauses that compulsively double back, feeling for weaknesses in themselves. It's true these match the idiosyncrasies of his manner of speech and thought. (We know this especially well now that all those YouTube videos of him at readings and in interviews have become familiar—oddly so: For someone who clearly squirmed under the eye of scrutiny like a stuck bug, Wallace submitted and subjected himself to so much of it. He had more author photos than any of his peers. He was nothing if not a torn person.)
The point is that his style did more than reflect his habit of mind; it was an expression of an unusually coherent sensibility. Wallace was a relentless reviser and could have streamlined all of those syntactically baroque paragraphs. He didn't think the world worked that way. The truth, or rather truth-seeking, didn't sound like that. It was self-critical—self-interrogating, even—on the catch for its own tricks of self-evasion. It's worth noting, in that regard, that The New Yorker, which published some of his best fiction, never did any of his nonfiction. No shame to Wallace or The New Yorker, it's simply a technically interesting fact: He couldn't have changed his voice to suit the magazine's famous house style. The "plain style" is about erasing yourself as a writer and laying claim to a kind of invisible narrative authority, the idea being that the writer's mind and personality are manifest in every line, without the vulgarity of having to tell the reader it's happening. But Wallace's relentlessly first-person strategies didn't proceed from narcissism, far from it—they were signs of philosophical stubbornness. (His father, a professional philosopher, studied with Wittgenstein's last assistant; Wallace himself as an undergraduate made an actual intervening contribution—recently published as Fate, Time, and Language—to the debate over free will.) He looked at the plain style and saw that the impetus of it, in the end, is to sell the reader something. Not in a crass sense, but in a rhetorical sense. The well-tempered magazine feature, for all its pleasures, is a kind of fascist wedge that seeks to make you forget its problems, half-truths, and arbitrary decisions, and swallow its nonexistent imprimatur. Wallace could never exempt himself or his reporting from the range of things that would be subject to scrutiny.


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It comes as no surprise that, immediately following the drug-induced death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, defenders of the established order began exploiting this tragedy by calling for a reinforcement of the drug war. A celebrity has died from a drug overdose, and the chorus of the establishment faithful reacts: "oh, oh, oh, we must continue to ban drugs, and prosecute those who sell them as well." It is the same knee-jerk response that follows a shooting at a high school: "oh, oh, oh, we must continue to control guns, and prosecute those who sell them as well."
When some troubled soul uses his car to commit suicide – and, perhaps, take a few unrelated victims in the process – I do not hear members of the MSM or academia bleating "oh, oh, oh, we must ban the use of automobiles; they are too dangerous." And when the government acknowledges that more soldiers die from suicide than from combat, I do not see any of the statist faithful racing to the podium to declare "we must stop this deadly war system."
It is the role of the MSM – along with much of academia – to help perpetuate and reinforce a public mindset that will cause people to insist upon having the corporate-state design and operate the controls that will keep modern society functioning just as it is at present, and to repress any voices that deny this to be "the best of all possible worlds." Drugs and guns in the hands of private individuals do not serve the interest of the rulers – and may, in fact, be a threat to the arbitrariness of state power. Drugs that can be used to control people – from childhood on up – and guns in the hands of the police and military agents of the state are not to be taken away.
Nor is any questioning of the dispirited and dehumanizing nature of the state supervision of life to be permitted. That most school shootings have been carried out by young men who have been under the influence of prescribed behavior-modifying drugs is to be dismissed as an irrelevant coincidence. Might such violent reactions have their origins in the state's insistence on conditioning people to be content in their assigned servo-mechanistic roles? Might the soldiers who have taken to killing themselves be unwilling to continue living with the anti-life, self-destructive, and sadistic character of what they have become, and see no other way to end their spiritual pain than to end their lives? Such is the utter sadness of the soldier, who was not loved enough by those around him to keep him out of the hands of the state's abattoir.
Of course, the state and its well-paid MSM and academic apologists will have a self-serving response for this war against the young: legal drugs – sold at monopolistic prices by Big-Pharma – will be made available to cover up the symptoms of what statism has made of us all. But only state-approved drugs will qualify: those who sell illegal drugs will be hunted down and blamed for the deaths of people who were unable to find less-destructive means of rediscovering their souls. Such enforcement will, of course, be carried out by those members of the police establishment who are content with their robotic conditioning and who, consequently, can be trusted with the use of guns!12:26 pm on February 3, 2014


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who says you can't go home?
Wondering why I've been pinning an insane amount of home decor stuff on my Pinterest lately?
Or maybe why I freaked the hell out when a tornado came close to my parents' house?
Well, it's because it isn't my parents' house anymore. It's our house. That's right, my friends, Babyface and I have grown up, signed a million pieces of paper and become homeowners. And not just any house, we bought my childhood home from my parents in Southern Indiana. It's an incredible house built on 10 acres of rolling hills. We are thrilled!
Honestly, this is probably the worst kept secret on the planet because it has been in the works for years. When my parents built the house and shaped the property over 20 years ago, they did it with the thought that it'd stay in the family. For the longest time, it didn't seem like me or any of my siblings were in the right place to take over the Broken Plow (the name of the "estate"). But a few years ago, Babyface and I sat down and talked it through. It would require us moving away from our beloved Bloomington, but in the end, we decided the benefits of owning the place I considered "home" outweighed our love for B-town. We told my parents we were ready and the wheels started turning. We closed on the property in January (interest rates were so great, we went ahead and locked in). And my parents have been "renting" from us while they build their retirement cottage on an adjacent lot.
I'll spare you from all the details, but honestly, it's all been bit clandestine. It's crazy how easily it has all fallen into place. The only hitch so far was that blasted tornado. The ink was barely dry on our mortgage when it hit. Babyface has been trapped in homeowner's insurance hell for the past month as we work to get the roof, skylights, and gutters all replaced on the house and the roof replaced on the barn. Let's ignore the fact that two of our dwellings got hit by tornadoes less than a year apart. And that we've had to do our first insurance claim on a house we don't even live in. Oh well, at least we got a new roof out of it, right?
I bet you're wondering about a few of the details aren't you? Well, we'll be moving in June, after my parents' have finished building their new house and have moved. Both Craig and I will keep our jobs in Bloomington (it's about a 75 minute drive). Obviously, commuting that much isn't ideal, but we seem to have figured out a way to make it work. My employer has been really amazing and has granted me permission to work a combination of in-the-office and telecommuting. And Babyface's schedule is so flexible, that he'll only work the days I work in-the-office, so we can commute together.
As far as the actual property? Gosh, it's amazing. A big house. Lots of bedrooms. A basement (which is necessary considering our history with tornadoes). A beautiful fish pond. A barn. A garden. A lake. A swingset built by my grandfather. An orchard. Hidden in the woods (hence the pictures of the house, you can't see it from the road).
So there you have it. We're moving! Yay! We'll miss Bloomington—a ton—but moving back home to Kentuckiana definitely feels like the right choice for us.
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I think I've said this already, but congratulations!! Your childhood home is beautiful and you must be so excited to move into it!
Also, I haven't heard Kentuckiana in a long time! I spent a lot of time in Austin and in Hanover/Madison and I remember hearing it all the time on the news stations there. And, of course, I used to live in Michiana
Wow, congrats! That is beautiful!
Congrats! Can't wait to see pictures of the inside and surrounding areas. I love reading about Southern Indiana life. Makes me miss home and is kind of an escape from big city life!
Congratulations! This is so big! Please please PLEASE give us a photo tour of the house and property!
That's amazing news to be home owners in general, but when it's your childhood home it's doubly amazing. And it is beautiful too!
I could definitely see my sister buying our childhood home from my dad in the future. She was always very attached to it and I think would be very sentimental if he ever decided to put it up for sale.
Your confession posts are my favorite!
I LOVE your shower curtain! Is that a weird thing for me to notice? But I love it.
And I have to disagree with your feelings on showers. I'm obsessed with them, actually. During the winter I take about 3-4 a day and while I know it's wasting more water than necessary, I don't have to turn on the heat because a warm shower in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night keeps me toasty and relaxed!
Love those black shoes. LOVE them.
Congrats! I'm envious – we've been eyeing a little one acre property that would split the differece between both our commutes. Ahhh….no neighbors! Lovely place you have! Enjoy it!
Bloomington will miss you but CONGRATULATIONS on becoming homeowners!!!
The house sounds amazing! And that yard! WOW!
We've been a home owner for just over a year now and I just love having a home to call our own. I'm looking forward to seeing lots of pics of the house!
CONGRATULATIONS! You already know I'm so excited for you both, and this incredible development in your life. The commute might be a hard adjustment, but it's great that you have the flexibility to telecommute at least part of the time!
I can't wait to see what you do with your new space to really make it your own — your style is so awesome, I can't wait to see!
Congratulations, Cass! I'm so happy for you, Babyface, and ohhhh, the space for Puppyface to gambol around!!
Congrats! That's so exciting!
Congrats on purchasing your first house!! What an exciting step. My husband and I close on our first house here in Bloomington next week. It's so stressful!! The house is absolutely beautiful and I can't wait to read all about the new adventures you and your family will have!
That is so wonderful- congrats!! When my grandmother sold her house years ago to move into assisted living, I wanted to buy it SO bad. But, I was only 22 and had no money. That house had so many amazing memories in it, as I'm sure your parents' does for you. And now you get to make all new ones!
Also, even prior to you buying your childhood home, I told my husband that I wanted a "homestead" and used your parents' (now your!!) home as an example. I wanted plenty of room, lots of land, and the homey feeling that made our kids want to come spend weekends with us even as adults. That's my goal. I don't know if/when we'll be able to achieve it, but that's the kind of upbringing I want to give my kids.
Congratulations! That's awesome.
We'll be neighbors!! I live in Memphis/Henryville So cool! Your property looks amazing!! Congratulations!!!
I LOOOOVE all the stuff you pinned. Your house is going to be the cutest! Congratulations!
Good luck with the commute. I'm sure you'll find ways to make it work! It takes me 75 minutes to get just about anywhere in the DC area, so at least you won't have to battle with traffic.
Congratulations. Good luck.
Congratulations on your home purchase!!! You will have so much fun updating it to reflect both of your styles!
Congrats girl! How exciting! The property sounds amazing.
Wonderful news!!
How flipping cool! I miss my childhood home.
Yay! Congrats. Looking forward to seeing all your posts from the new place.
ahhh I'm so excited for you!! Congratulations!!
Congratulations! Your home is absolutely beautiful!
Congratulations on your home! Its beautiful!
Congratulations! What a beautiful place!


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How Popular Pet Breeds Got Their Names
Discover the origins of common cats and dogs, and learn which ones are right for your family
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Cat: Egyptian Mau
If these cats look familiar, it could be because youve seen their form in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. In fact, mau means cat in Egyptian. They were even mummified because their owners cherished them so much. Considered the fastest pedigree cat, they can run over 30 miles per hour. No wonder: Theyre built like cheetahs (and spotted like them too) and believed to have descended from the wild African cat, according to Animal Planet. Youll need to keep them busy with lots of play and food puzzles and socialize them early because theyre likely to be shy, says Becker. They also do best in quiet homes. Theyre sensitive to noise and new situations.


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MSC Cruises today unveiled a promotion for fall foliage cruises to Canada and New England that allows the third and fourth person in a cabin to sail for free.
The free passage offer is available to adults as well as children sharing a cabin with two paying customers this coming fall on select voyages of the MSC Poesia.
Rates for the first and second person in a cabin for the voyages start at $599.
To quality for the offer, customers must book by July 31.
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MSC Cruises' fall foliage sailings vary from 6-10 nights and depart from New York City and Quebec City. Among the voyages included in the new promotion:
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July 28, 2013: First day of practice
Heavyweight Boxing Match
Amini Silatolu LG vs. Star Lotulelei NT
Amini: Height 6'4", Weight 315lbs, Age 24
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God, I love this Draft!
Gettleman's hand-print is all over this draft. This is a NYG draft if anyone hasn't noticed it. Rivera had no voice in the draft process imo. This is Gettleman building for the future and telling Rivera to work with the pieces if he still want his job. We're getting close to having an "IDENTITY" on this team. "Big guys on the trenches that play with nastiness."
So what with the, "Gettleman is an old school GM". That's exactly what we need to establish if we want to start winning. Get better on the defense and start utilizing the running game to take pressure off Cam.
P.S. if anyone hasn't check the NYG's draft yet, they took Big Jon Hankins (2nd) and Damontre Moore (3rd). Does that look familiar to someone's draft?


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|Niners continue road swing with another pair
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Charlotte 49ers women's soccer returns to the road for another pair of matches this weekend, as it heads to Bronx, N.Y., for a Friday meeting with Fordham and then Philadelphia for a Sunday contest against fellow league unbeaten La Salle.
"Again, two tremendous opponents waiting for us," head coach John Cullen said. "Anytime you go on the road, you have to deal with all the elements. I think each game presents a different challenge. Both schools are in the top half of the A-10. We expect two highly competitive games, which you always expect this time of year. Once we get into conference season, all these games are very close. Hopefully we can go and get two more positive results this weekend."
Charlotte is seventh in this week's NSCAA Mid-Atlantic Poll and enters the weekend as one of just two unbeatens across the conference, joining La Salle. The 49ers are 9-3-1 overall with a current five-game winning streak and 3-0 against Atlantic 10 competition following Saturday's 4-2 victory at George Washington.
The five-game run is the program's longest since 2010.
Sophomore Amanda Jones and senior Carrie Dail pace the squad with six and five goals, respectively. The tandem has combined for four of the team's game-winning goals, including a high of three from Dail.
Fordham brings a 6-8 overall and 2-2 league ledger into the match. The Rams started A-10 play with a pair of wins before dropping their contests last weekend to VCU and Richmond on the road. The two setbacks snapped a four-game streak.
Kristina Maksuti tops coach Ness Selmani's team with four goals and 10 points.
La Salle, currently ranked second in the NSCAA Mid-Atlantic Poll and receiving votes in the national poll, carries a 10-3 overall and 4-0 league record. The Explorers will start their weekend by playing host to George Washington Friday before welcoming the Niners to town.
The high-scoring offense is led by Kelsey Haycook with her seven goals and 18 points. She is one of three players, along with Renee Washington and Anna Dolhansky, with double-digit points thus far this season for head coach Paul Royal.
Live stats and video will be available for both games via links on Charlotte49ers.com. In-game updates can also be obtained by following @49erGameDay on Twitter.


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2011 / 03 - March Issue of American Cinematographer
The March 2011 issue of American Cinematographer magazine, has a special focus on teleproduction. The issue includes profiles of Michael D. O'Shea, ASC, this year's recipient of the ASC Career Achievement in Television Award, and associate member Douglas Kirkland, who earned the Society's Presidents Award.
The Adjustment Bureau (Universal)
John Toll, ASC helped screenwriter and first-time director George Nolfi combine sci-fi and romance for this intriguing feature based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, who also penned the source material for the features Blade Runner, Minority Report and Total Recall. Matt Damon stars as rising New York politician David Norris, who accidentally discovers that his fate in life is being controlled by mysterious men who will stop at nothing to derail his budding romance with a beautiful, spirited ballet dancer (Emily Blunt). Toll answers questions about his cinematic approach to the movie's locations, logistics and challenging conceptual design.
Human Target (Fox)
Robert McLachlan, ASC, CSC is using Arri's D-21 camera to lend this dynamic action-adventure series the look of a big-screen James Bond epic. According to McLachlan, "One of the reasons I like the Arri D-21 is that it has super, super narrow depth of field. Arri engineers dispute this, but my eyes and those of the top focus pullers all say otherwise. What this means, of course, is that [the show] has very big, anamorphic-movie feel." McLachlan also discusses his other strategies for bringing ambitious visual style to the show, which follows the life of San Francisco-based Christopher Chance (Mark Valley), a private-security expert who integrates himself into his client's lives.
The Killing (AMC)
Peter Wunstorf, ASC shot the pilot and first 12 episodes of this ambitious series based on the Danish miniseries Forbrydelsen (The Crime). Set in Seattle, Washington and filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the series follows three stories that emerge from the homicide of a young girl and the ensuing police investigation. Wunstorf says he's striving for a tone of "sad elegance" on the character-driven show, which he's treating as "one long film."
Fringe (Fox)
Three cinematographers Tom Yatsko and CSC members Greg Middleton and David Moxness have been lending their talents to this show's edgy visual style. The series follows an FBI "Fringe Division" that uses unorthodox techniques to investigate mysterious occurrences related to a parallel universe. AC reports on the trio's methods and how they coordinate their efforts to keep the show's look consistent and compelling.
ASC Career Achievement in Television Award
Michael D. O'Shea, ASC steps into the spotlight on February 13 when he receives this prestigious honor during the annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards gala, held at the Hollywood and Highland complex in Los Angeles.
O'Shea's career highlights include a 2003 Emmy Award (for CSI: Miami) and four other Emmy nominations (for the miniseries The '60s and To Love, Honor and Deceive and the series Relativity and Doogie Howser, M.D.) His résumé also includes the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Chicago Hope, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: Miami, Jack and Bobby, Bones and Eli Stone, as well as the feature films Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and Big Momma's House.
All of these accomplishments and more are saluted in a career overview penned by contributing writer Jean Oppenheimer.
ASC Presidents Award
Associate member Douglas Kirkland is saluted at the ASC Awards for his significant contributions to the industry.
A renowned stills photographer, Kirkland was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. During the 1960s and '70s, he was a staff photographer for Look and Life magazines, which featured his portraits of Jack Nicholson, Marilyn Monroe, Morgan Freeman, Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, Judy Garland, Sophia Loren, Charlie Chaplin and many other iconic movie stars. Kirkland was also a still photographer during the production of more than 100 motion pictures, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Out of Africa, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Moulin Rouge. His photography has been featured in various books, including Light Years and Freeze Frame.
During the past 20 years, Kirkland has taken portraits of some 200 cinematographers who have been featured in the monthly Kodak On Film advertising campaign, which appears in American Cinematographer and other trade publications.
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Mother Nature, in the form of Hurricane Sandy, came knocking at my city, my door, my life.
On that first day of battering winds, it seemed like a great idea to wait for the storm's retreat by spending the day cooking. The problem was the 12 story high construction crane swaying outside the window. When it wasn't shimming side-to-side, it was pivoting like a child's weather vane.
To super-size my anxiety, the news carried regular coverage of a crane that partially collapsed at an uptown construction site and remained dangling dangerously above the neighborhood, causing a multi-block evacuation. I was hypnotized by this pending disaster, but I pulled back to distract myself in another way.
I secured myself at the opposite end of the apartment to clean out and reorganize my closet. The act was calming and cleansing–and somehow it reignited my interest in food and beverages. With the help of the chatter on Twitter, a cocktail seemed liked the right way to welcome a stormy afternoon. The question was what to make.
We had fresh pears from an upstate NY farm stand, so something seasonal was appealing. Ginger is a comforting flavor for me, and on this particular day of high anxiety, I doubled up the effort to achieve a calmer state. This light cocktail, both in flavor and color, temporarily brightened our lives … until the power went out in Manhattan later that evening.
White Ginger
Yield: 1 cocktail
Glassware: Lowball glass
6 oz (90 ml) Ginger-Pear mixer1-1/2 oz (45 ml) Canton (ginger liquor)1/2 oz (15 ml) gin1/4 teaspoon lemon juice, freshly squeezedCrystalized ginger, for garnish
1. Add mixer, Canton, gin and lemon juice to a shaker filled with ice. Cap the shaker and shake vigorously until well combined, about 20-30 secs.
2. Pour content into a lowball glass with some of the ice cubes, garnish with crystalized ginger (if using), serve chilled.
1. Asian pear lends a more refreshing sweetness to the cocktail, while bosc pear gives a stronger pear flavor.
2. Adjust the quantity of ginger to your liking. You may also add freshly squeezed ginger juice for an extra kick.
Pear-Ginger Mixer
Yield: 3 cups (750 ml)
1 asian pear, peeled, cored and chopped
1 bosc pear, peeled, cored and chopped1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar8 slices of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped2 cups (500ml) water
1. Place all ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat, stir occasionally. Let it simmer for just a couple minutes.
2. Remove from heat and let it steep for 45 minutes or overnight. Pour content into a blender and pureed. Strain mixer into a clean container. Refrigerate until ready to use.
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Modern econometrics is fundamentally based on assuming – usually without any explicit justification – that we can gain causal knowledge by considering independent variables that may have an impact on the variation of a dependent variable. This is however, far from self-evident. Often the fundamental causes are constant forces that are not amenable to the kind of analysis econometrics supplies us with. As Stanley Lieberson has it in his modern classic Making It Count:
One can always say whether, in a given empirical context, a given variable or theory accounts for more variation than another. But it is almost certain that the variation observed is not universal over time and place. Hence the use of such a criterion first requires a conclusion about the variation over time and place in the dependent variable. If such an analysis is not forthcoming, the theoretical conclusion is undermined by the absence of information.
Moreover, it is questionable whether one can draw much of a conclusion about causal forces from simple analysis of the observed variation … To wit, it is vital that one have an understanding, or at least a working hypothesis, about what is causing the event per se; variation in the magnitude of the event will not provide the answer to that question.
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Indeed, the inability to prove causality is a big problem in all statistics. But I think modern econometricians are well aware of the issue–for any given question in economics, there are reams and reams of research trying to assess whether or not the relationship is causal.
I would not characterize econometrics as "fundamentally based on assuming" that correlation is causal. At a fundamental level, what the theory behind econometrics does is say that if a certain theoretical relationship holds, then it will show up as correlation in the data. So what we do, pedagogically speaking, is start with a theoretical model of the economy in question, and manipulate the predicted result into a form that can be consistently estimated without all the simultaneity and other biases. The economic theory will tell us which correlations are causal and which are spurious, and econometric theory provides us with the basis for identifying each in the data, once we know what we are looking for.
I agree, however, that blindly regressing variables without a strong theoretical motivation about what is and is not causal can lead us astray.
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I've found your recent posts on statistics most refreshing. You might be interested in this paper, Regression and Causation: 'A Critical Examination of Econometric Textbooks' Chen and Pearl 2012 at: http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r395.pdf
Perl is the 2011 winner of the ACM Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning. (from Wikipedia)
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