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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has interviewed four prospective Supreme Court justices and had plans to meet with a few more as his White House aggressively mobilizes to select a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Eager to build suspense, Trump wouldn't divulge whom he's talking to in advance of his big announcement, set for July 9. But he promised that "they are outstanding people. They are really incredible people in so many different ways, academically and in every other way. I had a very, very interesting morning."
Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump met with four people for 45 minutes each Monday and will continue meetings through the rest of the week.
The interviews were with federal appeals judges Raymond Kethledge, Amul Thapar, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, said a person with knowledge of the meetings who was not authorized to speak publicly about them. The Washington Post first reported the identities of the candidates Trump spoke with.
The president spent the weekend at his Bedminster golf club, consulting with advisers, including White House counsel Don McGahn, as he considers his options to fill the vacancy with a justice who has the potential to be part of precedent-shattering court decisions on abortion, health care, gay marriage and other issues.
McGahn will lead the overall selection and confirmation process, the White House said Monday, repeating the role he played in the successful confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch last year.
McGahn will be supported by a White House team that includes spokesman Raj Shah, taking a leave from the press office to work full time on "communications, strategy and messaging coordination with Capitol Hill allies." Justin Clark, director of the Office of Public Liaison, will oversee White House coordination with outside groups.
Trump's push came as the Senate's top Democrat tried to rally public opposition to any Supreme Court pick who would oppose abortion rights. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a campaign-season call to action for voters to prevent such a nominee by putting "pressure on the Senate," which confirms judicial nominees.
With Trump committed to picking from a list of 25 potential nominees that he compiled with guidance from conservatives, Schumer said any of them would be "virtually certain" to favor overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that affirmed women's right to abortion. They would also be "very likely" to back weakening President Barack Obama's 2010 law that expanded health care coverage to millions of Americans, he said.
Schumer said that while Democrats don't control the Senate — Republicans have a 51-49 edge — most senators back abortion rights. In an unusually direct appeal to voters, he said that to block "an ideological nominee," people should "tell your senators" to oppose anyone from Trump's list.
"It will not happen on its own," the New Yorker wrote in an opinion column in Monday's New York Times. "It requires the public's focus on these issues, and its pressure on the Senate."
Schumer's column appeared a day after Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she would oppose any nominee she believed would overturn Roe v. Wade. Collins, who appeared on ABC's "This Week" and CNN's "State of the Union," said she would only back a judge who would show respect for settled law such as the Roe decision, which has long been anathema to conservatives.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters in Ashland, Kentucky, on Monday that "it's probably going to be close; I think there will be a big, national campaign rage. But in the end, I'm confident we'll get the judge confirmed."
During his 2016 campaign and presidency, Trump has embraced anti-abortion groups and vowed to appoint federal judges who will favor efforts to roll back abortion rights. But he told reporters on Friday that he would not question potential high-court nominees about their views on abortion, saying it was "inappropriate to discuss."
Without Kennedy, the high court will have four justices picked by Democratic presidents and four picked by Republicans, giving Trump the chance to shift the ideological balance toward conservatives for years to come. Both Chief Justice John Roberts and Gorsuch, Trump's first pick to the high court, have indicated more broadly that they respect legal precedent.
Trump has said he is focusing on up to seven potential candidates, including two women, to fill the vacancy being left by Kennedy, a swing vote on the nine-member court.
Currently the court has three women justices, all appointed by Democrats. Court watchers have been discussing the prospect of a conservative woman on the bench.
Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, said she did not think picking a woman was "the top concern" of Trump, stressing judicial philosophy and experience. But she added, "If he does end up nominating a woman, she can stand on her own accomplishments."
Anna Chu, vice president for strategy and policy at the National Women's Law Center, said she was concerned that a female pick could be a kind of "Trojan horse."
"What's important in addition to increasing diversity is how that person would actually interpret law," Chu said. "There are real stakes here. You could be a woman and not be fair minded."
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Federal Procurement System: Pigs and Makeup
No matter how much makeup we put on the federal procurement system (pig), the underlying animal is still a pig
Federal Procurement System: Pigs and Makeup
By Dr. Sam Clovis —— Bio and Archives—June 25, 2018
As I wrote this piece, the United States Air Force was sponsoring a conference on innovation. The meeting was held in Las Vegas and those attending were folks who can make a difference in the acquisition of war fighting material for our front line warriors. The reports I received on the meeting were encouraging, but I have horrible memories of countless meetings, conferences and consortia dealing with exactly the same set of issues I first encountered over 30 years ago when I was assigned for duty in the Pentagon. I suspect, however, that the bureaucracy, legal structure and influence of special interests probably pre-dated my first encounters with the Leviathan known as the federal acquisition system. Upon cursory investigation, one is struck by how little things have changed. In fact, one might advance the notion that things are much worse today.
The defense federal acquisition system, has become more hind bound, litigious, bureaucratic and inefficient
This current burr under my saddle started innocently enough three years ago in a Beverly Hills hotel. The Trump campaign team had landed in Los Angeles to prepare for the Republican Party debate to be held on the Reagan ranch. Early one morning, an individual who had made contact with the campaign was due to come in for a meeting with me. He arrived promptly on time and then proceeded to outline a series of initiatives he thought would benefit the campaign and the administration if our candidate were to win. He sought nothing from the meeting other than to leave a placeholder for some very good ideas concerning technology and this nation's warfighters. The fellow with whom I was meeting was a soon-to-be-retired Marine fighter pilot (with whom I could relate easily) who looked like he could still pose for the recruiting poster. From that meeting on, he volunteered his time and resources to doing all he could to make sure our warfighters were getting the best available equipment and information so that their lethality—and security—would be optimized for battlefield conditions. My buddy T-Mac became a regular in my countless meetings across the country, all the time volunteering and not taking a dime in support or compensation. What we found in our collaboration has led us to a great deal of frustration, and now is the time for us to blow the whistle on several issues. No matter how much makeup we put on the federal procurement system (pig), the underlying animal is still a pig. In other words, the federal procurement system must change or our warfighters will continue to be shortchanged, under-armed and vulnerable.
The federal procurement system, in particular the defense federal acquisition system, has become more hind bound, litigious, bureaucratic and inefficient. Lawyers and bureaucrats are the key decision makers and not warriors and trained acquisition officers. There is little real competition for procurement contracts because the largest corporations have the economies of scale to withstand the horrific procurement system that mid-tier and smaller companies cannot overcome. The barriers to entry—cooked into the procurement stew—make meaningful competition (and timely delivery) almost impossible. One might understand how this system might be beneficial when one is talking about the next cruiser, fighter or main battle tank. It makes absolutely no sense when it comes to areas where the cycle time for technical advances is weeks, not years. Thus, one should be able to place the best technology in the hands of our warriors in a timely manner. Examples of outdated technology being procured because the system takes three years to complete instead of three months are legion. The hoops to jump through and boxes to check along the way seriously limit the technologically advanced tools available on the front lines.
Fixing the horrible federal procurement systemNot to throw anyone in the White House under the bus, but it is hard to find evidence that the President's Office of American Innovation has done very much to help fix the system. The perception is that a bunch of rich guys sitting around a conference table in Washington is good enough to get people thinking about ways to fix the horrible federal procurement system. To date, there is little to indicate that anything has been accomplished. Three of the original six members of this task force are no longer in the White House so one wonders if, given all the other things going on around the country and the world, anything is really likely to come out of this initiative. Unfortunately, the halls of many a federal building are filled with the smelly, rotting carcasses of good ideas. Further, one should not trust anything that comes out of Silicon Valley, given the rampant animus shown for this administration and the ridiculous price points one encounters when buying their products.
There are things that can be done to change the system that cost taxpayer's national treasure and warfighters their blood. The first, and perhaps most difficult change, is to seek and install leaders into procurement organizations. In the three years that T-Mac and I banged around DC on behalf of the campaign and the administration, the most prevalent deficiency in government was leadership. Why is leadership so important? Because leaders are needed to transform organizational cultures and systems to meet mission demands. Leaders who have the courage and the will to stand up to the deep state, special interests and bureaucratic inertia are hard to find and even harder to get confirmed in positions that matter (on this point, I have flight test data). One would think that Congress would be all over this, but special interests fund their campaigns and it is not in the interest of special interests to change the competition equation.
Second, federal agencies need to pilot programs that squelch "lowest cost, technically acceptable" procurement policies. Procurement criteria should certainly be based on technical requirements, but value to the warfighter, timeliness, scalability, etc., should also be considered. Small and mid-tier companies that have demonstrated agility should be given special consideration in these procurements.
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Third, the Department of Defense should narrow the number of weapons systems being sought and make the ones that are in the pipeline or are about to enter the pipeline the best they can be. One should learn lessons from past wars to reinforce this point. The Germans in World War Two had hundreds of vehicle models, thus creating a great deal of variety, but also limiting the amount of interchangeability that would have simplified battlefield maintenance and logistics. The Russians had fewer, simpler vehicles and mastered this concept during the Great Patriotic War. This simple difference may have been the difference between winning and losing on the Eastern Front.
Finally, those charged with strategic planning for this nation's security should do all they can to see into the future to build capabilities for the next war, not the last one. Though these planners may not be able to nail down specifics of the next war, they can certainly look back in history to gain the sound, time-proven principles that would inform their efforts. Winston Churchill often mused that for one to see into the future, one should look back in history. The further one looks back, the better the vision of what is to come.
My buddy and I are going to stay on this topic until we see some movement that is meaningful. Our generation is out of uniform, but our children and grandchildren are stepping up, so we need to do all we can to make sure they are truly the best equipped, best trained and most capable military the world has ever seen. Until next time.
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28 June - 3 July 2015: Studying their life-worlds, doing fieldwork & writing ethnographies
"Tribe" is an administrative category in India comprising some 100 million people. Politically and academically it is a contested concept. When it comes to the tribal people of India a lot has been written about their alleged backwardness and about politics, much less about their cultures based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork.Our three-fold focus will be the study of tribal cultures, how ethnographic fieldwork has been and can be done and how it can be discussed and recorded. We will, firstly, present and discuss the worldviews, rituals and social forms of selected Indian tribal societies. Second, we will discuss the complex process of doing fieldwork, its modes, challenges, chances and problems. Finally, we will reflect on how to write about these cultures and our experience with these cultures.
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A Reply to "Wealth Inequality in America" YouTube Video
Interesting video. I love infographics. However, there are a few notable problems with this video:
1. The difference between earned income and net worth
I think the common man has a hard time understanding when the narrator speaks of wealth – he means net worth. There is a big difference between net worth and earned income.
Many of those folks in the top 10% of that video earned a janitors wage during their lifetime, but they lived well below their means, delayed gratification and invested wisely. We would not want to dis-incentivize saving or demonize such people.
If we want to speak of inequality, I don't think that net worth is a good econometric. Once one has amassed a significant amount of wealth, it becomes significantly easier to multiply that wealth. Somewhere along the way there is a tipping point. This is why Universities seek to be endowed and why Harvard is a glorified Hedge Fund (read here). The most basic tenet of capitalism is compounding money likes to compound more. Further, some of those top 1% folks have had money compounding for generations – think Vanderbilt's, Carnegie's, and Walton's. Most of this wealth is from investment income which has nothing to do with differentials in wage.
We've got at least 237 years of capitalism (if we date its age by Adam Smith's, The Wealth of Nations). That is a lot of time for wealthy families to grow their net worth's through investment – so this serves to muddy the waters on "economic inequality."
2. The law of diminishing returns – Michael Jordan vs. Kurt Rambis
I would posit that one is not paid for "time." We often measure our pay by the unit of time, but the reality is we are not paying people for "time." What we really pay people is for "value." Consider Michael Jordan and Kurt Rambis:
When we consider the law of diminishing returns – say Michael Jordan (30.1ppg, 6.2 rpg, 5.3 apg, 2.4 spg, .8 bpg) and Kurt Rambis (10.2 ppg, 11 rpg, 2.1 apg, 1.7 spg, 1 bpg). Rambis had more blocks and rebounds per game than Jordan, but Jordan had 3x the points and more steals and assists. At best, we can say from a "time" standpoint that Michael Jordan (1985-1998; 2001-2003) was 3x as valuable per unit of "time" than Kurt Rambis (1985-1994).
Kurt Rambis made $5,300,000 in his career – an average of $662,500/yr. Michael Jordan made $90,235,000 – an average of $6,941,154/yr. At Rambis' height he earned $1.1 million/yr and Jordan $33.1 million/yr. I don't think anyone would have questioned the value that Jordan added and that he "earned" every bit of his 30x multiplier of Rambis' salary. Consider that Jerry Reinsdorf (and the rest of a syndicate) purchased the Chicago Bulls in 1985 for $16 million. The franchise today is valued between $500 and 800 million.
Now Michael Jordan's net worth is estimated between $500-650 million because of his other income from endorsements and investments. I don't think anyone would argue that Michael Jordan earned every bit of his half billion net worth and justified his wage differential and his net worth differential versus Kurt Rambis. Three times the production over the same time period is significant – significant enough to justify substantial wage increases.
3. Every field has its Michael Jordan's
The late Steve Jobs was brilliant to say the least. His ideas, attention to detail, simplicity and intuitive design have enriched millions of people's lives. His track record at Pixar and Apple are legendary. We can go on down the line – Warren Buffett, Dale Carnegie, Sam Walton…
All of these people took risks, substantial risks, to become business owners. For better or for worse the world runs on incentive. For these folks they took the risk of business ownership onto their own shoulders and built something great. Why would we want to turn their success stories into an example of injustice. Many of these folks have made huge philanthropic contributions to humanity and society – arguably having a far greater impact per dollar than the government programs that would have redistributed said wealth.
4. We all need a market that rewards risk taking… especially all us little people (janitors, laborers… etc.)
There must be enough incentive in a system for people with business ideas to take on the risk of business ownership. If the potential for upside is not there, people will not take entrepreneurial risk. Not everyone is wired to take on this kind of risk. That said, all of us wage earners owe a bit of gratitude that someone took on the risk of starting the company you work for.
I would posit that a worker's wage is worth whatever an employer will pay. Wage is subject to scarcity in the same way that precious metals, spices, real estate or many other categories. In the workforce not everyone has the same skills and not everyone adds the same value. Some people add exponentially more value and have far greater scarcity in their skill set. The market tends to reflect this in wage's within a business or organization.
5. The (potential) myth of the middle ground
I can't support with graphs and hard data the claims of this point. I would posit that there is precious little middle ground between socialism and capitalism. I presume that the narrator's solution is wealth redistribution through taxation in order to create a more robust middle and lower class. Cutting half the upside of the top 20% would have a devastating effect on employment. The effect would almost assuredly be monotonic – ie. cut the upside by half and half as many entrepreneurs attempt to start their business ideas. The narrator is talking about taking a much larger cut out of top 20% and huge upside out of the top 1%.
Why would we want to take money out of the hands of people who have a proven track record of creating jobs and multiplying wealth?
I just am not sure if the ideal or even perceptive views are even logically possible in reality. I am not sure there is enough upside for the top 20% to cause them to take their risks in the U.S. markets. They would move into other markets that have a much better risk/reward quotient.
I think I get the sentiment of something like this video: Why such huge differences in net worth? It offends people's sense of fairness. I get the whole objections of people that add little value, do bad/evil things and get rewarded handsomely for behaving badly. The abuses of Wall Street, large banks and other institutions that have put our financial system at serious risk.
Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. It's good to know that tremendous upside exists at all. It makes me want to acquire new skills, more scarce skills and to keep thinking about new entrepreneurial ideas. It also makes me want to help the lower 40% grow in their skills, how they see themselves, and develop the value that they can add in a business.
Best Links of the Week
Thorough article analyzing "Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science" (HT: Nancy Pearcey)
50 pictures of some pretty crazy church architectures (HT: HG)
Christian-ese that should be put to rest
Scathing anecdotal piece of UCC minister complaining about all the conversations with people who are "spiritual but not religious"
Thank you for sharing, spiritual but not religious sunset person. You are now comfortably in the norm for self-centered American culture, right smack in the bland majority of people who find ancient religions dull but find themselves uniquely fascinating.
Sad but true comic: "The Evolution of Intellectual Freedom" (HT: BL)
I always look forward to 9Marks eJournals, this one entitled, "How Much Should You Pay Your Pastors?" was particularly good.
NYTimes article, "One Size Fits Nobody" on the crazy world of (women's) clothing sizes
Thrice new single, "Promises"
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Forbes, of all places, has a really interesting piece entitled, "The Seminary Bubble," which points out some real weaknesses to the seminary model of ministerial preparation.
IMF forecast shows Chinese economy eclipsing the U.S. economy in 2016
Cold War era abandoned monuments in Yugoslavia – some pretty incredible photos of some fascinating pieces
Trevin Wax deconstructs a good number of widely promulgated but fictitious/dubious sermon illustrations/factoids – of note: Gehenna as a burning trash dump outside of Jerusalem, the high priest rope around the ankle bit, NASA accounting for the missing day
Kevin DeYoung has a real nice piece on Business (Profit, Product, People, Principles)
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones weighs in on video preaching (in a way) – there is a certain metaphysics of presence that I think Lloyd-Jones is onto here – it may be empirically difficult to state what is lost, but there is certainly an opportunity cost worth weighing
California has over 100,000 illegal immigrants in it's prison system at a cost of $34,000 per year per person (Texas spends an average of $12,000 per inmate)
Waiting times at a three year high in England for healthcare – still want a government 14 trillion in debt becoming your health insurance company and provider? Diseconomy of scale!
Some beginning to call for Uncle Sam to raid your Roth IRAs for more tax revenue
Durham, NC man who sold fake "gluten free" products sentenced to eleven years in prison
David Brooks has a nice op-ed in NYT entitled "Creed or Chaos" giving some nice analysis to Africa
William Buckley interview of Hugh Heffner on Judeo-Christian Sexual Ethics (1966):
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Pretty intense video of Tuscaloosa tornado as it goes over University Mall:
Best Links of the Week
Recent test at CERN shows some evidence of new atomic/subatomic element(s). The data is statistically significant at 3 standard deviations so far, however, the gold standard in particle physics and astrophysics is five standard deviations. Hence, some have remained cautious about the findings thus far. In a similar vein, here is an interesting piece on neutrinos.
Two shot in British nuclear submarine. Reminds me of Capt. Rameus' classic line, "Be careful what you shoot at in here… some things don't react to kindly to bullets"
Stephen Moore writes in WSJ, "We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers"
Fascinating case of a baby born at 21 weeks, 9.5 inches long, and less than 10 ounces… and still going strong.
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Ben Bernanke and FED sought to hide that TARP money went to foreign banks
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12 year old whiz kid talks about astrophysics
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John Piper gives a few thoughts regarding what Koran burning is analogous to and what it is not analogous to.
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Pastor Accused of Denying Communion to Churchgoers who Didn't Give Tax Refunds
Scott Walker explains in WSJ Why I'm Fighting in Wisconsin
Chad Ochocinco trying out for Kansas City's MLS soccer club
There Aren't Enough Millionaires… (to cover our fiscal/deficit woes)
Hedge Funds had large plays against Japanese economy before earthquake/tsunami
Alan Greenspan says Obama Administration is "Too Active" in Economy.
Possible use of Large Hadron Collider as a time machine?
Obama Budget Underestimates Deficits by $2 Trillion
Kevin DeYoung has a thorough review of Rob Bell's "Love Wins"
Devastating article examining the essay grading industry
Kindle to be free by the 4th Quarter of 2011?
Journalist grills Rob Bell:
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Salon.com founder Laura Miller has a scathing, yet sadly true, piece on the status of the Bible amongst evangelicals: "The Rise and Fall of the Bible"
American Christians buy millions of Bibles they seldom read and don't understand.
Mubarak evidently fell into a coma after leaving Cairo. Does this mark anyone else as strange?
2010 Income Statement for the U.S. Government (58% of budget for entitlement programs [SS, Medicare/Medicaid/Unemployoment; 20% defense spending]).
Radio program claims they have revealed Coco-Cola's secret formula. Apparently, the secret ingredient "Merchandise 7x" consists of alcohol, orange oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, coriander, neroli and cinnamon.
Doug Wilson has a nice piece on collective bargaining.
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Interesting piece on Sarah Palin and feminism.
Bernie Madoff accuses federal government of being a Ponzi Scheme (and I can't say I really disagree with him).
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are going away and the PIMCO CEO wants to raise rates on 30 year mortgages by 3% across the board.
How you can be praying for Christians in Egypt.
"How Much Information Did God Put in Your DNA?" (HT: Justin Taylor and Joe Carter)
U.S. debt is now equal to value of the U.S. economy.
Excellent brief biography by Tim Challies on Eric Liddell – part one and part two.
The fallacy of green job creation.
Denny Burk points out some interesting inconsistencies between fetal abortion and fetal surgery. It does become a bit absurd that doctors will both fight to save and fight to end babies in the same stage of pregnancy.
Paradigm shift coming in domain name suffixes.
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So last month was a big deal for me, I spent 2 glorious weeks in Riviera Maya, Mexico and just before that I got married to my best mate and love of my life. I would be nothing without her.
While enjoying the sun, sea, tequila, sand, food, tequila, the Mayan ruins, tequila and Coco Bongos (greatest nightclub ever)….oh and tequila….. I noticed something.
Magazines at first, then tv and film and then games…. so much is poorly supported or translated into Spanish for the locals. If you don't speak or understand English you really are at a disadvantage in this area of the world (which is probably the same for many places but this is where I am right now).
Translation from one language to another is not much of a big deal in this day and age – google almost has that down tight – so when you read the headlines of a magazine in both English and Spanish, and you know enough Spanish to read it without issue….you notice that they both say something similar yet phrased incorrectly and thus displaying the wrong intention or description. Misleading and representing people falsely.
Now the magazine in question was a bit of celebrity tripe but none the less it irritated me more than most, probably down to the fact that I'm Welsh and a typical translation app or program gets it wrong 80% of the time too.
So, this stuck with me… the irking multiplied then when I switched on a little tv while waiting for my new wife to get ready for night on the Mexican tiles. What I was treated to was at first a humorous Spanish dub of "Friends" with not only marginally accurate translation but also unfitting or as I said, humorous or comedic voices. Voices that seem more at home on the face of a 70's stereotypical cartoon villain. The kind of voice you roll your eyes at in disbelief due to its over-the-top attempt at being casual or dramatic. Gerard Butler's efforts at an American accent or Mel Gibson during "Braveheart".
It begs belief how this kind of humiliation is allowed let alone thought to be considered adequate.
I thought to craft a little experiment. Using a few select games already installed on my phone, I dropped into the settings and changed the language to Spanish and got on with it.
Now I can't say it's the same across the board, across all games, genres and languages but of the 5 games I tested I did spot the same trend. Those same voices and the same almost accurate translation.
At this point I felt greatly underwhelmed and sad. Sad at the fact that anyone not from a county where one of the major spoken languages is dominant is missing out on this beloved entertainment medium. Gaming is about immersive escape, about ignoring the world around to be enthralled within another reality, about experiencing something you could not in life.
But that key ingredient was sapped out, my quick escape was sabotaged by that bloody voice again! As if voices by a spaghetti western bandelero…
Upon returning back the homeland, the lush green valleys of Wales, I tried again on a few steam games but in the only other language I know a little of. French.
This time is was treated to nearly the same experience. The translations were – as best I could manage – spot on but the dubbed voices were again humorous.
So in short, I feel there needs to be much more effort in dispensing top quality content and entertainment to the world. More heart needs to go into replicating the original atmosphere and depth that we see being delivered day in and day out back home.
This was bad enough to the point in which it made me feel guilty for enjoying my games.
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Thirty four years on this earth and I'm changing. More cautious if not hesitant in who I open up to. My heart and feelings are all I have to relinquish and as freely as I'm prepared to do so I realize the importance of honesty in the handling of something valuable and priceless to me. Let's get personal for a moment. Hurt is familiar as the air we breathe, toxic as the energy fed on us from unhappiness laced with hatred. Exposed to wrong doings, misunderstandings as it translates to wanting the inevitable damn near impossible brink of the "ever after" we all deserve. Accepting the realization of truth…. living the lesson of experience versus interpreting theories based on other's choices, which we should not pursue.
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Last night on Australia's Got Talent:
Singer Olina Loau's powerhouse performance of 'Never Enough' from The Greatest Showman received a standing ovation and compelled an emotional Ricki-Lee to award the fifteen-year-old schoolgirl from Western Sydney her Golden Buzzer.
Olina explained how her mum left when she was nine, with no answers, leaving her dad to fend for the family. It was a hard time financially, so they moved in with her Aunt Helen who has been there for Olina ever since.
Nicole: "That was so beautiful. You remind of like a little Moana up there. You have such a massive voice for only 15. It's such a difficult song, you did it effortlessly. You should be so proud."
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EDDIE WILLIAMS – Strongman Singer
Nicole: "Oh my gosh that was so clever, so unexpected and I just love you."
Shane: "You are just the best bits of what every man should be because you have strength, but you have heart. You put both of them on display and if men could do that more, I think the world might be a little bit better."
FUN SIZE CREW – Junior Dance Crew
Nicole: "This is the first group where every single person does flips synchronised."
Shane: "You guys are a class act at a very young age. Every single one of you was amazing."
JEREMY READING – Balloon Modeller
Nicole: "I don't think I've ever focussed my ch'i so hard on balloons in my life."
Shane: "Take that Simon Cowell."
AKIRA – Comedic Dancer
Nicole: "I just arrived from LA you guys and… this country is a little sick. What have I signed onto?"
Lucy: "I think I just hallucinated but I liked it."
Shane: "My favourite things on the planet are entertainment and laughter and you just gave us both of those."
Manu: "I think fart jokes are the best jokes in the world."
CAPTAIN RUIN – Knife Thrower
Lucy: "That was just absolute skill and it was terrifying and it was the scariest and kind of sexiest thing I've seen on this show and it was incredible."
Shane: "That was absolute lunacy. I haven't gotten all my breath back yet."
Lucy Durack – Blind singer/pianist PAUL KAPELERIS, Sydney
Ricki-Lee – Fifteen-year-old singer OLINA, Sydney
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Tatyana McFadden has 11 Paralympic medals. She won the London, Chicago and New York Marathons. But of all of those accomplishments, she described her win in the women's wheelchair race at the Boston Marathon on Monday with simple but powerful words.
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"It's been an incredible year," she said. "Coming off the Sochi Paralympics and winning a silver medal and then hopping into my chair after one day's rest to train for London, which was three weeks later, and then train for Boston. It's been an absolute whirlwind. It's been quite a journey. An emotional journey, but a fun journey."
McFadden was actually losing to Wakako Tsuchida of Japan for much of this year's marathon, but she was inspired by the crowd and was able to pull ahead and win her second Boston Marathon in a row.
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McFadden ran for Team MR8, which honored 8-year-old Martin Richard, who was killed in last year's bombing. She was able to meet the Richard family and spoke to Martin's little sister Jane, who lost her left leg.
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My main concern on reading the paper was the number of meth labs was measured as the number of meth lab seizures, which probably depends on the degree of enforcement activity by police. However, among their robustness checks the authors look at the rate of property crime and don't find it related to their measure of meth lab seizures (although it would be interesting to see whether property crime differed between the wet and dry counties systematically as well).
Onto their results, they find:
relative to wet counties, dry counties have roughly two additional meth lab seizures annually per 100,000 population. This suggests that, if all counties were to become wet, the total number of meth lab seizures in Kentucky would decline by about 25 percent.The results appear to be quite robust to the choice of measure of alcohol availability (including alcohol outlet density), and estimation method. If you dispense with the meth lab data and look at data on emergency room visits for burns (a likely consequence of amateur meth labs), then the results are similar. And they're not driven by unobserved health trends (no relationship between alcohol availability and either childhood obesity or infant mortality).
Many local councils would probably like to reduce access to alcohol. However, if Fernandez et al.'s analysis holds up for other areas, it suggests that reducing access to alcohol might make drug problems worse.
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January 30, 2012 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - "Approximately 60 percent of the world's oil supplies are under the control of the soldiers of Imam Khamenei," said Major General Naghdi, the chief commander of Iran's Basij forces.
General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, who was born in Iraq, was a member of the Iranian Quds Force involved in international terrorism before he was appointed by Ayatollah Khamenei to the post of commander of the Basij in 2009. He previously stated that Iran has no option but to destroy Israel.
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It was announced today that the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, will lead the upcoming Friday Prayers in Tehran. This signifies the importance of the current confrontation over Iran's nuclear program and the world should expect important announcement by Khamenei in response to the recent sanctions pressing the Iranian leaders for a negotiated solution.
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I'm so upset right now. Boo got hurt last night when he jumped off the couch and fell pretty hard when he landed. I don't know if it's his leg that he hurt or his back. I'm hoping it is not his back, but I just don't know.
He slept alright last night and he can walk, but very slowly. He takes tiny steps and walks with his head down. When I took him out for a walk this morning he saw another dog and got excited (as usual) so he barked and then whimpered and held his leg up. (but he continued to growl under his breath at the passing dog, so I'm thinking that's a good sign- still his little punk self.) He also gobbled up his breakfast- another good sign.
I feel awful. I have to wait until our 2pm Dr. appointment and I don't know what to do with myself, so I figured I'd write this post while he rests here next to me.
Anyone else ever have an injured pet? It's heartbreaking.. he can't even tell me what hurts him. I really hope the Dr. just has to wrap his arm in a nice blue bandage and that's it.
Isn't he the sweetest? I love him. Please be ok, Boo.


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ADELPHI – Feb. 19 marked a historic day for Prince George's County as business leaders, nonprofit organizations and the county government joined forces to address the issue of increasing health care access for the county's most underserved residents. "No issue is more important than making quality health care accessible to those in our community who […]
ADELPHI – Feb. 19 marked a historic day for Prince George's County as business leaders, nonprofit organizations and the county government joined forces to address the issue of increasing health care access for the county's most underserved residents.
"No issue is more important than making quality health care accessible to those in our community who need it most," County Executive Rushern Baker III said. "Bringing together government, not-for-profit and business resources is an essential part of achieving this objective, and I'm pleased that leaders from each of these sectors within Prince George's County are committed to working together to develop solutions to this fundamental need. I want to thank Walmart and the Walmart Foundation for their support of this important effort."
Baker and representatives from the county Health Department, Doctors Community Hospital, Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care gathered at the Prince George's Child Resource Center on Riggs Road to discuss various initiatives.
Wal-Mart and the Wal-Mart Foundation awarded grants and presented a check to Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care, Prince George's Child Resource Center and Doctor Community Hospital's new mobile health clinic "Wellness on Wheels."
"We're pleased to have the opportunity to work with local governmental agencies and exceptional not-for-profits to help transform the lives of people in need," Walmart Director of Community Affairs Nina Albert said in a press release. "Programs like those operated by the Prince George's County Health Department, Doctors Community Hospital, Mary's Center and the Prince George's Child Resource Center provide essential services to friends, neighbors and fellow residents. It's an honor to play a part in supporting their honorable missions and promoting the outstanding work they do every day."
After the check presentations, the crowd moved outdoors to witness the unveiling of Wellness on Wheels, which will be operated by Doctors Community Hospital in partnership with the Prince George's County Health Department.
"It's a low-cost way of getting services to folks who have chronic diseases," Doctors Community Hospital Chief Operating Officer Paul Grenaldo said. "And they find themselves sometimes abusing the system because they'll resort to the highest cost emergency room as opposed to getting that healthcare and taking care of themselves in their community."
Wellness on Wheels will carry healthcare professionals to different locations within the county and provide medical services to underserved residents who live in communities where health disparities are above the national or regional average. Grenaldo said the mobile clinic will travel "all throughout the health enterprise zone," which is Capitol Heights, Largo, Piscataway, Greenbelt and Riverdale Park.
Walmart and the Walmart Foundation is providing $100,000 in funding for the mobile clinic's first year of operations. Services offered through the mobile unit to residents age 16 and older include diabetes screenings, cholesterol screenings, blood pressure screenings and medication education. Baker said health plays a "key role" in public safety, education and economic development.
"I think one of the contributing factors for people not graduating or people not doing well (in school) is because many times, health concerns go undiagnosed much like hunger," Baker said. "So having the ability to bring these resources together to have the impact on those and to make sure people are healthy and well so when they're out there in the world, they can function properly."
The Walmart Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care to further the center's mission of providing health care, education and social services to county residents in need. Walmart donated more than 8,000 diapers on Feb. 19 to the diaper bank and the Walmart Foundation awarded more than $55,000 to Prince George's Child Resource Center.
"The diapers are to load up the diaper bank, the Wellness on Wheels (grant money) was to outfit the mobile van and then the $50,000 for Mary's Center was to provide primary care services at their Adelphi clinic," Albert said.
"We know that there are families out there that are in crisis that just need a little bit of help to get over that hump," said Marti Worshtil, Prince George's Child Resource Center executive director. "We are not supplying diapers to a family for a year, we're just helping them. So while they're coming in to get the diapers, we'll also be able to hook them up with community resources."


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Police have been asked to step up patrols after several bins were stolen and set alight in the Mourneview area.
Local MLA Carla Lockhart has said the thefts have to stop.
She said: "It's a dangerous criminal activity and one that could cause severe damage to property.
"A number of bins have been stolen in the Mourneview area and set alight."
Ms Lockhart added: "It would appear that a group of individuals think it is humorous to commit this type of criminal activity.
"To steal a bin from a household and set it on fire is a dangerous activity and one that must be stopped by the PSNI.
"These people involving themselves in this type of behaviour need to face the consequences of the law.
"My fear is that a young person could be seriously injured or that a property could take with causing untold damage abs potential loss of life.
"I have asked the PSNI to increase patrols in the area. I am also pleased that a number of people have came forward with information concerning those involved in this activity and to highlight areas where large groups are congregating.
"Anyone with any information please come forward and report it. Also please be vigilant and keep a particular eye on your elderly neighbours. I would also thank the Council for their assistance in this regard."


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Women's ice hockey has never been big, especially in the South, but while improvements have been made, there still aren't many opportunities to advance post-college. The options are slim to none. Besides the Olympics, there are only two professional women's ice hockey leagues: The National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) and The Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL), consisting of four and six teams, respectively. That's a maximum of less than 250 professional women's ice hockey players. Total. At least for the U.S., Canada, and China.
23-year-old Cary, NC native, Colleen Murphy was lucky enough to be picked as one of these professional women's ice hockey players when she was officially drafted to the Buffalo Beauts of the NWHL on July 21.
Coming from North Carolina, Murphy started her hockey career first with boy's roller hockey at age 8 and then transitioned to boy's ice when the Hurricanes became more prevalent in 2002. However, eventually, Murphy had to move to girls in order to proceed with the game.
She first started with the Montgomery Blue Devils, traveling from Cary, NC to Montgomery, Maryland every week for games and practices.
"When I first played with my first girl's team, my first girl's game with Montgomery, I was not good at all because I couldn't differentiate the game because it was so different and I should've been handling the puck more, skating with the puck more in girls, but that was just not what I was used to," Murphy said. "It took a while."
Murphy continued to play boys while she played girls ice hockey, typically preferring playing boys, but she knew it couldn't last. Her freshman year of high school, Murphy was recruited to play for the North American Hockey Academy (NAHA) in Stowe, VT- a school whose objectives are to provide an alternative route for elite female hockey players to receive an excellent education while participating in a high performance hockey program.
Murphy played all four years at NAHA before being recruited to Northeastern University in Boston, MA where she won the Hockey East Championships her freshman year, and back to back Beanpot tournaments in 2012 and 2013.
But after graduating college in 2015, Murphy decided she was done with such a highly competitive style of play. She joined two adult men's leagues as well as the women's Carolina ACES, who have now become the Lady Hurricanes.
"I could've played after college in the league (NWHL), but I was done," Murphy said. "I wanted to go home, start my career. I needed a break. I was completely ready to be like 'I'm done, I'm gonna play for fun.'"
Though, playing "for fun" only lasted so long for Colleen Murphy as she starts practicing with the Buffalo Beauts at the beginning of October.
Robbie and Witley Nichols along with friend and ACES teammate as well as goalie for the Buffalo Beauts, Kelsey Neumann got Murphy to the point she's at now- headed for the big leagues and playing as a defenseman for the reigning champions, the Buffalo Beauts.
When asked about it, Murphy said, "It was actually kind of random… I had a conversation with Robbie and Witley about the NWHL and if I had a chance to play in it. For awhile, Kelsey's kind of been like 'come play with us, come play with us,' and I've been like 'I don't want to play,' like I'm completely ready to just have fun down here (NC), play hockey down here, and do whatever. 'Cause I don't wanna play that competitively or move from NC."
But one day, Murphy revisited the "so she thought" far-fetched idea of the Buffalo Beauts to Neumann via text.
"Somehow it came up again and I was like 'just out of curiosity,' I was like 'uh, it'd kind of be cool to play again.' Because the hockey down here with the girl's Hurricanes is fun, but I miss the competition and the level. It's competitive to an extent and it's fun, but I missed the other side of the game," Murphy said.
From there, it was simple. Murphy was put in touch with Buffalo Beauts' coaches Craig Muni and Ric Seiling, and they quickly took her up on her offer to play- Murphy assuming her Northeastern experience said enough along with former teammates who are close contacts with the coaches.
Women's hockey in North Carolina, and in the South, and in general, still isn't huge, but people like Colleen Murphy are the ones who are making the difference.
Murphy said one of the biggest things for her going into her professional ice hockey career is to show the girls down here that even though you can only go so far, it's worth it if you have the drive to play.
"My goal is just to challenge myself and see if I can come out of retirement and do this and make an impact and have fun playing the highest level of hockey, because I missed it so much," Murphy said. "But also, for me, it's a big thing to go out and get as much publicity for the NWHL and the Buffalo team as much as I can."
Murphy said she wants to show the girls in North Carolina, "Like, 'hey, I wasn't really playing this high of level for the past two years, but if you train really hard and you want to do something, you can still go and do it.'"
Murphy's first game with the Buffalo Beauts is scheduled for October 28 against the Connecticut Whale.


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Two popular actresses from South India- Jayaprada and Jayasudha are likely to contest forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The two actresses are closest friends and have acted together in a number of films like "Adavi Ramudu," opposite late NT Rama Rao and "Meghasandesam," with late Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
Jayasudha is now a Congress MLA from the Secunderabad constituency in Andhra Pradesh.'
Jayaprada on 10 March 2014 joined Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) of Ajit Singh who is the Union Aviation Minister in the current UPA government, say media reports. She joined the RLD along with her political mentor Amar Singh.
Amar Singh, who is going to contest from Fatehpur Sikri, is advocating the division of Uttar Pradesh for its development and better administration. Jayaprada is to contest from Bijnor constituency in the same UP.
In the last Lok Sabha elections, Jayaprada won from Rampur constituency in UP on a Samajwadi Party (SP) ticket. Both Amar and Jayaprada were expelled from SP for anti-party activities.
Jayaprada made a big name in Hindi cinema and became MP from SP in Uttar Pradesh, while Jayasudha ruled the south Indian cinema, especially Tollywood and entered the Andhra Pradesh Assembly from the Secunderabad constituency.
Now, in the changed political scene, Jayasudha is said to have been with the idea of joining Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) party and contest the Malkajgiri Lok Sabha seat in Hyderabad.
Now, if Jayasudha joints TRS, she would fill the vacuum in the party that has been created with the exit of its MP Vijayashanti, another popular actress, who joined Congress recently.
Jayasudha wanted to contest from Malkajgiri constituency, as the area has people who have been migrated from Seemandhra. On its part, TRS is also striving to become closer to Hyderabad people and prove itself that it is not against the Hyderabad settlers who have migrated from Seemandhra region.
Malkajgiri has also large number of Christians. TRS wants to cash in on the population by fielding Jayasudha, who is also a Christian, besides being a popular actress. She conveted into Christianity from Hindu religion. The actress is said to have already met TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao and the outcome is yet to be announced.
TRS, which is said to be strong in Telangana districts, is looking for alliances with parties like Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) to gain roots in Hyderabad.
Now, Jayasudha's intension to join TRS will definitely help the party to spread its arena in Hyderabad's urban region. Jayasudha is still acting in Telugu films and she is married to producer Nitin Kapoor, a cousin to actor Jeetendra.
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