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- Bari Weiss wrote an article for The New York Times on the "intellectual dark web" that caused a sensation on the political left because they apparently hadn't heard of Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson. Weiss wrote this description of the intellectual dark web's leaders:
But they all share three distinct qualities. First, they are willing to disagree ferociously, but talk civilly, about nearly every meaningful subject: religion, abortion, immigration, the nature of consciousness. Second, in an age in which popular feelings about the way things ought to be often override facts about the way things actually are, each is determined to resist parroting what's politically convenient. And third, some have paid for this commitment by being purged from institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought — and have found receptive audiences elsewhere.
Matthew Continetti writes these people are actually a Coalition for Cultural Freedom:
What has come into being is not a committee or congress but a Coalition for Cultural Freedom. This wide-ranging assembly of critics opposed to the consensus that dominates the commanding heights of culture, entertainment, and media is neither centrally directed nor unified, not precisely delineated or philosophically consistent. But they do all believe in what Gaetano Mosca called "juridical defense," pluralism in opinion and institutions to guard against conformity and repression. And the fact that Kanye's heresy and Weiss' reporting were greeted with contumely, derision, outrage, and agony is evidence for the strength of such conformity, the desire for such repression.
David French believes people should be paying attention to the audience for the intellectual dark web, not its leaders:
There are millions of Americans who are deeply frustrated with an educational system that walls out their point of view, a corporate culture that's increasingly indistinguishable (particularly on social issues) from a faculty lounge, and a legacy media — including Hollywood — that's influenced by and pays homage to these same ideas and institutions. Yes, you can make an anonymous account on Twitter to engage in social-media combat, but if you live and work in these immense and powerful American institutions, you speak your mind at your own risk.
In those circumstances, a Ben Shapiro podcast or a Jordan Peterson YouTube video is a breath of fresh air. There — right there — fearlessly and eloquently stated is the other side of the story. It's inspiring (not everyone is afraid), it's informative (it frequently introduces facts not widely discussed in progressive circles), and it's often wildly entertaining. The members of the Intellectual Dark Web are just flat-out good at what they do.
There's speculation that the FBI had a source within Donald Trump's campaign that the agency has been trying to conceal.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin vetoed a constitutional carry bill. Fallin is term limited, so she won't pay a political price for this.
The NRA sued New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York's state financial regulator for engaging in a "blacklisting campaign" that discouraged financial institutions from doing business with the NRA.
The former speaker of New York's state assembly, Sheldon Silver, was convicted of federal corruption charges in a second trial. He was convicted in his first trial as well, but that conviction was thrown out after a U.S. Supreme Court case placed restrictions on corruption prosecutions.
A Chinese billionaire named Ng Lap Seng was sentenced to four years in prison for bribing U.N. officials.
Turkey arrested another 150 soldiers over alleged links to Fethullah Gulen.
Ari Lieberman offers twelve good reasons for kicking Turkey out of NATO.
Symbols of Kurdish nationalism have all but disappeared from Kirkuk after Iraqi government forces and Sunni militias captured the city.
Russia backtracked on selling S-300 ground-to-air missiles to Syria after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow.
The Taliban overran two police outposts in Afghanistan's Farah province, killing at least 32 policemen and nine Afghan soldiers.
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- The U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, surprising no one.
Some Republican congressmen are refusing to consider rolling back any part of the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, an idea floated by Donald Trump:
"My attitude is, your word is your bond," House Appropriations Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen said, in his first public comments on the Trump plan.
Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) is among more than a half-dozen appropriators who have voiced skepticism about the Trump administration's proposal to cancel billions in spending. Nearly all said they feared that it could erode the GOP's bargaining power in future budget talks. Their objections represented another low point in an often-tense relationship between the cost-cutting White House and GOP members of Congress who write spending bills.
The skeptics included the newly appointed Senate Appropriations chief, Richard Shelby, who met with Trump on Wednesday.
"We need to look at what we agreed on with the other side and keep our word, keep our agreements," the Alabama Republican told POLITICO just before his one-on-one with Trump.
- Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein allowed Congressmen Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy to read the FBI memo that kicked off the investigation into contacts between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign. Nunes had to threaten Rosenstein with impeachment to obtain access to the memo.
Congressman Steve Scalise says he won't run for Speaker of the House if Kevin McCarthy runs for the office.
The F–35 could contribute to missile defense efforts by 2025. The F–35 program has been long on promises and short on delivery for years, so this claim should be taken with a large grain of salt.
A jury found former Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX) guilty of 23 felonies.
Jenni White reports on Oklahoma teachers walking out of classrooms to force the state legislature to increase their pay — or something:
While all the usual local suspects have been deeply involved in this walkout—the Oklahoma administrators "association" CCOSA, the Association of School Boards, and school district personnel—a specific group of Oklahoma education activists have orchestrated much of the social media action. Begun in 2014 as the fight against Common Core was heating up in the state, this group quickly spun off a PAC dedicated solely to replacing "public education hating" legislators with public educators.
During both the 2014 and 2016 election cycles this group organized heavily, supporting a roster of mainly Democrats for office. Their tactics involved spreading misinformation and outright lies about more conservative candidates, while affiliated administrators and teachers used their blogs to flog dissenters. One group organizer was even tied to a dark money scandal to get Oklahoma's current superintendent elected.
Public school administrators all over the state compound these efforts using their district email systems and websites to stump for candidates and encourage parents to raise their incomes and job security. At the capitol, school administrators' associations—sustained by dues paid by public administrators, schools, and districts, who are in turn paid by taxpayers—continually lobby legislators for more education spending.
Needless to say, when a public education cabal uses a communication system funded by taxpayers to lobby against those same taxpayers while helping create PACs dedicated to electing tax-and-spend educators, any action in opposition becomes like screaming into the wind.
Federal prosecutors asked Bulgaria's government to extradite five people so they can be tried for violating the American embargo on selling aircraft parts to Syria.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) agreed with the British government's assessment that former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok.
The Taliban overran a district in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, killing the district governor along the way.
Reuters reporters toured the China/North Korea border from the Chinese side.
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- Mike Pence delivered a speech to Israel's Knesset and said the U.S. embassy will move to Jerusalem by the end of 2019.
Our day-long national nightmare of a federal government shutdown (the federal government is normally shut down on weekends, so Saturday and Sunday don't really count) is over, and the Ben Shapiro thinks the Democrats gained little:
So, what did Democrats get from this shutdown?
Here's the full list: the perception that Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had outlasted them at the negotiating table; the understanding that Democrats will be unable to fight Republicans using a government shutdown as leverage, at least on the issue of illegal immigration; the impression that Democrats care more about illegal immigrants than military members; a Democratic base that now believes the Democrats are on the run; the impression that Democrats were responsible for the shutdown.
- An oil and gas drilling rig in eastern Oklahoma blew up, and five workers are missing.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the state's congressional districts were gerrymandered to the point that they violate the state's constitution.
Megan Oprea thinks it's insane for South Korea to invite North Korea to the Winter Olympics:
Upon further reflection, however, the plans for the Olympic Games reveal themselves as ridiculous and shameful. What about the fact that North Korea is, in a sense, holding the South hostage with a massive arsenal of conventional weapons pointed at Seoul? The threat of attacking the South Korean capital is part of Pyongyang's insurance policy against the United State, or anyone else, launching a pre-emptive or preventive strike, or invading the country. Why shouldn't South Koreans be allowed to root solely for their own country — and not for the one that represents an existential threat to their capital and millions of their countrymen?
Meanwhile Japan held its first missile evacuation drills in Tokyo.
There are reports of a new chemical weapons attack in Syria.
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- The soldier who was killed in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province was Sgt. 1st Class Mihail Golin, an immigrant from Lativa. He was 34, and is survived by his wife and six year old daughter.
Donald Trump dissolved his voting integrity commission and gave the job of investigating voter fraud to the Department of Homeland Security.
Paul Manafort sued Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, claiming that Mueller's investigation has exceeded its mandate.
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold payments to the Palestinian Authority unless they resume negotiating with Israel.
An American jury found a Turkish banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla, guilty of bank fraud and violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. The jury found him not guilty of money laundering. Atilla is scheduled to be sentenced on April 11.
Congressional Republicans claim they've uncovered a FBI paper trail that shows the agency believed Hillary Clinton broke the law with her private email server, but started drafting a statement exonerating her even before they finished interviewing witnesses and serving subpoenas.
Doug Jones and Tina Smith were sworn in as senators from Alabama and Minnesota, respectively.
James Risen wrote about battling the editors and leadership of The New York Times to get his national security stories published, including his scoop on the NSA's interception of Americans' communications without a warrant.
A new California law prohibits private companies from cooperating with federal immigration officers. Companies are required to warn their employees ahead of time if federal immigration agents are coming to check their employment eligibility.
Jenni White explains why it's been so difficult to roll back Common Core in Oklahoma — it's next to impossible to defeat the bureaucracy:
I learned through this process that education policy in this country simply can't be shifted by citizens anymore because there are too many moving parts and entrenched policy makers tied to progressive education methods to have any real impact. So I quit fighting for public education.
Part of me hates that, but I was beginning to look a bit like the Elephant Man from banging my head into unmovable walls, and my husband and kids deserved more of my attention. Today, I help run our small farm, teach three classes at our homeschool co-op, and drive my kids' studies like a good natured tyrant.
If I learned anything from Common Core, I learned that local is the answer to nearly every government problem, and I turned my attention to my tiny Oklahoma town of 2,700 where, in April, I became mayor. Now I fight battles largely winnable, in a picturesque little town on a plot of land where I can see both the sunrise and sunset, and pray that national public education will get better despite the near impossibility of parents and local voters to significantly affect it.
Israel is offering to pay African illegal immigrants to leave the country. If they're still in the country at the end of March, they'll be subject to arrest.
A German study indicates violent crime grew by 10% in 2015 and 2016, and 90% of the increase was due to young male refugees.
Petrobras agreed to settle an American class action lawsuit for $2.95 billion. The case stems from the "Operation Car Wash" bribery scheme. Petrobras denied any wrongdoing.
China is reportedly building a military base in Jiwani, Pakistan, a port near the border with Iran. The facility will be both a naval and an air base.
Iran deployed the Revolutionary Guard to three provinces to put down anti-government demonstrations.
Iraqi Kurdistan agreed to take steps to prevent the PKK from crossing its border with Turkey.
Norway suspended arms sales to the United Arab Emirates over the UAE's war in Yemen.
An infamous ISIS executioner, Abu Omer, was caught in Mosul, Iraq. He's best known for throwing gay people off buildings.
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- Donald Trump thanked Vladimir Putin for ordering a reduction in the number of American diplomats in Russia because it reduced the State Department's payroll (in reality, the diplomats are being sent back to the U.S., and are not necessarily being laid off). This is one of those things that you can think to yourself, but you shouldn't say out loud. Trump has trouble with this concept.
The chattering classes have been discussing the possibility of negotiating an Iran-style nuclear deal with North Korea to discourage a war. John Daniel Davidson points out that Bill Clinton negotiated a deal with North Korea back in 1994 that's strikingly similar to Barack Obama's Iran deal. Jim Geraghty adds this:
As with the Iran deal many years later, the deal with North Korea was not a formal treaty and thus never ratified by Congress.
Of course, the North Koreans cheated; the U.S. provided oil, two light water reactors, and a new electric grid, altogether worth roughly $5 billion, in exchange for promises.
Clinton's deal resulted in North Korea possessing nuclear weapons, and Obama's deal with Iran will end the same way.
A U.S. Navy destroyer conducted another "freedom of navigation" operation in the South China Sea, sailing to within 12 miles of Mischief Reef, one of China's artificial islands.
Two of U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's top aides quit: chief of staff Steven Groves and communications director Jonathan Wachtel.
In the context of Google's firing of James Damore for "perpetuating gender stereotypes," Joy Pullmann argues that it's time to end all discrimination policies and restore equal protection:
Since Google is a private company I have no problem with them making unequal hiring and promotion rules. I am all in favor of discrimination — the freedom to set one's own criteria for making decisions — and free association, for any reason, as individuals' constitutional and natural rights. If they wanted to be an all-man or all-woman or all-black or all-Asian company, or give preferences to whatever people they feel sorry for at the moment, that's Google's business. At the level they're operating they could be an all-woman company and still have the world's best engineers, as Harvard or Stanford could since many more qualified people apply than can be admitted.
The problem is when they promise "equality" then deliver discrimination. It's this hypocrisy Damore had the temerity to point out, and for which he was fired. It's the same hypocrisy inside the famous "Animal Farm" slogan for totalitarianism: "All are equal, but some are more equal than others."
- For the Democratic Party, abortion is a positive good:
Lindy West of the New York Times recently, and similarly, insisted that unfettered access to abortion is essential to women's economic and other liberties. Hers is one of many denunciations, by party activists and progressive journalists, of the Democratic Party's decision to support pro-life Democrats running in more conservative districts. Pro-choice activists in the past decade made the leap from regarding abortion as a tragic necessity to seeing it a positive social good; West now sees it as the central guarantor of American liberty.
On some level, [John C.] Calhoun and other pro-slavery ideologues recognized that any "right" to slavery would be destroyed the moment the United States recognized that nature's law affirmed the liberty of enslaved African Americans. Lindy West similarly holds that the human and civil rights of women would be undermined if the rights of the unborn were recognized. Even to question the right to abortion is "to be, at best, indifferent to the disenfranchisement, suffering and possibly even the death of women. At worst it is to revel in those things, to believe them fundamental to the natural order." For West, abortion is the key to women's economic, political, and social rights in the United States. If abortion were to be shown to be inconsistent with the natural order, then Lindy believes every freedom gained for women would evaporate.
- A grand jury indicted Benjamin Roden for bombing an Air Force recruiting office in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Roden is a former member of the Air Force. No one was hurt in the bombing.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro affirmed that the new constituent assembly is the most powerful institution in the country, saying, "I come to recognize its plenipotentiary powers, sovereign, original and magnificent."
Cuba reportedly used a "sonic weapon" against American and Canadian diplomats, damaging their hearing. The Trump administration responded by expelling two Cuban diplomats, which seems wimpy.
British police broke up a huge child sex, prostitution, and drug ring:
As a result of a massive ongoing investigation the police have named "Operation Sanctuary," one British woman and a total of 17 men have been convicted of rape, conspiracy to incite prostitution, and illegally supplying drugs. The men, BBC notes, were from the "Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish communities and mainly British-born, with most living in the West End of Newcastle."
Israel is building an underground wall around the Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas from tunneling into Israel. The wall will extend into the Mediterranean Sea to discourage commando attacks.
Tim Tebow shakes a kid's hand, hits a three run homer:
Tim Tebow got out of the on deck circle and shook an autistic kid's hand, then crushed a three-run homer ⚾😭❤ https://t.co/UbYTGJ2EOs—
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- The plane that crashed yesterday in Mississippi was a Marine Corps KC–130, and it was transporting a Marine special operations unit to Arizona for training. All 16 people on board the plane died.
The U.S. successfully tested the THAAD anti-missile system against an intermediate range ballistic missile.
The USS Fitzgerald is in dry dock at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. The U.S. Navy is deciding how best to repair the Fitzgerald after its collision with a container ship.
Someone planted a bomb outside an Air Force recruiting office in Bixby, Oklahoma. The office was closed at the time, and no one was injured.
Donald Trump Jr. released the text of an email that set up a meeting with a Russian lawyer to discuss opposition research on Hillary Clinton. Releasing the email preempted a New York Times story, but the email itself exposes shady behavior: "The GOP should condemn Don Jr.'s actions because they're sleazy and dumb. But there is a long way to go before any responsible person starts making incendiary claims about treason."
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) is blocking Donald Trump's nominee to be director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services because he's demanding that the Trump administration approve more H–2B visas for foreign guest workers: "Mr. Tillis is one of a number of senators who say their states' summertime resort, seafood and landscaping industries are struggling to find American workers and need the foreign labor to survive." A Republican shellacking in the 2018 midterm elections can't come soon enough, can it?
Mark Zuckerberg confused Alaska's Permanent Fund payments with a universal basic income scheme. In Alaska there's no private ownership of oil and gas resources, so the state redistributes the income it receives from those resources to the people.
Bill de Blasio's trip to the G20 summit in Germany — where he protested Donald Trump — was paid for by New York City taxpayers.
The Kansas legislature passed "Simon's Law," which prevents medical providers from secretly placing "do not resuscitate" orders on the medical charts of children without notifying their parents:
Like little Charlie Gard, Simon Crosier—for whom the eponymous Kansas law is named—suffered from a serious congenital illness, and required life-sustaining medical treatment. Doctors were quick to label Simon's condition as "incompatible with life," and unbeknownst to his parents, placed a DNR order in his medical chart. The Crosiers watched on in horror as one day, three-month-old Simon's oxygen saturation levels dropped and doctors stood by, doing nothing to intervene.
In the wake of his death, the Crosiers were finally able to view their son's medical chart, and were shocked to find the unauthorized DNR. They were also greatly troubled to find that only "comfort feeds" had been authorized by Simon's medical providers, despite their hopes that he would eventually be eligible for corrective heart surgery if he grew large enough. Simon died three days before his scheduled surgical consultation.
Siemens sued a Russia company, Technopromexport, for transporting two gas turbines to Crimea. Siemens is a minority owner of the company.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. Russia claims they killed al-Baghdadi in an airstrike last month. The U.S. says it doesn't know if al-Baghdadi is dead or alive.
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- A U.S. Marine Corps MV–22 Osprey crashed off the coast of Okinawa. There were five Marines on board, and two were injured.
- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley, referred Planned Parenthood and several of its affiliates to the Department of Justice and the FBI for investigation. This stems from the Center for Medical Progress undercover investigation into the sale of fetal tissue.
- Congressional Republicans are devising complicated schemes for delaying the repeal of ObamaCare. Robert Tracinski argues that Republicans and the country would be best served if they repealed ObamaCare effective immediately.
- Victor Davis Hanson updated the commandments from Animal Farm for the Obama/Trump transition, including this one: "States-rights nullification of federal law
has been traditionally racist, and subversive to the idea of the United States, leading to crisis or waris a legitimate expression of progressive cultural exceptionalism."
- The U.S. is limiting some arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the latter's killing of civilians in Yemen.
- During last month's election, voting machines in 37% of Detroit's precincts recorded more votes than signatures in their poll books. Occasional discrepancies between vote counts and poll book signatures are not usual, but discrepancies on this scale indicate something is seriously wrong.
- The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Virginia's photo voter ID law is constitutional.
- The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a state law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital near their clinics.
- Ohio Governor John Kasich signed a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks, but vetoed a bill that would have banned abortions after a heartbeat was first detected.
- The suicide bomber who killed at least 25 people at Cairo's largest Coptic Christian cathedral was a Muslim Brotherhood supporter.


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Chapter 3 Early Family Life
In the last chapter I majored on my memories of life during World War 2. This chapter covers more personal family life up until the time I met Alan and we got married. Obviously it is only a flavour as it would take forever to go into detail. My childhood was painful and traumatic at times due to a violent and heavy drinking Father.
I don't have a lot of memories of the very early years. We lived with my maternal Grandparents, my Father being at sea in the Navy for some of the time. I remember an elderly great Uncle also living in the house who was suffering from Dementia and to a small child this was very frightening. I used to run past his bedroom door, hoping that he would not appear. Also during the war years we gave a boarding base to 3 French sailors whenever they were in the country.
It was after we moved to our own home when I was about 5 that I recall things becoming very difficult. I remember one particular day when my Father sat me on the kitchen table and asked me who I loved best, him or my Grandfather. Being young I obviously did not understand the implications of the question so just told the truth – my Grandfather. My Father went into a rage shaking me violently and beating up my Mother. Looking back I realise that my Father must have been deeply jealous of the input my maternal Grandparents had in my life. For me it was a lifesaver. Also I now see that he was a very disturbed and unhappy man.
My Mother's only sibling, my Aunt, did not marry until she was 38 so she lived at home with my Grandparents too and she was like a second Mother to me. She adored me as I was her only niece. She paid for elocution, tap and ballet lessons, bought and made me clothes, and generally made a difference in my life.
When I think of my home life the over riding sense is one of physical and emotional abuse, accompanied by constant fear and tension which increased the nearer it got for the time for my Father to return from work. There were many times when we were not even allowed to speak and I was very afraid to be alone with my Father. Once when out alone with him in the countryside in the dark I was absolutely terrified that I would not survive. To this day I do not know why. My Mother spent her time trying to 'keep the peace' and as a result suffered a lot of depression and ill health. We moved to a larger house when I was about 8 years old. I had 2 surviving brothers by this time and was able for the first time to have a bedroom of my own.
From a young child, I always had a deep awareness of God (I was told that I stood on the platform at church, aged 4, saying that I wanted to be a missionary) and in these traumatic times I came to know God in a personal way. He became my personal Saviour when I gave my life to Him at a Youth for Christ meeting when I was 11 and was baptized in water. Alone at night I remember really sensing the presence of God as I talked to Him and prayed.
When I was 10 years old I was awarded an Art Scholarship. I went to a Grammar school, my parents preferring this to the Liverpool Art School where the Beatles later went. I did not enjoy the Grammar school and always felt that I did not fit in.
Around this time my Father went to live in London. I never knew why, nobody ever said. While there out of loneliness he went to a Pentecostal church and gave his life to Christ. He then came home but nothing seemed to have changed except that he stopped drinking and smoking. He started breaking up lots of crockery in the home. Apparently this had been stolen and he wanted nothing more to do with it. For a child this was frightening and bewildering. I was still frightened of him and he became maniacal in his beliefs. We were forced to kneel down for ages in the evenings while he prayed long prayers. His God was not the God I knew, I did know that. We were not allowed friends in the house during the whole of my childhood and in a way I was glad as I did not want friends to know what was going on at home.
It was in this environment that I came to really know God for myself, I truly knew Him as a friend, comforter and Saviour. I would be locked in my bedroom at night, with no access to my Mother, too afraid to call out, even when ill, as this would disturb my Father. However I did know God as my strength and reality and would pray and talk to Him endlessly.
When I was 11 years old my Aunt married and went to live about 200 miles away, much further north and on the other side of the country. This meant that I was able to go and stay with her for school Summer holidays. I have lasting memories of the good times I had. When I was 13 my fourth brother was born. It came as a shock as that was the last thing I could ever have imagined at that age. As I was that much older I was expected to be very hands on in helping to care for him, so we bonded well. My Father took a special interest in him and cared for him in a way he never did the rest of his children. He always said that he felt he had been given a second chance with this child.
When I was 15 my Father took a glass of Guinness because he was unwell and that was the beginning of his drinking again and his walking away from God. He became more violent than ever and I was witness to some very unpleasant scenes of physical, mental and emotional abuse of myself, my brothers and my Mother. I would walk the streets at night crying and praying as I was often too frightened to go home.
My life outside of home was very different. I belonged to the Girl Guides and Rangers and spent many weekends camping. I was a Campanologist (Bell ringer). I bought my first bicycle at 16 and spent many weekends with friends cycling around the mountains of North Wales. Jobs were easy to come by in the 50's so I tried a number of avenues before finding out what I really wanted to do. There were many happy memories.
However, there was one memory that was not a happy one, and it shows how different things could be in those days. I took a job in a company importing fruit and after some weeks I began to feel very uneasy. I sensed there were things going on behind the scenes that were not right. I was asked to go into work one Sunday morning and the scene I witnessed was so shocking that I could not write about here. I left abruptly. When I went in to work the next day my desk had been put out into the corridor and all my belongings piled on top of it. I was so traumatised by this whole event that I left the city and went to live with my Aunt for some months and got a job near to her. I did not even tell my parents what had happened.
In all this confusion and agony I began a serious relationship with a non-Christian and stopped attending church. I was looking for love and acceptance and ended up in wrong and sinful relationships. However, the more I travelled down this road I was aware of God prompting me (almost like a parrot sitting on my shoulder). He kept saying that there was no other way but Him. I felt that God's hand was on me and that He would not let me go. I also did nothing about it as I felt too sinful. I somehow felt that I had to get my act together and become a much better person before God would accept me. Grace was something that I did not understand at that point. I also thought it was down to me and not God to change my life.
To be continued……………..

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The Atlanta-based processor said the real-time currency conversion service, called HomeCurrencyPay, will facilitate conversions from U.S. dollars to 26 different currencies and will be available on three terminals manufactured by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Equinox Payments.
"Global Payments makes currency conversion easier for merchants by implementing a nontreasury model, which prevents merchants from having to open and manage a unique bank account for each international currency they wish to support," Gene Distler, Global Payments' vice president of product development, said in a press release. "HomeCurrencyPay also simplifies the process for the merchants' customers as international cardholders appreciate knowing the exact cost of the goods and services and the exchange rate prior to completing purchases."
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"The Greatest Story Ever Told" Officially.
On Good Fridays, I tend to look out for this. And it's kind of big so it's easy to spot. George Stevens is credited with ruining the idea of the biblical epic for an entire generation, until it was revived in a grislier form by Mel Gibson.
The cameo appearance of John Wayne is legendary. The story goes that Wayne, playing the one-line centurion role delivered the sentence "Truly this was the Son of God" in less than convincing fashion and Stevens urged him on a second take to 'give it awe' – resulting in an unused version where Wayne declares "Awwww – truly this was the Son of God."
The sheer number of big name cameos in this movie, makes it an odd film that feels both elongated and yet congested at one and the same time.
There's a long-standing convention that the Simon of Cyrene who helped Christ carry his cross was in fact black. Now Stevens isn't just going to get any black actor to play this ninety second role. Oh no, if he's going to hire any black actor to do anything, he's going to hire Sidney Poitier, now isn't he?
This long but cramped film also contains performances by David McCallum as Judas, Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate and the incomparable Victor Buono as Sardonic Pharisee. (Victor Buono had been outstandingly creepy in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane a couple of years earlier and would subsequently appear as my favorite TV Batman villain – the hapless bipolar Egyptologist King Tut, not to mention becoming chief bomb-worshipping mutant in Beneath the Planet of the Apes).
The film also features the very last screen performance by Claude Rains, one of the greatest screen actors of the 1930s and 40s. And he actually makes you feel sorry for King Herod. Actually makes you try to see things from Herod's point of view.
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JTM Games: How did the deal between United Front Games and Square-Enix come about in regards to Sleeping Dogs?
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Dan Sochan: That's a good question. We wanted to go with something that was a little more cinematic-sounding. So we spent a lot of time in the game making a strong story and narrative with lots of character development to really try to get the player inside the head of what would it be like to become an undercover police officer. We invested a lot of time and energy getting great voice acting, writing, and bringing that all together.
I think with our approach with the game, it makes Sleeping Dogs much different from a lot of the open-world titles where the story is just tacked on; it's really about you just running around causing mayhem in the city. With our game, we have a strong goal and story for the player, and the title Sleeping Dogs reflects that.
JTM Games: How big is the game world and what makes it unique compared to other open-world environments?
Dan Sochan: Our's is a large open world, I mean it represents the entire island of Hong Kong. We've got alleyways, we've got the Victoria Peak, we've got a lot of monuments that everyone from Hong Kong will recognize. Obviously it's an island so we'll have some boat racing, and some boat missions as well.
JTM Games: Could you tell us about the game's protagonist and his motivations?
Dan Sochan: Sure, you're (the player) name is Wei Shen, and you were born in Hong Kong originally. You and your sister started to get in with a bad crowd so your entire family moved to San Francisco. There you become a police officer and have since gone back to Hong Kong and reconnected with some of your roots as well as previous connections you had there. And with those contacts, you try to help infiltrate the Triads.
JTM Games: How did you get inside the world of the Triads? How did you go about trying to understand it in order to write it into the game?
Dan Sochan: We definitely spent a lot of time researching the Triads. We read books, reading about its history, watching a lot of films like Infernal Affairs and The Triad Elections, and really immersed ourselves in that world. We also went down to Hong Kong several times as well. And while we were down there, our writer met with a few Triad members. It was pretty intense, but very cool at the same time.
It's very different from the way we see gangs here. The Triads have been around for hundreds of years so they're almost woven into society. They serve a role, a purpose in that society as well. It was interesting taking that culture and that history and bringing that to a North American audience to allow them to feel like what it would be to be part of Hong Kong, and to be part of the Triads.
JTM Games: Switching gears, could you tell us about your experience working with UFC Welterweight Champion George St. Pierre (GSP) during the development of Sleeping Dogs?
Dan Sochan:Ah GSP; yeah it was fantastic. I mean what an honour to work with one of the most amazing athletes of his time and a great Canadian as well, which is really exciting for us because we're a Canadian developer. I think bringing his knowledge and expertise of martial arts and be able to bring that into our game makes a really big difference.
We wanted a combat system that felt very fluid, very intuitive to the player, but also grounded in reality; you're not able to jump 30 feet to go and punch a guy. So because of that, all the moves have to transition from one to the other, so punch attacks, to a roundhouse, to a backfist; so having someone who knows that martial arts world/mixed martial arts really helps.
JTM Games: How are you incorporating GSP's MMA, Kyoukushin Karate, and wrestling base with Sleeping Dogs' environmental attacks and fight gameplay?
Dan Sochan: One of the things that Sleeping Dogs is known for is our environmental attacks, so you know, being able to take someone put their face into a barbecue; that's something that GSP hasn't done in MMA – which is good. So we have that side, it's a little more violent, a little more over-the-top. On the martial arts side, we definitely looked at all the different martial arts styles and took elements that we thought worked which is what MMA really does, it's a hybrid of multiple styles.
As well in the game, we ended up putting some ground-and-pound (Jan: YES!!!) fight moves and of course the left superman jab (superman punch) made famous by George St. Pierre.
JTM Games: Are there going to be any multiplayer features or are there talks of having multiplayer features in the final game?
Dan Sochan: We have a whole social hub feature which basically is like an organic online leaderboard. You get scored at the end of each mission, and then those scores are automatically posted online. There you'll be competing against other people for the top score on that mission because you get triad points and cop points. So if you cause mayhem, run over innocent pedestrians, you're going to get lower cop points. So it's possible to have the perfect mission, the right balance of being an undercover cop; doing what you need to do without being excessively violent.
We also stats challenges; so we have something like longest wheelie, most consecutive headshots, and hundreds of different stats that are tracked. You can compete with everyone for the records, even amongst your friends. So for example, you have the longest wheelie record and I beat it, you get a notification in-game that I just beat your score. So all of a sudden you're like "there's no way Dan's gonna beat me," you jump back in the game and continue to play until you beat that record.
JTM Games: Finally, is there anything else you want people to know about Sleeping Dogs?
Dan Sochan: With Sleeping Dogs, we wanted to maintain that sandbox (allow yourself to do whatever you want to do) and the open-world feel, but we really wanted to focus on the core mechanics. Often in open-world games those are left behind, the combat's not very good, the shooting's not very good, the driving's not very good. So we took the expertise that we have in past games (fighting, shooting, driving), brought that all together and made Sleeping Dogs.
We think it has the best in-class mechanics. So you still get that fun of being able to explore and do whatever you want to do in the game world, but while you're driving through the world, it feels great. The combat and shooting feel very fluid; and all these with a strong narrative. We think we've brought all those elements together and really distilled them to make a great game.
JTM Games: When can players expect Sleeping Dogs to be released?
Dan Sochan: Sleeping Dogs comes out August 14, 2012!
*End Interview*
As a big Hong Kong action/thriller film fan (Infernal Affairs, Election, Exiled) , I'm quite excited to be able to play Sleeping Dogs' undercover cop infiltrating the triad thriller narrative. It's a story that forces Wei Shen to face his own morality and code of honor. He gets ordered to do crimes that makes him cross the line between lawman and criminal. A gritty story full of plot twists, betrayals, and Wei Shen's loyalty to his badge takes center stage here.
If that wasn't enough, let's not forget that there's shooting, driving (especially the white-knuckle street races), and full-on city exploration that makes Sleeping Dogs one of the open-world games to look out for later this year.
Are you excited for Sleeping Dogs? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below!
Posted on April 25, 2012, in Interviews and tagged games, gaming, gsp, open world game, sleeping dogs, square enix, united front games, wei shen. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.


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<i am not i just following the flow here so im not being dicth by my family over and over again>
stop giving stupid reason.
all this thought haunted me everyday,
i feeling guilty because of not touching my assignment and books, but still then i really dont have the time.
i admit i
i really want to go back to penang to relax my self and to STUDY, i miss studying
but i really am freaking out, because next week tests coming up! how im supposed to survive when i did not study at all..
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ok nats, breath, dear me please come back ASAP, because i need to finish all my assignment and study.
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"Say yes it's nice to see you but we are not happy with what you have been doing to Venezuela and we cannot accept it as a Region. I think that is what should be said to Obama," he said, adding "they should be speaking as one voice, because the South American countries will be there and I believe that everybody should really sit with the president and say nice meeting you, but hands off Venezuela."
Regional political analysts warn that if previous high-level meetings offer any guidance, the Regional Heads should avoid high expectations for any gestures of significance from the U.S. President, despite frequent assurances of 'friendship.'


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Sadly, it took the death of a bicyclist to serve as the catalyst.
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Email Bars & Clubs listings to firstname.lastname@example.com. Information is due 10 days in advance of publication.
Anna Maria Oyster Bar, Halfway
Live entertainment on the deck Thursday-Saturday. 6906 14th St. W., Bradenton, 941-758-7880.
Bridge Tender Inn & Dockside Bar
Live music nightly. 135 Bridge St., Bradenton Beach, 941-778-4849.
Freckled Fin Restaurant and Public House
Live music nightly. 101 Bridge St., Bradenton Beach, 941-251-3930.
Island Time Bar and Grill
Live music most nights. 111 Gulf Drive S., Bradenton Beach, 941-782-1122.
Wicked Cantina
Live music most Wednesday-Saturday evenings. 101 Seventh St. N., Bradenton Beach, 941-281-2990 or wickedcantina.com.
Country line dance classes 7-9 p.m. and DJ Trevor all night Wednesdays, doors open at 6:30 p.m. Live music and DJ Trevor Fridays, doors open at 7 p.m. Live music and DJ Trevor Saturdays, doors open at 7 p.m. 5220 14th St. W., Bradenton, 941-756-6060 or joylandcountry.com.
Aces Live
Voo Davis Band, 7 p.m. Jan. 26. Tanya Sings 4 p.m., Eugene Snowden 8 p.m., Jan. 27. Mac 1 p.m., Rev Raven and the Chain Smokin Altar Boys 8 p.m., Jan. 28; $10-$15. KoKo Ray and The Keepers, 5 p.m. Jan. 29. Nalani RothRock, 7 p.m. Jan. 31. Empty Pockets, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1. Acoustic Jam, noon Sundays. Mark Skey and Frenz Jam, 7 p.m. Mondays. Line dancing with Rox, 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Lunchtime trivia, noon Thursdays. All shows are non-smoking. 4343 Palma Sola Blvd., Bradenton, 941-795-3886 or aceslivemusic.com.
The Beachhouse Restaurant
Live music most nights, 6-10 p.m. 200 Gulf Drive, Bradenton Beach, 941-779-2222.
Bubbas Too Bar and Grill
Live music, 8 p.m. Fridays. 5435 15th St. E., Bradenton, 941-756-3237.
Clancy's Irish Sports Pub & Grill
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Cork's Cigar Bar
Live music, 7 p.m., DJ, 10 p.m. Saturdays. 425 Old Main St., 941-744-2589 or corkscigarbar.com.
Cortez Clam Factory
Lee Stetson Band, Jan. 27. Bus Fulla Monkeys, Jan. 28. Matt Coates, Jan. 30. NFL Sundays. Clam Jam, 7:30-11:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Live music most nights. 10104 Cortez Road, 941-798-9898.
Cortez Kitchen
Live entertainment Friday-Sunday. 4528 119th St. W., Cortez, 941-798-9404.
D. Coy Duck's
Live music Friday and Saturday. 5410 Marina Drive, Holmes Beach, 941-778-5888.
Drift In No. 1
Janine, 8-11 p.m. Mondays. Russ, 7-11 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays. Chip, 8 p.m.-midnight Wednesdays. Will Scott, 8 p.m.-midnight Thursdays. Mystery band, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturdays. Karaoke, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Sundays. 120 Bridge St., Bradenton Beach, 941-778-9088.
Drift In No. 2
Mike McConnell, 8 p.m.-midnight Mondays. Karaoke, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Faultline, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Fridays. 2709 Cortez Road, Bradenton, 941-755-9825.
Fraternal Order of Eagles, Eagle Village, Aerie 3171
Empty Pockets, 6 p.m. Jan. 26. Left of Center Karaoke, 4 p.m. Jan. 29. Jack Tamburine, 6 p.m. Feb. 2. 5831 15th St. E., Bradenton, 941-720-1863.
The Last Call Tavern
Karaoke 8 p.m.-midnight Wednesdays. 2604 Manatee Ave. E., Bradenton, 941-744-1586.
Motorworks Brewing
Galbraith Group, Jan. 27. IPA Band, Jan. 28. Ryan Carney, Jan. 31. Scott Curts, Thursdays. NFL Sundays. Trivia, 6:30 p.m. Mondays, Yoga, 6:45 p.m. Tuesdays. Poker, 7 p.m. Thursdays. Pet Extravaganza, 1 p.m. third Sundays. Happy hour, 2-6 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. 1014 Ninth St. W., Bradenton, 941-567-6218 or motorworksbrewing.com.
Oneco Rose Bar and Package
Mac and Mack Duo, 7-11 p.m. Fridays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Karaoke with Faye, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays. 103 Cortez Road, Bradenton, 941-756-8790.
Peggy's Corral
Whiskey Blind, Jan. 27. Sammy Davis Jr., Jan. 28. Peggy's Fifth Annual Music Award Show, noon Jan. 29. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays. 4511 U.S. 41 N., Palmetto, 941-729-5442 or peggyscoral.net.
Polo Grill and Bar
NeXXLevel, 9 p.m. Jan. 27. 10670 Boardwalk Loop, Lakewood Ranch, 941-782-0899 or pologrillandbar.com.
Steel City Bar and Grill
Karaoke and DJ entertainment Fridays. Pool League tournaments and DJ entertainment Saturdays. Live music, cornhole games and block party Sundays. 5254 SR 64 E., Bradenton, 941-243-3867.
Swordfish Grill
Tim Chandler, noon Sundays. Natural Vibes, 5:30 p.m. Mondays. Strictly Blues with Jason Haram, 7 p.m. Thursdays. 4628 119th St. W., Cortez, 941-798-2035.
Woody's River Roo
Schmitz Brothers, 6 p.m. Jan. 26. Duane 4 p.m., Off the Record 7 p.m., Jan. 27. Riders on the River Bikefest: Gamble Creek at noon, Dreadnots 7 p.m., Jan. 28. Standing Waves 1 p.m., Lacey Jane Duo 6 p.m., Jan. 29. Booze Brothers, 6 p.m. Feb. 1. NFL Game Day Specials, Sundays. Monday Night Football. Karaoke, 6 p.m. Tuesdays. Music most nights. 5717 18th St. E., Ellenton, 941-722-2391 or woodysriverroo.com.
Cannon's Steakhouse
John Russo, 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays. 6540 Superior Ave., 941-924-7171.
The Starlite Room
John Russo "Rat Pack" tribute, 6 p.m. Mondays. "Classic Crooning," 7 p.m. first and third Thursdays. 1001 Cocoanut Ave., 941-702-5613.
The Blue Rooster
Doug Deming and The Jewel Tones, Jan. 26. Betty Fox Band, Jan. 27. Kettle of Fish, Jan. 28. Paleface, Jan. 29. Brian Keith Wallen, Jan. 31. Thomas Carabasi, Feb. 1. Gospel Brunch with Truality and Sarasota Blues Jam, Sundays. Steve Arvey's Jazz session, Mondays. 1525 Fourth St., 941-388-7539.
Five O'Clock Club
Alberto Donadi, Jan. 27. Jah Movement, Jan. 28. DJ Burke Reggae, Sundays. Al Fuller's Blues Jam, Mondays. Come Back Alice, Wednesdays. Democracy on Thursdays. Except where otherwise noted bands start at 10 p.m. daily. Admission is $3 for Friday and Saturday shows. 1930 Hillview St., 941-366-5555.
The Gator Club
Live music Thursday-Saturdays. 1490 Main St., 941-366-5969 or thegatorclub.com.
Mattison's City Grille
Brian Spainhower noon, Debbie Keeton Jazz Quartet, 7 p.m. Sundays. Tropix, 6-10 p.m. Mondays. Jennifer Leigh and her New Digs, 7:30-11 p.m. Tuesdays. Local band of the week, 7-11 p.m. Wednesdays. The Venturas, 7:30-11 p.m. Thursdays. Local band of the week, 8 p.m.-midnight Fridays. Glass Onion Band, every third Friday of the month. The TC Allen Band, 7:30 p.m.-midnight Saturdays. Corner of Lemon and Main streets, 941-330-0440.
Top 40
Mattison's Forty One
Scott McFarland, 6 p.m. Thursdays. Debbie Keeton, 6 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays. Joe Thayer, 6:30 p.m. Sundays-Tuesdays. Dave Mankes, 6 p.m. Wednesdays. 7275 S. Tamiami Trail, 941-921-3400 or mattisons.com.


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Monday, December 15, 2008
ODOT Caught Offguard--Uses Ineffective Road De-Iceing Chemicals
Turns out that the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), unlike the Washington State Department of Transportation, doesn't use salt as a de-icing method. ODOT uses a chemical mix that loses effectiveness in lower temperatures.
The current cold spell caught ODOT by surprise. Cold temperatures Oregon is now experiencing are rare. Actually, yesterday was the coldest day on record for December 15. Last cold record for December 15th was set in 1972.
Not only are current Oregon low temperatures rare at any time, with Global Warming one doesn't expect to set cold records. All the temperature movement should be the other way. So, no wonder ODOT was caught off guard.
Maybe all those SUV's that Ford, GM, and Chrysler didn't sell have turned things around.
The current road de-icing problems are an embarrassment for unprepared ODOT. The record breaking cold spells this year (snow in Baghdad, October snow in London, earliest snow on record for Boise, record cold in Oregon) are an embarrassment to the scientists who think that science is done by majority vote.
If this keeps up, the majority may be swinging to the other side--Leaving Al Gore, the Nobel Prize Committee and James Hansen head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (who has had problems with faulty data–including problems in 2007 and 2008) hanging out on a limb.
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A MASSIVE injection of European funding holds the key to cleaning up a toxic lagoon which has troubled residents of Rhos for many years.
That was the message which came from the latest meeting of the Llwyneinion liaison committee held at Rhostyllen Parish Hall.
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update: rto's dad called tonight, left a message asking if we'd tried to call him. something about he's out o' town, doesn't have rto's cell number, i don't know. i'm thinking "are you sure you aren't looking at the last number dialed?" rto also left a message that was completely unintelligible. goof.


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It's been cold. Really cold.
I promised I'd write more in my blog this year. I haven't been writing. I haven't had anything good to write about. It's been cold, it seems like my life has been cold. The year has just started in darkness it seems. This January just seems to be colder. It is colder.
In the first ten days of the year I have been to two funerals, one a family friend the other a police officer. One funeral, the friend's, just broke my heart. The other, the police officer, was just sad. I tend to dwell in the sadness, I don't know why. I think about my friends and loved ones who have died. In some ways, it's an escape to be able to go back to the memories. In other ways, it's like a darkness you'll never escape.
Today, we booked a trip to Las Vegas with our friends. It gives me something to look forward to, Elvis in the desert. It will warm up, it always does.