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Gus grew up in Martins Ferry attending the local schools and going to church at St Mary's Catholic Church with his sister Mary Elizabeth and brother John. An older sister Irene had died at three months of age.
In 1940 Gus was thirteen years old and had completed the seventh grade.
By 1945 Gus had joined the Navy and in September of 1945 was serving on the Zebra. His rate was Fireman 2nd class and also Electrician's Mate. The Zebra was originally launched in Oct 1943 as SS Matthew under a Maritime Commission Contract. As a freighter traveling the waters of the South Pacific where she was heavily damaged by a Japanese torpedo. While she was awaiting repair at Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides as naval officer recognized her potential for service as a net cargo ship. She was commissioned as such 27 Feb 1944. During that summer the ship visited Tongatapu; Bora Bora; Tutuila and Upolu, Samoa; and Funafuti. She arrived at Pearl Harbor 15 Dec 1945 where she waited for her next mission which would be to Iwo Jima. She left for Iwo Jima on 28 February and remained there until 11 April when she returned to California. The ship returned to Pearl Harbor on 8 September 1945 with Gus aboard and left 12 days later for the Marshall Islands, Iwo Jima, and Saipan. She departed Saipan on 15 Nov and returned to the United States arriving at the Panama Canal Zone on Dec 31, 1945. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on 8 January and was decommissioned on 21 January 1946. Gus was still on the Zebra at that time as reported by Navy muster rolls for the Zebra.[i]
After leaving the Zebra in Jan 1946, Gus served aboard the Lindenwald, a dock landing ship, with missions in Okinawa and the Phillipines. Muster rolls show that Gus served on the Lindenwald February, March, April, May, and until the 24th June 1946 when the ship left New Orleans for Bremerhaven. .[ii]
After Gus left the Navy in 1946 he decided to stay in Chicago where he became comfortable while he was training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. For a while he worked at the Walgreens Drug Store on State Street. At the time he was living on LaVergn Street on the West Side of Chicago.
Around 1947 he was hired by AT&T and began working at their Canal Street office. Working the night shift he met Wanda Peterson and a friendship developed. Wanda and Gus were married on 2 Dec 1949.
At Gus' sugestion Wanda and her children, David and Patti, were baptized in the Catholic Church and invoking the Pauline Privilege their marriage was blessed in the Catholic Church. David and Patti made their First Communion on 6 May 1951.
After the birth of their daughter Susan Margaret, Wanda and Gus purchased a home in suburban Wheaton. In 1956 Gus and Wanda sold their original home and built a new home at 1111 N Main St where they became members of St Mark Parish. Gus was active in the parish as an usher at Sunday Mass and also a counter of the money collected during the Masses. He joined the Knights of Columbus and became a member of the 4th degree which is the patriotic arm of the Knights of Columbus. He was also a member of the Color Corps. You've seen them with their capes, swords, and chapeaux at parades and other functions. With all this going on Gus remained a loyal AT&T employee even reaching management status.
In 1982, Gus retired from AT&T, the house on Main St was sold and the move to St Pete Beach was completed. Once retired, Gus began a new life by establishing his own business "Wangus", a combination of Wanda and Gus. Wangus was a lawn care and building maintenance company and Gus was busy for several hours a day.
Over the years Gus had several other hobbies. He was an avid stamp collector and in the 70s he began making candles. He actually took orders for and sold his candles. One year, for Christmas, the table was set with star shaped candles at each place with each person's name and the year inscribed on it. I know that my family used their candles every Christmas for many years.[iii]
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25 September 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - Following recent heavy monsoon rains in Baluchistan, Punjab and Sindh provinces in Pakistan, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) activated the UNOSAT rapid mapping service to obtain satellite derived maps of the affected regions. To carry out the work UNOSAT triggered the Space Charter to bring to the UN the advantage of fresh satellite data provided free of charge by the space agencies participating in this international mechanism. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) is supporting the work of UNOSAT analysts in Geneva by coordinating the tasking and acquisition of satellite imagery.
The National Disaster Management Authority of Pakistan has estimated that up to 4.5 million people have been affected by the flooding. The World Food Programme (WFP) announced that it has begun distributing food rations to thousands of families in spite of road access made difficult by flood waters reaching 2.5 meters in some areas. UNOSAT mapping helps determine the flood extent and the access options to areas in which families are in need of emergency relief. The first maps can be viewed here.
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Most of the districts affected were just recovering from the floods that hit them in 2010 and again in 2011. The experience and data accumulated by UNOSAT during the mapping of the catastrophic floods in both 2010 and 2011 is being used to enhance the analysis of the current events. UNOSAT experts emphasise the importance of this "centre of excellence approach" to gain efficiency and scale up useful results over time while generating economies of scale.
Earlier this month, UNOSAT had been tasked by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) over the floods in Senegal. Also in this case, the Space Charter was used and data released by this useful mechanism allowed UNOSAT experts to produce several maps to support decision making and response on the ground.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Can We Have a Law … to Ban Rap Videos?
Perhaps the popularity of Rap videos among White girls (and guys) is how easy they are to ape. Classic 1980's videos require … actual singing. Rap means basically nasal and monotone well, rapping with no attempt at a melody, harmony, nothing but rhythm. Everything else is fixed in Auto-tune. It is striking however how the 1980's represented the last gasp of the traditional White rock/pop artist, with only niche (gay-fan created Lady Gaga) people remaining. All else is Rap, and Country, which should be the natural music of these young ladies (this is after all, the University of Alabama) is absent. No country songs mimicked (the Country artists put out tons of them, all easily accessible by the internet). Country is all over the radio, even out here in LA, and particularly in the South.
Maybe we do need a law. Banning both rap videos and any remakes of them by out of tune, off-pitch girls and boys. Its sad that all the girls could come up with was a Chris Brown rap video and Rebecca Black. Poorly made fashions of the moment.
That the girls are bad singers goes without saying. Singing well is a matter of both native talent and endless practice, usually acquired in a Church choir while children. The decline in Church attendance among other things radically reduced the amount of raw musical talent among Black and White populations alike. No wonder current music is so bad. No one can sing anymore. It certainly is indicative that Chris Brown, he of the beat-down administered to Rihanna, seems to have no problem with the sorority girls here. They are certainly willing to sing his rap song. No doubt his notoriety only made him more attractive as a model to copy.
The campus certainly looks pretty, though. No doubt it could stand in for any number of Ivy League schools. Ironically the University of Alabama entering Freshman are 84% White, and only 12% Black. Which matches both the South and the nation as a whole. Whites move heaven and earth to stay away from Black people physically, yet copy Black rap artists and athletes endlessly. Even if in the case of rappers, there is not any artistry. [Jazz and Blues and R&B Black musicians and composers are and were great artists, there is much wisdom in copying men and women who achieved great things: The Marsalis family, Marvin Gaye, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holliday (in singing only of course) are all great artists worthy of copying. Chris Brown is not.] White attitudes remain schizophrenic towards Blacks. Great artists regardless of color should be emulated for their greatness. Their music repeated, copied, admired. Those who are bad (which includes all rappers) should be ignored. It is very puzzling why these girls ignore the talented and far more musically interesting and melodic country artists they can hear on the radio in favor of … rhythm only Rappers or bad internet sensations.
The girls don't even want to be this girl:
They'd rather be Chris Brown or Rebecca Black. How sad is that?
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It is well known that women have execrably poor taste in music.
The vast majority of serious fans of classical and jazz are men. Women go to classical and jazz concerts for "status whoring" reasons and nothing more. They want to be seen showing off their fine clothes, jewelery and their alpha male partner and they want to gossip with their SWPL friends before the show and during intermission. They're not really interested in the actual music and they certainly don't listen to classical and jazz at home. That would be nerdy [i.e. beta or omega].
Why do men appreciate classical and jazz while women do not? It's quite simple. Women are emotional creatures who are governed by the heart, not the head. They listen to music that makes them feel good, regardless of how bad the quality of the music might be.
- August 18, 2011 at 6:51 AM
Whiskey you are missing the entire world of indie rock music, which is overwhelmingly white in terms of both audience and artists, not to mention sensibility. It is both musical and inventive and a lot of the artists actually can sing, though often in a rather breathy way (and often very feminized). And there are a LOT of young girls that are into it. (I give you Sufjan Stevens as exhibit A in this category -- a brilliantly musical young man.)
As for aping (oooh, racist word choice!) rap, you are right they do it because it's easy, especially if you are trying to re-write lyrics. The simplistic rhyme schemes make it a natural. Also, it's declarative music and the most direct way to "advertise" something, which these girls are going here.
So I don't think it's necessarily fair to say they want to "be" Chris Brown or, for that matter, Rebecca Black (who is widely considered a joke, and imitating her is mockery not flattery). It's just that rap is the easy way to do this and rap takeoffs are widely understood as a vehicle for exactly this kind of thing.
All that said, I do agree that the eagerness with which young whites support rap is disconcerting. But I think you go too far in seeing it as a cultural marker. I can assure you that none of these very, very white girls want anything to do with "being black" (except for the obvious status win of dating the superstar black running back, which isn't about being black, but about one-upping their white girlfriends).
- August 18, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Thrasymachus said...
I think country music is probably regarded by these girls- as it is by all aspirational Americans- as low class. Aping ghetto behavior for amusement on the other hand has been regarded as great fun by the upper class for a long time.
- August 18, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Whiskey said...
Thrasymachus/Peterike -- you're probably correct, both. It just puzzles me why Country is considered low class when other "Southern" markers are quite trendy: Blanton's Bourbon, high end Jack Daniels, BBQ and other Southern working-class foods, etc.
I thought Country was trendy again.
- August 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM
- OhioStater said...
Scroll down mid way.
Lil Wayne has 56 gold and platinum song credits second only to Elvis.
- August 18, 2011 at 12:33 PM
It just puzzles me why Country is considered low class when other "Southern" markers are quite trendy.
If I had to hazard a guess, it's because hip people can drink bourbon or eat BBQ without actually seeing and hearing icky country people. And there is always an edge of "irony" to such things. Just like hipsters will drink Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Sure, it's terrible, but it's cheap (poverty is cool) and it's campy, so bad that it's good.
I would guess that SWPLs who are into "country" things are always doing it with a tinge of irony and slumming. "Hey, look at us, eating this prole food and drinking this glorified moonshine."
There's a world of difference between a BBQ joint in Nashville and a BBQ joint in Williamsburg.
- August 18, 2011 at 12:35 PM
My conscience forces me to note the shocking lack of diversity in this video. I mean, really.
NINE blondes and only two brunettes?
Lousy blondists.
- August 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM
'Just like hipsters will drink Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Sure, it's terrible, but it's cheap (poverty is cool) and it's campy, so bad that it's good.'
Boy is this true.
Favorite cheap beer of snobby young SWPL, NPR listening men in the Boston area is PBR and has been for a few years now.
- August 18, 2011 at 2:39 PM
Its so bad,its obvious they didnt even try. (BTW I dont find any of these pleasant looking girls fuckable)Rebecca Black's song is just horrible;they must be tongue in cheek,saying "hey we know this song is dumb.." You'r eright,a country song would be more apropos,but its OK to despise country;its NOT OK to hate rap.
- August 18, 2011 at 2:49 PM
Just a note re Chris Brown.What a strange guy! He is soooo lightskinned,he hardly seems black;but then again he is so gorilla looking,he looks barely human. He looks extremely stupid and apelike. It must have been some very low IQ white trash woman that got the hots fo' Tyrone a couple of decades(and no doubt,many many beatings,welfare checks,late payments etc)ago. He looks like a monster. But thats just me.
- August 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM
- joshrandall said...
Hey whiskey have ya seen this very cool video: Seems some Nig-I mean some African american youths from Georgetown tried a little stuff and their Chinese opponents took exception. beautiful video. In America of course,the white boys would cry and the white dumb bitches would get on their knees to apologize to the dear youths. Those wonderful "young people". See:Georgetown Basketball Team Brawls In China on youtube.
- August 18, 2011 at 3:26 PM
EAT A DICK adolph.
note the simplistic rhythm.
- August 18, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Favorite cheap beer of snobby young SWPL, NPR listening men in the Boston area is PBR and has been for a few years now.
This dates back to 1986, when Blue Velvet came out. As you may recall, PBR was Frank's favorite tipple. ("Heineken? Fuck Heineken! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" I heard hip Bostonians quoting that line in bars back in the late '80s.)
- August 18, 2011 at 8:49 PM
"It is well known that women have execrably poor taste in music. "
It is well known that the above sentence is the dumbest I have ever read.
- August 20, 2011 at 7:09 PM
Recall the posts less than a year ago on sports violence. Tragically predictable.
- August 21, 2011 at 10:42 AM
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learning is racist
Learning is racist, tests are racist, history is racist, America is racist, western civilization is racist, Europe is racist, whites are racist, conservatives are racist, firemen are racist, colorblindness is racist, equal opportunity is racist, the truth is racist, fairness is racist, "live and let live" is racist, self-determination is racist, free association is racist, rights are racist...
Courage is racist, honesty is racist, forthrightness is racist, fighting city hall is racist, speaking truth to power is racist, fighting the system is racist, speaking up for yourself is racist.
Sane, decent people should start worrying if they're not being called "racist."
Robert in Arabia
- August 22, 2011 at 1:35 AM
"It is well known that women have execrably poor taste in music. "
It is well known that the above sentence is the dumbest I have ever read.
August 20, 2011 7:09 PM
Really? Are you saying that women actually do have good taste in music? What planet are you from?
- August 22, 2011 at 7:08 AM
"It is well known that women have execrably poor taste in music. "
It is well known that the above sentence is the dumbest I have ever read.
August 20, 2011 7:09 PM
Who drives sales in the Top 40/CHR format?
In the DC area, the (young) male oriented music programming offered on the radio is minimal. The rock stations that do exist tend to play older playlists, with fewer new artists. The urban stations appear to be primarily female focused until late at night, when edgier/hardier music comes on. That of course is not the fault of women, but much more the result of the radio market condensation. On the otherhand, the playlist issue issue is an interesting one.
Is there any particular reason why women tend to listen to "newer" music, while in general men tend of have a wider range of musical tastes catered too?
- August 22, 2011 at 7:56 AM
As far as poor taste in music, most people have a tendency to be herd animals who just want to listen to what everyone else is listening to at the same time. I said this recently to a bunch of Adele fans and they were outraged and started verbally abusing me. I didn't say Adele was bad. I just pointed out that there's over 80 years of recorded music that people can listen to and that's it's just as easy to buy and listen to something like Billie Holliday, Etta James or dozens of other artists but most people close themselves off to that because they just have to listen to whatever's currently popular. That's how Adele's new album ends up with ten times as many reviews at Amazon.com as Billie Holliday's greatest hits. Is she really ten times better as a singer? I don't think so.
- August 22, 2011 at 9:02 AM
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IME women by and large have average taste in music. They mostly go for the safest most mainstream artists in whatever genre they like. Most men do roughly the same thing.
On the other hand those who have really eclectic tastes or who like delve into the history of a genre and develop a taste for obscure artists are overwhelmingly male.
I've only known one woman who wasn't a semi-professional musician who had eclectic taste (as in able to appreciate soul, mariachi, punk and classical on their own terms). And she wasn't a collector of any kind she was just more open to out of the ordinary things than most women who want the stamp of mass approval on whatever they consume.
Most women and men go for the middle of the road in music but those who are interested in the extremes are almost all men.
- August 22, 2011 at 10:21 AM
It's possible your experiences of women and their tastes in music is informed by your apparent proximity to dumb/shallow women. I'm into jazz, classical, blues etc., as are pretty much all of my female friends. People in general are pretty dumb/shallow, I'm not sure that's a gender thing.
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What's up TMC! Can you confirm other news on this rumor? Not that I really care, but just curious if there's some validity to this. A roster spot is a roster spot and free up some money.
Kosta Perovic heading to Valencia
Kosta Perovic(2.18-C) is a name in the long list of european players that just couldn't cut it in the NBA. Nevertheless he might be the answer to the prayers of Valencia that were looking for one more player to cover their front line.
The 23-year old serbian center left Partizan with high hopes and was signed by the Golden State Warriors last season after he was drafted at number 38 in the 2nd round of the 2006 Draft. Perovic unfortunately was another decorative 7-footer in an NBA roster but in Europe he can make a difference.
The roster of Pamesa Valencia was almost complete until Tomas Van Der Spiegel decided not to sign with them and go for a higher paying contract. According to spanish newspaper terra.es Kosta Perovic seems to be the main target of coach Katsikaris who sees in him the last piece of the puzzle.
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First news I've got about it. I thought they were looking for a PG and that their inside game was set... Wouldn't be shocked if it happens, but I haven't heard Kosta's named tied to Valencia til now.
Also, the source is not the more reliable. For starters, it's not a newspaper, but a website.
Also, the source is not the more reliable. For starters, it's not a newspaper, but a website.
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Damn right!!!..............I remember reading 2 months ago that it was a given that Kosta was going back to Europe, so Ive been resigned to/happy about it since then really.
If he has a 2year deal with us, there's no way we can get rid of him right? I mean a contract is a contract right? although there might be something in the fine print about "if both parties agree to part ways then..."
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- 11-09-2012
- Series
- Sailor Moon
- Character
- Sailor Mars
- Special Variation:
- LMFAO version
- Year Completed:
- 2012
- Construction Difficulty:
- Difficult
- Awards
- Best Master Craftsmanship
- Costume worn at:
- NekoCon 2012
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
The fuku were made a little differently than how I'm used to making them, but I learned a lot of new ways to tackle the same costume thanks to that. I'm pretty sure we bought Spandex House out of it's animal print spandex (minus my front bow, which has been dubbed "Lisa Frank sateen". Bows are held on by snaps, brooches are painted discs with our planet symbols on them, decked out in rhinestones. Tiaras are made by Catzia. "Boob armor" is made with spandex & batting & is completely removable from the body suit. Most of the costume is easily interchangeable so it can be used for other fuku (eternal, super etc) or other characters. Glove, hip & arm rolls are cording.
We held about 3 weekends of sewing parties to get these all done & made the same. my tear away is my old Rei Hino uniform, just with a lot more velcro on the seams.
- Personal Thoughts:
- My friends really do have the craziest ideas for skits. The original idea was to do a Sailor Moon skit in the classic fuku, set to "I'm Sexy & I Know It" & rework the lyrics so it said "We're Senshi & We Know It." & do tear away school girl uniforms to our fuku underneath. Then people decided to deck out the costumes in animal print & bling to LMFAO it up... & this was the result.
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David Jon Gilmour, CBE (born 6 March 1946) is an English rock musician, best known as the lead guitarist, one of the lead singers and one of the main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of artists, and has enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist. Gilmour has been actively involved with many charities over the course of his career. In 2003, he was appointed CBE for services to music and philanthropy and was awarded with the Outstanding Contribution title at the 2008 Q Awards. Rolling Stone has described him as "one of rock's most distinctive guitarists".
Gilmour was born in Cambridge, England. His father, Douglas Gilmour, was a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Cambridge and his mother, Sylvia (née Wilson), was a teacher and film editor who raised her family at Grantchester Meadows, later immortalised by a Roger Waters song on Pink Floyd's Ummagumma. He has a younger brother who is also a musician.
Gilmour attended The Perse School on Hills Road, Cambridge, and met future Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist Syd Barrett, along with bassist and vocalist Roger Waters who attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, also situated on Hills Road. He studied modern languages to A-Level, and along with Barrett, spent his lunchtime learning to play the guitar. They were not yet bandmates however, and Gilmour started playing in the band Joker's Wild in 1962. Gilmour left Joker's Wild in 1966 and busked around Spain and France with some friends. However, they were not very successful, living virtually a hand-to-mouth existence. In July 1992, Gilmour stated in an interview with Nicky Horne on BBC radio that he ended up being treated for malnutrition in a hospital. In 1967, they returned to England.


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"With img, you typically don't have to worry about format support – it just works – and that's part of what makes a standard wonderful. JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, even TIFF images all render just fine"
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Well, someone has to say it: A device with a 6-inch screen is simply too big for a daily-use phone. But Nokia's absurdly large phablet, the Lumia 1520, makes for an excellent mini-tablet, and could perform an interesting dual-use role for those who are primarily interested in ebooks, media, apps and games and browsing the web. It's just so hard to carry around.
I feel a little bit weird about this one, since I assumed I'd simply love this device. And I do, in way. It has a gorgeous screen with 1080p resolution. It runs my preferred mobile OS, Windows Phone 8. It's a Nokia device, so it's got the stellar build quality I expect, the incredible camera, and the best-in-breed Nokia apps.
And it's just too fricking big.
My wife uses a Samsung Galaxy Note 2. This device features a 5.5-inch screen, which doesn't seem like it would be that much smaller. And it isn't, not really. But in real world terms, the Note 2 is just more manageable than the Lumia 1520. I know. It doesn't sound right. And it doesn't even look true when you compare them side by side. But it's true.
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (left), Nokia Lumia 1520 (right)
As noted many times in the past, I have gorilla hands. As such, I assumed that when it came to smart phones, the bigger the better. Tiny-screened devices like the iPhone 5S are an anachronism, after all, too small for anyone with less than perfect vision or larger than child-sized hands. But the Lumia 1520 sits neatly at the other end of the scale: Too big in all the ways that the iPhone 5S is too small.
Surely, there's a happy medium. I think that sweet spot is 5 inches for most smart phones, and I point to the Google Nexus 5 as the current device with the "perfectly-sized" screen. (Screen quality not withstanding that is, it's a bit washed out.) But of course the Lumia 1520 isn't just a smart phone, it's a phablet. So I think we're looking at something in the 5.5-inch range. Something very much like my wife's Note 2. You know, running Windows Phone 8.
(This is a minor point, but the add-on covers you can get for the Note 2—and Note 3—are also superior to the Protective Cover for Lumia 1520 that Nokia provides, as is the Nexus 5 Bumper Case that Google sells.)
The issue is that you need to carry this thing around and pull it out when you need to use it. And with every other phone I've ever used or owned, neither of those things were an issue in any way, shape or form. They are very much an issue with the Lumia 1520. Seriously think about that for a moment: Two things you just took for granted are suddenly huge glaring problems.
And these problems are very real. You can't comfortably carry this device in a front pocket, for example. Since we're creeping up on winter here, that won't be an issue for the next few months, and I can carry it around in my jacket pocket. But in the summer—and spring and fall—this device is like a boat anchor. The once exception to this rule, perhaps, will be women, many of whom carry a purse or other bag. To those potential customers, I say simply this: Make sure you test this thing thoroughly in a store and understand how different it is compared to any other Lumia device or competing smart phones and tablets.
OK, so it's huge. Too huge, I think. But what did Nokia get right with the Lumia 1520?
Literally everything else.
The screen? Superb. Windows Phone comes alive at 1080p and while three years of tile arranging needs to be rethought thanks to the sudden increase in tile density, this is a great problem to have. (And, yes, I have to believe that the Large tile size from Windows 8.1 is making its way to Phone too. I can't wait.)
Thanks to some forward-thinking on the part of the Windows Phone team, most Windows Phone experiences scale wonderfully to Full HD resolution. All of the built-in apps and hubs look fantastic. But here are the occasional chuckle-out-loud moments. For example, in the PIN entry screen looks comically big.
PIN entry: Lumia 1520 (left), Lumia 920. Remember when the 920 seemed huge? Me neither
Performance? Amazing. And no surprise here, since the performance of all Windows Phone handsets are excellent. But with the first-ever quad-core processor and a full 2 GB of RAM (where most Windows Phone devices have just 1 GB), the Lumia 1520 screams where it really matters: With those stunning photos I discussed in Nokia Lumia 1520: Photos, but also in media playback of all kinds. Sadly, Microsoft's promised Xbox Video app is still not available as I write this, but I've loaded my own HD and SD videos on the device and ... yes. Beautiful. Games, too, are a delight on the big screen. No surprise there.
Look, it's Windows Phone 8. Most of this stuff is just right. The problem with the Lumia 1520, at least here in the US, is that it's not just Nokia's design decisions we need to deal with. We also need to deal with AT&T Wireless, the sole provider of this and far too many other Windows Phone handsets. And AT&T, God love them, have done it again. The bad kind.
They're disabled the ability of this device to work with Qi-based wireless charging, meaning that you'll need to buy a sled-like case for the already humongous device just so you can use some AT&T-backed wireless charging solution. That's crap.
And they've limited the device to 16 GB of storage, while Nokia is selling it with 32 GB elsewhere. Yes, you can expand the storage with micro-SD, which is great. But you can't install apps to that microSD, so the 16 GB limit is going to get you in the end. This is also unacceptable.
Between the size, the limitations, and the price--$99.99 with a two-year contract or $585 without—I just can't recommend this device despite its many wonderful features. If it were cheaper, I'd recommend it as a slightly smaller mini-tablet, and would love to use it like that myself. (Especially once Xbox Video arrives.) But as it stands now, the Lumia 1520 is just ... too much. In some many ways.
Sorry, guys. I wanted to love this one.


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Favourite Monogatari Series Characters
I can't believe a topic like this hasn't been created yet (if there has and I just missed it, feel free to delete this, moderators). I want to know who else is a massive fan of this series like I am.
I found out about Bakemonogatari on Crunchyroll this past April when I first started getting into anime (I was living alone on a budget and needed a hobby), and while it took some time to get into it, this series is possibly my favourite out of any book, movie, or TV show I've ever had the pleasure of viewing.
SO what I want to know is who are your top 3 characters and why? I suppose I'll go first.
1. Kiss-shot Acerola-Orion Heart-under-Blade/Shinobu Oshino:
Big surprise, given my profile pic, right? I love her personality and design, and her voice actor completes the image perfectly. I enjoy how even though she has taken the form of a young girl, she hasn't lost her pride as the most powerful of all "oddities". It's also adorable how much she loves donuts.
2. Suruga Kanbaru:
I've always loved tomboy-ish girls. Again, her voice actor is absolutely perfect for the role, and her behavioural tendencies towards perversion around Araragi (who is clearly taken) creates for some extremely humourous conversations and situations.
3. Karen Araragi and Tsukihi Araragi (The Fire Sisters):
This was hard to narrow down just 3 characters out of a simply amazing line-up, so I thought Karen and Tsukihi as a pair (you can't really have one without the other) shine just above the rest. Admittedly, the best part about Karen to me, is her character design. I love the way she dresses and how she carries herself (posture, stance, etc.). Tsukihi's personality and over-the-top cuteness reeled me in right away. Whenever the Fire Sisters appear together, you can be sure some shenanigans will ensue, and justice will be dispensed.
Well, there's mine (although every character of this series is amazing in their own way, yes even Kaiki, Yozuru and Yotsugi) so I want to hear yours!
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Senjougahara is first for me. I'd follow it up with Shinobu. She just keeps getting more and more awesome as the series goes on.
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1. Senjougahara Hitagi
By far my favorite character in the series. Not sure what to think about her so far in the second season though.
2. Hanekawa Tsubasa
After the completion of Nekomonogatari White, she jumped way up.
3. Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade (because her previous name is so much cooler)
She's just interesting. Currently reading Kizumonogatari, that may change my opinion on this character, maybe.
It isn't as though the other characters are lacking though. I really like most of the cast.
Playing LaTale all the time.
Thank you for reminding me that episode 5 is up.
Sekien no Inganock needs an anime NOW
I'm too lazy to post a screen shot but for me:
Shinobu, Senjougahara, Karen. Those three for now. If only they were part of my harem....
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I like all of them....lol
1. Shinobu
1. Senjougahara
2. Shinobu
3. Karen
4. Hanekawa
5. Nadeko
"The present it's nothing more than a fleeting particle from the past"
1. Shinobu
2. Araragi
3. Hachikuji
4. Kanbaru
5. Tsukihi
1. Hachikuji Mayoi - All scenes with her are pretty hilarious and full of kicks.
2. Oshino Meme - Cool aloha guy.
3. Oshino Shinobu - Had an awesome name, voice actor, and character design with OP sword (the lack of a tsuka and any fittings makes it pretty distinguished from all other anime swords that try to be as flashy as possible).
4. Kaiki Deishu - One calm and shameless criminal and the smoothest scumbag ever. I love how he interacts with others, he has some of the best dialogue IMO.
5. Araragi Tsukihi - Crazy psychotic little sister.
Conjuring up the past is not remembering; it is replacing.
1. Shinobu
2. Fire Sisters
3. Araragi
4. Hitagi
5. Hanekawa
1. Hanekawa Tsubasa - I'm kind of surprised I'm the first to have her as #1, I've always found her to be a more sympathetic character than Senjougahara. Maybe it's just because I identify with her since I'm also a nerdy, glasses-wearing girl who had a hard time making friends in school because I was smart... also, I love cats.
2. Shinobu - No explanation needed.
3. Hachikuji Mayoi - Not sure why, I just like her.
1. Koyomi - One of the best protags ever, even if he is a damn lolicon
2. Hitagi - Hitagi's personality is so ridiculously my type it isn't even funny. I only wish she got more time in the series.
3. Tsubasa - The poster child for teenage angst, but I can't help for feeling for her. She always puts on a good face, even while going through hell.
4. Mayoi - Her exchanges with Koyomi were awesome. She was a surprisingly helpful loli-ghost.
5. Shinobu - Hoping to see more of her more grown up version in the future. Her reaction to being kissed was priceless.
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|2013-10-23, 14:45
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Anyway, pretty solid movie overall, and the cast felt like more of an effective ensemble here. Even some of the more annoying characters were less annoying than usual - the attempt to sell ero fiction to schoolboys was priceless. Takako still made me cringe though.
I can't help but notice men who marry into Ohana's family tend to have poor life expectancy. And as a photographer myself, I do enjoy it when shows decide to go all "photography is romantic".
Still wondering if anyone else is going to catch what I did.
|2013-10-23, 15:10
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I had a good time with this movie. I enjoyed the delving into Satsuki's past and the parallels drawn between it and Ohana's situation, plus even to an extent Nako's. I am also quite fond of Kanae Ito's voice, so it was good to have that coupled with Ohana's quirkiness again, with quite a few moments having me thinking "that's such an Ohana thing to do". The smaller developments and scenes with the rest of the cast were pretty great also, like Yuina's seeming irreverence (which amused me comparing it to when Ohana first showed up).
|2013-10-23, 15:26
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Ohana's Dad is such a lucky having high schooler fall in lobe with him...*envious The romance between the two brings out ants. It's too sweet but I like it. Seeing Seitsuki carrying Ohana is more touching.
I liked Tomoe... she's one hot MILF.
|2013-10-23, 16:54
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It's much easier to figure out from the dialogue than the visuals but most of the relevant lines aren't subbed because they're background dialogue.
|2013-10-23, 23:12
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Excellent movie.
First of all, just vivaciously vibrant visuals. The movie is just truly breathtaking in its beautiful artwork and animation.
A good mix of subplots, and I liked how they were all seamlessly brought together. Nako's subplot was more emotional and moving than I had expected, so big kudos to the movie-makers (and applicable seiyu) here! Yuina was a bit annoying in all of her Paris Hilton-esque glory, but at least she proved her worth with some quick thinking and good ideas in the second half of the film. The highlight of the movie for me was definitely the flashback scenes though.
This movie did a great deal to round out Satsuki's character, and make her more endearing and sympathetic. And it was definitely refreshing to see a truly cool dude arise out of HSI, him being the father of Ohana. Speaking of Spike Matsumae, his voice sounded familiar to me. Does he have the same seiyu as Kiritsugu Emiya of Fate/Series fame? Anyway, great casting on this guy. It's not at all hard to see why Satsuki totally fell for him.
Ohana came across very well as the main character, and her character really showed great range. I like how they played Ohana as very self-aware and gradually maturing, moreso than just pure shounen-esque "festing it up". Ohana has great energy, and I'm glad that's maintained, but it's good to see her also being carefully thoughtful and reflective.
Three big cheers for Kanae Itou! She played both Ohana and teenage Satsuki, and managed to make the two characters sound different enough that I never really noticed that the same seiyu was playing both (I only looked up the casting for teenage Satsuki after I was finished watching the film).
This film was definitely HSI at its best, and is a great note for the series to end off on if this really is the last installment of HSI.
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|2013-10-24, 09:56
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Ohana's maturation ties into every subplot in this movie, and I think it gave the movie an excellent core.
Most of what he did could be construed as a young adult male lightly teasing a teenage girl that he happened to chance by due to his work. And honestly, teenage Satsuki has the perfect personality for someone older/more mature to enjoy teasing her a bit. She has just the right amount of tsundere for that, lol.
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|2013-10-25, 10:29
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|2013-10-26, 11:13
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Yeah, if the series sold me on the notion that Ohana is the true successor Kissuiso, then the movie sold me on the notion that Yuina is the true successor of hers. The movie has to have taken place after the trip to her fiance's inn (since she said it was her first time actually working in an inn then), and in that short amount of time not only does she get complimented on her work by Ohana, but Tomoe as well? And she helped solved the power crisis? Sounds like she has talent to run the business.
So yeah, despite the movie really about Satsuki, and her not losing about her mom, Yuina still is the one fresh on my mind. But maybe because it still didn't answer clearly how Satsuki and Grandma made up, or how Satsuki arranged Ohana's situation at Kissuiso. Because if she wasn't willing to give up when Ohana was born, then why did she 'give up' Ohana when she was a teenager?
But yeah, Kou RIP in peace lol. You hooking up with Ohana will only end in an early death. But I guess he'd still have enough time to make the next generation before he kicks the bucket? lol
So yeah, even if Mr. Dad had finished college, it would only put like half a decade age gap between them. Or more importantly, Satsuki would've been 'legal' considering Japan laws even when they first met. Though thankfully Mr. Dad decided to wait till she finished college at least to make Ohana.
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By LAURA C. MONTEIRO
By LAURA C. MONTEIRO
Fall River Spirit Correspondent
It was her fantasy as a child to run away and join the circus, but now Melissa Freitas can swing from a trapeze in her own backyard.
Freitas, 34, a Fall River native, has been taking classes at Overhead Arts in New Bedford since February of this year. Founded in 2003 by Teresa Kochis, Overhead Arts brings silks and trapeze-performing to local adults and children as young as 3.
An adjunct English professor at Bridgewater State University currently living in New Bedford, Freitas said that finding out about Overhead Arts was "a stroke of good luck."
Freitas takes yoga classes at Yoga on Union in New Bedford and saw an advertisement for aerial classes.
"I kept saying to myself, 'I'm going to do that someday,'" said Freitas, who finally decided to give Kochis a call and sign up for a class.
"I thought I was way too klutzy for aerials," Freitas said.
She started off by taking the beginner silks classes with Kochis.
"Teresa makes it look effortless," Freitas said.
Kochis has a bachelor of arts degree in visual arts and aerial dance from New York University's Gallatin School for Individualized Study. She also has trained in aerial circus arts at Carrie Heller Circus Arts and the New England Center for Circus Arts. She previously served as a coach coordinator and social circus instructor for the outreach program of Cirque du Soleil.
Intimidated at first, Freitas started off slow. She came home from her first class feeling exhausted yet exhilarated.
"I knew that this was definitely something I wanted to keep doing," she said.
As she continued with her classes, Freitas noticed a change in her body.
"I was getting stronger," she said. "It's really strange. I've never been an athletic person, but now I find myself offering to help people move boxes and carry things."
Nine months later, Freitas is in Kochis' open level aerials class. She does work with the 19-foot high silks and with the static trapeze.
"Now I'm able to tell when my body doesn't feel right during a move," Freitas said.
Each class begins with a 10-minute warm-up, a time to stretch the body to create fluidity in the movements. Under the careful eye of Kochis, students are challenged with different poses on the silks and the trapeze.
Freitas displays confidence in the air as she makes detailed movements with her feet and hands, supporting her weight as she slides down the silks.
"It took me two months to be able to let go," Freitas said.
In a move called the "Russian roll," students secure themselves with the fabric and release their arms, allowing their bodies to fall forward but stay in the air.
"All I heard was wind whipping as I fell," Freitas said.
Working with the aerial arts has helped Freitas become more confident.
"It's an amazing feeling to be able to trust yourself," she said.
Although an occasional move can cause Freitas a bit of pain, she doesn't mind.
"I wear my bruises as a badge of honor," she said.
"Melissa is spectacular," Kochis said. "Her attention to detail is excellent and her diligence will take her far."
In addition to her love for the circus arts, Freitas also is studying to become certified in Kripalu yoga. The 200-hour training class is held in Wakefield, R.I., and Freitas has a few more weekends to go before graduation.
"I hope to be able to teach yoga during my summer break from work," Freitas said. "The aerials definitely help with the way my body can move."
The Overhead Arts studio will host a spring performance next year and Kochis hopes that Freitas will be a part of it. "I'd like to," Freitas said. "I just really need to work on my stamina."
While Freitas keeps practicing her moves, Kochis is looking for new students to train.
"We want to spread the word about our business because I know a lot of people in Fall River aren't aware of us," Kochis said.
"Starting this class was one of the best things I've ever done," Freitas said. "I used to say, 'Can I? Should I?' I'm so glad I did."
More information on Overhead Arts is available at www.overheadarts.com.


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Courts say Adventure Pass should fade into sunset
Re "Forest program put in jeopardy," July 5: In response to a recent ruling of Federal District Court Judge Terry Hatter that Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres and San Bernardino national forests must stop charging user fees for recreational use of these forests for such non-impactful activities as hiking, fishing, viewing wildlife and parking along the road to enjoying scenic views or have an impromptu roadside picnic, John Heil, press officer for the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region, stated that the agency is "still evaluating" the decision on the so-called Adventure Pass and that recreation fees are still in effect and the Adventure Pass program is still valid."
A word of advice to the Forest Service: Let the well-intentioned but unauthorized Adventure Pass program fade into the sunset. You've lost big time in the courts of law and in the court of public opinion, and to try to act otherwise is to further erode your shaky credibility on this issue. To continue to maintain that you still have the authority to collect fees for casual recreational use of these forests is to fly in the face of the decisions of two different district judges and the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals.
Instead, devote your time and attention to securing funding to replace funds that were partially used to repair and replace restrooms and other facilities that were badly in need of upgrading. And that some of the funds were used to hire staff who, while enforcing the program by writing tickets left on car windshields of those unaware of the program or unable to conveniently purchase a Pass, also performed some monitoring and caretaker duties at developed sites.
The supervisors of the Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres, and San Bernardino national forests now have a responsibility to take affirmative action in response to Judge Hatter's decision. They should press their case for additional funding for recreational facilities and services with the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Regional Office and with the Service's national office in Washington, D.C., and with members of Southern California's congressional delegation. In the case of Angeles National Forest, Forest Supervisor Contreas should offer his support to the creation of a San Gabriel River and Mountains National Recreation Area that will bring additional financial resources through the National Park Service in support of badly needed recreational staff and services in the heavily used San Gabriel River watershed.
— David Czamanske, South Pasadena
Immigrants and migrants
About your headline (July 3) "Groups mobilize to help migrants": That may be so but I believe the turnout of people opposed to this is the real story. But your paper as most all other media continue to not report the true story. You are misleading the public. The agenda of the progressives to open borders would make "Anarchy for all" a more appropriate sign for the man in the photo. Also, do you really think they are migrants not immigrants?
— Fred Crane, Arcadia
No need for rainbows
Enough already. Front-page news (July 7) highlighting "Corporate America embraces LGBT"? Really? Gays have been around since biblical times (Sodom and Gomorrah). Why so much attention now? No wonder the Lord is looking down on us disobedient people, though we're not (all) in the desert. I have gays in my family. They don't command any special attention. Live and let live. What happened to "Don't ask, don't tell"? Why special ads for gays? They can't read or understand regular ads, but need flowery rainbows to entice them? No wonder this nation is slowly but surely going to hell in a hand basket.
— Chris Briguglio, El Monte


text: Latest News BREAKING: Al-Qaeda/al-Nusra leader in Syria is killed His death was the result of infighting between jihadist groups. Published 1 year ago on September 7, 2017 By Adam 2,989 Views Share Tweet Abu Nasibah al-Tunisi of Tunisia has been killed during fighting in Syria's Idlib Governorate. He had previously been the style-proclaimed emir/leader of Ha'yat Tahrir al-Sham, the al-Qaeda group in Syria which is still commonly referred to as the al-Nusra Front. After being defeated in much of western Syria, including in the Battle of Aleppo which took place in December of 2016, Idlib remains one of the few areas in Syria where al-Qaeda has a notable presence although this too is fading fast. Idlib has recently seen infighting between Salafist jihadist groups in a powerful struggle for remaining parts of the region not under the control of the legitimate government. The infighting has included other breakaway al-Qaeda factions as well as those loyal to the Salafist umbrella group FSA. Al-Masdar reports that the Muslim Brotherhood aligned terrorist group Ahrar al-Sham is widely thought to be behind the death of the al-Qaeda strongman. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:SyriaterrorismAl-Qaeda Up Next The Syrian victory over terrorists in Deir ez-Zor is horrifying Israel. Don't Miss Putin TOPS rating of most trusted Russian politicians Advertisement You may like Curious Bedfellows: The Neocon And Progressive Alliance To Destroy Donald Trump Final Steps in Syria's Successful Struggle for Peace and Sovereignty Entering a Major Regional Re-set – The Syria Outcome Will Haunt Those Who Started This War Click to comment Leave a Reply This comment form is under antispam protection This comment form is under antispam protection Subscribe Notify of new follow-up comments new replies to my comments GuestShahnaAnother American ally bites the dust. I'll raise of tot of a good single malt to his demise! Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 7, 2017 17:02GuestVoltaireGood work… There is nothing like getting one terrorist to kill another Encore, I say… Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 7, 2017 17:19GuestFiendlyNeighbourhoodTerroristThat's the exact logic behind using Idlib as a cannibal dumping ground. They can eat each other. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 8, 2017 14:17GuestpermopinReasons to be cheerful. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 7, 2017 18:41MemberGuy"The infighting has included other breakaway al-Qaeda factions" Yes please do carry on and kill each other off . Take some heat off the SAA . Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 7, 2017 18:42GuestFranz KafkaAl Baghdadi. Al Tunisi. All Mossad Jews from Tal Habib. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 9, 2017 04:25 Latest Curious Bedfellows: The Neocon And Progressive Alliance To Destroy Donald Trump The neocon metamorphosis is nearly complete as many of the neocons, who started out as Democrats, have returned home, where they are being welcomed for their hardline foreign policy viewpoint. Published 4 hours ago on January 20, 2019 By Philip Giraldi Authored by Philip Giraldi via OffGuardian.com: The Roman poet Ovid's masterful epic The Metamorphoses includes the memorable opening line regarding the poem's central theme of transformation. He wrote In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora, which has been translated as "Of shapes transformed to bodies strange, I purpose to entreat…" Ovid framed his narrative around gods, heroes and quasi-historical events but if he were around today, he would no doubt be fascinated by the many transformations of the group that has defined itself as neoconservative.The movement began in a cafeteria in City College of New York in the 1930s, where a group of radical Jewish students would meet to discuss politics and developments in Europe. Many of the founders were from the far left, communists of the Trotskyite persuasion, which meant that they believed in permanent global revolution led by a vanguard party. The transformation into conservatives of a neo-persuasion took place when they were reportedly "mugged by reality" into accepting that the standard leftist formulae were not working to transform the world rapidly enough. As liberal hawks, they then hitched their wagon to the power of the United States to bring about transformation by force if necessary and began to infiltrate institutions like the Pentagon to give themselves the tools to achieve their objectives, which included promotion of regime change wars, full spectrum global dominance and unconditional support for Israel. The neocons initially found a home with Democratic Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, but they moved on in the 1970s and 1980s to prosper under Ronald Reagan as well as under Democrat Bill Clinton. Their ability to shape policy peaked under George W. Bush, when they virtually ran the Pentagon and were heavily represented in both the national security apparatus and in the White House. They became adept at selling their mantra of "strong national defense" to whomever was buying, including to President Obama, even while simultaneously complaining about his administration's "weakness." The neoconservatives lined up behind Hillary Clinton in 2016, appalled by Donald Trump's condemnation of their centerpiece war in Iraq and even more so by his pledge to end the wars in Asia and nation-building projects while also improving relations with the Russians. They worked actively against the Republican candidate both before he was nominated and elected and did everything they could to stop him, including libeling him as a Russian agent. When Trump was elected, it, therefore, seemed that the reign of the neocons had ended, but chameleonlike, they have changed shape and are now ensconced both in some conservative as well as in an increasing number of progressive circles in Washington and in the media. Against all odds, they have even captured key posts in the White House itself with the naming of John Bolton as National Security Adviser and Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. Bolton's Chief of Staff is Fred Fleitz, a leading neocon and Islamophobe while last week Trump added Iran hawk Richard Goldberg to the National Security Council as director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction. Goldberg is an alumnus of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is the leading neocon think tank calling incessantly for war with Iran. Meanwhile, the neocon metamorphosis is nearly complete as many of the neocons, who started out as Democrats, have returned home, where they are being welcomed for their hardline foreign policy viewpoint. Glenn Greenwald reports that, based on polling of party supporters, the Democrats have gone full-Hillary and are now by far more hawkish than the Republicans, unwilling to leave either Syria or Afghanistan. The neocon survival and rejuvenation is particularly astonishing in that they have been wrong about virtually everything, most notably the catastrophic Iraq War. They have never been held accountable for anything, though one should note that accountability is not a prominent American trait, at least since Vietnam. What is important is that neocon views have been perceived by the media and punditry as being part of the Establishment consensus, which provides them with access to programming all across the political spectrum. That is why neocon standard-bearers like Bill Kristol and Max Boot have been able to move effortlessly from Fox News to MSNBC where they are fêted by the likes of Rachel Maddow. They applauded the Iraq War when the Establishment was firmly behind it and are now trying to destroy Donald Trump's presidency because America's elite is behind that effort. Indeed, the largely successful swing by the neocons from right to left has in some ways become more surreal, as an increasing number of progressive spokesmen and institutions have lined up behind their perpetual warfare banner. The ease with which the transformation took place reveals, interestingly, that the neocons have no real political constituency apart from voters who feel threatened and respond by supporting perpetual war, but they do share many common interests with the so-called liberal interventionists. Neocons see a global crisis for the United States defined in terms of power while the liberals see the struggle as a moral imperative, but the end result is the same: intervention by the United States. This fusion is clearly visible in Washington, where the Clintons' Center for American Progress (CAP) is now working on position papers with the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI). One of the most active groups attacking President Trump is "Republicans for the Rule of Law," founded by Bill Kristol in January 2018, as a component of Defending Democracy Together(DDT), a 501(c)4 lobbying group that also incorporates projects called The Russia Tweets and Republicans Against Putin. Republicans Against Putin promotes the view that President Trump is not "stand[ing] up to [Vladimir] Putin" and calls for more aggressive investigation of the Russian role in the 2016 election. DDT is a prime example of how the neoconservatives and traditional liberal interventionists have come together as it is in part funded by Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire co-founder of eBay who has provided DDT with $600,000 in two grants through his Democracy Fund Voice, also a 501(c)4. Omidyar is a political liberal who has given millions of dollars to progressive organizations and individuals since 1999. Indeed, he is regarded as a top funder of liberal causesin the United States and even globally together with Michael Bloomberg and George Soros. His Democracy Fund awarded $9 million in grants in 2015 alone. Last week, the Omidyar-Kristol connection may have deepened with an announcement regarding the launch of the launch of a new webzine The Bulwark, which would clearly be at least somewhat intended to take the place of the recently deceased Weekly Standard. It is promoting itself as the center of the "Never Trump Resistance" and it is being assumed that at least some of the Omidyar money is behind it. Iranian-born Omidyar's relationship with Kristol is clearly based on the hatred that the two share regarding Donald Trump. Omidyar has stated that Trump is a "dangerous authoritarian demagogue… endorsing Donald Trump immediately disqualifies you from any position of public trust." He has tweeted that Trump suffers from "failing mental capacity" and is both "corrupt and incapacitated." Omidyar is what he is – a hardcore social justice warrior who supports traditional big government and globalist liberal causes, most of which are antithetical to genuine conservatives. But what is interesting about the relationship with Kristol is that it also reveals what the neoconservatives are all about. Kristol and company have never been actual conservatives on social issues, a topic that they studiously avoid, and their foreign policy is based on two principles: creating a state of perpetual war based on fearmongering about foreign enemies while also providing unlimited support for Israel. Kristol hates Trump because he threatens the war agenda while Omidyar despises the president for traditional progressive reasons. That hatred is the tie that binds and it is why Bill Kristol, a man possessing no character and values whatsoever, is willing to take Pierre Omidyar's money while Pierre is quite happy to provide it to destroy a common enemy, the President of the United States of America. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Nancy Pelosi tries to deplatform U.S. President Trump over the wall (Video) The Duran – News in Review – Episode 170. Published 4 hours ago on January 20, 2019 By Alex Christoforou In response to Pelosi's disgusting act of censorship, Trump trolled the Speaker of the House in epic fashion by forcing the cancellation of a trip to Afghanistan, Brussels and Egypt by Nancy Pelosi and her massive entourage. In a letter addressed to Pelosi, U.S. President Trump told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi… "I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over." "I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is appropriate." According to a congressional aide, Pelosi and several other politicians were already on buses preparing to leave the U.S. Capitol when the U.S. President cancelled their trip. Trump suggested that Pelosi fly commercial to Afghanistan and elsewhere should she wish. The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how Nancy Pelosi is trying to censor Trump and prevent the U.S. President from delivering the State of the Union to the American people, in what is clearly another liberal left deplatforming ploy. Instead of debating the issues about the wall and immigration with fact, logic, and policy positions, Pelosi (out of fear) is trying to silence Trump and squash debate and political discourse. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Follow The Duran Audio Podcast on Soundcloud. Via The Gateway Pundit… Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday asking him to postpone the State of the Union Address to a Joint Session of Congress scheduled for January 29. Pelosi cited security concerns over the partial government shutdown. Pelosi said both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now – with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs. Therefore, they would not be ready for the speech. Pelosi posted her letter to Trump on Twitter, saying, "Today, I wrote to @realDonaldTrump recommending that we delay the State of the Union until after government re-opens, as the @SecretService, the lead federal agency for #SOTU security, faces its 26th day without funding." (Text version of letter below tweet.) Today, I wrote to @realDonaldTrump recommending that we delay the State of the Union until after government re-opens, as the @SecretService, the lead federal agency for #SOTU security, faces its 26th day without funding. https://t.co/K2oL8WGvqo pic.twitter.com/g3fIlxDbbK — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 16, 2019 The Department of Homeland Security refuted the Speaker's claims — The Secret Service is ready for the SOTU. And on Thursday FOX News reported that Speaker Pelosi was using "all kinds of security" manpower for her pricey trip with Democrats to Belgium and Afghanistan. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest BuzzFeed pushes fake Michael Cohen news, as real news breaks on HUGE conspiracy against Trump at FBI and DOJ (Video) The Duran – News in Review – Episode 169. Published 16 hours ago on January 19, 2019 By Alex Christoforou According to Zerohedge, in an almost unprecedented event – having rarely commented on stories related to the special counsel's investigation – Robert S. Mueller III's office put out a statement firmly disputing the reporting of the news site BuzzFeed reported that the president instructed his personal attorney to lie to Congress about his push for a Moscow real estate project "BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate," the special counsel's office said. As The Hill reports, BuzzFeed had released a statement earlier Friday defending the reporters behind the story and saying that it "stands by this story 100%," and for his part, Cohen adviser Lanny Davis refused to confirm or deny the report during an interview with MSNBC on Friday afternoon. President Trump retweeted a few social media reactions… I told you all that the BuzzFeed story was nonsense. pic.twitter.com/gbTXPjpVtk — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) January 19, 2019 We called it. FAKE NEWS! "More Buzzfeed B.S." https://t.co/aOIPJJu0vH — Dan Bongino (@dbongino) January 19, 2019 And then made his own views clear: Remember it was Buzzfeed that released the totally discredited "Dossier," paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats (as opposition research), on which the entire Russian probe is based! A very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2019 Fake News is truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2019 Meanwhile the real election collusion bombshell had nothing to do with Russia, Moscow hotels, or Michael Cohen, and everything to do with bullet proof evidence that DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, warned all the higher-ups at the FBI and DOJ (Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe, etc…) that the Steele dossier was connected to Hillary Clinton, and was extremely biased against Donald Trump. The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how BuzzFeed pushed out a clear, fake propaganda story on Trump, Cohen, and more stupidity about Moscow hotel deals, as real reporter, John Solomon broke a massive story, with solid evidence and facts, that show the FBI and DOJ knew that the Steele dossier was a complete work of fiction, and knowingly hide that fact from FISA courts. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Follow The Duran Audio Podcast on Soundcloud. Authored by John Solomon, via The Hill… When the annals of mistakes and abuses in the FBI's Russia investigation are finally written, Bruce Ohr almost certainly will be the No. 1 witness, according to my sources. The then-senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official briefed both senior FBI and DOJ officials in summer 2016 about Christopher Steele's Russia dossier, explicitly cautioning that the British intelligence operative's work was opposition research connected to Hillary Clinton's campaign and might be biased. Ohr's briefings, in July and August 2016, included the deputy director of the FBI, a top lawyer for then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and a Justice official who later would become the top deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller. At the time, Ohr was the associate deputy attorney general. Yet his warnings about political bias were pointedly omitted weeks later from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that the FBI obtainedfrom a federal court, granting it permission to spy on whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to hijack the 2016 presidential election. Ohr's activities, chronicled in handwritten notes and congressional testimony I gleaned from sources, provide the most damning evidence to date that FBI and DOJ officials may have misled federal judges in October 2016 in their zeal to obtain the warrant targeting Trump adviser Carter Page just weeks before Election Day. They also contradict a key argument that House Democrats have made in their formal intelligence conclusions about the Russia case. Since it was disclosed last year that Steele's dossier formed a central piece of evidence supporting the FISA warrant, Justice and FBI officials have been vague about exactly when they learned that Steele's work was paid for by the law firm representing the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). A redacted version of the FISA application released last year shows the FBI did not mention any connection to the DNC or Clinton. Rather, it referred to Steele as a reliable source in past criminal investigations who was hired by a person working for a U.S. law firm to conduct research on Trump and Russia. The FBI claimed it was "unaware of any derogatory information" about Steele, that Steele was "never advised … as to the motivation behind the research" but that the FBI "speculates" that those who hired Steele were "likely looking for information to discredit" Trump's campaign. Yet, in testimony last summer to congressional investigators, Ohr revealed the FBI and Justice lawyers had no need to speculate: He explicitly warned them in a series of contacts, beginning July 31, 2016, that Steele expressed biased against Trump and was working on a project connected to the Clinton campaign. Ohr had firsthand knowledge about the motive and the client: He had just met with Steele on July 30, 2016, and Ohr's wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS, the same firm employing Steele. "I certainly told the FBI that Fusion GPS was working with, doing opposition research on Donald Trump," Ohr told congressional investigators, adding that he warned the FBI that Steele expressed bias during their conversations. "I provided information to the FBI when I thought Christopher Steele was, as I said, desperate that Trump not be elected," he added. "So, yes, of course I provided that to the FBI." When pressed why he would offer that information to the FBI, Ohr answered: "In case there might be any kind of bias or anything like that." He added later, "So when I provided it to the FBI, I tried to be clear that this is source information, I don't know how reliable it is. You're going to have to check it out and be aware." Ohr went further, saying he disclosed to FBI agents that his wife and Steele were working for the same firm and that it was conducting the Trump-Russia research project at the behest of Trump's Democratic rival, the Clinton campaign. "These guys were hired by somebody relating to, who's related to the Clinton campaign and be aware," Ohr told Congress, explaining what he warned the bureau. Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented both the DNC and the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election, belatedly admitted it paid Fusion GPS for Steele's work on behalf of the candidate and party and disguised the payments as legal bills when, in fact, it was opposition research. When asked if he knew of any connection between the Steele dossier and the DNC, Ohr responded that he believed the project was really connected to the Clinton campaign. "I didn't know they were employed by the DNC but I certainly said yes that they were working for, you know, they were somehow working, associated with the Clinton campaign," he answered. "I also told the FBI that my wife worked for Fusion GPS or was a contractor for GPS, Fusion GPS." Ohr divulged his first contact with the FBI was on July 31, 2016, when he reached out to then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and FBI attorney Lisa Page. He then was referred to the agents working Russia counterintelligence, including Peter Strzok, the now-fired agent who played a central role in starting the Trump collusion probe. But Ohr's contacts about the Steele dossier weren't limited to the FBI. He said in August 2016 — nearly two months before the FISA warrant was issued — that he was asked to conduct a briefing for senior Justice officials. Those he briefed included Andrew Weissmann, then the head of DOJ's fraud section; Bruce Swartz, longtime head of DOJ's international operations, and Zainab Ahmad, an accomplished terrorism prosecutor who, at the time, was assigned to work with Lynch as a senior counselor. Ahmad and Weissmann would go on to work for Mueller, the special prosecutor overseeing the Russia probe. Ohr's extensive testimony also undercuts one argument that House Democrats sought to make last year. When Republicans, in early 2018, first questioned Ohr's connections to Steele, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee sought to minimize the connection, insisting he only worked as an informer for the FBI after Steele was fired by the FBI in November 2016. The memo from Rep. Adam Schiff's (D-Calif.) team claimed that Ohr's contacts with the FBI only began "weeks after the election and more than a month after the Court approved the initial FISA application." But Ohr's testimony now debunks that claim, making clear he started talking to FBI and DOJ officials well before the FISA warrant or election had occurred. And his detailed answers provide a damning rebuttal to the FBI's portrayal of the Steele material. In fact, the FBI did have derogatory information on Steele: Ohr explicitly told the FBI that Steele was desperate to defeat the man he was investigating and was biased. And the FBI knew the motive of the client and did not have to speculate: Ohr told agents the Democratic nominee's campaign was connected to the research designed to harm Trump's election chances. Such omissions are, by definition, an abuse of the FISA system. Don't take my word for it. Fired FBI Director James Comey acknowledged it himself when he testified last month that the FISA court relies on an honor system, in which the FBI is expected to divulge exculpatory evidence to the judges. "We certainly consider it our obligation, because of our trust relationship with federal judges, to present evidence that would paint a materially different picture of what we're presenting," Comey testified on Dec. 7, 2018. "You want to present to the judge reviewing your application a complete picture of the evidence, both its flaws and its strengths." Comey claims he didn't know about Ohr's contacts with Steele, even though his top deputy, McCabe, got the first contact. But none of that absolves his FBI, or the DOJ for that matter, from failing to divulge essential and exculpatory information from Ohr to the FISA court. John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists' misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He is The Hill's executive vice president for video. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. Amount to donate in USD$: 5 100 Validating payment information... Waiting for PayPal...Validating payment information...Waiting for PayPal... 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