text: Latest Breaking News 'Bloody Gina' confirmed as head of CIA in Senate vote Haspel earned quite the reputation for her involvement in CIA blacksite torture programs Published 5 months ago on May 17, 2018 By Frank Sellers 322 Views Share Tweet Gina Haspel, AKA 'Bloody Gina' has been confirmed in a Senate vote, receiving bipartisan backing, with votes from both Republicans and Democrats. Cal. #847, Gina Haspel, of Kentucky, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Motion to Invoke Cloture. Yeas & nays ordered. The Motion to Invoke Cloture was agreed to by a vote of 54-44 . Cal. #847, Gina Haspel, of Kentucky, to be Director of t https://t.co/SOmYJ3Dv4t — U.S. Senate Floor (@SenateFloor) May 17, 2018 Haspel earned quite the reputation for her involvement in CIA blacksite torture programs during the Bush era. 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The Biggest Threat to US National Security Is the US Government 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 Latest Pat Buchanan: Caravan Puts Trump Legacy on the Line Unwanted mass migration is the issue of our time, as there is no foreseeable end to it before it alters America irremediably. Published 14 hours ago on October 19, 2018 By Patrick J. Buchanan Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org: Our mainstream media remain consumed with the grisly killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and how President Donald Trump will deal with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Understandably so, for this is the most riveting murder story since O.J. Simpson and has strategic implications across the Middle East. Yet far more critical to the future of our civilization is the ongoing invasion of the West from the Third World. Consider the impact of the decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015 to throw open Germany's doors to 1 million refugees from Syria's civil war. Last weekend, in a crushing blow to Merkel, the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of her CDU, won its smallest share of the vote in half a century, 37 percent. Her coalition party, the SPD, saw its share of the Bavarian vote fall to a historic low of less than 10 percent. The right-wing Alternative for Deutchland saw its support rise to 10 percent and has become a force in German politics. Some conservatives are urging the CDU to adopt the AfD hardline on illegal immigration. The message sent by the Bavarian electorate is the message voters across Europe have been sending to their own capitals for years: You are failing in your first duty — defense of the homeland from foreign invasion. Mass migration of unassimilable peoples and cultures from a global South represents an existential threat to our Europe. As Merkel's chancellorship approaches its end, French President Emmanuel Macron, her progressive EU partner, has seen his approval fall to below 30 percent. The U.S.-led NATO alliance may guard the Baltic and Black Sea regions against a Russian invasion from the east. But in Central, Southern and Western Europe, the more feared invaders are the peoples of Africa and the Muslim world, whose numbers are expected to triple or quadruple by this century's end. And as their numbers grow, so, too, does their desperation to escape, even at risk of their lives, the poverty, wars and repression of their homelands to cross the Med and fill the empty spaces left by a depopulating Europe. It also now appears that the U.S. elections, not three weeks away, may be affected by another immigration crisis on the U.S. border. As of Thursday, a caravan of 4,000 refugees without visas had crossed from Honduras into Guatemala and was heading toward Mexico. By Election Day, it will either have been stopped, or it will be here. And this caravan is a portent of things to come. According to The Washington Post, during FY 2018, which ended last month, 107,212 members of "family units" crossed over into the U.S., "obliterating the previous record of 77,857 set in 2016." Citing DHS figures, the Post adds, "Border patrol agents arrested 16,658 family members in September alone, the highest one-month total on record and an 80 percent increase from July." When Trump, under intense political fire, ended his "zero tolerance" policy of separating refugees from their children, this message went out to Mexico and Central America: Bring your kids with you when you cross the border. They will have to stay with you, and they cannot be held for more than 20 days. Thus, when they are released, you will be released to await a hearing on your claim of asylum. The odds are excellent that you can vanish into the U.S. population and never be sent back. Enraged, Trump has threatened to cut off aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala if they do not stop the caravans and has warned Mexico he will use the U.S. military to secure our border. Unwanted mass migration is the issue of our time, as there is no foreseeable end to it before it alters America irremediably. As these migrants are almost all poor, not highly skilled, and do not speak English, most will join that segment of our population that pays no income taxes but qualifies for social welfare benefits like food stamps, medical care and free education in our public schools. They are thus a net drain upon the resources of a nation that is already, at full employment, running a deficit of $779 billion a year. These migrants, however, are a present and future benefit to the Democratic Party that built and maintains our mammoth welfare state, and which, in presidential elections, routinely wins 70 to 90 percent of the votes of people whose trace their ancestry to Asia, Africa and Latin America. Not without reason, Democrats believe that if they can change the composition of the American electorate, they can control America forever. If Donald Trump was elected on any one issue, it was immigration and his promises to secure the border, build the wall and halt the invasion. How he deals with the impending crisis of the migrant caravan may affect both the fate of his party in November and his presidency in 2020. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest 'Mohammad bin Salman Must Go', but US-Saudi Ties Are Here to Stay Was it possible that Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was so arrogant that he could not imagine the consequences of such a heinous crime? Published 17 hours ago on October 19, 2018 By Federico Pieraccini Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation: Mohammad bin Salman is fully aware of the Western elite's understanding of its own values. While he may be given a pass to bomb Yemen and kill thousands of innocent civilians, he should know better than to dare touch a Washington Post columnist – "one of ours", as one MSNBC host said. Did he not realize there would be consequences? As more information came out, many analysts began to confront the most obvious question. Was it possible that Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was so arrogant that he could not imagine the consequences of such a heinous crime? How could MBS betray Trump this way, not anticipating that the Democrats and the mainstream media would jump all over Trump's friendship with him? Could he be so foolish as to place in jeopardy foreign investments planned at the Davos in the Desert conference on October 23? The answer to that question is apparently: yes, he could. The only rational explanation for this behavior is that MBS thought he could get away with it. Remember that we are talking about someone who had Saad Hariri, the prime minister of Lebanon, kidnapped and carried off to the Kingdom, with his whereabouts unknown for days but with very little reaction from the mainstream media or Western politicians. It is possible that in this instance, MBS simply misjudged the level of Khashoggi's popularity amongst neoliberals of the Washington establishment, provoking an unexpected response. Furthermore, the thesis that the Saudis understood that they had some kind of green light from Trump is not to be totally dismissed. Such a backlash is what you get from having a big mouth, praise your friends too much, and tweet all the time. The rapidity with which the US media, and especially dozens of Republican and Democratic senators, attacked Saudi Arabia, blaming it for the atrocious crime, is rather unusual. After all, the Saudi elites have been inclined to behave in such a manner over the last 40 years. But it also highlights the ongoing inconsistency and double standards: nothing is said about Yemen, but the Kingdom is currently under the strongest censure for allegedly offing a journalist. As I had already pointed out in my previous article, Khashoggi was clearly part of a faction opposed to the current ruling royal family in Saudi Arabia, headed by MBS. To understand this Saudi golden boy of the US mainstream media as well as military-industrial-spying complex, we have to go back to Mohammed bin Nayef. Bin Nayef has been under house arrest for almost two years, immediately purged by MBS as soon as he assumed power as crown prince. Bin Nayef has for decades been the CIA's go-to man in Riyadh, helping the CIA & Co. pretend to "fight" al Qaeda in the Kingdom while using al Qaeda as a tool to inflict damage on US geopolitical adversaries. The removal of bin Nayef by MBS was greeted with anger by a part of the US establishment close to Washington think tanks and the CIA and was never fully digested. MBS and his father, King Salman, needed to consolidate power around the throne at the time, and bin Nayef was certainly part of the faction opposing MBS, as was Khashoggi. Naturally, these antipathies were set aside by the CIA, think tanks and neoliberals in the media due to to the importance of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US, especially vis-a-vis the US Petrodollar. MBS even undertook a tour in the US to help smooth the relationship with the West, being hailed as a new reformer, if you can believe that. Nowadays,the relationship between Riyadh, Tel Aviv and Washington is based on the strong friendship between Trump and MBS and Trump and Netanyahu. Furthermore, the strengthened link between Trump and MBS, facilitated by son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is close to Israel, served to create a new alliance, perhaps even hinting at the possibility of an Arab NATO. Israel is eager to see more Saudi and US engagement against Iran in the region, and the Saudis similarly praise Israel and the US for being engaged in a fight against Iranian influence in the region. In this way, Trump can please his Israeli friends and see Saudi money pour in as investments. These agreements have led to a series of disasters in the Middle East that go against the interests of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US. Israel's recklessness has led to the deployment of a wide range of Russian state-of-the-art weapons to Syria, preventing Israel and the US from acting as freely as before. The disastrous Saudi war in Yemen, the almost diplomatic break with Canada, the kidnapping of the prime minister of Lebanon, and now the Khashoggi affair, have further weakened and isolated Saudi Arabia, MBS, and therefore Trump. The US is no longer able to influence events on the ground in Syria, and so the initial plans of Israel and Saudi Arabia have foundered, after having devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to arm and train terrorists to overthrow Assad. The Khashoggi affair plays into this situation, exacerbating the war between elites in the US as their strategies in the Middle East continue to fail. The neoliberal mainstream media immediately used the Khashoggi story to pressure Trump into taking a firm stance against one of his last friends and financiers, trying to further isolate him as the midterms approach. Many in the US deep state are convinced – as they were convinced that Clinton would win the presidency – that the House and Senate will end up in Democratic hands in the November elections, paving the way for Trump's impeachment and for Mike Pence to become president. Pence, a prominent figure of the evangelical right, would be the perfect president for Israel, placing Tel Aviv in the driving seat of US foreign policy as never before. In this scenario, it would certainly be preferable for certain parts of the elite to have a different figure at the helm in Saudi Arabia, seeing as MBS appears to be an unstable leader. Possibly they would prefer someone tied to the US secret services – someone like Mohammed bin Nayef. For these reasons, Democrats, some Republicans and the mainstream media have gone all out against MBS and Trump. Turkey seems to be using the situation to further widen the fracture between Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world. Since Doha is paying the bills for Erdogan these days, with the Turkish lira at a low, it is essentially the Al Thani family running the PR show in the Turkish media. It looks like the Qatari media are paying back with interests all the negative media they received from the Saudis over the past year. Despite this, neither Ankara nor Riyadh is intent on any kind escalation, both knowing that any suffering on their part is a boon for their enemies. An interesting aspect related to the Khashoggi affair concerns the sources of the news about the investigation, all anonymous and coming from Turkish police or from people linked to the top echelons of the Turkish state. Knowing the odd state of relations between Ankara and Riyadh, and especially between Turkish ally Qatar and Saudi Arabia, all this news coming from one source should at least be taken with a grain of salt. What is certain is that the Turks had immediate knowledge of the matter regarding who, what, where, when and why. This means that they must have bugged the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, allowing the MIT, Turkey's intelligence service, to know in real time what was happening to Khashoggi. The story concerning the Apple watch appears to be an attempt by the Turks to thrown off the scent Saudis who may be scratching their heads wondering how the Turks came to have such intimate knowledge of what transpired in their consulate. For Turkey, the Khashoggi affair could be the occasion for a rapprochement with the US, following a deterioration in relations in the last two years. Turkey has few friends left, and after being cornered by Russia and Iran in Astana with regards to Syria, it also has to deal with the tensions between Riyadh and Qatar as well as balance its relations with Iran and Israel. Erdogan would like to exploit this event as much as possible, and the release of Pastor Brunson seems to indicate Ankara's willingness to extend an olive branch to Washington. Russia, Syria and Iran have everything to benefit from this ongoing internal quarrel between elements within Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Qatar and the US. Whatever the outcome of the Khashoggi affair, Moscow, Tehran and Damascus can only benefit from any deterioration of relations between these countries. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here's Why The way to boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google, is to NOT respond to their ads, but instead to blacklist their advertisers and all media that rely upon those giant social-media sites. Published 17 hours ago on October 19, 2018 By Eric Zuesse Originally posted at strategic-culture.org: NATO — the neoconservatives, the marketeers for firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE — has taken over the social-media giants and much of online international 'news'-reporting, including that of virtually all independent news-sites and blogs. Facebook, Twitter, and Google, in recent days, delivered what might be the death-blows. NATO's main PR agency, think-tank, and lobbying organization, is 'non-profit' — a legal tax-dodge that's financed by donations from those weapons-making firms and their supporting firms and their 'non-profits', so that the taxes that it doesn't pay will need to be paid instead by the general public. Billionaires know how to avoid taxes, and they hire politicians who write the laws with all the 'right' loopholes for them — and only for the very richest — to use. This PR agency is called "The Atlantic Council," and it was set up in 1961, the exact same year that U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower left office warning that "the military-industrial complex" might take control of the U.S. Well, it did so, with The Atlantic Council's help; and, now, it is finally lowering the boom against democracy itself — at least among the U.S. and its allied nations (the governments whose weapons-manufacturing firms are in, and sell to, NATO governments). The aim is to drive up the percentage of government-expenditures there that go to pay those firms, and so to reduce the percentages that go to pay everything else. The aim, in short, is the permanent-warfare-economy. After all, firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE sell only to allied governments. They have virtually no consumers except those governments. So: their (and their 'charities') basic message is 'austerity' — except on 'defense' or realistically called "aggression." This is national 'defense' such as against Iraq in 2003, and against Libya in 2011 — it is instead sheer aggression. George Orwell predicted "Newspeak" — well, here it is. It's today's norm, so normal that the public think it's just natural, and conservatives and even many liberals think it's the way that 'a free market' ought to be. Here was Facebook's announcement, on October 11th: —— newsroom.fb.com 11 October 2018 Removing Additional Inauthentic Activity from Facebook Today, we're removing 559 Pages and 251 accounts that have consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior. Given the activity we've seen — and its timing ahead of the US midterm elections — we wanted to give some details about the types of behavior that led to this action. Many were using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names and posted massive amounts of content across a network of Groups and Pages to drive traffic to their websites. Many used the same techniques to make their content appear more popular on Facebook than it really was. Others were ad farms using Facebook to mislead people into thinking that they were forums for legitimate political debate. —— Those 559 and 251 weren't identified; none of them were. Facebook wants them to need to scream in order for them to be able to be noticed at all by the public. The announcement didn't even say by what criteria they were measuring 'Inauthentic Activity' versus 'legitimate political debate'. Their announcement did say "we look at these actors' behavior – such as whether they're using fake accounts or repeatedly posting spam – rather than their content when deciding which of these accounts, Pages or Groups to remove," but unless they make public what the actual algorithms are by means of which they remove sites, no one should trust them, at all, because they can remove whatever NATO or The Atlantic Council (neither of which their announcement even mentioned) want them to remove. The background for this act by the war-economy's billionaires had already been reported at Mint Press on May 18th, "Facebook Partners With Hawkish Atlantic Council, a NATO Lobby Group, to 'Protect Democracy'", where Elliott Gabriel opened: Facebook is hoping that a new alliance with the Atlantic Council — a leading geopolitical strategy think-tank seen as a de facto PR agency for the U.S. government and NATO military alliance – will not only solve its "fake news" and "disinformation" controversy, but will also help the social media monolith play "a positive role" in ensuring democracy on a global level. The new partnership will effectively ensure that Atlantic Council will serve as Facebook's "eyes and ears," according to a company press statement. With its leadership comprised of retired military officers, former policymakers, and top figures from the U.S. National Security State and Western business elites, the Atlantic Council's role policing the social network should be viewed as a virtual takeover of Facebook by the imperialist state and the council's extensive list of ultra-wealthy and corporate donors. Then, on October 12th, Mint Press's Whitney Webb bannered "Facebook Purges US-Based Independent Media For Political Disinformation", and reported that, Notably, Facebook's statement on the mass purge of pages was co-authored by Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher, who is a former White House National Security Council director of cybersecurity policy. Twitter also banned many of the pages targeted for deletion by Facebook on Thursday, suggesting a coordinated censorship effort between the two most popular social media platforms. Many of the pages banned had millions of likes, such as the Free Thought Project (3.1 million likes), Antimedia (2.1 million), Cop Block (1.7 million), and Police the Police (1.9 million). Several of the pages that were deleted on Thursday had been targeted by Facebook in recent months, both through new censorship algorithms and Facebook's controversial team of "fact checkers." For instance, the Free Thought Project had been flagged earlier this year as "fake news" by Facebook "fact checking" partner organizations, including the Associated Press (AP) and Snopes. In one case, a story published by the Free Thought Project was flagged as "false" by the AP. That story, which detailed the documented case of Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) being forcibly removed from a DHS migrant detention center that had once been a Walmart, was marked false because the AP asserted that the article made the claim that Walmart was housing immigrants for DHS. However, the article does not make the claim, instead accurately noting that the facility used to be a Walmart. Censorship algorithms had also greatly affected traffic to the recently deleted pages for much of the past year. In the case of Antimedia, its traffic dropped from around 150,000 page views per day in early June to around 12,000 by the end of that month. As a reference, in June of last year, Antimedia's traffic stood at nearly 300,000 views per day. Also on October 12th, heavy dot com bannered "'Facebook Purge': List of Some Deleted Accounts on Left & Right" and listed a few dozen sites that the article's writer had seen online screaming about having been removed. Meanwhile, in UK's very mainstream Daily Mail (the second-largest-circulation of all UK's newspapers), columnist Michael Burleigh headlined on October 13th "Putin's taking over Libya by stealth in order to point a new weapon at the West — millions of desperate migrants" and he opened: So bloody and extensive is President Putin's record of aggression, not least in Syria and Ukraine, that an incursion into the empty deserts of North Africa might hardly seem worth noting. Yet the discovery that Russia is moving troops and missiles into war-torn Libya has rightly caused alarms to sound throughout the capitals of Europe. It is a step of huge significance, and one with potentially disastrous results for Western nations. The discovery that Vladimir Putin, above, and his government is moving troops and missiles into war-torn Libya has rightly caused alarm. Russia – this time in the form of Rosneft, the huge oil company controlled by Putin's sinister crony Igor Sechin – is interested in a slice of Libya's vast oil reserves, the largest in Africa Libya has both oil and Mediterranean ports, and Russia is hungry for both. But was it Russia that in 2011 had invaded and destroyed Libya, or was it U.S., UK, and France, who invaded and destroyed Libya — a country that like Iraq, Syria, Yemen and others which The West has destroyed, had never threatened nor invaded any of them? Burleigh continued: – cause enough for concern, perhaps. Yet the real fear for European governments is this: Libya, with its porous southern borders, has become the main jumping-off point for the hundreds of thousands of African migrants now seeking to cross the Mediterranean to the shores of the EU and, in particular, Italy. So, his own country, UK, had helped with the bombing of Libya that had caused all those 'migrants' (actually refugees) into Europe, but now he's trying to blame Putin for it, as if Russia and not UK, U.S., and France were the cause of it. Doesn't that "mislead people"? But is the Daily Mail being strangled by Facebook, Twitter, and Google; or is it instead being done to the small-fry political sites, which aren't owned and controlled by the aristocracies of the U.S., UK, France, and their allied aristocracies — all the aristocracies that are in NATO and promoted by The Atlantic Council? Here is yet more from Elliott Gabriel's excellent news-report at Mint Press on May 18th, providing background to the present purges and censorships: The announcement, made last Thursday in a Facebook Newsroom post, explained that the social network's security, policy and product teams will coordinate their work with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) to analyze "real-time insights and updates on emerging threats and disinformation campaigns from around the world." DFRLab employees include pro-war media activist Eliot Higgins (of Bellingcat fame) and Ben Nimmo — a senior fellow for information defense at the Atlantic Council, who earned infamy for his groundless accusations that actual Twitter users are Russian trolls. Read more on Facebook Surveillance Capitalism and the State: Facebook Devastated on Multiple Fronts as Data Theft Crisis Grows Independent Media Slams Facebook's Plan to Act as Gatekeeper of 'Trustworthy' News Zuckerberg Pledges To Fix Facebook's Privacy Problems—No One Trusts Him A Brazilian Judge Just Handed Facebook Censorship Powers Continuing, Facebook global politics and government outreach director Katie Harbath explained: "This will help increase the number of 'eyes and ears' we have working to spot potential abuse on our service — enabling us to more effectively identify gaps in our systems, preempt obstacles, and ensure that Facebook plays a positive role during elections all around the world." "We know that tackling these problems effectively also requires the right policies and regulatory structures, so that governments and companies can help prevent abuse while also ensuring that people have a voice during elections. The Atlantic Council's network of leaders is uniquely situated to help all of us think through the challenges we will face in the near- and long-term." "The think-tank's Digital Research Unit Monitoring Missions will also be tapped by the social network during elections and "other highly sensitive moments" to allow Facebook the ability to zero in on key locales and monitor alleged misinformation and foreign interference." Who is the Atlantic Council? Hillary Clinton at the 2013 Atlantic Council Distinguished Leadership Awards (Photo: Atlantic Council) The Atlantic Council was recently in the news for receiving a donation of $900,000 from the U.S. State Department for a "Peace Process Support Network" program to "promote non-violent conflict resolution" in support of Venezuela's scattered opposition, with which the council enjoys very close ties. The council also advocates the arming of extremist militants in Syria (a "National Stabilization Force") and a hard-line policy toward Russia. Established in 1961 by former U.S. Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and Christian Herter, the Atlantic Council of the United States was originally conceived as a means to drum up support for the Cold War-era NATO alliance, which had formed in 1949 as the basis of the Euro-Atlantic security architecture during the post-WWII competition with the Soviet Union. Dozens of similar Atlantic Councils were eventually established throughout the NATO and Partnership for Peace states. The council is a part of the Atlantic Treaty Association, a NATO offshoot that claims to unite "political leaders, academics, military officials, journalists and diplomats in an effort to further the values set forth in the North Atlantic Treaty, namely: democracy, freedom, liberty, peace, security, and the rule of law." In general, groups such as the Atlantic Council are meant to secure the legitimacy of U.S. policies and neoliberal economics in the eyes of world audiences and academia, whether they live in the "advanced democracies" (the imperialist center) or "developing democracies" (the post-colonial and economically exploited nations). Mint Press — a real news-operation, instead of the fake-news operations that are being boosted by Facebook, Twitter, and Google — apparently hasn't yet been removed by Facebook, but the permanent-war-economy is only just starting to lower the boom. And, who knows what's next, in American 'democracy', now? The way to boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google, is to NOT respond to their ads, but instead to blacklist their advertisers and all media that rely upon those giant social-media sites. There are competitors, and those need to be aggressively favored by anyone who doesn't want to be mentally strangulated by these three giant corporations. 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OFS Brands to expand in High Point, add nearly 200 jobs
OFS Brands to expand in High Point, add nearly 200 jobs
A furniture and logistics company with a Triad presence will expand and add nearly 200 jobs.
OFS Brands will expand its operation in High Point at 1264 Jackson Lake Road, Deputy Commerce Secretary Dale Carroll announced Tuesday.
The move will add 188 jobs over five years. The average wage of the jobs will be about $40,700.
The company received performance-based incentives from city, county and state governments that could total up to $700,000.
The Indiana-based company, in its 75th year, makes casegoods, seating, and tables, as well as delivers furniture and other products. OFS already employs 200 in south High Point and Archdale.
The company will add more than $9 million to the local tax base.

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Stockton, CA
Leonard Furnare
March 21, 1924 - January 24, 2013
Leonard Furnare, age 88, passed away on Thursday, January 24, 2013 in Stockton. A native of San
Jose, California he was born to
Joseph and Marie Furnare on March 21, 1924. Mr. Furnare was a grocery store manager for 35 years. He served honorably in the US Army during WWII.
Mr. Furnare will be remembered by his loving daughter-in-law,
Debra Furnare; two grandsons, Jody Furnare and Scott Furnare, and six great grandchildren. He will also be remembered by his loving brother, Joe Furnare and a sister, Stell McPerson. He is preceded in death by his wife
Magdalene and their son Daniel.
Funeral Services will be Monday, February 4, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at DeYoung Shoreline Chapel, 7676 Shoreline Drive, Stockton, CA.
Visitation will be Sunday, February 3, 2013 from Noon until 5:00 p.m. at DeYoung Shoreline Chapel.
Committal will be at Cherokee Memorial Park, Lodi, California.
Memorial contributions may be expressed to Lions Club International, 300 West 22nd Street, Oak Brook, IL 60523 or Twin Oaks Community Church, 8800 Thornton Road, Stockton, CA 95209.


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The state Senate on Friday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that would allow physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to Californians diagnosed as having less than six months to live.
Two days after the bill cleared the Assembly, the Senate approved the measure, sending it to the governor's desk.
Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), a coauthor of the measure, called the process of approving the bill a "historic effort."
"Californians want us, the Legislature, to act to eliminate the needless pain and prolonged suffering of those who are dying," Wolk told her colleagues.
Republican Sen. Robert Huff of San Dimas opposed the bill.
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|2012-04-16, 12:24
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Age: 27
The way things are so far, Kuro's special dora ability has been reduced into a handicap since it drastically limits the flexibility of her hand. If she could only find some way to discard her dora while evading the consequences, they might still have a chance. Otherwise, the other players would be able to read her hand much too easily.
|2012-04-16, 13:10
|Link #842
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Earth
Yup, I know the feeling Episode 1 and 2 of Achiga-hen is okay, but I'm sincerely missing the main cast hijinks and cheesy mahjong battles. But, if they continue to animate at this pace they'll meet Saki next episode and there is that scene that I'm looking forward to see.
So the reasonable conclusion is Toki would probably faint or have already fainted? But, the game isn't over yet, what happens if Toki faints before the vanguard match is over?
Does the match pause or something until Toki recovers? Do Senriyama forfeit? Though if that's the case then it is actually a good plot device for Achiga to advance to the finals. But, I hope that doesn't happen ... Toki is actually growing on me.
|2012-04-16, 13:28
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: [Zettai Ryouiki]
able to use other players ability as her own advantage, strong when attacking and her def also solid let alone reduce her point no one even able to complete their hand in 2nd round.
kinda interested what will happen if stealth momo meet teru, by ability alone momo should be teru natural enemy.
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They've already gone a bit more than 1 chapter/episode with episode 2, actually. Honestly, I thought ep. 2 of the anime was a bit too rushed, although ch. 2 was also one of the shorter chapters. If they do stretch out the battle next week and conclude episode 3 in synchrony with ch. 3 of the manga, though, I think that'll be good. Hopefully they don't just barrel on into ch. 4.
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Since were talking about Teru's possible weakness, it seemed to be shown subtly in the last hand that they played in chapter 9.
Teru made a kan thus adding a kan dora which made it hard for Kuro to choose which to discard that is not a dora or Teru's winning tile or something that will break her hand.
Kuro chose the 9 of circles which allowed Teru to ron her for 10,200 points. This is an understandable choice since 9 of circles is a terminal tile and is usually the one that is discarded first because of the tanyao yaku and well the probability wait.
But, if Kuro have chosen for example the 8 of circles which is not a dora and something that won't destroy her chance to win. She might have avoided getting directly hit by Teru.
Its true that the 8 of circles is a winning tile for Teru. But, if we look closely at the calculations if Teru ronned the 8 circles her hand value would be somewhere in the 3000 range which is not higher than her previous hand. Due to this, Teru will not ron Kuro and thus will be furiten for the 8 of circles.
Darn... they should have been able to stop Teru in that round if this is true.
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Alternatively you can try to do something with toi-toi but that seems a longer shot still.
If you want to form a completed hand without discarding any dora the 9 pin has to go, one way or the other. But so does the 8 pin, really.
As far as discarding defensively goes, it's impossible to say what the right move is since as far as I know we don't get to see the table discards. 9 pin probably isn't a terrible idea because it's a terminal, but you don't have many good options.
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Yeah but it was full of dora's she couldn't discard because it's her, so her only possible discards where the pin tiles. Which were all a horrible choice from her perspective anyway.
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Looking at the match again you guys are right. Since we can't see the discard, it is possible that the 9-pin will be the one that Teru will draw next thus Peanutbutter is correct that Teru can still tsumo the 9-pin if she managed to self draw it.
Still, I would like to maintain that it would have been better if Kuro had discarded the 8-pin than the 9-pin, but I can say this because I have the benefit of hindsight. For if Kuro discarded the 8-pin, the hand value Teru will get be 3k something. And Teru thus will not ron her and will be in furiten. Even if Teru managed to self draw the needed 9-pin (which is so ridiculously likely that I don't even want to contemplate it ) at least Kuro will not pay all of it.
Of course like Lestaki said Kuro have no way of knowing before it actually happened and truthfully if I'm on Kuro's shoes I would have also discarded the 9-pin as opposed to the 8-pin since I don't value terminal tiles very much.
Now, that I contemplate the match, Teru is really really scary if we assume that Teru will be getting a winning tile like another 9-pin whether Kuro discarded it or by self drawing on the wall like peanutbutter suggested. Then, this meant that the kan would have two purpose:
1. It made Kuro's hand really dangerous as in no safe tiles on sight dangerous even with a full hand and Kuro not making any calls. And the most probable tile to be discarded is actually the 9-pin since it is terminal, not a dora and may actually get away from building a hand which is the tile that Teru needs.
2. It also changed the drawing order so that whatever winning tile like the 9-pin is set up to be drawn by Teru. I also don't think any of her opponents can change the drawing order so no one can is in any shape to make any calls. Thus, ensuring Teru will draw her winning tile.
This is all based on conjecture but if this is true then Teru have set-up everything so she will win no matter what her opponents do. If ... if this is true Teru deserved the moniker unstoppable player indeed.
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About Kuro's ability........
If I have to explain "how is it possible?", I would say that in the begining of each round, all dora tiles are magically pre-placed in position that Kuro will self-draw all of them.
However, this can't explain how can she still get all of dora-s after draw order changed or how can she suddenly able to draw up new dora tiles when new dora indicator appeared .
Kuro power is truly a reality bending one LOL. It's even hard to explain with "luck"
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In ch.9
Since author didn't end vanguard match yet, I beleve that an unexpected thing might occur in the rest 4(?) rounds whether It will be by Kuro, Toki or Kirame!! . If she want to end it with Teru's total domination,she should end it already, not prolonging it. Well, unless she just want to torture our Kuro more :P
Right now, I can think off some upgrades for Kuro ability that author may use if she want to make Kuro comes back and win somehow
What I thought are.... (I will explain in details later how these upgrades help her)
- Ability to enable/unable her dora magnet. Can choose which kinds of dora tiles (normal dora/red dora/ura-dora) she wants to gather and which not. (This must done at the start of new round)
- Ability to drop out dora with out any drawback.
- Ability to gather dora tiles which havn't revealed yet. (Kandora + ura-dora) (Use this with
the rest of upgrades)
- Ability to acknowledge all unrevealed dora tiles in a round. (Use to support above upgrade)
Oh, look like I used my fantasy a lot in this post. ^^
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Now that ep 3 has been released, if they continue with the 1 chapter = 1 episode so far, how are they gonna do the last few episodes?
Makes me very curious as to how far they will go beyond the manga. Or is Teru's first match the last for Achiga?
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Anyway, It's a good sign that they start to add some new scenes and dialogs to anime.
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Storing objects persistently
The persistent store lets you save objects to persistent memory. The objects are retained in memory after a BlackBerry smartphone restarts. The persistent store is included in all versions of BlackBerry Device Software.
With the Persistent Store API, you can save entire Java objects to memory without having to serialize the data first. When your app starts, it can retrieve the Java object from memory and process the data. The Persistent Store API does not provide a relational database model. You must create an effective object model and manage the relationships between objects, as necessary, using indices and hash tables.
The Persistent Store API is implemented in the PersistentObject class, PersistentStore class, and EventLogger class, all of which are provided in the net.rim.device.api.system package, and the Persistable interface, which is provided in the net.rim.device.api.util package.
Data is stored as instances of PersistentObject. PersistentObject can be any object that implements the Persistable interface. The Persistent Store API allows the implicit persistence of classes, so the following data types automatically implement the Persistable interface and can also be stored in the persistent store:
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Cardinals acquire QB Palmer from Raiders
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Carson Palmer has landed with the third team of his NFL career.
First Cincinnati, then Oakland and now Arizona, it's not exactly a 'Who's Who' of NFL powerhouses.
But Palmer and his new coach insist that he's coming to a Cardinals team built to win now, despite the fact it lost 11 of its last 12 a season ago.
The Arizona Cardinals acquired Palmer from the Oakland Raiders, then agreed to a two-year contract that could pay him up to $20 million with $10 million guaranteed.
"I've got a lot of tread left on my tires," the 33-year-old quarterback promised.
Ever since Bruce Arians was hired to replace the fired Ken Whisenhunt, quarterback was the No. 1 topic of conversation.
"I'm here to introduce our starting quarterback and put it to bed," Arians said at a news conference on Tuesday, "and I'm really happy about it."
The Cardinals gave up a conditional seventh-round 2014 draft pick and swapped the second of their two sixth-round picks this year for Oakland's seventh-round selection.
"This was a no-brainer," Cardinals President Michael Bidwill said. "When we learned that he would be available via trade and that we had a shot at getting him, we were aggressive. We went out there, we put our best foot forward and made sure that we got the deal done. It dragged on a little over the weekend but this morning we made sure we pushed it over the goal line and got it done."
Palmer was to make $13 million under his old Raiders contract but reworked it to come to the desert.
"I've only got a couple of shots left," he said. "I've been in this league for a long time. It's nothing personal, it's not statistical, it's about trying to win a championship."
If Palmer starts at least 13 games next season, Oakland gets Arizona's 2014 seventh-round pick. If he doesn't, the Cardinals owe the Raiders nothing.
But at least the Raiders have the prospect of getting something for the quarterback rather than just releasing him. Oakland acquired quarterback Matt Flynn on Monday in a deal that sent two draft picks to the Seahawks.
Palmer is 54-67 as a starter. He was 4-11 with Oakland last season.
In 15 games in 2012, Palmer threw for 4,018 yards, becoming the second quarterback in Raiders history to throw for more than 4,000 yards in a season. He threw for 22 touchdowns with 14 interceptions.
He said that when it became clear the Raiders were embarking on a youth movement, he began to look elsewhere. Palmer said he found out Arizona was a possibility last Friday in a call from his agent, David Dunn.
He said he liked the chance to play for a coach he has respected over the years, and of course throw to Larry Fitzgerald. Arians was well aware of Palmer from the coach's days with Indianapolis and Pittsburgh. Palmer also said the Cardinals, coming off a 5-11 season, were obviously committed to getting better in a hurry.
"It's not a rebuilding process," Palmer said. "It's not 'We think we're going to be pretty good in a couple of years.' They want to win now and at the point I'm at in my career, I want to win now, too. I don't have years to build and get better, I've got to be ready to play in Week 1."
Arians had repeatedly talked of a quarterback being available "behind Door No. 2."
"I was confident that somebody was going to be able to be shaken loose somewhere," he said.
He had his eye on Oakland with the knowledge that they might go younger at the position, making Palmer available.
"We are not in that stage," Arians said. "This is too good of a football team for a youth movement. We're in it to win and win now."
Palmer's abilities fit the "throw long downfield" philosophy of Arians, who inherited a team with a woeful situation at quarterback. General manager Steve Keim said he watched video of every pass Palmer has thrown the past three seasons and saw no sign of diminished velocity or accuracy.
"His ability to still do it with accuracy, timing and touch was something that I was extremely excited about," Keim said.
Last year, Arizona had four starting quarterbacks — John Skelton, Kevin Kolb, Ryan Lindley and Brian Hoyer. They combined to throw for 3,383 yards with 11 touchdowns and 21 interceptions and a quarterback rating of 63.1 in an offense that ranked last in the NFL. The Arizona quarterbacks were sacked 58 times in 608 pass attempts. By contrast, Palmer was sacked 28 times last year in 585 throws.
The Cardinals have released Skelton and Kolb and have signed Hoyer to a tender offer. They also have signed free agent Drew Stanton, the backup last season to Andrew Luck in Indianapolis, where Arians was interim head coach.
Palmer was the first overall draft pick in 2002 by Cincinnati and, enduring a severe knee injury and an elbow problem, was with the Bengals until his trade to Oakland two years ago. In two seasons with the Raiders, he started 24 games, completed 61 percent of his passes for 6,771 yards and 35 touchdowns and 30 interceptions. His career passer rating is 85.5.
"We'd like to thank Carson Palmer for his services over the past two seasons," Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie said in a news release, "and we wish him well with the Cardinals."
For his career, Palmer has completed 62.5 percent of his passes for 29,465 yards and 189 touchdowns with 132 interceptions.
He would be the fourth different starting quarterback to open the season with Arizona since Kurt Warner retired in 2009.
A few years ago, Arizona acquired another quarterback thought to be well past his prime. All Warner did was lead the team to the Super Bowl.
'Kurt was a phenomenal player, came here and just lit people up," Palmer said. "I'd love to be compared to some of the things that he did here when it's my time to leave."
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Tea Time (21 A0 or 24?) **
The route ascends the more or less free standing buttress to the left of the amphitheatre. It serves up typical Yellowwood climbing with tricky gear placements and the odd bold move. The crux is an extremely thin rail that will be much harder for taller climbers. But it can be easily aided too. It is a good option to do on a very hot day as it is shady longer than the amphitheatre routes as it is west facing.
The topo on the photograph describes the route best and there are other options to climb the buttress.
- Pitch 1: 30m (21)
Start at a stone cairn and climb up the break to a large ledge.
- Pitch 2: 20m (19A0 or 24?)
Move left and climb up to overhang on red and golden rock to the thin rail. There is a fixed nut in place. Move across the thin rail to jugs and continue up easy rock to stance. (Freeing the rail is up for grabs!)
- Pitch 3,4 and 5 (17) Climb to the top in 3 or 4 pitches on delightful climbing following the obvious crack. line
Descent is via Down Time or the standard descent.
First ascent C Edelstein, Jonathan Hajos and Ilya Koll September 2011


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Cub Scout Fishing
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| Fishing
Belt Loop and Pin
Fishing Sports Belt Loop
Belt Loop Requirements
Complete these three requirements:
- Review your local fishing regulations with your leader or adult partner. Explain why they are important, and commit to following them.
- Demonstrate how to properly bait a hook.
- Try to catch a fish.
Sports Pin Requirements
Earn the Fishing belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- Compete in a pack or community fishing tournament.
- Demonstrate how to clean a fish.
- Prepare a report on three different kinds of fish. Include information on preferred habitats, feeding habits, and recommended fishing techniques, baits, and equipment needed to catch it.
- Draw a picture of three different types of fishing reels. Explain how each works.
- Tie three fishing flies. Use at least one to fish.
- Demonstrate proficiency in casting at a target 30 feet away.
- Select a species of fish and draw a picture of it, correctly labeling each part and its function.
- Replace the line in a fishing reel.
- Make a simple pole and line fishing rig. Use it to catch a fish.
- Catch a fish using artificial bait or lures.
- Practice fishing on five occasions, complying with local fishing regulations and the Outdoor Code.
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- Earning the Cub Scout Fishing Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout is an option for requirement 3 of the Webelos Sportsman Activity Badge.
- Details on earning a Cub Scout Sports or Academic pin or belt loop multiple times
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One Indie Web Camp UK spot left, then we move to waiting list. Get in there quick, it's going to be great: indiewebcamp.com/2013/UK
And the #js lesson of the day is:
bean.fire(el, 'click') doesn't work in Firefox Nightly, but turns out it's unnecessary, because
HTMLElement.click() does exactly the same thing and already works cross-browser. Always use the browser-native APIs if you can.
@scottjenson also, without wanting to sound rude, you lecturing me about the quality of my POSSEd notes would be a lot more convincing if you were POSSEing notes (and thus running into these challenges) yourself :)
@scottjenson referring to the truncation? I know what you mean, I made the conscious decision to ignore the length of truncated copies of my content as I didn't want what felt like an unnecessary limitation of Twitter limiting my self-expression.
Others (Tantek Çelik in particular) care more about the quality of their POSSEd notes, and build UIs which inform them when their notes go over tweet- or retweet-safe lengths. This is one of the places diversity of implementations helps us experiment without having to argue about stuff :)
One interesting alternative is to spread the content of notes which are too long for a tweet over several tweets, but that leads to all sorts of weird directionality changes, potential for them to be interrupted, extra permalinks, etc.
Conversation in the kitchen with one of my housemates — she noted that I baked a lot and asserted that I was "housy… like a housewife" because of it. Yay archaic gender stereotypes :/
A productive evening's baking was had nonetheless — three bagels, ~20 kanilsnuðar and one oddly shaped pizza.
#reading @micrypt on doing things The Hard Way which you know to be right rather than the easy way which is provably flawed #bookmark
On Friday I made a bunch of @indiewebcamp badges in preparation for IWC UK — thanks @piratepartyis for letting me use your space :)
Join us in Brighton on September 6th-7th to get hold of one — or, print out your own (here's the PDF).
Reminder: If it's not hypertext, doesn't have a URL, has no hyperlinks, isn't navigable in a web browser: it's not the web.
Is a website a web app if I keep on trying to open it using Spotlight? "Launching a browser" is flow-breaking indirection.
@fraying I'd love to hear any thoughts/feedback on my attempt at solving the same/similar in-feed reply context problems: waterpigs.co.uk/notes/?tagged=reply
@fraying we saw some being selectively tested, documented them here: http://indiewebcamp.com/reply-context#Twitter_home_page
Personally I dislike the current design more for the changes in directionality without clear delineation, but the blue lines are weird too.
Spent the morning caving with Snorri — the world under the lava fields is even crazier than the surface!
The texture of the caves (or more accurately lava/magma tubes) is extremely different to the water-formed caves back in the UK. There is a crazy mixture of jagged edges and smooth edges, caused by the magma cooling at different rates.
The layered structure of the systems is as obvious in macro as it is close up — the smallest rocks have clearly defined layers, as do the caves themselves. Often it looks like the roof is in mid-collapse as one layer peels off another; on a rock shelf pieces of smooth ceiling rock lie centimetres from their original position.
Although it looks scary to have pieces of ceiling lying around, in reality this is all pretty much frozen in place, as most of the collapsing will have taken place within a year after the cave's formation, thousands of years ago.
The colours are as striking and numerous as the shapes. It's a pity they're all locked up where light seldom reaches — caves are colour prisons.
@smarimc @herraBRE you're coming? You should add yourselves to the guest list indiewebcamp.com/2013/UK — only 8 spots remaining!
Aral Balkan looking forward to reading it and trying out your implementation :) #selfdogfooding
Aral Balkan whilst well founded, your frustration is misplaced: waterpigs.co.uk/articles/indiewebcamp-signin-ux (apart from wiki syntax editing, you have my total sympathy there)
Aaron Parecki have you seen Brian Suda's work on boarding passes? optional.is/required/2010/05/25/papernet-boarding-pass/
To try later: IP-over-SSH tunneling using sshuttle #bookmark #ssh #todo
I get a little annoyed at #python every now and again (grr package management) but then I come across things like nested tuple unpacking which are just so lovely they make up for it:
for i, (key, value) in enumerate(list_of_tuples):
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This Week In Island History
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, Nov. 15, 1912
The heaviest rainfall of the past six months fell late Thursday afternoon and throughout the night.
Considering the lateness of the season there was a large number of excursionists on the island Sunday, including several parties to fish from the rocks at Beavertail and the Dumplings. The fish, while quite plentiful, were small.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, Nov. 12, 1937
Armistice Day was observed with all the organizations participating in the parade, which assembled at the waterfront on the east shore.
From the Newport Daily News, Nov. 17, 1937
There is a strong possibility that a favorable decision will be reached at a meeting of the board of directors of the Jamestown & Newport Ferry Company tonight or Thursday as to continuance of the West Ferry for the winter months.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News,
Nov. 13, 1962
The Armistice Day parade in Jamestown yesterday was led by Col. John C. Rembijas as marshal. The Assumption Band of Fairhaven, Mass., provided the music for the parade, which commenced at the Shoreby Hill entrance, continued along Narragansett Avenue, and returned to the East Ferry. From the Newport Daily News,
Nov. 14, 1962
A second civil defense course on "Survival in Disaster" will commence at the Jamestown school on Saturday.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News,
Nov. 12, 1987
The first snowstorm of the season caught Newport County residents by surprise this morning. Six to 8 inches of snow fell on the area early this morning. From the Newport Daily News,
Nov. 17, 1987
The Town Council voted Monday to support the School Committee's plan to build a $3.1 million addition to the Jamestown school. The design would add 39,400 square feet to the building, which now houses grades K through 8 in 53,700 square feet. It will add 12 new classrooms. The design also includes a 2,176-square-foot library.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
Nov. 13, 1987
Town officials learned last week that the Army Corps of Engineers has provisionally approved a permit that would allow William J. Geib of West Warwick to locate an aquaculture farm off Conanicut Island.
The Town Council Monday voted unanimously to establish a Highway Barn Committee to determine the exact site, size, basic layout and maximum space needed for a new highway equipment garage.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
Nov. 14, 2002
By consensus, the Town Council said Tuesday it will continue to review possible highway barn locations, after spending 90 minutes mainly on the recently revived Fort Wetherill site.
At the Nov. 7 School Committee meeting, Superintendent Katherine Sipala introduced a $9.3 million spending plan that will exceed last year's budget by more than $1 million.


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NEW YORK (AP) — An early gain on Wall Street is evaporating after House Speaker John Boehner said little progress was being made in budget talks in Washington.
The Dow Jones industrial average had been up as much as 77 points in morning trading Thursday, but turned lower after Boehner's remarks at 11:30 a.m. Eastern. At midday the Dow was down four points at 12,980.
The Standard & Poor's 500 was up two points at 1,412 and the Nasdaq was up 11 at 3,003.
The market got off to a strong start following several positive economic reports.
Investors have been closely following the talks between the White House and Congress, which are aimed at avoiding sharp spending cuts and tax increases at the beginning of the year.


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Meetings and Notices
Chamber to Meet
The Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon on Thursday, May 31, at the Siam Palace in Grand Coulee.
Saturday Market Meeting Thursday
A meeting for this year's Saturday Market will be held May 31, at 6 p.m., at Brandy's Antiques, 325 Midway Ave., Grand Coulee. Last year's vendors and anyone interested in participating this year are encouraged to attend.
The market will start June 16 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., every Saturday until mid-September. Please contact Leroy at 631-2032 or Jean 631-0301 for further information. The application for Saturday Market is online at http://www.grandcouleedam.org/satmarket
GCD Lions Club to Meet
The Grand Coulee Dam Lions Club will meet at the Siam Palace on Tuesday, June 5, at 7 p.m.
Race Volunteers Ask for Feedback
The TriFREAKS race coordinator has scheduled a meeting Wednesday, June 6 at 6 p.m. at the Grand Coulee fire station to talk with volunteers in the Over the Dam Run and Grand Columbian Triathlon about ways to improve the events. Stefan Newbury said the purpose of the meeting is "to give the community, past, current and future volunteers the opportunity to provide constructive feedback on their volunteer experience and how we can improve that experience, as well as what plans we have to make that experience the best it can be."


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STOCKTON - Ashley Wakefield was about a mile away from Pacific in the fall of 2010, but it felt much farther than that.
STOCKTON - Ashley Wakefield was about a mile away from Pacific in the fall of 2010, but it felt much farther than that.
The 5-foot-11 forward on the Pacific women's basketball team had to overcome many obstacles to get to her desired destination, and now she's less than four months from graduation.
Wakefield and the Tigers (19-6, 9-4 Big West Conference) are now tied for first place with Hawaii and will host last-place Cal State Fullerton (7-17, 3-9) at 7 p.m. today. It opens Pacific's final homestand with two last chances for five seniors to perform at Spanos Center. Wakefield is especially thankful for the opportunity after arriving in Stockton three years ago.
Wakefield had been the California State Community College Player of the Year in 2009-10 for Santa Clarita College in her hometown and wanted to attend Pacific after a recruiting visit. Unfortunately, a left knee injury put Wakefield behind in school work and left her numerous credits short of being able to attend and play at Pacific under scholarship.
Coach Lynne Roberts and her staff laid out a plan for Wakefield to attend needed classes at Delta College in the fall of 2010 while also rehabilitating her left knee. Wakefield paid for the classes, did the course work and did as much as she could to aid the recovery of a torn meniscus.
"Her story is an impressive one of perseverance," Roberts said. "Most kids would have likely said no to all of the work she had to do, but she pursued something she really wanted."
Wakefield enrolled at Pacific in January 2011 and began practicing with the team before beginning play last season. She said those were trying times for her, but once she had committed to Pacific and saw how much the coaching staff was committed to her, she never had second thoughts.
"It was hard," Wakefield said. "I had to keep myself motivated. I had to pay for some things out of pocket; I just had to keep at it. Basketball here at Pacific was something I really wanted to do."
Wakefield's athleticism and scoring ability off the dribble was a missing component for the Tigers, and her addition catapulted them to an 18-14 record last season and a second-round appearance in the WNIT. Wakefield averaged 12.2 points per game last season and is averaging nine per game this season.
Wakefield will graduate in May with a communication degree and wants to pursue professional basketball overseas.
"I know when she graduates in May, it'll be a special moment for all of us," Roberts said.
Fellow seniors Brianna Johnson (communications degree) and A.J. Smith (sports pedagogy) will also graduate in May and have been a major part of Pacific's success off the bench in the past two seasons. Johnson and Smith have brought toughness to the Tigers and enjoyed doing it.
"There is so much value in the things they bring that don't get counted in the stat sheet," Roberts said. "They both know their roles and work hard. Not everyone wants that job because it's not a glory role, but they've both bought in and brought it for us."
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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Volkswagen, General Motors, Nissan Motor, Ford Motor and RLI Corp.
Feb 25, 2013, 09:30 EST
CHICAGO, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include Volkswagen AG (OTC: VLKAY), General Motors Company (NYSE: GM), Nissan Motor Co. (OTC: NSANY), Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) and RLI Corp. (NYSE: RLI).
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Here are highlights from Friday's Analyst Blog:
China Auto Sales Jump 46%
According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), vehicle sales in China jumped 46.4% to 2.03 million units in Jan 2013, mainly due to the low base in the same month last year. The increase in sales was much higher than last year. In 2012, sales grew 4.3% to 19.3 million vehicles.
Medium-sized cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs) were the most popular class of vehicles during the month, constituting 57.7% and 15.5% of the market, respectively in the month. Small cars accounted for 20% of the market while luxury lineups occupied a tad 3%.
Sales and Market Share by Automakers
Volkswagen AG
(OTC: VLKAY) continued to be the leading automaker in the world's largest market with 21.8% market share. Sales of its Audi brand surged 38.5% to 37,678 units. The second leading automaker was
General Motors Company
(NYSE: GM), which occupied 12.2% of the market. It saw a 26.0% rise in sales to 310,765 units during the month.
GM operates three joint ventures in China. The first one is a 49%-51% car manufacturing venture with Chinese automaker SAIC Motor Corp in Shanghai. The second is a mini-vans and pick-up trucks three-way joint venture with SAIC and Liuzhou Wuling Automobile in southern China. The third one is a light commercial vehicles joint venture with FAW Group.
Nissan Motor Co.
(OTC: NSANY) was the third leading automaker in the country with more than 5% market share. Nissan's sales escalated 22.2% to 115,700 vehicles in Jan.
Ford Motor Co.
(NYSE: F) saw the strongest sales increase among the foreign automakers in China. Its sales leapt 98.0% to 61,475 vehicles during the month.
Ford manufactures Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo and other sedans in China in a three-way joint venture with Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. Ltd and Japan's Mazda Motor Corp. The company also has a 30% ownership in Jiangling Motors Corp Ltd that produces Transit vans.
The domestic automakers in China accounted for 32% of the market. Some of the leading companies among them are Geely, BYD, Great Wall and Chery. Meanwhile, European brands constituted 25.8% of the market, Japanese brands 16.7%, American brands 14.3% and Korean brands 11.0%.
2013 Outlook
According to CAAM, auto sales in China are expected to rise 7% to more than 20 million vehicles in 2013, led by strong demand for passenger vehicles and economic recovery. The association believes SUVs will remain the fastest- growing segment in the year while commercial vehicles will record a moderate gain in sales.
However, the Chinese government is concerned about rising air pollution in the country due to the ever increasing vehicles on the road. As a result, China's State Council announced a stricter standard for auto fuel recently, which will be promoted nationwide by 2017. These steps may damage the health of the auto industry in China.
RLI Corp Upgraded to Outperform
On Feb 18, 2013, we upgraded our recommendation on RLI Corp. (NYSE: RLI) to Outperform from Neutral based on its focus on business expansion and an expected improvement in the rate environment. This property and casualty insurer carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Why the Upgrade?89 cents 44 cents $171.4 million
Following the release of the fourth-quarter results, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2013 has gone up 2.1% to $4.31 per share. Moreover, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2014 has also increased 2.1% to $4.29 per share.
Through a strong local branch office network, broad range of product offerings, and focus on specialty insurance lines, RLI Corp. has generated underwriting profits through the last 16 consecutive years. It has also remained focused on strategic partnerships and acquisitions to expand its operations and foray into new markets. We believe the company will continue on this path to reap benefits.
The company's sound capital structure helps it meet the interests of its policyholders, enhance operations in the insurance sector and aid the growth in its book value in the long term. Its trailing 12 month Return on Equity (ROE) of 13.0% is much higher than the sector average of 6.7%. It's low financial leverage and strong fixed charge coverage ratios also provide significant financial flexibility to its operating subsidiaries.
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Amahi needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 393 designs submitted by 72 freelance designers.
[You must read the http://alpha.amahi.org/AmahiLogoBrief.pdf for the full details and examples]
Amahi a startup in Silicon Valley, California, that offers powerful, yet simple networking and storage software for homes and small offices. Amahi is like the Apple App Store for NAS/Storage devices/Routers and Home Servers. Amahi has some top media streaming and webapps, installable with, literally, one click.
Amahi is looking to create a new identity and web site makeover of the current identity and site at http://www.amahi.org into a site with support, pro options, and other services. An attractive logo is the first step in this process.
Amahi is a "Home Server" and it's about making the best software for home networking and storage on earth. Amahi is a new, modern, fresh and different "web-connected" software for PCs, NAS (Network Attached Storage) and Routers. Amahi is open source, has a great community and has the largest collection of web apps in the world.
Once we have the winning logo from this competition we will commission a web re-design. We will likely require follow-on work with the winning designer, especially if you do web design! (We already have the brief written)
Amahi has savvy and up-to-date technical users. Our current user based is enthusiasts, but we aim to attract techie and hip users, like those who use Boxee, Tivos and Apple devices.
Anyone who installs a wireless router in a home or a small office network is our target audience.
Our current users are somewhat Linux savvy and we would like to grow as we make our software easier and more appealing to more mainstream users.
Amahi has the largest app store of media apps and web apps for networked storage and routers/gateways in the world.
[You must read the http://alpha.amahi.org/AmahiLogoBrief.pdf for all these details nicely formatted and some reference logos we like]
First and foremost, let your imagination run free!
Hard Requirements
No animals. Stay away from from penguins, animal shapes and cartoons. Amahi is about making home networking and storage simple, not so much about Linux.
DO NOT BASE IT ON OUR CURRENT SITE! Our new web site will be commissioned around your logo design!
We require the original raw files for the logo for tweaking later on, even if we call you to make the changes. You must organize your design layers, etc. nicely so that it can be tweaked for particular purposes over time.
Soft Requirements and General Guidance
We like the slightly glossy feel with a bit of relief. We also like a slight/subtle 3D look (not full 3D), but will consider all nice looking ideas! Subtleties are important.
You must read the h full details ttp://alpha.amahi.org/AmahiLogoBrief.pdf for all the details nicely formatted and some reference logos we like]
The final version must be delivered in a a raw form in scalable format like .ai/.eps.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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February 28. 2013 9:07PM
Teacher faces charges on roommate's drug deals
Manchester High School Central art teacher Lisa Tagalakis was in Manchester District Court, arraigned on charges of criminal liability to the sale of drugs and endangering the welfare of a child. (DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER)
MANCHESTER - A Manchester High School Central art teacher, accused of letting a roommate sell drugs out of her 151 Sagamore St. home while her two young children were there, could enter no plea Thursday in Circuit Court, Manchester District Division to a felony charge of criminal liability for the sale of a narcotic.
Lisa Tagalakis, 42, is accused of renting a room to Robert Doane, 26, for $100 a week, with the agreement that Doane would be packaging and selling heroin from that location.
Court documents show she told police that she allowed Doane to do so because money was "tight." A listing of education department salaries for 2010 showed Tagalakis grossed just under $59,000 that year.
According to court documents, she also told police that it was convenient to have Doane there so she could leave her children with him while she and her boyfriend were away from the house.
Tagalakis pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child. Tagalakis is accused of endangering her preschool children by letting Doane possess and deal heroin from the house while he was armed.
Court documents also show the children's room was across from the one shared by Tagalakis and White, where a gun identified as belonging to Doane was left, loaded with hollow point bullets, on top of a dresser.
Police reported finding a marijuana pipe on the dresser and another on the floor and two baggies of a suspected narcotic inside the top dresser drawer.
Police said Tagalakis told them she kept a Highpoint C-9 semi-automatic pistol on a shelf in her closet in the bedroom. She also told them she and White had recently sold two other handguns.
Tagalakis waived a reading of the charges Thursday in Circuit Court and bail was continued at $10,000 personal recognizance. A probable cause hearing on the felony charge was set for March 26, when there will also be a status hearing on the misdemeanor.
At the time of Tagalakis' arrest, school Superintendent Tom Brennan said: "She's been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal investigation," He confirmed Thursday that Tagalakis remains on paid administrative leave.
Tagalakis' tenant, Doane, also appeared in Circuit Court Thursday, where he waived a probable cause hearing and charges were bound over to the Hillsborough County North Grand Jury.
Doane is charged with five felonies: possession of a narcotic drug, attempted sale of a narcotic drug, armed career criminal, receiving stolen property (gun) and convicted felon in possession of a dangerous weapon (gun).
Although Doane appeared calm at Thursday's court hearing, court documents show he became very upset Feb. 6 during a conversation with his friend, Tagalakis' boyfriend, 21-year-old Kristopher White.
The conversation, recorded with permission from the Attorney General's Office, has Doane asking White to "eat" the stolen gun charge for him.
The court documents show Doane was crying, telling White that if he were charged: "Dude, I'm looking at 10-plus (years) with all this." Doane also said: "I gotta get outta here. I gotta go somewhere. I'm ready to off myself."
But at Doane's hearing Thursday, his attorney, Carl Olson told Judge Gregory Michael: "He's not a risk of flight." Olson asked that bail be reduced from $75,000 cash/surety to $25,000 cash/surety.
Olson said Doane, who was on parole at the time of his arrest, faces a parole board hearing next month.
City prosecutor Jeremy Harmon argued for retention of the $75,000 cash/surety bail, ticking off Doane's record: 2004, criminal mischief and shoplifting; 2005, carrying/sale of a weapon; 2006, drug possession, burglary and falsifying physical evidence; 2007, two robbery charges, harassment; 2009, violation of probation/parole, 2010, willful concealment, felony theft, criminal mischief and felony theft/burglary.
Harmon said that Doane, born in 1986: "has amassed a criminal record with some very serious offenses."
Judge Gregory Michael, who originally set bail at $75,000 cash/surety, said he was going to maintain it. "I'm quite concerned with the defendant's prior behavior," said Michael.


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The urgent need for prayer in today s broken world is clear, but busyness still keeps many of us from finding time to pray. So Bill Hybels offers us his practical, time-tested ideas on slowing down to pray.
In this four-session video Bible study based on Hybels s classic book on prayer, Too Busy Not to Pray calls both young and old to make prayer a priority, broadening the vision for what our eternal, powerful God does when his people slow down to pray.
The coordinating Too Busy Not to Pray DVD (included) leads individuals and small groups through discussion topics, group activities, and in-between-studies assignments.
In Too Busy Not to Pray, you and your small group will learn:
Hybels helps you slow down, listen to God, and learn how to respond. As a result, you will grow closer to God and experience the benefits of spending time with him.
Pack includes one softcover study guide and one four-session DVD.