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Google Earth finds Star of David on roof of Iran Air HQ
I can't stop laughing. Thanks Alarabiya.
I can't stop laughing. Thanks Alarabiya.
Italy has taken time out from its busy schedule of eating, screwing and watching the Silvio Berlusconi comedy hour to commandeer 7 tons of T4 explosives headed from Iran to Syria. The weapons were hidden in shipping containers on a boat docked at the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria.
Gotcha bitch!
Italian anti-mafia police, who made the seizure, are not sure whether or not the boat was stopped for technical reasons, or because part of the cargo was meant for Italy. As of now, that's pretty all much anyone knows.
T4 explosives, also known as RDX explosives, are powerful weapons meant for military and industrial use. In the 90s the mafia used these to attack public officials. Now they will be used to embarrass Iran. Iran: If you're going to send a present, try not to send it through a people whose culture has no understanding of personal bubbles or privacy. Everyone knows that no one gets through Italy without the paisanos copping a feel.
This is what I live for. CBS News reports that former Japanese Democratic party leader Ichiro Ozawa just called us all morons. To put that in perspective to you, its like John McCain saying everyone in France walks like a gay duck.
"I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular, When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simple-minded…" Ozawa said.
Wait, there's more. He was making a speech. It actually gets better.
"I don't think Americans are very smart, but I give extremely high credit for democracy and choices by its people," he said. "They chose a black president for the first time in U.S. history," adding that he thought once that would never be possible.
I like to keep an eye on the baddies of this world so that real Amuricanz can sleep well at night. Today we take a look at Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). They like to hang out in North African countries (like Mauritania, Mali and Algeria) and hold AQIM fund-raisers (kidnapping foreigners and running drugs)… because how else is Al-Qaeda going to by killings machines and what not?
The big deal recently is the fact that the French are getting involved in the fight against AQIM in Africa. Yes, those snail-eating, war-losing, "whatever, it doesn't matter" mo-fos are sacking up because AQIM decided to kidnap some French people. According to Arab daily Alarabiya, French special forces recently staged an attack in Mali in search of one French national, and provided "technical and logistical support" to the Mauritanian army for one of their raids against AQIM as well.
Seriously, why does this matter? In February Defense Secretary Robert Gates dissed Europe hard at a NATO meeting by saying that the new peaceful Europe, while nice and all, is endangering the world:
"The demilitarization of Europe — where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it — has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st."
In so many words, Gates asked Europe to help us out in our fight against Al-Qaeda and other various global goons. While, if I had to pick, I probably would not have asked the French to lend a hand (I'd pick Serbia…kidding, sorta) it's better than nothing.
I'm not making fun of him, I'm just quoting. Not even my genius mind can make this nonsense up.
This during a speech to diplomats encouraging them to bring pretty women to Italy as Latin men know how to appreciate them. Again, this is hilarious, but its not a joke.
emga-deactivated20130215 said: Hi! I'm a high school junior and I've been working on a documentary with a group of three others for the National History Day competition. The project requires us to research, analyze, and present an innovation in history, and we chose Al Qaeda's use of the internet as our innovation. I came across your blog one day when I was searching "jihad" on tumblr (I figured there was a possibility that jihadists use tumblr, too!) and that's when I started following you. I guess I was wondering what your connection to the Middle East is. Is it your job to specialize in the Middle East/Islamic terrorism? Thanks!
Hi Emily,
Your project sounds great! Its definitely something that I've been thinking about extensively.
In terms of connection to the Middle East, I don't think mine is any closer than yours may be, but as Americans and citizens of the world its a connection close enough. Anyone concerned about security, global and domestic, should take an interest in the complexities of that region.
I'm a Columbia University Journalism School student, and to be honest, my specialization is not in any particular region, but in the way that states and global actors struggle for power, for better or for worse. It just so happens that when it comes to the US and the Middle East, its usually the worst, and as they say, "good news is good, bad news is better."
In terms of al-Qaeda, power comes through violence and intimidation. For them, the internet isn't just a way to recruit, its a place to exist… a location where they can show their stuff to the world (intimidate). An online presence is an amazing thing for them to have because a location is exactly what we are trying to deny them on the ground.
I hope that helps. Good luck on your project!
It is not yet clear whether the Pakistani Taliban had anything to do with Faisal Shahzad's attempt to bomb Times Square, but either way, experts say the group is getting to big for its britches.
Let's say that the Pakistani Taliban was, in fact, behind the plot. This would be a tremendous advancement for the group, once thought to have no capacity to do violence outside of its home country.
"It would be a game-changing development," says Juan Zarate, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington. "You would now have a new, potential global actor coming out of western Pakistan to complement what Al Qaeda has been doing for 15 years." (Christian Science Monitor)
Now let's say the Pakistan Taliban had nothing to do with the bomb. Those in the know are still seeing a change on the ground. "The Pakistani Taliban have sustained themselves through alliances with any number of other militant groups, splinter cells, foot soldiers and guns-for-hire in the areas under their control." One intelligence official said the group was becoming a "witch's brew." Times of India
What does this mean to us? It means that (shocker) there may be a downside to our increasingly global world of instant communication because NOW the baddies are getting together and making friends. Stankyouverymuch, internet.
Hakimullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban
And for good reason (allegedly)! This weekend Kuwait arrested a bunch of Iranians for spying all OVER them! One Kuwaiti politician, Mohammed Hayef, even wants to expel the Iranian ambassador.
"We hope that the government releases a statement on the issue and if it is true, the government must act decisively by asking the Iranian ambassador to leave Kuwait," he said.
The two countries will exchange words through their diplomats in the coming days.
Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah and Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi- this was when they were friends, see their friendly expressions!


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"With blade servers and high-density servers, we're packing more and more equipment into a smaller space, and that's creating heat issues," says John Welter, vice president of Valtus Imagery Services, a provider of computer-intensive graphical maps. In many cases, blades make it impossible to cool a fully populated room, meaning IT managers need a new datacenter even though the current one is only half full.
Compounding the power problem is the explosive growth of new IT services, as offices heed the call to use IT to automate sales, invoicing, and other business processes. That increases the number of servers in a typical datacenter. And, of course, no discussion of power would be complete without mentioning the price of oil, which has tripled since 2002.
"It's kind of the perfect storm of IT power consumption," Murphy says. "You've got more applications being consolidated into a smaller space, with chips that are hotter; and the servers using them are taking up less space, and there are more of them together."
Mouths to feed
The first step in reducing power consumption costs is to take inventory of every piece of equipment on the datacenter floor, paying careful attention to both the amount of power each device consumes and the heat that it dissipates. This survey will allow IT managers to understand what percentage of their datacenter's available power is being consumed by existing equipment and accurately predict how long it will take until demand outstrips capacity. The results will have a direct bearing on how to proceed. If a datacenter has 18 months before it maxes out, there's plenty of time to devise a fix. A six-month window, on the other hand, will call for more drastic action.
One of the most obvious ways to reduce energy costs is to buy gear designed with power efficiency in mind. Pick a vendor — AMD, Dell, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, or any other — and chances are it has a slew of new products that use fewer kilowatts to get the job done.
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Joyent was able to tame its energy mess by replacing its fleet of old Xeon servers with Sun systems. Approximately 25 of the new boxes, or about 20 percent of its machines, feature the power-efficient Sparc T1 processor. Because of its ability handle 32 threads at a time, Sun executives say the T1 is the processing equivalent of a motor coach that can transport large numbers of passengers for less gas than dozens of smaller vehicles can.

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Guinea pigs can be encouraged to use a litter box, but are rarely reliable. Sometimes they will use it and sometimes they won't.
If you want to try to get a guinea pig to use a litter box, place one (a corner cage box or a small box for kittens work best) in its cage. Put the litter box in the spot in the cage where it goes to the bathroom most often. Put a handful of hay inside the box, along with a few fecal pellets. This will encourage your small pet to use the box as a bathroom.
When you see a guinea pig use the litter box, give it a treat as praise. Ignore mistakes it might make, but reward a guinea pig when it does correctly uses the litter box.
If a guinea pig starts using its litter box regularly while in its cage, you can try providing a box for it during out-of-cage time as well. A guinea pig is less likely to use it while loose in a larger space, but it may try.
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Christians Provide Help to Dominican Republic Flood Victims
- Friday, May 28, 2004
At least 900 people have died and 15,000 people have lost their homes due to extensive flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to Red Cross estimates. Violent storms hit the two nations last weekend and today forecasters are expecting an additional three inches of rain on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which the two countries share.
Gen. Jose Maria Jimenez of the Dominican Republic Army told CNN that the total damage has not yet been realized. "Even though the press has done a good job of informing the public about the tragedy, I believe the people don't have a good idea of the magnitude of this tragedy, which has affected Jimani," Jimenez said.
The worst of the flooding occurred between 2 and 4 a.m. Monday morning when a formerly dry riverbed overflowed, propelling uprooted trees and boulders through low-lying areas. Most of the families were asleep at the time and had no time to escape. At least 14 towns experienced power failures and toppled telephone lines.
In response to the devastation, several Christian humanitarian organizations, including World Vision and Food for the Hungry, are providing emergency relief. Staff from World Vision began delivering emergency food, water and medicine this week. World Vision, which has worked in the Dominican Republic for more than 25 years, has on-going community development work in four communities affected by floods.
World Vision has reached some 4,500 people in the past two days with food, water, medicine, clothing, diapers, mosquito nets, cooking supplies and help in finding shelter. Coordinating with the National Public Health Secretary, staff also have begun tetanus immunizations and established trauma assistance centers and primary health centers. World Vision also will provide relief aid in Haiti.
"Many roads are still blocked due to mudslides and damaged bridges," says Buck Deines, Food for the Hungry's Latin America Vice President. "But Food for the Hungry staff based in the neighboring province are determined to do what it takes to get immediate help to these flood victims. They will be in Jimani tomorrow with food and clothing to help the flood victims," Deines adds.
The situation is rapidly growing worse because of the threat of contaminates left from standing water and lack of shelter from the elements. The combination of standing water and mud is a prime attraction for mosquitoes - insects that can carry parasites and result in spreading malaria and dengue fever rapidly.
At least 20 children sponsored through World Vision are among the confirmed fatalities, while Food for the Hungry children seem to have been spared. "We have more than 1,700 sponsored children in the Dominican Republic," says Bonnie Chavez, head of Food for the Hungry's Child Sponsorship department. "The majority of our children live in villages further north of Jimani and others are much further east in the city of Santo Domingo but we will continue monitoring these areas," said Chavez.
World Vision operates two community development programs in the flooded areas, which include clean water systems, income-generation programs and AIDS prevention education. The improvements are funded by monthly donations from American sponsors, who also exchange letters with children in the project. "Losing these children is an incredible tragedy for the town," said World Vision communicator Carla Swanson-Gawthrop. "It also will be heartbreaking for the American families who were supporting and caring for them."
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A view of the drill site operated by Cuadrilla Resources Ltd on 17 August, 2013 in Balcombe, West Sussex. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
UK shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla has been given the green light to test oil extraction in Balcombe, the West Sussex village that saw major anti-fracking protests last summer.
Shale gas explorer gets approval from county council to test oil flow rates at site that saw anti-fracking protests.
At a planning committee meeting that had to be adjourned at one point due to people disrupting it, West Sussex county council approved the company's application to undertake tests to see how fast oil would flow at a site on the outskirts of the village.
The committee's decision at County Hall North in Horsham on Tuesday was reportedly announced to cries of "shame on you" by some residents. Over 100 people attended the meeting.
Heidi Brunsdon, chairman of the committee, said: "I thought the debate was robust. Members gave all the issues a good airing and the further conditions we agreed might not go as far as some would have wanted, but we feel they were proportionate and fair in addressing the issues that members of the committee had surrounding this application." Monitoring of light and sound from the site were two of the conditions imposed on the approval.
Cuadrilla submitted a planning application in January for an oil flow test at the well it drilled last year.
The company has said it will not conduct fracking, the controversial process of injecting water, sand and chemicals at high pressure underground to release shale gas, at the Balcombe site. "Cuadrilla will not be carrying out hydraulic fracturing at the Lower Stumble site now or in the future," it said in a recent statement.
Brenda Pollack, Friends of the Earth's south east campaigner, told the Evening Argus: "We are extremely disappointed that councillors have not listened to local people. This is an attempt by Cuadrilla to set the wheels in motion for dirty fossil fuel extraction. We need the council and our government to push forward with clean energy solutions.
Keith Taylor, the Green party MEP for south-east England, said he was disappointed by the decision. "Residents had raised very serious concerns about air and water pollution, noise and traffic, as well as the impacts on the countryside and the community. I fear that today's decision will open the door to the dangerous dinosaur fossil fuel industry across south east England."
Charles Metcalfe, spokeswoman for Frack Free Balcombe Residents Association, said: "For the Weald [which runs across Sussex], this Balcombe planning application is a thin end of the wedge. This will be an emblematic planning decision that may determine whether a whole lot of other oil and gas companies pile in afterwards – or think twice. It's a decision that will affect communities right across Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire, and of course beyond. We shall fight."
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I'm back and looking forward to this week's interview with Scott Alan Roberts!
"The ancient books of Genesis and Enoch tell us that spirit beings known as the "Watchers" descended to the Earth and had sex with the locals thereby creating a hybrid race of offspring known as the Nephilim. A serious piece of our history, these accounts of visitations and subsequent mixed-blood alien-human races have been derived from a body of substantive information via mythology, legend, and religion.
This spine-tingling expose is a powerful challenge to the naysayers who claim that the legends of the Nephilim are just thatlegends. Roberts' new book undeniably connects today's world of ETs and UFOs with ancient texts, folklore and religious writings."
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Talk about perfect timing!
Loved tonight's topic. Answered a lot of questions and thoughts I've been having regarding what I'm sensing in people (especially children/teenagers) around me and addressed many of my thoughts on world views. So many repeated core effects dating back in time, in fragmented history, still affecting how we live and how we treat one another- and how we see ourselves.
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Just listened to the show --- I think Shirley posed some terrific questions, but I felt frustrated by some of Roberts' interpretation/response.
However - overall - was thought-provoking! Thanks, Shirley! Even though I'm not always enamored with the guest, I love having the opportunity to expose my mind to these intriguing tropics, MUCH appreciated.
RH- blood type
Interesting topic - I will have to listen to the interview. I just read one of the theorys about blood types and the mysterious RH- blood type theories. Here's a link to read about them
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I am not sure that the rh- factor in and of itself could be an indication of alien dna like the article suggested. The author of the above mentioned article didnt consider that the mutation could have happened after we split from monkeys. Or maybe that the monkeys had it and it went away in them but not in us.
I did think it was interesting that he mentioned Basques and oriental jews have a higher percentage of rh- for two reasons first, the Basques are said by some to be descendents of Atlantis. I think its possible that an ancient culture way back like Atlantis and Lemuria had contact with aliens (possibly exchanged dna). Then, when the cataclysms occurred there would have been pockets of people who went into the hills who could have held higher knowledge all to themselves. When they came down and mingle with the people who had been left on the plains they would be perceived as advanced beings.
Secondly, Andrew Collins in his book From the Ashes of Angels suggested the serpent could be related to a kind of physical look. His theory was that possibly oriental looking people were the nephilim because some how, I cant remember how, he connected the nephilim with the serpent in the Garden of Eden. In which case, maybe the two ideas are related ie basques=atlanteans and oriental jews=oriental look/atlantean too?
I dont know though that we could ever find alien dna in us I mean how do we know what is alien and what is home planet? What if most of us have some alien or a lot of alien dna we might mistake home planet earth dna for alien because its rarer but that would actually not be the alien dna at all.
I think that the serpent could be representative of a particular look of a person some symbol for a shaman who looked oriental possibly. And I think that this could all be connected with Atlantis/Lemuria and the cataclysms and way back somewhere aliens.
What I wonder is how many aliens were there compared to humans?
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Thanks for posting this article Froggie. It may amuse you to know that I always felt I came from somewhere else (even as a small child).I never felt like I was from here and sometimes still feel this way.lol. I have Rh negative du negative blood.I am Caucasian.When my father (a surgeon, who also taught Medical school for over 20 years) found out (when I was pregnant) , he freaked out and could not believe that was my blood type and went so far as to have himself retyped. A blood specialist told me never to give blood "because they will call you to give blood every day" as your type is so extremely rare. The things said in the article mostly apply to me. I am grateful for the information as it answers alot of things I have certainly questioned for many years.
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It was brilliant radio interview Thanks Shirley
The serpent in Paradise is a symbol of : to find the answers within us. To face fear contra the good and evil,. To understand our own transformational skills, to say yes and no,..to go out in the world and just love yourself..then you can love others.
To learn our own discernment etc.etc.
Their is a code behind the Torah, the bible, etc.etc and I believe some people already has connection to telepathically to the Cosmic DNA coda and are aware of to write and share and drawn universal knowledge abort what ever the people wanted to know.
Why female/male and why not androgyny could be the magnetism in the universe plus and minus, male/female etc.
In this, seven universes will always be evil and good; some planets systems are mixed with this polarity like The Earth.
If we moving into higher vibratinal universes might be with out popularities only good vibrations ? Without any evil ..thus the energy does not even exist in some civilizations.
On this Earth we are not that evolved that we have learn to be good all the times.
We are all connected even if we wanted to be separated from all some time. One could be happy in that state of mind..thus a person can be connected telepathically connected to other consciousness, and share inner wisdom, through this separation from the world.
As always Shirley had so many good questions, I enjoy the interview.
Love Ulla
Love yourself first, then you can love others.
Hey Wolfdog,
I'm RH- too. I am a rare type as well and my Mother is even rarer. I'm the same type as my Grandmother on my Fathers side so we know at least where it came from.
What I thought was very interesting is I'm the only child my Mother could have because she rejected the 8 future pregnancy's after me because my Father was a positive type blood and it was suspected that the children she was carrying were also positive types. Back then they didn't have the medical understanding that the rh- factor will form antibodies against the rh+ factor and subsequently fight against the rh+ factor believing it is a foreign or alien thing that the body doesn't except.
We are the only species on earth that has this complication going on which somewhat baffles medical scientists.
I have had 4 children who are all rh+ but now they give you a shot when you are 28 weeks pregnant to stop you from forming antibodies against the fetus. When the children are born they check their blood types and if they are rh+ you get another shot - just in case the blood types intermingled while giving birth.
So I find the theory of interbreeding with aliens quite plausible and I - like you - have always felt as though I'm connected to the stars.
xo Froggie
You are an artist, you are unique, you are expressing your self.
For Frogborg
So sorry to hear of your mothers lost children. Obviously, the shots we had were not around in those days. I appreciated all of your comments Froggie. So glad to know you were able to have so many children. Hope they weren't all teenagers at the same time!
Will be considering the blood bank idea on the w-site. Have you signed up for it?
Best to you , potential alien sister!
My mother was Rh- and she was definitely from somewhere else. (note: I was just writing this response and my screen "just" went blank and I had to log on a 2nd time. Humm...) There was some psychic-intuitive behavior going thru her family. I have it in me. But there was not a dedication to "higher evolvement" from them. I have blue eyes (and neither parent does). I have some blatant intuitive tendencies, but not always.
When my father was dying I went to tell him this because if he wanted to contact me I wanted to encourage him to try. So by his deathbed I started telling him of my psychic experiences. To my surprise he said, "It's on your mother's side. I just could never figure out which one of them it was."
Maybe it was, "My Mother the Alien." That explains everything!
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For most people, a blister, cut, or scrape on the foot is no big deal -- an "ouch!" and a hurriedly applied bandage, and it's over. Not so if you have diabetes; meticulous daily foot care is as important as monitoring blood glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure levels.
"Unfortunately, diabetes foot-health awareness doesn't have a colored ribbon or national voice," says foot care expert James Wrobel, DPM, of the University of Michigan Medical School. "If you don't manage them early, small problems that start in the feet can cause really big ones."
Show your hardworking feet some love by preventing ulcers -- open sores that can lead to serious complications like infection and even amputation. According to a report co-written by Wrobel, people who develop diabetic foot ulcers have a higher risk of dying within five years than people with some types of cancer, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, and Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Remember that what you can't feel might really hurt you later, especially if infection sets in. Uncontrolled glucose levels can lead to nerve damage called diabetic neuropathy, a numbness or tingling that may affect balance and prevent you from feeling hot, cold, and even pain. Nerve damage can also compromise your body's ability to sweat, which means skin on the feet can get dry and crack, opening the body's natural infection barrier. The foot's pressure-absorbing fat pads also harden and thin out, creating ideal conditions for foot ulcers to develop.
When cholesterol and blood pressure levels aren't controlled, narrowing or poor function of blood vessels in the arms and legs, called peripheral vascular disease, can reduce blood flow and circulation. Narrower vessels mean the feet get less oxygen and vital nutrients that fight infection and heal wounds. When tissue dies (a condition called gangrene), amputation may follow.
Diabetes Experts' Tips on Foot Care
The lifetime risk that a person with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer may be as high as 25%. To lower your chances of having this happen and to keep your feet in tiptop shape, Wrobel recommends taking these steps.
Take care. Wash feet daily with warm water and soap, dry well, then soften with lotion, cream, or petroleum jelly, avoiding the areas between toes. Trim or file toenails into a shape that's almost square but with no corner points to break skin or cause ingrown toenails.
Be sure the shoe fits. Indoors or out, wear properly fitting, closed-toe shoes to protect feet from stubs and bangs. After age 40, when feet get wider, consider prescription orthopedic footwear for better balance and stability. Never go barefoot.
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Manchester high school teacher arrested on drug-related charges
Lisa Tagalakis Fedor, 42, of 151 Sagamore St., was arrested on warrants for criminal liability to drug sales and endangering the welfare of a child. She made bail late Friday and faces a Feb. 28 court date.
Police said she was aware that her roommate, Robert Doane, 26, of Manchester "was actively involved in drug sales from the apartment they shared and also in possession of a stolen firearm," according to a police news release. "Tagalakis Fedor reportedly allowed this ongoing activity to occur at their residence in the presence of her two young sons."
Her children have been placed with a family member pending further assessment by the state Division of Children, Youth and Families, according to police.
"She's been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal investigation," school superintendent Tom Brennan said Saturday night. "If convicted, that would be a possibility: termination."
Mayor Ted Gatsas, who chairs the city school board, declined comment beyond confirming the teacher was on administrative leave.
Tagalakis Fedor came to the police station around 8 p.m. Friday with an attorney and was released that night on $10,000 personal recognizance bail, police said.
A message left at her residence Saturday wasn't returned.
Police said they learned Doane was selling drugs at the residence and detectives, conducting surveillance there on Jan. 29, observed a suspected drug sale between Doane and two men outside.
Police said Doane had intended to sell heroin to the men but didn't complete the sale when he became suspicious of an unmarked police car in the area.
Manchester police, along with state probation and parole representatives, went to the residence on Feb. 5 to check on Doane, but only found Tagalakis Fedor's boyfriend, Kristopher White, 21, who also lives at that address.
Police found a small amount of suspected cocaine in Doane's room and also recovered a handgun that had been reported stolen from a parked vehicle at the Target parking lot in Hooksett on Jan. 7.
Police found the gun in the room White shares with Tagalakis Fedor and learned that White knew the gun was stolen and had agreed to hold on to it for Doane, who had just left the residence before police arrived.
The next day, White was arrested on a felony warrant for receiving stolen property.
Doane was located Feb. 7 and held on a probation violation.
He later was charged with receiving stolen property, being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, attempt to commit sale of a narcotic drug, possession of a narcotic and armed career criminal.
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Apple stock has needed a fresh catalyst for quite some time, and it's about to get one.
In the first of two related developments, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) has scheduled an event on Tuesday to unveil its new flagship iPhone 5S as well as a lower-cost version, expected to be called the iPhone 5C.
Just 10 hours later, Apple will host an event in China - an extraordinary measure for the Cupertino, CA-based tech giant.
At that event, Apple is widely expected to announce, after years of negotiations, a partnership with China's dominant carrier, China Mobile.
The combination of that deal with the iPhone 5C - a phone many believe is targeted at customers of more modest means in emerging markets like China and India - would indeed put some new sizzle into AAPL stock.
After slumping as much as 45% from its high of $705.07 last year, AAPL stock has recovered to about $497, but is still down 29.5% from that high.
Apple stock has suffered as the iPhone has lost market share to phones powered by Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android operating system and built by aggressive companies such as Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF).
With the smartphone market in places like the United States and Europe reaching maturation, the iPhone 5C is the only way the company can arrest the slide in the iPhone's global market share, capture any meaningful growth, and rejuvenate the Apple stock price.
Apple already sells its older models, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, at steep discounts in many countries, but the thinking is that a brand new model tailored to this critical portion of the market will prove far more popular.
"There are different needs in different markets," Wayne Lam, smartphone analyst at IHS Inc. told the Financial Times. "Apple has to have the right product lines to address that."
A Big Opportunity for Apple Stock
To understand how the iPhone 5C and a relationship with China Mobile could drive Apple stock, you need to look at the numbers.
Apple already sells through two Chinese carriers, China Unicom and China Telecom, with a combined subscriber base of about 405 million.
But China Mobile is the largest carrier in the world. Its 740 million subscribers dwarf its competitors, as well as the 100 million of the largest carrier in the United States, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). China Mobile's customer base is actually more than twice the entire U.S population - every single man, woman, and child.
And the market is still growing rapidly; research firm IDC says unit shipments in China will rise 52% in 2014 to 458 million to account for one out of every three smartphones sold in the world.
But without a device for the middle and low end of the market, and without access to China Mobile's vast number of subscribers, iPhone sales in China declined 14% year over year.
Here's why the iPhone 5C will change all that...
Analysts at UBS estimate that the iPhone 5C will make a huge difference, accounting for 70% of the 17 million iPhones it expects Apple to sell in China in 2014 and 10% of the 170 million Apple will sell worldwide.
That would be enough to reverse the iPhone's slipping global market share as well, from 14% now to 15.5% in 2014. Apple needs to maintain a healthy market share to ensure that developers will keep writing apps for iOS, as the vibrant ecosystem is a key selling feature for the company's mobile line-up of iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.
And while some had worried that a less expensive iPhone model would ding margins, those concerns have ebbed lately. Most analysts are raising their assumptions of the iPhone 5C profit margin from the low 30s to the upper 30s, with most above the company average of just under 37%.
In a note to clients, UBS analyst Steven Milunovich pegged the profit margin of a low-cost iPhone at 38%, "making the 5C accretive to earnings."
With the boost from the iPhone 5C, Milunovich raised his earnings target for Apple to $44.65 a share in 2014 and $48.45 a share in 2015.
Applying those earnings per share (EPS) figures to the company's current price/earnings (P/E) ratio of about 12.40 gives a price target for AAPL stock of about $550 for 2014 and $600 for 2015.
That's a 20% return, which is not too bad for a maturing tech company - and that doesn't include the 2.5% dividend yield.
But it's also very possible that Apple stock will soar far beyond $600 and get there much sooner than UBS estimates.
How AAPL Stock Could Rise Even Faster
While the iPhone 5C in China alone will help stabilize Apple stock and gradually push it higher over the next two years, other factors could speed up the timetable and possibly get AAPL back to its all-time highs.
For one thing, the iPhone 5C won't just help grow sales in China, but in other emerging markets as well. India in particular will be adding nearly as many new mobile subscriptions as China over the next several years (see chart).
Then there's the possibility that the iPhone 5C is just the beginning of a diversification of the iPhone line.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Apple has been testing new iPhone form factors with screen sizes ranging from 4.8 inches to 6 inches. (The iPhone 5 has a 4-inch screen.)
Such a move would make sense, echoing a similar evolution in the iPod product line over the years to appeal to different customer needs at different price levels, a strategy that could really jolt iPhone sales and AAPL stock.
Finally, there's the potential of Apple unleashing some completely new product in the next few months.
Whether it's the long-rumored Apple television, or an iWatch, or something else entirely, the company is overdue for a major new product initiative. Such a new product could add several dollars more to Apple's EPS over the next couple of years, which would give Apple stock yet another positive jolt.
Cantor Fitzgerald Analyst Brian White told CNBC last week that he had initiated coverage of AAPL stock with a "Buy" rating and based his lofty target price of $777 - 56% above current levels - partly on the expectation that Apple has something insanely great up its sleeve.
"After a year to forget, we believe Apple is poised for liftoff in [fiscal year] 2014," White wrote in a note to clients. "The past year was extremely challenging for Apple stock, as the higher-end smartphone market hit a wall and the ramp of new product categories did not come to fruition... however, we believe innovation at Apple has not stood still and that the fruits of the company's labor will begin to show up in a major new product cycle over the next 12 months to 18 months. We believe the challenges over the past year will prove to be a blip in a longer-term positive trend at Apple."
Money Morning Capital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani has his own reasons to think that Apple stock is a buy right now. Don't miss his take on why he likes AAPL - with or without the iPhone 5C.
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