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The state insurance commissioner's office reported that only four "navigators" had received licenses in Georgia by midafternoon Monday, just hours before the health reform law's exchange opened for enrollment.
A navigator is an individual whose job is to provide face-to-face, in-person help for consumers seeking information about the new health insurance exchanges, also called marketplaces.
These online insurance shopping malls are part of the final implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Georgia is one of more than 30 states that are letting the federal government run their exchanges.
A spokesman for the commissioner's office, Glenn Allen, said Monday that 23 other navigators had passed the state exam, but had not yet been licensed. These individuals still had to undergo fingerprinting and background checks as part of the application process.
As of Monday, 17 other potential navigators were scheduled to take the state licensing exam, Allen said.
Georgia and at least 15 other states have passed laws to regulate navigators' work. Many states have imposed their own certification and licensing requirements. Critics of that approach say it could limit the availability of navigators.
One navigator-in-training in Georgia, Bill Rencher, said the state's rules on navigators had slowed down the certification process.
State Rep. Richard Smith (R-Columbus), chairman of the House Insurance Committee in Georgia and sponsor of the navigator legislation, has said the laws are a matter of states' rights.
"Insurance is one of those few items that the states regulate," he told the Center for Public Integrity. "We want to make sure they (the navigators) meet our standards, not just the federal government's standards."
Federally approved navigator organizations say such problems are not their fault. They have pointed out that they had not received news of the federal grants until August, and that they have faced congressional queries for extensive documentation since then.
Allen said the navigator test has been available in Georgia since Sept. 1.
But Rencher, the navigator-in-training, who is with the consumer advocacy group Georgia Watch, said the extra Georgia requirements "are certainly slowing things down."
For the consumer, there's no rush to sign up for coverage Tuesday, Rencher pointed out. The enrollment period lasts until mid-December for someone looking to be covered Jan. 1.
"There's no harm in waiting a few weeks," he said.
Rencher estimated that Georgia would have a total of fewer than 100 navigators at full strength, counting those who will be stationed at federally qualified health centers across the state.
"It's probably not enough," Rencher said.
There will also be volunteers, known as certified application counselors, helping Georgians with the process.
The navigators will guide the uninsured and other individuals through their options, help them determine whether they qualify for subsidies, and assist them in enrolling in the exchanges.
• Georgia Health News (http://www.georgiahealthnews.com) is an independent news organization devoted to covering health care in the state.


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Dollar Shave Club CEO Michael Dubin has a family history of colon cancer. So when his doctor recommended a colonoscopy, he decided he wanted to live-stream the procedure to help raise awareness about the importance of early screening.
It's, well, not exactly riveting viewing, but that's not the point. Mike has partnered with Colon Cancer Alliance, who have doctors standing by to answer any questions you might have about the procedure. You can tweet your questions with the hashtag #DSColon, and follow along for informative posts on colon cancer and the procedure. The stunt, by the way, is timed to coincide with Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death, so this is really an important cause. Hopefully Mike can raise awareness and get some guys to schedule an early screening. If you'd like to learn more about colon cancer and how getting a colonoscopy can help lead to an early diagnosis, head on over to the Colon Cancer Alliance website.


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El Quito group seeks volunteers
The El Quito Neighborhood Association is looking for volunteers to help run the group and assist with its projects. It is a non-dues organization representing more than 600 homes.
"Recognized as a leading neighborhood organization by the city of Saratoga, we work to improve the quality of life in our neighborhood, promote a sense of community, provide a structure to gather thoughts and opinions from residents and serve as the main contact to the city," the group stated in a release.
For more information about the association or to express interest in joining, visit elqui tona.org or email email@example.com.
Still time to donate food
The city of Saratoga is continuing its annual holiday food drive for three more days.
Food donations will be accepted until Dec. 21, and will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank.
Barrels are located at the Joan Pisani Community Center, 19665 Allendale Ave.; Saratoga Prospect Center, 19848 Prospect Road; Saratoga Library, 13650 Saratoga Ave.; and city hall, 13777 Fruitvale Ave.
For more information, visit saratoga.ca.us.
Library closed on Christmas
The Saratoga Library will be closed for the holidays, including Dec. 24-25. It will reopen on Dec. 26.
The library's online resources will still be available. For more information, visit sccl.org/saratoga.


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Cvilak; Bostridge, Keenlyside; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Noseda. Text. LSO Live LSO 0719
The vast landscape of Britten's War Requiem poses great challenges to recording engineers. There are three groups of performers, with a large standard contingent of chorus and orchestra threatening to overwhelm a pair of vocal soloists (accompanied by a twelve-member chamber orchestra) and a boys' choir (accompanied by an organ). Britten counted on a separation of forces for both musical and theatrical reasons. The piece, Britten said, was "calculated for a big, reverberant acoustic." In many performance venues, it is simply not possible to provide the requisite sonic space. Moreover, for a recording, it isn't possible to represent a cathedral acoustic simply by recording in a cathedral. London's Barbican, where this recording was made, apparently couldn't provide the right setup. Certainly some of the expression of the piece comes across anyway, particularly in the performances of soloists Ian Bostridge and Simon Keenlyside. But another aspect of the expression is missing. Britten carefully maintained the separation of performing forces until the penultimate movement, in which the main orchestra and chorus (which performs a mass setting in Latin) quietly steal into the world of the chamber orchestra (which accompanies settings of English poetry by Wilfred Owen). Later there is a layering of textures in the final movement, in which all three groups overlap for the combination of the English words "Let us sleep now" with the Latin "in paridisum." This, alas, is not sonically apparent on the recording.
Gianandrea Noseda's interpretation is notable for the way he plays his cards very close to the vest. This is a purposeful, efficient performance. Effects such as the gradual accelerando in the Libera Me are hyper-controlled. After an opening Requiem Aeternam that is more urgent than slow and solemn, the long second movement never lets up emotionally. The Benedictus has a searching quality, rather than Britten's specified molto tranquillo, and the Agnus Dei eschews a weary tread for something more task-oriented. Noseda doesn't luxuriate in the crest of the big wave that forms the climax of the layering in "Let us sleep now"; rather, it is a fleeting, ungraspable moment. Soprano Sabina Cvilak's voice is not vibrant, which makes for a Sanctus without jubilation or brilliance, but it also results in a humble Benedictus. Bostridge and Keenlyside prove to be optimal casting for their solos; the tenor shows some of the surprising body to the tone that he reveals more readily in live performance than on studio recordings, while the baritone is eminently theatrical in the trapped quality of "The End" (his solo in the Sanctus) and suitably bleached of tone for the line "I am the enemy you killed, my friend" in the final poem. The chorus of the London Symphony seconds Noseda's conception to the letter. Their vowels, curiously, are broader than those usually heard from British choirs; British critics would chide them as "American."
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Chroot jail
Hi there!
I'm trying to set up a shell server to host eggdrop. I want it to be secure for me :P so that nobody can access all the files in my computer. I found out that I could do this with "chroot jail" but I can't manage to create one :( Here's what I did and the error it gave me:
bash-> chroot /home/test/
chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory :confused:
Can someone here help me...I tried the 2 progs JailTool (http://www.westfalen.de/~gb/) and Jail Chroot Project (http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~assman/jail/)
do you have an executable file at that location?
Well I have the executable in my real /bin/bash
I tried to make a "ln -s /bin" in /home/test/ didn't work it says:
chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash:: Too many levels of symbolic links
I then tried to "cp /bin/bash /home/test/bin" didn't work :(
chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory
Well what about the libraries for /bin/bash? Did you copy them also? To find out what libraries you need:
ldd /bin/bash
Links will never work if they point outside the chroot jail.
If you chroot to /home/test and /home/test/bin is a symlink to /bin in the real filesystem you'll end up having a loop since within the chroot /bin is /home/test/bin in your fs. The point of chroot is to set / at a different level, in your case /home/test. The point is to not be able to reach out of /home/test, being / in the chroot, at all.
So below /home/test you have to have all the binaries you want to execute and all the libraries they need to do so. Additionally you need the configfiles for the apps you want to use there.
As Markus said, ldd is your friend to figure out which libraries are needed.
What you said worked perfectly I can now set up chroot jail
The thing is I'd like to be able to use the chroot jail when someone login to my ssh server
I tried this http://tjw.org/chroot-login-HOWTO/ but it doesn't work...it gives me an error when I login with the user that uses the chrooted jail (in this case the user peon)
It does the command sudo .... but the result is a simple:
Thansk for helping me out here
I can't get the chrooted environnement to work when I ssh to my server :(
I also tried this http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/ but still no result
Does someone have an idea?
copy files so as to mirror essential files inside chroot (and avoid outside links)
Better late than never (because I was searching for help on this and I like this forum; i.e. want to share knowledge because I'm looking for it too). I would agree with dazk about the symbolic links: *copy* essential files over so as to mirror where they would relatively be, like for lenny, a simple start would be:
sudo apt-get install libpam-chroot
sudo pico /etc/security/chroot.conf
(then add a line like "username /home/chroot", ctrl "x", "y", enter)
sudo pico /etc/pam.d/common-session
(then add "session required pam_chroot.so")
sudo mkdir /home/chroot
sudo mkdir /home/chroot/{home,bin,dev,lib}
sudo cp /bin/bash /home/chroot/bin/
sudo cp -a /bin/sh /media/schwartzlab/bin/
sudo mknod -m 660 /home/chroot/dev/zero c 1 5
sudo mknod -m 660 /home/chroot/dev/null c 1 3
sudo cp -a /lib/{libncurses.so.5,libdl.so.2,libc.so.6,ld-linux.so.2} /home/chroot/lib/
sudo cp /lib/{libncurses.so.5.7,libdl-2.7.so,libc-2.7.so,ld-2.7.so} /home/chroot/lib/
note: if you want more commands, use "ldd command" (e.g. ldd /bin/bash) to know which libraries to copy over, and of course, if anything is updated, you'll need to update the chroot copies. Also, use "ls -la" to see if the command you want is a link (i.e. use "cp -a" so as to preserve that relative link and not have it link back to the original file; and of course, copy the file it links to), and also note if it has special permissions (e.g. /dev are 660).
chroot ssh
...for sure, had to supplement the above:
sudo mkdir /home/chroot/dev/pts
sudo mkdir /home/chroot/proc
sudo pico /etc/fstab
(add "none /home/chroot/dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0")
(add "proc /home/chroot/proc proc defaults 0 0")
sudo mount -a
sudo mknod -m 666 /home/chroot/dev/ptmx c 5 2
but then I just get kicked out after logging in. So, I'm with you Gimpy on hoping someone will post a clue for chroot and ssh (and not just some link to a script)...
To jail users, I used these links.
See if these links help you out.
chrootdirectory in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
OK, so totally undid all my chroot (i.e. reverted everything to before my chroot adventure began), and simply did the following (as newer openSSH has conf file directives "chrootdirectory directory" and "forcecommand internal-sftp" built-in, and my people will never log in locally via the console):
sudo pico /etc/ssh/sshd_config
(replace "Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server" with "subsystem sftp internal-sftp"; also, add the following (to the very bottom)):
match group groupname
chrootdirectory %u
forcecommand internal-sftp)
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
sudo groupadd groupname
sudo usermod -aG groupname -d /home/ username
sudo chown root.root /home/username
Yet I'm no better off than before: when I connect to the machine (with a member of groupname), I just get "connection to [my.host] closed". At least someone can read this and know that you don't have to do all that chroot stuff (anymore) if all your people are going to do is sftp…
RESULTS (just tail/not full output):
ssh -v email@example.com:
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Read from remote host my.host: Connection reset by peer
Connection to my.host closed.
Transferred: sent 1632, received 1800 bytes, in 0.0 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 331161.3, received 365251.4
debug1: Exit status -1
sftp -v email@example.com:
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
debug1: fd 0 clearing O_NONBLOCK
Read from remote host db1.neurobio.pitt.edu: Connection reset by peer
Transferred: sent 1632, received 1800 bytes, in 0.0 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 261283.5, received 288180.3
debug1: Exit status -1
Connection closed
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Whatever happened to sausage and pepperoni?
When Nestle Japan recently released bakeable Kit Kats, the company likely thought the cookable chocolate bars would end up in ovens -- not on top of pizzas.
A number of Japanese restaurant and café chains will begin offering a limited-time menu that includes pizzas topped with the "Bake 'N Tasty Mini Kit Kats Custard Pudding Flavor."
According to Rocket News, a press release from Nestle Japan said "baked Kit Kat menus will be offered at the pizza chains Napoli no Kama and Strawberry Cones as well as the cafe chains Wired Cafe and Moriva Coffee."
Napoli's Kit Kat and Mango Dolce Pizza is billed as a "sweet pizza for adults" and it costs $16. For $13, customers can dine on a Baked Kit Kat and Mango Dessert Pizza at Strawberry Cones.
The pizzas from both chains went on sale March 28 and will be sold until August 31.
Wired Cafe and Moriva Coffee do have menu items that include baked Kit Kats, but it does not appear they are offering pizzas…yet.
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The Producers' Forum began over 12 years ago and remains a grass roots organic organisation that exists solely to enable the development and potential of its filmmaking members.
"The Producers Forum offers filmmakers the opportunity to share their experiences and their work, network with industry professionals and garner support for their projects from the filmmaking community. It's a great organisation and it's for you - so use it!"
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Osteoarthritis Diminished with Weight Loss
There's a lot of misinformation going around about osteoarthritis. Much of it pertains to how osteoarthritis develops and what causes it.
And sometimes, simpler solutions work better than more complex ones.
Many have put forth that osteoarthritis is all about hereditary. They see a common connection between family members and figure that osteoarthritis is being inherited from parents or grandparents.
Yet dietary habits also tend to be common among family members. Kids eat the diets of their parents for at least the first decade or two of our lives. Then after we've developed those tastes and dietary habits, many continue those dietary habits into their adult years.
For this same reason, obesity tends to also be common among family members. Certain foods and dietary habits – along with lifestyle factors – tend to travel within families.
So is obesity related to osteoarthritis? Many doctors will tell their patients the answer is no. But is that true?
Osteoarthritis incidence linked to obesity
Researchers from the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands looked into the connection between obesity and the occurrence of knee arthritis.
The researchers tested 363 women who were middle-aged and either overweight or obese. They followed the women for 30 months, and tested the association of weight loss with osteoarthritis of the knee. The weight losses were achieved through a combination of diet and exercise.
Those who lost either five kilograms (about 11 pounds) or lost five percent of their body weight during the 30 month period were put into one group. The other group – who did not lose weight or lost less weight than this – was compared to the weight loss group on the incidence of osteoarthritis.
Before and after the 30 months, the researchers examined each of the women using X-rays and joint-space narrowing measurements according to the diagnostic criteria of the American College of Rheumatology. In other words, their examinations included both X-ray measurements and physical examinations.
At the end of the study, the researchers found those who lost either 11 pounds or more – or more than 5 percent of their body weight – had a significantly lower incidence of osteoarthritis. The researchers found that 20 percent of the women who didn't lose weight developed osteoarthritis. And only 15 percent of those who dropped 11 pounds or five percent of their body weight.
This means the risk of osteoarthritis is slashed by a quarter (25 percent) by losing just 11 pounds of five percent of body weight.
The researchers commented:
"15 percent of the women in the group that lost five kilos or five percent of their total weight developed osteoarthritis, while this was 20 percent in the group that lost no weight. Family physicians and physiotherapists can use these results to encourage patients to change their lifestyle. In addition, the study gives useful starting points for further research."
Remember that we are talking of overweight or obese women who lost only a moderate amount of weight. It would be logical to assume that if they were not overweight or obese, the reduction of osteoarthritis incidence would be even less.
Is it exercise or weight loss?
This is not the only study that has found the association between losing weight and osteoarthritis. And yes, losing more than 11 pounds does have better results. But is it about the exercise or dropping the pounds?
A 2013 study from Wake Forest University Medical School studied 454 men and women with osteoarthritis who were 55 years old or older. They were all overweight and obese, and had a body mass index that ranged from 27 to 41, but 360 of them had BMIs greater than 30. They also had very painful knee osteoarthritis. The study lasted for 18 months.
The participants were divided into three groups. One group underwent an intensive weight loss diet-only plan. Another group did the weight loss diet plus exercise. A third group only did the exercise.
After the 18-months, the researchers found that the diet-only group lost an average of 8.9 kilos (about 20 pounds) – 9.5 percent of their body weight from the beginning of the study. The diet-plus-exercise group lost 10.6 kilos (about 23.5 pounds) – 11.4 percent of their beginning weight.
The exercise-only group lost an average of 1.8 kilos (about 4 pounds) – or 2 percent of their original body weight.
This of course allowed the researchers to compare the effects of weight loss versus exercise. And whether it is the weight loss or the exercise to lose the weight that reduces osteoarthritis.
The researchers found that those in the diet-only group had significantly lower knee force compression compared to the exercise group. The levels averaged 2487 N for the diet-only group, versus 2687 N for the exercise-only group.
In comparison, the diet-only group had a reduced knee joint load by 10 percent (265 N), while the exercise-only group's knee joint load decreased by five percent (148 N). And the diet-plus-exercise group's knee joint load decreased by 9 percent (200 N). So the diet-only group's knee joint load was the lowest.
Inflammation levels – measured by IL-6 levels – were the same between the diet-only group and the diet-plus-exercise groups – at 2.7 pg/mL. These levels were lower than the exercise group, at 3.1 pg/mL.
However, the diet-plus-exercise group experienced less pain – at level 3.6 – than both the diet-only and the exercise-only groups. These had 4.8 and 4.7 levels for pain, respectively.
The diet-plus-exercise group also had better quality of life scores compared to the other two groups.
In terms of mobility, the diet-plus-exercise also won out. The diet-plus-exercise group walked faster and further for the six-minute test. The exercise-only group also walked more than the diet-only group.
Yes, mobility and pain were more improved in the two groups that exercised. And diet plus exercise resulted in the least amount of pain and the greatest mobility. But the researchers found clear evidence that weight loss was the greatest factor in reducing overall symptoms of osteoarthritis. They stated:
"We found significant weight change dose-response effects in knee compressive force, IL-6 [inflammation] level, pain, and function; participants in the high category had significantly lower joint loads, less systemic inflammation and pain, and better function at 18 months."
The term "dose-response" used above is critical here. It means that the greater the weight loss, the greater the benefit.
Other research confirms its not just about weight-bearing joints
Many might say, 'well it makes sense if there is less weight compressing the knees.' Yes, that is certainly a factor. But the research also shows that osteoarthritis in non-weight bearing joints is also reduced by weight loss.
We can look at the Wake Forest study above and see this – as inflammation levels were reduced in the diet-only group more than the other groups. Inflammation levels affect all joints – not just weight-bearing joints.
But there is also more evidence.
The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health – complementary to the FDA in the U.S. – published an extensive review of managing osteoarthritis using weight loss strategies.
The researchers analyzed a number of studies done over recent years that compared weight loss and osteoarthritis incidence. They concluded that weight loss could significantly prevent incidence and reduce symptoms of osteoarthritis. Their findings were not only about weight-bearing joints.
After reviewing the research the scientists stated:
"The association between being overweight or obese and increased stress on weight-bearing joints like the knees and hips seem intuitive, but the exact manner in which excess weight influences osteoarthritis is unclear. However, being overweight has been associated with higher rates of hand osteoarthritis in some studies. Thus, osteoarthritis is considered an active disease process with joint destruction driven by both biomechanical and pro-inflammatory factors."
The researchers calculated that with each step, just being 10 pounds overweight increases the force on the knees by between 30 and 60 pounds.
After a meta-analysis of the research, they also calculated that a 70-year old man's risk of osteoarthritis would be cut by 21.5 percent by losing enough weight to fall from the obese category to the obese category. For women, a 70-year-old's risk would drop by a third – 33 percent – by moving down from obese to overweight.
Note that obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) over 30, while overweight is defined as a BMI of between 25 and 29.9. (Here is a chart to calculate your BMI.)
How important is diet and exercise to arthritis?
The evidence is clear that dropping some weight will reduce the pressure on our joints. It will also reduce our levels of inflammation – which directly affects osteoarthritis symptoms and incidence. And it will reduce pain and increase mobility.
Losing weight typically also calls for improved diets – meaning better food choices. Yes, certain foods, as I outline in my book (below), do decrease incidence and symptoms of osteoarthritis.
We can also tease out of the above research that just losing weight is not enough to get the full effect of the weight loss. Exercise further increases mobility and additionally reduces osteoarthritis pain according to the research.
But our choice of diet also directly affects osteoarthritis, say other studies. Take a look at my book for other diet and herbal strategies that have been shown to reduce pain, inflammation and incidence of different forms of arthritis:
Runhaar J, de Vos BC, van Middelkoop M, Vroegindeweij D, Oei EH, Bierma-Zeinstra M. Moderate weight loss prevents incident knee osteoarthritis in overweight and obese females. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2016 Feb 11. doi: 10.1002/acr.22854.
Erasmus MC. Losing some weight can reduce risk of osteoarthritis by a quarter. Erasmus University Medical Center. Press Release. Accessed April 27, 2016.
Obesity Management Interventions Delivered in Primary Care for Patients with Osteoarthritis: A Review of the Clinical Effectiveness. Ottawa (ON): Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health; 2014 Jul 23.
Messier SP, Mihalko SL, Legault C, Miller GD, Nicklas BJ, DeVita P, Beavers DP, Hunter DJ, Lyles MF, Eckstein F, Williamson JD, Carr JJ, Guermazi A, Loeser RF. Effects of intensive diet and exercise on knee joint loads, inflammation, and clinical outcomes among overweight and obese adults with knee osteoarthritis: the IDEA randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2013 Sep 25;310(12):1263-73. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.277669.


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.....I have a favor to ask kindly of you.
So I've just been combing every piece of the last four AC games to see if I've done everything in each one, and the only question left is how many leftover bonus blocks (the ones that go toward adding another health rectangle) I should have at the end of AC1. Personally, I've got 10, but according to this site, there may be 11. Could you look over your perfect AC1 game and let me know how many you have? I'd appreciate it. Also, let me know what system you're on.
In AC1 and Revelations, the sync bar could be a maximum of 20 blocks. In AC2 and Brotherhood the max is 25. Anyway, back on AC1, you get a new block every time you rank up (after assassinating a main target), or for every 15 completed "side objectives" (such as the View Points and Save Citizen missions).


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Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies say they found a private fight club when they followed a blocks-long trail of blood left by two wounded men who made their way to a fast food restaurant after being stabbed.
At the home near Montebello, deputies arrested 24-year-old Richard Nguyen for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon and confiscated boxing gloves and a knife.
Deputies say a fight broke out among some of the participants Saturday and the two men were allegedly stabbed by Nguyen. The victims fled and ended up at a McDonald's restaurant, where someone called deputies to say they were bleeding.
The victims refused to tell deputies how they were injured, forcing them to follow the blood. The men were hospitalized but deputies say the injuries were not life threatening.
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Three teenagers were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping three high school freshmen at a school-sponsored sports camp in Western Massachusetts.
Galileo Mondol, 17, and two unidentified 16-year-olds, all juniors at Somerville High School, are accused of entering a cabin and sexually assaulting three males, according to the Boston Globe.
"These are terrible allegations. I'm disturbed and appalled that they may have happened," said Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, who was at the camp coaching.
"The incident goes far beyond hazing. This is rape,'' he added.
All six boys are reportedly members of the school soccer team. The allegations were first reported to the athletic department at Somerville High School on Tuesday, ultimately resulting in an investigation leading to the arrest of the three teenagers.
Mondol's attorney, however, maintains his client is innocent.
Superintendent Tony Pierantozzi spoke at a news conference, saying he was stunned by what allegedly happened.
"All of us, frankly, are horrified at these allegations," Pierantozzi said. "We will ensure to the best of our ability that everyone and anyone who needs support will have it."
Curtatone and Pierantozzi also issued a joint statement Friday expressing further dismay at the incident.
"We are disturbed and appalled that these crimes may have taken place and our thoughts and concerns are with the victims and their families," the statement said. "Our student-athletes are taught to be leaders in our community and they represent the highest and best values that our school and our community hold."
"We would like to thank the members of the soccer team for their compassionate support of the victims and their courage in coming forward to assist authorities with the investigation," it added.
161 students were enrolled at the camp with 19 adult supervisors.
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This election cycle has been crazy from day one, but now it's becoming downright cathartic. All of us with half a brain have known about the systemic corruption of our political and financial systems for a long time, we just haven't been able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. But now, the closer we get to the election, the more dirt seems to leak out.
I titled this post after the movie series of the same name. In the movies, one day a year is reserved where all laws are repealed and the populace is allowed to act out their basest desires and instincts any way they want. Theft, murder, rape, it's all legal for one day. Of course this is just Hollywood fantasy.
The purge we are now experiencing comes in a different form and tends to repeat itself every few hundred years when the people have finally had enough. The last few years have seen cracks finally starting to appear in the façade of our broken country. First Edward Snowden confirmed our worst fears about the modern surveillance state, then Wikileaks began dropping dirt on just about everyone. Mike Vanderboegh, the founder of the III% movement, was central to exposing the Fast & Furious scandal. Throughout all this, the people got more and more angry but the tension remained under the surface, none of the scandals becoming the "headshot" we needed.
Since the primary elections, things have ramped up to overdrive. Wikileaks has continued to provide almost weekly information dumps. Project Veritas (who broke the story of Planned Parenthood selling dead baby parts) has gone undercover among the DNC and SuperPacs supporting Hillary Clinton. Project Veritas latest undercover video contains footage of various Democratic political organizers claiming responsibility for inciting violence to shut down Donald Trump events.
Remember how the media tried to paint Trump as inciting violence with his rhetoric, trying to pin the protests on his racism and that of his supporters? Remember how they said Trump supporters were beating up people who disagreed with them? Project Veritas has now confirmed that the entire thing was a false flag, created by the modern day brown shirts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung) of the DNC.
The entire video is pure gold, but I'd like to mention one part in particular. At 10:25 in the video, a woman by the name of Zulema Rodriguez admits to being the one who disrupted the Trump rally in Chicago that ended up being canceled due to violence as well as the blocking of the highway in Arizona during another Trump event.
This is bad enough, but guess what? She is on the payroll of Hillary's campaign (Hillary for America), MoveOn.org (George Soros) and the Stand Up for Ohio PAC. She also used to be an organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) making $85,000 per year. Here is the Federal Election Commission disbursement data showing exactly how much she was paid and by who.
Karl Denninger over at Market Ticker made a post about this whole mess yesterday. I would also recommend you go read the Reddit thread where this information first came out. There are tons of people on Reddit sifting through all this information that has been coming out, then doing their own research to tie all the threads together. Investigative journalism is just about dead in this country, but it has been replaced in the aggregate by thousands of individual researchers. It might not be as nice and clean as a Woodward & Bernstein article but damn if it isn't effective.
Finally, I'd like to mention what is going on with Wikileaks. Most people know that Julian Assange (their founder) has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for years. Ecuador basically granted him political asylum, he can't leave or he will be arrested (that's a whole other story). Yesterday, his internet access was completely cut off. There is speculation it was done by some U.S. operative to shut him up, or possibly by Ecuador itself due to the pressure our government is putting on them. Assange has multiple contingency plans (aka "dead man switches") where information he has will be automatically released in the event of his arrest or death. Just this morning a formerly hidden directory on Wikileaks web server became accessible to the public. No one is sure what this means, but the directory is full of tasty information that I'm sure will be combed over in the next few days.
The closer to the election we are, the crazier things get. Every day I look forward to the exposure of more corruption. Anyone who has read my posts knows I am no fan of Trump. I believe he is nothing but a populist candidate who does not support or even understand the U.S. Constitution. On the other hand, he has become what some have called a "weapon" to destroy the RNC and DNC, the means to murder the corruption. I just hope that after this purge, what we have isn't replaced by something even worse.
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The country has enough recoverable shale gas to last more than 240 years. But land ownership issues and water shortages pose huge obstacles to exploitation
A couple of friends might get together in, say, a bar in Texas one night and come up with the idea of making money out of shale gas. Within a few weeks, they could well be in business, having rented a rig and persuaded a farmer to lease or sell his land.
But in China, which, according to the Energy Information Administration, has 68% more recoverable shale gas than the States, life is very different.
China's growing environmental movement is complicating shale gas development
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There is also nothing like the same number of service companies in China as in North America and it can very difficult to secure the services of an experienced drilling contractor. Finally, one may find the block is in the mountains or desert with no road access.
A further problem is that the way China has managed its shale gas exploration. This hasn't encouraged the kind of innovation essential for successfully exploiting reserves, and, thus, taking advantage of the country's vast potential.
"Shale reservoirs are not usually homogeneous and there are unlikely to ever be any standard generic drilling rigs. Sophisticated technology including 3D seismic, CT scanners and advanced imaging solutions are necessary to map the reservoir and decide where to drill," said Tony Regan, Singapore-based oil and gas consultant with the consultancy, Tri-Zen.
"Purpose-built specialist drilling rigs are required and the equipment and processes need to be adapted and tweaked for optimum development and completion of each well.
"Constant innovation is the norm in the US to improve well productivity and reduce costs. Chinese companies are only just beginning to acquire the capability for large scale horizontal drilling and lengthy, multi-stage hydraulic stimulation."
There are only two ways to participate in shale gas development in China.
The first way is to approach one of the national oil and gas companies such as PetroChina, Sinopec or CNOOC, who have already secured exploration rights to a block from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) or to bid for a block in one of the infrequent auctions held by the Ministry of Land and Resources (MOLAR).
The first round of bidding, which took place in 2011, involved no foreign companies, according to an October 2013 Macquarie Research report. Round 2 in November 2012 was slightly better in that more players were involved. Nine of China's state-owned enterprises were allowed to participate along with two local private companies, but Regan points out that none of these companies had any oil and gas experience and one of these companies was a candle maker!
There has been very little exploration progress since the second round of bidding, added Macquarie in the same report.
What is also preventing China from sourcing the required technical skills is its famously lax intellectual property rights protection.
The US has, literally, thousands of highly-skilled shale gas providers, many of which remain very reluctant to provide cutting edge technologies to China in case they get stolen.
One long-standing Chinese government policy – "indigenous innovation" – is a big deterrent, as it encourages local companies to develop their own versions of overseas technologies in order to avoid paying licensing fees.
China also lacks sufficient gas pipelines. As a result, shale gas producers may need to build compression of liquefaction plants near to shale-gas fields so gas can then be transported to the market by truck.
Rising public anger over China's industrial-pollution crisis is another problem. In the future, the oil and gas majors – such as Sinopec and PetroChina, which are involved in local shale-gas projects – may have to involve themselves in "hearts and minds" projects in order to convince people that fracking is safe.
Population density in Sichuan province might add to the difficulties in getting public support for fracking, added the Macquarie report.
Sichuan has China's biggest shale-gas reserve and has a population per square mile that is 1.5 times that of Pennsylvania and 4.5 times that of Texas in the US. There are also major shale-gas fields in Pennsylvania and Texas.
The problems extend below ground, including, perhaps most importantly of all, China's well-documented water shortage.
China's per capita water resources are 80% lower than those in the US, according to the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation.
"A typical multi-stage horizontal well requires 4-5m gallons of water, and would compete directly with agriculture, industry, and local residents," said the Macquarie study.
Recycling water can help solve the problem, but Regan added: "You can treat and recycle water but that comes at a cost. It is not straightforward because the water needs a lot of treatment before it can be re-used as it can be toxic, and in some cases, it can even contain radioactive elements.
"You also cannot recover all of the water, as some of it is lost in the fracking process."
Regan also highlighted the depth of shale gas resources in China. Some can be as much as five to 10 km below the surface and the more accessible shales are generally deeper than many being developed in US, where, for instance in Eagle Ford, drill depths of 5,000 to 8,000 feet (1.5 to 2.4 km) are the norm.
Greater depth substantially increases drilling costs and already drilling costs in China are proving to be about double those in the US.
And whilst US shale gas tends to be contained in brittle impervious layers of marine shale, some of China's shale resources are in lacustrine-deposited shale reserves, which can be clay-rich and less favourable for hydraulic fracturing. But it is not all doom and gloom.
Total and Shell have, for example, managed to bypass the bidding process for shale gas reserves, which was run by MOLAR, by working with PetroChina or Sinopec in locations where these companies already have exploration permits issued by the NDRC. Shell has made significant progress and in March 2012 had announced that it secured government approval for the first and only shale gas Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with PetroChina.
PetroChina and Sinopec are developing blocks where they already have NDRC approval for foreign investment. This makes it much easier for these companies to bring in high quality overseas skills to deal with the technical challenges.
Nevertheless, major shale gas production in China is thought to be at least 10 years away.
Officially, the Chinese government remains very bullish about the future, as, despite all the above difficulties, it is sticking to an estimate of 60-100 billion cubic metres (bcm) of shale gas production by 2015-2020 from almost zero production today.
This compares with the Macquarie forecast of just 1.1-10bcm of production by 2015-2020.
China conducted its first shale gas study in 2004 and in 2009 a number of blocks were selected as priorities for shale gas development. The first shale gas well was drilled in the Sichuan Basin in December 2009 and completed in April 2010.
The first horizontal well was drilled in December 2010 and production began in August 2011. By the end of 2012 about 80 wells had been drilled and about 50m cubic metres of shale gas had been produced at an estimated cost of about $10bn.
China is therefore at a very early stage in the development of shale gas resources and still some way from having meaningful substantial commercial production.
Fast-track development is also hindered by the fact that no single set of rules exist to facilitate or regulate the licensing, exploration and production of shale gas and there are no preferential policies other than subsidies to support its development.
But a polyolefins industry source said: "Shale gas opportunities in countries other than in the US are making us feel very confident – for example, the huge reserves in Argentina and in China.
"All the experts keep saying the geology is difficult in China and China lacks enough water, but the Chinese government keeps telling us: 'just watch us, we will make this work.'"
China has much bigger reasons than petrochemicals to put its foot on the shale-gas pedal.
Increased gas production would help China raise gas-fired electricity generation – a cleaner alternative to coal.
This would help reduce air pollution, which causes 350,00-500,000 premature deaths each year, according to research by the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning.
And the Macquarie reported said: "If China somehow achieves its 100bcm shale gas production target, our 60bcm [global] gas undersupply by 2020 base case flips into an oversupply position."
This would increase China's bargaining power with Russia, which supplies pipeline gas to China, and with liquefied natural gas suppliers, said the bank.
And to further underline the scale of the opportunities, the EIA estimates that China has 1,115 trillion cubic feet (210bn bbl of oil equivalent) of technically recoverable shale gas, by far the largest in the world. This, potentially, gives it enough gas to last more than 240 years.
So often in China where is there a national will there can be a way.
But as one Beijing-base executive with a major Western bank said: "The technical challenges of shale gas are one thing, but I think the economic challenges are something altogether different – and bigger. You are talking about adapting the economic system to accommodate shale-gas development and that is no easy or quick task."


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Join Tom Sangster and Heath Kelly as they run you through the best and worst selections ahead of round twelve.
SUPERCOACHES copped a massive double blow today when both Sam Burgess and John Sutton were potentially ruled out of this weekend's NRL clashes.
Burgess faces a one-game suspension for a crusher tackle on Andrew Fifita. He will be suspended for one week regardless of whether he takes the early guilty plea or contests the charge and loses.
The only way he can play this weekend against the Knights is if he fights the charge at the judiciary and wins.
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Meanwhile, Sutton was called into the NSW squad alongside Bulldog Josh Reynolds after Kurt Gidley was ruled out for six weeks with a foot injury.
Both were hot SuperCoach property due to their great form and bye schedules.
Many SuperCoaches now face the prospect of taking the field at least two players down for this week's all-important first bye, which sees Origin players out and half the NRL teams on the break.
In other SuperCoach news from the round 12 teams:
• SOUTH Sydney's Dylan Walker emerged as the cheapie of the week after being retained at centre despite the return of Andrew Everingham (suspension), with Greg Inglis in Origin. That said, Walker is only available at five-eighth;
• NATHAN Peats also emerged as a great cheapie after being named to start at lock, with Ben Te'o and Chris McQueen on Maroons duty;
• CLINT Greenshields is a possible bye coverage purchase at fullback for the Cowboys in place of Matt Bowen (knee, round 19);
• DRURY Low was named on the wing for the Bulldogs, with Mitch Brown moved to centre to replace the Blues' Josh Morris;
• KONRAD Hurrell was recalled at centre for the Warriors after a stint in NSW Cup. He replaces Carlos Tuimavave (neck, indefinite); and
• GAVIN Cooper (knee, round 16) was ruled out for the Cowboys, but Joel Riethmuller earned a recall.
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BULLDOGS: Ben Barba, Drury Low, Mitch Brown, Tim Lafai, Sam Perrett, Josh Reynolds, Trent Hodkinson, Aiden Tolman, Michael Ennis (capt), Sam Kasiano, Frank Pritchard, Josh Jackson, Greg Eastwood. Interchange: Dene Halatau, Tim Browne, James Graham, Dale Finucane, Martin Taupau (one to be omitted).
Ins: Drury Low, Martin Taupau
Outs: Josh Morris (NSW)
Other unavailables: Krisnan Inu (suspension, round 13), Kris Keating (calf, indefinite). Tony Williams (ankle, round 13), David Klemmer (knee, round 22)
Comment: Early season cheapie Drury Low returns on the wing, with Mitch Brown moving to centre to replace Josh Morris (NSW). Ben Barba and James Graham are must-haves. Josh Reynolds was called into the NSW squad today, but will be released to play for the Bulldogs if 18th man. Tony Williams (ankle, round 13) remains on the sidelines, a blow for those who bought him for the byes. David Klemmer (knee, round 22) is out long term.
DRAGONS: Josh Dugan, Daniel Vidot, Chase Stanley, Matt Prior, Jason Nightingale, Jamie Soward, Nathan Fien, Dan Hunt, Mitch Rein, Michael Weyman, Bronson Harrison, Ben Creagh (capt), Tyson Frizell. Interchange: Cameron King, Leeson Ah Mau, Jack de Belin, Jack Stockwell.
Ins: Matt Prior, Leeson Ah Mau
Outs: Brett Morris, Trent Merrin (NSW)
Other unavailables: Gerard Beale (knee, season), Kyle Stanley (knee, season), Bronx Goodwin (pectoral, round 14), Evander Cummins (ankle, round 16), Matt Cooper (toe, indefinite)
Comment: Brett Morris and Trent Merrin are both missing through Origin. Tyson Frizell starts for Merrin, while Bronson Harrison has been scoring well lately (although surely there are better options). Josh Dugan is a definite option for those willing to run the tightrope with injury.
SOUTH SYDNEY RABBITOHS v NEWCASTLE KNIGHTS at ANZ Stadium, 7.30pm
RABBITOHS: Nathan Merritt, Andrew Everingham, Beau Champion, Dylan Walker, Bryson Goodwin, John Sutton, Adam Reynolds, Dave Tyrrell, Issac Luke, Roy Asotasi, Ben Lowe, Sam Burgess, Nathan Peats. Interchange: Justin Hunt, Jason Clark, Jeff Lima, George Burgess.
Ins: Andrew Everingham, Justin Hunt, Jeff Lima
Outs: Greg Inglis, Chris McQueen, Ben Te'o
Other unavailables: Matt King (arm, indefinite), Luke Burgess (shoulder, indefinite), Michael Crocker (knee, indefinite)
Comment: Dylan Walker is the cheapie of the week after retaining his centre spot despite the return of Andrew Everingham (suspension), with Greg Inglis out though Origin. That said, Walker is only available at five-eighth. In a massive double blow, John Sutton (Origin) and Sam Burgess (suspension) seem set to miss the match. Nathan Peats could be a cheapie for this week after being named to start at lock in the absence of Queensland stars Chris McQueen and Ben Te'o. Adam Reynolds and Issac Luke remain good bye period purchases. Nathan Merritt will play fullback in place of Inglis. Ben Te'o is a definite sell over Origin.
KNIGHTS: Kevin Naiqama, James McManus, Dane Gagai, Joey Leilua, Peter Mata'utia, Jarrod Mullen, Tyrone Roberts, Kade Snowden, Travis Waddell, Willie Mason, Robbie Rochow, Alex McKinnon, Jeremy Smith. Interchange: Adam Clydsdale, David Fa'alogo, Adam Cuthbertson, Korbin Sims.
Ins: Kevin Naiqama, Peter Mata'utia, Jeremy Smith. Adam Clydsdale
Outs: Darius Boyd (Queensland), Kurt Gidley (foot, indefinite), Akuila Uate (ribs, indefinite), Neville Costigan (dropped)
Other unavailables: Beau Scott (groin, indefinite), Danny Buderus (back, indefinite), Anthony Quinn (eye, round 13), Marvin Filipo (knee, round 13)
Comment: Darius Boyd (Queensland) is replaced at fullback by Kevin Naiqama, while Peter Mata'utia comes onto the wing for Akuila Uate (ribs, indefinite), with Mata'utia a very high risk cheapie for this week. Travis Waddell will play hooker in the absence of Kurt Gidley (foot, indefinite), while Jeremy Smith (suspension) returns to the side. Neville Costigan (dropped) makes way for Adam Clydsdale, who could be another high risk cheapie. Dane Gagai has hardly set the world on fire in recent weeks, but remains a decent-ish bye round purchase. The only other players to arouse any sort of interest are Adam Cuthbertson and Robbie Rochow, but there are definitely better buys out there.
GOLD COAST TITANS v NORTH QUEENSLAND COWBOYS at Skilled Park, 3.00pm
TITANS: William Zillman, Kevin Gordon, Brad Takairangi, Jamal Idris, Anthony Don, Aidan Sezer, Albert Kelly, Luke Bailey, Matt Srama, Luke Douglas, David Taylor, Mark Minichiello, Luke O'Dwyer. Interchange: Ryan James, Mark Ioane, Jamie Dowling, Sam Irwin.
Ins: David Taylor, Luke O'Dwyer, Jamie Dowling
Outs: Greg Bird (NSW), Nate Myles, Ashley Harrison (Queensland)
Other unavailables: David Mead (broken jaw, indefinite), Beau Falloon (broken leg, indefinite), Matt White (knee, season)
Comment: Greg Bird (NSW), Nate Myles and Ashley Harrison (Queensland) are out, replaced in the 17 by David Taylor, Luke O'Dwyer and Jamie Dowling. I still believe Taylor will come good at some stage this year, making him an OK point of difference bye purchase (although there are safer options). Anthony Don is making some great cash and offers very handy bye cover this week. Jamal Idris is absolutely on fire, but now very expensive. Plenty of SuperCoaches will be regretting not jumping on a few weeks ago. Ryan James has run out of puff and many SuperCoaches can't wait to get him out of their side next week, but Albert Kelly and Aidan Sezer offer longer term appeal.
COWBOYS: Clint Greenshields, Ashley Graham, Antonio Winterstein, Kane Linnett, Kalifa Faifai Loa, Michael Morgan, Robert Lui, Ashton Sims, Rory Kostjasyn, Scott Bolton, Tariq Sims, Glenn Hall, Dallas Johnson. Interchange: Ray Thompson, Joel Riethmuller, Ricky Thorby, Jason Taumalolo, Ethan Lowe, Blake Leary (two to be omitted).
Ins: Clint Greenshields, Kalifa Faifai Loa, Michael Morgan, Joel Riethmuller, Ricky Thorby, Jason Taumalolo, Ethan Lowe, Blake Leary
Outs: Brent Tate, Matt Scott, Johnathan Thurston (Queensland), James Tamou (NSW), Matt Bowen (knee, round 19), Gavin Cooper (round 16)
Other unavailables: None
Comment: Massive changes, with six players out (four through Origin) and eight players in on an extended bench. The injury to Matt Bowen (knee, round 19) means Clint Greenshields is a decent purchase for this week. The injury to Gavin Cooper is a big blow to those who picked him up for bye coverage, although a number of SuperCoaches will be cheering that Joel Riethmuller (knee) is back.
BRISBANE BRONCOS v NZ WARRIORS at Suncorp Stadium, 7.00pm
BRONCOS: Corey Norman, Denan Kemp, Josh Hoffman, Jordan Kahu, Lachlan Maranta, Scott Prince, Peter Wallace, Josh McGuire, Andrew McCullough, Scott Anderson, Alex Glenn, Nick Slyney, Dunamis Lui. Interchange: Ben Hunt, Mitchell Dodds, David Hala, Jarrod Wallace, Jake Granville, Aaron Whitchurch (two to be omitted).
Ins: Denan Kemp, Scott Prince, Nick Slyney, Dunamis Lui, Mitchell Dodds, Aaron Whitchurch
Outs: Justin Hodges, Sam Thaiday, Corey Parker, Matt Gillett (Queensland)
Other unavailables: Jack Reed (fractured eye socket, indefinite), David Stagg (knee, indefinite), Dale Copley (knee, indefinite), Jharal Yow Yeh (leg, indefinite), Ben Hannant (calf, round 14)
Comment: Plenty of ins and outs due to Origin, but not a great deal of opportunities. Josh McGuire is a definite option. Expect him to see big minutes over Origin, while he'll also benefit from injuries to David Stagg (knee, indefinite) and Ben Hannant (calf, round 14). Alex Glen will be a popular bye round choice at centre/wing, but he doesn't have much room for improvement given he plays 80 minutes most weeks anyway.
WARRIORS: Kevin Locke, Glen Fisiiahi, Dane Nielsen, Konrad Hurrell, Manu Vatuvei, Thomas Leuluai, Shaun Johnson, Sam Rapira, Nanthan Friend, Russell Packer, Feleti Mateo, Simon Mannering (capt), Elijah Taylor. Interchange: Ben Matulino, Jacob Lillyman, Sebastine Ikahihifo, Pita Godinet, Dominique Peyroux (one to be omitted).
Ins: Konrad Hurrell, Dominique Peyroux
Outs: Carlos Tuimavave (neck, indefinite)
Other unavailables: Jerome Ropati (hamstring, indefinite), Steve Rapira (knee, season), Sam Lousi (foot, indefinite), Sione Lousi (knee, season), Ben Henry (knee, season), Todd Lowrie (ribs, round 14), Carlos Tuimavave (neck, indefinite)
Comment: Konrad Hurrell is back in the centres at the expense of Carlos Tuimavave (neck, indefinite), making him a potential bye round purchase for this week (although job security is clearly an issue given he was dropped a few weeks back). The bye round purchases here are Shaun Johnson and my man Feleti Mateo, who just missed out on his first ton of the season last weekend. Cheapie Ngani Laumape misses out.
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WhatsApp is currently one of the most popular messengers on the mobile platform. The mobile applications for different operating systems allow group chats, sharing locations and sending photos and videos among others. With the introduction of WhatsApp for Windows, you can now enjoy using your favorite messenger from your desktop. The free desktop app is compatible with Windows 8 and later operating systems.
Using WhatsApp for Windows
WhatsApp for Windows acted as an extension of our Smartphone, which needed to run the mobile app for it to work. We placed our phone close to the computer for the best experience, but we could as well leave it in the pocket after the initial setup.
When we launched the app for the first time, we needed to scan a QR code with its mobile counterpart. We pressed the Menu button on the mobile app and tapped WhatsApp Web, which allowed us to scan the code on the computer.
Once we had scanned the code, all the conversations on our mobile app were loaded onto the desktop version. We did not manually add any contact, as the program intuitively imported them from the phone. We seamlessly continued with our chats from the computer, where typing was more convenient. In addition to using a large keyboard, we had access to all keyboard shortcuts, which made our work even easier.
We could send messages, pictures and attachments, record voice messages and manage our message history from the computer. The program saved our messages, and we did not need to worry about missing pushed notifications.
The Menu option on the mobile app allowed us to view all web and desktop clients logged into our account.
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- Download WhatsApp For Windows 0.2.2243 Full Version from below link.
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Monday May 23, 2011
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1776 Princess Anne Road, VB 23456
Along with beautiful beaches, Virginia Beach has miles and miles of beautiful farmland. We call this area Pungo and every year the Pungo Strawberry Festival is held on Memorial Day weekend. This year we are estimating attendance of 120,000 over the two day event. Not only does the Festival have all the strawberries you can eat offered in over 50 different ways, activities include a pie eating contest, strawberry bake-off, continuous entertainment on three stages, a parade, one of the largest carnivals on the east coast, livestock show and sale, a multi-million dollar military display, pig races, youth art show, and arts and craft booths.
This Festival has grown from nearly 50,000 in 1983 to its present size of over 120,000. The Festival is a 501 3 ©) non-profit organization and prides itself on its ability to give to the community. All proceeds from our Festival are donated to non-profit community and service organizations. We are proud to have returned over $600,000 to the community thus far and this does not include money raised by community groups on site.
The 28th Annual Pungo Strawberry Festival is just around the corner. Don't miss this family-oriented, fun filled, wholesome and alcohol-free event.
Questions? Give us a call at 757-721-6001. If no one answers, just leave a message and someone from the Festival Committee will return your call.


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Our thanks to fellow cruisers Todd and Branda Lanning for a superb report on this Big Bend River. Moving north from Anclote Key, Crystal River is really the first of the Big Bend stream really suitable for cruising size craft. There is Homosassa River to the south, BUT iffy depths here and the lack of facilities for vessels over 30 feet usually entice us to continue on to Crystal River.
Good Morning Claiborne,
As per your request here is the latest & greatest on Crystal River, FL. Life's2Short had a wonderful 3 days in the fresh waters of Kings Bay, always nice to rinse off the salt that one accumulates as they cruise north & south along the gulf coast! This is our fourth time up to Crystal River and has become one of our favorite west coast stops. We anchored in a new spot this time that is even better protected than the main waters of Kings Bay, the new anchorage is on east and then south of the main anchorage on the backside of the island located in Kings Bay. We did dinghy over to Pete's Pier to take a look around and get some ice. Nothing has changed over there, still a pretty run down marina with no apparent need to fix anything up. I'm not badmouthing the marina as it's still a good place to go if you need a slip, however we much prefer anchoring out in this wonderful area!
Depths in the channel leading into the river seem to have remained steady since we were last here in 2009. All depths listed below are actual water depths and with the "Shell Island" tide station showing 1 foot above low tide. We found that you need to approach the outside markers on a due west-to-east line when you are within a 1/2 mile of markers #1 & #2, depths on this line are all about 7 to 8 feet deep. We hugged the green #1 marker as we came in and never saw less than 8 feet between #1 & #2. Only two areas we found that were somewhat skinny. Between markers #5 & #6 we registered an actual depth of 6.5 feet and then again around Shell Island we found 6 feet of actual depth. We also tended to hold to the green markers before getting to Shell Island. The key to getting through the Shell Island area is to hang close to Shell Island when you pass by. After Shell Island the depths are fine and you can relax for the 6 miles on up this beautiful river, getting pushed along with the incoming tide!
I know many people are leery about heading up this river because of depth. Life's2Short draws 4 feet so we had no issues whatsoever. If I was taking in a 5′ draft boat I would wait until 1/2 tide rising, and I would have no issue taking in a 6 foot draft boat if I went at high tide.
This area is truly a gem on the west coast of Florida and should not be missed if you have the time as you are headed up or down the coast!
Todd & Brenda Lanning
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Click Here To View the Cruisers' Net's Western Florida Anchorage Directory Listing For the Crystal River – Kings Bay Anchorage
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Click Here To View the Cruisers' Net's Western Florida Marina Directory Listing For Pete's Pier
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Subject: Graphics Cards | October 7, 2005 - 03:03 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tech-Hounds have decided they need to know which of the many X800XL based cards is the best. Head on over to see who wins between ABIT, ASUS, GeCube and Gigabyte.
"After some time off, we're back with a round up - this time it's the Radeon X800XL cards. Compared to the just recently released X1600s, we think these are still the better buy - at least if you're more concerned with AA and AF. Hopefully, ATI have the right sense to discount these cards as soon as possible"
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Grizzlies Round Town Tour set for September
MEMPHIS, August 31, 2012– The Grizzlies are set to hit Memphis with their 2012 Round Town Tour. The tour will take place throughout Memphis and the Mid-South during the entire month of September at block parties and festivals to get Grizz Nation excited about the upcoming season.
Grizzlies' fans of all ages are invited to join Grizzlies players, coaches, the Claw Crew, Grizz, the Grizz Girls and Pete Pranica to tip-off the start of the season in a festive setting at block parties that will be held at a variety of Memphis locations. Grizzlies' players and coaches in attendance will join right in the celebration with fans at each block party, allowing Grizzlies faithful to take photos and get autographs from their Grizzlies heroes.
The Round Town Tour Block Parties will be held at five different locations where fans can enjoy free refreshments from Pepsi and a limited amount of free pizza. Younger Grizzlies' fans will also be able to enjoy inflatables, air brush tattoo artists, interactive games and balloon artists. There will also be opportunities to win gift certificates and merchandise from Block Party partner, City Gear. In case of inclement weather, the block parties will take place, but will only feature an autograph session with a Grizzlies player.
The Round Town Tour will also bring the Grizzlies brand of excitement to the Germantown, Cooper Young, Bartlett Festivals, Rock for Love and Dragon Boat Races, presented by Duncan Williams, with their interactive inflatable games and much more. All fans who sign up for Grizzlies E-News during the Round Town Tour will receive a free preseason ticket voucher and will be registered to receive news and information throughout the year.
Round Town Tour dates and locations
|Block Party - Olive Branch City Park/8267 Goodman Rd. (Player TBD)
|5-7 p.m.
|Rock For Love/Overton Square
|All Day
|Germantown Festival
|All Day
|Block Party** Bert Ferguson Community Center/8505 Trinity Rd. (Tony Allen)*
|5-7 p.m.
|Block Party** Whitehaven Community Center/4318 Graceland Dr. (Tony Wroten)*
|5-7 p.m.
|Cooper Young Festival
|All Day
|Block Party - Central Station/Front St. at GE Patterson (Quincy Pondexter)*
|5-7 p.m.
|Block Party** Douglass Community Center/1616 Ash St. (Jerryd Bayless)*
|5-7 p.m.
|Dragon Boat Races
|All Day
|Bartlett Festival
|All Day
* Grizzlies' player attendance at the festivals is subject to change.
** These Block Parties are in partnership with City of Memphis Department of Parks and Neighborhoods.


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"ApplianceWare Inc. (formerly REALM Information Technologies), providers of affordable, easy-to-use server appliance software solutions, and Linux desktop device pioneer Maxspeed Corporation today announced a co-marketing alliance that will allow the companies to team in promoting and selling end-to-end appliance solutions to customers. Combining ApplianceWare's Linux-based network-attached storage server appliances with Maxspeed's best-in-class Linux desktop devices will allow organizations to deploy robust, highly reliable and easy-to-support systems for networked productivity."
"Maxspeed's MaxStations use a proprietary high-speed protocol between the client and server that offers unrivaled performance in a server-centric architecture. On the back end, a traditional Linux or Windows server delivers applications to the MaxStations. ApplianceWare devices provide fast, reliable file serving and protect the integrity of user data by storing it off the main server. This is a pronounced advantage over traditional server architectures, which are less reliable because of the many applications running simultaneously."
"ApplianceWare's highly reliable server appliance products are a valuable addition to Maxspeed's robust Linux desktop architecture," said Wei Ching, Maxspeed president. "Reliability, simplicity and cost efficiency are hallmarks of Maxspeed's products. By uniting traditional servers with ApplianceWare's server appliance solutions, we will deliver an enhanced product that will be enthusiastically received in the marketplace. This alliance is an example of the significant added value available to customers and prospects when we combine Maxspeed Linux solutions with leading complementary products and services."
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An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction" has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving for a crash that killed a passenger in his Mercedes.
Roger Avary, 43, of Ojai entered the pleas Tuesday in a Ventura court. He'll be sentenced next month and remains free on bail.
Authorities say Avary was intoxicated when his car hit a telephone pole in Ojai on Jan. 13, 2008. The crash injured his wife and killed 34-year-old Andreas Zini, who was visiting from Italy.
Avary has apologized for the accident.
Avary and Quentin Tarantino share the 1995 Academy Award for writing "Pulp Fiction." He also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie "Beowulf."
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ROME, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The centre-right party of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will abstain in a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament on Thursday, a party official said, heightening the risk of a government crisis.
The head of Italy's centre-left Democratic Party said earlier that President Giorgio Napolitano would have to decide whether to call an election if the centre-right withheld its support from the government.
"As a parliamentary group we have decided to abstain this afternoon in the vote of confidence called by the government to show our strongly critical view of their economic policies," Fabrizio Cicchitto, the lower house leader of Berlusconi's People of Liberty (PDL) party, said in a statement.
Earlier on Thursday the PDL walked out of a confidence vote in the Senate after Industry Minister Corrado Passera expressed strong reservations about a return of Berlusconi, who left office in a cloud of scandal at the height of the eurozone crisis last year.


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Game Ninety: Cubs (46-43) vs. Nationals (26-64) Game Time - 12:35pm C.T. Coverage - TV: WGN TV - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 186 Location - Nationals Park, Washington D.C. Kevin Hart (0-1, 1.69/1.59) vs. Garrett Mock (0-2, 6.92/1.85) Updated 9;52am C.T. - Sam Fuld Optioned to Triple-A to make room for Kevin Hart The Cubs will shoot for their fourth in a row this afternoon and the series sweep of the Washington Nationals behind Kevin Hart. Hart was with the Cubs on Saturday and will make … [Read more...]
Talkin' Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Nationals – 07/18/09
Game Eighty-Nine: Cubs (45-43) vs. Nationals (26-63) Game Time - 6:05pm C.T. Coverage - TV: WGN TV - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 175 Location - Nationals Park, Washington D.C. Randy Wells (4-4, 2.72/1.12) vs. Jordan Zimmermann (3-4, 4.50/1.36) The Chicago Cubs enter play tonight three games back of the Cardinals tied for second place in the Central Division with the Brewers and Astros ... and the Reds are right behind the group, just 5 1/2 back. Lou Piniella's crew will look to post their … [Read more...]
A Look at the Cubs Top Prospects
With all of the recent discussions on the site focused on the Cubs' farm system, the CCO was asked to rundown the top prospects in the Cubs' organization. The CCO has been participating in a Cubs Prospect Poll this season. The fine folks over at Bleacher Nation have compiled lists from some of the favorite Cubs Blogs across the net and their work has been included for a point of reference ... … [Read more...]
Talkin' Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Cardinals – 07/10/09
Game Eighty-Three: Cubs (41-41) vs. Cardinals (47-40) Game Time - 1:20pm C.T. Coverage - TV: WGN TV - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 183 Location - Wrigley Field, Chicago Rich Harden (5-5, 5.35/1.49) vs. Chris Carpenter (6-3, 2.32/0.82) The Cubs return to the field this afternoon, weather permitting, after a much-needed day off. The Cubs showed a lot of improvement in Pittsburgh last week and carried the momentum into the four-game set against the Brewers seven days ago ... but then went … [Read more...]
From the Wire…Stevens Recalled
According to a report from the Sun-Times, Jeff Stevens will be recalled on Friday from Triple-A Iowa. The Cubs will option Kevin Hart back to Iowa in order to provide depth in the bullpen over the weekend against the Cardinals. Updated - 5:06pm C.T. - Jason Waddell activated and optioned to Triple-A Iowa … [Read more...]
One Bleepin' Run – Cubs 1 Braves 4
Game Eighty-Two - Cubs 1 Braves 4 WP - Kenshin Kawakami (5-6) LP - Kevin Hart (0-1) Save - Rafael Soriano (10) The frustration surrounding the Chicago Cubs might be hitting a boiling point ... and not with just the Faithful. After another pathetic performance by the offense, Lou Piniella told the media that they should ask the players and the hitting coach why they are not hitting and scoring runs. After a weekend of putting crooked numbers on the board and a solid start on Monday night, the … [Read more...]
Talkin' Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Braves – 07/08/09
Game Eighty-Two: Cubs (41-40) vs. Braves (40-43) Game Time - 1:20pm C.T. Coverage - TV: Comcast SportsNet - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 184 Location - Wrigley Field, Chicago Kevin Hart (0-0, 1.59/1.41) vs. Kenshin Kawakami (4-6, 4.46/1.38) Weather permitting ... The unofficial start of the second half kicks off with the rubber game of the series, and the last game of the year against the Braves. After taking the first game on Monday, a win this afternoon would give the Cubs a season … [Read more...]
Talkin' Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Braves – 07/07/09
Game Eighty-One: Cubs (41-39) vs. Braves (39-43) Game Time - 7:05pm C.T. Coverage - TV: WGN TV - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 185 Location - Wrigley Field, Chicago Carlos Zambrano (4-3, 3.50/1.31) vs. Javier Vazquez (5-7, 3.05/1.07) The 2009 Cubs' season hits the halfway point tonight with game number 81 of 162. The Cubs have underachieved throughout the first half of the season but have played much better of late ... especially at home. The Cubs must continue to build on their last week … [Read more...]
From the Wire … Dempster to the DL
According to a report from the Sun-Times, the Cubs placed Ryan Dempster on the 15-day DL with a fractured right big toe. No time table on how long Dempster will be out. Kevin Hart was recalled from Triple-A Iowa just a day after being optioned down in favor of Angel Guzman. Carlos Zambrano will start on short rest Tuesday night against the Braves. Updated - 4:29pm C.T. - Kevin Hart will start Wednesday afternoon against the Braves ... and additional information. … [Read more...]
Talkin' Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Braves – 07/06/09
Game Eighty: Cubs (40-39) vs. Braves (39-42) Game Time - 6:05pm C.T. Coverage - TV: Comcast SportsNet/ESPN Monday Night Baseball - Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channel 184 Location - Wrigley Field, Chicago Randy Wells (3-3, 2.43/1.08) vs. Jair Jurrjens (6-6, 2.73/1.24) Updated - 3:39pm - No official word on the roster moves. Will update as soon as they are announced. Aramis Ramirez is at Wrigley. Updated - 3:54pm C.T. - Aramis Ramirez, Reed Johnson and Angel Guzman activated from the 15-day … [Read more...]


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housing staff had a wheel good idea for helping out a good cause.
Officers at South Tyneside Homes got saddled up for fundraising success by taking part in a three-day bike ride through Northumberland in aid of St Clare's Hospice in Jarrow.
The pedal-powered project proved a success, raising £722.50.
The caring cyclists were sponsored by friends, family and colleagues for the two-wheeled trek from South Tyneside which took in Lindisfarne, Bamburgh, Rothbury and other scenic spots in rural Northumberland.
Vanessa Mustard, senior fundraiser for the Primrose Terrace hospice, was presented with the bumper cheque at South Tyneside Homes' Strathmore office in Jarrow.
She said: "With South Tyneside Homes being one of the biggest employers in the borough, it really means a lot to us that they have adopted us as their chosen charity.
"We'd like to say a big 'thank you' to all of the cyclists who have raised this money for us."
Going along for the charity ride were Dave Cutting, Dave Proctor, Chris Noble, Steve Wheeler, Julie Lennon, Samantha Chambers, Jack Rutherford, Daran Waites, Emma Leggott, accompanied by former staff members John Musson and Mick Doyle.
The housing company's senior executive director, Martin Knowles, said: "South Tyneside Homes is proud to have St Clare's Hospice as its adopted charity, and we were thrilled to raise this latest sum for them from the sponsored cycle ride."
St Clare's Hospice, a registered charity set up in 1987, provides palliative care to adults with life limiting illnesses. It has to raise about £1.4m a year to cover its running costs.


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Joe Biden, the US vice-president, has announced a White House deal with hospitals to help pay for Barack Obama's overhaul of healthcare.
Biden made the announcement today at the White House with hospital administrators and Kathleen Sebelius, the US health and human services secretary.
Biden said the hospitals are ready to give up about $155bn over 10 years in government payments. The money could then be used to help pay for covering millions of uninsured.
Despite the deal, some Democrats are rebelling over taxing generous health insurance benefits to pay for any overhaul, jeopardising bipartisan legislation in the US Senate and Obama's ambitious timetable.


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A Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in the centre of a small estate. The master bedroom has extensive wood panelling, and outside are 67 acres of grounds, including 24 acres of woodland. Ideal for any would-be kings or queens.


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Dads Working on Father's Day for Storm Cleanup
Forest, VA - The outage situation may be getting under control, but that doesn't mean all the work is over. In fact, some clean-up crews were out on Father's Day, a day they usually take to spend with their families.
Daniel Mason is a father of three who owns Mason's Tree Service based out of Forest. Instead of breakfast in bed and presents, he woke up very early to work outside.
Mason says he has never worked on Father's Day before, but Thursday's storm left a lot of work for him and his company.
He told me before the storm, they had 45 jobs scheduled, and now they have more than 100. So he called in a small crew Sunday to clean up debris from yards and branches that fell on cars.
He says it's not ideal, but those people need the help as soon as possible, so he knows he can't just take a day off.
But he did admit he was sad to cancel his Father's Day weekend plans with his family.
"They actually went to Virginia Beach without me because I couldn't go...there's just no way to take care of this from there, so I had to stay here and coordinate all my crews. But it's been lonesome," he said.
Mason says his family is getting back Sunday evening, so they'll still be able to celebrate together.


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The National Republican Senatorial Committee has launched an independent expenditure ad charging Sen. Mark PryorMark PryorMedicaid rollback looms for GOP senators in 2020 Cotton pitches anti-Democrat message to SC delegation Ex-Sen. Kay Hagan joins lobby firm MORE (D-Ark.) "voted to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants."
"What's Mark Pryor hiding? Let's take a look," a narrator says.
The ad charges the senator "voted to give members of Congress special benefits to purchase Obamacare, and despite record spending and trillions in new debt, Pryor voted against a balanced budget amendment."
It concludes: "Mark Pryor: Shine a light on his record and things don't look so good."
The ad is part of the more than $1.9 million in advertising on radio and television between now and Election Day in Arkansas.
Records indicate the ad launched Tuesday, the same day the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee went on air with an ad charging Pryor's GOP opponent, Rep. Tom CottonTom CottonOvernight Finance: GOP criticism of tax bill grows, but few no votes | Highlights from day two of markup | House votes to overturn joint-employer rule | Senate panel approves North Korean banking sanctions GOP senator: CBO moving the goalposts on ObamaCare mandate Cruz: It's a mistake for House bill to raise taxes MORE, misled voters on his support for funding for a local children's' hospital.
The attack joins another launched Tuesday by GOP group Crossroads GPS that hammers Pryor on Medicare cuts.
It's the latest salvo in a fierce air war that's only expected to get more aggressive as the Arkansas Senate race, a key pickup opportunity for the GOP in its pursuit of the Senate majority, heats up.


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