Courtesy of the massive house merger twist, the chasemates have been working on the sleeping arrangements.
It was a busy evening that the Ruby Housemates had today as they tried to figure out just who is sleeping where and with who now that the former Diamonds and Emeralds are going to be under the same roof as them.
“I don’t want to be above you,” Cleo chirped at Pokello and Elikem. “We don’t make noise,” insisted the Zimbabwean lady. Hmmm, what kind of noises in bed is Pokello talking about? As for Elikem he and Sulu used their manpower to lift and move the beds around as the ladies sat by and gave instructions. Must be nice!
With 20 Housemates all under one roof, things are about to get really crowded in the Ruby House. Do you think the Chasemates’ new sleeping arrangements will lead to any new hook ups in the House?
Above all, we hope Angelo is the happiest man in the Big Brother house as the merger twist has seen him getting closer to Beverly than ever before for a very long night. Whatever will happen, Big Brother is always watching?
In conclusion we can say the merger will work better for the couples…..How do you find it?\\
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People who fire guns at drones are endangering the public and property and could be prosecuted or fined, the Federal Aviation Administration warned Friday. The FAA released a statement in response to questions about an ordinance under consideration in the tiny farming community of Deer Trail, Colo., that would encourage hunters to shoot down drones. The administration reminded the public that it regulates the nation's airspace, including the airspace over cities and towns. A drone "hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with other objects in the air," the statement said. "Shooting at an unmanned aircraft could result in criminal or civil liability, just as would firing at a manned airplane."
Under the proposed ordinance, Deer Trail would grant hunting permits to shoot drones. The permits would cost $25 each. The town would also encourage drone hunting by awarding $100 to anyone who presents a valid hunting license and identifiable pieces of a drone that has been shot down. Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel, 48, author of the proposal, said in an interview that he has 28 signatures on a petition — roughly 10 percent of the town's registered voters. Under Colorado law, that requires local officials to formally consider the proposal at a meeting next month, he said. Town officials would then have the option of adopting the ordinance or putting it on the ballot in an election this fall, he said.
The proposed ordinance is mostly a symbolic protest against small, civilian drones that are coming into use in the United States, Steel said. He acknowledged that it's unlikely there are any drones in use near Deer Trail. "I don't want to live in a surveillance society. I don't feel like being in a virtual prison," Steel said. "This is a pre-emptive strike." He dismissed the FAA's warning. "The FAA doesn't have the power to make a law," he said.
The FAA is working on regulations to safely integrate drones into the skies over the U.S., where manned aircraft are prevalent. The Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop the regulations, but the agency is behind schedule. FAA officials have estimated that once regulations are in place, thousands of drones will be in use across the country for a wide variety of purposes, from helping farmers figure out which crops need watering to tracking sea lions in remote rocky outcroppings to aiding search and rescue missions. But the Deer Trail proposal is the latest ripple in a spreading backlash against drones. Dozens of laws aimed at curbing the use of the unmanned aircraft have been introduced in states and cities. Privacy advocates have expressed fear that police will use drones to cheaply and effectively conduct widespread surveillance without warrants. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a drone industry trade group, was concerned enough last year about people threatening to shoot down drones that it issued a statement warning that such comments were "irresponsible, dangerous and unlawful."
Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the group, expressed similar concerns Friday, saying drones "are being designed to serve the public good….The myriad of important uses will be imperiled if they become targets. … The suggestion that Americans take up arms against unmanned aircraft also endangers citizens on the ground."
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Well, well, what do we have here? It's Emerald Housemate Eveva giving Sulu a saucy rub down.
It has only been a few hours since the Diamonds and Emeralds descended into the Ruby House but already there seems to be special connections being made. Thus far, all of the Housemates appear to be excited to be under roof but Sulu and Eveva seem to have really connected the most.
The two Zambians are like two peas in a pod; both are fun loving, talkative and opinionated. So tight is this pair that Eveva has even taken to calling herself "the female Sulu". Well, okay then girl!
The Zambian lad seems to be really enjoying the attention that he has been getting from his fellow county mate. Shame, if only he knew that she is not a real Housemate. We wonder how he will feel when he realises that he has been tricked.
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Fun with a capital F is what these Chasemates are all about tonight.
So what do you get when you put 20 different personalities under the one roof? A whole lot of talking, laughing and dancing that's what. Now that the Diamonds, the Emeralds and the Rubies are all in the same House things have become chaotic in the Ruby House.
But when it comes to the Big Brother House, a little bit of measured chaos is a good thing, as it keeps the Housemates on their toes. Tonight the Merged Housemates decided to turn the Ruby House into their own personal dance floor. They joined forces, showing off their hottest moves to Africa in a group dance session.
For this evening there has been one Housemate that has out shined the rest; that is Eveva. Since she made her way into The Chase, the Zambian has been trying her best to snatch that crown from Pokello and Angelo as one of top dancers in the House. Will she succeed?
What do you think; who is the best dancer in The Chase? {mp4}bba_bestdancer{/mp4} Whose Ruby moves outshine the rest?
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Alexander said that server rooms where such data is stored are now locked and require a two-man team to access them — safeguards that he said would be implemented at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies after a pilot program at the NSA.
Snowden leaked to the media information revealing that the NSA was gathering millions of U.S. phone records and intercepting some U.S. Internet traffic.
"This was a failure to defend our own networks," Deputy Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said at the forum.
"In an effort for those in the intelligence community to be able to share with each other, there was an enormous amount of information concentrated in once place. That's a mistake," Carter said. "The loading of everything onto a server creates a risk."
Carter said they are also looking at how to better monitor individuals with access to that kind of information and suggested the Pentagon might monitor intelligence workers just as it monitors staff at nuclear installations.
"When it comes to nuclear weapons, you watch people's behaviour in a special way. We don't let people all by themselves do anything," he said. "There is always some aberrant individual and you've got to recognize that."
Alexander said he hoped to more quickly implement a new intelligence sharing system in which all such information uploaded to a server was encrypted, such that only analysts that needed access to certain information would have the code to read it.
Alexander, Carter and National Counterterrorism Center director Matthew Olsen all said the Snowden leaks damaged national security. Olsen said during the forum that al-Qaida and related groups are seeking to change how they communicate to avoid U.S. detection and surveillance because of Snowden's leaks. Previously, U.S. officials have said anonymously that Snowden's leaks to the media have been damaging and prompting terrorists to change their ways.
"We have concrete proof that terrorist groups and others are taking action, making changes, and making our job tougher," Alexander said.
His comments and those of the other officials seemed at odds with testimony only a day earlier by John C. Inglis, the deputy director of the NSA. He told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that while the impact of Snowden's disclosures can be very harmful, "it's too soon to tell whether, in fact, adversaries will take great note of the things that he's disclosed."
Alexander defended the surveillance and data collection programs Snowden disclosed, one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that monitors U.S.-based Internet servers for foreign terrorist or espionage-related activity.
He told the Aspen audience that the secrecy about how the programs work was needed "not to hide it from you, it's to hide it from those who walk among you and are trying to kill you."
Alexander said the congressional intelligence committees were looking at whether it was feasible in terms of cost for the private companies to hold the data themselves instead of handing it over to the NSA. He said it would take an act of Congress to require them to hold the data, and added that he thought his agency could figure out how to process and analyze the information if that's what Congress deemed necessary.
In a separate development, Alexander and Carter both said the Pentagon is close to launching a 4,000-person cybersquad of both offensive and defensive teams that would both protect Defence Department systems and launch cyberattacks against enemy networks when the White House orders it.
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LOS ANGELES – Firefighters raced on Friday to buttress defensive lines against a fierce blaze roaring for a fifth day near the scenic mountain resort of Idyllwild in Southern California, as thunderstorms in the forecast threatened to hamper efforts to subdue the flames.
The so-called Mountain Fire has already burned across more than 24,800 acres of dry brush and timber and forced the evacuation of Idyllwild after destroying seven nearby homes and other property in the rugged San Jacinto range, authorities said.
The blaze, which ranks as federal fire managers' top priority among 17 large wildfires across several western states, erupted on Monday afternoon in the San Bernardino National Forest, about 100 miles east of Los Angeles.
The San Jacinto range overlooks Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage and several smaller desert towns to the northeast, but the main threat has been to the village of Idyllwild, a popular vacation destination in the mountains.
The mile-high community, known for its hiking trails, rock climbing and arts and music scene, was ordered evacuated on Wednesday, along with the neighboring town of Fern Valley and surrounding parks and campgrounds as flames advanced.
Combined with smaller communities ordered to vacate earlier in the week, authorities estimated that some 6,000 residents, campers and other seasonal visitors had been chased out by the fire. Some 2,200 homes remained under evacuation on Friday.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Riverside County on Friday.
Citing the potential for "extreme fire growth" on Friday afternoon, the county Sheriff's Department issued an evacuation warning to residents of Pine Cove, adjacent to Idyllwild, urging them to be ready to flee at a moment's notice.
The famed Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, a rotating gondola that carries visitors from the desert floor to an observation post near the San Jacinto peak, also has been closed down because of heavy smoke.
Palm Springs safe for now
But Rico Smith, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, said the fire's northern edge was still about six miles from the center of Palm Springs, a city of 46,000 known for trendy shopping and restaurants that was once a playground for Hollywood stars like Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.
With wide stretches of sparse, desert vegetation separating the mountain foothills from Palm Springs and nearby communities, those towns were not in imminent danger, Smith said.
On the mountain, fire crews continued to reinforce a defensive buffer zone along a high ridge line between the western flank of the blaze and Idyllwild. One favorable factor for much of the week has been relatively calm winds, although officials had feared that thunderstorms forecast for later Friday might complicate efforts to keep flames at bay.
The fire has now grown large enough to create its own potentially hazardous weather. Towering columns of smoke and ash spewed from the blaze can breed storm activity by themselves, fire officials said.
If those columns rise high enough, they can form ice clouds that could eventually force the smoke plumes to collapse, unleashing down drafts that can push the fire in numerous directions.
An incident report Friday evening said the blaze was 15 percent contained. No injuries have been reported, but seven residences were destroyed on Tuesday along with five commercial structures, more than a dozen outbuildings and several vehicles. The cause of the fire remained under investigation.
Experts say this year could see one of the worst U.S. fire seasons ever. In recent weeks, a Colorado wildfire ranked as that state's most destructive on record ravaged more than 500 homes and killed two people. In Arizona, 19 members of an elite "hotshot" crew died while battling a separate fire on June 30.
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What is the best way to spend a cold winter's night when you are locked up indoors? Spend the evening giving your man a hot massage.
That is just what Feza did in middle of the night. The Tanzanian hopped on top of her boo Oneal, who was lying topless on the bed. She then proceeded to work her magic hands all over her man's bare back, much to his delight. Talk about heating things up.
The Ruby lovebirds don't seem to be much perturbed with having to share a bedroom with the newly moved in Diamonds and Emeralds. From the looks of things, a crowded House is not about to stop this pair from doing couple stuff together. Well good for them!
It seems that the Merger has brought about peace in the House, as Oneza and Cleo seem to have worked out the differences that they had. The trio were laughing and chatting like old buddies today.
Hopefully the threesome will remain on good terms and not allow things to turn nasty among them.
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Detroit's emergency manager argued Friday that the decision to file for bankruptcy will in the end help the city's beleaguered residents who "don't deserve" the poor emergency response times and blight that have become "endemic" in the once-thriving city. In a brief press conference held a day after city managers filed for what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said some Detroit creditors aren't sure they'll ever be paid. But Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr said that not only would the bankruptcy help stabilize the city in the long-run, but "it gives us breathing room" in the short-term.
He said the cash-flow that could result from the filing will help the city concentrate on "health, safety and welfare." He cited a roughly 55-minute response time as evidence of how city services have eroded over the years — as the taxpayer base fled the city and its resources became increasingly strained. City workers and retirement funds had sued to prevent Snyder from approving a bankruptcy request. That litigation will be suspended. Orr blamed the lawsuits in part for the bankruptcy filing this week. He said the city was being sued on "an almost weekly basis," which he had asked not happen, suggesting the lawsuits helped forced his hand in filing for bankruptcy. He said the upside is the process would help bring "all parties" together including those representing the thousands of retired workers owed pension payments. Orr has said the city of about 700,000 people will continue to pay its bills and employees.
Orr, a bankruptcy expert, was hired by the state in March to lead Detroit out of a fiscal free-fall, and made the filing Thursday in federal bankruptcy court. "Only one feasible path offers a way out," Snyder said in a letter to Orr and state Treasurer Andy Dillon approving the bankruptcy. Orr was unable to convince a host of creditors, including the city's union and pension boards, to take pennies on the dollar to help facilitate the city's massive financial restructuring.
Some creditors were asked to take about 10 cents on the dollar of what the city owed them. Underfunded pension claims would have received less than 10 cents on the dollar under that plan. A team of financial experts put together by Orr said that proposal was Detroit's one shot to permanently fix its fiscal problems. The filing leads to a 30 to 90 day period that will determine whether or not the city of Detroit is eligible for Chapter 9 protection, and define the number of claimants who may compete for Detroit's limited settlement resources.
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A boat on a thrill ride at an amusement park that bills itself as the best in the world accidentally rolled backward down a hill and flipped over in water when the ride malfunctioned Friday, injuring all seven people on it. Operators stopped the Shoot the Rapids water ride after the accident, which occurred on the ride's first hill, the Cedar Point amusement park said. Park police officers, medical technicians, ride operators and park visitors waded into the water and helped the passengers off the boat. Cedar Point officials wouldn't say how the boat landed after rolling downhill. But witnesses told the Sandusky Register newspaper the boat flipped on its side or upside down. Matthew Orr, of Euclid, was at the park and said people were belted into the boat and were trapped.
"We jumped in and helped them get out," he told the newspaper. "If we didn't help, I don't even know what would have happened." Cedar Point officials said six of the seven boat passengers were evaluated and treated at the park and then were released and the other was taken to a hospital for further evaluation before being released. Cedar Point, which says it has been rated the best amusement park in the world for 15 years in a row, is in Sandusky, along Lake Erie between Cleveland and Toledo. It's owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Co.
The Shoot the Rapids ride, rated an Aggressive Thrill, "takes you up and splashes you down," Cedar Point says on its website. "Shoot the Rapids feels like a real wild river adventure with canyons, a tunnel and something unexpected around every corner!" it says.
The accident was being investigated by Cedar Point officials, who said they had reported it to state officials. They said the ride will stay closed until park and state inspectors complete their review. "The safety of our guests is our number one priority," Cedar Point said in an emailed statement.
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While millions of tourists flock each year to the boardwalks and casinos of Atlantic City, a dark question looms over this glittery city: Who murdered four women and dumped their bodies in a drainage ditch on the outskirts of town nearly seven years ago? No arrests have ever been made, but authorities tell FoxNews.com they are quietly and aggressively working the case – contacting police in Florida, Missouri and Alaska in recent months for possible connections to killings there.
On Nov. 20, 2006, two women stumbled upon the body of 35-year-old Kimberly Raffo – lying face-down in run-off water filled with fecal matter and chemical waste about 50 yards behind the Golden Key Motel in West Atlantic City. The call to police that followed uncovered a ghastly scene: the bodies of three other women, also in the ditch – their remains separated by no more than 50 yards. “This fits the FBI definition of a serial killer,” Atlantic County Prosecutor James P. McClain said in an interview last week. “From the facts gathered during the investigation, it could have been a local person or it could have been a transient.” Raffo, Tracy Ann Roberts, 23, Barbara Breidor, 42, and Molly Dilts, 19, all worked as prostitutes in the area. The women were also mothers who had fled dysfunctional lives and found themselves walking the streets of Atlantic City and booking clients to make money and, in some cases, feed drug addictions.
Dilts, who was killed a month prior to being found, was so badly decomposed that a cause of death could not be determined. The same was true for Breidor. Roberts was asphyxiated, authorities determined, and Raffo – the most recent victim – was strangled with a rope or cord. The women were barefoot, but fully clothed – their heads facing East toward the lights of the casinos. The medical examiner detected high levels of a recreational drug in three of the bodies. Police have never named a suspect in the case. But McClain said authorities have identified “more than one” person of interest, though he declined to provide names.
Terry Oleson, a 41-year-old handyman from Alloway, N.J., was of great interest to police from the beginning. Oleson, who said he is innocent, was living in the Golden Key Motel – a seedy lodging notorious for drugs and prostitution – at the time of the murders. Oleson told FoxNews.com that he was repairing a friend’s porch in the area and needed a place to stay nearby because his home in Alloway was some 60 miles away. Oleson lived in a room at the Golden Key for free in exchange for doing occasional repairs on the motel’s sinks and toilets.
After watching news of the murders on television, Oleson’s then-girlfriend called police and implicated him in the crimes. Oleson said the two were in a domestic dispute and on the verge of breaking up, calling her actions vindictive.
Oleson said he was interrogated by police without a lawyer for up to eight hours – during which he claims police said, “We know you did it.” When detectives arrived at Oleson’s home in Alloway, they discovered hidden video cameras that only heightened their interest. One camera, inside the home, captured the teenage daughter of Oleson’s girlfriend in various stages of undress, according to investigators. Oleson said he was not aware of such images at the time, and later pleaded guilty to an "invasion of privacy" charge. Oleson submitted DNA samples to authorities, but no forensic match has been made between Oleson and the victims, according to his attorney, James Leonard. “To date, we’ve never heard what the results are but I think you can draw those conclusions,” said Leonard, who, with Oleson, spoke to Fox News in a sit-down interview. “We wouldn’t be sitting here today if Mr. Oleson’s DNA linked him in any way, shape or form to any of these women.” “I think he [Oleson] presented an easy target to them,” Leonard said.
Adding to the mystery, self-described sex worker, Denise Hill, identified another individual as the killer – a man named Eldred Raymond Burchell, who called himself the “River Man,” an apparent reference to Washington state’s “Green River Killer,” who murdered at least 71 women – many prostitutes – during the 1980s and 1990s. Hill told FoxNews.com that Burchell, a drifter, spent time with her in Atlantic City around the time of the murders and confessed to killing people. Burchell, whose whereabouts is unknown, could not be reached for comment.
McClain said a common myth about serial killers is that they cannot stop of their own volition – a mistruth that has some convinced the killer is either incarcerated or dead. “It is not unknown or even rare for serial killers to engage in a series of killings, which qualify as serial murders, and they do stop – either because they have no more opportunity or because they deal with the root cause of why they kill in a different way,” McClain said. He also addressed common perceptions that police agencies care little about the disappearances and deaths of those who work in the sex trade. “No one should ever think that because someone works as a prostitute or works in the sex trade that they’re not going to get law enforcement’s best efforts. Everybody counts. Every person’s a child of God. We are never going to give up on it until we charge and convict someone,” said McClain, the third prosecutor to take office since the 2006 murders. “I have great hope in justice. I’ll never give up on that.” Kate D’Adamo, spokeswoman for the New Your-based Sex Workers Outreach Project, said it’s likely other women encountered the killer but did not report it to police for fear of a prostitution arrest.
D’Adamo said that, despite societal opinion, sex workers “span every different identity that you could ever imagine” – and that their decision to enter the trade is almost always an economic one. “I think we should strive to live in a society where we don’t qualify the victims and decide based on our moral judgments whether or not they should have access to justice,” she said.
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