Gator taken from Ohio home

A 7-foot alligator found in an Ohio man's basement is malnourished, has bone disease from a lack of sun for 15 years and was being taunted by teenagers on a regular basis, authorities said Tuesday. 

The Humane Society of Greater Dayton confiscated the 15-year-old gator from its owner on Sunday in the southwestern Ohio home where it was being kept after a video was posted on Facebook showing the reptile being taunted.The term 'indoorpositioningsystem control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. 

The video shows a young man laughing as he throws beer on top of the alligator, which jerks back in surprise and bites the small, hard plastic tub where he was kept in the basement. 

Sheila Marquis, cruelty investigator of the Humane Society of Greater Dayton, said the alligator's owner and young men in the video may face charges of animal cruelty in the next couple days as she wraps up her investigation. 

Rumors had been coming in for at least two years about the alligator in the basement. But, authorities could not enter the home and investigate without probable cause to believe it was being subjected to cruelty, which came in the form of the Facebook post of the video, said Tim Harrison, director of Dayton-based Outreach For Animals, which specializes in rescuing wild and exotic animals throughout Ohio. 

Harrison, who helped get the malnourished gator out of the home and to a veterinarian, said the reptile's owner had been keeping his back door open and allowing high schoolers to come in and see the alligator, even if he wasn't there. 

The video may not appear to show the alligator being directly harmed physically, but Harrison said the concrete wall next to its tub is covered in teeth marks,Manufactures and supplies drycabinet equipment. showing that it repeatedly had jerked its head from previous taunts,Welcome to Find the right laser Engraver or plasticcard . knocking out its own teeth or weakening them. 

The alligator is missing many teeth, while other teeth in its mouth were broken or infected. 

Harrison said the alligator is just under 7 feet long, but should be more like 10 feet long. He said it showed other signs of malnourishment and lack of vitamin D from being kept in a basement for 15 years without sunlight. 

The HP Pavilion Chromebook 14 is a slightly different Chromebook prospect: the Google Chrome OS operating system laptop - which needs to be online via Wi-Fi for its full cloud-based functionality - boasts a 14-inch screen size, making it the largest Chromebook yet to hit the market. 

Pocket-lint has reviewed each and every Chromebook since the devices hit the shelves in mid-2012, beginning with the Samsung Series 5 550. Thing is, we've consistently thought that the often budget machines just lack that certain something; the sum of each element - irrelevant of price point - just hasn't accumulated into a machine that feels like a complete notebook experience, nor a budget tablet killer for that matter. With that in mind can the 249 HP Pavilion Chromebook 14 inject that extra something into proceedings to see it make the Chromebook concept shine? 

Shine is one word that definitely springs to mind upon extracting the HP Pavilion Chromebook from its box. This wadge of shiny, reflective plastic has near-sparkly flecks through the black finish that further add to the sheen - making it a bit too glossy for our liking, but then each to their own. Although it'd certainly struggle to be called luxury, it's the kind of finish to be expected at this sub-250 price point. 

The 14-inch screen size makes this the largest and heaviest Chromebook yet. But at around 1.8kgs it's not overly heavy by any means, and the 21mm thickness when in its closed position is neither thin nor fat. It's that typical in-between state that Chromebooks seem so content with: averageness. Albeit averageness with sparkle. 

Open the top and the Pavilion Chromebook 14 greets with more of the same plastic, a textured trackpad with left and right click buttons and a keyboard with decent sized keys. Typing is comfortable - more so than some of the smaller devices such as the Acer C7 because there's a greater spread of keys available - and there's enough resistive spring to get a good response with each finger tap. The trackpad is also responsive,We have become one of the worlds most recognised siliconebracelet brands. even though the criss-cross textured finish can feel a little strange in a world of smooth-finish pads.We've had a lot of people asking where we had our parkingsystem made. 

With this browser-centric concept comes the web-centric necessity for a connection. If you're not connected to the web via Wi-Fi then there are limitations to what can be achieved as Google Drive files can't be accessed without a connection. Of course the machine doesn't shut down without a connection, it just has more-limited use. And without the 3G connectivity of a mobile device, the HP Chromebook can feel somewhat limited - although its physical size more than likely denotes it as a desk-based machine anyway - particularly as 3G-ready Android tablets are on the market for less cash. 

Chrome OS leaves us feeling divided. We like the speedy browsing, the removal of the heinous "bloatware" so common on competitor Windows-based machines and if all you tend to do online is email, browse, and use Google's services then Chrome OS and Chromebook as a whole is a suitable hub in many respects. 

But on the downside Chrome OS is limited. Don't expect to weigh down the 1.1GHz Celeron 847 processor with lots of tasks, as flash objects on pages can cause things to grind slowly, and there's obviously no access to those heavyweight applications that you may wish to run. Even applications that you'd expect to be able to use - things like Skype that's available on Android, for example - aren't necessarily available to operate in-browser, Skype being a prominent case in point. Now that's just limiting. Remember: Chromebook is not Windows.