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For Immediate Release: Contact: Kelly Huff July 10, 1998 Ron Harris Sharon Snyder Ian Stirton
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Election Commission has made public its final action on eight matters previously under review (MURs). This release contains only summary information. Closed files should be thoroughly read for details, including the FECs legal analysis of the case. (Please see footnote at the end of this release.) Closed MUR files are available in the Public Records Office.
1. MUR 3847/Pre-MUR 333
RESPONDENTS: (a) Stephen E. Stockman (TX)
(b) Friends of Steve Stockman, John Hart, treasurer (TX)
(c) Stockman for Congress, Stephen E. Stockman, treasurer (TX)
(d) Jeff Van Fleet and the Southeast Texas Times (TX)
(e) Tim Frankovich and the Southeast Texas Statesman (TX)
(f) Political Won Stop (TX)
(g) Fields for Senate Committee, Kathryn A. Wood, treasurer (TX)
(h) Wright for Senate Committee, Joe Terry Rye, treasurer (TX)
(i) Conservative Action Network (TX)
(j) Clear Lake Area Young Conservatives of Texas (TX)
(k) Citizens for Honesty in Government (TX)
COMPLAINANTS: Stephen M. Clifford, Campaign Consultant, Friends of LeCour (TX)
SUBJECT: Excessive contributions; failure to report various contributions and disbursements; disclaimers; failure to itemize ultimate payee and to adequately report purpose of disbursements; cumulated disbursements to a vendor within a reporting period; failure to report disbursements aggregating in excess of $200 per year; failure to file Statement of Candidacy timely
DISPOSITION: (a) Probable cause to believe*
[re: failure to file Statement of Candidacy timely; excessive contributions]
(b) Conciliation Agreement: $40,000 civil penalty*
Respondent to file amended reports to correct improper entries and omitted items
(c) Probable cause to believe*
[re: various reporting violations; excessive contributions; disclaimers]
(d) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: excessive contributions; disclaimer]
(e) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: excessive contributions]
(g-h) No reason to believe*
[re: disclaimer]
(f, i-j) Took no action
(k) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: disclaimer]
RESPONDENTS: (a) Sherrill Morgan (NC)
(b) The Committee to Elect Sherrill Morgan, Debbie L. Leopard, treasurer (NC)
(c) 2MR, Inc., d/b/a Albermarle Honda, Donald Fink, Vice President (NC)
(d) The Messenger Inc., James W. Morgan, President and Cheryl Morgan, Vice-President (NC)
(e) Joey Davis, Campaign Manager (NC)
COMPLAINANTS: North Carolina Democratic Party, Charles Walker, former Chairman (NC)
SUBJECT: Corporate contributions; use of corporate facilities, failure to report contributions
DISPOSITION: (a-d) Conciliation Agreement: $65,000 civil penalty*
(e) No reason to believe*
RESPONDENTS: (a) National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC) (DC)
(b) National Council of Senior Citizens Political Action Committee (NSCS - PAC), Michael C. Ingrao, treasurer (DC)
(c) Robb for the Senate, J. Howard Middleton, Jr., treasurer (VA)
(d) Citizens for Senator Wofford, John D. Sheridan, treasurer (PA)
(e) Friends of Tom Andrews, Geoff Gattis, treasurer (ME)
(f) Feinstein for Senate 94, Michael J. Barrett, treasurer (CA)
(g) Hyatt for Senate Committee, Reed J. McGivney, treasurer (OH)
(h) Jack Mudd for U. S. Senate, Margaret Mudd, treasurer (MT)
(i) Ron Sims for U.S. Senate, Horace C. Francis, treasurer (WA)
COMPLAINANTS: American Conservative Union, David A. Keene, Chairman (VA)
SUBJECT: Corporate contribution; excessive contribution; failure to correctly report contribution and expenditure; disclaimer
DISPOSITION: (a) No reason to believe
[re: unregistered, non-reporting committee; govt contractor]
(a-b) Conciliation Agreement: $12,000 civil penalty*
-Respondents will institute procedures to ensure that the PAC will not finance communications in coordination with federal candidates causing them to exceed the contribution limit.
-Respondents will institute procedures to ensure that NCSC does not unlawfully finance activities or communications that expressly advocate the election and/or defeat of any federal candidates and/or coordinate any such activities with any federal candidates.
-Respondents will amend their reports so as to disclose all contributions and independent expenditures.
(c) Probable cause to believe, but determined not to file civil suit and took no further action*
[re: excessive contribution; failure to report contribution; corporate contribution]
(d-i) Took no action*
4./5. MURS 4128 and 4362
RESPONDENTS: (a) Grant M. Lally (NY) [4128/4362]
(b) Lally for Congress, Dawn Fasano, treasurer (NY) [4128/4362]
(c) Lawrence M. Lally (NY) [4128]
(d) Ute W. Lally (NY) [4128]
(e) Lally and Lally, Esquires (NY) [4128]
(f) Tri County of Huntington, Inc. (NY) [4128]
(g) Craig Lally (NY) [4128]
(h) Tom Ballou (NY) [4128]
COMPLAINANTS: Robert F. Bauer, Counsel to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DC) [4128]
Claudia Doliner, Chet Szarejko, and Emily Rose Degregorio (NY) [4362]
FEC Initiated [4128]
SUBJECT: Excessive contributions; failure to accurately report loans; failure to report payments for in-kind services; failure to accurately disclose debts; corporate contribution; failure to file Statement of Candidacy timely [4362]
DISPOSITION: (a-e) Conciliation Agreement: $280,000 civil penalty*
Respondents to amend reports to properly disclose sources of loans and contributions at issue
(f) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: corporate contribution]
(g-h) Took no action*
RESPONDENTS: (a) Honorable Robert Torricelli (NJ)
(b) Torricelli for U.S. Senate, Inc., Stephen J. Moses, treasurer (NJ)
(c) A.B. Data, Ltd. (NJ)
COMPLAINANTS: National Republican Senatorial Committee, Craig M. Engle, General Counsel (DC)
SUBJECT: Use of contributor information
DISPOSITION: (a) No reason to believe*
(b) Conciliation Agreement: $3,000 civil penalty*
(c) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
7. MUR 4582 /Pre-MUR 316
RESPONDENTS: (a) Vinay Wahi (MD) (b) Dr. S. V. Ramamurthy (MD)
(c) Satish Bahl (MD) (d) Lalit Gadhia (MD)
(e) Indian-American Leadership Investment Fund, Subodh Chandra, treasurer (OH)
(f) Sachinder Gupta (MD) (g) Uday Gadhia (MD)
(h)Ashok Kumta (MD) (i) George R. Paniker (MD)
(j) Rosemary Osborne (MD) (k) Preeti Bahl (MD)
(l) Sivasubramanian Baskar (MD) (m)Arun Bedi (MD)
(n) Tanzania M. Cooper (MD) (o) Ashok Dhawan (MD)
(p)Anita L. Gadhia (MD) (q) Anu Gadhia (MD)
(r) Parvani Gadhia (MD) (s) Sonne Gowda (MD)
(t) Vikram Gowda (MD) (u) Hemanta Kole (MD)
(v) Sanjay Kumar (MD) (w) Jyoti Kumta (MD)
(x) Janet K. Mangalvedhe (MD) (y) Jay V. Mangalvedhe (MD)
(z) Mirdula K. Mehta (MD) (aa) Kishor S. Mehta (MD)
(bb) Anne T. Mileham (MD) (cc) Usha Naik (MD)
(dd) Shyam Parkash (MD) (ee) Tara C. Pathak (MD)
(ff) Pradeep J. Perera (MD) (gg) Mirmala Ramamurthy (MD)
(hh) T. P. Reddy (MD) (ii ) Tejpal Rehncy (MD) (jj) Venkatachalam Ramakrishnan (MD)
(kk) Ashok Sahni (MD) (ll) Indra Seunarine (MD)
(mm) Rayjendra K. Sharma (MD) (nn) Zubair M. Siddiqi (MD)
(oo) Harbhajan Singh (MD) (pp) Hardeep Singh (MD)
(qq) Kathleen C. Stone (MD) (rr) M. Surendra (MD)
(ss) Aruna Trivedi (MD) (tt) Sudhir Trivedi (MD)
COMPLAINANT: Sua sponte
SUBJECT: Foreign national contributions; contributions in the names of others
DISPOSITION: (a) Conciliation Agreement: $8,750 civil penalty*
(b) Conciliation Agreement: $3,500 civil penalty*
(c) Conciliation Agreement: $3,250 civil penalty*
(d) Probable cause to believe (knowing and willful), but took no further action*
[re: foreign national contributions; contributions in the names of others]
Sent admonishment letter.
(e) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: foreign national contributions; contributions in the names of others]
Sent admonishment letter.
(f) Reason to believe (knowing and willful), but took no further action*
[re: contributions in the names of others]
(g) Reason to believe (knowing and willful), but took no further action*
Sent admonishment letter
(h-tt) Reason to believe, but took no further action*
[re: knowingly permitting names to be used to effect contributions in the names of others]
Sent admonishment letters
Committees needing to disgorge illegal contributions:
Committee to Elect Gary L. Ackerman, Inc. (NY) $ 3,000
Rob Andrews for Congress Committee (NJ) $ 3,000
Berman for Congress (CA) $ 2,800
Friends of Sherrod Brown (OH) $ 2,000
Ben Cardin For Congress (MD) $ 3,000
Engel For Congress (NY) $ 3,000
Friends of Congressman Fingerhut (OH) $ 1,000
Committee to Re-elect Tom Foley (WA) $ 3,000
Hamilton for Congress Committee (IN) $ 3,000
Hoyer for Congress Committee (MD) $ 3,000
Mathews for Congress (CA) $ 5,000
Friends for Jim McDermott (WA) $ 2,000
Mfume for Congress (MD) $ 3,000
Murtha for Congress (PA) $ 3,000
Robb for Senate (VA) $ 3,000
Citizens for Sarbanes (MD) $ 4,500
Dick Swett for Congress Committee (NH) $ 3,000
Citizens for Senator Wofford (PA) $ 3,500
Massachusetts Democratic State Committee Federal Funds Account $ 5,000
Indian-American Leadership Investment Fund $11,269.38
RESPONDENTS: Valley Citizens for Accountability, Bruce B. Sanborn, treasurer (CA)
COMPLAINANT: FEC Initiated (RAD)
SUBJECT: Failure to file disclosure reports timely
DISPOSITION: Conciliation Agreement: $1,250 civil penalty*
*There are four administrative stages to the FEC enforcement process:
1. Receipt of proper complaint 3. "Probable cause" stage
2. "Reason to believe" stage 4. Conciliation stage
It requires the votes of at least four of the six Commissioners to take any action. The FEC can close a case at any point after reviewing a complaint. If a violation is found and conciliation cannot be reached, then the FEC can institute a civil court action against a respondent.
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Earlier this week, international standardized test scores, from the Program for International Student Assessment, placed America squarely in the middle (#19) of 33 participating nations. Shanghai topped all categories, while Mexico brought up the rear. Though the United States advanced 6 slots from its last assesment in 2006, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says, "We have to see this as a wake-up call."
So what better way to sound the educational alarm than have the Commander in Chief do it himself on basic cable's favorite pop science program? For the uninitiated, Mythbusters is hosted by 2 goateed special effects artists who for the past 8 years, have tested the important questions, like, "can a falling penny kill you?" and "what would really happen if you put a bull in a china shop" and as the President puts it, they "blow things up, which is always cool." The hosts, Adam and Jamie bring the Jackass ethos to the scientific method. Still, there is a vestige of science, where Newton's laws of physics will at least appear on a whiteboard in one shot.
The episode (clip below) will start with the Mythbusters in the oval office receiving an executive order to bust an age-old-myth: could Archimedes' really have used an array of bronze shields or mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight to incinerate approaching ships during the Siege of Syracuse?
The hosts have tested this before, but the Presidential challenge calls for a reconstruction that will bring together 500 schoolchildren from the Bay Area in a parabolic line, standing shoulder to shoulder for nearly a mile.
Over half a century ago American students were the leader in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The impetus for increased investment in STEM education learning came from a blinking Soviet satellite flying over our heads. Will Obama's Discovery challenge be the new Sputnik?
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|Bonefish, Tarpon, and other Obsessions Turquoise water, silver demons on the fly
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|Yep. They fixed the bridge last year. It created quite a problem for the lodges south of the bridge and for the small village of Punta Allen. My understanding is that they completely rebuilt it, which it surely needed, but I believe that is the only land access to Punta Allen and the construction took awhile.
Boca Paila.
Hi all, I took a weekend away from a two week package in Cancun and drove to Boca Paila (4 years ago). There's a military/anti-narcotraficante post that'll look your car over and flirt with your wife or girlfriend. Later you come to the Boca Paila fishing lodge on the left where a friendly guide of theirs told me to drive as far as the bridge which one crosses to travel further to Punta Allen, park there and walk back along the road until I came to where the lagoon meets the road and just climb on in. One wades to the left, following the edge of the mangroves for about 15 minutes and then crosses a deeper channel and onto a large expanse of flats. NOBODY can see or hear you; which was a bit worrying as the evening before I went fishing I was standing on the bridge looking up into the outgoing flow and saw a large crocodile/alligator swimming across the outflow ! As I was climbing in the next day I met an American guide (Rodman Hunter) based in Cancun who told me "there's too much fish in the water for a croc to be interested in yuh" ! By the way... as, or before, you step in, do check the water for bonefish as I made my first cast from the other side of the road because there was a small pod of bones three feet from the edge !
Hope this "snapshot" is of use to you all. Also could someone tell me if they've replaced all the missing planks on the bridge, as it was just too scary to cross to get to Punta Allen.
Hello all,
I'm headed down on July 6th and basically doing the same thing. I'm a guide at Callaway Gardens and can't afford to spring for a guide while I'm down. So I'll be doing the DIY thing.
We'll be staying in the Akumal area for a couple of weeks. I've heard a lot about Punta Allen, but I think I'm going to try the flats close to the Boca Paila bridge and any other flats I see along the way. I've heard good reports about the bridge area.
Who is Frank (referred to in an earlier post) and can he send the aforementioned "info"? I'd greatly appreciate any other help.
|Pat Bahan
I'll probably spring the $22. for a week license just to play it safe.
The bad news is that I called Wilderness Adventures to find out what had happened to the Reynal book. Apparently production has been delayed until July.
|North Island
The tour guide ,working for a co. doing snorkling tours, shouted to me that there was no fishing in the bay. My response was "Not according to the info from the Mexican consolate in Canada." At which point he muttered something and walked away.
I think he was worried I was going to kill a bunch of fish. Which could impact his buisiness. No con just a misunderstanding.
Hi Pat,
In Mexico, a fishing license is indeed needed for all inland waters. On all coastal waters, no license is needed for (shorebound/on-foot) anglers with the exception being when fishing in special wildlife sanctuaries and/or preserves and/or when fishing from a boat... ie) Sian Ka'an Biosphere. I've fished the area around Boca Paila on a DIY basis a number of times and have never been challenged to produce a license...I suppose my number will come up eventually.
|Pat Bahan
North Island,
Glad you had some success. Now I am confused about the license thing. I thought that was national.?.
Im curious what the tour guide had to say. Was he trying to pull a con?
|North Island
I was in that area early April. N1gdo sent me a ton of info on the south coast. I did get a chance to check out Punta Solimon. Very fishy. No guides. no licence, no worries.
Except for one tour guide that gave me a hard time as I waded out, everything was good. He was easily dispatched once he was made aware of the facts. There's alway one in every crowd.
Thanks to Frank I caught some fish on my trip.
|Pat Bahan
|I'm headed for Cancun on May 30th. I've ordered a copy of Reynal's "Fly Fishing Mexico-The Yucatan Peninsula", (which Chuck is dragging his feet getting to me). I'm hoping it will shed some light on the situation. I took our high school graduates down there last year but didn't learn much that trip. Since I er.. aah.. HAD to take them out on a deep sea charter I consoled myself with large quantities of dolphin for supper. :hehe: :hehe: We have a charter scheduled again and I purchased 12 wt 4pc temple fork so I wouldn't have to try to drag my 2pc rods through customs etc. :hehe: Anyway, I digress... I know there are bones up and down the coast. I know there are bones in the lagoon at Cancun but you cannot fish them without a guide. I know the lagoon at Xel'ha is lousy with bones because I've dived there and seen them. (In case you don't know about Xel'ha it's a marine park/sanctuary, don't even think about it.) If I weren't stuck in Cancun with the children I'd stay at Isla Mujares or one of the towns down the coast where it would be easier to branch out on my own. Lets hope Reynal's book helps.
Am going that way next month to do some diving and am hoping to locate some fishing. The dive shop and the hotel naturally offer guided fishing, to which I am inclined to say "whatever".
Experience has not been good with that sort of thing.
But in any case, I am taking tackle with me, and am hopeful any of you who have personal experience with the area will be willing to share it.
|nevada caster
We were in the
bay that straddles the border with Belize, and the capital or main town of the state"Quinton Roo?" was on the west side. Sorry that I don't have a map. I have read that they have now establish a guide service out of that town.
My understanding is that some of the roads have now been improved. They were terrible then.
Re wind...the best time not to get wind is July and August and the further you get away from that, the more likely that you will have bad weather. I have a well-traveled friend that will not go to the Carrabean until May, and preferably late May. I was in Ambergris Is, Belize lin early May last year and had a lot of wind. However, the weather was ideal earlier in April around Easter. I'm going back to Ambergris this May but mid-month
Thanks Nevada caster,
Ahhh...northern Nevada. Makin me homesick now.
If you drove south out of Paradise Lodge, you must've been headed to the next big bay, not Espiritu Santu. Is it called Mahajul? Something like that. Close to Belize.
You're not the first person who has mentioned wind in April. Whew boy. I'm praying we didn't choose the absolute wrong time for going there. Not just the fishing; don't want to spoil my wife's visit either.
That doesn't bode well that the Lodge seemed to need to drive you 2 hours south of their place just to do some bonefishing! And then 30 minutes in a boat. I was kinda hoping there would be some fishable water very close by, but perhaps not.
Thanks again,
|nevada caster
Paradise lodge
I went to Paradise Lodge in April 3 or 4 years ago. Unfortunately, we got blown out---20 to 30 knot wind every day. We did fish in the numerous lagoons for tarpon, but I believe that Paradise Lodge has a lease on these. The few times we tried to bonefish, we drove about 2 hours south (at 5 mph due to the road conditions) then went by boat for 20 to 30 minutes. We were on the eastern side of the big bay (Espiritu Santos?), with numerous islands, and flats. Saw lots of bones, a few tarpon and rare permits. According to the owner of P.L.. we spent some time in Belizean waters.
There is a small town on the eastern shore accessible by car , and at least one local that will take you out in a ponga. We saw him with a customer the one day we fished the bay. We saw a very largenumber of bones but, unfortunately, we caught few fish because of the wind. We did get one cast at some large tarpon, but lined them because of the wind.
In the summertime, Paradise lodge fishes in the surf right in front of their lodge for bones. However is the wind is out of the east, the water will be murky, and the fish will be in deeper water.
go-it-alone bones-Thanks!
Thanks for the help folks!
Especially, thanks to Frank for all the time he took to forward me many messages he had on file regarding fishing in Yucatan.
I did read one that said a fishing license is definately required to fish within the Sian Kaan Preserve. Said he was checked several times up near Boca Paila (sp?).
I understand this permit can be obtained through any Mexican consulate so I'll check with the one closest to me.
We will be renting a small car and driving. The place we're booked is not a fishing lodge but located very close to the Paradise Lodge, apparently. I guess this is roughly 10 to 30 kilometers south of the Sian Kaan Preserve. Somewhere in that area, right on the coast. Web site says 4 1/2 hours by car south of Cancun. So, yes, we will miss the area on the north side of Sian Kaan. We MAY have to try and upgrade our choice of car, however, as it sounds like getting around in or near Sian Kaan could be somewhat tricky. I did find out that the three major rental companies no longer rent VW beetles, despite what one of their websites states. I wasn't exactly looking forward to a Beetle, having owned one some 30 years ago, but I figured it would be a good way to blend in and I know they were going little beasts. I used to take mine off road all the time and never had any problems.
I'm really looking forward to it. It will surely be a hit n' miss proposition but I'm sure I can find some fish, if the weather cooperates. Thanks again!
Here's a link to a site with some info on saltwater fishing licences for MX.
I don't know the Espititou Santo area but have fished Ascention Bay. Its pretty remote down there but I think there are a few more lodges now. Part of the challenge might be finding wadeable flats where you don't need a boat. The Ocean side should be wide open and a great place to explore.
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I'm currently dog sitting a 9 week old miniature dachschund and I was so sure that, while fun, I'd be happy to see her go home, but...
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Michelle Rhees, Superman movie and DC cheating scandals
Original post made by False idols, Menlo Park: other, on Apr 13, 2013
Michelle Rhees received a memo the same week whe was put on the cover of Time magazine. Rhees never adressed the memo. Web Link
"District of Columbia Public Schools officials have long maintained that a 2011 test-cheating scandal that generated two government probes was limited to one elementary school. But a newly uncovered confidential memo warns as far back as January 2009 that educator cheating on 2008 standardized tests could have been widespread, with 191 teachers in 70 schools "implicated in possible testing infractions."
The 2009 memo was written by an outside analyst, Fay "Sandy" Sanford, who had been invited by then-chancellor Michelle Rhee to examine students' irregular math and reading score gains. It was sent to Rhee's top deputy for accountability."
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Despite these clear warnings of massive cheating, Rhees, with great public fanfare, awarded thousands of taxpayer dollars to the teachers and principals involved in the 'wrong to right' erasure scandals.
Can we stop overhyping this so-called educational hero, now? Please, no more fawning, gushing "Michelle Rhee is an inspiration ...go girl!" statements until she turns over all the hidden and 'lost' documents.
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First, it's Michelle Rhee, not Michelle Rhees. Second, Ms. Rhee took over arguably the most corrupt and poorest performing school systems in the country. Third, Ms. Rhee has been gone from the Washington, DC school system for three years.
When a group that we agree with (the Justice Department, a hospital, a newspaper, the police, a political party, etc.) does something stupid, the usual response is that "it's just a small renegade group that is clearly not representative." And, if we support the larger entity, we forgive them and the controversy just goes away.
Similarly, when a group of clearly dishonest educators and teachers do the something as outrageous as changing test scores (and doing it openly at pizza parties), it should not discredit the merits of Ms. Rhee's initiative.
Our educational system leaves a lot to be desired. We spend more and more and get less and less. Instead of condemning Ms. Rhee, perhaps you should offer your own ideas to improve educational performance.
We should welcome new ideas, not look for reasons to discredit those trying to change the status quo.
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on Apr 13, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Ms. Rhee was informed of massive cheating, by the investigator she hired, and did nothing, with the possible exception of hiding documents from other investigators ("Don't make hard copies and leave them around.") She continued with taxpayer funded cash awards to the cheaters, while burnishing her (we now know fraudulent) reputation.
Not discrediting those who try to change the status quo, only those that were part of conspiracy to defraud, and those who benefitted from it not seeing the light of day.
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Rhees fired 600 teachers for low performance, while awarding cash to teachers she knew cheated, making for higher test scores, thus making her falsely look quite the hero.
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3.28: Catalysts
The tunnel through this mountain provides a faster route for cars to get to the other side of the mountain. If a chemical reaction were like a road to the other side of a mountain, a catalyst would be like a tunnel.
What Is a Catalyst?
A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction. The presence of a catalyst is one of several factors that influence the rate of chemical reactions. (Other factors include the temperature, concentration, and surface area of reactants.) A catalyst isn't a reactant in the chemical reaction it speeds up. As a result, it isn't changed or used up in the reaction, so it can go on to catalyze many more reactions.
Q: How is a catalyst like a tunnel through a mountain?
A: Like a tunnel through a mountain, a catalyst provides a faster pathway for a chemical reaction to occur.
How Catalysts Work
Catalysts interact with reactants so the reaction can occur by an alternate pathway that has a lower activation energy. Activation energy is the energy needed to start a reaction. When activation energy is lower, more reactant particles have enough energy to react so the reaction goes faster. Many catalysts work like the one in the diagram below. (You can see an animated version at the following URL.) The catalyst brings the reactants together by temporarily bonding with them. This makes it easier and quicker for the reactants to react together. Notice how the catalyst is released by the product molecule at the end of the reaction. http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/chem30/modules/module4/lesson5/explainingcatalysts.htm
Q: In the diagram above, look at the energy needed in the catalytic and non-catalytic pathways of the reaction. How does the amount of energy compare? How does this affect the reaction rate along each pathway?
A: The catalytic pathway of the reaction requires far less energy. Therefore, the reaction will occur faster by this pathway because more reactants will have enough energy to react.
Catalysts in Living Things
Chemical reactions constantly occur inside living things. Many of these reactions require catalysts so they will occur quickly enough to support life. Catalysts in living things are called enzymes. Enzymes may be extremely effective. A reaction that takes a split second to occur with an enzyme might take many years without it!
More than 1000 different enzymes are necessary for human life. Many enzymes are needed for the digestion of food. An example is amylase, which is found in the mouth and small intestine. Amylase catalyzes the breakdown of starch to sugar. You can see how it affects the rate of starch digestion in the graph below.
Q: If you chew a starchy food such as a soda cracker for a couple of minutes, you may notice that it starts to taste slightly sweet. Why does this happen?
A: The starches in the cracker start to break down to sugars with the help of the enzyme amylase. Try this yourself and see if you can taste the reaction.
- A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction.
- A catalyst provides an alternate pathway for the reaction that has a lower activation energy. When activation energy is lower, more reactant particles have enough energy to react, so the reaction occurs faster.
- Chemical reactions constantly occur inside living things, and many of them require catalysts to occur quickly enough to support life. Catalysts in living things are called enzymes.
- catalyst: Substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction but is not changed or used up in the reaction.
At the following URL, watch the video showing a chemical reaction both with and without a catalyst. Then answer the questions below.
- Write the chemical equation for the reaction that is demonstrated in the video.
- What chemical is used to catalyze the reaction?
- Describe two observations that provide evidence that the reaction has occurred after the addition of the catalyst.
- What is a catalyst?
- How does a catalyst speed up a chemical reaction?
- What are enzymes? Why are they important?
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Last night's event, "Ask Muffie: Expert Answers to Real-Life Decorating Dilemmas," was a smashing success. We don't have the final numbers in yet, but it was a standing-room only crowd at ESD, where we convened a design panel (led by ESD owner and designer Muffie Faith) and asked questions of all kinds, including:
• How do you know what to put on your mantel?
• What proportion of the room should an area rug cover?
• When it comes to painting a tray ceiling, should I keep it one color or can I do something fun?
• For rooms with very high ceilings, how do you deal with all that wall space?
• What kind of lighting should I choose for eight-foot ceilings in a galley kitchen?
• How do I warm up a small, putty-colored bedroom with little natural light?
Discussion was lively as guests sipped champagne and took notes. The best part? The questions were everyday interior dilemmas we all tackle, not pie-in-the-sky topics that 95 percent of us can't relate to. With each question, Muffie helped us get from problem to solution in a way that seems reasonable—even immediately doable!
What's next: We're typing up all the answers to last night's questions and will run a series of the Q & As in my blog next week. We want to make sure even those who couldn't make it out to ESD last night can access the smart solutions too. Log on Monday for the first installment.
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AniDB wrote:The story revolves around an ordinary boy Yasaka Mahiro who encounters a human-like alien named Nyarlathotep (Nyaruko for short) who takes the form of a silver-haired girl.
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AniDB wrote:This full-length, 20-minute-long Flash anime was released on March 17, 2010 as a premium package with limited edition copies of Aisora Manta's fourth Haiyore! Nyaruko-san light novel.
The set of comedy shorts stars the cute silver-haired girl Nyaruko-san, who is actually the ancient monster god Nyarlathotep (from author H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos).


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Posted April 22, 2011; 10:13 a.m.
The report of the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life is on the agenda for the meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC) at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 2, in East Pyne, Room 10. All members of the campus community are invited to attend.
In fall 2010, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman established the group and asked it to consider several questions that were raised by a separate task force that in 2008-09 reviewed relationships between the University and the 10 independent eating clubs adjacent to the campus that more than two-thirds of all juniors and seniors join.
Tilghman asked the working group to consider these four questions:
- How can undergraduate social and residential life be enhanced and improved on campus?
- How can the University enrich the social and residential experience in the residential colleges?
- What is and should be the role of fraternities and sororities at Princeton?
- Is it desirable, and if so, feasible, to reintroduce a campus pub?
Working group co-chairs Cynthia Cherrey, vice president for campus life, and Robert Durkee, vice president and secretary, will present the group's report as well as an update on the implementation of recommendations of the Eating Club Task Force.
The agenda also includes a report from the CPUC's Resources Committee by professor Deborah Prentice, chair of the committee and of the Department of Psychology.
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The big evil was the Great Intelligence. The same big evil from The Snowmen.
I agree it wasn't a stellar episode, I do think there is a lot of potential with the character though. We shall see.
It looks like the Great Intelligence will be heavily involved this season, I am going back to watch Asylum of the Daleks to see if I can catch any references to the Great Intelligence.


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Long time, no post.
Still haven't gotten back to any of the Open Source projects yet, but things are dramatically improved. Things are looking up and I think we're going to be on an even keel by the end of this month, middle of next. Got quite a few creditors that we still owe money, but soon...soon... Should be clearing some real money doing work for a small financial trading interest while I wait to see if Coollogic gets their funding (If's really, really too strong a word, considering what I know, but I can't say what is actually happening on that front because of NDAs and all... But, with all the pain I've went through over the years, I'm going to harbor some small doubts until I see the end of it- even if I know it's actually going to happen...) and I should be largely back on track with finances, etc. by next month at the latest.
On a different subject, I found the company that makes PC keyboards the exact same way IBM used to make them. Why would one want one of these old "clunkers"? Because of the positive feedback and solid performance of them- they're like tanks and can shrug off all kinds of abuse that'd kill other, lesser keyboards. Go on over to Unicomp and check it out. Gamers should love the snappy response these gems give to you.
Well, on to the Open Source notes...
Well, I'm in the process of attempting to resurrect this library. While it was something to speak of in it's day, it's a little crufty- and makes assumptions about things that aren't 64-bit clean. I'll hopefully know more about whether or not I've been wasting my time or not in another week or so as I find time to finish an integration of it instead of OpenPlay in Ballistics. I was hopeful at first, but it's not looking as rosy right at the moment...
JXTA/JMF Related Projects
Ended up getting laid off from my Contract back in March (Damned shame really, he couldn't afford my services because of investor problems- and he's just short of getting his products out the door...) but I've been continuing working on the Java based projects with his blessings. Most notably, there's two frameworks, JXCube and P2People. I got an older CVS version working of JXCube and I reverse engineered the final binary of P2People so that I now have clean compiling code, etc. In the case of JXCube, the video conferencing stuff's kind of kludgy and probably should be re-done as it's streaming raw video and audio, using the Java Media Framework only to capture. (A pet peeve of all of this is that while Sun seems to "rely" on JMF for some of their initiatives, everyone, Sun included, seems to treat the whole thing like a red-headed stepchild... Poor docs, no real books on the shelves... Hmph!) It's going to need some overhaul using snippets of code from P2People to make it work the way it should, using JMF to stream RTP via normal means, SIP/STUN based means, or through JXTA... In the case of P2People, I've got some overhaul to do in that it's been written against JXTA 2.1.1 and things have changed up in the form of crypto code, etc. The code compiles right now, but it's not happy w/1.5 of the JDK. I expect to have working P2P Video Conferencing using Java shortly- if the stuff works decently enough- I've still got loads of reservations. If one could make GnomeMeeting a little less Linux-Centric and could find some way to manage all the P2P capabilities within a SIP->H.323 bridge that also ran on the machine, it'd rock. Well, I don't plan on letting the Videoconf stuff go by the wayside, too useful...
Various Embedded Linux Projects
Haven't worked on this for a little while, but as things slow down a bit around home, I plan on revisiting my energy management solution system code and working on the embedded packaging and LiveCD solution for stuff as time permits. When Coollogic gets things all straightened out, I'll probably shift focus to doing this stuff. Should know more on this by end of next month one way or another... Just went over to the DirectFB site and was anything if not impressed- quite a bit of support there now and it's pretty robust. I expect to be able to use the UniChrome support shortly on my EPIA setup and I plan on coming up with something to work with MythTV- sort of a Media PC/Gaming Console. Yeah, yeah, I know- everybody and his dog has attempted this and failed. Well, I don't plan on making money at the boxes themselves- I just plan on making up a distribution that provides someone with the right toolbox to make one for themselves with minimal fuss.
Well, it's not been forgotten and it's mostly waiting on free and available funds to afford the purchase of a few parts. I'd sidelined it, waiting to see if the bunch that claimed to be almost there were going to produce results or not (Why put any real effort into the project when they're going to do nearly as well as I could- it'd be better if I got along with them to combine forces...)- which they haven't. Expect a possible resurrection of the thing in the future as I move forward with one of the needed components of this project, the embedded distribution system.
Linux TabletPC Project?
I just got a demonstration recently with MS' Windows Tablet Edition. Nice. Too bad it's got Windows at it's core. But then, it got me to thinking. Why can't we have the same capabilities under Linux- and I don't just mean a touch keyboard on the screen like Lycoris did. What's keeping us from coming up with similar capabilities for Linux? Oh well, food for thought, eh?


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Cinderella is Imogen's favourite Disney princess and why not? Everyone loves a rags to riches story don't they? So just imagine her face when she opened this Cinderella Jewellery Box from Jakks Pacific.
Actually, just so you don't have to imagine, here it is!
The jewellery box takes the shapes of Cinderella's pumpkin carriage in her trademark blue and adorned with pink bows, frills and pearls. On top sits her glass slipper and the button to open the box shows a pictures of Cinderella dressed for the ball.
The music starts the second you open the box where you are greeted by figurines of Cinderella and her Prince Charming mid dance. There are two pink shallow trays which swivel to reveal four lower, deeper compartments and the opened lid contains a safety mirror.
The Cinderella Jewellery Box also contains a blue glittery beaded bracelet with a slipper charm and a blue heart shaped gem ring, perfect for a night at the ball.
Imogen has safely stored all of her precious jewels away in hers, away from her little brother ,and just loves taking everything out, trying it on and then reorganising it.
The Cinderella Jewellery Box is available from Argos and other toy shops priced at around £29.99 and would make a wonderful gift for any princess and comes highly recommended from mine.


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No sooner had we joined the highway but the electronic signs were saying all lanes were closed some 10 miles ahead and please find an alternate route. I had wanted to get a picture of the Madonna of the Trail ( in Alameda I thought) so we left I25 and headed west. Even though we stopped to ask no one knew where this statue was. However this enabled us to skirt up the west side of I25 via Corrales, Rio Rancho and Bernalilo. I wished we'd taken the Turquoise Trail east of the city and Sandia Pass where we might have seen the ski area. Of course we were hoping that this diversion would put us ahead of the traffic problem but that was not the case. As we re-entered I25 "Charles" let us know it was ahead.
As it turned out we had to exit at the next exit along with loads of others making an one hour trip more like two and a half hours. I saw my time to explore Sante Fe evaporate before my eyes. The detour involved the Santa Ana Indian Reservation and specifically their town of San Felipe Pueblo. I noticed every home had an outdoor adobe fireplace. Suffice it to say that the detour was painfully slow!
Nonetheless we did get to Sante Fe and our B&B hotel on West San Francisco Ave. It is very unique - a collection of former homes and we have a suite (#27) with a fireplace, kitchenette and wi-fi and free parking - none of which one can take for granted. As it was too early to check-in we took their shuttle to one end of Canyon Rd. - a mile long stretch of more than a 100 world-class art galleries showcasing old masters, contemporary paintings and sculpture and traditional Native American weaving, ceramics and jewelry. The galleries are for the most part located in beautifully preserved and restored adobe and Territorial-style homes. We ate lunch there at Caffe Greco, a quirky multiroom space with a crackling fire (not the only place to have a fire today!).
Although it was starting to rain after lunch we walked to get pictures of the oldest house in the US, the De Vargas House built in 1646 and the San Miguel Mission built between 1610 and 1626 on the Sante Fe Trail
From there we headed north to the Plaza established in 1610 by Don Pedro de Peralta passing the St. Francis Cathedral and Loretto Chapel on the way. The latter chapel is renowned for its spiral staircase purportedly built so women could gain access to the choir loft rather than using a ladder as the men did. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi combines adobe, French-Romanesque and modern architectural styles and has the most magnificent font. The Plaza was originally a presidio (fort) with barracks, a chapel, a prison, a few homes and the Palace of the Governors. Today it is a grassy square surrounded by shops and restaurants - the former where I found a bracelet of silver and inlaid stones that I love. We also checked out the La Fonda Hotel which occupies the site of the inn which marked the end of the old Sante Fe Trail. The interior was designed by Mary Colter, the architect whose work we saw yesterday. It was acquired by Fred Harvey in the early 1920s. Harvey is a name I have heard repeatedly in the southwest (similar to Flagler in Florida) in relation to his sophisticated vision and interest in southwestern culture and the arts. The La Fonda hotel was also a gathering place for scientists working on the Manhattan Project where information was leaked over drinks at the bar.
We opted to shuttle back to the hotel as it was pouring rain by then. After we'd done some laundry the skies had cleared sufficiently for us to explore the railyard/Guadalupe district known to be funky, fab and friendly. I managed to get a photo of the Sanctuario de Guadalupe built around 1776 and just a couple of blocks from our hotel. A 12 foot statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of New Mexico, stands on the grounds
We parked the car at the hotel and walked to dinner at Casa de Cimayo - a delightful Mexican bistro with an Indian guitarist who also played pies. The owners were seated nearby and trying to sell some folks on using the restaurant to celebrate Cinqua de Mayo.
Sante Fe is the oldest capital city in the US at 403 years old. It has 300-plus days of sunshine per year (sadly today was not one of them). At 7,000 feet above sea level it is also the highest capital city in the US with apparently 30% less oxygen than at sea level.


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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:29 PM GMT on July 22, 2010
A tropical wave (Invest 97L) over the eastern Bahama Islands has developed a closed circulation at the surface, and has become a tropical depression or tropical storm. Here is the text of the Special Tropical Weather Outlook from NHC at 8:25am EDT today:
Visible satellite images and observations from the Bahamas indicate that the area of low pressure in the southeastern Bahamas has become better organized and a closed circulation has formed. Advisories on a tropical depression or a tropical storm will be initiated at 11 am EDT...1500 UTC today. This advisory will likely include tropical storm watches and warnings for portions of the Bahamas and southern Florida.
Satellite images of 97L show a modest area of heavy thunderstorms that have slowly increased in intensity and areal coverage this morning. Water vapor satellite loops show a large area of dry air lies to the west of 97L, over Florida. This dry air is associated with a large upper-level low pressure system that is moving west at about the same speed 97L is. The counter-clockwise flow of air around the upper low is bringing about 20 knots of wind shear to 97L. Surface observations in the Bahamas and several nearby ships have shown top winds in 97L of up to 35 mph, so the storm is close to the 40 mph winds needed to be classified as a tropical storm.
Figure 1. Water vapor satellite image showing dry air (brown colors) associated with the upper-level low over Florida. Image credit: NOAA/NESDIS.
Track Forecast for 97L
The storm is in a fairly straightforward steering current environment, and 97L should progress steadily to the west to west-northwest through Saturday. This will bring the storm ashore over the Florida Keys or South Florida on Friday, and into the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. The latest set of model runs from 2am EDT (6Z) had the advantage of having data from a flight of the NOAA jet last night, so we have higher confidence than usual in the track of 97L over the next two days. The location of 97L's final landfall along the Gulf of Mexico coast has the usual uncertainties for 3 - 4 days, with the various models calling for landfall somewhere between the upper Texas coast and the Florida Panhandle coast. Given the uncertainties, the move halt operations in the Deepwater Horizon blowout recovery effort are probably wise.
Intensity Forecast for 97L
The primary detriment to development of 97L for the next three days will be the presence of the large upper-level low to its west. As long as this low remains in its present location, relative to 97L, it will bring wind shear of about 20 knots and dry air into the storm. This will limit the intensification potential of 97L to no more than about 10 - 20 mph per day. If the upper-level low picks up speed and pulls away from 97L, the storm may be able to intensify at a faster rate. None of the computer models is calling for that to happen, but it is possible. I put the odds of 97L making it to hurricane strength in the Gulf of Mexico at 20%.
An area of disturbed weather (98L) has developed in the Gulf of Mexico's Bay of Campeche. This system is under a low amount of shear, 5 - 10 knots, and may barely have enough time to organize into a tropical depression before making landfall along the Mexican coast a few hundred miles south of the Texas border on Friday.
I'll have an update after NHC releases their 11am advisory package.
Jeff Masters
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Nice work DA! What kind of paint did you use and did you use a primer?
Nice work DA! What kind of paint did you use and did you use a primer?
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That is a REALLY good job?? You should make all the colored Clone Troopers.
Good job on the paint. I plan on trying to do some in blue and green when I get some more troopers.
"I have a bad feeling about this".
"Just when I remembered what it was,I forgot where I put it."
Sorry I meant to put exclamation points after the word job.
Taking advantage of KB's 3.00 off coupon, I decided to pick up more Clone Troopers and a Taun We to customize...
Finding a picture of Lama Su was tough...at least one that could show his upper body...but I found one and I started to give Taun We a make over...here is how I did it....
Create a Fin out of thin plastic for the head. Use and Exacto knife to create a slot in the head for your fin peice to fit into...cut off the braid on Taun Wee and trim it down so not to see it. I actually cut up a 1.44 floppy disk to use...worked well
Use Glossy Dolphin Grey to paint over the blue neck and repaint the entire head to match...don't paint over the eyes.
I used a small flexible sheet of foam to create the collar and hot glued it to the figure...paint the inside of the collar olive green.
Repaint all blue parts to Olive Green and the tummy of the figure also.
Apply light grey trim to the skirt at the front and back but ignore the sides...
Paint the Belt Olive green and apply dark grey to the highlights...then fashion a small oval, paint with red and yellow as the belt buckle and glue to the figure...you may want to trim the existing buckle down...or over paint the existing buckle as Lama Su's buckle is larger than Taun We's
I also recommend trimming the skirt so that the figure can actually stand since the legs are shorter than the skirt...
I will attach a picture later but this figure will get you by until Hasbro releases the official product!
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Hey, I can't wait to see this figure. I love those darn Kaminoans and I eagerly anticipate any customs or future figures. I think I may take your advice and make one of these for myself.
No has anyone thought of making Ko Sai, from the Ep.2 Visual Dictionary?
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Why didn't you try cutting a fin off of a Clone Trooper and just paint that trooper blue since a blue one was seen with a non-fin helmet.
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"
I haven't given him a name yet. I guess he's like a red shirt from Star Trek... you know he's going to die. I used Kit Fisto's body and the head from a POTJ Bespin Guard. Enjoy!
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Here's a simple makeover to increase the number of your jedi in the Arena battle. Cut two strips of thin leather (bought from arts and crafts stores) into 1/2" wide x 4" length. Strap one piece on each shoulder and then use the transparent rubber bands from the AOTC figs as belt. Voila! You got yourself another Jedi!
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So, there we are, minding our own business (my Sadie and me) watching the 49'ers stage a monumental comeback when we hear about a million crows absolutely raising hell on the other side of the house. Now, remember that we live at the beach so houses are close together, and when we went out front to see what the commotion was about we found out that a hawk had taken a dove and was sitting in our next door neighbor's very tall tree having a late lunch...and the crows didn't like it much.
To make a potentially long story a little shorter, the hawk eventually dropped the dove for some reason and there it was lying on the ground...the perfect opportunity for an urban retrieve of a freshly killed dove. Crows screaming. Hawk joined by two others wanting in on the action. And Sadie and me. What's a guy and his dog to do?? Even out of season, we had to take swift action. In full sight of the neighbors on both sides of the street. And the people on bicycles. And the joggers (we are in "Sort Of Southern California" after all). And the walkers. And the weekend gawkers (aka "tourists"). So, again, what were we to do??? Quick decision: put Sadie at heel, give her a line (she hadn't seen the dove fall), and send her off on an out of season urban blind retrieve down a sidewalk and into another neighbor's driveway. Of course, she nailed it, brought it to hand and sat at heel waiting for the next one. In the interest of being the law-abiding citizens we are, I took Sadie back to our patio and then went back out front to toss the dove out for the hawks and crows to fight over.
Are we guilty of some heinous crime having retrieved a dove out of season? Are we to be pursued by one or more law enforcement agencies? Are we possibly going to be responsible for a Supreme Court review of Fish & Game Department regulations? Or...should I have plucked and eaten it? What would YOU have done?


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Conference to look at 'Anti-Americanism in Europe,' Nov 18-19
Posted November 11, 2005; 05:12 p.m.
Distinguished American and European scholars and journalists will convene at Princeton Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18-19, for a conference on "Anti-Americanism in Europe."
Organized by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, the conference will run from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in 1 Robertson Hall.
Participants will examine issues such as the relationship of anti-Americanism to American power and the way it is projected and perceived; the role of historical identifications of America with modernity and cultural change; differing perceptions of what freedom and democracy mean; the effects of economic change and globalization on perceptions of the United States and its role; links between anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism; and Islam and anti-Americanism.
The conference is cosponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.


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As we count down to end of 2009, the emerging star of this year's holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the electronic book reader (or e-reader). From Amazon's Kindle to Barnes and Noble's forthcoming Nook, e-readers are starting to transform how we buy and read books in the same way mp3s changed how we buy and listen to music.
In the first of a series of white papers on Terms of Service (TOS) issues, EFF today released The Clicks That Bind: Ways Users "Agree" to Online Terms of Service. The paper aims to answer a fundamental question: when do these ubiquitous TOS agreements actually become binding contracts? We discuss how courts have reacted to efforts by service providers to enforce TOS, and suggest best practices for service providers to follow in presenting terms to a user and for seeking his or her agreement to them.
"Your console has been banned." For many gaming enthusiasts, perhaps nothing is more unnerving than the prospect of losing the ability to duel with friends and strangers over the Internet for hours on end. Yet earlier this month, this fear became a reality for many Xbox owners when Microsoft banned a large number of consoles from its Xbox Live service. The move effectively prevents the machines from playing games online, and according to reports so far, the ban allegedly only affects consoles that have been modified by users in order to play pirated games.
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Comments on the Ft. Hood killings, please, and the killer of course. That is if it has not been on another thread already (have not been reading the whole forum lately). TIA
Comments on the Ft. Hood killings, please, and the killer of course. That is if it has not been on another thread already (have not been reading the whole forum lately). TIA
I heard a witness on the radio news say the killer screammed some kind of ala bullcrap. When the news lady interpreted it she said it meant "god is great" or something like that. The shooter was said to be muslim. Right after that the news lady said further investigation was needed to see if this was a radical muslim crime.
News people are really smart.
I will try to find the article, but I saw a headline on yahoo that said he was linked to the same mosque as the 9/11 hijackers.
I hope the shooter heals quickly so he can have a fast trial and a first class execution.
Bob Gutermuth
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I agree with Bob 100%. This guy's new MOS should be "rope stretcher".
We shouldn't stop there. The military chain of command, who is desparate for docs, should be examined. As we find out more and more of this man's dubious connections, why in the hell was he still in uniform???
When I was still in the army, I had one of my male nurses who's wife had left him out of the blue, cry like a baby on my shoulder, admitting his life was falling apart. He had ALL the risk factors for suicide: male gender, recent significant relationship severance, alcohol usage, family history of depression/suicide attempts, gun in the home.........this guy was a poster child for suicide intervention! I made him stay the night with me for his safety, then referred him to the nursing commander, assuming he was in good care and would be afforded the help he needed.
To my shock, I found out her answer to his "insubordinate behavior" was to confine him to his off-post quarters, alone, knowing he was a duck hunter, and had a 12 gauge and shells at his home. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending, but I can't imagine such dereliction of duty from a supposed health professional, let alone commander!
I relay that story only to exemplify that the military does not always run a tight ship, especially in the medical profession. I think the desparate need for warm bodies on TOEs, trumps careful screening sometimes. This was definately a senseless tragedy, and unfortunately, it is beginning to sound like a completely preventable one.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
Hindsight is always 20/20 dnf. Remember all the warning signs about the VT shooter that came out after the shooting? How about all the stuff that we know about Kliebold and Harris? It's not just the military that misses the obvious...It is a good thing that you cared about your fellow soldier. Perhaps you 'made the difference that made the difference' in his life.
If everyone wasn't so damn worried about being PC, perhaps some of these nutcases would have something done about them beforehand.
Warning signs are only good if those who notice them don't have their hands tied.
This is tragic.
And, again, should have been avoided, but couldn't be.
Our current culture does not allow for calling out bad behavior.
Had the Army investigated this guy due to his behavior the ACLU and the "Drive by Media" would have eviscerated the Army.
Even now the Drive by Media is claiming it's the Army's fault for the stress.
America, where have you gone??
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Fort Hood's 9/11
By RALPH PETERS
Last Updated: 2:50 PM, November 6, 2009
Posted: 1:36 PM, November 6, 2009
On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.
What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.
This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, its an act of terror. Period.
When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."
But the president wont. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because theres no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.
And the Army wont. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism "terrorism."
And the media wont. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops despite their crocodile tears.
Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasnt killed on the spot.
Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming "harassment" drove him temporarily insane. Therell be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldnt dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.
Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And hell have the last laugh.
But Hasan isnt the sole guilty party. The US Armys unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.
Given the myriad warning signs, its appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.
Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he wouldve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.
Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads dont roll in this maggots chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.
Theres another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with veterans whove been assigned to his care? And hes not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?
For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, Im ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.
Get ready for the apologias. Weve already heard from the terrorists family that "hes a good American." In their world, maybe he is.
But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?
A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because shes becoming too Westernized.
Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And were assured that "Islams a religion of peace."
I guarantee you that the Obama administrations non-response to the Ft. Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.
Ralph Peters latest novel is "The War After Armageddon."
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
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Chilling story from an eye witness....Fort Hood, TX
Sent: Sat, November 7, 2009 6:42:44 PM
> Since I don't know when I'll sleep (it's 4 am now) I'll write what
> happened (the abbreviated version.....the long one is already part of the
> investigation with more to come). I'll not write about any part of the
> investigation that I've learned about since (as a witness I know more than
> I should since inevitably my JAG brothers and sisters are deeply involved
> in the investigation). Don't assume that most of the current media
> accounts are very accurate. They're not. They'll improve with time.
> Only those of us who were there really know what went down. But as they
> collate our statements they'll get it right.
> I did my SRP last week (Soldier Readiness Processing) but you're
> supposed to come back a week later to have them look at the smallpox
> vaccination site (it's this big itchy growth on your shoulder). I am
> probably alive because I pulled a ---------- and entered the wrong
> building first (the main SRP building). The Medical SRP building is off
> to the side. Realizing my mistake I left the main building and walked
> down the sidewalk to the medical SRP building. As I'm walking up to it
> the gunshots start. Slow and methodical. But continuous. Two ambulatory
> wounded came out. Then two soldiers dragging a third who was covered in
> blood. Hearing the shots but not seeing the shooter, along with a couple
> other soldiers I stood in the street and yelled at everyone who came
> running that it was clear but to "RUN!". I kept motioning people fast.
> about 6-10 minutes later (the shooting continuous), two cops ran up. one
> male, one female. we pointed in the direction of the shots. they headed
> that way (the medical SRP building was about 50 meters away). then a lot
> more gunfire. a couple minutes later a balding man in ACU's came around
> the building carrying a pistol and holding it tactically. He started
> shooting at us and we all dived back to the cars behind us. I don't think
> he hit the couple other guys who were there. I did see the bullet holes
> later in the cars. First I went behind a tire and then looked under the
> body of the car. I've been trained how to respond to gunfire...but with
> my own weapon. To have no weapon I don't know how to explain what that
> felt like. I hadn't run away and stayed because I had thought about the
> consequences or anything like that. I wasn't thinking anything through.
> Please understand, there was no intention. I was just staying there
> because I didn't think about running. It never occurred to me that he
> might shoot me. Until he started shooting in my direction and I realized
> I was unarmed. Then the female cop comes around the corner. He shoots
> her. (according to the news accounts she got a round into him. I believe
> it, I just didn't see it. he didn't go down.) She goes down. He starts
> reloading. He's fiddling with his mags. Weirdly he hasn't dropped the
> one that was in his weapon. He's holding the fresh one and the old one
> (you do that on the range when time is not of the essence but in combat
> you would just let the old mag go). I see the male cop around the left
> corner of the building. (I'm about 15-20 meters from the shooter.) I
> yell at the cop, "He's reloading, he's reloading. Shoot him! Shoot him!)
> You have to understand, everything was quiet at this point. The cop
> appears to hear me and comes around the corner and shoots the shooter. He
> goes down. The cop kicks his weapon further away. I sprint up to the
> downed female cop. Another captain (I think he was with me behind the
> cars) comes up as well. She's bleeding profusely out of her thigh. We
> take our belts off and tourniquet her just like we've been trained (I hope
> we did it right...we didn't have any CLS (combat lifesaver) bags with
> their awesome tourniquets on us, so we worked with what we had).
> Meanwhile, in the most bizarre moment of the day, a photographer was
> standing over us taking pictures. I suppose I'll be seeing those
> tomorrow. Then a soldier came up and identified himself as a medic. I
> then realized her weapon was lying there unsecured (and on "fire"). I
> stood over it and when I saw a cop yelled for him to come over and secure
> her weapon (I would have done so but I was worried someone would mistake
> me for a bad guy). I then went over to the shooter. He was unconscious.
> A Lt Colonel was there and had secured his primary weapon for the time
> being. He also had a revolver. I couldn't believe he was one of ours. I
> didn't want to believe it. Then I saw his name and rank and realized this
> wasn't just some specialist with mental issues. At this point there was a
> guy there from CID and I asked him if he knew he was the shooter and had
> him secured. He said he did.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.


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Pope Benedict XVI to Resign Feb. 28: Highlights From His PapacyChiara Vasarri
Here are some highlights of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy.
*April 19, 2005: Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and chooses the name Benedict XVI. He replaces Pope John Paul II, who died April 2.
*April 24, 2005: The pope celebrates his Papal inauguration mass in St. Peter square.
*Dec. 25, 2005: He signs his first encyclical letter "Deus caritas est" in which he points to Jesus Christ's death on the cross as love in its most radical form.
*June 22, 2006: He names Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone secretary of state.
*Sept. 12, 2006: His lecture at Germany's University of Regensburg, in which he quotes a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who called Islam "evil and inhuman," sparks criticism and violent protests in Muslim countries that force him to make several public apologies.
*Jan. 15, 2008: A visit to Rome's La Sapienza University planned for Jan. 17 is called off amid protests by students and professors who accuse the pope of being "hostile" to science.
*April 15-21, 2008: During his visit to the U.S., he is received at the White House on his 81st birthday, meets with sex-abuse victims from the Boston Archdiocese, addresses the United Nations General Assembly, visits Ground Zero, and celebrates Mass at Nationals Park and Yankee Stadium. In a speech to bishops April 16, he says the Church "very badly handled" the scandal involving pedophile priests and told U.S. bishops it is crucial to protect children from sexual predators.
*Jan. 24, 2009: He lifts the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson and three other priests who broke with the Church in the 1980s, days after Williamson denied the Nazi Holocaust. The Vatican's delay in distancing itself from Williamson and denouncing his views drew the ire of leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
*May 8-15, 2009: He visits Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, where he condemns Holocaust denials and calls for cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis.
*March 20, 2010: In a letter to victims of child sex abuse in Ireland he apologizes for the "grave errors" of leadership that were committed by Catholic authorities in the country after scandals involving priests.
*April 12, 2010: The Vatican publishes for the first time its guidelines for dealing with Roman Catholic clerics accused of molesting minors.
*Nov. 2010: An interview of the Pope by a German reporter triggers confusion over the Church's view on the use of condoms.
*March 24, 2012: He begins a weeklong visit to Latin America denouncing the drug war that has racked Mexico and calling on Cuba's leadership to find alternatives to marxism.
Butler Arrest
*Oct. 6, 2012: A Vatican court finds Benedict's former butler Paolo Gabriele guilty of stealing sensitive documents and sentences him to 18 months in prison.
*Dec. 12, 2012: He blesses hundreds of thousands of followers in his first twitter message.
*Dec. 22, 2012: He pardons his former butler, allowing him to be released from prison.
*Feb. 11, 2013: Benedict XVI announces he will resign, effective Feb. 28, due to advancing age and health reasons.


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Hot off the press! This is a treasury of the most notable, profound, and thought-provoking Buddhist-inspired writing published in the last year. Includes essays from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, Sharon Salzburg, Diane Ackerman, and many more!
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Chuck Leavell and Sonny Emory with owners Charlotte and Doug Dryden.
Founded in 1958, Jackson's Music is a full-service music store featuring band instruments, guitars, amps, live sound equipment, drums, recording equipment and accessories.
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Granted, we have freedom of speech and freedom of the press. That said, our government security agencies have sophisticated computer systems that parse enormous amounts of internet traffic looking for keywords and phrases that might point toward terrorist activities. Internet forums and newsgroups that may cater those with (what some may consider) extreme views on gun control and politics, are certainly on their radar. Facebook is the latest target where terrorists are supposedly recruiting. Even if you do not use your real name, there is no true anonymity. If the government wants to find out who you are because of something you typed on an internet forum, they can. Moderators of forums, internet service providers, telephone companies, and any other entity in the communication chain can be compelled to divulge client information in the name of national security. Methods like these were used by the music companies to track down users of Napster and prosecute them. Imagine if a government agency thought your views were a threat to national security! Does this concern anyone?
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Description Monkfish are a family, Lophiidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans where they live on sandy and muddy bottoms of the continental shelf and continental slope, at depths in excess of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).
Like most other anglerfishes, they have a very large head with a large mouth that bears long, sharp, recurved teeth. Also like other anglerfishes, the first spine of the spinous dorsal fin has been modified as an angling apparatus (illicium) that bears a bulb-like or fleshy lure (esca). The angling apparatus is located at the tip of the snout just above the mouth and is used to attract prey. Lophiid anglerfishes also have two or three other dorsal fin spines located more posteriorly on the head, and a separate spinous dorsal fin with one to three spines located more posteriorly on the body just in front of the soft dorsal fin. In the more primitive anglerfish genera (Sladenia and Lophiodes) the gill opening extends partially in front of the elongated pectoral fin base. In the derived lophiid genera (Lophiomus and Lophius), and all other anglerfishes, the gill opening does not extend in front of the pectoral fin base. The largest monkfish may exceed 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in length.
Several of the large species in the genus Lophius, commonly known as monkfishes in northern Europe, are important commercially fished species. The liver of monkfish, known as ankimo, is considered a delicacy in Japan.
Dimensions Up to 4' (1.2 m).
Habitat Open ocean, Ocean or bay shallows, Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes.
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I wanted to take a minute and thank all of you before we get to far away from the Thanksgiving Holiday.
I want to sincerely give thanks to all of the great readers of this blog. Thanks to the 557 folks that subscribe to the blog the 419 some odd folks that follow on Facebook and the 369 that keep up via Twitter. Not to leave out the patient viewers of my YouTube channel.
This year has been a good one in my life. Not without it's challenges and obstacles, but a good year in both my Scouting and "Normal" life.
I have had the pleasure of making new friends in the online community and within my local council in our Scouting world. I have had the opportunity to help our Scouters that needed advice and program help. The blog and podcast have been expanded to real help and the building of relationships in our Scouting community. And that my friends is why the blog started. It has taken time, but the reputation I have tried to build seems to finally have started making a real impact on those that take the time to serve as Scouters.
Thank you all for sharing you comments, your suggestions, and even your occasional criticism.
Once again. Thank you, I appreciate all of you.
Have a Great Scouting Day
Thank you
I wanted to take a minute and thank all of you before we get to far away from the Thanksgiving Holiday.