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NASA fields hundreds of calls from worried public
Depending on the scenario, the "end of the world" could come from giant solar storms, a meteor barreling toward Earth, a blackout or a mysterious "Planet X" threatening widespread destruction.
But doomsday predictions all seem to agree on one thing - the date - Friday, Dec. 21, 2012.
On the eve, NASA was working to quell fears and debunk the myth - pointing hundreds of concerned callers to the clear-cut scientific facts that promise the Earth will not end Friday.
"There are so many scenarios out there, we are trying to wrangle them all in and get the truth out," said J.D. Harrington, a NASA spokesman.
The space agency's communication experts have answered hundreds of emails and calls from the public worried about the predictions and skeptical of science.
Harrington said the calls from all over the world have been steadily increasing during the past few days. Thousands of online comments about the end of the world dominate the website and emails continue to pour in with concerned theorists. The dozens of calls received last week have spiked into hundreds daily, he said.
"They are afraid. They are scared," Harrington said. "They believe what they read on the Internet. Even though most respectable news organizations are saying it's not going to happen, they don't want to believe it."
NASA created a separate Web page, www.nasa.gov/2012, which has had almost 5 million views, to help ease some of the fears. NASA first started disseminating information on its website in 2011. The site answers frequently asked questions, explaining the origins of the original predictions and dispelling some common theories.
The agency also released a video dated Dec. 22 titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday."
"The world will not end in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012," the site states.
NASA explains the origin of the 2012 prediction is from a story about a planet called Nibiru, or Planet X, heading toward Earth. The date for that planet's collision with Earth was originally believed to be May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved to December 2012, linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar.
As for the Mayan prediction, NASA explains, "Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then - just as your calendar begins again on January 1 - another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar."
Harrington said even with scientific facts presented to the callers, many are still skeptical, believing instead that scientists do not want to cause widespread panic by releasing the truth.
"You should make plans for the weekend," he said, "or you won't have anything to do on Saturday."


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Destiny wrote:Hey boys... I could not sleep last night thinking about something nagging at me... When I set the bubble level I noticed that the trip pod bubble was not the same... Soo... perhaps its my bubble!!.. I will make an all new pano... ignoring the pano head bubble and go back to setting and testing the Nadir using the tripods bubble.. I will then take a pano on the angles suggested above creating two rows which I prefer anyway... I will set my lens to about f8 and hope its all good..
Destiny wrote:oh... APG 2.5RC... I am using APG 2.0.9 Where do I get APG 2.5RC from...??
I downloaded a free upgrade from apt to ptp.... its great!
Destiny wrote:yes.. I was thinking that today at work... The head bubble does move a little bit but it remains within the circle.. I hope to try taking a new pano today.. I will do everything you boys have suggested... They company I bought my pano head said that he had trouble too but his issue turned out to be a software issue.... I just want a nice centred Nadir.. I am sure I will get it soon...
Question. .have any of you boys ever used a EPIC Pro Robotic Camera Mount... they are not that expensive.. or at least not as expensive as some of them... apg should be fine with it... its on my wish list at this link....
Destiny wrote:Well.. I had a thought today... its all to do with that finger line-up tip... My wobbly nadir has me very confused.. So.. my thought were .. if I put a single image into Photoshop taken using my fisheye lens pointing straight down I can snap the centre lines of that image in Photoshop perfectly... So I did... http://members.westnet.com.au/dps/TestStuff/PhotoshopTest.html
You can see that I just have to move down on the slide just a tiny bit and it should line up ok then.. It took a few shots but I think I now have it.. Its a bit too dark now to create a vr so I will attempt to give it a try tomorrow...
One thing is for certain.. the increments on this pano head are really just an indicator.. they are not accurate... but I do not think they have to be to be honest.. as long as you know how much it is out... mine is about 5-6 degrees...
klausesser wrote:I have my Manfrotto or Merlin mounted on an Arca-Swiss Monoball. So i can tilt the head/camera to 90°, put the tripod aside the length of the camera/head-base distance and shoot straight down about 40cm beneath the tripod (of course i compensate the height also )
This way i have a perfect Nadir - even using long exposure times (impossible shooting 10 or 20sec. by hand) or bracketing.
klausesser wrote:Hi Destiny!
This might be interesting:
http://www.fromparis.com/technical.html Very informative!!
and here two video-tutorials:
best, Klaus
Destiny wrote:I did actually try this techneique before I purchased my tripod and pano head but the results are 'terrible'
Destiny wrote:Emm.... so many problems... So, where can I buy a piece of string and a nail from????
Destiny wrote:Mirror Mirror On The Wall Destiny is the fairest of them ALL... This is a good one for you to work out...
I need to take a VR inside our bedroom.. BUT.. it has a large mirror dresser on one wall... How do I take a VR without having the image of the tripod and camera in the scene ... emm... This might take a lot of thought and brain power.. which I do not have... Perhaps I can stand behind a blue board with a hole in it and take single shot then put it over in Photoshop with a few different layers.. Too much thinking.. I am off outside to take a nice outdoor VR...
Destiny wrote:Well that rapped that up nicely.. Thank you...
That was very funny...
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Bumblehive is the alleged code name for the NSA's new multi-billion dollar spy center in Utah although the official name appears to be Stellar Wind. . It is the mother of all data collection. Bumblehive most likely is a spin off from this word. Who says the feds don't have a sense of humor? Today is the reported day of some kind of ribbon cutting ceremony. Since there's little info to be found on the ceremony, it must be assumed it's a secret one and not many will get close enough to spy on the spies.
I've been trying to put myself in the shoes of the NSA to figure out what's going on. If I had to hire contractors to do the most sensitive, most secretive jobs in the inner workings of the facility, who would I get? Well, that's a no brainer. Of course it would be some shady companies with ties to Israel with a history of corruption and staffed with mostly unstable individuals. Backdoor men hanging the backdoor that leads straight to Tel Aviv. Why should we expect otherwise?
Here's a laugher. Rand Paul is in Silicon Valley, meeting with Facebook, Google and eBay to talk about privacy, tech and civil liberties — as well as to hold swank fundraisers. Rand says "Ultimately, the people going after privacy are the government, and if people mistake Google for government, then we're in for a big problem" as he lobbies support for his privacy legislation which likely will never pass and if it does will never be enforced. So I guess we have a big problem because many of us see Google and Facebook as in bed with the NSA and always have been. I'm waiting for facts to the contrary.
The following comes from the Domestic Surveillance Directorate which says it is a parody of nsa.gov but I'm not so sure. It may be as simple as this...Before you destroy your enemy, you must tell him what you are going to do to him.
The National Security Agency is responsible for carrying out three of the country's most important intelligence activities - Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Information Assurance (IA), and Domestic Surveillance (DS). SIGINT involves intercepting, decrypting, and analyzing foreign adversaries' communications. IA involves the protection of America's U.S. government information systems. DS involves the collection and warehousing of all domestically-generated information streams.and
The mission of the Domestic Surveillance Directorate is simple: Collect, process, and store U.S. citizen data for the good of the Nation. We cope with the overload of information in our environment and turn that overload to our strategic advantage. We provide the ability for ubiquitous, secure collaboration both within our agency and through its interactions with various partners. We penetrate into the "hard" targets that threaten our nation wherever, whenever, or whomever they may be.
We're building a new data center to process the growing volume of information more quickly. Working closely with our partners, we are finding new ways to detect, report, and respond to all domestic threats. As the information age transforms the nation, we will also transform to keep our nation secure. We are the Domestic Surveillance Directorate. We work through you. For you. For our Nation.
Why We Collect Your Data
Under the authority of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6, which defines the integration and use of screening information to protect against terrorism, the NSA is authorized to collect and disseminate information about suspected foreign and domestic terrorists. In the past, this meant gathering information AFTER a target had been identified. This often led to missed intelligence and lost opportunities.
But what if we could collect the information in advance, before the target was known? What if the mere act of collecting information could result in the identification of new targets? What if we could build a national data warehouse containing all available information about every person in the United States? Under the authority of the classified Homeland Security Directive 15 (U.S. Strategy and Policy in the War on Terror), we can.
What Data We Collect
Every day, people leave a digital trail of electronic breadcrumbs as they go about their daily routine. They go to work using electronic fare cards; drive through intersections with traffic cameras; walk down the street past security cameras; surf the internet; pay for purchases with credit/debit cards; text or call their friends; and on and on.
There is no way to predict in advance which crucial piece of data will be the key to revealing a potential plot. The standard operating procedure for the Domestic Surveillance Directorate is to "collect all available information from all available sources all the time, every time, always".
For security reasons, it is unrealistic to expect a complete list of information we collect for our national citizen database. In the spirit of openness and transparency however, here is a partial list:
- internet searches
- websites visited
- emails sent and received
- social media activity (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
- blogging activity including posts read, written, and commented on - View our patent
- videos watched and/or uploaded online
- photos viewed and/or uploaded online
- music downloads
- mobile phone GPS-location data
- mobile phone apps downloaded
- phone call records - View our patent
- text messages sent and received
- online purchases and auction transactions
- bookstore receipts
- credit card/ debit card transactions
- bank statements
- cable television shows watched and recorded
- commuter toll records
- parking receipts
- electronic bus and subway passes / Smartpasses
- travel itineraries
- border crossings
- surveillance cameras
- medical information including diagnoses and treatments
- prescription drug purchases
- guns and ammunition sales
- educational records
- arrest records
- driver license information
Also:much more
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You know what is the worst thing about this? It's all built on fraud. The fraudulent memes of 9/11, war on terrorism, clash of civilizations, etc. etc. etc.
I have doubts about Linda Howe but this is a pretty good overview.


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FinalFinish needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 79 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
This is a MOUNTAIN ranch whose primary livestock is horses. There are also elk that come down from the mountains to graze on the ranch. You could incorporate either animal or NEITHER, and just use mountains, a lightening bolt, or whatever.
Need stylized design for this concept--
Logo needs to be placed on the side of a horsetrailer, on shirts, on a gate opening, chairs, etc. We plan to logo almost everything for the ranch.
- Item 1...it would be nice to utilize yellow and black
- Should be able to be read from a distance
- Mountains for the background might be nice, but we're open to anything
- Can be a very contemporary approach
- No initials (TCR), but just spelled out words probably with caps for the beginning of words and small letters for remaining words
- Item 1...No flowers
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There was once a great symbol of our nation; sleek and powerful,
the best of our ingenuity and engineering, embodying all that was new and modern: the ocean liner SS United
States. As our country's namesake and the largest passenger liner ever built in America, she was the
flagship of our merchant fleet, and her record-breaking maiden voyage still stands as one of the greatest maritime
achievements of all time. The SS United States, which sailed from 1952 until 1969, was a marvel of maritime
design and engineering created by a self-taught naval architect and engineer, William Francis Gibbs.
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of these two lost American icons. It is the untold and forgotten
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Grade Change Form (link)view page
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I used COPIC Markers and Neopiko Markers. I did some of the coloring in an art class! Happieness!!!!!!!!!!!
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Protecting our homeland is primarily a federal responsibility with support from state and local law enforcement agencies.
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is one of the principal federal agencies. Charged with protecting America's coastlines and waterways against security threats, USCG civilian employees work together with military personnel to enforce the law, provide security, save lives, operate ports and waterways, and protect the environment.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is another key federal agency responsible for enforcing U.S. immigration and customs laws. Using both their own resources and working with other federal agencies, ICE employs cutting edge enforcement techniques to provide security, conduct major investigations, and gather intelligence.
Both the USCG and ICE are part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The USCG employs over 6,000 civilian employees in more than 200 different occupational specialties, including many professional, administrative support, technical, and trade positions.
ICE has more than 15,000 employees nationally and around the world, including work as criminal investigators, management and program analysts, information technology specialists as well as traditional customs inspection officers and other enforcement personnel.
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; U.S Coast Guard (USCG); U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); ASIS International
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) civilian jobs and careers information is directly available at USCG Web site. Information on enlistment is available at GoCoastGuard.
For more information regarding the National Guard, visit either the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement career and job information is directly available on the ICE Web site.
General information on careers and employment with the various agencies under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is available on the DHS Web site, specifically, the DHS - Homeland Security Careers.
For more information on career opportunities in local, regional, or state law enforcement, contact local or state chapters of the National Fraternal Order of Police.
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Well, as you can see, I've started with the arm. This puppy has reduction gears, driven by a stepper motor. I'm planning to power the forearm with metal gear servos. Of course with slight modifications to the segment ratios, this is also going to be the legs of my robot.
I need more steppers and drivers, which are on order. This prototype is a result of several months of work, and almost 3 kg of plastic was used, in trial and error, before this stage has been reached.
Right now, all points of rotation are fitted with plastic printed bearings, but I've got some steel 26x17x5mm bearings coming from China. Not sure if they will be needed, since everything runs rather smoothly with the plastic bearings. Just some grease would make things run like silk.
Maybe it will help me clean up my room.
By request of Dany here's a video of it being run off my TOM's motor controller. Excuse the scruffy attire and lack of grooming. ;-)
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How nice Ellison! Thank you for sharing the project.
Now clean up your room....wait...don't look in my shop.
On your photo that looks like an exoskeleton !
Hey Maxime, it's very painful to were it as an exoskeleton. ;-)
Beside the Nema 17 steppers have very little torque. I'm using 8:1 reduction to get enough torque so that the motors can move the arm. I'm happy if it can move itself, let alone me.
Very nice!
What 3D printer are you using?
Hey Diederik, it's a Thing-O-Matic, from MakerBot.
I assume you have a source for plastic in bulk!
I found a Canadian supplier which sells the purple stuff @ $29/kg. Guess it's not a popular colour.
I'm going to order from a China supplier in bulk, who's selling it for $18/kg.
Ellison, you know us.... we need VIDEO!! :)
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What is happening to the flightlines, this month's one (Feb 2014) is really poor and the quality of the photographs are like something done for a first year school newsletter not the magazine for Ireland's largest aviation association.
The pictures Should all be in colour, but you could excuse the b&w, if at least they were viewable and not that dark that they may as well not be there.
Dermot Gannon went to the trouble of writing a build on his Elder but his effort was just ruined by the way it is presented, also there is one pic in the heli report and all you see is a line up if flags too dark and small to see anything else.
Do the printing company not send a proof ? There is no way you would let it go to print like this, if you got one. This magazine needs a re vamp and needs to be colour, who in this day uses black and white.
If you want to see how it should be done take a look at the November 2013 issue of the SMFAI scale news, 52 pages done in full colour and much larger pictures so that you can actually see what is in them.


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The Hope College Great Performance Series will feature Cashore Marionettes on Saturday, Feb. 6, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerboker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The Cashore Marionettes have performed throughout the world to critical acclaim. In the performances, Joseph Cashore presents his collection of marionette masterworks.
"The Calgary Herald" said, "This collection of puppet vignettes, set to well-chosen music, is a simple but brilliant production that carries the audience through a range of feelings... I can't recommend this show highly enough."
The performance is a series of comic and poignant scenes taken from everyday life and set to music by composers such as Beethoven, Vivaldi, Strauss, and Copland. Through a combination of virtuoso manipulation, humor, pathos, classic music, and poetic insight, the Cashore Marionettes take the audience on a journey that celebrates the richness of life.
The Center of Contemporary Arts in St. Louis, Mo., said "The quality of manipulation is unparalleled and the effect upon the audience is powerful."
The show is highly recommended for adults. It is suggested that children be no younger than eight years old.
Tickets for the performance are on sale at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, and cost $17 for regular admission, $12 for senior citizens, and $6 for children 18 and under. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.
Additional information may be obtained online by visiting www.hope.edu/gps.


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Flybe Announces Major Brand Re-positioning With 'making Flying Better'
01 October 2012
Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline and the UK's Number One domestic carrier, has today announced a significant brand and product repositioning under the strapline 'Making flying better' that will bring together major new initiatives throughout 2012 to positively differentiate it from some of the negative perceptions of low fare travel.
Andrew Strong, Flybe UK MD explains: "We have listened to what our customers and the wider market are telling the industry. 'Making flying better' is Flybe's response and is a long term commitment and fundamental review of our product and brand positioning in the market."
Flybe's 'Making flying better' philosophy has three key objectives:
- Increasing our flight frequency and connections to offer greater choice and flexibility.
- Transparency pricing and booking processes to make it easier for our customers to understand.
- To reduce the hassle of air travel through UK airports.
A number of recent initiatives by Flybe that are very much part of the 'Making flying better' concept, are already proving a success with passengers, particularly the arrival of the new Embraer 175 jet aircraft that are now flying across the network; and the launch of Flybe's innovative Manchester hub that offers extra regional connections for the UK traveller.
At the heart of 'Making flying better' is a fair, open and transparent approach to sales and service policies. Included amongst many of the new product initiatives to be rolled out during 2012 are the following that have been introduced today
- No charges for customers paying by debit card
- Credit card customers being charged on a per booking basis regardless of the number of passengers in the booking
- Creation of three new ticket types:
- 1. Just Fly: this is Flybe's lowest fare ticket that has no debit card charges, 10kg hand baggage allowance and seat selection at check in.
- 2. Get More: A brand new ticket which, in addition to the free use of cards and 10kg hand bag allowance, also includes - in one upfront inclusive price - a free standard sized hold bag, free advance seat selection at the time of booking, a changeable ticket (which may incur a fare upgrade) plus a free SMS text message detailing the booking information. Prices for this ticket start at under £50.
- 3. Plus: Flybe has retained its top end product with a ticket that includes all the flexibility and comfort a short haul business traveller needs, including Executive Lounge access, a 40kg hold bag allowance and complimentary food and drink on board.
- The airline has also launched a new website and new-look advertising creative, including a soon-to-be aired series of TV commercials all featuring Flybe's own pilots and cabin crew.
Hot on the heels of this initial launch will see Flybe offering its customers smart phone enabled platforms and Apps that will allow booking and check in for travellers on the move.
The airline then plans for a Flybe first with summer trials of inflight TV programming and entertainment available free of charge for its passengers through onboard wi-fi. Additional product and service enhancements are due to follow throughout the year.
In further commenting on Flybe's new philosophy, Mr Strong adds:"In better serving our passengers and making the flying experience better for them, I want Flybe to be seen as fair and our pricing to be transparent. We have listened to what our passengers have told us about the entire process of travel – the things they enjoy and the things they would like changed, from booking through to check-in and then to the flight itself. We know from our customers that they rank the Flybe experience highly but also that their expectations have, quite understandably, changed over the years. By introducing service improvements like our Get More product, the removal of debit card charges and the utilisation of more technology throughout the journey, we hope our passengers will appreciate that Flybe is raising its game once again.
"Making flying better' is more than a slogan. It is a promise to our passengers that we will make flying better, more straightforward and fair and, as always, with a quality service-led approach."


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WACO, Texas -- A former Baylor basketball player was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison Wednesday for trying to get $1 million from Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III through extortion.
U.S. District Judge Walter Smith also ordered Richard Hurd, 26, to pay a $1,000 fine for threatening to release damaging information about Griffin last June.
"I messed up, and I'd like to apologize to my family," Hurd said during a brief hearing. "I've embarrassed myself and them as well."
Hurd could have been sentenced to as many as three years behind bars after pleading guilty in September to two charges relating to the scam -- threatening to injure the reputation of another person and receiving the proceeds of extortion.
Griffin won the Heisman Trophy at Baylor last year, and he signed a contract worth more than $21 million after the Redskins made him the second player selected in the 2012 draft. The Redskins play at Dallas on Thursday, the rookie's first pro appearance in his home state.
During a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Griffin referred to Hurd as his fiancee's ex-boyfriend, noting that anyone who gains fame and money can be vulnerable.
"People do things like that when they're angry at you or for whatever reason," Griffin said. "For me, it's extremely unfortunate, and you've just got to move on from it. It's not anything I'm afraid of. It's just sad."
According to federal authorities, Hurd contacted Griffin's agent and said he wanted $1 million. Otherwise, he would provide the media with information that would damage the former Baylor star's reputation.
The agent then contacted the FBI, and, under its direction, went through with negotiations that led to Hurd agreeing to accept a far lesser amount -- $120,000 -- in exchange for signing a non-disclosure agreement. Hurd later was arrested by FBI agents after signing the non-disclosure document and collecting a check for the agreed-upon amount at a Waco law office.
Many of the court documents in the case have been sealed, and it's unclear what information Hurd wanted to reveal.
During the hearing, Hurd's attorney, Russ Hunt, told Smith that his client had done "something really stupid" but didn't provide details. Hunt also declined to discuss the specifics of the plot after the court appearance.
Walking away from the courthouse, Hurd refused to talk about the case.
"The only thing I have to say is 'Happy Thanksgiving' and 'Sic 'em, Bears,' " he said. "Any other cliche I can throw out there?"
Hurd played at Baylor as a walk-on from 2005-08 after a high school career at Heritage Christian Academy in Cleveland, north of Houston. A member of the Baylor basketball coaching staff, Jerome Tang, was Hurd's coach at Heritage Christian and became the player's legal guardian.
Hurd's brother, Lamar Hurd, also played at Heritage Christian and later starred at Oregon State.


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M.S. IN GERONTOLOGY (code 6-1040)
The Master of Science Degree in Gerontology is designed (1) to provide professionals concerned with enhancing the quality of life of older adults, and (2) to prepare persons who aspire to be administrators, researchers or educators with a thorough background in existing theory and research in gerontology, advanced principles of program management, and a supplement to their existing pre-professional baccalaureate background in their professional discipline.
Students who complete the M.S. in Gerontology will accomplish the following objectives:
a. Develop the desired competencies necessary for success in administrative roles related to the aging population.
b. Acquire advanced education and professional training in gerontology in order to become administrators of state and federal programs, senior centers, retirement homes, and heads of programs in higher education.
c. Enhance understanding of the concepts and application of administrative skills relative to various minority and ethnic populations.
d. Acquire expertise in planning, developing and implementing innovative programs to meet the needs of the older populations.
e. Demonstrate the ability to conduct research focusing upon the myriad of problems in administration and of gerontological programs.
f. Acquire an understanding of the values and ethics pertinent to the gerontological discipline.
1. Maintain a GPA of 3.0 in all work completed at CSULB or all graduate work transferred to meet graduate requirements.
2. Continued satisfactory progress toward the degree objective.
1. Satisfy the general university requirements for advancement to candidacy and departmental criteria for admission.
2. Satisfactory completion of the CSULB Writing Proficiency Examination.
3. Maintain a 3.0 GPA in all Graduate work completed at CSULB and transfer courses.
4. Completion of a minimum of six units of graduate work.
5. Enrollment in the semester or summer session in which advancement takes place.
6. Filing of the student program for the Master of Science Degree in Gerontology after completion of 4 above.
7. A written program approved by the Director of Gerontology and the College of Health & Human Services Associate Dean of Graduate Studies.
1. A minimum of 37 units with at least 28 units of 500 and/or 600 series courses in Gerontology including 696, 697, and 698 (thesis), or
2. A minimum of 37 units with at least 24 units of 500 and/or 600 series courses in Gerontology, including 696, 697, and a written comprehensive examination.
3. With the thesis option a maximum of six units may be elected outside the major. With the comprehensive option, a maximum of 10 units may be elected outside the area. Specified upper division courses completed after the Bachelor's Degree may be counted.
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Queen Latifah
Actor / Rapper / Singer
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Newark, New Jersey
Name at birth: Dana OwensOne of the first female stars of hip-hop, Queen Latifah proved with her first album, All Hail the Queen (1989), that rap had room for feminism. After establishing herself as a rapper, she moved into acting, appearing in a small role in Spike Lee's movie Jungle Fever (1991, starring Wesley Snipes), and more significant roles in Set it Off (1996) and Living Out Loud (1998). She also became a television star during the 1990s, first in the sitcom Living Single (1993), then as the host of her own talk show (1999-2001). And through it all, Queen Latifah was still making records and winning Grammys. In 2003 she co-starred with Steve Martin in the feature film Bringing Down the House and she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Chicago (2002, starring Renee Zellweger). Her other films include Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004, with Ice Cube), Beauty Shop (2005, with Alicia Silverstone) and Last Holiday (2006, with Alicia Witt) and Hairspray (2007, with John Travolta). Her albums include Nature of a Sista (1991), Black Reign (1994) and Order in the Court, and her songs include "Ladies First" and "U.N.I.T.Y."
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Queen Latifah co-founded her own record label in 1993 — Flavor Unit Records, a part of her media company Flavor Unit Entertainment.
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straight ties?! Marko and Laughing Man, you're henceforth my enemies
straight ties?! Marko and Laughing Man, you're henceforth my enemies
'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael
We must high jack the meaning of the tie, just like the mainstream economists have high jacked the meaning of inflation and monopoly.
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process.
Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!"
Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
Do you think the Mises tie (the proper, straight one a serious economist like Mises would wear) could impress at a job interview? I sure hope so because I'll probably wear it anyway!
"When the King is far the people are happy." Chinese proverb
For Alexander Zinoviev and the free market there is a shared delight:
"Where there are problems there is life."
Man, that was actually good. I'll have to taunt you more often
falseangelwingx:This was almost certainly written by a libertarian prankster. You should have included the fact that it was written by "Lin Biao"..
Why would he be a libertarian prankster? Why not a commie prankster?
I doubt even the least enlightened of commies would paint themselves in such an absurd light.
Communists can be enlightened?
The last sentence is my favorite part, this guy is so stupid.
Freedom has always been the only route to progress.
LOL, not at all. Surely some are more enlightened than others though. I just can't see why someone would want to deface one of their own figures by attaching his name to such a dumb review...
I forgot how I came across this, but it was just begging for a bump.
I have to be honest, the wearing of bow-ties make people look like right tits. That's not an opninon by the way, it's FACT.
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I am still for no ties. No restrictions! Open neck collar borders!
That dude is one pissed off sloganer. But that's what left wingism is isn't? Pissed off sloganing, usually by white dudes from whitopia to gentrify a "cooler" city, right?
Anyway, does this dude still post? I want to call him rude names.
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"When A Man Dies A World Goes Out of Existence" - GLS Shackle


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This report first aired on NBC, July 18, 2007. What you'll read below may be sexually explicit.
OCEAN COUNTY, N.J. — We've been catching suspected Internet sex predators for more than three years, exposing men on the hunt for sex with young teens. More than 200 men have been arrested.
After 11 investigations in eight different states, a 117 men have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty by a judge or jury.
Yet there are still men out there willing to take the risk of getting caught. It seems no matter where in America we go, we find men apparently ready to molest young teens.
During our latest investigation in Ocean County, New Jersey, it's no different. Men familiar with our reports show up anyway. It's a beautiful stretch of beach and a picture-perfect summer vacation spot for parents and children. But it's also for potential predators.
Michael Lubrano: You're Chris Hansen?
Chris Hansen: I am.
One who actually appears happy to meet me...
Jeremy Keister: It's nice to meet you.
Chris Hansen: Thank you. (laughter)
And one not so happy...
Chris Hansen: I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC.
Kazuo Akutsu: (Man runs into bar)
And for the first time, men tell our decoy in person what they want to do to her sexually.
Daily: Hold you. Kiss you. Touch you. You know, try to get you excited.
James Marcott: A lot of kissing, caressing. (laughs)
We're operating out of this multi-million dollar house on the Jersey shore. On the top floor, members of Perverted Justice—the online watchdog group which we've hired as consultants—are in local chat rooms posing as young teens.
Pibb: It's so nice outside I want to sit out on the beach.
The Perverted Justice frags have set up profiles of girls and boys ages 12 to 14. Some Perverted Justice members in the house and others on computers across the country are waiting in chat rooms to be hit on by adults. Perverted-Justice says its decoys never make the first contact. Once a man solicits sex, the decoy will agree and invite the man over.
Frag, Perverted-Justice: He should be here within 45.
Waiting in the detached garage are officers from the Ocean County prosecutors office. They have teamed up with Perverted Justice to conduct this operation. Prosecutor Tom Kelaher was open to outside assistance for his computer sex crimes unit.
Tom Kelaher, prosecutor: We only have four people in that unit. And if we could get help—the—met our standards, we'd be happy to work with them and welcome that kind of help.
The prosecutor admits in the beginning he was concerned about working with Perverted Justice.
Kelaher, prosecutor: Well, we had heard some criticism from some—s—official—sources—as a matter of fact. And that's why at first I was reluctant. But, after we did our due diligence, I was satisfied to go ahead with it.
A total of 11 cameras have been hidden outside. The moment a man drives into the neighborhood, his every move is recorded. As he pulls up to the house, gets out of his car, approaches the door, even if he goes to the front of the house—cameras will be watching. And if he goes into the house another six cameras have been installed inside. We've hired 18-year-old Casey to play the part of the young teen home alone.
Decoy: Hey!
Stewart: Hey!
Decoy: There you are.
She's five-foot-two and weighs 95 pounds.
Decoy: You want to just go check out the beach first?
Stewart: Yeah, sure.
Meet 44-year-old Gregory Stewart, screen name whosurdaddynj. He's a credit and collections consultant who drove an hour-and-a-half to get here. He thinks Casey is the 13-year-old girl he's been chatting with online—the girl whose virginity he planned on taking.
(chat transcript)
Whosurdaddynj: mmm, once were naked in bed we can do all kindsa stuff
Decoy: really? Wat kinda stuff?
Whosurdaddynj: rub our bodies together and feel how excited each other are.
Decoy: lol ya never gone allway before lol
Whosurdaddynj: ill make it nice for you.
The decoy asked "whosurdaddynj" to bring some pizza. He said he'd bring her favorite flavor: Supreme with pineapple.
Decoy: I turned around to walk up the beach, and all of a sudden, I hear him coming a lot faster than he should be. I turn around, and he's like running up the dune … It looked like he was going to start chasing me, so that almost scared me the most.
But Casey knew that security was close by and ready to protect her. Once they're sitting, it's fine. They're not getting up out of the beach chair. He tells Casey he brought her the presents he mentioned online.
Decoy (hidden camera footage): So you brought pizza?
Gregory Stewart: Yeah. The supreme with pineapple.
Decoy: Oh, yes. That's my favorite.
And he brought one more thing.
Decoy: Did you bring the condoms or anything?
Stewart: Yeah, I did … They're in my coat.
Decoy: They're in your coat? Ok … So I see you like younger girls?
Stewart: Yeah.
Decoy: Yeah?
Now it was time for this consultant to meet someone closer to his own age.
Chris Hansen: What kind of consulting is going on today?
Stewart: Nothing.
Chris Hansen: Nothing, huh? What's happening?
Stewart: Just getting ready to go.
Chris Hansen: What were you doing here though?
Stewart: Nothing. I just came down to hang out, that's all.
Chris Hansen: Just to hang out.
Stewart: Yeah, I'm not going to do anything I'll leave, right now.
Chris Hansen: How old are you?
Stewart: I'm 35.
Chris Hansen: 35? You want to try again?
Stewart: 44.
Chris Hansen: 44.
Stewart: Yeah.
Chris Hansen: You talk about oral sex with the girl.
Stewart: No I—sir—we never—
Chris Hansen: Well, no? It's right here.
It appears whosurdadynj is not familiar with our "To Catch a Predator" broadcasts and thinks I'm with law enforcement.
Stewart: Please don't arrest me. Please, I swear to god. Please.
Chris Hansen: I mean these are your words.
Stewart: I know. I'm so embarrassed … Please I'm—please I'm really a good guy. Please, I swear I will never do this again.
Chris Hansen: Well why—what's a good guy doing here trying to—have a sexual liaison with a 13-year-old girl?
Stewart: I—I—I don't know, sir.
Chris Hansen: 'I'd love to feel how warm I can make you feel all over.'
Stewart: All right, maybe I have a problem. Maybe I need to go get—go see a psychiatrist, like a counselor. I'm a very lonely guy. I don't have a girlfriend. I know it's wrong.
Chris Hansen: Well Greg, what do you think ought to happen to you?
Stewart: Please, if you let me go, I swear—you can have the—the pizza, whatever I brought down.
Chris Hansen: Oh, you're going to give me the pizza?
Stewart: No.
Chris Hansen: What a—what a—what a pal you are.
Stewart: No, I swear. I'll go home, I'll get help.
Hansen: I mean you know you could get in trouble for this right?
Stewart: I know, I know.
Hansen: You know it's illegal, right?
Stewart: Yes, I know … I'm a very religious person. I'm—you know—
Chris Hansen: You're a religious person?
Stewart: I am. I'm a very good family person. I'm very close to my family. My mother's very sick.
Chris Hansen: Well why aren't you hanging out with your mother as opposed to trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl?
Stewart: Right I—I don't—
Chris Hansen: Is that—explain to me how religious that is?
Stewart: I know there's something wrong.
Here's the part where I tell him I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC and give him a chance to respond.
Stewart: I have nothing else to say.
Hansen: Then obviously you're—you're free to go.
Stewart: Thank you.
Free to go—but not very far. Officers have moved into position and are ready to arrest him.
Del from Perverted Justice hands over the chat logs to the arresting officers.
Cops: Got anything on you?
Stewart: What, drugs?
Cops: Spread your feet.
The suspect is then taken away in an unmarked car to a local police station and brought in for questioning.
This is just one of the many men who will be arrested here in New Jersey over the next three-and-a-half days.
Dwayne: So, when do I get to see myself on TV?
Our investigation in Ocean County, New Jersey begins with a mad scramble. Our first potential predator arrives much earlier than expected. The police—staked out in the garage for security reasons—are watching monitors that allow them to see everything that's happening inside and outside the house.
Once our first visitor goes inside, police position themselves near the house, ready to arrest him. And incredibly, another suspect is arriving. He's also early.
Frag: Slow roller. I think that could be our next guy.
David Russell, 39, is here after making plans online to have sex with a girl who said she was 13.
Frag: Let's go ahead and let the second guy in if he'll come in.
Russell walks right past the police hidden near the house and knocks on the door. He gets no answer so he heads towards another door. As he walks past more police, the cops swiftly and quietly arrest him. His online chat—asking for sex with a minor—police say is itself against the law. He doesn't have to come into the house to commit a crime.
And minutes later, the first suspect leaves the house.
Two visitors in less than ten minutes—it's our first clue that this operation in New Jersey is going to be busy. And sure enough, here comes another man.
Decoy: Hey. Come on up.
Eugene Daily:Not much.
Decoy: I was just going to go check the waves. Let's go.
Daily: Okay.
He's 53-three-year-old Eugene Daily, here to meet a girl who told him she was 13. Online using the screen name double_102000, he tells the girl what he wants to do when they meet.
Double_102000 (chat log): play with u
Double_102000: hold u kiss u
Double_102000: feel u
Decoy: kiss me where?
Double_102000: all over
He then asks her if she's game for giving him oral sex. While we usually only have proof of intent in chat logs, for the first time we hear a man tell the decoy face-to-face what he plans to do with her sexually.
Daily: You just relax. And I'll just take care of everything, okay?
Decoy: Uh-huh (affirming).
Daily: You just be yourself. I'll just try to explain as I go. Tell me if you enjoy it.
Decoy: But did you like bring a condom or anything? (Unintelligible)
Daily: I'm not going to do that today, okay?
Daily: It was fast. Rushed. I wasn't sure if you were real or what. I wasn't—I'm looking for—police. You know so. (laughter)
Decoy: What kind of things did you want to do?
Daily: Well, I just—hold you. Kiss you. Touch you. You know, try to get you excited.
Decoy: Yeah?
Daily: Is that okay?
Decoy: Have you like done that kind of stuff before?
Daily: Sure, sure.
Decoy: Because I haven't really, you know.
Daily: Yeah. I know. Like I said, just—I'll take it easy on you, that's all, you know.
Decoy: Yeah … I mean, you seem like a nice guy so I'm not worried.
Daily: Oh, yeah. I could—I'm not sure. You know, I'm still more—I'm more scared than you are, to be honest.
Decoy: What are you scared of?
Daily: I don't know. You know, I still got in the back of my mind you are young. That's why. And that—I didn't think you were real, to be honest with you. That's why—
Decoy: You didn't think I was real? (laughter)
Daily: Well, that's what … you could—you can be anybody in that thing. You could be older and still have a young voice.
Decoy: No, I'm real. (laughter)
Decoy: Like—like what do you like holding me? (laughter)
Daily: It'll be an experience, it'll be something you'll enjoy.
Frag feeds Casey questions in her ear.
Frag: ask him if he wants you to touch him.
Daily: You don't have to do anything you don't want to. Okay?
Decoy: If I wanted to (unintelligible)?
Daily: If you wanted to. It's up to you, okay? … Little by little. That's what baby steps, okay?
Decoy: Uh huh.
But this 53-year-old man will not be taking any baby steps today.
Daily: This your father?
Chris Hansen: How you doing?
Daily: Ok. Are you the police?
Chris Hansen: What's going on? Do me a favor and take your hands out of your pockets. Ok?
Daily: Not much.
Chris Hansen: What are you up to?
Daily: Nothing. Nothing whatsoever.
Chris Hansen: That's not what you just said here?
Daily: Yeah, I know. I'm not going to—I knew this was a setup. That's what I told her. Police. That's what I said.
Chris Hansen: What made you think it was a setup?
Daily: It was her. She's young. I wasn't going to do anything anyway. That's—
Chris Hansen: You weren't going to do anything anyway.
Daily: No.
Chris Hansen: How old are you?
Daily: I'm old. 43.
Chris Hansen: Forty-three.
Daily: I mean, sorry. Fifty-three, sir (unintelligible).
Chris Hansen: Fifty-three.
Daily: Fifty-three. I'm sorry.
Chris Hansen: You said 49. What are you doing chatting with a girl who says she's 13?
Chris Hansen: You talk about her being the daughter you never had.
Daily: Yeah. You saw that in the chat room, I know … You know, this is embarrassing. This is what I knew what was going to happen. I knew all along this was going to happen. All the way down I kept on saying to mys—
Chris Hansen: Then why did you do it? Help me to understand.
Daily: I don't know. I don't know. You know, I can kick myself in the f---ing head. Because I know …I'm so—I'm so stupid. It's like—
Chris Hansen: You even talk in the chat about you can only come over a half-hour. Because you've got to pick up your wife.
Daily: Well, yeah. Well, I wasn't going to—you know, I was saying—
Chris Hansen: Where's your wife?
Daily: She's at work. She's at work.
Chris Hansen: She's at work. And you've got to go pick her up.
Daily: I've got to go pick her up.
Chris Hansen: And who knows. Who knows what. 'We can do it if it clicks.'
Daily: No. Well, yeah. That's—that's talking.
Hansen: What do you do for a living, Kevin?
Daily: I'm real—right now I'm in between jobs. I just got finished working my—my second tour of duty at the post office.
Chris Hansen: So you were at the post office.
Daily: (unintelligible) Yeah.
Chris Hansen: A letter carrier.
Daily: Yeah … I knew when I see this stuff on TV. You know, can you—
Chris Hansen: So you've seen—you've seen Dateline's "To Catch a Predator."
Daily: Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Why—why am I doing this? Why am I here? And I'm saying, oh, man. Am I being taped now too?
Chris Hansen: I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC. And we're doing a story on adults. On men…
Daily: Oh, this—this is going to go—
Chris Hansen: …who try to meet kids online.
Daily: Ah, this is going to go on TV now? Oh, Chris, please. This will ruin me.
Chris Hansen: You made the decision to come over here.
Daily: I (unintelligible)... I understand. No more cameras please, Chris.
Chris Hansen: I can't keep you here. If you want to go, you can go.
As he leaves the beach, the police coming running towards him.
Daily: Oh, boy. Please, police.
Police: Get down on the ground. Down, down, down, down. Down.
Daily: Alright. Come on.
Police: Down. Down. All the way down.
Daily: I'm on my knees. Please, please. Oh, god. Why did I do this? Why why why?
He's driven away in an unmarked car, and like all the men before and after him, he's taken to this police station, put in a corrections van... and taken to jail.
And more potential sex predators keep coming and running into each other.
Men are coming from far and wide in hopes of meeting a young teen home alone. During the operation in Ocean County, N.J., they travel from Connecticut, New York state, all over New York City, and Pennsylvania, as well as within New Jersey.
Meet 21-year-old Zigfield Rivera. He drove more than an hour from Staten Island, N.Y., to meet a girl who said she was 13. Using the screen name zigdog2k3 he tells the decoy he's nervous about meeting her.
(chat transcript)
Zigdog2k3: I would wanna hang out with u if u keep it a secret
Decoy:o dang I wudnt tell ne1
Then he asks if she's a virgin. She tells him she is, so he continues.
Zigdog2k3: I was thinkin mayb u could do somethin for me
Decoy: um maybe
Decoy: like wut
Zigdog2k3: like suck my c---
Decoy: u want me to do that in the car?
Zigdog2k3: if u want
Decoy: ya y not
He also tells her he's bringing marijuana.
(hidden camera)
Zigfield: Wow, you live in a big house. (laughter)
Decoy: Sit down, I made some brownies.
The brownies have been sitting out for more than a day. We didn't realize, but by now they've turned rock hard.
Decoy: So, did you bring the weed?
Zigfield: Uh-huh (affirm).
Zigfield: You wanna take a drive somewhere?
Decoy: Um, I figured we could hang out here for a little bit first, and then (noise) maybe go take a drive if you want … I'm just going to go get something to drink (noise) and then if you want to get everything out and ready -- okay? (noise)
As the decoy walks away, I walk in.
Chris Hansen: So it seemed like you had a little trouble -- why don't you have a seat right there.
Hansen: Sir, I'd like to ask you some questions.
He takes off, and as you'll see when the cops grab him, they have a hard time getting him to the ground...the police say they never find marijuana on him or in his car.
Cops: Tell him to get down.
Zigfield: Ow.
Cops: Relax.
Cops: Give him a (unintelligible), give him a second.
Cops: Just relax. (unintelligible) Good. Listen.
Cops: Just lay down.
Cops: Easy, relax.
Our next visitor also talked about bringing marijuana. He's 25-year-old Michael Lubrano, here for a date with a girl he thinks is 14.
Decoy: How are you?
Lubrano: Good. How are you?
Decoy: Good, how are you?
Online calling himself "icetruckkiller103," he talks about hard-core sex with the decoy before she gives her age. After she says she's 14, he doesn't get too specific about sex. Instead, he leaves the subject open.
(chat transcript)
Icetruckkiller103: get high and watch family guy then see where that takes us
Decoy: kool
Decoy: I kinda like makin out when I smoke up tho...
Icetruckkiller103: you got anything on your mind?
Icetruckkiller103: :x
Decoy: lol u too?
Icetruckkiller103: who doesn't
But later, "icetruckkiller103" gets more specific about sex during a phone call. The decoy asks him if he was serious about the hard-core sex and he says "we'll see what happens" and then says "I'm definitely interested. What about you."
(hidden camera)
Decoy: You want some brownies, I made some?
Michael Lubrano: What'd you dose them?
Decoy: What?
Lubrano: Did you dose them?
Decoy: No. They're really good, I had them before. Did you bring the smoke?
Lubrano: (nods head) Should I just roll it up wherever?
Decoy: Yeah, let's check it out.
Lubrano: Let's check it out.
He wants the decoy to smell the marijuana he brought.
Decoy: Smells good. (laughter) All right. I'm just going to go get something to drink while you finish that up. Okay? You want something?
It seems something about that line gets this man thinking -- perhaps he's heard it before.
Chris Hansen: I want you to just keep your hands right where I can see them, okay? And I want you to sit right down in that -- no, keep your hands -- keep your hands right where I can see them, all right?
Hansen: Okay. What is this right here?
Lubrano: Some pot.
Chris Hansen: Some pot. And what was your (laughter) plan tonight?
Lubrano: Well, come down, you know? … Talk to her.
Lubrano: You're Chris Hansen?
Chris Hansen: I am. Have you seen this show? You have seen it?
Lubrano: I thought you were real funny on "Opie and Anthony."
Chris Hansen: Oh, you -- you listened to me on "Opie and Anthony?"
Lubrano: (laughter) Yeah … Can I honestly tell you something?
Chris Hansen: Yeah.
Lubrano: I was thinking in the back of my mind that I almost wanted this to happen.
Hansen: Really?
Lubrano: I -- my life's just going to sh*t lately. I -- I really just don't -- you know? (laughter)
Chris Hansen: Well, tell me about it.
Lubrano: Like -- like look what I did, you know, driving around all hours of the night.
Chris Hansen: What do you do?
Lubrano: I'm in the waste management business. I'm a dispatcher for roll-off guys.
Chris Hansen: And is it-- that's a pretty good job?
Lubrano: (laughter) It was … (laughing) f---ing brownie.
Chris Hansen: What's so funny about the brownies?
Lubrano: Right when I saw the brownies, I knew.
Chris Hansen: You knew what?
Lubrano: I -- I knew I was going to be running into you.
Chris Hansen: I think -- I think this is the first time we've had brownies.
Lubrano: I'm kind of chuckling about it just because, you know, I shouldn't--
Chris Hansen: So you think it's funny.
Lubrano: No, I don't think it's funny. I -- I mean, it -- it's funny how dumb I-- I'm really turning into.
Chris Hansen: This girl you were chatting with online is how old?
Lubrano: She said 14.
Chris Hansen: Fourteen.
Lubrano: Yeah.
Chris Hansen: And you are how old?
Lubrano: I am 25.
Chris Hansen: You're 25.
Lubrano: Yeah.
Hansen: And so you thought that was okay to have this kind of a chat with her? Why?
Lubrano: Well, I -- I don't know. Because I can't get a girl.
Hansen: Why can't you get a girl? I mean, there's got to be girls your age out there.
Lubrano: Yeah, there's girls my age, but I have no self-confidence.
Hansen: Now, you seemed nervous about coming over, saying you're going to have to sneak in. What were you so nervous about?
Lubrano: (laughter) Running into you. But I -- I guess it doesn't -- you know?
Hansen: Uh-huh (affirming). Well, it doesn't -- doesn't seem to do as much--
Lubrano: I guess sneaking in was going to --
Hansen: -- that doesn't -- that doesn't seem like it was much of a deterrent tonight, now was it? How many times have you seen the show?
Lubrano: I'm a religious watcher. I --
Hansen: A religious watcher?
Lubrano: Well, I watch it whenever I can. Sometimes I go and, you know, hunt out clips on the internet.
Hansen: So you watch it on the internet, too?
Lubrano: I watch it any way I can. I love it when they play the clips on all the radio shows and --
Hansen: Yeah. Did you ever imagine that you'd be featured on one of our shows?
Lubrano: (laughter) Is there a hidden camera somewhere?
Hansen: Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of them.
Lubrano: Wow.
This religious "To Catch a Predator" fan keeps open the possibility that he might have had sex with a young teen.
Chris Hansen: What do you think would have happened if I wasn't here and you were alone with a 14-year-old girl?
Lubrano: I couldn't tell you. I might, you know --
Hansen: You might?
Lubrano: A guy like me, I might, you know, who knows what I would do.
Hansen: Think you'd have sex with her?
Lubrano: Probably not. Because any other time I try to have sex with a girl, it goes to s---.
Hansen: "So can you bring condoms in case?" "sure. Never leave home without them, right?"
Hansen: So you did bring condoms.
Lubrano: Well, they're always in my car.
Hansen: So you're always prepared.
Lubrano: (laughter) I'm always prepared for nothing.
Hansen: Well, it doesn't sound like you were expecting nothing tonight … What do you think should happen?
Lubrano: I don't know what to tell you, Chris.
Hansen: Okay. I mean, is -- I mean, obviously you know who I am.
Lubrano: Oh, yeah.
Hansen: You know what show this is.
Lubrano: Yeah.
Hansen: And you know what happens next, right? This is the part where the cameras come out. And for those who don't know who I am who walk in here, I say, "I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC." If there's anything else you want to tell us, we'd like to hear it.
Lubrano: No, I'm -- I'm good.
Hansen: Okay. I -- I want you to take that with you, though, since that's an illegal substance, all right?
So he reaches into his pocket, gets out his bag and puts the marijuana away.
Lubrano: Cops outside?
Since he already suspects what's waiting for him outside, he takes his time getting ready to leave.
Lubrano: It's going to be a long night. Is that it?
Chris Hansen: That's it. All right.
Lubrano: Oh, okay.
And just as the man figured, the police are waiting outside.
Cops: Police. Stop.
Cops: Hands behind your back.
Cops: Behind your back.
As "To Catch a Predator" New Jersey continues, we'll meet men who at first insist someone has set them up...
Rob: I knew it was somebody playing a prank on me.
Ernest Timmons: The guy always plays practical jokes on me and everything.
Chris Hansen: Really?
...later they're brought to tears.
It's early spring—a few months away from the busy summer season. This house on the Jersey shore would normally still be closed up. Instead, it's become the destination for potential internet sex predators.
Chris Hansen: This was like a three- to four-million dollar home?
Lt. Mike Nevil: Yes.
Lieutenant Mike Nevil has worked in the computer sex crimes unit for the Ocean County prosecutor's office for the last seven years.
Hansen: And guys were walking in there like they owned it?
Lt. Nevil: Yeah … I think people need to understand that it—it doesn't matter whether it's a four-million dollar home on the beach—and that was great to prove a point.
Lt. Nevil: The location doesn't matter to these people. It could be a parked car. It could be a hotel. It could be a mall.
But as you'll see, some are cautious as they pull up to our house.
23-year-old Daniel Figueroa arrived to meet a girl who said she was 14. He walks up to the house, looks around, gets back in his car and drives off. He drives back to the house two more times. The decoy tries to wave him in. He even starts checking mailboxes so he can scope out the house. But after he leaves for a third time...
Cop: I have a tail on him now.
The police arrest him.
Later, Frag spots the vehicle of another man who's trying to be tricky.
Frag: Oh, is that—no. That's our target vehicle right there?
He checks out the house and leaves. Then, without telling the decoy, he comes back the next evening. He's made the one hour trip twice!
He's 37-year-old Selwyn Knights, here for a date with a 14-year-old.
Decoy: Hi.
Selwyn Knights: What's going on?
Decoy: Oh, hi, I didn't know you were coming.
Knights: Yeah.
Decoy: Oh, come on in.
But he's nervous. He sees another car pulling up.
Decoy: Come on in. Just come on in.
Knights: Something's acting all weird there. I'll be right back.
Decoy: Wait. No, just come in. I think you'll be fine if you come in.
He tells the decoy he's going to move his truck.
Frag: We feel he's just going to try and high tail it out of here.
The police follow him and arrest him down the road.
But not every man is cautious...
Frag: Dwayne Chisholm, 29…
Here's a "To Catch a Predator" first—this man is here to meet a 14-year-old girl, even though he's been told her parents are home. The plan is for her to slip away when he arrives. He brazenly drives right up to the house and asks the decoy if it's all clear.
Decoy: Hey!
Dwayne Chisolm: How're you doing?
Decoy: Good. How are you?
Chisholm: Good.
Decoy: I'm glad you could make it.
Chisholm: Me, too.
Decoy: And guess what, my parents went to the movies.
Chisholm: Stop.
Decoy: I swear, they're gone. Come on in.
He's 29-year-old Dwayne Chisholm, a manager at a gym. He's been chatting online with a decoy for two weeks. Calling himself lovermangenuis—he spells genius incorrectly—he sends the decoy, who is pretending to be 14, pictures of himself as a body builder.
Decoy: I saw his pictures and I was honestly really scared because he was a body builder he could probably grab me with his hand and squeeze the guts out of me.
Then he sends her pictures of his genitals.
(chat transcript)
Lovermangenuis: have you had something that big already?
Decoy: not that big.
Lovermangenuis: I'll be you're a good lover, slow and soft.
Decoy: I just hope you like it.
Lovermangenuis: and I hope you like it too.
Now "lovermangenuis" is getting comfortable in our beach chair. After only a few minutes of chatting, he wants the decoy to sit on his lap.
Decoy: I'm so glad you came. (laughter)
Chisholm: I'm glad too.
Decoy: Yeah.
Chisholm: Do you want to come on over.
Decoy: I want to talk a little first.
Chisholm: No problem. That's fine.
Decoy: If that's okay with you.
That was my cue to step in.
Chris Hansen: Hey, how are you?
Chisholm: I'm good. I'm good. How are you?
Chris Hansen: What's happening?
The decoy steps away so I can get better acquainted with 29-year-old "lovermangenuis."
Hansen: The girl you were chatting with online was how old?
Chisholm: As far as I know, 14.
Chris Hansen: What if you had a 14-year-old sister, how would you feel if some guy came over?
Chisholm: Not good.
Chris Hansen: You tell her that you want her to masturbate and think of you before she goes to bed. All that is illegal to try to solicit a minor online right and then try and come up and have sex with her. What do you think would have happened tonight, Dwayne, if this 14-year-old girl was open-minded?
Chisholm: I don't know, I mean—I don't know. I wouldn't want to say one thing or the other.
Chris Hansen: So, you wouldn't rule out the possibility of you having sex with the girl?
Chisholm: I wouldn't force her to do anything that she would've (unintelligible) want to do.
Chris Hansen: But here's the problem. At 14, she cannot legally give consent and that's why it's considered in many places statutory rape.
Chris Hansen: Well, Dwayne, do you watch much television?
Chisholm: A little bit when I have time.
Chris Hansen: Do you ever watch Dateline NBC?
Chisholm: I guess I'm on it right now, right?
Chris Hansen: So, you kind of figured out what's going on?
Chisholm: (laughter) I mean, you hear about it and you sit there and you're like, "Man, these poor guys like, these guys are such idiots." And "What are these guys thinking?" and then, you know, and you're like—you know, you see some guys that's just like, "Wow, like, these guys are just really, really disturbed."
Chris Hansen: Well, give me a sense of what went on in your mind to make you one of those guys tonight?
Chisholm: Just bored and lonely … I mean here's my thing. I know there's no excuse. You know, there's no excuse, you get caught up in a rut. You work 70 hours a week. Life is tough. And you just—
Chris Hansen: Yeah, but I still don't get the link between working hard, having an aggressive job and grooming a 14-year-old girl online to the point where you have a face to face meeting in the hopes of having a sexual liaison.
Chisholm: I don't know. Like I said, there's no justification for it.
Chris Hansen: Well, I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC and we're doing a story on adults who meet kids online and then try to meet them for sex in person.
Chisholm: Wow. I mean—I'm apologetic for—my behavior.
While "lovermangenuis" continues to apologize, another man shows up.
He makes a U-turn, then beeps the horn, looks over, spots our operation and takes off.
Frag: Pennsylvania plates out of Philadelphia. James Erik Santil, 29.
Frag alerts the police. Who send marked cars to pull him over and arrest him. Turns out he's a school bus driver.
Back at the house, "lovermangenuis" asks an unusual question.
Chisholm: So, when do I get to see myself on TV?
Chris Hansen: Well, we haven't figured all that out yet, we're still doing the story.
Chisholm: I understand. I understand, I'm going to have a whole lot of people that I know seeing it and like, "Oh my god … this guy he helps me out in the gym" … You know. I might have to look for new work.
Chris Hansen: Alright. You're alright?
Chisholm: Yeah, I'm alright.
But he probably won't be alright for long—his trouble has just begun.
Police officer: Alright. Just relax. Put your head (unintelligible)--
Police officer: We're not going to do anything to hurt you.
As "To Catch a Predator" New Jersey continues, there will be more firsts. This man puts our decoy to the marijuana sniff test. And another one seems more worried about how he's getting home than being caught in our investigation.
Malik Washington: Can you give me a ride home? Because I don't—
Chris Hansen: I can't give you a ride, sorry.
Washington: I have to walk back?
You just never know what kind of an excuse a suspected sex predator will come up with when he's confronted. A 25-year-old, Robert Graber, described online in graphic detail how he was going to take the virginity of a 13-year-old—now he says it was all a ruse.
Robert Graber: I really wasn't going to do anything. I was going to come here. I thought it was a prank. And I was going to leave.
Chris Hansen: And which one of your friends did you think was pulling this prank?
Graber: I don't know. I have a lot of of people in—
Hansen: A lot of practical jokers?
Graber: Yes.
And when they are unfamiliar with to "To Catch a Predator," they usually think I'm with law enforcement.
Graber: Are you a detective?
Hansen: I'm not a detective.
Graber: Sir, I'm really sorry.
And it seems like 25-year-old Robert Graber can't figure what's going on.
Graber: Sir, are you going to hurt me?
Hansen: I'm not going to hurt you?
Graber: Is anyone in the house going to hurt me?
Hansen: Nobody's going to hurt you.
Graber: Am I going to go to jail?
Hansen: That's not up to me.
And when he finds out he's going to be on national television...
Hansen: I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC.
He gives some sage advice.
Graber: Do not mess around on-line. It can get you really in trouble. I'm extremely sorry.
Hansen: I appreciate that.
Graber: And I hope I don't go to jail or anything. I'm really sorry.
But he will end up in jail tonight.
The police from the Ocean County prosecutor's office move in and arrest him.
Then comes another suspect-- who will also try to play this as a big misunderstanding.
He's 33-year-old Ernest Timmons, a mechanic for the United States airforce. Calling himself joketer34, he's been chatting online about having sex with a girl who tells him she's thirteen.
Joketer34: What do you want me to do??
[decoy]: Whatever u want
[decoy]:But I thought u watned the real thing
[decoy]: maybe u're just dinking with my head
Joketer34: no I want the real thing
Joketer34: I am scared to get caught with a minor
[decoy]:then don't tell anyone
Then the military man asks the decoy for a photo of her breasts.
Timmons comes to the house camera in hand. Online, he told the decoy that he wouldn't be able to stay for long.
Decoy: Glad you could make it.
No idle chit chat for this man—he wastes no time making it clear he wants to get busy.
Decoy: Come sit down. I made some brownies. Do you want some?
Timmons: No thank you.
Decoy: Are you sure?Timmons: Yeah. Can we just go upstairs for a little bit?
Decoy: Oh, let's just hang out here for a little bit. Why don't you sit down?
Timmons: Okay I just need to get going here in a little bit.
Casey: His eyes were bugging out of his head. So I knew—he was either going to do something really quick or he was just going to take off.
Decoy: Weren't you going to bring me lotion or anything?
Timmons: Oh. No, no, I don't have any.
Decoy: Oh. 'Cause I thought you were going to teach me some stuff, that's all.
Timmons: Is everything okay?
Decoy: Yeah, everything's fine.
Chris Hansen (walks out): Actually everything is just fine. But, I need you to have a seat right there for me.
Timmons: Yes, sir.
Hansen: The camera. Just have a seat please.
Now watch how fast his story changes- from a man appearing eager to take photos of our decoy—to a mere victim of circumstance---
Timmons: My friend told me to come here to take—bring the camera and—
Hansen: Your friend told you to come here?
Timmons: Yes, sir.
Hansen: And who's your friend?
Timmons: A guy named Kevin.
Hansen: Kevin? And what's Kevin's last name?
Timmons: I don't know.
Hansen: How long have you known this friend, Kevin?
Timmons: We just met on the base.
Hansen: So, you were going to come in and you have your camera ready and you say to the girl who you think is 13-- or your friend thinks is 13--
Timmons: I don't know. Exactly.
Hansen: That you wanna run upstairs 'cause you only have a little bit of time?
Hansen: Do you see why this does not make sense?
Timmons: Yeah. Yes, sir. I—perfectly—why you think I'm just as stunned as you are? How—
Hansen: Oh, you're stunned because you got caught. That's why you're stunned.
Hansen: I think you're telling a big fat lie to me right now.
Timmons: I'm not tellin' you lies, sir.
Hansen: Doesn't make sense.
Timmons: I know!
As the airforce mechanic sweats profusely he reveals he's about to be deployed to Iraq.
Timmons: I leave in about a week and a half.
Hansen: And so, you—what? You stop by here for a quickie with a 13-year-old before you went over to Iraq?
Timmons: No, sir. I—was a joke.
It turns out the 33-year-old military man is married. His wife's picture is on the camera.
Hansen: Do you have kids?
Timmons: I have kids, yes.
Hansen: You have kids? How old's your kid?
Timmons: She's seven.
Hansen: Why would a man in the military with a wife and child at home come hustling nervous into this house with a camera and ask a—a—a—a girl you think is 13 to go upstairs to do what?
Timmons: I don't know.
No matter how implausible the man's story is, he sticks to it.
Hansen: Oh, here's something. You seem concerned about seeing those TV shows of people getting caught. Have you watched those shows?
Timmons: No, sir.
Hansen: 'Cause you're about to be on one. I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC and we're doing a story on adults who try to meet kids online for sex.
Timmons: (crying) oh please, sir.
Timmons: I was told as a friend to come over. That was it.
Hansen: And that's your story?
Timmons: That's my story.
Hansen: And you're stickin' to it?
Timmons: Yes, sir.
Now we'll get a chance to tell his story to the police.
And apparently the police don't buy his story either. After he's arrested police question him and later he's brought before a judge who sets his bail at $50,000 dollars.
Judge: Mr. Timmons, your charges are attempted sexual assault and attempted luring. Bail is set at 50,000 no ten.
For three-and-a-half days men have been making the trip to our undercover house—in cars, trucks, even a stolen van...
One man takes a train into town---and then starts walking and keeps walking.
The man in a Spongebob jacket walks about 2 and a half miles right past our street and gets lost. After walking several blocks out of his way- he finally heads in the right direction and hears our decoy calling him.
He's 27-year-old Malik Washington. He thinks our decoy is the 12-year-old he's been chatting with online.
Decoy: How was your walk?
Malik Washington: It was all right. It was kind of long.
Decoy: Yeah. Come on in.
Using the screenname loverboy212x he chats online to the decoy about anal and oral sex. He also tells her he'll bring a pornographic video. The decoy tells him she's a virgin and he says I could be your first.
Decoy: So, I'm kind of nervous.
Now that he's comfortably seated, the decoy tries to find out what he has in mind.
Decoy: Dyou bring the porn for the laptop? Or—
Washington: There's porn on it for you.
Decoy: You brought it? Okay.
Decoy:Allright, well can you like explain to me like what you think we're going to do?
Washington:First, I was going to get to know you. I wasn't in a rush to have sex yet. (laughter) unless you in a rush.
Decoy: I just wanna know beforehand, you know?
Washington: Ask the question. It'll be easier. What's it called? What should we do first?
Decoy: Yeah.
Washington: Well, -- if you say you wanna take breaks and during the breaks you wanna give me head, I should teach you that first.
Decoy: Okay.
Washington: If you want. It's up to you.
Listen to how quickly loverboy changes his story when I'm the one sitting across from him.
Chris Hansen: How you doing?
Washington: Hello.
Hansen: You all right?
Washington: Yeah. I'm all right.
Hansen:What's going on?
Washington: I'm good.
Hansen: What were you planning on doing—this evening?
Washington: Oh, nothing much. Just hang out.
Hansen: And how old are you?
Washington: Me? I'm 17.
Hansen: Seventeen. What year were you born?
Washington: '85 I think? '85 I think.
He's really born in 1980, that makes him 27.
Hansen: I already know.
Washington: You know? Oh, okay. (laughter)
Hansen: I already know a lot of stuff, actually.
Washington: 'Cause I didn't wanna get her in trouble. That's why.
Hansen: You didn't wanna get her in trouble. What about getting you in trouble?
Washington: Oh, that, too.
Hansen: That, too. Now, you knew this girl was how old?
Washington: I think 12 or 13?
Hansen: Why did you think it was okay to visit a 12-year-old girl at your age?
Washington: Well, first of all, I like to travel. And then—
Hansen: You like to travel?
Washington: I like to travel. Plus, she wants to hang out, so I don't mind. And I wasn't planning on doing anything with her.
Hansen: You say things online like "And I'm going to give you anal 'cause you got a nice ass." These are your words, right? You ask her, "When are you ready for me to pop that cherry?" I assume that means taking her virginity. Is that true?
Washington: All right, lemme ask you a question. Who are you?
Hansen: I'll get to that in a minute.
Washington: Are you going to arrest me? For real, tell you the truth, I was not going to do anything with her.
Hansen: You sat out here for a good ten minutes, and you had the opportunity to tell her face to face, that you didn't really wanna do anything. And that's not what you said, is it, Malik?
Washington: Yes, I did. I said—
Hansen: No, you didn't. You said, "we can start first—by talking before we have sex."
Washington: No, I—
Hansen: And you told her that you brought the porn.
Washington: 'cause like I ain't come out here to rape her or kill her or anything. I'm not a bad person.
Hansen: Well, you know what? But having sex with a 12-year-old, even if she says yes, is considered rape because—
Washington: No.
Hansen: --a 12 year old, by the law, cannot consent to having sex. Do you get that?
Washington: Oh, I didn't know that.
Hansen: Do you ever watch TV
Malik: Sometimes, barely.
Hansen: Do you ever hear about that show "to catch a predator"?
Washington: Well, I wasn't trying to be a predator. But—yeah.
Hansen: Well, that's not what your transcript—would suggest. I'm Chris Hansen—
Washington: All right.
Hansen: --with dateline NBC. And we're doing a story on adults who try to meet kids for sex online. If there's anything else you'd like to tell us, we'd like to hear it.
Washington: Well, one thing—could I go home?
Hansen: You can walk right off this beach. Nothing else you wanna tell us?
Washington: No, sir.
Apparently loverboy starts thinking about the long walk back to the train station.
Hansen: You can leave the beach.
Washington: Can you give me a ride home? 'Cause I don't—
Hansen: I can't give you a ride. I'm sorry.
Washington: I have to walk back?
Hansen: Well, that's up to you. But I'm not in a position to give you a ride, though.
Washington: Can you—is there any way you can get me a cab?
Hansen: I'm not going to be able to do that.
The good news is he won't have to make that long walk back to the train station. The bad news is he'll be getting a ride in a police car to jail.
Most of the men arrested tonight have not had a chance to make a plea. Those that did have pled not guilty.
And their are more potential predators on the way, many bearing gifts.
Next week you'll meet a registered sex offender who drove six hours on his motorcyle hoping for sex with a 14-year-old.
And we'll end with a bang -- find out what happens to one man after he takes a dive.
Part 2 of "To Catch a Predator" in New Jersey airs Wednesday, July 25 at 10 p.m.
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The NTSB on Tuesday released 16 recommendations for improving the safety record of experimental amateur-built aircraft, which have a fatal accident rate 3 to 4 times higher than the rest of the general aviation fleet. Most of the recommendations focus on transition training, which has long been recognized as a problem, and also suggest changes in how flight tests are conducted and how the flight characteristics of each airplane are documented. Nearly 10 percent of E-AB aircraft accidents occurred during first flight, the board said, and 14 out of the 125 accidents in aircraft that were sold crashed on the new owner's first flight. The recommendations are meant to "improve safety while maintaining the adventure of this vibrant segment of aviation," said board chair Deborah Hersman.
Besides 12 recommendations to the FAA, the board also suggested four actions the EAA could take to advance flight safety. The EAA should help develop flight manuals and flight-test standards for experimental aircraft, create a repository of information about flight instructors for experimental aircraft, and help create transition-training resources, the board said. Listen to the board's findings and the 16 recommendations (12 minutes) below.
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The NTSB has completed its study of safety issues affecting experimental-amateur-built aircraft. This 12-minute audio clip from Tuesday's board meeting includes the conclusions of the study and the 16 recommendations to the FAA and EAA.