New York ‘lone wolf’ was one hour away from finishing his bomb
She also praised the New York Police Department, saying, “I think they handled it well.”
Officials with the NYPD, which conducted the undercover investigation using a confidential informant and a bugged apartment, said the department had to move quickly because Pimentel was about to test a pipe bomb made out of match heads, nails and other ingredients bought at neighborhood hardware and discount stores.
Two law enforcement officials said Monday that the NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to get the FBI involved at least twice as the investigation unfolded. Both times, the FBI concluded that Pimentel lacked the mental capacity to act on his own, they said.
The FBI thought Pimentel “didn’t have the predisposition or the ability to do anything on his own,” one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to speak about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The FBI’s New York office and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan both declined to comment on Monday.
Pimentel’s lawyer, Joseph Zablocki, said his client was never a true threat.
“If the goal here is to be stopping terror … I’m not sure that this is where we should be spending our resources,” he said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the handling of the case Monday, saying the NYPD kept federal authorities in the loop “all along” before circumstances forced investigators to take swift measures using state charges.
“No question in my mind that we had to take this case down,” Kelly said. “There was an imminent threat.”
Added Kelly: “This is a classic case of what we’ve been talking about �� the lone wolf, an individual, self-radicalized. This is the needle in the haystack problem we face as a country and as a city.”
Authorities described Pimentel as an unemployed U.S. citizen and “al-Qaida sympathizer” who was born in the Dominican Republic. He had lived most of his life in Manhattan, aside from about five years in the upstate city of Schenectady, where authorities say he had an arrested for credit card fraud.
His mother said he was raised Roman Catholic. But he converted to Islam in 2004 and went by the name Muhammad Yusuf, authorities said.
Using a tip from police in Albany, the NYPD had been watching Pimentel using a confidential informant for the past year. Investigators learned that he was energized and motivated to carry out his plan by the Sept. 30 killing of al-Qaida’s U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, police said.
Pimentel was under constant surveillance as he shopped for the pipe bombmaterials. He also was overheard talking about attacking police patrol cars and postal facilities, killing soldiers returning home from abroad andbombing a police station in Bayonne, N.J., authorizes said.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
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E: Maine
W: Hawaii
S: Hawaii again?
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LT04, you are correct!
I think all the answers are self explanatory except for Alaska being our easternmost state. The reason is Alaska’s chain of islands – the Aleutian Islands – actually stretches across the international date line zone, making Alaska the western and easternmost state simultaneously.
Well done! :-D
I’m impressed. Now for something a bit harder…
Question #6 - Zoology
What is the only mammal that cannot jump?
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The elephant
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Yep, the elephant.
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Mr Toad,
I liked your geography question and had I logged in earlier I would have had it right.
A return question
Which state has the lowest highest point?
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Mr Toad,
I liked your geography question and had I logged in earlier I would have had it right.
A return question
Which state has the lowest highest point?
You mean the lowest elevation? That would be Death Valley in California.
LT
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No, I mean the lowest high point of all the states.
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No, I mean the lowest high point of all the states.
Even if I wanted to cheat with google I don’t know what I would need to type to get an answer like that.
Normally you could ask the highest or the lowest but this is like asking it “whats the extra medium?” :lol:
LT
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It’s not that hard to understand. Each state has a ‘highest point’. Which state has the lowest of those 50?
Seems to me I’ve heard this before, but can’t remember the answer, so I’ll guess: Florida?
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It’s not that hard to understand. Each state has a ‘highest point’. Which state has the lowest of those 50?
Seems to me I’ve heard this before, but can’t remember the answer, so I’ll guess: Florida?
Thanks for the clearification. For what ever reason I couldn’t wrap my head around that.
Hmmm… I’m going to guess the state of Louisiana.
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U-505 and LT04, good job. :mrgreen:
Which state has the lowest highest point?
The answer would be Death Valley, California. It is the “lowest point” by elevation in the United States, while also having the “highest” water boiling point, due to it’s low elevation.
Now for some math…
Question #7 - Thermodynamics
It is often suggested (by me) that chewing ice cubes is an effective weight loss tool. Is this actually true? Provide a quantitative answer of Calorie ‘loss’ per ice cube.
Some useful information:
Temperature of Ice Cube: 0 C or 32 F
Weight of Ice Cube: 21 grams
Volume of Ice Cube: 3/4 fluid ounces
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Which state has the lowest highest point?
Louisiana is a good answer. I’m going to go with my state of Mississippi.
@TG:
Now for some math…
Question #7 - Thermodynamics
It is often suggested (by me) that chewing ice cubes is an effective weight loss tool. Is this actually true? Provide a quantitative answer of Calorie ‘loss’ per ice cube.
Some useful information:
Temperature of Ice Cube: 0 C or 32 F
Weight of Ice Cube: 21 grams
Volume of Ice Cube: 3/4 fluid ounces
Body Temperature: 37 C or 98.6 FWhy are you mixing metric weight with imperial volume? And does the answer have to include the calories lost from chewing and/or processing the water or just from the heat required to melt the ice?
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Why are you mixing metric weight with imperial volume? And does the answer have to include the calories lost from chewing and/or processing the water or just from the heat required to melt the ice?
:? … Uh yeah what he said. :?
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Why are you mixing metric weight with imperial volume? And does the answer have to include the calories lost from chewing and/or processing the water or just from the heat required to melt the ice?
About the conversions: Deal with it. :-P
As far as calories goes, you may make any assumptions you like, as long you state them in advance. In this case, the calories lost from chewing is minuscule compared to maintaining your body temperature.
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Right right. Volume is irrelevant here because we aren’t talking about water, yet. We are talking about ice, which is less dense than water so the mass is the only thing that matters.
And an aside here. God, base ten and the metric system are so beautiful in their simplicity. I live in the US and it pains me that we are so stubborn about adopting it. 1 liter of water weighs 1 Kilogram. 10 millimeters to a centimeter. What’s not to like?
OK.
1 Moses cube=21 grams=.021 kilograms=.021 liters of water.
To raise the temperature of the Moses cube(0 C) to the temperature of the human body(37 C) it takes an increase of 37 degrees C.
It takes 1 calorie to increase the temperature of 1 liter of water by 1 degree Centigrade therefore it takes .021 calories to raise the temperature of .021 liters of water 1 degree Centigrade.
To raise .021 liters of water by 37 degrees Centigrade it takes:
(37 degrees)(.021 calories)= 0.777 calories
If you ate 1 kilogram of ice you would burn 37 calories. And pee a lot.
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Most Impressive. Most people I pose this question to won’t even attempt an answer. My answer is similar to yours but lets see:
Question #7 - Thermodynamics
It is often suggested (by me) that chewing ice cubes is an effective weight loss tool. Is this actually true? Provide a quantitative answer of Calorie ‘loss’ per ice cube.
Solution:
1. You have 21 grams or 0.021 kilograms of ice
2. The temperature difference between an ice cube and your internal body temperature is: 98.6 F - 32 F ~ 67 F
3. It takes about 1 Calorie to raise 1 kilogram of water 2 F. So, 67 F / 2 ~ 34 Cal/kg
4. One ice cube consumes about (34 Cal/kg)(0.021 kg) = 0.714 Calories
Which is very close to U-505’s answer.
5. But what if you consider latent heat of fusion? (All materials require extra energy to transition from a solid to a liquid) Does this change the answer much?
6. The heat of fusion of water is ~ 0.08 Cal/gram. So, (0.08 Cal/gram)(21 gram) = 1.68 Calories(!)
7. Every ice cube consumes about 1.68 + 0.714 = 2.4 Calories!
Some useful information:- To raise 1 kg of ice it takes 37 + 80 Cal = 117 Calories
- Running a mile (6 mph) burns ~500 Calories
- You get almost the equivalent workout chewing a liter of ice cubes as you do riding on a stationary bike for an hour. (117 Cal vs. 177 Cal)
- Here are some common exercises in terms of calorie burned per hour: http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist4.htm
- If you can consider yourself an athletic “Ice Cruncher” you could lose more weight chewing ice than actually working out. You would then have to worry about water weight.
(Yes, Moses is a fitness guru)
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Now that I’ve racked your brains, lets try something more ‘fun.’
**Question #8 - Video Game Knowledge **
What is the only Nintendo video game to feature Mario as the chief antagonist in the game?
Get your answers in quickly! After this, there are two questions left to go!
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i dont know for sure, the only mario game i played was mario kart, was it wario
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Just to wrap up this question
Which state has the lowest highest point?Each state has a highpoint and some of these highest points (or elevations) are lower than others. The correct answer in Delaware!
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i think i know! i’m sure i know. crap well how about donkey kong jr. i probably played every nintendo game ever. well maybe not every, but pretty close.
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