Monday, January 7, 2013

Janet Hasson - Terrorist of the Week

“CONDEMNED” — Journal News Excoriated by Rockland Officials

The Journal News editorial board and publisher Janet Hasson were condemned today by law enforcement, a bipartisan group of legislators, County Clerk Paul Piperato and the five major political parties of Rockland County, for their publication of an interactive map exposing the addresses of gun owners on the website www.lohud.com.
Piperato said, “This is no way to sell newspapers. I want to demand The Journal News get that map and that list off their website.”

Piperato is also president of the New York State Association of County Clerks. He said the clerks of all 62 counties in New York support legislation restricting publication of gun permit registration. He also noted, “I’ve received hundreds of calls from people worried about their safety. The Journal News is trying to relate this information to the Newtown [shootings]. I don’t see the relationship.”
Those gathered indicated support for the state law prohibiting the publication of such information and advertised a new initiative forthcoming whereby gun owners will have the opportunity to pick up free trigger locks for their guns at a to-be-determined county office building.
In nearby Putnam County, Clerk Dennis Sant has refused the request by The Journal News to release the public records of pistol permit holder, citing public safety concerns. State Senator Greg Ball has been pushing a Senate bill to restrict access to permit information and there is a similar bill in the state Assembly.

The group of lawmakers and officials present at the Rockland County press conference were brought together by Rockland Legislator and Deputy Minority Leader Frank Sparaco. Those present included Sheriff Louis Falco, Spring Valley Police Chief Paul Modica, Clarkstown Police Chief Michael Sullivan, County Legislators Ilan Schoenberger, Aron Weider and Tony Earl, Clerk Piperato, and the committee leaders of the Republican, Democratic, Independence, Working Families and Conservative Parties.
Conservative Party Executive Committee member Paul Murray said on behalf of Chairman Ed Lettre, “I find it deplorable and we condemn what the Journal News has done.”
Rockland County Democratic Chairwoman Kristen Stavisky said as a Democrat she is supportive of stronger gun control but noted, ”I understand this is a different issue.”

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

First National Gun Appreciation Day 01/19/2013

If all goes according to plan, gun lovers will come out in droves on January 19 to support gun stores, gun ranges, and gun shows.

The national "Gun Appreciation Day," which is being launched by a coalition of conservative and gun rights groups, will take place the day before California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is expected to introduce legislation for an assault weapon ban, and two days before President Barack Obama is inaugurated for his second term.

"We felt that there needed to be a swift, strong statement, Chick-fil-A style, to show that we're not only here but we're vocal," Gun Appreciation Day chairman and president of Republican new media consulting firm Political Media, Inc., Larry Ward tells Whispers.

A Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day held in August after the restaurant's president made controversial comments on gay marriage drew record sales and customers.

Elizabeth Flock | US News and World Report

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Milton Friedman

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New Earth Found - Tau Ceti

Our nearest single Sun-like star hosts five planets - one of which is in the "habitable zone" where liquid water can exist, astronomers say.

Tau Ceti's planetary quintet - reported in an online paper that will appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics - was found in existing planet-hunting data.
The study's refined methods of sifting through data should help find even more far-flung worlds.
The star now joins Alpha Centauri B as a nearby star known to host planets.
Tau Ceti lies 12 light-years distant; Alpha Centauri B, just four. In both cases, the planets were found not by spying them through a telescope but rather by measuring the subtle effects they have on their host stars' light.

"It's a star on which we have a lot of data - an order of magnitude more data than we have for pretty much any other star," Prof Jones told BBC News.
"It's a good test case for how low can we go, what size of signals can we pick up."

Artists' conception of Tau Ceti solar system

The team started with data from three planet-hunting missions: Harps, AAPS, and HiRes, all of which had data on Tau Ceti.

The trick to honing the technique was to put in "fake planets" - to add signals into the messy data that planets should add - and find ways to reduce the noise until the fake planets became more and more visible in the data.
"Putting all that together, we optimised a noise-modelling strategy which allows us to recover our fake signals - but in the process of doing that, we actually saw that we were finding signals as well," Prof Jones said - actual planets.
The quintet includes planets between two and six times the Earth's mass, with periods ranging from 14 to 640 days.
One of them, dubbed HD 10700e, lies about half as far from Tau Ceti as the Earth is from the Sun - and because Tau Ceti is slightly smaller and dimmer than our Sun, that puts the planet in the so-called habitable zone.

It is increasingly clear that in existing data from radial velocity measurements there may be evidence of many more planets.
On Monday, Philip Gregory at the University of British Columbia in Canada posted an as-yet unpublished paper to the arXiv repository, claiming to have seen three planets in the habitable zone of Gliese 667C, one of three stars in a triple-star system, 22 light-years away.
It is also clear that in almost every direction we look and in every way that we look, there are planets around stars near and far.