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Today's Topics:
1. 7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor (Greg Williams)
2. NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region of Mars (Dishnut)
3. Legislation aims to end identity theft (Monty Solomon)
4. This Week in Amateur Radio delay (Greg Williams)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:51:36 -0400
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] 7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor
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7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor
By JESSE McKINLEY
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/us/04oakland.html?ei=5065&en=0324fe3463e9ed12&ex=1186804800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 3 ? A day after a prominent newspaper editor was
shot to death downtown, the police here on Friday arrested seven men and
seized several weapons that they suspected were used in his killing and
those of two other men.
Oakland police officials said they suspected that the men were part of a
group operating ?a very violent criminal enterprise? out of a
neighborhood bakery.
The arrests came after a predawn raid by SWAT teams at the bakery, the
Your Black Muslim Bakery, and three bakery-owned properties, where the
police found several firearms, including the gun they believe was used
to kill the editor, Chauncey Bailey, of the weekly Oakland Post.
Mr. Bailey, 57, was shot several times at close range on Thursday
morning at a busy intersection near the Alameda County courthouse here.
He had been working on an article for the newspaper about possible links
between the bakery and several killings in the area, said Walter Riley,
a lawyer for the newspaper?s publisher, Paul Cobb.
Efforts to reach a lawyer for the bakery were unsuccessful. The phone at
the bakery was disconnected.
One of seven men arrested on Friday was Yusef Bey IV, the son of the
bakery?s founder, Yusef Bey, a well-known local black Muslim leader who
died in 2003. The six other men arrested on Friday were not identified
by the police, nor were two suspects who were still being sought.
The police said the raid came after a lengthy investigation of other
crimes, including two kidnappings on a single day in May, and two
killings in July that occurred in the same north Oakland neighborhood
where the bakery is located. The police had connected those crimes and
put the bakery under surveillance before Mr. Bailey was killed.
?During our investigation, Chauncey Bailey was murdered, and it turns
out that the evidence in that case also linked the same individuals we
were looking at in the other two prior murders to that case,? said Lt.
Ersie Joyner of the Oakland Police Department.
Asked whether there were any regrets about not moving faster to arrest
the suspects before Mr. Bailey was killed, Assistant Chief Howard Jordan
said that the Oakland Police Department?s resources were ?very thin? and
that the long-term investigation involved the cooperation of neighboring
departments.
?Today was the best day we had, that we could have done this with the
coordination of our allied agencies,? Mr. Jordan said. ?We weren?t just
kind of waiting around.?
Mr. Jordan said it was ?very disheartening? to hear about Mr. Bailey?s
killing, ?and it was particularly disheartening to know it was connected
to our investigation.?
The bakery?s operators had been investigated by the police in the past.
In 2002, the founder, Mr. Bey, was charged with rape, sodomy and lewd
acts with a child under 14, stemming from accusations that he had
fathered a child with a 13-year-old girl in 1982. Mr. Bey died of cancer
in 2003 before his trial began.
In late 2005, several members of the group that operates the bakery,
including the younger Mr. Bey, were charged in an attack at a small
neighborhood grocery store, in which liquor bottles were smashed and
other merchandise was destroyed. The attack was treated as a felony hate
crime, the police said, because the store, which is owned by Muslims,
had sold goods forbidden by Islamic law.
Lieutenant Joyner said that many residents of the neighborhood
surrounding the bakery had been afraid of the Muslim group, whose
members sometimes shot automatic rifles in the air in a show of
intimidation. Other members of the group, the police said, flaunted
their defiance of outstanding warrants on assault and gun charges.
The incident that prompted the investigation, Lieutenant Joyner said,
occurred last November. The police suspect that members of the group
shot up a local car; no one was injured. The gun used in that shooting
was linked to the recent killings, the police said.
?They carried themselves in ways that were very disrespectful to the
community, to society as well as law enforcement,? Lieutenant Joyner said.
By midafternoon, the bakery had been boarded up and closed by the city?s
health department.
--
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:24:50 -0700
From: Dishnut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region of Mars
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NASA release
NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region of Mars
August 04, 2007
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday,
aiming for a May 25, 2008, arrival at the Red Planet and a close-up
examination of the surface of the northern polar region.
Perched atop a Delta II rocket, the spacecraft left Cape Canaveral Air
Force Base at 5:26 a.m. Eastern Time into the predawn sky above
Florida's Atlantic coast.
"Today's launch is the first step in the long journey to the surface of
Mars. We certainly are excited about launching, but we still are
concerned about our actual landing, the most difficult step of this
mission," said Phoenix Principal Investigator Peter Smith of the
University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson.
The spacecraft established communications with its ground team via the
Goldstone, Calif., antenna station of NASA's Deep Space Network at 7:02
a.m. Eastern Time, after separating from the third stage of the launch
vehicle.
"The launch team did a spectacular job getting us on the way," said
Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Our trajectory is still being evaluated in
detail; however we are well within expected limits for a successful
journey to the red planet. We are all thrilled!"
Phoenix will be the first mission to touch water-ice on Mars. Its
robotic arm will dig to an icy layer believed to lie just beneath the
surface. The mission will study the history of the water in the ice,
monitor weather of the polar region, and investigate whether the
subsurface environment in the far-northern plains of Mars has ever been
favorable for sustaining microbial life.
"Water is central to every type of study we will conduct on Mars," Smith
said.
The Phoenix Mars Mission is the first of NASA's competitively proposed
and selected Mars Scout missions, supplementing the agency's core Mars
Exploration Program, whose theme is "follow the water." The University
of Arizona was selected to lead the mission in August 2003 and is the
first public university to lead a Mars exploration mission.
Phoenix uses the main body of a lander originally made for a 2001
mission that was cancelled before launch. "During the past year we have
run Phoenix through a rigorous testing regimen," said Ed Sedivy, Phoenix
spacecraft program manager for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver,
which built the spacecraft. "The testing approach runs the spacecraft
and integrated instruments through actual mission sequences, allowing us
to asses the entire system through the life of the mission while here on
Earth."
Samples of soil and ice collected by the lander's robotic arm will be
analyzed by instruments mounted on the deck. One key instrument will
check for water and carbon-containing compounds by heating soil samples
in tiny ovens and examining the vapors that are given off. Another will
test soil samples by adding water and analyzing the dissolution
products. Cameras and microscopes will provide information on scales
spanning 10 powers of 10, from features that could fit by the hundreds
into a period at the end of a sentence to an aerial view taken during
descent. A weather station will provide information about atmospheric
processes in the arctic region.
The Phoenix mission is led by Smith, with project management at JPL and
development partnership at Lockheed Martin, Denver. The NASA Launch
Services Program at Kennedy Space Center and the United Launch Alliance
are responsible for the Delta II launch service. International
contributions are provided by the Canadian Space Agency, the University
of Neuchatel (Switzerland), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the
Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Additional information on Phoenix is available online at:
http://www.nasa.gov/phoenix . Additional information on NASA's Mars
program is available online at: http://www.nasa.gov/mars .
--
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:18:36 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Legislation aims to end identity theft
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Legislation aims to end identity theft
Saturday, August 04, 2007
By DAN RING
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BOSTON - Gov. Deval L. Patrick yesterday signed a bill designed to
protect people against identity theft.
The new law, which takes effect in 90 days, allows consumers to pay a
$5 fee to block access to their credit reports, forces companies and
government agencies to notify people if personal information is lost
or stolen and mandates disposal of certain personal information on
consumers.
The law was approved following some highly-publicized thefts,
including one reported in January by TJX Cos. in Framingham and
another in May 2006 involving birth dates and Social Security numbers
kept by the federal government of 26.5 million military veterans.
...
http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1186212257204950.xml&coll=1
An Act Relative To Security Freezes And Notification Of Data Breaches
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/seslaw07/sl070082.htm
An Act Relative to the Protection of Personal Information
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/185/ht04pdf/ht04144.pdf
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:45:24 -0400
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] This Week in Amateur Radio delay
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Due to God smiting upon George Bowen, a lightning strike earlier this
week at TWIAR HQ in New York has caused issues and there will be a delay
in getting edition #747 out tonight.
George is having to wait for the DSL folks to arrive to change out a
proprietary fuse that he cannot bypass.
In order to get the scripts out to the anchors to read, he had to have a
big mac attack and go to a McDonalds with WiFi to send out the info.
Once he gets the service reinstated, he'll commence to putting the show
together. Pat in Hawthorne (comptroller for the satellite feed live at
9PM) will get first priority.
Once that is done, the usual productions will be done. Late tonight,
early tomorrow ETA. This is subject to change if there are continued
delays. Affiliates may want to have a "best of" edition ready to air
over their local repeaters or stations if the files are not ready in time.
The web site is changed over, but the links are dead until the files are
uploaded. I will upload the podcast once I get the file.
We regret any inconvenience this may cause. Talk to the deity or
deities of choice if you have any questions about lightning prevention. :-)
--
Gregory S. Williams
gregwilliams(at)knology.net
k4hsm(at)knology.net
http://www.etskywarn.net
http://www.twiar.org
http://www.icebearnation.com
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