Thursday, April 12, 2012

Thomas A DiNapoli allows the State to squander money and the

constitutional rights of New York State Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 to be violated.
Nassau OTB cannot be closed on Roman Catholic Easter over Greek Orthodox Easter.
Tracks are running all across the United States every day in April that bettors want to bet.
If the Comptroller were a thinking man he would simply have his Counsel ask the New York State Attorney General for an Opinion at no cost to the residents of New York State.

If Cardinal Timothy Dolan may talk in the press about freedom of religion so can we, the bettors of the State of New York.
http://www.osc.state.ny.us/localgov/audits/swr/2010/otb/nassau.pdf

Thomas A Dinapoli

11 Middle Neck Rd, Great Neck, NY 11021
516-482-6966 


Dear Attorney General Eric Schneiderman:

    The Bettors of the State of New York and the employees of the remaining OTBs, public benefit corporations, have no standing to ask for your Opinion to the following simple questions with seemingly obvious answers::


1. Will the Attorney General defend the constitutionality of NY PML Sec 105?
2. Does NY PML Sec 105 apply to   Nassau OTB?
3. Does NY PML  Sec 105 violate the rights of New York Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3?
4. Is NY PML Sec 105 vague, indefinite and/or overly broad as the term "Easter Sunday" does not define one and only one Sunday in all years (see eg Gregorian and Julian Calendars)?  See article from the Wall Street Journal on Calendars below.

I hope that you will sua sponte issue an Opinion as to the above so that bettors may bet, workers may work or not as they wish, and the State and its subdivisions make money. There are tracks running all across the United States every day of the year that bettors want to bet. Track calendars may be found at eg www.ntra.com. The OTBs also sell  New York Lottery tickets which are drawn every day of the year. The OTBs also cash non IRS Lottery tickets in cash for any sum, a convenience for many Lotto Players.

It is critical in these current time that the OTBs are open when customers want to bet. I believe that your Opinion will belatedly validate the actions of New York City OTB taken on the advice of its Counsel in 2003.


Sincerely yours,

Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m - New York Daily News

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 §  105. Supplementary regulatory powers of the board.  Notwithstanding
  any inconsistent provision of law,  the  board  through  its  rules  and
  regulations  or  in  allotting  dates  for  racing  or in licensing race
  meetings at which pari-mutuel betting is permitted  shall  be  empowered
  to:  (i)  permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on any
  or all dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first  day
  of December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of December twenty-fifth
  and  Palm  Sunday  and  Easter  Sunday; and (ii) fix minimum and maximum
  charges for admission at any race meeting.

 

 

The Drama of Measuring the Days of Our Lives

·         By CARL BIALIK




Humanity's efforts to impose order on time don't always go like clockwork.
There was the Y2K computer-programming fiasco, as the world entered the year 2000. Then there are the seconds that have to be added to the clock occasionally—the next one is in June—to make our definition of a day match the ever-so-slight slowing of the Earth's rotation. And spare a thought for the Swedish couple who married 300 years ago but whose anniversary has never appeared on any calendar.

Sven Hall wed Ellna Jeppsdotter in Ystad, Sweden, on Feb. 30, 1712—a day that existed only because of Protestant Europe's fumbling transition from the Julian calendar system to an approximation of the Gregorian system. Sweden had tried to change gradually before realizing it was out of sync with everyone else, says Bengt Danielson, assistant archival director of the Demographical Database for Southern Sweden. The nation tried to get back in line by adding two leap days to 1712. But it was four decades before Sweden made the wholesale switch from the Julian calendar.
In the centuries since, society has improved its reckoning of time and synchronization of watches across borders. But it continues to use a relatively ancient system for tweaking time by adding leap days—such as next week's Feb. 29—that some astronomers say isn't the ideal mathematical solution to the problem that a year is a bit longer than 365 days. Add in the unpredictable variability in the length of years, and the calendar continues to defy simple computation.

The Numbers Guy blog:

"The calendar isn't a mathematical thing," says Robert Poole, a historian at the University of Cumbria in Lancaster, England, and author of a book on calendar reform in England. "All attempts to systematize calendars are misguided."
Yet history is dotted with attempts to systematize calendars. The Julian calendar was named for Julius Caesar, who instituted it in 46 B.C. after recognizing that the time it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun isn't neatly divisible by the time it takes for the Earth to rotate about its axis.
Caesar added a leap year every four years, which was almost right. But the almost added up. Those extra leap days made the average year too long, shifting annual phenomena—such as the spring and autumn equinox—earlier than their normal seasonal dates by 10 days by 1582. Since the date of Easter is tied to the spring equinox, Pope Gregory XIII sought to overhaul the calendar, skipping 10 days and then removing three leap years every 400 years.
In Gregory's time, England had just emerged from a schism with the church and wasn't eager to follow papal authority. Enter John Dee—"variously listed as an astronomer, mathematician, magician and mystic; today one might even call him a crackpot," says Geoff Chester, a spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory, which plays a key role in counting world time today.
Associated Press
Petr Skala walking on a ledge Friday during his weekly maintenance of the famous astronomical clock in Prague, Czech Republic. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and possibly the oldest one still working.
Dee suggested to Queen Elizabeth a cycle of eight leap years every 33 years. The leap years would come every fourth year starting with the fourth of the cycle, putting a five-year gap between the last leap year of the cycle and the first of the next cycle. Dee didn't invent the system, says Duncan Steel, an astronomer at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology and author of a book about calendar history. A variant of the system remains in use in Iran today, a millennium after Persians first used one like it.
The average year in the Gregorian system lasts exactly 365.2425 days, compared with the average year in the Dee system of a touch over 365.2424 days. The latter is closer to the actual time it takes the Earth to rotate around the sun, about 365.242 days, says Dr. Steel.
Still, Dee was ultimately unsuccessful, and most of the world eventually fell into line with a uniform calendar.
But that hasn't run out the clock on calendar problems. Another complication is that years are measured in days, and days are getting longer as tides create friction and slow the Earth's rotation. The length of the second has been fixed to the oscillation frequency of Cesium-133, using a duration that once corresponded to 1/86,400th of a day. But today—and tomorrow—are longer than the 86,400 seconds clocks world-wide include in a day by about one or two milliseconds—the gap changes daily.
To rectify that shift, the world's timekeepers have agreed to add so-called leap seconds whenever the drift nears a second, typically at midnight London time—the minute starting at 11:59 p.m. has 61 seconds.
As the day grows longer, somewhat unpredictably, there are fractionally fewer days in the year, and so eventually, in the very long run, today's calendar may need to be amended once more. But then, that should be expected, says Steve Allen, an astronomer at the University of California who maintains a website with research about the leap second.
"It is extraordinary hubris for any civilization to presume that its calendar will still be in use in 1,000 years," he says.
Learn more about this topic at WSJ.com/NumbersGuy. Email numbersguy@wsj.com.

Thomas A Dinapoli

11 Middle Neck Rd, Great Neck, NY 11021
516-482-6966 



April 2012
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April


Today is April 12, 2012

Sunday 1
ET CT MT PT
CMR FG SUN GG
GP FON     LA
MNR HAW     SA
PIM OP     TUP
PRX RP        
TAM            
TP            
Monday 2
ET CT MT PT
BEU WRD     TUP
CMR            
MNR            
PRX            
Tuesday 3
ET CT MT PT
BEU FP SUN TUP
CMR WRD        
CT            
MNR            
PRX            
Wednesday 4
ET CT MT PT
AQU HAW        
CT            
TAM            
Thursday 5
ET CT MT PT
AQU HOU     GG
CT OP     SA
GP RP        
PIM            
Friday 6
ET CT MT PT
AQU FON SUN GG
CT FP     LA
GP HAW     SA
KEE HOU     TUP
MNR OP        
PEN RP        
PIM            
TAM            
WO            
Saturday 7
ET CT MT PT
AQU FON SUN GG
BEU HAW     LA
CMR HOU     SA
CT OP     TUP
GP RP        
KEE WRD        
MNR            
PEN            
PIM            
PRX            
STN            
TAM            
WO            
Sunday 8
ET CT MT PT
CMR RP SUN GG
GP         SA
WO            
Monday 9
ET CT MT PT
BEU WRD     TUP
CRC            
MNR            
PRX            
Tuesday 10
ET CT MT PT
BEU FP SUN TUP
CT WRD        
MNR            
PRX            
Wednesday 11
ET CT MT PT
AQU HAW     TUP
CMR OP        
CT            
KEE            
PEN            
TAM            
Thursday 12
ET CT MT PT
AQU HOU     GG
CMR LS     SA
CRC OP        
CT RP        
KEE            
PEN            
PIM            
Friday 13
ET CT MT PT
AQU FON SUN EMD
CMR FP     GG
CRC HAW     LA
CT HOU     SA
KEE LS     TUP
MNR OP        
PEN RP        
PIM            
TAM            
WO            
Saturday 14
ET CT MT PT
AQU FON EMT EMD
ATH HAW SUN GG
BEU HOU     HST
CMR LS     LA
CRC OP     SA
CT RP     TUP
KEE WRD        
MNR            
MON            
PEN            
PIM            
PRX            
TAM            
WO            
Sunday 15
ET CT MT PT
AQU FON EMT EMD
CMR HAW SUN GG
CRC LS     HST
KEE RP     LA
MNR         SA
PIM         TUP
PRX            
TAM            
WO            
Monday 16
ET CT MT PT
BEU WRD     TUP
CMR            
IND            
MNR            
PRX            
Tuesday 17
ET CT MT PT
BEU FP SUN TUP
IND WRD        
MNR            
PRX            
Wednesday 18
ET CT MT PT
AQU EVD        
CMR HAW        
IND            
KEE            
PEN            
TAM            
Thursday 19
ET CT MT PT
AQU EVD     GG
CMR HOU     SA
CRC LS        
KEE RP        
PEN            
PIM            
Friday 20
ET CT MT PT
AQU EVD SRP EMD
CMR FON     GG
CRC FP     LA
FL HAW     SA
IND HOU     TUP
KEE LS        
MNR PRM        
PEN RP        
PIM            
TAM            
WO            
Saturday 21
ET CT MT PT
AQU EVD SRP EMD
BEU FON     GG
CMR FTP     HST
CRC HAW     LA
CT HOU     SA
FL LS     SUD
GN PRM     TUP
IND RP        
KEE WRD        
MID            
MNR            
PEN            
PIM            
PRX            
TAM            
TRY            
WO            
Sunday 22
ET CT MT PT
AQU FON SRP EMD
CMR FTP     GG
CRC HAW     HST
KEE LS     LA
MNR PRM     SA
PIM RP     SUD
PRX         TUP
TAM            
WO            
Monday 23
ET CT MT PT
BEU WRD     TUP
FL            
IND            
MNR            
PRX            
Tuesday 24
ET CT MT PT
BEU FP SRP TUP
CT WRD        
FL            
IND            
MNR            
PRX            
Wednesday 25
ET CT MT PT
CMR EVD        
CT HAW        
IND            
KEE            
PEN            
TAM            
Thursday 26
ET CT MT PT
CMR EVD     GG
CRC HOU     HOL
CT LS        
KEE PRM        
PEN RP        
PIM            
Friday 27
ET CT MT PT
ATL DED SRP EMD
BEL EVD     GG
CMR FON     HOL
CRC FP     LA
CT HAW     TUP
FL HOU        
IND LS        
KEE PRM        
MNR RP        
PEN            
PIM            
RD            
TAM            
WO            
Saturday 28
ET CT MT PT
ATL DED EMT EMD
BEL EVD SRP GG
BEU FON     HOL
CD FTP     HST
CHL HAW     LA
CMR HOU     SUD
CRC LS     TUP
CT PRM        
FL RP        
FX WRD        
GLN            
IND            
MNR            
PEN            
PIM            
RD            
TAM            
WO            
Sunday 29
ET CT MT PT
ATL FON SRP EMD
BEL FTP     GG
CMR HAW     HOL
CRC LS     HST
MNR PRM     LA
PIM RP     SUD
RD         TUP
TAM            
WO            
Monday 30
ET CT MT PT
BEU WRD     TUP
FL            
IND            
MNR            
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

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 Orthodox Easter is on Sunday, April 15, 2012.

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