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• In the spring of 1969, four young men came up with a plan to build a recording studio in Woodstock, New York, 100 miles from Manhattan, where many rock stars were building homes to get away from it all. What these stars needed was a place to record their music without having to hassle with New York City. The plan was to hold a music and art festival in order to raise funds to build the recording studio. • For $10,000 they rented a 300-acre industrial park in Wallkill, New York. It was right off the highway and had all the utilities in place. The town council gave the go-ahead in March for a festival billed as “Three Days of Peace and Music.” Work was begun. The townfolk, alarmed by the long-haired hippies who showed up to build stages, suddenly changed their mind. On June 2, 1969 – just a few weeks before the concert was scheduled – the council reneged on their agreements and ran Woodstock Ventures out of town. • Though the event caused panic among Woodstock Ventures, it also resulted in enormous free publicity that drew the nation’s attention to the upcoming rock festival. Turn the page for more!
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• Concessionaires hired to feed the crowd were woefully under-prepared, and took the opportunity to price gouge. When they ran out of food, one of their stands was burned down in protest. The word went out to the community that there were half a million hungry kids out there. Churches, Boy Scouts, and even the local air force base went on food drives and donated food by the ton. • Friday’s schedule of performers got messed up before it even began, when groups on their way to the site got stuck in traffic or couldn’t even move from their hotels. A fleet of 16 helicopters was rented to help. • The first act to go on, at 5:07 p.m. on August 15, 1969, was Richie Havens, because he looked the most ready. No other acts were ready yet so he wasn’t allowed to leave the stage. He played for three hours, improvising his last song, “Freedom.” His bass player, who had abandoned his car 25 miles away and had walked from there, finally arrived just as Havens was finishing his set and walking off the stage.
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Boxing Must Fix Scoring System When Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather square off the night of Aug. 26, it's already a foregone conclusion that they've both won. McGregor stands to make something north of $60 million and Mayweather $100 million. Mayweather, of course, has the most to lose -- his legacy -but it'd be hard to shed too many tears for the guy if he were to lose. Perhaps the biggest winner in all of the pre-fight spectacle is Paulie Malignaggi. Malignaggi, a former two-time world champion, has always been a curiosity for fight fans. He was knocked for having no power during his career, having only scored seven knockouts; however, his speed, toughness and ability to draw attention to his fights were relatively unmatched during his reign as champion and as a competitor. His acumen inside the ring led him to effortlessly segue to the announcer's table for Showtime, but his take on boxing throughout his career has suddenly come into much sharper focus. Malignaggi, a New Yorker in every sense of the word, never backed down from a fight, and his vocal opinions about the business of boxing are even more relevant today. When you don't knock many people out, you have to rely on the scorecards in boxing. How are the scorecards determined? Nobody has a clue. Aside from the "10 point must system", nobody knows who the boxing judges are, nobody knows how the fight will be judged. Imagine going to any other sporting event and never knowing the score? Imagine watching four quarters of a football game, seeing seven touchdowns but when your friend asks the score you say "not a clue" every time. Or check
in on the baseball game and just let random people in the stands judge whether or not runs should count that day. It was Malignaggi's take on Conor McGregor that got the boxing world laughing along with him. His analogy was that golfers don't suddenly become hockey players because a driver looks similar to a hockey stick. While that knock earned him an invite to spar with McGregor leading up to the fight, the analogy doesn't quite work. People like to talk about the "death of boxing" and always compare the "sweet science" to mixed martial arts, but it doesn't have to be so. They can co-exist, and to say that McGregor isn't a fighter is absolutely absurd. But as we saw from watching Ronda Rousey try to outbox a boxer and lose badly, and knowing enough about Floyd Mayweather's world-class defense, McGregor is still a massive underdog with a puncher's chance. Even if he wins, it doesn't mean that boxing is a lesser sport, it just means that Mayweather lost a fight. We're getting closer to finding out the answers, but boxing will, no matter the outcome, still have plenty to answer for. It's time to fix the scoring system or else these pay-perview spectacles are going to be a thing of the past, and that's something we'd all regret. As McGregor said, "We're all getting fed here." At the end of the day it's a job, and boxing still has more work to do. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. © 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.
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TOTAL ECLIPSE
• On August 21, there will be a total eclipse of the Sun. Throughout history, eclipses have offered astronomers a chance to collect information about the Sun and the universe. • About 75% of the Sun’s mass is composed of hydrogen, and 25% is helium. These are the two lightest elements, so you’d think the Sun would be light and airy. The opposite is true, due to the pull of gravity. The Sun is 150 times as dense as water, and 20 times as dense as iron. The temperature is 20 million degrees F. and the pressure is 200 billion times Earth’s atmospheric pressure. The Sun is a giant nuclear reactor. On Earth, we can re-create what happens on the Sun by dropping a hydrogen bomb. • Gravity pulls hydrogen to the center of the Sun where the pressure is so great that hydrogen fuses and forms helium along with nuclear energy. Pockets of this superheated gas swell and bubble to the surface, like water boiling on a stove. When those bubbles burst, they give off light, and that causes the corona, a halo of light around the Sun. Scientists can only get a look at the corona during an eclipse. • It was during the eclipse of August 18, 1868, when astronomers found out that the Sun is made of hydrogen and helium. On that date, astronomer John Herschel and a group of scientists used a new tool, called a spectroscope. When light of the Sun’s corona passed through the prism in the spectroscope, it was broken down into a spectrum of lines and colors which allowed the scientists to identify the chemical elements present, as well as their temperature and density. This is when they found that the corona of the Sun was composed mainly of hydrogen. But the spectrograph showed an unfamiliar yellow line from an element that could not be identified; it was unknown on Earth. An astronomer named Lockyer named it “helium” after the Greek word for Sun, “helios.” ...continued
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