on any day of the year, whether or not Cardinal Governor Andrew Cuomo, might be in church. Nassau OTB can't close ONLY on Roman Catholic Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday. See eg.
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
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1 
Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
Mary of Egypt
Gerontios & Vasilides the Martyrs
more | 2 
6th Monday of Lent
Titus the Wonderworker
Theodora the Virgin-martyr of Palestine
more | 3
6th Tuesday of Lent
Nikitas the Confessor
Joseph the Hymnographer
more | 4
6th Wednesday of Lent
George the Righteous of Maleon
Righteous Plato the Studite
more | 5
6th Thursday of Lent
Monk-Martyrs Claudius, Diodore, Victor, Victorinus, and those with them
Theodora the Righteous of Thessaloniki
more | 6
6th Friday of Lent
Eutychios, Patriarch of Constantinople
Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles & Enlightener of the Slavs
more | 7
Lazarus Saturday
Kalliopios the Martyr, Roufinos the Deacon & Akylina the Martyr in Sinope
Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Enlightener of North America
more |
8 
Palm Sunday
Agavos, Rouphos, Asynkritos, Phlegon, Herodion, & Hermes of the 70 Apostles
Rufus the Obedient of the Kiev Caves
more | 9
Holy Monday
Eupsychios the Martyr
Vadim the Righteous of Persia
more | 10
Holy Tuesday
Terence & his Companions beheaded at Carthage
Gregory V, the Holy Martyr & Patriarch of Constantinople
more | 11
Holy Wednesday
Antipas, Bishop of Pergamon
Pharmuthios the Anchorite
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Holy Thursday
Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parios
Anthoussa the Righteous of Constantinople
more | 13
Holy Friday
Martin the Confessor, Pope of Rome
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Holy Saturday
Aristarchos, Pudens, Trophimos the Apostles of the 70
Thomais the Martyr of Alexandria
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15
Great and Holy Pascha
Crescens the Martyr
Leonidas, Bishop of Athens
more | 16 
Fast Free
Renewal Monday
Agape, Chionia, & Irene, the Holy Martyrs
| 17
Fast Free
Renewal Tuesday
Symeon the Holy Martyr & Bishop of Persia
Makarios, Bishop of Corinth
more | 18
Fast Free
Renewal Wednesday
Holy Father John the Righteous, disciple of St. Gregory of Decapolis
Euthemios the Enlightener of Karelia
more | 19
Fast Free
Renewal Thursday
Paphnoutios the Holy Martyr
George the Confessor
| 20
Fast Free
Renewal Friday: Theotokos of the Lifegiving Font
Theodore the Trichinas
Zacchaeus the Apostle of Caesaria
more | 21
Fast Free
Renewal Saturday
Ianouarios the Holy Martyr & his Companions
Our Holy Father Maximian, Patriarch of Constantinople
more |
22
Thomas Sunday
Theodore the Sykeote
Nathaniel, Luke, & Clemente the Apostles
more | 23
George the Great Martyr & Triumphant
| 24
2nd Tuesday after Pascha
Elizabeth the Wonderworker
Savvas the General of Rome
| 25
Mark the Apostle & Evangelist
New Martyrs Emmanuel, Theodore, Gregory, Michael and the other Gregory at Macre of Alexandropoulos
| 26
2nd Thursday after Pascha
Basil the Holy Martyr Bishop of Amasea
Glaphyra the Righteous
| 27
2nd Friday after Pascha
Symeon the Holy Martyr
Eulogios the Innkeeper of Constantinople
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2nd Saturday after Pascha
The 9 Monk-martyrs of Cyzikos
Theocharus and Apostolus
more |
29
Holy Myrrhbearers Sunday
Jason & Sosipater the Apostles of the 70 & their Companions
Holy Martyr Cercyra
more | 30
James the Apostle & brother of St. John the Theologian
Argyra the New Martyr
Clement the Hymnographer
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Strict Fast | 
Fish Allowed | 
Wine and Oil Allowed | 
Dairy,Eggs,
and Fish Allowed |
Fast Free |
Note: The calendar above displays only the top two Saints or Feasts for the day. To see all the Saints commemorated on a particular day, click on the number of the day in the grid. |
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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,
articles.nydailynews.com/.../18220335_1_racing-and-wagering-boar...
Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m. BY JERRY BOSSERT DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER. Monday, April 14, 2003. New York City Off-Track Betting ...
§ 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 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.
April 2012
Live Racing
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