Saturday at the Alexander East Chapel parking lot, Piranha Mobile Shredding was shredding for free. Gary Wire, who teaches a program on identity theft, said it's just one of the steps you can take to decrease your odds of being a victim. "I've done hundreds of the programs and everyone asks the same question," Wire said. "'Where can I go to take things that we just don't want to throw away? Things we don't want to get into the hands of someone else and protect ourselves against identity theft.' So we've bonded with Piranha and WFIE, and WIKY and came up with the program." There will be another free shredding program next Saturday. It will be at the Alexander Chapel parking lot in Newburgh from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Look to the ancient skies Using a clever bit of retrospective stargazing researchers have managed to date Homer's classic work The Odyssey. Another team has used a similar technique to shift Julius Caesar back in time by a few days. First up: The Odyssey. Marcelo Magnasco and Constantino Baikouzis identified four astronomical events in the epic poem and calculated dates within 100 years of the fall of Troy that would fit in with the events described around Odysseus's return home and the ensuing slaughter of men propositioning his wife. April 16, 1178 BCE was what they came up with (press release). This is handy because it ties in with a previous theory that dates an eclipse possibly described in The Odyssey to the same date. Some have previously argued that the poem does not make reference to the eclipse at all and that the phrase “the Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world" is not an actual description of events (LA Times). document shredding company