RIVERHEAD, NY — After being met with widespread support last season by many, drag racing could be back this year at Enterprise Park at Calverton. Acccording to Riverhead Town Supervisor Yvette Aguiar, two separate proposals are before the town board and will be discussed at public hearings on February 8; those public hearings will remain open for written comments for 10 days, after which the board will vote. Peter Scalzo, who presented his “Race Track, Not Street,” series last year, is back this year for a proposal for a Spring Classic on April 2,3,9, 10 and 16. If there is a rain-out during that series, guests can redeem their ticket for any event later in the series, Scalzo said. The reason no rain date for the Spring Classic is proposed is due to the bird nesting season, which begins… Source link

FNArena’s dedicated ESG Focus news section zooms in on matters Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) that are increasingly guiding investors preferences and decisions globally. For more news updates, past and future: https://www.fnarena.com/index.php/financial-news/daily-financial-news/category/esg-focus/ EU Leaks Taxonomy Criteria For Uranium And Gas The European Commission is set to include nuclear energy and gas energy in its taxonomy but only under strict conditions – a move that could attract a capital influx to help the industry to adapt to new standards -ESG investor attitudes to nuclear energy-France, China and India see strong nuclear future-Thorium in the game By Sarah Mills The European Commission… Source link

Physicists Robert Goldston and Jacob Schwartz with computerized sketch of the international ITER experiment behind them. Credit: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Excitement about fusion energy is growing. The international ITER project in France, which counts China, India, Europe, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States as its partners, is starting to assemble the world’s most powerful fusion experiment. It is designed to produce 10 times more fusion power, in the form of heat, than the power injected into the fuel. Consequently it will approach what… Source link

The Race Track Not Street series in August 2021 brought drag racing back to Long Island. (Credit: Dan Bower) Drag racing is set to make an encore in Calverton. Two events — “Race Track Not Street, organized by Peter Scalzo, and “Scrambul Runway Challenge” organized by Andre Baxter — both plan to return to the Enterprise Park at Calverton in 2022. Both promoters made presentations before the Riverhead Town Board Thursday about holding new drag racing events in 2022 after their initial events were held last fall. Supervisor Yvette Aquiar asked board members to support her recommendation that any… Source link

Roger Moore was the star of the original The Saint TV series during the 1960s, and here’s where to find his cameo in Val Kilmer’s 1997 movie remake. He was the lead of the original series, and here’s where to find Roger Moore’s cameo in 1997’s The Saint movie. Long before he took over from Sean Connery as James Bond, Moore was a major TV star. He briefly replaced James Garner in the lead of classic western series Maverick in 1960, before taking on the part of Simon Templer in The Saint. The show was an adaptation of the novels by Leslie Charteris and followed Moore’s Templar, a mysterious Englishman who goes around righting wrongs or taking on criminals or the corrupt. The Saint established Moore as a star, including his trademarks like… Source link

The sponsors of last year’s drag racing events in Calverton are seeking approval to bring their events back to the Enterprise Park runways again this year. Peter Scalzo and Andre Baxter both pitched their proposals to the Riverhead Town Board at the board’s work session this morning. Scalzo plans 12 weekends of races running in April and May and August through October. Baxter plans one weekend in early March. Baxter and Scalzo, who held separate drag racing events on the town-owned runways last summer and fall, have submitted new applications to hold events this year. Supervisor Yvette Aguiar said a fifth application was submitted by New York King but was incomplete and would not be considered by the board. Both events would be held on a 10,000-foot runway, which, while rarely… Source link

Cars lined up Aug. 21 for the first day of Race Track Not Street. (Credit: Dan Bower) Two drag race events that were scheduled this weekend at the Enterprise Park at Calverton have been canceled. The Town Board in January approved a total of 21 weekend drag race events on the taxiway of the 10,000-foot EPCAL runway. But Peter Scalzo, the promoter of the Race Track Not Street series, contacted town officials about a week ago and said that representatives of Luminati Aerospace had objected to the use of the taxiway, according to officials.  Luminati Aerospace is headed by Daniel Preston, who has since moved… Source link

When Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block 13 years ago today, giving rise to the Bitcoin blockchain, he sparked a cryptographic revolution — you could store your wealth behind personal private keys. Recognized every January 3, Proof Of Keys Day is an opportunity to reflect on that breakthrough by ensuring that you hold your private keys. In recent years, Bitcoiners have celebrated this day by taking their bitcoin off of exchanges. At Casa, we help Bitcoiners take self custody of their keys, and we’ve found that some education is required to use this power effectively. This year, we’re taking Proof Of Keys Day a step further by calling out a threat on the horizon and explaining why we should act now to keep our keys as robust as ever. That threat is quantum computing. What Is… Source link

In 1996 scientists announced the astonishing news that they’d discovered what they believed might be signs of ancient life inside a meteorite from Mars. In 2014 astrophysicists declared that they’d found direct evidence at last for the “inflationary universe” theory, first proposed in the 1980s. What these assertions had in common was that they were based on research by highly qualified, credentialed scientists—and also that the “discoveries” turned out to be wrong. Today essentially nobody thinks the meteorite contained persuasive evidence that it once harbored life, or that the astrophysicists had found anything more exciting than dust in the Milky Way. This sort of backtracking isn’t unusual. In part, it happens because scientists almost always have to revise… Source link

The science-fiction writers who flourished in the postwar era, like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein, promised a glittering technological future. A lot of what they imagined has come true, from powerful pocket phones and a global library to synthetic foods and self-driving cars. “The Jetsons,” which premiered in 1962, depicted a futuristic life of extraordinary ease. George Jetson’s flying car folded into his briefcase, while his job at Spacely Space Sprockets consisted mostly of resting his feet on his desk while machines did the work. The question for J. Storrs Hall is why some of those visions have materialized but others have not. Air travel remains a tedious business of driving to the airport, flying and then driving to the ultimate destination. Space… Source link