🌱 Center Moriches-Eastport Daily: Drag Race A Go + Ballet + Golf

Happy Saturday, people of Center Moriches-Eastport! Diane Witek here with everything going on around Center Moriches-Eastport today. First, today’s weather: Mostly sunny. High: 30, low: 20. Here are the top stories today in Center Moriches-Eastport: Race on! The Riverhead Town Board green lights car racing events for 2022 at the Calverton Enterprise Park. All events will be held at the former Grumman site. The first event of the year, “Scrambul: Cold Fusion,” will take place on the afternoons of March 5-6, with a rain date of March 12-13, and a maximum of 1,000 people in attendance. (RiverheadLOCAL) In celebration of Black History Month: Get ready for a spectacular evening featuring the New York City-based dance company Complexions Contemporary Ballet as they perform two new full-length… Source link

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🌱 Riverhead Daily: West Main Street Altercation + Drag Race A Go

Hello, neighbors! It’s me again, Diane Witek, your host of the Riverhead Daily. First, today’s weather: Mostly sunny and cold. High: 30, low: 18. Here are the top stories in Riverhead today: Jason Melenciano, 40, of Riverhead, was charged with one count of second-degree assault after a physical altercation on West Main Street in Riverhead. According to Riverhead Town Police, at 9:18 p.m. a call came in about the dispute involving residents of a West Main Street home. One man, 39, sustained a laceration to his arm, police said. He was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries and released.(Riverhead Patch) Race on! The Riverhead Town Board green lights car racing events for 2022 at the Calverton Enterprise Park. All events will be held at… Source link

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Riverhead green-lights EPCAL drag racing events for 2022

Drag racing at the Calverton Enterprise Park got a green light for 2022 from the Riverhead Town Board Wednesday. The board approved four events to be organized by André Baxter and Peter Scalzo, who both held separate events at EPCAL last year. All events are scheduled to be held on the 10,000-foot, town-owned runway on the former Grumman site which, while rarely used, is still an active runway. Baxter held his 2021 event on the 10,000-foot runway, which was shut down to air traffic on the weekend of his event. Scalzo’s series of events last year took place on the 7,000-foot runway, which is inactive. [See prior coverage: Riverhead eyes drag racing return in 2022] The first event of the year, “Scrambul: Cold Fusion,” is organized by Baxter and is scheduled to take place on the… Source link

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Town Board approves four drag racing events at EPCAL for 2022

Racing will return to EPCAL in 2022. (Credit: Dan Bower) Drag racing will return to the Enterprise Park at Calverton this year, as the Riverhead Town Board on Wednesday approved four events that will span multiple weekends from spring through fall. Promoter Andre Baxter’s “Scrambul: Cold Fusion” will take place March 5-6 with a rain date of March 12-13.  The vote to approve the special permit was not unanimous. Supervisor Yvette Aguiar and Councilman Tim Hubbard voted against it. Ms. Aguiar insisted the event be sanctioned by the National Hot Rod Association and Ms. Hubbard wanted Jersey Barriers to… Source link

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Bob Saget and open source license compliance

Unique open source licenses provide amusement for developers but they create extra work for legal teams overseeing a company’s IP. Several of my open source friends had the same reaction when they heard of the death of Bob Saget. Sadly, the actor/comedian passed away last week at a relatively young age, and with him went an increment of open source license risk. Wait… what? Yes, it’s true. I was only vaguely aware of Saget when he was at his most famous as the father on the 1980s/90s sitcom Full House. At the time I was too busy with my career and filling my own house to watch a lot of TV. His role in the popular series was rather wholesome and a stark contrast to his fairly raunchy standup act. But the flame of his fame achieved a little extra glow in the open source world in… Source link

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Ongoing dispute over the origins of COVID-19 raises a prickly question: Should consensus play a role in science?

The authority of scientific institutions Scientific expertise is elitist, in the sense that the vast majority of us are not qualified to practice science any more than the vast majority of us are qualified to practice law or medicine or commercial aviation. As a result, most people are barred from active participation in scientific institutions —publishing in scientific journals, presenting at scientific conferences, and teaching university-level science courses. The barriers to entry into science are, and ought to be, high. This is not what makes science unique; it’s what makes it a form of expertise like any other. One of the things that doesmake science unique, however, is the role that consensus plays in establishing these barriers. A scientific consensus helps to define a… Source link

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Steve Martin Jokes About Golden Globes Amid Oscars Hosting Rumors

In responding to the rumors about potentially hosting the upcoming Oscar ceremony, Steve Martin makes a joke about the Golden Globe Awards. Steve Martin jokes about the Golden Globe Awards amid rumors he could host this year’s Oscars. Martin has had a long, multifaceted career as a successful comedian, actor, and musician, being able to incorporate all three of his talents simultaneously in his work. He has been bestowed with many honors and life achievement awards, including an Honorary Academy Award and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, while receiving multiple other accolades. He is currently starring on the Hulu mystery comedy series Only Murders in the Building with Martin Short, with whom he has previously toured in a… Source link

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Wheels are in motion for If Fusion Were That Easy

We’re wisely told to “follow the science” these days, but this notion will take on a whole different meaning in If Fusion Were That Easy, an upcoming point-and-click adventure from Golden Coin Games that will soon be coming to Kickstarter.  Players primarily assume to role of a young physicist name Daniel, who has a penchant for getting himself out of trouble he’s gotten himself into. Cold fusion appears to on the verge of a major breakthrough, and Daniel is working on a just such a reactor when his project begins to “spiral out of control.” Daniel may be the only person who can now avoid disaster, with help from a second playable character named George, but standing in their way is the Clan, a “mysterious association” with other ideas is mind. If the two men are to save the world… Source link

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Is It Time For Big Oil To Split Up?

Last October, a hedge fund disclosed a stake worth $750 million in Shell and urged the supermajor to split its fossil fuel business from its renewable energy business in a move that just a decade ago would have seemed, to put it mildly, eccentric. “Shell has too many competing stakeholders pushing it in too many different directions,” the owner of the hedge fund, billionaire Daniel Loeb, wrote to his clients. While the two companies held preliminary talks on the topic, according to Shell, there has been no news on any splits since last October, perhaps because the owner of Third Point is otherwise occupied with shareholder disgruntlement. Yet earlier this month, a former industry voice lent itself to the split-Big-Oil idea: former BP chief executive and current chairman of… Source link

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Mourning Betty White In A High Tech World

The following is a transcript of my radar from Tuesday’s edition of “Rising” on HillTV. I learned something truly ridiculous about Betty White in one of the many tributes to her that aired last week. White’s first appearance on television was on an experimental broadcast that aired in 1939. She was 17. It was the same year “Gone With The Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz” were released.  “When people started looking at television, I think they were going to have a box in their room, everybody was like, ‘Yeah, it’s another passing fad,’” Frank Scherma of the Television Academy told NBC last week. What makes this fact about White’s life ridiculous is that it puts into perspective the short life of a technology that feels old. Her career spanned… Source link

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