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It would have been nice if when I raced this past Friday I did not have to travel 250 miles roundtrip, pay tolls, a tank of gas, 2 meals, and all that went to NJ. Would have much preferred to spend that money right here on LI. Can we impeach the officials of Riverhead already?
read this !!! all the local fire depts have there dragstrips to run there ladder climbing contests !!???? why cant we have a local one for the residents tax paying dollars pay for these hotrods that all the local fire depts have !!!
OK IF YOU WONT BUILD A 1/4 MILE DRAGSTRIP HOW ABOUT AN 1/8TH MILE STRIP 660FT OF CONCRETE I THINK IT MEETS THE TAX PAYERS BUDGET….
The Bridgehampton-Vanderbilt Motorsports Complex (BVMC).
Member of Long Island Motorsports Association – L.I.M.A.
I would like to see a motorsports facility that includes a road course. It would be fantastic to have an ALMS or Grand-Am race on the island. Hotels, restaurants, gas stations, convenience stores and all other sort of retail establishments would benefit from the influx of fans but don’t forget the teams too. All the me...
I would even go so far as to salute Long Island’s motorsports heritage by calling it the Bridgehampton-Vanderbilt Motorsports Complex (BVMC).
MOTOR SPORTS PARK, we need this.
Long Island NEEDS a Motor sports facility. Why do we have to bring our dollars (and sport…) out of state? There is a tremendous demand for a Motor sports park and there is plenty of money to be made. Not to mention, giving everyone a SAFE and LEGAL outlet to enjoy our sport and keep it safe on the streets. A1/4 mile dr...
People in the Automotive hobby/business have wondered for a L-O-N-G time why we are never heard? GIVE US A TRACK ON LONG ISLAND. Please….
Being a Long Islander means being a car enthusiast.
Get us a track so we dont have to spend thousands of dollars in NJ anymore.
I’m going racing along with some members of a local car club I belong to on Monday. Our hard earned New York dollars will be spent in New Jersey. It’s a shame because as a homeowner; I absolutely see the need for development of the land to help the tax base. As a car enthusiast I would like to see a motorsports park wi...
I would lick Dale Ernhardts **** cutter for a race track.
HELP KEEP THE HIGHWAYS AND STREETS SAFE THATS THE BOTTOM LINE , LI NEEDS A DRAG STRIP ASAP ..
Building a motorsport park is the best idea that has been around since this property had become available in about 1996.
It would be reaping millions by now yearly and no needed ideas of layoffs to our fire department and town workers.
Give the people what they have always wanted, a motorsport park.
Keep Long Islands money in its own economy and lets grow together.
There are so many good civic and civil uses of the property for when we would not be racing.
States all over our union are waking up and building motorsport parks knowing the statistics of revenue these places bring to their economies.
Can you hear us now……….
Not only will a Motorsport Venue create new jobs (build, operate,maintain) it will be a shot in the arm for the Performance Speed Shops and Install/Tune Shops struggling today. It sounds like a great “STIMULUS” project for Washington. Hear and help the little person for once !!!!!! Stop having to drive 2-3 hours each w...
Susan Gibbons and Tammy Tebo, members of the Amvets 282 Auxiliary, organize the prizes for the kids' carnival games at the Family and Freedom Festival on Saturday.
POTSDAM -- Amvets Post 282 and Auxiliary is hosting the Family and Freedom Festival on Saturday, Sept. 15 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the post at 6771 U.S. Highway 11, next to Hospice between Canton and Potsdam.
The festival, held to promote patriotism and respect for veterans currently serving and those retired according to the Auxiliary, will feature a variety of family activities.
Horse drawn wagon rides by Double Percherons, Kids’ Carnival games, and a kids’ only Karaoke contest, quality craft fair, bake sale, raffles, and more will be accompanied by a live broadcast by MIX 96. Lunch and beverages will be sold.
Troops stationed at Fort Drum will be at the post to meet the public and demonstrate some of the modern equipment and vehicles they use.
Flag etiquette and disposal of old flags will be taught by Post 282 Commander Fay Sheldon around noon.
Carnival games are 25 cents each. Carrots for the horses are $1. Rides are free.
While on Padam Kumar, the film-maker has already started work on his new film. The cast? Padam has decided to cast his friend Sunny Deol in the lead role, while the second hero is under finalisation [it could be Uday Chopra, Padam confides]. The film will star two leading ladies both established names. It’ll be a thril...
Facebook, where is the ‘dislike’ button?
To my new friends, I didn’t exist before September 2007. Even though I’m 33, my life officially started at 25 — when I joined Facebook.
Everything before my second trip to Beijing is lost in a dark void unless I scanned a 35mm picture and posted it online for #TBT (throwback Thursday).
My Facebook friends see that I have two brothers (true) and a sister (false). I’ve been twice married (false) and divorced (false) — once to my faux sister. And I prefer to have the social media giant use the pronoun “her” rather than “him” to guilt-trip people into wishing me a happy birthday.
If I ever want to re-examine my place in society, I could choose one of 58 gender identity options, including androgynous, cisgender, intersex, non-binary, transexual or two-spirit. But that’s not enough. On Thursday Facebook announced nearly 60 colors is not enough for the crayon box. Now users can create their own id...
Seems like the powers that be put a lot of thought into making Facebook more welcoming for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Superb. But what about the rest of its 1.23 billion active worldwide users?
Look, Mark Zuckerberg. Maybe it’s easy for someone worth $34.8 billion to “like” everything the sycophant world has to offer. But life isn’t as peachy for us plebeians. Sometimes I don’t want to give a thumbs up to the boneheaded things people post. Sometimes I want to #smh (shake my head) at their vacuous status updat...
And sometimes people post tragic things that shouldn’t be approved. After Grandpa’s death in November, I didn’t want to put the news on Facebook because I knew people would “like” the status update.
Sixteen people liked that post and three commented. Facebook doesn’t offer many options. People could like, comment or share status updates. The easiest thing to do is like.
On Wednesday “Chef Ho” had to put his old dog, Lumpkins, to sleep. Although he doesn’t use Facebook, he wrote a sweet #RIP post for his hound. A dozen people liked it. His three ex-girlfriends knew better and commented without giving the sad note a thumbs up.
When I told Chef Ho about his wall of exes and the 12 likes (because he never checks the site), he rolled his eyes.
• I saw this and wanted to let you know I saw this.
• Oh, poor thing. You put yourself out there and no one gave you any love. Let me help boost your self-esteem.
• I’m super-bored and got a little trigger-happy. Your post isn’t awesome, but I want to look busy and important tapping my smartphone.
The world is confusing enough without adding a gazillion shades of “like.” How about adding a “dislike” or thumbs down option, Facebook?
Zen Vuong is a staff writer for the Pasadena Star-News. She is a Facebook lurker. You can follow Zen at Twitter.com/ZenReport or on Facebook.com/ZenReport.
While spring may seem like it's a long way off, music fans are already dipping into their wallets and pocketbooks for an Ocean City rock concert that will be worth waiting for.
Locals are buzzing about this year's edition of Springfest, which will feature a headlining appearance by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts on Saturday, May 6. Tickets, ranging from $30 to $50, are on sale now via www.ticketmaster.com. A look at the online seating chart shows that seats closest to the stage are already selli...
With a catalog of hits including "I Love Rock 'n' Roll," "Bad Reputation" and "Hate Myself for Loving You," Jett was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. One year earlier, she had appeared at the rock hall's ceremony when Nirvana was inducted, performing that band's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." She was a...
Jett has played the Bottle & Cork nightclub in Dewey Beach several times throughout the course of her career, however, her most recent area show was more than a decade ago, when she shared a bill with Def Leppard at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center in Salisbury.
The 27th annual edition of Springfest will kick off Thursday, May 4, and concert headliners for that night and also Friday, May 5 have yet to be announced.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Texas lawyer accused of making up fake clients to sue BP after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil spill said after his acquittal Thursday that the government's case against him "fell apart under its own weight of ridiculousness."
Attorney Mikal Watts of San Antonio and four others were acquitted Thursday by a federal jury in Gulfport, Mississippi, of 66 charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and identity theft. They had been accused by prosecutors of making up names or stealing personal information for a list of 40,000 people with claims against the...
Two people were convicted of the 66 charges — Gregory Warren of Lafayette, Louisiana, and Thi Houng "Kristy" Le of Grand Bay, Alabama.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Watts said he and those closest with him were not criminals but victims of a fraud perpetrated by the two convicted, whom he hired to sign up clients. Blaming them was part of his defense.
Earlier Thursday, Watts and the six other defendants sat in the courtroom as jurors plowed through the long list of charges, taking 15 minutes or more to render a complete verdict for each person.
"It was pretty stressful, 66 counts," Watts said.
Authorities said Watts and other investors had spent nearly $11 million to compile the massive list, but it was riddled with errors, including names of the dead, people who never gave permission for Watts to represent them and even a dog's name.
Prosecutors said Watts, his brother David Watts and law firm employee Wynter Lee saw on plenty of occasions that the list was full of problems, but pressed on toward the prospect of a big legal payday. The claimants were supposed to be paid from a $2.3 billion fund BP set aside to compensate fishermen.
Watts and others denied that they intended to commit fraud, a requirement for a conviction, saying they were relying on the legal process to shake out which plaintiffs had real claims and which didn't. Michael McCrum, who represented David Watts, said he believed jurors saw the government's case "just didn't make sense...
Watts has been a prominent plaintiff's lawyer representing thousands of clients in other cases and raising millions of dollars for President Barack Obama and other Democrats.
Representing himself as he had throughout the trial, Watts on Wednesday had asked jurors in closing arguments to help repair his reputation by fully exonerating him.
"I think it helps a lot," Watts said.
U.S. Attorney Gregory Davis said in a statement that prosecutors respected the verdict, and declined further comment. Lawyers for Le and Warren couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
BP had initially sued Watts in 2013 after complaining about his client list, and the Secret Service and other federal agencies launched a multiyear investigation. Watts said he thought the Secret Service's investigation has been "reckless" and said the government was "bewitched" by BP's allegations, repeating many of t...
Watts said that after a week off, he expected to return to his law firm.
"I've spent the last nine months defending myself as oppose to the clients I've agreed to represent," he said.
Jurors also acquitted Eloy Guerra of Weslaco, Texas, a man whom prosecutors had said was the key link between Watts and Warren.
"It is not often that the federal government swings and misses," said Guerra's lawyer, Chip Lewis.
Thi Hoang "Abbie" Nguyen of Grand Bay, Alabama, also was acquitted. She worked part-time for her sister-in-law, Le, but denied she took part in any conspiracy.
Her lawyer, Ramiro "Remy" Orozco, said all the money that Watts spent preparing his defense helped other lawyers, but also noted the case is a "warning" to plaintiff's lawyers.
"Even though it's a victory ... I think the cost of Mr. Watts' defense is something that he'll never recover," Orozco said.
The processing power Nvidia's GPUs are capable of has made them a useful tool for those dealing in ether, but the company's CEO would prefer the GPUs be kept for use in areas such as gaming or high-performance computing.
In delivering his keynote at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose on Tuesday, company founder and CEO Jensen Huang checked off a number of industry hot topics, announcing among other things a virtual reality driverless car simulation system, but deliberately omitting blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
Speaking with media after his address, Huang was asked about the omission, and explained that his company's technology is regretfully used en masse by those mining ether.
"Ethereum, ether, was designed as an algorithm to ensure that no singular entity or a few entities has a power to control the ether," Huang said.
"It was designed so that the algorithm requires the type of compute capability, the type of processing capability that is made possible by GPUs in a distributed system."
The reason why the graphics processing unit (GPU) is so popular with ethereum, Huang explained, is because it is the single largest distributed supercomputer in the world, and the only supercomputer that is "literally in everybody's hands".
"As a result, no single entity can control the currency -- it was designed to do that -- and that is why GPUs are so good at it," he said.
But that's not Nvidia's business, and Huang said he doesn't want it to be his company's business.
"Gaming is growing, workstation is growing, AI hyperscale datacentre is growing, high-performance computing is growing. Quite frankly, I'd prefer that our GPUs were built to be used in those areas," he said.
And the reason for that, he continued, is there's a shortage of GPUs. Huang said it's hard for Nvidia to keep stock.
"My preference would be, of course, that we allocate them for the people we build them for, but there's a logical reason for why [they use] Nvidia GPUs, because it's the world's largest distributed supercomputer," Huang said.
When asked why Nvidia doesn't lift and shift its ethereum-focused users over to its DGX systems, Huang said cryptocurrency doesn't need as much of a system architecture as artificial intelligence does.
"An AI system is very different to a cryptocurrency one," he added.
To Huang, the future of software is AI.
The Wrap has published a long article on 3D’s future in Hollywood which includes a nice chart designed by Daniel Frankel which chronicles the drop of opening weekend box office revenue that came from 3D movie tickets. On the surface this graph seems pretty damming, but I’m not sure I completely buy the story it tells.
First off: I think it is completely unfair to include James Cameron’s Avatar in this graph for many reasons.
Secondly, it is the only PG-13 film included on the list. The other films are mostly family targeted. I would assume that families are the ones choosing 2D over 3D as the price of 3D tickets for a family of four or five is much less affordable.Where as teenagers and adults going alone or with a date might be more willi...
Thirdly, there might also be something to be said about how Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me didn’t include the 3D aspect as a big part of their marketing campaigns, where as Dreamworks Animation tried to include “3D” up front and center in every piece of marketing.
Are less people paying to see a movie in 3D? I’m not sure. Why isn’t Clash of the Titans on here? Journey to the Center of the Earth? Final Destination? I would definitely love to see a graph that incorporates all of the 3D releases, or at least a more extensive list.
ST. LOUIS – The threat of rain throughout the afternoon and evening has led the St. Louis Cardinals to postpone Thursday’s scheduled home opener. The game — and all the associated festivities — move to Friday.
Friday’s schedule will mirror what had been planned for Thursday. The home opener ceremony is set for 2:30 and first pitch is scheduled for 3:15. Busch Stadium gates will open at noon.
Fans with tickets to Thursday’s game should use those same tickets for admittance to the rescheduled game on Friday. Fans who purchased tickets to Thursday’s Official Pregame Party at Cardinals Nation will be able to use those same tickets on Friday as well.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals judge said Monday that prosecutors overreacted by charging two former U.S. Border Patrol agents — imprisoned for shooting a fleeing drug smuggler — with a firearm charge that carried a lengthy prison sentence.
A three-judge panel in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments by attorneys for Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who are serving sentences of 11 and 12 years in prison, respectively, for shooting a smuggler in the buttocks and covering it up in February 2005.
"It does seem to me like the government overreacted here," said Judge E. Grady Jolly, questioning Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Stelmach before a crowded courtroom. "There were plenty of statutes you could have charged."
The judges pressed the prosecution for answers on a range of legal issues — from the choice of which charges to bring, to the scope of an immunity agreement with the drug smuggler, who was recently indicted in connection with a separate marijuana load.
The two former agents were found guilty by a federal jury on charges of assault, violation of civil rights, use of a firearm during a crime of violence and obstruction of justice.

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