DAN'S PAPERS, August 15, 2008 Page 49 www.danshamptons.com
Brawl at Publick House, Bouncer Dies By Alison Caporimo An altercation with a drunken partier at the Southampton Publick House in the early hours of Thursday morning resulted in the death of Andrew Reister, a bouncer for the restaurant/bar. Reister, a 40-year-old Hampton Bays native, was working his usual night shift at the Publick House on August 6 when Anthony Oddone began drawing attention. The incident reportedly began when Reister asked Oddone to stop dancing on a table. Oddone, of Farmingdale, attacked Reister, put him in a head-lock, according to witnesses, and choked him until he fell unconscious.
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Many patrons tried to stop the fight and even administer CPR to a suffocated Reister. When Southampton Village Police showed up, Reister was still unconscious. Southampton Village Police arrested Oddone, as he attempted to flee the scene in a taxi, at 1:15 a.m. Oddone was charged with assault in the first degree, a felony, and was held on $500,000 bail. As for Reister, his wife and two children stayed at his bedside at Stony Brook Medical Center since early Thursday morning. Reister, who suffered severe brain damage from the altercation and was put on life support, died at 11:08 a.m.
Saturday morning. Having worked worked as a corrections officer in the sheriff’s office since April 1994, Reister was a dedicated law enforcer and worker. He also helped inmates in the Rehabilitation Unit, where he assisted in their preparation to reenter society after jail time. Oddone is now charged with murder in the second degree, which commonly draws a sentence from 25 years to life in prison. He is currently being held at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. The alleged murder is the first to occur in Southampton Village since 1988.
in the search engine field), and Russell Power, who worked with Patterson on the large Google index. Cuil, which has roughly 30 employees and is based in Menlo Park, California, has raised $33 million from venture capital investors. To date, they’ve only spent $7 million,
which, in the realm of search engines, is a drop of water in an ocean of expenses. On launch day, Cuil attempted to handle 50 million queries, which was far more than they expected. Patterson was quoted saying that the pattern of searches wasn’t what they expected. “People were looking for their names a lot,” she said. When you search yourself, the engine tries to guess what you are about to search. So I got the very predictable Victoria’s Secret. No, not today, I thought. When I typed in my full name, the results I garnered were nothing of interest, not even a historical site about Queen Victoria. The Cuil team still has a lot of work to do and until they shape up and give the people what they want, I’ll be Googling all my friends and coworkers.
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No results. Leave your trunks at home. Search #3: Hamptons Restaurants Zagat. Zagat. Zagat. Not one local publication or website pops up on the first page. No reviews. Just links that bring you to the Zagat: Hamptons Restaurants guide book (2006-08), and then a few links to STREETWISE Maps…for Southampton and East Hampton. If you relied on this search for dinner, you’d still have no idea where to eat tonight. Search #4: Hamptons Nightlife Come on. How can you mess this one up? I was brought to clubplanet.com, New York Magazine and some tourism website based out of Hawaii. Nothing about the Pink Elephant, the Steven Talkhouse, or even the most talked about nightspot this summer, Surf Lodge in Montauk. See Dan’s Nightlife Calendar on page 117 for the real scoop. Cuil was officially launched on Monday, July 28 by two Google alumni, Anna Patterson and her husband, Tom Costello. Patterson and Costello founded a search engine in the late ‘90s called Xift. Patterson then wrote a search engine used by the Internet Archives, which was sold to Google, where she then began to operate one of their engineering groups focused on ranking (the part of the search engine that picks which 10 links should appear when you search). The idea for Cuil came about when Patterson returned from maternity leave and decided that Google had become too large. The new company has other former Google employees, including Louis Monier, a former chief technology officer at AltaVista (a pioneer
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