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SUMMARY:Brian Foley \, candidate for Town of Brookhaven Supv.
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URL:https://limba.net/calendar/brian-foley-candidate-for-town-of-brookhaven-supv/
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SUMMARY:LIMBA mtg recap 8/5
DESCRIPTION:Members and friends  \nOur speaker this morning was Brian Foley. Brian is a Suffolk County legislator and is the Democratic candidate for the position of town supervisor for Brookhaven. \nMr. Foley gave us his take on the nature and depth of the corruption in Brookhaven. The gist of his comments that entrenched political parties have little incentive to change. \n \nAccording to Foley\, Brookhaven political party dominance by the Republicans has led people in government to look at public service as a means to game the system and get rich. Perhaps so\, as my friend Paul Townsend was fond of saying “vote the ins out” Terry Townsend was in the audience and reminded me of that sentiment from Paul. He was right of course; monopolistic power destroys good politics as much as it does good business. \nFoley promised to address cleaning up politics. We wish him well. \n \nWhen we went to the Q&A I started out by naming three of our four stated goals and asked Brian where he stood on the issues. I said that robust ferry links to Connecticut are not only good for business and tourism the are also essential for Homeland Security and I asked him if he was supportive. I did not get the statement of solid support I had hoped for\, but I did get commitment to address all of the various interests in a fair manner. \n \nThere were questions about the immigrant housing problems\, and particularly those landlords that are being closed down because of health and safety reasons. He agreed that those landlords that who were creating unlivable sanitary conditions should be criminally charged and put out of business. \n \nOn the issue of repowering he was supportive. He pointed out that the Caithness plant in Bellport was an excellent plant that should be built and used\, displacing more polluting plants. \n \nOn rail sidings being rebuilt for freight operations he was not as supportive\, but not closed to the issue either. He was supportive of the idea that these rail links had value in freeing up our roads and reducing diesel fuel emissions from heavy trucks. He pointed out that people close to the rails would have to be considered.\n \nOverall it was an excellent meeting and there were questions that were asked that I did not include for the sake of brevity. \n \nPlease join us next week when former congressman Felix Grucci will be our speaker. I’ll have more on that in next week’s announcement. Meanwhile have a nice weekend. \nErnie Fazio
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/limba-mtg-recap-85/
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SUMMARY:Felix Grucci
DESCRIPTION:Members and friends\,\nLast Friday our speaker was former congressman Felix Grucci. I asked Mr. Grucci to comment on his take on things. I thought that because he is not in elected office\, he would give some opinions that were not biased by the need to be reelected. Felix began by reminding us of what he considered successes in the course of his public service. One of his initiatives was affordable housing and this dates back 30 years while in town government. As I write this on Monday morning I find this particularly interesting. I spent this past weekend in Newport\, Rhode Island. In a mansion tour of Alva Vanderbilt’s home\, the narrator gave as one of Alva’s causes “affordable housing” for the craftsman and gardeners that serviced the mansions of Newport’s wealthy. Hmmm…\, I thought\, this problem is going to be with us for a while to come. Mr. Grucci while in local office began a program called “Dress for Success.” This program was designed to instruct underprivileged women on dressing for the workplace. It doesn’t occur to most of us that this is not second nature to some people\, and apparently it helped. Another initiative was “Brookhaven Classroom” This program was designed to show school children how government works. (I hope they didn’t show them everything). Mr. Grucci went on to tell us about his part in the tax relief measure brought about by President Bush. He agreed with the president’s tax policy. His rationale being that people are better stewards of their money than the government. Of course I did not take issue with the congressman on that one\, because I vaguely recall in my youthful indiscretions\, being in a drunkard stupor with my shipmates\, and being far more responsible with my money than these folks in Washington are now. Mr. Grucci is a well practiced public speaker and it was fun seeing him again. I liked his presentation. He is confident\, at the same time he demonstrated humility. As usual there were numerous questions. Mr.\, Grucci was his usual gracious self and entertained all of the questions and stayed long after the formal close of the meeting. Thank you Felix and we hope you can come again. This week we will have as our speaker Tim Bishop our current congressman for the district. I’ll have more on that in Tuesday’s announcement.\nMy best to all\,\nErnie Fazio
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/felix-grucci/
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SUMMARY:Congressman Tim Bishop\, Congressional update.
DESCRIPTION:Members and friends\nThis morning our speaker was supposed to be Congressman Tim Bishop. Mr. Bishop made a valiant effort to be there but was suffering from a painful\, but not life threatening health problem. As a result he turned back at the last minute and went home. His representative\, Jennifer Gunn\, was there to read some of the points the congressman was going to make.\n \nI will highlight some of the points;\nThe president’s transportation security request was disproportionately skewered toward aviation. $4.7 billion for aviation and $32 million for rails\, buses\, and other surface transit systems\n \nThe House and Senate passed risk based formulas for homeland security and the congressman supports that approach. \n \n$286.5 billion will be authorizes for highway and public transit projects (there was plenty of pork in this bill but the 1st congressional district will be getting $45 million. (At least we have something to oink about).\n \nThe energy bill is an item the congressman rejected because it was heavily tilted to subsidies for oil exploration and very little went to alternative fuels and conservation. \n \nCAFTA\, the Caribbean version of NAFTA\, was rejected by the congressman because of the negative effects on American labor.\n \nAfter Jennifer Gunn made Congressman Bishop’s major points we began a discussion among the participants in the room. Fortunately the people in the room included some folks with real expertise and knowledge. Keyspan’s Vincent Frigeria was there to clarify the company’s position on using its property at Shoreham for a ferry point. According to Vincent all the stakeholders\, including the neighbors\, must have a say in the process. \n \nGerry Fitzpatrick was there to reiterate his belief that the ferry technology that he is advocating addresses the objections to ferries\, including\, wake\, fuel costs and speed. \n \nNancy Douzinas from the Rauch Foundation was there to discuss the needs of Long Island that are better addressed if you know the facts about the demographics of the region. The Rauch Foundation has created the Long Island Index. Their work has been an excellent guideline for making recommendations based on perceived needs and known resources. \n \nThe meeting was held as a moderated large discussion and many people contributed to that discussion. As a result a lot of ground was covered on the topic of transportation\, but there were other issues too. We miss the speaker when an emergency prevents him from being there\, but an interesting and enlightening discussion always takes place anyway\, due to the knowledge of the audience.\n \nThanks to all for being there and participating. Next week we will have the publisher of Newsday\, Tim Knight. I’ll have more on that next week. \nMeanwhile have a nice weekend.\n \nErnie Fazio
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/congressman-tim-bishop-congressional-update-2/
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SUMMARY:Iraq and Oil
DESCRIPTION:Let me begin by saying I hate this war. I have hated this war long before it began. When we celebrated “Mission Accomplished” on the deck of the carrier a friend said to me “Now what do you think\, now that it’s over?” I said it’s not over\, and if it is over\, and the Iraqi people have democracy tomorrow\, it still will not have been worth subverting the constitution to go to war.\n \nThe question is what do we do now? The president says “Stay the course” What course? Senator Russ Feingold says set a timetable\, and the rest of the democrats are saying some variation of what the president is saying. Meanwhile I’m thinking of the warning called the Pottery Barn scenario issued by Colin Powell\, when he said\, “Mr. President if you break it you own it.” I’m afraid I have to agree with Mr. Powell. But there is a way out of this mess. \n \nIf we mobilize this country to be self-sufficient and be able to function without imported oil we could break the back of this insurgency. Impossible? No\, Expensive? Yes! But how expensive is running a war? $5billion per month? Forty soldiers per month? Hundreds of Iraqi civilians per month? What about the unfathomable lost humanity of our young soldiers. What about the legion of homeless\, broken men and women that will eventually return and roam our streets aimlessly\, the way many of our unfortunate Viet Nam era soldiers are doing right now. \n \nMany\, or perhaps most\, of the fighters are native to these other Arab states. I believe that they are watching this struggle with some degree of satisfaction. These insurgents are being supplied by some of our so-called allies.  \n \nBy creating an alternate scenario we can seriously depress the price of oil. When the Saudi’s\, the Kuwaiti’s and the other oil producing countries realize that we are serious and are willing to sacrifice\, they will participate in the pacification of Iraq. They will step up to the plate and intercede in Iraq. They will provide some of the wealth that is needed to bring that country the peace it so sorely needs. They could begin by sealing the borders of Iraq. But what kind of a situation will bring them to the table? \n \nHere is what I envision\nWar on Oil\n \nI would like this country to declare war. Not the kind of war we are used to. The kind of war we need to engage in is much more difficult. A war without blood and guts\, but a war that will require real heroism. \n \nThe war we need to declare is the one against oil\, oil\, not the countries that produce it. How do we begin? First\, use all of the present technology we have\, and then go on from there. \n \nMost of the steps we can\, and must do will work over a long planning span\, and I will mention them\, but the steps we must take need to be immediate. \nDuring WWII the allies were very successful at depriving the German military machine of its oil supply. The Germans began synthesizing oil from other sources. It was costly but it worked. With today’s technology we can do much better than the Germans did\, and it would still be costly but compared to war it would be cheap. Moreover the results of our efforts would be a permanent part of our matrix of energy supply\, and would be achievable on a basis that would be very competitive with the oil we buy from abroad. That’s what we could do immediately. The Middle East oil producers would see their major oil customer shrinking and work very hard to quell the instability inside Iraq. \n \nGoing forward we need to do many more things to bring down the usage by conservation\, and here are some of them. \n \nBuildings\nThe best building codes in the country have heat transfer guidelines that are woefully lower than what we’ve known to be possible for at least 40 years. We must double the requirements on homes and commercial establishments. We can do this with no new technology. The additional cost of a $300\,000 home is about $10\,000. The annual savings is about $1575 estimated on a 700 gallon savings at $2.25/gallon. Payback will be less than 6.4 years. If the cost oil increases the payback period will be shorter. \n \nMotor vehicles\nAt the same time double the required gas mileage on trucks and personal cars. At the moment the only technology that can achieve this is the Hybrid engine design. The cost of driving a car 20\,000 miles that gets 21 miles per gallon\, using gas that costs $2.80 per gallon is $2\,667. Presently the hybrid costs about $3\,000 more. The payback is less than 2.24 years if your gas mileage is raised to 42 miles per gallon\, and maintenance costs are lower. \n \nElectric Power\nConservation\nElectric power is wasted in this country in ways that other countries find hard to believe. The litany of possible improvements is enormous\, but let’s starts with conservation. \nLight Emitting Diodes (LED) use about 3% of the power that is used by an incandescent lamp. Presently they are suitable for traffic lights\, exit signs\, and numerous other 24/7 applications. (Traffic lights have four 150 watt lamps on at all times\, that is 600watts 24 hours per day 365 days a year. The total kilowatt-hours per year are 5\,256 @ 12cents /kWh costs the municipality $630 per traffic signal. The annual cost of operating an LED traffic lamp is $19 plus the cost of operating the controls about $18) \nThat’s one example but there are many. \nSolar Photovoltaic Generation\nSolar photovoltaic is still relatively expensive\, but there are many applications for solar PV that does make sense right now\, but if you put solar PV in a context of a war effort\, that changes everything. With the building of a vibrant solar PV industry\, advances in its use and new product development will come. In industrial parks on Long Island and throughout the nation there are millions of acres of rooftops suitable for collecting solar power. \nWind Generation\nThe advances in wind generation have been dramatic. We are now at the point where wind generation is only slightly higher in cost than the most economical fossil fuel plants.\n \nDistributed Generation\nDistributed generators are no more efficient than central station power plants. Their advantage is that they use the power they create on-site. That means there is no additional distribution line loses getting to the point where it is used. Therefore distributed generation is 11% more efficiently than central power production. There is an additional efficiency if the waste heat can be used for heating\, laundry\, and even cooling. And\, of course\, if properly designed\, from failures to the power grid.\n \nDevelopment of super strong lightweight composites. The cost in fuel to move a vehicle is directly related the weight of the vehicle. Making lighter cars will further increase gas mileage. Lighter\, but stronger materials in cars will also make them safer. \nDeveloping a first class efficient rail system that will move people and freight at high speeds. A modern rail system made of super strong lightweight materials using MagLev technology will make the United States the leader in transportation systems. These transportation systems could be the next generation’s jobs as we produce this technology for the world. \n \nThe key to every advance the modern world has known has been tied directly to energy. The electrical power industry has been very instrumental to advancing the commercial industrial and educational\, advances of America and every other nation on earth. Energy is the reason we live well and the reason we are vulnerable. We need to stop acting like victims.  We need to create the systems that will save this country from the unreliable dictators of the world\, not by invading them\, which hurts us as much as it hurts them\, but making what they produce irrelevant to our survival.
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/iraq-and-oil/
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SUMMARY:Tim Knight\, Newsday Publisher
DESCRIPTION:This morning the publisher of Newsday\, Tim Knight was our speaker. Tim began his formal remarks by addressing the advertising scandal at the paper. To his credit he did not minimize the problem. Newsday had inflated its readership numbers that determine advertising rates. He then said “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste” He was candid about the problem and he explained how the rate complaints were resolved with the advertisers. \n \nHe then discussed with us the separation of news and editorial content. It may be hard for many of us to believe that a credible separation can exist. I personally believe it is possible\, but doesn’t always happen that way. The Wall Street Journal for example is a very conservative paper\, but the news section of the paper can be very even handed. In fact labor relations with unions at the Journal are among the best in the business. And speaking of unions\, Newsday is about to embark on labor negotiations as the long term contracts are due to expire soon. He is confident that negotiations between the union and Newsday will come to a fruitful conclusion. Negotiations are beginning early.\n \nNewsday\, under Tim’s leadership is in an introspective mode. Many facets of the business are being revisited. The stakeholders\, according to Tim\, include the general public\, the readers\, and the employees. There is a need to balance the needs of all of the people that this enterprise effects. This is not easy\, and during the Q&A I asked about how you keep this message going. Tim conceded that was in fact the most difficult thing to do\, but at the same time\, absolutely necessary.\n \nMr. Knight enumerated the major problems that would continue to be of interest to Newsday. Among the more important issues are education\, and affordable housing.  Tim Knight is a fresh face and he appears to be committed to building a paper that is worthy of a world class status. He also seems to have the credentials as a newspaper man. We wish him well and thank him for his presence at LIMBA.\n \nIn the photo:Ernie Fazio\, LIMBA\, Tim Knight\, Newday  Publisher\, Mohinder Sigh\, Marc Simeone\, Nassau County Police
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/tim-knight-newsday-publisher/
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