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SUMMARY:Jaci Clement- Fair Media Council.
DESCRIPTION:Jaci Clement is the executive Director of The Fair Media Council and addressed LIMBA this morning. Our speaker’s expertise is the media in general. She described the media as you would any other infrastructure. The varied elements are constantly changing and the speed of the change is knocking the media companies off balance. Thirty years ago there was the five minutes news on radio\, The nightly news on the three major networks\, newspapers and little else.\nToday there are 24 hour cable news\, blogging added to the mix and the new players are wreaking havoc on the old structures. Complicating the situation further is the competition to get the story first\, which sometimes precludes getting it right.\nIn their desire to remain relevant the old structures are disseminating their stories on the Internet\, as well as through their traditional outlets..Some have teamed up with radio. CBS’s 60 Minutes\, for example\, broadcasts on the radio simultaneously. Some of these arrangements work real well\, others merely reduce the amount of original material being produced. This is particularly true when newspapers devour their competitors and fire the reporters from one of the papers. The rational is “why do we need all these reporters”? But where that has been done the paper tends to have a more anemic content. The fewer the eyes and ears you have the blinder an deafer you get.\nThere are constraints on some forms of media and a lot less on others. The newspapers and broadcast media impose constraints of decency.The cable networks feel less constrained and the internet\, well they will display anything. The beheading of a journalist will not be found in the newspapers\, but it certainly will be found on the internet.\nMs Clement told us that the desire for market share has prompted media outlet owners to buy properties in all markets. The strategy hasn’t worked very well and now we are seeing them divesting entities that they do not understand\, or in any case not work for them.\nOther factors have disturbed the media business. The demographics are constantly changing and nearly impossible to keep abreast of. No media is building market share\, according to Clement\, there is one exception. That exception is the media that caters to the immigrant populations. The Hispanic Telemundo TV is building market share. That is also true of the media that serves the Asian market. I suppose it is true of all immigrant ethnic groups.\nThe important message that came out of this meeting is this. We are trusting our news sources less and less\, and in many cases for good reason. If the media feels so much pressure to produce a story they will fail to thoroughly check their sources\, that is not good for the republic\, and the onus to check the material is our responsibility if we truly want to know.\nPictured: Jaci Clement\, Fair Media Council and Mike DeLouise from Dowling College
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/jaci-clement-fair-media-council/
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SUMMARY:Marty Cantor
DESCRIPTION:“Long Island\, The Global Economy and Race: The Aging of America’s First Suburb”..was the topic of this morning’s speaker\, Marty Cantor. Marty is a CPA and a former economic development officer in Suffolk County in the Patrick Halpin administration.\n \nIt sounds like a very broad subject and I can assure you it is. Mr.. Cantor started with a discussion of the minority communities of Long Island. He stated that they are not able to access the global markets. The reasons\, according to Cantor\, have a lot to do with the entrepreneurial capabilities and education levels of the minority communities of Long Island. While these factors weigh heavily on the African American communities\, it does not have the same profound affect on the Caribbean populations\, nor are those factors pronounced among Koreans and other Asian groups.   \nMarty’s presentation was more an overview of problems as he sees them\, rather than an approach to solving them. \n \nAssimilation of the various legal immigrant groups is important and it is ongoing. We should not resist this\, according to Cantor\, we should embrace it. Mr. Cantor moved onto the subject of the economy\, which is related to the other topics he covered. \n \nCantor suggested that we are not going to make the commitment to wages and that\, will prevent the businesses from retaining the high skilled workers that they will need more and more.\n \nProperty taxes are way out of line. We are paying a “regressive” real estate tax. That tax is onerous and should be lowered at the same time an income tax could make up the difference. He admitted that this would be a hard sell.\n \nThese compounding problems “will cause the Long island economy to contract”PIctured: Martin Cantor\, Bob McMillan\, Ernie Fazio
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/marty-cantor/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061020T000000
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SUMMARY:Lance Mallamo\, Executive Dir\, Vanderbilt Museum
DESCRIPTION:Friday morning’s speaker\, J. Lance Mallamo who is the Executive Director of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium at Centerport as well as the official County Historian of Suffolk County enlightened LIMBA members about Long Island’s largest museum\, The Vanderbilt Museum.  Vanderbilt (Dutch) meaning Son of Built left this jewel to Suffolk County in 1941 along with a $2 million maintenance fund.  Today nearly 100\,000 school children and a “tremendous” number of foreigners tour this museum.\n \nThis sometimes arrogant\, yet insightful man had the foresight in the early 1900’s to believe Long Island would one day be home to over a million people.  Many Long Islanders think of Vanderbilt Parkway and associate it with car racing.  As a well traveled man\, Vanderbilt felt that Europe was eclipsing the development of the automobile and in 1904 he raced his Mercedes at 92 miles an hour and won the race.   Although Long Island was sparsely populated 250 people came to see the race  – many had never seen a car.  He was encouraging tourism even then!   Imagine this fact:  His doctors warned against this high speed because of his heart murmur! \n \nI thought the most interesting of reasons to go back to the museum is for the “Living History Tour”.  Tour guides are trained to portray the probable life style of the Vanderbilt family\, their servants and how life may have actually been lived between 1936 and 1944.  Current events play an important role here.  It must have been a great job to be a servant there during the great depression.  Both good times and bad are blended into the tours.  \n \nPresently there is no way to get down to the waterfront however plans are in the works for funding a boardwalk with the “goal of being Long Island’s premier waterfront institution.”\n \nOther interesting facts:\n–          The boathouse is being used again and has gone from one employee to over ten in the last four years. \n–          Water Loggers:  volunteers are coordinated to bring back water samples from various points off the Island for evaluation\n–          Hopeful restoration of the Seaplane hanger\n–          They have a Marine Science Program\n \nYou can visit the museum and enjoy planetarium\, the  “Living History Tours” and many of their special programs http://vanderbiltmuseum.org/flash.html
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/lance-mallamo-executive-dir-vanderbilt-museum/
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SUMMARY:Bob Catell\, Chairman of Keyspan
DESCRIPTION:This morning Keyspan’s Chairman\, Bob Catell spoke to our group at LIMBA. His message was of reassurance. He began by stating that the cost of Keyspan gas service has not increased in the last ten years\, but the cost of the commodity has. The amount of gas in storage at this time is high. When gas stocks are high the cost of the commodity is usually lower\, but much of the supply that we have now was purchased at a high price\, so the price of gas will decrease\, but not as much as you would otherwise expect.   \n \nMr. Catell explained the significance of increased availability of gas\, in particular the Iroquois Pipeline. He talked some on the travails of that effort that were obstructed by the state of Connecticut. The conversation with the audience went on to alternative fuels and Mr. Catell explained that extra cost may be as much as ten times the cost of a conventional plant\, making them less economically feasible\, even when the cost of saved fuel was considered.\n \nSome intriguing  technologies were discussed including “river turbines”. River turbines are placed in places like the East River. They are placed low enough in the river as to not obstruct marine traffic. They are capable of reorienting to the flow of the river when the tide changes.  \n \nAccording to the Keyspan chairman the best bang for the buck is state of the art “combined cycle” plants. These plants in addition to being infinitely cleaner than the old stock of plants\, will save enough fuel to justify the additional 30% cost of construction. \n \nWe spoke about the Northport plant. The Northport plant uses “once through cooling”a technology which is no longer permitted. Therefore the engineering challenge would be formidable\, according to Catell\, when creating new power facilities at that location.\n \nThe concerns that some of had about the National Grid takeover of Keyspan would result in some downsizing\, but that downsizing would come into being by the process of retirements and career changes initiated by the employees themselves. Mr. Catell believes that one of the reasons that Keyspan is so attractive to National Grid is because of the relationships Keyspan has with the community. \n \nPictured: Bob Catell\, Chairman Keyspan\, Vincent Frigeria\, Government relations Keyspan and Ernie Fazio\, LIMBA Chairman
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/bob-catell-chairman-of-keyspan/
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