BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Limba - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://limba.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Limba REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20101107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090703T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090703T000000 DTSTAMP:20090703T040000Z CREATED:20090703T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090703T040000Z UID:4351-1246579200-1246579200@limba.net SUMMARY:4Th july wekend -NO MEETING DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/4th-july-wekend-no-meeting/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090710T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090710T000000 DTSTAMP:20090710T040000Z CREATED:20090710T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090710T040000Z UID:4346-1247184000-1247184000@limba.net SUMMARY:Hofstra Med School Dr Lawrence Smith\, Dean DESCRIPTION:Members and Friends \nDr. Lawrence Smith was our speaker this morning and he is the new Dean of the Hofstra Medical School. The medical school is being established under a joint venture with Northshore LIJ. It was conceived during a fortuitous breakfast between Northshore’s president\, Michael Dowling\, and Hofstra’s president\, Dr. Stuart Rabinowit. \n\nDr Smith began by describing the long drift the field of medicine has taken. The community based general practitioner has been replaced by an ever increasing number of specialists. The trend has divided the patient doctor relationship and presently\, while there is not a shortage of doctors in the region\, there is a shortage of family practitioners. \n\nThe new school is a 50/50 partnership between the two respected entities. According to Dr. Smith the "Ivory Tower" concept of medical research facilities will not be the guiding vision of the new school. \nSmith\, who has been on the education side of medicine\, said new techniques in teaching medical proffessionals of all levels will be the emphasis. The school will have a world class "Simulation Center." Simulators will be fashioned after those created for the airline industry. When "flying" a simulator you can crash the plane because you made an error\, and you can walk out of the room and go to lunch with on one being killed. The simulation facility will allow medical students to initiate procedures on very life-like manequins. Errors in procedures may cause the "patient" to "die" and the feeling for the doctor will be very real\, but again\, a real person does not die. \nIn the present and past models an intern doctor worked under the supervision of an experienced doctor\, learning all he could\, but when it came time to work on his own first patient\, it was essentially a new experience. By learning on these fake patients that are programed to react the same way a real patient would\, the doctor has already had many successful training excersizes. This facility will be the largest simulator trainning facility upon the schools openning. The facility\, overall\, will be in the mid-size of all such facilities in the country. These are ambitious plans\, but because of the size and strength of the founding entities\, it can be acheived. There is no scarcity of scientific knowlege in the region when you consider the resources of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory\, Brookhaven National Laboratories and the universities of Long Island. In addition the planners are learning about successful medical schools around ! the country and around the world and employing those methods that are proven winners. \nDr Smith told us that there is a scarce of knowledge in dealing with the suburban elderly\, while we know a lot about city dwelling elderly. This is an area that will be explored by the school. The physical plant will be 11 acres adjacent to Hofstra and the Lighthouse Development project. \nThis plan for a new medical school on Long Island is very exciting in various ways\, and the economic impact will be formidable. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/hofstra-med-school-dr-lawrence-smith-dean/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090717T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090717T000000 DTSTAMP:20090717T040000Z CREATED:20090717T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090717T040000Z UID:4355-1247788800-1247788800@limba.net SUMMARY:Panel Discussion on the Funding of Not For Profits DESCRIPTION:Today we had a panel discussion that dealt with the challenges of the not-for-profit sector. The economy has hit almost every segnment of the buisiness community and the results have created a daunting situation for charitable organizations. \nParticipating in the discussion were Michael Cooney-United Way\, Diane Amorosa-American Red Cross\, Jovanna Little- Leslie Munzer Neurological Institute\, Paul Pachter- Long Island Cares\, and Michael Stoltz-Clubhouse of Suffolk. \nSome of these charities depend on recurring grants from government\, but local and state governments have been experiencing unprecedented revenue problems of their own. Some charities have endowments funded by the benefactor and others are funding themselves through the generousity of the general public through fund drives. All of them in fact depend on each of these sources in varying degrees. \nThe question posed this morning asked what are these various units doing to survive these challenging economic times. We know that all of these funding channels are not what they have been in the past. Even those charities that are blessed with substantial endowments are not seeing the returns they were receivcing in the past. Indeed some lost substantial sums of money which may never be recovered. With job losses\, the individual donor is contributing less or not at all. \nOn top of this the need for most of these services rises dramatically with a faltering economy. Between 280\,000 and 300\,000 people on Long Island (about 10%) needing some degree of food assistance program it is clear we are doing something wrong. \nThe answers we got ran from the obvious to the more creative. In one case some staff was let go. Of course that further burdens the remaining staff at a time when there is great need. Most of the focus was on seeing where they could obtain services and products more economically\, relying on volunteers where possible\, and jetisoning less productive programs. \nIn the case of Long Island Cares they have partnered with a radio station that has a target demographic that ranges from 20 to 34 years old. At first glance that would seem to be counter-intuitive since we traditionally look to the established and economicly secure segment of the population\, but their plan is to engage this part of the population and keep them in the fold as they grow and prosper themselves. \nIn the end the conversation led us to the way we are all very much squeezed by the high taxes of this balkanized Long Island. The school districts are killing our ability to pay for almost everything else\, partly because teachers are highly paid\, but more because schools are over administrated. The 127 school districts and the army of administrators that are employed are redundant and prohibitivly costly.   \nAnother drain on our overall dollars are the Taj-Mahal firehouse that abound all over Long Island and they are costing us dearly. A more rational system would dictate a fire force that was designed for the kind of fires we usually need to fight. We have fire fighting equipment to fight fires in buildings we do not have on Long Island. \nThese charities\, that we all recognize as needed\, are scrambling for what scraps are left after the politically well connected entities gorge themselves on our tax dollars.  Theese taxes are forcing people to leave for cheap places to live. One man told me he’s moving to Waco Texas because he can live nicely on his social security. I guess what he meant was he could afford to eat. To most of us think living nicely means living right here on Long Island\, and yes\, eating too. \nMan! If we only had some leadership. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/panel-discussion-on-the-funding-of-not-for-profits/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090724T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090724T000000 DTSTAMP:20090724T040000Z CREATED:20090724T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090724T040000Z UID:4364-1248393600-1248393600@limba.net SUMMARY:vacation week no meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/vacation-week-no-meeting/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090731T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090731T000000 DTSTAMP:20090731T040000Z CREATED:20090731T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090731T040000Z UID:4354-1248998400-1248998400@limba.net SUMMARY:Paul Victor\, President NY & Atlantic RR DESCRIPTION:Members and Friends    \nThis morning our guest speaker was Paul Victor\, president of NY & Atlantic Rail road. NY&A is the freight rail company that serves Long Island. Paul is a real railroad man having worked in various capacities in railroads across the country\, as well as South America and Africa \nLong Island is the "end of the line" for many of the nationwide fright lines that operate in the US\, and NY&A facilitates the operations of all that come here. \nThe products that are carried best by rail are heavy loads such as rock\, building materials and construction debris. But there are also a lot of shipments in consumables too. Beer is a big item and it is transported in from as far away as Mexico. \nThe railroad calls itself a "green industry" by virtue of the fact that so little fuel is used to move the materials it carries\, while displacing thousands of trucks. Mr. Victor told us that fuel costs are one of their smallest expenses. \nAnd speaking of expenses\, the personnel needed to run the operation is incredibly small. Thirty nine people run the whole operation. The personnel are all cross-trained. The president himself must have thorough knowledge of the system including the ability to run a train as an engineer\, and he will occasionally. \nHe explained the relationship that NY&L has with the LIRR. They must take a second position on the rails\, giving priority to passenger train operations. \nIn the Q&A portion we discussed the limitations the freight had in terms of weight allowances and clearances. Some of these limits have been corrected since Mr. Victor’s predecessor spoke at LIMBA. Other items are still outstanding. \nThe proposed building of a tunnel into Brooklyn (Congressman Nadler’s concept) will serve the freight system well\, but that is many years off. More immediate benefits will be realized by the refurbishing of the "float system" that was recently taken over by the NY Port Authority. PA of NY purchased the rail company that comes to the shoreline on the Jersey side. From there cars are floated to Brooklyn where they enter the established rail system that comes to Long Island \nTo have a fully functioning rail system the height requirements in all tunnels and bridges must be 22′. This will allow freight cars to flow seamlessly in out of the city and Long Island and complete a journey any where in the country without having to reload on smaller freight cars.  Are we there yet? No\, but we’ll keep you posted. Mr. Victor said he would be happy to return next year to give us an update. \nThis meeting was sponsored by Brian Dolan and HDR Engineering \nErnie Fazio URL:https://limba.net/calendar/paul-victor-president-ny-atlantic-rr/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR