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:20090807T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090807T000000 DTSTAMP:20090807T040000Z CREATED:20090807T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090807T040000Z UID:4358-1249603200-1249603200@limba.net SUMMARY:Dr. Matthew C. Cordaro\, Dean\, Townsend Bus. Dowling College DESCRIPTION:Matt Cordaro has been known to the audience at LIMBA for as long anybody who attends can remember. Dr. Cordaro has assumed many roles in his life\, and as the case with many talented and well educated people he keeps getting asked to do more. After many years as a high level power utility executive he went into the acedemic arena\, taking a position at the CW Post campus of LIU where he created The Center for Management Analysis. \nRecently he embarked on a new role as Dean of the Townsend School of Business at Dowling College. Each leader brings to a job a vision of what can and should be done. This morning Matt shared his thoughts with the LIMBA audience \nThe school has specialty programs in business encompassing healthcare\, corporate finance\, construction management and other business specialties. These disciplines benefit by having practioners of those specialties teaching in those courses. According to Cordaro\, that is not always the case at other schools\, but it is at Dowling. \nThere are  benefits of an intimate learning experience to students because they are comfortable in their environment.  Dowling according to Matt provides that environment. \nThe school also has distance learning programs\, and accelerated courses. There are discounted programs that are partially supported by the area corporations. The school is also financially advantageous to the students with the cost of education being very competitive. \nThe business school is planning a trading center where students can learn how Wall Street works.  Matt will preside over that function\, having created one at LIU. As far as exporing the contoversial\, Dowling has been doing that over the years\, Cordaro plans to continue in that tradition\, especially as it pertains to his expertise  in the energy generation and distribution field. He will continue to write\, and comment on those issues\, in conjunction with the corriculum. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/dr-matthew-c-cordaro-dean-townsend-bus-dowling-college/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090814T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090814T000000 DTSTAMP:20190717T181320Z CREATED:20090814T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190717T181320Z UID:4359-1250208000-1250208000@limba.net SUMMARY:Hon. Judge Salvatore Alamia-Topic- Restorative Justice DESCRIPTION:Members and Friends \nWe certainly took a departure from our usual programming this morning. Our speaker was district court judge Hon. Salvatore Alamia. \nJudge Alamia is engaged in the area of “restorative justice”. He emphasized the crimes arising from drug use and crimes related to drugs. Bringing these people back into society is sometimes considered “coddling”. That was his term\, but not his opinion. \nJudge Alamia stressed that the need to reintegrate offenders was not only possible but also practical. Citing the cost and detrimental effects on the violator and society are enormous. \nThe better solution to “lock ’em up and get them out of here” is having people who have broken the law\, to acknowledge their crime\, serve the appropriate penalty and place them back in society. According to the judge\, we already incarcerate more citizens than most other nations. The goal is to limit the number of required incarcerations. \nHe cited the councils that existed among the American Indians. They would place all the participants in a circle and that circle expressed an equality of the participants. The elders would discuss remedies to the bad behavior they were judging and how to re-integrate the offender. In a simple society this makes sense\, but there is also an application for our own lives. \nIn modern society there are always multiple “victims”. The family of the offender suffers the embarrassment\, and cost of legal defense. The neighbors feel less secure in their homes\, and of course\, there is the direct victim of a crime. The perpetrator of a crime is affected by his actions too\, but he is a less sympathetic figure. Never the less\, he has to be considered\, if for no other reason than to prevent a repeat performance. In restorative justice these interested parties are assembled for the purpose of closure of the matter\, with reasonable reassurance that the crime would not be repeated. \nErnie Fazio URL:https://limba.net/calendar/hon-judge-salvatore-alamia-topic-restorative-justice/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090821T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090821T000000 DTSTAMP:20090821T040000Z CREATED:20090821T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090821T040000Z UID:4360-1250812800-1250812800@limba.net SUMMARY:Hon. Jon Cooper\, Suffolk County Legislator DESCRIPTION:Members and Friends  \n\nSuffolk County legislator and Majority Leader Jon Cooper was our speaker at LIMBA this morning. In Jon’s introduction of himself he stressed that he was a small business owner and had the sensibilities of a person who understood business. He also has been motivated to serve in public office. It is a role he savors\, and would like to continue. He has been in the legislature for 10 years\, but will be term limited after 12 years. Will he seek higher office? He may think about it\, but not for now. \nJon has been a champion of Business Improvement Districts (BID’s)\, and promoting doing business locally. Money spent locally has a multiplier effect of 4. In other words for each dollar spent in the community there will be 3 additional dollars realized by other businesses in the area. \nMr. Cooper spoke about the conflicts that leadership brings. He had learned that certain drugs and supplements using ephedrine were causing deaths. He proposed a ban on the sale of these products in Suffolk County. He learned that the two largest manufacturers of these substances were in located in Suffolk. At the same time he was the charged with improving the business climate in the committee he led in the legislature. He chose to ban the production. \nJon reminded us that he was an early supporter of Barack Obama for president. I was at the meeting where Jon announced his support. I told him I just rolled my eyes in disbelief\, but he thought Obama could win\, and he was right \nWhen asked what he sees as the biggest issue facing Suffolk\, he did not hesitate to say that the $120 million deficit is a huge problem and getting worse due to take backs by the state government adding another $14 million to the deficit. \nOn the other hand he sees the great opportunity on Long Island being green technology development. He subscribes to the vision set forth earlier by congressman Steve Israel. That vision would see Long Island as The go-to place for these new and still developing technologies. \nMr. Cooper lamented the recent loss of OSI Pharmeceuticals\, and without going into any detail\, stated that Long Island\, politically dropped the ball on that one. He also indicated that the loss will probably preclude Long Island from being a leader in that field of science \nErnie Fazio URL:https://limba.net/calendar/hon-jon-cooper-suffolk-county-legislator/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090828T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090828T000000 DTSTAMP:20090828T040000Z CREATED:20090828T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090828T040000Z UID:4370-1251417600-1251417600@limba.net SUMMARY:Peter Maniscalco-Should LIPA buy Nat Grid generating assets? DESCRIPTION:Members and Friends  \n\nOur speaker this morning was Peter Maniscalco. Peter has been an energy policy analyst for more than 30 years. This and his experience as a professor of environmental ethics has honed his sense of what can happen if the right questions are not asked. \nThe topic was; What questions should be asked when deciding on monumental changes in policy?  LIPA is considering the purchase of the old LILCO plants that were later owned by Keyspan and are now owned by the British company National Grid. \nLet me begin by saying that\, when LIPA VP Bruce Germano was asked about the purchase of the plants at an HIA meeting he indicated that only the Barret plant was being considered for purchase at this time. \nHaving said that LIPA’s financial consultant Lazard is trying to determine the financial viability of buying all the plants. They are also are in the process of hiring a firm to determine the envirnmental liabilities. The environmental section will not be completed within the time frame LIPA set. Here is the question that situation raises. How can they determine financial aspects without knowing the cost of envirnmental liabilities? With asbestos issues\, the cost cold be substantial. \nThe question was raised about the old gas manufacturing sites. The environmental liabilities on these sites are known although the costs for clean-up are probably not known. When the question was asked about those sites being included in any sale\, we had the benefit of having National Grid’s Ed Carr in the room\, and he assured us that none of those sites were on the same footprint of the electric generating plants\, and therefore would not be included. \nTo our speaker\, and to some of the people in our audience\, there was a disturbing lack of transparency in the process\, and the time frame was too compressed to make a meaningful evaluation of the benefits of a LIPA purchase. The fear expressed is that one day we will wake up and read about the completed deal in the papers\, and it may not be a good deal for the ratepayers and taxpayers. \nHere are a few more questions posed after the meeting in an email from Shelly Sackstein; \nWhat did LIPA know a number of years ago  that caused them to not exercise their previous options to purchase the Keyspan power plants? \n\nIf LIPA did not previously exercise their options to purchase those same power plants\, what has Grid or Keyspan done in the intervening years to make those power more attractive for LIPA to now acquire them ?\nIf the previous LIPA decision was to not purchase the Keyspan power plants\, why did LIPA vote to spend additional ratepayer money to hire\, (once again with no RFP or bid process)\, financial consultants to once again evaluate the same transaction?\n\n\nPeter Maniscalco came to this meeting with no preconceived notion that some nefarious plan was being hatched\, but serious questions have yet to asked and answered. I was encouraged by the participation of so many diverse\, and well informed individuals and organizations especially Action Long Island\, Shelly Sackstein\, LIA Energy Committe Chairman Harry Davitian\,  NYPIRG’s Todd Stebbins\, and National Grid’s Ed Carr. \n  URL:https://limba.net/calendar/peter-maniscalco-should-lipa-buy-nat-grid-generating-assets-2/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR