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SUMMARY:Lee Zeldin Republican Senate Challenger to Brian Foley
DESCRIPTION:Lee Zelden was our speaker this morning. He is challenging Brian Foley in the 3rd NY Senate District. \nZelden began by introducing himself emphasizing his roots on Long Island and his military service. He proceeded to discuss the MTA tax that his opponent had voted for. He vowed to overturn that tax as a matter of it being so pervasive and that it is a business killer. He pointed out that being a payroll tax\, the MTA tax also affects other government costs as well. The cost is tacked onto every municipal worker’s payroll. Teachers\, policemen\, librarians\, park employees\, and every other payroll in private industry are affected by the MTA tax. He made a few suggestions on how the MTA could otherwise raise money including the increase of rail freight. \n  \nHis comments and disgust with Albany’s disfunctionality was in keeping with what the rest of us already feel. \n  \nHe went on to discuss the amount of money we\, (Long Islanders) get back from Albany. In the past Long Islanders were responsible foe 17% of the state’s revenues and 13% was returned. I guess considering the comparative wealth of Long Island that was acceptable. Now the return is\, 5% according to Zelden. "That’s a 62% decrease\,” said Zelden. When asked about the overall cost of schools and the tax burden placed on home owners and business\, he said he would be for reducing administration cost by creating a countywide school district\, while retaining the local identities of school teams \n  \nSewers were another one of his issues. Lee thinks that swears should be built to encourage good growth\, and that while the benefit would be local to the place receiving sewers so should the cost. \nErnie Fazio
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/lee-zeldin-republican-senate-challenger-to-brian-foley/
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SUMMARY:Bob Catell Chairman of AERTC
DESCRIPTION:Bob Catell was our speaker this morning and when it comes to utility delivered power he has had the benefit of heading up a combined gas and electric company for about 14 years. His prior experience at Brooklyn Union Gas Company makes him an authority on that too. \nBob made a poignant comparison of the electric energy system and the telephone system. "Alexander Graham Bell would look around at today’s world and be amazed at the changes. Thomas Edison would look around and say everything looks like I left it"  \nNow Catell is the Chairman of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center located on the SUNY campus at Stony Brook. The mission of that center is broad. Not only will the center be looking for new and innovative energy creation solutions\, but they will also be looking at ways to increase efficiency\, and decrease consumption for the same tasks.  \nBob began his talk by enumerating the various carbon based fuels with their liabilities and benefits ( We did not discuss the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico\, but I am sure it was on everybody’s mind). The opinion expressed was that it will be a long transition away from oil\, but natural gas which is a fuel we are learning we have much more than we previously thought will likely be the "bridge" fuel. (Jim Powel one of the co-inventors of the Maglev was in the audience\, and during the Q&A period he suggested that with the use of electric trains and cars we could transition out of liquid fuels even faster) \nAlternative energy such as Wind and Solar has had a very limited use in the past. In fact it is still a small component of our energy picture compared to the capacity of conventional. On the other hand wind is growing very fast. There was a 50% increase in wind generation in the last year. Wind has grown in the United States from a miniscule 2500 Megawatts in 2006 to 35\,000 watts last year. According to Mr. Catell the United States leads the world in operating wind power. That’s impressive\, but it still pales in comparison to conventional installed generation. \nCatell spoke about what is being called "Smart Grid." Smart grid is not easy to simplify\, but it will be able to detect where there is stress on the system\, and redirect power from other available connected sources. No one seems to know exactly how it will work so AERTC will construct a model of a grid and create the software that it will need. By having this model we can learn what works and improve upon it before it is deployed as a worksble technology. What I got from the discussion was that "smart Grid" would be able to integrate all available methods of generation. \nThere will be a clean energy incubator located on the AERTC campus that will be paid for with a $26 million grant from DOE. Among the things we expect to see developed here are solar systems that are much more productive. The modern high performing solar panel is able to convert about 16% of the sun’s potential energy. With new technologies we expect to increase that output substantially. The net effect would make solar more competitive with fossil fuel generation. \nThe AERTC is looking for technology partners that will create the future of energy. The environment where like minded people of science trade ideas will allow them to feed off each other. The results of this formal and informal symbiosis is knowledge that can\, and most likely will advance the societal goals that are needed for us to have sustainable growth. We are very fortunate to have this shared enterprise on Long Island.. \nErnie Fazio
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/bob-catell-chairman-of-aertc/
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SUMMARY:Johm Kominicki. Publisher LIBN -The Future
DESCRIPTION:Our speaker Friday morning was John Kominicki\, Publisher\, and now\, also the editor \,of Long Island Business News.   We posed the question of how do newspapers compete with other media. Kominicki has a humorous\, and always interesting manner when he speaks\, even as he approaches a topic that is a serious business concern.  \nLIBN\, as well as other print media\, have been seriously challenged by the coming of the Internet. During a period of trying to use the new media to augment the dissemination of information and accrue advertising dollars some missteps will occur. LIBN thought that advertisers that were holding back from print would transition to their electronic pages\, and to some degree that did happen\, but not enough to offset the print page loss. In a word\, that is not progress. The model had to be tweaked.  \nJohn said we now knew that we had to follow the model of the only smart paper\, The Wall Street Journal\, and charge for internet content. In LIBN ‘s case you can only get a teaser line\, and can only read the whole story if you were a print subscriber. That strategy has worked. The print subscription sales  increased and so did the advertising sales by about 10%. In the meantime some valuable newspaper people were lost. The good news is that the remaining staff feels a little more secure since the situation seems stabilized. Those people that did leave are having mixed success with experiments in web based journalism. John truly wishes them well. \nKominicki pointed out that news is not in jeopardy of being compromised by editorials since the content of a paper is the lifeblood of a readable publication. People read stories that are factual because they see opportunity inherent in the story. If a developer is planning a big project engineering firms take notice and make contact. That would be true of materials suppliers and sub contractors\, and many others.  \nWhen asked during the Q&A period about print medias viability over the long run\, John agreed with those that say print will find it’s place just as radio found it’s place after the advent of television. The common wisdom in those early days of television was that radio would disappear. It didn’t\, it changed.
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/johm-kominicki-publisher-libn-the-future/
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SUMMARY:Meeting at LIFT  Ken Morelly Homeland Security Unit
DESCRIPTION:Today my friend Ken Morelly\, made good on his promise to have LIFT host a LIMBA meeting at the Homeland Security Center in Bethpage. Ken came to LIMBA in September of 2009 and explained what we would find there we came. Unfortunately Ken passed on in October less than a month after he appeared at LIMBA. \nLIFT"s Ray Donnelly was there to host the meeting. Deputy Nassau County Executive Patrick Foye was there representing County Executive\, Ed Mangano\, to welcome us as well. The center has been renamed The Morelly Homeland Security Center to honor Ken for his vision and dedication \nThe tour of the facility began in the "343 Lecture Hall" so named to honor the lost fire fighters on 9-11. This is a large room that can accommodate about 130 people with hard-wired Internet in every seat position. There are four large screens in the front of the room so that each person in the audience can follow the speaker’s presentation. They can also be accessing their own computers. The Center is equipped with it’s own satellite communications and various other connections to the outside world. In the event of local catastrophic interruptions of power and communications the Center would still be able to communicate with the rest of the world. The facility has a generator that provides 1/2 megawatt of emergency power that will turn on if the grid power collapses. \nWe then went to a room with fourteen command position where various professional would take up various tasks if there were a natural disaster or an enemy attack. In this room there are two tech desks with four positions of technical people that can be there to keep all of the communication access points operating. Next to this room is what will be the command center. This where the County Executive could conceivably be a time of an emergency. \nThe building itself was designed to DOD standards during the Cold War and can withstand enormous forces. The outside walls are two feet thick and there are only a few windows. The entities that are part of this effort include Globecom\, Siemens\, Brookhaven National Laboratories\, Cold Spring Harbor Labs\, Stony Brook University\, Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center\, FEMA\, US Coast Guard and LIFT. The center has an elaborate array of communications that provide information and coordination among the various entities that would be involved in major catastrophic events   \nIn addition there are small medium and large companies with a presence at the facility that work in concert with the center to further develop material science and other disciplines. The beauty of this center is that it will function as a technology generator that will provide new manufacturing job opportunities and new businesses. If we never have the need to use this facility for it’s worse case scenario it was designed to handle\, it will still be worth the effort. \nMany thanks to LIFT president Frank Otto\, Bill Wahling and Ray Donnelly who guided us through this morning’s presentation.\nErnie Fazio
URL:https://limba.net/calendar/meeting-at-lift-ken-morelly-homeland-security-unit/
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