BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Limba - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Limba 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101203T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101203T000000 DTSTAMP:20101203T050000Z CREATED:20101203T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101203T050000Z UID:4444-1291334400-1291334400@limba.net SUMMARY:The Shinnecock Indian Nation DESCRIPTION:This morning we held our LIMBA gathering in the beautifully arranged ballroom of the  MacArthur Holiday Inn to a near overflowing crowd.  Michelle Zere of Zere Real Estate was the main coordinating force behind one of the most significant meetings in LIMBA history today.  One of the oldest self-governing Native American tribes and the newest Federally recognized tribe came to us to discuss its culture\, history\, and plans around its newly recognized status.  As the meeting gathered\, we were treated to lively holiday music by Mark Seratoff of Marken Music. \nThe meeting opened with the pledge of allegiance to the US flag\, and the sovereign nation contributed a benediction by a reading of the Lord’s prayer accompanied with a native dance by artist and tribe member Edith Wharton Collins.  This was followed by a drum and dance performance from Gordell Wright (drum and vocals)\, Miss Teen Shinnecock Autumn Rose Williams\, a student at the Ross School\, and Miss Junior Teen Shinnecock\, Mattah Wright\, a Southampton Intermediate School student.  After their performance\, the ladies most elegantly introduced themselves in Algonquian and English. \nBefore the main remarks by Senior Trustee Lance Gumbs\, a ten-minute video was shown illustrating the tribe’s history\, some of its culture\, and its modern economic history\, including attempts to foster industry on the reservation\, from aquaculture to paint manufacture.  An account of its current main revenue source\, the annual labor day Powwow was included.  A highly professional production\, it provided a preface to Trustee Gumbs’s talk on Indian Gaming and can be viewed at the Nation’s website. \nTrustee Gumbs opened his talk by explaining the meaning of the word Shinnecock.  It is translated into English as “level land”.  As is well known\, this level land has not been a level playing field for Native Americans since 1640\, the first time the Shinnecock encountered European explorers entering Peconic Bay.  The nation has been an unknown quantity for the most part\, surviving in substandard conditions while surrounded by great wealth and hemmed into a 900 acre reservation. \nThe nation has survived by engaging in many businesses.  They were the earliest whalers and manufacturers of wampum currency.  The first mint on Long Island\, as it were.  In 1792\, New York State imposed a governing structure on the nation.  This Board of Trustees has had annual \nelections each year for 218 years\, making it one of the oldest self-governing tribes in the US.  Ironically\, after such a long documented history of governance\, the nation had to battle thirty-two years before finally being granted Federal recognition as an “official” Native\nAmerican tribe. \nWhat Federal recognition conveys is access to federal programs and the right to operate Indian gaming.  Trustee Gumbs had kind words for President Richard Nixon and his efforts to improve the lot of Native Americans\, providing them more access to resources and creating the Indian gaming industry.  This opened a line of discussion regarding many misconceptions about what gaming does for tribes and how it affects the surrounding communities. \nAcross the United States\, there are vast disparities in the physical resources that tribes control and have access to.  The Pine Ridge reservation encompasses 3 million acres\, compared to the Shinnecock’s 900.  After much analysis and many attempts at industrialization\, the space\, land and finance picture for the Shinnecock all point to Indian gaming as a way to improve the future of the tribe.  The 2000 census put 60% of the Shinnecock nation below the poverty level.  The recent rainouts of the Pow-wow\, the main source of revenue for the nation’s government\nand development programs\, focused the leadership on moving forward with gaming.  Trustee Gumbs and Trustee Barre Hamp went through an exhaustive presentation of the economic benefits and regulatory environment surrounding Indian gaming.  Indian gaming is also regulated very differently from the gambling environments of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.  The resources generated by Indian gaming are regulated as to how they can be used and distributed\, unlike the large corporately owned Vegas and AC casinos. \nA very strong case was made for the economic benefits of Indian gaming to both the Shinnecock and Long Island and New York State.  There were at least ten elected officials and staff members in attendance hearing this message at the town\, county and federal levels.  The concerns around massive traffic jams were addressed and alleviated\, and the nation’s commitment to place a gaming facility where it is welcome was heard.  Their determination to succeed in this effort was also firmly demonstrated and supported by the audience. \nOnce again it was another educational opportunity to be at LIMBA meeting with a chance to learn more about Long Island culture and our neighbors that have toiled in relative obscurity for many years. Being able to get beyond the short stories in the print media and sound bites on  television was invaluable.  Please join us for these Friday morning sessions that finish the work week off on a high note and never fail to be a great experience. \n \n  \nRecap by Craig Plunkett\,  Managing Director of CEDX Corporation\, \n  \n \n  \n \n  URL:https://limba.net/calendar/the-shinnecock-indian-nation/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101210T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101210T000000 DTSTAMP:20101210T050000Z CREATED:20101210T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101210T050000Z UID:4432-1291939200-1291939200@limba.net SUMMARY:Annual Special breakfast with entertainment DESCRIPTION:Members and friends\, this morning we gathered to wish each other the best of  the holiday season and promote our optimism for the future.  Our  sponsors for the meeting were Ruskin Moscou Faltischek\, M & T Bank\, the RB Bender Group\, Greenman Pedersen\, Terry Townsend\, Covanta Energy\, the Long Island MacArthur Holiday Inn itself\, Zere Real Estate Services\, Marken Music and Long Island Business News. \nAfter the opening by Ernie\, LIBN’s own John Kominicki took the podium to deliver a wickedly entertaining adaptation of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”.   \nA riotous gift opening/roast of Ernie Fazio was conducted by Michelle Zere and Cheryl poking fun at his well-known liberal bent.  Special gifts from Fidel Castro\, Che Guevara\, Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin were bestowed on Comrad Ernie. \n\nViolinist Jim Graseck entertained us both solo and accompanying  Ernie as he crooned Christmas classics.  Ventriloquist Vince Dantone and his partner George returned with their most definitely non-PC  skewering of prominent audience members.  A good time was had by all. \nThe meeting was coverered for FiOS1 by Waldo Cabrera’s MyLITV.com and taped by Pro Image Studios. \nWe didn’t have a speaker with a topic\, but we most definitely learned something at LIMBA today\, about how thick some folks’ skins are\, and how generous the holiday spirit is among our members.   \nJoin us most Fridays to become a member of the LIMBA community and partake of the opportunity to learn more about Long Island\, the issues that it faces\, and meet the people addressing them. \n\n— \nCraig Plunkett URL:https://limba.net/calendar/annual-special-breakfast-with-entertainment/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101217T000000 DTSTAMP:20101217T050000Z CREATED:20101217T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101217T050000Z UID:4435-1292544000-1292544000@limba.net SUMMARY:Dr Stanley\, President \, SUNY Stony Brook- "The Future" DESCRIPTION:This morning we were back in at the MacArthur Holiday Inn with a full room of members and friends ready to hear an update on what is happening at SBU\, one of Long Island’s most important institutions and its largest single-site employer A biomedical researcher by trade\, Dr. Stanley came to SBU eighteen months ago from Washington University in St. Louis\, a very different place than Long Island. Much of the time since his arrival has been spent getting to know Long Island\, and the state government that SBU is part of. Part of his getting to know the island has been learning of its special gifts and challenges. The university sees its core mission of education as a primary tool in helping to address those needs.\nThe large academic health center that SBU runs is an important part of maintaining quality of life on Long Island\, and the research performed at it helps drive innovation and economic development. Dr. Stanley reminded us that sponsored research from the NIH and NSF helps address the imbalanced flow of Federal tax dollars out of New York State\, and urged the audience to support that research in the budget.\nA manager at the top of his game\, Dr. Stanley demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of his business’s metrics\, letting loose with a torrent of statistics about the characteristics of the student body and SBUs ranking among its fellow research universities in North America. An institution with a $2.1 Billion dollar budget\, 3 Nobel Prize winners\, and a medical center that is visited almost 300\,000 times per year. SBU is an integral part of Long Island. Co-running Brookhaven National Lab with Battelle\, the university partners with other research institutions like the Cold Spring Harbor Lab. It also develops its own particular research centers and incubators\, such asLIHTI\, which spawned James Simons’ Renaissance Technologies\, CEWIT and the new Energy Center\, which will have the first Platinum LEED! certified building on Long Island.\nEnergy research should be a primary focus for the 53 year old institution. To accomplish this and cement SBU into the same group as UC Berkeley\, University of Michigan\, and University of North Carolina it will take the capture of federal dollars to perform that cutting edge research. The challenges to that mission are the current state budget situation and the need to grow the faculty ranks. Dr. Stanley had Bain consulting come in and assess the opportunities to trim costs\, but the real solution is to grow your way out of the situation.\nTo foster this robust growth will require growing tuition revenue to bring SBU from the lower levels of state schools to a more average level. This growth will fund more faculty\, support staff\, smaller classes\, more student support and more research and lab space. It would also enable the university to support more than three thousand additional students.\nAnother aspirational goal is to create a children’s hospital\, which doesn’t currently exist in Suffolk County. The chair of the children’s hospital task force\, hotelier John Tsunis was in attendance and excited about the project. State funding had dried up last year\, but through the community’s embrace of the project and realization of its importance\, the project is beginning to move forward. Good news looks to be on the horizon for the project.\nThe Q and A was extensive\, where we learned that SBU has gotten permission to create a department of Civil Engineering. The focus of most of the questions was how to keep SBU grads on Long Island and how to get them interested in Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs. To that end\, the U wants to be an engine of economic opportunity for those grads\, and a partner with the K-12 system to foster that interest in STEM\, especially among girls and build a pipeline of local students that will end up attending SBU.\nOnce again it was another educational opportunity to be at LIMBA meeting with an excellent speaker and learn more about a Long Island institution that serves as a keystone of the local economy and a beacon for innovation. Please join us for these Friday morning sessions that finish the work week off on a high note and never fail to be of value.\nRecap by Craig Plunkett. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/dr-stanley-president-suny-stony-brook-the-future/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101224T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101224T000000 DTSTAMP:20101224T050000Z CREATED:20101224T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101224T050000Z UID:4442-1293148800-1293148800@limba.net SUMMARY:Holiday recess no Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/holiday-recess-no-meeting-2/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101231T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101231T000000 DTSTAMP:20101231T050000Z CREATED:20101231T050000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101231T050000Z UID:4443-1293753600-1293753600@limba.net SUMMARY:Holiday recess- New Year message DESCRIPTION:LIMBA’s focus has been on economic issues that center on infrastructure that will create efficiencies in commerce and does so with lees pollution than that which we are trying to replace. 2010 was a challenging year for most of us\, but there are a few items in any year that are worth acknowledging. ….. more  at   limba.net/news.html URL:https://limba.net/calendar/holiday-recess-new-year-message/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR