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:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120406T000000 DTSTAMP:20120406T040000Z CREATED:20120406T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120406T040000Z UID:4511-1333670400-1333670400@limba.net SUMMARY:NO Meeting -Beginning of Passover and Good Friday DESCRIPTION:Most of our members will be preparing for the holiday\nHappy Easter and Passover to all URL:https://limba.net/calendar/no-meeting-beginning-of-passover-and-good-friday/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120413T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120413T000000 DTSTAMP:20120413T040000Z CREATED:20120413T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120413T040000Z UID:4512-1334275200-1334275200@limba.net SUMMARY:Legislator Kate Browning DESCRIPTION:Our speaker today was Kate Browning\, a member of the Suffolk County legislature. Ms Browning was born in Ireland when peace was a distant hope. She left Ireland to go to Germany where she met her husband\, an American military officer. Subsequently she came to the US and became a citizen.\n  \nAs a legislator her area includes Yaphank and Gordon Heights. In her efforts to bolster business in those areas\, she became aware that economic opportunities were being stymied by the lack of essential infrastructure. An important part of that infrastructure is sewers. Without sewers an application for building a Starbucks was rejected\, as was an Applebee’s. This began a discussion in the room focused on how sewers could be funded. Going to the feds may be like Waiting for Godot. The federal and state governments don’t have the money. This was all very strange to the legislator because in Belfast\, where she lived as a child every neighborhood had sewers.\n  \nA suggestion from Harry Davitian was that interest rates are so low it is almost like free money. Of course that presents another problem and that is debt is already quite high.\n  \nBob Bender deals in environmentally friendly bio products that can increase the capacity of present sewer plants. Another observation was that regardless of whether we have the money to actually build sewers the planning and engineering should be done anyway. They could be built when the funds do become available.\n  \nThere is a large development project being pursued by Rose- Bresiln. They have stated that can pay for any sewering that is needed for their development. That’s helpful but it is only a small part of the answer. \n  \nThe Q&A became more of a brainstorming session than a traditional Q&A.\nThe speaker was quite impressed with the level of discussions in the room.\n  \nErnie Fazio\n  \nCongratulations to Frank Boulton co-owner of the Long Island Ducks. He is being honored this week as an outstanding citizen for his achievements by his alma Mata Villanova. Frank is a great friend of LIMBA and of Long Island. His Long Island Ducks are a masterstroke of community building. His work with the Boulton Theatre and the Bay Shore YMCA are further tributes to his love of community. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/legislator-kate-browning/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120420T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120420T000000 DTSTAMP:20120420T040000Z CREATED:20120420T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120420T040000Z UID:4515-1334880000-1334880000@limba.net SUMMARY:Mark Alessi DESCRIPTION:Our speaker this morning was former NY Assemblyman\, Marc Alessi. Since leaving elected office\, he has embarked on a venture that is geared to helping tech companies get funded. He has assumed the position of Executive Director of Long Island Angel Network. Of course\, this is not a new idea\, but what is new is the structure and size of the funding. In the usual structure the venture capital is provided by a panel of investors that make a determination to fund a business or a technology\, and the venture group secures an interest. In Marc’s model\, the group is a not for profit entity and the amount of investment is much smaller. An additional difference is that one or more investors may invest and take an interest\, but the entity does not. They are interested in companies that can launch themselves with $1Million or less in start-up or additional cash. \n  \nMarc has in the past advocated for inexpensive upstate power for Brookhaven National Laboratory’s supercomputer here on Long Island. That effort was resisted by upstate political people who were representing the interests of their local constituents. Marc successfully made the case that the upstate technology companies will benefit from having access to that computer capacity. Development of batteries require computer modeling and that can only be done effectively where there is enormous computer capacity. There are many other applications that are now available to up-state companies. Brookhaven Labs share their equipment with many other private ventures. \n  \nHe pointed out that NY State is the greatest generator of patents in the world\, yet we do not have the same record of creating high- tech companies as Boston or places in California. The reason\, according to Alessi\, is that we have not developed a culture of nurturing those efforts. Accelerate Long Island\, Long Island Forum for Technology\, LISTNET and others are now trying to bring us to that culture. \n  \nThe Q&A was lively because most of the people in the room were directly involved in technology development. We will follow the progress of the Angel Network and invite them back sometime in the future. The possibilities are too big to be ignored. \n  \n \n698 URL:https://limba.net/calendar/mark-alessi/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120427T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120427T000000 DTSTAMP:20120427T040000Z CREATED:20120427T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120427T040000Z UID:4518-1335484800-1335484800@limba.net SUMMARY:Laura Shabe Port of NY & NJ Authority DESCRIPTION:Our speaker this morning\, Laura Shabe is a professional city planner that has taken on the responsibility of the Cross Harbor Float facility that was purchased by the NY\, NJ Port Authority. Laura comes to NY-NJ Port Authority with a formidable background in city planning here in the United States and previously in Germany where\, according to Laura\, planning and building was more of a rational process. \n   \nThis facility that she is shepherding to operational status is designed to carry rail freight cars from Greenville Yard in Jersey City to Brooklyn. In Brooklyn the cars will be assembled into trains to service the freight needs of Long Island. \n   \nThis connecting point is important because there is a robust network of tracks already in place in Brooklyn. On the Jersey side the tracks are directly connected to the national rail system. \n   \nThere was $100 million set aside for the tunnel and was not being used. That money is now being used to study and repair the existing float system. The float system can be fully operational in a relatively short time. When it is done it will be able to move 900 freight cars per day. Ms. Shabe told us that full capacity would be reached almost immediately. We expect a 137% increase in need by 2035 by calculating population projections \n   \nThis is approximately the same place that Congressman Nadler proposed the Cross Harbor Tunnel. The tunnel\, if built\, would be able to handle for more traffic than the float system\, but the cost may be proportionally much more. We discussed at length the benefit of a tunnel as well as different ways it may be configured. Would it be a train only? Would trucks be accommodated? Would it be able to handle diesel\, or would the ventilation requirements make it an electric only connection? Actually this would be a perfect application for Maglev because there would be no emissions and the electric power requirements are completely contained and safe. \n   \nWill the tunnel be built? It probably will have to be built someday\, in the mean time this operation can and will operate. The tunnel when it is started will take a number of years to complete. Until then this will be an effective stopgap measure. The rail float was "state of the art" when it was originally built\, but needs considerable rehabilitation. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/laura-shabe-port-of-ny-nj-authority/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR