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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110408T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110408T000000 DTSTAMP:20110408T040000Z CREATED:20110408T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110408T040000Z UID:4461-1302220800-1302220800@limba.net SUMMARY:Frank Boulton - Founder & CEO -LI Ducks at Betpage Ballpark DESCRIPTION:This morning’s meeting was held at Bethpage Ballpark\, home of the Long Island Ducks.(Actually located in Central Islip) Frank Boulton\, founder and CEO of the Ducks was our speaker. The Duck Club is where we held the meeting. The room overlooks the ballpark from the perspective of behind home plate. It has a great view of the field from behind a glass wall exposure. The tables are set up as in a restaurant and the variety of food is served. According to Boulton the offerings ranges from a steak to chicken wings. Frank then went over the history of the club and it is an interesting story. \n  \nAfter meeting with his friend Bud Harrelson they decided that a Minor League team would work well for Long Island. They approached the NY Yankees and the NY Mets to see if either of those franchises would sanction a Minor League outpost on Long Island. Neither of those teams were interested. Undaunted\, Boulton and Harrelson decided to create not only a new team\, but also a new league. \n  \nThey entered into a public- private partnership with the County of Suffolk and the Ducks were born. They have been a great success ever since they made their first quack. \nThe county owns the ballpark but the enterprise is self-sustaining and doesn’t cost the taxpayers a dime. The vision of Boulton and Harrelson was to have an affordable family experience that was similar in cost to a night at the movies. That notion caught the imagination of many and they sell out the season tickets and often sell standing room only tickets. The way that works is that there are often empty seats that are prepaid\, and they allow  the empty seats be filled with the SRO crowd\, a practice that would be frowned upon at Yankee Stadium or probably any Major League Park. But this is Long Island and it’s more like friends and neighbors sharing the same sand lot. \n  \nMr. Boulton shared some stories and events that they hold at the park. One of the events is the competition to sing the national anthem. Rank amateurs are out there singing their hearts out and some of them are quite good and the competition lends to the fun of the place. \n  \nBoulton also spoke about his affiliation with the Boulton Theater\, a performing arts center. He purchased and renovated the theater\, and gave it to the local YMCA. He retains no management or ownership in the theater. His good friend and celebrated sportscaster Bob Wolf will be holding a book tour event at the Boulton Theater on April 21st. Wolf is now 90 years old but I remember him as part of the regular team doing the sports on News 12. This is Mr. Wolf’s fourth book. \n  \nIt is places like this that keep Long Island from being a cultural desert. And while I still have an opportunity to dump another one of my bad puns. This team is everything it’s quacked up to be. Thanks Frank. \nErnie Fazio URL:https://limba.net/calendar/frank-boulton-founder-ceo-li-ducks-at-betpage-ballpark/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110415T000000 DTSTAMP:20110415T040000Z CREATED:20110415T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110415T040000Z UID:4460-1302825600-1302825600@limba.net SUMMARY:Long Island Renewable Energy Forum TBC DESCRIPTION:This morning I asked Gordian Racke\, a man that has been a leader on energy issues for many years to assemble a small panel of presenters. The energy topics he selected were energy planning presented by Al Harsch\, Energy building conservation presented by Mike Murtha\, and off shore wind generation by Tim Daniels \n  \nWhile there was some overlap in some of the information\, these are clearly very different disciplines of energy. \n  \nGordian led off with a review of the problems of energy use and the various approaches to create a more sustainable world. He stated that the issue of climate change is not debatable. Glacier National Park for example had over 100 glaciers in it at one time\, and today there are 26. By the year 2010 there will be none. Then he went into the economic ramifications of shipping $1.3Billion dollars off Long Island that will never be reinvested in this region. (The same is true for the $500 billion rest of the nation). Finally he spoke about the national security exposure we have as long as we have to rely heavily on hostile areas of the world to obtain our oil. \n  \nWhen Al Harsch spoke he discussed solar panel technology and how various factors are important. He stated that solar panels must have a favorable orientation to the sun and even partial shading will have a serious negative effect on the output. He pointed out that there are two basic technologies used solar. There are the conventional panels and the so-called thin film technology. The thin film is a more recent development and it is less expensive to make\, but it does not produce as much electric power. Harsh then went into the wind turbine technology. Wind has an exponential increase in power when the speed of the wind is increased. Increasing the speed of the wind by 2 times will increase electrical output by 8 times. Therefore wind turbines are mounted at heights that preclude the ground interference wind encounters. It also makes off shore wind very effective\, which is what the next speaker handled. Al Harsch is with Green Logic Energy LLC \n  \nMike Murtha\, President\, Murtha Construction Inc then spoke about the energy efficiency of buildings. His experience goes back to a time when the job was simply "plug the holes." Since that time the energy conservation business has created tools that accurately assess and quantify losses. There is now the ability to predict the outcome of the energy conservation work performed. He points out that while this was work that was done by renovators in the past\, it is now a specialized field with its own framework of knowledge. With proper analysis vast improvements in building performance can be achieved. \n  \nThe last speaker was Tim Daniels\, Senior VP\, Deepwater Wind. Deep Water Wind is a company that was created specifically to design and build Off-Shore Wind in the NY-Long Island area. Deep-water placement of wind turbines means that the wind resources will almost always be there. The construction costs are more than on land\, but the rich wind possibilities makes the effort worth the extra expense. Moreover bigger wind turbines can be installed. On land the transportation to the operation site of very large turbines is not practical. When taking turbines out to an offshore location the turbines are floated on large barges. These barges can be any size required. These turbines are getting larger all the time and within a year or two we will have wind turbines in the 8 megawatt class. In contrast when LIPA was considering their proposed offshore field they were using 3.5 megawatt units. The high productivity we expect from wind generation that is approximately 30 miles offshore should be very reliable. \n  \nThe Q&A is sometimes as interesting as the presentations. One question about density turned out to be a good one. Too much density will result in turbulence that will reduce the efficiency of the units. What about avian interference? Not much of a problem 30 miles out. \n  \nThe interest in the topics that were covered was high and we will probably do another one covering different aspects of energy. Perhaps geothermal\, tidal flow and other technologies will be among the topics \n  \nErnie Fazio URL:https://limba.net/calendar/long-island-renewable-energy-forum-tbc/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110422T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110422T000000 DTSTAMP:20110422T040000Z CREATED:20110422T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110422T040000Z UID:4455-1303430400-1303430400@limba.net SUMMARY:Good Friday- No Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/good-friday-no-meeting-7/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110429T000000 DTSTAMP:20110429T040000Z CREATED:20110429T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110429T040000Z UID:4470-1304035200-1304035200@limba.net SUMMARY:This meeting was rescheduled to 6/17 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/this-meeting-was-rescheduled-to-617/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR