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:20110902T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110902T000000 DTSTAMP:20110902T040000Z CREATED:20110902T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110902T040000Z UID:4473-1314921600-1314921600@limba.net SUMMARY:Labor Day Holiday- No Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/labor-day-holiday-no-meeting/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110909T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110909T000000 DTSTAMP:20110909T040000Z CREATED:20110909T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110909T040000Z UID:4475-1315526400-1315526400@limba.net SUMMARY:Tom Croci - Candidate -Islip Town Supervisor DESCRIPTION:Yesterday’s speaker was Tom Croci. Croci has served as a Navel intelligence officer and also served in the George Bush Whitehouse\, and is now in the reserves. He is the Republican candidate for the supervisor of Islip Town. He told us that he was new to politics and his motivation is that of frustration rather than political ambition. \n  \nHe believes that strong leadership and determination sometimes works well in the political arena. He gave as an example the man he is now working for\, Lee Zelden. Zeldin was given no chance of creating legislation that rescinded the MTA. It’s a tax that just about everyone thinks is an unfair tax (that would include LIMBA). He stated that Zelden was successful in passing the legislation in the Senate. It now must go to the Assembly and be signed by the Governor. He thinks it will pass. \n  \nCroci said local government "must remove the choke hold on business". Deregulation will help business work more efficiently and get out of the way. During the Q&A he was asked about the type of regulation that protects the public\, such as airline safety rules. He appeared to be OK with that. \n  \nMr. Croci thinks that there is a disincentive for bureaucrats to be more helpful. The incentive to do less and risk little is greater than the incentive to expedite work. One questioner remembered that the administration of Mike LoGrande when he was Islip Supervisor there was a timetable for processing development plans and LoGrande was on top of things. Rejections were swift and final and so were approvals. Today the timidity of the people making these decisions ties up a developers resources too long. Even when the project is approved much time has elapsed and a lot of legal and planning resources have been spent. Perhaps Leadership needs to be more supportive of the people on staff as well defining guidelines for them. \n  \nTom Croci appears to actually think about the questions asked of him. I did not see any rapid fire canned responses to questions that are right out of a political catechism. \n  \n  \n  URL:https://limba.net/calendar/tom-croci-candidate-islip-town-supervisor/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110916T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110916T000000 DTSTAMP:20110916T040000Z CREATED:20110916T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110916T040000Z UID:4466-1316131200-1316131200@limba.net SUMMARY:Randi Busse- Special Program-Retaining customers and clients DESCRIPTION:LIMBA program speaker Randi Busse \n  \nThe program at LIMBA was different from our usual format. Instead of having a high profile Long Islander\, we have a professional speaker. Randi Busse usually speaks to corporate America clients\, and her topic today about building the loyalty of your customer base. \n  \nAfter asking her audience to participate by telling her what we thought customers valued. She created a list and turned it around asked the audience. "Isn’t this what you expect as a customer?" \n  \nThe thought that the sales person is in fact "in business for himself" was explored. An employee that sells as if he owned the place is desirable trait. That sense of "ownership" is the basis of successfully connecting with the client. That ownership shows itself in the completed service the sales person is willing to commit. \n  \nRandi discussed the impersonal approach that many corporations use by employing outsourced customer service. The service employees could be anywhere in the world\, and they could be reading from a book. They often speak very good English but do not know the idiosyncrasies of the American dialect. \n  \nBusse discussed the economics of retaining customers. It costs about six times more to create a new customer than to properly service an existing account. The experience of the audience seemed to agree that there is great value in selling to established accounts. There are needs that are always changing. If you as the sales person are not there to inform\, and guide\, you will not be around to complete sale of newly acquired need. \n  \nIt was interesting to see that the audience appeared to be so receptive. Perhaps we all know how to be thoughtful and see where we can be of better service to our client base\, but in our pursuit of new business we neglect one important detail. People want to be treated with respect. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/randi-busse-special-program-retaining-customers-and-clients/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110923T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110923T000000 DTSTAMP:20110923T040000Z CREATED:20110923T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110923T040000Z UID:4465-1316736000-1316736000@limba.net SUMMARY:Utility Grade Electric Storage- Brian Perusse\, AES Energy DESCRIPTION:Stored Energy System for Long Island\nOur speaker this morning was Brian Prusse and the discussion was about the use of batteries to help support the grid. The age-old problem with power plants is the difficulty with matching load to production. Firing up a major power plant takes time. On the other hand\, the moment you activate a switch you expect the power to be there. Loads in the system are constantly changing and these plants need to over produce or risk a brownout. By having reliable storage that can be almost instantaneously introduced\, the power company can produce power closer to the projected need and be more efficient. \n  \nNuclear was introduced to the utility systems about 40 years ago and those plants were designed to produce a base load. Nuclear plants are not easily regulated and work best when producing a steady flow. That makes nuclear suitable for the base amount of power with the peaks being met by so-called peakers that can be fired up relatively quickly. But even these peakers take a little time to meet the perceived load. Batteries can meet the load almost instantly. Utility scale storage has application for the nuclear industry even if not a single new nuclear plant is ever built. \n  \nAnother strategy for load leveling is a very sophisticated and robust transmission system. Being able to move power to where it is needed employs automated systems that we have.  That strategy works better in the open spaces of the country than in places like Long Island where no one wants to see the power transmission facility built\, and even that strategy is not a perfect solution. \n  \nMr. Perusse gave us a little history on the AES Company. AES has a presence in many places in the world as generating company\, and began solving the problem of variable needs for their own installations. They began by solving small scale problems and as technology advances allowed they were able to tackle power systems that would have been cost prohibitive in the past. \n  \nThe future may include a large scale use of batteries that are installed in cars. During the evening the cars will absorb cheaply created power and reintroduce that power at a time in the day that would be advantages to the utility company. However we are not there yet\, and it may be some time before enough electric cars are in place to accomplish this kind of load leveling. In the meantime battery technology has gotten less costly and safer. \n  \n AES created a plant in Chile and that system has worked very well. There is a 32-megawatt storage plant that is being built in South Carolina and there is an 8-megawatt storage facility in Johnson City near Binghamton. The proposed plant for Long Island is much larger than the previously built storage systems at 400 Megawatts. That sounds big and it is big\, but compared to the size of the Long island system it is small. We can generate 5800 megawatts if needed and about 2000 of those megawatts are produced by older\, dirtier and less efficient plants. This 400 MW can be introduced almost instantly and that feature by itself creates a scenario where we actually can produce less power so the capacity will be able to serve the region. URL:https://limba.net/calendar/utility-grade-electric-storage-brian-perusse-aes-energy/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110930T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110930T000000 DTSTAMP:20110930T040000Z CREATED:20110930T040000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110930T040000Z UID:4487-1317340800-1317340800@limba.net SUMMARY:This meeting was rescheduled to 10/21 NO Meeting 9/30 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://limba.net/calendar/this-meeting-was-rescheduled-to-1021-no-meeting-930/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR