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Electric City Weblog: An Unimpressive Report, Part 1

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:27:54 -0500

As I read and re-read the Burns & McDonnell Organizational and Financial Review of Electric City Power, I kept coming back to the fact that the City paid sixty grand for this report. I certainly understand the need for context, but did we really intend [...]

prairiemary: THE CACTUS AND RIGHT ALIGNMENT

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:22:00 -0500

Some years ago I was looking for a hanging plant for my big east kitchen window. I thought it ought to be pretty heat-tolerant as that spot gets pretty warm in summer. In a commercial nursery I spotted a nice fleshy plant with interesting pods along the stems. The stems [...]

thoughtstreaming: Moral Imperialism

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:58:00 -0500

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From The United States and Mexico by Howard F Cline:

By early 1914 President Woodrow Wilson had lost his patience with Mexico, and an incident in Tampico on April 9 furnished an excuse to move against Huerta.Strung along the Panuco river were foreign-owned oil installations...chiefly British. From a dock [...]

Electric City Weblog: Two Big Things

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:07:21 -0500

…I’m glad I could share with all of you a partial digesting of the Burns & McDonnell report. Having skimmed it once, read it twice, and annotated the heck out of my desk copy, here are a couple of big disputes of analysis that come to the fore for me:

1) [...]

Electric City Weblog: Peer Reviewed

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:50:16 -0500

Ed Begley, Jr., says we shouldn’t listen to “weathermen,” but should focus on “peer reviewed” studies. Watch it here.

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t one of the problems revealed by the climate emails an attempt to game the peer review process?

(H/T: Big Swede)

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Piece Of Mind: To the good life!

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:19:48 -0500

I am thankful for little people. I don’t know who they are, but they make my shoes and clothing, carry away my garbage, and, I am told, even go down in the sewers to make sure that it all flows smoothly. I really, really appreciate them. I am a member of [...]

NewWest.Net Missoula: My Dog in a Trap on Thanksgiving Day

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:13:00 -0500

It's a walk I've taken hundreds of times, a trail that runs alongside the Big Flat irrigation ditch near the confluence of the Bitterroot and Clark Fork rivers. My nephew, in his first year at college in Portland, is here for Thanksgiving, and we were wandering along the riverbank just' [...]

NewWest.Net Missoula: An Interview with Writer, Pathologist, Professor, and Rancher Robert Greer

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:57 -0500

Robert Greer has been a surgical pathologist and Professor of Pathology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver for 35 years and has written a number of books, including ten CJ Floyd mysteries, a series that he began in 1996 with The Devil's Hatband. Greer's new novel, [...]

NewWest.Net Missoula: An Interview with Writer, Pathologist, Professor, and Rancher Robert Greer

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:40 -0500

NewWest.Net Missoula: An Interview with Writer, Pathologist, Professor, and Rancher Robert Greer

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:30 -0500