Archive for March 22nd, 2007

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Where is Cinderella?

March 22, 2007

Michael Giberson

Coyote Blog asks, “Where is Cinderella?

The first two rounds of the NCAA basketball championship have been played (round three is underway as I type), and nowhere to be seen is a surprise team like last year’s George Mason University.

The best answer I have seen is that of Phil Sheridan, in The Philadelphia Inquirer: Mid-majors that roar are winnowed out. While normally I’m not much for conspiracy theories, when the conspiracy fits with the interests of television and the dominant sports conferences … well, that’s a powerful aligning of interests.

Want to know what happened to Cinderella? I’d put the wicked stepsisters at the top of the list of suspects.

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Wind Power & Water Power: So Happy Together

March 22, 2007

Michael Giberson

Earth, Wind & Fire may be a funky soul powerhouse band of the late 60s and early 70s, but in the Pacific Northwest the element that really gets them juiced is water. The region gets about 2/3rds of its electric power from hydroelectric dams. But as the region seeks to increase its electric power generation capability, perhaps they were inspired by these lines from EW&F:

Do you need a guide
To make you feel satisfied
Head to the sky
Will tell you why

Wind power may have many fine attributes as a power source, but steady predictability is not one of them. Water power, on the other hand, is often highly controllable. Proponents of wind in the Northwest say it is a match made in heaven.

(Lyrics from the EW&F song, which is itself titled “Earth, Wind & Fire” found here via Google, from EW&F’s Spirit album.)

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