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If you haven't read the JRG Blog for 3/10, you need to click on over there and read it.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
If this isn't a classic, most arrogant display from a public official to a member of the press, I don't know what is.....
First of all, thanks to Bob and the QNO team for allowing the public a rare peak of the transparency of the current city administration. I have absolutely no reason not to believe this event didn't happen.
Too bad Ed and Doug over at the Mayors' citys' paper don't have the stones to ask a question, yet even think of a question that concerns the finances of the city that led to this event. Sorry to say that I will be ending my paper subscription as the weather has turned warmer and I don't need the kindeling and I don't own a bird.
Spring: I also don't appreciate you call my police chief on a Sunday and asking for my private number. Sorry to say mayor, unless you produce evidence that YOU PERSONALLY pay for that cell phone, it's not yours' it the TAXPAYERS!
Which brings up another point....
Of the several multiple cell phone that the TAXPAYERS of this city pay for, which ones are made public? Every alderman has one, yet when the public needs to contact one, where are these funded numbers listed?
Didn't know WTF our Mayor signed us all up for in all this Tiahrt Amendment/ Mayors against illegal guns crap so I did some info check.
When a mayor commits his city's loyalty, I would expect he sought some public input into what he was getting into. My phone never rang so maybe my input was not important.
After about a two hour search, I can't see a single reason that he would commit the city's name to such a amendment. Maybe to get trace the background of this LEGAL gun owner pictured here..........
First of all, This amendment did not block any law enforcement agency from getting trace information provided they were conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. The language clearly allowed law enforcement to do its job, but prevented rogue politicians or anti-civil rights groups from conducting vigilante fishing expeditions.
Second, What it does do is let anti-gun politicians use this information for their own agendas. The trace data is only useful in direct conjunction with a criminal investigation. Any other use would not yield viable results because of the nature of the data. For example, a trace might be run on a firearm that had nothing to do with a crime, such as to verify a firearm isn't stolen. This would yield a false positive if attempting to use the data out of context on a witch hunt to try to find problems that don't exist.
That is all I could find. Two hours, two facts, and you slapped our city's name to this?
How about getting the city's IT department to create some kind of interactive public input/ feedback page that could gauge the "citys" true voice and go from there?
Oh, that's right, hackers could break in and skew the information.
Should the city spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the pursuit of hydroelectric power if it means having to cut back on other services, such as infrastructure?
70% said No (70 of 93)
Should Quincy mayoral and aldermanic candidates take campaign contributions from city employees, people who do business with the city, PAC's or unions who represent city employees?
80% said No (76 of 94)
But don't let polls like this affect your vote, City Hall does listen......
Waaayy to much pissing and moaning over at QNO about how unfair the poll taken Sunday night. I for one was not home and wished they would be calling back.
So, I sought some advise today on exactly how to word this so no one would offended, pissed, accusing each side, and maybe to see if the numbers do indeed change if it was worded differently.
First, some background. I am neither a republican nor a democrat. I vote for the best person regardless of party affiliation.
Second, I have made my thoughts about the Hydro project, you can read them here. I think it is a high cost, high risk, with returns dependent on Mother Nature.
Third, the only two answers here are Yes and No. Not "I don't know". No "I don't understand the question". No "Maybe". Just 2 available answers.
Quincy engineer Mike Klingner says the time may be right to consider building a major new tourist attraction on Quincy's riverfront. Click Here.
The group envisions a $40 million to $50 million center overlooking the river. It would feature an elaborate aquarium along with a series of educational areas offering insight into a wide range of river-related topics and issues.
The $20 million riverfront condominium project, which the city considers the cornerstone of a riverfront renaissance, is on hold while developers wait out the nation's economic downturn.
Sheila Morgan of Shortridge Construction confirmed Friday morning that the project has been delayed indefinitely.
"It's just on hold until after the financial mess straightens out," Morgan said. "We would be hopeful late winter or early spring (to resume), but it depends on how long this thing drags on."
Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced Tuesday that a new campaign will highlight the success of the Smoke-free Illinois Act. He said there will be ads on television and radio about how the smoking ban has improved lives.
“People in F*****g Illinois no longer have to put their F*****g health at risk while at F*****g work or when they go out to a F*****g restaurant, F*****g bowling alley or other F*****g public place,” said Blagojevich.
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Reading the QHW 12/7 article on "Going Hydro" finally prompted me to dig into this for more than several reasons There is a lot of talk but very little proof that this will work. I hear and read lots of "I Think".
Let me tell you of what "I Think". Some of this is going to be cut and paste for two reasons: One, no since re-typing it, and Two, I'm lazy.
First to explain how hydro power works:
Flow and Head The first step in assessing the feasibility of any hydroelectric system is to determine the amount of power that you can obtain from the stream at the site. The power available at any instant is primarily a product of the flow volume and "head." Flow volume is typically measured in cubic feet per second (cfs) or gallons per minute (gpm). Higher flow means more available power.
Head is a measure of the pressure of falling water, and is a function of the vertical distance that water drops and the characteristics of the channel, or pipe, through which it flows. Higher head means more available power. The higher the head the better, because less water is needed to produce a given amount of power. If less water is needed, then smaller, more efficient, and less costly turbines and piping can be used.
Hydroelectric sites are broadly categorized as low or high head sites. "Low head" typically refers to a change in elevation of less than 10 feet (3 meters). A vertical drop of less than 2 feet (0.61 meters) will probably make a hydroelectric system unfeasible.A high flow rate can compensate for low head, but a larger and more costly turbine will be necessary. It may be difficult to find a turbine that will operate efficiently under very low head and low flow.
In simpler terms, it converts the gravity of water falling into power.
Now a little research on Lock and Dam 21 tells us that:
Lock dimensions are 110-feet wide by 600-feet long with additional provisions for
an auxiliary lock. Normal upper pool elevation is 470.0, approximately 16 feet
above the tail waters of the dam at low water. When both pools are at their
normal depths, the difference in elevation is reduced to 11 feet or less
The maximum lift is 10.5 feet with an average lift of 6.55 feet.
The movable dam has 10 submersible, elliptical Tainter gates (20-feet high and
64-feet long) and three submersible roller gates (20-feet high and 100-feet long).
The dam system also includes two earth and sand-filled transitional dikes, and a
submersible earth dike.
What’s this mean? The maximum fall of water on a good day with the wind out of the south, normal rainfall, no spring runoff will be at best -10 feet.
Footnote on the Lock and Dam. For those of you that have seen the Missouri side of the “dam” it’s quite a disappointment.It’s nothing more that a concrete dike there and if the water reaches the top, it just runs over it.Kinda looks like the COE ran out of money and just filled in the rest of the dam with rock. Looks impressive from the Illinois side.
Now some more:
A series of 29 locks and dams on the upper Mississippi, most of which were built in the 1930s, is designed primarily to maintain a 9 ft (2.7 m) deep channel for commercial barge traffic. The lakes formed are also used for recreational boating and fishing. The dams make the river deeper and wider but do not stop it. No flood control is intended. During periods of high flow, the gates, some of which are submersible, are completely opened and the dams simply cease to function.
So.When the dams cease to function, so does our $200 million dollar hydroelectric plant.How often does this happen?
Since I wanted to see just what the fall was on a yearly basis, I copied some info from the COE web site on 2007 Lock and Dam Pool 21 and tailwater levels and imported them into a Excel.
First tab/page is 2007 Pool, Second tab/page is Tailwater, Third tab/page is the “fall”/difference/head between the pool and tailwater.Falls less than 2 foot are colored in red.Falls between 2 and 5 feet are in Yellow, Falls greater than 7 are in Green.
I think that there has to be a better way to spend millions of taxpayer money on something that is more dependable that this.
I’m not a licensed engineer but this technology looks a little better for the Mighty Mississippi.
They currently have preliminary permits from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to study 59 sites on the river. Read it here.
It generates power with the flow of the river, not the fall. In times of flood when the flow increases, it would produce more power. The lock and dams on the Mississippi would be the perfect place for these. The river traffic is diverted to either end of the current dams and would not affect the barge traffic. The entire flow of the river could be channeled before the dam and go through the turbines before going through the gates.
If you could somehow incorporate these into the existing dams on the river.
While reading the on-line edition of who-give-a-shit-daily, I ran into this article.
"It's cost me over $400,000" to fight the lawsuit, Don Kirlin told the paper, "and after spending it, I only get to lose 12 percent of my property that I already owned."
City of Quincy has spent over $400,000 to fight the firing of 6 city employees and after spending it, They only have to re-hire 33 percent of the employees that they already fired.
The decision to hire Miquel Barcelo, 51, one of the world’s most highly paid abstract artists, to redesign a 14,000 sq ft dome has prompted furious protests from campaigners who believe it is an extravagant misuse of development funds.The work, at the headquarters of the UN Human Rights Council, will be unveiled this week by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain and Jose Luis Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister.
Ki-moon was overheard that "If I had to do it all over again, I would".
The lavishness of the project has also caused disquiet among UN staff. “It’s shocking that development aid was used for this,” said an employee.
"but I just didn't think it would ever cost that much money."
As we celebrate this year’s Veterans Day holiday, we should take the time to say, “thank you,” to a veteran. If you don’t know any veterans, take a quiet moment to appreciate what they have done – and continue to do – for our country.
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