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Best, Jeff
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I apologize----worked on it Sunday evening thinking that I could finish up yesterday in the office (fat chance).
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Here's what I've done thus far, and I'll continue to edit today, if that would be helpful.
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Best, Jeff
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Thanks a million (as always).
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Give my best to Ray and tell him to hurry up and get this messed resolved.
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Best, Jeff
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I'll call.
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You're on.
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Laura: Sorry to bother you again, but I'm concerned that Justin is wildly busy and may not have the time to forward the package on to the SVMG.
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I'm hoping that you might have the distribution list and might be able to forward to that list, too.
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No big deal, just trying do everything we can to try to mobilize the troops on customer choice.
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Best, Jeff
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Sorry, don't know these folks.
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Best, Jeff
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I just got this note morning.
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Something must be wrong with my or your email (likely mine).
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Sorry about that.
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Best, Jeff
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On interminable conference calls---on another right now.
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Flight leaves at 3:30 PM, which I think gets me there around 5 or 5:15 PM.
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Why don't you just pick a restaurant and I'll meet you there.
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I'm staying at 5th Avenue Suites.
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If you want to eat at the resaurant at the hotel, that works for me.
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I'll call you when (and if) I get off this call.
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Best, Jeff
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I'll keep plugging, with plan being to get you the rest today.
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Best, Jeff
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Thanks.
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Best of luck in the prep.
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If I can be of any help, you folks know how to find me.
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I'll see you at 5:15 outside at the ticket counter level.
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I'm taking Alaska.
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Thank you.
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I'm still working on the first wave of magnums, though.
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How much was the phone bill, m'lady?
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damn yer funny.
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hey, what's the weather like up there?
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Jim: Could you send me your version of the California presentation that I drafted for you and Rick?
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Thanks a bunch.
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Best, Jeff
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The entire phone bill is 300 pesos???
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Yes, please fax to me.
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And please email me rest of expenses when you get a chance so I can write you a check for everything (plane,phone, golf, etc., etc.) You guys get back OK?
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fax is 415.782.7854.
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we got back ok.
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(i didn't know tulsa had such a neat airport.)
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That's so weird.
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Prentice left her car door ajar (when she went to go to school yesterday morning, it was dead and she had to get a jump).
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I was surprised that the phone was only 300 pesos.
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I thought they'd charge by the minute, but apparently, it's a flat 10 pesos for local (i.e., 800 calls), no matter how long one's one.
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no idea.
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sorry.
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I would suggest that we bring Bob in once we've had a chance to discuss internally today.
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Best, Jeff
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Some data on Coke and Quaker.
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More to follow.
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May be of interest to your biz dev efforts.
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Best, Jeff
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Dan Walters: Politicians seek shelter as energy Armageddon looms (Published April 4, 2001) There's been a subtle but unmistakable shift in the political atmosphere that envelops California's energy crisis.
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Politicians have concluded that the crisis is largely beyond their control and the die is more or less cast.
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Whatever fate decrees - massive summer blackouts, soaring utility bills or even the bankruptcy of the state's utilities - will happen, and politicians from Gov. Gray Davis downward are scrambling to insulate themselves from voters' anger and single out rivals for blame.
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No one is saying that publicly, of course, but the fatalistic mood is very apparent in the Capitol, whose denizens have dropped their preoccupation with energy and moved to other matters.
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Legislative committees are working on the hundreds of bills that had been stalled for three months while the special committees that had been holding almost daily sessions on the energy crisis have gone into semihibernation.
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Last weekend's Democratic state convention in Anaheim was dominated by fears that when the crisis hits home, the party's dominance of the Capitol will backfire.
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"Just remember Jimmy Carter," state Controller Kathleen Connell warned fellow Democrats, adding that they will have "no excuses" for perceived failure to deal with the crisis forthrightly.
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"We will be accountable on Election Day 2002," she said.
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Next year's elections are very much on Davis' mind, since he'll be seeking a second term and polls indicate that his approval ratings have declined sharply in recent weeks.
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He devoted much of the weekend to defending his actions, saying, "I believe we've moved at warp speed to address this problem," and trying to pin blame on Republicans.
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Republicans, meanwhile, sense that the crisis gives them an avenue of escape from the dungeon of irrelevancy to which they had been exiled by heavy losses in the last three elections.
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The only remaining statewide GOP officeholder, Secretary of State Bill Jones, is running for governor by accusing Davis of mismanagement, and Republican Assembly members dumped their leader, Bill Campbell, on grounds that he had been insufficiently aggressive vis-a-vis Davis.
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The political positioning reflects the reality that the crisis shows every sign of worsening.
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Although Davis' office is distributing a brochure entitled "Meeting the Energy Challenge" to defend the governor's actions, it's apparent that none of the steps the governor has taken is bearing much fruit.
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The state is spending at least $50 million a day on emergency power purchases, but what was supposed to be a short-term program has evolved into a monthslong drain on the state's rapidly shrinking budget reserves.
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The long-term supply contracts that were supposed to replace daily spot purchases have bogged down, and without firm contracts and a revenue stream to pay for them, Wall Street is reluctant to market the bonds the state wants to float.
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Many authorities now believe Davis' decision to step into the power purchase market in January was a strategic error because it gave power suppliers a deep new pocket to tap just as the utilities themselves ran out of credit.
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Davis, meanwhile, is refusing to embrace a rate increase approved by the state Public Utilities Commission, which sends a mixed message to Wall Street, and efforts to resolve problems with unpaid bills from power generators and have the state acquire the utilities' intercity transmission grid have stalled, perhaps permanently.
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The crisis may careen totally out of control as summer arrives, raising the specter of elderly and/or ill Californians dying from having their air conditioners or medical equipment shut down.
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And the utilities are closer to bankruptcy now than at any other point in the nearly yearlong crisis.
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Plan A isn't working, and there is no Plan B - except for bankruptcy.
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With Armageddon looming, politicians have retreated into the bunker, hoping to protect themselves from what could be a firestorm of anger.
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The Bee's Dan Walters can be reached at (916) 321-1195 or dwalters@sacbee.com
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Greetings: Are we supposed to do the reading and the Oracle and Legal Services cases for Thursday?
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Syllabus says yes, but I gather from Tasker's Izio not that we'll be in the computer center all class doing modeling.
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(I'd email her, but she doesn't get my emails apparently.) Anyone have a clue?
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Best, Jeff
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could you please forward me the gas daily story re: investigation into EOL.
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I'm having a hard time locating.
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Thanks, Jeff
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Harry: Could you forward along to the EES folks we talked to yesterday who're interested in ISO's demand-side proposal.
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Thanks.
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Best, Jeff Market Participants, Attached is the California ISO's revised third RFB for Loads with emergency back-up generators that wish to participate in the ISO Demand Relief Program (DRP).
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The ISO would especially like to thank the participants that submitted bids that included back-up generators into the first DRP RFB and encourages those participants to submit bids for this revised RFB.
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As mentioned in the March 30 Market Notice for the second DRP RFB (for Loads not using back-up generators), the design of the back-up generator program has changed somewhat since the issuance of the first DRP RFB.
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Loads using back-up generators will still be dispatched after the DRP Load blocks but will be available for 24 hours per month, similar to the Load portion.
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Successful bidders will start in the program either June 1 or July 1 depending on how quickly contracts and logistics can be finalized.
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Bids are due to the ISO on May 1 in accordance with the attached RFB.
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This RFB will also be posted on the ISO Home Page (www.caiso.com) in the next 24 hours.
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- DRA Third RFB BUG 010403.doc
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Hi.
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