{"id":2605,"date":"2010-09-30T19:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T23:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/thomas-j-manning-responds.html"},"modified":"2010-09-30T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T23:24:39","slug":"thomas-j-manning-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/thomas-j-manning-responds.html","title":{"rendered":"Thomas J. Manning Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"Brad Lofton sent me this today.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<blockquote>\nFrom:    &#8220;Brad Lofton&#8221; <blofton@industrialauthority.com>\n<br>\nDate:    Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:54:58 -0400\n<p>\nJohn:\n<p>\nThank you for providing my correspondence on your blog. Here is an\ne-mail below from VSU professor Tom Manning who has experience in\nbiomass research and instruction.  He has supported our project\nenthusiastically from the beginning.  I would appreciate you including\nthis as well.\n<p>\nRegards,\n<p>\nBL\n<p>\nFrom: Thomas J Manning [mailto:tmanning@valdosta.edu]\n<br>\nSent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:37 AM\n<br>\nTo: &#8216;Bradley J Bergstrom&#8217;\n<br>\nCc: &#8216;ReplyTo:&#8217;; &#8216;Cc: Allan Ricketts&#8217;\n<br>\nSubject: FW: Thank you to the Valdosta Board of Education\n<p>\nDr. Bergstrom,\n<p>\nI believe you are playing a game of semantics with your\ndisparaging argument concerning my qualifications (quote below).  Some\nkey points:\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n1.      I did address the county commission on this topic over a year\nago \u2013 in a public forum at a scheduled meeting.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n2.      I am editor-in-chief of the environmental science journal\n\u201cFlorida Scientist.\u201d   We focus on environmental and ecological issues\nin the Southeast and the Caribbean.  This is a peer reviewed journal\nthat has an international distribution.\n<p>\n3.      While the focus of my research program is not biomass, it is\nfocused on developing a commercially viable \u201cgreen synthesis\u201d process\nrelated to a local product.  We have given talks and published\nabstracts on Biomass.  These have ranged from student\ntalks\/presentations at VSU to published abstracts distributed by the\nAmerican Chemical Society.   You can find these on a number of search\nengines.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/acs.confex.com\/acs\/serm07\/techprogram\/P48956.HTM\">\nhttp:\/\/acs.confex.com\/acs\/serm07\/techprogram\/P48956.HTM<\/a>\nis an example.\n<p>\n4.      I also teach courses in physical chemistry (thermodynamics) and\nenvironmental chemistry where we cover the science, technology and some\nregulations associated with biomass in great detail.\n<p>\nMy first and last communication on this matter. Tm\n<blockquote>\n&ldquo;Dr. Manning is a VSU chemistry professor.  Dr. Manning did not attend\nthe public hearing on the Wiregrass plant, nor did he submit any\ncomments during the public review.  His &#8220;research page&#8221; on his website\ndoes not indicate &#8220;biomass&#8221; as a topic he is researching, and a\ncitation search of thousands of scientific journals (i.e. all the\npeer-reviewed ones) for &#8220;manning&#8221; and &#8220;biomass&#8221; turns up zero\npublications by Tom Manning on biomass.&rdquo;\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nFrom: Brad Lofton [mailto:blofton@industrialauthority.com]\n<br>\nSent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 10:08 AM\n<br>\nTo: &#8216;Thomas J. Manning&#8217;\n<br>\nSubject: FW: Thank you to the Valdosta Board of Education\n<p>\nFYI\n<\/blockquote>\nAppended was a copy of <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/brad-lofton-simply-walk-down-the-hall.html\">\nLofton&#8217;s previous message<\/a>\nand some other messages before that, all already in the blog.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Lofton sent me this today. -jsq From: &#8220;Brad Lofton&#8221; Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:54:58 -0400 John: Thank you for providing my correspondence on your blog. Here is an e-mail below from VSU professor Tom Manning who has experience in biomass research and instruction. He has supported our project enthusiastically from the beginning. 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