The SkunK thought he might be on to something when he stumbled on this article saying that Paul Miller had started a new business that crushed oilseed and made biodiesel. Knowing that Paul Miller was the CEO of Sustainable Systems (100% owned by GERS), he thought he had just found some NEWS! What he confirmed was one of the ways scuttlebutt begins: ***************
September 16th, 2008
Montana Company Offers On-site Seed Crushing, Biodiesel Brewing
Posted by John Davis
This story from the Billings Business News says Paul Miller owns Big Sky Biofuels, which offers on-farm crushing and biodiesel conversion for farmers who have raised oil-seed crops:
“The idea is to encourage sustainable production and to have the farmer grow oilseed crops capable of fueling their operations,” Miller said.
Montana Company Offers On-site Seed Crushing, Biodiesel Brewing
Posted by John Davis
This story from the Billings Business News says Paul Miller owns Big Sky Biofuels, which offers on-farm crushing and biodiesel conversion for farmers who have raised oil-seed crops:
“The idea is to encourage sustainable production and to have the farmer grow oilseed crops capable of fueling their operations,” Miller said.
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Now if you go back to the source story that this article references you notice two things:
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Big Sky Biofuels offers on-farm seed crushing, biodiesel conversion
By Tom Howard
By Tom Howard
If Paul R. Miller has his way, farmers will soon begin powering their tractors and combines with fuel that they grow themselves. Miller is owner of Big Sky Biofuels, a startup Billings company that will offer on-farm crushing and biodiesel conversion for farmers who have raised oil-seed crops.
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First of all the man's name is now Paul "R" Miller - this makes quite a difference since ours is Paul "T" Miller who also earned a PhD. (Although he rarely uses his title). Who would have thunk that their are two Paul Millers in Montana - a state with few speed limits and less people - and both of the Paul Millers making a living crushing seed and creating biodiesel!
Another astounding coincidence is their common aptronym surname denotes their line of work. After all, they both mill and are both "millers". (grrroan - you only get this stuff here folks!) This opens up the whole field of nominative determinism* - and were they (are we all) influenced by the 'compulsion of the name'? Synchronicity?? (C. Jung-right again)
The second thing is the original article has no timeline. So although the second article was just a month old - it is based on an article - and who knows how old that is?
In conclusion:
The second author dropped the middle initial of Paul Miller thinking it was just "Extra". If he was more aware of his local businessmen he might have known that it essential to differentiate between these two public men in the same industry. This could have led to the false assumption that Paul T. Miller, PhD., had quit Sustainable Systems and had started a small business. Stuff like this happens all the time and leads to bad decisions based on bad information . . .
SkunK,
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*Nominative determinism refers to amusing instances where people's names suggest key attributes of their jobs, professions, or lives, with the implication that their names have influenced their lives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism http://homepage.mac.com/chapmandave/aptonyms/en/weather.html
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