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The Transformer – August 20, 2007
Aug 20, 2007 | Posted by	Alicia Healey | The Transformer	|
Volume 4, Number 6
Clean energy forces win a lot, lose a little
in BPA's power allocation scheme
Double, double, toil and trouble – The basic problem
Renewed interest – Renewables commitment
Tracks of my tiers – Meeting load growth
How high's the water, momma? – Power allocations
Fish keep the lights on – Resource adequacy and fish
Fourth and goal – Summary up/unfinished business
On July 13, Bonneville Power Administration released the final version – called the Record of Decision or ROD – of its "Regional Dialogue" document. The Regional Dialogue sets the framework for 20-year power sales contracts between BPA and its consumer-owned utility customers, post-2011. Critically, it establishes a formula for allocating the relatively cheap power from the federal Columbia River hydropower system (and the nuclear-powered Columbia Generating Station) among those utilities. They will have to decide for themselves how to meet additional power needs beyond that allocation.
The draft Regional Dialogue came out three years ago, in July 2004, and was a primary focus of the NW Energy Coalition's Energy Matters campaign. Coalition staff and allies blanketed the Northwest, telling large and small groups about the importance of BPA's plan regarding regional clean-energy development, consumer protection and fish and wildlife restoration. The Energy Matters campaign drew hundreds of people to two series of public hearings in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana and elicited mountains of letters and e-mails to Bonneville – all demanding that the Regional Dialogue advance rather than retard our movement toward a clean and affordable energy future.
Those efforts were not in vain. The following summary shows that while we certainly didn't fix everything, clean-energy advocates wrung significant concessions out of the agency that together mitigate many of the worst aspects of BPA's radical allocation scheme.
Double, double, toil and trouble
From its onset, the most troubling, and least tractable aspect of the Regional Dialogue plan has been its abrogation of BPA's legal responsibility to provide for the load growth of its customers – about 110 public utilities and co-ops across the Northwest. As directed by the 1980 Northwest Power and Conservation Act, Bonneville has historically secured additional power as needed and folded any extra costs into the overall wholesale price all of its utilities pay.
The Power Act further stipulates that Bonneville, when seeking resources to cover rising needs, must prioritize, first, energy efficiency ("conservation") and, second, affordable renewables.
Now, under pressure from its customer utilities that scapegoat BPA for the energy crisis of 2000-01, Bonneville is limiting its future role in power supply to divvying up the power from the existing federal system and setting the individual utilities free to fill any gaps any way they like, from playing the market themselves to purchasing a "Tier 2" product of higher-priced power through BPA.
The plan constitutes a double-whammy on clean energy development. Left to their own devices, utilities can dodge Bonneville's mandate to meet new needs with efficiency and renewables. Less obvious is the danger of the allocation process itself: If utilities know their shares of the cheapest power will be based on relative use levels in 2011, why would they reduce those levels through aggressive conservation efforts in the interim?
Renewed interest
To be fair, Bonneville never completely abandoned renewable energy. In both its draft and final versions, the Regional Dialogue commits the agency to promoting the development of about 100 megawatts of new renewables a year, representing public utilities' share of the regional renewables target set in the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's 5th Power Plan.
Initially, the Regional Dialogue proposed capping renewables funding at $21 million a year, which would be rolled into the base (Tier 1) costs borne by all customers. NW Energy Coalition, Renewable Northwest Project and their allies argued that $21 million a year should be the floor rather than the ceiling, and at any rate the spending should be sufficient to achieve the target, not set arbitrarily. BPA agreed … sort of. It kept initial funding at $21 million a year, but added a proviso for reevaluating the renewables budget if goals for renewable resource development aren't being met.
Bonneville originally intended to spend those funds primarily to "facilitate" renewables development – on such things as integration costs, minor transmission enhancements, research and development. While that approach has merit, the Coalition and allies argued that BPA should quickly acquire some new renewables for inclusion in its Tier 2 product, and purchase options on good wind sites while they're available. The final Regional Dialogue generally accepts those recommendations, but offers no specifics.
Similarly, since current federal power generation capacity will likely fall up to 300 megawatts short of demand before 2011, clean energy advocates pushed for renewables-only augmentation as needed. In the ROD, BPA commits to actively seeking cost-effective renewables, but only "as part" of augmentation.
In the final ROD, Bonneville also assents to Coalition and partners' request that it offer shaping and storage services for its utility customers' intermittent renewables.
Tracks of my tiers
As noted, the Regional Dialogue gives utilities the option of meeting demands in excess of their federal allocations themselves, or by purchasing Tier 2 resources from BPA … for whatever it costs the agency to get them.
Given the priorities of the 1980 Power Act, it makes good sense to restrict Tier 2 offerings to renewables and conservation, and certainly to bar fossil-fueled resources and short-term purchases. Given the acutely myopic views of several Bonneville customers, good sense has not yet prevailed.
The Regional Dialogue now offers four Tier 2 products:
• A new renewables package that comes with a 20-year purchase obligation.
• A default product comprised of market purchases – which usually means coal- or natural gas-fueled power – with a relatively short-term (5-year) obligation.
• Utilities, as individuals or as a group, may also ask BPA to purchase and operate a specific resource (which could be a coal, natural gas or renewable plant) on their behalf for at least 20 years. All costs would be borne by the utilities and their consumers. BPA is calling this the "vintage" product.
• A load-growth product in which BPA would take care of a portion or all of a utility's load growth for 20 years. While similar to the renewables package, this product might include power from existing fossil-fuel resources, but Bonneville has pledged that new power resources will follow the Council's 5th Plan … which contains mostly renewables.
BPA is proposing to withhold from its customers any green tags – known as Renewable Energy Certificates or "RECs" – that come with the renewable resources in either the Tier 1 or Tier 2 load-growth and default products. RECs represent the environmental value of the clean resource, as distinct from the cost of the electricity itself. Stripped of its RECs, a particular resource would no longer count toward a utility's renewables target. In some cases, in fact, utilities may meet some of their renewables requirement by purchasing RECs rather than power.
Bonneville wants to separate ("unbundle") the tags from the power and sell the RECs to partially defray the cost of the resources. BPA customers would be able to purchase RECs from BPA, but might not get the RECs for the renewable resources in the Tier 1 or augmentation power packages. Renewable advocates argue that utilities should get the RECs along with the power; utilities that don't need the renewables credits to meet their portfolio standards would be allowed to sell the RECs themselves.
Bundling of RECs is especially important in Oregon, because the state's renewable energy standard limits the amount of unbundled RECs a utility can use to meet its target. BPA's public utility customers in Washington expected that the qualifying renewables purchased from BPA would include the RECs. Bonneville seems open to the idea of changing its treatment of the RECs, though the issue demands continued scrutiny.
BPA will require its customer utilities to select which Tier 2 products they will want by 2008, even though deliveries won't begin until late 2011. The early and lengthy commitments are meant to provide Bonneville a relatively clear picture of the resources it will have to acquire for its customers. BPA was surprised and burned badly in 2001 when many utilities changed their minds about resource needs at the last minute.
Requiring utilities to decide so early how much of their load growth they want BPA to cover might nudge some utilities toward gambling on the market rather than signing long-term purchase agreements for BPA's Tier 2 products. Still, Oregon's and Washington state's renewable energy requirements may well drive utilities to BPA's renewable Tier 2 product, anyway.
How high's the water, momma?
The draft Regional Dialogue set 2011 as the high-water-mark year for determining each utility's 20-year allocation of cheap federal power. The danger of setting the high water mark in a future year is that interim energy efficiency achievements would reduce electricity usage and, thus, a utility's allocation.
BPA initially offered to count back in all the interim conservation done on a utility's own dime, but only half the conservation funded by the federal agency. Technically, this results in a 50-percent "decrement" in power allocation for savings achieved with BPA help. With friends like these …
Public-interest forces couldn't get BPA to backdate the high water mark, but did succeed in lowering the decrement on Bonneville-funded efficiency to 25 percent.
That decision takes on increased significance with another, somewhat startling improvement in the final document. From the inception of the Energy Matters campaign, the Coalition argued that "Bonneville's share" of the Power Council's conservation target should be based on the total load-growth potential of the agency's utility customers – not just the percentage of that load currently served by BPA.
For example, Seattle City Light sells its consumers about 1,100 average megawatts of electricity each year, but because it owns other resources, only about a third of that power comes from BPA. So by its initial reasoning, Bonneville would be responsible for ensuring acquisition of only a third of City Light's cost-effective conservation.
But the Coalition argued that under the Regional Power Act Bonneville is legally responsible for covering ALL the load growth of its customers, not just the load served with BPA power. And the difference is hardly trivial. Regionwide, BPA's initial position commits it to achieving 52 megawatts of energy efficiency a year. Counting its utilities' total loads boosts that target to about 75 megawatts per year.
The Regional Dialogue's ROD shows Bonneville has seen the light. It agrees to base its conservation target on its customers' total loads. (That the total annual savings come to 65 rather than 75 megawatts is a function of the recent kerfuffle over the residential exchange benefits to customers of investor-owned utilities – an issue too large to be addressed here.)
Fish keep the lights on
A big problem with BPA's allocation scheme is that Bonneville's 100-odd utility customers must now acquire enough generation and efficiency to keep the lights on, when they run out of BPA-supplied power. The 2000-01 energy crisis, while greatly exacerbated by drought and market manipulation, was made possible only because utilities failed to keep up with load growth. Bonneville, in fact, resorted to fish-killing "emergencies" to generate extra power rather than spill water to help salmon pass over Snake River dams.
This issue — known as "resource adequacy" — was not even on BPA's radar until the Coalition made some noise. But to its credit, the agency's final ROD requires its customers to file resource plans every two years showing how they intend to supply their needs. The icing on the cake is that these plans must mirror the Power Act's priorities: efficiency and renewables first. Bonneville should be applauded for including these provisions, which will help advocates keep the utilities' feet to the fire on clean energy issues without sacrificing salmon.
Clarification:
Bonneville will not require utilities' resource plans to mirror Power Act priorities. However, the biennial plans must explain why the utility has taken a different, fossil-fueled path, if it has. Bonneville still should be applauded for including these reporting provisions, even if it's not requiring utilities to do the right thing.
Fourth and goal
BPA's 60-page policy document addresses several other issues of interest to clean-energy and consumer advocates.
However, the preceding discussion shows that the Coalition and its allies' intervention in the Regional Dialogue process led to substantial improvements in the areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency. These victories – large and small – should hearten those working to overcome remaining barriers to a clean and affordable energy future and remind us all of the vital importance of open and transparent public processes.
The ROD's release begins the game's fourth quarter, in which the Regional Dialogue policies express themselves as contract language. This process resembles the rulemaking that normally follows passage of a particular piece of legislation. The Coalition and allies are now participating in a series of intensive meetings called by BPA to draw detailed implementation guidance from the policy document.
BPA's Regional Dialogue Record of Decision (326-page downloadable.pdf)
BPA's Regional Dialogue policy statement (60-page downloadable .pdf)
BPA Regional Dialogue fact sheet
Sept. 7, 2006, Transformer on draft Regional Dialogue
Download a PDF version of this edition
NW Energy Coalition Web site
Previous editions of The Transformer
We are interested in your reactions to these articles. We will print as many responses as possible in future editions of The Transformer. Please email comments to marc@nwenergy.org.


Happy Monday! Today I'm sharing this dolman sleeve sweater and leopard skirt that I wore to church yesterday. We had our kids over for Sunday dinner, and then we went to visit my mother-in-law last night, and I wore this outfit the entire day, and it was comfortable.
If you're looking for workwear, this might be a good option. It also doesn't wrinkle which is a plus in my book!
I did a slight front tuck with this dolman sleeve sweater.
The leopard skirt has an elastic waistband which makes it comfortable. This would be beautiful with a red blouse for the holidays.
I'm wearing over the knee boots from Sam Edelman. I purchased these last year, and they are no longer available. I linked a similar pair below.
A black clutch is a must-have for me, and this quilted clutch with gold hardware will go with lots of my winter outfits.
Social Threads is having a 25% off flash sale on select items. This navy sweater is on sale.
Also, this navy blouse that is great for workwear.
Here are some more of picks of the sale items from Social Threads use code FLASH25.
We don't rejoice because bad things happen or because this fallen world is full of death, injustice, and sorrow. We rejoice because Jesus Christ calls us His own.
If you're going through a trial, pray for endurance and steadfastness from the One who has already endured and proven himself steadfast.
Love the entire outfit Cyndi. One of my favs!!
What a great story about Colt! I could have never pulled his tooth. Your outfit is so very pretty. I hope that your MIL is doing better. Loved your BFTH. I hope you had. A great day!
I read about when you pulled your grandson's tooth, and it reminded me of when I was teaching 2nd grade. When I had a student who had a very loose tooth, I would hold it with a Kleenex, and ask that they step back, please. Came out with ease, and no pain. They were always amazed.
This outfit is fantastic!!! So classic and sophisticated with a fun twist in the Leopard print skirt. Your grandchildren are just adorable and I love it when you share pictures. You put the Glam in Glama😉love you and your posts!
That tooth story is so funny. Maybe not to Colt, but I have a feeling he will forgive his sweet grandmother for anything!
Loving the leopard skirt and boots – such a classy look.
I was a dental assistant and I wouldn't have been able to let the loose tooth stay either. Colt looks so cute with his 2 front teeth gone. What a cute picture of the 2 of them. Courtney will have great Christmas cards. Love your outfit. It looks so comfortable, like you said. You are blessed to have your daughter so close to be able to have family, Sunday lunch together.
Your grandkids are just the cutest ever!
I love the tooth story! When my son had a dangling top front tooth I couldn't a stand it either. We were headed to church and it just didn't look right. I talked him into letting my tie dental floss to the tooth and then the floss to the door. I slammed the door and the tooth popped out. He wasn't mad at me, but he let me know that I was wrong and that it did hurt! I was just relieved to have that crooked looking tooth out.
Love the picture. That will be a class forever!
I hope Colt forgave you for tricking him. He does look awfully cute with his toothless smile. It's the prefect Christmas card, with two beautiful children. You can see the love.
you have ever styled for us! I'ts so simple yet elegant!
sharing with us!! Have a blessed busy week!!
I love the tooth story – I did a similar thing to my daughter when she was about 4 and I thought my husband was going to lose it. She cried and he was so mad, but the dangling tooth was making me crazy :).
Love this outfit and I can easily duplicate it with items in my closet. I had to laugh when I read the tooth storey… Poor Colt Allen he won't let you near his mouth anytime soon LOL…. although I'm sure it did look better for the pics. I can see your advertisement now for yours and Wayne's business.. WE WILL MARRY YOU, TAKE YOUR PHOTOS AND PULL ANY UNWANTED TEETH TOO…. Have a blessed day..
I laughed so hard when I read your story about pulling Colts tooth! 🙂 It is so nice of you to take pictures for the family. I know they really appreciate it! Your outfit is great today – has me thinking, which is never good for my wallet!
I can't seem to get enough leopard and I love this skirt!!
Love the tooth pulling story!!
Did I read before that you have lunch for the kids every Sunday? My mom cooked lunch every Sunday for mine and my sisters families for years, I don't know how she did it!
Thank you for your post it always inspires me. I was feeling a little down last night due to health issues with our future Granddaughter but after reading your verse … your right we know that Jesus went through a lot worse more than any of us can imagine or endure. A good reminder when you are down to realize that this is only a trial or passing our wonderful Father will see us through it.


The Reef Caravan Park (formerly Discovery Coast Caravan and Camping Park Agnes Water) is located at 34 Rocky Crossing Rd Round Hill via Agnes Water. The park has powered and unpowered sites. Resident Managers are on site. Bookings can be made by telephoning the park on 07 4974 7547 and please tell the park that you have seen their information on Caravan Park Photos. This page was created on the 7 June 2010.
Every thing as described. Mobile phone reception is very patchy, you have to walk around to find reception. There is no TV reception in the unpowered section. There is however in the powered section via cable which you can hire from the park. No open fires on the ground allowed but you can hire a Firepit for $ 5.00 for the duration of your stay.Rates are $ 20.00 unpowered, $ 35.00 powered. Very friendly owners. Park is still a work in progress by the owners clearing some gum trees and also building a amphitheatre for happy hour. They might even put in a big screen TV in the future and maybe a Dump point. Free WiFi via Net4. Kangaroos are fairly tame grazing through the park and plenty of birds. We will definitely stay there again.
This is a nice park just a five minute drive from Agnes Waters. There is plenty of space and sites aren't crowded as they are at other parks in the area. The amenities are very clean. The managers are very helpful and booked trips for us to the reef and a day trip on the pink 'Larcs'. There is also a seafood wholesaler just 500m up the road. They have a great range of local seafood and cook fresh prawns and bugs most days.


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Julie's Stamping Spot -- Stampin' Up! Project Ideas by Julie Davison: Video Tip: How to Make Clear Mount Stamps STICK!
Are you frustrated with Clear Mount Stamps that just won't stick?!
They take up less room in your stamp room.
You can see through the Clear block to better line up and position your stamped image.
But one thing that has frustrated many stampers is that sometimes the stamps don't stick to the clear block very well.
The question I get most often from my customers is: "How do you get the Clear Mount stamps to stick?" Today, I'm sharing my answer in the form of a video. I'll walk you through how to assemble your Clear Mount Stamps and share some tips that will help you find success in getting them to stick EVERY time!
With the stamp laying flat on the table, apply the vinyl sticker one half at a time. Remove half of the sticker backing and line up the sticker over the edges of the stamp. Then adhere the sticky half to the stamp. Remove the rest of the sticker backing.
Hang on to the rubber outline! Remove the backing and put it in the back of the Clear Mount stamp case to keep your stamps organized. You'll also quickly be able to see if you are missing any stamps before you put them away.
Shop for these Stampin' Up! Clear Mount Stamp Accessories in my Online Store HERE.
Great tips, Julie! Thanks for sharing!!
Great tips, Julie! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your tips....and for the video showing how to mount the stickers....I tend not to do it this way and often have bubbles but I do have to say that I don't often have them fall off (thankfully!). But will try the two-way glue when I find some that do not want to stick!
I will have to try the two-way glue. I do the same as you with half the sticker. I could never do without the sticker! I was told to use Tombow Multi. It does work but I used too much on a stamp set and my stickers are peeling off! Thank you for the tutorial.
How I wish I had seen your video before I got rid of the excess from the stamps. I even lost a small heart with dots as I didn't realize it was gone until it was too late. Hard lesson learned. Stampin up could have helped in giving your instructions!
I'm not sure how I am JUST finding this video... but... THANK YOU!
I love your method of applying the stickers as well as applying the glue!
I will definitely be sharing this with my "frustrated" customers!
Thank you so much for this tip. I can't believe I never thought to do this!


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Langton's horrible ants of death
Langton's ant is a very simple movement algorithm. An ant is on a grid, walking across squares. When it moves into a black square, it turns the square white, turns 90 degrees to the right, and walks forward to the next square. The opposite happens when the ant moves into a white square.
It seems like this algorithm could be used to provide procedurally generated enemy behavior in games. The ant's behavior is guaranteed to be interesting for at least ten thousand square moves, and likely a lot more if the player can change the color of the squares on the grid.
There are many variations on the ant's basic movement; some of them add a third color to the mix, others add extra moves before the ant will react to the color it lands on. If the ant could fire projectiles that moved at a fraction of the speed of the ant, we could produce a danmaku type game. This has already been experimented with using Conway's Game of Life, but Life is can be hard to predict on the fly. An ant is easy.
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In which a sibling learns to play Minecraft
I set my younger brother Matthew up playing Minecraft yesterday. First, WASD-style controls are a mystery to him. Even after explanation, he moves around using only the W key and mouselook. Matthew: Hey
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I am finding myself cooking sandwich makings/ fillings like crazy here lately. The crock pot lends itself nicely and is still not heating up my house (which is my #1 reasoning for using it right now). Also sandwiches don't seem to be such heavy meals in this heat.
I had looked online and through cookbooks for some time to find a crock pot recipe for shredded buffalo chicken that my family would really like. It seemed that every time I started looking at the ingredient list it either called for a dry ranch dressing mix or salad dressing (in either ranch or blue cheese). Of course the problem I was having with this was that my people don't all like the same thing (which let me assure you, is par for course).
Place the chicken breasts and hot sauce (I use (3) 5 oz. bottles that a friend of my husband's makes) in a 3 – 4 quart crock pot. Cook on low for 3 – 4 hours. Even though my chicken breasts were frozen they were cooked and ready to shred in 3 1/2 hours.
Remove the lid, and using two forks, shred the chicken breasts. Once shredded toss everything back together and add the softened cream cheese (or sour cream) to the top. Place lid back on and cook an additional hour.
Once it has "melted" the cream cheese, stir it in to incorporate it well. Serve on your favorite buns or rolls and top with your favorite sandwich toppings.
*NOTE*Using 4 chicken breasts will usually make 6 – 8 sandwiches OR 3 – 4 sandwiches and enough leftover for tossing with pasta and serving with a salad the next day.


Abstract: This paper studies the feasibility of using force measurement to detect wire vibration for the evaluation of wire bond integrity. In this system, a tapping probe sends a single pulse or multiple pulses of controlled motion to the substrate adjacent to a bond end. This mechanical shock induces vibration propagation to the wire along and through the neighbouring materials. Another probe of a micro force sensor is put in touch with the wire to pick up the wire vibration, which in turn, correlates to the bonding status of the joined materials. By interpreting the vibration signals in time, frequency, and phase domains, bond integrity, including fully bonded, partially bonded, and touching yet not-bonded, has been determined. The results show that the proposed approach is promising for finer and denser wire bond evaluation non-destructively, accurately, and at low cost. ©2009 IEEE.


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Women Coming Together for Positive Change within the Community
Empowered women empower women. It's the belief that women should be encouraging each other to be and do their best, and in this new decade, it has become a rallying cry for United Way of Southern Nevada's Women United. Members focus on lifting each other up to achieve success, but they take it one step further. Empowered women empower women—and their community.
As a founding member of Women United back in 2008, Rhonda Clausen was drawn to the group by that very idea. "Women who come from all different backgrounds, walks of life, places in their careers and home and family life—the one thing we all have in common is that we want to make impactful change in our community," she said. "We know it can be done, we know we can make a difference, and that's what brings us together."
"One of our members has said that we are greater than the sum of our parts, and I couldn't agree more," shared Monte Smith, who led the group as a co-chair. "It's not just professional networking, it's not just a social club, it is not just business development. We all are here to make a difference, to make a contribution."
The founding members of Women United led the charge to change Southern Nevada for the better, bringing members together to help improve their community and grow as individuals. Women across the valley took notice, including current Women United chair Michelle St. Angelo.
"After spending years looking for a women's group that would satisfy my craving for mentorship, growth and making a real difference, Women United was it! These ladies work hard to impact each other and our neighbors in ways you can't even imagine," Michelle said.
This impact can be seen in how Women United has empowered organizations throughout the community, like Leaders in Training. LIT founder Erica Mosca was so inspired by the members making a difference that she joined the group herself. "As the founder & executive director of a non-profit supported by Women United in the past, I knew firsthand the strong community impact these women on the move have," she explained. "I wanted to contribute my on-the-ground experience as well as learn from the multitude of inspiring, successful and collaborative women."
Now that the group has grown to over 100 members from all different backgrounds and stages of life, members are looking forward to the future and how they can leave a legacy of change for generations to come. It starts with the Emerging Leadership Award for Women, a member-funded scholarship helping local young women pursue their dreams of graduating college. Eight women have been selected to receive the scholarship, along with the support and mentorship that comes from the members of Women United.
Milena Avagyan, a freshman at UNLV, says that receiving the scholarship is one of her most treasured accomplishments. "I get to be a witness of multiple women making changes on a daily basis to improve our community. These women have made an influential and inspirational mark on me and my future actions."
Mey Mey Heng, another recipient, values the guidance and experience that members can share with someone just starting out. "We have a wonderful support group of ladies who are successful and have provided great leadership. It's very inspiring, knowing you have someone there to look up to, to be a mentor and give personal and professional guidance."
By empowering past, present and future members to use their collective strength to make a difference for their fellow members and their community, Women United is creating a better future for Southern Nevada. Join them at
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If you only read one local news story this week, it should be this piece about a federal judge removing the City of Madison as a defendant in the Tony Robinson civil rights case.
Candidates for the Madison school board are motivated by the current political climate. Read Your Heart Out events at local elementary schools gave African American parents and community members an opportunity to get involved in their children's education. Madison Area Music Association donated to five local schools so they can upgrade their band and orchestra instruments.
Proposed Park Street development might be larger than what neighborhood residents want. Combatting African American unemployment and pay gaps will take actual monetary investment, say panelists. After over 30 years, Mary's Tailoring on State Street is closing. A new Monona Drive restaurant and bakery will offer Latino and Caribbean food. Renovations to the Madison Municipal Building have been delayed after bids were far more expensive than anticipated. Coworking spaces in Madison aim to support entrepreneurship. The alcohol licensing committee denied a permit for a potential sports bar in former Bellini building.
Undocumented students in Madison find support and solidarity at Centro Hispano. A staple of the Madison music community, drummer Clyde Stubblefield passed away this week. L'Etoile was nominated for a national culinary award. An ad hoc task force will address diversity in Madison's music scene. Madison Community Discourse wants to curate happiness. MPD recruits are in their penultimate week of academy training. Some Madison restaurants did their best to support the Milwaukee "Day Without Latinos" rally. Madison-area employers are helping combat recidivism by joining a prisoner re-entry job fair.


One man's fascinating quest to decolonize indigenous peoples of North America and restore their cultures.
Terry Cross is the founder & Executive Director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association. He is a member of the Seneca Nation with four decades of child welfare experience, including 10 years of direct children & family work, and 15 years of the faculty of Portland State University School of Social Work Terry has authored several curriculum and related child welfare material. He has also received awards and accolades such as the PSU Civic Engagement Award, Eco-Trust Indigenous Leadership Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps.
Terry describes several factors that made the colonization of Indigenous People possible. Were you aware of this history and mistreatment?
Are there other instances in history (or current events) in which the same tactics have been used to neutralize a group of people?
Terry describes the traditional parenting practices that NICWA recovered from elders and is now teaching in positive parenting classes. How do those compare to ones you or the parents you know use?
Terry is proud of the work that NICWA has done in the village in Alaska, where they have successfully intervened to prevent any child from going into foster care for the past 5 years. Thoughts?
Research organizations similar to NICWA in your community and share your findings. What ways could you support the work of the organization in your town?
Invite friends, colleagues, or community members to view this video with you and have a conversation together.


I have been pleasantly surprised with the work the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) has undertaken to develop a number of seemingly high quality, well tested and useful self reflection and learning tools for teachers to support AITSL's core work of building the capacity of teachers and school leaders. For example The 360 student feedback tools the teacher standards illustrations of practice and the teacher self assessment tools all have real potential to be useful for teachers who are taking responsibility for their own learning and development in schools that support and encourage collaboration, mentoring and peer support.
In fact I would like to suggest that the work of AITSL has the potential to be a very important counter point to all the US borrowed corporate reforms represented by NAPLAN, Performance pay and all the rest.
But to be effective the work of AITS needs to be able to stand apart from all the less worthy reforms. The self-reflective tools are a very good example of these challenges. If they can be kept apart from the evaluation, performance management tendencies of corporate reform and be quarantined for the use by teachers and their schools for authentic professional learning, they have the potential to be very significant tools for building collective teacher capacity.
If however they are captured to be used as part of the new performance management practices that are being imposed on teachers, all the wonderful work involved in developing them will go down the toilet.
… there's one group of people that get almost no systematic feedback to help them do their jobs better. Until recently, 98% of teachers just got one word of feedback: "satisfactory." Today, districts are revamping the way they evaluate teachers. But we still give them almost no feedback that actually helps them improve their practice. Our teachers deserve better. The system we have today isn't fair to them. It's not fair to students, and it's putting America's global leadership at risk.
Cody notes that Gates slides from feedback to evaluation without pause as though they are one and the same.
Do you notice something? He starts out talking about feedback, but then slides into describing a formal evaluation process. There are LOTS of ways to enhance feedback that could have nothing at all to do with our evaluation systems ….
The problem is that as soon as a tool is captured for use for the second purpose – performance review – the less likely it is that teachers will trust it and see it as useful.
But this slide happens all the time. And we are in danger of this happening with the tools developed by AITSL. This is because we are focusing on the wrong things. The Commonwealth Government tells us that what we need is a national best practice performance management framework and high quality tools.
I was only partly surprised to read in the Adelaide Advertiser that Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has called for the scrapping of the A-E grading system and replacing it with NAPLAN growth information.
To be blunt, I regard the A-E system as a nonsense cooked up by the previous Coalition Government and imposed on all states as a condition of funding. It has never meant much and the different approaches to curriculum taken by the different state systems made its reporting even more confusing.
If a student gets a D one year and a D the next, then they might think they're not making any progress at all when they are but the current reporting process doesn't help them see it… [T]his could contribute to some students becoming disillusioned with the school system.
Abandoning this approach makes sense. But the Advertiser article also implied that Masters is arguing that we should replace the A-E reporting with a NAPLAN gains process. This to me was a complete surprise.
This is because I believe that would be a disaster and, more importantly, I am pretty sure that Masters would also see the limitations of such an approach.
Now these are not minor problems.
I was also surprised because the idea that the CEO of ACER would not use this as an opportunity to talk about the benefit of diagnostic and formative assessments is unlikely. After all, these tests are important for ACER's revenue stream.
And low and behold, the editor Sheradyn Holderhead got it wrong. What Masters is arguing for is anything but the swapping out of one poorly informed reporting system (A to E Reporting) for a flawed one (NAPLAN) He is mapping out a whole new approach to assessment that can be built on our best understandings of assessment and learning but also meet the "performativity" needs of politicians and administrators.
Now some will object to the compromise taken here because they see "performativity" as a problem in and of itself. At one level I agree but because I also look for solutions that are politically doable I tend to take a more pragmatic position.
This is because I see the reporting of NAPLAN through MySchool as a kind of one way reform – a bit like privatization of public utilities. Once such system has been developed it is almost impossible to reverse the process. The genie cannot be put back into the bottle. So to me, the only solution is to build a more credible system – one that is less stressful for students, less negative for lagging students, more helpful for teachers, less likely to lead to a narrowing of the curriculum through teaching to the test and less prone to be used as a basis for school league tables.
And my take on Master's article is that, if taken seriously, his map for developing a new assessment system would have the potential to provide the design features for a whole new approach to assessment that doesn't require the complete overthrow of the school transparency agenda to be effective.
Assessment plays an essential role in clarifying starting points for action. This is a feature of professional work in all fields. Professionals such as architects, engineers, psychologists and medical practitioners do not commence action without first gathering evidence about the situation confronting them. This data-gathering process often entails detailed investigation and testing. Solutions, interventions and treatments are then tailored to the presenting situation or problem, with a view to achieving a desired outcome. This feature of professional work distinguishes it from other kinds of work that require only the routine implementation of pre-prepared, one-size-fits-all solutions.
Similarly, effective teachers undertake assessments of where learners are in their learning before they start teaching. But for teachers, there are obvious practical challenges in identifying where each individual is in his or her learning, and in continually monitoring that student's progress over time. Nevertheless, this is exactly what effective teaching requires.
Understandings derived from developments in the science of learning challenge long-held views about learning, and thus approaches to assessing and reporting learning.
Successful learners have strong beliefs in their own capacity to learn and a deep belief in the relationship between success and effort. They take a level of responsibility for their own learning (for example, identifying gaps in their knowledge and taking steps to address them) and monitor their own learning progress over time. The implications of these findings are that assessment processes must be designed to build and strengthen metacognitive skills. One of the most effective strategies for building learners' self-confidence is to assist them to see the progress they are making.
….. current approaches to assessment and reporting often do not do this. When students receive the same letter grade (for example, a grade of 'B') year after year, they are provided with little sense of the progress they are actually making. Worse, this practice can reinforce some students' negative views of their learning capacity (for example, that they are a 'D' student).
In educational debate these classroom based and the system driven assessments are often seen as in conflict and their respective proponents as members of opposing ideological and educational camps.
But the most important argument in the paper is that we have the potential to overcome the polarised approach to assessments that is typical of current discussion about education; but only if we start with the premise that the CORE purpose of assessment is to understand where students are in their learning. Other assessment goals should be built on this core.
of Year 5). Once it is recognised that the fundamental purpose of assessment is to establish where students are in their learning (that is, what they know, understand and can do), many traditional assessment distinctions become unnecessary and unhelpful.
Principle 1: Assessments should be guided by, and address, an empirically based understanding of the relevant learning domain.
Principle 2: Assessment methods should be selected for their ability to provide useful information about where students are in their learning within the domain.
Principle 3: Responses to, or performances on, assessment tasks should be recorded using one or more task 'rubrics'.
Principle 4: Available assessment evidence should be used to draw a conclusion about where learners are in their progress within the learning domain.
Principle 5: Feedback and reports of assessments should show where learners are in their learning at the time of assessment and, ideally, what progress they have made over time.
develops, on the basis of this a new Learning Assessment System that is equally relevant in all educational assessment contexts, including classroom diagnostic assessments, international surveys, senior secondary assessments, national literacy and numeracy assessments, and higher education admissions testing.
As the Advertiser article demonstrates, this kind of argument is not amenable to easy headlines and quick sound bytes. Building the support for moving in this direction will not be easy.
This review paper has argued …. that assessments should be seen as having a single general purpose: to establish where learners are in their long-term progress within a domain of learning at the time of assessment. The purpose is not so much to judge as to understand. This unifying principle, which has potential benefits for learners, teachers and other educational decision-makers, can be applied to assessments at all levels of decision-making, from classrooms to cabinet rooms.
As long as assessment and reporting processes retain their focus on the mastery of traditional school subjects, this focus will continue to drive classroom teaching and learning. There is also growing recognition that traditional assessment methods, developed to judge student success on defined bodies of curriculum content, are inadequate for assessing and monitoring attributes and dispositions that develop incrementally over extended periods of time.
In this post, Aboriginal Engagement by teacher Carol Puskic from Geraldton Senior College in WA, Puskic talks about using a very clever but simple tool which has transformed the energy and engagement of the students in her class – a class specifically for disengaged Indigenous students who come from Halls Creek, Port Hedland, Broome and beyond and board in Geraldton. The tool is called ClassMovies.


Dad and I planted all day on Saturday, and he told me THAT was my Mother's Day gift. But it was worth it because now the flowerbeds look amazing!
Today is 19 weeks. My family came over, had literally seen me about 4 hours earlier, and proclaimed, "WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!" I wasn't wearing maternity clothing, so I guess I WAS a little more bulbous than normal. Plus I get exceedingly more pregnant at night.
I don't take anything for granted any more. Not a kick, not a stretch, not one flake of skin from my poor belly. It all matters and it's all important to me. Last night at violin lessons, SB was having a fabulous time flitting and floating and kicking it's momma! It LOVES music! I guess the violins are at the right timbre that it cuts through the fluid!
When I showed this pic to Andy, I said, "No wonder it kicks me so much. It's squished!"
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Since I moved to Santa Fe, there are only two men for whom I have driven to Denver and back in one day (720 miles roundtrip): James McMurtry, who played a show at the Bluebird last year, and Robert Adams, whose work was recently on view at the Denver Art Museum (DAM). McMurtry is unlikely to be bested by anyone but I was excited about seeing Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964-2009, a traveling exhibition organized by The Yale University Art Gallery. After almost six hours in the car, I was road weary and ready for the visual pleasure of the maestro's poignant, gelatin-silver stylings. The show was featured in the DAM's special exhibition space and I was delighted to see that photography and Mr. Adams were given that honor and that Adams' work would have room to breathe. For those of you who haven't yet seen it (it now travels to Los Angeles, then Yale, before a generous tour overseas), the show offers selections from Adams' major bodies of work (twenty!) throughout his long career. Given Adams' significance, it's a worthy and ambitious undertaking, one that resulted in a three-volume publication that accompanies the exhibition and an informative, easy-to-use website that I particularly admire.
While I am not the rabid Bob-o-phile that many of my friends are, I oversaw a large collection of his work during my years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and I recently included two of his photographs in Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment, which I organized at the New Mexico Museum of Art. I love that Adams found a way to visually express the tension he felt between the miraculous beauty of our earth and the dubious addenda made by mankind. I love that if you take the time with each picture, it continues to unfold and never gives you a definitive answer. I love his simplicity (in the best sense of the word), his eloquence, his lyricism. I love an English major who makes magnificent photographs. The show is classic, understated, perchance elegant, and in that sense respects the artist's esthetic. DAM's photography curator, Eric Paddock, did a good job of creating individual spaces for the bodies of work, offering small helpings of pictures with pauses in between. The walls were painted in sherbet colors that were somehow both anemic and distracting but served to differentiate the galleries. I enjoyed seeing many of the photographs, some old favorites and some new discoveries, especially the work from the series Along Some Rivers and the very recent Alder Leaves.
covers of Robert Adams: The Place We Live and What Can We Believe Where?
what it adds up to. Creating a retrospective book that will undoubtedly be indispensible for reference and reflection is also surely a great service to the field (it's $250, so neither I nor my museum's library has it), as is Yale's commitment to reissuing Adams' monographs and publishing books for some of his newer bodies of work. But the book Adams and his wife Kerstin put together on the occasion of the exhibition, What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West ($25, with an afterword by exhibition curators Joshua Chuang and Jock Reynolds), also spans Adams' career and reminds us that less is more.
Adams is known for his books as much as his photographs and over the years has put together a group of remarkable publications characterized by their careful selection and sequencing. They are small books, easily held by human hands, easily picked up and put down while thinking. In their structure and their pacing, these books invite leisurely, contemplative consideration, which is probably the best way to apprehend Adams' work. A retrospective exhibition is, almost by definition, antithetical to that kind of ease, intimacy, and thoughtfulness. All of Adams' work is black-and-white, all of it is the same size, all of it was matted and framed identically in the exhibition. While that kind of consistency of presentation is standard in a museum show, with the intention of keeping emphasis on the pictures themselves, what tends to happen is that they all look the same. It's hard to fight that effect, especially with small pictures that require the viewer to get up close to view each one individually. Adams' work demands and indeed merits that kind of attention, but the march of frames across pastel walls wasn't particularly enticing, even for someone as invested in seeing the show as I was that day. Seeing all those pictures didn't support the message of Adams' work for me, it diluted it.
What would I have done differently? If each room held just one picture or three, it would have been too precious. If some bodies of work had been left out, it wouldn't have been a genuine retrospective. I guess what I'm most interested in is what connects the bodies of work, what does seeing them together add up to. Perhaps the essays in the three-volume publication address this in depth but I'd like to see a summary of that for museum visitors. I'd like to come out of that show with a clear sense of why Adams' work warrants a retrospective, why it was important when he made the work and why it is relevant now. Each viewer can and should address that question for himself, but a lifetime of work aspires to be rich enough to require more than an hour or so to digest. That's part of why it takes a lot of time to write a catalog, to organize a show. Perhaps the curators, and perhaps Adams himself, prefer that we each bring to and take away from the work an unmediated individual experience. But I'd like to benefit from their considerable thought on the subject.
After I returned home, I found the statement I was missing, written by the curators as the afterword to the aforementioned book What Can We Believe Where? I don't think I have ever had occasion to write these words before, clichéd as they may be, but the book is a triumph. Three paragraphs of words at the beginning by Robert Adams and a half dozen at the back of the book by Chuang and Reynolds are just right in offering clarity and resonance to the selection of pictures in between. The images reproduced are, again, from across the artist's career. But this time they are unconstrained by chronology and are arranged with great sensitivity into a river of joy and sadness and laughter and shock, concluding with the inexorable tides that will surely outlive us all. What a beautiful testament to Mr. Adams and his work.
from the book What Can We Believe Where?
KATHERINE WARE, Curator of Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art. Before serving at her post at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Katherine Ware was the Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Ms. Ware served as Assistant Curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum during the 1990s. She has also worked with the photography collection at the Oakland Museum of California and began her career at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in Washington, D.C. She is a frequent juror and reviewer of contemporary photography and has written essays on the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
I really can not talk about this exhibit analytically as it was too personal. For me it was a very different experience I think than you-a kind of pilgrimage. In the early 80's Robert Adams was a friend and mentor (not so obvious from my work I know). So I approached the exhibit with some anticipation, nostalgia, perhaps even reverence and I was not disappointed-I went twice. There was much of the post early 80's work that I had not seen first hand and that was a revelation. As always I "respected" more of the work than I "liked", but having said that I simply liked an awful lot of it. As an exhibit it was as thoughtful as he is by nature and sometimes, when he is at his best, very profound. I perhaps had more tolerance for the exhaustiveness of the exhibit than people who went with me-perhaps because it was like visiting an old friend and catching up on the lost years. Unfortunately (perhaps) I exhausted all my time visiting the prints and did not really look at the books. It sound like there is a real gem there.
Nice to hear you had such a positive experience, as others have. Every time someone compliments me on an exhibition I have on view, I figure there is someone else out there who thinks I'm a charlatan. We do our best and put things out there, hoping people will find something good or useful or interesting to take away. But sometimes it is more what the visitor brings with him when when he walks in the door, as you did, that makes the experience sing.


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Improvised comedy can be nerve-shredding. For casts, certainly, but for audiences too. Jokes teeter on the brink of finding their target or falling flat. Repartee must hustle along at a relentless pace. Everything is but seconds away from an awkward pause or a fluffed line. Thank God, then, that the stellar cast of the London Improvathon keep it all on the hilarious side of panic.
The theme for this year is all things Wild West, and the series of character introductions demonstrates immediately what territory we're in (literally). You've got your classic hellfire-preaching pastor and chaste daughter, your gunslinging sheriff, your out-of-towner and your town drunk (the likeable character of Dirk Gundersson, with some laugh-out-loud delivery). On the subject of those character introductions, this cast is so huge that running through each character in this way actually risks an early slackening of pace – and hey, isn't it cheating to use your improv time for beefy prepared intros?
No matter. Once we're into the meat of the show, the true improvisation, the fun really begins. The model is slick; an excellent compère/director works alongside a remarkably adaptable pair of musicians and a lighting crew to set up each scene, at which point selected actors are bundled in and, without so much as a 'howdy pard'ner', the freestyling begins. Naturally some scenes are stronger than others, and, at least in the first of the 25 two-hour chapters, a sense of a meaningful through narrative is hard to find. But the need for one slips away as we're lured into the peculiar world of 'Wilton's Creek' one vignette at a time. The cast is strong, verbally agile and crucially – so, so crucially for a show like this – seem to be having a good time.
As is perhaps so often the way with improv, standout moments come when things start to get away from our players. It's quickly clear that we're in capable hands, with some actors always displaying a clear mastery over their craft (the character of Colonel Sanders, for example, is uniformly a joy to watch). Feeling secure, the audience enjoy the occasional verbal cul-de-sac confident that it will be turned to humour. The Colonel's spelling out of 'perspicacity', visibly instantly regretted, is a great example of this, as is Pastor John breaking character to address an audience member and warn that God will text him their name.
The night isn't perfect. It's rotten luck for the less confident cast members to sit among such an accomplished ensemble, as less than whip-smart performances become all the more obvious. And it was notable to me that, at least in the chapter I saw, this cast of approaching twenty people were all white.
This is a blissfully adroit cast though (one might say perspicacious), and it's hard to begrudge a moment of the very apparent fun being had on stage. And yee ha! It's delicious silliness for audiences too.


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It's really come to something when the only people who seem to be speaking sense are Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein.
The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our leaders—so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.
The common narrative around Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein is that as politicians they are ineffectual at best and actively damaging at worst. None of this piece is aimed at challenging that. I'll say it again: None of this piece is about challenging that conception of Gabbard or Stein.
There is just something very rotten here. Something incredibly depressing about the fact that in all of Washington, Gabbard and Stein seem to be two members of a vastly minuscule cohort of politicians who are actually willing to break with the imperial consensus and to unequivocally say anything at all about the situation currently underway in Venezuela. I'm not even particularly interested as to their reasons why. You can picture Gabbard as an opportunist and Stein as a Russian agent if you like, the reasons why don't actually matter. Their words do. Even if they don't believe them. Because nobody else is willing to break rank. Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter. Either they are hawkishly for regime change, or complicit in their cowardly unwillingness to denounce it.
Just as this piece is not about making a judgement about the political acumen or goals of Tulsi Gabbard or Jill Stein, neither is it intended as an in-depth discussion about what is happening in Venezuela (although spoiler-alert: It is a coup. An American-sponsored right-wing white supremacist neocolonial coup aimed at stamping out one of the last holdouts against the reactionary right-wing tide sweeping across Latin America and a re-run of the failed coup of 2002. Venezuela has deep issues, some caused by internal strife, much of it exacerbated heavily by external forces. But what is happening right now is a coup). You know how bad it felt when you felt as if another country had meddled in your affairs? All those pundits who were bursting forehead veins denouncing potential Russian interference in their country's election should now be ceaselessly screaming from the rooftops about the deadly foreign interference their country is about to undertake. Again.
The long and short of it is this: the United States of America has zero right to interfere in other countries' internal affairs. None. Zilch. It is not the world's policeman. Nobody appointed it arbiter of morality or democracy. Just as Britain and many others before it, is an empire acting violently out of the self-interest of its elite. That is all.
Yet no one seems to believe this. No-one allowed near the levers of power, anyway. From both sides of the political aisle in Washington to the respectable newsrooms of 'progressive' institutions like the New York Times to the racist feeding frenzies of Fox News—in the mainstream of America's media-political axis only one belief unites them all: the United States has the absolute right to do whatever it wants, wherever it wants, no matter what lives it may cost. In Iraq, it cost several hundred thousand. It is difficult to ascertain exactly how many. The United States military does not count civilian lives lost in its wars.
Donald Trump, serial-liar-in-chief, ran a campaign with non-interventionist slogans peppered throughout it. It was quite clearly an empty slogan designed to draw some votes from those people who are sick of America's bottomless desire to project its military might abroad (the more cleverly hidden financial dollar-empire is a whole other issue). Tulsi Gabbard is now playing the same tune. Who is to say whether going forward this is what she would stick to. The point is that she is at least saying it, even if she can afford to do so because will most likely never be the Democratic nominee for President. So she may well just be expressing anti-imperial sentiment just because she can. Because she will never advance to a far enough stage where that could be used against her.
In 1946, US troops are deployed in Iran, and China.
In 1947, US troops are deployed in Greece.
In 1948, the CIA meddles in Italian elections, and begins waging a secret seven-year war in the Philippines.
In 1950, US troops begin fighting in Korea.
In 1953, the CIA overthrows Prime Minister Mossadegh in Iran.
In 1954, indirect operations begin in Vietnam, and the CIA overthrows the Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz.
In 1958, US troops land in Lebanon, and fight in Panama.
In 1959, US troops land in Haiti.
In 1960, the CIA assassinates Congolese Prime Minister Lumumba, and direct operations gradually begin in Vietnam.
In 1961, the CIA tries to help invade Cuba.
In 1962, the CIA supports a military coup in Laos.
In 1963, the CIA helps overthrow Ecuadorian president Ibarra.
In 1964, more US troops fighting in Panama, and the CIA helps overthrow Joao Goulart in Brazil.
In 1965, half a million US troops fight in Vietnam, and the CIA helps overthrow President Sukarno in Indonesia. Up to 3 million are killed by the incoming Suharto administration. The CIA also helps to overthrow President Kasavubu in the Congo. US troops land in the Dominican Republic. The US begins a nearly decade-long bombing campaign of Laos.
In 1966, the CIA helps to overthrow President Nkrumah of Ghana. The US also fights in Guatemala.
In 1969, the CIA helps overthrow Prince Sihanouk in Cambodia; the US begins a seven-year bombing campaign.
In 1970, the US aids a coup in Oman.
In 1971, the US helps the invasion of Laos.
In 1973, the CIA helps overthrow President Salvador Allende in Chile.
In 1975, US forces land in Cambodia.
In 1976, the CIA begins meddling in Angola.
In 1981, the CIA begins operations in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
In 1982, US forces land in Lebanon.
In 1983, US forces land in Grenada.
In 1986, the US bombs Libya; US forces fight in Bolivia.
In 1989, the CIA meddles in the Philippines, and US troops fight in Panama.
In 1990, US troops land in Liberia. US forces also attack Iraq.
In 1991, the CIA overthrows President Aristide in Haiti.
In 1992, US forces fight in Somalia.
In 1993, US forces fight in Bosnia.
In 1996, US forces fight in the Congo (then Zaire).
In 1997, US troops land in Liberia.
In 1998, the US bombs Al-Shifa, a major major pharmaceutical factory in (now North) Sudan; the US also attacks Afghanistan and Iraq.
In 1999, US forces are involved in Yugoslavia.
In 2001, the US invades Afghanistan.
In 2003, the US invades Iraq.
In 2004, the US invades Haiti.
In 2009, the US supports the overthrow of President Zelaya in Honduras.
In 2011, the US bombs Libya.
In 2014, the US bombs Syria.
In 2017, the US bombs Syria.
In 2018, the US bombs Syria.
There is a new generation of young Democrats rising. Do not let them be subsumed by the military-industrial complex or the bloodthirsty consensus. Hold their feet to the fire. There is no more time for equivocation. If you don't support a progressive foreign policy, you are not a progressive. Prove to the world you can be better.


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Glaucostegus younholeei, the Bangladeshi guitarfish, is a type of guitarfish of the family Glaucostegidae found in the northern Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. This species is recorded from 13 specimens discovered in a fish landing center in Cox's Bazar. It is currently witnessing a population decline of more than 80 percent due to high exploitation rate.

Description
The Bangladeshi guitarfish can be differentiated from its congeners from these characteristics: long and narrow blunt pointed snout, broad oblique nostrils with the narrow anterior opening, brownish or greyish body color with a narrow wedge-shaped disc, cranium margin sharply demarcated before eyes, rostral ridges almost joined along their entire length, relatively longer tail. The maximum length of this species is only around 93 cm.

Habitat and distribution
This guitarfish possibly inhabits shallow coastal and continental shelf waters of less than 120 m (394 ft). The specific geographic distribution range can not fully determined since it has only been recorded from one landing site in Bangladesh. However, there are some presumptions that Bangladeshi guitarfish may be more wide-ranging and live in the adjacent areas, including Andaman Sea and Malacca Strait.

Giant guitarfish, especially the smaller species (including the Bangladeshi guitarfish), is locally captured for international fin and meat trade.

References

Fish described in 2021

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Back to the gear install. Everything is being done right...a quality 488 Motive gear...master install kit...and a solid collar.
The gears are well protected for the trip from India.
I like to run the file over both surfaces before I mount up the ring gear.
As usual, red Loctite and 75 ft/lbs. Blue medium strength Loctite would be ok also.
The starter shim will be 079.
The new pinion races are pressed in with the ole Harbor Freight press.
After a couple of different shim values, 052 resulted in about 15 in/lb of pinion drag which is on the high end of the spec.
I established some carrier bearing pre-load (CBPL) and set the backlash in the ballpark for a pattern check.
Drive side is heavy on the toe (competition pattern)and proper depth appears close.
Coast side is heavy on the heel end.....I'd like to see if I reduce the thickness of the pinion shim if I can pull the pattern closer to center.
Shims are lined up and organized....going to re-shim to 076 and see what happens.
Drive is drifting a little closer to center and still appears to have a proper depth value.
Coast is spreading a little.
I'm going to re-shim again for even less depth to 073 but a clamshell style puller will not work here because the shims are in the way.
...but this puller is perfect for that situation.
This puller actually pulls on the metal cage. An old race must be used though otherwise it won't work.
Even my modest 220 ft/lb rated electric impact has enough gumph to rattle the bearing off.
Coast is looking shallow and it's still on the heel end. This minor mis-alignment could be the way the gear was cut at the factory....or even due to the carrier itself.
After comparing all 3 shim values I feel very comfortable using 078 or 079....now is the time for the anti-seize compound. This allows the threads to turn easier and I can get the proper CBPL.
By using a spanner tool with some leverage and some hammer taps, proper CBPL is not a problem. Backlash was set to .008".
One more check and the patterns look good.
The new seal was carefully tapped in place and a new Marlin pinion flange installed.
The pinion nut was red loctited and dinged as usual.
This is going to Hawaii so I was figuring on making these 4 boxes work by cutting them in half and sliding then into each other.
Then I changed my mind and did a burrito wrap. This makes it almost impossible for the carrier to bash thru the side of the cardboard boxes.


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Moderna Can't Escape My Intellectual Property, Says Arbutus CEO
Nathan Vardi Forbes Staff
Following the money trail
By Matthew Herper and Nathan Vardi
It's a David-and-Goliath fight between two unprofitable startups.
Moderna Therapeutics is valued by its private investors at $5 billion, as it promises to create a new kind of medicine that will turn the body's own cells into factories for vaccines and treatments. Arbutus Biopharma, a publicly traded firm, has a market capitalization of just $187 million.
Yet Arbutus' chief executive says, despite the more valuable company's claims to the contrary, Moderna is relying heavily on his technology to develop what are known as mRNA drugs.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel.
Credit: Gilles ROLLE/REA/Redux
"We have seen no evidence of a Moderna delivery system that is free of our intellectual property. Not in their publications, their presentations, or in the examples in their patent filings," said Mark Murray, the Arbutus CEO, in his first interview on the subject. "In our view what they are reporting as theirs appears to be dominated by our intellectual property."
The cat-and-mouse legal battle between Moderna and Arbutus has been going on for several months. Arbutus is locked in litigation against a smaller company with which Moderna partnered. Moderna's chief executive, Stéphane Bancel, has been dismissive of the Arbutus technology. "We knew it was not very good," he told Forbes last year. "It was just okay."
Bancel brushed off Murray's comments, too. "We don't comment on the speculative statements of others," Bancel said in an emailed statement. "We continue to make significant investments to advance the state-of-the-art in mRNA delivery technologies."
There's no denying that Moderna, for all the hype, had to rely on Arbutus' technology to get its efforts off the ground.
Drug companies have lusted for years after the idea of medicine that affect mRNA, the key messenger that tells cells what proteins to make. Such medicines would lead the body to make its own therapeutic proteins or vaccines. Moderna's promise to realize this dream attracted $1.9 billion from investors and large and profitable companies working on drugs with Moderna, including Merck, Alexion and AstraZeneca.
But getting mRNA into the body's cells is tough. For many uses, including two experimental flu vaccines that represent the only data where Moderna's tech has been shown to work in humans, this requires a technology called lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs. Four times, Moderna licensed the LNP tech from a tiny Vancouver company called Acuitas, which in turn had a license from Arbutus as part of a legal settlement.
Last year, Arbutus terminated Acuitas' license to the technology, claiming the tiny company had no right to sublicense the delivery system to Moderna. In February a British Columbia judge issued an injunction preventing Acuitas from further sublicensing the delivery system until a trial is held, adding, "Arbutus has a strong case."
Bancel has said it is a moot point, because Moderna has developed its own LNPs that would not be covered by Arbutus' IP. Its partner, Merck, also has LNP technology that dates back to its 2006 purchase of RNA-drug expert Sirna Therapeutics. But Murray says all this tech builds on his intellectual property.
"There is an umbrella of intellectual property here that we think dominates the field," Murray says. "Even if there was a particular lipid that was unique we still don't think these things escape the broad umbrella." Merck had no comment.
Murray also bristles at the implication that his company's technology is out-of-date, citing 22 patents related to nanoparticle delivery the company has gotten issued in the last two years. "We invented, developed and dominate the field of LNP," says Murray. "This is not old technology, we have continued to invest and develop it for years."
In March, Alexion paid Arbutus $7.5 million, along with $75 million in potential future payments, for LNP technology for a single drug it is developing with Moderna. Alexion had no comment. Arbutus also won a royalty and $65 million in payments from Alnylam, the leading RNA-based drug company, in 2012.
The way Murray tells it, Arbutus' delivery system is not just a single invention, but a system of different types of lipid molecules that must be manufactured together in order to deliver a payload. And Arbutus owns that process. We'll see if the courts agree.
Nathan Vardi
I am a senior editor at Forbes who likes digging into Wall Street, hedge funds and private equity firms, looking for both the good and the bad. I also focus on the inte


Benedict Cumberbatch has landed a voice role in The Penguins Of Madagascar, DreamWorks Animation's forthcoming Madagascar spin-off.
He'll voice the role of a "high-ranking animal CIA agent", TheWrap reports, who's on the hunt for a "charming villain" voiced by John Malkovich.
The Penguins Of Madagascar, as its title suggests, will feature the popular penguins from DreamWorks Animation (DWA)'s incredibly popular Madasgascar franchise, whose three films to date have grossed over $1.8 billion (£1.2 billion) at cinemas worldwide.
DWA has scheduled The Penguins Of Madasgascar for release on March 27, 2015 with Bee Movie's Simon J Smith set to direct from a script by writer-comedians Michael Colton and John Aboud.
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Libiszów – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie łódzkim, w powiecie opoczyńskim, w gminie Opoczno.

W latach 1954–1968 wieś należała i była siedzibą władz gromady Libiszów, po jej zniesieniu w gromadzie Bukowiec I. W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa piotrkowskiego.

Wieś jest siedzibą rzymskokatolickiej św. Mikołaja. We wsi jest kościół pod wezwaniem św. Mikołaja.

Części wsi

Historia
Wieś notowana w dokumentach źródłowych w XIV wieku. Z tego okresu pochodzi informacja o kościele parafialnym pw. św. Mikołaja, św. Małgorzaty i św. Katarzyny który istniał tu wedle zapisów zapewne już w XIV w.
W roku 1442 po śmierci plebana Wawrzyńca, wynika spór o patronat między dziedzicami Libiszowa i Sobowina. Wieś była gniazdem rodu Libiszowskich herbu Wieniawa, którzy tu siedzą do końca XVII w. Obecny w dacie sporządzania noity słownika kościół drewniany pochodzi z roku 1522. Łany kmiece dawały dziesięcinę profesorom akademii krakowskiej (doktorom teologii), a dworskie i dwu kmieci plebanowi. W regestrze poborowym z roku 1577 podano Libiszów przez pomyłkę zapewne w parafii Gnojno. Libiszowscy mieli tu w czterech działach 5 łanów kmiecych, ½ łana była pusta, oraz 10 zagrodników z rolą.

Zakład kolejowy
We wsi znajduje się duży zakład naprawczy PKP Intercity Remtrak z zatrudnieniem na poziomie 800 osób. W 2021 roku dokonano znacznej jego rozbudowy. Koszty modernizacji wyniosły 135 milionów złotych.

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All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Close Combat – The Bloody First >> Steam Release? Page: [1]
Steam Release? - 5/27/2014 4:33:33 PM
heizlegend
Status: offline Has there been any consideration to putting the CC series on steam? Or putting the new game to be greenlit on steam? I think there is a lot of potential to bring in way more sales if the game was released there. I don't know why you wouldn't. There are plenty of people with fond memories of CC that have probably forgotten about it. Put it up and steam and I think you could generate a lot of interest.
Hell, if you need the resources to get to that point, make a kickstarter. If it meant the possibility of >2 player MP or especially co-op, I'd donate to it.
But at least steam, at this point in pc gaming I feel that is practically a requirement. It would definitely be the only realistic way to generate any significant number of new players. They rebooted Age of Empires II, AOE III, and Age of Mythology on steam, and from what I can tell they've done very well, and all they did with those is raise the resolution and remade the multiplayer. I see no reason CC couldn't enjoy similar success, especially with the new 3d engine and a updated multiplayer.
RE: Steam Release? - 5/27/2014 7:26:06 PM
Steve McClaire
Status: offline There has been some consideration: Gateway to Caen will be available on Steam. Other existing CC tiles may appear on Steam as well though this has yet to be determined.
We haven't talked specifically about how The Bloody First will be sold/marketed, so I can't say anything for certain. But it may very well be on Steam too, when it's released.
(in reply to heizlegend)
RE: Steam Release? - 5/28/2014 8:14:12 AM
Status: offline Bloody First at Steam would be a very good idea because if it runs as it looks, probably many people will like it and Steam is the best site for obtain a good publicity.
I know how it is difficult. But a few more screenshots would be good or another preview at another site. I´m not interested at Gateway to Caen because it looks as a mod and it has not the beatiful 32bits maps from Panthers in the Fog, the maps are poorer clearly but I love what I see at Bloody First, a 3D game which it can be played as the old 2D CC games at same time.
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Status: offline I agree, the release of Gateway to Caen on Steam was a great move. Steam has a bigger audience and more opportunities for people to come across GWTC. Not having TBF on Steam would be a mistake.
I have a Youtube Channel that features Close Combat and Panzer Corps Let's Plays and videos, as well as historical documentaries.
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RE: Steam Release? - 12/3/2016 4:03:46 AM
Platoon_Michael
Status: offline If this is released on Steam will it be able to be played through Steam Link?
And will it be possible to play using the Steam Controller as well?
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RE: Steam Release? - 12/5/2016 6:00:44 PM
Status: offline Platoon Michael,
No plans to specifically support Steam Link / Steam Controller at this time.
< Message edited by PipFromSlitherine -- 12/7/2016 12:14:16 AM >
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