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What Will Be the Biggest Political Story of 2032?
During my multi-week recovery, I have a dual mission: Digging out old, unfinished post material and searching for humor. Laughter is the best medicine, but for some reasons, my health insurer won't cover DVDs of Seinfeld.
In this post, I kill two birds with one stone — assuming you're one of those who favor efficient avicide.
In this case, it's gallows humor, courtesy of the inimitable Tom the Dancing Bug (via BoingBoing):
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Gallows humor indeed! Then today there's a paper out that claims there's no such thing as a climate tipping point because effects are not uniform across all ecosystems. A new bonanza of carefully selected quotes for the deniers! Antarctican forests indeed.
I'm not in the right frame of mind to find this amusing. To me it's just depressing to be reminded again what is being done to fight man made climate change… nothing :(
Agree 100%. Even well-meaning proposals that don't address the central issue are worse than nothing; they are a diversion that offers false hope and nothing more.
If I'm not mistaken, the title of this thread is "What Will Be the Biggest Political Story of 2032?"
That story will be:
In the biggest electoral landslide in US history, Bill McKibben is elected president. He ran on a platform of drafting every able-bodied American to be trained as solar-panel installer and have every roof in America covered with solar panels and every building weatherized within 4 years.
His running mate, Joe Romm, who ran on a platform of "Deploy, deploy, deploy". says he will personally see to it that the presidential limousine is replaced by a Chevy "Volt" ASAP.
Proposals are as common as assholes. We have proposals everywhere. From immediate WWII scale government funded action to end fossil fuel use and build massive wind and solar projects to weak multi-decadal transitions. But we ain't gonna do any of it. We won't even begin a weak effort. The general public does not see climate disruption as a threat to humanity. At best they see it as something we should do something about eventually but not necessarily now and the solution should not disrupt their lives. It has a minor influence on their voting choices and, as you have seen, very few are willing to gather together in mass demonstrations to express their concern. It has been 16 years since Kyoto and we are still basically doing nothing. We are using more coal and oil than ever before with very little prospect of ending that in the next 16 years.
The Story, 1932 – The end of daily coverage of the end of the trials taking place in the Hague to prosecute for crimes against humanity the leadership and their lieutenants who created and administered the great denial of the reality of climate change, and the sophisticated obstructions to the implementation of corrective measures.
I have to say that BusinessWeek article is a bit of a depressing pill, since these folks are now looking forward to climate change so they can make more money from its effects (totally predictable and rational based on what the world has done to this point, but the idea that this is gaining scale is rather repulsive).
The cartoon is funny, except for that last cell, I keep getting the feeling we'll actually be finiding ourselves in that position in 2032.
2032 – Jenna Bush elected President.
Joe: Get well.
Kill two birds? I have no pets. I want all my pets to be wild and free. I find the best way to attract two birds is to provide feed and water. In this way I have the happy illusion of "pets" without the bother of tossing their feces, something plants love. As for killing them, I leave that to nature – even as I try to protect them from well-fed house cats, the vast and silent destroyer of hundreds of millions of birds.
The cartoon is quite funny in a gallows humor sorta way, with my favorite the "natural" answer to high-fructose corn syrup. Now, how-about those midwestern farmer's gals so prominent in Oklahoma, the musical? What will happen to them? How would the corn as high as an elephant's eye have appeared?
Gallows humor may be all we have left.
Oh for goodness sake all you depressed people. You are not helping yourselves or others. Just go out and do something, join something. Doing nothing but saying it's all hopeless is a self fulfilling prophecy, ME
I second that emotion! Where is my knitting?
Greed, apparently is 'God' after all. The problem is that the God is either Moloch, or that Aztec favourite, Tlaloc. Either way, our children will do the crying.
I joined Greenpeace, and they promptly sold out. I joined the Wilderness Society, and they haven't, so they are ignored and vilified. I joined the Green Party, whose local members spent all their time on in-fighting and pointless, but vicious, ideological battles between the Rightwing, pro-business faction, and the 'watermelons'. In six months they decided NOTHING. So I'll stick to planting trees, and sequestering carbon, in the form of dead cats bitten by brown-snakes. Don't forget, ME, for certain types, misery and gloom is quite energising and invigourating, it being our habitual habit of mind. It is hard to comprehend, if you have not been so blessed.
the issue is the scale of the problem is so vast the only way to correct it is planetary engineering. We would need to expend resources on a scale never before seen on a project that doesn't have support from the wider populace.
it's just not achievable and anything less will make literally no difference at all.
I hope never to be so blessed but you are still fighting in your way and have been known to crack a funny or two here, ME
It's not over yet Paul. If you are an American, I'm sure the general public response could be disappointing but the people have risen to the occasion before and surely can do it again, ME
That's a good one, I was actually gonna add:
President Scooter Bush approves the Canadian Millstone Pipeline to route excess Methane from a small part of the rapidly thawing permafrost area so U.S. consumers can burn it in a green manner bringing natural gas prices back down.
Former President Chelsea Clinton previously approved the Canadian Pandora Pipeline to route methane from the thawing Clathrates on the ocean floor but it destabilized the Clathrate base over a large area and is no longer effective leaving U.S. consumers in desperate need of another cheap methane supply.
That's a good one Bob. :-)
My latest newspaper column, called "The Art of the Improbable," is about fighting global warming by harnessing the power of exponents. It's a realistic but positive call to action. It's about 700 words long, so I don't want to clog up the comment section with it, but if anybody wants to run it on his/her blog, or just read it, I'll be glad to send it along gratis.
Let me know, and stay strong.
Sorry ME, not trying to be depressed – just need to talk out what we're feeling and thinking – I seem to rotate between feeling like we can whip this thing and then, well, not.
So, lets not even get into what's happened with the Ice Cap and permafrost over the last 5 years & what will happen there very soon. I'll be there for the protests, voted for the Green party during the last election (they got like 2% or less of the vote here – absolutely no visibility of this issue as a critical issue in the general population although they want action) and whatever else I can do…
But I'm looking for a realistic chance out there that we can save ourselves and its just getting more and more highly improbable we'll be able to pull this thing out (or, more disturbingly that we'll even try).
Phillip put up a link to it if you can (put it in the daily news section too), I'd love to look at it (could use a good read like that).
I know the news is not good mate and I appreciate the power of this forum for people to explore their feelings and ideas, and crack a joke or two occasionally. I guess what worries me particularly is that people don't understand how contagious our feeling are, how easy it is for a person who is feeling a bit down to think 'well all these other people are depressed, so I'll give in to it'. Or how one really energetic smilely person can walk in and light up a room. If we are going to beat this thing we are going to need everyone working together with every bit of human energy, motivation and good humour we can muster, ME
"Bloomberg News, March 8, 2032." The recently nationalized electric power industry, now known as Nationel, announced new pricing for net production from household rooftop solar. The Interior Dept. is now receiving proposals on how to exploit the vast overproduction of electricity due to 20 years of aggressive deployment of PV. The electricity glut occurs during the 5 most sunny months in the hours from 11 noon to 5 PM. Top contenders are regional water desalinization and purification plants in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado…."
I'm incorrigibly quantitative, so here's a list of [humorless?] facts and factoids to go with frames of the cartoon.
As of 1965, the base of US Capitol was about 60 feet above mean sea level, The top of the building is officially 289′ (88 m) above sea level, at present.
The Daily Beast has an interactive map about how far women commonly travel to get an abortion today. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/22/interactive-map-america-s-abortion-clinics.html
Populations of Oklahoma and Oregon in 2012: Oklahoma 3,814,820; Oregon 3,899,353.
About 80 million acres are currently planted in corn in the US. http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn/background.aspx
Forest establishment at the edge of retreating glacier begins with moss and other soil formers that can exist on rock, followed by small trees like aspen and birch, and only after adequate soil formation do evergreens grow on the site.
Honolulu Airport elevation above present day mean sea level: 13′ 1″ (4.00 m)
The US Census currently projects the 2032 resident US population to be 379,912,000.
"The Farmers Almanac March 8, 2032. The Dept. of Agriculture announced today an approved production process for protein to replace the cattle and pork industry, which became unviable as water scarcity, high summer temperatures, catastrophic flooding events and crop failures continue to plague large regions of rural North America. The synthetic proteins will be based on raw ingredients from algael pools in stagnant fresh water bodies previously known as the Great Lakes and energy inputs from solar thermal and PV."
You're right, as always, ME, thank you. :-)
Yup, how about we match our language to our aspirations? So "feeding two birds from one hand" rather than "efficient avicide"? Choosing organic, peaceful, non-militaristic language and metaphors is one of the easiest things we can do to keep us heading in the right direction.


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Ideas the RBA might be cutting rates again anytime soon are squashed by policy meeting minutes...
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PLEEEEEZE!!! Don't trade Paul Millsap! I luuuuuuuuve him!!!
Go Jazzboys!!
- 7:34 a.m. Dec. 2, 2011
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Why would the Jazz think about trading Millsap when Raja still lurks within the
Millsap has proved his worth for years in the Jazz system but he produced much higher numbers when he had a great PG. We need another 2 guards that are nearly as good as Devin Harris, not the Ronnie Price who forgets he is supposed to pass the ball and instead throws up shots that are just short of embarassment levels.
Ronnie knows the Jazz system but does not play well in it. He thinks he is the best shooter on the floor, does not develop shots for others and tends to over-dribble the ball.
Millsap is canny on the floor and has the body and ability to improve, a relatively affordable contract and a body that comes back night after night, which is highly sought after in this league.
KOC get the team some backup point guards and lets get on the move, trade Raja and Okur.
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And that is exactly why you don't trade Millsap!
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Millsap has met or exceeded every expextation the
jazz have of him. hes reliable, positive, always healthy, hes been around long enough to know the jazz system. He stepped up when Boozer was "injured". And Millsap put in a steady year starting in the toughest season jazz have had in a decade. he won at least 2 games for us (miami and orlando). Why trade him?
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Oh ye with short memories...the lockout has been over for about 15 minutes and
we've already forgived and forgotten?
Boycott the NBA!
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I don't think Millsap will ever be a top 5 power forward in the league but he should be able to continue to contribute at a high level at both forward positions for many years. I would love to see him stay in Utah. He is a keeper in my book
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Sir Robin
You can boycott the NBA. Who needs you? My loyalties however, run much deeper than 5 month lockout.
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Millsap is dependable, consistent, healthy, and loyal to this team. I would like to see him be more vocal as a leader. But, he likes it here and has put roots down here. If we trade that away we'd better get something pretty amazing in return, because Millsap is one of a kind.
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You're exactly the kind of person they're relying on to pay their exorbitant prices so they can make $100k per minute. Enjoy being one of those people.
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The Jazz are in a weird position. I think that the Jazz need to do whatever it takes to make this team better. If trading Milsap makes us better, than do it, but he is a scrappy guy who is really a solid 6th man. Memo is the guy that I think could be considered to be a movable piece to the puzzle. The Jazz may be able to package a deal for Bell/Memo and draft pick for Andre Igoudala. Would you do it? I would. We know that AK is not coming back, so that leaves our team with an opening at the 3, a chance to upgrade!!! If the Jazz can't move Memo, than I think Memo gets released via amnesty clause. Good-bye AK and Memo, hello upgrade and durability! Can Evans play the 3?
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As painful as it is, I have to agree with Brave Sir! I've been a Jazz fan for so long, loved them when it Stock, Malone, Eaton....and then Horny! But it's just not the same now......way too much greed, and the fans are truly taken for granted. They won't get my money or viewing any longer.
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I need to write a program that finds all perfect squares between two given numbers a and b such that the range can also be a = 1 and b = 10^15 what is the best way I can do this, how do I list down all such square numbers, is there some abstract math hidden underneath this problem?
One thing that makes this pretty straight forward is this: $(n+1)^2-n^2=2n+1$ Start with one, and keep on adding that.
You can do it much easily by first calculating the square roots of $a$ and $b$. And count the number of integers between those square roots (just subtract one from the other). But be careful when one of $a$ and $b$ is a square itself.
Here's some code (pretty much C/C++) to implement Chris Dugale's answer:
The idea is that $(n+1)^2=n^2+2n+1$, so to get $(n+1)^2$ from $n^2$, just add $2n+1$ to it. Then, to get $(n+2)^2$ from $(n+1)^2$ you add $2n+3$, and so on...
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WIMBLEDON, England Nobody ever accused Marat Safin of being sane. Throughout his up-and-down nine-year pro career, the former No. 1 has dropped his pants midmatch, been fined for not trying and destroyed an estimated 300 rackets in on-court displays of disgust.
But perhaps the biggest surprise of all came Wednesday, when the 6-foot-4 Russian, fresh off his 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-4 second-round victory against Mark Philippoussis, confessed in his post-match news conference that he's actually enjoying this grass thing.
You know, the ferocious narrow-leaved plant that most of the world uses as front-yard ornamentation? Safin swore off the stuff a year ago. Sat at the same podium, after a first-round Wimbledon loss to Dmitry Tursunov and confessed that he was "giving up on Wimbledon" and that he "hated this."
Exactly 365 days later, Safin disposed of Philippoussis, reached Wimbledon's third round for just the second time in his career and openly confessed that he and the soft, spongy chlorophyll-filled surface are now buddies for the first time.
He even used the word "fun."
"Because if you're not having fun, it's impossible to do anything good here," he said. "You can't have any expectations if you are suffering and struggling. That's what happened to me in the past, during all my career."
This is bad news for the rest of the Wimbledon field. Safin has long been considered one of the game's most complete players, with the ability to beat anyone on any given day. He defeated Roger Federer at the Australian Open in February, ending Federer's 26-match winning streak.
Now he appears to be figuring out the game on its most challenging surface.
"When he plays right and feels right, he can be awesome no matter what the surface," former Wimbledon champion John McEnroe said. "If he continues to play at this level, he's going to be tough to beat."
What a story that would make, to find Safin standing at Centre Court, hoisting the Wimbledon cup high above his head. Not only has he struggled to figure out grass, but he's also battling a ruptured ligament in his left knee that will require surgery as soon as Wimbledon ends. Doctors urged him not to play in the tournament, but Safin went against their wishes.
"Some movements, it's really painful," Safin said. "But I have to deal with that because then the pain goes away and then comes back. It's not a continuous pain, like I'm struggling all the time. It goes away and then it comes back. I get used to it."
Just like he's finally getting used to grass. The first time Safin stepped on a grass court here in 1997, he said he felt uncomfortable. Too many erratic bounces. Too difficult to move. In five of his previous seven championships, he headed home after a first- or second-round loss.
But then, two weeks ago in Halle, Germany, Safin won four matches before losing a three-set final to Federer. It was at that point, Safin said, that he realized he has put the fear of the green blades behind him.
"I beat some tough players there," Safin said. "All of the sudden, I felt comfortable. I felt comfortable moving on it. And that's one of the most important things, when you're playing on grass, is to move. All of the sudden, this came to me and I felt pretty good."
Safin can't explain why he feels more comfortable, but in May 2004, he signed on with Federer's former coach, Peter Lundgren, who pushed Safin toward fully committing himself to the sport, be it in the weight room, dining room or even a bar. He also encouraged Safin to keep his emotions in check and, when it came to grass, to play more aggressively.
Federer hinted Wednesday that he thinks Safin's knee injury has become a mental crutch the Russian is using to take pressure off himself. Win, and Safin gets credit for overcoming the injury. Lose, and it's the knees fault.
"I had the feeling he was very relaxed in Halle," Federer said. "He still gets irritated and throws his racquet. But still I feel like he was more relaxed overall than maybe I've seen him. Maybe I'm mistaken."
Safin insisted that Federer was wrong.
"I don't need to find a reason for myself so I don't have to feel really depressed after the match and lie to myself that it's because of the knee," Safin said. "It's because of nothing.
"I don't have to find a reason to take off the pressure."
Whatever the reason, it worked Wednesday, with Safin overcoming a 5-4, love-40 deficit in the opening set to win and set the tone for the match. Now comes the challenge of overcoming his draw, which includes both Lleyton Hewitt and Federer on Safin's side of the bracket. Safin will face crafty left-hander Feliciano Lopez next, on Friday.
The Spaniard cruised to a 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Great Britain's David Sherwood on Wednesday and hasn't lost before the third round in four Wimbledon appearances.
"I probably deserve it because the years before I had the easy ones and I couldn't make even past the first round," Safin said. "I have to pay the price, I guess. But I think the way I'm playing, it's OK."
He must be insane.
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Colorado was among eight states that passed laws last year allowing driver's licenses for people in the country illegally. Two of those states, Illinois and Nevada, have already started issuing the documents. California plans to start in January.
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When people were able to start making appointments July 1, the website stopped working after being overwhelmed with traffic, reaching a high of 107,500 hits hourly. The appointments are being handled at five locations throughout the state — Fort Collins, Denver, Aurora, Colorado Springs and Grand Junction.
"We're seeing that a lot of people are really excited about this program. They can't wait," said Barbara Brohl, the department's executive director.
Immigrants with temporary legal permits don't have to make appointments, only those in the country illegally. Those without legal status must show documents like a utility bill to prove they've lived in Colorado the previous two years, in addition to an identification number they've used to pay taxes. They must also show a passport or other identification from their home country.
Driver's licenses will cost $50.50, and identification cards will be $14. The new program will be supported by user fees.
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oh woah really? thats brilliant thank you i was unaware of that! i will impliment that across all of my regular expressions! thanks alot!
perfect! thank you very much!! :)
Knew it was a simple fix just didnt no how to amend the html inside the id="title" rather than the id itself, innerHTML seems to do the trick! Thanks!
yup got it thank you! all working now! cheers for the help!! i have implimented the (mk|MK) as you suggested also!
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Iv tried this and it doesnt seem to be giving me an alert message? perhaps if I show you my full code you will better udnerstand why I used the method I have.
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var regExpressMilton = /^MK(1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|15|17|19|77)\s$/;
iv tried your code using a postcode MK1 however it still displays the alert no matter what postcode is added. here is my full script:
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right ok i see so i need to combine the two together into one function? how would I go about doing this? my javascript knowledge is very patchy im afraid!
thanks for the heads up and i am...
opps sorry that was a comment which i tried to remove from my code when pasting it into the forum. here is the code with comments removed correctly:
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Hi people, me again. sorry!
I have two different criteria for two seperate form feilds both using regular expressions, however for some reason the second one is the only one which is applied. The...
i do apoligise if i was confusing regarding the spaces, but we got there in the end!!
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nope sorry this still accepts spaces but doesnt accept a straight 15 character string.
is there a way i can use a \s? or similar to state, either a space or nothing. Perhaps this bit would be easier to be done with an If statement and two seperate regular expression? perhaps you could...
ok iv adapted your code to fit the criteria of 5 characters space 5 characters space 5 characters.
this now works....
if you read my initial post i said i want it to allow spaces between each 5th character. I tried to write this above but found it did not work, looking at that link you sent i have now re written...
woah that looks helpful thank you!
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THE DUODENAL END of the biliary and pancreatic drainage systems constitutes the "Vaterian segment." At first, our understanding of the anatomy of the distal biliary and pancreatic ducts was poor and constituted a legitimate handicap to discussions of pathology and pursuit of therapeusis. We would like to call attention to the accurate anatomy which now has been established, point out that persistent use of an archaic concept and loose use of otherwise accurate terms perpetuate a discouraging degree of confusion, and make a plea for the modernization of our talk and writing concerning the Vaterian segment.
In the first half of the eighteenth century, a German anatomist named Abraham Vater investigated the anatomy of the confluence of the biliary and pancreatic ducts. His work is preserved for us in the third volume of Albert Haller's Disputalionum Anatomicarum Selectarum. Excerpts from Vater's dissertation pertinent to this discussion are reproduced in the
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BENNINGTON A man from Albany, N.Y., said he had lost a trip to Florence, Italy, as punishment for the activity leading to his charges of embezzlement and retail theft to which he pleaded guilty this week.
Neil Rosen, 20, pleaded guilty in Bennington criminal court to three misdemeanor charges, one count of embezzlement and two counts of retail theft.
The sentence for the charges was deferred for three years. If he avoids further legal troubles and follows the terms of his probation, Rosens criminal record will be expunged.
In an affidavit, Officer Christopher Mason of the Manchester Police Department said Rosen had been an employee at Ralph Lauren Polo over the summer. On July 12, Rosen admitted in a statement that he had stolen from the store on five occasions, taking $40 in cash and about $600 in merchandise.
The $40 was returned in July and restitution has been made to the store.
During Rosens court hearing Monday, Bennington County States Attorney Erica Marthage said one reason the state had reached a plea arrangement with Rosen was that his parents had taken the matter pretty seriously and imposed other consequences on their son, including canceling his planned trip to Florence.
David Silver, the attorney who represented Rosen, said Rosens parents were very distraught and disappointed in him and ashamed of his conduct and said Rosen felt the same way. Rosen added he was very ashamed.
Judge Nancy Corsones told Rosen he had lost something valuable when he lost the chance to travel abroad at a young age.
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Tron esque towers located deep within a caving system.
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Hello Andrew,
Beautiful evening shot! Like
Greetings from Tokyo, Japan.
Thank you very much taoy. Bit of a "sweet spot hit" this one. (Wish I could get more like it!)
Thank you and hello Rocisi.
Hmm, I think you might be on to it. Maybe this one is a better choice as a group submission, owing to this shots higher pixel resolution. I'm now inclined to remove the previous shots as they don't scrub up all that well when stretched.
Thank you very much for your generous comment Tiko en Argentina. It's great to hear from someone just across the pond. Greetings from sunny Melbourne.
Photo taken in Melbourne VIC, Australia
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This document describes the unit's assessment system in detail, including assessment of
candidate performance and evaluation of unit operations.
Consistent with the conceptual framework's constructivist philosophy, the Center for Teacing and Learning (CTL) assessment
system has dynamically evolved over the past decade as a result of relevant and meaningful
experiences, which include constituent and community feedback. The latest edition of the system
is comprehensively designed to be purposely redundant in the measurement of standards, flexible
enough to meet specific program requirements, and robust enough to provide unit-wide analyses
for the purpose of improving program and unit (CTL) operations, including the evaluation of the
system. Multiple assessment measures are collected using a transitional timeline. Data are
collected, aggregated, and reported at both the program level and unit level for both initial and
advanced programs using CTL, state, and national standards as criteria for the measurements.
Data reports and summaries are used by individual faculty to assess their own instruction; by
candidates to assess their own learning and development; by program faculty and coordinators to
assess program effectiveness; and by the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment (OREA) to assess unit operations. Summaries are also
shared, discussed, and reported in numerous ways at each level of the unit's governance
organization, and are made public through the CTL/OREA web sites. Feedback is sought at
every level: candidate, faculty, PEAB, administration, as well as the public. The latest edition now includes a relational database and the title has changed to the Comprehensive Data Management System (CDMS).
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has been using assessment data to advise programs
on candidates' performance and satisfaction since the late 1990s. Early on, grades and the results
of first year and third year teacher and principal surveys were the primary sources of data.
Summaries of these data were regularly shared with faculty and the professional community
through Professional Educators Advisory Board (PEAB) meetings and periodically through
faculty/principal/superintendent summit meetings.
The CTL began working on a more comprehensive electronic assessment system in May 2002 as
it was revising and updating its conceptual framework and standards. Following a year of
meetings, the CTL faculty and administration formally approved a new system in June of 2003
including the use of LiveText (LT) within that system as an additional means for collecting
electronic data relative to candidate performance. Although electronic portfolios were the focus
at that time, what resulted was an electronic course-based standards-embedded assessment
initiative. [Since that time some programs have migrated toward an end-of-program assessment
process, and portfoilos have emerged as a means for documenting candidate standard compliance.] Several training workshops for faculty were conducted throughout August and
September 2003, and an implementation plan was initiated. It was determined that volunteer
faculty teaching EDF 301 "An Orientation to Teaching" would introduce LT to candidates from
October 2003 through June 2004. A study was conducted to determine candidate acceptance of
LT, as well as what additional knowledge and skills candidates' had acquired as a result of its
use. Candidate survey data indicated neither a strong acceptance nor a strong dislike for the new
electronic assessment requirements. Comparisons between candidates using LT to candidates not
yet using LiveText revealed only one significant difference. Candidates using LT had a better
understanding of the use of advanced multimedia tools (Northwest Regional Program Report,
2005, p. 84). Prior to publishing this report, data were reported to all faculty during a CTL
meeting on 2/8/2004. At the same meeting, the science programs demonstrated the use of
LiveText program data for program and course improvement, citing how the data reports in
LiveText illustrated a need for course instructors to pay more attention to safety standards.
In February, 2004 a fulltime technology trainer was hired to assist faculty and candidates in the
design and sharing of artifacts using LT. During the fall quarter of 2004, twenty-three program
evaluations were individually conducted to measure the extent to which each program was
including electronic data. These data were evaluated at the same time the Educational
Benchmarking Inventory (EBI), and results of the first and third year teacher surveys were
presented. As a result, the Teacher PEAB as well as the Advisory Council and Executive Board
suggested the CTL needed to increase productivity and improve satisfaction. Therefore, in
February 2005 the CTL bought new technologies and each program was assigned computers,
scanners, and digital cameras specifically designated for candidate electronic artifact production.
Over the next four months, implementation studies were conducted and meetings were held with
each program as well as the CTL governing levels to report on the comprehensiveness of the data
being shared and reported. Further, on June 10, 2005 the CWU Board of Trustees approved a
resolution demonstrating support for the full implementation of the electronic data initiative. In
October 2005, the CTL hired and trained five student workers to be "The CTL's LiveText
Rescue Team", and established a web site for LiveText assistance for providing focused
assistance to candidates having trouble negotiating the LiveText system.
About the same time, a new disposition inventory was being developed and integrated into the
LiveText system. The new disposition inventory was distributed to CTL faculty, deans,
department chairs, program coordinators, and the advisory council. A pilot test to validate the
inventory was conducted using EDF 301 candidates, EDCS 311 candidates, and student teaching
candidates. In September 2005, the validation of the disposition inventory was complete and
results were shared with faculty. In addition, reliability and validity results were presented in a
disposition manuscript submitted for national peer review and was later published.
Of course the assessment system consisted of much more than LT candidate performance data
and dispositional data. A graphic of the comprehensive assessment system was presented and
accepted by the CTL faculty December 5, 2005. Other measurements used for program and unit
operation assessments included: trend analyses of the first and third year teacher and principal
survey data, and trend analyses of the EBI data for principals and teachers. Program completer
data were collected and reported by Career Services for the years including 2002-2012.
After receiving State and NCATE feedback in May 2007, a unit work plan was developed in
partnership with OSPI and shared with all CTL faculty and governance committees. The Office
of Research and Evaluation was renamed the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment
(OREA) and assigned an additional responsibility of assessment with an immediate task of
evaluating the current assessment system with respect to the feedback provided during the State
and NCATE reviews. Moreover, OREA was allocated additional support positions by the
Office of the Provost. As a result, data collected are now analyzed, summarized, and shared
electronically using the website and initally a desktop version of the relational database.
During Fall 2007, the CTL Assessment Committee approved a new web-based concept designed
by OREA for displaying and managing data in the assessment system. The new system includes \
all advanced programs as well as the initial programs. All assessment information is displayed
under the following categories: programs, standards, measurements, aggregated data & graphic
summaries, CDMS, program reports, and unit reports. The change was made to more clearly illustrate the
comprehensiveness of the CTL assessment system.
The CTL assessment system is based upon a formative and summative evaluation model
specifically designed to systematically and redundantly assess standards relative to candidate
knowledge, skills, dispositions, and program design. The system is redundant because standards
are measured in multiple ways, at multiple times across transition levels, within programs, and
across programs. This allows candidates to assess their competency development; for faculty to
assess their candidates' learning as well as their own teaching effectiveness (in relation to
personal Student Evaluation of Instruction [SEOI] data); for programs to assess the teaching and
learning experience; and for the unit to assess operations (which includes a summative
evaluation of the assessment system).
The assessment system website graphic was designed to simplify the multidimensionality of the
system by illustrating the categories in a linear fashion. The system's categories are transparently
displayed in a website graphic for easy access. Any person desiring to review the categorical
components of the system would simply click on a category. Contained within each category is a
display of the system's internal mechanisms.
For example, under initial programs the transition table found within the "measurement"
category of the assessment system graphic illustrates when, where, and how standards are being
measured. To examine the entry-level assessment process, the table shows the formative and
summative measures used to determine admission acceptance into a program. Summative
measures used to assess content knowledge standards during Transition I include GPA analyses
and WEST B results. In addition, an entry data spreadsheet is used to measure the admission
demographics and an admissions checklist is used to formatively track candidates' progress in
attaining entry.
A formative measure of disposition is also conducted during this admission transition.
Summaries of these data found in the graphic summaries category are used at several levels: a)
by the Admissions/ Certification Office to effectively monitor candidate admission, b) by
program faculty in making predictions about candidate success (found in program reports), and
c) by the OREA in making inferences for a unit report. The data displayed in the aggregated data
category contains data that offers a reviewer (candidates, board members, faculty,
administration, the public, and external reviewers open access to all of the data collected). If
someone has a question that has not been previously summarized by the OREA, the data are,
therefore, accessible for unique analyses. Formal requests can be made to the OREA to analyze
and summarize these data to answer queries that may not have been previously considered for
offices on campus or agencies off campus. Each transition level works in the same manner. All
of the data collected for each level can be found in the categories of "aggregated data" and
"graphic data" consistently recognizable by the measures used to collect the data and organized
by transition. This method is used across the system, so that it is easier to view how data are used
to interpret standard acquisition as described in each program report and ultimately in the unit
report. To move from transition to transition tabs were placed at the top of each page.
The system is built using the common denominator of standards. Standards are measured in a
formative fashion within courses, within programs, and again across programs. This redundancy
is purposely designed into the system because standard acquisition is believed to be
developmental, which is congruent with our conceptual framework. "Within" program measures
include those data specific to content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and skills, professional
knowledge and skills, and student learning standards, which differ for each content discipline
(i.e., elementary, reading, early childhood, math, theatre, health/fitness, etc). This is why each
program has a specific assessment process within the larger assessment system. This is also
where state competencies are measured (within program using Live Text rubrics and grades).
"Across" program measures include data typically collected on all residency teacher candidates
and post -graduates (e.g., WEST B and follow-up surveys). In addition to these typical measures,
standards are measured across programs using data collected in the Professional Education Program (PEP) and
student teaching. PEP data include LT reports for all courses that all candidates
are required to complete. Similarly, a Final Student Teaching Evaluation is used to formatively
assess all candidates particularly addressing elements of state standard V. The WA Teacher Performance Assessment (WTPA) is a summative measure used to
ensure candidates who pass student teaching meet all standards. At the advanced level, programs
generally use within program formative and summative evaluation techniques. In 2007 the
Diversity and Equity Committee proposed a common course for all graduate programs, a survey,
and a matrix. Using these instruments by the end of the Spring 2009 quarter, advanced programs
produced data that were comparable across programs.
Guided by the conceptual framework's 5 standards and 22 competencies, a matrix analysis was
designed to align CTL, state, and national standards. Because most standards are related to the
INTASC standards, the matrix of standards was created to demonstrate the common linkages
between institutional, state, and national standards. To simplify the standards analyses, most
assessments refer to the institutional standard (CTL standards) although some programs also
reference state standards. Programs also reference state competencies as specified by program
endorsements. These standards are cited and referenced in each program and across programs
through course syllabi, program handbooks, LT artifacts, rubrics, and reports. In addition, OREA
has examined how frequently standards are measured and where standards are measured in the
LiveText portion of the system. Taking the standards analysis one step further, OREA has summarized the standards
measured in PEP core courses. Using standards as the criteria, analyses drill
into data that are formatively assessed through course work and summarily interpreted by
the program. The purpose is to assess how well the candidates are formatively and summatively
meeting standards. Standards, after all, are the primary targets of measurement. Because there
are so many different standards to make it simple, the system systematically addresses all
standards at all levels and uses a complex assortment of redundant analyses and formative
summaries to ensure all candidates are being measured and are meeting all standards. This Analysis can be found on the Assessment site under Aggregated Data & Graphic Summaries on the Endorsement Preparation tab.
To be completely comprehensive, the assessment system must have a mechanism with which to
evaluate the categories and components of the system. This examination is divided into four
levels: a) the accuracy, fairness, and consistency of the measures; b) standard, artifact, and rubric
analyses; c) technology effectiveness; and d) the usefulness of data presentation for program
reporting. Evaluation of the assessment system is conducted annually and revealed in the unit
report, which is published and shared publicly on the assessment system website.
Accuracy, Fairness, and Consistency
The West B, West E & WTPA are state supported assessments, which have been tested
for validity and reliability by the agencies that were contracted to create the instruments. The
data reported by the state for the new teacher assessment is pilot data that is being used for
validation of the new instrument. The Disposition Inventory was validated in September 2005
(see manuscript). LiveText inter-rater summary (accuracy) data are examined electronically and
automatically on a continuous basis and updated as each new set of data is entered into the
system. Inter-rater data can be found at the bottom of each report in the LT Exhibit Room.
Under each assessment report is an inter-rater summary report. Content validity of the LT data
were produced by each program as faculty discussed and agreed on the content to be assessed
and how it is to be assessed. Efficacy of agreement is reviewed in section 3 of the annual
program reports. To ensure fairness and consistency, faculty within programs have met and
agreed on the type of artifact candidates must submit. No matter who teaches a particular course
requiring an artifact, the artifact will be the same for all candidates. In addition, the rubric
assessing a particular artifact will be the same regardless of which faculty member is assessing
the artifact. This ensures that all candidates are being assessed consistently and fairly on
standards associated with each artifact. The next section reveals how accuracy, consistency, and
fairness are reflected in program reports. The final measurement examined is grades. The CTL
has been able to disaggregate grades and WEST E scores by program and the OREA has
conducted descriptive statistics to show how closely the scores align. This is used to estimate a
prediction of candidate success, although program reports also predict candidate success through
the analysis of standard compliance (see section 4, Program Reports), and the unit report.
Standards, Artifacts, Rubrics
The assessment system is evaluated annually with regards to how the standards are being
assessed. A standards analysis using continuous LT data has been reported and shared with
programs (see levels 2, 3, and 4 of the program reports). Prompts provided to programs and for
which programs have provided responses, include:
1) Are the standards dispersed appropriately in your program?
2) Are all the standards represented as you wish them to be?
3) After reviewing this analysis, are there changes your program would recommend making to
the way you cite standards or assess your candidates using LiveText?
4) Please examine all of your reports in the LiveText exhibit area and discuss the accuracy,
consistency, and fairness of the data, as well as what improvements could be made in the
program assessment rubrics, courses, artifacts, or reporting.
5) Using these data, please reflect upon your candidates' success in meeting standards.
6) Compare these data to the data provided in the WEST B and E charts that follow. Is there
consistency in the rates of success?
An external consultant evaluated the LT standards, artifacts, and rubrics during the summer of
2007 and again March 2008, which are found under the unit report category of the assessment
system (2007 Assessment System Evaluation, 2008 Assessment System Evaluation/LiveText
Standards Assessment (C, P, PP, SL).
Technology Effectiveness and Program Reporting
The unit report is a synthesis of the conclusions and interpretations written by each program as
represented by each of the program reports. Because one of the functions of the assessment
system is the integrated use of technology, program reports have included statements of strengths
and challenges relative to using the LT electronic system, as well as the web- based reporting
system. In determining how to improve unit operations, the governance system continuously
discusses recommendations from faculty, students, and our professional community regarding
better ways to collect, analyze, and report accountability information. To promote the
professional culture in which data are a regular part of the faculty conversation, effective as well
as efficient use of technology is continuously being discussed and enhanced. Conversations
surrounding a desire for exploring a better electronic system have reached a point of consensus
across the unit. As the university also struggles with this issue, representatives for the CTL
assessment committee discuss information learned from program reports with the university's
assessment committee. There was an RFI issued on February 6, 2008 by the University's
Information Technology Services unit to invite vendors to submit information about new
technologies that may meet university-wide accountability needs. The request for information
calls for a comprehensive academic assessment System that will enhance Academic Program
Planning, Tracking & Assessment and Academic student learning/outcomes assessment. Please
see the unit report for specific information regarding the evaluation of our current technology
and program report effectiveness.
Use of Data for Program Improvement
An examination of the assessment system's category, entitled program reports demonstrates how
the CTL regularly and systematically uses data to evaluate the efficacy of its courses, programs,
clinical experiences, and unit operations. Although faculty have been examining LiveText and
WEST E data quarterly, and providing evidence of monitoring these data through program
minutes and notes, an annual reporting system was approved by the CTL and implemented in
AY 2007/08 for the purpose of improving the unit's systematic analyses and reporting efforts.
Programs are now provided, immediately following summer quarter, graphic summaries and short
interpretations of both unit-wide and program specific candidate and post-graduate performance
data. The timeline will change after 2012, data will be available on the new CDMS.
The summaries include: a Standard Citation Analysis, LiveText Rubric Reports, Candidate
Success on Standards Across Courses or Dimensions, WEST B Trends, WEST E Trends, EBI
Teacher and Principal Trends, First and Third Year Teacher Trends, Dispositional Analyses, a
Final Student Teaching Evaluation LT Report, and Career Services Program Completer data. In
return, program coordinators are asked to examine these summaries, summarize their own program data, and share these summaries with their respective faculties to
facilitate discussions that ultimately culminate in responses to each set of summarized data. The
culminating responses are syntheses of those conversations, which become evidence that the unit
analyzes program data and performance data to initiate improvements where necessary.
Programs are given the entire fall quarter to edit or update their reports as necessary. At the
end of the spring quarter, program reports are locked and archived. At that time a final unit
report is also conducted in LiveText.
The primary purpose of the program reports is to create a professional culture in which evidence
and data are a regular part of faculty conversation, as well as to discretely demonstrate how the
CTL uses data to update courses, improve programs, and evaluate unit operations including the
assessment system. The latter is completed after all of the program reports have been submitted.
Each program report is read and a content analysis is conducted across all program reports.
The unit report is the last category of the Assessment System Graphic. The graphic depicts the
unit report as the culminating analysis and report, which is fed back to programs, CTL governing
committees, PEABs, and is open to the public for comment. PEAB minutes verify that data are
regularly shared and evaluated, which result in recommendations for program and unit
improvement. Please refer to the Unit Report category for details of the content analysis
findings. A public survey has been developed using Qualtrics. This survey provides the
academic community (candidates, faculty outside of the professional unit, and administrators),
the professional community, and interested public with an opportunity to comment in a
systematic way and to assess the data, summaries, programs, and unit reports published on the
web. As the graphic illustrates, the assessment system is an open process of continuous
improvement, which is closed looped, multilayered, comprehensive, efficient, reflective, and
now relational.
Comprehensive Data management System (CDMS)— The Next Generation
Central Washington University, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment (OREA) has designed a new relational database that focuses on individual students as they progress academically from a high school student to teacher. Currently in desktop version, the CDMS has over 5,600 candidate records. After we receive feedback from faculty and administrators during the Fall Quarter of 2012, we plan to place the CDMS within a new enterprise system being developed by the University's new Organizational Effectiveness Unit. This work has been supported by the University at the highest levels, because of the comprehensive aggregate analyses we have, to date produced, which demonstrates CWU's effectiveness in preparing the next generation of high quality teachers for our State's and Nation's workforce.
National and Washington State policymakers have called for fundamental changes to the system of educator preparation The OREA plans to conduct research on teacher effectiveness now that we have a good sized and growing data set and because Teacher Education is being challenged by the public for greater efficacy of its research, accountability, and reporting. Our first challenge to meet these increased demands is to ensure greater validity of our measurements and transparency of our results. Central Washington University in partnership with The Professional Educators Standards Board and the Washington Association of Colleges of Teacher Education have designed a taxonomy that will guide one portion of our data efforts. The partnership expects every preparation program in the State to have its own system for collecting and reporting candidate records. To ensure output comparability, the partnership will need all state programs to produce identical data inputs, both in the use of definitions and in the structural variables to be evaluated. The result of this work thus far, has been the design and implementation of a PESB annual Completer Table.
In preparation for the required Completer Table assignment, OREA has designed the new CDMS to furnish accurate and efficient internal and external data reporting. While the OREA staff and CTL faculty have successfully used a well-designed standards-based assessment system that reports aggregate candidate performances on State Tests and through LiveText for program preparation, the faculty have urged us in their annual reports to design a system that is user friendly and candidate based. Therefore, the new system now relates baseline candidates' performances before they enter our program, examine changes as they progress through our program, and associate what they learned - to what they do - during their careers as teachers. In addition, we are discovering the means necessary to access standardized exams scores of the students they teach. The CDMS will help us provide clearer evidence of what experiences result in better P-12 student learning.


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-ganon95- Blue/eiffel 65 remix
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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Pretty good
It's good but I think the bass could be brought out more. Otherwise it's perfect!
thanks, wish i could edit it but...cant =[
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
remixes of this are all over the place xD this one however, is one of my favourites :)
glad u like it better
Rated 4 / 5 stars
At first when i read the title, i thought "Oh no!"
But then as i listened to it, i kinda began to like it. I think that there should be more instruments, altho i can see why u left them out of it, as the beat is simple.
well this was an earlier beat, and my early stuff tended to be kinda simple
Rated 5 / 5 stars
:) wow
no squily voice WOO!!!
a great inprovement
i like the top hat you used


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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. has donated
$3.75 million to the Oklahoma Wildlife Commission to mitigate the loss of habitat for the lesser prairie chicken.
OG&E made the donation during the commission's meeting Wednesday. It will allow the commission to purchase up to 10,000 acres to set aside as habitat for the lesser prairie chicken in western Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Panhandle.
The lesser prairie chicken is a stocky ground-dwelling bird found in parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. But OG&E spokesman Paul Renfrow says some of its habitat is being lost to a wind farm and transmission lines the utility is building in western Oklahoma.
Renfrow says the donation will allow the commission to protect other habitat and enhance the bird's population.


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Rated 5 / 5 stars
THIS is old skool
you know ur way around an old skool beat man. of all the NG beats under the oldskool genre, THIS is the only one thats got some real ass shit in it. those synth's kick ass and the drums are fuckin TRUE, props man.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
tight ass fuckin beat!
i put down some lyrics on this let me know if you tryna hear it.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
sick ass beat
Fucking old school at its best. Reminded me of Natural Born Killa by NWA.
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shit goes hard
beat reminds me of the good 'ol days of real rap
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Fuckin' Beat reminds me of the Eazy E days.