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ISSUES OVER ENERGY DECOMPOSITION METHODOLOGIES: LASPEYRES OR LMDI? Jihyo Kim, Seoul National University, +82-2-880-8284, email@example.com Hwa-Young Sin (Kim), Seoul National University, +82-2-880-8284, firstname.lastname@example.com Eunnyeong Heo, Seoul National University, +82-2-880-8323, email@example.com Overview Energy index decomposition analysis is a methodology that decomposes the change of energy consumption level into production effect, structure effect, and intensity effect. It could be applied to energy demand and gas emission related to the use of energy, and many others. This analytic method has been used to conduct energy consumption analysis on manufacturing and industrial sectors to establish and evaluate the energy policies. Energy index decomposition methodologies could be divided into "the Laspeyres family" and "the LMDI(log mean Divisia index) family". There have been numerous studies and discussions surrounding these two index families. In an IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) publication, the IAEA recommended the use of IEA (International Energy Agency) model, which is constructed based on the Laspeyres index concept. Ang (2007) asserted that LMDI methods are preferable because of the interpretation of residual term. LMDI methods give perfect decompositions that do not leave a residual term contrary to Laspeyres index methods. However, perfect decomposition methods do not reflect a specific situation at a given time and it merely distributes the residual effect by allocating it to production, structural, and intensity effects. The decision for which decomposition concept should be selected as the international standard must be rooted in sound theoretical foundation and decided only after ample empirical studies. Our study starts from this question: can we say perfect decomposition methods are really superior to imperfect decomposition methods? This study decomposed the change of energy consumption level in Korean manufacturing sector from 1986 to 2007 applying five decomposition methods: LMDI Ⅰ , LMDI Ⅱ , Laspeyres index, Paasche index, and Fisher index. LMDI I and LMDI Ⅱ belong to "the LMDI family". Laspeyres, Paasche, and Fisher indices belong to "the Laspeyres family". We tested whether these methods satisfy the robust conditions based on the index theory and compared the results from each of the five methods. Methods Index decomposition method: LMDI Ⅰ , LMDI Ⅱ , Laspeyres, Paasche, Fisher (multiplicative method) Results 1) Analyses using the five decomposition methods yielded similar production, structural, and intensity effects. The results are shown in figures below. On average, total Korean manufacturing energy consumption increased 8.16% annually. There was a direct relationship between the production effect and the increase in energy consumption with the exception of the 1998 Korean financial crisis; however, structural and intensity effects did not show consistent relationships in terms of change in energy consumption level in Korea. The results indicate that on average, changes in production effect resulted in energy consumption increase of 8.36% annually. Changes in the structure effect resulted in a decrease of energy consumption by an average of 1.11 – 1.17% annually. Changes in the intensity effect caused an increase of 1.11 – 1.17% in energy consumption annually, on average. 2) Perfect decomposition methods, LMDI Ⅰ, LMDI Ⅱ and Fisher index have no residual term; however, Laspeyres and Paasche index methods do. This distinguishing feature can be clearly observed in our analysis during the latter half of the 1990s – during the Korean financial crisis. The following figure shows the residual terms of five decomposition methods. Conclusions In this study, we found that there is little difference in the results of five decomposition methods; however, during the time of Korean financial crisis, we observed Laspeyres and Paasche index decomposition methods produced comparatively significant residual effects. This implies that imperfect decomposition methods such as Laspeyres and Paasche index of "the Laspeyres family" shows and could explain other factors affecting energy consumption change – such as economic shock and instability (in the case of 1998 Korean financial crisis) – that cannot be explained by production, structural, and intensity effects. Moreover, perfect decomposition methods, such as LMDI I, LMDI II, and Fisher index, are no more than formulas that distribute residual terms over the production, structural, and intensity effects using proper weight. Therefore, although these perfect decomposition methods seem to provide accurate overall results, they do not take into account special circumstances that could affect overall energy consumption. The existing studies about decomposition methodologies suggested that perfect decomposition methods which do not leave a residual term are more desirable. Our study showed decomposition methods yield similar production, structural, and intensity effects whether these methods leave a residual term or not. It also showed interpretation of residual terms allow for a deeper understanding of the implications behind the numbers, which leads to understanding of energy consumption in more realistic terms and ultimately to better energy policies. References Ang, B. W. and N. Liu (2007): "Energy decomposition analysis: IEA model versus other methods," Energy Policy, Vol. 35, pp. 1426-1432. Ang, B. W. and F. L. Liu (2001): "A new energy decomposition methods: perfect in decomposition and consistent in aggregation," Energy, Vol. 26, pp. 537-548. Ang, B. W. and K. H. Choi (1997): "Decomposition of aggregate energy and gas emission intensities for industry: a refined Divisia index method," Energy Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 59-75. 3 Intelligent Well Technology: Status and Opportunities for Developing Marginal Reserves SPE Ang, B. W., F. L. Liu and H. S. Chung (2004): "A generalized Fisher index approach to energy decomposition analysis," Energy Economics, Vol. 26, pp. 757-763
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https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=CHART&v=1.0 CHART List https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=CHART CHART List Archives 2015-03-27T17:06:39Z Powered by L-Soft's LISTSERV mailing list manager http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-powered.asp http://www.lsoft.com/images/listserv_small.gif CHArt 2015 conference | The Fabrication of Art and Beyond https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;6280f26d.1503 *** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS ***
Deadline: Tuesday, 14 April 2015

The Fabrication of Art and Beyond: Making and Inventing in Digital Culture

CHArt 2015 conference, part of FABRICATION
Arts & Humanities Festival, King's College London, Strand
17 October 2015 (provisional)

Art intersects with fabrication. Art as a site of making has been drastically affected by digital and network technologies. The border between being online and offline, if one still exists, has become blurred. This has implications for the ways in which diverse elements are combined to create art. Yet, fabrication also means to devise or construct something new [...] 2015-03-27T15:29:42+00:00 Jeremy Pilcher https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;6280f26d.1503 Call for Submissions: The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;69eb624e.1503 Call for Submissions:

Special Edition: The Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities

Abstracts Due: April 15, 2015

Full Chapters Due: August 1, 2015

Submit Abstracts electronically via .doc, .txt or .pdf to:

Jennifer Guiliano

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meth·od·ol·o·gy

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noun

noun: methodology; plural noun: methodologies

1.

a system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity. [...] 2015-03-03T16:57:37-05:00 Jennifer Guiliano https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;69eb624e.1503 Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage | Publication opportunities https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;b5e6a609.1502 Contributions are invited for immediate and future peer-reviewed publication by Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage, www.cosch.info

COSCH is an interdisciplinary European network of experts in and users of the latest optical measuring techniques and imaging used in recording, examination and visualisation of artefacts. COSCH aims to enhance the existing practice and standards in 3D documentation, by promoting a better understanding of science, widening access and use of specialist technologies. [...] 2015-02-28T13:42:41+00:00 Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;b5e6a609.1502 FW: VRA's 33rd Annual Conference, March 11 - 14 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;13a3cd75.1501 With apologies for cross-posting, the early-bird booking deadline for this year's VRA conference in Denver is a week this Friday (6 February). For further details, please see the email below.

Best wishes,

Vicky Brown, Visual Resources Curator
History of Art Department, University of Oxford
Suite 9, Littlegate House
St Ebbes
Oxford OX1 1PT
UK

+44 (0)1865 286839
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The University of Oxford is a 10:10 University 2015-01-27T22:35:21+00:00 Victoria Brown https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;13a3cd75.1501 ARLIS Committee for Art & Design Archives, Copyright Study Day https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;c23f1fa6.1501 Keeping Within the Lines: Approaches to Copyright in Art and Design Archives

London Metropolitan Archives, London
Friday 13 March, 10.15am - 5pm

Organised by ARLIS/UK & Ireland, Committee for Art & Design Archives (CADA) in partnership with The National Archives and the 'Archiving the Arts' initiative.

A study day comprising presentations, panel discussions and a practical workshop, focusing on copyright and other legal issues in relation to the use of art and design archives. Expert speakers will explore the principles of copyright presented by current legislation and thinking, and discuss the issues, challenges and opportunities of using copyright-protected archive material [...] 2015-01-26T14:22:11+00:00 ARLIS Committee for Art & Design Archives https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;c23f1fa6.1501 New Digital Humanities film "Digital Knowledge Spaces" https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;57fed58.1501 Dear Sir or Madam, dear Colleagues,

The projects DARIAH-DE (https://de.dariah.eu<https://de.dariah.eu/>/) and TextGrid (http://www.textgrid.de<http://www.textgrid.de/>/) have just released a sequel to the first Digital Humanities film Virtual Research Worlds<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9XqXJMbc8> (2012) in an English and German version.

The Digital Humanities have established their place in the humanities and are inspiring new research questions, approaches and discoveries. [...] 2015-01-23T16:54:03+00:00 Bluemm, Mirjam https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;57fed58.1501 CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: International Journal for Digital Art History https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;9da15431.1501 Call for Manuscripts

The Digital Age has revolutionized economy, society and our private lives. For decades now, digitalization has also touched most branches of the humanities. With the rising importance of the so called Digital Humanities, Art History is about to change significantly. Since the slide library is irreversibly replaced by image databases, the fact that our media have turned digital opens up to new possibilities. Academic books and journals are increasingly accessed and published via internet. Data-driven approaches enable us to visualize large data-sets and big image data. Computer vision, gamification and citizen science spur new epistemic approaches. [...] 2015-01-08T11:08:55+01:00 DAH Journal https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;9da15431.1501 COSCH Session at CAA 2015 Siena | Call for Papers https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;962c2e60.1411 Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage: Interdisciplinary Connections

COSCH session at the CAA 2015 Conference in Siena

30 March-3 April 2015

http://caaconference.org/program/sessions/6d/

The COST Action 'Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage' invites papers and posters addressing key interdisciplinary questions - scientific and technological, theoretical and practical - concerning the development and use of optical measuring techniques and electronic imaging, applied to documentation and presentation of artefacts. The Digital Humanities [...] 2014-11-13T03:37:08+00:00 Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;962c2e60.1411 Heritage Skills Programme - Masterclass November 19th - Please Circulate https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;434c2538.1411 [cid:firstname.lastname@example.com]
Research Institute For Arts and Humanities
Heritage Skills Programme

Don't miss the upcoming masterclass

'Careers in Museums:
Volunteering, Engagement, Participation and Learning Programmes '

Loveday Williams
Learning and Participation Officer of the National Waterfront Museum

Venue: 'Faraday H' Room, Swansea University
19 November 10 - 11am

The session will be informal and will offer a chance to pick the brains of an experienced working professional and to ask questions and gain advice. [...] 2014-11-12T15:45:01+00:00 Spiller K. https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;434c2538.1411 FW: Heritage Skills - Masterclass November 19th - Book Your Place https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;7957140d.1411 Please Circulate. Thank You.

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Heritage Skills Programme

Don't miss the upcoming masterclass

Focused on: Enhancing Employability - Career Development - Applying Education and Skills in the Work Place

'Careers in Museums:
Volunteering, Engagement, Participation and Learning Programmes '

Loveday Williams
Learning and Participation Officer of the National Waterfront Museum

Venue: 'Faraday H' Room, Swansea University
19 November 10 - 11am [...] 2014-11-06T17:10:23+00:00 Spiller K. https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;7957140d.1411 Visual Resources Association membership, 2015 conference program, and travel awards https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;3e4b5caa.1410 Dear colleagues,

With apologies for potential cross-posting, please find below a missive from the VRA (Visual Resources Association), with information about membership, their annual conference and travel awards scheme (and do look out for a separate mailing to follow regarding the latter).

With very best wishes,

Vicky

Vicky Brown, Visual Resources Curator
History of Art Department
University of Oxford
Suite 9, Littlegate House
St Ebbes
Oxford OX1 1PT
UK [...] 2014-10-23T11:54:19+00:00 Victoria Brown https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;3e4b5caa.1410 Conformity, Process and Deviation: Digital Arts as 'Outsider' - London, 18 October 2014 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;d9dd50ad.1409 Provisional programme, abstracts and online booking are now available:

CHArt'14 | 28th Conference of Computers and the History of Art
Part of the King's College London UNDERGROUND Arts & Humanities Festival<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahfest/index.aspx>
Saturday, 18 October 2014

Provisional programme and booking info http://tinyurl.com/CHArt-2014
Keynote: Douglas Dodds, V&A, London, UK
Abstracts http://www.chart.ac.uk/chart2014/abstracts/index.html

-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 2014-09-30T09:00:16+00:00 Trish.Cashen https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;d9dd50ad.1409 VRA 33 Conference proposal deadline: July 3rd https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;5047bc3b.1406 Dear colleagues,

With apologies for cross-posting, please see below a reminder of the forthcoming deadline for the call for proposals for next year's Visual Resources Association conference taking place in Denver, CO, USA.

With very best wishes,

Vicky

Vicky Brown, Visual Resources Curator
History of Art Department, University of Oxford
Suite 9, Littlegate House
St Ebbes
Oxford OX1 1PT
UK [...] 2014-06-27T12:38:47+01:00 Vicky Brown https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;5047bc3b.1406 Reminder: Register for EVA London 2014 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;f59b3f41.1406 [image: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts]

*EVA London 2014*
 (next month!)

*Tuesday 8th July – **Thursday 10th July 2014*
Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA
www.eva-london.org

* Register online: https://events.bcs.org/book/1017/
<https://events.bcs.org/book/1017/> Full conference programme HERE IT IS:
<http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2014/programme/programme> Seeing
music and performance; Electronic art; Imaging technology; Visualising the
body; Communities and the digital; Visualising landscapes; EU project
workshops; Research Workshop;
<http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2014/programme/research-workshop> and
much more <http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2014/programme/programme>.
Prizes
<http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2014/eva-london-2014/prizes>Prizes
for the best paper and the best demo will be selected by popular vote.
Ashgate are again sponsoring a prize for the best paper and Imperica
digital arts magazine [...] 2014-06-09T11:23:05+01:00 Eleanor Lisney https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;f59b3f41.1406 Digital Heritage 2014, University of York, UK, 12 July 2014 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;3c4a82a1.1406 The Centre for Digital Heritage at the University of York are pleased to
announce that registration for Digital Heritage 2014 is now open.

The conference will be held at the University of York on the 12th of July
and the theme this year is 'Digital Communities in Action'. the programme features a range of exciting papers from across the academic and professional sectors. [...] 2014-06-06T07:10:17+00:00 Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;3c4a82a1.1406 The State of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage, Vienna, Nov. 3-5, 2014 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;b8e52770.1406 SPECIAL CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION AT CHNT, Vienna, Nov. 3-5, 2014 "The State of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage in the Age of Augmented Reality, Xbox Kinect, UAVs, and the Oculus Rift" The purpose of this session is to take stock of the current state of the art of 3D modeling of cultural heritage objects of all scales (from a vase or statue, to a building or an entire landscape). It seems particularly opportune to do so in light of the dramatically lower costs of devices for 3D data capture and display. Papers fitting one or more of the following [...] 2014-06-06T07:06:15+00:00 Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;b8e52770.1406 Extended CfP | CHArt conference @ King's College London Arts & Humanties Festival, 18th Oct 2014 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;fe05f6a8.1405 *** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS ***
Extended deadline: Friday, 30 May 2014

Conformity, Process and Deviation: Digital Arts as 'Outsider'

CHArt 2014 conference, part of the UNDERGROUND
Arts & Humanities Festival, King's College London, Strand
Saturday, 18 October 2014

Digital engagement with art is thriving. Much of it is actively subversive of the traditional frameworks that enable art to be created and responded to – whether casually or professionally. This subversion takes various forms, including notions of value, uniqueness, fixity and location. The CHArt 2014 Conference wishes to explore the role of digital technologies in the underground creation, display, [...] 2014-05-24T20:00:09+00:00 Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;fe05f6a8.1405 LAST CFP ARTS,DESIGN & VIRTUAL WORLDS 2014 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;525709c0.1405 [Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward it to interested candidates.]

Due to many requests from authors, the Abstract & Paper submission deadline has been extended.

New deadline is 8 June 2014 (strict final deadline). 2014-05-21T17:34:03+01:00 Gianluca Mura https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;525709c0.1405 Creative Regeneration - Rethinking Our Built Heritage, Swansea University May 29 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk:443/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CHART;f78dc48b.1405 Please circulate!

Thanks and best wishes,

Kate

Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities

'Creative Regeneration - Rethinking Our Built Heritage'

Ben Reynolds, Director

Trilein Ltd.

2-3pm, May 29 2014

SURF Room, Fulton House,

Swansea University

This talk will consider the regeneration of our built environment and
heritage, presented by Ben Reynolds, of Trilein Ltd, Urban and Community
Regeneration Consultants.

Everyone Welcome

To book a place please email Kate Spiller, email@example.com
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With great enthusiasm we share our most currently developed excellence,
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All posts in Global Development and Population
August 15, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
I almost always ask grantees what's missing from their ecosystem. Understandably, they look at me blankly. Then I explain: What could other organizations do that would make your work have greater impact? No one organization can do it all, so what else should we support to complement your efforts?
It turns out this is a hard question for most people to answer. Everyone recognizes that creating positive social change takes varied skills and strategies, but people are focused almost exclusively on their own organization. Mostly, they want to expand the scope and scale of their own activities. It's tough to endorse funding others when their own organizations never seem to have enough.
If you ask researchers what's needed, for example, you often get a list of the research projects they themselves would like to tackle with available household survey data, rather than a wish list of types of data that would permit them to answer core questions with more precision and fewer assumptions, if only others were funded to collect and share it. If you ask advocates what would make it more likely for their work to make a difference in real-world policy, you usually get ideas about larger and more elaborate campaigns that their own organizations could undertake, rather than suggestions about funding more relevant research or enhancing the media's ability to understand and communicate about their field. Organizations delivering health services or educating kids are more likely to highlight the need to cover larger populations instead of emphasizing the value of investments in new products, financing arrangements, quality certification systems, or the development of a stronger evidence base.
The ecosystem or field-level view is precisely what we try to have when we're thinking about grant making. We can make the case for supporting a given organization not only because of its intrinsic importance or brilliance, but because it plays a distinctive role: the impartial source of cutting-edge analysis, the edgy advocate, the trusted insider. Few things make us happier than seeing different organizations we support spontaneously working together toward a common end, because it's validation that we guessed right about the complementary nature of the work. And we are much, much more likely to make the right guesses—and contribute in the most high-impact ways—when we get advice from the trenches.
So, what's missing from your ecosystem?
Discuss »
August 13, 2014 — By Dana Schmidt
This week we released a film called Every Child Counts (And Reads): Measuring Learning for All (there's also an abbreviated version and the French version, if you're interested), which explores an innovative approach for measuring what children have learned and making it matter to parents and policymakers alike.
Three years ago I was in rural India directly participating in one of these surveys in the almost unbearable heat of summer. I was with two Indian colleagues who were hard at work mapping a village in Uttar Pradesh under the direction of the village headman. We were squatting in the shade but there was no escaping the hot, humid air.. A crowd formed around us as my colleagues sketched the village's different neighborhoods on the pavement with chalk. The crowd moved quickly from bystanders to participants, offering advice with hand gestures and rapid Hindi—"No, no, the school is across the road from the well, not next to it!" Or at least that's what I imagined them saying. My Hindi was—still is— next to nonexistent, but there was no mistaking the interest they took in us and our map.
Eventually the villagers asked us why we were there. Why were we drawing a map of the village? What had we come here to do? My colleague explained that we were doing a survey. We wanted to see if the children of this village could read.
That day was actually a dress rehearsal for a much larger survey. My colleagues were preparing for the Annual Status of Education Report, or ASER (pronounced ah-sir) for short. ASER means "impact" in Hindi and is aptly named since the goal of the survey is to see what impact education is having.
This year, it's likely that more children will finish elementary school than ever before. This is not just because there are more fifth graders in the world than ever before. It is also because today most children go to school, no matter where in the world they were born. In an extraordinarily short amount of time the world has managed to make the opportunity to go to school nearly universal.
But what about the opportunity to learn?
For a long time people were so focused on counting whether or not children were attending schools that they did little accounting for how much learning was going on. ASER is an effort to address that gap. So are similar surveys like Uwezo in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, Bèekunko in Mali, Jàngandoo in Senegal, and ASER Pakistan. Collectively these efforts assess over one million children, every year, in their homes. As my colleague Rukmini Banerji, Director of ASER, points out, the surveys help "demystify learning for mothers, fathers and family members—especially those who are not literate or do not have much schooling—and make it possible to see what learning looks like." The findings show that a mere half of fifth graders in India and Pakistan can read, and a mere 20% of fourth graders in Mali can subtract. This has put pressure on governments to place due attention not only on whether or not children finish school, but whether or not they leave with the skills they need to thrive.
To complement the video released this week, the photo essay below explores these assessments in progress, as captured during that sweaty summer day in Utter Pradesh and other visits to the field.
August 11, 2014 — By Pat Scheid
Despite the growing number of children in developing countries that are attending school, they are not reaching the levels of numeracy and literacy that they should. Some have called this a "learning crisis." According to Rakesh Rajani, Head of Twaweza, previously "it [was] very hard to make that case and get policymakers to pay attention because we didn't have data, we didn't have evidence." But now we do.
Now, civil society organizations across the world from East Africa to Southeast Asia are empowering communities to collect and use this data to demand better results for their children through citizen-led assessments. In eight countries, these groups are conducting household surveys to better measure all children's learning, regardless of their school status.
The video below, produced by Made in Africa TV in Tanzania, describes the program and illustrates both the need for collecting household-level data on children's learning, as well as the opportunities for better policies and action presented by this innovative approach.
ASER has more information about citizen-led assessments on their website.
August 8, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
It's easy to come up with reasons not to evaluate the impact of a program: We don't have enough money. There's no time to collect baseline data because we've got to get the program up and running. The pathways from what we're doing to impact are so complex we can't trace causation. It's unethical to withhold this program from people, even if by doing so we'd be able to compare the experience of participants with non-participants and estimate the program's net impact.
Over the years, I've tried, along with others, to overcome these excuses because they stand in the way of learning how to use precious dollars to do the greatest good.
But while there are many bad reasons to avoid an evaluation, there is one very good reason, and it's not recognized often enough: If the findings from the evaluation won't make a difference, don't do it.
Here's the set of questions that together can help us all figure out if an evaluation might make a difference:
What are the decisions that the findings from the evaluation could inform? Sometimes these have to do with renewing or increasing funding for the program, and sometimes they have to do with program design or organization. These future decisions should drive the evaluation questions. If no one can articulate what decisions will be made, it's time to question whether an evaluation is worth it.
Are those decisions going to be based on evidence about program effectiveness? Funders have diverse motivations. Not all of those have to do with whether a program is achieving its stated goals. If a program is going to be expanded or killed regardless of what the data say, then think hard about the value of doing an evaluation at all—or at least make sure it's done so transparently that decision makers have a hard time ignoring the facts.
When are those decisions going to be made? Far too often, the evaluation is started so late or will take so long that the findings will be available only after funding and other decisions have been made. The evaluation report ends up as an awkward afterthought.
Can the evaluation change anyone's mind? Both funders and implementers usually have strong views about the effectiveness of a program based on experience, observation, or gut feelings. Sometimes the label "success" or "failure" has already been applied. If the data and methods for the evaluation are not strong enough to potentially change the minds of decisionmakers, what's the point? Either invest in more robust methods or drop the ceremony of evaluation altogether.
If these questions were applied systematically and early in program design and implementation, we'd have more good and useful evaluations—ones that are well-timed and use appropriate methods. We'd have better clarity about the purpose of the evaluations we conduct. The timing and methods would match the needs of the decision makers, and greater transparency could mitigate against political influences. At the same time, we'd end up with fewer evaluations that are purely symbolic.
Can evaluations lead to better use of money? Yes. Will they if the conditions are not right? Absolutely not.
August 1, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
The first week of August is usually sleepy in Washington, DC, as Members of Congress head back home and staff collapse from exhaustion. The think tank and lobbying crowd slow down, too, storing up energy for whatever September might bring.
This year, though, it's a whole different story. Next week more than 40 African heads of state and their entourages are expected to converge on downtown DC for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, convened by President Obama. Can you say "motorcade mayhem"?
The three-day event has been billed as "Investing in the Next Generation"—a worthy if challenging imperative for leaders who are some of the oldest in the world. Among the expected attendees are President Paul Biya of Cameroon (80), President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia (78), President Jacob Zuma of South Africa (72), President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea (72), and President Yoweri Musveni of Uganda (69)—all leaders of countries where more than half the population is younger than 21 years old. In other words, most citizens in those countries are the age of the presidents' great-grandchildren.
Almost certainly, someone will bring up the fact that 43 percent of Africans are under age 15, which implies both the threat of restive youth in the streets and the potential of a young workforce for decades to come. It's this hoped-for economic boost that will likely get the most play. (What leader wants to think about street protests when they're out of the country?) In fact, if you attend both the official and side events, you can keep yourself occupied counting the number of times you hear "demographic dividend" or "demographic bonus."
A demographic dividend is not, contrary to some suggestions, an automatic result of having a large number of productive young people. It's a term coined to describe what can happen during the 20- to 30-year window following a population boom, when fertility rates fall. This creates a "bulge" in the population, where there are fewer older people (due to shorter life expectancies) and fewer younger people (due to reduced fertility rates). As the bulge reaches productive age, a country can benefit from having a large share of the population (potentially) contributing to economic growth through their own productivity, consumption, and savings. As that "potentially" indicates, though, realizing the benefits of a demographic shift depends on much more than youth; it also depends on wise policies. Three make a particular difference.
First, you only get a chance at a demographic dividend if fertility rates decline rapidly following a period of high birth rates. That's what makes the difference between just a young population—like the ones that virtually all African countries now have—and the set-up for a demographic dividend.
How to make that happen? Fertility rates drop when investments are made in good education, family planning and other health services, and in opening economic opportunities for women. In most African countries, there is pent-up demand for family planning services that has yet to be met—that's a good place to start.
Second, you have to focus on work for young people. If countries with a youth bulge are plagued by high unemployment or underemployment, that's a recipe for trouble when those youth reach productive age. This may mean economic diversification to labor-intensive sectors, as well as investment in education and training programs that focus on the needs of the economy. This also means countries should invest in greater employment opportunities for women, who contribute to the economy and, when they earn income outside the home, tend to have fewer kids.
Third, you've got to keep your eye on policies that support economic growth, including maintaining macroeconomic stability, keeping trading relationships going, and providing opportunities for saving. This is the part that, by now, is the bread-and-butter of many economic policymakers in the region.
Next week, a young president from an aging country will talk with old presidents from youthful countries. Let's see if they can, together, look at the bottom of Africa's population pyramid—the young people—and realize the potential within.
July 25, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
A commonly voiced critique of foundations is that our goals and strategies are hard to understand. Fair enough. Many of us could do a better job of explaining ourselves.
Within the Global Development and Population Program, we've certainly found it difficult to describe our strategies in compelling and concise ways. Each line of grantmaking has its own logic, specific to the subject matter as well as to the niche we believe can fill within a community of nonprofits, official agencies, and other private funders. We can and do write down the theories of change underlying our grant choices, but even with the presentational polish—Look! Boxes and arrows!—these are less like architectural drawings and more like sketches roughed out in the midst of construction. Our written strategy documents, let alone the text on our website, rarely give a full feel for what we do or how we think about it.
The challenges we face are not unique to foundations. They're shared by virtually everyone whose work involves any degree of abstraction. Once one gets beyond an enterprise that can be described as, "We buy textbooks for schools in poor communities" or "We vaccinate children," you're in the land of abstraction – and it's tricky terrain to navigate with bullet points. Just try to put "women's economic empowerment" or "transparency and accountability" into plain language.
This problem is compounded when a foundation or any other organization covers a broad scope of subject matter. The unifying thread can seem banal—"we make information available to improve lives" —and understanding the strategy, activities, and intended outcomes requires real time and effort. We certainly don't expect to figure out the strategies underlying our grantees' work just from reading the documents available on their websites.
So what to do? We rely on that most old-fashioned form of communication: conversation. To understand the strategy of a grantee or prospective grantee organization, we ask questions—a lot of them. What are you trying to do in five years, two years, next year? Whose actions are you seeking to change? Why do you think that's possible? How do you know you're heading in the right direction? What do you see as the major obstacles? Where do you see the overall field heading? And those are just the warm-up—there are many more. In hearing the answers to all those questions we start to understand the thought processes behind a nuanced and dynamic strategy. It is so much more satisfying than reading any strategic plan or website copy, no matter how well written.
We'd be happy to have the tables turned on us, but honestly it just doesn't happen very often. While we systematically consult with experts, including current and potential grantees, as we're developing new strategies, typical conversations with grantees and grant-seekers have a different feel. In part because of the intrinsic power dynamics of funder-grantee relationships, and in part because prospective grantees often want to hear only enough about our strategy to ascertain whether their work is a fit for it, we just don't get that many questions about our strategies during those conversations—and no, "When is the proposal due?" doesn't count.
When current or prospective grantees do inquire about our strategic direction, they seem quite satisfied to hear a superficial answer. We almost never see a quizzical look, let alone hear questions like, "When you talk about policies that affect women's economic empowerment, are you thinking about active labor market policies like job training, or macroeconomic policies that expand growth in sectors that tend to employ women?" It's those sorts of questions that uncover the thinking behind the words, and help explain why we might fund one project or organization and not another.
The cost of having a conversation where only one side is asking questions is high. We're not getting enough feedback on whether our strategies makes sense to others with different perspectives and experience. In the absence of specifics, people may spend time proposing work that we're unlikely to fund. We get comments through anonymized surveys that we are opaque, and we spend hours writing and rewriting website text that in the end doesn't clarify much at all.
Am I asking for an inquisition in every conversation? No. But I am suggesting that there is only one way to truly understand why we do what we do: Ask.
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July 21, 2014 — By Helena Choi
The summer season means a steady stream of Hollywood blockbuster premieres. Many of these will be in the form of sequels—there are over 20 planned for 2014, including Spiderman 2, Transformers 4, and 22 Jump Street. Evidently, past success at the box office is indicative of future returns; so why not bet on the sure thing instead of taking risks on new ventures?
With grant-making too, past success is a big factor in deciding whether to continue investing in an organization or a project. But the metrics we have to measure success often aren't as clear as box office sales. Evaluations can be a useful tool to assess how well things are going (or not), and how future investments should be directed. In Hollywood speak: should we greenlight the sequel, and if yes, what plot line should it follow?
Since 2005, the Hewlett Foundation has invested more than $25 million in the Population and Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov), a body of research on the relationship between population dynamics and micro- and macroeconomic outcomes. As part of the initiative, researchers looked at the effects of obstetric complications on long term economic and social well-being of women and their families in Burkina Faso, and estimated the quantitative impact of reductions in fertility on a country's long-term output per capita, to take just two examples. The funding provided by the Hewlett Foundation stimulated another $10 million of support for the Initiative from several European research councils and the World Bank, and the sheer amount of research undertaken to date is impressive: PopPov has supported 56 doctoral fellows and 61 research projects, which have resulted in 260 papers. About 70 of these have been published in peer-reviewed journals, and another 30 are in pre-publication review.
Numbers alone can't truly measure the impact of the initiative, of course. The primary objective of PopPov was to advance and re-energize the field of economic demography, which had lost some of its earlier salience in social science research and in international development policy debates. The initiative was premised on the idea that attracting top talent and supporting cutting-edge research on population and economic development would yield compelling results that could help policymakers, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, to make informed policy decisions. In late 2012, we decided to evaluate PopPov in order to draw some summative lessons from our investment in the initiative, and selected the RAND Corporation to conduct the evaluation through an RFP process.
The evaluation was designed to help guide decisions about the PopPov network, as well as future investments in other policy-relevant research. The evaluation focused on four questions: 1) To what extent did PopPov strengthen the field of economic demography? 2) What contribution has PopPov made to the evidence base? 3) To what extent did PopPov yield policy-relevant research? And 4) How did the design and implementation of PopPov affect outcomes? The final evaluation report, completed in 2014, is based on document review, key informant interviews with nearly 100 individuals, and an online survey of research grant recipients.
The report provides a comprehensive summary of the PopPov network, insightful observations about the four questions above, and valuable recommendations about the various aspects of PopPov. The Hewlett Foundation will likely pursue a more focused research agenda in the future. Based on the strategic objectives of the Global Development and Population Program, we plan to prioritize recommendations in the three areas below. The Hewlett Foundation Board approved a renewal grant to the Population Reference Bureau, the Secretariat for PopPov, at its meeting last week to help carry out these activities.
July 18, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
We award grants to organizations, but it's people who have the ideas and who do the work. So when the people we've come to depend on retire or move to new opportunities, we can't help but wonder what the change will bring. That is never truer than when the chief executive departs, and recruiting for his or her successor begins.
We've seen that a lot recently. Among the organizations in our portfolio that have gone through leadership searches in the past year are the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, the Population Council, the Guttmacher Institute, and the Population Reference Bureau. I'm sure 2015 will bring more—every year does.
Leadership transitions are often filled with stress and uncertainty, but they can also afford opportunities to strengthen the relationship between a nonprofit organization and its funders. Here's how:
Have an answer when we ask about a succession plan. A standard question we ask, particularly when working with a nonprofit organization that is led by its founder, is whether there's a succession plan. What's going to happen when the person with the initial vision moves on? Who's responsible for recruiting a new leader and how will it happen? Who will keep the organization running in the interim? The more forethought the board has put into this, the more likely it is that the disruption inherent in such transitions will be minimal.
Make sure there are no surprises. Absent extenuating circumstances, we expect to be informed about the departure of a chief executive very soon after staff and before the public. Ditto for information about a successful recruitment. This is not the kind of news funders should hear second-hand.
Give us a chance to weigh in. Funders have a lot to contribute when a search gets underway. We don't just know the organization itself, but we see how it fits into the broader ecosystem of similar organizations. On good days, we also might have some smart things to say about where the field is going, or could go. This is valuable for developing a position description. Even better, with a field-wide view, we know some of the rising stars who might be ready to stretch into a leadership role.
Let us see how the leadership team is stepping up. Many of the best organizations depend on a leadership team, not just a single person, to set and maintain a strategic direction. It's often during times of leadership transition that we get a picture of how well the folks who are in charge of operations, finance, and other key functions work, individually and as a team.
Offer mutual commitment. Both parties to the funder-grantee relationship can, if they choose, reduce the uncertainty by making commitments that transcend a specific hiring decision. The nonprofit's board, for example, can articulate the strategic questions they want any incoming leader to think through. This gives us confidence that the board is taking its role seriously, an indicator of a healthy institution. For our part, we are sometimes able to arrange the timing of grant decisions and the duration of funding so that a new chief executive has some time to settle in before facing a new round of fundraising. (The earlier we know about pending transitions, the easier it is for us to do this.) Occasionally, we can also commit new, just-in-time money for the leadership search itself, or for a strategic planning process that might prove valuable to an organization's new head.
Like all funders, we have a big stake in the health, productivity, and success of the organizations we're able to support—regardless of who is at the helm. A leadership transition can be a time for us to gain even more confidence that we've placed a smart bet.
July 10, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
I'm starting to worry about post-post-2015.
In the world of global development, a remarkable amount of intellectual energy is being expended trying to influence the post-2015 development agenda, the set of goals to be agreed by the member states of the United Nations in September 2015. Those goals are seen as important because their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, affected how donors and national governments allocated money. They also stimulated policy change at national level. For instance, governments in East Africa eliminated school fees to dramatically increase primary school enrollment. So a lot of people are paying attention because they think a lot of more powerful people will pay attention.
Deliberations leading up to the final agreement of a post-2015 framework, a classic "action-forcing event," have focused attention on truly fundamental questions: Should international goals apply to all countries, rich and poor? How can the perspectives of resource-poor countries and people be reflected in the goals? How can social and economic development aims be reconciled with environmental limits? What matters more: the right orientation in health, education and agriculture, or governments that can effectively respond to citizens' needs and wants? What's the relationship between how we collect data and how we design inclusive social policy? How much should donor nations shoulder the responsibility for paying to progress toward ambitious targets?
It's a rich discussion about poverty and inequality, problems and solutions. It is also a surprisingly inclusive discussion, informed by many local and national consultations, public opinion polling, and innovative work by Southern think tanks. To get a flavor for the quantity and quality of the commentary, just tune in to the Overseas Development Institute's Post2015.org website, which serves as a hub for a grand (and not bland) conversation.
That international conversation – in meetings, blogs, research papers, politicians' speeches and more – has been novel not just in its depth and breadth, but also in the extent to which people interested in one set of issues have listened to others. Everyone paying attention to the construction of the post-2015 development agenda knows there will be tradeoffs and negotiations; we all are conscious that broad-based coalitions will gain more purchase than single-issue advocates. As a consequence, we all have an incentive to listen to and understand what people with different agendas and perspectives are saying. We're even seeing a growing appreciation of how different issues – health, water, climate – interact with each other.
This is why I'm starting to worry about post-post-2015. Once the goals are agreed, there will be a tremendous temptation to return to whatever silos we crawled out of. Health people may stop paying attention to gender or inequality people, those working on reducing poverty may cease being interested in climate change, and progress toward defining problems shared across all countries may fade away. This would be a major loss.
Tell me: Is there a way to keep the dynamic post-2015 conversation going in the post-post-2015 era?
July 15, 2014 — By Jon Jeter
The girl outside a remote rural school in South Asia is as sharp and vivid in Chloe O'Gara's mind as a Polaroid image: thin as a rail, eyes big, forehead crunched in concentration, leaning against the glassless window frame of a sweltering, tin-roofed schoolhouse. She stared intently at the chalkboard and strained to hear the teacher. One young sibling was hoisted on her hip, the other orbited her like a giddy, pint-sized planet.
"She was maybe 9 or 10," said O'Gara, "right on the edge of puberty. And I will never forget that girl, doing her very best, her very best, to learn to read while all this other stuff was going on around her. Judging from her muttered words, she read better than most other kids who were actually in the classroom, had pencils in their hands and paper to touch and look at. She was so hungry to learn, but life had other plans for her."
Of all the revelations that O'Gara has unspooled in a career that's spanned three decades, four continents and nearly 60 countries, none is as revolutionary—nor as simple—as this:
Child care can change the world.
O'Gara left the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation July 1 after four years as a program officer in the Global Development and Population Program. Since 2012, she had managed the program's investments in International Women's Economic Empowerment, a grants portfolio created by Program Director Ruth Levine and O'Gara to address the increasingly pivotal role that women play in their economies, at both micro and macro levels.
There is a lot about women's work that is simply unknown but what is clear, O'Gara says, "is that every economy in the world has an enormous donated workforce" like the girl at the schoolhouse. The best data suggests that if all unpaid domestic work—of which the biggest chunk is child care—were compensated, it would account for as much as a third of a country's national income.
Valuing child care as a part of overall production would trigger a domino effect, the result of which would almost certainly be a model for broad-based personal and economic development. Take the example of the little girl yet again: Relieving her of her child care responsibilities would surely augment her education, providing her with better employment opportunities down the road. Her younger brothers and sisters would also fare better. For children whose mothers work, verbal and social skills can be dramatically enhanced by interaction with other children their age and trained childcare workers in a safe setting.
More immediately, though, are the expanded opportunities that would be available to the little girl's mother. "Working is not a choice for most people around the world," O'Gara said. "And we know that a third of women raising children today are single parents. So, if mom has to work, who is going to take care of the kids? One of the things that we do have evidence of is that women pursue better jobs when they have reliable child care because they know that they have someone to watch the kids when their child gets sick. Child care even makes women better entrepreneurs because they are better able to work the hours necessary to make their small business a success."
O'Gara raised three daughters of her own while working many years both in the field and in Washington in the international development world, most notably for the nonprofit organization Save the Children. She is leaving the Foundation before her eight-year term limit to spend more time with her family.
In her absence, Levine will manage the Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative, which seeks to fill key gaps in data about women's work and the factors that facilitate or impede it. This, in turn, enables governments to target economic policies so they expand and improve opportunities for women to earn a living and control the assets they have.
"Everyone wants women to become more active in their local economies," said O'Gara, "but if they become active at the expense of their children's development, you're really just perpetuating this global underclass.
And that does none of us any good."


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Hear Willie Nelson read the historic Travis Letter in 1968
Today is the 179th anniversary of William B. Travis writing his famous letter to the citizens of Texas from inside the walls of the Alamo as it was under siege by the Mexican army commanded by Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. This wasn't Travis' last letter from the Alamo as he would write a […] [Read More]
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I have dinner guests coming tonight, and had planned to serve lamb. Somehow it didn't dawn on me that it's Friday and Lent and my guests aren't Catholic. I've switched to Sea Bass (grocery store willing), but can't decide how to serve it - sauce, etc. Any favorites you can recommend? The dinner is to celebrate an engagement, so I'd like to make it special.
Thanks in advance!
The only way I have ever cooked Chilean Sea Bass (is that what you have?) is to mix equal parts of mayonaise, Dijon mustard and horseradish together and spread over the fish. Roast at 500 (or 450 in my house because my smoke alarm doesn't like 500) for 20 minutes. At the last minute the topping gets dark and makes a nice crust. My Swedish friends who eat a lot of fish said it was the best fish they ever had.
1/2 tsp. pure saffron threads
1/4 cup white wine
2 cloves garlic, mashed to a paste with a fork
1/4 cup EV olive oil
1 tsp. grated fresh orange peel
2 Tbs. fresh orange juice
Pound the saffron with a little heated white wine to extract the flavor. Mix all the ingredients together and let sit 15 minutes before using. Marinate shrimp or lean fish 30 minutes, turning once, then grill or broil.
I did find the Chilean Sea Bass, and ended up making a tomato-herb sauce and buerre blanc. Went over well despite my over-cooking the fish.
Both ideas above sound great - I bought way too much fish for the group, so have extra and will have to try both. The combination of saffron and orange sounds excellent (Ok, saffron and anything sounds good to me - but orange I wouldn't have ever thought of). Thanks!


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — A new Indiana law prevented an estimated $57 million property tax increase on Hoosier farmers from going into effect March 1. Under the new law, a recent change in farmland assessment will be delayed until further study in conjunction with Purdue University College of Agriculture.
Passed unanimously by both the Indiana House and Senate, SEA 319 was the first piece of legislation signed into law by Gov. Mike Pence. Sponsored by Sen. Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg), the bill was fast-tracked through both houses.
"Indiana is agriculture, and Lt. Gov. (Sue) Ellspermann and I appreciate the General Assembly's bipartisan effort to quickly pass this critical piece of legislation to help Hoosier farmers," Pence said.
The law addresses an increase in the state's soil productivity factor, which is one component in the complex calculation used to assess property tax. The Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF), which oversees state property tax assessment, had updated a 30-year-old formula, which led to the change.
The proposed new factors used for farmland assessment in Indiana could have resulted in a 25 percent average increase in property tax, according to the Indiana Legislative Services Agency (LSA), which provides fiscal analysis for the General Assembly.
Pence signed the bill, in part, because he wants Indiana farmers to have a competitive tax structure, said Kara Brooks, press secretary for Pence.
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Indiana Farm Bureau (IFB) backed SEA 319, calling it a "fix" for what it deemed "unreasonable increases in the state's soil productivity factor.
"This is a proud and momentous day for both Governor Pence and Indiana Farm Bureau. His signature on this legislation, his very first, gives some degree of tax certainty to Hoosier farmers for another year," said IFB President Don Villwock.
"And, unlike the gridlock we have become accustomed to in our nation's capital, we are proud of the Indiana General Assembly for putting politics aside in favor of helping Indiana agriculture."
Some media have reported this law amounts to a tax break or corporate welfare for farmers, said Andy Dietrick, director of IFB public relations. He said that is a misrepresentation. "It is a legislative fix for a regulatory overreach of a state agency," he opined.
Larry DeBoer, ag economist at Purdue, said the DLGF was doing its job by updating the old formula, which hadn't been done since 1980, but he believes a mistake was made in the process. DeBoer is also a consultant to the LSA, which analyzed the economic impact of the new soil factors.
As the new law dictates, the DLGF will now work with Purdue's experts to find new factors based on agronomic research. "If it's done right, the new factors won't be that different from the ones we have," he said.
Pence believes Purdue's input will be invaluable to the process. "Governor Pence believes strongly that soil productivity factors should be developed in consultation with the trusted, homegrown expertise of Purdue University and that the public have a chance to weigh in on the process," Brooks stated.
What are soil factors?
Soil productivity factors measure properties of soil that affect corn yields, such as moisture-holding capacity and organic matter content, DeBoer said. Property tax assessment includes various components, including a base rate per acre.
Every farmer pays the same base rate; however, not all acreage is equally valuable. Therefore, the soil properties index attempts to address those differences, DeBoer said. The current index is a range from 0.5-1.28.
For properties deemed least profitable, a value of 0.5 is assigned.
According to the current system, the highest soil factor is 1.28. The new factors had increased the highest value to 1.66, raising the average soil factor of Hoosier farmland from 0.95 to 1.2. That would have resulted in the vast majority of farmers paying more taxes, DeBoer said.
In the past 30 years, productivity on Indiana farmland has increased. The base rate takes rising corn yield into account, but so does the soil properties index, he explained. His concern is while farmers may owe more taxes, they should not be paying twice on yield.
"Farmers should pay more, but they shouldn't pay twice. I think most people would agree with that," DeBoer said.
With rising base rates per acre, farmers are paying more. The base rate for taxes in 2013 is $1,630, up from $1,500 for 2012 and $880 for 2007. The base rate is the main contributor to rising assessed values for farmland, DeBoer said.
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I actually enjoy the burstiness of Diana. It sets her apart from the likes of Vi, Aatrox, and Vayne (other members of the "3 Strikes and YOU'RE DEAD! XD" Club). Forcing her into a tanky dps role could just make her feel like another brawler just sitting around waiting for that 3rd proc (again, the above fighters). As much as I love Vi, I play Diana for a completely different reason and style.
Leona functions thematically and in terms of gameplay as a champion that will fight to the bitter end protecting a comrade. Diana, thematically, should conversely do everything in her power to kill that unfortunate victim in the most efficient manner possible.
I'm scared that removing Diana's burst will lose the "flavor" of the champion and just blend her into the mesh that is the tanky dps fighters.
(Side Note: So what if she isn't very useful in this meta? I hadn't dreamed in season 3 that Taric would have been the strongest support or even useful in preseason 4--you never know how things will change)
I honestly think that if Diana's R range was buffed back to her max Q range then she'd be much more enjoyable.
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I find the problem with Diana is that she's too binary. If she isn't fed/farmed then she has all the tools to initiate fights but nothing to protect herself with besides a shield which most likely isn't too strong. Since I find that Akali has the most similar to kit to Diana's, I'll use her as comparison. I'm not saying that Akali is a completely balanced champion, but at least her shroud keeps her safe; even if it gets pinked, she still gains a decent bit of resistances. In addition, she can still get resets and help her team out, as the shroud also is an admittedly mediocre long-term area slow. Basically, if Diana is fed, then Q-W-R-R will wipe out squishies while she still remains healthy due to her innate tankiness and shield. If she isn't fed, then she's neither tanky nor bursty.
The other problem is that she really is too dependent on landing her Q, an odd-shaped skillshot which, though it's argued that it's hard to dodge, isn't what you'd call reliable either. The CD at max rank of her Q is 6 seconds. Even if fed but misses a Q, it's still a painful choice to go in without the R reset or wait 6 seconds for Q to come off CD.
To solve the "tanky and bursty if fed and neither tanky nor bursty if not" problem, the biggest (if only) culprit is her W shield. If she gets ahead, then the AP that she accumulates puts up both decent damage and decent beefiness. If behind, then she relies on a fairly measly shield and unimpressive damage. If Riot wants Diana to be an assassin (a playstyle I personally like more) then that means that her W cannot provide both high damage and moderate tankiness. Maybe buff the initial shield value but make her lose her entire shield entirely if all her bubbles pop? That way, she'd have to sacrifice damage to be tanky and vice-versa. If Riot wants Diana to be a fighter, then just have the shield value scale off tankiness (bonus health, resistances) perhaps?
To solve the problem of relying too much on her Q to R in, then maybe buff her so W or E or both can apply the Moonlight mark. Therefore, she's still punished for missing Q because she'll have to walk much closer to apply her mark, but at the same time she has other options than just sitting around and waiting for Q to come back up.
Which brings another issue up: her E. It's not really worth putting more than 1 point in it. Maybe increase the range or the disable duration (longer knockup/displacement time)? Or add some damage to it and lower her damage with her other abilities. I'm not too creative with this, but certainly there can be a way to make putting levels into her E more meaningful.
Just out of curiosity why do people think the QRR combo is so boring? I love playing mid ap diana and slowly widdling down the opponents health with my passive and q, and the q is nice because your opponent doesn't know when that R will come. They HAVE to back off because you could jump them and your jungler could come out of no where, then when they are really low just go as hard as you can (Q-W-R-E-R(Second R if they flash)). The QR combo has always been imo the funnest part of her kit because of all the neat tricks you can do with it. It's not just a combo when you know how to get into the minds of your opponent with it.
TLR- QRR should stay,don't mess with dah lunar lady of death.
Added on- Also Q's are not hard to land after you have played her enough, but at the same time they are easy to dodge if you know what you are doing. I know that sounds liek a paradox but its really a skill match up involving the q's.
I think its pretty dumb that she can rush Abyssal or zonyas in lane since its her core item. Her lanning is too strong.
What about simply removing the reset from her R, and putting it on her Q. Whenever a champion is afflicted with moonlight, an autoattack on that person consumes the moonlight and resets her Q. That way her ult, while still being bursty, becomes more of a utility skill to catch champions, to burst them down with q, a skill shot, and then you have more interesting, attackspeed/fighter builds on Diana, who wants to duel, more than just oneshot you with double ults.
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