crabwise (KRAB-wyz) adjective 1. Sideways. 2. In a cautious or roundabout manner. [From the sideways movement of crabs.] "John Smith is still moving crabwise towards modernity." John Major's Last Year?, The Economist (London), May 15, 1993. It's a blessing to have a child at home. As parent of a four-year old, I strive to answer my daughter Ananya's incessant questions about moon and earthworms and clouds and trees and bears as truthfully as I can. Our investigations into these seemingly mundane matters often reveal insights that are learning experiences for both of us. But there are times when my thoughts are elsewhere and I simply answer the question "Why?" with "Because that's how God made 'em." I didn't know the joke was on me until the evening I found the corner of our living room wall scribbled with bright shades of crayons. When questioned why we had that mural on the wall, she simply replied, "Because that's how God made it." Well, if we were to ask why a crab moves crabwise or sideways, that'd be a pretty good answer: because that's how God (or nature, depending on how your beliefs run) made it. Because that's how their legs bend. That's how their muscles flex. That's how they've adapted. That's how they survive as a species. And that's how we got a synonym for the word 'sideways' in our dictionary. If we were to look up the term 'humanwise' in a crab's dictionary, chances are it would mean 'sideways'. This week's AWAD features more words derived from animals (the only animal-based products we use around here). -Anu
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Here is an email: Mark and I met with Mark Haedicke regarding utilities and the need for a legal opinion from the utility counterparty. We have agreed with Mark as follows: 1. Our negotiations with investor owned utilities should be based upon our standard ISDA Schedule (ISDA Multicurrency Agreement) AND including the "Additional Termination Event". Neither party should be required to provide a legal opinion. 2. Investor owned utilites will be approved for online trading from a legal viewpoint. The extra "Additional Termination Event" paragraph is not currently included in the GTC's but COULD be incorporated if there is a revision to the online agreement. 3. Our position with respect to municipals/municipal owned utilities, federal/state/local owned utilities and cooperatives remains unchanged. We should still utilize and update the "municipal ISDA" form, and, require a legal opinion from the counterparty. In that regard, Susan Flynn has been working on an "omnibus" format for an electric co-op (Deseret Generation and Transmission Co-operative), an earlier version of which could be used as a template for a municipal omnibus confirmation.
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A: Utilities (investor owned)
Q: Effective Monday, November 19, Mark Haedicke will office in the new building. His location will be: ECS 06788 (sixth floor, office number 788). My new location will be ECS 06785 (just outside Mark's office). Our telephone numbers and fax number will remain the same.
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A: Move to Enron Center South
IN: Sorry for the last minute (general unavailability of attendees), but I have arranged a meeting to discuss general issues on the paper & pulp desk at 2 pm in EB 38C2. Dale Neuner, Tanya Rohauer, Rudi Zipter, Ted Murphy should be attending. Please call me if you have any questions. Sara

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OUT: Paper & pulp desk issues: booking, risk mgmt., etc.
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David, I wouldn't do the Brown Bag (too often- too hard to keep doing); I wouldn't do the Social Gathering (too country clubish); I like the Monthly Dinner/Cocktail Hour/Ballgame, etc with the OTC and parts of the management team as a forum to identify talent, give A&A's exposure to the management team and to "sell" ENA. I would suggest that we make it every two months rather than monthly. However, I would have the first one very quickly for the top rated A&A in ENA that are due to rotate soon in order to try and pitch them on staying in ENA - maybe dinner and ballgame. For the resource management and coaching part of the program, lets wait until we see where we end up on any possible changes to the program first. I assume that you are working on a couple strawmen on possible alternatives. Once we have a few ideas, I would like to pitch Whalley, Sherriff and Mark when I get back. Lets go ahead and implement above ASAP. Regards

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OUT: Retention and motivation initiatives for top ENA A&A's
MARKET NOTICE February 4, 2002 The California Independent System Operator (ISO) is announcing the Aggregated Distributed Generation Pilot Project (ADGPP). The participation of Generating Units in the ISO's markets is currently limited to units with a rated capacity of 1 MW or greater. The ADGPP is intended to demonstrate the feasibility of allowing physically separated small units (less than 1 MW) to be aggregated as a means of reducing barriers to entry into the ISO markets. ADGPP is currently intended to operate as follows: * Generation units with a rated capacity of less than 1 MW may participate * Generators will be aggregated through an Aggregated Distributed Unit (ADU), which will have an aggregated or total rated capacity greater than or equal to 1 MW but no more than 10 MW * The total capacity for all units participating in this Pilot Project is limited to 50 MWs * ADUs must contain generators that are in the same Demand Zone which are not on opposite sides of constrained transmission elements * Each ADU must be scheduled in the ISO Energy or Supplemental Energy Market * Near real-time operational data will be required from ADU * Prospective participants can propose unique methods and processes for delivering the near real time operational data * Generators will be considered SC Metered Entities, therefore they must have Local Regulatory Authority approved interval metering * Settlement will occur through submitting aggregated Settlement Quality Meter Data (SQMD) by the SC representing the ADU As noted above, units participating in the ADGPP will be allowed to participate in the ISO Energy and Supplemental Energy Markets only and will not be allowed to participate in the ISO's Ancillary Services markets. The increased participation in the ISO Energy and Supplemental Energy markets will provide greater market depth and will increase competition by expanding the pool of generation available within the ISO Control Area. The ADGPP is intended only to accommodate units less than 1 MW and is not intended to facilitate "portfolio bidding" from Generating Units 1 MW or larger. The ADGPP is also intended to improve the ISO's visibility of generating resources within the ISO Control Area by demonstrating the functionality of various basic-level operational data reporting processes which may be proposed by the prospective participants. These operational data reporting processes should demonstrate the capability of delivering operational data for the ADU to the ISO near real time and be economical from the small Generator perspective. The uniqueness of the operational data reporting processes proposed will be one factor in selection of participants in the program. Thus, the project will also ensure that the participation of these resources in the ISO's markets will occur without compromising system reliability.
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Aggregated Distributed Generation Pilot Project (ADGPP) Announcement