The Seattle Section IEEE PES wishes to thank Kaylan Sen for a great talk on the pros and cons of traditional, power electronic and new methods for controlling real and reactive power flow in a transmission system.  The lecture was attended by approximately 30 members from the area.   The meeting space and refreshments was provided by Stella and Robin Podmore from Incremental Systems Inc., in Bellevue, In addition to the technical talk, Robin and Kaylan discussed IEEE humanitarian initiative they are involved in.