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LOS ANGELES — Rep. Katie Porter was the first Democratic House member to declare her 2024 candidacy for the Senate from California. She likely won't be the last.
Porter, representing the coastal Orange County and Irvine 47th Congressional District, announced Jan. 10 she will run for the Senate seat held for 30 years by a fellow Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The former University of California, Irvine law school professor, an alum of Yale and Harvard Law School, is an acolyte on the populist Left of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Porter was first elected to the House in 2018 as part of the Democratic wave that won the party's first majority in eight years, beating an incumbent Republican in a different Orange County district.
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Rep. Adam Schiff, a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Law School, is also eyeing the race. Schiff, representing the Los Angeles, Burbank, and Glendale 30th District, hasn't yet joined the Senate fray but has been gobbling up campaign contributions in advance of a potential statewide run.
First elected to the House in 2000 when he beat an incumbent Republican lawmaker, Schiff was viewed as a relatively centrist and unobtrusive Democrat for the first 16 years of his House career. But among Republicans, he became a Democratic bete noire during former President Donald Trump's administration. That started when, as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, he became a leading Trump critic about the role of Russia meddling, or lack thereof, in the former president's 2016 upset defeat of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Once Democrats won the House majority in 2018 and Schiff became House Intelligence Committee chairman, he ratcheted up the scrutiny of Trump, culminating with the first of two impeachments of the then-president, in the fall of 2019, over Trump's efforts to coerce Ukraine into providing damaging narratives about then-presidential hopeful Joe Biden.
The episodes made Schiff a Republican bogeyman, to the point that the new Republican House speaker, Kevin McCarthy (CA), plans to kick Schiff off the House Intelligence Committee entirely.
House Republicans also have lately knocked Schiff for leaning on Twitter to censor and de-amplify content on the platform, according to recently released documents. The latest version of the "Twitter Files," a series of internal documents and communications provided to journalists by owner Elon Musk, details the communications between Schiff's office and Twitter.
Porter has spent the last four years in Congress gaining widespread attention for her acerbic questioning of corporate executives using a whiteboard. She was able to defeat a Republican challenger this past cycle in her closely contested Orange County race.
Porter's formidable fundraising ability is likely to serve her well in a Senate bid; she reported collecting $1.3 million in the 24 hours since she announced. Schiff, however, held a giant $20.6 million to $7.7 million cash-on-hand edge over Porter in late November.
Porter, like Schiff, is a familiar Republican target, if a somewhat less vehement one. It started with Porter's 2019 Halloween outfit when the outspoken freshmen lawmaker showed up to a House committee hearing wearing a Batgirl costume. And just in early January, Porter drew GOP jeers for trolling the disorganization and dissent between House Republicans, as it took them 15 ballots to elect McCarthy as speaker. Porter at one point sat on a House floor chair reading the book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life. The episode set off firestorms of conservative Twitter critical of Porter.
Porter has faced other controversies that will likely emerge on the Senate campaign trail. At the end of 2022, she drew scrutiny after a former staffer released a text exchange in which the congresswoman blamed her for giving her COVID-19. Three months earlier, Porter criticized the Irvine Police Department after they arrested the man she lives with for allegedly assaulting a protester at her town hall event last year. A Porter spokesman said at the time that the congresswoman "was upset that a planned family-friendly town hall was hijacked by extremists, who made constituents feel unsafe, including using hateful slurs in front of children."
Yet the heavy Republican criticism of Schiff and Porter is matched by enthusiasm from the Democratic political base. It's allowed both to become titanic fundraisers, which is crucial for a California Senate race that will cost tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, to promote their candidacies in expensive media markets like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.
"We have entered the era of 'celebritization' of certain national political figures," said Mike Gatto, a former Democratic California assemblyman whose legislative district overlapped in parts with the one Schiff represents in the House.
Porter and Schiff have the advantage of being familiar figures among those who follow politics closely.
"They are absolute celebrities to the Democratic base. People have the ability to raise money in $5 and $10 increments," which can quickly add up, Gatto told the Washington Examiner.
At this early stage, Schiff would appear to have an edge, Lakshya Jain, a founder of the political data analysis site Split Ticket, told the Washington Examiner.
"Adam Schiff is probably the favorite. He's got the most name recognition, the most money," said Jain, a computer scientist/machine learning engineer in the Bay Area. "I'm more bearish on Katie Porter's chances. Schiff has been an incumbent for much longer, and he has a bigger national profile. Schiff also would likely dominate the Southern California vote."
Porter has a better chance if she faces Schiff in November 2024, which is possible under California's "top two" election system.
"She would be the candidate that a lot of Republicans would vote for because they don't like Adam Schiff," Jain added.
Not waiting on Feinstein
Feinstein, 89, hasn't announced her retirement from the Senate seat she first won in 1992. But she might as well have. Almost everyone expects the senator to step aside amid serious questions about her cognitive health.
Senate Democrats some years ago forced Feinstein to step down from the party's top post on the Judiciary Committee after wobbly performances in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justices Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Amy Coney Barrett two years later, along with those for lower-court federal judges.
And earlier this year, Feinstein demurred from trying to become president pro tempore of the Senate after Democratic leaders in the upper chamber made clear that wasn't in the cards. The post usually goes to the senior-most member of the majority party. It's third in the line of presidential succession behind Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker McCarthy. The role went instead to Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), 72, who has slightly less Senate seniority than Feinstein.
Feinstein, elected to the Senate in 1992 after being the first female mayor of San Francisco, has remained tight-lipped on her plans and has said she would not leave early. A spokesperson for Feinstein told the Los Angeles Times last month that she "has no plans to step down and will announce her plans for 2024 at the appropriate time."
A growing field?
The 2024 Senate race in California is a near-certain Democratic hold in an election cycle in which Republicans are trying to defeat Democratic incumbents in Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia while going on the offense elsewhere in a bid to end the current Democratic majority in the chamber.
The only plausible chance for a Republican win would be for California's top two election rules to work against Democrats due to an overcrowded field. Candidates of all parties will square off in the March 2024 Senate primary, with the top two finishers meeting in November. It's theoretically possible that too many Democrats could divide the electorate and allow a pair of Republicans to slip through. But that's unlikely in a state where the California Republican Party is on its heels, with GOP candidates having lost every statewide race from 2010 on. And, so far, no Republicans are in the Senate race, though it's still early.
Still, the prospect of a crowded Democratic Senate field is real. Another prominent House Democratic member, Rep. Barbara Lee, of the Oakland and Berkeley 12th District, on Jan. 11 told members of the Congressional Black Caucus of her intentions to run for Feinstein's seat. Lee is not formally launching yet, she said, noting her focus on the severe storms battering California.
Lee has spent decades as a progressive firebrand in Washington and was the lone member of Congress to vote against authorizing war after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. While that move drew scorn and derision at the time, along with death threats, it's since been embraced by the fringes of both parties.
Lee's Bay Area roots could be an asset against Southern Californians like Porter and Schiff and help counteract their fundraising might.
"Barbara Lee really has a good lane in that she's a Northern California candidate who would get the most votes in the Bay Area," said Jain of Split Ticket. "Katie Porter probably has lower name ID in the Bay Area. Plus, Barbara Lee is the only black candidate getting into the race. She would get a lot of the vote in Oakland and other communities."
Lee, Porter, and Schiff may not even be the last Democratic House members to join the Senate scrum. Rep. Ro Khanna is reportedly making calls to California Democrats and weighing jumping in, though his efforts have been quieter than his trio of House colleagues.
Khanna represents the northwestern San Jose area 17th District. The Yale Law School graduate is a political paradox of sorts, representing the world's tech business hub while also being a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Khanna ventures on to G3 Box News more than most elected Democrats and has sought to broaden the party's appeal beyond a highly educated, professional-class base to non-college-educated voters and blue-collar workers who helped elect Trump president in 2016.
Khanna would be a tougher sell for a Senate race in California since, in his six years in office, he's focused on building more of a national profile, Jain said. That includes touting plans to bring back manufacturing to the United States — a worthy public policy goal, to be sure, but not a fixation of Golden State voters.
"Nobody cares about that type of thing as much as Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania," Jain said.
More candidates to come?
Porter launched her Senate bid by releasing a November poll from David Binder Research arguing that she's best positioned to claim the seat against a slew of Democratic rivals. The survey of 600 voters conducted Nov. 19-21 with a margin of error of plus or minus 4% found Porter with 30% support. Schiff was just behind with 29%, per the poll, followed by Lee at 9%, a Republican candidate at 9%, and Khanna at 6%.
However, the poll also found Porter defeating Schiff 37%-26% in a November showdown. Another 19% of respondents said they wouldn't vote.
Khanna, for his part, responded to Porter's launch by saying he was focused on the serious flooding hitting California. (An unnamed Schiff ally also brought up the storms to bash the timing of Porter's launch, telling the Los Angeles Times, "It's f***ing crazy that she would announce in the middle of a natural disaster. There are 15 people dead. I think there potentially could be more.")
Khanna said he planned to make up his mind by the end of March and would take Lee's decision into account. He told the Washington Post, "I do have a respect for her and the cause of seeing representation for an African American woman, and that is something I would factor in, candidly."
And the Democratic field may not end there.
An outstanding question about the emerging California Senate field, noted Gatto, is: "Does one of the down-ballot constitutional offices decide to run?"
Gatto added, "This will be a once and a lifetime shot for many people."
More names will likely surface soon, especially if Feinstein steps aside. News outlets have mentioned other prominent California Democratic figures, including Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, and former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.
To political professionals, Kounalakis's name stands out. She was former President Barack Obama's ambassador to Hungary from 2010 to 2013 and is a longtime Democratic contributor. The lieutenant governor is the daughter of Angelo Tsakopoulos, a wealthy Sacramento-area developer who, in her 2018 race for lieutenant governor, gave $5 million to an independent expenditure promoting his daughter's campaign. That was on top of more than $3 million she donated to her own campaign.
Whether Kounalakis runs for Senate or not, it's a reminder that there are plenty of other Golden State residents who could self-fund campaigns, whether celebrities, Silicon Valley executives, or a range of other wealthy Californians.
"The list of potential candidates could be a lot longer," said Darry Sragow, a longtime Democratic consultant in Los Angeles and publisher of the California Target Book. "There are plenty of rich people in California who could jump in."
For the nonwealthy, the biggest challenge, Sragow said, is raising enough money to get their names out to the huge California public.
"People who don't live in California fail to understand there are nearly 40 million people here. If you're a congressman in the LA media market, you don't have the market to yourself," Sragow said.
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There are sound environmental and commercial reasons for increasing the bulk importation of wine into the UK, and producing wine bottles from lighter weight glass. And contrary to some misconceptions, writes Sally Easton, importing wine in bulk need not mean a drop in quality or even a lower image with the consumer.
Importing wine in bulk may, to some, be suggestive of cheap and low-quality product. but this would be a misconception, particularly in the light of technical advances in bulk shipping. Moreover, there are compelling commercial and, more crucially perhaps, environmental reasons why the UK wine trade might look to increase the percentage of wine being imported in bulk.
The UK imports the equivalent of nearly 1.2bn bottles of wine a year. That's a lot of glass, and most of it is green. And it's more than the country is currently capable of recycling effectively.
Andy Dawe, glass technology manager at the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), said: "Currently, demand by glass packaging manufacturers for recycled green glass containers is limited because 63% of UK production is in flint (clear glass), mainly for spirits bottles and food containers - not green glass for wine bottles." He believes the challenge is to get the glass market into better balance. "We need less green glass coming in, and more demand for green glass in the UK."
Even with about 15% of UK wine imports already arriving in bulk, there is still much more green glass coming into the UK than the country can (re-)use in domestic manufacture. And it's estimated that, by 2008, the UK will produce 1.1m tonnes of green glass waste. At the moment, the glass manufacturing industry is recycling about 350,000 tonnes in domestic manufacture.
One simple answer therefore is to increase the amount of wine shipped into the UK in bulk and then bottled here. And, while one might imagine that this could damage a wine's consumer image, there is no evidence to suggest that wine consumers, particularly in the mass market, have that much appreciation of where a wine is actually bottled, as long as it has a good price/quality ratio. In terms of actual quality, technical advances in the transport of bulk wine mean that quality control issues are much more tightly controlled. One need only look at the advances in quality control of bag-in-box wine sold in the UK, much of which is imported in bulk.
It is the bottling process itself which is crucial. If this is done well in the UK, the stability of the wine can be assured, in just the same way as it can be compromised if it is done badly in the country of origin.
WRAP has conducted extensive research, providing compelling economic and environmental evidence in support of increasing bulk importation. Primarily, more bulk importing would reduce transport costs, providing both commercial and environmental benefits.
According to Dawe, an additional 10% switch to bulk importing means 55,000 fewer tonnes of glass are imported, equivalent to 3,100 container-loads. As green glass bottles can be made using 90% recycled glass, 50,000 tonnes are therefore absorbed from the 1.1m tonnes of current green glass wastage, in addition to the 55,000 tonnes of green glass which are not imported into the UK in the first place.
There are also other environmental implications. David Workman, director general of British Glass, said: "Virgin batches of glass melt at much higher temperature than recycled glass, so you save about 17% energy by using recycled glass. And we reduce the need for quarrying. And we have reduced landfill. This meets three government environmental targets in one go: reduced carbon dioxide production, energy efficiency, and resource efficiency." Every tonne of recycled glass which is reused to make new bottles saves a quarter of a tonne of carbon dioxide compared to using virgin materials.
Furthermore, in general terms, the use of lighter weight glass bottles - wherever the wine is bottled - provides additional cost, transport and environmental benefits. Research commissioned by WRAP found the average weight of a glass wine bottle to be 500g. Interestingly, even some wines below GBP5 a bottle were found to weigh as much as 800g.
WRAP project manager Nicola Jenkin said: "It is quite easy to take 20% of the weight out of glass without consumers even noticing it." A project initiated by Dutch brewer Grolsch removed 15% of the weight from bottles and saw sales completely unaffected by the saving in packaging. It also took 4,500 tonnes of glass out of the system.
Giving the example of a top-selling Chardonnay brand, Jenkin said: "If this moved to a 300g bottle (still bottled at source), you could save GBP77,000 [transport] and GBP20,500 [distribution] and 270 tonnes of glass not used."
However, these savings are dwarfed by the potential return if the producer and importer took the bold decision to import in bulk. If the same wine was shipped in bulk and bottled in the UK in 300g bottles, the estimated savings are over GBP200,000, with carbon dioxide savings of over 1,000 tonnes.
Andy Sagar, managing director of UK bottler Kingsland Wines & Spirits, said: "With our UK glass partners we have developed a range of bottles which meet the key requirements of our customers. This involves "right-weighting" glass bottles which enable retailers to hit key price points. All new light-weighted designs are rigorously trialled and tested before introduction."
Other cost benefits to consider include lower common custom tariff (CCT) from third countries, and the ability for importers to avoid 15% packaging and waste contribution, as the wine is arriving into the UK unpackaged.
But will consumers buy bulk imported wine and wine in lighter weight bottles? They already buy a lot of wine that's bottled in the UK and the Grolsch example suggests lightweighting isn't an issue. It's not as though the premium sector of the market is being targeted for this initiative. Nearly 90% of the UK off-trade is sold under GBP5 a bottle, and 65% is sold at under GBP4 a bottle. Analysis by WRAP also showed there was little correlation between bottle weight and retail price among bottles they surveyed under GBP6.
Dawe said: "Our research proves that the increased use of bulk importing would provide huge cost and environmental benefits. We have created detailed models which clearly demonstrate these cost benefits and have started discussing these with industry."
Peter Godden, manager of the Industry Development and Support Group of the AWRI (Australian Wine Research Institute), believes the convincing nature of the arguments could well persuade producers and importers to embrace change. Godden said: "The economics and environmental imperatives look so strong that I think that there will be substantial change over the next few years."
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    FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS = (int16 *)calloc(FE->FRAME_SIZE,sizeof(int16));
    FE->HAMMING_WINDOW = (float64 *) calloc(FE->FRAME_SIZE,sizeof(float64));

    /* create hamming window */
    fe_create_hamming(FE->HAMMING_WINDOW, FE->FRAME_SIZE);

    /* init and fill appropriate filter structure */
    if (FE->FB_TYPE==MEL_SCALE) {
	FE->MEL_FB = (melfb_t *) calloc(1,sizeof(melfb_t));

	/* transfer params to mel fb */
	fe_parse_melfb_params(P, FE->MEL_FB);

	fe_build_melfilters(FE->MEL_FB);
	fe_compute_melcosine(FE->MEL_FB);
    } else {
	fprintf(stderr,"MEL SCALE IS CURRENTLY THE ONLY IMPLEMENTATION!\n");
	return NULL;
    }
    return(FE);
}

/*********************************************************************
   FUNCTION: fe_start_utt
   PARAMETERS: fe_t *FE
   RETURNS: 0 if successful
   DESCRIPTION: called at the start of an utterance. resets the
   overflow buffer and activates the start flag of the front end
**********************************************************************/
int32 fe_start_utt(fe_t *FE)
{
    FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS = 0;
    memset(FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS,0,FE->FRAME_SIZE*sizeof(int16));
    FE->START_FLAG=1;
    FE->PRIOR = 0;
    return 0;
}

/*********************************************************************
   FUNCTION: fe_process_utt
   PARAMETERS: fe_t *FE, int16 *spch, int32 nsamps, float32 **cep
   RETURNS: number of frames of cepstra computed
   DESCRIPTION: processes the given speech data and returns
   features. will prepend overflow data from last call and store new
   overflow data within the FE
**********************************************************************/
int32 fe_process_utt(fe_t *FE, int16 const *spch, int32 nsamps, float32 **cep)
{
    int32 frame_start, frame_count=0, whichframe=0;
    int32 i, spbuf_len, offset=0;
    float64 *spbuf, *fr_data, *fr_fea;
    int16 const *allspch = spch;
    int16 * tmp_spch = NULL;

    /* are there enough samples to make at least 1 frame? */
    if (nsamps+FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS >= FE->FRAME_SIZE){

      /* if there are previous samples, pre-pend them to input speech samps */
      if ((FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS > 0)) {
	tmp_spch = (int16 *) malloc (sizeof(int16) * (FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS + nsamps));	/* RAH */
	memcpy (tmp_spch,FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS,FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS*(sizeof(int16))); /* RAH */
	memcpy(tmp_spch+FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS, spch, nsamps*(sizeof(int16))); /* RAH */
	/*	memcpy(FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS + FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS, spch, nsamps*(sizeof(int16)));
		spch = FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS;*/
	nsamps += FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS;
	allspch = tmp_spch;
      }
      /* compute how many complete frames  can be processed and which samples correspond to those samps */
      frame_count=0;
      for (frame_start=0; frame_start+FE->FRAME_SIZE <= nsamps; frame_start += FE->FRAME_SHIFT)
	frame_count++;

      spbuf_len = (frame_count-1)*FE->FRAME_SHIFT + FE->FRAME_SIZE;
      assert(spbuf_len <= nsamps); // why this assertion?
      spbuf = (float64 *)calloc(spbuf_len, sizeof(float64));

      /* allocate 2-D cepstra buffer???? in ravi's spec, this is handled
	 outside this function, so i won't do it */
      /*  cep = (float32 **)fe_create_2d(frame_count,FE->NUM_CEPSTRA,sizeof(float32)); */

      /* pre-emphasis if needed,convert from int16 to float64 */
      if (FE->PRE_EMPHASIS_ALPHA != 0.0){
	fe_pre_emphasis(allspch, spbuf, spbuf_len, FE->PRE_EMPHASIS_ALPHA, FE->PRIOR);
      } else{
	fe_short_to_double(allspch, spbuf, spbuf_len);
      }

      /* frame based processing - let's make some cepstra... */
      fr_data = (float64 *)calloc(FE->FRAME_SIZE, sizeof(float64));
      fr_fea = (float64 *)calloc(FE->NUM_CEPSTRA, sizeof(float64));

      for (whichframe=0;whichframe<frame_count;whichframe++){

	for (i=0;i<FE->FRAME_SIZE;i++)
	  fr_data[i] = spbuf[whichframe*FE->FRAME_SHIFT + i];

	fe_hamming_window(fr_data, FE->HAMMING_WINDOW, FE->FRAME_SIZE);

	fe_frame_to_fea(FE, fr_data, fr_fea);

	for (i=0;i<FE->NUM_CEPSTRA;i++)
	  cep[whichframe][i] = (float32)fr_fea[i];
      }
      /* done making cepstra */

      /* assign samples which don't fill an entire frame to FE overflow buffer for use on next pass */
      if (spbuf_len < nsamps)	{
	offset = ((frame_count)*FE->FRAME_SHIFT);
	memcpy(FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS,allspch+offset,(nsamps-offset)*sizeof(int16));
	FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS = nsamps-offset;
	FE->PRIOR = allspch[offset-1];
	assert(FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS<FE->FRAME_SIZE);
      }

      if (tmp_spch)
	free(tmp_spch);
      free(spbuf);
      free(fr_data);
      free(fr_fea);
    }

    /* if not enough total samps for a single frame, append new samps to
       previously stored overlap samples */
    else {
      memcpy(FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS+FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS,allspch, nsamps*(sizeof(int16)));
      FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS += nsamps;
      assert(FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS < FE->FRAME_SIZE);
      frame_count=0;
    }
    return frame_count;
}

/*********************************************************************
   FUNCTION: fe_end_utt
   PARAMETERS: fe_t *FE, float32 *cepvector
   RETURNS: number of frames processed (0 or 1)
   DESCRIPTION: if there are overflow samples remaining, it will pad
   with zeros to make a complete frame and then process to
   cepstra. also deactivates start flag of FE, and resets overflow
   buffer count.
**********************************************************************/
int32 fe_end_utt(fe_t *FE, float32 *cepvector)
{
  int32 pad_len=0, frame_count=0;
  float64 *spbuf, *fr_fea = NULL;

  /* if there are any samples left in overflow buffer, pad zeros to
     make a frame and then process that frame */
  if ((FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS > 0)) {
    int32 i;

    pad_len = FE->FRAME_SIZE - FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS;
    memset(FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS+(FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS),0,pad_len*sizeof(int16));
    FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS += pad_len;
    assert(FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS==FE->FRAME_SIZE);

    spbuf = (float64 *)calloc(FE->FRAME_SIZE, sizeof(float64));

    if (FE->PRE_EMPHASIS_ALPHA != 0.0){
      fe_pre_emphasis(FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS, spbuf, FE->FRAME_SIZE,FE->PRE_EMPHASIS_ALPHA, FE->PRIOR);
    } else {
      fe_short_to_double(FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS, spbuf, FE->FRAME_SIZE);
    }

    /*	for (i=0;i<FE->FRAME_SIZE;i++)
	printf("%f\n",spbuf[i]);
	printf("\n");
    */

    /* again, who should implement cep vector? this can be implemented
       easily from outside or easily from in here */
    fr_fea = (float64 *)calloc(FE->NUM_CEPSTRA, sizeof(float64));
    fe_hamming_window(spbuf, FE->HAMMING_WINDOW, FE->FRAME_SIZE);
    fe_frame_to_fea(FE, spbuf, fr_fea);
    for (i=0;i<FE->NUM_CEPSTRA;i++)
      cepvector[i] = (float32)fr_fea[i];
    frame_count=1;
    free(fr_fea);		/* RAH - moved up */
    free (spbuf);		/* RAH */
  } else {
    frame_count=0;
    /* FIXME: This statement has no effect whatsoever! */
    cepvector = NULL;
  }

  /* reset overflow buffers... */
  FE->NUM_OVERFLOW_SAMPS = 0;
  FE->START_FLAG=0;

  return frame_count;
}

/*********************************************************************
   FUNCTION: fe_close
   PARAMETERS: fe_t *FE
   RETURNS:
   DESCRIPTION: free all allocated memory within FE and destroy FE
**********************************************************************/

int32 fe_close(fe_t *FE)
{
  /* kill FE instance - free everything... */
  if (FE->FB_TYPE==MEL_SCALE) {
    fe_free_2d(FE->MEL_FB->filter_coeffs);
    fe_free_2d(FE->MEL_FB->mel_cosine);
    free(FE->MEL_FB->left_apex);
    free(FE->MEL_FB->width);
    free(FE->MEL_FB);
  } else {
    fprintf(stderr,"MEL SCALE IS CURRENTLY THE ONLY IMPLEMENTATION!\n");
  }

  free(FE->OVERFLOW_SAMPS);
  free(FE);
  return(0);
}

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The response of seagrass systems to a severe disturbance provides an opportunity to quantify the degree of resilience in different meadows, and subsequently to test whether there is a genetic basis to resilience. We used existing data on levels of long-standing disturbance from poor water quality, and the responses of seagrass (Zostera muelleri) after an extreme flood event in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Sites were grouped into high and low disturbance categories, in which seagrass showed high and low resilience, respectively, as determined by measuring rates of key feedback processes (nutrient removal, suppression of sediment resuspension, and algal grazing), and physiological and morphological traits. Theoretically, meadows with higher genotypic diversity would be expected to have greater resilience. However, because the more resilient meadows occur in areas historically exposed to high disturbance, the alternative is also possible, that selection will have resulted in a narrower, less diverse subset of genotypes than in less disturbed meadows. Levels of genotypic and genetic diversity (allelic richness) based on 11 microsatellite loci, were positively related (R(2) = 0.58). Genotypic diversity was significantly lower at highly disturbed sites (R = 0.49) than at less disturbed sites (R = 0.61). Genotypic diversity also showed a negative trend with two morphological characteristics known to confer resilience on seagrass in Moreton Bay, leaf chlorophyll concentrations and seagrass biomass. Genetic diversity did not differ between disturbed and undisturbed sites. We postulate that the explanation for these results is historical selection for genotypes that confer protection against disturbance, reducing diversity in meadows that contemporarily show greater resilience.
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Professionals new to Pittsburgh
Ann E. Cudd is provost and senior vice chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, supervising the academic and research operations of more than 700 full-time faculty and 7,000 students.
A native of Gambier, Ohio, she comes to Pitt from Boston University where she served as an administrator and professor of philosophy for the past three years. She previously worked at the University of Kansas for 25 years in a variety of faculty and administrative roles, including vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies. Cudd has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy from Swarthmore College, and master's degrees in economics and philosophy and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.
Elizabeth Farmer is the dean at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Social Work. A native of Carlisle, Pa., she comes to Pittsburgh from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Social Work where she was a professor and associate dean for research. Previously, she was on the faculty at Case Western Reserve University, Duke University and Pennsylvania State University. Farmer's work in community-based settings includes serving as a treatment foster parent, respite care provider and group home parent. Her research in improving treatment and care for youth with mental health problems and in improving foster care resulted in an evidence-based model, "Together Facing the Challenge," which is being implemented in more than 20 states. She earned an undergraduate and master's degree from the College of William an Mary and a Ph.D. from Duke University.
Greg Schuler is the chief investment officer at the University of Pittsburgh. A native of Calgary, Canada, he comes to Pittsburgh from St. Louis, where he has been chief investment officer and treasurer for BJ HealthCare, a nonprofit health care integrated delivery organization. He managed investment activities covering $8 billion in assets and oversaw treasury activities related to debt, derivatives and cash management. He has an undergraduate degree and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
Earl Buford is the CEO of Partner4Work, the region's workforce investment board. He comes to Pittsburgh from his native Milwaukee, where he was president and CEO of Employ Milwaukee, the largest of Wisconsin's 11 workforce boards. Previously, he served as the president/CEO of the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/BIG-STEP. Considered a thought leader in the field of workforce development, Buford has an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Wisconsin.
Anne Kraybill is the Richard M. Scaife Director of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. A native of Towson, Md., she comes to Pittsburgh from Bentonville, Arkansas, where she joined the team that was launching the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2011, ultimately becoming its director of education and research in learning. Previously, she held positions at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Education and the Norton Museum of Art, both in West Palm Beach. She has an undergraduate degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Masters in Museum Education from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a Master of Science in Instructional Technology, from East Carolina University.
James R. Martin II is dean of the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering. He comes to Pittsburgh from Clemson, S.C., where he has been chair of the department of civil engineering at Clemson University. Previously, he spent more than 20 years on the Virginia Tech civil engineering faculty and five years as director of the Disaster Risk Management Institute. He is internationally recognized for his research on earthquakes. He has a bachelor of science in civil engineering from The Citadel, and both a master's of science degree and a doctorate in civil engineering from Virginia Tech.
Justin Gunther is the director of Fallingwater and vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. He is returning to Fallingwater, where from 2007–2011 he was curator of buildings and collections. Most recently, he was the architectural historian at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, his hometown. Gunther also served as a professor and program administrator at Savannah College of Art and Design and manager of restoration at George Washington's Mount Vernon. He has a master of fine arts in historic preservation from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an undergraduate degree in biology from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
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Thursday's Mini-Report
THURSDAY'S MINI-REPORT…. Today's edition of quick hits:
* Libya: "Forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi retook this strategic refinery town after an assault by land, air and sea Thursday, opposition leaders and fighters said, an onslaught that sent scores of rebels fleeing along a coastal road and underlined a decisive shift in momentum in an uprising that has shaken the Libyan leader's four decades of rule."
* The West weighs its options: "The United States and Europe took their toughest steps to date to isolate the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Thursday, but stopped well short of agreeing to intervene militarily at a time when Libyan government forces are inflicting heavy blows on rebels in the eastern part of the country."
* Defeat was unavoidable in Madison this afternoon: "After police carried demonstrators out of the state Assembly Thursday, Republicans entered the chamber and approved Gov. Scott Walker's bill repealing most collective bargaining by public employee unions." The final vote was 53 to 42.
* The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits climbed, a discouraging reversal after two positive weeks: "There were 397,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended March 5, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was up 26,000 from a revised 371,000 the week before."
* House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) claimed today that, as far as the Justice Department is concerned, "not one terror-related case in the last two years involved neo-Nazis." That's clearly false. He also claims he never said there are "too many" mosques in America. He's wrong about that, too.
* Senate Democratic leaders want to expand the discussion of the budget, so that cuts aren't limited to non-defense discretionary spending. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a response today: No.
* Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wants Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to resign for saying things that are true. The moral of the story: don't pay too much attention to what Lindsey Graham thinks.
* This is a surprise: "Here are words that you never thought you'd hear a Pakistani general utter about the drone strikes that batter Pakistan's tribal areas: 'A majority of those eliminated are terrorists, including foreign terrorist elements.' That would be yawn-worthy if it came from the CIA, which never misses an opportunity to credit its drone strikes with taking out al-Qaeda and its affiliates. But it was the main message of an official briefing from Maj. Gen. Ghayur Mehmood in Miram Shah. He's the commander of Pakistan's Seventh Division, charged with leading troops in North Waziristan."
* Fascinating quote from Grover Norquist: "The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit." I love it when someone on the right actually tells the truth about conservatives' motivations.
* A former national security official in the Bush administration believes Peter King's hearings might make terrorist recruiting efforts easier. Here's hoping that's not the case.
* House Republicans intend to gut funding for the Special Olympics.
* We're "broke," but Republicans believe we have the funds to waste on defending discriminatory laws against court challenges.
* When Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's (R) teleprompter stops working, she stops working, too.
* American high school teachers think it's important for students to attend college, sort of.
* Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is outraged that her House GOP colleagues aren't quite as dumb as she is.
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Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has taken to citizen journalism website, Sahara Reporters to clear up the news circulating that he is justifying the acts of Boko Haram.
But Sanusi claimed the interview with the Financial Times was done long before these bombings indeed part of it had been used in the FT review of Nigeria late last year. "It is straightforward and clearly there is some mischief here," he said.
Boko haram do not have a cause that makes sense. The militants were fighting against exploitation of their land and under-development. These are the facts. Shikena!
All the northerners; elites, etc, supported Boko haram when the killings started, but now they have become a big uncontrollable thorn on every flesh.
Now they are all scared, because they can no longer control this monster they've created.
If truly they are a rebel group fighting for justice and for the islamization of this country then how come they are more concerned with inflicting pains on the northerners. If u've been tracking the death tolls n attacks. They r far higher on the muslims n northerners and not the christians or the southerners. To begin with, the violence emanated from Borno rendering the state's weather abysmal n incompartible with peace. Lately it has trickled down in form of a distant metastasis to engulf the second largest city in the country and a Northerner's business point. People killed were mainly muslims n Northerner's n not Christians. The group however is planning on launching another attack in Sokoto if their demands r not met by the sultan. I've just be wondering the future of the North n the muslims in the forthcoming years. Now r they really for or against islamization?? A conspiracy I call it n islamization in disguise.
All Sanusi has succeeded in doing is confirm the ThisDay report. Shame!
Liar. All of them northern leaders and 'intellectuals' were busy some months ago justifying Boko Haram. El Rufai said they are a rebel force fighting for justice. Today, Boko Haram has become a sore thumb on their hands.
It's a grave error to compare Boko Haram to the Niger Delta militants. The former didn't kill people, they just made things difficult for the oil economy to run. They were ready to negotiate. They weren't religious in nature. This Boko Haram on the other hand are a jihadist group seeking the impossible ie the Islamisation of Nigeria, they kill innocent people, bomb churches and murder Christians. They are not the same kind of group.


East Lansing – The 4th of the July may have been last Saturday but we saw one heck of a fireworks display this afternoon at Spartan Stadium as the West exacted revenge on the East 43-22, in the 29th Annual Michigan High School Football All-Star Game presented by the MHSFCA. The game was a 13-9 defensive struggle at the half but turned into a big play exhibition in the 2nd half.
Defense wins Championships and it also wins All-Star games. Its a good thing for the West too because they played a lot of it in the 4th quarter. Grand Rapids Christian's RB, Michael Booker scored on a 3 yard scamper and after a Fletcher Spears (Clio) extra point it was 34-9 West. The East answered with a beautiful drive down the field, capped off by a 3 yard pitch and catch from Eisenhower's Taylor Copacia to West Bloomfield's Chris Hurst. Troy's Kevin Muma added the extra point and the lead was cut to 34-16. That is where the 'fun' began.
A rule that was put in place to keep the games more competitive kicked in. If a team that scores in the 4th quarter is down by 12 or more points, they will continue to receive the ball. So the East got the ball right back and capitalized in a hurry. The East went into their bag of tricks and got the ball quickly to Detroit Southeastern WR, William Sturgis. Sturgis then heaved the ball down the field to a streaking Hurst who went 79 yards for the score, just 17 seconds after his previous TD. The East called a timeout to discuss their options down 34-22, the magic 12 point difference. After some discussion, the East intentionally missed the extra point and were set to get the ball right back. The fact that the West defense had to take the field again could have been mentally and physcially devastating but what happened was the complete opposite. The intentional miss fired up the West sidelines and gave them the extra energy they needed to stop the bleeding and take back control of the game.
On first down, Bay City Western's Lucas Kozuch saced Truman's Ryan Hargraves. After that an attempt by Hargraves to escape immense pressure led to a scramble that seemed to last minutes but resulted in safety. Hargraves did a number escaping pressure from every direction and finally got the ball off as he was being closed in on. He didn't get it close enough to an eligible receiver however and was called for Grounding in the endzone, which resulted in the safety. For the first time in a while, the West got the ball back. All day the defense had put the West in position to win and the offense capitalized on the opportunities. This time, it was up to the offense to just burn the clock and that's what they did.
The offenses were done scoring for the day but the final exclamation point came from the West's DB Juwan Hemphill from Kalamazoo Central. The East dropped back and looked to go out into the flats but Hemphill read it perfectly and jumped the route, intercepting the pass and taking it to the house for a 47 yard score. Spears added another extra point and capped the scoring at 43-22.
The wild fourth quarter was set up by an explosive performance by the West in the third quarter in which they outscored the East 21-0. The 3rd highlighted Everett QB, Reggie Williams and his speed and almost un-paralelled quickness. Playing at WR in the game, Williams was a force on kick returns and as a wideout. RW's 50 yard score in the 3rd came from a handoff however as he took the end around weaved in and out of traffic until he got into the open field and turned on the jets before diving into the endzone for the score, putting the West up 27-9. That came right after a methodical drive capped off by Mt. Pleasant's Jarrett Leister to Boyne City's Trever Kruzell on a 3 yard pitch and catch. Leister rolled out to evade pressure and hit Kruzell in stride for 6.
In the first half, Spears had field goals from 37 and 42 yards to open the scoring for the West in the 2nd quarter. The West went up 13-0 on a Leister QB sneak. The East answered the call with 9 straight points on a 33 yard scoring strike from Hargraves to Sturgis and 41 yard field goal from Muma as time ran out on the first half, making it 13-9.
Hudsonville's RB, Jordan Jonker led the West with 79 yards on the ground while the East had a 141 receiving yard performance from Hurst.
The 2009 MHSFCA All-Star game is slated to kick off at 2PM on Saturday, July 11th @ Michigan State's Spartan Stadium. Tickets will be available at the gate. The coaching staff and both rosters are listed below. Stay tuned for a recap of the action including game photos to be posted on Sunday morning after the game.


Occurs throughout England, Wales and Scotland including the isles of Wight, Scilly, Lundy, Anglesey, Man, (most of) the Western Scottish islands, Orkney and Shetland. Common and generally abundant north to the Scottish borders, common further north but records are more scattered (Luff). Typical habitat is the margins of standing or running water where the adults are gregarious; they are abundant in suitable habitats throughout our Watford area with discrete populations along the margins of all rivers and wetlands. We have recorded adults each month between May and September and teneral specimens (very pale and exceptionally soft bodied; they tend to be quite soft even when mature) occur at least until July. They are to some extent active diurnally - splashing water onto to areas of bare soil among vegetation will invariably produce them - but searching at night with a torch will reveal them to be active in numbers, usually among populations of other marginal carabids. At Radlett road they are common among reed litter even where this is waterlogged, throwing a few handfuls onto a sheet will often produce them, under pondside debris they accumulate in large numbers which scatter rapidly when exposed. Adults can 'skim' across the water surface in the manner of some Stenus species by secreting a chemical onto the water which reduces the surface tension and so propels them forward (Lott, 2003). They breed in the spring and occasionally (presumably) in the autumn as larvae have been found in the winter (Luff). All specimens examined have been fully winged but we have yet to record them in flight or at MV.
This medium sized ground beetle soon becomes familiar in the field; colour varies from dark brown or almost black to pale yellowish brown with lighter elytral margins (immature specimens are lighter); in bright sunshine many specimens have a distinct mauve or maroon colour to the elytra. The broad, rather flat and shining elytra and pale, often almost white, appendages are distinctive.
6.5-8.8mm (Luff) A flat, elongate species with long pale appendages, body without any metallic lustre, elytral margins and suture often paler. Head (and to a varying extent the pronotum as well) somewhat dull due to microsculpture which is barely visible at X20. Two setiferous punctures beside eyes. Frontal furrows well developed and with a fine raised ridge from the top of the eye to the base of the mandibles. Mandibles produced and sharp, outer edge excavate. Antennae pale, pubescent from fourth segment. Palps pale; terminal segment of maxillary palps well developed, penultimate segment of labial palps with two fine setae on inner side. Pronotum transverse (16:13) and cordate, lateral margins narrowly explanate and rounded to a short sinuation before sharp, perpendicular hind angles. Front margin gently curved inwards. Basal margin coarsely punctured, fovea wide and shallow, indistinctly delimited. Elytra somewhat shiny, becoming dull towards apex due to microsculpture. Broad oval and evenly rounded, widest behind middle, margins narrowly explanate and epipleurs not crossed. Striae well impressed and unpunctured, interstices flat; with two setiferous punctures (often very weak) in third interstice, generally adjoining third striae. Femora and tibiae long and slender, meso and metatibiae with two apical spurs inside. Protibiae strongly notched on inside in anterior half, beyond this parallel to apex, with a single apical spur on inside. All tarsi with median furrow on upper surface (in some species they are furrowed laterally). Claws smooth. Male protarsi with three basal segments weakly dilated.


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$1,000 for teachers, pay raises for many state employees included in tentative budget agreement
by Bobby Harrison and Kayleigh Skinner March 25, 2019 May 10, 2021
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, in December 2014. Reeves says the House and Senate negotiators are hammering out the details of a spending plan.
Mississippi's public school teachers are expected to receive a $1,000 pay raise starting with the new fiscal year on July 1 under the budget agreement being hammered out between House and Senate negotiators, House Speaker Philip Gunn said late Monday.
Under the still developing plan, many state employees and community college and university staff also would receive raises, though not as much as school teachers, Gunn, a Republican from Clinton, said.
Both Gunn and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who presides over the Senate, spoke confidently late Monday that legislators could begin voting on a final budget proposal later this week. Reeves, though, provided far fewer details of what the budget agreement would look like than did the House speaker.
The lieutenant governor did not cite a specific figure for pay raises, although earlier this session the Senate voted to give teachers a $1,000 pay raise disbursed over two years and the House amended that figure to $4,000 paid out over two years.
"I believe that we will give a significant increase in pay for our teachers to reward their fantastic work over the last many years and I'm hopeful that it can be as large a number as we can possibly afford," Reeves said.
As the budget agreement stood late Monday, according to Gunn, there would be a one-year raise of $1,000 instead of a multiyear proposal.
Earlier in the session, many expressed disappointment with the original Senate proposal of $1,000 over two years.
When the bill was originally being worked out in the Senate, Democrats asked if the amount was a joke. In a statement, the Mississippi Association of Educators called the figure insulting.
"Our teachers deserve a pay raise that is reflective of their value to this state, and instead legislators have handed them yet another symbolic gesture," the statement said.
Today the base salary for a first-year teacher with a bachelor's degree is $34,390. In the 2017-18 school year, the average salary for a public school teacher was $44,926.
Revenue estimates increase
Late Monday, Gunn and Reeves, along with other members of the Legislative Budget Committee, met to raise the revenue estimate for the current fiscal year, which started July 1, by $125.3 million. They raised the estimate by $56.2 million for the upcoming fiscal year.
The revision of the revenue estimates, based on recommendations from the state's financial experts, is important because it provides legislators additional funds for pay raises and for other state governmental services.
"Obviously our economy is doing very well in Mississippi, just like our economy nationally is doing very well today," Reeves said of increasing the revenue estimate.
He stuck to familiar talking points, stressing "we're not going to spend money that we don't have."
The overall state general fund budget is expected to be more than $6 billion.
"This is a good budget," Gunn said. He said in recent years legislators have had to make some tough choices in terms of cutting agencies because of sluggish revenue collections, but those "decisions are paying off this year."
In this year, an election year, most agencies will be level-funded, Gunn said. He predicted that the final agreement would provide additional funds for Child Protection Services, to deal with the perennially problematic foster care system, and additional money for the Department of Public Services to enhance the bureau that grants commercial drivers' licenses.
He said there will be "a three year look back" to ensure that state employees had received a 3 percent raise during the past three years. If a state employee had received a 1 percent raise during the past two years, for instance, the employee would receive a 2 percent raise for the upcoming fiscal year if the budget agreement holds.
Normally, the Legislature would be in session during the upcoming weekend to hammer out a budget proposal and to begin passing it. But legislative leaders hope to finish that process this week and avoid the weekend work and possibly end the 2019 legislative session before the weekend.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today

$1,000 for teachers, pay raises for many state employees included in tentative budget agreement

by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today
March 25, 2019

Mississippi's public school teachers are expected to receive a $1,000 pay raise starting with the new fiscal year on July 1 under the budget agreement being hammered out between House and Senate negotiators, House Speaker Philip Gunn said late Monday.

Under the still developing plan, many state employees and community college and university staff also would receive raises, though not as much as school teachers, Gunn, a Republican from Clinton, said.

Both Gunn and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who presides over the Senate, spoke confidently late Monday that legislators could begin voting on a final budget proposal later this week. Reeves, though, provided far fewer details of what the budget agreement would look like than did the House speaker.

The lieutenant governor did not cite a specific figure for pay raises, although earlier this session the Senate voted to give teachers a $1,000 pay raise disbursed over two years and the House amended that figure to $4,000 paid out over two years.

"I believe that we will give a significant increase in pay for our teachers to reward their fantastic work over the last many years and I'm hopeful that it can be as large a number as we can possibly afford," Reeves said.

As the budget agreement stood late Monday, according to Gunn, there would be a one-year raise of $1,000 instead of a multiyear proposal.

Earlier in the session, many expressed disappointment with the original Senate proposal of $1,000 over two years.

When the bill was originally being worked out in the Senate, Democrats asked if the amount was a joke. In a statement, the Mississippi Association of Educators called the figure insulting.

"Our teachers deserve a pay raise that is reflective of their value to this state, and instead legislators have handed them yet another symbolic gesture," the statement said.

Today the base salary for a first-year teacher with a bachelor's degree is $34,390. In the 2017-18 school year, the average salary for a public school teacher was $44,926.

Revenue estimates increase

Late Monday, Gunn and Reeves, along with other members of the Legislative Budget Committee, met to raise the revenue estimate for the current fiscal year, which started July 1, by $125.3 million. They raised the estimate by $56.2 million for the upcoming fiscal year.

The revision of the revenue estimates, based on recommendations from the state's financial experts, is important because it provides legislators additional funds for pay raises and for other state governmental services.

"Obviously our economy is doing very well in Mississippi, just like our economy nationally is doing very well today," Reeves said of increasing the revenue estimate.

He stuck to familiar talking points, stressing "we're not going to spend money that we don't have."

The overall state general fund budget is expected to be more than $6 billion.

"This is a good budget," Gunn said. He said in recent years legislators have had to make some tough choices in terms of cutting agencies because of sluggish revenue collections, but those "decisions are paying off this year."

In this year, an election year, most agencies will be level-funded, Gunn said. He predicted that the final agreement would provide additional funds for Child Protection Services, to deal with the perennially problematic foster care system, and additional money for the Department of Public Services to enhance the bureau that grants commercial drivers' licenses.

He said there will be "a three year look back" to ensure that state employees had received a 3 percent raise during the past three years. If a state employee had received a 1 percent raise during the past two years, for instance, the employee would receive a 2 percent raise for the upcoming fiscal year if the budget agreement holds.

Normally, the Legislature would be in session during the upcoming weekend to hammer out a budget proposal and to begin passing it. But legislative leaders hope to finish that process this week and avoid the weekend work and possibly end the 2019 legislative session before the weekend.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Bobby Harrison
bharrison@mississippitoday.org
Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today's senior capitol reporter, covers politics, government and the Mississippi State Legislature. He also writes a weekly news analysis which is co-published in newspapers statewide. A native of Laurel, Bobby joined our team June 2018 after working for the North Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo since 1984. He is president of the Mississippi Capitol Press Corps Association and works with the Mississippi State University Stennis Institute to organize press luncheons. Bobby has a bachelor's in American Studies from the University of Southern Mississippi and has received multiple awards from the Mississippi Press Association, including the Bill Minor Best Investigative/In-depth Reporting and Best Commentary Column.
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Kayleigh Skinner
kayleigh@mississippitoday.org
Kayleigh Skinner joined the Mississippi Today team in January 2017 as an education and legislative reporter and advanced to a senior staff member in her four years with the company. Skinner most recently served as deputy managing editor before assuming the role of managing editor. Kayleigh has a bachelor's in journalism from the School of Journalism and New Media from the University of Mississippi. Before joining Mississippi Today, Kayleigh worked at The Hechinger Report, Chalkbeat Tennessee, and The Commercial Appeal. She has appeared on MSNBC, NPR, and BBC Newsday Radio to discuss her reporting.
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