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Does the FCC Need to be Reauthorized?
Three weeks after the Federal Communications Commission's controversial vote on network neutrality, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and his fellow commissioners faced a series of oversight hearings organized by a number of Congressional committees. Discussions of the merits of the FCC's decision – and the process by which the independent agency reached it -- are garnering much of the attention in the press. But for the leadership of two key Congressional panels, this week's hearings seem to be kicking off a long-term plan to reshape the FCC and how it does its business.
"Today's hearing," Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD) declared on March 18, "marks the beginning of the Commerce Committee's efforts to write and pass legislation to reauthorize the FCC."
The Authorizing Process
As part of its oversight function, Congress can pass authorizing legislation that establishes, continues (a reauthorization), or abolishes (a de-authorization) a federal agency or program. It can enact statutes authorizing the activities of the departments, prescribing their internal organization and regulating their procedures and work methods. Once an agency or program is created, the reauthorization process, which typically occurs on an annual or multiyear cycle, can be an important oversight tool. Significant issues are often raised during the authorization or reauthorization process. Lawmakers may ask such questions as: Can the agency be made smaller? If this program or agency did not exist, would it be created today? Should functions that overlap several agencies be merged or consolidated? What fundamental changes need to be made in how the department operates?
The FCC, an independent United States government agency formed to regulate interstate and foreign communications, was established by Congress under the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the former Federal Radio Commission. The Communications Act provided the FCC broad latitude to establish "a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service". When established, the FCC had three divisions (Broadcast, Telegraph, and Telephone) led by seven Commissioners and 233 Federal employees. Today, the FCC has seven bureaus (Consumer & Governmental Affairs; Enforcement; International; Media; Public Safety & Homeland Security; Wireless Telecommunications; and Wireline Competition), five commissioners and 1,671 staff.
Congress has not reauthorized the FCC since the Federal Communications Commission Authorization Act of 1990 was passed a quarter century ago. "Indeed, the FCC is the oldest expired authorization within this Committee's expansive jurisdiction," said Chairman Thune this week, a situation that he said he intends to rectify in this Congress.
In 1990, President George H. W. Bush signed the 1990 legislation which authorized appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission for FY 1990 and 1991. In addition, the legislation:
- Made funds available to the FCC for administrative expenses associated with the collection of fees.
- Earmarked specified FY 1991 FCC funds for upgrading and modernizing equipment at the FCC's electronic emissions test laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
- Authorized the FCC to accept and employ the services of qualified persons to prepare and administer examinations for commercial radio operator licenses or endorsements. Authorized the Commission to prescribe regulations to select, oversee, sanction, and dismiss such employees. Excepted such employees from consideration as Federal or special Government employees.
- Extended through: (1) FY 1992 the FCC's travel reimbursement program; and (2) FY 1991 the FCC's authorization to make grants or to enter into agreements to utilize the talents of older Americans in programs authorized by the FCC.
- Extended through FY 1992 the FCC's authorization to expend funds for the relocation within the State of Hawaii of the Hawaii Monitoring Station then located in Honolulu. Amended the Federal Communications Commission Authorization Act of 1988 to authorize the Administrator of General Services to dispose only to the State of Hawaii the property comprising such Station in order for such relocation to occur. Required such sale and conveyance to occur on an expedited basis. Specified terms and conditions of sale, including the payment of at least the fair market value of such property by Hawaii to the Administrator. Required GSA to reimburse the FCC the net proceeds of such sale. Provided that, in the event the GSA and Hawaii are not able to execute a contract for such sale, the Administrator shall not proceed to public sale of such property. Required the Station to continue full operations at its original location until a new facility was built and was fully operational.
- Increased to 120 days (previously 90 days) the period of notice a common carrier was required to provide before implementing changes in the fees charged for wire or radio communications between different points within the carrier's system.
- Authorized the use of multilateral (currently, only bilateral) agreements between the United States and an alien's government when allowing such alien the right to operate an amateur radio in both the United States and the countries privy to the multilateral or bilateral agreement.
- Prohibited the willful or malicious interference with any radio communication of any station licensed or authorized under the Communications Act of 1934 or operated by the Government.
- Excluded persons who are not applicants for certain licenses from the FCC from forfeiture penalty provisions in the case of rebates or offsets.
"FCC reauthorization is an area where I believe Republicans and Democrats can and should work together," said Chairman Thune. "Wanting the FCC to be an effective, efficient, and accountable regulator shouldn't be a partisan goal. I know Members on both sides of the aisle have commonsense ideas to make the agency more responsive to the needs of consumers, Congress, and regulated companies alike, and I look forward to hearing their suggestions and views. And I look forward to hearing the Commissioners' thoughts today about ways Congress can help their agency improve." Chairman Thune also expressed a desire for Congress to return to regularly authorizing the FCC "as part of its normal course of business."
The FCC's Budget
Chairman Thune also questioned the FCC's current budget request. The "FCC has requested $530 million dollars for Fiscal Year 2016. This funding level would be the highest in the Commission's history. That alone raises eyebrows, particularly when American households continue to do more with less in this stagnant economy, but the FCC also wants to fund this increase in part by raiding the Universal Service Fund."
"Paying for record high budgets by siphoning money from USF is a dangerous precedent," Chairman Thune said. "While members of this Committee may have varying views on the USF's efficiency, scope, and growth, one thing I think we can all agree on is that its limited funds should not be used as a reserve fund to pay for the FCC's core statutory functions. That's what the Commission's regulatory fees are for. USF funds should pay for USF services, and I don't believe the FCC should jeopardize the stability and integrity of the Universal Service Fund in order to paper over its record high budget request."
The FCC's FY 2015 budget is $456,474,000 and the Commission is requesting an approximate 17 percent increase for FY 2016. But over 90 percent of the increase represents the funds needed to initiate a required move through General Services Administration (GSA) to new headquarters or headquarters restacking. This process is necessitated by the expiration of the FCC's current lease. GSA is working with the FCC to identify the most-cost effective alternative to the current leasing agreement. Otherwise, the FCC requests funds to follow through on essential information technology (IT) upgrades, as well as other projects initiated during FYs 2014 and 2015. These initial budget increases have been developed to provide cost savings as follows:
- Move or restack the FCC Headquarters, as required by the expiration of the existing lease, establishing a more efficient space utilization to reduce the Commission's footprint. This process will save the FCC up to $119 million over fifteen years.
- Continue the IT modernization which includes replacing the FCC's legacy infrastructure with a managed IT service provider to generate efficiencies and savings; rewriting legacy applications as part of a modular "shift" to a modern, resilient cloud-based platform; and improving the IT resiliency of the FCC enterprise. These measures are estimated to realize cost savings between two and three million dollars by FY 2017 and an additional five to ten million dollars over the next five years.
Also, the FCC said in its budget request, the initial budget increase is critically needed to fund the following:
- Increase the Office of Inspector General (1) baseline budget for additional staff and contractor support.
- Develop and implement the Do-Not-Call registry for telephone numbers used by Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs).
- Continue activities in support of the National Broadband Map.
The FCC also requested the transfer of $25,000,000 from the Universal Service Fund (USF) to the Commission's appropriation to cover the costs related to the oversight of the USF programs. In particular, the FCC says, the funding will help improve USF program integrity by reducing fraud, waste, and abuse through targeted investments aimed at reducing and recovering improper payments, among other critical oversight functions.
In testimony before the Senate, Chairman Wheeler said, "The Commission's efforts to modernize operations have been hamstrung by level appropriations since 2013. In particular, we need to upgrade our IT infrastructure; we have more than 200 relic IT systems that are costing the agency more to service than they would to replace over the long term. I believe these investments are essential and will payback in dividends with the increased efficiency gained."
A Draft Reauthorization Bill in the House
On March 17, House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released a draft bill to reauthorize the FCC. The draft legislation would:
- Authorize Federal Communications Commission appropriations at the current level for the next four fiscal years.
- Authorize appropriations to the Commission for spectrum auction expenses at the current level through 2022 - the last year of existing FCC auction authority.
- Authorize $9 billion per year in appropriations — to be offset by fund contributions — for the support of Universal Service programs. This would cap the Federal Universal Service Fund at $9 billion per year, limiting the growth in the fund, and thus the amount of money the FCC extracts from consumers each year.
- Authorize the Commission to make changes to its schedule of fees to reflect changes in the composition of the Commission's work and the rate of inflation.
- Create an independent Inspector General at the FCC, removing the ability of the Chairman to hire or fire the agency's Inspector General.(1)
"Reauthorization of the Federal Communications Commission is long overdue," said Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) "as the agency was last reauthorized nearly a quarter of a century ago. A lot has changed over the last 25 years, and reauthorization provides an important opportunity to refocus the Commission for the innovation era on its core purpose and responsibility to administer the policies set by Congress for the American people. I intend to see that we deliver."
"Independent agencies are tasked with faithful implementation of the laws and policies adopted by Congress," said Chairman Walden. "Changes to the scope of an agency's reach are therefore properly achieved only through legislation." He pointed to concerns about:
- The process by which the FCC adopted net neutrality rules;
- The FCC's preemption of state laws restricting municipal broadband;
- FCC enforcement of privacy protections traditionally under the purview of the Federal Trade Commission;
- Delegation of FCC authority to its bureaus; and
- A backlog of open, uncompleted dockets.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai echoed these concerns in his Senate testimony, "I believe that action should be taken to restore the FCC to its collaborative and bipartisan tradition," Pai said.
At the same hearing, FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly noted that he has voted with Chairman Wheeler on approximately 90 percent of all items. "Unfortunately, this percentage drops significantly -- to approximately 62 percent -- for the higher-profile Open Meeting items," he testified. O'Rielly has advocated that any document to be considered at an FCC Open Meeting should be made publicly available on its website at the same time it is circulated to the Commissioners, typically three weeks in advance. He's also questioned the FCC's post-adoption process: items approved at an FCC meeting can be changed by the Commission staff after the meeting to make or strengthen arguments in response to Commissioner dissents or additional industry filings to improve the Commission's potential litigation position.
Politico reports that Republican aides to the House Commerce Committee say that a provision pushing the FCC to reveal orders prior to a vote is likely to resurface in a FCC process reform bill. Republicans sought to force such a change in their 2012 process reform bill, but watered it down in their 2014 proposed legislation in order to appease Democrats. But that was before the net neutrality fight brought the obscure issue to a much wider Washington audience.
Politico says it is a tough issue for Democrats, who generally oppose the idea because they say some confidentiality is needed for wonky negotiations at an expert agency and there's a need to stave off premature public reaction. But it's not an enviable position for Democrats, who remember all too well Republicans' health care one-liner that Democrats want to "pass the bill to find out what's in it." Asked about the Republicans' FCC transparency push, Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA) tried to question the GOP's own openness: "I think it's a lovely idea, and I think the people that are proposing it should follow what they are proposing," citing Walden's reauthorization bill that Democrats didn't get a heads-up on. Full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) suggested that if Republicans want bipartisanship, they should provide more than 48 hours notice on drafts. "As witness testimony was already being submitted, the Republicans released -- with no notice -- a partisan discussion draft that would completely overhaul the FCC's funding," Rep Pallone said. "This maneuvering is unfair to the witnesses and unfair to the members of the subcommittee."
The FCC Moves to Reform Itself
At the hearings this week, FCC Chairman Wheeler highlighted his efforts to improve FCC processes since he took office. In 2014, an internal FCC staff working group presented a Process Reform Report to the Commission as an important first step to becoming more agile and business-like in order to become more effective, efficient, and transparent. Guided by the report, the FCC been moving forward with changes to streamline how it functions so the agency is better able to serve the entities it regulates, as well as the American public. As an example, the Chairman noted his use of consent agendas at meetings to facilitate quick action on non-controversial items that require a vote of the commissioners. The FCC has also made significant progress, he reported, toward all-electronic filing and distribution of documents. On March 19, the FCC announced the availability of an online-filing module for Petitions for Rulemaking that previously could be filed only on paper.
In response to concerns about a backlog of undecided matters at the FCC, Wheeler noted that every Bureau and Office with responsibility for responding to requests from external petitioners and licensees has developed a backlog reduction plan. And in 2014, the FCC closed more than 1,500 dormant dockets.
In early 2015, the FCC launched a new online Consumer Help Center, which will make the FCC more user-friendly, accessible, and transparent to consumers. The new tool replaces the FCC's previous complaint system with an easier-to-use, more consumer-friendly portal for filing and monitoring complaints. In addition to being easier to use for consumers, the information collected is to be integrated with the FCC's policymaking and enforcement processes.
The FCC is forming a task force to review its internal procedures following criticism from Republicans, Chairman Wheeler announced on March 19. He will appoint one staff member from each of the five commissioners' offices to review and compare procedures of similar agencies. Chairman Wheeler said the task force will be led by his special counsel Diane Cornell, and it will determine whether more change is needed.
Commissioner Michael O'Rielly said he welcomed the announcement and his staff will actively participate. "To be clear, the standard for the task force must be what is in the best interest of the American people and promotes a fair, open and efficient Commission process, not what other agencies happen to be doing. With this goal in mind, the Commission will surely be able to set a good government model other agencies can emulate. The task force should complement -- not substitute for -- Congress' effort to move process reform legislation."
During the House Communications Subcommittee hearing, House Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone said, "I've yet to hear a convincing explanation for why this legislation is a good idea. Given what we just went through with the Department of Homeland Security, I doubt our constituents are clamoring for us to create another funding cliff. This agency is too important to play these types of games with its funding."
Rep Eshoo similarly said the reauthorization seemed intended to "squeeze an agency that is already operating at the lowest number of full-time staff in 30 years. The FCC must have the means to fulfill its mission to protect consumers, promote competition, and advance innovation."
As Chairman Thune noted, this week's hearings mark just the beginning of what could be a long fight.
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Bitcoin P2P Lending Opportunities And Risks
Bitcoin is still a relatively new phenomenon. New things always bring opportunities and risks. So does Bitcoin, and so does Bitcoin P2P lending. "The resources required for trade are provided by lenders: without lenders, not a ship, not a ship-owner, not a traveler could be put Read More


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Congratulations to our recent MFA Alum Dane Styczynski ('15) for being awarded with the Bernhard R. Works, Frederick A. Buerki Scenic Technology Award by USITT!
"The quality of his projects and presentation is very high … The work shows an ability to find and executive creative solutions for a varied assortment of production requirements."
Congrats to CARRIE COON for her best Actress in a Drama Series AWARD for the CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS!!
Quite the cool Badger connection on episode 3 of Chicago Med! A man, played by UW Madison University Theatre (Department of Theatre and Drama) alum Steve O'Connell (MFA 2006), gets into an accident with a glass sculpture created by Dale Chihuly (MS '67), also an alum! #badgerpride


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With the expense in time, personnel, and equipment required to refill
expended fire suppression system bottles, the author suggests an alternative
that should save money and time in replacing fire suppression agent.
In her article, "Sustainment Moves to the Next Level: Rethinking Our Life-Cycle Focus," in the September–October 2009 issue of Army Sustainment, General Ann E. Dunwoody, the commanding general of the Army Materiel Command, stated, "We must now renew our focus on the 'second half' of the life cycle—the maintenance, distribution, sustainment, and disposal of equipment." When I read this, I realized that General Dunwoody's statement applies to my work in supporting Army ground vehicles' automatic fireextinguishing systems (AFES) at the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command Integrated Logistics Support Center's Tools Group, Fire Suppression
While working with the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, program executive offices, and other Department of Defense agencies, I was surprised to learn of the vast numbers of replacement fire extinguishers being used by tens of thousands of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs), high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles (HMMWVs), armored security vehicles, and light and heavy combat vehicles.
Replacing discharged fire suppression system (FSS) bottles, cylinders, and discharge valves has been expensive, costing millions of dollars just to purchase cylinder assemblies. For example, I noticed new procurement orders from various integrated logistics support centers for thousands of FSSs, consisting of the cylinder, discharge valves, and extinguisher agents (which made up the bottle and cylinder assemblies), at an average cost of $1,500 per unit, with some priced at more than $3,000 each.
Proper management of the second half of the life cycle, which includes maintenance, distribution, sustainment, and disposal, is essential to FSS equipment and support items.
Diverse FSS AssembliesCurrently, more than 20 major groups of vehicle platforms use AFESs. These include heavy combat, light combat, MRAP, light tactical, and heavy tactical vehicles. All have FSSs with single or multiple cylinder assemblies that use from one to eight discharge cylinder assemblies.
Several different agents are used for different areas of a vehicle. The vehicle's engine compartment FSS might use a different agent from that of the crew area, which could be different from that of a fuel tank or tire FSS. For example, the M88-series has eight bottle assemblies using carbon dioxide as the agent, while the up-armored HMMWV has three bottles using HFC227, with sodium bicarbonate powder to neutralize the acidity of the agent and prevent mucous membrane irritation for the crew.
AFES equipment is produced by several different original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This adds to the mix of variables for different engineering designs using different agents, different capacity bottles, different valves, and different control modules and sensors within a vehicle's FSS.
It is costly to train personnel to troubleshoot and repair the many different OEM systems. Replacing discharged bottles and refilling empty bottles for reuse or disposing of empty bottles and purchasing new ones is very expensive. A vehicle without an operating AFES must be deadlined, possibly forcing the crew to use a vehicle with less armor or less FSS protection to continue their mission. A better solution must be found.
FSS Agent Replacement Issues
Three years ago, with so many new MRAPs and up-armored HMMWVs being built and quickly pressed into theater service, the Army was regularly replacing AFES bottles because of errant discharges, operator errors, and engineering design flaws. Platform item managers were purchasing from new OEMs at an unbelievable rate.
The average weight of a filled bottle assembly was approximately 40 pounds. The shipping costs of 3,000 to 4,000 bottles from the continental United States to the U.S. Central Command was millions of dollars, and the lag time for shipping was considerable.
The Army soon had private contractors refilling some bottle assemblies in theater, which also cost millions of dollars. The serviceable bottle assemblies that were not refilled were tossed in the scrap heap or stored by the thousands at retrograde yards in Southwest Asia. Certain bottle assemblies needed rebuilt discharge valves at a cost of approximately $400 each, plus the cost of shipping the assemblies to the OEM in the continental United States. The turnaround time was months. Gradually, a better and faster refilling service was developed, but new bottle assembly procurement continued.
FSS Bottle Assembly Logistics Footprint
The replacement procedures for a discharged bottle assembly are very specific. Remove the discharged bottle assembly from the vehicle. Install a new replacement bottle assembly. Transport the discharged bottle assembly back to a collection point or refill station for turn-in, or destroy the bottle to make it unavailable for other uses. Obtain another bottle assembly.
Beyond the cost of the bottles themselves is the cost of handling them. If the discharged bottle assembly goes to a refill station, it must be transported there by personnel. At the refill station, the bottle assembly is serviced by at least two trained individuals in a building with utilities, reclaiming and refilling agent equipment, and test equipment. A storage area is needed for discharged and refilled bottle assemblies.
If the bottle assembly is transported back to an Army supply unit for exchange, supply personnel are needed along with a building equipped with utilities, storage space, and equipment for disposal or refilling and packaging.
Sustainment and Disposal
The FSS sustainment process is long, complicated, expensive, and convoluted, with much unnecessary handling by many individuals. After a designated number of years in service, bottles or cylinders must be hydrostatically tested by a Department of Transportation-certified testing facility. This testing ensures that the bottle is structurally safe to use with high pressure agents.
The disposal of FSS bottle assemblies currently requires total control of the empty forged or deep-pressed bottles or cylinders. Most current bottles and cylinders are made from 3/8-inch-thick steel weighing approximately 20 pounds that can withstand up to 1,800 pounds of pressure per square inch. To demilitarize a bottle, it must be cut into pieces with a power saw or with an oxygen acetylene torch to render it safe. It cannot be crushed because of its wall strength, but it may be buried deep enough to make it unrecoverable, or it can be exploded.
Second Half of the Life Cycle Alternatives
The alternative to the large logistics footprint might be the disposable fire suppression bottle assembly—a plug-and-play assembly as a direct replacement for the refillable bottle assemblies now in use. A disposable plug-and-play assembly would have the same physical dimensions, electrical connections, discharge flow volume, and discharge flow time as the current system.
Constructed of high tensile-strength, thin (1/8-inch), stainless steel with a lightweight valve, the bottle weighs 50 percent less than a forged or deep-pressed steel bottle or cylinder. Since the valve would be used once, it could be constructed of a high-strength plastic or carbon fiber or fiberglass material. The valve would have a diagraph disk punctured by a small squib device, allowing the complete, instantaneous discharge of the agent. A vehicle using three replacement disposable bottles instead of refillable bottles would reduce the total FSS weight by approximately 45 pounds, allowing for more water, ammunition, or other gear to be carried.
Using this disposable bottle or cylinder would eliminate the need for personnel to refill and recharge bottles, training for those personnel, a refilling or recharging facility, utilities, refilling equipment, recharging agents, and shipping discharged bottles and cylinders back to and from a refill station.
General Dunwoody's insightful statement, "We must now renew our focus on the 'second half' of the life cycle—the maintenance, distribution, sustainment, and disposal of equipment," should apply to one-use disposable FSSs. They are the future.
Louis Gorenc is a team leader for fire suppression systems, ground vehicles, and automotive batteries at the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command Integrated Logistics Support Center. He holds a B.A. degree in criminal justice administration from Concordia College in Michigan. He is level III certified in logistics management and level II certified in program management.


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Happy Chinese New Year 2017! Rooster's Year!
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We at The Door Interiors Wishes Everyone a Very Happy New Year, May All Prosper and be Happy This Rooster Year!
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Bighill back for Bulldogs camp, spring registration opens
- Updated: March 1, 2017
by Kevin Rothbauer – Cowichan Valley Citizen
Cowichan Valley posted Feb 24, 2017 at 12:00 PM
Adam Bighill may have left the BC Lions for a shot with the NFL's New Orleans Saints, but he hasn't forgotten the Cowichan Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs announced earlier this month that the all-star linebacker will be back for their spring camp this year. Registration has also opened up for the spring minor football season.
Coaches from both the Westshore Rebels and VI Raiders junior teams will be joining Bighill for the camp at McAdam Park on March 18 and 19. The camp is open to players of all levels between the ages of 8-14.
Registration for the spring season is open on the Bulldogs website. Players can sign up for atom (ages 8-10), peewee (11-12) and junior bantam (13-14) for the season that runs from March to June with one game a week.
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|Manatee County Government Administrative Center Commission Chambers, First Floor 9:00 a.m. - November 18, 2014
Agenda Item #22
FY 14/15 Non Profit Agency Funding Agreement Amendment #1 with Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee, Inc. (Home Delivered Meals)
Contact and/or Presenter Information
Tracie Adams / Human Services Manager / ext. 3030
Action Requested
Authorization for the Chairman to execute Amendment #1 to the FY 14/15 Community Care for the Elderly funding agreement with Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee, Inc., amending the agreement to change the contract total from $59,999 to $67,895 for the service of Home Delivered Meals.
Enabling/Regulating Authority
Florida Statute Chapter 125
Background Discussion
County Attorney Review
Not Reviewed (No apparent legal issues)
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Instructions to Board Records
Return one fully executed original to Community Services to forward to Meals on Wheels.
Cost and Funds Source Account Number and Name
$67,895 State Funds 1739001020 CCE FY 14/15
Amount and Frequency of Recurring Costs
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who will be win this english premier league 2009??
By vickyhill
August 27, 2009 10:42am CST
well the season and race for the EPL 2009 title has began again Manchester united has not been doing as well as last year as Ronaldo and tevez are off the teams and even owen not firing to his full limits Liverpool has ever again are showing off real poor eccentric performance and really wonder if they have the discipline to win a league which spans over 10 months this leaves only arsenal and Chelsea as the strongest in the fight to the title Chelsea is strong as ever and the young team of arsenal is going great guns even in UEFA cup I think it will be Chelsea or Arsenal this year ... whom do you think shall win this year EPL 2009 ?? please let us know
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@Kevinsun (30)
• China
28 Aug 09
Well, this is a tough season for top four teams. ManU lost C.Ronaldo, Liverpool lost Alonso, Asenal is still young. So I think Chelsea's will win because the team did not lost important player, and their bench is most powerful. If they has a little luck, they will win the champion.
• India
29 Aug 09
i have a strong feeling too more as liverpool is in a slump performance
@danrunsfast614 (1398)
• United States
27 Aug 09
I think this year it looks like Chelsea will pull it off. As someone else mentioned, Tottenham is doing well too. I think they will be up there this year as well. I think Chelsea, then Arsenal, then Tottenham.
@polo_princess (804)
27 Aug 09
I agree with you i think its between Chelsea and Arsenal although people should watch out for Tottenham to finish high in the league as they have been playing fantastically. Mancheter United seem to have lost their "mojo" and being beaten by some of the lower clubs in the league must be a bit of a knock to them Fingers crossed this is Arsenals year, since i am a supporter, they have sonf fantastic players that deserve some recognition for once
• India
27 Aug 09
i agree with you polo princess :) i like arsenal too hope it wins.the youngster needs it
@emmanola (482)
5 Sep 09
It's too early to early to predict the team that may likely win the 2009/2010 English premier league. What I can say at this jucture is that there is a likelihood of a new team breaking the hold of Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal on the first four positions. So far, Spurs, Manchester City and Aston Villa have the potential to claim a spot in the first four positions. So far and based on the first four games of the season, Chelsea seems to be the number one contender for the premiership trophy. Despite the loss of Ronaldo, Manchester United still has the chance to do well. Arsenal has a young and fast maturing players who are hungry for success. After the criticism of the past years, the time is now for Arsene Wenger and his boys to prove that they are nor ready to play second fiddle. Liverpool has not won the premiership for what seems like an age! I feel the team will get its acts right in the course of the competition. In summary, any of the seven teams listed so far have good chances of winning the league trophy. However, I tip Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United in that order.
@akuler (3539)
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30 Aug 09
Hi vickyhill, I am a supporter of Liverpool and I believe they will win this trophy this year. It is still too early to make some conclusion from 4 games that have been played. Chelsea and Arsenal might be the best contender for the time being but they will loose some of their main players when African Nations Cup started. And it is a month long competition. It is very interesting period to see if they can continue their rhythm that times. Man United also always started with a bad result but still manage to won this trophy 3 times in row. So, we can't totally kick them out. There are other interesting teams that might come out from the shadow of this 4 big teams. Just watch for Spurs and Man City.
@manuking55 (8)
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29 Aug 09
I think Man U will still win.. Not just because I'm their fan but also because they seem to have the most reliable team in the epl this season.. We know that rooney is a great player because he can not only score goals but also make them.. Plus NANI seems to have improved a lot.. Owen looks promising.. Berbatov has a point or two to prove.. Reliable scholes and giggs are fabulous as always.. And Man U easily have the best back line an the league.. Ronaldo no Ronaldo they can win easily...


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I first met David & Louisa a couple of years ago, David was introduced to me as an artist interested in social and political history – although I've since learnt that 'history' encompasses everything right up to yesterday, so his interests are broad, sometimes unconventional but always well researched and delivered with passion.
I was excited when he asked me to make a film to promote Dekkle, his artisan printmaking studio in Hertfordshire.
Dekkle is a small studio that houses three very large printing presses and a handful of smaller ones. The oldest dates from the 1800s and all are still in working order. The atmosphere at Dekkle is dominated by a passion for art, and the ethos is to encourage experimentation and to create, to keep creating.
Of course my excitement was curbed by the daunting task of finding a way to capture this passion, this ethos, on film and to encapsulate the attitude, the dedication and the professionalism, not just of David and Louisa the founders, but the members that regularly use the studio, not just for creating prints, but for debating politics, history, and "what crazy things you can put through the presses'. Also to represent the Artists who claim residence once in a while to immerse themselves in the old fashioned surroundings, the calm ambience, and tap into David's vast experience and technical assistance. And of course I had to provide a bit of information about the studio and the presses.
Together we looked at some reference films, the first was a short film called A Brief History of John Baldessari narrated by Tom Waits. To say Tom Waits is a hero of mine would be pushing it, but his deep soothing voice provided a bit of a back drop to my childhood along with other notable voices including Ian Dury, Lou Reed, David Byrne and that bloke who does the talking bit with The Small Faces.
So I was always going to like this film, however, the actual narrative and quirkiness is not only clever but worked because we all know who John Baldessari and Tom Waits are (and if we don't, we know we should!) It s a great example of telling you everything you need to know about someone in just a few minuets, but like I say we come to that film with some context, some existing knowledge – a straighter documentary style was probably going to be a more appropriate bet for us.
The second film was about David A Smith, a traditional sign writer who painstaking designed the album cover for John Mayer's Born & Raised. It's a less creative and clever film than the first, but watching the creations is captivating and the use of the art in the film is beautiful.
However both, were probably made by more accomplished film makers than I, with team, a big budget and some good names involved.
How was I to make a unique film for Dekkle? Well, here's what we came up with.
Dekkle from Jodie Gravett (Chillery) on Vimeo.
This is the full 5 min version, but its designed to be dissected into chapters, easy one minute chunks for viewing on the website or sending out to potential collaborators.
The full version has been premiered this month at The Print Show, an annual exposition for the printing industry at the NEC.


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1979: Apple's Missed eInk Opportunity
1997-present: eInk
Some readers may know that the eInk display in the Kindle was developed at E Ink Corporation, an offshoot of MIT. The original development team behind eInk represented some of the brightest people around. With funding ($16M from IBM), patents and inventions followed quickly, with some the original eInk technology used as advertising. In 1997, a groundbreaking paper called The Last Book was published in the IBM Journal of Systems and Development.
At one point, the paper describes a blank book with many eInk-based sheets. On the spine of the book, a display and interface would allow the user to 'fill' the book with any book in their electronic library. Even connectivity to the Internet was conceived for the eInk-based book. So pulp-based books have been dying since 1997, right? Not really, since one has to look a bit farther back to find the real culprit, and the company that was researching electronic paper seemed to have a lock on physical paper: Xerox.
1974-2005: Gyricon Kubla Khan
The basic idea behind the eInk display stemmed from research in the early 1970s by Nicholas K. Sheridon; a researcher with Xerox. The Gyricon (greek for rotating image) worked by rotating tiny half-white, half-black (or is it half-black, half white?) beads immersed in oil using an electric field. Strangely, the display technology was developed as a replacement for a CRT that didn't seem bright enough. This the CRT in question was connected to a famous Xerox computer: the Xerox Alto.
As you may have read, the Xerox Alto impressed a young hippie visiting Xerox' Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in 1979. Obviously, that hippie was Steve Jobs, and he and Woz has started Apple a couple of years earlier. The Lisa and Macintosh computers were modelled after the Alto, which led to NeXT, OSX, iPods, iPhones, and finally iPads.
Mr. Sheridon was dissuaded by a Xerox suit, who informed him that Xerox does not make displays, so that was the end of the gyricon display technology. In 1989, Mr. Sheridon realized that his gyricon technology could be used to develop ePaper. The ePaper arm of Xerox lasted until 2005, when it was disbanded.
If the executive at Xerox funded the ePaper display in the mid-1970s, a young Steve Jobs, as part of his fact-finding mission, could have also been inspired by a gyricon display as part of the Xerox Alto, which could have led to ePaper displays in the 1980s, and so on. Steve Jobs would have killed books long ago with his MacBook, NeXTBook, and iBook devices!
It seems that in the technology field, there are many missed opportunities, and many happy accidents. Regardless, the kindicted users of today are using a "magical and revolutionary" display technology that took 35 years to come to fruition.
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- 1. He Turned The Water Into Wine
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- 6. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- 7. Suffer The Little Children
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As continue to my benchmarks https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/04/30/looking-on-54-io-bound-benchmarks/ on 5.4 I tried in-memory load (basically changed buffer pool from 3GB to 15GB, and database size is 10GB). The results are on the same spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rYZB2dd2j1pQsvWs2kFvTsg&hl=en#, page CPUBound.
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In default mode I would say XtraDB performs almost the same as 5.4, but dips are a bit worse than in 5.4.
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In XtraDB we have special mode adaptive_checkpoint, you see result in this mode. While max performance is worse, there is no dips, and average performance is better.
If Sun Perfomance engineers read this – I call attention to this problem and do not ignore it if Sun started to make changes to InnoDB anyway.
If InnoDB engineers read this and are interested – then, yes, we are ready to provide adaptive_checkpoint patch under BSD license.
Also I was asked what if we set small innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct , will not that help with such dips – you can see results for 5.4 with innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct=15. There really no dips, but average performance is not acceptable. I also tried innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct=30, but results in this case similar to usual 5.4, so I do not show them.
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Good stuff, Vadim.
As you know, we at Innobase do follow your work closely. As I mentioned to you at the MySQL Conference, and previously and recently in email to Peter, we have been and are quite interested in considering your patches for a future version of InnoDB, and can do so only if they are available to us under a BSD license. This is a great way to improve performance for all MySQL users, and to get the maximum distribution of your good work. We're of course happy to acknowledge your contribution in source code and documentation as you wish. We are glad to see your public statement offering this patch (and I hope others) to us on a BSD license.
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* appropriateness given our other product plans/directions
* suitable license
As Vasil described in this blog post (http://blogs.innodb.com/wp/2009/03/software-is-hard-sometimes/), we will evaluate community-contributed patches for correctness, make them portable, adjust as necessary to integrate with the latest version of the InnoDB Plugin, and conduct our own testing, to ensure InnoDB's continued reliability.
We can't commit a priori to accepting or even evaluating all contributions, since our resources are limited. But we are, and have been open to receiving user contributions on the basis outlined above.
The work you and the team at Percona have done to demonstrate the value of these changes is very helpful. Feel free to contact me directly by email to further discuss this topic.
This is great work. The performance results make it obvious. I first learned of this problem from Percona, reproduced them on my hardware, and then fixed them on my source tree.
Interesting — it's great that you have a patch that makes the dips less, but is the overall performance sacrifice worth it? I have to assume yes otherwise you wouldn't mention it, but it looks like the performance hit is about 500 transactions per second, to avoid the dips.
Would you accept 20% greater throughput on average if that included extended windows where TPS dropped to 0? Some variance may be acceptable but the current behavior is extreme. And another extreme is Amazon who really, really care about variance in response time — http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf
There are numbers for max throughput and average final result.
5.4 – 8524 (this is for transaction per 10 sec actually)
xtardb5 – 8507
xtradb5-adaptive – 7648
and final result:
xtradb5 – 35840.578 TPM
xtradb5-adaptive – 37223.289 TPM
so you lose in maximal throughput about 10%, but final performance even better.
And it is trade-off, you decide what is preferable for you.
For some clients when slave is not able to recovery after dip and getting behind master forever – adaptive_checkpoint is helpful.
Vadim — that is good. I had assumed that the overall throughput was better, because otherwise why would you tout how great it was to lose the peaks, unless the average or overall was better? It's good to have the numbers to have proof. I didn't want to assume if it was a wrong assumption. And of course, if the dips are detrimental to a client but a slight overall loss of the maximum is OK, then obviously the tradeoff would be appropriate.
The best bet would be for the 5.4 and the adaptive_checkpoint to work together — whether in a Percona release or an InnoDB/MyQSL release — so that we could have the best maximal tps, the best average tps, and the least amount of dips.
Hi Vadim,
thanks to point on it! I've already wrote about benefit of Adaptive Checkpoint http://dimitrik.free.fr/db_STRESS_MySQL_540_and_others_Apr2009.html#note_5397 (and one single graph saying it's better than words), but I did not realize there may be cases when performance with it may be slightly lower – I always preferred a stable AVG TPS rather a better MAX TPS (but in any case it's important to know both).
What was your my.conf during this test and how many sessions did you run in parallel? – I'll try to replay a similar workload on Solaris/SPARC and see if we observe the same thing…
Have you tried 5.4 with new option innodb_extra_dirty_writes?
Also I wonder if innodb changes added in 5.4 will be available to innodb team to integrate into next Innodb plugin?
innodb_extra_diry_writes came from an earlier Google patch. I don't think it does much and is not in the v3 Google patch. There are better changes for IO performance in the Percona and Google patches. 5.4 has not caught up to them yet.
I think it might be relevant to mention it here… I've run several tests of a disk-bounded TPC-C on MySQL 5.4 both with and without O_DIRECT, and also tested what happens running multiple separate workloads both on the same MySQL and on 2 MySQL on the same machine. I collected several HW statistics, and reported everything here: http://relationalcloud.com/index.php?title=Experiments
Let me know what you think guys.
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CLINTON: You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center. I plead guilty.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To help those least fortunate of all, I'm recommending a new public welfare program stressing services instead of support, rehabilitation instead of relief, and training for useful work instead of prolonged dependency.
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The truth is Hillary Clinton is masquerading as a far left person so Sanders will not embarrass her in Iowa and New Hampshire. However, by doing so she loses credibility on all fronts. How would Hillary Clinton improve the economy? Nobody knows.
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