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Book Excerpt: Linux Programming by Example, Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, we began a tour of the V7 Unix ls program. We looked at how it parses options and at how it maintained the flist array as a two-level stack of files to print information about. We then saw how ls found and printed out the long format information about each file. This article continues the tour through the code.
238 long _long nblock(long size)_ 239 nblock(size) 240 long size; 241 { 242 return((size+511)>>9); 243 }
The nblock() function reports how many disk blocks the file uses. This calculation is based on the file's size as returned by stat(). The V7 block size was 512 bytes--the size of a physical disk sector.
The calculation on line 242 looks a bit scary. The >>9 is a right-shift by nine bits. This divides by 512, to give the number of blocks. (On early hardware, a right-shift was much faster than division.) So far, so good. Now, a file of even one byte still takes up a whole disk block. However, 1 / 512 comes out as zero (integer division truncates), which is incorrect. This explains the size+511. By adding 511, the code ensures that the sum produces the correct number of blocks when it is divided by 512.
This calculation is only approximate, however. Very large files also have indirect blocks. Despite the claim in the V7 _ls_(1) manpage, this calculation does not account for indirect blocks.
Furthermore, consider the case of a file with large holes (created by seeking way past the end of the file with lseek()). Holes don't occupy disk blocks; however, this is not reflected in the size value. Thus, the calculation produced by nblock(), while usually correct, could produce results that are either smaller or larger than the real case.
For these reasons, the st_blocks member was added into the struct stat at 4.2 BSD, and then picked up for System V and POSIX.
245 int m1[] = { 1, S_IREAD>>0, 'r', '-' }; 246 int m2[] = { 1, S_IWRITE>>0, 'w', '-' }; 247 int m3[] = { 2, S_ISUID, 's', S_IEXEC>>0, 'x', '-' }; 248 int m4[] = { 1, S_IREAD>>3, 'r', '-' }; 249 int m5[] = { 1, S_IWRITE>>3, 'w', '-' }; 250 int m6[] = { 2, S_ISGID, 's', S_IEXEC>>3, 'x', '-' }; 251 int m7[] = { 1, S_IREAD>>6, 'r', '-' }; 252 int m8[] = { 1, S_IWRITE>>6, 'w', '-' }; 253 int m9[] = { 2, S_ISVTX, 't', S_IEXEC>>6, 'x', '-' }; 254 255 int *m[] = { m1, m2, m3, m4, m5, m6, m7, m8, m9}; 256 257 pmode(aflag) void pmode(int aflag) 258 { 259 register int **mp; 260 261 flags = aflag; 262 for (mp = &m[0]; mp < &m[sizeof(m)/sizeof(m[0])];) 263 select(*mp++); 264 } 265 266 select(pairp) void select(register int *pairp) 267 register int *pairp; 268 { 269 register int n; 270 271 n = *pairp++; 272 while (--n>=0 && (flags&*pairp++)==0) 273 pairp++; 274 putchar(*pairp); 275 }
Lines 245-275 print the file's permissions. The code is compact and rather elegant; it requires careful study.
Lines 245-253: The arrays m1 through m9 encode the permission bits to check for along with the corresponding characters to print. There is one array per character to print in the file mode. The first element of each array is the number of (permission, character) pairs encoded in that particular array. The final element is the character to print in the event that none of the given permission bits are found.
Note also how the permissions are specified as I_READ<<0, I_READ>>3, I_READ<<6 and so on. The individual constants for each bit (S_IRUSR, S_IRGRP, etc.) had not been invented yet. (See Table 4.5 in my book.)
Line 255: The m array points to each of the m1 through m9 arrays.
Lines 257-264: The pmode() function first sets the global variable flags to the passed-in parameter aflag. It then loops through the m array, passing each element to the select() function. The passed-in element represents one of the m1 to m9 arrays.
Lines 266-275: The select() function understands the layout of each m1 through m9 array. n is the number of pairs in the array (the first element); line 271 sets it. Lines 272-273 look for permission bits, checking the global variable flags set previously on line 261.
Note the use of the ++ operator, both in the loop test and in the loop body. The effect is to skip over pairs in the array as long as the permission bit in the first element of the pair is not found in flags.
When the loop ends, either the permission bit has been found, in which case pairp points at the second element of the pair, which is the correct character to print, or it has not been found, in which case pairp points at the default character. In either case, line 274 prints the character that pairp points to.
A final point worth noting is that in C, character constants (such as x) have type int, not char. This is different in C++: there, character constants do have type char. This difference does not affect this particular code. So there's no problem putting such constants into an integer array; everything works correctly.
277 char * _char *makename(char *dir, char *file)_ 278 makename(dir, file) 279 char *dir, *file; 280 { 281 static char dfile[100]; 282 register char *dp, *fp; 283 register int i; 284 285 dp = dfile; 286 fp = dir; 287 while (*fp) 288 *dp++ = *fp++; 289 *dp++ = '/'; 290 fp = file; 291 for (i=0; i<DIRSIZ; i++) 292 *dp++ = *fp++; 293 *dp = 0; 294 return(dfile); 295 }
Lines 277-295 define the makename() function. Its job is to concatenate a directory name and a filename, separated by a slash character, and produce a string. It does this in the static buffer dfile. Note that dfile is only 100 characters long and that no error checking is done.
The code itself is straightforward, copying characters one at a time. makename() is used by the readdir() function.
297 readdir(dir) _void readdir(char*dir)_ 298 char *dir; 299 { 300 static struct direct dentry; 301 register int j; 302 register struct lbuf *ep; 303 304 if ((dirf = fopen(dir, "r")) == NULL) { 305 printf("%s unreadable\n", dir); 306 return; 307 } 308 tblocks = 0; 309 for(;;) { 310 if (fread((char *)&dentry, sizeof(dentry), 1, dirf) != 1) 311 break; 312 if (dentry.d_ino==0 313 || aflg==0 && dentry.d_name[0]=='.' && (dentry.d_name[1]=='\0' 314 || dentry.d_name[1]=='.' && dentry.d_name[2]=='\0')) 315 continue; 316 ep = gstat(makename(dir, dentry.d_name), 0); 317 if (ep==NULL) 318 continue; 319 if (ep->lnum != -1) 320 ep->lnum = dentry.d_ino; 321 for (j=0; j<DIRSIZ; j++) 322 ep->ln.lname[j] = dentry.d_name[j]; 323 } 324 fclose(dirf); 325 }
Lines 297-325 define the readdir() function, whose job is to read the contents of directories named on the command line.
Lines 304-307 open the directory for reading, returning if fopen() fails. Line 308 initializes the global variable tblocks to 0. This was used earlier (lines 153-154) to print the total number of blocks used by files in a directory.
Lines 309-323 are a loop that reads directory entries and adds them to the flist array. Lines 310-311 read one entry, exiting the loop upon end-of-file.
Lines 312-315 skip uninteresting entries. If the inode number is zero, this slot isn't used. Otherwise, if -a was not given and the filename is either . or .., skip it.
Lines 316-318 call gstat() with the full name of the file, and a second argument of false, indicating that it's not from the command line. gstat() updates the global lastp pointer and the flist array. A NULL return value indicates some sort of failure.
Lines 319-322 save the inode number and name in the struct lbuf. If ep->lnum comes back from gstat() set to -1, it means that the stat() operation on the file failed. Finally, line 324 closes the directory.
The following function, gstat() (lines 327-398), is the core function for the operation of retrieving and storing file information.
327 struct lbuf * _struct lbuf *gstat(char *file, int argfl)_ 328 gstat(file, argfl) 329 char *file; 330 { 331 extern char *malloc(); 332 struct stat statb; 333 register struct lbuf *rep; 334 static int nomocore; 335 336 if (nomocore) _Ran out of memory earlier_ 337 return(NULL); 338 rep = (struct lbuf *)malloc(sizeof(struct lbuf)); 339 if (rep==NULL) { 340 fprintf(stderr, "ls: out of memory\n"); 341 nomocore = 1; 342 return(NULL); 343 } 344 if (lastp >= &flist[NFILES]) { 345 static int msg; _Check whether too many files given_ 346 lastp--; 347 if (msg==0) { 348 fprintf(stderr, "ls: too many files\n"); 349 msg++; 350 } 351 } 352 *lastp++ = rep; _Fill in information_ 353 rep->lflags = 0; 354 rep->lnum = 0; 355 rep->ltype = '-'; _Default file type_
The static variable nomocore [sic] indicates that malloc() failed upon an earlier call. Since it's static, it's automatically initialized to 0 (that is, false). If it's true upon entry, gstat() just returns NULL. Otherwise, if malloc() fails, ls prints an error message, sets nomocore to true, and returns NULL (lines 334-343).
Lines 344-351 make sure that there is still room left in the flist array. If not, ls prints a message (but only once; note the use of the static variable msg), and then reuses the last slot in flist.
Line 352 makes the slot lastp points to point to the new struct lbuf (rep). This also updates lastp, which is used for sorting in main() (lines 142 and 152). Lines 353-355 set default values for the flags, inode number, and type fields in the struct lbuf.
356 if (argfl || statreq) { 357 if (stat(file, &statb)<0) { _stat() failed_ 358 printf("%s not found\n", file); 359 statb.st_ino = -1; 360 statb.st_size = 0; 361 statb.st_mode = 0; 362 if (argfl) { 363 lastp--; 364 return(0); 365 } 366 } 367 rep->lnum = statb.st_ino; _stat() OK, copy info_ 368 rep->lsize = statb.st_size; 369 switch(statb.st_mode&S_IFMT) { 370 371 case S_IFDIR: 372 rep->ltype = 'd'; 373 break; 374 375 case S_IFBLK: 376 rep->ltype = 'b'; 377 rep->lsize = statb.st_rdev; 378 break; 379 380 case S_IFCHR: 381 rep->ltype = 'c'; 382 rep->lsize = statb.st_rdev; 383 break; 384 } 385 rep->lflags = statb.st_mode & ~S_IFMT; 386 rep->luid = statb.st_uid; 387 rep->lgid = statb.st_gid; 388 rep->lnl = statb.st_nlink; 389 if(uflg) 390 rep->lmtime = statb.st_atime; 391 else if (cflg) 392 rep->lmtime = statb.st_ctime; 393 else 394 rep->lmtime = statb.st_mtime; 395 tblocks += nblock(statb.st_size); 396 } 397 return(rep); 398 }
Lines 356-396 handle the call to stat(). If this is a command-line argument or if statreq is true because of an option, the code fills in the struct lbuf as follows:
Lines 357-366: Call stat() and if it fails, print an error message and set values as appropriate, then return NULL (expressed as 0).
Lines 367-368: Set the inode number and size fields from the struct stat if the stat() succeeded.
Lines 369-384: Handle the special cases of directory, block device, and character device. In all cases the code updates the ltype field. For devices, the lsize value is replaced with the ltype field. For devices, the lsize value is replaced with the st_rdev value.
Lines 385-388: Fill in the lflags, luid, lgid and lnl fields from the corresponding fields in the struct stat. Line 385 removes the file-type bits, leaving the 12 permissions bits (read/write/execute for user/group/other, and setuid, setgid, and save-text).
Lines 389-394: Based on command-line options, use one of the three time fields from the struct stat for the lmtime field in the struct lbuf.
Line 395: Update the global variable tblocks with the number of blocks in the file.
400 compar(pp1, pp2) _int compar(struct lbuf_ **pp1, 401 struct lbuf **pp1, **pp2; _struct lbuf_ **pp2) 402 { 403 register struct lbuf *p1, *p2; 404 405 p1 = *pp1; 406 p2 = *pp2; 407 if (dflg==0) { 408 if (p1->lflags&ISARG && p1->ltype=='d') { 409 if (!(p2->lflags&ISARG && p2->ltype=='d')) 410 return(1); 411 } else { 412 if (p2->lflags&ISARG && p2->ltype=='d') 413 return(-1); 414 } 415 } 416 if (tflg) { 417 if(p2->lmtime == p1->lmtime) 418 return(0); 419 if(p2->lmtime > p1->lmtime) 420 return(rflg); 421 return(-rflg); 422 } 423 return(rflg * strcmp(p1->lflags&ISARG? p1->ln.namep: p1->ln.lname, 424 p2->lflags&ISARG? p2->ln.namep: p2->ln.lname)); 425 }
The compar() function is dense: there's a lot happening in little space. The first thing to remember is the meaning of the return value: A negative value means that the first file should sort to an earlier spot in the array than the second, zero means the files are equal, and a positive value means that the second file should sort to an earlier spot than the first.
The next thing to understand is that ls prints the contents of directories after it prints information about files. Thus the result of sorting should be that all directories named on the command line follow all files named on the command line.
Finally, the rflg variable helps implement the -r option, which reverses the sorting order. It is initialized to 1 (line 30). If -r is used, rflg is set to -1 (lines 89-91).
The following pseudocode describes the logic of compar(); the line numbers in the left margin correspond to those of ls.c:
407 if LS HAS TO READ DIRECTORIES # dflg == 0 408 if P1 IS A COMMAND-LINE ARG AND P1 IS A DIRECTORY 409 if P2 IS NOT A COMMAND-LINE ARG AND IS NOT A DIRECTORY 410 return 1 # first comes after second else FALL THROUGH TO TIME TEST 411 else # p1 is not a command-line directory 412 if P2 IS A COMMAND-LINE ARG AND IS A DIRECTORY 413 return -1 # first comes before second else FALL THROUGH TO TIME TEST 416 if SORTING IS BASED ON TIME # tflg is true # compare times: 417 if P2'S TIME IS EQUAL TO P1'S TIME 418 return 0 419 if P2'S TIME > P1'S TIME 420 RETURN THE VALUE OF RFLG (POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE) # p2's time < p1's time 421 RETURN OPPOSITE OF RFLG (NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE) 423 Multiply rflg by the result of strcmp() 424 on the two names and return the result
The arguments to strcmp() on lines 423-424 look messy. What's going on is that different members of the ln union in the struct lbuf must be used, depending on whether the filename is a command-line argument or was read from a directory.
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Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ash has confirmed that police are investigating a fatal shooting on Bee Street in Princeton reported after 4 p.m. today.
Lt. J.W. Howell, of the Princeton Police Department, said at this time the case is being investigated as a homicide. He said one person, another adult male, had been detained in the case.
Police are still on the scene gathering evidence. Howell declined to name the deceased pending a notification of next of kin.
Princeton police and other first responders are currently on the scene of a shooting reported at a residence near the corner Bee Street and Bluefield Avenue in the city of Princeton.
The scene is currently blocked off with crime scene tape and police cruisers.
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RALEIGH — For years, the RunRaleigh Half Marathon and 5K race has brought runners to the Cameron Village area on the second Sunday in April raising more than $30,000 for three local charities.
But race director Paula ONeal thinks this might be the races last year. The event will be bumped from city streets in 2014 by a national for-profit running event, the Rock n Roll Marathon Series. With other races scheduled for nearly every weekend of the year, ONeal hasnt found a suitable weekend for her event.
Im at a loss after the 2013 race, ONeal told city council members Tuesday. I dont want to do to another race what has been done to RunRaleigh.
Local race organizers are worried that big races coming to Raleigh Rock n Roll and the Ironman Triathlon are getting special treatment thats denied to homegrown runs. The controversy, coupled with a huge increase in requests for street closures, has prompted the Raleigh City Council to pursue new policies for such events.
Raleigh police have already had 82 applications for road races scheduled this year, nearly double the runs held a few years ago. Most race organizers want the citys most picturesque route: generally a lap around downtown coupled with a trek out Hillsborough Street. And they want a weekend when other races arent competing for runners. But as the number of races grows, neighbors along the most popular routes are getting fed up with roadblocks that can last all morning.
The issue were going to have the hardest time to pin down is the limit on the number of events, said assistant city manager Dan Howe, whos overseeing work on the new policy.
The controversy comes as Raleigh prepares for its first races with a national profile, events expected to bring thousands of visitors.
But the prestige comes with a price: Ironman is getting $50,000 to come to Raleigh, and similar terms are being negotiated with Rock n Roll. Most of that money will come from the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance, a division of the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau. The city is chipping in $10,000 for Ironman but wont fund Rock n Roll, Howe said.
Alliance executive director Scott Dupree estimates each event will generate $2 million to $4 million in visitor spending.
I believe that these are smart investments that will clearly benefit the region, Dupree said, pointing out that registration for the June Ironman race sold out its 2,500 slots within weeks. About 1,500 of those are from out of town, he added.
Both Ironman and Rock n Roll will start and finish around Fayetteville Streets City Plaza and run postcard routes showing off the citys sights on Sundays. Local races are generally discouraged from using that area on those days because of downtown church services.
Equity issue
The City of Oaks Marathon, which had nearly 4,000 runners last year, generally starts at the N.C. State Belltower and makes a brief jaunt through downtown. It does not receive city funding, although the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance is among its sponsors.
If somebody else is getting large grants from the city, it becomes an equity issue, and thats what everybodys concerned about, marathon director Ron Wahula said.
Race organizers also took issue with the five-year contract under negotiation with Rock n Roll. Until now, most race organizers have waited until about a year out to request their next events street closings.
If I was able to secure a five-year contract for my races, I would be able to invest more in my business, said John Kane, owner of Midtown Race Series. That to me is incredibly valuable and simplifies things for the city.
Allowing long-term scheduling is among the changes Raleigh officials are considering. Those reservations would be contingent on race organizers honoring all commitments with the city.
Proposed changes
Among other changes on the table:
A cap on the number of races on popular routes: A series of guidelines would determine which events get priority, including economic impact and the number of participants. How that cap ought to be organized is a difficult question, Howe said. I think this is going to be a little more of an art than a science.
New locations for shorter races: Parks officials could create certified 5K and other race courses within Raleighs larger parks and open spaces, such as Horseshoe Farm Park in Northeast Raleigh. The Dorothea Dix campus is also a possibility for races even before its transformed into a city park.
Clearer standards for notifying neighbors: Some who live near race courses have complained they werent notified about street closures. The city could use reverse 911 phone notifications that might be more effective than email alerts.
Fees to offset administrative costs: Howe, the assistant city manager, proposed a modest fee structure to cover the citys costs in setting up race arrangements. He said Raleigh is among few cities that dont charge race organizers. But Councilman John Odom said hes not sure about the idea. Im very nervous about setting fees because that hurts the local vendor more than the big race people, he said.
City staff will work with race directors and other stakeholders to craft a draft policy. The city councils law and public safety committee will discuss the proposal at its Feb. 5 meeting. Until the policy is approved, the police department wont accept additional applications for race-related street closures.
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Little hope
She occupied my memory
And left me with sorrow alone
I can't forget her features
I called her in please tone
"Can you let me with you?
I want to be your own
What happened for our love?
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[edit] Description
The listed animation framework classes and definitions have been documented in the SDK documentation but the libraries in which these are implemented (animation.dll, animationshared.dll) are not available in S60 3rd Edition devices.
- CAnimation
- CAnimationDataProvider
- CAnimationFrame
- CAnimationGroup
- CAnimationTicker
- CAnimationTls
- CAnimator
- CBasicAnimation
- CICLAnimationDataProvider
- CSpriteAnimation
- MAnimationDataProviderObserver
- MAnimationDrawer
- MAnimationObserver
- MAnimationTickee
- TAnimationConfig
- TAnimationEvent
- TBitmapAnimationEvent
[edit] Solution
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Barack Obama's Election Culminates the Year of the Follower
This is the moment in history when diffusion of power overwhelms leadership.
Notwithstanding the mood of the moment—which is to lionize the leader—this was the year of the follower. This was the year in which those who historically lacked power and influence exercised more power and influence than anyone thought possible even a year or two ago. It does not detract in the least from the preternatural political skills of Barack Obama to say the times made the man. More precisely, the times met the man, which is why the 2008 presidential election will go down as a turning point in human history, not just in American history.
We have had such turning points before, points at which power devolves from—drops from—the top down. The late 18th century was such a watershed moment. Both the American and French revolutions were all about upending kings who, until then, were absolute monarchs. Similarly, during the mid-19th century, those who had little or nothing began demanding something. "Workers of the World Unite!" intoned Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, while at near the same moment Elizabeth Cady Stanton put pen to paper in near the same spirit. "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward women," Stanton declared. And then there's 1963. This was the year during which Martin Luther King Jr. wrote Letters From a Birmingham Jail , and Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. Both King and Friedan did no less than overturn the existing order.
What happened then in 2008 is not new. In fact, it is only the latest example of a historical trend in which power and influence were more broadly disseminated. But given that this is a watershed moment, which the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States simply confirms, it makes sense to step back and ask why exactly it is now that things are moving so far so fast. Three reasons stand out.
The first is technology. We have barely begun to grasp the impact of technology on relations between leaders and led—which is not what it appears to be. The conventional wisdom of this election year has been that the Obama campaign was far smarter than any of the competition when it came to harnessing the Internet. That's true. But the more interesting and important story is the way in which the American people used the Internet to their own ends, to satisfy their needs, wants, and wishes. Call it if you will the American Idolization of American politics. Ordinary people are demanding now to be heard in new and different ways. They are content no longer to play observer. Rather the part they want to play—expect to play—is that of participant.
The second is the decline in respect for authority. This too is a trend, which accelerated in the late 1960s and early 1970s. First, there was the antiwar movement, and then the civil rights and women's movements. All three combined with a popular culture that was a counterculture, to create a context that broke from the past. In this brave new world, the police were called pigs, professors were disrespected, and presidents were pushed out of the Oval Office. Times have been tamer since—but they never returned to what they were. If anything, gen X-ers and in particular the newly named Millennial generation (born between 1982 and 2003) disdain even the idea of an all-powerful person in a position of authority telling them what to do and how to do it. Rather, they expect to exert their own personal control over both information and ideas. Tellingly, the popularity of YouTube exploded during this presidential campaign, as did MySpace and other social networking tools. They confirm the expected entitlement: Anyone and everyone can have their say and be heard the world over.
Finally, there is the still slow but now steady rise of groups and individuals that until recently were down and out. This year alone, presidential politics presided over the stunning success of Obama, the remarkable run of Hillary Clinton, and the surprising splash of Sarah Palin. This is not, of course, to say the struggle is over. American women, for instance, are still woefully underrepresented in top leadership roles, in both government and business. It is, however, to point to the obvious. The trend is unstoppable, and it is toward greater diversity, inclusion, and tolerance on issues relating to race, gender, and ethnicity.


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Despite a packed courtroom and the protests of more than 20 residents, Parker County commissioners gave final approval Monday night to a $35,692,247 general fund budget for fiscal 2012 that bumps the current tax rate up two cents — from 24 cents/$100 assessed valuation to 26 cents per $100 valuation — while preserving generous health care benefits for county employees.
The budget is up from last year's $34,518,166, a 3.4 percent increase.
The new rate — called the effective rate because it will generate the same amount of county revenue — will add $20 to the tax bill of the owner of a $100,000 home if his or her valuation is the same as last year's, less if the valuation has dropped.
No change was made in the tax rate fueling the $10,423,438 revenue stream for the roads and bridges fund, the parent fund for the individual precinct budgets; it will stay at 8.3 cents per $100 valuation.
The tax rate for debt service will decrease from 6.6 cents to 6.4 cents.
Commissioners approved the general fund budget 3-2, with Judge Mark Riley, Precinct 1 Commissioner George Conley and Precinct 2 Commissioner Craig Peacock voting in favor, and Precinct 3 Commissioner John Roth and Precinct 4 Commissioner Dusty Renfro voting against.
Commissioners approved the road and bridges fund 4-1, with all in favor but Riley, who said later he thought the budget should be reduced and the tax rate lowered a penny, for a savings of about $850,000.
Most of the residents who spoke were against the tax increase.
Cary McKay, a former candidate for county judge, said the county had over hired four or five years ago when oil and gas revenues were high, and was now unwilling to let employees go.
"You'll be tapping me again next year," he said.
Jack Cavenaugh labeled the budget process "crisis management" and told the court that budget decisions should be made in March and April.
Wanda Scarborough told the court it was time they tightened their belts.
"Find places to cut like I find places to cut," she reprimanded.
Dawn King asked where the tax revenue from the county's growth was going, echoing the comments of another resident. "Our home values have dropped like a rock," she said, "plus you want to add a tax on top of it. We're taxed enough already."
County employees defended the new budget, some by telling residents about the services their departments provided. Russ Authier, Mark Arnett, Jim Nichols and Mike Morgan spoke for the sheriff's department.
Paying employees less and reducing their benefits will reduce services, Nichols warned, saying some county employees were already eligible for food stamps.
"You're going to get what you pay for," he said.
Riley told the crowd the county, as an arm of state government, had to line up with state mandates over which it had no control.
"The $2 million difference [between the current tax rate and the proposed tax rate] is primarily judicial and law enforcement," he said. "When you talk about cutting, that's what you're talking about."
Roth criticized the short time frame for the budget process, calling it "almost impossible."
Riley, who prepares the budget, said commissioners had a responsibility to visit with department heads and come up with cuts.
Arriving at budget's end, after only three weeks of probing and debate, has been difficult at best, with commissioners beginning the process Sept. 6, headed for a Sept. 30 deadline.
As late as Wednesday, commissioners, supporting a motion made by Renfro 4-1, mandated a 2 percent across the board decrease for county departments — to be determined by department heads — in order to cut $600,000 from the judge's proposed budget.
The cuts were needed to balance the budget while maintaining employees' dependent health care benefits at an 84 percent county/16 percent employee cost split, another decision made Wednesday.
Conley voted against the cuts, saying later that the county should address rising health insurance costs, in line with recommendations from auditor Mike Rhoten.
By Monday, most, but not all, of the departments had made the 2 percent reductions, Riley reported, for a savings of $385,000. Some made no reductions, others partial ones.
The cuts were enough to balance the 600,000 deficit when combined with employees picking up their portion of the difference between the 10 percent health care cost increase proposed in the judge's proposed budget and the actual increase of 12 percent, Rhoten said.
A list of cuts was unavailable by press time, but county clerk Jeanne Brunson said her department was able to meet the 2 percent requirement by cutting supplies and having her employees take furlough days.
The sheriff's department, with a budget of $7 million, not counting the jail, cut $10,000, Riley told the court in regular session Monday morning. The cut is .1 percent.
In an earlier budget session, Roth asked Sheriff Larry Fowler to apply a portion of his $350,000 in forfeiture funds toward the general fund.
The cost of providing health care benefits rose almost 12 percent this year, Riley has said, costing the county between $2.5 million and $3 million.
In the budget approved Monday, the cost share for health care will remain at 16 percent for employees' dependents, Rhoten said, but employees will pick up a bigger portion of their premiums.
Commissioners Roth and Renfro talked about budget cuts during the court's first session Sept. 6, initially to avoid the 2-cent tax increase built into the judge's budget, then to balance the proposed budget — with the increase — in the face of rising health care costs.
Seeking $2 million in cuts to maintain the current 24-cent tax rate, Roth moved to eliminate the $74,000 plat office and its one employee, gaining support from Riley and Renfro to make the change.
The cut was the only one made, however, before the court voted 3-2 to proceed with Riley's proposed budget, with Riley, Peacock and Conley voting to accept the 2-cent increase.
One of the last cuts made to the new budget was a cut made to social services Monday morning.
The court reversed a previous decision to continue to pay $225,650 to a number of social services agencies, opting to cut the agencies across the board by 2 percent, the same amount most county departments were cut.
The motion passed 4-1 with Roth voting against the measure, saying the cuts were "not enough."


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Tenants are expected to begin moving in today to 110 high-end apartments at The Lofts at Mill No. 1, the first time in history that mill building has been used to live and play in.
On Thursday, owner Brady Sullivan Properties hosted a ribbon cutting and showcased the project at 300 Bedford Street, which is just north of the building that houses the SEE Science Center and Millyard Museum.
Valued between $8 million and $9 million by Arthur Sullivan, the redevelopment converted six stories of low-rent offices and storage into chichi apartments that rent from $995 to $1,895.
The units include exposed brick walls and heating ducts, hardwood floors, stainless-steel appliances, granite countertops, track lighting and views - row housing and downtown to the east, the Millyard and Merrimack River to the west.
Amenities include an indoor basketball court, a mini-theater featuring leather recliners and an 80-inch video screen, a workout room, a patio and a billiard/foosball room.
"This is kind of a game changer, we think, for downtown Manchester," Sullivan said. Small retailers such as apparel stores will be more willing to locate downtown now that 110 professionals will be living within a short walk, he said.
Sullivan said 25 percent of the space is already rented, and he's had several hundred inquiries.
Aurore Eaton, executive director of the Manchester Historic Association, said the buildings were the first that were actually owned by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., which came to dominate the Millyard and, by extension, the city.
They were built in phases. Construction on the north and south buildings started in the 1840s. The center building, which includes a tower, was built last. Abraham Lincoln likely saw it under construction during his famous 1860 visit to Manchester. He may have even entered the building, she said.
"The Millyard has transformed itself several different times in our history. This is the latest transformation," Eaton said. "This makes it more of a neighborhood, not just a place to go to work and go home at night."
Actually, many tenants will be walking to work. Sullivan said the apartments are drawing tenants who already work in the Millyard and desire to live nearby. For decades, Americans deserted their cities for the suburbs, now they are returning.
"People want to downsize. They want to own less and do more," he said.
Sullivan said his company owns 1,000 rental units and is looking to add another 1,000 to its inventory. Across the Merrimack River, his company's conversion of Mill West into a 300-unit apartment complex is under way, and the first 96 units should be available within six months, he said.
The Lofts will be a half-time home for Andrew Keenan, the chief financial officer for Dyn, a Millyard Internet services company.
"It's gorgeous. I can't believe how nice it is," Keenan said. He and his family live in a 5,000-square-foot house in Massachusetts. The apartment will be his workweek home, as well as a base for family excursions to New Hampshire.
"The last thing I need is another big house," Keenan said.
Dyn is also leasing a second apartment, where employees from offices in the United Kingdom or San Francisco can stay while working a short stint in Manchester, said Gray Chynoweth, chief operating officer at Dyn.
"We're going to call it the Dyn crash pad," he said.
He said the development should help high-tech companies recruit professionals and technology workers to Manchester.
"Today's young professionals want convenience, and they put a premium on that," Chynoweth said. "If you live at a place that's convenient, you don't need a car."
For those who love their wheeled vehicles, there are parking options. The Lofts come with 156 on-site parking spots, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Resident-only parking is available on Bedford Street in front of the building. The Waumbec Mill lot is available on nights and weekends. And tenants can rent a spot at the New Hampshire Plaza garage for $50 a month.
Mayor Ted Gatsas, who cut the ceremonial ribbon, said the city is studying whether to build a parking garage in the Millyard. In the meantime, he hopes the population infusion will create enough demand for a movie theater in the downtown.
"That," he said, "will change the complexion of the entire city."
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In a report handed in to the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) Sun blames delays caused by the ongoing investigation by the European Union for the loss of jobs. Cuts will take place over the next twelve months in North America, Asia and Europe. The so called ''restructuring'' will cost Sun between 75 and 125 million US Dollars, says the report, with the lion's share of the sum occurring in the second and third quarter of 2010.
As previously reported, Oracle announced its $7,5 billion takeover of Sun in April. Both companies consider the takeover complete, contrary to the ongoing EU Commission investigation regarding possible market domination and therefore competition irregularities. Sun Microsystems will bring its free data bank MySQL into the deal.
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Tuesday at 9 a.m. a parade of an estimated 85 cars and trucks will make their rounds to Port Neches-ISD schools for the annual Red Ribbon Parade celebrating drug and alcohol-free children.
The parade will pass by each PN-GISD elementary and middle school spreading the message of "Live long, enjoy your life and be drug-free," according to Port Neches-Groves ISD Parent-Teacher Association chairman Pat Jacobs-Scalf.
"We do this to keep our children off the street and drug-free," said Jacobs-Scalf.
Participants in the parade are encouraged to arrive at the Village Center Shopping Center, 2825 Nall St. in Port Neches, at 8 a.m. with their vehicles decorated with posters and red ribbons.
According to Jacob-Scalf, elected officials, local police and fire departments, church organizations and grand marshal Linda Harrison will lead the caravan.
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Holiday stress is running on full power for most of us these days. I started looking for some ways to relieve stress and my search brought me to crafting. I have always been a crafter and find working a craft very relaxing but it was not until recently that I realized that I was not alone in this stress relieving activity. I found a blog By Kristin Sidorov called How Crafting Can Save Your Health where she said...
"The do-it-yourself movement is in full swing, and homemade decorations, foods, and fashions are all the rage. Getting crafty is a great way to find a little "me time"—and it just so happens to be a top-notch stress reliever that can actually help you relieve pain, control blood pressure, beat back depression and anxiety, and aid in sleep."
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Steady Unger has taken control of Seahawks O-line
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Quinn and the Seattle Seahawks officially finalized their deal to make him the backup quarterback to starter Russell Wilson on Thursday. Terms of the contract were not available. Quinn and the Seahawks agreed to the deal earlier this week.||||||| Quinn joins Josh Portis as the expected backups to Wilson. Quinn played last year for the Chiefs, starting eight games. It was his first regular-season playing time since the 2009 season.
Quinn will be Seattle's new backup quarterback after his new deal with the Seahawks was announced Tuesday.||||||| Quinn beat out three other quarterbacks: Matt Leinart, Seneca Wallace and Tyler Thigpen. The four QBs worked out for the Seahawks on Monday.
Quinn completed 19 of 23 passes for 201 yards and two touchdowns in Sunday's win against Carolina.||||||| Quinn posted a 132.1 passer rating, the second best of his career.
Coach Romeo Crennel announced Wednesday that Quinn will start Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos, regaining the job he lost when he sustained a concussion against Oakland.||||||| Quinn was cleared to play last week against Cincinnati and came on in the second half for the ineffective Matt Cassel, who was the starter early in the season before sustaining his own concussion. That thrust Quinn, a former first-round draft pick, into the starting lineup against Tampa Bay, and when Cassel was cleared to play, Crennel decided to stick with Quinn on a permanent basis.
Quinn has not been cleared for contact following his concussion and will miss his second straight start Monday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers.||||||| Matt Cassel will start in Quinn's place. Cassel was the starter the first five games of the season before sustaining a concussion and then losing the job during the bye week. The former first-round draft pick returned to Kansas City late Tuesday after being advised by neurologists that he should avoid contact. Quinn has been cleared to take part in light workouts during the individual portion of practices.


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Playing their sixth game on the road this season, the Valparaiso men traveled to Western Illinois for a Sunday afternoon matchup. After a quick turnaround from a tough result on Friday night, the Crusaders were able to score two goals in the early stage of the game in what would end as a 5-2 victory over the Leathernecks.
The Crusaders wasted no time at all putting their stamp on the game. Early in the 9th minute, Adrian Graham (Kingston, Jamaica/St. George's College) scored his first goal as a Crusader to put Valpo up 1-0. The Jamaican center back showed great skill as he was able to find goal from 15 yards out off of a Valpo corner. Credited with the assist were Zev Taublieb (Malibu, Calif./Agoura) and Yannick Iwunze (Paris, France/Hightower [Tex.] H.S.). Later in the 9th minute, Nick Suker (Downers Grove, Ill./South) found himself with just the opposing goalkeeper to beat as the Crusaders were able to turn the Leathernecks over in their own defensive third. Suker would beat the goalkeeper and score his third goal of the season, putting the Crusaders up 2-0 in less than 10 minutes of the match.
"We challenged the guys this morning to deliver an appropriate response to a difficult game Friday night, and I think two goals in nine minutes was a great response," said head coach Mike Avery.
Western Illinois was able to cut the lead in half early in the second half on a goal from Husref Jupic. However, Valpo would respond in the 61st minute as Taublieb was able to play Charles Barden (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Linn-Mar), whose well-timed run put him in on goal. Barden would finish the chance and put the Crusaders up 3-1. The Leathernecks would again cut the lead to just one with a goal in the 68th minute, but the day belonged to the Crusaders.
A good spell of possession from the Crusaders led to Suker finding himself with enough space to hit a shot on goal. Suker's chance would be blocked by the goalkeeper, but the rebound would fall to Barden who buried the ball into the back of the net to score his second of the game and third of the season to put the Crusaders up 4-2.
"Over the course of the game we were a little ragged, but with the quick turnaround and travel, I think that is somewhat expected," said Avery. "Our mistakes gave them some life, but we answered again to close out the game. In all, I'm very proud of the team. They showed great character today."
The Crusaders would add another goal in the 87th minute to put the game well out of reach at 5-2. Quality possession from the Crusaders would again lead to a goal as Jordan Aidoud (Lyon, France/CEFAM) scored his first goal of the season off of a great combination play with Barden inside the Leatherneck penalty area.
"To be 3-1-3 at this point, with six of those seven games on the road, is a great accomplishment," said Avery. "As we turn toward league play, we have some confidence, but we also know that every game in the Horizon League is a battle. Saturday at Wright State will be a difficult game but we are very excited for the next phase of the season."
Valparaiso (3-1-3, 0-0-1 Horizon) will travel to Dayton, Ohio next for Saturday and Monday night fixtures. Saturday night, the Crusaders play their second league game of the season at Wright State (1-3-1, 0-0-0 Horizon). Valpo will then stay in Dayton, as the team will take on the University of Dayton (7-0-0) for a Monday night match. Live stats for both games will be available through ValpoAthletics.com.
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Gwinnett County Police say the driver involved in the fatal pedestrian accident on Lawrenceville Highway Wednesday morning has now been charged.
In a release, GCPD Cpl. Jake Smith said Sharon Mitchell-Golden, 49, of Stone Mountain, turned herself in to police Thursday. Mitchell-Golden has been charged with second degree vehicular homicide, a misdemeanor, and driving more than 300 feet in the center turn lane.
Mitchell-Golden reportedly struck 17 year old Dakota M. Waters of Lawrenceville as he tried to cross Lawrenceville Highway between Hamilton Road and James Road at around 7:30am. Waters was reportedly standing in the center lane as Mitchell-Golden was unable to stop her 2007 Land Rover and hit the teen. Waters was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center in critical condition and later died.
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This accident occurred yards from where R&B singer and actress Natina Reed was also killed while trying to cross the multi-lane highway.


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What were your thoughts on President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address? (If you didn't get a chance to view it live Tuesday night, attached is a video of the address.)
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Issa holds out hope for postal reform this Congress
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A top House Republican remains optimistic that the lame-duck session of Congress will approve a comprehensive reform of the U.S. Postal Service.
A spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told Government Executive that the Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman is hopeful Congress will work out a major overhaul to the Postal Service before the end of the year.
"Chairman Issa is working toward and believes that comprehensive postal reform can be advanced this Congress," said Ali Ahmad, Issa's spokesman.
Ahmad pointed to a letter Issa wrote to President Obama in September outlining his vision for the reform. "The postelection lame-duck session will provide a much greater window of opportunity to enact legislation to restore the Postal Service to solvency," Issa wrote.
Issa's plan to make USPS -- which is losing billions of dollars each quarter and recently reached its borrowing limit -- solvent invovles closing and consolidating postal facilities, reducing delivery days from six a week to five, creating an audit group to recommend savings, prohibiting labor contracts that prevent layoffs, allowing the agency to sell advertising on its facilities and vehicles, and requiring USPS employees to pay the same amount into their health and life insurance as other federal workers.
The bill passed Issa's committee but has yet to face a vote on the House floor. The Senate passed its version of postal reform with 62 votes in April.
The Senate bill does not call for as many closures and changes the prefunding mandate for retiree health benefits. It also calls for reducing delivery days to five a week.
A spokeswoman for Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., told Government Executive the onus is on the Republican-controlled House to act.
"The senator would very much like postal reform to move out of Congress," said Leslie Phillips, Lieberman's spokeswoman, "but the burden is on the House, which has passed no legislation yet."
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ANDERSON, PAUL R., 58, of Selinsgrove. Funeral at 10 a.m. today at God's Missionary Church, Beavertown. Burial in Saville Cemetery. Pheasant Funeral Home, Beavertown.
APPLEMAN, ARDEN C. 84, of Turbotville. Visiation from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Brooks Funeral Home, 207 Broadway St., Turbotville, and from 10 to 11 a.m Wednesday at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 10275 Rt. 44, Watsontown, followed by funeral at 11. Burial in Exchange Cemetery.
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CORSON, SHIRLEY J., 71, of Milton. Visitation from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday at Shaw Funeral Home, 400 N. Front St., Milton, followed by memorial service at 3. Private burial in Muncy Cemetery at later date.
FETTEROLF, FORREST F., 77, of Middleburg. Funeral at 11 a.m. today at Zion United Methodist Church, Middleburg. Burial in adjoining church cemetery. Hummel Funeral Home, Middleburg
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NEW YORK (AP) -- An initial public offering of approximately 57.1 million shares has raised nearly $1 billion for some of the shareholders of beauty products company Coty.
The offering priced at the midpoint of its projected range of $16.50 to $18.50 per share.
Coty Inc., which is known for its celebrity fragrances and OPI nail polish, said Thursday that the shares are being sold by existing stockholders. The New York company will not receive any proceeds from the offering.
The underwriters have a 30-day option to buy an additional 8.6 million shares.
Coty, founded in Paris in 1904, has managed to successfully broaden its business to cover an array of personal health and beauty needs. While some consumers may not know of the company itself, they more than likely have used some of its brands, which include Rimmel, Sally Hansen and philosophy.
For its fiscal year ended June 30, Coty posted a loss of $324.4 million on $4.61 billion in revenue. Excluding one-time items, it had an adjusted profit of $301 million. For fiscal 2011, Coty reported a profit of $61.7 million on $4.09 billion in revenue.
Coty originally filed for an IPO last year, but didn't proceed with it. Also in 2012, the company dropped its $10.7 billion bid for Avon Products Inc. after the makeup company did not immediately accept its revised offer.
Shares are expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday under the "COTY" ticker symbol.
Four years ago, tablet owners starting raving about the market's newest piece of mobile technology. Last quarter, Apple iPad sales fell by 9 percent. Still, forecasting the death of the tablet seems premature and incorrect. More likely, all our devices are cross-breeding and evolving until all our calling, emailing, texting, messaging, Internetting, TV watching, all our communication happens on one mobile gadget.
What is being described as the coolest cooler of the 21st century is getting a lot of backers via Kickstarter. Ryan Grepper, an inventor from Portland, Oregon, says he was tired of regular coolers.
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Since 1970, the Rotary Club of Studio City/Sherman Oakshas hosted the Mother's Day Weekend Arts & Crafts Show.
On the weekend of May 11-12, 2013, you will once again have the opportunity to enjoy over 150 local and national artists and artisans as they display their works from 10:00am to 5:00pm. The two-day show is Free to attend and is located within Moorpark Park, Studio City, CA, at the northeast corner of Laurel Canyon Blvd., and Moorpark Street.
A food booth is also open during the festival for the convenience of art lovers and shoppers. Boy Scout Troop 210 hosts it each year.
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Yes, it's that time to take inventory about 2012 and make some "resolutions" for 2013. A new year brings an opportunity for change – a clean canvas on which to create a new painting, a new scene, or new adventure. For many reasons, setting absolute goals about exercise and diet are often difficult to sustain for more than a month or two, often leading to disappointment. Instead, you may want to set some "intentions" in motion about how you want to think, act, appreciate, parent, and partner. Intentions are ideas that are not absolute, but serve as guiding principles for ones behavior and actions.
Here are some intentions to consider:
Yourself – Intend to set time for yourself. Time for you quiet, time for activity, time for pursuits you enjoy like reading, hiking, cooking, creating. Carve out this time as an essential part of your week.
Your time – Intend to find the balance for spending time on others and spending time for yourself. Be aware of when you are feeling overscheduled and taken advantage of versus when you are doing acts that are meaningful to you.
Your children – Intend to show you children that they are important and matter. Intend to help them find the balance of work, responsibility, and fun. Intend to show them that the kind of person they are is more important than what they produce in school and outside achievements. Intend to listen to them as they often have wise and helpful ideas.
Your partner/spouse – Intend to appreciate them for what they do for you and in the world. Remember that you are on the same team, working together for joint goals. Recognize that your partner is also an individual with his or her own ideas and needs. Intend to support your partner's growth and give them space to do so.
Your friends and family – Whether you have a small or large family, or few or many friends, remember that they are your village – your people. Intend to find time to reach out to them by text, e-mail, phone, coffee, lunch or gatherings. Intend to make time for the people you care about.
Be kind to yourself in 2013. Your canvas is clean. What will you create?
Dr. Dan Peters, Ph.D., is co-founder of the Summit Center (http://summitcenter.us/), which provides psychological and educational assessments and counseling for children and adolescents, specializing in the gifted, creative, and twice-exceptional.


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The Christmas tree destined for the nation's capital is set to begin a cross-country roadtrip. But getting an 80-foot tree out of a national forest isn't quite like going to a U-cut.
You think you know him: red suit, white beard, jolly old elf, etc. But do you why St. Nicholas became the Patron Saint Of Prisoners? David Hyde talks with Adam English, author of "The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: The True Life And Trials Of Nicholas Of Myra."
Warm yourself by the fireside with us this morning. Steve Scher is kicking back before Christmas with Santa Claus, Jimmy Stewart, Frosty the Snowman and you!Attend Weekday's holiday fireside chat by sharing your favorite holiday traditions, games and tasty delights with us. No holiday gathering is complete without laughter too.
'Tis the time of year for a good party, and you're invited to ours! Join us as Steve Scher hops aboard our horse-drawn sleigh with Frosty the Snowman, Jimmy Stewart, Charlie Brown, Ebenezer Scrooge and, of course, Santa Claus. Bring your favorite traditions, games and culinary delights. Tell Santa what you're hoping for this year, and help keep Frosty cold.
To many people, the holidays are about family tradition. Tradition is what brings Barry Ford and his wife, Shirley Babilya, to Seattle every December. They drive their RV across country from Iowa to do a job they love in the town where Ford grew up.
This year, the couple is 1,849 miles apart. Shirley is home in Iowa recovering from a heart attack and Barry is on his own in Seattle this season. When some Seattle neighbors found out, they stepped in to help fill the void.


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Ryan Speers older sister Kaitlyn, whose passion is music and playing the flute, suggested he give cross country a try as a way for him to make friends as the new kid when he enrolled at North Raleigh Christian Academy as a freshman in the fall of 2011.
Until then I had played a lot of basketball and baseball, Speer said. I knew I was fast, but I had never run cross country or track.
Two years later Speer is a junior with state-leading marks in the boys high school 800 meters and 1,600. He won the Taco Bell Classic 800 on April 12 in Columbia, S.C., with a time of 1 minute, 53.33 seconds; and won the 1,600 in the Bojangles Apex Lions Relays on Saturday with a 4:15.06.
It didnt take long to realize the young man had potential, NRCA coach Alan Young said. Then he began to blossom as a sophomore.
And now its apparent the 6-foot, 150-pounders ceiling remains high. As a sophomore his talent carried him to the NCISAA 3A state 1,600 title. He finished second in the 800. As a junior, he understands he needs more than talent to compete with athletes throughout the state.
Thats been the new part for me, Speer said. The first two years everything just happened. But now I realize it takes eating the right things and staying on strategy. It takes a lot more than talent.
Speers Bojangles result built upon the experience he gained a week earlier. At the Taco Bell Classic, he planned a first lap of 53 or 54 seconds. He thought the lead pack was running a good pace, but they finished the first lap in 57 seconds. . That forced him to run a negative split with a 56-second final lap for his state-leading time of 1:53.33, which is a shade off of his personal record 1:53.31 set last year.
I came out on top and the race gave me a lot of confidence, Speer said. But I think I could have run a 1:51 if I would have stuck to the plan and come through the first lap at 54. I know I can run faster.
He ran the splits he had planned at the Bojangles and dropped four seconds from his previous best.
His maturation includes a stronger kick than a year ago. He recently ran a 49.9 hand-timed 400 meters.
Im excited about the season, Speer said. Im trying to keep up my training and remain confident. Its exciting, but I also know I have to keep working hard if Im going to be successful.


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Two recent mass shootings have again sparked the national debate on what type of guns and ammunition should be legal for civilians, and what steps they must follow to obtain such weapons.
The 12 dead and 58 injured in the July 20 Colorado movie theater massacre, and the seven dead and three injured in Sunday's , have drawn responses from both sides of the conversation.
Authorities said the alleged Colorado shooter, 24-year-old James Holmes, purchased his arsenal legally. The Springfield 9mm semi-automatic handgun bought by alleged Wisconsin shooter Wade Michael Page, 40, was also a legal purchase, Reuters reports.
Proponents argue guns are defensive tools and it's the people, not the weapons, that kill. They also point to the Second Amendment, which by its number shows the importance the U.S. founders placed on it.
But the law was written before semi- and fully automatic firearms, advocates of gun control say. And, as proven by recent mass shootings, the weapons are falling into the wrong hands, they argue.
Larry Bodine, editor in chief of Lawyers.com, called the Colorado and Wisconsin shootings "the latest in a long history of bloodbaths."
"There have been 50 U.S. rampage killings involving firearms in the last 25 years, and 82 percent involved legally obtained firearms," he wrote on the Huffington Post. "It's easy to buy a gun today, and 43 states have some form of open carry law, thanks to legislation and the recent Supreme Court decisions."
After the Colorado shooting, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on President Obama and his presumed GOP opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, to propose stricter gun control laws on CBS's Face the Nation.
"This really is an enormous problem for the country, and it's up to these two presidential candidates," Bloomberg said. "They want to lead this country, and they've said things before that they're in favor of banning things like assault weapons. Where are they now and why don't they stand up?"
Obama spokesman Jay Carney told the New York Times that the president's focus is to "protect Second Amendment rights."
But, he added, steps must be taken to "ensure that we are not allowing weapons into the hands of individuals who should not, by existing law, obtain those weapons."
Following the Colorado shooting, Romney told CNBC that "the Second Amendment is the right course to preserve and defend and don't believe that new laws are going to make a difference in this type of tragedy."
Even if some in Congress wanted legislation that would further gun control, there wouldn't be enough support from Republicans and some Democrats, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said.
"The votes aren't there for gun control," she told the Huffington Post. "We certainly aren't going to be able to do it in this Congress, and I don't know that we would be able to do it in a Democratic Congress because it takes a lot of votes to go down that path."
Other mass shootings in recent years that have brought about similar debates over gun ownership include:
- Two teenagers—Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold—killed 12 schoolmates, one teacher and themselves in 1999 in Columbine, Colorado.
- Virginia Tech University student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 and wounded 15 on the campus in 2007 before taking his own life. It's the deadliest mass shooting of its kind in the country.
- An Army psychologist, Maj. Nidal Hasan, opened fire in 2009 at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 soldiers and wounding more than 40.
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Muni sickout echoes earlier labor clashes and economic inequities
San Francisco's municipal transportation system stood still, stranding middle class riders. Riots raged throughout the city as over 1,500 streetcar drivers, known as carmen, literally fought with bottles and stones for higher wages. Left with few options, stranded San Franciscans took to other means to get to work: by foot, by bicycle, and by horse-drawn carriage.
The year was 1907, and United Railroads carmen raged against their Baltimore-based bosses in a year-long strike, in the wake of the great earthquake and fires that leveled much of the city of St. Francis. It was a clash that made last week's Muni driver sickout look tepid and tame by comparison.
It was one of the single bloodiest strikes in San Francisco history," Fred Glass, a California labor history teacher at City College of San Francisco, told us. "People were killed on both sides as the cars were run by armies of scabs."
But minus the violence, the century-old union action has eerie parallels to last week's Muni sickout, the "non-strike" in which nearly 500 Muni drivers left buses stagnant in garages across San Francisco. The similarities begin with anti-union sentiment in the mainstream press.
As the conservative-leaning San Francisco Chronicle did during this sickout, one of the city's papers-of-record, The Call, lambasted the unions and city officials alike in 1907.
"Two of the most essential public utilities, the streetcar monopoly and the telephone monopoly, are tied up," The Call wrote in a front-page editorial on May 06, 1907. "Where — and the question must suggest itself irresistibly to every man with a spoonful of brains — where does the public get off?"
A mob of strikers circle a streetcar at Turk and Fillmore, one site of violence during the 1907 carmen's strike. San Francisco Examiner file photo courtesy of Market Street Railway, home of lots of interesting SF public transportation history.
The Call offered to publish the tirades of everyday citizens. Today, we can hear the hew and cry more directly. Last week, #MuniSickOut was a top San Francisco trending Twitter hashtag, as irate tweeters pounded their thumbs on smartphones with thoughts like that of user @ReggieMuth: "Grind the city to a halt? You should pay the consequences."
Muth's sentiment was echoed by many on the Twitterverse, and angry citizens emailed city leaders as well. One constituent wrote to Sup. David Chiu's office that, "Public transportation workers held the public hostage for their greedy demand on pay and benefits."
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency proposed Muni workers pay into their pensions more than it was offering in salary increases, amounting to a pay cut of $1.10 per hour. Muni workers make on average $29.52 an hour, the sixth-highest paid transit workers in the nation, according to the SFMTA. But San Francisco also has the highest cost-of-living in the country.
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