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BONIFAY — After a recess the Holmes County Board of County Commissioners reconvened to hold a workshop after the regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8, in which a guest speaker from the Florida Association of Counties Virginia "Ginger" Delegal was present.
"In light of the new commissioners we've invited Mrs. Delegal to be a guest speaker," said Holmes County Attorney Goodman. "The FAC also holds conferences for new commissioners. It's a privilege to have her here, not only as a speaker but to be available for a question and answer session."
Delegal said she considered herself a "mythbuster."
"The Florida Association of Counties has been around for over 85 years," said Delegal. "One of the myths we frequently bust is that small counties can become chartered. What it all comes down to is home rule."
County Commissioner Kenneth Williams said that Holmes County was discouraged from becoming a chartered county because it would mean less income.
Delegal said this also would be considered a myth.
"If you were to get less money it would because of population, not charter," said Delegal.
She reviewed the definition of a county, how it differs from a city, what forms of government are offered to the counties and what forms of government do other similar sized counties in Florida choose.
"Florida has 67 counties," said Delegal. "20 of which are chartered counties. Historically, a county in Florida was a political subdivision of the state, established by the state to execute state services at the local level."
She defined Home Rule as "the transfer of certain state powers to local entities in matters of local concern, but no complete autonomy."
"This offers locals more control over their internal affairs and alleviates the need for state legislation of local concerns," she said. "Ideas are consistent with traditional American ideals of self governance and independence. This is important for Holmes County to consider because over half of the population of Holmes County live in unincorporated areas of the county and therefore are looking to the county to provide most of the services required to maintain quality of life."
She said some of the benefits of being a chartered county are that the county can "choose form of government, power to tax in unincorporated areas, may alter functions of county officers, can have county ordinances prevail over municipal ordinances, special acts that limit power must be approved by voters and can increase citizen involvement."
"Right now as an non-chartered county ordinances are trumped by city ordinances," said Delegal. "If the county were to become chartered then the county can prevail over city ordinances."
Traditionally, she said, the duties of a county were "assessment of property, record keeping, maintain rural roads, administer elections, perform judicial functions and local law enforcement and public safety," but lately those services have expanded to include "public health and welfare, consumer protection, economic development, employment and training, planning and zoning, water quality, fire protection and emergency management."
Goodman asked for her to relay the benefits of having a County Administrator, County Coordinator or County Manager.
"This is someone who is a staff expert and allows for commissioners someone to consult with outside of the meeting capacity," said Delegal. "As it is now because of the Sunshine Law commissioners can only speak to one another during an officially called meeting or workshop. They are not allowed to talk to one another about county matters outside of an official meeting."
She said one of the worst kind of trouble comes when commissioners talk about a matter in casual settings, such as at a grocery store or via email, and it comes up for vote later on. This could lead to a revoking of the vote and a heavy fine to the county.
"A county manager is one that you can speak with without having to be in a official meeting capacity," she said. "This will allow you to voice your ideas with someone who can advise for or against it before you bring it before the board. This will save quite a bit of time in the future."
Goodman said for the time being he was acting as the advisor for the county as they have had no manager since the departure of Holmes County Administrator Greg Wood in 2009.
"There are certain problems that come with me being your advisor in an administrative capacity," said Goodman. "There will come a time when I won't be able to objectively play both rolls. There could come a time when you will need a witness in the administrative roll and as your attorney I couldn't also be a witness."
Commissioner Bill Parish said he agreed with the attorney about looking into the possibility of county administrator.
"I understand being the consultant of these department heads, but as our attorney you'd have to do all these jobs," said Parish. "I can see the need of an administrator. We're falling short on a county that depends on us for these services."
Delegal advised that the county needed a "staff expert."
"This is someone who is an expert of how staff regulations go," she said. "Someone can be designated this position or this can be added to someone's duties."
Commissioner Monty Merchant told the board that they should consider asking the contractor of the recent bids for graders to extend their contracts.
The previous board was considering purchasing four to six new graders and put it out to bid shortly before the 2012 elections. The bid deadline came shortly after the election when three new commissioners came on board. The three new commissioners said they did not feel comfortable with voting on a bid so soon after being elected and so the bid was tossed out due to deadline.
"We're paying $4,500 a month to lease a grader," said Merchant. "We should do something. Maybe we can get then to extend the bids by another 30 to 60 days."
Parish said that if they were able to get the contractors to consider extending the deadline for that long, which would allow for more time to research the matter, then he would be ready to make an informed decision.
The next regularly scheduled meeting is set for 6 p.m. on Jan. 29 at the BOCC chamber located behind the Holmes County Court House.


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In the United States, the term John Q. Public is used by law enforcement officers to refer to an individual with no criminal bent, as opposed to the terms perp or skell, used to qualify unsavory individuals.
Similar terms for the common family can be Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Public, Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Citizen, or Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Taxpayer
Roughly equivalent, but more pejorative, are the names Joe Six-pack, Joe Blow, and Joe Schmoe, implying a lower-class citizen (from the Yiddish schmo: simpleton, or possibly Hebrew sh'mo: (what's)-his-name).
The equivalent in the United Kingdom is Joe (or Jane) Public, Joe Bloggs, Tommy or Tommy Atkins is the generic soldier's name there. The phrase "Tom, Dick & Harry" is often used usually to indicate possibly unwelcome people as in the phrase "any Tom, Dick and Harry could have..." walked in, picked that up, etc.
The historical and legal equivalent is the man on the Clapham omnibus, although this is a generic description rather than a generic name.
In Australia, John (or Jane) Citizen is usually seen as a placeholder in credit card advertisements, while Joe (or Jane) Bloggs is commonly used in speech. Joe Blow is also in common parlance in Australia, but contains slight overtones of inappropriateness. For example, in the admonishment: "You left the door unlocked and any Joe Blow could have walked right in"
The term "John Q. Public" was originally the name of a character created by Vaughn Shoemaker, an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News, in 1922.

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Control-Alt-Delete (often abbreviated to Ctrl-Alt-Del, also known as the "three-finger salute") is a computer keyboard command on PC compatible systems that can be used to reboot the computer, and summon the task manager or Windows Security in more recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is invoked by pressing the Delete key while holding the Control and Alt keys. It forces a soft reboot, brings up the task manager (on Windows, BeOS, and KDE-based Linuxes) or a jump to ROM monitor. These keys are sometimes referred to in computer manuals as interrupt keys, since they are often used to interrupt the operation of a malfunctioning program.
This keyboard combination was implemented by David Bradley, a designer of the original IBM PC. Bradley originally designed Control-Alt-Escape to trigger a soft reboot, but he found it was too easy to bump the left side of the keyboard and reboot the computer accidentally. He switched the key combination to Control-Alt-Delete, a combination that was impossible to press with just one hand (this is not true of later keyboards, such as the 102-key PC/AT keyboard or the Maltron keyboard). More advanced operating systems use its status as a "reserved" combination for various purposes, but often retain the ability to trigger a soft reboot in certain configurations or circumstances. Bradley is also known for his good-natured jab at Bill Gates, at that time the CEO of Microsoft, and also the creator of many of Microsoft's programs: "I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous". He afterwards elaborated that it was made more famous due to Windows NT logon procedures ("Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to log on"). However, while Bradley implemented the key sequence in the ROM BIOS, he did not invent it; the then chief programmer of the IBM PC Project, Mel Hallerman, did.
As computers became ubiquitous, so too, has the jargon. Control-Alt-Delete can also mean "dump," or "do away with.
Under Windows 3.0 and earlier (and Windows 3.1 running in Standard mode), Control-Alt-Delete simply rebooted the computer as in MS-DOS. In Windows 3.1 running in 386 Enhanced mode, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, this keystroke combination is recognised by the Windows keyboard device driver. According to the value of the LocalReboot option in the [386Enh] section of system.ini, Windows performs one of several actions in response:
Killing tasks/processes is useful, for instance, if a program has entered an infinite loop. Theoretically, the system's other processes should continue normally—in practice, using this key combination to terminate a program/process in Windows 3.1 can result in resources and memory being leaked. As such, it is strongly recommended that, following a process kill in these versions of Windows, any work should be saved in any other applications and Windows should be restarted. Such damage is much less likely in newer versions of DOS-based Windows because of resource tracking.
In Windows 9x, pressing the combination a second time if the process listing has not appeared would display a blue screen from which the user can reboot the system by pressing the combination a third time; other times the system restarts on the second Ctrl-Alt-Delete combination. This allows the user to over-ride any "stuck" process, since no user-level program is able to define its own response to the Control-Alt-Delete key combination. However, this functionality does not always work.
In Windows NT, and thus on its successors, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, this keystroke combination is recognized (as a special system-wide "keyboard hook") by the Winlogon process, which in response instructs GINA to perform one of the following tasks:
Windows NT is designed so that, unless security is already compromised in some other way, only the WinLogon process, a trusted system process, can receive notification of this keystroke combination. This is because the kernel remembers the Process ID of the WinLogon process, and allows only that process to receive the notification. This keystroke combination is thus called the Secure Attention Sequence. A user pressing Control-Alt-Delete can be sure that it is the operating system (specifically the WinLogon process), rather than a third party program, that is responding to the key combination, and that it is therefore safe to enter a password. It was chosen as the secure attention key in Windows (instead of, for example, the System Request key), because on the PC platform no program could reasonably expect to redefine this keystroke combination for its own purposes.
It is also a reliable method for bringing up the Task Manager (in Windows Server 2003 and older). All other keystroke combinations could potentially be exclusively tied up by a process that is stuck, but a user process is not able to intercept the Control-Alt-Delete sequence. It can be however disabled by Windows Group Policies. Ctrl+Shift+Esc also brings up the task manager in all Windows NT versions starting with NT 4.0, even if pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del is set to bring up the Windows Security dialog.
As a side effect, users who do not have physical access to the computer's power supply and power/reset switches can be denied the ability to shut down or restart the computer, where previously (on MS-DOS and other variants of Windows) they could always use Control-Alt-Delete. However, as both the Task Manager and Windows Security have options for shutting down the computer, this operation can still be executed unless the entire system (including the WinLogon process) is unresponsive. Also, it is sometimes impossible to access and/or see the Task Manager after a full-screen application has frozen, although the Windows Security dialog, which is on a separate "secure desktop" almost always appears.
In both cases, the system flushes the page cache, cleanly unmounts all disc volumes, but does not cleanly shut down any running programs (and thus does not save any unsaved documents, or the current arrangements of the objects on the Workplace Shell desktop or in any of its open folders).
In many Linux distributions, init is configured to switch run levels and to perform a soft reboot in response to the signal. Thus it provides a mechanism for a person with physical access to the keyboard to perform system shut down (a task that requires superuser rights to initiate programmatically). However, Linux systems can be configured to ignore the keystroke combination. The setting is usually in the inittab(5) configuration file under the keyword "ca".
In Mac OS X, a windowed process (application program) can be killed with the "Force Quit…" command in the Apple menu (Option-Command-Escape, ⌥⌘⎋). The Activity Monitor application (in "/Applications/Utilities") can be used to quit or force-quit any other process, including invisible processes and applications belonging to other users.
|Key combination
|Acorn Machines (pre-1987)
|Processor reset, although confusingly always referred to as soft reset. Hold down Ctrl as well for so-called hard reset (reinitializes various settings); hold down Shift to boot from disk (or not to, if disk is the default).
|Acorn and post-Acorn RISC OS machines.
|Reset button
|Processor reset, although confusingly always referred to as soft reset. Hold down Ctrl as well for so-called hard reset (reinitializes various settings); hold down Shift to boot from disk (or not to, if disk is the default). Hold down various other keys to restore CMOS settings to safe configurations.
|Ctrl + Break
|Perform a soft reboot.
|Ctrl + Left Amiga (or Commodore) + Right Amiga
|Reboot the machine
|Amstrad CPC 464 and CPC6128
|Ctrl + Shift + Esc
|Reset (cold)
|Amstrad PCW
|Shift + Extra + Exit
|Reset (cold)
|IBM PC under DOS
|Ctrl + Alt + Del
|Perform a soft reboot
|IBM PC under Windows 3.x shell
|Ctrl + Alt + Del
|Close unresponsive applications or (if pressed twice) perform a soft reboot
|IBM PC under Microsoft Windows (95, 98, and Me)
|Ctrl + Alt + Del
|Bring up simplistic task manager (actually "Close Program" dialog) or (if pressed twice) perform a soft reboot
|IBM PC under Windows NT-based OS (NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista)
|Ctrl + Shift + Esc
|Bring up the Windows Task Manager
|Ctrl + Alt + Del
|Also known as the Secure Attention Sequence; bring up the logins screen (when pressed in login screen), or the "Windows security" dialog or (configurable on Windows 2000 and later) the Windows Task Manager (when logged in)
|IBM PC under OS/2
|Ctrl + Esc
|Bring up the Window List (unblocking the synchronous input queue)
|Ctrl + Alt + Del
|Perform a soft reboot
|Ctrl + Alt + NumLock (twice)
|Halt the system and begin a system dump to floppy disk
|IBM PC under Linux
|Ctrl + Alt + Del
|Signal the init process (usually configured to soft reboot)
|Alt + SysRq + function key
|Magic SysRq key: Depending on the function key, performs a certain low-level function. Examples: sync (flush caches), reboot (forced soft reboot), unmount (remount filesystems readonly), etc...
|IBM PC under other OS
|Ctrl + Alt + Del
|Often (but not always) configured to reboot
|Sinclair ZX Spectrum
|Halted peripheral (cassette tape or printer) operations with the report D BREAK - CONT repeats, or halted BASIC programs with the report L BREAK into program.
|Sun workstation
|L1/Stop + A
|Enter ROM monitor
|Sun workstation (serial console)
|Enter ROM monitor
|Alphas running OpenVMS
|Ctrl + P
|Enter ROM Serial Console or reboot, depending on setting in SRM
|Apple II family machines
|Ctrl + Reset
|Enter the monitor or ROM BASIC
|Ctrl + Open Apple + Reset
|Reboot the machine
|Ctrl + Option (Closed Apple) + Reset
|Enter BIOS setup, then reboot
|Ctrl + Option (Closed Apple) + Open Apple + Reset
|Self-test, then reboot
|Ctrl + Open Apple + Escape
|Kill application
|Apple Macintosh computers with power button on keyboard
|Command + Power
|Enter debugger
|Control + Command + Power (sometimes known as a "Control Flower Power")
|Reboot the machine
|Mac OS (7 and later)
|Option + Command + Esc
|Force quit applications
|S60 Platform (used on some mobile phones such as Nokia smartphones)
|Green + * + 3 (while restarting the phone)
|Wipes internal memory and resets the device
|SGI workstation
|Left Shift + Left Ctrl + Left Alt + Keypad Divide + F12
|Restart X server (same as Ctrl + Alt + Backspace below)
|Commodore 64
|Run/Stop + Restore
|Halt (soft reconfiguration) and return to READY prompt
|Commodore 128
|Reset to power on state in current mode Commodore + Reset Reset to C-64 mode. Run/Stop + Reset Reset to ML monitor preserving contents of BASIC memory
|X Window System
|Ctrl + Alt + Backspace
|Restarts windowing system, logging the user out if using an X display manager, kills X otherwise
|On + Clear
|Restarts the calculator and clears RAM
|Mode, Alpha, S
|Shows ROM version number. [Enter] enters self test mode
|2nd, Mode, Alpha, S
|Shows ROM version number. [Enter] enters self test mode
|2nd + Left Arrow + Right Arrow + On
|Restarts the calculator and clears RAM Esc + On Force Break without restarting RAM
|Resets machine back to startup screen.
|Voyage 200
|2nd + Hand + On
|Restarts the calculator and clears RAM
|On + C
|Restarts RPL, clearing the Stack and PICT, closing IO, and returning to the HOME directory (but not purging the memory)
|On + A + F
|As above, but also purges the memory
|Ctrl-Alt-Shift and click an applications entry in the Deskbar
|Kills application
|Zenith IBM-PC clones
|Brings up hardware configuration menu
|Scientific Atlanta Explorer DHCT
|Volume Down + Volume Up + Info (on settop box; not remote)
|Reboots box (starts up to blue EXPLORER screen)
|Olivetti M20
|Ctrl + Reset
|Soft resets the machine
|TI Explorer Lisp Machine
|Left-Ctrl Left-Meta Right-Ctrl Right-Meta Abort
|Restart the system
|Ctrl + Alt + Esc + click on window
|Kill application
|Foxtel Set-top-boxes
|Back + Select (on box; not remote) (except UEC 720). Standby + Foxtel (on box; not remote) (UEC 720). Back + Select + Reset (on box; not remote) (iQ2)
|Power cycles the machine. Pressing [Power], Up, Down, [Power] when lights illuminate on box forces firmware update.
LocalReboot in Windows 95
LocalReboot between Windows 3.x and Windows 95


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