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Washington People often ask me what's the best financial advice I've ever received.
I've interviewed a long list of impressive financial giants. I particularly admire John Bogle, who founded the investment company Vanguard in 1974. His advice is simple and yet sophisticated. And yes, the two can exist in the same investment portfolio. He urges that you watch carefully what you pay to invest and make sure you are well diversified.
Still, the best financial advice I ever received came from my grandmother, a North Carolina-born granddaughter of slaves.
Big Mama always told me that when I wanted to buy something, I should ask myself this one question: "Is this a need or is it a want?"
It seems like a quaint piece of advice, and yet that's what makes it so economically brilliant. It makes you constantly think about what you spend your money on.
With thousands of college graduates moving this month into financial adulthood, I asked subscribers to my weekly e-letter to share the one piece of financial advice they received that made a difference. Here is some of their fiscal wisdom:
• Start investing the day you begin working. Jeff Bond of Vienna, Va., got this advice from his father and grandfather, and he's passed it on to his 21-year-old daughter who just graduated from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte with a bachelor of science in business management. "I told her that she needed to begin planning for retirement on the first day that she begins her career."
• Cash rules. "The best piece of advice I got was from a professor who said, 'If you don't have cash for it, then you don't need it,'" one reader wrote. She said the professor went on to say: "If you can't afford a car, buy a bike. If you can't afford a bike, take the bus. And if you can't afford to take the bus, walk." OK, you probably need to borrow to buy a home, but I agree with the overall sentiment. And yes, contrary to popular belief, you can actually pay cash for a car. It may not be the car you want, but it can fulfill the necessity to get to where you to need to be.
Other insights
• Sleep on it. Make it a rule to take at least a 24-hour timeout on major purchases. "Taking time removes some of the emotion in purchases, and you won't end up with a two-door, cherry red Mustang for your family car," wrote Geoffrey B. LaHaie of Kalamazoo, Mich.
• Don't raise your standard of living every time you get a raise. "Continue to live on your previous salary and save the rest," wrote Kathryn Krumm of Las Vegas. "You can also apply this principle to the excess money that's available once you pay off a debt (a car loan or student loan, for example). Once you've paid off the debt, save the amount you were paying every month."
• Start small. "My best piece of financial advice actually came from you," wrote P. Lee of Washington. "You've said that when trying to tackle multiple debts, start by paying off the smallest first, then the next smallest. The confidence I built with each new paid-in-full and closed account motivated me to take on the next debt. Last year, I paid off five debts (of small and large amounts), making room to build my savings and other obligations."
• Don't use debt to pay off debt. The one bit of wisdom helped Vanessa Simpson and her husband early in their marriage. Simpson said that during a financial seminar at their church, the speaker told them, "You can't borrow your way out of debt."
"That has helped us over the years as we've made financial decisions," said Simpson of Olympia, Wash. "We haven't always done things right, but we would certainly be in a much worse place than we are today if we hadn't heeded that advice."
• Nothing but net. Mary A. C. Fallon, the senior director of communications for StudentAid.com, got the best advice from her father, who advised her to always use her net pay, not gross income, to figure out what she could afford. "Dad cautioned 'net' is the real dollars I would have to spend and save." How true. When you apply for loans, lenders look at your gross income. But don't get stuck on gross as your financial measuring stick. Fallon's father was right. Nothing but net really matters.
All this great advice is a good start. Even if you follow just one, you'll be better off financially.
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This Business of Clients
Should You Fire a Client?
By Simon Chester | Jun.12.12 | Client Service, Daily Dispatch, Law Practice Management, Relationships
In a week of posts devoted to "This Business of Clients," Attorney at Work Advisor Simon Chester has an important reminder about the flip side of client service—the mental toughness required to build your successful practice.
When you are a new lawyer, it seems any client should be welcomed with open arms. More mature lawyers know that's not necessarily so.
Which brings me to a friend of mine who used to practice law in Columbia, SC, and his New Year's ritual of client choice. Let's call him Al—not out of some strange homage to Paul Simon's "Graceland" but because his name is, well, Al.
Every year, Al gave himself a present. Late in the afternoon on New Year's Day, he'd settle into a rocking chair looking out over his back garden, a glass of George Stagg whisky in his hand. Rocking gently, Al would take stock of the year and consider how his firm had fared. How he had done. Not so different from you or me, but Al's annual ritual had a punchline. As he sipped his whisky, he considered each one of his clients—which had been the most difficult, the most challenging to manage, the least pleasant to work with.
Al reckoned there were always a few clients who took more energy than all the others put together. Who were constant trials. Clients whom he could sense would enjoy complaining about him. Or even suing him. Clients who were not worth the trouble.
He would pick one of them. And he would fire that client.
It was always an enormous relief to make the decision. Later, he would wind down the work for the client, finish the last transaction and, with the final bill, send a letter confirming that the attorney-client relationship was at an end.
In this way, year after year, Al struck one client from the list without regret. Over time, his client list came more into focus. These were the clients whose work he enjoyed. Clients who became friends, who paid on time and who valued his work. These clients became the backbone of a very successful firm. And a key part of his firm's success was Al's annual ritual of client choice on a winter's afternoon overlooking the garden.
You don't have to go to Al's lengths. But regularly taking the time to focus on client selection—and deselection—should be part of every lawyer's discipline.
Law practice gurus like Anthony Davis tell us that being rigorous about client selection not only is good for risk management, it's also good for the bottom line. And it's good for lawyer happiness.
It certainly worked for Al.
Simon Chester is a business and litigation partner with Heenan Blaikie in Toronto. His career includes law teaching, government service and 25 years of private practice. A Fellow and past-President of the College of Law Practice Management, he has spoken on professional and technology issues to hundreds of groups in nine countries. Simon blogs at Slaw.
This post from the Attorney at Work archives originally appeared in January 2011.
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Legislation sponsored by Sen. Doug Overbey (R-Maryville) to require a new notice encouraging contact with the lender and exploration of eligibility for relief programs to those in default on home mortgages was adopted by the Senate last night. The House completed work on the measure sponsored by Rep. Kent Coleman (D- Murfreesboro) on Thursday. It now goes to the governor for signature.
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JOSEPH KEVIN ADAMS v. TENNESSEE FARMERS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
Court: TCA
Charles L. Trotter, Jr., Huntingdon, Tennessee, for the appellant, Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Company
J. Brandon McWherter, Clinton H. Scott, Jessica F. Salonus, Jackson, Tennessee, for the appellee, Joseph Kevin Adams
Judge: HIGHERS
The plaintiff made a claim under his homeowner's insurance policy after his house burned. The insurer denied the claim because, after the policy was issued, the plaintiff deeded the property to his sons so that it would pass to them if he died, and he did not notify the insurer. The plaintiff sued the insurer for breach of contract. The insurer claimed that the plaintiff had no insurable interest in the property, that he breached a "warranty of ownership" under the policy, that he had a duty to disclose the change of ownership after the policy issued, and that he violated a provision of the policy addressing concealment and fraud. The trial court ruled in favor of the plaintiff and ordered the insurer to pay him approximately $72,000 in accordance with the policy limits. The trial court also awarded discretionary costs to the plaintiff, but it denied the plaintiff's request for prejudgment interest. The insurer appeals, claiming that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover under the policy for various reasons, and that the trial court erred in awarding the plaintiff discretionary costs. The plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in declining to award prejudgment interest. We affirm the trial court's award pursuant to the insurance policy and its award of discretionary costs, and we vacate the portion of the judgment denying the request for prejudgment interest and remand for such an award.
SAMANTHA MACKUS KNIGHT v. JAMES DARRELL MACKUS
Court: TCA
Bradley C. Ball, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, James Darrell Mackus
T. Tarry Beasley, II, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellee, Samantha Mackus Knight
Judge: HIGHERS
At the parties' divorce, Mother was named primary residential parent of their minor child and Father was allowed visitation. The parties continued living together for approximately one year following their divorce, and thereafter, they exercised alternating one-week visitation for approximately one year. Father petitioned to be named primary residential parent citing his increased visitation with the child as a material change in circumstances. The trial court denied his petition without making the findings required by Tennessee Code Annotated section 36-6-101(a)(2)(B)(i). We vacate the trial court's order denying Father's petition, and we remand to the trial court with instructions to make the necessary findings and then to render its decision accordingly.
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DARRELL ANDERSON
Court: TCCA
Paul J. Springer, Memphis, Tennessee, for the Defendant-Appellant, Darrell Anderson.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Lacy Wilber, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Damon K. Griffin, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: MCMULLEN
Defendant-Appellant, Darrell Anderson, was convicted by a Shelby County jury of first degree premeditated murder and sentenced to life. In this appeal, he presents the following issues for our review: (1) whether the evidence was sufficient to support his conviction; (2) whether the trial court erred in giving a description of photographs that were not in evidence in response to a jury question; (3) whether the trial court erred in denying him an opportunity to make an offer of proof regarding the truthfulness of an officer's testimony; (4) whether the trial court erred in making comments in the presence of the jury which were unfairly prejudicial; (5) whether the trial court erred in excluding certain evidence; (6) whether he was unfairly prejudiced by the conduct of the State; (7) whether the trial court erred in qualifying an expert and admitting his conclusions; and (8) whether the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the State's duty to preserve evidence. Upon review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ROBERT CHRISTOPHER DIAL
Court: TCCA
Lawrence W. Moon, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, Columbia, Tennessee, for the appellant, Robert Christoper Dial..
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Cameron L. Hyder, Assistant Attorney General; Mike Bottoms, District Attorney General, and Brent Cooper, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: SMITH
In Maury County on June 17, 2002, Appellant pled guilty to two counts of attempted aggravated sexual battery. He was sentenced to two six-year sentences to be served consecutively. He was placed on probation. After violating probation, he was placed on Community Corrections. On July 10, 2008, Appellant's Community Corrections officer filed a violation report. After a hearing, the trial court revoked Appellants Community Corrections sentence and ordered him to serve his full twelve year sentence. On appeal, Appellant argues that the trial court abused it discretion in revoking his Community Corrections sentence and that the trial court did not have authority to impose the full twelve year sentence. We conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in revoking the Community Corrections sentence. However, we agree with Appellant that he had previously served the first six-year consecutive sentence, and the trial court can only impose the remaining six-year sentence. Therefore, we affirm the revocation of the Community Corrections sentence, and modify Appellant's sentence to six years.
DERRICK D. FUTCH v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Court: TCCA
Derrick D. Futch, Henning, Tennessee, Pro Se.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Cameron L. Hyder, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Glenn Baitey, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: MCLIN
The petitioner, Derrick D. Futch, pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony. The trial court sentenced him to 8 years, at 100 percent, in the Tennessee Department of Correction. The petitioner filed a petition for post-conviction relief, which the post-conviction court summarily dismissed. The petitioner appeals the summary dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief. After a review of the record, the parties' briefs, and applicable law, we reverse the judgment of the post-conviction court and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MARQUENTIS JOHNSON
Court: TCCA
George Morton Googe, District Public Defender, and Gregory D. Gookin, Assistant Public Defender, Jackson, Tennessee, for the defendant, Marquentis Johnson.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Cameron L. Hyder, Assistant Attorney General; Jerry Woodall, District Attorney General; and Shaun A. Brown, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: MCLIN
The defendant, Marquentis Johnson, pleaded guilty on June 20, 2005 to two counts of theft over $1,000, Class D felonies, and one count of theft over $500, a Class E felony, pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement. The trial court sentenced him as a standard offender to four years for each count of theft over $1,000 and two years for theft over $500, to be served concurrently for an effective sentence of four years in Community Corrections. The Circuit Court of Madison County revoked the defendant's community corrections sentence and resentenced him as a standard offender to serve each sentence consecutively, for an effective sentence of ten years, in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On appeal, the defendant challenges the circuit court's imposition of consecutive sentencing. Following our review, we affirm the judgment of the circuit court.
RODNEY NELSON v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Court: TCCA
Sean H. Muizers, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Rodney Nelson.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Leslie E. Price, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Abby Wallace and Alanda Dwyer, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: WILLIAMS
The petitioner, Rodney Nelson, appeals the Shelby County Criminal Court's denial of his petition for post-conviction relief. The petitioner, in three separate cases, pled guilty to eight counts of aggravated robbery, Class B felonies, and two counts of aggravated burglary, Class C felonies, and received an effective sentence of 21.6 years as a mitigated offender. On appeal, the petitioner raises the single issue of whether his guilty plea was entered knowingly and voluntarily. Following review of the record, we find no error and affirm the denial.
CHARLES OWENS v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Court: TCCA
Charles E. Walker, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Charles Owens.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; John H. Bledsoe, Assistant Attorney General; Victor S. Johnson, III District Attorney General, and Brian Holmgren, Assistant District Attorney General for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: SMITH
Petitioner, Charles Owens, was convicted by a Davidson County jury of six counts of aggravated sexual battery. He received a sentence of twenty-four years. State v. Charles Owens, No. M2005-02571-CCA-R3-CD, 2007 WL 1094136, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App., at Nashville, Apr. 12, 2007), perm. app. denied, (Tenn. Aug. 20, 2007). Petitioner's convictions were affirmed on appeal. Id. Petitioner subsequently sought post-conviction relief on the basis of alleged ineffective assistance of counsel. After an evidentiary hearing, the post-conviction court denied the petition for relief. Petitioner appeals, arguing that the post-conviction court improperly denied the petition for relief. We agree with the post- conviction court that Petitioner failed to show that he received ineffective assistance of counsel for counsel's failure to object to various things at trial, in part because this Court had already determined on direct appeal that the alleged "prosecutorial misconduct" at trial did not affect the outcome of trial. Accordingly, because we determine that the post-conviction court properly dismissed the petition for post-conviction relief, the judgment of the post- conviction court is affirmed.
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSEPH RAY PINSON
Court: TCCA
Rickey W. Griggs and Shana Johnson, Assistant Public Defenders, Somerville, Tennessee, for the Defendant-Appellant, Joseph Ray Pinson.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Clarence E. Lutz, Assistant Attorney General; D. Michael Dunavant, District Attorney General; and Bob G. Gray, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: MCMULLEN
The Defendant-Appellant, Joseph Ray Pinson, was convicted by a McNairy County jury of rape of a child, a Class A felony. He was sentenced as a child rapist to twenty years in the Tennessee Department of Correction. Pinson claims on appeal that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. Upon review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
MICHELLE SHOEMAKER v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Court: TCCA
Rebecca Brady, Cookeville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Michelle Shoemaker..
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Assistant Attorney General; Ton P. Thompson, Jr., District Attorney General, and Justin Harris, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: SMITH
Petitioner, Michelle Shoemaker, was unsuccessful in her direct appeal to this Court from her convictions in Jackson County for first degree murder, conspiracy and tampering with evidence. These convictions resulted in an effective life sentence. See State v. Michelle Shoemaker, No. M2005-02652-CCA-R3-CD, 2006 WL 3095446 (Tenn. Crim. App., at Nashville, Nov. 2, 2006), perm. app. denied, (Tenn. March 12, 2007). Following her unsuccessful direct appeal, she filed a petition for post-conviction relief alleging that she was afforded ineffective assistance of counsel by both her trial and appellate counsel. After conducting an evidentiary hearing on the post-conviction petition, the post-conviction court denied the petition. Petitioner now appeals the post-conviction court's denial of her petition. After a thorough review of the record, we conclude that Petitioner has been unable to prove that either trial or appellate counsel were ineffective. Therefore, we affirm the post- conviction court's denial of the petition.
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ANTONIO VAUGHN
Court: TCCA
Wendy S. Tucker (on appeal) and Jeremy Parham (at trial), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Antonio D. Vaughn.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Deshea Dulany Faughn, Assistant Attorney General; Victor S. Johnson III, District Attorney General; and Bret Thomas Gunn, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: MCLIN
A Davidson County jury found the defendant, Antonio Vaughn, guilty of possession of not less than one-half ounce nor more than ten pounds of marijuana with intent to sell or deliver within one thousand feet of a school, a class D felony. The trial court sentenced him, as a Range III career offender, to serve 12 years, at 100 percent, in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and the denial of his motion for a mistrial. After reviewing the parties' briefs, the record, and applicable law, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. CORTERRIUS WORTHY
Court: TCCA
Robert Wilson Jones, District Public Defender, and Barry W. Kuhn, Assistant Public Defender, for the appellant, Corterrius Worthy.
Robert E. Cooper, Attorney General and Reporter; David H. Findley, Senior Counsel; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Lora Fowler, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
Judge: WILLIAMS
The defendant, Corterrius Worthy, appeals the sentencing decision of the Shelby County Criminal Court. The defendant entered an open guilty plea to one count of robbery, a Class C felony. Following a hearing, the trial court denied the defendant's application for judicial diversion and sentenced the defendant to a term of three years. The court also denied the defendant's request for probation and ordered that the sentence be served in the Shelby County Workhouse. On appeal, the defendant argues that the trial court erred by denying judicial diversion and failing to grant probation. Following review of the record, we find no error and affirm the judgment of the trial court.
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Johnson City lawyer on daytime TV
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Opinion: Schools are not religious-free zones
The director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum, a project of the First Amendment Center, explains in an opinion piece how a Washington state case is part of recent "misbegotten efforts to turn public schools into religion-free zones." In the case, Nurre v. Whitehead, school officials barred students from playing an instrumental version of "Ave Maria" at graduation in 2006. When the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, Charles C. Haynes writes, "it sent a message to school officials that they have broad authority to ban any and all student expression that touches on religion at school events." Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., in his dissent, said his First Amendment concern wasn't with school endorsement of religion, but rather with school suppression of free speech.
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Crone, Mason take practices in different directions
The Memphis law firm Crone & Mason PLC has dissolved and former managing partner Alan Crone has joined Bruce Kramer to start Kramer + Crone PLC. Former partner Miles Mason has started Miles Mason Family Law Group LLC. The long-time friends and partners decided to dissolve the firm as it became increasingly difficult to market the two very different practices in which the partners were engaged, Crone said. Crone was a litigator who focused on business and commerical issues, including mass torts. Mason has focused solely divorce and custody issues.
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Resolution opposing health care law passes House
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College mock trial finals in Memphis this weekend
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Participants to tell what it was like at the sit-ins
The Tennessee State Museum will host a panel discussion, "In Their Own Words: Reflections of the Nashville Sit-Ins," with participants of those sit-ins that began 50 years ago. The panel discussion will be held at the museum Saturday, April 17, at 2 p.m. It is open and free to the public.
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In this lab, you will again be experimenting with the performance of a C++ program, measuring the number of clock cycles needed to execute the central portion of the program. Unlike in Lab 3, the program is for a real purpose (simulating Conway's Game of Life), rather than just cooked up to test computers' performance. Another major difference from Lab 3 is that the focus this time is on the memory system. This time let's try doing the lab with each student working independently.
You will need to write a clear report that explains what you did (so that someone else could replicate your experiment), provides the factual results of your experiment, and discusses what interpretation you place on those results. Your report should be aimed at an audience with background similar to our course, but without specific knowledge of this lab assignment.
For simplicity, you are welcome to stick with just a single
computer rather than comparing the performance of two different kinds
of computer. Be sure to specify which kind of computer you used; by
looking at the file
/proc/cpuinfo, you can find both the
name of the processor and the amount of cache it has. The cache size
listed here is for the L2 cache, which is likely to be the relevant
one for the experiments you are conducting. In order to provide a
really satisfactory interpretation of your results, you will also find
it useful to know such attributes of the cache as its associativity
and block size. As I demonstrated in class, this information is
available within the
directory. The L1 cache information is also available there, if you
want to go the extra mile and document that for the sake of
You will need to download two files: life.cpp, which is the actual C++ source code of the program, and cyccounter.h, which is a helper file that contains the necessary definitions for using the processor's cycle counter to get exact timings in units of clock cycles. To compile the program, use the following command:
g++ -o life -O life.cpp
You can run the program using a command like
./life 200 100 20 10 0 1
The meaning of most of these numbers will become apparent from the program's output, but to find the full story, you can read a comment at the top of the source file.
If you read the program, you'll see that the main portion, which is timed, loops through the generations one by one, and for each generation, loops over all the columns and rows of cells. For each cell in each generation, the work done is the same: adding up how many neighbors are live and then (in a second pass over the cells) setting the cell to be alive or dead based on the number of living neighbors and the cell's own prior status. Because this same work is done for each cell in each generation, one might think that the number of clock cycles would scale up approximately proportionately to the number of cells and generations. How well, or poorly, does your experimental evidence comport with this hypothesis of approximate proportionality? Be sure you examine cases where the number of cells is small relative to the L2 cache size and cases where the number of cells is large relative to the L2 cache size. You may not be able to explain all of the phenomena you observe, but you should at least give some idea what may be going on.
Some widths of cell grids may be particularly interesting, for reasons that have to do with their particular numerical values rather than their general size. For example, 4094 isn't much larger than 4000, but it has a special property: when you add in two border cells, each row winds up occupying 4096 bytes, which is exactly 2 to the 12th power. Does this make the program perform differently? Can you improve its performance in this case by adding a little bit of padding to each row? (The program has a built-in feature for adding a specifiable amount of padding to each row.) You ought to be able to connect your results to the structural organization of the L2 cache.
Each time the program loops over all the cells, it does it with two nested loops that start with these lines:
for(int col = 1; col <= width; col++){ for(int row = 1; row <= height; row++){
If you interchange these two lines in the two places they appear within the timed portion of the program, the program will still produce the same results, but it will process the cells in a different order. How does this affect its performance? You should recompile the modified program the same way as shown earlier in this lab handout and should repeat the timing experiments you've previously done. In accounting for your results, you may want to know that both the Pentium 4 and the Core 2 can prefetch a cache block in advance of any access to that block, if the preceding block is being read sequentially.


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Agathon (Greek Ἀγάθων) (c. 448–400 BCE) was an Athenian tragic poet and friend of Euripides.
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- μόνου γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ θεὸς στερίσκεται,
ἀγένητα ποιεῖν ἅσσ᾽ ἂν ᾖ πεπραγμένα.
- Even God cannot change the past.
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, sect. 2, 1139b.
- It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
- Aristotle, Poetics, XXV, quoted by George Eliot in an epigraph to Chapter 41 of Daniel Deronda.
- Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.
- Stobaeus, Florilegium, XL, VI, 24, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (1897), p. 515.


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Barcelona travel to London with their homework done (Preview)
London, Feb 22 (IANS) Spanish football club Barcelona can travel to London on Monday ahead of Tuesday's Champions League tie away to Arsenal confident that they have done their job in domestic competition and can focus all their attention on retaining the Champions League and perhaps repeating last season's treble.
Luis Enrique's side were far from their best in their 2-1 victory away to Las Palmas on Saturday but that win, coupled with draws for title rivals Atletico and Real Madrid, saw them open an eight-point lead over Atletico and nine over Real with just 13 games remaining this season, reports Xinhua.
Bearing in mind that Real entertain their neighbours next Saturday, which means one or both will drop further points and that Real Madrid have never clawed back a nine-point deficit in the title race with 13 games remaining, Enrique could be forgiven a wry smile as he boards the plane to London, especially if one remember's that his side have also reached the final of the King's Cup for the third year in succession.
The Barcelona coach rested some players on Saturday, following with his tactic of squad rotation and will be pleased to welcome Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Gerard Pique back to his starting 11 in the Emirates Stadium.
Meanwhile, the attacking trio of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar is not open to negotiation and they will look to find weaknesses of an Arsenal defence which at times has looked vulnerable despite the pace of central defender Laurent Koscielny and young Catalan Hector Bellerin.
Ter Stegen will return in goal while Messi will be aiming to break his duck against Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech, who he has never scored against in six previous encounters, although those were when Cech was playing for Chelsea.
Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger, who watched as his side were held to 0-0 in the FA Cup by second division leaders Hull City on Saturday, will be aware that his side have never clinched a tie against Barcelona, with just one win, two draws and six defeats in their nine meetings (including the 2006 final).
However, he will also know that with fit-again Danny Welbeck on the subs' bench along with Theo Walcott, he has options, while the time may have come for former Real Madrid midfielder Mesut Ozil, who has 18 assists this season, to step up to the plate when it really matters.
The thing is, he is up against a rival who has already done his homework.


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Mall Fight RP: (CLOSED) (FINISHED)
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I take one of the tiki-torches and use my flames to light it and proceed to burn down the food court. I pull the javelin from my arm, and barely manage to polevault onto the second floor. From there, I try to weave my way to the bathroom to lick my wounds.
Meanwhile, I've been in the hardware store ignoring all the carnage and making a fun house of mirrors as well as a few doors painted on walls with fake doorknobs coated in superglue so they'll be stuck there forever should someone attempt to open it. "trapdoors" if you will. I lie in wait behind the only door out of the 30 odd fake ones that I've painted and have a little snooze.
Come find me... if you dare! MUHUHAHAHAHA!!!
Meanerwhile, the fire in the food court spreads immensely and the surrounding shops soon start to catch fire, including but not limited to, the liquor store, adult film shop, and the game shop. I finally exit the bathroom, wounds healing, to see the carnage I have wrought. I rush to the old-school photo shop and grab as many filament plates as possible.
AGH! a fire! I quickly run out of the shop being sure to grab a paint can as a hat.
It's just like my father used to say
"Son, if ever you get into a fight... If ever someone is pushing you around... if ever you reach your limit and you just want to lash out against the commies running this government, stick a paint can on your head and hop around barking. No one will perceive you as a threat and then you can strike when they least expect it! Besides, paint is delicious."
Wise words, the last words I ever heard him say before he challenged that bus to a game of chicken. The bus won.
Anyway enough contrived flashbacks, I thought as I plopped the can over my head.
In my mad dash to find filament plates, I spy a man wearing a paint can as a hat woofing and jumping about. I leave him be as I set about destroying the stores on the second floor by striking the filament plates to create sparks (I saw this in a batman comic, trust me.) and make them explode. I yell to the man supposedly running this 'game', "I'll find a way out of this if I have to blow up the whole mall! You hear me? I'M NOT PLAYING YOUR GAME, G-MAN."
"You're not leaving here, Salt. Not unless you want to take a long walk down a short airlock."
Not noticing the man next to me, I grab him by the collar and slam him against the and start beating him with the nail board. "I'M! NOT! LISTENING!" I shout as each blow comes on. After the man known as G is made into an unrecognizable bloody pulp, I tilt my head back and laugh loudly.
The G-Man thought he could beat me.
He never met Salty Effin Jones.
The man on the PA laughs as Salt beats up a store mannequin. He plays a song over the intercom.
"WHO'S NEXT?" I shouted, ripping the head off the mannequin as a trophy. Spying a security camera looking down at me, I whip the head at it, smashing it. I then hear the song blasted over the intercom. I blocked my ears, it had to be some sort of hypnosis song conjured by the G-Man. He was somehow still alive.
Turning my attention to the man in the paint can get-up, I dropped down to the first floor and hucked a javelin at his paint can, a modern day William Tell. I motioned a 'come at me bro' as I ran into the burning game shop.
I hear Hotel California playing over the intercom as I pop up in the same washing machine I was in before, this time with the door open, luckily. I strip down and begin acting out the opening scenes of the Terminator movies. I see Salt busy running towards a flaming shop.
I jump on his back and begin smashing his head into the floor. When I'm done with that and sufficiently happy with the pulp his skull has become, I take his clothes, put them on, and begin laughing and pointing at nothing anybody else can see.
I rush to the bathroom to give my time to rest, and let my scars heal. After a while, I'm satisfied and I head back out. "Let's see, I need a can of WD-40, a lighter, a nail gun, and some duct tape. I look triumphantly at my flaming nail gun, "Boy am I glad I watched 'Bite Me.'" I then rip open a portal to the gameshop and shower the store with a hail of flaming nails, catching Ryhno in the chest three times. "Gotcha." I then run away so he can't catch me.
"Hey Grim. How you liking the new toy?"
"I love it. . . wait a minute, you aren't going to make it explode or anything like that are you?"
Respawning in front of a vending machine on the second floor, I spy my killer looking about at nothing. I move silently as I start breaking store windows to set off the burglary alarms. In all the din of the alarms, I leap down with the largest glass shard I could find and slash Rhyno's wrists and throat, leaving him to choke on his blood. I retrieve my clothes and decide to prop his body up to look as if he is flipping off a standee of Gandhi.
I rush back to the mall square, leap aboard my lawnmower, and challenge the G-Man to a lancing duel, using a lit tiki-torch as an improvised lance.
"Not necessarily."
Grim hears a lock shut inside the saw.
"The portal system runs on a charge. It should really only be used when you need to get somewhere in a hurry, but I figured I would let you have fun with it for the day. At least you still have a very nice saw."
"It would have been nice to know that BEFORE I started using it." I walked off with a bad look on my face and soon saw Salt on his makeshift chariot. I aimed my nail gun at him and fired a 3-round burst into his head with each nail hitting its mark.
"If you use it now, it will take you to your own storage room. Anything you find in the Mall you can put in there. Just don't expect it to help you escape a fight."
"Can I use it infinitely or is there a finite amount of times that I can use that ability?"
"As long as you're in the Mall, you can use it anytime you want."
I spawn beside an ice cream van, getting inside and driving it to the garage for "preparations".
"Lets see, Power washers, Petrol, gas canisters...."
The van is placed onto a platform as work is begun....
OOOH SHIT! The javelin was impaled through the paint can in such a way that it miraculously managed to miss my head and went straight through to the other side.
That was lucky thought I, but as I tried to get up I then realised the peril of my situation. I couldn't get up. The javelin had gone straight through the paint can missed my head somehow and it now had its pointy end firmly lodged in the wall. I could flail my arms and legs around all I like but my head was set firmly in place.
So I did flail them around pointlessly, hoping to get a kill by kicking someone in the head before someone put me out of my misery.
I sit in the food court looking over all the parts I'd need for my next weapon.
-PVC piping
I head off to go find the materials I'd need.
As I walk passed Derek, I turn to him and ask. "Need a hand?" in a sarcastic tone, far enough away from Derek so he couldn't hit me.
I kick open the front doors of The Mall, a tanto in each hand, and a slasher smile creeping out from under the brim of my trilby.
A disc slaps me in the face, distracting me from my sweet fuelled reverie. The sugar high meant that I only felt it hours after the impact. I flip out, granted extra speed by the copious amounts of chemicals running through my body. Leaping into the corridor I notice a man affixed to the wall by a javelin flailing madly, I use his own flails to detach his limbs with my sabre,leaving just a torso stuck to the wall. I see Zeph out of the corner of my eye and hack at his face with the blood covered sabre, it slips from my hand while still embedded in his face and I beat him to a pulp with the baseball bat. Noises alert me to something dangerous.
"That bastard's got a nail gun." I beat open a ventilation shaft and crawl inside to stealth my way to Grim.
I awake back in the boiler room for some reason. I must of stumbled in there after Trilby threw the stale loaf of bread at me. My face is still painted blue and white. Plus I still have my weapons. I open the door to be greeted by extreme sense of carnage. I see Paddy climbing into the ventilation shaft. I remember Grim threatening me. I shrug and return to the boiler room, to continue waiting for attackers.
"Hmm, a flaming nail gun won't cut it forever." So I head to a hardware store and grab a four foot long lead pipe, and then I go to the gardening store and grab a lawn mower blade. I open a portal to my storage room and place both items there. I then leave and go back to the hardware store to grab a blow torch. I head back to my storage room, and begin creating my makeshift sword
I reach a grille above Grim just as he disappears into the portal.
"I probably shouldn't have dropped all that acid before coming to the mall."
I drop down into the open space and await a challenge.
Explosives - LOCKED
"Can't let you do that, Bryghtside."
I continue running around the Mall, then see Paddy.
Realising that death is near I use my lighter on my sleeves. I rugby tackle Trilby and scream
"How d'ya like these for firearms motherfucker?" I hold him a bear hug until I bleed out.
I sit down and burn to death.
"Yes, good... GOOD!"
Its time.... With my vehicle complete, I drive out of the garage.
I respawn in the path of the pimped out ice cream truck. Diving through the windscreen I grapple with Ninja, before realising I'm heavily bleeding and being thrown out and into a shop window. I get myself a set of nunchuks (apologising for the probably incorrect internal spelling) and gaffer tape some knives to the business ends. I then attach them to ends of two katanas, which I chain together, I repeat the process and and run outside trailing blood and chains.
I stop beside Paddy.
"Want a lift?" While keeping my idle hand beside a concealed flamethrower.
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Bethlehem standoff
Updated 11:57 pm, Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Photo: Cindy Schultz
BETHLEHEM -- A man who barricaded himself inside his home on the 500 block of Bridge Street has surrendered, authorities said.
Lt. Thomas Heffernan said the man was emotionally disturbed and taken to a local hospital for an evaluation.
The incident began to unfold just after 3 p.m. and concluded around 3:45 p.m., authorities said.
The man had locked himself in a room and threatened to harm himself, an official familiar with the incident said.
Bethlehem police did not comment on the situation.


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Robert Perkins - Artist. (aka Robby, Robbie, Perkins)
Also paints Portraits and Pet Portraits in oils, acrylics and mixed media.
Together with Painting Robert works as
Production Designer TV & Film he has worked in Stage Design for Drama,
Ballet, Opera
and Book Illustrations for various book publishers.
More recent Film/TV design:
Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries, (Series 1 and 2)
'Wentworth' and feature film 'Patrick'


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First published in 1929 in the journal Proletarskaya Revolutsia No. 7.
Sent from Zurich to Christiania.
Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 36, pages 393-396.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive. You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work, as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit "Marxists Internet Archive" as your source. • README
For Alexander
May 23, 1916
Dear Friend,
I have only just received from Grigory your letter to him of May 19.
You write that "the correspondence and negotiations with Kommunist have become a terrible bore". I quite understand you, but do have patience! You can't, after all, once you have set about negotiating, have attacks of nerves and fall into despair. That's not the proletarian way, really and truly.
You put two questions: (1) to co-opt two more (C.O. supporters) to the editorial board; (2) to start a Discussion Section in Kommunist.
On the first point you write: "From conversations with them I realise that they have nothing against it, though of course it grieves them."
I began thinking about your plan. I think that to take on non-writers (particularly after all our sad experiments) would be an absolute iniquity, something we could not justify before the Party. We could, perhaps, find one writer (I have one in my mind; I must find out more about him, and think it over again and again, before saying yes or no). It's much harder getting another one.
Could you modify your plan, to make it workable, in this way: either the C.O. editorial board co-opts two Party writers, if they are available (then there will be seven); or, if it manages to find only one, the publishers (the Kievskys, he and she) delegate one of their number to the editorial board (then there will be five: Bukharin+a publisher+three here)?
(I personally would find the latter particularly suitable, because (a) it would obviate the need to invent editors; (b) it would not reduce the "rights" of the publishers, because it is all the same to have one to one or two to two; (c) it would create an editorial board of writers, which is extremely important in a Party sense, to combat the striving abroad for editorial positions.)
Think it over and reply (if not inconvenient, probe the ground among the publishers).
As regards the Discussion Section, your plan is debatable, if it is implemented in a practical way and if one little thing, which you could not have known of, is eliminated.
In a practical way means laying down precisely who has the right to have a discussion article inserted. All members of the editorial board. That is unquestionable. Is it sufficient? I think it is. The editorial board will consist of five or seven persons.
The "one little thing" is this. A discussion within the Party. Undoubtedly. Well, but what about inflaming differences or opening doors for groups abroad which are not in the Party? This is the point. The publishers made Kommunist impossible, because they did not want any discussion, they did not write or prepare anything at all for discussion—but played on Radek's striving to crawl through the cracks of our Party from outside. Radek and the Nashe Slovo people, and many others among the groups abroad, are simply straining, in the guise of discussion, to bring about divisions amongst us, to blow up discontents, and hamper our work (an old game of exiles abroad!).
You may not know that Radek pushed us out of the Vorbote editorial board. It was initially agreed that there would be a joint editorial board composed of two groups: (1) the Dutch (maybe+Trotsky) and (2) us (i.e., Radek, Grigory and me). This condition gave us equal rights on the editorial board.
Radek intrigued for months, and got the "missus" (Roland-Hoist) to cancel this plan. We were demoted to the position of contributors. It's a fact!
Is it proper to reward Radek for this feat by giving him the right to "discuss", and the publishers, the right to hide behind Radek? That will be not discussion, but dissension and intrigue. (1) Gazeta Robotnicza (February 1916), in which Radek participates, carried some purely factional attacks on us, and a resolution on Nashe Slovo lines. (2) Now on the question of assessing the Irish insurrection (a most important question, is it not? Not. abstract "theory"!) both Radek[1] and Kulisher (the Cadet in Rech[2] are in full agreement, stupidly calling it a "putsch".
This is incredible, but it's a fact!
If, in the guise of "discussion", the publishers want to provide a platform for all the groups abroad wishing to fight our Party without joining it, that is not discussion, it is a game.
X If they don't want this, why not lay down precisely, for example, that the right to open discussions is restricted (1) to members of the editorial board; (2) to the Party organisations in Russia; (3) to the C.O.A.,[3] being the X organisation of the Party outside Russia?
Kommunist was an alliance with the Dutch and Radek. This alliance has been changed by the fact that we were downgraded in the Dutch-Radek journal from editors to contributors. So don't cherish any harmful illusions about the alliance remaining the same! These are harmful illusions! We have to go forward ourselves, not allowing our hands to be tied. Not in any way.
The practical conclusion: think over (and I will think it over and write to Grigory about it) the following §§:
1) the composition of the editorial board is changed: 5 or 7 (see above);
2) another title is chosen (Sbornik or the like);
X\ 3) explicit rules of discussion (e.g., in the spirit of | ]; X'
4) Switzerland to be the place of publication (for some reason you don't mention this point. Why?);
5) the income is divided in such-and-such a way. Will the publishers agree to provide 1/2 for the cost of transport and of maintenance for the organiser of contacts, etc., i.e., yourself?
V. Ulyanov
Thousands of best wishes, and don't let your nerves go. Chiefs have no right to have fits of nerves!
[1] A reference to Radek's article "Ein ausgespieltes Lied" (Their Song Is Over) which appeared in Berner Tagwacht No. 108, May 9, 1916. For Lenin's assessment, see the article "The Discussion on Self-Determination Summed Up" (see present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 354–55).
[2] The article by A. Kulisher, "The Dublin Putsch", referred to here, appeared in Rech No. 102, April 15 (28), 1916.
[3] The Committee of the Organisation Abroad was set up in December 1911 at a conference of Bolshevik groups abroad.


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Skiing is a great family holiday. Its combination of healthy outdoor pursuits, breathtaking scenery and kid-friendly cuisine of crepes, chocolate and cheese draws thousands to the slopes year after year.
However, for those who skied before kids, be warned, it's also the polar opposite to the booze-fuelled piste parties of yesteryear. And I don't just mean the cruel absence of Jagermeister.
At Christmas, we embarked on our first family skiing holiday. I say embarked because in the run up it was akin to the preparation Captain Scott underwent on his first expedition to the Antarctic.
I had a romantic vision of the family gliding down the slopes five-abreast in matching neon ski-suits like minor members of the royal family. Swinging our legs with joyful glee as we sat arm in arm on a chairlift, the gentle snowball fights and mugs of vin chaud in cosy alpine refuges. In short, living the ski dream.
In reality, a skiing holiday with kids is utterly exhausting. If you've booked ski lessons in the morning, it's like doing the school run but in minus-10 and with balance-challenged penguins.
On a positive note, ski school is a blessing. Not only does it give kids the best start in the sport, but it means that parents will have the luxury of time on the slopes sans enfants.
Here are some other ski facts they won't tell you about prior to your holiday...
1. Your new role as ski mule.
I would strongly suggest building your upper body strength to Thor standards prior to your holiday, because as a parent you will be expected to carry EVERYTHING. Skis, poles, gloves, spare gloves (see point 2), and any number of inconsequential items. "Where's my polar bear, I can't ski without him."
You'll then find yourself in the gondola with eight armfuls of equipment before one will whisper, "I need a wee..."
2. Bring spare gloves, hats, scarfs and patience.
Do not underestimate the need for spare items of clothing. Mittens and gloves come with a death wish and will fling themselves off chairlifts, be left in cable cars, under tables or on ski buses if not monitored very, very closely.
Ditto hats, scarves, ski poles and anything else not secured by chains. And don't forget to threaten arrest by the mountain police if any child removes the ski pass from their coat.
3. The icy cold fear you will feel.
Children are born without the fear gene, so prepare yourself for the icy spear of dread that will pierce your beating heart as your precious offspring go gung-ho down the slopes after just two lessons.
My heart missed several dozen beats when I spied my nine-year old daughter, Lola, from the chairlift just as she launched full throttle down a slope without turning once. Then when I saw her brother crouched Ski Sunday-style at the top of a rather hairy red run, I was almost airlifted off the mountain such was my distress.
4. Why a catered chalet beats self-catering.
Skiing is a notoriously expensive holiday, but if funds will stretch I would choose a catered chalet over self-catering, because boy, are you going to need some pampering (not to mention a vat of wine) after a day on the slopes with the kids.
If, like us, you've opted to go self-catering, then prepare to cook meals using little more than a camping stove, a sieve and a spatula. Chalets and apartments are always under equipped, they do, however, all have a corkscrew.
5. Forget apres ski. There is no apres ski.
A major attraction of any skiing holiday is, of course, the apres ski. Sadly, apres is gifted only to those without children. Long gone are the endless hours in the bar drinking jugs of beer chased down by shots of toffee vodka and Jagermeister with 20-year old snowboarders, before staggering back to the chalet with one ski and a jester hat.
In my experience, children, even my children who generally love a pub, will point-blank refuse to enter any bar straight from the slopes, no matter how much chocolat chaud you promise them.
6. Death by tantrums
Trying to get off a ski lift with a child in full tantrum over the wrong colour goggles is one of those parenting moments which makes you wish you had opted for a labrador instead.
As one with a fear of heights, chairlifts are not my favourite places at the best of times, but when seconds from imminent death because the 12-year old taunts the nine-year old by threatening to unclick her skis, your screams will echo round the mountains like a four-letter yodel.
But despite all this, and the fact that you will need a proper holiday to get over it, skiing is brilliant fun and I would, without a doubt, do it all over again next year.
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Growth Continues For Amsdell Companies With The Acquisition Of A Class 'A' Self Storage Center In Philadelphia, PA
Mar 27, 2013, 12:55 ET from Amsdell Companies
CLEVELAND, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Self Storage, LLC, a member of the Amsdell family of companies, is proud to announce the purchase of a self storage property located at 1300 Belmont Avenue in Philadelphia, PA. The new storage center represents over 100,000 net rentable square feet and will be operated by Compass Self Storage, LLC (www.compassselfstorage.com). The facility offers a drive through climate controlled building, outdoor storage, truck rental, and a full line of moving supplies.
This acquisition represents the fourth self-storage acquisition that the company has completed since January of this year. The company completed fourteen self storage property acquisitions in 2012 and plans to continue to grow with the acquisition of quality storage properties in select markets.
"We are proud to expand our Compass footprint in the northeast and service our new customers in the Philadelphia market," stated Todd Amsdell, President.
The above-mentioned acquisitions were made by separate affiliates of Amsdell Group, LLC and Compass Self Storage, LLC. The Amsdell family of companies (Amsdell Companies) is headquartered in Cleveland, OH. Amsdell draws its roots from the family owned construction company founded in 1928 and has since been active in several billions of dollars worth of real estate ventures with a primary focus on self storage. As industry pioneers, Amsdell has owned and operated over 500 storage centers under various trade names in over 27 states. With over 80 years of doing business, the Amsdell team has extensive experience in property acquisition, construction and property management. Please visit www.amsdellcompanies.com and www.compassselfstorage.com for more information.
Todd Amsdell
SOURCE Amsdell Companies


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July 16, 2008
I want to commend you for yesterdays stand against naked shorting,limited as it is. You are already under attack by the crooks for this threat to their ongoing criminal activities. Be strong and take this opportunity to show the country and the world that our government has some agencies which do in fact have the courage to fulfill their rightful obligations to the public.You have taken the first step, always the most difficult,so now is the time to include every traded company with protection against the piranhas. Make your bywords "permanent" and "allinclusive". Respectfully-H.C. Carson


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County commissioners have decided to make revising land-use priorities one of their goals this year. Another goal should be to move quickly on getting plans and ordinances updated and expanding the areas covered by zoning.
Many land-use matters that commissioners consider priorities are things the county will have to do anyway, such as revising the county zoning ordinance, studying land use along highways and other areas ripe for development and studying proper land use for unzoned areas near towns. The county just shouldn't take forever to do them.
Commissioners agreed to put land-use priorities at the top of a list of 10 one-year goals they drew up during a workshop Thursday at Historic Johnson Farm. They also agreed to eight goals for the next three years, including revising, adopting and implementing a county land-use plan, which hasn't been updated since 1993.
No question about it, a new land-use plan is needed. A lot has happened since 1993. Growth in the northern end forced the county to add a new elementary school. The state has widened one highway, N.C. 280, and the widening of U.S. 25 between Fletcher and Hendersonville is under way. A new industrial park has been established near Fletcher and new development has pushed east from Hendersonville.
The county's land-use plan needs to reflect these and other changes, but it shouldn't take three years to update the plan.
The county is in better shape on its existing zoning ordinance, adopted in 1981. The Planning Board recently finished a complete rewrite, which it presented to the commission Oct. 30. Commissioners had their first workshop on it Jan. 9. They need to become familiar with the proposed new ordinance so they can hold public hearings and get it adopted quickly.
The frequency with which racetracks, asphalt plants and large mobile home parks keep popping up in unzoned areas should be a warning signal to commissioners that they need to get moving on applying zoning to more of the county. The commission at least ought to get started on development hot spots such as Mills River and U.S. 64 East, where new infrastructure will spur even more pressure for development.
The current controversy over a proposed asphalt plant near the Grimesdale subdivision should convince commissioners that unzoned areas around towns also need a way to protect residential areas while providing proper places for commercial and industrial development.
Commission Chairman Bill Moyer said commissioners want to revise their time line for accomplishing the land-use goals. The board plans to discuss the issue Feb. 12. "I've stated all along our time frame for doing this was much too long, and I would like to shorten it," he said.
That's good, but Moyer still has his work cut out getting the rest of the board to recognize the need for urgency.
Past boards have dragged their feet when opportunities to act presented themselves. This board needs to break that pattern.