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To the anonymous donor who recently presented a generous gift to the Connellsville Police Department, we join police officials in saying thank you.
This person, who helped the department reach its goal to upgrade onboard computers for police vehicles, did so without seeking any publicity or recognition. He asked only whether the police department met its goal. Then he wrote a check for $1,500.
That brought donations over the top. Police had already received $500 from the Connellsville Lions Club and $1,000 from the Yough River Trail Council.
To these two organizations, we also say thank you.
The onboard computers are important to the city police department's everyday operations. The terminals enable officers to check on vehicles and people so they don't need to bother 911. That keeps radio traffic down and can speed things up for officers.
Many acts of kindness go unrecognized in the city. And donors don't always give money. Some people instead donate their time and energy. And they don't ask for anything in return.
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Kim Furtado filters every drop of water her family drinks, using an on-tap fixture.
Then she filters it again with a countertop model.
Her drinking water comes from "one of those shallow wells," said Furtado, a naturopathic health practitioner from Millsboro. "It's 60 feet deep and I'm not very comfortable with it."
Sixty miles north, Richard F. Davis, a former state representative and a DuPont Co. chemist, relies on a whole-house filter in his Mariners Watch neighborhood, three miles west of the Delaware City Refinery. Artesian Water supplies the community and, by law, routinely tests its supplies, taken from some of the state's deepest aquifers.
Davis, who said he considers his water safe, still wanted something extra.
"Since all of the water systems are interconnected," Davis said, "it's impossible to know where all the water comes from."
It's also difficult to get an absolute answer about just what is, or isn't, in Delaware's water -- difficult enough that some real estate agents routinely suggest water-filter installations even in the absence of known problems.
Although most residents are supplied by regularly tested public drinking water systems, thousands of unregulated substances can be found in the environment and water. Thousands of homes, meanwhile, take water directly from the ground, with testing left up to the owners.
Testing is a critical routine for most of the state's water suppliers. Filtering is ubiquitous.
"If people aren't asking about them, they should," said Pauline Murray, a real estate agent with Murray Realty in Newark. "A filter system would probably be an advantage. City water is loaded with stuff just as much as anywhere else."
Statewide sources
Artesian's annual water quality report for northern Delaware listed six industrial chemicals found in drinking water supplies, all but one below federally established limits. The single exception, involving traces of a common dry-cleaning solvent, proved high enough to remove one well from service temporarily.
In Kent County, where shallow aquifers thin out, many wells tap into deeper and protected groundwater layers, including the important Piney Point Aquifer that supplies the City of Dover and the Milford and Frederica aquifer.
Sussex County draws primarily on shallow aquifers, with Rehoboth Beach serving its huge summer population from shallow or partially confined aquifers ranging from only 63 to 133 feet deep. Wells in Laurel are only 70 to 105 feet deep, around the same range as most Millsboro wells before industrial contamination ruined one water supply there in 2005.
Thousands of Millsboro and Dagsboro residents were warned to use bottled or delivered water after solvents from an old poultry vaccine plant found their way into public wells.
State and city officials said that federally mandated testing programs quickly detected the pollutants. But weeks passed before warnings went out.
Delaware's first attempt at a statewide groundwater health survey in 2008 concludes with a careful bit of hedging about pollutants found in more than 1,000 public water wells from Hockessin to Delmar.
Organic chemicals remain a "not frequently detected" problem in wells pumping water from depths of 200 feet or lower, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control reported. Protective layers of clay or other geologic barriers might explain the trend, the report notes.
Or maybe not.
It's possible, the report concludes, that "insufficient time has passed for contaminants to reach deeper aquifer systems."
A report completed in 2002 -- after a toxic chemical tainted a major commercial well owned by Artesian Water Co. south of New Castle -- concluded that known or suspected spill sites haven't dangerously fouled public supplies. Regulators are nevertheless tracking or watching for toxic plumes near drinking water supplies in all three counties.
'Highly' vulnerable
In northernmost Delaware, regulators years ago classified as "highly" vulnerable all of Wilmington and United Water Delaware's water supplies. About 70 percent of the state's northern tip uses water from the Brandywine, White Clay and Red Clay creeks, sources with a rainbow of problems, including vulnerability to runoff, chemical spills, municipal discharges and drought.
The Environmental Protection Agency and state water agencies have been systematically cutting back sewage discharges and polluted runoff to all three waterways.
Even with the effort, the City of Wilmington and United Water Delaware both need the industrial-strength water treatment systems they operate to protect the public from unwanted surprises.
Bacteria and other pollution levels increase noticeably at Wilmington's Brandywine intakes when dry weather shrinks the creek. A weekend fire at a Pennsylvania farm dumped thousands of gallons of herbicide into White Clay Creek in 2003, forcing regulators to develop a better notification system for downstream users.
Groundwater supplies are more shielded from immediate threats, but tend to suffer effects longer.
Only about 4 percent of the state's land area, at the northern tip of the state, contains fractured stones and water-bearing rock layers that qualify as aquifers. The vast majority of the state's aquifers are sands, clays and other materials above bedrock, tapped by wells with a median depth of about 140 feet, but ranging from only a few feet to a handful that draw from 700 to 900 feet. Delaware City pulls water from 692 to 737 feet down, deeper than any other municipal well in Delaware.
Although nearly half the state's public water wells come from deeper aquifers that are partially shielded from the surface, thousands of private wells tap the shallow Columbia Aquifer, which extends only from a few feet to as low as 50 feet.
State water supply managers for many years described the deeper aquifers as protected from pollution on the surface. But recent pollution incidents and studies have shown that natural holes and channels have pierced the layers of clay shielding the important and deep Potomac Aquifer, allowing contamination to flow freely into depths where cleanup can be costly or even impossible.
Nancy Denslow, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Florida's College of Medicine, said that safe levels for toxic pollution in drinking water have "been a real issue" across the country, making toxic cleanup sites and water quality a major concern.
In April, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is considering tougher drinking water risk levels for trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE), as well as chlorinated benzene compounds that have polluted water across the state.
Benzene, a known carcinogen, can reach dangerous levels in the soils and groundwater near the Delaware City Refinery, but as much as 5 parts per billion is tolerated in water used by the public.
Denslow said that risk levels may be much lower.
"There are only a few commercial laboratories that can do the kind of testing needed, and a large number of compounds for which there is no information," Denslow said. "That's why we don't want it getting into drinking water at all."
The EPA's public health goal for both TCE and PCE, for example, is currently "zero" in drinking water, based on testing methods set in the early 1990s. Affordable technologies at that time made anything lower than 5 parts per billion too costly for public water suppliers, however. Now cheaper and more-sensitive detection methods, the EPA said, could justify further restrictions.
"Parts per billion is not that low a level now," Denslow said. "For some of these compounds, parts per trillion and parts per quadrillion are not that low" for modern public health protection standards.
Despite risks in urban and rural areas, Greg Jennings, a biological and agricultural engineering specialist at North Carolina State University, said the nation's overall public water supplies are safe and reliable.
"If we look hard enough, we can definitely find some level of what you could call contamination, some level of external constituents in water," Jennings said. "We also have a very extensive database of toxicological science that tells us what levels are safe. The public is protected by federal regulations."
Others are much less sure about the consequences of chemical pollutants.
"We're still learning. It's not just the dose or lifetime exposure. There are moments in the development of human beings when people are much more vulnerable even to small doses," said Paul Schwartz, national policy coordinator for Clean Water Action, a nonprofit group that has focused on national water-quality issues for nearly 40 years.
"For most people, drinking the water that we have in the United States is OK," Schwartz said. "But in the long term, exposure even to some low levels of chemicals and microbes might create additional cancers and other problems."
Consumer home water-filter systems generally work either at individual taps or at the point where the supply enters the house. Some of the most basic use activated carbon cartridges that can remove distasteful minerals and filter out metals and some organic chemical compounds. Costs may range from $50 or less to a few hundred dollars.
Others act as evaporators that boil and distill water or expose it to ultraviolet light that can kill bacteria. Some limit their work to substituting hard minerals for softer minerals, such as sodium or potassium for chloride, and removing iron. Reverse osmosis systems squeeze water through tiny gaps in a special membrane. Under-sink or whole-house systems are available, with costs for the most elaborate often topping $1,000.
Information on water systems is available from the American Water Works Association, www.awwa.org, Natural Resources Defense Council, www.nrdc.org, and the nonprofit NSF International, www.nsf.org.
Public and private utilities have to test drinking water sources and supplies regularly under federal and state regulation, and must provide customers with annual "Consumer Confidence" reports summarizing the results.
Private well users, in contrast, are on their own.
Delaware's Division of Public Health offers low-cost test kits that residents can use to collect samples for basic chemical and nitrate tests, at $2 each. Kits can be picked up at the Delaware Public Health Laboratory or at county health offices. Information and locations are available by contacting the laboratory at 223-1520 or checking www.dhss.delaware. gov/dph/lab/watertesting. html.
Scans for nitrates, a pollutant often connected with sewage, fertilizers and suburban runoff, are completed in about a week.
Tests for basic chemicals -- including acidity, iron, chlorine, fluoride, hardness, sodium and sulfates -- take about two weeks.
State officials recommend annual testing at least for nitrates. But none of the state's over-the-counter tests scans for basic or exotic industrial chemicals such as benzene, gasoline compounds or heavy metals. Residents concerned about chemical pollution may need to check with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control or turn to private laboratories.
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Bob Maher, Jr. has been tearing up Onslaught limited Grand Prix this season. He flew to Copenhagen and won the whole thing, then followed up with a performance at GP Philly that left him outside the Top 8 on tiebreakers. He took time out of his busy schedule to Top 8 at Pro Tour - Houston. He's in rare form that has everyone expecting big things from him.
Before the call to begin construction, Maher took a forbidden peek at the Registration Sheet. He did not like what he saw.
"Oh God, I'm gonna be playing blue."
The flag fell and he tore open his cards. He did a first pass to trim the unplayables. Black was first, and after the chaff was removed, Maher wasted no time in removing the color from consideration entirely. Blue was next, and he hesitated before sending Crafty Pathmage to the bench.
"This guy was so good to me in Philly. Skirk Commando. Goblin Machinist. Face-down Skittish Valesk. In fact, in order to win the game I had to lose the flip so I could do it again. It gets to my upkeep and I'm chanting lose, lose, lose!"
He ended up sending the Pathmage on its way all the same. Looking at what was left of his four colors he was not thrilled. His power was in blue and his removal was in red, so the first order of business was to pair them up and see what he needed. He left his good white and green fanned out for reference.
The red and blue totalled eighteen. He had good removal in Shock, Solar Blast and Slice and Dice, and some Mistforms (but no Wizards) to go with Lavamancer's Skill. Unfortunately, he was looking at double-Seahawk and other winners. He tried adding white, piling in all his playables and then making cuts. Doubtless One and Daunting Defender quickly got benched. Still he had to run both Ironfist Crusher and Grassland Crusader, and was not proud of it.
He tried to splash in the green, splitting off a pair of Elvish Warriors and Elvish Herald, leaving in two Tribal Unities, Spitting Gourna, Snarling Undorak and Leery Fogbeast, but it wasn't nearly enough. Now the deck just looked empty. He put the white back in and just stared at it.
"I will feel fortunate if I make the next day."
The mana wasn't going to be pretty, either.
"If it wasn't for Slice and Dice I'd want to just splash red, but I have to be able to cast it. It's one of my only ways to win."
He tried a more aggressive build that could play enough forests to warrant playing the Elvish Warriors, but immediately dismissed it. "This deck looks like it can beat down, because that's what people are used to seeing from draft, but this deck is no good for sealed."
He went back to the white. He needed to cut a card. He pulled the Searing Flesh, then reconsidered.
"It feels like if my deck can do thirteen, it can do twenty. But I think my only hope is to hit with these stupid guys and then finish with this. If it wasn't for my mana, I'd be running this card."
As it was Maher was forced to run seven plains, five islands and a Lonely Sandbar, and four mountains, crossing his fingers on getting to the double-red for his Slice and Dice.
"The worst part is, is that this is certainly an eighteen land deck. I just feel like I can't afford to get mana flooded."
Saying it out loud made him change his mind. He pulled Renewed Faith for an extra mountain. It was all he could do not to stare knives at Ken Krouner and David Williams who had opened Get Into Day 2 Free. He sighed and finished his registration.
"It's not as bad as it looks, but it's pretty bad."
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Through the month of May, Dave Ramsey is giving away a $1,000 each week day.
One of the winners from the first week is from ND.
Here are the winners from the first week:
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Trauma Patient Spotlight: Brad Swope
The first time Brad Swope got back on his bike after a traumatic cycling incident, he immediately returned to the place where it occurred. Every person is born with a different genetic makeup – Brad was born to compete. Only this time, he was competing with himself mentally, and the best way to get through it was to ride straight to Seneca Park.
In March of 2004, Brad was riding through the park and crossing an intersection with the right of way when a motorist failed to yield and hit him.
"It happened in broad daylight," Brad said. "Many cyclists assume that drivers can see us because it isn't dark, but sometimes the sun impedes motorists' vision."
Within five minutes, EMS was on the scene, and Brad was transported to University of Louisville Hospital's Trauma Center. Unlike some diseases and injuries, there are often no warning signs associated with a traumatic event. They happen in the blink of an eye, and the Trauma Center at University of Louisville Hospital must be prepared for all types of injuries – no matter the severity.
"The Trauma Team not only treated me, but they cared for my wife as well."
"The first thing I remember is waking up in the Emergency Room with Ann (Brad's wife) holding my hand. At that point, I wasn't worried about myself. I was concerned about Ann, but the staff wasn't just caring for me – they were caring for her too. What the Trauma Team does with their hands is a miracle. What they do with their hearts is just as amazing."
Considering the situation, Brad was fortunate to only sustain some cuts, fractures and a hematoma in his leg. However, later that night in the Intensive Care Unit, a nurse told Brad and Ann there were complications with his injuries.
The fractures were causing blockage in his vertebral artery, and as a result, Brad experienced two minor strokes. His blood needed to be thinned to stop the clots from worsening. However, the medication that would affect the hematoma, put him at risk of losing his leg and permanently change his cycling career.
"At that point, we were thinking that we had the choice to either lose my leg or my life. The decision was obvious, and by the next day, my outlook improved."
Twenty-two months later, and after many rides on a stationary bike in the basement, Brad knew it was time.
"It was one of those warm winter days that you have to take advantage of. I rode to the end of the street, then a mile and realized I was ready. I literally rode right to the place where I was hit. Seeing the cars scared me, and they still make me wary to this day, but the benefits to cycling outweigh any risks."
Needless to say, Brad has overcome any fears he once had. This summer, Brad returned to the national stage and won two silver medals at the 2010 USA Cycling Masters Road National Championships.
Even though Brad has been able to ride again, he acknowledges that his recovery off the bike is a hill he is still climbing.
"I lost confidence socially and am still working on that. I have troubles with timelines and forget dates easily. Without Ann, I don't know how I would be in the position I am. We are a team, and she is my calm in the storm."
Brad is thankful he was taken to University of Louisville Hospital's Trauma Center after the accident.
"It was good fortune that I was taken there. Considering the Trauma Center's reputation, I was confident I was in the right place. We are fortunate to have that level of care available in our community, and people need to know where they go for their care does make a difference."
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Louisville – England's Justin Rose and Danny Willett made early charges up the leaderboard in Saturday's third round of the PGA Championship, showing low scores were for the taking at rain-soaked Valhalla.
Willett, who began the day one-under for the tournament, was four-under through four holes after making a seven-foot birdie at the second and a 10-foot birdie at the third, then holing a 50-footer from just off the green for eagle at the par-4 fourth.
Rose dropped 30-foot birdie putts at the first, third and seventh holes plus a four-foot birdie at the fourth and a 16-foot birdie at 13 to stand five-under for the day and the event.
Both Englishmen were four strokes off the pace set by Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, who was set to tee off in the final group of the afternoon.
Willett, ranked 99th, took his lone title at the 2012 BMW International Open on the European Tour. The 26-year-old from Sheffield has four top-10 efforts this season, his best showing a share of third at the Irish Open.
World number five Rose, who won his first major title at last year's US Open, captured the US PGA National and followed up two weeks later with a victory at the Scottish Open. – Sapa-AFP
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C'mon, we all have them: lists of things we're going to do when we "get around to it," things that fall into that all-important "strategic but not urgent" bucket, things that you resist because you don't like being nagged about them. And maybe even things you did do, once, but haven't revisited in a long time. Well, what better way to get 2014 off to a great start than by quickly crossing some of these lingering issues off your list?
1. Cull that customer list. Every business has them, the so-called "demon" customers that can actually lose you money. Maybe they only buy from you when there's a steep discount. Maybe they tie up your staff asking endless questions and then walk out the door empty-handed. Maybe they return items after submitting rebates for them. Maybe they're just endlessly needy. Or maybe they expect a lot of services to be thrown in for free. Whatever they do that leads to losses, it can add up. One study found that the bottom 20% of customers can generate losses that are greater than the total company profit! So, ask yourself: How long has it been since I've taken a good hard look at my customer base? When was the last time I "fired" an unprofitable customer? How will I avoid selling to those kinds of customers this year?
2. Free up time for the work that only you can do. Anyone running their own shop has certain attributes, like drive, the need for control, and the desire for independence, that are highly laudable. Those traits can also get in the way, though, when aimed at the wrong things. Here's the problem: There are an awful lot of things that go into running a business that someone other than you could be doing. Maybe not the way you would do them, but well enough. This is a great time to give some thought to what you are doing yourself that someone else could handle. Everybody has their quirks in this regard. I know a business owner who insists on hand-tying the bows on her high-end chocolate products because no one else does it with exactly her sense of style. For a lot of us, figuring out how to extricate ourselves from the more time-consuming aspects of our financial systems is the hurdle. Or we may keep some things on our plates because, frankly, we enjoy them, even if they aren't activities that grow sales or develop business. So, be tough: Can you delegate, automate, eliminate or otherwise pull yourself away from that stuff to get laser-focused on what only you can do?
3. Get your $%&*@ together. You've heard it a thousand times: Make sure your affairs are in order! And maybe you did at one stage, but have you kept things up to date? Have you made sure that in the event of something unfortunate happening to you that you've let people in on not only the big things, like wills and estate matters, but the smaller things, like passwords, on-line logons, the locations and access to accounts, and the like? There is a website that offers a real and unambiguous wake-up call and lots of handy forms. While this is an important to-do for anyone, it's particularly important for business owners. I know of cases in which a business owner ended up leaving the company to a spouse who was at odds with all the other partners in the business and it ended up being a big mess. Ok, enough nagging, you know what to do.
4. Audit all your "free" goodies. You've probably accumulated several dozen loyalty cards, frequent flyer points, business perks, office-supply credits, credit card points, and on and on. So when was the last time you actually went through and looked at what these accounts might do for you? Do you even know what is on offer for all these accounts? Worse yet, have you had potentially valuable points expire because you lost track of them? Take a couple of hours, track down those floating accounts, and think about what you might be able to do, buy, or experience without having to dig into your own pocket. Now that would be a nice New Year's present to yourself.


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City's 2015 budget proposes B&O tax increase, open house is Oct. 27
October 26, 2014
NEW — 6 a.m. Oct. 26, 2014
Issaquah's proposed budget for 2015 includes an increase to the city's business and occupation taxes.
City officials said in a press release that the rate increase is to ensure infrastructure and other essential government services remain at current levels, allowing the administration to make new investments to better serve the community.
In addition, staff is reviewing business processes, implementing a major reorganization and becoming self-insured for healthcare, as well as studying additional fee adjustments to ensure growth pays for itself, while reducing red tape for small businesses.
Give input on city's proposed 2015 budget
October 21, 2014
Residents can offer their input about the city's proposed 2015 budget at two upcoming public hearings.
The Issaquah City Council will hold a public hearing to consider revenue sources, including a possible increase to property tax revenues, at its Nov. 3 regular meeting beginning at 7 p.m.
City's 2015 budget proposes B&O tax increase, open houses are Oct. 14 and 27
October 13, 2014
NEW — 6 a.m. Oct. 13, 2014
Issaquah's proposed budget for 2015 includes an increase to the city's business and occupation taxes.
City officials said in a press release that the rate increase is to ensure infrastructure and other essential government services remain at current levels, allowing the administration to make new investments to better serve the community.
In addition, staff is reviewing business processes, implementing a major reorganization and becoming self-insured for healthcare, as well as studying additional fee adjustments to ensure growth pays for itself, while reducing red tape for small businesses.
Give government the gift of good grief
December 10, 2013
Budget season ended last month. You missed it. You missed many graphs, many charts, many numbers, many questions and many answers. You also missed the opportunity to take part.
You know that saying, "If you don't vote, you don't get to complain?" That should apply to civic action and education in general, especially regarding local government. If you don't recognize the many ways the city tries to cultivate civic interaction, then you lose out on a chance to both learn how your tax dollars are spent and complain about how the council decides to spend them.
From social media alerts, two public hearings and five open work sessions, only one citizen stood up to speak. That's pretty poor representation for Issaquah's 31,000 residents.
November 19, 2013
City budget tight but new policies in place
The Issaquah City Council has zeroed in on a 2014 sustainable budget, but it took a lot of sweat to get there.
The mayor's budget, presented last month, called on carry-over funds from this year to offset expenses for next year.
Thankfully, council members and city Finance Director Diane Marcotte are not accepting the notion. Along with close examination of proposed expenses came the task of adopting financial policies that will ensure the city never gets to the edge of a precipice.
City Council questions budget balancing
October 22, 2013
The Issaquah City Council dove into the mayor's proposed budget Oct. 14 and brought large questions about the use of ending fund balances.
While the majority of remarks made in the first televised meeting of budget season from the council concerned relatively small matters, members called into question the matter of pulling money out of the ending fund balance in order to correct over-spending or lack of revenue in individual departments.
According to the mayor's budget, fiscal year 2012 had a beginning fund balance of $8.77 million in the general fund. In 2013, there was a beginning fund balance of $8.15 million. Next year has a budget of $7.97 million in its beginning fund balance and an expected ending fund balance of $7.55 million. This is compared with general fund expenditures that have risen by almost $5 million since 2012.
Budget season opens with the mayor's final budget
October 15, 2013
Mayor Ava Frisinger presented her final budget proposal, which includes $98.3 million in budgeted expenditures, to the City Council Oct. 7.
It includes adding a new human services manager and a police officer, increasing funding for "sustainable" efforts and $55,000 for a feasibility study into a campus to consolidate the locations of city services.
"I'm extremely proud to reflect on the last 16 years," Frisinger told the council as she presented her budget to them. "Today, we're planning for what's next: a commitment to environmental protection, a strong economic base and a strong quality of life for our citizens."
City considers setting up contingency fund
September 17, 2013
City Finance Director Diane Marcotte introduced plans for a city contingency fund during the Aug. 5 regular City Council meeting.
Previously discussed during Marcotte's presentations to the council as a part of new financial policies to explore, she said a contingency fund could help prepare for major unexpected expenses as well as improve the city's bond rating.
The introduction for the agenda bill explains the motivation behind the idea.
Issaquah Police Department to add patrol officer
December 11, 2012
Expect to see more police patrolling city streets next summer, after the City Council agreed to include dollars in the 2013 municipal budget for the Issaquah Police Department to hire another officer.
The council agreed in the $42 million general fund budget to hire another police officer and a part-time records staffer for the police department. The agency expects to fill both positions after July 1.
The general fund encompasses the dollars used to fund police and fire services, community development and planning, parks and recreation, and municipal government. The police department is the largest expense in the general fund — encompassing more than $8 million — followed by parks and recreation.
City Council restores dollars for nonprofit organizations
December 11, 2012
By the numbers
Data from the most recent year available, 2011, illustrates how Issaquah ranks against other King County cities in per capita funding for human services.
Source: City of Issaquah
Representatives from a spectrum of organizations — nonprofit human services groups offering affordable housing, safe havens for domestic violence victims, assistance to struggling students and more — successfully lobbied City Council members Dec. 3 to stave off a $48,750 drop in funding for such programs.
The council agreed to allocate $280,750 in the $42 million general fund budget for human services grants, but only after a council committee pushed to increase the amount and local nonprofit organizations pleaded for the council not to eliminate $48,750 in funding.
Grants go to organizations such as Eastside Baby Corner, Friends of Youth and the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank to offer services to residents from Issaquah and the Issaquah School District.
In a 4-3 decision, council members agreed to increase the amount budgeted for human services by $48,750 from the $233,250 the council recommended in earlier budget deliberations. The additional dollars for human services grants comes from the municipal rainy day fund.
Councilwoman Eileen Barber initiated the process to restore the human services funding.
Then, before the split decision, representatives from local human services organizations — including Catholic Community Services, Issaquah Community Services and LifeWire — beseeched the council to restore funds for grants.
"At a time when I see the needs rising among our students, and I see the return on investment for cities in investing in students while they're still in school, I think it's a critical time for you to consider being able to support organizations, such as the schools foundation, in retaining our current funding," Issaquah Schools Foundation Executive Director Robin Callahan said.
Several referenced the Great Recession and the fragile economy recovery in pleas to the council.
"I believe that our nonprofits are still recovering from the recession," Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank Executive Director Cori Kauk said. "Many of our local nonprofits haven't rebounded yet and they still need your support. Now is really not a good time for cuts."
Council President Tola Marts said the city did not intend to undercut human services organizations through the budget reduction.
"In a time when the state and the county are reducing funds — and I realize that puts even more strain on local budgets — I think the intent of the council when we did the budget was that we thought that was a strong position to take," he said. "It's unfortunate that it's been perceived as a Grinchian position."
The council acts on recommendations from the municipal Human Services Commission. Overall, commissioners received 60 grant applications totaling $366,283 in requests for 2013.
Commission Chairwoman Maggie Baker, disappointed about the proposed reduction in funding, pored over data from the U.S. Census Bureau to better quantify the need in the community.
"I realized that with $47,000 less, we weren't going to be able to do the right thing for our 1,365 Issaquah neighbors 65 and over who live with at least one disability that keeps them from completing an activity of daily living, such as eating, dressing or bathing," she said.


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The Michael J Fox Show had a full season order already when it was first announced. It has some time to fix its problems. I am a HUGE fan of MJF and even I will admitt it needs to be reworked. Of course besides the quality it does not help that overall NBC's ratings are horrible. Robin Williams show no doubt gets a little boost from adverting during CBS other series. Which people actually watch.
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I am glad that my thesis has been in the White Rose Etheses Online now.
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Those speeches were one/two years ago, but Randy Pausch's ideas are everlasting. Randy Pausch was a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. I adore him as a good computing scientist and an excellent educator. I like his speeches very much, for example, the sentence below,
"But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something."
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I haven't blogged for quite a while because firstly, my job is something new and not very relevant to the original purpose of this blog; secondly, I am still thinking a direction of this blog.
New sources:
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As I moved to a new city, I started to discover it. I like to lounge about the city when I finish my work, and see it's differences and similarities. I also like to ask questions about locations on local forums. However, I got some responses recently, like 'Google it, find the answer yourself'.
Yes, Google can help me find a place, seek for some information I want, however, I suddenly feel that Google is a good searching tool for getting information easily rather than a Q&A tool for exchanging life experiences on the forum. If everybody is good at searching information by Google, do they need to ask questions on a forum?
I suppose some people may say 'Google it first. If yu can not find an answer, going to forum and ask.'
A silly idea: Someday, we might not talk to each other any more or often because we all get information from the Internet or Google it. Just using the online huge information database...
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JCIT: Journal of Convergence Information Technology focuses on thetheories/technologies/architecture and its applications on the variousaspects of advances in convergence and hybrid Information Technology.
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Hi my friends,
Thank you for all the support and encouragement you have given to me all year long. It is a pleasure to be able to work with you and have lots of good memories in 2008.
Have a blessed and peaceful Christmas holiday. Happy New Year!
Boundless blessings to you all. Miss you all.
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I know that Juliet Corbin has finished the 3rd version of "Basics of Qualitative Research".
In the literature, arguments between Glaserian and Straussian are continuing. I come across this article "Interview with Juliet M Corbin" wrote by Danny D. Meetoo. Through the interview, we may know a bit about Juliet Corbin, her work with Anselm Strauss, their view of ground theory and Barney Glaser's view of grounded theory.
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2) record research work and life
3) exchange ideas with people who are interested in this area
4) learn, share and communicate
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November 30, 2015
The search continues, as detectives are reviewing surveillance video from the Richmond Road Check Exchange after a robbery Tuesday afternoon.
Police say a man walked into the store, pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded money from her. We're told the clerk complied and the suspect filled a brown paper bag with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Police say the robbery happened at a very busy shopping center. They say employees at the Quiznos next door to the Check Exchange reported seeing a man running by, but could not identify him.
Police say the suspect is described as a black male, 5'6 to 5'8 feet tall, weighing 180lbs to 200lbs, wearing khaki shorts, a green striped shirt, a hat, sunglasses and brown sandals.
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One aspect of being an adult is that when I learn from an experience, the likelihood that it will happen again is variable. Often, it is very small. So I'm learning from my experiences in order to be better prepared to take on totally different experiences. Getting more life experience does not necessarily mean getting better at any one thing; it's more of an aggregate knowledge. Hypothetically, one could be a great person and be terrible at everything #things-that-may-seem-like-my-goal-but-are-not-my-goal. Anyway, an aggregate-knowledge view of life is either incredibly tiring or wonderfully invigorating. Life is a series of fascinating new experiences that teach an akimbo mental coordination, and it would also be nice if from time to time today had a clear effect on tomorrow. (One of the distinct pleasures of adulthood is being in a totally foreign situation or conversation and having the unnerving insight that I know exactly what to say or do.)
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So this bartender's got a real sense of humor, and he serves Paul a quadruple. Keep in mind that's I've got this big, ugly meeting tomorrow and I can't be there with him. So Paulie starts to think he can do a front handspring. I guess this is what Paul is like when he's drunk. He's making me hold his jacket and trying to find room on the sidewalk to do a front handspring. You can imagine what it's like when your blackout friend starts looking for running space. All I can think is of his head bleeding and him drunk and not being able to understand why it hurts so much. Dizzying, that possible future.
It turns out he can do it. Really well.
"I just did it! I didn't think about it, I just did it!"
After that we went on through the humid night in Queens, talking about old hookups and the movie we're writing.
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Jumpoline Park: the wide blue and green strips are trampolines, and the netted area at the back is trampoline dodgeball.
Ate at this box. French bacon sandwiches and ham and cheese Quasonts. Talked about starting weekend fun tours of Austin, similar to what Matt has been doing in Paris, but more involved. We're just bouncing some ideas for now, Matt, Jordan and me. Just bouncing away.
I think I'll start carrying a camera and speaking more slowly. I want to go to the Blanton on Thursday to get ideas for colors to paint my room. I didn't know Kerry was in Red State; that's awesome. I've been wondering what was the name of that movie, the football movie. Does anyone know if it's on Netflix?
That's most of what happened today. Working through Adobe Premiere to make another video for my sister.
Bye Emily! Bye Lex! Bye Paul! David, I hope you are still feeding yourself.
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You think they used a real skull in the first production of Hamlet? Probably would have been illegal too, so you know they graverobbed that shit. I wonder how many people in the audience had seen a real, clean skull before, without the anatomy books and articulated skeletons of today's science classrooms, to say nothing of our grinning Halloween costumes and Scooby Doos. Skulls back then were still associated with death, and had a gruesomeness we really don't get anymore. To have an actor pick one up and hold it out in front of you, and talk to it! It's so shocking, it almost breaks the reality of the play. It's too real. Talk about your special effects—that's a man's head. What if I told that's a real human femur you're holding? How many plays can you name that require actual human remains? And more than that, I'm going to call you by a different name, whoever you were, Head, and you're going to be a prop. That metatheatrical bastard Shakespeare doesn't just have the character confront the reality of life and death (and choose Life (to be)), he asks the audience to take part in the creation of a fictitious life that supersedes ACTUAL DEATH. No more baller move ever.
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This is my favorite piece of knowledge I picked up this time around: "Keep Eyes Open." To the nobody who reads this, there's more coming to stack around that little kernel of knowledge, and that's a fun one on its own. That's where all the fun starts on stage.
At Breakfast with Jerry
Ulysses is so good.
Yeaaaah. Which part, or just all of it?
Even in the first few pages, it's really beautiful.
Yeah it is.
It's so frustrating.
Laughing, Jerry reaches across the table to comfort me.
You aren't going to be the next James Joyce.
I know! That's not what bothers me. It's so good, and I'm not like comparing it to other books, I'm not saying I like it because it's better than everything else. I like it because the writing is beautiful.
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Power Washer Day
It turns out that the pump wasn't empty of pump oil, but that the oil was so full that the visual indicator on the front was swimming in it. I couldn't see the oil line because the oil line was above the indicator entirely.
Point is, the damn thing went deep water horizon on my ass when I opened the bottom to drain the residual. Good thing what I was maintenancing was a power washer, I guess. Tomorrow I'll make my second trip to the Travis County Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Facility in two days. Anybody want to ride along?
It's raining in Austin. Hell fraking yesh.
On the plus side, the nozzle I've got on the washer is so hardcore I can julienne a wicker chain in 90 seconds. When it freezes here in six months, I'm gonna turn this sucker into a snow machine and my yard into a soaking, freezing ice palace. It's also giving me a jump start on being a suburban dad, which I don't have to mention again–I'm hella excited about. My theory is that suburban dads are the weirdest group of people on the planet. I'm pretty sure it's the only job for which I am really qualified.
Played trivia (placed 9th) at Opal Divine's. My debit card is a lost gonner. I hope it's in some shorts at this point, because it ain't at any of the bars from Friday. Made some friends at Lustre Pearl. Played the best game of foosball that I've played in years. They're really good. I am also, really good. They say they're also quite a trivia team, so NERDING OUT, I'm gonna bring my A-Game there too.
Scored some found cheapo sunglasses. Everything's coming up Milhouse. Milhouse is a deity in the pantheon here. 700 feet tall. Childish. When he's happy, we're happy. And he's got flood pants on, which I guess explains the rainstorm. Rain is beautiful. It sounds beautiful. It feels beautiful. It's impossible to drive in. It raises the watertable and the fish come back and the secret tunnel under the swimming pool gets full and we can use it like a hobo-Schlitterbahn. Mas. Mas. MAS.
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What happened today
Mom woke me up and asked me to help with the yardwork. I guess it took 30 minutes or so for me to get out of bed. Yesterday was the first day with no cigarettes. I was very careful yesterday to have a minimum of outside stimulus, so I could concentrate carefully of achieving my goal. I read the Princess Bride by William Goldman.
Anyway, Mom got me up and I pulled Milkweed out of the yard because it's a non-native invasive. I didn't get the roots on most of them. It's a stringy and brittle plant, especially when it's dry. We got an acceptable number of them and then I stacked the rocks that our neighbor gave us when she replaced her patio. We'd had them stacked on the side of the house for a while, but Javier took some to make a patio elsewhere, and they need to be restacked.
We went to lunch at the Taco Deli. I skipped the Cowboy Taco because I've eaten it so many days in the past six months that the salsa tastes overwhelming like a foreign salt to me. My mom's car has been screwing with us for a while, but we managed to get it inspected. All's good there. About this time, though, the withdrawal kicked in again, and I wasn't much fun to be around. I don't trust my thoughts when it comes to drugs of any kind. Sometimes I do, I guess. Caffeine is okay, I guess, and nicotine was too. I trust them a lot more when straight, though. A brain grappling.
We dropped off a broken computer at Goodwill, and went inside to look around. Loafers that didn't fit, a couch that's too much money, a computer adapter with one wrong end.
Came home, and fell asleep for a three hours. Woke up feeling much better, but with a manic-ness and self-condemnation I hadn't felt seriously since I started smoking. It was cool, though. I went for a walk and that took a little of the edge off. Came home and didn't want to do anything or be anywhere, so I started making dinner. Tuna salad came out well. Hummus did too. The first Republican debates were on for this cycle. Everybody's got to distance themselves from Obama, it looks like. Everybody made very sure to say he failed. Everybody made sure not to acknowledge the correctness of the other side in any way. Nobody debated. They should have called it The Republican Declaration of Political Identity. I don't have anything useful to say about it. It may be better to privatize everything. I don't know very much about economics, and I'm willing to admit it. But I guess if we're encouraged to vote on values instead of knowledge: The Government (municipal, state or Federal) is willing to go insolvent to make sure you stay alive and happy. Corporations don't care about anyone but themselves. When it comes to my health, I want the one that will try and keep me alive.
I talked to Paul about the director position I'm applying for. He had some play suggestions – the UT library (the largest play collection in town) has none of them. Talk to him about it tomorrow. Andy and I talked. The next 13 years are the most important. At age 39, we'll both have done everything we want to do on Earth, and we'll be leaving it for the realm of new possibility: Space. I agreed to this, y'see. Rudeeeee.
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Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week's collection, we have designs from Guided Creative, Peaxl, Rdio, DS22 and Column Five.
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week's collection, we have designs from Guided Creative, Peaxl, Rdio, DS22 and Column Five.
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Every week I check your line25 blog and just recently I have started to look through your Spoon graphics blog, they are all super useful! Thanks
I like Guided Creative and Rdio. They both seem clean. I tend to relate solid, lighter colors with cleaner designs. Sometimes seeing all the flash is nice, but what attracts mean is cleanliness.
They're all clean for that matter, but the two I mentioned just have a bit of a spark to them that makes them stand out. For Rdio, I'd say it's the use of a spot of color to make it pop.
DS22 has spot coloring as well, but I'm less inclined to darker designs. There's something about them I don't like.
"we are ridiculously talented and full of ourselves", they should have added
This is a great collection this week. I'm particularly interested in finding out who designed the Guided Creative site. Anyone know?
I love the Guided Creative Site, a really well designed and user friendly site, great collection.
Great looking sites, thanks for sharing.
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I loved columnfivemedia. Fresh design, totally different approach to categorizing the content & interactions are the USP.
Inforgraphics section is outstanding. it takes serious efforts to work on something like that. Really impressed.
good sharing, all the designs are too good, i like Guided Creative, Peaxl, Rdio. This will improve my designing knowledge and i am eager to learn more about website designing. Thanks.
Awesome collection! a piece of inspiration! Thanks :)
Hey, guess what. Your column has inspired me to write a similar weekly column on my blog. It's called "Weekly Website Roundup". So thank you.
Actually, you have a great lists here but you should be included Aranza Mendez Design, which is one of the leading web design companies in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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For undercoating of untreated and absorbent floors and workbenches made from wood or cork for interior use. Can be as well used for preparation and finishing coatings of wooden workbenches. Dense woods as oak, chestnut and some tropical woods as well as softeners of adhesives may increase drying time.
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A Saturday bike polo game in the Central District, April 7, on Judkins Park's tennis courts, one of three places Hardcourt Bike Polo is played in Seattle. Competition play is often at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill; pick-up games happen at the 65th Street Park and Ride in Ravenna.
Different Spokes: The Life of a Seattle Cyclist
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Regarded as one of the most bike-friendly cities in the nation, Seattle's love of all things two-wheeled runs deep and wide (like a sharrow). In our city, spirited battles rage over street access, cyclists' rights and how best to keep pedalers safe, as our streets teem with their growing numbers. Bicycles get us around, but they also define us, refine us and give us a visceral sense of community, whether we're bike commuters or baby haulers, messengers or mud fanatics—or weekend warriors taking in the sheer joy of a sunny-day spin along the Burke-Gilman Trail. We offer this snapshot of Seattle's diverse and thriving bicycling scene.
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From East Timor
Respected as one of East Timor's leading musicians, Ego Lemos is involved in a renewal of indigenous music and language in the world's newest nation. He is also trying to encourage the reintroduction of traditional agricultural techniques (he has co-written books on Timorese permaculture) that, he argues, will assist this poor nation's efforts to become genuinely independent. It's a huge task for the gifted musician, singer, songwriter and composer, whose simple and heartfelt music has taken him around the world for many years, with successful visits to the UK (supported by Oxfam), Japan, India, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia. In a significant cross-cultural indigenous musical collaboration, Ego recently joined rising Aboriginal music star Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu to stage a duet performance at the 2008 Darwin Festival. Australian audiences first saw Ego perform solo in mid-2007, then with his Timorese band Cinco do Oriente in mid-2008 at the Dreaming Festival, Australia's premier indigenous festival, in Queensland. Since 1990, Ego has also been in demand as a guest speaker, addressing conferences in more than 10 countries to speak on issues such as sustainable agriculture, peace, globalisation and East Timorese independence.


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Gov. Eddie Calvo wants his cabinet to identify at least $43 million in budget cuts for fiscal 2013, acknowledging that the local government has no choice but to reduce spending.
"We cannot withhold the bitter medicine from this dying government," Calvo said.
Over the past four fiscal years, the government of Guam has continued to spend far more than it was earning in revenue. Elected officials refused to make the cuts needed for the government to live within its means. Even as revenue increased, they further increased spending.
This irresponsible and reckless financial behavior has resulted in a huge, growing deficit and two efforts to borrow money on the bond market to cover operational expenses.
Large, significant and lasting cost cuts are long overdue. They won't be easy to make and will be far from popular, but spending reductions and layoffs are needed to reduce the size and cost of the government of Guam.
As the Calvo administration begins to look for ways to reduce costs, we urge them to adopt measures to increase outsourcing of government services that can be performed by the private sector. Some of these include: most maintenance operations, notably at the Guam Department of Education; janitorial and custodial services, such as at schools and the hospital; school bus services; written and road tests for driver's licenses; and other services.
Outsourcing of government services is a great way to reduce costs, primarily from personnel in terms of salary and benefits, while also promoting the creation of new private-sector jobs. And because businesses do a much better job at maintaining equipment and facilities, the cost of companies providing the same service is usually less expensive than what it costs the government.
The local government also would profit from outsourcing. Businesses pay taxes and fees that agencies don't, which means increased revenue for the government of Guam.
If Calvo is serious about reducing government of Guam costs while also increasing revenues, outsourcing must be one of his cost-cutting solutions.


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Our School
Posted By Clayton Wood On August 10, 2009 @ 10:07 am In | Comments Disabled
Our Building:
Pittsfield Elementary School was built in 1989 with an addition for the Kindergarten program in 1999. It has has 14 classrooms grades 1-6 and 2 kindergarten classrooms. Students also use gymnasium, computer lab, art room, music room and library. There are about 360 students enrolled preschool through 6th grade.
Our Programs:
The staff of Pittsfield Elementary School use The Four Blocks Literacy Frameworks to guide Literacy Instruction. PES adopted the program in 2000. The staff uses the Responsive Classroom and P.B.I.S (Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support) to guide classroom management and school wide discipline.
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Muddy Outdoors Outfitter Video Camera Arm Steel Black
Product #: 685392 Muddy Outdoors #: 60110 UPC #: 894529002016
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Record all of the action and make professional looking videos with the Outfitter Camera Arm from Muddy Outdoors. This arm features a 2" ratchet strap and a wide base to provide a stable platform to support your video camera. The outfitter arm features a simple know leveling system that allows you to silently adjust the level on the camera and the two way arm system allows for a full range of motion. The Outfitter arm features a top bubble level and all components use locking levers so they are ultra quiet and do not require any tools. This arm will support Mini DVD camcorders making it a great choice for both amateur and professional videographers.
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- Weight: 6 lbs
- Includes 2" ratchet strap
- Includes 3/8" mount for your favorite fluid camera head
- Black
- Dimensions: 14" high x 39" wide
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