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A quick search online uncovered a huge variety of online sex shops. Who would have thought it? Well not me that's for sure but I guess in hindsight it is not that surprising as more retailers shift to online only or storefront supported by an online presence. Shopping for sex toys and lingerie need not be an embarrassing encounter at the retail store in your area. You can now shop online and have your items discreetly delivered in plain packaging so that your post office and neighbours don't know where you have been shopping and what you have been buying. Find the best online sex shops straight from the source. I found a very helpful website that included buying guides and a large amount of information about their products. This appealed to me as someone who has not had a lot of experience in buying sex toys as it would certainly make shopping and choosing the right products a lot easier.
This website also included helpful ideas on introducing toys into your relationship as well as recommending that you shop together for new toys to avoid nasty surprises for one partner. It also included information about how to care for your toys and how to best take them with you when you travel. Read the full details right here. Online shopping offers you the convenience of shopping from home together where you can take the time to read through product guides and other information before making a choice.
The downside with sex toys like rabbit vibrators Australia and lingerie is because they are designed for intimate use they cannot be returned for a refund unless there is a manufacturing fault, so choose carefully and think before you open the packaging. If you change your mind when the product arrives, that is okay, you can even return it if you haven't opened the packaging. After that point you can of course change your mind about using the item but you won't be able to return it for a refund. Sex shops also typically stock board games and paraphernalia for hen's and buck's nights out. Shopping for these items can be a lot of fun. Board games include those meant to share with friends at a party and those that are for couples to enhance their sexual experience. I confess I am slightly mystified by the type of thing that is sold for hen's nights in particular (I mean a giant penis on a stick for hailing the bartender is just not funny in my book). I am reliably informed however that some people find this hilarious, although I am not one of those people. It is probably a good idea to shop with the bride if you are going down this path, to avoid her being mortified with embarrassment should she be like me and not find a veil with embroidered penises funny. At the very least talk to her about this if you want to do the shopping yourself. Shopping online can make preparing for a party easy and quick (but I urge you to make sure your sense of humor is shared by the bride)."

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text: Hello Mr. Tough Guy. The question here is what does this ride not have? This custom muscle king by Revival Cycles is gonna blow you away. His name is Beto for short but is formally known as a hot 75 850T Yama-Guzuki. Just about everything…EVERYTHING… was made by hand in house. The only two exceptions went to the powder-coating and leather seat whose final details had to be outsourced, but the rest was literally built by the team. Aluminum pieces handcrafted include the headlight cowl and brackets, front brake linkage, footpegs, shifter, brake pedal, intake manifolds and exhaust. Sweet one-off integrated unibody alloy tank, seat and tail set the tone for the rest of the powerful design. It's got Yamaha TZ racing 4LS front brake, Inverted GSXR Forks, and custom one-off CNC triples. Uniquely made with POSH grips, widened hubs, Custom 18″ alloy wheels, and a dropped & lower frame rail. Features a Motogadget M-unit and M-lock, one-off gullwing style alloy clip-ons, an integrated gas tank, seat and tail. It's no surprise the proud parents of this baby, "There's one-off pegs, shifter and braking system, a one-off stainless exhaust with CNC-machined header clamps, and (you guessed it) a one-off CNC-machined cut alloy frame tie-plate. All cables and the wiring was handmade and there's a hidden LED taillight system. We also polished and smoothed everything. Oh, and the handmade seat by Ginger at New Church Moto."


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Maintaining Competence
[8] To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the lawyer is subject.
Comment 8 to Rule 1.1 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, above, got a lot of attention when it came out in 2012. And for good reason, the ABA came right out and explicitly said lawyers should be technologically competent. Since then, state bars (fourteen so far) have been making similar modifications to their rules.
The general feeling seems to be that the duty of technological competence is something new. The comment itself seems to support this view, since it says should, not must, and since it is a comment after all, not the body of the rule. But technological competence was part of Rule 1.1 long before 2012. The comment did not create the obligation to be technologically competent. It has always been part and parcel of regular old professional competence.
In the report accompanying the new comment, the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 explained:
The proposed amendment, which appears in a Comment, does not impose any new obligations on lawyers. Rather, the amendment is intended to serve as a reminder to lawyers that they should remain aware of technology, including the benefits and risks associated with it, as part of a lawyer's general ethical duty to remain competent.
That last part is the important part. Technological competence is "part of a lawyer's general ethical duty to remain competent." The comment is just a reminder of the technological component of that duty.
So what is competence? Remember that being incompetent does not mean you are stupid or a bad lawyer. It means that you lack the skills or knowledge necessary to represent your client. You can become competent by acquiring those skills. That might mean spending extra time reading up on the relevant law, or it might mean associating with another lawyer who is competent. But you must become competent before you represent that client.
In the case of technology, competence has more to do with the tools you use than the substance of your legal arguments and strategies. Can you communicate securely with your clients? Can you build a useful, well-structured contract in Microsoft Word? Can you lay a foundation for a tweet in a deposition or trial? Can you properly redact a PDF? Can you store your client's information securely on your computer, your network, or the cloud?
Your brilliant legal strategy will not count for much if you can not navigate e-discovery or if you lose your draft summary judgment memorandum hours before it is due. And sooner or later, your clients will find another lawyer if you waste their money and time on basic tasks because you aren't proficient with your devices.
There are a whole lot of incompetent lawyers out there. Not technologically incompetent, mind you. Incompetent. As in should not be representing clients. They are incompetent because they think an email disclaimer counts as a security measure. Or because they think they aren't using the cloud. Or because they don't know how to use Styles in Word.
What does it mean to be technologically competent? The rule obviously does not contain a checklist (nor should it; technology changes too fast), so I made one. It is necessarily a work in progress (hence the DRAFT watermark) but it is a good start. If you want to reassure yourself that you are basically competent, block off time each week to address one thing on the checklist. Start looking for information using the search box here on Lawyerist, look up the terms on Wikipedia, or explore Google.
You can get the checklist here. It is free, and I will follow up to let you know when we release additional materials that might help you, like our computer security upgrade guide.
Whether or not you get my checklist (or agree with the things I've chosen to put on it), you cannot put competence off. Start working on it now.
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Several years ago, a glass shower door in our home spontaneously shattered. What a racket! Thankfully we were downstairs, and no one was near the door when it exploded. Sadly, it was a week out of warranty. The glass, was just bunches of broken bits, none of it was sharp because the glass was tempered. Once we swept up all the bits, my question was, "what to do with it all?" It was a pile of shiny, sparkly glass, like diamonds, I needed to find a use for it.
I have seen small bags of tempered glass in craft stores; now I had a five gallon bucket of it. Christmas was the next holiday on the calendar, and I thought of ice, which made me think the glass was a good substitute. My idea was to use the glass as a base for a small vignette: a cardinal bird, a bit of greenery and a nest sitting on the glass "ice".
Earlier this year, my daughter and I were planting small container gardens using succulents, and I brought along some small stones, both natural and colored, and some of the tempered glass for added interest in the gardens. I liked the contrast of colors and textures of the plants and glass in the copper colander, I used as a container. The succulents can take the heat of the sun reflecting off the glass in the small gardens.
I have a simple glass container to which I added some beach glass from Kauai, and have a few pairs of earrings hanging from the rim; I added some tempered glass pieces for interest. You could add layers of clear and semi-clear stones to a tall, glass cylinder vase; the stones would give your creation an interesting texture. You might add the vase to a vignette.
I added some of the glass bits to a tall vase, with a single gerbera daisy; the combination makes a beautiful, simple statement. A grouping of similar vessels would make a pretty centerpiece for a spring or summer table setting.
A "found" medium can create a fun opportunity to spark ideas for its use.


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World Animal Day was started in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence as a way of highlighting the plight of endangered species. October 4 was chosen as World Animal Day as it is the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.
- To celebrate animal life in all its forms
- To celebrate humankind's relationship with the animal kingdom
- To acknowledge the diverse roles that animals play in our lives – from being our companions, supporting and helping us, to bringing a sense of wonder into our lives
- To acknowledge and be thankful for the way in which animals enrich our lives
From worldanimalday.co.uk
Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi is one of the most venerated religious figures in history. He was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He was born in 1181 or 1182 and died October third, 1226. He is known as the patron saint of animals and the environment, and is one of the two patron saints of Italy (with Catherine of Siena).
In Finland
From Millaista eläinsuojelu oli 100 vuotta sitten? and Short history of an old association
The Finnish Society for Welfare of Animals was founded in 1901. In the early days the association mostly promoted the use of horse meat for food. The article (linked above) said it was difficult to have a horse slaughtered in the early 20th century – instead the horses were often used for work until they collapsed. The association hired an inspector, whose job was to buy the poorly treated, old and injured horses from the markets and have them put to rest.
The founder of the association, lieutenant colonel T.K. Forstén is considered to be one of the most important people in the history of the association. He lectured and wrote books about the animal welfare issues and ethical treatment of animals, for example the use and development of quick and painless slaughter options.
Nowadays SEY's main goals are sharing information and campaining for welfare of animals. The World Animal Day starts the Animal Week in Finland. The week has a different theme every year. Last year it was cats, this year it's cows and their welfare on farms.
Today is a good day to take a minute to think about these things. Happy world animal day everyone!


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About Us
Ohr HaTorah is a shul built on Limud HaTorah, Tefilah and Chessed. Coming up on its 9th year, Ohr HaTorah is a vibrant and growing shul in the Bergenfield, NJ community.
Our Rav, Rav Zvi Sobolofsky is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University.
Rabbi Sobolofsky studied at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh and Yeshiva University; graduating in 1987, he was named valedictorian of the Mazer Yeshiva Program. He then attended the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), receiving smicha in 1990 and earned a Master's degree from the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. He was a fellow of the Gruss Kollel Elyon and then went on to teach in Yeshiva University's Stone Beis Medrash Program before being appointed as a Rosh Yeshiva in 2002.
He is the author of two sefarim, Reishis Koach, on Maseches Bechoros, and The Laws and Concepts of Niddah.
In addition to his role as Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS and spiritual leader of Ohr HaTorah, he also lectures at the Bergen County Beis Medrash Program (BCBM) housed at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, NJ.
For the Rav's shiurim on YUTorah, click here.


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After trying trade me - no-one wanted my darling curtains, I gave them a good wash and they became giftwrap. Japanese wrapping cloth or Furoshiki to be exact. You can read more about how these cloths and their uses here. Each piece has that loved patina of little paint spots here and there. Combined with some other former drop cloths, I had the brilliant answer to my "too much fabric" dilemma. Now these pieces of fabric are drifting amongst my friends, adorning gifts and being passed on. Who knows, I might even get one back one day.
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Last week, I decided to check out the Army Corps website to see if they have updated their wetland plant list for 2018. There, I found a link to a presentation that sets forth an approach for a major revamping of wetland indicator statuses. http://wetland-plants.usace.army.mil/nwpl_static/home/home.html
They are proposing using annotated herbarium data to get a more objective idea of species affinities for wetland versus non-wetlands sites. Huzzah! I like plants. I like numbers. I like the idea.
However, as I watched the presentation, a HUGE problem became obvious. To explain, I have to take a step back and talk about wetland indicator statuses. For each species, these are supposed to describe the fidelity to wetland conditions. In the past, these were associated with numerical values, but they have been more recently been revised to be more qualitative.
It turns out that the Army Corps is proposing to rely heavily on a study that focused on blue spruce in Colorado. In that study, they determined the percentage occurrence of blue spruce in the field, compared it to the "old school" indicator numerical values, and drew a conclusion.
In that study , wetland delineation indicators are used around a plot-based rather than a plant-based approach. FAC plants are roughly equally likely (34-66%) to occur on wetland sample plots vs. non-wetland plots (they have no affinity for wet vs. not). If this concept is detached from the plots and applied to individual plants on a landscape, it is biased by the proportion of land that is wetland vs. upland. In other words, the percentage value you determine by investigating individual plants and whether or not they are growing in a wetland (like the spruce) becomes a direct function of the percentage of the landscape that is wetland, which disconnects the observation from the biology of the plant.
I use pooled data (numbers of trees in wetlands and non-wetlands) from the study (paywalled, so I had to request a copy) and tested a null hypothesis that blue spruce is borderline facultative (34% of occurrences expected in wetland sample plots), given several possible values for landscape wetland coverage. I had to guess at these, because I don't have a value for landscape wetland percentage for your study area.
Figure 1 illustrates how the percentage of plants observed in wetland for a borderline FAC species varies depending on the percentage of the landscape that is wetland. Looking at this, keep in mind that Colorado wetland extent is ~2% (the study was mostly in Colorado, though high elevation areas of Colorado probably have more wetlands, but it'll become obvious that it doesn't matter) and Lower 48 wetland extent is ~5%. If half of the landscape is wetland, you expect 34% of occurrences to be in wetland and the rest to be in non-wetland. However, as the proportion of wetland on the landscape gets smaller and smaller, you expect to encounter a smaller and smaller proportion of species occurrences in wetland. This is independent of biology and occurs as an artifact of landscape wetland/non-wetland composition. This is because the number of plants distributed relatively sparsely in uplands overwhelms the numbers occurring relatively densely in wetlands as wetlands become rare. Even as the percentage/proportion of plants in wetlands decreases with the wetlands on the landscape, the chance of finding the species in any single upland plot and any single wetland plot (standard effort) does not change! So surely our spatial interpretation of indicator statuses must be tied plots or units of standardized effort, if we want them to have any biological/ecological meaning.
There is a way to estimate a landscape percentage or proportion of species occurrences and roll those into a useful analysis. However, if that is the most practical approach, we need to take one more step to determine whether or not we're seeing a species in wetland more or less than is expected. We can test our observed proportion against expected proportions, which can be calculated to take into account the landscape cover of wetlands (Table 1). This is the simplest case of such a test of whether observed values equal expected values, so an appropriate test would be a binomial exact test (a chi-square test is also appropriate, if expected values aren't too small, but in this case they are, so I went with the binomial test…inference is the same).
Figure 2 is a simple bar graph with the estimated proportion of spruce in wetlands with 95% confidence intervals based on the binomial exact test. Horizontal lines from bottom to top are expected proportions in wetlands for a borderline FAC (34%) species for 2% landscape coverage of wetlands (Colorado) on up 30% (in case the study area is 6 times as wet as the lower 48 as a whole). As you can see, unless the landscape coverage of wetlands is something more than 30%, the data aren't significantly different from what you would expect from a borderline FAC species, and if the wetland coverage is more in line with Colorado or the lower 48, the study actually observed many times more trees in wetlands than would have expected by chance. In other words, if you went out in the field and established a wetland sample plot (vs. hunting for trees), you would be much more likely to see blue spruce than you would if you established an upland sample plot. Or to put it another way, there is a significant affinity between blue spruce and wetland site conditions.
If wetland covers 30% of the landscape, then the observed proportion of blue spruce in wetland is not significantly different from what would be expected from a borderline FAC (34%) species.
If you want to take this to the extreme, all you have to do imagine a landscape like that of the lower 48 (5%) wetland. A species that occurs in 100% of wetland samples and in only 10% of upland samples would be expected to be encountered on the whole landscape 66% of the time in uplands and 34% of the time in wetlands! It's worth reiterating, we must either compare percentages when effort is equal between wetland and uplands or adjust our expected values based on landscape wetland coverage.
Botanists can do math. Right?


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Burning Up the Bases
By Jon Williams
Every fantasy baseball owner has a need for speed. Baseball's base stealers have always been a precious commodity, and they have grown even more precious with the proliferation of the so-called Moneyball mindset. I do think we're about to see a return to a more exciting brand of baseball. The vast majority of baseball teams – especially the bad ones – seem to annually attempt to mimic the characteristics of the best teams. This year, one of the better teams is without a doubt the New York Mets. And the Mets, as you may know or can guess by my clever lead in, use the stolen base as a key part of their offense.
What you as a fantasy owner must do is spot the stolen base talent being underutilized by teams that might use a similar style of offense in 2007. This week, I'm going to give you the key players on the three teams I can see giving the stolen base a bigger part in their game plans next year. Am I a great guy or what?
|A little less running into walls and a little more running on the basepaths would do wonders for Aaron Rowand's fantasy owners...
Philadelphia Phillies
1) Aaron Rowand
2) Michael Bourne
3) Shane Victorino
He has not shown it this season, but Aaron Rowand can steal bases. He is not a blazing fast, Carl Crawford-type, but he has displayed the ability to take bases at a good percentage. The Phillies are almost guaranteed to have a new manager in 2007, and whoever is running the show next year would be wise to use some of the speed he will have on his roster, as well as utilize the base-stealing ability of almost everyone on the projected 2007 Major League roster. If that turns out to indeed be the case, Rowand could easily be a 20/20 guy in 2007.
Michael Bourn is the next home grown Philadelphia star. At the University of Houston, Bourn honed his ability to hit for average, get on base, and steal bases. As the 2003 fourth round pick of the Phillies little has changed. With Bobby Abreu traded to the Yankees, and Pat Burrell rumored to be following him in the off-season, the opportunity will be there for Bourn to claim a spot in the outfield in 2007. Bourn has a batting line of .288/.388/.396 in the minors and would be a very dynamic #2 hitter behind star shortstop Jimmy Rollins and might even push Rollins to the #2 spot. If Bourn makes the team and does what he has shown the ability to do, the Phillies will be a very exciting team to watch.
He may not be as flashy as Michael Bourn, but Shane Victorino has probably already earned a spot on the 2007 major league roster of the Phillies. His .310/.377/.534 showing at Triple-A Scranton has already earned him a call-up to fill the spot vacated by Bobby Abreu. He's off to a respectable .267/.330/.424 start in 191 Major League at-bats this season. He has only stolen two bases without being caught but could easily steal 20 bases if given the opportunity.
Kansas City Royals
1) Alex Gordon
2) Joey Gathright
3) Esteban German
The Kansas City Royals have a much brighter future than most believe. Their minor league system may not be deep at the moment but they have a few guys that project as the heart of the order for the next decade. Next year, the fantasy baseball magazines will tell you all you need to know about Billy Butler, Ryan Shealy, and Justin Huber. But the star of the Kansas City system by far will be third baseman Alex Gordon. The former Nebraska star has been compared to Chipper Jones with his beautiful swing and his projecting to hit for both power and average. Gordon already shows solid plate discipline, and many believe he should be in the Majors already. As of this writing, he is at Double-A Wichita, batting .316/.416/.559 with 20 home runs in just 383 at-bats. I know what you're wondering, though – can he steal bases? He presently has 20 stolen bases and has been caught just three times. Gordon is the infield version of Carlos Beltran – yes, he is really that good.
Joey Gathright is not a great hitter; he can, however, use his speed and slap-hitting ability to hit for a respectable average, as he has shown he can do in the minors. He's hit .316 in over 1,200 minor league at-bats with a .390 on-base percentage. Most importantly, the man is blazing fast. He has stolen 165 bases and been caught stealing 50 times in his Minor League career. That's just over 40 stolen bases for every season spent in the minors, and he has made spent some time in the Majors just wasting away on the bench or he might have stolen even more.
I really hope that the Royals replace manager Bob Boone, as he has made one of the best performers on his team almost irrelevant. This season, 26-year-old Esteban German has batted .321/.430/.378, but cannot seem to get at-bats ahead of 36-year-old Mark Grudzielanek (.286/.325/.394 in 388 at-bats). A team like the Royals needs to give at-bats to the players that can play a part in the future of the team, rather than ancient mediocrities that will be here on the roster for one season at the most. German has the speed and the know-how to steal 30 to 40 bases. All he needs is an opportunity.
Pittsburgh Pirates
1) Chris Duffy
2) Nate McLouth
3) Jason Bay
Chris Duffy was supposed to be the starting center fielder for the Pirates in 2006. He lost the opportunity by hitting just .230/.288/.344 in 61 spring training at-bats. Duffy did not respond well to the May demotion and refused the assignment for almost a month. He did finally report and got to work on the things lacking in his game. At Triple-A Indianapolis, Duffy has been pretty impressive in 116 at-bats with a .349/.415/.509 batting line with 13 stolen bases and he has been caught just three times. Duffy was recalled after the Craig Wilson trade and has not done much yet, but the Pirates seem to have more faith this time around. Duffy has a career minor league line of .299/.354/.415; if he could come close to that in the Majors, 25-30 stolen bases a season is a distinct possibility.
Nate McLouth is similar to Duffy, but has better speed, slightly better power, and is two years younger at just 24-years-old. McLouth has spent the entire 2006 season in the Majors and should be in line for the starting right field job in 2007 when Jeromy Burnitz finally departs. For the season, McLouth is batting just .228/.292/.360 in a sporadic 250 at-bats as an occasional starter and defensive replacement. McLouth still has the spark that won him most exciting player votes in the minors. In a full season of at-bats, McLouth could steal 40 bases by managing just a league average on-base percentage.
He will not come cheap but Jason Bay is a great base stealer. In the Majors, Bay has attempted just 36 steals and been caught just eight times. In the Minors, Bay was a 30-40 steal guy. That ability is still there; it just needs to be tapped. By increasing his stolen base attempts, Bay could become the most valuable fantasy outfielder in almost any style league. For the Pirates, something as simple as a change in managerial philosophy could change them from one of the more boring offensive teams in the league to one of the most exciting. The Pirates want desperately to be the Oakland Athletics but they just don't have the personnel and do not seem to grasp how to acquire it. I'm sure Billy Beane wouldn't share this with the Pirates but I will – the secret of Moneyball was not acquiring on-base specialists; it was making the best use of the players available to you. The Pirates have speedy defensive slap hitters; design the offense around them and it might actually work for both the Pirates and fantasy owners everywhere.
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Eoin Colfer was announced as the third Laureate na nÓg, Children's Laureate of Ireland, at a special event at the Arts Council today. He was awarded his Laureate's 'medal' by Minister Fergus O'Dowd who said Eoin was a 'magical' writer who would open up the minds of young people over all the world in his new role. Laureate na nÓg is an initiative of the Arts Council with the support of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Children's Books Ireland, Poetry Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. The honour was established to engage young people with high quality children's literature and to underline the importance of children's literature in our cultural and imaginative lives.
Eoin Colfer was born in Wexford in 1965. Having qualified as a primary school teacher, he worked in Wexford before travelling and working in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Italy. His first book, Benny and Omar, was published in 1998, based on his experiences in Tunisia; it has since been translated into many languages.
He attained worldwide recognition in 2001, when the first Artemis Fowl book was published and became a New York Times bestseller. His latest novel, Warp: The Reluctant Assassin has been nominated for the CBI Book of the Year 2014. He currently lives in Wexford, Ireland with his wife, Jackie, and two children, Séan and Finn.
Speaking about his appointment as Laureate na nÓg, Eoin Colfer said: 'I feel incredibly honoured and incredibly petrified to be taking on the Laureate mantle after Niamh (Sharkey) and Siobhan (Parkinson). I feel I am representing my family and my county and indeed all book people in Ireland which is not something I mean to take lightly. I intend to spend my time spreading stories to every nook and cranny in the country. Nobody is safe. It doesn't matter where you hide – I will find you and tell you a story.'
At the announcement he quipped that the Laureate medal gives him special powers. 'All writers have to do what I say,' he said. 'Sarah and Niamh have to swap (the type of books they write) and John and Derek have to swap . . . I look forward to reading John Boyne's new Skulduggery Pleasant book in the future.' He also added 'This is the proudest moment of my professional life.'
Elaina Ryan, Director of Children's Books Ireland said: 'Laureate na nÓg stands for so many things: honouring the talent of Ireland's extraordinary writers and illustrators; celebrating children's literature and recognising its crucial place in the lives of children; and bringing people together in Ireland and internationally to talk about children's books and the possibilities they represent. Children's Books Ireland is thrilled that Eoin Colfer will be Ireland's third Laureate na nÓg – his imagination, energy and accessibility to so many audiences are among the many attributes that will make Eoin a wonderful Laureate.'
Sheila Pratschke, Chair of the Arts Council, said: 'The Arts Council is delighted to award this honour – the highest to be awarded to a children's writer or illustrator in Ireland – to an artist of such high achievement and with such generosity of spirit.' And Nóirín McKinney, Director of Arts Development at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland added her support for the new Laureate: 'Following in the trail-blazing footsteps of Siobhan Parkinson and Niamh Sharkey, Eoin Colfer is an inspired choice for the third all-island Children's Laureate.'
Spotted at the announcement: the team from Penguin Ireland; Eoin's agent, Sophie Hicks; children's book commentator, Robert Dunbar; Director of Children's Books Ireland, Elaina O'Neill; RTE's David Murphy; and columnist and writer, Martina Devlin.
If you'd like to invite Eoin to your festival or event, the Laureate na nÓg team will be inviting invitations during the month of June from arts organisations and groups to suggest projects for the new Laureate. See www.childrenslaureate.ie for details. A great opportunity to hear from an amazing writer.
I would like to congratulate Eoin on his appointment and I look forward to the next two years of his reign! Long live Laureate Eoin!
Sarah Webb is a writer and children's book commentator. She is the Children's Curator of the Mountains to Sea Book Festival.


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Estonian President and EU Transport Commissioner to welcome 85 airlines in Tallinn
Routes Europe, now in its 7thyear, will see a record number of attendees when the 2012 event opens in Tallinn in four days time. The event will be hosted by Tallinn Airport at the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia in Estonia's historic capital.
Over 175 airline delegates representing 85 of Europe's leading airlines will be represented at Routes Europe, which will take place from 20-22 May. This amounts to a 53% growth in airline delegate numbers from last year's event which was held in Cagliari, Italy, making Routes Europe 2012 the largest European route development event ever.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia will open a Networking Evening, which will include the Routes Airport Marketing Awards, on Monday 21stMay at Tallinn Song Festival Grounds. Routes Europe 2012 will be largest event ever to take place in Estonia after the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002.
For the first time ever Routes Europe 2012 will open with the Routes Europe Strategy Forum. A keynote address from Mr Siim Kallas, Vice President European Commission, responsible for transport will open the Forum on Sunday, 20 May.
Flag carriers will be strongly represented in Tallinn with six delegates in attendance from Lufthansa and registrations also received from CSA-Czech Airlines, Turkish Airlines, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Estonian Air and Alitalia.
In addition, a significant low cost carrier presence is expected with registrations from Ryanair, easyJet, Norwegian, Germanwings, Vueling, Jet2.com, transavia.com and airberlin which will make its inaugural appearance at Routes Europe this year. Also attending the event for the first time is Spanish start-up carrier Volotea.
Regional airlines will also be out in force with confirmed registrations received from SkyWork Airlines, Blue Islands, Flybe, Germania, Darwin Airline, Danube Wings and Skyways Express along with a strong Russian participation including Aeroflot, S7, Rossiya and UT Air.
"We will have a record number of delegates at Routes Europe this year," said David Stroud, Executive Vice President Airports, Routes for UBM Aviation continuing: "this growth is beyond even our expectations and we are delighted that Routes Europe continues to attract the key decision makers from the region and plays an important role in shaping Europe's future networks."
"Estonia's aviation market is the fastest growing in Europe, and Tallinn Airport is almost there to becoming the cosiest airport in the world," says Erik Sakkov, Member of the Board for Tallinn Airport continuing: "That's why we feel there is no better place to host the top event of European aviation industry, and we are incredibly honoured to do just that. As a small country, we know perfectly well, why Estonia and Tallinn are a perfect travel destination, but much of the international travel industry is not aware of it yet. By hosting Routes Europe 2012, let me promise you – we are determined to correct that issue."
A panel of leading industry experts will take part in a number of moderator led discussions during the Strategy Summit which will address issues affecting aviation and route development across the region. Sessions will cover The Eurozone Crisis, the impacts of regulation and explore whether now is a good time to sell an airport. High level delegates involved in the panel sessions include, amongst many others, Mr Tero Taskila, President & CEO of Estonian Air, Mr Fernado Estrada, Strategy & Alliances Director for Vueling, Mr Kjartan Jonsson, Director Network Planning for Icelandair, Mr Eric Herbane, Head of French Airport Slot Coordination, EUACA, Mr Wojciech Prokopowicz, Investor Relations for Warsaw Modlin Airport and Mr Zafer Mese, Airline Marketing, Business Development & Investments Europe for TAV Airport Holdings.
In addition to the one-to-one meetings taking place at the event, this year's Route Exchange programme will see five carriers deliver an overview of their route development opportunities and how airports can be part of their airline expansion. The carriers delivering briefings, which are open to all attending airports, are easyJet, Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, SkyWork Airlines and Volotea.
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- Routes organises world-renowned airline and airport networking events through its regional and global Route Development Forums. Each year, there is one global event and one regional event in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and CIS respectively. www.routesonline.com
- Routes was founded in 1995 as part of the Manchester UK‐based ASM Ltd., a consultancy specialising in the field of route development for airports. www.asm‐global.com
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An international policy-orientated symposium is proposed which brings together three experts in the research, implementation and accreditation of ICT CPD programmes for the work force from Eastern Europe, the US and the UK. They will be in partnership with colleagues in schools who have been working in work-based projects or running school based ICT CPD programmes.
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Statistics on providers of ECE, including tables on the number and types of ECE services, and information on waiting times.
Last Updated: December 2018
Early Childhood Education Services
There are different kinds of ECE services offering education and care to children from birth to school age. These services can either be 'teacher-led', 'whānau-led', or 'parent-led'. All ECE services must be licenced or certified by the Ministry of Education.
Teacher-led services need to have at least 50% of teaching staff who are qualified and certified as ECE teachers. Teacher-led services include kindergartens, education and care services, home-based education and care, and Te Kura (the Correspondence School).
'Whānau-led' or 'Parent-led' means that whānau, parents and caregivers are involved in educating and caring for their children. Te Kōhanga Reo are whānau-led services offering a Māori environment for tamariki and their whānau. Parent-led services includes Playcentres and Playgroups.
The following document gives an overview of key findings from the latest ECE census.
- ECE Summary: Services 2018 [PDF 195kB]
For more information on the Early Childhood Education census, refer to the following report
The tables below provide statistics on the number of ECE services, licensed places and waiting times. These include interactive pivot tables which allow you to create your own tables by any combination of variables available and time-series files which are pre-made tables which centre on key statistics.
Please note: use of the pivot table spreadsheets require MS Excel version 2007 or later.
New Services
- New ECE Services (2000-2018) [MS Excel 2mB]
- New ECE Services (2000-2018) [MS Excel 59kB]
Closed Services
- Closed ECE Services (2000-2018) [MS Excel 863kB]
- Closed ECE Services (2000-2018) [MS Excel 59kB]
Number of Services
- Pivot Table: Number of ECE Services (2002-2018) [MS Excel 1.7mB]
- Time Series Data: Number of ECE Services (2002-2018) [MS Excel 31kB]
Number of Licensed ECE places
- Pivot Table: Number of Licensed ECE Places (2000-2018) [MS Excel 882KB]
- Time Series Data: Number of Licensed ECE Places (2000-2018) [MS Excel 28KB]
Waiting Times
- Pivot Table: ECE Waiting Times (2002-2018) [MS Excel 1.5mB]
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Concealer can be your best friend or your worst enemy depending on how you wear it. If your application skills aren't pro-like, it's time to learn a few tricks that will make your life a bit easier and your face a bit brighter.
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Spread Concealer Along Nose
It's not unknown that your concealer must be the right shade in order to fulfill all of your beauty goals and aspirations for flawless skin. But did you know you should apply concealer downward from your eyes and along your nose to really erase the dark circles? Imagine that you draw an inverted triangle under your eye to better understand what we're talking about here. Also make sure to work the inside corners of your eye sockets for a truly bright look.
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Sometimes highlighting pens are advertised as concealers and sometimes they can even perform as such. But it all depends on your needs. These two things are essentially different. The first one gives more coverage and is intended to cover blemishes, dark circles, and spider veins while the latter is meant to give face that radiant glow. While the highlighter pen may work for someone whose dark circles aren't that bad, concealer is more effective for, well, concealing stuff, while highlighter will make your face brighter.
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Concealers often come in same shades as foundation, which sometimes makes these two interchangeable. It doesn't mean they don't have undertones though and that's what you should pay attention to. If dark circles ruin your look opt for warm shades with yellow undertones as they will counteract the purple in your skin. On the other hand, if you have unwanted orange in your skin go for blue. Sometimes color correcting concealer products are just more effective.
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Mother of man shot by Durham police questions city's report of events
The mother of a man fatally shot by Durham police disputes the city's report and says her son pleaded for his life after the first of three shots that killed him.
"Once he was shot he went down," Louise Pratt said Tuesday. "Why wasn't that enough?"
Pratt met with reporters to respond to the city's official report outlining what the Police Department says happened Feb. 15 after three members of the Selective Enforcement Team pulled up to a house on Glenbrook Drive in the Club Boulevard or "Bluefield" public housing community, where her son, Kenneth Lee Bailey Jr., was visiting cousins.
Bailey, 24, was awaiting trial on charges of robbery with a dangerous weapon and felony conspiracy and was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet when Officers Thomas M. Greathouse and Alan G. D'Meza and Cpl. John E. Lloyd came to arrest him for violating his pre-trial curfew after he didn't come home the night before.
The Police Department's report says Bailey ran outside a side door and across the street, with police in pursuit. Bailey pulled a gun at the officers, who then shot him, it says.
A witness heard officers tell Bailey to "drop his weapon several times" before they fired their guns, according to the report. Another witness reported seeing Bailey "throw a black gun back toward the street," it says.
The report does not say Bailey pointed a gun at police, as the department's original press release about the incident did. But spokesman Wil Glenn has said the press release was correct.
That's where the report ends, but Pratt, Bailey's aunt Sharon Chapman, and the family's supporters community organizer Nia Wilson of Spirit House; writer and preacher Jonathan Wilson-Hartgove, the Rev. Robert Daniels of St. John's Missionary Baptist Church and Diane Standaert of the Durham NAACP said many questions remain.
"No one we have talked to in the community where he was killed believes justice was done or (that) justice will be done," Wilson-Hartgrove said.
According to those they spoke with, the officers who "stormed" the house never issued any orders to Bailey, and community members heard Bailey plead for his life in between shots, saying he was down. Two more shots were then fired, they said.
Pratt said her son was shot three times: in the calf and twice between the abdomen and neck. She and Wilson dispute that Bailey pointed a gun at police and wants to know why officers fired on him after a 20-second chase.
"He would have had to stop, turn around and point a gun," Wilson said. "None of those shots were to the front of him."
Wilson and the others said police reacted with excessive force to someone who was being picked up for violating curfew. They asked why police didn't call family members to ask them to bring Bailey in.
There have been two fatal police shootings in Durham and a fatal shooting by a state trooper in Durham County since last November.
Bailey's aunt Sharon Chapman wiped away tears as she and Pratt described a young man they said was a loving son, brother, nephew and father to two boys. Bailey wanted to be a barber, his mother said, "because he liked to look neat."
"We're not criminals, we're not animals, and we deserve to be treated better than this," Chapman said. "We will have to live with this, like he was a four-legged animal somebody was out hunting."
The three officers remain on administrative leave with pay pending the department's internal and State Bureau of Investigation reviews, police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said.
"This case is still under investigation so we will not comment on the specifics at this time," she said by email Tuesday.
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Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy is due in Northland to announce what drought relief will be available to farmers today as the region swelters under the Big Dry.
Northland is in a drought, with the Northland Rural Support Trust on Wednesday asking the Ministry for Primary Industries to officially recognise the region's Big Dry as a medium-scale adverse event, which will then trigger help for farmers. The drought is the fifth in the region in the past eight years.
If MPI did so it would inform Mr Guy and he is due to visit a farm in the Far North today to make a drought announcement, his office said.
Mr Guy told the Northern Advocate he has been keeping an eye on the situation in Northland and last Thursday inspected a parched farm in Puhipuhi and another at Pouto, south of Dargaville while on official business in Kaipara.
"It's not unusual for Northland to be dry, and while spring has been good for farmers, the region needs rain. It's a bit of a concern," Mr Guy said.
The exact details of what he was to announce today were unknown at edition time.
Northland Rural Support Trust (NRST) co-ordinator Julie Jonker said there's little likelihood of significant rain in the next two weeks and the region's farmers needed help
"We don't need that official recognition to know we are in a drought, but what it does is trigger help for farmers and officially says Northland is in the grip of another drought," she said.
Ms Jonker said farmers needed serious rain - up to 100mm - but there was none on the horizon and soil moisture levels across Northland were extremely low.
The types of support available during droughts to farming communities included access to Rural Support Trusts that are set up throughout the country to co-ordinate drought recovery activities; assistance around flexibility with tax payments through Inland Revenue; standard hardship assistance provided by Work and Income and emergency benefits.


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Public Utilities Department
The City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department provides water and sanitary sewer service to approximately 195,000 metered water and sewer customers and a service population of approximately 570,000 people in Raleigh, Garner, Wake Forest, Rolesville, Knightdale, Wendell, and Zebulon areas.
Mission: To provide safe, sustainable water services for our customers while protecting public health and contributing to the economic, environmental and social vitality of our communities.
Public Utilities Multi-Year Business Plan
Annual Consumer Confidence Report/Water Quality Report [2017]
Annual Wastewater Collection and Treatment System Report [2016-2017]
Water and Wastewater Rate Increase Effective July 1, 2018
Current Public Utilities Improvement Projects
Traffic Alert Update: 2500-2800 Blocks of Wake Forest Road for Sewer Line Installation
Nighttime Road Closure Through Late Summer
Beginning on Friday, May 17, the City of Raleigh will detour southbound lanes of traffic within the 2500 to 2800 block of Wake Forest Road, between East Six Forks Road and Hodges Street, for a sewer line installation.
Work is expected to be completed by late summer.
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2019 Water & Wastewater Services Rate Changes
On March 6, 2019, the Raleigh City Council provided preliminary approval for 2019 Water and Wastewater Services Rate Changes. Rate changes will be approved upon final adoption of the FY2020 budget which will take effect on July 1, 2019.
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Raleigh Launches Project Share Contribution Program
The City is aware that some customers may be experiencing financial hardships. Fortunately, by contributing to the City of Raleigh 'Project Share Contribution Program', you can help those in need.
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Customer Notices
Boil Water Advisory Now Referred to as System Pressure Advisory (SPA)
Please be advised that the City of Raleigh will now be referring to water service interruptions caused by loss or low water system pressure as a System Pressure Advisory (SPA). This terminology change became effective June 1, 2018.
A System Pressure Advisory is a public statement advising people to boil their tap water before using it, typically in response to an event that increases the potential for backsiphonage in the water distribution system. Such events would include a water main break or small or widespread loss of system pressure. In some cases, staff can make repairs to a water main while under pressure. When this process is used there will be no system pressure advisory issued.
When the City does issue a System Pressure Advisory, we will notify only the customers affected or served by the water main being repaired. Customers will be notified by phone message, text, or email utilizing the customer's contact information provided to Customer Care and Billing, or by a door hanger. If the SPA is widespread, the City will utilize available media, radio and other appropriate notification measures to assist with informing the public of the system pressure advisory.
The City of Raleigh Water Distribution Division works tirelessly to provide sustainable water service to customers and will continue to do so. We pride ourselves in the provision of water service and our repair crews work around the clock 24/7, 365 days a year to address any issues of service delivery that may need attention.
Thank you for partnering with us! We work to provide our communities and businesses with a quality product that we all can be proud of. For more information, visit our System Pressure Advisory page.
Assistance Program for Water and Sewer Utility Customers
The City of Raleigh has established a program to help economically distressed water and sewer utility customers manage their utility bills. The Utility Customer Assistance Program (UCAP) will be administered in partnership with the Wake County Human Services Department, which will provide eligibility screening services for the program.
Our customers can call 919-996-3245 to speak with a billing specialist to learn more about the program and the eligibility requirements. In order to qualify for assistance, customers must visit the Wake County Human Services staff at the Swinburne Center, located at:
- Swinburne Center
220 Swinburne St.
Raleigh, NC 27610
Qualified utility customers are eligible for up to $240 per fiscal year, and the assistance funds will be directly applied to their utility account. The UCAP is only available to utility customers within the City of Raleigh, the Towns of Garner and Rolesville until the funds are exhausted.
New Automated Forms
Customers now have to option to submit forms online for the following services:
Start New Utility Service (for customers moving into the City of Raleigh's service area)
Stop Utility Services and Request Final Bill (for customers moving out of the City of Raleigh service area)
Transfer Utility Services (for customers moving within the City of Raleigh service area)
City of Raleigh Official Utility Payment Locations are the only payment sites authorized to accept your payments. View Official Utility Payment Locations
Customers will experience the same prompt attention, whether the request is received online or via telephone. All requests must be submitted 24 hours prior to the requested service date. Customers will receive a detailed email confirmation when their request has been completed. Customers may still call Customer Care & Billing at 919-996-3245 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to make these requests.
Customer Alert regarding Private Company Solicitations for Water and Sewer Line Protection Services
Residents in our service area (Garner, Knightdale, Raleigh, Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell, and Zebulon) often receive solicitation letters concerning purchasing protection coverage for water and sewer lines on their property. These mailings are worded in a way that the offer appears to be a collaborated effort between the company and the City of Raleigh and/or other local municipalities. Please be aware that these solicitations are not endorsed, nor are the companies contracted by the City of Raleigh to offer water or sewer service line insurance coverage on the City's behalf.
If you have further questions regarding the validity of these types of mailings, please contact:
- City of Raleigh, Public Utilities Communications Office at 919-996-3473
- NC Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General at 919-716-6400 or visit their website for tips on how to Avoid Consumer Scams.
Check out a company with Attorney General Josh Stein's Consumer Protection Division at 1-877-5-NO-SCAM before you do business with them.
Utility Customer Alert: Residents Should Be Aware of Private Solicitations for Water Sampling
There continues to be a number of private companies performing mass mailings and placing water sampling door hangers soliciting residents to purchase water filtration systems. Some of these door hanger solicitations include "water sampling kits" and indicate "Urgent Community Water Test". Please be aware that these mailings and door hangers are not issued by nor endorsed by the City of Raleigh.
Customers should be aware that accurate water quality sampling requires very specific collection and handling protocol, as well as a laboratory certified by North Carolina to run industry accepted test methods.
North Carolina certified laboratories
The City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department conducts thousands of water quality analyses throughout the year to ensure the drinking water you receive meets or exceeds all Federal and State drinking water regulations. It should also be noted that Raleigh's drinking water is considered "soft" with a measured hardness usually under 30.00 milligrams/liter as CaCO3, and therefore should not require a "water softener" system. In comparison, water with a hardness of 120.00 milligrams/liter as CaCO3 or above is considered "hard". More information on Raleigh's drinking water
If you are a City of Raleigh water customer and have concerns regarding your water quality such as discoloration or an unusual taste or odor, please call the Public Utilities Operations Division at 919-996-3245.
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Raleigh Public Utilities Department Receives Recognition for Leadership in Clean Water Advocacy
The City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department has received national recognition for Leadership and Advocacy for responsible national policies that advance a sustainable approach to clean water from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA).
NACWA's new Advocacy Recognition Program honors outstanding advocacy work undertaken by NACWA Member Agencies to further municipal clean water priorities. The annual recognition publicly acknowledges direct actions taken by member agencies to help advance the Association's interests—along with the larger clean water sectors—in the public affairs and public policy arenas, furthering the collective mission to build a strong and sustainable clean water future.
After a comprehensive nominating and vetting process, Advocacy Recognition honorees were officially acknowledged during awards ceremonies at NACWA's Utility Leadership Conference & Annual Meeting held in July 2018.
Special appreciation was reserved for the services of Associate City Attorney Daniel F. McLawhorn, who is a nationally recognized leader in Environmental Law and its application in North Carolina. Mr. McLawhorn, who was present to receive the award on behalf of the department, has served the City of Raleigh for 15 years, advising City departments upon issues large and small. Before joining the City, Dan served approximately 27 years with the North Carolina Attorney General's Office and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, representing North Carolina in a wide range environmental issues.
As an advocacy organization, NACWA is pleased to honor the City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department in this discipline. [July 2018]
Raleigh Public Utilities Water Distribution Division Receives
Prestigious Partnership for Safe Water Directors Award
The Partnership for Safe Water has granted the Raleigh's Water Distribution Division the Directors Award for performance within the Partnership's Distribution System Optimization Program.
The Partnership for Safe Water is an unprecedented alliance of six prestigious drinking water organizations. The Partnership's mission is to improve the quality of water delivered to customers by optimizing water system operations. To receive the Director's Award, the utility was required to undergo a rigorous self-assessment method and peer review process. The report submitted was evaluated by a Program Effectiveness Assessment Committee team which consisted of utility peers. The review team was particularly impressed with the following areas:
- Identify Performance Limiting Factors
- Development of Action Plans to achieve distribution system optimization
- Submission of Annual Reports and data
- Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to superior quality water and protecting public health
This award presentation was a notable highlight at the American Water Works Association's ACE18 Conference held June 2018 in Las Vegas, NV. Congratulations to the Public Utilities Department and Water Distribution Division staff on this great accomplishment.
To learn more, visit www.awwa.org and search 'Partnership for Safe Water'.
State Honors Raleigh's Water Treatment Plants with Award for Meeting Stringent Voluntary Goals | June 12, 2018
Crabtree Pipeline Project
Construction Global Magazine | September 2015 | Pages 96-105
The City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department Undermining Overflow
WRAL.com | August 11, 2015
Crabtree Creek Project Will Ease Flooding but Cause Street Closures
City of Raleigh Partners With Conservancy to Protect Lands in Falls Lake Watershed
July, 2014
The City of Raleigh has contributed towards protecting a critical tract of land in the Falls Lake Watershed.
What's Inside This House?
WUNC.org, January 16, 2014
The ordinary-looking house on Wade Ave actually disguises a pump station for the City of Raleigh Public Utilities.
How to Transfer Ownership of Private Water Systems
City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department maintains the water distribution
and sewer collection systems in Raleigh, Garner, Knightdale, Rolesville, Wake
Forest, Wendell, and Zebulon. However, privately owned water distribution and sewer collection mains exist inside the service area. These mains connect
single family residential properties to the publicly owned system. Any repair and maintenance needed is the responsibility of the property owner.
If you would like more information about system requirements, please refer to the Public Utilities Handbook.
If you believe your system meets the qualifications and would like to request that the City of Raleigh consider taking ownership of your private water and/or sanitary sewer system, please contact Dale Utley at 919-996-5925 prior to submitting the application. The application can be submitted to:
of Raleigh Public Utilities Water Distribution
Attn: Dale Utley
3304 Terminal Drive, Suite 300
Raleigh, N.C. 27604
Water and Sewer Project Inspection and Acceptance Requirements
Public water and sewer infrastructure development projects in Garner, Knightdale, Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell, and Zebulon are inspected and accepted through the City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department.Learn more about inspection and acceptance for these communities.
Current Public Utilities Improvement Projects
The City of Raleigh's Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is one element in the City's long-term planning process. The Public Utilities department houses an internal CIP division.Learn more about the Capital Improvement Program Division
Public Utilities Mascots
The City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department has three mascots, Neusie, Johnny the Running Toilet and Sir Water Raleigh to help with our outreach efforts.Learn more about the Public Utilities Mascots
Utility Customer Care and Billing
Depending on whether you live in Raleigh, Garner, Knightdale, Wake Forest, or another area, find out who you need to call for a new water account and meter.Learn more about Utility Customer Care and Billing
Treatment Plants and Other Facilities
The City of Raleigh owns and operates three wastewater treatment plants and two drinking water treatment plants in the City's utility service area which provide services to a population of approximately 500,000.View Plant Information
Cross Connection Control Program
Protecting the City's water supply by overseeing the installation, regulation, and testing of backflow assemblies installed between cross connections, backflow assemblies prevent contaminants from the consumer's property entering the water supply which could pose a health hazard or pollution of the water.Learn more about Cross Connection Control Program
Industrial Pretreatment Program
The City of Raleigh Industrial Pretreatment Program permits, inspects, and surveys customers who may be discharging industrial wastewater. Pretreatment refers to the treatment of non-domestic wastewater before it is discharged to the wastewater treatment plant, also known as a POTW, or publicly-owned treatment works.Learn more about the Industrial Pretreatment Program
Environmental Services Program
The Environmental Services program works to protect and restore natural resources, by keeping our city clean, safe and livable through water and wastewater treatment, promoting proper disposal of used cooking grease, helping to protect our watershed and drinking water supply from pollution...and much more.
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Water Conservation and Efficiency
The City of Raleigh has initiated several programs to help educate our customers about the most water efficient technologies and to understand the City's mandatory conservation measures.
View water supply status and conservation stagesLearn more about water efficiency and conservation programs
Reuse Water System
Reuse water (also known as reclaimed water, recycled water, or non-potable water) is highly treated wastewater that can be re-used for irrigation, pressure washing, vehicle washing, toilet flushing, or cooling towers, instead of being discharged into a waterway.
Hydrant Program
The Public Utilities Water Distribution Division provides maintenance and repair services on over 2,300 miles of water mains, 22,000 fire hydrants and 70,000 valves within the service area. Staff performs emergency repair and replacement of public hydrants and annual flushing of the water distribution system.
By following the recommendations of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the Insurance Service Office (ISO), with regular maintenance, fire hydrants can have a service life of 50 to 75 years.
An 'Old Friend' Gets a Makeover:
Color of Publicly Owned Fire Hydrants Changing from Red to Yellow
Phase one of the painting project begins August 1 and continues through November, 30, 2018.
DMD Consultant Crews will start in zone 1, just north east of downtown, moving into the downtown area. The contractor will be working on 20 hydrants at a time. After finishing the eastern area (Raleigh) and downtown, crews will move to the southern service area (Garner). This should occur around the end of November. The contractor will break and start back March-April in the western portion of Raleigh. The service area is broken down into 29 work zones.
- Work Zone Map
Zone 1 Complete = 2027
- Zone 2 Status Map as of 12/31/2018 - Work temporarily suspended until warmer weather
Needs Sandblasting = 7
Needs Paint = 1064
Primed = 0
Top Coat Applied = 0
- Hydrant Painting Process Picture-Video
Illustrating the Cleaning, Primer Coat & Painting Process
- How to Identify DMD Consultants Vehicles and Crews
Hydrant Meter Program
Hydrant Meter Rentals provide temporary potable water services to customers within the City's service area through connection to fire hydrants.
Commercial and Residential customers must apply for a hydrant meter before using water from a fire hydrant for construction, landscaping, demolition, street cleaning, drinking fountains for public events and other approved uses.
Fees are based on the length of use, and billing for the hydrant meter(s) will occur one time per month.
Valve Exercising Program
Hydromax, USA, the City's designated contractor, will begin their large valve-exercising project on Monday, Oct. 29, and will progress in phases throughout the service area over the next five years. Contractor crews will begin working in Raleigh, Garner, Knightdale, Wendell, and Zebulon communities over the next two months, exercising approximately 290 valves. The City expects the second phase to include the Wake Forest and Rolesville communities and will begin in the Fall of 2019.
Visit the Large Valve-Exercising Program page for more information.
Business Planning
Strategic Planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.
In this section you will find several plans and presentations that will help you better understand our department's mission and vision. Through the various tasks and initiatives outlined in these plans, we venture towards our goal of becoming a world-class utility service provider.Learn more about the department's Multi-Year Business Plan
Public Utilities Handbook
The City of Raleigh Public Utilities Department has prepared this handbook to summarize the policies, standards, and specifications of the Department.
The Raleigh Public Utilities Department has the responsibility for operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing and expanding the water, sewer, and reuse systems of the City of Raleigh and the towns of Garner, Rolesville, Knightdale, Wendell, Zebulon and Wake Forest.
2014 Public Utilities Handbook
- Appendix A - Guidelines and Requirements for the Cross Connection Program
- Appendix B - Standard Water, Sewer and Reuse Details
- Appendix C - Water, Sewer and Reuse Permit Applications
- Appendix D - Standard Notes and Signature Blocks
- Appendix E - CORPUD Standard Operating Procedures
- Appendix F - Water and Sewer Permitting Scenarios
Material and Construction Standards
Product Review Committee


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text: On some ARM SMP SoCs (OMAP4460, Tegra 2, and probably more), the cpus cannot be independently powered down, either due to sequencing restrictions (on Tegra 2, cpu 0 must be the last to power down), or due to HW bugs (on OMAP4460, a cpu powering up will corrupt the gic state unless the other cpu runs a work around). Each cpu has a power state that it can enter without coordinating with the other cpu (usually Wait For Interrupt, or WFI), and one or more "coupled" power states that affect blocks shared between the cpus (L2 cache, interrupt controller, and sometimes the whole SoC). Entering a coupled power state must be tightly controlled on both cpus. The easiest solution to implementing coupled cpu power states is to hotplug all but one cpu whenever possible, usually using a cpufreq governor that looks at cpu load to determine when to enable the secondary cpus. This causes problems, as hotplug is an expensive operation, so the number of hotplug transitions must be minimized, leading to very slow response to loads, often on the order of seconds. This patch series implements an alternative solution, where each cpu will wait in the WFI state until all cpus are ready to enter a coupled state, at which point the coupled state function will be called on all cpus at approximately the same time. Once all cpus are ready to enter idle, they are woken by an smp cross call. At this point, there is a chance that one of the cpus will find work to do, and choose not to enter suspend. A final pass is needed to guarantee that all cpus will call the power state enter function at the same time. During this pass, each cpu will increment the ready counter, and continue once the ready counter matches the number of online coupled cpus. If any cpu exits idle, the other cpus will decrement their counter and retry. To use coupled cpuidle states, a cpuidle driver must: Set struct cpuidle_device.coupled_cpus to the mask of all coupled cpus, usually the same as cpu_possible_mask if all cpus are part of the same cluster. The coupled_cpus mask must be set in the struct cpuidle_device for each cpu. Set struct cpuidle_device.safe_state to a state that is not a coupled state. This is usually WFI. Set CPUIDLE_FLAG_COUPLED in struct cpuidle_state.flags for each state that affects multiple cpus. Provide a struct cpuidle_state.enter function for each state that affects multiple cpus. This function is guaranteed to be called on all cpus at approximately the same time. The driver should ensure that the cpus all abort together if any cpu tries to abort once the function is called. This series has been tested by implementing a test cpuidle state that uses the parallel barrier helper function to verify that all cpus call the function at the same time. This patch set has a few disadvantages over the hotplug governor, but I think they are all fairly minor: * Worst-case interrupt latency can be increased. If one cpu receives an interrupt while the other is spinning in the ready_count loop, the second cpu will be stuck with interrupts off until the first cpu finished processing its interrupt and exits idle. This will increase the worst case interrupt latency by the worst-case interrupt processing time, but should be very rare. * Interrupts are processed while still inside pm_idle. Normally, interrupts are only processed at the very end of pm_idle, just before it returns to the idle loop. Coupled states requires processing interrupts inside cpuidle_enter_state_coupled in order to distinguish between the smp_cross_call from another cpu that is now idle and an interrupt that should cause idle to exit. I don't see a way to fix this without either being able to read the next pending irq from the interrupt chip, or querying the irq core for which interrupts were processed. * Since interrupts are processed inside cpuidle, the next timer event could change. The new timer event will be handled correctly, but the idle state decision made by the governor will be out of date, and will not be revisited. The governor select function could be called again every time, but this could lead to a lot of work being done by an idle cpu if the other cpu was mostly busy. v2: * removed the coupled lock, replacing it with atomic counters * added a check for outstanding pokes before beginning the final transition to avoid extra wakeups * made the cpuidle_coupled struct completely private * fixed kerneldoc comment formatting * added a patch with a helper function for resynchronizing cpus after aborting idle * added a patch (not for merging) to add trace events for verification and performance testing v3: * rebased on v3.4-rc4 by Santosh * fixed decrement in cpuidle_coupled_cpu_set_alive * updated tracing patch to remove unnecessary debugging so it can be merged * made tracing _rcuidle v4: * removed BUG_ONs * converted ready and waiting counts to a single atomic (idea from Rafael) * prevent coupled idle during hotplug, simplifying alive_count * dropped trace patch for now, will repost a new one later This series has been tested and reviewed by Santosh and Kevin for OMAP4, which has a cpuidle series ready for 3.5, and Tegra and Exynos5 patches are in progress. I think this is ready to go in. Lean, are you maintaining a cpuidle tree for linux-next? If not, I can publish a tree for linux-next, or this could go in through Arnd's tree.