4 - The Progress. March 1999
Residents will pay over $3,000 for irrigation meters
Under a new fee schedule adopted
Monday, March 22, residents will
be required to pay a $3,065 capaci
ty replacement fee in order to have
an irrigation meter installed, a move
that Morrisville Commissioners
hope will discourage people from
irrigating their lawns.
The new fees will go into effect on
May 3.
The installation fee of $606 will
still be in effect. That cost includes
$500 for the service installation,
$60 for an account deposit and $46
for a plumbing inspection. The
capacity replacement fee will be
charged in addition to the installa
tion fee.
The $3,065 fee applies to a three-
quarter-inch meter. It is calculated
based on a water capacity replace
ment rate of $2.27 per gallon per
day multiplied by 75 percent of the
maximum amount of water that
could flow through the meter in one
hour.
The old water capacity replace
ment rate was $1.81 per gallon per
day. The sewer capacity replace
ment fee was raised from $2.84 to
$3.09 per gallon per day.
For a one-inch meter, the capacity
replacement fee would be $5,108;
for a one-and-a-half-inch meter, the
cost would be $10,215 and for a
two-inch meter, the cost would be
$20,430.
The commissioners also raised the
fees for water meters. A three-quar
ter-inch meter, which would have
cost $54 was raised to $75; a one-
inch meter was raised from $123 to
$146; a one-and-a-half-inch meter
was raised from $278 to $300; a
two-inch meter was raised from
$1,220 to $1,405; a three-inch
meter was raised from $1,585 to
$1,835; a four-inch meter was
raised from $2,328 to $2,710; a six-
inch meter was raised from $4,269
to $4,890.
Acreage fees were raised from a
standard $850 fee to $1,000 for a
residential development of five or
fewer units per acre; $1,500 for a
multi-family residential develop
ment; $1,250 for a non-residential
development with a three-quarter-
inch water meter and $1,750 for a
non-residential development with a
larger meter or with two or more
three-quarter-inch meters.
The board also raised the fees for
maps created using the town’s new
Geographic Information Systems
computer mapping. A $5 fee will be
charged for 17-by-22-inch maps
and a $12 fee for 35-by-28-inch
maps Custom maps will cost the
base map fee plus $15 per hour.
An additional $15 mapping fee
will also be added to the current
rezoning fee to cover the cost of
printing maps, identifying property
owners within 100 feet and gather
ing parcel data for applications.
PC Week names Ganymede top 15 software firm
Continued from page 1
formance.
“In order to do this, IT depart
ments must be able to view perfor
mance from the end user’s perspec
tive and to manage performance at
every stage of an IT project’s life
cycle—from planning through
deployment and ongoing monitor
ing. Ganymede is the only'company
delivering products that satisfy
these requirements.”
Ganymede software has two prod
ucts, the Chariot testing system and
the Pegasus performance monitor.
Used by over 600 customers and all
major independent testing labs.
Chariot has become the de facto
standard for testing end-to-end per
formance of a network.
Chariot is primarily used by cor
porations or service providers mak
ing changes to their network, such
as rolling out a new application or
technology, deploying a new infra
structure or adding more users to a
network.
Pegasus monitors end-to-end per
formance over time. Pegasus proac
tively alerts IT managers to perfor
mance problems and enables them
to analyze network performance
trends. Service providers and corpo
rate IT departments can also use
Pegasus to demonstrate adherence
to service level agreements based
on metrice that describe a user’s
experience with applications on the
network (response time, throughput
and connectivity).
Ganymede was founded in May of
1995 by four career IBMers, includ
ing Tim Huntley, CEO; John
Walker, vice president of develop
ment; Peter Schwaller, chief pro
grammer and Steve Joyce, vice
president of marketing.
They moved into their current
space in December of 1996, and
have grown from the original four
to approximately 90 employees
today, with more than half working
in development, and about a third
working in sales.
The privately-held company is
not profitable yet, Demacopoulos
said, and no projections are avail
able regarding profitability, she
said.
But Ganymede has earned signif
icant recognition in the past year.
Chariot won Data
Communications’ 1999 Hot
Products award. Network World’s
World Class award and Networked
Multimedia award at the Desktop
Video Communications show
(now called Multimcdia.com.)
Pegasus, which was introduced
last year, won Best of Show at
ComNet 1998.
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June, and bring the number of major
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The low-fare' airline will change
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daily departures to five cities:
BaltimoreAVashington Internationa]
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between Raleigh-Durham and
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savings from the $297 one-way fare
currently offered by other airlines.
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Seats are limited and an overnight
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eral tax of $2 per segment. .
The company’s current fleet is
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The fifth-largest carrier in terms of
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rently serves 53 cides in 27 states.
This will increase to 54 cities in 28
states when service begins at RDU
in June.
Sushi Thai has daring, delicious menu
Table
Talk
A while back our friend.
Chef Michael Chuong^
introduced us to spring
rolls and a spicy dipping
sauce that he prepares as
their accompaniment.
James (my husband) and I
were hooked!
For awhile we ate so
many spring rolls that we
were afraid that our own “rolls”
would get forever out of control!
Yet, we still were too intimidated to
dine alone in a Thai restaurant, for
the same reasons that most
Americans are. We just really did
n’t quite know what to do with the
menu.
What if we pronounced some
thing wrong and ended up with a
live shark flopping around on the
table before us?
So, when our dear friend Kit
Trubey invited us to join her and
her daughter Kristen Trubey, and
friend Jennifer Gale for dinner at
Sushi Thai in Cary, we leapt at the
chance. We knew that at the very
least, the company would be great
and that as a further bonus, Kristen
had only recently returned from a
. one-year hiatus spent working in
Phuket, Thailand. Here was a lady
who knows the language, customs,
and the food first hand, and was
willing to coach us through the
meal.
Located in the Kroger Plaza shop
ping center on Killmayne Dr. in
Cary, this restaurant has
the kind of flexible atmosphere that
allows the customer to define their
own evening. The furniture and
woodwork are custom made, which
lends the restaurant an air of “ele-.
gant pub.” Upon entering, your first
thought might be that you are
under-dressed, but, after being seat
ed, you may find that you are
pleasantly unaware of your sur
roundings.
At first glance. Sushi Thai could
appear to be a misnomer because
the Thai’s don’t serve sushi. But,
the Japanese do serve sushi, and
because this restaurant has both a
Japanese menu and a Thai menu, it
is aptly titled.
This restaurant also has separate
kitchens. One for the Japanese
food, and one for the Thai food.
Further, the Japanese kitchen has
separate chefs. One for sushi alone,
so the customers may watch him at
work.
One of the first things that Kit,
James, and I were happy to learn
was that all sushi is not
raw. We could, after
all, enjoy those pretty
little hor d’oerves.
All of the appetizers
we ordered are similar
by in that they are sur-
Roxanne rounded in rice and
Powers wrapped in seaweed.
The differences have to
do with what is in the center, and
the kind of sauce served with it.
Many of the cooked sushi’s are
served floating on a plate that is
glazed with the sauce, some come
with a side dish of sauce, and any
of them can be dipped in a sauce of
your own creation of soy sauce and
green pepper sauce.
The truth is, we all enjoyed our
appetizers immensly, whether we
ate them with chop sticks, a fork,
our fingers. As a group, we honest
ly couldn't recommend one appe
tizer over another, but somewhat
favored the deep fried bakery. This
sushi has salmon, cream cheese and
scallions in the center, is dipped in
tempura batter, deep fried, and
served with a slightly sweet sesame
seed sauce.
We really did make it to the
entrees, much to the delight of the
employees of Sushi Thai, I’m sure.
James was the only one of us to
order from the Japanese menu, but,
his Shoga Yaki, a thinly sliced pork
sauteed with a ginger sauce and
sprinkled with sesame seeds, and
served over buck wheat noodles
was a refreshing, if not particularly
daring dish. Kit had the Pad Thai
shrimp, which is shrimp and rice
noodles stir-fried with pad Thai (or
peanut) sauce, egg, bean sprouts,
and ground roasted peanuts. Both
Jennifer and Kristen had little plat
ters of various raw sushis, which
as Kristen pointed out, is healthy
and low fat.
1 regally ordered the much higher
in fat, Royal Duck, which is a
royal-sized serving of crispy duck
sliced and delicately fanned across
one end of the plate, and a small
bowl of pineapple, snow peas, and
cashews in a dipping sauce.
While the service was not at all
lacking in speed, our party was
having such a good time learning
and experimenting, that this was
definitely not a fast-food
evening.
Thank you for sharing this time
with me, but, I must go now so I
can work on coming up with more
excuses for returning to Sushi Thai.
GOD/o^S
CREATED BY
DON MOEN-JACK HAYFORD-TOM FETTRE
CAMP RIRKLAND-RANDY VADER-JAY ROUSE
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6636 Good Hope Church Rd., MorrisviIle,NC
March 28, 1999 • 7:00 PM
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Music and Testimony
Welcome to Good Hope Baptist Church
Weekly Schedule
Sunday Morning
Opening Assembly
10:00
Sunday School
10:15
Morning Celebration
11:00
Sunday Evening
Youth Eorum
5:30
Children's Choir
6:00
Adult Choir
7:00
Wednesday Evening
Eellowship Meal
6:15
Bible Study
7:00
OA's/RA's/Sunbeams
7:00
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• Baptist Men - Mission work, monthly breakfast, church and
community projects, golf outings.
• Fund and Fellowship - Monthly meeting of senior adults
including lunches, games, one day outings.
• Love ^ - Informal monthly Christian fellowship for young
married couples and their’children. Develop deeper friend
ships, learn how the Bible tells us to deal with today’s
challenging prob lems. Fun activities include cook-outs, 70’s
polyester party, bowling,
•Women’s Missionary Union ■ Monthly Bible study centering
around home and foreign missions.
• Sunday School - a time of studying and developing
Christian principles, offered to all age groups.
• Youth Forum - Sunday night Bible study and fellowship. Fun
activities include lock-ins, midnight bowling, ACC and Super
Bowl parties, ski trips and summer mission trip.
• Children’s Department - Nursery provided during all ser
vices. Mission organizations tor ages six through twelve
include RA’s and GA’s. For ages three to five, Sunbeams
are ottered Bible stories and crafts to help them learn about
Jesus. A separate Children’s Church for ages four through
seven is held during Sunday morning worship. Vacation Bible
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further develop Christian values. YMCA also otters a
preschool program tor ages two through tour.
• Music Ministry - A worship experience of traditional and
contemporary Christian music. It you are tour or older, there
is a choir tor you.
• Prayer Ministry - A Christian commitment. Our Prayer Team
otters major support and is a source of strength to all
members.