To expand a little on sublevelthree's answer, they are indeed the current look of the Nellie Cornish Memorial Sculpture.

The sculpture (installed 1989) were originally a pair of tall active fountains made of steel and gold leafed bronze (see the description and photo at the link). The spraying water was later shut off as it interfered with the traffic on the bridge. The non-functioning fountains were later replaced by the original donor in 2003 with what you see now (placed on the original platforms that the fountains were on).

This Seattle Weekly article of 2005 tells the basic history facts and gives you much more about Cornish and her legacy.

Here is a closer water level view of them in bright sun for a better look.

I did a search online and found some ecommerce sites that carried them. I looked at the Sutter Home & Hearth site but it had no accessories displayed on its site.

I would probably order online, or see if the manufacturer's website lists retailers.

how about "SUM QUI SUM" ?
My latin is a bit rusty.

i recommend taking out and cutting 6 inches off and placing back in stand the tree heals quick and its best to re-cut the bottom right before placing it in the stand and never let the stand go dry or will have to cut again and if keep doing that you can go from a 8ft tree to 4ft tree by end of xmas last year i wanted to see how long i could keep mine alive it was 3 month before finally threw it out and was still green and not falling apart

Hardwick's hardware store on Roosevelt has syringes. I saw perhaps five or six different ones in a case there today.

My first guess would be Cost Plus World Market. It might be worth calling one of their stores to check.

It's not necessarily the flatware's fault. Some people's sweat reacts with various metals, giving that "sweaty coins" scent. See here for the specifics.

It could be that there was a coating on the flatware that has worn off, and now your hands are reacting to the metal, but your relatives hands don't react to steel. Hence, only you notice the smell.

I'm thankful for a stable job that allows me to put my wife through school and put food in our bellies. Though things are tight, I realize we're doing okay and we shouldn't take what we have for granted.

First, I think your reasons for not confronting the neighbours are good ones and that it would be risky to do so. If the police do finally get off their backsides and do something about it, you will be squarely in the frame for having reported them. Bad.

So, my suggestions are:
Find out from the neighbourhood watch man who the community contact is with the police. If he is being unhelpful, ring up the local police station and ask for the contact details of the community/neighbourhood watch police officer and talk about it with him or her.

If that does not work, ring the station and ask to speak to the officer in charge, and ask what can be done, and what you can do.

I suspect, because I have a belief that generally the police are well intentioned etc, that it is a resources issue. Investigation of a house that is being used for selling drugs is time intensive (days of physical surveillance, by multiple officers), and difficult to prove (who is actually doing the selling? of what? how much?) and so the priority of it will be down the list. If you, by your regular observations of the events, can establish when it seems they have new deliveries, for example, then that may help the police target a raid to a time when there are drugs on the premises.

For your own observations to be of use, you would need to take detailed diary notes and be prepared to give evidence in court. And even then that would be difficult, as you cannot do 24 hour surveillance and further, you would be treated by defence (and possibly by the prosecution) as an interfering neighbour with an agenda who is making stuff up and so on. Not a fun feeling.

I know the advice to continue to get the police involved seems to be a bit of a cop out (har, a pun!) but we pay our taxes to them to do that job and save us the hassle.

If your efforts to get the police to do something continue to be wasted, maybe get a local journalist to do a piece, or you write a piece for or letter to the paper, without your address etc, about the issue. Bad press may get the police to act?

GoJo Orange will take even the smell of diesel and old Honda motorcycles out of my hands.

Dream symbols, IMO, don't indicate goodness or badness, exactly, but your unconscious has you running from, rather than immediately confronting the snake. --Avoidance? The snake could symbolize your ex-, or male sexuality in general, or maybe even the friend you mentioned: "what more closure do you need? that snake is dead! don't step on it anymore!!" How did you feel about that advice? The snake could even just be a snake.

The synchronicity of finding the dead snake by your work.. what a trip! What to make of coincidental nonsense? I wish I knew, but at the very least, there's no doubt that coincidence/synchronicity happens. To me, it's evidence that we don't have it all figured out. Life is more than meets the eye.

Good luck w/ that issue of closure. The tricky thing is that your heart or mind might think there's a right way to achieve closure, but your heart/mind might be wrong. The drunken dial in the middle of the night, for instance, might be what you really, really *want* to do (haha-- if you're anything like me, post-breakup!), or letters, or deep convos w/ the ex-.. Where maybe a healthy amount of avoidance is good. Allow time to pass. Your friend might have had some good advice, and your unconscious will continue to process it all and give you that REM picture show of its workings. On a hippie dippy note, everything is connected. That dead snake was a gift from the universe. A little wink to say, "Hey, aquamarineat114, we're all in this together."

Lol.

How do you want to improve it? Make it harder, easier, more interesting?

The toughest one I know in English is "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."

Horribly obnoxious website but:
http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/
has info on how to recycling them locally.

Good luck

Not sure if this is a complete list, but it's a good starting place. Scroll down a bit for verbs with the same past and present tense.

http://www.grammar.cl/Past/Irregular_Verbs_List.htm

When people shut down the streets of Seattle during the WTO, we succeeded in the goal of disrupting that meeting - I remember how awesome it felt to be a small part of that as an individual. But there was a least one year of serious organizing before the protests, both here and in other cities. Also there were people working within the WTO trying to reform the structure. Afterwards, everyone thought change was really going to happen because so many lefty groups had successfully worked together, and it blew up when people from different groups came together and tried to define more specific goals for future organizing.

I guess I'm jaded, but I think Occupy Seattle is going down the same path with much less organization. It seems like a lot of people are on a "protest high" and are just totally focused on staying in Westlake to spite the mayor and the cops. I can't see how this is going to help bring about affordable health care, for example.

I don't think I agree with anything the tea party believes in, but they have been successful in pressuring elected officials to make promises to never, ever raise taxes. I would like to see the Occupy movement hold our elected officials accountable, but it seems like a lot of Occupistas don't vote or want to work for reform within the system.

I'm really hoping an established non-profit will start a related campaign I can do something with, because I don't have time or energy to go to a general assembly every day and bring these issues up.

yes, we're in North Seattle and they quietly bumped the minimum order from $30 to $50. I asked customer service about it and they confirmed the new $50 minimum (without of course confirming that the old minimum). First Netflix, now Amazon Fresh - don't these guys know how to communicate changes to customers?

I have to concur with BBIA. The Canon line of cameras provides good value for cost. You don't want "cheapy" to translate to poor quality equipment, function, or most importantly images obtained from the camera.

I have several of the Canon line, upgrading up through the years and the thing is - they all still work just fine, including my first Canon, S400 Digital Elph (4 megapixel) that dates back to early 2002. I had a Nikon CoolPix 995 before that, but it had more bells and whistles than a 747 cockpit. Once you get into a particular manufacturers line the software and cameras all function pretty much the same (well true for Canon anyway).

Research online via CNET and other sites. I personally have always selected the models that use interchangeable rechargeable batteries (designed for the camera, not the ones that use standard battery sizes). I buy an extra battery (aftermarket, which is way less expensive) and even then find a full charge battery to meet all my needs for a full day of use. Get a good 4 GB or larger capacity SD or SDHC memory card (shop around) - pay attention to the class number of the card (higher is faster).

The cameras may seem complicated with all the menus but all you really have to do is initially set them up (selecting preferences for shutter sounds and other choices) and then they all have an AUTO function that can have them operate as a point-and-shoot camera making decisions for you.

Later you can pick up more complete knowledge starting out with how to turn on/off the flash function, use macro modes, etc and further on how to use the full range of capabilities. Aftermarket manuals can be better than the manufacturers and a good investment (Magic Lantern and others).

Go to Best Buy or similar big techno store to see and hold them and buy local or search online for a good price. Avoid the extended warranty stuff (my advice for Canon - they just work well and if it is going to go kaput on you it will happen within your Canon warranty period).

The best part is no film, so no reason not to hit that shutter button often and learn what works best for your situations and subject matter. Page through the images and ditch the ones that failed right in camera, so you only transfer those you really think are worth keeping.

Have fun!

Super fun. Fun enough to give away all your possessions, ruin all relationships and die on the floor of your bathroom. It really is that fun. Unfortunately it only last about twenty minutes then you need to do more and more and more until the aforementioned ugly demise. If you wanted to get some and share it with me that would be fine. No, really, I would be into that. You should get some. (just make sure it isn't the kind that makes your skin fall off like a flesh eating virus)

Not to be heartless, but practical--
I think Memorial day and Veteran's day are more than enough somber, 'think of the lost and dead' holidays for our nation to collectively share. I'll honor the lost american lives as appropriate to each of those days.

(though for everyone bummed on sept 11th, here's an ascii rose: ~~'~,~<@ )

frankly I'd rather recall that September 11th is the day Henry Hudson 'discovered' Manhattan.

I'm an American Indian and I say no.

Though I always kind of pictured in my head red and orange sunsets and red/brown indian skin when I hear that phrase. But I never thought that was bad visual association. Also, growing up I always assumed this post summer warm period was an American thing. But now I realize that's kind of silly.

From where I sit I don't really observe the term Indian Summer producing a caricature of Natives.

The Mountaineers? I don't think they are as how-to on the badge-level, but you can learn about hiking, climbing, etc. with others.

http://www.mountaineers.org/about/about.cfm

"Our purposes are:
To explore, study and enjoy the mountains, forests and watercourses of the Northwest and beyond;
To gather into permanent form the history and traditions of these regions and explorations;
To preserve, by the encouragement of protective legislation or otherwise, the natural beauty of the natural environment;
To make expeditions and provide educational opportunities in fulfillment of the above purposes;
To encourage a spirit of good fellowship among the lovers of outdoor life;
To hold and sustain landscapes, properties and program sites for the furtherance of the purposes of the organization."

I have searched and read and everything I see says that the other than in Asia where major deposits that have been mined and used for centuries (and is getting harder to extract) this area immediately to our north is the other known location of quality jade.

From Canadian Geographic:

Jade is one of Canada's least-recognized exports. It is shipped as far as China and is used in large carvings, traditional jade items, statues and more. Soon, Makepeace says, for the first time in the history of China's jade industry, jade will be available to the average consumer.

To date, the jade deposits in China have all but been exhausted, while Canada, and particularly British Columbia, has vast reserves that haven't been tapped. Yet that may not change: Makepeace says the reserves are locked away in the mountains, making them difficult and expensive to reach.

From British Columbia's government site:

"Jade became the official mineral emblem in 1968. Consisting mostly of nephrite, B.C. jade is prized by carvers of fine jewellery and sculptures at home and particularly in the Orient. It is mined in many parts of British Columbia."

Unless there was some local ordinance right where she was about picking up the easily findable jade I have see nothing that indicates that having those pieces of jade present any problem. Certainly now the origin of those pieces could not be determined. BC jade is widely mined, exported, sold and available to the consumer in finished and raw forms.

The Jade Mine (BC business)

King County takes dead bird reports and acts accordingly to investigate cases they deem appropriate. Birds are a good organism for monitoring the presence of West Nile virus. Being warm blooded they are a target for mosquitos and their numbers are such that a bird will likely be bitten by an infected mosquito if the virus is in the population.

Birds work hard at looking well and hide illness until they are really sick (something bird owners are all too aware of) and then suddenly succumb to disease. Falling dead from a perch or from on the wing they fall on top of the ground cover and are often obvious to anyone passing by.

Currently the King County website shows that we are in West Nile virus alert Level 1: Remote risk of human outbreak

See: Fight the bite

The statistics for birds currently stand as follows:

Non-human WNV surveillance as of August 17, 2011

185 dead birds reported
15 collected for testing
10 test reports received
0 birds tested positive for WNV

The US Geological Survey map for West Nile Virus incidence in humans currently shows very small areas of the country affected and none in WA.

You can report a dead bird through King County's online services portal or Call Public Health at 206-205-4394

For those not as familiar with typical bird species they even have an online Bird Identification Gallery

Currently the WNV threat is very low and obviously birds die from many causes. However, taking the time to make the call or online report would be the appropriate thing to do. Being part of the watchful eyes for these events is what helps the public health officials stay most aware of the situation.

You need to report the mail theft to the United States Postal Inspectors.

They are federal agents who investigate crimes relating to the mail.

Fill out a stolen mail report here:

https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/forms/mlntrcvd.aspx

I have some for the city, but because I spend so much time running around the rest of the state, I've developed a pretty good regional list too. I'll give you my Seattle list first:

Capitol hill is "The Gayborhood"

The Central District is "The Seedy"

First Hill is "Pill Hill"

Puget Consumer's Co-op (PCC) is "The Hippy Dip"

Group Health Cooperative is "Group Death"

Boeing is "The Lazy B"

That freeway that runs through town? It's "I-5." Pronounced "Eye Five." It is most assuredly NOT "The Five" nor is it "The I-5." Just "I-5" thank you. If you can't handle that, go back to California.

Union Bay, near Husky Stadium, on Lake Washington is Garbage Bay to sailors and fishermen. Years ago, it was Seattle's garbage dump. Metro cleaned up Lake Washington a long time ago, but the name is still alive among the nautically inclined. In case you didn't know, Metro was created to clean up toxic Lake Washington, they succeeded, and expanded into transit and other areas. (More on that here: http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=1353) But boaters still call it "Garbage Bay"

Schools:
Rainier Beach High School is "Beach."
Holy Names Academy is "Holy Dames" (all girls)
O'Dea is "Oh, Gay" (all boys)
Seattle Pacific University is "Spew"

EXTINCT: We used to call SeaTac airport "SeaCrap" but It's come a long way, baby. It's now actually a nice airport, so file that one away in the history section.

EXTINCT: The Seattle Times is "Brand X." So-called by Seattle writer Emmett Watson when he moved to the P-I and wanted to take a jab at his former paper.

Oh, and please, for the love of everything that is holy, it is PIKE PLACE MARKET. May everyone who ever calls it PIKE'S MARKET choke on a salmon bone and die.

Outside of the city, around the state:

To the south, that awful smell in Tacoma is the "Aroma of Tacoma."

To the east, the Crossroads neighborhood of Bellevue is sometimes called "Immigration Station" due to the vast ethnic diversity in the middle of a lily-white town.

Also to the east, skiing at Snoqualmie Pass is "Snow-Crumby" because the snow there is terrible. And Alpental is Alpen-Small, for obvious reasons.

Lake Washington Boulevard on the east side is "The Bully"

Anacortes is an ancient Native American word that means "Waiting for the Ferry."

Yakima is Yaki-vegas.

Ellensburg is Eburg

Bellingham is Bham
Bellingham residents are "Hamsters" (Short for Bellinghhamsters)

Spokane is Spokaloo or Spo-Compton

Pullman is Pullmanastan

Port Angeles is PA

Mt. Rainier is The Mountain

Olympia is OlyWA

Wenatchee is Wet-Snatchee (like a vagina)

Walla Walla is often written "Walla²"

Highway 2, from Everett through Stevens Pass and onto Spokane and points East is "the Hi-Line" (It follows the old Great Northern Railroad of that name to Minneapolis)

It'll be black. Perhaps a slight bit different than the non-inked skin but not not bad.

Dude, you got a steal on that. Here's the link:
http://www.scientificsonline.com/rock-tumbler-accessory-kit.html
(you oughta try google, it's a really cool tool!)

I always go at 10 or 2.

10 is usually late enough in the morning that the crowd of people who were trying to get it done on their way to work has subsided, but the crowd trying to come in at lunch has not developed yet.

2 is usually late enough in the afternoon that the crowd of people who came in on their lunch break has subsided, but the crowd of people cutting out of work early to get it done on the way home has not yet developed.

You can check the wait times online at www.dol.wa.gov

A more succinct question would have been "Where can I buy some crack?"

Ms Skittles,

If that IS your real name!

We're on to you.

I have a prehensile wang.