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Former mayor remembered for civil service: Joe Miller, 71, 'fell in love with Scotts Valley'

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Joe Miller

SCOTTS VALLEY -- When Joe and Chris Miller moved here in the late 1970s, the city was merely a shadow of what it's since become, with just one traffic signal and small aircraft lazily circling over the skies where Skypark now stands.

But politics was Joe Miller's hobby, and he dedicated decades of his life, through various leadership positions and as a member of the local Kiwanis club, to improve life in his adopted community.

"He fell in love with Scotts Valley and wanted to make it a better place to live," getting involved in ground-floor talks about what eventually would become Skypark, the transit center and new library, said Chris Miller, his wife of 50 years.

Miller died Wednesday after a lengthy illness. He was 71.

Born in Denver, Miller moved as a toddler with his parents to Twin Falls, Idaho. He met his future wife at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., where he studied electrical engineering. After graduation, the couple moved to Santa Clara County, where Miller worked for companies including NASA Ames and Intel.

He branched off to work as a consultant in the 1980s and 1990s, whetting his appetite for civil service in the meantime by serving on the City Council from 1984-1996 -- three of those years as mayor.

Peggy Lopez, also a Kiwanis member, got to know Miller when the two served on the City Council and said she changed her vote several times, after he offered a different point of view that made more

sense.

"National politics should take a lesson from him," she said, adding she trusted the judgment and wisdom he'd developed through his own life experiences.

After his third term on the council ended, he moved on to the city's water district, serving as a director from 1996-2000. The couple retired soon after, and they spent the next several years traveling around the country and visiting such countries as Australia and New Zealand.

During those years, they only spent winters in Scotts Valley, but returned as full-time residents in 2004 -- the year after the city's Chamber of Commerce named Miller Man of the Year. In 1998, he took over the helm of that organization, serving as its executive director until 2001. Miller also rejoined the water district in 2008, and recently had been appointed to serve a second, four-year term that would have ended in 2016.

"Joe was a great combination of an irascible skeptic and a good-hearted softie" who took nothing at face value but "knew what it meant to trust," said Chris Perri, another water district director.

Follow Sentinel reporter Kimberly White on Twitter at Twitter.com/kwhite95066

At a glance

JOE MILLER

BORN: April 17, 1941
DIED: Oct. 17, 2012
SURVIVORS: Wife, Chris Miller; daughters Debbie Guyotte and Jennifer Grove; son Steve Miller; three grandchildren and many nieces and nephews
EDUCATION: Bachelor's in electrical engineering from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash.
CAREER: NASA Ames, AMS and Intel; executive director of the Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Scotts Valley City Council, Scotts Valley Kiwanis Club, Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce, LAFCO, AMBAG, Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, Red Cross Transportation Program
SERVICES: 1 p.m. Saturday at San Agustin Catholic Community, 257 Glenwood Drive, Scotts Valley, followed by a reception at the Scotts Valley Community Center, 360 Kings Village Road.
CONTRIBUTIONS: Scotts Valley Kiwanis Club, P.O. Box 66257, Scotts Valley CA 95067, or to St. Vincent de Paul, 257 Glenwood Drive, Scotts Valley CA 95066.

Editor's note: Joe Miller was executive director of the Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce from 1998 to 2001. This information was incorrect in an earlier version of this article.

Source: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/scottsvalley/ci_21829887/former-mayor-remembered-civil-service-joe-miller-71?source=rss

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TID *Industry News*: Weather Puppy: Cloudy With A Chance Of ...

What?s better than checking the weather and finding out it?s going to be a beautiful day? Checking the weather with adorable puppies on it, of course. A Miami based startup has just launched Weather Puppy, a brand new weather app that may just be my favorite app this year.

The app has two free themes, an outdoorsy theme and glamour theme, with themes like Fall Colors and Halloween available for $0.99. There is also a customizable ?Add Your Own Doggy? theme, which lets you upload up to seven pictures of your own pup.?The thing that really hooked me on this app though was not just the pictures of dogs,?but that it enables dog-related charities to fundraise using the platform.

Weather Puppy has partnered with 13 different charities. Paws4You Animal Rescue in Miami, which is the organization the founder currently fosters with. They have since added the?Pennsylvania SPCA,?San Diego Humane Society (CA), San Antonio Humane Society (TX), Austin Humane Society (TX), Tampa SPCA (FL), The Anti-Cruelty Society (Chicago), Broward Humane Society?(Ft. Lauderdale), Animal Humane New Mexico,?Humane Society of Utah, Detroit Dog Rescue,?Animal Haven Shelter (NYC) and?Mohawk Humane Society (NY).

?In addition to other support, the big game changer for the charities is that most are going to sell their own branded themes within the app ? giving them a way to fundraise by selling digital content. Most already fundraise by selling physical calendars so this is an easy progression for them and one that opens them up to donors across the country,? says Suraj Hemnani, founder of Weather Puppy.

Another fun thing about this app, as you can see above, is how the dogs change based on the weather. If it?s sunny outside, the featured puppy may be wearing shades. Dark out? Perhaps the pup is sleeping. Cold? They may be hiding under a blanket.

Users also have the ability to share their screen on Facebook or Twitter with a short message. Users can do this once to share to both networks simultaneously as well.

The weather app gives you current conditions (even sunrise & sunset), plus forecasts for the next three days. The data is provided by Weather Underground.

Weather Puppy is available for iOS only at the moment, but the team tells me they are looking to expand soon. Weather puppy is available for download here. Interested charities can contact Weather Puppy here.

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Source: http://open-business-innovation-eng.blogspot.com/2012/10/weather-puppy-cloudy-with-chance-of-awww.html

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Breaking Views: Mike Butler: Te reo, funding, and hurt feelings

A report on kohanga reo released by the Waitangi Tribunal has already been snubbed by the government so any serious consideration of its contents is unlikely. Since few are likely to have the time or inclination to wade through the 424-page report, here is what it is all about --- a never-ending story about funding and some hurt feelings.

The first point to make is that although kohanga reo look like early childhood education centres, they are in fact language nests in which children are intended to learn and speak Maori to revitalise the language. The movement puts the survival of t

If kohanga reo and Maori immersion schools aim to revitalise the language, have they succeeded? Census results point to a decline in the proportion of Maori speakers among Maori children aged under 10, from 21 .9 per cent in 1996 to 18 .2 per cent in 2006 in the under-five age band, and from 22 .1 per cent to 18 .8 per cent in the five-to-nine-years band.

However, these figures are a dramatic improvement on 1975, when fewer than 5 percent of children could speak Maori, according to the Waitangi Tribunal?s Te Reo report.

Kohanga reo are early childhood education centres for children from birth to five years of age and their families which involve a total immersion in the Maori language. Close to 9000 children and members of their wider family attended the 471 kohanga reo across the country in 2012.

The first kohanga reo opened at Pukeatua Marae in Wainuiomata in April 1982, and by 1985 the number was approaching 400, taking in more than 6000 children. By 1990, there were 616 kohanga reo with 10,108 students.

Kohanga numbers have declined. The kohanga reo share of total M?ori enrolment in early childhood education dropped from 33 percent in 2002 to 26 per cent in 2007 and 22 per cent in 2011. In contrast, the share of Maori children enrolled in education and care centres rose from 32 per cent to 47 per cent over the decade.

The question remains whether this decline is a result of parents deciding general education is better for their children, or, as kohanga claimants argue, as a result of failures on the part of the government.

Matua Rautia: The Report on the Kohanga Reo Claim alleges that the Crown has acted in a manner inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi with respect to a range of issues affecting the relationship between the Crown and kohanga reo and the ability of k?hanga reo to operate effectively in ensuring the transmission of te reo me ng? tikanga . The report upholds the claimants? view that actions and omissions of the Crown, have led to a decline in the number of kohanga reo and the number of children enrolled in kohanga reo.

Unsurprising is the fact that the Waitangi Tribunal demands that the government appoints an interim independent advisor of sufficient standing, treaty knowledge, reo, and policy acumen to oversee the implementation of the tribunal?s recommendations; complete a policy framework, participation targets, quality improvement, supportive funding, a more appropriate (ie less demanding) regulatory and licensing framework, and collaboration on policy development for kohanga reo; research how kohanga reo contribute to language transmission; promote kohanga reo to Maori families; and apologise to kohanga reo and its trust for its failures.

Does the tribunal?s reasoning have a treaty basis? Good question! The link to the treaty is tenuous at best. There is no reference to the Maori language in the treaty because in an environment where everyone had to speak and understand Maori, it was inconceivable that at some stage, government support and funding would be demanded.

Therefore, the Waitangi Tribunal summons up its distorted and self-serving interpretation of the treaty, in which sovereignty is ceded and not ceded, to argue that protection for the language would derive from the Article 2 promise to guarantee Maori rangatiratanga plus the obligation to actively protect taonga (all their valued possessions).

Mai Chen for the claimants puts the case, complete with tortured logic, that the government was ?obliged to actively protect kohanga reo, to enable Maori to exercise of rangatiratanga over these taonga, to formulate good, wise and efficient policy, to make informed decisions about k?hanga reo, to give an effective remedy for any past breaches of the treaty.?

It is worth reading Chapter 3 of the report to see the depth and breadth of this ?we have rights but no responsibilities, someone else is to blame, and we are entitled to unlimited government funding? claim.

Aside from the high-sounding rhetoric of the report, the relationship between the Kohanga Reo Trust and the government broke down after Education Minister Anne Tolley said that an independent early childhood eduction taskforce would consult the trust, and neither the taskforce nor the Ministry consulted the trust before the taskforce?s final report, An Agenda for Amazing Children, was published in June 2011.

To make matters worse, the trust was thus neither informed nor afforded the opportunity to respond to the strongly critical remarks made by the taskforce in its report.

The kohanga reo movement, it asserted ?has, for some time, been viewed as too hot a political issue to touch?. It questioned the quality of ECE provision in kohanga reo and ?national body leadership for all children who attend kohanga reo, and whether the trust is a key barrier or contributor to the original aspiration of the movement?.

In its view, ?meaningful change is overdue and must be addressed?. Having pointed to the high incidence of ERO supplementary reviews as an indicator of poor quality in kohanga reo, it exhorted the Government to ?think seriously about the way it invests in kohanga reo?, highlighted the amount of ECE subsidy expended on kohanga reo subject to supplementary reviews, and recommended generally ?that a service without a satisfactory performance report not be able to access Government funding.?

Source: http://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2012/10/mike-butler-te-reo-funding-and-hurt.html

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