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Thai cuisine provides such wonderful and harmonised flavours, a perfect balance of sweet, sour, salty and spicy taste in most Thai food. You must have seen pad thai in the menu of Thai restaurants and in fast food joints. It is no surprise that this dish is one of Thailand's national dish. Pad Thai is basically a rice noodle dish cooked in a bit of sugar, lime juice, fish sauce and chilli flakes. Some proteins are also added such as shrimps, eggs, cubed tofu or tempeh, chicken, and beef. A garnish of crushed peanut and coriander/parsley leaves are added to complete the dish.
Serves 4
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Printable Recipe
8 oz. Thai rice noodles
1 medium onion, diced
3-4 garlic cloves, minced
2 blocks firm tofu or tempeh, cut into small cubes
3 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp tamarind or red wine vinegar
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 tsp chili flakes
1/2 lb shrimps, deveined
1 cup bean sprouts
Parsley for garnish
1. In a bowl, soak dry noodles in warm water until flexible but not expanded, about 5-10 mins.
2. In a wok or large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Cook onions until transparent, tofu until brown. Add in garlic and cook until fragrant.
3. Drain noodles and toss into wok. Add in tamarind, sugar, fish sauce, and chili flakes. Stir constantly.
4. Push all noodles to one side of the wok. Add a tbsp of oil and pour in beaten eggs. Scramble until cooked and combine with noodles.
5. Add in shrimp and bean sprouts until fully cooked. Serve with a wedge of lime ans a sprinkle of parsley.


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By Clicking 'Like' Button on Facebook.com/UFC, Fans Can View Johnson vs. Guymon and McKenzie vs. Edwards Bouts for FREE
Update Jan 22: Lowe vs. Freire and Brown vs. Yahya added to lineup; now starts at 7 pm ET/4 pm PT.
Las Vegas, NV (USA) – The opportunity to watch two live prelim fights for free from UFC® Fight For The Troops 2 is now only a click away. The Ultimate Fighting Championship® announced today that fans will have the ability to watch two exciting UFC contests on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT by simply clicking the "Like" button on the official UFC Facebook page.
By liking Facebook.com/UFC, fans will gain access to a live stream of the lightweight battle between Cody McKenzie (12-0) of The Ultimate Fighter® and veteran Yves Edwards (39-16-1), as well as a pivotal welterweight clash pitting TUF alum DaMarques Johnson (16-8) against Mike "The Joker" Guymon (13-4-1). Fans that do not have a Facebook account are encouraged to sign up at www.facebook.com.
"I'm always looking for ways to give fans fights for free and this is just another example of that," UFC President Dana White said. "Facebook is such a great tool for people to stay connected and we're excited to put two live fights on our UFC page for free."
Following these bouts, fans can tune in to Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT to watch the live broadcast of the Fight For The Troops 2 main card from Fort Hood, Texas. The card is headlined by lightweight battle between Evan Dunham (11-1) and Melvin Guillard (44-9-3, 1 NC).
In addition to the live stream of two prelims on Facebook and the broadcast on Spike, UFC is hosting an online auction that will raise funds for the brave men and women in the United States Armed Forces with traumatic brain injuries. Prizes include the chance to attend the premiere of season 8 of the hit show Entourage, as well as the chance to meet Philadelphia Phillies centerfielder Shane Victorino and attend a Major League Baseball game as his guest. For more information on the available prizes, please visit: www.fightforthetroops.com. The deadline for bids is Monday, Jan. 24.

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Rip Tide Results? Dr. Matthew Kerbel on the Election
Take an in-depth look at the 2010 election, only days after it happens. Matthew R. Kerbel, Ph.D., will speak about "the rip tide election" on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. in the Falvey Memorial Library first floor lounge.
For the better part of a year, conservatives have been looking forward to the 2010 election with unbridled energy, hoping to regain control of Congress. Their energy and political involvement resulted in the nomination of a number of candidates with immoderate views whose questionable electoral prospects threatened to undermine the Republican wave — like a rip tide cuts against the current.
Did that wave develop? Was it diminished at all by the very activism that promised to make 2010 a banner year for Republicans? Two days after the 2010 election, we'll assess the fallout by addressing what happened, why it happened, and what it all means for the future of politics and policy.
Dr. Kerbel is a professor in the political science department and the author of several books. His most recent book is Netroots: Online Progressives and the Transformation of American Politics (Paradigm Publishers, 2009).
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Motorama new album 'Dialogues', out october 21st, 2016
Since their first self-produced album "Horse" in 2008, Motorama have gone their own melodious seamless way. From their Russian port city of Rostov-on-Don, they have carved out their identity and a niche on the musical scene as travels, journeys, landscapes and encounters have helped them forge ahead with a global outlook.
"I always try to have it all recorded uncut, in one breath, and have it thus enhanced in its delicate rugged beauty. (…) As I have figured it out, demos sometimes and even often happen to sound better than the actual records to be released", Vladislav Parshin - vocals and guitar - revealed to Magic magazine in February 2015. As expected, the fourth upcoming album 'Dialogues' is no exception to that rule. As to the distinctive melodies, harmonies and lyrical texts, everything has just gone with the flow day after day in a do-it-yourself fashion that the band have been drawing on, up to the oldie but goodie Tascam Portastudio home recording mastered in a few short weeks.
With 'Dialogues', let's talk about an addictive pop music floating on a raft of wondrous melancholy, rocked by breathtaking lyricism, heady keyboards and a muffled but dancing bass. Let's go explore the great outdoors via these compositions that take us on a trip.
On tour in october / november (dates to be announced soon)
Motorama 'Dialogues' : 1. Hard Times – 2. Tell Me – 3. Sign – 4. Loneliness – 5. Above The Clouds – 6. I See You – 7. Deep – 8. Someone Is Missed – 9. Reflection – 10. By Your Side


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Every person on the planet has the capacity to contribute something unique to the world.
We each experience life from a perspective that has never been experienced before, and will never be experienced again... so each of us will see things and experience things no one else ever will.
There may be similarities, sure. But on a profound level, we are each fundamentally special.
What I call our "Contribution" is anything we contribute to the human race that comes directly out of our own one-of-a-kind experience. When you find it, your life's purpose is to share it — to "Contribute" it — with the world.
Whenever people find out I'm writing a book called Phenomenal, they invariably ask the obvious question:
"What's it about?"
If you've been reading this blog from the start, you'll know that I haven't been very explicit about that just yet. Sure, there's the blurb, or what's written on the pre-sales page, but none of that goes very far into specifics.
So they usually conclude that this is a self-help book. Which it isn't.
Today being my birthday, I figured now's as good a time as any to look at what the core of the book is about.
Last night I saw a movie called Adam. It wasn't a particularly amazing film, but it certainly had some beautiful moments.
But every so often I watch a film and a moment really hits me. It makes me see something in myself or my life, and somehow changes my thinking.
In Adam, the moment wasn't intentional on the part of the filmmakers.
It was my moment.
And that's precisely what made it so profound.
Some ideas are challenging.
They're challenging because they radically alter the way we perceive our world.
Four hundred years ago today as I write this, a simple device was introduced to the Senate in Venice, Italy. The device had been invented the year before, in 1608, by a Dutch man named Hans Lippershey, but it was Galileo Galilei who brought it to the attention of the masses.
I've always been a fan of science technology.
In fact, when people hear that I want to make sci-fi movies, they usually assume I'm interested in space aliens and goofy monsters with ray guns. (What does that say about me?)
But what I really love is "future tech" sci-fi.
You know — those great films that give us a glimpse at creative technology and what's to come.
We're stuck in an archaic mental paradigm.
I watched a couple shows on the Science Channel last night: "Life: The Biomolecular Revolution" with Dr Michio Kaku, and Popular Science's new "Future of..." series -- an episode called "Superhumans."
The combination was fascinating.
It's easy to slip into a fog.
You're moving forward with great enthusiasm. Plugging away. Building momentum.
But gradually, everything gets sluggish. It's harder than you thought. It takes longer than you want.
And before you know it, you're moving at a crawl.
It's time to jumpstart your momentum.
The tagline of this website is "You are phenomenal. Live accordingly."
But am I just trying to win friends? Make you feel good? Trademark™ a nifty slogan?
To prove you're phenomenal, let's start by looking at your brain.
It's fast. Astoundingly fast. And I'll bet you're not giving it the credit it deserves.
If there's one thing I hate... it's a project that's been started, but isn't moving forward.
Like this blog.
Yes, I'm moving forward on the book. But this blog's just sitting here. (You won't notice that if you're reading in the future, but I need to see daily progress.)
No time to write 2,000-word articles. What can I do?
Mini-blog entries.
A quick post, and a quick update.
I'm happy to report that things are moving along nicely. When you commit yourself to a project and really dig in your heels, the most amazing discovery is that you'll invariably surprise even yourself.
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Tribe.ca is host to what many say is the longest-running online discussion. True to Seinfeld form, it's really about nothing. But that hasn't stopped it from racking up almost 100,000 posts over the past three years.
I could make a crack about how some people have nothing better to do than post to a silly message board. But then I look at myself writing about it, so I hold my tongue.
Pot, meet kettle.
Marching ahead
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When your unit is linked to an "Out-of-Home" account your child lock pin code can be recovered with the following steps:
- Login with your "Out-of-Home" account
- Tap "Add adapter" in the menu
- Tap and hold the adapter that has a child lock for more than 3 seconds
- A pop-up will appear with the child lock pin code
When your unit is not linked to a "Out-of-Home" account, your child lock pin code can be reset with the following steps:
- Contact your installer
- Your installer will need to do factory reset of the LAN adapter to remove the child lock code.
Caution: factory resetting the LAN adapter clears all settings.
Settings that are reset:
- Home network connection (LAN settings)
- Child lock code
- Unit name and icon
- Your Out-of-Home link between the adapter and the user account


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BookMusings: (Re)Discovering Pagan Literature
A lively discussion of ancient and modern Pagan literature -- including children's books, graphic novels, science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries -- along with interviews, author highlights, and profiles of Pagan publishers.
Spotlight On: The Eye of Odin
Title: The Eye of Odin
Publisher: Stag's Head Books
Author: Dennis Staginnus
Recently, I have discovered the pleasures of free ebooks. Don't worry, I'm careful. I hate pirate sites and I really, really do not understand people who download illegal ebooks. Yes, that is theft. There's no justification for it.
To be on the safe side, I stick to (relatively) reliable sites like Barnes and Noble, and the sites of the individual authors. One of the many free ebooks that I downloaded in the last week was "Double Cross," the first prequel to the forthcoming The Eye of Odin by Dennis Staginnus. Immediately after finishing "Double Cross," I downloaded the second prequel, "Fated," for a whopping 99 cents.
I was hooked pretty much from the first sentence. "Double Cross" introduces us to Sarah Finn, a Scottish witch all of fifteen years of age and already out in the world running missions for the Supreme Coven. The world is divided into Folklores -- distinct cultural pantheons such as those of Greece and Egypt -- and it is up to the Coven to keep the peace. That means not only hiding the existence of the Folklores from the mundane world (the Outland), but also making sure that magical objects remain with their native Folklore, or even the distinct Kingdom within the Folklore (Athens and Sparta do not get along). A lost, stolen, or misused artifact could have cataclysmic consequences.
Unfortunately, Sarah not only has enemies within the Folklores, but also in the Outland. The Inquisition is still very active, and determined to wipe out the witches, the Folklores, and anything else which it cannot control or deems too different. We meet an Inquisition assassination team in the second installment "Fated" -- and boy are they nasty.
Sarah is a terrific character: she sees the world as it is, but still wishes it were better, and works to make it that way. In Athens, for example, she allows one of the bad guys to get away, recognizing that it is the lesser of two evils; she still hates it, though. She is also self-confident, but not totally kick-ass. When faced with the assassination squad in "Fated," she works through her fear, adapting to the increasingly desperate situation.
Sarah is ably assisted, or mentored, by Grigsby. A centuries-old elf, Grigsby suffers from the same ennui as many of his long-lived people. To alleviate the boredom, he regularly "recreates" himself: he spends the two prequels in cowboy gear, badly mangling a John Wayne accent.
Based on what I have already read, I can't wait to see the full-length The Eye of Odin. Highly recommended to fans of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, The Finishing School series by Gail Carriger, Juliet Blackwell's Witchcraft Mystery series, and anyone looking for a strong female protagonist.
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The Hospitality Management (HM) major is one of two programs in the School of Hospitality, Sport and Recreation Management. Students within the major will receive a Bachelor of Science degree.
Admission and Progression Standards
Visit the Major Snapshots site to learn more about the admission and progression standards of this major.
Students wishing to declare a Hospitality Management or Sport and Recreation Management major must first attend a New Major Orientation session, which are scheduled periodically throughout the semester. Students must declare the major prior to enrolling in non-Foundation HM or SRM courses.
Description of Major
The hospitality leaders of tomorrow must be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives. The Hospitality Management program at JMU prides itself on being a leading Bachelor of Science hospitality degree program in the country. The HM major emphasizes practical experience through the curriculum and students are encouraged to participate in opportunities to study abroad.
The HM mission is to develop hospitality leaders through sound theoretical coursework, innovative learning activities, mentoring opportunities, exposure to premier hospitality organizations, and interaction with dynamic industry professionals. Together with alumni, students, parents, and friends of the program, HM at JMU will be recognized as the preferred provider of hospitality graduates.
Hospitality Management is an extremely dynamic field and students may pursue careers in hotels, resorts, restaurants, private clubs, travel, various food service operations or convention management and meeting planning.
The goals of the program are:
- To expose students to a rigorous academic and experiential learning program, including 600 hours of industry experience prior to senior year and a 400-hour internship prior to graduation.
- To provide an intimate educational setting of small classes, team learning experiences and meaningful personal contacts with faculty and industry professionals.
- To promote the use and development of technology, critical thinking and communication skills in hospitality leadership.
- To ensure that all HM students have a meaningful choice of job opportunities upon graduation.
- To build a set of leadership skills while providing students exceptional financial acumen.
- To maintain a faculty of knowledgeable and respected industry professionals, dedicated to continuous improvement via internships, authorship, industry contacts and participation at national and international industry conferences.
More About the Field
The Hospitality field, also known as the mega-industry, includes many career opportunities. Recent statistics include the following:
- Hospitality Management provides $98.3 billion in tax revenues or federal, state and local governments.
- Total Hospitality Employment in the United States includes 15.4 million jobs.
- Pleasure travel volume was 950.4 million; personal-trips with business travel accounted for over 251 million trips in the United States alone.
- The World Tourism Organization forecasts a growth in international tourist arrivals of between 3% and 4% in the next year. International visitors spend $79.4 billion a year.
- The travel field is America's largest services exporter, with international travelers spending over $110 billion in the United States.
- The US hotel and motel industry consists of about 40,000 companies that operate 48,000 properties, with combined annual revenue over $120 billion.
- The restaurant industry's total economic effect is $1.5 trillion.
- The restaurant industry remains one of the nation's largest private-sector employers with its 12.7 million employees, comprising 9% of the U.S. workforce.
- The restaurant industry is projected to add 1.3 million career and employment opportunities by 2020. Dining is the most popular domestic trip activity and is included in 31% of all domestic trips. On a typical day, 130 million Americans will visit a restaurant.
- The private club industry represented by The Club Managers Association of America had $13 billion in revenue in 2008 employing 290,749 associates.
Individuals can pursue entry level management paths in the hospitality industry. General Managers of clubs, resorts, hotels, and restaurants coordinate a team of managers to deliver exceptional service and a memorable experience, relative to the following: Convention services managers coordinate meetings, conventions, and other special events for a hotel. Food and beverage managers direct the food services of hotels. Front office managers coordinate reservations and train front desk staff to deal with the public. Executive housekeepers insure that guest rooms, meeting rooms and public areas are well maintained and train and supervise housekeepers. Restaurant managers are responsible for all phases of a food service operation.
Complementary Majors and Minors
There are many compatible combinations with an HM degree, including: Accounting, Communications, English as a Second Language, Finance, Modern Foreign Languages, Music Industry, Human Resource Development, or Psychology.
Characteristics of Successful Students
Good business skills, exceptional written and oral communication skills, and excellent interpersonal skills are essential in this field. Individuals must also be able to adapt and work well under pressure in order to solve problems and handle emergencies.
Many graduates choose typical career paths associated with this major. However, some graduates choose unrelated careers that utilize skills and experiences developed during their years in college. Keep in mind, that some fields will require graduate study or further training. The listing below offers a few examples of some career paths taken by recent graduates of the HM program:
- Banquet Director
- Cake Designer
- Catering Director
- Club Manager
- Conference Coordinator
- Event Planner
- Food/Beverage Manager
- Food Cost Accountant
- Human Resource Specialist
- Lodging/Resort Manager
- Operations Manager
- Purchasing Agent
- Retail Manager
- Sales Manager
- Special Projects Assistant
- Technical Recruiter
- University Food Service Manager
Who Employs Graduates?
Airlines, Amusement Parks, Associations, Catering Companies, Colleges/Universities, Country/City Clubs, Cruise Lines, Bridal Establishments, Conference Centers, Convention Centers, Hotels/Motels, Lodging Corporations, Resorts, Restaurants, Special Events/Promoters, Tourism Companies, Travel Agencies.
Internships and Experiential Opportunities
Hospitality Management requires the student to complete 1,000 hours of work experience in the hospitality field prior to graduation. This is reflected in two courses:
- HM 310: 600 hours of Work Experience
- HM 402: Supervisory Internship
Students pursue internships under the direction of a faculty advisor and our Internship Director. In addition, students have a variety of opportunities to gain practical experience. For example, in HM 440: Hospitality Leadership, students are required to plan, organize and execute all aspects of a creative, fun-filled Senior Project with high quality food and entertainment while staying within budget. Students may wish to become active in one of the related student organizations:
- CMAA – Club Management Association of America
- NSMH – National Society of Minorities in Hospitality
- PCMA – Professional Conference Management Association
- ESD - Eta Sigma Delta
NSMH and PCMA participates in the regional and national NSMH Conferences and CMAA members attend regional events as well as the World CMAA Conference.
View our list of internship coordinators for each major.
Career Profiles
Chefs and Head Cooks
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
Food Service Managers
Additional Resources to Research Careers
- Handshake: view new internships and jobs that employers are looking to hire JMU students from your major
- Career Outcomes: see where alumni worked or studied right after graduating.
- GoinGlobal: learn more about employment opportunities overseas as well as H1B visa information for international Dukes pursuing jobs in the U.S.
- O*NET: browse occupational profiles to learn about thousands of different careers, pulling data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- CareerOneStop: explore thousands of different careers by looking at career profiles
- Utilize the LinkedIn Alumni tool to see what others have done with their majors and what their career paths look like. Reach out to alumni via LinkedIn and conduct an informational interview.
© University Career Center, James Madison University
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the JMU University Career Center. Content for each major has been written/reviewed by faculty in the respective department and is revised each year. Requests to update content can be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Waking Amy
Julieann Dove
(Amy, #1)
Publication date: February 23rd 2016
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Amy Whitfield is blindsided when she comes home and finds a note on the fridge from her husband, Wesley, stating that after four years of marriage, he's leaving her. Amy was in the midst of trying to spice things up, to bring life back to their boring marriage. It seems now that she was too late.As Amy sits with her head between her knees, trying to figure out what to do next, a call comes from Mercer General Hospital. The ER nurse is telling Amy's answering machine that Wesley has been in a car accident.When Amy arrives at the hospital, she finds her husband in a coma. The doctors say there is no sign of brain damage, and Wesley will eventually wake up. Relieved, Amy sees this as her second chance: the chance to get it right this time. To channel the girl Wesley won't leave when he regains consciousness… She just needs some help to pull it off. After all, she was voted girl most likely to die a virgin in high school.Amy would never figure on getting that help from Mark Reilly…Wesley's doctor! He's a non-committer, too-cute-for-his-own-good bachelor, and completely the guy Amy begins falling for. It's a race against time to see who wakes up first—Amy or her husband.
Mark put his hand on my leg. My very naked leg. The one the coat failed to cover any longer. "Mrs. Whitfield."
I jumped a mile off the chair. My pocketbook crashed to the ground, my belongings falling out. My true identity evident in the contents sprawled on the ground. A few empty gum wrappers, a coupon keeper (yellow with a matching rubber band tied around it), a pack of mints, my checkbook, and a brown, worn wallet. Nope, no condoms or fuzzy handcuffs to match my outfit. Thank goodness.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you. It's just that you seemed so uncomfortable. Would you like a recliner brought in for you?" He bent down on the floor next to me, helping me with the contents of my bag. Luckily I had my personal girl items safely zippered in the inside pocket.
"Did I just hit you? When I woke? Please, tell me I didn't just hit you. Wesley never wakes me up anymore. He says I'm one of those violent people when I'm woken up. For that reason, I have to set my alarm clock extra loud in the mornings."
"No, you didn't hit me. You fell asleep, and I woke you. You looked very uncomfortable."
I sat back on the chair, unaware that my outfit was still advertising my female goods. "Let me get you a recliner and maybe a set of scrubs."
"Scrubs?" My posture became erect again. "I'm not going into an operating room, am I? I can't stand to see blood.
I'll wait here."
"No, Mrs. Whitfield. It's just that—" He looked down at my outfit. "I thought you'd be more comfortable in a pair of scrubs."
Author Bio:Julieann lives in Virginia, yet longs to live everywhere else. It doesn't come as a surprise that along with her gypsy soul, comes an active imagination. That's why she loves to write and invent worlds and people, so that she can formulate their happily ever after. Hobbies include cooking new recipes, sewing, and spending time with her cute boyfriend/husband and five fabulous children. Vacations happen in Nantucket or the Carolina beaches—anywhere there is inspiration for her next book. One day she hopes to travel to Italy, drive one of those little cars around the countryside, and speak the language fluently!
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Property owners in every state have the right to trim the branches or roots of a neighbor's tree that encroach onto their property, up to the property line, at their own expense. This right is called "self-help." Self-help is an alternative to going to court.
The rationale is that self-help prevents the wasteful use of the court system to resolve comparatively minor disputes. It's a trade-off: you have the right to cut and remove the encroaching branches or roots of your neighbor's tree, right away, at your own expense (i.e., use self-help), instead of having to hire a lawyer, start a lawsuit, and wait for the courts to sort it out.
Using self-help saves you time and money, and keeps the courts from settling disputes between neighbors. In Minnesota, you have the option of using self-help or going to court, when using self-help is not practical or reasonable. In most other states, self-help is the exclusive remedy.
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A Minnesota statute defines a nuisance as follows: "Anything which is... an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, is a nuisance."
In the context of neighbors and their trees, the branches from your neighbor's tree that rub against your roof or the roots that push up your sidewalk are considered a nuisance. What about your neighbor's tree that leans far into your yard and prevents your use of a corner of your yard? If that tree interferes with the free use and enjoyment of your own property, then the tree has become a nuisance.
Courts sometimes use a more complex definition, but for most purposes, a boundary tree is one that is either planted on the boundary line between two lots or a tree whose branches, trunk, or roots have crossed a boundary.
Generally, the location of the trunk determines who owns the tree. A tree trunk that stands solely in your yard is your tree. As the tree owner, you can decide to coddle your tree or cut it down.
Tip: If you and your neighbor are co-owners of a true boundary-line tree, then you cannot cut down the tree without your neighbor's consent, and vice-versa. You and your neighbor share the tree-care expenses and responsibilities equally.
There are multiple ways to investigate and determine property lines. The City of Oakdale does not provide this service.
To learn more about how to locate property lines, view our help guide on property lines.
See our When Roots or Branches Encroach in Your Yard page.
Cutting down a tree on another person's property without permission is trespassing and carries a penalty. In Minnesota, whomever intentionally cuts down a tree without the owner's permission can be assessed three times the amount of monetary loss suffered by the tree owner.
Leaves, twigs, sap, acorns, etc., are naturally occurring tree debris and do not generally constitute a nuisance. There are no court cases in Minnesota that directly deal with this issue. However, courts in other states have recognized that tree owners are liable for "sensible damage" caused by their trees, such as a damaged roof, but not mere debris from a healthy tree. Going to court to have a neighbor ordered to pick up fallen debris is not practical or economical.
The rule of thumb is that the fruit on the overhanging branches belongs to the tree owner. Picking the fruit may not be so simple. Ownership of the fruit does not give your neighbor any right to trespass onto your property to pick the fruit.
The law in Minnesota on this subject is not clear cut. Courts would probably weigh your right to keep trespassers out of your yard against the owner's right to harvest the fruit. The balance may tip in favor of your neighbor, if she owns an orchard and depends on the fruit for her livelihood.
The law is also unclear on the issue of fallen fruit. Once it has fallen, the fruit's value diminishes. It has become, for all practical purposes, "tree debris." You should be able to use or dispose of the fruit, if your neighbor says nothing about wanting it.
There is no recourse. If the tree trunk was in your neighbor's yard, it's their tree and they had the right to cut it down.
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Bugged by Gold: Price Climb Vindicates Conservatives, Confounds Liberals
During 2009 and 2010, liberal commentators and even politicians made a point of bashing conservative commentators such as Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham for allowing gold companies to advertise on their shows, arguing that conservatives and gold companies cynically colluded to deceive viewers into buying bad investments. The recent spike in gold prices seems to prove that the conservative commentators were right after all.
Gold prices topped $1,900 an ounce on August 22. The price of gold rose over 400 dollars since the beginning of this year, up from $1,421.40 per ounce since January 1st, 2011, and has rapidly risen over the past two months. The price of gold was $854.60 per ounce at the start of the Obama administration. In other words, gold prices have more than doubled since the beginning of the Obama administration.
Gold prices tend to increase in weak or unstable economies. Economic instability and fears of future inflation serve to drive up the price of gold, which serves as a "safe haven" in times of economic distress.
Considering the current economic difficulties, it is hardly surprising that economists such as CNBC's Jim Cramer advocate investing a small portion of one's portfolio in gold in today's uncertain economy. Cramer predicted that the price of gold would increase to over $2000 in 18 months - in March 2011, when gold was still at $1,440.
It is also not surprising that conservative commentators, most notably Glenn Beck, encouraged listeners to invest in gold as a means to provide a safe haven from the wreckage of Obama's polices. And it would certainly make sense for a gold company to advertise during programs where commentators encourage their listeners to buy gold.
But liberal news outlets sought to discredit the connection between gold companies and conservative commentators, portraying it as a concerted effort by both parties to deceive credulous American viewers and listeners of conservative programs into buying overpriced gold coins.
(The criticism went nicely with attempts to pressure advertisers to drop sponsorship of Glenn Beck's Fox News Channel program.)
ABC News reporter Brian Ross investigated claims against two gold companies. One of these companies was Goldline, which was conveniently linked to Beck and other conservative luminaries. The complaint argued that the company was directing its callers to buy gold coins, rather than bullion bars, which command less of a premium above their actual gold value. In a related print piece, Ross declared that gold companies and conservatives had a "symbiotic relationship."
Politico's Kenneth Vogel reported on the relationship between right-wing media figures and gold companies. He closed his piece with a shot at conservative commentators, quoting a woman who had lost money after investing in coins that the article stated could have cost less elsewhere: "How could I be mislead [sic] by Glenn Beck, Fred Thompson and Marvin [sic] Levin?"
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann opined on "Countdown" that the relationship between gold companies and conservative commentators "has been profitable for everybody, except the viewers and listeners." Olbermann invited then-Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY, onto his program to launch a full-blown, histrionic attack on Beck and Goldline. Weiner railed against a legal, private business arrangement, calling the relationship between Goldline and Beck an "unholy alliance."
Weiner had previously issued a report attacking Goldline. His office went further, charging that "Goldline is little more than a gold peddler posing as an investment advisor, an unfortunate byproduct of the Tea Party movement." A "red-faced" Weiner went so far as to summon a representative of Goldline before Congress and blasted him for his company's advertising practices.
Weiner's charges went nowhere.
In perhaps the most serious and well-thought out of the charges, comedian Stephen Colbert mocked conservative talk show hosts who stumped for gold companies in 2009.
Conservatives media figures who advocated that their audience invest in gold were proven correct. The economic "recovery" has stalled. Gold prices have fluctuated in the last couple of weeks, but at this writing ($1832 per ounce) it still is worth more than twice its value when President Obama was inaugurated.
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Firearms accidents in the home can result from an unauthorized individual, often a child, finding a loaded and unsecured firearm in the home. The risk of firearms-related unintentional injuries or deaths can be reduced when firearms owners are aware of and fully understand their responsibility to handle firearms safely and store them in a secure manner. The goal of Project ChildSafe is to inform and educate all firearms owners on key safety issues and to provide firearms safety kits that include a gun locking device.
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Reverend Jonathan Gaska wrote this letter as a meditation for the annual Dellabrook Presbyterian Church/Trinity Presbyterian Church Picnic. The two churches gather each year in an ongoing effort to mend the racial divisions in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, by worshiping and eating a meal together. Each year the location shifts between the east side, which is prominently African American, and the west side, which is prominently white. The event has taken place every year for 39 years.
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness…So God created humankind in God's image, in the image of God they were created; male and female God created them… (Genesis 1:26-27)
Dearly Beloved,
Perhaps you can remember the story from a few years back. It was about an elementary school principal who at the end of each school day, after the bell would sound, would catch every single child as they scurried out the front door, pointing at them and saying, "Your life matters." In church language, we might say that she was reminding every single student that they are created in the image of God.
Beloved, you are created in God's image. When God imagined a world bursting forth with goodness, after God spoke a liberating word which unfurled the universe, when God wondered who will bear the image of holy love and community, God created…you.
Remember, though, God says, "Let 'us' make humanity in 'our' image." God's image is communal, which means our image is communal as well. And let's be real: It's the "us" part that is the complicated piece. We have natural compulsions to hide and divide. We often live according to our own self-interest rather than in the interest of another. Our systems fracture us. Our political allegiances consume us. Even our theologies can become fodder for injustice.
The communal image of God is ruined by tribal loyalties and caste systems and oppressive powers which force our friends and family members into dances of compliancy. We, as a human race, have made the diverse, communal image of God too small. As Blaise Pascal once wrote: "God made humanity in God's image and then humanity returned the compliment."
But please hear this well, beloved: this all-expansive, communal image of God that is bestowed on us requires that we reaffirm those who have received "less-than-image-of-God" status. It is why we stand with the Muslims, immigrants, refugees, and women. It is why we speak out against legislation that threatens LGBTQ rights. It is why we proclaim "Black Lives Matter."
This is also why, when someone says "All Lives Matter" as an alternative to affirming Black lives, it narrows our perspective and makes the affirmation less rather than more inclusive. Why? Because it fails to confess that we live in a society that does not affirm the existence of Black bodies as valued and equal citizens in our community. The statement affirming "all lives" suggests that our system functions equally for everyone, when it clearly does not.
Think about it: if one of our children comes home from school after having a peachy-keen day, while the other comes through the door rattled in angst because of something that happened, which child will we need to reaffirm more—with both our words and actions—that they matter? If our hurt child asks us with tear-filled eyes, "Do you love me?" how might they feel if we responded, "Well honey, I love everyone!"?
I think it's why Jesus said he came for the sick and vulnerable and not for the healthy ones who are already provided for (Matt. 9:12).
It's why Jesus says we will recognize him not as some random Joe we pass at the supermarket (or in our churches!), but as one who is hungry, thirsty, naked, in the hospital, or in prison (Matt. 25:35).
It's why the very first words of Jesus' first sermon do not begin with an all-inclusive, "Blessed are all lives!" Rather, he singles out for blessing the poor, the meek, the mourning, the merciful, and the peacemakers (Matt. 5:1-11).
Jesus reaffirms those who have received "less-than-image-of-God" status, and he encourages those who are willing to risk of themselves to serve and protect God's image in others. Jesus reminds us that the God we worship is far bigger than the social constructs our systems create—including whiteness—which can conveniently cast away or hold People of Color down; not only economically, but socially, psychologically, and spiritually as well.
So, dearly beloved, here we are: Dellabrook and Trinity. Two churches who are brought together by a thirty-nine-year tradition which has been handed down through the decades to us. Here we are in a space held sacred each year where can pray for each other, share our stories and experiences, and eat way too much food!
I hope you know that I have always sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit when we are together. Perhaps it is because we've been graced with a conviction—which goes back all the way to the beginning of creation—that we reflect God's image more together than we do apart, that we really are woven in the single garment of destiny, bound together as holy people who are made in the image of the Holy Community.
With all God's grace, peace, love and glory, Amen.
Photo by Dan Wilkinson.
About Jonathan Gaska
Jonathan Gaska is the pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is also a poet and jazz musician.


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The New Thought movement, which originated in the late 19th and early 20th century, has at its core a belief that a higher power pervades all existence, and that individuals can create their own reality via affirmations, meditation and prayer. Early New Thought groups emerged from a Christian Science background, and many New Thought writers refer back to the Bible as their foundation text. New Thought resembles in some respects New Age philosophy, although some New Thought groups dismiss a connection. This page includes some of the writings of this movement, as well as related and similar texts.
What All the World's A-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine [1896] Compassion for all life and meditation as keys to mental power and success.
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward [1909]
The Dore Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward [1909]
In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine [1910]
The Science of Geting Rich by Wallace Delois Wattles [1910]
Unity Church books now have their own page.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy [1910] The central text of Christian Science.
Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson [1912] Secrets of the master minds: charisma, focus, and character building.
Creative Mind and Success by Ernest Holmes [1919] Holmes' take on "Prosperity Consciousness".
The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel [1919] The secret behind the Secret; the law of attraction, the universal key to prosperity.
The Quimby Manuscripts by Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, edited by Horatio W. Dresser [1921] Writings of the originator of New Thought and an early influence on Christian Science.
The Law and the Word by Thomas Troward [1921] Troward on the 'Promise' of the Bible: Eternal Life, and the Word made Real.
The Hidden Power by Thomas Troward [1921] A collection of Troward essays.
Dynamic Thought by Henry Thomas Hamblin [1921]
Creative Mind by Ernest Holmes [1923] A succinct resume of Holmes' New Thought philosophy.
Works of Florence Scovel Shinn The Game of Life and How to Play It [1925] Your Word Is Your Wand [1928] The Secret Door To Success [1941]
The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes [1926] This early book by Ernest Holmes is representative of many of the strands of New Thought beliefs, including mental healing, the use of affirmations, and a universal consciousness.
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill [1938] A motivational classic from the Great Depression.
Life and Its Mysteries by Frank L. Hammer [1945] Plain answers to the big metaphysical questions, including "Where do animals go when they die?".
An Eternal Career by Frank L. Hammer [1947] Hammer's second (and only other) book addresses the immortality of the soul.
Know Your Magnetic Field by William E. Gray [1947] A look inside psychic healing.
The Secret Science Behind Miracles by Max Freedom Long [1948] Fire-walking, psychic powers, instant healing and other secrets of the Hawaiian Kahunas.
Self-Suggestion by Max Freedom Long [1958] A manual of self-suggestion, using Huna methods.
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"The hardest thing for a critic is to stay honest and open for a long period of time," said Gary Giddins, author of the award-winning Visions of Jazz and longtime Village Voice jazz columnist. "It's hard to know that what you're saying is what you really believe, and that it isn't influenced by other things."
Giddins -- whose book won this year's National Book Critics' Circle award, an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, and the Jazz Book of the Year -- was among the six writers participating in "Jazz Criticism, Jazz Journalism, Jazz Authorship," a panel discussion held at Manhattan's Jazz Gallery on Monday evening. The others, representing a wide swath of journalistic outlets and a bumper crop of books on jazz published in the last year, were Sharony Andrews Green, author of Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar (Miller-Freeman Books); Bill Milkowski, author of Rockers, Jazzbos and Visionaries (Billboard Books), Robert O'Meally, editor of The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Columbia University Press); and Richard Sudhalter, author of Lost Chords: White Musicians and their Contributions to Jazz, 1915-1945 (Oxford University Press). Having just published Future Jazz (Oxford University Press), this reporter served as moderator.
Giddins has been with the Village Voice since 1973; Green is a newspaper reporter who was married to Grant Green, Jr., the son of the man who became her subject; O'Meally is a Columbia University professor with a literary background; Sudhalter is an professional trumpeter who was jazz critic of the New York Post for five years; Milkowski and I are freelance journalists, publishing primarily in music-specific periodicals. Whatever their venues, everyone agreed that writing is an intensely personal activity, and that pure objectivity in criticism is a myth. But beyond that, each author described an approach to their work as customized as their choice of book topics.
Giddins and Sudhalter's volumes, each weighing in at more than 800 pages, are the result of considerable historical research, and what Sudhalter described as "thousands of hours of listening." Green's bio of the father-in-law she never met started as a matter of personal curiosity and, as she chased down dozens of jazz players who had known Green (virtually a cult figure), became what she called a "professional obsession."
Milkowski spoke of pouring over some 4,000 interviews he has conducted since the late '70s, to select 30 that would hang together in a single book of straightforward question-and-answer transcripts. I intended Future Jazz to read like a mystery -- a fictional narrative that provokes readers' speculations -- though it, too, features interviews with dozens of diverse jazz artists, from well-known trumpeter-composer-bandleader Wynton Marsalis and singer Cassandra Wilson to less-celebrated improvising conductor Lawrence "Butch" Morris, edgy saxophonist John Zorn, and participants in the radical Jewish jazz culture movement.
The panelists and their audience (about three dozen, mostly jazz authors and critics) were especially concerned with how acquaintance with the people they write about affects their judgements. Both Giddins and Sudhalter told of receiving impassioned letters from the late singer Mel Tormé questioning their motives after they had written largely positive reviews. Green explained how she re-doubled her commitment to finishing her book as her marriage came apart. Milkowski spoke of suffering abuse from the management of major jazz artists who he reviewed negatively, but fairly. I suggested that balancing personal relationships and professional obligations is one of the challenges of the job. And Robert O'Meally quoted what seems to be the prime directive on the topic, given to him by the late critic Martin Williams.
"You want to write about jazz?" Williams, at the time a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, asked O'Meally, who had approached him for advice. "Good. Then do it!"
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Tesco Internet Phone rings off the hook
Another VoIP op goes titsup
Tesco is pulling the plug on its foray into VoIP, giving customers a month to find an alternative to its Tesco Internet Phone and Talk Wi-Fi services.
From today customers can no longer top up their pre-paid accounts and refunds are available for outstanding credit. The supermarket will refund the cost of the handset if you bought it in the last three months*, but both Tesco Internet Phone and Talk Wi-Fi will be shutting down come April 27.
Back when the service was launched it seemed as though consumer VoIP was going to change telephony forever, and the addition of the Tesco brand was welcomed by an industry which felt that lack of awareness was the only thing preventing VoIP services changing the world.
But existing operators weren't so easily beaten off. VoIP's main impact has been to drive down the price of phone calls for everyone else, while VoIP companies were attacked by those existing operators for failing to provide emergency service calls and not working during a power cut.
Tesco said in a statement that "trends in technology have moved forward since we launched internet phone so that this is no longer a sustainable service". This appears to mean that the supermarket is busy expanding its mobile network and doesn't want to confuse customers with too many products which won't appeal to the majority.
Tesco Internet Phone was basically a VoIP service along the lines of Skype, though the supermarket did offer a Vonage-like box which could interface with a normal fixed-line telephone. There was also Talk Wi-Fi, which enabled handsets equipped with a SIP client, and Wi-Fi, to use the Tesco service for outgoing calls.
Tesco certainly sees a future in mobile. It's been running a branded service on O2's network for a few years now and recently started fitting its supermarkets out with micro-stores specialising in mobile telephony. But the VoIP business just isn't big enough to interest a giant like Tesco. ®
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BRANSON, Mo –Branson Firefighters urge you to Celebrate Safely when purchasing and discharging fireworks to keep your family safe and to prevent fires, in the days leading up to the Fourth of July Holiday.
In the City of Branson, fireworks may be purchased from June 20 through July 10 but only discharged from 7 a.m. to midnight on July 3rd and 4th only.
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Supported sailing features include laylines, enhanced wind rose, heading and course-over-ground lines, true wind data fields and tide/current/time slider. Racing features include pre-race guidance, synchronized race timer, virtual starting line, time to burn and layline data fields. Gauge displays are designed to provide important, need-to-know information at a glance, including true and apparent wind angle, set and drift, true or apparent wind speed, horizontal or vertical graphs and a data bar with customizable data fields.
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Add a Garmin Card Reader that provides convenient remote mounting and a single access point for 2 SDT card slots for accessory map purchases such as
LakeVü HD Ultra with MaxDef Lakes, BlueChart g2 HD or BlueChart® g2 Vision® HD, which add Garmin Auto Guidance 3.0 and other great features. You can add multiple card readers for additional access points. Waterproof magnetic door allows card reader to be mounted horizontally or vertically (sold separately).
FUSION-Link Entertainment System
Enjoy the ability to control all compatible FUSION-Link-enabled audio systems directly from your compatible chartplotter display.
Built-in Connectivity
It's easy to connect to peripheral devices with built-in Wi-Fi® connectivity, ANT® technology, 4 wired Ethernet ports, NMEA 2000, HDMI and USB ports with complete network compatibility. It's easier than ever to enjoy the full range of features provided by Garmin Helm and BlueChart® Mobile apps.
View, Control Your Device from a Smartphone or Tablet
Garmin Helm allows you to view and control your compatible chartplotter from a compatible smartphone or tablet while providing enhanced situational awareness for the mariner. Easily switch between portrait and landscape modes to accommodate mounting preferences. When using an iPhone® or iPad®, you can even record a movie of your chartplotter screen to share with friends and family.ed Appler device, and stream that data onto your chartplotter screen. Even if you don't have a Garmin chartplotter, you can still take advantage of the tremendous features of BlueChart Mobile on your compatible Apple device.
Get Onboard with BlueChart Mobile
With BlueChart Mobile 2.0, a free app downloaded from the App Store™, you can get reliable weather information while you plan marine routes on your iPad or iPhone then wirelessly transfer them to your boat's compatible networked Garmin chartplotter. Continue to acquire current weather information from your cellular-based Appler device, and stream that data onto your chartplotter screen. Even if you don't have a Garmin chartplotter, you can still take advantage of the tremendous features of BlueChart Mobile on your compatible Apple device.
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In The Box:
- Trim piece snap covers
- GPS 19x NMEA 2000 (with pole mount, flush mount and under deck mount adapters)
- Protective cover
- Flush mount hardware
- Power cable
- NMEA 2000 2 m backbone/drop cable
- NMEA 2000 6 m backbone cable
- NMEA 2000 power cable
- NMEA 2000 T-connector & terminator kit
- Documentation
- Garmin Marine Network™ Ports: 4
- NMEA 2000® Port: 1
- NMEA 0183 Input Ports: 4
- NMEA 0183 Output Ports: 2
- USB Port: 1
- J1939 Port: 1
- Video Input Ports: 1-BNC Composite, 1-HDMI (HDCP Compliant)
- Video Output Ports: 1-HDMI
- Wireless Connectivity: Yes
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals which are known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to P65Warnings.ca.gov.
Product : GARMIN GPSMAP 8422 22" MFD CHARTPLOTTER, WORLDWIDE
Manufacturer : Garmin
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[Sebastian Steppeler] has been hard at work on his optical sensors for an electric piano. When we looked in on the project back in October he was testing reflective sensors to increase responsiveness and MIDI data resolution for his electric keyboard. Since then he's finalized the sensor circuits and produced enough boards to monitor all 88 keys on this full keyboard. You can see the string of PCBs just above the ivories, waiting to be installed. Not only are then in, but he also added sensors for the pedals.
Because the boards were installed by hand, there are some variances in the physical placement. This can have a rather dramatic effect on the readings from the reflective sensors so he has been working out a method of balancing the calibration. Part of this is already being taken care of by the C# interface that he wrote for a PC. Take a few minutes to check out all of his blog posts, then jump down after the break and hear how great it sounds.


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The Pop'Comm Monitoring Station program is modeled after the renowned WPE program launched by Popular Electronics magazine more than 50 years ago. The program was run by Tom Kneitel, WPE2AB, who would go on to become founding editor of Popular Communications in 1983. Pop'Comm launched its monitoring station program January 1, 2012, filling a void left by the passing of the WPE program and Popular Electronics magazine.
Pop'Comm Monitoring Station ID signs are issued on a first-come basis, determined by the date and time on your application email or the postmark of the request you send via the U.S. Postal Service. You may choose a "vanity" station ID or simply say "No Preference," and we'll pick a station ID sign for you.
Here is the procedure for obtaining a station identification sign:
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"Getting Your Pop'Comm Monitoring
Station ID Sign."
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through the written
instructions posted under the video - STEPS 1, 2, 3 and 4. They're easy and the process takes only a few minutes.
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the instructions for accessing and searching the Pop'Comm Monitoring Station
database. Search for the availability of your
station ID sign preferences by clicking on the link in STEP 1.
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sample email of application in STEP 2. Create your application email and send it to: <email@example.com>.
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applications as quickly as possible. Please be patient.
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after your station ID sign, name, location, and date of issuance
appear in the database, will you be officially certified as a Pop'Comm
Monitoring Station. Only then may you download and fill in your colorful
Certificate of Registration.
- If you do not have access to the Internet, send a self-addressed, stamped business-size envelope with your full name, mailing address, your top three station ID sign choices and a daytime phone number to: Jason Feldman, WPC2COD, Popular Communications, Monitoring Station Program, 25 Newbridge Rd., Hicksville, NY 11801-2953 USA.
- Now, let's get started by watching the video. We're eager to welcome you as a member of the Pop'Comm Monitoring Station community.


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The objective of the IRTG is to amplify and broaden this basis for research and education on topics which are of central importance for our understanding of the interactions of elementary particles in the vacuum as well as at high temperature and densities.
In its research program the IRTG focuses on collective phenomena and macroscopic properties of particle matter described by quantum field theories. These theories exhibit a complex, non-perturbative vacuum and a rich phase structure at high temperature or density, with important consequences in cosmology and heavy ion physics. To derive a quantitative understanding of these theories also requires the further development of numerical and analytical techniques beyond ordinary perturbative approaches.
The IRTG has set up a study program in which the complementarity of numerical and analytic approaches to non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theories on one hand and the different focus put on vacuum and thermal properties of strongly interacting matter on the other are communicated to the graduate students. The post-graduates are integrated in a large international research program. They receive dedicated training locally and are brought into contact with the international community by various components of the program.
The coordinated educational and research program of the IRTG is linked to a large international research program. Ongoing (RHIC, BNL) as well as planned (LHC, CERN and FAIR, GSI) experiments will perform studies of hot and dense matter for more than the next decade. A rapidly growing amount of astrophysical and cosmological data is coming in from microwave observations (WMAP, Planck), large galaxy surveys (SDSS, 6dF), space missions (XMM-Newton, Chandra) and radio-astronomy observatories. Research topics of the IRTG are subject of major international physics institutes and large international conference series.


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The Presidents' Climate Commitment is not exactly on track at many institutions, but IT departments' efforts are galvanizing campuses toward longer-term carbon-neutral goals.
A SOLID THIRD OF ALL SCHOOLS that have signed the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment are behind in some aspect of their reporting. Those that sign agree to complete an emissions inventory, set target dates and milestones for becoming climate neutral (using no more energy or natural resources, for example, than they can generate for themselves), integrate sustainability into their curriculum, and report their efforts publicly.
Just a few months ago, 15 schools were removed from the signatory list after they failed to meet three key reporting deadlines, including one that simply asked for basic details about the institution and its sustainability efforts.
Do these missed deadlines portend failure for the ambitious initiative that started off with such promise in December 2006, when a dozen college presidents invited hundreds of their peers to join in on the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at their institutions? (The current count of signatories is 673 schools.)
Not necessarily. What appears to be happening is that as campuses struggle with the big questions around carbon neutrality--and grapple with the immensity of the challenge--they're tackling many smaller initiatives that are having a positive impact in reducing energy use and galvanizing their campuses for the larger work ahead. And IT is often the leader in these sustainability efforts.
Sustainable Pattern of BehaviorAlfred University, with about 2,400 students, is in a rural area of New York, where there are actually more students than full-time residents in the remote town of Alfred. "You step outside and if there's anything obscuring your view, it's fog or clouds," says President Charley Edmondson. "The only unnatural smell in the environment is skunks."
For that reason, the university acted as if it was "somehow an exception to the problem" of climate change. It took a decade, says Edmondson, for the school to realize that, like larger institutions, Alfred was also "consuming forests with our paper and discarding plastics and e-waste."
When Edmondson took the idea of signing the commitment to a faculty meeting in early October 2007, it was met with apathy. "There was great concern that anything that a bunch of presidents had cooked up was done without much expert information and without much regard for anything other than our own desire to get media attention," he says, only partly joking. "I assured them that was not the case."
Alfred University finally signed in early 2008. Currently, the university is among those schools overdue in submitting a greenhouse gas inventory and in reporting its climate action plan. Edmondson explains that the job of pulling together the data needed for reporting requirements and decision-making is done collectively at the school--and if that means a delay in reporting, so be it. "I rather like the benefits we get as an institution from having groups of students, faculty, and staff--including the associate director of IT--meet and talk their way through these things," he says. "It's not highly efficient, but it ensures that by the time you get to the end, you're going to have less resistance to what you're trying to do than if you simply issued a decree."
What's happening is that participants in the process are learning the nuances of making decisions regarding sustainability practices. "What students learned by going through this process with the director of capital operations and the vice president of finance, for example, is that we have a couple of million dollars invested in vehicles, and we can't afford to dump them all and replace them in one stroke," Edmondson says. "We have to develop a plan for rotating older and less efficient vehicles out and replacing them, and we have to have a business plan for where we'll find the funds to do that. They gain a better grasp of what it means to be sustainable. That's something that everyone has to have if we're going to be serious as a society about doing these things."
Even as the school slowly moves through the process, Edmondson points to the pivotal role IT is playing in leading the way. "So much of what we can do to be 'footprint-less' is mediated by the work of the [information technology services] department," he says. For example, IT has been instrumental in automating processes to make the campus as paperless as possible.
"Our consumption of stationery is down substantially. Our consumption of normal copy paper is down substantially," Edmondson reports. Also, when Edmondson arrived on campus, no fewer than three people would travel to New York City from Alfred on a regular basis to attend the meeting of trustees. They almost never do that anymore--now, they log on to Skype to hold their meetings. "We have taken a major bite out of the number of trips we need to take and the money we spend on such things, which translates into budget savings," he says. "Equally important, it translates into a more sustainable pattern of behavior."
The Progress People of ITScottsdale Community College (AZ) is one of 10 colleges that make up the Maricopa County Community College District. Thomas Williams, sustainability coordinator, is the go-to guy on campus for maintaining the recycling program, running events on Earth Day, educating students about green initiatives, and helping faculty and staff bring their climate-related ideas to life, such as a faculty panel to discuss climate change.
It could be argued that sustainability wouldn't exist as a concept on the Scottsdale campus were it not for Williams' efforts. When he joined the facilities department, the school didn't have even a recycling program. So Williams circulated a petition that garnered 400 signatures within two days. By August 2007, the campus had 50 recycling bins. He was instrumental in helping develop the 70-page report that persuaded the district's chancellor to sign onto the Presidents' Climate Commitment, which brought in the remaining five of the 10 Maricopa colleges that hadn't yet signed.
Now Williams is working with a team of faculty, staff, and students to pull together the data needed to create Scottsdale's climate action plan, which was due in May 2010. The holdup, he says, is that people are unsure about what the school's mitigation plan should be. The mitigation section of the action plan is where the campus describes all the activities it's involved in to lessen carbon emissions on campus. The best plans lay out specific consumption reduction goals--recycling, reducing gas and energy usage, and so forth--and then list the proposed actions to reach those goals.
Looking into the future (Scottsdale is proposing to become carbon neutral by the year 2050) and setting milestones for reaching that goal has been a real challenge for participants, says Williams. "We're not sure we'll accomplish all these things," he explains, "But we hope we do." To ease the mystery of the process, Williams has divided up the mitigation section into specific areas where people have expertise. For example, faculty members are working on developing a sustainability curriculum.
But it's in the area of IT where Williams has found "progressive people" and great advice for how to improve what the school is doing "right now," he says. That includes publishing the school catalog online to reduce paper usage; switching computer purchases to dramatically lower-wattage models; converting all CRT monitors to LCD models, which consume less energy; and implementing programs to shut off student computers in labs when they haven't been used for 30 minutes and to charge students for printer usage beyond 250 pages. Next up is a possible project to implement videoconferencing to reduce the trips made by administrators for college business.
It's a big reach to go from limiting printer usage to getting people to stop using their cars (commuting makes up about 70 percent of the total emissions for the campus). "The issue of sustainability is very broad," Williams acknowledges. "People get overwhelmed with it. You have to work step by step. You can't do it all at once. But if you don't try, then nothing will happen."
Those small steps reveal the value of IT to the overall sustainability work a campus undertakes, says Toni Nelson, program manager for Second Nature, an organization that handles many of the administrative functions for the Presidents' Climate Commitment, such as putting on training events, maintaining the reporting system, and recruiting new signatories.
She has watched myriad institutions struggle to perform their carbon emissions inventory and develop an action plan for reducing it. Through it all, she says, "Many of the schools are focusing first on the things they know they can do, such as turning off computers when they're not being used." The total impact of those efforts is helping the entire community to "galvanize" around larger goals. In turn, that is helping participants create a "more visionary long-term plan for where they want to be as a campus."
Presidents' Climate Commitment: presidentsclimatecommitment.org
Second Nature: secondnature.org
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Mountlake Terrace has looked at all options including starting its own fire department or contracting with another provider. South County Fire is the most cost-effective option for taxpayers to maintain the quality and level of fire and EMS residents currently receive. The cities of Lynnwood and Mill Creek already are part of the fire authority (Mill Creek voters approved annexation by 76% in 2022.) The city of Brier is asking voters to annex this April, as well.
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The City is asking voters to consider annexing to South Snohomish County Fire & Rescue Regional Fire Authority (known as South County Fire) to maintain the quality and level of emergency services residents require.
The City contracts with South County Fire for fire and emergency medical service. Contracting means that property owners pay the city for fire/EMS. In turn, the city pays South County Fire. The contract, signed almost 20 years ago, is expiring in 2024 and the fire authority cannot renew it at the same rate.
Annexation would change the way property owners pay for fire/EMS. Under annexation, City property owners would join the fire authority and pay South County Fire directly for fire/EMS through their property taxes starting in 2024. It also means that Mountlake Terrace residents can vote on fire authority issues and run for the Board of Fire Commissioners.
The City has a long-term relationship with South County Fire. It already has an active response plan and operates out of the fire station owned by the City. South County Fire will continue providing the same quality and level of service for the lowest cost to taxpayers.
The fire station will continue to be owned by the City. It will be staffed 24-hours a day by South County Fire with the same number of firefighters, paramedics and apparatus to respond to emergencies.
The quality and level of emergency services our community receives will continue uninterrupted.
No. This is important to maintain the quality and level of emergency services for our community.
South County Fire is a regional fire authority serving unincorporated southwest Snohomish County and the cities of Mill Creek and Lynnwood. It also provides fire and emergency medical service to the cities of Brier, Edmonds, and Mountlake Terrace under three separate service contracts. Brier and Mountlake Terrace are asking residents to consider annexing to South County Fire on the April Special Election ballot.
The proposition asking voters to consider annexing to South County Fire will be on the April 25, 2023 Special Election ballot.
By law, South County Fire must charge the city the same rate as fire authority property owners pay and cannot renew the city's contract without a significant cost increase. To fund the contract, the city would need to consider increasing revenue through its property tax levy, EMS levy or other non-voted tax increases such as utility taxes, fees and special assessments. The City may also need to consider making cuts to services, such as police, parks and recreation, planning and transportation.
The City currently spends $3.77 million on fire/EMS, of which $1.744 million comes from the City property tax levy. The rest comes from the EMS levy and other revenue sources.
The City will reduce the $1.744 million it spends on fire/EMS from the property tax levy by $1.694 million if voters approve annexation. This leaves $50,000 the City would continue to collect from the property tax levy to help low-income households pay their utility bills. The City EMS Levy will also be eliminated.
If annexation were in effect today, the owner of a 2,000-square-foot home with an assessed value of $616,743, considered average in Mountlake Terrace, would pay South County Fire approximately $746 annually for 24-hour fire/EMS. With the City's property tax reduction and elimination of the City EMS levy, the net increase would be $395 annually (about $33 a month).
South County Fire funds emergency services through a fire levy, an EMS levy and a fire benefit charge (included in the above referenced annual/monthly amounts), A fire benefit charge is based on a property's structure size and type of use. In 2023, the fire benefit charge for a 2,000 square foot home was the equivalent of $0.16 per $1,000.
A fire benefit charge funds emergency services based on the size and use of a building. It takes into consideration that those who benefit more from fire protection services (such as high fire-risk structures, such as a large commercial building) should pay more for service than smaller ones (such as single-family homes). This charge would appear on your property tax statement and be paid along with your county property taxes. Seniors, disabled persons, exempt properties, and low-income households maintain any current exemptions they have through the county. A benefit charge is voter-approved every six years, and the rate is set annually in a public hearing. Property owners can appeal their assessment.
Traditional funding models for emergency services are based only on a property's assessed value. That means two properties of the same type and size could be charged differently. However, the cost to defend them in a fire is likely the same. A fire benefit charge is based on a property's size and risk of fire, which many people feel is a fairer way to charge for emergency services.
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