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By KEVIN SCANNELLSun Advocate reporter
Property sales in East Carbon may take more time to complete in order to follow the book and sell the properties correctly.
The city council has been discussing the purchase of property in the city for the past few months. However, with questions from both the purchasers and the city council on how the entire process is supposed to be, purchasing property is still an ongoing topic of discussion.
Jeff and Ricki Palmer have been attending city council and planning and zoning meetings over the last few months in their quest to purchase property from the city. The Palmers have previously discussed putting storage units on the land they are looking to acquire.
However the city council said that the purchase of the land cannot move forward without a survey and appraisal of the property. One problem that the city is facing is that there is no one locally who will do an appraisal of the property. Liz Marquez, East Carbon city recorder, said that the city will need to have someone from up north come down and do an appraisal on the property. Mayor Orlando LaFontaine is working on having the property surveyed, Marquez said.
If the city cannot find an appraiser that will appraise the property, a statute allows for other professional publications and evaluation services, according to Jeremy Humes, East Carbon City attorney.
One of the questions posed by the Palmers was the appraisal of the property near the one they are looking to purchase. That property, owned by Chuck and Carolyn Abeyta, was appraised for $900 per acre. Councilman Andy Urbanik said that Vital Energy purchased the land, which includes the Abeyta's property within it, and the appraisal price was part of the purchasing agreement between them and the city of East Carbon. Currently Carbon County states that surplus land goes for $1,000 or less.
Urbanik said there are three ways the city could approach the sale of property: sell the property and ask for an appraisal, put the property up for public auction or put the property up for private bid. He also said that the city is interested in selling the property but is working on trying to find a fair and just price for the city.
"We have to know what we are dealing with in order to have it appraised and how to appraise them (properties), and we have no clue what we are dealing with," Urbanik said.
The process has not been without its problems. Councilman Darrell Valdez, serving as mayor pro-tem, said the city council has been not kept up to date on the sale of the property and is one of the reasons for the confusion. He and other council members visited the property, as was requested by the Palmers, to look at any issues regarding a possible road through the properties.
"We were left in the dark," Valdez said. "To tell you the truth we got thrown under the bus in the last few meetings. We are not being told as far as the city council, as to what is going on in the community. Everything seems to be hush, hush."
Mayor LaFontaine was out of town and was not present at the meeting.
Valdez said that he was under the impression that LaFontaine was taking care of the appraisal and the survey of the property. Urbanik said this has caused problems with communication between the city council and the mayor in knowing exactly what is going on with the sale of the property.
"We're not being communicated with from the mayor. So we're left in the dark and we're guessing at what is going on and we're going by rumors," Urbanik said.
While the process has taken longer to complete, Palmer said he was fine with the process but wanted to see some accomplishment on the sale. The Palmers have been looking into purchasing the property for over five years and became interested after seeing the price of the land.
"If you want to do it right, let's do it right. But let's do it," Palmer said noting he would like to see some accomplishment other than squabbling and indecision.
Councilman David Avery said he wasn't fond of the appraisal process. He said that the city may have set a precedence with the land that has been sold before and an appraiser may look at that when evaluating the property.
"I'm not sure what this (appraisal) is going to accomplish in the end except proving a fact," he said.
Avery also said he was concerned about what would happen after the property was purchased because of what Terry Young said at a previous council meeting about what he may do with property he is looking to purchase. Young said he would look into subdividing the property by possibly having a truck wash, car wash and a cemetery.
With the possibility of subdividing a property in that area, Avery said the road will become a big issue in the next few weeks. Palmer said that he is not looking into subdividing anything on the property he is looking to purchase. Despite what may be done with the properties, Urbanik said that everything being built on the properties would need to follow and be built according to city ordinances.
Following the book with the property sale is what Councilman James Wayman said he wants to see the city council follow.
"This is where we are all getting in trouble as a city council and the past city councils, is we haven't been going by the book all of the time. We're doing what we want and that's where we are getting into trouble," Wayman said. "It will take a little more time to get things done, but by going by the book it will work out better."
No date has been given on the survey and the appraisal. Valdez said he would look into getting a time frame for the appraisal on the property to get the process moving along.

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Students taking the Common Core Assessments, which align education standards throughout the country, are getting a rude awakening.
Area educators say time management was a common issue for elementary and middle-school students who took the new, more rigorous Common Core English assessments last week.
The assessments, in third to eighth grades this year, will be used in part to grade teachers on their annual professional performance reviews.
Some of the kids in the class talked about how long it was, or said, I didnt finish. Did you finish? Carthage Middle School fifth-grade English teacher Stacy R. Doldo said.
She said fifth-graders had 90 minutes on Wednesday to finish booklets two and three, which were composed of five passages with seven questions each, three short responses and an essay, with no break between them.
This years test is more rigorous and has more questions than prior assessments.
Some of these kids are 10 and 11 years old and looking at the clock, Mrs. Doldo said. Theyre anxious.
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I have just laid a fairly large electric underfloor heating system, which has failed so I'm looking for anyone with experience of this.
It's made of 5 rolled mats with blue heating cable with earthed and sheathed outer. It came fixed to a plastic mesh. I fitted them as per the manufacturers instructions with the mesh on top, tested it and left. Next day I had a call from the customer, who had hired 2 men to fit the floor. The customer said the mat was put down the wrong way up and the fitters were turning it over. I was very concerned by this and asked her to tell them to leave it as it was, but they carried on.
I went back and found they had poured latex over the mat, but not completely covered, it leaving cable exposed on top. The cable had been routed close to the edge of the floor and in one place adjacent to a sharp metal corner plaster bracket. I disclaimed all further reponsibility for the work and emailed the customer to that effect. However I tested the mat and it was OK for continuity and isulation.
The fitters then started installing the floor, which is reclaimed floor boards, glued on top of the mat. After they had got half way through I tested it found it OK for insulation and continuity, then powered it up and found it OK for function. I issued the EIC for the house and left.
A few days later I got a call from the customer saying the RCD was tripping. I went there and found one of the floor had gone short to earrth. No surprise there.
My problem now, is that the customer is refusing to pay my bill, claiming that I have caused the fault and issued an incorrect certificate stating the installation was OK.
I could take the legal route but that will cost me. The floor supplier put me in touch with someone they use in warantee cases, who will identitfy the case of the fault, photograph it and issue an impartial report.
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10 March 2011 06:44 PM
From what you say, you should be able to identify which mat the fault is in and the insulation test results on your installation certificate is sound evidence that the current problem didnt exist when you installed the floor. Apart from any damage caused, the rest of your test results should still tally.
There is an instrument called a time domain reflectometer or TDR. If you have a drawing of the layout or a reliable memory of the layout of the mats, a TDR will be able to give you an indication of where in the floor the fault lies. However, ther are various types of TDR and, to use one in this scenario, you would need some experience to be able to use it effectively. (A bit like divining really)
Are you in England or Wales? If so, is the floor installer not committing an offence by messing with the mats? Likewise the customer, if he is responsible for him doing so?
Taking the legal route is not a winner financially but you should think of all those customers who pay an time and as agreed. Unfortunately your story is very common - the customer looking for someone to blame for his own mistake and taking a gamble that you haven't the stomach for a fight.
Its a good idea to get a second opinion though and the route to solving the proble will help to reveal the cause - although that isn't guaranteed. You may be able to point to a break in the insulation but how are you going to be able to convince the customer that someone else caused it? Unlikely, I would have thought, if he doesnt want to take responsibility.
It may be worth ahving a word with your friendly BCO on this. They can sometimes be prepared to lend an objective view. Alternatively, if he is refusing to give you money that is rightfully yours- that is theft in my book - try the police.
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27 March 2011 12:37 AM
Two points:
Who purchased the mats you or the clients? If it was you and you are owed the cost of the mats plus labour it is probably worth chasing the money. If you did it labour only you may be better walking away, other than the client may try and claim against you for a lose on the cost of the mats etc.
There is no way the customer can say you caused the fault as the floor layers relaid the mats, laid the latex and flooring, so none of your original installation work is now in place.
The trouble is it costs money to chase debts.
29 November 2011 06:54 PM
Yes, it's reparable. Not an easy endeavour though.
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Here's both- I shopped around for my copy of The Gospel and ordered it. The description of the book I ordered said it is 240 pages. The book they sent me has 170 something pages. I emailed them and asked why, which is my question- is the content of the book different or is the one I got just bigger, thus holding more words per page? Does anyone know what the difference is between the 240 page book and the 170 page book?
Anyway, they didn't answer the question. Instead, they sent me an email saying they sent a replacement and I had thirty days to send the original back or they'd charge me for it, too. They did send me a shipping label to print off (falsely assuming I have a printer). I got the replacement that I never asked for today, and it's the same book they had already sent. I confirmed this by painstakingly (insert sarcasm) looking at the number on the last page.
I was very mad at the service I got.
I wonder were they discriminating against my religious belief, and told them as much in my email right after I told them about their crummy customer service and right before I asked could someone please just answer my original question so I'd know if I need to order it from someone that will send me the item for which I paid.
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Artist and poet Austin Kleon (whose best-selling book Steal Like an Artist continues to inspire) explains why you should keep your less-than creative day job, and how to do it while pursuing your art on the side. Kleon writes:
"You have to pay the bills and feed the mouths, and you do it however you can…And my experience has been that economic security has always helped my art along more than any kind of 'spiritual' freedom or whatever…You always have a day job. Just hang in there. This is what I recommend: get up early. Get up early and work for two hours on the thing you really care about. Then, when you're done, go to your job. When you get there, your boss can't take the thing you really care about away from you, because you already did it. And you know you'll get to do it tomorrow morning, as long as you make it through today."
Read Kleon's full explanation on how dull day jobs can actually help creativity thrive here.
Relevant: Cal Newport's chapter in Maximize Your Potential, "Cultivating Your Craft Before Your Passion."
Writer and artist Austin Kleon, of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! fame, is a big supporter of creatives that can contribute to an artistic community as opposed creating in their own vacuum. In FastCo Create, he borrows the term "scenius" from the musician Brian Eno to encourage artists to change their end goal from being a genius to being a creative contributor:
Kleon cautions against the artistic myth of the lone genius pounding away in a garret somewhere…. He created his own scenius online. Kleon says, "I think what has been the most remarkable in my career is that I've never been part of a geographical scene. I didn't move to New York after college. I didn't move to L.A. I moved to Cleveland, and there's not a whole lot of a scene there. But what I did have was the Internet, and I became part of a scenius by putting my work out there. I started blogging in 2005, and back then, we were all connected, we just didn't have social media in the same way as we do now. You'd just post things to your blog and people would send you comments or emails and you'd slowly find people as they stumbled across your work. When I did work I really liked and put it online, it attracted the people I wanted to meet. For me, being online, that was my scenius. That was my moving to New York in the '70s. Or Paris in the '20s."
Kleon notes that you don't have to be in the same medium as the people in your scenius. In fact, it helps if you're not. He says since moving to Austin, he's fallen in with musicians and filmmakers in addition to writers and artists, and those relationships have informed his work.
The key to being a scenius is to create something every single day. A constant stream of creative outpout ensures that you remain a vital part of a creative community. As Kleon told 99U in an interview:
We all get 24 hours. No one gets more time. Sure, you might have your job, you might have a kid, you might have a family—I had all of those things when I was writing my first book—but when you get ruthless about what you really want to do, there are so many gaps. So many little spaces in the day where you can find the time….
It happens a lot of in creative work that you finish a project and you don't know what to do next. It can be a bit disconcerting. And I think that's why it's so important to have a daily practice that you do no matter what you are working on.
Your work, no matter what it is, matters. When you put it out there every day for your creative scene to absorb and consume, you cultivate your own brand and the community in tandem. That's what being a scenius is all about.
Leo Babauta of Zen Habits suggests the secret to successfully achieving goals is working up to them level by level, video game style. The idea is that you make incremental changes to your existing behavior over a period of time, pausing along the way to master each level before progressing to the next. He took this approach to losing weight:
Like a video game, the way to changing your health habits is by starting out at the first level, and only going to the next level after you've beaten the one before that. The problem is that most people start at Level 10 and fail, and wonder what happened. Most of us want to skip several levels, but we're just not ready.
So the secret is to start at Level 1, and only advance once you're done with that level. One level at a time, you'll master the game of losing weight and getting healthy….
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1. Start walking just for a few minutes every day.
2. Reduce your eating by a little bit. A very little bit.
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[D]on't go to this level until you've had a streak of seven days of doing Level 1.
1. Walk every day for a few minutes more. If you've been going around the block twice, make it three times. Or add 5 minutes to your walking.
2. Eat a little less than in the previous level. Just a little less — not really noticeable.
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If you've successfully done Level 2 for another week, you're ready to add more:
1. Walk a little more.
2. Eat/drink less of something that's empty calories — less soda, sugar, bread, pastries, sweet coffee drink, chips, cookies, pizza. Don't drop any of these completely, just eat less of it.
And so on. Minor tweaks collectively add up to major changes. The trick is having the patience and diligence to stick with those small shifts and implement them week after week until you've achieved your ultimate goal. To stay motivated and track your progress, try using a goal-centered app like Coach.me, LittleBit, or Chains.cc or a more analogue system like Jake Lodwick's Standards self-management technique.
There's no bonus round in real life, so make the one you have count.
Creatives are no stranger to experiencing crushing disappointment. No matter your medium, it's easy to equate your work with yourself, since your product is a reflection of your inner humanhood. Whenever you're disappointed in something you've produced, or else your failure to actually produce that thing, that feeling of frustration may bleed into general dissatisfaction with yourself as a whole.
Of course, self-disappointment does nothing but further quash your motivation and productivity. If you feel like what you create is worthless or falls frustratingly short, you lose your inspiration to create anything at all. Leo Babauta of Zen Habits offers a few poignant suggestions for overcoming this feeling of not living up to your own standards, including:
See the Greatness of the Present
Let's turn from the self we haven't been, to the self we have been. This self might have "failed" at X, but it has also succeeded in lots of other ways. This self has tried. It has gotten a lot done. It's not perfect, but it has good intentions. This self has been the best it can be, even if that means imperfection. This self has cared, has loved, has strived for better, has made an effort, has wanted the best for others. Not always, but it has. This self deserves that kind of recognition, and love for being the best self it can be….
Work with Curiosity
[G]oing forward, let's practice tossing out our expectations of how we're going to do today (and in life in general), and instead adopt an attitude of curiosity. We don't know how we're going to do at work, or in our relationships, or with our personal habits. We can't know. So let's find out: what will today be like? How will it go?
Be curious, in an attitude of not-knowingness.
It's fun to find out things!
Yes, expectations will come up for us, and we will fail to live up to them, and we will feel frustration and disappointment again. This will happen, and this too will be a bit disappointing, because we want to be perfect at being curious and present. We'll have to repeat the process when we notice this happening. That's OK. That's how it works — constantly renewing, never done.
But as we get better at this, I promise, we'll learn to see things with a new curiosity, with a gratitude for every moment that we meet, and with a more loving and kind view of constantly failing but constantly striving selves. These selves are wonderful, and that realization is worth the ever-constant journey.
This combination of mindfulness, self-compassion, and curiosity enables you to move forward in your creative process and continue thinking and making. To take it one step further, you can dig out of a self-disappointment hole completely, as you use the above tactics, by removing direct internal fault-finding from the equation. As Janet Choi comments on what psychologist Ethan Kross has found, avoiding the first person, and addressing yourself as "you" instead, can have powerful positive consequences in silencing that inner critic:
When you get out of "me," "myself," and "I," you mentally gain distance from yourself and get out of your own head. Much like you can gain perspective on a piece of art by stepping back a few feet, you can gain added insight on your thought process by putting some mental distance between your present mindset and your typical nervous, anxious self.
As you're focusing, per Babauta, on thinking about your next project with a sense of possibility and openness, do so by asking yourself, "Who are you most excited to talk to about this piece?" or suggesting in your head, "You should carve out an hour tomorrow morning to work on this first thing, while you're fresh."
Just as you require multiple artistic implements at your disposal to complete a creative project, you need a variety of self-help techniques in your toolkit to conquer inner disappointment.
As a talented creative, you probably shudder at the thought of purposely designing something badly. Why would you possibly do such a thing, other than out of passive aggressiveness towards an infuriating client? (Bad idea.) UX content strategist Jerry Chao suggests that purposely designing badly can be a great tactic for conquering creative block:
There's a big difference between having no good ideas, and no ideas at all. Chances are, the more bad ideas you have, the more pressure you apply to come up with good ideas. In these cases, the best way to beat designer's block is to get all the bad ideas out of your system.
Try designing a mockup in which you make all the wrong decisions on purpose. You may find it strangely productive.
For starters, you're exercising your design muscles a lot more than just staring at a blank screen: designing badly is better than not designing at all. On a deeper level, designing a purposefully bad mockup forces you to think critically on the same topics, but from a different perspective. If you can figure out the worst place to stick a call-to-action, for example, that will shed some light on the best place. This kind of productive distraction allows you to think about solutions without actually thinking about them.
This process uses the same mental muscles as when an editor considers a piece of writing by placing it upside down or backwards, forcing him- or herself to focus on the bare bones of the work: paragraph structure, word choice, syntax. The technique makes it impossible to glaze over while reading, and can surface interesting patterns or qualities of the work.
Coming at a project from an intentionally awkward angle can offer a refreshing new viewpoint that affords that much-anticipated creative breakthrough. Just don't publish your bad-on-purpose project to your portfolio–at least without an explanation of the exercise.
No matter your field, your communication style, or your organizational habits, you're likely bound to the holy quartet of organizational work tools: email, conference call, chat, and calendar. On Blinkist's blog Page 19, Caitlin Schiller diagnoses a lot of the wasted time and unproductiveness that plagues the modern working world as misuse of said work tools. Consider the common problems of workplace chat that likely plague you, as they do all modern professionals at one time or another:
The main problem with office chat is that people feel freer to write off-the-cuff questions because they're not technically interrupting—the recipient can still choose whether or not to respond. The thing is, we're reactive creatures, and we feel that we need to stop what we're doing and attend to the people who ping us. Even though your intention with getting in touch by chat is to be unobtrusive, you have little control over whether your colleague's work is interrupted. If she sees a message notification, chances are she'll look. Even if she doesn't respond outright, a portion of her focus will now be diverted by your remark or question. In general, chat should only be used for quick questions that are keeping you from moving forward with your work, or to set up a time with a co-worker to talk through a larger issue. Anything else, put in an email so you're not disturbing your colleagues.
When in doubt, only chat if you would want to be chatted. The caveat, of course, is that, best practices aside, everyone has slightly different preferences and affinities when it comes to work tools. So: ask the handful of people with whom you work most closely what their specific inclinations are when it comes to using chat, and also email, phone call, or calendar invites, so you can maximize your collective productivity. One person may prefer that you email them even with yes/no questions rather than interrupt their workflow with a drive-by. Another may want to untangle a project snafu together over chat rather than phone so that there's a written record he or she can refer back to later. For most creatives, especially when it comes to work tools, getting sh*t done is a team sport and there's no one-size-fits-all uniform.
There's never enough time. There never will be enough time. Time management is a doomed battle, especially for creatives who are constantly juggling a variety of projects.
In an article on Quartz, writer and psychologist Tony Crabbe describes how our modern obsession with time management grew out of the Industrial Revolution, when factories needed to coordinate hundreds of people's shifts in synchronicity. That tidal shift from the concept of task management to time management is responsible for what has today become a monumental issue: We are all way too busy, scrambling to get way too much done, in an ultimately futile effort to clear our inboxes and complete our to-do lists often to the detriment of deeper, more meaningful output:
[W]hen we complete more tasks, all that happens is more appear to take their place—send more emails, get more replies. In essence, if we do more as a result of better managing our time, we don't get it all done—we just become busier…. When we scatter our attention across a thousand micro-activities, we prevent ourselves from engaging deeply or thinking properly….
Research by Microsoft, for example, suggests that 77% of UK workers feel they have had a productive day if they have emptied their inbox. It constantly horrifies me to see the number of blogs and books which focus on the goal of getting to an empty inbox or zero tasks, as if either achievement was worthwhile. No business or life was changed by an empty inbox.
Here's a (not "the", but "a") solution: first, stop measuring your personal success or productivity by the number of emails that languish in your inbox. Accept the discomfort that comes from letting some messages go unanswered for longer than usual.
Next, consciously carve out time every single day (i.e., ironically, put it on your calendar) to X out of your Outlook or Gmail, turn your phone on silent and put it in your pocket or face down on your desk, and remove any visible clocks or timekeepers from the vicinity. Luxuriate in the absence of time-tracking, and just immerse yourself in the deep creative, contemplative thinking that can't happen when you're even subconsciously, subtly aware of how many minutes have gone by. By doing so, you're taking back the power to manage your actual work, not your time.
We can't change the basic unwritten code of how the modern working world operates. At least for the time being, the email inbox and other digital message repositories (project management software, IMs, texts, Twitter DMs) hold us accountable based on a temporal structure. You wouldn't be a responsible working adult if you just decided to answer only the emails you felt like answering, whenever, based on your level of creative inspiration. But you can create a functional balance between task management and time management that's short of the incorrectly-hallowed inbox zero. Take back your tasks, and in so doing you'll take back your time.
If you want to heighten the experience of your work, you need to appeal to more than just one of the five senses. Without realizing it, we tend to only cater to one of our senses in our work—for example, designers or web developers who focus on sight. Abstract visual artist Devon Sioui explains how incorporating even just one more sensation can change the overall experience:
My sister-in-law Faye [Harnest] is an author, poet, and braille transcriber. She always had this idea to incorporate braille in a visual way with paintings and texture… She'll punch her poem in a braille machine on acetate and from there we will attach it to the canvas. Then there is a lot of paint layering overtop and incorporating the edges so it doesn't look like it's taped on… [we want] people to come [and] explore the paintings by touch… because you don't ever really get to do that.
By engaging the sense of touch along with sight, Sioui and Harnest are able to enhance the overall artwork experience for both themselves and the audience. Besides visually taking in the dynamic colors and composition, the artwork takes one way the audience experiences the world around them and integrates it into another, heightening the senses.
Industrial designer Jinsop Lee started evaluating his life experiences based on senses by creating a graph with a scale from one to ten along the vertical axis and the five senses along the horizontal. Every time he had a memorable experience, he recorded it like a five senses diary. He found that the best experiences engaged more senses on a higher level than others easily forgotten. Once he was aware of what made for the best experiences, he began appealing to more senses within his design work. Lee challenges us to incorporate as many senses as possible to make any experience more memorable:
Now in the middle of all this five senses work, I suddenly remembered the solar-powered clocks projectfrom my youth. And I realized this theory also explains why Chris' clock is so much better than mine. You see, my clock only focuses on sight, and a little bit of touch. Here's Chris' clock. It's the first clock ever that uses smell to tell the time. In fact, in terms of the five senses, Chris' clock is a revolution.
And that's what this theory taught me about my field. You see, up till now, us designers, we've mainly focused on making things look very pretty, and a little bit of touch, which means we've ignored the other three senses. Chris' clock shows us that even raising just one of those other senses can make for a brilliant product.
Of course, not every line of work will be able to add extra senses to a project—or at least, not without having to really sit and think outside of the box. Which in itself is the whole point: to expand your thinking about what's involved in your work. Perfect experiences engage all the senses, so why focus on only one? See what other senses you could pull in. It could be what turns a good project into an unexpectedly great one.


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(A) one shall be appointed from among individuals with knowledge and experience regarding commercial fishing in the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, or Caribbean Sea; and
(b) Alternate Commissioners
The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary, may designate from time to time and for periods of time deemed appropriate Alternate United States Commissioners to the Commission. Any Alternate United States Commissioner may exercise at any meeting of the Commission, Council, any Panel, or the advisory committee established pursuant to section 971b of this title, all powers and duties of a United States Commissioner in the absence of any Commissioner appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for whatever reason. The number of such Alternate United States Commissioners that may be designated for any such meeting shall be limited to the number of United States Commissioners appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section who will not be present at such meeting.
(c) Compensation
The United States Commissioners or Alternate Commissioners, although officers of the United States while so serving, shall receive no compensation for their services as such Commissioners or Alternate Commissioners.
(d) Travel expenses
(1) The Secretary of State shall pay the necessary travel expenses of United States Commissioners, Alternate United States Commissioners, and authorized advisors in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulations and sections 5701, 5702, 5704 through 5708, and 5731 of title 5.
Source(Pub. L. 94–70, § 3,Aug. 5, 1975, 89 Stat. 385; Pub. L. 101–627, title II, §§ 201(a), 203,Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4459, 4460; Pub. L. 106–562, title III, § 303,Dec. 23, 2000, 114 Stat. 2806; Pub. L. 109–479, title IV, § 405(c),Jan. 12, 2007, 120 Stat. 3633.)
2007—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 109–479added subsec. (e).
2000—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 106–562inserted before last sentence "Individuals serving as such Commissioners shall not be considered to be Federal employees while performing such service, except for purposes of injury compensation or tort claims liability as provided in chapter 81 of title 5 and chapter 171 of title 28."
1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–627, § 201(a), designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added pars. (2) and (3).
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101–627, § 203, added subsec. (d).
Limitations on Appointments of Commissioners; Application to Current Commissioners
Pub. L. 101–627, title II, § 201(b),Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4460, provided that:
"(1) Paragraph (2) of section 3(a) of the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975 (16 U.S.C. 971a (a)), as added by this section, shall not apply to reappointment of an individual as a United States Commissioner of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (hereinafter in this title [enacting section 971b–1 of this title, amending this section and sections 971b, 971d, and 971h of this title, and enacting provisions set out as a note below] referred to as a 'Commissioner') if that individual is serving in that position on the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 28, 1990].
"(2) An individual serving a term as a Commissioner on the date of enactment of this Act shall not, by reason of that term of service, be ineligible under paragraph (3)(B) of section 3(a) of the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975 (16 U.S.C. 971a (a)), as added by this section, for reappointment as a Commissioner."
Termination of Current Terms and Completion of Pending Appointments
Pub. L. 101–627, title II, § 202,Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4460, provided that: "The term as Commissioner of each individual serving in that position on the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 28, 1990] shall terminate March 1, 1991. Not later than that date, the President shall complete appointment (or reappointment) of individuals to serve as Commissioners on and after that date."
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Zinalrothorn Climber's Log
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|SE ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2015
|Beautifull weather and not crowded at all on the mountain, despite the Zinalrothornhut was completely full.
|Posted Sep 17, 2015 4:17 am
|Great climb on dry rock
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2015
|My first attempt to climb this great mountain, in 2004, was interrupted by bad weather as I reached the upper rock pitches. This time we were very fortunate because the weather was clear and the upper rock pitches had no snow or ice (there was a 3-week long heat wave in the area during our visit). I was accompanied by my son Christoph and each of us had a local guide.
We greatly enjoyed the spectacular views from the top including the rare sight of the Matterhorn with no snow on the east face or on the Hornli ridge! A memorable experience.
|Posted Jul 21, 2015 8:31 pm
|North Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2013
|Climbed the north ridge (up and down) from the Mountet Hut. A great alpine climb!
|Posted Aug 12, 2013 3:19 pm
|My first 4000m peak!
Date Climbed: Sep 10, 1980
|I was the rather inexperienced leader of a party of 5 students and one aged German 'hitch-hiker' (who came to regret joining us... ). Having failed miserably on the Weisshorn we were determined to summit, although treating it like the only thing we knew - a British rock-climb - we were incredibly slow and got benighted on the way down. After that we learned the gentle art of 'moving together' - and Fritz, the German hitch-hiker, not to hitch a ride with a bunch of inept Brit youths.
|Posted Feb 28, 2012 4:03 pm
|Wrong route
Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2011
|I agree with my partner Corvus. A perfect day wasted..
|Posted Oct 5, 2011 1:05 pm
|Wrong route
Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2011
|We lost a lot of time to find the right passage over the Rothorn glacier, climbed wrong route to the Schneegrat. Reached the base of couloir to Gabel after 6 hours, so we decided to come back (too late and a little bit tired). It was a pitty because the conditions (weather and mountain) were perfect. I'll try again next time.
|Posted Sep 24, 2011 6:21 am
|Peter K
|Route Climbed: SE Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2010
|Just can join my previous speaker: too much snow!
We started from a bivouac below the Rothorn hut (booked up). Easy glacier, scrambling and snow fields until the horizontal snow ridge. Tricky terrain traversing the south face, but EXCELLENT rock on the SW ridge. Nice but short crux ("Biner-Platte", III) - much easier than expected. Also very funny to get around the "Kanzel".
Panaché & hot chocolate at the Rothorn hut and continued down to Zermatt (0:45 AM).
Would definitely climb this one again!
|Posted Aug 30, 2010 10:35 am
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2010
|Too much snow on the south face, cold and windy the rdige.
The climb was long and demanding, with all the way up to be trace din high and soft snow.
Nice mountain in any case
|Posted Aug 2, 2010 3:12 pm
|Great climb with a long approach...
Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2010
|Climbed the North Ridge
Beautiful climbing and great views from the summit..... But a very long approach...it makes it a great workout
|Posted Jul 20, 2010 3:05 pm
|SE Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2008
|Conditions weren't so great: snow, lots of wind and as soon as we got to the summit the clouds moved in. But what a beautiful mountain!
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 3:35 am
|Fabulous rock
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2008
|We started from the Rothornhut. The only downside was the number of rope teams on the mountain which made it a rather long day out. At the end we were caught by the daily afternoon thunderstorms shortly before we were back at the hut.
|Posted Oct 10, 2009 10:49 am
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2009
|From Rothorn Hut. Wake up time was moved up by an hour (to 3am) as bad weather was predicted in the afternoon. Climb was eerily warm until we reached the knife edge snow ridge. It began to snow lightly as we climbed the upper rock portions. The first boom of thunder was heard at 6:55am, two minutes after we'd started back down from the summit! Plenty of buzzing on the sharp ridge. Other nearby climbers saw lightning strike a big flake 50 meters from them. Quick descent on increasingly snowier rock. Back to Rothorn Hut five hours after we'd left! Warmed up with some grog.
|Posted Sep 7, 2009 11:07 am
|Normal route
Date Climbed: Aug 11, 2009
|Snowed all night so we had to turn back 50 meters from the summit, very icy but i found the rock climbing enjoyable
|Posted Aug 22, 2009 4:18 am
|Pierre smetsers
|Very nice Climb
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2008
|The day before we went back from 3800m, bad weather wind and snow. But one day later we enjoyed this great climb. Never to difficult. There were many others partys whichs slows you down especialy at the coulior and the Binerplatte.
And what a view.
|Posted Sep 16, 2008 4:40 pm
|Snowy north ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2008
|What a fantastic ridge! We found it still in snowy conditions after the bad weather from a week before. We climbed everything with crampons, which slows down a lot, but is really doable, even on the traverse of the Sphinx. We belayed only 4 rope lengths - the Rasoir, the Sphinx traverse, the Bourrique and the Bosse. The Arete Blanche is magnificent!
|Posted Sep 13, 2008 2:16 am
|South East ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2006
|Foggy and cold.. Nice route!
|Posted Sep 7, 2008 7:35 am
|Traverse: SE & N ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2008
|Nice traverse to the mountet hut. I found the N ridge more interesting than the SE, climbing wise.
|Posted Aug 17, 2008 11:21 am
|Normal Route
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2008
|Beautiful climb. Bottleneck from the couloir that really slowed down the ascent and subsequent descent and had to walk to the rothorn hut in a thunderstorm!
|Posted Aug 4, 2008 5:37 am
|Route Climbed: normal route SE-ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2007
|A very nice climb, but too much traffic ahead of us slowed down the rate of ascent. Perhaps it was a mistake to choose a Sunday for this summit? Further, I sprained my ankle due to carelessness on the descent (which did not really help us catch up time-wise). We were back at the hut just in time for dinner.
I climbed with my twin brother.
|Posted Jul 2, 2008 4:37 am
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2007
|Fantastic Tour to Zinalrothorn 4221m.
my picture are here: Link to Zinalrothorn
|Posted Nov 8, 2007 4:38 am


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