 fire hazard wood chips described as “mulch” spread all over our landscape… The trees that are very volatile and dry with peeling bark and dead branches remain here untouched. I am referring to the Eucalyptus and Paperbark trees of Australian origin.. These are non-native high fire hazard trees allowed to remain in my residential neighborhood… There are way too many of these trees here.. All of them should have been removed a long time ago!
I observed a very bad “landscape maintenance activity” yesterday in my neighbor’s exclusive use common area landscaping attached to her front patio… This landscaped area is the homeowner’s responsibility to maintain, not the HOA’s! A landscaper from Jensen used his power tools to chop down a very healthy and thriving Jasmine vine.. It looks like a war weapon hit it… It was so beautiful and fragrant. This plant is allowed according to our vegetation rules….Now it looks like it is barely alive….
This is a disgrace..

Australian Paperbark tree in full bloom This is not a California Pepper Tree!
I have blogged about this problem so many times! I am stating this here for documentation purposes that the management of this HOA has not fulfilled its responsibility. It has not adhered to the Meadow Park Vegetation Management and Fuel Modification Plan Phase One (hereafter to be referred to as the Plan) which prohibits these types of trees on our street….Phase One refers to Captain Nurse Circle and March Field Court, (according to the map included in this Plan). These trees are strictly in violation of our Plan….
Nothing was ever done to make sure that these high fire hazard trees on our street were removed no matter how many times I notified the HOA management and complained….NOTHING! I have contacted every authority available about this situation and got the complete run around…The City of Novato was responsible at the get go for making sure the Plan was in place and the neighborhood was ready for homeownership.. The City of Novato failed to do this…These trees were allowed to stay here in direct violation of our Plan!
The Australian Paperbark trees are in full bloom and doing quite well… This tree is high fire hazard, invasive, and non-native. It is a very bad tree for our landscape.. Why is it here? Many states in the US are prohibiting it altogether.. It is not good to have these trees here….Yet it is in high-profile right now and in full bloom with its white bottle brushes because the Novato Fire Marshal called it a California Pepper Tree.. I know the difference between those two trees… I am not stupid..
So, that is all I am saying one more time.. These trees remain here and it is in violation of our rules, especially the Plan, Phase One.. which was developed many years ago to protect the homeowners here on Captain Nurse Circle…These people and agencies: the City of Novato, the Novato Fire Protection District, and the Meadow Park HOA Board Members,(including Wakefield Sharp Property Management) have failed to provide a safe living environment..These people and agencies continue to ignore the reality of this construction tragedy that was never properly handled… And still is not being corrected to this day!  So I am here to do it, over and over again until positive change occurs..
THE PLAN WAS CREATED AND SIGNED OFF BY THE NOVATO FIRE MARSHAL OVER TEN YEARS AGO BUT NEVER PUT INTO ACTION!
Here is the link to this document. Read it thoroughly as it describes in detail what is supposed to done to create a safe and fire free environment..
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According to the LGBT Bar Association, Resolution 113 was adopted at the ABA midyear meeting in Las Vegas, Nev. The 14-page resolution says although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2015 same-sex couples have the right to marry, they still face discrimination in adoption in forms of anti-LGBT state laws and policies.
Among the laws cited the resolution are recently adopted state laws allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to refuse placement into LGBT homes over religious objections. Those laws exist in North Dakota, Virginia, Michigan, Mississippi, South Dakota, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and South Carolina.
The resolution also cites continued litigation in which the rights of LGBT parents are in jeopardy. Among those cases is Pavan v. Smith, in which Arkansas refused to place the names of lesbian parents on their child birth certificates. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that policy violated its decision on same-sex marriage (although U.S. Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch penned a lengthy dissent containing the ruling didn’t apply to birth certificates.)
The ABA resolution adopts the resolution in the wake of the Trump administration granting a waiver to South Carolina allowing religious-based adoption agencies in the state, including Miracle Hill Ministries, to continue receive funding from the Department of Health & Human Services even if they refuse to place children in LGBT homes or with other families contrary to their beliefs.
“Any discriminatory law which restricts an LGBT individual’s right to parent not only disregards these precedents, but also contradicts longstanding research,” the resolution says. “Decades of medical, psychological, sociological, and developmental research overwhelmingly conclude that sexual orientation has no bearing on an individual’s ability to be a fit parent. This resolution therefore reaffirms the equal parenting rights of LGBT individuals.”
According to a study from the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, LGBT families are significantly more likely than their non-LGBT counterparts to have adopted or foster children. One in five same-sex couples, or 21.4 percent, are raising adopted children, compared to just 3 percent of different-sex couples, and 2.9 percent of same-sex couples have foster children compared to 0.4 percent of different-sex couples
The resolution states adoption of the resolution sends the message ABA “stands with LGBT individuals and their families against the increased threat to their ability to raise children.”
“This ABA policy position would enable further advocacy in this area by providing authority for other organizations, legislatures, and courts to consult when confronted by LGBT parenting issues,” the resolution says. “The policy would also allow the ABA to directly advocate on behalf of LGBT families and make clear its stance that laws which permit discrimination against LGBT individuals are unconstitutional.”
by Chris Johnson, pride source.com, January 29, 2019Weaver FM, Le B, Ray C, Miskevics S, Gonzalez B, Carbone LD. Predicting osteoporosis medication receipt in Veterans with a spinal cord injury: A retrospective cohort study. The journal of spinal cord medicine. 2019 Nov 1; 42(6):760-767.
To describe frequency and predictors of use of pharmacological therapies for osteoporosis in persons with a spinal cord injury (SCI).: Retrospective cohort study. United States Veterans Health Administration (VA) national databases. 11,048 persons with a traumatic SCI who received VA health care between Fiscal Years (FY) 2005-2015. Pharmacy data from VA''s Corporate Data Warehouse were used to identify prescriptions for Food and Drug Administration-approved pharmacological treatments for osteoporosis including bisphosphonates, calcitonin, denosumab, raloxifene and teriparatide. Demographics, clinical and SCI-related characteristics, receipt of a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and prevalent lower extremity fractures were examined to determine factors related to receiving a pharmacological agent for osteoporosis. 1,041 persons (9.4%) had a prescription for a pharmacological agent for osteoporosis; the majority (? = 964, 93.0%) were bisphosphonates. There was a significant decline in the number of these prescriptions from FY 2005 (13.0%) to FY 2015 (2.2%). In multivariable analysis, age ( > 50 years) (OR? = 1.60, 95% CI 1.31-1.94); female sex (OR? = 4.09, 95% CI 2.74-6.09); opioid (OR? = 1.24, 95% CI 1.01-1.51) or corticosteroid (OR? = 1.92, 95% CI 1.01-1.51) prescriptions; complete injury (OR?