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Sunday, October 2, 2011
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Protect hundreds more species? GOP angry
BILLINGS, Mont.?? The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark ? from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat.
Compelled by a pair of recent legal settlements, the effort in part targets species that have been mired in bureaucratic limbo even as they inch toward potential extinction. With a Friday deadline to act on more than 700 pending cases, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service already has issued decisions advancing more than 500 species toward potential new protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Observers said the agency's actions mark a breakthrough for a program long criticized by conservatives and liberals alike as cumbersome and slow. But most of the decisions made under the new settlements are preliminary, and key Republicans vowed Thursday to press forward with their plans to put the brakes on a law they blame for jeopardizing economic growth.
Still, said Patrick Parenteau, an environmental law professor at the Vermont Law School, "Here at a single glance, you see the sweep of the Endangered Species Act. They are moving through this large backlog at a fairly crisp clip now. This is the largest number of listing actions we've seen in a very long time, in decades."
The flurry of recent action could help revive President Barack Obama's standing among wildlife advocates upset over the administration's support for taking gray wolves off the endangered list in the Northern Rockies and Upper Great Lakes, among other issues.
It also could set the stage for a new round of disputes pitting conservation against development. In the Southeast, for example, water supplies already stretched thin could be further limited by constraints resulting from a host of new fish, salamanders, turtles and other aquatic creatures eligible for protections.
In response to the administration's decisions under the settlements, Republicans including U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, repeated their call to overhaul the 37-year-old endangered act. The Washington state lawmaker is planning hearings this fall into what he characterizes as the law's failure.
"The ESA is unfortunately now used as a tool in costly lawsuits where politics trump science and jobs and economic prosperity are put in jeopardy," Hastings said Thursday.
Earlier this year, citing restrictions against development and other activities, GOP lawmakers unsuccessfully sought to strip the federal budget of money to list new species as threatened or endangered. The administration is seeking $25 million for the listing program in 2012, an 11 percent increase.
No projections were available for how much it would cost if hundreds more species were listed as threatened or endangered.
For those already listed, a 2006 study from the Government Accountability Office found projected recovery costs ranged widely ? from $125 million for the whooping crane, to $58,000 for the decurrent false aster, a type of flower. The GAO pegged the average cost for the species it examined at $15.9 million, with recoveries often lasting decades.
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Determining the broader costs to the economy is more difficult. Lost jobs from restrictions placed on logging or agriculture might be offset by benefits to outdoor recreational industries like boating or fishing, said Jason Shogren, a natural resources professor in the economics department at the University of Wyoming.
Under the current settlements, only 13 new animals and plants have reached the final step and been added to the almost 1,400 species on the government's threatened and endangered list. Also, not every species made the cut to take the next step. Roughly 40 rejections have been meted out, including for plains bison, the giant Palouse earthworm of Idaho and Utah's Gila monster. Those rejections are subject to court challenges.
Among species that advanced for further consideration are 35 snails from Nevada's Great Basin, 82 crawfish from the Southeast, 99 Hawaiian plants and a motley cast of butterflies, birds, fish, beetles, frogs, lizards, mussels and more from every corner of the country.
Some have languished for decades on a "candidate list" of species the government says warrant protection but that it lacks the resources to help.
Friday's deadline was established in a pair of settlements approved by U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan on Sept. 9. Those deals resolved multiple lawsuits brought against the Fish and Wildlife Service by two environmental groups, Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity and New Mexico-based WildEarth Guardians.
WildEarth Guardians' Mark Salvo said the agency's actions so far lend credence to claims that the affected species were in serious trouble.
"The science supports protecting these species," he said. "They were obviously in peril, and our agreement with the agency was intended to allow it to finally address these listings."
Fish and Wildlife Service director Dan Ashe praised the deal and referred to the Endangered Species Act as a "critical safety net for America's imperiled fish, wildlife and plants" in a statement provided by his office.
Agency spokeswoman Vanessa Kauffman said much of the work to comply with the settlements was well under way before the deals were finalized. The settlements also contained provisions aimed at limiting the number of petitions that can be filed by the two environmental groups if they want additional animals and plants considered for protections.
Kauffman said that would free up agency staff to spend more time on species recovery.
Noah Greenwald with the Center for Biological Diversity said the Fish and Wildlife Service was making "substantial progress."
"This is what we were looking for ? starting to move species out of the pipeline into listing, and getting more species into the pipeline to get them under consideration," he said.
Under the settlements, the Fish and Wildlife Service put off until later decisions on some of the more contentious species, including greater sage grouse, the Pacific walrus and Sonoran desert tortoise. Those could have wide-ranging implications for oil and gas drilling, grazing and, in the case of the walrus, potentially climate change policies.
Similar tensions have surfaced throughout the Endangered Species Act's history, from fights in the 1990s over the spotted owl and logging in the Pacific Northwest to recent clashes over how much undeveloped habitat threatened grizzly bears need to survive.
But there are ways to work through those conflicts, said Thomas Lovejoy, with the Heinz Center in Washington. A former biodiversity adviser to the World Bank, Lovejoy said the government has shown a willingness to be flexible with other protected species. He pointed to the red-cockaded woodpecker, found in 11 southern and south-central states, and said recovery was being achieved even as development continues, under deals that ensure enough habitat is protected elsewhere.
"The first thing that will happen is people will look at this and say, 'Oh my God, the slender salamander, what is that going to do for us? Or Franklin's bumblebee, what is that going to do?'" Lovejoy said. "It's not in every example the government tightens the screws."
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Rihanna?s 2AM emergency bikini wax in Belfast
The ‘Rude Boy’ hitmaker – who has been in Northern Ireland shooting the video for her single ‘We Found Love’ – had her team call four local beauticians in the early hours of Monday morning, before finally persuading one to get out of bed to perform the intimate treatment. A source told The Sun newspaper: [...]
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
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Docs admit hospital VIPs get faster care in the ER
Being a VIP in the ER comes with certain perks, according to emergency department doctors who say they routinely bump influential people to the front of the line for faster ? but not better ? care.
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Q&A: Thomas Jane Bringing The Fun For Season 3 Of 'Hung' (omg!)
By Jolie Lash
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Thomas Jane returns as Detroit's most unlikely male prostitute, Ray Drecker, in HBO's dark comedy "Hung" on Sunday, and it's a different beast for Season 3.
Gone is Coach Drecker, and in is full-time sex trade worker Ray. But more money certainly creates more problems, especially in the form of competition.
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As Ray's pimp, Tanya (Jane Adams), tries to manage his career through an inspired new business model, she runs into some major competition from fiery Lenore (Rebecca Creskoff), who is back and running her own trade with a younger man - Jason (Stephen Amell).
Thomas told Access what to expect as the show returns at 10 PM ET/PT on Sunday on HBO.
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Access Hollywood: Tell us about this sex instruction clinic Tanya and Ray open this season?
Thomas Jane: [Tanya's business name] Happiness Consultants has kind of taken off in Season 3. We've got Tanya teaching orgasmic living classes over a muffin shop. She's got her own little space there. [Ray] thinks it's a ridiculous idea, but it seems to be working.
Ray's quit his job and he's ho-ing full time now. He's watching what he eats, he's going to the gym, he's shaving, he's trying to get a couple of nice suits in his repertoire. He's taking the job seriously, which I think is cool. In the first couple of seasons, he's been ambivalent about it and this season he's said, 'What the hell? This will pay the bills.' So I've fixed up my house, I'm not living in the tent. Personally, I love the tent.
AH: Ray's got more money and more confidence, but along comes some prostitute competition in the form of Jason..
TJ: Things are going well and [I] fix up the house and [am] driving a little sports car and of course, Lenore comes along to screw things up and she recruits this young waiter to be a gigolo.
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AH: It looks like Ray might be getting a love interest in the form of Logan -- Kaitlin Doubleday?
TJ: This girl -- Kaitlin Doubleday - [a] young actress, plays a former student of mine that's hot for teacher and she gets to exercise a fantasy of hers with Ray and I think that Ray... the line between business and pleasure is very blurred with Ray's profession, so, yeah, I think he falls for Logan.
AH: Will that still allow time for more Jessica (Anne Heche) and Ray stuff?
TJ: Oh, definitely. Jessica's divorced her husband, so yeah, there's a lot of room for Jessica and Ray to play around in, and their relationship gets better defined this season. A lot of really cool s*** goes down for Ray, but I think the bottom line is we wanted to have fun with the characters this year and we wanted to put Ray in some positions that were, I guess, maybe larger than life. We just wanted to have some fun. We've got this one client who likes to dress up like a police officer and chase him through a park... Ray gets like, a three-way going on with a couple of girls at one point. There's a lot of cool s***, man.
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AH: When you first signed on to this, did you ever think it would get to a third season? The pitch on paper sounds so ridiculous.
TJ: The show about a guy with a big d**k is the Trojan horse that gets us into your living room, and then, once we're in, this is about men and women and the tension between them and what women want and what men want, and all that sticky, messy relationship stuff that goes into fuddling your way through taking somebody's clothes off in the dark. There's always so much more mixed in with that. And it's also about a guys' journey through the female psyche. Ray's traveling through this female world -- he's a fish out of water. He's dealing with women on all sides.
AH: And there's the economy...
TJ: We got a lot of mileage out of the economy falling apart in Season 1. Season 2, I think it became a bit depressing, to tell you the truth. So Season 3, it's like f*** all that, let's have some fun.
Season 2 of "Hung" is out on DVD now.
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ABC Reteams With Lost's Carlton Cuse For Spiritual Drama (omg!)
It's a heavenly reunion for ABC and Lost executive producer Carlton Cuse.
The network has closed a deal for Cuse to write and executive produce a spiritual drama called Stronger, Vulture reports.
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse reflect on life after Lost
The project is about musician-turned-benefactor and spiritual guide Tom Stronger ? yes, Tom Stronger! -- and will also include a yet-to-be-disclosed narrative twist. Stronger is loosely based on the life of bestselling author and pastor Rob Bell, who will write the pilot with Cuse and also executive produce the series.
Bell is a musician who ended up starting his own church, Michigan's Mars Hill Bible Church. Because of his spiritual ties, Stronger is expected to explore religious themes, but without an excessive amount of dogma as exhibited on faith-centered series like 7th Heaven, according to Vulture.
This is one of two projects Cuse is working on for ABC. The other, Point of Honor, is a Civil War-themed project he sold to the network last year that is in the running to be picked up later this season or next fall.
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VSP Insurance Is Unexpected
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By: Katie Adams
I'm not sure of you but when I used to be looking for dental insurance I don't think I would ever imagine VSP insurance. Why? Since it has a reputation for providing insurance pertaining to vision care. Whenever I have a tooth ache I do not visit the eye doctor, take myself to the dentist.
The Industrial Staffing International Insurance company runs VSP insurance. It has a very large range of clients, mostly in the business and industrial world. It is a group insurance policy. They have a particular guideline that allows you to see dentists or doctors regardless of whether they are participating members of the VSP network. They will make you pay for that opportunity. People who seek dental treatment inside the network will only need to pay $10 as a co-pay. In addition, VSP will pay the total amount of the dental fees. On the other hand, when you are outside the network you will pay for the privilege of working outside the network. Your co-pay is higher and your reimbursement is a lot less.
Not Long Ago I learned that VSP insurance includes vision service with dental coverage for some companies as a group plan. Seeing that makes a difference. Following the rules of the VSP insurance is not exactly easy. If you don't sign up properly you don't get the ideal coverage and there's no going back which I can see. So that you need to be really careful. If you are subscribing as an individual or as a wife and husband or as a family, make sure you do the same task for every part of your insurance or perhaps you just might miss out.
The dental part of VSP insurance is handled by Careington as a discounted dental plan. The combined vision and dental program can offer you savings of 20-50% on dental services and 15-35% on vision care for as little as $6.95 per month for individual coverage. That is an exeptional arrangement. The dental services that are included are general dentistry, fillings, crowns, cleanings, orthodontic treatments and more. You are responsible for your co-pay at the time of service. In addition, it is your responsibility to find your own local dental provider.
VSP insurance started in 1955 having a focus on vision coverage world wide for its employees. They now have a more diverse offering and serve more than 56 million people with world-class products and care.
Their plans incorporate also chiropractic treatments,prescriptions, long term care and hearing aids. It's now possible for you and your family to apply for coverage even if your employer doesn't offer the service.
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