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Governments have to make significant efforts towards a post 2012 climate regime to be in place by the end of the next UN climate meeting in December 2009, IUCN says.
"Despite the current economic crisis, decision makers must not miss the boat this time – there's too much at stake," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General. "We want governments to make sure we still have a world worth living in for future generations."
We need more ambitious emission reduction targets. A temperature rise of 2°C is expected to kill off up to 85 percent of corals, raise sea levels to dangerous levels, increase tropical diseases and intensify storms.
IUCN is encouraged by the interest shown by governments for the integration of forests in the climate change agenda, in particular reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).
"The progress made on REDD here in Poznan is a step in the right direction but we don't want to lose sight of the importance of the second D – degradation," says Stewart Maginnis, Head of IUCN's Forest Programme. "Addressing the degradation of forests is absolutely vital. The restoration of degraded forest lands has great potential in terms of enhancing carbon sinks."
IUCN also welcomes the importance goverments in Poznan attached to ecosystem-based adaptation.
"Using what nature has already provided to help people adapt to the effects of climate change is extremely important," says Neville Ash, Head of IUCN's Ecosystem Management Programme. "Healthy ecosystems provide food, clean water and fertile soil. They also minimize loss of life and property during natural disasters."
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The world's oldest and largest global environmental network, IUCN is a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists and experts in some 160 countries. IUCN's work is supported by over 1,000 professional staff in 60 offices and hundreds of partners in public, NGO and private sectors around the world. IUCN's headquarters are located in Gland, near Geneva, in Switzerland.


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Twenty-seven students from the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) College of Nursing and three nurse leaders were inducted into the Phi Iota Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing during an induction ceremony in Bryan on April 7.
Sigma Theta Tau was established in 1922 and is one of the largest international nursing organizations with more than 130,000 active members. The organization supports the learning, knowledge and professional development of nurses committed to making a difference in health care worldwide.
In 2011, the TAMHSC Phi Iota Chapter was named as a new charter chapter in Sigma Theta Tau International. This chapter is active in bringing together nursing students and nurse leaders in Bryan/College Station and Round Rock.
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In this quickly changing environment, there is the real probability that Medicare beneficiaries along with their medical providers are unaware that effective July 1, 2013, Medicare is making a major change to the ways in which home medical equipment is provided.
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In this quickly changing environment, there is the real probability that Medicare beneficiaries along with their medical providers are unaware that effective July 1, 2013, Medicare is making a major change to the ways in which home medical equipment is provided.
Physicians used to be able to write a prescription for home medical equipment such as a wheelchair or hospital bed after speaking with the patient, send it to the medical-equipment company and the requested medical equipment would be delivered to the patient�s home.
Not anymore: Effective July 1, the patient must have a documented, face-to-face visit with their physician, the physician must sign the face-to-face patient visit notes, write the prescription ensuring that all five required data elements are included and then send the prescription to the medical-equipment provider along with the detailed face-to-face visit notes. All this must be accomplished prior to the medical-equipment provider set up of the prescribed medical equipment. If the beneficiary needs multiple items of equipment, each item must be documented by the physician. All the documentation that is now required does not relieve the physician from completing the Medicare Certificate of Medical Necessity � yet another document that the medical-equipment provider must have in the patient record.
Here�s a recap of the process that a 75 year-old woman must go through to get a manual wheelchair:
n Make an appointment to see her family physician
n The physician must conduct a face-to-face visit with the patient and document in detail the reason for the manual wheelchair and sign the physician visit notes. These notes must include: date of visit, needs assessment, relevant diagnoses, treatment and an overall evaluation of the patient�s condition.
n The physician then must write a prescription containing five data elements: date of order, beneficiary�s name, item(s) of home medical equipment, physician�s NPI and the physician�s signature.
n The physician can then send the prescription and the face-to-face visit to the medical- equipment provider.
n Finally, the physician must sign and return the certificate of medical necessity.
More good news is that if any of the above requirements are not met, Medicare can deny reimbursement to medical-equipment provider for the equipment provided. This, then, leaves our 75-year-old woman having to either pay for the item herself or go without.
All of the above requirements have been laid down on order to reduce fraud, waste and abuse of our Medicare system. What is most interesting is that physicians have not been provided with any of the above information from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services yet. It appears that CMS is relying on the medical equipment providers to educate the physicians on what they must accomplish to support their patients.
What CMS has effectively accomplished is to establish a complicated of criteria that demands still more of the physicians� time and ultimately leave the patient and medical-equipment company to sort out how home medical equipment will be paid for.
They have also effectively targeted the medical-equipment company as the bad guy for the physician and patient because they �require� all this paperwork. This face-to-face requirement affects at least 166 items of medical equipment ranging from glucose monitors to lightweight manual wheelchairs.
This new requirement by CMS is just one more step in the process of denying or limiting access to basic medical equipment needed by Medicare beneficiaries.
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Texas car insurance law minimum requirement - As per the Department of Public Safety in the state requires a minimum of 30/60/25 as explained below:
- $30,000 coverage for all types of bodily injury suffered by one individual in one accident
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- Damage to property or injury to others in one accident is $25,000.
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Any car owner who does not have the minimum coverage basically does not have car insurance as per the laws of the state. Hence, the car owner will be subjected to the penalties as decreed by the state law.
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You cannot drive any type of motor vehicle without insurance, be it a motorcycle, a car or a truck. It is also not sufficient to have a car insurance that has just lapsed or has not been renewed for a few days and hence there is a break in its continuity. The law requires all car owners to have continuous auto insurance in Texas, regardless of the age of the car and other factors such as driving history or record of past incidents.
The state of Texas can levy a penalty on any car owner who does not have adequate insurance. The penalty is usually multipronged. First time offenders are usually charged a maximum of $350. The offense can lead to the suspension of the license and hence driving privileges. A second or subsequent offense will incur penalties of a maximum of $100 and the vehicle could be impounded for a maximum of six months.
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Those who have been fined and have had their driving license revoked or driving privilege suspended and possibly their vehicle impounded are required to file an SR-22 form as proof of continuous car insurance. This should be done proactively. Such car owners and drivers must carry proof of their continuous car insurance at all times. The SR-22 form can be filed with the Department of Public Safety by the insurer or the insured and this should be done for three years following a conviction.
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The Task Force on Biomedicine and Health Innovation developed a synthesis report that presents the main lessons and policy messages that emerge from a number of areas related to innovation in biomedicine, including on: genetics and genomics, intellectual property rights and collaborative mechanisms and knowledge markets, health research infrastructures, translational research, regulatory policies that affect the approval and uptake of new technologies, and new business models for bringing health products to market, etc. It was developed as a thematic contribution to the OECD Innovation Strategy, a comprehensive policy strategy to harness innovation for stronger and more sustainable growth and development, and to address the key societal challenges of the 21st century.
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Faith in Vermont: Neighbors

 Moving to New England from California in 2011 was a sort of homecoming for me. Although I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, my parents are born-and-bred New Englanders, "the ones who moved away." My mother's Anglo-Saxon ancestors arrived in New England in the 1600s, where they settled and farmed in New Hampshire. My father's Italian grandparents immigrated to Lawrence, Massachusetts in the early 20th century and worked in the leather mills.

 So, I come from tough stock: pioneers, settlers, farmers, and factory workers – all of them "the ones who moved away." Their toughness lives on in my family: Last year, when my father fell from a 15-foot extension ladder while cutting down a birch tree in our yard he broke four ribs and two vertebrae, but he got up and finished cutting up the tree. We forced him to go to the hospital three days later.

 In short, I wasn't raised to accept help from anybody.

 In past columns, I've alluded to the stereotypical view of Vermonters as reserved, "frosty," maybe even a little…unfriendly. I was prepared for a chilly reception to the state, having grown up hearing about the legendary New England reserve.

 Here was our reality: Nobody rolled out the welcome wagon when we moved in. No neighbors knocked on our door with plates of cookies. In fact, the neighbors mostly left us alone for the first few months – behavior that initially confirmed my stereotype, but which I now see as a form of respect: they were letting us get settled in.

 But once they saw that we were settled in, that we planned to settle, to raise our children, to tend to our house and our yard, to participate in the life of the town, things started happening. This past year we've been the recipients of more neighborly grace than in any other place we've lived. (I use the term "neighbor" loosely here, to refer not just to our physical neighbors but also to our neighbors in the broader community around us).

 There's the woman across the street who stopped by one day to say, "I'll be coming over to check on you from time to time. I remember what it's like to be home with kids all day." And she does.

 There's our next-door neighbor, who quietly included our front yard in his weekend mowing during our first summer here. This fall, when two dogs broke into our chicken coop and killed the entire flock, the same neighbor's wife insisted on disposing of the bodies for me, on the grounds that "you shouldn't have to do that with little ones in the house." These neighbors have all but adopted our dog, even taking her in for baths during mud season.

 There's the friend who came to drop off his daughter for a playdate, noticed my husband stacking two cords of wood, and stayed for an hour to help finish the job.

 We've been given bags of children's clothes and shoes from families whose daughters have outgrown them. (Knowing that we have three girls to wear hand-me-downs is apparently a big bang for your buck!). We've been given jams and soups and meals for very small reasons – or for no reason at all. When our entire family came down with the dreaded stomach bug this winter, two separate friends took various children off of our hands when I couldn't get out of bed.

 Last year, this paper reported on the tragic death of George Demarais, a Middlebury man who was shot by police in an armed standoff. Although this story is highly unusual in Vermont, Mr. Demarais is an all-too-familiar figure in the news these days: a loner who's fallen on difficult times and stockpiles weapons as part of a destructive plan.

 Everywhere else I've lived, news coverage of this event would have featured interviews with neighbors saying, "He kept to himself. We didn't know him at all." But what struck me about Mr. Demarais's case is that his Vermont neighbors DID know him – or at least, they tried to. They said that they knew that he was having financial difficulty, and they'd tried to help him.

 I know that people care for their neighbors this way all over the world; I've just been surprised to find so much of it in Vermont. As to why I've yet to encounter a truly frosty Vermonter, it could be that I've just met the wrong people.

 But I have my own little theory. It may be idealistic, but here goes: I think Vermont, with its small towns and small farms and small mountains, is something special. There's the sense of things still existing here that are being lost elsewhere in the country – things that are worth preserving. If it takes an unfriendly reputation to protect Vermont from becoming a land of golf courses and housing developments and strip malls, then I'm all for it. You can't get there from here.

 In the meantime, I'm learning to accept help. My Puritan work ethic makes me worry that accepting help is a sign of weakness, and I feel guilty that people are wasting their time on our family rather than helping those REALLY in need. But these days, when neighbors offer food or clothes or a hand, I'm learning to swallow my own reserve – my inner New Englander– and just say, "Yes." My Vermont neighbors are teaching me that part of being a neighbor is having faith that, at some point, I'll have plenty of chances to return the favor.

 Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, three young daughters (with another on the way), one anxiety-prone puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.


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After giving up on TiVo honouring their 'Bonus Offer', I have just received a pleasant and apologetic email from TiVo telling me that the missing 'bonus offer' had inadvertently been omitted from their shipment, and is being mailed. Better late than never! Customer care does exist...eventually!
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In August 2010 I received an e-mail offering a great deal on 'Expanding my TiVo family'. A second TiVo was offered at a discount of $100, and TiVo stated they would 'throw in' a Bonus Wireless Adapter and a Home Networking Package with a combined value of $168.
When responding, I followed TiVo's order instructions precisely,
Well, woke up in the morning and the TiVo wasn't working.
Further investigation (using the channel signal strength monitor in the TiVo menu) revealed that there was no digital signal coming in, and I could pinpiont the time rather well by tracking which suggestions had been recorded at what time. Had our TiVo died?
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"We are here to learn the facts and to get smart," the Governor told his hosts throughout the day. He mentioned a recent visit to Navajo Nation headquarters in Window Rock, AZ, where he was the first Utah Governor to address the Assembly. He vowed that the State of Utah is determined to "develop a much closer alliance and relationship with the Navajo Nation."
The trip was initially designed to be a two-day visit, but the Governor's desire to attend the funeral of a slain corrections officer cut the trip in half. An additional meeting on the trip was a quick visit with Tom and Terri Winder, the parents of Special Forces medic Nathan Winder, who was killed in Iraq.
Navajo American issues dominated the agenda of most meetings of the Huntsman visit. The Governor made stops in Blanding, White Mesa, Montezuma Creek, Oljato, Bluff, Mexican Hat, and Monument Valley. The cancelled second day of the trip was scheduled to include a visit to Navajo Mountain.
The day began with a quick meeting with representatives of the San Juan School District. Huntsman is determined to meet with officials in all 40 school districts before the end of 2007. He stated that the meetings will help him as the state determines the best use of funds for education.
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Education was the focus of a meeting at Montezuma Creek Elementary School, where officials released a "Navajo Nation Position Statement on Education Issues in Utah". The statement was approved by the Naavjo Nation Council on June 18.
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One blazing hot day last June, I stood on the banks of the Rio Grande at New Mexico's Broad Canyon Arroyo, about 20 miles north of the sprawling city of Las Cruces, to witness an act of creative destruction. The agent this day was not the river, though its floods once wiped out local houses and irrigation canals. Instead, a team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees was unleashing chainsaws and excavators on the riverside shrubs.
Scrubby trees were uprooted and piled into heaps, waiting to be burned. The soil was churned up. Here and there, windrows of garbage gave mute evidence of the kinds of activities—wild-cat dumping, teenage parties—that plagued the site before the workers started their job. Above the flat, narrow floodplain, sere desert hills were a stark reminder that the river is what makes any kind of plant abundance possible at all in this place.
The Rio Grande is an exceedingly tapped watercourse, one engineered so thoroughly that it hardly merits the label "river" anymore, and certainly not grande. "Growing up here, this stretch of the river was always neglected," said Kevin Cobble, a tall, gray-mustachioed biologist wearing the agency's regulation brown uniform. "It's always been a little disheartening to me how the river is treated. It's like that trash pile over there—that's how people have seen the river. It's just been an irrigation ditch."
Cobble, then manager of the nearby San Andres National Wildlife Refuge (he has since moved on to manage Bosque del Apache, about 100 miles upstream), was inspecting his team's habitat renovation. A wolfberry shrub, 18 inches high, stood on the berm just above the river; higher up, screwbean mesquite trees bloomed, their yellow flowers attracting bees and butterflies. Those native plant species, Cobble said, make much better wildlife habitat than saltcedar or tamarisk, pink-flowered invasive trees and shrubs from Eurasia that have colonized numerous river systems in the Southwest. A few years ago this was mostly saltcedar, he said. "Now that the competition's been removed, the natives are starting to come back."
The new plants signal the beginning of a new era of cooperation. This stretch of the Rio Grande is managed by the International Boundary and Water Commission, a federal agency that oversees water supplies on the country's two large rivers that flow through both the United States and Mexico: the Rio Grande and the Colorado.
As a result of the southwestern willow flycatcher's 1995 listing as an endangered species and other environmental concerns, the commission consented to provide funding—$11 million over a period of about 10 years—for a pilot project aimed at restoring some 550 acres of riparian habitat at scattered sites along the lower Rio Grande. Motivated in part by the heavy hammer of the Endangered Species Act, the farmers are now sharing a scarce and contested resource, providing enough water for irrigation and habitat restoration for the willow flycatcher, a small gray bird that builds its nests only in dense riverside thickets. Audubon New Mexico would coordinate the project, and the Fish and Wildlife Service would provide the workers. The new deal meant everybody would have to work together, no matter where they stood on the issue.
Cobble and I were touring restoration sites with Beth Bardwell, an energetic activist who worked as a Native American rights lawyer and assistant city attorney before returning to school for a master's in biology at New Mexico State University, where she studied the bill shapes of scrub jays. She is now in charge of freshwater conservation projects for Audubon New Mexico.
For a fast-forward glimpse of what the Broad Canyon Arroyo site might look like in the not-too-distant future, she steered our silver Scion toward a place where the tamarisk had been removed three years earlier. It was the height of the irrigation season, which meant that an engineer upstream at Elephant Butte Dam had opened a valve to release water. The river, pinched between rocky highlands, ran fast—flush for now with mountain snowmelt. In a couple of weeks the valve would be shut, and the Rio Grande would revert to being a string of shrinking pools.
This site certainly looked lush. After the tamarisk was removed, members of the local Mesilla Valley Audubon Society planted native trees and shrubs: cottonwood, Goodding's willow, coyote willow, New Mexico olive. Volunteers returned weekly to water the plants, which were now head-high. Dense, sprawling thickets were beginning to form—just the kinds of places willow flycatchers need. Cobble pointed out that some of the plants had grown roots deep enough to intercept the water table, which, in a few years, would make supplemental watering unneeded.
We didn't see or hear any willow flycatchers that day. But we heard the chattering calls of mockingbirds, the wichity-wichity songs of common yellowthroats. And Bardwell was confident that the fast-growing plants would soon provide even better habitat. "As we restore the structure of the native riparian woodland," she said, "we expect to see an increase in the bird population until it's higher than you'd see in a tamarisk-dominated woodland."
Remove invasive species, plant natives, water them a bit, watch and wait—it sounds like an easy restoration project, similar to the work Audubon is doing along other arid-lands waterways under the aegis of its new Western Rivers Action Network (see "Get Active!"), which aims to conserve and restore these vital migratory corridors. But the reality is a lot grittier than that.
Wildlife habitat has long been a low priority here. When the federal government completed Elephant Butte Dam in 1916, the giant structure's purpose wasn't flood protection; it was to provide water for irrigation. Thanks to a long growing season, sufficient water, and lots of hard work, it succeeded. The 150,000 acres of family farms along the lower Rio Grande (in New Mexico and Texas) produce nearly $200 million worth of pecans, cotton, alfalfa, vegetables, and other crops every year, including what farmers around the small town of Hatch claim are the nation's best chilies, a crop as vital to New Mexi- cans' self-image as lobsters are to Mainers.
Of course, the river and its riparian habitat picked up the tab. Like an open-air conveyor belt, the channelized river now transports precisely timed and measured parcels of water to fields in New Mexico, Texas, and the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It no longer has any surplus to renew riverside thickets—or irrigate more than a few willow seedlings.
For decades that wasn't much of a concern to most area farmers. Today, however, they're paying lots of attention to the river's health. In 2013 New Mexico was in its second severe drought in 10 years. In July, Elephant Butte Reservoir was at only about 3 percent capacity. When conditions are good, farmers downstream of the dam are allowed to irrigate their crops with three feet of water during the eight-month-long growing season (which amounts to almost a million gallons per acre). That's happened only once since 2003. This year they had to make do with about a tenth of what's permitted (most make up the difference by relying on well water, a practice that can lower the water table and cause soils in certain areas to become increasingly alkaline). The Rio Grande ran for only a few weeks in June and July before Elephant Butte engineers closed the dam's water-release valve. Looking forward, the picture seems bleak: Atmospheric modeling suggests the Southwest is likely to be hit hard by climate change, which will mean less snowmelt, higher temperatures, more drought.
As Bardwell and Cobble began planning restoration projects, it was hard to imagine where water for riparian plants would come from. And without water to support seedlings, restoration projects would go nowhere fast.
"We need to retrofit water into a legal and institutional framework that never considered environmental needs," Bardwell said. "The farmers had the position that the water had been fully appropriated for 100 years." There wasn't any left over for anyone else. So where was the water going to come from?
The answer to that question was both simple and audacious: Audubon New Mexico would become farmers, tending a crop of willows instead of vegetables.
If a diminished Elephant Butte Lake is a nightmare for farmers downstream, it is a boon for southwestern willow flycatchers. In the late 1990s, as the reservoir's water level began to fall, the moist, exposed bottom formed fertile ground for willows and other riparian plants. The reach of the Rio Grande north of the reservoir's remaining open water is thus a mecca for the endangered subspecies. Biologists estimate that some 200 pairs, or nearly a quarter of the entire population, nest here.
I went to take a look with Vicky Ryan, a cheerful, dark-haired biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. We drove along a river channel where willows, scattered tamarisks, and cottonwoods on the banks were growing into impenetrable-looking thickets 20 or more feet tall. The Broad Canyon Arroyo restoration site might look like this in another 10 years.
Ryan was here to monitor some nests that her colleagues had located earlier. Following pink flagging, we half walked, half crawled though a maze of stems. Within minutes we were bathed in sweat, dusted with cattail pollen, showered with dead tamarisk leaves, pocked with mosquito bites.
"This always happens in good WIFL habitat," Ryan said cheerily, using the standard biologists' acronym for the spe- cies. "It's really thick stuff near flowing water, with lots of bugs."
Before we reached the first nest site, we heard a perky sound: fitz-bew!, the willow flycatcher's territorial call. We looked up to see its maker, a small perched flycatcher. Willow flycatchers may be the epitome of a nondescript little gray bird—they're often hard to distinguish from related Empidonax flycatchers—but they're spirited. This one darted from branch to branch, clearly annoyed that we were close to its nest.
Ryan pointed out some strips of pink tape tied to branches. She glanced at her notes to check where the nest was in relation to the tape, and after a minute found it, about seven feet up in the crotch of a gangly willow. She tied a folding compass to a stick and used its mirror to peer in. Three chicks, she reported.
At the next nest the results weren't so good. There were no adult birds in sight. A few days earlier the nest had held an egg and a freshly hatched chick. Now, Ryan said, its delicate cup had been torn apart by some hungry raccoon or other predator.
"Bummer. Still, you can see why this is good habitat. It has a good structure for nesting. We've got a bunch of different age classes and successional states. But this area is getting to be just past its peak." Ryan meant that the woodland was becoming just a bit old to be optimal, with too many dead stems, not enough sprouting vegetation. Under natural conditions, such a riparian woodland might get flooded out, and the successional clock would be reset.
"Flycatcher habitat by its definition is temporary," she said. "It's a dynamic system." How that habitat will evolve in the future in the artificial conditions in the reservoir basin is a big unknown. And along the river below the dam, given that floods no longer occur, it will likely be up to people to continue to establish new swaths of riparian vegetation with their sweat—and some well-applied water.
When Elephant Butte Dam was built a century ago, its discharge was designated solely for watering crops, not golf courses or lawns. The releases are managed by two farmers' cooperatives: the Elephant Butte Irrigation District, in New Mexico, and the El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1, in Texas. Anybody looking to irrigate farmland in the river corridor needs to work through those agencies. In 2009, when Bardwell proposed creating some restoration sites with International Boundary and Water Commission funding, she went to talk to Gary Esslinger, the treasurer manager of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District.
Esslinger is a wry and practical manager with swept-back hair that wouldn't look out of place on a surfer. He wasn't predisposed to dwell on ecological concerns. But he knew the elaborate rules that govern irrigation. "If you want to use any water," he told her, "you have to become an e-farmer. You're going to have to become a constituent."
He was recounting the story in a wood-paneled conference room at the district headquarters in Las Cruces. Sitting next to him was Robert Faubion, an area farmer who is one of the district's board members. Faubion, who is in his upper 50s, has dark hair and was wearing a crisp tan shirt. He represents the fourth generation in his family to farm in the Rio Grande Valley.
The notion of "e-farming" (for environmental) was new to both men, as was any connection to a conservation group. But they respected the time Bardwell had put into attending meetings and building bridges; before joining Audubon, she had worked locally for the World Wildlife Fund and had frequent contact with the Elephant Butte Irrigation District. They also knew that the district, like the International Boundary and Water Commission, was bound by the Endangered Species Act since the 1995 listing of the southwestern willow flycatcher. They worried that if the Rio Grande were to reenter a wet cycle, the flooding of the many nesting territories in the upper reaches of Elephant Butte Res- ervoir could potentially violate the ESA. The Fish and Wildlife Service might pro- hibit the reservoir from filling to capacity, or even near it—anathema to the farmers needing water. And so it was that district officials began considering how they could plan ahead by creating new willow flycatcher habitat along the district's stretch of the river.
"When we saw the lake receding," said Faubion, "we started looking for mitigation sites. We thought that this was pretty proactive. We felt we'd be in a much better position to defend ourselves if we developed a plan."
"But our board was reluctant at first," Esslinger pointed out, carefully couching major misgivings.
Faubion agreed. "There was quite a level of distrust. But what we didn't want to have was environmentalists suing. We wanted to create a mechanism so environmentalists would have the same rights as any farmers. And we'd rather do this proactively with individual environmental groups than deal with the government." The farmers decided they could trust Bardwell. With a government agency, they never knew when a decision by one official might be overruled by anonymous bureaucrats in some other office.
An agreement hammered out between Audubon New Mexico and the Elephant Butte Irrigation District now permits conservation groups that are district members to lease or purchase water rights from willing sellers. This past June the district passed a policy that explicitly allows irrigation water to be used to irrigate native plants for habitat restoration. Bardwell anticipates soon being able to buy water rights on a small scale, probably from landowners who are in arrears in their irrigation district payments and might welcome a sale.
With these new rights, though, come responsibilities. The district's board members wanted to be sure that their cooperation in creating new riparian habitat would not run afoul of the law—specifically, the ESA. They sought assurances that water used to create habitat for an endangered species would not take precedence over water used for crops. Both parties agreed that if drought dictates ongoing cuts in water deliveries—as was the case this year—water use at resto- ration sites would be curtailed to the same degree as that on fields.
Bardwell also agreed to exchange an enhanced level of federal protection for the willow flycatcher for local collaboration. In 2012 the Fish and Wildlife Service revised its designation of critical habitat for the southwestern willow flycatcher (critical habitat areas can be subject to special protection). But Audubon New Mexico asked the agency to exclude the 46-mile stretch of the Rio Grande upstream from Las Cruces from the list, arguing that the hard-won cooperative agreement with the International Boundary and Water Commission and the Elephant Butte Irrigation District provides a better prospect for the long-term protec- tion and improvement of riparian habitat than a simple administrative classification would. In January the agency agreed.
Such a decision by the federal government technically amounts to a weakening of legal protections for an endangered subspecies, at least in one river reach. It also rests on a certain measure of trust—the same sort of trust that both farmers and conservationists have shown in deciding to work together. Emboldened water users and environmentalists along the middle Rio Grande in New Mexico are shifting their attention to the Elephant Butte Irrigation District's decision as they consider whether to develop a similar program aimed as sustaining riparian habitat—in that case, for the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow, a rare native fish.
"These farmers are our neighbors," said Bardwell. "They live next door to the resto- ration sites. So it makes sense that whatever we're going to put in has to work for them."
It may be that "work" is the operative word there. Just as it takes a lot of physical effort to restore native vegetation along a river channel that's out of whack, it also takes a lot of time and responsibility to maintain the underlying human relationships. But the results are worth it, as Robert Faubion, the farmer, told me.
"We're stepping out a little bit in faith and a lot in fear," he said. "We want to share our resource as long as it is not impaired and as long as it doesn't become an obligation. I'm willing to share half my burrito with you at lunch as long as I don't have to feed you lunch every day."
Rivers in the U.S. West are home to a wide range of vulnerable bird species that depend on reliable wintering, stopover, and breeding habitat from Canada to Mexico. In the past century, the alteration of floodplains and rivers throughout the intermountain West has devastated bird and wildlife populations. Audubon's new Western Rivers Action Network aims to protect functional riparian habitats by managing critical Important Bird Areas, developing collaborative programs with water managers, and activism. For more, go to conservation. audubon.org/western-rivers-action-network.
Scientific Name: Empidonax traillii extimus
Range: This subspecies breeds mainly in southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico, north into southern Nevada and Utah, and possibly into southwestern Colorado. Other subspecies of willow flycatchers breed across much of the northern and central U.S. and southern Canada. The southwestern subspecies winters mainly in Central America, perhaps especially in the Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica.
Habitat: Nests in dense thickets of tall shrubs along southwestern rivers—mainly native willow but also exotic saltcedar and Russian olive. In migration and winter, found in any kind of semi-open habitat with some dense, low cover.
Status: Listed as endangered in 1995. The total population has been estimated to be fewer than 2,500 individuals. The bird has disappeared from many regions where it occurred in the past.
Threats/Outlook: The serious decline of this bird has resulted mainly from the destruction or degradation of streamside habitats in the arid Southwest. Nest parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds has played a role as well. In some areas the flycatcher has adapted to nest in thickets of invasive saltcedar, and in those places, new efforts to control the saltcedar may be a setback for the flycatcher. Its future survival will depend on balanced approaches to managing and protecting streamside habitats in the Southwest.—Kenn Kaufman
This story originally ran in the November-December 2013 issue as "New Deal."


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In the way of learning — In the aftermath of last week's horrific tragedy in Newtown, Conn., local parents and school officials are understandably on edge.
Unfortunately, this week brought even more frayed nerves thanks to threats and rumors on the Internet and social media.
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The worries, in the end, were unfounded. But that did not lessen the disruptions they caused or the bad feelings they created.
At the schools, there was an increased police presence and, in some cases, metal detectors to make sure students were not carrying weapons.
All that reaction might strike some as going overboard, but in light of recent events, officials should take every available precaution.
They were making sure that, despite worries and threats, the students were safe.
Good job.
A useful process — A number of Louisiana chambers of commerce have jumped into the political battle over price supports for sugar.
The Louisiana sugar industry is trying to build support among the business community in favor of keeping the federal price supports after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out in opposition to the long-standing program.
Whatever anyone's particular stance on that political question is, it is good to see the chambers in south Louisiana standing with a local industry that is so significant. So far, only Assumption of the local chambers has endorsed the federal program. But there are measures awaiting action from the Terrebonne and Lafourche chambers.
Whichever way these groups decide to go, it is good to see them working with the local sugar-cane industry and listening to the concerns of farmers.
Try, try again — A federal lawmaker is keeping up his fight to encourage production of life-saving pharmaceuticals.
U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, whose district includes parts of Terrebonne and Lafourche, says the rates of reimbursement by Medicare for some drugs makes it unprofitable for the companies to make generic versions, meaning there is less supply available to the people who need those drugs.
Cassidy's bill would tie the federal reimbursement rate to the actual value of the drugs, basically giving the drug companies a better incentive to keep making those life-saving drugs.
So far, the bill has not been passed, but Cassidy says he will reintroduce it in the coming year, in the hope that it will become law.
"This legislation adjusts how Medicare pays for medicine so as to decrease the risk of a drug shortage," Cassidy said.
Good work, and keep it up.
Field of dreams — The Terrebonne Parish Council this week took another step toward making the "Field of Dreams" sports complex a reality.
The council approved the purchase of 114 acres off La. 311 for the complex for about $2.1 million.
In the end, the land will represent a tremendous upgrade in the recreational offerings of the parish, a fact that will benefit people in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.
The recreation district is hoping to break ground on the complex — which will eventually include five softball and five baseball fields as well as the existing soccer fields — in April.
This will be a great improvement for the region. Congratulations.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 108 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
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Manufacturer inquires about tax breaks
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Rolland Boesker of Burns asked county commissioners about possible tax breaks for a proposed manufacturing business.
Ridder Industries wants to manufacture equipment to convert water into hydrogen gas, which has industrial uses and can be used as an alternative fuel. The company, based in Burns, is considering Burns and Florence as possible locations.
Commissioners told Boesker about the county's neighborhood revitalization program. Ridder Industries built a new building or expanded an existing one, it could apply for a five-year rebate of property taxes on the difference between the original and new value.
Boesker said he hadn't spoken with County Economic Development Director Teresa Huffman, so commissioners suggested he speak with her about other economic development programs.
If the business opens in the city limits of Burns or Florence, the cities might be able to offer assistance, as well.
Settlement agreement signed
Commission Chairman Randy Dallke signed an agreement to settle a lawsuit about vehicle damage. Commissioners had discussed the settlement in a previous meeting with County Attorney Susan Robson in closed session.
After the meeting, County Clerk Tina Spencer said the damage had occurred during construction of the Keystone Pipeline. The pipeline company was a co-defendant in the lawsuit.
Insurance covered the settlement, except for the county's deductible and the filing fee.
Decision on appraiser coming May 28
Commissioners said they will make a decision on whether to renew County Appraiser Cindy Magill's employment May 28. Magill met with the commissioners in closed session for five minutes to discuss personnel matters related to job performance. No action was taken on return to open session.
County supports conservation district for WRAPS sponsor
Commissioners signed a letter of support for the conservation district to take over sponsorship of Marion Reservoir Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies. The groups have similar concerns and expertise, Commissioner Dan Holub said as he proposed the county withdraw as a potential WRAPS sponsor.
Commission meets in closed session
Commissioners met in closed session twice for five minutes to discuss personnel matters. No action was taken on return to open session.
The commission met with Road and Bridge Superintendent Randy Crawford in closed session for 10 minutes to discuss personnel matters related to job performance. No action was taken on return to open session.
The commission also met with Health Department Administrator Diedre Serene in closed session for 10 minutes to discuss personnel. No action was taken on return to open session.
Building permit granted
Commissioners approved a building permit for Planning and Zoning Director Tonya Richards to build a 720-square-foot shed on her property.
Richards is responsible for approving most building permits, but she said she was uncomfortable approving her own permit.
Wages set
New jailer Michael Calhoun's pay rate was set at $10.30 per hour. Sheriff's deputy Derek Fetrow received a raise from $15.76 to $16.01 per hour. Jail administrator Jim Philpott received a raise from $16.04 to $16.30 per hour for serving in the position one year.
Railroad meetings today
Commissioners were to attend on-site meetings about railroad crossings this morning. The meetings were scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Pawnee Road south of Aulne and 11:15 a.m. on Remington Road near 180th Road.
The next commission meeting is scheduled for Monday. The commission will meet with representatives from cities to discuss recycling May 28.


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AFIT's CCR receives renewed funding for critical infrastructure research
Posted: 03/10/2014 by AFIT Public Affairs
The Air Force Institute of Technology received renewed funding for critical infrastructure (CI) research to provide greater depth in understanding malicious software development and operations, in general, and specifically, as it relates to deployment on critical infrastructure systems.
The $225,000 funding from The Department of Homeland Security - Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) is to support the latest advances in technology in critical infrastructure research conducted by the Center for Cyberspace Research (CCR). CCR currently has twelve graduate students' research topics such as emulators for critical infrastructure components, firmware validation, vulnerability of CI communication protocols, and identification of devices exposed to attack.
The Department of Homeland Security - ICS-CERT works to reduce risks within and across all critical infrastructure sectors by partnering with law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community and coordinating efforts among Federal, state, local, and tribal governments and control systems owners, operators, and vendors. Additionally, ICS-CERT collaborates with international and private sector Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) to share control systems-related security incidents and mitigation measures.
CCR, as part of the Graduate School of Engineering and Management at AFIT, is tasked with graduate education and research in security, network analysis and performance. CCR has been designated as the Air Force Cyberspace Technical Center of Excellence, an NSA/DHS Research Center of Excellence, and a National Science Foundation CyberCorps center. CCR supports cutting-edge graduate research through partnerships with a myriad of agencies.
The mission of AFIT is to advance air, space, and cyberspace power for our armed forces, the Nation, and its partners by providing relevant defense-focused technical graduate and continuing education, research, and consultation. AFIT accomplishes this mission through three resident schools: the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, the School of Systems and Logistics, and The Civil Engineer School. AFIT also manages all Air Force health, line, legal, and chaplain graduate education at civilian institutions.


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By: T F Stern
T F Stern's Rantings
Kenny Rogers had a hit tune many years ago, The Gambler, about a fellow on a train who gets some sage advice from an old man who borrowed a cigarette and a drink from his bottle.
…You've got to know when to hold em'
Know when to fold em'
Know when to walk away
And know when to run…
Over the years I've considered that information; once in a while putting the last two lines into practice. This morning was an opportunity to see if I was paying attention.
A call came in from a potential customer who'd broken the tip of his key off in the ignition switch. I asked what kind of vehicle and found it was a newer model Chevy with the ignition switch in the dash as opposed to the kind with the ignition switch in the steering column.
He said he tried getting the broken part out by putting sticky stuff on it, but it wouldn't stick to the other half of the key. If you're paying attention, you fill in the blanks without asking, "What kind of sticky stuff?," because you already know the answer, Super Glue.
Going on to explain that he was able to get the other half of the key into the ignition and start the vehicle made it possible for him to continue driving his car. This is a transponder equipped type key which means the transmitting module which is located inside the plastic head of the key must be in close proximity to the reader antenna which encircles the ignition switch. Other than that, the key functions the same as a regular mechanical key, matching wafers inside the lock with the combination cut onto the key.
I told him that if he wanted to drive over I'd look at it. If I couldn't fix it, there would be no charge; but if I could, I'd replace his broken key at a very reasonable price. That seemed like a good idea and he drove right over, parking his Malibu in the driveway.
Sure enough, the key was buried deep inside the ignition switch and there was dried Super Glue on the half of the key still on his key ring. It didn't take much observation skills to figure out that the wafers which were supposed to bounce up and down had been glued into place, matching the exact cuts of the remaining portion of his key. In short and easy to understand English, the broken key was in for the duration and he needed a new ignition switch. To his luck, the cuts were in descending order ending at the place where the key had snapped in half on a 5 cut.
Know when to walk away
And know when to run…
If I were much younger or perhaps hungrier for a job… any job; but I'm not… Sometimes it's better to let go of a job knowing the probability it can turn ugly in a heartbeat.
"You're going to need to take this to the dealer and have their service department fix this one. I don't want to get into a job that could end up being very expensive only to leave you stranded. While the car is still running I recommend you drive over to the closest Chevy dealer."
As a courtesy, I called Munday Chevrolet as it's one of the accounts I service and talked to the service writer to explain the circumstances in order for him to properly figure out what would be required. You could see the dollar signs adding up in his head; but that's between Munday Chevrolet and their customer.
You never count your money
When you're sitting at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done.
Today, "the gambler he broke even," didn't make any money; but didn't lose any either.
Being able to sense your proximity to a bottomless pit while walking, discern between the knock of close friend from that of a bill collector at your door or recognize a job that would be a real nightmare; all these are acquired skills and worth remembering when the cards are on the table. Thanks go out to Kenny Rogers for recording an important message. Now that's an ace that you can keep.
This article has been cross-posted to The Moral Liberal, a publication whose banner reads, "Defending The Judeo-Christian Ethic, Limited Government & The American Constitution."
Special notice: The Moral Liberal will be taken off the internet at the end of March for an indefinite period. It's been a great ride and a great read.


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Backup redesign continues to be toward the top of most analysts' lists for 2013 IT priorities. I've talked a lot about some of the catalysts behind this trend like data growth, big data, VMware and software defined storage. With IT managers redesigning, the incumbent enterprise backup vendors have a lot of motivation to offer innovative solutions that are a bit ahead of the times. The leaders have all placed strategic bets on what the winning formula will be. I discussed these bets in my post "Forrester's take on enterprise backup and recovery."
For its part, IBM is being quick about helping IT managers redesign. The help starts with a clear understanding of the economic benefit a redesign can bring. After all, in today's environment few IT managers make technology moves simply for the sake of technology. Storage is about economics. I discuss this more fully in my post "Does trying to find a better economic approach to storage give you 'Butterflies'?" But there is still efficient technology that enables these economic savings, and the person in IBM who is ultimately responsible for the technology in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is the product manager, Dr. Xin Wang.
Recently I spoke with Xin about the important shifts IT managers are facing and how she is helping IT managers reimagine backup.
The Line: Xin, I'm going to start with the "Dr." part of your title. Should folks call you the Backup Doctor?
Xin: (laughing) Well, I don't know about that. I'm actually a doctor of Applied Physics. One thing that drove me to earn a PhD and has moved me ever since is that I love to learn. I started my career in IBM hard disk drive research, spent some time as a storage software developer and development manager, and have now been working with backup clients as a product manager for several years.
The Line: Wow, I could probably do an entire post just on your career. But let's stay focused. What have you learned about the challenges IT managers are facing and this whole backup redesign movement?
Xin: It's interesting. The challenges aren't secret but they carry big implications for backup. Data is growing like crazy; that's no secret. But it is now so big that the old method of loading an agent on a server to collect and copy backup data over a network to a tape isn't keeping up. So IT managers are redesigning.
And what about servers? Servers aren't servers anymore. Thanks to VMware, they are virtual machines that come, go and move around in a hurry. Traditional backup is too rigid. So IT managers are redesigning.
Administrators are changing too. The generation of backup admins who grew up tuning the environment is giving way to a new generation of backup, VMware and cloud admins who need much more intuitive and automated management tools. And so IT managers are redesigning. (Editorial comment: I discussed the change in administration in my post "Do IT managers really 'manage' storage anymore?")
The Line: Okay, I think I'm seeing your trend. IT managers are redesigning. And it seems like you've got a clear idea of why. Can we take your list one at a time? I think my readers would be interested in what you are doing with TSM in each of these areas.
Xin: Sure, that makes sense.
Check back for part 2 of the interview in which Xin shares her near term plans for TSM. If you have questions for Xin, please join the conversation by leaving a comment below.


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May is National Stroke Awareness Month
Vanessa F.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
By: Vanessa Floyd
Vanessa Floyd was nine years old and playing at a friend's house when she developed what her friend's mom assumed was a severe migraine. But she began to experience left side weakness and it wasn't long before she was slipping in and out of consciousness. She was rushed to the closest hospital but immediately air lifted to the children's hospital after doctors confirmed that her brain was hemorrhaging. An emergency three and a half hour craniotomy determined that the cause of the bleeding was a ruptured arteriovenous malformation, a congenital birth defect she'd been completely unaware of prior to it rupturing. The surgery went well and even though it could have taken up to a week for her to regain normal consciousness, Vanessa surprised everyone by waking up and asking for the intubation tube to be removed within two hours. She was doing miraculously well, but the ruptured AVM followed by surgery was too much trauma for her brain.
Two and a half days after the surgery, Vanessa suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke involving the entire right middle cerebral artery. Doctors used what, at the time, was a cutting edge technique, artificially raising her blood pressure to force open the artery and restore blood flow to the brain while also managing the swelling. She was then put into a medically induced coma so her brain could rest and hopefully heal. Three weeks later, they began the process of bringing her out of the coma in order to assess the damage. Again, it was supposed to be a slow process, but Vanessa was attempting to communicate by blinking within 9 hours. Unfortunately, her brain was devastated. She had to relearn tasks both basic and complex, including swallowing, talking, walking and reading. The left side of her body from her face to her toes was almost completely paralyzed. But as she demonstrated in those first hours after surgery, nothing could keep Vanessa down for long. Months of intensive therapy led to impressive gains. When she got tired of the wheelchair she relearned to walk in two weeks, mostly to prove her therapists wrong! And when she started school again through a homebound tutor, her first report card was straight A's.
This all took place seventeen years ago this coming February. Vanessa is now a happy independent twenty-six year old. She graduated college in 2012 and two years ago she moved to Washington, D.C. on her own to pursue a career in politics. The left side paralysis is only partially gone and she has total peripheral vision loss in her left eye as well as some nervous system impairments. But there's not much she hasn't learned to do a little differently and she's living proof that the human will is more powerful than a stroke.
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» Promising Utah forward Jordan Loveridge has dropped 25 pounds since March, spurred in part by his father's recent diabetes diagnosis. The 6-foot-6 rising sophomore didn't want his dad to diet alone.
"As close as we are, it's something that's made us closer," Bill Loveridge told the Salt Lake Tribune. "We talked about it once, and then we've just kind of gone out and done it."
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Mesa, Ariz.-based MD Helicopters has received a $7.26-million order from the Salvadorian Air Force (FAS) for three MD500Es. The U.S. Army's Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. issued the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract, which falls under the U.S. Non-Standard Rotary Wing Aircraft (NSRWA) Project Office agreement with the FAS. Training, spares, ground support equipment and tooling are included in the deal. The Salvadorian Air Force currently flies four MD500Es and intends to use the new helicopters in the utility role. The manufacturer plans to start deliveries in the third quarter of 2012.