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Moth eye-inspired tech could lead to better, safer X-rays
July 5, 2012
To increase stealth and evade predators, the moth has evolved a remarkable eye that, rather than reflecting light, absorbs it almost completely. Engineers have mimicked its nanostructure in the past to design better solar panel coatings and antireflective surfaces, and are now using the same principle to design a thin film that will absorb radiation from X-ray machines more effectively, exposing patients to a significantly lower risk while obtaining higher quality images.
The researchers focused on so-called scintillation materials. When they are hit by a particle, these materials first absorb its energy, and then re-emit it in the form of light. Scintillators are used in medical imaging devices to convert the X-rays reflected by the body of the patient into the visible signals that, when elaborated, make up a picture - the final scan.
Better imaging is achieved by improving the number of particles received by the scintillator. This can be done either by subjecting the patient to a higher dose of radiation (which presents severe health risks), or by tweaking the scintillator itself. The research reported here follows the latter approach by developing a film that, when applied to a scintillator, captures almost three times as many particles as before, improving the quality of the images produced without compromising the patient's safety.
The film developed by the researchers is only 500 nanometers thick. It is a crystal encrusted with tiny pyramid-shaped bumps made of silicon nitride, a ceramic that is sometimes used as an insulator in integrated circuits.
Each of these bumps is modeled after the minuscule structures that make up a moth's eye. The bumps are designed to capture and absorb as many particles as possible, partly thanks to their large surface area. The protuberances are very small in size, with 100,000 to 200,000 of them fitting in a 100-by-100 micrometer square. Incidentally, this is the same density of protuberances found in an actual moth eye.
To test its performance, the film was applied to the scintillator of an X-ray mammographic unit, and the intensity of the emitted light increased by up to 175 percent. But while the film seems promising, the researchers say they are still three to five years away from testing and perfecting the film to exploit its full potential.
A paper detailing the work was published in the journal Optics Letters.
Source: The Optical Society
Great! A very nice example of using biomimetics to hugely improve x-ray technology.mooseman
Tell us how "the moth has evolved a remarkable eye". Is its eye better than yours? What about eagles, who can see a mouse among grass from 100 meters? Why can't we do that?
Please base your explanations on reality, not theories.agulesin


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HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) -- In a story Nov. 1 about abortion restrictions in Texas, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a Kansas law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital was in effect. A state judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of the law pending a trial on its constitutionality.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Reinstatement of abortion law leaves few options
Reinstatement of Texas abortion law leaves few options for many poor pregnant women
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and CHRIS TOMLINSON
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HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) -- In a Texas abortion clinic, about a dozen women waited Friday to see the doctor, already aware that they would not be able to end their pregnancies there.
A day after a federal appeals court allowed most of the state's new abortion restrictions to take effect during a legal challenge, about a third of Texas' clinics were barred from performing the procedure.
Thursday's ruling made Texas the fourth and largest state to enforce a provision requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges in a nearby hospital. In places such as the Rio Grande Valley and rural West Texas, the mandate put hundreds of miles between many women and abortion providers.
Anti-abortion groups welcomed the court's surprise decision, which they insisted would protect women's health. The ruling came just a few days after a lower federal court put the law on hold.
If women did not know about the ruling before they arrived at Reproductive Services of Harlingen, clinic administrator Angie Tristan told them. Abortions are a two-day process in Texas. On Fridays, women arrive here for their initial consultation with the doctor. On Saturdays, they return for the procedure.
Despite Tristan's explanation that they would not be able to have abortions on Saturday, some women decided to stay on the slim hope that something would change.
A panel of judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that Texas can enforce the law while a lawsuit challenging the restrictions moves forward.
The law that the Legislature passed in July also bans abortions at 20 weeks and, beginning in September 2014, requires doctors to perform all abortions in surgical facilities.
But it is the provision about admitting privileges that has idled Dr. Lester Minto's hands here in Harlingen, near the Texas-Mexico border.
After the law was adopted, the clinic began preparing to close, shredding old patient records and drawing down their inventory, ordering only enough supplies to keep going for a month at a time.
Minto, who has been performing abortions for 30 years, predicted the women he sees would take dangerous measures in their desperation. He made clear he would not perform abortions Saturday if they remain prohibited, but he did not rule out taking other steps in the future.
"I'm going to continue helping girls somehow," he said.
Without access to his services, "they'll do drastic things," Minto predicted. "Some, they may even commit suicide."
He said he has seen women take various concoctions hoping to end pregnancies. Others have been beaten by boyfriends who pounded their abdomens with bats.
The communities Minto serves are among the nation's poorest. On top of that, many of his patients cross the border from Mexico, where abortion is illegal in most places. Others live in the U.S. illegally.
If this clinic and one in nearby McAllen are forced to close, women seeking abortions would be faced with taking days off work, finding childcare and paying for hotels in cities such as San Antonio, Austin or Houston.
That's more than many can afford, including a 39-year-old woman from Willacy County who was waiting Friday to see Minto. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was fearful of the judgment she would face in her small, rural community.
The woman said she and her husband are happily married but already have several children. They're just getting back on their feet financially after her husband recently found work. The pregnancy was not planned.
"I just can't afford to have another one," she said, crying. But the money to travel north for an abortion isn't there either.
"It's so unfair. It's just politics," she said. "It's my decision. It's not anybody else's."
Asked what she would do if the clinic were not allowed to perform her abortion, she said: "I think I will have to go through with the pregnancy. I don't have the finances to travel."
Among the clinics that could not perform abortions under the current restrictions are those of Whole Woman's Health in McAllen, San Antonio and Fort Worth.

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Liferay Clustering
Once you have Liferay installed in more than one node on your application server, there are several optimizations that need to be made. At a minimum, Liferay should be configured in the following way for a clustered environment:
All nodes should be pointing to the same Liferay database
Jackrabbit, the JSR-170 content repository, should be:
On a shared file system available to all the nodes (not really recommended, though), or
In a database that is shared by all the nodes
Alternatively, the Document Library should be configured to use the File System Hook, and the files can be stored on a SAN for better performance.
Similarly, Lucene, the full text search indexer, should be:
On a shared file system available to all the nodes (not really recommended, though), or
In a database that is shared by all the nodes, or
On separate file systems for all of the nodes, or
Disabled, and a separate pluggable enterprise search server configured (recommended).
If you have not configured your application server to use farms for deployment, the hot deploy folder should be a separate folder for all the nodes, and plugins will have to be deployed to all of the nodes individually. This can be done via a script.
Many of these configuration changes can be made by adding or modifying properties in your portal-ext.properties file. Remember that this file overrides the defaults that are in the portal.properties file. The original version of this file can be found in the Liferay source code or can be extracted from the portal-impl.jar file in your Liferay installation. It is a best practice to copy the relevant section that you want to modify from portal.properties into your portal-ext.properties file, and then modify the values there.
All Nodes Should Be Pointing to the Same Liferay Database
This is pretty self-explanatory. Each node should be configured with a data source that points to one Liferay database (or a database cluster) that all of the nodes will share. This ensures that all of the nodes operate from the same basic data set. This means, of course, that Liferay cannot (and should not) use the embedded HSQL database that is shipped with the bundles. It is also best if the database server is a separate physical box from the server which is running Liferay.
Document Library Configuration
Liferay 5.2.x now defaults to using the file system for storing documents. This has proven to be the highest performing configuration for large document libraries, which is why this decision was made. You can use the file system for your clustered configuration, and Liferay's document library will prevent users from "colliding" with each other by versioning documents and locking the files before they are modified. If you have a Storage Area Network (SAN), you can configure Liferay to store documents there to take advantage of the extra redundancy. To configure the location where your documents are stored, use the following property:
If you wish to cluster your document library configuration in a database, you can still do so using the Jackrabbit JSR-170 repository. You would also use the Jackrabbit repository if you want to have a JSR-170 compliant repository for your documents.
Jackrabbit Sharing
Liferay uses Jackrabbit—which is a project from Apache—as its JSR-170 compliant document repository. By default, Jackrabbit is configured to store the documents on the local file system upon which Liferay is installed, in the $HOME/liferay/jackrabbit folder. Inside this folder is Jackrabbit's configuration file, called repository.xml.
To simply move the default repository location to a shared folder, you do not need to edit Jackrabbit's configuration file. Instead, find the section in portal.properties labeled JCR and copy/paste that section into your portal-ext.properties file. One of the properties, by default, is the following:
Change this property to point to a shared folder that all of the nodes can see. A new Jackrabbit configuration file will be generated in that location.
Note that because of file locking issues, this is not the best way to share Jackrabbit resources. If you have two people logged in at the same time uploading content, you could encounter data corruption using this method, and because of this, we do not recommend it for a production system. Instead, to enable better data protection, you should redirect Jackrabbit into your database of choice. You can use the Liferay database or another database for this purpose. This will require editing Jackrabbit's configuration file.
The default Jackrabbit configuration file has sections commented out for moving the Jackrabbit configuration into the database. This has been done to make it as easy as possible to enable this configuration. To move the Jackrabbit configuration into the database, simply comment out the sections relating to the file system and comment in the sections relating to the database. These by default are configured for a MySQL database. If you are using another database, you will likely need to modify the configuration, as there are changes to the configuration file that are necessary for specific databases. For example, the default configuration uses Jackrabbit's DbFileSystem class to mimic a file system in the database. While this works well in MySQL, it does not work for all databases. For example, if you are using an Oracle database, you will need to modify this to use OracleFileSystem. Please see the Jackrabbit documentation at http://jackrabbit.apache.org for further information.
You will also likely need to modify the JDBC database URLs so that they point your database. Don't forget to create the database first, and grant the user ID you are specifying in the configuration file access to create, modify, and drop tables.
Once you have configured Jackrabbit to store its repository in a database, the next time you bring up Liferay, the necessary database tables will be created automatically. Jackrabbit, however, does not create indexes on these tables, and so over time this can be a performance penalty. To fix this, you will need to manually go into your database and index the primary key columns for all of the Jackrabbit tables.
All of your Liferay nodes should be configured to use the same Jackrabbit repository in the database. Once that is working, you can create a Jackrabbit cluster (please see the section below).
Search Configuration
You can configure search in one of two ways: use pluggable enterprise search (recommended for a cluster configuration) or configure Lucene in such a way that either the index is stored on each node's file system or is shared in a database.
Pluggable Enterprise Search
As an alternative to using Lucene, Liferay 5.1 and higher now supports pluggable search engines. The first implementation of this uses the open source search engine Solr, but in the future there will be many such plugins for your search engine of choice. This allows you to use a completely separate product for search, which can be installed on another application server in your environment. Your search engine then operates completely independently of your Liferay Portal nodes in a clustered environment, acting as a search service for all of the nodes simultaneously.
This solves the problem described below with sharing Lucene indexes. You can now have one search index for all of the nodes of your cluster without having to worry about putting it in a database (if you wish, you can still do this if you configure Solr or another search engine that way) or maintaining separate search indexes on all of your nodes. Each Liferay node will send requests to the search engine to update the search index when needed, and these updates are then queued and handled automatically by the search engine, independently.
Since at the time of this writing there is only one implementation of the pluggable enterprise search, we will cover how to implement this using Solr.
Configuring the Solr Search Server
Since Solr is a standalone search engine, you will need to download it and install it first according to the instructions on the Solr web site (http://lucene.apache.org/solr). Solr is distributed as a .war file with several .jar files which need to be available on your application server's class path. Once you have Solr up and running, integrating it with Liferay is easy, but it will require a restart of your application server.
The first thing you will need to define is the location of your search index. Assuming you are running a Linux server and you have mounted a file system for the index at /solr, create an environment variable that points to this folder. This environment variable needs to be called $SOLR_HOME. So for our example, we would define:
This environment variable can be defined anywhere you need: in your operating system's start up sequence, in the environment for the user who is logged in, or in the start up script for your application server. If you are going to use Tomcat to host Solr, you would modify catalina.sh or catalina.bat and add the environment variable there.
Once you have created the environment variable, you then can use it in your application server's start up configuration as a parameter to your JVM. This is configured differently per application server, but again, if you are using Tomcat, you would edit catalina.sh or catalina.bat and append the following to the $JAVA_OPTS variable:
This takes care of telling Solr where to store its search index. Go ahead and install Solr to this box according to the instructions on the Solr web site (http://lucene.apache.org/solr). Once it's installed, shut it down, as there is some more configuration to do.
Installing the Solr Liferay Plugin
Next, you have a choice. If you have installed Solr on the same system upon which Liferay is running, you can simply go to the Control Panel and install the solr-web plugin. This, however, defeats much of the purpose of using Solr, because the goal is to offload search indexing to another box in order to free up processing for your installation of Liferay. For this reason, you should not run Liferay and your search engine on the same box. Unfortunately, the configuration in the plugin defaults to having Solr and Liferay running on the same box, so to run them separately, you will have to make a change to a configuration file in the plugin before you install it so you can tell Liferay where to send indexing requests. In this case, go to the Liferay web site (http://www.liferay.com) and download the plugin manually.
Open or extract the plugin. Inside the plugin, you will find a file called solr-spring.xml in the WEB-INF/classes/META-INF folder. Open this file in a text editor and you will see that there are two entries which define where the Solr server can be found by Liferay:
<bean id="indexSearcher" class="com.liferay.portal.search.solr.SolrIndexSearcherImpl">
<property name="serverURL" value="http://localhost:8080/solr/select" />
<bean id="indexWriter" class="com.liferay.portal.search.solr.SolrIndexWriterImpl">
<property name="serverURL" value="http://localhost:8080/solr/update" />
Modify these values so that they point to the server upon which you are running Solr. Then save the file and put it back into the plugin archive in the same place it was before.
Next, extract the file schema.xml from the plugin. It should be in the docroot/WEB-INF/conf folder. This file tells Solr how to index the data coming from Liferay, and can be customized for your installation. Copy this file to $SOLR_HOME/conf (you may have to create the conf directory) on your Solr box. Now you can go ahead and start Solr.
You can now hot deploy the solr-web plugin to all of your nodes. See the next section for instructions on hot deploying to a cluster.
Once the plugin is hot deployed, your Liferay search is automatically upgraded to use Solr. It is likely, however, that initial searches will come up with nothing: this is because you will need to reindex everything using Solr.
Go to the Control Panel. In the Server section, click Server Administration. Click the Execute button next to Reindex all search indexes at the bottom of the page. It may take a while, but Liferay will begin sending indexing requests to Solr for execution. When the process is complete, Solr will have a complete search index of your site, and will be running independently of all of your Liferay nodes.
Installing the plugin to your nodes has the effect of overriding any calls to Lucene for searching. All of Liferay's search boxes will now use Solr as the search index. This is ideal for a clustered environment, as it allows all of your nodes to share one search server and one search index, and this search server operates independently of all of your nodes.
Lucene Configuration
Lucene, the search indexer which Liferay uses, can be in a shared configuration for a clustered environment, or an index can be created on each node of the cluster. If you wish to have a shared index, you will need to either share the index on the file system or in the database.
The Lucene configuration can be changed by modifying values in your portal-ext.properties file. Open your portal.properties file and search for the text Lucene. Copy that section and then paste it into your portal-ext.properties file.
If you wish to store the Lucene search index on a file system that is shared by all of the Liferay nodes, you can modify the location of the search index by changing the lucene.dir property. By default, this property points to the lucene folder inside the home folder of the user that is running Liferay:
Change this to the folder of your choice. To make the change take effect, you will need to restart Liferay. You can point all of the nodes to this folder, and they will use the same index.
Like Jackrabbit, however, this is not the best way to share the search index, as it could result in file corruption if different nodes try reindexing at the same time. We do not recommend this for a production system. A better way is to share the index is via a database, where the database can enforce data integrity on the index. This is very easy to do; it is a simple change to your portal-ext.properties file.
There is a single property called lucene.store.type. By default this is set to go to the file system. You can change this so that the index is stored in the database by making it the following:
The next time Liferay is started, new tables will be created in the Liferay database, and the index will be stored there. If all the Liferay nodes point to the same database tables, they will be able to share the index. Performance on this is not always as good as it could be. Your DBAs may be able to tweak the database indexes a bit to improve performance. For better performance, you should consider using a separate search server (see the section on Solr above).
Note: MySQL users need to modify their JDBC connection string for this to work. Add the following parameter to your connection string:
Alternatively, you can leave the configuration alone, and each node will then have its own index. This ensures that there are no collisions when multiple nodes update the index, because they all will have separate indexes. This, however, creates duplicate indexes and may not be the best use of resources. Again, for a better configuration, you should consider using a separate search server (see the section on Solr above).
Hot Deploy
Plugins which are hot deployed will need to be deployed separately to all of the Liferay nodes. Each node should, therefore, have its own hot deploy folder. This folder needs to be writable by the user under which Liferay is running, because plugins are moved from this folder to a temporary folder when they are deployed. This is to prevent the system from entering an endless loop, because the presence of a plugin in the folder is what triggers the hot deploy process.
When you want to deploy a plugin, copy that plugin to the hot deploy folders of all of the Liferay nodes. Depending on the number of nodes, it may be best to create a script to do this. Once the plugin has been deployed to all of the nodes, you can then make use of it (by adding the portlet to a page or choosing the theme as the look and feel for a page or page hierarchy).
Some containers contain a facility which allows the end user to deploy an application to one node, after which it will get copied to all of the other nodes. If you have configured your application server to support this, you won't need to hot deploy a plugin to all of the nodes—your application server will handle it transparently. Make sure, however, that you use Liferay's hot deploy mechanism to deploy plugins, as in many cases Liferay slightly modifies plugin .war files when hot deploying them.
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Important This document describes the changes that have been made in MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) that break with compatibility to earlier versions of MSXML 4.0. While the list has been reviewed for technical accuracy by the Microsoft XML team, do not interpret this list as a complete or final list of changes. Potentially, additional breaking changes might exist in some usage cases. If you suspect that you have experienced a breaking change in MSXML 4.0 that is not documented in this article, contact Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) to report the breaking change, and to receive additional technical support.
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XSD Validation Enforces Restriction That Is Defined on a Base SimpleTypeIn the original released version of MSXML 4.0 and in MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1), the XML schema validator does not enforce restrictions that are defined on base simpleTypes. Validating the data in the following sample XML document (Restriction.xml) against the sample schema (Restriction.xsd) does not raise any errors in the original released versions of MSMXL 4.0 and MSXML 4.0 SP1 even though the value of the AlphaTestValue element contains a character (the "-" character) that is restricted by the AlphaType base simpleType:
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#x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] |[#x10000-#x10FFFF]This is a breaking change that has been implemented to enhance compliancy with the W3C XML specification. You receive a runtime error message after you upgrade to MSXML 4.0 SP2 if you have code that uses the setAttribute DOM API method to assign values that contain invalid XML characters to XML attributes. To resolve this, you must change your code so that you do not use invalid XML characters in attribute values.
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This is a change that can potentially break existing code that uses earlier versions of the ServerXmlHttp object (MSXML 3.0 and its current service packs, the original release of MSXML 4.0, and MSXML 4.0 SP1) to execute an HTTP POST when the Internet Explorer security policy setting for submitting non-encrypted form data is not enabled.
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The exhibition focused admirably on Los Angeles's frenzy of postwar commercial construction, as the city's population increased from 1.5 million in 1940 to 2.4 million in 1960, thanks to the burgeoning Southern California defense industry, whose generous wages at all levels also made it possible for nearly every Southern California household to afford at least one car. The dominant architectural style of those two decades was a kind of vehicular futurism, with overtones of Space-Age optimism. Designers not only crafted buildings that would be automobile-friendly—with parking lots, ramps, and drive-in service—but that actually incorporated features of postwar automobile design. Gas stations, shopping centers, office buildings, bowling alleys, drive-in movie theaters, auto showrooms, and television studios (most notably CBS's Television City, completed in 1952) mimicked the flamboyant design of the high-horsepower (gas was cheap) postwar vehicles that rolled from Detroit's assembly lines.
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Art historians have dubbed Los Angeles's pop-futuristic architectural style of the 1950s "Googie," after a long-since-razed West Hollywood coffee shop called Googie's that was designed by the midcentury architect John Lautner and that incorporated every element of futurism that had been invented. The leading practitioner of coffee-shop architecture, however, was the firm Armet and Davis, whose Pann's—built in 1958 on La Tijera Boulevard near the airport—is still open for business, with its skyward-angled roof and boulder-and-palm-tree landscaping. The Armet firm's most glorious creation was the Wich Stand (1957) on Slauson Avenue, the subject of some exquisite color photographs in the exhibition. With its towering, 35-foot spire and parking-lot configuration (100 cars) optimally designed for drive-through cruising, the "Stand" was also the epicenter of Los Angeles hot-rod culture (oddly ignored in the exhibition), in which young men used their shop-class training to soup up the cheap used-car-lot vehicles left over from their parents' Depression youth.
In fact, so enchanted were the curators of Overdrive with the first half of the 50-year period that the exhibition purported to span, that they paid little attention to much that was built after 1965. The vast bulk of Overdrive was devoted to more and more 1950s: the evolution of the freeway from a lushly landscaped East Coast-style "parkway" (Pasadena's Arroyo Seco Parkway, opened in 1940) to a distinct architectural genre of its own, with its elevated parabolas and concrete ribbons of cloverleafs; the glass-walled residential creations of the high-end Austrian émigrés Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler, and their numerous imitators; Disneyland's Tomorrowland (opened in Anaheim in 1955), whose "Autopia" ride was and still is a miniature Los Angeles freeway, and whose showcase attraction was then the "TWA Moonliner," an airline-sponsored model rocket ship.
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"These standards will apply to all animals ... regardless of their intended use as seedstock, commercial, pets or other personal uses." It's past time to wake up and fight the control juggernaut -- how well publicized has this 'program' been? How many people understand that this applies to 'pets or other personal uses'? How about reference to the 'national herd'? Does that not sound like the government owns the livestock/animals? This is not Soviet Russia, but the resemblance grows greater with each passing day! The Control Trap is springing shut -- and you'd be strongly advised to share this with everyone you know that has a cat or dog, or fish, bird, or pleasure horse, and so on -- because the days of carefree travel with any animals will soon be over, unless a nationwide OUTCRY is heard, and heard loudly and SOON! Write Letters to the Editors! Speak to everyone you can! Tell any club/group you belong to! Do Something and Do It NOW!!"
Why You Should Oppose the USDA's Mandatory Propert
This is very troubling to me. You might be interested in signing this petition and forwarding it to EVERYONE you know
Perhaps you have heard that a National Animal Identification System, often referred to simply as NAIS, is planned. This system, as currently proposed, will affect most livestock animals: horses, cattle, goats, sheep, swine, poultry, bison, llamas, deer, elk, and alpacas, and some fish will also be included. Despite assertions to the contrary, this program, as currently planned, will be mandatory by January of 2009, for all those who keep even one of the livestock animal species included and take them off their property for *ANY REASON*
The program, as planned, has three major components: premises
identification, animal identification, and animal tracking. Premises identification, the first step in implementing NAIS, requires that all locations where animals are kept, whether for the purpose of breeding, exhibition, marketing, maintenance, or some other, are registered. This registration will require that several pieces of information about the location are given: the location's name; the name of the owner or of the person to be contacted; the street address, city, and zip code of the location; the appropriate phone number to call, if necessary; the type of operation; the date the location was registered; and the date the location closed or stopped working with animals, as well as the reason. All of this information will be kept in a database where government officials, particularly those working in animal health and public health departments, can access it. According to the current plan, this component will be mandatory in January of 2008.
The second part of NAIS is animal identification, which requires that each animal of an included livestock species, or, in the case of those animals that stay together for their entire lifespan, each group of animals, has a unique identification number. Although there are currently exemptions for animals that never leave their farm, and only certain livestock species are included in the program, the National Agricultural Law Center reports of it:
"The plan will eventually encompass ALL livestock and poultry in the United States." This portion of NAIS will also be required by January of 2008
The final step to implement NAIS is animal tracking. This step will require that animals' movements be reported at certain times, such as during a change of ownership, travel over state lines, and the commingling of animals that are owned by different people. The last, for example, might include visits to a veterinarian, stays at an animal hospital, participation in trail rides, and attendance at shows. Reports would include: the animals' or animal groups' identification number, the premises (or location) identification number, the date of the movement, and the type of movement (such as the slaughter of an animal at a slaughter house, or the movement of an animal into a feed lot). This final step will become mandatory, if all goes as planned, in January of 2009. Thus, by that date, the National Animal Identification System will be mandatory in all aspects.
The reason given for the establishment of the NAIS is the following:
"A national animal identification system is needed to help protect American animal agriculture from foreign or domestic disease threats. Finding potentially sick or exposed animals early in a disease outbreak is essential to containing or eradicating the disease quickly. The NAIS would allow for rapid tracing of animals in the event of an outbreak, helping to limit the scope and expense of the outbreak and allowing us to minimize impact on domestic and foreign markets. The NAIS will also be critical as USDA, States, and industry work to complete the disease eradication programs in which we have invested many years and millions of dollars. The NAIS may have merit for producers for other reasons as well, including providing additional marketing opportunities. The NAIS will also help uphold
the reputation of the United States as having healthy animals and
will promote continued confidence in American agricultural and animal products."
However, there are already systems in place that allow this, as the official NAIS website itself admits:
"Already, many species in U.S. animals industries can be identified through some sort of identifications system, but these systems are not consistent across the country. Tracing an animal's movements can therefore be a time-consuming endeavor during a disease investigation, especially if the animal has moved across State lines."
Despite the claim that "tracing an animal's movements can therefore be a time-consuming endeavor", the Western Organization of Resource Councils asserts that the existing programs are adequate to trace a diseased animal:
"The brucellosis vaccination and brand inspection programs are both existing, effective methods of traceback; the NAIS would only be an unnecessary, expensive burden on producers."
Therefore, there is little reason to think that the real reason for the NAIS is disease control. Rather, it would seem to benefit major producers, the "factory farmers," while giving small farmers major disadvantages. There appears to be little or no benefit to the consumer, but the costs of the program will, inevitably, be passed along to him through higher costs and possibly higher taxes as well.
Besides the costs, NAIS will infringe upon the freedom that has
hitherto been largely enjoyed by farmers. Although there have been regulations and required registrations, these have never been so invasive. The requirement that all premises and animals be registered with the government is essentially a license to own and raise stock.
In a nutshell, farmers will need the government's permission to own livestock, even if it NEVER enters the public food supply.
What You Can Do
If you oppose NAIS please take a moment and sign
Found a few more websites with addition info on NAIS you might be interested in.
This one is a short audio discussion by Derry Brownfield: (click the Audio related to this story link on that page�for the discussion)�
Boy, whats next? They are trying�to control our raising animals, will humans be tagged next so they can follow our EXACT movements, know where, when and what we say and do?? Hmmm....is the National ID card just the beginning of a much larger sinister plan to eventually link us all�to a�Global Positioning System? Will we be next to get a microchip implanted�in our hand?�
National ID card
From tracking animals to tracking man
�You may not know this, but they are already trying to eliminate our right to treat our own health�with 'natural' remedies. (if you take therapeutic dose vitamins or use herbs or any natural health treatment/remedy,�just google Codex health threat to learn more)
�I don't know. i am not one to believe conspiracy theories, but it sure seems we're heading in George Orwell's 1984 direction. One World Government or New World Order doesn't sound so unbelievable anymore
New Lists
General Lists
State/Area Lists
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/noanimalidinnh/ (New Hampshire)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnais/ (Washington State)
"This is from my daughter, a Congressional Assistant in DC-
NAIS is NOT a federal law, it's a USDA ruling, therefore Congress can
NOT undo it. BUT- Congress IS in charge of all appropriations, so if
they vote to give $0,000,000.00 to NAIS there will be no money for
enforcement and it'll die. The BEST way to go about a protest is to
find your state congressman/woman who is the most ag-friendly. You
can look up on the internet each congressman's campaign contributor
and when you find the one backed by the individual livestock
growers- you've found the one you need.
DO NOT write letters fuming about personal rights and 'mark of the
Beast' stuff, even though that's exactly what we are all
feeling. Use words like 'redundant' ,since all auction houses, Vets,
and small business-farmers already keep plenty of records,
'appropriations' since that's what we want the USDA to get NONE of
for this rule, and 'fiscal responsibility' since this is
going to be a hugely expensive monster to enforce, and if your
congressman/woman of choice is also a conservative (of any
flavor) these 2 words mean the world to them.
If we go in with goats in our arms, eyes blazing and hay straggling
in our hair (even though that's how I personally always
look), we will NOT be taken seriously. If we are calm, but sincere
and firm in OUR money not being spent in such a debacle
of false national security there will be a much bigger chance of this
not coming to full fruition.
Hurricane Katrina roared onto land and sucked New Orleans and the
surrounding area off of the map and it was horrifying.
The Colorado River calmly and methodically ran it's course and carved
the Grand Canyon which is amazing."
Got this off another forum. Tell your congress 'person' you oppose NAIS, why, and tell them any or all of your concerns. Just enter your zip code, write your letter and send.
I'm writing thm my thoughts right now!
I recently acquired 2 new young goats. Would others recommend leaving the plastic tags that have numbers on them in their ears? They just "scream", we were meant for meat, as they were headed to the auction ....�
Any goats I have that had a tag at one poiint, I removed the tags. Don't know if i was supposed to...don't really care. I don't believe NAIS has been implemented here in my state yet anyway. If it were me, I would remove the tags but keep them just in case.


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6 NPA rebels captured in Nueva Ecija
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MANILA, Philippines—Six suspected members of the New People's Army (NPA) were captured in Nueva Ecija late Wednesday, a military official said.
In a statement, Colonel Hilario Vicente C. Lagnada, commander of the 56th Infantry Battalion, said that the rebels were captured after a 10-minute clash in Sto. Niño village, Santa Rosa town in Nueva Ecija on Wednesday.
Lagnada said a platoon of soldiers was deployed, led by Captain Noel Wamil, to support local police serving a search warrant in a suspected NPA hide-out in the said village. The joint police and military elements were approaching an isolated farmhouse when rebels occupying the hut opened fire at them, prompting them to retaliate.
A 10-minute gun fight ensued ending with NPA rebels withdrawing with their wounded comrades, Lagnada said.
One of the rebels captured, identified as Efren Delalamon alias "Baste", sustained a gunshot wound in the arm and was treated by the Army's combat medics.
Other arrested rebels were identified as Carla Ramos Bautista, aka "Joy", a political instructor of the Central Luzon Regional Committee (CLRC); Andres Lapuz Ely, aka "Marco"; John Michael Ilito; Felix Sarabia and Ambrosio Ilito.
The arrested rebels were taken to the provincial police office for inquest proceedings which will be facilitated by the Nueva Ecija PNP chief Police Senior Superintendent Roberto Aliggayu.
Meanwhile, government forces recovered one M16 rifle, two hand grenades, five live ammunition for cal .45 gun, 121 live ammunition for M16 rifles, one black Toshiba laptop, one portable generator set, one iCom radio, a pair of handcuff, three cellphones, assorted medical paraphernalia and medicines, and cash amounting to P116,000.
The arrest of the alleged rebels came a day before the 43rd founding anniversary of the NPA.
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For the first time in decades, the Laguna Beach landmark estate, the Pyne Castle, is for sale.
Originally built in 1927 by Santa Ana-based piano company owner and oil millionaire E. Walter Pyne, the castle spans 2.2 acres, offering 18,400-square-feet of living space. The castle sits perched atop a slight hill in North Laguna, poising the massive property to overlook ocean views and Catalina Island.
The Normandy Revival structure originally flaunted 62 rooms. The building is now being used as an apartment structure accommodating 16 residences.
According to city documents, Pyne built the mansion for himself and his mother. Spending most of his life alone, he willed the castle to his housekeeper Marie Hannon in 1945, who left it to the Christian Science Church upon her death, the documents say. The church then sold the property to its current owners.
The asking price for the castle now is $15 million.
All proceeds of this multimillion dollar sale will be donated to charity, Prudential California Realty listing agent Shauna Covington says.
The structure at 770 Hillcrest Drive boasts ocean views, a grand staircase, rose gardens, a pool, passages and a history that is "absolutely fascinating," says Covington, who is co-listing with Rick Balzer.
This home has even graced the cover of Dream Homes Magazine this month.
Celebrities' homes see prices drop
Blogger Marilyn Kalfus recently reported the asking price on the oceanfront Sunset Beach house that Sandra Bullock and Jesse James shared before their marriage crumbled has taken a plunge of $1,755,000.
The 2-story house had a price tag of $6,750,000 when it went up for sale in April. Now it's listed at $4,995,000.
That's a speedy drop, Kalfus wrote, but James, who owns the 3,626-square foot house, is trying to leave Orange County and the L.A. area quickly, heading for Austin, Texas, where Bullock already lives. Their divorce in the wake of his cheating scandal has been finalized, but it's also been widely reported that he wants his children to be able to continue their relationships with Bullock, Kalfus reported.
A condo James owns near the Sunset Beach house is also on the market and the price on that was lowered to $1,195,000 from $1,290,000.
James bought the house in 2003 for $3.5 million.


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Three hundred bales burst into flames when a flare whooshed into a Scots farm.
It took five fire crews to control the crackling inferno - and most of the vital store was lost.
Now embarrassed Army chiefs have agreed to cough up compensation for the gaffe on midnight manoeuvres.
Farm manager David Petrie told the Sunday Mail: "Their exercise was called Deep Gorge.
"It was well named. They sure left a deep gorge in our pockets ... and on our land!"
TA men and regulars from the Scottish Yeomanry Regiment were on a reconnaissance patrol near Crail, Fife, when disaster struck.
They set off a flare so they could see the terrain more clearly.
But a gust of wind caught the arcing torch and blew it on course for the bales.
An Army spokesman described the blaze as an "unfortunate accident".
He said: "When the men realised what had happened, the police were called and soldiers tried to remove some of the bales which were not alight.
"But the fire spread quickly and they were unable to do anything to stop it.
"We have apologised to the farmer and arrangements will be made for him to be compensated for the damage."
The bungle is the latest in a string of incidents which have thrown the TA off guard.
Last month, soldiers linked to the Glasgow-based 71 Engineer Regiment were given a rocket when 16 sheep were found shot dead after target practice in the Borders.
They were ordered to pay pounds 900 compensation to farmers.
One said: "They were supposed to be aiming at paper targets. But it seems live ones were more appealing."
Earlier this year, a Scots officer sparked a probe by using a military helicopter to fly to a golf tournament in Prestwick - after sending his clubs on ahead in a chauffeur-driven car.
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