er - I didnt say that the USDA/NAIS makes no mention of GPS. But heres what the divine Miss MZ has to say ------ The "National Animal Identification System" - A Threat to Personal Privacy and to the Viability of Small Farms By Mary Zanoni February 15, 2006 The NAIS would require two types of mandatory registration. First, premises registration would require every person who owns even one horse, cow, pig, chicken, sheep, pigeon, or virtually any livestock animal, to register their home, including owner's name, address, and telephone number, and keyed to Global Positioning System coordinates (for satellite-assisted surveillance of homes and farms), in a federal database under a 7-digit "premises ID number." (Standards, pages 3-4, 10-12; Plan, page 5.) ------ "keyed to Global Positioning System coordinates (for satellite-assisted surveillance of homes and farms)"? What a carefully-crafted sentence fragment. Can you say obfuscation? Translated (from lawyerese I suppose) to plain English: Mr NAIS inspector guy (the surveilleur) is going to use a GPS receiver (satellite assistance) to find your (the surveillee) driveway, just like Mr UPS delivery guy does. Now why is that so scary? Somebody enlighten me, please.

thank you rick its funny i live in india and i never knew about this site this was news to me i will get in touch with NRS seems he has really nice specimens at affordable rates anurag

Zenni Optical is the online place I use and I have had 3 different pairs of glasses and 2 sunglasses from them. I just went today to have my eyes examined to get new glasses. I was talking with one of the gals who fits your frames (She was adjusting one of the pairs I had ordered from Zenni). I was honest and told her that I had not bought them there and would accept responsibility if anything happened to them.) Anyway, she was all for people ordering online if they had all the info for their script that they needed PLUS if the place offered a return policy if there was a problem with the glasses. She also said to make sure you know where the lens are made. Alot of places online she said use China and there are no standards for the lens being shatterproof and if the state where you are buying them from doesn't have restrictions, then you could be endangering your eyes if something hits you in the face. Zenni lens are made in Germany. She said that was a good sign as they are known for the quality of their products. She said she learned all about this as she had recently been on the state liscensing board.

Oh, it's easy. When you compose a message that you want to include a link, copy the link into the "Optional Link URL" box below the main message box. Type a brief description of the link, or a title in the "Name of Link" box. Then hit "Preview Message" and it will appear at the bottom of your message, just as it will to to the group. I always click on the link when I preview, just to make sure it's right. If everything looks good, you just send it to the group. Annie