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Be Prepared

1. An animal program of impeccable integrity;
2. A security program based on risk assessment;
3. An integrated communication plan with descriptions of research projects in lay terminology, spokespersons, and a telephone tree
4. An internal and external community outreach program that includes legislators and funding agencies.

The ARENA/OLAW Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook (PDF – 3.2 MB; see section B.6.a) describes the 4 key elements of institutional preparedness:

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Egg bill pushed by unusual alliance

AB 1437, supported by the Humane Society of the United States, would prohibit the sale in California of out-of-state eggs produced by farms that don’t adhere to the California standard, which under Prop. 2 requires that certain farm animals have room to move freely.

The bill passed the Assembly Agriculture Committee recently on a unanimous vote, including “ayes” from Assembly members Tom Berryhill, R-Modesto, and Connie Conway, R-Tulare.

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Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection. His paper provides a framework for thinking about how culture and environment constrain varieties to stay true to type and also how changes enable varieties to stray indefinitely from the original type.

It is now well established that language
cannot follow just any old rules. Linguists a few decades back thought there
was no limit to the variety of language, but research has since identified a
number of formal constraints that mark boundaries. Language can work within
those borders, but not cross them. The trouble with those borders is
understanding what these constraints mean psychologically and neurologically.
There must be some reason beyond the formal rules for why these constraints
existed. We hardly know how to think about these matters, let alone explain
them. A letter in the most recent issue of Nature reminds me, however,
that clues are coming in from, of all places, songbirds.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

Carole C. Noon, Who Founded Save the Chimps, Dies at 59

Dr. Carole C. Noon, a primatologist whose passion — and compassion — for her subjects led to her founding of Save the Chimps, the organization that provides the world’s largest sanctuary for captive chimpanzees, died Saturday in Fort Pierce, Fla. She was 59 and lived on the sanctuary grounds in Fort Pierce.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, said her sister Lee Asbeck.