China County Kills 50,000 Dogs

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China County Kills 50,000 Dogs In Campaign Against Rabies

SHANGHAI (AP)--A county in southwestern China has killed as many as 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered campaign following the deaths of three local people from rabies, official media reported on Tuesday.

The five-day massacre in Yunnan province's Mouding county spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, the Shanghai Daily reported, citing local media.

Electrical Healing

... though the phenomenon was reported 150 years ago by the German physiologist Emil Du Bois-Reymond, it has been ignored ever since.

Now Josef Penninger of the Austrian Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna and Min Zhao of the University of Aberdeen, UK, have demonstrated that natural electric fields and currents in tissue play a vital role in orchestrating the wound-healing process by attracting repair cells to damaged areas.

Capacitor Battery

... the time is ripe for capacitors. "They are better than batteries in almost every way, except in the amount of energy they store," he says.

Car Towed For Outstanding Library Fines

Arlington, VA Uses Bootfinder Camera to Tow for Overdue Library Books

Arlington, VA and New Haven, CT are using a new camera technology to tow cars with unpaid parking tickets or overdue library fees.

Towed awayArlington, Virginia has taken the next step in automated camera enforcement. Next month, it will expand its use of "BootFinder," a camera device that scans license plates of parked cars and compares it against a database of unpaid fines. If the car's owner is listed as delinquent, the car can be towed -- and if the owner doesn't pay within 10 days the car is auctioned.


It may be time to create a non-profit shell corporation that owns our vehicles.