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if I could turn back timeBy Rick Griffin on February 24th, 2011
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I'd get started on the comic earlier (ba-da-DA-da)
Need maybe an hour more
Woop woopBy Rick Griffin on February 15th, 2011
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Comic is gonna be big so it'll be a little late
Guess what else you should be readingBy Rick Griffin on February 4th, 2011
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So, you know Doug TenNapel, the creator of Earthworm Jim and the writer of many comic books? He is making a webcomic called Ratfist, and it is awesome. You absolutely should check it out if you're like me and prefer zany superhero antics to most of the regular kind.


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Last week, I watched an "Andy Hardy" movie. You remember -- the series with Mickey Rooney as a young man and his family during the 1940s.
I was shocked as I relived those innocent days. No mass shootings, gang rapes, drive-by warfare -- no disrespect for women, or law officers or elected officials ... or the need for.
The streets were walked without fear and with the confidence that we were the freest people, the most well-off inhabitants of the greatest nation in history.
And, so thought the rest of the world.
Wanna' take a moment to compare that to the present? Think you can find a segment of our society that is not beset with corruption, violence and greed, and a pervasive disregard for one another?
I spent my life in the armed forces in what I was told was for improving the life styles of other peoples. Lots of people lost their lives in that search in all the wars we fought since 1945.
Now, we're being told it was all a waste of time. An unnecessary mistake. A misuse of our power.
Looks like that even though Andy has no electronic marvels, no medical miracles, didn't text or Google and lived in the middle of our longest, deepest depression, he was a lot better off than we are.
Could that be why it was called "the great generation?"
Grandpa Sez': "Or ... perhaps God has decided that we're no longer fit to run this planet, and has decided to replace us with the bugs."


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We are hearing so much about Flu on the news and Caregivers are especially concerned about airborne illnesses. There is little we can do to protect our loved one or patient from this kind of exposure. There is however, a protection we should consider. That protection is a plan should we the caregiver be the one who gets sick. Everyone focuses on the patient, which is of course natural; but in this instance the caregiver is just as or more important to focus on as we will see.
• If the caregiver is doing all the shopping, attending medical appointments for visiting in the hospital, they are more exposed than the patient and frequently they are more rundown with all that they must do. Caregivers meet many different roles in our patient's life, which can leave them more at risk than the patient.
• If the caregiver becomes ill; the patient is immediately more agitated and concern seems to be in hyper drive. The patient is only to aware of the work done for and on their behalf. Certainly, they may not know each intricate detail, but they do know how much of their own well-being is tied up in the abilities of the caregiver.
Each family and community needs a plan for the care and well-being of the patient should the caregiver become ill. Where that illness is flu or a heart attack, the result will be the same and there needs to be a plan in place.


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The Wonder Wheel isn't new, but it has become a bit of a phenomena in my classroom lately so I thought it was worthy of a post.
First, if you aren't familiar with this Google display option, here's a quick overview. Each time you search Google, you have many options about the results that you get back. You can filter your results by the type of media you are interested in (images, videos, etc), you can filter by the time limit you are interested in (last 24 hours, month), and you can also choose how your results are displayed. This is how the Wonder wheel turned up in my classroom.
Over the past week, we have been talking about the options we have about interacting with various texts. For example, we looked at different textbooks and have talked about things like unit titles, sub titles, bolded text, etc., etc. All of the things that may possibly go into making up a textbook text. We did the same thing for a novel, talking about things like page numbers and paragraphs, right to the blurb on the back of the book. When we talked about web based text, the list of the number of things that readers need to be aware of simply exploded. We had a list that included everything from scroll bars to audio files embedded on the page. From animations to URL address bars. The places that readers could get information from, and had to be aware of, grew dramatically. One of the issues that came up in our discussions was the fact that with online text, the reader often has options about how the pages they are looking at are laid out and how the information on them is displayed. Once they started thinking about it, my students were impressed with this fact and could come up with examples of all sorts of websites that put them, the readers, more in control of how the pages look and feel.
One example of this is the Google Wonder Wheel. Every time you do a Google search, you may not pay attention to it, but under the search bar is a "Show options" button.
Clicking on this, you get an entire menu of display options and search options:
This entire menu is great to explore with the kids in your class. Have students choose to explore the various options and see how the information they bring back is similar and different. But if you choose the Wonder Wheel option, you get this:
You can see that the Wonder Wheel gives you not only the regular list of links as any Google search does, but it also gives you a wheel of links that are categories. I find that my students have started to use this more, especially for topics they have little background knowledge on. Usually, when students know little about a topic, they tend to flail around in the information, trying to make some sense of the millions of links that are presented with. Once they spend this time learning a bit about the topic, their searches become more focused; but this take time. Using the Wonder Wheel seems to have helped both ends: the beginning of searches when students know little, and the end of searches when they are searching for small specific pieces of information they need to plug a hole in their knowledge and understanding.
This is a change in the literacy practices in my classroom of my students over the past few weeks. I'm interested to see this play out over time. Will they stick with it? Will they realize the efficiency they have gained?


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I know that ATA is axle to axle, but is that when the bow is drawn and the limbs are flexed or when the limbs are relaxed and the compound bow is undrawn?
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It looks to me, looking at the diagram on this site, that ATA is a measure of the bow itself. I would say that the limbs of the bow are relaxed in this diagram. I hope this article will also be helpful to you.
And here is the article: Understanding compound bows, and how to select them.


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WATCH: Jamie Dornan And Dakota Johnson Get Hot & Heavy In The First 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Trailer
After plenty of teasing the past few weeks, this morning finally brought us the first Fifty Shades of Grey trailer. And believe me when I tell you, it was worth the wait.
There's plenty of shirtless Jamie Dornan to ogle at, enough Dakota Johnson lip-biting to not annoy you and even a fabulously new version of Beyonce's "Crazy in Love". So that's what she was doing with them.
The trailer leaves enough to the imagination, but we do get Jamie in a suit (hawt), in running gear (hawt), in plenty of tight shirts (hawt) and, of course, shirtless.
(Sorry the photo is grainy. Screenshots hate me today.) Oh, and we get a quick look at the Red Room. Whips, chains and all.
Check out the trailer above to see the hotness for yourself. While Jamie and Dakota are clearly not too shabby, Beyonce totally makes this trailer even more epic. Oh, Beyonce.


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Barbara Bennett is a professor of English at North Carolina State University and a frequent volunteer at Harnas Wildlife Refuge. She has written numerous articles for local magazines and for scholarly publications. This is her first book.
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Dec. 1, 2008
WOODLAND, Calif. - Senior attacker Krsto Sbutega of the UCLA men's water polo team earned MPSF All-Tournament Team honors after having scored six goals in the Bruins' three MPSF Tournament contests at Pepperdine over the weekend (Nov. 28-30).
Sbutega registered two goals in the Bruins' 11-8 victory over No. 5-seed California in a first-round match on Friday. The product of Kotor, Montenegro scored one goal in a 9-5 semifinal loss to No. 1-seed USC on Saturday before leading the Bruins with three goals in a 10-7 setback to No. 2-seed Stanford on Sunday.
Sbutega was joined on the MPSF All-Tournament Team by Pepperdine's J.P. MacDonell and John Hahn, Stanford's Drac Wigo and Janson Wigo and USC's J.W. Krumpholz and Shea Buckner.
In four seasons at UCLA, Sbutega netted 143 goals in 117 matches. The senior attacker moved into fifth place on UCLA's all-time goals list with his three-goal effort on Sunday, climbing past Chris Kellerman's four-year total of 142 goals.
Sbutega finished his senior campaign with 50 goals in 24 matches, averaging 2.08 goals per game, the third-highest rate among MPSF competitors. Sbutega became the first Bruin to score 50 goals or more in a season since Brett Ormsby logged 70 goals as a senior in 2004.


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Finding The Right Allergy Medication For Your Child
Finding the right allergy medication for your child
As parents, it's hard to watch children suffer from anything. Our first instinct is to protect them from every skinned knee and scrape. Few things are more miserable than allergies, especially bad ones. There seems to be no end to the wide range of things it is possible to be allergic to, and that variety is only matched by the variety of medications available to treat allergy symptoms. In all of that, though, navigating the madness can be quite difficult. Knowing what your child needs is half the battle.
Types of allergy medication
There are a few different basic types of allergy medication. Regardless of how it gets into the body, the main difference is how the active ingredient works within the body. The main ones are corticosteroids, antihistamines, and decongestants. Prevention is usually best–that is, identification and removal of whatever your child is allergic to, but that is not always possible. Medication, then, becomes the second choice.
What are corticosteroids?
Corticosteroids, in asthma patients, are used to decrease swelling in the lungs. They are taken primarily in 2 ways: either by inhaler or in tablet form. The tablet form is less likely to give side effects than the inhaler. They can also be found in skin creams or eye drops, and are usually only available by prescription.
While corticosteroids prevent the release of all symptom-causing chemicals during an allergic reaction, antihistamines only block one: histamine. They come in oral, nasal spray, and eye drop forms. Within each type of antihistamine, there are several different brand names with different side effects. Older brands, like Benadryl, are more likely to cause drowsiness. Second-generation medications, like Claritin and Zyrtec, have been used in very young children with minimal side effects.
What are decongestants?
Decongestants do not block any chemicals. Instead, they unblock congested noses and sinus cavities. They are often taken orally or as a nasal spray, though eye drop decongestants are available over the counter. Pay close attention to the dosage on the package directions, as taking too much decongestant can cause serious side effects. They are very effective as a temporary measure, but long-term usage has serious drawbacks, particularly for children.
It all depends on what approach you and your health care provider want to take to manage your child's allergies. If your child has mild allergic rhinitis, then a decongestant might be best. On the other hand, for more serious reactions, it might be better to block the histamine that the body produces, or to use a steroid. Another approach that has been effective is allergy shots. For the most serious reactions, an epi-pen might be prescribed.
Whatever treatment you pick should fit your child's symptoms, needs, and medical history. A physician or allergist (doctor who specializes in allergies and asthma) will be the best ones to help decide which medications are right for your child and lay out a treatment plan. Every child is different, and each allergy medication interacts differently with the body and other medications. Schedule an appointment today.
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Academic success depends almost as much on making good decisions about what and how to study as it does on quantity of study. Your academic advisor can play a key role in helping you make good decisions.
Students who declare EECS as their major will receive detailed information about choosing an advisor. Students who are interested in EECS as a second major should contact the Undergraduate Office for help in obtaining an EECS advisor.
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- AnonymousNovember 2, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Hugh Plummer. Snowbound with Hugh Plummer at Lech, it was all we could do to keep the fire going, and freshen the cassoulet with an occasional sprig of winter thyme and a splash of auslese. I remember, we resorted to competing reminiscences of "The Gold Rush," although stopping short of tossing a boot into the pot, and quibbled mildly over whether Gabin got away alone in "La Grande Illusion."ReplyDelete
- LaurentNovember 5, 2009 at 7:52 PM
I wonder, if it's appropriate to confide the delirium to which we're all induced by Hugh Plummer, in such a family-oriented blog. It's bound only to work a visitation by the Bacchae, to take our thyrses back. By this I mean, what it sounds as though I mean, which can never amount to very much, in the absence of Hugh Plummer. Will no one disrid us of this tiresome priest?ReplyDelete


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by Sheela Philomena on June 18, 2012 at 11:11 AM Genetics & Stem Cells News - G J E 4
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TC TO JOHN A. CARLYLE; 21 September 1837; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18370921-TC-JAC-01; CL 9:308-313.
Chelsea, 21st Septr, 1837—
My dear Brother,
Your Letter to Jane dated 4th Septr arrived here yesterday; the one to my Mother1 was likewise duly received and read by me at Ecclefechan. The latter was pierced thro' in two places, and appeared to have been fumigated; the Chelsea one of yesterday had escaped that formality. Communication being so obstructed, I lose not a day's time in sending my answer. You have me here with the top of the morning, in my old up-stairs establishment; I will tell you everything that I can call to mind.
That cholera business seems to be a very frightful one; the cholera itself, and then the precautions against it, and panic on account of it. Men are great blockheads and very miserable. Your last Letter is the true emblem of a country suffering dreadfully by Heaven's visitation, and still more by its own folly and frenzy. We remember well enough how it was in Dumfriesshire, yet with this difference in our favour, that village was not shut against village, and we had only the madness of Fear in an isolated inorganic shape. God preserve you, my dear Brother, in the middle of these perils! As I used to say for myself, Are we not at all times near to Death; separated from it by a mere film? God will preserve us till our days and their work are done: therefore at least we will not live in bondage to the vile tyranny of Fear. Expose not yourself without duty to do; that is very clear: but with duty again, one will dread no exposure. And for the rest, hope and let us all hope that it will quickly pass. As for you, you had a call to go thither where you now are: the distinct call to go and seek your daily bread. As for the rest of your party, that, flying about at their will, have flown into the threat of such a danger,—what can one do or say but pity them, but help them with all faculty one has? Would to Heaven it were well over for you all! I will not send this last Letter of yours to my Mother; but only some general abstract of it, drawn in my own way: she gets terror enough out of the Newspapers; in which no horrors of Palermo, no massacre of an Englishman at Rome is omitted.2 I will write to her today or tomorrow; and say that you were still well, that she must trust to Heaven for you still. But on the whole do not neglect, as you prescribe for us, to write and convey us assurance by all methods. How much were a weekly Newspaper worth at present! But we cannot get it; we must go on as we can without it: I will keep up what obstinate trust I can that nothing has befallen. And so no more of cholera.
I continued at Scotsbrig till Wednesday gone a week3 (this is Thursday); much in the old way till the last. Nothing had gone wrong, or had altered notably. Jamie was getting on with his harvest, with very tolerable prospects of crop, with good weather till the last week. He then in the dark rains had begun talking of the "last three" drowned harvests; but I think it is all altered now; there is a steady dry East-wind blowing here, which indicates drought for the whole Island. The potatoe-crop was excellent everywhere; a great blessing for the poor. Trade also seemed partially reviving. Alick had, some four or five weeks since, taken possession of the House at Ecclefechan, and was laying all flat with flagging &c: the day before my departure Jamie Aitken was there glazing, and the whole House lay open. In ten days more Alick calculated on being off for Manchester and Liverpool to buy goods. They seem all to think he has a fair kind of chance there; he himself is in full activity about it; doubtless much happier than he was. Jean and her child had come down to see us before my departure; then Aitken, as hinted, to fetch her back, and do Alick's glazing; he had a gig, and went off at nightfall of the Tuesday. The night when your Letter to my Mother came, I was at Alick's, and wanted yourself much there. I had walked over in the evening, understanding that Alick was a little unwell: some kind of cholic or "British cholera" which many people had, which Jamie for one had a two-days trial of. Poor Alick on my arrival lay not a little unwell, but very ill; crazy in utter delirium, his skin all red and hot, and nothing but pain confusion and contradiction to be got out of him. The house was all rubbish and disorder; poor Jenny alone, with two children at her feet and another on her arm. It was one of the ugliest scenes I ever saw. I dreaded violent inflammation of some sort; and on my own responsibility went directly for Simpson.4 A doctoring-bout followed; four hours work: but we learned that the delirium came partly from whiskey-punch which Jenny had remedially administered (as she confessed with tears) at the beginning of the business; Simpson's senna et-ceteras did their duty; and next morning all danger was over. Alick at the time of my departure, and all of them, were quite well in health.— But as I was saying we did bundle, my Mother and I, on the Wednesday morning, in a spitting East rain, and got under way for Annan and the Steamer, Alick driving us in one of Jamie's carts. Breakfast at Mary's: a most tidy, dextrous little creature Mary, her husband too one of the best-conditioned men: there is a speculation, I may say here, about getting them into Stenniebeck Farm5 this year; which I hope will take effect; I engaged to help, and you had already promised to help. Ben Nelson too accompanied us to the Jetty; we splashed on board, and said farewell. My Mother stood her voyage excellently; hurrying direct thro' Liverpool next morning, we got to Hanning's to breakfast, and all was happily over. Our Mother is to stay there probably for a number of weeks; "till she tire." Rob and she do very well together, tho' he is as coarse a cub as I ever had to do with: kindly disposed, obliging, but coarse as hemp; I had all the difficulty possible to prevent him from calling me "thou," "will-ta" &c! My Mother looked sad enough when I went off, but behaved herself well; the last wae looks she had abide with me as such things do. She sent many blessings to you, and charges that I was to send her word when you wrote. My stay in Manchester was of some thirty hours: on the Friday night I got safe into the inside of a Coach (the same you came in), and with less flurry than usual, arrived here by omnibus, next night to tea; finding all clean and tight, a fire burning, and Jane hid behind the outer door to welcome me. I had been absent twelve weeks and some days.
So ends my travel's history6 for this season. I must gather myself together now, and see what I will do. There is surely more possibility for me than there was. Much has improved since my departure: yet unhappily there is one chief thing not right, my poor Jane's health. She had taken slightly to coughing again, ten days before I came; a phenomenon that saddened me much. Had there been no cholera in Italy I think I should almost have urged her to go and try it. As it is, she [feels? no] cowardice, no despondency; we will do the very best we can, and hope all things. I myself beli[eve] she is really grown stronger since we parted; this cough too has abated very visibly since my return. Having no Book to write this year, I shall not feel so fretted, shall not fret any one: there will be a cheerfuller household than of old. What I am to do,—except clean the Garden in the first place? Mill wants me to write him an Article on Walter Scott;7 most probably I shall do that: there is no promise in it, but also no prohibition: it will bring a few pounds into my pocket, and my hand in again. They are very desirous to have me write; but their Review is a most barren one, neither are they themselves fruitful. Seemingly my best money resource will be in new Lectures in the Spring season. To this I will sedulously turn myself, to see what is practicable, in good time. Meanwhile I am to be considered as a kind of successful man. The poor Book has done me real service; and in very truth has been abundantly reviewed and talked about and belauded: far more than I had any expectation of. Neither, apparently, is it yet done. There is last week a very high-toned thing in the Examiner,8 which I have joyfully sent off to my Mother; I will also try to get you a Copy: the joy one has in the pleasure one's friends will have to read such things is the only legitimate joy belonging to them. Did you get the Times review I sent? There were since then three (very shallow, laudatory) articles in the Glasgow Argus that I saw; several others that I heard of: on the whole, a well-received Book; handsomely off one's hands; thank Heaven! The critic in that Examiner is one Fo[r]ster as I learn, the man I gave liberty to think of Goethe whatsoever he reckoned fittest, a blustering bubbly-jockish [like a turkey] kind of man, from whom surely I expected not praise.9 Let me lastly thank your unknown Scotch lady (of Mr Wright's Correspondents) for her eulogy; which surely is the highest of all.10 And now good-b'ye to the Book; with gratitude to Heaven.— John Sterling has indeed been in Bourdeaux, but is now here again with all his family! Wife and children are to stay with his Father; he himself the cholera excluding them from Italy is to winter in Madeira. He waits only till he have married Maurice; not to be for a fortnight or three weeks yet, everybody regretting that he should linger so long. I see him almost daily the good John; one of the welcomest sights any man could have. Mill is just going into Monmouthshire to rusticate; many Friends are still here, have returned hither, Miss Martineau &c; all of them very kind to us. Poor Mr Dunn is lying not well; the Wilsons are still in Worcestershire. I will trouble you with no more of them at present:—for a reason that you may see.11 O my dear Jack, take care of yourself, and pray Heaven the next Letter may bring us better news. We can do nothing more but wish and hope. The £190 business was given in charge to James Aitken, who I doubt not, has transacted it before this: you will have above £1000 in the Bank now; a thing useful. Jane is down stairs, sewing table-covers, not much troubled today; some Mrs Crawford12 is to come and give her a drive in the sunshine: perhaps she may write you her own salutation. Now a Letter with the soonest. Adieu dear Brother; may God keep you!— Your ever affectionate— T. Carlyle.
Jane "feels wearied" today; desires me to send her love and say that next time she hopes to write a considerable postscript. We shall see.— I should have told you there were manifold remembrances sent from Nelson and Graham. I had them both with me, to deepen the confusion, at Scotsbrig the night before I went off. Poor Ben could scarcely deliver his message for you with clear articulation; "if ever you went thro' Heidelberg"—he could say no more. He is sunk into great sorrow; which however he can cast behind him ever and anon. I believe a Letter from you would give him real satisfaction; tho' he hardly looks for it. Grahame continued to the last stupid and kind. He accomplished the bringing of Menzies13 to Scotsbrig! A dull glass-eyed reverend man, of great good humour, who talked and took his tea, without offence to any one. Clow of Land is off, near America we hope by this time. They had a rude passage across the Solway to begin with; I sent him a Note for Greig: all men wished him well.
I saw old Mrs Irving once at Annan: full of tears, of clatter, of curiosity and confusion; a melancholy wreck. Dixon14 saw [sic] a little better. Poor Margaret (Ferguson) is dead at Liverpool. Mr Martin15 of Kirkcaldy is dead; the Marquis of Queensberry was in the article of death.16
Wull of Breckonhill17 continues to practice at Annan; Davie Ferguson18 has given up drinking: neither of them were seen by me. Nor did I see more of Waugh. I did not go again to Templand; I saw nobody at Liverpool: the Welshes I have since learned were at sea homeward the very day we were.
Little Mylne (the Roman) is M.P. to appear in a new character!19
Adieu dear Jack! This ends[.]


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Kamla Devi, a 56-year-old woman, lives to tell her tale of being attacked by a leopard. Some reports have varied today, Aug. 28, whether she used her bare hands, a farm tool, or a combination of both. Either way, it sounds like a scene out of "GI-Jane."
Devi is seeking treatment for multiple hand wounds, bites, fractures and cuts sustained during her struggle with the large wild cat. Apparently she was gathering her water for the day where she lives in a small village near Sem Nauti in Rudraprayag, and that's when she noticed movement in the bushes. Before she could blink, the leopard lunged at her. She told BBC.com that she thought for sure she was going to die, but she wanted to live, and she had to overcome her fears and fought for her life.
"I fought head on with it for almost half an hour. Then I came to know it was dead," she told the hospital crew. Reports indicate that she had knocked out the front teeth of leopard that attacked her, which she believes may have helped her survive.
Talk about survival of the fittest, the health care workers said she had definitely endured a terrifying struggle, because her entire body had deep wounds and bite marks. Another person who helped her to reached the hospital said that she used her sickle (farming tool with a semicircular blade for trimming brush and grains).
This isn't the first leopard attack in this same area, within the last couple of days another women, not as lucky as Devi, died shortly after becoming prey. The animal that happened to attack Devi was found about an hour later after the attack took place. Not only did this very brave women go head-to-fist with a leopard, and lived to talk about it, she also walked half-a-mile to reach help.
So far, Devi is not the first one to go through a human-animal conflict and survived a leopard attack. She's lucky she was strong enough to fight back with her bare hands and a sickle. The only immediate family member she has is her daughter, since her husband passed. Talk about #SuperMom.


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Charles Darwin and Baron Aucapitaine
After a long hiatus, I return with one last post before the year ends.In the fourth edition of The origin of species (1866), Charles Darwin, while discussing the results of his limited experiments on the survival of land snails after prolonged exposure to sea water, added that someone named Baron Aucapitaine had recently tried similar experiments. Darwin summarized Aucapitaine's results, but did not give his source of Aucapitaine's data. Presumably, this was in accordance with the more relaxed standards of citation of the period. Generations of writers have quoted Darwin's paragraph as a support for the potential dispersal of land snails via rafting over the oceans. But no one seems to have bothered to determine if and where Aucapitaine had published his results. So back in June of this year, to satisfy my curiosity I spent several days scouring the internet. My efforts paid off eventually and I was able to track down Aucapitaine's relevant publication. Read about Henri Aucapitaine, his work with snails and his interaction with Darwin, which may never have taken place, in my short note on p. 15 of the November newsletter of the wonderful Society for the History of Natural History. I wish everyone a Happy New Year. I will try to post more often in 2013. Maybe.


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The first ever cross country Inspiration Waggin' bus tour is coming to town this Friday, May 16th. They will be surprising the staff at the American Medical Association as well as the general public that walks by Pioneer Court. The puppies on-board and the kitties within will bring their best tail-wagging, face licking personalities as they give a little pick-me-up to the people that really need one. Animals can do the trick every time! It is like they are a magnet emanating love abound.
Everyday moments like cramming for finals, laundry, running errands or lawn mowing are all routine tasks that can get to even the best of us. These tasks become much less mundane and much more infused with cheer when PetSmart, some inspirational PetSmart spokespeople and a few furry friends (dogs and cats alike) hop aboard the first-ever Inspiration Waggin' truck and embark on a six-city, Inspiration Waggin' tour across the United States and into Canada.
The truck has already begun making its way across the country with dogs, puppies and cats that plan to visit retirement centers, university campuses and popular local spots so people can benefit from a wagging tail and some unconditional love to make even the most regular of days better. The Inspiration Waggin' has or will make stops in:
· Los Angeles – May 9
· Phoenix – May 12
· Dallas – May 14
· Chicago – May 16
· Toronto – May 20
· New York City – May 22
The tour is scheduled to arrive in Chicago at the beginning of this weekend where the fun will begin at 9:00 a.m. CST. Their first stop will be at the American Medical Association's headquarters located at 330 North Wabash Avenue. Afterward they will head to Pioneer Court for 10:00 a.m. They are announcing this ahead of time in case you are in the area, they encourage you to stop by for your quaint little animal therapy session; hug a dog or cat and your day will be filled with bliss!
"The purpose of the Inspiration Waggin' tour is to bring pet-inspired moments to people across the country," said David Lenhardt, PetSmart president and CEO. "PetSmart is all about creating more moments for people to be inspired by pets with our unique products, services and experiences, and the Inspiration Waggin' is a great example of our commitment to this mission."