Pet Umbrella – Pet Umbrellas – Pet Travel Center
Pet Umbrella – Pet Umbrellas – Pet Travel Center.
The clear Pet Umbrella body allows full view of your pet.
- Keeps your dog dry and comfortable in rain, sleet or snow
- Umbrella clips to collar
- 24″ x 16″ clear oblong arc, trimmed with classic navy and green plaid waterproof fabric
- Adjustable 6″-11″ leash with hook attaches easily and quickly to dog’s collar or harness
- Ergonomic-angled handle with padded comfort grip bends to adjust to your height
- Automatic pop-up button
- Folds to fit in carrying case (included)
DuPont™ THERMO-MAN® Demonstration Unit: DuPont Personal Protection
THERMO-MAN® is dressed completely in protective apparel and engulfed in flames so factors such as garment construction, fabric weight, material type, style, fit and the impact of outerwear and undergarments can be taken into account. Results are then analyzed to determine the extent of thermal protection Nomex® provides.
If you are interested in attending a THERMO-MAN® demonstration and seeing first hand how garments made with DuPont™ Nomex® helps protect workers from burn injury, sign up here.
Book Review – The Turquoise Ledge – By Leslie Marmon Silko – NYTimes.com
…in the Tucson Mountains, pack rats make a home in the copy machine, a rattlesnake hides under the chaise longue, spiders are welcome and the appearance of a grasshopper is seen as a sign from Lord Chapulin, the Grasshopper Being.
Silko’s menagerie includes mastiffs, parrots, macaws, bees, hummingbirds and various other creatures. None of them are really pets: she gives them respect, not coddling. In fact, much of the book describes how she tends to the animals that live in and around her home, as well as how she attempts to help them ward off predators. While she can’t do much to protect them from the biggest menace, man, Silko’s understanding of nature’s balance brings her comfort. When she sees evidence of fresh destruction by a neighbor, she calms herself by imagining him being smashed under a boulder.
via Book Review – The Turquoise Ledge – By Leslie Marmon Silko – NYTimes.com.
Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874
In 1848, after years of practicing medicine with herbal remedies learned from Indians and trading with the Indians on the Tombigbee, he moved to Texas. He purchased 1,828 acres of the fertile prairie land he had seen on his Texas visit thirteen years before. Lincecum, Sarah, and their surviving ten children, a number of grandchildren, and ten slaves arrived in Long Point on his fifty-fifth birthday.
In Texas Lincecum continued to practice medicine, made geological explorations, assembled a plant collection including 500 species with medicinal properties, kept a meteorological journal that charted drought cycles, and observed and recorded the daily activities of insect life. He became recognized as an astute naturalist, corresponded with internationally known scientists, and contributed valuable collections to the Philadelphia Academy of Science and the Smithsonian Institution. He was elected a corresponding member of the Philadelphia Academy, a rare honor for an amateur. His writings appeared in such national publications as the American Naturalist, the American Sportsman, and the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and his views on a variety of subjects, including politics, appeared in the Texas Almanac and in newspapers. Charles Darwin sponsored the publication of Lincecum’s controversial paper on the agricultural ant in the Journal of the Linnaean Society of London in 1862.
(via the Handbok of Texas Online)
PS: he was also into eugenics, an ardent campaigner for castration of criminals and “mental misfits.”
An excerpt from his biography:
from Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874: a biography
By Lois Wood Burkhalter
Canon Pixma Sound Sculptures on Vimeo
Canon Pixma Sound Sculptures from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
Canon Pixma Sound Sculptures from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
SOMEONE should have a heyday doing a cultural analysis /slash/ mega deconstruction of this incredibly seductive work. It ain’t gonna be me, because I am way too busy nostologizing (tx Ruth Ozeki for the term).
I’m only sorry to see it so so briefly, and with its disappointing sales pitch tagline.
(via Josh Kleiner)