Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Allulose is a naturally occurring sugar found in figs, raisins, wheat, maples syrup, and molasses.  It’s sweet like table sugar (sucrose) but without some of sugar’s well-documented downsides.  You can find allulose for sale online and in some retail stores.  Because it occurs naturally in very small amounts, the allulose you find packaged for sale isn’t its natural form.  It has been created artificially by food scientists from fructose (fruit sugar).  Find pros and cons at https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-allulose  

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 BCE) was a Latin poet and a leading figure of the Neoterics.  Catullus and his poetry, comprising 113 poems, have been the subjects of many books and papers in classical studies and other fields, including literary criticismgender studies, and cultural studies; there are many critical editions, commentaries, translations and student guides of his poetry as well.  Even in 1890, Max Bonnet wrote that Catullus was "inundated" with academic publications concerning his life and works.  In the early 1970s, Kenneth Quinn wrote, "Scarcely an issue appears of any of the major classical periodicals without at least one article on Catullus; new translations come out almost yearly". More than two thousand publications about Catullus appeared between 1959 and 2003.  Denis Feeney has described Catullus 68 alone as having "legions of critics", producing a "labyrinth" of literature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bibliographies_of_works_on_Catullus  

If you can’t laugh at yourself . . . make fun of someone else.   *  Do you know what they call a lazy kangaroo—a pouch potato  *   His mother, a former pro wrestler and rugby star, could bench-press a Buick  *  I never get tired of being right   *  Key Lardo by Bruce Hale   See also https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/174704.Bruce_Hale   

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Your use of "President" is ambiguous, which makes your list incomplete.   You only reference "Presidents" under the U.S. Constitution that went into effect in 1788/89.  Prior to that there were "Presidents" of the Confederation Congress.  See:  https://mytpl.org/project/americas-secret-the-presidents-before-george-washington/  One such notable President was Richard Henry Lee, President of the Confederation Congress (November 30, 1784 – November 4, 1785.)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Lee  His family being a member of the "First Families of Virginia," he was related to many significant government servants.   (And at least one insurrectionist!)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_family  Richard's son-in-law was:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lee_(Attorney_General)   Among others, the future President Zachary Taylor would be his third cousin--which means he is also related to Biden!!!   Thank you, Muse reader!  P.S.   I am also guessing that your list only covers "legitimate" children of Presidents . . .  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/13/warren-harding-and-the-5-other-presidents-who-have-faced-love-child-questions/  Among others, I am wondering if anyone has ever researched all of Sally Hemings descendants for politicians?  See https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/  

ASHTABULA COUNTY, Ohio — An animal that hasn't been seen in Ohio in nearly 200 years is back.  The fisher is a member of the weasel family, and it has been spotted recently in Ashtabula County.  "They've got very long tails, so they can be from two feet long to four feet long but about half of that length is their tail.  As far as weight, they're about the size of a house cat, so they're not as big as they sound when I say two to four feet long," said Katie Dennison, Wildlife Biologist with the Ohio Division of Wildlife.  The animal is a predator who hunts small mammals like mice and squirrels.  It can pose a threat to small dogs, cats, chickens and even some livestock.  "There is also some potential for conflict with livestock.  Fisher tend to want to stay away from areas where people are anyway, so we don't expect that to be a big problem but just making sure your livestock is closed up at night can be a good way to prevent any sort of conflicts with wildlife," said Katie Dennison.   With only 40 confirmed sightings by the Ohio Division of Wildlife since 2013, fishers are known to stay away from people. Tessa DiTirro  See picture at https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/a-once-extinct-animal-is-back-in-northeast-ohio   

Don't ask me who's influenced me.  A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -  Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971)  

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2790  March 13, 2024 

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