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@June52352847 @Gabriele_Corno We did, too, and it was the same for us. Outside, the dog would run circles around our firstborn and "herd" her so she wouldn't wander off!

@Gabriele_Corno We had a Border Collie when I had my firstborn. She did the same…always at the foot of wherever baby was. She really worked at trying to herd Jeff when he started walking/running. Needless to say the toddler won.

The day Marie brought her daughter home from the hospital, she thought the hardest part would be getting some sleep. Instead, she kept watching Tank. Tank is a Great Dane, all 140 pounds of him, and for six years he'd been the baby of the house. Her husband kept saying he'd be fine, but Marie had read all the warnings new parents read online, and she couldn't stop wondering how a dog that big would understand something so tiny. She should've trusted him. From the first afternoon, Tank seemed to give himself a job. Every time they laid the baby down in the nursery, he followed them in, sniffed carefully near the crib, and settled beside it like someone had put him on the night shift. Pretty soon, Marie started finding him there at all hours. If the baby fussed at three in the morning, Tank was already standing by the crib before Marie even made it down the hall. Her husband joked that they didn't need the baby monitor anymore. They already had a 140-pound one. What surprised Marie most was how gentle he made himself. Tank moved through that little room like he was afraid of bumping the crib, and when the baby cried, he never got worked up. He'd rest his chin on the rail, give one slow wag, and wait for Marie like he was reporting for duty. This morning, Marie stood in the doorway and watched him lower himself to the floor beside the crib with a long sigh. Her daughter was asleep, and the room was so quiet Marie could hear her breathing. "You're going to look after her," she said softly. "I know you are." Did you ever have a dog who seemed to know exactly who needed protecting?

@elonmusk Always proud of our Penn alumni!

@history_dame And they sometimes put on public display the Book of Common Prayer in which the Rector, Jacob Duché, crossed out the name of the King on July 4, 1776 – an act of treason. Duché was also chaplain to the Continental Congress.

Let’s go to church with the Founding Fathers and Mothers. Founded in 1695, Christ Church quickly became one of the most important Anglican congregations in the colonies. By the 1700s, its steeple towered over Philadelphia, and its pews were filled with names that would shape a nation. Join me for a minute as we see where folks like George Washington, Betsy Ross, and more sat during Sunday service. Note: Ben Franklin also has a pew here, but by the time I was ready to film from his location, people were standing at the front, and I didn’t want to record them. His pew is #70 in the church.

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The Greek Evzone never bows his head. The only moment he lowers his head and his weapon is on Good Friday, when the Epitaphios passes in front of him. The Evzone mourns.

This wouldn't be a problem if we simply read the papers that we cite. Isn't this what we all teach our students to do?? Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? nature.com/articles/d4158…

@chrisshipitv @JakeSherman Didn't Charles II have the last laugh, though? In the Restoration, Cromwell's body was disinterred from the Abbey for decapitation; the body was burned and his head is buried at a secret location in the chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Don't mess with the King!

@JakeSherman And 'King Charles I' had his head chopped off in 1649 during Britain's only period as a Republic since 1066!!

King Charles III. not Charles II. The latter died 300 years ago. sorry.

Just out online in Annual Review of Biochemistry! Molecular Structure and Function of Zinc-Dependent Histone Deacetylases - go.shr.lc/4c3RuLx

Sunset over @Penn after yesterday's snow showers cleared out

@JohnBolaris A quick note of appreciation for your knowledge, insight, and passion for meteorology. It would be great to see you on air again someday, but following you on X is the next best thing!

New Jersey Snow totals Mt Holly 14 Cherry Hill & surrounding towns 12-16 Pockets of 18 inches AS OF 9AM Monmouth county Freehold 24.2 Cranbury Middlesex county NJ 21 Ridgefield Bergen county 20.6 Mt Holly Burlington county NWS 19.2 Monmouth county 18.2 Colts Neck 17.8 Cape May county Dennisville 12 Wildwood 8.7 Mays landing 14 Margate 13 ACY Airport 14.5 The Lehigh valley..from Allentown to Reading escaped the Heaviest snow General amounts 3.8-8 inches Once you got North and west of Quakertown amounts drop off dramatically ..Quakertown 8 Mt Pocono region 4-8 inches FYI My post yesterday afternoon I indicated thinking of trimming distant NW burbs , but I didn't as I thought it might create confusion across our closer NW Burbs

@RENEGADEARTH494 @A_K_Mandhan ...and, if recollection serves, a jewelry shop and a flower shop for those times when a significant-other would like to pick up something because they'll be home late...!

@A_K_Mandhan There is a pizza place inside the pentagon. You can’t have pizza or any kind of food delivery just dropped off at DOD headquarters. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Correlation is not indicative of causation.

BREAKING: Pizza restaurants near The Pentagon seeing a 250% increase in order activity. ... show more

@briannalyman2 Your summaries are fantastic! I grew up in Boston (the Freedom Trail was part of my 4th grade curriculum) and I have been living in Philadelphia for nearly 40 years. I am looking forward to hearing more about Philly history in the coming year...

Imagine it’s February 4, 1776 You’ve just arrived in NYC on orders from Washington. Your job: prepare this city for war. You think it’s just pre-emptive, but suddenly a courier rushes over to you with intelligence that stops you cold.

@Mr72Capital @afneil To be fair, I've never seen the T5 Concorde Lounge crowded, or even half-full. Additionally, the Lounge staff were very helpful when my son missed a connection last year, they worked everything out seamlessly. For better or worse, I will be loyal to @British_Airways to the end!

Outside of the Gold Check-in at T5 and T5 security line there really isn't much point in being a BA Gold Member anymore. The First Lounges are poor and very full of Partner Airline Members. Anyone from Bronze upwards is in the Priority Boarding Line and on the way back the Business Class Check ins are just airport contractor services and often busier than the economy line. Rather than incentive, all they have done is put up penalties (like having to pay to select a seat on a business class booking). Avois values keep falling and in 20 years of Gold membership I have NEVER been upgraded, in fact been downgraded 3 times on overbooked flights. I soldiered on this year but have largely drawn the same conclusion as you. I'll just book Qatar directly and join their programme.

Sure. It won’t make any difference. I don’t have the time to make up for your inadequacies. You have launched a fatwa on your loyal high paying customers for reasons best known to yourselves. I will have done six first class returns to NYC in the past year plus first class return to Sydney and numerous Nice-London business class. Yet I still won’t be able to renew my GGL Group O status. If I don’t qualify who does? No matter. I have gold for life which means I can always use your lounges. But instead of always travelling BA I will look for better more convenient deals with other airlines eg Nice to NYC direct, forget BA out of London. Why you would treat someone like me like that baffles common sense. But BA, not me, will be the loser, especially if I decide to broadcast my experience to my 1.2m X followers and on Times Radio and Mail columns. At the moment you’re a case study in an historic British brand gone badly long. I might make it my business to explain and expose why. You’re interesting as a business case study in stupidity. @britishairways

Very proud of @PennChemistry senior @KristinOsika, who will give the Founders' Award Lecture on Tuesday afternoon at the 29th Enzyme Mechanisms Conference! For additional details, see her recent paper in @PNASNews, accessed more than 1000 times to date: lnkd.in/eaK4RjAM

@RolandDunbrack Same results here

Congrats to former grad student Dr. Sam Eaton, who discovered that @GSK 4394835A is a reversible covalent inhibitor of PDE3B by redetermining the structure of the enzyme-inhibitor complex. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Just out in Biochemistry – congratulations once again to former grad student Dr. Matthew Gaynes @MNG_Chem (now a postdoc at UCL @PennSAS senior @KristinOsika! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

@BillKristol Were you a bandie...?!

As darkness falls on Thanksgiving day, one last thought in the spirit of Thanksgiving: Illegitimi non carborundum.

Bella's plan for Friday night...!

Congrats to @PennSAS senior @KristinOsika, just selected for the Founders' Award at the 29th Enzyme Mechanisms Conference! Kristin's award lecture will focus on her pioneering work with drimenol synthase, as outlined in her recent @PNASNews paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

After giving a lecture earlier today at the @UoMMIB in Manchester, UK, my hosts took me to the Midland Hotel, where in 1904 CS Rolls and FH Royce met to form the venerable Rolls Royce company! @rollsroycecars