Forward, Moo Dog Press On The Network And More C-Level News

Our integrated media network is growing.

Moo Dog Press magazine features stories about people with passionate pursuits in business, life, art, and agriculture, with plenty of events listings and resources, too. Boston terriers add to our lives and are part of the fabric of what we do every day.

Moo Dog Knits is devoted to "Knitting Up Life™" and coverage includes entrepreneurs, fiber events, yarn profiles and free patterns.

Business profiles into the lives of CEOs and entrepreneurs hone in on the people who create an idea and make it real, then grow that into a business.

Now, Corporate Connecticut Magazine is part of our publishing group and will add to coverage in the highly populated and educated corridor that stretches from New York to Boston.

Our staff wanders the Northeast USA and beyond to find plenty tales of life, about farms, entrepreneurial endeavors, and just plain interesting things to see and do.

From industrial history and development of a brownfield to dairy farms and tractor pulls or spinning wool and knitting to wine tastings. Follow the links featured at left or learn about our business directory listing plus more news at www.moodogmedia.net.

For walk development for a book series (PDF maps and links will be featured) see Let's Walk. Stories shed light on the rich history in the Connecticut River Valley, which stretches from the river's source near Canada and meanders south through Vermont to Long Island Sound.

Biological 'Adhesive'? Holdfast Grips Tight

The inventor of Velcro, George de Mestral, got his idea by looking at the way burdock burrs attached to his clothes after he walked in fields with his dog.

Walking the beach in Rhode Island after a ferocious storm, the thought of that inventor came to mind while observing a scattering of odd plantlike things scattered all over the sands.

According to the OceanLink site, "instead of roots seaweeds have holdfasts, which attach them to the sea floor. A holdfast is not necessary for water and nutrient uptake, but is needed as an anchor. Holdfasts are made up of many fingerlike projections called haptera."

The variety on display that ocean day include specimens varying in size from minuscule pebbles to cannonball-size heavy orbs.

Okay, so how does a holdfast fasten itself to a stone? How does it let go as it grows and find another (more suitable) anchor? Imagine the potential and applications of a biological cement (how does this thing "hold fast?")

Sometimes it's best to look for the sparking ideas in what may wash up on a walk outdoors.

Walk The Fort, View River

Walk in the footsteps of history - through an earthern fort where patriots battled for their freedom in Connecticut. Research continues for walks in the state (with your dogs or without). River views, battlements - so, where are we? More about our walking explorations, next post.