Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.

sandstone with bands of shale

We have two of them [a longhair (about 8lb) and a shorthair (about 5 lb)]., plus a small terrier (about 10lb) and a biiiig dog (lab/doby mix). Both rat-dogs are excitable, but not nasty. It is hard to sit down in my house without a dogette wanting to jump in your lap. All they want is to be petted and to sleep in your lap.

Looking at the field of infodemiology today, one can differentiate between the following approaches; epidemiological surveillance based on: * ‘professional’, public information online (e.g. Health Map, Global Public Health Intelligence Network) * explicit, conscious information provided by users and affected individuals (e.g. Flu Near You, Grippeweb) * implicit information provided (mainly) unconsciously by users (e.g. Google Flu Trends; Yahoo research/Polgreen et al. 2008)