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OK, the Grand Canyon was pretty cool. In February I went with a friend from San Diego to Farmington, NM and back. On the way back we stopped at the Grand Canyon. We saw one deer, several elk, and the Canyon. It was a cold windy day, but a clear blue sky.
I grew up in Texas, but have lived in Michigan since 1988. I got a degree in electrical engineering, but spent four years in the Army in Arizona as a supply officer and platoon leader. After the Army I moved to Texas, after a short stay in San Francisco. I moved to Michigan with my job, temporarily at first, but decided to stay.
I spent 28 years writing and installing financial software for several banks around the country.
Although I spent many years in the software/tech business, I don't twitter, facebook, or text, I don't have cable TV, my cell phone is just a phone, and my home phone is a yellow wall phone with a rotary dial.
I did get the outside of my old house renovated. Now I'm working out what to do with the inside. I'm think of doing each room in a different time period, from an 1840's kitchen to an ultra-modern bathroom. The house was built in 1840.
I've spend a lot of time traveling: family in Texas, friends in North Carolina, Arizona, California, a couple of cruises. I've been to the UK twice, and Italy once.
My last trip was to Phoenix, San Diego, and Farmington, New Mexico. Picked up a lot of petrified wood in the New Mexico desert.
Wherever I go, if there's a hill or mountain nearby, I'll want to get to the top. But not extreme mountain/rock climbing. Mainly for the walk and the view from the top.
I've walked up Quandary Peak in Colorado, Helvellyn in England, Cuyamaca Peak near San Diego, something in Phoenix I can't remember the name of, Mount Scenery on Saba Island.
I'm back from San Diego now, for a couple weeks. In mid-June I'll go back to San Diego, then to Texas to see family.
Back from Texas, leave for Colorado tomorrow for a few days, for a short family reunion.
I'M Back from Colorado, was at a YMCA camp near Granby. I walked up Ninemile Mountain there, and saw a bear near the top. He chased me for a few steps, then he ran away. You can see the bear here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21011812@N03/7776956390/in/photostream
Week after next I'm off on a western trip, San Diego and Phoenix.
San Diego is done. Phoenix tomorrow, 9/25.
Back in Michigan now, to San Diego and/or Texas for Thanksgiving, Christmas.
I did go to Texas for Thanksgiving, saw the work being done to run the Keystone pipeline from Canada to Houston through my parents place in east Texas. A 120 foot wide path of total destruction of all trees and plants in the way. All the trees that were knocked down were piled up and burned. By people wearing shirts saying "Environmental Systems."
Then to San Diego for an early Christmas with friends, and now in Texas again for real Christmas and New Year's. 82 degrees in Dallas in December.
Now on a San Diego/Texas/Phoenix trip.
San Diego for a friend's 7-year old's birthday.
In Texas now to see family.
Phoenix for a friend's Super Bowl party.
I have more books than I have shelves. I would buy more shelves, but when I have the money, I'd rather buy books.
Writing software, before I retired.
That means I'm more energy-efficient and require less maintenance than most other guys. I also fit better in airline seats.
The beard and mustache are optional. I will shave for the right woman. Or any woman.
Mark Twain, Charles Dickens,
The Count of Monte Cristo,
Larry McMurtry, Edgar Allan Poe, TS Eliot,
US history, Roman history, electrical engineering, math, architecture, computer science,
Ray Bradbury, Arthur Clarke,
Carolyn Chute, Pat Conroy,
Sherlock Holmes, The Name of the Rose,
John Steinbeck, Ken Follett, Tracy Kidder
Movies: To Kill A Mockingbird, It's A Wonderful Life, Gladiator, Braveheart, The Wizard Of Oz, On the Beach
Music: Leo Kottke, Loreena McKennitt, Big Country, Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, Moody Blues, Bob Dylan, Shawn Colvin, Neil Young, Judy Collins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bruce Hornsby, Emmylou Harris, Enya, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Beethoven, Natalie Merchant, Warren Zevon, Jimi Hendrix, Clannad, Four Tops, Leonard Cohen, Thomas Newman (movie music), Aaron Copland, Tom Rush, Lucinda Williams, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, Rod Stewart, Dolly Parton, Neil Diamond, Simon & Garfunkel (together and separately), Georgia Satellites, Doc Watson, Ravi Shankar, Sarah McLachlan, KD Lang, Bruce Springsteen
Food: shrimp, fish, Mexican, Italian, chili, Toll House chocolate chip cookies.
Sometimes I eat bacon when I'm alone.
Shows: Phantom of the Opera (the musical), House, CSI, Law and Order, Jeopardy.
Live shows, like The Ark in Ann Arbor.
Art: Fritz Eichenberg, Agnes Miller Parker, other wood engravers
I like the books and movies with the good endings. Where the good guys win, bad guys lose, good surprises.
black cherry ice cream with chocolate Magic Shell on top
Southwest Airlines
The Goldbach Conjecture.
What to do with the interior of my house.
The trouble with libraries is they want their books back.
Going sailing in San Diego.
Reading books with pages made of paper.
If you like walking up mountains.
Or if you're tall, young, fit, wealthy and want a shorter, older, bald on top, grey on the sides guy to show you off around town. A sense of humor is also desirable.


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William McGurn is typically one of the more thoughtful conservative Catholic commentators in the public square. So, it was deeply disappointing to see his latest commentary in the New York Post entitled "What the Pope meant to say."
To be clear, WPFMTS (What Pope Francis Meant To Say) Syndrome is different from
McGurn hones in on the pope's remark about not being "obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently." In the same paragraph, the pope had mentioned abortion, same-sex marriage and contraception, so it is pretty clear to what he was referring. Newswriters who penned headlines like, "Pope says Catholics should not be obsessed with abortion" were not taking liberties with the pope's remark.
McGurn then comments:
Fewer are willing to admit (at least publicly) how debilitating it is when the faithful have to explain away a pope's words by saying he didn't mean them, that he meant to say something more or less the opposite of what he did say, or in that in the original Spanish, it's not quite as awful as it is in English.
I suppose this must be debilitating, which is why I encourage my friends to stop doing it. Let the pope's words stand as they are. This, McGurn and others decline to do.
McGurn writes that "The pope has invited much of the confusion himself, with both the words he has used and the emphases he has given." If the pope's words were plainly spoken and easily interpreted, whence this confusion McGurn discerns? It is there, to be sure. But, is it the pope's fault? Did he invite this "confusion"?
No. The confusion is the result of the fact that far too many conservative Catholics have spent the better part of three decades trying to convince the rest of us that in order to be a good Catholic, we did need to be "obsessed" with abortion, same-sex marriage and contraception. Interestingly, this charge cannot usually be laid at the feet of your average parish priest. No, it is lay Catholic commentators, and a few prominent bishops, who have made the claim that Catholics must focus on abortion to the exclusion of all other issues in deciding how to vote. It is lay Catholic commentators, and a few prominent bishops, who have opposed same-sex marriage as if it were the be-all and end-all of pastoral solicitude. It is lay Catholic commentators who have conflated the purchase of insurance with the use of contraception, extending the zone of "illicit material cooperation with evil" further than it should be extended.
Of course Pope Francis understands abortion is a sin. And, of course, he understands that the Catholic understanding of marriage is about one man and one woman for a lifetime. And, of course he upholds Humanae Vitae, which is about much more than banning the pill. In fact, most of my Catholic friends on the left will agree that abortion as a sin, but they also view it is a tragedy, a tragedy that requires sympathy for the woman as well as the unborn child. They understand that simply making abortion illegal is unlikely to happen anytime soon, nor, under present circumstances, would it be an effective approach. If we want every child to be protected in law, we have to do more to ensure that every child is welcomed in life. I grant that many, perhaps most, of my RC friends on the left have a tougher time with same-sex marriage and contraception.
This is not the difficulty though, is it? The reason there is confusion about the pope's comments is that some people have – how many times must it be said – reduced religion to ethics. This is what the pope is objecting to: The moral law is derivative of the kerygma, not the other way round. Pope Benedict made this very clear at the very beginning of his encyclical Deus Caritas Est: "Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. Saint John's Gospel describes that event in these words: 'God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should ... have eternal life.' (3:16)" But, our conservative friends tended not to pay much heed to these gems in Benedict's writings. As I have noted before, there is great continuity between Francis and Benedict and John Paul II. What there is not is continuity between Francis and the conservative interpretations of Benedict and John Paul II offered by the likes of Richard John Neuhaus, who dismissed John Paul's call for a conversion of Western lifestyles, and George Weigel, who dismissed whole sections of Benedict's Caritas in Veritate with his red pen, and Michael Novak who really liked the couple of paragraphs he snuck into Centesimus Annus but dismissed the rest.
There is another source of confusion. There is a need in our busy, noisy, often disorienting culture, to seek clarity above all else. We like our natural law syllogisms and they become a kind of Catholic fundamentalism. Again, our conservative friends champion the natural law because, they say, it is not tied to dogma and therefore permits a frank discussion of moral purposes in a multi-cultural, pluralistic society such as ours. But, they do not use natural law that way. They use it to beat their ideological opponents over the head. Not for nothing did Cardinal O'Malley rightly insist at the Knights of Columbus convention that "The truth is not a wet rag that we throw in other people's faces." Like the Holy Father's comment last week about "little monsters," we all knew who the cardinal was speaking about, no?
The cardinals did not select a student of John Finnis for the See of Peter. They chose a pastor. They knew what they wanted and, perhaps beyond their wildest imaginations, they got what they asked for. A pastor knows that clarity is a value but it is also something unlikely to be found in human experience. Human experience is messy. It is, dare we say it, confusing. But, instead of letting this cripple us, and retreating to our moral certainties, Pope Francis embraces the messiness of the world and, on several occasions, has encouraged the rest of us to do so too. He has said, again repeatedly, not to be so worried about making mistakes. He wants us to get out and stretch. The WPFMTS syndrome tries to keep us in a perpetual defensive posture.
The saddest comment in McGurn's piece is not where he describes the pope's comments about trickle down economics as "sad." No, the saddest part comes at the end. He writes:
In his original interview with the Jesuit magazine La Civilta Cattolica, the pope said that when the church talks about its teachings, "we have to talk about them in a context." By that, he means we cannot simply spout orthodoxies to an uncomprehending world.
Pope Francis is right. But it would help if the pope could remember he is not always master of the narrative. His conversations take place within a context that is often out of his control and shaped by those hostile to his message.
Here, McGurn betrays how deeply secularized his own perspective is. A PR analyst may note that Pope Francis is not "in control" of his narrative. A person of faith might note that the narrative is not really "his." A person of faith might note that being "in control" is not the objective of the Christian life. Indeed, a person of faith might note that self-surrender is the essence of Christian discipleship, and it is so because it is Christ, the Lord of History, who is "in control" of His message. And, just as happened when He came the first time round, it is the wise teachers of the law who fail to understand, and the little children and the sinners who grasp the kerygma.
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President Richard William opened the meeting when Orrville Railroad Heritage Society met Sept. 4, with the main topic of discussion being the 2012 Fall Rail Excursion on Oct. 13. A report on ticket sales to date was given, with it being 66 percent sold. Members were asked to take posters and brochures with them to pass out to promote sales. Clipboards were circulated to volunteer members to sign-up for the Wayne County Fair and the fall Jumpin' Pumpkin' train rides on Oct. 27.
The trip safety rules were discussed and members must attend the safety meetings to be allowed to work on the train. An update was given on the fundraising efforts to purchase a first class lounge car. A special fundraising tour of the car will be held Sept. 22. The public is invited to the event to be held at ORHS. The ORHS is going to have a sales booth at the C of C-sponsored all-town yard sale day on Oct. 6. Members were asked to bring items in for the sale.
The next meeting will be Oct. 2 at Orrville Depot Museum.
Stepping Stones Mothers League
Installation of new officers was held when Stepping Stones Mothers League met Sept. 6. They are: president, Kim Jacobs; secretary, Jean Slutz; and treasurer, Dana Phillips. Members then reviewed the books for the coming year.
Jennifer Troyer reported on school news and a donation to the OCCL Scholarship.
The group will tour the Love Center in Millersburg in October. The next meeting is Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. at Carol Jameson's.
Wooster United Methodist Women
Beth McCready of Your Human Resource Center presented the program when the United Methodist Women met Sept. 5 at the church. McCready told of the many programs available at the center. There are programs available for individuals, small and large groups. She has been at the center for 25 years and is a clinical social worker. Last year 850 people were served.
Bea Smith, chairwoman of the reading program, distributed certificates to members who participated in the program. Patty Crook led the devotions.
The fall rummage sale will be Oct. 12-13, and the next meeting will be Oct. 3 at Wooster United Methodist Church for a dinner meeting.


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alot of you motherfuckers attached your image. dont do that shit for battles. now no one can see your image on the bump and they have to go back to see it.
some people voted early. if you want to change your vote, what with the new entries and all, get in here and do it. otherwise im leaving them as they stand.
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Chad. Props to Ibu though, you both have fresh F's.
You can click the attachment vs going back. I suggest opening the attachment in a new tab. My vote stands.
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New word!
How bout "Light(s)" for our new word? with or without the S
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bombing is a poor mans game, if you live above the poverty line we hatin!
I dont know if you noticed but this is a toy thread .... that not a toy throwie lol your way too good for this man.
thanks man im just bored and enjoy writing new words and practicing letters. and there arent any battles posted in the above threads
bombing is a poor mans game, if you live above the poverty line we hatin!
-CesspoolQuoted from the fucking truth!
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seems like this thread died, but I need practice so I thought I'd post up my random entry for crits. Lets see if I remember how to post this.
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Some members of Ravenna City Council are hoping an ordinance to add a dispatcher to the city's police department will appear on tonight's agenda.
The issue was defeated in council's finance committee recently, with Council President Fran Ricciardi breaking the 3-3 tie.
However, Councilman Scott Rainone, who was absent at that meeting, said he would have cast the deciding vote to move the ordinance forward. He said he has reached out to Law Director Frank Cimino to ask if the issue can return to council tonight.
The agenda does not include the measure.
"I would like to see it move forward," Rainone said. "I've been on council for eight years, and I don't remember them voting something down in committee."
The police department has asked council to add a third part-time dispatcher to the city's growing dispatch center. Police Chief Timothy Adkins recently told council's health and safety committee that the dispatch center's call volume has increased dramatically since 2010, when it began to serve fire departments in surrounding townships.
"Our calls have already gone up 66 percent, and we haven't added a soul," Adkins told the panel.
The dispatch center, which traditionally served Ravenna, Rootstown and Charlestown, added the Edinburg, Palmyra, Paris and Deerfield fire departments in a 2010 expansion. Another 600 calls will be added to that, should the department add the Windham Fire Department to its list of clients.
Rainone said the dispatch center is "at the breaking point" now and can't add new clients without increasing staff. Once the note for the improvements to the dispatch center are paid off, he said, the revenue from those departments will support the dispatch activities.
"They're trying to pursue ways to add to our revenue stream so they don't have to ask for money," he said. "We've told the chief to find ways to be innovative."
Earlier in February, council held a work session in which Rainone and council members Frank Seman, Bruce Ribelin, Jack Ferguson and Sharon Spencer indicated their support for the ordinance.
Spencer said she was more comfortable with the proposal after the work session, but came to decide that the city just couldn't afford the extra staff.
"The bottom line is that it is still coming out of the general fund," she said. "We still don't have the money there."
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So why doesn't the city simply bill the places they dispatch for? Then they could hire the people they need. Clearly the city just can't afford to hire anyone. The safety forces seem to be at undermanned and underperforming as it is already
Ramela, Got some more apples and oranges to compare. The flag pole project has NOTHING to do with the city of Ravenna, other than its location. It is owned by the township, and the Save The Flagpole group are raising funds through PRIVATE donations, no tax $$. So, if you are stupid enough to climb it, be my guest, just don't bother trying to sue if you get hurt.
Ravenna's main concern is that stupid ugly flagpole. They want to raise $150,000 to refurbish the ugly piece of junk. Yeah, there ya go. If you could actually raise $150,000 that would be the wisest way to spend that money. NOT. Just because someone said that the lattice structure is the identical method used in constructing the Eiffel Tower, does not mean that you have a little Eiffel Tower right there in Ravenna. If you do raise the money and use it to refurbish the flagpole, then I will just keep climbing it. I will! I'll climb it everyday until it has to be torn down.
Call Major "CHAOS" Kelly at the Sheriff's Office, **** send a couple trusty's over from the jail! FOR FREE!
Here we go geez, still no money. Be innovative. How about abolishing the economic developer and service directors position and bring in some motivation for the city's revenue. Funny how allll the surrounding communities are flourishing, building, making the community to look better more attractive to families. NOPE, not reveena. The only thing flourishing is PMHA, section 8 and Kevin Coleman. BTW, the so called "retirement apartments" being built on Harvest Drive, Ya thats a cover for more section 8 housing. Cuyahoga County is shutting their doors to metropolitan housing, that is why the big boom for Cleveland recipients moving in. You think its bad now....just wait.
Sounds to me if he was so worried he would of been there!
As a tax payer I think I'm going to request a copy of attendence records.
I hear he and the law director rarely attend. Who is really costing the tax payers $!
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The annual kite flying festival involved aerial duels in which participants tried to bring down each other`s kites using string.
Somnath: A large number of enthusiasts from across the world gathered in Somnath, Gujarat, to take part in the International Kite Festival.
The annual kite flying festival, which marks the start of spring, involved aerial duels in which participants tried to bring down each other`s kites using string coated in a sticky paste of ground-up glass or metal.
The festival coincides with Uttarayan, the country`s largest kite festival, during which the entire city takes to the rooftops.
A kite enthusiast, Pooja, said: "I am feeling very happy that different countries are here to participate for this loving kite festival and they are showing keen interest to be here as a participant and they are also appreciating the food, the culture and our hospitality."
"We are glad that other people are coming over here for different festivals also. They are enjoying much. We are also enjoying that the festival is coming over here in our compound and we have got the opportunity to host this festival," she added.
Paul of Britain said: "I have come to Gujarat to show my interest and my passion for kites with the good citizens of Gujarat state. We have had a wonderful time. I have been to three festivals so far and here on the coast, Somnath, is absolutely wonderful."
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This Avaaz.org video 'Stop the Clash of Civilizations' is a powerful plea from ordinary people to bring peace to the international political sphere. We feel so divided from one another in so many ways – language, culture, religion – but in the end we are all human beings who want to live, love and grow our communities.
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Brianna Johnson, of 181 Clement St. in New Sarpy, told police that she got into a fight with her boyfriend, Alonzo Wilkens, at their home at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday night. Johnson told police that when she tried to leave, Wilkens pulled out a gun and forced her to stay during the night. Wilkens then left the home with a friend on Sunday, Johnson said.Later on Sunday, Johnson filed an official report with these allegations and a warrant was issued for Wilkens for false imprisonment, simple battery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. On Wednesday, Johnson recanted her story and told police she made up the allegations because she was angry at Wilkens, according to the Sheriffs Office. Although the warrant was issued for Wilkens, he was never arrested. On Wednesday, the warrant for Wilkens was recalled and he is no longer wanted in connection with the case. Johnson was booked with criminal mischief – false report.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Rex Ryan may borrow a page from his brother's defensive playbook Monday night in an attempt to slow down Atlanta Falcons TE Tony Gonzalez.
In the season opener, Rob Ryan, defensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints, shut down the most prolific tight end in history by jamming at the line with two players. They held him to three catches for 36 yards and a touchdown.
The New England Patriots used the same technique in the final minute of last Sunday night's game. The Falcons, down by a touchdown, had four shots from the Patriots' 13-yard line, but they failed to score. On three of the four plays, they double-jammed Gonzalez at the line. It was pretty remarkable; he was like a gunner being doubled on punt coverage. On the one play he wasn't doubled at the line, the Patriots used a two-man, bracket coverage -- an incomplete pass to Gonzalez.
Gonzalez finished with a career-high 149 yards, but he couldn't deliver in crunch time. The Falcons' red-zone woes continued, and they lost, 30-23.
Asked about the Gonzalez coverage on the final drive, Rex Ryan smiled.
"I certainly saw it against New Orleans as well," he said. "I saw that coverage. [The Patriots] might have seen it, too. So I think I'll give my brother credit for that one first."
Ryan doesn't have fond personal memories of Gonzalez. In the 14th game of the 2009 season, Gonzalez caught a 6-yard touchdown pass in the final minute, lifting the Falcons to a 10-7 win. Afterward, Ryan infamously proclaimed the Jets had been eliminated from playoff contention. He can laugh about now because they made it and reached the AFC Championship Game.
"I knew we'd make the playoffs that year," he joked. "It kind of worked out for us. Another guarantee that I made that never came out.
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A small number of hogs have tested positive for the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) at a high-traffic site in eastern Manitoba, according to the Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO).
Based on the CVO's initial investigation, it is believed the source of the infection was due to environmental contamination from potentially two high-traffic sites, not from the source farms.
A "high-traffic site" as any place where a large number of hogs are moved and handled. Federal and provincial processing facilities, truck-wash stations, livestock assembly yards and livestock trailers all meet the criteria.
The virus, which is most commonly spread by hogs ingesting contaminated feces, has now been confirmed on 57 farms in Canada, including one in Manitoba, one in Prince Edward Island, one in Quebec and 54 in Ontario.
While only one farm has tested positive in Manitoba, testing has confirmed the virus at six other sites.
In the U.S., the virus is estimated to have killed between four and five million hogs.
Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack announced the department will require farmers to report cases in an attempt to slow the spread of the disease.
PEDv causes diarrhea, vomiting and severe dehydration in pigs. While older pigs have a chance of survival, 80 to 100 percent of piglets that contract it die.
This week, there were three new reports of PEDv at high-traffic or environmental sites in Manitoba, but no new reports of suspected PEDv cases on Manitoba pig farms.
The virus is not a food safety issue and it does not affect humans.


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The Oxford English Dictionary has 501 words with first citations from 1961. In that year, we had moon shots, microwaves, and Weight Watchers, but they weren't what you might think; an Italian film gave us the dolce vita and paparazzi; a bratty new dictionary dared to record words like spritzer; advances in technology forced us to reconsider old machines, giving us the reel-to-reel tape recorder and letting us keyboard things into a computer; and for the new astronauts, everything was A-OK.
Events of 1961:
- January: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba; newly inaugurated John F. Kennedy conducts the first televised, live, presidential news conference; Ham the chimp becomes the first American in space; Patrice Lumumba is executed; physicist Erwin Schrödinger and writer Dashiell Hammett die.
- February: Portugal's African colonies begin their war for independence, which will last fourteen years; The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club;.
- March: The U. S. Peace Corps is created.
- April: Yuri Gagarin launches into space aboard Vostok-1; anti-Castro forces attempt an invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
- May: Freedom riders begin to test the U. S. Supreme Court's ruling that segregation of interstate transit is unconstitutional; Alan Shepard becomes the second human in space; President Kennedy announces the plan to send a human to the moon by the decade's end; actor Gary Cooper dies.
- June: Russian dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects while touring France with the Kirov Ballet; Canada's New Democratic Party is founded; Iraq announces plans to annex Kuwait, and British troops are deployed to prevent it; psychologist Carl Jung dies.
- July: Writer Ernest Hemingway and baseballer Ty Cobb die.
- August: The Six Flags Over Texas theme park opens outside of Dallas; the Berlin Wall is constructed.
- September: Merriam-Webster's controversial Third New International Dictionary is published; Architect Eero Saarinen and U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarsjköld die.
- October: Roger Maris hits his sixty-first home run of the season, beating Babe Ruth's 1927 record; the Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton nuclear weapon, the largest ever; Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.
- November: Joseph Heller publishes Catch-22; the United States deploys 18,000 military advisors to Vietnam.
- December: Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death for crimes against humanity; Portugal transfers Goa to India.
The words of 1961:
A-OK, adj. and adv. The space age variant of the old standard makes its appearance.
born-again, adj. That "old-time" religion really isn't. The theological concept of being recreated in Christ is old, so much so that born-again Christian is theologically redundant. But the use of the adjectival phrase to denote an evangelical Christian only dates to the 1960s.
bratty, adj. This adjective is first recorded in Merriam-Webster's 1961 Third New International Dictionary, which is kind of fitting as many considered that dictionary to be a bratty upstart.
dial-up, adj. and n. Starting in 1961, it was possible to connect to a computer network via telephone.
docudrama, n. A nice bit of television jargon makes its way into the mainstream.
dolce vita, n. Frederico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita was first screened in 1960, and by the next year dolce vita, Italian for "sweet life," had made its way into English.
Down, n.4 English physician John Langdon Down first categorized the genetic disability in 1862, calling it mongolism. But after a century, that term had come to be seen as offensive, and the condition was renamed Down syndrome.
Eurocrat, n. A blend of European and bureaucrat, this word's early appearance shows that perceptions of those who manage the bureaucracy in Brussels haven't changed much.
fab, adj. A rather obvious clipping of fabulous.
grok, v. This word, from the Martian meaning to understand something or someone intuitively, makes its English language debut in Robert Heinlein's 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land.
keyboard, v. The advent of computers meant that to type wasn't strictly accurate anymore.
make-or-break, adj. and n. This phrase is older as a verb. The alliterative to make or mar dates to the mid-fifteenth century, and the rhyming to make or break starts to replace it in the late-eighteenth century. But the adjectival use, as in make-or-break attempt, doesn't make it until the 1960s.
mic, n.2 There is an ongoing dispute among audiophiles over whether the abbreviation for microphone should be spelled mike or mic. Mike is the older form, dating to the 1920s. Mic makes its appearance by 1961.
microwave, v. The noun is older, of course. In 1961 the verb to microwave meant "to send signals using microwave frequencies." The use of the verb meaning "to cook food in a microwave oven" dates to the mid-1970s.
moon shot, n.2 One might think, "1961, moon shot;" this word relates to the space program as this is the year that President Kennedy set out the great challenge to go to moon by the decade's end, but it doesn't, at least not directly. The space term dates to 1949. This moon shot is baseball jargon for a ball hit to a great height. But it's still 1961, so the baseball usage could be a figurative use of the space term, but the type of hit was made famous by L. A. Dodger Wally Moon. Undoubtedly the coinage is something of a double entendre, combining Moon's name with the astronautic term, but it shows that in etymology the obvious answer isn't always the right one.
neurotransmitter, n. The class of chemical that carries nerve impulses across the synapses got its name in this year.
New Democrat, n. The Canadian political party was established in 1961.
nocebo, n. A nocebo is the opposite of a placebo, a detrimental effect caused by psychological or psychosomatic factors. Nocebo is Latin for "I will harm."
no-win, adj. Game theory scores a victory by subtly affecting the language with no-win situations.
operating system, n. The computing term boots up for the first time.
paparazzo, n. (and adj.) Another La Dolce Vita word. Paparazzo is the name of a photographer in the film. The word is perhaps more familiar in its plural, paparazzi.
paraquat, n. The class of herbicide gained notoriety in the late 1970s when it was discovered that the U. S. government was spraying paraquat on the Mexican marijuana fields, potentially leading to various negative health effects for those that smoked the pot. But the chemical had been around since 1961.
photorealism, n. The artistic term dates to 1961.
plea bargain, n. The late date of this one surprised me until I realized that the form plea bargaining is older, dating to 1940. The verb to plea bargain comes later and is in place by 1973.
power broker, n. T. H. White's 1961 book The Making of the President, 1960 was an influential book in many ways, but lexically it contains the first known use of power broker.
psyched, adj. Psyched out appears in 1961. Psyched up is in place a couple of years later.
read-only, adj. Another computer term makes its debut.
reel-to-reel, adj. and n. In 1958 RCA Victor introduced the first audio cassette and a need for a retronym for the older style of tape recorders was needed. Hence reel-to-reel.
shitcan, v. The verb meaning "to dispose of something, to fire someone" makes a 1961 appearance, but the noun shitcan, referring to a waste basket, goes back to 1948.
skyjack, v. (and skyjacker, n.) The name for an aerial hijacking takes off.
spritzer, n. This name for a mixture of wine and soda water is first recorded in Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary.
teriyaki, n. The dish of marinated fish or meat makes its way from Japan. [Languagehat has antedated this one to the early twentieth century.]
trade-off, n. This word for compromise looks like it originally arose in engineering circles. The first citation in the OED is in a comparison over various hydrofoil and hovercraft propulsion systems.
Valium, n. Hoffmann-La Roche trademarked this name for diazepam in 1961. The anti-anxiety drug has been calming folks ever since.
Weight Watcher, n. The organization Weight Watchers International wouldn't be founded until two years later, but in 1961 the Low Calorie Candy Company filed for a U. S. trademark on Weight Watcher for its line of desserts.
woody, n. This one is surfer slang for a station wagon (i.e., estate car) with wooden-paneled sides.
Words in the OED that are first recorded in Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary include:
anorectic, n.; attendee, n.; blondish, adj.; bratty, adj.; chemoautotrophically, adv.; conflictual, adj.; copyboard, n.; crispen, v.; cyanogenic, adj.; ecumenics, n.; eukaryote, n.; jeepney, n.; kidnap, n.; macerate, n.; macroglial, adj.; mascara, v.; mashgiach, n.; megadonty, n.; memo, v.; microwave, v.; misstrike, n.; Nanking, n.; neg, adj.2; neuropilar, adj.; panaché. adj. (and n.2); sculpted, adj.; self-blimped, adj.; self-rescuer, n.; semanticize, v.; sequicentenary, n.; skiable, adj.; sleep-in, n. and adj.; solderable, adj.; spritzer, n.; squadrol, n.; stat, n.2; Thailander, n.; thermoneutral, adj.; transvestic, adj.; tribalistic, adj.; trick, adj.2; triple-header, n.; unzipper, v.; vid, n.; wiener, n.; wheel and deal, v.; whichways, adv.
And most fittingly, the first recorded use of descriptivism, n. is in that dictionary.
These words are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, based on that dictionary's earliest citation for that word. Of course, that does not necessarily mean the word was coined in the given year; it only means that is the earliest date the big dictionary has for the word. In many cases, these words can and have been antedated. My selection is not scientific or systematic; it is based on what I think is interesting; sometimes they are words that appear earlier or later than I would have thought; others have a particular historical affiliation for that year or represent some historical trend; and others are just odd words. I'm avoiding back-formations and variations on existing words. Again, be warned that the coining of a word does not necessarily coincide with the invention of a concept. Often, there will be older words that express the same sense.
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Looking to snare a larger share of Internet ad dollars, traditional media companies are launching "vertical ad networks" in which they sell ad bundles of space on their sites and on independent sites with complementary content.
Forbes.com's Business and Finance Blog Network, announced last week, includes more than 450 finance-focused blogs, such as Talking Biz News and Xconomy. Forbes will sell ad space across that network, earning a cut of the revenue from the sites.
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It hopes to attract advertisers by featuring blogs that have been prescreened for "credible" content, says Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has put together an ad network — known as Martha's Circle — that's made up of 25 lifestyle-focused sites such as FriendsEat.com and Christmas-Cookies.com.
Ad space on the partner site typically is sold in packages with space on MarthaStewart.com and MSO's company-owned sites and blogs, which also include The Martha Blog and The Bride's Guide. Advertisers can create their own specialized bundle as well with a la carte site selection.
The rise in vertical ad networks comes as traditional media companies, particularly publishers, try to compete for online ad revenue with giants such as Yahoo and Google. The massive reach of those companies gives them an advantage in luring big chunks of the $20 billion-plus being spent annually on Internet advertising, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
Yahoo's ad network had 157 million unique visitors in February alone, according to ComScore Media Metrix. Google's network had 147 million.
Media companies' niche networks draw just a sliver of that audience. For instance, Martha's Circle had 3.9 million unique visitors in February, according to technology company Adify, which specializes in vertical ad network infrastructure.
In addition to working with MSO, Adify has about 65 other clients, such as Warner Bros., which has a mom-focused vertical ad network; International Data Group (IDG), which has a technology-oriented network; and iVillage, which has both health- and parenting-focused ad networks.
While vertical ad networks can't match the reach of a Google or Yahoo, they offer advertisers "a more targeted audience" with selected sites that are aligned with the network's overall theme, says Joelle Kaufman, Adify's head of media operations.
"All these networks have such different personalities," she says. For example, "IDG (sites) have cutting-edge widgets, while Martha Stewart has high-quality, beautifully designed sites."
Finding partners for Martha's Circle took some work. "They are really vetted," says Wenda Harris Millard, MSO's president of media. The company uses what it calls "careful curation" to be able to assure advertisers such as Ace Hardware, Macy's and Bank of America that their ads won't run next to inappropriate content.
Smaller sites that link up with companies such as MSO and Forbes have financial incentives to join such a network. "Those independently published blogs and websites are good quality," says Adify's Kaufman, but they often don't have the clout to get a meeting with major marketers or top-tier ad agencies. By joining a branded network, they can bring in more money.
While vertical ad networks are a relatively new concept, many more are expected to sprout this year.
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IES Consulting performed dynamic simulations toward optimising the warehouse storage of a supermarket distribution centre.
IES Consulting used CFD modelling to investigate the thermal response heavy mass construction may have on heating and cooling system performance.
IES Consulting performed BREEAM calculations for Coulsdon College in Old Coulsdon near Croydon.
IES Consulting performed overheating and Part L compliance simulations on this world class research facility.
IES Consulting performed daylighting analysis for BREEAM credit Hea 01 using IES-Radiance.
IES Consulting provided an expert accredited Level 5 EPC assessment.
IES Consulting were commissioned to investigate the new Erbil International Airport terminal's potential energy consumption.
IES Consulting performed CFD analysis on the Southampton Cruise Terminal to assess the internal airflow patterns.
IES Consulting assessed the A rated Section 6 EPC on the John Wheatley College, East End Campus in Glasgow.
IES Consulting modelled the release of potentially toxic fumigants from high level flue stacks using CFD.
IES Consulting modelled the release of contaminants from a rooftop air handling unit using CFD.
IES Consulting used CFD to model this flagship London data hall with in excess of 750 cabinets.
IES Consulting used CFD modelling to investigate the air movement within the Kuwait University Auditorium.
IES Consulting used CFD to model the air flows and movement of soil particulates in the analysis of this treatment facility.
IES Consulting used CFD to model the airflows within a combined heat and power plant belonging to United Utilities.
IES Consulting were commissioned to assess overheating potential on Skinners' Academy in Kent.
IES Consulting performed daylighting, CIBSE Loads, dynamic thermal simulations and Part L 2010 calculations on Springfield Primary School.
IES Consulting performed thermal comfort and plant load analysis for an extension to The Berkeley Hotel, Knightsbridge.
IES Consulting provided Level 5 EPC compliance modelling for the Portman House development in central London.
IES Consulting provided Level 5 EPC compliance modelling for the MidCity Place development in central London.
IES Consulting provided Level 5 EPC compliance modelling for the Portland House development in central London.
IES Consulting performed a thermal comfort study on the The Barberry, National Centre for Mental Health in Birmingham
IES investigate internal comfort conditions using CFD on the penthouse glazed "Lantern" space.
IES Consulting were appointed to run dynamic thermal simulations on large sections of the Bridges Shopping Centre
IES Consulting were commissioned by RMA Architekten to perform an overheating, comfort and energy analysis for the Faurecia Hagenbach ISBG Research Centre.
IES Consulting performed thermal modelling and CFD analysis on Aviator Park Buildings A & F.
IES Consulting performed energy modelling for LEED EAp2 and EAC1 on this concept shopping mall development in Cairo, Egypt.
IES Consulting were appointed to carry out daylight and energy modeling of the Tesco development in Tain, Scotland.
IES Consulting appointed to perform daylight modeling of a new Sainsburys supermarket development in Carlisle.


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Applications Are Invited Upto 5.45 P.M On 29-12-2006 For Direct Recruitment To The Following Posts Coming Under The Combined Engineering Services Examination (Service Code No. 011)
1.Assistant Engineer (Civil) In Water Resources Organisation and Building Organisation In The Public Works Department In The Tamil Nadu Engineering Service. (Vacancies For The Years Upto 2006).
2. Assistant Engineer (Civil / Mechanical) In The Highways Department In The Tamil Nadu Highways Engineering Service (Vacancies For The Years 2003-2006).
3. Junior Electrical Inspector In The Tamil Nadu Electrical Inspectorate Service (Vacancies For The Years Up To 2006)
4. Assistant Inspector Of Factories In The Tamil Nadu Factory Service (Vacancies For The Years 1999-2000)
5. Assistant Engineer In The Rural Development And Panchayat Raj Department In The Engineering Branch In The Tamil Nadu Panchayat Development Service (Vacancies For The Years 2006-2007).
a) Assistant Engineer (Civil )in Water Resources Organisation, PWD - 449
b) Assistant Engineer (Civil )in Building Organisation, PWD - 120
2. Assistant Engineer (Civil/Mechanical) in Highways Department. (Civil -195, Mechanical -20)- 215
Candidates should use only the OMR application forms purchased either from the Head Post Offices or from the sales counter of the Commission's office. The application forms will not be supplied to the candidates by post. No other typed or printed or xeroxed / Photocopy of the application form will be accepted and such application will be summarily rejected.
Candidates can also avail themselves of the facility of applying on 'Online' on the Commission's Website "
" or at "
" Candidates should possess and keep ready Demand draft for Rs.155/- (i.e. Application fee of Rs.30/- and Examination Fee of Rs.125). before Registering on Online. Candidates claiming exemption from payment of Examination fee should possess and keep ready Demand draft of Rs. 30/- towards the application fee. Candidates applying through Online shall abide by the Commission's Instructions laid down in this Notification / Advertisement. (Candidates applying through Online should send the applications (i.e. printout taken from online duly signed by the candidate) along with required copies of certificates and Demand draft so as to reach the Commission's office on or before the last date for receipt of applications failing which, their application will be rejected).
A member of the Adi Dravidar castes viz. SCs on conversion to Sikh or Buddhism will be entitled to the concession admissible to Adi Dravidar castes (Hindu) (SCs).
The selection will be made following the rule of reservation of appointments including for 30% reservation of vacancies for women and 3% reservation of vacancies for Physically Handicapped candidates for deaf and orthopaedically handicapped. Blind candidates are not eligible to apply for these posts. The individual shall produce a certificate of physical fitness from the Medical Board to the effect that their Handicap will not affect the performance of the job to which he / she has been selected before appointment. (Reservation for Physically handicapped persons will not apply to recruitment to the posts of Junior Electrical Inspector, Assistant Inspector of Factories and Assistant Engineer in the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department)
The number of vacancies advertised is only approximate and is liable to modification with reference to vacancy position at any time before or at the time of actual recruitment. (vi) Recruitment to these posts is subject to the result of various cases filed in the High Court, Chennai, which are still pending.
If no qualified and suitable Woman candidates are available for selection, against the vacancies reserved for them, those vacancies will be filled by male candidates belonging to the respective communal categories.
If no qualified and suitable Physically Handicapped candidates are available for selection against 3% reservation, the vacancies will be filled by the candidates who are not Physically Handicapped belonging to the respective communal category.
Preference given to "Destitute Widows" announced in paragraph 6(A) of the Commission's "Instructions, etc. to candidates" will not apply to this recruitment.
5. AGE : (Common for all the posts) Below 30 years as on 01-07-2006. Note:- (i) Age Concession of 5 years in the maximum age limit would be applicable to unemployed youth and those who are already in Government Service as per G.O.Ms.No.98, P & AR (S), dated 17.7.2006 and G.O.Ms.No.152, P & AR (S), dated 18.9.2006.
No age limit for SCs / STs, MBCs / DCs, BCs and Destitute Widows of all castes. Explanation: The term "Destitute Widow" has been defined in the 'Note' under paragraph 4(A) of the Commission's "Instructions, etc. to Candidates". In the above said 'Note', the monthly income of Rs.1000/- for Destitute Widow, should be read as Rs.4000/-. (Some more details regarding concessions have been given in paragraph 14 below).
Candidates should possess the following or its equivalent qualification on the date of this Notification viz. 30.11.2006.
(b) Assistant Engineer (Civil) in Buildings Organisation, Public Works Department.
OR A pass in Sections A and B of the Institution Examinations under Civil Engineering branch, subject to the following further conditions namely:-
Proviso to be read with the qualifications relating to all the above posts except Assistant Inspector of Factories.
Provided that other things being equal, preference shall be given to those who have undergone one year Apprenticeship Training under the Government of India Scheme or the State Government Apprenticeship Scheme.
(Some more details regarding qualification have been given in para 5 of the Commission's "Instructions, etc. to candidates")
7. EXAMINATION FEE: Rs.125/- (Rupees One hundred and twenty five only) by means of a crossed account payee Demand Draft obtained on or after 1.12.2006. (For further details except fee please refer paragraph 2 under Part III of the Information Brochure).
A candidate selected for appointment to any of the above posts will be required to produce a certificate of physical fitness in the form prescribed for "Executive Posts".
The standard of vision required for the post of Assistant Engineer (Civil) in Public Works Department and Junior Electrical Inspector are 'Standard III or better' and for the post of Assistant Engineer (Civil / Mechanical) in Highways Department, Assistant Inspector of Factories and Assistant Engineer in the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department are "Standard II or better". For appointment to any of the above posts, colour blindness will be a disqualification. Night blindness will also be disqualification for the post of Assistant Inspector of Factories.
The selection will be made in two successive stages i.e., (i) Written Examination and (ii) Oral Test in the shape of an interview. The final selection will be made on the basis of the total marks obtained by the candidates at the Written Examination and Oral Test taken together subject to the rule of reservation of appointments. Candidate's appearance both in the Written Examination and Oral Test is compulsory. A candidate who has not appeared for the Oral Test will not be considered for selection even if he / she secures in the Written Examination the qualifying marks for selection. (For details please refer paragraph 6(b) of the Information Brochure under Part III).
The scheme of Written Examination and Oral Test has been given in Annexure to this Notification / Advertisement.
Candidates should choose and write the Examination at any one of the centres mentioned above.
Candidates will be required to appear for the Written Examination at the Centre chosen in their applications at their own expenses.
Requests for change of Centre will not be complied with. The Commission reserves the right to increase or decrease the number of examination centres taking in to account the number of applications received for this recruitment and to re-allot the candidates to the nearest place of their residence.
A candidate who applies for more than one posts with the same qualification should specify in column 23 of the OMR application form the order of preference as to the posts to which he/she wishes to be selected. (For further details in this regard, please refer paragraph 3 under Part –III of the Information Brochure).
The Candidates should enclose all the copies of certificates mentioned in Para 4 of Information Brochure, Under Part III along with a Demand Draft to the value of Rs.125/- (Rupees One Hundred and twenty five only) unless exemption of fee is claimed. Original Certificates should not be sent. Those applying through Online shall also send the copy of certificates as required in the Instructions. Besides the above, the candidate who apply for the post of Assistant engineer (Civil) in PWD should send a copy of any or both the following certificates, if applicable:
Evidence for having undergone practical training in surveying for a period of not less than one year (if applicable)
Certificate for having put in service for a period of not less than one year in P.W.D as Overseer or Junior Engineer (If applicable).
The OMR application form, along with an INFORMATION BROCHURE containing General Instructions for filling up the application form, an acknowledgement card, Commission's "Instructions, etc. to candidates" and an envelope for sending application can be obtained from any one of the HEAD POST OFFICES in Tamil Nadu or from the Head Post Office, Puducherry or from the Post Office of Lalgudi or Virudhachalam on payment of Rs.30/- (Rupees Thirty only). (The list showing names of Post Offices is available on the Internet in the Commission's website
www.tnpsc.org or at
The application forms can also be obtained in person from the sales counter of the office of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, Omanthoorar Government Estate, Chennai-600 002, till 5.15 p.m. of the closing date without lunch interval, on requisition in writing either in English or in Tamil specifying the name of the Post and Advertisement number with a Crossed Indian Postal Order or Crossed Account Payee Demand Draft to the value of Rs.30/- (Rupees Thirty only) obtained on or after 1.12.2006
The Crossed Indian Postal Orders should be payable to the Secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, Chennai-600 002 at the Anna Salai Head Post Office, Chennai-600 002. The Crossed Account Payee Demand Draft obtained from any branch of the State Bank of India should be payable to the Secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission, Chennai-600 002 at the State Bank of India, Service Branch (8443) Chennai. If it has been obtained from any other bank, it should be payable to the above authority at Chennai.
Column 11 of the OMR application form need not be filled by the candidates. Columns 1,3 and 4 in the OMR application should be filled up only with reference to the details available in this advertisement.
Concessions in the matter of age, and / or fees allowed to SCs, STs, MBCs/DCs, BCs, Destitute Widows, Ex-Servicemen, Physically Handicapped persons, discharged and serving temporary State Government employees below 40 years of age, etc. are given in the Commission's "Instructions, etc. to candidates".
The Physically Handicapped candidates should mention at the top of their application as "This application relates to a Physically Handicapped candidate".
The candidates can utilise the "SPEED POST" Services wherever available, for mailing their applications to Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission.
The existing syllabi for the above subjects under, Paper-I & Paper-II have been clubbed together and constituted as a Single syllabus. A single question paper in the said syllabus is to be answered by the candidates in their respective subjects. The said question paper will be set in English only.
Candidate should specify in Col.22 viz. Optional Subject 1.(though the subject to be specified by the candidate is not an optional subject) of their application forms the subject in which they have to answer. They should choose only the subject in which they have obtained the qualification.
The syllabi for these posts are made available in the Commission's Website
www.tnpsc.org and
and has also been published in the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Bulletin, dated 16.05.2001.
The subject paper Civil Engineering will consist of questions in Civil and Structural Engineering.


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'Golden Sisters' Hilariously React to Beyonce's 'Drunk in Love' Lyrics
By Hayley Lobel
Reality stars Golden Sisters were recently featured in a video in which they read and analyzed Beyonce's raunchy "Drunk in Love" lyrics. In the new clip, Mary, Josie, and Teresa react to Queen Bey's lewd lyrics and laugh and joke about the shocking song content during an afternoon lunch.
The women were seemingly unimpressed by the Kanye West remix of the chart-topping hit, which has even raunchier lyrics. They were also confused to whether he's a rapper or a basketball player. Last month, Mary, Josie, and Teresa discussed whether or not Justin Bieber should be deported after all his legal troubles. Watch:


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Verizon (NYSE:VZ) is trying to up the ante in its bid to gain more broadband- and data-hungry customers.
The nation's largest wireless operator said that it will double the number of markets where it offers 4G LTE coverage for its customers by year's end, and that for the rest of 2012 most of the mobile devices added to its inventory will be compatible with LTE.
Verizon already has about 200 million subscribers who can access its 4G LTE network, which downloads movies, photos and music up to 10 times faster than 3G networks or 4G systems that have not yet upgraded to LTE.
With its expansion to more new markets, Verizon claims, its 4G LTE network will serve more than 260 million subscribers by the end of the year. David Small, Verizon Wireless' chief technical officer, said Alaska would be the only state without 4G LTE service before 2013. By the end of that year, though, Verizon's entire network is expected to be 4G LTE capable.
AT&T (NYSE:T), by comparison, expects to offer 4G LTE coverage to 150 million Americans by the end of 2012 and also complete its network upgrade in 2013. Sprint (NYSE:S) has a similar goal, including complete conversion to 4G LTE by the end of 2013, but its coverage will be available to a fewer customers this year. Deutsche Telekom's (PINK:DTEGY) USA T-Mobile, meanwhile, is not expected to offer any LTE coverage until next year.
The carriers are investing in LTE (long-term evolution, a high-speed wireless technology) to attract customers willing to spend more on subscriber plans that will allow their mobile devices to handle data-intensive tasks, such downloading movies, music, and photos, relatively quickly. A fully loaded LTE network would provide data rates of 5 to 12 megabits per second (Mbps) on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink.
Aligning hardware with network capabilities
Many of Verizon's customers who live in markets where 4G LTE connectivity is available are unable to take advantage of it, though, because they are still using 3G phones and tablets, particularly older versions of Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and iPad. With the new, LTE-compatible iPad available in stores beginning March 16, Verizon is positioning itself to be the carrier of choice for the tablet and for any mobile-device user considering an equipment upgrade.
In addition, Verizon will be introducing only 4G-capable phones for the remainder of the year.
With so many U.S. customers choosing Apple's iPhone, Verizon's shift to LTE devices in its inventory further bolsters the notion that the next iPhone — usually referred to as the iPhone 5 — will, like the new iPad, most certainly be compatible with 4G LTE when it is released later this year. That also could give Verizon leverage should it raise data rates or introduce new pricing plans.
When 3G phones were introduced, subscribers who bought the phones typically purchased data plans that would allow them to use all of their phone's features. The fees for those plans helped wireless operators offset the subsidies the carriers paid to phone makers so they could sell the phones at a discount and attract more customers.
Similar data plans likely will be sold with 4G devices, although Verizon may introduce rates that more accurately reflect the amount of data each subscriber uses. That could help keep the network from becoming overburdened and appease customers who don't want to pay for data they're unlikely to use.
Because they are being implemented relatively quickly, Verizon's 4G LTE upgrades should give the New Jersey-based operator an advantage with prospective customers looking for faster Internet access for their iPad and other mobile devices now through the holiday season.


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One of the first posts that I wrote on my blog 5+ years ago was about our dog Espn (back then he was still a puppy) and the time he came home with six ticks after a walk at a near by park.
Those six ticks ended up costing us $400+ between grooming, sprays for our dog, sprays for our home and miscellaneous other products. It was a nightmare!
Since then he has picked up more ticks, but not as bad as the first time. Usually he only has one every now and then. To cut down on the flea and tick exposure we don't take him to dog parks or local parks. We keep him around our condo complex. We hate limiting where he goes but we cannot afford a similar situation where he picks up a lot of ticks.
With five cats at home, if Espn brings home a tick – or worse yet fleas – we're doomed! I can't imagine all our pets infected with fleas and/or ticks. With all our pets those nasty critters will think they died and went to heaven with all the meals they could get from our pets.
We're used gels, sprays and collars to keep the fleas and ticks away. Knock on wood – we've never had any flea issues (thankfully) but ticks still present a problem.
Last year my husband woke up in the morning and found a tick on his chest UNDER his shirt. That means it was crawling around in bed with us. Gross!!!
My husband used my salad dressing dispenser to put the tick in so I could take it to get tested for Lymes (it was negative). The people at the college who tested it wanted to know if I wanted my salad dressing dispenser back. Ewwww!!! No way!
We live in a condo complex. We're in the back of the complex. The board wants people to walk their dogs at the front of the complex (you would think they would want people in the back and out of sight). People do that but the never clean up after their dogs. Because they don't clean up the landscapers won't tend to the "dog walk" area. Because of that the grass and weeds are knee high – a perfect place for ticks to hide out waiting for an unsuspecting victim. Because of that I refuse to walk our dog there. I walk him close to our condo complex to limit this flea and tick exposure.
I see a lot of commercials on TV for flea and tick products. It's hard to tell what works and what doesn't work. I also worry about using harsh toxic chemicals around my pets and children.
I think the topical ones work the best, but they have to be applied monthly. I'm lucky if I remember to take my own medications daily, let alone something I need to give monthly. I would rather have something that I do once and have it last a long time, like several months at a time.
To help make flea and tick protection simple for pet owners Bayer launched Seresto – a breakthrough collar that offers eight months of effective flea and tick protection for both dogs and cats.
- Seresto provides the performance you expect from a topical in an easy-to-use, convenient collar, that:
- Eliminates the inconvenience of topicals and works just as effectively.
- Only requires one application and lasts longer than just one month (eight months instead of one month).
- Comes in one size for cats and two sizes for dogs at select veterinary clinics and pet specialty stores.
Seresto sent me a collar to review with our dog Espn.
The collar was super easy to put on. I was also able to take it off and put it back on when I took Espn to the groomer. I wasn't sure how well the collar would work with Espn getting a bath so I just removed it before he left and put it back on when he got home. It was also easy to cut off the excess.
Scientifically speaking I cannot tell you how well the collar works. From a pet owner's perspective – so far, so good. We've never had a flea problem (thankfully), only tick problems on occasion. So far we've seen no ticks on Espn. Either the collar is working or we've just been lucky. In any event I feel better knowing that Espn as protection instead of no protection at all. Another words "better safe than sorry".
I questioned the company to make sure the collars were safe for my cats but also my children. Our cats love to play with Espn, and they bite at each other (playfully). I wanted to make sure the collar was safe enough in case one of the cats accidentally got it in their mouth or on their paws/fur.
As far as it being safe for cats, the answer is yes. The collars were tested extensively on both young and adult cats and dogs. Because it's effective for an 8-month period, the ingredients are much less concentrated than that of a topical treatment. The collar's controlled-release system therefore limits the amount of active ingredient available for absorption or oral ingestion by a cat.
As far as kids go, the ingredients in Seresto have been evaluated in long-term toxicological studies. They are modern parasiticides that have a high safety margin for mammals in general. Seresto was fully evaluated for use as indicated and is considered safe. Nevertheless, as with any pesticide product, do not allow small children to play with the collar (or the optional reflector clips) or to put them into their mouths.
Knowing that the collar is safe for all my pets, and I don't have to remember to apply flea and tick prevention on a monthly basis, Seresto gets two thumbs up from me.
I've seen the collars sold online (PetSmart around $55 each, Petco around $60). You can also purchase them at local veterinary offices. There is a product locator on their website, SerestoPet.com.
In addition, on the site you can also…
- Set a reminder and get a rebate on a Seresto collar ($20 rebate)
- Join the PetParents online community.
*I received a free product sample in order to do this review. The opinions expressed are my own and not influenced in any way.


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A Wisconsin man fell 300 feet to his death in south-central Utah's Eagle Canyon, the Emery County Sheriff's Office said.
Sheriff's Lt. Robert Blackburn said the victim, who has been identified as 19-year-old Donovan Campbell, of River Falls, Wis., was found about 4 p.m. Saturday.
The victim's truck was found parked on Interstate 70 at the top of the canyon by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper, who then spotted the body in the ravine below the cliff.
Sheriff's dispatchers checked the car's VIN number, which indicated the driver was "missing/endangered person from out-of-state," according to a news release.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that Campbell who had been reported missing by his family on April 5 may have been depressed, though a cause of death was still under investigation on Monday.
The Utah State Medical Examiner's Office took custody of the body and planned an autopsy.
Donovan, a mathematics major, was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
He reportedly had visited the Eagle Canyon area before while on vacation.
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