Contrary to what some of the e-mail campaigns are saying, the federal government does not maintain and is not establishing a separate Do-Not-Call list for wireless phone numbers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established the national Do-Not-Call list to enable consumers to reduce the number of unwanted telemarketing calls to their residential or personal wireless phones. Wireless phone subscribers have always been able to add their personal wireless phone numbers to the national Do-Not-Call list, either online at www.donotcall.gov, or by calling toll-free to 1-888-382-1222 from the phone number they wish to register. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/truthaboutcellphones.html

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that will prohibit California drivers from text messaging beginning January 1. He signed Senate Bill 28, authored by Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, that bans the use of an electronic wireless communications device to write, send, or read a text-based communication while driving a motor vehicle. There will be a fine of $20 for a first offense and $50 for each subsequent offense. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/09/22/daily78.html


Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/cent.htm

World’s Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, 1893
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/colum.htm

Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/pan.htm

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/louis.htm

Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/sesqui.htm

Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/progres.htm

New York World’s Fair, 1939
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/york.htm

Exposition fiction list, 1851-1992
http://www.csufresno.edu/library/subjectresources/specialcollections/Expofictionlist.pdf

What’s in a name? Born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885), at the age of 17, Grant entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, after securing a nomination through his U.S. Congressman, Thomas L. Hamer. Hamer erroneously nominated him as "Ulysses S. Grant of Ohio," knowing Grant's mother's maiden name was Simpson and forgetting that Grant was referred to in his youth as "H. Ulysses Grant" or "Lyss." Grant wrote his name in the entrance register as "Ulysses Hiram Grant" (concerned that he would otherwise become known by his initials, H.U.G.), but the school administration refused to accept any name other than the nominated form. Grant adopted the form of his new name with middle initial only. Because "U.S." also stands for "Uncle Sam," Grant's nickname became "Sam" among his army colleagues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant

Words from the Anglo-Norman legal system form the primary basis for the vocabulary of our modern legal system. A defendant is summoned to court, from the Old French cort, from the Latin word for yard. If it's a civil affair, one might hope that all people "present at court" (the original meaning of courtier) will be courteous, which originally meant "having manners fit for a royal court." A complaint is filed by the plaintiff, from the Old French word plaintive — a "lamentation" — which is itself derived from a Latin word, planctus, meaning "beating of the breast." During the course of a trial, both sides usually introduce evidence, from Old French meaning "obvious to the eye or mind." It's a word composed of the French prefix e ("out" as in evict) and videre "to see." Evidence is laid out for everyone to see. Perhaps the defendant is in fact a felon, from the Old French word felon, which meant "wicked" or "a wicked person."
During a court hearing and in other legal matters, attorneys advocate and provide advocacy, words that came into Middle English from Old French, from a verb that meant "to call to one's aid." The voc root is also part of words like vocabulary, vocalize, vocation, vociferous, voice, vouch, voucher, vowel, equivocate, evocatory, provoke, and revoke. A verdict could be made by a group of peers, a jury, from the Old French juree, an oath or inquiry. Or perhaps the judge will enter a judgment in the final stages of the judicial process and justice will have been served. These are words that came into English through French, and all revolve around the Latin root jus — "law" and also "right." The Writer’s Almanac

Imagine this: No six-week LSAT review course. No struggling with those blasted “logic” problems. A world of LSAT-free law school admission is coming to Michigan law school, according to a report on its Web site announcing the Wolverine Scholars Program. Here’s how it works: UM undergrads who have at least completed their junior year and at most are scheduled to graduate in Winter or Spring 2009 and who have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.80 are eligible to apply to the law school without taking the LSAT. WSJ Law Blog September 25, 2008

September 26 is the birthday of T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot, (books by this author) born in Saint Louis (1888), who is the author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915) and "The Waste Land" (1922). The Writer’s Almanac