Apple’s CEO announced the new iPhone 5 today. During his presentation Tim Cook called the device the company’s thinnest, lightest smartphone ever. The phone will run on higher speed LTE networks. The iPhone 5 is made out of glass and aluminum. It has a larger screen that now shows five rows of icons. It looks really
We enjoy reading the The New York Times including its Metropolitan Diary column. The newspaper just published this conversation as one of its “Tales From The City”: Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, 8:30 a.m. Overheard on the M96: Riding the crosstown bus on a steamy summer morning crowded with freshly showered folk en route to work, I overheard
We’re sorry it took us so long to get to this request from one of Roscoe the Bed Bug Dog’s Facebook fans. Let us tell you a story about a Boll Weevil (which if you didn’t know is a beetle that lives in cotton fields) ….. Here’s the song as Leadbelly’s 1934 blues recording, and Brooke
We’ve long warned that rodents (and the parasites they carry) are not just a nuisance, they pose serious direct health threats, as well as indirect health threats. Rodents carry viruses and other problems that can result in complaints, violations, fines and even litigation. In case you missed it this weekend, the Associated Press reported “Mouse-Borne
It’s Back To School for students, families, teachers, and administrators nationwide! It’s important for schools to be prepared for many things during the 2012-3 school year – not least of which is bed bugs! The government has provided fresh resources for school districts to teach their staff about this widespread epidemic. We encourage schools, teachers, and
Did you read our blog post and ask “Who?” and “What?” Twenty seven years ago this August we got home from summer camp and had to catch up on the movies we missed, especially “Back To The Future,” which was the big hit of 1985. (Spoiler Alert for anyone who hasn’t seen this classic.) At
Be careful outside this year! West Nile virus cases have reached record levels in the US. Climate changes causing heat waves and droughts are thought to be among the reasons, with higher temperatures fostering faster reproduction of both the mosquito and the virus. As Reuters reported: A total of 1,590 cases of West Nile virus, including
They says politics make strange bed fellows. While we are NOT political in this blog or as a company, we do know all about strange bed fellows. Don’t worry, we’re not going to comment on politics even though the national political conventions are taking place this week and next. We appreciate how political cartoonists use their art for very
How bad are New York City’s rat and rodent problems this summer? See this excerpt from the recent New York Times’ article on the NY Rat Academy’s classes on the Upper West Side: Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, welcomed the students. “The rats on my block, they don’t scurry anymore,” he said, noting that
How big a problem are bird collisions for planes? They’ve quintupled in the last 20 years! See the AP’s new article: An audit of the Federal Airline Administration’s efforts to curb bird strikes of airplanes cited a five-fold increase in bird strikes over the last two decades, from 1,770 reported in 1990 to 9,840 reported