12.31
0 Comments | The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA, Jul 31, 2009 | by LARRY PRINTZ
Uncle Sam’s “Car Allowance Rebate System,” known to you and me as “cash for clunkers,” or CARS, is under way. The program entices car buyers to trade in their old cars for new ones in return for a credit of $3,500 or $4,500, if their old cars meet certain requirements.
The credit applies to the purchase of a new car or truck. Vehicles must be priced under $45,000. Trade-ins must be registered and insured the year preceding the trade-in, be in driveable condition and be less than 25 years old. (Cars older than that are considered antiques.) One last caveat: Trade-ins must have a combined EPA city/highway fuel economy of 18 mpg or less.
New-car dealers are thrilled.
But car hobbyists have reservations, says Chesapeake resident Terry Bond, vice president of the Antique Automobile Club of America.
“It’s not as ill-received as when it was first proposed, but there’s still lots of concern ,” Bond says.
That’s because once the older vehicles are traded, they must be shredded, although non-driveline parts can be removed beforehand. It’s the possibility of whole vehicles being destroyed that has enthusiasts concerned
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12.31
0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Dec 3, 2009
Julie C. Allen
1924 ~ 2009
Julie Cuthbert Allen, 85, died peacefully on December 1, 2009, of causes incident to age, at her home in Salt Lake surrounded by herposterity.
Julie was born April 5, 1924 to Thomas Blair Cuthbert and Helen Crosbie Cuthbert in Salt Lake City. She attended Uintah Elementary School, Westminister High School and the University of Utah. While on campus at the “U”, she affiliated with Kappa Kappa Gama and remained an active supporter of that sorority throughout her life, receiving an outstanding Alumnae award in 1992. While at the U, she was also an active member of Mortar Board and was selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and the Beehive Honor Society in recognition of her high academic achievements and service to the institution. Julie also served as Junior class secretary and as Senior class secretary. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947. She earned a teaching certificate and taught elementary school for three years.
Julie married Franklin J. Allen on December 23, 1947 and remained his loving and faithful companion until his death in 1987.
Julie was active in the Salt Lake Junior League and the Assistance League of Salt Lake City. She served on the University of Utah Alumni Board and was also a member of the Bicentennial Committees for Salt Lake County and the University of Utah. She served as an election judge for three years and was actively involved with United Fund. She was a member of the Theatre Guild, the Ballet Guild, the Multiple Sclerosis Board and was American Field Service Chairperson for three years. She served as president of the Alumni Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority and as chairman of its House Board. Julie was also a member of the Kearns Mansion Showcase Committee, the YWCA Board and the Fine Arts Museum Board, for which she served as treasurer. Julie was also an active member of the Town Club.
An avid bridge player, Julie became the first life master – American Contract Bridge League Member in Utah and taught bridge for 20 years. With four other women, Julie organized three venture capital corporations, serving as secretary of one of them and president of another of them which merged with a Louisiana oil company.
Julie loved crafts. She met regularly with a group of women who handcrafted items for sale at Westminster College fund raising events. She also loved to travel and traveled extensively throughout the world despite being burdened with physical handicaps including an impaired leg due to polio which she contracted in the Winter of her sophomore year of college.
Julie adored and was adored by her daughter, son-in-law, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Franklin J. Allen, and her brother Thomas C. Cuthbert. She is survived by her daughter, Victoria A. Mortensen (Douglas), her four grandchildren, Richard F. Mortensen (Martha), Molly M. Rice (Spencer), Thomas A. Mortensen (Jamie), Joseph D. Mortensen (Lynsie) and six great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at the Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South on Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. Friends may call at a viewing on Friday evening between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary and prior to the memorial service between 10:00 and 10:50 a.m. Interment at Salt Lake City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to University Health Sciences Development, 540 Arapeen Dr., Ste
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12.29
Market Wire, December, 2009
3G Americas, a wireless industry trade
association representing the GSM family of technologies including LTE,
today announced that it has published an educational report titled, “The Benefits of SON in LTE” , to increase understanding of the
improvements in network management that have been developed through 3GPP
standards — Release 8, Release 9 and beyond.
Self-Optimizing and Self-Organizing Networks, called SON, can significantly
improve network management performance, helping operators and their
customers. The 3GPP standards organization is standardizing self-optimizing
and self-organizing capabilities for LTE. LTE SON will leverage network
intelligence, automation and network management features in order to
automate the configuration and optimization of wireless networks, thereby
increasing efficiency as well as improving network performance and
flexibility.
“The time is right for SON as wireless carriers’ networks have increasing
mobile broadband demand and a high level of complexity,” said Chris
Pearson, President of 3G Americas. “The good news is that smartphones,
netbooks and emerging classes of mobile devices are driving significant
growth of wireless data usage. However, operators will need to continue to
significantly improve network management capabilities to efficiently meet
the demands of this new mobile broadband world.”
“The Benefits of SON in LTE” describes the motivation behind SON and
provides an overview of key SON features contained in Releases 8 and 9 that
will serve as a solution for network operators. Motivations for operators
to deploy SON include:
-- Wireless service providers must now support a growing number of higher-
bandwidth data applications and services on their networks
-- Operators must drive down the delivery cost per bit
-- Radio access network complexity will increase through additions of
small cells such as femtocells, picocells as well as WiFi access points to
increase and improve coverage and capacity
These and other trends portend ever-increasing demands upon service
providers in the areas of network performance and operations.
Initial solutions are offered in the 3GPP Release 8 specifications, which
were completed in March 2009, and include SON features such as automatic
inventory, software download, neighbor relations and PCI assignment that
would be built over 3GPP network management architecture. LTE SON features
begin with 3GPP Release 8 and evolve with the expected LTE network
evolution stages
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12.27
In defining “Trans-Sexual” or “Cross-Sexual” were are referring to sexuality that crosses boundaries of the male and the female, allowing them to realize a reversal in sexual function and roles. What does “French” kissing have to do with this?
Biologists believe that the reason humans kiss is because of previous modeling in the history of our species. It is believed that babies, after they finished breast feeding, would be given food via the mother’s mouth. What would happen is that the mother would take food into her mouth, masticate (chew) it, then feed the infant by locking her lips on the infant’s lips; and thus moving the food into the infant’s mouth using her tongue and lips. With the advent of “baby food” there is no longer a need to do this, as the infant’s food comes right out of a jar. But it is believed, that from the beginnings of the human race, that this is how babies were fed. It is still not uncommon in some parts of the world for babies to be fed this way.
Anyway, this is why biologists feel that the act of “kissing” has such an impact on us. It takes us back to a time when we felt warm, safe, and comforted by our mothers. When two couples “kiss,” they re-ignite this age-old mechanism of feeding and makes us feel, not only good, but makes us feel aroused for some reason. The arousal state may have something to do with our increased comfort level.
Back to the point of cross-sexuality and “French” kissing. I wrote a previous article outlining the neurological influences (in which there are many) that makes such a type of kiss, very neurologically-sensory stimulating. But there is another aspect to “French” kissing that also needs to be addressed.
In a heterosexual relationship you have a man and a woman. The man’s genitals are forthright and protruding, whereas the woman’s genitals are basically hidden and recessed. The man has the Sword and the woman has the Sheath for the sword. In normal sexual terms, the sword is placed in the sheath to procreate and increase the pleasure a man and a woman can experience together.
With “French” kissing there exists another aspect. This is the “cross-sexual” aspect that was aforementioned. In the act of “French” kissing, the man can convert his mouth into a make-shift vagina to accept the tongue of the woman and her make-shift phallic appendage. Meaning, he can reverse his sexual role and receive her sword and he becomes the sheath. It also allows her to “cross” into the realm of the forthright male and become the sword, thus reversing her typical sexual role.
This reversal of roles is another factor as to why “French” kissing is so erotic
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12.19
0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Dec 1, 2009 | by Anonymous
Pittsburg
Free Flu shots this weekend: Contra Costa Health Services will hold a community flu clinic from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Pittsburg Health Center, 2311 Loveridge Road.
The walk-up clinic will include both H1N1 and seasonal flu shots for priority groups while supplies last. The H1N1 vaccine will be available for pregnant women; children ages 6 months through 4 years; children between 5 and 18 with chronic medical conditions like asthma, diabetes and heart disease; and people who live with or provide care for infants under 6 months of age.
The seasonal flu vaccine will be available for those over 60; pregnant women; and those 4 years and older with chronic medical conditions.
Medical and nonmedical volunteers are needed to assist at the clinic. Those interested should call Mike McMillan at mmcmillan@hsd.cccounty.us or 925-313-6859.
— Paul Burgarino
Bay Point
Toy drive to benefit less fortunate: Nonprofit group Club Mexticacan will hold a holiday toy drive Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 620 Port Chicago Highway.
The collected toys will be given to the less fortunate children of Mexticacan in Jalisco, Mexico and families the group adopted at Bay Point’s Love A Child Missions.
The toy drive will include refreshments, photos with Santa, music, free giveaways with donation and other entertainment.
For more information, call Yesenia Gutierrez at 925-325-6158 or visit the group’s Web site at www.mexticacan.org.
— Paul Burgarino
Contra costa
LIBRARY BRANCHES TO CLOSE: Contra Costa County library branches will be closed for nine days this month and into the New Year.
Holidays and furloughs resulting from budget cuts will close the library branches from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27 and from Dec. 31 to Jan. 3.
Because book drops will be closed as well, the system has extended due dates so patrons won’t have to return borrowed items between Dec
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12.18
HealthDay, December, 2009 by Ed Edelson, HealthDay Reporter
People born in the “stroke belt” of the southern United States have a lifelong higher risk of dying of stroke than others, even if they live elsewhere later, a new study shows.
Data on both black and white people born in the North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama show a consistently higher incidence of stroke compared to those born elsewhere, according to a report in the Dec. 1 issue of Neurology .
The higher stroke incidence in those seven states has been recognized for years, but why this is so, and why it persists, is not clear, said study author M. Maria Glymour, an assistant professor in the Harvard School of Public Health’s division of society, human development and health.
“We think it’s not genetic,” Glymour said….
12.17
Daily Record (Rochester, NY), Dec 1, 2009
A corporate volunteerism program for employees in its Rochester office was launched by Phillips Lytle LLP recently. The program will assist not-for-profit organizations throughout Monroe County.
The program’s volunteers, according to a release, will spend hundreds of hours each year working on initiatives such as food distribution, vision screening, clothing the homeless and helping animals in need.
“The establishment of the volunteer crew goes beyond traditional philanthropy and enables us to provide a greater and often more valuable benefit to Rochester and Monroe County organizations that cannot be achieved by financial contributions alone,” said Richard M. Beers, Jr., Phillips Lytle’s Rochester office leader in a statement
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12.17
0 Comments | AFP, December, 2009
TEHRAN (AFP) Leading Iranian economist Saeed Laylaz has been sentenced to nine years in prison for protesting the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
“The court of first instance has sentenced Laylaz to a nine-year jail term,” Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabai was quoted as saying by Fars news agency.
Laylaz was charged with participating in illegal gatherings and possessing classified documents, the lawyer said, adding the court had also refused to release him on bail.
Laylaz, a prominent reformist, has been an outspoken critic of Ahmadinejad’s political and economic policies.
Iranian media have reported that 81 people, among them reformists, journalists and political activists have so far been sentenced to various jail…
12.16
PR Newswire, Nov 23, 2009
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12.16
0 Comments | Sunday Herald, The, Dec 6, 2009
7 arrested for alleged Breach of the Peace.
1 with additional charge of resist arrest.
3 arrested for alleged theft of motor vehicle, plus one for disquali”ed driving.
2 charged with alleged drugs offences.
7 Fixed Penalty Notices for drinking/urinating.
1 male arrested for alleged assault.
1 arrested Drunk and Incapable.
I male charged for alleged reset.
1 person detained in relation to an alleged housebreaking.
14 alleged RTA offences.
2 defective vehicles.
2 vehicles removed (no insurance).
2 road crashes.
1 male charged alleged careless driving.