| What do unlimited calling plans really offer businesses?
In the wake of these new plans, some analysts have speculated that carriers have started offering them to attract new business customers. With more businesses requiring more mobility from their employees, they note, adopting an unlimited calling plan might be a good way to meet their workers' needs without having to worry about overage or roaming charges. .
Bush declares Shelby disaster area, orders federal aid for recovery
The President's motorcade traveled to a Macon County fire station, where the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spread maps charting the damage. Bush addressed a small group outside the station, saying he wants "to make sure the federal response is compassionate and effective," according to the White House transcript. Bush also said he wanted "to make it clear to people here that I have no doubt in my mind this community will come back better than before. Macon County people are down to earth, hard-working, God-fearing people, who if just given a little help will come back stronger." He then spoke with and hugged people in the fire station. Before taking a helicopter to Lafayette, the President met with Dave Harmon, a local firefighter who found 11-month-old Kyson Stowell alive and face down in the mud after his 23-year-old mother was killed in Castalian Springs, according to a pool report.
Vanguard transfers 30 employees to St. Louis
Thirty employees of Tulsa-based Vanguard Car Rental are moving to the St. Louis offices of parent company Enterprise Rent-A-Car, company executives said Thursday.
Enterprise officials said the transfers affect 5.5 percent of the 544 Vanguard employees based at Cherokee Industrial Park.
"Thirty people have been offered jobs in St. Louis," Enterprise spokeswoman Laura Bryant said in a telephone interview. "Jobs also have been transferred from St. Louis to Tulsa. Operations in Tulsa are still very, very significant.
"We're in the middle of a methodical, well-thought-out integration process."
Nearly a year after privately held Vanguard merged with family-owned Enterprise in a deal in which no transaction price was disclosed, executives of the companies are still tinkering with aspects of the combined entity, officials said.
Police blotter
Police blotter listings are compiled from reports filed with area law enforcement and public safety agencies. FELONY ARRESTS • Roger Carl Oney, 42, of the 1200 block of Sicard Street, Marysville, was arrested by the Marysville Police Department at 11:47 a.m. Dec. 5 in the 600 block of 10th Street on suspicion of burglary, passing a fake check and receiving stolen property. He was booked into Yuba County Jail. • Paramjit Singh, 32, of the 1700 block of Blue Port Drive, Yuba City, was arrested by the Yuba City Police Department at 7:57 p.m. Dec. 5 at Palora Avenue and Whyler Road on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance. Singh was booked into Sutter County Jail. • Ernesto Casillas, 25, of the 4900 block of Third Street, Maxwell, was arrested by the Colusa County Sheriff’s Department at 10:35 p.m.
DNC's Dean urges do-over contests in Florida, Michigan
I'm not sure how that vote would shake out now," said Fowler, who has endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Now, everything is being viewed in terms of how it benefits a particular candidate, not the party or the process, Fowler said. Nonetheless, Fowler said, something has to be done, "the rules be damned" to seat delegates from states Democrats have to and can win in the general election. "We're going to forfeit those two big states? What kind of fools would we be." Dean has urged Florida and Michigan party officials to come up with plans to repeat their presidential nominating contests so that their delegates can be counted. "All they have to do is come before us with rules that fit into what they agreed to a year and a half ago, and then they'll be seated," Dean said during a round of interviews Thursday on network and cable TV news programs.
Kids At Heart Photography Grants Another Franchise in the State of NJ ...
Kids At Heart Photography continues to grow in the Garden State granting their 5th franchise in NJ. Kids At Heart Photography now has 10 franchises that service the youth photography industry in PA, NJ, DC, VA, MD, CA and FL. Kids At Heart offers photography services to daycare/preschools, elementary/middle schools, youth sports leagues, dance and camp photography. .
Civilian UAVs: No Pilot, No Problem
Technology is not the limitation," says Rich O'Lear, vice president for Unmanned Aerial Systems at Lockheed Martin. "It's the ability of people to conceive of ways to use the technology."
Civilian UAVs have already demonstrated potential in a wide variety of missions. In 2005 researchers at the National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration flew a 6-ft.-long Aerosonde into the heart of tropical storm Ophelia. Such flights are currently conducted by piloted transport planes at a relatively safe altitude of 10,000 ft. But because a UAV puts no crew at risk, the Aerosonde can be flown a few hundred feet above water, where winds whip at 175 mph and waves can top 60 ft. "It gets us to an area that's very difficult to observe with manned aircraft, because of the danger," says Joe Cione, the project's lead scientist.
Obama and Progressive Change
Barack Obama's Plan: As a candidate for the United States Senate in 2002, Obama put his political career on the line to oppose going to war in Iraq, and warned of “an occupation of undetermined length, with undetermined costs, and undetermined consequences." Obama has been a consistent, principled and vocal opponent of the war in Iraq. In 2003 and 2004, he spoke out against the war on the campaign trail; In 2005, he called for a phased withdrawal of our troops; In 2006, he called for a timetable to remove our troops, a political solution within Iraq, and aggressive diplomacy with all of Iraq's neighbors; In January 2007, he introduced legislation in the Senate to remove all of our combat troops from Iraq by March 2008. In September 2007, he laid out a detailed plan for how he will end the war as president.
Weather blog: Winter storm warning canceled
The wintry weather has led to about 500 cancelled flights at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Thursday. And as businesses let employees leave early, bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported throughout North Texas. Here are the latest reports from our reporters and other sources: 10:44p UNT clases on the Denton and Dallas campus have been canceled Friday.
- Mark Wright, UNT 10:01p The snow and rain has all moved out. There is nothing more in the forecast than a few snow flurries overnight. We are now watching storm number two. The core of that storm has run into some stable areas and some dry air, which has led to that storm just falling apart. Around daybreak tomorrow, there will be no additional snow in the forecast. But, temperatures are going to drop to freezing or colder.
2008 Candidates' Positions on the Issues
Ease restrictions on family-related travel and on money Cuban-Americans want to send to their families in Cuba. Open to meeting new Cuban leader Raul Castro without preconditions. _Death penalty: Supports death penalty for crimes for which the "community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage." As Illinois lawmaker, wrote bill mandating videotaping of interrogations and confessions in capital cases and sought other changes in system that had produced wrongful convictions. _Economic stimulus: $250 rebates to low and middle-income earners and $250 bonuses to Social Security recipients. _Education: Encourage but not require universal pre-kindergarten programs, expand teacher mentoring programs and reward teachers with higher pay not tied to standardized test scores, in $18 billion plan to be paid for in part by delaying elements of moon and Mars missions.
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