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Stellar Satellite Communications Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of ORBCOMM Inc., today announced the introduction of the DS300-D and DS400 dual-mode ORBCOMM satellite and GSM communicators. The first to be commercialized is the DS300-D, which features expansion ports that allow the addition of external GSM and Zigbee wireless modules. The DS300-D will be followed shortly by the DS400, which incorporates GSM and Zigbee wireless communication devices and a DS100 satellite subscriber communicator in a single enclosure. Where the DS300-D is designed mostly for high value asset tracking, the DS400 is specifically designed for heavy equipment and fleet management applications. The DS series of satellite subscriber communicators are the result of a joint engineering and manufacturing effort between Stellar and Delphi Electronics and Safety, which continues to produce reliable and cost effective products for the ORBCOMM market.
With the Hart district's forensic audit results anticipated within the next few weeks, details of how the modernization of three local schools went far over budget may be surfacing already. At the last board meeting, Paul Rivas, director of facilities and modernizations, plotted how costs at each of the schools - Canyon and Saugus high schools and Arroyo Seco Junior High School - skyrocketed from the original total estimate of approximately $103 million to the anticipated $141 million the projects will cost through next year. By the projects' end, Canyon High will have cost nearly $50 million - $13.8 million over original estimates, Saugus High will have cost more than $48 million - almost $7.6 million over plans and Arroyo Seco Junior High will have cost $43.1 million - about $20 million over original cost estimates.
AUBURN -- It's 1 in the afternoon on a rainy Thursday, and Jody Bagley is doing something he'd rather you not know.Bagley, a regional vice president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, is herding lambs onto a truck.He's a cattleman, but his work as a rancher has him dabbling in all kinds of activities, including helping a friend load lambs on this day. Bagley raises some sheep and was filling the truck with some of his stock as well.Bagley is well known in Star Valley. He's on the Star Valley Land Trust and from the Bagley Ranch, which has been in the family for generations. But all that may change for the 48-year-old father of three. Soaring land prices and increased costs in fuel, feed and drought have Bagley and other longtime western Wyoming ranchers looking to leave for different, if not greener, pastures."We're looking at trading one acre for 23 acres north of Lusk," he said.
MOSCOW, October 13 (Itar-Tass) - Vladimir Putin convened a visiting session of the presidium of the State Council in Yaroslavl, to discuss ways of developing the network of roads in the country. "To brush up on the theme ahead of the meeting, Putin visited the construction site of a new 700-meter long bridge across the Volga, and an exhibition of road construction equipment.
Putin has called for spending extra budget revenues on financing infrastructures. There have been incessant arguments where the snowballing reserves should be put to use. It is beyond doubt, if the resources are to be spent somehow, they must be spent on infrastructures roads, ports, airports and communication links, Putin said at a meeting of the State Councils presidium. I would place the roads before anything else.
NEW ROCHELLE - For almost nine years, the Adult Learning Center taught hundreds of people from other countries basic English and the things they need to know to pass citizenship tests. But the end of its lease and the cost of taxes - which Sister Eileen Fane had not anticipated when she started the school - sent her looking for a new home. She found an office around the corner at 138 Centre Ave. that still has the wood paneling and sliding glass partitions from its days as an insurance office. Since late September, it has been the new home of a center that over the years has taken on more students than Sister Fane had expected. "When I designed the place, I never knew that it would grow to this size," said Sister Fane, an Ursuline nun. Volunteer teachers work with some 140 adults.
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