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Smyrna High School students fill the cafeteria. The school was designed to hold about 1,100 students. But, there are about 1,150 students there, and Smyrna district officials support a referendum to ease the overcrowding. (Buy photo) The News Journal/BOB HERBERT .
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Altamont Homes, Inc., in Martinez, Calif., is the leading provider of a new type of housing being offered in California and surrounding states -- Off-site Built Homes. *(PHOTO: Send2Press.com/mediadesk/1006-Altamont_72dpi.jpg) *(Photo Caption: The Bainbridge Model.) Off-site Built Homes, also known as True Modular homes, are built in accordance with the same building codes which traditional on-site built homes are constructed -- the Uniform Building Code (UBC) or International Building Code (IBC). Off-site Built Homes are not to be confused with manufactured homes, a more common type of factory-built home constructed to a different building code -- the HUD code -- which can be more limited in architecture and not as favorable to appraise or finance.
PHOENIX, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq: RADN - News) announced today that it's Tiernan division was awarded an ID/IQ contract for up to $2.5 million of video compression and satellite transmission equipment with the Naval Air Warfare Center. The order for the Tiernan video encoders and decoders, and Radyne satellite modems is the second phase of a program that first began in 2003. The Tiernan compression equipment is uniquely qualified for this special application due to its modular construction and flexible interface capabilities. "This contract is a vote of confidence by a long time customer in our video encoding and decoding solutions," said Myron Wagner, Radyne's CEO. "All of Radyne's divisions offer technology that supports communications needs for military customers in a wide range of mission critical applications." About Radyne Corporation Radyne Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, integrates and installs products, systems and software used for the transmission and reception of data and video over satellite, troposcatter, microwave and cable communication networks.
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar may strengthen on speculation Federal Reserve officials will flag inflation risks in the U.S. economy, heightening concern the bank will resume raising interest rates. The U.S. currency may extend a three-week rally against the euro and yen as an improving economy prompted traders to erase bets the Fed will reduce borrowing costs. U.S. 10-year Treasury yields last week rose to a three-week high. Officials, including San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen, will speak today. ``We're looking for some leads from Fed governors this week to see how much further this dollar rally can go,'' said Tony Morriss, a currency strategist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in Sydney. Yellen ``has been one of the ones recently to signal that there might be a risk that inflation rises.'' The U.S.
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.
It's not your common or garden peace dividend. But the name Jollibee resonates so strongly in the Philippines that when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her annual address to the nation applauded the army's success in tackling Muslim insurgents, she described how the Philippines' home-grown fast-food chain has now opened a store in the heart of the rebels' old stomping grounds. The Jollibee outlet on Basilan island, the home of the Abu Sayyaf militant group in the deep south of the country, is Jollibee Foods' 500th store. Like all the rest, it offers slightly sweetened spaghetti topped with sliced hot-dogs, ... .
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