| InGrid Delves Into Digital Home Protection
InGrid just unveiled the first digital home protection products available for distribution through broadband providers. Digital home protection promises to solve many of the major shortcomings of analog security systems, such as false alarms, short battery life, and high vulnerability to intruders. Using wireless technologies, InGrid creates an invisible grid of security throughout the entire home, offering protection and control without extensive installation costs. InGrid's protection network is comprised of a portable handset and broadband-enabled base station that communicates with wireless self-adhering window and door sensors that immediately report any change in activity you choose to monitor. Broadband integration keeps the system always on and always connected to its monitoring service, and all components can plug into one or more telephone jacks for back-up if broadband service is interrupted.
It's wild hogs vs. landing planes at Palm Beach County airport
Just about the last thing a pilot wants to see when coming in for a landing is a wild hog on the runway.
So when patches of overturned earth -- the telltale signs of rooting pigs -- appeared about two weeks ago near the grass runways at North County General Aviation Airport, the authorities called in an animal trapper.
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PTO may pay for teleworkers
The Patent and Trademark Office may use its appropriations to reimburse teleworkers for their at-home high-speed Internet access, according to a Government Accountability Office ruling. The decision supports PTOs aggressive telework initiative, a PTO spokeswoman said.
PTO should review reimbursements periodically to ensure that it has adequate safeguards against misuse and is paying back employees for home Internet service used for official purposes, GAO said in its decision.
The GAO ruling was in response to an inquiry by PTO, an agency of the Commerce Department, and supported its findings that Internet access, like telephone service, is necessary for PTO employees, regardless of work site.
It will help us reduce administrative burden and confirms that our approach to providing ISP reimbursement to employees is appropriate, said PTO spokeswoman Brigid Quinn.
Remember When the week of Dec. 26, 2006
25 years ago The Eagle Lake water monitoring program is in full swing and some results will be available by the summer of 1982. Ken Griffin, from the Water Quality Control Board, was in Susanville for a meeting on the Draft Eagle Lake Plan where he reported the status of tasks, which have been undertaken by several of the member agencies of the Eagle Lake Interagency Board.
85 years ago Workmen are putting the final touches on the Lassen Industrial Bank building at the corner of Main and Gay streets and the work of moving the business to the new quarters will take place in a few days. The work of installing the burglar alarm is the only piece of work remaining to be finished. It is apparent from the outside view of the building that it is one of the finest in this part of the state.
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