How Much Is Enough To Hold In Reserve Fund
- May
- 19
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Q: I live in a self-managed building that’s in good shape. We consider ourselves a young association and have only $4,000 in our reserve account. At a recent meeting, there was concern that our reserves are too low as the building gets older.
How do we determine what is proper to have in a reserve account? [...]
Hospitals Coping Well After First Day Of Strike
- May
- 7
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Members of the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) are striking over a pay dispute with the country’s District Health Boards.
“Everything has gone reasonably well. The hospitals are still quite full of acute patients but everything has gone according to plan,” District Health Boards national co-ordinator of contingency planning Anne Aitcheson said.
Capital and Coast DHB spokesman Michael [...]
Grant to Help Expand Rural Telemedicine
- April
- 6
A $15.5 million grant from the Federal Communications Commission to the Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research at the Health Sciences Center will be used to design, build, operate and evaluate a Southwest Telehealth Access Grid, a broadband network largely serving rural areas that typically lack such technology.The grant to increase the bandwidth will be [...]
Cell Towers and Backup Power: Who Foots the Bill?
- March
- 18
Too Burdensome
Several cell phone companies, while agreeing their networks need to become more resilient, have opposed the FCC’s backup power regulations, claiming they were illegally drafted and would present a huge economic and bureaucratic burden.
There are almost 210,000 cell towers and roof-mounted cell sites across the country, and carriers have said many would require some [...]
Google Gives Voicemail to Homeless in SF Trial Run
- February
- 29
It’s a Good Thing
The free phone number and voicemail box are “key for helping people move, either from a situation of homelessness or domestic abuse,” Shireen Mitchell, founder of Digital Sisters, an organization that provides technology training to under-served communities, told TechNewsWorld.
“Having an address and a phone number and a voicemail box so someone can [...]
Congratulations to mom and dad
- February
- 24
For him, there were customers to serve, shelves to stock and a trade to learn in an industry that was rapidly expanding. Although their lives were decidedly different and they resided miles apart, a connection linked the two together. The wife of Levy’s boss was Boxer’s aunt, and [...]
EXPERT ADVICEThe Long Haul
- February
- 23
Never Is a Long Time
For those who really want to see the six-month rule in action, I’d recommend they spend some time as a security professional. Most of us in security have a bushel-full of strategic goals that we’d like to see realized. However, most of them are almost impossible to make happen because the [...]
Looking back at deadly tornadoes of Floridas Night of Fury
- February
- 23
The resulting changes made many people safer and alerted people to the dangers of mobile homes and the need for warning systems. Even so, the randomness of such storms still makes them a serious threat — as evidenced when 21 people died in Lake County twisters during the same month last year.
Late on Feb. 22, [...]
Call Center Headsets: Try Before You Buy
- February
- 12
Tough on Equipment
Many solutions designed to make life easier in the call center — both software solutions and physical products — often underestimate the amount of abuse the solutions will be subject to. For this reason, rigorous testing designed by people who understand the intense call center environment is absolutely essential.
There are solutions that simulate [...]
Prepare for emergencies before its too late
- February
- 8
Fires start. Winds shift. The earth shakes. Waters rise. Storms hit. Skies swirl. Seas heave. Pipes freeze. The power goes out. Anticipate the unexpected. Remember, “It’s not a matter of if but when. Bad things don’t always happen to other people!” So plan ahead.
Start the [...]
