In a bill designed to give peace of mind to parents, the New York City Council approved a measure to install GPS systems on all New York City school buses by September 2019. This allows parents to track the progress of school buses transporting their children via apps.
The inspiration for the bill was an incident in November 2018 that left children stranded on school buses for hours during a snowstorm while frantic parents were unable to reach their children.
Over the course of the past two summers, oceanographer, Dave Sutherland, from the University of Oregon, along with a small team of researchers have devoted three or four weeks of their summer boating from iceberg to iceberg off the coast of Greenland to conduct research into how climate change is affecting both the shipping industry and the climate.
They are doing this with the assistance of LiveViewGPS tracking units that have been set up on over a dozen icebergs in the area. The GPS tracking technology collects data throughout the year providing researchers with the information they need to draw various conclusions about the icebergs in real time and from a great distance. Their goal is to observe and track where the icebergs have moved and how fast they are melting in real time.
Car theft happens at dealerships far more frequently than anyone cares to admit. In fact, the news is filled with stories about car dealership thefts these days, including the theft of six vehicles from a dealership in Loveland, Colorado and three vehicles stolen from a Youngstown, Ohio dealership. If you own a car dealership, there are things you can do to improve security and reduce your risks of vehicle theft and your odds of recovery if thefts occur.
- Light it up at night.
Thieves prefer the cover of darkness to commit their crimes. If you have every corner of your dealership lit up like Christmas, it will make it an unattractive target.
- Fence it in.
Another great way to make your dealership a less attractive target is with the physical barrier a fence represents.
