But now we are in bed. Our two cats make their midnight noises, Laura sleeps deeply, the moon is shining in the window. Into the quiet of the night, Riley calls out, "Backhoe! Backhoe!" and turns towards me to nurse. Anna Watson teaches ESL and writes and edits in the Boston area, where she and her son Riley have been keeping a close eye on the Big Dig.

Then 43, Rodriguez, B.A. St. Mary''s, San Antonio, MSW University of Michigan, stepped into the shoes of the cultural icon who had mentored him for two decades. Chavez was Rodriguez''s father-in-law. The young graduate first met Chavez, who was the founder of the United Farm Workers with Dolores Huerta, in 1973, after organizing boycott campaigns in Detroit. Rodriguez married Linda Chavez the following year. She died in 2000 after a long illness. The couple had three children."After Cesar''s death on April 23, 1993," he said, "we really spent a lot of time trying to come back together again to determine what was going to happen. And how to continue what we''d inherited and make sure it moved forward into the future. The grower community `hoped and believed that with Cesar gone it would be the end of this movement."

These systems generally consist of a GIS/GPS-based vehicle tracking system and the associated mapping display software. GIS, or Geographic Information System, provides the mapping component. With the tracker devices installed in vehicles, dispatchers can follow a vehicle''s location in real-time. When an incident occurs, controllers can quickly dispatch the vehicle nearest to the incident.In the El Paso Fire Department, for instance, the GPS-powered automatic vehicle locator system tracks the location of the department''s apparatus fleet. This system consists of a radio and a GPS receiver/transceiver affixed to each fire apparatus. A signal from the GPS unit is transmitted to a satellite, the signal bounces back to earth, and the radio system tells the computer system exactly where that unit is on a map to within one meter of accuracy.

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