Moving and Storage Business News

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- Bold storage: self-storage companies are seeking roadside sites as…
- Astris Energi Delivers Fuel Cell Generators to Mobile Attic.
- Games big boys play
- FERC slates visit to proposed LNG site.
- DIY for Life: An Interview with Eric Gaffney

Bold storage: self-storage companies are seeking roadside sites as…
Free with registration – Property Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 24, 2006
(Big Yellow Group PLC Safestore and Flexistore) ROADSIDE PROPERTY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TIGHT market as standalone retail units trade counters car dealerships and petrol stations vie for the relatively small number of prominent sites. It is hard to imagine that there is any space left for other property users. But three self-storage companies–Big Yellow Group Safestore and Flexistore–are on the lookout for sites. And the race is on to grab them. Flexistore has an advantage: the company picks up possessions from customers’ homes in a specially designed ‘vault’ before dropping them off at its storage depots so it does not need to join the scrum for arterial routes.

Astris Energi Delivers Fuel Cell Generators to Mobile Attic.
Free with registration – Fuel Cells Today – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 24, 2006
(24-MAR-06) Fuel Cells Today. recently announced it has shipped an initial order of its E7 model alkaline fuel cell generators to Elba AL-based portable self-storage company Mobile Attic Inc.

Games big boys play
Manila Standard Today – Mar 25, 2006
For starters BB guns would cost around P3500 to P5000 for China-made pistols; and no less than P10000 for Japan-made air rifles. Don Patawaran a senior systems consultant for a top IT company in the country says his hobby has cost him around P200000. “I now have seven pistols and two air rifles. “The basic gun would cost you around 12000 and then the upgrades would accumulate to around 20000” he says. Patawaran knows it is an expensive hobby if not an indulgence but the physical kick and emotional high he gets from all of it is all worth the spent money. “For me this is a form of stress reliever… Encased in a kick-ass custom-painted chassis the Renegade features the industry’s first dedicated physics accelerator — the AGEIA(TM) PhysX(TM) processor that lets you experience the games in sophisticated and realistic ways. It can render characters in real-time dynamic motion and support interaction in massive scale. It allows you to view a large number of moving characters and objects in life-like movements which you don’t normally experience in computer shops and internet cafés. You don’t have to wait for pages to load for characters to move and for explosive effects to happen. The XPS 600 Renegade allows users to play games in the highest video resolution settings without sacrificing speed the minute details and other graphics and the onscreen performance of the characters. This baby indeed makes network and online gaming a feast for the senses. The only thing you have to worry about is the shipping fee as this technological wonder has just been released in the US.

FERC slates visit to proposed LNG site.
Free with registration – Bangor Daily News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 25, 2006
Bring your own vehicle as no transportation will be provided. Although FERC staff would welcome the company they are not interested in comments.

DIY for Life: An Interview with Eric Gaffney
PopMatters – Mar 24, 2006
all my flyer and art stuff was in storage so I used what I found that one day including the title. Anyway I have no idea which came first so for the record let’s say they came at the same time? This record is super lo-fi. Want to talk about how you recorded it? I guess it is super lo-fi per my tradition but not intentionally lo-fi… In the past with Sebadoh we would each get about 4% more or less each on a record deal which isn’t so great if you stop to think about it. From my experience a great many record labels major and indies both but not all are dishonest which should come as no surprise as the record industry is among the sleaziest there is. I don’t want my music controlled or owned by lawyers or creepy record company executive types. The records Sebadoh did for Sub Pop are partly owned by Warner Brothers which I’m reminded of when I get the statements. I will refrain from addressing any particular issues I’ve had with certain labels as it’s a headache and would take up far too much space here but I’ll just say that I’ve learned a few things about the lack of integrity of certain respected labels. Fudging sales figures comes to mind. Regardless of having said that and knowing full well the risks I might sign with a label at any point.