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- Big Yellow signs Dubai deal, with more in store.
- Clothing near heater causes fire
- Actually it is rocket science
- At what price loyalty?

Big Yellow signs Dubai deal, with more in store.
Free with registration – Estates Gazette – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 25, 2006
Self-storage company Big Yellow is to open its first international store after signing a franchise agreement for the United Arab Emirates. The company has bought a site in Dubai and plans to develop a 300,000 sq ft centre to open in spring 2008. Big Yellow, which plans to set up.

Clothing near heater causes fire
highbeam.com – Nov 25, 2006
Donald Bradley, who lived in the apartment, escaped safely fromthe second-floor dwelling at 3400 Columbia Ave. The building is a two-story frame home converted into twoapartments and owned by Self Storage of Lancaster. Mountville Fire Company Chief Dean Gantz Jr. and Trooper BrianHerr, a state police fire marshal, investigated the apartment andconcluded the fire started in a small bathroom next.

Actually it is rocket science
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 25, 2006
The hydrogen gas storage problems that face the makers of fuel-cell cars is discussed on page 5, but fewer obstacles hinder BMW’s Hydrogen 7, the world’s first hydrogen-fuelled car to reach production. Cooled to minus 253C (just 20C off absolute zero, where all matter stops moving), the clear liquid hydrogen that fuels this modified 7-series is not something to dip your finger into. The car holds just 8kg (165 litres) of the stuff in its aluminium-alloy Dewar flask fuel tank – the same technology that keeps your tea warm in a Thermos. The tank sits over the rear wheels and eats four inches of passenger space and half the boot space. It sits alongside a conventional petrol tank, as the car can use either fuel… There are a load of questions about a hydrogen future, not least where renewable hydrogen will come from. The company also reckons that there is more than enough potential in solar and wind-generated electricity to fulfil the world’s transport fuel needs using liquid hydrogen. Yet however brave the argument, one can’t help wondering at BMW’s decision to use liquid hydrogen while the rest of the world plumps for gas. If hydrogen is the clear and unambiguous message, then why confuse the issue with two perhaps three pumps at every filling station? BMW says that liquid hydrogen has hidden efficiency advantages such as the fact that delivery to filling stations in liquid form reduces road trips and storage space needs, yet the boil-off question is almost overwhelming. Leave your car for a couple of weeks and it empties its tank all by itself – it’s not a good picture is it? This isn’t the no-compromise technology that rival car makers are offering when they talk of the future. And what of that future? BMW says the fuel-cell is still in its infancy, but its engineers agree that if you offered them a power unit like that of the Honda FCX Concept tested on page one, vastly more thermally efficient with fewer moving parts and maximum torque from zero revs, they would tear your arm off.

At what price loyalty?
The Age – Nov 25, 2006
But in dustyStockinbingal there wasn’t much water. It hadn’t rained for twomonths. After a tough year, in which his company has become a byword fordisgrace and corruption, AWB director John Simpson led thedelegation for the last of the year’s pre-harvest meetings. “I’m here to fill you in on some changes that have been going onat AWB,” he said — a statement that omitted the ratherpertinent reasons for some of those changes. At the same time, on the top floor of an office tower onSydney’s Market Street, Commissioner Terence Cole was putting thefinishing touches to a report expected to slam the company forrorting UN sanctions to the tune of $290 million. Yesterday thatreport was provided to the Federal Government. It will be releasednext week… As would-becompetitors jostle and lobby, seeking to capitalise on AWB’sdisgrace, the company’s golden egg is in danger of beingscrambled. So what do those at the bottom of the grain chain think aboutwhat was done in their name in distant Iraq? And what would farmerslike to see happen to the wheat market that provides theirlivelihood?The only landmark in Stockinbingal, population 224, isn’tactually in Stockinbingal. It’s the large silos of the AWB storagedepot, five minutes out of town. They stand, imposing and largelyempty, on land that was once owned by Keith Berryman. His crop ofstunted wheat still surrounds it. Berryman, 67, has been farming here for decades. “It’s beendifficult all right.