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- … to buy out European partners’ interests: self-storage…
- Small is profitable
- Silver orders documentation of hardware store site history as it…
- Inside the Lucasfilm data center
- There’s always room for more chocolate.
- Jokers, roamers, and the human sardine can

… to buy out European partners’ interests: self-storage…
Free with registration – Property Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 26, 2007
(Finance–News) SHURGARD, THE LARGEST SELF-storage company in Europe, is seeking arbitration to force two European joint venture partners to sell their interests. Shurgard’s parent, Public Storage, said on Monday in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that its European subsidiary, Shurgard Self Storage SCA, had asked the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris to compel… (Finance–News) SHURGARD, THE LARGEST SELF-storage company in Europe, is seeking arbitration to force two European joint venture partners to sell their interests. Shurgard’s parent, Public Storage, said on Monday in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that its European subsidiary, Shurgard Self Storage SCA, had asked the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris to compel.

Small is profitable
Globe and Mail – Jan 26, 2007
Norwall (NGI-T; $1. 50) makes wallpaper. The company could use some itself to cover up its losses in recent years. Perhaps a decade ago, consumers started moving away from paper in favour of fancy paint. Norwall’s sales withered, and the rising loonie almost finished it off. But CEO James Patton, who owns almost a third of the company’s shares, cut costs and sweated it out. Losses are slowing, and the Canadian dollar has pulled back.

Silver orders documentation of hardware store site history as it…
Fredericksburg.com – Jan 26, 2007
But as Dovetail’s research has shown, its location has played an important role in Fredericksburg’s industrial history for the past century and a half. Different parts of the property have been home to a pickle factory, a wagon yard, a stable, a store, a lodging house and a number of other businesses. The Hilldrup moving and storage company, which got its start moving luggage in 1903, built a livery there in the early 1900s. That was where the 1914 fire started, leaving behind the layer of charred remains that the Dovetail researchers are now using to keep track of what period of history they’ve dug down to. It wasn’t until 1955 that Fredericksburg Hardware bought the property. The business moved into the location in 1963, knocking down buildings to lay the asphalt parking lot that the Dovetail crew is digging through today.

Inside the Lucasfilm data center
com.com – Jan 26, 2007
html” >Letterman Digital Arts Center where Lucasfilm is headquartered, opened its doors in 2005 as Lucas was moving much of that empire to San Francisco’s Presidio, a former army base in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, from its previous home across the bay in San Rafael. And while a major data center move for any company would be disruptive, Clark and his team had to find a way to minimize the impact on the many major motion pictures, video game projects and other initiatives it was involved in at the time. “If the systems go down here in corporate, you might not have your e-mail for a couple hours,” said Greg Grusby, ILM’s technical publicist. “If the systems go down in this data center, you lose $50 million. And while that may not be the case today, when you’re inside it, there’s little question that it is a vastly powerful complex of computing power… “We do have a keen eye on performance on that front. Given the company’s business, it’s no wonder that Lucasfilm also has a substantial storage system. It is using a Network Appliance SpinOS network-attached storage system, and will soon be moving to GX cluster. And that’s crucial, since films like Pirate of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, for which ILM received a best visual effects Oscar nomination Tuesday, can require 60 terabytes of storage, Clark said. And the next release in that franchise’s series, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, will likely require at least 50 percent more storage, he said. In total, he added, the storage farm has more than 300 terabytes of capacity. See more CNET content tagged:.

There’s always room for more chocolate.
Free with registration – Seattle Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 26, 2007
, the candy maker that brings us Frangos, is shutting down its chocolate-making machines next month to move nine miles south. It may seem odd to close a chocolate factory during the most romantic month of the year, but Chief Executive Jean Thompson says most Valentine’s Day orders have long been filled, some as early as November. The chocolatier needs more storage to handle the business it has gained since Thompson took the helm in late 2002. She joined Seattle Chocolates part time after spending 11 years as a stay-at-home mom. She had been a corporate communications manager at Microsoft for four years before that, and wanted to help with marketing at the chocolate company in which she and her husband, Rick, are majority owners.

Jokers, roamers, and the human sardine can
Register – Jan 26, 2007
Customers are not afraid of moving operators in search of better deals – UK network operators lose an average of 30 per cent of customers each year as punters search for a better handset or tariff. Cisco’s bug shotNetwork giant Cisco has issued three security advisories to fix multiple flaws in its core operating system… 7m tax gain to a GAAP net income of $389m. Revenue for the last quarter reached $3. Sneaky hacker tricksThose pesky hackers have been at it again.