Moving and Storage Business News

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- Press Release Distribution from 24-7PressRelease.com
- Pellet power
- Island tries to save last fish house.
- First Look: Cowon D2 and Archos 704 WiFi
- HOME & GARDEN: From box to beautiful

Press Release Distribution from 24-7PressRelease.com
24-7PressRelease.com – 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – Apr 15, 2007
Today they are proud to announce “the offering of outdoor Boat and RV Storage. Extra Storage provides perfect solution for those who loves aquatic sports and own or planning to buy, a boat or recreation vehicle (RV), but unable to store it, due to space shortage and community restrictions. Self storage units can help protect valuable, spacious items like RV and Boat from harsh weather conditions. The onsite managers, Nick and Sandy Lopez provide a stress-free, convenient solution for storing extra furniture or household items and possessions. Extra Storage Riverside, which is accessible 7 days a week except major holidays, facilitates their customers by offering electronic gate access from 7am to 7pm.

Pellet power
mainetoday.com – Apr 15, 2007
He’s been working with Ken Eldredge at Corinth Wood Pellets. Corinth isn’t near a rail line, so pellets would have to be trucked to Portland or Searsport. Pellets must stay bone dry, so they need special storage. And they degrade with heavy handling, so a conveyor system must be installed. Moving and storing wood pellets will require a multimillion-dollar investment, Demers said. “The challenge is going to be how to get them from the mill to Europe and not make it uncompetitive,” he said. Charles Niebling hasn’t been able to make the numbers add up.

Island tries to save last fish house.
Free with registration – News & Observer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 15, 2007
Now they face their biggest challenge — saving the place where they bring their catch, the last fish house in Ocracoke. The fish house is operated by a salty mix of crab potters, pound netters and charter boat operators. They formed a communal company last year after the last commercial fish house operator pulled out in 2005. But the group must raise $325,000 by June to continue the lease. “It’s not just good for the fishermen, it’s good for Ocracoke, for the tourists. If we lose this one,.

First Look: Cowon D2 and Archos 704 WiFi
PC World – Apr 15, 2007
In fact, the 80GB 704 WiFi is big enough that Archos included a remote control, though I found it of limited use while watching video on the player itself. Still, you’ll need the remote to operate the device if you hook it up to a television to record shows (you’ll also need the optional $100 DVR Station). The tiny Cowon D2 lacks the seamless photo playback of the Archos model, which simplifies moving through photos by letting you drag the stylus across the touch screen to summon the next picture. On the D2, you have to touch one of two icons to move forward or back through your collection. (On both models it’s just as easy to use your fingertip as the included small–and easy to misplace–stylus. ) Even worse, the Cowon took 2 to 3 seconds to render my photos; each time, the pixelated blocks looked like a stalled game of Breakout until the full details showed up. The workaround is to view photos in slide-show mode at all times; this seems to allow the device to render the photos behind the scenes…
According to a spokesperson, the D2 was performing a progressive scan of my high-resolution photos so it could display them. Oddly, the included JetShell 4. 5 software didn’t automatically downsample my photos for more efficient viewing and storage on the player, but the company says an upcoming version will include this option. Both players play video files. The Cowon D2 plays MPEG-4 and WMV files, as well as DivX 3. 11; the Archos 704 WiFi plays those as well as DivX4 and DivX5. Archos also offers two plug-ins: One enables playback of H.

HOME & GARDEN: From box to beautiful
Columbus Dispatch – Apr 15, 2007
Since we both work, it would have taken us weeks to do this, and it never would have looked thisgood. Haignere recently launched the company as an affiliate of her interior-design service — Ready,Set, Redesign — which specializes in redecorating homes with items people already own. Other services exist to help customers settle into their new homes. Haignere, however, combinesher expertise as a designer with the move-in service. She incorporates a customer’s favoritepossessions in the decor and provides a list of additional items the owner might want to buy tocomplete the look. Haignere said she saw the potential for her new venture while helping customers decorate theirhomes…
The master bedroom posed the challenge of too little space for the needed furniture andking-size bed. Haignere measured and sketched ideas before settling on a plan. “I don’t want to be moving that bed 10 times,” she said. After the bedroom layout was settled, the designer told the crew to delay decorating thewalls. “I want Cathy to live with this set-up to see how she likes it,” Haignere said. “We won’t hangpictures until we know the bed will stay there. The heavy work and many of the details were completed by 4 p.