Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- The Insider: Hotel developer gets riders off bus a bit earlier
- Kingsford plant works to make it hot off the grill.(City/Region…
- MINING NEWS: Little-used technology works at Minto
- Old system strained by growth
- CyberPower Power Infinity Pro

The Insider: Hotel developer gets riders off bus a bit earlier
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 28, 2007
PTThe Insider: Hotel developer gets riders off bus a bit earlierEXTRA FEET: The developer of the 1 Hotel & Residences has successfully lobbied King County Metro Transit to move its bus stop back by a bus length, so that when the hotel opens in 2009 fewer people will crowd its retail store entrance at the corner of Third Avenue and Pine Street. Moving a bus stop is no easy feat — besides moving the bus sign and repainting the curb, Metro has to consider obstructing driveways, traffic flow, allowing room for trucks and the electric wiring for the trolleys. “All the wires are usually tied into adjacent buildings,” said Jim Jacobson, deputy general manager at Metro. “It’s a big deal to move trolley wires. The relocation at 1 Hotel’s request won’t require significant rewiring, he said. “We’ve got almost 10,000 bus zones within the county, every one of ‘em’s got a neighbor,” Jacobson joked…
The latest addition to that list — from OVP’s sixth fund — is Isilon Systems. Here’s what the folks at OVP had to say on that. “A storage deal in Seattle? Preposterous! If this team was in Colorado or Silicon Valley it would make perfect sense. But, Seattle? So, right in our backyard, we passed on what turned out later to be one of the best IPO’s of 2006. Given the recent events with Isilon — including last week’s departure of top executives and a slumping stock price — maybe it wasn’t such a bad miss after all. Other deals that OVP passed on from previous funds include Starbucks Coffee, Amazon.

Kingsford plant works to make it hot off the grill.(City/Region…
Free with registration – Register-Guard – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 28, 2007
| The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (October, 2007). Today, the Kingsford Manufacturing Co.

MINING NEWS: Little-used technology works at Minto
Petroleum News – Oct 28, 2007
Minto Exploration also will pay for loading the concentrates at the terminal. If other companies use the terminal during the term of the contract, Minto Explorations portion of the costs could be reduced pro rata, according to Karl Reiche, projects development manager for AIDEA. Other mining companies, primarily Canadian, also have shown interest in using the terminal since it reopened. With nearly 100,000 square feet of storage space and movable interior barriers that can be configured to accommodate several companies needs, Reiche said the terminal is ready and willing to store and ship more concentrate.

Old system strained by growth
courierpress.com – Oct 28, 2007
What causes the flooding is the intensity of the rain and how much comes down. The city utility has spent $110 million in the last 10 years to improve the sewer system and decrease the number and volume of combined sewer overflows — discharges untreated sewage and storm water into Pigeon Creek and the Ohio River. In addition, Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel’s administration is moving ahead with a variety of smaller projects designed to alleviate neighborhood flooding problems while continuing to negotiate with federal officials on a plan ultimately to end those overflows of raw sewage. Addressing the neighborhood flooding problems will, by better controlling storm water, have an impact on the problem of combined sewer overflows too, Weinzapfel said. HHHWeinzapfel’s predecessors, former mayors Frank McDonald II and Russ Lloyd Jr. , had planned to handle the problem by building a third treatment plant on the city’s North Side at a cost of $63 million. But Weinzapfel scrapped those plans in 2004 after the Indiana Department of Environmental Management questioned the plant’s effectiveness, saying it would have almost no effect on the problem of combined sewer overflows…
The remaining $43 million was used to fund several projects:n The “Southeast Side Sewer Separation Project. ” It will create separate sanitary and storm sewer systems for the five-points intersection of Southeast Boulevard, Alvord Boulevard, Monroe Avenue, Adams Avenue and Spring Street, as well as for the neighborhood bounded by Madison Avenue, Villa Drive, Ravenswood Drive and Dexter Avenue. n A large storage tank for Bee Slough, which would hold combined sewer discharge for later processing at the Downtown sewage treatment plant. n The Broadway-Tekoppel sewer project, which will replace a gravity sewer serving much of the West Side, including the University of Southern Indiana and the Schutte Road area. The new sewer will allow many residents along Broadway Avenue, now hooked up to septic systems, to tie into city sewers. HHHCritics argue scrapping the North Side treatment plant showed a lack of foresight. City Councilman Jeff Kniese, R-1st Ward, called the project a “Band-Aid” on the problem and that it ignores the inevitability of continued growth in the northern part of the county.

CyberPower Power Infinity Pro
PC World – Oct 28, 2007
Our test system also came with a generous 1. 8 terabytes of hard-disk space, consisting of two 150GB, 10,000-rpm Western Digital Raptor drives (configured in a RAID 0 array) for performance and two 750GB, 7200-rpm Hitachi drives for backup and data storage that can hold hundreds of hours of video. The included dual Sylvania 22-inch wide-screen monitors (SK2201W-B) have thin bezels that make positioning them closely side by side easier, but you get no height-adjustment control for maximum flexibility in setting them up. The picture quality was very good, with crisp readable text (even at 8 points) and nicely saturated color when we viewed still or moving images. The cordless Logitech MX3200 keyboard presents a host of useful extra keys and a wrist pad that’s comfortable to type on. The MX600 laser mouse also benefits from an ergonomic design that fits nicely in the hand…
8 terabytes of hard-disk space, consisting of two 150GB, 10,000-rpm Western Digital Raptor drives (configured in a RAID 0 array) for performance and two 750GB, 7200-rpm Hitachi drives for backup and data storage that can hold hundreds of hours of video. The included dual Sylvania 22-inch wide-screen monitors (SK2201W-B) have thin bezels that make positioning them closely side by side easier, but you get no height-adjustment control for maximum flexibility in setting them up. The picture quality was very good, with crisp readable text (even at 8 points) and nicely saturated color when we viewed still or moving images. The cordless Logitech MX3200 keyboard presents a host of useful extra keys and a wrist pad that’s comfortable to type on. The MX600 laser mouse also benefits from an ergonomic design that fits nicely in the hand. The CyberPower Power Infinity Pro is clearly aimed at enthusiasts and other early adopters who don’t mind paying a premium for the latest technology. But considering that the market has few SSE-4 optimized apps, mainstream users may want to wait a bit longer before taking the plunge.