Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Driving test data to undergo tighter security
- NorthJersey.com: Self-made titans, with tin ears
- A green home can still be beautiful
- More retailers relocate from West Salem Plaza
- Nikon COOLPIX S52 and S52c Digital Cameras Announced

Driving test data to undergo tighter security
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 12, 2008
Pearson insisted it was its first such data loss. Charles Goldsmith, a spokesman, said: “We take great care of the quality of our data and security of our data and we deeply regret this incident. ” Pearson said it had brought in new security measures at its Iowa data headquarters which are thought to include more use of electronic data storage to prevent further losses. The hard drive was misplaced at its worldwide data centre in Iowa City, Iowa on May 22 this year. A Pearson spokesman said officials at the Driving Standards Agency were informed “promptly – by the end of the month”. The server contained the details of every British learner driver who took the driving theory test between September 2004 and April 2007. Pearson was at pains to point out that there were no financial details, or National Insurance numbers of driving licence numbers on the hard drive.

NorthJersey.com: Self-made titans, with tin ears
NorthJersey.com – Apr 13, 2008
" See? Easy, funny, comfortable. Consider, by contrast, Michael Bloomberg. He built from scratch the financial data company that bears his name. I have heard him address an audience of civic leaders in a Power Point presentation that was complex but well-received, with standing applause at the end. He is not afraid to embrace big ideas, necessitating radical change in the status quo. Nothing wrong with that. Where he runs into trouble is getting from embrace to consummation…
Where he runs into trouble is getting from embrace to consummation. In his first term as mayor, he launched a campaign to have New York host the 2012 Olympics. It would have required construction of a subway extension, for easy access to the far West Side of Manhattan, where a huge stadium would rise on a concrete deck to be built over a train storage yard. To be up by 2009, the plan called for the stadium to be used for professional football games. What teams did he have in mind? Why, one of the same teams that, although self-exiled to New Jersey, were fraudulently continuing to use "New York" in their official names: the Jets. The concept of a stadium that on at least eight days every fall would draw 70,000 fans to traffic-choked Manhattan was mind-boggling. Most of those people would not take the subway.

A green home can still be beautiful
IdahoStatesman.com – Apr 12, 2008
Friends who hear the Ahrens family lives in an Energy Star home are sometimes surprised it is as comfortable as other modern homes, John Ahrens says. “The perception is I’ll live in 50-degree winters and 90-degree summers,” he says…
“It’s a very self-sufficient, self-sustaining community,” she says. “I love it up here. “Frary worked as a Realtor in Moscow before moving to Boise in the summer. She now works as the education director for the Idaho Real Estate Commission, and she often speaks about the benefits of energy-efficient building when she attends meetings and other functions. It has been easy for Frary to compare her new home with her former home in Moscow, because they are about the same size: just over 1,900 square feet. Frary has noticed significant changes in the utility bills. Her highest gas and electric bill in Moscow was $289.

More retailers relocate from West Salem Plaza
Roanoke Times – Apr 13, 2008
Movie Gallery closed in March, after the movie rental chain filed for bankruptcy and announced that it was shutting down 400 underperforming stores under the Movie Gallery or Hollywood Video names nationwide. Dot-Com Properties, a Roanoke company that owns West Salem Plaza, gave the health club a 30-day notice to leave, said Tish Garrett. She helps her husband, Steven Garrett, operate Salem Wellness & Fitness. They have until April 30 to relocate the club, she said. Luckily, they already had begun to scout out a new location, because “we knew that something was going on” with the plaza’s future, Tish Garrett said. At its new home, the Garretts are upfitting the space with locker rooms and creating a separate group exercise room in a former storage area. They’re also replacing old exercise equipment with new models…
The health club is taking the former spot of Movie Gallery at Spartan Square, also on West Main Street in Salem. Movie Gallery closed in March, after the movie rental chain filed for bankruptcy and announced that it was shutting down 400 underperforming stores under the Movie Gallery or Hollywood Video names nationwide. Dot-Com Properties, a Roanoke company that owns West Salem Plaza, gave the health club a 30-day notice to leave, said Tish Garrett. She helps her husband, Steven Garrett, operate Salem Wellness & Fitness. They have until April 30 to relocate the club, she said. Luckily, they already had begun to scout out a new location, because “we knew that something was going on” with the plaza’s future, Tish Garrett said. At its new home, the Garretts are upfitting the space with locker rooms and creating a separate group exercise room in a former storage area.

Nikon COOLPIX S52 and S52c Digital Cameras Announced
eCoustics.com – eCoustics.com (press release) – Apr 13, 2008
These cameras also boast an AUTO ISO control, which automatically selects the optimal sensitivity across a range between ISO 100 and ISO 800, and up to ISO 2000 in High-Sensitivity mode. Providing even more control and freedom in photo taking, the S52 and S52c come with a 3x Zoom-NIKKOR lens designed to capture brilliant detail and vivid colors in every photo and a huge 3. 0-inch high-resolution LCD screen allowing easy sharing and viewing of images…
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