| Companies push the recycling envelope
The first thing Philip Maio did when he became Westborough Bank's information technology officer in 2000 was to establish an on-site recycling program.Maio, who used other recycling companies in the past, recently decided to go with Westborough-based E.L. Harvey & Sons Inc.'s mobile shredding service to remove the company's paper.``Customer confidentiality was the main reason,'' Maio said. ``I don't want a truck carrying our records down a highway and having an accident and all our records going out the door.''Maio said the truck comes about once a month to each of the bank's four branches and shreds confidential customer documents on site. The waste management company provides lockable bins for storage of the paper during the interim period. It costs the bank about $300 a month per location to do the shredding and haul the paper away, he said.Jim Harvey, chief executive for E.L.
Obituary: John Petrie Bartel / After time as band leader, he took up paper shredding
John Bartel, an accomplished organist who started a paper shredding company, died Wednesday from complications related to lung cancer. He was 65. Mr. Bartel, of Monroeville, grew up in Stowe and started playing organ in 1963. In 1966, he formed his own group, John Bartel and the Soul Masters, a band featuring Lou Stellute, Larry O'Brien and Jeff Martin. Mr. Bartel eventually changed the name of the group to the John Bartel Thing and recorded two albums, one for Capitol and the other for Perception records, as well as two singles for Solid State Records. The group opened for a number of headliners, including Jefferson Airplane. In the early 1980s, Mr. Bartel started Ameri-Shred Corp. in Monroeville. In 1986, Mr. Bartel and his wife, Cherie, opened All Safe Document Destruction Service Inc.
Check It Out
Last week, Carl in Cary, who is not allowed to play with scissors, wrote wondering why he can tear his N&O in a perfectly straight line vertically, but when he tears it horizontally it's all raggedy.Carl's quandary evoked thoughts on the subject from other readers who apparently are accustomed to shredding their N&O."Regarding Carl's question on why he can tear the N&O lengthwise in a straight line, " writes Sandy in Cary, "two words: warp and weft. Seamstresses know this phenomenon well."For those non-seamstresses among us, Kenneth Marks at Marks' Marks Book Repair Services in Apex provides a lay explanation: "Paper usually has grain, and when you tear along the grain, you usually get a fairly straight tear. However, when you tear across grain, you get a jagged tear."The newspaper is printed on grain long paper.
The End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited
[This article was originally published in The Review of Austrian Economics in 1991, during the collapse of the Soviet Union.] At the root of the dazzling revolutionary implosion and collapse of socialism and central planning in the "socialist bloc" is what everyone concedes to be a disastrous economic failure. The peoples and the intellectuals of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are crying out not only for free speech, democratic assembly, and glasnost, but also for private property and free markets. And yet, if I may be pardoned a moment of nostalgia, four-and-a-half-decades ago, when I entered graduate school, the economics Establishment of that era was closing the book on what had been for two decades the famed "socialist calculation debate." And they had all decided, left, right, and center, that there was not a thing economically wrong with socialism: that socialism's only problems, such as they might be, were political.
New rules compel saving e-mails
An obscure change in the rules regarding production of evidence in federal court will force companies to better manage the volumes of electronic information they generate and keep. Under an amendment to the federal rules of civil procedure, business executives and corporate lawyers who are expecting to be sued will now have to preserve electronic data with the same care and diligence they would use in preserving documents. In other words, no shredding of paper and no deleting e-mails when there's a likelihood of legal action. "It's a very big deal," said Daniel Gelb, a Boston-area attorney who specializes in electronic discovery. Instead of deciding how to handle electronic data on a case-by-case basis, the new rules "codify how lawyers should handle electronic discovery." "For law firms and organizations that don't do a lot of electronic discovery, this is going to be a major awakening," Douglas Herman of UHY Advisors said.
Holiday gift ideas for seniors
Dear Savvy Senior: With all the different senior gadgets and gizmos you demonstrate on the Today Show, could you give me some tips on where I can find them?I'm looking for some neat Christmas gift ideas for my grandparents who are both in their 70s.?-- Practical PamDear Pam: Some of the neatest and most practical gift ideas for seniors today are assistive products, also known as senior gadgets, which are products that help accommodate an older person's physical needs and limitations.Here are some tips to consider:Find their needsToday there are thousands of affordable assistive products that can help seniors live better and safer. To help you determine the best assistive gifts for your grandparents, find out their physical needs.Do they struggle with arthritis pain? Are they hard of hearing? How's their vision? Do they have a difficult time getting around or remembering? Do their limitations in any way keep them from doing the things they enjoy?These are all areas that assistive products can help with.
National Shredding Firm Adds 500th Location - Company Expands Services Across North America
(PRWeb) November 28, 2006 -- Today Shred Nations announced the addition of their 500th secure shredding facility. Their service area now covers all fifty states and every territory. "Our reach keeps growing, and adding our 500th facility is just another indication of the level of service we can provide our clients in North America," says John MacAdams, General Manager of Shred Nations. "It would be hard to find a place we don't offer shredding services," he adds. .
Be vigilant this Xmas, warns Direct Line
UK homeowners have been warned to beware this Christmas should they be planning to take a trip away as nearly one in ten robberies has been found to occur while the occupier is on holiday.
Carmel McCarthy, spokesperson for Direct Line, said that research undertaken by the government discovered that eight per cent of all robberies happened at a time when the homeowner was on holiday, indicating that extra vigilance is needed when "making sure their home is protected while they're away".
"With Christmas being such a busy time it's easy for people to forget to take sensible precautions to prevent theft," Ms McCarthy warned.
Shoppers have also been urged to air on the side of caution when it comes to purchasing gifts on the plastic this festive season as fraudsters have got their hands on over four million individual's identities.
Real Guitar Becomes Guitar Hero Controller For Good Cause
It's worth mentioning that if you live in the NYC-area tonight, you should come visit our pal Joel Johnson's charity event called Funde Razor. Proceeds from the event are going to Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity, which helps sick kids in hospitals out through video game donations and such. It's going to be a great event for a great cause, but there's also going to be a custom-made Guitar Hero II controller available for sale. The guitar was made by a gracious lad from Toolmonger. He gutted a standard Guitar Hero controller and went to work on fitting it inside a Squier Strat, which is genius due to its popular design and low cost. The best part is, full HOW-TO instructions have been posted to the website and you too can make one if you have the resources, time, and patience.
Crushed slabs become roads
DOZENS of small mountains of crushed concrete have begun appearing on the former defence department land bounded by Pearce St, Beechworth Rd and Bears Hill in Wodonga. The concrete will form part of the roadway structure in the planned 1123-lot White Box Rise housing estate, which is now awaiting final approval by the Wodonga council. A process now under way by the developers of the estate will result in the recycling of more than 48,500 sq m of concrete that had formed 13 slabs on which a series of Army warehouses once stood. Project manager and property consultant Simon Conquest said the developers, Abacus Property and the Gillon Group, had decided to recycle the concrete rather than seek to dispose of it in landfill. They have enlisted North East companies for the job — Reids Earthmoving, of Bright, and Jackson’s Concrete Recyclers, of Wodonga, which has provided the machinery by which larger pieces of concrete are crushed into smaller rubble.
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