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Source: New Haven Register, Conn.迷你倉出租Aug. 10--EAST HAVEN -- For many people who live in the East Haven and New Haven neighborhoods stitched close-in around Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, Friday's plane crash was an accident that, while perhaps not easily preventable, was waiting to happen.The accident killed four people, including the pilot and his 17-year-old son, as well as two sisters, ages 13 and 1, who lived in one of two houses the plane crashed into on Charter Oak Avenue.Particularly along the northern approach to Tweed's main Runway 2 -- which roughly parallels Charter Oak Avenue in East Haven, which becomes Burr Street as it heads south into New Haven -- resident after resident Saturday recalled being able to wave at pilots as they descend to land.Residents just off the south end of the same runway in New Haven and East Haven, where an even worse Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crash killed 28 people in 1971, also have long feared getting hit by an errant plane.And many residents say Tweed's recent improvements, including the construction of runway safety areas in recent years and the even more recent trimming and removal of trees that formerly obstructed the approach, have let planes fly even lower, exacerbating their fears."You can actually wave at the pilots," said Jean Santino, who lives on Hall Street in New Haven. "Something's wrong when you can wave at a pilot and the pilot waves back."It was never this bad until they did the expansion. ... They were never this low before the expansion," Santino said, referring to the construction of runway safety buffer zones at either end of Runway 2. "It was an accident waiting to happen. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner."Airport Manager Lori Hoffman-Soares said Saturday night that while she understands how neighbors might have that perception, nothing has changed."Our flight patterns did not change since the safety areas and since the trees have been cut," Hoffman-Soares said. "Air traffic controllers have not changed their procedures."Even more to-the-point, "Pilots do not want to fly any lower than they have to for their own personal safety," she said. "Pilots don't want to risk their lives any more than the lives on the ground."But many neighbors are convinced that that's the case."They're so low," said Catherine Consolo, who lives a few blocks away on Elizabeth Ann Drive in New Haven and was standing with her sister, Josephine Reed, and some friends watching work going on just outside the police line at the crash site Saturday afternoon."They've been running so low ever since they put in that runway extension," Consolo said. "When the jets go by, I go like this," she said, ducking and throwing her hands over her head."They're so close," said Audrey Elder, who lives on Main Street and was with Consolo. As she spoke, a small, private turboprop plane buzzed low over their heads."It's scary -- it's just so close," said Dione Fiedler, who lives on Laura Lane in East Haven, just off Charter Oak and Burr, close to the East Haven-New Haven border. She also was watching the work a few houses away, just outside the other end of the police line.Fiedler talked about "the noise" that planes make on their approach, but added, "I've lived here for 54 years, so I'm kind of used to it."She has often thought about the possibility of a crash, but now she really worries about it, she said.Phil and Monique Hawley, who grew up in East Haven, just moved back from West Haven to Charter Oak Avenue last week. Now they wonder if they made the right decision."It's a freak accident -- but I'll tell you, it does make you wonder,"儲存倉said Phil Hawley, who was outside watching a steady stream of gawkers drive by to see what National Transportation Safety Board staffers, a recovery company working for the NTSB and local officials were up to."It's sad, and scary," said Hawley, who was joined by his wife, daughter Alyssa, 14, and granddaughters Abby, 4, and Isabella, 11/2, "That's something you never want to see any family go through."While Hawley is happy with his new house -- and has no intention to leave -- "I'll tell you, if I were making the decision now ..." he said.A female neighbor across the street from the two houses the plan struck recalled how, growing up on Charter Oak, "we had a swimming pool in the back yard and we would wave to the people in the planes -- and my mother would always say, 'One of these days, one of these planes is going to hit a house.'"We used to all say it," she said, declining to be identified by name.A couple of years ago, Tweed "took out a huge pine tree across the street" as part of its effort to remove obstructions that block the landing approach, said the woman.Tom Hamilton, who now lives on Coe Avenue but grew up on Stoddard Road, one street over from where the Allegheny flight went down, said that "throughout my life, I've constantly had dreams about air disasters."He recalls getting off the school bus the day of the previous accident and seeing the wreckage."I'll never forget," he said.That said, as a resident living in town, "You never think about this," he said as he watched workers with a payloader haul out pieces of the plane wreckage under the direction of the NTSB. "An airport is an airport" and planes "are always flying over people's houses. You really can't control it."Nevertheless, for Donna Amato, who lives on Roses Farm Road in East Haven, just off the south end of Tweed's main runway and has a back yard that faces the airport, "you think about it all the time."Amato, who had a 60- to 70-foot tree taken down in her back yard a while back as part of Tweed's effort to remove obstructions, said she notices a difference in planes landing these days."They do come in lower now," she said.Mark Parisi of Harrington Avenue in New Haven, who was doing some work on the air conditioner at a home on Burr Street in New Haven Saturday afternoon, said he lives right on the flight path but has never been worried about planes flying into and out of Tweed -- and isn't now."No -- I've lived here all my life," said Parisi, 55, who well remembers the Allegheny crash."They've got a pretty good safety record" at Tweed and "they run a clean operation," he said. "I was glad when they expanded the airport."Others aren't so sure.Ron Vlake, who was doing some work at his house right across Burr Street, said he's convinced that since Tweed cut the trees, "the planes are coming a lot lower."While Vlake, 35, and his wife bought their house 31/2 years ago because it was affordable, now that they're parents, "I want to get out of here."Friday's crash "kind of woke us up," said Vlake, who has strips of land owned by Tweed bordering two sides of his house. "I think differently now that I'm a father."As he spoke, a private jet roared overhead.A few blocks south on Dean Street in New Haven, Gary Guglielmo said he never worries about planes coming and going at Tweed or the possibility of another crash."If it's going to happen, it's going to happen," Guglielmo said. "I think they do the best they can."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the New Haven Register (New Haven, Conn.) 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Source: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.self storageAug. 11--ONTARIO -- Praying can be a very social activity with most people making devotional requests on a daily basis through groups meetings and religious networks.Well aware of that aspect, Ontario resident Matt Sprankle decided to integrate traditional face-to-face prayer session with social media.He helped create PrayBuzz, a free social prayer application which allows anyone on their phone or personal computer to communicate as well as make prayer requests.Much like popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Google+, PrayBuzz notifies a user when someone prays for them, when a friend announces an answer to prayer, and also allows to send users daily reminders to pray for the people and issues they care about.The co-founders are hoping PrayBuzz will serve as a spiritual outlet in the social media medium.Since its debut in February, the app has more than 1,600 users despite Sprankle, 32, and his co-founder Jeremy Whaley, 33, having spent no money on marketing."Our vision is to unite the world in prayer," Sprankle said. "I want to see it global, I want to see people around the world using it to synchronize and pray together.".So far, users are not only in the United States but have come as far as Japan and even the Kingdom of Bahrain. The app is nondenominational.Both Sprankle and Whaley found that market research revealed there are 75millions Americans who identify themselves as Christians, pray daily and who use social media. "It's an expression of love, any body who could use it," Sprankle said.Users have shared almost 5,000 prayer requests on PrayBuzz and have prayed for these requests more than 85,000 times using the application, he said."Our job is to provide a network that's faster than email, it's easier to use than text and it's private," he said.Alex Barrett, pastor of Church in the Valley in Diamond Bar, said members of his staff have utilized PrayBuzz to connect with members of his congrega迷你倉ion."It's been so helpful to have a place to be able to know what's going on with people," he said. "What's also been very encouraging is seeing the answered prayers."When Whaley was first approached about the idea he wanted to make sure the user experience was as simple and as easy to navigate for easy for any age group."I was excited for the idea," Whaley said. "It is something that millions of people can use and ensure they bring prayer into the top of their mind."This was the first time Whaley worked on an mobile application outside of work, he serves as Information Systems and Network Services director at Claremont McKenna College. He said he was pleased by the whole process, including getting approval from Apple "" which can be lengthy "" within 10 days.Sprankle, whose full-time job is teaching, said he would eventually like to make money from the start-up.The duo was able to get an investor involved in the project to help get the app developed but Sprankle admits he's still trying to figure out how receptive the market is to their product.If we were to grow to hundreds and thousands of users, then Sprankle and Whaley would consider adding a premium model for revenues. It would add features that user would be able to buy into.Another option, if and when they reach millions of users, would be to place advertising on the social network. Both scenarios would require more capital to make the improvements."Is this is something that can grow? Is is viable?" Sprankle said.If things don't workout as planned, then they would shift the corporation to a nonprofit and ask donation."What I've discovered is that this is just a good thing that people are using. My hope is that we grow pretty big but we'll have to wait and see."For more information, visit praybuzz.com.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.) Visit the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.) at .dailybulletin.com Distributed by MCT Information Services文件倉

Source: Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, TexasAug.迷你倉庫 11--CORPUS CHRISTI -- Former 404th state District Judge Abel C. Limas has testified that he could receive approximately 16 years in prison for his role in corrupting the judiciary and legal system in Cameron County.Limas' testimony came during the first week of trial in the government's case against attorney Eduardo "Eddie" Lucio, charged with racketeering, conspiracy and extortion, and following the defense's suggestion that Limas has much to gain through his testimony.Besides the possible prison term, and in response to questions from Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. Wynne, Limas also pointed to losing his reputation and license to practice law, the effect on his family and loss of assets."Judge Limas is not on trial here," Wynne told the jury. Limas has pleaded guilty to racketeering and awaits sentencing."There is one person on trial and that's Mr. Lucio," Wynne said, adding that the actions of Lucio and co-conspirators had been "contrary to the public interest."Lucio is charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act by giving an $80,000 kickback to ex-Cameron County District Attorney Armando R. Villalobos in connection with the case of convicted murder Amit Livingston; giving $1,000 to Limas so that he would keep quiet regarding the Livingston case; and a $5,000 bribe to Villalobos from a truck-seizure case, of which, prosecutors say, $42,000 went to Lucio.He is charged with paying bribes or kickbacks to Limas and Villalobos for judicial and prosecutorial discretion and with aiding them in committing extortion.Wynne told the jury that in some cases, "you don't have a smoking gun," and asked the jury "to connect the dots."Wynne has referred to Lucio, who is Villalobos' ex-law partner, as a "strawman" and "figurehead" for Villalobos, who Wynne said pulled the strings in the relationship.Lucio's defense attorney Luis M. Avila, on the other hand, told the jury that the government had engaged in tactics with one thing in mind -- to snare his client."Talk is cheap. Anybody can gossip," Avila said, also telling the jury that the government was not connecting the dots, "it's creating the dots.""If you want to tell the story over and over again, just tell the truth," Avila told the jury, noting that every time that Limas "has opened his mouth, a different thing comes out.""Actions speak louder than words," Avila also said, claiming that prosecutors and investigators have gone "out of their way to back what Limas says," super-imposing actions with bank and telephone records.Avila asked jurors to remember the "3Ds," which are: do not disregard evidence that goes against evidence; do not distrust evidence that they see; and do not permit witnesses to lie and deceive.Avila told the jury that the witnesses who were not char儲存ed have "sweet deals" and "golden tickets" while Limas had been "less-smart.""I don't want you to forget something he said," Avila said of Wynne. " 'We don't have a smoking gun.' You don't hang the life of a man on imagine. Give me proof -- not imagination," Avila told the jury.Limas testified that Villalobos told him that Lucio was coming from Dallas and that he, Villalobos, was going to get money from Lucio in connection with the case against Amit Livingston, charged with the 2005 murder of Hermila Hernandez.When Livingston pleaded guilty to the murder in 2007 in Limas' court, Limas sentenced Livingston the same day he pleaded guilty, freeing the murderer's $500,000 bond. The bond was then attached in a civil wrongful death lawsuit that Lucio filed on behalf of the victim's husband. Of that amount, $300,000 went to the victim's husband and children. The remainder, $200,000, went to Lucio in legal fees, and prosecutors allege that Lucio then kicked back $80,000 to Villalobos, who had referred the civil case to Lucio.As part of the agreement between Livingston's defense and the DA's Office, Limas testified that he gave Livingston a 60-day free pass to take care of business before he was supposed to report to the Cameron County Sheriff's Department to begin serving a prison sentence. Limas testified that no one objected to Livingston's release.Limas testified that Lucio and Villalobos then paid him to not investigate circumstances regarding the Livingston agreement and to keep quiet about it. Limas said he received $9,700 from Villalobos in two payments and $1,000 from Lucio."I had nothing to do with the 60 days. They had an agreement, that's the way it happened," Limas testified. "This didn't come out of the air ... It was their deal," Limas said.This is the fourth trial that Limas has testified at. The other three were the trials of the late Ray R. Marchan, an attorney who committed suicide the day he was to report to federal prison, attorney Marc G. Rosenthal, who awaits sentencing, and Villalobos, who also awaits sentencing. Limas also has testified at three pre-trial hearings and testified an average of three days at the trials."This is the fourth trial," Limas testified. "There are many, many other acts with lawyers with myself," he said, also noting that he has met with federal prosecutors and investigators about 30 times, telling them everything he knows about other people, too; "all of them," Limas testified."All that stuff is in my PSI," Limas said, referring to his pre-sentence investigation report.Limas said his expectation is that the court consider everything at time of sentencing.eperez-trevino@valleystar.comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) Visit Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) at .valleymorningstar.com Distributed by MCT Information Services新蒲崗迷你倉

The endless summer heat wave has taken over Shanghai for more than a month now, monopolizing everything from the latest headlines to ordinary conversation.新蒲崗迷你倉 The guard at my building invariably greets me each day with his latest comments on the heat, and many conversations with friends start the same way.The heat has also made many people’s patience run thin, which was why I was happy to see the latest news that cooler heads had prevailed in a recent debate over whether to provide more shady spots on the Bund.The debate was relatively short, with Shanghai officials refusing to yield to public complaints of too much sun in the Bund’s vast open spaces and calls to set up more shady spots.Before I go any further, I should say I completely sympathize with people suffering from too much sun. In the current heat wave, standing in direct sunlight has become a kiss of death, causing the already hot weather to become unbearable.I regularly alter my path to avoid having to walk in the sun, crossing the street or even choosing a completely different route to avoid dreaded direct sunlight.Down on the Bund such alterations are difficult, since the big pedestrian area lacks trees or other major coverings to provide any shade. Even the Bund’s line of stately buildings aren’t much help, since they only provide shade in the late afternoon.Despite tourist complaints about the heat, city officials took a firm stand and said they won’t be providing any extra shady spots for Shanghai’s most famous landmark.Public complaintsThey gave a few reasons for their decision, saying umbrellas or other shade-providing objects would pose a safety hazard. They also said such objects would spoil the view.In an effort to make life more comfortable, mist sprayers were installed to provide outdoor air-conditioning.Here I must commend the city for not surrendering to the public complaints, as I could easily imagine the havoc and clutter that umbrellas and other shade-producing objects would create. They would instantly become people magnets, attracting clumps of tourists into their shadows and creating unruly crowds.Umbrellas mini storageould also become a major eyesore on the Bund, which has successfully been cleared of most major clutter to create a pleasant wide-open space with plenty of room for walking and sweeping views of both the old buildings on the west and the skyline of modern towers in Lujiazui.That lack of clutter is relatively rare today in China, where any popular tourist site is inevitably filled with a hodgepodge of carts, photo takers, vendors and other temporary structures staffed by noisy hawkers.The kind of complaints that led the city to say “no” have become all too common in China, fueled in big part by the rapid rise of the Internet. It’s hard to find a news story about anything controversial these days that doesn’t include at least one or two complaining posts.A quick search on weibo brought up a typical example, with one tourist complaining how she was forced to suffer on her recent visit to the Bund due to lack of shade.The complaints certainly aren’t limited to the Bund and Shanghai. A quick scan of another recent newspaper revealed that a group of kung fu artists who demonstrated their skills on grasslands in western China came under attack from netizens who said they were too commercial. Similar critiques abound, directed at everything from corrupt officials to unpopular policies, excessive commercialism and many minor grievances.In many ways such complaints and commentaries are healthy, providing feedback that might otherwise be unavailable for government officials and other leaders. But I sometimes feel this culture of complaining goes to excess, with people often voicing criticism simply because they can. Some complainers become online bullies, since others under attack often worry about negative fallout if they take action.That all brings us back to my original subject, which is my praise for the city government for having the backbone to say “no” to online bullies and do what’s best for the Bund instead. If the complainers really want to get out of the sun, they should go for walks on some of the city’s many tree-lined streets that create natural leafy canopies. self storage

Source: Alaska Journal of Commerce, AnchorageAug.新蒲崗迷你倉 08--I didn't think my commentary last week would go unnoticed by the halibut charter industry, and it certainly wasn't.This week the debate continues with fresh submissions from both the Halibut Coalition, a consortium of various commercial fishing organizations, and the Alaska Charter Association, a group mainly representing Southcentral guides.We make our commentary pages available to all perspectives and I don't mind taking a few shots like you'll read from Rex Murphy of the ACA. If you can't take it in this business, you better not dish it out.In any case, I like Rex, and I like Heath Hilyard of the Southeast Alaska Guides Organization who submitted a piece in our Aug. 4 issue. I like a good argument, too, so I'll respond briefly to the most serious charge from Murphy about my Aug. 4 column.Murphy writes that I "falsely" claimed that when the charter sector goes over its guideline harvest level -- as the Southeast sector did by 3.4 million pounds over seven years from 2004 to 2010 -- that those pounds are deducted from following years' harvests.Murphy bases his charge on how the International Pacific Halibut Commission accounted for the overages after 2007 (you'll have to read it to see how), but I stand by my original statement. The bottom line is that those overages were deducted from the exploitable biomass of halibut one way or another, which has the undeniable effect of reducing the available harvest.Splitting hairs over how the charter overages were accounted for hardly qualifies as a "false" claim from my perspective. But you don't have to just believe me.The final rule implementing a one-halibut per day bag limit for Southeast in 2009 stated: "Charter removals should be close to the GHL or the methodology used by the IPHC to determine the Fishery CEY (Constant Exploitation Yield) is undermined and results in a de facto reallocation from the commercial sector in subsequent years."So even if the IPHC changed how it accounted for overages in 2007, it was still the case in 2009 and today that charter overages reduce the commercial harvest.While we're touching on the one-halibut rule for Southeast, Murphy blames the North Pacific Fishery Management Council for the charter overages because there were no controls in place to prevent it.However, after several years of charter overages, the council did try to implement a one-fish limit in Southeast to stop it, but the charter sector sued twice in 2008 and in 2009 to prevent the rule from taking effect.A regulatory technicality succeeded in stopping the rule in 2008, but a Washington, D.C., District Court judge tossed the charter challenge to the one-halibut limit in 2009.In response, the Southeast charter sector began targeting the largest fish and the average guided angler halibut jumped from 18 pounds in 2008 to 22 pounds in 2009 and to 26 pounds by 2010, again resulting in overages to the guideline harvest level.That led the IPHC to recommend, and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to approve, the infamous 37-inch size limit in Southeast in 2011 that finally succeeded (along with the national recession) in holding the charter sector to less than its allocation.Speaking of that 2009 lawsuit, the judge found that the guideline harvest levels approved for Southeast and Southcentral in 2003 were "fair and equitable," a point mini storagehat Murphy makes in defense of the GHL that is to be replaced by the percentage split under the catch sharing plan if it takes effect in 2014.Ironically, the Southeast charter operators who sued to stop the one-fish limit argued the GHL was not fair and equitable, but that's beside the point. What is interesting that if anything, the 2003 GHL was less fair and equitable than the halibut split being proposed today.Consider this language from the 2003 rule implementing GHL: "Setting the GHL at 125 percent of the 1995-99 harvest estimates would allow for limited growth of the guided recreational fishery, but would effectively limit further growth at this level." (emphasis mine)In other words, the council intent in 2003 was to put a ceiling on the charter sector that does not exist under the proposed catch sharing plan.Murphy also alleges that the IPHC allowed the Southeast commercial fleet to "overharvest" across several years because of a management strategy called "Slow up, Fast down" that attempted to smooth out variances in the stock assessment by not raising the quota too fast, but also by splitting the difference if the surveys called for a decrease in the harvest.In 2011, the IPHC realized this was not effective enough given the continuous decline in 32-inch or greater halibut and went to "Slow up, Full Down," which called for implementing the full decrease in the harvest indicated by the stock assessment.Murphy calls the original IPHC harvest strategy a gift to the commercial fleet, but if the "Full down" strategy had been in place sooner, the charter GHLs would have been reduced much sooner as well.In another ironic twist, the "Slow up, Fast down" strategy Murphy faults the IPHC for using is the exact same rationale used by the council to implement the tiered stepdowns in the GHL.This from the 2003 rule: "The stepwise incremental reduction was chosen by the council to provide some consideration for the natural variability of halibut stocks and not require the adoption of a new GHL every year."Under the GHL, a 24 percent drop in the halibut stock would only result in a 15 percent reduction in the charter harvest.It is important to note what the Southcentral charter allocation would be under the catch sharing plan compared to the GHL. In 2012, the charter allocation under CSP would have been 2.6 million pounds. That's not much different than the 2013 GHL of 2.7 million pounds.In 2011, the Southcentral allocation would have been 3.1 million pounds under the catch sharing plan. That's exactly the same as the 2012 GHL of 3.1 million pounds. From 2008 to 2010, the Southcentral allocation would have been 3.5 million pounds under the catch sharing plan, nearly identical to the 3.65 million pounds under the GHL.In the end, the final rule does sum up the situation well and I'll conclude with that: "... it is not possible for any allocation under the proposed CSP to make participants in both fisheries whole economically given the current halibut abundance levels."If the definition of a good compromise is when nobody is happy, the halibut catch sharing plan qualifies.Andrew Jensen can be reached at andrew.jensen@alaskajournal.com.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Alaska Journal of Commerce (Anchorage, Alaska) Visit the Alaska Journal of Commerce (Anchorage, Alaska) at .alaskajournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage

Source: The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.儲存倉Aug. 10--What is money?Ideally, money represents work, property or something we've agreed has value. This probably started when someone decided that carrying a token that represented a camel was easier than delivering a camel to buy a cup of wine and then figuring out how to make change.Somewhere along the line some wiseacre decided gold, which glistened nicely in your ears, nose, fingers and toes, was easier to carry in your pocket than a camel. Everyone agreed that anything that could be fashioned into something that made our bodies look better was of value even if it was in coin form in our pockets.I guess we're lucky hair conditioner wasn't discovered first.For centuries, this is how things worked. Those coins in your pocket were made of a material that really DID have a certain value on its own. Then came paper money, which was lighter and could be exchanged for gold or silver. And then, well, we decided that we'd just IMAGINE paper money was backed by something and, amazingly, everyone agreed! (It's slightly more complicated than that.)Not everyone is agreeing over the value of Bitcoin -- an online currency introduced in 2009. But libertarians, tech enthusiasts and the banking industry are all atwitter over it. In theory, and somewhat in practice, it allows for the transfer of wealth without the int迷你倉沙田rference of any government entity.Get the Bitcoin software and you can buy Bitcoin tokens online, with the currency of your country, and use them to buy items or transfer funds online. In a way, it's like a bank without borders. That's great for avoiding fees and, to the consternation of certain governments, taxes and regulation. It's also become a hot way to buy and sell illegal items.Bitcoin added some clout when Wikileaks began accepting Bitcoin donations. And even some brick-and-mortar businesses are accepting Bitcoin payments.Governments, including the United States government, are not exactly happy about this. "Financial institutions" and "money transmitters" are subject to regulation, but exactly how do you regulate something that is operated by peer-to-peer filesharing programs?Like stocks or physical currency, the value of Bitcoin fluctuates with the confidence of the people using it -- and it's fluctuated wildly. However, the folks who started it (a person or group using the name Satoshi Nakamoto) are doubtlessly now rich.At least they're rich until the online economy crashes.My bet is, they've already traded their Bitcoins for cash and bought camels.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tenn.) Visit the Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, Tenn.) at .knoxnews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉價錢

Rumour: Songpan county in south-western Sichuan province has as many as 16 vice-heads.自存倉Truth: The local government says it has only nine vice-heads.Rumour: A woman in eastern Qingdao city claimed she was sent a kangaroo when she ordered infant formula from Australia.Truth: Qingdao police and Customs officials told local media that no such incident took place.Misinformation and falsehoods being circulated online are being debunked on a new portal set up jointly by six Chinese Internet firms, in Beijing's latest attempt to exert control over cyberspace.The six are the Baidu, Sohu and Sogou search engines, Qianlong and NetEase Internet news sites, and the country's popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo microblogging platform.The website is hosted by Qianlong.com, which is run by the Beijing city government.Since its launch on Aug 1, the website, whose name loosely means "Beijing-based websites' joint rumour-busting platform", has published 100,000 pieces of misinformation collected and corrected by the six firms.It allows netizens to post suspected rumours that will be checked and verified by the Internet firms, with input from Chinese government agencies.The site - which is run with "guidance" from the Beijing Internet Information Office, a department under the capital's government, and the Beijing Internet Association, a non-profit social organisation - will also alert Internet users to phishing scams and even develop games that teach netizens how to verify possible rumours.It echoes Singapore's recent attempts to regulate information flow on the Internet. The Singapore Government in June rolled out a new licensing framework for online news sites while its ministers increasingly warn against threats posed by online rumours.China, which has the world's biggest Internet population with nearly 600 million netizens and 300 million microblog users, has been stepping up efforts to control its cyberspace.In 2011, Chinese state media published a series of hard-h迷你倉新蒲崗tting editorials that likened online rumours to poison and illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin.Since the end of last year, China has made it compulsory for netizens to provide real names when they register new Weibo accounts.Several Internet firms have already been operating their own rumour-debunking portals before joining forces last week. For instance, Sohu's "Rumour Terminator" site launched last year has already handled 300 rumours. The firms' websites have continued to run in tandem with the new site.Netizens often use social media to discuss sensitive topics or to expose corrupt officials, but some have also deliberately posted rumours.An example from last month was a rumour that a branch of the People's Bank of China - the central bank - was distributing zero-interest loans of between 50,000 yuan (S$10,330) and 500,000 yuan. It led to some 1,000 hopeful borrowers turning up at the branch in Beihai in southern Guangxi autonomous region.The Chinese state media has - as expected - praised the new portal. "This is a laudable step. Rumours can impose severe side effects on the social regulation. They can cause widespread panic, disturb the order of society and damage the government's credibility," wrote the Global Times newspaper on Aug 2.But some decry the website as another attempt by the authorities to censor Internet users and question its effectiveness, given the public's lack of trust in the government.Renmin University's media expert Yu Guoming told The Sunday Times that for the website to work, government agencies, which have greater access to information than ordinary citizens, will have to provide more evidence when refuting rumours.He added: "Accounts of microbloggers deemed to have spread online rumours have often been shut down as a form of punishment."To raise public trust, government agencies should also show that they are prepared to do the same to themselves if they wrongly refute a rumour that later turns out to be true."迷你倉出租

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美國國際貿易委員會(ITC)9日最終判決三星電子智能手機侵犯蘋果兩項專利，自存倉這兩項專利包括智能手機屏幕多點觸控功能和耳機插孔檢測專利。 不過，這項裁決沒有指明三星公司的哪些產品被禁止進口到美國。該禁令還將受到美國政府的複審，奧巴馬政府有權在60日內對禁令進行批准或否決。在此期間三星電子的所有手機可以出口到美國市場。 奧巴馬料不會推翻裁決 分析普遍認為奧巴馬不會推翻裁決。蘋果公司發迷你倉新蒲崗聲明肯定了ITC的裁決，並稱委員會與世界多國法院一道抵制了三星對蘋果產品的「明顯抄襲」。三星的聲明則對裁決表示失望，並稱智能手機行業不該打環球訴訟戰，而是公平的市場競賽。法新社則引述矽谷分析員恩德勒稱，這宗判決其實意義不大，因為受影響的只是一些老型號產品，這些產品在美國已經不是熱銷產品，其目的地更大可能是一些新興市場。洛杉磯商業律師羅斯對彭博新聞社稱，以拳擊來比喻，這不過是「刺拳」，而不是「重拳」。迷你倉出租

蘋果的iPhone去年推出「Passport」功能，迷你倉新蒲崗把電子票證、購物卡與折價券儲存在同一個地方，現在三星也推出類似的功能。engadget網站報導，「三星錢包」（SAMSUNG Wallet）已經在美國的Google Play App商店上架，GALAXY S與GALAXY Note的系列手機可以使用。 美職大聯盟支援 三星錢包雖名為「錢包」，但並不像Google錢包（Google Wallet）那樣擁有近場迷你倉出租應（NFC）付款的功能。這個三星「錢包」App儲存的是機票、電影票、會員卡等資料，要用時可以從手機叫出來，讓機器掃描條碼，使用機場的自動登機機器，或者讓櫃檯進行人工處理。 目前已經有美國職棒大聯盟、旅行訂票網站Hotels.com、Expedia.com、超商Walgreens等廠商支援三星錢包，GALAXY S3、GALAXY S4、GALAXY Note與GALAXY Note II可以安裝，僅限美國使用。國際中心儲存倉

Mobile phone shop in People's Park racks up 22 complaints for dodgy sales tacticsA mobile phone retail shop at People's Park Complex has been the subject of 22 complaints about dodgy sales tactics.存倉Mobile Sensation is said to have dangled ultra-cheap prices for its phones, but the sweet deals turned sour when buyers found they had to pay more money for additional charges such as monthly warranty payments. Others were told that the phones did not have the overseas coverage they needed.Some hapless customers got worn down trying to sort out the mess and ended up agreeing to buy an older model as a compromise.Mobile Sensation is one of five mobile phone shops at People's Park Complex in Chinatown that have between them racked up 39 complaints to the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) from January 2010 to June this year.The other shops are Sensation 2, S Team Mobile, Mobile Innovation and G-Tech Mobile.One complainant is Mr David Toh, who told of how he was shopping for a phone for his wife and was attracted to Mobile Sensation's low price of $388 for a Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone.The 40-year-old lorry driver told The Sunday Times: "This phone model generally costs over $500."Despite the offer being so cheap, "I did not suspect anything amiss as I had asked to confirm the price with a member of the sales staff before handing him my cash for the purchase", he said.Mr Toh claimed that staff member later told him he would need to pay $35 for the warranty. He agreed to buy it as "the phone would still be cheaper than if I were to buy from a telco".However, when he was asked to pay $1,260 for three years of warranty at $35 per month, Mr Toh realised that the deal was no bargain.A Samsung Galaxy Note was retailing at around $550 at authorised telco shops, a price that includes a warranty of at least one year."My wife and I argued with the staff member for a long time as we didn't want to buy the warranty, but they refused to refund our money," said Mr Toh."In the end we were so stressed we agreed to top up $150 for a Samsung Galaxy S, even though it was an older model. We just wanted to get out of the shop."Mr Toh ended up paying $538 for a phone which was selling for less than $300 at most shops.Last week, with help from Case, he managed to resell the phone to Mobile Sensation for $350.Mr Calvin Chai自存倉had a similar harrowing experience at Mobile Sensation in February last year.The 29-year-old Chinese national, who works here as an engineer, told The Sunday Times that he, too, was attracted by the low prices on display."I paid $780 for a Samsung Galaxy S II, only to be told that it was a local set and cannot be used overseas," said Mr Chai, who was later convinced to accept an older model, a Samsung Galaxy R, for the same price."When I got home, I found out that the model I was given cost $200 less in other stores. I returned to the shop immediately, but I was denied a refund of my money."He later filed a complaint with Case and managed to get a refund of the difference in price between the two models.Case executive director Seah Seng Choon said that Mr Chai could have demanded a full refund only if he had specifically told sales staff that he wanted a phone that could be used overseas.Case divides the 39 cases at the People's Park Complex shops into different categories such as "misrepresentation" and "sales tactics". Twenty-four cases fell into those two categories. The others involved failure to honour the terms of a sales agreement, overcharging and selling defective goods.Mr Seah explained that an example of misrepresentation would be if a retailer had told a customer that a phone was new when it was in fact used.As for bad sales tactics, this was shown in Mr Toh's case when the staff quoted an extra charge for warranty only after he had paid for the phone.When The Sunday Times visited Mobile Sensation last week, many price tags had "terms and conditions" stated on them. When this reporter asked what the terms and conditions were, an employee explained that she would need to purchase between one and three years of warranty with the shop to buy the phones at the special prices.Mobile Sensation retail manager Alvin Li, 27, said: "We are selling the Apple iPhone 5 (16GB) at a promotional price of $588 with a two-year purchase of warranty with the shop at $49.90 per month."As this is an export set, it will not be covered by Apple's warranty."But an Apple spokesman told The Sunday Times that every new Apple-branded iPhone includes a one-year limited warranty and is enabled to work on networks using GSM around the world.The Apple iPhone 5 (16GB) sells for $948 at Apple's online store.joycel@sph.com.sg迷你倉新蒲崗

《狂舞派》給我一個十分清晰的印象，新蒲崗迷你倉就是拍跳舞拍得很好看，執筆此刻其實已經跟看《狂舞派》首映時相隔了一段時間，但腦海依然可以浮現戲中各舞者技藝之震撼。黃修平執導的《狂舞派》徹底打動了我，打動我的除了是舞者們精彩的舞藝和他們對夢想的熱誠外，《狂舞派》觸動我的，還有一種異常的陌生感。所謂陌生，就是在大銀幕上竟看見香港人跳舞。在香港，我們普遍有什麼機會可以看到跳舞呢？或許是當歌星在台上唱快歌、農曆新年花車巡遊、甚或學校開放日看子女才藝表演的時候。若非對舞蹈有一定興趣，普通的香港人可能只會在偶然的情�之下，夜深路過某個較少人的街角，才會碰上類似《狂舞派》中的舞者。在香港跳舞這樣陌生自2009 年開始籌備選角的《狂舞派》，展現香港街舞較少人認知的生態空間。《狂舞派》中主要有兩隊舞隊，主角阿花（顏卓靈飾）所屬的BombA 是大學生組成的舞隊，成員會於校內校外辦跳舞班來支援屬會經費；另一隊宿敵Rooftopper 則寄居於舊式工廠大廈，工廈天台也是他們練習和表演的空間。導演黃修平在電影製作特輯中透露，在香港要拍一部跳舞電影，不用解釋也可以想像當中的難度，但《狂舞派》就是在不理想的環境之下迸發出創意和熱情。Rooftopper 戲中登場時於工廈一段長達約10 分鐘的Parkour，由滿佈桌椅的樓上工友食堂，穿插於工人和貨物之間的走廊，跳進舊式拉門升降機，再衝上工廈天台。《狂舞派》的Parkour 呈現出香港獨特的地道景觀，同時教我想起不少經典歌舞片，如積葵丹美的《柳媚花嬌》，路人以平常生活的動作穿插於舞者的舞蹈之間，但或許是因為Parkour 的動作能夠與周遭特殊環境融合，這一幕有種難以言喻的感染力和現場感，是在看一般歌舞片時所沒有的。這正正反映導演黃修平所謂不理想環境之下迸發出來的創意。當太極遇mini storage街舞男主角7 良（蔡瀚億飾）是大學太極學會的會長，跟女主角阿花各自練習時相遇，從而發展出一段感情支線。當太極遇上街舞，除了有傳統和街頭文化拼湊出來的火花外，無意間也反映出社會上對不同文化的觀感差異。戲中的跳舞學會雖然較受同學歡迎，但在校園內只有一個儲物櫃；相反，只有幾個會員的太極學會卻有固定場地。故事中交代，原來以前有成員在舞蹈學會會房內鬼混，所以該場地現時由太極學會獨有。《狂舞派》如斯自然的將鬼混→街舞→剝奪街舞於校園內的活動空間→將空間交予較健康的太極，這個方程式毫無猶豫的連繫起來，街舞就是年輕人問題的象徵，太極則予人健康正氣之感。《狂舞派》並沒有�力探討這個社會觀感上的分歧，同時亦無刻意去迴避。這空間容不下表演藝術戲中，由區議員辦事處牽頭之下，柒良的太極學會在公共屋�為老人家表演太極舞，區議員為太極學會最低限度也安排了場地和觀眾，但這類媒介卻難以存在於街舞和大眾之間。戲中BombA 已算幸運能找到一個小空地公園來練習，但那�不能發展成一個接觸群眾的平台。香港不少公園瑟縮於幾乎無人停留的地方才會發現無既定用途的空地，多人流的公園就已經規劃好了不同用途卻缺乏隨意使用的公共空間，其僅餘的自由活動空間只要收到投訴，就是禁止活動一方而非促進相互理解，導致街舞或其他表演藝術欠缺跟大眾互動的機會，亦解了香港作為國際大都會，卻培養不到像東京代代木公園般可以供人自由表演的公共場地。我看《狂舞派》時感受異常的陌生，不是因為我們並不知道這班舞者的存在，陌生是因為平時我們只能看到他們的鳳毛麟角，而舞者們亦欠缺跟公眾交流的空間，彼此難以接觸得到大家。《狂舞派》讓電影觀眾一睹這批環境逼出來的舞林高手，在戲院內如此近距離感受一眾舞者的熱誠，會發現所謂陌生的，其實是自己慢慢忘記那份曾經對夢想的追求。文張知行self storage

（馬六甲9日訊）由於開齋節公假落在星期四與星期五，儲存倉加上週六及星期日的休息日，一連4天的假期，讓馬六甲湧入了大批遊客。假日車多人多，旅遊區販商還必須準備比平時多一倍的貨品應付消費者，帶旺甲州旅遊業及經濟。雖然馬六甲是靠海州屬，天氣炎熱，但一點也不影響遊客的興致。從昨日公假開始，老街區、紅屋一帶便湧入了大批遊客，將雞場街的人行道擠得水泄不通，很迷你倉沙田遊客為此必須在路上行走，形成了“人比車大”的情景。路上車輛必須“讓路”給路人，造成老街區交通緩慢。逢國慶獅城客湧入古城今天（9日）也是鄰國新加坡的國慶日，不少新加坡人開車到馬六甲度假，路上到處看到該國車牌的車子。飲食店、商鋪生意大好，尤其是飲食店更是大排長龍。受訪的店家全都已做好準備迎接倍增的客人，一些也延遲下班時間，只為了滿足客人的需求。;迷你倉價錢

澳門傳媒報道說，儲存今年暑期澳門市面上做暑期工的大、中學生人數較往年大減，究其原因，一是開出暑期工的本澳企業公司數目大減，許多公司及商家都不再聘請暑期工；二是澳門學生對暑期工越來越揀擇，又要時薪夠高，又要工作夠輕鬆，還要工作職份夠「體面」；三是現時本澳學生較昔日的學生更「不差錢」，更樂意利用暑假去旅遊、遊學、「充電」。澳門坊間對開設暑期工職位的商家商戶數目大減，表示甚疑惑──亦正是澳門商業，叫嚷「人手短缺」籲請政府批准更多外勞輸入的，可是，對每年暑期有數千青年學生短期投入勞動市場，竟然一年比一年不感興趣，這究竟是甚麼原因造成如此矛盾的籲請作派呢？據商界社團某些代表透露，其實近些年來，許多原是可以安排暑期工充任的工作職務，商家都已聘請到全職職工去做了，其中不少是由外勞充任，且這樣工作穩定，人員穩定，所支出的工薪雖然較多一些兒，但是絕對較不時請兼職或暑期工，更上算許多。暑期工作越新蒲崗迷你倉越少，的確是澳門勞動市場的一種變化趨勢。又據某飲食業社團負責人表示，願意聘請暑期工做侍應、清潔、洗碗工的茶餐廳、酒樓、餐館，多的是，且亦有不斷地貼出街招請這樣的兼職，且開出的時薪是「行內公價」，即時薪怎麼都有35元上下的，所以，若是有願意做暑期工又找不到頭路的同學，只管到商會團體去查詢和要求介紹便是，包你一定找得到飲食業的暑期工做的。之不過，此君亦表示，近年來本澳青年找兼職覓暑期工，多不願意去飲食業做，不是嫌時薪低，而是嫌其「低下」，但是，做「M記」之類的快餐連鎖店的兼職及暑期工，反倒是一種「體面的經驗歷練」，年輕人趨之若鶩，這箇中有一個「文化的分野」存在，且是業界無法子去解決的。澳門社會學者指出，澳門是一個以服務業為主的經濟體，而服務業是最能產生兼職、短工職位工作的，所以澳門的暑期工人數大減，似乎內�有虞，並不是正常的社會態勢。tamhoukong@hotmail.commini storage

Source: The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.儲存Aug. 10--CANON CITY -- Tragedy that has hit two Colorado communities has given rise to the sharing of a helping hand.When the city of Aurora received 200 stuffed animals and comfort pillows from American Responds with Love during the one-year anniversary of the Aurora Theater shooting tragedy last month, officials decided to pay it forward and help a neighbor. Because Canon City is reeling from the June 11 Royal Gorge Fire, it seemed a good place to start.The fire closed down the Royal Gorge Bridge, the main tourist attraction, for rebuilding of rides and attractions. The resulting economic impact has been difficult on local businesses.So while the stuffed animals will likely provide a calming effect for local victims of car crashes and domestic violence incidents when they are handed out by fire and police officials, Aurora's helping hand will go even further."(Aurora officials) reached out and said they wanted to help get the word out that we are still open for business and still functioning here," said Canon City Mayor Tony Greer. "They asked us to write up a couple of paragraphs about what there is to do here and they will include it in their next water billing."Encouraging A新蒲崗迷你倉rora residents to come to Canon for a day trip is an awesome thing to do and should have an impact," Greer said.Richard McDonough, president of America Responds with Love, whose agency got the ball rolling with the initial stuffed animal donation, is very pleased with how the pay-it-forward idea is working."Canon City is going through a second disaster the way Aurora did. They are reeling from the economic impact and they want to get the word out that the tragedy doesn't define the town," said Richard McDonough, president of America Responds with Love."Aurora knows what that is like to be hit," McDonough said."The City of Aurora is proud to be able to help our fellow Coloradans during this difficult time," said Mayor Steve Hogan. "We encourage others throughout Colorado to join us in helping Canon City."Greer said when it is time, Canon City will do their part."We ought to be on the lookout for the next community that is having a similar problem and do what we can to help," Greer said."To us, that is America," McDonough said.tharmon@chieftain. comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 The Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colo.) Visit The Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colo.) at .chieftain.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage

Source: The Roanoke Times, Va.迷你倉庫Aug. 10--Just about the first thing Roanoke code compliance inspector Brad Wilson does when he gets into his maroon city Chevy -- "it's been in the shop seven times already this year" -- is roll down the windows."I like to hear things. If there's a jackhammer going, I can hear it, drive around and make sure they've got their permits, that everything's OK," Wilson said. "I even keep the windows down in the winter."He's one of Roanoke's 15-strong team of inspectors and supervisors -- just this week finally back up to full strength -- who enforce the laws that say buildings must be maintained so that they are safe to be in and that property has to be free of the junked cars, weeds and garbage that can shelter animal pests and disease.Wilson's turf is Hurt Park and a stretch of northwest Roanoke between Fifth and 18th streets, and Moorman and Shenandoah avenues. He spends several hours a day cruising the area's streets and alleys, checking out some 1,100 homes, businesses and vacant lots. He figures he hits every street and alley once every week to 10 days, and issues an average of about 20 notices of violation a week -- more in the summer, when people sometimes let the grass go too long without cutting.He's strict -- but you wouldn't guess it by the way one wheelchair-bound lady on 13th street in Hurt Park teases him about not working hard. A few days later, she was on the phone to say her efforts to ask a neighbor to clear a bush blocking the alleyway were fruitless. I know you'll get on it, she told him.Code enforcement is central to the city's efforts to make sure Roanoke is a safe and pleasant place to live and work, City Manager Chris Morrill said."They're the problem-solvers in the neighborhoods. They're dealing with the tough properties, the tough cases," Morrill said. Sometimes that means citations or taking people to court, sometimes it's simply steering people to the help they need.For many Roanoke property-owners, code enforcement inspectors are more of a pain in the neck."There's a car someone's working on, it's got a flat. They're out there cruising around and see it, they write the landlord a nasty letter and issue a citation. Is that the best use of time? ... It's insane, the petty detail they get into," said Andy Stowasser, president of Real Estate Investors of Virginia, which complains that code enforcement inspectors come down harder on landlords than on people who own their homes.Some Roanokers want the inspectors to be even more aggressive."I moved back to Roanoke in '96. The very first issue I heard from people over neighborhood problems was code enforcement, or the lack thereof. Seventeen years later it remains the number one, most often spoken issue at neighborhood watch meeting and neighborhood associations," said Southeast community activist E. Duane Howard."Just weeks ago a house on Montrose had growth 6 to 7 feet tall," he said. "It was like making a federal case to the city to get this eyesore cut. They said if it happened again they would notify the owner."The city's inspectors issued about 6,400 notices of violations last year. Some are in response to complaints, many because of problems they see as they patrol their areas or make their scheduled inspections of rented houses and apartments.Sometimes, when they check on a problem, a simple conversation with the property owner gets action without a need to write up a notice of violation. Sometimes, when a notice gets no action, they get a summons to bring the property owner to court.On one recent summer afternoon, Wilson focused on "re-checks" -- follow-ups on notices he had issued over the past few weeks.One of his first stops was to see if the out-of-state owner of a house at 14th and Moorman had made any progress clearing away a huge tree toppled by an intense storm nearly three weeks before. A trailer full of firewood and 10 feet of now-clear sidewalk were good signs, though there was still plenty of work to do."Yeah, he started there," a man called from a few feet away."Did he get those things fixed up in there," Wilson replied, nodding at the duplex house on the lot, which the out-of-state owner rents out. "It needed some cleaning up.""Yeah, it's real nice," the man said. "I've moved in."Across 14th, not far from where Wilson parked his Chevy, there's a utility pole with a wire wrapped tightly around it and taped into place. Wilson did that a few days earlier, when a neighbor pointed to the wire lying across the sidewalk. It caught her eye when some kids nearly rode their bikes into it.It can be easy to miss things -- which is why Wilson drives slowly, keeps his windows down, and stops a lot.Around the corner, down the alley for a couple of blocks, Wilson spots Angel Rodas, working on a house in the 1600 block of Moorman. Rodas, who rents the place, is helping the owner fix it up -- including dealing with citations for overgrown vines on儲存the back fence and needed repairs to the outside walls, trim and windows."Cleaning up this fence was bad," Rodas said. "I didn't see the poison ivy."He had such a severe case, he had to go to the hospital, he added."Whoa," Wilson said. "You gotta watch for that. Spray maybe. You know, it's got those three leaves."Wilson walked down the alley while Rodas followed on the other side of the fence, seeing if he could point some out since Rodas wasn't sure he knew what the plant looked like. He spotted some -- right by the tomato patch Rodas planted.Wilson said the back windows on the house look new, and asked what Rodas planned to do about the foam caulking that has bubbled out between the window frame and the wall. Both agree it looks bad."I'm gonna have to cut it away," Rodas said."Maybe a trim board?" Wilson hinted.Rodas nodded.He's going to get going on the back siding in a couple of days, now that he has installed a proper facia and soffit under the roof, Rodas continued. There was no point tearing off the gray, waterstained siding below until he stopped the steady leak of water that risked rotting the structure beneath."Going good," Wilson said. "It's going to a real nice place to live."Nobody likes getting a notice, and many bristle at a code compliance inspector's less formal suggestion that they do something about an overgrown lot or a junk car in the yard. Wilson said the point, though, is to start a conversation about how to fix a problem.Turning the Chevy up 12th street, Wilson spotted the Rev. Cecil Scott and Edward Jones on the side steps of Truevine Church of Christ, peering at a length of insulated wire."We're not working, just trying to figure out if this was after 1985," Jones quickly said.Wilson had come by a few days before to remind them that they needed a building permit for the repair work after one of July's storms blew off a chunk of roof. Knowing if the rear part of the church was built after then will save the hassle of getting an asbestos report to get a permit."I know you're working on the permit," Wilson said. "I know you, you know me, don't worry about it. I don't have a problem."Jones tells him the church is doing a fundraiser, selling donuts, to finance the repairs.Wilson said if they need to stretch their money they should get in touch with volunteer groups Rebuilding Together or World Changers, for help with the repairs.Heading back to his Chevy to fetch some information about those groups, he spots the front porch sagging next door, then sees how, where it separated from front wall, the wood beam at the bottom of the front wall has been almost completely eaten away by termites.It's a serious problem -- basically there's no way to tell what's holding the wall up any more. Wilson puts some caution tape up and gets started on a condemnation notice.Back on patrol, he turns down Gilmer Street, checking on a house in the 1300 block that he condemned as unfit to live in a month ago, after checking the tenants' complaint that several inches of standing water in the basement wasn't draining. The thick layer of mud in the basement and mildew upstairs pointed to a continuing problem -- one that could mean a chance of rot in the house's wood frame.Wilson's unhappy to see no signs that the building owner has done any work yet. It's another place he'll have to keep an eye on.Just like a house in the 700 block of Loudon that's in foreclosure. Wilson had to condemn it a few months ago -- when nothing happened, he had a contractor in to shore up the collapsing rear foundation. He regularly checks on the boarded-up houses in his territory, to make sure nobody's breaking in and using them to sleep in or as a base to deal drugs.Rodney Randolph, who's been busy cutting the grass at his late father's home two houses down, stepped over to complain about how the foreclosed place's front hedge is blocking the sidewalk.Wilson nodded. There's not much he can do, since the foreclosure is in process and the bank hasn't formally taken possession."I'm doing my yard, and my neighbor's and then we've got this," Randolph grumbled. "Got groundhogs and skunks living in there. I'm sick of skunks."Back around Memorial Day, he said, there were a bunch of people hanging around the back, maybe even getting inside. He was pretty sure they were up to no good.Wilson -- like many in city hall -- is a believer in the broken windows school of public safety, the idea that neighborhoods that are looked after, even in smaller matters like overgrown yards and junked cars, tend to discourage criminals from trying their luck.He's trying to figure out what to do about the hedges."Tell you what," he said. "If I can't get someone to do 'em, I'll come out on the weekend and do 'em myself.""I'll help," Randolph said.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.) 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Source: The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaAug.迷你倉出租 09--William R. Eads, retired state district court judge and former chief judge of Iowa's Sixth Judicial District, died Thursday at age 86.He retired from the bench at the end of 2000, completing a 37-and-a-half-year career as a state court judge.A 1957 graduate of the University of Iowa School of Law, he was appointed to the district court in 1963 by then-Gov. Harold Hughes.-- See also: Timeline for Judge William EadsAt his departure from the bench, Eads set out in writing some thoughts on what he called 17 of the most intriguing cases of his long judicial career, a list that includes diving mules, a tiger at the Johnson County Courthouse, a forced fingerprint, the woman on birth control who sued when she got pregnant, the jailed pregnant woman who said her fetus didn't deserve incarceration, a posthumous adoption of a child, unpasteurized milk bootleggers and the saving of the Old Brick church in Iowa City.-- See also: Close-Up with Judge William EadsAttorney and close friend Ben Blackstock, of Blackstock Law Offices in Cedar Rapids, on Thursday said Eads was a "rags to riches" story, a man who climbed from a boyhood of poverty to become a man and judge who was kind, fair and respectful of those big and small. And there was that sense of humor, too, Blackstock said."He was a one of a kind," Blackstock said. "They did throw away the mold when they made Judge Eads."Attorney and close friend James Affeldt, of the Elderkin & Pirnie PLC law firm in Cedar Rapids, on Thursday recalled Eads as a "scholar of the law" and one who "loved his work." At the time of his retirement in 2000, he was the longest or second longest serving district judges in Iowa, he said.Affeldt said it was Eads' effort that changed the legal landscape in Iowa and gave defendants the right to pre-trial discovery in criminal cases.Affeldt acknowledged, too, that Eads "never shied away from publicity," and he pointed to a number of "colorful" cases and rulings in Eads' career.There was the 1973 case in which Eads viewed the adult movie "Deep Throat" and ruled it was illegal for a Marion theater to show it. "He didn't find how anyone would find this with redeeming value," Affeldt said of Eads. The decision later was overturned by the Iowa Supreme Court.Affeldt remembered when Eads convened a grand jury to investigate the Cedar Rapids Police Department at one point to see if the department was listening in on conversations between defendants and their attorneys. He also convened a grand jury in the police shooting of Eric Shaw in Iowa City in 1997.Affeldt also noted the divorce case in which Eads concluded that the future earning capacity of a husband's graduate degree should be factored in the property settlement of the divorce when the non-degreed spouse helped support the marriage to allow for the education."He was out front in many areas of the law, criminal, divorce, the grand jury investigations. 'Deep Throat' was a big deal at the time," Affeldt said.Eads served as chief judge of the Sixth Judicial District on two occasions, including the last year he served as judge.Today's district chief judge, Patrick Grady, on Thursday said first impressions can be lasting ones, and he said he still remembers how Judge Eads made time for him when he first arrived as a public defender in Cedar Rapids in 1985."I noticed that he was always very friendly to me as a new lawyer, made people feel welcome at the courthouse," Grady said. "That is the sort of endearing memory I have of him. ... He was very outgoing. He figured out my name without having 儲存倉et me."Grady said being the chief judge of the six-county district is "a lot of responsibility." He called it a "fortunate legacy" to have had Eads and two others go before him in the job."They all set a good example, and I think I've benefitted from their experiences," he said.Steven Jackson Sr., an attorney at Lynch Dallas PC in Cedar Rapids, on Thursday called Eads "innovative," and he, too, singled out Eads' decision to require defense attorneys access to prosecution witnesses and evidence prior to a criminal trial.Jackson remembered Eads willingness to be available, and he recalled an instance when, as a young prosecutor, he needed Eads' signature on a Saturday morning for a search warrant. To get it, he had to go the pool at the YMCA, where at the time men swam in the nude. He got the signature at the side of the pool with the naked judge, he said.Chuck Peters, president of The Gazette Co., recalled a similar story Thursday when he said he was a first-year lawyer at a local law firm and was told to call and then go to Judge Eads' home at 1 a.m. for a signature to get a client released from jail."He comes to the door, and says, 'Hello, how are you Chuck? How are you enjoying the practice of law? Come in, sit down for a little bit,'" Peters recalled. "... He was very gracious and kind to a young attorney."Jackson calls himself a liberal Democrat, and he said Eads was a Democrat, but one who didn't let politics come into play in his rulings. Affeldt said as much, and he said until the last few years, Eads was an avid reader and especially liked to read about John Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt and other Democratic political figures.Blackstock recalled the time when he and Eads left their wives behind and flew to Dallas, Texas, for a few days to see up close the famous spots that figured in John Kennedy's assassination. At one point, he said Eads insisted on stopping to talk to a stranger who had bent down to tie his shoe near the jail where Kennedy's assassin was shot. The stranger turned out to be the assistant commander of the Dallas Police Department, and he gave them a personal tour of all the high spots."Anybody he met was a friend," Blackstock said of Eads.Blackstock and Affeldt were frequent visitors of Eads' in the last five years when he lost the use of his legs and needed to live in a nursing care facility."It didn't change his disposition," Affeldt said. "He was still always upbeat about things."Debra Shields, who worked as Eads' court reporter for more than two decades, on Thursday said Eads strove to be fair to the point that it was not uncommon for the judge to issue a ruling, call it back several times to make changes before finally settling on the final thoughts and sentences."He always tried to be fair. He wanted to be perfect," she said.Blackstone recalled a time Eads was walking in the rain on the bridge outside the Linn County Courthouse when an attorney pulled over to give him a ride. Eads climbed in only to declare a short time later, "Stop, I got to get out. I have a case with you next week," Blackstock said."He carried honesty to the extreme. He was a very, very conscientious man," Eads' long-time friend said.Eads is survived by his wife, Dorothy, two daughters and four grandchildren, Affeldt said.His funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Paul's United Methodist Church. Friends may call at the Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Visit The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) at thegazette.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉沙田

雖然立秋已過去幾天，mini storage但多數市民並沒有感覺到秋後的涼爽，持續的高溫和悶熱讓很多市民依然不敢出門，躲在家里避暑的中老年人就更多了。據介紹，最近因頸腰疼痛到院就診的患者也明顯增多，立秋後會多發哪些疾病呢?市民又該如何預防?近日，記者走訪了我市多家醫院進行調查採訪，找尋答案。八成頸腰椎病因猛吹空調烈日炎炎，酷暑難耐，不僅公�場合如書店、辦公室等地開�空調，自己家里也常常開上一夜空調。在電腦前長時間工作，休息日在家也不出門，呆在空調房里玩電腦、看電視，已成為炎熱天氣里不少人的生活方式。正是這種看似舒適、缺少戶外活動的生活方式，導致目前頸腰椎病求診者驟增。室溫太低、涼氣過重，使頸部、腰背部肌肉及椎間盤周圍組織的血運障礙，增加了頸腰椎病的發病幾率。這幾天，本市多家醫院骨傷科病人明顯增加。據統計，最近一周門診中頸椎病、腰椎病病人就診人數翻番。僅以南昌華夏(骨科)醫院為例，近期半天門診就要接診40至50位類似患者。據南昌華夏(骨科)醫院院長王迪輝教授分析說，在近期發病的頸腰椎病患者中，有70%至80%都是由於炎夏悶熱難耐，貪涼猛吹空調、電扇，甚至吹過夜導致老病複發。而病人年齡大多集中在20至50歲，中年病人以教師和財會人員居多，年輕患者則多為電腦工作者。“秋老虎”來襲三類人頸椎易受傷“秋老虎”持續發威，王教授提醒，有三類人要小心頸椎容易受傷。第一類：常年頭暈病因不明者很多頭暈患者往往以為頭暈是高血壓、感冒等疾患引起，很少與頸椎病聯繫起來。然而，頸部勞損引起頸部肌肉持久痙攣性收縮，導致肌肉的血流循環障礙，患者頭暈嚴重時極易發生如跌倒等意外。醫生提醒，高溫悶熱的天氣使很多人都不小心感冒，如果感冒痊癒卻常年頭暈，又不知患什麼疾病時最好查查自己的頸椎是否健康。第二類：四肢無力行走不穩者市民馮大爺感到不解：為什麼自己下肢無力，走路如踩棉花會被確診為頸椎病呢?王教授解釋，病人出現肢體麻木、似乎不聽指揮，或下肢綿軟、行走不穩等症狀，多是由於突出髓核壓迫神經，導致腦部供血不足，或是頸部病變導致脊髓受壓，引起炎症、水腫，病人以患椎動脈型頸椎病或脊髓型頸椎病為主。第三類：常有嘔吐胃部不適者臨床上多數患者感到惡心嘔吐或腹脹不適時，首先認為是自己的消化系統出了毛病，檢查卻不見消化道病變，吃藥也沒有改善症狀。其實，當頸椎發生骨質增生病變時，增生的骨刺、退化的椎間盤以及變得狹窄的椎間隙，對頸部分佈極其豐富的交感神經會產生不良刺激，使胃出現兩種不同的症狀：當交感神經興奮時，胃腸分泌和蠕動受到抑制，出現口幹舌燥，腹脹不適、惡心、嘔吐等一系列症狀；當副交感神經興奮性增高時，會出現食慾增強、燒心反酸、胃部飢餓時疼痛等類似潰瘍 病的症狀。立秋後盡管患者更易誘發腹脹、腹瀉等胃腸疾病，但胃部長期不適則要考慮是否是頸椎疾患所致。頸椎病危害不容小覷切忌病急亂投醫王教授介紹，頸椎病的分型包括神經根型、椎動脈型、交感神經型、脊髓型和混合型。其中神經根型的發病率最高，即常說的頸椎病，表現為上肢的放射痛和感覺障礙。椎動脈型的症狀有頭痛、頭暈、眩暈、惡心、嘔吐、耳鳴、耳聾等。此型發病率，近年已明顯上升。交感神經型的症狀除了頭暈、頭痛外，還會出現枕部痛、頸後痛，眼瞼下垂、視物模糊，心悸、心前區疼痛，肢體發冷、頭面部發麻等。而脊髓型早期症狀是單側或雙側下肢發麻，以後發展為肌力減退，行走困難，大小便功能障礙，甚至癱瘓。混合型則是兼有兩型以上的症狀。“如果感到脖子痛，切忌找人亂按摩，因為頸部的肌肉、韌帶、神經、血管的關係非常複雜，並不是所有的脖子痛都適合按摩。比如：脊髓型頸椎病會越按越嚴重，甚至導致癱瘓或致命!患者應到正規醫療機構進行檢查，並根據自身self storage情選擇 適合的治療方法。”王教授提醒說，開空調室內外溫差要小于5℃，不要直接坐在空調出風口正下方，避免頸部受寒。同時糾正工作和生活中的不良姿勢，避免久坐、伸脖、歪脖，以防止頸腰部慢性勞損。外出避暑旅遊也要當心，乘坐驚險刺激的游樂設施、坐長途車或飛機，需要採取必要頸部防護措施，比如：戴U型頸舒枕。此外，高枕並非無憂，睡覺時枕頭應放于頸肩部，高度一般在10厘米左右為宜，有助于保持頸椎正常生理曲度。選對方法治療頸椎病事半功倍有南昌市民來電咨詢：我今年58歲，經常手臂發麻，有時也頭暈，今年年初曾因不小心打壞過廚房里的東西，老伴笑我“老不中用”了。想問問醫生，這是怎麼回事，該怎麼辦呢?南昌華夏(骨科)醫院骨科核心專家、院長王迪輝教授答：初步可判定該市民是典型的頸椎病患者，頸椎已經發生嚴重的勞損，建議先做專業的骨科檢查查明病情，而後根據具體症狀選擇適應自身病情的療法，才能取得事半功倍的效果。一般情況下，輕度的頸椎肌肉勞損對患者生活影響不大，而嚴重的頸椎骨質增生、頸椎椎間盤突出則可能導致患者生活無法自理，老年患者更易發生意外。目前，治療頸椎病的方法很多，病情不一樣，方法也不盡相同，其中PLDD超微創手術是目前治療頸椎病病的前沿技術，因避免了手術創傷大而造成的脊柱失穩和術後並發症，為現階段頸腰椎病治療手段中的發展主流，PLDD具有如下優點：1、安全係數高。在C型臂X光機的導向下，細針穿刺、氣化消除髓核突出，準確、靈活安全。2、創傷小。一般皮膚創傷在0.8cm左右，是常規普通傳統手術的十分之一，恢複快，適宜各年齡層次患者。3、起效迅速，療效顯著，疼痛症狀可以得到迅速緩解。如果患者有頸肩部酸痛、僵硬、活動受限等頸椎病早期症狀時，一定要注意保持適當的休息和活動。新聞鏈接：專家預計8月頸腰椎病患者將大幅增加本周氣溫居高不下，連連突破38°C，下一周，南昌將繼續迎來高溫天。門診專家預計頸腰椎病患者還將大幅增加。尤其是長時間伸著脖子低頭操作電腦、經常玩手機遊戲、聊短信、使用手機上網的人，或整晚逗留網上玩遊戲、久坐沙發看電視、看碟片的“宅男宅女”和假期學生，都是頸腰椎病的高發一族。此外，不當歪脖子聳肩接聽電話的姿勢也是誘發頸腰椎類疾病的重要因素。以編輯、接線員、設計師、IT人員等居多。專家呼籲，在消暑的同時，切莫忽略頸腰椎的保護，如發現脖子、腰部有不適症狀，應及時進行檢查，做到早發現、早治療。如果您有更多頸腰椎病問題想要詳細瞭解，可以致電專家熱線：87536666進行咨詢。專家直通車北京骨科專家資源庫中匯集全國50余名骨科領域名醫聖手。讀者可以撥打熱線87536666，點名預約資源庫中骨科名醫赴昌為您進行親診。王文主任醫師、北京教授中華醫學會疼痛學會會長，北京中關村醫院脊柱微創科主任。以各種微創技術治癒來自國內外患者30000余例，深受廣大患者的信賴。擅長應用椎間盤鏡技術治療腰椎間盤突出、脫出、游離、椎管狹窄等症。劉建英主任醫師、北京教授中關村醫院脊柱微創介入治療中心主任，對頸椎病、腰椎間盤突出症的微創治療有獨到之處，較早掌握開展椎間盤鏡微創術、腰椎間盤射頻消融術、激光汽化術、臭氧髓核化學溶解術。多年來使近萬名頸、腰椎病患者康複。張國民主任醫師被譽為“中國椎間盤鏡微創手術第一人”，解放軍163醫院微創骨科中心主任。治癒數萬例骨病患者，擅長採用多種微創技術治療各種類型的頸椎病、腰椎間盤突出、椎體壓縮性骨折等病症。王迪輝主任醫師南昌市洪都中醫學院副院長、曾任南昌市第一醫院骨科主任。從事骨科臨床工作40餘年，對脊柱外傷、腰椎間盤突出症、複雜關節內骨折、四肢畸形的矯正等方面擁有深厚的理論基礎和獨特的手術技巧。迷你倉

華碩產品策略大轉彎！自去年到今年初都看好的觸控筆記型電腦，self storage因為「只打了兩季好球」，華碩重作市調檢討，發現傳統筆電配備觸控螢幕，並非消費者必要的需求，將回頭布局「非觸控」筆電。另外，華碩也下修今年筆電出貨量至1700至1900萬台。 華碩昨日舉行法說會，執行長沈振來宣示華碩正在轉型，若只做一家個人電腦公司，將會面對相當大的危機，由於第2季華碩的平板正處在新舊交替期，因此業績相較去年衰退。 不過，沈振來強調，今年9月將與微軟、英特爾合作，端出「祕密武器」，入門款售價犀利不到400美元，已獲得微軟支持，將大力協助行銷。外界預期，這是一台筆電、平板雙用的產品，搭載微軟WINDOWS 8與ANDROID雙作業系統。 針對第二季庫存天數高逾90天，華碩財務長張偉明解釋，主因「策略性」備料。由於當時購進零組件的價錢很低，這部分不僅沒跌價損失，甚至可貢獻獲迷你倉。 展望第3季，筆電出貨量估430萬台，平板估出貨350萬台，主機板出貨550萬片，3大產品皆向上成長。法人推估，華碩第3季合併營收可望季增1∼2成。 華碩去年與GOOGLE聯名推出平板NEXUS 7，一舉衝高平板銷售量，今年第3季又攜手上市第二代產品。沈振來表示，為免日後雙方不再合作，對華碩造成衝擊，內部期望自家平板出貨比重今年第3季達5成，第四季要超過5成、上看6成，明年首季占比拉高到8成。 沈振來表示，今年華碩平板出貨目標1200萬台不變。平板MEMO PAD HD 7銷售熱烈，市場不斷追加訂單，下半年出貨比重可占華碩平板出貨量一半，是稀釋NEXUS 7占比的最大功臣。 去年英特爾與微軟合推觸控筆電，台灣兩大品牌宏�、華碩率先響應，宏�原本預期年底前，滲透率可上看35％，如今只在2成左右原地踏步。華碩更直接表示，將回頭布局非觸控筆電。文件倉

□陳洋近期，自存倉關於網絡支付安全的討論在各媒體成為熱門話題，盜號、釣魚等消息時常見諸媒體。中國網絡支付安全現狀真的令人堪憂嗎？權威數據顯示，我國網上支付安全事件的發生概率僅為百萬分之一，遠低於國外第三方支付公司。盡管不法分子的作案手段層出不窮，但中國網絡支付環境還是很安全的。這一結果除了監管機構對網上交易的層層把控以及交易參與者自身在軟硬件設備方面的投入外，網絡安全認證也起到了很大作用。目前，在我國最具權威的主流認證有ISO 27001、PCI-DSS以及Verisign數字證書。通過權威認證的網站通常會在網站首頁最底部布放認證證書，網民在網購時可留心查看，如有以上任一認證證書的網站均可放心選購。同時，在交易前也可到該網購網站資金往來的第三方支付機構的官網查看，是否擁有以上認證證書。PCI-DSS（ Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards）即“支付卡行業數據信息安全標準”迷你倉新蒲崗由VISA、美國運通公司、萬事達國際組織等五家國際信用卡組織聯合推出，旨在通過嚴格控制數據存儲保障支付卡用戶在線交易的數據安全，最大程度降低支付卡風險。該認證是目前全球最嚴格的針對持卡人數據保護的認證標準。業內人士指出，一年一度的PCI-DSS認證審核是對持卡人數據在傳輸、存儲與處理過程中安全性的嚴格審查，認證審查過程有上百項內容，對交易流程的每個環節保護都有嚴謹規定，其中有67項要求是直接針對持卡人數據防泄露的保護。易觀國際金融及支付行業研究總監張萌表示，中國已有越來越多的第三方支付企業完成了PCI-DSS數據安全標準的合規認證，具有防範機制的、安全的支付環境延伸到支付卡行業的各個層面，例如快錢已連續5年通過PCI-DSS認證。快錢一位負責人稱，以大數據時代為背景迅猛發展的互聯網金融，對數據安全和系統穩定性的要求達到一個前所未有的高度，通過PCI-DSS數據安全標準的合規認證來進行數據保護，可確保持卡人的資金和信息安全。迷你倉出租