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Source: Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAug.迷你倉出租 10--Fans of Syfy's reality competition "Face Off" would no doubt agree with Steve Tolin's reason for wanting to be a special-effects makeup artist."It doesn't get any cooler than that," said Mr. Tolin, 34, who grew up in Elkins, W.Va., and runs his own shop in Beechview.Mr. Tolin, who arrived here 15 years ago to attend the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, will be a contestant on Season 5 of "Face Off." It premieres Tuesday at 9 p.m. There's a big twist this time around: Eight new faces are joined by eight veterans of seasons past."I've seen every single episode of the show," said Mr. Tolin, who also builds websites. His own is at .tolinfx.com. "Some I've seen two, three, four times, trying to do my homework."Tom Savini School grad Samantha Allen is also among the newbies. Savini grads on the veterans side include Alana Rose Schiro and Eric Zapata, and Tate Steinsiek also attended the Douglas Education Center program in Monessen."It's kind of a stand-alone because it's the first time we're doing this," said "Face Off" host McKenzie Westmore. "I think it's going to be really interesting for the viewers to see some of their old favorites come back and some newcomers that they might fall in love with now for the first time, too."Mr. Tolin has done special effects for the big and small screens, as well as stage productions. On his website, he notes that his "blood work" on a 2007 production of Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre was such a hit, he was hired to re-create it for more than a dozen more productions of the show across the country.He is working on pre-production for a zombie movie and will have some theater work coming up. Building websites is also a creative outlet, Mr. Tolin said."I would say 80 percent of my work happens outside of Pittsburgh. I use Pittsburgh as a base of operations, and whenever movies come through town I will definitely work on them. But it's hard to make a living to support a family with just that amount of [local] work. So I'll travel all over the country and sometimes internationally."His family includes wife Erica Highberg and daughters Violet and Amelia.He said as someone used to working as a crew member on set, being the one followed by cameras was a strange experience."The biggest surprise to me would be how different it is to be a cast member as opposed to being a crew member. In my heart, I'm crew. I don't know if it's like this on all reality shows, but there is very little contact [between cast and crew]."Despite the sometimes gruesome nature of the work on "Face Off," those involved say they are proud it's a show that takes a peek behind the curtain and can be shared by different generations."I think the parents get sucked into the competition aspect of it and then, there you have it, something that people can watch with their children," said Glenn Hetrick, an FX designer and "Face Off"儲存倉judge."They're so grateful for that, and I think that's really the biggest aspect of our show that contributes to its success."Also in reality TV ...--University of Pittsburgh grad Christy Biberich was sent home on "Brother vs. Brother" (HGTV, Sundays) after a teammate refused to allow her to buy a stackable washer/dryer unit for the renovation of a scary laundry room."It is frustrating when you feel you can't do what you know you should do," said Ms. Biberich, who owns her own design firm in Los Angeles.Drew Scott, one of the "Brothers," said it was a tough decision, and he was sorry to see her go. In an online interview, he called her an "awesome competitor."--It did not take long for the Blue teammates on "Capture" (The CW, Tuesdays) to establish themselves as the arrogant team everyone wants to see gone. But Eric Praxedes and Shane Steinman are a wily duo. Even after another team used a "sabotage" reward that caused a siren to sound on the Blues' vests, they STILL eluded the hunters.And just to show how taking the high road is beneath them, the Blue team members came across a stash of food earmarked for everyone and proceeded to stuff their faces. Then they threw the rest of the food into standing water so no one else could eat.The Green team of Aliquippa's Antoine Burton and Kareem Dawson steered clear of the whole mess.--"Breaking Pointe's" Zach Prentice is quickly proving to be one of the most tearful personalities on reality television (The CW, Mondays), but he was all smiles after winning the comic role of Napoleon for Ballet West's "Cinderella." Now, could someone please explain to Zach who Napoleon was?Chartiers Valley graduate Allison DeBona still hints that she might give up dancing, but for now she is thrilled to earn a role in "Cinderella" as the Winter Fairy.--"Farm Kings" (Great American Country, Thursdays) is featuring an episode that brings Miss Pennsylvania contestants to Freedom Farms' market in Butler for a Special Olympics fundraiser. The King family's youngest child, Ben, has Down syndrome. GAC will donate up to $5,000 to Special Olympics for every Get Glue check-in during the episode.--Want to try out for "The Price Is Right"? Then come on down to the Meadows Racetrack & Casino from 2-8 p.m Aug. 22. As a CBS affiliate, KDKA will be interviewing and videotaping contestant hopefuls, two of whom will win free trips to Los Angeles to watch a taping of the show.Once there, one of the two will be guaranteed a bidder's spot on Contestants Row. The show, hosted by Drew Carey, begins its 42nd season this fall. Participants must be legal U.S. residents and at least 18 years old. Official rules are at .priceisright.com.Maria Sciullo: msciullo@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1478 or @MariaSciulloPG.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Visit the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at .post-gazette.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉沙田

Source: The Miami HeraldAug.迷你倉沙田 10--After confessing to killing his wife and posting a photo of the corpse on Facebook, an apparent calm Derek Medina walked into South Miami police station to turn himself in, a video released by authorities late Friday shows.In the 23-second surveillance video, Medina's father can be seen pacing back and forth, his hands deep inside his pockets.The video, released by the Miami-Dade Police Department, shows Medina wearing a gray sleeveless tanktop and blue jeans as he walks up to the counter, to speak to someone at the service window before taking a seat in the police station's lobby.The video does not show what happens next.What Medina wanted he couldn't accomplish by self-publishing books with weighty titles, by hunting ghosts and evil spirits -- or by chronicling his life on 143 different YouTube videos.But in just moments Thursday, with little more than a click, the 31-year-old from South Miami achieved a rancid form of fame.Having just killed his wife, Medina propped her twisted, bloody corpse in front of a camera and posted the photo on Facebook, along with his confession, forever earning the label "Facebook Killer.""Facebook people you'll see me in the news,'' Medina wrote next to the ghoulish photo on his page that remained public for hours Thursday. Then, with no hint of remorse, he confessed to the world that he had shot his 26-year-old wife, Jennifer Alfonso.The social media website, with an estimated 750 million registered users around the world, removed the photograph, but not before it went viral -- and set another example of how social media is increasingly being used as a tool for instant fame and exploitation in an era of eroding privacy.On Friday afternoon, the hulking, tattooed Medina appeared in court in handcuffs via a video link from the Miami-Dade jail.With a pronounced stubble, Medina wore a greenish padded gown for inmates on suicide watch.Two corrections officer flanked Medina as he told a Miami-Dade assistant public defender, "I'm in the process of talking to someone," apparently a reference to hiring a lawyer.Circuit Judge Maria Elena Verde pressed Medina on whom he was referring to, but Medina shook his head, either not hearing or understanding the question. Ultimately, Medina agreed to be represented by the public defender's office.Verde ordered him held without bail.He is being housed in the ninth-floor psychiatric ward of the county jail pending his arraignment in 21 days on charges of first-degree murder.After shooting his wife and posing her, Medina walked into the South Miami police station around noon Thursday and confessed to killing Alfonso at the couple's home at 5555 SW 67th Ave. Alfonso's 10-year-old daughter was upstairs at the time, but was unharmed.Medina said he shot his wife following an argument during which she threatened to leave him. On Facebook, he said his wife was striking him. "I'm not going to stand anymore with the abuse so I did what I did," he wrote.He later told police that he shot her multiple times after she picked up a kitchen knife, then began punching and kicking him.Family and friends on Friday gave contradictory statements迷你倉價錢about the couple's stormy marriage, with each side accusing the other spouse of psychological and physical abuse."They are making my son out to be a monster and it was the other way around,'' said Medina's father, Derek Ian Medina. "She pushed him to the point of insanity.''His family accused Alfonso of using alcohol and drugs and of being an unfit mother."He was scared about her,'' his father said, adding that the mental abuse drove him to the point of using Facebook to express his outrage.But other photographs on his page show the couple -- who shared a love of ghosts and the supernatural -- in happier times: sitting poolside, sharing meals, at a golf tournament with Tiger Woods striding in the background. Others show Medina, who worked parking cars at a posh apartment complex in Coral Gables, in various macho poses, one of them a self-shot photograph in front of a mirror, flexing his tattooed arm.Alfonso's family and friends say that Medina was jealous and controlling and that he pressured her to quit her job at Denny's, where she worked the graveyard shift to support her daughter, Isabella, who was her pride and joy.The couple met in 2010 and married within months before divorcing two years later. They remarried within a few months of the divorce, records show.Alfonso's friend, Amada Cooper, said it was Medina who abused Alfonso, who showed up at work with bruises several times.Alfonso's family declined to talk about the couple's relationship, but disputed what Medina's family said.Rohan Knox, Alfonso's stepfather, said she was not a violent person and he never saw her take drugs or alcohol."Anyone can say anything bad about anybody," Knox said. Family members described Alfonso as a very happy person, "always smiling, always laughing, making jokes." He says the image of Alfonso that comes to his mind is her with her daughter. "She was playing, always playing with her daughter.""She meant a lot to us," Knox said of Alfonso.At the couple's two-bedroom townhouse, neighbors gathered Friday, talking quietly among themselves. Most were afraid to speak publicly. Explained one man who knew Medina: the man "lost his marbles.''The windows to the house were always shuttered, neighbors said, and Medina was an intimidating figure in the middle-class community. The complex, Miller 67, is across the street from a Walgreens at Miller Drive and Ludlam Road.An acquaintance of Medina's described him as "odd'' and prone to violent outbursts. The friend, who would only give his first name, Joe, said he once saw Medina pull a gun on a woman who had accidentally spilled beer on his wife at a rock concert.Joe said Medina's behavior especially disturbed him when they were part of a softball league three years ago."He would stalk us,'' Joe said. "He would hide in bushes and record us.''Miami Herald staff writers David Ovalle, Daniel Ducassi, Glenda Ortega, Max Holscher, Nancy San Martin, Gustavo Solis and el Nuevo Herald writer Maria Perez, as well as Herald researcher Monika Leal contributed to this report.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Miami Herald Visit The Miami Herald at .miamiherald.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉庫

CONFRONTATIONby Mohamed Latiff Mohamedtranslated from Malayby Shafiq SelamatEpigram Books/Paperback/176 pages/ $26.自存倉64/Major bookstores/***1/2Those who know only their own generation remain always children. That maxim is one of several reasons to read Confrontation, an eye-opening tale of life in preindependence Singapore.This book by award-winning local writer Mohamed Latiff Mohamed is set in a world alien to anyone born after 1980. This is the era of squat toilets, open drains and leaky attap-roofed huts, but also a time when neighbours move casually in and out of one another's spaces in a kampung, sharing food and the common burden of poverty.Everyone knows everyone else's business and the lack of privacy also means that individual joys and tragedy, whether a wedding or a death in the family, are celebrated or mourned communally.Adi is a schoolboy in early 1960s Singapore, but avoids books for the more pressing pastimes of climbing the neighbourhood banyan tree to ogle girls or scrounging scrap metal to earn money for a 10-cent movie ticket. Like many others in the kampung, his family lives just above the poverty line and his parents are too busy squabbling about money and their children to take much notice of the political waves sweeping the country.Then the announcement is made that Singapore will join the Malaysian federation of states. Suddenly, Adi becomes conscious of his social status. Once sneered at because he attended a Malay-medium school, he is now envied because he already speaks the new national language. The sky is the limit now, and he can be anything - a policeman, a lawyer, a doctor or an engineer.Confrontation was originally published as Batas Langit in Malay and awarded a consolation prize in the 1999 Malay Literary Award given out by the Malay Language Council of Singapore. The author went on to win the well-known regional prize, the SEA Write Award or Southeast Asian Writers Award, in 2002, as well as take the Singapore Literature Prize three 迷你倉新蒲崗imes, in 2004, 2006 and 2008.The English edition of Confrontation came out this year as part of local publisher Epigram Books' growing list of translations that allows readers in English to appreciate Singaporean literature in other languages.After reading Confrontation, I hope the publisher continues. We need more exposure to such writing that helps us appreciate the variety of perspectives and ethnicities in Singapore.It is easy to forget that Confrontation is a translated work. The language flows smoothly and necessary explanations of Malay terms are well integrated into the text.The book charms immediately with prose in the vein of the idyllic village stories of Indian writer R. K. Narayan, written in the 1940s. Like Narayan, Mohamed Latiff can turn the backbreaking labour of fetching water from a well into a lyrical adventure.Without belabouring points of racial and social harmony, the narrative shows simply and effectively how circumstance and environment forge bonds between people regardless of race or language.The first chapter includes a description of a banyan tree that subtly echoes the entangled lives of the kampung dwellers - joss sticks and Mandarin oranges are stuck between the tree's roots, while a little Malay boy shivers on imagining the spirits that haunt the branches.For non-Malay readers, Confrontation is an engrossing exploration of history from a different perspective, as it makes readers share Adi's dawning awareness of his family's social position and then his heady delight at the notion of a state where everyone will speak his language. Even for readers who know what happened next, the ending of the book comes as a shock, followed by a strong urge to read more from this disarmingly powerful voice.If you like this: Read Frog Under A Coconut Shell by Josephine Chia (2002, Marshall Cavendish, $19.80, Books Kinokuniya). The author's memoir of her impoverished childhood chronicles the joys and pitfalls of communal life in her Potong Pasir kampung.迷你倉出租

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據新華社電 美國網站“拉瓦比特”據信曾為美國“棱鏡”情報監視項目揭秘者愛德華·斯諾登提供加密電子郵件服務，迷你倉庫8日宣佈暫停運營，暗示其原因是拒絕向美國政府提供用戶信息。這家網站的總部位於美國得克薩斯州，所有人洛達爾·利維森8日在網站頁面發表聲明，宣佈“暫停營業”。利維森在聲明中說，他“被迫作出艱難決定，要麼參與侵犯美國民�的犯罪行為，要麼關閉拉瓦比特”。利維森說，他最近6周受“封口令”限制。利儲存森遭“禁言”時間同斯諾登公開“棱鏡”項目揭秘者身份的時間基本吻合。路透社推測，美國政府可能要求拉瓦比特網站提供解密斯諾登和其他用戶電子郵件的方法以及數以十萬計用戶的信息。美國互聯網自由基金會律師庫爾特·奧普薩爾說，美國企業寧願關閉也不遵照政府要求、提供用戶信息的情況“罕見，可能沒有先例”。利維森在聲明中說，企業正準備向法院提起訴訟。他“強烈”建議人們不要把私人信息交給同美國政府有聯繫的企業。新蒲崗迷你倉

電子書所提供的不只是書的另一種製作和表現形式，self storage不只是如同中國傳統書籍從卷軸裝、經摺裝、蝴蝶裝到包背裝等裝幀和使用方便性的演變。電子書所帶來的最大改變，在於內容的彈性和流動性，不再像紙本書一般，內容固定不變，唯有下一個版次才能修訂。電子書和傳統書的不同，在於內容的無限可能。內容增加的可能多數人對電子書的第一個反應，包含製造商本身的廣告，都強調電子書容量與傳統圖書的明顯差異。某家廠商的廣告文案聲稱：以閱讀器的電力能提供的閱讀時間，加上可裝載的電子書冊數，出太空梭任務的太空人，可以在離開地球前一次帶足整個任務期間想讀的書，而不必再另外充電。這還只是針對閱讀器內建的記憶體容量而言。某些可以透過記憶卡提供更多裝載空間的閱讀器，容量可達32GB以上。以先前火紅的林肯傳記書《無敵》（大塊）為例：英文紙本書共944頁、重量約1.3公斤；KINDLE版電子書約10MB左右。32GB容量的記憶卡，至少可以裝載3200部這樣厚重的書。如果擁有10片記憶卡，以700元左右的市價計算，不到7000元的成本價格，就可以擁有超過3萬冊藏書的空間，這樣的藏書量，已經不比許多鄉鎮圖書館的藏書量遜色。（民國90年公布的圖書館法規定，每個鄉鎮的藏書不得低於2萬冊。）上網連線後的可能如果只從硬體容量來看，無論擴充的可能性有多大，最後總會受到器材的限制。前述例子裡，固然可以透過記憶卡擴大容量，但需要不斷抽換，除了操作上麻煩，卡片的管理和搜尋，也會是個棘手問題。但若透過網路連線，即可克服這樣的限制，不但管理和搜尋電子書的問題迎刃而解，更跨越了器械本身儲存容量有限的藩籬。然而，內容量的增加，並不是連線上網對電子書最大的改變。網路使得電子書的運用，超出了傳統愛書人取得圖書的常軌。直接從網路書店載入內容，不但更快更方便，通常電子書的價格也會比紙本書來得低廉。（近幾年美國司法部介入調查，蘋果電腦和幾家主要電子書出版商干預電子書價格，避免經銷商提供更低價格給讀者的案件，已有初步結果，電子書價可望有更大幅的調降空間。）此外，網路上也充滿了各式合法的免費電子書資源，比起坊間實體連鎖書店或傳統書店，可選擇的內容多源性並不遜色。（當然這些所謂免費電子書，有些是否真的合法，仍有商榷餘地。然而網路上許多透過參與者的努力，或者有心人贊助的合法電子書資源日漸龐大，也是不爭的事實。）過去的閱讀，常被形容成可隔絕外界、享受自我恬靜時光。然而，電子書和網路的結合，卻也可以為閱讀帶來嶄新的閱讀經驗。新型的閱讀器，大多包含所謂的共享書籤，也就是在電子書的內容裡，除了迷你倉始本文以外，還可以看到其他讀過同一本書的讀者留下的劃線和評點註記，而且會隨著新註記內容的增加而即時更新。（和其他電子書的特異功能一樣，這個功能是可以選擇關閉的。）對常上圖書館借書的愛書人來說，也許這不算是什麼新的體驗，但相對於圖書館員諄諄告誡要珍惜圖書，不要在書上任意塗寫的勸止，電子書商卻是鼓勵這樣的分享和註記，企圖提供更多元的閱讀樂趣。另外，如KINDLE提供的X-RAY功能，可以即時連繫所點選的人物、主題、關鍵字，讓讀者進一步了解人物間的關係、故事大綱和進展等等，都是過去的閱讀所無法想像的。有論者批評，這樣的註記，其實會影響到單純閱讀本文的感受。因為一段文字被特別標出（甚至加上了另一個讀者主觀的評點）以後，常常會影響甚至主導了我們閱讀的感受。這和許多喜愛電影的人會避免先讀影評，免得降低了觀影經驗的想法是類似的。然而對喜於反覆玩味同一本書的不同版本，訪求不同的評論、註釋和演繹本的讀者來說，這會是很受歡迎的一項功能。另一個各家閱讀器相繼提供的功能，是可將電子書內容以電腦合成語音朗讀，讓讀者在無法或者不適合使用視力的環境下，也有機會繼續閱讀。合成語音當然無法和有聲書真人朗讀的抑揚頓挫相比擬，然而在方便性上，也給了愛書人不同的選擇。我們可以合理地預期，未來國外譯本的電子書，應當很容易就可以切換到原文著作，再配合不同語言的字辭典連結，提供讀者原汁原味去領受作者情懷的機會。未來內容發展的可能2010年7月，美國亞馬遜網路書店售出的電子書數量超過了紙本精裝書的出貨量；6個月後超過平裝書出貨量，到了2011年，更已超過了平裝書和精裝書出貨量的總和。（當然這樣的統計數字，具有先天的偏頗。因為亞馬遜的客戶本來就偏向使用網路和接納新科技，對電子書的接受度，明顯會比傳統讀者高。）這些對電子書內容的需求，和對閱讀器的接受程度，多少會影響原始出版的形式。過去以印刷圖書先行、電子書接著出版的模式，也漸漸有了改變。目前提供電子紙閱讀器使用的電子書，主要仍以文字為主，檔案形式以EPUB（除了亞馬遜以外大多數閱讀器都支援的格式）和KINDLE系列使用的AZW和MOBI格式為大宗。除了文字以外，另一個出版量較大的類別就是漫畫書。電子紙受限於現有技術，在彩色和動畫內容方面，目前還無法和平板電腦競爭。下一個主要的戰場，在於電子教科書的市場這塊大餅。預計一到三年內，我們可以看到更多元化的電子教科書的競爭。電子教科書在取得內容和資源的分配上，與現有以個人為主體的使用模式不甚相同。在接下來的系列裡，我們會針對這個特殊的市場繼續討論。文件倉

ERA Realty sold for over $100mTHE Republic's biggest real estate agency, ERA Realty Network, has been sold for over $100 million to Indonesian private equity firm Northstar Group, months after owner Harry Chua put it on the market.迷你倉庫 The price is shy of the $150 million that Mr Chua's Hersing Corporation is said to have asked.Continued China deceleration seen hitting S'pore sectorsWITH Singapore's growth so closely tied to China's economy, even the slightest slowdown in the East Asian giant is bound to be felt here and one dominant view is that the immediate future may hold some pain in store. Economists BT spoke to say a continued Chinese deceleration will hit Singapore's exports, tourism sector and property market the hardest, with dampening effects potentially lingering in 2014.PRs trip on ringfence around landed homesTHE number of approvals granted to permanent residents wanting to buy landed homes on mainland Singapore has fallen sharply, since the authorities further tightened the eligibility criteria in 2011 to ensure these scarce properties remain the primary preserve of Singapore citizens. The Singapore Land Authority told BT that such approvals fell from 145 in 2010 to 117 in 2011 to just 31 last year (the first full year after the tightening).How accurate is that financial statement? Just make a guess WHAT if someone told you that the financial statements of a company that you depend on to make your decisions - as an investor, creditor, potential acquirer or some other stakeholder - were almost totally the result of human judgment rather than hard fact? It would seem an unbelievable scenario to many. But the fact is, it is now very much the reality here.MF report weakens case for weaker yenTHE yen is now "moderately undervalued", an International Monetary Fund report suggested - a finding that would make it harder for Japan to easily get its partners' approval for any further depreciation of the currency as a means to anchor economic recovery.Malaysian exports in June fall for 5th straight monthMALAYSIA'S June exports have dropped 6.9 per cent year on year for a fifth successive month 儲存ollowing a bigger decline in electrical and electronic (E&E) shipments to China and the US. "The contraction is twice as much as I expected," said RAM Bhd chief economist Yeah Kim Leng who nonetheless remains confident that firming demand in the US and Japan and the bottoming-out of Europe's economic woes would lift exports in the remaining six months.Telcos play respective gambits in OTT gameIN the battle for data revenue, all three telcos are striking back hard. SingTel has become the first local operator to team up with the industry's thorn in the side - over-the-top (OTT) enfant terrible WhatsApp. Rival StarHub will do the same with an unnamed social messaging service, and M1 has thrown its lot in with the industry's answer to OTT players - Rich Communications Services (RCS).Home prices could slip with oversupply expected: KwekKWEK Leng Beng, executive chairman of City Developments, says that unless the global and domestic economies rebound strongly and curbs on foreign buyers for private residential property sales are reviewed, the group expects some oversupply in the Singapore residential sector from next year.New man taking the helm at CPIB from Oct 1A NEW director has been appointed to head the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) from Oct 1, while formal warning letters have been issued to both the current and immediate-past CPIB director for supervisory lapses that occurred during their respective terms.Growth of 2.5-3.5% seen for 2013: PM LeeTHE economy is "holding steady" amid global uncertainties and is now expected to grow 2.5 to 3.5 per cent this year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. This was a stronger upward revision of the government's earlier 1-3 per cent growth projection than market economists had expected.Tight car insurance market nudges AIG into niche areasAMID intense competition in the motor insurance market, the Singapore arm of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) is diversifying into niche lines of commercial insurance. AIG Singapore, formerly known as Chartis, will expand its trade credit, political risk, and aviation insurance businesses.新蒲崗迷你倉

Source: Milwaukee Journal SentinelAug.迷你倉庫 09--A Waukesha pharmacist, alarmed that potentially dangerous drugs were being issued under her license but without a doctor's prescription, brought the problem to the attention of her bosses at PharMerica, a nationwide pharmaceuticals services firm.When they ignored her, Jennifer Denk contacted federal authorities. Soon after agents raided PharMerica's Pewaukee plant, she was fired.That was in 2009. Denk filed a federal whistle blower's suit that year that was only recently unsealed. On Friday, federal prosecutors prompted by Denk's tip weighed in with their own civil action, filed in Milwaukee federal court. The government says in its suit that the company illegally dispensed drugs like OxyContin and Fentanyl and falsely billed the government."Pharmacies are prohibited by law from dispensing Schedule II narcotics, which have the highest potential for abuse of any prescription drug, without a valid prescription from a physician," said Stuart Delery, assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice."As we have done today, the Department of Justice will take action to protect the integrity of federal health care program funds and hold those who violate the law accountable."Denk said she was motivated by her professional ethics and concerns for the end users of the potentially dangerous drugs."I took an oath when I graduated from pharmacy school," she said in a statement, "and I felt I had not choice but to follow my oath."But blowing the whistle can also pay off financially. In all, between triple damages available to federal whistle blowers, or fines for each of the allegedly false invoices to the government, PharMerica could face more than $100 million in damages, according to Denk's attorney, Nola Hitchcock Cross.Louisville, KY-based PharMerica contracts to provide pharmacy services for long-term care facilities around the country. Between 2007 and 2009, it filled about 40 million prescriptions, nearly half covered by Medicare. According to court records, it was filing more than 56,000 orders a month just from Pewaukee.An agency that handled public relations for PharMerica did not return calls seeking comment Friday.Under the Civil War era False Claims Act, citizens with evidence of fraud against government contracts can sue on behalf of the government to recover the stolen funds. The suits are filed under seal for 60 days to allow government prosecutors time to consider intervening. If they do, the suits can remain under seal for much longer, as in Denk's case.The U.S. Department of Justice reports that in the last fiscal year, individual whistle blowers filed a record 647 suits that led to recover of $3.3 billion. When the government prevails, the whistle blowers are entitled to 15% to 25% of the amount recovered.In the past four years, the Justice Department has recovered more than $14.8 billion through False Claims Act cases, including $10.8 billion in cases involving fraud against federal health care programs.James Santelle, the U.S. attorney in Milwaukee, said Friday's complaint "reflects the abiding commitment of the Justice Department to the qui tam process, encouraging people with information about alleged fraud and abuse to report it in a timely and effective manner."In儲存2011, the founder of Mequon foot care firm was fined $27 million and sentenced to prison in a fraud uncovered by in part by a whistle blower who worked in the factory.According to Denk's complaint:Denk went to work in Pewaukee in October 2008. Like all PharMerica pharmacists, she signed an agreement to repay a $10,000 hiring bonus if she quit within two years for any reason, even over illegal practices.By May 2009, Denk had notified the Drug Enforcement Administration of problems, and the agency sent an agent to Pewaukee to inspect records. When the agent told PharMerica officials to send in stacks of records, Denk contends, her bosses told her to ignore the order or to only send records she could modify to look as though they met regulations.Denk, 33, then told PharmMerica's head of human resources that her supervisor had directed her to commit a felony. He reminded her of the $10,000 repayment requirement, and said Denk's supervisor was only "protecting the company."Denk's lawsuit suggests the practices she observed in Pewaukee were standard throughout PharMerica's nationwide pharmaceutical management centers. The suit says those practices included: billing Medicare for drugs sent to deceased patients; double-billing for some prescriptions; failing to credit the government for returned prescriptions; and billing for one drug while providing a different kind.It also claims PharMerica violated federal anti-kickback statutes, by steering buyers to drug companies that paid rebates to PharMerica, and also by letting nursing homes distribute narcotics from certain kit boxes without keeping the required records. PharMerica would then simply refill the boxes at any time, the suit claims, as an inducement for the facility to keep its contract for other prescriptions with PharMerica.Experts say the "kit boxes," meant for emergencies when a patient's prescription has not yet been filled, could be subject to thefts, as many of the drugs they contain -- like oxycodone -- are in high demand by those who abuse the drug.The government's complaint indicates that staff -- not patient's doctors --at client nursing homes would fax in request for refills of addictive pain killers and others Schedule II drugs to PharMerica. There, workers would assign another 60 day supply --along with an "emergency" supply -- and then send a template to the patient's doctor for signature.But the templates often returned unsigned, according to prosecutors. Boxes of unsigned prescription templates were recovered in the 2009 Pewaukee raid, in what employees called "the Harry Potter room."Prosecutors claim the same procedures were employed by PharMerica at its Florida and California locations, and to a lesser extent at one in Colorado.PharMerica had been warned about such practices before. A DEA audit of the company's Indiana facility in 2000 led to a warning about its non-compliance.The company's own auditor in 2007 prepared a slide show warning that only one pharmacy was following the rules correctly, and most were still sending out drugs without prescription. It even included a slide that read "No prescription equals false claim."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Visit the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at .jsonline.com Distributed by MCT Information Services新蒲崗迷你倉

研究減少碳排放的英國公司Carbon Trust發表報告，迷你倉新蒲崗指在智能手機或平板電腦以3G流動數據收看一場足球賽，產生的碳排放量等於駕車十六公里，極不環保。而最為環保的做法，是在家中或酒吧與他人共賞賽事。據Carbon Trust指出，用3G流動數據觀看一場球賽，比用WiFi串流的碳排放量高十倍；而用WiFi串流則比用電視觀賽減少八倍碳排放。去現場睇波最不環迷你倉出租電視中以LED螢幕最環保；用手提電腦的碳排放量，又比桌上電腦少一半。因此若單獨看球賽，用智能電話以WiFi串流觀看較環保，因其螢幕較小。而與別人共用一個電子螢幕看球賽，將是最環保。報告又指，到現場看球賽是最不環保，因為很多球迷需要乘坐交通工具前往。報告估計明天於倫敦溫布萊球場舉行的社區盾賽事，碳排放量達到五千一百六十公噸，相等於當地一千戶家庭的每年碳排放量。儲存倉

China Unicom posted better-than-expected first-half results with net profit soaring 55 percent, thanks to growing 3G mobile subscribers and data usage, the country’s No.迷你倉 2 mobile carrier said yesterday.China Unicom’s net profit reached 5.3 billion yuan (US$858 million) in the first six months, beating analysts’ expectations of 4.9-5 billion yuan.Revenue grew 19 percent to 144.31 billion yuan, outpacing the rise in costs, China Unicom said. Mobile income hit 72.8 billion yuan, up 20.5 percent year-on-year.The company’s 3G user base grew 73.9 percent YOY to 100 million in the period. The 3G-related revenue was 40.9 billion yuan, accounting for 56.2 percent of its total mobile income in the first six months, compared w文件倉th 44.5 percent from a year ago.The popularity of smartphones has boosted demand for data services, which often yield higher profit margins compared to traditional voice and message services, industry insiders said.China’s smartphone sales jumped 108 percent YOY to hit 88.1 million units in the second quarter, accounting for 20 percent of global sales, according to Canalys, a US-based research firm.Trading in China Unicom’s shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was suspended late yesterday after China’s State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission briefly published the company’s results on its website.Before the halt, China Unicom shares were up 2.7 percent to 11.54 Hong Kong dollars (US$1.49). 存倉

台灣大 7月電信獲利王電信3雄7月獲利全部出爐，儲存倉台灣大（3045）單月每股純益達0.51元，且前7月每股純益為3.4元，均維持領先地位。中華電（2412）結算7月每股純益0.44元居次，且前7月每股純益達成財測的61.9%，預料今年財測應可順利達陣。遠傳（4904）單月每股純益則為0.33元，累計前7月每股純益為2.15元，法人推估，今年電信3雄獲利均可達成財測目標。陳建彰