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Move seen as effort to mitigate penalties amid US regulator’s investigation of employment of offspring of powerful Chinese individualsJPMorgan has began an internal probe into its hiring of well-connected Chinese individuals in Hong Kong and is adopting measures to mitigate potential penalties as US authorities investigate its operations.自存倉The bank has hired US law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to investigate its hiring practices in Hong Kong, the Financial Times reported. Moreover, according to Reuters, it is close to hiring two directors with finance and risk expertise.“Internal investigations provide JPMorgan with information on any possible misconduct and position the company to defer any criminal prosecution,” said Daniel Roules, a partner at US law firm Squire Sanders. “The hiring of risk executives is intended to convey to the US authorities that JPMorgan wants to co-operate in rooting out misconduct and ensuring compliance.”Mark Pulvirenti, executive director of AlixPartners, an international business advisory firm, said: “The extent of JPMorgan’s co-operation with the US authorities will be a determining factor in relation to any penalty that may ultimately be issued.”The anti-bribery unit of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating the bank’s hiring in Hong Kong of Zhang Xixi, a daughter of Zhang Shuguang, a former senior mainland railway official under arrest for corruption, and Tang迷你倉新蒲崗Xiaoning, a son of Tang Shuangning, chairman of China Everbright Group. Both offspring no longer work for the New York-listed bank. Roules said the hirings could be investigated under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).“Giving the child of a foreign official a job at a company where the official can influence business could constitute a violation. This is frequently cited as an improper business advantage,” Pulvirenti said.He said the questions the SEC would ask the bank included whether it was involved in tenders or business negotiations involving the related officials around the time of the hirings.The investigations and lawsuits were likely to force JPMorgan to modify its practices and result in management changes, Roules said.The US Department of Justice is investigating the bank’s energy trading practices in the United States, Bloomberg reported. On August 14, the SEC charged two former JPMorgan traders based in the US with fraudulently overvaluing investments to hide losses.“When the US authorities launch an investigation, they will follow the trail wherever it leads, regardless of geography,” Roules said. “They will follow the thread in one case, discovering new violations as they go. Because JPMorgan is a US company, its employees are bound by the FCPA anywhere in the world.”Pulvirenti said: “US regulators will typically broaden an investigation to the extent that … issues in one jurisdiction are linked to another.”迷你倉出租

China Telecom posted a nearly 16 percent rise in net profit in the first half as it boosted its 3G user base and data income, the country’s third-biggest telco said yesterday.mini storageThe telco’s net profit was 10.2 billion yuan (US$1.64 billion) in the six months ended in June, up 15.9 percent year on year. Its revenue totaled 157.5 billion yuan, up 14.1 percent from a year ago.“In the first half, the company persisted in deepening its operations and data traffic to boost profitability,” Wang Xiaochu, China Telecom’s chairman, said in a statement.Although China Telecom may have a smaller user base and revenue compared with China Mobile and China Unicom, it boasts a higher ratio of 3G users among the total mobile phone users, providing a high growth potential, industry insiders said.At the end of June, China Telecom boasted more than 175 million subscribers, of which 87.33 million were 3G mobile users, representing 50 percent of the total mobile user base.Comparatively, China Mobile, the wself storagerld’s biggest telco with more than 740 million subscribers, has 19 percent of its customers using 3G. About 38 percent of China Unicom’s 266 million users are 3G subscribers, according to data the telcos released recently.In July, the number of mobile subscribers in China gained 0.9 percent to about 1.19 billion from a month earlier, according to the companies’ latest figures.Meanwhile, China Telecom sees bright prospects because the release of a national Broadband China policy will create opportunities for the country’s biggest fixed-line and broadband carrier.Under the new policy, China will upgrade the broadband network bandwidth to 20 megabytes per second in all cities by 2015, including 100Mbps in cities like Shanghai.With greatly improved speed, users can watch high-definition videos and enjoy various services on the Internet, which will earn China Telecom income.The telco and NetEase.com launched an instant message tool Yixin on Monday to penetrate the mobile Internet sector. 迷你倉

Source: The Miami HeraldAug.新蒲崗迷你倉 20--Arguing that the Miami Police Department has come a long way since a rash of deadly police-involved shootings, Chief Manuel Orosa has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to reconsider its decision to have a federal judge oversee the department.Orosa, in response to findings last month that Miami engaged in an unconstitutional "pattern or practice" of excessive use of force, suggested that the Justice Department instead consider collaborating with the police department to forge changes.Miami should not pay for the "sins" of its previous leaders, Orosa said in an Aug. 6 letter to Justice, laying much of the blame for the shootings on his predecessor, Miguel Exposito. Orosa said Justice should consider suing Exposito personally, as opposed to the department."It is my recommendation that if the USDOJ aims to seek sustainable remedies for our nation's law enforcement agencies, it should hold those leaders personally responsible for their actions and accountable through civil action," he wrote in the letter, obtained by the Miami Herald through a public records request.In an interview Tuesday, Exposito called Orosa's suggestion "ludicrous.""Nothing he says people can take seriously," he said.Exposito issued his own detailed rebuttal to Justice in an Aug. 8 letter to U.S. Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas. The former chief defended his tenure and asked the Cuban-American Republicans to request a Senate inquiry into the Justice investigation, which Exposito blasted as slipshod.The Justice Department's 18-month investigation probed 33 police shootings between 2008 and 2011, including ones that killed seven black men in the inner city. The feds concluded that, in addition to the three shootings the police department had found to violate policy, an unspecified number of additional shootings involved excessive force.Officers in five of the seven shootings have been cleared by the Miami-Dade state attorney's office.A similar Justice investigation into police shootings more than a decade ago did not find excessive force but rather deficiencies with Miami's investigations. Citing significant improvements in following years, federal authorities closed that probe in 2006 without a formal agreement.But Justice was forced to return to Miami five years later, beginning its latest investigation in November 2011. And now the agency seems unlikely to let the police department slide with only a warning."They were embarrassed," Orosa acknowledged in an interview Tuesday.The next step is for the feds to draw up a list of needed reforms to be overseen by a federal judge in Miami.A court-appointed monitor, including a compliance unit within the police department to track the reforms, could cost the city from $1 million to $6 million a year, Orosa estimated, contending that a monitor should be required only when a department is unable or unwilling to undertake its own policy changes."We're a poor city, and we don't have that money," he said. "We have demonstrated that we can fix ourselves."He pointed to changes instituted since he took over the department in September 2011, including scaling back plainclothes tactical teams whose members took part in many of the shootings.While Orosa agreed with the Justice Department's concern that Miami's policies and practices remain consistent in the long run, he wrote to the feds that he hoped to collaborate with them on remedies without a court-enforced mandate, known as a consent decree.As an alternative, Orosa in the Herald interview cited a study published last month by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington D.C. think tank, that examined civil-rights investigations of local police depamini storagetments.The study suggested that, as a less adversarial and cheaper way to address shortcomings, the Justice Department's office of community oriented policing services (COPS) could work with local police to develop reforms, as it did with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department last year.It's unclear whether Justice would agree to that sort of request from Miami, considering its civil rights division thought it necessary to spend a year and a half investigating. Unlike the COPS office, the civil rights division has the power to sue police departments if its recommendations are not implemented. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.Orosa disagreed with Justice's finding that Miami "engages" -- in the present tense -- in a "pattern or practice" of excessive force, and with the feds' contention that the department contributed to "egregious" delays of deadly-force investigations. Some of his criticism coincided with Exposito's.Both men called the federal authorities' report vague because it did not specify which shootings involved excessive force. That makes it difficult to address which tactics, if any, were poorly employed by the officers involved, as the Justice Department found.Orosa and Exposito also noted that the police department conducts timely investigations of officers involved in shootings but often cannot complete them quickly because Miami-Dade prosecutors get first dibs at trying to interview the officers and deciding whether to file criminal charges. Several investigations into whether officers followed policy when discharging their firearms remained open more than three years, Justice found."Their arguments are really, really weak," Exposito said Tuesday. "If they go in front of a federal judge with the information they have, I can't see a judge forcing the city into some kind of contract."Exposito further argued that Justice failed in its review by not noting how many officers from other law-enforcement agencies were involved in shootings inside the city's borders -- and by not interviewing him, despite his expressed intention to cooperate with investigators. According to Exposito, the feds also did not interview his predecessor, John Timoney, who was hired in late 2011 to train police in Bahrain."The Justice Department investigators violated the most basic principle governing the investigative process: to seek all available sources of information and obtain as many facts or as much data as possible from them," Exposito wrote.He described the investigation as politically motivated in part by Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, whose public clashes with Exposito over arrests involving video-gaming machines known as maquinitas ultimately cost the police chief his job. And Exposito called the reforms highlighted by Orosa as "window dressing" that merely repackaged existing policies."It's policies that we had that we did not abide by," Orosa countered, adding that some of his changes were, in fact, new.Orosa said he considered many of the feds' concerns directed not at policies unchanged since they were written before the Justice Department left town in 2006, but rather at the people carrying them out.To that end, Orosa noted that the department has changed its policies to prohibit future police chiefs from making wholesale changes to the command staff -- a move made by Exposito that federal authorities questioned in their meetings with Orosa."Unfortunately, none of these concerns was mentioned in the Findings Letter," Orosa wrote.Miami Herald staff writer Jay Weaver contributed to this report.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Miami Herald Visit The Miami Herald at .miamiherald.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug.存倉 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- According to a recent survey conducted by Noesis Energy, the inability to get funding and uncertainty about the savings estimates are the primary reasons why energy-efficiency projects are not getting approved. Noesis recently surveyed 476 energy managers and energy consultants in the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector to better understand which factors determine whether viable energy projects (i.e. projects that clear internal hurdle rates) get the green light.(Photo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130821/MN66804)Noesis Energy, whose energy measurement and savings website is used by more than 12,000 C&I energy professionals, has observed an insatiable appetite for information about efficiency financing--from oversubscribed webinars on the topic to hundreds of inquiries on the Noesis platform from professionals seeking financing for particular projects. To better understand the market and requirements for efficiency finance, Noesis Energy launched its first annual Energy Project Survey in June of this year.As part of the survey, Noesis looked at the number of projects proposed, their average size, approval success rate, reasons for not getting approval, the role of financing options, and importance of tracking energy savings to justify and reinforce the investments. Professionals surveyed included corporate managers (such as energy managers, facility managers and sustainability directors), external consultants and auditors, and manufacturers and resellers of energy-efficiency products."We see a lot of interest in efficiency financing among users of the Noesis platform, yet not much is known about why some projects aimed at saving energy never get past the proposal stage," said Scott Harmon, CEO of Noesis Energy. "The findings of this survey highlight the perspectives and challenges of professionals in the commercial and industrial sector, so Noesis can determine how to help them get more energy efficiency projects underway."Survey highlights1. More than 50 percent of consultants propose 11 or more energy projects per year, with 32 percent pitching 25 or more projects. This compares with 75 percent of energy managers, who propose less than 10 projects per year. 2. Nearly half of the energy projects proposed are valued between $50,000 and $250,000. Taken in conjunction with the number of projects managers and consultants report, these energy professionals are pitching millions of dollars on energy-efficiency expenditures. 3. Who gets their projects approved? Energy managers have good success rates, with 36 percent of them securing approval for half or more of their projects, and 75 percent getting approval of at least one in four projects. Consultants do not fare so well, even though they are originating more proposals: half of the consultants surveyed report less than one in four of their projects get the green light. 4. Why are projects not approved? More than half the time, "Not budgeted" is 自存倉he reason these projects do not get internal approval. One-quarter of the projects are derailed by a "lack of certainty" of their estimated savings. 5. With funding emerging as the top reason for project rejection, Noesis asked whether third-party financing, such as leases or energy savings agreements (ESAs), was included in the proposal. Only 10 percent of consultants include financing all of the time, while 43 percent never include it. Meanwhile, 60 percent of energy managers do not include financing in their proposals. 6. Why not include financing? 56 percent of energy managers say they don't need it because they aim to fund projects internally. For energy consultants, 68 percent said that they don't know enough about financing options, or don't have the time to research and find them. 7. Tracking energy performance is becoming more commonplace. The majority of those surveyed require that savings be tracked at least some of the time, with 65 percent of energy managers requiring it most or all of the time."This study confirms many of the same themes we hear from our network ofInvestor Confidence Project (ICP) Allies. Access to financial resources and partners who can help ensure performance is critical to improving confidence in energy savings projections. Limited access to either of these resources poses significant barriers to completing energy efficiency projects," said Matt Golden, senior energy finance consultant at Environmental Defense Fund. "The good news for clean energy project developers is that we also hear from a wealth of investors that they are actively seeking investment quality projects. Success results from connecting the dots, and energy performance protocols and standards can do just that."To close the gap between projects in need of funding and appropriate financing, Noesis recently announced that it is working with leading energy-efficiency financing firms to jump-start spending on critical energy-saving investments by commercial and industrial businesses. To learn how to participate, visit NoesisEnergy.com.For the complete set of survey results, email Tim Cox at tim@zingpr.com or download them from here.About Noesis EnergyNoesis Energy puts businesses in control of their energy management costs. By combining big data services, energy analytics and industry expertise, our free and premium data services help energy professionals track energy performance and identify opportunities to reduce usage and costs. Noesis Energy is backed by Black Coral Capital and Austin Ventures, and maintains offices in Austin, Texas and Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. For more information, visit .noesisenergy.com and follow @noesisenergy. Use our site to find incentives at incentives.noesisenergy.com.Media Contact: Tim Cox, Noesis Energy, 650-369-7784, tim@zingpr.comNews distributed by PR Newswire iReach: https://ireach.prnewswire.comPhoto: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130821/MN66804PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.comNoesis Energy迷你倉新蒲崗

Source: The Florida Times-Union, JacksonvilleAug.self storage 20--WEDNESDAYBook Fair, 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, Southeast Georgia Health System's Camden Campus, cafeteria conference room, 2000 Dan Proctor Drive, St. Marys; 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and 10 p.m.-midnight Thursday, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Southeast Georgia Health System's Brunswick Campus, Linda S. Pinson Conference Center, 2415 Parkwood Drive, Brunswick. (912) 576-6405 or 466-1071.Mammogram screenings, presented by the Wellness on Wheels mobile health vehicle. 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, Camden County Health Department, 905 Dilworth St., St. Marys, (912) 882-8515; 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, Camden County Health Department, 1501 Georgia Ave., Woodbine, (912) 576-3040. All mammograms require a physician's order; insurance is accepted and financial assistance is available to patients who qualify.Reading at the library: Book Babies' Reading Program for babies 6-23 months, 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays; Toddler Time Reading Program for children age 2, 10:15 a.m. Wednesdays; Story Time Reading Program for children 3-5 years, 11 a.m. Wednesdays; Camden County Public Library, 1410 Georgia 40 E., Kingsland. Final day to turn in reading logs for the Summer Reading Program. (912) 729-3741.Cassina's Tabby Slave Cabins tours, 10 a.m.-noon Wednesdays through Aug. 28, Gascoigne Bluff, 100 Arthur J. Moore Drive, next to Epworth By The Sea, St. Simons Island. Features life on Hamilton Plantation and life during the mill days on St. Simons Island. Donations used for the preservation and maintenance of our historic tabby cabins and the surrounding grounds. Free. (912) 230-9194 or 399-1152 or cassinagardenclub.org.Free blood pressure and blood sugar screenings, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesdays, Dick Mitchell Health Information Center, Outpatient Care Center, 2500 Starling St., Brunswick. (912) 466-5160.The bloodmobile schedule:-- Tuesday -- noon-6 p.m., Valdosta State University's Student Union, Baytree and Oak streets, Valdosta.-- Aug. 29 -- 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., South Georgia Medical Center, 2501 N. Patterson St., Valdosta.-- Aug. 30 -- 12:30-5:30 p.m., Tift Regional Medical Center, 901 E. 18th St., Tifton.-- Aug. 31 -- 1-6 p.m., Family Dollar No. 420, 1905 N. Ashley St., Valdosta.The Valdosta Donor Center, 2517-A Bemiss Road, is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. (229) 241-1141, ext. 221.THURSDAYFree blood pressure and blood sugar screenings, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursdays, Health Information Center, main lobby, 2000 Dan Proctor Drive, St. Marys. (912) 576-6443.Advanced Women's Wellness Workshop, 6 p.m., Southern Specific Chiropractic, 4499 Georgia 40 E. Suite C, St. Marys. Includes balancing hormones naturally, thyroid myths and Nutrition 101. Free. Reservations, (912) 882-3323.FRIDAYFriday Afternoon Movies at the Library, 2 p.m., Ida Hilton Public Library, 1105 North Way, Darien. Features "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." (912) 437-2124."Delicacy," as part of the Literary Guild of St. Simons Island Film Series, 7 p.m., St. Simons Island Casino, 550 Beachv迷你倉ew Drive, St. Simons Island. The 2011 French film is in French with English subtitles and is Rated PG-13. $3. (912) 289-7357 or email litguildssi@gmail.com."Driving Miss Daisy," presented by Theatre Guild Valdosta, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, 'Dosta Playhouse, 116 N. Ashley St., Valdosta. $18; 4-ticket pass $55. (229) 247-8243."Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks," presented by Cape Theatre, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Old City Hall, Brunswick. Show continues 8 p.m. Aug. 30-31. Not recommended for children. $15. (912) 580-9920 or capetheatre.org.SATURDAYFree exercise class, 9-10 a.m. Saturdays, Agape Church, 10600 Colerain Road, St. Marys. Exercise using only free weights and a mat. (912) 576-2008 or email getufit2008@yahoo.com.Art & Craft Show, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Postell Market, Beachview Drive, St. Simons Island. (912) 230-1042 or artdowntown.net.Okefenokee Explorer, Wildlife of Our World, 1-2 p.m., on the animals in the park, $1; Animal Feeding, 2:30-3:30 p.m., with dietary information and feeding of the Nature Center animals, $1; Story and Craft Time, 6-7 p.m., featuring a park ranger with a story and a craft, $1; Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, about 11 miles southwest of Folkston, off Georgia 121/23. Each program $1. (912) 496-7836.Boeing! Boeing! 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Brunswick Actors' Theatre, 1413 Newcastle St. Show is a farce by Marc Camoletti. Show continues 8 p.m. Aug. 31, 3 p.m. Sept. 1, 8 p.m. Sept. 8, 3 p.m. Sept. 9. $25. (912) 280-0023 or brunswickactorstheatre.com.SUNDAYSunday Dinner Dance, 6 p.m., Jekyll Island Club Hotel, 371 Riverview Drive. Includes a gourmet dinner and dance music by John Thomas and The Jekyll Island Club Quartet. $39.95. Reservations, (912) 635-5155.TUESDAYStorytime for children 8-12, accompanied by an adult, 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Brunswick-Glynn County Library, 208 Gloucester St., Brunswick. Features reading, storytelling and crafts. (912) 267-1212."Health Chats" lecture series, 6-7 p.m., Southeast Georgia Health System's Camden Campus, cafeteria conference room, 2000 Dan Proctor Drive, St. Marys. Speaker is William G. Grubb, member of Southeast Georgia Health System medical staff, on "Chronic Kidney Disease: What is It?" Includes light refreshments. Reservations, (855) 275-7447 or email jenni.morris@sghs.org.AUG. 28Story Time Meet and Greet, 10:30 a.m., Ida Hilton Public Library, 1105 North Way, Darien. Features a story and a craft. (912) 437-2124.Lunch and Learn for Your Health, presented by the Southeast Georgia Health System, noon-1 p.m., Golden Isles YMCA, 144 Scranton Connector, Brunswick. Topic is "Shoulder Aches and Pains." (912) 265-4100 or sghs.org.Fax events to (904) 359-4478 or email events@jacksonville.com. Complete listing at jacksonville.com/calendars. To put your event in the free online calendar, go to events.jacksonville.com.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.) Visit The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.) at .jacksonville.com Distributed by MCT Information Services文件倉

China has seen 77.迷你倉價錢11 million smartphones sold in the second quarter, about 85 percent of the country’s total sales volume of mobile phones, a technology industry research firm said on Wednesday. In the last quarter, the total sales volume of mobiles in China was at about 90.39 million un迷你倉庫ts, a 0.2 percent quarter-on-quarter decrease, but a 36 percent year-on-year increase, said a report released by Analysys International. Samsung, Lenovo and Coolpad are the top-three brands in the country’s smartphone sector, with market shares of 18.2, 11.1 and 9.8 percent, respectively.儲存

【本報訊】銀娛（027）主席呂志和大嘆現時做生意競爭大，儲存惟他坦言自己一直視中、港、澳三地為家鄉，更表明心�指「未曾諗過撤資」。他旗下銀娛未來除加碼在澳門投資賭業外，更會落戶橫琴大展拳腳，繼續「泵水」投資。記者：吳永強呂志和昨出席銀娛業績記者會時指，雖然拒評李嘉誠放售百佳是否與營商環境有關，但他亦明言現時經營生意「唔係咁簡單，競爭亦都好大」。但呂志和卻無意退出「唔玩」，更表明「我本身�講香港、澳門、中國都係自己�家鄉，我從來未曾諗過撤資。」而銀娛亦「身體力行」繼續「�本」投資澳門博彩業，當中投資額最高達600億元的澳門銀河第三、四期最快將於今年底動工興建。數月內落實橫琴大計而銀娛在上月中亦已正式完成收購金都娛樂場及酒店，進一步擴大於路�的版圖。集團副主席呂耀東指會將金都重新包裝，現時手頭上已有至少3個方案正在研究，料金都定位會與澳門銀河有所不同，亦會繼續保留博彩元素，惟規模暫時未定。他預期在方案正式「拍板」後，金都仍需時6至新蒲崗迷你倉個月始能重新迎接賭客。除繼續於澳門大力發展外，銀娛早前曾多次放風指有意踩入與路�僅一河之隔的橫琴，而有關的鴻圖大計亦已經略有眉目。雖然呂耀東表示由於銀娛視橫琴為長期發展的戰略項目，因此仍需要與當地政府就發展進行更多溝通。不過，他亦「漏口風」指在未來幾個月內有望落實在橫琴的發展大計，更明言「一係做標誌性�項目，一係就唔做。」繼續不派息「留彈藥」銀娛繼續保持過去幾年不派息的傳統，以保留足夠「彈藥」作發展。惟由於集團「計仔多多」，始終令市場擔心其融資需求。呂耀東卻大派定心丸，他指公司現時財政穩健，於第三季初更已預先償還35億元的貸款以降低利息開支，並會於適當的時候再尋找銀行借貸。銀娛目前以市值計算為澳門第二大的賭場營運商，僅次於「過江龍」金沙中國（1928），更已超越「賭王」何鴻燊旗下的澳博（880），令呂志和贏得「新賭王」的稱號。惟呂志和卻表明無意爭做賭業一哥，「我從來做事情不希望是第一，我只希望第二，第三，第四已經很滿足了。」 mini storage

□郭道榮據媒體報道，自存倉在幸福村居的建設當中，蓮江村的面貌得到較大的改變，“十里蓮江”旅遊項目成為當地有名的旅遊特色品牌，被打造成集生態農業觀光、農耕體驗、科普教育和養生居住為一體的大型綜合性項目。應該說蓮江村的發展思路符合當今發展趨勢。生活在城市裡的人追求農村的原始風貌，這樣自然就形成了具有農村特色的旅遊產業，如休閒、娛樂、觀光、飲食等行業就相應得到拉動。筆者認為，“十里蓮江”旅遊項目可以拓寬經營面，開發更利於持續發展的特色項目。比如，利用目前具備嶺南文化風迷你倉新蒲崗的優勢，打造“嶺南文化教育基地”，吸引學生前往參觀或開展相關教學活動，為“十里蓮江”旅遊項目穩定更多“客源”。其次，還應儘量滲透到珠海及周邊城市旅遊相關項目之中，與其它旅遊路線很好地結合一起，形成旅遊特色產品。最後，還可結合當地各類特色，如斗門飲食、歷史文化、歷史遺址等，不斷地開發具有本地特色的旅遊項目，同時注重遊客的喜好，及時收集旅遊市場的信息，對原有旅遊項目及時更新，不斷推出旅遊新亮點。這樣，“十里蓮江”旅遊項目就會名聲遠揚，更會吸引國內外遊客前來消費。迷你倉出租

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近日東北三省及廣東省分別發生洪災，自存倉當地領導都已吩咐有關單位做好防汛工作。筆者與我國東北有淵源，亦與廣東省關係密切，對此災情也格外關心。筆者認為在香港居住生活的我們，與國內同胞血脈相連，同根同源，也應留意國內的災情。自八月中，我國東北大部出現降雨過剩，局部地區暴雨引發洪澇等災害。我國東北地區水災持續，受持續降水影響，松花江流域、嫩江上游、第二松花江上游、松花江干流部分江段、黑龍江干流發生數十年一遇的特大洪水，多條河流水位仍然超警戒線，從新聞畫面所見，解放軍及武警奉命到場排洪。三省的黑龍江省，洪水浸哈爾濱、黑河、牡丹江等地，有近二百四十萬人受災，逾三百條公路交通中斷，農田被浸農產品被毀，令黑龍江這北大糧倉直接經濟損失近達八十億元人民幣。另外，吉林省有水庫因嫩江水位超出水庫而令水位無法如常洩洪，急召三百多名武警協助加固堤壩高度。遼寧省則連日暴雨，洪水摧毀了遼寧電網，84個鄉鎮約27萬個用戶供電受到影響一度停電，電力系統須進行緊急維修搶救，而受洪災影響縣市亦汛情嚴重，單是撫順市共造成五十多人死亡，近百人失蹤，近萬名人民子弟兵展開搶險救災工作，受災房屋近十四萬所、倒塌房屋三百五十所、千多戶共四千人須災後重置，遼寧撫順、瀋陽、新賓及清等九個市二十迷你倉新蒲崗縣市，共四千人受災，洪水浸洗過百萬畝農田。根據報道，國家減災委、民政部發出三級救災應急響應，預料未來一周雨勢持續，習近平總書記亦作出批示要求確保人民群眾生命安全放在第一位，全力搜救失縱人員，做好災後恢復安置重建等。廣東省同樣受連日暴雨影響，農田被破壞，汕頭造成堤壩潰毀海水倒灌，此外，暴雨亦造成泥石流，京廣線粵北段多處被泥石流掩埋，廣東火車站所有列車一度暫停運作，逾八萬名旅客滯留，工作人員在泥濘和暴雨下，經過二十小時搶修部分分段才恢復局部正常運作。筆者在上周剛離開廣州回香港，亦明瞭滯留的徬徨。我國地廣物博，天災是很難避免的，筆者想表達的是香港同胞尤其是年輕人應了解國情，例如是次東北、華南暴雨除了影響東北、華北糧食供應外，也癱瘓了粵北局部鐵路網絡，香港人會率先想到蔬菜失收，未來兩星期菜價飆升，而筆者則�眼受災廣東菜農同胞的生計，滯留旅客的苦惱，以及東北受洪災家園被浸毀而暫無安置之所的同胞。我們香港人必須認識國家國情，如各省地理、運輸網絡及產業，體恤內地同胞，急受災同胞所急，體現與祖國與香港同心，廣東省尤其與中國香港人的父輩有深厚親情，以及是文化、商務、交流、旅遊來往最頻繁的省份，血濃於水之情除了是糧水供應的恩情外，也是發自肺腑之同胞關懷之情。迷你倉出租

Mainland firm should diversify into sector soon or it will lose golden opportunity, analysts sayShipping services company Cosco International may miss a golden opportunity to enter the leasing business if it does not strike a deal soon with its parent China Ocean Shipping (Group), since a recovery in global trade is likely to push ship prices up next year, say analysts.self storageThe marine fuels, paints and ship-trading offshoot of the country’s largest shipping company has planned for some time to expand into parts manufacturing and bareboat chartering – the leasing of ships to operators exclusive of repair and crew costs.To do so, Cosco International has to first clear the decks for such a move with other companies within the group – including China Cosco, the group’s container shipping and freight forwarding arm – to avoid inter-company competition.Until now, the attention of the group has been focused on trying to keep China Cosco from reporting a third consecutive annual loss for this year, since that would get the company delisted from the Shanghai Stock Exchange.Xu Zhengjun, the managing director of Cosco International, said at the group’s interim results briefi迷你倉g yesterday that now was the best time to venture into the leasing business.“When the industry is at a low it’s the best time for ship leasing because ships are cheap. But there’s a process for putting an idea (venturing into ship leasing) to work,” Xu said.Overcapacity and slowing demand have left many companies in the shipping trade struggling over the past year. Orient Overseas (International) posted a loss of US$15.3 million for the first half of this year, and Cosco International saw its net profit plunge 44 per cent to HK$130.9 million in the same period.Cosco will pay an interim dividend of two HK cents per share.“While the outlook for the second half remains grim, a recovery in the United States economy will continue to buoy trade. Japan’s growth measures have already boosted its GDP, Europe is stabilising, and China maintains a steady growth. So I believe next year will be a better one for the shipping sector,” Xu said.Cosco International says it has HK$5.74 billion cash on hand to search for acquisition targets. It has so far bought only a small German marine equipment supplier.The company’s share price closed 1.99 per cent lower at HK$2.95 yesterday.文件倉

　【特訊】能源業發展辦公室消息：今年第2季總耗電量為1165.53吉瓦時，迷你倉出租按季增31.21%，其中內地輸電為主，佔92.81%。而上半年最高用電負荷為760.17兆瓦，同期升4.3%。澳電第2季的固定投資項目總開支約1.12億元，第2季只有1宗中壓電網停電事故，懷疑欺詐用電個案上半年則累計3305宗，同期減少18.84%。天然氣開始應用到住宅及巴士，預計第3季開始向橫琴澳大校區供氣。第2季天然氣銷售總量為76222立方米，平均售氣價每立方米6.045元（澳門幣，下同），其他燃料的市場定價為無鉛汽油平均每公升11.99元，柴油每公升13.09元，瓶裝石油氣每公斤14.68元及中央石油氣為每立方米39.36元。　根據澳電的資料顯示，第2季總耗電量按季升31.21%至1165.53吉瓦時，同期減1.18%；其中內地輸電為1081.74吉瓦時，佔總耗電量92.81%，內地輸電按季升34.11%，按年增9.28%。本地重油產電，按季增4.59%至53.31吉瓦時，同比降67.09%。第2季最高用電負荷為760.17兆瓦，按季增31.79%，同期升4.3%。　第2季電力平均成本基本保持上季水平，只微跌0.4%至0.841元，較去年同期少5.61%；購入電量平均成本與上季相若，按季少0.24%至每千瓦時0.823元，而重油產電平均成本﹙不包括其他營運成本、維修及投資回報﹚按季多3.5%至每千瓦時1.212元。　第2季的電力收費調整系數為每度電（千瓦時）0.45元，按季升1仙。A組的調整系數繼續獲補貼，維持每度電0.36元不變，每度電平均售價為1.372元；其他組別維持每度電0.45元。預計第3季購入電量1281.64吉瓦時及重油需求15391噸，按照電力專營合同所規定之公式計算，第3季調整系數維持每度電0.45元。考慮到一般居民和中小企的經濟負擔，A組用戶繼續獲補貼，維持每度電0.36元，其他組別則按實際計算。　澳電第2季的固定投資總開支為1.12億元，累計上半年約1.8億元，投資項目主要涉及電網建設和維護佔1.53億元，其次為客戶服務及發電設施的投資。　第2季只有1宗中壓電網停電事故，較去年同期少6宗，事故電力中斷時間為1.2小時，受影響客戶共869戶，平均停電時間為7.75分鐘。澳電上半年累計懷疑欺詐用電個案錄得3305宗，按年減少18.84%；其中涉及擅自加大訂定功率的懷疑個案儲存倉所減少，住宅用戶和非住宅用戶分別下降29.32%和35.02%，為1251宗及733宗；干擾電錶運作的懷疑個案則增加12.52%至1321宗。現尚待調查個案共691宗，包括涉及擅自加大訂定功率個案616宗及干擾電錶運作個案75宗。調查後被證實為欺詐用電的個案1332宗，包括擅自加大訂定功率680宗和干擾電錶運作652宗。欺詐用電個案涉及的總罰款約為213萬元，最高罰款個案為734650元，每宗平均罰款約53233.93元。　澳電第2季接獲9宗客戶投訴個案，按季多4宗，範疇主要涉及服務質素5宗及4宗停電事故，全部個案經已完成處理。能源辦第2季接獲跟進3宗市民投訴、5宗建議及8宗查詢，其中一宗仍在跟進，其餘已完成處理並歸檔。　第2季天然氣進口總量為83，657立方米，較第1季增加53.94%。其中管道天然氣為5，907立方米，按季少85.29%；槽車壓縮天然氣﹙CNG﹚首兩季分別錄得14，193及77，750立方米進口量。　進口價格方面，第2季整體平均價格為每立方米11.00元，按季少4.10%；其中管道天然氣購入價為每立方米3.09人民幣﹙折合約每立方米4.03澳門元﹚，而壓縮天然氣因包含運輸等相關成本，平均價格相對較高，計算為每立方米11.53元。第2季天然氣銷售量為76，222立方米，平均售氣價格為每立方米6.045元，與上季相若。預計第3季開始向橫琴澳大校區供氣，而路�城區主管網鋪設工程完成31.5%。　第2季本澳無鉛汽油平均巿場定價為每公升11.99元，按季減0.40元；同季新加坡汽油現貨巿場平均價格每升按季跌0.53元。車用柴油平均巿場定價為每公升13.09元，較上季減0.27元；新加坡柴油現貨巿場平均價格每升按季跌0.52元。家用石油氣第2季平均巿場定價為每公斤14.68元，按季減1.53元；同季新加坡現貨巿場平均價格按季每公斤跌0.76元；另本澳中央石油氣平均巿場定價為每立方米39.36元，按季減3.84元。新加坡為本澳鄰近地區的其中一個重要石油產品供應巿場，其現貨巿場價格走勢具參考價值，而上述價格變動分析僅供參考之用。　國家發展和改革委員會於3月27日調整了國內成品油定價機制，縮短調價周期及取消上下4%的幅度限制等。第2季累計共4次調整國內成品油價格，包括2次上調及2次下調，結算後汽油零售價格合共下降每噸人民幣295元，及柴油零售價下降每噸人民幣300元。◇迷你倉沙田

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Source: Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.mini storageAug. 20--On the first day of school for many Alabama children, the Southern Poverty Law Center took aim at one of the most controversial measures to come out of the Alabama Legislature's 2013 regular session.The SPLC filed suit in federal court Monday morning to enjoin implementation of the Alabama Accountability Act, saying it does not extend its benefits equally to all students in schools designated as failing.The suit, filed on behalf of eight Black Belt elementary and middle school students, ages 5 to 14, says that the plaintiffs cannot afford private school tuition, even with the tax credits and scholarships extended under the law.The suit also says that even if they could afford it, there are no participating private schools available in the area, nor is transportation available to other schools.In many cases the nearest private schools to the plaintiffs are not participating in the Alabama Accountability Act, or are so far away some families would have to travel up to 120 miles a day to and from school, the suit contends.Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said at a press conference Monday that the law created "two classes of students" in the state. By diverting money from the Education Trust Fund to tax credits or scholarships, Cohen said, the effect of the law would be to make schools listed as failing worse."It will siphon away millions of dollars from public schools and not help the failing ones," he said. "It will make the failing ones worse than they are today."The suit names Gov. Robert Bentley, State Schools Superintendent Tommy Bice, Revenue Commissioner Julie Magee and Comptroller Thomas White as defendants.In a statement released Monday afternoon, Bentley did not comment directly on the allegations in the lawsuit, but also stressed provisions in the legislation which allow schools to apply for waivers from certain laws governing schools."We have Torchbearer Schools that are doing very well," Bentley said in the statement. "These schools are not wealthy. But they have developed the ideas and approaches that are needed to help their students overcome challenges and succeed."The governor's statement did not mention the tax credits or scholarship-granting organizations in the law. Bentley pushed for a two-year delay on the tax credits in the last Legislative session, a delay that was rejected by lawmakers. The lawsuit does not address the law's flexibility components.Supporters of the law have said it will foster competition and give students a chance to escape failing schools. Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, who was the driving force behind the tax credit portion of the law, said in a statement that it "made no sense" toself storagechallenge the law on the grounds that it limited options."This is more of the same from those who would rather maintain the status quo," said the statement from Marsh, who is not a defendant in the lawsuit. "We will continue working to make sure students and parents in failing schools have options to receive a quality education."Nearly 40 percent of the schools designated as failing are in the Black Belt, according to the suit. In the complaint, the suit cites numerous instances of poor supplies and inadequate textbooks in the schools.One plaintiff said they were unable to take textbooks home from the Camden School of Arts and Technology in Wilcox County. Another said a teacher held up a microscope to demonstrate the instrument to students at Russell County Middle School; the students were not allowed to use it.Mariah Russaw, a Barbour County resident whose 12-year-old grandson, a student at Barbour County Middle School, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said at the press conference that she wanted her grandson to get "the best possible education he could get."The closest non-failing school is 19 miles from his home, which would require Russaw, his guardian, to travel 76 miles each day, according to the complaint. Russaw, the complaint says, has Bell's palsy and had until recently made ends meet through disability payments, which have been discontinued."I want every child that's in a failing school to be able to finish school and get the opportunity I didn't get, to get an education for themselves," she said. "My grandson needs to stay where he is, because I don't have the transportation to get him to another school."Additional FactsABOUT THE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT? It passed in February amid chaotic scenes in the Alabama Senate and was later amended.? The law creates a definition of a "failing school" as one that has been in the bottom 6 percent of reading and math scores for three of the preceding six years through 2017; after that, schools will be evaluated on a grading system under development by the Alabama Department of Education.? Students in a failing school can opt to transfer to a non-failing school in their own district if they so choose, or one outside their district if the outside district agrees to accept transfers.? Families of the students can also apply for a tax credit, worth over $3,500 a year, applicable to the cost of private school tuition. Students who qualify would also be able to apply for scholarships from groups called scholarship-granting organizations to assist with tuition.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.) Visit the Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.) at .montgomeryadvertiser.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉

（檳城 大山腳）檳州首席部長林冠英說，迷你倉價錢一張好的攝影作品，甚至可以改寫一個國家的命運，因此攝影是非常重要的領域。他說，檳州是一個充滿歷史的州屬，各類形式的攝影作品，可以成為考察史料，攝影作品也可以協助宣傳檳州的景點。他說，如今人人都可以拍照，手機一舉起來就可以拍照，然而要指出有內涵的照片卻不容易。“好的照片可以反映人文的特點，一個人的形象，以及一個社區及國家的生活面貌。林冠英昨日（19日）出席威省市政局攝影比賽頒獎禮及開齋節開放門戶活動時，這麼說。來瞭解改革事訪檳遊客破紀錄林冠英說，今年的開齋節假期，檳州可能已破了以前的遊客人數紀錄，許多遊客都紛紛到來檳州看看檳州的改革。他說迷你倉庫為了讓遊客和人民有更好的設備，市政局必須增加公共設施，譬如為有需要的人士提供更先進的社區禮堂，好讓他們舉辦活動。“清潔是州政府無法妥協的議題，我要提醒市議員，不要試圖為那些骯髒的餐飲店求情，州政府支持關閉那些衛生條件差的餐飲店，如果因此而失去支持率，也在所不惜。麥慕娜：設古蹟工作隊“帶領市局邁向藝術境界”威省市政局主席麥慕娜說，威省攝影比賽於2012年舉行時，只有42張作品參賽，今年卻有高達500張作品參賽。她說，威省市政局已成立一個旅遊及古蹟工作隊，在不影響市政局日常操作的情況下，帶領市政局邁向更高的文化與藝術境界。今年的攝影比賽冠軍是秦佩玲、亞軍黃湞璇及季軍莫哈末阿茲哈。;儲存

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8月9日《環球》雜誌以“外國人最愛的中國10個城市，文件倉有你家沒有？”為題發佈微博，列舉外國人最愛的中國十城市，其中珠海占據榜首。@大刀王老一：在一定程度上是成立的，因為是海濱旅遊城市，有條件的人都想來這裡快樂。@鹹魚包大人：上榜的都是旅遊城市，實際上這個榜單應是外國人最喜愛的旅遊地。珠海得益于近澳門，當然其本身的度假環境就是國內前列的。點評：早在瑞士舉行的“2005歐中旅遊論壇”，珠海就榮列歐洲人最喜愛的中國十大城市之首。珠海的美麗和宜居在國外已受到認可，珠海可以利用這張名片，搭建更多針對外國人的生活交流平台，縮小文化差異，吸引更多的國外遊客前來珠海旅遊、度假，打造具有特色的國際化城市。

A key figure in the republican revolution, Yeung Ku-wan's story of heroism lay buried for more than 100 years after his murder.儲存倉 But his family's relentless campaign may finally give the Hongkonger his due, writes Stuart Heaver.The drama that has unfolded since spy-cum-whistle blower Edward Snowden arrived in Hong Kong in June continues to create shock waves around the world. It's a story that has all the ingredients of a best-selling espionage novel.The Snowden affair is, in fact, reminiscent of an even more sensational story involving a political outcast pursued by the secret agents of a superpower. Set at the turn of the 20th century, when Hong Kong was a hotbed of revolution, insurrection and intrigue, this is the tale of a high-profile revolutionary leader who was assassinated on the streets of our city and then air-brushed out of the history books.The assassination was brought to life on the big screen by director Teddy Chen Tak-sum in the 2009 award-winning blockbuster Bodyguards and Assassins. The movie's opening scene - set on a sunny day in Gage Street, Central - sees a teacher descend iron steps from the first floor of a colonnaded building, surrounded by attentive Chinese students. As he talks to them of democracy, a gunshot rings out and a bullet pierces the teacher's forehead, spraying blood onto the faces of his shocked companions. Panic ensues as the camera zooms in on the sinister face of the assassin, still peering down the barrel of his bolt-action rifle on a nearby rooftop.This is the murder of Yeung Ku-wan, the leader of the Xing Zhong Hui (Revive China Society), and the date is January 10, 1901.Despite playing a leading role in the early days of China's republican revolution, which was largely orchestrated from Hong Kong, and being immortalised by popular cinema, Yeung has faded into the background in comparison with Sun Yat-sen, the "father of the nation", when it comes to the story of the long struggle towards the formation of the Chinese republic in 1911.A flick through the Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography reveals that "Yeung Ku-wan is considered a hero of China's republican revolution, not least because he gave his life for it". It also tells us that Yeung formed the Furen Wenshe (Literary Society for the Promotion of Benevolence) in Hong Kong in 1892 with close friend Tse Tsan-tai, who would become one of the founders of the South China Morning Post.Initially, the society campaigned for modern reforms in China but quickly developed into a secret organisation focused on fundraising for and organising armed insurrections. Its members plotted to overthrow what they saw as an obsolete and corrupt Qing dynasty and replace it with a modern democratic republic. Yeung became a close ally of Sun after Furen Wenshe was merged, in 1895, with the Revive China Society - which Sun had founded - at the latter's request.Born in Dongguan, Guangdong province, to parents who were natives of Haicheng, Fujian province, Yeung came to Hong Kong as a boy and graduated from St Paul's College. After a short time working at the naval dockyard, where he lost three fingers in an industrial accident, he developed close connections with the local Chinese business elite as an influential comprador for leading shipping companies such as Sassoon & Company.His experiences in Hong Kong aroused his political instincts and he began to develop a fierce nationalism.Hero of the revolution and one of the most influential Hongkongers in Chinese history though he may have been, for more than 100 years after his death there was little mention of Yeung, in his home city or anywhere else. There were no streets named after him, no statue and no obvious legacy - just an unmarked grave in the shady upper levels of the cemetery in Happy Valley, with only the tombs of British servicemen and swarms of mosquitoes for company.In 2011, after a long campaign by historians and family members, a modest marble plinth was erected next to Yeung's grave - which had been left unmarked at his own request, to deter Qing vandals - telling the story of his life and his role in history. One of those campaigning family members was Yeung's great-nephew, Albert Yeung Hing-on, an erudite and softly spoken scholar of Chinese literature who lives in Hong Kong and spent more than 10 years researching a book about the life of his relative."My father maintained a detailed family history," says Yeung. Referring to evidence contained in his book, He explains his theory that his great-uncle has been deliberately sidelined in the official history of the republic. He points out that when Sun and Yeung Ku-wan merged their organisations, it was the latter who was appointed chairman of the influential new group."Dr Sun was not in Hong Kong, so he had no power, no money and no connections - it was Yeung Ku-wan who had the local influence. Yeung was also five years his senior," says Albert Yeung.You can visit the small park in Pak Tse Lane in Central where Yeung Ku-wan's secret society was formed. A memorial has now been installed there - complementing an existing one nearby, at the site of his assassination; both are part of the Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail. The covered alleyway leading to the park from Gage Street, with its stained walls and strewn rubbish sacks, is easily overlooked but it would still make a great location for a clandestine political rendezvous some 120 years later. It was here that the plotting would have taken place for the 1895 uprising - the first of the revolutionary campaign - and Albert Yeung shows me a group photograph of the Furen Wenshe. The caption on it, which clearly shows the date as 1890, contradicts the history books, which state the organisation was formed two years later."So there were maybe three years of planning, networking and sourcing munitions before Sun even met Yeung Ku-wan [in 1894]," says Albert Yeung.The 1895 armed uprising planned for Canton (Guangzhou) by the two revolutionaries ended in a shambles with Sun's closest friend, Lu Hao-tung, being captured and tortured to death. Significantly, though, it meant the word "revolution" was being whispered for the first time in relation to Qing-dynasty China. It also resulted in both leaders becoming wanted men with a price on their heads.A diplomatic crisis erupted as a furious China accused London of what we might now call "harbouring terrorists" in Hong Kong and, rather than wait around for an extradition order, both leaders left town.Sun and Yeung were reunited in Japan in 1898, where they both lived in exile. The official history records that Sun took over as head of the movement after a major falling out with his former ally, who then fades into the background.Albert Yeung disputes this account, however, and points to the significance of a group photograph taken in Yokohama in 1898: the two young迷你倉沙田revolutionaries, both in Western attire, are pictured together with influential Japanese. Yeung Ku-wan sits in a prominent position in the front row while Sun is at the back. Albert Yeung makes the astonishing claim that years after his great-uncle's death, the leader of republican China, Chiang Kai-shek, tried to obtain the picture."Chiang Kai-shek's second wife claimed that her husband offered a huge sum to obtain this photo as he feared it would degrade the status of Sun Yat-sen," he says.He also denies there was ever a rift or falling out between the two men. Albert Yeung relates his father's account that, when they were both in Japan, Yeung Ku-wan asked Sun, who had a medical background, to supervise the birth of his youngest daughter and that years later, in February 1923, when Sun returned here to address the University of Hong Kong, he contacted Yeung's wife and asked her to visit him."They remained firm friends throughout," says Albert Yeung.Indeed, far from fading into the background, Yeung has found evidence that his great-uncle was instrumental in the more sustained but ultimately futile second uprising, in 1900, which was again orchestrated from Hong Kong. The signed confession of revolutionary Shi Jianru, who was beheaded for his attempted assassination of the governor general of Guangdong, directly implicated Yeung Ku-wan in the plot."Sun left after the 1900 uprising but Yeung was more reluctant, having a wife and four children and having already spent years in exile," says Albert Yeung.Yeung Ku-wan stayed in Hong Kong with his family, teaching English in Gage Street, presumably with half the assassins of southern China (sponsored by the Qing secret service) searching for him.He paid for that decision with his life. He was gunned down in the first-floor classroom at his Gage Street home - not exactly how it was portrayed in Chen's movie. He tried to protect himself with an English dictionary while reaching for his own pistol but was wounded and died in hospital the next day. Strangely, the official police report for 1901 is restricted to 2? lines - and mistakenly gives Yeung's age as 84 - even though there were only four murders in the city that year."My father always said it was a personal vendetta, not a political assassination," says Albert Yeung.The memorial near the site of Yeung Ku-wan's murder - just south of Gage Street, in an alleyway adjoining Aberdeen Street - comprises a simple red plaque that has been upstaged by colourful graffiti nearby.The recent inclusion of Yeung's story on the heritage trail and the new memorial for the Furen Wenshe are largely due to the work of historian Joseph Ting Sun-pao, who was chief curator of the Hong Kong Museum of History and oversaw the establishment of the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum before his retirement in December 2006.Ting retains a boyish enthusiasm for his favourite subject and still finds time to teach history at Chinese University, be a member of the Antiquities Advisory Board and conduct his own independent research into the Chinese revolution. If anyone can make sense of the family theories and the reason for Yeung's century of invisibility, he can."The reason Yeung Ku-wan is low profile is very political," he says, with a slightly mischievous smile, explaining that a clue could be found many years later in post-revolution China. When Chiang took over leadership of the ruling Kuomintang party following Sun's death, in 1925, he badly needed credibility, so portrayed himself as the true and legitimate successor."If Sun Yat-sen became a saint, then Chiang Kai-shek could be at least half a saint," says Ting, "so he deliberately played down the importance of any associates of Dr Sun in the official party history."So could this support Albert Yeung's claim that Chiang tried to pur-chase the Yokohama photograph in order to airbrush his great-uncle out of history?"At first I was very doubtful about this," says Ting, "but the claim was indeed made in a book written by Chiang Kai-shek's second wife."Ting also located evidence in Taiwan that revealed that once the Chinese republic had been established, Tse and some of Yeung Ku-wan's other colleagues made a formal request for his body to be removed from Hong Kong to its rightful place in the revolutionary cemetery in Guangzhou. Ting found official documents that showed the request was eventually refused on the grounds that the revolutionary's "stance against the Qing had wavered" during the 1900 uprising."From this point, when Yeung Ku-wan is accused of betraying the republic, he was successfully marginalised," says Ting.So is Albert Yeung justified in claiming that his great-uncle had a much more significant role in the early stages of the revolution than the history books would have us believe?"All the funds came through Yeung Ku-wan and he had all the connections," says Ting. "I agree that [he] had a more important role in the very early days of the revolution than Sun Yat-sen, who was [then] just a young medical graduate."It seems, then, that it was Yeung and not Sun who initiated the republican revolution and instigated the first uprisings against the Qing. Even today, the faintest of possibilities that the true father of the Chinese revolution might have been a Hongkonger is sensitive territory, but Ting has one more shock in store.When asked about why Yeung did not flee Hong Kong after the 1900 uprising, when his life was clearly in danger, his answer is unexpected."I think he was British," says Ting. "Otherwise he would not have been buried in the cemetery in Happy Valley."It is known that the colonial authorities had issued Yeung with a firearm for his own protection and he enjoyed a close relationship with the British, but Ting believes he must also have been made a British subject, perhaps even a citizen.That the founder and originator of the Chinese republican revolution might have been a Brit seems fantastical, but Ting just maintains a fixed smile and says nothing further.Much like the Snowden case, the assassination of Yeung Ku-wan was the biggest news story of its day. Albert Yeung was told by someone whose grandfather attended the funeral that it was like "the death of Bruce Lee"; though given the diplomatic sensitivity, "there was only a small column in the newspaper", says Ting.Yeung stresses he is not trying to undermine the important role of Sun as the "father of the Republic" but would just like to see recognition of his great-uncle's legacy in those early days of the revolution."Yeung [Ku-wan] is very important because he presented the Hong Kong spirit to find the truth and take action," he says.Clearly neither China nor Britain had much incentive for promoting Yeung as a hero of the revolution. How welcome it is that the true story of this influential player can be better understood at last. At least in Hong Kong.迷你倉價錢

Source: St.迷你倉沙田 Louis Post-DispatchAug. 19--The Pittsburgh Pirates have lost seven of their last nine games. They have exhausted their relief corps with three extra-inning games in the last six outings.Their lead over the second-place Cardinals has eroded to a single game. The third-place Cincinnati Reds have climbed 2 1/2 games behind the National League Central leaders.The Pirates aren't folding under pressure, as in years previous, but they are wobbling down the stretch. They battled the Diamondbacks for 16 innings Sunday . . . but finally lost to 4-2, after National League MVP candidate Andrew McCutchen failed to deny Adam Eaton his game-winning double.McCutchen dove for the ball and just failed to make the catch. Arizona scored two runs as a result and that was that.This defeat epitomized the recent Pirate frustrations. "The pitchers went out there and did their jobs," McCutchen told reporters afterward. "The offense, we didn't do ours."The Pirates left the bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th, when Russell Martin flied out to end the inning. The Diamondbacks retired them in order in the 13th, 14th and 15th innings.With Pittsburgh out of position players, pitcher Kris Johnson hit for himself with two runners on and two out in the bottom of the 16th inning. He struck out to end the game.Tribune-Review columnist Dejan Kovacevic argued that Pittsburgh GM Neal Huntington must locate an impact hitter on the waiver wire. He wrote:The Pirates' problem can't be isolated as a failure to cash in scoring chances, and not just because advanced analysis powerfully supports that being clutch in baseball is simply doing what you'd normally do rather than some innate skill.No, the problem is that they don't hit much, period. They're 25th in the majors in runs.I'll repeat this figure for anyone who might have missed it in the Sunday column: The Pirates are 63-17 when they score three or more runs.Which apparently was asking too much of this lineup over 16 innings, 53 at-bats that yielded only nine hits -- one for extra bases! -- as well as the requisite 18 strikeouts.They don't hit much, period.And I'll repeat this, too, only it's been found in this space all summer: That must change.PHIL CUZZI STRIKES AGAIN!Tipsheet dares you to identify an umpire worse than Phil Cuzzi. The former replacement ump was at it again Sunday in Wrigley Field, calling a strike on a phantom Donnie Murphy swing and then ejecting Cubs manager Dale Sveum for arguing. Cubs pitcher James Russell also got tossed for chirping at the hapless Cuzzi from the dugout."It wasn't questionable. It was easily the worst check swing call I've ever seen," Sveum told reporters after the Cubs fell to the Cardinals 6-1. "That's why the other umpires are there. To give him help. He said he thought he got it right."Major League Baseball must have guaranteed Cuzzi a lifetime job for his earlier role as a strikebreaker. There can be no other explanation for his continuing employment.AS THE A-ROD TURNSYankees slugger Alex Rodriguez is quite the newsmaker. He is to ESPN what Lindsay Lohan used to be to TMZ -- the story always waiting to happen, for better and (usually) worse.The other players implicated in the Biogenesis investigation accepted their MLB suspensions and bowed out as gracefully. Rodriguez filed an appeal and played on.This decision has earned him ridicule from fans, scorn from opponents and an uncomfortable relationship with his bosses.Here was A-Rod's Sunday:-- Before New York and Boston played, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman chatted with reporters about his interaction -- or lack thereof -- with Rodriguez. "I'm not comfortable talking to Alex about this because we feel we are in a litigious environment," Cashman told reporters during an informal chat with the media before Sunday night's game between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. "Hello and goodbye, that's about it. I'm not comfortable talking to him anymore. I don't want to be distorted."-- ESPN reported that Rodriguez paid for Biogenesis operation Tony Bosch's attorney. Later, A-Rod's people made a wire transfer for nearly $50,000 that Bosch's attorney refused to accept. Notes ESPN: "The second transfer, described by one of Rodriguez's former attorneys as a mistake, is part of Major League Baseball's evidence that the New York Yankees' third baseman attempted to tamper with the league's Biogenesis investigation, several sources said."-- Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster came out throwing against Rodriguez, perhaps in response to allegations that A-Rod tried to rat out other big leaguers during the Biogenesis investigation. Dempster missed wit迷你倉價錢 a fastball behind his leg, but then nailed him squarely in the ribs with another fastball in the same second-inning at bat. Red Sox fans egged on Dempster by chanting "You're a cheater!" when A-Rod stepped in. Home-plate umpire Brian O'Nora warned both benches against further shenanigans, but this edict did not satisfy Yankees manager Joe Girardi -- whose angry words and wild gesticulations earned him an ejection.-- Proving he still has the flair for drama, Rodriguez smacked a sixth-inning homer to fuel a Yankee comeback. A-Rod moved within 11 homers of Willie Mays for fourth place on the all-time homer list and the $6 million bonus Cashman would have to reluctantly pay him as his reward, per A-Rod's epic contract.Wouldn't it be crazy if Rodriguez rallied the aging, injury-battered Yankees into the wild card play-in game?ESPN.com's Wallace Matthews offered this take:Now it can be revealed: There is a vast, baseball-wide conspiracy against Alex Rodriguez, and it includes the commissioner of baseball, the front office of the New York Yankees and players like Ryan Dempster.They are conspiring, however improbably, to turn A-Rod into a sympathetic figure, and however unwittingly -- at least in the case of Dempster and whoever else takes it into his own hands to mete out the punishment that baseball's collective bargaining agreement has deferred -- to bring the Yankees together at just the wrong time for the rest of the American League.QUIPS 'R USHere is what some of America's leading sports pundits have been writing:Buster Olney, ESPN.com: "When the Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun accepted his 65-game suspension in an agreement under the drug-testing agreement, there was a strong, angry reaction from other players. Some of that may be because of phone calls Braun made in the days leading up to the decision of his appeal, in February 2012. According to sources, Braun called veteran players around baseball privately at that time to lobby for their support. In the calls -- confirmed by three sources -- Braun told other players that in the preparation for his appeal, some information had become known about the collector of his urine sample, Dino Laurenzi Jr., including that he was a Cubs fan -- with the implication he might work against Braun, who played for a division rival of the Cubs. Braun, who is Jewish, also told the players that he had been told the collector was an anti-Semite . . . After his victory was announced, Braun referred obtusely to Laurenzi Jr. in the statement he made to reporters, in which he raised questions about his positive test."Mike Tanier, Sports on Earth: "On the television schedule, Jets-Jaguars looked like it would be as bad as Sharknado on Saturday night. It turned out to be as good as Sharknado: goofy and sloppy for the most part, but also fun and weirdly compelling. To extend the metaphor, Mark Sanchez was Tara Reid, while Blaine Gabbert was John Heard, the veteran character actor who delivered a delightful performance for the first quarter, then suddenly died. Quentin Coples was the sharknado."Scott Miller, CBSSports.com: "This just in -- the Dodgers have l-l-l. ... Ahem, let's try that again. They've lossss. ... Wait. What? Really. Sunday in Philadelphia. Their 10-game winning streak came to an end, 3-2. The word is 'lost.' Until Ryne Sandberg wrangled his first victory as a major-league manager, last time a team reeled off 42 wins in a span of 50 games, it was just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The Cardinals did it during one scorching span in the summer of 1942. Only two clubs in history have compiled better records over a 50-game span than the Dodgers' 42-8 through Sunday's loss t the Phillies: The 1906 Tinker to Evers to Chance Cubs and the 1912 New York Giants of John McGraw and Fred "Bonehead" Merkle. It is easier to buy Grumpy Cat on the New York Times best-seller list than what the Dodgers have accomplished since June 22, when their 30-42 mark was tied for the fourth-worst record in the majors."MEGAPHONE"I am really happy for him. He has done the work every step of the way to get there. He did not cut any corners and didn't hop on with a buddy at the big league level. He really wanted to learn how to be a manager. He wanted to manage in the minor leagues, and watching his growth every year was kind of fun to watch develop."Cubs second baseman Darwin Barney, after the Phillies promoted former Cubs star and minor league manager Ryne Sandberg to their manager post.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Visit the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at .stltoday.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉庫

For 30-year-old Li Ye, life has been full of ups and downs, but he’s managed to turn himself into one of the legendary barbecue sellers in Shanghai, if not all of China.迷你倉Li established Shanghai Xianyouji E-Commerce Co in 2008, combining barbecue and the Internet in a one-stop service. Online, the company sells semi-finished barbecue product ingredients, including meat, seafood, vegetable and sauces. It also offers barbecue stoves and tools, charcoal, disposable dishware and beverages. It also provides suggestions for BBQ parties and events.Born into a wealthy family in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, in 1983, Li had a cushy life in front of him. His family operated a famous club that included a restaurant and a spa center. Li got pocket money of at least 5,000 yuan (US$806) a month. However, in 2003, his parents went bankrupt and he was forced to drop out of school.“It was like falling from a great height all of a sudden,” he says.Li worked wherever a job was available. He carried drinking water containers to dormitories, sold tickets at cinemas. While he was eking out about 300 yuan a month, his parents went into crabs and fish farming, only to be devastated by the SARS epidemic and flooding.“We managed to support ourselves,” he says. “The whole family was reduced to living on only 500 yuan during one stretch of the toughest time.”Li says he always liked barbecued food and the idea of turning his taste into a business came one day when he happened to pass barbecue stalls on the street. He got a job with one of them, cleaning tables and learning the finer points of grilling meat.In 2003, Li turned a second-hand tricycle into a barbecue vehicle and started selling barbecued meat from a stall named Zhuangyuan (No. 1 scholar) near a university campus.It was his first bucket of gold, earning Li 1,700 yuan a month. In 2005, he sat for the university entrance examination and was admitted t文件倉 the Shanghai Publishing and Printing College; he worked part-time at an e-commerce company.Li became a serious businessman in 2008, investing about 500,000 yuan in an online supermarket website. But he gave that up when business difficulties arose. He then registered the Yesbbq brand later that year and established a new firm.Business was slow at the start. Li waited three months before receiving his first order, which came from the city of Kunshan in Jiangsu Province. It was worth only 220 yuan, but it was a start. By 2011, sales reached more than 1 million yuan, climbing to 2.8 million yuan last year.At the time, his dream is to dispel the image of Chinese barbecue as unhealthy, unsanitary and down-market and to make Yesbbq the most famous brand of its kind in China. “Starting up my own business was always my dream,” Li says. He has a five-year plan to achieve those goals.Li has hired female college students to cook barbecues in order to promote a cleaner image. He has also plans to start a three-month training course for those who want to learn to grill meat that is both tasty and nutritious. “Barbecue is like a lifestyle,” Li says.He is now designing an app game related to barbecues, where players can convert virtual grilling meat into the real McCoy at one of his shops. His online platform also provides weather forecasts and pointers on ideal spots for barbecues, including GPS navigation to the sites.Li describes himself as a typical person born after 1980. “I dare to dream wildly, and I keep creating fun ideas,” Li says. “The success of the post-1980s is based on continuous striving and struggling to create something from nothing.”His goal is 5 billion yuan in sales in five years, with a well-honed distribution system backing up sales. He says he plans to open 10 stores in Shanghai and Beijing.“Dreams are big, but you need to walk step by step,” he says. 存倉