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Source: Daily News, Los AngelesAug.存倉 28--For the zombies to stalk Halloween Horror Nights this month at Universal Studios Hollywood, it won't be just blood to scare the beejeezus out of lost soul visitors.It'll be the inner demons released from hundreds of Hollywood horror actors."It's taking makeup to the next level," said Larry Bones, lead makeup artist for the Universal theme park horror show. "The makeup brings out something dark -- it just changes the personality."They become wicked. Their voice changes. You see something evil in their eyes."The Universal Studios Hollywood hounds of horror shed some of their most gruesome secrets Tuesday during a sneak peek at its Halloween Horror Nights gore.The Universal City theme park nightmare will run from Sept. 20 through Nov. 2 during 21 of the darkest nights. .UniversalStudiosHollywood.com/hhn.The haunted nights bring together some of the sickest minds in horror. And some of the scariest makeup artists, costume designers and graphic whizzes in the business.Around a darkened theater not far from giddy studio tourists from across the world stood a pantheon of severed heads, leering masks, bleeding wounds and slashed throats."Watching 'Twilight Zone,' for real," said Lucas Culshaw, of Los Feliz, a Universal graphic designer putting the finishing touches on a grim El Cucuy to reap victims of "The Walking Dead: No Safe Haven" attraction, based on AMC's Golden-Globe nominated show. "The secret of the scary character: nightmares -迷你倉 my own."Next to him stood Kimber Parrish, a North Hollywood makeup artists, who was putting some eerie paint on El Cucuy's mask. "This is the boogie man," she said, as her creation came to life. "It's terrifying."The Halloween Horror Nights event will feature a warren of skin-crawling mazes, terror-filled Scare Zones and a re-imagined Terror Tram. Besides "The Walking Dead," guests may be driven mad by scenes from Sony Picture's "Evil Dead: Book of the Dead," the heavy metal band's "Black Sabbath 13 3-D," and "Insidious: Into the Further," from the 2010 thriller.New scare zones will include The Purge, based on the Universal Picture's blockbuster and Curse of Chucky, featuring the killer doll with dimples.Around the room, Frankenstein's ghastly bride was being made up next to a ghoulish convict from "The Walking Dead." A French killer clown smock hung near a coat designed for a helmeted Black Sabbath war pig.With more than 500 actors playing each horror, would it be the makeup, or inner demons, that unleashed their terror?A bloody man grabs an astonished visitor, brains dripping from half his head, the whites of his eyes hoping to explain a dead man's tale."I think I've unleashed a demon," declares Lisette Santana, a makeup artist from East Los Angeles, as her creature scurries before a throng of Hollywood news cameras.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 Daily News (Los Angeles) Visit the Daily News (Los Angeles) at .dailynews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services自存倉

本報訊(記者李素平)互聯網金融的發展，存倉小額貸款形式不斷創新，從個人到個人的P2P網貸，再到電商平台提供的小額貸款，網貸似乎一邊為資金借入者救了急，一邊也資金提供者帶來了豐厚的收益回報。但網絡上也有一些不法分子借助“電子黃金”、“電子商務”等新概念實施非法集資。一開始許以高額回報，運營三五個月後網站便無法登錄，不少參與者最後血本無歸，需引起投資者的警惕。湖南省打擊和處置非法集資工作領導小組提醒，網絡非法集資的幌子通常有：1.以私募基金名義募集資金，誘使投資者將資金委托給公司經營並收取紅利；2.以購買產品或者發展會員為名義，投資者通過發展“下線”獲利；3.向投資者推銷境外準備上市的公司股票，期待上市出售後獲利。其資金收入過程為：對外付款主要迷你倉過地下錢莊或者分拆成小額資金，以個人名義通過銀行匯往境外指定賬戶，或者以人民幣方式通過銀行匯往指定的境內代理人賬戶，收取資金主要是通過銀行托收方式完成。如山西�奧、瑞士共同基金、金匯基金、金手指基金等。值得提醒的是，該類網絡非法集資的廣告宣傳完全借助互聯網進行，他們往往聲稱自己為國際知名跨國公司或者其分支機構，經營項目為電子商務、黃金期貨、外匯交易等高收益高風險項目，且公司擁有專業投資團隊，可以有效降低風險等。資金往來依靠電子轉賬和網上支付，整個操作流程全面網絡化。由於全程網絡化，隱藏很深，一旦公司出現問題，他們可以輕易地攜款潛逃。而目前，我國尚未實行網絡實名制，網上非法集資者很容易隱藏真實身份，捏造不實信息和資料，給監管取證帶來更大難度。自存倉

巨鎧實業公司為客戶量身訂做各種馬達產品，存倉客戶群遍及美洲、歐洲及東南亞，自創的JPI品牌已成為高品質的代表。堅持品質與開發能力深受客戶肯定，並委以開發計畫共同合作。巨鎧公司於93年獲得ISO 9001認證與歐洲e-MARK（e4）產品認證，落實品管要求與實施改善作法，以提高產品品質水準。該公司開發汽車及機車散熱風扇用無鐵芯馬達、永磁有刷馬達、無刷馬達，產品九成外銷，除OEM、ODM外，並以JPI 品牌行銷全球。巨鎧實業在歐洲、美洲都有很好的銷售實績，雖然面臨中國大陸的低價競爭，但堅持品質的理念、客製化的設計製造能力，獲得客戶長期支持。因此，投入大量研發經費，推出品質優良的產品，以爭取市場先機，除了繼續在汽機車市場深耕外，因著節能環保與智能化控制的趨勢，積極往家庭用迷你倉商業用、工業用、醫療器材等領域拓展。巨鎧公司同時具備馬達與馬達控制器的開發能力，可以為客戶做機電的最佳化設計；因著市場的需求，亦同時投入LED燈驅動器的開發與製作，新開發的控制技術可藉由壁控端的一條電力線進行燈具與風扇的多功控制，比如LED燈的調光與調色溫，變頻吊扇的轉速與轉向控制等，消費者不須破壞原先裝潢重新拉線，可滿足不喜歡使用遙控器的族群，此技術類似獲得TOP10 Technik 2012，由 OSRAM參與的LEDOTRON系統，產品極具潛力。巨鎧實業為能擴大服務層面及提供最好的服務、最快的交期，公司全體員工均積極參與品質活動，落實品質管理系統的要求，期許未來能提供更有效率及更高品質的產品。巨鎧電話（02）8684-2404，網址：.jpi.com.tw。自存倉

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TIFTON, Ga.自存倉, Aug. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* has turned on the nation's fastest and most reliable 4G LTE network** in Tifton, bringing customers the latest generation of wireless network technology.(Logo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/DA23287LOGO)"Wireless infrastructure investment is critical to Georgia's future and I am very pleased to see AT&T investing in Tifton and Tift County and bringing LTE service to our community," said Brian Marlowe, President/CEO of the Tifton-Tift County Chamber of Commerce and the Tift County Development Authority. "Advanced technology like LTE will stimulate Tifton and Tift County's economy and provide the new tools and services we need to compete for business."Watch here to see several of the benefits AT&T 4G LTE provides, including:-- Faster speeds. LTE technology is capable of delivering mobile Internet speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G***. Customers can stream, download, upload and game faster than ever before. -- Reliability. AT&T not only has the nation's fastest 4G LTE network, but now also has the most reliable 4G LTE network. According to independent third-party data, AT&T has the highest success rate for delivering mobile content across nationwide 4G LTE networks. -- Cool new devices. AT&T offers several LTE-compatible devices, including new AT&T 4G LTE smartphones and tablets. -- Faster response time. LTE technology offers lower latency, or the processing time it takes to move data through a network, such as how long it takes to start downloading a webpage or file once you've sent the request. Lower latency helps to improve services like mobile gaming, two-way video calling and telemedicine. -- More efficient use of spectrum. Wireless spectrum is a finite resource, and LTE uses spectrum more efficiently than other technologies, creating more space to carry data traffic and services and to deliver a better network experience."The availability of AT&T LTE service in Tifton and Tift County will benefit consumers and businesses," said State Representative Sam Watson. "LTE is the most advanced wireless service that will provide a strong reliable connection for businesses and residents of the community. This LTE technology also provides an extremely fast connection to the Internet."AT&T's 4G NetworkThis launch is part of AT&T's Project Velocity IP (VIP), a three-year investment plan announced last fall to expand and enhance its IP broadband networks. Through this investment, AT&T is supporting its customers' growing desire for high-speed Internet access and new mobile, app and cloud-based services. As part of Project VIP, AT&T plans to add more than 10,000 macro cell sites nationwide by year-end 2015, as well as deploy more than 40,000 small cells and add more than 1,000 Distributed Antenna Systems to increase the density of its wireless network.AT&T's innovation and investment has resulted in a nationwide 4G network with ultra-fast speeds and a consistent user experience. The great performance of AT&T's fastest and most reliable 4G LTE network continues to be validated by independent third-party testing:-- Our 4G LTE service was recognized as having faster average download and upload speeds than any of our competitors in PCWorld/TechHive's most recent 20-market speed tests -- the second consecutive year that AT&T has ranked first overall. PCWorld/TechHive also ranked AT&T's as the fastest combination of 3G and 4G services in the 20 cities it tested.**** -- And AT&T was named America's fastest 4G LTE network in PC Magazine's 2013 Fastest Mobile Networks 30-market study -- and also swept the top rankings in all six U.S. regions from coast to coast: Northeast, Southeast, North-Central, South-Central, Northwest and Southwest.*****Even as AT&T continues to expand its 4G LTE coverage, customers can get 4G speeds outside of 4G LTE areas on our 4G HSPA+ network, unlike some competitors, where smartphone customers may fall back to slower 3G technologi迷你倉新蒲崗s when outside of LTE coverage.AT&T's focus to deliver the best possible mobile Internet experience goes beyond 4G to embrace additional connection technologies. AT&T operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network******* including more than 32,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots at popular restaurants, hotels, bookstores and retailers, and provides access to more than 402,000 hotspots globally through roaming agreements. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly wireless data plans.AT&T also is a leading developer of Distributed Antenna Systems, which utilize multiple small antennas to maximize coverage and speed within stadiums, convention centers, office buildings, hotels and other areas where traditional coverage methods are challenging.Over the past five years, AT&T invested nearly $98 billion into its wireless and wireline networks across the country. Since 2008, AT&T has invested more capital into the U.S. economy than any other public company. In a July 2012 report, the Progressive Policy Institute ranked AT&T No. 1 on its list of U.S. "Investment Heroes."*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.** Limited 4G LTE availability in select markets. LTE is a trademark of ETSI. Speed claim based on a comparison of U.S. national carriers' average 4G LTE download speeds for Android(TM) and Windows smartphones and iPhone 5. Reliability claim compares data transfer completion rates on nationwide 4G LTE networks. 4G speeds not available everywhere.*** 4G LTE device and data plan required. Up to 10x claim compares 4G LTE download speeds to industry average 3G download speeds. Learn more about 4G LTE at att.com/network.**** PCWorld/TechHive, May 23, 2013, "AT&T clocks best overall speeds with 3G/4G combo"***** PC Magazine, June 17, 2013; .pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2420333,00.asp ******* A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See .attwifi.com for details and locations.About AT&TAT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company and one of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and affiliates - AT&T operating companies - are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and internationally. With a powerful array of network resources, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile Internet, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse((R)) and AT&T ?DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world.Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at .att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at .att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at .att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT.(C) 2013 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. 4G not available everywhere. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking StatementsInformation set forth in this press release contains financial estimates and other forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results might differ materially. A discussion of factors that may affect future results is contained in AT&T's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AT&T disclaims any obligation to update and revise statements contained in this news release based on new information or otherwise.Photo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/DA23287LOGOAT&T Inc.CONTACT: Ann Elsas, AT&T Corporate Communications, 404-986-0479,Ann.elsas@att.comWeb site: .att.com/迷你倉出租

Source: The Wisconsin State JournalAug.迷你倉 26--Mary Burke is "so not a politician."That assessment of the former Commerce secretary and Trek Bicycle executive by a former colleague could explain why a few months ago Burke wasn't on the radar screen of possible Democratic candidates for governor in 2014.It would be a contrast with Gov. Scott Walker that Democrats see as a potential advantage should Burke decide to run. She also may have an edge over other Democrats because she is amultimillionaire -- Burke paid, on average, $103,000 in state taxes alone each of the past five years -- who could self-finance part of her campaign.Burke has said she is considering entering the race but hasn't yet formed a campaign. She spent the past couple of months meeting with key Democrats and business leaders around the state to assess a possible run.Burke's only experience in elected office has been as a Madison School Board member since 2012, but she has held several leadership roles during her career -- in the private, nonprofit and government sectors -- that provide insight into what kind of governor she might be.At Trek, the Waterloo-based company founded by her father in 1976, Burke oversaw the opening of offices in seven European countries and later developed its forecasting and strategic planning department.While at Trek, she tutored poor minority children at the fledgling Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, which led to her joining the organization's board. In 2002, she became board president. She left Trek in 2004 to commit to raising $6.25 million for the club's Allied Drive expansion.Her business and philanthropic work caught the attention of then-Gov. Jim Doyle, who in January 2005 appointed her Commerce secretary, a position she held for two-and-a-half years.She has held other leadership roles on local boards, most notably in 2003 becoming the first female president of Maple Bluff Country Club, where she honed a single-digit golf handicap.Should she run for governor, Burke would be vying to become the first woman to hold the state's highest office, and the first female gubernatorial nominee for a major party ticket in Wisconsin. Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris and Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, said they too are considering a run, while others say they haven't ruled it out.Statewide candidates typically come with more political experience than Burke, but the recent election to the U.S. Senate of businessman Ron Johnson shows "that doesn't have to be the end of the story," said Charles Franklin, a Marquette University Law School public policy professor.Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, one of several Democrats who met with Burke to discuss her candidacy, said her broad experience and success in different sectors make her an appealing candidate. He said many politicians, including himself, are waiting until Burke announces her plans before considering a possible run."What makes her exciting as a non-politician is she seems interested in the job and serving the state," Mason said.Republicans, meanwhile, are preparing to paint Burke as an out-of-touch Madison liberal representing the job creation policies of the Doyle administration."As someone who has blatantly supported the failed policies of the past and whose candidacy was completely formed behind closed doors, it's clear that Mary Burke would have a hard time connecting with Main Street, Wisconsin," state Republican Party executive director Joe Fadness said.Burke declined an interview for this story but said in an email the taxes she paid reflect her shareholder stake in Trek, which increased after her father died in 2008.Helping grow TrekBurke was born in Madison in 1959, but grew up in Wauwatosa and Hartland near Milwaukee. She was the second oldest of five, and has three sisters and a brother, John, who now runs Trek.She majored in finance at Georgetown University and received her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1985. Just before graduation, she asked her father for a job at Intrepid, his Brookfield-based holding company, but there wasn't an opening, so he turned her down.Six months later, after working as a consultant in New York, she was hired at Intrepid as vice president of finance. But she soon missed the big city and returned to start Manhattan Intelligence, a service for consumers about businesses. It struggled to raise enough capital, and by 1990, she sold her stake and took a job leading Trek's European operations.In one year, Burke opened offices in four countries, which meant setting up legal entities, hiring staff, leasing office space and establishing office protocol, said John Burke, who was her boss.Steve Lindenau, who ran Trek's German operations at the time, said when he learned the company founder's daughter would be his boss, he wondered if it was a case of nepotism. It wasn't long before he considered Burke one of the smartest people he knew.Lindenau was used to making decisions from the gut based on his experience growing up around bike shops. Burke insisted on a different approach based on analyzing data and assembling all available information."The business changed (to) being less of an emotional way of making decisions and more of a pragmatic approach," said Lindenau, who now runs two bicycle companies in California. "It was helpful for the bottom line, for sure."Burke left Trek, and Europe, after agreeing her position was redundant and took six months off to snowboard in Arge文件倉tina and Colorado -- a decision Republicans have already criticized, citing polling done on that detail by Democrats.After working at a bicycle industry trade organization, Burke returned to Trek in Wisconsin in 1995 to work on global sales forecasts.John Burke said his sister came in and "tore the process apart" using data analysis to reduce inventory levels and increase profits."It went from one of the worst things we did as a company to one of the best," he said. "Mary has always been somebody who takes a look at things and thinks it can be done better."Boys & Girls ClubBurke applied her business acumen as president of the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, but it led to friction with the club's executive director, Juan Jose Lopez.Burke started as a tutor in 1998, but it wasn't long before the club's founding president, Peter Brey, and founding director, the Rev. David Smith, took her to a University of Wisconsin basketball game to talk up joining the board.Burke flexed her executive skills on the board -- reviewing financial statements on weekends, generating fundraising ideas and laying the groundwork for transforming the South Side neighborhood club into a citywide organization. In 2002, she was unanimously elected president by fellow board members."She was focused, she had the ability to raise money, she loved the cause and she had the Rolodex that is such a key part of getting anything done in those particular arenas," Brey said.Lopez came on as executive director around the same time, and a conflict emerged between them as Burke micromanaged the day-to-day operations of the club, Smith said."Mary wasn't going to be pushed around by anybody, including her executive director," Smith said. "She broke a few eggs, but she made a wonderful omelet, and the community is still eating that omelet."Brey said Burke and Lopez had different views on how to move the organization forward, and Lopez wasn't executing the way Burke wanted. Lopez declined to comment."To get to where it is now, there's never easy decisions, but no one can argue the path they took has led to one of the most successful organizations in the entire Boys & Girls Club family," Brey said, "and Mary was the driving force."When Lopez's successor, Marcia Hendrickson, also left abruptly, Burke held the position unpaid for about six months before hiring current executive director Michael Johnson in late 2009. The two agreed the director was in charge of day-to-day club operations and the board was in charge of governance.Johnson credits Burke with putting in place the strongest financial controls he's seen at a nonprofit organization. A board officer must sign off on expenses over $1,000, and all mail must be opened by two club employees. An employee had embezzled money from the organization before Burke joined the board.In the past decade, the organization has increased the number of children it serves from 300 to 3,000, expanded the bike ride fundraiser Burke started from $50,000 to $400,000 and grown its operating budget from $250,000 to $3.5 million.Burke also started the AVID/TOPS student achievement partnership with the Madison School District, raised money for the Allied Drive expansion and established a $1.5 million operating endow-ment. She is the club's top donor."Mary is real big on numbers, real big on data and real big on results," Johnson said. "She's a no-nonsense person to make sure that the people around her feel valued, but there's a sense of direction and a sense of focus."Not a politicianAs secretary of the state's Commerce Department, Burke managed 400 employees and a $221 million budget. Madison economic development director Aaron Olver -- who was Burke's deputy secretary and later Commerce secretary under Doyle -- said his first impression of Burke was she didn't come from the political establishment.She introduced lean manufacturing principles in the department, seeking to reduce waste and improve efficiency. For example, after learning that each office in the department bought its own supplies, she created a central supply depot for everyone to use.Dissatisfied with the lack of employee input in decision-making, Burke created employee labor management councils to help solve problems in the department."Her M.O. is to get the right table of folks together to tackle a problem," Olver said.Like other secretaries, much of Burke's time was spent negotiating economic development loans with private companies. That included a multimillion-dollar package to help reopen a struggling paper mill in Park Falls and build a biofuel refinery to make the company profitable.Last fall, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., which replaced the Commerce Department in 2011, reported that it had lost track of $12.2 million in defaulted loans, including about $5 million from the Park Falls company.Olver described Burke as "so not a politician" because she was never one to think about image or campaign donations or public opinion. At the time, she described herself as an independent but leaned more Democratic by the time she left the job, Olver said."She did not come in thinking about the politics or optics of her decisions," Olver said. "She came in focused on problem-solving and getting results."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wis.) Visit The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wis.) at .wisconsinstatejournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services存倉

Source: Asbury Park Press, N.迷你倉沙田J.Aug. 23--MIDDLETOWN -- Need a heart transplant? It's free if you're a Middletown employee.Catch a nasty cold and want to see the doctor? That's almost free: just a $10 co-pay.Middletown Township's health benefits are so good that its insurance broker joked the coverage would fall under a nonexistent "Double Diamond" rating on the Affordable Care Act's four-tier ranking. (That ranking actually includes Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum coverage.)The township's benefit plan came under scrutiny this week after the Asbury Park Press learned that officials have been reducing hours for part-time workers to avoid offering insurance required when provisions of the health care act kick in.At least a few Middletown residents were incredulous about the $31,000-per-year cost of the township-provided health benefits, so much so that they assumed the cost cited in Wednesday's Asbury Park Press was wrong.It wasn't. The number represents the maximum Middletown would have to pay if an employee opted for family coverage and a number that includes dental care, Township Administrator Anthony Mercantante said.Using the $31,000 figure, it could cost Middletown up to $775,000 to offer health benefits for the 25 employees whose hours were cut.If those employees opted to insure just themselves or, say, just a spouse or just a child, the amount would be lower, Mercantante said.But even if the amount were half of the $775,000 estimate, it would be too much to suddenly add to the township's budget if it didn't have to, he said."It's irresponsible to suddenly decide you are going to spend that much money when there is no revenue to pay for it," he said.As it is now, Middletown, which is self-insured, expects to pays about $9.3 million this year for employee and retiree health bills, about 14 percent of its overall $67.9 million budget. Employee contributions are expected to offset about $520,000 of that cost.The township's costs represent about 18 percent of the municipal tax levy. It costs about $337 for taxpayers who own an average Middletown home worth $375,500.For that cost, employees have no deductible for using doctors in network of QualCare, the firm Middletown uses to handle its health bills.The township pays all of the cost for items like semi-private hospital roo迷你倉價錢s, surgery, emergency room visits (unless they aren't actual emergencies), X-rays and organ transplants, according to the schedule of benefits in Middletown's employee handbook. It does not cover procedures like abortion unless the mother's life is endangered, cosmetic surgery unless the condition is due to an accidental injury, sex changes or obesity unless it is medically necessary for morbid obesity.When a co-pay is required, it's $10.But even if an employee decided to use out-of-network doctors, Middletown employees are required to pay 80 percent of the cost after meeting, in most cases, a $200 deductible for family coverage. Police officers have a $400 out-of-network deductible for family coverage.That would be what's considered high-cost coverage, which had been referred to as "Cadillac coverage" during the health care reform debates, said Gary Claxton, a vice-president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization focusing on the major health care issues."That's not what most people have," he said.The average health care costs in the Northeast is $17,441 for family coverage and $6,117 for single coverage, according to the 2013 survey of employer-sponsored insurance by Kaiser and the Health Research & Educational Trust.That survey shows that employees of large firms have, on average, an $884 deductible for in-network, single coverage, while the average deductible is $1,715 for employees of small firms.On average, workers pay a $23 co-pay to see primary physicians and $35 for specialists, the survey showed.It's not just Middletown that offers better-than-average coverage. Middletown's offerings are comparable to benefits offered in the New Jersey's State Health Benefits Plans. The State Department of Treasury, which administers those plans, was not able to provide cost breakdowns for single and family coverage by the end of business Friday.Asbury Park, which is not cutting back its part-time employee hours to avoid offering health coverage, participates in one of the state benefits plans. Health benefit costs range from $10,281 to cover a single person to $25,702 for family coverage.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 Asbury Park Press (Neptune, N.J.) Visit the Asbury Park Press (Neptune, N.J.) at .app.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉

Source: Journal Star, Peoria, Ill.迷你倉出租Aug. 24--The Sam Harris dry goods store was one of the first places anyone could buy Levis blue jeans in Peoria after the store opened in 1902, and the current owners say it is now one of the last places where shoppers can find the same type of early-era customer service."That's never changed," said Karla Dennhardt, who has owned Sam Harris Uniforms with her husband, Todd, since 1990. "That's always been the same."The business itself has changed drastically over the last 111 years, formerly offering a range of goods that included surplus military clothing and uniforms for all types of public safety personnel and professional services.The core business still includes police and firefighters, as well as healthcare workers, students and anyone looking for custom embroidery or logos.Unlike most modern businesses, however, Sam Harris Uniforms has no online ordering capability. Karla Dennhardt calls that detail a reflection of the business' personal standards."We can't meet the needs of our customers well enough if we don't do it the old-school way," she said.Solomon Harris opened his store in 1910, selling general purpose items and merchandise geared for agriculture work."He switched to Sam because back in the early 20th century there was a lot of prejudice for those of the Jewish faith," Todd Dennhardt said.The first owner operated the business with two of his sons and a long-time employee, Reuben Jacobs. When Solomon died, the business was split between the sons and Jacobs.One of the Harris sons, however, quickly sold his share to Jacobs, and the other son died in 1934, Dennhardt said. Jacobs bought the remaining share at that time and owned the store outright for more than five decades.The same decade that saw Jacobs take over as the sole owner was also the first time the store began to sell police and firefighter uniforms. The store also was one of the first AT&T telephone accounts in the city, with a five-digit telephone number of 3-5961.The decades of Jacobs' ownership saw the store switch locations at least one time, with addresses at 201 W. Second St. and 507 S. Adams St.Todd Dennhardt's family owned a uniform supply store in the Quad Cities and approached Jacobs about buying the store in the late 1980s. He wasn't interested."He worked here until the day he died," Todd Dennhardt said. "In this business, you don't 迷你倉etire, you die in it."Jacobs' family sold the store to Todd Dennhardt's family in 1990, and he took over on Sept. 17 of that year after having less than a week to survey the inventory in the store."Inventory was just kind of anywhere and everywhere," he said. "It was not the same kind of purchasing environment as today. ... I found shoes that were 60 years old."The business moved to its current location on Sheridan Road just north of Main Street in 1992.Todd and Karla Dennhardt bought the business from his family on May 31, 2007, and they redesigned the company logo in 2010.The logo is a throwback to days of old and is prominently displayed on the storefront at 1025 N. Sheridan Road.The company's future is decidedly related to the past.Some of the same products that have made up its core business over several decades continue to be made, among them custom emblems."Our store used to do hand-made emblems, so no two emblems were exactly the same," Karla Dennhardt said.The process today is computer automated, but Sam Harris Uniforms can provide the products in runs that number in the thousands or single digits.Customers won't find overalls, riding outfits or bowling shirts any longer, but nurses can find scrubs and District 150 and some private school students can find all the colors of uniform clothing allowed by their school."You see where we were and where we've come from in this country in the different apparel we've stocked over the years," Karla Dennhardt said.Added Todd Dennhardt: "As we've become a more casual nation, the needs for uniforms change. ... We've had to reinvent ourselves."Sam Harris Uniforms supplies uniforms for schools, public safety, health care, culinary and industrial businesses -- an unusual breadth of offerings in the uniform business, Todd Dennhardt said.The products, however, remain so specific in customization that the business has resisted allowing online ordering. Phone and in-person orders may not be the most convenient, but the personal contact helps make sure the orders are done correctly and builds a rapport with customers."The standard that we operate with is a little bit different," Karla Dennhardt said. "Truthfully, everything goes back to the service we provide."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) Visit the Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) at .PJStar.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存倉

Source: Portland Press Herald, MaineAug.迷你倉出租 24--Gov. Paul LePage sent his fellow Republicans a statement late Friday afternoon apologizing for the recent controversy over comments he has been accused of making about President Obama.The statement, obtained by the Portland Press Herald, begins with LePage saying, "My fellow Republicans, I write to you to apologize for any difficulty that remarks recently reported in the press may have caused you."He goes on to say, "Let me be clear, I do not believe that President Obama dislikes any racial group."LePage makes no other reference to Obama and race in the statement. He does not deny making the comment, and goes on to blame newspapers for the controversy, saying that they have attacked him and mischaracterized his comments.The comments in question were made during a Maine Republican Party fundraiser on Aug. 12, at the home of John and Lisa Fortier of Belgrade, where, according to several people who attended, LePage claimed that President Obama "hates white people."Two Republican lawmakers confirmed to the Portland Press Herald Monday that they heard the governor make the comment.Both said the governor made the comment during informal remarks to about 60 people. They said LePage talked about how Obama could have been the best president ever if he had highlighted his biracial heritage. LePage said the president hasn't done that because he hates white people.The Press Herald was the first to report the remark.Both lawmakers asked that their names be withheld because they are concerned about political retribution. Others who attended the event told the Press Herald that they didn't hear the remark.In Friday's statement to Republicans, LePage wrote English wasn't his first language -- French was -- and he's not a polished speaker.He also wrote, "Newspapers owned by politically motivated and powerful elitists relentlessly attack my every word and often mischaracterize my comments. They highlight negativity and partisan finger-pointing while putting important issues in the background--or they fail to report them at all."The "politically motivated and powerful elitists" in the statement is a reference to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and her husband, financier S. Donald Sussman, a contributor to Democratic and charitable causes. 迷你倉ussman is the majority share owner of MaineToday Media, which owns the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, the Morning Sentinel in Waterville and other media outlets in Maine.His statement comes after he denied making the comments earlier this week.Speaking briefly to reporters at the State House on Wednesday, he said, "No, I never said that, and you guys are all about gossip," according to video from WCSH-TV in Portland.The controversy made headlines across the country during a relatively slow national news week, with Congress on its August holiday. LePage was the subject of a profile in The New York Times, and his comments were discussed repeatedly on national news programs on networks such as CNN and MSNBC.LePage, 64, won a three-way race in 2010 with strong Tea Party support.In The New York Times story, LePage is described as making "startlingly blunt assertions" that "could add up to a major vulnerability" for the governor, who is facing re-election next year.Some of those comments include:--In September 2010, before he was elected, he told a group of fishermen at a forum: "As your governor, you're going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying 'Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.'"--In January 2011, shortly after he was sworn in, he declined an invitation to an event hosted by the NAACP in Portland. When asked what he would tell the group if it questioned his decision, LePage replied, "Tell them to kiss my butt."--In July last year, he compared the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, the Nazi police.--In June of this year, he said Maine Assistant Senate Majority Leader Troy Jackson would be "the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline."In response to LePage's "Vaseline" comments, GOP state Sen. Roger Katz, R-Augusta, wrote a scathing op-ed that appeared in the Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News in late June."As a lifelong, proud Republican who was overjoyed to see a Republican elected back into the Blaine House three years ago, I have one thing to say. I am embarrassed," Katz wrote.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine) Visit the Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine) at .pressherald.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存倉

愛爾蘭一名少女，迷你倉新蒲崗因為被網民批評她看起來太肥，努力瘦身變成病態，嚴重影響健康。　17歲的格蘭妮．賓斯居于首都都柏林，時常把自己的相片上載上網。　因有網民批評她的相片很胖，賓斯便努力減肥，甚至演變成病態，一年內體重由原來的53公斤暴跌至38公斤，身體質量指數僅得14，遠低于18.5至24的正常標準。　醫生警告她，若繼續減肥，會有生命危險。賓斯為了家人，懸崖勒馬，回復正常飲食，目前正在康復中。