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香港文匯報訊 （記者 吳沚芊） 香港酒店業主聯會執行總幹事李漢城形容，迷你倉旺角現有規管旅館業的法例是「三不像」，既沒有清楚分別為酒店及賓館下定義，而消防條例方面又存在灰色地帶，政府在修訂法例時應一視同仁，設立全面的防火及建築物條例，以保障旅客。李漢城又強調，酒店和賓館都有存在價值，但絕對反對任何無牌賓館存在，亦不應容許在住宅大廈經營賓館。上星期北角五洲大廈的3級火警，揭示現行法例之下，旅館只要符合樓宇結構和消防安全等，當局便不能以其他理由拒絕發出牌照，甚至無視大廈公契，民政事務局局長曾德成日前亦就此表示，會考慮對規管旅館業的法例作出檢討。指賓館令大廈成「無掩雞籠」李漢城表示，對局長有誠意去檢討旅館業的法例深感高興。李漢城指，酒店和賓館有共同存在的價值，不反對設在商業大廈或商住大廈低層、而又合乎標準的消防條例和建築物條例、並有牌照的情況下經營的賓館。但他強調，不應容許任何人在消防設施要求較低的住宅大廈經營賓館，除了易生意外，不少住戶和業主立案法團投訴賓館令大廈成了「無掩雞籠」，人流複雜，對住客造成滋擾。李漢城更反對任何無牌賓館存在，建議政府若發現無牌賓館一再經營，應強制封閉賓館，以收阻嚇作用。有賓館「斬件」避消防例規管李漢城透露，消防條例方面亦存在灰色地帶，因230平方米以下的賓館毋須安裝自動噴灑，不少賓館刻意「斬件」來mini storage開消防條例的規管，李漢城提醒，政府在修訂法例時應一視同仁，設立全面的防火及建築物條例，讓入住賓館或酒店的旅客得到同樣保障。李漢城又指，現有規管旅館業的法例沒有清楚分別為酒店及賓館下定義，因酒店有24小時的管理、消防、保安服務，故即使3星級酒店與一些賓館價錢相近，性質也大不相同。酒店房間足夠迎訪港客對於外界指，因酒店業未能提供足夠房間來應付龐大的訪港旅客量，以致無牌賓館應運而生，李漢城解釋，香港酒店的平均入住率只有近86%，以2012年為例，旅遊發展局公佈訪港旅客有逾4,800萬人次，但當中52%皆不在香港過夜，當中包括水貨客、坐直通車來回購物或到主題公園的遊客、以香港作中轉站到珠三角的海外旅客等，他們對酒店房間並無需求。而剩下的近2,400萬留港過夜的旅客中，亦有約39%是住在親友家、或公寓賓館中，故此香港酒店能提供足夠房間應付訪港旅客的需求。李漢城又指，未來高鐵開通、港珠澳大橋落成，預料訪港旅客會大幅增長，故投資者亦對香港旅遊業有信心，投放資金提供更多酒店房間，以滿足不斷增長的訪港旅客量。李漢城又建議，香港不單要維持旅客喜歡來港購物的優勢，更可向其他方面發展，如醫療旅遊等；另外，近年內地學生來港爭相報考國際公開試，如托福試（TOEFL）或學術評估測試（SAT），政府亦應把握當中的商機，促使本港旅遊業有進一步發展。迷你倉

NOVATO, Calif.mini storage, Jan. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- SuperTales, Inc., a company started by movie, technology, and videogame industry veterans, has released MashFX(TM) and what it believes is the first App that allows users to integrate real time Hollywood style visual effects and 3D characters in videos taken on smartphones and tablets.(Photo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140106/MN40648)MashFX allows smartphone users to create visual effects just like a Hollywood director can but without the big movie budget.MashFX is currently available for free in the Apple App Store found here: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=696864790&mt=8"With our new MashFX App any person with a compatible smartphone or tablet can bring their imagination to life by inserting into video in real time 3D characters and visual effects and seconds later sharing the results with friends across the globe - this is Hollywood magic for the masses," said CEO, Euan Macdonald."We wanted to make Hollywood style visual effects available to a large population of smartphone users across the globe to democratize the movie making process. Our first step in that effort was to release the MashFX App for free and watch how people use it and to evolve it so one day people will be making beautiful and creative movies with nothing more than a device that fits in your pocket," said co-founder and Director, Ira P. Rothken.MashFX App Details:-- Chose from a range of free lenses and filters -- Add your favorite 3D characters (dragons now, robots, and dinosaurs coming soon) -- Select which visual effects to use such 儲存s fireballs -- Start your video camera and control the action - it's as easy as point and shoot -- Once you are ready, instantly share with your friends and family -- Post to your favorite social sites including Google's YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter -- Watch videos that other people have created and shared -- MashFX currently supports Apple iPhone 3GS and higher and will soon be available on Google Android devicesSuperTales is currently working with third parties to license characters from books, games, television, and movies to include in future versions of the MashFX App.About SuperTales, Inc.SuperTales, Inc. the creator of MashFX the real time visual effects App, is a San Francisco Bay Area based digital entertainment company leveraging new technologies to create groundbreaking entertainment. Drawing upon our Disney, Electronic Arts, LucasFilm, Pixar and Industrial Light and Magic heritage, our team develops engaging apps that combine digital content, augmented reality technologies, and visual effects in incredible ways. MashFX is a trademark of SuperTales, Inc.For more information visit .mashfx.comFollow us on twitter at .twitter.com/MashFXAppBecome a fan on Facebook at .Facebook.com/mashfxTo view this video on YouTube, please visit: .youtube.com/watch?v=enkUxPJWtHQMedia Contact: Ira Rothken, SuperTales, Inc., 415-858-0260, ira@supertalesinc.comNews distributed by PR Newswire iReach: https://ireach.prnewswire.comVideo: .youtube.com/watch?v=enkUxPJWtHQPhoto: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140106/MN40648PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.comSuperTales, Inc.迷你倉

Source: The Philadelphia InquirerJan.迷你倉 04--Howard Mudd was trying to think of the free-agent tackle, the one the Eagles were forced to sign after Jason Peters ruptured his Achilles tendon before the 2012 season."The guy from Buffalo . . . Demetress Bell," Mudd finally recalled. "Oops, that didn't work out."The former Eagles offensive line coach, now retired, was going through some of the combinations of linemen he was forced to insert into the lineup after four (!) of five starters were injured last season.Mudd wasn't complaining. He didn't make a peep last season about the hand he was dealt. But the Eagles' injury-marred 2012 stands in sharp contrast to this season, when all five of the linemen started every regular-season game.And Jason Peters, Evan Mathis, Jason Kelce, Todd Herremans, and Lane Johnson are slated to start once again when the Eagles host the Saints in the first round of the playoffs on Saturday night.Their health and the near-seamless returns of Peters and Kelce from major injuries have been one of the main reasons why Chip Kelly was able to turn last season's 4-12 misery into a 10-6, NFC East-winning success.And Mudd, who coached four of those five for two seasons and was instrumental in their development -- especially Mathis and Kelce -- has been like the proud papa, watching most of the Eagles' games from his retirement home in Leisure World, Ariz."Personally, I'm very proud because they learned how to play with each other," Mudd said during a telephone interview this week. "They know each other. I don't know about the new guy [Johnson]. He looks like he's doing fine. But all those guys know each other so well, and they respect one another, and they play very well together."Mudd still texts back and forth with the four. The messages are mostly words of encouragement and congratulations. He doesn't want to step on new Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland's toes.But while Mudd refused to take any credit for the line's impressive play, it's hard not to look at the unit and think what may have been had he not emphasized acquiring athletic linemen and introduced an aggressive blocking technique.Kelly has never said it, but the fact that the Eagles had linemen that were ideally suited to his spread offense had to be a bonus when he took the coaching job. The zone-combination schemes, the space blocking, and the pulling linemen are tailored to Mudd's prototype lineman."He's asking them to do the same stuff I was asking them to do when I got there," Mudd said of Kelly. "And that's the way the west was won as far as I'm concerned. In Indianapolis we had four athletic guys. That's what I was used to. When I got there, we had these pieces."'Be an athlete'Looking back, it is remarkable how much Mudd turned over the line after he arrived in 2011 -- lured out of his first retirement by Andy Reid after more than a decade of producing some of the NFL's best units with the Colts.By the start of the season, left tackle Jason Peters was the only remaining starter still at his same spot from the previous season. Todd Herremans had been moved from left guard to right tackle because Winston Justice was slow to recover from a knee injury, and fill-ins Ryan Harris and King Dunlap didn't pan out.Mathis, signed as a free agent after six journeyman years, arrived that summer amid the Dream Team hysteria virtually unnoticed. But Eagles general manager Howie Roseman and his staff had been plowing through tape looking for Mudd-type linemen.Mathis had previously played in Cincinnati, and Ryan Grigson, then the Eagles director of player personnel, had a close relationship with Bengals offensive line coach Paul Alexander. Grigson, now the Colts GM, was drafted by the Bengals in 1995, and Alexander was his first position coach."Ryan Grigson brought in Evan Mathis," Mudd said. "He told me, 'You're going to like this guy.' I said, 'OK.' He knew what I was about."Mathis, after being misused at various stops, arrived at Eagles camp in tip-top shape. But he still had tendencies that Mudd said they would butt heads over."You look at him and you see this freaky guy that could lift the whole side of the building -- a weight-lifter-type guy," Mudd said. "Not a body builder. Yeah, he likes to look good, too, but here's this real powerful man that could muscle people around. The struggle that he had with me was, 'I don't want you to be a power guy. I want you to be an athlete.' "Mudd wanted Mathis to use his quickness and his ability to change direction as leverage. It didn't take long for Mumini storaged's methods to work, and when Herremans was shifted to tackle, Mathis seamlessly stepped into left guard."I always wish I would have had him way before I got him," Mudd said. "He's exceptional at the nonphysical things. He's really smart. He questions everything. That didn't bother me. I didn't give a [shoot]. If I don't have an answer for it . . . then what I'm telling you must not have a real good foundation for it."Despite being snubbed by the Pro Bowl, Mathis was essentially rewarded for three years of all-pro level play when he was selected to the Associated Press' first team on Friday."I'll always give him tons of credit for teaching me so much new information at that point in my career," Mathis said of Mudd.It's safe to say Kelce wouldn't have been drafted by the Eagles if it weren't for Mudd. The team got him in the sixth round out of Cincinnati, pretty much where many draft analysts had him pegged."His size -- the conventional scouting fraternity was like he's a little small, and this, that, and the other stuff," Mudd said. "And I just watched his film. I didn't give a [shoot]. I just liked him."The Eagles brought Kelce in for a predraft interview."I was very prejudiced when he walked into the building," Mudd said. "He would have had to do something really silly for us not to like him. . . . But he didn't."Despite the NFL lockout that wiped out spring practices, Mudd said he had Kelce "earmarked" to start not long after training camp had started, even though longtime starter Jamaal Jackson was still on the roster."It was right after the third practice, and Howard pulled me aside and was like, 'You want to play this year?' And I was like, 'Yeah, I want to play this year,' " Kelce said. "And he was like, 'Well, just keep learning the offense. Keep working like you're working and just know there are a lot of people excited with what you're doing.' "Kelce won the job and played all 16 games as a rookie. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in the second game of last season, but returned and had what many considered to be a Pro Bowl-caliber third season.'Will to be dominant'Peters, despite having to return from two Achilles tendon injuries, was voted to his sixth Pro Bowl last week and his third all-pro team. Mudd said the left tackle is on the path to greater achievements."I keep saying, 'HOF,' to him," Mudd said. "The kind of people that belong in the Hall of Fame are the ones that dominate their position in their time, and he's done that."Peters had already been to four Pro Bowls when Mudd arrived, but he had arguably his best season with Mudd as his coach."He has the will to be dominant," Mudd said. "It isn't just, 'I'm a good athlete, I'm a freak,' and all that stuff. It's, 'I want to kick your [butt].' And he sets out to do that every play if he can."Johnson came with the reputation of being a "freak" athletically. Mudd agreed that the rookie right tackle would have thrived working in his blocking system."After the draft, Howie Roseman sent me a DVD, [and] said: 'Hey, this is the guy we drafted. You'd really like this guy,' " Mudd said. "At the beginning of the year, of course he's a rookie, and he's going to struggle with certain things. I've just watched him grow through the whole year."Not all of the linemen associated with Mudd panned out. Guard Danny Watkins, selected first in the 2011 draft -- five rounds ahead of Kelce -- struggled during his two seasons and was released by Kelly in August."Very disappointed with the outcome, not with them getting rid of him," Mudd said. "I knew that was going to happen. To look at the potential that was there and then what actually transpired were two totally different things. There was some kind of disconnect psychologically because it had nothing to do with the physical."Watkins, after he recovered from an ankle injury, never got back in the lineup last season. By the end of the year, the starting group consisted of center Dallas Reynolds, tackles King Dunlap and Dennis Kelly, and guards Jake Scott and Mathis."We were always shuffling people around; 'This guy's got to play here, and that guy's got to play over there,' " Mudd said. "When Watkins got hurt we put big, old Dennis Kelly in at guard. Then we bring Jake Scott in off the street. And then we got better!"I'm just glad they didn't have to go through that this year."___jmclane@phillynews.com@Jeff_McLaneCopyright: ___ (c)2014 The Philadelphia Inquirer Visit The Philadelphia Inquirer at .philly.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage

Source: York Daily Record, Pa.迷你倉Jan. 06--A small collective of yoga teachers in York County decided to add a little extra fluidity to their practices by starting a Pop-Up Yoga arm in York."We are bringing yoga to the people," said Jackie Dahlheimer, one of the group's teachers. "Creating a moving community."Pop-up Yoga refers to holding an organized class that is distinguished by its setting in that the principal use of the space is unrelated to yoga."There is nothing wrong with practicing in a studio," Dahlheimer said. "It's safe. But it's powerful to just show up and make a yoga studio."The Pop-Up Yoga movement came to the Central Pennsylvania area first in Lancaster County.Seeing that success, Dahlheimer, along with five other instructors, decided to hold a few classes in York to see if they would catch on.Four months into the experiment, the group is gaining momentum, Dahlheimer said."The classes are still small," she said. "People are still trying to find us."Currently, the group hosts about seven classes, five days a week, with locations around York, including restaurants, bars, art galleries and dance studios."We are always looking for suggestions or recommendations for other spots," Dahlheimer said.And the collective is hoping to expand to locat迷你倉將軍澳ons throughout the county.Recently, the group met with the Pop-Up Yoga Lancaster folks for a session on the grounds of Lauxmont Farms in Lower Windsor Township.For a couple of months this fall, a majority of classes were held in a temporary art gallery next to the Park Street Pantry on Beaver St. in York.The gallery was run by artist Carmen Walsh, who welcomed the yoga practice to her space."I thought it would be nice to offer the space," Walsh said. "I figured it might encourage people who might not normally come in."Although Walsh was not been in the gallery long enough to know the impact of Pop-Up Yoga, she said she would recommend the idea to other business owners."People will come in for the yoga who might not know they like your products, or you're in a part of town they don't normally come to," she said.And practicing in an art gallery adds to the beauty of the practice, Dahlheimer said."It gives you a way to walk into a building you've never been in and feel welcome," she said.Check popupyogayork.com for schedules and location details.Classes are a $10 donation.You can also find them on Facebook.Copyright: ___ (c)2014 York Daily Record (York, Pa.) Visit York Daily Record (York, Pa.) at .ydr.com Distributed by MCT Information Services倉

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南方日報訊 （記者/魏金鋒）隨著春節的臨近，mini storage春運搶票巔峰正式來臨，從6日開始，車站窗口、代售點、自助售票機也開始發售小年當天火車票，至此今年春運的搶票大戰也進入白熱化階段。記者從鐵路部門瞭解到，此次搶票高峰將一直持續到本周六（1月11日），本周也因此被譽為“搶票周”。清遠快捷票務公司工作人員表示，代售點只能預售18天車票，目前可以買23日左右的車票，但今年買票比往年更緊張，其中去四川成都、達州，重慶秀山，江蘇南通，山東濟南以及湖南等地的車票在代售點幾乎無票可售，“有些車次的車票我們見都沒見到過。”記者體驗春運“搶票大戰”後發現春運期間清遠開往熱門方向的臥鋪車票基本在開售2分鐘之內就能被搶購一空，由此可見，春運“一票難求”的情況仍未緩解，春節期間準備乘坐火車回家過年的旅客還應做足準備工作。6日起可搶除夕當天臨客票據悉，今年春運期間，圖定旅客列車互聯網（.12306.cn）、電話訂票（95105105）預售期為20天，車站窗口、代售點、自動售票機預售期為18天。臨客車票網絡、電話預售期為25天，窗口、代售點等為23天，照此計算，今日，臨客最遠可以買到臘月三十（本月30日）的車票。1月8日至10日將可以購買春運最高峰日臘月二十七、臘月二十八和臘月二十九3天的火車票。1月11日起，則可以通過網絡、電話購買年臘月三十的火車票。鐵路部門工作人員介紹，由於今年春節放假安排調整為正月初一至初七，除夕不再放假，導致往年集中在臘月二十九提前返家的多數中短途上班族，會選擇在除夕當天坐火車回家，因此預計除夕當天中短途車票會非常緊張，也因此提醒中短途旅客不妨提前購票以免耽誤行程。根據往年的經驗，臘月二十三到除夕是在外務工人員的返鄉高峰期，因此這幾天的車票也最為搶手。來自山東濟寧的張先生一家已經在清遠打拼五個年頭了，每年的春運搶票都被張先生稱之為“戰場”。由於23日小年當天的車票沒能搶到，張先生就想上代售點碰碰運氣，可惜還是掃興而歸，“實在沒辦法就坐儲存機了，飛機票不會也這麼難買吧。”電話訂票成功率相對較高業內人士提醒，普通旅客尤其是不太熟悉網絡的外來務工人員，在訂票高峰期間使用電話訂票相對更加保險。記者瞭解到，電話訂票使用座機成功率會更高，無論從通話質量的穩定性，還是撥打的難易程度考慮，座機都優于手機。但需要提醒廣大旅客的是，使用電話搶票，最好提前熟悉瞭解電話訂票的整個流程，在撥打電話時不需等系統播完所有內容就可以提前按下相應的數字鍵，以此來節約時間，並提高訂票的成功率。據鐵路部門相關工作人員介紹，搶票大戰預計將持續至本周末，由於網絡、電話、手機客戶端車票預售期比火車站窗口早2天，因此建議廣大旅客提前多多熟悉相關購票流程，做足準備工作，並優先使用網絡、電話和手機客戶端購票。■提醒假身份證購票不能換票、退票而針對近日有報道指出的部分黃牛用虛假身份證號通過12306網站直接購票囤票，找到買家後退票回購轉賣的現象，12306網站表示，12306網站實行購票實名制，旅客購票必須填寫有效的乘車人身份信息，如使用假身份證號購買車票，在車站窗口、鐵路客票代售點、自動售取票機等均不能辦理換票、退票手續。對通過12306網站退回的車票，12306網站均採取計算機隨機處理的方式進行處理，系統會根據距離車票開車時間的遠近，在確保每一張車票都有充足時間再次售出的前提下，自動隨機地將退回的車票再次放出，供旅客購買。因此鐵路部門提醒廣大旅客，今後7天左右的時間是春運售票的最高峰期，旅客購票應使用本人有效身份證件，通過正規渠道和到正規售票場所購票，特別注意不要向他人泄露身份信息，不從票販手中購票，以免上當受騙，對各種形式的倒票行為，旅客一經發現可向鐵路警方舉報。清遠交通部門表示，春運期間，清遠各車站將繼續加強實名制車票核驗工作，請廣大旅客注意“票、證、人”的一致性，以免耽誤旅行。圖片說明:記者體驗春運“搶票大戰”，春運期間清遠開往熱門方向的臥鋪車票開售2分鐘之內就能被搶購一空。 南方日報記者 曾亮超 攝迷你倉

After decades of setbacks, animal welfare groups convince the government to back a neuter and release programme for strays, writes Elaine YauEvery Saturday, volunteers fan out across the hills around Lion Rock in Wong Tai Sin to capture stray dogs, which are neutered before being released back into the woods.self storage The non-profit-making Veterinary Service Society has performed the procedure on 300 of an estimated 500 stray dogs in the area since it started the scheme in 2009.Society chairman and veterinarian Mark Mak Chi-ho reckons the programme, which recruited about 200 volunteers, has helped keep the population of strays around Lion Rock under control.“Wong Tai Sin District Council has received fewer complaints from residents regarding feral dogs; puppies found in the hills are also adopted by pet owners,” Mak says.Yet despite its success, similar Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate and Release (TNVR) programmes for stray dogs have run into severe obstacles in other districts. Animal welfare activists say although schemes to spay cats operate without a hitch, those for canines have failed to take off because of government red tape and community objections.Remarkably, there has yet to be a government-supported TNVR campaign for dogs, says Fiona Woodhouse, deputy director of welfare of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).The SPCA introduced TNVR to Hong Kong in the ’90s because residents generally did not adopt abandoned pets, Woodhouse says. “There’s a high rate of animals being surrendered or caught for stray control. Lots of these animals end up being killed.”Its scheme, which began with cats, was formalised in 2000 and now neuters 6,000 felines every year.Since then, the SPCA had been lobbying the government to support a similar scheme for feral dogs, Woodhouse says, since dogs are more of an issue due to their larger size.But the closest the group got to realising this goal was a proposed trial in 2012. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) identified potential sites in Yuen Long, Sai Kung and Lamma Island for a three-year trial, with each spot targeting around 30 dogs. But the scheme, developed in collaboration with the SPCA and the Society for Abandoned Animals (SAA), eventually fell through because it failed to gain support from the district councils.Mak dismisses the 2012 trial as a little more than sop from officials to appease animal welfare groups.His organisation held a consultation in Sai Kung after it learned that the government might conduct a pilot scheme in the area. But when residents were asked whether they supported the campaign, most said they had never heard of it, Mak says. “Without an education campaign introducing what the programme is about and its benefits, the programme, of course, would not pass through district council as district councillors don’t want to create troubles.“Before we conducted the Lion Rock campaign, we visited each of the over 40 district councillors in Wong Tai Sin and explained to them what it was all about. They understood that the programme could benefit residents as there would be fewer complaints regarding nuisance from feral dogs. In the end, the Wong Tai Sin District Council gave unanimous support to the programme.”In Yuen Long, district councillor Zachary Wong Wai-yin says the AFCD has been half-hearted in getting the neutering scheme off the ground, suggesting that some officials found it more expedient to kill strays instead.“Yuen Long district council gave the green light to TNVR campaign as early as 2007 because stray dogs pose a severe problem for us. We have lots of construction sites in the district. When construction companies start work on a site, they bring in lots of dogs as guards. But when they leave after the works are completed, the dogs are abandoned. Many guard dogs are also ditched after warehouse leases expire. So Yuen Long is teeming with stray dogs.”Existing legislation, in particular the Rabies Ordinance, also presents a barrier to volunteers conducting dog neutering campaigns, says Elaine Siu, a lawyer and co-chair of advocacy group STOP Save HK’s Cats and Dogs.The ordinance requires a迷你倉l dogs over five months old to be vaccinated, licensed and microchipped. The animals must also be put on a leash or other form of control when in public spaces, and offenders face a HK$10,000 fine.“When a volunteer takes a stray dog to be microchipped and desexed, the person must register his name with the veterinary clinic, with the microchip identifying him as the owner. After the dog is released, the volunteer is liable for any incidents involving the animal, such as capture by AFCD officers or biting passers-by,” Siu says.“It’s ridiculous for the government to interpret the law in a way that equates the act of micro-chipping with legal ownership. The act of taking temporary possession of a dog for the purposes of examination, rabies vaccination and desexing should not make the volunteer become the owner of the animal.”Mak, who opened the first clinic to provide free neutering for strays in March, reckons he has, technically, been in breach of this law every day since setting up the non-profit Veterinary Service Society in 2006.Because all dogs must be kept under some kind of control in public spaces, he says, the society is contravening the law whenever it releases strays back to their old haunts after desexing.The issue of linking microchipping with ownership has dogged animal charities that promote neutering schemes for the past decade, says Fan Wan-ching, chief executive officer of the SAA.“Eighty per cent of pets are microchipped in Hong Kong. If the pet bites people on the street, the victim can seek compensation from the owner. But if a neutered stray attacks, the volunteers and the NGO can be liable for prosecution under the current law. NGOs cannot bear such potential cost.”Currently, the government does not have a formal policy on controlling the population of strays. The AFCD sends officials to capture stray animals only after receiving complaints from the public. The strays are typically kept for four days but are put down if unclaimed after that period.AFCD figures show that 19,656 dogs were killed between 2010 and 2012, compared to 7,419 cats. The effort to put down strays cost about HK$1.3 million annually, a spokesman says.In the long term, Woodhouse argues, it’s more economical for the government to adopt a neutering programme than kill strays. “I don’t think the government system is economically sustainable. To stabilise the feral population, you need to trap and kill 50 per cent [of the dogs]. We are not advocating a higher catch and kill rate – it’s a figure often quoted in scientific papers. And you need to do it every year. If the government just acts after complaints, it won’t get anywhere near that level required for stabilising population,” she says.“The rate for neutering to attain a stable population can be as low as 35 per cent. And for TNVR, much of the work is done by volunteers who are motivated to do something, so the direct cost to taxpayer can be significantly reduced.”But the issue goes beyond economics, Woodhouse adds.“We shouldn’t just see it from the perspective of population control. We need to look at the general welfare of the animals. Humane and non-lethal TNVR programmes can lead to less suffering.”Citing the SPCA’s cat colony programme, Woodhouse says it has had a big impact in stemming the cycle of disease and hunger when street cats produce litters of kittens.“When we see cats on the street now, they are healthier and there are not so many sick cats any more. We also see fewer kittens come in and a drop in cat euthanasia rate as well. [With greater awareness] the desex rate for pet cats also jumped from around 52 per cent in 2005 to around 72 per cent in 2010.”Now, after decades of lobbying from NGOs, the first government-backed TNVR campaign is set to finally get off the ground. Barring any last-minute objections from residents, a three-year trial in collaboration with the SAA and SPCA will start in Yuen Long and Cheung Chau this year.A department spokesman says both groups will be given exemptions under the rabies ordinance during this period – news that should undoubtedly bring sighs of relief to animal lovers across the city.elaine.yau@scmp.com迷你倉將軍澳

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網家（8044）集團旗下露天拍賣搶冬季商機，迷利倉打出「低溫行銷」，昨（6）日宣布在業界首推「溫度購物節」，聯合旗下賣家依每日溫度推出折扣。法人估，露天去年獲利亮眼，有望貢獻集團每股純益1元，今年也有望維持成長動能。露天拍賣是網家集團旗下三大電子商務平台之一，以C2C拍賣業務為主，雖因獲利模式是抽取成交手續費，在集團中營收占比不高，但獲利持續攀升，近年成集團中獲利貢獻最多的小金雞。根迷你倉網路家庭財務報表，露天去年前三季獲利約9,429萬元，年增約三成，貢獻網家獲利達6,129萬元。去年第4季是旺季，獲利推估不低於第3季，因此全年貢獻獲利有望近億元，去年貢獻集團每股純益將達1元以上。露天拍賣行銷經理蔣成偉表示，今年天氣較早，保暖相關商品業績暴衝，露天緊急動員站上大型賣家推出「露天溫度購物節」活動，每天再依當日中央氣象局公布之台北市最低溫預報，彈性調整促銷商品折扣。自存倉

Source: The Blade, Toledo, OhioJan.儲存 05--Many of the complaints I hear about journalism have to do with supposed "bias" in how news stories are covered.Readers often think that reporters have a political or personal agenda in how they put together and write their stories. Most, though far from all, of those complaining think they detect "liberal" bias.That is likely because The Blade, which is officially an independent newspaper, often takes editorial positions perceived as being "liberal" on its editorial page, as in the newspaper's endorsements of President Obama, for example.Once in a while, someone will complain that the newspaper is unfairly slanted to the right, usually on local labor issues.The fact is that while columnists and editorial writers do have an agenda, most reporters do not -- except for finding out interesting and significant things and telling the world about them.That doesn't mean that there has never been a story in this newspaper that hasn't been improperly slanted to some degree.But after reading The Blade closely since I became ombudsman in 1998, I feel safe in saying that I have seen almost no political bias in the news columns whatsoever.What I do often find is that, much of the time, many readers tend to see stories through the influence of their own ideologies. Sometimes, when reviewing their complaints, I have almost wondered if they and I are reading the same article.For example, reader Joe O'Leary of Whitehouse complained about a story Blade staff writer Marlene Harris-Taylor wrote about the Affordable Care Act. Mr. O'Leary felt the story was "most misleading" and wondered "bad reporting and editing or bias?"The story in question, published on Dec. 21, ran inside the newspaper under the headline "Monday deadline looms for health insurance sign-up." I read it intently several times.The story, in fact, had no political point of view whatsoever. It began: "Monday is the deadline for the uninsured to enroll in a plan through the federal HealthCare.gov Web site for coverage to begin Jan 1, when health insurance coverage becomes mandatory for most Americans, although uninsured people can avoid a tax penalty if they enroll in an insurance plan by March 31."From there, it went on to tell how many people had signed up already, how they can get help signing up if they choose, and what they could expect to pay for different levels of coverage.This was standard information of the type I wish every newspaper supplied its readers. As someone who teaches journalism, I wouldn't say the story was perfect.Parts of it could have been better organized, and that first sentence was way too long. But I was genuinely puzzled.What bias?It turns out Mr. O'Leary apparently is a diehard opponent of President Obama's health insurance plan and thought the Dec. 21 story should have covered things he doesn't like about it, including "possible government subsidies."Well, those are legitimate issues that have been written about many times before. But the fact is that it is the law of the land, has been passed by Congress, and upheld by迷你倉the U.S. Supreme Court.And this is just a story informing readers how signing up for it works. I have no idea how Ms. Harris-Taylor feels politically about "Obamacare" and can't tell from this story.Which means she has done a completely professional job. That doesn't mean that stories are always "objective." Actually, that's one term I wish we would drop from our vocabulary.Reporters, editors, and readers make value judgments every day about what is in the paper. They have to do that.You might, on any given day, see a lot of space devoted to a front-page story on a car crash that kills three people, while a bus accident killing 40 in Mexico gets one paragraph inside the paper.Does that mean the paper sees Mexican lives as less valuable than those of Toledoans? Not at all. But the newspaper serves this region -- and the deaths of local folks are likely of more concern here.You certainly can disagree with the editors' priorities. I sometimes do myself. But those putting out the news are trying to do the best job they can to get that news, make sense of it, and put it in proportion every day, with limited space and time.I think the wonder is that they do it as well as they do.-- Nobody likes being edited. Dennis Kraynak of Perrysburg complained about a letter to the editor he wrote complaining that Buckeye CableSystem was no longer carrying WNWO, Channel 24.The newspaper ran his letter, but he complained that his last line was omitted, in which after he said he wanted the channel back, he said, "Otherwise, it may be Time [Warner] for a change."Your ombudsman is of two minds about this.On one hand, as the newspaper normally takes pains to make clear, The Blade and Buckeye CableSystem have the same owner, Block Communications Inc. If the letter was edited to remove a reference to a potential competitor, Time Warner cable, that would be ethically dubious. On the other hand, I thought Mr. Kraynak's attempt at a cute pun was more confusing than anything else.The main point of his letter was to demand Buckeye reinstate WNWO, and I think leaving out the last sentence actually made his main point more clear. The news sections of The Blade, incidentally, have fully covered the Buckeye/WNWO controversy.Anyone who has a concern about fairness or accuracy in The Blade is invited to write me, c/o The Blade; 541 N. Superior St., Toledo, 43660, or at my Detroit office: 563 Manoogian Hall, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202; call me at 1-888-746-8610; or email me at OMBLADE@aol.com. I cannot promise to address every question in the newspaper, but I do promise that everyone who contacts me with a serious question will get a personal reply. Reminder, however: If you don't leave me an email address or a phone number, I have no way to get in touch with you.Jack Lessenberry is a member of the journalism faculty at Wayne State University in Detroit and a former national editor of The Blade.Contact him at:Copyright: ___ (c)2014 The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) Visit The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) at .toledoblade.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesself storage

陸客來台自由行去年人數突破50萬人次，迷你倉將軍澳較2012年成長兩倍多，觀光小兩會（我方為台旅會、大陸為海旅會）預定農曆春節過後協商會面時間，計畫再增加自由行的城市，原則上有直航班機的城市都在開放之列，最快今年上半年就可成行。據了解，新增自由行的大陸城市，以東北的哈爾濱、大連，山西的太原，江西南昌，江蘇徐州、鹽城、無錫，浙江溫州，甘肅蘭州等經濟實力與消費能力都相當強的九大城市，呼聲最高。官員說，目前兩岸直航的城市計有54個，但開放自由行的城市包括上海、北京、深圳等僅26個，我方認為有直航班機的城市，交通便利性極高，且很多人口多達六、七百萬，其經濟實力、消費能力都相當強，這類的城市應可解禁。官員表示，開放陸客來台自由行迄今已兩年半，來台人數持續成長，2012年有19餘萬人次，去年則突破50萬人次，大幅成長兩倍多，目前每天申倉入台證有3,000餘件（每天審核總量為4,380件），平均每天來台人數為1,900人，預期再增加自由行城市後，來台旅客量也會再增加。相關官員透露，去年12月觀光小兩會代表碰面時，雙方曾談到持續開放陸客來台自由行的城市，大陸認為開放自由行有助於兩岸人民的交流與了解，對此持正面態度，且很多大陸二、三線城市也希望列入自由行城市名單，因此，雙方計畫今年上半年協商時敲定新增城市。交通部官員認為，現在來台自由行陸客人數尚未達上限，但若平均每天來台人數達到2,500人，有必要思考進一步放寬人數限制，不過，須與國安單位、陸委會、內政部移民署等單位討論。據指出，為讓自由行陸客有多元的遊程可選擇，交通部觀光局除向陸客大力推薦「台灣觀光巴士」和「台灣好行」的旅遊路線外，也推薦台灣民眾喜歡旅遊的行程，並介紹具文創、藝術和地方特色的行程。24小時迷你倉

Newcastle hailed as a model for other cities facing industrial changeFIFTEEN years ago, the Australian coastal city of Newcastle, just north of Sydney, faced a grim and uncertain future as its once thriving steel industry came to an end.迷你倉出租For a city that had long been known as "the steel city", the closure of its BHP steelworks marked the end of an industry which had once employed 13,000 people. The BHP plant opened in 1915 and employed generations of steelworkers before winding down operations in 1999 as new technologies made the plant uncompetitive.But the city has not looked back.In a tale of urban recovery that is proving to be a model for other cities facing large-scale industrial change, the greater city of 550,000 people has transformed from a largely working- class city to one focused on education, health care and tourism.In recent weeks, as Australia's biggest carmaker, Holden, announced it was closing its plants in Melbourne and Adelaide, Newcastle has been cited as an inspiration by everyone from the state Premier of New South Wales, Mr Barry O'Farrell, to the Prime Minister, Mr Tony Abbott.Over the past decade, property prices in Newcastle have surged, tourists have flooded in, prize-winning architects have helped to redesign the waterfront and the city's university has expanded. In 2011, Newcastle even ranked in the world's top 10 cities to visit in a list compiled by the travel guide publisher Lonely Planet.A former lord mayor, Mr John Tate, who retired in 2012 and ran the city during the steelworks closure, said he had strong memories of the "deafening silence" of the plant on the day it closed.He said journalists had asked him, "Is this the end of Newcastle?", to which he replied, "No, this city has a future.""The transformation has been dramatic - it opened up new opportunities and new horizons," he told The Straits Times."It caused us to think beyond BHP and made us work harder as a community... We have gone from a navy-blue singlet workforce to a white-collar and trades workforce."On the city's waterfront, a stretch of abandoned former rail yards has been converted into the Honeysuckle development that features hotels, apartments, restaurants and bars. New hotels continue to go up in the inner city and along the beachfront.Mr Tate said the rejuvenation depended on close cooperation with BHP, which assisted with the retraining of workers and kept the authorities informed as its operations wound down gr迷你倉dually throughout the 1980s and 1990s.Tourism also benefited from improved air quality around the harbour as the plant closed, and from the city's proximity to the nearby wine region of the Hunter Valley, he said."As a community, we knew it was coming," he said."When the workers walked out of the gate, you could see in their faces there was apprehension but there was confidence... I always said that tourism was our great opportunity."But the revival and retraining of workers also depended on a close working relationship between then prime minister John Howard and the unions - a group which he usually opposed. The federal and state governments contributed to a taskforce to promote the local economy and put more than A$10 million (S$11.3 million) into a fund to kick-start job-creating opportunities.The University of Newcastle is now the highest-ranked Australian university outside a capital city and is expanding its campus. It has a campus in Singapore, where it began operating in 2002. The airport has gone from being a "tin shed" one to a large commercial hub, with passenger numbers increasing from 214,000 in 2003 to almost 1.2 million in 2012. The region's mines have benefited from increased coal prices and the port is one of the world's biggest coal terminals.Unemployment levels there dropped from 7.3 per cent in 2006 to 5.4 per cent last September - even as Australia's unemployment rose during the same period from 5.2 per cent to 5.7 per cent.A Newcastle-based commentator, Mr Ian Kirkwood, said last month that the BHP closure "turned out to be a good thing"."The economy didn't wither or collapse, it quickly grew and diversified," he wrote in The Newcastle Herald. "With the belching smoke... no longer polluting the atmosphere, the skies were suddenly, and literally, brighter."Newcastle's recovery is now seen as a model for other cities facing similar fates.Last year, the city of Geelong, near Melbourne, turned to "the Newcastle experience" as it began to prepare for the closure of a Ford car plant involving the loss of 1,200 jobs.Last month, Mr Abbott cited Newcastle's post-BHP rejuvenation as a model for Melbourne and Adelaide, the two cities which will lose jobs as a result of carmaker Holden's decision to stop manufacturing in Australia from 2017."They will not go from one job to no job," he told ABC Radio last month, referring to Holden's workers. "They will go from one job to a new job."jonathanmpearlman@gmail.commini storage