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【本報消息】文化局、書畫藝術聯誼會合辦的“燈謎會”，迷你倉昨起一連兩日於鄭家大屋舉行。在各式各樣的中式燈籠點綴下，配搭應景詩詞及以本澳為題材的燈謎，令古色古香的鄭家大屋倍添詩意，吸引不少居民和遊客到場參與。數百澳門燈謎活動昨日下午三至五時舉行，猜中燈謎者獲贈燈籠。駐場書法家則應居民要求，在燈籠上題詞。書畫藝術聯誼會花了一個多月，創作數百個以本澳題材為主的燈謎，如“負責掌嘴的衙差”（司打口）、“渠到盡頭無去路”（水坑尾）、“品字形的光線”（三盞燈）等，謎底皆是本澳地名，卻考倒不少居民和遊客，絕不是小兒科。文化局文物景點協調員李安琪稱，鄭家大屋是傳統中式大宅，空間較大，已儲存倉第二年在此舉辦猜燈謎活動。去年只辦一日，反應熱烈，今年決定續辦並延長時間。希望透過活動鼓勵更多居民與遊客參觀世遺景點，共同感受節日氣氛，傳承傳統文化和習俗。透過與本地書畫團體合作，推廣本地藝文活動，為團體與居民提供交流平台。廣州旅客張小姐稱，藉中秋假期全家來澳過節，計劃逗留三日，感受各區節日氣氛。參觀鄭家大屋時，未料當局有特別安排，倍感興奮。認為“燈謎會”透過輕鬆的形式，加深子女認識中秋習俗，大有裨益。居民陳太表示，從網上得知鄭家大屋舉辦猜燈謎活動，特意偕同子女參與，遊覽世遺歷史建築外，更可學習傳統文化。有感中秋節是團圓的節日，會在假期與子女共度佳節，留下難忘回憶。迷你倉

儲存 本報訊 （記者 郭藝珺）在昨天舉行的上海（長三角）房車旅遊嘉年華上，長三角地方標準《房車旅遊服務區基本要求》發佈，並首次將房車“旅遊特展”項目推進到市民身邊。房車旅遊並不再只是豪華的玩法。此次活動上，全國各地近50台房車雲集上海國際客運中心碼頭，40多個旅遊目的地結合房車旅遊產品對市民推廣。據介紹，目前房車的價格最低在20萬元左右，而房車旅遊的租賃價格也大多控制在1000元—2000元一天。迷你倉

廖美麗天氣太熱，迷你倉閑逛的顧客少。五一廣場這家商場內各服裝公司開設的櫃台，都開始想盡辦法促銷。打折的服裝放在樓層中廳，做特場。但外面天氣熱得連蒼蠅都不飛，商場內雖涼快，但客流量還是太少。我站在特賣場上連打三個哈欠。然後，望著對面那個英國品牌的服裝櫃。這個櫃台雖不是該品牌總公司直營，而是交給代理商做，但櫃台內的營業員個個站得筆直，臉上的彩妝比一樓賣化妝品的妹子抹得還濃。她們從不穿商場內的工作服，而是穿著自己品牌的衣服，俗稱秀模。一雙雙黑色的高跟鞋踩著，一排排站在櫃台門外，對著空蕩蕩的走廊又是鞠躬，又是喊口號，那架勢不像是在迎賓，倒像新兵在搞訓練。到了中午吃飯的時候，總算看見一個營業員帶著顧客來買單，迎面又碰見他們經理氣沖沖從旁邊走過，罵罵咧咧：“我真的不想呆在這個店里監視你們做銷售，如果上午不是我來了，你們還要不要開單？”看見他們的經理走開，我開著玩笑問送顧客買單回來的服務員：“你們這個品牌，怕也不好做噢？”“嗯咯，瞧見我們經理了�。一天到晚，我們這不是主管呆在店鋪內，就是經理守在這裡，生怕我們偷一點懶。”這個上了年紀的服務員愁眉苦臉低著頭，上前把顧客身上文件倉新衣服整理好。“你們工資應該很高吧？每天開早會，報名次，你們都排在一二名。”我試探性地打探她們的薪水，明問怕引起她們的誤會。“哪裡高？也就三千多一點而已。”她送完顧客，站在一旁，和我小聲說著話。“那也可以了嘛，淡季能拿到三千多，算高工資了，我們有時候沒完成銷售目標，扣完五險一金，2000塊錢都拿不到。”“錢是多了一點，但你不曉得我們壓力大，我們主管經理策死人，從上班開始我的腦殼就炸開了鍋，稍微沒做好一點，就要挨罵。這錢也不好賺！”她連連抱怨。“高薪無長壽！不過你圖一頭想，工資高，辛苦一點也是值得的。”話剛說完，這個服務員突然神秘地湊到我的耳邊，一臉焦慮地說：“你曉得什麼咯。唉，真的是壓力山大，我都兩個月沒來大姨媽了，每天這種緊張的工作狀態搞得內分泌嚴重失調，老公都催我去醫院里檢查，可是又請不到假，沒時間啊。”我本想安慰她幾句的，嘴巴還沒張開，她們的主管就從店鋪里站出來一聲吼，把她叫回店鋪開始上思想政治課了。好在現在終於進入九月了。一到九月，商場內的服裝生意就開始旺起來，十月進入更旺的季節。我希望我們的老闆個個賺個盆滿缽滿，他們的日子好過了，我們也好過……存倉

Source: Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.迷你倉Sept. 20--Olmsted County Democrats are once again turning to Minnesota celebrity Garrison Keillor for fundraising in preparation for the 2014 elections.For the third time since 2004, Keillor has agreed to travel down to Rochester to help the local DFL party raise money. The host of A Prairie Home Companion will headline the Olmsted County Democratic Dinner on Monday, Sept. 30 at the Kahler Grand Hotel in Rochester.Olmsted County DFL Chairwoman Lynn Wilson credits Keillor's support in helping Democrats gain a foothold in Rochester after decades of Republican dominance. In 2004, he hosted the Olmsted County DFL's first ever fundraising dinner. It proved to be a huge success, drawing 500 people. That fall, local voters elected two Democrats -- Tina Liebling and Andy Welti -- to the Minnesota House. He came back the next year to help the party raise more dollars."I really give Garrison Keillor credit for helping jump start our Democratic success, which was historic," Wilson said. "That fall we elected the first Democrats that had been elected in 40 years in Olmsted County."Over the past decade, Keillor has put his celebrity status to use helping DFL candidates in Minnesota and across the nation. Last fall, he helped raise money for the Fillmore County DFL in Lanesboro. He has also been generous when it comes to donations. Since 2000, he has donated more than $258,000 to federal candidates and parties, according to the Federal Elections Commission. At the state-level, he has donated more than $41,000 to Democrats since 2002, according to the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board.Hamline University law school professor David Schultz, an expert in campaign finance laws, said the Democrats are smart to tap into the Minnesota entertainer's popularity."For many people, he is the face of Minnesota," Schultz said. "He is incredibly well known in the state and across the country. What he has done is taken that迷你倉最平persona, that name recognition, that entertainment value and has sort of cashed it in in the sense of helping Democrats in the political causes he supports."Keillor could not be reached for comment.The Lake Wobegon storyteller has not been shy about his liberal politics. In 2004, he wrote a book called "Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America." Last fall, he spoke out against a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage and helped raise money for for the main group fighting the amendment -- Minnesotans United for All Families. He has also written plenty of political essays.Despite Keillor's political activism for liberal causes, he does not appear to have generated a major backlash from conservatives, Schultz said."The (radio) show is so popular, it is so solidified in terms of its base either it's filtered out people who don't politically agree with him or people don't pay attention to his politics," he said.Senate District 26 DFL Chairman Mark Liebow said it wasn't hard to get Keillor to agree to make the trek down to Rochester. All he did was ask if he'd be willing to do it. This year's dinner marks the return of the party's largest political fundraiser after a two-year hiatus. This year, donors can take advantage of the return of Minnesota's Political Contribution Refund Program. Individuals who make a donation to a registered political party or state partisan candidates who have agreed to campaign spending limits are eligible for a $50 refund. Liebow said the party is hoping to raise $10,000.Donors have the chance to meet Keillor at a one-hour special reception. Tickets for the special reception, dinner and program cost $150. Tickets for just the dinner and program are $85. Tickets must be purchased by Wednesday. Forms can be downloaded from the Olmsted County DFL website.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Post-Bulletin Visit the Post-Bulletin at .postbulletin.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉

Source: The Hour, Norwalk, Conn.存倉Sept. 20--NORWALK -- Chris Tobiasz took one Zumba class and he was hooked."It became an addiction. I was taking classes seven days a week," he said. "It's just the environment, seeing everyone laughing, clapping and smiling. Since the first class I took, I thought this is a business I'd like to get into."Rather than sit on his dreams, Tobiasz took action and opened Euphoria Fitness Studio at 48 Westport Ave. The studio offers a variety of Zumba classes from beginner to advanced. It also offers an Insanity class. Classes take place in a large, colorful studio with flooring that has a special rubber coating that is easier on people's legs."We want people to work out in a party atmosphere so it doesn't feel like a regular gym," Tobiasz said. "Time goes so slow in a regular gym. The treadmills and weights are so boring. Here, with the music going and people smiling, it's more intimate --more party-like."Tobiasz hopes to offer yoga and massage in the near future. He also offers birthday and corporate parties. The location, next door to Starbucks and two doors down from Stew Leonard's, offers room for expansion.He looked for six months for the right location before finding the building on Westport Avenue.The interior is brightly colored and includes the studio, changing rooms, and a lounge for people to socialize before and after classes."I had my own idea from day one what I wanted to do and what I wanted it to look like," he said. "Euphoria means happiness, joy -- that's what my place is all about."Tob迷你倉asz hired four instructors, all with different specialties."They are really good and have a big following," he said. "They all bring something different to the table. They are very encouraging, enthusiastic and engaging."He held a grand opening event last weekend and the reception was positive, he said. Close to 100 people attended.State Sen. Bob Duff, D-4, has known Tobiasz for a long time and was impressed by what he saw the grand opening event."He told me that it was his dream to open this type of business. I'm so happy for him," Duff said. "He's got a good plan and there was a ton of energy at the opening. He's got a good following already so I'm sure he'll be successful."Tobiasz was born and raised in Poland. He came to the United States in 1998 and worked as a real estate agent for 12 years."I can put all my skills to work here: marketing; people skills; sales. Being in real estate is basically like owning your own business," he said. "I really feel better doing this. Real estate was so depressing the last couple of years. Then I'd go to Zumba and everyone was having fun."Euphoria offers a flexible, or pay-as-you-go, membership. Tobiasz wanted to avoid the contracts, enrollment fees and long-term memberships normally associated with fitness centers."Zumba is a global phenomenon," Tobiasz said. "It's been around for 10 years and is still growing. It keeps reinventing itself, too."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Hour (Norwalk, Conn.) Visit The Hour (Norwalk, Conn.) at .thehour.com Distributed by MCT Information Services自存倉

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○新報記者茅中元文在《舌尖上的中國》催熱美食紀錄片後，迷你倉將在第一財經頻道播出的《中國人的零食》引發不少觀�關注。但記者日前獲悉，該片其實是第一財經為某品牌零食商定制的紀錄片。當紀錄片與商業利益綑綁，舌尖上的零食是否會串味，也引發了記者的擔心。但記者獨家採訪到，該片導演組迴避了很多商業元素，同時非常客觀地呈現中國零食的製作，好的紀錄片與商業模式不矛盾。去年悄然火爆熒屏的《舌尖上的中國》，讓美食紀錄片意外受寵。在《舌尖上的中國2》登上央視黃金資源廣告招標大會的同時，第一財經旗下的東方財經頻道昨天宣佈將從今天起開始播出講述中國人零食的美食紀錄片《中國人的零食》。據悉，該片共8集，分別把中國人習以為常的零食分為四大主題———“果殼里的喜悅”、“新鮮的記憶”、“大地的滋味”和“甜蜜的生活”，分別對應炒貨、肉類、果蔬及蜜餞四種品類。節目組走訪了中國多個省市，從南到北、從都市到鄉村，追尋中國人的零食故事。《中國人的零食》題目吸引不少觀�注意，不少觀�表示，這是個好主題，“零食雖然小，但是每個人生活中都會接觸，現在西式零食大行其道的當下，中國人的零食究竟有哪些，又有哪些獨特的‘中國好零食’其實非常吸引觀�。”值得一提的是，第一財經相關負責人面對記者時也不諱言，這部美食紀錄片其實是第一財經頻道探尋的一種媒體營銷新模式，“這部紀錄片首次嘗試‘定制’概念，挖掘零食品牌的文化內涵，打造‘零食’紀錄片。”說白了，這部美食紀錄片原來是為某品牌零食生廠商所定制的紀錄片。雖然該制片方透露，片子定位還是產業紀錄片，通過記錄貨架上的零食從原材料到供應商到零售商，再到消費者文化的各個層面，來談零食文化。雖然制片方想法很好，但這也難免引來不少觀�的擔心。有觀�就直言：“紀錄片應該講究獨立、客觀、公正，但如果被商業模式所綑綁，是否會串味?”更有觀�擔心，一部好端端的美食紀錄片，是否就變成了“中國好廣告”或者“中國好宣傳片”?三問商業紀錄片商業元素會不會過多?對於觀�的擔心，該片導演王強接受記者專訪時文件倉迴避，但也進行了澄清。他笑言，因為這個紀錄片的創意之初就是與商家聯合攝製，所以說完全擺脫商業屬性並不現實，“比如我們在拍攝零食製作時，要從原料供應商開始找源頭，很多供應商和養殖戶，的確都是聯合方所提供。”對這樣一部企業贊助的紀錄片，很多人擔心的一點是影片是否會成了商品展示會?王強強調，該片在拍攝中，盡力不突出商業元素，比如很明顯的品牌標誌和門店我們會迴避，畢竟這是紀錄片而不是純廣告片，只是在介紹部分商品，比如瓜子和花生時，難免會呈現一些品牌包裝，但我們的原則是不刻意突出。拍攝對象提前遭刪選?盡管王強稱不突出商業元素，但記者擔心，養殖戶和供應商都由企業提供，而商家自然不會傻到出錢揭家丑，所以這難免會有“秀金玉而藏敗絮”的嫌疑。這也難免影響到紀錄片的客觀性。對此，王強保證，其實商家推薦的都是最真實的供應商和養殖戶，沒有刻意遮丑或尋找樣本戶。他給記者舉了個例子，在拍魚類零食時，該品牌給我們推薦了浙江沿海的一些養殖戶，但我們剛過去的時候，發現當時的海水狀況並不是太好，但結果該品牌也沒提什麼意見，沒讓我們換地方。我們改變了下思路，駐紮在那裡，長時間地觀察和描繪當地漁民的狀況和生活，探尋這些漁民與零食背後和故事。深入拍攝後，我們發現其實情況就會好轉，而且這些養殖戶對原材料的感情和我們想得不一樣，我們看來尋常的捕魚，卻是他們生活的全部和唯一經濟來源，這些背後其實就凸顯出了人和零食的關係，更提高了一個層次。偏重實用成生活節目?作為一檔商業定制紀錄片，難免也讓不少觀�擔心，影片是否會為了實用性而增加“科普性”內容，比如如何分辨零食的好壞，以及如何挑選品牌等等。這些雖然實用，但沖淡了紀錄 片的味道，串味成了生活服務節目。對此，王導強調，影片中會提到一些科普知識：比如紅棗雖好卻不宜多吃，吃多了容易鬧肚子等。但他也強調，這些只是一筆帶過，絕非節目的重點所在。“節目的主題還是聚焦零食從原料到生產到流通的各個環節，尤其是原料和生產是重頭，流通部分也只是一筆帶過”，王導最後如是向記者強調。存倉

Source: The Santa Fe New MexicanSept.存倉 20--The range of traditional American Indian housing types includes multistory adobe dwellings, hogans, tepees, wickiups, the residential earthworks of the mound builders, the enormous wood houses of the Wakeshan people of Vancouver Island, and the cedar-planked, shed-roof houses of the Makah people in Neah Bay, Washington. Those Makah structures no longer exist. The people were forced by missionaries and government agents to pull most of them down a century ago, and the obliteration was completed by the U.S. military during World War I. However, some of the tribe's new buildings honor what was lost.One that is highlighted in New Architecture on Indigenous Lands (University of Minnesota Press) is the Makah Cultural and Research Center designed by Fred Bassetti and Company Architects, Seattle, and Canadian designer Jean Jacques Andre. It houses many of the 55,000 artifacts that were buried in a mudslide more than 500 years ago and then uncovered by tidal erosion in 1970. The building is of traditional red cedar, including in the horizontal planks that recall a Makah meetinghouse of old.The book's authors are Joy Monice Malnar, associate professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, and Frank Vodvarka, professor of fine arts at Loyola University, Chicago. The two previously collaborated on The Interior Dimension: A Theoretical Approach to Enclosed Space and Sensory Design. Their interest in the indigenous-lands project stemmed from a 2004 road trip along the Pacific Coast. They were particularly inspired during visits to Makah country and to the Hupa and Yurok reservations in California."Exciting things are happening," they report in the introduction, "especially since responsibility for new construction has increasingly been turned over to tribal authorities." One example of this is the pavilion at New Mexico's Bosque Redondo Memorial, designed by David N. Sloan (Navajo), which incorporates the forms of the Navajo hogan and Mescalero Apache tepee.Another is the Santa Ana Tribal Government Complex by Thomas E. Coppedge of Weller Architects, Albuquerque. The firm, led by Louis L. Weller (Caddo-Cherokee), specializes in "unique and culturally sensitive design issues related to indigenous peoples." A dominant feature of the Santa Ana building is a central round form that easily brings to mind a kiva, the traditional Pueblo ceremonial space.Sculptor George Rivera, who is now the governor of Pojoaque Pueblo, started thinking about the need for a cultural center and museum in 1987. Its missions would be cultural preservation, arts training, and revitalization. The preliminary plan was drawn up by the Santa Fe architectural firm McHugh, Lloyd & Tryk, but the tribal council ultimately formed its own construction company, Pojoaque Pueblo Construction Services Corporation. The design and construction of the Poeh Cultural Center and Museum complex was completed by that company's chief, Joel McHorse Sr. (Pojoaque), Rivera, architect Dennis Holloway, and Vernon Lujan (Taos/Tesuque).The center incorporates classrooms; pottery, jewelry, and sculpture studios; the museum; administrative offices; and the iconic, four-story adobe tower, all arranged around plazas in traditional Pueblo fashion. State-of-the-art lighting, heating, and humidity-control facilities are hidden away in a basement, where they don't interfere with the aesthetics of the interior spaces, including spruce, Douglas fir, and pine ceiling beams. "It's today's technology, but the core and the base is Pueblo culture: stone, mud, and wood," Rivera told the authors. Architect Douglas Cardinal (Blackfoot-Metis) is known for often employing a "centroidal" design approach. It's evident in the 1973 Rossignol School in 姤e ... la Crosse, Saskatchewan. He sited the classrooms in a trio of dodec- ahedral buildings around a central common area. The circular design -- which was shaped with a high level of participation by students, parents, and faculty -- "dispels the feeling of helplessness, of aloneness, of being boxed in," according to a local evaluation made shortly after the school's completion.In The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal, Trevor Boddy writes that many of Cardinal's buildings "employ landscape and geological imagery and metaphors" rather than the more common historical references. His design for the First Nations University of Canada in Regina is described as a "four-story building that faces south in a semicircular design that, like the Sundance Lodge, embraces the sun's warmth and light and signifies that all beings are connected."Incidentally, this building's rounded forms resemble the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., which features design elements by Cardinal as well as by Johnpaul Jones (Cherokee-Choctaw), Donna House (Dine/Oneida), and Santa Fe's Ramona Sakiestewa (Hopi). The authors address European-oriented biases in their discussion of new architecture on indigenous lands. "Central to the western position is the assumption that the traditions of indigenous peoples -- ind迷你倉ed, traditions generally -- produce a narrow range of design possibilities," they write. "Unfortunately, western-trained architects who have been commissioned to design for these cultures have often had difficulty in departing from design assumptions based on essentially abstract criteria. One obvious solution -- seldom relied upon historically -- would be to include the culture concerned in the design process itself."That's certainly not a stretch, since the architect is designing for the community. Antoine Predock of Albuquerque did just that with the Indian Community School of Milwaukee. Designed with consultant Chris Cornelius (Oneida), it features a "flying origamic copper roof" on the two-story sections and limestone-block walls.Steel supporting columns were disguised by wrapping them with halved and hollowed-out tree trunks, "with proper ceremonies and blessing," according to Cornelius. "The thing we tried to do here was to think about what the cultural values are and translate them into archi- tecture." Not easy, especially since the program called for avoiding iconography relating to the students' 11 tribal affiliations."Some people have a bit of a hard time when they look at this building; they ask why it is really Indian, until you start to talk about it ... ultimately it does not have any resonance with the culture unless it is experiential," Cornelius said.One of the projects highlighted by the authors addressed a critical housing problem at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. The community's leaders knew from experience that relying on federal funding often resulted in buildings that were not only substandard but nontraditional; in fact, federal policy calls for subdivision-style homes spaced at least 100 feet apart, quite different from the traditional homes in the pueblo.Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority director Tomasita Duran sought input on a new housing project from community elders. Architect Jamie Blosser relates that meetings were held with Pueblo storytellers and tribal leaders to hear what it was like growing up in the old pueblo. "We also asked the people attending the meetings about their values: family, social, and spiritual. We asked what materials were important to them and how their homes could support their lifestyles."Blosser, who is with Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, Philadelphia and Santa Fe, came to the project courtesy of the Enterprise Foundation's Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship. Her accomplishments include forming a planning committee and obtaining a grant to do a long-range master plan, which was completed by Moule Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, based in Pasadena, California.The program's first project, Tsigo bugeh Village, was completed in 2003. It consists of 40 housing units, both market-rate and affordable, arranged around a plaza. Winner of a 2004 EPA National Award for Smart Growth Achievement, it is lauded as a model of culturally appropriate, affordable design. That success was an impetus for an adjunct project involving the rehabilitation of old, existing homes on the centuries-old pueblo. Shawn Evans, another Atkin Olshin Schade associate, put together a set of historic- preservation guidelines that have been employed on the house renovations. Blosser expanded on the type of work done at Ohkay Owingeh when she founded the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative.There is nothing in New Architecture on Indigenous Lands about the recent buildings at the Santa Fe Indian School and the Institute of American Indian Arts, presumably because those campuses are not on Native lands. Douglas Cardinal was hired to do the master plan for the IAIA campus, but it was only vaguely followed -- in part because of budget constraints, according to the school's archivist, Ryan Flahive.In 1999, project coordinator Paul Fragua (Jemez) told Pasatiempo that the school had in mind "to incorporate Native elements such as man's relationship to the earth and the universe. So you see the central plaza and radiating outward from the center point of the plaza, concentric circles, like a stone dropped in a pond. The rings show up in the buildings and the curved wall then out to a larger one of the sacred peaks in the distance. It reflects the IAIA program radiating out to Santa Fe and the world."The IAIA Lifelong Education Conference & Residence Center (2007) and Science & Technology and Sculpture & Foundry buildings (2010) were designed by the Native American-owned Dyron Murphy Architects, Albuquerque.Among the dozens of other fascinating projects that are treated in New Architecture on Indigenous Lands are the straw-bale Hopi Nation Elder Homes in northern Arizona, the Oneida Maple Sugar Camp in Wisconsin, the Ouje-Bougoumou Village in Quebec, and an eagle sanctuary at the Pueblo of Zuni."New Architecture on Indigenous Lands," by Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka, is published by University of Minnesota Press.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.) Visit The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.) at .santafenewmexican.com Distributed by MCT Information Services自存倉

The BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet talks to Vikram Khanna about her experience of reporting on life and war in the Islamic worldIF you watch BBC TV, you would probably have seen her.迷你倉最平 Chances are, she was wearing a flak jacket and a helmet and reporting from a war zone - Syria perhaps, or Afghanistan, or a part of Pakistan. Lyse Doucet is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent, and these countries have been part of her "beat". It just turns out, they have all been ravaged by conflict.Ms Doucet, in person, is vivacious, funny, full of anecdotes, and speaks much faster than she does on TV. She also has a distinctive accent that makes you wonder about her origins. "People in Britain keep asking me, where are you from?" she says. "I tell them I'm from Canada. Then they go, is that where you are originally from? I say yes, I'm Canadian, wrong accent and everything."But identity can be complicated for someone like her, who has spent the better part of the last 30 years in or near the Middle East. "So now, I feel I am a little bit Pakistani, a little bit Afghan, a little bit Middle Eastern. But quintessentially I am still Canadian. Sometimes I say, I live in a country called the world and London is the capital. You have to live somewhere, and I do live in London."Her professional journey from Canada to the Middle East was via Africa. After she finished graduate school in Canada where she majored in International Relations and African studies, she took a job teaching in Cote d'Ivoire. Then came a stroke of luck. "Right after I finished teaching in the village, the BBC arrived in the capital to set up a west Africa office. That was 1982-83. So there I was, right place, right time, but wrong accent, wrong everything else - I had no journalism experience. I still think to this day that it was an act of God that I was taken on."After spending five years in West Africa, she spent the next five covering Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran and then moved to the Middle east."It's not that I chose hot-spots," she says. "These were just places I was drawn to. I got taken by that region. When I go to Kabul or Islamabad or Tehran, I feel at home, and I have friends there, from all walks of life."And even though much of her work has involved covering conflict and even full-scale wars, she does not see herself as a 'war correspondent'. "I am a story teller," she explains. "For me, my work is about telling stories. Even when I go to a war - I spend a lot of time in Syria now, which I think is the war of our time - I also look for human stories. The last time I went to Syria, I went to a battlefield, but I also went to ice-cream parlours. Because I also want to tell people a different story, tell them that this is not a place where people are so different from you and I; here too, kids want to go to school, families want to be safe, people want jobs. Different place, different story but the same fundamentals. I also always look for humour, and you know, it's always there."And I want to show people the richness of life. Sometimes, when they watch the news or the headlines, they get a rather flat perspective about a place, that it's boring or that people are always killing each other - and it's not. Our job, as story tellers, is to go through the layers and give the richness, the depth and the understanding - and hopefully some affection too."So that people will care about what happens in Syria and about its humanitarian crisis, will care about Afghanistan if the war is not over and will care about the fact that we intervened in these countries and left them in a better place, but not in a great place. I don't see it as a job, it's a life."But she risks her life too. Why is that worth it? She gives an almost fatalistic answer. "It doesn't matter what job you do. I had a colleague who worked for the New York Times and spent five years in the Middle East and nothing happened to him. Then he went back to New York and got run over by a bus. So it can happen anywhere. All of us, when we get up in the morning, take risks."But as we say in our business, no story is worth dying for, absolutely not. But we still do believe there are stories worth taking risks for. The dilemma now is sometimes, you don't know how great the risks are until it's too late. Syria and Pakistan are the countries that are the most dangerous for journalists right now. These are places where journalists are not only caught in the cross fire, but are targeted."Storytelling aside, she also asks questions - difficult ones, sometimes, of difficult people. "Part of what we do is holding people to account," she says. "We have to ask them: why did you bomb the centre of Kabul? Why did you attack three mosques in the north west? Why are you killing children and families and destroying neighbourhoods? In what name are you doing this? We have to ask them to justify such actions."I ask her about being a woman covering the Islamic world and its advantages or otherwise."I believe to this day that being a woman is an advantage," she says. "There is, in Islam, this idea about the need for women to be protected and honoured. Also, almost every country I've worked in has a tradition of hospitality and how to treat a guest. And I am a guest, and I am a foreign guest and I am a woman."And so, for example in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen, I get the front seat in the helicopter or in the bus. At bus stops, people come up and say, are you okay? I have been taken care of. And most places I have worked, hospitality always comes before ideology.""Having said that, there has in recent years been a rise in Islamic groups with such a strict interpretation of Islam that they do not want to see women at all, and certainly not western women. I have not come across that yet; I have not encountered a situation where someone says, 'I will not see you because you are a woman.' Some people don't want to shake my hand, but that's fine - I respect their traditions and customs."She has some funny stories about what being a female journalist can entail. In 1992, she wanted to cover a battle in Khost in Afghanistan. "So I called (the Mujahideen commander, later a Taliban leader) Jalaluddin Haqqani and said, I really want to go there. And the Haqqani people said, well we want the BBC, but no women are allowed. I said okay then, I'll dress like a man. And immediately, they said fine. And I remember when we were driving, my colleague said to me: 'Lyse, in the truck in front of us, they are discussing whether you are a woman or a man.' And that day, I had to dress like a man to fit in, but I was still given all the privileges of a woman."Sometimes, she says, being female has also helped her get stories out of women, who feel more at ease talking to another woman than to a man. But getting access to women in parts of the Islamic world often requires the consent of the men, who then offer to translate. "This can lead to some hilarious situations," she recalls. "Like when the woman's answer to your question is two sentences long but the man's translat迷你倉on is 20 sentences long. You don't need to know the language to figure out that he's adding something.''Even though they are sheltered, women invariably add richness to a story, she points out."There was this place in Northern Afghanistan where we had to actually go to the head of the village to get permission to talk to the women. It was very hard, but we got it. And when we got to speak to the women, they were overjoyed. They couldn't stop talking and they had so many stories. And then you laugh and say ok, now we know why the men don't want us to talk directly to the women: they don't want the women to tell us what is really happening!""Time and again after we have gone through the hoops and finally got access to the women, you open such a rich scene. I always like to talk to the children too. They have a raw, unedited view of life, they speak with a directness that I sometimes find really illuminating. In recent years, some of the stories involving children have been the most powerful ones we've done.''Radicalisation of IslamHaving started covering the Islamic world in the 1980s, when it was not so radicalised, with the exception of Iran, how does Ms Doucet explain the radicalisation of the region since?"We could give very superficial answers, and we could write PhDs about it," she says. One reason for the radicalisation was the prolonged spell of authoritarian rule that some of these countries endured, which prevented the development of a political culture, or diversity. "The only way people could identify or express themselves was through the mosque" - which helped radical Islamists build a following.But radicalisation had other causes too, she explains. "There have been shifts in cultures, but also shifts in relationships between cultures, because often people define themselves vis-?j-vis another culture. So, the way people feel about themselves in Pakistan and Afghanistan cannot be separated from the way they feel Americans think about them, post 9/11. Some of the factors that make our identity sometimes come from within and sometimes they are provoked from outside. And they are also a function of circumstances on the ground."The facts on the ground matter, but as much, sometimes even more, perceptions of the facts matter, because people act on perceptions and in doing so, they change the facts on the ground. So it's not just what happened that is important, but what people believe happened, or believe will happen."For her, the terrorist attacks on the United States of Sept 11, 2001 have been a cautionary tale in terms of what followed. "It was a defining moment in terms of how we see the United States and how we see Islamic groups, but it was also a defining moment in terms of America's relationship with the Islamic world - the setting up of Guantanamo Bay (a prison camp where suspected Islamic terrorists were incarcerated), the Homeland Defence in the US, the treatment of individuals - all of that changed people's thinking about America. And we're still going through this."One of the key lessons she has learnt from her reporting, she says, is that there is always more than one point of view - which makes communication essential, especially between cultures.On the rise of radicalisation -- "The facts on the ground matter, but as much, sometimes even more, perceptions of the facts matter, because people act on perceptions and in doing so, they change the facts on the ground.""That is why I am a great believer in dialogue and interaction between cultures, to get cultures to understand each other. Because when people feel isolated and don't talk, they develop distorted views of each other. Different religions and cultures can work together. We've seen, in some places how hostilities can set in when they don't - that's how wars happen."Another key learning for her has been the power of institutions, the rule of law and history. One of the biggest problems in Egypt, for example (among other countries in the Islamic world), is that after 30 years of strongman rule, there is no culture of compromise or tolerance - no institutions to manage the politics. She draws a contrast with Australia, where she had witnessed the last days of election campaigning. "It was clear that Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott despise each other. But there is a political system to contain that - there is a rule of law, and there is a historical legitimacy to it. But in Egypt, you have the liberals who can't stand the Muslim Brotherhood, who can't stand the liberals. And then you have the army. And there is no institution that can get them all together around the table, there is no acceptance of each other. So you have a deadlock. And I don't know how it's going to be resolved."Before we part, I want to know, as a viewer of television, how it feels to be on the other side of the box, especially when something big is happening behind her."It can be a funny feeling," she says. "When you present from the field, you're standing maybe on a rooftop or a hilltop, or some place where there is no electricity. You're in the darkness. And there is this camera light on you. And you have to remind yourself that out there, millions are watching you."There are times when things don't go quite according to plan. That's when I have a silent prayer that nobody's watching, which is of course unlikely."But then there are other moments when you really feel you may be making people sit up. Like when I was in Kabul and announced that the Taliban has fallen and Hamid Karzai has become the Prime Minister of Afghanistan. Or when I was in Gaza reporting on Hamas winning the Palestinian elections. Those are moments when you know people at the other end are going, 'oh my God, really?'"That's when you feel a sense of history, a sense of responsibility and the excitement, that somehow, at this great historic moment, you have this little place in it, that you're telling the story to the world. It's an extraordinary privilege."vikram@sph.com.sg?LYSE DOUCETChief International Correspondent, British Broadcasting Service (BBC)Presenter, BBC Radio and Television1958 Born Dec 24 in Bathhurst, Canada1980 BA, Queen's University, Canada 1982 MA in International Relations, University of TorontoCAREER HIGHLIGHTS1983-88 Freelancer, BBC, West Africa1989-93 Correspondent, Islamabad, also covering Afghanistan and Iran1994 Correspondent, Jordan1995-99 Correspondent,JersualemCovered all major wars in the Middle East since 19951999 Joined BBC's team of presenters2011-13 Covered Arab Spring from Tunisia, Egypt & Libya2012-13 Covered the war in SyriaCouncil Member, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)Council Member, International Council for Human Rights (ICHR) GenevaAWARDS2003 Silver Sony Award for News Broadcaster of the Year2007 Intenational Television Personality of the Year (Association for International Broadcasting)2010 Best News Journalist, Sony Radio Academy Awards2010 Peabody and David Bloom award for film on maternal mortality in Afghanistan, with producer Melanie Marshall, Shoaib Sharifi, and cameraman Tony Joliffe儲存

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Source: The Blade, Toledo, OhioSept.迷你倉 20--COLUMBUS -- The state would be better off forgoing eligibility expansion of Medicaid and instead encouraging lower-income, uninsured Ohioans to take advantage of federal subsidies to buy private health coverage through a new online market, a study said Thursday.The study from the Dallas-based, conservative National Center for Policy Analysis suggests that, even if the state opts to pay more on the front end to subsidize premiums, the state's economy would gain on the back end as private policies pay doctors and hospitals higher rates than Medicaid.The study was released just as the Ohio Ballot Board gave supporters of Medicaid expansion the green light to gather voter signatures to force the issue with lawmakers.Republican Gov. John Kasich has bucked some conservative elements of his own party by pushing lawmakers to expand eligibility for the federal-state health insurance of last resort to those earning as much as 38 percent over the federal poverty threshold. That amounts to about $32,000 a year for a family of four.His proposal expected the expansion to add about 275,000 uninsured, mostly working adult Ohioans, 18,356 of them in Lucas County, to the Medicaid rolls over two years.Other studies have estimated the economic benefits to Ohio from taking advantage of expansion, particularly because the federal government would be expected to send about $13 billion more to Ohio during seven years to pay for it.The federal government has promised to pay 100 percent of the expansion cost for the first three years, with the reimbursement gradually falling to 90 percent after that.But the newest study suggests that the state would do better by directing those who would otherwise be eligible under Medicaid expansion to the new insurance marketplace or "exchange."Open enrollment under the federal Affordable Care Act will start on Oct. 1 as individuals prepare for the mandate that they have coverage as of Jan.1 or face tax penalties.Ohio has opted to let the federal government run the state's exchange in which private insurers will compete for customers. Many who would be eligible for Medicaid coverage under the expansion also would be eligible for federal subsidies if they shopped the exchange instead.The nonprofit NCPA promotes private alternatives to government. It has called for repeal of portions of the Affordabl迷你倉 Care Act, commonly called "Obamacare," including the individual mandate."In Ohio, and this is true in all states, the average physician's fee is one half under Medicaid than what private insurance would pay for the same care," said Devon Herrick, a senior fellow at the center and co-author of the study."... You're expecting doctors to treat patients for fees below their average costs," Mr. Herrick said. "That would make it difficult to find doctors to treat them."Mr. Herrick said about 28 percent of Ohio physicians refuse to accept new Medicaid patients.The study suggests that Ohio would experience a net gain of $4.4 billion in health-care spending over a decade from higher-paying private insurance policies purchased in the exchange.The nonpartisan Health Policy Institute of Ohio, which has not taken a position on the federal health-care law, found earlier this year that the state would see a net gain of $1.4 billion through 2022 if it pursued Medicaid expansion.Health Policy Institute of Ohio, however, did not look at the impact of differing provider rates."If you did not expand Medicaid coverage, it is true that people above 100 percent of the federal poverty level could go into the insurance marketplace and purchase health insurance coverage that way," said HPIO President Amy Rohling McGee."Those people would be eligible for cost-sharing, subsidies, and premium tax credits to offset the cost, but people below 100 percent who are not currently eligible would have no subsidized health coverage option," she said. "Our analysis shows that number would be about 370,000 [by 2017]."As the federal government proceeds with its plans to reduce reimbursements for uncompensated care in emergency rooms, hospitals could still be adversely affected financially for that population, she said.As state lawmakers argue, supporters of Medicaid expansion hope to force the issue by gathering roughly 115,000 valid signatures of registered voters to put a bill on the General Assembly's desk at the start of 2014.If lawmakers don't act to the group's satisfaction within four months, it would gather the same number of signatures to put the proposed law directly to voters next November.Contact Jim Provance at: or 614-221-0496.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) Visit The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) at .toledoblade.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存倉

沙井糧庫里等待入庫的運糧車。糧庫工作人員正在取樣檢查。價格倒掛導致賣糧排隊大量境外大米進入國內市場，迷你倉最平我區市場稻米價格一路下跌 我區時隔8年後再次�動糧食最低收購價預案，這一價格高于市場價 往年糧農多數在市場上自由交易稻穀，今年則拉到糧庫去賣南國早報記者 魏碧鋒 胡鐵軍 文/圖 今年9月份以來，廣西多地糧農向南國早報反映糧食收購問題，或稱賣糧要排幾天隊，或稱沒補貼。記者從有關方面瞭解到，受國際行情影響，今年國內市場稻穀價格低迷，時隔8年後，廣西再次�動了糧食最低收購價預案，政策性糧食收購面臨壓力現象一：農民排隊賣糧 糧庫加班加點南寧市江西鎮的莫先生是一名水稻種植戶，也是一名糧食經紀人，除了自家種的糧食出售外，每到糧食上市季節，他還前往鄰近的幾個村子收一些水稻賣往沙井糧庫。今年8月底以來，莫先生卻遇到了些麻煩，以往糧庫搶著收糧，而眼下，賣糧還要排隊。9月10日，莫先生在電話中告訴記者，他拉稻穀到沙井糧庫賣，排了兩天的隊還沒有輪到他入倉。9月中旬，記者來到南寧市儲備糧管理有限責任公司沙井糧庫，見到拉糧食的車進進出出，絡繹不絕。在35號糧倉外，幾名男子正在樹陰下等待。他們是邕寧區的糧食經紀人，從農村收糧食再賣到糧庫。據瞭解，這段時間賣糧的車多，而糧庫工作人員顯少，車子沒輪到，只能停在外邊過夜，次日一大早再過來排隊。這天他們又等了一個上午，不過應該在當天能夠入庫，“今天算快的了”。農民賣糧排長隊的現象並不只出現在沙井糧庫，在防城港市上思縣，這裡的農民賣糧也遭遇了排長隊的現象，為了儘快讓糧食入庫，在糧食部門的安排下，當地糧庫工作人員甚至加班到深夜十一二點，一些老員工直喊吃不消。在和一些糧農交流中，不少人都表示，排隊賣糧的情況已經很久沒有出現了，前些年，稻穀剛曬幹，收糧食的車直接就開到了曬場。而今年糧農要麼自己拉著糧食去糧庫排隊，要麼就只能等糧食經紀人上門。對於9月初以來的農民賣糧排長隊問題，沙井糧庫黨支部書記唐宏說，今年糧食豐收，稻米價格低迷，有關部門決定按最低收購價收購農民出售的今年生產的早秈稻。但這個文件下得有點晚了，8月27日才出來。而9月初正是學校開學的時候，許多農民為了給孩子籌學費，急著賣糧食。又加上那段時間南寧動不動就下雨，影響了糧食儲存入庫的效率，因此出現賣糧車子排隊的情況，他們已經加派人手收糧，現在情況有所緩解。現象二：有人賣糧得補貼 有人覺得不公平除了上述問題，今年，農民們關心的問題還有糧食補貼。田東縣祥周鎮農戶覃先生說，今年政府按每千克補貼0.24元給賣糧的農民，而他們村一半人有補助，另一半卻沒有。他去問了那些有補助的農民，得知他們跟政府簽有收購訂單。覃先生很疑惑，優惠政策為什麼不能一視同仁。崇左市寧明縣明江鎮安馬村的黃先生也反映，他們村沒有政府補貼的訂單糧食收購計劃，別的村有訂單，卻到安馬村購糧。他懷疑那些人將安馬村的糧食按訂單價格賣給國家，套取補貼。農民所反映的補貼到底是怎麼回事？記者為此向自治區糧食局提出採訪申請，9月16日，自治區糧食局復函稱：我區部分地區實行訂單收購政策中，存在相鄰兩戶糧農一戶得補貼、一戶不得的可能。自治區糧食局相關負責人解釋說，我區實施糧食直補訂單收購政策，是根據國家相關政策，結合廣西實際制定的。按自治區政府相關文件規定：廣西每年儲備糧訂單糧食收購計劃的安排要向糧食主產縣（市、區）傾斜，向主產鄉（鎮）、村屯傾斜，向種糧大戶傾斜，不撒“迷你倉椒面”，不搞“一刀切”。按照計劃，今年廣西將收購80萬噸訂單糧，計劃是由政府層層分解，最後在村委會公示決定的，政策設計上不存在問題。為何以往農民沒有反映類似補貼問題呢？該負責人表示，農民排隊在糧庫賣糧和反映補貼不公兩個事情都出于同一個原因，就是目前市場糧價低於最低收購價，更低於直補訂單收購價，而前幾年，市場價格都高于最低收購價和訂單糧收購價，農民糧食主要由市場流通。探因：市場糧價低於最低收購價目前市場糧價究竟如何？在憑祥市，一名糧食經銷商告訴記者，今年的稻米價格低迷，主要是受國際行情所累，需求疲軟而供應增加。廣西主要從越南進口大米，目前越南大米價格走低，破碎率為5%的越南米離岸價僅380美元/噸，折合成人民幣僅1.17元/500克，跟國內秈米價格相比（1.8元/500克以上）優勢相當明顯。從成本考慮，許多糧食加工企業寧願選擇進口大米，而不購買本土大米。來自我區糧食主管部門的一組官方數據是，去年下半年以來，境外大米每噸比國內低400至600元，大量境外大米進入國內市場，受此影響，我區市場稻米價格一路下跌。近期我區市場上普通早秈稻價格在1.25元/500克左右，而我區今年對列入自治區直補訂單收購計劃的普通早秈稻，收購價格為1.33元/500克，另外每500克還有0.12元補貼。農民按訂單計劃交售糧食給政府指定的訂單糧食收購企業，每500克收益為1.45元，比在市場上出售多0.2元。在這種價格倒掛的大背景下，今年農民出售訂單糧非常踴躍。“一些地方出現了農民排長隊售糧，等待時間較長的現象，這種情況是非常罕見的。”自治區糧食局給本報復函稱，除直補訂單糧外，考慮到市場價格較低，我區自2005年首次�動早秈稻最低收購價執行預案後，時隔8年第二次�動了這一政策，收購價格為1.32元/500克（最低收購價與直補訂單收購價不同，前者是敞開收購，後者只針對有訂單的糧農），沒有訂單的農民賣糧也非常踴躍。我區水稻產量在1150萬噸左右，單季早稻約550萬噸，商品率30%左右，往年大部分流往市場，今年則受到價格倒掛的影響，商品糧基本流往國有糧庫。部門：政策性收糧面臨壓力今年我區早稻豐收，大部分商品糧食收購任務流向國有糧庫，在接受採訪時，自治區糧食局調控處負責人坦言：糧食部門和國有糧庫面臨不小壓力。上述負責人介紹說，糧食收購在資金上是沒有問題的，直補訂單糧相關資金已經安排到位，而最低收購價糧由農發行和中央儲備糧庫出面解決，不會出現收購資金緊張或故意拖延收糧的情況。但在收購能力上，2002年我區實行糧食購銷市場化改革，取消糧食定購任務，放開糧食購銷市場，放開糧食價格，糧食購銷主體多元化後，各地對國有糧食企業進行了改革，撤消了不少基層糧食企業，精減了大量糧食購銷人員，企業保留人員數量較少，面臨專業人員不足的壓力。此外，�動最低收購價收糧後，糧食系統面臨的另外一個壓力還來自內部。因市場價和最低保護價倒掛，出現了套取補貼的空間。就在記者進行系列採訪時，來賓市武宣縣傳來消息，該縣糧食收儲有限責任公司違規套取糧食補貼，涉案金額680多萬元，公司經理石某被提起公訴。記者從自治區糧食局獲悉，在制度設計上，糧食收儲企業最終取得政策性糧食收購資金，要經過駐庫管理員、糧食部門、農發行、財政部門等多方多次審核，但為了保證政策性收糧不出任何差錯，日前，該局已派出4個工作組前往各地糧庫進行督導工作。 （讀者某先生 稿酬100元）儲存