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Source: The Blade, Toledo, OhioDec.迷你倉 22--The six "pit bulls" rescued from a dog-fighting operation nearly 11 months ago and spared by a Lucas County Common Pleas judge last month are on their way to their next milestone.The dogs were evaluated Saturday by two nationally recognized experts, Donna Reynolds and Tim Racer. The Lucas County Pit Crew brought the co-founders of BADRAP, a California-based "pit #8226" rescue, education, and advocacy group, to the Lucas County Canine Care & Control to complete the evaluations.The pair saw positive signs the dogs could be rehabilitated."There are some strong candidates for adoption," Ms. Reynolds said. "They could all be saved if resources exist, but that's the hard part."The dogs have been at the county shelter since they were seized Jan. 31. Toledo police responding to a report of a suspicious person discovered the dogs caged and chained to the floor in an otherwise vacant, boarded-up house in the 200 block of South Fearing Boulevard.Their former owner, Carl Steward, 21, of 716 Cherry St. was convicted Oct. 23 of five felony counts of dog fighting. Judge Gary Cook acquitted Steward on one count relating to a young female "pit #8226" that had no fighting scars and had not been bred.Mr. Steward was sentenced last month to jail, ordered to pay $12,030 for the care of the dogs, and banned from owning another dog.Eleven months in a noisy shelter environment is stressful for any dog. The cruelty victims have proved resilient and have adapted well to the environment."They were living in kind of a kennel-like environment before, so they don't think this is too bad," county shelter Director Julie Lyle said. "That's sad, but unfortunately, a lot of times, we're the best place a dog has ever been."The dogs have been named Bear, Michaela, Mopsy, Eleanor, Honeysuckle, and Butterball. Bear is the only male, and Butterball is the young female who did not appear to have been fought.Ms. Reynolds and Mr. Racer noted that nothing the dogs did during their evaluations was surprising. Butterball did the best of the bunch and breezed through her evaluation with little trouble. While there are concerns with the others, those could be overcome."It's sort of like kids who have been given a really crappy start in life," Mr. Racer said. "You can give up on the kid, or you can give the kid what he never had. ... We give [the dogs] all those things they never had, and then we watch them flourish.""They've never had a leader," Ms. Reynolds added. "As soon as you give them a game plan, a leader, and some training, they immediately become better dogs."None of the six will be placed up for adoption from the county. Ms. Lyle said she has already reached out to rescue groups, some as far away as Chicago and New York. Any group that takes one must be experienc文件倉d with and knowledgeable about both the breed and dogs from cruelty cases."Our hope is that all of these dogs will be placed with rescue groups that have the resources and knowledge to turn them into what they could be," she said. "We do not place dogs that are human-aggressive and there is one [Bear] who has shown us he might be willing to be human-aggressive. It really just depends on what groups step forward and can take them."The Pit Crew definitely plans to take one of the dogs."We'll take one right off the bat, and we'll see who all else steps up," Executive Director Jean Keating said. "If it turns out they can't find a spot for another dog, then we'll try to take a second one."Ms. Keating noted many rescue groups that specialize in such cases are full and inundated with requests to take even more dogs.Dogs not taken by rescue groups still could be euthanized. Those that fail temperament testing but are considered transferable typically get a week for a rescue to show interest before being killed. The process will be more complicated for the six cruelty-case dogs."There are a lot of variables in it," Ms. Lyle said. "It's not as easy to find someone who could take these dogs, as opposed to our typical transfer dogs. It's going to take more time and effort."Ms. Keating said even if the dogs are moved to rescues, their futures still aren't secure. They may act differently and present different problems in a home environment."We may see things six months from now that makes them unsafe for the public, and the decision may have to be made to euthanize them," Ms. Keating said.But the mere consideration of rehabilitation for these dogs is a new development in Lucas County. Until 2012, "pit bulls" were automatically deemed vicious under Ohio law and were killed. Tom Skeldon, Ms. Lyle's predecessor who was ousted in 2009, was known to be hostile toward "pit #8226"-type dogs."What we're doing now with these dogs was a pipe dream a few years back," Ms. Keating said. "It's a testament to how far we've come. Even if they don't all make it, it's still a huge step forward. The community should be proud of it."Ms. Reynolds said the six will set an example because they are Lucas County's first former fighting dogs to be spared."These ones are game-changers," she said. "They are history-makers because they're going to help the rest of Lucas County and the rest of Ohio see that they are simply dogs who want to be treated with compassion. It's incredibly exciting. The entire country is watching this and is cheering for you. They see that nothing is going to be quite the same."Contact Alexandra Mester: , 419-724-6066, or on Twitter .Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) Visit The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) at .toledoblade.com Distributed by MCT Information Services存倉

日本一項針對初中學生的調查顯示，迷你倉將軍澳平均每日學習兩小時以上的學生當中，每日花不足一小時使用智能手機的學生之數學平均分為75；而每日花3小時以上使用智能手機時間的學生，其數學平均分則只有61.2，兩者相差10分以上。採訪：靜態組根據日本NHK報道，該項由宮城縣仙台市教育委員會聯合日本東北大學合作進行的調查，對象是仙台市的2.4萬名中學生，調查他們主要科目的成績以及生活、學習狀況。狂打機比不溫書更差調查結果顯示，在每天於家自修超過兩小時的初中生當中，完全不用智能手機，或使用一小時以內的學生，數學平均成績為74.7分到75分。但是，使用智能手機的時間越長，學習成績則越差。如果每天使用3小時以上，數學平均成績只有61.2分；若是4小時以上，更只有57.7分迷你倉尖沙咀比在家不自修，但也不用手機的學生還要差。除了數學外，語文、社會課等的成績也與使用智能手機的時間長度有類似關聯。此外，對電動玩具和個人電腦的使用情況調查，也顯示出這種現象。大腦混亂注意力下降研究負責人川島隆太教授認為，長時間使用智能手機會導致大腦功能混亂，注意力下降，容易遺忘白天學習的內容，呼籲學生將每天使用智能手機的時間控制在一小時之內。另外，美國肯特州立大學的研究人員在美國的科學雜誌《Computers in Human Behavior》發表一份調查研究指，在智能手機上花費過多時間會使學業成績下降。因為學生不論上課、在家學習或是在圖書館看書，手機總是能夠連接網絡，進而登陸各種平台，如網誌等社交網站，新鮮事和信息會不斷更新，進而令他們分心學習。倉

Source: The Buffalo News, N.迷你倉Y.Dec. 22--Paul W. Culligan says the only thing he ever won in life was the draft lottery for the U.S. military while the Vietnam War was going hot and heavy.But his status as a junior at Le Moyne College in Syracuse allowed him some time to continue his education and pick the branch in which he wanted to serve."I decided to take a look around and took testing for the Navy and Air Force flight programs and ended up choosing officer training school with the Air Force," Culligan says. "I figured if I stayed in the military, I could have a career as a pilot, and if I left, there was the option of the airlines."At age 22, Culligan was flying an EC-47 Skytrain, twin-engine propeller airplane that had been used during World War II. The plane was "a perfect platform" for the reconnaissance missions Culligan piloted."We had a crew of about nine people with electronic intercept capability and interpreters. We flew out of Thailand, and our missions included Laos, South Vietnam and Cambodia. We picked up intercepted radio transmissions. This was an effort to identify troop and supply convoys from North Vietnam into South Vietnam," Culligan says.The information was crucial because of the ongoing Paris peace talks, where negotiators for the combatants were trying to come up with terms to end the war."We were collecting significant intelligence impacting on the peace talks. For quite a long time, North Vietnam had denied there was any supply and troop movement through Cambodia," Culligan says. "Our intelligence developed information regarding those activities."He has never forgotten his first recon flight."I was looking out the window, and I noticed a heavy stream of oil coming from the one engine," he recalls. "Then I checked the other engine, and it had the same problem, and I figured we were going to die. But I was told the aircraft had been fitted with a huge oil reservoir because the engine seals were so bad."Culligan thought to himself, "Maybe we won't die on this mission."But death was in the air."Later in the same flight, I looked out the window, and a Cambodian fighter plane joined us in formation, about 4 feet off our wing, and the pilot was waving at us," Culligan remembers. "I waved back to the guy as he went into a steep dive toward one of the rebel positions on the ground. He was going to strafe the Khmer Rouge. He went in against that position, and he never pulled out. He went right into the ground."Culligan says he has carried the memory of the pilot's smiling face: "It's a haunting image to this day."Pilots on the recon flights flew with a map in their laps that identified the known enemy surface-to-air missile sites, he explains."We would draw a large circle around the sites, and that represented the effective range of the missile," Culligan says. "But the guys in the back of the plane would give us various headings to locate the radio transmitters that were also on the ground. Sometimes we had to interrupt the collection effort due to the missile sites."Besides kmini storageeping American negotiators at the peace table in Paris up to date, the intelligence was also used for targeting purposes, Culligan says, though the aircraft he flew was unarmed.Later in the war, he piloted a C-141 Starlifter, a four-engine jet transport."We delivered troops, equipment, evacuated orphans, the wounded, and flew congressional delegations on fact-finding missions," he says.In the chaos when the war ended in 1975 as Saigon fell, he was flying overhead and listened to different land and sea radio transmissions. He even saw some of the havoc from above."We heard that the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam was overrun, and South Vietnamese pilots were trying to land on our aircraft carriers. They were bulldozing the helicopters off the flight decks into the ocean," he says, recalling the scene as U.S. officials tried to ensure that the carriers' operational capabilities were not compromised."The South Vietnamese pilots were loading their families on aircraft that had been assigned to them and even putting their animals in the planes and flying them to different bases in Thailand. What they put in these aircraft was beyond the design limitations and certainly not equipped for creatures."At one point, South Vietnamese pilots began strafing American C-130 planes attempting to get off the ground at Tan Son Nhut air base, outside Saigon."Boy, just listening to when they started strafing our aircraft, and the previous day they were allies," Culligan says. "It was horrifying."After the war, Culligan says, his military experience in intelligence collection served as a foundation for what he thought would be an even more interesting career than flying."I applied to the FBI, and because of their foreign counterintelligence mandates, this afforded me a chance to eventually work in counterintelligence and espionage matters," Culligan says. "This was during the Cold War. I ran double agents, and I opened the investigation that led to the arrest of John Walker."Between 1968 and 1985, Walker, who had been a code clerk for the Navy, supplied the Soviet Union with crucial computer code cards that allowed for the interception and deciphering of massive amounts of the secret information transmitted not only by the military, but also by other government agencies, Culligan recalls.Now 64, Culligan has been retired since 2004. He says he misses his FBI days, though "not the stress."Of his service in Vietnam, he said, "It was such an unpopular war, but I never thought of that. I remember people in Thailand being so grateful for our presence."They did not, he says, want to live under Communist rule.Paul W. Culligan, 64-- Hometown: Buffalo-- Residence: Town of Tonawanda-- Branch: Air Force-- War zone: Vietnam-- Years of service: 1971-75-- Rank: Captain-- Most prominent honors: Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals-- Specialty: Reconnaissance pilotCopyright: ___ (c)2013 The Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.) Visit The Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.) at .buffalonews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存

Source: Dayton Daily News, OhioDec.迷你倉尖沙咀 22--The prescription drug Dopamine is so valuable to Dayton Children's Hospital that what is left of its dwindling supply is kept in a vault, accessible only by the medical center's pharmacists.The drug isn't the only one proving difficult to keep in stock; it is one of hundreds in short supply nationwide."When you start hearing about life-saving medications not being available, that gets really scary," said Nancy Severt, pharmacy operations manager at Dayton Children's.Drug shortages have been commonplace for years, but the problem has grown more serious at hospitals and Emergency Medical Service agencies. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 56 drug shortages were reported in 2006; by 2011, the number had climbed to 251. The FDA's list includes drugs that have "the greatest impact on public health."Reasons for increased shortages include fewer manufacturers as some exit the market; quality-control issues and scrutiny by the FDA, which can shut down production; product recalls; increased demand; and a lack of raw materials.The vast majority of drugs deemed to be in short supply are produced by generic drug companies. For example, 64 entries were logged on the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists web site the week of Dec. 9. Thirty of the hard-to-get drugs were made by drug giant Hospira, a suburban Chicago company that recently pledged to invest $1 billion in its operation.The ASHP site currently has more than 300 entries listed under "current shortages." Updated daily, the list includes recognizable names such as heparin, DTaP vaccine, dextrose and caffeine. It also includes exotics such as the black widow anti-venom."Do we have a shortage of stuff that matters? Yes, we do. There's some stuff (on the list) that scares the hell out of me," said Ernest Boyd, executive director of the Ohio Pharmacists Association.Dan Gueth, director of pharmacy at Miami Valley Hospital, said he grapples with drug shortages virtually every day."It's been a nightmare over the last two years," said Gueth, who has been on the job since 1985. "I might have 10 products on my list, but it's likely I'm going to be told about another back order and we have to scramble."Scramble modeHospitals have buyers who search for additional supplies from drug manufacturers, wholesalers and other medical centers when shortages persist.But sometimes, as with the dwindling supply of Dopamine at Dayton Children's, extreme measures are put in place."We have vials of it and make up drips specifically for that patient," Servert said of the drug which sustains blood pressure in critically ill patients. "We're down to probably five vials of Dopomine. We were able to get the adult version of premix bags, so just to make sure it doesn't get intermixed with anything else I've got it locked up in a vault that only the pharmacists can access."The hospital also worries about electrolytes and other injectables used to make formula to feed babies. It also faces decisions on what patients get certain pain medications when they are not in abundant supply.Sometimes, care-givers have to pivot when a drug is discontinued. That was the case in the spring when the supply of the popular sedative chloral hydrate ran out after two drug companies stopped making it in the past five years."The doctors liked the way it acted, they liked the way it didn't linger for hours and hours," Severt said. "The drug companies were making it, but the demand wasn't very high so they decided, 'We're not selling enough to make any money.' Our institution was very reliant on it."We had to start ordering it as a raw powder, so our doctors had to find alternatives. Now ... we do our own testing, compounding and make sure we have a viable shelf life for it."Propofol, the anesthetic made famous in the investigation of the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, currently is produced by a single company. It is a drug Severt says is in "critical shortage" nationwide and at Dayton Children's, which has to administer the drug in smaller doses required for kids."We might use 5-to-10 milliliters out of a 20-milliliter vial. So we'd have a vial that we'd barely use and we'd have to remind our anesthesiologists to throw it out. We can't reuse it."(The shortage) has been going on so long it seems like common practice now."At Miami Valley, Gueth can rattle off a handful of drugs whose availability concern him, despite his pharmacy's buying power as part of Premier Health. For hospitals, shortages can mean extra cost."We have a national contract with our GPO (group purchasing organization) to keep our costs low, but when a product becomes unavailable I might have to pay a higher cost," he said.Dayton Children's is part of a network of more than 30 hospitals that work together to monitor shortages and make timely purchases."As soon as I know it's short in Dallas, I start shopping for that product," said Kevin Myers, the hospital's pharmacy purchasing manager.Experts say the so-called "gray market" is one of the factors that is driving up prices. Manufacturers generally sell their products to wholesalers, which then sell to hospitals. But secondary wholesalers also buy drugs and charge higher prices 0n the drugs they buy."The gray market, in which companies are charging up to 1,704 percent more for a product than what a facility would have to pay, definitely needs to be monitored and price-gouging eliminated," said Donna Smith of Arizona-based Avella Specialty Pharmacy.A bill designed to clamp down on the gray market is pending before a House subcommittee.First-respondersHospitals aren't the only ones being squeezed by drug shortages. First-responders have fought shortages for years.Pain-killers such as Morphine and Fentanyl are staples in ambulances and medical helicopters. But there's no guarantee the drugs will always be available."If you've got the biggest bone in your body, the femur, broken in a car crash, and we're taking you down the road and there are a couple of potholes, you want something for pain -- you deserve something for pain," said David Gerstner, president of the Greater Miami Valley Emergency Medical Services Council. "There have been times where we might not have it."Gerstner said 23 hospitals supply drugs to 118 member agencies in the region through the Drug Bag Exchange Program. After first-responders administer a drug, they take their bags to a hospital for refills.But sometimes they can't get there fast enough."We had some drug bags with no drug to treat seizures," Gerstner said. "So the saying became that the only drug we could use to treat seizures was diesel fuel. Put them in the back of the medic and run like hell to the hospital."Dr. Carol Cunningham has served for nearly 10 years as state medical director for the Ohio Department of Public Safety Division -- EMS. She constantly worries about running out of injectables used to care for cardiac resuscitation, pain control and the management of seizures."It happens every week, there is something short," she said.Closing downManufacturers leaving the business reduces the supply of some drugs. The Ben Venue Laboratory in suburban Cleveland ceased production and is shutting down due to quality-control issues. Its closing will not only cost the small town of Bedford more than 1,000 jobs, it will mean one fewer big player in the drug business.One of the drugs previously made at Ben Venue was Doxil, a popular cancer-fighting injectable. Ben Venue was the only plant in the U.S. that made the drug, but an ongoing shortage was softened when a company in India gained FDA approval earlier this year to produce a brand-name substitute and a generic version of the drug."For a while, (Doxil) was restricted by the manufacturer," Miami Valley's Gueth said. "The company would only ship it if you had a patient that had already been started on the product. Oncologists in the area that may have wanted to start a patient on Doxil but couldn't had to use alternative chemotherapy agents."Quality-control issues are the most prevalent reason for drug shortages. According to the FDA, manufacturing issues and delays or capacity issues accounted for 77 percent of sterile injectable shortages in 2012. Increased demand triggered 7 percent of shortages, as did discontinuation of products."The economic downturn in 2008 precipitated the issue. Manufacturers cut back on spending and some drugs that didn't make money were discontinued, and as a result the production shortages became exaggerated," said Robert Weber, Administrator for Pharmacy Services at th倉 Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Assistant Dean in the College of Pharmacy.Generics and savingsGeneric drugs save consumers big money -- $1.3 trillion in the past decade according to the Generic Pharmaceutical Association. But they also undercut brand-name drugs, which can lead to shortages if the brand-name drug companies cut production.Drug patents expire after 20 years, but exclusive marketing rights can expire much sooner, leaving a small window for brand-name products to reap big profits to fund research and development. Exclusivity, according to the FDA, was "designed to promote a balance between new drug innovation and generic drug competition.""Generic companies -- Bedford, American Regent -- jump in and start making a product when it comes off patent," Dayton Children's Myers said. "That reduces the price, and all the sudden they have problems manufacturing it. It just disappears."Generic companies also undercut each other, which leads to lower profit margins. Still, some think they should see past the bottom line."I believe that manufacturers have a moral and ethical responsibility to continue making lifesaving drugs or drugs that can medically alleviate a severe disease, and to make them affordable for patients and payers when possible," Smith said. "However, many times the shortage is out of their control, and any negative economic impacts cannot be dismissed."Generic drug-makers contacted for this story would not make executives available to answer questions. A Hospira spokesman said the company is "investing hundreds of millions of dollars to help prevent future shortages," and is working to increase capacity at existing facilities, build additional capacity (Hospira is adding a plant in India), and strengthen its supply chain.More production would be good news for Myers, who used to see a couple drug reps every day. Now he sees that many in a week."I had a Bedford sales rep that came in every week and she's gone. American Regent, she's gone. They have nothing to sell," he said. "They're keeping a low profile because they don't like to get pounded. When they come in here, we're all over them because we need the product."Expiration datesOne solution that could ease the drug shortage problem is more lenient expiration dates. The dates are set by the drug companies, but some health districts around the country have extended them on some products. That could only happen in Ohio if all medical agencies agreed.Proponents of such a policy say there is no harm in using drugs that are nearly full strength."I've always felt the expiration dates are for the benefit of the companies," Boyd said. "Does sugar become cheese after three years? If it's packaged properly, it's not going to deteriorate. I wouldn't do it with insulin or anything that has to be refrigerated, but the majority of the stuff we put in tablets is not."There is a program already in place that allows for the use of expired drugs. The U.S. Department of Defense's Shelf Life Extension Program, launched in 1986, extends the dates on some drugs in the federal stockpile. Those drugs must be tested periodically by the FDA, a cost most public agencies could not stomach.The Ohio Department of Health distributed a survey this fall to all EMS agencies asking for a list of drugs critical for medical care, with an eye on pushing for more flexible expiration dates."The frustrating thing for us as physicians is the manufacturers determine the expiration date, not the FDA," Cunningham said."Even if they're 95 percent effective, if that's the only thing out there and if you have one of those conditions -- you're in cardiac arrest or you're having a seizure or real pain -- do you really care if it's 95 percent, as long as it's not contaminated?"Effective drugs taken off shelves when they hit their expiration dateraise medical center costs."You can't flush them down the toilet or throw them in the trash, so we're paying to get rid of something we'd like to keep that's still good and useful, and in some places we don't have a replacement for it," Gerstner said. "This makes sense how?"FDA policyThe FDA wants drug companies to give earlier notice when production lags. The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, signed into law in July 2012, requires manufacturers to report drug stoppages or delays at least six months in advance of the action.The agency is taking comments until Jan. 4 on a rule that would expand the list of drugs that fall under that reporting law.The FDA does not have the power to order companies to make drugs, but it says it works with firms that manufacture similar drugs, asking them to increase production to prevent or reduce the impact of shortages.Meanwhile, hospitals and first-responders search for alternatives if their first choice is not an option, at times putting patients in harm's way."I've heard in the past few years of surgeries being postponed or cancelled because of certain meds not being available," Boyd said. "I wouldn't be scared to ask your hospital in advance if they have the meds you need."Drugs that stop bleeding, check cancer and sedate patients are not the only products pharmacists worry about. Basic formulas are in short supply, too."Sodium bicarbonate was a huge one," Dayton Children's Severt said. "That's baking soda. We just can't get it in a sterile injectable form because the company decided to stop making it."-- Drugs in short supplyThe American Society of Health-System Pharmacists lists more than 300 drugs on its drug shortage bulletin. Here are some of the drugs on the list, with their uses and comments from Miami Valley Hospital Director of Pharmacy Dan Gueth:Atropine: Used to stabilize heart rate after heart attack or during surgery.Status: Currently an anticipated shortage through 2015; getting allocations, repackage multi-dose vials into single-dose syringes to preserve supply at times.Caffeine & Ergotamine Tartrate: Caffeine injectable formulation for headache.Status: Has been unavailable for two years; have been using alternative agents.Epinephrine injection: Emergency treatment for severe allergic reactions.Status: Very limited supply; constantly scrambling to find product to meet our needs; MVH has never run out.Dextrose 50% injection: Pure form of sugar often used to help diabetics.Status: Currently available again; previously, shortage required MVH to repackage from large-volume solutions to smaller 50-ml syringe.Glycopyrrolate: Treats peptic ulcers, dries mouth for surgery.Status: Currently an anticipated shortage through 1st quarter 2014; atropine being used as alternative agent although it is in short supply, also.Heparin infusion bags: Blood thinner that prevents clots in blood vessels.Status: MVH has switched vendors and formulation multiple times to address shortages over the past two years.Methylergonovine: Used to stop hemorrhaging post-delivery.Status: Getting limited supply; will utilize oxytocin if supplies exhausted.Nicardipine: Used for hypertension and for neuro-critical care patients.Status: Supply issues have forced us to bounce back and forth between premix bag and vials that require mixing components; requires more staff time when we mix the components.Prochlorperazine: Used for severe headache in ER, although caffeine was original agent of choice.Status: Unavailable for a long period of time; recently available again but very limited supply.Propofol: Sedative for surgery and other procedures.Status: Currently only manufactured by one company; Hospira's inability to supply (plant shutdown) creating pressure on one vendor to meet demand; currently meeting our demand with allocations.Watch our exclusive video of how staff at Miami Valley Hospital uses technology to better monitor drug supplies at mydaytondailynews.com"It's been a nightmare over the last two years. I might have 10 products on my list, but it's likely I'm going to be told about another back order and we have to scramble."Dan Gueth, director of pharmacy, Miami Valley HospitalVideo: The staff at Miami Valley Hospital uses technology to better monitor drug supplies. See how they do it in our exclusive video at MyDaytonDailynews.com/local."It's been a nightmare over the last two years. I might have 10 products on my list, but it's likely I'm going to be told about another back order and we have to scramble."Dan Gueth, director of pharmacy, Miami Valley HospitalCopyright: ___ (c)2013 the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) Visit the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) at .daytondailynews.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage

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☉記者 唐子韜 ○編輯 陳羽近些年，mini storage國內大大小小的“藝術節”、“雙年展”、“藝博會”，已經成為一些城市文創產業發展中不可或缺的品牌項目。12月6日，第二屆“ART SANYA藝術季”在海南省三亞市亞龍灣百花穀、華宇度假酒店成功開幕。如何在三亞這座以旅遊產業為主要支柱的城市，形成長期、持續的藝術項目，進而發展成為一個城市的旅遊文化品牌，也是本次“ART SANYA藝術季”帶給人的思考。城市與藝術的“不期而遇”第二屆“ART SANYA藝術季”將持續3個月。這屆藝術季集合了雕塑、裝置、影像、繪畫等多種藝術形式的近三百件作品，有多名國內外著名藝術家學者參與，並將舉辦一系列藝術講座和互動，成為這座濱海城市在旅遊旺季的一項“明星”活動。本屆藝術季展覽共分為四個部分，主題展的主題是“不期而遇”：由來自國內與國際的藝術家作品組成；邀請展的主題是“藝術個案”：由兩位國內著名藝術家的個展構成；新銳展的主題是“與未來對話”的青年藝術展；特別展的主題則是“向傳統致敬”，由近現代傳統繪畫大師的經典作品構成。策展人黃篤將本屆藝術季定位為當代藝術在一個全新場所的“不期而遇”。在遠離文化中心的海濱度假旅遊城市舉辦當代藝術展雖然不是首次，但在他看來具有一定的挑戰性。自上個世紀90年代以來，當代藝術的變革總伴隨著“相遇”的問題。從彼時彼地到此時此地，當代藝術一直在經歷著一次次“不期而遇”式的碰撞和衝突。在一個缺乏文化背景的地域，想要將不同文化背景的藝術形式融會其中，並衍生出新的文化特徵來，需要的不僅僅是照搬和挪用。當代藝術是對當下經驗的呈現，對當代問題的質疑或思考；當代藝術的生長需要此時、此地的重新發生。在這一點上，盡管本次展覽與其他國內同類型藝術展在內容選擇上並無太大差別——大多邀請的是當代藝術的主流藝術家、藝術團體。但在遠離文化中心的“自由島”海南，要想重新建立起具有傳承性的當代文化，難度也相當巨大。本次藝術季的國內與國際展的並置，借助了海內外當代藝術主流力量，很好地突出了 “島嶼文化”的可塑性和國際性，並且規避了本地當代文化匱乏的問題。本次“個案展”邀請了方力鈞和邵譯農兩位藝術家。前者是當代藝術的“老明星”，他的架上作品大多已經成為經典，進入了美術史和博物館；而後者，是近些年仍然self storage有充沛創造力的裝置藝術家。在“青年展：與未來對話”中，一些作品沒有顯現出太多的世故圓滑。在對藝術表達材料的實驗探索方面，一些年輕人顯示出了勇氣和洞察力。在最近二十年時間里，中國當代藝術已經從幾次變革的調和中變得中庸。從觀念的求新，到圖像的求新，藝術已經越發表面化、形式化、體制化、經典化。從博物館、展覽、畫廊所構成的系統，到當代藝術家的精英意識和商業頭腦，在藝術體制與市場資本的雙重侵蝕下，當代藝術已經失去了應有的銳氣。當然，由於時間、資金、場地等等客觀原因，我們不可能奢望在短短不到兩年的時間里，在遠離文化大陸的三亞能夠生長出既有銳氣又“接地氣”的藝術。但如果三亞市政府和主辦方想要將“ART SANYA藝術季”承辦成為具有可持續性、品牌性和能夠自我生長能力的項目的話，那就需要在藝術原生態產業鏈的發展上有長遠打算並做足工夫。文化藝術帶動商業地產的延伸據瞭解，山西華宇集團計劃每年斥資千萬，將“ART SANYA藝術季”做成常規項目，並力爭打造成具有三亞城市特色的藝術節。以商業地產為支柱的華宇集團，在太原、大同、北京、三亞等地分別設有多處購物中心、購物廣場、精品商廈、大型超市、星級酒店。據業內人士透露，除已有的亞龍灣百花穀外，未來華宇集團也將在三亞進一步拓展文化商業地產項目。而就在去年，張寶全的今典集團也在三亞連下兩城，拿下三亞海棠灣、三亞灣兩塊地，此舉使今典集團在三亞的三個海灣——亞龍灣、海棠灣和三亞灣將擁有7座五星級以上酒店。作為集團旗下的今日美術館，其藝術品牌項目也得到相應延伸，“今日匯”等巡展藝術項目相繼在三亞展開。可見，文化藝術與商業地產的嫁接，將繼續成為地產商們攻城略地的利器。然而，以當代藝術為主要植入概念的文化產業項目，不應只是文化地產的短期燒錢項目。一陣“文創產業風”刮過，形形色色的“雙年展”、“藝術節”、“藝博會”，也應當成為藝術在某時、某地生根發芽的契機。在碧海藍天的度假勝地，藝術與商業握手。或許來自內地的開發商們在熱衷于藝術的雅趣之外，大多更加在意他們地產項目的拓展可能。但藝術既然為商業服務，就不能只是妝點和擺設，而是要通過資金與政策的扶持，成為能夠與之共處、共生的持續資源。在這方面，“ART SANYA藝術季”開了個好頭，也在盼望著好的結局。迷你倉

　　【本報訊】因未能獲台灣簽證滯留在港兩日的內地旅行團團友，迷你倉經舉辦旅行團的單位多次斡旋，最後15人至昨晚全部由落馬洲返回內地，但雙方均不願透露最新賠償方案。　　滯留在港的是來自內地東北的旅行團，為14天新會港台團，共480人，均為內地保健產品「無限極」的員工及會員，以優惠價3,000至4,000元（人民幣，下同）作團費。170人簽證有問題 撤遊台　　旅行團本月15日由東北出發，19日抵港旅遊觀光後，在20日下午啟程到台灣，惟170人因簽證問題被迫取消行程，同日晚上140人乘旅遊巴經落馬洲送返深圳時，因賠償未達成共識不肯過境，翌日另有30人到紅磡收容中心報警求助。　　負責安排旅行團的「無限極」職員多次與團友談判，最初賠償5,000元，其後再加碼多賠3個月內使用的2,000元機票費，其後，陸續有團友接受方案返回內地。　　惟至昨日仍有1男14女不肯接受賠償方案，堅持要以「假一賠十」作基礎，一儲存倉逗留在落馬洲管制站的旅遊巴持續抗爭「死守」，表示要至在港簽證26日屆滿後才離開。海關跟進 有否違商品例　　至昨晚7時，「無限極」女負責人再次登上旅遊巴展開新一輪談判，雙方經過半小時討論後達成協議，並由旅巴車返內地，雙方未有講出賠償細則。但負責人早前與團友討論時，曾提出願意賠償1萬元的方案。　　事件擾攘過程中，曾有海關人員到場調查，了解是否涉及有人違反商品說明條例，舉辦「零團費」的旅行團。　　另外聖誕長假期展開，首兩日（20、21日）的入境旅客總數為88.6萬，出境則為96.4萬，較去年同期的78.5萬及94.1萬人次，分別上升12.8%及2.46%。　　此外，多間大型商場及百貨公司均加強宣傳，冀吸引市民消費。但零售業管理協會主席麥瑞�認為，明年1月底便屆農曆新年，時間上與聖誕節相距太近，預期未能分散市民的消費力，或令聖誕市道未如理想，她並預測本港今季的零售業總銷售額，只能上升7%至8%。迷你倉最平

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