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台北101購物中心周年慶日前落幕，儲存倉昨（7）日公布周年慶實績，年增超過20%，是營運十年以來最亮眼的周年慶成績。法人指出，直銷商克緹公司將招待3,000名大陸直銷人員10月來台旅遊，並造訪台北101，估計可貢獻營業額數千萬元，有助帶動台北101今年獲利衝9億元、年增二成。台北101發言人劉家豪表示，大陸《旅遊法》頒布，低價旅遊團來台大減，加上國內消費者保守以對，今年上半年台北101購物中心業績大受影響。但從第3季開始，除有暑假旺季，還湧現不少高消費力的自由行旅客，加上9月周年慶業績年增超過20%，表現優於預期，帶動台北101購物中心今年前九月業績年增超過一成。此外，本月還會有大陸直銷商克緹團3,000人來台，將台北101列入必訪景點，有助帶動台北101購物中心業績表現。根據以往經驗，高消費力的陸客至台北101最愛買的是手表，台北101也是唯一集結3P表店的商場，包括百達翡麗（Patek Philippe）、愛彼（Au迷你倉最平emars Piguet）、伯爵（Piaget），預期此大團將可貢獻數千萬元營收。台北101今年步入營運第十年，近幾年不斷優化體質，除調整購物中心4、5樓層，引進精品大店，也看好餐飲是未來趨勢，擴增餐飲比例，明年將陸續擴增餐廳，搶攻白領階層的用餐商機。台北101營收包括購物中心、觀景台門票收入及辦公大樓租金，今年上半年營收達59.65億元，年增11.7%，稅後純益4.41億元，年增一倍，每股稅後純益是0.3元。法人指出，台北101受惠於9月開跑的周年慶活動，下半年營運將優於上半年，估算在精品大店進駐下，帶動業績成長，今年可望連續三年獲利。今年台北101全年營收可望超過120億元，獲利逾9億元，年增二成，每股稅後純益逾0.6元。據了解，台北101從2010年起轉盈，受到不少外資機構青睞，包括摩根、高盛、瑞銀及德意志銀行等紛紛探詢營運方針及IPO進度。台北101已公開發行，預估最快明年在連續三年獲利後，有機會申請上市櫃。迷你倉

信息來源於四川新聞網 / Cited from .newssc.org/成都商報記者 唐小濤核心提示天府新區四大發現成都高新區：中國IT第四極，迷利倉產值首個破2000億；成都經開區：“成都造”汽車，一年生產37.5萬輛；高新綜保區：全球六成以上IPAD從這裡發出；西航港開發區：發展新能源，國內技術線路最全系列報道之一·天府新區2013年，有句關於成都的城市宣傳語令很多人印象深刻：“財富之城，成功之都”。這一年，財富全球論壇和世界華商大會先後在成都舉辦。“財富”源於產業。回望世界大都市發展史，每個城市的崛起與興旺，無不與產業的興衰密切相關。北京、上海、廣州……哪一個一線城市不是因為強大的產業基礎而屹立于中國版圖？近年來，成都一直堅定不移地走“產業立城”的道路，構建起完備的現代產業體系。在這個過程中，天府新區成為產業立城的核心載體。成都範圍內的天府新區由成都高新區（南部園區）、雙流縣、龍泉驛區（成都經開區）、新津縣構成。這裡IT產業發達，汽車產業鏈完備，新能源、新材料產業蓬勃向上，擁有西部最大的航空港；這裡人才雲集，名企�多，世界500強的身影隨處可見；這裡開放開拓，擁有西部通關速度最快的綜合保稅區……僅今年上半年，天府新區成都片區項目便完成投資732.8億元。到2020年，天府新區將實現GDP6500億元以上，由此實現再造一個“產業成都”。現在，讓我們走進天府新區，去發現這份驅動力背後的奧秘。80後創業做手游 月入千萬元發現之一成都高新區（南部園區）地理位置：成都南特色產業：電子信息、生物醫藥、精密機械製造今年，成都高新區成為四川省首個產值破2000億元的園區。天府新區的總體空間布局為“一城六區”，其中“一城”即為天府新城，位於成都高新區（南部園區）。沿人民南路向南，穿過雄偉的天府立交，便進入成都高新區。寬闊的道路，現代化的建築，隨處可見的世界500強LOGO，隨時在提醒人們這裡是一處現代化、國際化的產業之城。由四川和新加坡合作建設的天府新區旗艦項目———新川創新科技園就位於天府新區高新片區中和組團。這是一個創新持續、智慧增長、開放人文的科技新城，總投資超過1000億元人民幣。在天府新區高新片區另一個組團大源，中西部地區首個地下空間綜合開發利用工程-———天府新區高新片區大源商務商業核心區地下空間預計將於今年底前投入使用。這裡還有中國的最大專業軟件園———天府軟件園，32家世界500強企業入駐，數萬IT創業者在這裡追逐夢想。這裡也是成都中國西部移動互聯網產業的新興高地，聚集了約2萬移動互聯網創業者，誕生了尼畢魯、品果科技等蜚聲全球移動互聯網界的知名企業……今年，成都高新區成為四川省首個產值破2000億元的園區。電子信息、生物醫藥和精密機械製造是成都高新區的三大主導產業。其中，電子信息產業已形成集成電路、光電顯示、軟件及服務外包、電子終端製造四大產業集群。在高新區IT產業引領下，成都已成為“中國IT第四極”…… 面對新的全球經濟發展形勢和產業格局調整，高新區正籌劃�動一項名為“三次創業”嶄新發展戰略。8月15日，成都高新區天府軟件園里舉辦了一場盛大的喬遷儀式和戰略發佈會。本土手機遊戲企業尼畢魯科技遷入嶄新的辦公室。這是一個GOOGLE式的辦公室，辦公區與休閒區面積是1：1，休閒區有乒乓球台、大屏遊戲機、桌球台，還有免費糕點、咖啡、零食和水果。發佈會上，一名戴黑框眼鏡的年輕人靜靜地坐在角落。誰能想到，這名衣著普通、沉默寡言的年輕人，竟是這家月均純利潤超1000萬元企業的掌門人———年僅32歲的楊祥吉。為揭開其創富密碼，《華爾街日報》記者曾飛赴成都，蹲點採訪了半個月。5年前，這家企業還只是蝸居居民樓的一個小小創業團隊，創業成本只有3000元，團隊人數不超過10人。今天，尼畢魯科技已發展到300余人。最近，國際權威第三方統計機構App Annie發佈2012年全球移動遊戲企業收入排行榜，尼畢魯入圍前52強。去年起，尼畢魯就有多款手機遊戲登上蘋果AppStore區域暢銷排行榜榜首。首款國產沃爾沃S60L在蓉量產發現之二成都經開區地理位置：成都東南特色產業：汽車產業成都往東，是“四時花不斷，八節佳果香”的龍泉驛。這裡是國家級成都經濟技術開發區所在地。天府新區建設�動後，成都經開區被規劃為“龍泉高端製造產業功能區”，成為四川汽車產業的核心地帶。走進這片區域，人們驚奇地發現，大�、沃爾沃、豐田、吉利、博世底盤、神鋼機械、江森、德爾福……�多世界馳名的汽車及工程機械產業巨頭會聚于此。一汽大�成都基地、一汽豐田成都基地、沃爾沃成都工廠、吉利高原汽車成都基地、一汽新能源客車成都基地、一汽商用車成都基地、瑞華純電動客車成都基地、大運成都卡車成都基地、神鋼集團、卡特比勒、普什重機、南車集團……如今的經開區已聚集九大汽車整車和七大工程機械整機生產項目，以及發動機、變速箱、車轎、制動系統、轉向系統等近千個零部項目，形成了轎車、客車、貨車、越野車、專用車及關鍵自存倉部件等產品體系，企業數量達180多家，其中40家為世界500強。2012年，成都經開區實現整車整機產量37.5萬輛，汽車整車產量占全省70%，比2011年的15萬輛增長了1.5倍，實現產業倍增；汽車產業工業主營業務收入10095億元。根據規劃，2015年以前經開區的汽車產能將達到100萬輛（這一目標已於今年提前實現），產量達到70萬輛，銷售收入為1300億元；2015∼2020年，經開區汽車產量達到125萬輛，銷售收入達到3000億元，汽車全產業鏈將基本成型。天府新區龍泉片區，這個以汽車（工程機械）為主導產業的現代高端製造業基地正在中國西部快速崛起。今年8月28日，沃爾沃成都工廠在成都經開區（天府新區龍泉片區）正式開業投產。該工廠是吉利收購沃爾沃之後在中國開業的首個生產基地，首款國產沃爾沃S60L將於今年第四季度在此量產下線。嶄新的沃爾沃成都工廠擁有衝壓、焊裝、噴漆、總裝四大車間及物流中心、試車場等完整的生產體系，其生產技術標準與歐洲同步。記者瞭解到，“成都造”新款沃爾沃S60L軸距比進口同款轎車更長，乘坐舒適性更佳。生產、測試標準均來自歐洲，並由瑞典總部實時監控。據悉，作為成都工廠的首款車型，S60L初期產量為5萬台，二期將達到10萬台。工廠下一步還將生產其他車型。到2020年，該工廠年產沃爾沃轎車將達到20萬台。全球每10台IPAD 6台發自這裡發現之三高新綜保區地理位置：成都西、西南特色產業：IT製造業常年驅車行駛在成雅高速的司機會發現，去年7月之後，雙流段路邊多了個醒目的指示路牌：成都高新綜合保稅區雙流園區。雙流是成都天府新區的核心地帶。成都高新綜合保稅區雙流園區，就位於天府新區雙流片區範圍內。它是西部通關速度最快的綜合保稅區；它是實現了“區港聯動”的綜保區；雙流園區由成都高新綜合保稅區擴區而成，從批准到建成只花了6個月時間……短短兩年多，全球2/3的iPad和一半的英特爾移動芯片從這裡快速“飛”往世界各地。在全球新一輪產業轉移的浪潮中，國家將綜合保稅區的布局向內陸尤其是中西部地區延伸，成都高新綜保區應運而生。它設立于成都高新西部園區和雙流園區，占地8.68平方公里，西部園區2011年5月25日正式封關運作，雙流園區去年7月3日正式驗收合格，7月25日正式封關運行。在成都高新綜保區，聚集了戴爾、聯想、德州儀器、仁寶、緯創等�多世界知名的IT製造巨頭，芯源、友尼森、中芯國際、達爾科技等IC企業也紮根于此。如今，成都高新綜保區已成為中西部地區集成電路產業的龍頭區域，支撐成都快速崛起為中國IT“第四極”。綜保區目前共有54家企業，其中多家企業為世界500強，員工超過12萬人。成都海關提供的數據顯示，2012年，成都高新綜保區進出口額達到262.2億美元，占全川外貿規模總額的44.4%。今年1∼8月，這裡實現出口總額163.1億美元，占四川省外貿進出口總額的40.3%。市商務局有關負責人認為，成都高新綜保區正在成為成都落實國家區域發展戰略、承接產業轉移的有效平台，發展開放型經濟的有效平台，是內陸的“國際化”引擎。國內技術線路最全的新能源基地發現之四西航港開發區地理位置：成都西南特色產業：新能源產業在天府新區成都區域的規劃中，雙流占據了一半以上的區域。在這裡，新能源產業從“零”開始，迅速發展成為國內技術路線最齊、研發平台最高、產業鏈條最長、發展潛力最大的新能源產業基地。現在，雙流已建成了以天威新能源、漢能光伏為龍頭的太陽能產業集群，以中國核動力研究院、核工業西南物理研究院等為依托的民用核能產業集群；以成都佳電、騰中重工為代表的風能產業集群；以國艦新能源為代表的動力與儲能電池產業集群；以紫光電氣為代表的智能電網產業集群；以蒙特新能源為代表的生物質能產業集群。截至目前，雙流西航港規劃的30平方公里新能源產業功能區已開發建設23.7平方公里，累計引進新能源及配套項目70余個，其工業增加值、銷售收入占全市新能源產業70%。就在前不久舉行的“2013中國（成都）新能源國際峰會”上，四川能投分佈式能源有限公司、四川波特電氣設備有限公司等企業就6個項目簽訂投資協議，協議總投資163億元。如果說新能源產業在天府新區的發展中還處於發芽階段的話，那麼未來幾年，它將綻放出瑰麗的花朵。按照規劃，到2015年、2017年，雙流的新能源產業主營業務收入將分別實現1000億元和2000億元，達到國內一流園區標準。毗鄰雙流的新津縣則是天府新區範圍內的新材料產業功能區。截至目前，天府新區新津分區內新簽約落戶項目66個，總投資464億元，其中引進美國JM等工業項目40個，總投資341億元；引進匯津總部基地、新材料研究院等總部研發及市場項目8個，總投資約69億元；引進新加坡普洛斯物流基地、澳大利亞嘉民物流基地、中國香港欣嘉現代物流等物流項目18個，總投資約54億元。2013年，將力爭實現投產達產重大項目22個，促進建設項目17個，推進已簽約項目儘快開工建設41個。mini storage

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場景一： 香格里拉虎跳峽，mini storage導遊向遊客收取藏民家訪的自費旅遊費用。場景二： 在迪慶州旅遊局，遊客向執法人員投訴，拍攝錄音遭威脅和辱罵。記者6日從雲南省迪慶州旅遊局獲悉，迪慶決定對媒體報道的“香格里拉旅遊亂象”中所涉及旅行社處以100000元罰款，停業整頓1個月；將相應執法人員調離迪慶州旅遊執法支隊；涉事導遊吊銷相應證件。6日，有媒體報道“香格里拉旅遊亂象”後，引起了雲南省各級領導高度重視，雲南省委書記秦光榮、省長李紀�、雲南省旅遊發展委員會主任段躍慶等先後做出重要批示。迪慶州迅速成立工作組，展開調查和處理。經調查，今年8月14日，迪慶香格里拉中青旅行社有限責任公司委派迪慶卡瓦格博旅行社導遊張濤從麗江古城接待前往香格里拉散客拼團39人(39大兩小)，途經拉市海、雄古光景台、第一灣觀景台、遊覽香格里拉虎跳峽景區，晚上自費參加碧納藏民家訪。15日遊覽香格里拉縣納帕海濕地公園等後返回麗江，結束行程。在14日，團隊行至離虎跳峽10公里左右路段，導遊張濤收取藏民家訪費用，每人100元，當時有3人沒有交，導遊將他們攆下車。當團隊15日返回麗江，被攆遊客到麗江市旅遊局進行了投訴。麗江市旅遊局協調迪慶香格里拉中青旅行社向投訴人做出了投訴處理：團款全額退還480元/人；賠償團款40%的違約金，計192元/人。迪慶旅遊局認為，導遊張濤違反了《導遊人員管理條例》相關規定，決定依法吊銷其迪慶州導遊人員上崗從業資格證書和迪慶州導遊上崗證；對導遊段元周(媒體報道視頻中出現的第一self storage導遊)處以吊銷導遊證的處罰；根據《旅行社條例》相關規定，對兩家旅行社處以100000元罰款，停業整頓1個月；將媒體報道視頻中的執法人員調離迪慶州旅遊執法支隊。據央視報道場景再現記者：藏民家訪可以不去吧？導遊：要去！這次我必須要減輕壓力。你連100塊錢都不想花的話，你讓我怎麼辦！記者：你把衣服拉壞了，幹什麼你？導遊：那你下車！沒有錢就不要出來！100塊錢都花不起的話就更不要出來！記者：你不能打人啊，我告訴你。導遊：你信不信我給你(打)散在這裡！執法人員：把它刪掉，刪不掉我就拘留你！遊客：好呀，那我們報警吧。執法人員：你這樣的遊客，我們是不歡迎的。另一執法人員：像你這樣的滾蛋！永遠不要來香格里拉！把你攆掉！我敢說這句話我就做得到！■相關新聞少林寺回應無6000元高香晨報綜合消息 日前，有媒體發表名為《大陸網友評九大“坑爹”景區少林寺榜首》的文章，報道稱，內地網民在十一黃金周前夕評選九大“坑爹”景區，少林寺以一炷香高達人民幣6000元為由，位列榜首。報道稱，“少林寺大雄寶殿前面的香龕里，最細的一炷香比胳膊粗，最粗的一炷香比碗口粗，長都在1.2米左右，一看就不是來燒香的，而是來燒錢的。”河南省登封市旅遊局5日在其微博回應稱，少林景區根本沒有高香，少林寺大雄寶殿前更不會有所謂6000元的高香。同時，該旅遊局稱，請造謠者自重，傳謠者自愛，也請媒體核實後再轉載所謂“十大坑爹景區”，以免誤導公�。同時，河南省登封市旅遊局還在其微博發佈少林寺各大殿香爐的照片，以證明並無高香。mini storage

Source: Dayton Daily News, OhioOct.儲存 06--WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- Most of the 8,700 Wright-Patterson civilian employees among the 350,000 Department of Defense workers sent home on emergency furlough will return to work this week, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced Saturday.The Pentagon did not have an estimate of how many, but in a conference call with reporters on Saturday, Department of Defense Comptroller Robert Hale said he expected 90 percent or more of the furloughed employees will be called back. "No more than a few tens of thousands will remain on furlough and it may be substantially less than that," he said."We'll do it just as quickly as we can," Hale told reporters. "We want them back."Wright-Patterson spokesman Daryl Mayer said Saturday work supervisors will need time time to determine which and how many employees would be recalled. He expected the number will be known Monday. "We have already started the process to identify eligible employees and hope to initiate the recall process soon," a base statement said. "While we believe all our employees should be brought back, this is welcome news and we are grateful to take this important step forward."Employees who contribute to the "morale, well-being, capabilities and readiness of service members" will be told to report to work, Hagel said in a statement. Also, workers whose long-term absence would cause undo harm, such as intelligence analysts and those who are involved in acquisition, contracting and logistics, will be called back, Hale said. Those are key areas of employment at Wright-Patterson at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and Air Force Materiel Command headquarters.Hale said military commanders would decide when to recall reserve and Guard technicians, who are dual civilian and military personnel, back to the job.Pentagon officials worked with Department of Justice lawyers to interpret the "Pay Our Military Act," which Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law just prior to a partial federal government shutdown. The law allowed the Defense Department to bring back most but not all civilian employees while the shutdown continues, but does not apply to reservists and Guardsmen, defense officials said.'A good step forward'"It's clearly a good step forward for the Dayton economy and for national defense and we can only hope that the rest of the government can be put back to work as soon as possible," said Michael Gessel, Dayton Development Coalition vice president of federal programs in Washington, D.C.The furlough of the Wright-Patterson employees has had a $5 million economic impact based on the loss of $2.1 million in employees' wages daily, according to base officials."I'm grateful that this is resolved, and I'm glad that folks are back to work because we all know it would have had a significant economic impact if we let this continue in the direction it was going," Phillip L. Parker, president and chief executive officer of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, said Saturday.Troy Tingey, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 214, said he was glad many workers will return to their jobs, but disappointed everyone won't. His union represents thousands of employees at Air Force bases across the country, including Wright-Patterson."It's very disheartening that we're not getting everybody back to work and we're getting this budget passed and taken care of," he said.U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton and chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, said civilian employees should never have been furloughed under the "Pay Our Military Act." He had sent letters to Obama and Hagel asking why civilian workers had been kept off the job, and co-sponsored the "Support Our Armed Services Act," which would return to work all defense civilian and contractor employees."The president should not have furloughed anyone at the Department of Defense," he said Saturday. "The law that we passed said that all civilians that work in support of the armed forces" were exempt.Repeated attempts were made Friday and Saturday to reach White House officials for comment.Todd Harrison, a Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, said some federal officials had complained the law wasn't clear on who could and could not be furloughed.Hale said federal employee pay freezes, six unpaid furlough days this summer and the partial shutdown have "seriously damaged civilian morale," adversely impacted military readiness and disrupted planning for a round of sequester budget cuts.The shutdown has been felt immediately at Wright-Patterson. The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force was temporally closed. Classes at the Air Force Institute of Technology were suspended. Flights at the 445th Airlift Wing were curtailed.Even a partial shutdown "brings a suspension of many support activities that contribute to the effectiveness of the fighting force," said Loren B. Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va. "Even a little thing like all of the domestic commissaries closing has an impact on morale."The shutdown arrived just weeks after an unpaid furlough of six days for 10,000 civil service workers at Wright-Patterson and more than 600,000 within the Department of Defense. Those were caused by billions of dollars in automatic cuts under budget sequestration. The shutdown has come as Republicans in the House have refused to pass a federal budget that does not delay or de-fund the Affordable Care Act, and Democrats in the Senate have rejected any budget proposals that cripple the ACA.National security at risk?U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, claimed this week the furlough of thousands of intelligence agency workers, such as those at NASIC, put the nation at greater risk of a terrorist attack.In a statement to Congress, Feinstein said a total of 72 percent of the civilian intelligence workforce throughout several federal government agencies was sent home because of the government shutdown. The figure was based on a report from National Intelligence Director James Clapper."Simply stated, this is unacceptable," Feinstein said in a statement. "The failure of this Congress to perform its most basic functions means that our country is at heightened risk of terrorist attack."The lack of intelligence analysts could put soldiers in the field and diplomats in embassies overseas at risk, Feinstein said.As with theself storagesequester this year, the shutdown had adversely affected Air Force readiness while the service has struggled to replace an aging fleet, Thompson said. Air Combat Command, which flies fighter jet and bomber operations, had curtailed flights because of the shutdown."I think you need to look at the shutdown as just the latest installment in a series of budget setbacks that are really damaging the Air Force," Thompson said. "You can't do this to a military service without it having a negative impact on readiness.Defense industry waitsThe defense industry could have faced "tens of thousands" of furloughs if the shutdown continued, according to the Aerospace Industries Association.But that concern was apparently averted Saturday when defense officials said Defense Contract Management Agency inspectors, who audit and approve parts and production of military equipment, would be brought back on the job. The AIA had warned many production lines may have had to shut down without the inspectors.Without them, for example, United Technologies' Sikorsky Aircraft announced it would layoff 2,000 workers Monday in three states working on production lines for the Black Hawk helicopter. That number could have doubled a week later and exceed 5,000 workers by next month, the company said.GE Aviation spokesman Matt Benvie said in an email government contracts awarded prior to the shutdown were unaffected."In the short term, we may see a decrease in productivity in working with our government customers who are furloughed," he said in an email last week. "Employment remains stable at GE Aviation and that's driven by strong domestic and international demand for our products."The government shutdown would cause 29 percent of contractors to delay hiring, according to an Oct. 1 survey of 925 members of the National Association of Government Contractors. Fifty-eight percent of respondents reported the shutdown would have negative effect on their business.Deborah Gross, executive director of the Dayton Area Defense Contractors Association, said many defense contractors have waited to find out the future of government contracts and depend on answers from bureaucrats who were furloughed."All that just sits because the government is not there to do (its) job," she said.The "haphazard" way politicians have dealt with the federal budget has hurt the defense industry, she said."We are at a point in America where we need to be as productive as we possibly can be and our elected officials have thrown roadblocks in front of us making us nonproductive," she said. "It's pretty absurd."She's concerned the retention of a skilled workforce could become an issue. "I think we're going to lose huge talent and I think our region just cannot afford to tolerate losing that kind of talent," she said.At Modern Technology Solutions Inc., the shutdown could have had a mixed impact depending on when defense contracts expire, said Scott Coale, director of operations of MTSI's Beavercreek office of 55 employees. The company offers consulting and professional services, such as modeling simulation, to Wright-Patterson.Prior to Saturday's announcement by the Pentagon, company officials were "having to go through contract to contract" to determine the status of contracted work, said Coale, a retired vice commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory.The company has not laid off any employees in Beavercreek, but if the partial shutdown became prolonged it may have had to ask employees to take vacation time or go on unpaid leave, he said.The months of budget uncertainty has led defense companies to curb hiring and slow or stop investment in research and development on projects that could benefit national defense, he said."We're not hiring or willing to take the risk we have in the past," he said. "I think there's a reluctance right now in companies to invest because they don't know what the future holds."Wright-Patt impactThe Air Force Materiel Command, headquartered at Wright-Patterson, furloughed 24,000 civilian workers at nine bases across the country, including 1,000 within the AFMC headquarters building, according to spokesman Ron Fry."Every one of these people supports our mission in some way and their absence is being felt," Fry said in an email Friday. He did not have additional information Saturday after the Defense Department announcement on ending most furloughs.AFMC, which manages roughly $50 billion in Air Force accounts, has the core missions of science and technology research and development, "cradle to grave" life cycle management of aircraft and equipment, and test and evaluation.The Air Force Research Laboratory fared better than most other defense agencies during the partial shutdown. AFRL kept most of its 4,000 civilian employees off furlough time with money from the previous fiscal year, said Ricky Peters, AFRL executive director."On the heels of six days of furlough this summer, even though the workforce is still here, this is still another hit to morale," he said.Because of the shutdown, the agency stopped awarding small business contracts temporarily, he said.Col. Cassie B. Barlow, 88th Air Base Wing commander at Wright-Patterson, said in an interview last week while the base has continued to send airmen "down range" on wartime operations to Afghanistan and elsewhere, the wide-ranging impact of the shutdown postponed all but emergency maintenance and closed some base facilities.It's also raised questions among the 3,200 "excepted" civilian employees concerned about whether they will be paid while they continue to work in jobs deemed critical, she said. Defense officials said Saturday those employees would be paid for their work.Read the complete story...The story you're reading is premium content for subscribers of the Dayton Daily News, Springfield News-Sun, Hamilton JournalNews and Middletown Journal. Not a subscriber? Get total access to all our in-depth news and exclusive content here.Read MyDaytonDailyNews.com now -- 24-hour digital pass99? for 24 hoursRead MyDaytonDailyNews.com all week -- weekly digital pass$3.99 per weekSubscribe for as little as 33? per dayView OffersFor Subscribers: Register your account for digital access.Access DigitalFor Subscribers: Sign in here if you have already registered your account.Sign InBrought to you by:ChampionReid HospitalRich RoofingKorrect PlumbingCopyright: ___ (c)2013 the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) Visit the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) at .daytondailynews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷利倉

Source: Dayton Daily News, OhioOct.迷你倉 06--A panel of health-care experts from Southwest Ohio was selected to dissect the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its key provisions to help readers understand how the law affects them.Bryan Bucklew, president and chief executive officer, Greater Dayton Area Hospital AssociationBucklew has been in this position eight years. The association represents 29 hospitals including those belonging to Kettering Health Network, Premier Health and Springfield Regional Medical Center. The group, with hospital representatives, focuses on quality improvement, public policy analysis, health care information technology, disaster preparedness and data analytics. Bucklew is the liaison between GDAHA, legislators and community leaders.Other positions he has in the community include: co-chairman, Montgomery County ACA Implementation Task Force; board chairman, Conference of Metropolitan Hospital Associations; board chairman, AIDS Resource Center of Ohio; board member, CultureWorks; and advisory board, A Special Wish.James Haubrock, shareholder and chairman of employee benefit plan services, Clark Schaefer HackettClark Schaefer Hackett is a public accounting firm with offices in Springfield, Miami Twp. and Cincinnati.Haubrock has served as chairman of CSH's employee benefit plan services for 11 years. He oversees the quality of those services, as well as training. He also consults with clients on employee benefit plans, in conjunction with CSH's qualified plan administration and consulting team.Haubrock helps clients design, evaluate, manage and determine which health care plan is best for them.Additionally Haubrock sits on the American Institute of CPAs Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center Executive Committee.Erin Hoeflinger, president, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in OhioErin Hoeflinger was named president of Anthem in Ohio in 2008. Anthem, which has its main offices in Deerfield Twp. in Warren County, is the largest health benefits company in the state with more than 3 million members.Hoeflinger is responsible for corporate strategy, planning and execution, and is the primary contact for state regulators.Hoeflinger also is a member of the Ohio Business Roundtable, the Governor's Advisory Council on He文件倉lth Care Payment Innovation, the Health Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce and the Dayton Development Coalition. She is a board member of medical equipment maker Midmark.Dr. Gary LeRoy, associate dean for student affairs and admissions, Wright State University Boonshoft School of MedicineIn 2008, LeRoy was appointed to his current position of associate dean. He works with the 400 medical students at Wright State, from their admission through graduation and into residency. He advises the school's senior leadership on medical education, including recruitment, admissions, academics, tuition and fees.LeRoy is past-president of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians, a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and a fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians. LeRoy also currently serves as medical director of the East Dayton Health Center.Scott Streator, vice president, health insurance marketplace product line, CareSourceStreator joined the Dayton-based nonprofit health plan in 2013 in his current role.Streator brings about 25 years of health care leadership experience in positions such as vice president of new business development and strategy for a national insurer, chief executive officer of the Ohio State University Health Plan Inc. and involvement in the first Health Care Preservation Plan for the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System, according to CareSource.At CareSource, Streator is working to design and develop individual insurance models and options.CareSource is Ohio's largest Medicaid managed care plan.Michelle (Mickey) Sweeney, insurance broker, Wallace & Turner Inc.Sweeney has been a broker specializing in life, health and retirement plans since 1982. She has been with the Springfield insurance agency Wallace & Turner Inc. since it merged with her previous firm in 1994.Sweeney is past president of Springfield Life Underwriters and active with National Association of Health Underwriters.Wallace & Turner sells individual health plans, including Medicare, and group health plans for employers of all sizes.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) Visit the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) at .daytondailynews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services存倉

Source: Daily News, Los AngelesOct.迷利倉 06--A review of 40 years' worth of Los Angeles Unified personnel files that cost $400,000 over the past 20 months led to the resignations of two teachers and the recommendation that two more be fired for misconduct, according to district officials.Two additional teachers remain under investigation for inappropriate behavior with students, officials said, and two others were cleared of wrongdoing and returned to the classroom.Those eight cases are the result of what officials call simply "the file project" -- a search through four decades of school-site records for letters, complaints or other reports of inappropriate behavior that may have been ignored or mishandled. Officials said they flagged 8,972 files for further review, but ultimately found just eight that warranted a full-fledged investigation.Superintendent John Deasy ordered the file search in February 2012, after the Miramonte sex-abuse scandal sparked concerns about the prior handling of misconduct allegations."I didn't know what we would find, but I didn't want any more surprises when it came to misconduct," Deasy said in an interview last week. "I've now taken all the steps that I know of to make sure there's no misconduct that should have been acted on that wasn't."District General Counsel David Holmquist declined to provide any details of the allegations contained in the eight files."I don't think we're prepared to say whether they were sexual or physical," Holmquist said. "The common denominator is that we felt that -- consistent with our practice and policy -- it put students at risk and so they (the teachers) were pulled (from the classroom)."Officials said some of the files had only one document while others were much more extensive. In one instance, the alleged abuse occurred "many years ago." In some cases, the records showed the teacher had been verbally reprimanded for past misconduct, then allowed to return to the classroom.Since Miramonte, however, teachers accused of misconduct are pulled from their classroom and "housed" in administrative offices during investigations that typically take months. Those found to have endangered the well-being of students are put on the track for dismissal.Officials said one teacher identified in the file project resigned as soon as the investigation was opened, and the seven others were housed while their cases were reviewed. Only the two cleared of the allegations returned to class.When Deasy launched the file project, he ordered the principals at more than 900 campuses to comb the file of every teacher or classified employee who'd ever worked at the school. He later narrowed the focus to 40 years because some schools are more than a century old and the task proved overwhelming.The nearly 9,000 files with records of inappropriate activity were digitized, then reviewed by 20 retired administrators who were temporarily brought back to pore through the records.Human Resources Executive Director Vivian Ekchian said the retirees worked in two-person teams and had to agree whether or not a case warranted further scrutiny. If the partners disagreed, a third administrator was brought in to make the final decision.Focusing only on employees who still worked for the district, the review teams came up with eight cases that自存倉warranted full-fledged investigations. For that, the district created teams made up of school-site administrators, experts from the district's Inspector General's Office and retired investigators brought back from LAUSD's own police department.They were tasked with tracking down former principals, co-workers and students -- some found to be living in Riverside or San Bernardino counties -- so they could be asked about alleged incidents that took place years earlier."It was very difficult," Ekchian said. "These are student witnesses or adults who are no longer working for us. The investigators had to check multiple addresses and look at yearbooks and ask for individuals who might recognize or know about them."Since February 2012, officials said, the retired administrators and investigative teams spent roughly 5,600 man-hours on the file project.The district had budgeted $400,000 for the effort and spent nearly that -- $122,600 for the administrative review and $272,000 for the investigation.That cost doesn't factor in the hundreds of hours that Ekchian's Human Resources team spent on the file project or the efforts of principals who had to rummage through school basements and storage sheds for files dating back to the year Richard Nixon was elected president."When I think about the immense effort, I question whether it was worth going back that many years," said Judith Perez, president of Associated Administrators of Los Angeles, the union representing the district's principals."Our top priority is the safety of children. We agree with that, no question. But the huge amount of time and energy I think was over the top."But district officials say it was worth the cost and effort to ensure the safety of the district's students.They do not want a recurrence of Miramonte, the Los Angeles school where former teacher Mark Berndt of Torrance is accused of molesting 23 students. He has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges and is awaiting a preliminary hearing.The district, meanwhile, has agreed to pay about $30 million to settle claims filed by 63 alleged victims of Berndt. An additional 65 claims have yet to be resolved."If the district has in its power the ability to go through files and make sure that child abusers aren't in our current employment, we need to do that," said school board member Tamar Galatzan, who has pushed efforts to hire professional investigators to handle misconduct cases.The Miramonte scandal prompted a number of reforms, including one that requires parents to be notified within 72 hours if an employee at their child's school is housed for misconduct.Officials also plan to hire a team of professional investigators by December to look into allegations of teacher misconduct. They're also working to create a centralized database of personnel records -- including the 9,000 in the file project -- so they can better track employee discipline."This was worthwhile," Holmquist said. "We can say we've gone back and reviewed all the files in the district and found just a very small number that warranted some teachers for a further look. Hopefully, that gives some people a feeling of some comfort."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Daily News (Los Angeles) Visit the Daily News (Los Angeles) at .dailynews.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage

十月危機再現。美國國會未能通過預算案，self storage華府須局部關閉；同時，要是國會未能在10月17日前批准提高發債上限，隨時演變成債務違約事件。一旦債務違約，美債評級下降，債息抽升，推高環球利率，破壞力甚於聯儲局「收水」，但市場人士相信大限前各方應可達成協議，結束這場政治鬧劇。有基金經理更教路，趁大市震盪，低吸第四季有望跑出的股份，包括出口、環保節能，以及受惠內地放寬一孩政策的股票。記者 郭慧儀美國預算案問題陷入僵局，華府自10月1日起局部關閉，而提高國債上限問題也逼在眉睫。雖然如此，但環球股市上周並未出現恐慌，反映市場並不相信違約會出現。不過，國泰康利資產管理行政總裁康禮賢說，若真的不能達成協議，美國公營部門將須削減職位，壓縮開支，對美國經濟肯定構成威脅，而在此關鍵時刻，這將令環球經濟再次陷入衰退，對風險資產失去信心，即使量寬（QE）繼續，環球股市也將受到傷害。卓百德：美暫難收水康禮賢指出，現在政治角力佔了上風，他估計美國財政開支的談判，要到接近月中的最後期限才會達成協議。Portwood Capital董事卓百德也相信，兩黨最終會協議作出安排，例如暫時提高債務上限，把問題延後幾個月。在債務違約陰影籠罩下，結束量寬反而暫不會成事，卓百德預期，今年內聯儲局不會減少買債，最早明年首季才會再談及減少買債。星展銀行財資市場部執行董事王良享則認為，若債務違約美國利率固然飆升，但若達成暫時共識，通過暫時增加債務上限，若干月後再商討，則在此情況下，市場避險情緒升溫，從2011年美國國債被下調評級的例證，美息將不升反跌，因此美債評級雖降，依然是安全資產，因此美息未必上升。熱錢重回亞洲股市王良享更認為，即使到期未能提高發債上限，部分債券會違約，但未必包括美國國債。可能出現的情況是，一直拖延至經濟有起色，政府收入增加，毋須再提高債務上限。其實，美政府部門已在強制節省開支，所以政府開支已在壓縮，即使發債上限不提高，實際收支情況未必如想像中壞。「結束量寬」被擱置一旁，王良享估計今年最後3個月，聯儲局將不會提出減少買債，也不提加息，若出現重大風險，令股市大挫，「收水」、加息等將更不會提出。候任的聯儲局主席，似乎比現任伯南克更為鴿派，所以，他估計第四季環球利率不會大升。資金近期重回亞洲，包括中資股，道富銀行環球市場高級董事總經理姜則文表示，亞洲市場包括中資股、台、韓、菲律賓股市均錄得不俗流入，南亞股市如印尼、印度及馬來西亞，則有流出。高盛稱，自5月份160億美元外資流出北亞，上月該區錄顯著資金流入，該行估計，第四季資金由南亞流入北亞將持續。康禮賢亦認為，資金將由南亞較細小的經濟體系，轉移至北亞，特別是從往來帳赤字的地區流出，而中國經濟在此時相對穩定。炒三中全會有好消息市場預期，第四季港股有上升動力，建銀國際研究部董事總經理及主管蘇國堅認為，第四季港股有兩項上升動力，一是第三季度盈利，二是三中全會。他估計，企業第三季度盈mini storage不俗，汽車、化工、濠賭股，均錄得盈利增長，與6、7月比較，電機行業增長亦理想。化工、燃氣、電機等行業，將受惠原材料價格下降，邊際利潤好轉。　　至於11月舉行的三中全會，蘇國堅估計，將提出政策方向，包括金融改革、城鎮化及價格改革等，料成為股市上升動力，但亦視乎政策是否詳細。　　康禮賢估計，城鎮化包括戶口改革、地方債等，都是當前改革重點，他估計，利率市場化料不會太快推行，而當局將首先致力發展環保及內部消費方面，部分項目將獲得較寬鬆的資金供應，但不會如2008及2009般大量增加流動性，3月時市場期望當局推出刺激經濟措施，但現在證實不會實現。鄺民彬：年底見24000　　然而，他對第四季港股並不悲觀，認為中國經濟的正面因素，並未完全在港股中反映，北京當局將繼續強調好消息，加上今年之內「收水」可能性低，周期性的盈利恢復，將支持港股向上。卓百德則認為，第四季環球將保持相對寬鬆的流動性，不過盈利可能未如市場預期樂觀，因此他認為仍有下跌風險。　　凱基證券研究部董事鄺民彬估計，第四季港股將反覆上試高位，但10月份會向下調整，不利因素包括債務上限、傳統股災月，以及中國宏觀數據難預計。然而，他認為到了10月下旬，大市將反彈，因三中全會召開在即，加上臨近年底氣氛好轉，但�指升至24000點將見阻力，估計將在22000點至24000點之間徘徊。　　第四季可看好的股份，包括三中全會相關國策股、出口股及高息股：國策股：環能最吃香瑞信董事總經理兼首席經濟分析員陶冬表示，政府改革、稅務改革（包括調低企業稅）、土地改革（農村土地轉讓）、價格改革、城鎮化及社會安全網，都是未來改革重點，但這次三中全會不會公布太多細節，他相信最少需時1年，才能訂定部分政策細則。陶冬認為，最容易推行、阻力最小的，相信是二孩政策，准許多生一胎，將有1800萬名嬰兒出生，可以造就2萬億元的需求，對國家而言，這是推動經濟的良好動力，而且不費一分成本。除了二孩政策，環保節能也將是政策重點，當局今年以來公布過多項改善環境措施，包括改善北京空氣質素，早前公布太陽能發補貼方法等，相關政策將較易推動。出口股：走出谷底陶冬預期，已發展國家經濟增長將好轉，估計2014年歐美的財政壓力將減少，美國職位數目有所增加，歐洲財政壓力有所改善，這並不是說歐債危機消除，而是最壞的時刻已過去。歐美經濟有所改善，有助中國出口，出口股值得看好。高息股：食價不食息高息股早前因聯儲局「收水」預期，股價大幅調整，然而第四季「收水」無望，短暫高息股料靠穩，不過利率始終已見底，高息股升勢難望如過去一兩年，只能低吸，上升即食胡。投資組合中持有高息股，也是基金經理的做法，卓百德表示，他持有一些高息股作收息用途，包括藍籌股如長和、怡和及煤氣（003）等，也有日本房地產信託基金。他認為穩健及有穩定股息回報，是合適的投資策略。不過，卓百德的高息股在低位時買入，已持有一段日子，並非股價飆升時高位追入。迷你倉

Source: Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.存倉Oct. 06--What began as a hobby for Bob Tucker in 1973 has turned into a full-fledged photography business that has spanned four decades.With just one location, Focalpoint Studio in Orleans, offers business photography, modeling and acting portfolios as well as personal and family portraits and restoration projects.Tucker, who manages to pull in business from all over the Cape -- and beyond -- believes his longevity has much to do with staying current with technology and diversifying customers' options while staying consistent with product and delivery.While he said that keeping up with technology is always a challenge in his field, if you "know your stuff" and have fun while you are shooting, the perfect picture will always develop just right.What's the most important thing your business does?In terms of the bread and butter of this business, it's the family portraits. And I think that giving people a good product -- especially when they are happy about the pictures -- is the best thing that we do. It's a time when people are together -- and usually a happy time, generally speaking. Even with weddings, it's great to be around people when they are having all this fun, and providing them with a lasting portrait is great. Also, when it comes to restoration, I see works from 100 years ago that we are fixing. And when you think about it, the piece was important back then and it is important now. I have been doing this a long time and I love what I do. I feel that when I'm posing people on the beach and getting things in place, I almost feel like I'm on stage and performing. I know it sounds kind of weird, but I love giving people a good product and making them happy.How long have you been in business?I started Focalpoint in January of 1973. Photography was a hobby at one point. And then, as I saw professional photographers around at venues or weddings, I thought to myself that I would really like to do that. A friend of mine started the business with me -- his name was Peter Blatz -- but he left after about a year, and I decided to continue on. At the beginning I just did family portraits and weddings, and then when I moved into a storefront I started diversifying into doing passport photos, photo restoration, business headshots, modeling portfolios, and acting headshots. Now we have diversified further and we do photo restoration work, we do printing, digital imaging, and also lot of printing for artists that is called giclee printing. We also photograph a lot of artwork and we have artists that come from Pocasset and Sandwich because they like the quality -- and we also work hard to get the color right for them.What did you do before?Well, I am currently also a part of a Realtor team with my wife, Sally, at Kinlin Grover. And I've also done a lot of local community-theater acting. But besides that, it has always been photography. I wasn't even supposed to be a photographer. I went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for problem-solving, but the photography business has always just caught my eye. But I guess, when I think about it, you never know what's going to cross your path. When I first opened my storefront, I did work with Jim Giberti. We had a recording studio here in addition to the photography studio. I was more of an executive producer. He had the talent and I provided the space. Somehow, he expanded it into advertising and we had some things on the radio. (That entity, the Imagination Co., is now in Bethel, Vt.) We did jingles for Sundancers, Goucho's, and he wrote the jingle for the Lobster Claw restaurant. We recorded that in this building and it was fun. We even did the jingle for Barbo's. They wanted to re-record their jingle and all Jim had to work from was from was a 16-millimeter movie soundtrack. So he wrote the arrangement from listening to the soundtrack and we re-recorded the original. And I believe they still use it to this day. That was a lot of fun.How big is your staff? Has your staff grown since starting out?Right now, it's just me here. At the peak of my business ,I had one full-time worker and one part-time person. I have always had a small shop and having computers is almost like having another employee. While one computer is crunching something, I can be working on another. When I started, I was a one-man operation and now I have reverted back to that. It makes the day interesting and I am able to move from one thing to the next with ease.How has the market changed since your business started?In 2008, we definitely saw a drop in sittings. Family portraits are pure disposable income and you can always put off a family portrait. So we definitely struggled a bit. I tried to fill the gaps and diversify what I offered here and I really pushed re儲存torations and printing for artists. But I did see a bump in business last summer -- and this summer was definitely busier and portrait orders were bigger. Even restoration business was bigger and we have been busier this fall.What are your plans for your business' future?In this business, because of ever-changing technology, you really just never know. Things have changed so much over the last 40 years. Back in '73 we were using film and the cameras were all manual. There wasn't a battery then. You really had to just know your stuff. You had to trust what you were shooting, and that you were exposing the film properly. You had to trust your knowledge and really get the job done. The camera stayed the same for decades. I used a Hasselblad, a large-negative camera. Over time, the film slowly got better, got more sensitive for low light, but it was never like it is now. In 2001, all of a sudden there was digital photography and it changed the whole game. When I first started digital, I didn't trust it. By 2002, 2003, I began to give in and trust a little more. For the future, I think customers will be more interested in increasing amounts of digital products and that will be a challenge. I think the method of delivery of a product may change also. When you think in terms of digital frames I think we will see more of that: big wall frames that people can change the image when they want to. It has always been a challenge keeping up with technology. Even when digital technology came along for the first few years, I think we bought new cameras every year because they kept getting cheaper. And now its settled down a bit but, hey, in a few years you just never know.What's the best thing about having a business on the Cape?The best thing about having a business on Cape Cod is that I love the Cape. I have spent every summer of my life here and I have been here year-round since 1972. Plus, for my business, I can't imagine doing what I'm doing in an urban setting or even suburban Boston. Not every photographer in the United States has beaches to shoot at. When I first started photography, we weren't doing beach portraits -- we did photos in the home and the yard early on. But at the beach, there's something about the light here. The morning light at Nauset Beach is different than the afternoon light at Skaket Beach.What's the biggest challenge to having a business on the Cape?There's a limited geographic area that I can draw from. Inland photography has a decent radius and population base that they can work off of. We have this little sandbar that doesn't have the population area. I think that's also a reason why a lot of the family-portrait business we have consists of visitors. Most of them want to do shoots here so they can remember their time here. Other challenges are that there are too many photographers here. When I started in this business, there were about 10 photographers on the Cape. Now there are around 60. With equipment being reasonably priced and at a good quality, it enables more people to get into this business. When I started, the equipment was so expensive. Also, you were shooting film and it was expensive getting it processed. Now you can just upload it onto the computer.What's your most memorable moment with this business?I've shot Kevin McHale, Dermot Mulroney, but I think one of the most ultimate thrills was shooting Julie Harris. Back in '94, I started doing shoots at the Academy of Performing Arts, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Chatham Drama Guild, Harwich Junior Theater, Cape Rep Theatre, Eventide, and Cape Cod Community College. So at one time, I was working for seven theaters, but that has dwindled -- again, because with digital photography, some of them feel they can now do it on their own. So anyway, one of the thrills was when Julie Harris did "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" up at WHAT. I was shooting her dress rehearsal and, with those kinds of shoots, I can move around the way I want, and I can anticipate entrances sometimes and know where to be. For this shoot, I was able to get so close to her when she was doing just full-on acting, and that was definitely a thrill for me. There was so much going on and the lighting was so cool.What advice do you have for someone starting out in business on the Cape?First off, take business courses. I don't think going to a photography school is necessary, although there are some good ones like Hallmark in Turners Falls. But they are good because half of their courses are business courses. The alternative to taking courses is to be an apprentice with an established photographer.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, Mass.) 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10月4日，迷利倉鳳凰古城內的“人海”。新華社發新華社“新華視點”記者 周 蕊 王 蔚這個國慶長假，國內多地景區遊客爆棚，再度上演“步步驚心”。業內人士分析認為，帶薪休假在我國還沒有全面落實的情況下，黃金周旅遊景區出現擁堵將會是常態，對此，各地政府以及旅遊主管部門應加快旅遊配套設施建設，提高公共服務水平以及提升旅遊服務質量。黃金周又成黃金“粥”景區逢節必“爆棚”九寨溝滯留了，西湖擠爆了，故宮“超限”了……不是堵在路上就是癱在景區里，這個國慶長假，超負荷運行的景區成為最大的熱點。10月2日，四川九寨溝景區入園人數超載，上下山通道陷入癱瘓，4000余遊客滯留在山上。同日，杭州西湖風景區各個景點單日累計客流量首次超過100萬，故宮接待遊客17.5萬，超過測算的遊客量上限一倍多。全國假日辦公告顯示，從3日下午開始，各地陸續發生景區容量超載問題，接到遊客投訴反映河南雲台山、湖南張家界、山東嶗山、貴州梵淨山等景區接待人數超載、遊客滯留問題。事實上，無論是今年的“五一”小長假還是去年國慶“黃金周”，熱門景區都曾經遭遇過“爆棚”。聯合國世界旅遊組織咨詢專家、上海財經大學旅遊管理系主任何建民指出，熱門景區在自然、人文資源方面往往具有不可替代性，正是由於這種不可替代性，才導致在居民出游意願集中釋放的時段里，熱門景區出現“爆棚”的現象，在短期內國內休假制度難以改觀的情況下，節假日集中爆發的遊客需求與有限的熱門景區承載能力之間的供需不平衡將長期存在。承載量計算存“灰色空間”供給不足可管理需求10月1日正式實施的《旅遊法》第四十五條明確規定：景區接待旅遊者不得超過景區主管部門核定的最大承載量。景區應當公佈景區主管部門核定的最大承載量，制定和實施旅遊者流量控制方案，並可以採取門票預約等方式，對自存倉區接待旅遊者的數量進行控制。然而，記者調查發現，由於計算方式不盡明確、景區門票依賴心理嚴重、核定景區承載量的主管部門多頭等原因，公佈最大承載量在實施效果上存疑。北京旅遊委在其官網上推出的“北京景區舒適度指數播報”就對包括故宮、頤和園等數十個景區的實時客流和景區舒適度每小時進行公佈，為出行的遊客提供參考。何建民認為，關鍵是做到供需平衡，在供給不足的情況下，可以對需求進行管理。一方面，熱門景區加強研究，對以往黃金周曆年數據進行分析，計算最大承載量，節前預測，及時通告。同時，在預訂基礎上，留有機動量，以便應對大客流。另一方面，在國內應推行預訂方式，遊客提前預約門票，以便景區及時掌握客流情況。要預警更要推預約國內休假待“擴容”專家認為，要終結景區逢節必“爆”，首先需要旅遊管理部門加強建設預警體系和門票預約系統，便於遊客規劃和及時調整出行方案，同時，完善協調機制。此外，還應著手填補國內休假體制與景區有限的資源之間的供需不平衡，加強頂層設計，落實保障帶薪休假制度。何建民指出，旅遊管理部門應建設和完善門票預約系統和風險預警體系，根據節前門票的預約情況倡導團隊旅遊分時段、分路線進入景區，同時，將景區客流信息借助電視、廣播、官方微博、微信、短信平台等方式，實時公佈，傳遞到遊客，便於遊客規劃和及時調整出行方案。華東師範大學旅遊系主任樓嘉軍指出，應對大客流，景區內部各單元、單元與單元之間的線路組織和安排應更加精細化。“日本迪斯尼樂園面積不大，一天卻能夠容納3萬至5萬人，遊客平均可停留6到8小時，秩序井然，2010年上海世界博覽會時期疏導遊客的可行經驗也很寶貴，如何將這樣的經驗‘移植’到景區，設計多條交集少、不對沖、易分流的遊覽線路，是景區管理者需要研究的問題。”（據新華社上海10月6日電）mini storage

COME Dec 2, the Do Not Call (DNC) registry - part of Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act - will be open for consumers here to register their names so that telemarketers cannot call them without permission; security software vendor Cloudmark, however, believes the development will have minimal impact on mobile spam and fraud.儲存Cloudmark chief technology officer Neil Cook says that the DNC registry is a step in the right direction, but that it will not be able to stop the illegal companies from sending out spam."The measure also depends on telemarketers to enforce, but this is not possible (to effect) with illegal establishments," Mr Cook said.The DNC registry will allow consumers to opt out of getting marketing messages by SMS, voice call and fax. Messages that are sent out via apps linked to phone numbers, such as WhatsApp, are also covered, but not the apps linked only by email addresses.Mr Cook predicts that despite the advent of this registry and the tightening regulations not just in Singapore but across the region, the problem of mobile spam and fraud is very likely to increase instead of decrease. This is because currently there are not many operators in the region which have implemented network filtering for their mobile networks, resulting in almost unfettered access for spammers to get their malware-laden messages across to consumers.It is also more economical for cybercriminals to send SMS spam using prepaid SIM accounts than it is to send out email spam, since most of their messages on the latter platform are caught and filtered out. "Mobile phones are simply a more trusted medium," Mr Cook said, adding that spammers are getting more joy here.In an internal study backing his views, Cloudmark said mobile spam rates for Singapore and Malaysia hover in the rangemini storageof one per cent of every SMS sent; the Philippines has 2 per cent, while Indonesia has one of the highest in the region with 3 per cent."The rate at which consumers in Asia-Pacific receive and send emails and text messages is increasing every minute. With the rapid expansion of 4G across the region, there is an even greater need to ensure that checks and systems are in place to meet customer demands for a secure environment and a clean network," he stated.Regional operators, in particular, have a strong incentive to engage vendors such as Cloudmark to implement mobile network monitoring and filtering for spam.The SMS platform is being increasingly overlooked by consumers in favour of services such as WhatsApp, Line and KakaoTalk, which have the added advantage of being relatively spam-free. In order to win people back to SMS, operators will need to offer better safeguards over the types of messages their subscribers are receiving or face further erosion of their once-lucrative messaging service, Mr Cook said.Cloudmark announced in September it had inked a deal with Australia's Optus to protect its network from mobile and email spam, while other regional customers include NTT Docomo in Japan, Vodafone in New Zealand and India's Bharti Airtel. It has also partnered India's TeleDNA to offer anti-spam tools to operators such as Tata, Uninor, Idea and Aircel, Mr Cook said. India's telecom regulator had issued a directive to all operators to put in anti-spam controls by the end of 2013's third quarter in order to reduce the level of mobile spam, which the executive said amounted to 40 per cent of all mobile messages sent to consumers there.As for Singapore, the vendor continues to be in talks with the three mobile operators, but no partnerships have yet been signed, Mr Cook said.self storage

【陳瑩欣╱台北報導】開發金瘋文創，文件倉除了成立「文創價值基金」以外，旗下孫公司轉投資華研（8466）、雄獅（2731）、霹靂國際多媒體（8450）等多檔文創娛樂相關個股報酬率皆告捷，據最近一次財報揭露，開發金孫公司中亞創投、中瑞創投投資華研唱片總持股3%，報酬率突破8成以上，獲利表現已稱霸旗下文創娛樂事業轉投資。開發金上周接受瑞信邀請在香港、新加坡等地海外法說，文創投資也一併成為法說會焦點，近期外資持股破21%，創今年以來新高。 採取兵分二路模式 開發金副總張立人表示，近期轉投資文創公司分採「兵分二路」的模式進行，以旗下子公司開發工銀可掌控的創投公司轉投資為主，陸續在去年布局相關領域，最近看到成效；另外開發文創價值基金也已募集完成，最近會另外尋找可以投資的標的，希望可以創造更高獲利。依開發金旗下公司轉投資揭露資訊，孫公司中亞創投、中瑞創投從去年陸續投資華研唱片，總投資金額存倉3975萬元，但受到唱片公司納入文創產業，成功與中國騰訊QQ公司策略聯盟加持，至上半年為止市值已衝破7275萬元，報酬率超過83%，成為投銀圈成功注資文創界獲利的活教材。創投主管指出，文創投資講究長期經營關係，以開發金華研唱片為例，投資不止是看旗下歌手S.H.E.、林宥嘉等人的表現，而是公司經營兩岸市場的企圖心受到肯定，由於開發金關係企業轉投資文創娛樂相關產業多採「原始股東」的姿態投資這類公司，因為在股票上市櫃前已有布局，獲利表現可優於市場預期。 其他投資報酬25~67% 開發金表示，除了華研轉投資以外，開發金孫公司中亞創投、中瑞創投、開發科技顧問、開發資本國際等孫公司轉投資也有不錯的表現，包括雄獅旅遊、剛登錄興櫃的霹靂國際多媒體（霹靂布袋戲）、臉書（facebook）等公司投資報酬率皆有25%至67%不等的成績，由於個股表現長紅，市場預期開發金年底前應可持續認列獲利。儲存