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Source: The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.迷你倉將軍澳Dec. 25--For Gary Wright, leading the Vancouver conference of St. Vincent de Paul is all about personal connections.He realized that when his simple urge to do somebody some good by putting in grunt work -- making bread pickups and unpacking boxes, he figured -- had him visiting with desperate people, hearing their stories, offering counseling and comfort as well as emergency food and cash."It's life-changing," said Wright, 60, whose rise through the ranks of volunteers will be complete on Jan. 1, when he takes over from Dick Lauer as executive director of Clark County's largest individual food pantry. According to its most recent fiscal year statement, the Vancouver conference of St. Vincent de Paul, an international Catholic lay organization, gave out nearly $2.5 million in food, clothing, housewares, Christmas gifts -- and grants of emergency cash for rent, utilities, transportation and more -- between October 2012 and September 2013. Its warehouse at 2456 N.E. Stapleton Road is open five days a week, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.Life-changing how? It's all about serving needy people without hesitation or judgment."We don't ask a lot of questions.We are looking at the need," said Wright. "It's an adjustment for me and my heart. A lot of people pass through those doors with a lot of needs."Some of them are planning and striving for better. Some are doing the best they can, but they're simply stuck -- because of everything from disabilities to an economy that still isn't generating many new jobs. And some haven't a clue about anything beyond hand-to-mouth survival -- and never will, thanks to disadvantages such as mental illness and hard-core addiction."A lot of them are people who come here for a long time," said Lauer. "We get to know them. So many of them are never going to get out of where they're at.""You sure learn a lot about people's individual situations and their hardships," said operations manager Sylvia Van. "Every day is something new. Sometimes you sit and pray with them or even cry with them."Much joy, little cashLauer started with St. Vincent de Paul as a volunteer in 1986. It was a small operation then, he said, which moved here and there over the years. Its first paid director wasn't hired until 1988. Lauer took the job in 1996."I didn't think I'd be doing this kind of work," said Lauer, who labored for years in printing sales before his volunteerism with St. Vincent de Paul went from curious and occasional to passionate and constant. "I developed a feel for what we're doing," he said, and an appreciation for rewards like true friendship and belief in the mission, he said. "It's a joy to come to work," he said.On the other hand, he discovered for himself -- like Wright after him -- just how huge poverty has grown underneath the radar, he said. Not long ago, he said, "you could drive around Vancouver and everything looked great. But you didn't see what was really happening," he said.Poverty is much more widespread and obvious now, he said, and outfits like St. Vincent de Paul are feeling the pinch of federal cutbacks as well as the restructuring of the regional food bank system. The food itself sometimes runs down, and the pantr迷你倉尖沙咀 has to stretch its supplies to try to provide several days' worth of food for hungry people. Like many local sister agencies, St. Vincent de Paul offers recipients one emergency food box per month, plus the chance to browse for free clothes once every two months.That's still more than folks who come for cash usually get. Emergency financial assistance for pressing needs such as rent and utilities is almost always a once-in-a-lifetime gift, Lauer said."We help less than 10 percent who call" for emergency rental or utility help, Lauer said. The organization's fall 2013 newsletter says it typically gets nearly 200 calls for cash assistance each month."We can help 15 to 20 per month," he said. "That's the money we budgeted. We have to say no an awful lot. That's when it gets hard."Few local agencies provide emergency cash assistance, he added. The Salvation Army in east Vancouver and the Interfaith Treasure House in Washougal are among them -- and "they're all out of money," he said.Church collectionsAbout two-thirds of the approximate $300,000 annual budget of the Vancouver conference of St. Vincent de Paul comes directly from collection plates and envelopes at the four local Catholic churches that make up the conference: St. James, St. Joseph, Our Lady of Lourdes and Holy Redeemer. The Vancouver conference limits its services to people from that "southern section" of Clark County, Lauer said. Separate conferences in Brush Prairie and east county raise funds and provide services to their own local folks, he said.Other than that, services are open to anyone. You don't need to belong to a particular Catholic church, or be a Catholic at all, to apply for help. In fact, Lauer said, the vast majority of people the agency touches are not Catholic.Most of the rest of the budget comes from individual donations by private people. "That's very gratifying," said Lauer.There's also a small federal grant that comes to Clark County agencies for a range of emergency services for poor people -- it's called the Emergency Food and Shelter Program -- but that grant is broken into chunks and shared among several agencies when it gets here, Lauer said.That leaves $24,000 in housing assistance -- that is, mortgage, rent and utility help -- for St. Vincent de Paul to distribute. The amount "goes down every year," Lauer said, even while the need goes up. This year, he expects a 15 percent reduction, he said.There are two-and-one-half paid staffers -- the director, an operations manager and a part-time assistant -- as well as a reliable group of about 85 volunteers at the Vancouver conference of St. Vincent de Paul, Lauer said.Wright, who spent years selling forest products, said he wants to raise the agency's profile and seek more partnerships with small businesses and others who can help. Meanwhile, Wright said, he just wants to study Lauer's secrets for success. Lauer may be retiring as leader, but he won't be permitted to disappear completely, Wright said."I have 85 new names to remember," said Wright. "I like that aspect of this job."Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) Visit The Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) at .columbian.com Distributed by MCT Information Services倉

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【新報訊】聖誕節是傳統消費旺季，迷你倉尖沙咀但有高級珠寶鐘錶商指，受到內地節約政策影響，內地旅客的購買力減弱，亦不會集中在節日假期來港消費。不過，有旅客形容在香港過聖誕節，熱鬧程度有如內地過農曆新年，加上人民幣匯率持續下跌，購物出手會更闊綽。名店集中地廣東道，聖誕節人山人海。不少內地旅客來港過聖誕，在聖誕節早上，內地旅客在市面出沒，拖�大篋小篋，去到名店林立的尖沙嘴廣東道掃貨。雖然零售業受內地旅客帶動而暢旺，但周大福珠寶集團執行董事孫志強表示，他們購物的模式改變，不再集中黃金周或節日來港消費。他指，聖誕節並不是內地的長假期，到珠寶店購物的內地的旅客數目未必很多，因倉他們很多在逗留香港很短時間便離開，令消費數目亦下跌。太子珠寶鐘錶創辦人鄧鉅明亦指，店舖九成的客源都是來自內地，受內地節約政策影響，銷量較往年跌近八成，預期情況在農曆年會持續。他期望，能夠開放更多內地自由行城市，又希望政府在考慮本港承受能力同時，亦能維持高檔次消費品行業的競爭力。不過，有內地旅客表示，特意揀聖誕節來港旅遊，感受內地沒有的聖誕氣氛，「內地不及香港熱鬧，有些家庭不會出外玩，只留在家�打麻將，與朋友聚會，不會像香港，市民走到街上參加派對」。該名旅客說，平安夜在廣東道倒數後，昨早前來購物，形容香港的聖誕節，熱鬧情況有如內地過農曆年，希望以後每年都來。mini storage

一年又走到終點了，mini storage在本欄目年度的最後一期，我們將一起回顧這一年來，長隆集團在娛樂營銷方面的大事件。在2013年娛樂營銷整合推廣運動中，長隆集團推出一系列備受矚目的熱點活動：“2013長隆比基尼小姐大賽”，將“美女”與長隆水上樂園緊密綑綁，吸引了社會關注；與電視台沖關挑戰類節目《活力大沖關》進行深度合作，通過提供場地和軟性植入的形式，讓節目直接進入到旗下園區，與消費者近距離接觸和互動，此次合作一共製作和播出了節目70期；整合旗下長隆歡樂世界、長隆國際大馬戲和長隆酒店資源；推出華南地區最大規模的“長隆歡樂萬聖節”活動，引領當下年青一代求新求奇的時尚潮流，活動場面非常火爆，備受年輕消費者追捧，再次刷新今年單日入園人數的最高紀錄；冠名贊助鳳凰衛視2013中華小姐環球大賽，包括夏令營和總決賽落地長隆等，10月26日其總決賽直接落地珠海長隆橫琴灣酒店舉行，直接促進珠海長隆項目在全球華人世界的宣傳推廣；舉辦第一屆中國國際馬戲節，于11月20日-12月1日在珠海橫琴長隆國際海洋度假區舉行，共有來自17個國家的30個節目參賽，透過此次高水平的國際賽事，一方面展示長隆集團的馬戲實力，另一方儲存也有效提升了長隆在國際上的知名度和影響力；與芬蘭聖誕老人基金會合作“長隆聖誕節”，通過是次合作，長隆集團直接將來自聖誕老人故鄉的真正的“聖誕老人”首度引入國內主題公園行業，製作出前所未有的期待；2013-2014年長隆跨年演唱會，一票通玩四大狂歡。而年關將至，娛樂營銷大事件並未停歇，最值得期待的是長隆在賀歲大片上的光鮮亮相。�所周知，《爸爸去哪兒》將推出電影版，定于2014年1月31日春節檔上映，即大年初一賀歲，這部中國電影史上的首部真人秀電影有望成為賀歲檔電影的一匹黑馬，而劇組拍攝地則定在廣州長隆旅遊度假區。12月，五位星爸萌娃前往廣州長隆展開拍攝，五組“星爸萌娃”面對的是前所未有的“終極任務”，他們在廣州長隆野生動物世界的原始叢林中和野生動物展開挑戰任務，再次展現出爸爸和孩子之間的可愛互動。而電影中有百余種、近20000只動物出現，屆時，觀�可以看到孩子們抱著可愛的樹袋熊、清晨有長頸鹿群經過房子窗戶、大猩猩來叫寶貝起床等動人畫面。目前，電影的拍攝已經殺青；剩下的事情就是等待，等待星爸與萌娃在長隆里的表現，還有多位偶像神秘嘉賓的客串。採寫:南都記者 肖陽圖片由長隆集團提供迷你倉

本報記者申海洋據中國電子視像行業協會與奧維咨詢(AVC)聯合發佈的數據顯示，迷你倉2013年1-6月內銷彩電零售規模2301萬台，同比上升29%，零售額822億元，同比上升32%。事實上，節能惠民補貼到期不再延續的消息刺激了彩電企業的瘋狂促銷，各廠商在1-5月利用節能補貼政策的最後契機，加速推廣節能補貼產品，使得上半年尤其是第二季度呈現出空前的高速增長。據奧維咨詢(AVC)的監測數據顯示，2013年5月單月，增幅創下自2008年以來的最高增幅，達46%，銷量達413萬台。業內人士表示，2013年上半年彩電行業出現高速增長，強勁的政策翹尾作用是最重要的原因。但節能補貼的短期刺激政策後遺症已經明顯顯現，業內當時也唱衰下半年國內彩電市場的需求可能有10%-20%的倒退。進入第三季度，由於缺乏政策的繼續拉動，彩電市場發展的確遇到了不小的挑戰。盡管遭遇了三季度的下滑，但由於互聯網的闖關，對彩電行業造成了巨大的衝擊，self storage也在彩電行業陷入低迷之境時，為其提供新的突破思路，成功“救市”。2013年下半年，創維、TCL、康佳等傳統電視企業主動擁抱互聯網，共同開發互聯網電視，實現內容、硬件的互補，得到了廣大消費者的青睞和認可，為下半年彩電市場帶來了巨大的增長點。但2014年年初將迎來一波小冷潮。奧維咨詢預計：2014年元旦促銷期整體彩電市場銷量為491萬台，同比下降3.3%；春節促銷期為313萬台，同比下降1.2%；如果把促銷期六周合併來看，共銷售804萬台，同比下降2.5%。2014年彩電市場的開局低調，但不可否認低調中仍然有很多的亮點可尋。其中，節日促銷期間，彩電的平均尺寸將達到43.8英寸，加速進入大屏時代。而在經過了一年多的布局和試水之後，UHD電視將進入爆發式的增長階段，奧維咨詢預測，節日期間UHD電視的滲透率將攀升到8.1%，銷量65萬台。同時，節日期間智能電視的滲透率為53%，銷量達427萬台，進入穩步提升趨勢。迷利倉

Source: Chicago TribuneDec.迷你倉尖沙咀 25--It didn't matter how many times Elaine Cornett walked in and out of Leighton Criminal Court Building without saying hello. The volunteers for Courtside Ministries Chicago who prayed outside every day would not give up.Sure enough, one day Cornett stopped. And that day, she says, changed her life. Cornett left behind years of drug use and prostitution, shed the ankle monitor that tracked her for 11 months and set out to become what she now believes God intended."I was really, really in denial," said Cornett, 53, now a home health aide. "I needed obedience and guidance. I moved around to another area and never looked back. For me to just up and change my lifestyle, I was delivered by God. They really blessed me."Every day, thousands of lawyers, defendants, victims of crime and witnesses to violence file into the Chicago area's many halls of justice. That's precisely why Courtside Ministries Chicago has chosen the sidewalks surrounding those halls to be their mission field. Since December 2011, the ministry has drawn volunteers from nearly 50 churches. They offer prayers, Bibles and encouragement to people confronting the consequences of their mistakes or fighting wrongful accusations.Volunteers hail from Roman Catholic, evangelical and mainline Protestant churches. That diversity is important, said chaplain and director Michael Kienapple. Otherwise people might think it's an "agenda of a particular church to fill their pews so they can get tithes and offerings."Ministers for Courtside pray daily outside the county court buildings in Maywood and Markham, and at 26th Street and California Avenue. They also minister outside the DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton, the Daley Center, and the Porter County Courthouse in Valparaiso, Ind. This month, they began serving outside the Will County Courthouse in Joliet.Kienapple, of Valparaiso, said that in a city plagued by so much violence, the courthouse seems like the most effective place to offer light in a dark world and remind people that whatever the law is powerless to achieve, God can."This is a place of a lot of hard things going on," said Kienapple. "People come with hopelessness and despair and hurt and mental illness and addictions. We want to bring the God of hope and love and peace and power ... and that creates an atmosphere of his presence."Kienapple had been searching for a way to channel his calling several years ago when the Christian Legal Society held a conference in Chicago. There, Kienapple met lawyer Tyler Makepeace. Believing that his clients needed Jesus Christ as much as they needed his legal advice, Makepeace started Courtside Ministries in Colorado. He shared his vision with Kienapple and implored him to launch the ministry here. In addition to Chicago, the fledgling national ministry operates in Colorado and California.Makepeace also met with Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans, who blessed the project, Kienapple said. On a cold winter morning in 2011, Kienapple and a handful of volunteers stacked Bibles and tracts on a table draped in blue outside the Cook County criminal courthouse. They immediately encountered their first client -- a man with his head hung in shame, thankful to be free after killing a man, Kienapple said.The man, Kienapple said, a倉ked the volunteers to pray that he would never take another man's life."People encounter a God of relationship, a God of love, and in that place they get served, healed and delivered and they get on track toward referrals and churches and references that will help them make it sustainable," Kienapple said, standing in the rain at 26th and California one recent morning.Gerri Hudson emerged from the courthouse. Earlier, she had arrived flustered and late for a court appearance. But a kind word from a Courtside Ministries volunteer gave her a sense of calm and peace that lasted through the ordeal."This building has lots of negative energy," Hudson said. "So I was glad they were here."But defendants aren't the only patrons. Lawyers also seek guidance from the Courtside Ministries prayer station. Veteran criminal defense attorney John DeLeon, 62, of Riverside said he first saw the "Need Prayer?" table on his way to meet a new client.They gave him a Bible and tracts, which he shared with the young man in hopes he would contemplate the direction of his life and think about improvements. It's an approach DeLeon, a born-again Christian, takes with all his clients."I try to win their case and put them on a path where they will not become a repeat offender," he said. "Our God is a God of second chances and third and fourth and fifth. Christianity is a forgiving religion. I believe there's always hope."Now, when DeLeon has court appearances, he stops to pray at the table on the sidewalk."Frankly I believe I've seen miracles happen," said DeLeon. "I've walked in there after a prayer session with them and got a great result. I truly believe the hand of God is in everything we do."Courtside Ministries inspired defendant Gabriela Feliciano, 30, to reconsider the direction her life was headed. Even though she was found not guilty of aggravated kidnapping by reason of insanity, the courts required her to register as a sex offender because the charges involved young children."My chance didn't come until God told me it was my day and they grabbed me and saved me," she said. "You can feel their warmth when they're praying for you. You can feel glory. You can feel them pouring out their heart, telling God the truth about you."Feliciano said the support of Courtside Ministries has inspired her to build a better life for herself and her two young children."I believe God just wanted a sober life for me," she said. "Sober in the sense of away from drama and trouble."Kienapple said plenty of strangers don't accept the prayers he offers, and plenty who do don't redeem their lives right away. Still, he said, he hopes the love that he and the volunteers express outside the walls of the courthouse filter inside too."Our purpose here is to bring the love, the grace, the truth of Jesus Christ to the courthouse," Kienapple said as people rushed by, navigating around him and occasionally throwing a shoulder to avoid an encounter. "Our heart is to make this an atmosphere of God's love and his presence and his peace. When two or more gather in prayer, God is here with us. Our point is, this is a sanctuary."mbrachear@tribune.comTwitter @TribSeekerCopyright: ___ (c)2013 the Chicago Tribune Visit the Chicago Tribune at .chicagotribune.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage