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Banning shark fin is on the menu at this week's Union of B.C. Municipalities' meeting in Victoria but several Vancouver restaurants serving the dish are reluctant to discuss it.
In phone calls to four restaurants which serve shark fin soup, only one manager agreed to speak to the Courier. But he wouldn't provide his name and asked that the popular restaurant in Chinatown not be disclosed.
"If it becomes illegal, then we'll stop selling it," said the manager, noting shark fin is more popular at banquets than for regular diners.
He said shark fin is used mainly in soup, which costs $50 a bowl at his restaurant. In Asian culture, shark fin is seen as a delicacy and symbolizes wealth, power and prestige.
Though selling shark fin is legal, the manager said the issue is sensitive for many restaurants serving the product.
"We're just doing business, we don't want any trouble," he said when told his restaurant was on a list posted on the website stopsharkfinning.net.
Nineteen Vancouver restaurants are listed on the website but the Courier was unable to confirm whether all served shark fin. The website names restaurants from all over the world.
The manager said he was aware of Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry's Jang's recent motion at city council to develop a regional ban on shark fin.
Bu he wasn't familiar with North Vancouver city's resolution to go before civic politicians at the Union of B.C. Municipalities calling on the provincial government to implement a province-wide ban on the possession, sale and distribution of shark fin.
The federal government should also ban the import of shark fin in Canada, says the resolution, which adds the harvest of shark fins is a "inhumane and wasteful practice serving a very narrow and sometimes criminal marketplace."
In introducing his motion at council, Jang held up two packages of shark fin. They belong to his mother and were purchased about 40 years ago, he said, noting their original price was $14 each.
"Now this type of shark fin is worth several hundred dollars," said Jang.
Banning shark fin was one of the first requests he received when he was elected to council in 2008, he said.
He said a ban specific to Vancouver wouldn't work and would only force customers to visit restaurants in neighbouring municipalities.
A regional ban, he said, would see municipalities work together. He recommended city staff meet with civic staff in Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey to develop a regional plan to ban shark fin. Port Moody, Coquitlam and Maple Ridge have banned its sale.
"In this way, we can actually make a big impact in reducing the demand for shark fin products and help save the shark species," he said.
Jang, who said shark fin was served at his wedding, stressed the ban was not "an attack on a culture" and that people don't have to serve shark fin to honour their guests.
Last year, he said, he and Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer attended a "shark fin soup replacement contest" held by top Chinese chefs in Vancouver.
"They came together to invent a sustainable alternative to shark fin soup that could be used at a wedding, at a banquet to honour one's guest, and it was a great success," he said.
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Joining a health club can be a major enabler to maintaining a healthier lifestyle. It can also be a huge waste of money if you don't use it enough or if you overspend. If you are in a major metro area, you probably have many choices in health clubs or fitness centers - everything ranging from a deluxe, full service club which could cost of a family $200 a month, to a no-frills community center which may be as little as $100 per year. How do you make sure you get value from your health club membership? Here are a few ideas.
Use it. The best way to know your getting your money's worth is to use the club. Say John and Tom both spend $100 a month on the same club. John uses the club 15 times a month, while Tom only manages to exercise there 4 times per month. John's cost-per-use is $7.50, while Tom's is a whopping $25. Tom would be better off paying by the visit, which is often anywhere from $5 - $15 for most clubs. Many people join health clubs around the holidays when they make new year's resolutions or when the clubs are offering deep discounts. By April or May, usage has tailed off. Don't be one of hte people who doesn't use your club -- buy the membership and become a regular.
One of the best ways to use a club regularly is to create a habit. Maybe you promise yourself a hot cup of coffee from the Starbucks next door to the club each morning after your workout, so you have something built in to your routines that gets you to the club. Other people find that if they lay out their cycling shorts and bike shoes next to their bed, they are more likely to make it to that spin class in the morning. Others find that they need to workout on their drive home, because if they hit their front door there is little chance of them making it back out.
Look for affiliations. Some of the most economical fitness clubs out there are not the big LA or Lifetime Fitness chains, but rather places that you are able to go to because of where you or a family member works, lives, or goes to school. The advent of full-service community centers, complete with fitness facilities, gives some families the ability to workout for $100 per year or less, if they are residents of the community. For students and professors, most universities and colleges have full service gyms which rival the nicest private ones in the area. Some high schools have invested in training centers for their athletes which are open to the public on a pay-per-use basis. In rare cases, hospitals offer full-service fitness centers to their patients and members of the community for a low fee.
I once was looking for a health club on a low budget. My main goals were to use a treadmill and weights. Health clubs in the high end neighborhood cost $80 to $120 per month -- way above what I could do. I then found the community "Tennis Club" which happened to have treadmills and weights -- all for $12 a month if you were a resident. I saved up to $1,000 a year by going this route.
Employer or Insurance Discounts. In many cases, your employer has a prenegotiated rate with larger area health clubs which could give you a substantial discount. This is especially true of very large companies. If you are unable to access a corporate rate, check to see if your HR department will reimburse you for any gym dues as a "work/life expense" policy. Many insurance companies are also realizing that if their customers use health clubs, they will be sick less often. In particular, Blue Cross in many states offers incentives for people to join and use a health club.
Check out the discount chains. A trend in the past five years has been the surge of small, no-frills fitness chains such as Snap Fitness, Anytime Fitness, 24/7, and Fitness 19. By not offering a swimming pool, locker rooms, basketball or racketball courts, or showers, they can operate with amazingly low prices. Dues at such clubs are often $20 per month or less with little or no initiation fee. They are typically clean, have newer equipment, and are hardly ever crowded. These can often be the best choices for people who simply want to get-in and get-out of their workout, and not have the amenities you might find in a full-service club.


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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2003--Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that it has signed an agreement with the U.S. government to pursue the development of next-generation supercomputer technologies. The agreement calls for Cray and the government to each invest $17.5 million over the next two years.
"Last year we signed a development agreement calling for $10 million each of investment by the government and Cray for memory and processor enhancements to the Cray X1(TM) system, leading to what we refer to as the Cray X1e(TM) system, and for helping to develop a successor system to the Cray X1 and Cray X1e system, which we have code-named our Black Widow system," said Jim Rottsolk, Cray chairman and chief executive officer. "This new contract increases the commitment of each party by an additional $17.5 million, and reflects the Government's ongoing commitment to U.S. supercomputing leadership," added Rottsolk. "The objective of this program is to produce supercomputer technologies that support superior memory bandwidth performance, stride independent memory bandwidth, instruction level parallelism and power efficiency.
"The development of these systems advances our previously described product roadmap," Rottsolk added. "The Cray X1e system will increase peak performance from about 50 teraflops today to about 150 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second). With continued funding, we expect the successor Black Widow system to reach a peak performance of several hundred teraflop in its initial design, and to exceed a petaflop (a thousand trillion calculations per second) in its product lifetime.
"We are very gratified for the strong support of Congressmen David Obey, Martin Olav Sabo and Norm Dicks in furthering this key public-private partnership."
About Cray Inc.
Cray is the premier provider of supercomputing solutions for its customers' most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Go to www.cray.com for more information about the company.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Rating: G? PG? Really light and fluffy
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine
Spoilers: through Big Brother
Warnings: Cavities.
Word Count: Just over 1,400. Pretty much a drabble.
Summary: Theoretical season 4 future!fic. Kurt is in New York and he really misses Blaine. This is of course unrelated to the fact that he decides to bring home a stray puppy one day.
Kurt didn't plan on finding the puppy. He certainly wasn't planning on bringing it home with him. In truth, Kurt had always been more of a cat person. But something about this little fellow…
He had no collar, and though he was adorable he did have the look of a stray; timid and too thin, with matted fur and…those eyes.
Oh god, his eyes.
That was what had done it. The puppy was staring up at him with big, sad, desperate gold-brown eyes, eyes that made something lurch within him.
He took out his phone. Surely there must be a no-kill shelter in the city somewhere that would take him, right?
The puppy whimpered softly. Kurt looked back down at him, black curls and eyes so full of hurt and fear…
He abandoned his google search for a shelter and began looking for the nearest veterinarian instead.


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The Camp Sherman and Metolius Recreation Area of Central Oregon, about 31 miles northwest of Bend, has incredible fly-fishing on the pristine waters of the Metolius River, great camping, hiking, mountain biking and wildlife viewing. Don't miss the commanding view of 10,497-foot Mt. Jefferson from the public observation area. Stop at the Wizard Falls Fish Hatchery, open every day and free to the public, where you will find trout, kokanee and Atlantic salmon—all part of the 3 million fish on display.