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Don't be afraid to add a lot of history about yourself. When people tell you that they don't want to hear your life story, it's because they actually want to hear your life novel!
Remember, the more you write, the better. After all "Brevity is the soul of wit" which I'm pretty sure means you should write a shit ton.]
I recommend against saying that you "enjoy" stuff you were forced to read at high school, like Moby Dick or Tale of Two Cities. Because everyone knows that nobody born after 1950 actually enjoyed either of those novels, and even if you did, you definitely shouldn't tell anyone about it.
Also if you talk about music, make sure that you just say you love "everything" except, of course, rap music.]
...you can read between the lines.
...you can give me some decent book recommendations. I have a pretty bad habit of suffering through terrible books after I start them because I'm a completionist like that. So I try not to start them in the first place unless I'm pretty confident that they're not going to suck.
And for those who need something to go off of: I love listening to music (anything but rap), laughing, and just having fun!

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TAMPA — It's tough to tell which Jesuit unit is clicking more right now.
Five Tigers scored and the defense blanked another opponent as Jesuit cruised past visiting Tarpon Springs 7-0 in a 3A region semifinal Tuesday night.
"This is what it's all about, the postseason," Jesuit coach Eric Sims said. "We didn't want to overlook (Tarpon Springs)."
The Tigers (15-4-3) have been scoring goals in piles, racking up 34 strikes in the past five matches. Jesuit has defeated three of those opponents by the 8-0 mercy rule during the five-match winning streak.
The Tigers got on the board in unconventional fashion in the 13th minute when Jacob Starnes' long throw into the box bounced high off the turf and was tipped in by Spongers' keeper Vasili Makryllos. Starnes then flashed through the box to volley in a corner service from Ian Gutierrez in the 20th minute and Connar Lufkin put the Tigers up 3-0 two minutes later on a free kick from about 20 yards out.
"We've been getting up early and not letting off the pedal," Starnes said. "It's more of a team effort. Even the defenders are pushing up and getting crosses and headers."
Defensively, the Tigers were perfect. For the fourth consecutive match, Jesuit did not allow a single shot on frame. It also marked Jesuit's fifth consecutive shutout.
"Our goal at the beginning of district was to not allow any goals all playoffs," center back Michael Conlon said. "It's all about mindset."
Kurt Sierra, Daryian Flores, Alejandro Cartaya and Lufkin rounded out the scoring for Jesuit.


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Science Justifies Why I Love Sad Vanessa Carlton Songs
Finally, research proves I'm not an unhappy person! For years, my friends have constantly criticized my choice of sad Vanessa Carlton tunes, always encouraging me to listen to happier, more uplifting music, but I have consistently declined. But according to a new study, listening to sad music can actually make you happy!
The study, conducted by scientists at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, claims that listening to sad music may trigger the opposite feeling it is meant to evoke. Researchers were curious to figure out why humans continued to listen to sad music if it only bummed them out.
Forty-four volunteers listened to three different songs, two considered "sad" and one considered "happy." Some of the volunteers were musicians, while others had no previous music experience. After each volunteer listened to Glinka's "La Separation" in F minor, Blumenfeld's Etude "Sur Mer" in G minor, and Grandado's Allegro de Concierto in G major, they also listened to each one in the opposite key, so minor-key pieces were played in major keys, and vice versa.
When each volunteer rated their emotional state and the impact each piece had on them, the researchers discovered this:
"[T]he sad music was perceived to be more tragic, whereas the actual experiences of the participants listening to the sad music induced them to feel more romantic, more blithe, and less tragic emotions than they actually perceived with respect to the same music."
Ultimately Professor Ai Kawakami, who worked on the study, concluded, "Music that is perceived as sad actually induces romantic emotion as well as sad emotion. And people, regardless of their musical training, experience this ambivalent emotion to listen to the sad music."
So listen on, sappy music lovers!
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Now, here's a neat idea - your smartphone could be your PC. Sony brought its Xperia SmartDock to prove that concept at MWC 2012, and claims that when you dock your smartphone and connect it to a television set, probably add a wireless keyboard and a mouse, and you'd have your PC experience without the actual computer.
The Xperia SmartDock is not exactly a new idea - we've already seen it demonstrated at CES with the AT&T-bound Xperia Ion, but news is that it will also be compatible with the latest in Xperia's lineup - the Xperia P, Xperia U and the Xperia S.
The magic of the SmartDock happens on its back where all the ports are included - you have two USB ports to connect your peripherals, and an HDMI port for your TV/monitor. That's definitely a neat idea given all that processing power lays in your pockets 90% of the time anyway, isn't it?
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If you wish to take it to a repair shop it would cost you around $250-$300. You can use http://national.citysearch.com/ and search for "TV Repair"(without quotes) in your area. Or you can use http://www.tvrepairpros.com/If you want to repair it yourself then you should be having proper knowledge about the internal circuitry of the TV.You should also require a multimeter and soldering equipments and schematics.
Take photographs or mental picture of connections with power board before replacing so that it won't be confusing later. I'm sorry there is no easy fix or press-a-button fix. This is an internal failure. If the set has worked fine previously then I guess repairing should be worth it. This is indeed a very good set.
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Market players are still chasing Apple (AAPL) higher into the end of the quarter, which is helping the indices a little, but overall action is mixed. Breadth is about even, oil is lagging, and steel, coal and commodities are leading. There are just a lot of stocks that need a rest at this point and market players aren't chasing at the moment.
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Sabreena Shabdeen's family has an awful choice to make. If she is returned to Canada next week, it will be without the parents who have been her supporters, caregivers and advocates since she was born in Toronto 17 years ago.
Sabreena is severely autistic. She can barely speak and, according to medical reports, is prone to "aggressive, agitative and assaultive" behaviour. But she is a Canadian. And her parents, Kairun and Mohamed Shabdeen, believe Canada offers her a better chance of a decent life than Sri Lanka, the country to which they are about to be deported.
The Shabdeens currently live in New Jersey. They moved to the United States in 1998 after Canadian authorities rejected the refugee claim they filed when they landed here in 1992. Sabreena, who was 2, went with them.
Now the American authorities have told Mr. and Ms. Shabdeen to appear, with passports in hand, at an immigration office on Jan. 3 for imminent deportation.
"There is a mental hospital in Sri Lanka but there are no services for autistic children," Sabreena's mother said in a telephone interview. "I have seen some autistic children in my country but they are always home."
There is also some debate about whether the country would allow someone who is so severely disabled to move there on a permanent basis. Questions about residency requirements that were put to the Sri Lankan High Commission by The Globe and Mail have gone unanswered.
Two Canadian agencies have indicated they would like to evaluate Sabreena over the course of three months to develop a "life care plan" to determine the best placement for her.
They say they need her parents to stay with her during that time to act as her interpreters and to provide emotional assistance. But Canada has denied the Shabdeens' requests for permits to enter the country on a temporary basis.
"I am not satisfied there is sufficient evidence your need to enter Canada is compelling enough to warrant issuing a temporary resident permit," William Hawke, a supervisor with the Citizenship and Immigration Canada, wrote in letters to Mr. and Ms. Shabdeen on Oct. 12.
"There is considerable risk you will remain in Canada permanently," wrote Mr. Hawke, who said he did not understand why the assessment could not have been done from the United States.
Sabreena's parents have appealed the rejection of the temporary residence permit but could be on a plane to Sri Lanka before that case can be heard. Ms. Shabdeen said, if permitted to come to Canada, she and her husband would stay only as long as the permit allows. "We would go back to my country and try to get a visa to come and visit her all the time."
Laurie Beachell, the national co-ordinator of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, said in a telephone interview that, as a Canadian citizen, Sabreena has every right to live in Canada and to be provided with the services that are available.
"Here is a family with some really difficult decisions to make," said Mr. Beachell. "If they can't come to Canada to set that service up, what do they do? Take her to the border and drop her off? Frankly that will be a nightmare."
Montreal lawyer David Cohen, who is representing Sabreena, said Mr. and Ms. Shabdeen voluntarily left Canada when requested to do so in the past and there is no indication that they would refuse to do so in the future. In addition, Mr. Cohen said, there is an enforcement apparatus that could be used to remove them if they tried to stay.
Sabreena "has the same rights as my 17-year-old daughter has as a Canadian citizen. And if this was my daughter, or any Canadian's daughter, they would want the best possible care and treatment and opportunity for her in the world," Mr. Cohen said. "And Canada is a place that would offer her a much better quality of life that Sri Lanka. And I think it is very difficult for anyone to argue otherwise."Report Typo/Error
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A YOUNG boy's Christmas has been saved from being ruined after his nan replaced his new bike which was stolen on his birthday.
Korban Hollywell was left devastated on his eighth birthday after his orange Apollo Stomp bike bought by dad Nick and stepmum Alice was stolen before the gift had even been presented to him.
Three days before Korban's birthday, on Saturday, November 30, Nick took his son to choose a bike before storing it in the garage behind Alice's home in Church Street, King's Stanley.
On Tuesday, December 3, Korban's birthday, Alice went to the garage at 2.45pm to fetch it only to find that thieves had got their first.
"Korban was absolutely gutted," said Alice, who has a two-year-old son Jimmy with Nick.
"I think what made it worse was that he already knew what he was getting and was really excited about going out for his first ride when he got home.
"Nick and I hadn't bought him anything else for his birthday so he ended up having nothing to open from us."
According to Alice, the bike was well hidden behind the car and covered with bin liners.
Nick and Alice were originally appealing for the bike, which was worth £150, to be returned so Korban would have his present back.
However since then his nan, Lin Hollywell, has stepped in to save the day and replaced the bike with the same model.
"Although Korban is obviously thrilled it is such a shame that a little boy had his birthday ruined in the first place," said Alice.
The pair also put a message on the Facebook page Spotted in Stroud/Stonehouse appealing for the bike to be returned and were inundated with messages offering money towards a new one.
"There are some really nice people out there but unfortunately there is also a minority who want to pinch stuff," she added.
Anyone with information about the bike theft should call police on 101 quoting incident 134 of December 3.


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I also think I have a very good grasp at understanding people. I can get a good feeling for others fairly quickly.
Dune - Frank Herbet
1984 - George Orwell
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin and the whole A Song of Ice and Fire Series
Who am I kidding, any Brandon Sanderson book
Hounded- Kevin Hearne
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearn
just to name a few
Movies, way too many to list. I love any movie that either makes you think, is something blatantly awesome, or causes you to go through a gambit of emotion.
Examples include: Shawshank Redemption, Inception, Memento, Pulp Fiction, Princess Mononoke, Donnie Darko, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Inglorious Basterds, Rescue Dawn, The Road, and many many more.
I'm a fan of most music. Especially if it is from the 80's or the Progressive metal/rock. Some of my favorites include Queen, Iron Maiden, Rush, Avantasia, Heavenly, Serenity, Muse, The Protomen, and Kamelot.
2. New Experiences
3. Introspection
4. The Internet
5. Food, all the food
If you love discussing ideas.
If you want a loyal friend and companion who will venture with you on all sorts of adventures.
A lady Whom enjoys all sorts of geeky things.
I give mad respect to anyone who can initiate a conversation! :) Please say more that just, "How's it going?"


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David Suzuki: After a decade of controversy, has anything changed at B.C. salmon farms?
The David Suzuki Foundation and others have run ads over the past decade decrying British Columbia's open net-cage salmon farm industry. With significant expansion planned for the West Coast, the question remains: has B.C.'s salmon farm industry improved?
Salmon farming threatens some of the planet's last remaining viable wild salmon—a keystone species that touches all our coastal ecosystems. The issues in dispute include feed ingredients, disease transmission between farms and wild salmon, bird and marine mammal deaths, pesticide and antibiotic use, and the effects of multiple farms in concentrated areas.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program recently released science-based ranking reports on open net-cage farmed salmon in B.C., Norway, Chile, and Scotland. All received a "red" or "avoid buying" designation. Canada's SeaChoice followed suit.
More than 90 percent of migrating juvenile salmon die before returning to freshwater to spawn, most in the first months after entering the ocean. Pathogens may be a significant factor, although not all specifics about diseases are fully known.
Justice Bruce Cohen's Commission of Inquiry investigating the decline of Fraser River sockeye included pathogen risk—along with habitat loss, predation and contaminant exposure—as a factor in the 2009 sockeye collapse. Disease from salmon farms is one risk to wild salmon that can be controlled.
Salmon farming shouldn't be done at the expense of wild salmon. Both wild- and farmed-salmon industries provide fish and create economic activity, but the province's sports and commercial wild salmon fisheries and marine tourism contribute more to B.C.'s economy and quality of life than salmon farming.
Employment, revenue generation, and food creation are important, but so are preserving wild salmon and protecting the environment for our children and grandchildren.
Aquaculture must stop using the ocean as a free waste-treatment system. Closed-containment—in the ocean or on land—is better at controlling water and removing feces and chemicals like antibiotics and pesticides used for sea lice.
One B.C. open net-cage company lost over $200 million in one year because of disease, enough to build 10 closed-containment farms. Yet the industry claims closed alternatives cost too much.
Although the salmon farm industry has decreased pesticide use, improved parasite management, and reduced feed waste and wild fish used for feed, it hasn't eliminated the problems. Continuing threats to wild salmon and the environment prevent us from supporting expansion of the industry or advising people to eat ocean-farmed salmon.
Despite the risks, last year the federal government quietly opened the door to expand B.C.'s aquaculture industry. Thirteen applications for new or larger farms along the coast have been submitted. Fish farm expansion avoids the bigger question: what kind of economic development is best for our coastal ecosystems?
As Justice Cohen said, more federal research into the effects of fish farms on wild salmon stocks is critical. We need to address this research gap, along with the lack of availability and transparency of data from farming operations, before allowing the industry to expand.
A promising partnership between Genome British Columbia, the Pacific Salmon Foundation, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada to discover the microbes that may cause disease in B.C.'s wild salmon and hinder their ability to reproduce could provide answers. But those answers don't yet exist.
The fish farming industry is making efforts. In 2013, a farm in Norway was the first to be certified by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council. Although certification doesn't fully address the risk to wild salmon, it indicates which farms are best operated and includes requirements to consider cumulative impacts. It is not a signal that the entire industry is free to expand.
Closed-containment systems, which have fewer impacts on the environment and wild fish, are also growing. The Namgis First Nation on northeastern Vancouver Island recently starting shipping its first closed-containment "Kuterra" Atlantic salmon to Safeway stores in B.C. and Alberta.
The aquaculture industry could also improve environmental performance by producing food such as scallops, mussels, tilapia, and seaweed that are a lower risk to the environment and use less feed and chemicals.
Our coastal waters are rich in opportunity. They can contribute to food security and community resilience without open net-cage salmon farms. Unless we chart a sound course, salmon will lose—but so will we, and the bears, eagles, and magnificent coastal forests that support so much life.
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Bertrand Charron
Apr 30, 2014 at 1:44am
Did you know that for well over a year (late 2012 to early 2014), Seafood Watch had rated 'farmed salmon from BC' as a 'Yellow/Best Alternative' and/BUT that it never published those findings?!
Eventually (this week) the reports were published and had turned 'Red'… The SeafoodIntelligence.com investigation (April 23, 2014 – http://is.gd/SFW_OpLetter ) reveals in detail some of the issues and concerns…
A lot of so-called "wild" salmon would not – and could not – exist if it weren't for aquaculture; particularly in the Pacific NorthWest. When it comes to Alaska salmon which is generically considered "wild" — but not truly so for about a third. We reveal in detail (and quantifies for some of them) the common indicators which can be used to assess the 'sustainability' of both farmed and (Alaska, but also Russian, Japanese, Canadian & other Pacific NW) hatchery salmon, and questions why this isn't being 'done'.
We found that the SAME antibiotics are used in Alaska hatcheries, that THOUSANDS of TONNES (we provide figures based on exclusive data communicated by ADF&G) of commercial fish feed are (+/- imported) used yearly in Alaska hatcheries, that salmon hatcheries are almost entirely 'open' 'flow-through' systems, that disease do occur and are being transmitted also by hatcheries; and cites some of the dozens of hatchery salmon vs. (truly) wild salmon interactions and concerns most-often ignored etc;, etc… You can ask yourself 'why?' are these topics not discussed in North America media.
Many 'answers' reside in avoiding simplistic 'wild vs. farmed' / 'closed vs. open' debates, and simplistic answers, asking the right questions, and having an open/flexible mind. When it comes to closed-containment, there are many answered questions about the very high environmental carbon footprints costs & impacts. Furthermore, one of the largest & most recent farmed salmon escape incident in BC was related to a so-called "closed-contained" installation…
There is no silver bullet…
And there is the issue of salmon conservation, advisories and how they are funded…
Don't get me wrong: the various environmental impacts of aquaculture absolutely cannot — and should not — be diminished nor under-played. But EQUAL stringency/scrutiny must apply to assessing environmental impacts of fisheries & aquaculture, in BC and elsewhere.
Bertrand Charron / SeafoodIntelligence.com Editor
Juro Mukai
Apr 30, 2014 at 3:27am
Mr.Charron makes the valid point that hatcheries are another human failure, but as a seafood industry editor doesn't even know the definition of 'wild' fish and sees the resource only as an industry pundit could.
And is this another brother named David Suzuki, or "the" David Suzuki? Because even as an environmentalist by avocation, not vocation - I would be embarrassed to say that I idolized someone who'd sell out to what is an abomination of chemical, parasitic, viral proportions with international impact singly driven by greed.
On the bright side, this proves that one can not rely on figureheads and we must fight the good fight ourselves if we are to protect a fragile and precious phenomenon, the wild salmonid. To hell with you, Mr.Suzuki.
Ken Trainer
Apr 30, 2014 at 7:13am
Has anything changed, the Strait asks?
Lots and all for the good.
What hasn't changed is the Seafood Watch's mandate to attack anything that isn't American.
Oh, and the photo used in this article hasn't changed in 20 years either-that pretty well sums up this opinion piece - - dated.
Apr 30, 2014 at 9:03am
There is a small closed containment 'aquaponic farm' as part of a Victoria urban organic farm run by a progressive couple of people:
Lee L
Apr 30, 2014 at 9:15am
Meanwhile.... back at the Fraser...
Mark Hume in the GLobe and Mail says:
"If the early signals are correct, the Fraser River could have the biggest salmon run in B.C. history this summer, with up to 72 million sockeye returning."
Now these would be the offspring of the huge and UNEXPECTED run that occured in 2010 right in the middle of the Cohen deliberations. Just because a professinal activist says something is evil, doesnt mean we understand what is going on in the ocean.
BC should stop waiting on the Federal DFO and fund its own research into just what is going on with respect to salmon farms AND with respect to wild salmon.
You can't keep drumming the 'sea lice' meme in the middle of a huge contradiction data like 2010 sockeye returns(somewhere around 30 million fish) . Understanding these animals is far more important than demonizing salmon farmers with unproven allegations.
David Dickinson
Apr 30, 2014 at 2:52pm
No more Atlantic Salmon! Produce Pacific salmon and market them when wild Pacifics are not available. As was promised thirty years ago, when the aquaculture industry was trying to pursuade British Columbians that salmon farming was a good thing. The commercial fishing industry was told not to worry. Farmed Pacifics would actually increase demand and prices for wild Pacifics, we were told. So now we have BC fish farms promoting Atlantics, with the effect of increasing demand and prices for Atlantics. Liars!
Bertrand Charron
Apr 30, 2014 at 11:49pm
Juro Mukai does not contribute much by saying I "don't even know the definition of 'wild' fish". I have been discussing and researching issues around "wild" fish for almost 20 years - incl. from genetics, cultural to legal viewpoint (not to mention of course market and 'marketing') - and one thing which nobody (even 'David Suzuki' & Jay Ritchlin) disputes is that hatchery fish "are not truly wild". The point I made above (and in the SeafoodIntelligence.com investigation (April 23, 2014 – http://is.gd/SFW_OpLetter )is that things are 'not that simple'... and that if the same level of scrutiny and 'righteousness' applies to enhanced (or 'supplemented', 'augmented', 'ranched', 'hatchery') salmon fisheries, the black & white views held (and communicated upon) by many would soon find all kinds of 'shades of grey'.
All I'm saying is be truthful to yourself and look at the issues without being blinded by spins of which you may or not be aware of, and which -ultimately - may have less to do with protecting 'truly wild' fish then they seem; and in fact could very well endanger them. At least this deserves to be investigated, and you may start to understand why there is so much historical polarization over the debate. There is plenty said and done about farmed salmon (including the industry's responses & progress), a lot less is conveniently said about the 'wild' side, even though there are also plenty of concerns about those industries. The world's salmon fisheries didn't collapse or decreased as a result of climate change... but due to anthropogenic actions [incl. fishing].
If you do need further examples (from eg. a legal perspective) as to why hatchery fish can't be considered "wild" and can even endanger "[truly] wild fish; check out the "giant win" obtained last week (April 25, 2014) in U.S. federal courts by the Wild Fish Conservancy as it settled with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) re. the Puget Sound hatchery programs.
If you cared to look and think a bit more, you would find also many other concerns.
Finally, if you are so concerned about the environment, I am sure you will stop driving your car, eat fish & foods harvested by methods using fuel engines using your PC, wearing clothes imported from Asia, and consuming fossil energies, among many other things...
Juro Mukai
May 1, 2014 at 5:37am
Mr.Charron states "A lot of so-called "wild" salmon would not – and could not – exist if it weren't for aquaculture; particularly in the Pacific NorthWest. When it comes to Alaska salmon which is generically considered "wild" — but not truly so for about a third."
No artificially colored and flavored finless pellet pout which you call a fish could ever be called wild.
You'd better check your dixie cup, that kool-aid may be purple. While you're at it, check for sealice, virual infections and waste effluent.
Juro Mukai
May 1, 2014 at 12:27pm
In retrospect, it appears we might be arguing similar points at times while at other times we seem diametrically opposed in position.
Perhaps it's because my blinding passion for the welfare of wild salmon and steelhead juxtaposes obliquely with your rather complex writing style.
To be honest, I'm an educated man but in re-reading your posts I come away unsure as to what you are really saying about aquaculture, wild salmonids, or my better than average "green" living habits.
Just what is your position on the impact of aquaculture on not only wild but native anadromous salmonid strains in the Pacific Northwest? Is it detrimental or somehow beneficial?
Please clarify, thank you.
Bertrand Charron
May 1, 2014 at 11:45pm
Mr Mukai: I'm also a passionate fly-fisher of (I would prefer, but rarely so) truly 'wild' salmonids. I make it my job to try to learn and inform objectively daily; this includes criticising unfair, biased approaches and/or anything which is 'not what is says on the tin'. I have written thousands of articles critical to salmon farming/fishing companies & industries (and more so Vs. aquaculture than wild-catch since I do focus on that industry).
My 'agenda' as a journalist is clear: I strive to help filling the 'knowledge gap' and enable access to reliable, objective & up-to-date information. Because I follow the corporate, politics, economy & trade, cultural and marketing attitudes etc.. daily, I am aware of the multi-faceted dimensions & interests which come into play when 'salmon' is being discussed.
I believe that all stakeholders have to consider short-/long-term environmental, social, economic & community impacts. I also believe that aquaculture (salmon farming in particular) is often unfairly singled out by critics (and this often influences the sector's depiction by the media) who do not put in perspective and compare/benchmark the various environmental impacts/footprints by/between the different agri-food producing industries, among many other man-produced products. We all consume their products and we are thus all ultimately & partly responsible.
So to answer (a massive topic, Cohen etc...) – re. my position on PacificNW aquaculture impacts: there are indeed some; which must be constantly monitored, debated & diminished. But they can – also (but sometimes NOT) - be negligible when considering other anthropogenic impacts (incl. any/all urban developments, transport, farming). Every single house has a significant footprint on the local environment & biodiversity (without even factoring what the LCAs of its components); so do villages, towns & cities… we all… etc…
Basically: there is no single black & white good/bad answers & 'demonization' is ultimately counter-productive for those truly concerned re. 'wild' salmonids and/or environment at-large. Assuming so deflects scrutiny from other impact-causing activities.
Things change every day. Aquaculture, agriculture… humans are here to stay (we hope, but…). What's important is to ensure their activities are as sustainable as possible. They must be monitored, criticized & praised as per achievements


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PREDATORY developers looking to build in the Cotswolds may be forced to go elsewhere now that the district council is up to speed with its five year land supply.
Latest figures show that Cotswold District Council has now identified a sufficient number of sites to provide the district with its necessary housing requirements until 2019.
The authority has stated that it has now earmarked enough land to deliver the amount of housing required with enough left over for 359 surplus units.
Recently, CDC's lack of an up-to-date five year land supply has left the Cotswolds open to developers with many rejected planning applications being allowed on appeal.
Cotswold MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown welcomed the news saying it will give power to CDC's planning committee.
"CDC will have the full ability to decide on planning applications and refuse them where necessary, purely on planning merit," he said.
"Members will not have to worry whether their decisions will be overturned at appeal purely on the grounds that they had not met their five year land supply."
The district's planning issues made national headlines last year when a High Court judge overturned CDC's decision to reject an application for 300 homes on green land in Tetbury.
During last November's hearing, the district council was described as a "persistent under deliverer of housing".
Lynda Morgan, who has been fighting excessive developments in Tetbury with action group STEPS, said CDC's five year land supply had been a real bugbear in the town.
"This is very good news for the district as a whole and I am thankful that communities like ours are now protected," she said.
"In Tetbury we've had over 700 houses permitted recently which is more than the 650 we need. This news is amazing as we still have a number of applications pending."
Cllr Paul Hodgkinson, leader of the Lib Dem opposition on CDC, said that while the news is welcome, CDC must join the 50 per cent of councils with an up-to-date Local Plan.
"It is shameful that this council doesn't have one. Until a Local Plan is in place, the developers will hold all the cards," he said.
A Local Plan sets out the rules for how an area should develop over a period of time and, in most cases, should be consulted when planning decisions are made.
CDC leader Cllr Lynden Stowe told the Standard that his Lib Dem counterpart is wrong and that there is only one council in the country with a full Local Plan.
He said: "What is important is that CDC has a process in place that listens to our communities and builds a comprehensive Local Plan around those views. We need to take our time to get it right."
News about the Cotswolds' land supply figures coincided with the visit of planning minister Nick Boles MP to the CDC offices in Cirencester last week.
He met with Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and Cllr Stowe to discuss how the district had been impacted by national planning regulations.


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FORTUNE -- Want to work for Peter Thiel's new macro-global hedge fund? Then you had better have a "high GPA from top-tier university," according to this job ad first spotted by Slate blogger Matt Yglesias.
This may not sound terribly surprising, unless you remember that Thiel has literally been paying top college students to drop out. Sure the goal was to identify promising young entrepreneurs rather than hedge fund analysts, but there is more than a bit of irony here -- if not outright hypocrisy.
What if one of Thiel's dropouts fails as an entrepreneur, or decides that they'd like to do something else. Say, become a hedge fund analyst. Will their former "top tier" universities allow them to return, or give that spot to someone who values it a bit more?
I guess this is kind of like then Thiel recently decided to teach a computer science course at Stanford -- which happens to be his own alma mater. Or like how each of the partners in his venture capital firm also have undergraduate degrees (save for Sean Parker, who isn't a fulltime partner anymore).
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Citation: Fleisher, D.H., Timlin, D.J., Kim, S., Reddy, V. 2005. Modeling leaf growth and development in potato [abstract]. ASA-CSSA-SSSA. CD-ROM. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Appearance, expansion, and duration of individual leaves are critical determinants of plant canopy growth and development. Accurate modeling of these processes has an impact on estimating canopy light interception, photosynthesis, and accumulation of dry matter and yield. Most potato models use a 'big leaf' approach that simulates increases in total canopy leaf area based on empirical relationships with environmental inputs and plant nutritional status. In order to improve the capability of these models, mathematical expressions for individual potato leaf appearance, expansion, and duration were developed. Potential leaf appearance rates were quantified using a non-linear temperature response function. Leaf expansion was modeled as a function of leaf physiological age, temperature, and assimilate supply. Leaf duration was expressed as a function of physiological age of individual leaves. These equations were integrated with existing subroutines for potato phenology and carbohydrate partitioning in order to simulate whole potato crop growth and development. A leaf photosynthesis model coupled with models for stomatal conductance and energy balance was included to calculate leaf carbon assimilation rates. Preliminary testing was performed by comparing the model simulations using whole plant gas exchange, growth, and development observations from SPAR (soil-plant-atmosphere research) chamber experiments conducted in Beltsville, Maryland in 2004.


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The compassionate neurosurgeon Dr. Jason Cole (Steven Pasquale) has a deep, dark secret. Jason has a dangerous alternate personality, Ian Price, who has been suppressed for years. But now the devious Ian is hell-bent on taking revenge on the good doctor in the new series Do No Harm premiering Jan. 31 on NBC.
The thriller puts a modern spin on the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story and also stars Alana De La Garza (Law & Order), Michael Esper (A Beautiful Mind), Ruta Gedmintas (The Borgias), Lin-Manuel Miranda (House), and Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show).
It's not just another procedural show. It's an exciting twist on the original split personality concept with a breakout character at the center. Pasquale is best known for his seven year stint as fireman Sean Garrity on the acclaimed FX series Rescue Me. And Broadway theater goers know he created the role of Fabrizio in the Tony winning musical Light in the Piazza.
Now Pasquale is bringing light to the dark side in his dual role. Executive producer and writer David Schulner (Desperate Housewives) says he wrote a show that he wanted to watch. He admits it's a high-concept premise, but set in a very grounded world. "Ultimately I wanted it to be a thrilling roller coaster ride. And I wanted it to have stakes. So it wasn't enough just to be fun. I wanted the love story between Steven's character and Alana's character to be the center of this. I wanted it to be dangerous and sexy. Hopefully those ingredients will make it different than what's come before, and the audience will sit back and strap in for the ride."
The two different personalities, good guy Jason and bad boy Ian, are played by Pasquale with tremendous subtle skill. Pasquale explains, "We decided we didn't want to do the classic thing where one guy's like a monster and really violently different than the other guy. We wanted them to have a gray area behaviorally for when all the other characters intersect. It's really interesting for the audience, because then the audience knows that it's Jason or Ian, but the other people don't. Of course they're wired completely different and they have completely different personalities, but behaviorally speaking, you wouldn't know that."
Schulner says, "Ian's a little bit like a cat. The cat wants to play with that mouse. He doesn't want to kill it because what fun would that be? So Ian's going to do a lot of stuff to Jason. And then what's great about the other character is that Jason is just as smart as Ian and sometimes he's two steps ahead of Ian, so there are traps and safeguards in place. It's a constant cat and mouse chess game between the two of them. But Ian is not toothless. There's a true danger to him. He's truly menacing, and that's why Jason's character needs to get rid of him. There's a threat always there, because it informs the rest of the story so much. It is a very real threat of something going very dark. Whether or not it happens will remain to be seen, but certainly that's where all of the tension lies."
The pitch to the network was simple, Schulner reveals. "Honestly, I think it was, 'Do you like Dexter? Do you like House? This is House meets Dexter.' Have you ever heard of a book called 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?' That was it. And it's weird to hear it's an unusual premise because it seems so classic. It's such a part of our literary history. The quotes in the book are amazing. There are beautiful lines like 'My devil had long been caged and it came out roaring.' So we've used a lot of stuff straight from the source and tried to incorporate that into the series."
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Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014
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June 20, 2013
Passed in 1978, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) set the groundwork for surveillance, collection, and analysis of intelligence gathered from foreign powers and agents of foreign powers, up to and including any individual residing within the U.S., who were suspected of involvement in potential terrorist activity. On October 26, 2001, a little over a month after 9/11, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act into law. Two provisions, Sec. 206, permitting government to obtain secret court orders allowing roving wiretaps without requiring identification of the person, organization, or facility to be surveyed, and Sec. 215 authorizing government to access and obtain "any tangible thing" relevant to a terrorist investigation, transformed foreign intelligence into domestic intelligence.
NDAA 2014 builds on the powers granted by both the Patriot Act and FISA by allowing unrestricted analysis and research of captured records pertaining to any organization or individual "now or once hostile to the United States". Under the Patriot Act, the ability to obtain "any tangible thing" eliminated any expectation of privacy. Under NDAA 2014 Sec. 1061(g)(1), an overly vague definition of captured records enhances government power and guarantees indefinite surveillance.
On May 22, 2013 the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities, one of several Armed Services Committees, met to discuss the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014. The main subject of the hearing was Sec. 1061, otherwise known as Enhancement of Capacity of the United States Government to Analyze Captured Records. This enhancement provision of NDAA 2014 would effectively create a new intelligence agency, one with the authority to analyze information gained under the Patriot Act, FISA, and known spying programs such as PRISM.
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Ideological divide over global warming as wide as ever
Pope Francis will publish an encyclical addressing environmental issues and climate change this Thursday, a subject that continues to deeply divide Americans, including Catholics, along partisan and ideological lines.
Overall, Americans' views about whether the earth is warming have remained relatively stable in recent years, with about two-thirds of the public (68%) currently saying there is solid evidence that the average temperature on Earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades while 25% say there is not solid evidence of this.
Even so, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that there has been a significant uptick over the past two years in the share of Americans who say global warming is a very serious problem. Currently, 46% say that global warming is a very serious problem, up 13 percentage points from the spring of 2013.
Partisanship and ideology remain some of the strongest factors underlying attitudes about whether Earth is warming, our survey finds. Today, roughly nine-in-ten liberal Democrats (92%) say that there is solid evidence Earth's average temperature is rising, and 76% attribute this rise mostly to human activity. Very few liberal Democrats (5%) say there is not solid evidence of warming. A clear 83% majority of conservative and moderate Democrats also say Earth is warming, but just 55% say this is the result of human activity.
By contrast, just 38% of conservative Republicans say that there is solid evidence of global warming. Reflecting a divide within the GOP, conservative Republicans stand out as the only ideological group in which a majority (56%) says that there is not solid evidence of a rise in the earth's temperature (a 61% majority of moderate and liberal Republicans say Earth is warming).
And while 21% of conservative Republicans say they think there is no solid evidence because "we just don't know enough yet about whether the Earth is getting warmer," about a third (32%) say that global warming is "just not happening."
Although these deep ideological divides over global warming are not new, views about the significance of global warming as a problem continue to diverge.
Just 14% of conservative Republicans say global warming is a very serious problem – a share that has remained unchanged in two years. But since 2013, the share of those who say global warming is a serious problem has increased among liberal Democrats to 76% (up 19 points), among conservative and moderate Democrats to 60% (up 17 points) and among moderate and liberal Republicans to 36% (up 17 points).
Those who say global warming is happening as a result of human activity increasingly believe that it is a very serious problem: Today, fully three-quarters (75%) say this, up 17 points from 2013. And although just 33% of those who attribute warming to natural patterns in the earth's environment say it is a very serious problem, that reflects a 10-point increase since 2013. Among those who say there is no solid evidence of global warming, just 8% say global warming is a very serious problem, unchanged since 2013.
Views of the seriousness of global warming also vary by gender, race, age and education. Women, Hispanics, younger people and those with college degrees are more likely to identify global warming as a very serious problem.
See a detailed breakdown of these questions by additional demographic groups here.
Topics: Energy and Environment, U.S. Political Parties, Catholics and Catholicism, Religious Leaders, Political Polarization
Jocelyn Kiley is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
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There is NO GLO-BULL climate anything … at least caused by man. And, if someday you happen to meet a radical environmentalist, just ask them; ""wasn't it supposed to be an ice age by now?" (they said so, and predicted as much, back in the late 1960's, 1970's and early1980's); then when that didn't pan out, they changed it back in 1990's and early 2000's, to GLO-BULL warming, (again they said so, and predicted that the oceans would have covered much of the low lying planet with up to 20 feet of higher water levels, and no polar ice caps.) OOPS, looks as if that didn't work as expected either; now it's "climate change", so that any unusual weather event is covered under this blanket non-fact. But wait!, but wait!, I do believe in "climate change", what! you say, yes I do, I really, REALLY do. It's called SPRING-TIME (global warming); SUMMER-TIME(global getting quite toasty); FALL-TIME(global cooling); and WINTER-TIME(global darn cold).
It is a complete shame that humans accept fudge as "data." The only "warming" in the data is from the surface of growing urban areas. Everything else from these taxpayer funded liars is fudge.
How about a better question – why does the Antarctic Circle have 9 times the ice of the Arctic?
If you cannot answer that question, you have precisely ZERO understanding of Earth climate change…
How long ago was it that Greenland was green?
Declaring that the science of climate 'change' is set, i.e., infallible is an oxymoron. Science by definition is never set, established. That is the essence of science. . , ever evolving.
If climate is changing, what then? No more gasoline vehicles; no natural gas for heating and cooling… nuclear and hydro, sun, wind utilies only (last two heavily subsidized by public taxes)!
A lot of ignorance here. The planet has been experiencing climate change since its inception. It has been a lot warmer, and it has been a lot colder. Climatological studies have shown over and over that climate change is a normal, cyclical event.
You're correct in that the climate has changed throughout Earth's history. Colder at times, warmer at other times. All of which are 'naturally occurring' shifts.
The concern among climatologists and other scientists is that there is a statistically significant deviation from what we know of the 'cyclical events' of normal, natural climate change throughout history. This variation is associated with human intervention since the industrial age.
The correlative data is not difficult to find and interpret.
A lot of ignorance here. The planet has been undergoing climate change since its inception. It has been much warmer and much colder. What we are experiencing is a normal cyclical event as shown by the numerous climatlogical studies.
It would be quite strange if there were not a divide.
On one side are 97% of the world's scientists who have published a peer reviewed opinion about Climate change along with the Pope, the Vicar of Christ, the Savior of Humankind.
An on the Other side are the Fossil Fuel Companies and the Father of Lies, Satan


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i havent worked out hardly ever in my life but im wanting to start. thing is that i dont have a clue as of what to start out with. i have been looking into sledghammer training and i have a couple dumbbells (with adjustable weights) and a pull up bar (my dads) so i have a few things i could use but i dont know how many reps or sets i should start out with. im a heavier guy (about 260-70 lbs). im wanting to workout at the end of my day (the morning because i work third shift) rather than the beginning like most folks if that makes a difference. I am mainly looking for weight loss and maybe some strength building stuff. if there are some workouts that do both at the same time then please suggest those. :)
im not looking for dieting advice, just workout ideas and tips.
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By sledge hammer work out I assume you mean mace training. If you are following the article found on AoM I personally start with doing 3 cycles of 10 reps of each excessive(excluding the wood chopping as I lack the tire) and worked my way up to 10 cycles. The weight is not melting off but it is coming off. That and it has done a lot for over all strength. Recently I've added Indian clubs for variety. They are good work outs you can do in the back yard if you can't/don't want to go running
For lose weight you need to drop fat, fat is dropped by burning calories, and muscle is what burns those calories. Therefore, the more muscle you have the more calories you will be able to burn. With that being said I've found one of the more effective ways to lose weight without destroying your metabolism or ending up with a skinny and weak body is to build muscle while using high intensity training to burn fat.
The basics:
- 3-4 sets of 10-12 reps which will cause your muscles to achieve sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (muscle growth)
- Use compound movements and avoid isolation exercises
- Use high intensity training (sprinting, tabata etc) in place of steady state cardio
- track your calories and macro nutrients (you don't need to be religious about it, but it's always good to have an idea of how many calories you consume per week since you're trying to get your body to use stored fat as energy while still consuming enough calories to maintain muscle mass)
I apologize for the very brief overview (hopefully it gives you a starting point), I am a little pressed for time. If you have any questions or want more detail explanations or recommendations, just shoot me a PM and I'd be happy to give you any help I can.
If you want to incorporate muscle building with fat loss then I would suggest a full body routine. These are great for people just starting out. Should take about 1 hour each day 3 days a week. Program might look something like this:
Back - Lat Pull Down / Deadlift 3 x 8 - 12
Chest - Bench 3 x 8-12
Legs - Squat or Leg Press 3 x 8 - 12
I would have someone who is advanced show you proper form for bench, deadlift, and squat.
These exercises would be easier at a gym but if that is not an option you can still do them at home with the dumbbells.
I know you said you are not looking for dieting advice so all I will say is that weight loss is 90% what you are putting into your body. If you carefully monitor your calorie intake, you will lose much more through diet than exercise alone.
The above is exactly right! Unless you're willing to do this AT MINIMUM, you're probably not going to loose weight or get fit.
At the gym, those weight exercises take me 20 minutes, which is still more than my trainer's estimate when she set up my program.
I was reading about this just last night. Men's and women's metabolism are a bit different, and I was reading a women-specific book, but the MD authors said it's steady cardio that causes weight loss. Weight training builds muscle, which increases metabolism, which can help weight loss if part of an overall program. Steady cardio can be just about any moving-around activity you want: brisk walking, jogging, swimming laps, sports like basketball and soccer, time on the treadmill, etc.
Conventional wisdom for men and women (I checked his at WebMD and Mayo Clinic) is to exercise early in the work day. Exercising close to bed presumably gets you revved up and can cause sleep disturbances. I say "presumably" because I'm thoroughly not a morning person and often exercise after dinner, late in the evening, and have never had resulting trouble sleeping. Exercise any time of day seems better for sleep than 0 exercise. From my women-specific book, however, I understand that how the timing of your workouts affects your sleep is largely genetic.
Always consult a professional and a medical doctor about this stuff because random advice from random people on the internet is not necessarily trustworthy when you're doing this type of thing.
That being said, I am a big fan of body weight exercises. Typically I will start with cardio to pump me up. It might range from a half-mile to mile run or some time on a rowing machine.
Then do pullups, pushups, and situps in supersets. So I do 1 pullup, 2 pushups, 3 situps. Rest 20-30 seconds. Then 2 pullups, 4 pushups, and 6 situps. And so on up the ladder until I can't do the next set up.
I add in some weight training like bar curls, lat pull downs and rows, and shoulder press. Also tri-dips. One of my favorites is a strong man course--sledgehammer training, tire flipping, chain dragging. It's not as conventional and it's a ton of fun.
Fitness and weight loss is probably 80% nutrition and eating. With that said, I highly recommend that you go to a doctor or a health clinic and get a full health assessment. They will usually tell you what your cholesterol, sugars, and BMI.
It is good to have this on hand and redo every month to see what your progress is.
It also will tell you how many calories on a given day that you would need to consume to maintain your lean body mass.
I recommend that you find a trainer that can help motivate you and keep you on task.
I also recommend Crossfit as it is different from the usual gymrat experience.
Good luck and get that assessment.
I know that every time exercise is mentioned on TV, they say "Always check with your doctor before beginning any exercise program," but, according to ACOG, the CDC, and implicitly the AHA, If you're otherwise healthy, you do not need to consult with a doctor before beginning a moderate exercise program.
While having your blood checked monthly might be ideal, last time I had my cholesterol checked, the bill was $800. (small hospital, bad insurance) You can get it done for about $25-50, and insurance should cover the first test. Personal trainer costs $70/hour at my gym.
Agreed. From the standpoint of the insurer of a treadmill maker, the only people on the product should be perfectly healthy people examined daily by a medical team. But from a public policy and public health standpoint, any barrier to exercise is not good for Americans in 2013. ACOG was clear about this; they've changed their policy in only the last few years (and their members theoretically stand to lose money from the resulting fewer patient visits).
Also, while you'll sign waivers at the gym and with the personal trainer that you're sufficiently healthy for regular exercise, etc., they won't actually ask for a doctor's note before they take your money, any more than the treadmill maker will ask for a doctor's note before selling you the equipment.
I have had great yoga and pilates instructors who ask at the beginning of each class if any students have particular health concerns.
HAHA. From what I've read of Krav, probably everyone has health concerns after class.
Better yet are the commercials that say you should check with your doctor to see if you are healthy enough to have sex. Exercise is one thing that is a chore for most people even if they like doing it. Who in their right mind is going to see one of those commercials and hold off having sex until they check with their doctor. Even then if you were to go see a doctor and he said you were not healthy enough to have sex who would follow that advice? Temporarily abstaining due to open heart surgery or something like that is understandable. If you are using the "sorry honey, I'm not healthy enough to have sex" excuse then I would have to think that person is simply not interested but it has nothing to do with their health.


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Nashville Predators defenseman Shea Weber is expected to need four-to-six weeks to recover after sustaining a subluxed kneecap, the team announced on Monday.
Weber, 29, sustained the injury--which was initially termed a "lower-body injury"--during Game 2 of the team's first-round playoff series against the Chicago Blackhawks.
The injury caused Weber to miss the ensuing four games of the series, which Nashville lost, 4-2.
Over 78 games this season, Weber recorded 15 goals and 30 assists and averaged more than 26 minutes of time on ice.
Weber, the Predators' captain, just completed his 10th season in the NHL.
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Adobe Shockwave Player is one of the hot applications with frequent updates and thus lots of work for packaging an deployment engineers. Before Windows Vista I used to repackage the Adobe plugins ( Shockwave and Flash players). But once our customers start using vista, the repackaged players caused lots of errors and support calls. So I've decided to use the Adobe supplied msi's via Adobe Enterprise Software distribution agreement.
Everything was good till last week when a few customers start getting never ending MSI repair screens while using software with embedded Shockwave content. The investigation proved that some of the applications trigger a repair action of Shockwave MSI. So as an alternative I'm going with the exe installer for Adobe Shockwave Player.
Downloading the Adobe Shockwave Player 11 Full EXE installer
In order to be able to deploy the Adobe web players the deployment engineer must sign up for an Adobe Account and request for a license. Start here and use this page to request a license. You'll need an Adobe ID to login; if you don't have one create the account from the same page. An email will be waiting in the Inbox with a link to download the standalone installers for the Adobe Web Players.
A Quick and Dirty way of downloading the latest version Adobe Shockwave Player exe installer will be using this link. The file is named sw_lic_full_installer.exe.
Adobe Shockwave Player 11 Silent Deployment
It's the easy part, the /S command line switch installs Adobe Shockwave Player silently.
path\sw_lic_full_installer.exe /S
Now for silent Uninstall, the following command will do just fine:
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\Adobe\Shockwave 11\uninstaller.exe" /S
Note:- Please note that the commandline is case sensitive. ie. A capital letter /S is correct; small /s will not work.
Disable automatic Update feature of Adobe Shockwave Player
The following registry key is handy for suppressing the update check for all the users.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Shockwave 11\AutoUpdate]
Disable Anonymous Statistics collection of Adobe Shockwave Player
For privacy concerns you might want to add this one also.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Shockwave 11\collectstats]
These registry keys must be added after the Shockwave install or they will be overwritten.


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At its May 7 meeting, the East Bethel City Council and several audience members discussed general strategy for managing the local ice arena, 20675 Hwy. 65 NE.
The current contract with Gibson Management expires in July this year and is due for the standard every-five-years review. That process includes requesting proposals to provide ice-arena management services.
Meeting discussion established that the East Bethel Ice Arena has been a financial burden. For the first time in its existence, it operated in the black during 2013 but only because $68,000 from a cell-tower lease payment and sign-on stipend were allocated as arena revenue.
City Administrator Jack Davis emphasized the non-negotiable goal for the ice arena: To operate self sufficiently without the cell-tower money. A 2013 arena budget lists revenues at $272,165 and expenses at $223,632.
Davis explained that enthusiastic hockey volunteers raised money in the 1990s to build the facility on donated land, later appealing to the city for help in finishing and maintaining it. The aging structure now needs improvements, which must be funded through profitable arena operation.
East Bethel received bids from Rink Management Services Corporation, the North Metro Community Association of St. Francis; and Gibson Management.
The proposals outlined each group's qualifications, strategy, fees and such details as an arena manager, open-ice time, dry-floor events, concessions, advertising, fundraisers, cleaning, security, outreach, maintenance, improvements and more.
Rink Management is a 15-year-old company that also manages the Vadnais Sports Center; it proposed a fee of $94,500 per year. Representative Randy Peake said his company manages 32 ice arenas and offers the accounting and management systems for efficient operations and accurate reporting.
Peake said RMC would conduct an assertive community-outreach campaign through networking and dedicated social-media marketing. He said it would also look into activities to attract young skaters, such as sessions with a cartoon character.
"There are untapped markets out there that may or may not know this facility is there for them," said Peake.
Todd Gibson formed his company six years ago expressly for managing the East Bethel Ice Arena; he proposed doing the work for $84,000, the same fee as the current contract.
He said he was in the process of getting another city to rent more ice time and exploring such ideas as community garage sales and pickleball events. Gibson said his wife had recently joined the company and would manage social media. He confirmed that the arena has a Web site and is listed online where people look for rinks.
While representatives of the now-forming North Metro Community Association did not attend the meeting, the all-volunteer non-profit organization proposes to manage the ice arena for $100,000 per year plus profit-sharing incentives tied to revenue, advertising and retail sales.
Interested party Jennifer Smith said the NMCA consists of volunteers from public and private business, the community and youth-hockey organizations. She said the group is prepared to meet the challenges of fundraising and long-term sustainability of the arena. Smith said untapped potential users may include soccer, baseball and lacrosse teams and that profit-sharing money would be re-invested into the building and programs.
All three representatives said their fee was negotiable. The Council members decided to continue the discussion on ice-arena management at a May 14 workshop.


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Bette Midler has been tapped to perform at the 86th annual Academy Awards. This will be The Divine Miss M's first performance at the event, which will be aired live on ABC from Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 2.
The show's producers announced the exciting news on Wednesday, February 19. "We are thrilled to have Bette perform on the Oscars for the very first time," said Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. "We believe she will make our Oscar telecast an especially moving evening."
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