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Welcome to the fourth installment of Buildings That I Love, an ongoing exploration of Bishkek's architectural curiosities. You can read entries one, two, and three by clicking on the highlighted links. In this post, we'll take a closer look at the 18-story apartment tower that looms over downtown Bishkek. I probably should have led with this building, as it is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite construction in Bishkek. If I've shown you any photos of my time in Kyrgyzstan, chances are, you've already seen it. But you probably don't know too much about the building's history.
In the decades following WWII, rapid urbanization Soviet Union placed a great strain on existing housing stocks. So, in the early 1960s, Soviet planners launched an extensive development project aimed at alleviating rampant overcrowding – temporarily, at least. In just a few short years, government-operated factories churned out thousands of residential buildings. Constructed using pre-fabricated concrete panels, these structures were cheap, fast, and easy to produce en masse. Though many people find the buildings visually uninspired and lacking in charm or character – their uniformity is parodied in 1976 Russian film Ирония Судьбы (The Irony of Fate) – these buildings fulfilled their fundamental purpose as a stopgap solution to the urban housing crisis.
By the 1980s, however, planners realized that these buildings, which typically did not exceed seven or eight stories, were spatially inefficient. Moreover, most buildings were designed to last 20–30 years, and some were beginning to decay, imperiling their inhabitants. So, drawing inspiration from Western examples, Soviet architects began to experiment with new forms and materials that would allow them to produce higher-density residential constructions. The 18-story building in Bishkek is one of those imaginative prototypes.
Eighteen stories is not particularly impressive by Western standards, but in Bishkek, a city altogether devoid of skyscrapers, the tower rises well above the skyline. Yet, despite its prominence, the building is not visually intimidating; while it stands out from the surroundings, it does not necessarily overwhelm them. Its curved pods and panels, architectural appendages enabled by the use of steel reinforcing, are a pleasant departure from the typically angular forms of other pre-fab buildings from the Soviet era. The building is asymmetrical, but it does not feel unbalanced. It's not trying to look iconic, and yet, it is.
To me, the building looks like a rocket ship in the final stages of its launch countdown. The roof of the building is bedecked with dozens of satellite receivers, which are connected to nearby buildings by slack cables dangling like fuel lines. The round pods might serve as emergency escape vehicles in the event of an aborted launch.
The building is another product of Frunzegorproekt, the state-run architecture agency that oversaw the construction of many of Bishkek's best-known buildings. Dozens of local architects have claimed at least partial responsibility for the design, including our old pal Alexander Zusik, the man behind the White House. Incidentally, this is not the only building of its kind in Bishkek; at least half a dozen similar, if not identical, structures are scattered throughout the city's microdistricts. But there's something about this one that captures my imagination. Perhaps it's the building's spatial contexts: all around it, old structures are being demolished and garish new ones are sprouting up in disharmonious coincidence. But this structure remains unmoved, patient and resilient, like a giant steel-and-concrete ent.
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In this era of information, security for your telecommunication devices and other private information has become more and more important however keeping that private information secure has become a great risk. One example is the leak of personal information of celebrities and other people from different websites and forums .There have been a lot of inventions for improving the security to your personal information, but then there are hackers who can hack into your passwords and pattern locks. Facial recognition is a tool that is one of the strongest piece of security for your device. Facial recognition system is a software that matches the shape and facial features of your face to a picture or video that you had already stored in the system. It is mostly used for securing important information or getting access to a certain area but now a days media companies are also using facial recognition and image processing to improve their video quality and to add CGI content to their movies.
Image processing plays a great role in facial recognition system. Government agencies use image processing in order to improve the quality of photos that they possess. Facial recognition and image processing complement each other one without the other is almost useless. If facial recognition software doesn't have a good image processing system then it would face a lot of problems while identifying a person. Better image processing results in better facial recognition. Same way if your image processing system is good but the facial recognition system is outdated then still it might face a lot of problems.
Facial recognition tools are also used by federal agencies to track targets by matching the facial features of their target to the video or images that they have. Facial recognition is of two types, the first one is 2D facial recognition which deals with the facial recognition of a two dimensional image where as 3D facial recognition adds up a lot of variables like facial expressions and face positions to the identification process. Facial recognition might be a very good tool for security but there are still some loop holes as people who have videos of you, can in a lot of ways break into your system. Facial recognition is a relatively new technology and is more expensive than simple pattern locks. It is used in areas with high security. Some lighter versions of the technology can be used on laptops and mobile phones but these lighter and inexpensive versions of the software sometimes have problems in identifying the person if he is wearing a beard or if he has a different hairstyle than before. Facial recognition system is also used in robots with artificial intelligence to perform the function of eyes. A good facial recognition system is one that can identify a human being not just on the basis of his physical appearance but also on the structure of the face and position and movement of the face muscles. Nevertheless Information technology is reaching new heights every minute, so there is no denying that facial recognition would become a very common and necessary security tool in the near future. It might even replace the old key locks in our homes and cars.

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Oil inches above $99 on China data, US supply jump
Oil prices inched above $99 a barrel Wednesday as investors weighed encouraging economic data from China against a jump in U.S. crude inventories and signs of sluggish growth.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for March delivery was up 63 cents at $99.11 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 30 cents to settle at $98.48 on Tuesday.
In London, Brent crude was up $1.15 at $112.13 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
China unveiled a $2.5 billion fund to finance new small businesses, promising tax breaks and more lending for entrepreneurs, while the state-affiliated China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said its purchasing managers index rose 0.2 points to 50.5 in January from December's 50.3 on a 100-point scale. A figure above 50 indicates growth.
At the same time, HSBC Corp. said its China Manufacturing PMI was little changed at 48.8 from December's 48.7, suggesting a "moderate deterioration."
The American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that crude inventories rose 2.1 million barrels last week while analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., had predicted an increase of 3.0 million barrels.
Inventories of gasoline fell 222,000 barrels last week while distillates added 970,000 million barrels, the API said.
The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reports its weekly supply data later Wednesday.
"Despite all the supply risks relating to Iran and Sudan, the oil market is currently characterized by excess supply, which explains the recent below-average trend in the price of crude oil," said a report from Commerzbank in Frankfurt.
Investors will be closely watching the latest U.S. employment data from January on Friday. The Conference Board said Tuesday that consumer confidence fell in January from December as Americans were more worried about their incomes, gas prices and business conditions.
The housing market also continues to struggle. Home prices fell in November for a third straight month in 19 of the 20 U.S. cities tracked by the S&P/Case-Shiller index.
"U.S. economic releases tilted toward the bearish side, and that these figures followed last Friday's negative GDP guidance conjured up images of some disappointing employment data," energy consultant Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report. "A difficult, choppy trading environment could be sustained well into February."
In other energy trading, heating oil rose 2.17 cents to $3.0726 per gallon and gasoline futures were up 2.06 cents to $2.9115 per gallon. Natural gas fell 8.7 cents to $2.416 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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The dim sum serving sizes are usually small, comprising three or four pieces in one dish. The usual way of ordering dim sum is to order a variety of dishes which could be shared by several people. Due to the bite-sized portions of each dish, customers, particularly first-timers to the dim sum experience, are encouraged to try a variety of the dim sum dishes. Some have even likened the dim sum experience to a mini-imperial dining affair as one could sample small portions of different dishes throughout the meal.
Given the oily nature of the dishes, it is recommended that one drinks tea, such as pu-er tea, to help rinse all the grease from the food out of the system. Drinking tea also aids digestion, blood circulation and lowers cholesterol levels.
Dim sum must be eaten when it is fresh, and is usually eaten hot with a lot of sauce .These can be soy sauce, chilli sauce or XO sauce.
Some popular dishes are as follows. (The list is not exhaustive and does not do justice to the wonderful variety of dishes available in a dim sum restaurant.)
(1) Har Gao (Shrimp Dumpling)
The dumpling is filled with shrimp, cooked pork fat, bamboo shoots, scallions, cornstarch, sesame oil, soy sauce or oyster sauce, sugar and other seasonings. The pouch-shaped dumpling is then steamed in a bamboo basket until the skim turns translucent. The fairly plump shrimp is carefully cooked so that it does not end up overcooked. Before eating, it is usually dipped in soy sauce or red/black vinegar.
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(2) Siu Mai (steamed pork and mushroom dumpling)
Its fillings consist mainly of ground pork, chopped shrimp, Chinese black mushroom, shallots and giner, with seasoning of soy sauce, sesame oil and chicken stock. There are several variations of siu mai, depending on the locality. (The Cantonese version is the most well-known and commonly served in many Chinese restaurants.) The skin covering is made of egg and lye water dough. The centre of the dumpling is garnished with an orange dot, usually made of crab roe or diced carrot. It can also be eaten with a touch of soy sauce or black vinegar.
(3) Char Siu Bao (Bun with pork filling)
The buns are usually filled with tender, sweet and slowly-roasted pork. The dough of the steamed bun makes use of both yeast and baking powder as leavening, which gives the bun the texture of fine soft bread. The white puffy skin should be soft and fluffy. If the buns are left in the dim sum cart for too long, the skin would turn soggy. The pork filling is usually diced and then mixed with oyster sauce, sesame seed oil, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and cornstarch.
(4) Lo Baak Gou (Turnip Cake)
The dish is made of shredded Chinese radish and plain rich flour. Corn starch is also used to help bind the cake together. Besides these key ingredients, dried shrimp, dried mushroom, shredded carrots and Chinese sausage are also added to spice up the dish. (These are usually stir-fried first before being added to the radish/flour mixture.) The combined mixtured is steamed for about 40-60 minutes until it solidifies into a gelatinous mass. The dish is usually cut into squared-shaped pieces before serving. The cake has a think crunchy layer on the outside, while it remains soft on the inside.
(5) Phoenix Claws (Fried chicken feet)
The chicken feet are first marinated in soy sauce, ginger, garlic, wine and maltose sugar. Then they are fried in oil to give a crispy crunchy taste to the outside layer. After that, they are boiled before being stewed in sauce flavoured with bean paste, sugar, black fermented beans or abalone sauce. Usually, the soft bones and skins of the chicken feet are chewed on, while the hard bones are left aside.
(6) Lo Mai Gai (Steamed glutinous rice with chicken in lotus leaf wrap)
The dish contains glutinous rice filled with chicken, Chinese mushrooms, pork, a tiny quail egg, scallions and dried shrimp. The seasoning for the rice consists of shallot oil, sesame oil, oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar and white pepper. After that, the rice ball is wrapped in a dried lotus leaf before being steamed.
(7) Fried spring rolls
The dish consists of pork or chicken breast meat cut into thin strips. Together with shrimp bits, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, carrots, mushrooms and scallions, it is then mixed with soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil and sugar. The mixture is then left to marinate for 20 minutes, before being stir-fried. After that, the fillings are placed in spring roll wrappers, before being deep fried. The dish is served hot to maintain its flavour and aroma.
(8) Egg custard tarts
This popular treat is a stalwart of the dim sum scene. The soft, quivering custard sits within its flaky pastry shell made from a combination of sugar, flour, egg, water and lard which give it a rich golden appearance. Some restaurants have also introduced alternative flavours such as taro and coffee, as well as egg tarts with different kinds of crust.


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June 29, 2014 - This morning, on his first excursion since returning from Zanskar His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited the Leh Jokhang and paid his respects. At the Bakula Memorial Park, built in commemoration of Bakula Rinpoche by the Indian army in collaboration with the Ladakh Autonomous Development Hill Council, he remarked that Rinpoche had been a good friend. He noted that following his studies in Tibet, Rinpoche returned to India where he got to know Prime Minister Nehru. His Holiness said: "It's most appropriate to establish this memorial in tribute to Bakula Rinpoche as the man who initiated the modernization of Ladakh."
Urban Development Minister in the Jammu & Kashmir Government, Rigzin Jora also addressed the occasion saying that the members of the Hill Council were grateful to Bakula Rinpoche and tried to follow his example. He thanked His Holiness for coming.
In Pethub (Spituk) monastery, which is celebrating its 600th anniversary, His Holiness reconsecrated a 1000 year old statue of Vajrabhairava that has been restored. He spoke of the need to improve the monastery's status as a centre of learning, while acknowledging the important role that monks from across the Himalayan region and especially Ladakh play in the Tibetan monasteries in South India. At Phey Monastery a group of young monks showed off their debating skills in front of His Holiness.
Wherever His Holiness went Ladakhis cheerfully lined the roads to greet him. Ganden Tri Rinpoche also accompanied him to all these places and the two of them later had lunch together.
Arriving at Likir Monastery in the mid-afternoon, His Holiness was received by senior monks, village elders and members of the Organizing Committee who escorted him to the doors of the new Lhakhang. There he cut the ribbon, pushed open the doors and while he chanted auspicious prayers tossed flowers in the air. More monks were on hand to welcome him, as well as local village women in traditional ornate headgear and a group of smiling schoolchildren. He took his seat on the throne, tea and sweet rice were served and prayers, including the Prayer for His Holiness's Long Life were recited, but he said it was time to rest and there would be time to talk tomorrow.
His Holiness is in Ladakh to give the Kalachakra teachings at the request of the Ladakh Buddhist Association and the Ladakh Gonpa Association. The Tibetan Kongpo Association and the Tibetan Jonang Association are co-sponsors. During the first three days of the Kalachakra, from July 3 to 5 His Holiness the Dalai Lama, along with the monks of Namgyal Monastery and senior lamas will conduct rituals which prepare and consecrate the venue. These include chanting of prayers, creation of the sand mandala and other rituals. From July 6 to 8, His Holiness will give preliminary teachings on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend. On July 9 the Kalachakra Ritual Dance will be performed by Namgyal Monastery monks. His Holiness will confer the Kalachakra Initiation from July 10 to 12. On July 13 a long life empowerment and a ceremony offering prayers for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be performed.
Thousands of Buddhists from around the world are in Ladakh for the events.


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Naval Strike is an Air to Air and Air to Sea combat game. The transport boats are carrying cargo that must not get into enemy hands. So fly your aircraft with the mouse and shoot down all the planes that are protecting the boats, before targetting the boats. As well as your machine guns, you are armed with torpedo missiles, that you can deploy with the space-bar and blowup the boats.
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Many years ago, an American friend of mine was living in Paris and went to the local post office near his apartment to mail a letter. There he found some American tourists who were clearly upset with the French postal clerk. My friend went over to see what the problem was, and to see if he could help. It turned out that the American tourists were trying to mail postcards to the United States, but wanted to put American stamps on the cards. They couldn't understand when the postal clerk tried to explain that one cannot send mail to the United States from France using United States stamps. My friend explained this to the American tourists; however, they remained incredulous that mail sent to the United States had to have French stamps.
I tell this story because it illustrates a bigger point: how many Americans view the rest of the world as an extension of the United States. How dare the French post office not honor United States stamps on postage sent to America? The gall of those French!
This story comes to mind now because of the increasing influence of the United States on the world's regulatory environment, imposing United States views of how things should be run on the rest of the world. This week, the Department of Justice announced that it had reached an agreement with Credit Suisse whereby Credit Suisse agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit tax evasion in the United States and pay a penalty of $2.6 billion. Presumably, most of the conduct at issue took place outside of the United States. But because it had consequences in the United States, the United States government believed that it had the right to punish that conduct.
Recently, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("the FCPA") has become a favorite of prosecutors and regulators. Most of the conduct being investigated for potential FCPA violations took place completely outside of the United States. However, if public companies that trade on United States exchanges pay bribes overseas (usually through foreign subsidiaries), those foreign bribes are treated as United States crimes.
In 2011, Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Southern District of New York enjoined plaintiffs who had successfully sued
How can the United States impose its will upon foreign plaintiffs and corporations to toe the line on conduct that is largely outside of the United States? Because the United States has the power to do so.
Someday, China or India may replace the United States as the proverbial 800 pound gorilla in the world of international commerce. By virtue of their economic might, they may (indeed, it seems likely that they will) impose their own set of morals on conduct largely in the United States, with small impact outside of the United States. One can easily imagine the outrage that would be expressed in the United States if and when that happens.
Which brings me back to the post office in Paris. As long as the United States views the rest of the world as an extension of the United States (just as the famous Saul Steinberg poster in The New Yorker viewed the rest of the world as an extension of New York), it will create resentment by those whose conduct is being now regulated or prosecuted from afar (i.e., in the United States). That resentment may have consequences that the United States may regret. In the meantime, don't mail letters from Paris to the United States using U.S. postage. It gives the U.S. a bad name.
To read more from Lawrence Bader, visit www.maglaw.com.
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Doll wrote:I am so very disappointed. I can't believe I am going to miss this! As far as I can tell, this is the ONLY show in the US. We NEVER have anything this big in our city. Why all of a sudden? He will be here! Here! In my hometown and I can't be here for it!
Oh, I forgot that you are from San Antonio! I'm so sorry for you
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By SARA GLASSMAN, Star TribuneMinnesota isn't exactly the swimwear capital of the world. However, Jolene Danielson, a native of Duluth, hasn't let geography lessen her love of swimsuits.
"I've always loved swimming and had a passion for the water," she said. "I grew up on Lake Superior, so that helps."
Her second collection for her Tekno Doll line will debut in Minneapolis tonight, during a Morocco-themed evening (see below) that will also feature accessories by Tia Salmela Keobounpheng of Silvercocoon.
While most of Danielson's designs expose a lot of skin, she knows what she's doing. She's been designing intimate apparel for 12 years and understands that fit is key. "The essential elements are the same, because you're fitting close to the body," she said.
The current collection is inspired by Hollywood, specifically "Hollywood glam, starlets and Venice Beach," she said. Her California dreaming isn't a coincidence; she's packing up later this summer and moving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles.
A Night in Morocco: 7 to 10 p.m. Thur. (The fashion show starts at 8 p.m.) Sky Garden of the Crowne Plaza, 618 2nd Av. S., eighth floor, Mpls., www.teknodoll.com. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $30 for VIP, www.vitalculture.com.
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The Bachelor Episode 5: Emily Maynard's Favorite Looks
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Watching Sean Lowe's season of The Bachelor is extra fun this season because we're asking one of our favorite fashionable Bachelorettes, Emily Maynard (Lowe came in third on Emily's season), to tell us which of the contestants had the prettiest looks each week. And on this episode, Emily was particularly wowed by their hair. "I've never seen such shiny hair in my life," Maynard told InStyle.com. "I'm convinced there was some kind of secret shampoo containing unicorn tears in these girls' gift bags, and I need to know where I can get some immediately!" Click through the gallery to see which outfits Emily loved most, then tune in tonight at 8/7c on ABC for another episode of The Bachelor. Tomorrow we'll have even more of Emily's thoughts!


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Numerous studies show that job stress is far and away the major source of stress among adults and that it has escalated progressively over the past few decades. Increased levels of job stress as assessed by the perception of having little control but lots of demands have been demonstrated to be associated with increased rates of heart attack, hypertension, and other disorders. Often, it is not the job but the person-environment fit that matters. Some individuals thrive in the time urgent pressure cooker of life in the fast lane, having to perform several duties at the same time and a list of things to do that would overwhelm most of us — provided they perceive that they are in control. They would be severely stressed by dull, dead end assembly line work enjoyed by others who shun responsibility and simply want to perform a task that is well within their capabilities. For instance, the stress that a policeman or high school teacher working in a city experience is quite different than those experienced by their counterparts in a rural area. Moreover, stress levels can vary widely even in identical situations for different reasons. Stress is a highly personalized phenomenon and the severity of job stress depends on the magnitude of the demands that are being made and the individual's sense of control or decision-making latitude he or she has in dealing with them.


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English ales
A drink with a Thameside view
Zoom out. What's the big picture here?
Think of this as a walk with friends rather than a tour (groups are capped at 12). You meet at a prime selfie spot—at Rotherhithe, overlooking the Thames—then catch the Overground to Wapping to hit the pubs. By reservation only.
Cool. Tell us about your fellow tourees.
This is primarily a tour for beer lovers. It's not wheelchair-accessible, however, and there's a fair bit of walking involved—though about half of the four-hour tour is spent sitting down.
How are the guides, then?
Main tour guide Lee (Eating London founder, Nicole, also guides sometimes) is from Wapping and works in local pubs. So he knows everything.
Anything you'll be remembering weeks or months or years from now?
Five of London's most historic pubs in four hours is a blessed kind of endurance task.
I like it. So: money, time—how can we make the most of both?
If you're not a beer fan, you probably won't get as much out of it as the others. If you are a beer fan—especially a British ales fan—you're golden.
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Nostradamus: The War with Iran--Islamic Prophecies of the Apocalypse
John Hogue
Publisher: HogueProphecy Publishing
The true measure of a book of prophecy is found when the lengthening passage of time from its publication sees its forecasts only gain credibility as if they were written ever in the present, catching the trends of current events years ahead. This is such a book, first released two years ago in October 2012 and reissued now just when it seems a thawing of 33 years of enmity has begun between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. This last chance at peace was anticipated in its pages. Will the birth of hope for that peace dissolve at last its lurking shadow of horror: a war foreseen in the utterances of prophets too horrible to fulfill? All eyes today look to US and NATO forces eventually finding either excuse or just cause to fully enter the bloody quagmire of civil war in Syria, yet the visions of the 16th-century Seer, Nostradamus warn that Syria is not even the main event. Iran is next and in all of world-renowned prophecy expert John Hogue's 30 years of studying Nostradamus' prophecies, he has rarely seen so many clear inferences and warnings that oncoming war is at hand. Nostradamus' astrology has dated it for the mid-decade. The prophet's verses of foresight describe the future naval clashes in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz called by their 16th-century names. The Iranian flag's abstract red tulip symbolizing Islamic martyrdom is described as is the US Navy Jack belonging perhaps to a fleet that will be "melted and sunk" and sent to the bottom of the "Arabian" (Persian) Gulf. Is it the US Navy? Is it the Iranian navy of "Ishmaelites" charging out of bases along the shores of "Carmania", the 16th-century name gives describing for the Iranian coastline of the hotly contested Strait of Hormuz through which 20 percent of all the world's oil exports pass? If there is war with Iran, oil production and transport will be disrupted. If the fiat global economy has not already busted its own balloons of phony growth before 2016, Nostradamus forecasts the use of a new and terrible weapon—the "Money Weapon"—to render valueless Armageddon's checkbook. No one reading this right now, no one living on this planet, will be immune to the consequences of this war. See how Nostradamus has nearly come into the clear with his cryptic visions hinting openly about what lurks in the shadows of the Future's possibilities so that we can forestall this greatest of Middle Eastern wars from happening in the eleventh hour with the light of peace and human intelligence. Estimated printed book pages: 349 "I have known John Hogue for fifteen years. Every year, he predicts on the program [Dreamland] and every year, he proves to be fireproof. He's accurate. Uncannily accurate." —Whitley Strieber, author of Communion and The Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell John Hogue is author of 600 articles and 40 published books (1,170,000 copies sold) spanning 20 languages. He has predicted the winner of every US Presidential Election since 1968, giving him a remarkable 12 and 0 batting average. Hogue is a world-renowned expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus and other prophetic traditions. He claims to focus on interpreting the world's ancient-to-modern prophets and prophecies with fresh eyes, seeking to connect readers with the shared and collective visions of terror, wonder and revelation about the future in a conversational narrative style. Hogue says the future is a temporal echo of actions initiated today. He strives to take readers "back to the present" empowering them to create a better destiny through accessing the untapped potentials of free will and meditation.


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We don't necessarily visit playschools, nurseries or kindergartens and definitely don't look at them as thoroughly as the primary and secondary schools (and only publish full GSGI write-ups on them if they are part of a primary or K-12 school), but these are amongst the ones in Sydney recommended or mentioned by parents. We list them here just to give you a place to start, to help you make up your own short list.
We always appreciate any feedback from parents (contact us), and we'll remove schools or add them as we hear about them or receive updates, even from this informal list.
Day Care and Pre-Schools- Sydney
As in most countries, quality of day care and pre schools varies enormously. My first look at two places had me hankering for home. The list below is our selection of some of the best places for your child. Cost varies, dependent on hours, facilities, if meals are provided and if it is privately owned. If you choose to become a resident, you can claim back a proportion of the fees-see your local Centerlink office for more details.
Family Daycare
Waverly Family Day Care (02 9389 9421/ [email protected]) or Mosman Family Day Care (02 9978 4162/ www.mosman.nsw.gov.au) can assist with placements in family day care.
Di's Day Care*
7 Stephen Street, Bondi, NSW 2026
(02) 9369 1615
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-3.30pm
Contact: Diana Bangle.
Home based day care for 5 children per day. Children are eligible from 18 months old and most leave close to their third birthday. Organised pre-school activities and all meals provided. Yearly visit by a fireman and policeman is a big hit. $48.00 per day.
Miriam's Day Care*
42 Bonnet St, Bondi NSW 2026
(02) 9369 3530
Email: [email protected]
Hours: Mon-Fri 8.30am-4.30pm
The centre caters for Orthodox Jewish Children with all Jewish holidays celebrated. Meals are provided (all conform to Kosher standards). Slightly longer hours are a plus. $55.00 per day.
Long Daycare:
The Department of Family and Community Services (1300 653227) can help with what's available in your area.
Ballykin at Rose Bay*
24 Dover Road, Rose Bay NSW 2029
(02) 9371 6275
Email: [email protected]
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-.5.30pm
A newly renovated centre with care for children in age specific groups, each with their own playroom and bathroom. Caters for children 2-5 yrs old. Big outdoor playground and French lessons for 3-5 yr olds. All meals provided by on site chef.
The Third Bear Playschool*
24 Junction Street, Woollahra NSW 2025
(02) 9389 9225
Hours: 8am-5.20pm
For children 0-2 years (from 2-5yrs they can then move around the corner to Third Bear Preschool). High Staff/Child ratio and all meals provided.
Sir Philip Baxter Child Care Centre*
27 Nelson St, Woollahra NSW 2025
(02) 9363 1515
Email: [email protected]
Hours: 8am-5.30pm
A large centre that caters for 56 children from 0-5years old. They can assist with children with special needs and all meals and laundry is provided. Price per day is dependant on the age of the child-from $80 for babies to $60 for children aged 3-5years.
Bambini's Child Care Centre*
157 Cook Road, Centennial Park NSW 2021
(02) 9361 0169
Hours: 8am-6pm
Caters for children 6months-4yrs old in two adjacent buildings with 41 children in total.
Parents can take anything from one to five days per week and all meals are provided. For the last year they have included 'baby signing' in their program-a sign language for babies to help parents/carers make sense of 'baby talk'. High child to staff ratio.
ABC Developmental Learning Centre*
93 Cabramatta Road, Mosman NSW 2088
(02) 9904 1146
Hours: Mon-Fri 7.30am-6pm
For children from 0-5years old. One of many ABC Learning Centres dotted around NSW. Well located, with good equipment and staff ratios. All meals are provided. Cost based on child's age: Nursery-$85/toddlers-$76/pre school-$65.
Pippies at Balmoral*
Balmoral Oval
The Esplanade, Balmoral Beach, NSW 2088
(02) 9960 5455
Hours: 8am-6pm.
Recently refurbished and situated opposite lovely Balmoral beach, Pippies caters for 2-6yr olds and after a further upgrade will take 0-2 yr olds also. French lessons are taught four days a week and all meals are provided. $80.00 per day. Kids yoga is taught for an additional fee-Ommmm.
Ballykin at Rose Bay* (see Long Day care)
St.Mark's Pre-school*
Church Hall, Greenoaks Avenue, Darling Point NSW 2027
(02) 9362 2260
Hours: Mon-Fri 8.45am-2.45pm
A lovely pre school held in the church hall (part of the church Elton John got married in). Caters for 40 children between the ages of 3-5yrs. Option for two/three/five days a week. Part of Cranbrook School (very high end boys' school) so very popular choice and hard to get in to.
St Michaels Pre-school*
Cnr Gilliver Ave and Vaulcluse Rd, Vaulcluse NSW 2030
(02) 9371 9214
Hours: Mon-Fri 8.45am-2.45pm
Also affiliated with Cranbrook School and a good choice if you are local. Same age group and days as St. Mark's (see above).
Montessori East*
8 Wellington Street, Bondi, NSW 2026
(02) 9130 8313
Hours: Pre-primary: Mon-Fri 9am-12
Primary 8.30am-3pm
Email: [email protected]
Offers Pre School and primary education (up to 12 yrs) following the Montessori philosophy. Two venues-in Bondi and Vaulcluse. All children attend five days-the under 5's only for three hours a day so wouldn't suit working parents as much. Cost is $2055.00 per term (approx 8/10 weeks)
Rushcutters Bay Pre-School*
Waratah St, Rushcutters Bay NSW 2011
(02) 9362 2260
Hours: Mon-Fri 8.30am-3pm
Catering for 40 children who either attend 2 or 3 days. A multi-cultural and anti-bias curriculum with family involvement encouraged. Children bring their own packed lunch. At $38.00 a day it is one of the more affordable pre schools.
The Third Bear Preschool*
29 Grosvenor Street, Woollahra NSW 2025
(02) 9389 9220
Email: [email protected]
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-6pm
A full pre school but with the benefit of extended hours (most preschools have 3pm pick up). Caters for children 2-5years with a minimum of two days a week required attendance. Hot meals provided by resident chef. At $87.00 a day you pay for the extra hours and frills but still a popular choice.
Woollahra Preschool*
512 New South Head Rd, Double Bay NSW 2028
(02) 9327 4921
Email: [email protected]
Hours: Mon-Fri 8.45am-3.30pm (school terms).
Age: 3-5 years.
A lovely, friendly pre school caring for 60 children in age related classrooms. Offers a choice of two day or three day attendance. Meals are provided and a music program with specialist teacher is included. Good outside area. Demand for places is very high with waiting list applications taken from 18months and older.
Mosman Community Pre school*
38a Belmont Road, Mosman NSW 2088
(02) 9969 3070
Email: [email protected]
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-3pm
A pre-school held in the Uniting Church Hall for children aged between 3-5years. Children can attend 2/3 days dependant on age/need (priority is given to kids who turn 4 by 31st July in the year they attend). $39.00 a day.
Neutral Bay Kindergarten*
Cnr of Winnie Street & Waters Road,
Cremorne, NSW 2090
02) 9953 1237
Email: [email protected]
Hours: 8am-6pm
As well as running as a full pre school, Neutral Bay kindergarten also acts as a long day care taking children from 18 months old. Japanese and French are both taught and it has disability access. Cost on sliding scale-18mths-2yrs: $79.00 2-3yrs: $73 3-5 yrs $63
*For a full list of day care and pre school options, log on to your local council website. Or collect a "Services for Children" directory from your local library.


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Joe Wurzelbacher: Defender of the American Dream
CONTEXTMade as part of DMA 159A - Senior Project
MEDIUMUnity3D, blender
PEOPLENick Crockett : Game Designer/Developer
It is the eve of the winter Olympics, and brave Joe Wurzelbacher finds himself in an uneasy slumber. Draped over his favorite reclining chair, awash in the cool blue glow of the television, thoughts of gay athletes, terrorist threats, and am ex-KGB officer most queer trouble our middle-aged hero. Little does he know, this night Joe will undergo a journey unlike any he has had before.


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Swiming Pools. Published at Friday, July 01st 2016, 09:45:50 AM by Elfreda Abisamra.
For people of almost any age, swimming is one of the best ways to stay healthy in mind and body. If you want to make a habit of daily swim in your own home but find it expensive to install a pool, then you should try to invest in a swim-spa. It is a great way for swimming and relaxing. They consume less space compared with a swimming pool and also effective in terms of cost. This is a miniature bathroom pool and much more. They are more practical and convenient option to use regular pool. Swim Spa is offered in various sizes and you can put them everywhere you want, whether it is a small backyard or your bathroom. You can even find the model that can contain 4-5 people.
Swim Spa comes with more than four thousand gallons of water traded fuel in the container which requires you to swim. The water which will go back inside is re-circulated, creating a continuous resistance to swimmers. Practicing against the flow of water will help you increase your muscle strength. Water power distribution can be controlled depending on how fast you want. In case you're a beginner and just learning the first lesson in the pool, you can start using the power more slowly from the circulation and gradually increase as you improve. Swimming against a strong current makes you exercise all the harder and healthier.
Because the concept is relatively new in the market, you should look for the following if you are planning to buy a health club. When you're in a spa dealer, the first to do is to test the fuel spa and to ensure a continuous discharge of water from the spa when arrange in a certain speed. The turbulence can really be felt in the water in the spa's middle spaces while the water on the sides remains calm. That's all about tips to choose Swim Spa.
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2. Once teams are selected, participant may receive a refund of one-half (½) of the registration fee. A Refund Request Form must be completed and it is required that you come into the office to fill this form out. Our office is located at the Turner Lake Complex 6185 Turner Lake Road, NW, Covington, Georgia 30014
3. No refund will be remitted once games begin. This applies even if your child has not attended practices or played in any games.
4. Refunds for injuries/long term illness will be pro-rated. All refund requests must be made within one week of doctor's initial recommendation. All requests must be accompanied by a doctor's note.
Participants requesting a refund should do so in person, and complete a Refund Request Form within one week of the last practice attended. We do not give refunds or credits from one year to the next or from one sport to another.
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More productive at work
More Productive Work Due To Active Sitting
Over 80% of individuals experience pain in their spine at some point in their lives. Back pain remains one of the most common reasons to visit the doctor, chiropractor or physiotherapist.
Did it ever happen to you that you had to stand up because of harsh back pain? You interrupted your work to stretch those stiff and painful limbs, losing the idea or thought that you had with your work?
Does your concentration dissipate after a few hours? You need to do your work but you can't go on so you reach for a cup of coffee increasing your blood pressure and sending more blood to your head.
Or are you just caught in your comfortable chair, eyes closed, "contemplating" (sleeping) the future
of the company?
The solution for you is a SpinaliS chair, because this chair forces you towards active sitting, which has, compared with passive sitting on plain ergonomic chair, many advantages. The main benefit of active sitting is the constant exercise of back muscles, which are strengthened at the same time.
The favourable effects of active sitting:
- Increased blood flow,
- Reinforced back and abdominal muscles,
- Disc and vertebrae relief,
- Reduced pain in already injured spine,
- Pain relief for uninjured spine,
- Prevents the possibility of injury,
- Improved posture.
All of the above is the key to more productive work. To convince you of this we have prepared very favourable conditions for you. You can take the chair to your home and test it for one week.
Do not waste your time sitting on a chair that steals from your health - get a SpinaliS!


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I was trying to think of an entry for today's 80s Music Friday, and then I realized that no matter what, Ray's will win for today, so I'm stealing his.
I've always loved this song. A little known fact about me is that I like to learn songs I like on the bass guitar and then play along with them. Often I'll build a little playlist of like 10 songs and play a little concert for the dog. Further, I like to pick ones with bass lines interesting enough, but simple enough that I can sing while playing. This was one of the first songs I learned (because it's easy) and I took on the role of the "...and then the conversation turned..." guy in the band. Now I see that he wears a different shade of lipstick than me, so that whole fantasy is shattered, but I still love the song.
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Although regular wood glues were sold by Henkel since 1925, the Pattex story begins with the year 1956 – the revolution in the glue market. Product developers created after long cooperation with German Craftsmen the first contact glue which was cold-curing – called Pattex.
So far, craftsmen had to heat up glues prior to applying them – a dangerous and time-consuming task. Pattex listened to this complaint and developed a product which is applicable at room temperature – thus offering a strong and easy-to-use and safe solution.
First used by shoe repair craftsmen, the product found wide acceptance in the woodworking sector starting 1958, the year in which the glue was filled in buckets as well.
A few years later, 1964, the Pattex contact glue could be filled in small tubes of 125g as well, opening the door to households – and finding usage for smaller repair tasks.
But the Pattex developers never stopped to improve the glue – and thus were able to offer the first "non-dripping" contact glue called "Pattex Compact" in 1972. Threads of glue were now history.
In 1977, Pattex launched the first specialised wood glue "Pattex Wood Express" for Do-It-Yourselvers after having had the "Pattex Wood" in the assortment for Professional woodworkers since 1959. Two years later, Pattex brought the next innovation to the users – offering the first water-resistant wood glue in the market: "Pattex Wood Water-resist".
In 1981, Pattex enlarged its glue assortment with hotmelt pistols – especially designed for professional crafters (e.g. Florists).
One year later, 1982, Pattex launched the first Super Glue based on Cyano-acrylate technology, an instant repair glue for small surfaces working within seconds. A breakthrough invention that makes life of all households much easier from now on.
In 1989, Pattex offers to its users glues specialised for mounting objects on walls - with instant tack it was now not necessary anymore to fix or hold objects for hours on the wall! The new category of construction adhesives was born.
In 1994, Pattex enlarges its offers of wood glues by special parquet and wood floor glues.


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Increased productivity, cost reduction and redundancy in access to information: Key issues of a global market and that each year is bringing major challenges to companies.
The goal of Tekann is to transform these challenges into a process of renovation of its customers. Our focus of activity goes beyond developing innovative technological solutions. We are a company that works in the constant evolution of its services helping customers to be at the forefront of mobile technology.
Tekann operates in software development for multiple mobile operating systems through the TotalCross framework. The methodology and the development pattern of Tekann, together with its own development tool called TotalCross Studio, allow that applications developed run on mobile phones, Smartphones, PDAs and tablets, ensuring access through practically all existing mobile platforms today. Tekann solutions enable its customers to computerize all sectors of the company and ensure direct access to information anytime and anywhere, either through new applications or the integration processes with existing systems (ERP, CRM, etc.), one of the key points and greater know-how of the company.


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NPR seeks to help media organizations geotarget Facebook content at scale
NPR plans to develop an application called GeoGraph, which will expand upon its efforts to improve Facebook engagement and media consumption by geotargeting posts. The public radio organization says Facebook has committed to support the endeavor.
NPR found success with an initial experiment that led to record traffic and an increase in Likes, comments and shares, but to scale the test, the organization will need to use Facebook's API. NPR detailed its plans in an application to the Knight News Challenge, a media innovation contest. The project could have an impact on how other media companies — and possibly brands — distribute content through Facebook.
In October 2011, NPR began its experiment with Seattle member station KPLU. Each day or so, NPR would post a KPLU story to its Facebook page, but it would use Facebook's geotargeting capabilities to limit the audience to only Seattle residents. NPR ultimately posted about 50 geotargeted KPLU links over a four-month period. The posts accounted for 12 percent of KPLU.org's total traffic during that time. The test also resulted in record traffic to the website, both for a single month and a single day.
NPR found that local stories outperformed global stories six-to-one in terms of engagement rate on Facebook (likes, comments and shares as a percentage of unique viewers of a post). Anecdotally, NPR noticed deeper conversations in the Facebook comment threads of local stories.
Geotargeting posts is a lesser-known feature of Facebook pages that we've detailed in The Facebook Marketing Bible. Geotargeting allows organizations to maintain one large page, while sharing more content per day with audiences that are more likely to engage with each post.
To expand geotargeting beyond a single city, NPR wants to build GeoGraph using Facebook APIs. It explains GeoGraph as "a newsroom tool to manage the pitch-to-publish process" that "addresses unique editorial and localization needs of news organizations where publishing directly through Facebook or other tools fail." The project could lead more pages to take advantage of this strategy. The organization says it plans to make the tool publicly available and documented so others can replicate it.
According to NPR, Facebook Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik will provide support through the process. A Facebook spokesperson tells us the company will provide NPR with feedback about best practices and technical implementation of APIs, but it will not fund the project or devote a set number of hours to the effort.


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I had a spouse and she, although ill, had agreed to my straying in sexual love: As long as you are discreet, she once said.
I am discreet, only Trudy knows, but does Sola know? She suspects my straying through her fine antennae of a woman writer. She can read my body language. Trudy is as expressive as I am and she may be more of an open book to Sola, than I am.
"Cheers," I said and emptied my tea with rum, but it had cooled off.
"I will get you a hot one," Sola said, took my cup and disappeared.
"Thank you," I called after her and politeness replaced affection for the time being, as I wondered about her. Babette always accused me in the past of lacking affection towards her and I agreed. Life together had left us childless and parentless, most of our lovers had disappeared but friendship prevailed. Yet I still felt betrayed from her previous affairs, as much as she felt betrayed by mine. We had betrayed each other at different times during our married life and subsequent domestic fights welded us rather together than driving a wedge between us. We did not fall apart ever. Something similar must have happened with Sola and George and certainly I did experience her period of transition, I thought. She brought me a mug of tea. Her black crop of hair appeared first and then her sparkling dusky eyes and her smiling magenta lips. As she focused her dark eyes on me, I felt a pang of desire and my heart filled with love. I melted in Sola's presence, whenever I looked deep into her eyes. She smiled as she saw my gaze and hooked onto it. Her soul and mine connected at an instant!


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Shadow Work and the Virgin Mary
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sometimes, a way to see something more clearly is actually to exaggerate what it is not. As a piano teacher, I marvelled that sometimes the most effective way to coax the most musical performance out of a student was to ask them to play it in the opposite way they intended first. If it was a sweet and tender lullaby, to play it once roughly, coursely and crudely. If the song was to be bold , fiery and dramatic, to play it as insipidly as possible. It was amazing how doing so would liberate other possibilities and sensitize the student to deeper nuances in the music. It was akin to my process of trying to copy a Renaissance sketch of the Madonna, when I realized that to really make the portrait come to life, I had to deepen the dark shadows around the face far more intensely.
I thought of this yesterday as I sat through the dress rehearsal of Mark Adamo's opera The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, because the portrayal of the Blessed Mother (here named Miriam) is as opposite a portrayal as you could imagine from the image that has been painted for two thousand years of a beautiful maiden of utter composure, equanimity and grace. Even the images of Mary at the cross throughout the centuries depict a woman sustained by her faith, surrendered to God and able to find peace of heart.
In this opera, she is emotionally distraught in every scene. In perpetual conflict with her "wounded, wounding son", she becomes more unhinged as the drama is played out. Hers is the highest voice on stage, and it conveys less the ethereal realm of the angels than the Madwoman of the Attic. She is a woman with a troubled, dark past- and she is no virgin. She cringes as her eldest son is pursued by taunting shouts of "mamzer" and "bastard" The wounds Jesus bears from being a social outcast are deep, and in response, he seems to despise her. After being rejected once more by him, she laments with rising hysteria, "How many times must I forgive you, seven times seven? Seven times seven? Seventy times seven?" . In a climactic scene, she reveals to Mary Magdalene that she contemplated abortion, and in the finale of the opera, she is a broken woman, her hair turned white with grief and shock, craddling a mock baby in her arms.
It is a portrayal that many audience members will find disturbing, perhaps shocking and quite likely blasphemous. It certainly unsettled me. And it is indeed the opposite, the shadow image, of the picture of Mother Mary that I hold in my heart. And yet, by confronting this new image, it has also brought me to a deeper and more nuanced appreciation for her.
The stark reality of those times was that an unwed girl could well have been stoned to death for an illegitimate pregnancy . The kind of courage it would have taken to go forth with an unwanted pregnancy if alternatives were thrust upon you was quite miraculous in and of itself. The shadow of suspicion and scorn that would have clung to the family from Nazareth would have been a painful cross to bear. And the truth is, Jesus does deny his mother and speak contemptuously of her at least twice in the Bible: at the wedding in Cana (when Mary suggests that Jesus perform his first miracle by replenishing the wine, he publicly rebukes her , "Woman, what has that to do with me?") and at the temple (when he is told that his mothers and brothers are at the gate. Jesus denies them as family, saying "You who follow me are my family").
In its radical staging of Mary as an emotionally fragile, wounded and unhinged mother, the opera has actually made me more appreciative of the strength, courage, trust and faith that we see in Mary peering through her few appearances in the New Testament. Mark Adamo has placed lines of the son (such as the "Seven times seven") in his mother's mouth, but that does make me wonder: what did Jesus learn from her? what did she teach him? Biblical scholars have suggested that Mary's longest speech, the beautiful Magnificat, is not so much a pious and placid acceptance of her fate but a call for social justice that serves as a prelude and foreshadowing of Christ's Sermon on the Mount.
The Hindus have a saying that the process of finding God is a process of discarding one idea after another- "neti, neti": not this, not this. In a paraphrase of TS Eliot, in order to arrive at what we are we have to go through the way that we are not. I am grateful for the challenges that Mark Adamo's opera presents for me to wrestle with his shadowy image of Mother Mary, it is helping me come to a deeper and truer affirmation of who she is for me.
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SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean oil refiners, led by top player SK Innovation Co., logged decent earnings in the first quarter of the year on the back of robust petrochemical business, and expect their bottom line to remain firm under the current quarter thanks to the recovery of their refining margin, industry sources said Sunday.
SK Innovation posted a net profit of 859 billion won (US$757 million) in the first quarter, sharply up from 566 billion won profit a year earlier, thanks to better-than-expected results from its petrochemical business.
"The petrochemicals business posted record earnings, and non-oil business also helped jack up our overall operating income," it said.
Its petrochemicals and lubricant business accounted for 55 percent of its total operating income in the first quarter, sharply up from 28 percent tallied in 2011.
Refining margins are expected to be sound for the second quarter ahead of the driving season, SK Innovation said earlier expecting solid gasoline demand under the current quarter.
GS Caltex Corp., the No. 2 refiner in South Korea, reported that its first-quarter earnings more than doubled from a year earlier aided by robust results from its petrochemicals and lubricant businesses.
Net profit reached 563 billion won in the January-March period, up 160 percent from a year earlier, The stellar performance was also driven by sound results from its petrochemicals and lubricant sectors.
S-Oil Corp., the No. 3 player, suffered a 10.8 percent fall in its bottom line from a year earlier, as the strong local currency offset its sound refining margins and widening spreads for chemicals goods.
Local refiners' earnings were mostly aided by a bullish chemicals business.
In the three month period, their petroleum exports reached an all-time high on solid demand and higher oil prices.
The country's four major oil refiners, including the smallest Hyundai Oilbank Co., exported 117 million barrels worth of oil and petrochemical goods in the first quarter of the year, up 6.5 percent from a year earlier, according to industry data.
In terms of volume, the tally marks the highest for any first quarter, they showed.
Analysts said demand for gasoline may strengthen as the global economy is showing signs of a recovery and their product margins will be good on the back of tight supply.
Refining margins will stay firm this year, in part due to solid demand for oil from Asian countries, and demand for power generation will also remain solid.
U.S. refiners are expected to conduct large-scale maintenance work this year, according to analysts. Lee Dong-wook, an analyst at Kiwoom Securities, said local players will benefit from firm demand amid tight supply.
Refiners in South Korea racked up record earnings last year largely due to improved cracking margins, inventory gains and solid demand for petrochemical products.
The country's four major oil refiners logged a combined operating income of 8.03 trillion won last year, an all-time high figure.


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A local district attorney in Wisconsin has sent a letter to area school districts warning that health teachers who tell students how to put on a condom or take birth-control pills could face criminal charges.
Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth took issue with a law Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle signed in February requiring schools that teach sexual education to adopt a comprehensive approach. Mr. Southworth warned that teaching a student how to properly use contraceptives would be contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Wisconsin schools aren't required to teach sex education. But under the new law, which was backed by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, schools that do must teach a range of topics, including the benefits of abstinence, the proper use of contraceptives, how to make responsible decisions, and the criminal penalties for underage sex. Parents can choose to keep their children out of the classes.
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The Port of Port Elizabeth is situated in Algoa Bay on the south-eastern coast of Africa, midway between the Ports of Durban (384 nautical miles north-east) and Cape Town (423 nautical miles west).... more
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In 2001, Lisa Druxman created Stroller Strides, an exercise program that she could do with her son, and at the same time, help provide a source of income without returning to work full time. Lisa taught this stroller workout program, combining power walking with a stroller and body toning exercises using the environment, exercise tubing, and a stroller. It became so popular that Stroller Strides is now the country's largest and fastest growing fitness program for moms.
One of the largest challenges for Stroller Strides was its huge growth. They needed funding to properly support the company when it grew so quickly. Luckily they were able to acquire an SBA guaranteed loan, which provided the funding needed to get them through their transition from mom and pop company to a large franchise operation.
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Here are my current thoughts on a decent electoral system to propose:
- Your ballot has two parts: a vote for a candidate in your local district and a vote for a party.
- Your local vote elects the representative of your local district. In your local district, more than one candidate can run for the same party, and you can vote for as many options as you like.
- Your party vote determines the representation of parties in the legislature. Extra seats are awarded so that the composition of parties in the legislature matches the proportion of votes that each party got. The extra seats go to the candidates who got the most votes among those that didn't otherwise win.
Why do i like this system?
- Parties get fairer representation in the legislature. Right now if 10% of voters support the Green Party but are scattered over many districts (e.g. 10% in each district) the Green Party wins no seats. The party vote ensures that 10% of the seats will be Green to represent that 10% of the voters, no matter how the districts are gerrymandered.
- You still get a local representative who is accountable to you. The local representative is more accountable than they are in the current system, because they are not guaranteed votes from the voters who like their party. They may have to compete with other candidates running for the same party. You can even vote for a local candidate that you like better in a different party, while still supporting your party with your party vote.
- Your vote for a local representative can't be "split" or "spoiled" by the addition of more candidates, as under the current system. Approval voting frees you from having to choose between the lesser of two evils; you can vote for both if you want.
- The extra seats that are added to achieve proportionality are accountable to voters, because they still depend on public support. (In other proportional systems, the party decides who gets the extra seats.)
- It's not too hard to explain how this works. The effects of your votes are fairly direct and easy to understand.


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Are you carrying the face of time?This can be very easily recognized if you simply bring attention to yourself and the way you are living. Most people have a strongly shaped face of time, which can be changed very easily. You can find out more and bring awareness of your own face by watching this simple, short video:
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There are three new sanitary buildings on the campground. All three are very regularly cleaned and with proud we can tell that we receive very much compliments about the cleaning. All three buildings are heated and because of the glass roof very light and pleasant. Of course all buildings provide hot and cold water. The hot showers work with tokens (€ 1,00) which you can buy at the reception.
Besides ordinary toilets we also have a separate shower and toilet for disabled people, a baby room and several possibilities to empty chemical toilets. There are also special facilities for Mobil homes (free service!) where you can fill your water tank or get rid of your dirty water.
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The United States' threat to shoot down Russian and Syrian warplanes is a declaration of war against these countries, says Scott Bennet, an American political analyst.
The Pentagon's warning came after US fighter jets tried to engage Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft in Syria last week, but the showdown was avoided as government planes left before the Americans arrived.
Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis claimed on Friday the US fighters attempted to intercept the Syrian planes to protect American advisers – a term the US military often uses for its Special Operations Forces – working with Kurdish forces after the Syrian government jets bombed the area.
On Monday, another Pentagon spokesman, Peter Cook, said, "We would continue to advise the Syrian regime to steer clear of those areas."
"It's not a no-fly zone," he said, adding that "the Syrian regime would be wise to avoid areas where coalition forces have been operating."
Bennet, a former US army psychological warfare officer, told Press TV on Tuesday that it is "quite a declaration of war before a declaration of war, because essentially what the United States has said is that 'we're not going to the United States' Congress about this, we're simply going to follow military advisers in the Obama administration on this.'"
"Essentially, what that says is 'it's war already, and now the Syrians and the Russians have a choice. The choice is always quite simple: the Syrian government's obligation is to protect its people, and protect its land from invaders," he stated.
"And in this act, the United States is invading Syria. It is fostering a war; it's paying for the mercenaries; it is using Saudi Arabian Wahhabists to invade Syria; and create chaos as well some of the Kurdish elements," the analyst noted.
"So the response of course I think needs to be an absolute, uncompromising, unyielding stance of power and strength by the Russians, by the Syrians, by the Iranians, and by the Chinese – a concerted coalition of countries that are dedicated to peace and stability, attacking an infection of instability and chaos, which is the United States' forces and its mercenaries that have been hell-bent on removing [Syrian President Bashar] Assad," he observed.
Since September 2014, the US and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out airstrikes against Daesh inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
In September 2015, Russia launched its own air offensive against the terrorists who were still wreaking havoc in Syria. The Russian campaign, analysts say, has broken the backbone of Daesh and other militants, and has provided the Assad government an opportunity to defeat the foreign-sponsored terrorist onslaught.
In recent months, the Syrian army, backed by the Russian air power, has been making major gains against Takfiri groups, recapturing several strategic areas from their grip.
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The Australian boozer frequented by famous Aussie monument, Crocodile Dundee, is to be flogged.
The current pub owner has had enough of telling Crocodile Dundee stories to passing tourists and Aborigine "Walkabouter's" in fact he's so sick of people asking if Mr.Dundee really existed, he's decided to go "walk about" himself.
The actor who played Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan, is dying to return to his old watering hole but cannot afford it, he owes too much tax and can't even buy a pint of Fosters!
The Aborigines living in the area are all mainly alcoholics and will desperately miss the pub and fear that they'll be plenty of "cold turkeys" flying around if no new owner can be found.
Other fab Aussie actors have shown interest in buying the pub, Russel Crowe & Mel Gibson, but were advised against it because they are so far down the outback road, their livers couldn't take it!


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Mitsubishi Ki-109
Derived from the Ki-67 Hiryu bomber as a heavy interceptor, the Ki-109 was originally conceived in two versions, the Ki-l09Ko mounting two obliquely-firing 37-mm cannon and the Ki-l09 Otsu equipped with radar and a 15.75-in (40-cm) searchlight, the intention being that the two aircraft would work as a team. Soon thereafter the Ki-109 project was redefined as a bomber interceptor mounting a 75-mm Type 88 cannon with which it could attack its quarry while remaining beyond the range of opposing defensive armament. Converted from a Ki-67 airframe and retaining the dorsal, lateral and tail gun positions of the bomber, and the Mitsubishi Ha-104 engines each rated at 1,900 hp for take-off, the first Ki-109 prototype was completed in August 1944. The second prototype was powered by Ha-104Ru engines with Ru-3 turbosuperchargers, and it was intended that these would be installed in the final 22 aircraft of an initial batch of 42 Ki-109s. The first series Ki-109 dispensed with the dorsal and lateral gun positions, retaining only the tail position which mounted a single 12,7-mm machine gun, primary armament being the single 75-mm cannon with 15 shells individually loaded by the co-pilot. In the event, production difficulties with the Ru-3 turbosupercharger prevented its application to any series Ki-109s, and only 20 production aircraft were completed, these having standard Ha-104 engines.Engines: 2 x Mitsubishi Ha-104, 1,900 hp / 1425kWSpan, 73 ft 9 7/8 in (22,50 m)Length, 58 ft 10¾ in (17,95 m)Height, 19 ft 1 in (5,80 m)Wing area, 708.8 sq ft (65,85 sq.m)Empty weight, 16,367 lb (7 424 kg)Loaded weight, 23,810 lb (10800 kg)Max speed, 342 mph (550 km/h) at 19,980 ft (6 090 m)Range, 1,367 mls (2 200 km)Crew: 4Armament: 1 x 75mm cannon, 1 x 12.7mm machine-guns
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California Law AB 3034 established a Peer Review Group whose duty is to evaluate the California High Speed Rail Authority's funding plans and prepare its independent judgment as to the feasibility and the reasonableness of the Authority's plans, appropriateness of assumptions, analyses and estimates, and any observations or evaluations the Group deems necessary.
Membership of the Group. Legislation provides that:
(a) The authority shall establish an independent peer review group for the purpose of reviewing the planning, engineering, financing, and other elements of the authority's plans and issuing an analysis of appropriateness and accuracy of the authority's assumptions and an analysis of the viability of the authority's financing plan, including the funding plan for each corridor required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2704.08 of the Streets and Highways Code.
(b) The peer review group shall include all of the following
- Two individuals with education and experience in the planning and construction of large transportation systems, such as high-speed rail, or highway systems with similar characteristics, designated by the Treasurer. Both of these slots are currently open.
- Two individuals, one with experience in engineering and construction of high-speed rail or similar large infrastructure projects and one with experience in project planning and finance, designated by the Controller. One of these slots is occupied by Marty Wachs (planning and finance), the other is filled by Bijan Sartipi (engineering and construction).
- One representative from a financial services or financial consulting firm who shall not have been a contractor or subcontractor of the authority for the previous three years, designated by the Director of Finance. This slot is open.
- One representative with experience in environmental planning, designated by the Secretary of Transportation. This slot is filled by Lou Thompson.
- Two individuals with experience providing or governing intercity or commuter passenger train services in California, designated by the Secretary of Transportation. One slot is filled by Stacey Mortensen, the other is filled by Kome Ajisi.
Lou Thompson has served as Chairman since March 1, 2013.