Sports facilities in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Introduction. This report looks at a few town sports facilities describing the most standing out features whether which can attract visitors. It also provides some recommendations which can help the facilities to improve. Fitness centres. The town has a few good fitness centres which provide a wide variety of opportunities for relaxing and keeping your physical shape. The prices of attending gyms are quite affordable and can appeal to visitors who want just exercise a couple of times or who plans to buy a year gym membership. However local gyms suffer from the monotony of training programs. A rare gym can suggest and individual approach for their visitors. Varieties of kind of sports. Our town, unfortunately, can not provide our visitors with an opportunity for doing any of their favourite kind of sports, especially in winter season as well as in spring and autumn because of not good weather conditions. Nevertheless, the town cal offer to people all ages the great local winter resort where visitor any of experience can do slalom-skiing and snowboarding. Conclusion. Our main recommendation is to build sports halls to allow people to do their lovely sport inside in any season.

Can climbing become replacing traditional fitness? Some time ago, climbing has become my favourite sport. At the first view, it seems a bit strange when you see someone on the rock trying to get the top of the rock or some certain spot, while there is a far easier way to reach the spot. So climbing is a kind of sports which can be done inside a premise and outside – at the seaside, at the rive, in the wood – everywhere you can find some huge stone, bolder or a high rock. So, climbing is an active sport. It involves special techniques and strategies and certain physical shape. In my point of view, climbing is a sort of solving some problem. When you come up to the wall, at first, some climbing route looks intimidating and impossible to get the top. You can’t even start, do any step. Then you start thinking, and in some time of training your muscles and studying techniques, you manage to do more. And if you don’t give up, you’ll make it. I tell everyone that to take up climbing you need not much. First of all, you need climbing shoes for beginners, a liquid or dry chalk, and a bag for this chalk. If you’re thinking of trad-climbing with your partner you’ll probably need a rope, harness, carabiners, a helmet and quickdraws. But I think you should buy a harness because you can use it at some indoor climbing wall. You don’t need any special clothes and possess any special qualities. Any average person can start. If you don’t become a top climber you will get a chance of being healthier and keeping your body fit.

Do we need the internet to enjoy life to the full? People have been using the internet for at least two decades. During this time the new generation of young people has appeared. They believe that the internet can be used for almost all part of life for enjoying friendship, entertaining and studying. Others, however, believe that we do not need the internet for those things. On the one hand, people can use the internet to keep in touch with their friends by using instant messengers, making skype sessions and follow the life of their friends by social network sites. Another positive thing is that we can use communications in sport. Now it is already possible to take part in a cycling competition inside your home. You just need special affordable equipment and software. On the negative side, it may be noticed that it is impossible to get a good education through online services. Because education, like in the past, includes attending classes, working in laboratories, working with real equipment. However, for some subjects, not engineering fields it is possible to study online. To sum up, the internet can not replace we enjoy life completely. It can just advance and simplify the traditional approaches to do habitual things.

Thoughts about diets and cooking Some time ago I ate food that wasn’t good for me. I kept a bad diet. I liked what the most people ate, junk food like fried potatoes, fried cakes, crisps, some kind of snacks like sweets and cookies. Also, I had fizzy drinks like cola, Pepsi and local made sparkling water. It’s easy for me to put on weight so when I start to eat fattening food I usually put on a couple of kilograms at once. So now I try to cut down on all sort of cookies and sweets but it is not to me keeping it up. I don’t like to go on a diet because I don’t keep it up for a long time and then it is more likely to put on even more weight. So instead of a dieting I get exercises and eat plenty of healthy food. So I think that dieting is some kind of wasting of time. One of the foods that are good for you is a self-made food, for instance, a borsch. I learn one of the easiest recipes. It has a quite number of ingredients but it worth this. At first, take some of the meat, it doesn't matter what kind of meat you use, but it’s better to use beef meat and boil it until cooked. While the meat is boiling, peel potatoes and chop them. Then put them aside for a while. Chop some cabbage. Then chop carrot, onion and beetroot. Fry them on some oil stirring. When the meat is near to cooked, add chopped potatoes and cabbage into beef stock. If you like, add smashed garlic to frying vegetables. After the vegetables are fried, add them into the saucepan. Borsch is usually served with sour milk and crackers made from rye flour in middle deep dish. I can say that it is not the only one recipe. There is the one when borsch is cooking in an oven in small pots. As for me, I like eat borsh with small baked cakes with minced beef.

One more day It is about a day that might have been happened. I don’t call you to treat this note like a serious thing. I am working in a communication company as a senior telecommunication engineer, but it is happening that my responsibilities include checking out a quality of services that the company provides. I have a full-time job. My day started at 9 am as usual. At first, we were going to go a client and check his connection. Then we had to do was going to go to a client and represent him that we really provide him with the 500 Mb/s bandwidth chanal in both directions. Then we were going to go to another client and show him that we didn’t prevent passing his traffic through our local region network. The client was complaining about his specific application couldn’t connect through to a remote server by a specific UDP port. It is not actually a pleasant work to prove a client that we don’t usually intend to interfere in his specific work. But that it is. So we have to do it. So there have must be a busy day. When we arrived at the first client it turned out that the client had not been there in more than a month, nobody could talk to us where they were if there were phone numbers to get through. So there was nothing we could do rather than we could say the remote support of the client that we would check the internet working after somebody would come back. Then we drove to the next one. Actually, it was the third attempt to demonstrate the service, because in order to get data through the internet with that speed you have to use an appropriate tool, at least, a powerful modern computer with great capabilities. So, at last, we could have found it which was owned by our colleague. I think our network showed that day all its best. We could not approach the third client because the client could not take us on, so we were doing our not very specific job for the rest of the day.

THE GOLD BUG - learning English It is some kind of a retelling of the story written by Edgar Poe. The story is about the treasures left by pirate William Kidd at South Carolina, US. There was a man called Legrand. He had a friend who told us the story. Legrand was a very educated man and somewhen he had been a rich man, but he lost his fortune, so he lived in the small house on the coast of the island with his servant Jupiter. They ate fish and birds which they caught. One day Legrand's friend took a visit Legrand and learned that Legrand had found an unusual bug, but he hadn’t brought it along because he had taken it to the Lieutenant. The Lieutenant has also interested the insects and even had a book about them. Legrand drew the picture on a piece of a paper which had been found along the bug to somehow describe the bug to his friend. The paper had been made from animal’s skin. But there were the strange red symbols on the paper. Those writings captured the attention of Legrand so much that he didn’t speak the rest of the day. Next morning the storyteller left the island. After a while servant of Legrand came to the storyteller and reported that Legrand was going mad. He was doing strange things. He is probably ill. He didn’t eat and didn’t sleep. He was just writing numbers and letters and talking to himself. there was a letter from Legrand with the servant. In the letter, Legrand asked his friend to come to the island to explain. When the storyteller arrived Legrand it happened that Legrand wasn’t going crazy at all. The bug was a thing that had been owned by pirate William Kidd, while the piece of the paper with red letters was actually a description of the spot where the hidden treasures were. Next day three of them went to look for the treasure of a horrible pirate. The spot was on the coast of the mainland near the tall old tree. To find the right spot the servant climbed the tree and passed the bug through the left eye of a skull which had been left on the branch. The fallen insect pointed out the friends the accurate spot on the land where they had to dig. It took them three journeys to the mainland to get all treasure.

Ted talk video Panama Papers - English learning Yesterday I came across an interesting Ted talk video about Panama Papers talked by Robert Palmer. He is from Global Witness, an organization that was investigating deals with corruption and money laundering. So, Panama Papers was the largest data leak happened in April 2016. 11 million documents which expose powerful and rich people came out. They include information that very rich people hide huge amount money in offshore accounts all over the world. Those documents are actually a tiny piece of an iceberg of what is happening in the offshore world, but looking into them we can find out how this mechanism works. But it is not only. This coming out had a repercussion for prime minister on Iceland. He has resigned. Palmer is also talking that there is news that dictator Bashar Asad has offshore companies and there is some money trail that leads to v.v.putin. Obviously, there are a lot of other rich people who are deposing funds in offshore banks. This is referring to people in all continents. Leaked documents are from Panama-based law company. Why should we know about this? Why should we care about this? Palmer supposes that if rich people are able to stash their money in offshores they are able not to pay taxes so that means to ordinary people like me that vital public services like education, healthcare, road get less money than they would do. All of this seems to look doom and gloom. And the rules of the game will never be changed. But Palmer thinks in another way. There is a hope. There are people who recognize the problem who are ready to tackle the problem. Since the summit in Northern Ireland in 2013 EU is going to create a central register of the companies and who really owns and controls them. That is supposed to reduce secrecy, that is the main reason for tax evasion, corruption, money laundering. So then it will make the business to be more transparent. And eventually, it will be good for all of us.