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Veganism has definitely been on the rise in Ireland in the last few years, with many businesses catering specifically for a meat and dairy free diet successfully opening their doors, as well as many adapting their menus to incorporate these new dietary needs.
The Tiny Vegan Kitchen blog, started by Tanya O'Halloran in 2014 when she decided to go vegan, began as a way of sharing tips on how to eat healthily at home and gained attention with the increasingly popularity of meat and dairy free diets.
We spoke to Tanya about the rise in veganism, how restaurants have adapted, and recommendations on places to eat.
FFT.ie: What trends have you noticed with vegan food?
Tanya O'Halloran: There have been quite a few trends over the last few years, from aquafaba meringues and egg-less omelettes to easy to make "nice"-creams but I think the biggest trend in recent years has probably been the pulled jackfruit one. Jackfruit comes in a few forms but the tinned version that's readily available from Asian markets mimics the texture of pulled pork and soaks up flavours very well. The same technique can be applied to some varieties of mushrooms including portobello and I'll take a mushroom over tinned jackfruit any day.
Tell us about your background and the history of the blog? How has it grown?
I kind of feel like an imposter when it comes to the blog, as I started it not only with the intention of sharing my simple and tasty recipes to prove that a plant-based diet needn't be difficult, but also with the intentions of giving myself an extra creative outlet and learning a little about food photography in the process. I didn't expect it to gain such a large following in a relatively short space of time and I certainly didn't expect to win Best Food & Drink Blog last year. I have been very lucky and I've enjoyed doing demos at a wide variety of events from Dublin Vegfest and The Strandhill Food Festival to corporate events.
What is your opinion of vegan food in Ireland at the moment?
Ireland has come on so much in the last couple of years – there are so many vegan offerings, especially in the cities. Many restaurants now have vegan options on their menus and some, like Peploes, even have a separate vegan and vegetarian menu. This is massive progress!
How do you think festivals are faring so far this year with their vegan offerings?
I'm hitting All Together Now next week and I'm not worried at all about food. I'll pack a few bits myself but I'll look forward to checking out the food trucks and deciding what to have. You'll always get a great falafel at an Irish festival and a lot of the Asian Street Food trucks will have vegan treats too. I'm sure there'll be plenty for me to chose from.
When did vegan food start to pick up in Ireland?
Vegan food has been getting more popular over the last few years but in the last two years I've seen so much change and so many options available. Even if a restaurant doesn't offer a vegan option on their menu, most are happy to rustle up something for you, which is great.
What vegan offerings have recently impressed you the most?
Weekend brunch at Sova Vegan Butcher in Portobello; not only is the food great but its also incredibly easy on the pocket. I recommend the Chia Burger here. For dinner, Peploes are winning with their separate vegetarian menu. It says vegetarian but almost all of the dishes are vegan and you're spoiled with a full three course menu to chose from. The miso glazed eggplant is amazing!
It is difficult these days to monetise a blog? How have you made money, if any from it?
I haven't made money directly from the blog, but I do get samples of things to try.
Why do you think there is such a high demand for vegan food now?
For me and most of the people I know who have adopted a vegan lifestyle it is because of animal ethics, but I think people are becoming more aware of the other issues facing us today. Health and the environment are major factors. People are becoming more aware of the destructive effects that animal agriculture has on the planet and of the destructive effects that the consumption of meat can have on your health.


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*Jackets: And again. These arent our favorites or anything, its just *some more* color combinations, you know…because the other 50 (!!!) apparently werent enough. They arent even done yet, and I already hate them all.
*I believe the saying about blogs was something like "never before had so many people with so little to say said so much." Latest proof of the truth of this statement is antideutsch in Stuttgart. An entertainment (nevermind "inhaltlich") value somewhere around that of watching paint dry.
On the other hand, when antiDs take the trouble to write more "interesting" material, we get insanity like racket reality. Here is a hot tip for you: if the left/autonome scene/movement/wahteveryouwantocallit is such a horrible, terrible, violent, anti-semite riddled creature, which you anyways constantly state to hate and despise….how about just leaving it in peace. Of course…then absolutely nobody would listen to you, and it would prove more difficult to find an audience for the "show of the perpetual victim."
And finally, the comment from knes regarding the "Benz Statt Boykott" article. My favorite part…
"Sein Es steht ihm im Wege. Wenn er Benz,Siemens und co. meint greift er insgeheim seinen eigenen Vater an. Frühkindliche Ohnmachtsgefühle konnte er nicht adäquat beantworten. Dafür müssen jetzt Konzerne her, die er, (bei ihm heißt das dann symbolisch. symbolisch für was?!) stellvertrend für den Vater angreifen kann. "
So who needs psychologists, when we have antideutsch nerds to take care of us for us?!
On a more serious note, a statement from Azzoncao and the Antifa Jugend Bochum. Experience tells us, when in doubt, dont believe the antiD "victims."
*On a more personal note, for those of you following the "Long March to Recovery": Tomorrow is X-ray day again, and the "spannung" is barely "auszuhalten." If all goes well (and all will go well!), as of tomorrow I can begin putting full weight on the leg, and in 7-10 days begin trying to walk without crutches….after exactly 4 months! Since jogging is for the next couple of years at least out of the question, and my body screams for aerobic activity, the occasion is being celebrated with this investment. Clearly, not the kind of sports Im used to, but its definitely a step forward from Playstation as "sporting activity."


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There will be something — or more specifically someone — missing for Piqua Friday when the Division I district wrestling tournament gets underway at Trent Arena.
Not that the Indians two-time state qualifier Hunter Bryant won't be there — he just won't be donning is wrestling singlet.
Bryant, who finished his wrestling career at Piqua with 118 wins, injured his back at the Top Gun tournament in early January and was never able to return to the mat.
"It is frustrating," Bryant said. "Especially, watching the guys out there wrestling, it is really tough."
But, make no mistake, Bryant is finishing like a champion — which should no surprise no one who knows him.
The four-year captain is still an integral part of the team, pushing the other wrestlers in the wrestling room during the week and at matches — becoming an additional assistant coach for the Indians.
"I feel like the other guys are counting on me," Bryant said. "I feel like it is something I need to do."
Which is exactly what Piqua coach Scott Kaye has come to expect from Bryant.
"That is why he is a four-year captain," Kaye said. "He is a leader for these guys. The intensity he brings to the practice room. All the regimen's he goes through. The easy way would have been to just walk away from everything, but he didn't do that."
Bryant first injured his back in the pre-season.
"I injured it when I was wrestling with a college guy," Bryant said. "I hurt it, but it didn't feel bad and I was able to wrestle with it."
While Bryant was undefeated going into the Top Gun tournament, he wasn't completely healthy either.
"He had some issues with it before that," Kaye said.
Then came the match that would end his high school career.
"The Top Gun is a national tournament," Bryant said. "If you don't go into that 100 percent, you are going to get hurt. The first night, I was going to major decision a guy. I started down in the third period and this guy just started trying to pile drive me — slamming me into the mat over and over again.
"I finally reversed him and when I did, it didn't feel very good. I shouldn't have come back and wrestled the next day, but my pride got in the way. I ended up having to injury default out of the tournament."
Still, no one knew at that time it was going to be the end of an outstanding high school wrestling career.
"Honestly, my thought was to ice it over the weekend and come back to practice on Monday and I would be good to go," Bryant said. "My brother told me, 'You don't need to be wrestling until you are ready'."
That day still hasn't come.
"I went to the chiropractor and kept pushing back the day I was going to wrestle," Bryant said. "It finally got to be three days before sectional, but I just couldn't wrestle."
His career was an impressive one
"He was a four-time all-area wrestler, three time first-team all-area wrestler," Kaye said. "He first team All-GWOC three years, he was GWOC champion twice and he made it to the state tournament twice."
The time off has given Bryant a new perspective.
"When I look back now at my Facebook page and all the things have done in wrestling, it is pretty amazing," he said. "I made the jump from district alternate as a freshman to being state ranked and a state qualifier as a sophomore. I just wish I could have finished it off with a state championship."
He hasn't made a decision on next year yet.
"I still have colleges contacting me all the time," he said. "I don't know if I want to do that (wrestle in college), or just wrestle against guys like Andrew (Bolin) in the off-season."
He finished his career with 128 wins — his bother Kyle (Bryant) has the school record at 146.
"He knows I would have gotten it — with all the duals and GWOC," Bryant said with a smile. "He knows I would have knocked him off the top. I just miss it so much — it is killing me to not be wrestling. My dad (Scott Bryant) and I had a ritual handshake we did every time before I took the mat. And he would sit in the corner with coach (Scott) Kaye and they coached me during the match."
And his contribution to the wrestling program remaims immeasurable.
"Of course," Kaye said about making the other wrestlers better. "Hunter (Bryant) did it pretty much year round. He put the time in and paid the price. The other kids see how hard he works, both on and off the mat."
And while it may not be the way he envisioned it, Bryant leaves the mat as a champion.
Rob Kiser is Sports Editor for the Piqua Daily Call. He can be reached at (937) 451-3334.


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Why Your Senior Pet Needs to See the Vet
Waiting one year between wellness exams and screenings isn't usually a big deal for humans. We age relatively slowly, so it often takes a while for diseases and ailments to set in and present themselves.
Animals age rather rapidly, though, so a year is a long time when it comes to the health of your pet. Once pets reach adulthood, one dog or cat year is just about equal to four human years. Plus, there's a bit of a communication barrier between us and our pets; since they can't tell us what's bothering them directly, we often don't even realize when they are in pain.
This is why early disease detection is so important, especially as your pet gets older. Most cats and dogs are considered seniors when they reach age 7, and many diseases are more likely to affect your pet once they reach senior status.
Animal Hospital of Sandy Springs veterinarians recommend that your pet receives exams twice every year, especially once they are considered seniors. Regular exams allow us to update your pet's preventative care and keep a closer eye on how your pet is aging. They also often allow us to detect health issues that are more common in older pets, like diabetes, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism and kidney disease, well before they burden your pet with uncomfortable symptoms.
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Today's young old car enthusiasts, both here in the US and the rest of the world have a much different view of what they find of interest and collect than do the older generations of old car enthusiasts. A number of them seek out fifties and sixties "Barn Finds" and then restore the mechanics and preserve the outward appearances of their treasures as found.
This is a very remarkable "Rip Van Winkle" like story recorded on a video found at the end of this post by young Frenchman Florian George. He tells of the interesting of find this split windshield VW 36 h.p. "Transporter" that had rested over the period of four decades deep in the woods of France. With the help of his sponsors and four like-minded friends who worked with him day and night, the team was able to drive the treasure back out into the modern world.
Thanks go out to New York collector Mark Axen for leading us to this story.
- As found covered with metal roofing panels deep in the woods.
- Cobwebs and forty years of dust, dirt, and detritus found in the passengers compartment.
- Nighttime installation of a rebuilt but never run 36 h.p. engine.
- Mission accomplished on the second day before packing everything into the new found treasure and driving it out back into modern day civilization.
- This video documentary is well worth your time to view this very unique story.


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L&D Initiatives at most businesses are poorly thought through. Except in cases where the L&D initiative leads to technical or functional skills augmentation critical to day to day functioning of an employee, the L&D initiatives mostly serve as a "mere" activity without any relevant purpose of impacting the business.
When you do a product training or a strategic selling workshop for sales team members, they may be able to realise some value from the workshops by way of being able to leverage the learning's when they are back from the training. If the training program was even somewhat relevant, they can put to use some of their learning's from next day itself.
However most training programs – primarily behavioural and even most functional ones end up being just another activity.
When you do an innovation & creativity training for a first line manager, the value addition is at best by way of making the participant feel good that he got to participate in some engaging program i.e if the program was well designed and well facilitated. If we look at the "actual value" delivered by the program – it may be nothing. Of course, my saying so may not be relevant in all such cases, considering that we have not really discussed the program design, course contents, learning objectives, business case for the training etc.
However getting back to the fact that the creativity and innovation program may not mean anything for the concerned first line manager. For relevant learning and impact from the workshop – his role, his job, the work environment, his reporting manager etc. also need to have some alignment with the learning objectives of the program.
To ensure that the learning intervention brings some value to the participant and to the organisation, it is important that the role, job allows for relevant opportunity to the participant to leverage his learning's. The work environment should allow for adequate time, and the reporting manager or other designated authority should also support through creation of appropriate opportunities.
This is where things go wrong. For many – an L&D intervention starts and ends with a training or workshop.
If you need relevant impact from a learning intervention, the pre & post aspects have to be well thought out and planned. I am sure we all will agree that learning and related behavioural change or individual's performance is not a one day affair, there needs to be appropriate environment for learning to take place, and to sustain so as to enable better individual performance and business impact through an employee's contribution.
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Lewis Black Reflecting On Government: Drunks Ran It Better Than These Guys Going To The Gym
Later in the interview, Fugelsang asks what current issue is ripe for comedy crowds, and Black says, "First is sequester, which I think everybody knows is psychotic." He adds, "To show just how bad this government is now — the fact that it operated…
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"America suffered a stroke, and then he was the next president after the stroke. The best that he was gonna be able to do was to get us to kind of move our right arm." — Lewis Black on President Obama
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Cenk talks to Col. Morris Davis about Bradley Manning's testimony on Wednesday. Davis, a law professor and former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, served as an expert witness in Manning's trial and attempts to assuage some of Cenk's ire at…
If You're A Christian American Who Discriminates, You Suck At Being Christian...and American
"One of the most attractive aspects of religious fundamentalism is you can't be wrong. Extreme conservative Christian, Muslim, or Jew; doesn't matter — you are on the side that speaks for God, and therefore anyone who opposes you clearly speaks for…
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Dick Cavett says, "He's a capering loon with serious mental problems — should probably be in a straightjacket, and I would love to know what sort of people are saying he's fine." Norton says, "I don't care about it either way…he's a kind of…
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John Fugelsang: How To Call Out An Ignorant Racist When Others Are Too Polite
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Joy Behar Reveals What Happened On Her Farewell Taping For "The View"
The taping happened before Joy's actual last day, and Shuter asks, "What did you think? What was that last moment?" Behar responds, "I have to do another week and a half. I can't believe it."
John Fugelsang: 'We're In The Golden Age Of Slut-shaming'
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The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
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The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrated called the greatest sports moment in sports history
"An unvarnished and captivating read."—Parade
Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach. Their "Miracle on Ice" has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable.
Wayne Coffey casts a fresh eye on this seminal sports event, giving readers an ice-level view of the amateurs who took on a Russian hockey juggernaut at the height of the Cold War. He details the unusual chemistry of the Americans—formulated by their fiercely determined coach, Herb Brooks—and seamlessly weaves portraits of the boys with the fluid action of the game itself. Coffey also traces the paths of the players and coaches since their stunning victory, examining how the Olympic events affected their lives.
Told with warmth and an uncanny eye for detail, The Boys of Winter is an intimate, perceptive portrayal of one Friday night in Lake Placid and the enduring power of the extraordinary.
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Wayne Coffey is an award-winning sportswriter for the New York Daily News and the author of Winning Sounds Like This, among other books. He lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
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Chapter One
Vladimir Petrov was skating in loose figure eights near center ice, his pace slow, his stick still and horizontal, a predator in wait. He edged in for the opening face-off. His two famous wings, Boris Mikhailov and Valery Kharlamov, were on his flanks. Petrov, No. 16, was perhaps the strongest player on the Soviet national team, with blacksmith arms and a bulging neck, a 200-pound slab of muscle who was possessed of the rarest of Russian weapons: a nasty slap shot. Historically, not many Russian players had one because for years not very many practiced slap shots, sticks being both in short supply and of inferior quality. If you wound up and cranked a slap shot, you stood a good chance of getting a splinter and having no stick to play with. "So we never slap puck," defenseman Sergei Starikov said. "We make good wrist shot instead." Petrov was 32, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and nine-time world champion. He didn't know much of anything about Mark Johnson, the U.S. center whom he was about to face off against, except that he wore No. 10 and he looked small and ridiculously young.
It was 5:06 p.m. in Lake Placid, and 1:06 a.m. in Moscow. Bill Cleary, star of the 1960 gold-medal team that had been the last U.S. team to beat the Soviets, had just finished a brief talk in the locker room. "There's no doubt in my mind–nor in the minds of all the guys on the '60 team–that you are going to win this game. You are a better team than we were," Cleary said. Herb Brooks followed him, standing at one end of Locker Room 5 in the new Olympic Field House, wearing a camel-hair sports coat and plaid pants that would've looked at home on the dance floor of Saturday Night Fever. The room was a cramped, unadorned rectangle with a rubber-mat floor and a steeply pitched ceiling, situated directly beneath the stands. You could hear stomping and chanting and feel the anticipatory buzz that was all over the Adirondacks. There was a small chalkboard to Brooks's right and a tiny shower area behind him, the players on the wood benches rimming the room all around him. On the ride to the arena, Brooks sat with assistant Craig Patrick and they talked about what Brooks was going to say to the team. Brooks loved intrigue, the element of surprise. His whole style of play was constructed on it, moving players around, changing breakout patterns, keeping people guessing about everything. Just when his players were sure he was completely inhumane, he'd throw a tennis ball on the ice for a diversion, or have guys play opposite-handed or in different positions, lifting morale and breaking the routine. "You're going to like it," Brooks said to Patrick of his talk. The locker room was intense and quiet. Defenseman Bill Baker caught the eye of backup goaltender Steve Janaszak, his former teammate at the University of Minnesota. "What do we do now?" Baker mouthed.
"Pray," Janaszak mouthed back.
Herb Brooks stood before his twenty players. The quiet got deeper. The coach pulled out a yellow scrap of paper and said, "You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours."
Neal Broten, 20-year-old center, second youngest player on the youngest Olympic hockey team the United States had ever fielded, looked down at his skates. "I didn't know what he was talking about," Broten said. Broten was nervous, very nervous. He knew he could handle the skating, playing the game. The Russians' strength he wasn't so sure about. Don't make any glaring mistakes, he told himself.
Led by goaltender Jim Craig, the players charged out of the locker room, turned right and then right again. At the threshold of the ice, Craig paused and looked up for a second. The building was shaking from the cheers. He took it in and it felt great. Ten days earlier, the players hadn't been much less anonymous than the Lake Placid goal judges. Now that they'd gone undefeated in five games and come from behind in four of them, they were Olympic darlings. Somebody rang a cowbell, a tinny touch of the Alps in the Adirondacks. "C'mon, Magic!" winger John "Bah" Harrington shouted to Mark Johnson from the end of the American bench. Magic was Johnson's nickname. If you ever saw him play you know why.
The last time the U.S. players had seen Petrov and his teammates was thirteen days earlier, in Madison Square Garden, where the Americans didn't lose so much as get annihilated. That day began with the crowd jeering the Soviet national anthem and cheering every solid American check, and it ended with the fans in numbed silence, even before Soviet winger Alexander Maltsev put a red-coated exclamation point on things. Maltsev was 30 years old and would become the Soviet Union's all-time leading goal scorer in international competition. Speeding across the U.S. blue line in the third period, defenseman Dave Christian in front of him, Maltsev cruised left by the top of the circle and then began to spin, 360 degrees in a blur, the puck on his stick as if it were glued. When he was done spinning he started snapping, a backhand, inside the far post. In the U.S. goal, Steve Janaszak looked at Christian in disbelief and then laughed inside his mask.
"They were gods," Janaszak said. On the U.S. bench, trainer Gary Smith walked over to Brooks. "We don't have a chance against these guys," Smith said.
"No shit," the coach replied.
Brooks had spent months trying to debunk the aura surrounding the Soviets. He would talk about how Mikhailov, the fabled captain, looked like Stan Laurel, with his long face and jutting chin. He would tell his players that the team was getting old, that the Russians' time was past. It was a hard sell on a wintry Saturday in New York City, the U.S. players taking the ice with a bit of trepidation and a lot of awe. "It was hard to even warm up," Harrington said. "We looked down at the other end of the ice and there they were: Kharlamov, Petrov, Mikhailov. And I'm thinking, 'Holy smokes, there are the guys I saw beating the NHL All-Stars on TV.' We weren't just playing when the game started. We were watching them play, and by the time we felt like we belonged on the ice with them, it was 8—0."
The final score was 10—3 and merely confirmed what the hockey world already knew: there were the Russians, and then there was everybody else. Virtually everyone expected a similar result in the Olympics. As Harrington knew, the Russians had drubbed the best of the NHL, 6—0, on the same Garden ice the year before, and with their backup goaltender, a guy named Myshkin, no less. "What can change in two weeks?" asked Sergei Makarov, the young Russian star who would go on to a long NHL career. "You can't get whole new team." Even Mark Johnson said, "If you asked anyone on our team and they told you we could beat the Russians, they would've been lying."
Publicly, Brooks did nothing to discourage such thinking, saying the United States should forget the Russians and worry about sneaking away with a silver or bronze medal. Privately, he was not so convinced. In the Olympic format you didn't have to beat a team best-of-seven, or even best-of-five. You had to beat a team only once. The Americans were in superb shape and had a sturdy emotional makeup, honed from months of fending off their coach's verbal floggings. They could skate completely unburdened by expectation, just as their coach had scripted it. Before the game in Madison Square Garden, Brooks told the players to go out and have fun. He had never said anything close to that in the previous sixty pre-Olympic games. Have fun? Brooks had followed Warren Strelow's suggestion to let goaltenders Jim Craig and Steve Janaszak share time in the Garden goal, limiting the Soviet preview of Craig and sparing the No. 1 goalie any unnecessary angst. For the first half of that game, especially, the Americans weren't skating, attacking. Part of it was awe, but part of it was Brooks playing at least a little bit of possum. Even Viktor Tikhonov, the Soviet Olympic coach, said that the U.S. team seemed to be holding something back. Brooks himself later described the Garden game as "a ploy." What could possibly be gained by playing the Russians tough, waking them up? Brooks was beginning to believe that if everything fell together, the United States could take the Russians into the the third period in a tight game. That's all you could ask for. You get into that position, and you take your chances.
Six weeks after the death of Herb Brooks, Viktor Tikhonov stood in a barren room inside the arena that is home to the Central Sports Club of the Soviet Army (CSKA). He was 73 years old and surrounded by drab white walls. He had a gray tweed jacket and flat face and slicked-back hair, and the vaguely beleaguered aura of a man who is the most decorated international coach in hockey history but may be most remembered for a game his team did not win.
"No matter what we tried we could not get that 10—3 game out of the players' minds," Tikhonov said. "The players told me it would be no problem. It turned out to be a very big problem."
Across the ice from the American amateurs was not simply a staggering assemblage of hockey talent but the end product of one of the most astonishing sporting dynasties ever developed. The Soviets did not look like much, at first glance, in their well-worn red sweaters and matching red helmets, their chunky skates that looked like Sputnik-era hand-me-downs. They would march into the arena in their long fur coats and fur hats, with strong Slavic faces and impassive expressions, the thick-bodied KGB guy never far away. Then it was into the locker room, into their gear, like a bunch of Clark Kents going into the phone booth, and soon they would be on the ice doing their supernatural tricks, passing from stick to stick to stick, a clacking, high-speed symphony performed by athletes with light feet and hard bodies.
"You'd get in the corner with one of those guys and they'd stick their ass out toward you, it was like pushing against cement," Neal Broten said.
The Soviets staged a chuda (miracle) of their own once, twenty-six years before Lake Placid. It came in 1954 in Stockholm in their first appearance in the world championships. It was led by Vsevelod Bobrov, the Bolshevik Bo Jackson, star not only of the Soviet hockey team but also of the national soccer team, a man known for both his prolific scoring and his disregard for rigorous training.
The Soviets were still new kids on the world-sport block at the time, as deep a mystery to the Western world as Siberia in January. They had excluded themselves ever since they came to power during the revolution of 1917, pronouncing their distaste for Western-style sports organizations and the Olympics, which Communist party leaders saw as the ultimate bourgeois institution, a certain road to imperialist ruin. The attitude changed, swiftly and markedly, after World War II. The Soviet Union had lost 28 million people in the war and was facing the most massive reconstruction project the world had ever seen. Sports began to be seen as a welcome and pleasant diversion, as Robert Edelman notes in his history of spectator sports in the U.S.S.R., Serious Fun, but it was not enough to merely play. Against a backdrop of heightening Cold War tensions and a recognition by party officials that sporting success could be a valuable propaganda tool, the goal, increasingly, was to win, for the motherland and to show the world that Karl Marx had it right. Or as the publication Sovietskii sport argued floridly, "We have created our own Soviet style in sport, the superiority of which has been demonstrated by our football, basketball and water polo players, gymnasts, boxers and wrestlers in the biggest international competitions. Our goal is to create in this new sport for us, Canadian hockey, our advanced Soviet style, in order that our hockey players, in a short time, will become the strongest in the world."
Nikolai Romanov, the postwar chairman of the government's Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, was among the first to feel the heat of the winning imperative. When the Soviet speed skaters were upset in the European championships in 1948, Romanov was removed from his job. He somehow got it back in 1952 but had learned his lesson well. Scheduled to compete in the 1953 world championships in Switzerland, the Soviet hockey team pulled out after Bobrov fell ill. "In order to gain permission to go into international competition, I had to send a note to Stalin guaranteeing victory," Romanov would write years later in his memoirs.
With Bobrov healthy if not a model of temperance, the Soviets surged into the 1954 semifinals against Canada, the most dominant hockey nation on earth. For years the Canadian custom was to send its senior-league champion to the world championships, men who had regular jobs by day and played their hockey by night. That year's Canadian representative was the East York Lyndhursts. It wasn't regarded as one of Canada's stronger entries, but what difference would that make? The Soviet Union did not have a single indoor hockey arena in the entire country. Though they had played a game called bandy–essentially field hockey on ice–for decades, the Soviets had formally begun to compete in ice hockey only after World War II.
Few people inside or outside the ancient brick walls of the Kremlin could fathom it when the Soviets scored a 7—2 triumph. Two years later, the Soviets captured their first Olympic gold medal, in Cortina, Italy, shutting out Canada's Kitchener Dutchmen. In a sport Canadians all but considered their birthright to rule, they found a new heavyweight in town. It was coached by Anatoly Tarasov and his co-coach Arkady Chernyshev, and it eschewed the rough play and dump-and-muck verticality that were the hallmarks of Canadian hockey, in favor of a system built on speed and crisscrossing movement. The Canadians couldn't have been more jarred if the Russians had spray-painted Marxist slogans in the Montreal Forum. A major shift in the ice-borne world–strategic, philosophical, and political–was on. Any lingering doubts about it were dispelled in the Summit Series of 1972, a historic eight-game competition between premier Canadian players from the NHL and the reigning world and Olympic champions from the U.S.S.R. The Soviets were still more than fifteen years away from playing in the NHL, and this was the first time they had ever competed against the world's top pro players. Most observers predicted a Canadian rout. "I wouldn't mind playing the Russians with the players we won't dress," said coach Harry Sinden, whose roster included Ken Dryden, Phil Esposito, and Brad Park. Sinden was somewhat less swaggering after the Russians took Game 1, 7—3, rolling over the Canadians like tanks on the tundra. Ultimately, Canada would take the series, 4—3—1, but rarely has victory been so chilling. "We would never feel the same about ourselves and our game again," Dryden would say much later in a symposium on Canadian hockey.
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Great read. If you love hockey, read this book.
Living in the Moment In 1980, the XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in Lake Placid, New York. At the time the United States was struggling with an economic slump, fighting an oil crisis, and facing many overseas issues like the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Cold War with the USSR. Morale was down throughout American citizens. Wayne Coffey relinquishes a defining moment of these Olympics and American sports history that changes the course of American spirit by retelling the hockey game of USA vs. USSR in the medal semi-finals in the book The Boys of Winter. The Boys of Winter is a compelling story about hard-work, determination, the cohesiveness of a team, and reaching goals. This book is a fantastic read for someone who is looking for a thrilling recount of the biggest hockey game in American history. The book provides amazing information and enticing stories of players and coaches, but it is not a history lesson. The Boys of Winter starts nearly at the first drop of the puck in Lake Placid on February 22, 1980 and ends after 60 minutes of a hard-hitting hockey game. I was aware I might be disappointed by this book because I already knew the beginning, middle, and end by watching Disney's take on the event, the movie Miracle. However, Coffey conveys his own unique spin on the game by accounting for nearly every second spent on the ice, the logistics surrounding it, and my favorite part, expertly intertwined descriptions of each USA player's personality through special stories of their lives before and after that game. He highlights the strengths of the players enough to make me believe that this win did not just come from a well-conditioned, fairly talented and hard-working group of players; it came from a team where each and every player had their own special addition, from the will to lead by example to the will to disprove stereotypes, that was hand-selected by coach Herb Brooks. This book was generally a very quick and easy read, but at times when Coffey was detailing every shot took in each period it would drag on. The extensive hockey vocabulary was hard to follow, especially for someone who does not play the sport. He matches his specialized moments by enticing and personable stories that make this book fun to read for someone who is looking for more than just the movie portrays about the game and all the United States players.
The novel The Boys of Winter by Coffey is an amazing story of the 1980 Olympic miracle on ice. This story shows how so many players from diverse areas of the country were able to come together and unite in order to win a gold medal. The book gives a great play by play of the game against the Russians that brought the U.S.A. together. At times this book may sound like it is promoting the violence of the game due to the detail Coffey goes into on the hits but he is just trying to tell an accurate account of the game, nothing more. This is the story of a group of men coming together against all odds, this is not just a book about hockey. So even if the reader does not enjoy hockey they should still enjoy this book. The portrayal of Coach Herb Brooks by Coffey is amazing, the reader gets to see exactly what he had to go through in order to unify that team. Overall The Boys of Winter is highly recommended and all sports fans should take the time to read this.
fun to go back over this great event
Wayne Coffey is a published author of children¿s books and young adult books. He lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York with his wife and three children. He wrote the book The Boys of Winter which was released in 2005. This exciting and fast paced book is based on the 1980 winter Olympics between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. He has written many books including Winning Sounds like This and The Kobe Bryant Story.This is a non-fiction book that is impossible to be put down. It tells the story of the 1980 winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. It gives you background information on every player on the team. The coach is Herb Brooks who wants to take the Soviets game plan and use it against them. He didn¿t pick the best players that tried out; he chose the players he needed. Just as you thought you know what he was going to do next he would change it up. This book is like the book The Game written by Ken Dryden.I thought this book was a well written novel on the 1980 hockey Winter Olympics. This book was overall a fantastic book. This book focuses on the U.S.A. hockey team in the 1980 Winter Olympics. I would recommend this book to everyone who likes hockey. I give this book an overall rating of 4.5.
Exciting and dramtic. Herb Brooks was an intense coach. The book tells of how they managed to become a team....and write history...slow start but exciting finish.
A little dry to be of much interest to people who aren't fans of ice hockey and, for my liking, not enough about the world outside the ice rink and the impact of this game on it; but for all that, an interesting book in a great moment of ice hockey history/
Excellent read. What the prose occassionally lacks in flow and the overuse of puns and other gramatical devices, it gains in attention to detail and a keen grasp of the subject matter. A wonderful account of the greatest sports upset in modern times.
Any American sports fan will know where he or she was on February 22, 1980. It was on that date that 20 young men from the United States defeated the hockey team from the Soviet Union in the Winter Olympics. It is considered by many, including this reviewer, as the greatest sports event that has occurred and will not be repeated. The stories behind this game and the players and Coach Herb Brooks are told in this book by Wayne Coffey. The book starts and ends with scenes from Brooks' funeral after he was killed in an auto accident in 2003. There are short biographies of Brooks and each of the 20 players scattered throughout the description of the action on the ice during that game. The format makes for great reading for the print version and while also excellent for the audio version, the listener will have to pay close attention so that when the narration changes from player story back to the game, there is no disconnect. The game replay is excellent with not only goals and saves described but each check, each penalty and each steal of the puck by either team relived in great detail. On occasion I will watch a video of the game and get chills, even after all these years. I had the same reaction when Heyborne was describing key events of the game, such as Mark Johnson's goal with one second remaining in the first period, spectacular saves by goaltender Jim Craig and certainly the winning goal by Mike Eruzione. Any reader who either wants to relive that special game or wants to learn why this team and event is still revered more than 35 years later will want to pick up this book. Even though it was originally published in 2005, the stories and events are just as thrilling to relive now as they were then.
If you've never read this book, I suggest picking it up today (even if you don't like hockey). The story of the 1980 US Hockey Team is one of legend. It's the stuff you never dream could happen, but yet, on a cold February day in 1980, in a small town in New York, a bunch of college kids united an entire nation (and beyond), and made everyone a believer. These young men - players from diverse areas of the country with different backgrounds and personalities - were able to come together and unite under the guidance of one of the most unconventional coaches in history. By doing so, they achieved the impossible: beat the Soviets, and went on to win the Gold Medal. America clung to the victory tight, holding it close, and reliving that day over and over and over. This win was far bigger than what it was on paper - it represented the very best of true American heart. It gave everyone hope. It made us feel proud, and showed that David CAN slay Goliath. It proved that with determination and teamwork, miracles DO happen. For one moment, on that cold February day in 1980, every single citizen was part of that team...and still are to this day.
Great Book! This book is about the 1980 Olympic Hockey Game. The game was between Russia and the United States for the gold medal, which the US won four to three. It talks about the players and the coach and how they got to the olympics and what their lives were like before. A major message from this book is that if you work hard than anything is possible. I liked all the the background information the book provided. The description of the game was very attention grabbing. The only thing that I didn't like was that it was a little confusing switching from the game to the background information. Others should read this book because it was very interesting. It gives a great story of the 1980 Olympic final hockey game.
A Perfect Book For Anyone Who Loves Hockey The Boys of Winter is an enticing text that is extremely descriptive and informative. This book tells the story of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team winning the gold medal against the Russian team at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York. The setting of this game is what makes this event so defining in history, as it took place during the Cold War. Winning the gold medal for hockey in the Olympics against Russia gave the US an edge in this rivalry and encouraged the American citizens. This book is incredibly inspiring. The odds were completely against the US in this hockey game, but the players' determination and hard work allowed them to be successful and pull of the most unlikely win of each of their careers. Teamwork is a major theme in this book, as this game would not have been won if the players had not learned to work cohesively. The Boys of Winter also showed how criticism leads to improvement, as Brooks' tough, unorthodox coaching style resulted in extreme growth in each of the players on his hockey team. While reading The Boys of Winter, I personally really enjoyed the included interviews with the players. It was interesting to learn their views about their coach and his unconventional coaching style, the actual game, and how they went back to living life after this moment of glory. Coffey also wrote mini biographies of each player, which he effortlessly entwined with the main plot of the book. It was interesting to learn about the players' pasts and their hockey careers prior to the Olympics at Lake Placid. While the text was obviously about the game, it was not a play-by-play commentary of the game. Coffey described the important events of the game including goals and penalties, but he did not go overboard describing each shift of the game. This was a good way to go about writing this book because it keeps the reader engaged rather than losing interest from reading about plays that did not result in anything. The Boys of Winter is an enjoyable book to read, but there were aspects of it that I was not a fan of. Coffey wrote a lot about the history of the hometowns of the players, and I felt like the depth he went to with this information was unnecessary. For example, knowing the populations of the towns that the players grew up in does not contribute to the main idea of the book, and this information becomes boring to readers. Anyone who is a fan of hockey or wants to learn more about this story should definitely read this book. It is well-written and easy to understand for those who do not know a lot about hockey, all while being extremely interesting and informative.
Beautiful sport hockey
Intensity, fearlessness, and a story that truly tells itself. Thats what this this book is about. The book really captures the setting even around the hockey game. At this time alot was going on in America and that is just as much a part of the story as hockey is. The book describes the intensity of the 1980 american hockey society completely. I would recommend this book to anyone who is an avid sports fan. You don't have to be a die-hard hockey fan to read this. If you love competition and sport dedicated books, this is the one for you. Coffey truly captures each hockey game and describes the full intensity of each and every shift on the ice. Coffey's writing style fit the needs of this story completely. He did not try to overpower the story by his writing but allowed the story to be the "cake" and his writing to be the "frosting." He just spiced up and put the intensity inside of it.
I enjoyed reading this book. I would recommend this book for any one interested in the 80 Olympic hockey team.


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Kyrgyzstan biking: Tour 04
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Activity: Bike tour
Duration of the tour: 10 days
People from all over the world come to Kyrgyzstan to enjoy its nature. Biking tours are very popular in Kyrgyz Republic. 93% of our country represents mountainous landscape. That is why you can visit so many unbelievable gorges during your biking tour. Your adventure will comprise also the visiting of the most famous places in the republic. You will also have a great opportunity to make the acquaintance of the genuine nomads and to see their nomadic way of lifestyle.
Places to visit: Bishkek - Tash Rabat caravanserai - Moldo village - Kyzyl Korgon canyon - Kyrk-Kyz pass - Ter Jailak pass - Toluk village - Toktogul village - Bishkek city
Day 1: Arrival in BishkekYour guide will collect you from the International Airport of Manas and accompany you to Bishkek(capital of Kyrgyzstan). The drive from the Airport to Bishkek City takes half an hour. After accommodation in the hotel*** that is situated in a clam part of the city you will have a rest and start the day with a breakfast. This day you will have an excursion to the Natural Park of Ala - Archa that is situated 45 km south Bishkek, on the Kyrgyz ridge (a spur of Tien-Shan), in the Ala-Arch Gorge. To have a nice view of this famous gorge you will go to the top of a mountain. Drive back to Bishkek City. At 7 p.m. traditional dinner will be served. Overnight stay is in the hotel***.
Day 2: Bishkek - Tash Rabat (Stone Castle) CaravanseraiBreakfast is in the hotel. Transfer from Bishkek to the Great Silk Road Tash Rabat Caravanserai. Tash Rabat is located at the very heart of Tian Shan Mountains, at a height 3200 m above sea level. According to the opinion of the scientists Tash Rabat was constructed in the 14th century A. D. It has no analogue in the world, because it was made of layered stones and moreover it was built inside the mountain. There are 31 rooms in total. There are also underground prison cells for medieval culprits. The walls thickness is one meter. Nearby Tash Rabat Caravanserai you will spend the night in yurt camp.Day 3: Ride (86 km) Tash Rabat - Moldo villageAfter packing your backpacks, in the morning, you will cycle to Moldo village from Tash Rabat. This way was used by ancient traders at the time of Great Silk Road. Thousand of traders were passing there with their goods from China on horses and camels. It is a nice chance to feel that you ride along the same way! It is moderate difficulty ride along the Naryn Valley. Asphalt road. Overnight stay is in the tent camp at the altitude of 1670 m. a. s. l.
Day 4: Moldo Village - Kyzyl Korgon CanyonWe will ride, after the breakfast, in the direction of the sacred stones with ancient (dating back to 800 B.C.) carvings on them. After visiting the petroglyphs site we will leave Son Kul Lake and ride through Kara Keche pass (3381m) to the Valley of Djumgal. Upon arrival we will have a walking in the Red Canyons. It is the region of high mountains, red canyons, rocks and snow peaks. Overnight stay is in the tent camp.Day 5: Ride Kyzyl Korgon - Kyrk-Kyz Pass 3223m.This day we pass near Kyzyl Oi (red canyon) Village. We will see the rocks of different colors, summer pastures and panoramic views. These places always make an impression on the travelers and all of them want to come back there one more time. Kyzyl Oi is small poor village in the mountains. There you will have time to walk and to see the life of Kyrgyz people in the countryside. En route to the village you will see famous red canyons that are absolutely unlike the other canyons in Kyrgyz Republic. Overnight is in the tent camp.
Day 6: Ride Kyrk-Kyz pass - Ter Jailak pass 2446m - Toluk village (50km)Today's cycling will be difficult enough. En route we will meet the Kyrgyz herdsmen on their summer pastures. The Kyrgyz nomads always glad to talk with foreign visitors and are very hospitable. You could see their felt dwellings and ask them about their life. It will be also possible to try national drink kymis that has really specific taste. Kymis is made out of fermented mare's milk. Even these days The Kyrgyz nomads come to this place and you can see their nomadic way of lifestyle. Overnight stay is in the tent camp.
Day 7: Ride and transfer to the Toktogul VillageWe will start cycling after breakfast. Our chauffeur will drive behind us. The way has an abundance of incredible views you will never forget. It becomes clear when you are there that the best creation is natural world. Lunch. Transfer to the Village where we can take a shower or drive to the artificial lake. Free time for leisure. Night is in the home stay.
Day 8: Transfer to Bishkek CityWe will drive to Bishkek City in the morning. You will be carried away by the remarkable landscapes offered through views of the virgin nature. You will have free time in the city to go shopping and to walk. You will have a dinner in a restaurant in the evening. This night you will spend in the hotel***.
Day 9: BishkekThis morning we will have a city tour. This tour includes the visiting of the central Ala-Too Square, Duboviy Park (Oak Park), Pobeda Square (Victory Square), the History Museum, National philharmonic, Oriental Bazaar, Art Gallery and many others places of interest. Then we will visit our famous Osh Bazaar. You will walk there and bargain for different goods and you will have a feeling as if you are 1000 years ago! At 7 o'clock in the evening a farewell dinner will be served. Overnight stay is in the hotel***.
Day 10: Transfer to the airportAt the time arranged previously according to your flight details your guide will meet you in your hotel and accompany you to the International Airport of Manas.
There is also a list of other biking tours:
Kyrgyzstan biking: Tour 01
Duration of the tour: 8 daysPlaces to visit: Bishkek - Chon Kemin valley - Kayindi village - Keuk-Ayrik pass - Chon Sary Oi village - Tamchi village - Kochkor - Sarybulak - Jalpak pass - Bishkek city
If you want to cycle in the country of the heavenly mountains and at the same time to visit lots of fascinating places, we are ready to arrange a cycling tour for you. You will enjoy being in Kyrgyz Republic for the reason that our country is wonderful place for cycling. You will be surprised by quickly changeable views on your way because there are great verities of landscapes. Read the tour…
Kyrgyzstan biking: Tour 02
Duration of the tour: 12 daysPlaces to visit: Bishkek - Kochkor - Sarybulak - Kichi-Naryn - Naryn town - Son Kul Lake - Kyzyl Korgon canyon - Kyrk-Kyz pass - Ter Jailak pass - Toluk village - Toktogul village - Bishkek City
Explore really wild places in the heavenly mountains of Kyrgyzstan! We want to present you a biking tour, which routes will be along untouched mountain gorges where it is still possible to meet genuine nomads. It is a perfect chance to feel the nature, because you will cycle in places that are so far from the civilization. During your adventure you will see yurts - nomadic felt dwellings, which are very unique and their owners will invite you for a cup of tea or kymis (traditional Kyrgyz drink). Read the tour…
Kyrgyzstan biking: Tour 03
Duration of the tour: 11 days Places to visit: Bishkek - Chon Kemin valley - Dzhylangach river - Kichi-Naryn - Naryn town - Tash Rabat caravanserai - Moldo village - Son Kul lake - Bishkek city
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Our company offers you to explore Kyrgyzstan and to get acquainted with nomadic mode of life. One of the best ways to do it is to have trekking or horse riding tours in Kyrgyzstan. Your visit to our celestial Kyrgyzstan will make be etched in your mind for the rest of your life.
If you need some more information about Kyrgyzstan and its life you can have a look at the new guide book written by David Peytray.
This book bears the name "Kyrgyzstan Travel". This book was written after his own travel in Kyrgyzstan. David found out all facts about Kyrgyzstan when he visited almost all the places in Kyrgyzstan. He traveled in Kyrgyzstan for 3 month and his main goal was to discover all things that you have to know for travel. Now "Kyrgyzstan Travel" can show you the best places of Kyrgyzstan. You can use it during your travel in Kyrgyzstan because it has a lot of useful information. You can find out not only interesting place to visit in Kyrgyzstan but also many details. For example you can read about transportation in Kyrgyzstan that you can use during your travel. In this way you will have an easy travel in Kyrgyzstan. The book tells about the prices for transport in Kyrgyzstan. Also it has descriptions of places where you can get transportation in Kyrgyzstan. It is not difficult to travel in Kyrgyzstan, but if you want to have a perfect organized tour it is better to turn to a travel company. Especially if you want to have a trekking tour in Kyrgyzstan it is better to use a travel company. Trekking in Kyrgyzstan is one of the most popular tours among travelers. Kyrgyzstan boasts with 3 peaks that are over 7000 meters above sea level. Also there are thousands of gorges for trekking tours in Kyrgyzstan. These gorges are really worth for trekking. All of them are different in Kyrgyzstan and during one tour you can see many amazing views. Trekking tours in Kyrgyzstan are celebrated not only among professionals. Many people come in Kyrgyzstan to have their first trekking practice. And Kyrgyzstan is really a perfect place for trekking. You can have trekking tour for half of day or during 20 days. All trekking tours in Kyrgyzstan are divided according to the level of difficulty. If you want to have a light trekking tour in Kyrgyzstan it is also possible to do. You will just have to ask a travel company to prepare a light trekking tour for you. And our travel company will prepare a special trekking tour in Kyrgyzstan for you. You can combine trekking tour in Kyrgyzstan with horse riding tour or cultural ones as well. We have many places for trekking in Kyrgyzstan that are mysteriously hidden in mountains. You will have a trekking tour in places that are very far from civilization. During this trekking tour in Kyrgyzstan you will feel complete freedom. Your trekking will let you to be alone in wild nature. Trekking in Kyrgyzstan is an unforgettable experience. Trekking in Kyrgyzstan gives you a great chance to find out everything about nomads. When you have a trekking tour in Kyrgyzstan you will sleep not only in tents but also in Kyrgyz yurts. And living among nomads makes Kyrgyzstan so famous for travelers. These travelers usually have one trekking tour in Kyrgyzstan and then they come back with their friends. Any trekking tour can be organized either with you or with your friends. Also if you travel alone you can ask a travel company to add you to another group for trekking. In this way the price will be lower for trekking tour if you take somebody with you. Trekking in Kyrgyzstan becomes more and more popular. More and more travelers want to have a trekking tour and they are always glad to do it. We want you to enjoy the trekking in Kyrgyzstan and that is why we offer you the best trips. As a matter of fact trekking tours in Kyrgyzstan also eminent for the price. It is not very expansive to have a trekking tour in Kyrgyzstan. All trekking tours include transfer along Kyrgyzstan. You need just 40 minutes drive from the capital of Kyrgyzstan to start a trekking tour. The nearest place for this is Kyrgyz range. There are many gorges that are just perfect for trekking.
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It is of vital importance to have a good travel agency in Kyrgyzstan. A good travel agency in Kyrgyzstan can organize a perfect tour for you for the reasonable price. There are many travel companies in Kyrgyzstan and all of them can really help you. Not all of these travel agencies can organize you a cultural tour, a horse riding tour or a trekking tour. It is better to find a travel companies that is famous among travelers. A good travel agency can make travel in Kyrgyzstan the most enjoyable and unforgettable. Travel companies in Kyrgyzstan have standard tours for travelers. Some of travel companies can organize a special trip according to your request. You will have to just apply for the tour operator and they will organize a tour according to your wishes. You can request for a travel company which places you want to visit in Kyrgyzstan and that's all. You will get a prompt answer from the travel company. Should your whims change the travel companies will make sure that your tour will be arranged just the way you want it to be. Our travel companies are very flexible for tourists. Kyrgyzstan travel companies propose good prices for their tourists. And you can completely rely on our travel companies. Kyrgyzstan is well-liked for its stunning nature and hospitable people. It is also possible to live with local families in Kyrgyzstan. You just should tell about it to your travel company.
If you want to have a horse riding tour in Kyrgyzstan it is better to use a tour company. Horse riding in Kyrgyzstan is very popular among travelers. Kyrgyzstan boasts 3 peaks that are over 7000 meters above sea level. Also there are thousands of gorges for horse riding tours in Kyrgyzstan. These gorges are really worth for horse riding. All of them are different in Kyrgyzstan and during one tour you can see many amazing views. Horse riding tours in Kyrgyzstan are famous not only among professionals. A lot of tourist who have come to Kyrgyzstan for horse riding are the ones who had never had a horse riding experience. But the thing is that they are always delighted with their tour and want to come back again. And Kyrgyzstan is really a perfect place for horse riding. You can have horse riding tour for half of day or during 20 days. All horse riding tours in Kyrgyzstan are divided according to the level of difficulty. A light category horse riding tour is also available. These tours are usually recommended for the beginners. You will just ask a travel company to prepare a light horse riding tour for you. And our travel company will prepare a special horse riding tour in Kyrgyzstan for you. You can combine horse riding tour in Kyrgyzstan with trekking tour or cultural one. We have many places for horse riding in Kyrgyzstan that are hidden in mountains. You will have a horse riding tour in places that are very far from civilization. During this horse riding tour in Kyrgyzstan you will feel complete freedom. Your horse riding will let you to be alone in wild nature. Horse riding in Kyrgyzstan is nothing but an unforgettable experience and wonderful time. Horse riding in Kyrgyzstan gives you a wonderful chance to learn about nomads and their mode of life. On our web site we offer you the most famous horse riding tours:
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If you come to a horse riding tour you will have a chance to experience living not only in tents but also in yurts too. Yurts are the most portable and collapsible dwellings made of wood and felt and they can be available according to your request in your tour requirements. And living among nomads makes Kyrgyzstan so famous for travelers. These travelers usually have one horse riding tour in Kyrgyzstan and then they come back with their friends. It is possible to have a horse riding tour alone or with your friends. Also if you travel alone you can ask a travel company to add you to another group for horse riding. In this way the price will be lower for horse riding tour and you will have somebody with you. Horse riding in Kyrgyzstan becomes more and more popular. Form year to year the horse riding tours become very popular among tourists and they are always happy to come and experience it. We want you to enjoy the horse riding in Kyrgyzstan and that is why we offer the best trips. As a matter of fact horse riding tours in Kyrgyzstan also famous for the price. It is not very expansive to have a horse riding tour in Kyrgyzstan. All horse riding tours include transfer along Kyrgyzstan. You need just 40 minutes drive from the capital of Kyrgyzstan to start a horse riding tour. The nearest place for it is Kyrgyz range. There hundreds of beautiful gorges that are good for horse riding. And it great pleasure to ride your horse in places where there are no people but only wild and untouched nature.
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Noel walked into the dining room and opened the fridge. The squelch of the old fridge door rang clear through the sound of quick succession of channels changing. "Why's there no beer?" Noel spoke to himself. "WHY'S THERE NO BEER, DINA?" A talk show host was loudly welcoming a guest. "HUH?" Noel yelled again.
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"Hi Matt. Welcome."
"Thank you Jimmy."
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"Why's there wine and no beer?" Noel came back with a tall glass of Coca Cola, as she looked at the TV with glassy eyes. "Now that's funny and spiteful! Just because we're not talking, it doesn't mean you get even with me over my choice of alcohol! Will you stop watching these silly shows and hand me the remote?" Noel said, extending his hand.
"I was at the Graham Norton Show last week and it was hilarious.." says Matt. Jimmy makes a face and everybody laughs."No, I didn't mean you're not funny," Matt laughs ruefully as the audience guffaws, with Jimmy shrugging his hands in denial.
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A couple of deer zigzagged across a wide stubbled field, with a cheetah sprinting behind them. Noel took a sip of the fizzy bubbles and let out a contented, cold sigh. The chair next to him sighed with him, as Dina's body wound itself into the shape of an embryo.
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Noel tried to touch her arm, but Dina instantly shrunk into a ball and breathed heavily. "Look, I know we've had our differences but you cannot just shut me out. What do you want me to do, huh? Tell me!" Noel insisted patiently.
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Dear mum,
This is your son,
I am writing this to you,
To tell you I'm done.
Hold back those tears,
Please don't cry
Don't make this any harder,
For me tonight.
You will see,
This is the only way,
For I am too much of a burden,
To you everyday.
I know by now,
You've met my soul mate,
Her name is Snow White,
This was just fate.
Slowly slowly,
She led me away,
From your warm nest,
Each and everyday.
All the lies and deceit,
I had to tell,
I can't stop now,
I am completely under her spell.
When you found out,
And you didn't believe my lies,
Again I'm so sorry,
For giving you those black eyes.
Every night you stayed up,
Dreading that knock on the door,
Is the number of reasons,
I can no longer ignore.
There is no way out,
Of this darkness and despair,
A long time ago,
God abandoned your prayers.
So you see,
There is only one way,
To kill myself now,
And end the pain today.
For this brief moment,
My thoughts are clear,
These ten more doses,
Means relief for you is near.
Don't blame yourself mum,
You raised me right,
I messed everything up,
But I'll fix this tonight.
You may not see it now
But over time your pain will ease
I love you, goodbye
Yours sincerely, now at peace
This one hit me hard. My cousin died on July 18th, 2018. He overdosed on the fourth of July and was on life support until the 18th when we finally had to pull the plug. He did it...
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Prostitution is often referred to as the "oldest profession." Indeed, it has always been a common way for women to make money, even in Bible times. The Bible tells us that prostitution is immoral. ...
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Not only was Rahab the harlot was forgiven, but we find later God gave her a family and her name appears in the family line of our Lord as we read in Matthew 1:5. Her name is found in Hebrews 11:31 as an example of the woman of faith. Not only this, but her name is again found in the book of James at 2:25 as a woman who had living and active faith. No matter how great a sinner he/she is, once we trust Christ we are saved. Our past, present, and future sins are forgiven because while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, as read in Romans 5:8. God not only forgives prostitutes, but restores them and includes them in His plan of Kingdom building as we saw in case Rahab. But if we continue in that sin, then it is sexual immorality and the lake of fire which the second death awaits him/her as we read in Revelation 21:8.
The church in Corinth had many that were going to prostitutes. Paul told them they were joining Jesus to prostitutes. Then went on to say that every other sin is outside the body but sexual sin. The believers in Corinth were living in all kinds of sin. They came to communion to get drunk, and many were living in fornication. But, Paul still called them saints. Because they had trusted Jesus to save them. They were just baby Christians or believers. We have the same today in many churches where the baby Christians never grow. They stay living in immorality. But they will reap what they sow. And they many just lose their life if they do not change their ways. But as Paul said, their spirit will be saved in the day of the lord, because our works have nothing to do with salvation by grace. Jesus paid for the sin of prostitution and going to one. Many sow there wild oats and then pray for a crop failure. We do reap what we sow. We should abstain from all ungodliness, and live lives pleasing to the Lord. Not for salvation, but because we are saved. Keeping from doing these things saves no one. We do not do these things because we are saved, not to save us, that was done at the cross.
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