June‚ 1999‚ overseas trials - Blacktown Ice Arena‚ Sydney. The seats are packed‚ the change rooms full with ice skating teams checking last minute checkups – Hair‚ make up‚ tights‚ costumes‚ and skates! And as the tope NSW junior team the “Ice crystals” stand in a huddle five minutes before we skate‚ I remember back to when we first skated as a synchronized ice skating team. I remember learning the routines‚ those early morning practices with the on – ice fights over the smallest things. Where
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Finally‚ November first arrived. Since my birthday‚ when I received my ice-skates in the mail‚ I had counted down the days until this moment. Listening to instrumental music‚ I had envisioned myself spinning and gliding across the ice‚ as gracefully as a swan on a lake. In my head‚ I could skate both elegantly and effortlessly. Heart racing‚ I fastened my skates and stepped onto the rink. Within the first five minutes‚ I slipped and fell. Falling hurts. However‚ stumbles‚ falls and head long plummets
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Ice Raids and Families in the United States Immigrants have been around for many years in several countries. However‚ in the United States‚ we are starting to really crack down on our illegal aliens. This causes a lot of chaos for everyone involved. Families are creating emergency plans and contacting relatives and friends if a worst-case scenario happens. There are families who keep belongings in large trash bags to quickly grab and go if need be. Fear is high among illegal immigrants in the United
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“Walking on Ice” In the calm and chilling winter of the end of the year. My friends and I were walking back home from Friday prayer at the Masjid. We walked on down the road until we approached the river bank where it was arctic and barren along the shore. Suddenly‚ my friend had the idea of crossing the river to getting home faster seeking a new experience of adventure. I already assumed the situation could be a lot worse than that‚ but we shouldn’t live in fear‚ I thought. Before I knew it‚ I was
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I can still recall the first time I heard a sermon on the valley of dry bones‚ taken from the book of Ezekiel chapter 37. I was around six or seven years old at Greater Salem Baptist Church in Louisville‚ Kentucky‚ were the Rev. T.B. Boyd was painting a picture of this valley full of dry dead bones toss around like dolls all over valley. I can still hear him as he talk about how depressing and dismal the sight was‚ dead dry bones as far as the eyes could see‚ bone after bone and they were dead. After
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Miracle On Ice: The Legacy America’s 1980 Olympic hockey team looms large in the sporting imagination. History has framed the Miracle On Ice as one of those rare sporting achievements that transcend sport. The two hockey games that comprise the “miracle” – the 4-3 win over the mighty Soviets and the 4-2 gold medal clincher against Finland – are credited with lifting Americans from a decade of gloom and despair‚ reviving patriotism and foreshadowing a national renewal. In 1980‚ the United States
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company was privatised and rechristened “Ice Fili”. Anatoliy Shamanov‚ an expert in the technical processes essential in the frozen food industry‚ joined the company in 1968. After six years of service he decided to further his expertise serving in a variety of other roles elsewhere in the frozen foods industry. He later retuned as CEO in 1988 and was inspirational in leading the company through the vast changes that ensued. Ice Fili are Russia’s top ice cream producer so one could forgive Shamanov
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Analysis of Dry September Dry September‚ a short story by author William Faulkner‚ is a short look at the typical characters of the Southern States‚ such as is usually seen in those of Faulkner’s works‚ which involves the fictional county‚ known as “Yoknapatawpha”. The city is a written picture of what might have been a great part of Faulkner’s own life‚ which he spent in Oxford‚ Mississippi. Told from the perspective of a semi all-knowing‚ observing narrator (Only briefly brushing inner thoughts)
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Analysis of dry September The opening paragraph of "Dry September" sets the tone of the story by focusing on the oppressive heat and the resultant‚ uncontrolled and heated passions of Jefferson ’s citizens. Sixty-two hot‚ rainless days have created a frustration among the townspeople and have fueled Miss Minnie ’s accusation that she was raped by a black man. The first sentence stresses the rapidity with which the rumor — "like a fire in dry grass" — has spread throughout the town. The dry spell also
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Ice-Fili (АЙС-θИЛИ) You cannot defeat a nation that enjoys ice cream at minus 40 Celsius. — Winston Churchill To survive in Russia’s ice cream industry during the 11 years since the collapse of the former Soviet Union was no small feat (see Exhibits 1 and 2). To be successful in these turbulent times was nothing short of amazing to industry observers. In 2002‚ Ice-Fili‚ a midsized Russian company with more than $25 million in sales‚ was Russia’s top ice cream producer. Surprisingly‚ it had
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