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HIPPOTHERAPY AS A CHANCE FOR RECOVERY

The horse is one of the symbols of kindness, freedom and fortitude. Imagine this picture: a field along which a stallion runs, cutting open spaces. The view alone is breathtaking. And to be a part of this process is a real pleasure.

Adults squeal with delight when they first sit on a horse. And what can we say about children, and even more so "special" boys and girls. What flurry of emotions does a child with developmental disabilities experience when he is in the saddle? He does not know how to walk, but he sits on a horse himself and is unreasonably happy from this!

It has been proven that contact with horses has a positive effect on human health. Hippotherapy is one of the most effective methods of treating animals through horses. It is aimed at fighting many diseases.

This direction has been successfully developing in the Oryol region for more than four years. On the basis of the Orlovsky Horse Yard "Vyazki", the Children's Rehabilitation Equestrian Center "Boni Club" was created and is successfully operating. The hippotherapy section is visited by boys, girls and even adults with diseases such as cerebral palsy, various disorders of the musculoskeletal system, as well as autism.

Some call hippotherapy therapeutic riding. Indeed, the main effect is achieved precisely through exercises performed on a horse. However, it cannot be said that these two concepts are absolutely identical. After all, an important condition for healing is not only riding, but also just communicating with a horse, caring for it, - said trainer Alla Kameneva. - Our pupils visit the section 2 - 3 times a week. We use an integrated approach: a person warms up and develops muscles while riding a horse, gets a crazy boost of energy and just great pleasure from communicating with this animal.

GOLD AND SILVER AT ALL-RUSSIAN COMPETITIONS

The results of such classes have not only a therapeutic effect. The Oryol guys, under the guidance of their mentors, went further and became real athletes. Para-Olympic Equestrianism is the newest discipline of the International Equestrian Federation. Paralympic dressage is currently the only para-equestrian event included in the Paralympic program.

Who knows, probably very soon among the participants, and possibly the winners, will be the pupils of the "Boni Club". In any case, both the athletes themselves and their coaches have such hopes.

Having noticed good results from hippotherapy, we decided that our guys can go further and engage in equestrian sports. Our hopes were justified. For the first time in the history of the region, two of our pupils became participants in the Open Traditional Moscow Equestrian Cup named after P. Gurvich, - said trainer Maria Semenikhina.

More than 30 athletes from the regions of Russia took part in the competition. Despite the serious competition and the fact that the Oryol participants had to rent horses (the cost of transportation is too high), our fellow countrymen performed brilliantly.

Nine-year-old Valeria Ritarovskaya won a gold medal in her debut competition.

I didn't believe it until the very end when I heard my name. The opponents were so strong, and in age they are all older than me. I am grateful to my coach - this is our common victory, - Valeria shared her impressions.

The girl now cannot imagine her life without horses. She has been studying at the Oryol "Boni Club", located in the village of Vyazki, for three years now.

It all started with hippotherapy, which became a real salvation for us. In a short time, my daughter got rid of the hyperactivity syndrome, became more diligent and attentive. And the horses made her character soft and docile. Nobody expected that therapy would also become a sport in which our girl, I hope, will achieve even greater success, - said the mother of the athlete Ella Koktysh.

An excellent result was shown by another Oryol athlete. 28-year-old Ekaterina Eliseeva received a silver medal at competitions in Moscow.

PRESIDENTIAL GRANT

Very soon, Oryol athletes with disabilities will have the opportunity to perform on their site. For the first time, the Vyazki horse yard will host Paralympic equestrian competitions using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Fund.

On August 30 - 31, we will hold competitions for children with disabilities. Athletes will be able to take part in them not only from the Oryol region, but also from neighboring regions. Prizes await the winners. And of course, it will be a real equestrian holiday with demonstration performances and thematic quizzes. So we are waiting for everyone to visit, - said Maria Semenikhina.

The date for the competition was not chosen by chance. August 31 is the day of memory of Flor and Laurus, who have long been revered in Russia as the patrons of domestic animals, especially horses. On this day, the equestrian holiday was traditionally celebrated, the horses were not used for work, they were bathed and fed "in full". Come on August 30 and 31 to the Vyazki horse yard, you will definitely like it.

Club address: Oryol region, Oryol district, Vyazki village.

Working hours: from 10.00 to 20.00, day off - Monday. Tel.: 8-910-267-87-08, 8-920-810-89-35.

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It is known that during the wars they were treated with horses. Having been injured in battle, they accelerated rehabilitation by riding a horse and, I must say, achieved success.

Thanks to the Presidential Grants Fund, competitions for children with disabilities will be held very soon.

Hippotherapy is extremely useful for rude, quick-tempered and aggressive, as well as fussy and overly mobile people. Regular hippotherapy sessions make them more calm. In addition, therapeutic horse riding is recommended for diseases of neurological etiology, in particular Down syndrome, autism, Duchenne myopathy, poliomyelitis, sensory disorders, asthenic neurosis, etc.

People with autism who are overly self-absorbed and withdrawn, communicating with kind and trusting horses, are liberated on an emotional level and begin to feel a desire to communicate with others. This reduces lethargy, anxiety, relieves phobias, helps to adapt to reality.

An oceanic arthropod, a giant isopod, also known as the "deep scavenger," that lives in an aquarium in the Japanese city of Toba, hasn't eaten in over four years.

Despite this, an amazing representative of the deep-sea fauna feels great and shows no signs of exhaustion. This was announced on Tuesday by representatives of the Japanese Oceanarium.

A representative of crustaceans, caught in the Gulf of Mexico and brought to Japan in September 2007, weighs one kilogram, its length is 29 cm. horse mackerel.

Since then, the creepy-looking animal, despite all the efforts of the attendants, has not even touched the food. "We're doing everything we can," said one of the aquarium staff. "But he doesn't show any interest in feeding."

Neither the fish platter, nor the mackerel, nor even the tentacles of the octopus interested the fastidious tenant of the Japanese "marine zoo". However, despite such a long hunger strike, the crustacean feels quite normal.

Due to the fact that giant isopods live at very great depths, science knows little about them. Their main known habitat is the depressions of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. So far, experts cannot explain the sudden refusal of the arthropod from food and how it manages to maintain vital functions.

"Giant isopods are in a state close to hibernation all the time," says marine ecologist Taeko Kimura of Mie University. "They don't recognize their own hunger well, so they deliberately reduce the amount of energy expended on breathing and other life activities."

According to Kimura, many isopods may have an accumulated layer of fat in the liver, gradually depleting which they are able to maintain life functions even without eating. However, four years is a really remarkable time. The option in which the isopod could independently generate living organisms, such as plankton or algae, and then quietly feed on them, is also excluded - the arthropod is kept in a tank with artificial sea water and is under the close attention of specialists.

Another giant isopod lived in the Toba Aquarium for a long time, which died a few years ago of natural causes. Given the fact that he had a healthy appetite, experts still cannot explain the cheerful state of the previous one, as the aquarium workers dubbed the "hunger strike" isopod.

For more than four decades, the film "White Sun of the Desert" has firmly held its position among national hits. This is one of the most famous films in the history of Soviet cinema, which tells about the adventures of the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov, who saves his harem from the bandit Abdullah during the Civil War. The film was shot in 1969 at the Experimental Creative Film Studio (ETK), created on the production base of the Mosfilm and Lenfilm studios, which was directed by film director Grigory Chukhrai.

At first, the film, based on the script by Valentin Yezhov and the then-novice screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov, was supposed to be directed by Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, who, seeing nothing in the script but an adventure intrigue, refused to stage it.

After such directors as Vytautas Zhalakyavichus, Yury Chulyukin, Andrey Tarkovsky refused the offer to make the film, the offer was made to Vladimir Motyl, known by that time for the film Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha.

Motyl also initially refused, but Grigory Chukhrai and Valentin Yezhov managed to persuade him, promising him complete freedom of action on the set.

On December 14, 1969, a limited premiere of the film was held at the Leningrad Cinema House for the creators and management. The premiere on the wide screen in Moscow took place on March 30, 1970. The audience immediately accepted and fell in love with Vladimir Motyl's film.

The studio was inundated with letters demanding a sequel, the film was shown in all corners of the country, was sold immediately to a hundred countries, then the contracts were renewed every two or three years. The film has become cinematic folklore. Many statements of the heroes of the tape migrated into colloquial speech, they were turned into proverbs and sayings: “I don’t take bribes, it’s a shame for my state!”, “The East is a delicate matter”, “Gyulchatay, open your face”, “He appointed me his beloved wife! "," Shot.

But the real connoisseurs of it were Soviet and Russian cosmonauts, for whom watching the "White Sun of the Desert" in the evening before the launch has become a tradition. There is even a cassette with the film on board the International Space Station.

Pavel Vereshchagin has become a symbol of the customs service in Russia. In 2007, near the customs office in Kurgan and Amvrosievka (Donetsk region), a monument was unveiled to him, made at the personal expense of customs officers. This is the only sculptural composition in the Russian Federation today dedicated to the image of Pavel Vereshchagin.

The role of Vereshchagin was the best and, unfortunately, the last role of Pavel Luspekaev, who died a month after the premiere of the film.

Immediately after the release on the screens of the USSR, the picture was nominated for the State Prize of the USSR, but in Soviet times the film was never awarded any official awards. And only in 1998 he was awarded the State Prize of Russia.

In December 1999, according to the results of a survey dedicated to the centenary of Russian cinema, the film "White Sun of the Desert" was selected for the "Last Show of the Millennium" action.

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Original taken from iov75 The Curious Religious Composition of Assad's Army's Top Officers

Why Assad's army is not retreating (The National Interest, USA)

The American magazine The National Interest, which pays great attention to the situation in Syria, released the material “Why Assad's Army Has Not Defected.” The Federal News Agency offers readers a translation of this material.

Four years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then Prime Minister of Turkey, said that "in just a few weeks" he would "pray at the Grand Mosque of Damascus", since the army of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad should, in his opinion, "is about to fall." Following Erdogan, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak expressed a similar point of view. When both of these politicians built their assumptions on this matter in 2012, neither the Iranian military nor the Russian air force was yet on the Syrian side.

With the failure of yet another round of peace talks, with the entire world frozen in anticipation of the next turn of events in Syria, the time has come to address the warnings of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Kissinger and Brzezinski, the most experienced and influential American politicians on the Middle East since World War II, opposed conventional wisdom and claimed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was supported by more people and forces than all the national opposition groups combined.

It's no secret that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United States tried to bribe some officials from the circle of politicians close to Assad to undermine his forces. However, the professional military cadres of the Syrian army remained absolutely loyal to their leader.

For the most part, the Syrian army consists of conscripts and only about eighty thousand professional soldiers. At the beginning of the conflict, much attention was paid to the deserting thousands of soldiers, but these were the few conscripts who were never particularly eager to serve in the army, and even in peacetime, most likely would have tried to find a way to evade this duty. The professional ranks, meanwhile, are still very strong and multi-confessional. When representatives of the Syrian opposition talk about the multi-confessional future of Syria, they do not realize that while they are discussing in Geneva, Washington or Vienna, their representatives in Syria are collaborating with the most fanatical and radical terrorist groups in the entire Middle East.

The Syrian army has been holding its positions for more than five years. Its numbers may have decreased a little, which, in principle, is inevitable in the conditions of any military conflict. Upon closer examination, the not entirely obvious fact becomes clear that the backbone of the Syrian army is made up of Sunnis. The current Syrian Defense Minister, Fahed Jassim al-Fredj, is one of the most decorated military officials in the history of the Syrian army, and hails from the central Sunni region of Hama. Two of the most important leaders of the Syrian intelligence services - Ali Mamluk and Mohammed dib Zaitoun - have also proved their loyalty to the Assad government more than once, and both are Sunnis who come from very influential families. The now deceased member of the intelligence service, Rustum Ghazali, who briefly led Lebanon, was also a Sunni; the head of the intelligence department of the political administration, Mahmoud al-Khattib, also comes from one of the most ancient Sunni families of Damascus, which can be said about many other military officials.

The history of the Syrian army formed by Hafez al-Assad is very instructive. As president, Assad Sr. appointed high-ranking members of the Syrian Air Force to the posts of the army's high command. Naji Jameel (Sunni) served as Air Force Commander from 1970 to 1978 and was promoted and transferred to the General Staff Committee to oversee the security of the border with Iraq. Among the lucky recipients of this kind of promotion were Mohammed al-Khouli, who until 1993 held enviable positions in the logistics sector between Damascus and Lebanon, as well as Rustum Ghazali, Ghazem al-Khadra and Dib Zaitoun, all of whom were Sunnis. Since 1973, the strategically important tank battalions of the 17th Armed Brigade, located near Damascus in the town of al-Kishwa, consisted of ordinary Alawites, commanded by such prominent Sunni officers as Hassan Turkmani and Hikmat Shehabi.

From the 1970s until the 1990s, the Syrian army carried out orders to stabilize the situation in Lebanon. During this period, the Syrian military, supporting their Lebanese puppets, tried to beat the Israeli army and the American navy. In Iraq, after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the Americans could not understand which of the Shiite and Sunni rebels the Syrian military intelligence supported, largely due to the professional skills of its personnel.

The Syrian army is at the same time the only army in the entire Middle East that has a large number of generals who profess Christianity in its ranks. The most famous of them is Daoud Raja, the chief of staff of Greek origin, he professes Greek Orthodoxy. The two most influential Lebanese Christian leaders at the moment, Michel Aoun and Suleiman Frangieh, who are candidates for the Lebanese presidency, are also allies of the Syrian army and the government of Bashar al-Assad. And the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, which successfully kept the blockade for two years, is a completely Sunni city.

Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that the fact remains that the moderate Syrian opposition exists only in the West. In fact, it has no real armed support. Bashar al-Assad still holds the presidency of Syria, not only because of the support of his regime by Russian and Iranian forces, but also because his army, being multi-confessional and hardy, represents a Syria in which religion is not a determining factor in promotion. The Syrian army is also one of the biggest obstacles to the spread of terrorism. That is why three of the highest-ranking British generals over the past five years have openly called on the world community to recognize the Syrian army as the only force capable of suppressing ISIS and al-Qaeda (both organizations are recognized as terrorist by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, their activities in Russia are prohibited).