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In what should be filed under: ''most impressive Olympic medal news ever,'' Sochi brass have announced that all gold medals to be handed out on Feb. 15 will be embedded with shards of meteorite. The move will mark the one-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteor strike, which injured nearly 1,500 people.
"We will hand out our medals to all the athletes who will win gold on that day, because both the meteorite strike and the Olympic Games are global events," said Chelyabinsk Region Culture Minister Alexei Betekhtin.
How absolutely cool is this?! I think this is super neat and something that will make the gold medal literally out of this world special. Fantastic idea, I think it is really cool and a great way to really heighten the speciality of the gold medal.
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Grey-haired and grinning, two dozen couples hold champagne flutes at a Warsaw ceremony in their honour. They survived 50 years of marriage and in Poland, that is reason enough for a presidential medal.
"To qualify, you have to put in over 18,000 solid days of work. Other medals require less, so it really is a considerable feat to have spent the last half century together," Warsaw mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz says at this month's event.
The tradition is regularly played out in cities across the heavily Catholic country, with a hefty average of 65,000 medals awarded each year according to the president's office.
I really like the idea of this. Why shouldn't married couples be awarded a medal for 50 years of marriage? Marriage is tough! Even more so this day and age. I think this is a fantastic way for you to celebrate your life with your partner and for people to notice what you have achieved.
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| Dr. Charles G. Hayes (left) with Allen Cathey |
More information about his homegoing services will be forthcoming as it is made available.
A native Alabaman, Dr. Hayes came to Chicago in the late 1950s and founded Universal Kingdom of Christ, later known as Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer, on the city's South Side. Placing the music ministry in the capable hands of such noted musicians as Dr. Charles Clency and, most recently, Chedwick Allen Cathey, Hayes built one of the most successful recording and radio church choirs in gospel music history.
Hayes was a staunch traditionalist, and his music ministry reflected that. The choir, called the "Warriors," is best known for hits such as "Jesus Can Work It Out," "The Bridegroom Cometh," "Everyday is a Day of Thanksgiving," "Everytime I Feel the Spirit," "Work On, Pray On, Time Ain't Long," and many more. Hayes himself often led the songs, his tunefully strident voice instantly recognizable.
It is no hyperbole that gospel music has been enriched beyond belief by Father Hayes and his "romping, stomping" choir. While choirs got more contemporary and modern, gospel enthusiasts knew they could count on Dr. Hayes and the Warriors to get the congregation shouting the old time way.
Father Hayes stood for discipline, professionalism, and perfection, but he was also a warm, approachable person. It was his radio broadcast in January 1984 that introduced me to gospel music. He sang "The Healer" as the choir supported him. At the time I could not have imagined that I would get to know the pastor behind the big, bold Cosmo choir, and that he would always greet me whenever we happened to be in the same place at the same time. That he allowed me to sit at the main table at one of Cosmo's anniversaries. That was a thrill beyond belief.
Farewell, Father Hayes. Time ain't long, that's certain, though I wish it hadn't come so soon for you. We are sad to see you go, but we are better people for your having lived. See you in the great cloverfield beyond the sunset one day. You will be there at Heaven's door, just as you were at Cosmo, greeting those coming through.
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