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Title: Bedrock
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Collection: Geology Terminology, Petrology, Rocks
Soil with broken rock fragments overlying bedrock, Sandside Bay, Caithness.
In stratigraphy, bedrock is consolidated rock underlying the surface of a terrestrial planet, usually the Earth. Above the bedrock is usually an area of broken and weathered unconsolidated rock in the basal subsoil. The surface of the bedrock beneath soil cover is known as rockhead in engineering geology[1][2] and identifying this, via excavations, drilling or geophysical methods, is an important task in most civil engineering projects. Superficial deposits (also known as drift) can be extremely thick, such that the bedrock lies hundreds of meters below the surface.[3]
Bedrock may also experience subsurface weathering at its upper boundary, forming saprolite.
A solid geologic map of an area will usually show the distribution of differing bedrock types, i.e., rock that would be exposed at the surface if all soil or other superficial deposits were removed.[4]
Soil profile with bedrock labeled R
Soil scientists use the capital letters O, A, B, C, and E to identify the master soil horizons, and lowercase letters for distinctions of these horizons. Most soils have three major horizons—the surface horizon (A), the subsoil (B), and the substratum (C). Some soils have an organic horizon (O) on the surface, but such a horizon can also be buried. The master horizon, E, is used for subsurface horizons that have a significant loss of minerals (eluviation). Hard bedrock, which is not soil, uses the letter R.
^ Price, David George, Engineering Geology: Principles and Practice, Springer, 2009, p. 16 ISBN 978-3540292494
^ Gribble C. & McLean A. (2003). Geology for Civil Engineers. CRC Press. p. 113.
^ "Swinford,E.Mac What the glaciers left behind - drift thickness map of Ohio, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey, newsletter 2004, No.1." (PDF). Retrieved 2012-09-12.
^ BGS. "Digital Geology - Bedrock geology theme". Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-12.
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash). Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed.
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale awards the Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal in his honor.
Like millions of people in the Soviet Union, the Gagarin family suffered during Nazi occupation in World War II. Klushino was occupied in November 1941 during the German advance on Moscow, and an officer took over the Gagarin residence. The family was allowed to build a mud hut, approximately 3 by 3 metres (10 by 10 ft) inside, on the land behind their house, where they spent a year and nine months until the end of the occupation His two older siblings were deported by the Germans to Poland for slave labour in 1943, and did not return until after the war in 1945. In 1946, the family moved to Gzhatsk, where Gagarin continued his secondary education.
In 1950, Gagarin entered into an apprenticeship at age 16 as a foundryman at the Lyubertsy Steel Plant near Moscow, and also enrolled at a local young workers school for seventh grade evening classes. After graduating in 1951 from both the seventh grade and the vocational school with honours in moldmaking and foundry work, he was selected for further training at the Saratov Industrial Technical School, where he studied tractors. While in Saratov, Gagarin volunteered for weekend training as a Soviet air cadet at a local flying club, where he learned to fly — at first in a biplane and later in a Yak-18 trainer. He also earned extra money as a part-time dock laborer on the Volga River.
After graduating from the technical school in 1955, the Soviet Army drafted Gagarin. On a recommendation, Gagarin was sent to the First Chkalov Air Force Pilot's School in Orenburg, and soloed in a MiG-15 in 1957. After graduation, he was assigned to the Luostari airbase in Murmansk Oblast, close to the Norwegian border, where terrible weather made flying risky. He became a Lieutenant in the Soviet Air Forces on 5 November 1957; on 6 November 1959 he received the rank of Senior Lieutenant.
In 1960, after an extensive search and selection process, Gagarin was chosen with 19 other pilots for the Soviet space program. Gagarin was further selected for an elite training group known as the Sochi Six, from which the first cosmonauts of the Vostok programme would be chosen. Gagarin and other prospective candidates were subjected to experiments designed to test physical and psychological endurance; he also underwent training for the upcoming flight. Out of the twenty selected, the eventual choices for the first launch were Gagarin and Gherman Titov due to their performance during training sessions as well as their physical characteristics — space was limited in the small Vostok cockpit, and both men were rather short. Gagarin was 1.57 metres (5 feet 2 in) tall.
Modest; embarrasses when his humour gets a little too racy; high degree of intellectual development evident in Yuriy; fantastic memory; distinguishes himself from his colleagues by his sharp and far-ranging sense of attention to his surroundings; a well-developed imagination; quick reactions; persevering, prepares himself painstakingly for his activities and training exercises, handles celestial mechanics and mathematical formulae with ease as well as excels in higher mathematics; does not feel constrained when he has to defend his point of view if he considers himself right; appears that he understands life better than a lot of his friends.
Service in the Air Force made us strong, both physically and morally. All of us cosmonauts took up sports and PT seriously when we served in the Air Force. I know that Yuri Gagarin was fond of ice hockey. He liked to play goal keeper… I don't think I am wrong when I say that sports became a fixture in the life of the cosmonauts.
Korolev: Preliminary stage…. intermediate…. main…. lift off! We wish you a good flight. Everything is all right.
Gagarin: Поехали! (Poyekhali! —Let's go!).
In his post-flight report, Gagarin recalled his experience of spaceflight, having been the first human in space:The feeling of weightlessness was somewhat unfamiliar compared with Earth conditions. Here, you feel as if you were hanging in a horizontal position in straps. You feel as if you are suspended.
Following the flight, Gagarin told the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that during reentry he had whistled the tune The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows (The first two lines of the song are: The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky This patriotic song was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1951 (opus 86), with words by Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky.
Some sources have claimed that Gagarin commented during the flight, I don't see any God up here. However, no such words appear in the verbatim record of his conversations with Earth-based stations during the spaceflight. In a 2006 interview, Gagarin's friend Colonel Valentin Petrov stated that the cosmonaut never said such words, and that the quote originated from Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU about the state's anti-religion campaign, saying Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there. Petrov also said that Gagarin had been baptized into the Orthodox Church as a child, and a 2011 Foma magazine article quoted the rector of the Orthodox church in Star City saying, Gagarin baptized his elder daughter Yelena shortly before his space flight; and his family used to celebrate Christmas and Easter and keep icons in the house.
After the Soviet space program Gagarin's flight was a triumph for the Soviet space program. The announcement on the Soviet radio was made by Yuri Levitan, the same speaker who announced all major events in the Great Patriotic War. Gagarin became a national hero of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, and a worldwide celebrity. Newspapers around the globe published his biography and details of his flight. Moscow and other cities in the USSR held mass demonstrations, the scale of which was second only to World War II Victory Parades. Gagarin was escorted in a long motorcade of high-ranking officials through the streets of Moscow to the Kremlin where, in a lavish ceremony, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, by Nikita Khrushchev.
Later on, Gagarin toured widely abroad. He visited Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Egypt and Finland to promote the Soviet Union's accomplishment of putting the first human in space. He visited the United Kingdom three months after the Vostok 1 mission, going to London and Manchester.
The sudden rise to fame took its toll on Gagarin. While acquaintances say Gagarin had been a sensible drinker, his touring schedule placed him in social situations where he was always expected to drink. Gagarin was also reportedly caught by his wife in a room with another woman, a nurse named Anna who had aided him after a boating incident earlier in the day, at a Black Sea resort in September 1961. He attempted to escape by leaving through a window and jumping off her second-floor balcony, hitting his face on a kerbstone and leaving a permanent scar above his left eyebrow.
In 1962, he began serving as a Deputy to the Soviet Union, and was elected to the Central Committee of the Young Communist League. He later returned to Star City, the cosmonaut facility, where he spent several years working on designs for a reusable spacecraft. He became a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Forces on 12 June 1962 and received the rank of colonel on 6 November 1963. Soviet officials tried to keep him away from any flights, being worried of losing their hero in an accident. Gagarin was backup pilot for his friend Vladimir Komarov in the Soyuz 1 flight, which was launched despite Gagarin's protests that additional safety precautions were necessary. When Komarov's flight ended in a fatal crash, Gagarin was permanently banned from training for and participating in further spaceflights.
On 20 December 1963, Gagarin had become Deputy Training Director of the Star City cosmonaut training base.] Two years later he was re-elected as a deputy to the SSSU, but this time to the Soviet of Nationalities. Next year he began to re-qualify as a fighter pilot. On 17 February 1968 he successfully defended his aerospace engineering thesis about spaceplane aerodynamic configuration, passing with flying colors.
On 27 March 1968, while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTIcrash near the town of Kirzhach. The bodies of Gagarin and Seryogin were cremated and the ashes were buried in the walls of the Kremlinon Red Square.
The cause of the crash that killed Gagarin is not entirely certain and has been subject to speculation about conspiracy theories over the ensuing decades.
Soviet documents declassified in March 2003 showed that the KGB had conducted their own investigation of the accident, in addition to one government and two military investigations. The KGB's report dismissed various conspiracy theories, instead indicating that the actions of airbase personnel contributed to the crash. The report states that an air traffic controller provided Gagarin with outdated weather information, and that by the time of his flight, conditions had deteriorated significantly. Ground crew also left external fuel tanks attached to the aircraft. Gagarin's planned flight activities needed clear weather and no outboard tanks. The investigation concluded that Gagarin's aircraft entered a spin, either due to a bird strike or because of a sudden move to avoid another aircraft. Because of the out-of-date weather report, the crew believed their altitude to be higher than it actually was and could not react properly to bring the MiG-15 out of its spin.
In April 2011, documents from a 1968 commission set up by the Central Committee of the Communist Party to investigate the accident were declassified. Those documents revealed that the commission's original conclusion was that Gagarin or Seryogin had maneuvered sharply either to avoid a weather balloon, leading the jet into a super-critical flight regime and to its stalling in complex meteorological conditions, or to avoid entry into the upper limit of the first layer of cloud cove.
In his 2004 book Two Sides of the Moon, Alexey Leonov, who was part of a State Commission established to investigate the death in 1968, recounts that he was flying a helicopter in the same area that day when he heard two loud booms in the distance. Corroborating other theories, his conclusion is that a Sukhoi jet (which he identifies as a Su-15 Flagon) was flying below its minimum allowed altitude, and without realizing it because of the terrible weather conditions, he passed within 10 or 20 meters of Yuri and Seregin's plane while breaking the sound barrier. The resulting turbulence would have sent the MiG into an uncontrolled spin. Leonov believes the first boom he heard was that of the jet breaking the sound barrier, and the second was Gagarin's plane crashing. In a June 2013 interview with Russian television network RT, Leonov said that a declassified report on the incident revealed the presence of a second, unauthorized Su-15 flying in the area. Leonov states that this aircraft had descended to 450 metres (1,480 ft) and that, while running afterburners, the aircraft reduced its echelon at a distance of 10–15 meters in the clouds, passing close to Gagarin, turning his plane and thus sending it into a tailspin – a deep spiral, to be precise – at a speed of 750 kilometers per hour. As a condition of being allowed to discuss the report, however, Leonov was required to not disclose the name of the other pilot, who was reported to be 80 years old (as of 2013) and in poor health.
In 1957, while at the First Chkalov Air Force Pilot's School in Orenburg, Gagarin met Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva, a medical technician graduate of the Orenburg Medical School. They were married on 7 November 1957, the same day Gagarin graduated from Orenburg, and they have two daughters.
Aside from his short stature at 1.57 metres (5 feet 2 in), one of Gagarin's most notable traits was his smile. Many commented on how Gagarin's smile gained the attention of crowds on the frequent tours he did in the months after the Vostok 1 mission success.
Gagarin also garnered a reputation as an adept public figure. When he visited Manchester in the United Kingdom, it was pouring rain. However, Gagarin insisted that the convertible top remain down so that the cheering crowds could catch a glimpse of him. Gagarin stated, If all these people have turned out to welcome me and can stand in the rain, so can I. Gagarin refused an umbrella and remained standing in his open-top Bentley so that the cheering crowds could still see him.
Sergei Korolev, one of the masterminds behind the early years of the Soviet space program, later said that Gagarin possessed a smile that lit up the darkness of the Cold War.
12 April, the date of Gagarin's space flight, has been commemorated as a special date. Since 1962, it has been celebrated in the USSR and later in Russia and other post-Soviet states as the Cosmonautics Day. In 2011 it was declared the International Day of Human Space Flight by the United Nations.
Since 2001, Yuri's Night, an international celebration, is held every 12 April to commemorate milestones in space exploration.
A number of buildings and other sites on Earth have been named for Gagarin. The Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City was named in 1969.
The launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome from which Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1 were launched, is now known as Gagarin's Start.
Gagarin Raion in the Sevastopol city (Ukraine) was named after him during the period of the Soviet Union.
The Air Force Academy was renamed Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1968.
Gagarin has been honored on the Moon by both astronauts and astronomers. He was honored by the American space program during Apollo 11 in 1969 when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left a memorial satchel containing medals commemorating Gagarin and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov on the surface.
In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scottand James Irwin left the Fallen Astronaut at their landing site as a memorial to all the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who died in the Space Race, with Yuri Gagarin listed among 14 others. He is memorialized by the official naming of a 265 km crater on the Far Side after him.
Gagarin is memorialized in music, including a cycle of Soviet patriotic songs The Constellation Gagarin (was written by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov in 1970–1971. The most famous of these songs referred to Gagarin's poyekhali!: He said let's go! He waved his hand. He was the inspiration for the pieces Hey Gagarin by Jean Michel Jarre (on Métamorphoses), Gagarin by Public Service Broadcasting, and "Gagarin, I loved you" by Undervud.
Vessels have been named for him. Soviet tracking ship Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin was built in 1971. Armenian airline Armavia named their first Sukhoi Superjet 100 in Gagarin's honour in 2011.
There were two commemorative coins issued in the Soviet Union to honour the 20th and 30th anniversaries of his flight: 1 ruble coin (1981, copper-nickel) and 3 ruble coin (1991, silver). In 2001, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Gagarin's flight, a series of four coins bearing his likeness was issued in Russia: 2 ruble coin (copper-nickel), 3 ruble coin (silver), 10 ruble coin (brass-copper, nickel), and 100 ruble coin (silver). In 2011, Russia issued a 1,000 ruble coin (gold) and 3 ruble coin (silver) to mark the 50th anniversary of his flight.
In 2008, the Kontinental Hockey League named their championship trophy the Gagarin Cup.] In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Gagarin was ranked as the #6 most popular space hero, tied with Star Trek's fictional Capt. James T. Kirk. The Russian docudrama, Gagarin: First in Space, was released in 2013.
In 2011 a statue, Yuri Gagarin, was unveiled at the Admiralty Arch end of The Mall in London, opposite the permanent sculpture of James Cook. It is a copy of the statue outside Gagarin's former school in Lyubertsy. In 2013 the statue was moved to a permanent location outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
In 2012 a statue was unveiled at the site of NASA's original spaceflight headquarters on South Wayside Drive in Houston. The sculpture, completed in 2011 by artist/cosmonaut Alexsei Leonov, was a gift to Houston by various Russian organisations. Houston Mayor Annise Parker, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak were present for the dedication.
In April 2018 a bust of Gagarin, erected on the street which bears his name in the Serbian capital Belgrade, was removed, after less than week, following an outcry over the size of its head. Locals said that the tribute, was an "insult" to Gagarin. A new work will be commissioned. It was revealed that the city had had no prior knowledge of the design, and neither had the Serbian Ministry of Culture, nor the foundation which had financed it.
The 50th anniversary of Gagarin's journey into space was marked in 2011 by tributes around the world. A film titled First Orbit was shot from the International Space Station, combining the original flight audio with footage of the route taken by Gagarin. The Russian, American, and Italian Expedition 27 crew aboard the ISS sent a special video message to wish the people of the world a "Happy Yuri's Night", wearing shirts with an image of Gagarin.
Swiss-based German watchmaker Bernhard Lederer created a limited edition of 50 Gagarin Tourbillons to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight.
Graffiti of Gagarin (with Maradonaand Castro), in Drvengrad, Serbia.
• "For achievements in aeronautics" (Brazil, 2 August 1961) Jânio Quadros, President of Brazil, decorated Gagarin in 1961.


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I also received the kit from Lulu at Crafting Across Continents and am tentatively planning on entering Gifted Gorgeousness SAL with Jo next year using this piece. I am considering not starting it until I am finished the Kingfisher though, which is also going to be a gift, so I might start with the Kingfisher and then move to Coastal View.


A bill just signed into law in Maryland would provide temporary assistance through the state during future shutdowns to excepted federal employees who have to work without pay in a partial government shutdown.
How can you avoid overpaying for life insurance as a federal employee?
Legislation has been reintroduced that would shield veterans from having to pay back benefits they received as a result of the VA's errors.
What Impact Did the Shutdown Have on 'Use or Lose' Annual Leave Donations?
OPM has issued guidance on how "use or lose" annual leave donations will be handled as a result of the recent shutdown.
Another effort is being made to provide a tax break to some federal employees who are reimbursed by the government for their relocation costs.
What is taking the pay raise so long to arrive? OPM's director provides an explanation.
Recent proposed cuts to federal employees' benefits appear to be the same as ones from past budget proposals. Here is a recap.


For clinical laboratory diagnostic services, we use HCA Laboratories and The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) in London. TDL provide the active B12 test developed by Axis-Shield.
For the urinary methylmalonic acid test (uMMA) we send the sample via Fedex to Dr. Eric Norman's laboratory in Cincinnati, OH, USA. Dr. Norman, in our experience, provides the best service for this test, however this necessitates the cost of Fedex. However, since the uMMA test with HCA is £245 (the most expensive test by far of all the standard B12 tests), it is still more affordable sending the uMMA samples to the USA including the cost of Fedex and Dr. Norman's charge.
We can draw bloods but since they have to physically get to the London laboratories the same day, this means that you need to be close enough to make this possible. The EDTA Vacutainer for the homocysteine test (for HCA) needs to be centrifuged immediately before it is sent to the lab and it must arrive within three hours. Logistically this can be a problem unless you live in London. For London residents, or those visiting London, we can arrange for you to visit the outpatient services which both of these laboratories offer.
We provide this service because we are committed to empowering people to be proactive with their healthcare. If your GP denies you a test, or you wish to get a biomarker tested, we can help. However, the laboratories charge for their diagnostic tests, and these prices are not published online, so require someone to look them up with every enquiry, and the laboratories' prices are liable to change without notice.
TDL publish a list of their tests online. A-Z test list.


TWO soldiers stole more than £44,000 of equipment from the SAS — which could now be in the hands of terrorists.
Army stores NCOs Craig Davenport and Stephen Suffield nicked kit to order from the SAS's base for crooked Andrew Stevens, including night vision goggles, stun grenades, flare launchers and body armour.
Stevens, 41, who ran a paintball park, then sold it on to contacts in the Far East. Military police fear some gear may have found its way to criminals or terror groups.
The three men have admitted plotting to steal from the Ministry of Defence and will be sentenced later this month.
The trio set up a WhatsApp group called "Boys Toys" where they discussed what items could be nicked from SAS storerooms in Hereford.
Sergeant Davenport, 33, posted photos of shelves full of gear and gave Stevens a "shopping list" of equipment he could sell to Japan and Hong Kong.
He covered his tracks by setting up a fake ID for a "Sgt Smith" using the registration number of a trooper who retired from the SAS in 2008.
And he masked the thefts by claiming items had been sent for repair.
They got away with the racket for nine months until Stevens tried to smuggle gear to Hong Kong on a jet at Heathrow.
Radioactive material in night vision goggles set off airport security scanners.
Officers then found 18 stun grenades, silencers, flare launchers and other kit at Stevens' home in Waterlooville, Hants.
Davenport was arrested a few days later. Stores manager Suffield, in his 30s, was flown home from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The trio all pleaded guilty at a Portsmouth crown court hearing.
Suffield, who had gambling and debt problems, stole between £7,000 and £9,000 worth of gear and pocketed about £5,000 from the conspiracy.
Davenport claimed most of the stuff he stole was "scrap from bins".
Stevens made around £29,000 from sales to a single Japanese client.
He also sold a stolen PVS-14 night sight to a military collector at one of his paintball sessions.
A source said "The two servicemen are a disgrace to their uniforms.
"To blacken the name of the SAS is a scandal.
"All three would have known this kind of specialist equipment is prized by terrorists and criminals, and that could be where the people who bought it from Stevens would be looking to move it on.
"Equipment meant to be used by the SAS could be used against our armed services and the public.


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The 'Stevies': Brad Ausmus, LeBron James and more
Steve Schrader
Each week, Steve Schrader hands out "Stevies" to the best, worst and weirdest from the week that was in sports. This week's Stevies:
The "Price Is Right" award
To MLBAll-Star Voting, which truly has been made into a joke this season — specifically in the American League — as the Tigers' David Price has suggested. There's no way the L.A. Angels' Mike Trout can be getting that many votes legally. #VoteMiggy
The "Upon Further Review" award
To Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, who said MLB's replay system just isn't as good as it used to be and needs to be fixed. Maybe the system is based to the old credo — if at first you don't succeed, try, try again — which allows for them to mess it up two times.
• Related: Follow Schrader's sports oddities in the Ticker
The "Root, Root, Root for the Jailbirds" award
To the St. Louis Cardinals, who are being investigated by the FBI — the FBI! — to see whether some of their executives used former employees' old passwords to break into the Houston Astros' computer network. Well, if you've ever watched the Cardinals, you know they're going to get their hacks.
The "Where No LeBron Has Gone Before" award
To LeBron James, who said he's "the best player in the world," despite not quite bringing the NBA title to Cleveland. Well, good for him, but he still has a very long way to go to match Michael Jordan, who proved he's the best player in the galaxy in "Space Jam."
Contact Steve Schrader: sschrader@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @schradz.


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Gas leak reported at Atlanta elementary school
Free Beltline bicycle tour: 5 things to do this weekend in Atlanta
While some kids have already boarded the school bus to head back to school, others are preparing to do so beginning next week.
There are plenty of children craving some fun this weekend.
Our roundup of things to do around Atlanta this weekend is full of family-friendly activities. But, don't worry. We've included some activities that are perfect for enjoying some adult time, too.
Twenty One Pilots will bring their millennial anthems such as "Stressed Out" to the Infinite Energy Center in August.
7 p.m. August 6. $25-$45. Infinite Energy Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth. Infiniteenergycenter.com.
Where are the Women in Sneaker Design?
The High Museum of Art will host a panel about female sneaker designers on August 5. New York designer Sophia Change will talk about her work with Puma and Los Angeles' Melody Ehsani will talk about her collaboration with Reebok.
A concert featuring Speakerfoxxx and Bosco will take place on the Sifly Piazza after the panel concludes.
Be sure to check out The High Museum's "The Rise of Sneaker Culture" before heading to the event. 150 pairs of sneakers are on display, showcasing popular products from popular brands such as Converse and Puma. Shoes in the collection are from the Bata museum, private collections and manufacturer archives.
Read more about "The Rise of Sneaker Culture" here.
7 p.m.-10 p.m. August 5. Free (members), $5 (students), $10 (non-members). High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree St., Atlanta.
The perfect summer day in Gwinnett
With Gwinnett kids heading back to school in less than a week, many families are probably struggling to cram in the last bit of summer fun.
AJC reporter Tyler Estep put together a list of local summer activities that families can do in less than 24 hours.
And the best part? After visiting a lake and taking a spin in a modified golf cart at Tiny Towne, kids will probably be exhausted and ready to rest before heading to school on Monday.
Tour a part of the beltline for free
Tour the eastside of the beltline during a free three-hour guided tour this Saturday. Only 25 cyclists are allowed per tour so register at beltline.org as soon as possible. The group will depart from Mountain High Outfitters at Ponce City Market at 9 a.m.
Pizza in Suwanee
Peyton's Pie, named after owner Nicholas St. Clair's toddler son, opened in Suwanee last week. St. Clair said the menu for the new restaurant is "farm-to-table meets Neapolitan-style pizza."
Visit the restaurant with friends or family this weekend and let us know what you think!
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Jean de La Balue oder Jean Balue (* um 1421 in Basse d'Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Poitou; † 5. Oktober 1491 in Ripatransone, beerdigt in Rom) war ein französischer Theologe, Jurist und Politiker. Er war Kardinal der Römischen Kirche und Minister unter Ludwig XI. und wurde von diesem elf Jahre gefangen gehalten.

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Jean de La Balue wurde als Sohn von Thomassin Balue, dem Burgvogt von Angles-sur-l'Anglin, geboren.  Er trat bereits früh in den geistlichen Stand ein und studierte an der Universität Angers, wo er um 1457 ein Lizentiat der Rechte erwarb. Er erlangte bald die Gunst von König Karl VII. Dieser erhob ihn trotz unwürdigen Lebenswandels zum Bischof von Évreux und Angers und zum Almosenier. Karls Nachfolger, Ludwig XI., übertrug La Balue zudem die Geschäfte eines Finanzministers.

Jean Balue sorgte dafür, dass die Pragmatische Sanktion von Bourges 1451 außer Kraft gesetzt wurde, wofür ihn Papst Nikolaus V. 1467 zum Kardinal erhob.
1468 folgten seine Ernennungen zum Bischof von Angers und zum Kardinalpriester der römischen Titelkirche Santa Susanna.
Weil er aber mit den Feinden Ludwigs XI., den Herzögen von Berry und Burgund, in geheimem Briefwechsel stand und diesen die Pläne des Königs verriet, ließ ihn dieser 1469 verhaften und im Schloss Onzain bei Blois elf Jahre gefangen halten, aber nicht, wie früher behauptet, in einem eisernen Käfig.

Durch Fürsprache von Papst Sixtus IV. ließ Ludwig XI. am 20. Dezember 1480 Balue endlich frei und bat den Papst sogar um eine Bulle der Sündenvergebung für seine lange Rache, die er seinem ehemaligen Minister zugefügt hatte. Diese päpstliche Bulle annullierte auch alle Verfahren, die gegen den Kardinal hätten eingeleitet werden können. Mit einer weiteren Bulle drohte der Papst allen Offizieren des Königs mit Exkommunikation, sollten sie die unter sich aufgeteilten beweglichen Güter des Kardinals nicht innerhalb von sechs Tagen zurückgeben. Nach der Freilassung reiste Balue sofort zu Papst Sixtus IV. nach Rom. Der Papst überhäufte ihn mit Ehren und ernannte ihn 1483 zum Kardinalbischof von Albano. 1484 wurde er sogar als Legatus a latere, ein päpstlicher Beauftragter mit weitreichenden Vollmachten, nach Frankreich geschickt, wo ihm der König in Angers einen aufwendigen Empfang bereitete.

Nach Balues Tod am 5. Oktober 1491 gingen seine Güter im geschätzten Wert von einhunderttausend Dukaten in die Hände des Papstes über, da er kein Testament hinterlassen hatte.

Bekanntheit
Eine gewisse Bekanntheit erlangte Jean Balue später durch den Roman Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame, in dem Victor Hugo ihn mehrmals erwähnt.

Unterschiedliche Schreibweisen
Jean Balue ist unter verschiedenen Namensvarianten bekannt: Ioannes de la Balva, Ioannes de la Balve, Jehan Balüe, Jean Balüe, Jean de la Ballue

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Kardinal (15. Jahrhundert)
Kardinalbischof von Palestrina
Bischof von Évreux
Römisch-katholischer Bischof (15. Jahrhundert)
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We went there on a Saturday with our friend Caleb. For the four of us, we decided to order two pies (each had six slices). The first one was the Quattro formaggi, made with mozzarella, gran cru, caciocavallo ragusano, parmigiano regiano, basil and olive oil.
The second one was a red pie: the Prosciutto di Parma, made with tomato sauce, homemade mozzarella, prosciutto and olive oil.
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Google Co-Founder Unveils His Latest Moon Shot: A Test Tube Burger
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin financed what could be the next revolution in food production: a test tube-grown hamburger. Dutch researchers unveiled a stem cell-grown 5-ounce beef patty at a public taste testing on Monday. The space-age burger has the potential to offset the extreme environmental damage caused by livestock and supply vital nutrients to the world's hungry.
The $325,000 patty was produced from cow stem cells and cultured over the weekend, but lead researcher, Professor Mark Post of Mark Post of Maastricht University, estimated that it would be "10 to 20 years" before we could all be eating a McLab burger.
A 2011 Oxford University study finds that synthetic meat could require a mere 1% of the land and 4% of the water of current livestock methods, and use less than half the energy. Since the materials are extracted from the shoulder of a cow, there are limits to how much can be grown without a steady supply of livestock, which has the UK Vegetarian Society "officially interested"–but not officially excited–about the prospects of Brin's project.
This is all very exciting for environmentalists, animal rights activists, and human rights fans. Yet, the maddening media reaction to this potentially revolutionary product was that the burger could be a tad tastier. "First reaction: Lab-made burger lacks flavor," ran USA Today's headline. Or The Telegraph's "£220,000 lab-grown burger is eaten for first time – but needed ketchup."
Yes, it's true that the two the taste testers thought the burger could be a bit more delicious. "I was expecting the texture to be more soft," said volunteer taster Hanni Rutzler. Post acknowledges that synthetic fat is a technical barrier he hasn't yet overcome.
The point is that this has the potential to impact millions of lives and help avert environmental disaster, not to put out a headline that implies, 'Nice try, Science.' Obviously, it's a work in progress.
By 2050, the Food and Agricultural Organization predicts that meat consumption will double, as growing wealth and population in developing countries overtake our ability to produce enough meat. Perhaps even worse, cattle take up a staggering 70% of agricultural land.
Interestingly enough, Brin is not the first Internet pioneer to fund a meat alternative. Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone has funded a commercially available soy-based faux-chicken product, Beyond Meat. We sampled Beyond Meat at last year's San Francisco Disrupt Conference, and as an avid Paleo dieter, I can honestly say it was pretty good.
I'm not sure why Internet founders have a thing for alternative meat production, but I suppose there are worse hobbies.
Brin, who appeared by video during today's test tube burger unveiling, said, "We're trying to create the first cultured beef hamburger. From there I'm optimistic we can really scale by leaps and bounds."
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Want to know a bit more about me and why I travel? Here are my interview answers for Road Unraveled.
The lovely Adam and Steph from Road Unraveled have asked me to answer a few questions about travel. They have said some very kind things about my blog and I really appreciate the recognition. Thanks guys!
Q: What one experience have you had that reminded you the world can be pretty small sometimes?
Probably traveling by train through Europe. It made me realise that it is so easy to get around between countries. Especially when on a sleeper train! Places are not as far away as they seem.
Q: What is the strangest food you have been served and did you eat it?
The strangest food would have to be a bag of salted crickets from a stall in Chiang Mai market. I actually enjoyed them, a nice alternative to crisps!
Eating Crickets in Chiang Mai. Probably the smallest of the crickets for the photo!
Q: What is the one city you would recommend to a new traveler?
Rome is a lovely city. There is so much to do and see and it's really easy to get around. I recommend Rome to people as an easy, fun and interesting city break.
This is really difficult because there are lots of places that I love! I think I would settle on Venice. I have visited three times and still haven't had enough of this beautiful place.
Q: How do you decide where you will travel?
There are lots of places on my list so I try to travel to these places. However when I have some dates in mind I check skyscanner and find cheap flights!
Q: What is the hardest part about travel whether it's short term or long-term?
Getting tired. I try to pack a lot into my holiday time and this can get exhausting. I need to learn to relax and do nothing sometimes. Along with this comes jet-lag, I missed half a day in Bangkok just sleeping off my jet-lag. But it was worth it to feel better!
Q: What one place would you never go back to again and why?
I had a bad experience in Tunisia. I booked a beach holiday many years ago to Sousse and did not enjoy it. I felt very uncomfortable and a little unsafe. I have heard good things about Tunisia from other travelers but for me I would not go back.
Q: What is the best meal you have had while travelling?
Another difficult question. I have eaten so many lovely meals whilst traveling. The food in Thailand was particularly good. However, a meal I had in Paris at L'Ange 20 has to top everything. Read my review here.
Q: Do you have a travel goal (see a certain number of countries, visit a certain number of landmarks, etc.)? What is it?
I want to see and experience as much of the world as I can. One goal of mine is to visit all of the 7 wonders of the world. I have visited Machu Picchu, the Great wall of China, The Colosseum and the Pyramid at Chichen Itza. I hope to visit Petra at the end of the year which leaves the Taj Mahal and Christ the redeemer!
Travel makes me happy. I enjoy new experiences, great food, history and art. Traveling has shaped who I am today. It can change the way you see yourself as well as the world.
Plus it provides me with lots of things to write about in my blog! That's why I call myself a travel geek :-).
Thanks again for the questions guys and I hope you enjoyed my answers.
Readers can check out the Road Unraveled blog here road unraveled.com.
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What of these phenomena: Why are crumbling buildings the most beautiful? Why are people the most appealing when they are clothed against a bit of cold?
Autumnal thoughts, to be sure, but what is it about a hat for the cold that is more aesthetically pleasing than a hat for the sun?
An example: Read this picture with me.
Yes, they are traveling, they have bags, and coats, and boots. They are headed 'up' a dirt road. They have turned, to look back at us, mid stride. Are they hurrying? There is no place that the road seems to end. Where are they going, then? The picture is split, diagonally, into a dark and a light half. The line that the two values meeting makes is intersected by the left figure- the figures are also dressed darkly, and they balance the shadowed mystery of the untamed woods on the left half of the image. The origami shapes of their coats make two upward pointing arrows. They have also turned towards each other slightly, in turning to us. They are surprised? Impatient for us to catch up? Annoyed at the interruption? It's a fairly neutral expression that we can read a lot of different narratives onto. Are they headed out, or returning to home?
Imagine, now, that they are wearing shorts, tank tops, flip-flops; sunlight pours down on the dusty heat of the road. It's just not as good, no matter how much we might enjoy ogling bare skin. Wearing a coat says you are going somewhere, doesn't it? It says you mean to do business with the caprices of nature, with the bodily dangers of the world.
For the few people left in the auditorium, after all the folks who feel that things just are, and that meaning isn't relevant to their puny lives; yes, isn't it grand to play these kinds of parlor games with the cultural artifacts of humanity? Why this album cover in particular, you ask? Because I happen, at this moment in time, to have two of these records, and one is out of the cabinet, awaiting a new home. Perhaps you would like a copy of this fine album? Let me know, by tying a message to a dove's leg- I'll send it to you next week by bike carrier, or parachute drop.


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Bad Boys II blew away all competition in Germany over the weekend selling over 765,000 tickets between Oct 9 and 12, more than 500,000 tickets more than second placed The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Local children's comedy 4 Freunde & 4 Pfoten (literally 4 Friends and 4 Paws) failed to make much impact opening in 10th place with 43,321 admissions for distributot X-Verleih.
The film, directed by Gabriele Heberling, follows four children aged 10 to four who save a dog and then get into further adventures. With ticket prices cheaper for family films the admissions average of 200 per screen was better than the box office average.
Meanwhile Roger Michell's UK drama The Mother received a solid limited release at 50 screens in its world box office debut. The first territory to receive the film, written by Hanif Kureishi, about a mother who has an affair with her daughter's boyfriend and causes social outrage, saw just under 11,000 tickets sold in its first four days.


More than 300 members from God's Will Ministries on Sunday witnessed the Church's ground breaking ceremony in Lilongwe's Area 51, an event which cost K1.2 Million.
God's Will Ministries intends to build a 5,000 seater capacity church at the cost of approximately MK50million. According to the founder of the Ministry, Apostle Enock Frazer Mbewe funds for the construction of the church will be sourced from within the church through contributions and fundraising by its members.
The church which started in 2012 in Area 25 in the capital city has been conducting different crusades where more people have been receiving healing and deliverance.
In an interview, Apostle Enock Frazer Mbewe said, it is by God's grace that the Ministry has such a big following since its establishment despite that it has been conducting prayers in a rented place in Area 25.
"We have seen the hand of God at work since 2012. We started the ministry without equipment, not even land but people have been contributing money to buy this land which is God's grace, and this land makes the ministry to be stable and grow because a lot of people will be coming to join it," said Mbewe.
According to Mbewe, the vision of the church is to preach the Gospel and bring hope to the hopeless. He said the church registered more than 500 members within Lilongwe and has plans to reach all over Malawi to bring salvation.
"Many people have lost hope and our Ministry is here to bring hope to the hopeless all over the nation and to revive souls of people. We are expecting to register more people even outside Lilongwe," he said.
In his remarks, the founder of Shilo Ministries from Zambia, Bishop Sydney Mulenga who was also the guest of honor at the event said, apart from ground breaking, he believed that it's time for God to build the church in Malawi.
"There will be lots of things that will be taking place, people will be touched and changed, and their lives will be transformed and healed. As Shilo ministry we work together with Gods Will because we are all after winning souls and bring them to the kingdom of God," said Mulenga.
Mulenga however said he was overwhelmed by a large crowd of people coming to witness the big event and this proved that the people of Malawi are very friendly.
"This is not the first time for me to come here, I have been coming here for church meetings and I have been very happy to meet people that are warm hearted which truly means I am in the warm heart of Africa," he said.
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Lyuben Lyubenov Dilov Jr. (Bulgarian: Любен Любенов Дилов-син) (born 19 November 1964), also known as Luben Dilov Jr. and Ljuben Dilov Jr., is a Bulgarian writer, journalist, film director and politician.

Biography

He studied journalism at Sofia University and subsequently worked as an editor of a number of publications. In the 1990s, Dilov Jr. was the ideological force behind some famous talk shows such as Slavi's Show, "Canaletto", "Hashove" and "КU-KU". He has also been active in politics, being the founder of the George's Day Movement (Bulgarian: Движение Гергьовден, Dvizhenie Gergyovden), which was for a long time aligned with the IMRO. Dilov's "Gergyovden" participated in the 2014 Bulgarian elections in a coalition with the Bulgaria Without Censorship (Bulgarian: България без цензура) political party.

His father, Lyuben Dilov, was a famous Bulgarian writer. Dilov Jr. has three children with his wife Elina, from whom he has separated.

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It doesn't always have to be a knight in shining armour who rescues a princess. Sometimes the princess can be the one doing the rescuing.
This really is a magnificent coup for racing. Surely there can be no better reason to don a top hat and head to Turffontein than the promise of meeting South Africa's most beloved Princess.
The Royal Race Day is an annual event held in honour of Princess Charlene at the Turffontein Racecourse in Johannesburg and as always it will feature a very strong charity component focusing on children. To have the horse-racing community rally behind this is quite extraordinary. Hopefully the day will also contribute to restoring some of the glamour back into the sport of kings!
The Race Programmer is obviously an avid fan of Princess Charlene, and has invited the virtual horse racing community to suport her by entering the Princess races!


"Presto! No More Pests!" proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, "miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer." Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn't love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans did--and apparently still do. Why--in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness--do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart wondered. Her book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer. America's embrace of synthetic pesticides began when they burst on the scene during World War II and has held steady into the 21st century--for example, more than 90% of soybeans grown in the US in 2008 are Roundup Ready GMOs, dependent upon generous use of the herbicide glyphosate to control weeds. Mart investigates the attraction of pesticides, with their up-to-the-minute promise of modernity, sophisticated technology, and increased productivity--in short, their appeal to human dreams of controlling nature. She also considers how they reinforced Cold War assumptions of Western economic and material superiority. Though the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the rise of environmentalism might have marked a turning point in Americans' faith in pesticides, statistics tell a different story.
Pesticides, a Love Story recounts the campaign against DDT that famously ensued; but the book also shows where our notions of Silent Spring's revolutionary impact falter--where, in spite of a ban on DDT, farm use of pesticides in the United States more than doubled in the thirty years after the book was published. As a cultural survey of popular and political attitudes toward pesticides, Pesticides, a Love Story tries to make sense of this seeming paradox. At heart, it is an exploration of the story we tell ourselves about the costs and benefits of pesticides--and how corporations, government officials, ordinary citizens, and the press shape that story to reflect our ideals, interests, and emotions.


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Most of us have few and fleeting memories of childhood, in general it's the more sensory ones that stay with us. The notes to a song, a smell wafting from the kitchen or a bright flash of colour in an otherwise dull day. For the at Renesa Architecture Design Interiors in New Delhi, this concept became the foundation for their revamp of the Maple Bear India Preschool. They wanted to use a play of colour and shape to capture the imagination and teach children to learn from their environment. This tailor-made structure is an entirely new approach to architecture, they term it 'A Renaissance of Design Ideology for the young ones'.
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A country divided: Should Stephen Colbert be running for president?
Stephen Colbert's bid for the presidency has generated a tremendous amount of media and significant support.
Josh Wolf first became interested in the power of the press after writing and distributing a screed against his high school's new dress code. Within a short time, the new dress code was abandoned, and ever since then he's been getting his hands dirty deconstructing the media every step of the way. Wolf recently became the longest-incarcerated journalist for contempt of court in U.S. history after he spent 226 days in federal prison for his refusal to cooperate. In Media sphere, Josh shares his daily insights on the developing information landscape and examines how various corporate and governmental actions effect the free press both in the United States and abroad.
On October 16, Stephen Colbert announced that he is seeking the presidential nomination from both the Republican and Democratic parties in his home state of South Carolina. Though Colbert has never asserted he is serious (he recently told students at Columbia University, "I don't actually want to win, I just want to f**k with people."), his candidacy continues to be covered by just about every media outlet you can think of. Some people fully support his run for president whereas others are less than excited about turning the U.S. into a Colbert Nation.
While it's interesting that Colbert continues to garner coverage for his bid on the White House, what fascinates me is the level of support his campaign has generated. It's clear that many Americans are frustrated with the state of politics and their voting options; this is the reason that less than one third of voters stated they would definitely vote against Stephen Colbert for President in a Rasmussen poll, and six percent said they'd definitely vote for him despite the fact that he's a Democrat with no political experience who plays a caricature of Bill O'Reilly on television.
Of course, this is actually the same story that made its way through the theater last year in the Robin Williams vehicle, Man of the Year. In the film Williams is more Stewart than he is Colbert, but the premise is the same, a late-night political satirist decides to run for president and manages to gather far more support than anyone expected. He actually winds up getting elected in the movie due to a technical glitch, but surrenders his victory after learning his success was only made possible through computer error.
It's unlikely that Diebold will deliver Colbert the win, or that he will even make it onto the national ballot, but the success he's already achieved in his campaign is indicative of the same hunger for a real alternative that Man of the Year tapped into. As the New York Times reports on their blog The Caucus, the Facebook group 1,000,000 Strong for Stephen T Colbert has already eclipsed their stated goal and left Barrack Obama in the dust. Obama has the second most popular Facebook group amongst the presidential contenders but hasn't even accrued 400,000 supporters in the 8 months the group has been active.
Jon Friedman at MarketWatch has suggested that Colbert's campaign is nothing more than an attempt to bolster sales of his new book. Friedman argues that, "The clever host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" is holding the usually clear-eyed media in the palm of his hand and bringing out the worst in some star-struck journalists who should know better," but Allison Kilkenny at The Huffington Post sees things differently:
This is the root of all that is wrong with American politics. It's the "you can't win, so sit down" attitude. Supporters of this philosophy forget that runners don't necessarily have to win to shape public opinion. Victories are won with ideas, and true leaders possess the vision and wisdom to know that sometimes revolutions happen gradually.
Sometimes, revolutions begin with one person standing up and saying: "I know you don't take me seriously. I know I'm the clown in the room, but damnit, I'm trying anyway."
I tend to agree with Kilkenny. It often feels as if a politician's influence can be bought and sold like a commodity on the stock market (Colbert himself alluded to this when he announced that his campaign would be sponsored by Dorritos), and this tends to be true at both the national and local level. Colbert and other also ran candidates are doing what they can to shed light on this sordid system we call politics. Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford professor and the author of Free Culture has been working to eradicate political corruption not as candidates, but as an expert on culture and a beacon in the academic community, and he's not the only one working to build alternatives to the current system.
There's obviously a long way to go before we can develop something that is truly representative of the will of the people, of all people, but it's encouraging to know that people are working on it. The classic saying is true: democracy is not a spectator sport; with the advent of the internet and Web 2.0, I'm hopeful that we can begin moving toward direct democracy and a system that isn't governed by the economic influence of special interests and the political elite.
In the words of John Lennon, "You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Here's to Stephen Colbert, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, and every other person, who has ever run for office knowing their odds of being elected are a long shot, at best, but are committed to making a change in whatever capacity they are able: good luck and never, never, give up!


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End gender-based violence, 'once and for all', UN urges on International Day
In his message for the day, Secretary-General António Guterres underlined the need to prioritize women's leadership in finding solutions and to engage more men in the struggle.
Violence against women & girls is a global emergency requiring urgent action at all levels, in all spaces & by all people.
On Wednesday's International Day to End Violence against Women I reiterate my appeal to end this shadow pandemic once & for all.#16Days pic.twitter.com/3oreRCRbVl
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) November 25, 2020
"The global community needs to hear the voices and experiences of women and girls and take into account their needs, especially survivors and those who face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination", he said.
Mr. Guterres reiterated his call from April this year, when he urged the international community to work to end the "shadow pandemic" of gender-based violence.
"I reiterate and relaunch that appeal today", he said.
Supporting 'first responders'
The UN chief highlighted that action to stop violence against women, needed predictable and flexible funding for women's rights organizations, which so often act as first responders in countries across the world.
"It is critical that services for survivors of violence remain open, with adequate resources and measures in place to support health, social and justice responses", he added.
He went on to note that such measures should not only focus on interventions once violence against women has occurred, but that they should work to "prevent violence occurring in the first place", including through addressing cultural forces and societal norms, that create power imbalances.
Police and judicial systems also need to become more accountable, to make sure perpetrators don't act with impunity.
"On this international day, let us redouble our efforts to eradicate gender-based violence forever," declared Mr. Guterres.
COVID-19 and violence against women
While violence against women and girls has been a persisting and pervasive problem, it has only worsened with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Domestic violence, in particular, has escalated dramatically, according to UN-Women.
Women and girls are also disproportionately affected by the pandemic's socio-economic impact, increasing the risk of violence.
Against this background, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN-Women, wrote to political leaders across the world and urged them to take tangible action and express their commitments to end violence against women.
"As the world prepares to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women", she said, "I would like to call on your Government to make visible at the highest level your commitment to addressing violence against women and girls in the context of COVID-19" she said.
Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka suggested that leaders highlight such commitments through statements on social media, a video message or text.
The International Day
In December 1999, the UN General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, inviting governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to hold activities designed to raise public awareness on the issue.
The Day also commemorates the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of former ruler Rafael Trujillo.
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The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has joined local and international child rights' groups in denouncing a proposed measure in the House of Representatives to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9 years old.
In a statement on Saturday, the CHR strongly opposed the bill, saying there was insufficient evidence to show that putting children behind bars would stop criminal acts.
"Placing the responsibility and punishing children for the crime and abuse of syndicates and other people is against the state's responsibility to look after the interests and welfare of children," the CHR said.
To protect children from criminal gangs, the government "must go after these syndicates and ensure that they are punished according to law," it added.
Oriental Mindoro Rep. Salvador Paulino Leachon, chair of the House justice committee, said they would finalize the bill next week, hoping it would become law before the end of the 17th Congress.
The committee will hold a hearing on Monday to amend the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 (JJWA), which exempts children 15 years old and younger from criminal responsibility.
Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo supports the passage of House Bill No. 505 at the request of President Rodrigo Duterte.
The proposed measure is a "shortsighted solution" that does not tackle the underlying reasons some children are involved in criminal activities, according to Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano.
"The children are victims as well. Instead of finding ways to jail them, the government should create an environment where they are protected and cared for so as not to end up being involved in criminal activities," he said.
Lotta Sylwander, the representative in the Philippines of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef), shared Alejano's views.
It said scientific studies showed that brain function affecting reasoning and impulse control only reached maturity at around 16 years old.
Groups opposed to the House move called for the stricter implementation of the current juvenile justice law, instead of amending it.
"To haphazardly revamp the JJWA is tantamount to discounting the significant strides the current law has made throughout the years, albeit full and proper implementation has yet to be realized," said the Child Rights Network (CRN) Philippines, an alliance pushing for children's rights legislation in the country.
CRN said prior to the present juvenile justice law, children as young as 9 years old had been imprisoned, even for petty crimes, such as candy theft.
"From 1995 to 2000, about one child was arrested per hour. Revamping the law may — intentionally or unintentionally — revert us back to this situation," the group said.
Under the JJWA, each of the 81 provinces and 33 highly urbanized cities across the country should have a "Bahay Pag-asa," a child-caring institution that offers short-term residential care for child offenders.
CRN, however, noted that as of September 2018, only 55 of such centers were operational.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III has also proposed a similar measure, but wants to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 years old.


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9 Meet Dave Grohl Super talent and front man of the Foo Fighters, director and producer of the HBO Hit Sonic Highways.
10 Meet Chris Cornell one of the greatest voices in rock music ever. Not to mention his exceptional songwriting ability, and front man for Soundgarden. It would be a dream come true to meet these three men which is why they are all listed as my number 10.
11 Meet Steven Tyler and have a one on one conversation with him. I have always been a huge fan or Aerosmith and of Steven Tyler. After reading his autobiography, I learned so much about Steven, the person behind the persona which intrigued me enough to want to meet him. I still can't believe he wrote 'Dream on" one of the groups major hits, when he was only 17 years old. To be that young and be that talented is amazing (listen to the lyrics and you will see what I am talking about). While it is unfortunate he crossed over to the darker side of the rock and roll industry, he has successfully fought his demons and continues to do so. His perseverance has thrust him back to the top of his game, as a human being, an artist, entertainer, and judge of America's top television program 'American Idol', not many people can say they have successfully fought their demons, and made such and amazing comeback. Amazing. He is an intelligent human being who would be interesting to meet. While I know I am reaching with this bucket list item, that is why they call it a bucket list. If you are going to dream, dream big!
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I am from a place just 45 minutes from Pretoria 🙂 Thanks so much!!
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Thank you! We have a wonderful time. If you are interested there are more photos posted in our blog archives. You probably can find them by typing in Egypt in the subject line for search. Thanks for your comments and hope you continue to follow us. Cheers!
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Q: MongoDB Java driver 3.5 support for reference fields in POJOs In the mongodb java driver 3.5 release, "official support" for POJO mapping was added.
But it doesn't seem to mention anything about mapping a class to specific collection or storing a pojo field of a class in a separate collection instead of embedding it.
Given:
public class Address {
    public ObjectId id;
    public String zipcode;
}

//elsewhere
public class Person {
    public ObjectId id;
    public Address address;
}

How do you make it so that inserting a Person instance actually inserts something like {id={some oid}, address={oid1}} in people collection, and {id={oid1}, zip={some zipcode}} in addresses collection
Will that be coming in a later release or did I just miss some annotation or config step?

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RIJA FILMS presents 16 animated shorts for children which will thrill, entertain and surprise.
What happens when jolly Witch loses her magic button or when Cat finds a strange egg in his orchard? How will the playtime of the Stripped and Dotted in the sandbox? These and other stories are discovered by this short film program. This exciting mix of animation will turn ordinary day in adventure. Colorful and joyful films made in different technique – clay animation, pencil on paper, 2D, 3D.


It's very important that pupils with special educational needs are properly identified, assessed and supported and that the support is tailored to each child's particular needs. In deciding what those needs are and how we can support the student to overcome any 'barriers to learning' arising from those needs, we will work closely with the student and her family. This 3-way partnership underpins all our work and is a major contributory factor to our success; it is essential in making sure that all pupils make the best possible progress whilst at Eden.
For a very small number of pupils with more complex and specialist needs, we may also call on the expertise and experience of specialists from outside the school. These may be people who work for the SEN specialist teams in the Local Authority or specialists in children's issues in the Health service. For pupils who need this extra and more specialist input, we work in close partnership with these external partners as part of an "Education, Health and Care Plan". This provides a detailed and properly coordinated plan of action to provide additional support to the student to enable them to benefit fully from their time in Eden. The plan is always drawn up in partnership with the student and parents and clearly identifies the contributions that each partner needs to make to help the student to progress in their learning. There are regular reviews of the progress that the student is making and the extent to which the Plan is working. Parents and pupils will have an important role to play in helping us to review and, if needed, improve the Plan.
For the majority of children and for most of the time, we provide support in class, as part of normal day-to-day lessons. As an inclusive school where every pupil is valued, we want all pupils to take a full part in all lessons and in every aspect of school life alongside their peers. Our teachers plan and deliver quality lessons that are well differentiated so the needs of all pupils are catered for and all pupils can benefit fully from them. Sometimes though, a pupil's personalised assessment shows that they would benefit from additional one-to-one tuition or to work as part of a small group. If this is needed, then it is carefully planned by skilled teachers, and delivered with support from teaching assistants and learning mentors.
Click here to visit Slough Borough Council's Local Offer, an online resource that details services, support and guidance available to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) aged 0–25 and their families.
For pupils who are new to English, we provide a personalised learning plan that identifies their particular needs and details the additional support they will receive to help them improve their English and make progress in their studies. The plan is drawn up in partnership with the student and their parents. It highlights the key strategies that the school will use to help the student to learn, any additional activities (and programmes) the student should engage in at home and the way their progress will be monitored.
In drawing up plans for pupils with English as an additional language, we draw up the proven approaches used in other Star schools and on best practice from other schools. Our staff get training on the best approaches to support pupils with EAL and incorporate this learning into their lessons. Some pupils with EAL benefit from one-to-one tuition or small group work to help them to make more rapid progress in their English language development. If this is needed, we consult with the student and parents to make sure it is well planned with clear objectives and timescales. The partnership with the student and parents is essential in helping pupils with EAL make the progress we want them to make so that, like all our pupils, they achieve their full potential.
We have very high expectations of all our pupils, staff and parents. We set ambitious progress and attainment targets for all our pupils based on their ability and prior attainment. We ensure that Gifted and Talented pupils are challenged and supported to excel, with stretching personalised targets in the classroom and tailored enrichment activities. Our approach enables Gifted and Talented pupils to play a full and active part in the life in of the school taking on leadership roles and experiencing special activities that will excite and challenge them. A member of the Senior Leadership Team takes specific responsibility for Gifted and Talented provision.
From time to time, pupils may need access to additional support because of specific short-term issues. For example, if a student is going through some kind of distress (eg after a bereavement), then they will need special emotional support. In these circumstances we will work closely with the family and other agencies to make sure that we provide the support the student needs to help them deal with their emotions and to enable them to continue to make progress in their studies.
For some pupils, issues in the home or other external matters can affect their attendance or behaviour in school. In these circumstances, the school provides intensive support to make sure they get the help and support they need to improve in these areas and to continue to succeed in their learning.


Add new words to a student's vocabulary and make the words stick (grab them).
This app will eventually have several word challenges like anagrams, word ladders, and Quizl. The current challenges are listed below. Students will be able to complete these challenges alone or with a timer, against other students, or against the computer.
On each turn, you are given a three letter puzzle, like CIP. You have to find a word that starts with the first letter, contains the middle letter, and ends with the last letter. For example, CRISP starts with C, contains I, and ends with P. Once you enter your answer, your opponent has a few seconds to enter a better one. An answer is better if it is shorter, or if it is the same length and comes earlier in the dictionary. For example CLIP is shorter than CRISP. The app will then give you a hint if there are any better words that you didn't think of. For example, CHIP is earlier than CLIP in the dictionary.
If you'd like a few practice puzzles, try GHS, ORG, EOS. Scroll down for my answers.
When you are unable to find comfort.
The two words are "unable" and "comfort". Scroll down for the answer.
When you think you've solved the puzzle, drag the pointer over the place where one word should be inserted into the other. Press the Solve button to check your answer. If you got it right, it will display the combined word. Press the Next button to see the next puzzle.
Another solitaire challenge: this time, each puzzle shows three words. One of them is a bacronym: when you reverse the letters, it spells a different word. Click on the bacronym to solve the puzzle.
The answer to the Russian Dolls puzzle is "uncomfortable", "comfort" nests inside "unable" to form "uncomfortable".
As well as the word challenges, the app will include tools to measure current vocabulary size by testing sample words in an exponential distribution from a word list sorted by usage frequency. For more accurate measurement, the testing will zoom in on the estimated upper limit of the student's vocabulary.
Once approximate vocabulary size is known, it can be expanded by drilling new words with spaced-repetition flashcards.
Vograbulary will include definitions for the words, brief readings from public domain works, plus links to the complete works for further reading.
Want to make Vograbulary better? There are many ways to help.
Vograbulary is released under the MIT license.
Hamcrest is released under the BSD 3-Clause License.
Mockito is released under the MIT license, and libgdx is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Natural Language Toolkit is released by the NLTK project under the Apache 2.0 license.
Open Iconic icons are released under the MIT license.


Police say Shuffield is the man seen on video savagely punching a black woman identified as L'Daijohnique Lee, 24.
'It made my blood boil,' Merritt told the Daily Mail about seeing the video for the first time.
'Our office is speaking with the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney's office to ensure all appropriate charges are pursued, including felony assault, firearm and hate crime-related charges,' Merritt said via text message.
The business's owner told reporters he fired Shuffield after seeing the video of the attack and talking with police.


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Country Fair in Littleton
LITTLETON -- The annual Country Fair returns in September, offering a day of shopping, live music, food and more free to the public.
The fair, versions of which have been held in Littleton since the 1800s, is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8 at Fay Park. Many activities are returning this year, including a yard sale, food stands, a farmers market and a petting zoo.
This year's fair will introduce "Canine Contests," including a dog talent show and a dog-owner look-alike competition, beginning at 11:30 a.m. with a dog parade.
The fair is free and open to the public. Additional information is available at fculittle.org/country-fair.
-- CHRIS LISINSKI
Pelletier in town's plans
WILMINGTON -- Sierra Pelletier has joined the town as its assistant planner. Town Manager Jeff Hull announced the appointment during Monday's Board of Selectmen's meeting. Pelletier began in her role on July 16.
Pelletier has replaced Carolyn Cronin, who had served in that role since 2016.
According to a memo from Hull, Pelletier has a master's degree from the UMass Amherst in regional planning. She served on the Belchertown Planning Board and has experience working with the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center in Holyoke. Pelletier also interned with the Chicopee Planning Department.
Pelletier will work closely with Valerie Gingrich, the town's director of Planning and Conservation.
-- KORI TUITT
Ribbon-cutting event for DCU
CHELMSFORD -- Digital Federal Credit Union, better known as DCU, will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at its new Chelmsford Operations Center on Tuesday, Aug. 21 at 8:30 a.m.
The newly renovated, 129,000-square-foot building at 297 Billerica Road features a full-service cafeteria, wellness center and other amenities.
Refreshments will be served starting at 8 a.m. Tours of the facility will be held from 8:30-9:30 a.m.
-- ALANA MELANSON
Water festival in Lowell
LOWELL -- The 22nd Annual Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 18 along the Merrimack River on Pawtucket Boulevard.
More than 60,000 people from around the country and world come each year for the event, which celebrates the cultural heritage of Southeast Asian Americans in Greater Lowell. The festival features traditional blessings, food, crafts, performances and boat races.-- ALANA MELANSON