In our last blog post we shared with you the fantastic news, that the first house in our sustainable social housing project, "Casa O", has broke ground!
The entire project for creating sustainable social housing with rammed earth for the most affected families by hurricane Odile, which we created for CapaLAB together with FabriKG, comes from the need to re-think the standard Mexican typology for low income housing. Normally, when one thinks of low income housing, to mind come images of grey, badly built homes, with thin walls, and many other insufficiencies. Such homes can be called a 'house' only because they have four walls and some kind of a roof and because it suits political interests. The truth is, low income housing is most often done with concrete cinder block, with materials of bad quality, spaces are badly planned, and materials used are often the ones that have been given, found, and/or discarded from other construction works. With Casa O our aim was to re-think this standard Mexican typology for low income housing and turn it into a smart, sustainable, weather resistant, climate-smart home, suitable for auto-construction. The objective was to create a house one would find joy to live in, and call it a home.
This following video tells us a little bit more about the first families we are able to help through this project, and hopefully the first of many who will demonstrate that rammed earth is a viable and sustainable construction method which can remediate a lot of the housing problems and needs in Baja, in Mexico and in many places around the world.


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Anzac Day Melbourne starts with a dawn service at the St Kilda Road Shrine of Remembrance. In fact most towns in Victoria will be having a Dawn service at their respective memorials. Melbourne's Anzac dawn service is attended by up to 100,000 people honouring those that fell in the war in Gallipoli over 100 years ago. In recent years record crowd have attended this service with no regard to weather. Even if it rains the crowd still pays it respect in great numbers.
Later in the morning the Anzac Day Parade takes place with great numbers lining the streets to pay respect. It's a great time to be in Melbourne and if attending both official Anzac events then many venues will be open for breakfast to feed the large numbers of people in the City. And afterwards it might be time for some lunch or a quenching drink to digest all the emotions.
Many great sporting events are on Anzac Day with the traditional game of "two up" played out at the Flemington Races. And at the MCG the traditional Collingwood vs Essendon football game will take place.
Two Up is a gambling game with traditions to the Aussie Diggers. It is only legally played on Anzac Day. Many venues will have a "two up" ring! Enjoy your Anzac Day in Melbourne!
Here is some ideas of things to do in Melbourne over the ANZAC Day long weekend.
Post Dawn Breakfast from 7am followed by LIVE AFL action on the Big Screens. Enjoy a day out with your mates with the big Anzac Day clash between Collingwood and Essendon.
Head to the Temperance Hotel on Melbournes Iconic Chapel Street for one of their biggest nights of the year. Party with Melbs best DJ's and Live music. Open ANZAC day from 12pm with AFL LIVE from 3:20pm.
Enjoy the 2 big ANZAC Day sporting clashes on the big screens at Turf with Collingwood vs Essendon from the MCG in the afternoon followed by Melbourne Storm vs the NZ Warriors in the evening. ANZAC Day Sport LIVE & LOUD at Turf!
The big Anzac Day match is live and loud on the Big Screens at Terminus this Anzac Day. Enjoy the match with a some of the chilled beer on tap. Footy & Beer, what more could you want?
This Anzac Day at Young & Jackson take part in a game of two up from 11am followed by Gallipoli Dawn service from 12:30pm. In the afternoon catch the big match at the MCG between Collingwood and Essendon.
Ludlow is open as usual on ANZAC day so head on in for and excellent dining experience from 11am. Don't want to miss the action from the big game? Ludlow will have the footy LIVE and Loud on the Big Screens.
BearBrass is opening it's doors early on ANZAC Day with a special breakfast menu from 6:30am. Going to the footy? Take advantage of BearBrass' Water Taxi package with return water taxi tickets to and from the game, set menu and drink.
Participating in the Dawn Service? Then head into the Duke after for an ANZAC Day breakfast from 7am. Later in the day watch all the acition from the MCG LIVE on the screens or pop in before or after the game for a drink and feed.
Melbourne St Kilda Rd Melbourne ANZAC Day March This annual event starts around 9am at the cnr Flinders and Swanston and head to the Shrine along St Kilda Rd. Veterans and some descendants. A very proud event that Melbourne loves!
Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne ANZAC Day Dawn Service Plan to arrive early (around 5am) for this event as crowds can be quite large. It starts at 6am. A most revered event at the Melbourne Shrine and you can head into town for breakfast afterwards.
Around Melbourne there are some great day trips to plan and to make with your loved ones and family or just friends. One awesome place to visit south of Melbourne is the Mornington Peninsula. There is so much on offer with famed beaches, lots of parks and awesome towns like Sorrento, Portsea and Flinders to visit. And that doesn't even scratch the surface of the plethora of wineries and golf courses and other activities in this Morningon Peninsula region.
But this is about the context of Anzac Day so let's look at something relevant. And it doesn't take long to recall Melbourne's history in World War one down at Fort Nepean near Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula.
To get there just head down the Monash Freeway (named after the famed Australian Military Commander in WW1 and also super engineer Sir John Monash). Switch to the Eastern Fwy and then the Peninsula Link Fwy. At the end follow the signs to the Nepean Hwy and down to Portsea ... keep going and your there!
Entry to this Point Nepean National Park is free and you sort of self tour after getting the bus from the car park to Fort Nepean. Oh yea ... sorry the bus trip costs ... but well worth it!
Fort Nepean was the first point of defence for Port Philip Bay and Melbourne and burbs!
It was a strategic military outpost. And in fact has the history of firing the first shot in World War One when a Germany merchant ship tried to leave Port Phillip Bay after war was declared.
it's always best to stay more than one day on the Mornington Peninsula ... And you may want to also look at some options of places to stay on the Mornington Peninsula. Here are some ideas we have for you.
Woodland By The Bay in Mt Martha - great B & B and self contained accommodation.
Boardwalk Cottages in Mt Martha - super cottage accommodation.
Anzac Day is at the end of April in Autumn and with June being the start of Winter it's time to fire up again for more Big Days. The long weekend near the start of June is the Queen's Birthday weekend in Melbourne. The weather can be a little bit colder but there are still plenty of ideas for things to do on the Queen's Birthday weekend in Melbourne and surrounds. And that June long weekend holiday also marks the start of the snow season in Australia.


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Tirana, Albania | 25 Feb 2019 – It's almost impossible to be indifferent to such a flamboyant period of Albania's politics, when in fact, simply lifting the provincial dark glasses would suffice to clearly see what's going on in this country.
Many 'tear gas bombs' have been thrown around lately, not like those thrown at the boulevard, but a different kind, aimed at creating a permanent foggy smog of truths and fake-truths which are being circulated by media outlets serving the political gossip machine which holds the grip on Albania's neo-ottoman public opinion.
Everyone in Albania is a political commentator. These endemic 'pantomaths' display an expert-like, know-it-all idiotic competence, especially when they comment on regional geo-political issues as if it were simple bread and cheese. Few of them get the West!
One of the latest dangerous 'tear gas' media bombs distributed around, claims that the western world has a thousand and one problems, it is being reconfigured and as such, has no idea or interest what's going on in the Balkans.
According to this theory circulating around, western diplomatic representatives in peripheral countries like Albania, Macedonia or Kosovo, are either incapable, or too busy with their personal corruptive affairs, and as a result, they keep misinforming Washington, Berlin, Paris, London or Brussels.
So, "forget them" say local politicians, as we can stir the boat ourselves, straight into open sea and define the rules of the game along our way, as we please. And the problem is that a growing crowd of the media consumption contingent is buying such an ill rationale of thought, without understanding who pulls the strings in the West.
In truth, such an open war against the West and the stubborn folly we have witnessed in recent days, aims to delegitimize some of the most important projects attempted to be initiated in Albania during these last 30 years – the creation and strengthening of democratic institutions, a competitive economy based on principles of a truly free market, political pluralism based on polyphonic political parties, human and property rights, EU and NATO membership, and lastly the establishment of a functional and credible justice system, outside the hands of local butchers who have recklessly massacred the system during the last three decades.
These are in fact the foundations of any successful western democracy and economy; they are pillars holding a political and social system which makes the difference between prosperity and poverty – but which this ignorant ottoman seed here in the Balkans, does not get. Or perhaps, it understands it very well, but does everything possible in their power to block its penetration into the society, by mobilizing a socio-political resistance against the creation of a 'quasi' western institutional economic system with properly functioning internal mechanisms, out of local political control.
The West, conscious it has failed to cultivate such essential democratic basis in Albania or in its vicinities since the fall of the Berlin wall, appears to have decided to change the rules of the game and kick-start the establishment of the 'system'.
It is important to understand also that eastern powers have been investing across Europe, and especially in south-east Europe, against the creation of such a system, strengthening the positions of local 'war-lords' and their puppets. But there is a problem – in that war lords have no place in the West.
It is true that the western world has a million problems, that the Balkans are peripheral to their attention, Albania being a mere tale of it does not really matter, and that several diplomatic representatives across our region seem like incapable bureaucratic species who work tirelessly to serve their own career ambitions. It is also true that Brussels has long suffered from the vegetation of such bureaucratic species, who have in fact damaged the European project, as lately confirmed by many European capitals.
However, such episodic bureaucrats are too tiny to impact the overall functionality of the western system which operates upon strong foundations of political values, justice and strong interest groups, whose real architects and masters determine global currents and alliances while maintaining control over the digestive and excrement apparatus of the system.
Not even Trump, May, Macron or Merkel can play with such an hierarchic structure. They merely serve politically in order to guarantee the continuation of the system and its future success.
In comparison, Albania and its mini 'bayraktars' seem like a bunch of bumpy kindling branches which interfere with the harmony of a solid stack of wood. This is why the kindling is the first to burn in the fire.
With that in mind, you've got to be naive to believe that what's taking place in Albania, Macedonia or even in Kosovo during these last years, months or even days, is linked to personal manoeuvres of small political players.
Quite the opposite! These are times of structural tectonic changes. No one, whether in power or in the streets, will be capable to stop the fury of the punitive state-formation storm which is blowing from the West, nor will they be able to stop the re-consolidation of NATO borders against the eastern autocratic club. Not because the West loves us so much, but because this is how the world is currently being divided.
Global alliances are being redefined and the West is consolidating its ranks. Albanians have no other choice but to tighten their seat belts and get ready for a new world order, where unlike 1945, and to our good fortune, the Albanian speaking people will be part of the democratic western camp. But no longer as we please and without our usual disregard for western demands.
In practice, this approach dictates a swift progress in the reform of the justice system, a categorical and non-negotiable refusal by western capitals to accept any anti-democratic attempts to destabilize the country, eventual punishment of many criminal and corruptive assets, the consolidation of the Adriatic strip within NATO and eventual inclusion of the region in the European Union, whatever shape and form the union may have in the future.
Albanian politicians should stop pretending to be deaf or blind and they should not be playing tit-for-tat games with 'Uncle Sam'. Who has eyes, may see! Who has ears, may hear! Who has brains, may think! The time of local ottoman bayraktars is gone…
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In May 2016, Cabinet endorsed the integrated programme of work to support delivery of the Government ICT Strategy.
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This integrated programme of work is a combination of the highest priority ICT change initiatives that will provide the greatest contribution to the outcomes of the Strategy. It has been developed collaboratively by the GCIO's Partnership Framework and senior leaders across government and is designed to be dynamic, and to be updated and reprioritised periodically, as the need arises. This flexible programme of work replaces the need for the Government ICT Action Plan, which has now been archived. Actions from the previous plan have been completed or transitioned into the new programme, which covers the following focus areas:
DIA, in its role supporting the GCIO, is working with a number of agencies to deliver the initiatives in the integrated programme of work.
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Digital Services – making things easier for individuals and businesses
The Government ICT Strategy supports innovation and delivery of modern digital services by using information to personalise and target services for individuals.
Information – driving insights that reshape services and add value
There is significant opportunity for government to increase use of information to drive operational change, target service delivery and interventions, shape policy development and enable private sector innovation.
Technology – creating the platform for better public services
Government consumes, procures and invests in software and hardware. Commercial and technology initiatives are changing the way this happens.
Investment – prioritising initiatives and maximising value
The ICT investment strategy will focus on ensuring information and technology investments are targeted at fewer initiatives with more impact, maximising value from technology investments.
To support system-wide changes, there needs to be a significant building of skills and capability in the Information, technology and digital workforce of government.
Questions and answers about the integrated programme of work to support the Government ICT Strategy.


The Leadership Team was established in 2012 to serve the Saint Anne's Catholic Community by ensuring the vitality and growth of our faith and parish family through collaboration and open dialogue among parishioners, clergy and the Leadership Team.
1. St. Anne's needs to become a more welcoming place for all: visitors, new parishioners, existing parisioners and non-practicing catholics. More parishioners need to feel encouraged and invited to actively participate in all aspects of parish life.
2. Making masses more prayerful, reverent and spiritual fulfilling as well as improving the physical environment of the church to enhance the worship atmosphere of the church.
3. Parish Clergy and Leadership need to better listen to the concerns of the parishioners.
4. Attention to the spiritual and sacramental needs of the sick and home confined as well as support of individual families dealing with illness and death.
Three task groups were formed. Environment, Hospitality & Outreach Group and Communications.
Your ideas and/or concerns are very important to us and your parish. All comments are kept confidential. Your Leadership Team at St. Anne's is looking forward to hearing from you!
Here is an update on Leadership and the Task Groups as we begin a new phase with Pastor Father Lou Phillip and parochial vicar Father Nathan March.
Time and Talent Survey: We recently conducted a survey of parishioner's Time and Talent to allow those willing to become involved in the missions and ministries of the parish to volunteer. If you have not yet submitted your completed survey, there is still time. Those volunteering will be contacted in June. If you are not contacted by month's end, please let the office know.
Church Environment Task Group: In addition to our new A/V equipment installation downstairs last year, we witnessed another big change to Saint Anne's sanctuary as Father Joe was instrumental in soliciting new furniture for our altar. We now have a beautiful altar, new baptismal font, candle stands, and ambo. We are very grateful to the Diocese in obtaining theses from a church that was closing up north. In addition, our new tabernacle in the chapel has been installed and is in use. Please visit after Mass or on Thursday evening's Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Thanks also to those who worked on the gardens and the artist who renewed the statue of the Blessed Mother.
The Hospitality Task Group: This group continues to host many well attended parish events. This past winter, women of Saint Anne's got together on a number of occasions to chase away the winter blues by creating beautiful craft projects. They also initiated a Church Photo Directory and an opportunity to have a professional picture taken. . That project is wrapping up; watch the bulletin for information on obtaining a copy. Most recently this group and other volunteers displayed their organizational and culinary skills at the receptions for Father Joe. This group welcomes new members.
Communications Task Group: Our survey last year on the Bulletin did not generate sufficient input and that project is currently on hold but not forgotten. Having lost one of our members to increased work and home responsibilities, we are looking to recruit additional members to keep our website up to date and even discuss the possibility of setting up a Facebook account to keep all parishioners with this social media outlet up to date on a regular basis.
Most of these task groups meet on a monthly basis or as needed.
We encourage you to contact any member of the Leadership Team with questions, suggestions and comments.
P.S. Our mission is to represent and serve you. If there is anything you wish to suggest, to make a comment or to bring to the attention of the Leadership Team, or if there is a Task Group you would like to join, please contact one of us!


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I was actually pre-med in college. I loved the idea of being a doctor. I went to Mount Holyoke and did a self-designed major in race relations, gender, and health. But I was always interested in style. I would be doing my internships and research, and I would think about how I could redesign my lab coat. [Laughs] My friend and I would troll the Teen Vogue intern forum, which was eye-opening. We would be like, 'How do you get in? How?' Like, I had my own privileges and my own advances, but I was still just a girl from Iowa coming to New York saying that I wanted to work in fashion.
Both of my parents are doctors, and initially I didn't know that fashion could even be an occupation. I was premed at Mount Holyoke College, and while waiting for lab results I'd be thinking about how to redesign my lab coat and make cool science goggles! My interest in style started with Teen Vogue. I used to get two subscriptions—I'd cut up one to make mood boards and keep the other so I'd have a catalog of every issue. While in college, I scored an internship in the market department there. I commuted back and forth from western Massa-chusetts to New York City to finish school and intern at the same time! I landed my job with Giovanna through the recommendation of someone I'd worked with while freelancing. When I started, I was her second assistant and then got promoted. Now I help Giovanna with each photo shoot she styles. I handle market and casting, pitch stories, and attend shows. I also coordinate looks at W, where she's a contributing fashion editor, and at Vogue Japan.


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The Boys and Girls Club of St. Lucie County Receives Large Donation
The Boys and Girls Club of St. Lucie County might be closed due to COVID-19, but that's not stopping them from serving the community.
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The Boys and Girls Club of St. Lucie County might be closed due to COVID-19, but that's not stopping them from serving the community. A large donation from an anonymous donor will help them serve even more. The organization was supposed to host a celebration for its 25th anniversary Friday, but because of the pandemic, they weren't able to host that commemoration. Instead, the group received a $50,000 donation from an anonymous person. The money will be used to feed about 30,000 kids in Fort Pierce. The CEO, Will Armstead say they're looking to collaborate with different organizations including after school programs to serve as many children as they can. The funds will also go towards providing fun and safe activities for families. "We are going to have games and other activities, so it won't just be the families eating. We want to provide family fun activities," says Armstead.
A large donation from an anonymous donor will help them serve even more.
The organization was supposed to host a celebration for its 25th anniversary Friday, but because of the pandemic, they weren't able to host that commemoration.
Instead, the group received a $50,000 donation from an anonymous person. The money will be used to feed about 30,000 kids in Fort Pierce. The CEO, Will Armstead say they're looking to collaborate with different organizations including after school programs to serve as many children as they can.
The funds will also go towards providing fun and safe activities for families.
"We are going to have games and other activities, so it won't just be the families eating. We want to provide family fun activities," says Armstead.


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SEAL Team season 5 episode 8: What's next for Jason, Mandy, others?
SEAL Team November 14, 2021
As we prepare for SEAL Team season 5 episode 8 on Paramount+, are relationships going to be front and center?
There was so much that was exciting about this weekend's episode, mostly from the vantage point of relationships. Jason and Mandy, for example, seem to be closer to something a little more defined. David Boreanaz's character is being forced to confront some of his feelings for her, and we're honestly happy that we've seen Jessica Pare on the show for more than one episode at this point.
Will we continue to see her? Given that Jason called her up at the end of episode 7, we're hopeful. Yet, we don't want to say for certain that we're just going to have more romance between these two and nothing else. We know that there are trust issues between some other people within Bravo and Mandy, and these may need to be worked out at some point. Otherwise, there could be more problems coming before the season comes to a close.
So what else could we be seeing within this upcoming episode? We could see more of Sonny trying to make things work with Hannah, especially if she does decide to move out to where he is. The two can co-parent and have something more akin to a traditional family, but we're still not altogether sure that it would last. We do think that Sonny cares about Hannah; yet, at the same time he cares about Davis more than anyone else. This could always be a complication and we hope that he really thinks hard about everything going on in his heart; it would be really hard on Hannah if she was to relocate for him, only for him to break up with her later.
There's still a good bit of season 5 still to come; with that, there's plenty of potential for things to shift and change.
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The DUP have been accused of "refusing to face reality", in Sinn Féin Leader Gerry Adams first column of the year for the Anderstown News.
Writing in the column, Mr Adams said that Michelle O'Neill and the Sinn Féin negotiating team stand ready to engage positively in any talks, but raised concerns over the likelihood of progress with the DUP.
Mr Adams wrote: "The rationale behind the DUP stance is that it is focused on maintaining the Union but there is no longer any absolute protection for the Union from British Governments the way there used to be. British Government involvement in our affairs will end when a majority vote for that. That is why the Irish government's recent assertions about Irish Unity are welcome."
Gerry Adams also said that the DUP leader Arlene Foster's call for a return to direct rule "flies in the face of her party's devolutionist position. But it also reflects a refusal to face realities.
"The big question in any new negotiation is; can the political parties in the North and the two governments resolve outstanding differences?
"That is more of a question for the DUP than for a Sinn Féin. Michelle O'Neill and our negotiating team stand ready to engage positively in any talks. Sinn Féin wants the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement to be a positive point in the history of our island.
"The fact is the DUP is betraying the people of the North and the clear vote against Brexit. In particular, it is acting against the interest of a section of its own support base, particularly in the Agri-food sector which will take a huge hit if Brexit goes through on English Tory and Westminster DUP terms."
Responding to the column, the DUP's Sammy Wilson fired back, stating: "The latest comments from the outgoing Sinn Fein President lead me to paraphrase Donald Trump. 'Gerry Adams is about to lose his job, but appears to have already lost his mind.' There is no doubt that he's already lost his memory because the current impasse is entirely a result of Sinn Fein's actions in collapsing the Executive and blocking its restoration.
"If he really is concerned about the poor, homeless and sick then he will join with other parties in returning to the Executive without preconditions rather than the mindless pursuit of squandering money on an Irish Language Act at all costs.
"Since his rhetoric at the start of 2018 is no different to the end of 2017 the prospects for restoring devolution look bleak unless the UK government removes the veto Sinn Fein currently holds by ensuring that if they refuse to participate then other parties can get on with the job of providing government for Northern Ireland."
PSNI Chief Constable Hugh Orde has made an apology for the manner in which the raid on Sinn Féin's Stormont office was carried out. The Chief Constable said that he had reviewed footage of the raid and that with hindsight the Friday raid on the Stormont Sinn Féin office should have been conducted differently.
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has described the first ever face-to-face meeting between the Sinn Féin leadership and the Chief Constable of the Police Service for Northern Ireland as "useful".
UPDATE: With all counts declared on Friday evening the clear winners are the Rev Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party who have claimed 10 more seats on the Assembly and Sinn Féin who have won 6 seats.
Peter Robinson has "breached" his pledge to "sell" the devolution of policing and justice to unionist communities, the Sinn Féin President has claimed. Gerry Adams's comments came as Mr Robinson (pictured) said his party would not be "blackmailed" by republicans over the transfer of judiciary powers.


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Die römisch-katholische, denkmalgeschützte Pfarrkirche des Bistums Essen Herz Jesu steht in Zweckel, einem Stadtteil von Gladbeck im Kreis Recklinghausen (Nordrhein-Westfalen).

Beschreibung
Die neobarocke Kreuzbasilika aus Backsteinen wurde von 1912 bis 1915 nach einem Entwurf von Ludwig Becker in Zusammenarbeit mit Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann gebaut. Nach den Zerstörungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde sie bis 1949 wieder aufgebaut. Sie besteht aus einem Langhaus, einem Querschiff vor dem eingezogenen halbrund geschlossenen Chor in Breite des Mittelschiffs im Osten und einer Doppelturmfassade im Westen, in der sich das Portal befindet, vor dem ein steinerner Baldachin auf Säulen steht.

Der Innenraum des Mittelschiffs ist mit einem Tonnengewölbe aus Rabitz überspannt. Zur Kirchenausstattung gehören ein Altarretabel aus der Werkstatt von Ferdinand Langenberg, in das ein barockes Drehtabernakel einbezogen wurde, ferner ein Gemälde von Peter Heinrich Windhausen.

Die Orgel auf der Empore über dem Eingang hat 45 Register auf drei Manualen und Pedal und wurde 1973 von Franz Breil für die Pfarrkirche St. Mariä Himmelfahrt in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen erbaut. Nach Schließung der Kirche 2007 (siehe Information zur Kirchenschließung), wurde sie von Orgelbau Simon nach Zweckel umgesetzt.

Literatur
 Ursula Quednau (Bearb.): Dehio-Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Band II: Westfalen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / München 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2, S. 355–56.

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Baudenkmal in Gladbeck
Bauwerk in Gladbeck
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Basilika (Bautyp)
Herz-Jesu-Kirche
Erbaut in den 1910er Jahren
Kirchengebäude im Bistum Essen
Kirchengebäude in Europa
Neobarockes Kirchengebäude
Neobarockes Bauwerk in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Backsteinbauwerk des Historismus
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Mother's Day. It used to be a day that brought sadness and black thoughts in to my head. I was never going to be a mother. I was really sick a long time ago and had done everything and anything that I could to get better and there was no other option. I went to the doctor, with my mother, and he told me I was going to have a hysterectomy. I was 21 years old. Since I was 15 I had been told I would never have kids. That it would be hard for me to conceive if I ever wanted to but for the most part I was never going to be able to have kids. Hearing that at 15 years old I was like cool, no chance of getting knocked up in high school, I won't be a statistic! Then as I got older and watched all the people around me start having babies, it became harder. It became really hard. I had times when I wanted to kill myself. I had times when I hated God. I had times when I hated myself. I was in a really bad spot for a long time.
The summer I went with a friend to have an abortion was the worst. She didn't want to have the baby. I tried to get her to let me have it. I told her I would disappear and never would she hear from me again. I told her that no one would ever know. I tried everything. I begged, pleaded, cried, etc. I even offered to pay her what I could. She just looked at me, told me that she couldn't let her child be somewhere in the world and not be with her. So she made the choice. She had an abortion. We stopped being friends that day. I couldn't look at her. I couldn't be around her. She had taken something so precious and thrown it away and I wasn't ever going to have that chance. She threw away something/someone I would have loved to the end of the Earth. It was after this that I realized I was probably never going to have a child.
So I partied, I partied a lot. I didn't care if I went to jail, died, whatever. I didn't care. I did so many stupid things that I am lucky I didn't go to jail or die! Then I met her. I met the soon to be Wife. She had Bug. Lord, I love/d Bug. That girl stuck to me like white on rice. I was in love with her. I loved her before I like her mother! I knew that I could be an Aunt. I learned with Bug that if I couldn't have kids of my own that I could be an Aunt to all my friends kids. I knew it wasn't going to be the same, but to me it was something. It was a chance. I was going to take that chance. I was going to love, spoil, and help take care of all the kids of my friends.
is a lot more work than I ever thought. But the first time she called me Mama. I was sunk. I was mush. I was finally Mama. I was so happy. It was like a gift from God. I got to be there when she was sick, when she was happy, when she was sad, when she was mad, I got to be there.
willing to have another baby for us, I kept forgetting that it was probably pretty hard on her to go through that, I kept forgetting that it was going to be worse to push that thing out of her! From then on, I tried. I stepped up, did everything I could for her, anytime she was hungry I was cooking, anytime she wanted a random food I was there getting it, 3 am trips to Burger King, it didn't matter. I was there. I may not have felt my son from the inside but I rubbed that belly like she was freaking Buddha! I talked to him, I was there for everything. And that was going to be good enough. The day that he was born I fell in love. He came out and he was mine. The Wife will even tell you, this one was born to be mine. I got to see what it was like to hold someone that just took their first breath. It was amazing. The Wife never looked so beautiful to me that day. I had my Bug and I had my Monkey. They were mine. And I was their Mama!
We waited a few years and then decided to have another. We tried a few times, and then BAM. She was pregnant again. My Wife the Rockstar. She was going to do it again for us. Monkey's pregnancy was terrible. She was pretty much bedridden with a pinched nerve, he had UGP, and she didn't eat for almost nine months. But she was going to do it again, just for us. We almost lost him in the beginning because she bled the whole first three months. We buried The Wife's Birth Mom at that time too. The second trimester wasn't as bad. The third we almost lost him again when we buried my Birth Father. It was a hard, horrible pregnancy again. Then she had the seizure. We were at the doctor for her 35 week check up. They laid her down on the table. And she had a seizure. I thought I was losing her or the baby or both. I lost it. It was the scariest thing that I have ever been through.
The doctor pulled him early. She said to save the baby, save The Wife and prevent it from happening again she induced labor. Then we had him. My Brogey. He was here. I was Mama again. He was perfect and he was ours.
feed them, clothe them, tickle them, hug them, love them, and know that I will always be there for them. That is what made me Mama. I am there day in and day out. I have never left them. I listen to them, take care of them, and I am there to make sure that they have all they need. I am their Mama. They love me and I love them. They know they didn't come out of me. They are okay with that. My Bug knows that I wasn't there til she was 2 and she is okay with that. She doesn't know any time that I wasn't there. To her, I am Mama. She was my first. She is my girl. We have a bond that I never thought I would get to have. My Monkey. Oh, my sweet rotten Monkey. He was my first Baby. He will always hold that little piece of baby heart. Lord, My Brogey. That boy. He is going to be the one that does the complete opposite of anything asked of him for the rest of his life! He is my gray hair! But he is always there smiling and making me laugh. He is the final piece to my Mama heart. I have my three babies. I am their Mama.
So Happy Mother's Day to all women. Whether you couldn't, chose not to, haven't yet, or will soon. Happy Mother's Day. Even if you are unable to have a baby in your belly, there are children in the world that would love to have a mother. And if not a Mother, an Aunt. You can be that perfect, wonderful Aunt. It isn't the same, but maybe it is enough for now. You never know what can happen when you least expect it. I got my happy ending. You can too.
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La ligne S1 est une ligne du RER trinational de Bâle créée en 1997.

Cette ligne relie avec une cadence à la demi-heure Frick respectivement Laufenburg à Bâle.

Matériel roulant passé et présent
RABe 521 (partie Suisse)
RABe 522 (partie Suisse)

1997-2009
Ligne directe de Frick/Laufenburg - Bâle CFF - Mulhouse

À partir de fin 2009
Ligne Frick/Laufenburg - Bâle CFF avec changement pour le TER Bâle CFF - Mulhouse

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"Early Changes to Synapse Gene Regulation May Cause Alzheimer's Disease"
Tokyo, Japan – Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, involving memory loss and a reduction in cognitive abilities. Patients with AD develop multiple abnormal protein structures in their brains that are thought to destroy or damage nerve cells (neurons). One of these structures, the senile plaque, is made up of clumps of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptide which form in the spaces between neurons.
Theory of Gene Therapy by AAV-PQBP1: In Alzheimer's disease state, the nuclear scaffold protein SRRM2 and the synapse-gene regulator PQBP1 are decreased. By increasing PQBP1 in neurons, expression of synapse genes are recovered and cognitive defects are rescued in Alzheimer's patients.
The article, "The intellectual disability gene PQBP1 rescues Alzheimer's disease pathology" was published in Molecular Psychiatry at DOI 10.1038/s41380-018-0253-8.
TMDU-led Japanese research revealed a role for splicing proteins in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease. Increased phosphorylation of the SRRM2 protein, seen in AD mouse models and human patients, was found to block its transport to the nucleus. This reduced levels of the PQBP1 protein, causing abnormal changes to the splicing of synapse genes and cognitive decline. These phenotypes were reversed by restoring PQBP1 function, suggesting a possible future treatment for AD.


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St Francis Xavier's Cathedral
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Earliest foundations laid
Due to financial troubles, this initial attempt at building a Cathedral failed
New foundation stone laid
After a new foundation stone was laid on 17 March the second attempt at construction was successful.
St Francis Xavier's Cathedral circa 1863
Cathedral dedicated
Bishop Murphy died shortly before his Cathedral was completed
Church debts finally repaid, so expansion of construction now possible
The full plans had not yet been realised due to monetary concerns
Cathedral renovation in 1924
Major expansion work began
Large public ceremony involving important clergymen from around Australia
Cathedral after extension, 1926
Major expansion completed
New tower completed
New plans for the Cathedral tower announced
Intention to rebuild the tower to be more in line with original plans
Cathedral completed
Almost 150 years since it was built, St Francis Xavier's Cathedral is finally finished
Built in a striking Gothic Revival style, St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Adelaide. Named after the Patron Saint of Australia, it is the oldest Cathedral in Australia. First consecrated in 1858 (but not officially completed until 1996) and located in a prominent position on the corner of Wakefield Street and Victoria Square, the Cathedral has long been the heart of Adelaide's Catholic community.
Early Catholicism in Adelaide
While St Francis Xavier's Cathedral has been the central hub of Adelaidean Catholicism for more than 150 years, it was not the first Catholic Church in the city. Built in 1845 on the corner of West Terrace and Grote Street, St Patrick's Church served as the house of worship for Adelaide's Catholics. At this time, Catholics numbered around 15% of the population, almost exclusively comprised of poor Irish migrants. As very few of these migrants had significant wealth, the early Catholic Church struggled financially. Dr. Francis Murphy, Adelaide's first Catholic bishop, raised funds slowly through personal donations from his small flock of mostly unskilled labourers. Unimpressed with the Church's facilities in Adelaide, Murphy sought to construct a grand Cathedral. After a trip to England to gather financial support for this endeavour in 1846, Murphy returned with a design by prominent English architect Charles Hansom. However, these plans were found to be too extravagant and costly for such a small Catholic community.
Bishop Murphy was not deterred from his goal of a Cathedral for Adelaide, however, and in 1850 purchased a plot of land on Wakefield Street near Victoria Square. Even with the backing of English benefactor William Leigh, funding for this construction proved to be a constant issue. Murphy was only able to afford a plot of half an acre, at a time when purchasing full town acres was the norm. Furthermore, this half-acre located relatively distant from the central hub of the city around Hindley and Rundle Streets, and thus was comparatively cheap. The cost of 565 pounds could not be met upfront, and needed to be paid in regular instalments for 18 months.
As an alternative to the ambitious plans of Charles Hansom, Murphy held a public competition for the design of the Cathedral. This competition was won by local architect Richard Lambeth, whose design was feted by the Adelaide press. Construction of this new Cathedral began swiftly in 1851. Yet, when William Leigh was shown Lambeth's design, he realised that it was a slightly altered plagiarism of Hansom's original plans from 1846, scaled in a manner inconsistent with architectural norms. The potential for controversy over this revelation was muted by the fact that economic troubles had stalled construction in Adelaide. In 1851, gold was discovered in Victoria, and the allure of riches was irresistible to many Adelaide Catholics. This exodus meant that work on the Cathedral ceased, with only the foundations completed. The stress the gold rush placed on the Adelaide Catholic Church can be seen in the fact that Murphy tried to pawn his personal library to a Hindley Street bookseller to funding Church activities. However, those of Bishop Murphy's flock who managed to strike gold started to sent some to him to sell for them, and their return to Adelaide brought an injection of fresh wealth to the congregation. As such, plans for the resumption of construction began by 1854.
Due to the controversy over the similarities between the designs of Hansom and Lambeth, Murphy approached Hansom to request a revised, more affordable design for Adelaide's cathedral. In 1854, Hansom supplied the design that, at a basic structural level, the Cathedral maintains to this day. He was forced to accommodate the already extant foundations from Lambeth's abortive design, but the increased wealth of the Adelaide Church meant that his new design was considered feasible. Hansom's vision was a building in the Early English Gothic, a comparatively austere form of Gothic design. Construction began once more in 1856, and was nearing completion in early 1858. Unfortunately, Bishop Murphy died in April 1858, just months before its 11 July consecration. He was buried in the grounds of the nearly-completed Cathedral, the only individual buried within the city mile apart from William Light himself. This honour demonstrates how beloved he was in the early Adelaide community, by Catholic and non-Catholics alike.
While St Francis Xavier's Cathedral had been officially consecrated as a functional place of worship, it was by no means architecturally 'complete'. The plans called for three distinct stages of construction, the first of which was finished in 1858. The frontage to Wakefield Street was still a temporary wall, hiding the façade of the Cathedral itself. By 1860, the side chapels, chancel and sacristy were completed.
In 1880, the fourth bishop and first archbishop of Adelaide, Christopher Reynolds, felt that the current Cathedral was not grand enough. Reynolds believed in a more strikingly Gothic vision for St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, and sent to renowned English architect Peter Paul Pugin for a revised plan. As the full extent of Hansom's plan had not yet been implemented, Pugin's alternative was instead adopted upon receiving it in 1881. Yet, Reynolds' ambition did not align with Church finances, and even though a foundation stone was laid in 1886, the expansion was shelved for being too costly. Electric lighting was installed in 1904. It was not until 1918, when Church debts were finally paid off in full, that serious consideration for this additional construction was undertaken. By 1922, however, Archbishop Robert William Spence concluded that these plans were still too expensive, and had them redrawn in a more conservative style.
The foundations of this new expansion were laid in 1923, at a grand gathering of Australian Catholics. All leading Catholic figures from around Australia attended, and a crowd of 8000 men marched from the West Terrace location of St Patrick's Church to St Francis Xavier's. Women were not permitted to take part. More than 10,000 pounds were raised by attendees for the completion of the Cathedral's expansion, with the expectation that 10,000 more would soon be raised to ensure a debt-free construction. A local newspaper hailed the move to remove 'blot and an eyesore' of the unfinished Cathedral that had affronted Adelaide's citizens 'for more than two generations', outlining that it was the duty of good Catholics to fund this noble project. A garden party for visiting Catholic dignitaries, attended by 5000 and including Adelaide's political and financial elite, was held in Victoria Park after the consecration ceremony. Archbishop Mannix proclaimed this event the most impressive he had ever attended, and something that was only possible in Adelaide.
The new extension to the Cathedral was completed in 1926, and involved the construction of a bell tower. This tower was only intended to be temporary, and it did not match the style or ambition of Pugin's plans.
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The Cathedral continued standard operations until 1985, when Archbishop James Gleeson declared that the belltower would be rebuilt according to Pugin's original 1881 design. While support was offered from the National Trust, this plan stalled for almost a decade due to funding concerns. It was not until 1994 that work began in earnest. This involved reopening the limestone quarry that was used during the major 1923-26 expansion to ensure visual harmony. By 1996, this construction was complete, and the Cathedral itself was finally considered finished. As such, it was consecrated once again on 11 July 1996, exactly 138 years after its first stage was completed and 145 since its initial foundations were laid.
By Alexander Parsons, History Trust of South Australia
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Mercedes reveals F1-powered Project One hypercar in Frankfurt
Darshan Chokhani posted in Home Of F1
Mercedes finally unveiled its much-talked hypercar on Monday in a glittering event, ahead of the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show.
The first of its kind, the Mercedes-AMG hypercar under Project One name was driven on the stage by F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, after which he was joined by Dieter Zetsche.
"That was more nerve wracking than driving a real Formula 1 car," said Hamilton, who has been helping Mercedes in the development of the car.
"It's incredible. So, happy to be here, so proud of what Mercedes has created. This is history, no one has done this right way.
"To be a part of this, to help develop this car, this engine. To finally come and see it come to life, it's magical. When I sat in the car and started the engine, I had the same grin that I have in the F1 garage, so that's a good sign."
The two-seater sportscar will carry a 1.6 litre turbocharged V6 hybrid engine from its F1 car. It will have four electric motors and is said to produce over 1000PS, reach a top speed of 350km/hr and go from 0-200km/hr in six seconds. Only 275 units will be produced of the F1-inspired road car.
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To the Reader by Noah Kumin ~librex-dozryc
Jul 31, 2022 • ~bidbel
You might be wondering, What does this thing have to do with Mars?
The short answer is, nothing, really. We just thought it sounded cool.
And we figured we'd have a leg up on the competition once humanity becomes a multi-planet species. The long answer will require us to examine why book reviewing is a dying art, and talk a bit about a new computing platform called Urbit, which is the digital home of this magazine. (If you've never heard of Urbit, you'll want to give it a Google. We recommend the introductory piece "Urbit for Normies" if you're a normie, and "Urbit Is For Creators" if you're a creator.)
But let's start with book reviews. In Harper's in 1959, Elizabeth Hardwick wrote of the book reviewing scene, "[s]weet, bland commendations fall everywhere upon the scene; a universal, if somewhat lobotomized, accommodation reigns." She could have been talking about today. Soon after that essay was published, Hardwick sat down for dinner with Robert Lowell, Jason and Barbara Epstein, and Bob Silvers, and they discussed the idea of a new book review, which would eventually become the redoubtable New York Review of Books. Their opportunity back then was that a printers' strike had temporarily shut down the New York Times Book Review, and book publishers had nowhere else to place ads. Our opportunity today is that there exists a glut of supposed book reviews, but no one particularly cares about any of them.
What's wrong with book reviews today? There are three main things:
(1) Traditional publishing is a fandom. (2) Book reviewing is a Ponzi scheme. (3) All writing is prayer (and if you use the wrongs words, your prayer goes unheard).
Let's take these one by one.
(1) Traditional publishing is a fandom.
Critic and MRB contributor Default Friend has pointed out that journalism is a fandom; that is, while it appears to be reality-based and universal, it is actually fictional and niche. The same is true for the books that traditional publishers release. Their output is designed to please only those who are already members of the fandom, and anything outside the Traditional Publishing Cinematic Universe, as it were, must be excluded. Certain opinions are off limits, as are certain subjects. All the same, the landscape of this fictional universe is highly compelling, and plenty of consumers are happy never to leave. It's simply too good. No longer do individual novels, like Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, induce young lasses to heartbreak and young lads to suicide. The great tearjerkers of today address the Current Thing and appear serially in the non-fiction section.
This would not be such a terrible thing for book reviews, except that they seem to be compelled, by whatever strange magic, to treat traditional publishing houses (a group of corporate conglomerates known as the Big Five) as the canonical source for deciding which books are interesting and worth review. This is despite the fact that anyone today may publish anything they want and distribute it immediately to the world. The organization and distribution of the written word has changed rapidly in the last two decades, and much that is inspiring, eccentric, and brilliant has risen to the top through non-traditional channels. An adequate book review, to say nothing of an excellent one, ought to address that fact.
(2) Book reviewing is a Ponzi scheme.
This subject has been ably treated by the editors of n+1 in their Summer, 2021 issue. I'll summarize: Once upon a time, every local newspaper, along with legacy magazines such as Harper's and the New Yorker, alternative weeklies, and even some general interest magazines like Entertainment Weekly, employed a book reviewer. This is no longer the case, in part because books now compete with podcasts and other media even on serious subjects (and on science and technology, podcasts pretty much have them licked), and because reviewers compete with online criticules ("The packaging was too sticky!" "The book is called Of Mice and Men. . . I thought there would be more mice in it!") who work for free.
The result is that reviewers treat their reviews as a launching pad to a book deal or tenure track job (or as a way to settle scores), while publications treat the reviews section as a publicity arm (whereas magazines used to refuse to review a book for which an advertisement had been placed in order to be impartial, today I've heard of some publications that will only review a book once the publisher has placed an ad). Neither party treats the book review as an end in itself, as the subtle art it truly is.
(3) All writing is prayer (and if you use the wrongs words, your prayer goes unheard.)
There's something strange about writing—about language in general. What, for example, is this business about "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"? Why would God be a word in the beginning, instead of some fantastic creature like a behemoth or a unicorn, or a series of angels dancing on the head of a pin?
The fact is that language can be holy, at least when it's used correctly. Every writer who is a real writer and not a mere reporter knows what it is when sound and sense form a feedback loop with one another, and the world itself comes to seem more sinuous and more clear, and the hairs on the back of the neck prickle. It doesn't work when you cheat on the sound— which is why, for instance, a thesaurus is so handy, and why Flaubert drove himself mad over choosing just the right word. And it doesn't work when you cheat on the sense—which is why, for instance, Joyce made such obsessive inquiries about the height of the railing Bloom and Daedalus would have to jump over in the Ithaca section of Ulysses.
And it especially doesn't work when you use language instrumentally. That is, when you've got something to sell, or a guillotine to line up over someone's head. It works when you look closely at the things of this world and describe them dispassionately and thereby glorify them. If you're editing a new magazine, there are a thousand things to keep you up at night—but a devotion to this underlying goal is something with which any editor ought to be able to rest easily. To look deeply into things is in and of itself good. That requires grace, intelligence, and discipline. Thank goodness the contributors of the first issue have shown those qualities in spades.
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But beyond that, what do we intend to do differently in this review? And how does all this explain what this thing has to do with Mars? To answer that, we'll want to talk a bit about Urbit. Urbit enthusiasts sometimes refer to the network as Mars, and to themselves as Martians, in reference to a 2010 blog post in which the system was first described. The conceit was that the author had met a superintelligent race of Martians, who described to him their "diamond-perfect software." I.e., they described the Platonic ideal of what our digital world ought to be. And it was his job to bring that software down to earth. So, in calling this magazine the Mars Review of Books, we're not trying to sound sci-fi or to make any kind of comment on Space-X. We're saying we'd like to re-think the idea of a book review from scratch.
What would the ideal of a book review be? We can start by saying what it would not be. It would not be a vehicle for driving engagement. It would not be propaganda. It would not be for cutting authors down to size or building authors up. Ideally, it wouldn't even really be for selling magazines—although that should probably be a part of it.
To be truly idealistic about it: A review would exist for its own sake, like any piece of art. This is an idea that's contrary to the logic of most organizations. Luckily for us, Urbit is contrary to the logic of most organizations. Urbit was not built to make a quick buck. It was built for the long haul—to provide an elegant, convivial and human-centered method of computing that can last for generations. And thus the people who organize around it tend to share some of those same concerns.
Urbit is a software project. But one might suggest that at its core it also implies a different way of looking at the world. The short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," which lent the first Urbit company its name, tells the tale of a parallel universe that slowly subsumes reality. It may be that such a parallel universe—one where quality beats quantity, permanence beats a flash in the pan, and a deep concern for human flourishing beats venality—is slowly twisting its way, ivy-like, through the nooks and crannies of our otherwise humdrum world. We'll have to wait and see. In any case, we couldn't be more grateful to the Urbit Foundation and its sister organization The Combine for their support in getting this project off the ground, and for the steady belief that something so quixotic might have staying power. However the Mars Review does conclude, we can say confidently that no other project could have provided the necessary premise.
by Noah Kumin
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