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The Las Vegas Grand Prix produced not only a memorable race, but also a treasure trove of top trivia to dive into.
Lewis Hamilton summarised his weekend at the Las Vegas Grand Prix as “horrendous”, with the seven-time World Champion admitting that he “really struggled” in a race that saw him cross the line in P10, a result that later became P8 following the disqualification of both McLarens.
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Bendigo, Victoria
There seems to be a ghost sign at every turn in Bendigo.
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This unassuming Gothic Revival church in the Early English style on a hill in the heart of Bendigo long did service as a cathedral. It is now derelict and much desecrated by vandals, who invariably, such is the respect for the past (and other people’s property) in our society, lie in wait to pounce on any building as soon as it is left empty.
The church consists of a nave and porches built of freestone, not the most durable building stone but the best that could be obtained with the funds then available. A chancel and vestries were added later.
The nave was opened for worship in June 1856. All Saints’ remained a parish church until 1902 when the diocese of Bendigo was established and All Saints’ became its pro-cathedral. The new diocese had greater aspirations for its permanent cathedral than this simple building and intended eventually to replace it. Various proposals were made at successive annual synods until in 1925 the prolific church architect Louis Williams was commissioned to design a new cathedral on the site. Williams’s drawings, prepared in association with the firm of Gawler & Drummond, show a soaring cathedral in his characteristic and attractive personal version of Neo-Gothic, with nave, transepts and chancel, twin towers on the façade and a much taller tower over the crossing, capped with a square lantern. This building would have seated 1000 people.
Its “domination” of the city would in time have been shared with the even more imposing Sacred Heart Roman Catholic cathedral on the same hill. The profile of these two great buildings would have made the Bendigo skyline among the most impressive in Australia. It was not to be, and only the R.C. cathedral was built.
All Saint’s remained the pro-cathedral of the diocese until 1981 when a larger central Bendigo church, St Paul’s, its lofty brick tower a city landmark, was designated the cathedral in its place. After that, All Saints’ quietly declined until it was closed in 1989. It had a brief lease of renewed life between 1991 and 2015 with a revivalist group, the View Hill Fellowship, but was sold in 2016 – 160 years after its opening. There are plans to make it the centrepiece of a housing development, which of course will effectively erase its ecclesiastical character. Many of its furnishings, including the Westminster pulpit and screens and stalls designed by Louis Williams, were transferred to St Matthew’s, Albury, when that church was rebuilt after being gutted by fire in 1991.
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Today was my first day off for a couple of weeks and the plan was to do a lot of cooking and cleaning. However, we had a thunderstorm with winds up to 120kmh last night and there was no electricity in most of Pirie for the whole day. Rather than clean up all the debris from the storm damage, I jumped in the car and went out into the countryside looking for snakes and lizards. Saw plenty of different lizards, but they had all disappeared into the undergrowth before I could get photos. Had to settle for a few landscape and bird photos instead.
Shot from the side of Ti-Tree Road in the Port Davis/Lower Broughton area, just south of Pirie. Amazingly there was very little storm damage either north or south of town. The storm cell was highly concentrated and cut a very narrow path of destruction through the region.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Defensie heeft "niet het beeld" dat de drones die dit weekend boven militaire vliegbasis Volkel vlogen, wapens bij zich hadden. Dat zei demissionair minister van Defensie Ruben Brekelmans in tv-programma Buitenhof. Op die basis zijn onder andere gevechtsvliegtuigen gestationeerd. "Die zijn daar goed beschermd," aldus de VVD-minister.
Defensie heeft middelen ingezet om de drones te verjagen. "We kunnen niet met zekerheid zeggen dat we geen drones hebben geraakt; we kunnen wel met zekerheid zeggen dat er geen drones zijn teruggevonden."
Brekelmans is momenteel in het Canadese Halifax voor een internationale veiligheidsbijeenkomst.
Zaterdagavond zijn ook drones gezien boven vliegveld en -basis Eindhoven. Het luchtverkeer werd toen tijdelijk stilgelegd.
GENÈVE (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Europese landen komen zondag in Genève met een tegenvoorstel voor het Amerikaanse vredesplan om een einde te maken aan de oorlog in Oekraïne. Daarin zou onder andere staan dat ze NAVO-achtige veiligheidsgaranties eisen voor Oekraïne. Ook willen ze niet dat het land grondgebied afstaat aan Rusland voordat er een staakt-het-vuren is afgesproken.
In het Amerikaanse 28-puntenplan staat dat Oekraïne nooit lid mag worden van de NAVO, maar dat het wel veiligheidsgaranties krijgt. Europese leiders zouden kijken naar artikel 5 van de NAVO. Daarin staat dat een gewapende aanval tegen een van de lidstaten wordt beschouwd als een aanval tegen alle lidstaten.
In het tegenvoorstel wordt ook het idee afgewezen dat Oekraïne grondgebied aan Rusland zou afstaan. Gesprekken daarover zouden pas kunnen plaatsvinden nadat de oorlog langs de huidige linie is beëindigd.
Bij de gesprekken in Genève zijn vertegenwoordigers van de VS, Oekraïne en Europese bondgenoten aanwezig.
