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September is CMT Awareness Month. CMT, which stands for Charcot (Shar-kote) Marie Tooth, is a Peripheral Nervous System disease, it is the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy, bares the names of the three physicians who realized a bunch of different diseases were actually the same thing (the same three named Multiple Sclerosis, and Charcot named ALS), it has nothing to do with teeth, and there is no treatment nor cure.
CMT has an occurrence rate of 1 in 2,500, which is the same as Stroke in the US, yet it is considered rare. There is very little known about it; it is usually inherited, but can occur randomly; it varies widely from person to person, even in the same family; and if you are not born with it, you will never have it.
There are currently twenty-two identified types of CMT. I have type 1A, which is the most common. I inherited it from my dad, who wasn't diagnosed until after I was, and I wasn't diagnosed until I was 28.
My CMT has caused me to lose a lot of muscle mass in my legs, feet, arms, and hands. I have extremely high arches, weak ankles, I walk funny, have balance issues, and I wear leg braces. I am in constant pain that never lets up, my shoulders are wrecked, my hand dexterity and strength is greatly diminished, and I suffer from scoliosis and kyphosis; plus a whole lot more. I have my bad days, and I have my not so bad days. However, I do not let it get me down or stop me from doing what I want.
Because my type is the most common, and fortunately for me, CMT 1A is where a vast majority of the research is being conducted. While CMT is not a form/type of Muscular Dystrophy, the MDA includes CMT under its umbrella. They are an invaluable resource and many of the gains in CMT over the last 25 years would not have happened without MDA support. Most of what is known about CMT came from MDA initiatives and researchers receiving MDA funding.
I created this graphic as a tool to spread awareness. The blue ribbon is the Charcot Marie Tooth Association's awareness ribbon and was provided compliments of the CMTA for the graphic. The design and remaining images are my own. :)
If you've made it this far down and would like to learn more, please follow these links:
Charcot Marie Tooth Association | Muscular Dystrophy Association
Thanks for stopping by and taking a moment to read this. I greatly appreciate it! :D
-Kenny
Urban planning and its avatar the urbanism, a word invented by Iidefons Cerdã in Barcelona in 1880, at the same time as the criticism by Camillo Sitte against Hoffman’s hygienic cities.
The urbis is a form of satellite journey, this gives peripheral spaces hostages of the center and brings consecration to the perpendicular city with the horrible poem called "The right angle", and maybe its disastrous consequences today?
Critical? Almost illegal at present of the Grand Master Le Corbusier comes from raven [corbeau like corbu in French word that's joke with a play of sonority] first rank of the Mithra sect. Le Corbusier invent new module gold --Modulor or Mystery with transhumanism- Dream of the machine to live and then failure of the conditions of displacement and their relationship with an urban form that breaks the bonds. As in a living body, it is established through a morphology of red blood cells. The body of a city is only designed for the car without interactions, pedestrians become ants. You cannot stop in a metro corridor for example.
Form of people and formatting ... village in a circled encounter / chessboard and failure of the relations by the division of the soil that projects ways to move and access the properties, the culture of the vacuum of the modern street produces displacements without random encounters other than traffic accidents. The system of a grid city is imposed as a simple way to enlarge or create a city from a track, to the extreme case in which cities exist only on a track composed of boxes with parking lots to ease the access. Thus many districts resemble to chess boards with malls build on crop fields, agricultural production being managed at the regional or national level.
It will be better to study the city and the importance of its geometry, the journeys of city dwellers in a quadrangular city and the absence or the failures of businesses in these neighborhoods .... The linear path and the absence of landmarks . The weight of a past and the possibility of making evolve the city with its time. The fatality of being born or living in a linear neighborhood composed of parking lots and housing without shops or public facilities, the porosity of public facilities ... The true meaning of the word church ... we do not live only with trade and business .. Towards a Citizen Church? One must understand and try to stop glorifying architecture buildings too fashionable and fragile in the maintenance and financed with 100% public funding ... donations are never as well received as those that are a participatory mix and Plus a systematic right that is expensive in management ... one can make schools freer for those many who are in failure in the primary school and can run schools like startup companies already do in incubators. The form of cities is the main factor in the failure of poor neighborhoods. Urban planners were born in this convenience to reproduce in copy / pasted an eternal vision of car parks and blocks with well insulated facades using fragile materials. The architects follow modern fashion as a priesthood, the novelty of forms has become a dogma, the facades are like paintings with no link other than the geometry of the piece of land. Life could not have been born in these cities cloned with a grid, they have voluntarily erased all ties with history and regional anchoring, architectural globalization produces the same cities all over the World. This is an observation that nobody criticizes, it's a bit like a single party?
the creation of self sufficient small towns, really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of your own and did not mind spending your life with others with no plans of their own.
Trame urbaine et son avatar l'urbanisme, un mot inventé par Cerda à Barcelone en 1880, en même temps que la critique par Sitte des villes hygiéniques de Hoffmann.
L'urbis c'est une forme de trajet en satellite, cela donne des espaces périphériques otages du centre et la consécration depuis de la ville perpendiculaire avec l'horrible poème de "L'angle droit " et ses conséquences désastreuses aujourd'hui ?
Critique? Presque illégale actuellement du Grand Maître Le Corbusier vient de corbeau premier grades de la secte de Mithra. ...module or --Modulor-Mystère transhumanisme- Rêve de la machine à habiter puis échec actuellement des conditions de déplacement et de leurs relations avec une forme urbaine qui brise les liens. Comme dans un corps vivant, il s'établit à travers une morphologie des globules rouges .Le corps d'une ville est uniquement conçu pour la voiture sans interactions, entre des piétons devenus des fourmis. Impossible de s'arrêter dans un couloir de metro par exemple.
Forme des gens et formatage ... village en cercle rencontre / échiquier et échec des relations par la division du sol qui projette des voies pour circuler et accéder au propriétés , la culture du vide de la rue moderne produit des déplacements sans rencontres aléatoires autres que des accidents de circulation. Le système d'une ville quadrillée c'est imposé comme un moyen simple d'agrandir ou de créer une ville à partir d'une voie, à l'extrême certaine villes n'existent que sur une voie composée de boites avec des parkings pour faciliter l'accès. Ainsi beaucoup de quartiers ressemblent à des échiquiers avec des zones commerciales sur les anciennes zones maraîchères, la production agricole étant gérée au niveau régional ou national.
Il faudra mieux étudier la ville et l'importance de sa géométrie, les trajets des citadins dans une ville quadrangulaire et l'absence ou l'échec des commerces dans ces quartiers.... Le trajet linéaire et l'absence de repères ... Le poids d'un passé et la possibilité de faire évoluer la ville avec son temps. La fatalité de naître ou de vivre dans un quartier linéaire composé de parking et de logements sans commerces ni équipements publics, la porosité des équipements publics... Le vrai sens du mot église... on ne vit pas avec du tout commerce ... Vers une église citoyenne? Il faut comprendre et essayer d'arrêter de glorifier les bâtiments d'architecture trop mode et fragile dans l'entretien et décidé avec Le financement 100% public... les dons ne sont jamais aussi bien reçu que ceux qui sont un mélange participatif et plus un droit systématique qui coûte cher en gestion... on peut faire des écoles plus libres pour ceux nombreux qui sont en échec dans Le primaire et faire tourner les écoles comme le font déjà les entreprises dans les incubateurs. La forme des villes est le principal facteur d'échec des quartiers pauvres. Les urbanistes sont nés dans cette facilité de reproduire en copie/collé une éternelle vision de parkings et de blocs maintenant biens isolés en façades avec des matériaux fragiles. Les architectes suivent la mode moderne comme un sacerdoce, la nouveauté des formes est devenue un dogme, les façades sont comme des tableaux sans lien autre que la géométrie du parcellaire. La vie n'as pas pu naître dans ces villes clonées avec une grille, elles ont volontairement effacé tout les liens avec l'histoire et l'ancrage régional, la globalisation architecturale produit les mêmes villes dans le Monde. C'est un constat que personne ne critique, c'est un peu comme un parti unique ? C’est un vœu de mes années étudiantes, créer un nouveau village et rendre hommage à mon coloriste préféré Vincent Van Gogh , un mystique qui ignorait la genèse scolaire pour vivre intensément dans l’intuition d’un Monde au-dessus et bien plus subtil que l’épreuve d’une vie terrienne, Vincent un extraterrestre 👽 mais bien sûr, salut 👋 les terriens
The 19 has taken the brunt of road developments across the city in recent times, the current regular disruption being at Milltimber where the city bypass works continue.
For one weekend, Culter and the west was unaccessible from the A93. As a result, the 19 was terminating short at the roadworks and passengers had to walk through the works to a shuttle bus in Culter on the other side.
An opportunity to use a rarely seen screen in service - Kippie Lodge has never had a useful turning point day to day for late running!
Seen at the AWPR, Milltimber on Saturday 14th October 2017.
The biopsy of peripheral nerve observed by optic microscopy reveled many myelinated and unmyelinated axons, associated with the schwann cells. In the normal condition the myelin sheaths are organized periodically. Small changes in the structure of myelin can only be observed by electron microscopy. In this micrograph, you can be observed small details of myelin sheaths, it is evident the formation of winding roads, that view you are esthetically eye-catching, even if that tell of the image, these changes may be involved in loss of function and poor nerve conduction for the patient.
Courtesy of Ms. ALMA DELIA HERNANDEZ PEREZ , Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación
Image Details
Instrument used: Tecnai
Magnification: 39,000 x
Voltage: 80 Kv
Spot: 1.0
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass at Brimmond Hill between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
A "slice of life" in NYC: I was on my way to an appointment and witnessed a near-collision (aka: overly "close encounter") between the man with the beer kegs on his handtruck and the young lady laden down with shopping bags. (Different strokes for different folks...)
I think his hoodie was blocking his peripheral vision... Luckily, he saw her just in time, and an accident was averted!
( Isn't it funny the way everyone is showing me their back, with NOBODY looking my way??!!! )
Midtown Manhattan
New York City, USA
(photo taken in January 2015, before the snow arrived)
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The "copycat-style" killings in Copenhagen this Valentine's Day weekend, perhaps inspired by last month's murderous attacks in Paris, have saddened and aggrieved me. This is particularly true as I've been studying Danish (and its linguistic "siblings," Norwegian and Swedish) for the past few years. I frequently see films set in Copenhagen, so although I've never visited the place, I feel a certain proximity to the city and its citizens, including its Jewish inhabitants. The fact that a man was killed while doing volunteer security during a young girl's Bat Mitzvah ceremony adds an additional level of sorrow and heartbreak... When will it all end?
My current collection of SEGA Megadrive, Consoles, Games and Peripherals.
Full List
Sega Megadrive Console
Sega Megadrive II Console
Sega Megadrive II Console
Sega MegaDrive II Console
Sega MegaDrive II Console
Quickshot Conqueror 3: Arcade Game Pad
Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters
Fatal Fury
Road Rash II
Gunstar Heroes
Sonic the Hedgehog
Powermonger
Fifa Soccer 95
Shining Force II
Akaddin
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Cutthroat Island
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic 3
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Ecco the Dolphin
Streets of Rage II
Mega Games II
EA Sports Double Header: EA Hockey & John Madden Football
Jurassic Park
Landstalker; The Treasure of King Nole
T2 The Arcade Game
Alien 3
Jungle Strike
Alien Storm
Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II (cart only)
Mortal Kombat II (cart only)
Turbo Outrun (cart only)
Golden Axe II (cart only)
Ecco 2: The Tides of Time (cart only)
The Story of Thor (cart only)
Paperboy (cart only)
Arnold Palmer's Tournament Golf (cart only)
World Class Leader Board (cart only)
Urban Strike (cart only)
Psycho Pinball (cart only)
AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) work ongoing near Brimmond Hill near Craibstone looking towards Dyce
image by Robert Williams
Pop Subversion starring Robert Williams
Feb 8th thru Mar 2nd, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, February 8th, 7:00PM-9:00PM
Pop Subversion contains a healthy dose of both established and emerging artists from the realms of street art, pop surrealism, lowbrow, illustration, print making, tattoo and so much more. Through this group exhibition, promising young artists will have the chance to exhibit side by side with some of the more established artists in these fields. This mixture will allow the viewer to experience a plethora of varying styles and techniques rising out of this powerful New Contemporary movement in art. At the center of this exhibition lies the original artwork of Juxtapoz founder (and quite arguably the 'father' of this New Contemporary movement in art) Robert Williams!
Participating artists include: aiko, lisa alisa, lisa bloodgood, john breiner, wayne coe, molly crabapple, brendan danielsson, camilla d'errico, elbowtoe, ian fagan, fawn fruits, gil, joshua hagler, aaron horkey, kenichi hoshine, jeremyville, sarah joncas, lady pink, benjamin lacombe, lauralee, kris lewis, brian life, francesco locastro, carlos nine, pagan, peripheral media projects, jenn porreca, martina secondo russo, chris stain, robert steel, elisabeth timpone, connie wang, joe vaux, robert williams, jaeran won, genevive zacconi
I really like this shot, Ok I like a lot of them in this set but I think its the tunnelling of perspective created by the hedge cutting, the vibrant green grass either side, the story skies and the fact that Mullghcarn's profile is continued through the gap in the hedges either side. The small amount of residual water on the track really helps too send the eye through to the end.
This is a peripheral photo of Carrie. I don't know if I like it or hate it. I can't tell you why. Here it is, I made it for you. You can also like it or hate it.
Detail shot of an awesome Swoon Wheatpaste put up as part of the Ad Hoc Art/Peripheral Media Projects Welling Court Queens Project.
More info here:
adhocart.org/site/2010/05/22/welling-court-mural-project-...
i prefer the colour version, slightly. but i'd say the black and white one has its merits too, though it really doesn't work as well at this smaller 500 pixel size. what do you think ?
As part of what I've sometimes jokingly reffered to as being "the generation raised on video gaming", I've certainly owned my share of video game consoles and peripherals of various sorts.
Both ones that were popular and easy to find, others, not nearly so common place in nature.
The video game stuff pictured here represents the latter of the two things.
In fact, I'm fairly sure this kind of stuff doesn't tend to turn up on Ebay much at all.
Every last thing pictured here in unlicensed, and is all for the Super NES/Super Famicom.
all told, it's 3 video game enhancers (much like the Game genie) and one NES/Famicom to Super NES adapter. (Actually, also let's Super Famicom games be played as well, not that I ever owned any import games.
From left to right, it foes as follows...
"Game Wizard" by Innovation
(Basically the US equivalent of the UK made Pro Action Replay (the original PAR, not the 2nd one).
"Game Mage" by Leisure
(Of Asian origin... possibly China, if i recall... designed for the Super Famicom, not the American Super NES, but since Nintendo used a physical lockout rather than a software one on the Super NES & Super Famicom, much like with their N64, it was just more a matter of making the thing fit in your Super NES. It accepted both foreign and US Super NES games, and used the exact same codes that the Game genie used, but unlike the Game genie, also came with cheat codes built-in for some games.
"Pro Action Replay 2" by Datel (A game enhancer made in England).
Unlike other game enhancers (including their own Pro Action Replay 1) this puppy let you plug in up to 100 cheat codes at a time, thereby essentially letting the gamer re-write entire sections of the game program code. It came with a book loaded full of codes already, plus like the original PAR, it contained a "trainer" mode, which let a gamer devise their own codes by using methods to track which part of the game code you wanted to change. Using this thing, I was able to sometimes (though not always) carack which part of the program code in fighting games controlled the character data for which fighter you're selecting. Hence, I sometimes was able to get fighting games with no official boss code listed let me play (often glitchy in nature at best) as unplayable "boss" characters, like Shang Tsung and Goro in MK 1 on Super NES. But, it barely worked before glitching for those particular codes in that game.
"Super 8" by Innovation
With this, you could play both NES and Famicom games as well as Super Famicom games on an American model Super NES. It came with no instruction manual, since the only instructions one needs is listed right on the outside of the box. I have no idea of whether or not this would work on a redesigned model Super NES.
Bo'ness, 19th October 2013. A celebrity appears. "Look!" (Please view F11 in lightbox for intended best.)
The 19 has taken the brunt of road developments across the city in recent times, the current regular disruption being at Milltimber where the city bypass works continue.
For one weekend, Culter and the west was unaccessible from the A93. As a result, the 19 was terminating short at the roadworks and passengers had to walk through the works to a shuttle bus in Culter on the other side.
An opportunity to use a rarely seen screen in service - Kippie Lodge has never had a useful turning point day to day for late running!
Seen at the AWPR, Milltimber on Saturday 14th October 2017.
We were at Joshua Tree National Park on a tour of the Desert Queen Ranch, also known as Keys Ranch after homesteaders Bill and Frances Keys. While the ranger was talking, I saw movement in my peripheral vision and tried to look up into the rocks to see what it was. I didn't see anything so I put the big zoom lens on the camera and started scanning the rocks again. That's when I found these two guys. I tried to discretely show the kids what I found and got busted by the ranger. She stopped the tour and we all stood there like tourists and watched the sheep. Those of us that had cameras started clicking away. After about 15 minutes the sheep moved away and we resumed our tour.
This is the first time in my life I have seen the Desert Bighorn Sheep at Joshua Tree NP. These two rams are part of the "Wonderland of Rocks" herd, the smallest of three herds in the park with about 30 sheep.
If you look closely at the one on the left, you can see that it has broken off one of its horns. The sheep will do this when the horns get too big and start to interfere with their vision.
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Update: This photo was used to accompany the article, 8 Weird And Great Animal Mating Rituals, by Bryan Karl, on Wednesday, February 18, 2009.
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The following text is from the U.S. National Park Service article: Desert Bighorn Sheep.
Desert Bighorn Sheep
The Desert bighorn, Ovis canadensis nelsoni, ranges through the dry, desert mountains of eastern California, much of Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and southern Utah. The total population of this sheep is about 13,000. Two hundred fifty or so live in Joshua Tree National Park.
Description
Male sheep, called rams, often weigh over 200 pounds. They can be recognized by their massive brown horns. The horns curl back over the ears, down and up past the cheeks. By the time a ram is seven or eight years of age, he can have a set of horns with a full curl, a spread of 30 inches, and a weight of almost 30 pounds. Horn size is a symbol of rank in the herd. However, many rams rub off the ends of their horns (called “brooming”) because they interfere with their vision. Ewes, the females, are smaller than rams and have shorter, smaller horns that never exceed half a curl.
Habitat
Desert bighorn prefer a habitat of steep, rocky terrain for escape from predators, bedding, and lambing. Bighorn zigzag up and down cliff faces with amazing ease. They use ledges only two inches wide for foot holds, and bounce from ledge to ledge over spans as wide as 20 feet. They can move over level ground at 30 miles per hour and scramble up mountain slopes at 15 mph. They are aided by cloven hooves which are sharp-edged, elastic, and concave.
Food
Graze and browze of a wide variety of plant species serve as food. Green grasses are preferred, but when this food is not available, as is the case for most of the year in Joshua Tree, they feed on a variety of other plants, including cacti. Bighorns have a complex nine-stage digestive process that allows them to maximize removal of nutrients from their food.
Three herds live in the park
The bighorn uses open areas of low growing vegetation near rugged terrain for feeding. This habitat preference divides Joshua Tree’s bighorns into three more or less separate herds. The 120 animals that live in the Eagle Mountains at the far easterm boundary of the park is the largest herd. The second consists of about 100 animals and ranges through the main part of the Little San Bernardino Mountains. The smallest herd, which numbers only 30 animals, is found in the Wonderland of Rocks. Members of this last band are the ones most often seen by park visitors. Ewes seldom venture from their natal herd, but rams wander rather frequently.
Activity
The Desert bighorn is most active during daylight, moving to traditional bedding areas at night. During the summer bighorn rest during the hot midday, often on cliffs above their water source. Rest periods are also used for chewing cud.
Water is critical to bighorn survival. In early spring of years with good winter rains they get enough water from the grass they eat to go without drinking. At other times they must trek to a spring or water-holding depression at least every third day. Lactating ewes need to drink almost every day. Making the trek to water is the most dangerous part of a bighorn’s life. It is in the narrow canyons, where most springs occur, that the adult sheep’s only significant predator, the mountain lion, Felis concolor, lies in wait. Most dead sheep found in the park are mountain lion kills.
Bighorn have extremely acute eyesight, which aids in jumping and gaining footholds in the steep terrain. They often watch other animals moving at a distance of almost a mile. During the rut, the bighorn rams snort loudly. The lambs bleat, and the ewes respond with a guttural “ba-aa”. They also utter throaty rumbles when frightened.
Life History
Like all sheep, bighorn are gregarious, sometimes forming herds of over 100 individuals, but small groups of eight to 10 are more common. For most of the year, mature rams stay apart from females and the young in separate bachelor bands.
Rams do not defend territories, but do engage in battles over mating access to a particular female. Overall vigor as well as horn size determines male dominance status. Rutting may occur at any time of year, but seems to peak in August and September. Gestation lasts 150 to180 days. Desert bighorn may give birth at any season, but most births occur from January to April. Twins are rare. Within a few weeks of birth, lambs form bands of their own, seeking out their mothers to suckle only occasionally. By six months of age, they are completely weaned.
Only about one-third of the lambs survive the rigor of their first summer. Ewes are usually ready to breed in their second or third year. Males reach sexual maturity at the same age, but are not usually strong enough to compete for mating until they are seven years old. After reaching adulthood, most bighorn live over 10 years, with maximum life span being 20 years.
Conservation Status
The Desert bighorn population today is only about 10 percent of what existed before the settlement of the West. This species is extremely sensitive to disease. Like the native humans with whom it shared the southwest for thousands of years, it has little resistance to the diseases of European sheep and cattle. Disease contracted from domestic livestock may be the major factor in decline and loss of populations. Wild horses and burros also compete with Desert bighorns for water and forage in much of their range.
Happily, the bighorn of Joshua Tree National Park are isolated from areas of livestock grazing and face no competition from feral horses or burros. So far in a 30 plus year research program, our bighorn herds have been judged to be in good condition.
By Harold De Lisle, PhD
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The only preserved Romanesque sacred building in the Saarland
St. Peter was erected as a monastery church around 1200 by Wadgasser Premonstratensian canons, who came to Merzig as successors of the Augustinian canons. The layout shows a three-aisled basilica with a transept, chancel peripheral towers, side-apses and a western single tower. The gothic cross-vault ornamented with heraldry was not put in until the 16th century. In the course of a renovation in the 60s of the last century, the nave was extended to the west around the Mary Chapel, while the southern side nave was given a new entrance hall. Special architectural attention deserve the two north portals, the small "cemetery portal" at the transept and the larger main and lay portal at the side ship. In the course of the extensive external restoration of St. Peter, completed in December 2004, the former main portal was reopened in the west tower.
In the interior of St. Peter the visitor can see a large number of cultic works, especially from the Baroque period. The Christ, Mary and the 12 apostles, who were made around 1700 by Wolfgang Stupeler, are particularly worth mentioning. Also worth seeing is the 17th-century Pietà in the side chapel in the northern transept. Further attention-getters are the high altar with the crowning pelican figure around 1738 probably carved by the Saarlouis sculptor Ferdinand Ganal, an early Christian symbol, the stemming from the 4th century Gothic plague cross over the altar, the revolving baptismal font, or the St. Nicholas statue rediscovered and restored just a few years ago. In extensive reconstruction work in 1984/85, the paintings by the Merzig painter Heinrich Klein, which had been coated in the framework of the Second Vatican Council, were also exposed, the latter one has made them in the style of the Nazarene school after models of Eduard von Steinle.
As the most important building in our city and the only preserved Romanesque sacred building in the state of Saarland, characterises the parish church of St. Peter most of all for those coming from the east from the direction of Brotdorf the image of the core city. In spite of the many changes that St. Peter has undergone during the course of his long history through fire catastrophes, war destructions or transformations in the style of the particular zeitgeist, the church has, apart from the Westbau (west wing), kept its original shape.
Einziger erhaltener romanischer Sakralbau im Saarland
St. Peter wurde um 1200 von Wadgasser Prämonstratenserchorherren, die als Nachfolger der Augustinerchorherren 1182 nach Merzig gekommen waren, als Klosterkirche errichtet. Der Grundriss zeigt eine dreischiffige Basilika mit Querhaus, Chornebentürmen, Nebenapsiden und einem westlichen Einzelturm. Das wappenverzierte gotische Kreuzgewölbe wurde erst im 16. Jahrhundert nach einem Brand eingezogen. Im Zuge einer Renovierung in den 60er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts wurde das Nordseitenschiff um die Marienkapelle nach Westen verlängert, während das südliche Seitenschiff eine neue Eingangshalle erhielt. Besondere architektonische Aufmerksamkeit verdienen die beiden Nordportale, das kleine "Friedhofsportal" am Querhaus und das größere Haupt- und Laienportal am Seitenschiff. Im Zuge der im Dezember 2004 abgeschlossenen umfangreichen Außensanierung von St. Peter wurde das frühere Hauptportal im Westturm wieder geöffnet.
Im Innern von St. Peter erwartet den Besucher eine große Zahl kultischer Kunstwerke, vor allem aus der Zeit des Barock. Besonderes zu erwähnen sind beispielsweise die Christus, Maria und die 12 Apostel darstellenden Figuren, die um 1700 von Wolfgang Stupeler gefertigt wurden. Sehenswert ist auch die aus dem 17. Jahrhundert stammende Pietà in der Nebenkapelle im Nordquerhaus. Weitere Blickfänge sind der um 1738 vermutlich von dem Saarlouiser Bildhauer Ferdinand Ganal geschaffene Hochaltar mit der krönenden Pelikanfigur, einem frühchristlichen Symbol, das aus dem 14. Jahrhundert stammende gotische Pestkreuz über dem Altar, die Drehtaufe oder die erst vor wenigen Jahren wiederentdeckte und restaurierte Nikolausstatue. Bei umfangreichen Renovierungsarbeiten im Jahr 1984/85 wurden auch wieder die im Rahmen des II. Vatikanischen Konzils überstrichenen Malereien des Merziger Malers Heinrich Klein freigelegt, der diese nach Vorlagen von Eduard von Steinle im Stil der Nazarener Schule gefertigt hat.
Als das bedeutendste Bauwerk unserer Stadt und einziger erhaltener romanischer Sakralbau im Saarland prägt die Pfarrkirche St. Peter vor allem für die Besucher, die von Osten her aus Richtung Brotdorf kommen, das Bild der Kernstadt. Trotz der vielfältigen Veränderungen, die St. Peter im Lauf seiner langen Geschichte durch Brandkatastrophen, Kriegszerstörungen oder Umgestaltungen im Stile des jeweiligen Zeitgeistes erfahren hat, hat die Kirche, abgesehen vom Westbau, ihre ursprüngliche Gestalt weitgehend behalten.
This is a trashy smear, but it does show an extremely advanced case of the microcytic/hypochromic anemia characteristic of iron deficiency. The mean corpuscular volume (MCV) was 55 fL (reference range: 80 - 94 fL).
I'm half crazy, all for the love of you;
It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage
but you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle made for two.
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass at the Kingswells junction over A944