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Impromptu photo shoot to take her away from revision for a little while. GCSE's are proving stressful for my model so a little fresh air was in order!
Friends and family pay their respects to fallen Cpl. Jonathan D. Faircloth, an aerial observer with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 363, Marine Aircraft Group 24, during a memorial service at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii chapel, April 6, 2011. The 22-year-old Mechanicsburg, Pa., native died and three fellow HMH-363 Marines were injured when their CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter went down in Kaneohe Bay March 29. Faircloth joined the squadron in April 2007, and deployed with them to Iraq in 2008 and Afghanistan in 2010. His personal awards include four Air Strike Flight Medals, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
My way of coping with early morning night time riding. Don’t ride so much but be distracted by the new moon and the faint glow of the dawn which is about to begin and make photographs. Can you see the bright „star“ a bit above and to the right to the moon? That is actually Jupiter. Harder, and on instagram probably impossible to see is the other faint „star“ a bit to the left of the moon. That is Saturn.
Early morning after just leaving CP 2 in the Aguinane Valley. Sadly didn’t see any of it in the daylight. But I have to say I loved leaving it in the earliest of dawn with experiencing the sunrise a bit later just cresting a little pass to leave it.
Coping with a fever and the cognitive inefficiencies that go with it, but still, nice to have her back.
Watercolor on multimedia paper
We are working ourselves through grief, coping, with art. All struggling, and poor Mom- how hard to miss my Dad after 65 years together. But we are having Art Day, and it is the best salve, for now.
My sister is a wonderful artist, too, and has painted with us as well. I will leave it to her to post her marvelous work when she feels like it.
A stamp impressed into a coping brick on the wall of a front garden in Victoria Street. The Star Brick & Tile Works on Llantarnam Road was about 400 yards from this house.
A former employee of the Star Brick & Tile Co on Llantarnam Road in the 1970s has stated that Star Brick & Tile had factories in Ponthir (the Head Office), Malpas, Allt Yr Yn in Newport, Risca and Morriston, Swansea. Kelly’s of 1881 lists “The Star Brick and Tile Co Ltd, Llanvihangel-Llantarnam” (on Llantarnam Road, Cwmbran); in 1937 Kelly’s lists “Star Brick & Tile Co Ltd, Llantarnam Road, Cwmbran; Caerleon, Newport; and Risca, Newport”. The DOQ 1941-42 lists “Star Brick & Tile Co Ltd”, in the DOQ 1957-58 there is an entry “Star Brick & Tile Co Ltd; works: Penrhos works, Caerleon; Malpas Road, Newport; Altyryn, Newport; Waunvawr Works, Risca, Llantarnam Works”. The DOQ for 1973 is the last entry for the Star Brick & Tile Co, although “National Star Ltd Newport” continues to be mentioned up until the IDWM for 1978, its last entry.
'Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain', HMSO, 1920, states that “the Llantarnam works of the Star Brick & Tile Co brings fireclay from the Varteg Deep Black Vein Collieries Ltd, Varteg, Abersychan by rail (GWR). "Grog" is added consisting of old firebricks, and calcined sandstone from the company's clay pit adjacent to the works (Comment: "The Eighties") in which a fine section of red marls with interbedded sandstone is exposed. These marls furnish the materials for the red bricks and tiles manufactured by the company, who make sanitary pipes also”.
Another detail of the Soham skatepark. For the most part the park has a wonderful clean look, but there is some bits of grime there that provide a contrast to the rest of it.
It's a tough life for him on the street. Somehow he's managed to secure decent crutches, perhaps through some social welfare agency.
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History
Thalidomide was created by Grünenthal in 1953 and was used in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a "wonder drug" to treat morning sickness, headaches, coughs, insomnia and colds. Thalidomide was marketed in the UK under the name Distaval in 1958, and advertisements emphasized the drug's complete safety, using phrases such as “non-toxic” and “no known toxicity”.
However, in 1961 an Australian doctor, William McBride, wrote to the Lancet after noticing an increase in deformed babies being born at his hospital – all to mothers who had taken Thalidomide.
Between 1958 and 1962 tens of thousands of women throughout Europe found that the baby they were carrying unaccountably miscarried, or, worse, after they gave birth were told it was stillborn. Thousands more discovered that their babies had severe birth defects, missing arms, legs, or with severe reductions to these limbs, or even worse, damage to their internal organs, brain, heart, kidneys, intestines, genitals, etc. During 1962 record keepers began to count all of the children living who were born damaged by the drug. The only complete records are of those who survived long enough to participate in the national compensation schemes, which were established in Germany, Britain, Japan, Sweden and Australia in the 1970s. The difficulty in uncovering the full toll of the disaster begins with the unknown numbers of miscarriages and stillbirths (possibly up to ten times the number of live births), and the widespread practice of infanticide.
The Thalidomide injuries did not stop once the babies were born. At the age of fifty, the Thalidomide Trust’s records show that around half of all survivors are coping with chronic pain – mainly from muscles and joints (musculo-skeletal pain), largely as a result of the challenges of living with missing or damaged limbs. For many, their bodies are deteriorating far faster than able-bodied people. Several have been told words to the effect “your body is getting the problems of someone in their seventies”, which at forty to fifty years of age is not good news. At least a quarter are coping with developing neurological problems, tingling, numbness, and pain in their affected limbs. This means that a person may be holding a cup, for instance, and the next thing they know is it has fallen to the floor and broken, because of the numbness in their hand. For these survivors, the disaster is still slowly unfolding in their day-to-day lives.
Grünenthal scientists were not only negligent in failing to withdraw the drug when reports of problems came in, or for failing to test it according to the standards of the time, but more than most companies they were very well placed to anticipate the possibility that Thalidomide would cause birth defects.
Grünenthal initially denied claims that the drug hadn’t been extensively tested according to the standards of the time, but once the scandal became undeniable, they sought to deflect blame and limit damage.
In 1961 Thalidomide was eventually withdrawn after being found to be a teratogan - a cause of birth defects. 12 years later, the UK company Distillers Biochemicals Limited (now Diageo) – which was responsible for distributing the drug in the UK – reached a compensation settlement following a legal battle by the families of those affected.
Based on incomplete medical evidence and unrealistic expectations of Thalidomide survivors future needs this settlement has turned out to be at an inadequate level. With all Thalidomide survivors in the UK now over the age of 50, it is no longer sufficient to deal with their rising cost of living, and the dramatic deterioration of their health.
To this day, Grünenthal have never accepted responsibility for the suffering caused by Thalidomide. On September 1st 2012, The Grünenthal Group released a statement containing an apology, stating that it "regrets" the consequences of the drug, which led to babies being born without limbs during the 1950s and 1960s. Although the statement was welcomed by some Thalidomide survivors, it is still not an acceptance of responsibility. They just want to live a comfortable life, and that means Grünenthal should be held accountable and pay for their mistake financially.
Spanish
Historia
La talidomida fue creado por Grünenthal en 1953 y fue utilizado a finales de 1950 y principios de 1960 como una "droga milagrosa" para el tratamiento de las náuseas, dolores de cabeza, tos, insomnio y resfriados. La talidomida fue comercializada en el Reino Unido bajo el nombre Distaval en 1958, y destacó los anuncios de seguridad completa del medicamento, utilizando frases como "no tóxico" y "no hay toxicidad conocida".
Sin embargo, en 1961 un médico australiano, William McBride, escribió a la revista The Lancet después de notar un aumento en los bebés que nacen deformes en su hospital - todo a las madres que habían tomado Talidomida.
Entre 1958 y 1962, decenas de miles de mujeres de toda Europa descubrieron que el bebé que llevaban inexplicablemente abortado, o, peor aún, después de dar a luz se les dijo que estaba muerto. Miles de personas descubrieron que sus bebés nacieron con defectos congénitos graves, los brazos, las piernas, que faltan o con reducciones severas a estos miembros, o peor aún, el daño a sus órganos internos, cerebro, corazón, riñones, intestinos, genitales, etc Durante 1962 guardianes de los registros empezó a contar toda la vida los niños que nacieron dañado por la droga. Los únicos registros completos son de los que sobrevivieron lo suficiente como para participar en los sistemas nacionales de indemnización, que se establecieron en Alemania, Gran Bretaña, Japón, Suecia y Australia en la década de 1970. La dificultad para descubrir el número de víctimas del desastre comienza con los números desconocidos de abortos involuntarios y mortinatos (posiblemente hasta diez veces el número de nacidos vivos), y la práctica generalizada del infanticidio.
Las lesiones de la talidomida no se detuvo una vez que los bebés nacieron. A la edad de cincuenta años, los registros de la confianza talidomida muestran que cerca de la mitad de todos los sobrevivientes están lidiando con el dolor crónico - principalmente de músculos y articulaciones (dolor musculoesquelético), en gran parte como resultado de los desafíos de vivir con la falta o ramas dañadas. Para muchos, sus cuerpos se deterioran mucho más rápido que las personas sanas. Algunos han dicho palabras en el sentido de "su cuerpo está recibiendo los problemas de alguien en los setenta", que a los cuarenta o cincuenta años de edad no es una buena noticia. Al menos una cuarta están lidiando con el desarrollo de problemas neurológicos, hormigueo, entumecimiento y dolor en las extremidades afectadas. Esto significa que una persona puede ser la celebración de una taza, por ejemplo, y lo siguiente que sé es que ha caído al suelo y se rompe, debido a la sensación de adormecimiento en la mano. Para estos sobrevivientes, el desastre está siendo poco a poco se desarrolla en su día a día.
Grünenthal científicos no sólo fueron negligentes al no haber retirado la droga cuando los informes de problemas de vino, o por no probarlo de acuerdo a los estándares de la época, pero más que la mayoría de las empresas que estaban muy bien situados para prever la posibilidad de que la talidomida haría causar defectos de nacimiento.
Grünenthal inicialmente negó las acusaciones de que el medicamento no ha sido ampliamente probado de acuerdo con los estándares de la época, pero una vez que el escándalo se hizo innegable, trataron de desviar la culpa y limitar el daño.
En 1961, la talidomida fue finalmente retirada después de haber sido encontrado para ser un teratogan - una de las causas de los defectos congénitos. 12 años después, el Reino Unido, Distillers Company Limited (ahora Bioquímicos Diageo) - encargada de la distribución de la droga en el Reino Unido - llegó a un acuerdo de compensación después de una batalla legal por las familias de los afectados.
Sobre la base de evidencia incompleta médica y expectativas poco realistas de la talidomida futuro sobrevivientes necesita esta solución ha resultado ser en un nivel adecuado. Con todos los sobrevivientes de la talidomida en el Reino Unido ahora más de 50 años de edad, ya no es suficiente para hacer frente a su creciente costo de vida, y el dramático deterioro de su salud.
A día de hoy, Grünenthal nunca ha aceptado la responsabilidad por el sufrimiento causado por la talidomida. El 1 de septiembre de 2012, el Grupo Grünenthal emitió una declaración que contenga una disculpa, diciendo que "lamenta" las consecuencias de la droga, lo que llevó a los bebés que nacen sin extremidades durante los años 1950 y 1960. Aunque la declaración fue bien recibida por algunos sobrevivientes de la talidomida, no es todavía una aceptación de responsabilidad. Ellos sólo quieren vivir una vida cómoda, y eso quiere decir Grünenthal deben rendir cuentas y pagar por su error financieramente.
Italian
Storia
La talidomide è stato creato da Grünenthal nel 1953 ed è stato utilizzato alla fine del 1950 e 1960 come un "farmaco miracoloso" per curare la malattia di mattina, mal di testa, tosse, insonnia e raffreddori. La talidomide è stato commercializzato nel Regno Unito con il nome di Distaval nel 1958, e la pubblicità ha sottolineato sicurezza del farmaco, con frasi come "non tossico" e "nessuna tossicità conosciuto".
Tuttavia, nel 1961 un medico australiano, William McBride, ha scritto al Lancet dopo aver notato un aumento delle nascite di bimbi malformati essendo nati a suo ospedale - tutti da madri che avevano assunto talidomide.
Tra il 1958 e il 1962 decine di migliaia di donne in tutta Europa ha scoperto che il bambino che portavano inspiegabilmente abortito, o, peggio, dopo che ha dato alla luce hanno detto che era morto. Altre migliaia hanno scoperto che i loro bambini hanno gravi difetti di nascita, braccia, gambe, mancanti o con gravi riduzioni a queste arti, o peggio ancora, danni ai loro organi interni, cervello, cuore, reni, intestino, genitali, ecc Nel 1962 custodi record cominciò a contare tutta la vita i bambini che sono nati danneggiati dal farmaco. Le uniche registrazioni complete sono di coloro che sono sopravvissuti abbastanza a lungo per partecipare ai sistemi di indennizzo nazionali, che sono stati stabiliti in Germania, Gran Bretagna, Giappone, Svezia e Australia nel 1970. La difficoltà nello scoprire il bilancio del disastro inizia con i numeri sconosciuti di aborti spontanei e nati morti (forse fino a dieci volte il numero di nati vivi), e la pratica diffusa di infanticidio.
Le lesioni Talidomide non si è fermata una volta che i bambini sono nati. All'età di 50, del Trust talidomide i tabulati mostrano che circa la metà di tutti i sopravvissuti stanno affrontando con dolore cronico - principalmente da muscoli e le articolazioni (il dolore muscoloscheletrico), soprattutto a causa delle sfide della vita con mancanti o arti danneggiati. Per molti, i loro corpi si stanno deteriorando molto più veloce di persone abili. Molti hanno detto parole per l'effetto "il tuo corpo è sempre il problema di qualcuno nei loro anni settanta", che a 40-50 anni di età non è una buona notizia. Almeno un quarto stanno affrontando con lo sviluppo di problemi neurologici, formicolio, intorpidimento e dolore a carico degli arti colpiti. Ciò significa che una persona può essere in possesso di un tazza, per esempio, e la prossima cosa che so è che è caduto a terra e rotto, a causa del torpore in mano. Per questi sopravvissuti, il disastro è ancora lentamente svolgendo nel loro giorno per giorno la vita.
Grünenthal scienziati non erano solo negligenza nel non ritirare il farmaco quando i report di problemi è venuto in, o per non aver testarlo secondo gli standard del tempo, ma più che la maggior parte delle aziende erano molto ben disposti ad anticipare la possibilità che Thalidomide avrebbe causare difetti di nascita.
Grünenthal inizialmente smentito che il farmaco non era stato ampiamente testati secondo gli standard del tempo, ma una volta che lo scandalo è diventata innegabile, hanno cercato di deviare la colpa e di limitare i danni.
Nel 1961 talidomide è stata infine ritirata dopo essere stato trovato per essere un teratogan - una causa di difetti di nascita. 12 anni dopo, i Distillers Company Limited, Regno Unito Biochemicals (ora Diageo) - incaricata di distribuire il farmaco nel Regno Unito - ha raggiunto un accordo di compensazione a seguito di una battaglia legale da parte delle famiglie delle persone colpite.
Sulla base di prove mediche incomplete e le aspettative non realistiche del futuro Thalidomide sopravvissuti ha bisogno di questa soluzione si è rivelata essere ad un livello insufficiente. Con tutti i sopravvissuti Talidomide nel Regno Unito ora di età superiore ai 50 anni, non è più sufficiente per affrontare la loro crescente costo della vita, e il drammatico deterioramento della loro salute.
Fino ad oggi, la Grünenthal non hanno mai accettato la responsabilità per la sofferenza causata dal talidomide. Il 1 ° settembre 2012, il Gruppo Grünenthal ha rilasciato una dichiarazione che contiene delle scuse, affermando che esso "deplora" le conseguenze della droga, che ha portato a bambini nati senza arti nel corso del 1950 e 1960. Anche se la dichiarazione è stata accolta da alcuni sopravvissuti talidomide, non è ancora una assunzione di responsabilità. Vogliono solo vivere una vita comoda, e questo significa che Grünenthal dovrebbero essere ritenuti responsabili e pagare per il loro errore finanziario.
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Shooting in Carlsbad Cavern is incredibly challenging. The low light conditions, of course, present their own challenges, especially with the mixed lighting seen here. The hardest part, though, is coping with the narrow walkways and endless streams of fellow tourists. You just don't have much room to maneuver your tripod.
This extraordinary thing, almost 3.5 metres across, is one of the three 'Or Nué' copes that form part of the Vestments of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Designed between 1433 and 1442 by Robert Campin and commissioned by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, they took about 30 years to make and are almost certainly the most expensive pieces of clothing ever made. Composed of a linen base completely covered with silk, gold and silver thread and many thousands of seed pearls - in some places there are over a thousand hand-stitches to an inch.
Now in the Kaiserliche Schatzkammer of the Hofburg, Vienna.
They are kept in a very dark room, for obvious reasons, and are almost impossible to photograph well.
Young refugees from Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) guarding a refugee camp in Doroi, Mozambique. By early 1978, the refugee camps in Mozambique had accommodated over 40,000 people.
01/01/1977. Doroi, Mozambique. UN Photo/S. di Bagno. www.un.org/av/photo/
Having a child is one of the most important decisions in one’s life where one has to take into consideration the entire history of the world, and it’s current picture so as not to freak out over bringing a new life into this world.
A lot of marriages go through troubled times when partners discover that their loved one lacks the ability to reproduce. This can make or break a marriage and destroy all love and affection for a person if the desire to have children is boundless.
Refugees at the Lumbhini Transit Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. There are about 2,000 refugees in this camp from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos and the will be going to the United States, Canada, Italy and France.
01/07/1979. Bangkok, Thailand. UN Photo/John Isaac. www.un.org/av/photo/
Stubbornness is often said
To be a trait we all should dread.
Sometimes though it’s plain to see
It watches over you and me.
Look at the beauty a lighthouse gives
Brightening shores where ‘ere you live.
We take for granted that pretty sight
When seen by day, but what by night?
Storms roll in to blast the shore
And seem the worst when people snore.
When most people go to bed
There still is a lot to be said.
Lighthouse keepers look up to skies of gray.
Storm clouds make the moon go away.
Sea’s roll in, smashing water high
As if raining upward into the sky.
Temperatures fall, making water ice.
All burrow in, even the mice.
Ice coats sidewalks, catwalks, rails,
Windows and foghorn, stopping the mails.
When pea soup fog came rolling in
Engines were cut amid foghorns’ din.
Flu season be damned, they went about
Assuring their horn’s mighty shout.
Summer, winter, spring and fall
Regardless of weather, through it all
Lighthouse keepers tended lights and horn.
From all dangers, strangers were warned.
Anonymous lighthouse keepers kept the watch
Whether healthy or well, battening the hatch.
Lesser men couldn’t take what they got
But lighthouse keepers were a stubborn lot.
More men would have died, and women too,
If lighthouse keepers relied on brew.
Instead they faithfully kept light and horn
Through the night and into the morn.
Their faith in God and service to man
Stand many times taller than
The tallest lighthouse tower you see
As a tower of power for you and me.
So while you pass a lighthouse tower
Think of behind the scene power
Of a stubborn man braving nature’s fury
Protecting strangers, no favor to curry.
Loneliness broken by wife and kids,
To some it would be hitting the skids.
Lighthouse keepers stayed firm on the rock,
Sometimes with a boat on the dock.
Lighthouse keepers were saving souls
By light, horn, and boat, what ‘ere nature doles.
Thanks were anonymous as sailors passed by
But better that, than for sailors to die.
The Lighthouse Service filled a great need.
Motivated by service, never by greed.
Though they reached the end of their time
It would positively be a crime.
If we didn’t take the time to say
“Thank you for being there night and day.
As you retire and take your rest
Know your example was of man’s best.”
We kids who lived in lights with you
Could see firsthand all you do,
Your coping with every kind of strife
Taught we kids how to deal with life.
··· Michael Bauchan
ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. Opinion - How Italy Coped, and Will Keep Coping. THE NEW YORK TIMES (04/05/2020).
ITALY - How Italy Coped, and Will Keep Coping. As Italians move toward a less stringent regimen to minimize their exposure to the coronavirus, they can take pride in an unusual collective effort.
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"Il grazie di tutti gli italiani a medici, infermieri, oss, farmacisti e a tutti coloro che direttamente e indirettamente stanno mettendo tutte le proprie energie per proteggere la nostra vita e quella dei nostri cari. Siete più che eroi".
Sig. Savethewall (nome d'arte di Pierpaolo Perretta), in: La Pietà di Michelangelo racconta l'emergenza coronavirus. La Repubblica / Milano (24/03/2020).
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CREMA, Italy — The first country outside Asia to experience the coronavirus pandemic on a large scale was Italy. It was the first to go into lockdown and impose a national quarantine, on March 9. And it is the part of Europe that suffered most. As of May 3, 29,000 people were known to have lost their lives because of Covid-19. The actual figures are likely to be higher, as they will be everywhere else. My northern region — Lombardy, Italy’s economic powerhouse — has registered half of the country’s deaths. Army truck convoys carried coffins to crematories around the country from Bergamo — where the death rate in March and April rose to more than four times what it was last year. Brescia, Lodi, Cremona and Crema — where I live — were also deeply affected. My hometown has been a ghost town for two months. People moaned but stayed at home.
On Monday, Italy started reopening, but cautiously. Limited outdoor activity will be allowed, and visits to relatives, partners and lovers (“affetti stabili,” the government called them, opening a national debate about what makes your affections stable). Factories and construction companies are allowed to go back to work. On May 18, it will be the turn of shops. On June 1, if the contagion rate stays down, bars and restaurants will reopen. Schools, stadiums, theaters and churches will remain closed. Face masks will be compulsory on public transportation and in confined public spaces. More coronavirus tests are available, and a contact-tracing app, based on Bluetooth technology, should be near distribution.
The path that Italy strode before getting to this point has repeated itself in every coronavira-stricken country. First, the underestimation; then the disbelief, the shock, the lockdown. Next, jokes shared on smartphones, mood swings, the reassurance of the national anthem. At that point, after two weeks of lockdown, reality kicked in. We realized that the challenge was a long-distance run, and we started running.
Here in Crema the hospital was being overwhelmed by patients, many needing intensive care; the Italian Army built a field hospital in a week, and a Cuban medical brigade, composed of 52 doctors and nurses, arrived on March 26. For the next three weeks — until after Easter — ambulance sirens filled the air under blue skies, blooming trees and the loveliest spring for years.
Now that we are beginning to relax the lockdown — cautiously, anxiously — perhaps we can say it: Italy coped. The national health system sustained the impact, although 153 doctors and over 50 nurses lost their lives, and thousands were infected. Sixty million people stayed at home and, by and large, followed the rules. That was a surprise, given our reputation for being undisciplined.
But is it surprising?
In Italy rules are not obeyed — or disobeyed — as they are elsewhere. We think it’s an insult to our intelligence to comply with a regulation without questioning it first. We want to decide whether a particular rule or regulation applies to our specific case. Once we’ve established that it does, we’ll respect it. With Covid-19, we decided the lockdown made sense — so there was no need to enforce it.
We coped because we found other resources that were always there: realism, inventiveness, extended families, solidarity, memories. The architect Carlo Ratti, director of the M.I.T. SENSEable City Lab, who’s from Turin, puts it this way: “For centuries, invaders — the Spanish, the French, the Austrians, the Germans — held authority over we Italians. Now we are the authority; the invader is a nasty virus. Bonding was the obvious thing to do.”
We are a social bunch, and the web just provided us with extra tools. Family and personal relationships — whose importance in Italian life cannot be underestimated — helped a lot in this crisis. Men cooked for their families with the help of their children, while mothers became part-time teachers. Friends sought out friends; if they were unwell, even more so. Aperitivo on the balcony — toasting with your neighbors — was no one-off Instagram occasion; for many, especially people living alone, it became a regular, soothing way to end a nerve-racking day.
Italy has the largest share of people older than 80 among all European Union member nations. Half the deaths happened in nursing homes, as in other countries. But many grandparents live at home, often near their grown-up children; they spend time with their grandchildren and often replace babysitters. This time they had to stay away, of course, for fear of contagion. But they learned quickly how to help by supporting their children’s families financially from their own safe homes and tried to cheer them up. Most learned new tricks — Zoom and FaceTime have no secrets for Italian grandparents.
A pandemic, like any major crisis, is revealing. It’s a lie detector for individuals and for nations. People can bluff for a day, a week, maybe a month, but not throughout a time like this.
American culture has a libertarian streak and there it was last week, from Michigan to Pennsylvania, asking for “reopening,” encouraged by the president who had ordered the restrictions. The French have always shown a flair for protest and unrest, and they duly arrived, in their suburbs, following lockdown restrictions. Swedes believe in an open society, and they were the last to close, reluctantly. Quite a few Britons, lately, have come to believe in conspiracy theories. The burning down of phone towers there, in the grotesque fear that 5G cellular networks helped to spread the virus, proves the point.
Fonte / source:
--- THE NEW YORK TIMES (04/05/2020).
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/opinion/italy-coronavirus.html
--- THE NEW YORK TIMES (23/02/2020).
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--- La Pietà di Michelangelo racconta l'emergenza coronavirus. La Repubblica / Milano (24/03/2020).
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1). ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA E RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. ROME – THE IMPERIAL FORA: SCHOLARLY RESEARCH & RELATED STUDIES (2010-2020).
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2). ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA E RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2020.
ROME – THE IMPERIAL FORA: SCHOLARLY RESEARCH & RELATED STUDIES.
Day 1
This year, I was inspired by Bo Burnham's inside to stay in a single room for all the shots this month. The room I chose was the bathroom--just tiny enough to force me to be creative and think outside of the box...
Last year, after Photober, a bunch of my equipment died. Right before October, I went out and bought a new RGB ring light, which I can't wait to experiment with. Pretty much everything will use that ring light or my old LED video light I bought years ago.
This photo was set up in the bathtub! I took a behind the scenes photo of the setup, which you can find on my instagram, kaldec_
I still can't believe I was able to fit in there with all my equipment >:]
As for the coping mechanism...I have recently turned to collecting J-fashion brand bags, such as Usakumyas and Kumakumyas from BTSSB. This year, I've amassed a thick collection. The main reason I turned to these guys instead of my usual jacket collection is that I just don't fit the jackets anymore. This has really brought me down since I already have those jackets in the largest size. What do you do when you can't wear a fashion that brings you joy? You collect the stuffed animals and bags, of course.
Day 15
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As a way to cope with circumstances beyond my control, survive and work to keep fighting for life I decided to try to take at least one photo (or more) each day. I call this “a photo (or more) a day.” Practicing this form of therapeutic photography helps me work to focus on the present moment, gives me something familiar and enjoyable to focus on as I use photography skills that have become like second-nature to me and being able to view the images I capture helps me recall what I was thinking, feeling and noticing at the moment when I created the photos. More of the photos from this series can be seen on my Instagram account
I may not always have the energy, time or capacity to share photos from this series—especially with the very challenging circumstances my family and I are experiencing—and will do my best to continue taking a photo (or more) a day even if I’m not able to share.
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Mandara, Harare, Zimbabwe.
The resident pair have raised three youngsters and are having a job coping with triplets. This chap was found on the ground among some maize plants. He was then returned to the hedge.
Would it be rude to flash this all day? I'm tired of being judged... It's not my fault. There are those to blame, but they are not me.
www.vastec-usa.com, Ph: 888-282-7832, This photo set shows how to install VASTEC USA's Coping For Fiberglass Pools, an easy alternative to styrofoam cantilever concrete deck forms. We developed this coping so we could install more fiberglass swimming pools and so we didnt have to get into the pool (in the winter) to finish the cantilever edge. Turns out it's great for the do-it-yourself homeowner also. There's also a video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/vastecusa
I feel like im coping too well now, Connor changed his relationship on facebook last night and I did mine this morning, I refuse to go on his though as i get upset far too easily, my mum and best friend told me he got two comments saying non(i dont know what this means two people told me it means no and someone else said it means now or never) from his cousin and another one was hes friend saying they can do more training so there hasnt been anything nasty but 8 people have liked mine I feel its a bit cruel, two of them being my sisters and one being my best friend then the others clearly being boys but idk i have bad vibes lol that somethings gonna go wrong. Ive kissed a boy since we broke up, a few boys on my case and yeah thats my life story since i was last on here lol, if anyone wants to know anything or whatever you can mail me :-)
on this all the time, my blog- w0rship-satan.tumblr.com/
I have the moving gif version of this picture on there, its this one and another one of me poking my tongue out, if you wanna see then you click on 'my face' on the left hand side :)
My beautiful baby, Charlie of Doom, left us forever yesterday.
The tumour that caused the hyperthyroidism he'd been coping very well with for the last 2.5 years sadly turned, very recently, into an aggressive cancer. The only indication was a mysterious case of chronic hiccups that started plaguing him just over a month ago. Endless investigation revealed nothing - all his bloodwork was perfect, he was strong, xrays revealed nothing. Eventually an endoscopy discovered his trachea was being severely constricted by something, and manual examination revealed that tumour had grown considerably in a short space of time.
He was referred to a soft tissue specialist, who arranged for surgery yesterday to try to remove it, if for no other reason than to improve his quality of life and give him a little more time for purrs and strokes. What she found was far more invasive than we expected. It had begun to grow into his lymph passages, indicating cells would be travelling around his body, and had also wrapped around the nerves in his neck. While she was able to remove most of the tumour, his larynx was damaged by such close proximity to those nerves, and he would have required a trachy tube to breathe. That, coupled with the prospect of continued chemo and a very difficult surgery recovery, made it clear we had to let him go. He'd always been an anxious cat, and the previous 2.5 years of vet visits as his hyperthyroidism had the odd stabilisation problem - plus the removal of almost all his teeth - had unfortunately traumatised him quite badly. Had he been a different cat, perhaps it would have been possible to treat him confidently with the understanding he'd be okay, tolerate it well, and be able to have those few weeks of purrs before the end. But sadly his fear and anxiety meant the treatment would have caused him nothing but suffering, and that's not the way his final weeks or even months should have been spent.
It has broken my heart to let him go. He's been my entire world for so long, particularly so since he became ill in 2013. Everything I did was framed with consideration for him. Every time I got out of bed in the morning it was because he was quite insistent that it was time for food and I really should stop being lazy. Every time I cooked a meal it was with an eye on the clock so I could get it finished and eaten before it was time to give him his daily medication. At night as I went to bed, I had to do a sweep of the house to make sure I'd left nothing lying around he could eat (he loved plastic, much to his detriment). All cables and important things had to be cleared away, in case his illness made him vomit on them in the night. It really is no exaggeration to say every part of my day was framed by him.
That's not the only reason it'll be so hard to adjust to him not being here. I've long struggled with mild depression, and in recent years anxiety. I'm a very private person, and even the people I love the most only get let in a certain amount. But Charlie, he was there for me every day. Just seeing him insist I lay a blanket on my lap on the hottest day of the year so he could climb on and be stroked while he purred like a tractor gave me a sort of strength. And of course, caring for him over the last few years gave me purpose.
15 years is a long time to love someone, to live a symbiotic life with them. I know the pain will ease. I know the constant second-guessing I'm doing will slowly stop. I'm doing what I can to try to give myself new focus. For example, I've set myself the goal to ensure I go for a walk every morning before 9.30am, because otherwise what would be the point getting up?
I know this kind of pain and these thoughts will go in time. But for now it's so very difficult.
I'm writing this here, despite not being active on this account anymore, because over the years I posted photos of Charlie, and many of you who followed me back then got to know him virtually, through those photos. I have my 'Monkey' album (his nickname), and it feels right to have one last picture in here. This was taken a few months ago. After he had his teeth out last September his tongue rarely knew what to do with itself anymore.
To my darling Charlie, I love you more than I could ever say. I think you knew that. I'm so very, very sorry the way it ended. I'll never get over the stress you felt in the last couple of days, having been taken to the specialist, being away from me. This was the last thing I ever wanted to happen to you. I'm so sorry. I love you, Charlie. May you find eternal peace and as many cans of tuna as you can possibly eat. <3
Heading to Penmon Point to see the lighthouse. Around here is a toll booth, that you have to pay go get onto the toll road. We were told about Penmon Priory.
Took these photos before we went towards the lighthouse. We would later come back and have a look around after our visit to Penmon Point.
The monastery (called St. Seiriol's monastery) grew in size and had a wooden church building by the 10th century. This wooden building was, however, destroyed in 971 and then rebuilt in the 12th century in stone, from 1120 to 1123. The oldest parts of the Priory Church of St Seiriol date to 1140. It survived the initial Norman invasion of Gwynedd between 1081 and 1100, defended by Prince Gruffudd ap Cynan of Gwynedd. The priory church was enlarged in the early 13th century, at the time of the Augustinian Rule. There are records for the election of Priors in the Calendar of Patent Rolls back to 1306, when one Iowerth the Prior is mentioned. The dining hall was on the first floor, with a cellar below and dormitory above. In the 16th century, a kitchen and a warming house were added at the east of the building. The eastern range of buildings has gone, but the southern one, containing the refectory with a dormitory above, still stands.
Llywelyn Fawr and his successors made the church wealthy, giving it land. This was taken away at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 but the church survived. The priory was in decline before 1536 in any event, and had only the Prior and two other members at that time.
St. Seiriol's Church, which was the centrepiece of the monastery, is now part of the Rectorial benefice of Beaumaris, within the Diocese of Bangor. The church was given a grant by the Welsh Assembly Government of £20,570 in May 2004. This was to repair the leadwork, the rainwater goods, repointing and limewashing of the tower roof and the superstructure of the building. Another building in Penmon, the Priory House (which is set around the cloister court of the church), received £21,600. This was to repair the chimneys, the walls, the windows and the roof of the house.
St Seiriol Priory Church
Grade I Listed Building
History
The Church is said to have been founded in the first half of the C6 by Cynlais, who placed it in the charge of his brother Seiriol. The oldest part of the present building is the nave, built during the early years of the reign of Owain Gwynedd, c.1140, and in 1160-70 the central tower and transepts were added. In 1237 Llewelyn ap Gruffydd (Fawr) granted the monastery to the Prior and cannons of Priestholm (Puffin Island). The Prior transferred his seat, built a large new chancel to replace the original and a cloister to the S around which domestic buildings were arranged. By 1414 it had become the Priory Church of St Augustine. The chancel was rebuilt in the C15 and again during the 1853-5 restoration by Weightman and Hadfield; the N transept and E wall of the S transept were also rebuilt at this time.
The interior of the church contains some re-set C12 stones, and the E window in the S transept re-uses some C15 glass from the earlier chancel window. The chancel contains a C13 weathered bronze which was found near the altar when the chancel was rebuilt in the mid C19.
Exterior
Priory Church built to a cruciform plan, with central tower over crossing. Stone built with mid C19 and later slate roof with cross gable finial at chancel; pyramidal stone roof to tower. The oldest part of the church is the C12 nave of 2 bays. The N wall has a restored chamfered plinth and an original pilaster-buttress with modern coping, E of which is an original window with round head. The C13 N doorway has chamfered jambs and a shouldered arch. The S wall has plinth and buttress similar to that of the N wall and opposing openings with similar window. The original S doorway has jambs of 2 orders, the inner square, the outer with detached shafts with scalloped capitals and roll-moulded bases. The arch is of a single roll-moulded order enclosing a tympanum on which is carved a beast with head turned backward biting its forked tail; a band of 4-cord interlaced work forms the border. The W wall has a chamfered plinth and an original round-headed window with round rear-arch.
The mid C12 central tower is square in plan, 2 stages and surmounted by a squat pyramidal stone spire with roof of small old slates; the 2nd stage string is a mid C19 addition. Only the upper stage is visible from the outside of the church; it has a window in each wall of 2 round-headed lights, the central columns with cushion capitals and square bases (those in S and W walls are replacements).
The S transept is contemporary with the central tower, the E wall rebuilt during the mid C19 restoration. The S wall has an original window with later blocking. The N transept was rebuilt on the original foundations in the mid C19, paired round-headed lights in the N gable and round-arched light in the E wall as for the S transept.
The chancel was rebuilt in 1855; 2 bays each with paired trefoiled lights and pointed arched doorway in the SE angle under a timber porch on stone walling. The doorway has hollow chamfered jambs of 2 orders. The E window has cusped tracery over 3-trefoil lights in a pointed arched frame with hoodmould.
Interior
The C12 nave has deeply recessed windows with widely splayed reveals set high in the walls. The font stands at the W end of the nave: c1000, originally the base of a cross returned from Beaumaris in the C19, square in plan and tapering to the top, 3 of the sides decorated with Celtic fret, diaper, key pattern and triquetra knots; the 4th side plain. C12 pillar piscina; a rectangular stem with a scalloped and foliated cap and roll-moulded base.
Above the tower arch in the E wall of the nave are 3 carved stones; 2 with human faces, the 3rd with 2 faces, probably C12. The lower stage of the tower has a round crossing arch in each wall, all original except for that in the N wall, rebuilt during the mid C19 restoration. The E arch has square jambs and plain impost; masonry plastered. The S arch has jambs of a single order, square on the S and with attached shafts on the N; with scalloped capitals and roll-moulded bases, the E shaft is semi-hexagonal and decorated with chevrons, the arch plain on the S side and decorated with bands of chequer, chevron and bead-and-reel on the N. The W arch has plain jambs to the E and of 2 orders to the W, each with attached shafts, the outer round, the inner chamfered or grooved,with roll-moulded bases; 3 capitals are crudely carved, the fourth scalloped. The chamfered imposts are enriched with semi-circles, triangles and zig-zags. The outer order of the arch is decorated with chequer and chevrons, the inner roll-moulded. The 2nd stage of the tower has a small window in the S wall, opening into the transept; with round rear arch and splayed reveals.
Along the S and W walls of the S transept is an arcade of round arches, 5 to each wall, carried on attached shafts with scalloped capitals, chamfered imposts and roll-moulded bases on chamfered plinths; the arches vary in width and are decorated with chevrons. Most of the shafts are round, some with central bands; 2 on the W wall are square with chevron enrichment, and 1 in the SW corner is twisted. Above the arcade is a moulded string. Built into the mid C19 E wall of the S transept is a wheel cross, formerly sited at the apex of the tower. The mid C19 E window represents St Christopher and St Seiriol and has re-set within it 7 fragments of the C15 E chancel window.
Also re-set into the walls of the S transept are 2 carved stones, one a C12 'Sheila-na-gig', a weathered figure of a woman with legs apart; the other a Medieval depiction of a bearded man's head and shoulders with axe held in his right hand.
Standing in the S transept is a cross, c1000, which was formerly used as a window lintel in the refectory. The shaft and head of the cross are a single stone; now with a modern base. The N and S faces of the cross are decorated with Celtic knotwork and key-pattern designs; edge panels terminating in beasts' heads.
Set into the N wall of the chancel is a C12 plain latin cross and displayed in a glass case is a C13 bronze plaque of Limoges enamel depicting a demi-figure of Our Lord with a red nimbus, his right arm raised in benediction. Re-set into the S wall of the chancel are several C12 stones decorated with chevrons.
There are a number of C17 and C18 memorials including one bearing the arms of Wilsford, a chevron engrailed between 3 leopards' heads and flanked by a winged hour glass and a skull, to Sir Thomas Wilsford of Ildinge, Kent d1645.
Reasons for Listing
Listed as the church of an important early monastic foundation with substantial high quality work of the C12, housing a series of important Christian stones; the centre piece of a monastic estate which includes the surrounding conventual buildings, the nearby holy well and cell and also the monastic remains at Ynys Seiriol.
Ancient Monument No 1/1838/AN 027 (ANG) G.
Buildings next to the church was the south range of Penmon Priory.