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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.
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
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
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.
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 :)
The smooth surface of the Marina Bullnose Coping Unit offers many opportunities that are only limited by your imagination. Whether you are looking for something to surround your pool or searching for a unique step application, the Marina coping will complement many of the pavers and walls within the Belgard collection.
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.
If you would like to support my work and my family, one way you can do so is by ordering my zines:
Master your craft! Katz roadshow in action at JLC Live in Providence. On a mission to teach builders proper installation techniques, learn more at www.katzroadshow.com/
I think the ferns are Maidenhair Spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)
Tenacious plants growing on next to nothing, they must be good at holding on to water.
A wall on Inch Abbey. discovernorthernireland.com/things-to-do/inch-abbey-p675371 beside where I live
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - King Of Stone
A Vietnamese mother with child in a refugee camp on Koh Paed Island.
01/01/1978. Koh Paed, Laeom Sing, Thailand. UN Photo/Saw Lwin. www.un.org/av/photo/
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Hooray for GMO technology. It can only lead to better places and bigger things. In the future, hummingbirds produce humdingers, not eggs. They're (the eggs) simply huge. Now THAT'S progress!
Since I often have no words or can’t even speak, I tried to capture one aspect of how I feel due to the awful, ongoing effects of experiencing unspeakable trauma—“blocked off,” trapped, isolated, alone, “figuratively disfigured,” stuck in the dark with perhaps some distant light noticeable once in a while, awful.
After creating these self portraits I was compelled to find a way to print these photos at home so I could share them with my psychologist at my neurofeedback therapy appointment—I write out and take notes since I’m not able to talk much and felt these photos would supplement my writing and perhaps give a look into how I feel.
Once I had processed the photos and decided on a sequence for the images, I noticed they seemed to show me a progression—the first image being completely stuck in a state of panic, shut down, hardly surviving, believing I’m not allowed to and not really being able to even try to look for help or support. And in the progression I came up with, the pictures seemed to show me a story—my own story—of very slowly, over time becoming more courageous, stronger, showing more awareness, more capacity and drive to fight for survival, life, growth and healing.
Since most of our belongings are packed up and in storage I don’t have access to much and I was able to find some (very lightweight) sewing thread and a very flimsy needle my daughter had here with her and I used our low budget home printer to create this little collection of photos. Normally I wouldn’t use such low quality items for something like this. I didn’t have much to work with and I was determined to not let this completely stop me from creating. I have since made a few more little photo collections like this and this practice and process has been very helpful in my coping and healing journey. I’m so thankful I gave this a try and for how I find this process to be therapeutic and how it helps me continue to grow.
[self portraits created on 1-17-2024, photos of printed images captured on 1-18-2024]
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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.
If you would like to support my work and my family, one way you can do so is by ordering my zines:
Many thanks for your support.
A young Kampuchean refugee woman and her child in a camp along the border.
1/Jan/1979. Along the Thai-Kampuchean Border. UN Photo/Saw Lwin. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
As seen on my blog: fotonomous.blogspot.com/2008/07/swimmer.html
My Dad, Fred Marcus, born 1921 in Vienna, Austria. He's been the citizen of three countries: Germany, Uruguay, and the United States of America.
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Swimming Out of Troubled Water
by Lydia Marcus
03-30-2005
Los Angeles Times
The lasting mark my father, a Holocaust survivor, has made on me is not from the tiny bits he has shared about his past, but from what he hasn't said. My dad has always told me that he had to draw an imaginary line between his past and his present to be able to emotionally survive and live his life. Since I understand his coping mechanism, I've never really delved into deep conversations about his personal history. One of the few aspects of his early years he would mention was the swim club Hakoah. Yet it wasn't until I saw the documentary "Watermarks," which opens here Friday, that I learned how it saved his life.
My dad, Fred Marcus, began swimming in Vienna as a little boy. As a teen, he participated at the Hakoah Vienna Sport Club, and eventually escaped the Nazis by emigrating to Uruguay, where he became a national swimming and diving champion for longer than a decade. He kept on swimming when he emigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s, and in the early 1970s taught me (at 3) to swim freestyle. Today, at age 83, he's still swimming.
I've never prodded my dad about his past, but after we saw "Watermarks" together last week at the L.A. premiere, we began to talk about it. He delved deep into his memory and reached into his private drawer of swimming mementos to show me saved Hakoah items I never knew existed -- a cloth bathing suit and a patch bearing the Hakoah name and a Jewish star, competition medals, and a Hakoah newsletter from the 1950s published to keep its members connected around the globe.
"Watermarks" directed, written and produced by Yaron Zilberman, unearths the previously untold story of the Hakoah Vienna Sport Club and its formation in 1909 in response to the Aryan Paragraph that forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes.
Zilberman, 38, an Israeli Jew who's lived on and off in the U.S. the last 12 years, stumbled upon the story while doing research for a film he was producing on the world's greatest soccer stars. He learned about the Hakoah's 1920s-era soccer team, which gained acclaim as the first team to defeat an English team on English soil. With no men alive from that team, Zilberman chose to concentrate on the living members of the women's swim team that was the "flagship of the club" during the 1930s.
Zilberman felt a personal connection to the female swimmers, who reminded him of his late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor and one of the people the film is dedicated to.
Almost all of the women featured in the film are swimmers whom my dad knew as a teenager. The film follows how swim team president Valentin Rosenfeld and women's swimming team head coach Zsigo Wertheimer arranged through illegal and legal means to get their female swimmers and most other Hakoah athletes (including my dad) out of Nazi-occupied areas.
Discovering the Hakoah ("The Strength" in Hebrew) was a "complete surprise" for Zilberman, who said in a phone interview that his own image of Jews prior to World War II had been either an "Orthodox, a bohemian, philosophers, artists, but definitely not sports people." For Jewish young people who were used to being discriminated against, the Hakoah served as a place where they could fit in.
Despite their many athletic successes, the Vienna Hakoah came to an end when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 during the Anschluss. My dad recalls going to the Hakoah's Dianabad swimming pool after the Nazis had taken it over and being confronted by a sign that read "No Jews allowed."
Soon after, his family fled to Brussels, where they essentially lived in hiding for a year. It was there that my dad received the most significant letter of his life.
He recalls: "Dr. Rosenfeld notified us there was a possibility to get out of Europe, to emigrate, and if I was interested I should go to the Uruguayan consulate." One week later, the 18-year-old began the monthlong journey there by boat -- with only the clothes on his back, one suitcase, 10 American dollars and his father's gold and lapis ring, given to him in case he needed to sell it for cash.
That was the last time that my dad would see his father, who was first interned by the Nazis in the Pyrenees and later died at Auschwitz just days before it was liberated. That 10 dollars soon went to the family of two Hakoah swimmers, who took him in in Montevideo, but he still wears his father's ring today.
Zilberman believes that Rosenfeld's story of saving the Hakoah members is "by itself a film" and has already been approached by a Hollywood producer who wants to make a movie about the Hakoah's escape operation.
Although the Hakoah Holocaust survivors do not bear the tattooed mark forced upon many concentration camp survivors, Zilberman says "at the same time they also have a mark." For someone like my dad, Zilberman feels that mark "is below the flesh, in a way. It's a watermark; you don't see it, but it's there."
I've always intuitively felt that mark within my dad, but now because of Zilberman's film, his long-buried history has been allowed to surface. Now when I see him swim, I know that each stroke has sustained his survival.
POST NOTE: July 16, 2008:
My Dad is now 86 years old and he still swims. In the original L.A. Times article, I wrote how my Dad kept on swimming despite different traumas in his life. I can also add that my Dad has kept on swimming after the death of my Mom in late 2002. My Dad doesn't talk much (to me or to anyone else), but consistently the only place we seem to ever have real conversations is either in the pool (usually while relaxing in the Jacuzzi) or while reclining across from each other on chaise lounges facing the pool. For both of us, water is magical, spiritual, and restorative.
An important fact that was edited out of the original story is that the reason my Dad was able to be issued an Uruguayan visa was that Uruguay was accepting minors and my Dad was under 18 years old at the time that the visa was approved and issued. My Dad actually turned 18 while in transit to Uruguay. The timing of the visa was impeccable - the difference of a week's time could have been life or death for my Dad. Pretty amazing.
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Last night we had a low of -11F, windchill of -35. I waited until the temps climbed to 6F before venturing out. The Subaru fired up on the first crank which amazed me!
This is a rare selfie with Patagonia balaclava and dome hat. It's the first time since last winter I've resorted to North Face McMurdo parka, I only need it a few days each winter. I would probably wear it more often but it's a heavy, bulky coat and unless we're having extreme weather I prefer to use a down coat with several layers. I'm very lucky and very grateful to have a warm place to stay and warm clothes to wear. A day doesn't go by that I don't think of the Syrians braving the winter in refugee camps, or the homeless stateside sleeping on heating grates.
I had bird food out early and was happy to see my peeps mourning doves all lined up on the window sill, all puffed up like big feathery softballs.
The body in ways that are monumental cans impact. Not everybody experiences the exact same signs. Below are a few of the most common problems when smoking is stopped by a smoker with cold turkey techniques.Did if you were coping with people who might be troublesome, you used to smoke and now
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"The Broken Circle Breakdown", a musical love story about a Belgium couple coping with a tragic loss, won the European Parliament's 2013 LUX Prize. Accepting the award from President Martin Schulz, director Felix van Groeningen said: "The LUX prize is a great initiative - it makes you watch a film that you otherwise wouldn’t have." The LUX Film Prize is awarded every year to films that promote European cinematography, values and social issues.
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Detail of 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.
Refugees living at the Lubhini Transit Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. There are about 2,000 refugees in this camp from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos and they 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/
Vietnamese refugees living in their boats at the Government Dockyard in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
01/08/1979. Kowloon, Hong Kong. UN Photo/John Isaac. www.un.org/av/photo/