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====Gar's Basement====
*Garfield Lynns made no secret of ransacking Mister Moth's lair in the wake of his death. He felt owed, having spent several hours anticipating a gruesome death at his hands. He found guns, bombs, moths. But his biggest find, the one that was undoubtedly the reason behind Carson's resurrection for the umpteenth time, was a Lazarus Pit. With Rigger's help, he baled the restorative waters into bottles, and poured them into a well at home. He had looked at his crackled skin too many times to resist the chance to rid himself of it. But when he rose from the pit, he was different, more erratic. For Volcana that meant a more exciting love life, for his friends, his behaviour was worrisome, and for others, his new pit was an opportunity to rid themselves of their own afflictions. When Gar announced he'd be hosting the Misfits games night, he was approached by all manner of C-Listers after his glowing cure*
Cobb- Lynns, I believe you're in possession of a Lazarus Pit.
Gar- Yep. You want to use it?
Cobb- I thought that went without saying. I do have cancer remember?
Drury- I remember, you wouldn't shut up about it.
Gar- Right, it's yours, but it'll cost you.
Cobb- How much?
Gar- Seven minutes in the closet with Orca... Kidding! Ah fuck, you should've seen your face. Two grand.
Cobb- Done.
Tockman- I was shot with a toxic arrow...
Gar- Two grand
Artie- Missing a hand..
Gar- Four grand. For being a dick.
Drury- Gar, Cobb nuked a city...
Gar- But he isn't a dick.
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*Gar answers the door*
Gar- Mick, buddy, you'll remember Volcana
Mick- Clair...
Volcana- Rory.
*Mick shifts about uncomfortably*
Mick- Are you two dating-?
Gar- Dating. Fucking...
Volcana- Mutineering.
Gar- We're gonna kill Snow Flame.
Volcana- Lazarus sickness, he's babbling, let's go over here sweetie.
Gar- Like the new mug? It's sexy again. I can hook you up with the same treatment-
Mick- Uhuh.
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*Sharpe looked around. Once he'd have loved this kind of party. Now he couldn't help noticing the looks people were giving him. His role in Drury's disappearance public knowledge, the C-Listers didn't know if he could be trusted. Neither did he. But Drury believed in him, for whatever reason. Perhaps he just needed another friend after Blaze, perhaps the fear gas had taken it's toll, but Drury was determined to bring Chancer back into the fold, and he'd heard from the Misfits that he could be relied upon*
Chancer- Drury, I swear to god, just piss off. I don't know what you were thinking bringing me here but-
Drury- Chancer, you saved my life. I don't know why, or why you tried to kill me, but we've got to get past
Miranda- Why is he here?
Drury- Sweetheart, you remember-
*Miranda pulls a gun out and points it at Chancer*
Miranda- Yep
Chancer- Ok, how about we go outside
Miranda- I think we should stay, don't you honey.
Drury- I- uh
Chancer- Listen, you might be overreacting-
Miranda- You tried to destroy my family. Drury went missing, my dad landed in Arkham, all because of you.
Drury- Chancer, just apologise.
Chancer- No, I won't.
Drury- She'll kill you!
Miranda- Yeah, so don't apologise.
Chancer- I'm sorry, you crazy bitch!
....
Chancer- I'm *sorry*! But I was in a coma for years because of this idiot! No one stayed by my bedside while I was under, nobody! I woke up, and the whole stinkin' world had forgotten me! I let this thing inside, and I wanted nothing more than vengeance on the guy who'd cost me my winning streak. Does that make me the villain? Probably! But I spent enough time in Arkham to accept that. I didn't even end up killing him, did I? He's alive isn't he?
*Miranda lowers the gun. Part of her knows he's sincere. The other part hoped she could have shot him*
Miranda- I'm not going to forgive you for what you did, I'm not my husband. You're going to have to fucking prove yourself if you want me to give a damn about you. Ever.
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Mick- Gar, we need to talk
Gar- Mick, can't you see I'm in the middle of something? This isn't a CW show, I'm not going to let a hallway chat change my ways.
Mick- Listen mate. This ain't healthy. Having sex, getting burned, using the pit, a never ending cycle. One of these days Ra's al Ghul's gonna come looking for that Fountain of Youth. What then?
Gar- Plastic surgery?
Mick- And then there's Volcana
Volcana- I'm still here
Mick- I know. It's very distracting. I'm trying to help my buddy and you're still... being distractive
Volcana- So I've been told
Mick- Right, I'm going to try and ignore you. You're conspiring against Snow Flame now Gar, are you mad?
Gar- If I was, would I be out of Arkham?
Mick- First off, you escaped. Secondly you have diagnosed pyromania. And thirdly he's a God powered by cocaine! How are you going to kill him?
Gar- With a really big stick
*Ding dong*
Mick- We'll talk about this later.
Gar- No, we won't. Drury go upstairs and answer the door will ya?
Drury- *grumble* didn't become mayor to be bossed around by my protégé. A load of bollocks that's what that is *grumble* goddamn baby won't stop crying *grumble* goddamn Axel won't stop crying
Codpiece- Sounds like you need to get laid
Drury- Happily married! *grumble* unappreciative Misfit mates *grumble* I made them moderately well known *grumble* I'm creating something beautiful between Chancer and my family, does anyone care? *opens the door* Hi! How can I... Help.
*Drury's stomach churned. There was only one other person who could do that, break his optimistic exterior. That was Thawne. The other, was standing in the doorway, a pie in hand.
Joker- Just the man I wanted to see! I brought dessert!
roborant \ROB-uh-ruhnt\, adjective:
1. Strengthening; restoring vigor.
noun:
1. A strengthening medicine; a tonic; a restorative.
Naps aren’t only for toddlers. Approximately 1 in 3 American adults nap, according to previous Pew Research Center data.
Naps come in all shapes and sizes. “Some people take restorative daytime naps in order to compensate for insufficient nighttime sleep,” says Shanon Makekau, MD, chief of pulmonology and sleep medicine director at Kaiser Permanente in Honolulu. “Others may take ‘prophylactic’ naps to prepare for an overnight shift.”
And then there’s the power nap.
“A power nap is a nap that's short — less than 30 minutes long,” says Safia Khan, MD, a specialist in sleep disorders and an assistant professor in the department of family and community medicine and the department of neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
It provides the restorative benefits of sleep without adversely affecting one’s ability to fall asleep at night, Dr. Makekau adds.
Is It Healthy to Nap?
Yes, but follow these tips from Alex Dimitriu, MD, a Menlo Park, California–based psychiatrist and sleep medicine physician, so they don’t mess with sleep at night!
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What Counts as a Power Nap?
Some experts say the power nap should be even shorter — 20 minutes max. But all agree it shouldn’t exceed 30 minutes. That’s because the body enters a deep sleep around that time, and waking up from a deep sleep can lead to grogginess, according to the Sleep Foundation.
This state of grogginess or drowsiness is also called “sleep inertia.” It’s when your body feels like you need to sleep more because your brain has already started to get into a deeper state of sleep, Dr. Khan explains.
Sticking to the shorter time frame keeps the body from dealing with sleep inertia so you wake up feeling recovered rather than sleepy. “With a power nap, you stay in the lighter stages of sleep,” Khan says. “When you’ve been sleeping longer than 30 minutes, it’s more difficult to wake up and you wake up feeling groggy versus when waking up from lighter sleep.”
Power naps are the most beneficial type of nap for most adults, according to the American Sleep Association.
What Are the Benefits of a Power Nap?
The main benefit of a power nap is to help you feel refreshed, so you feel more awake through the rest of the day. “When you take a power nap, it energizes you and makes you more alert for the next four to six hours,” Khan says. “You feel like you can get a lot more accomplished.”
According to Mayo Clinic, napping can help you feel relaxed, reduce fatigue, increase alertness, and improve your mood as well as your performance, such as by increasing your reaction time and memory. “Power naps can help people with jobs requiring high vigilance (for example, drivers and pilots) to recharge, thus reducing the risk of accidents and errors due to drowsiness,” Makekau says.
Napping can also boost the immune system and reduce stress. A small study published in February 2015 in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found short, 30-minute naps had stress relieving and immune benefits for a group of healthy young adult men.
And if you needed another excuse for a midday break: Naps may keep your heart healthy. A study published in December 2019 in Heart found that participants who napped once or twice a week had a lower risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event.
Just remember that 30-minute limit to ensure the nap doesn’t interfere with nighttime sleep, Khan says. “It's easier to wake up from a power nap, and it does not significantly affect your nighttime sleep,” she says. “A longer nap will affect your ability to fall asleep at night.”
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Does a Caffeine Nap Actually Work?
Some people take the power nap to the next level by consuming coffee (or other source of caffeine) immediately before falling asleep.
“By the time coffee gets absorbed into the system, the effect of the caffeine will start working and will help wake you up,” Khan says.
A study published in the September–October 2020 issue of Chronobiology International had participants drink 200 milligrams of caffeine right before a 30-minute nap. (For reference, that’s about two cups of coffee, according to Mayo Clinic.) Those individuals tested higher on careful attention and fatigue in the 45 minutes after waking up from the nap compared with those who did not consume caffeine before sleeping.
Whether or not it’ll work for you depends on how you respond to caffeine. “There are some people who get wired immediately as they drink their coffee,” Khan says.
If you decide to give it a try, do it in the early afternoon. “We don't recommend drinking coffee past 3 or 4 p.m. because it can disrupt your nighttime sleep,” Khan says.
Who Are Power Naps Best for and How Do I Know I’m Doing It Right?
If you get the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep at night (per guidelines from National Sleep Foundation published in March 2015 in Sleep Health), wake up feeling rested, and have plenty of energy throughout the day, you probably don’t need to worry about power napping. But, if you tend to feel drowsy in the afternoon or you’ve had a poor night sleep, a power nap could indeed be beneficial, Khan says.
Power naps may be especially helpful for shift workers, especially those who need to avoid drowsiness for safety reasons, such as truck drivers or doctors prepping for surgery. “This reduces risks of errors in judgment,” Khan says.
Khan says it’s okay to power nap regularly. “However, if you need to take a power nap daily, then you may benefit from increasing total sleep time at night,” she says.
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Here are a few tips from the Sleep Foundation on how to get the most out of your power nap:
Don’t nap too close to nighttime sleep. A good rule of thumb is to nap at the midpoint between the time you wake up and the time you go to bed.
Set an alarm for 10 to 20 minutes to ensure you wake up feeling alert instead of groggy.
Find the right spot to rest. The best sleep environment for napping is the same one for nighttime: You want a cool, dark, quiet, and comfortable place. Your bedroom is ideal, and ear plugs and an eye mask may help, Makekau says.
Power naps aren’t for everyone. You may not be able to make it work schedule-wise or you may be the type who wakes up feeling disoriented or even more tired than you were before, regardless of the duration of the nap.
But, Khan adds that she’s personally a big fan. “Most people do benefit from taking a power nap,” she says.
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A nap is a short period of sleep that usually occurs during the day. For many adults, naps can help to maintain alertness or overcome daytime fatigue.
Nap needs and the benefits of napping can vary among individuals. Knowing the facts about napping can help determine whether to take naps, and tips for better naps can enable healthier napping habits.Benefits of Naps
Naps can deliver a number of benefits. Brief naps can be restorative and reduce fatigue during the day. After a night of insufficient sleep, a nap may counteract daytime drowsiness
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. Naps can be particularly beneficial for shift workers who struggle to get enough sleep and have to be alert at irregular times.
A short daytime snooze may also boost workplace performance
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. A nap can improve cognitive functions such as memory, logical reasoning, and the ability to complete complex tasks.
Some studies have found that physical performance can also improve after napping
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. Athletes may experience improved endurance, reaction times, and cognitive performance if they take a daytime nap.
Napping may provide other health benefits. One observational study found that napping one or two times a week was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular problems
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, such as heart attack, stroke, or heart disease. However, more research is needed to understand the complex ways that the frequency and duration of naps affect heart health.
Napping may also reduce the impacts of insufficient sleep. For example, a small trial found evidence that naps relieved stress
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and supported the immune system in people whose sleep was limited the night before.
Additionally, naps may contribute to the well-being of specific groups of people. For instance, a study of people diagnosed with intracranial aneurysms found that regularly napping was associated with a lowered risk of a rupture
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of the aneurysm.How Sleep Works During Nap Time
Whether at night or during the day, sleep unfolds in a series of stages that make up a sleep cycle.
Stage 1: Stage 1 is the lightest and briefest stage of sleep, lasting only one to seven minutes.
Stage 2: Stage 2 follows stage 1 and lasts about 10 to 25 minutes. During stage 2 sleep, the muscles relax, and body functions slow. However, sleep in this stage is still relatively light.
Stage 3: Stage 3 is a deeper, more restorative stage of sleep, and it can be difficult to wake up while in this stage. Stage 3 usually lasts between 20 and 40 minutes.
Rapid eye movement (REM): During REM sleep, the body’s muscles are temporarily paralyzed, and the eyes move quickly under closed eyelids. Dreaming tends to take place during REM sleep.
When sleep periods last several hours, the body cycles through these stages several times. During a nap, though, there is not enough time to go through multiple sleep cycles.
In fact, during a short nap, a person may not be asleep long enough to spend much, if any, time in stage 3 or REM sleep. This can actually make it easier to wake up refreshed from a quick nap.
Longer naps, such as those lasting more than 30 minutes, can cause the sleeper to enter deep sleep, and deep sleep may start even sooner in people who are sleep deprived. Grogginess often results from being woken up during deep sleep.
Australians will well remember Dickies towels. I think I even saw some recently, the famous name perhaps bought out by some foreign company! This is Brisbane City Council Tramways Drop Centre tram no. 277 undergoing some maintenance at the Brisbane Tramway Museum Society premises at Ferny Grove.
These trams were so named as the open section in the centre was at a lower level than the closed in ends. Nice and airy for our hot climate but a bit dodgy during a thunderstorm with torrential rain when they rolled down some blinds and crossed fingers!
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1972 Jensen SP.
Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"V5 Present
Chassis number: 1314749
Although running and driving, further restorative works to this genuine SP will be required. Currently fitted with a single carburettor, the original manifold and carburettors are included in the sale. Purchased by the vendor four years ago, the car has hardly been used since, it was last MoTd in 2016. Five registered owners. Has V5 and MoT history dating from 2014 to 2016. The mileage is recorded at 79,657."
Sold for £20,000 including premium.
Nami from League of Legends, a multiplayer online battle arena video game.
Her people believe she is the Tidecaller, a chosen one destined to complete a quest essential to the survival of her entire race. She channels the primal energies of the ocean, harnessing its mystical restorative properties and commanding the raw power of the tides themselves.
Supanova Expo, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia (Saturday 18 June 2016)
Hand reamers and files used for locating and shaping root canals in teeth. Whilst sometimes a necessary evil they are probably best avoided !!
I can't recall a more prolifically blooming spring. Walks have been a real restorative in grim times.
Just arrived Amsterdam so staggered to local coffeeshop for a restorative - been up since 430 so a bit worse for wear
"Taormina cemetery: Giovanni Crupi (1859-1925), landscape photographer friend of von Gloeden, who Crupi may also have contributed to the training as a photographer of the young von Gloeden; Giovanni Crupi had a photographic shop in Taormina, in which von Gloeden himself began his career as a photographer"
“cimitero di Taormina: Giovanni Crupi (1859-1925), fotografo paesaggista amico di von Gloeden, il quale Crupi potrebbe anche aver contribuito alla formazione come fotografo del giovane von Gloeden; Giovanni Crupi aveva a Taormina un negozio fotografico, nel quale von Gloeden stesso iniziò la sua carriera come fotografo”
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The photographer Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden: and some "secret stories” of Taormina ...
At the age of about 11-12, I made a very particular discovery, I found a fair number of ancient photographs (they had been well hidden by my grandmother) inside an ancient chest of drawers in our house in Taormina, for me it was a huge surprise, the a taste for the forbidden appeared in me for the first time, they were black and white photographs, they portrayed naked boys, or only partially dressed in drapes or sheets, they were posed to imitate certain statues (or drawings) of the Greco-Roman period; I was very intrigued by them, every now and then I went to look at them, without ever feeling discomfort, I did not consider them vulgar photographs. Some of the photos were the size of a postcard, others of various sizes increasingly larger, up to a format similar to A3; on the back there were stamps, there were also, inside small red cardboard boxes, glass plates, not large, looking at them against the light, they let us glimpse images of naked boys, or only partially dressed: they were photographic negatives made on glass plates. What was that particular photographic material hidden by my grandmother in the dresser of our house? Let's take a step back in time let's teleport to April 2, 1787 when the German poet, narrator, playwright Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) lands in Palermo, following his Grand Tour in Italy (the word "tourism" derives from it) he will say of Sicily that it is a place of splendor, beauty and harmony, but at the same time a place of poverty, suffering, misery and social injustice; Goethe wrote the book "Journey to Italy", revealing himself to be one of Italy's most passionate admirers, stating that "Sicily is the key to everything" (the incredible resemblance of thought with the great Sicilian writer and journalist Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) who published in 1979 the book entitled “Sicily as a metaphor”). At the time of Goethe (and for a long time to come) the knowledge of Sicily was made up of stereotyped ideas, it was considered a land of mysteries, a den of brigands, which aroused fear in travelers, tourism did not exist, very few knew a foreign language, journeys with carriages were slow, nothing strange therefore that Taormina was an unknown village at the time. Garibaldi, in the year 1860, frees Sicily from the domination of the Bourbons. In February 1863, Count Ottone (Otto) Geleng (1843-1939) arrives in Taormina from Germany, he is a landscape painter, he begins an intense pictorial activity, thus succeeding in making Taormina and its landscapes known in the various cultural circles of Germany and France. Count Otto thus invites the then painter (who later became a photographer) Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) to come to Taormina to treat his "subtle ache", pulmonary tuberculosis, which would have benefited from the mild climate of Sicily. Von Gloeden, twenty-two, arrived in Taormina in 1878, became passionate about photography by taking lessons from the local engineer and photographer Giuseppe Bruno (1836-1904), perhaps also a teacher of Giovanni Crupi (1859-1925), landscape photographer friend of von Gloeden, Crupi himself could also have contributed to the training as a photographer of the young von Gloeden. Like Otto Geleng's paintings, the photographs of the young Wilhelm also began to entice the then bourgeoisie across the border to come to Sicily: in the last 20 years of the 1800s the foundations were being laid for tourism in Sicily. The photographs taken by von Gloeden had as their subject young Sicilian adolescents dressed in the old-fashioned way with drapes, or completely naked, at most adorned with wreaths of flowers or laurel leaves placed on their heads, the young models assumed well-studied poses under the directed by the photographer baron, designed to create scenes that wanted to reconstruct the atmosphere of the mythical Arcadia (bucolic landscape of ancient Greece). In his poetics we can find the interest in disguise and transvestism, the young fisherman is made ambiguous by making him wear a wig, made resembling a young Sicilian girl; the images are not produced for the sole and mere trade, they are works that will be published in various famous magazines (such as "The National Geographic Magazine" or "the photographic progress", A. Stieglitz publishes his nudes on “Camera Notes"), also participating in international photographic exhibitions. The young models are filmed among ancient ruins, in rocky environments, outdoors, eliciting a spiritual feeling full of nostalgia, which follows pictorial models of German romanticism. In the photographic book "Verga photographer" (created on the discovery of 327 glass plates and 121 celluloid frames), in Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) great Sicilian narrator, it is possible to observe his photographs interwoven with "realism", while in the photographs of von Gloeden the symbolism andthe spiritualism predominate, however Wilhelm will also produce documentary-type photographs, photographing the terrible earthquake (and tsunami) of Messina (and Reggio Calabria) of 1908. Von Gloeden seems fully integrated into the Taormina society , nevertheless suffers heavy homophobic attacks from the local press and from important characters from Taormina, including Otto Geleng himself, who will be sued by the baron, which will then be withdrawn upon payment of 896 lire, and a restorative declaration published in the "Gazzetta di Messina" . Von Gloeden worked in his house-studio in front of the Hotel San Domenico Palace, with him lived his sister Sofia Raabe (1847-1930), daughter of his mother's first husband, who helped him manage the house-studio, and in the to receive the illustrious guests who visited him (such as Oscar Wilde, FA Krupp, Richard Strauss, the German emperor Wilhelm II, Eleonora Duse). Von Gloeden died on February 16, 1931 at the age of 74, he was buried in the non-Catholic cemetery of Taormina, his heir was his all-around assistant Pancrazio Buciunì known as "il moro" (1879-1963) ("u 'moru", family nickname), which continues the activity, selling the prints: he undergoes two searches in full fascist regime with partial seizure and destruction of the photographic material that belonged to von Gloeden (fascism persecuted homosexuals, the repression of homosexuality was entrusted to the fascist police, which confined many homosexuals to the islands of the Mediterranean, Lipari was one of these, see the beautiful film by Ettore Scola "a special day"), Buciunì undergoes two trials for detention of obscene material, and, despite an adverse appraisal by the appointed expert prof. Stefano Bottari, holder of the chair of history of medieval and modern art at the University of Messina, who declares much of the seized material obscene, the Court of Messina, demonstrating tolerance and open-mindedness, acquits Buciunì. At this point in the story we return to my grandmother's dresser and reveal the little mystery: the hidden photographs belonged to my great-grandfather Don Gaetano D'Agata (1883-1949), von Gloeden's assistant photographer, also on the baron's teaching, he made nude photographs, as well as landscape or portrait photographs; Don Gaetano was a globetrotter, in our family album he is portrayed in various parts of the world, always in the company of beautiful women: but I will never know if those "forbidden photos" were taken by my great-grandfather Gaetano or by Von Gloeden himself, because my grandmother, having understood that I was going to peek at them in secret, made them disappear permanently, and I never heard anymore of that photographic material. For my part, it is only right to mention other figures who contributed to making Taormina the current destination for international tourism. Lady Florence Trevelyan (1852-1907), was Queen Victoria's lady-in-waiting, she was then sent into exile in various parts of the world by Queen herself, she arrived in Taormina and stayed there forever, she was a woman of exceptional gifts, endowed with great sensitivity and humanity, animal rights activist, philanthropist, passionate about esotericism, she was married to the then mayor and doctor of Taormina dr. Salvatore Cacciola, she were one of the first women admitted to world Freemasonry (her husband Cacciola also belonged to Freemasonry): I have already talked about it previously in one of my photographic stories. On the occasion of the XXI festival of the two worlds in Spoleto, in 1978, the essayist and literary critic Roland Barthes (1915-1980) curated an exhibition entitled "Wilhelm von Gloeden", with interventions by artists such as Andy Warhol, M. Pistoletto and J. Beuys. Finally, Raffaella Perna, Researcher in History of Contemporary Art at the University of Catania, underlines in her book on "Wilhelm von Gloeden, disguises, portraits, tableaux vivants", of how LaChapelle, Witkin, Mapplethorpe are the contemporary artists who they are indicated as heirs of von Gloeden's poetics.
P.S. Von Gloeden's photographs were made by photographing both the large panels with gigantographic reproductions of von Gloeden's works, which are located at the entrance of the Mocambo bar in Taormina, and in the shop-bazaar of the photographer from Taormina, my late friend, Nino Malmbrì (owner of the baron's original photographic material). The photographs of Gaetano D’Agata, were taken from my family album: in a photo a little damaged, but exceptional for its historical and emotional value, my great-grandfather, the photographer Gaetano D'Agata, here very young, holds his daughter "Ninitta" (a of the four children, had by three wives), she is my paternal grandmother; in another photo, the photographer Gaetano D'Agata poses next to her a few years later, with my grandmother already a young girl; always made by great-grandfather D'Agata there is both a portrait photo, a close-up, of my very young grandmother "Ninitta", and there is a photo of her posing as a peasant girl, with a painted backdrop behind her, as if used in studio photos; finally I put two photos taken by my great-grandfather Gaetano "en plein air" of bathers, "the location" is the beach of Mazzarò (Taormina). The photographs of the tombstones of the characters mentioned in the story were taken in the Catholic and non-Catholic cemetery of Taormina; the monumental funerary complex of Count Otto Geleng at the top presents the bust of his son Ermanno, the presence of symbolisms such as the hourglass, the rooster, the book (the Holy Bible) and the god mercury, makes me believe that Count Otto was part of the Masonic lodge of Taormina, at the time the mayor of Taormina was also part of it, dr. Cacciola and his wife Lady Florence Trevelyan: in his palace, Dr. Cacciola, built a temple, which became the first Masonic lodge in Taormina: the "Renaissance" (1904).
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Il barone fotografo Wilhelm von Gloeden: ed alcune “storie segrete” di Taormina …
Io, all’età di circa 11-12 anni, feci una scoperta molto particolare, trovai un discreto numero di antiche fotografie (erano state ben nascoste da mia nonna) dentro un antico comò in casa nostra a Taormina, per me fu una enorme sorpresa, il gusto del proibito si affacciò in me per la prima volta, erano fotografie in bianco e nero, ritraevano ragazzi nudi, o solo in parte vestiti con drappi o lenzuoli, messi in posa imitavano certe statue (o disegni) del periodo greco-romano; io ne ero rimasto molto incuriosito, ogni tanto le andavo a riguardare, senza mai provare disagio, non le consideravo fotografie volgari. Alcune foto erano della grandezza di una cartolina, altre di varie dimensioni sempre più grandi, fino ad arrivare ad un formato assimilabile all’A3; sul retro c’erano impressi dei timbri, c’erano anche, dentro dei piccoli scatoli in cartoncino di colore rosso, delle lastrine in vetro, non grandi, guardandole in controluce, lasciavano intravedere immagini di ragazzi nudi, o poco vestiti: erano i negativi fotografici realizzati su vetro. Cosa ci faceva quel materiale fotografico, così particolare, nascosto da mia nonna nel comò di casa nostra? Facciamo un salto indietro nel tempo teletrasportiamoci al 2 aprile 1787 quando a Palermo sbarca il poeta, narratore, drammaturgo tedesco Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), in seguito al suo Grand Tour in Italia (turismo deriva da esso) dirà della Sicilia che essa è luogo di splendore, bellezza ed armonia, ma al tempo stesso luogo di povertà, sofferenza, miseria ed ingiustizia sociale; Goethe scrive il libro “Viaggio in Italia”, rivelandosi uno dei più appassionati ammiratori dell’Italia, affermando che “la Sicilia è la chiave di tutto” (incredibile la rassomiglianza di pensiero col grande scrittore e giornalista siciliano Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989) che pubblica nel 1979 il libro dal titolo “la Sicilia come metafora”). Ai tempi di Goethe (e per molto tempo ancora) la conoscenza della Sicilia era fatta di idee stereotipate, era considerata terra di misteri, covo di briganti, il che incuteva timore nei viaggiatori, il turismo non esisteva, pochissimi conoscevano una lingua straniera, i viaggi con carrozze ertano lenti, nulla di strano quindi che Taormina fosse all’epoca un villaggio sconosciuto. Garibaldi, nell’anno 1860, libera la Sicilia dalla dominazione dei Borboni. Nel febbraio del 1863, dalla Germania giunge a Taormina il conte Ottone (Otto) Geleng (1843-1939), egli è un pittore paesaggista, inizia una intensa attività pittorica, riuscendo in tal modo a far conoscere Taormina ed i suoi paesaggi nei vari circoli culturali della Germania e della Francia. Il conte Otto invita così l’allora pittore (poi divenuto fotografo) barone Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) a venire a Taormina per curare il suo “mal sottile”, la tubercolosi polmonare, che avrebbe tratto giovamento dal clima mite della Sicilia. Von Gloeden, ventiduenne, nel 1878 giunge a Taormina, si appassiona alla fotografia prendendo lezioni dall’ingegnere e fotografo locale Giuseppe Bruno (1836-1904), forse anche insegnante di Giovanni Crupi (1859-1925), fotografo paesaggista amico di von Gloeden, il quale Crupi stesso potrebbe anche aver contribuito alla formazione come fotografo del giovane von Gloeden. Così come i dipinti di Otto Geleng, anche le fotografie del giovane Wilhelm incominciarono ad invogliare l’allora borghesia d’oltre confine, a venire in Sicilia: negli ultimi 20 anni dell’800 si stavano gettando le basi per il turismo in Sicilia. Le fotografie realizzate da von Gloeden avevano come soggetto giovani adolescenti siciliani vestiti all’antica con drappi, o completamente nudi, tutt’al più adornati da coroncine di fiorellini o foglie d’alloro messi sul capo, i giovani modelli assumevano pose ben studiate sotto la regia del barone fotografo, atte a realizzare scene che volevano ricostruire l’atmosfera della mitica Arcadia (paesaggio bucolico dell’antica Grecia). Nella sua poetica possiamo riscontrare l’interesse per il travestimento ed il travestitismo, il giovane pescatore viene reso ambiguo facendogli indossare una parrucca, reso somigliante ad una giovane ragazza siciliana; le immagini non vengono prodotte per il solo e mero commercio, sono opere che verranno pubblicate su varie riviste famose (come “The National Geographic Magazine” o “Il Progresso fotografico”, A. Stieglitz pubblica i suoi nudi su “Camera Notes”), partecipando anche ad esposizioni fotografiche internazionali. I giovani modelli sono ripresi tra antichi ruderi, in ambienti rupestri, all’aperto, elicitando un sentimento spirituale carico di nostalgia, il che ricalca modelli pittorici del romanticismo tedesco. Nel libro fotografico “Verga fotografo” (realizzato su ritrovamento di 327 lastre in vetro e 121 fotogrammi in celluloide), in Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) grande narratore siciliano, è possibile osservare le sue fotografie intessute di “verismo”, mentre nelle fotografie di von Gloeden predomina il simbolismo e lo spiritualismo, purtuttavia Wilhelm produrrà anch’egli fotografie di tipo documentaristico, andando a fotografare il terribile terremoto (e maremoto) di Messina (e di Reggio Calabria) del 1908. Von Gloeden sembra pienamente integrato nella società taorminese, ciononostante subisce pesanti attacchi omofobi dalla stampa locale e da importanti personaggi taorminesi, incluso lo stesso Otto Geleng, i quali verranno querelati dal barone, querela che verrà poi ritirata dietro pagamento di 896 lire, ed una dichiarazione riparatoria pubblicata sulla “Gazzetta di Messina”. Von Gloeden lavorava nella sua casa-studio di fronte l’Hotel San Domenico Palace, con lui viveva sua sorella Sofia Raabe (1847-1930), figlia del primo marito di sua madre, che lo aiutava a governare la casa-studio, e nel ricevere gli illustri ospiti che lo andavano a trovare ( come Oscar Wilde, F.A. Krupp, Richard Strauss, l’imperatore tedesco Guglielmo II, Eleonora Duse). Von Gloeden muore il 16 febbraio 1931 all’età di 74 anni, viene sepolto nel cimitero acattolico di Taormina, il suo erede è il suo assistente tutto fare Pancrazio Buciunì detto “il moro” (1879-1963) (“u’ moru”, soprannome di famiglia), che ne prosegue l’attività, vendendone le stampe: il quale subisce in pieno regime fascista due perquisizioni con parziale sequestro e distruzione del materiale fotografico che apparteneva a von Gloeden (il fascismo perseguitò gli omosessuali, la repressione dell’omosessualità fu affidata alla polizia fascista, che confinò molti omosessuali nelle isole del mediterraneo, Lipari fu una di queste, vedi il bellissimo film di Ettore Scola “una giornata particolare”), Buciunì subisce due processi per detenzione di materiale osceno, e, nonostante una perizia avversa da parte del nominato perito prof. Stefano Bottari, titolare della cattedra di storia dell’arte medioevale e moderna dell’Università di Messina, che dichiara osceno gran parte del materiale sequestrato, il Tribunale di Messina dimostrando tolleranza ed apertura mentale, assolve il Buciunì. A questo punto del racconto ritorniamo al comò di mia nonna e sveliamo il piccolo mistero: le fotografie nascoste appartenevano al mio bisnonno don Gaetano D’Agata (1883-1949), assistente fotografo di von Gloeden, anch’egli sull’insegnamento del barone, realizzò fotografie di nudo, oltre che di paesaggio o ritratto; don Gaetano era un giramondo, nel nostro album di famiglia lui è ritratto in varie parti del mondo, sempre in compagnia di belle donne: ma io non saprò mai se quelle “foto proibite” erano realizzate dal mio bisnonno Gaetano o da Von Gloeden stesso, perché mia nonna, avendo capito che le andavo a sbirciare di nascosto, le fece sparire definitivamente, e di quel materiale fotografico non ne seppi più nulla. Da parte mia, è doveroso citare altre figure che contribuirono a rendere Taormina l’attuale meta del turismo internazionale. Lady Florence Trevelyan (1852-1907), era dama di corte della regina Vittoria, dalla stessa regina Lady Florence fu poi mandata in esilio in varie parti del mondo, giunse a Taormina e qui vi restò per sempre, era una donna dalle doti eccezionali, dotata di grande sensibilità ed umanità, animalista, filantropa, appassionata di esoterismo, fu sposa dell’allora sindaco e medico di Taormina dott. Salvatore Cacciola, fu una delle prime donne ammesse alla massoneria mondiale (apparteneva alla massoneria anche il marito Cacciola): ne ho già parlato in precedenza in un mio racconto fotografico. Robert Hawthorn Kitson (1873-1947) era un pittore britannico omosessuale, egli lasciò l’Inghilterra a causa dell’emendamento Labouchere, che rendeva illegale qualsiasi atto omosessuale nel Regno Unito (1885), giunse a Taormina e qui si stabilì, costruendo nel 1905 Casa Cusani, una villa con vista sull’Etna, oggi casa museo; nella sua sala da pranzo si trovano gli affreschi “proibiti” realizzati da Frank Brangwyn, essi narrano dell’amore omosessuale tra Kitson ed il suo compagno Carlo Siligato: nel 1908 in seguito al terremoto che distrusse Messina (e Reggio Calabria), essi adottarono un bambino che era rimasto orfano, divenendo di fatto una famiglia omosessuale, all’epoca assolutamente proibita; gli affreschi di Casa Cuseni sono ispirati alle fotografie di von Gloeden, così come nella villa, si trova una “autocromia a colori” del 1910, realizzata da von Gloeden, documento eccezionale che testimonia la volontà del barone di sperimentare nuove tecniche. In occasione del XXI festival dei due mondi di Spoleto, nel 1978, il saggista e critico letterario Roland Barthes (1915-1980) cura una mostra intitolata “Wilhelm von Gloeden”, con interventi di artisti quali Andy Warhol, M. Pistoletto e J. Beuys. Infine, Raffaella Perna, Ricercatrice in Storia dell'arte contemporanea all'Università degli Studi di Catania, sottolinea nel suo libro su “Wilhelm von Gloeden, travestimenti, ritratti, tableaux vivants”, di come LaChapelle, Witkin, Mapplethorpe siano gli artisti contemporanei che vengono indicati come eredi della poetica di von Gloeden.
P.S. le fotografie di Von Gloeden sono state realizzate fotografando sia i grandi pannelli con gigantografiche riproduzioni delle opere di von Gloeden, che si trovano all’ingresso del bar Mocambo di Taormina, sia nel negozio-bazar del fotografo taorminese, compianto mio amico, Nino Malmbrì (possessore di materiale fotografico originale del barone). Le fotografie di Gaetano D’Agata, sono state prese dal mio album di famiglia: in una foto un pò rovinata, ma eccezionale per il suo valore storico e per me affettivo, il mio bisnonno, il fotografo Gaetano D'Agata, qui molto giovane, tiene in braccio sua figlia "Ninitta" (una dei quattro figli, avuti da tre mogli), lei è la mia nonna paterna; in un'altra foto, il fotografo Gaetano D'Agata posa accanto a lei qualche anno dopo, con mia nonna già ragazzina; sempre realizzate dal bisnonno D'Agata c'è sia un foto-ritratto, un primo piano, di mia nonna "Ninitta" molto giovane, e c'è la foto di lei mentre posa come contadinella, con dietro un fondale dipinto, come si usava nelle foto da studio; infine ho messo, due foto realizzate dal mio bisnonno Gaetano "en plein air" a delle bagnanti, "la location" è la spiaggia di Mazzarò (Taormina). Le fotografie delle tombe dei personaggi menzionati nel racconto, sono state fatte nel cimitero cattolico ed acattolico di Taormina; il complesso monumentale funerario del conte Otto Geleng in alto presenta il mezzobusto del figlio Ermanno, la presenza di simbolismi come la clessidra, il gallo, il libro (la Sacra Bibbia) ed il dio mercurio, mi fa ritenere che il conte Otto facesse parte della loggia massonica di Taormina, all’epoca ne faceva parte anche il sindaco di Taormina, dott. Cacciola e sua moglie Lady Florence Trevelyan: nel suo palazzo il dott. Cacciola, realizzò un tempio, che divenne la prima loggia massonica di Taormina : la "Rinascimento"(1904).
Chattanooga yoga teacher, Jeri Harris, leads a Gentle Yoga class for adults on the 4th Floor of the downtown branch.
Gentle yoga offers restorative stretches and relaxation techniques. This is a nurturing, slower-paced class with a focus on basic yoga postures and connecting breath to movement. Props are available and encouraged to allow the body to fully achieve each pose comfortably. Perfect for beginners, as well as more experienced students looking to slow down and fine tune their practice.
This is a free community class and donations for the instructor are accepted, but not required. A limited number of yoga mats will be available on on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Namaste!
Silte Church (Swedish: Silte kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church on the Swedish island of Gotland, in the Diocese of Visby.
Silte Church dates in its entirety from the 13th century. During restorative work carried out in 1971-72, the remains of a stave church was however found under the floor of the presently visible church, pre-dating the present church with around one hundred years. The oldest part of the now visible stone church is the choir, dating from the middle of the century and in an early Gothic style. The nave is only slightly later, and apparently by the same workshop, while the tower seems to have been added at the end of the century.
The church is an almost unaltered medieval church. Unusually, even the window openings are original. These, as well as the portals, are decorated with stone dressings in alternating colours. The southern portal is also decorated with carved ornaments in Norse style. One of the choir windows contains some original stained glass window panes, dating from the time of the church's construction. Inside, the church is decorated with frescos from four different periods. The earliest date from the time of the church's construction, and are purely ornamental. On the western wall of the nave, a number of frescos from circa 1300 depict several saints: Philip, Paul, Peter, James and Bartholomew. Next to these is a fresco depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ; these date from the middle of the 15th century. A final set of frescos, dated 1495, adorn the souther wall of the nave.
The church has two particularly noteworthy furnishings: the altarpiece and the baptismal font. The altarpiece is unique in its style on Gotland. Its outer wings are painted, and depict St. Michael, Mary and, on the back, the annunciation. These painting date from circa 1500. The central panel, by contrast, is decorated with wooden sculptures depicting the final judgement, and date from the 13th century. The baptismal font dates from the late 12th century and is thus older than the stone church. It was made by Master Sigraf, and is richly sculptured.[1] Most other furnishings such as pews date from 1902, when a renovation was carried out. The pulpit is however from the middle of the 18th century.
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Silte kyrka är en kyrkobyggnad som tillhör Havdhems församling i Visby stift. Kyrkan är centralt belägen i Silte socken.
Den välbevarade grunden till en tidigare stavkyrka påträffades under den nuvarande kyrkans golv vid en restaurering utförd 1971 - 1972 av arkitekt Leif Olsson. På triumfbågsväggen finns även avtryck av stavkyrkans långhusgavel. Den medeltida murade kyrkan består av rektangulärt långhus med smalare rakt avslutat kor i öster samt kyrktorn i väster. Byggnadsmaterialet är i huvudsak sandsten. Koret är från 1200-talets mitt, långhuset tillkom något senare. Vid 1200-talets slut tillfogades tornet, stympat vid okänd tidpunkt. Kyrkans fasader är vitputsade, med hörnkedjor och omfattningar i huggen olikfärgad kalksten. De smala rundbågefönstren är ursprungliga. Tornets ljudgluggar utgör en heterogen samling av hopplockade stenhuggeridetaljer. Långhuset och det lägre koret täcks av tegelklädda sadeltak, tornet kröns av en åttkantig spira. Tre ingångar finns: långhus- och korportal i söder samt tornportal i väster. Långhusportalens tympanonskiva har huggen slingornamentik. Långhuset täcks invändigt av två tältvalv, åtskilda av en bred gördelbåge. Det kryssvälvda koret upplyses av ett trekopplat östfönster samt ett mindre sydfönster. Ringkammaren täcks av ett högt sittande tältvalv. Triumf- och tornbågarna är svagt spetsbågiga. Kalkmålningar finns från 1200- och 1400-talen. Glasmålningarna i korets östfönster är från byggnadstiden. Inredningen härstammar i huvudsak från en restaurering 1902.
Dopfunten tillverkades av Sighraf vid slutet av 1100-talet. Cuppan har scener från Jesu barndom.
Predikstolen är från mitten av 1700-talet och saknar ljudtak.
Altartavlan har skulpturer från 1200-talet.
Orgeln tillverkades 1900 antingen av A V Lundal i Stockholm eller av Åkerman & Lund Orgelbyggeri. 1985 renoverades orgeln av J. Künkels orgelverkstad i Lund. Orgeln är mekanisk och har följande disposition.
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- Roots used for diarrhea, dysentery, boils, diabetes, snake bites, leucorrhea,.
- Roots used as restorative for phthisis.
- Roots externally applied for swellings and rheumatic pains.
- Tap root used for gonorrhea and dysentery; also as an emetic.
- Bark used externally as paste for inflammation and skin eruptions.
- Stems and bark used for headaches, snake bites, asthma, dental caries.
- Gum used for diarrhea, dysentery, menorrhagia.
- Fruits used for urinary problems.
- Leaves, ground and mixed with milk, used for urgency and painful urination.
- Leaves, ground into a paste, used for skin eruptions.
- Flower petals, squeezed and soaked in human's or cow's milk, used as soothing application for infant's conjunctivitis.
- Dry young fruit used for calculous affections and chronic inflammation of the kidney and urinary bladder; used for strangury and all causes of mechanical dysuria.
- Fruit used for weakness of the genitalia.
- Seeds, alone or combined withy cumin and anise-seeds and an eighth part of silicious bamboo secretion, used for gonorrhea and associated urethral discharge, chronic cystitis, consumption, catarrhal infections
- "Cotton" used externally for padding splints and covering burnt and inflamed surfaces.
- In Guinea, roots as used as emetic.
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Creator: Geo. H. Baker, Lith. San Francisco
Date: 1871
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Preferred Citation: Henleys Indian Queen Hair Restorative - A beautiful clear tincture, courtesy, California Historical Society, CHS2013.1218.jpeg.
Restorative Yoga..if you haven't tried it, you should. Two hours of resting in different positions. Warm and comfortable and relaxed..there is nothing more peaceful and mind clearing..
This is my son's studio..he packs them every time for this class...
Restorative Yoga and a glass of wine after...night, night..lights out.
Join us at Harbor Yoga if your ever in the area.
An espresso taken in Nantes. Pictures of coffee is an overdone meme, but I just liked the B&W atmosphere of this picture.
T203 - Ceres in a car drawn by two dragons receiving from Bacchus a restorative cup - Gnaios
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A view through a window. The device in the window is used to measure the spread of the crack so the archeologists know when to initiate restorative measures. I believe these pots are O'leary tooled and Tusayan corrugated pots and potsherds.
We dayhiked to Keet Seel ( Kawestima). Because of monsoon storms and floods the Ruins and the trail had been closed. We were the second group in after the re-opening. Much of the hike is in the creek. Lots of quicksand but we did a decent job of avoiding most of it.
National Park Service Guide Patrick Joshevama - Hopi (Sun Clan) - took us up to the ruins and brought the history alive with his explanations of how the Hisatsinom lived.
We drove up to Navajo National Monument and camped Friday. Checked in for the Orientation, then hiked around the Rim. On Saturday we dayhiked to Keet Seel - Kawestima. Then went to the Quality Inn in Tuba City. Drove home Sunday. Great trip with good friends.
Here is my triplog of the trip.
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Where the highway ends, the Ancestral Puebloan Wild West Prehistory Begins...
The prehistoric Puebloan Ancestors built Tsegi Phase villages within the natural sandstone alcoves of our canyons. The resilient Ancestral Puebloans paved the way for current Native American groups in the Southwest region. These villages, which date from AD 1250 to 1300, thrill all who visit with original architectural elements such as roof beams, masonary walls, rock art, and hand and foot holds.
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Centuries ago, the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians lived spread out among the valleys and plateaus of the region, hunting and gathering wild plants and seeds, then migrating elsewhere as the seasons demanded. With the acquisition of domestic seeds for corn and other crops, they gradually became farmers, which allowed them to remain in one place and build permanent shelters, originally pit houses.
As they farmed the plateau and bottomlands of these canyons, they built villages of separate stone houses, and eventually created multi-storied pueblos under the natural shelter of cliff walls and overhangs. But after only a few decades, they disappeared and abandoned these dwellings forever.
Pueblo cultures varied throughout the Southwest. Archeologists use pottery style and decoration, as well as architecture, to divide the cultures of the region into 3 branches: the Chaco, the Mesa Verde and the Kayenta Anasazi. Here among the Kayenta peoples, pottery styles were vivid and multi-colored. Their buildings were more randomly grouped than those elsewhere, and their social organization was less formal.
The Hopi, whose reservation is 50 miles to the south , are believed to be the descendants of the Kayenta Anasazi. The villages preserved at the monument are believed to be paths along the sacred migration route of the 8 Hopi clans. Hopi Tribal elders periodically visit the ruins at the Monument as sacred shrines.
The two largest villages here at the Monument are best known by the names given them by the Navajo, who arrived in the 1800s. Betatakin means "ledge house;" Keet Seel is from an altered Navajo term meaning "remains of square house." The Hopi also have names for these villages, Kawestima and Talastima. While the Navajo referred to the ancient ones as the Anasazi, the Hopi called them the Hisatsinom
Keet Seel
This village was occupied much longer than Betatakin.This alcove was settled as early as 950 by those who built houses and kivas. The village was rebuilt in 1250 by different people and, at its zenith, may have contained 150 residents. By 1300, this village, too, was abandoned.
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"The canyon Tseyi Canyon within which these villages sit are called "Lenaytupqa" or Flute Canyon. It is called that due the presence of the Flute Clan in this area. This canyon feature prominently in Katsina ceremonial traditions today.
Keet Seel is called Kawestima in Hopi. The term is use universally by Hopi to refer to the total area. Kawestima is the ancestral home to the Kookopwungwa (Fire or Burrowing Owl Clan), Tsivatowungwa (Big Horn Sheep Clan) and maybe the Iswungwa (Coyote Clan)."
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The diagnosis of an aesthetic problem involves looking at the entire face; the color of the eyes, skin, and lips often influence the appearance of teeth. The face evaluation is usually divided into imaginary thirds: the first section goes from the hairline to eyebrows, the second from eyebrows to the base of the nose, and the third from the base of the nose to the lower border of chin.
Treatment
Minor corrections in shape and positions can be done with direct resin bonding and ceramic veneers. If the problem is related to position and is considered to be moderate to severe, it is possible to correct it through the placement of veneers, full crowns, or by orthodontic treatment.
1981 Jaguar XJ-S HE auto.
Last taxed in June 1996. Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"RDU 921W is the first of the Jaguar Cars HE model launch cars and is the only known survivor. The car has appeared in many period magazines and roadtests as well as being the cover star of the November 1981 issue of Autoweek. Following 20 years of storage, the car was brought back to life and made road legal in time for the JEC's 40th anniversary of the XJS at Boddelwyddan Castle last September. Although currently MOT'd, the car is offered in need of further restorative works.
V5 present
MoT September 2016
Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000."
Unsold.
Roman glass, ca. 200-300 A.D.
Repaired with resin, calcium carbonate, urushi lacquer, ruby emerald [?] and 24k gold.
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Portland Japanese Garden
KINTSUGI
The Restorative Art of Naoko Fukumaru
Kintsugi, (pronounced keen-tsue-ghee), uses powderedgold over lacquer-repaired seams to magnify the beauty that emerges from breakage. This 500-year-old method ofmending damaged ceramics evocatively reminds us of theremarkable human capacity to overcome challenges and adversities. Artist and professional ceramics conservator, Naoko Fukumaru, combines state-of-the-art restoration techniques with traditional kintsugi repair methods to create work that highlights imperfections while exploring new possibilities for this noteworthy craft. Here in the Calvin and Mayho Tanabe Gallery, our kintsugi exhibition features Fukumaru's experimental work, which courageously divergesfrom tradition to express the redemptive potential [really?] born from the act of sensitively reconstructing something that has shattered. For Fukumaru, practicing kintsugi is not merely about repairing damaged physical objects, but finding new nways to celebrate the history, artistry, and symbolism of each piece by choosing to cherish rather than trash what has been broken.
Fusing kintsugi-repaired vessels with unconventional materials like thread, textiles, and surprising plaster forms of mushrooms, succulents, crystals, and animals, Fukumaru conveys a journey from vulnerability to strength. Urushi lacquer is at the heart of much of Fukumaru's work. In addition to helping rejoin the broken fragments, urushi can be layered to develop texture and three-dimensional forms.
It can also be used as a paint, which draws from the maki-e lacquer decorating tradition, where surface designs are meticulously painted with urushi then sprinkled with powdered gold or other precious metals to accentuate the designs. However, instead of the typical maki-e motifs of plants and animals, Fukumaru's urushi decorations are reminiscent of neurons, sparking connections between disparate pieces that she has attentively attached to the restored vessels. Delving into what it means to be beautifully broken, Fukumaru expands the horizon of kintsugi as a powerful art form.
The exhibition continues in the Pavilion Gallery
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Silte Church (Swedish: Silte kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church on the Swedish island of Gotland, in the Diocese of Visby.
Silte Church dates in its entirety from the 13th century. During restorative work carried out in 1971-72, the remains of a stave church was however found under the floor of the presently visible church, pre-dating the present church with around one hundred years. The oldest part of the now visible stone church is the choir, dating from the middle of the century and in an early Gothic style. The nave is only slightly later, and apparently by the same workshop, while the tower seems to have been added at the end of the century.
The church is an almost unaltered medieval church. Unusually, even the window openings are original. These, as well as the portals, are decorated with stone dressings in alternating colours. The southern portal is also decorated with carved ornaments in Norse style. One of the choir windows contains some original stained glass window panes, dating from the time of the church's construction. Inside, the church is decorated with frescos from four different periods. The earliest date from the time of the church's construction, and are purely ornamental. On the western wall of the nave, a number of frescos from circa 1300 depict several saints: Philip, Paul, Peter, James and Bartholomew. Next to these is a fresco depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ; these date from the middle of the 15th century. A final set of frescos, dated 1495, adorn the souther wall of the nave.
The church has two particularly noteworthy furnishings: the altarpiece and the baptismal font. The altarpiece is unique in its style on Gotland. Its outer wings are painted, and depict St. Michael, Mary and, on the back, the annunciation. These painting date from circa 1500. The central panel, by contrast, is decorated with wooden sculptures depicting the final judgement, and date from the 13th century. The baptismal font dates from the late 12th century and is thus older than the stone church. It was made by Master Sigraf, and is richly sculptured.[1] Most other furnishings such as pews date from 1902, when a renovation was carried out. The pulpit is however from the middle of the 18th century.
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Silte kyrka är en kyrkobyggnad som tillhör Havdhems församling i Visby stift. Kyrkan är centralt belägen i Silte socken.
Den välbevarade grunden till en tidigare stavkyrka påträffades under den nuvarande kyrkans golv vid en restaurering utförd 1971 - 1972 av arkitekt Leif Olsson. På triumfbågsväggen finns även avtryck av stavkyrkans långhusgavel. Den medeltida murade kyrkan består av rektangulärt långhus med smalare rakt avslutat kor i öster samt kyrktorn i väster. Byggnadsmaterialet är i huvudsak sandsten. Koret är från 1200-talets mitt, långhuset tillkom något senare. Vid 1200-talets slut tillfogades tornet, stympat vid okänd tidpunkt. Kyrkans fasader är vitputsade, med hörnkedjor och omfattningar i huggen olikfärgad kalksten. De smala rundbågefönstren är ursprungliga. Tornets ljudgluggar utgör en heterogen samling av hopplockade stenhuggeridetaljer. Långhuset och det lägre koret täcks av tegelklädda sadeltak, tornet kröns av en åttkantig spira. Tre ingångar finns: långhus- och korportal i söder samt tornportal i väster. Långhusportalens tympanonskiva har huggen slingornamentik. Långhuset täcks invändigt av två tältvalv, åtskilda av en bred gördelbåge. Det kryssvälvda koret upplyses av ett trekopplat östfönster samt ett mindre sydfönster. Ringkammaren täcks av ett högt sittande tältvalv. Triumf- och tornbågarna är svagt spetsbågiga. Kalkmålningar finns från 1200- och 1400-talen. Glasmålningarna i korets östfönster är från byggnadstiden. Inredningen härstammar i huvudsak från en restaurering 1902.
Orgeln tillverkades 1900 antingen av A V Lundal i Stockholm eller av Åkerman & Lund Orgelbyggeri. 1985 renoverades orgeln av J. Künkels orgelverkstad i Lund. Orgeln är mekanisk.
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Silte Church (Swedish: Silte kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church on the Swedish island of Gotland, in the Diocese of Visby.
Silte Church dates in its entirety from the 13th century. During restorative work carried out in 1971-72, the remains of a stave church was however found under the floor of the presently visible church, pre-dating the present church with around one hundred years. The oldest part of the now visible stone church is the choir, dating from the middle of the century and in an early Gothic style. The nave is only slightly later, and apparently by the same workshop, while the tower seems to have been added at the end of the century.
The church is an almost unaltered medieval church. Unusually, even the window openings are original. These, as well as the portals, are decorated with stone dressings in alternating colours. The southern portal is also decorated with carved ornaments in Norse style. One of the choir windows contains some original stained glass window panes, dating from the time of the church's construction. Inside, the church is decorated with frescos from four different periods. The earliest date from the time of the church's construction, and are purely ornamental. On the western wall of the nave, a number of frescos from circa 1300 depict several saints: Philip, Paul, Peter, James and Bartholomew. Next to these is a fresco depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ; these date from the middle of the 15th century. A final set of frescos, dated 1495, adorn the souther wall of the nave.
The church has two particularly noteworthy furnishings: the altarpiece and the baptismal font. The altarpiece is unique in its style on Gotland. Its outer wings are painted, and depict St. Michael, Mary and, on the back, the annunciation. These painting date from circa 1500. The central panel, by contrast, is decorated with wooden sculptures depicting the final judgement, and date from the 13th century. The baptismal font dates from the late 12th century and is thus older than the stone church. It was made by Master Sigraf, and is richly sculptured.[1] Most other furnishings such as pews date from 1902, when a renovation was carried out. The pulpit is however from the middle of the 18th century.
Source: Wikipedia
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Silte kyrka är en kyrkobyggnad som tillhör Havdhems församling i Visby stift. Kyrkan är centralt belägen i Silte socken.
Den välbevarade grunden till en tidigare stavkyrka påträffades under den nuvarande kyrkans golv vid en restaurering utförd 1971 - 1972 av arkitekt Leif Olsson. På triumfbågsväggen finns även avtryck av stavkyrkans långhusgavel. Den medeltida murade kyrkan består av rektangulärt långhus med smalare rakt avslutat kor i öster samt kyrktorn i väster. Byggnadsmaterialet är i huvudsak sandsten. Koret är från 1200-talets mitt, långhuset tillkom något senare. Vid 1200-talets slut tillfogades tornet, stympat vid okänd tidpunkt. Kyrkans fasader är vitputsade, med hörnkedjor och omfattningar i huggen olikfärgad kalksten. De smala rundbågefönstren är ursprungliga. Tornets ljudgluggar utgör en heterogen samling av hopplockade stenhuggeridetaljer. Långhuset och det lägre koret täcks av tegelklädda sadeltak, tornet kröns av en åttkantig spira. Tre ingångar finns: långhus- och korportal i söder samt tornportal i väster. Långhusportalens tympanonskiva har huggen slingornamentik. Långhuset täcks invändigt av två tältvalv, åtskilda av en bred gördelbåge. Det kryssvälvda koret upplyses av ett trekopplat östfönster samt ett mindre sydfönster. Ringkammaren täcks av ett högt sittande tältvalv. Triumf- och tornbågarna är svagt spetsbågiga. Kalkmålningar finns från 1200- och 1400-talen. Glasmålningarna i korets östfönster är från byggnadstiden. Inredningen härstammar i huvudsak från en restaurering 1902.
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Federal, Provincial, Territorial ministers of justice and public safety meet in Halifax to discuss topics such as justice efficiency and restorative justice. Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton shared BC's progress in reforming the justice system to reduce delays while Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Morris forged relationships with his colleagues and FPT counterparts, discussing issues that matter to BC - the opioid crisis, marijuana and First Nations policing.
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A key change during the 20th century in Britain that has been largely ignored in social science generally and housing studies in particular, is the steady growth in provision of domestic gardens in both the private and public sectors (Kellett, 1982). This expansion in gardens has been accompanied by the growth of gardening as a popular leisure activity. National data indicates that 20 million households in the UK, 84 per cent of the total, have access to a garden. Gardening as a leisure activity has steadily increased over the post-war period; today 52 per cent of the adult population regularly engage in some form of cultivation in their backyards (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2002). Traditionally the study of gardens and gardening has emphasised grand gardens and famous gardeners and designers (see Brown, 1999); the humble domestic garden has been neglected (but see Bhatti, 1999; Constantine, 1981; Hoyles, 1991; Ravetz & Turkington, 1995). This paper presents a discussion of the contemporary uses of domestic gardens based on secondary data and draws on primary data to examine some of the roles and meanings of gardens. It is argued that the study of gardens and gardening can significantly enhance the current understanding of the meaning of home in late modernity and the complex interactions between the home and wider social and cultural trends.
Previous studies of gardens have explored a wide range of social and cultural themes (Francis & Hestor, 1990). As part of everyday life, gardens and ways of gardening convey ideas about cultural change, personal identity, lifestyle and relations in the home. The practices of gardening provide insights into changing human-nature relations in late modernity (Bhatti & Church, 2001). The garden, like home, has also been considered as a gendered space (see Bhatti & Church, 2000; Morris, 1994) as well as a private haven from the world of work and politics (Hoyles, 1991), a functional space for leisure and household chores (Williams, 1995) and a space contributing to a home-based sense of place (Tuan, 1990). The media representations of gardens and gardening have also been considered and Gabb (1999) argues that the popular UK television programme ‘Gardener’s World' provides a feminine narrative that makes it distinctive from other ‘ordinary’ programmes.
Clearly gardens and gardening have multiple roles and meanings which can be explored from a variety of theoretical and conceptual directions. The broad aim of this paper is to consider the dimensions of gardening and gardens that provide insights into some of the contemporary meanings of the home. A complex range of theoretical perspectives has been developed to understand the nature of home (see Wardhaugh, 1999 for a review), but this paper seeks to engage with theoretical discussions concerning the home, nature, environmental risk and social uncertainty in late modernity. The reason for focusing on these concerns is that the garden is a distinctive space in the home where individuals (men, women and children) encounter nature in a direct manner that is not possible elsewhere in the home. There are other everyday domestic experiences, practices and knowledges that involve connections with nature but the garden and gardening offer particular opportunities for an embodied and sensual engagement with nature (Bhatti & Church, 2001). Furthermore, the garden, as is shown, is a space that is imbued with notions of privacy whereas many of the other spaces that people associate with experiences of nature are often shared and more public, even when they are physically isolated.
Despite this important reservation the more qualitative data reveals that for some respondents highly valued connections to nature can be created in the garden. Some of the quotes presented below also expose the complex and compromised nature of the garden as a private space for relaxing or escaping. The group of quotes in Box 1 was typical of responses to the question ‘how do you feel about your garden?’. One of the most common words used in these responses was ‘love’ as respondents outlined their personal affection for their gardens. Despite the enthusiasm of many respondents for their garden, others emphasised the functions of the garden and the fifth quote not only indicates a very functional attitude to the garden but also is an important reminder of the ‘reluctant gardeners’ highlighted using the secondary data. A number of respondents stressed the important function of the garden as a space for casual leisure, often described as ‘pottering about’.
Conclusions
The contemporary domestic garden may have received limited attention in housing studies but in other areas of social science commentators have recently made major claims regarding the social significance of gardens and gardening. Franklin (2002) claims that it is a key leisure activity in the Western world and in England it is central to popular culture. The empirical data presented in this paper, however, suggests it is important to be somewhat circumspect and cautious about the degree to which gardens and gardening can enhance life and the home in late modernity. The garden may have the potential to be a site for human creativity and sensual connections to nature but it is also imbued with the tensions, ambiguities and contradictions of late modern living. A variety of secondary data suggests that a significant minority, perhaps as many as a quarter, of the UK's adults have a very strong personalised attachment to their garden and are regular gardeners. A similar proportion of adults, however, view gardening far less positively often seeing it as a chore and a form of unrewarding ‘work’. Somewhere between these two contrasting sets of adults are another group who enjoy their garden but for a variety of reasons do not do much gardening. Of course, these categories of gardeners are fluid and individuals may move between them at different stages of their lives, especially since participation in gardening is much higher amongst older age groups.
Nevertheless, the qualitative findings of the research here do reveal that for a number of the respondents their garden was sited for developing sensual and embodied experiences and understandings of nature. These involved drawing on all the senses along with plants, pets, wildlife, the seasons, the elements, the landscape and the skyscape. The construction of hybrid relations with nature clearly involves interactions varying between individuals with the different components of nature. Interpreting these experiences of nature in a broader social context is rather more problematic. The therapeutic value of the garden was mentioned by a number of respondents, possibly confirming Kaplan & Kaplan's (1989) view about the restorative value of ‘nearby nature’. Cohen & Taylor (1992) suggest the garden might be a site for escape. Many of the respondents sought to ‘hide’ in the garden, often seeking to create a sense of place or home in the process. But it is not clear about what they were hiding from; some from a fast changing world, others from domestic drudgery and still others from family members. These may be undesirable features of a ‘risk’ society but there is not a simple link between the garden and people's concern with environmental degradation. The limited take-up of organic gardening in the UK compared to ‘containerised’ and lifestyle gardens illustrates the complex relations between the garden and environmental concerns.
The findings of the research do indicate more clearly that the garden provides a distinct site for negotiating and addressing some of the paradoxes of home and domestic life in late modernity. The garden, like the home, is imbued with meanings relating to privacy and sociation but in the garden both these meanings involve compromise and sometimes disappointment, partly due to the presence of neighbours. Developing personalised relations with nature in the garden draws individuals into a similarly negotiated process that has ambiguous outcomes and potential. In this context the garden seems to be both a place in which to hide and a specific space from which to confront and understand increasing uncertainty in the social and natural world. Late modernity presents us with paradoxes and these imbue the search for ‘nature’ in our backyards
The parish church of St. Alkelda dates mainly from the 15th century and the major restorative work that was carried out between 1890 and 1892, although some stone may have been reused from an older church that stood here before the Norman Conquest. It is located in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and adorns the picturesque village of Giggleswick (“Gikel’s [dairy] farm”), in the Craven (“Garlic place [?]”) district of North Yorkshire. In 1958 St. Alkelda’s Church was declared to be a Grade I listed building.
The church is only one of two in the country that is dedicated to St. Alkelda, the other being that at Middleham (“The middle homestead”), which is situated 25 miles north-east in a Yorkshire valley called Wensleydale (“The valley of Waendel’s woodland clearing”). According to legend, Alkelda was a Christian Saxon princess who was strangled on account of her faith by two Danish women in A.D. 800, at a time when the Danes were ravaging northern England and destroying its holy places. There is no real evidence, however, to support the story of her martyrdom. Indeed, it has even been suggested that the saint never existed at all and that the name Alkelda derives from the phrase “halig keld”, which means holy spring. Close to both Giggleswick and Middleham churches are springs that may have been a focal point for pre-Christian religious ceremonies and early Christians may well have gathered there to worship. Certainly it was not uncommon to found a church on a site that was considered to be holy in earlier pagan times. On the other hand, the skeleton of a lady dating back to Saxon times was discovered under the floor of Middleham church in 1878 and it is often argued that these bones are the mortal remains of Saint Alkelda. In the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal of 2004 Heather Edwards proposes that Saint Alkelda really did exist, but she is sceptical about her martyrdom and suggests that her real name was actually Alchild and not Alkelda. She argues that the saint was probably a canonised abbess of a Saxon monastery at Middleham who came from a wealthy, aristocratic background. The first church at Giggleswick may in fact have been established as a daughter house of that at Middleham.
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