#RESTORATION

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Looks like I forgot to upload this one when i was cleaning a bunch of the Ranma images a couple of years ago. Every time I saw a decent quality copy of this image it looked like it was faded to look like an old photo. I color corrected it to make everything pop like most Ranma 1/2 art you see, and i did my best to clean all the dust and imperfections from the image without loosing the grain. I'm really happy with how this one came out! Here is the original file for comparison: https://64.media.tumblr.com/eb129ded60d703fdb015d606eec37dd3/2e4e64c978685635-9a/s1280x1920/f181d501700ecb456955d40ecd21ba750ae6d426.jpg

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Charlie Gee's Instagram

The account in the source is different

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"Our findings emphasize the power of predators as ecosystem architects," said William Ripple. "The restoration of wolves and other large predators has transformed parts of Yellowstone, benefiting not only willows but other woody species such as aspen, alder, and berry-producing shrubs. It's a compelling reminder of how predators, prey, and plants are interconnected in nature." Wolves were eradicated and cougars driven to low numbers from Yellowstone National Park by the 1920s. Browsing by elk soon increased, severely damaging the park's woody vegetation, especially in riparian areas. Similar effects were seen in places like Olympic National Park in Washington, and Banff and Jasper National Parks in Canada after wolves were lost. While it's well understood that removing predators can harm ecosystems, less is known about how strongly woody plants and ecosystems recover when predators are restored. Yellowstone offers a rare opportunity to study this effect since few studies worldwide have quantified how much plant life rebounds after large carnivores are restored.

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Honda HP-X, 1984, by Pininfarina. The concept car that inspired the Honda NS-X has been restored 40 years on from its presentation at the Turin Motor Show. Honda will exhibit the rebuilt HP-X at the 2024 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance later in August. Though the concept was a static prototype Honda envisioned the concept with a mid-mounted naturally-aspirated 2.0-litre 24-valve V6 from Honda’s Formula 2 program 

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Chevrolet Pickup Truck ( 1952 ) 😊😊

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When architect Richard Kaplan, an ardent conservationist, found the structure, he decided to keep as many of the beams and rafters as possible. The floor boards are pine stained dark. An antique table serves as the bar.

Living Barns: How to Find and Restore a Barn of Your Own, 1984

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Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

For generations, native Hawaiians have understood that their aquaculture systems, fishponds known as loko i‘a, serve as nurseries that seed fish populations in surrounding waters. For the first time, a team of scientists from the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) have modeled this feat of Indigenous science in a study.

“We are using science to translate ‘ike kupuna, or Indigenous knowledge, into policy,” said study co-author Kawika Winter, an ecologist at HIMB and He‘eia National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR).

“The value of this paper is that it’s one of the first, if not the first, to really show that there are ways to do aquaculture in ways that benefit the system around it.”

In partnership with He‘eia NERR and Paepae o He‘eia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to stewarding the He‘eia loko i‘a, an ancient Hawaiian fishpond enclosing 36 hectares (88 acres) of brackish water, the team simulated different restoration scenarios in Kāne‘ohe Bay on O‘ahu Island based on a simplified food web. The study found that restoring more of the bay into fully functional loko iʻa would grow fish populations not just within the ponds, but across the bay.

“Aquaculture has a really bad reputation for basically destroying areas around it, but those are commercial approaches to aquaculture that aren’t holistic in their thinking or values-based like Indigenous management,” Winter said. “Rather than ensuring the health of the system, commercial aquaculture is concerned with maximizing profits.”

Winter attributed the success of the loko i’a design to Indigenous thought processes: “Indigenous thinking is operating within the opportunities and constraints of this system and figuring out a way to make things abundant within that context, sometimes even increasing abundance beyond natural levels.

Restoring ecosystems and relationships

Since co-founding Paepae o He‘eia in 2001, study co-author Hi‘ilei Kawelo, a sixth-generation Hawaiian from Kāne‘ohe Bay, has witnessed thousands of volunteers transform the He‘eia loko i‘a.

With the ongoing restoration, Paepae o He‘eia has seen both the aquatic environment and participants’ well-being improve with increased access to traditional foods, strengthening their relationship to place, and fortifying their family and community relationships. “For me and for a lot of our employees, this is one of our outlets, if not our primary outlet for exercising aloha ‘āina [love of the land],” Kawelo said.

“‘Āina is so important, because it is a term for a system that has the nature and its people in an inseparable reciprocal relationship,” Winter said. “The concept is core to this work because it’s about getting back into a way of thinking where there is no separation between the lands, the waters and us.”

While the overarching goal of Paepae o He‘eia and other fishponds is to revitalize Hawai‘i’s extensive Indigenous aquaculture system, Kotubetey said he knows the work may take generations.

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Vénus d'Arles

presumably holding the Golden Apple of Discord

Venus of Arles, late 1st c. BC. Hymettus marble, H: 1.94 m. Louvre Found in several pieces in 1651 by workmen digging a well at the Roman Theatre of Arles

Aphrodite de Thespies

The head style/technique is a possible link to the Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles, ordered by the courtesan Phryne, 2nd quarter of 4th c. AD. mentioned by Pausanias.

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010277986

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Arles

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Note to self~

Just set your gaze on Jesus and everything else will fall into place and be ordered.

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Ford Bronco - Cars & Coffee EDH 2/8/25

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Maserati 3500 GT, 1959, by Touring Superleggera. The 3500 GT was Maserati's first series production car. Designed by Touring Superleggera, it marked Maserati's entry in the world of luxury Grand Tourers, featuring the pioneering "Superleggera" lightweight aluminium construction. Fast forward 66 years and a 3500 GT that was originally sold to the Dodge family in California and kept within the family for a number of years before making its way back to Europe has been restored by the car's original coachbuilders, Touring Superleggera. With the support of the Maserati Classiche department the car has been granted a Restoration Certification and its Certificate of Authenticity and is on display at Rétromobile 2025.

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Jaguar SS100 Replica ( 1936 ) 😁

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From Mossy Earth on Youtube (3/2/25):

Big news - we’ve been awarded £544,558.76 of funding to plant 4.2 ha of seagrass meadow in the Scottish Highlands across three years!

🌱 🌱 This project follows extensive baseline and investigative surveys, as well as small seagrass translocation trials undertaken in 2024, supported by the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) that’s managed by NatureScot. The delivery of planting 4.2 hectares of intertidal seagrass meadow over three years will be supported by the Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund (SMEEF), an initiative supported by the Scottish Government’s Marine Scotland Directorate, NatureScot and Crown Estate Scotland.

🌊 The vision of Wilder Firths (Linneachan nas Fhiadhaiche), formerly known as Cromarty Seascape, is for the firths surrounding the Black Isle to be home to a resilient mosaic of biogenic habitats that support diverse and thriving ecosystems. Central to achieving and sustaining this vision are local communities that are connected to and invested in their coastal environment.

🦪 Historically overlooked in the area, seagrass meadows are one of the focus habitats of Wilder Firths alongside native oyster (Ostrea edulis) reefs. Seagrass species in the area are dwarf eelgrass (Nanozostera noltei), common eelgrass (Zostera marina) and beaked tasselweed (Ruppia maritima). Common eelgrass encompasses variants that are found either inter-tidally or sub-tidally whereas dwarf eelgrass and beaked tasselweed are only found in the intertidal zone.

🔎 As well as collecting and planting seed with other members of the local community, our team will trial more experimental approaches such as transplanting seagrass with sediment (coring) and mechanised seed collection and planting. Small scale trials of intertidal seagrass coring, a method previously used by Restoration Forth, indicate that the method could be an effective way to restore seagrass meadows when compared with other methods such as seeding or transplanting bare root seagrass plants.

💪 Want to be part of the team delivering this project? We’re hiring a Seagrass Officer and a Community & Funding Officer. There’s still time to apply! Applications close midnight on the 7th of March. Learn more here: https://www.mossy.earth/jobs?utm_sour...