He utilizes a highly effective holistic approach emphasizing customized herbal formulas and advanced acupuncture treatments for many health challenges. While writing has always been a part of his life, since 2005 Aydin Bengisu has been a licensed practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese medicine. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Seth, and their two Fox Terriers, Ben and Zeb. He has a BFA in Photography from School of Visual Art, NYC and an MFA in New Media Art and Performance from Long Island University. His seminal exhibition of sexual self-portraits in NYC in 2000, established Ron as a leading queer artist. He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Ron is a leader for diversity and inclusion on the FIT campus, serving nine years on The President’s Diversity Council. His book, The Box, visually represents Ron’s journey from a boy born into a second-generation Italian-American family in Brooklyn, NY to his current position as a respected educator and artist. Some of the issues explored in Ron’s work are aging within the LGBTQ community, male representation in social media and the ongoing attack on LGBTQ people by federal and local governments. Ron’s art practice revolves around his identity as a gay man. Ron Amato is a Professor in the Photography and Related Media department of Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. As the sun beats overhead and the last of the morning dew burns off the grass, teams of wrestlers begin to flow into the arena: shirtless, oiled and ready to go at it with their comrades. Musicians, travelling spectators and vendors of all kinds engulf the area around the stadium. You cross an ancient Ottoman stone bridge to reach Sarayiçi, where a new stadium is built around a still visible ancient amphitheater. Once known as Adrianopolis, after the Roman emperor Hadrian, who founded it around A.D.125, it was also the capital of the Ottoman Empire before the conquest of Constantinople in 1453.Īlthough the original Kirkpinar took place in present-day Greece, today it occurs on the island of Sarayiçi, located in the middle of a river.
The city of Edirne, located near the Bulgarian and Greek borders in Western Thrace, is way off the beaten tourist track. It stands as one of the best examples of Islamic and Ottoman era architecture. The famous 16th century Selimiye Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2011, built on the orders of Sultan Selim II, by master architect Sinan, greeted us as we came to a screeching halt in a cloud of dust. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.When we arrived in Edirne after a 5 hour bus ride from bustling Istanbul, it was as if we’d stepped back in time. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are:
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