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Garyu-in is a building that took 10 years to conceive and four years to construct. This one-story main building with a thatched roof and rural-style hipped roof construction was designed to harmonize with the beauty of its natural surroundings, with careful consideration to every detail, using selected fine woods from all across Japan.
Source: www.en.garyusanso.jp/about/#about01
banzainetsurfer has added a photo to the pool:
Garyu-in is a building that took 10 years to conceive and four years to construct. This one-story main building with a thatched roof and rural-style hipped roof construction was designed to harmonize with the beauty of its natural surroundings, with careful consideration to every detail, using selected fine woods from all across Japan.
Source: www.en.garyusanso.jp/about/#about01
Houston is a host city but those gathered there for a GOP convention are far more concerned with contentious politics – and an elephant
Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, has just finished a 25-minute address and most of the hits have been played. The radical Democrats must be destroyed in November’s midterms; an Austin-style woke agenda should be avoided at all costs; it is essential the Lone Star State remains the most conservative in the US. He has provided ample fodder for about 5,000 delegates but, as the applause subsides, they have a more weighty subject matter to absorb.
There is an elephant in the room. A real live elephant in the form of Paige, who is wearing a white cloak bearing the slogan “Unity drives victory”. It has long been an in-joke at the Texas Republican party convention that, one day, a pachydermal visitor might drop in; the animal has been a symbol of the GOP for 150 years. Now, at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Friday afternoon, the fantasy has been made flesh. Two intakes of breath, Paige is led up the vast conference hall’s central aisle, taking a break halfway up. The exit is 100 metres away but will have to wait; unfortunately for those who have rushed to marvel at her, it turns out Paige needs to urinate.
Continue reading...Keir Starmer says commercial and government agreements will create tens of thousands of jobs
The UK and Japan are set to agree £18bn worth of investment, creating tens of thousands of jobs.
Prime minister Keir Starmer will welcome his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi to Downing Street on Sunday ahead of the G7 summit next week.
Continue reading...Convenience store employee Eileen Fox, 56, said suspect ‘banged into metal stand’ but no one was injured in incident
• Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs
A convenience store worker was sacked after trying to tackle a woman who she suspected was shoplifting bacon.
Eileen Fox said the suspected thief was “well known” in Bootle, Merseyside, and claimed she had been stealing from the shop for years.
Continue reading...Police stop comes after far-right activist rose to further prominence on social media amid racial tensions in Britain
Tommy Robinson was detained by police on Saturday at Heathrow airport under counter-terrorism laws, after a week in which he rose to further prominence on social media.
It was understood the far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was stopped and had his phones seized under section 3 of the Counter-Terrorism Border Security Act 2019.
Continue reading...BertvB posted a photo:
A beautifully sharp close-up of a female Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) perched alertly on the edge of a textured structure.
FRANKFURT (ANP) - Michael van Gerwen en Gian van Veen hebben op de World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt de kwartfinales bereikt. Het Nederlandse duo won bij de laatste zestien met 8-6 van Zweden. Duitsland is zondag de volgende tegenstander.
De World Cup of Darts is een landentoernooi. Het Nederlandse koppel is als tweede geplaatst. De Nederlandse darters wisten het toernooi vier keer te winnen, alle keren met drievoudig wereldkampioen Van Gerwen erbij.
Bij Zweden speelde Jeffrey de Graaf samen met Oskar Lukasiak. De Graaf is een Nederlander die onder de Zweedse vlag uitkomt.
