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Organization Board: [QE Home] Wall Organizer -Boho-
Available in the Mainstore.
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The organization is not quite in place yet, so our new First Cat has not been appointed. Rags is the most experienced, but less ambitious than Caithlin, who might be an upcoming queen. For now however, they seem to share the responsibility in harmony... :)
Dushara Tatters and Rags & Dushara Cathal Caithlin (Somalis), 28.06.2015
Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera
Clock in the City of London, with North American spelling. No idea who 'organised' the installation.
Just waiting in the early morning light......
SV Tenacious is a unique tall ship designed for inclusivity, allowing both disabled and non-disabled individuals to sail together as crew members.
Launched in 2000, SV Tenacious is the largest wooden tall ship built in the UK in over a century. It was designed by Tony Castro and constructed by the Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) to accommodate a mixed-ability crew. The ship features innovative designs such as wheelchair lifts, a speaking compass, and adjustable furniture, enabling everyone to participate fully in sailing activities.
Specifications:
Length: 65 meters (213 feet) including the bowsprit
Beam: 10.6 meters (34 feet 9 inches)
Displacement: Approximately 714 tons
Rigging: Three-masted barque with two mizzen gaffs
Maiden Voyage: The ship's first journey was from Southampton to Sark, St Helier, and Weymouth on September 1, 2000.
As of now, the ship is currently for sale, and there is an ongoing campaign to raise awareness and find a new owner or organization that can operate her sustainably. The Save Tall Ship Tenacious campaign aims to ensure that the ship continues to provide opportunities for mixed-ability sailing.
Temple Concord's roots reach back over one hundred years to the first Jewish organization in this area. The original Jewish settlers in Binghamton organized the Hebrew Benevolent Society, founded in 1862. Subsequently, they created a number of Jewish organizations and religious societies. Temple Concord was incorporated in November, 1950, and in February 1951 regular services were instituted in the Kilmer Mansion. The historic mansion now houses our Hebrew and Judaic schools as well as a library.
Just in time to save Valentine's Day against the villanous Organization H.A.T.E, it's secret Agent Loochie Smoochie!
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Synchro-Cyclotron Particle Accelerator , CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 2015.
This 600-MeV Synchrocyclotron (SC), which came into operation in 1957, was CERN’s first accelerator. It provided beams for CERN’s first experiments in particle and nuclear physics.
A project to turn the SC into a visitor exhibition was carried out in time for CERN’s 2013 open days, and the SC exhibition is now one of the visit itineraries for CERN guided tours.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research is a research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border.
home.cern/science/accelerators/synchrocyclotron
I'm crazy about organization!
What began with a simple, child's vintage loom
(featured here in green), has grown and grown!
Another child's loom was ordered (not featured),
and brought with it some heddles . . .
I decided I needed a bed tray to contain some of my supplies!
This I can straddle and also use as a place to balance my loom,
as I weave . . . and that's another photo!
Of course the piece below didn't need a loom at all!
A dear friend likes this the best of all!
*sigh* . . . I'm just a hopeless artist . . .
PS . . . don't you just LOVE the little wooden lamb?
It comes apart and is actually a baby's toy!
Buckling Organizations.
Res illustrantes magnas respectus chartulae acutae variae interactiones spiritus transformantes phaenomena reflexiones interna.,
συσχετιζόμενοι χώροι αποδίδονται πινακίδες που καταρρέουν καρέκλες επιδείξεις φιλοσοφία απογύμνωση υλικού αποκήρυξη κανόνων φυσική κόλαση,
manières entrelacées divers symboles inspirés énergies modèles de naufrage absorptions spectacles appelant focus superficialité dirigeants guerres agressives à l'intérieur,
proses hanesyddol geiriau dwfn reverberating rhyngweithio apathy trachwant awgrymiadau lethargies gwersi cynhenid awdurdodau anwybodaeth,
prljave strane kontradikcije izložene bučne štete neoprezni varvarski katalozi zanemarivanje slika stoka poziva daleki zvukovi sve veći nanosi,
協会を誘惑する評価されていない動き信じられないほどのゲーム無制限の火大声で叫び声を上げて固体の声を却下武器無数の仮定死の病気の心スペクターが崩れた.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Miniature Poodle. The poodle parade at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California is an annual event in October. Proceeds go to a poodle rescue organization. This one had 525 entries and at least an equal number of people, most with their dogs, viewing the parade. It seemed like a majority of parade entrants had more than one poodle or poodle-mix. For dog lovers, like me and my wife, it is tremendous fun and so many laughs. Add the thrill of innumerable photographic subjects, it is something we really enjoy.
Overview of Codex Alimentarius
by Rima Laibow, M.D.
At the request of the United Nations (UN) in 1962, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) took on the joint role of running and administering the Codex
Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to establish standards and remove barriers to trade for all food and
food products. Having declared that nutrients are toxins from which we must be protected, the CAC
has been busy establishing enforceable international guidelines for upper limits of nutritional
supplement dosing. Codex has goals that affect every person in the UN’s 170+ member nations,
including the United States. As a tool for furthering these goals, member nations are urged to adopt
Codex standards and guidelines as domestic policy. The United States has already committed itself to
doing so despite U. S. law which prohibits this compliance.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has adopted Codex as a standard for the adjudication of foodrelated
international trade disputes and has the authority to enforce Codex standards through
implementation of harsh economic sanctions on non-Codexcompliant member nations. Pre-existing
international treaty laws dictate that WTO rulings will override the domestic laws already in place in
its member nations and, in fact, the WHO has successfully taken both states and the U. S. government
to court in the U. S. to force changes in our domestic laws eleven times. This means our nation’s hard
won laws that give you access to over-the-counter, natural health supplements will become
meaningless. Codex’s original mandate to remove barriers to trade and assure a clean food supply has,
under the influence of private, economically-driven multinational pharmaceutical, agricultural and
chemical corporations, self-expanded far beyond its original mandate. The result is a body of highly
dangerous and restrictive policies that threaten to become domestic law in the U. S. and, as such, are
a threat to your health and freedom.
The FDA has stated explicitly that its goal is complete "harmonization" with Codex and, in order to
bring that about, international regulations i.e., Codex will be given preference over domestic ones!
(Federal Register, 10/ 11 /95)
If Codex gets its way, as it already has in the EU, we can expect that, ultimately, only 18 or so dietary
supplements will be available over-the-counter in doses which are, by design, far too small to have any
discernible impact on any human being since codex classifies nutrients as toxins. High potency
nutrients will not be available either with or without physician’s prescription since these molecules
and compounds will be forbidden under any circumstances. The big surprise? Once in the hands of
pharmaceutical companies, consumer supplement costs are expected to more than quadruple. This
has, in fact, been the experience in Europe where this process is already underway and micro-dose
nutrient prices have increased 10 to 100 fold or more (e.g., in Norway a bottle of zinc lozenges which
previously cost $2 now costs $54; in France 12 Vitamin C tabs of just10 mg cost $117; while 10 Vitamin
E caps of only 10 IU each cost $110).
Australia and the European Union (EU) are in the process of enacting harmonized Codex policies that
restrict consumer access to nutritional supplements. America is next. Though Americans value
personal freedom, the fact Codex meets infrequently (and almost always offshore) and is bogged
down in highly technical language that is difficult to understand has resulted in many Americans
being unaware of this threat. The nearly total media blackout on Codex and its activities helps to
keep the U. S. uninformed and therefore, pliant.
While there have been rare serious adverse reactions to nutritional supplements during the past
decades, (usually when taken far in excess of the recommended dosing), numerous severe and even
fatal reactions to drugs (usually when taken at the recommended dosing) occur every day and are the
fourth leading cause of death in hospitalized clients in the United States when properly
used. When improperly used, they are, in fact, far and away the leading cause of death in
the United States. Even so, drug deaths are very likely underreported. Drugs are
inherently dangerous; nutrients are not. This fact makes it clear why the drug culture
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needs to eliminate all access to natural health options, including nutritional supplements,
in order to expand and intensify its influence and thus its profitability. Healthy people
take fewer drugs and thus are poor customers.
The global pharmaceutical powers -that-be have already purchased a large piece of the
lucrative global nutritional supplement pie but the considerable size of this pie keeps the
hugely profitable pharmaceutical profit -share-pie from reaching its maximum size so the
competing nutrient pie must be destroyed. Though unable to patent a natural substance,
pharmaceutical corporations can hold patents on synthetic versions of vitamins and
minerals that, unfortunately for the consumer, often do not act like their natural vitamin
counterparts in the body and often act in unpredic table and harmful ways. If Codexcompliant
Europe is any guide, the permitted micro-doses of permitted nutrients will be
only synthetic ones.
In addition to regulatory and/or administrative takeover and destruction of the dietary
supplement market and consumer access, Codex also mandates irradiation of food;
mandatory use of antibiotics, hormones and growth stimulants in all animals raised for
food, is expected to legalize the unlabeled inclusion of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) (whose
safety has never been established while their serious dangers have) into our seed and food supplies and
will increase the allowable maximum tolerated levels of pesticides, herbicides, veterinary drugs and
other dangerous industrial toxins in food, likely driving up degenerative illnesses, including cancer,
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, macular degeneration, MS, etc. All of these policies are made under
the guise of free and equal access to trade for all nations and protection of the public.
Some people have “Codex Anesthesia,” a state of overwhelming, numb confusion that occurs just
before people lose their health freedom. Many otherwise well-informed people from the manufacturing
and retailing sectors of natural healthcare believe that the Dietary Supplement Health and Education
Act (DSHEA), passed in 1994 to protect Americans’ access to natural healthcare substances, will still be
in place to protect them. This is not the case: Fundamental health freedoms afforded the American
public by DSHEA, which classifies supplements as food which, as such, can have no upper limit set on
their use, are now under well orchestrated legislative and/or administrative attack. Health nuts and
junk food devotees alike are not immune from this legislative attack on health freedom.
The following is a link to Dr. Laibow's website which gives a self-prompting 5-minute presentation that
tells you about Codex: http: //www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex.shtml
More in-depth information can be found on her website, www.healthfreedomusa.org, and on
the highly informative "Nutricide: the DVD" http: /
/www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex/dvd.shtml
Something I've wanted to do for awhile now with this special antique piece I have had for years. Love how this turned out, a feast to the eyes!
It's funny how, no matter how well you know a person, if you no longer live with them you don't know some of their little habits. Like the way my brother has his shirts color-coordinated to the hangers they are on.
California Least Tern
Sternula antillarum browni
Anthropomorphically angry.
Ormond Beach Wetlands
Oxnard, California
An endangered species that seems to be making a significant comeback thanks to public education and active protection provided by dedicated, hard-working volunteers and organizations, birders and birdists.
These guys are tiny and delicate -- an adult's wingspan can be up to 21 inches but their weight tops out at about 1 1/2 ounces. They flutter like butterflies and maneuver like magic, but despite their diminutivity [if it's not a word it should be] they are tenacious and effective predators, Little aquatic raptors -- they plunge-dive for their prey like tiny pelicans. Amazing birds, fun to watch (and to photograph).
The bird in the photo looks angry, probably because he had just dropped a hard-earned fish. I missed the drop shot.
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
The WannaGoFast organization was founded in order to fill a niche in the Motorsports marketplace. Our goal was to create a safe and controlled environment for fellow car enthusiasts to pursue their “Need For Speed” without the restrictions of the standard 1/8 or 1/4 mile drag strip. See what it’s like to hit speeds you’ve only dreamed of without the risk of law enforcement or causing injury to others, while being surrounded by on-site safety personnel.
WannaGoFast social media links...
Website: wannagofast.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wannagofastllc
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_wannagofast_
We adopted a cat yesterday. She came from a rescue organization and is four years old. Her name is Eila (eye-la), which neither of us particularly likes, so we are discussing other possibilities, but haven't settled on one yet.
June 18th, 1812, President James Madison and the United States Congress declared war on Great Britain. Battles raged throughout the continent for over two years before peace was negotiated. For Americans, the War of 1812 played an important part in our nation's development. In 2012, America will commemorate our Navy's history, honor the men and women who fought for our freedom, who are serving us today, and celebrate with the world our maritime heritage. As 2012 approaches, Lynx "Americas Privateer" is scheduled to participate in the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and the Star-Spangled Banner. Lynx will also be a part of the culmination of the Bicentennial events at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor on September 16, 2014.
Through this commemoration of the War of 1812, the important mission of Lynx and the US Navy will be advanced as we celebrate and honor the contributions the Navy has made in the building of our country while educating our communities on the important battles and historic events that took place on our very waterfronts to defend our nation.
The 122-foot top sail schooner privateer Lynx is a unique National Treasure. Launched in 2001 on plans dating from the War of 1812, the Lynx brings American history back from the past and immerses students in lessons about this nation's founding and it's defense of freedom. The original Lynx played a role in the writing of the Star Spangled Banner—our national anthem composed as the British sought to destroy Fort McHenry and the Baltimore shipyards where the Lynx and sister Baltimore clipper schooners were constructed to run the British blockade.
Seize the opportunity join our journey and help support America's Privateer. Thank you for your consideration, support and making a positive difference in today's youth.
Lynx is operated by the Lynx Educational Foundation, which is a 501-C3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing outstanding educational programs that inspire students and achieve results. Please visit our website at www.privateerlynx.org for online donations or utilize enclosed envelope. The Lynx Educational Foundation has been awarded the National Maritime Historical Society 2010 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Maritime Education.
Fair winds and following seas!
Thanx to The Lynx Educational Foundation.
WHAT IS A PRIVATEER? A privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers. They were of great benefit to a smaller naval power or one facing an enemy dependent on trade: they disrupted commerce and pressured the enemy to deploy warships to protect merchant trade against commerce raiders. They were, essentially, a Renaissance-era equivalent to the corporate and independent "military contractors" of today.
The cost was borne by investors hoping to profit from prize money earned from captured cargo and vessels. The proceeds would be distributed among the privateer's investors, officers and crew. It has been argued that privateering was a less destructive and wasteful form of warfare, because the goal was to capture ships rather than to sink them.[1]
Privateers were part of naval warfare from the 16th to the 19th century. Some privateers have been particularly influential in the annals of history. Sometimes, the vessels would be commissioned into regular service as warships. The crew of a privateer might be treated as prisoners of war by the enemy country if captured.
Thanx to Wikipedia.
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As of July 1999, Carrotwood has been added to the State of Florida List of Noxious Weeds.
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This native of Australia, Irian Jaya (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea is a fast-growing evergreen tree that grows to a height of about 35 feet.
Carrotwood, a prolific seed producer, became a popular landscape tree throughout southern Florida in the late 1970s and early 1980s. By 1990, wild Carrotwood seedlings began to be seen in the wild in various habitats.
In Florida, flowering occurs in the winter, from January to March. Flowers are unisexual, with each flower cluster containing both male and female flowers. .
The brightly colored fruits are very attractive to birds which disperse it widely. In its native range, Carrotwood is pollinated by bees, which are the likely pollinators in Florida.
No biological control is available at this time. Chemical control is the most common and effective method of control.
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A Carrotwood tree in its peak blooming season.
Cupaniopsis anacardioides
Family Sapindaceae
Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (E.C.H.O.)
Ft. Myers
Florida
USA.
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The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - writing about one of his photograms. , 1000 Photo Icons by Anthony Bannon (Foreword), George Eastman House , ISBN: 3822820970 , Page: 521
A mysterious organization known only as “The Collective” seeks to take over the world, and its your job to stop them in MadPea's First Interactive Adventure Hunt!
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Originally built in 1929 as the Medinah Athletic Club, a luxury men's club for members of the Shrine organization, the club fell victim to the stock-market crash and was forced to close its doors in 1934. InterContinental Hotels bought the property in 1988, and immediately began renovations. A quarter of a billion dollars and 12 years later, this truly magnificent hotel was re-introduced to Chicago.
Restoration work was guided by the original athletic club's 1930
In France, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (“CMN”) is a State-run organization that manages many of the most important historic monuments. As such, it is composed mostly of civil servants, some truly knowledgeable and in love with the monument they’re administering, others with a decidedly and predominantly “administrative” (read: fussy and regulations-loving) mindset. Anyway, having learned my lesson the hard way, I now never approach a CMN-run monument with my photo tripod without having made prior contact, gained as much legitimacy as possible, and secured the authorization to take photos on site. With that in mind, one is, most of the time, very welcome, and even given access to very interesting parts the general public doesn’t get to see.
That is just what happened in Le Puy-en-Velay, the starting point of the Via Podiensis to Compostela and home to many Romanesque wonders, some of which I had never seen but firmly intended to photograph on this trip. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t cooperating and it rained most of the day. Furthermore, the Saint Michael of Aiguilhe chapel wasn’t accessible owing to works being underway. In other words, another trip to Le Puy will need to be scheduled in March, but for the time being, I will upload the photos I managed to take in the canons’ cloister next to the Notre-Dame cathedral, as well as in other, more “secret” parts of the cathedral complex. I hope you will enjoy them.
During the Middle Ages, the cathedral of Le Puy-en-Velay was a major Marian pilgrimage site, thanks to the devotion of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims for a small statue of the Virgin Mary, one of those “Black Marys” of Auvergne that made miracles. That one was supposedly brought back from the Holy Land Crusade by Saint Louis himself (i.e., French King Louis IX), and it may have come originally from Coptic Egypt, or even Ethiopia. There’s no way to tell now, as the wooden statue was burned by revolutionaries in 1794. The Black Virgin one can still see in the cathedral today was made in the 19th century to replicate the genuine one, using descriptions made by visitors who had the opportunity to see it before the French Revolution.
Because of this pilgrimage, it was easy for Le Puy to also become a starting point of a path to Compostela when that pilgrimage took off, and because people consequently thronged the cathedral, it had to be enlarged several times. A cloister was also built next to the nave, on the northern side, for the canons. They were secular canons, a number of them from the highest nobility, and their chapter both carried out the Opus Dei in the cathedral and served as an advisory body to the bishop. This means most of them lived in the city in very comfortable, sometimes even luxurious, accommodations, and I personally believe that, given those circumstances, the construction of a cloister and other “monastery-like” buildings was more for show than anything else. A cloister is meant for solitary meditation, and I’m not sure that that cloister got a lot of it...
It remains a magnificent monument well worthy of a visit and of an in-depth study.
The cloister galleries are all covered with groin vaulting.
sliding into another Sunday . . .
with face-like toggles and imported Spanish Espadrille ties
all wound up . . . ready for another mask making project!
I've discovered a wonderful source for the ribbons on my masks . . . whoever would have thought this project could take so many turns and travel all over the country!
The "lid" is from a clear plastic repurposed *Talenti* gelato container into which I color coordinate my supplies for easy organization and efficient creativity.
Rhodes island
The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem is a Roman Catholic lay religious Order governed Rhodes island from 1310 to 1522 A.D.
The Order grew out of the Knights Hospitaller, an organization founded in Jerusalem in 1050 A.D. as an Amalfitan hospital to provide care for poor and sick pilgrims to the Holy Land.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri
Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the most populated municipality and historic core city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Kansas–Missouri state line and has a population of 2,392,035. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, with portions spilling into Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west. On June 1, 1850, the town of Kansas was incorporated; shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued, and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after.
Sitting on Missouri's western boundary with Kansas, with Downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the city encompasses about 319.03 square miles (826.3 km2), making it the 23rd largest city by total area in the United States. It serves as one of the two county seats of Jackson County, along with the major suburb of Independence. Other major suburbs include the Missouri cities of Blue Springs and Lee's Summit and the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, and Kansas City, Kansas.
The city is composed of several neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east, and the Country Club Plaza in the south. Celebrated cultural traditions include Kansas City jazz, theater, which was the center of the Vaudevillian Orpheum circuit in the 1920s, the Chiefs and Royals sports franchises, and famous cuisine based on Kansas City-style barbecue, Kansas City strip steak, and craft breweries.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauffman_Center_for_the_Performing_...
The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, at 16th and Broadway, near the Power & Light District, the T-Mobile Center and the Crossroads Arts District. Its construction was a major part of the ongoing redevelopment of downtown Kansas City.
The Center was created as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Unlike some other major civic construction projects, no taxpayer funds went into its construction. The City of Kansas City contributed to and operates a parking garage adjacent to the Kauffman Center.
It is the performance home to the Kansas City Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and the Kansas City Ballet which in the past performed at the Lyric Theatre, eight blocks north of the center. The Kauffman Center houses two unique performance venues: Muriel Kauffman Theatre and Helzberg Hall.
According to its website, the Kauffman Center's mission is "to enrich the lives of communities throughout the region, country and world by offering extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences". Not only do notable performances take place almost weekly, but the Center is a place where the KC community comes together and celebrates the city's rich arts culture. The Kauffman Center seeks to fulfill this mission by offering a wide selection of performances, and also by offering specific programs to connect with the youth in the Kansas City area.
"I am.... THE CHAIRMAN!"
What, like you are the head of an organization?
Or, you use those metal folding chairs as a weapon?
Given this is combat entertainment, I suspect the latter.
Oh, they do use ladders too, that's true!
No, 'latter', not 'ladder'!
Huh?
"Listen to me! I am the Chairman of the Chojin Committee!"
The Chojin Committee?
"Yes, the 超人委員会."
What??
I didn't understand that.
"The Chōjin Iinkai!!"
Yelling doesn't help! We can hear you, we just don't understand!
"I oversee all Chōjin activity in the universe."
Oh, wow, so you're like Kinniku management?
You're a Kinniku boss?
"Yes, you can say that. In fact, I am called... Harabote Muscle!"
Is that your name?
"As far as you know. I'm also known as Vance McMadd!"
Vance McMadd??
So... you're the 'Chairman' and you're named Vance McMadd.
Do you happen to have two children? A son and a daughter?
"Why, yes! Ikemen Muscle is my son, and Jacqueline Muscle is my daughter. Why do you ask?"
... No reason.
"In my childhood, I would regularly play with Mayumi Kinniku."
Isn't that Kinnikuman's dad?
"Indeed! One day we found a forbidden area while playing, and entered into a secret building located within the area, where we found the prison cell that contained Nemesis. Mayumi revealed that his father - Tatsunori - spoke fondly of Nemesis, calling him the kindest man that ever lived."
Really!
Because, you now, his name literally means 'enemy'.
"So, Nemesis made Mayumi promise that - when he became king - he would work hard to create a Kinniku Clan in which no one would suffer as Nemesis had suffered."
How had Nemesis suffered?
"So, we come to the 20th Chojin Olympics."
Okay, not really answering questions, I see.
"Mayumi's son, Suguru, whom you call Kinnikuman, wanted to enter the tournament, which Mayumi found laughable! He had no confidence in Suguru. He tried to talk Suguru out of entering but then Robin Mask showed up and challenged Suguru. So, as Chairman, I was bound to let Suguru enter the tournament.
Needless to say, I also ended up announcing the first of many victories for Suguru!
I went on to devise and design many innovative and unique matches, such as the Terrifying Sieves, the Bullet Train Challenge, and the Giant Pachinko Machine. Truly, I have proven to be a genius in combat sports!"
So YOU'RE the one who makes all those goofy matches!
"I not only design the amazing matches, I am present at every major tournament! Close to the combat! At turns encouraging and scolding the combatants so that the crowd will be pleased with the spectacle!"
So, we can complain to you about all the Kinnikpeople and their origins and general silliness?
"You may complain to me about nothing! You may only ENJOY everything Chojin because I am the Chairman over everything Chojin!"
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We gotta stay on this guy.
Yep, we won't give up.
He's the key to a lot of control over what goes on up there on the stage.
💪M💪U💪S💪C💪L💪E💪
A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
M.U.S.C.L.E. No. 47, "The Chairman" "Harabote Muscle"
Painted by CM, thus losing all collectible value forever.
Sewing Room Organization Challenge
Come check out my Sewing Room Organization Challenge and hundreds of links to sewing project tutorials!
Another view. The wall saying came out perfectly! I found a very sweet lady on Etsy who created it for me and it is exactly what I wanted and fits the space perfectly!
Originally built in 1929 as the Medinah Athletic Club, a luxury men's club for members of the Shrine organization, the club fell victim to the stock-market crash and was forced to close its doors in 1934. InterContinental Hotels bought the property in 1988, and immediately began renovations. A quarter of a billion dollars and 12 years later, this truly magnificent hotel was re-introduced to Chicago.
Restoration work was guided by the original athletic club's 1930 yearbook, the SCIMITAR, donated by a club member. Its black-and-white photographs were used to duplicate and restore entire rooms, right down to the detailing in draperies, carpets and murals. Today, each floor of the hotel represents a myriad of cultures and eras. The public areas available for viewing provide a glimpse of the rich history of the building.
The Local Music Scene in Downtown Baker City Oregon with Ben Rice and the Lucky Losers.
Enjoying the local music scene in downtown Baker City with live music by the Ben Rice Blues Band and The Lucky Losers.
Baker City's historic downtown is one of the largest intact turn of the 20th century historic districts in the American West with over 100 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. Today, with the hard work of the local Main Street organization Baker City Downtown, Baker City's historic downtown has undergone a renaissance in recent years and is developing a thriving art and music scene with numerous local restaurants, pubs and galleries routinely hosting live music throughout the downtown. the downtown district is now a thriving downtown, and in addition to the lively music scene visitors will also find numerous art galleries, restaurants, micro breweries and local independently owned shops.
For more information about live music venues including outdoor concerts and music festivals Baker County Oregon visit Baker County Tourism's website at www.travelbakercounty.com
Originally built in 1929 as the Medinah Athletic Club, a luxury men's club for members of the Shrine organization, the club fell victim to the stock-market crash and was forced to close its doors in 1934. InterContinental Hotels bought the property in 1988, and immediately began renovations. A quarter of a billion dollars and 12 years later, this truly magnificent hotel was re-introduced to Chicago.
Restoration work was guided by the original athletic club's 1930 yearbook, the SCIMITAR, donated by a club member. Its black-and-white photographs were used to duplicate and restore entire rooms, right down to the detailing in draperies, carpets and murals. Today, each floor of the hotel represents a myriad of cultures and eras. The public areas available for viewing provide a glimpse of the rich history of the building.
Its been a while since I've posted any pictures of my (our) Lego building studio.
Last year, the room was completely renovated. Originally, the room was built as part of a house extension in 1985 to enclose a hot tub and shower. Since owning the house, we used the hot tub only a few years until we shut it down and converted the room into a playroom. The playroom then evolved into a family Lego studio. During this time, we built storage and work spaces around the hot tub. This of course resulted in inefficient use of space and inconvenient accessibility.
Finally, in 2018 we embarked on a much needed renovation. This involved removal of the hot tub and infrastructure, followed by new floor joists and framing. The shower was converted into a storage closet and the entire room received new tiled floor with under floor heating system.
Of the best attributes of this studio is abundant natural light emanating from large floor to ceiling windows and three overhead skylights. For nighttime use, the room is illuminated from ceiling mounted track lighting and a series of adjustable gooseneck LED worklights fitted along the entire length of the work spaces.
Lastly, a custom centre island was constructed from 2x Ikea Kalax storage units. The units were bolted together, a table top surface was installed (with bullnose edges) and heavy duty castor wheels were fitted to the bottom. This centre island not only incorporates integrated storage but serves as an immensely useful worksurface for staging models, sorting parts, or collaboration.
Storage and parts organization is a topic for another day. Suffice to say, we use Ikea Trofast drawers for bulk parts storage of major colours. We use wall mounted Kalax units (not shown) for less used colours, the island Kalax units store monochrome colour detail parts (e.g. slopes, round bricks, etc.), and finally the workspaces are completely surrounded by many 100's of small parts bins organized by part type and also colour if applicable. All storage is labelled using custom python software scripts which generate part thumbnails, part descriptions etc. and automatically lays out label graphics for a variety of Avery brand label sheets of different sizes.
It is a wonderful space to spend time being creative and having fun! Now I just need time to enjoy it!
The Village of Anmore is a small community surrounded by nature in the Metro Vancouver region of B.C. With an estimated population of 2,300 in 2020. The origins of modern community life in what is today the Village of Anmore can be traced back to 1915 with the launch of the Farmer’s Institute and companion Ladies’ Guild, the area’s first community organizations. LINK to the complete article - anmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Welcome-to-Anmore-H...
As an aside of miscellany, the first settlers who came to the Anmore Valley referred to it as "stump land" or the "stump ranches" in reference to its logged condition. The name that lasted though was Sunnyside until it was changed to Anmore when the area got its post office. Anmore is an adaptation of the name given to the creek that flows in the northern area of the Village. Franklin John Lancaster, a part-time homesteader wished to secure water rights to the creek which ran through his property in an effort to prevent the Port Moody Sand and Gravel Company from redirecting the waters’ flow for industrial purposes. To stake his claim he had to create a name for the creek. The contraction of his wife’s and daughter’s first names, Annie and Leonore produced the name of Annore, which was given to the creek in 1917. By 1947, the Vancouver City Archivist noted that people had gotten into the habit of saying Anmore. Firms printed calendars with the name on it and the store was named Anmore grocery. Thus in time its widespread acceptance led to the post office adopting it and the region was officially recognized as such by the Geographical Board in Victoria. The first store in Anmore was started in the 1930’s by Mrs. Montgomery on Sunnyside Road. Another was started by Johnny Bedard that became the first post office in Anmore. LINK to the complete article - anmore.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/History-of-the-Vill...
LINK to - HISTORY OF ANMORE - www.bcmyhome.ca/Anmore/history.html
The ANMORE Post Office was established - 11 June 1951 and closed - 2 May 1961 - due to the lack of a postmaster. The Post Office was located in the ANMORE STORE which was located 2.5 miles Northeast of Ioco, British Columbia.
Mrs. Sarah Wright served as Postmistress at ANMORE from - 11 June 1951 to - 23 March 1961. LINK - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
Sarah Holmes (nee Pike) Wright
(b. 21 October 1914 in Glasgow, Scotland - d. 5 August 1990 at age 75 in Kelowna, British Columbia) - her occupation - Postmistress.
Her husband - Daniel Wright
(b. 12 August 1914 in Scotland - d. 18 February 1978 at age 63 in New Westminster, B.C. / Port Coquitlam, B.C.) - his occupation - pipe fitter for Imperial Oil.
Arnold Research Organization (ARO) designed and operated Arnold Center until 1980. My dad began working there in 1953 until he retired in early 90s. He is 98 1/2 and as sharp as ever. Here's a bit of history on AEDC / ARO:
Arnold AFB (Air Force Base) began as Camp Forrest, an Army training camp during WWII. Camp Forrest's training facilities included William Northern Field, used for training Army Air Force pilots. Camp Forrest was secured after the war by the new Air Force as the site for the Air Engineering Development Center in 1949, and named the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in honor of General Henry "Hap" Arnold, one of the founding fathers of the US Air Force and a five-star general.
AEDC was created to be the primary jet and rocket development for the Air Force, and developed the premier flight, jet, rocket, and simulation testing in the world. The Jet Age of the 1950s and 1960s, and Space Race kept pushing the AEDC to expand their capabilities. [In the early 50s, my mom, dad, and father-in-law began working at the Center - the dads were engineers and my mom was a secretary for the Air Force Generals.] The AEDC was instrumental to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs, including testing space capsules, the Saturn V rocket upper stage engines. The main function of the AEDC was to test military aircraft and missiles. In the 1970s, systems for the Space Shuttle, F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt, MX missile, Air-Launched Cruise Missile, and Global Positioning Satellite system were tested by the AEDC. Arnold's testing in more recent years has included systems of the Patriot Air Defense Missile, F-117A Nighthawk, and other vital defense systems. Source: www.arnoldafbhousing.com/history
The World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, is the headquarters for The Peregrine Fund, an international non-profit organization founded in 1970 that conserves endangered raptors around the world.
Built 32 years ago in 1984, the World Center for Birds of Prey is located on 580 acres (2.3 km2) on a hilltop overlooking Boise, south of the airport and east of Kuna. The campus consists of the business offices of The Peregrine Fund, breeding facilities for endangered raptors, the Velma Morrison Interpretive Center, and the Herrick Collections Building, which houses a large research library and the Archives of Falconry.