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Single axle running through both bicycle wheels. Axle threaded on both ends to match bearing retainers on both wheels.
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My Lynskey Viale Commuting Bike. Built as 6-speed bike with Hope Single speed hub.
* Frame: Lynskey Viale Medium
* Fork: Lynskey Endurance
* Headset: Hope
* Headset Spacers: Chris King and Hope
* Stem: Thomson 90mm
* Handlebar: Raceface Turbine
* Grips: Ergon GS3
* Seatpost: Thomson Elite
* Saddle: Crank Brothers
* Pedals: HT Cheetah
* Shifter: Paul Thumbies & Dura Ace
* Rear Derailleur: Shimano 105
* Crankset: Shimano 105 – Hope Retainer Chainring (44 Tooth)
* Cassette: Shimano SLX 9 Speed (used 14-16-18-21-24-28 Tooth only) 14T is Ultegra CS-6500 first position
* Rims: Velocity Dyad
* Hubs: Hope Pro4 front – Hope Pro4 Trials SS rear
* Spokes: Dt Swiss Competition
* Tires: Schwalbe Marathon Supreme 700X32
* Brakes: TRP Spyre
* Brake Levers: Shimano BL-R780
The story of the 47 Ronin is one of the most celebrated in the history of the samurai. This was perhaps all the more so because it occurred at a time when the samurai class was struggling to maintain a sense of itself - warriors with no war, a social class without a function.
The tale could be said to have begun with the teachings of Yamaga Soko (1622-1685), an influential theorist who wrote a number of important works on the warrior spirit and what it meant to be samurai. His writings inspired a certain Ôishi Kuranosuke Yoshio, a samurai and retainer of Asano Takumi no kami Naganori (1667-1701), who led a branch of the powerful Asano family.
It happened that Lord Asano was chosen by the shogun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, to be one of a number of daimyo tasked with entertaining envoys from the Imperial family. To assist him in this new duty, the Bakufu's highest ranking master of protocol, Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka (1641-1702), was assigned to instruct him in matters of etiquette. Kira, it seems, was a somewhat difficult character and expected Asano to compensate him monetarily for the trouble, which Asano held was simply his duty. The two grew to dislike one another intensely, and Kira made every effort to embarrass his student. Finally, in April of 1702, the situation exploded within the shogun's palace - Kira insulted Asano once again, prompting the latter to draw his sword and swing at him. Kira was only wounded in the attack and Asano was promptly placed under confinement.
Striking another man in anger was against the law - doing so within the shogun's palace was unthinkable. Asano made little effort to defend himself during questioning except to say that he bore the shogun no ill will and only regretted that he had failed to kill Kira.
After the o-metsuke (inspector-generals) had completed their investigation of the matter, the shogunate passed down a sentence of death on Asano, ordering him to slit his belly at once. The shogun also decreed that his 50,000-koku fief at Akô in Harima was to be confiscated and his brother Daigaku placed under house arrest.
When the news of the unfortunate event reached Asano's castle, his retainers were thrown into an uproar and argued heatedly over what to do next. Some favored accepting their lot quietly and dispersing as ronin, while another group called for a defense of the castle and an actual battle with the government. Ôishi Kuranosuke, who urged the retainers to give up the castle peacefully and struggle to rehabilitate the Asano family while at the same time preparing to take revenge on Kira, sounded the view that prevailed.
Accordingly, a band of Asano retainers - now ronin - set out on a carefully planned road to revenge. Kira was no fool, and expecting some sort of attempt on his life by the Asano men increased his personal guard. Ôishi's scheme was therefore to lull their quarry into complacency, biding their time while they waited for the right moment. To this end the ronin hid away a cache of weapons and armor before ostensibly dispersing, some taking up menial jobs while others, like Ôishi himself, let it seem that they had lost any concern for their futures. Ôishi left his wife and began frequenting all of Edo's houses of ill repute, carousing with prostitutes and engaging in drunken brawls. On one occasion, a samurai from Satsuma is supposed to have come across Ôishi drunk in the street and spat upon him, saying that he was no real samurai.
Needless to say, Kira began to doubt that he was in any real danger, and within a year had relaxed his guard. It was at that point that the ronin struck. 47 of them gathered on 14 December 1702 and, after donning the armor and taking up the weapons from the cache, they set out on their revenge on that same snowy night. Once at Kira's Edo mansion, they divided into two groups and attacked, with one group entering through the rear of the compound while the rest forced their way through the front, battering the gate down with a mallet. Kira's men, many of whom were killed or wounded, were taken completely by surprise but did put up a spirited resistance (one of the ronin was killed in the attack), though ultimately to no avail: Kira was found in an outhouse and presented to Ôishi, who offered him the chance to commit suicide. When Kira made no reply, Ôishi struck off his head with the same dagger that Asano had used to kill himself with. Kira's head was then put in a bucket and carried to the Sengakuji, where Asano was buried. After Ôishi and the others had given the bloody trophy to the spirit of Asano, they turned themselves in.
The assassination of Kira placed the government in a difficult situation. After all, the 46 survivors now awaiting their fate had lived up to the standards of loyalty expected of true samurai and the ideals propounded by such men as Yamaga Soko. Additionally, the decision to order Asano to commit suicide and confiscate his domain while taking no action against Kira had not been popular (at least one of the inspectors at the time had been demoted for protesting the verdict). Nonetheless, the Bakufu decided that the maintenance of order would once again have to prevail, and so the ronin were ordered to commit suicide - a sentence suggested by the famous Confucian scholar Ogyû Sorai (1666-1728). They were at this time divided up into four groups under guard by four different daimyo, yet once they had all died, their bodies were buried together at the Sengakuji.1 Legend has it that the Satsuma samurai who had spit upon Ôishi in the street came to the temple and slit his own belly to atone for his insults.
The Revenge of the 47 Ronin continued to spark controversy throughout the Edo Period. One view had it that Ôishi and his men had in fact erred in waiting as long as they had, that in so doing they risked Kira dying (he was, after all, over 60) and their efforts coming to naught. This was, for example, the view of Yamamoto Tsunetomo (author of the famed Hagakure).2 The Confucian scholar Sato Naotaka (1650-1719) criticized the ronin for taking action at all, as the shogun's decision to order Asano to commit suicide should have ended the matter there and then. He also shared Tsunetomo's belief that the ronin ought to have commited suicide at the Sengakuji once their deed was done. In giving themselves up to be judged, they appeared to have hoped to receive a light sentence and therefore continue living -a shameful objective, given their crimes. At the same time, Naotaka reserved his harshest words for Kira, whom he called a coward and whose precipitation of the whole affair had led to so many deaths.
Other writers did not share those views. Men like Asami Yasuda (1652-1711) defended the actions of the ronin as being appropriate (if not actually challenging the Bakufu's decisions) and Chikamatsu wrote a favorable play (Chushin-gura) that became an instant and timeless classic. In the end, the Ôishi Kuranosuke and his ronin became the stuff of legend, and continue to spawn books, movies, and television shows at a prodigious rate. The Sengakuji is still a popular spot in Tokyo and a place for modern admirers of what many feel were the finest examples of samurai loyalty to emerge from the Edo Period.
Fresh 14 gauge 3/8" flatback quartz glass retainers from Glasswear Studios.
I didn't do the septum piercing.
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My Lynskey Viale Commuting Bike. Built as 6-speed bike with Hope Single speed hub.
* Frame: Lynskey Viale Medium
* Fork: Lynskey Endurance
* Headset: Hope
* Headset Spacers: Chris King and Hope
* Stem: Thomson 90mm
* Handlebar: Raceface Turbine
* Grips: Ergon GS3
* Seatpost: Thomson Elite
* Saddle: Crank Brothers
* Pedals: HT Cheetah
* Shifter: Paul Thumbies & Dura Ace
* Rear Derailleur: Shimano 105
* Crankset: Shimano 105 – Hope Retainer Chainring (44 Tooth)
* Cassette: Shimano SLX 9 Speed (used 14-16-18-21-24-28 Tooth only) 14T is Ultegra CS-6500 first position
* Rims: Velocity Dyad
* Hubs: Hope Pro4 front – Hope Pro4 Trials SS rear
* Spokes: Dt Swiss Competition
* Tires: Schwalbe Marathon Supreme 700X32
* Brakes: TRP Spyre
* Brake Levers: Shimano BL-R780
A version of Richard's standard. It should be horizontal, not vertical, and the blue should be on top and the murrey (red) should be below the blue. The white boar was Richard's badge but he also displayed Edward IV's white rose or white rose on a sunburst as most retainers were illiterate but could recognise familiar signs or family emblems.
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The really great thing about being born in the 20th century (I turned 65 this month) was that back then we all knew just where everything was. The Battle of Bosworth was fought at Ambion Hill, King Richard III charged down this hill and got stuck in a marsh and was killed. He was hastily buried in Leicester but ignominiously dug up during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and his bones were thrown into the nearby river. All this had to be true, there is even a Victorian plaque on the 19th century bridge which says so…!
Then came the 21st century and all this changed. Growing doubt about the position of the battlefield had been building for years given that everyone was playing 'hunt the thimble' for the missing marsh and countless historians had tried twisting the few historical facts to fit the supposed map of the battle around Ambion Hill and came up with zip. Then, just as they started a scientific search for the missing battlefield, more clever dicks started to postulate that King Dick might not have been tossed in the river after all. There was just an outside chance that he might still be in Leicester.
I well remember seeing the woman leading the hunt for King Dick on television, standing on a large letter 'R' painted on the tarmac in a council car park, gushing to the camera that she just KNEW she was near him. Near him? She was bloody standing on him! What no-one has ever mentioned since then is that the Indiana Jones quote about "X never marks the spot" had finally been proved wrong. On English coins 'R' is cursive Latin for 'Rex' (king) meaning that - on this one occasion - 'Rex marked the spot'.
Yes, they call me Attila the Pun.
For my 65th birthday I did a 'Wars of the Roses' pilgrimage starting at Kirby Muxloe castle - see earlier - and then moving on to Bosworth, Warwick and Tewkesbury. More of that will come later. You have been warned!
The actual battlefield was eventually found by metal detectorists roughly one and a half kilometres away from where it ‘should’ be, leaving Leicestershire County Council with the rather tricky problem of a battlefield visitor centre which is now no longer on the battlefield but rather off it. The footpath which formerly circled the battlefield has now been converted to a path which offers views over the battlefield but you need a good set of binoculars to see very little.
Ambion Hill is now regarded as where King Richard III camped the night before the battle but the thing which struck me is that - for a paranoid or suspicious monarch unsure about the loyalties of his men - the prominent hill is a good choice. Today it still offers good views in all directions and could have been easily defended whichever way an attack came. If a friend rolled up and turned into an enemy (as the Stanleys eventually did) then Richard would have had a chance on the defensive. However his impulsive nature got the better of him and he attacked. Seeing Henry's party moving away from their main force to speak to the Stanleys, Richard resolved to 'cut the head off the snake' figuring that with Henry dead the rebellion would collapse. Someone died but it was not Henry.
Metal-detecting finds from the battlefield are now on display in the visitor centre but all of these are non-ferrous as there is so much Victorian and modern junk strewn across the battlefield that the detectorists had to screen out iron or steel to save time. So iron or stone cannon balls may yet remain in the ground but the collection of lead or lead covered stone balls recovered from the 1485 battlefield now outnumbers all the medieval shot ever found on all the rest of the battlefields of Europe. They are THAT rare.
Other finds include non-ferrous buckles and harness torn from men or horses but the most intriguing find was a silver gilt badge of a white boar, Richard III's personal livery badge. This was found south of Fenn Lanes in what would have been marshy ground in 1485 and probably indicates - within 50 metres or so - where King Richard 'bought it'. It was probably dropped by one of his household men in the last desperate few minutes of the fighting.
Richard's body revealed that he had been fatally hacked across the back of the skull, probably after his helmet had either been torn off or had fallen off. His post mortem also revealed he had been stabbed in the backside and may even have ridden into Leicester slung over a horse with a dagger sticking out of his rear end in a bizarre parody of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone. This was King Dick and the dagger up the arse. King Richard also had intestinal worms but probably most of the population did.
I toured the visitor centre trying to fault it and I could not. Apart from the fact it is off the field, the presentations are excellent and include plenty of reproduction arms and armour and a large number of visuals, many culled from the pages of Osprey Men-At-Arms publications. There is even a wargames table and a chance to re-fight the battle with counters. It fair warmed the cockles of my heart.
Visitors are given a plastic coin to vote for the 'best' king and it was interesting to note that, when I went past there were six votes in each box. The choices were: on one hand King Richard III with spinal scoliosis, intestinal worms and the heavy suspicion that he murdered his two nephews, the two Little Princes in the Tower. On the other hand you had King Henry VII who had a wonky eye, the most tangential claim to the throne via a bastardised bloodline and the grasping nature of a tax collector or accountant. Not great choices!
Richard got my coin but it was a near-run thing. I have never liked Henry VII. When I saw the movie Jurassic Park I instantly recognised that the 'blood sucking lawyer' in the film looked just like King Henry's images and death mask. How I cheered when he was eaten by the T-Rex while sitting on the toilet.
I returned through the Bosworth area five days later (more pics later) and visited the battlefield site again and made another brief stop at Leicester Cathedral to revisit Richard's tomb and statue.
The blue ones are mine that I got last week, the purple ones are Ellen's she got 2.5 years ago.
Even though I had vacuum formed retainers from my orthodontist when my braces they were several years old and it was time for new ones.
I went with Hawley retainers this time since they would last longer, allow my jaw to close naturally and with less tension than the vacuum formed ones caused, and would finally be polished better than I have been able to do on previous ones I had fabricated.
And yes, I picked dark blue thinking they'd look cool sitting next to Ellen's :-)
Both sets of retainers came from Dr. Mark Joiner's office.
Saturday, June 18, 2011 Song of the day: Circa Survive "Mandala"
I used to fall asleep to Circa Survive's "On Letting Go" album every single night while falling asleep about three years ago. I always feel so peaceful when I listen to it, but I also get sleepy.
So, here's a photo of my brand-spankin' new retainer. Yes. I am 25 years old and still wear a retainer almost every night. I sleep better with it! My previous one was zebra print but after having it for 9 years I decided it was about time to upgrade.
I think I hit my social limit today. I need some alone time, pronto. So that's what I'll be doing this lovely Saturday eve; hanging out, watching some crappy television, and being all by myself. Being around people constantly is very exhausting for me and requires a lot of energy. It doesn't help that the weather here in MN has sucked major butt so I'm certain I'm becoming vitamin D deficient (whatever that really means...).
I bought tickets today to see Jack's Mannequin in Duluth next weekend. I'm so excited! I think this will be my fourth time seeing them. One of my all time favorite songs to see performed live is "Bruised" by JM- it is so spectacular. I can't wait to go to Duluth too- I miss that place so much!
I really need to start getting more creative for the final 30 days of this project........
My Lynskey Viale Commuting Bike. Built as 6-speed bike with Hope Single speed hub.
* Frame: Lynskey Viale Medium
* Fork: Lynskey Endurance
* Headset: Hope
* Headset Spacers: Chris King and Hope
* Stem: Thomson 90mm
* Handlebar: Raceface Turbine
* Grips: Ergon GS3
* Seatpost: Thomson Elite
* Saddle: Crank Brothers
* Pedals: HT Cheetah
* Shifter: Paul Thumbies & Dura Ace
* Rear Derailleur: Shimano 105
* Crankset: Shimano 105 – Hope Retainer Chainring (44 Tooth)
* Cassette: Shimano SLX 9 Speed (used 14-16-18-21-24-28 Tooth only) 14T is Ultegra CS-6500 first position
* Rims: Velocity Dyad
* Hubs: Hope Pro4 front – Hope Pro4 Trials SS rear
* Spokes: Dt Swiss Competition
* Tires: Schwalbe Marathon Supreme 700X32
* Brakes: TRP Spyre
* Brake Levers: Shimano BL-R780
The blue ones are mine that I got last week, the purple ones are Ellen's she got 2.5 years ago.
Even though I had vacuum formed retainers from my orthodontist when my braces they were several years old and it was time for new ones.
I went with Hawley retainers this time since they would last longer, allow my jaw to close naturally and with less tension than the vacuum formed ones caused, and would finally be polished better than I have been able to do on previous ones I had fabricated.
And yes, I picked dark blue thinking they'd look cool sitting next to Ellen's :-)
Both sets of retainers came from Dr. Mark Joiner's office.
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Looking east down the nave to the chancel
The church was built next to the 13c priory for the families of the Priory retainers and the inhabitants of the village which grew up nearby.
It was enlarged in the 15c and restored c1870.
Built of coursed rubble, it comprises a chancel, nave, west tower south aisle , south chapel / vestry and south porch.
The north wall survives from the 13c lit with early 14c windows
The chancel was rebuilt in the early 14c when the south aisle was added.
The newest part of the church is the curtained off south chapel / vestry which was just completed before the dissolution of the Priory in 1536.
The interior 15c waggon roofs have moulded ribs and floral-carved bosses. three early 14c bays to the west, between the nave and south aisle, have crocketed canopies over image niches,
The late 15c / early 16c bench ends and fronts in choir and south east chapel; are carved with tracery patterns, foliate ribs, heraldry, which include the arms of Hartland Abbey (owner of the Priory) and crowned double-rose of Henry VII, Instruments of the Passion, crown of thorns
The late 17c Jacobean pulpit may have been brought here from another church. - it has reeded pilasters framing blind arches with egg and dart carving to architraves, reset on late 19c base.
- Church of St. Mary & St. Gregory, Frithelstock Devon
Roger Cornfoot CChttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7328655L
This was the residence of the chief retainer of the house of Doi that ruled the Koga domain. The Takami family held the hereditary position of chief retainer. The house dates back to 1633 and was built with extra wood that wasn’t used for the construction of Koga Castle’s 3rd floor. The most famous chief retainer of the Doi clan was Takami Senseki (1785-1758) who also served as respected advisor to the Tokugawa shogunate as an advisor on all things “western”. A student of Dutch studies, Senseki was instrumental in creating modern maps of Japan and engaging in the diplomatic negotiations with the western powers in the waning days of the Shogunate. Senseki was fond of corresponding in Dutch and even signed his letters under the pen name Jan Hendrik Daper. An extensive collection of his work is on display at the Koga City History Museum.
Koga City, in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, has a history that dates back to ancient Jomon times and was even mentioned in the Man’yōshu anthology of poems that was compiled in the AD 800s. During the Muromachi period, Koga became the base for the Kantō branch of Ashikaga under the leadership of Shigeuji, who led a rebellion against the Ashikaga shogunate.
During the Edo period (1603-1868), the fief of Koga was ruled by many hereditary daimyo whose families had pledged loyalty to Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara in 1600. The families that ruled Koga included the Ogasawara, various branches of the Matsudaira, Okudaira, Nagai, Honda and Doi. Perhaps Doi Toshikatsu, who became tairō (chief elder of the council of elders - rōjū) during the reign of Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, was the most famous ruler of Koga.
Another famous ruler of Koga was Doi Toshitsura (1789-1848), who is sometimes called the “The Snow Lord”. Apart from being a key advisor to the Tokugawa shogunate, he was the first person in Japan to seriously study the designs of snowflakes. He illustrated his findings in a book Sekka Zusetsu (Pictorial Illustrations of Snowflakes) and some of the patterns became popular for clothing and decorative purposes.
Today, there is nothing left of the Edo period Koga castle, but numerous old temples, shrines, samurai and farmer homes remain. Unfortunately, many of these buildings suffered damage during the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011 and repairs were ongoing when I visited.
We installed storage door retainers on the wall by all of the storage doors. They wouldn't stay up on their own, and this did the trick. We bought these at our local RV store. They came with screws, but we opted to use 3M Command tape instead.
The ethologist Konrad Lorenz writes about jackdaws in Chapter 11 of his book 'King Solomon's Ring' - the ring fabled to give a talent for conversation with animals. Konrad refers to jackdaws as the perennial retainers'. I was friends with a jackdaw: www.flickr.com/photos/sibadd/332713381/
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I know this is really freaky looking! It was so fun to make. Picnik got a bunch of new halloween effect, I love them! I likeed how this one turned out. This is me and my twin sister Caitlyn. Hope you dont get to scared from this!
Today is our homecoming game! And tomorrow is the homecoming dance. I cannot wait until the pep assembly today.
Have a wonderful friday everyone! TGIF! Woot Woot.
UPDATE: Seniors won homecoming week! Senior Rah!!!
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