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An ivy-covered pergola surrounds this quaint walkway, creating a beautiful transition space between this home's front and back yard.
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.
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.
Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams and Ken Weatherwax as Pugsley Addams - Addams Family Card Game by Milton Bradley from 1965 Vintage Halloween the 1960s - Charles Chas Addams cartoon cartoonist Eccentric holiday Evil creature monster Frankenstein like mask costume creatures vamp undead patchwork man monsters toy toys valet servant retainer manservant nanny domestic rubber alligator crocodile portrait mace doll Marie Antoinette
Toyohara Chikanobu (1838-1912) - Loyal retainer Tadanobu, from the series The vicissitudes of the Minamoto and Taira clans, Japan, 1885
By Hannah Levy
The sculpture is the newest in Levy's series of stone retainers. This version on the High Line was made at a marble quarry in Italy. The piece points to the strangeness of orthodontics and straight teeth as a marker of class, in part because of orthodontics’ exorbitant price. This giant retainer is almost as tall as the park benches nearby, and the retainer wire is the size of the High Line’s exterior railings.
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This stained concrete patio uses multiple colors and a random scoring pattern to create a unique and striking patio surface.
Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams and Ken Weatherwax as Pugsley Addams - Addams Family Card Game by Milton Bradley from 1965 Vintage Halloween the 1960s - Charles Chas Addams cartoon cartoonist Eccentric holiday Evil creature monster Frankenstein like mask costume creatures vamp undead patchwork man monsters toy toys valet servant retainer manservant nanny domestic rubber alligator crocodile portrait mace doll Marie Antoinette
Kuniyoshi pictures Kanroku holding aloft a lantern to reveal the maid, semi-dressed and leaning backwards in fear. Fascinating is the depiction of the maid which Kuniyoshi has drawn in the western style, although the whole series and its predecessor show a great deal of western influence in the placement of the figure on the page and in the realistic drawing of posture and detail.
This stone wall in Frisco, Texas is constructed out of random cobble ledge stone with a flagstone cap.
This walkway is part of a patio design that combines irregularly cut flagstone with straight lines and different stone textures to create a truly unique outdoor patio.
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.
Decided to service my Denso injectors with new rubbers seals, plastic retainer and filter baskets.
Bought the service kit on Aliexpress.
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.
Among many notable things here, you can clearly see the thermos bottle shelf with three bungee cord retainers above it, and the 'air drier' (silica gel?) that dehumidifies the air circulated between the two layers of the optical flat in the center here and selected panels of the cockpit windows... point being to prevent condensation from obscuring the view. You can make out the white flexible tubing along the overhead that leads from the drier to the various double-glazed bits. There's a modern fire extinguisher in the holder at the center- this is also factor fit, though it had quite a different, oxidized copper colored, hand-pump extinguisher, originally.
I believe this is the photolab's scan from the negative. I have also posted a lighter scan of a print, at twice the resolution.
www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/8734786738/
This one looks better, the other can be zoomed into deeper.
de Havilland DH-98 bomb aimer's station port side interior.
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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.
New trip to the dentist, to pick up my retainer. I'm not that happy with the idea of drooling all night long.
Creation Date: ca. 1780
Display Dimensions: 7 7/8 in. x 11 13/16 in. (20 cm x 30 cm)
Credit Line: Edwin Binney 3rd Collection
Accession Number: 1990.427
Collection: The San Diego Museum of Art
The Queen’s Head is one of the oldest extant buildings in Wilcannia. It was constructed in the 1870s and purchased by in 1880 by John Penrose who became Mayor of Silverton and in 1885 opened the Lion Brewery with Edmund and Emil Resch. Although no longer operating as an hotel the building is in reasonable condition.
Aboriginal History of Wilcannia:
Wilcannia is located on the Darling River, about halfway between Bourke and Wentworth. The river is known as Barka by the local Aboriginal people or Barkandji, literally people belonging to the Barka, and it is surrounded on all sides by Barkandji speaking people. The people from along the Barka and varying distances either side from near Bourke down to Wentworth all recognised the Barkandji language as their primary language, but they were divided into subgroups with different dialects of this one language. The Barkandji language is very different from all the neighbouring languages including the adjoining Ngiyampaa/Ngemba to the east, the Kulin, and Murray River languages to the south, and the Yardli and Thura-Yura language groups to the west and north.
Barkandji have a unique culture and depended heavily on the grinding or pounding of seeds on large grinding dishes or mortars and pestles, such as grass, portulaca, and acacia seeds. In the riverine areas, there is a strong emphasis on aquatic plant food tubers and corms, and fish, yabbies, turtles, mussels, and shrimps as well as water birds and their eggs. Insect foods were also important, such as parti or witchetty grubs along the rivers and creeks, and termite larvae in the Mallee country. Large and small canoes were cut out, necessitating ground edge axes, and string manufacture for fish nets, hunting nets, bags, and belts was an important part of the culture. The Wilcannia area still shows tangible evidence of traditional life in the form of canoe trees, coolamon trees, middens, heat retainer ovens, ashy deposits, stone tool quarries and artefacts.
Thomas Mitchell led the first exploring party to reach Wilcannia and gave the Barkandji their first unpleasant taste of what was to come. Mitchell travelled via the Bogan to the Darling River near Bourke and then down the river to Wilcannia then Menindee, reaching it in July 1835. Mitchell was harassed by Barkandji as he did not understand that he had to properly negotiate permission for use of water, grass, land to camp on etc., and in addition his men were abusing women behind his back and breaking all the rules. He gave them names such as the Fire Eaters and the Spitting Tribe as they tried to warn him off. His comments show that the Barkandji groups he met occupied "different portions of the river", and that they owned the resources in their territories including the water in the river. The exclusive possession enjoyed by the Barkandji and the need to obtain permission before using any of their resources is demonstrated by the following comment about the "Spitting Tribe" from the river near Wilcannia:
"The Spitting Tribe desired our men to pour out the water from their buckets, as if it had belonged to them; digging, at the same time a hole in the ground to receive it when poured out; and I have more than once seen a river chief, on receiving a tomahawk, point to the stream and signify that we were then at liberty to take water from it, so strongly were they possessed with the notion that the water was their own"
A hill 15 kilometres north of Wilcannia was named Mount Murchison by Mitchell and this became the name of the very large original station that included the location that was to become Wilcannia township.
In 1862 the area northwest of Mount Murchison Station was still frontier country with continual conflict. Frederic Bonney was based at Mount Murchison homestead and then nearby Momba homestead from 1865 to 1881 and he bluntly states in his notebooks that in this period "natives killed by settlers - shot like dogs"
Bonney recorded extensive detail about the lives, language, culture, and personalities of the Aboriginal people at Mount Murchison/Momba and left us with extremely significant series of photos of Aboriginal people taken in this period. He does not elaborate about the way the station was set up except for his comment above. Frederic Bonney not only respected and looked after the local people but he sympathised with them, worked with them, and respected them. The Bonney papers and photographs are a treasure of information about the Aboriginal people living there between 1865 and 1881. Bonney published a paper in 1884 but long after he had returned to England to live he campaigned for the better treatment of the Aboriginal people, and he tried to educate the public about the complexity of Aboriginal culture.
Bonney names about 44 individual Aboriginal people living at Momba in this period, and one group photo from the same period shows a total of 38 people. Descendants of some of the people Bonney describes still live in Wilcannia and surrounding areas today.
Aboriginal people worked on Moomba and Mount Murchison Station, and from very early times fringe camps grew up around Wilcannia. The land straight across the River from the Wilcannia post office was gazetted as an Aboriginal Reserve, and this became the nucleus of a very large fringe camp that grew into a substantial settlement spaced out along the river bank in the 1930s to the 1970s. By 1953 the Aboriginal Welfare Board had built a series of 14 barrack-like and inappropriately designed houses in an enlarged reserve, now an attractive tree lined settlement known as the Mission (although never a mission it was beside a Catholic School and clinic, thus the name). Today Aboriginal people are the majority of the population of the vibrant, creative, and culturally active town of Wilcannia, and the main users of the post office facilities.
Wilcannia History:
The first secure pastoralists at Mount Murchison were the brothers Hugh and Bushby Jamieson of Mildura Station on the Murray, who in 1856 took up Tallandra and Moorabin blocks, later extended with other blocks and named Mount Murchison Station. Captain Cadell's paddlesteamer Albury was the first to travel up the Darling, landing flour and other stores for the Jamiesons at Mount Murchison in February 1859. The Albury then loaded 100 bales of wool from their woolshed and brought it down to Adelaide. At this time there were no other stations on the Darling between Mt Murchison and Fort Bourke. A little later:
"An enterprising attempt has just been made by Mr. Hugh Jamieson, of Mount Murchison, to bring fat sheep speedily to Adelaide. Mr. Jamieson having chartered Captain Cadell's steamer, Albury, that vessel was prepared, and received on board at Mildura 550 fine fat sheep. These were landed at Moorundee last Tuesday, after a rapid passage of two days, all the sheep being in splendid condition when put ashore"
Jamiesons sold in 1864 to Robert Barr Smith and Ross Reid from Adelaide. The brothers Edward and Frederic Bonney were leasing some adjacent blocks and possibly worked at Mount Murchison for these owners. In 1875 they bought the Mount Murchison/Momba complex, one of the largest stations in New South Wale. In 1865 it was known as Mount Murchison, in 1881 it was all known as Momba, later splitting into smaller stations. The original Mount Murchison Station homestead block was also known as Head Station or Karannia, the Barkandji name for the area just north of the town near where the Paroo River comes into the Barka. The original Mount Murchison woolshed was located on what is now Baker Park, Wilcannia, which is adjacent to the current Post Office.
The site of Wilcannia was selected on Mount Murchison Station in 1864 by John Chadwick Woore, who was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands of the Albert District in 1863 and was based at Wilcannia. The town was proclaimed in 1866 and in the 1870s it became a coaching centre for prospectors exploiting the region's gold, copper, silver, and opal resources, and the administrative, service, and shipping centre for the pastoral industry. Wilcannia was incorporated as a municipality in 1881, and around this time it became New South Wales biggest inland port and Australia's third largest inland port (after Echuca Victoria and Morgan South Australia). 'The Queen of the River' or 'Queen City of the West'. At the height of its prosperity around 1880, the town boasted a population of 3,000. According to the Register of the National Estate, during 1887 alone, 222 steamers took on 26,550 tonnes of wool and other goods at Wilcannia wharves. The value of goods coming down the Darling River in 1884 was 1,359,786 pounds, and included over 30,000 bales of wool. The customs house, another Wilcannia stone building now demolished, located immediately between the Post office and the river bank and wharfs, took 17,544 pounds in customs duties in 1889. Paddlesteamers gradually declined, particularly after the 1920s, although a few continued to trade up and down the river into the 1940's, still remembered by elderly Wilcannia residents.
Wilcannia in the 1870s and into the 1900s was the centre of the pastoral and mining boom of the far west of New South Wales, and it was the centre of the paddlesteamer river trade from the Upper Darling to the Murray River and outlets such as Adelaide and Melbourne. The frequent dry seasons and lack of water in the river led to other methods of transporting goods being used, such as camel trains, but when the water came down the river trade always returned. The river trade built Wilcannia's fine buildings, but it was also its undoing, as the New South Wales government intervened to reduce the river trade because goods were moving to and from Adelaide and Melbourne, not Sydney.
Plans to improve navigation on the river were suggested in 1859 after Captain Cadell's first successful voyage up the Darling that was followed by other paddlesteamers. Cadell gave evidence at a New South Wales Select Committee that the Darling would be become reliable for boats if a system of locks were built at very reasonable cost that would hold back water during the drier seasons. The plans to build locks along the Darling River to make navigation more consistent were investigated again and again, but were not realised because the New South Wales government believed trade would benefit Victoria and South Australia.
After the opening of the Sydney to Bourke railway line in 1885, Wilcannia lost its status as the major commercial centre of the Darling River. The trade from the far North West New South Wales then tended to go to the railhead at Bourke and straight to Sydney. There were plans in the 1880s for the railway to be run from Cobar to Wilcannia, however this plan was continuously put off. Plans for a railway to Wilcannia continued to be made throughout the 1890's and early 1900's, and including a proposal from Cobar to Broken Hill then linking to South Australia as the Great Western Railway. In 1907 "a large petition was forwarded to Sydney from Wilcannia for presentation to the Premier urging immediate construction of the Cobar-Wilcannia Railway, and subsequent extension to Broken Hill".
The New South Wales government attempt to stop trade leaking out of the state resulted in their refusal to build a railway to Wilcannia (as goods tended to go to Wilcannia and down the river), or to extend the railway to South Australia for the same reasons. The bend in the river on the north side of town celebrates this government intransigence by its name "Iron Pole Bend", the iron pole said to have been placed at the surveyed location of the proposed railway bridge. New South Wales eventually built a railway through the low population Ivanhoe route to the south of Wilcannia reaching Broken Hill in 1927, and even then it stopped at Broken Hill and did not join the South Australian line until 1970. The link between Broken Hill and the South Australian railway was provided from 1884 to 1970 by the narrow gauge private railway 'the Silverton Tramway', which also took trade from Wilcannia.
The combination of missing out on the railway and locking of the river, the severe drought on 1900 - 1901, and the damage to the pastoral economy by drought, rabbits, and over grazing, led to a down turn in Wilcannia's prospects, leaving the fine stone buildings such as the post office languishing as tangible reminders of a time when Wilcannia was known as the "Queen City of the West" and was the largest inland port in New South Wales and the third largest inland port in Australia.
Post Office History:
During the 1850s, postal services became more regular, and the great colonial investment in postal infrastructure was underway. From the 1850s, each major rural centre had a postmaster of its own as the post office became a symbol of the presence of civilisation in many outback towns. Government architects built substantial post offices in provincial towns as statements of the authority and presence of the government. The original Wilcannia Post Office was established in 1860 under the name of Mount Murchison, the name was later officially changed to Wilcannia in 1868.
The Wilcannia Post Office and Post Master's Residence were designed by the Colonial Architect James Barnet, the signed plan being forwarded to Wilcannia in 1878. The Post Office and Residence were part of an official precinct in Wilcannia, with the courthouse (1880), gaol (1880), and police residence (1880) built across the road and one block south. In 1876 £1,500 was allocated to the post office project. Tenders were called in August 1878 and the builder D. Baillie accepted to erect the post office, and at the same time as the builder for the Court House, Lock-Up Gaol, and Police buildings.
A further £3,100 of consolidated revenue was allocated to the post office and £8,200 to the courthouse and watch house in 1879. By March 1979 the post office was "in course of erection". The complex was completed by 1880, succeeding the post office set up on Mount Murchison Station in 1860 and a second weatherboard building that was used from 1866.
James Johnstone Barnet (1827 - 1904) was made acting Colonial Architect in 1862 and appointed Colonial Architect from 1865 - 1890. He was born in Scotland and studied in London under Charles Richardson, RIBA and William Dyce, Professor of Fine Arts at King's College, London. He was strongly influenced by Charles Robert Cockerell, leading classical theorist at the time and by the fine arts, particularly works of painters Claude Lorrain and JRM Turner. He arrived in Sydney in 1854 and worked as a self-employed builder. He served as Edmund Blacket's clerk of works on the foundations of the Randwick (Destitute Childrens') Asylum. Blacket then appointed Barnet as clerk-of-works on the Great Hall at Sydney University. By 1859 he was appointed second clerk of works at the Colonial Architect's Office and in 1861 was Acting Colonial Architect. Thus began a long career. He dominated public architecture in New South Wales, as the longest-serving Colonial Architect in Australian history. Until he resigned in 1890 his office undertook some 12,000 works, Barnet himself designing almost 1000. They included those edifices so vital to promoting communication, the law and safe sea arrivals in colonial Australia. Altogether there were 169 post and telegraph offices, 130 courthouses, 155 police buildings, 110 lockups and 20 lighthouses, including the present Macquarie Lighthouse on South Head, which replaced the earlier one designed by Francis Greenway. Barnet's vision for Sydney is most clearly seen in the Customs House at Circular Quay, the General Post Office in Martin Place, and the Lands Department and Colonial Secretary's Office in Bridge Street. There he applied the classicism he had absorbed in London, with a theatricality which came from his knowledge of art.
The substantial two storey attached post office residence faces the main street and more than doubles the size of the complex. This is unusual as Barnet tended to have residences on the first floor of the main building or at the rear. It relates to the remoteness and government determination to make the job attractive to the right post master, a government representative who had to be an honest employee and trusted by this remote community. It consists of four rooms on the ground floor; parlour, sitting room, kitchen, and servant's bedroom, and three bedrooms upstairs, plus various storage rooms, and a central staircase.
The new post office became the focal point of town, located in the main street and immediately adjacent to the wharves and customs house. In 1896 the iron bridge with lift span over the Darling River was completed and the east-west highway re-routed to go over the bridge and directly past the post office, from then on located on the busy corner of the main street and the highway. Descriptions include:
"the post and telegraph offices, together with the master's residence", are "both a substantial and ornamental piece of architecture"; "the post office is a very neat building indeed" with "white stone which seems to finely glisten among the dark foliage of the river timber"; "The colonnade of the post office is the Exchange of the town, and here all the business men meet daily and discuss the news of the district. Mails do not come in every day but when Her Majesty's mail coach is seen in front of the post-office there may all the people be seen gathered together. The Sydney and Melbourne papers are four days old when they reach Wilcannia, as the town is from 24 to 30 hours coaching from any railway terminus".
In 1890 the tender from R. B. Spiers to erect a "verandah and balcony etc" at the Post Office and Telegraph office was accepted, referring to the two storey verandah and balcony at the post office residence and possibly the small verandah on the side of the post office as well. Drawings from 1881 and 1888 show the single storey verandah of the residence, but a photo from 1894 clearly shows the two storey verandah. The two-storey verandah was added in response to the extreme climate, the wooden lined ceilings on both levels are an attempt to prevent the heat from penetrating onto the verandah, north facing wall, and windows. The two storey verandah was probably also designed by Barnet as he held the position of government architect until 1890 and its detail is similar to the 1889 Bourke post office verandah.
This Post Office building was in continuous use until 1997 as a post office, telegraph, then telephone exchange, and post master's residence. The post office service was then moved and the complex was used as a residence only until 2002. It became the post office again from 2013 and provides both postal and banking services for the town and surrounding stations.
The remoteness of Wilcannia also meant that the central post office performed a range of significant peripheral services, such as posting up government edicts and community notices, weather measurements and warnings, flood warnings and river heights, timetables and pick-up and drop-down place for coaches, mail coaches, and later mail trucks and buses. The mail coaches/mail trucks left the post office for the remote outback laden with mail, newspapers, groceries, spare parts, school lessons for outback children, and travellers (workers, family and friends and even occasionally nurses and church people). Mail coaches/mail trucks played a unique role enabling people to exist in the outback that cannot be underestimated. Mail trucks still operate out of Wilcannia delivering mail and parcels to the remote outback stations.
Source: New South Wales Heritage Register.
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please don't call me.
thanks.
i'm not saying it because i'm of importance or anything.
just don't call me unless you've found this somewhere.
This salt-finish concrete walkway in McKinney, Texas is colored and scored to create a unique geometric pattern.
Keep your clear retainers clean by rinsing them with water throughout the day. #TransformYourSmile #CustomTeethDevices
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.
These are the grave stones of the 47 (actually 46) ronin who were immortalized in Japanese history when they committed the ultimate act of loyalty to their deceased master. Asano Naganori was the lord of the Ako domain which is located in what is now Hyogo prefecture. During a visit to Edo castle, Asano was insulted by remarks made by Kira Yoshinaka which enraged him to the point where he slashed at Kira with his short sword/dagger. The result was that Asano was forced to commit seppuku for behaving in such a manner inside the castle (the spot inside the castle grounds can be seen in another photo). This left the Ako retainers with no job, basically. Many of them, under the leadership of Oishi Kuranosuke, planned revenge against Kira. To make a long story short, forty-seven of them ambushed Kira and killed him. After bringing the head of Kira to the grave of their master, they turned themselves in to authorities. The end result was that they were sentenced to commit seppuku under the charge of an illegal vendetta.
The watermelon is one of our most requested designs. Looks good enough to eat, so i guess people don't mind having this one in their mouths :)
The Intensive Care Unit at Vancouver International.
Chicken dinner for economy? Check.
Cast for the broken wing? Check.
Pilots & Cabin Attendants on retainer? Check!
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.
Custom stone stairs and retainer walls help generate multiple levels in this Addison, Texas installation.
3.0L Single Turbo Fully Built by ILLTech Auto Salon
Eagle H Beam Rods, CP Forged Pistons, ARP Rod, Main, and Head Bolts, HKS 280 Camshafts, Ferrea Titanium Springs and Retainers, Greddy Plenum, Greddy Modified Stainless Exhaust Manifold, Custon Built Turbonetics/Garret Turbocharger, Tial 44mm Wastegate, Tail 50mm Blow Off Valve, ILLTech Front Mount Intercooler, ILLTech Intercooler Piping, Koyo Radiator, Flex-A-Lite fans, ILLTech Oil Catch Cans, ILLTech 4" Stainless Downpipe, Boost Logic 4" Catback Exhaust, Samco Silicone Hoses, Greddy Radiator Cap, Titan Twin feed fuel rail, Denso 850cc Injectors, Denso Twin Fuel Pumps with AN fittings and Stainless Hoses, Aeromotive Fuel Pressure Regulator, Custom Powdercoated plenum, pulleys, valve cover, intake, Relocated Fuse Box, ignitor, polished alternator, HKS DLIRPS Stage 3 Clutch, ARP Bolts, Fidanza Flywheel, B&M Short Shifter, Billet shifter bushingsTEIN Coilovers with Pillowball Mounts, Titan Front and Rear Sway bars, RZ Racing front and rear camber correction kits, RZ Racing front and rear control arm bushing kit, Volk Racing CE28n 19 Forged Aluminum Wheels, Bronze 19x9.5F and 19x10.5R, BF Goodrich KDW T/A 2 275/35/19F and 295/35/19R, KSport 14" 8 piston Big Brake Kit with 2 piece rotors, AP Racing Brake Pads, Stainless Steel Braided Brake Lines, Motul Brake Fluid, ARP Extended Wheel StudsCustom Gloss Black with Gold Pearl Paint, Custom Molded Front Lip, Shaved Marker lamps front and rear, Shaved Antenna, Shaved Wing, Shaved Rear Wiper, Shaved Rear Washer Squirter, Custom Sized and Frenched 3rd Brake Light(shines through clear coat), Rolled Fenders front and rear, Stretched Fender metal front and rear to accommodate wheel and tire package (approx 20mm stretch), 1998 Supra Head Lamps, McCulluch 9k HID Conversion, Personal Steering Wheel, KSport USA Quick Release Hub, Recaro Evo 9 MR Seats, ILLTech Custom Seat Brackets, ILLTech Custom Shift Knob, Painted interior panels to match exterior, Tinted Windows