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Hanasaku Iroha - Episode 22 Discussion / Poll
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HSI 22 - Romeo and Jiromaru
Some good advances made on the romance front, yes, and another intense fight between Ohana and Minko, but the centerpiece of this episode was the wedding. Yuina, natural charmer that she is, makes a great MC. Jiromaru's performance, in all its scenery chewing glory, I can't really fault him for. Artists are artists, and sometimes they do things people don't really understand. The other performance, the cameo of nano.RIPE's Kimiko, was a nice touch, as well as having her sing a new song at the wedding. Nice and heartwarming stuff all around.
Even if Denroku does leave Kissuiso, he probably has another life as a secret agent or something. Dude's way too cool to just go out without a flash and a flare.
By far the best episode of the second half (so far). Things previously left unsaid are let out in the open, we get some hints of Satsuki's past and the plot actually moves forwards. Curiously, the big cliffhanger scene is held back until after the credits... wonder how many people are gonna miss that. It looks like certain posters' speculation about Sui's intentions with the inn were right...
Except a few minor blips, this episode was rather well-done.
It's time to pull the curtain on the stage. :upset:
Hopefully that's not all about Minchi and Tooru, but otherwise pretty great episode. Ohana's adorable.
Hey, maybe Sui's 'sealing' Kissuiso to leave it to the young ones to change it as they wish?
Ohana is nothing like a bland coffee.
Congrats to ENishi and Takako, she really did look beautiful. Denroku stole the ep for me though. First catching the bouquet instead of Tomoe then with that performance with Jiromaru. Too bad he's retiring.
So we found out the truth about Ohana's dad, nice that Satstuki still loves him. Nice to see Ohana get back in the mindset to go after Ko. Looks liek the cat's out of the bag and Tohru finally knows that Minko likes him. Good to see she's not giving up either.
The stuff that Minchi said during the Ohana fight reminded me of shipping fanboys, which made the entire fight rather amusing due to the unintentional fourth wall breaking. :p
Awwww well. I think the chances of the glorious forever alone ending just got reduced. :(
Oh well. It's still a possibility :p Largely based on the fact that we haven't got any glimpses of what Ko's been doing at all this last season. It's very doubtful Ohana can just show up.
Mind you, this was an exceptionally good episode in my mind. The wedding was nicely handled and we've found out quite a few interesting thing about the various characters. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that Satsuki liked Ohana's father given that she kept his surname and gave it to Ohana.
Also. Like I predicted many months ago, it turns out this show has a OTP that surpasses the trivialities of Ko/Ohana, Tohru/Minchi, Enishi/Takako and all those random side characters.
I don't get it. Why does Sui want to close the inn? Some weird aesthetic?
It's one thing to close down a business that's unprofitable. But to put half a dozen people out of work just because she doesn't feel like continuing?
I hate this anime... Why?
It's because one moment it's mediocre and crushes your expectations for the next episodes, whilst another moment it's mindblowingly great like this one this week. I don't think I've watched an anime that has "trolled" my expectations and enjoyment like Hanasaku Iroha for a long time. Wtf mang? Wtf P.A, I generally dislike tsundere characters in anime, but you're making me tsundere for your anime. You're making me into a hypocrite FFS. :O
Talking about trolls, whilst I was watching through the Ohana x Minko catfight (lol this reminds me of my sig), I couldn't help but imagine what Okada's thought process was other than this (at least until the PV):
Spoiler for Okada's thought process:
Even though I don't know who actually wrote this episode, I'm 110% sure Okada did it. Why? It has all the necessary elements:
1. Relationship Trolling - Classic Okada style
2. Jiromaru being used as a comedy pinata once again - aka Okada still expressing her hate (or love) for Yakaman
3. Beanman crossdressing - Wandering Son, Anohana's Yukiatsu, Ohana's dream of Ko and now this. I think I'm convinced by now that Okada has a crossdressing fetish.
Anyways, I thought this episode was top notch. Number 1, plot moved. Enishi and Takako got married and despite their idiotic actions in the past, have finally gained at least a little bit of respect by me after Hanasaku Iroha has forcibly tried to chug down my throat that these two are to be taken seriously. And I finally bought it. It just took 4 episodes... which I still think however would have been better spent elsewhere and just not make Enishi and Takako look like clowns from the start.
Number 2, romance development. Better yet, romance resolutions. Tooru overhears the catfight between Ohana and Minko, Tooru admits to liking Ohana and Minko admits to liking Tooru. However, instead of chaos erupting like a typical teen drama would, it actually got resolved. Omg, +1 to that.
Number 3, BGM is back. Nano ripe plays a new single with what I'm assuming is a cameo character of her and it's very well fitting. Funny how complaining about a lack of BGM suddenly get's retorted by an inclusion of BGM. This further my imaginary hypothesis that Hanasaku Iroha is just one big troll package anime.
10/10 episode. Unlike episode 20 where i rated it 10/10 because I'm a shameless True Tears fanboy, this one was legit good and definitely the best one since the 2nd cour started. However, due to my hypothesis I will continue to expect that HSI episodes are going to be mediocre and be surprised if it's actually good like this week.
It's been 22 episodes. I have never liked Minko. And especially after this episode, I am sure I will never ever like her at all. The wedding dress part, wtf. She's so. UGH.
I hope her and Tohru don't end up together. Seems like it'll be a Ko and Ohana end or forever alone Ohana end, but I feel like Ko will reject her next ep. Maybe he's dating glasses girl already. I know there's like 4 eps left but I still have hope for Tohru x Ohana, oh yeah. I'm so happy he admitted to liking her. Too bad for Minko even though she says she won't give up. l:
Takako looked really pretty and the wedding scene was great, this episode was the best in a while.
The fact that we never did get a conclusion to the bookstore girl's story bodes ill for Ohana. The last time she spoke with Ko, it was with a great deal of finality. I doubt he's even available right now. I imagine Ko would be frustrated to have to forget about Ohana over and over again only to have her come chasing after him again each time. Oh well, toot toot, all aboard the jelly train.
If Sui was really closing the inn, why would she need someone to take over the record keeping? Unless she just meant that she wants someone to be a caretaker of the old books. More likely she's going to close Kissuiso as we know it and let the younger crowd transform it into something new, the way she did with her husband.
Tohru's answer to Minko seemed like a bit of a cop-out, but I have to say it helped make him less creepy to admit that he finds Ohana captivating, but doesn't have any intentions on persuing her.
So, appearently you can just "decide" to have a crush, at least according to our expert in all love related things, Ohana-chan. I really hope that Ko-kun "decides" that glasses-girl is less trouble more real feelings, dumping Ohana for good this time.
So that i can have my Ohana x Nako true ending. :D
It's funny how the episodes I like the least are the ones the majority seem to like the most. The romance in this anime just bores the shit out of me. And it's not that I don't like romance. I've watched and enjoyed my share of romance anime.
However, here, I just don't care about any of the potential pairings. I kind of liked Ohana x Ko at first, until they made all a melodrama out of it and have Ohana unable to make up her mind (oh look, she changed her mind AGAIN. At this point, I wouldn't surprised if right before confessing to Ko next week, she decides she doesn't like him after all).
Things I loved in this ep: Satsuki's conversation with her daughter and that little message she wrote for the wedding ( :heh: ), Sui's announcement, Nako in a wedding curtain dress :love:
Takako looked so ugly compared to her... it was unfair to show Nako wearing it first. Not that anyone can compare to Nako anyway.
Waiting to see what will happen to Kisuisso now. If the anime ends with the inn closing down and Ohana just going back to Tokyo, I'm gonna rage hard.
Last episode I was thinking there's no way they can set that one up without it coming across as forced and fake, but now I'm not so sure.
And as usual, there's the many little moments that I loved in this episode. Particular standouts for this episode include Minko and Nako trying on the wedding dress and Tohru writing "love" on sashimi. scenes where Nako and Minko tried on the wedding dress.
I will admit the previews are always a total trollfest though. Eagerly waiting finding out the what Kou's line means... I will watch, Great Mistress Okada!
(Actually, one final thought. Sui says "I'm thinking of sealing Kissuiso (etc)" - is she still not completely sure of it? Will the final arc involve the staff trying to convince her otherwise?)
I felt that this episode was kinda rushed. Everything was just moving at a ridiculous speed compared to other episodes =0/. I've no idea why they decided to speed through now, when they wasted so much time in previous, less important episodes, but eh, whatever.
I liked Minko bed hair =03. Ohana bed hair looks the same as it always does =0<. And did anyone think that it was Ko that called Ohana at school?
Takako sure is fired up about the wedding!
Minchi and Tohru, that's a total one sided love... busted by Tohru in a fight with Ohana about who likes who. That sucked & what sucked even more is him telling Minchi he likes Ohana more.
Well, she's not giving up on Tohru & neither is Ohana on Ko.
Wedding was nice.
This attempt at romantic drama reminds me of the feeling I get when I watch Itsuno Tenma...
In the end, Minch was just being hysteric.
Well, her bed hair was nice.
And then the wedding...
The main problems here were:
1. I have to see Takako dressed up as a bride (Eww...)
2. The singer appears as a character and speaks in such a horribly obvious bou-hime voice, and on top of that, she SINGS! Oh geez, let that voice torture me only in the OP.
But anyways, the episode wasn't horrible. It was funny watching Minch just be stupid. It was also funny seeing Yamakan find his non-existing lover.
And I got another laugh when Kou-chan finally reappeared in the preview.
So all in all, it was a funny episode.
You think so.. Hmm I was so disappointed in this episode it was the series rating fell down from 9 to 3 and if there was some redeeming parts in this episode, I would agree with you on that part, watching Minchi acting in a stupid way.
WHAT THE HECK with Ohana choosing to go back to Kouichi!!!!! Like what we have watching so far of characters development was just A TROLL.
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When you turn on your TV to FOX and find your expected scheduled programming has been prempted by nascar, preseason football, or some other newscast. Can also be a term for the all too common premature cancellation of your new favorite show on the FOX network. Usually followed by the onset of unhappiness, depression, or rage.
Ugh, no family guy or simpsons this week. FOX blocked by nascar again!
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Is "Hoc sic fecit ut domini quae se exspoliaverat scirent." accurate?
That last one seems right, but I'm suspicious… Agh! These are such simple sentences too!
Ah, I have more but will not embarrass myself longer by asking them. I need to find some good text to read to help me on this kind of stuff…
Any input would be great. (Hmm... theres that "would" again... how would that be said in Latin...)


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TORONTO (AP) — J.A. Happ pitched six shutout innings for his first victory in three starts, Dioner Navarro and Jose Reyes homered, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 on Tuesday night.
Reyes and Navarro both connected in the sixth inning as the Blue Jays rebounded from Monday's 14-1 defeat to snap Boston's five-game winning streak. Reyes and Melky Cabrera both had three hits and two RBIs. Cabrera has 14 multi-hit games in his past 30.
David Ortiz hit a solo homer in the eighth, his third homer in two games and the 36th at Rogers Centre, matching Alex Rodriguez for the most by a visiting player.
Happ (8-5) allowed seven hits in six innings to win for the first time since June 26. Brett Cecil got the final out for his fourth save in five chances.
Jake Peavy (1-9) lost for the ninth time in 15 starts and hasn't won since beating Toronto on April 25. He allowed five runs and eight hits in 6 1-3 innings.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jacob Turner allowed two runs in his bid for a permanent return to Miami's rotation and the Marlins knocked Mike Minor out of the game early in their win over Atlanta.
Donovan Solano had a career-high four hits and reached on a walk as Miami took its second straight win over Atlanta. Christian Yelich had two hits and scored three runs.
Turner (3-6), making his first start since June 11, gave up four hits in five innings. He loaded the bases but allowed only one run in the first inning. The other run he gave up came on Justin Upton's third-inning homer.
Steve Cishek pitched around Chris Johnson's leadoff single in the ninth to earn his 23rd save.
Minor (3-6) was rocked in his shortest start of the season, giving up six runs on 10 hits and two walks in three-plus innings. He allowed six runs for the second straight start.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gregory Polanco got out of a slump with a solo home run and a tiebreaking two-run single, lifting Pittsburgh over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Neil Walker went 2 for 4 with his 15th homer and three RBIs. Ike Davis had three hits, including his sixth home run.
Vance Worley (3-1) overcame shaky defense behind him to win for the first time in nearly a month.
Adrian Gonzalez smacked his 15th homer and finished with three RBIs for the Dodgers. Paul Maholm (1-5) took the loss after replacing ineffective starter Josh Beckett, who struggled in his return from a hip injury.
Pittsburgh reliever Justin Wilson was ejected in the seventh after hitting Justin Turner with a pitch after Jamey Wright plunked Pirates star Andrew McCutchen.
Beckett allowed four runs in 3 2-3 innings, three coming on solo home runs by Walker, Davis and Polanco.
CHICAGO (AP) — Anthony Rizzo hit two home runs, and Kyle Hendricks pitched seven innings in his return from the minor leagues, as the Chicago Cubs beat San Diego to snap a five-game losing streak.
Rizzo staked Hendricks to a 2-0 lead in the third inning. Four innings later, rookie Arismendy Alcantara and Rizzo hit back-to-back homers off Blaine Boyer for a 5-0 lead. Rizzo became the first National League player to reach 25 homers this season, his career high.
Emilio Bonifacio, Wellington Castillo and Justin Ruggiano had two hits apiece for the Cubs.
Recalled from Triple-A Iowa earlier Tuesday, Hendricks (1-0) made short work of an anemic Padres lineup that entered the game with a total of 29 home runs and 103 RBIs. In his second start of the season, he allowed five hits and threw only 83 pitches.
Eric Stults (3-12) took his ninth loss in 10 decisions.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carlos Santana homered among his season high-tying four hits and Danny Salazar won in his first start in more than two months as Cleveland topped Minnesota.
Cleveland won for the fourth time in six games since the All-Star break. Minnesota has lost four of five.
Salazar (2-4) gave up one run and six hits in five innings.
Indians closer Cody Allen struck out pinch-hitter Chris Parmelee with a runner on third in a two-run game in the eighth inning before Cleveland scored four times in the ninth.
Twins rookie starter Yohan Pino (1-3) allowed four runs and seven hits in 6 1-3 innings.
Minnesota's Brian Dozier had three hits, including his career-high 19th home run in the seventh inning.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jonathan Lucroy homered leading off the bottom of the ninth inning to give Milwaukee a win over Cincinnati.
It was Lucroy's second homer of the game and 11th of the season. It was his second career walkoff homer, both against the Reds. His first was last season off closer Aroldis Chapman and this one was off Sam LeCure.
Francisco Rodriguez (4-3) pitched the ninth to earn the victory.
Cincinnati, 0-5 since the All-Star break, brought in LeCure (1-2) to pitch the ninth. His outing lasted just three pitches as Lucroy hit a 1-1 offering inside the left field foul pole.
CHICAGO (AP) — Mike Moustakas homered twice, Bruce Chen pitched five effective innings, and Kansas City snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Chicago White Sox.
Moustakas, who has 12 homers this season, went 3 for 5 with three RBIs.
The Royals entered the game with a major league-worst 55 homers and had managed a total of six runs during the skid.
Chen (2-2) allowed one run and five hits in five innings.
Adam Dunn went 2 for 4 with a solo homer for the White Sox, who had won three of four.
Chicago starter Scott Carroll (4-6) allowed five runs and 11 hits in five-plus innings.
The Royals broke the game open with a four-run sixth inning.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jake Odorizzi allowed two runs over 5 2-3 innings, and Yunel Escobar highlighted a five-run fifth inning with a two-run double to lead Tampa Bay over St. Louis.
It was the Rays' season-high sixth straight win. They have outscored the opposition 36-11 during the run.
Evan Longoria added a solo homer in the ninth for Tampa Bay.
St. Louis ace Adam Wainwright, making his first appearance since starting for the NL in the All-Star game, gave up six runs, four earned, in 4 2-3 innings.
Wainwright (12-5) was trying to become the first 13-game winner in the NL. He walked four and hit a batter in his second-shortest outing of the season.
Matt Carpenter and Matt Holliday hit solo home runs for the Cardinals.
YANKEES 2, RANGERS 1, 14 innings
NEW YORK (AP) — Chase Headley hit a game-winning single in the 14th inning of his Yankees debut to give New York a victory over Texas.
Derek Jeter broke Lou Gehrig's franchise record for doubles, and the Yankees won an unlikely pitching duel after both rookie starters entered with a 5.10 ERA.
J.P. Arencibia snapped a scoreless tie with a leadoff homer in the 13th against New York reliever David Huff, but the Yankees responded with Brett Gardner's leadoff double and Jacoby Ellsbury's tying single off closer Joakim Soria in the bottom half.
Brian Roberts doubled with one out in the 14th off Nick Tepesch (3-6), who threw 99 pitches over 4 1-3 innings during Sunday's start in Toronto. Headley looped a single to left-center to score Roberts.
Headley was acquired from San Diego in a trade before the game.
Jeff Francis (1-1) worked a scoreless inning to win his Yankees debut in a game that took 4 hours, 51 minutes.
DENVER (AP) — Adam LaRoche hit a tiebreaking home run in the seventh, Anthony Rendon had three hits, and Washington rallied to beat Colorado.
It was the Nationals fourth straight win, and they increased their NL East lead to two games over Atlanta.
Ian Desmond followed Monday's 5-for-5 performance with hits in his first two at-bats for Washington. He was hit by a pitch in the sixth to reach base safely in eight consecutive plate appearances. The streak ended when he struck out in the seventh.
Nolan Arenado and Corey Dickerson homered for the Rockies, who have lost seven straight and remain tied with Texas for the worst record in the majors.
Before the game the Rockies placed shortstop Troy Tulowitzki on the disabled list with a left hip flexor strain and recalled left-hander Yohan Flande, who started the game.
Flande started well before faltering in the sixth. He allowed four runs and five hits and walked two in 5 1-3 innings. He left with a 4-2 lead.
Brooks Brown (0-1) gave up LaRoche's 13th homer.
Craig Stammen (1-4) pitched a scoreless inning to get the win. Rafael Soriano earned his 23rd save.
PHOENIX (AP) — Aaron Hill drove in three runs and made a game-ending diving stop, Miguel Montero hit a two-run single in the eighth inning, and Arizona rallied for a win over Detroit.
Trailing 3-2 in the eighth, Detroit went ahead on Torii Hunter's two-run single up the middle off Brad Ziegler.
Eury De la Rosa (2-0) got the final two outs in the inning, and Arizona rallied when Phil Coke (1-2) walked two in the bottom half after being hit by a line drive. The Diamondbacks loaded the bases on a two-out walk, and Montero singled up the middle off Ian Krol.
David Peralta tied a team record with two triples. Addison Reed worked around a walk in the ninth for his 24th save.
GIANTS 9, PHILLIES 6, 14 innings
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Brandon Crawford hit a bases-clearing double to break a 14th-inning stalemate, and Tim Lincecum earned his first career save as San Francisco beat Philadelphia.
Crawford snapped a 2-for-22 skid with his two-out hit off the wall in left-center field and finished with four RBIs. Buster Posey, who doubled and scored in the 14th, sent the game into extras with a solo homer in the ninth off Jonathan Papelbon, who blew his third save.
George Kontos (3-0) earned the win for the second straight night. Lincecum, San Francisco's ninth pitcher, got the final two outs for the save. Jeff Manship (1-2) surrendered four runs and lost.
The Giants (56-44) improved to 8-2 in extra-inning games and 6-0 on the road. The Phillies (43-57) fell to 6-7.
SEATTLE (AP) — Jacob deGrom allowed five hits and a run in seven impressive innings, Lucas Duda hit a mammoth home run, and the New York Mets topped Seattle to break a three-game losing streak.
DeGrom (4-5) walked one and struck out seven to improve to 4-1 with a 1.59 ERA over his last six starts.
Travis d'Arnaud drove in a run with a triple off Erasmo Ramirez (1-5), who was recalled from Triple-A Tacoma for the start, and scored on Ruben Tejada's soft single in the second inning.
Duda hit his 15th home run, a 446-foot drive off the second deck scoreboard in right field in the eighth.
Jeurys Familia worked an easy eighth, and Jenrry Mejia earned up the save — his 12th in 14 chances.
Endy Chavez led off the bottom of the first with a single then deGrom retired the next 11 batters.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Miguel Gonzalez took a two-hit shutout into the eighth inning, Jonathan Schoop homered, and J.J. Hardy hit two RBI doubles to lead Baltimore past the Los Angeles Angels.
Gonzalez (5-5) allowed two runs and three hits in 7 2-3 innings, including a two-run homer in the eighth by All-Star MVP Mike Trout.
Tommy Hunter retired Albert Pujols on a grounder for the final out of the eighth, and Zach Britton pitched a perfect ninth for his 18th save in 21 chances.
Gonzalez was recalled from Triple-A Norfolk, where he was optioned on July 11.
Angels left-hander Hector Santiago matched zeroes with Gonzalez through five innings, allowing just two hits before rookie Mike Morin (2-3) took over in the sixth.
ASTROS 3, ATHLETICS 2, 12 innings
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — L.J. Hoes homered with one out in the top of the 12th, and Houston beat Oakland for its first win in four tries at the Coliseum this year.
The Astros also earned their first three-game winning streak against the A's in franchise history.
Hoes connected off Fernando Abad (2-4). The baseball-leading A's (61-38) missed several chances to move a season-high 25 games over .500.
Pinch-hitter John Jaso hit a two-out single in the 11th and Jed Lowrie drew a walk from Jose Veras, who was replaced by Darin Downs (2-1).
Chad Qualls finished for his 11th save in 13 opportunities.


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2012-13: Two-year letterwinner … holds a W&L Top 10 performance in the
2011-12: Scored at the Bluegrass Mountain Championships with a 14th-place finish in the 100 back, clocking in a career-best time of 53.39 … help set a meet record as a member of the 200 free relay (1:24.41) at the F&M Invitational (Dec. 3-4) … also recorded 7th in the 50 free (22.20), 10th in the 100 free (49.01) and 15th in the 100 fly (54.65) at F&M … notched a victory in the 200 free (1:25.70) at Mary Washington (10/21) … took second in the 100 free (49.18) at the Marymount Tri-Meet (1/21) … timed in at 22.72 in the 50 free for second place against Centre (10/15).
2010-11: Participated at the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships, finishing 18th in both the 100 back (54.18) and 100 free (47.64), while also finishing 19th in the 50 free (21.72) ... claimed an event victory in the 200 back with a time of 2:08.52 during a dual meet at Transylvania (10/29) ... swam to a third-place finish in the 100 back (55.42) during a dual meet with Mary Washington (10/22).
High School: Earned six varsity letters in swimming, two in volleyball and one in baseball at Cape Henry Collegiate ... swam to a state runner-up finish in the 50 free during senior campaign ... recipient of all-state swimming honors as a junior and senior ... also earned all-conference honors all four years ... member of swim team that captured a regular-season conference championship during senior campaign ... also a member of the 2007 conference champion baseball squad.
Personal: Served as the Indiana State Chair for the 2012 Mock Convention … active with Reformed University Fellowship and Generals' Christian Fellowship … volunteers as a Community Big Brother and for the Grace Prebyterian Youth Group … father, Bob, was a swimmer at West Virginia University … spent the summer as a swimming instructor at Camp Timberlake for Boys in Black Mountain, N.C. … economics and German double-major.


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I loved the look of this dress when I saw it in Burda (Dec 2010) and was determined to make it, but oh what fun I've had with it (not!!!).
I made the dark green version first using a moleskin type fabric, lovely and suedey feel on one side and semi shiny on the reverse, but crikey, how much ease was added is ridiculous, it felt like walking around in a duvet cover – completely shapeless and enormous! Anyway it sat unloved and unworn in my wardrobe as I didn't have the heart to throw it out but I thought I'd give the pattern another go when I found the silver fabric while hunting for something else in a local fabric shop and set to work measuring myself properly and attempting to adjust the pattern.
Then I hit on the bright idea of using the green dress as a guide instead and put tucks in the vertical seams until it fitted comfortably and copied the difference to the pattern pieces with the result that now I love the green one and it fits perfectly as I just topstitched the tucks in place but something got lost in translation with the silver one and the sleeves leave almost no room for movement :-( I'm guessing I'm gonna end up cutting them off or just giving the whole thing to my sister again.
I think I should have kept the horizontal seam on the front panel piece of the silver dress too. I thought it would look better without, but I was wrong.
Such a shame as the pattern looks like it should be so easy to make and look gorgeous made up but I ended up so frustrated with it.
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Dallas — In Correlation with the inaugural National CPR/AED Awareness Week, which took place June 1-7, the American Heart Association released a survey stating that most Americans do not believe they could perform CPR and use an automatic external defibrillator (AED) to help save a life.
In an online survey of more than 1,100 adults, 89 percent say they are willing to help in the case of a medical emergency, but only 21 percent were confident they could perform CPR, and only 15 percent were confident in using an AED. Sixty-five percent of the respondents say they have received CPR training, but only 18 percent said they had received AED training. Some of the reasons survey respondents would not take part in an emergency are a lack of confidence, concern about legal consequences and a fear of hurting a victim.
At least two lives were saved in fitness clubs this spring by the use of AEDs. Last month, the Oak Park, IL, fire chief recognized eight members and a club manager of a Fitness Formula club in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, for saving the life of Rick Prescott, who collapsed while working out on an elliptical machine on March 3.
After one member saw Prescott collapse, staff members were alerted and called 911. In the meantime, a club member who also is a nurse and teaches CPR came to Prescott's aid along with another member who is an anesthesiologist. The nurse administered the AED.
Long says paramedics, police and doctors later told him that without the use of the AED, Prescott would have died.
On May 2, in the Atlanta suburb of Lilburn, GA, an AED in a Fitness 19 club helped save the life of member David Birge. Birge was working out on a cardio machine when he collapsed and had a seizure. Two members, a nurse and a police officer, came to Birge's aid and administered the AED, says Fitness 19 manager Brian Evans.
This was the first time an AED was used in either the Fitness Formula club or the Fitness 19 club. Evans and personal trainers at Fitness 19 are CPR trained, but none of the personal trainers were in the club at the time of the emergency. Evans says it would have taken him a few seconds longer to administer the AED than it took the police officer, who had just been re-certified in CPR training three days earlier. Evans adds he was fortunate to have had help in the club that night.
All Fitness Formula managers, personal trainers and group exercise instructors are AED and CPR trained, says Scott Lewandowski, Fitness Formula regional fitness director. Although AEDs are required in all health clubs in Illinois, they are not required in Georgia health clubs.
The intent of CPR/AED Awareness Week is to encourage the public to get CPR training and to learn how to use an AED to reduce death and disability from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). About 6 percent of out-of-hospital SCA victims survive, according to the American Heart Association. Without effective and immediate CPR, the chance of surviving an out-of-hospital SCA decreases 7 to 10 percent per minute. Even if CPR is performed, an AED is required to stop the abnormal rhythm and restore a normal heart rhythm.


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Procrastination to the point at which zero productivity or efficiency has been established always accompanied by a false sense of accomplishment. This feat is more often than not accomplished with an air of flamboyancy.
Aaron missed his deadline because instead of completing the simple task he was baxtering around the office with a scarf on.
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The latest in a run of influential 90s British albums to get a reissue, including most recently Massive Attack's Blue Lines, is Prodigy's 1997 chart-topping dance album. Although The Fat of the Land was not so much influential - because the Essex trio had already accomplished that with their 1992 debut, Experience, and follow up Music For the Jilted Generation - but more like a full-blown breakthrough. It remains one of the biggest selling dance music albums of all times, with more than 10 million copies sold, and was No. 1 in 24 countries (including here in New Zealand).
And 15 years on, big songs like Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe and Firestarter still have the power to turn you into a demented dancing freak. The dynamic and tension of Breathe, with its taut and creepy beats and the dual lyrical venom of Keith Flint and Maxim, is especially fiery, as is the techno punk of Fuel My Fire and the propulsive big beat of Funky Shit. For all the uppity and banging dance songs, the album also has the swaggering lope of tracks like Diesel Power, the more expansive and challenging electronica of Mindfields, and the smooth, stealthy nine-minute epic Narayan transports you back to the hedonistic days of 90s dance music.
This reissue also comes with six bonus remixes, the best of which is Zed's Dead's steely elastic take on Breathe.
The only letdown is the dance rock of Serial Thrilla, which sounds like it could lapse into nu metal at any minute, but otherwise The Fat of the Land really is the funky shit.
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New bike disk rear wheel on your car can improve driving performance. You will be able to return some of the pleasant sensations, as it was from a new car with the purchase of new wheels.
New technologies are widely used in modern vehicles. What makes the choice of rims and tyres is more difficult than it was once. That is why today you need to be able to choose the tires and wheels for your car.
When choosing custom bike disk rear wheel, experts recommend to adhere to the parameters close to those specified by the manufacturer. A drastic change in settings can affect manageability and security. For example, increasing the diameter of the disc while maintaining the same diameter of the wheel will increase its weight. For correct bike disk rear wheel selection, it is important to consider the mounting (fit) diameter, the number and diameter of the mounting holes (PCD), the disc width and overhang (ET), the diameter of the center hole and the shape of the mounting holes.
bike disk rear wheel by type of manufacture are: cast, forged or stamped. In the basic configuration for the budget vehicles are equipped with forged wheels. The most popular alloy wheels. Thanks to modern manufacturing technologies, alloy wheels have a variety of shapes and less weight than stamped ones. The most high-quality forged wheels. The technology of manufacturing forged wheels provides the best internal structure of the metal at the lowest weight.
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Anyone who has ever played around with Google Chrome OS will be familiar with the app launcher. Chrome runs nothing but web apps, but the app launcher provides the impression of a more regular OS, as you don't have to open a browser window to launch anything. Work has already begun on porting the app launcher to the Chrome browser for Windows, and now it seems, the Mac as well. Francois Beaufort of the Chromium team at Google has shared the news with us on his Google+ page.
So, we can try it out right now, but it's not something that any old average user can turn on. You need to download the latest Chromium build, and you need to be comfortable in using switches. Once you're past all that, you should have a functional app launcher to play around with.
It's a neat little addition to Chrome, though how useful it is will ultimately depend on how much you live inside the browser. If you decide to give this a shot though, drop into the comments and give us your thoughts.
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GLASTONBURY, CONN. (May 2015) - High school seniors from Bethel, Bridgeport, Brookfield, Danbury, Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, New Canaan, New Fairfield, Newtown, Norwalk, Redding, Ridgefield, Shelton, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport, and Wilton were recognized as the state's top scholar-athletes at the 2015 Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS)/ Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) Scholar-Athlete Banquet sponsored by McDonald's. This year, McDonald's Brand Ambassador John Cisna, the Iowa high school teacher who lost nearly 60 pounds eating only at McDonald's served as the guest speaker at the awards banquet.
A 32-year sponsor of the program with a longstanding commitment to educational programs in Connecticut, McDonald's joined CAS/CIAC to honor the following local students as the best of the best in the state at an awards ceremony held at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville, Conn. on May 3.
• Paris Wyard and Abhishek Panigrahi, Bethel High School, Bethel
• Shataya Hammett and Antonio Myers, Bullard Havens Technical High School, Bridgeport
• Tajzhane Freeman and Dondre Daniels, Bridgeport Central High School, Bridgeport
• Victoria Trentini and Zaid Aparicio, Kolbe-Cathedral High School, Bridgeport
• Lindsay Scholten and Peter Lazorchak, Brookfield High School, Brookfield
• Maeve Reilly and Nick Hatcher, Immaculate High School, Danbury
• Noelle Daley and Justin You, Danbury High School, Danbury
• Amanda Bras and Brayan Pelaez, Henry Abbott Technical High School, Danbury
• Amanda Sload and Nicolai Ostberg, Darien High School, Darien
• Kiki Cardenas and Matt Galle, Fairfield Ludlowe High School, Fairfield
• Rebecca Stefanatos and Jake Heaton, Notre Dame Catholic High School, Fairfield
• Kevin Stone, Fairfield College Preparatory School, Fairfield
• Sarah Griffith and Kevin Mercado, Fairfield Warde High School, Fairfield
• Jamie Kockenmeister and Maxmillian Minichetti, Greenwich High School, Greenwich
• Katherine Russo and Dorian Thompson, Masuk High School, Monroe
• Isabel Taben and Ted O'Rourke, New Canaan High School, New Canaan
• Gabrielle Richichi and John Gephart, New Fairfield High School, New Fairfield
• Micaela Nowacki and Julian Dunn, Newtown High School, Newtown
• Mary Hussey and Edwin Owolo, Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk
• Kasey Hogan and Jacob Alexander, Norwalk High School, Norwalk
• Katherine Phillips and Nicholas Catania, Joel Barlow High School, Redding
• Hannah Mercorella and Kristian Sogaard, Ridgefield High School, Ridgefield
• Regina Weissenberg and Austin Kothary, Shelton High School, Shelton
• Maya Job and Ryan Wolfe, Trinity Catholic High School, Stamford
• Ashley Rich and Justin Chase, Westhill High School, Stamford
• Megan Rule and Tyler Serrichio, Stamford High School, Stamford
• Katerie Boursiquot and Tyler LeComer, Bunnell High School, Stratford
• Marissa DaCruz and Alex Masi, Stratford High School, Stratford
• Emily Uus and Michael Zabin, Trumbull High School, Trumbull
• Mariah Provenzano and Matthew Laveneziana, St. Joseph High School, Trumbull
• Caroline Maretz and Micah Zirn, Weston High School, Weston
• Jenna McNicholas and William Pouley, Staples High School, Westport
• Makenna Pearsall and Christian Hansson, Wilton High School, Wilton
"McDonald's has been a proud sponsor of the CAS Scholar Athlete Awards for 32 years and each year we are truly amazed by these Scholar Athletes, who thrive in both academic and athletic achievement," said Scott Taylor, McDonald's owner/operator and president of the Connecticut and Western Massachusetts McDonald's Owner/Operator Association.
The Connecticut High School Scholar-Athlete 2015 Awards Banquet is the largest program of its type in the state. Only one male and one female student are eligible for the award through a nomination from their principal for: demonstrating exemplary academic and athletic careers including participating in an interscholastic athletics; possessing personal standards and achievements that are a model to others; exhibiting outstanding school; and community service and carrying themselves with high levels of integrity, self-discipline and courage.
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About the Book
The name of the exhibition refers to the changing classification, description, or title that is given to abstraction. By nature, abstraction resists tradition and categorization transforming itself into a highly visual moving target. These artists employ abstraction as a means to investigate different approaches to materials, systems, media and content. Rather than following a pre-established doctrine of romantic sentimentality, most of the works elicit an air of experimentation, familiarity, and an overall sense of purpose. The Working Title brings together different perspectives on abstraction in conversation with each other. Minimalism, post-modern, geometric, gestural, formal, color filed, video and process-driven works occupying the same room, creating unpredictable relationships through contrasting approaches. Having direct access to technology has become an important tool for artists to share and discuss their practice, making connections on a regional and global level. The collective stance and attitudes on making art are less defensive than they used to be, opening up conversations with the past by seeking out and elaborating on previous approaches that may have been marginalized or forgotten. The Working Title is less about seizing the moment, but more of a selection of current voices that use abstraction as a starting point to create work that expands the trajectory of what is possible. This exhibition was organized by Progress Report, a visually-driven project that offers a glimpse of the creative process that share various perspectives from the working artist's point of view.
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- Category Arts & Photography Books
Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
92 Pages
- Publish Date Apr 21, 2011
- Tags New York Art, Video Art, Art, Abstraction, Painting, Sculpture, Bronx, Brooklyn
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Progress Report is an visually-driven project dedicated to artist features, studio visits and is intended as a general curatorial resource for ourselves and others. Progress Report aims to allow the categories of art-making to fall by the wayside by presenting a glimpse of the creative process that offer various perspectives with open-ended possibilities from the working artist's point of view.


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Nvidia's Game Changer...ShadowPlay
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I was quite excited a few weeks ago when I heard Nvidia talk about using their onboard NVENC h264 hardware encoding system for game capture with next to no hit on performance. Normally I'm skeptical of such claims, but this is exactly what the PS4 is doing as well. And now, I can't believe this wasn't done sooner.
To use Nvidia's "ShadowPlay" feature you have to download the Nvidia GeForce Experience app which many people generally avoid as it may feel like bloatware to those are already adept at customizing 3d settings on a per-game basis. But this makes it all worthwhile.
ShadowPlay is currently in Beta so there are some limitations. Currently you can select recording quality between Low, Medium, and High settings. However, the capture resolution and frame rate are currently locked in at 1920x1080@60fps. There are also 2 recording modes. A Manual mode that allows you to start/stop video capture at will, and the Shadow mode which automatically records the last X minutes of gameplay, where X can be anywhere from 1 minute to 20 minutes long. A key combination can be pressed to save the last X minutes of gameplay at any time. So you can game as you normally do, and if you happen to see or do something epic, you can save it. Just like your PVR. Simple as that.
The software requires 7.5GB of data is required for 20 minutes of "Shadow" mode recording at high quality. Recording gameplay of Batman Arkham Origins for 60 seconds in manual mode took up only 180MB of space. This is a far better recording platform than any software solution or even hardware solution you may currently be using. Now let's hope there's some way to enable higher resolution recording, even if at a lower frame rate.
You can download GeForce Experience and access ShadowPlay through here: http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience
This is only for GTX 600 series cards and above. Happy Recording!
I wonder how long it will take for AMD to make something like this and when we'll be able to use third party software to take advantage of this tech. Exciting nonetheless.
Needs more res 'n' fps capabilities, but looks good. Another reason why I most probably will go green when I next upgrade my graphics card. The other reason being GSync, assuming it turns out as incredible as I suspect it will
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This actually convinced my buddy to get a used 780 over a 290x, when he is finally upgrading over SLI 480's.What's cookin, good lookin?
I won't lie that I was rather envious of the 290x's performance. If I didn't have such a massive OC on my titans, I'd have been quite upset. AMD has a few things going for it:
- dx11.2 support with tier 2 tiled resources (though with 6gb VRAM on Titan this likely isn't an issue)
- similar/better performance for far less money
- GCN. While not many games will use it, the ones that do...like frostbite 3...will have less of an issue hitting a CPU cap as the directx API overhead is removed for a much leaner system. Bf4 beta was locking me down at around 90fps in some spots due to CPU bottleneck at 5.2ghz....quite sad.
But nvidia also has a few things that I'm excited about:
- nvidia gameworks is neat, but nothing major. However...the new implementations of physx are great. Instead of just being a bunch of overdone particles, they are actually using the particles to create smoke, steam, snow, etc etc...that's quite fun IMO.
- shadow play, of course, is a HUGE one right now. AMD can't match it as they don't have separate integrated hardware encoders. They could add it in future cards. But that'll be the next generation, if it even happens.
- microstutter and sli performance. Still far better than crossfire.
- due to AMD taking a year off from competing, Nvidia now has the largest share of the market. Which means developers are more likely to optimize for nvidia cards.
I'm also going to throw this in. Game streaming to the nvidia shield. The shield....is actually an incredible piece of tech for an amazing price. Especially with the new $100 discount promo if you buy a high end nvidia card. The only problem with it is the 720p display. The shield 2, with 1080p and larger screen (by 1" preferably), tegra 5, and slightly better controls will be a force to be reckoned with. It will provide amazing mobile PC class gaming. From my understanding, the streaming of your PC games is done through the built in hardware encoder on your card which is the same system powering shadow play. So no performance loss. Now imagine playing a PC game at 1080p with maxed out graphics on a portable 6" console. I'm excited for it.
To your list, I would also pencil in NV G-Sync (pencil only because it's not out yet and for now is limited to 1080p TN). Looks to have huge potential. I'm even more excited about it than I am about Mantle
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The best part really is that I hit the "record" button after this stuff happened. Second best part is the performance hit for recording the last 5 minuets is about 0. Can't wait for 1440p options, also wish I could record 30fps, just to save space and upload sizes.ASRock extreme 7 gen 3 z68, i7 2600k @ 4.8ghz, 8gb ddr3 1866 corsair vengeance, EVGA GTX780, EVGA GTX 570 dedicated to PhysX, 256gb M550 SSD, 2tb wd hdd, Corsair HX1050, Catleap @120hz!
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Red Hat was the main opponent against the inclusion of Mono on their products or Gnome's core. But this is all past now and Fedora Core 5 will include Mono and some of its front row applications like Beagle and F-Spot will be too. My Take: After I got tipped on Saturday about this, I talked to Mono's founder, Miguel de Icaza, but he seemed to be genuinely unaware of the latest happenings on Rawhide. The great news will hopefully expand Mono and make GTK# the new recommended toolkit for future Gnome applications (although this is just a personal wish at this point).


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On "Absalom"
Louise Kertesz
"Absalom" is spoken by a mother who has lost three sons to silicosis and whose husband is dying of it. Hee narrative lines ("I had three sons who worked with their father in the tunnel") are interrupted by rhythmic lyric lines in which individual maternal strength is connected with the universal power of regeneration:
I open out a way, they have covered my sky with crystal
I come forth by day, I am born a second time,
I force a way through, and I know the gate
I shall journey over the earth among the living.
As [M.L.] Rosenthal noted, "the mothers determination to make her youngest childs death count for something, to have him live again in her own work of struggle for a better life, is linked with the rebirth motif of the great religions, and specifically of the Egyptian religion" whose scripture is The Book of the Dead. Philip Blair Rice pointed out that the imaginative scheme of "The Book of the Dead" was that of Osiris Way. The tunnel is the underworld, the mountain stream is the life-giving river, and the congressional inquiry is the judgement in the hall of truth. Rice noted that this scheme is suggested rather than presented; the poem is not overweighted with allegory. But Rosenthal is perceptive in identifying the persona in Rukeysers poem with Isis not Osiris and with all the great female protagonists from mythological earth mothers to the strong modern women of Lawrence and Gorky. Especially harrowing lines are spoken by the mother of an eighteen-year-old boy:
Shirley was sick about three months,
I would carry him from his bed to the table,
from his bed to the porch, in my arms.
. . . .
He lay and said, "Mother, when I die,
"I want you to have them open me up and
"see if that dust killed me.
"Try to get compensation . . . ."
[Louis] Untermeyer said that he was emotionally and physically shaken by the combination of protest and prophecy in the poem. It ends with these lines, spoken by the mother:
He shall not be diminished, never;
I shall give a mouth to my son.
[from Louise Kertesz, The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser [Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980), 102-103.]
Walter Kalaidjian
[P]erhaps Rukeysers most stunning advance beyond proletcult and bourgeois aesthetics alike is her distinctively feminist rendering of social empowerment. To begin with, it is the mothers compassionate narrative in the "Absalom" section that augurs womens revisionary authority . . . . Mrs. Jones poignant story of the loss of three sons to silicosis stands out as the poems at once most desperate and heroic portrait. Failing to persuade the companys doctor to examine or treat her sons for silicosis, she "went out on the road and begged the X-ray money" (28). As it happened, these x-ray pictures of damaged lung tissue were eventually presented as evidence in spearheading the first of many lawsuits brought against Union Carbide. Although successful in carrying out her sons last request to seek damages against the company, the mother, at the time of Rukeysers interview, was woefully impoverished, having to hitchhike eighteen miles for the paltry subsistence settlement that only barely sustains her remaining family: "They asked me how I keep the cow on $2. / I said one week, feed for the cow, one week, the childrens flour" (29). In the mothers grim testimony of industrial disease and poverty, Rukeyser uncovers capitals hidden oppression of depression era families that, obscured in the domestic sphere, were not as visibly exploited as male workers.
However diminished by death and hardship, nevertheless the mother vows, in memory of her youngest boy Shirley, that "I shall give a mouth to my son" (30). Likewise, as poet Rukeyser empowers the mothers pledge by supplementing her plain-spoken idiom with a more mythic discourse - one that voices a feminist rebirth:
I open out a way, they have covered my sky with crystal,
I come forth by day, I am born a second time,
I force a way through, and I know the gate,
I shall journey over the earth among the living.
The striking shift in tonal registers, achieved by crosscutting such italicized passages into the transcript of the mothers interview, effectively shatters the alienation and despair of silicosis, symbolized in the poems crystal wall of glass sealing off the heavens. The mother forces "a way through" to a revolutionary, transpersonal resolve through her fusion with the invoked figure of the female messiah, here patterned after Isis, the Egyptian goddess of transmigration. It is the power of the feminine in Rukeysers revisionary mythology that transforms "the river of Death" at "the root of the tower and the tunnels core" into the hydroelectric dams "Pool of Fire" from which the world is reborn. Speaking in the persona of the goddess, the poet claims for herself "power over the fields and Pool of Fire, / Phoenix, I sail over the phoenix world" (15).
[from Walter Kalaidjian, American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique (New York: Columbia UP, 1993), 173-174.]
Michael Thurston
"Absalom" models and invites participation in a politics not only dynamic but also elegiac. It constitutes a crucial node in the sequence, a junction point at which documentary and modernism meet to mount a critically unmasking and ritually remembering political life. Mrs. Jones lives in Gamoca, near Gauley Bridge; her husband and three sons have all contracted silicosis. The focus of the poem is on the third son, Shirley, who dies of the disease but brings about the silicosis scandal when he urges his mother to "have them open me up and / see if that dust killed me" (27). Shirleys wish led to the discovery of the cause of workers deaths, but the poem most importantly explores Mrs. Jones own struggle to transcend the limits placed on her by poverty and suffering and to find in her circumstances some measure of power. The mothers testimony takes us again over ground covered by the sequences earlier expository passages; she explains that her husband and sons had worked in a coal mine, had been convinced by a power company foreman to come to work at the tunnel for better money, and had gone into the tunnel. After eighteen months, Shirley "came home one evening with a shortness of breath." From the beginning of her sons illness, Mrs. Jones takes action, begging money for X-rays, pleading with the company doctor to take her sons case for half of any compensation she might get. Her work results in legal action: "The case of my son was the first of the line of lawsuits." The suits, though, bring only meager compensation, for which she has to hitchhike eighteen miles. With three sons dead and a husband dying, Mrs. Jones is left scraping to get by on $2.00 a week.
Defeated by the disease, the doctors, and the duplicity of lawyers and corporations, Mrs. Jones last recourse is her testimony; her only power is to speak, to fulfill her resolution : "I shall give a mouth to my son." Her matter of fact tone throughout the testimony makes more harrowing her descriptions of suffering -- of carrying Shirley "from his bed to the table, / from his bed to the porch, in my arms," and of her three sons deaths:
The oldest son was twenty-three.
The next son was twenty-one.
The youngest son was eighteen.
Like Mearl Blankenship or George Robinson, Mrs. Jones appears to be a simple citizen stoically suffering through this tragedy. Her diction is plain, her recollections starkly and unsentimentally delivered. Readers familiar with the documentary culture of the period would recognize in Mrs. Jones, in her understated determination and in her flat tone, the strong and stoic mother figure represented over and over again in the work of, for example, Bourke-White and Caldwell. But, of course, Mrs. Jones appearance here is a carefully crafted illusion. The first twelve lines of "Absalom," for example, are taken from social worker Philippa Allens testimony in the Hearings a subcommittee of the House of Representatives Labor Committee held to investigate the Gauley Bridge tragedy. Rukeyser makes only minor changes to Allens version, reversing the order in which Mrs. Jones three sons are listed, for example, and omitting Allens explicit claim that Shirley was his mothers favorite son. In the middle of the section, though, Rukeyser seamlessly weaves together material from Allen and from several separated passages in Mrs. Jones testimony (some eighty pages later in the published Hearings). A graphic representation might show this more clearly than an explanation. In this excerpt, the Roman text marks material from Mrs. Jones testimony, the italics material from Philippa Allens testimony, and the bold text marks invented language:
When they took sick, right at the start, I saw a doctor.
I tried to get Dr. Harless to X-ray the boys.
He was the only man I had any confidence in,
the company doctor in the Koppers mine,
but he would not see Shirley.
He did not know where his money was coming from.
I promised him half if he'd work to get compensation,
but even then he would not do anything.
I went on the road and begged the X-ray money,
the Charleston hospital made the lung pictures,
he took the case after the pictures were made.
And two or three doctors said the same thing.
The compression Rukeyser achieves by jumping back and forth between speakers and by switching the order of statements renders Mrs. Jones recollections more powerful and poignant; the impact of the material is enhanced when Rukeyser brings it together and into focus.
Later in the poem, Rukeyser manipulates the text of the hearings to shift to her female speaker a power she lacks (and male speakers have) in the Congressional testimony, the power to name. Charles Jones, testifying after his wife, lists the men he knows who have died:
Shirley was the first to die, then Cecil died, and then Jeffrey died, and then Oren, and then Raymond Johnson, and then Clev. Anders, Oscar Anders, Frank Dickinson, Frank Lynch, Henry Palf, Mr. Wall, who was assistant superintendent, Mr. Pitch, a foreman . . . . There was a slim fellow who carried steel with my boys. His name was Darnell, I believe.
Rukeyser puts her edited version of this list in the mouth of Mrs. Jones:
There was Shirley, and Cecil, Jeffrey and Oren,
Raymond Johnson, Clev and Oscar Anders,
Frank Lynch, Henry Palf, Mr. Pitch, a foreman;
a slim fellow who carried steel with my boys,
his name was Darnell, I believe.
Mrs. Jones, through Rukeysers editing, becomes the speaker who names the dead, reading them into the record; she has the power to preserve their memory through the act of naming them. In the Egyptian myth system from which Rukeysers borrows her poems structure, Mrs. Jones takes on the roll of Thoth, the Egyptian scribe god, as well as that of Isis, who gathers the fragments of Osiris and reconstitutes the god. Naming the dead, she exercises the power to give them new life. She also attains, by calling this roll, a vantage point that commands the entire valley, shifting from the names of the men to the names of the towns they came from, broadening her scope to show how "the whole valley is witness." Mrs. Jones compelling final resolution ("I shall give a mouth to my son") rests, at least in part, upon the power she exhibits in these lines, a power she attains only through Rukeysers manipulation of the Congressional text, her careful work to "extend the document."
Rukeysers editing strengthens the agency Mrs. Jones attains through her actions. While her husband grows sicker and cannot work, Mrs. Jones files lawsuits, hitchhikes the eighteen miles to town for the meager compensation checks, and holds the family together on two dollars per week. When her sons become ill, she takes them to the doctor, she begs money for X-rays and convinces the doctor to take the case. When Shirley cannot move about, she carries him from his bed to the table, to the porch. Mrs. Jones agency appears even in the grammatical structure of her speech, which differs from the structure of Mearl Blankenships in the preceding section. Blankenship repeatedly follows references to his own actions with references to what others have done or might do for him. He wakes up coughing, but his wife turns him over, he has written a letter but asks the narrator to send it, he has sued the company but asks if his audience can do anything for him. Blankenship, of course, is dying, and Rukeysers construction of his speech and writing quite poignantly show that he is not master of his own fate. Mrs. Jones, though, exercises greater control over hers. Her sentences persistently begin with "I" and a verb: "I first discovered," "I saw the dust," "I would carry him," "I tried," "I promised," "I went on the road and begged," "I hitchhike." This pattern culminates in the poems concluding resolution: "I shall give a mouth to my son."
This resolution is a key to the lived politics Rukeyser evolves and models in the sequence. Just as water creates usable power only in tension with that which would block it, memory becomes power only in the speaking of it, the dynamic repetition of speech and action against those forces which would silence and repress. Rukeyser elevates Mrs. Jones, through her suffering and her power to speak and memorialize, to a mythic stature that makes her central to the sequence as a whole. Mrs. Jones testimony is interrupted at several points by sets of italicized lines that seem to be spoken by a different voice. Set off from Mrs. Jones voice not only by typography, but also by diction, rhythm, and content, the italicized lines add a mythic dimension to "Absalom." But the mythic does not exclude this mother; rather, Rukeyser takes Mrs. Jones up into the realm these lines create. The same grammatical structure that characterizes Mrs. Jones speech organizes the elevated rhetoric of the italicized lines:
I have gained mastery over my heart
I have gained mastery over my two hands
I have gained mastery over the waters
I have gained mastery over the river.
. . . . .
I open out a way . . .
I come forth by day . . .
I force a way through . . .
I shall journey over the earth . . . .
The grammatical similarity between Mrs. Jones monologue and the italicized lines allows us to read the lyrical interruptions not only as a "mythic discourse" that supplements Mrs. Jones "plainspoken idiom," as Walter Kalaidjian writes, but as a version of Mrs. Jones own rhetoric, an elevated variant of her own maternal agency. The lines transform the mothers localized and limited agency into a broader and uncontained power. The collocation of mother and tunnel brings a measure of new power to Mrs. Jones, elevating her from mother to the Mother who is able to proclaim, after her youngest sons death, "I have gained mastery . . . ." Rukeysers strategic editing and startling juxtaposition of the documentary and the poetic fashion, in Mrs. Jones, a powerful female figure who bridges the all-too-earthly realm of tunnels, silica, and workers and the seemingly supernatural realm of waters, rivers, and the air. Like the phoenix, she rises from the wreckage of her family to fly and to speak. And in so doing, she figures the cyclical structure that exists in tension with the sequences documentary style.
[Michael Thurston, "Documentary Modernism as Popular Front Poetic: Muriel Rukeysers 'Book of the Dead (Modern Language Quarterly 60.1 (March 1999), 59-83.]
David Kadlec
Rukeyser hoped to "widen the lens" of the "paternalistic" New Deal documentary apparatus not only by using medical visual technologies to recover invisible texts, but by challenging conventionally gendered claims to the instruments of both medical and poetic seeing. By exposing encrypted male interiors in her poem, and by foregrounding the women -- the journalist Philippa Allen, and the bereaved mother, Emma Jones -- who secured interviews, autopsies, and X-rays to uncover the indistrial truth of the tunnel incident, Rukeyser regendered her medical reportage, restoring agency to women through a visual medium that was first conceived to erase it. The passage from the Heart Amulet of Hatnofer, the first arcane inscription to appear in "The Book of the Dead," paid tribute to the matriarchal aspects of a society that, at the time of the production of the Eighteenth-Dynasty stone, was ruled by an innovative queen, Hatshepsut, who had claimed for herself the traditionally male role of sun god. Rukeyser extended the words on this amulet, a treasure stolen from the breast of the Egyptian mother who had borne it, into the testimony of the modern West Virginia mother who procured the first "X-ray pictures" of the tunnel workers lungs:
I first discovered what was killing these men.
I had three sons who worked with their father in the tunnel:
Cecil, aged 23, Owen, aged 21, Shirley, aged 17.
They used to work in a coal mine, not steady work
for the mines were not going much of the time.
A power Co. foreman learned that we made home brew,
and he formed the habit of dropping in evenings to drink,
persuading the boys and my husband --
give up their jobs and take this other work.
It would pay them better.
Shirley was my youngest son; the boy.
He went into the tunnel.
My heart my mother my heart my mother
My heart my coming into being.
Egyptian icons and religious texts featured powerful matriarchs like the Heart Amulets Hatshepsut, and prophetic goddesses like Isis who, according to Egyptian texts, "lived in the form of a woman" and cured diseases through her knowledge of the healing properties of words.
[David Kadlec, "X-Ray Testimonials in Muriel Rukeyser" (Modernism/Modernity 5.1, 1998: 23-47), 32-
Robert Shulman
In the next in a series of poems in which the workers and their families speak in their own words, in "Absalom" (pp. 27-30) the speaker is Mrs. Jones, another member of the defense committee and the mother not of one but of three sons who have died of silicosis. Her husband is dying and unable to work. Her language is straightforward and affecting:
Shirley was my youngest son; the boy.
He went into the tunnel.
My heart my mother my heart my mother
My heart my coming into being.
Rukeyser juxtaposes the mother's words with what becomes a lamentation as she moves to her poem Spell B of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Rukeyser focuses on the heart and the mother as integral to her political art. She also elides the promise of life ("my coming into being") with the mother's revelations about sickness and death, first of her three sons, culminating in Shirley, the Absalom of the poem, and then of her husband, in the immediately following line, "my husband is not able to work." This simple statement gains force from its juxtaposition and contrast of styles with the suggestive lamentation from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Is Shirley the lamenting voice of "my heart my mother"? Does he merge with the dead Egyptian whose heart "is weighed in the scales of the balance against the feather of righteousness"? For him is there a promise of life or an exposure of the suffering and death the company has causedor both? Or are the "my" of "my heart" and "my husband" the same? Does the dead Egyptian merge with Mrs. Jones and compound the sense of social, economic, and political wrong? Or are we to keep all of these possibilities in mind? In any case, in the remainder of the poem Rukeyser continues to juxtapose Mrs. Charles Jones's testimony (Investigation, pp. 37-40) with fragments from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. This opening up of possibilities and a denial of closure is basic to Rukeyser's avant-garde political art in which she fuses documentary precision, powerful feeling, and a range of languages.
In the fullest sense Mrs. Jones cares for her son:
Shirley was sick about three months.
I would carry him from his bed to the table,
from his bed to the porch, in my arms.
My heart is mine in the place of hearts,
They gave me back my heart, it lies in me.
The quotations from the Egyptian The Book of the Dead center on the heart, the seat of feeling, humanity, and life. These connotations reinforce Mrs. Jones's humanity, intensify her sense of loss and, as she continues, expose what the doctors lack. Dr. Harless in particular refuses to X-ray the boys because "he did not know where his money was coming from." Mrs. Jones goes on,
I promised him half if he'd work to get compensation,
but even then he would not do anything.
I went on the road and begged the X-ray money,
the Charleston hospital made the lung pictures,
he took the case after the pictures were made.
Mrs. Jones adds Shirley's words and feelings to the account. When he dies he wants his mother to have him opened up to
"see if that dust killed me.
"Try to get compensation,
"you will not have any way of making your living
"when we are gone,
"and the rest are going too."
I have gained mastery over my heart
I have gained mastery over my two hands
I have gained mastery over the waters
I have gained mastery over the river.
The chant from The Book of the Dead amplifies and gives urgency to this narrative of suffering and loss. The positive note of "mastery over my heart," the sense of renewal, and the invocation of "the waters" and "the river," with their reference both to the river at Gauley Bridge and the waters and river of lifethese positive associations also throw into ironic relief Mrs. Jones's narrative of legal manipulation, company power, and government hostility:
The case of my son was the first of the line of lawsuits.
They sent the lawyers down and the doctors down;
they closed the electric sockets in the camps.
As she continues the names of the dead resonate, as do the place names"the whole valley is witness." In a compressed style Rukeyser has Mrs. Jones establish the role of the relief officials who refuse to mail checks so that
I hitchhike eighteen miles, they make checks out.
They asked me how I keep the cow on $2.
I said one week, feed for the cow, one week, the children's flour.
What gradually emerges is that after the doctors first called what the boys had pneumonia or "would pronounce it fever,"
Shirley asked that we try to find out.
That's how they learned what the trouble was.
From Shirley, who has opened out a way into the tragedy, Rukeyser segues to the last of the quotations from The Book of the Dead,
I open out a way, they have covered my sky with crystal
I come forth by day, I am born a second time,
I force a way through, and I know the gate
I shall journey over the earth among the living.
Rukeyser has previously associated crystal with the deadly silica, one of the multiple ironies her montage generates. In particular, in the context of Rukeyser's poem the traditional affirmation of rebirth has a specifically human and implicitly radical connotation, reinforced by the mother's concluding declaration:
He shall not be diminished, never;
I shall give a mouth to my son.
from The Power of Political Art: The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered. Copyright � 2000 by The University of North Carolina Press. Reprinted with the permission of the author.
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2. Deep Cleansing
1 or 2 back-to-back Cleanse Days
Soothes to the digestive system and increases bioavailability of other nutrients
Promotes detoxification by supporting liver health
Provides potent antioxidants
Supports the Digestive system and is soothing to the GI tract
Helps maintain homeostasis and increase body's resistance to stress
"I feel so magnificent all the time! A couple times a month I do a two day cleanse... So good for the body and the mind!"
"My travel secret? I always cleanse on my travel days. Makes life so much easier."
"Giving my body the reboot and realignment she deserves."
"Day 2 of our 2 day cleanse! The fat burning day. I already feel less bloated."
This safe and effective system helps boost your weight -loss efforts by gently cleansing and nourishing your body.
This cleansing and fat burning "starter pak" is ideal for individuals who want to lose weight using a long-term, flexible program.
This pak contains a wide assortment of products designed to work together for optimal results, offered at the best possible value. Work toward your weight wellness goals with daily nutritional support and convenient A.M. and P.M. Complete Essentials™ vitamin packets.
The Bedtime Belly Buster (or BBB) is a sweet bedtime treat that combines IsaPro® with Isagenix Fruits or Isagenix Greens™ to satisfy late-night cravings. This helps keep you on track to burn that stubborn belly fat!
* This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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