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Vijay Iyer On Learning From War
Originally published on Sun September 29, 2013 6:30 pm
This past week, Vijay Iyer joined the ranks of the world's certified "geniuses": The jazz pianist and composer is among this year's recipients of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. But lest it be forgotten, Iyer has another accomplishment to celebrate this month — the culmination of a three-year effort to capture the poetry of war.
For more than a decade, Iyer has worked with poet and performer Mike Ladd on a series of musical works about the lives of people of color since Sept. 11. The latest installment is called Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project, and features lyrics culled from interviews they conducted with Iraq and Afghanistan vets, who shared their still-fresh memories of combat.
NPR's Arun Rath recently spoke with Vijay Iyer and Holding It Down contributor Maurice Decaul, who served in Iraq as a Marine and led a battalion into an-Nasiriyah in 2003, about how veterans live with the weight of those memories. Hear the radio version at the audio link, and read more of their conversation below.
ARUN RATH: Vijay, how did you and Mike Ladd first come up with this project?
VIJAY IYER: We had done two previous large-scale projects considering American life since 9/11: The first was called In What Language? and the second was called Still Life With Commentator. And we came to realize we were sort of looking at life in the shadows of war — you know, these two wars that the U.S. has been conducting on our dimes for the last decade or so. But we also realized that we hadn't really come face to face with the lived experience of war. So it seemed like if we were going to continue in that vein, the thing to do was to speak with veterans. As two civilians, we couldn't just make a piece about wartime experience; we really had to feature the voices of those who had lived through it.
RATH: How did you start reaching out to those people?
IYER: It was kind of haphazard. First, we tried just cold-calling and emailing people. [But] if you just walk up to someone and say, "Tell me about the worst part of your life," it's going to be hard to win their trust. I think we realized that we had to be realistic about what was fair to others, what to expect from others.
Then, just by the good graces of fortune and circumstance, we happened to see this wonderful profile of Maurice Decaul in The New York Times. It was really a photo essay — they had a series called "One in 8 Million," where they would follow someone around for a day and take some beautiful photographs and do a little bit of narrative. And there was this guy who was sort of everything that we had in mind. He's a New Yorker, he's a man of color — Afro-Caribbean descent. And he's a veteran, and he's a creative writer. At the time he was a student at Columbia, pursuing a degree in creative writing and dealing with his wartime experiences in Iraq.
RATH: And Maurice will be joining us in a moment. You mentioned he's African-American; you made the decision at some point to have the voices only of veterans of color in this project. Why is that?
IYER: Well, there's a number of reasons. Partly, that's sort of been the underlying theme or framework that we've been working in. Our first project, In What Language?, was about the experiences of people of color in airports both before and after 9/11, and considering the possibility of community by virtue of a shared experience of surveillance and paranoia. That sort of set the tone for all of these works.
The other thing about it is that we found that, because these two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are so racialized, because the way that the enemy was construed and talked about was in very racialized terms, and because we just saw brown and dark-skinned people being targeted as suspects across America over the last decade, both through airport surveillance and through homeland security roundups and all of these things ... And then, at the same time, it just happens to be the case that there's a disproportionate presence of people of color in the armed forces, especially among the lower ranks — people who enlist, often out of reasons of need, or perceived need, or the perception of the possibility of opportunities for some kind of a career path and access to an education. Often people enlist because they think that's their best ticket out of poverty.
So, there was this double-sidedness to the whole effect of these wars. On the one hand, the enemy is racialized, or thought of in very racialized terms — you know, all the terms that they use to dehumanize the enemy. But on the other hand, people on our side are possibly finding some point of connection with people on the other side of the rifle. I remember there was a poem of Maurice's — it was written after we made the album — that refers to someone on the other side as "cousin". And there's also a moment on the album where Lynn, the woman who was a drone pilot...
RATH: That's Lynn Hill?
IYER: Lynn Hill, yes. There's a moment where she says that the last thing she thinks about at night is how she could have been one of those families over there, that that could just as easily be her. So the idea that somehow you find this empathy with the enemy by virtue of your experience as a person of color in America — that created this very different dynamic that we just wanted to explore. And it's not that it really gets foregrounded in the course of the piece, but it's a thread that is woven through it.
RATH: I have to ask you, Vijay, because the perspective that you're laying out — it's a pretty leftist perspective, that sees the wars as being highly racialized, somewhat imperial misadventures. Obviously, that's kind of a minority view in the military, and, I would imagine, probably even a minority view among the veterans of color. And I noticed how, aside from Maurice and Lynn, very few of these poets actually used their last names. Do you think were they reluctant to share their stories in this way?
IYER: Well that's part of our agreement with them — in order for them to feel that they could speak freely, they only have to share as much of their identities as they want to. That sort of seemed like the easiest way. In fact, some of these names are not their real names.
But the other thing is, it's one thing to say that you're anti-war. But then to speak with people who went and fought on our behalf, funded by our tax dollars, and sit with people from that community and listen to them — you can't say that you're anti-war and at the same time try to accommodate their experience. And so in the interest of not invalidating somebody's life choices, I had to put that aside and just really listen. And actually, it's not even that this whole project is specifically anti-war. I think something else comes out of it, which is, "What do we do now?" You know? Now that people have come home.
RATH: These men and women have these experiences now.
IYER: And they carry them. And they're among us. I mean, it's a few million people in this country who've been through this experience in various ways and it's all of our problem. So now what do we do? That's what we were hoping to both demonstrate and actually enact in some way — the possibility of reconnecting.
RATH: This seems like a good time to bring in one of the poets that you worked with on Holding It Down, Maurice Decaul. Maurice, welcome.
MAURICE DECAUL: Thank you.
RATH: I imagine that your poetry predates your work with Vijay. Were you writing throughout your deployment?
DECAUL: Actually, no. I didn't start writing until around the end of 2009, the beginning of 2010, I think it was.
RATH: And that was after you had returned?
DECAUL: Right — I returned in 2003 from Iraq. I think it took a long time to be able to think through what had happened [there]. Around six years after the deployment, I needed an outlet and I was lucky enough to find one through NYU's Veterans Writing Workshop. I went there looking to get help writing narratives, because I was gonna be studying history at Columbia, so I thought I'd end up being a history professor writing history books. I just wanted to get some practice writing stories. But they were teaching poetry, and I tried it, and it just kind of stuck. And I've been doing it since.
RATH: Maurice, the track "Derelict Poetry" seems to be about imagined scenarios for yourself. You imagine staying in Iraq rather than returning home, and you imagine dying on the battlefield. Can you talk about this piece?
DECAUL: Sure. That actually came out of a workshop at Columbia. The professor asked us to use — there was a Cesar Vallejo poem and it starts with, "Cesar Vallejo is not here." So she asked us to all write poems based on that first line.
You know, you go to places like Iraq and there's always the possibility that you might not make it back home. So oftentimes, one has plenty of time to really think about what that possibility might be like and why it is that you might not be able to come home. So that poem came out of thinking about those kinds of experiences or those kinds of thoughts. It starts talking about how the main character, he's not home, he's never come home; he's still in Iraq, just hanging out with the Bedouins. What that really means is, even six years after deployment, you never really do come home fully. There's always a trace of the war, there's always a trace of the Marine Corps; it never leaves the body.
Then it goes into talking about that possibility that one doesn't make it home. I was an infantryman in Iraq. You go out on patrols, and oftentimes, you have missions that are quite simple: traffic control points, roadblocks or raiding houses. But, you know, you could go out on a mission that feels very familiar to you because you've been doing it for months on end every single day, but that particular day that you go out could be the last time. And that second part relates to an incident, the first time that my squad was engaged in combat. It was very ... if I had been standing all the way up, I probably would have been dead right now.
RATH: Vijay, your piano has a strong rhythmic drive always; you've got a strong left hand and we're hearing that hard on this piece. I'm wondering what you were thinking musically to support Maurice's thoughts.
IYER: Well, I kind of wanted to capture his nobility, and the dignity that he just sort of radiates. Generally, when I was creating these pieces of music, it was about creating an environment for these individuals to really be heard. It has a sort of sturdiness to it, and an elegance, I hope. But then also, in the middle of it, there is a sort of storm that happens — and that's part of anybody's life, at some level. We've all had extreme experiences of one kind or another that we have to keep contained.
RATH: I'm curious about the composition process, because it's not sung, but it's not quite spoken word. It's almost a Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets kind of rhythmic talking. How did you make it sync up like that?
IYER: You can say "rap" on NPR, right? (Laughs)
RATH: (Slowly) Hip ... hop? (Laughs)
IYER: That's right. No, I mean, we have a lot of points of reference for this, and to be honest, we weren't really trying to sound like any specific thing. We were really just trying to make something together. And when you just sit in a room for a week or a year — or, in this case, three and a half years — you find some things that work and some things that don't. So that's really how this whole process unfolded: "Here's this poem." "Oh, well, here's this piece of music that seems to kind of have something in common with it, or seems that it would complement it in some way." Some of the pieces on the album are sung and some of them are spoken. Some of them are more kind of heightened, performed speech. Some of them, I think, can be called rap — like the piece called "On Patrol," that's Maurice basically rapping.
RATH: And that's kind of a stream-of-consciousness piece. Maurice, can you talk about that one?
DECAUL: "On Patrol" also references that same incident in "Derelict Poetry." It was an ambush, so when I was writing that, I was thinking through what that environment felt like. There is a very specific checklist that you go through before you leave the base. You check the marines for their dog tags — make sure that they're laced into the boots properly, and also around the neck. You want to make sure that they're silenced, because any noise can give you away, and also that they're taped with black tape, because a glint from the sun can also give you away as you're walking.
[I was] trying to create the environment of going out on a patrol and being ambushed, and what does that feel like. It's a very chaotic event, [so the poem is] chaotic. It's just two very big blocks of text; it's not crafted. Even on the page it feels chaotic to me. I was interested in recreating some of the sounds because, you know, there's machine gun fire — there's always machine gun fire in Iraq. That was an important part of the poem, too, just trying to recreate the sounds of battle and that particular ambush.
RATH: It's sort of wild that the album is subtitled The Veterans' Dreams Project. Even though we're talking about dreams and dream imagery, insomnia — and the kind of killing of that dream state — is a theme here. Maurice, was that a problem that you faced?
DECAUL: I didn't have insomnia, but — and I don't remember this — my wife would talk about how at night I would wake up, and I would maybe hit her or wrestle with her or fight with her. That happened for a few years. There are a few dreams that I remember that are pretty intense, pretty scary. Like, one of them involves faces coming out of the wall and coming towards you. And another one — it was entirely a dream, it never happened to me — but, people being shot.
IYER: Mike did a lot of interviews with other veterans too, and so many of the pieces on this album are derived from their telling of their dreams. But some of the people he interviewed said they didn't sleep at all, or didn't dream at all, and if they did, it was a medicated kind of sleep. That's where the song "Rem Killer" comes from: It's a litany of all the medications that people would take to not have to relive some of these memories in the course of sleep.
RATH: Maurice, what do you hope that listeners will take away from this collection?
DECAUL: That's a good question; it's something that we talk about. This is '13, so we've been at war for 12 years now. [More than] 2 million or so veterans have gone through the two wars. That's not counting the families that have also been a part of the wars, and that's not counting the people on the other side who were affected by the wars, and that's not counting the rest of the American population.
What I'm really hoping is that we'll be able to create a space for dialogue. We're drawing down Afghanistan next year — so that's another 60,000 or so troops coming home. I was actually speaking with another vet this morning, and he was talking about how when folks first come home they might not be so willing to talk — it might take them a few years. But what I'm hoping is that the project will create a space ... for dialogue between service people, their families of course, but also just the larger community. I really do think that if we constantly, constantly, constantly, constantly talk about these wars or wars in general, maybe we would be less inclined to run headlong into another one. It's really important to have the means of expression so that you can tell your own story, but also create the space for dialogue to happen.
RATH: And Vijay, for you, same question. What do you want people to take away from this?
IYER: I think Maurice captured it very well. One of the hallmarks of these wars, from a domestic perspective, is that they were almost invisible. You know, you barely noticed that they were happening. At some point, people got tired of hearing or reading about it — it would be buried in the middle of the front section of the paper. You couldn't really tell we were at war if you just looked out the window or looked at what was happening in culture. And so there is a sort of indifference or fatigue that set in, that I think we need to face. Do people really know what war is, and what is it like to carry those experiences?
This project is, first and foremost, for the veterans — it was created with and by veterans and it's very much for that community to experience. For me, one of the best responses we got was from Lynn Hill herself, who's one of our collaborators. She said that after being involved in this project, she was able to leave therapy and she stopped having nightmares, and now she's married and has a baby. So she underwent a certain healing process through the telling and through being heard. That, to me, is far beyond what we ever expected or anticipated. So the healing potential of this kind of work — whether it's this project or another one that it might inspire — I think that's what I would like to see.
RATH: Finally, Vijay, just days ago it was announced that you were the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant," as they're called: $625,000 over the next five years, no strings attached. What are you gonna do?
IYER: (Laughs) When you put it that way ... . You know, a project like this, it's not about me. It's something that I can kind of be a conduit for and help set in motion, but it has larger aims of trying to be in service to others. That, to me, is probably the best thing I could do with this prize. I mean, it's still sinking in: It's sort of like, "Welcome to the rest of your life." That's the kind of scale I have to think on, so it's a little early to say anything specific. But if I can keep doing this kind of work and, hopefully, keep inspiring others to do something better — better than me, that is — then I'll feel like I've done something good with it.
And if you're just joining us, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath. This is the poetry of war.
RATH: The still fresh memories of U.S. combat veterans have been transformed into music by acclaimed jazz composer Vijay Iyer. The voice you're hearing belongs to Mike Ladd, Iyer's partner on a series of projects, all about the lives of people of color since 9/11. This latest work features lyrics culled from interviews they conducted with Iraq and Afghanistan vets. It's called "Holding it Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project."
RATH: Vijay Iyer says this album is less about archiving the experiences of war and more about how vets live with the weight of those memories.
VIJAY IYER: Now that people have come home and they're among us, I mean, it's a few million people. It's all of our problem. So now what do we do?
RATH: This track features the voice of Maurice Decaul. He served in Iraq as a Marine and led a battalion into Nasiriyah in 2003. Decaul returned home that year, but he didn't start writing poetry until 2009.
MAURICE DECAUL: It took a long time to be able to think through what had happened in Iraq. And around that time, around six years after the deployment, I needed an outlet. And I was lucky enough to find one through NYU's Veterans Writing Workshop.
RATH: Maurice, the track "Derelict Poetry," it seems to be about imagined scenarios for yourself. You imagine staying in Iraq rather than returning home. And you imagine dying on the battlefield.
DECAUL: You know, you go to places like Iraq, and there's always the possibility that you might not make it back home. So the poem starts talking about how the main character, he's not home, he's never coming home. And he's still in Iraq. He's still just hanging out with the Bedouins. Well, what that really means is you never really do come home fully. Your mind might still be there. There's always a trace of the war. There's always a trace of the Marine Corps.
Then it goes into talking about how that possibly could've happened, that one doesn't make it home. I mean, it's - I was an infantryman when I was in Iraq. And you go out on something, on a mission that feels very familiar to you because you've been doing it for months on end every single day. And that particular day that you go out could be the last time.
RATH: Vijay, I'm kind of curious about the composition process because, you know, it's not sung, but it's not quite spoken word. It's sort of like almost in that Gil Scott-Heron, "Last Poets" kind of rhythmic talking. So..
IYER: You can say rap on NPR.
RATH: Hip-hop?
IYER: That's right. No, I mean, we have a lot of points of reference for this. And to be honest, we weren't really trying to sound like any specific thing. We were really just trying to make something together. And so when you do that, when you just sit in a room for a week or a year - or in this case, what, three and a half years...
DECAUL: Three years. Yeah.
IYER: ...you know, you find some things that work and some things that don't. We kind of approached it in a lot of different ways. And some, you know, some of the pieces on the album are sung and some of them are spoken, very plain spoken. Some of them, I think, can be called rap, you know, like the piece called "On Patrol."
IYER: That's Maurice basically rapping is what's happening there.
RATH: And that's kind of a stream-of-consciousness piece. Maurice, can you talk about that one, "On Patrol?"
DECAUL: Hmm. Well, now that I'm thinking about it, "On Patrol" is also referencing that same incident in "Derelict Poetry." It was an ambush, trying to create the environment of going out on a patrol and being ambushed and what does that feel like. It's a very chaotic event. And training kicks in. So the poem starts to really think through what that event feels like.
DECAUL: I was interested in recreating some of the sounds because, you know, there's machine gun fire, and there's always machine gun fire in Iraq. But that was an important part of the poem to just trying to recreate the sounds of battle and that particular ambush.
RATH: It's sort of wild that the, you know, the project is called the "Veterans' Dreams Project." Insomnia is a theme here, and even the kind of killing of that dream state is sort of a theme, this - Maurice, was that a problem that you faced?
DECAUL: When I came home, I wouldn't - I would be able to sleep but - and I don't remember this, but my wife would talk about how at night I would wake up and I would maybe hit her or wrestle with her, fight with her. And that is something that kept happening. That happened for a few years. I don't personally remember that.
IYER: There was also, you know, when Mike - Mike did a lot of interviews of other veterans too. And some of the people he interviewed said they didn't dream at all. And if they did, it was a, you know, it was a medicated kind of sleep. So that's where the song "REM Killer" comes from is the kind - it's a litany of all the medications that people would take to not have to relive some of these memories in the course of sleep.
RATH: Maurice, what do you hope that listeners will take away from this collection?
DECAUL: That's a good question, something that we talk about. What I'm really hoping for is that we'll be able to create a space for dialogue. I think it's really important. I mean, we're drawing down Afghanistan next year, so that's another 60,000 or so troops coming home. And, it's funny, I was actually - I was speaking with another vet this morning, and he was talking about how, you know, when folks first come home they might not - it might take them a few years before they are willing to talk.
But what I'm hoping is that the project will create the space so that if people do want to talk, maybe we could model the way that this could be done.
RATH: Finally Vijay, I have to ask you, because just days ago it was announced that you were the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, as they're called. Of course, we knew you're a genius because we had booked this well ahead of that. So $625,000 over the next five years, no strings attached. What are you going to do?
IYER: Oh...
RATH: I put you on the spot.
IYER: It's kind of early. You know, it's still kind of sinking in. But it's sort of like welcome to the rest of your life, you know? What are you going to do now? But basically, if I can keep doing this kind of work and hopefully keep inspiring others, then I'll feel like I've done something good with it.
RATH: Nice. Well, congratulations.
IYER: Thank you so much.
RATH: And congratulations also on this amazing album. That's pianist and composer Vijay Iyer with Marine and poet Maurice Decaul. Their new collaboration is called "Holding it Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project." Gentlemen, thank you.
IYER: Thanks, Arun.
DECAUL: Thank you.
RATH: And for Sunday, that's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Arun Rath. Check out our weekly podcast. Search for WEEKENDS ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on iTunes or on the NPR smartphone app. Click on Programs and scroll down. You can follow us on Twitter @nprwatc. Until next time, thank you for listening and have a great week. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Interpretive Handbook
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Cortisol, Free, Random, Urine
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Cortisol is a steroid hormone synthesized from cholesterol by a multienzyme cascade in the adrenal glands. It is the main glucocorticoid in humans and acts as a gene transcription factor influencing a multitude of cellular responses in virtually all tissues. Cortisol plays a critical role in glucose metabolism, maintenance of vascular tone, immune response regulation, and in the body's response to stress. Its production is under hypothalamic-pituitary feedback control.
Only a small percentage of circulating cortisol is biologically active (free), with the majority of cortisol inactive (protein bound). As plasma cortisol values increase, free cortisol (ie, unconjugated cortisol or hydrocortisone) increases and is filtered through the glomerulus. Urinary free cortisol (UFC) correlates well with the concentration of plasma free cortisol. UFC represents excretion of the circulating, biologically active, free cortisol that is responsible for the signs and symptoms of hypercortisolism.
UFC is a sensitive test for the various types of adrenocortical dysfunction, particularly hypercortisolism (Cushing syndrome). A measurement of 24-hour UFC excretion, by liquid chromatography-tandom mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), is the preferred screening test for Cushing syndrome. LC-MS/MS methodology eliminates analytical interferences including carbamazepine (Tegretol) and synthetic corticosteroids, which can affect immunoassay-based cortisol results.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Investigating suspected hypercortisolism when a 24-hour collection is prohibitive (ie, pediatric patients)
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
Most patients with Cushing syndrome have increased 24-hour urinary excretion of cortisol. Further studies, including suppression or stimulation tests, measurement of serum corticotropin (adrenocorticotropic hormone) concentrations, and imaging are usually necessary to confirm the diagnosis and determine the etiology.
Values in the normal range may occur in patients with mild Cushing syndrome or with periodic hormonogenesis. In these cases, continuing follow-up and repeat testing are necessary to confirm the diagnosis.
Patients with Cushing syndrome due to intake of synthetic glucocorticoids should have suppressed cortisol. In these circumstances a synthetic glucocorticoid screen might be ordered (SGSU / Synthetic Glucocorticoid Screen, Urine).
Suppressed cortisol values may also be observed in primary adrenal insufficiency and hypopituitarism. The optimal specimen type for evaluation of primary adrenal insufficiency and hypopituitarism is serum (CORT / Cortisol, Serum).
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
Random urine cortisol results are less reliable than results obtained from properly collected and complete 24-hour urine specimens, which are not affected by diurnal variations in cortisol levels.
Acute stress (including hospitalization and surgery), alcoholism, depression, and many drugs (eg, exogenous cortisone, anticonvulsants) can obliterate normal diurnal variation, affect response to suppression/stimulation tests, and increase baseline levels.
Liquid chromatography-tandom mass spectrometry methodology eliminates analytical interferences including carbamazepine (Tegretol) and synthetic corticosteroids.
Random urine specimens may yield falsely elevated values when patients have a high urinary output.
Renal disease (decreased clearance) may cause falsely low values.
Values may be elevated to twice normal in pregnancy.
Patients with exogenous Cushing syndrome caused by ingestion of hydrocortisone will not have suppressed cortisol values.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
0-2 years: 3.0-120 mcg/g creatinine
3-8 years: 2.2-89 mcg/g creatinine
9-12 years: 1.4-56 mcg/g creatinine
13-17 years: 1.0-42 mcg/g creatinine
> or =18 years: 1.0-119 mcg/g creatinine
0-2 years: 3.0-120 mcg/g creatinine
3-8 years: 2.2-89 mcg/g creatinine
9-12 years: 1.4-56 mcg/g creatinine
13-17 years: 1.0-42 mcg/g creatinine
> or =18 years: 0.7-85 mcg/g creatinine
Use the conversion factors below to convert each analyte from mcg/g creatinine to nmol/mol creatinine.
Conversion factor
Cortisol: mcg/g creatinine x 413=nmol/mol creatinine
Cortisol molecular weight=362.5
Creatinine molecular weight=149.59
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
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2. Boscaro M, Barzon L, Fallo F, Sonino N: Cushing's syndrome. Lancet 2001;357:783-791
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ST. MARYS – The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusader basketball team used a 13-2 advantage in the third quarter to defeat the Kane Lady Wolves by a 55-45 score Monday night at the ECCHS gym.
The score was tied at 24 at the half. The third period saw Elk outscore Kane 13-2 to open a 37-26 lead with eight minutes remaining. In the final quarter the Lady Wolves outscored the Lady Crusaders 19-18 but just were not able to overcome the third quarter difference.
Playing just one good quarter does not win many basketball games.
The Kane High Wolves found this out Friday night in their season opener at home.
Kane wrestling head coach Mike Swartwood does not have a huge roster, with 15 athletes on the team competing for spots in 14 weight classes. While the quantity of wrestlers on the squad don't give coach Swartwood much wiggle room for maneuvering, the quality of the wrestlers that he can put on the mat would make most high school coaches jealous.
The Kane Lady Wolves basketball team will have a decidedly new look this season. Gone are seven familiar faces to graduation, including Kane all-time leading scorer Kaila Jamerson and all-time assist leader Dawn Saquin.
Kane head coach Dave Kiehl, now in his sixth season at the helm of the Lady Wolves, will have to find players capable of getting the ball in the hoop. According to Kiehl's figures, the returning players scored an average of seven points per game of the Lady Wolves 50-point average last season.
New coach. New uniforms. New system. Kane Wolves basketball fans should be ready for some changes between last year's team and the 2013-2014 Wolves.


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|VT Ski Areas Offer Learn to Ski/Ride For Free Events
Sample VT Ski Areas Association web page with listings of free ski lesson availabilities.
You can't beat the price: Learn to ski or ride free at
some resorts that are offering a day of free equipment and lessons this week.
You should act right away because openings are limited. The Vermont Ski Areas Association has a special free lessons page on their website that lists. Use the drop down menu to choose a day of the week and the website will return a table of resorts and number of openings at each. I don't know how well they are keeping this information current (it's up to the resorts no doubt) so get in touch soon with the ones that look most likely.
As I was searching through the dates and resorts list yesterday, it looked like Wednesday and beyond are the best bets.
If you sign up for one of these lessons and need a place to stay, give us a call and we will give you a 15% discount when you mention this blog post.
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27 Nov 2008
|Thanksgiving Weekend
Photo courtesy Billings Farm and Museum
The Billings Farm and Museum is a beautiful working farm in Woodstock VT.. Its annual Thanksgiving Weekend starts tomorrow and continues through Sunday from 10:00 to 4:00 each day. There will be traditional cooking demonstrations, history of Thanksgiving and how it was celebrated long ago, draft horse wagon rides, tours, and other activities for the whole family.
Thanksgiving At Hildene, located near Manchester VT, will be this Friday through Sunday. There will be self-guided tours through the mansion decorated for the season. Hildene was originally the home of Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham,$12.50/Adult,
$5/Children, Members and children under 6/Free.
In nearby Manchester VT, there will be a Christmas tree lighting at 5:00 on Friday November 28 at the Town Green. It will be followed by a reception with Santa at Hand Motors. With all the upscale outlet stores in town, including the Orvis headquarters store, there will be opportunities to get some holiday shopping done.
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25 Nov 2008
|Annual VT Christmas Bird Count
The Christmas Bird Count is a 109 year old event held each year all around the country. It is sometimes held on Christmas day but often takes place on other days in December and early January depending upon each local group's preferred timing. In Vermont, there are about 20 bird counting groups with the earliest counts starting December 14 and going through January 5.
This is a great way to get out and see some Vermont scenery and enjoy a day with local and out-of-state birders. You don't have to be an expert. There will be at least one experienced birder leading each group.
Detailed information about this year's count is available on the Vermont eBird.org website page. This website is a good source of information not only about the Christmas bird count but also year around information about birding in Vermont.
Two other birding websites I like are Virtual Birder (it has weekly reports of rare bird sightings around the state) and the Vermont Audubon (including links to the group's state office and local chapters).
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22 Nov 2008
|Several VT Ski Areas Open
Stowe - November, 18 2008 (photo copyright Stowe)
Five ski areas are now open here in Vermont. In alphabetical order (with number of trails open in parens) they are: Jay Peak (3); Killington (27); Okemo (17); Stowe (9); Sugarbush (7). Most of these ski areas have base depths in the one to two foot range. In addition to some natural snow, Stowe must have had the fan guns on the highest setting 24 hours a day last week- they have depths of two feet to four and a half feet.
I'm surprised that a couple of cross country ski areas are open already. Catamount Family Center, located in Williston VT (near Burlington) has 35 km open (perhaps benefiting from lake effect snow - Lake Champlain is a few miles west of Williston).
And Three Stallion Inn , a very nice facility in Randolph VT, has 25 km open.
To keep track of who is open, check the VT Ski Areas Association web site conditions page.
(c) 2008 (except the Stowe photo) Jeff Connor
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21 Nov 2008
|Unusually Good Sales in VT This Weekend
Somehow, long ago, the tradition of having super sales during deer season got started in VT. If you live here, you know what I mean. You see newspaper advertisements addressed to "deer season widows" whose husbands are off in the woods in pursuit of deer. The deer hunting season in this state is huge, and so is this kick off to the shopping season.
There are two super sales that you might be interested in as destinations or stop offs while traveling in Vermont this weekend.
One of the biggest sales is the Cabot Hosiery Company ("Darn Tough") annual sale in Northfield VT, just a few minutes drive from the state capital of Montpelier. The company has been holding this sale for 29 years and it is a big one. Cabot Hosiery makes socks for both indoor and outdoor wear. I plan to go tomorrow and load up on Merino wool socks.
I went to the Black Diamond sale a few years ago and was impressed with the great prices on outdoor wear, mostly winter jackets, pants, and hats. Black Diamond, located just outside Montpelier, has excellent good quality products.
Remember the famous line: "The more your buy, the more you save!" Our economy needs you. Well, actually, it needs your money.
(c) 2008 Jeff Connor Grunberg Haus Inn
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13 Nov 2008
|Another Great Megapickles VT Photograph
Today's Megapickles photograph of a Lake Champlain scene reminds me of a Salvador Dali painting - it just needs a drooping clock hanging over the tree . . .
One thing I do most every evening is go to Megapickles Photoblog (see link in this blog's right hand column), one of my all-time favorite web sites. John H is the website owner. He publishes a photo every day, usually of outdoor subjects but he switched to indoor subjects and even a self-portrait earlier this year after slipping on ice and ending up in a leg cast. Some of his recent photos around Burlington and Lake Champlain meant he had to get up well before dawn and drive around looking for opportunities before heading off to his day job. That job is as a Political Science Professor at St. Michel's College.
Not only does John post a photograph each day but also he includes a note about what music he is listening to at the moment. He has an deep affinity for classic and jazz music - his collection of albums and CD's must be staggering.
I suggest you take a few minutes to poke around his website - I'm confident you will enjoy it and appreciate the amount of work that goes into it. There are many brilliantly composed and rendered photographs there.
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Has there ever been a more exciting Super Bowl moment than this? With just 0:51 left in the fourth quarter, the 18-0 New England Patriots stand just moments away from the perfect season, and a fourth Super Bowl championship in seven years. Yet, just seconds earlier, a miracle happened - the scrambling Eli Manning to a helmet-assisted David Tyree completion - putting the New York Giants within striking distance of overturning a 14-10 Patriots lead. With every member of the crowd on his or her feet, and tens of millions of fans on the edges of their seats at home, Eli stands ready to make history. As he leans in to call the play that may or may not make history...SNAP! The moment is preserved for all-time, and is now available for your wall! From legendary panoramic sports photographer Rob Arra, this amazing entry in the Everlasting Images collection features a view from the 50 Yard Line of University of Phoenix Stadium during the second-to-last play of Manning's miraculous game-winning drive. From the masses of fans in the stands, to the scoreboards and video screens, to the sideline entourages, to the action on the field, this poster has it all, in perfect focus and vivid true color. Complete with the official Super Bowl XLII logo at bottom-left, and the competing teams' helmets and the final score at bottom-right, this beautiful collector's item will look great in a nice frame on a prominent wall of your home or office. The ultimate keepsake for any true-blue fan!
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The SanDisk Digital Photo Viewer is basically a little black box with 4 slots on the front to accept different types of memory cards from digital cameras. You stick in the memory card, hook up the composite video(or s-video) to the tv, and turn it on. The device automatically plays a slideshow of your pictures, and you don't have to do a thing. This makes it really really useful for this project.
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I received this water bottle as a Christmas present from my girlfriend. She contemplated on getting this water bottle over the cheaper, Br*** filtered water bottle and boy I'm glad she did!My Camelbak is more durable, filters better, and is overall mechanically better than the Br***! My friend has the filtered Br*** and his has already broke after buying a new filter. I also love how the filters are plant based carbon, it's always been one of my favorite filtering methods! Thank you Camelbak for such a great product! :)
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It's a great idea, love the filters, somewhat pricey but bad product design on the valve.
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By KMB
from Levittown Pa
About Me Casual/ Recreational
Comments about CamelBak Groove® .6L:
I bought this because I was buying too many disposable water bottles and can't drink local water without a filter. I'm saving so much money and have no excuse not to drink water all day. Still haven't put it in the dishwasher though...
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Did not live up to my expectations
By Solwill
from Evans, GA
About Me Military/Law Enforcement
This product did not live up to my expectations.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Not an Athlete, but Love this Product.
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OK. I got this for Christmas, and I love it. I did notice when putting it together that the bite valve was sealed shut, like it wasn't stamped through a mold properly to cut the opening right. After fussing with it for a few minutes, bite-bite-sip, bite-bite, use fingers to tug gently open, it seemed to work just fine. I assumed later that it wasn't cut all the way open in a way like a safety seal might be an indicator that is was guaranteed unused? Either way, this bottle has helped me to double my water intake and be healthier. **I do wish there was more direction about unsealing the valve, it seems many of them are uncut and causes confusion when first opening!!
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By Liam the gymnasts dancer
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I live in St.Louis the city with best tasting water. SO when I go out of town the taste of water is usually is not as good with this water bottle the water tasted the same as STL's. I had a problem with one of the parts so I went to camel baks website and got the part in 3 days and works fine.
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Flaw in tubing renders bottle useless
By Ashley
from Portland, OR
This was my second Camelbak after using the Better Bottle version for a couple of years. I selected the Groove because of its smaller size. It worked well for some time but now a crack has developed in the tubing between the bite valve and the filter tube, where the tubing folds when the bottle is "closed". This has rendered the bottle pretty much useless because it now leaks a lot and it makes a really loud noise when drinking from it. It's unfortunate because this part is not user replaceable. I have really loved this bottle and it's too bad that I can't use it anymore due to what appears to be a defect in the design. I see other reviewers here have had the same issue.
By Pants
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This bottle is amazing. The water in Ann Arbor has a weird taste and smell to it, and the filter gets rid of all of that. I also love that camelbak bite valves make water so much more fun to drink! It is a little pricey, but if you were drinking 4 bottles of water a day and buying packs of bottles a week, you would be spending way more money!
(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
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By Aries Andronicus
from Washington, D.C.
Used this product for maybe about 6 months before the tubing between the filter and the bite valve tore: the inner tubing/piping/straw(?) becomes pinched between the bite valve post and the opening; when the valve is gently snapped into place, the pinched tubing is torn open. Since then, the bottle is useless with the whole cap assembly on. Furthermore, the only part I need: the inner tubing and filter seal (one rubber piece that snaps into place) isn't available as a replacement part. This is a huge oversight. That being said, that's the only thing wrong with it. Most everything else is awesome except for that.
Excellent Product, Excellent Service!
By Traveling Mom
from Indiana
Excellent bottle! The filter makes ANY water taste better. Perfect for traveling--especially flying. I love knowing that I can refill at a water fountain or faucet without expecting awful tasting water. Pays for itself because I don't need to buy bottled water. Only negative is that the bite valve started to split too far after years of use, but CamelBak warranty sent me a replacement part in record time.
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By Girl on the Go
from Pasadena, CA
This water bottle goes with me on every trip I take. I carry it empty through security at the airport and fill it up once inside, saving me $$$ on way overpriced airport bottled water. This size fits perfectly in my on-the-go bag without weighing it down as much as the larger bottle. Just make sure you grab the right lid with the straw - I accidentally grabbed the lid for the Eddy when traveling to Europe and was so disappointed I couldn't use my Groove!
(2 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
hole in nipple
By fitnut72
from Oceanside, CA
This product was used by my daugther to take to school. The nipple had a hole in it within a month of use. This was a lot of money to have to buy replacement parts within a month of light use.
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Hi, I recently started for loop in C++ and I am stuck on a question. I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me with this.
Write a program which accepts as input a positive integer and checks, using the algorithm described below, to see whether or not the integer is divisible by 11. This particular test for divisibility by 11 was given in 1897 by Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).
As long as the number being tested has more than two digits, form a new number by:
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The remaining number is divisible by 11 if and only if the original number is divisible by 11.
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Q: Yourself and the team currently occupy P2 in both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships; are you pleased with how things are going?
KR: For sure it's an okay start and we're in a better position that this time last year, but there's a long season ahead and it's too early to say if we can fight for the Championships right to the end. It's going to be hard to catch Sebastian [Vettel] if he keeps taking good results so we need to start taking more points from him, but you never know what can happen. We'll keep pushing to improve the car and see where we end up.
Q: What's required to bridge that gap to P1?
KR: Some more wins! To catch the leaders, we have to work twice as hard as they are. It's no secret that we want more speed from the car in qualifying; it's so tight up there at the front and we really need to be on the first two rows to fight for victories every time. It's good to be able to start the European season where we are as this is when you see teams starting to push on with lots of new parts for the cars. It's still early days, but to have scored strong points since the start of the year is obviously better than not having them. We need to keep scoring points in the same way; even if it's a bad weekend for us, we need to keep finishing as well as we can. That's how we will fight to the end of the season.
Q: How is the Circuit of Catalunya for you?
KR: I have won twice in Barcelona and I was on the podium there last year too, so I really look forward to going there again; hopefully to end the weekend with another good result. It's a circuit where you have to get everything exactly right to be at the top. All the teams have tested many times at this circuit, so to get an advantage there is not very easy. The set-up is crucial as the track changes with the wind and temperature so there's plenty of work for the engineers too.
Q: Is it good to be racing in Europe again?
KR: I really like racing in Europe. We don't have to travel that far so all your energy is saved for the weekend itself. Traditionally the real season starts when coming back to Europe. For me, it's great.
Q: The Circuit de Catalunya is the only circuit at which you've tested the E21 so far; does that help matters?
KR: That's true, but you have to remember that was at the end of February and the beginning of March so conditions were very different compared to what we hope to see in May. It was very difficult to get the tyres working properly when we were last there, but it was the same for everybody. We all start from zero again in FP1.
Q: The team didn't get so much mileage at Barcelona during testing, but reliability doesn't seem to be so much of a concern now the season is underway?
KR: I didn't have that many laps there in testing as there were problems with the car and I also missed a day as I was unwell. That said, me and the team know the track pretty well so I don't think we'll be too surprised about which way the track goes or what setup to use on the car. Even though I didn't get a lot of mileage in pre-season, the main thing was I felt good in the car the whole time. Our car seems to be good at every circuit so far...
Q: You were quite reserved after the podium finish in Bahrain; were you happy with the result?
KR: You're never really happy if you don't win, but I suppose second place is as close as you can get. We could maybe have been a few places higher in in qualifying which would have made things easier, but I drove to the maximum and luckily we found the pace in the car that was missing in qualifying. Let's hope I'm happier in Spain.
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Q: After a start to the season which fell short of your high expectations, why did everything come good in Bahrain?
RG: It's no secret that before Bahrain my feeling hasn't been right with the car. It wasn't the chassis, the aero or anything like that, but we took a while to get everything to my liking and that's been frustrating. We managed to put our finger on the issue and I feel much more comfortable now. I really had a good sensation behind the wheel on Sunday in Bahrain, and a podium position at the end of the race was the result. I could put the car more or less where I wanted which is all you want as a driver. Third place was a deserved reward for everyone after all our hard work.
Q: How good was it to get that podium after your tough start to the year?
RG: The race was really enjoyable with a lot of overtaking. There were a couple of tense moments where maybe things got a little too close, but it was a lot of fun! To come from P11 through to the podium is really satisfying. I saw P4 on the board and Paul [Di Resta] was not too far ahead, so I thought "come on, this is the podium, let's go!" I knew I had fresher tyres but it wasn't easy as I had to push but at the same time look after them, which is hard for a driver when you have another car in your sights. Luckily we managed to get past near the end, pull out a small gap and maintain it until the flag!
Q: How do you feel the E21 is evolving?
RG: We've been able to see progress with the lap times so we know that the upgrades being brought in are working. Last year's car was already very competitive - we achieved a total of 10 podiums in 2012 - so it's good to see the team has retained and developed the best performing areas of the 2012 car for the E21. For me, after Bahrain, I'm feeling much more at home with the car and I hope that there will be many successes to come in 2013.
Q: What are your thoughts on the topic of tyre management?
RG: Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying and race strategy. I don't know about others, I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible. Of course, if you drive a certain way or adapt yourself you can get more out of the tyres than if you don't, but that's just part of being a racing driver; you always have to adapt to extract maximum performance.
Q: What will be the key to a good weekend in Spain?
RG: In Barcelona it will be important to qualify well as it will be much harder to overtake than in Bahrain. As a team, this is an area where we can still improve a little bit, but we have some ideas of how to do that and hopefully we'll be able to make the front row.
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