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Ever since the attack on the World Trade Center, we have all heard a lot about "the Professor," the chilling anarchist in Conrad's "The Secret Agent," who walks around with a bomb strapped to himself and one hand on the detonator. Far more attention has been paid to this ruthless fanatic—unsuggestively reprised by Cormac McCarthy as Anton Chigurh, in "No Country for Old Men"—than to Verloc, the harried, soft, pithless entity who is the novel's actual protagonist. But Verloc is more interesting than the Professor because he is so much less confident. The Professor is an arrow; Verloc is a target, helplessly bearing the gouges of the various assaults made on him. He works for the anarchists, but he also works against them, as a double agent; he is despised by his handler at the embassy, and feels bullied into following the diplomat's order to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, a job that he fatally bungles; he is a minor London shopkeeper, who sells pornography under the table; he moves through his shabby domestic existence sluggishly, as if under water.
Verloc is vivid because he is trapped—"with his features swollen and an air of being drugged." The sticky web of accident has caught him. But recent American fiction dealing with Islamic terrorists has shown more interest in the fanatic than in the failure, in resolution than in irresolution, and a certain human complexity has been sacrificed. Two new novels, Peter Carey's "His Illegal Self" (Knopf; $24.95) and Hari Kunzru's "My Revolutions" (Dutton; $25.95), both set in the radical underground of late-sixties and early-seventies agitation, have at their centers characters who find themselves politically trapped. Neither is by an American—Carey is Australian and Kunzru British—and neither is about Islamic terrorists, though both can perhaps be understood as necessary novelistic transferences, displacements from contemporary ideological radicalism. The novels share an interest in the slow rotting of the ideological harvest, and in the way that eventual political failure was birthed by the very exaggeration of political success. "What would freedom look like?" is the recurrent question of Kunzru's book, and the author seems to half enjoy, half lament the inability of any of the agitators and terrorists in the novel to provide a convincing answer.
Carey's often beautiful novel, one of his best recent works, has the bruising tang of all his fiction, in which crooked colloquialism (frequently Australian vernacular), and poetic formality combine. The result is brilliantly vital: the world bulges out of the sentences. A man is described as "not hurrying, but prancy in bare feet." A boy feels "squiffy in the stomach." A beat-up car has a "busted sunken boneless backseat."An Upper East Side matron brings back to her apartment her "powdery friends from the English-Speaking Union." An Australian shack has a veranda "where bats hung like broken rags." When the novel's heroine is unhappy, her mouth turns down: "She didn't know he saw that, the way the whole of her lower face could lose its bones."
One of the secrets of Carey's capabilities as a storyteller is a serious commitment to what is known as free indirect style, or the bending of third-person narrative around the viewpoint of the character who is being described. The sentences above are written in the implied voice of a little boy: it is he who feels squiffy, he who finds his grandmother's friends powdery, he who thinks that a downturned mouth looks as if it had lost its bones. A child is here decoding the universe, and the novelist expects the reader to decode that child's inventive solutions. It is characteristic of Carey to throw us into the depths of his sentences and let us swim for ourselves. On the second page of his novel, we encounter this:
Grandma Selkirk was what they call an Upper East Side woman—cheekbones, tailored gray hair—but that was not what she called herself. I am the last bohemian, she liked to say, to the boy, particularly, meaning that no one told her what to do, at least not since Pa Selkirk had thrown the Buddha out the window and gone to live with the Poison Dwarf.
We know next to nothing about the boy or his grandmother, and absolutely nothing about why a Buddha was thrown out the window or who the Poison Dwarf is—but we are caught by a voice, and held for the next two hundred pages.
The boy is Che Selkirk, given his provoking first name by his privileged, radical parents, members of S.D.S., who have disappeared into the underground and are among America's most wanted domestic terrorists. He is almost eight in 1972, when the novel opens, has never known his father, and has not seen his mother, Susan Selkirk, since he was two. The formidable Grandma Selkirk, who insists on calling him Jay, has been raising him, and has secured for her grandson the "Victorian" consolations of bourgeois comfort in Manhattan and a summer house in upstate New York, on Kenoza Lake: "It would always be summer, in his memory, the roadsides dense with goldenrod and the women from the village coming to steal the white hydrangeas just like their mothers stole before them. The geese would be heading up to Canada and the Boeings spinning their white contrails across the cold blue sky—loneliness and hope, expanding like paper flowers in water."
Everything changes when Anna Xenos, nicknamed Dial, turns up one day at Grandma Selkirk's apartment, on East Sixty-second Street, to collect Che for a meeting with his mother. Dial was the boy's nanny when he was a baby, and she and Susan were Radcliffe students together. Permitted to take the boy for an hour, she follows increasingly obscure commands from Susan and "the Movement," and ends up first in Philadelphia and then in California. Che, having no visual memory of his mother, assumes that Dial is she, and a painful irony is set in motion. What Carey calls "the dark strength of the misunderstanding" will persist for more than half the book, because Dial does not have the courage to disenchant this "lovely little boy," with his "perfect little boy legs, falling socks, banged-up shin and expensive sweater made from merino sheep, the face, the father's face, dear Jesus."
What is fine about the book is the careful fidelity that Carey shows to Dial and Che. There is, of course, not one large misunderstanding but a hive of smaller misunderstandings, and Carey briskly evokes them. Again, his use of free indirect style makes him at once daring and economical—a line or two of battered error will do better than paragraphs of perfected comprehension. For instance, when Dial takes Che on the subway, where he has never been, to Grand Central, Carey captures the shock of it all—the cars swaying and screeching, "thick teams of brutal cables showing in the windowed dark," the shuttle train "painted like a warrior." It is all done in a few short paragraphs, which culminate in this: "He was underground, as Cameron in 5D had predicted. They will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here." Cameron Fox, we discover a few pages later, is a neighbor, "the son of the art dealers in 5D. He had been expelled from Groton on account of the hair he would not cut, maybe something else as well." The novelty of the actual Manhattan underground and the childish fondling of the glamorous word "underground," about which Che has heard so much, wonderfully meet in a single, uncomprehending sentence that is both funny and forlorn.
The book is in general funny and forlorn, because it is a chronicle of mishaps and accidents and peculiar will-lessness—it has that Verloc-like "air of being drugged." Anna Xenos, a scholarship girl from South Boston, should not be running across the country with a boy whom she has essentially kidnapped. She has a new job as an assistant professor at Vassar, and, besides, she has never really liked the posh, fanatical Susan Selkirk: "Crumbelina, Dial had called her, secretly of course. Crumbelina had smeared butter across the countertops in Somerville. She could not make a bed, let alone a revolution." She hates the bourgeois stiffness of Che's grandmother. She is loyal to the Movement, and takes her orders from it, but doesn't really know why, save out of curiosity. The Movement has, in effect, set her up. She has been used to abduct the child. But in Philadelphia she discovers that Susan Selkirk has blown herself up, and suddenly she, Dial, becomes the boy's sole guardian.
She cannot return the boy to his grandmother, because she will be arrested for abduction; and she has encouraged the boy to think that he will be reunited with his father. So the two go on the run, and Dial finds herself joining Che's father on the F.B.I.'s list of wanted fugitives. She laments the hole she has climbed into. She feels like a "sucker." The novel burrows into the separate and often separated perspectives of this strange dyad, Dial and Che. For Che, the flight is a drastic adventure, in which the complications internally suffered and pondered by Dial are boyishly simplified: happy that he is finally with his mother, he waits every day to be united with his father. For him, the best thing about the trip across America is the motels. But everything is ultimately confusing, and the boy must become expert at his own kind of detection: "Plans have changed, she said, getting all busy with a cigarette."
"His Illegal Self" is written in very short chapters, some as brief as a single page. The action is tightly edited, and the sentences jerk us forward like a leash. There are no quotation marks. Carey needs this never-apologize-never-explain form, not least because he decides to send his errant couple to Australia, not quite credibly. (Why not Mexico?) But Australia only improves his already vital prose, and gives him a new source of comedy. Dial and Che end up in a wild area north of Brisbane, where a hippie commune runs a collection of shacks, "up a dirt track at the asshole of the earth." The locals don't care much for the American interlopers, and the American adult does not even know that Australia is involved in the Vietnam War. "She had no idea of what Australia even was. She would not have imagined a tomato would grow in Australia, or a cucumber. She could not have named a single work of Australian literature or music." A semi-savage dropout named Trevor looks after them, and with his help a local lawyer, Phil Warriner, is deputed to travel to the States, to communicate with Che's grandmother about the boy's safe return. But Dial's first sight of the way-out Phil is not inspiring (and, indeed, he proves a useless emissary). He insists on removing all his clothes: "Phil sat his rain-wet backside on the dusty floor and took out a yellow pad and asked them questions and Dial looked him steadily in the eyes, anything to avoid the penis which was peeking between his crossed legs like a mushroom."
For Che, the Australian bush is novel and familiar—he becomes again the explorer at Kenoza Lake. Carey has always been a quick-eyed observer of the child's world: this is the energy that propels sections of novels like "Bliss" and "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith," and which revels in the boyish escapades of Ned Kelly, the Australian outlaw, in "True History of the Kelly Gang." Through Che, Carey writes something like an exile's ode to Australia (Carey has lived for nearly twenty years in Manhattan), to the "rabbit's fur cloud" and "the weird broken teeth of the Glass House Mountains shoving out of the prickly bush below the velvet sky" and the cry of the Australian magpie, "like nothing else on earth. Who was it who said like an angel gargling in a crystal vase?"
Carey's novel is determinedly unpolitical—to a political degree. It may appear to harbor a conservative disdain for the spoiled ambitions of nineteen-seventies radicalism. It is, after all, a novel about not a would-be victor but an absolute victim, and a very young one at that. The pressure—inherent, in some ways, in Carey's loving notation of nature—to contrast natural beauty and longevity with ephemeral, venal human machinations has a reactionary history (it is called "pastoral"). But the novel does not feel like an indictment; it hugs the flanks of its characters and their largely unearned vicissitudes. A brief book, it leaves Dial and Che dangling in 1973, and offers no sorrowful or complacent ideological update. This was then, the book merely says, and what a lot of madness there was, some of it real and some of it manufactured: "She had wild hair but she was not wild and no matter what Time magazine said about her so-called generation she had only made love to one man in her life."
My Revolutions" is dense and accumulative where "His Illegal Self" is fleeting and photographic, and, unlike Carey, Hari Kunzru is explicitly interested in the connections between our current and former ideological selves. His subtle title refers not only to the fervor of the late nineteen-sixties but, more searchingly, to the ideological compromises that quondam radicals have made in the past few years. His narrator, Chris Carver, has been living a life of quiet deception in a small English town, under the name Michael Frame. Thirty years before, he was a soldier in a radical cell committed to the overturning of British society. He eventually broke with the faction, alienated by its willingness to commit indiscriminate violence, and informed on his allies. One day, an unwelcome acquaintance, Miles Bridgeman, hails him in the street. Bridgeman first met Carver in prison, after a demonstration in 1968; thirty years later, he is the possessor of a great deal of sensitive information, and Carver, who has a wife and a stepdaughter, as well as his assumed identity, will do almost anything to keep Bridgeman quiet about the past.
It takes the rest of the novel, which moves seamlessly between the London of the late nineteen-sixties and England and France on the lip of the millennium, to show us that Bridgeman was a secret agent of a kind, and that he is prepared to blackmail Carver with exposure to get what he wants. Another Conrad novel, "Under Western Eyes," perhaps sits behind Kunzru's. Bridgeman could well say to Carver what the terrifying Councillor Mikulin says to Razumov, the student who gets caught up in revolutionary activities, and is then used as a double agent by the Russian government: "You are going away free as air, but you shall end by coming back to us." Unlike Carey's Dial, Chris Carver was a true believer, at least for a while. Yet it seems that he can never escape the group he once belonged to, even if the ambassador of his nemesis is not a member of the group but a murky figure on its fringes.
"My Revolutions" is a strange, involving book, powerful in its utterly unembarrassed relation to the mundane. At first, one would like it to be a little more embarrassed: the prose seems unwilling to bestir itself. Here Kunzru describes a march on the American Embassy, in Grosvenor Square:
Up close, coming toward you, police horses are bigger than you could imagine. Facing the metal-shod hoofs, the jangling harnesses, wild eyes, and flaring nostrils, you know how it must have felt to be a serf in a medieval battle. The wall of flour-spattered blue tunics in front of the embassy parted and the horses charged into us, kicking up clods of turf, their riders standing up in the stirrups to add force to their baton blows. There was no pretense in that charge. It was about unleashing as much violence as possible. People were thrashing about on the ground. I saw a girl trapped beneath a horse, desperately trying to cover her head with her hands. The horse reared up, almost unseating its rider, a red-faced sergeant with a toothbrush moustache.
This is not really vivid enough, and the medieval aspect of horses is a too familiar picture, not helped by the fact that Kunzru returns to the idea twenty pages later. ("Then they charged us with the horses and the scene turned medieval.") The red-faced sergeant with his toothbrush mustache belongs with the judge who puts Chris away for six weeks after he is arrested: "a lantern-jawed man with a drinker's swollen nose." And they belong, in turn, with background filler of this order: "There were coffee bars with rows of scooters parked outside. The amplified clatter of beat bands punched its way out of cellars."
"My Revolutions" does not have the brittle elegance of Dana Spiotta's spectacular novel about American radicalism of the nineteen-seventies, "Eat the Document." But the novel is narrated by Chris Carver, who is nothing if not ordinary, and I suspect that Kunzru is using his narrator to sink the reader into the unaesthetic here and now. Kunzru's first novel, "The Impressionist," a kind of postcolonial picaresque, showed that he can do more or less what he wants with language, as a wonderful little surge of bleak precision, late in "My Revolutions," demonstrates: a horrid English café is described as displaying "prosthetic-pink iced buns lying like hospital patients under the glass of the counter."
Peter Carey wants to paint the world; Kunzru wants to lay it bare, and the great success of his probing and finally moving book is the way he rebuilds the late nineteen-sixties, piece by irregular piece. His narrator is as bland as Evelyn Waugh's Charles Ryder, but is properly stripped of the distraction of Waugh's "fine writing" (which, awkwardly, is Ryder's, too, since he narrates "Brideshead Revisited"). Moreover, one of Kunzru's themes is that everything looks secondhand to Carver. As he watches the police in Grosvenor Square, "everything seemed to be happening at a distance, on a screen." When he tries to visualize what the future will look like, everything he sees "looked like an advertisement." The leader of his terrorist cell, Sean, warns him, "Always stay in your movie."
This unflustered embrace of banality results in a historical portrait of London that must be unparalleled in contemporary British fiction. The wildness, the fanaticism, the sex and drugs are all there, of course, and are familiar from memoirs and film, but much more unusual are the drab, comic, fugitive facts, like the West London squats, the unheated rooms, the hangers-on and the spongers, and the foggy, inchoate ambition: "Something was happening in the world and, whatever it was, we were going to be in the middle of it."
Chris Carver's group decides that it must bomb strategic buildings, like banks, a construction company with a contract to build new prisons, and, eventually, the unlovely obelisk-like Post Office Tower, in Central London. There is a very funny scene in which Chris and his sometime lover, Anna, pose as respectable suburbanites at the fancy revolving restaurant on the top floor of the tower. They have a bomb in a bag, but before they can plant it they must eat dinner. It is precisely in character that Chris should angrily obsess about the menu, which he deems "phoney and French, snobbishly printed without translation. Screw you if you don't know the difference between consommé au paillettes and crème à la reine. All the luxuries can be had at the top of the tower."
This is a novel of considerable political subtlety. One of its persistent concerns is essentially theological; that is to say, what will Heaven look like? This is the worldly eschatology of utopianism, not the messianism of religious believers, but the necessary category of Heaven is shared by both secularists and religionists. And no one can answer Chris's question. Finally, near the end of the book, Anna bursts out, "Can't you see . . . that the future's not for us? . . . Look at how we live. . . . We're damaged people. There would be no place for us in the world we're trying to build." It is the saddest passage in the book, and one of devastating insight.
Karl Kraus famously called the historian a prophet facing backward. Kunzru's historical novel looks both ways, too. Thirty years after the events he is recalling for us, Chris Carver is still radical, and not at all post-ideological, despite his cloaked rustication in the mild English provinces. But perhaps the Labour Government of late-twentieth-century Britain, some of whose members once drifted in and out of the same radical world as Chris, is indeed now post-ideological. When Miles Bridgeman wallows in the end of history, and chirps, "Ideology's dead now. Everyone pretty much agrees on how to run things," the novel seems to vibrate with an anger that is Kunzru's own, miraculously trained on an era before he was born. ♦


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Heading South
What makes this movie fascinating is how it manages to use physical desire as a metaphor, placing intimate relationships under an emotional magnifying glass to somehow examine the prevailing political and social problems then plaguing Haiti. In addition, the picture represents a rare exploration of pleasure purely from an older woman's point-of-view.
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Fifty five year old Ellen (Charlotte Rampling) teaches French Literature at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, while Sue (Louise Portal) is a successful businesswoman who manages a warehouse in Canada. And 48 year-old Brenda (Karen Young), a recently-divorced housewife from Savannah, Georgia, is just trying to forget an ex-husband who had never been able to satisfy her.
The only reason these formerly-frustrated females' paths cross is because they happen to be staying at the same hotel in Haiti, a spinster's sexual utopia where post-menopausal white women vacation in order to indulge their every carnal fantasy with young black men less than a third their age. In fact, Brenda, who now describes herself as a "bitch in heat,� openly admits to having her first orgasm ever on the beach there with a 15 year-old boy-toy.
Never pausing to question the ethics of exploiting black skin in this fashion, these hedonists approach the country's impoverished inhabitants as if a commodity available on a quid pro quo basis. Invariably, the relationships sprouting up all around the spa are between wealthy white women offering money, maternalism and a temporary upper-class status, and handsome, eager-to-please natives who, in return, deferentially answer every booty call during their period of purchased companionship.
This is the premise underpinning Heading South, a most thought-provoking film directed by Laurent Cantet (Time Out), a historical drama set in the late Seventies against the backdrop of the instability of the regime of Baby Doc Duvalier. Based on the novel "La chair du maître� by Danny LaFerriere, the film is far more sophisticated than your typical Jungle Fever flick.
What makes this movie fascinating is how it manages to use physical desire as a metaphor, placing intimate relationships under an emotional magnifying glass to somehow examine the prevailing political and social problems then plaguing Haiti. In addition, the picture represents a rare exploration of pleasure purely from an older woman's point-of-view.
When, for instance, our spoiled, horny heroines' snobbish sense of entitlement has them competing with each other for the affections of Legba (Menothy Cesar), the most prized of the gigolos, it is easy to observe that their possessiveness has nothing to do with love, but rather reflects their own racism and a contempt for the lover they profess to adore.
Meanwhile, as they remain oblivious of the civil unrest simmering just on the other side of their gated resort, it is only a matter of time before the fallout of colonialism finally comes to contaminate even their erotically-charged oasis. An island paradise morphs into a frightening nightmare, but not before Ellen, Brenda and Sue get their grooves back.
Excellent (4 stars)
In French and English with subtitles.
Running time: 105 minutes
Studio: Shadow Distribution
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The Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 include: Petrus Forestarius, Jordan le Forester; and Nicholas le Forester. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6) There was also a Shropshire family of this name, who held custody of part of the Wrekin forest. An early record of this family lists a Hugh Forester as a witness 1187.
As a trade name, the family were traditional "officers made by letters patent under the great seal, and sworn to preserve vert and venison in the forest; and to attend upon the wild beasts within his bailiwick; to attach offenders there either in Vert or Venison, and to preserve the same at the courts of the Forest." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
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Juniors are supposed to be quality backups, not headlining the 2003 Tribune All-State Football Team.
But in a rare season when seven such underclassmen were named to the first team, none had more impact than Maine South quarterback Sean Price, Niles West breakaway back Rashard Mendenhall and St. Rita running back Wade Weyer. Price, who already has broken the state record for completions in a season with 321, is in range of three more records when the Hawks face Lockport and second-team All-State QB Jake Christensen on Saturday in the Class 8A title game.
Like Price, Christensen is another junior experiencing a breakout season.
"Every year, you have juniors who want to beat out seniors for the starting spots," Price said. "Juniors always want more playing time, but coaches usually go with the seniors because they have more experience."
Price started five games as a sophomore before breaking his collarbone. He was hoping to pass for 2,500 yards and 25 touchdowns--goals he surpassed a mere six weeks into the season.
He'll take the field in Champaign having completed 321-of-479 passes for 4,407 yards and 53 touchdowns. His 10th attempt will surpass former Riverside-Brookfield QB Tim Brasic's 488 in 2001, and 233 yards will pass Brasic's 4,644 in that same season. Current Illinois quarterback Jon Beutjer of Wheaton Warrenville South set the state record for TD passes with 60 in 1998.
"I never expected anything like this," Price said. "It helps to have playmakers like All-Staters Alberto DeCicco (99 catches, 1,140 yards, 10 TDs) and Mike Labus (84 catches, 1,083 yards, 18 TDs). They turn a 5-yard pass into a 50-yard touchdown and make me look good."
Mendenhall knows exactly who made him look good this season as the 5-foot-11-inch, 215-pound gamebreaker rushed for 1,832 yards and 19 touchdowns, had four TD catches and threw two TD passes.
"I owe most of it to my older brother Walter," Mendenhall said. "He would run the ball down the field, get defenses to focus on him, and then I would run a counter and score the touchdown. He did all the dirty work."
As a tandem the Mendenhalls were the most dangerous offensive punch in the state, and both have accepted scholarship offers from coach Ron Turner at Illinois.
Weyer was named the Catholic League Blue offensive most valuable player after rushing for 2,160 yards and 26 touchdowns. He led St. Rita to the 6A semifinals with 866 yards and 11 TDs in four playoff games.
"My linemen and my fullback are the reasons why I did so well this year," Weyer said. "Our quarterback and the receivers also kept defenses honest. I have no idea how to top this next year."
Barrington's Dan Doering was positioned in his Wisconsin hunting spot earlier in the week when his dad, Rick, rumbled by in a truck proclaiming his son had made All-State--scaring off any nearby deer.
"It's an honor to make it as a junior," said Doering, a 6-6, 280-pound offensive lineman who already has attracted scholarship offers from Wisconsin, Iowa and Northwestern and is expecting written overtures from Michigan and Notre Dame in the spring.
"I worked hard on the weights in the off-season and began filling out. I was 6-5, 225 as a sophomore.
"I don't think I'm done filling out. I work out with trainer Mike Guttone, who used to work with the Bulls at the Berto Center. I could easily be over 300 pounds by next season."
Doering, rated the No. 2 junior offensive lineman in the Midwest by Joliet recruiting analyst Chris Pool, is anything but complacent.
"That high rating, I don't believe it," Doering said. "When I look at film, I think I'm the worst player on the field. All I see are ways I can get better."
Junior defensive lineman Cody Cielinski of Downers Grove North knocked around opposing quarterbacks all season, registering 13 sacks as the Trojans' defense racked up 50.
Joliet Catholic's junior middle linebacker Chris Jeske went about his work without much fanfare, making 105 solo tackles while more heralded All-State teammates Jim Jadron and Bobby Buchanan seized the headlines.
Jadron, a 6-5, 295-pound offensive lineman whom teammates describe as a "man mountain," and Buchanan, a cornerback and younger brother of Atlanta Falcons defensive back Ray Buchanan, will join Jeske as the Hilltoppers face Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin in Saturday's 5A title game.
"Making All-State is something I've been working for my whole career," Buchanan said. "Being named as a defensive back is great because that's where I'll play in college at Illinois."
Harper offensive lineman Roland Martin has narrowed his college choices to Tennessee, Oklahoma, Michigan State and Iowa, and admits No. 1 Oklahoma's dominant season is quite appealing.
"It would be exciting to play for a team like that," said the 6-6 Martin, who has pared down his body from 360 pounds to 320 in hopes of increasing his endurance.
Santino Panico became an All-Stater the old-fashioned way--with his performances on the field. Held back by a limited role as a junior, Panico burst onto the scene this year as two-way standout.
The Libertyville senior has more than 2,000 all-purpose yards and 22 touchdowns and is the Wildcats' third-leading tackler on defense with two interceptions, four fumble recoveries and 18 pass breakups.
"I've always had big dreams for myself," said Panico, who will lead Libertyville into Saturday's 7A title clash against Oswego and All-State offensive lineman Sean Staffeldt.
"I had no life last summer, working out three times a day. Just work harder than everyone else and keep believing in yourself."
Along with Panico, the All-State defense features playmakers such as Thornton defensive lineman Tim Jamison, linebackers Kyle Williams of Bolingbrook, Chris Patterson of Hubbard and Sam Carson of Downers Grove South and defensive backs Kwame Agyeman of Lake Park and Nate Lyles of Hubbard.
The 6-3, 235-pound Jamison was virtually unstoppable at defensive end, racking up 18 sacks along with 14 other tackles for losses, forcing five fumbles, blocking three kicks and knocking down 12 passes. According to Joliet analyst Tim O'Halloran, Jamison is leaning to Purdue over Wisconsin, Michigan State and Iowa.
Williams, who has made an oral commitment to Iowa, is rated the No. 2 linebacker in the country by Rivals.com and SuperPrep magazine. Patterson, who will be playing for coach Bob Stoops at Oklahoma next season, is rated No. 11 by SuperPrep while the nationally rated Carson will choose from among Illinois, Michigan State, Northwestern, Louisville and Indiana.
Lyles, the top-rated defensive back in the state, is getting a late recruiting rush from Michigan. Virginia, Notre Dame, Michigan State, Iowa and Boston College have made offers. Agyeman is considering Illinois, Oregon, Colorado, Kansas, Louisville and Indiana.
Another Public Leaguer, Simeon's 6-3 wide receiver Bryant Creamer, has a chance to equal a state record in Friday's Prep Bowl. Creamer has 67 catches for 1,297 yards and 23 TDs, and he needs three TD catches to tie the season record set by ex-Wheaton Warrenville South star Jon Schweighardt in 1998.
Juniors are supposed to be quality backups, not headlining the 2003 Tribune All-State Football Team.


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Signs of the Coming Swell Begin to Show for the Final Days of Competition
Day 5 of the Reef ISA World Surfing Games showed positive signs of the coming swell. As the event approaches the final days of competition, the National Teams face critical rounds that will determine the final positions in the chase for the Gold Medals.
Once again, competition had a delayed start, due to the extreme low tide, to allow for optimal conditions for the world's best surfers.
Today featured a mix of Men's and Women's surfing action in both Qualifying and Repechage. The Repechage is a do-or-die round in the ISA's patented double elimination format. If an athlete places 3rd or 4th in a Repechage heat, they are out of the competition.
At this point, the competition had narrowed to about half of the original competitors, making every heat exciting.
"Competitors are not holding back as we approach the final days of the Reef ISA World Surfing Games," remarked ISA President Fernando Aguerre. "Every heat counts and the National Teams cannot afford to lose too many surfers if they hope to be World Champions. The surf and the competition are heating up so don't miss any of the live webcast all the way from beautiful Santa Catalina, Panama."
The action began with the Men's, where local Jean Carlos "Oli" Gonzales had one of the best performances of the round. Gonzales, with a big air reverse and critical turns, posted an impressive 15.83 heat score, handily defeating Davey Brand (RSA, 11.37), Gabriel Villaran (PER, 10.20) and Nahuel Amalfitano (ARG, 9.93).
The Panamanian also scored one of the highest single waves of the day, with a 9.00 for an amazing air reverse, landing perfectly right before the rocks at the point in Santa Catalina.
Brazil's Alan Jhones had the highest total heat score of the round earning 17.83, defeating Leandro Usuna (ARG, 10.07), Adrian Rodriguez (MEX, 9.17) and Alejandro Moreda (PUR,4.60). Jhones only rode two waves in the heat to seal his win, with individual scores of 9.50 and 8.33 points each.
The Woman's heat of the day featured South Africa's Tanika Hoffman, who with an 11.53 narrowly defeated, by only .03, Japan's Nao Omura 11.50 and sending home Thandi Tipene (NZL, 5.77) and Evelin Centeno (SAL, 4.33).
Other Woman's standouts of the day included Valeria Sole (PER), Faye Zoetmulder, Enilda Alonso (PAN), Maria Rojas (VEN) and Barbara Segatto (BRA), all winning their respective heats and advancing to the next round.
To wrap up the day, Men's Repechage took place as a storm was approaching. The wind calmed down making conditions great to close out the day.
Peru's Miguel Tudela had the best score of this Round, posting 15.83, defeating David Van Zyl (RSA, 8.67), his teammate Gabriel Villarán (PER, 8.17) and Sean Peggs (NZL, 7.97).
The elimination of Villaran along with the 13-times National Panamanian Champion, Gary Saavedra, were the upsets of the day. Saavedra, in a close, low scoring heat was defeated by Maximilliano Cross (CHI, 5.46) and Israel Barona (ECU, 5.27).
For a full list of today's results, click here- http://isawsg.com/results/
The 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games resumes tomorrow with The Morning Show at 11:10am (Panama time) hosted by Chris Ernst, featuring Costa Rica's Leilani McGonagle and Mexico's Dylan Southworth.
Following that, the competition will feature:
Open Men's Repechage Round 4
Open Women's Repechage Round 3
Open Men's Qualifying Round 4
Open Women's Qualifying 3
Open Men's Repechage 5
Open Women's Repechage Round 4
Open Men's Repechage 6
The live webcast of the entire championship is available on http://isawsg.com/
Here is the schedule for Day 6:
Friday, 11am call—Santa Catalina, Panama
Friday, 9am West Coast USA
Friday, 6pm Western Europe/South Africa
Saturday, 3am Sydney, Australia
Saturday, 4am Auckland, New Zealand
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. It was originally founded as the International Surfing Federation in 1964 and has been running the Open Division World Championship since 1964, the World Junior Surfing Championship since 1980, the World Masters Surfing Championship since 2007, the World Bodyboard Championship since 2011, the Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival in China, and the World Standup Paddle (SUP) and Paddleboard Championship beginning in 2012. The ISA also sanctions the World Kneeboard Titles and the World Tandem Surfing Championship, and will launch the World Longboard Championship in 2013. ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies of 73 countries on five continents. Its headquarters are located in La Jolla, California. It is presided over by Fernando Aguerre (Argentina), first elected President in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro and re-elected seven times since. The ISA's four Vice-Presidents are Alan Atkins (AUS), Karín Sierralta (PER), Debbie Beacham (USA) and Layne Beachley (AUS).
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MIAMI —A cool ocean breeze cut the day's humidity. Dresses up to there in hot pink sequins and acid yellows colored the sidewalks. It was around midnight on a Thursday in Miami's South Beach neighborhood, and the evening was just getting started.
I was in town for a couple days in February and was determined to have a "real" Miami night life experience — whatever that meant. The clubs here are more intimate than those in L.A. or Las Vegas, with some bars nothing more than a DJ, lights and liquor in a small box-like room.
I was pleasantly surprised to find newer bars that specialize in artisan cocktails and take pride in not having someone sift through the crowd at the door. There were too many choices for there to be a "scene" at any of them, and depending on your mood and whom you wanted to meet, there was something for everyone. It was a blur of neon lights, vodka sodas and exhausted ear drums. Here's a rundown of a weekend nightclub blitz:
Vibe: It's a high-energy, ultra-small slice of New York City tucked inside the James Royal Palm Hotel. Cocktail servers dressed in tasteful lingerie weave through the dance floor with strong drinks, and lights spin with the music to illuminate corners of the room for seconds at a time. People pool in the sunken dance floor while observers around the perimeter lean in and bob their heads.
Overheard: Aggressive dance-inducing electronica.
Crowd: Newly opened but already a hot spot with locals, international travelers and visiting New Yorkers. A diverse mix of well-dressed young men in slacks and girls in cocktail dresses rub elbows with dancing queens in minis.
Highlights: Raised wall panels are covered with X-ray film of broken bones, and if you look up, you can see your reflection in the gold mirrored ceiling.
Conclusion: An intimate club with all the necessities, and a good alternative to bigger venues. Fine for a special occasion or to dust off your dancing shoes and let loose.
Info: 1545 Collins Ave.; (786) 224-7201, http://www.emmgroupinc.com. Open nightly 11 p.m.-4 a.m. Drinks $14-$20.
Broken Shaker
Vibe: Boho chic. The outdoor space is filled with mix-and-match lawn furniture, a pingpong table, a swimming pool and a tiki bar. There's also a small indoor bar wallpapered in a pink and gray floral.
Overheard: Pink Floyd and an eclectic mix of '70s rock and modern tracks.
Crowd: Guys in board shorts and flip-flops wait to order drinks next to girls in sequin skirts or shorts and heels. An international crowd tends to wander down from the hostel upstairs; French, Spanish, Russian and Italian can be overheard.
Highlights: Its herb garden provides ingredients for the more than 100 homemade syrups used in its cocktails. Bartenders Giu and Virginia shake drinks behind the bar as witchcraft skulls look over their shoulders.
Conclusion: If you want to grab a good cocktail but don't feel like clubbing, this spot is mellow but still trendy.
Info: 2727 Indian Creek Drive; (305) 531-2727, thebrokenshaker.com. Inside the Freehand Miami Hostel. Open 5 p.m.-2 a.m. weekdays, 2 p.m.-2 a.m. weekends. Specialty drinks $11.
Vibe: You need to know someone to get in. Bouncers picked people out of the large crowd at random, with no preference shown for girls over guys. We arrived about 1 a.m. and hung around for 45 minutes before we gave up and went elsewhere.
Overheard: People vowing to never return and those convinced they could get in if they could just talk to a doorman.
Crowd: An endless supply of young girls with long manicured nails, short skirts and 4-inch heels and men in collared shirts spilled out of Range Rovers and onto the sidewalk.
Highlights: A lineup of famous DJs such as Calvin Harris and Kascade.
Conclusion: Go early and make sure you're on a list. It had that big Vegas feel and could be a fun night out, if you get in.
Info: 136 Collins Ave.; (305) 479-4426, http://www.story.wanttickets.com. Open 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Drink prices vary.
Rec Room
Vibe: The palm trees, circular booths, DJ surrounded by vinyl records, old-school Igloo lunch box, Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" album and vintage wrestler figurines make you feel as if you're at a house party in a friend of a friend's basement.
Overheard: Depeche Mode's "I Promise You I Will" and Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes."
Crowd: Girls in floral sundresses raised full drinks above their heads and danced on top of their seats; guys sat cross-legged in the corners sipping their beverages; and a group of partyers in the middle sang along to every song.
Highlights: The attention paid to the décor: You're transported to another time, and you can't help but feel a little groovy.
Conclusion: This place, in the Gale hotel, has real character and deserves a clientele that wants something more than an average night out.
Info: 1690 Collins Ave.; (786) 975-2599, http://www.galehotel.com/nightlife. Open from 11 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays-Saturdays. Specialty drinks $12-$16.
Vibe: The Vegas Strip — Miami style — at the Delano Hotel. Low, tiered chandeliers make it upscale, and the brown leather seats make it comfortable and intimate. You're in a dark, subterranean space, the music is playing and the sun may be up when you finally make your way outside.
Overheard: Classic club songs and top 40 hits.
Crowd: A diverse mash-up looking for different things. Older men in white shirts enjoyed their pretty cocktail server and their bottle service, younger kids danced in groups and stragglers sat at the bar watching the action.
Highlights: The bar had actual stools and was an actual place to sit and have a drink rather than a place to stand and elbow your way to the bartender.
Conclusion: A mega-club feel without the mega venue. Good, stiff drinks, good music and a good crowd.
Info: 1685 Collins Ave.; (305) 924- 4071, http://www.delano-hotel.com. Open 11 p.m.- 5 a.m. Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. Drinks $15-20.
Regent Cocktail Club
Vibe: An old-school lounge, also in the Gale hotel, where you're meant to sit back in a luxurious leather booth and sip a cocktail. The music is low, and it's easy to have a conversation with someone next to you or even across the table. Bartenders in tuxes make drinks behind the dark wood-paneled bar. I half expected to spot Frank Sinatra in the corner.
Overheard: A live band plays soothing tunes.
Crowd: All ages: Some were grabbing a quick drink before a night out; others, older and more casually dressed, made the retro bar their night's final destination.
Highlights: Well-made classic cocktails.
Conclusion: Ideal if you want to enjoy cocktails and good company.
Info: 1690 Collins Ave.; (786) 975-2599, http://www.galehotel.com/nightlife. Open daily 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Specialty drinks $12-$16.
Vibe: The doorman gives you an expected hard time and asks if you're going to buy a bottle before he lets you in. A disco ball and neon light-trimmed booths send shafts of rainbow-colored light around the room. You'll use all yours senses in this place at the W Hotel.
Overheard: Serious head-bobbing, body-shaking dance music.
Crowd: College kids to mid-twentysomethings in tennis shoes, hats and jeans.
Highlights: The people-watching and the two rooms. The front room is where you can sit and have a drink and people-watch; the real clubbing happens farther back in the larger room.
Conclusion: The place to go if you want the classic nightclub experience until the wee hours. Get a group together and splurge on a bottle to ensure a spot to rest your feet.
Info: 2201 Collins Ave.; (305) 938-3130, http://www.wallmiami.com. Open 11p.m.-4 a.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Drink prices vary.


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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Lunchbots bento: super quick little lunch
In our Duo Lunchbots box was the following for my little lady on her way to preschool:
- hummus sandwich
- fruit leather
- cheddar cheese (hacked quickly into bite-sized pieces) ;-)
- Goldfish crackers
- strawberries and grapes
The fruit leather was already cut into cute shapes and left sealed in the pantry. I will often cut a few strips into shapes when I have time to kill so that when I don't have extra time (like this day when I was in a big big hurry!) I can just grab what I need quickly. Adding a "cute element" to a bento lunch doesn't need to be a time consuming task!
This bento was whipped together in 5 minutes. That included the time it took for me to wash the strawberries and grapes (which I do thoroughly with Fit fruit/veggie wash, so that takes about a full minute of time), and hunting down a new bag of Goldfish from our supply pantry in the laundry room after finding the kitchen canister empty. ;-)
Five minutes from start to finish to pack a waste-free bento lunch to go. It is time well spent. :)
14 comments:
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
I like this container, I think it would be a good size for DD. Is the sandwich a whole sandwich (2 halves stacked?) or just half?
- August 24, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Hi Melissa (nice name!) - the Lunchbots isn't deep enough to hold two sandwich halves. This is just one half sandwich.
- August 24, 2010 at 2:06 PM
- Mom_Of_Three said... [Reply to comment]
How do you keep the fruit leather from drying out? I always have that problem if I try to cut it ahead and store it.
Cute bento for being put together so fast.
- August 24, 2010 at 2:15 PM
- Tina said... [Reply to comment]
I have to ask what you do with the "extra" you have left after cutting the food into shapes? I have sandwich cutters for my ds's sandwiches b/c OMG if you give him crusts...the dog gets those.
- August 24, 2010 at 3:17 PM
- slushygirl said... [Reply to comment]
I have never made fruit leather. Do you have a recipe on here?
- August 24, 2010 at 6:52 PM
I Love your blog. I found it by accident a few weeks back & daily now. I am curious if your bentos are just a lunch for your kids or if it is a lunch & snack from the same box? You mentioned this one is for your preschooler. My daughter's in preschool as well & I could see this being her lunch & two snacks.
- August 24, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
mom of three - I keep open the packages down the seem and keep the fruit leather in the package and then seal in a ziptop bag. I think the ziptop bag is necessary here. I've tried just keeping it small Lock & Lock box, but it dries out. There's just no way to get all the extra air out of the bag!
slushygirl - I don't make the fruit leather, I buy it. Right now my favorite is the Archer Farms (Target brand). It's $3 for a box of ten strips (often on sale for $2) - comes in many flavor choices - and is organic!
livelovelaughgocrazy (phew! what a name! :)) - Hi! Most of the time what you see is lunch for my kids. It's rare I pack a lunch and snacks in the same container...usually I only do that with a Laptop Lunches lunch. This one, the Lunchbots today, was one lunch (and a small one at that!) for my daughter. She has a big appetite. ;-)
- August 24, 2010 at 9:28 PM
- Sherri said... [Reply to comment]
Melissa, where do you get the little tortilla-like shell that the goldfish are in? And does you DD know to eat that as well and does she eat it plain? I have a 3 yo daughter and I love your site for ideas for her lunches! Thanks! :)
- August 24, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Hello Sherri! I had to giggle a little at your question - that is not a tortilla shell, it's a silicone cup! Like a muffin cup, but this one is all ruffly and cuter. :)
However, I think you are definitely onto something with the tortilla shell! That would be awesome. And I'm sure that my daughter WOULD eat it plain, she's eats practically everything. :)
- August 24, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- Fluffy said... [Reply to comment]
Hi there! I've been reading your blog for a while now and I recently started to blog about bentos (in french) and I just tagged you! It's here: http://lalicornemangeusedarcsenciel.blogspot.com/2010/08/je-me-suis-fait-taguee_24.html
IF you have some time, you can link 10 blogs too :) (or not!).
Take care!
- August 24, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Sherri said... [Reply to comment]
Oops! That is funny! :) I guess I mis-read something in one of your older posts! But that would be an idea....
- August 25, 2010 at 5:16 AM
- Giggly Girls said... [Reply to comment]
I was going to ask what fruit leather you use but I see you've already answered it. That's our favorite brand.
- August 25, 2010 at 6:40 AM
- Jenn @ Delicious Ambiguity said... [Reply to comment]
Hi Sherri,
Just wanted to let you know that I love your blog and I featured it today:
- August 25, 2010 at 7:38 AM
- Ludicrous Mama said... [Reply to comment]
You can also have cheese and sliced meat pre-cut into shapes. I freeze them in small snack-baggie servings, then put those into larger freezer bags. Then I can have one thawed in the fridge, or, in a pinch, let one that in her lunch! (Vastly increases the shelf-life of deli meats that way too! I have them custom cut a little thicker (a '2' on the machine at my grocer) so they take the cutters better, but you can stack several thin slices to cut together instead. But they tear fairly easily.)
- August 26, 2010 at 2:19 AM


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NEW YORK — Andre Reed and his Buffalo Bills supporters hope his long wait for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame ends today.
Reed, the Bills' all-time greatest receiver, is among 15 modern-era finalists for induction for an eighth straight year. A maximum of five of the 15 finalists can be elected. The selection meeting in which the 46 voters pick this year's Hall of Fame Class will be held today.
The results will be announced at about 7 p.m., and the inductees will appear on the NFL Honors Show, televised at 8 p.m. on Ch. 29 from Radio City Music Hall.
The 15 modern finalists are whittled to a group of 10 then five before a vote is taken, up or down, on the last five. Reed has made the cut to 10 four years in a row.
Reed has handled the disappointment of coming so close but missing the cut with class.
"I'm humbled just to be in position," he said Friday.
"Deacon Jones, rest in peace, always told me when you get there I guarantee you'll cry," Reed said, referring to the late, great pass rusher and how it would feel to be inducted. "I'll think about my dad, who's up there too, and all the games he was at and how he supported me, and all the people who watched me since I was 8 years old. You try to put that all in one emotion."
Reed's wait has been complicated by a logjam of receivers and Bills among the final 15. It's often hard to get two players from the same position or two players from the same team inducted in the same draft class.
In 2007, Dallas receiver Michael Irvin, a three-time Super Bowl champ, and Bills running back Thurman Thomas were inducted. In 2008, Washington receiver Art Monk was inducted in his eighth year as a finalist. In 2009, Bills great Bruce Smith and Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr. were inducted. In 2010, all-time receiving leader Jerry Rice got in. From 2010 to 2013, Reed was caught in a logjam with receivers Cris Carter and Tim Brown. Carter was elected last year.
There are three receivers among the finalists again this year – Reed, Brown and Marvin Harrison.
The five men who made the final 10 last year but didn't get elected all are back in the final 15. They are Reed, pass rushers Charles Haley and Michael Strahan, running back Jerome Bettis and cornerback Aeneas Williams.
The Hall of Fame does not release the results of the voting, so it's unknown where Reed ranked among the final 10 last year.
Reed ranked third all-time in receptions at the time of his retirement in 2001. Now he's 11th. Teams pass a lot more in today's NFL than the Bills did in their Super Bowl era. Bettis, a four-time finalist, ranks sixth in rushing yards. Strahan, a second-time finalist, ranks fifth in sacks. Haley, a five-time finalist, has five Super Bowl rings. Williams was a top cornerback.
Some first-time eligible candidates usually get inducted. This year they include Harrison, tackle Walter Jones, linebacker Derrick Brooks, coach Tony Dungy, safety John Lynch and kicker Morten Andersen. Harrison, Jones and Brooks each were first-team all-decade picks for the 2000s.
Can Reed be near the top of the returning candidates from last year and stay ahead of enough of the first-time candidates to get into the top five? That will determine whether he gets elected.
The other returning candidates are: guard Will Shields, owner Edward DeBartolo Jr. and linebacker Kevin Greene.
There are two senior candidates, players whose careers ended more than 25 years ago. They are punter Ray Guy and defensive end Claude Humphrey. The vote on them has no impact on whether any of the modern candidates get in.
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"This is MY baby. This is MY baby," I repeated over and over in my head right before each wave to push consumed me. The urges were so strong that I felt like I could loose my breath completely.
The sun shown bright and I listened to the neighborhood children play outside as I labored calmly in my birth tub. I had wonderful rests between surges where I listened to birds and dosed off to sleep. My doula whispered, "You are having a beautiful birth, Thais."
I was, but I also struggled with doubt the whole time. I was scared that I might not be able to pull it off. Even when West's head had crowned, I thought that he would get stuck and
would have to transport me to the hospital for another cesarean. And then, the hospital would have birthed by baby not me. But somehow, I managed to overcome those doubts right before each surge with my simple chant, "This is MY baby." Sometimes I would say, "Let's just get through this next one. Just one more."
The realization that only I can birth my baby in the way that I want was an on going theme for me throughout my pregnancy. People that I felt dependent on and wanted at my birth didn't work out for one reason or another. Even Maria had to go lobby in Washington on my due date, and I had to come to terms with the fact that she might not be there for the birth. Luckily, West came when she got back. I am so grateful for that.
For my first son's birth, subconsciously, I always thought that I'd be saved like Cinderella is saved from her evil step-sisters. I assume that it is a cultural message ingrained in my psyche since I was a little girl. It's important to have support, but the reality is that only the Mama can birth the baby. It is hard to be alone on such a hard journey, but the belief that I could do it and my two years of preparation allowed the baby to come. I pushed as hard as I possibly could. I wanted him to arrive protected at home and in peace.
"This is MY baby," I chanted over and over again to myself. And I did push him out. He came right out like he should. It took only one hour of pushing after seven hours of active labor. Baby West was born at home on a gorgeous, sunny day. His demeanor is as peaceful and calm as the way that he joined us. And, he is so loved by me and so many others who have followed my recovery from my first son's birth to the discovery and actualization of a home birth with my second. When Maria put him on my chest, I rejoiced, "I did it! I did it!"
, my doula, cried with joy next to me as she listened to my reaction. I feel so powerful. Birth really is empowering.
As I celebrated holding my new baby in my arms and watching him nurse perfectly without any instruction. Maria said, "Now that is an unmedicated baby." After a brief celebration, Maria was looking serious again because I still had not birthed my placenta. We waited an hour and tried everything from angelica root, to nursing, to a shot of pitocin. Finally Maria had to make the decision to call 911 and have an ambulance transport me to UCSF. I needed a manual removal of the placenta. It was only Maria's fifth ambulance transport in her 23.5 years of being a midwife. Four of the five transports were placenta related.
Maria can perform the procedure herself, but since I had had a previous cesarean the chance of hemorrhaging was too risky. The procedure at UCSF was short and I was back at home shortly afterward. I am happy to have had a good hospital experience rather than one of a victim. It was a necessary part of my healing.
As Maria and I waited for Zack to pull the car around in the quiet lobby of the hospital at midnight, she said, "This is what home birth is all about, it's a collaboration with the hospitals. We come to them when we need their services and we only use what we need."
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We are seeking a logo that projects a professional, timeless, and unassuming excellence. This is the first step in building a cohesive and communicative online presence for this new company.
Our market is small and midsized general contractors. They generally have very full schedules and are often beginners with computers. That means we want to present ourselves as uncomplicated and trustworthy.
Our target market is generally composed of tradesmen who have succeeded and become business men, but are looking for ways to simplify and gain efficiency.
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After many decades of prohibition, the US is undergoing a state-by-state liberalization of cannabis laws. Medical use of cannabis is now allowed in 23 states, and Colorado, Delaware, Washington (state), and Washington, DC, have all legalized the possession and recreational use of the drug.
While the medical establishment doesn't have a lot to say about the dose required for recreational activities, it does tend to care about medicinal uses. A new paper in JAMA this week suggests that in the majority of cases, the amount of psychoactive ingredients in the medical edibles is significantly less than claimed.
The authors identified cannabis dispensaries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle that sold cannabis baked goods, drinks, or candy with packaging labels that identified the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)—one of the primary active compounds in cannabis. After selecting three in each city, they purchased a total of 75 different edibles (from 47 different brands) and took them back to the lab to determine the actual amounts of THC in each. They also looked for cannabidiol (CBD), another psychoactive compound that some products provided an amount for (others didn't).
Using high-performance liquid chromatography (which separates out compounds from a mixture using a solvent and a sorbent-filled column), they discovered that only 17 percent of edibles had as much THC as their labels indicated (within 10 percent). Another 23 percent were underlabeled, containing 10 percent more THC than claimed. But a massive 60 percent were overstating the amount of THC contained by at least 10 percent.
Edibles from Los Angeles were most likely to fall into this category, with Seattle's products the most likely to understate THC levels.
Things were worse when it came to CBD. Only 13 products listed CBD values, yet 44 contained detectable amounts. Of the 13 with information, nine overstated the amount of CBD present. And the CBD present was also problematic; studies have shown the greatest clinical benefit from cannabis products happens when those two compounds are in a 1:1 ratio. Only a single one of the tested products achieved this.
These findings aren't the first to find problems with the labeling of cannabis products, either. Last year, The Denver Post also found that many edibles were overlabeled.
This is obviously a problem for therapeutic users in California and other states where edible cannabis products are allowed for medical conditions. Those seeking relief from pain or taking doses for other medical uses ought to be assured that the levels of THC and CBD match what the packaging says, in the same way that they can be sure that a 200mg tablet of ibuprofen actually contains 200mg of ibuprofen. Recreational users may also be in for some unpleasant surprises if the active compounds differ so much from brand to brand.
The fragmented and quasi-legal status of cannabis across the US probably hasn't helped this situation. Getting into the weed business, even in CO or WA where it's been legalized by the state, isn't like setting up a new drug company or even a new candy company. The drug remains illegal at the federal level, and since US banks are regulated federally, cannabis businesses can find it impossible to get bank accounts. Many cannot accept debit or credit cards or checks.
At least one state may see the chaos brought under control. Cannabis is big business in Colorado—about $700 million big ($313 million of which was recreational) in 2014, of which 10 percent went back to the state as taxes and revenue. Earlier this year, the state enacted new regulations for the edible pot market, requiring makers to actually test the potency of their products (and to block them from sale if they aren't up to scratch). Cannabis cooks, you can all do better.
JAMA, 2015. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.6613 (About DOIs).


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British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose parents are Nigerian, says he felt a tremendous connection to Solomon Northup, the character he plays in director Steve McQueen's historical drama, "12 Years a Slave."
The movie is based on the story of how Northup, a free black man from New York, was kidnapped in 1841 and ultimately sold to Edwin Epps, a cruel Louisiana plantation owner, played in the film by German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender. Epps' treatment of his favorite slave Patsey, played by Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o, incurs the wrath of his insecure wife, Mary, played by U.S. actress Sarah Paulson. The film is about how Northup survives more than a decade of slavery in this hostile and dangerous environment before he is liberated and able to return home.
"I was amazed by this extraordinary tale of this man," Ejiofor, who is already generating Oscar buzz for his performance, told reporters in New York recently.
"I was surprised that I didn't know the story," the 36-year-old actor confessed, recalling his initial reaction when he read the screenplay for the film. "I was surprised again, when I read the autobiography, that this is Solomon's story. This is what happened to him. I was struck by the responsibility of telling Solomon's story, of delving into this world and the responsibility of telling the story from so deep inside the slave experience. I spoke to Steve and I decided to attempt to tell this story and then it actually became, rather than a responsibility, a privilege. Every day of shooting on this film was a privilege to bring Solomon's story -- and the other people in the film -- to bring their stories to life."
To prepare for the role, Ejiofor said he took a tour of Savannah, Ga., that focused on the black experience in the 19th century United States. During the excursion, Ejiofor said the guide showed him a place where slaves, including Igbo people from Nigeria, were once chained to walls after they were taken off of ships from Africa.
"I said, 'I'm Igbo.' And we had a moment. I sat down and I just looked at this alcove and I thought, 'I'm very connected to this experience,'" Ejiofor recalled.
"Hundreds of thousands of Igbos were taken out of Southeastern Nigeria, brought to America, brought to Louisiana, brought to South America, so I felt that. I think [slavery has] always been and will always be an international story," he noted.
"Steve McQueen mentions his family is from the West Indies. Of course, the slave trade in the West Indies was an extraordinary event, which ended up, at times, as a kind of land war. I think everyone in the African diaspora is connected to these issues, connected to this event, so telling the story felt like a responsibility and the wider aspects of what it says about human respect and human dignity is an international idea. But the truth is 95 percent of the people working on this film -- 97, 98 percent -- were Americans. It's an American story that we're specifically telling. It has a wider impact, but it's an American story of these particular three plantations, but I felt it was always correct that there was an international element to [the film] because there was an international element to these events."
Ejiofor said he was also incredibly moved by how Northup maintained his humanity in the most horrific situations.
"He was an individual who has a fascinating way of looking at the world even in the context of what is happening to him," the actor observed. "I suddenly was struck by his depth of soul, his unbreakable spirit and the profoundness of his love and his lack of judgment, his lack of hatred, which is so surprising in his circumstance. He recognized he is someone who starts off in a battle for his freedom, but realizes he is actually in a battle for his mind. Anything that is not going to help him, he just cuts loose and hatred isn't going to help you, so he cuts it loose. He is focused on staying sane, of keeping himself together through all of it. Of not breaking. And I feel that he was an extraordinary person and I still reflect on his personality and the personality of somebody who is able to survive something like this with his mind intact and then also to have the wherewithal to write about it in such a poetic and direct and humble way is really amazing."
Co-starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti and Brad Pitt, "12 Years a Slave" is in theaters now. Co-written by McQueen and John Ridley, it is rated R.


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Neighbours of the Oregon gunman's grandfather have spoken of their shock that such a terrible crime has links to Preston.
British-born Chris Harper-Mercer was yesterday named as the gunman who opened fire at the American college, killing at least nine people.
The 26-year-old, whose social media profiles featured content supporting the IRA, apparently demanded to know his victims' religious beliefs before opening fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, USA.
It has now emerged that his grandfather lives in Preston.
Widower Joe Mercer, known to his friends as Leo, lives in Ingol, Preston, but spends part of his time in the USA.
A neighbour, who does not wish to be named, said: "He will be absolutely devastated if his grandson is responsible.
"After his wife died, he fell apart and he changed. He missed her so much.
"That's why he goes to America so much, to be with his family. He's so proud of his family and it will destroy him to think something so dreadful has happened."
It is believed that Joe and his wife June raised their family, including the gunman's father Ian Mercer, at the family home in Ingol.
June died in 2011 and after that the grief-striken Joe began spending more time with his family in America.
Joe's son Ian, the gunman's father, lives in California.
He told reporters that he was shocked at the incident.
He said it had been a "devastating day" for him and his family and said he had been talking to police and the FBI about the shooting.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Tickets for the Dec. 18 men's basketball game game between UConn and Duke go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com or by phone at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets will be available at the IZOD Center Box Office beginning Monday, June 23 at 11 a.m. For more information, visit izodcenter.com.
Game time is 8 p.m.
UConn and Duke have met just nine times on the basketball court with Duke leading the series 5-4, but the Huskies have won four of the last five. One of their most memorable games took place at the Meadowlands in the 1990 NCAA East Regional Final with Duke winning 79-78 in overtime. UConn defeated Duke, 77-74, to capture the 1999 National Championship and the Huskies nipped the Blue Devils, 79-78, in the 2004 National Semifinals on their way to their second national crown. UConn and Duke last met in the 2009 NIT Tip-Off Championship Game at Madison Square Garden which Duke won, 68-59. The Blue Devils are 20-1 all-time (10-0 in NCAA Tournament games) at the Meadowlands, while UConn is 12-8 at the venue, 1-1 in the 1990 NCAA East Regional and 11-7 vs. former Big East rival Seton Hall.
"We are excited to have the opportunity to play Connecticut at the IZOD Center next season," said Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski. "We have a strong fan base in the New York / New Jersey area and I am sure Connecticut will have great fan support as well. It is always special to play in front of terrific crowds and it should be an outstanding game between two talented teams. Connecticut is obviously coming off a championship season and has excellent personnel returning. Coach Ollie has done a terrific job running the program and we look forward to the challenge."
Duke, coming off a 26-9 campaign last season, returns three players with extensive starting experience and seven letterwinners overall. Senior Quinn Cook and junior Rasheed Sulaimon provide a veteran presence in the backcourt, while Amile Jefferson is coming off a solid sophomore season in 2013-14. Cook and Sulaimon combined to average 21.5 points and 6.8 assists per game a year ago, while shooting 38.6 percent (108-of-280) from three-point range and 79.1 percent (163-of-206) from the charity stripe. Jefferson shot a team-best 64.4 percent (94-of-146) from the field and averaged 6.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. Junior Marshall Plumlee (1.3 points / 2.2 rebounds per game) along with sophomores Matt Jones and Semi Ojeleye are prepared to take on larger roles this season after gaining valuable experience a year ago.


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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: try not to feel sympathy when Rubio says "now I have to be by myself here."
Ricky Rubio joined KFAN in Minneapolis with The Power Trip to discuss his first NBA preseason game, his tweaked ankle, playing a physical game, playing with Derrick Williams, adjusting to the NBA style of play, who he is looking forward to playing against, being far from home and comparing NBA seasons to those in Spain.
What was it like playing your first NBA preseason game and getting a couple of standing ovations?:
"Great, because I feel the warmth from the crowd. It was like packed, almost. It was like 15,000, even if it was a preseason game, and I see the warmth from them. You feel so comfortable when they are like that and they try to help you. … The thing that you have to do is … try to be yourself."
The big problem was you tweaked your ankle. How is that doing?:
"Better. … I want to play. I didn't feel the pain at that moment. It was my first game. … Now I'm feeling a little pain, but I'm OK."
The Bucks tried to make it a physical game for you. Do you think that's what teams will do against you?:
"Yeah, but it's not going to be only for me, it's going to be for all the players. They try to be physical, they try to put you out of the game and they try to do their best to win. Sometimes it's like, play hard and try to put you out of the game."
What's it like playing with fellow rookie Derrick Williams? Did you have anyone that was like him while playing in Spain?:
"I don't know. He's great; he can shoot the ball, he can jump and he's smart. It's hard to find a player like him. It's easy to play with him."
You basically just lob the ball up and he can go get it, right?:
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I throw the ball and he can get it so easy. The second time, he went in so hard that he missed it. He's so strong."
Has it been hard to adjust to the NBA style of play?:
"For us, I think it's easier playing here because they call more fouls and the offense has more advantage here. But on defense you have to be careful. You have to be careful with the fouls, because they're going to call a lot of fouls here if I put my hands on. It's going to be tough, but I will learn fast."
At an open-door scrimmage, Kevin Love made you dance in front of everyone and sing Happy Birthday to a girl. What was that like?:
"I'm shy, so I don't like that kind of stuff, but a rookie has to do it. They are nice with the rookies, so I don't worry about that."
Are there any particular teams or players that you're really looking forward to playing against?:
"All of them. I came here to play against the best players, especially against Steve Nash. … He's one of the best point guards ever. I want to learn more things about them, about him."
What's it like to be so far from family?:
"They'll come here for Christmas and spend a week, a week and a half, and then maybe come back again. It's things that happen. I've lived in Barcelona forever and now I have to be by myself here in Minnesota. But the people here are so nice, they try to help me all the time and I feel so comfortable."
What's a regular season like in Spain? How many games?:
"You can play like 60, 65 games, because you play your league, then the Euroleague and the King's Cup. If you play all the competitions, you play 60, 65."
So the length of this season shouldn't be unfamiliar to you then?:
"No, but we play for like seven months or eight and here I'm going to play for four months. That's the big change."
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