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PS: In short, it looks like CX frames are heavier than road frames these days by a large percent. 1 lb doesn't mean much to many, it seems, but I call it, oh, about a 28% weight increase with no detailed explanation of why/where the weight is needed. Frame hype has many details but not this, apparently.
I note that in the 80's/90's that CX bikes were mostly roadbikes or CX specific bikes that weighed the same or LESS than road bikes. I don't recall any rationale for heavier. Also, I do strongly note that CX courses are often much smoother and easier nowadays. Lastly, back then a fat CX tire was 28 and absorbed LESS shock, yet these light frames did fine. Today's CX frames fit up to 35mm -- very cushy. Well, maybe roadframes these days are made so much more fragile that CX frames have to weigh more due to mystery reinforcement. Is it well known where the extra pound-worth of material must go or a frame will break in normal CX usage?
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Material plays a big role. I'd wager that in the 80's/90's most CX bikes were steel. You're looking for aluminum and that has a radically different fatigue life. Al can handle very little flexing before the material fatigues and cracks. No matter how tame your CX courses are, the dynamic load stress on the frame from riding high speeds on bumpy surfaces is significantly higher than riding on the road (though when it comes to Michigan roads, the difference may not be as great as elsewhere ). The only way to prevent aluminum fatigue failures is to keep it from flexing. The way to do that is add material. Note that fat tires don't change the magnitude of the low frequency forces on the frame, they just filter some of the high frequency content.
Now, it's possible that a smaller rider on a well groomed course could get by with a lighter alloy frame and not push it into the fatigue range, but the big brands don't build for the 5th percentile. What you describe is a custom tailored frame, so you're going to have to go to a custom builder and pony up a bit more than a $200 ebay price tag. When it comes to alloy frames: strong, light, cheap ... pick any two.
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The longest ongoing government "sting" operation against a hedge fund, possibly in all of history, that which absolutely everyone has known about for years now i.e., against Steve Cohen's SAC and its Bernie Madoff-esque series of profitable years (at least until recently that is, when "expert networks" no longer accept any calls originating out of Connecticut or New York), may be coming to an end, following what the WSJ reports may be an imminent filing of criminal charges against the hedge fund. "U.S. prosecutors are considering possible criminal charges against SAC Capital Advisors LP as a result of the government's insider-trading investigation of the hedge-fund firm, according to people familiar with the matter. It isn't clear what led prosecutors to warn the Stamford, Conn., hedge-fund operator that it could be charged criminally. But the move is the strongest sign yet that prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are trying to ratchet up the pressure as a five-year deadline looms to file the most serious charges related to trading that allegedly involved Mr. Cohen."
Don't worry about Stevie though: the probability that he will spend even an HFT nanosecond in prison, let alone ever be forced to pay restitution in a "victimless crime" is virtually nil, because collecting 3 and 50 for decades buys a lot of lawyers. A lot of lawyers who are well versed with the legal system's latest loophole: deferred-prosecution.
SAC and its lawyers have also discussed with federal prosecutors the possibility of alternatives including negotiating a deferred-prosecution agreement, in which criminal charges could be filed against the company and basically settled at the same time, the people said.
Deferred-prosecution agreements often include specified facts regarding the circumstances of the alleged criminal violation, fines and onerous conditions such as an outside monitor of a company's operations.
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Some other SAC clients have sought information about Blackstone's withdrawal plans, partly to assess by how much the hedge-fund firm's assets might shrink.
All of which simply means that Cohen will merely convert into a "friend, employees and family" office: at last check just the employees had billions of their own cash invested in the hedge fund.
Then again, with SAC able to generate just a 6% return through April, or far below the broader market now managed much better by Portfolio Manager Ben Bernanke, very soon no hedge fund will be needed, because with every passing day it becomes clearer that no correction will ever be allowed again. Ever. And when one does happen, no amount of "hedging" will preserve any invested capital - there will be far bigger concerns on that day...
Finally, for an amusing take of what may have been the catalyst that sent the government over the edge, we go to Charlie Gasparino who has some advice for art lovers everywhere: maybe put off that $100 million painting purchase until after the government is done investigating you...
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I guess proper authorities were not paid off ?!? Congressmen/women not "lobbied" enough ?!? Palms were not greased at the right time.
If I were a billionaire in deep trouble I would give so much to charity it would make people think I was the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi. And I would not be spending money on luxury, that just waves a red flag for the prosecutors on how conviction will play in the papers; but, hey, these guys live in such a virtual, self-aggrandizing world, no one is going to tell them they need to change....
Not likely since he has obtained a Chicago diplomatic passport.
Seriously, every banker that is a Primary Dealer Bank and the members of the FED should all go to jail and do hard labor mining gold and silver so they can understand that money is suppose to be something other that a number punched on a computer.
Cohen will never be caught--too many pawns around him for sacrifice. We is as well insulated as Gordon Gekko in WS1.
Errrr didnt gordan go to Jail in end ? just saying
Cohen thinks he's Corzine......not even close.
Cut a 10 million dollar check to the IRS constitutional suppression fund.....and they'll think about it. IRS, SEC, DOJ.....same damn thing.
Did he forbid Obama from getting to drive the zamboni?
Please, that's soo eighties ... millions ... don't make fools of yourselves, that's diddly-squat ... wake me up when we are talking billions ... :)
"Madoff-esque series of proftable years".
The US "Markets" have re-written the book on cooking the books Madoff,Enron, and SAC all look like Boyscouts in comparison..... Meanwhile, back at the White House.
The real question is who did Steve piss off? Jamie? Lloyd?
Whatever I did, I will agree not to do it again...as long as no charges are filed.
Whatever I did, I will agree to be much more careful next time...as long as no charges are filed. ; )
If you are in charge of the process, this is a great way to clear the books so any future administrations can't go after you. Like most corporations, he is currently writing the complaint and outlining the sentence for justice.
Yeah well "we've never been in a war like this either." that an offer from the Feds to plead guilty. Obviously there isn't a lawyer on the planet saying SAC should agree to such a thing. Still...there is a risk here. Be interesting to see if we hear of a counter offer "in the ether." talk of impeachment in the background, things gettin out of hand "in the District" and elsewhere, American people getting raked over the coals in this "so called recovery,"....hmmmmmm.....
Deferred-prosecution, aka the SEC selling out for enough money to cover the cost of their existence.
It's all just part of the business plan now. You steal the money, then spend 10% of it on lawyers, fines, and expenses to deal with those trying to get it back. No legal admission of guilt or wrong doing; no jail time; live the high life in another country if you have to. Worst case, you just increase your fees to cover the extra cost.
O.K., from now on it's 4 and 60%. Done. Next.
At this point it might be just as well to keep this case going forever, as a constant reminder to every investor at every level what a shithole the financial markets have become.
At this point it might be just as well to keep this case going forever, as a constant reminder to every investor at every level what a shithole the financial markets have become.
"prosecutors are considering. . . ."
and i am considering whether to drop in at the titty bar this evening or purchase 5 shares in FaceBook.
But he is a genius! And a billionaire! Leave him alone. Don't worry Steve, this will all blow over and you can begin insider treading again in 4 years. Team America, Fuck Yeah!
Classic. A "restart". Yeah sure, do over, what the heck.
If Leibniz were correct and this were the best of all possible worlds, Steve would be admiring his new painting inside a Federal Supermax facility.
As far as socio-political constructs go, switch to Voltaire.
Fox News just reported Cohen got a subpoena to testify this morn
This new thing where the regulators have to negotiate token concessions from the criminals they are supposed to deter... bizarre.
What's new about "regulators" sucking banksters' appendages?
used to be man in the street! now it's man on the street!
Name 5 & provide a brief description on each of how Obama's 5 years as CIC has done Any normal ( not connected ) person any good in their lives! Answers should be submitted on the back of a 2nd class postage stamp.
Milkin, Boesky, Madoff, Cohen, ... Hmm.. What could they have in common besides being criminals?
They're gonna nail this guy for insider trading but it's OK for members of congress and gov't to do the same thing. WTF?
Yes, it's okay for Corzine, Mozilo, Fuld, Cassano, Blankfein, Dimon, Lewis, Rubin, Paulson, Pandit, etc. But Lee Farkas, Raj Rajaratnum and Madoff must be punished. They must have forgotten to pay someone off or maybe they got cheap on the pay-offs.
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They're all thieves?
Or are you referring to another common vein, similar to: "What do most of the major proponents of 'gun control' have in common, such as Feinstein, Bloomberg, and Schumer?"
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Add Metzenbaum and Lautenberg to the proponent list and yeah, the gun control thing works.
i figure out what the stock market is going to do the old-fashioned way - i chart it
What The Fuck Is The Stock Market Thinking??
Arrest him for treason. Through him out of the country. The guy is a leech.
time for cohen to write a few checks and give away some small bags of money
evreything will be fine....no charges
Hang this bagel boy c*nt from a lamp post. Crozine should be on teh other lamp post.
Hanging is too good for him. Let the public have some fun with the banksters in stocks and pillory and if the banksters survive, then bring on the tar and feathers, perp walk behind a cart while being lashed with a cat-o-9'tails and finally drawn and quartered. Their heads can be mounted on the white house iron fence as a reminder to other FIRE sector fraudsters.


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A Vancouver man who sold hundreds of counterfeit vehicle air bags on eBay and Craigslist was sentenced to six months in prison and three years' supervised release in Tacoma's U.S. District Court.
Vitaliy Yaremkiv, 25, pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods. He sold at least 964 counterfeit air bags imported from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. As part of his sentence, Yaremkiv agreed to pay $137,243 restitution to motor corporations Honda and Toyota.
Yaremkiv ran his business, Vital Auto Parts and Sales, out of his home in Vancouver, according to court documents. He allegedly imported counterfeit Honda, Subaru and Toyota air bags and sold them online as the real thing, making $137,243 in sales. Investigators believe many of the air bags were sold to independent garages that installed them in vehicles believing they purchased a genuine air bag.
These air bags have been known to catch on fire, spew hazardous debris and detach completely from the vehicle. According to prosecutors, driving a car with a counterfeit air bag may be more dangerous than driving a car with no air bag at all because the occupants can be hit with explosive shrapnel when the air bag fails.
Although law enforcement seized some of these air bags, others remain in the market. "Some may continue to be installed in cars used on a daily basis for an indefinite amount of time presenting a continued risk of injury to unwary used car buyers," prosecutors wrote to the court.
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I lost my daugher at 18 weeks in Nov. I had a miscarraige, DS1, miscarriage, DS2, and then "miscarriage". Everything was going well so I was so hopeful! But I was nervous because I have never had two live births in a row. I felt like I was beating the odds. Then we lost Annie and now I feel like nothing is safe. Just because this pregnancy comes after a loss, doesn't mean it will end up with me taking a baby home. BUT I don't want to worry the whole time. I want to enjoy. I haven't figured out how yet, but I think sharing thoughts and feelings helps. PAN me if you ever need.
I just took another test, just to see the line get dark really fast. It brought me some joy for those few minutes. And tomorrow I am going to set up a play date with a friend who has a rainbow after losing her daughter at 4 days old. One day at a time, right? Hugs!
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I am so sorry for your losses!!! you are such a strong woman to keep trying! and im so happy for you that you are pregnant!!! KMFX that this one sticks!!! Congratulations momma!!! :D
First off ~ I would like to say how sorry I am to hear of the loss your precious baby, Kyle. It is surely the most devastating situation to have to endure and there are no words to ease the pain. The path becomes a little less rocky as time goes on but the valleys and peaks remind us of the long soulful journey we all must make. My first Granddaughter was born still at 36.6 weeks due to torsion of the umbilical cord ~ not a true knot or nuchal cord but delivers the same devastation and heartache.
According to Dr. Jason Collins of The Pregnancy Institute in New Roads, LA, stillbirth mothers are 5 - 10 more likely to have a recurrent stillbirth ~ so you will be considered a high risk pregnancy now, (if you are not considered high risk ~ find a new healthcare team). My daughter in law was monitored during her second pregnancy from 28 weeks onward by Dr. Collins using daily home fetal heart rate monitoring in conjunction with their own OB. All went very well and our "rainbow" baby Jacks was born on June 14th, 2010!!! Although Dr. Collins is not monitoring at the present, there are companies which will work with your health care team and provide this service.
I think how you are feeling is very normal. If our own doctors, the experts, cannot predict a stillbirth - how are we to? You will need to be very open and honest with your doctor and you may want to be followed by a Maternal Fetal Specialist or Perinatologist during this pregnancy. The thoughts of going through this pregnancy must be absolutely terrifying for you. I would like to offer some guidelines for you to help based on the latest research. Please discuss these with your health care team and see if they can implement them into your health care plan.
Become your expected baby's guardian. Don't ever hesitate to call your doctor, midwife or health care team with any questions and concerns you may have ~ they are there to educate and inform you ~ that's their job!!! And, always trust your gut.
Begin starting to sleep on your left side!!! At 10 and 18 weeks, have your baby's estimated placental volume (EPV) measured, this will let you know how the placenta is functioning in relation to your baby (there is an app for your IPhone). At 20 weeks on the anatomy scan, make sure the baby's heart, umbilical cord and placenta are visualized for normal construction and placement; begin a daily journal of baby's moments at this time.
Insist on an additional ultrasound around 28 weeks to check the umbilical cord and placenta as I have mentioned above. If there is a problem, work with your health care team for a close monitoring solution such as frequent ultrasounds, daily home fetal rate heart home monitoring and Fetal Non Stress Tests, etc. Begin kick counting now three times a day and remember a change in baby's movements such as speeding up or slowing down, changes in sleep-wake cycles and differences in mobility tendencies could be the sign of a compromised baby. Don't ever hesitate to voice your questions and concerns to your healthcare team, and request additional testing and ultrasounds during this pregnancy.
Your baby may experience hiccups which will first be noticed as soft, regular, rhythmic movements in the same place. As your pregnancy progresses, they will feel stronger and will eventually feel like hiccups except in your abdomen!!! Your baby's hiccups should decrease as your pregnancy advances. Many babies have hiccups and have no problems but according to Dr. Collins, past 30 weeks your baby should not have hiccups every day. If your baby has daily hiccups, hiccups lasting longer than 15 minutes, or hiccups occurring more than 3-4 times in 24 hours, your baby should be evaluated for umbilical cord issues.
Also, check out the websites for Group B Strep (GBS), CMV, Toxoplasmosis, etc. Most health care professionals don't mention these viral/bacterial infections to moms. You can go to the March of Dimes or the CDC websites for some great info. Be educated, be proactive, and be vigilant.
Getting to know your baby's movements is imperative. Empowering moms to ask simple questions, be proactive and learn how to be their baby's guardian will help to ensure a happy, healthy and hearty delivery day for all...xo
I am sorry for your losses. I hope this rainbow is the lase trainbow you have to catch, gl. Sticky baby dust to you.
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hi, i found ur post online... and had to join.. Im not the mum to be but im the nana to be.. my daughter has had a stillbirth and 3 m/c ... she is approx 6 weeks tomorrow. i have not wanted to get excited cause its hurt every time to see her go thru the loss im usually her main support. she has 2 boys already. she rang n told my mum today (great grandma is happy n positive) nanny tryin to b positive. I hope its ok i joined... but my daughter n i r close she is my youngest girl * i have 4 children * K is # 3 . so pls let me know if i shouldnt be here .. but we sit on the phone reading things of the net together ... I seen this post n i felt to join in the chat. i had a miscarriage 30 yrs ago... so i feel wat my daughter goes thru... K flys out of australia on tues she is wondering if this is goin to b ok... we have lost the bubs m/c approx 5-7 weeks so bit scared here... trying to be positive n prayin all b ok.
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Magnesium (Mg) deficiency strongly affects muscle performance. In judo, many athletes often undergo impressive weight changes associated with severe dehydration. Common practices used by athletes to achieve a target weight can lead to Mg deficit. This study aimed to understand the impact of Mg changes on strength from periods of weight stability to prior to competition in a sample of elite judo athletes who differentially changed their intracellular water (ICW). The sample consisted of 20 elite male judo athletes. Subjects were divided according to ICW changes: losses below 2% and losses equal to or above 2%. Mg was measured in serum, red blood cells and urine by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. ICW was calculated as the difference between total-body water and extracellular water using dilution techniques. Maximal handgrip strength was evaluated using Jamar Hydraulic Hand Dynamometer. Upper-body power was determined in a bench press. Higher ICW decreases were associated with higher strength reductions, though our results suggest that an increase in red blood cell Mg might attenuate those strength reductions in athletes who decrease the ICW compartment. As Mg losses can be considerable and intake is frequently insufficient, athletes should consider supplementation, especially during periods of weight reduction.
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A slew of trailers, TV spots, featurettes and posters have been brought online, and they all want to underscore—heavily—how the movie is carrying on history. Basically, this will show how the Evil Queen in the animated movie was actually an okay person until she was brutally betrayed. And there is a lot of spectacle up on the screen, with this movie clearly not on the cheap side, with special effects maestro Robert Stromberg making his feature debut. Will audiences want to wave a magic wand for this?
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The opening lines are already famous, and they lure us in with the promise that what follows will be just as good. "First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later."
His parents "...were regular people tricked by circumstance and bad instincts, along with bad luck, to venture outside of boundaries they knew to be right, and then found themselves unable to go back."
His rhythm and his voice are remarkably consistent through the book. "Our family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, in 1956, the way many military families came to where they came to following the war." The cadence carries you along, like a slow-moving boat bobbing along but nonetheless headed steadfastly in one direction.
Part One is as promised, the story of his parents and the robbery, told from the perspective of the 15 year old son Dell. This is the strongest and most memorable part of the book. It's not just Dell who is coming of age, but in some ways his parents too. Dell says about his father, "During all these years I've thought about his eyes, and how they became so different. And since so much was about to change because of him, I've thought possibly that a long-suppressed potential in him had suddenly worked itself into visibility on his face. He was becoming who and what he was always supposed to be. He'd simply had to wear down through the other layers to who he really was."
The tensions builds slowly to the robbery.
"Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together."
He describes his parents heading to the robbery. They are still regular people, they haven't yet actually gone down that branch of the fork in the road they are approaching. "…It's the edging closer to the point of no return that's fascinating: all along the trip, chatting, sharing confidences, exchanging endearments — since their life was officially still intact."
Ford compares this to drifting on a raft, or up in a balloon. "You notice it, or you don't notice it. But you're already too far away, and all is lost."
It's a slow-mo telling. Slow-mo, freeze while he digresses, more slow-mo. But still inexorably heading towards those robberies.
"Lacking an awareness of consequence might've been their greatest flaw."
In Part 2 Dell is borne to Canada. "…you crossed borders to escape things and possibly to hide, and Canada in his view was a good place for that. But it also meant you became someone different in the process — which was happening to me, and I needed to accept it."
He struggles to regain equilibrium and a new perspective, difficult for a teenager who really hasn't even yet lived enough to develop those in the first instance. But he does start to figure some things out. "Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle."
Occasionally he casually drops in a phrase that blends in so easily with its neighbours that you delay recognising its significance. It is said as if he knew the reader already knew that particular fragment, so there's no point embellishing it or dwelling on it. 'There it is, as you know, and so of course this follows.' Except we didn't know. At first reading I briefly wonder "did I miss that information the first time he told me?" But of course not, he has been quite careful not to tell us. The actual information flow is precisely calibrated. And so the story unfolds. He opens the doors to the future and to the murders with these casual lines.
A 4 for the story, but a 5 for style and the wonderful voice.
Beautifully written book about the disintegration of a family. I am not sure whether I enjoyed reading it b/c I found it very sad and haunting. Although it speaks to the resilience of some people (main character goes through a great deal of adversity but pulls through) the story itself was focused more on the adversity and makes the reader infer what happened to Dell in early-middle adulthood. As a result, I personally felt like a large piece of the story was missing between parts 2 & 3 and felt unsatisfied by the ending. What was about about Dell's character and life decisions that made him emerge as a successful and "happy" adult whereas his twin was unable to attain much? However, it was thought provoking and an engaging read.
There is a certain moment when the reader is already half through Richard Ford's novel Canada, when Dell Parsons, the narrator of the story gives us an insight into his philosophy of life:
"It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come."
What if Dell's and his twin sister Berner's parents hadn't met at all? They could have married someone else, someone more suitable as a partner. What if Dell's mother had decided to leave her husband with the children at a moment when it still was possible? She was only 34, and her husband 37 - a mismatch if there ever was one - when the terrible thing happened that left such a mark on Dell and destroyed this quite average American family, living in a quite average town, Great Falls, Montana. What if Dell's father, a war hero, charming and good-looking, but obviously over-estimating his talents and under-estimating the risks of his fraudulent business schemes in which some Indians were involved, would have remained in the airforce? Probably none of the terrible events that happened, would have happened at all. But because of a tragic coincidence of many small events and happenstances, Dell Parsons has to begin the life story we are reading with the words:
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. The robbery is the more important part, since it served to set my and my sister's lives on the courses they eventually followed. Nothing would make complete sense without that being told first."
What follows is the very detailed account of the events that led to the robbery and that make roughly half of the book. The amateurish bank robbery of Dell's and Berner's parents happened in a moment when the mother had (almost) made up her mind to leave her husband. But beside from having pretentions regarding her children's education and of having a real talent to be a poet and writer, a talent that is suffocated in her marriage with a man from an Alabama backwater town who speaks in a funny Dixie accent that is kind of repelling for the daughter of educated Jewish immigrants - beside from that Neeva, the mother, is also a weak person that shies away in the last moment from leaving Bev, her husband.
Deep inside the mother must have felt that the bank robbery she is about to commit with her husband in order to pay a debt to some Indian who threatened to kill the family - a result of the failed dealings of her husband and his fellow crooks - is going to fail, because she made arrangements for her children to be taken to Canada by her friend Mildred Remlinger, and thus to prevent them from being brought up in a foster home or even a juvenile prison. While Berner runs away on her own and leads later a hippie-style life in San Francisco, Dell is making the journey to Canada with Mildred. Mildred has a brother in Canada, Arthur, and this Arthur is supposed to take care of Dell.
If it wouldn't be for the intro of the book, we as readers would suspect that after the traumatic experience with his parents who are locked away for life or at least a very long time, Dell is now through the worst part of his life, and the second part would describe how he builds up a new better life in Canada. But - there is Arthur Remlinger, handsome, intelligent, with good manners, a former Harvard student, a reader and chess player with an interesting ladyfriend, Florence, a painter.
Remlinger seems oddly out of place in the godforsaken place in Sasketchewan where he owns a run-down hotel with a gambling den and a bar full of "Filipino" girls that spend the night frequently with the guests in their rooms; his right-hand man Charley, a halfbred, is a really creepy guy and probably a pervert, as Dell suspects who has to work with this Charley when the "sports", the hunters from the U.S., visit the area that is full of game. Arthur Remlinger, an American like Dell, has a dark past, a past that is not forgotten by everyone as it turns out...and he has a violent temper too...
The reviewers were divided regarding the qualities of this book. While some praised the work as a masterpiece, others complained about the slowness with which the story builds up and about certain redundancies. Yes, this is a story that builds up very slowly - and you need to like that if you want to enjoy the novel. And yes, there are redundancies, but I found them quite interesting. After all, we are reading the story told by Dell Parsosns, after his retirement as a teacher in Canada, and after having met his twin sister again who is suffering from the final stages of cancer. For me the redundancies are attempts of the narrator to rationalize what has happened to him, to make sense of a life in which everything went upside down more than once, and to reassure himself that the things really happened to him the way they did.
What makes the book also interesting to me, are the antagonisms on various levels: between the parents; between the parents and children; between Dell and Berner, although twins being so different; between men and women; between the United States and Canada, so near and similar, and yet so different countries and societies. And the big villain of the book, the enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, has the format of Kurtz, the "hero" of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
How come Dell survives the catastrophes of his life so (seemingly) unharmed? Maybe it is because of his ability to take life like it is, and not as it should be according to our plans and pretentions; maybe because of the fact that he felt always loved by his parents and his sister, despite the fact that this family was not like other families; maybe because of the fact that there was always a woman in his life who made an important decision for him in a crucial moment (his mother; his sister; Mildred; Florence; Clare) that proved to be life-altering in a positive way. But in the end, it remains a mystery why some of us not only survive difficult childhoods but do something meaningful with their lives, while others in similar conditions turn into criminals or end in suicide.
Dell has not become a beekeeper, something he wanted to become when he was young; and he has also not become a strong chess player, despite the fact that he studied Mikhail Tal's combinations again and again when he was young. But he took a few good lessons from life and mastered it somehow, even when the odds were against him in his youth, and even when his father and later Arthur Remlinger tried to make him an accomplice to their crimes.
For me this is the best work of Ford so far - and his previous books were already excellent. Canada is a book about the fragility and loneliness of life, and how to come to terms with this fact. It left a very strong impression on me.
Read as audio book - in French.
I waited and waited. To find the point in the book. It didn't come. It's a litany of seemingly unconnected, uninteresting episodes. What is it about these killings? And the fuss they make about the robbery?
Most ironically, the "Remerciements" at the end seem to try to revaluate the book, as though by listing and praising dozens of people the reader would finally acknowledge that it's big.
At least it proves that I tried til the end!
"Canada" is a meditation. Like life on the 49th parallel, it is at times bleak but also majestic in scope. It is a story of youth represented by summer below the 49th in Great Falls, Montana and growth represented by winter above the 49th.
As the story opens we are told from the beginning that Dell Parson's parents have committed a bank robbery, been jailed, his mother has committed suicide and he and his sister have been left to fend mostly for themselves and to find their way in the world without help from their parents.
The Parson's are an Air Force family. Their father a debonair southern charmer is a Captain in the USAF. Their mother, the daughter of Polish immigrants raised in Tacoma, Washington is everything their father is not – dark, dour and reserved. Their one commonality is the love they have for their daughter Berner and their son Dell. Ultimately, due to the character weaknesses in both parents and the inability to support their family, a bank robbery is committed. From the planning or lack of, until the act itself, we know that this endeavor has no chance of succeeding.
The story before the robbery, unfolds in the setting of Great Falls, Montana in 1960. It is an examination of small town life; what it means to be an American and the role of the white man and his relationships in shaping the plight of the Native American's in the region. It has a triangle of race relations between a corrupt African American Pullman porter, local Native American cattle rustlers and Capt. Parson's running a meat scam that carried over from his time in the USAF.
The story after the robbery speaks briefly to the fall out and dissolution of the family but more importantly focuses on Dell, His twin sister Berner leaves to start her own life and it is not until the very end of the book that we discover what road she traveled and where she ends up. We do know that she is headed to San Francisco in an attempt to reunite with a boyfriend she had in Great Falls.
Dell is taken to Canada. This occurs because of an arrangement Dell's mother makes with an acquaintance. Once there, Dell is more or less provided with a job, very rudimentary accommodations and left to fend for himself. Throughout the book, Dell's interest in chess is almost an allegory of how to survive in life. Sacrifices have to be made in order to succeed and like chess, the game of life cannot be rushed or fast forwarded in order to achieve the end game.
This is not a book for readers who need action in order to hold their interest. The story is told in some detail through the eyes of a fifteen year old boy. It includes all the missed cues and misunderstandings of youth and the slow realizations of what is happening as a child is forced to grow up quickly. In that sense, the book is very much a meditation. It is somewhat poetic and the beauty is in the stark detail.
This is the first book that I have read by Richard Ford but from other things I have read about this author this slow, melodic, poetic way of storytelling is a signature of Ford's. If you can allow yourself to take the time and appreciate the slow pace of this book, you will definitely enjoy it. I did and I look forward to reading other works by this author.
Willa Cather once wrote that "a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies." By that measure, and any other, Richard Ford is doing his very best in his extraordinary new novel, "Canada," his first book since "The Lay of the Land" six years ago. Here, Ford is clearly writing within the range and character of his deepest sympathies — in this case, from the point of view of an abandoned 15-year-old boy — and he's doing it with a level of linguistic mastery that is rivaled by few, if any, in American letters today.
...it is a masterwork by one of our finest writers working at the top of his form.
...his [Richard Ford's] philosophy is best summed up by the wisdom he passes on to the students in his writing class, which manages to be both matter-of-fact and poetic: "I believe in what you see being most of what there is… and that life's passed on to us empty. So, while significance weighs heavy, that's the most it does. Hidden meaning is all but absent."
Perhaps that is the abiding subject of all Richard Ford's work. Here, though it is broached by way of some uncharacteristically violent interludes, it resounds with a newfound clarity. A surprisingly different kind of great Richard Ford novel, then, and one that casts its spell very slowly and with a steady cumulative power.
Canada is a superlatively good book, richly imagined and beautifully fashioned. Although it is too early to do so, one is tempted to acclaim it a masterpiece. It catches movingly the grinding loneliness at the heart of American life – of life anywhere. As the narrative makes its measured progress, the sadness steadily accumulates, a weightless silt that gets under the eyelids. The final encounter at the close of the book between Dell and Berner is one of the most tenderly drawn scenes in modern literature, and could only have been written by a writer of Richard Ford's empathy, insight and technical mastery.
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In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest, Dell is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of a border.… (more)
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LIVE Blog: Edmond Santa Fe 1, Deer Creek 0 - Final
Some news and numbers to throw out to you to wrap up the coverage of Santa Fe's 1-0 win against Deer Creek. Read more in Sunday's paper and look for a video with Blackburn on NewsOK.
* Pitchers Clayton Blackburn (11), Michael Fulmer (11) and Kyle Shaw (3) combined for 25 strikeouts out of a possible 42 outs.
* Nobody had more than one hit. Blackburn had lone RBI on sacrifice fly to score Lacy.
* The only Antler to not strike out was shortstop Brian Anderson (Arkansas signee). Anderson didn't have one of the two hits, though. Three Wolves didn't K (Conor Costello, Brady Newville and Zac Cobble). However, none of them figured in the only run.
* Blackburn's no-hitter was broken up by a bunt single with two outs in the fifth by Hunter Dinkines. The single eventually led to the final out of the inning at home plate when DC tried scoring from second base on the bunt.
* Blackburn struck out seven consecutive batters at one point. Fulmer retired 10 of the last 11. Only person to reach had the courtesy runner caught stealing.
* The loss snaps Deer Creek's 21-game winning streak and is first loss to in-state opponent.
* Santa Fe's Lonny Cobble: "We're as healthy as we've been all season today. Our arms are coming back, and we're feeling really good."
* Deer Creek's Ron Moore: "Anybody who says a loss is a good thing before the playoffs – that's a bunch of bull. You want to win every game. We let a couple of opportunities slip away. The competition level today was great and Michael threw the ball really well."
5:54 – Kyle Shaw strikes out the side.
Edmond Santa Fe 1, Deer Creek 0 – Final
5:46 – Fulmer closes the day by retiring 10 of his last 11. The only batter to reach had the courtesy runner picked off on a caught stealing. Fulmer goes 7 IP, 5 H, 11 K. Blackburn has reached his limit, too. Kyle Shaw in to close out the show.
Edmond Santa Fe 1, Deer Creek 0 – Bot 7th
5:36 – Antlers try to play small ball again but to no avail. Blackburn gets Ross Stracke to pop out on a nice effort by Newville to retire the side.
Edmond Santa Fe 1, Deer Creek 0 – End 6th
5:30 – Fulmer picks up strikeout No. 10 and retires the side 1-2-3. He has now taken down the last eight batters. Blackburn will throw the sixth. Coach Lonny Cobble said he was going to try to limit Blackburn to 5 innings or 80 pitches. But when you're throwing as good as Clayton is, hmm, tough to do, no?
5:24 – Ooh, a heads up play by Ty Hensley keeps it 1-0. After making a throwing error to start the inning, Hensley triggers the rundown to end the inning. Hunter Dinkines picked up the Antlers' first hit on a bunt with Chase Stephens at second base. Instead of throwing to first, Hensley kept the ball, which enabled the Wolves to gun down Stephens at the plate (attempting to score from 2nd on the bunt). Blackburn with two more Ks to give him 10.
Edmond Santa Fe 1, Deer Creek 0 – End 5th
5:15 – We were so close to having a half inning without a strikeout. But Fulmer struck out the final batter of a 1-2-3 inning. He's got 9 for the day.
Edmond Santa Fe 1, Deer Creek 0 – Bot 5th
5:08 – A great defensive play at short by Brady Newville, add in another strikeout and the Antlers are retired in order. Blackburn has 8 Ks through four, too.
Edmond Santa Fe 1, Deer Creek 0 – End 4th
5:02 – Fulmer works around a couple of singles, strikes out two to give the Arkansas signee eight through four frames.
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4:52 – Wow, it's reached a point where if the ball is hit, that's cause for celebration. Blackburn punches out two more before Brian Anderson ends the streak at seven on a ground out. Thirteen Ks between Blackburn and Fulmer.
Edmond Santa Fe 1, Deer Creek 0 – End 3rd
4:47 – Everything you would expect from these two. Fulmer gives up a one-out single to Zac Cobble and strikes out the next two to give him six so far.
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4:32 – Fulmer brings it in this frame. Retires the side 1-2-3 and strikes out the final two batters looking. He's got four Ks through two.
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4:12 – Edmond Santa Fe gets on the board first. Kyle Lacy jacked a triple and was brought in via sacrifice fly by Clayton Blackburn. Lacy was down 0-2 and took a tough pitch. A lot of people (yours truly included) thought it was strike three. Given new life, Lacy hit a towering drive to left-center. Michael Fulmer had two Ks.
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I am not a sports fan at all, in fact, I do not watch any sport ever. So, as you can imagine, I did not want to see this movie at all, yet I still saw it because my friend dragged me with him. He is THE sports fan, any sport, and he also loves movies about sports. If he did not pay for the ticket and candy ,I would have never seen this film and probably would have been much happier. Anyway, I did not like this film and I do not think it is worth seeing on the big screen, even if you love sports. I felt that this film was shallow and invasive and I really was not impressed with Kevin Costner's performance. I also found this movie to be incredibly dumb, mainly because the idea itself is stupid, it's a sports movie that is not even about sports…
I went to see this film with my best friend who is a professional football player, so as you can guess he was way into it and I could not care less. I am not a fan of sports films, so I will try my best to be unbiased. The film was alright, it was well directed, but it had a weak story and not so good acting. I don't know what is happenng with Kevin Costner, he used to be such a great actor, but it is not his year. It kind of felt that he did not really care about the role and it made the film feel insignificant. I also thought that Jennifer Garner, who was great in Dallas Buyers Club, was miscasted. The narrative was weak, but if you are into sport movies you might like it. However, I do not think this film is worth seeing on the big screen.
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Published Today: Should Christians Embrace Evolution?
|November 20, 2009
|Posted by David Anderson under Biology, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
Today, Intervarsity Press (IVP) in the UK publish a new symposium, entitled "Should Christians Embrace Evolution?" edited by leading geneticist Professor Norman Nevin. Andrew Sibley has already posted about it on UD and linked to the preface. Believers in a God-guided Darwinism are preaching that Darwinism is a fact and that the Bible can be […]
Ken Miller in Birmingham
|November 7, 2009
|Posted by Flannery under Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
Noted Brown University biologist and slayer of windmills, Kenneth Miller, came to Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday November 5. The room was packed with what seemed to be about 200 (mostly students and some faculty). Overall, Miller displayed the affable but subliminally arrogant attitude I've come to expect in some academics. Miller began by giving a […]
The End of Christianity now available at Amazon.com
|October 13, 2009
|Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
Although its official release date is not until November 1, THE END OF CHRISTIANITY is now in stock and being sold at Amazon.com (go here). Even though argument in this book is compatible with both intelligent design and theistic evolution, it helps bring clarity to the controversy over design and evolution. In particular, it resolves […]
Darwin in Polite Liberal Society — British Edition
|September 11, 2009
|Posted by Steve Fuller under Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
Every Friday, the BBC-TV's flagship public affairs programme, Newsnight, broadcasts 'Newsnight Review', which covers the week's worth of cultural events. This week's was devoted to Things Darwin-ish. The panel consisted of Richard Dawkins, the Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood (whose latest book, The Year of the Flood, is about an Ultra-Green cult that, amongst other things, […]
Evolutionary Informatics as Intelligent Design and not as Theistic Evolution
|August 23, 2009
|Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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The paper on evolutionary informatics by Robert Marks and me that was recently published in an IEEE journal (go here for the paper) continues to generate discussion on the Internet. One criticism is that it at best is consistent with theistic evolution but does not support ID. I think this is a mistake. I've said […]
Wallace and Intelligent Design: A Response to John M. Lynch
|August 15, 2009
|Posted by Flannery under Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
"Puttering with barnacles" Over a month ago John M. Lynch posted (on his aptly titled blog "a simple prop"–need I say more) a rant against my book, Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution, making a number of charges that warrant reply. Since his promised part 2 has never materialized, I'll remain silent no longer lest […]
UPDATE: The End of Christianity
|August 13, 2009
|Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
Yesterday I met with the literary publicist hired by Broadman & Holman to promote The End of Christianity when it is released November 1st (for the Amazon.com listing, go here). This book will do much to create further conceptual room for ID. It is also being positioned to go face-to-face with the neo-atheist literature. The […]
Darwinism and popular culture: Attacking Collins hurts science, Chris Mooney argues
|July 20, 2009
|Posted by O'Leary under theistic evolution
A friend draws my attention to "Defenders of the Faith: Scientists who blast religion are hurting their own cause." by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum (Newsweek, July 14, 2009), in which they warn against new atheist attacks on Francis Collins: The critics, though, have it exactly backward: the United States needs more scientists like Collins—researchers […]
Christian Darwinists attempt to douse doubt in Turkey
|May 11, 2009
|Posted by O'Leary under Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion, theistic evolution
From the Faraday Institute, we learn of an effort to combat intelligent design in Turkey: A significant event during the past month has been the Darwin Anniversary Conference organized by The Faraday Institute and held in Istanbul. As one of our Turkish speakers remarked: "It was the first time for evolutionary discussions in Turkey that […]
'Did Darwin Kill God?' BBC TV Programme
|April 5, 2009
|Posted by Steve Fuller under Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
On 31 March, I gave one of the keynote addresses at the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association's Religion Study Group in Durham. This meant that I could not watch the first airing of 'Did Darwin Kill God?' on BBC2. I recommend that you watch this show over the next couple of days, while […]
Theos Survey: A Case of Unintelligent Design?
|February 8, 2009
|Posted by Steve Fuller under Atheism, Biology, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Religion, Science, The Design of Life, theistic evolution
Andrew Sibley has drawn attention to the recent Theos survey of the UK public's beliefs in evolution, creationism and intelligent design. Wearing my sociologist's hat, one overriding conclusion comes through in this survey: It was very poorly designed. Theos should get its money back from the social researchers they hired. Theos wants to give the […]
Miller Redefining Design
|January 22, 2009
|Posted by Patrick under Darwinism, Eyes Rolling, theistic evolution
Originally written by uoflcard. I'd rather not distract from the main point of the other thread: HGT. So I created a separate thread for this topic, duplicating this info. There is 'Design' in Nature, Biologist Argues It is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. A biologist says that the ID movement garners […]
ID and the Science of God: Part V
|January 22, 2009
|Posted by Steve Fuller under Atheism, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science, The Design of Life, theistic evolution
In this instalment, I begin to address both Andrew Sibley's and Timaeus' (see post 33) questions concerning my interest in reviving a full-blooded (i.e. early modern) sense of theodicy, especially as part of the ID agenda. I will need another post to complete this task because more assumptions about theodicy in its original robust form […]
ID and the Science of God: Part IV
|January 17, 2009
|Posted by Steve Fuller under Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science, The Design of Life, theistic evolution
This post originally began as a response to Andrew Sibley but the issues here may resonate with others wanting to reconcile science and religion, coming at it mainly from the religious side. My concern here, as an interested bystander, is that apologetics tends to be much too apologetic. Christianity, in particular, has a much stronger […]
ID and the Science of God: Part II
|January 10, 2009
|Posted by Steve Fuller under Biology, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Philosophy, Religion, Science, The Design of Life, theistic evolution
I will be opening the 2009 series of lectures on 'Darwin Reconsidered' at the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture on Tuesday, 20th January, at 5 pm. My topic is 'Darwin's Original Sin: The Rejection of Theology's Claims to Knowledge'. You can find out more about the series here. The talk will deal with the […]
ID and the Science of God: Part I
|January 5, 2009
|Posted by Steve Fuller under Biology, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Creationism, Culture, Education, Global Warming, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Religion, Science, The Design of Life, theistic evolution
In response to an earlier post of mine, DaveScot kindly pointed out this website's definition of ID. The breadth of the definition invites scepticism: ID is defined as the science of design detection — how to recognize patterns arranged by an intelligent cause for a purpose. But is there really some single concept of 'intelligence' […]
Featured Article Review of ID at Wikipedia
|November 6, 2008
|Posted by DLH under Creationism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
Wikipedia's Intelligent Design article was recommended for review on continuing as a Featured Article on Oct. 15. See the Discussion on Intelligent Design on whether it reaches Wikipedia's Featured Article Criteria See the previous FAR of 24 July 2007. Specific Suggestions from FAR have been added to the ongoing Discussion on ID. This provides for […]
Vatican to exclude ID & Evolutionists from Origins conference
|November 3, 2008
|Posted by DLH under Biography, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
The Vatican apparently seeks to understand biological evolution, as long as speakers do not address the issue of origins whether advocates of Intelligent Design, Creationists, or Evolutionists. That appears to a priori exclude the foundational issue of causation. It also appears to assume that papers on "biological evolution" do not have any unstated assumptions on […]
The Church of England apologizes to Darwin
|September 15, 2008
|Posted by Lord Ickenham under Darwinism, Evolution, Religion, theistic evolution
Dear gentle reader, As someone who has had an ongoing struggle with the Anglican Communion his entire adult life, and to whom the current, obvious, and slow-motion destruction of the entire historical Anglican Church brings no joy, I have a few comments on the anticipated apology of the Church of England, led by the Archbishop […]
In the Face of an Aspiring Baboon
|August 22, 2008
|Posted by Steve Fuller under Atheism, Biology, Courts, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Legal, Philosophy, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
In the Face of an Aspiring Baboon: A Response to Sahotra Sarkar's Review of Science vs. Religion? Introduction Some will wonder why I expend such great effort in responding to Sahotra Sarkar's negative review of my Science vs. Religion? I offer four reasons: (1) The review was published in the leading on-line philosophy reviews journal […]